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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13

Once again. moreover, We are COINS 20 h,-Er
the old barometer OF iron ard steel fo- tta+-
conditions generally. II - not in any hit ara
miss way that business expansion nov begins
To tell Prcs-erinS iron aCd steel rranufdCtI"s
will find plenty Of company - every COr.ul5-e ga
and Industrial quarter. There Is. indeed. Sl.t<
one Important corporation which is not fee-l.F
the thrill of new HE; end before the coulia-
week endS-mark the precictiOr-there Will 2'
announcements pilrS on top or arDocr CEN ~. >
Of increasing OrodUction 20 meet trcrHa~eI G.
nand one that NAV lead off VIII disc lose tH@
starting up OF additional plants by the com
Products corporation That company's output
has fallen so far behind the DEMANDS % us
toners that increased manufacturers c1pat'tF
IS enforce6-and better prices for product as
readily obtainable. This accounts for the s"d-
den burst Of activity In Corn Products STOCK -
yesterdays market. IL IS as safe TO preclC' o..
Corn Products under - that with fair marc.
its price ought To double. in this column y
was safely predicted only little while ago th2t
Mexican Central at $40 share would locS
cheaper at twice that price; and Mexican Cen
trails market movement Is not yet over
An official document shows that over 10 PEI
cent IS now being earned upon the stock or tae
Peoples Gas Company OF Chicago.
II. ALLAwAY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
MINISTER CALLED HER
HIS OWN DUCKLING

DELHI. n. Y. Feb. ga Delaware
county jury has just awarded the plaintiff
a verdict of $500 in a breach OF promise
case. The defendant is the Rev. James A
Gordon, a Presbyterian minister at Cabin
Hill. town Of Andes, the plaintiff being
Miss Mary a. Sutherland, a daughter OF
one of the elders Of the church. They be-
came engaged in November 1897. and they
appear to have been a loving couple and
numerous letters written b. him to her
were offered as evidence.
At the end of two years the defendant
told the plaintiff he no longer loved her as
a man should love the woman he was 10
marry and the engagement should termi-
nate. He gave as a reason for his action
that Miss Sutherland did not show a dis
position TO prepare herself by work and
study for the responsible position Of a min
listers wife.
1t took the attorney for the PLAINTIFF
nearly five hours TO read the minister's
love letters. In one of the letters he spoke
OF her writing him that she was going to
start a duck farm, and after advising her
not 10 embark i'm the venture reminded her
that she was his little duckling and II she
was where he could hug her he would make
her "quack. quack. quack."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
DUKE OF SOMERSETS
FINANCIAL SCHEME
international Company, with $Io,-
100000, to Be Formed by
European Capitalists.

GENEVA, Feb. 2S.-An international as
ISOLATION with a capital of two millions
sterling-all of which is to be paid up and
which will be raised later to five millions
has been formed in Geneva under the pres
idency of the Duke of Somerset.
The association. which has for its object
the undertaking Of commercial enterprises
of every kind, will be carried on on the
lines OF the Credit Lyonnais, and will have
branches in every capital of Europe and
in America. Seven of the chief countries
are represented on the committee.
Mr.. F. W. Pixley, who with the Duke Of
Somerset forms the English committee
stated on Saturday that the company had
been registered under the laws of Switzer-
land, neutral country, because of its in
ternational character
THE corporation he said, will under
take general financial business and bank
ing, as the term is understood in America
but IL will have nothing to do with COM
pany promotion or with the placing of ordi-
nary shares. Assistance, however, will be
given in suitable cases towards the issuing
of debentures, the collection of coupons,
etc.
There will be no offer to the public and
no fees Will be paid to the directors, their
remuneration depending upon the divi-
dend."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
ALL THE HEARST MEN
ARE BRYAN ADHERENTS
Conservative Democrats Recognize
Hearstism as the Prayed Rem
nantS of the Silver Craze.
