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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

close the contents of the cablegramS re-
ceived last night from Minister Leishman,
but said that the minister's advices were
that the erroneous report on the assassina-
ton of Mr.. Magelssen was due to the use
of the wrong code number and not to any
error in transmission. The information
given in the cablegram was that the Gov
ernor called at the consulate and offered
prompt action and would make every eff
fort to find out and punish the would-be
assassin. Mr.. Leishman further advised
the secretary that several of the consulates
have reported to their governments that
the condition of the city of Beirut at the
present moment is unsafe.
The State Department to-day received a
cablegr2m from Minister Leishman In
which he stated that advices from the
American consul at Harpoot and Beirut
were to the effect that while the Americans
in those places are in danger of suffering
from uprising at any time. the situation
was not, at the time or sending the dis
patches, as grave as earlier reports would
Indicate Mr.. Leishrnan has been instructed
to notify the Turkish government that 1T
must keep the peace and that 1t will be
held to a strict accountability for any law
less acts towards American citizens.
The Navy Department has received a
cable message from Capt. Henry McCrea,
in command of the gunboat Machias, say
ing that he had finished coaling the ship
and that it would start at once from Genoa
to Port Said.
The Navy Department has received a
cablegram from Rear Admiral Cotton say
ing that the Brooklyn and San Francisco
will sail for Beirut Sunday from Genoa.
They have been delayed by coaling. The
order for them to proceed to Beirut has not
been changed.
Acting Secretary Darling to-day sent a
cablegram to Rear Admiral Cotton inform
ing him that Vice Consul Magelssen had
not been killed, but had been fired upon.
This was done to apprise the commanding
officer of the squadron of the true situa-
ton at Beirut. The collier Alexander to-
day was reported at Malta on her way to
Manila with coal for the Asiatic station.
the exigency is then necessary she will
be held to supply the cruisers of the Euro
pean squadron with coal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

"simply Mortified. II is a monstrous crime
But IL no more than was 10 have been
expected"
Later Mr.. TAYLOR handed the Journal
representative the following statement:
when IL is remembered that Caleb Pow
ers has been convicted for political pur-
poses. and to cover and obscure the mon
strous crime OF robbing him OF his office
by the use of the hundred thousand dollar
perjury fund and by indicting and then
bribing with immunity and money crlnging
creatures to swear his life away In three
bitter partisan courts, before three packed
partisan juries. deliberately selected 10
convict. no one Is surprised. His conYic-
ton is the most diabolical political crime
OF the age. The verdict does not in fact,
nor in the minds OF just men anywhere,
make him any more guilty than did the
conviction and execution of Robert Emmett
make him guilty. Caleb Powers is an limo
cent man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
BRYAN TO SPEAK IN OHIO.


