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Considerable Asperity Marks the Re-
sumption Of the investigation of
the Sprinkling Contract.
HEARsAY TESTIMONY sQUABBLE
MORE TALK OF KENNINGTON'S DE-
MAND FOR TEN PER CENT.
Committee VIII Not Be I'm Session
Again Before Thursday or Friday
Amusing Incidents.

The Council investigation of the sprink-
ling and sweeping contracts was resumed
last night. Two witnesses-Charles Roepke
and William Fuehring-were examined. w.
A. Ketcham, attorney for E. d. Logsdon,
pleaded his inability to be present before
Thursday night and probably not until Fri
day and the committee adjourned until
that time, with the understanding that If
Mr.. Ketcham could not be present Thurs
day a meeting would be held Friday even-
ing. Mr.. Ketcham is engaged in the Moses
Fowler Chase case in the Federal Court.
The necessity for delay precludes the pos
sibility of the committee having any re-
port to make to the Council next Monday
night, at the regular meeting Of that body.
Five councilmen-Kelly, Sourbier, Bill
Kingsley, Grail and Negley-were spectators
last night. They listened attentively to
the testimony. They also heard argu-
ment between Mr.. Noel, who is presenting
the testimony supporting the charges. and
Mr.. Ketcham and Mr.. Matson over the
character of the investigation. While Will
liam Fuehring was testifying to what
his brother Fred had told him in reference
to Kennington's asking for campaign funds
in 1901 Mr.. Ketcham objected to the wit
ness giving hearsay testimony. The wit
ness turned toward Ketcham.
Don't look at him. said Mr.. Noel.
"You pay attention to me-.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
Mr.. Ketcham protested loudly that the
witness had constitutional right to look at
him If he wanted to, and he also vehement
ly protested against the admission of hear
say testimony. Chairman Wynne placidly
pert and Shea, that the witness should
answer the question. although the answer
seemed of little value.
THAT is exactly the point" said Ketch-
am. 1.-The gentlemen to my right, who rep
resent the press, will publish these things
under big haring headlines as evidence
and the public knows no better than that
it is evidence" He said this was an in
Justice to his client CMr. Logsdon)
Mr. Noel reasserted that the committee
followed not the practice and rules of
courts but those of legislative investigat-
ing committees and grand juries. IF 1
believed that the strict court rules were to
be observed here" he said. 81 would never
have consented TO enter this proceeding.
This is an investigation on which impeach-
ment proceedings are TO be based, and 1
submit that Interruptions by counsel who
are here only by courtesy should not be
permitted. This investigation Is for the
benefit of gentlemen who say they want an
investigation that will investigate
} Mr.. Matsons who was prepared with q
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And Is Given Cordial Greeting by
the People, but a Disagreeable
Welcome by the Elements.
WIND, DUST AND TRANSFORMS
MARRIED THE PLEASURE OF AN 9TH.
ERWISE ENJOYABLE TRIP.
Speech to an Omaha Throng, I'm Which
the President Referred to Labor
Troubles and Urged Cancellation.

