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two athletic associations. Mr.. Jameson. Of
Purdue. and Mr.. Louden, of Indiana. and
j. H. Horne, 1t was decided to pay all bills
as quickly as possible. Tickets will be re-
deemed to-day and tomorrow at Huder's
drug store and in Lafayette and Blooming
ton. where tickets were placed on sale in
advance. 1t is thought that Purdue and
Indiana students will not ask that their
money be refunded. but a few DISTINGUISHED
persons in indianapolis who purchased re-
served seats may present their tickets to
be redeemed.
w. H. Watkins and Charles Ruschaupt.
who own the park where the game was TO
have been played, yesterday notified the
rental be paid. Mr.. Jameson and Mr..
Louden, however, decided TO pay Watkin
and Ruschaupt the actual expenses incurred
In preparing the park for the game. Sew
eral other firms have reduced their bills 10
benefit the two associations.
The manager of a local transfer COM
pany has made an unusual demand upon
the Purdue association. The transfer COM
pany was TO furnish a coach to haul the
Purdue team to the park for SO. A deposit
OF 80 was paid several days ago and the
transfer man has shown a heartless atti-
tude by demanding hat the remaining 81
be paid. Or course the coach was not used.
Both athletic associations are in need Of
the money that would have been derived
from the receipts of the game. Purdue's
actual expenses for the game aggregated
5000 and in addition the salaries of the
coaches and trainers were to have been
paid from Purdue's share Of the receipts.
The Indiana association cannot meet its
obligations at once, said j. H. Horne yes
terday. All depended upon the game that
was to have been played. King, assistant
coach, was to have been paid $500. In
diana's obligations at present are about
the Illinois game next Saturday will not
pay the expenses of that game.
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i. FROG FAMINE.
Recent Flood Cut on Trenton's Sup
plies of the Deiicacy.

TRENTON. N. j.. Nov. 2.-This city is in
the grip OF a frog famine as the result OF
the recent flood. There is probably no other
city OF the size of Trenton that consumes as
many frogs legs in the run OF the year.
They are always on tap in the restaurants
and hotels. and aristocratic families are sup
piled directly from the hunters. who COM
mand especially high prices for their game.
The demand has been OF gradual growth,
and is. no doubt, due TO the fact tina the
city is surrounded by places where frogs
breed politically. There are streams, creeks.
marshes. ponds. pools and the low-lying
banks Of the Delaware river-al productive
of frogs.
A few years ago boys hunted frogs and
sold them TO the merketmen for a few
cents apiece for the sake OF getting a little
spending money. The people acquired an
appetite for frogs legs that they cannot
shake of easily. and now when they are
obliged TO pay $3.50 a pound for them, they
do so without grumDling, and a number OF
men have made a living ia the hunting.
When the recent flood swept through the
Delaware valley the marshes. creeks.
streams, ponds and pools were secured OUT
and the frogs and their feeding grounds
were destroyed. To talk OF drowning a frog
Is, 20 most people, nonsense. but they can
be drowned. and they were drowned by
thousands in the food. and when the waters
receded. the low lands south OF the city
were strevn with the carcasses.
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MADDEN UNDER FIRE.
Charges Made that Proofs of Postage
Stamps Were Sold to PhfIateIists.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Postmaster-
General Payne to-day admitted that an in
~vestigation is being made of charges
involving the office of Third Assistant Post
master General Madden, in connection with
the speculation of philatelists in certain
valuable specimen postage stamps. The
charges were made in a philatelic organ in
April, 1902. but were only brought to the
attention of the President and Postmaster
General, it is stated, last Friday, when an
investigation of the matter was immedi-
ately ordered. The investigation is still in
progress
Mr.. Madden to-day gave out a statement
in which he says: Il court the fullest and
the absolute falsity of such charges. There
has not been during my administration a
single stamp sold or a single proof of u
stamp sold by me TO any collector or TO any
other person whatsoever. Any statement
TO the contrary is false"
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow. who has charge of the postal in
vestigation, was closeted with Mr.. Madden
to-day, presumably in connection with the
published statements, but he declined TO
discuss the matter. m General
made in the philatelic organ were not di-
rected against Mr.. Madden, the allega-
tons, however, involved his office.
