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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-05
FRUIT TREES DAMAGED.


NEW YORK, April 4.-Reports received
tonight from all sections of New Jersey
indicate that the snowstorm to-day and
the cold wave following it caused great
damage to the fruit trees.
COLUMBUS, o., April 4. - Reports
throughout the State to-day are that the
early fruit crop was badly damaged by the
frost and snow of last night. Early
peaches plums, cherries and apples in
bloom were frozen. Glover in the central
part of Ohio is reported turned black, but
is thought not to be permanently injured.
In Knox county fruit in the uplands is re-
ported severely damaged, but the low lands
escaped. In Union county the reports say
that the early fruit is damaged beyond re-
covery. Plum. peach and cherry trees were
damaged In Fairfield county.
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NO FURTHER BREAKS.
Levees Subjected to a Severe Gale, but
No More Gave Way.

NEW ORLEANS. April 4.-With the river
practically stationary and no further
breaks in the levees there were no develop
ments Of Importance in the flood conditions
in Louisiana to-day. Between Baton Rouge
and New Orleans the embankments were
subjected to an unusual test of a terrific
blow that lasted from Friday night to
Saturday morning and lashed the river into
fury, but the whole line held
and there is still feeling of
hope that the lands along the lower
river will escape devastation. The work OF
strengthening goes on without interruption.
Favorable progress was made at Hymelia
during the day. The water from the
crevasse continues to fall slowly behind
the levees. No effort is being made to do
anything with the Hollybrook break. The
crevasse there is widening. but the river is
falling and 1t is not expected the period of
overflow will be of long duration. Lake
Providence expects to escape submergence
The river here this morning stood at 20.1.
II was 20.2 at nightfall, still tenth under
the highest record this year.
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Fear Expressed He VIII Not BE Able
TO Stand the Nerve-Wrecking Pro-
grammes Arranged for Him.
NOTABLE SPEECH ON TARIFF
ALL PHASES OF THE QUESTION DIS
CUSsED INTELLIGENTLY.
Revision and Reciprocity with Cuba
Changes I'm Schedules Should BE
Made by Protectionists.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April 4.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt was enthusiastically well
coined TO the twin cities to-day. From the
time he arrived at st. Paul until his de-
parture from Minneapolis at IL o'clock to-
night for the West the President was the
recipient of a continual ovation. The
streets through which he passed in both
cities being a mass of people. while Armory
Hall. at the University of Minnesota, was
crowded.
The speech at the armory on tarin and
reciprocity was well received. The Presi-
dent touched on the Cuban situation, de-
cIaring that we must have military con-
troll OF Southern waters and saying that
the United States was the most prosperous
nation known to history. Every pause in
the delivery of the address was replete
with approving cheers.
The President made five speeches in the
two cities. One was at the armory in Min
neapolis and one at the legislative hall in
st. Paul, one in front of the Capitol, one
in the university chapel and one in front
of the Nicollet Hotel, where he spoke for
one minute.
There was enthusiasm everywhere by
those who saw and heard. the streets re-
sounding with prolonged cheers while the
President was passing. The weather was
ideal. Houses and residences all along the
line of march were profusely decorated and
colored lights were burned at all down.
town street corners.
The President came to Minneapolis from
st. Paul in special cars over the Como
electric line. The regular schedule of the
run is ffty-fve minutes. but for the Presi-
dents special the track had been cleared
so that the trip was made in forty minutes
The presidential party entered the Nicol-
let Hotel and after a rest went to the dining
room for the dinner. The party was seat
ed at the table about 1880 o'clock. Time
was limited, and the menu simple. The
dinner was over in hour. There were
% plates. Among the invited guests were
Governor Van SAINT and other state off,
GERS, congressman and citizens. The party
went from the hotel to the armory, where
a packed house awaited them.
Before going to the armory. the Presi-
dent was prevailed on to address students
of the university in the chapel. The hall
was crowded to its limit. and Mr.. Roose-
Welt spoke to the students for four minutes
at the armory. He was introduced by
President Northrup. of the Minnesota Uni
versity.
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TOOK BRIBES FROM WOMEN.


