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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-04
BOOM FOR ARBITRATION
TREATY BETWEEN BRITAIN AND
THE UNITED STATES PROPOSED.
Movement Inaugurated- at a Meeting
Held i'm the Residence, of Gen.
John w. Foster.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The awakening
throughout the United States Of a popular
sentiment which it is hoped will develop
into a national demand for an arbitration
treaty between the United States and Great
Britain was the object of a gathering this
afternoon at the residence of Gen. John w.
Foster, formerly secretary of state. 1t is
understood the movement has the hearty
approval of the President. Among those
present to-day were Admiral Dewey. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles, Wayne MacVeagh, Thomas
Nelson Page. Clifford Pinchot, John r.
Proctor. Gen. II. v. Boynton, d. c. Gilman,
Charles c. Glover, District Commissioners
Mcfarland and West, John Joy Edison,
Charles j. Bell, William j. Boardman and
w. ". Cox. The gentlemen named consti-
tute the local committee. and will arrange
for a meeting of the national arbitration
committee in this city Jan. IL next.
Regarding the scope Of the plan, which
is to be pushed vigorously in the hope of
securing at an early date the conclusion
of an arbitration treaty following the gen.
eral lines of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty of
1897, the following is an authorized state
ment:
I'm April. 1856. a notable conference of
held in Washington, attended by prominent
and representative citizens from all parts OF
the United States That conference declared
in favor of an arbitration treaty between
the United States and Great Britain, and II
was followed in Jan. 1897, by the signing
of such a treaty by Secretary Hay and Sir
Julian Pauncefote. The treaty failed by a
close vote to receive the two-thirds ma
jority required for it's ratification.
1T is understood that prominent among
the objections urged against this treaty
were the complications growing out of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty and the controversy
over the Alaskan boundary. These having
been disposed of, it is felt by the friends
Oh international arbitration that the pres
ent is favorable time to reawaken public
sentiment in favor of a new arbitration
treaty with Great Britain. They point out
that France has already taken the lead of
in this matter by the convention recently
made with Great Britain, when the United
States, as a kindred nation, SHOULD have set
the example. AT a meeting o. the execu-
tive committee appointed by the conference
of 1896, held last week in New York. it was
decided to call meeting of the national
Jan. II next to take this subject into con-
sideration and adopt such measures as may
seem desirable to be taken To advance
these ends a local committee was desig-
mated for Washington, and Ii Is contem-
plated to organize similar committees in
other leading cities OF the country"
A circular letter to this effect has been
sent throughout the country.
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NJ. E. STONE TESTIFIES
ASSOCIATED PRESS MANAGER BE-
FORE SENATE COMMITTEE.
Tells of the Retention of Bellairs at
Havana ON Gen. Woods Request
Baker Contradicts Runcie.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The Senate COM
mittee on military affairs to-day resumed
it's hearing in connection with charges filed
against General Leonard Wood I'm opposi-
ton to his confirmation to be major general
The first witness was Melville E. Stone,
general manager of the Associated Press.
Mr. Stone was questioned concerning the
report that General Wood had sought to re-
tain E. G. Bellairs as the representative of
the Associated Press at Havana. He SUBJ
mitted a letter written by Major Runcie to
Col Charles s. Diehl, assistant general
manager of the Associated Press, which re-
quested, in behalf of General Wood. the
retention of Bellairs, saying it was impor-
tant TO have a man representing the Asso-
ciated Press at Havana who was in the
confidence of the military governor. Mr.
Stone said the matter was then under
charge of Colonel Diehl. Bellairs was re-
tanned. but his previous record was not
known to the officers of the Associated
Press. When 1t became known Bellairs was
discharged. Mr.. Stone was also asked as to
what knowledge General Wood had Of
Bellairs's record, but upon this point he
could give little information. 1t was decided
that Colonel Diehl should be subpoenaed.
Ray Stanard Baker, the man whom Major
Runcie said was at the dinner with General
Wood and himself when the proposed mag
azine article criticising General Brooke was
discussed. was the next witness called. Mr..
Baker confirmed some portions of the testi-
mony of Major Runcie and contradicted or
qualified other portions of it. He denied all
the testimony of Major Runcie so far as it
related to himself and General Wood con-
corning the article attacking General
Brooke. So far as he knew, the witness
said General Wood had no knowledge of the
article.
Mr.. Baker questioned by Senator
Scott of the committee. and by Senators
Hanna and Teller who were present. They
quoted Major Runcie's letter to Baker sug-
costing that the time was opportune for
the publication of the Runcie article in Gen.
Woods interest and asked him il the let
ter did not show that there had been con-
ferences on the subject and perfect under
standing Mr.. Baker admitted that appear
ances would lead to that Inference, but in
sisted there had not been any understand
ing.
Mr.. Baker admitted that he and Runcie
had discussed General Brooke's administra-
ton of Cuban affairs, but said the discus
sion had been impersonal and that Brooke's
name had not been mentioned. He also said
that General Wood had introduced him to
Runcie when he first went to Cuba.
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OLD COUPLE MURDERED
THEIR DECOMPOsED BODIES FOUND
BURIED IN A wOODsHED.
Charles BOnier, His HOusekeeper and
Charge of Committing the Crime.