1t was stated tonight by a member of the
Cabinet that for years past it has been the
custom for parties having the contract for
printing the stamps to furnish the third as
sistant postmaster general what are known
as proof sets of the series printed. Con-
trary to the general impression, these proofs
are printed on cardboard and are of no COM
mercial value, being simply specimens. In
this instance the contractor was the gov
eminent printing office and ii is stated on
the highest authority that fewer sets were
called for than ever before. Gen. Bristow,
under instructions from the postmaster gen.
eral, has the matter in hand, but the state
ment was made by the member of the Cab
met referred to that the custom Of permit
ting persons to have proof sets was a long
established one.
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FUNERAL OF DROLLINGER.
One of the Largest Ever Seen I'm La
pOrfe County.
Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAPORTE. Ind, Nov. 2.-Funeral serv-
ices over the remains of Gabriel S. Drol-
linger, of Laporte county, who met instant
death in the wreck of the Purdue special
at Indianapolis on Saturday, were held this
afternoon at the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Quinn Drollinger, in Wills town
ship. The body arrived in Laporte Sunday
morning, and after being embalmed was
taken TO the family homestead.
The funeral was one of the largest held
near Mill Creek in years., and the casket
was buried in flowers. The Rev. Frank
Waite, pastor of the Methodist Church at
Rolling Prairie. officiated, and the burial
took place at the Sauktown Cemetery. The
pallbearers were Laporte students at Pur-
due-Everett w. Hall, Fred Miller, John
Stegley, Will Sharp, George Lingard and
Herman Lingard. The flower bearers were
also Purdue students-Thomas Teeter and
Frank Decker.
The father of Jay Hamilton was i'm Cal
ifornia when a telegram reached him Sat-
urday telling him of the terrible fate which
had overtaken his son. He left there imme-
diately, and is now speeding eastward as
fast as the fastest limited train can carry
him, being due TO arrive here tomorrow.
The funeral will be held Wednesday after
noon at South Bend.
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GRIEF AT STATE UNIVERSITY.
Faculty and Students Join i'm Express
sions and Acts of Sympathy.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Nov. 2.-Satur-
days awful accident which befell Purdue's
students has cast a great gloom over In
diana University. Strong feelings of SYM
pathy exist among the students and faculty
members. In athletic circles the sympathy
Is still more pronounced, for many Of the
unfortunates had engaged the varsity
eleven in exciting contests here on Jordan
Field.
Only a few weeks ago Trainer Robertson
refereed the -Earlham game, and
was so well liked that he promised to off,
ciate at the Illinois game. to be played here
next Saturday. Wright, another of the
dead. spent his freshman year here and is
well remembered. Members OF ~lndiana's
eleven are intensely grieved. In ~to-nights
college paper appear expressions or sympathy
from every man on the team.
Tomorrow, after chapel, a mass meeting
of students and professors will be held in
the gymnasium, at which resolutions of
sympathy will be adopted. Indiana will
send representatives to Purdue when the
latter holds its memorial service.
A few Indiana students remained over
Sunday in Indianapolis, attending the bed
side of Purdue men with whom they hap
pened to be well acquainted. A few others
have gone to homes of unfortunate friends to
attend funerals. All such students, request
ing them, have been granted leaves of alb
sence by the professors here, who are show
ing their sympathy in many ways.
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WILL BE BURIED TODAY.
Samuel Truitt, N~obIesvilIe's Victim in
the Disaster of Saturday.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, Nov. 2.-The death
of Samuel Truitt, son of Mr.. and Mrs. II.
w. Truitt, of this city, a victim of the Big
Four wreck Saturday. has cast a shadow
of sorrow over this entire city He was a
leading member of the high school gradu-
ating class last spring. and was a youth
of unusual ability and promise. The pa
rents of the boy are heart-broken, as
Sam" was the idol of the household. A
pathetic feature of the tragedy is the fact
that Mrs. Truitt had made preparations for
a family reunion on Sunday, when Sam
was to have been home.