OMAHA, Neb., April 27-President Roose-
Welt, after a circuitous trip to-day through
Nebraska wind and dust and rain, tonight
addressed ten thousand persons in the Col
iseum at Omaha. He was accorded an en-
thusiastic ovation by the throng. The
building was decorated with flags of the
United States and with colors of the Ak
Sar-Ben Society. AS the President and his
party and escorts entered the Coliseum the
band struck up Hail to the Chief" The
President bowed his greeting to the audi
ence, and after the preliminary remarks
made his speech.
President Roosevelt devoted most of his
speech to the question of good citizenship
and thoroughly went over the ground he
has heretofore covered on this subject
He also delivered brief eulogy on the life
niversary of his birth.
Omaha is threatened with an industrial
strike on May 1, and the President was
asked to say something bearing on this
subject ''If 1 might give a word of ad-
vice to Omaha said the President. 'I
should like to see your daily press publish
in full the concluding portion of that re-
port of the anthracite coal strike commits
sion signed by all, the members thereof
signed In special sense by the champion
of the wage worker and in q special sense
by those identified with capital. organized
or unorganized. because, men and women
of Omaha, those people did not speak first
as capitalist or as laborer, did not speak
first as Judge, as army man, as church
man. but all of them who unanimously
signed that report spoke as American citi-
zens anxious TO see right and justice pre-
vail. lCheers and applause.1
RANCOR SHOULD BE AVOIDED.
mo one quality will get us out of any
difficulty. We need more than one; we
need good many. We need, as / said the
power first of each man honestly trying TO
look at the problem from his fellows stand
point Capitalist and wage worker alike
should honestly endeavor each TO look at
any matter from the others standpoint
with a freedom from the contemplate ar
rogance which looks down on the man of
less means and with freedom from the no
less contemplate envy, jealousy and ran
cor which hates another because he is bet
ter off. lApplause.1 Each quality is the
complement of the other, and in point of
baseness there is not the weight of the
finger TO choose between them. Look at
the report signed by those men on the coal
strike commission; look at it In the spirit
in which they wrote IL and IL you can only
make yourselves, make the community ap-
proach the problems of to-day in the spirit
that those men showed in approaching the
great problem of yesterday every problem
will be solved.
ANY man who tries to excite class
hatred sectional hate. hate of creeds, any
kind OF hatred I'm our community, though he
MAJ affect TO do Ii In the interest Of the
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Associated Press Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, April 2-Charles s.
Robb, assistant attorney for the Depart
menr OF Justice, has been appointed as
sistant attorney general for the Postoffice
Department to fill the place temporarily
vacated by Mr.. Christiancy, who was re-
lieved at his own request pending investi-
CATION. Mr.. Robb assumed charge to-
day. Mr.. Christiancy was acting In place
OF James N. Tyner. recently removed. Mr.
Robb Is from Vermont. He accepted the
appointment with the distinct understand
ing that IL was because OF the existing
condition OF affairs at the department and
that 1t was not to be permanent. 1t is
not believed at the department that Mr.
Christiancy will ever resume his place
Mr.. Payne said to-day that an investiga-
tion would have been ordered even had
Mr.. Christiancy not asked for it.
Mr.. Robb is on a leave of absence from
the Department of Justice. to which he
will return as soon as the investigation at
the Postoffice Department is closed and
the postmaster general has time to choose
Postmaster General Payne to-day granted
TO Mr. Christiancy an indefinite leave of
absence.
The charges recently formulated by the
the Mail Equipment Bureau have been
filed.
Postmaster General Payne to-day for
warded to Attorney General Knox addi-
fional Information regarding the abstrac-
tion OF papers from the assistant attorney
generals office last Tuesday. His letter
Of transmission says: Il transmit here
with statement of George A. C. Chris
tiancy, who has heretofore been acting as
eistant attorney general for the Postoffice
Department, in the matter OF opening and
taking Of papers from the safe in the office
of the assistant attorney general for the
Postoffice Department. / also transmit
the package OF papers submitted to me on
behalf of General Tyner by X. Ross Perry
and l.. p. Michener and opened by them in
my presence and that Of Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow and which. II
was asserted, were all the papers belong
ing to the department which were taken
] am unable to conclude that no other
papers were taken than those submitted
and returned.
Inasmuch as IL clearly appears that GER
tain papers OF the government were taken
and since In my opinion all of the facts pre-
eented tend to show willful violation of
law. I recommend that the matter be re-
ferred to the United States attorney for
this district with Instructions TO submit
the case TO the grand jury as we decided
IN our recent interview.
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WOMAN SACRIFICES HERSELF.
Commits Suicide I'm Order to Reunite
Estranged Husband and Wife.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. April Gloon
vinced that her death was the only means
of reuniting an estranged husband and
wife Miss Jane z. Hawkins killed herself
by drinking laudanum. Neighbors found
her body in the old homestead at 'Easton.
ten miles from this city. where she lived
alone. Beside the body. near her bed. was
"A vial which had contained the laudanum
She had written a letter explaining that
although innocent of any intended wrong
doing, she had been responsible for separ-
ating The husband and wife and had de-
cided that in order TO prove her innocence
she had better Kill herself and by her
death bring together her friends She had
not the money, she wrote. 10 go far away
where she would cease TO be barrier to
the reunion
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NEW YORK, April 27.-while running at
full speed trolley car on the New York
& Queens County Electric Railroad filled
with passengers left the rails at North
Beach, L. l.. last night. Nine persons were
injured. The car reared over the curb and
plunged against tree with such force
that the front of the conveyance was
Jammed in and every window smashed
The car then turned upon its side and the
passengers were thrown together so rough
ly that several women tainted. 1t was
fully ten minutes before all passengers
had been taken from the overturned car.
Calls had meantime been sent TO several
physicians living near the scene of the ac-
cident and squad of policemen was dis
patched to the scene. All injured were at
tended by hospital surgeons.
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MIR. SHEA OBJECTED.