BUFFALO, N. z. Dec. 3.-The decom-
posed bodies Of Franz Frehr and his wife,
an aged couple who disappeared from their
home Nov. 2, were found early to-day
buried beneath a woodshed in the back of
their house. They had been murdered.
The skulls of both had been crushed. and
hammer was found in the shed. Several
hairs were found clinging to the head of it.
A search for Charles Bonier, who moved
into the house of the Frehrs the day of
their disappearance, had been begun hours
before the finding of the bodies. Descrip-
tions of Bonier were sent broadcast and
this morning Police Superintendent Bull
ceived telephone message from Erie, Pa,
stating that Bonier had been arrested there.
Bonier is sixty-five years old Boniers
housekeeper, Louise Lindholm, is I'm Gus
tody in this city. The police found on her
person gold pieces to the value of $40. The
Frehrs were supposed to have a great deal
of gold in the house. The woman says
the money was given to her by Bonier.
Kate Kahn, a relative of the Lndholm
a trunk and some stuff which had belonged
to the Frehrs having been found at her
home.
The Frehrs owned another house and lot
beside their home in Jefferson street, and
had money in bank. 1t was we'll konwn in
the neighborhood that they kept large sums
of money In their home Last spring a
them to buy their home. He is said to
have offered $1,000, which the Frehrs re-
fused. On Nov. 20 the man moved into the
Frehr house and on that day the old couple
disappeared. A female relative of the
Frehrs called at the house Thanksgiving
day. She was told they had moved away.
The police were notified and an investiga-
ton was begun, which resulted in the dis
covery of the bodies to-day.
The Lindholm woman was closely ques-
toned by the police officials. She said that
Bonier told her the old couple had sold the
house to him, and that they had gone to a
house of refuge to spend the remainder of
their lives. The gold found upon her, she
insisted, had been given to her by Bonier
Bonier in charge of a Buffalo detective,
arrived here from Erie late to-day He
had not been informed that the bodies of
the Frehrs had been found, and believed
he was being brought here on other pro-
ceedings. Bonier was rigidly examined by
the police, but disclaimed any knowledge
of the murder. He admitted, however.
that he had forged the deeds to the Frehr
house and lot. A charge of forgery has
been preferred against him.
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GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Acting Finance Minister Pleske, of Rus
STA, is said to have been granted a pro-
longed leave of absence, and it is reported
that NJ. Kobeko member OF the Council
of the Empire, will replace him.
1t was officially admitted at the British
admiralty last night that Great Britain has
purchased the two battleships Libertad and
Constitution, built on the Clyde for Chile,
penses.
The Duke of Manchester, who welded
Miss Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, is reported
by New York World dispatch from Lon
don to be rather seriously i'll at his Irish
residence, Tanargee Castle. He is believed
to be suffering from diabetes.
The Nationalist members of the French
Chamber of Deputies held meeting yester-
criticising the governments action in the
revision of the Dreyfus case, saying they
regarded it as political move preliminary
to judicial step which only the enemies
the Nationalists' purpose to continue the
struggle against Dreyfus.
The Bondelzwarts tribesmen of South
west Africa, after their defeat Nov. q by
the German expeditionary column, retreat
ed into British territory and occupied some
islands in the Orange river. The battle,
which was fought at Sandfontein, began
Nov. 20. The firing was kept up almost
continuously for two days, both sides OBJ
serving cautious tactics. The tribesmen
lost heavily. according to the official adj
vices, and the German losses were slight,
but are not enumerated.
The British royal commission on arsenical
poison from food and drink recommends
the prohibition of the sale of beer and
other liquid food. or of any liquid entering
into the composition of food, which contains
one-hundredth of a grain or more of ar
senic per gallon, and the prohibition of the
sale of solid food containing one-hundredth
of a grain per pound, mo matter whether
habitually consumed in large or small
quantities. or whether consumed alone Qike
golden syrup or mixed with water or other
substances like chicory, etc.)"
Farmer Topin was the only witness at
yesterdays hearing in Paris of testimony
in the Fair will case before Commissioner
Eislen, of New York. The witness testified
that he arrived on the scene after the acct
dent and carried the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles l.. Fair to the porter's lodge. The
body of Mr.. Fair, he added was stiff and
that of Mrs. Fair was still warm. The
heirs of Mrs. Fair believe the medical ex-
perts who are soon to testify will use To-
pins evidence to support the view that Mrs
Fair died after her husband.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-04
BATH TUB GETS 7. ]. CARLETON
INTO TROUBLE,
Plumber Accused of Stealing Tub
from New House and Selling 1t
for Another Building.