CLEVELAND. Aug. 2-william j. Bryan
will deliver a number OF political speeches
in Ohio in connection with the Democratic
State campaign. Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. John
son. the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor. will both speak at Oak Harbor next
Monday afternoon. John III. Clark. Demo-
cratic candidate for United States senator.
will also probably speak at this meeting
Mr.. Bryan will speak ut Toledo Monday
evening, Aug. 81, at Napoleon Tuesday
morning and on evening or the same day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
Assistant District Attorney Taggart
Seemingly in No Hurry to Re-
turn Indictments.
REPORTS DUE WEEKS AGO
COMPLAINTS MAY AGAIN BE MADE
TO THE PRESIDENT.
Another Batch of Carriers for Rural
Free Delivery Routes i'm Indiana
General News of the Capital.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-Postal officials
are becoming restless as result of the
masterful inactivity of the district attorney
of Washington and his assistant in handling
the cases presented TO the grand jury here
several days ago. Testimony against Of
ficials already under indictment, and against
two or three of the small fry who have not
yet appeared in the scandal, submitted
to the grand jury several weeks ago. A
prominent official of the department said
to-day that indictments should have been
returned three weeks ago. The delay is
attributed TO the snail-like methods of Mr..
Taggart, assistant district attorney, and it
is understood here that if action is not soon
taken the attention of the President will
again be directed to the district attorneys
office. Some time ago a complaint was
made to the executive by Postmaster Cen
eral Payne. and this resulted in great ac-
tivity on the part of the district attorney
and his assistants, indictments in a number
of cases soon following.
Rural carriers have been appointed in
Indiana as follows:
Earl Park-walter II. Pauley, Z. S.
Yeager.
Warren-Leander ]. Haines, Charles NJ.
Haines.
Kokomo-Thomas w. Brass, Ben F. suth-
erland.
Crownpoint-Roscoe d. Chaffee. Mabel E.
Chaffee.
Bowling Green-John Q. Powell, Timan II.
Straley.
Center-Jasper Collins Ethelena Collins.
The Civil-service Commission has eX-
hausted the eligible list of civil engineers
and superintendent of construction in the
engineering branch of the War Department
examinations will he held to create a
new list on Sept 10 at Indianapolis,
Fort Wayne, Lafayette and Evansville.
Several of those appointments are now
available and will be filled as soon as a
new list of eligibles is found. There is a
vacancy at Indianapolis, where the engi-
neer when appointed will assist i'm prepar-
| ing the site for the post to be erected at
| that place.
Authority has been granted for the or
| ganization of the First National Bank Of
Angola, Ind, capital $4,000. Cyrus Cline,
| Clarence Freeman, Z. S. Croxton, A. r..
Leas, Lauren E. Smith. and j. b. Parsell
| are named as incorpOratOrs. The Fletcher
National Bank and Indiana National Bank
/ of Indianapolis have been approved as re-
serve agents for the Rockville Qnd.) Ma
! tional Bank.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
RETURN OF COL. HAY.
secHetary of state Receives Another
Message from Lefshman.

WASHINGTON Aug 29-Secretary of
State Hay returned TO his desk i'm the State
Department this morning. 1t was said that
his arrival in Washington at this time was
not due to the occurrences in Turkey, but
in accordance with arrangements made at
the time of his departure for Oyster Bay
Mr. Hay said that while the uprisings In
the Turkish dominion were more or less
chronic. the present state of affairs as
sumes proportions of an instruction OF
considerable magnitude lie would not dis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

New York Times.

New 1Ork Times.
Special trains are becoming so frequent
now that they attract little attention, ex-
cept they make record runs for long dis
tances or unless there is some trouble coll
lecting payment for them," said a veteran
railroad man. Ten years ago when / was
division superintendent on one of the big
trunk lines running out of New York spe-
cial train was an event that never failed to
get mention in the newspapers. Station mas
tiers required ample notice To get one in
readiness and there was great deal of fuss
making arrangements all along the line At
any OF the big railroad terminals in any
city now man can get a special engine
and car To chase a flyer almost as easy as
he can check his trunk. Only few min
utes notice is required, and right of way Is
obtained for 100 800 miles along the line
without noticeably disturbing schedule runs
A man who has 10 keep an important bust
ness engagement, or a woman hurrying to a
sick husband. pays 500 or double that sum
for special with as little concern pay
Ing supper check in a swell hotel. We live
i'm a rapid and extravagant age, and grow
accustomed to such things"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
FALSE THEORIES OF TROUSERS.
A Philadelphia Mans Mistaken Views
as to why We Turn EN- Up.
Washington Post

