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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-23
PLAN PLEASES GROVER
FORMER PRESIDENT PRAISES THE
"sCHOOL FOR JOURNALISTS"
Compliments Mr.. Pulitzer and Says the
Press Amounts to N Whole Lot
i'm This Country.

NEW YORK, Aug 22-Former President
Grover Cleveland has sent to the World the
following letter on the proposed school of
journalism:
''It has been long time since any move
ment of a semi-pubic nature has aroused
my enthusiasm as greatly as has Mr.. Pu-
litzer's journalistic school enterprise. 1 see
in its success the ultimate extinction of the
vexatious antagonism new existing between
the haphazard conduct of newspapers in
their reach after news purveying and
large section of the public, and a release
of public men from annoyances against
which it is hard to defend themselves
II do not believe i exaggerate when | say
that the high standing and conscientious
conduct of the public press is one OF the
most important agencies for the preserva-
tion OF the best elements of our national
character and one of the surest guarantees
of our national integrity and perpetuIty
The fact that this project originates with
Mr.. Pulitzer, whose journalistic experience
and thorough knowledge of what journals
tic standards should be are so complete
and whose characteristic liberality has
been so abundantly shown in setting il on
foot, not only does him great honor, but
should insure its success.
Every decent citizen should bid him
God-speed, and he himself could not wish
a prouder monument to his memory than
to have it said of him that he founded a
successful journalistic school, whose OBJ
ject as he aptly expresses IL, is not merely
to enlarge and improve the opportunities
that are open to young men for a start in
life, but TO raise and fix the character and
standards of the press itself as a moral
teacher and a promoter of that publicity
which makes for better government and
for the advancement OF civilization z"
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MANY ELKS ARE INJURED
AN EXCURSION TRAIN GOES OVER A
HIGH EMBANkMENT.
Boiler of the Locomotive ExpIOdes-
Two Are Killed and Four Arc
Probably Fatally Hurt.

CHEHALIS, Wash, Aug. 22.-An eXcur-
sion train on the Northern Pacific Railroad
consisting of a locomotive and seven
ches, bound to an Elk clambake at
Olympia, was wrecked to-day and Charles
Farieman, of Portland and tramp were
killed. four persons were probably fatally
injured and thirty were hurt by the derail-
ment and the explosion of the boiler which
followed.
The train left Portland this morning.
Every car was crowded with Elks and their
families and friends The train was run
ming at rapid speed when the rails spread.
throwing the locomotive down Il forty-foot
embankment. Three coaches piled on top
of the locomotive. Then the boiler ex-
ploded, throwing scalding water and steam
for many yards around The fourth, fifth
and sixth coaches left the track, but only
the front end of the fourth car went over
the bank. The seventh coach held TO the
rails. Nearly every in the first coach
was injured, many of the victims sustaining
broken legs or arms. Those who escaped
pulled the injured from the wreck. Several
doctors were on the train and they dressed
the wounds and set the broken limbs. A
messenger hurried to Chehalis with the
news and train of fiat cars was sent to
the wreck TO bear the injured to a hospital
Most of the injured live in Portland.
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OLD SOLDIER ASSAULTED
MEMBER OF MARION HOME MURDER
OUSLY BEATEN AND STABBED.
Assault Led by Negro. Who Was
Aided by Another Member of
the Home.

Special To the Indianapolis Journal
MARION, Ind, Aug 22.-David F.. Pierce
member of the Marion Soldiers Home. was
murderously assaulted tonight by two men
said to be Timber williams, colored and
Frank Kennedy another member of the
home. Pierce was stabbed with a dagger
and beaten over the head with club. He
will die
The assault occurred in a notorious COL
ored settlement known as the Dark Sc
cret," which is located near the home 1t
is said that Pierce has been paving too
much attention TO Wiliams's wife Will
liams came home this evening and encoun-
tered Pierce. Williams was ACCOMPANIED
by Kennedy and they both attacked Pierce
Williams used knife and Kennedy is said
to have welded club. Pierce was car
ried into the road and left To die He was
found by two men. who carried him to the
Soldiers Home Hospital. 1t was found that
he had received two deep cuts six inches
long in the left side and just below the
heart. A two-nch cash penetrated the
lung This wound probably will result i'm
his death. The skull was fractured by
being hit with the bludgeon
Williams and Kennedy fed. Kennedy WAS
caught at 1880 o'clock tonight as he at
tempted TO step in the home grounds to
secure his clothing. preparatory 10 leaving
the city. Williams has not yet been cap
tured. and il is believed he escaped from
the city. Pierce served I'm the Forty first
Ohio Infantry during the civil war. and
was well-known member OF the home.
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Coroner Tutewiler Holds POst-MOrtem
Examination and Says That Ar
rests Will BE Made.
NEGROES UNWILLING TO TALK
POLICE NOT NOTIFIED UNTIL WOM-
AN WAS FAR GONE In DEATH.
White Man Said to Have Taken Lydia
StrattOn to the Dive, and He
VII; BE Arrested.