Detectives Haley and Splan last night
arrested T. ]. Carleton. plumber at Ala
bama and st. Joseph streets, and locked
him up at the police station on a charge of
stealing a bath tub from house which
was in the course of construction at Tween
ty-first street and Capitol avenue, several
weeks ago.
Carleton. Ii Is said, carted the bath tub
out of the house one afternoon and hid it
I'm his plumbing shop. Several days ago he
secured a contract to put in bath tub at
1913 North Illinois street. and as the stolen
tub the very kind he wanted he de-
cIded TO use II. Just as he was placing the
purlolned tub into position in the house
the detectives arrived and placed him un-
der arrest.
The bath tub was the property of Clark
& Son. plumbers at 215 East Ohio street
and they succeeded in locating Ii and noti-
fed the detectives. who went to 1913 North
Illinois street. confiscated the bath tub and
arrested Mr.. Plumber himself A year
ago Carleton was arrested for stealing some
plumbers supplies from McElwaine q
Richards, wholesale plumbers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-04

at a meeting in Chicago yesterday. A.
number of instances were cited where large
advertisers had reduced bill board and
of newspapers. A fixed classified rate for
billp0sting, based on the population OF
cities, was adopted.
TIL suit of the Western Union Telegraph
Com oany against the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company to recover royal
ties on patents involving millions OF dollars
which was decided in favor of the plaintifr
in the United States Court of Appeals at
Boston, may be adjust ted at an early date.
Counsel for the defendant company, who
had thirty days to petition for a rehearine
yesterday notified the Western Union COM
pany that they would not ask for an addi-
tional consideration OF the case.
The Builders and Traders Exchange Of
Columbus, o., has decided to make an open
fight against organized labor They have
instructed their attorney to prepare a suit
against the City Council and city officials
to eajoin discrimination in favor of union
men. The Council adopted a resolution
providing that preference should be shown
members of labor organizations in all city
worf, and il is said that the exchange
prop ses to fight. 1t is said that It works
and unfair.
A special meeting of Division IS OF the
Amalgamated Association of Street and
Electric Employees OF America was held at
Pitts burg last night TO take action on the
report of its committee which had been
appointed TO confer with the Pittsburg
RailIays Company concerning a new wage
scale which the association seeks 10 have
adopsed. The committee reported that the
company had positively refused to grant
any advance in wages and would not agree
to change the trip runs TO suit the men. II
was decided TO vote on the question OF a
strike.
President Samuel Gompers, of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. has been asked
to visit Pittsburg TO settle a trade fight.
The request was made by forty-eight lodges
of the international Brotherhood of Boiler
Makers and Shipbuilders, who are at pres
ent Holding a meeting in Pittsburg to right
alleged wrongs committed by their interna-
tiona1 officer. The delegates, II is said.
base: their complaint principally the
fact that the International officer declared
ing II voted on by the referendum, as the
law Of the union demands.
The British Board of Trade Journal for
December prints warning to British man
ufacturers from Seymour Bell the British
commercial agent in the United States
propnesyfng an extensive invasion of the
British markets by American firms I'm the
near future. Mr.. Bell writes that the de-
creasing demand in the United States for
many classes OF manufactured goods indi-
Gates that American firms viii soon be
looking abroad for markets I'm which to
dispose of their surplus products at almost
any price. 1T will be well, therefore" says
Mr.. Bell. Ito bring before the British man
manner the progress made in recent years
by American exporters In securing a hold
on markets within the British possessions,
particularly for certain classes of goods
which could be manufactured In the United
Kingdom"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-04
MILLIONS OF VATICAN
MONEY SQUANDERED
Used In Restoring Private Patrfmo-
MES Of Arfstocratic Families Who
Remained True to the Pope.