Matson uttered a few more sentences.
when Shea again objected and stated that
the committee had already ruled that the
question should be answered. Matson ar
gued that hearsay evidence was not TO be
received by grand juries and quoted JUS
tice Field. of the United States Supreme
Court, in support He also declared that
the very language of the city charter
limited the authority of court to punish
for contempt a refusal TO testify TO ma
terial facts. Grand jurors and witnesses,
he declared were Doth under an oath of
secrecy, which was not the case in this in
vestigation. Publicity attached to every
thing in this investigation and the inter-
ests of innocent persons were unprotected.
IF you going to have an investigation,
he said, 'let US have ii by real evidence.
Mr.. Noel said whenever he found that
the committee intended to conduct the in
vestigation along the theory Of the counsel
for Logsdon he would retire. He said coun-
sci for Logsdon were present TO see that
there was no investigation. After this pas
sage the examination was resumed
Charles Roepke was the first witness
called by Mr. Noel His testimony was
amusing more than once because OF his
mixed English He said his business was
sprinkling and teaming. One year he said
he owned one wagon and another time
half wagon" This, he explained, meant
a half interest in a wagon with Conrad
Rust. He and Rust got the contract in
1899. He said the contractors always met
and talked over sprinkling. but didn't fix
prices. He said there was no agreement as
to bidding or TO a division Of districts. The
agreement was that whoever got the con-
tract, If he had more than he could ham
die" should take in the others. He ad-
mitted all were well cared for. He was
at the 1902 meeting before the bidding for
the contract and that was the only agree
ment reached. The witness had parts of
Districts and 6 last year, but would not
take any work this year at the price bid
by Remington the first time because he did
not want Sunday work. He tried TO ex-
the season, as included by the board, might
mean a loss The work. He could not
make his explanation of that clear, how
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FIVE MEN BURNED.


LANCASTER, Pa. April 27.-By an ex-
plosion Of molten metal five men were hor-
ribly burned, two of them probably fatally.
at Vesta furnace, Marietta, early to-day.
The men were engaged at the cupola. pre-
paratory to a cast, when the accident oc-
CURED and were literally showered with
the molten metal. Fellow-workmen ran to
their assistance and tore the burning
clothes from their bodies. The victims are
David Appley. burned from head to foot
will probably die. eyesight destroyed; ;
Thomas T. Kisselring, burned on back and
face will also lose his eyesight; chances for
recovery doubtful; Winfield Simmons. left
side OF neck and stomach burned. William
Eberley. colored, arm. face and side burned
Charles Harris. colored foot and back
burned. The accident was caused by a wet
projectile being shot into the cupola.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-28
AT BRYAN's TOWN.