Lydia Stratton, the white woman who
died at the hospital Friday night, several
hours after being found i'm negro restau-
rant at the corner of Indiana and Capitol
avenues, was held in captivity there and
brutally assaulted by number of negroes
who hang around the place, Coroner Tute-
wiler declares. He said last night that he
has several men under suspicion and stated
that arrests would be likely to follow his
investigation.
According to the story told by the pro-
prietor of the restaurant the Stratton
woman first entered his place at o'clock
Friday morning in an intoxicated cond-
ton and asked for glass of water. When
she was given the water she took package
out of her pocket book and emptied the
contents, white powder, into the glass
and drank it. Shortly after she had drunk
the water she lay down on a cot in a rear
room and went to sleep. Her condition.
according to the story of the negro, was
not considered very serious until an hour
before the Dispensary was notified
NEGROES KEPT STILL.
The police were not told of the woman's
presence and until IL was seen that she
was about to die her whereabouts was not
told to any of the authorities. DIR. Cum
ningham. of the City Dispenssry, who was
summoned to the dark room where the un-
conscious woman lay, realized her condi-
tion at a glance and removed her with al,
haste to the the City Hospital. where the
doctors of that institution worked with
her for over five hours in a fruitess ef-
fort TO save her life.
Suspicion was at first directed toward
the negroes account of the presence
of large numbers of them I'm the basement
and their evident unwillingness to tell any
thing about the woman. white man, IL
is said, escorted the Stratton woman into
the negro resort early in the morning and
left her there. His name is known to the
coroner and ii is said he has been In
trouble with the police before. He will
probably be arrested by the police or de-
tectives to-day.
A postmortem on the body of the woman
was held at Tutewilers morgue last night
and the results of the examination FULLY
confirmed the suspicious of the coroner
Her stomach will be held and the contents
will be analyzed by DIR. Gels within a few
days. In the meantime the detectives have
a number of clews which they are working
on and arrests are expected before the day
is over.
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LEPER COLONY CHICKENS
THEY CAUSE A REIGN OF TERROR
IN PORTO RICO'S CAPITAL.
Investigation shows a ScandaIOus and
Dangerous Condition of Affairs ON
the Leper Island.

SAN JUAN. p. r.. Aug. 22-Acting Gov
ernor Hartsell has suspended DIR. Mater,
superintendent of the leper colony and Jose
Aldrich. his assistant. the strength of a
report of acting Director of Charities Goe-
naga, revealing horrible and dangerous
state OF affairs at the entrance of San Juan
harbor. According to this report chickens
and pigs raised by lepers had been freely
sold in the city, and goats, rabbits. poultry
and dogs had been herded in the patients
quarters in indescribable filth. Some of the
lepers had no clothing. 1t was added that
paper money was circulated in the leper
colony, ana that. as this money might pos
sibly De used i'm other parts of the island
it was considered dangerous as likely to
cause a spread of leprosy
Intercourse between the leper colony and
the mainland has been permitted An old
man who was not leper was confined in
the colony for years All the regulations
were violated. No physicians books or
financial books showing the state of the pa
tents funds were kept. Aldrich also has
been arrested on the criminal charge of
Transporting chickens from the leper colony
and has been fined $50.
The acting Governor has ordered all ami
mails in the leper colony to be killed to-day
and has declared that he will probe the
scandal to the bottom and that none of the
guilty shall escape. Director of Charities
Osterhaut is absent ON his vacation at
Kingston. N. Y.
special session Of the executive council
has been called for Aug. "a TO consider the
Goenaga report.
Only the prompt action of Mr.. Hartsel
has checked the reign of terror i'm San Juan
caused by the discovery of the chicken Incl
dent and the people are loud in their
praises of the determined stand he has
taken.
The inhabitants of the city are much ex-
cited and are eager Tor turther details, as
heretofore IL has been believed that the
leper colony was a model establishment
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Sustained the Rest Traditions of Ills
Family and Ruled Where EIizs-
beth Had Been n Guest.
NEWSPAPER MAN TO PREMIER
STRUGGLES OF HIS EARLY DAYS As
A YOUNGER son.
His Rise to Power in the Conservative
Party-Four Times Ruler of the
British Empire.