ROME. Dec. 3.-Going through the finan-
cial situation OF the Vatican as left by Pope
Leo tie present Pope found that several
millions had been employed in restoring the
private patrimonies OF a number OF aristo-
cratic families. the members OF which had
remained faithful TO the Holy See, PRINCIPAL
chose Of the Princes Boncompagni and
Borghese. but more especially the latter.
The historic palace of the latter. built by
Pope Paul V, at the beginning of the sew
enteerth century. had fallen into the hands
OF creoitors or the princely house. who rent
ed IL - an Office TO the Grand orient Of
Italian Freemasons. which Pope Leo con-
sIdered 10 be dissertation. All rumors to
the effect that Pope Plus intends To get
back t;iis money through the application of
cofrcihe measures are considered ar the
Vatican as altogether without foundation
because the families thus subventioned are
repayiHg the money loaned them by yearly
installlnents.
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FURRY IN COTTON.
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE,

L Ed
tneir enthusiasm bulls predicted 25 cents for
cotton. More conservative members, how
ever, thought that 10 cents was high enough
for some time to come.
Up to IL o'clock there was much subdued
excitement on the floor. trading was heavy
and the trading of the day was probably
greater than any preceding day in the his
tory of the exchange. The traders who
had sold short made frantic efforts to cover
in the first few minutes. Some succeeded in
getting under cover before the price adj
vanced too far, but there were few so for
tunate, for in the first three minutes the
figures in March options advanced "a points.
and at the end of eight minutes the price
had advanced 50 points and March was
quoted at 12lsc. Other months also made
tremendous jumps, January going up "a
points in five and one-fourth minutes
Eight and quarter minutes after the re-
port was read the market received the first
check. The rise in March figures suddenly
stopped at 12.50c, and the next sale, a quar-
ter of a minute later, was points lower.
The bears made great efforts to keep the
price down, but the bull movement was ir-
resistible, and a few minutes later prices
were again on the boom.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-04
RYAN KNOWS NOTHING OF CUT.
Miners Oficial Says Soft Coal Trade
Does Not Warrant Reduction.


Does Not Warrant Reduction.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. 3.-State Sec
retary-t treasurer William d. Ryan, Of the
United Mine Workers of America, In an in
interview to-day declared he knew nothing
about published statements that coal oper-
ators of bituminous fields, at a conference
to be held at Indianapolis in January, would
demand a reduction of from 10 to 70 per
cent. in miners wages, but that If such
attempt was made there would be such Q
strike of miners in the Interstate COMPETE
tive district, which includes Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, that the late
strike in the anthracite region would pale
into insignifcance. He said that the soft
coal trade does not demand a cut in wages,
and that the miners would never accept a
reduction. Local operators say they have
heard nothing about proposed cut In
wages.
CLEVELAND, Dec 3-One Of the largest
soft coal operators in the Massillon district
is quoted to-day as stating that owing to
present trade conditions a reduction In
miners wages must be made at the termi-
nation of the existing wage agreement. 1t
is understood that meeting of the opera
tors will be held here tomorrow, at which
the matter will be taken up. 1t is said the
operators will propose 10 per cent. re-
ductiOQ.
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.-Preliminary re-
turns to the chief of the Bureau of Sta
tistics of the Department of Agriculture in
dictate that the actual growth of cotton in
the United States In the year 1884 will
amount to 1885,. 039 bales. of an average net
weight Of 1903 pounds. The area picked. or
to be picked, is estimated at Is, l04,S $50 acres.
a reduction of SO, 1876 acres or 800 per cent
from the acreage planted. The total pro-
duction of lint cotton is estimated at 4.sS9.-
796.267 pounds, an average of 17i5 pounds
ner acre.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-04
BANK CASHIER INDICTED.
Federal Grand Jury Acts i'm the Peo-
pies Bank Case mt Newark.