PHILADELPHIA, April 4.-The jury in
the case of Thomas F. G. Seizas. of the
Twenty-eighth District School Board, Sec
retary Travis and B. Frank Brown and Da-
vid G. johnson. members of the board, to-
day rendered a verdict of guilty. The men
were charged with accepting bribes from
the women candidates for school teachers
The trial has continued all of this week
and the case has attracted much attention
Mayor-elect Weaver, in his capacity as dis
trict attorney. has been assiduous in his
prosecution of the defendants and succeed
ed in bringing them to trial despite the ef-
forts OF their friends TO prevent them from
being brought TO justice. This is the last
case TO be tried by District Attorney weay-
er. as, on Monday next. he will be inaugu-
rated as mayor.
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AUXILIARY YACHT NAVY.



NEW YORK, April 4.-Charles H. Bryan's
steam yacht Czarina was successfully
launched to-day from the Crescent ship
yards. Eizabethport, N. j. Mrs. Bryan
christened the new yacht, which took the
water in the presence of $50 guests.
The Czarina, designed personally by
Lewis Nixon and built under his super
vision, is said to be the strongest yacht
ever built in this country and probably in
the world and always will be known
the first vessel of the auxiliary yacht navy,
a class built under the exacting specifica-
tions of the United States government and
which the Navy Department may convert
into warships within a few days. The new
yacht has a large double bottom with a
capacity of thirty tons of water ballast,
and is structurally as strong as a thousand
ton cruiser, though 1t measures only little
over 300 tons. In speed 1T will probably
reach nineteen knots or more. Its principal
dimensions are: Length over all, 172 feet;
length on water line, 141 feet; breadth of
beam, 22 feet; draught Of water, 10 feet;
depth of hold, 13 feet.
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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY's JOURNAL.
Part One-Twelve Pnges.

Page
1-Speeches by the President and Incl
dents of His Tour; Demands of Wa
bash Employees Granted: Preacher Who
Says He Saw Beecher's Ghost; Mayor
atty Contests in Three Cities.
2-Rioting at Madrid and General Foreign
News.
3-Russian Family Life.
4-Indiana Miners and Operators; Hap
penings in the State.
5-Miscellaneous Washington News.
6-Sporting News.
7-Sporting News
S-The Carlisle School.
9-Local Labor and Court News.
10-George Rogers clark; Rioters in a
Theater.
11-Real-estate News and Classified Ads.
12-Logsdon Asks Investigation; Scheme Of
Swindler.
Part Two-Twelve Pages.
1-Long in Public Life; The Irish Land
Question; War Cloud in the Balkans.
2-Jewish Colony in China.
3-Reading the Features.
4-Editorial Page.
5-The Kaiser and the Archbishop.
6-Personal and Society News.
s-Personal and Society News (Continued.)
9-Concerning Mr.. Schwab.
10-Live Stock and Local and General Prod
uce Markets.
11-Gossip of Wall Street: Financial Mar
kets.
12-Fishing in Indiana; Churches May Fed
crate.
Part Three-Eight Pages.
1-Treatment of Horses; Lafayette Statue;
Rites of Holy Week: Season for Maple
Sugar.
2-Lterary News and Gleanings.
3-Music and Drama.
Evan Beulingh and the Cannibal Feast
Mysteries of the Night
SAN Irvington Idyl; A Midsummer
Days Awakening.
6-Illustrated Fashions; George AIDES
Fable.
7-Original Story. "a Fool in Love-"
Sphinx Lore.
s-Some Unitarian Literature: Questions
and Answers.
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CHICAGO ESTIMATES.
Republicans Say Stewart Will Be
Elected by 47,OOO.