LINCOLN, Neb., April 27.-The arrival of
President Rooscvelt's special train this aft
ernoon at a few minutes after l o'clock
was announced by a chorus of factory
whistles. AT this signal all stores in town
were closed and remained locked until after
the departure of the President and his
party. The military escort formed pag-
cant that has not been equaled in Lincoln
since the recruiting Of troops for the Span
ish war. Schools and colleges In the city
had been closed for the day and those of
the students who did not participate in the
parade were assembled at the Statehouse
to listen to the President. During the time
taken for the movement of the parade
from the Union Station to the Capitol an
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PHILIP DOBLIN'S CASE.
DIR. Gregory Of Opinion the Bribery
Charger Has Incipfent Paresis.

NEW YORK. April 27.-Philip Doblin.
who gave. sensational testimony at the con-
gressional investigation last winter of
bribery charges made by Representative
Lessler. of this city, was to-day committed
to Bellevue Hospital for examination as to
his sanity. Doblin created a scene at a
hotel yesterday by refusing to pay for a
meal. He was locked up on a charge Of
disorderly conduct. and to-day his wife
told the court she believed he was mental
ly unsound. His brother made affidavit
that the prisoner was unable to recognize
any member of his family, and talked inco-
herently.
After DIR. Gregory, in charge of the in
sane pavilion at Bellevue, had examined
Dobin, he said that he was satisfied that
Doblin was suffering from incipient paresis,
and that he must have been in that condi-
ton at the time OF the submarine-boat in
quiry at Washington. Doblin will be held
five days before IL is determined whether
or not to commit him as insane.
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VASQUEZ HAS FLED.


HAVANA. April 27.-General Vasquez,
former President of the Republic of Santo
Domingo, landed at Guantanamo. Cuba, to-
day from the Dominican gunboat Presi-
dente. He was accompanied by about $50
political refugees.
SAN DOMINGO, Republic of Santo Do
mingo, April 25.-It was learned to-day that
General Vasquez and his followers had left
the island. Quiet has been restored and a
presidential election soon will be held.
The losses caused by the revolution are
enormous. They are principally in and
about this city In the suburb of San Car
los alone they amount TO 100000 General
vasquez and his troops pillaged wherever
they went.
day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-28

WASHINGTON. April 2S.-First Assistant
Postmaster General wynne has issued the
following order:
special delivery mail addressed to bona
nde patrons or rural routes will be deliv-
cred by rural carriers at patrons dwellings
without regard to their distances from the
routes.
A bona fide patron of the rural service
Is one who has properly erected on a rural
route mail box which has received the ap-
prcval OF tbs postoffice department for use
on such routes"
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TAX SUSPENDED.
Meat Consumers Of Matanzas Made
Happy by President Palma.

Meat Consumers Of Matanzas Made
Happy by President Palma.
HAVANA, April IA committee repre-
senting the mass peeting held in Matanzas
last night to protest against the imposi-
ton Of certain provincial taxes arrived
to-day and had an interview with Presi-
dent Palma, the result of which was that
the President suspended the tax on the
consumption of meat in MatanZas.
The drug stores of Havana and its
suburbs which closed yesterday in protest
against the stamp tax of cents on every
package of patent medicine sold were still
closed to-day. 1t is asserted that under
the Spanish code the city is authorized TO
compel the drug stores to open should
necessity arise.
An erroneous diagnosis in an aggravated
case of liver disorder caused the report TO
spread that yellow fever mad appeared
The matter was brought to the attention
of the government and government experts
demonstrated that the diagnosis in ques-
tion was absolutely unwarranted.
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BOSTON. April 27.-Andrew Carnegie has
contributed $4,000 toward the amount need
ed for the erection of Emerson Hall. the
new philosophical building for which Har-
ward University hopes to lay the corner
stone on May o. the centennial anniversary
OF Ralph Waldo Emersons birth.
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PUBLIC BUILDING PLANS.
Designs May He Open to Competition
Indiana Postmasters and Carrier.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. April 27.-The supervis-
ing architect is making preparations TO
carry into effect the competitive plan. In
connection with the work of preparing de-
signs for public buildings. authorized by
Congress. Heretofore the plans Of all public
buildings. with the exception of a few in the
frst class. have been prepared in the office
Of the supervising architect. Now IL is the
purpose Of the department to make an ex-
pertinent under the Tarsney act with the
smaller public buildings. the cost OF which
ranges from $4,000 to s250.ooo.
Supervising Architect Taylor is prepar-
~ . list Of buildings authorized for the
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typewriter statement, began an argument
against the admission of hearsay testi-
mony. Mr.. Shea objected TO his continu-
ing. Chairman Wynne told Matson to pro-
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various States, which will be let out TO pri-
vate contract. While the department has
not definitely decided upon the buildings
that will come under this new rule, IL Is un-
derstood that the building at Hammond and
possibly two more in Indiana Will be among
them The competition, 1t is stated at the
Treasury, will not be open to all architects
and only the plans OF those who are invited
TO submit them will be considered. The
limitation has been decided upon for the
reason that il would be impossible to ex-
anime all the designs that would be sub
mitted in case the competition was con-
Quoted without any limitation. This new
departure is of greater significance than
appears on the surface. In case il is sue
cessful, IL Is the intention of Secretary
Shaw to change entirely the form Of the
supervising architects office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-28