The body was brought to this city at
noon Sunday and conveyed to the family
residence on Logan street. A large con-
course OF people were at the depot and es-
corted the body to the house. The funeral
will take place Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock, at the Methodist Church, the Rev.
B.. S. Hollipeter officiating.
Sam Truitt was a member of the church
and was secretary of the Epworth League.
The high school faculty and students will
attend the funeral in a body.
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s1,299,039,993

Against which there are demand liabili-
ties outstanding amounting to sl.0l2, 429, sec,
which leaves a cash balance on hand Of
S37S, ga, 402.
The comparative statement Of the govern
ment receipts and expenditures show that
for the month of October, 1903, the total
receipts were s46.s6S, 2lS and the expendi-
lures SOL, 90l, AIS, leaving a deficit for the
month of Si,947, 265. With the exception OF
the month of July when, it being the be-
ginning Of the fiscal year, there is always
largely increased expenditures, there has
not been a monthly deficit since April, 1889.
The principal falling of in revenues is in
customs, where the receipts were SO. $50, 962
as against SIG, 741, 100 for October. 1902. In
ternal revenues show total receipts OF $780,
S13, S51, an increase of about 1851 900. The
leading factor in the deficit, however, is
the increase in the expenditures from S46,-
S04.965 in October, 1902, TO So, $40, AIS for Octo-
Der. this year. These expenditures were oc-
casioned by a deficiency Of more than 3d.
10000 In postal revenues and more than
purchase exposition. The expenditures on
account of the War Department increased
about $2,o0o.0oo and more than 100000 on
account of the navy. For the four months
of the present fiscal year there is shown
a surplus of s669, PCS.
The monthly circulation statement is
sued by the controller Of the currency
shows that on Oct. 81. 1903, the total circu-
lation OF national bank notes was S4le. 6lO.-
6S3, an increase for the year OF S39, l34. 349
and a decrease for the month of $sl5, $50.
The circulation, based on United States
bonds, amounted to $3.50. $50, s21, an increase
for the year OF 81. S67, 632 and an increase
for the month of 81, 134.997. The circulation
secured by lawful money aggregate $3s.-
$50. So, a decrease for the year OF S, 733. 2S3
and a decrease for the month OF 81. $50. $40.
The amount of United States registered
bonds on deposit TO secure circulating notes
was s3s2, SOC. $50. and TO secure public de-
posts si6s. 299. 693.
The total coinage executed ut the mints
of the United States during October, 1903.
was So, s72, 200, as follows: Gold, $40. 900:
silver. s .324.000; minor, $3.50. In addition
TO the above there was coined /. AS, 90 pesos
for the Philippines.
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Larger Naval Docks Needed.

WASHINGTON. Nov. Rear Admiral
Endicott, chief OF the Bureau of Yards
and Docks, in his annual report to the
secretary Of the navy, says several of the
yards, especially those at New York and
Norfolk, are becoming congested, owing to
their limited area, and that unless some
action is taken looking to their relief their
efficiency will become restricted. The esti-
mates for the coming fiscal year, it is ex-
planned, provide for continuing the work
on dry docks at Charleston, New York n
Norfolk, and the steel floating dock at
Cavite, p. l., and that with the exception
of the estimate for the improvement of the
water front at the New York yard-$1, 50O,-
00-these are among the largest items for
which estimates are submitted.