CHICAGO. April "A hotly-contested
mayoralty campaign closed tonight as far
as aggressive work is concerned.
Chairman Rovell of the Republican cam
paign committee. who at the beginning of
the campaign estimated that the Repub-
Iican ticket would win by a margin of
47oOo, adheres to that figure. Stewart, the
Republican candidate. expresses the opin-
ion based upon personal observation and
reports from all over the city, that there
will be a Republican landslide.
Chairman Carey of the Democratic coun-
ty central committee. declares that Mayor
Harrison will have more votes to spare
than two years ago. In an estimate by
wards he places Harrison's plurality at
IS 600, as against 2, ,3i3 in 1901. Mayor Har-
rison adheres 10 his prediction of a week
ago that he will win by from rs 900 to 80, ,000
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-05
THE WIDOWS MITE CoIs.



isned with Funk's Statement.
BOSTON. April Abr. Richard Hodgson,
secretary of the American branch of the So
ciety for Psychical Research. has received a
letter from DIR. Isaac X. Funk, of New
York, in regard to the widows mite" coin,
the possession of which a spiritualistic
medium revealed to DR.. Funk, by whom it
had been forgotten for nearly ten years
DIR. Funk wished to get into communica-
ton with the spirit of Henry Ward Beecher
through which the revelation in regard to
the coin was made in order to learn what
disposition the preacher would have made
of it. He wrote to DIR. Hodgson to find out
IL Mrs. Piper a noted medium, would as
sist in the case.
Mr.. Hodgson expressed doubt of the gen.
uineness Of the original spirit message.
Not that / doubt DR.. Funk's sincerity"
said he. "but beyond that there is the much
more difficult problem of discovering wheth-
er the message really came from a discar-
nate spirit or was revealed by telepathy
through a living person. Though Dr. Funk
had forgotten about the coin. and though
his brother, whom he told TO return It, had
forgotten. too, IL is not impossible that in
formation regarding the coins location may
have come from them, they being uncon-
scious of IL. Or. more possible still, il
may have come from somebody entirely
outside. Several persons undoubtedly have
known in some way or other where that
coin was.
You see, In dealing with communications
from spirits, you must first eliminate all
possibility of interference from living peo-
pie, and in a case like this IL is practically
impossible TO do so. i had been dealing
with Mrs. Piper for several years before /
was willing TO admit that any of her mes
sages came from discarnate spirits; / was
sure that they came from living persons.
telepathically. But finally / was forced to
abandon that.
'.If Mrs. Piper Is used in connection with
this matter II Is not at all sure that def
mite answers TO our Inquiries will be OBJ
the name OF a living person. whose where
abouts was unknown. and asked to have
him traced up. 1t could not be done In a
minute; / have got to find somebody who
communicates through Mrs. Piper and get
him to hunt up Mr.. Beecher for U.S.
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WILL GO TO HIGHER COURT.


Lorimer-Durborrow Contest Referred
to Illinois Supreme Justices.
CHICAGO, April AT conference to-
day between attorneys for William Lori
mer on the one hand and the election COM
missioners on the other, it was decided to
refer the Lorimer-Durborrow election con-
troversy to the Supreme Court for adjudi-
cation. The stipulation entered into pro-
vides that the case shall be taken to the
Supreme Court on two propositions of law.
on which it has original jurisdiction. The
agreement ends, for the present. further
proceedings in Judge Hanecy's court and
will result in the guard, which has been
kept for week over the ballots. being
withdrawn.
The questions upon which the Supreme
Court will be asked to pass are, first, the
right of the election commissioners to pro-
duce and open the ballots under the SUBJ
poena issued by Notary F. s. McClory; and
second, the power and Jurisdiction of the
Circuit Court to issue an injunction to re-
strain the commissioners from obeying the
subpoena.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-05
ARTILLERY TO RETURN.
Will Leave Cuba Soon for the United
States-Spaniards and Cubans.

States-Spanfards ana CubanS.
HAVANA, April Alt has been learned
that four companies of artillery, compris-
ing one-half of the United States artillery
force remaining in Cuba, shortly will be
ordered to return to the United States.
These companies probably will be stationed
at Portland. Me.
An indication Of the growing friendliness
between the Spaniards and Cubans was
seen in an entertainment given this after
noon at Albisu Theater, under the auspices
OF the Cuban branch of the Spanish Red
Cross Society. The receipts of this enter
tainment are to perpetuate the memories of
the Spanish soldiers and sailors who fell in
the wars in Cuba and in the Philippines.
While the large audience was composed
principally of Spaniards, a considerable
number of Cubans attended The entertain
ment, which consisted of portions of Span
ish operas. passed off without the slightest
demonstration of unfriendlness.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-05
FRANK AYRES KILLED.
Man Who Charged His Wife with Be-
ing One Of the Notorious Benders.