Washington Post.
That eminent contemporary. the Phila-
delphia Record, discourses thus on the
sacred subject of turned-up trousers:
"a mans trousers, when tailor presses
them in the summer, are nearly always
pressed with the ends turned up but in
winter they are pressed turned down.
Why a man said to tailor the other
day, why this difference? The tailor an
swered to this grave question: Trousers
are pressed turned up in the summer be-
cause it is presumed that every man wears
them turned up in this season. He wears
them so because in the summer he wears
low shoes, and trousers that are not
turned up catch at the back in such shoes.
But turned up they don't touch the shoes
they don't catch in them they set right.
That is the main reason why we turn up
trousers in the summer. Another reason
is that when warm, damp weather affects
trousers length, it makes them an inch
longer, and sometimes, If they are heavy,
1t makes them two or three inches longer.
Hence, if they were not turned up they
would drag, like woman's train, over the
dirt.
What folderol is this. Our summer
trousers get three inches longer in damp
weather, and must be turned UP at the
bottom to keep them from dragging OIL
the ground. Who buys these garments,
pray. and what tailor with a soul above a
pullet's would send them from his shop
Why, such thing could not be truly said
of the very meanest pair of shoddy pants
marked down from sl01 to 90 cents. and
ter of a secondhand trade palace Men
of spirit will have none of them. Our
beautiful and radiant Adoiphus, who pop
ulates excursion steamers, dances in the
moonlight at waterside resorts, and car
ries beneath his 66-cent shirt a heart of
gold, would rather be found dead in the
rain than put his limpid leg into clothing
of such low degree.
1t may be that what the Record says is
true of Philadelphia pants, but in WASH
ington and other American cities we have
'em made long on purpose, so that we may
turn them up at the bottom and respectful
ly but firmly initiate the British aristocracy
and their American counterfeits. We do
it because the Prince of Wales some years
ago. was seen with turned-up trousers by
"A New York drummer. who straightway
took the first steamer for home to tell the
domestic elite about IL. In brief, we do il
because we want to: because We like to
feel that another tie of affection between
US and our British cousins is thereby es-
tablished because, IL we can't be English,
we want to look English, and we don't
care cent who knows it. But we don't
wear slop-shop breeches. We don't buy
and our tailors would scorn TO handle ma
terial capable of getting three inches longer
in a drizZle and shortening up again under
| the influence of clear weather
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
HELD ON SUSPICION.


SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 29.-Mrs. Martin
Bowers and her sister, Mrs. c. c. Sutton,
are held by the police in connection with
the death of Mrs. Bowers's husband, who
died on Tuesday, apparently of arsenical
poisoning. 1t is alleged that after the death
of her husband Mrs. Bowers withdrew sew
eral thousands dollars from one bank and
deposited the money in another bank in
her own name and that Mrs. Bowers and
her husband had quarreled recently be-
cause of the attentions paid by a laborer to
the woman.
At the inquest drug clerk. j. e. Peter
son. testified that six days before the death
of Bowers, Mrs Sutton presented pre-
scription calling for arsenic. DR.. Nc
Laughlin, whose name was attached to the
prescription, denied having given such a
prescription and writing expert gave his
opinion that the prescription was written
by Mrs. Bowers. She admitted having pur-
chased medicine from Peterson, but denied
that IL was arsenic Mrs. Bowers, i'm a
statement, admitted drawing the money
from the bank, but added: Il am innocent.
l know nothing OF any arsenic. / did not
write the prescription" Bowers was Mrs.
Bowers's third husband. He was a car
penter.
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of sending a ship TO Beirut to force a
proper punishment ii seems to me advis-
able to have ship within easier range of
Turkish waters in order to be in a posi-
ton to more fully protect American citi-
zens, should the revolution assume more
alarming proportions.
1.-THE insurgents have been more aggres-
sive in eastern Roumelia since the visit of
Russian war vessels and the passenger
train from Europe was blown up with
dynamite this morning. about fifty miles
from Constantinople, killing or wounding
most of the passengers.
''Therapia. Aug. q.
Minister for foreign affairs has just sent
me word stating that reported assassination
of American vice consul entirely false, add
ing that security of Beirut district is per-
feet Am without further advices from
such conflicting statements. Will report
further as soon as L can obtain necessary
information"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