SITUATION IS SERIOUS
pecial to the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-Scratch a
Hearst man of to-day and you find I'M
derneath the surface earmarks of Bryan
ism and an unyielding devotion to the doc
trine Of "sixteen-tO-one' and popocracy
The virus is still there Find the Parker
and Olney boomers-or any of the political
movers here who decline TO follow the
Hearst band wagon, and you find repent
ant Democrats or those who declined TO
follow the fortunes Of Bryan in the weird
days of 1896 and 1900 You cannot find a
political observer here who knows the game
of present day politics but who sizes up
the situation just that way.
The announcement by Mr.. Bryan that he
is not giving encouragement to the Hearst
boom has had no effect TO convince the op-
position to Bryan that If he is not support
ing Hearst he is encouraging Hearstism,
which is only the remnants OF Organism
greatly frayed at the edges. II is generally
regarded by the Democratic politicians here
that while Mr.. Bryan will not be able TO
control the platform provisions of the ST
Louis convention this year, he will name
the candidate. He will not be able TO re-
insert in terms the silver issue. but he will
prevent the nomination of any candidate
Organism in 1896 and 1900.
That is the reason the Democrats are
wildly searching for an issue that will stir
up the country. They feel that they may
be able TO unite the party on a candidate.
but without an issue that has vitality
enough 10 last through the summer heat
they regard the situation as really serious
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
GUARDING INVESTORS.
How the Company Tax May Be
Hemmed In.

LONDON, Feb. 2S.-The government bill
now in course Of preparation for amend
ing the companies act of 1890 will seek to
make amenable to the criminal law any
and all cases of willful Misrepresentation,
whatever the intent, fraudulent or not, in
any document issued by officials of public
companies.
In another respect. too, the long war be-
tween the legislature and the shady COM
pany promoter in which hitherto the latter
has always found sufficient cover to avoid
determination, will be carried forward an
important stage by the contemplated meas
ure.
The companies act of 1900 would have
done a great deal TO safeguard the inter
ests of investors had IL not left open one
wide avenue of escape for the man who
had unsound companies to unload upon the
public. This means of egress was by way
of floating companies without prospectuses
in upon the Stock Exchange at fictitious
premiums, proved bait of the most tempt
ing description for many misguided people
The new government bill will seek to close
this last earth of the company fox.
The better class city opinion is alF in IA
vor of such legislation. 1t was only the
other day that Major Evans Gordon, NJ. p
incidentally called attention in the Daily
Mail to the prospectusless company mon
gers and both the committee of the Lon
don Stock Exchange and the Board of
Trades inspector general in companies
liquidation have condemned the system
vigorously.
ii not only helps the Montague Tiggs Of
the city to defraud the public, but it also
robs the state of much revenue in the
shape Of prospectus registration stamp
duties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
PAYNE CONGRATULATED
ON POSTAL CONVICTION
Warm Note from the President
Concerning the Stamping Out
of Official Corruption.
A TRIUMPH FOR JUSTICE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-The President
yesterday sent the following letter to Post
master General Payne:
My Dear Mr.. Postmaster General:
While all the work of the Postoffice
Department and the Department of Justice
in connection with the postal frauds is not
yet over, there is already 10 the credit OF
the departments, and therefore primarily
TO your credit such an amount of sub
stantial achievement that I take this OPP
portunity to congratulate YOU personally
upon it. 1t is impossible TO expect that
corruption will not occasionally occur in
any government: the vital point is energy.
the fearlesSness, and the efficiency with
which such corruption Is cut out and the
corruptionists punished. The success of the
prosecutions in this case as compared with
previous experiences in prosecuting govern
ment officials who have been guilty OF NAL
feaSance miSfenSance is as noteworthy
as il is gratifying. and must be a source
of encouragement to all men who believe
in decency and honesty in public life.
What has been accomplished by you, by
those who have worked under you in your
department and by the Department OF Jus
tice, rebounds TO your credit and TO the
credit of our whole people and is a signal
triumph for the cause of popular govern
ment. If corruption goes unpunished in the
popular government, then government by
the people will ultimately fail; and they
the best friends of the people who make
it evident that whoever in public Office. or
in connection with public office, sins against
the fundamental laws of civic and social
well-being, will be punished with unsparing
rigor. THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
HOUSE IS NEARLY UP
WITH ITS BUSINESS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-The first week
in March finds the House with a very small
proportion of the big supply measures
awaiting its action. The naval was the
eighth Of the general appropriation bills
that have been disposed of at this session.