FORT COLLINS. Col. April 4-Frank
Ayres. who. about two years ago. gained
considerable notoriety by charging his wife
with being a member of the notorious Ben
der family of California. was found shot
through the head and mortally wounded
near his home in Owl canyon, twenty miles
northeast of here. A ranch hand who re-
was riding by and hes I'd the shots. Upon
Investigation ne foundvAyres lying on the
ground with a revolver and rifle beside him
He has been detained pending investigation
by the coroner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-05
CONFERENCE OF SAINTS.
Latter-Day MOrmons Addressed by
President Joseph Smith.

Latter-Day MOrmons Addressed by
President Joseph Smith.
SALT LAKE, Utah, April 4.-The sew
enty-third annual conference of Latter-day
Saints was opened in the Tabernacle to-
day by President Joseph Smith. fully 1000
members of the Mormon Church listening
to his address. He warned the members
of the church that they should look any
time now for a period of hardship and
financial depression. I'm this time of pros
perity," he said, lit is highly proper for
the Latter-day Saints to get out Of debt.
And one of the best ways to pay our debts
to our business associates is first to pay
our obligations to God"
President Smith declared that one thing
the saints most needed was manual train
ing for the boys and severely scored the
gentle professions. "If had millions of
money" he said. 81 should be ashamed of
my children If my boys did not know how
to handle a pitchfork and my daughters
know how to cook.
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CAUSED BY SANDSTONE.


SANTA ROSA. N. NJ. April Ain a rear
end collision at Guadaloupe Station. on the
Santa Fe road. last night. one man was
killed and three others seriously injured.
The dead: James II. Munger. brakeman.
The injured: Gus Englehart. conductor; z.
M. Remp. engineer; F. t. Bowsner. enp,-
neer The wreck was caused by a severe
sandstorm that prevailed at the time. Ten
freight cars we're stacked up by the acci-
dent and burned with their contents
brakeman Munger was caught under the
wreckage and burned 20 death.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-05
FATAL EFFORT TO CARESS.


PEORIA. ILL.,. April 4.-william Dixon. a
railroad man. tonight attempted to en-
brace Miss Tota Callahan, servant In the
employment OF Mrs Margaret Dillon. keep
er OF a boarding house at which Dixon
lived. The girl threw up her hand 10 ward
cord with knife which she held in her
hand.
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NEWPORT. r. l., April Am antcipa-
ton of his approaching marriage to Miss
Kathleen G. Nelson. of New York. Reg
inald c. Vanderbilt rendered to his best
man, ushers and to several other intimate
friends a farewell bachelor dinner at the
Hilltop cottage tonight The affair was
an elaborate one. the floral decorations be-
ing prOfuse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-05
Importers. Plead Not Guilty.

NEW YORK. April 4.-Abraham s. Ro-
senthal. NJ. l.. Cohen and Charles c. Brown
to-day pleaded not guilty TO the indictments
charging them with making false invoices
in the importation of silk. One indictment
is against Rosenthal & Cohen. another
against the three men. charging them with
conspiracy. and others against each Of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-05
SANG TO DEAD CHILD.