LONDON, Aug. 22.-Lord Salisbury died
peacefully at 9:O5 o'clock tonight. During
the past forty-eight hours the end was seen
TO be inevitable, the great frame OF Eng
lands former premier being sustained only
by the constant use of oxygen. Even the
administration Of oxygen failed of effect
as the evening advanced, and soon after
the shadows had crept up from the valley
and enshrouded the dull red walls of Hat
field House, the distinguished statesman,
making the last effort of his life. turned
slightly toward his fayorite daughter, Lady
Gwendolne Cecil, who was kneeling beside
him. and then quietly breathed his last
Lord Edward Cecil had been warned
early this afternoon by telegraph that the
end was near. All the other members of
his Lordship's family had gathered at the
bedside. DIR. Douglas Powell, who had at
tended Lord Salisbury was notified by tele-
graph this morning that il was useless for
him to come and he was therefore absent
at the end.
The village of Hatfield, which still re-
tains many features of the feudal period
was filled with anxious residents awaiting
the news of his Lordship's demise. The
great Hatfield House. hidden behind the
SCfetu VI plht lTtess WdS hbnNeQ at ever.
window and gave no signs of the approach
ing fatality. Groups of watchers clustered
under the Elizabethan arches of the lodge
gates anxiously questioning each latest
passer from Hatfield House Finally the
news came, when a hatless servant dashed
down the graveled roadway, saying he
passed: He has gone" and then disap-
peared i'm the church. Soon thereafter the
bell from the tower above tolled slowly.
and the villagers at the street corners un-
covered I'm acknowledgment TO the passing
of their neighbor and friend, England's
great statesman
Viscount Cranborne. who now assumes
the title of Marquis OF Salisbury. immedi-
Alexandra, the Prince and Princess OF
Wales, and others. including Lord Edward
Cecil, the soldier son OF Lord Salisbury.
who is now In Egypt. and who was the
only child of the marquis absent from the
deathbed. Soon messages of coincidence be-
gan coming i'm and the little telegraph
office at Hatfield was swamped with un-
precedented business.
The death of Lord Salisbury occurred on
the fiftieth anniversary OF his entry into
public life d member of the House OF
Commons for Stamford.
The elevation of Lord Cranborne to the
House of Lords creates vacancy in the
Rochester district and probably Will entail
the selection of new under secretary OF
foreign affairs.
The ex-premfer though retired from poll
tical life, was an important ngure In many
public ways. He was a warden OF the
Cinque Ports, high steward of Westminster
and chancellor OF Oxford University. His
death places an order of knight OF the
Garter at the disposal of King Edward.
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INDEX TO TO-DAY'S JOURNAL.
Part One-Ten Pages.

Page
Reliance Wins First Race; Death of
Lord Salisbury; Aquatic Club Boathouse
Sinks in Thirteen Feet of Water;
Woman a Victim of Negroes, Dies in
Hospital; Leper Colony Scandal in Porto
Rico.
2-Lafayette Social Organizations to De-
feat Nicholson Law: Other News of the
State.
3-Indiana Summer Resorts; Stories of the
Town; When the Band Plays; Yankees
Are in Control.
4-Humberts Sentenced TO Prison; Johnson
and Zimmerman Fight for Control in
Ohio
5-Probable Murder at Brazil; Angola
Bank Collapse Causes Another Failure
6-SportiLg News.
sporting News.
S-Local Political Situation: Wreck on the
Big Four
9-Court and Real-estate News.
10-Controller Breunig Prepares Annual
Budget: State Tax Board Raises AS
sessments Other City News.
Part Two-Ten Pages.
1-Good May Be Done Without Big Bank
ACtOuuI, f1dTutSSfuS TIE Ol. JOSepl
River; The King of Tramps; AS We
Pass Along.
2-Strange Life OF Crime; Saint Brought Ill
Luck; Change OF Jurisdiction
3-Dead Freight Prizes; The Case of Mace
donia.
4.-Editorial Page.
5-A Substitute for Coal.
6-Personal and Society News
Half a Million a Year.
S-Financial Gossip; Live Stock and Local
and General Produce Markets.
9-Wall-street Letter; Financial Market
Reports.
1O-Local Labor News; A Case of Atavism.
Part Three-Eight Pages.
Sunday; The Coming Horse Show.
2-Literary News and Gleanings.
3-Musical and Theatrical.
4--True Stories of Crimes and Criminals;
The Queerest Thing I Saw: When
Vacation Is Ger; Personal and Conf
Dental.
Fadden; Questions and Answers.
6-Illustrated Fashions Casual Comment.
7-Original Story, 'The Slump in Les
Pois;'" Sphinx Lore.
S-The Pencil Pushers Win; Our Foreign
Embassies.
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MARQUIS OF SALISBURY.