The remaining supply bills will be given
precedence over other measures, as il is
the desire of the leaders to clear up all the
regular business of the House as early as
possible. The District of Columbia ap-
preparation bill will be taken up next and
then will follow the Indian appropriation
bill. The time allotted for general deba re
on these bills will give ample opportunity
for parliamentary discussion.
With these two bills out of the way the
postoftice appropriation bill will be placed
before the House, the consideration of
which Will consume some time. In the
meantime the appropriations committee will
perfect the sundry civil bill. now in an adj
vanced state of preparedness for this time
of the session, in order that il may be
taken up at the earliest practicable mo-
ment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
GIANT COMMERCIAL MAP
OF THE WORLD PUBLISHED
Change in Arrangements of Con-
tinents-America Placed in
the Center.
CABLES ARE EVEN SHOWN

WASHINGTON. Feb. pa commercial
map of the world, sixteen feet long and
seven and one-half feet wide, prepared in
the Coast and Geodetic Survey. under the
immediate supervision of E. II. Fowler.
chief craftsman. has been installed in the
office of Secretary Cortelyou of the De-
parment of Commerce and Labor.
The location OF the continents is different
from that shown on any other map or atlas
heretofore published. The American con-
tfnents occupy the center. thereby permit
ting the entire Pacific ocean and the trans
pacific steamship and cable routes to the
Philippines and Hong-Kong to be shown
without break in the center of the Pa
cifc as always has been the case hereto
fore. The Eastern route via the Suez
canal to the Philippines also is continuous
~ shown. Cities having a population of be-
tween 10000 and 10000 are Indicated in a
distinctive manner.
Throughout the whole map all places of
international interest or Importance are
shown, submarine cables are given. colonial
possessions are indicated by the same color
ing that OF mother countries. political
boundaries are defined as accurately as
could be ascertained down to the day the
work was finished and much other valu-
able information given with clearness and
breVity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
PREACHER 1T IO2 YEARS
DIES IN ALMSHOUSE
Spread Methodism for More than
80 Years-RefuSed Admission
to Home for Aged.

BALTIMORE, Feb. 2s.-James Warden,
aged 1O2 years, supposed to be the oldest
expounder of Methodism in the world is
dead in the Baltimore county almshouse.
He was born In England and was licensed
to preach in 1924. He Travelled afoot over
Baltimore county and even into Pennsyl-
vania for his faith. A few weeks ago he
lost his nursery business. he said, through
the treachery of a friend.
He went to a Methodist home for the
aged but they told him that he could not
enter unless he had $50 He did not have
a cent, and made his way to the county
almshouse and asked for shelter. This
was two weeks ago.
When the facts became known there was
great protest from Methodsts that a
man who had labored for eighty years for
the church had no home in his old age
Some endeavored to explain away the APP
parent reflection by stating that Mr. War
den was only a licensed preacher and not
a minister of the church, but this did not
alay the indignation. A minister was sent
to invite him to home for the aged, but
Mr.. Warden refused to leave the aims
mouse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
AFTER CHILD SLAYERS
IN PHILADELPHIA
Efforts Being Made by Medical
Society to Drive Out Nal
practice Syndicate.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. pa score or
more of prominent physicians have been
holding informal meetings for the purpose
of asking the County Medical Society to CO.
operate with the coroner and the police in
an effort to check infanticide in this city.
Ways and means to check this epidemic of
crime have been discussed, but without
definite result. Coroner Dugan and all
those to whom the alarming increase of
infant murder has been brought home have
no hestancy In declaring that the malprac-
tice syndicates and the baby farm syndi-
Gates have made this condition of affairs the
most alarming in the country. AT present
arrests cannot be made because conclusive
evidence to convict cannot be secured. Off
Gals claim that laxity in issuing death GER
tificates is primarily responsible for the
success of the syndicate members, and also
for the increase in their crimes.