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ing beyond question the responsibility for
the horrible disaster, which is the greatest
in the annals of the State. Not only should
the coroner of Marion county Immediately
begin a thorough investigation OF every cir
cumstance leading VI to the catastrophe,
but the grand jury of the county should
take up the matter at once, to the end that
the full responsibility Of this awful horror
and it's perpetrators may be known and
punished. 1t should be made plain whether
the fatal train was overcrowded with
passengers, whether 1T was made up
principally, of a lot of old rot
being run through a thickly populated part
of the city at a dangerous and high rate
of speed contrary to the ordinances Of the
city. whether there was a plain view down
the track for at least 1000 feet or more
from the point where the collision occurred,
whether the train. if running at a speed
not to exceed twenty miles or less per
hour. could not have been stop
the accident. whether the engine hauling
the train was fit for the particular service.
whether the air brakes were in working
order from one end of the train to the
other. whether proper orders for the run
ming of the special had been issued,
whether competent men were in charge of
the various parts of the service of the rail-
road. directly or Indirectly connected with
the running of this train, whether the track
and switches at the place where the acct
dent occurred were In good condition,
whether fagmen were stationed at the
crossings. and whether anything was lone
that should not nave been done or left I'M
done that prudence could suggest.
If. after a thorough investigation, any
person or corporation is found to be
blameable with this human slaughter, then
punishment should follow under the law.
That criminal neglect and gross careless
ness were at the bottom of this accident
does not admit Of doubt.
Tndiapapolis Nov. g
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In Behalf Of a Porto Rican woman.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Resident Com
missioner Degetau. of Porto Rico. to-day
filed in the United States Supreme Court a
request for permission TO file a brief as ami
Gus curiae in the case OF Isabella Gonzales,
a Porto Rican woman, who, under the i'm
migration laws, was denied the privilege
of landing in New York. Mr.. Degetau con-
tends that the case involves the status OF
citizens of Porto Rico and that the decision
trict of New York, which refused TO grant
a writ OF habeas corpus 10 the Gonzales
woman, is inconsistent with the Constitu-
ton of the United States.
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Foster had an interview with Secretary
Hay in further explanation of the actual
results obtained at London, and later in
the day dined with the President. Upon
the delivery OF the findings, together with
General Fosters own report. within a few
days. Secretary Hay will enter into nego-
tiations with the British government for
the appointment OF expert surveyors to
mark the lines of the boundary as they
lave been described by the commission.
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National Capital Notes.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-Secretary Shaw
returned to-day from a three weeks cam
paigning tour in Kentucky. Ohio and Iowa.
He also spoke once in Massachusetts,.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt received
the sailors of the Mayfower to-day. After
the reception and the service of a luncheon
the tackles roamed for some time through
the parlors of the White House.
Admiral Washington l.. Capps, the newly
appointed chief constructor of the navy,
who succeeds Rear Admiral Bowles, as
sumed the duties of his new Office to-day.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Nov. AIT an as
sembly meeting of the Indiana Normal this
afternoon it was decided TO send a repre-
sentative from each of the organizations of
the school to attend the memorial services
at Purdue for the students killed in the In
~dianapolis wreck. President Parsons has
sent a letter to President Stone expressing
sympathy on behalf of the Normal trustees,
faculty and students.
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NEW YORK. Nov. 2.-George w. Beav-
ers. the indicted former postal official, was
formally committed by COMMISSIONS
Hitchcock to-day to the custody of the
United States marshal. pending the action
of United States Circuit Judge Holt on the
warrant for the removal of Beaver to the
jurisdiction of the Eastern Circuit of New
York for trial on the Brooklyn indictment.
He was admitted by Judge Holt To 5000
bail pending the decision.
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Nearly 1000 Big Guns Needed.

WASHINGTON, Nov. ITO aid the navy
in manufacturing the 9S guns necessary
for the twenty-five b~attleships, armored and
protected cruisers and gunboats now under
construction or contracted for. Rear Admit
raj Charles O'Neil, chief Of ordnance, in his
annual report made public to-day, recon-
mends that the navy call for assistance on
the army gun factory at Watervleidt and on
private concerns and that Congress appro-
pirate 81. 600 for the general increase of
the navy gun factory at Washington.
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Funeral of S. C.. Truftt.