LONDON, Aug. pa cable dispatch was
sent to Sir Thomas Upton to-day offering
to guarantee the expenses if he will ar
range for series of five races between the
Reliance and the Shamrock III with their
crews exchanged.
In approving of Sir Thomas's reported de-
termination not to challenge again for the
Americas cup, the Globe this afternoon
voices the despair which marks all the
comment on the cup racing, saying: There
comes time when constant and inevitable
defeat wearies even the most enthusiastic.
and Sir Thomas is we'll advised to relin-
quish the struggle in which his pluck is SO
generally recognized and before his failures
have become a jest. While the American
yacht builders are superior to their Eng
lish rivals we are not likely TO regain the
cup"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.-Forecast for
Sunday and Monday:
Illinois and Indiana-Fair OF Sunday;
fresh north TO northeast winds. Monday
fair and warmer
Ohio-Fair in west, clearing in east por-
ton on Sunday; cooler in west portion.
Monday fair and warmer; fresh to brisk
north winds Sunday.
Lower Mtchigan-Fair in west, showers IN
east portion on Sunday. Monday fair, with
warmer, except along Lake Huron; fresh
TO brisk north TO northeast winds.
South Dakota. Nebraska and Kansas
Fair and warmer on Sunday. Monday fair.
Wisconsin-Fair on Sunday; warmer in
west portion. Monday fair; warmer in east
portion: fresh north 10 east winds.
MinneSOta-Fair on Sunday, warmer in
west and southern portions. Monday fair.
warmer i'm extreme northeast portions; fresh
northeast to southeast winds.
kentucky-Fair Sunday and Monday,
warmer on Monday.
lOWa-Fair and warmer on Sunday. Mon
day fair, warmer in eastern portions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
CHARGED WITH PEONAGE.
Turpentine Dealer and His Son Ac-
cused of Enslaving White Men.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Aug. 29.-The
charge of peonage against Marion Priest
wood. wealthy turpentine dealer, has
been heard before United States Commits
sioner Tutwiler at Troy, Ala, with the
result that the defendant, his son, who was
the committing magistrate in the case and
Will Goodson, a tenant who acted as con-
stable were bound over to await the action
of the federal grand jury. The evidence
before the commissioner alleged great abuse
of the victim, Bob English, a white man
and his two sons, involving practically
starvation and other hardships for family
of ten persons for many months.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
Miller Not Entitled to Pay.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 29.-Controller
Tracewell, in a decision to Public Printer
Palmer. has ruled that w. A. Miller. the
assistant foreman in the bookbindery de-
partment of the government printing office,
whose case has attracted so much atten-
ton, is not entitled to pay during the time
of his absence from the printing office.
Miller was absent for sixty-three days
and if the claim had been valid there would
be due him 1852. The controller holds that
Miller is not official of the government,
but an employee, and rules that a pre-
requisite of his pay is that he should be
present and actually performing the labor
required of him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
TOO WEAK TO QUIT BED.
Senator Hanna Will Continue to Rest
on Advice of His Physicians.

CLEVELAND, Aug. Ex-senator Hanna.
on the advice of his physicians, did not
leave his bed to-day and probably will not
do so before the first of next week While
the senator has no fever he continues some
what weak and it is thought best for him
TO remain i'm bed for 4 day or two longer.
He expects to take an active part in the Re-
publican State campaign and to make
many speeches during its progress. Cover
nor Hunt. of Porto Rico, was guest at the
Hanna residence to-day and talked Tor
some time with Mr.. Hanna.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

BERLIN. Aug. 29.-Tbe' German news
papers scoff at the error n deciphering the
Beirut dispatch received by Minister Leish-
man at Constantinople. The National Zeit-
ung calls Mr.. Leishman's explanation "a
mystifcation" and lectures the authorities
at Washington on the desirability OF care
i'm these critical times
Another newspaper comments on the
nervousness of the diplomats at Constan-
tinople" and attributes TO that feeling the
mistake made in deciphering the Beirut
dispatch.
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at Versailles. On Wednesday Mr.. Bryan
will deliver n nonpolitical address at the
State fair at Columbus. Wednesday even
ing he will address a political meeting at
Marion. 1t is expected that Mr.. Bryan
will make several other speeches in Ohio
during the campaign. but further than
above stated his itinerary has not been yet
arranged.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
A Roosevelt Delegate Elected.

READING, Pa. Aug. "a. NJ. High
was to-day elected delegate tie the nation
al Republican convention and instructed to
vote for President Roosevelt. Charles w.
POtteigeT was named an alternate. The
resolutions strongly indorse Roosevelt and
Senators QUAY and Penrose
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
EXPLOSION OF BOILER.
Locomotive Wrecked, One Man Killed
and Two Injured.