The Rt Hon. Robert Arthur Talbot Cas-
coigne Cecil. Il. c.. Marquis Of Salisbury,
who first succeeded Gladstone as premier
i'm 1855. was the second son of the second
Marquis of Salisbury by his first wife, the
daughter and heir OF Bamber Gascoigne.
ESQ. He was born at Hatfield I'm 1880. was
educated at Eton and at Christ Church,
Oxford, where he was graduated. and was
elected fellow OF All Souls College in
1853. In 1853 he was elcted NJ. u. for Stam-
ford, and he represented that borough in
the Conservative interest until his success
sion to the marquisate on the death of his
father. April u, 1865. While I'm the lower
house he was known as Lord Robert Cecil.
until the decease of his elder brother, June
a. 1866, when he assumed the courtesy title
of Viscount Cranbourne. In 1857 he married
Georgiana Caroline. daughter OF Sir Ed
ward Hall Anderson, baron of the ex-
chequer, and niece OF the celebrated Mrs.
opie His Iordship took an active part
in all public measures which affected the
interests of the Established Church. aud
i'm the leading Church Of England institu-
tions, and he was a frequent contributor
TO the Quarterly Review and 10 other peri
odicals.
he was, in July, 1867 appointed secre-
tary of state for India. which post he
signed on account of a difference i'm opinion
respecting the reform bill. March .. lSes.
when two other cabinet ministers. viz.
General Peel, war secretary. and Lord
Carnaryon, colonial secretary, also gave
I'm their designations. On Nov. l., 1852. he
was elected chancellor of the University of
oxford. i'm succession 10 the late Earl OF
Derby In 1s7l-12 he and Lord Cairns. as
into the complicated affairs Of the London.
Chatham x Dover Railway Company. Ills
iordship was again appointed secretary OF
state for India when Mr. Disraeli returned
TO Office. in February. 1874. When. at the
via differences arose between the former
power and Russia. the Marquis of Salisbury
sent special ambassador TO the su-
blime Porte. aud he and Sir Henry Elliott
acted as joint plenipotentiaries of Great
Britain at the conference at Con-
stantIs.oplc. His lordship left England
Nov. 20 1876. and en- route visited
paris. Berlin. Vienna and Rome The
progress towards agreement made az the
preliminary meetings hei1 at the RaSsiSn
embassy i'm Constantnople. were so salts
factory that the formal conference. at
which the iont proposals OF the powers
were pressed upon the Porte. Was opened
tuition of the Ottoman empire was form
ally promulgated by its author Midhat
Pasha. The Marquis Of Salisbury really took
the place of the leader at the conference.
which held altogether seven plenary meet
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sirens. bands and voices OF the unnumbered
thousands on the excursion fleet swelled
into vast chorus.
Turning for home the spinnakor boom,
poised along the mast like lance at rest.
fell to port and the big sail burst out like a
cloud, while .at the same moment the
enormous balloon jib topsail belied out for
ward The smart work of the Yankees
cheered the crowds, but moment after
ward there was dismay when the guy which
held the spinnaker pole was carried away
Ihe enormous sail scared aloft and tum-
bred over the jib topsail stay. collapsing
like an empty sack. But the spar was soon
hauled back into place and then, with its
three balloon sails setting like plaster. the
stately yacht sped homeward before the
following wind like a scared deer.
The fleet remained TO salute Shamrock as
she rounded. and then with a jingle of bells
I'm the engine rooms scampered away for
the finish line to be i'm at the death.
In setting the balloon jib the Shamrock
encountered another piece of bad luck. one
of the stops would not break out and the
sail hung for several minutes like wet
rag on the stay. When both had started
away for home ID was seen that Reliance
was making runaway race Of II. WITH
the crew aft to keep it's head up. Reliance
skinned along the surface OF the water
like n gull with outstretched pinions. leav-
ing Shamrock further and further astern
The pace was so fast that many OF the
tugs and not a few of the steam yachts
were left behind.
The scene at the finish was stirring. I'm
der its towering cloud of canvas. rolling
rythmically in the swell. Reliance bounded
across the viewless finish line like queen.
The excursion boats awakened the echoes
OF the distant shore with the terrific din
which they let loose.
Then the immense concourse OF vessels
waited until Shamrock. majestic even In de-
feat, swept by between the stake boats
The reception il received was IL anything,
more hearty than that accorded to Reli-
ance.
Such tribute Americans gladly paid 10 the
true British sportsman who is valiantiy
trying TO win back the trophy which the
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FAIRBANKS TO SPEAK.