The fact that no less than twenty-one
young women have recently died under
suspicious circumstances in the northwest
ern part of the city, and that all of the
sixteen infant corpses found by the police
were picked up In the same neighborhood,
has directed the attention of the authOri-
ties to one establishment, from which the
body of a young married woman was
taken very recently, and whose death from
peritonitis was certified to by one of the
syndicate doctors. In this case the hus-
band of the young woman is willing to tell
all he knows. He claims that the young
woman was taken TO the place by her
mother who told him that she was TAX
ing her daughter to Atlantic City. He
never saw his wife alive after he bid her
good-by at the ferry.
The men and women who appear as the
manag gers of these retreats for women are
not physicians, but this fact, ii seems, does
not deter them from undertaking the OPP
erations complained of. One of these men
has been identified a StonemaSon, an
other sold books for years, and still an
other failed in the insurance business. 1t
is not known that any OF the women are
trained graduate nurses, even. The re-
treats are merely furnished-room houses,
in the parlor of which the doctor has
his office.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
ROOSEVELT OPPOSITION
A NEGLIGIBLE QUANTITY
Texas Seems to Be the Only Place
Where Is Shows Even a Sem
blance of Vitality.
INSTRUCTED DELEGATES

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2S.-The efforts of
a few dissatisfied politicians TO work up a
semblance of opposition TO President Roose-
velt's nomination are meeting with abso-
lutely no encouragement. The Texas Re
publicans. under leadership OF National
Committeeman Hawley are putting up
some thing like a fight TO secure an ''anti"
delegation. but in few other sections is
there any activity along those lines.
On the other hand. almost every day
brings reports of the election of instructed
or openly declared Roosevelt delegates in
different parts of the country. The inter
esting part of these early reports is that
Frequently they come from localities where
it was alleged there was sturdy Roosevelt
opposition. This is especially true as re-
spects Indiana and Ohio, and even in West
Virginia. where Senator Scott was sup
posed TO be engaged in doing all sorts of
things antagonstic 10 Roosevelt delegates.
The fact is that except in a few instances
where there are disgruntled politicians who
have not been able TO get all they want
from the administration. or who have a
personal grievance against President Roose-
Welt, there is nothing like what would be
properly characterized as opposition to the
nomination of Mr.. Roosevelt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
RURAL CARRIERS MUST
STOP SOLICITING TRADE
If Salaries Are Raised 1t Will Be
Expressly on the Foregoing
Condition.
MAY GET SO A MONTH
,ec,al TO the indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s-There is every
reason to believe that Congress will fix the
salaries of rural carriers at $40 at
least $500 a year.
This increase will be accompanied of
course by a provision that the carriers
shall not solicit or act as agents for hire.
The sentiment in Congress that the rural
carriers should give all their time while
on duty to the work Of the government is
RAPIDLY growing, as is also sentiment in
favor of a greater increase in salary than
that proposed by the House committee on
postofices. Representative Hemenway.
chairman of the committee on appropria-
lions. indorses the amendment in the postal
bill relative to the rural carriers with the
exception of the provision fixing the salary
a $40 a year. THE carriers are entitled -
more compensation" said Mr.. Hemenway
TO the Journal correspondent. Ihey should
receive at least $40 a month, and l am of
the opinion that Congress will authorize
such a payment.
The Indiana delegation is almost a unit
In support of the proposition that the
carriers shall be prohibited from soliciting
for firms and corporations. such a
practice is bad in principle said Represent
alive Crumpacker. Il am OF the opinion,
however that the carriers should be per-
mitted 10 do errands for individuals on the
routes. and l shall probably offer an amend
ment TO that effect.