BAKER City, Ore, Aug. 29.-One of the
big compound engines of the Oregon Rail-
way and Navigation Company was almost
blown to pieces by the explosion of the
boiler last night. Fireman Faust was
killed, engineer Gilman was fatally hurt
and Brakeman Wade was seriously in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
One Man Killed. Others Injured.

MIDDLTOWN, n. Y, Aug. 29.-Two
trains on the Erie Railroad collided near
Turner's to-day, killing an unknown man
and injurng a number of passengers. Hat
ton Field of New York had an arm cut
off. The injuries to the others consisted
mainly of cuts and bruises.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

CHICAGO. Aug. 29-Anthrax has been re-
ported as having broken out in a herd OF
cattle on a stock farm near Palestine this
county. The health department has taken
steps TO protect the milk supply of Chi
cago, which is obtained in the re-
gion around Palestine.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

NEW YORK. Aug. 2s--Among the pas
sengers who arrived to-day on the steamer
Moltke from Hamburg were the Countess
Won Waldersee and her sister. Won Walch-
ter Lauterbach. George Il. Baef, and
General a w. Greedy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
LEIsHMAN's DISPATCHES.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The full text
of the dispatches of Minister Leishman to
the secretary of state bearing the
Magelssen affair. with the exception of one
received last night, saying that the vice
consul had not been killed. follows:
'Therapia, Aug. q, 1903
Just received telegram of the United
States consul at Beirut advising me that our
vice consul was assassinated last Sunday
night while driving in carriage. Murderer
unseen and unknown. No explanation is
given for delay in reporting the case, but
consul adds that reply of government is
unsatisfactory. Have asked for further
particulars and will at once make vigorous
representations at the Sublime Porte.
''Therapia, Aug. q.
II have made proper representations to
the Sublime Porte with reference to the
assassination of vice consul, but pending
reception of fuller details and also your
instructions, have made no demands other
than asking for investigation and explana-
tons. which the minister for foreign af-
fairs assured would be given immediate at
tention.
..The troubles In Macedonia become worse
and more extended each day. aud outside
Of the necessity which may present itself
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of John Beam OF Equality. H.. was found
to-day on the Big Four Railroad tracks
near Harrisburg. As no money or valus-
bles were found on his body the police think
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
Local observations on Saturday.

Bar Their r. Wind Weather. Pre-.
a. M. -29S6 S. - Swest. 1t. rain. .O4
Z y. IN. .2g.S7 20 90 INVEST. Clear. .06
Maximum temperature. 20; minimum tenn
pcrature 90.
Comparative statement of mean tempera-
ture and total precipitation on Aug. %:
Mexico weekly ledger., 1903-05-14
BENTON CITY ITEMS.


Correspondence OF the Ledger.
BENTON Cry, Mo-, May 13.-Misses
Turley and Cross, Of Mexico, were
here Friday.
Tom Moore has returned, after
spending a few weeks at Hatton.
Miss Blanche Collins, Of Mexico, Ii
the guest Of Miss Grace Mullins.
Mr.. Ed. Moore, Of Hatton, visited
at Alb Romans recently.
Miss Ora johnson, Of Mexico, was Q
visitor here Thursday.
Drs. Douglass and Diven attended
the Linton District Medical Society
at Mexico.
Mrs. Schuldice, Of st. Louis, is Wis
iting her son, Fred Precht.
T. II. Diven and family spent Sat.
urday and Sunday in st. Louis.
Clay Hamilton and Louis Doss, OF
Mexico, were guests of friends here
Sunday.
Clarence Staples visited friends here
Friday.
Miss Lou Hamilton is visiting In
Montgomery City.
The Benton City school board met
Monday night and elected teachers
Mrs. Diven for principal, and Miss
Belle Waddington, assistant. Al
though there were a number of appli-
cants, the board could not have made
a better selection.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1903-05-14
Mexico Citizens Gladly Speak Public
ly on This Subject.


A pubic statement.
Given 10 the pubic tor the PUBIC
good.
A citizens experience.
Truthfully told for humanity's sake
Should ind ready appreciation.
Mexico people are pleased to do IL;
Pleased to tell their friends and
neighoors.
Tell them about the little con
queror."
Inc good DEEDS OF Doan's Kidney
Pills