CHICAGO, Aug. PA days outing" in
Chicago will be given Western newspaper
men by the Chicago Press Club Satur-
day, Sept IL. next. The morning will be
spent In making trips through the parks
and boulevards of the city, with visits TO
the Chicago University and other points
of interest route. Luncheon Will be
served at the Chicago Beach Hotel. In the
afternoon .here will be "A steamboat ride
on the Virginia. of the Goodrich line. off
the water front, from Evanston TO Jackson
Park.
At night a dinner for $50 guests will be
served at the Press Club rooms. Accept
ances have thus far been received by the
committee from the following speakers at
the dinner: Indiana, Senator g. w. Fair
banks: Minnesota, Governor s. r. Van
SAINT: Wisconsin, former Governor George
w. Peck.
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AUTOMOBILE UPSET.
One Person Killed and Three Injured,
One Seriously.

CLEVELAND. Aug. 29.-While climbing
a hill toward Little Mountain. summer
resort twenty-five miles east of Cleveland.
to-day an automobile containing four per-
SONS became unmanageable and started
backwards down the hill
At the bottom it was upset and four per-
sons were thrown out. Mrs. W. H. Kirk
patrick of Cleveland. was killed. and three
other persons were hurt. The other three
occupants were w. III. Kirkpatrick his
mother, seventy years old, and man
named Cavanaugh. The elder Mrs Kirk
patrick WAS the most seriously injured
but il is thought she viii recover.
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TH0RNS IN A CROWN.


VIENNA. Aug. 2l-Rumors are again in
circulation of the possible abdication of
Emperor Francis Joseph as King of Hun
gary because he is tired Of the continued
political struggle. Both Austrian official
circles and the Hungarian opposition deride
the reports the latter believing them TO be
spread by the government with the view of
inducing the abandonment of the aggres-
sive attitude of the opposition.
Private information from Buda-Pesth de-
clares the Emperor Is not ready to grant
the army concessions demanded by the
HungarianS.
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CANAL AGAIN FILLED.
Power station at the 500 Again About
Ready for Operation.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. Aug 22-At
2:i0 o'clock this afternoon water was again
let into the big canal of the Michigan Lake
Superior Power Company here. In Feb
rllary section of earth under the founda-
tion OF the power building was washed
away.
The big building was not damaged i'm the
slightest. but the repair work on the
foundation and forebay cost thousands of
dollars. Next week the turbines will be
delivering the power.
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INDIANA PosToFFICE SITES.
Treasury Department Accept. Them
at Marion and Bedford.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 22.-Acting Secre-
tary of the Treasury Taylor has accepted
sites for public buildings as follows:
Marion. Ind. southwest corner Third and
Root streets: price. $4,000.
Bedford, Ind, northeast corner Four
teenth and IL streets; price, se,o9.
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Burned by Exploding Enamel.

CHICAGO Aug. 22.-In an explosion of
enamel at the plant of Kinney. Frasier a
CO.. eight firemcn received severe burns ear
ly To-day. The lircmen were endeavoripg To
protect "A tank containing the liquid which
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the bottom lt was almost thirty minutes
before all the people We're taken of and the
boat cleared. Pumps were brought 10 Dear
but were useless. as the water, after II once
entered the hull. rose rapidly and fioated
benches, boxes and furniture from the low
er cabins. Had the accident occurred TAR
ther out from shore there would have been
no time for aid to reach the boat before II
was submerged
Ii was stated last night that the boat
was moved from its usual place much
against the will of Captain Robinson, who
witnessed almost similar accident three
years ago, when the houseboat was moved
across the river at an afternoon outing and
began TO sink IL was only the presence of
n force of policemen on board that prevent
ed a disaster. Captain Robinson objected
TO the plan, but the committe I'm charge re-
fused to heed his advice and set to work to
move the boat. They found IL a much
harder job than they expected. which was
most fortunate in the end. for by 10 o clock
ii had only been moved about twenty feet
from shore.