COLUMBUS, o., Dec. 3.-Harry j. Hoover,
former cashier of the Peoples National
Bank of Newark, o., was to-day indicted
by the United States grand jury on charge
of making false entries in the books of the
bank. There are twelve causes for action
cited and the amount involved is 81, 900.
Harry p. Scott, assistant cashier of the
Peoples Bank, was indicted for conspiracy
with Hoover. The men were formerly boon
companions. According to Scotts story, he
discovered Hoover's alleged defalcation and
out of friendship secretly permitted Hoover
to return the money to the bank. Later it
developed that the money paid back by
Hoover was taken from the Licking County
Bank, of which Hoover became cashier
after leaving the Peoples Bank. Suit to
recover this money has been brought by
the Licking County Bank and is now pend
ing.
Hoover, who is sick at his home in New
ark will be arraigned soon as he has
sufficiently recovered. Scott was brought
to Columbus this afternoon and arraigned
in the United States Court. He pleaded
not guilty and held in $4,000 bond,
which was furnished.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-04

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-The San .oomin-
GO arbitration committee held its first
meeting to-day in the hearing room of the
Interstate-c commerce Commission. Those
present were Judge Gray, former Sec
rotary of the Treasury Carlisle, ar
bitraror for the United States, Senior CAL
van and John Bassett Moore, agent for the
United States and attorney for khe COM
pany 1t is estimated that the claims In
volve an aggregate of A50o,00o. fThe COM
Missions session was brief.
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Charged with Being n Spy.

DENVER, Col, Dec. 3.-Fred Wakeman,
a private of Company F. at Camp Gold
field Cripple Creek, has been arrested as q
spy. He is now in the military prison
awaiting trial by court-martial.
The news of the arrest was received at
the adiutant generals Office to-day. Adju-
tant General Bell said Wakeman was en-
ployed as a detective by the Miners Union.
Under the forty-sixth article of war a spy
found guilty Of giving intelligence to the
enemy can be punished by death. General
Bell says Wakeman may suffer the extreme
penalty should he be adjudged guilty Of
being spy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-04
DEATHS OF A DAY.



SALT LAKE, Utah, Dec. 3.-Bishop Abiel
Leonard. head of the Episcopal Church in
Utah and Nevada, died this morning at A
o. clock at st. Marks Hospital from typhoid
fever.
Bishop Leonard was born at Lafayette
Mo-, June 26. 1S4S. He graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1870 and from the
General Theological Seminary, New York
city, in 1873.
EMPORIA, Kan, Dec. 3.-Luther Severy,
who was formerly very wealthy man, a
director i'm the Santa Fe Railroad and a
builder of railroads, is dead at his home
here, aged seventy-seven. He came to
Kansas from Sturgis, Mich.
ECELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo-. Dec. 3.-Geo.
II. White, of Boston. heavy holder OF
Kansas oil lands, is dead here.
LONDON, Dec. 3.-The Earl of Stair died
to-day at Lochin, Scotland. He was born
I'm 1919.
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HIGH PRICE FOR OIL.
Bid of 81 a Barrel for 10000 Barrels
of Crude Made mt OIL City.

OIL CITY, Pa, Dec. "a bid of 81 a
barrel for 10000 barrels of crude oil rep
resented by National Transit certificates
was made on the floor of the exchange
here to-day. There was sale of 5000 bar
rels at sl95 With the exception of the
year 1896, when certificates sold as high as
S265 a barrel, the bid and sale to-day is
the highest quotation In twenty-five years
or since the opening and DEVELOPMENT of
the prolific Bradford field. The advance Is
caused by the pipeline reports for Novem-
Der, which show a steady increase in new
wells but a decrease In production and a
heavy draft on the reserve stocks, especial
ly Of Pennsylvania oil.
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COLUMBUS. o., Dec. 3.-Mrs Mary r.
Boswell. indicted for misusing the mails
In attempting to blackmail u. L. White, a
leading merchant OF Columbus, was ar
raigned before Judge Thompson this even
ing, pleaded guilty and was fined $500 and
costs, which her attorneys agreed would
accused Of an attempt to blackmail Senator
Hanna.