Il am Interested chiefly I'm the farmer"
said Representative Holiday. IF the
carrier is requested TO bring in an article
from the city he should be permitted TO
perform such a service. But the carrier
should not be allowed 10 drum UP bust
ness for one firm 10 the prejudice of an
other"
The postoffice appropriation bill will come
up in the House the latter part of the
week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
BILLS WHICH MUST BE
CAREFULLY CONSIDERED
Measures in Congressional Com
mitteeS Which Contain Much
Political Dynamite
THE GAME OF POLITICS
.pecial 70 The Indianapolis Journal.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-"Every COM
mittee room in Congress contains a politi-
cal skeleton at this time which ought not
to be brought out into the open If the Re
publican party is to have smooth sailing
in the coming campaign, which all present
indications are it will have" said Repub-
lican leader OF the House. THE Demo-
cratic party is absolutely without an issue
as matters now stand. Let us hope that
some of the pending legislation will not
see the light of day in either house. That
is the reason for an early adjournment, and
it is the best reason that need be advanced
at this time
The leader was talking about a number
of measures now sleeping in the committee
rooms-measures which have been given
more or less consideration by the commit
tees, but which are believed to contain
dynamite which would explode in the cam
paign. He was speaking of the anti-in-
junction bill, the shipping subsidy bill, the
Iowa liquor bill, the service pension bill
and others of like character All these
bills are important, and deserve the fullest
consideration and explanation before they
are given the force Of public law. They are
measures about which there are the widest
differences Of opinion among the people,
and some of them, if brought out in the
open, thereby disclosing the attitude of the
party leaders and the rank and file respect
ing them, would produce issues enough for
one campaign.
That is to say that many measures of
real merit are stihed in the face of the
presidential campaign. These are times in
which it is not regarded wise for parties
to play around the outer edges of dangerous
political issues which may contain powder,
while recklessly handling the heat engen-
dered by public speech. Politics is played
In every move by the party leaders on both
sides at this time. 1t is interesting to watch
the current of events in either house these
days. Everything has a political coloring.
Democrats will urge the adoption of meas
ures in which they do not believe simply
because they fondly imagine that the pre-
sentation of the subject will embarrass
the dominant party. Republicans will hest
tate about bringing forward valuable legis-
lation for fear some turn of events will
give the opposition an advantage.
II reminds one of the early-day records
made by the Democrat leaders in Congress
who voted year after year for 'the free
and unlimited coinage of silver" without
giving the slightest study TO the question,
hoping at the time that their party might
gain some strength among the people by
the open friendship for silver" But the
day of reckoning came, when that point
became an issue, and it required diigent
and continuous efforts for some of the
greatest men in the country to reconcile
the stand they took, after mature refiec-
ton on the vital issue of the times, with
the record votes they had made in Congress.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-29
CORRESPONDENT FOUND
DEAD IN HIS OFFICE
Overcome by Escaping Gas-De-
ceased Held Many Important
Public Positions.
BROKE TUBE IN FAILING

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-William s.
Daniels, correspondent of the st. Louis
Republic, was found dead in his office this
afternoon, and gas was escaping from a
hole In a pipe in the room. He had been
dead for some time when found.
He was about forty-three years of age,
and came here from New England. He
was private secretary to First Assistant
Postmaster General Stevenson and also
served Mr. Stevenson in the same capacity
part of the time when the latter was Vice
President. He also was employed in the
Postofflce Department as an inspector.
In his early life he was telegraph oper-
ator and was considered an unusually ex-
pert man in this line.
Death evidently was due TO gas asphyX1a-
ton Mr. Daniels had entered his office
about O'Clock and apparently had lighted
q gas stove and seated himself before II.
When found the cork fixture by which the
gas tube was attached TO the stove was
broken squarely off and flow of gas
was pouring from the tube and had filed
the room. When found Mr.. Daniels was
lying on his back on the floor with an over
turned chair beside him In a manner to
indicate that while lying back in the chair
IL had been overturned, throwing him TO
the floor. 1t is supposed he dozed in the
chair and accidentally struck the gas
stove knocking il against the wall and
breaking the tube connection and himself
becoming unconscious from the blow he re-
accidentally death. The dead man was dis
covered by his son Richard, who happened
TO stop in the office during the late after
noon.