Mistakes Death for Sleep.
CHICAGO, April Awhile waiting for a
train in the Grand Central Station here
to-day the year-old child Of Mrs. John
Langhardt died in its mothers arms. Mr.
and Mrs Langhardt are immigrants on
their way to Lincoln, Neb. The mother
had been walking through the aisles sing
ing softly to the child.
Here, john" she said. Charlie is
asleep. You hold him while get bit of
rest"
little one and without replying ran from the
station. returning a few minutes after
vain search for a physician.
Charlie is dead, he announced quietly
The weeping mother held the lifeless body
to her breast until the police came and re-
moved ii to an undertaker's establish
ment
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defendants individually, Bail for Cohen and
Rosenthal was fixed at $4,000 each OF them.
They were paroled until Monday. Browns
nished.
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thracite on the free list and completely re-
coal for one year.
We are now in a condition of prosperity
unparalleled not merely in our own his
tory, but in the history of any other ma
uon. This prosperity is deep-rooted and
stands on a firm basis because IL is due to
the fact that the average American has in
MIN the stuff out of which victors are made
in the great industrial contests of the pres
ent day, just as I'm the great military con-
tests of the past; and because he is now
able to use and develop his qualities TO best
economic system. We are winning head
ship among the nations of the world be-
cause our. people are able to keep their
high average of individual citizenship and
TO show their mastery in the hard, COM
plex. pushing life of the age. There will be
fluctuations from time to time in our pros
long as we keep up this high average of
individual citizenship and permit IL TO work
out its own salvation under proper eco
nomic legislation.
A PROSPERITY PROMOTER.
The present phenomenal prosperity has
been won under tariff which was made
in accordance with certain fixed and def
rite principles, the most important of
which is an avowed determination to pro-
tect the interests Of the American producer
business man, wageworker and farmer
alike The general tariff policy, to which.
without regard to changes in detail. / be-
lieve this country is irrevocably committed,
is fundamentally based upon ample recog-
milton of the difference between the cost of
production-that is. the cost Of labor-here
and abroad, and of the need to see to 1t
that our laws shall in no event afford al
vantage in our own market to foreign in
dustries over American industries. to for
ffo1 ArraA Ion. &o1
eign labor over our own labor. This coun-
CONTINUED ON PAGE s, COL. %
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REWARDED WITH 81.
Plumber Who Found $4,000 Hidden
Under Cellar Floor.

Under Cellar Floor.
HELENA, Mont, April 4.-Buried treas
ure to the amount of about $4,000 was dis
covered by a plumber under the house at
$40 Broadway yesterday. AS a reward for
his discovery the alleged owners of the
treasure. Mr.. and Mrs. John Mccormick
gave him 81. Mccormick was greatly ex-
cited when summoned TO the scene and
could not tell the amount he asserted he
had buried beneath his cellar floor The
cans had evidently been buried for years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-24
WEAK IN THE ALPHABET.
Some Letters That Mem Can Never
Learn to Make.

Some Letters That Men Can NeveT
Learn to Make.
"Why is it that with some men some
letters Of the alphabet are harder to
make than others and, in fact, that
there are some letters that some men
never learned how to male!" asked Il
young man who takes considerable in
terest in the matter of handwriting In
the New Orleans Times-Democrat. ut
is n rather singular fact that nearly
every nan outside of the experts is
weak on one or more of the letters in
the English alphabet. Sometimes the
letter involved is a capital letter; some
times 1t is of the smaller kind; some
times it is one letter and sometimes
another. In any event, you will find
few men who are exempt from the fail
ing referred to.
Il know of one man who in spite of
the fact that he does a great deal of
writing has never learned how to make
a capital p. He simply makes a stag
ger at 1t, and, as a rule, the result OF
his efforts will look more like a small
p than like the capital P. know m
other man who can't make q small t
TO save his life. lie can never get the
lower part of the letter below the line.
He makes it look like a clubfooted b
instead of an f. There are others who,
when they try to make the small b,
give it the long shank, and it looks
more like the letter +. 1t is rather sin
gular that these traits should hang on
to a mans writing for a lifetime, but
they do it just the same, and If you
make a few inquiries among your
friends and acquaintance you will find
that but few Of them are exempt from
this fault.
: ct is very much like the habit Of
spelling certain words incorrectly.
Many men who are rated as first class
spoilers pass through life without ever
in a single instance spelling certain
words correctly. 1t is due to habit
largely. If you should ask them how
to spell the word, they would tell you.
but, when they go to write 1t, that is
quite different, and they will get 1t
wrong every time. So they know, too,
how certain letters should be made, but
they simply can't put them down on
paper. 1t is a curious but ommon
fault"