Indiana postmasters appointed to-day:
George I. Potter at Cementville, Clarke
county, vice Silas Carr, resigned; w. S.
Metcalf, at Gentryville, Spencer county,
vice William p. Barnett. resigned, and
George A Mccormick, at Otwell. Pike coun-
ty. vice Byron Goodwin. resigned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-28

Rural carriers have been appointed in
Indiana as follows: Fred NJ. Oaks. regu-
lar, and William II. Duckworth. substitute.
at Mount Vernon; Bert Lucas. Charles w.
Kyger, regulars, and J. L. Woofendale,
George W. Kyger, substitutes, at Frank
fort, and Oscar w. Swearengin and Shields
S. Johnson, at Plainfield.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-28

The Mercantile National Bank of New
York has been approved as reserve agent
for the Indiana National Bank of Indian
apolis.
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The following changes in Indiana ma
tional banks are announced by the con-
troller OF the currency: The Kokomo Ma
tional Bank, Kokomo. E. E. Sanders, cash.
Ter, in place of J. W. Barnes; the Fayette
National Bank of Connersville. George NJ.
Sinks. president, in place of Joseph l. Tit
tie; William Newkirk, vice president. in
place of George NJ Sinks: Charles Cassel.
assistant cashier; the Merchants National
Bank OF South Bend, Harry Keller, as
sistant cashier.
J. A. Matthews, of Indianapolis. private
secretary to Senator Fairbanks, arrived
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THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL.

Mr. Carnegie gives home f Peace Cmmh IS to
be o
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-10
NOTORIOUS naInp TAKERS.
The vah of Beirut Responsible for
 the Troubles There.

Beirut, Sept. 2, via Port Said. Sept. B. The Moslem quarter of Beirut from Fri day up to last night was in a state of anarchy, land thirty persons were killed. among whom, however, were no foreign CTS. The shops are closed, the streets are deserted and the Government is seemingly unable or unwilling to assure the safety of the residents. The arrival of the American cruisers Brooklyn and San Francisco was opportune. Admiral Cotton Is on the alert. Signal men and guard slept at the United State consulate last night. The men on board the war ships are under arms ready to disembark at a signal from the consulate. The boats of the Brooklyn and San Francisco have reconnostered the coast below the property of the American mission in order to select landing places in case of need. The American missionary authori- ties have demanded guards for the pro- lection of the mission printing office and the mission property. An attempt to enter an American residence on Saturday was frustrated.
 The Americans here think the United States Government should insist on the dismissal of the Van of Beirut. a noto- rious bribe taker. to whom all the dis orders are attributed. The opinion here Is that the powers should take action to bring Beirut under the jurisdiction of the autonomous Christian government for the Lebanon district.