The funeral of Samuel c. Truitt, OF No
blesville. a Purdue freshman, who was
killed in the wreck of the Big Four special
train Saturday morning. will be held this
afternoon at the Methodist Church in No
blesville. Many friends of young Truitt
Will so from Lafayette and indianapolis
to attend the funeral. Among those who
viii go from this city is K. NJ. Campbell.
who was an uncle of the young man.
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Money Instead of Rations.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The controller
Of the Treasury. in a communication to the
secretary of war, decides that the latter is
authorized to turn over to the proper state
official for the use OF the States organized
militia while engaged in "actual field or
value of the regular army ration, instead
of the ration in kind.
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NEW YORK. Nov. 2.-Marie Layton, who
pleaded guilty 10 two indictments OF lar
ceny from the local office of the United
States Playing Card Company, of Cincin-
natl. was to-day given an indeterminate
sentence OF not more tnan five years and
not less than one year in the States Prison
for Women at Auburn. She tainted when
sentence was pronounced The total loss
TO the company Is said to nave been In the
neighborhood of $4,000.
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Beaupre May Not Return to Bogota.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-It was init
mated at the State Department to-day that
it might be a long time before United
States Minister Beaupre returned to Pan
anna, once he departs on his leave of alb
sence. The inference is that the minister
will stay away as a sign of ~disapproval by
our government of the manner in which
the canal treaty was disposed of. A. G..
Snyder. the secretary of legation, will re-
main in charge at Bogota.
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An interested observer of the surgical
treatment of the wounded taken from the
railway wreck to the City Hospital Satur-
day was DIR. John NJ. Kitchen. OF this city,
who was surgeon in charge of the hospital
during the entire period OF the civil war.
namely, from April. 1861. TO July, 1855. and
who subsequently was selected by the city
authorities to organize the hospital as a
city institution.
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To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
The accident that occurred on the Chi
cago division Of the Big Four Railway
I'm this city on Saturday morning is of
such an appalling character that. amidst
the sorrow and sympathy called out by
the distressing event, there is grave dam
ger Of overlooking the Importance Of fix
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Brigadier Gen.
eral John +. Weston resumed his duties at
the War Department to-day as commissary
general of subsistence. after an absence OF
over five months due TO serious illness. His
malady was diagnosed as aneurism of the
heart, and his recovery is regarded as some
what remarkable. He appears TO be in ex-
cellent health and spirits, and in every way
capable of discharging the duties of his
office.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Ind. Nov. 1.-The
students and faculty remained after chapel
this morning to take some action in express
sion of sympathy for the calamity which
has befallen Purdue University. A reso-
luton was adopted showing Wabash's most
sincere sympathy for Purdue. The resolu-
ton was telegraphed to Lafayette this
morning.
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shaw,s Family Frustrated.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HAMMOND. Ind. Nov. Mrs. Chitten-
den. mother of G.. L. Shaw. killed at Indi-
annapolis Saturday. is Frustrated by the
shock and is very sick. She is the manager
of the South Bay Hotel at Indiana Harbor.
Shaw's sister. a st. Mary's student, also is
Frustrated.
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special to the Indianapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, Nov. 1.-The terrible
catastrophe at indianapolis on Saturday has
cast a gloom over Earlham College. The
following telegram was sent to Purdue by
President Kelly this morning:
ION behalf of the Board of Trustees. fac
ulty and students of Earlham College, /
wish to assure you of the profound sorrow
the calamity at indianapolis has produced
among us. and TO express to you our heart
felt sympathy."
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Gen. Foster Confers with Col. Hay.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2.-John w. Foster.
agent for the United States before the
Alaskan boundary commission. has arrived
in Washington. bringing the official text
OF the COMMISSIONS findings and all the
records OF the American case. General
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PROVIDENCE, r. l., Nov. 2.-Three men
employed in the construction of a stand
pipe at East Providence were killed to-
day by the fall Of q staging upon which
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Secretary Shaw
has given notice that on Feb. 2. 1904. inter-
est will cease on such of the 5 per cent.
bonds of 1894 as NAV be outstanding on that
date. The redemption of these bonds Will
continue with interest until maturity.