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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, APRIL 28,1901. '0 7 i ; - AMER1CUS CLUB FEAST initTii or i . s. fiit t ommi:mou-ati-:i at rrr rsui u;. INKnnu n II cpiill Im n I'rptrnt, I n cluiliiiMT Attorney (ieiternl Knox, Who A e teil tin Toiitmater. SPEECH BY C. W. FAIRBANKS "who iti:siM)i)i:i) to Tiir: toast, Tili: lllll'lIIMCAV PAnTY." tttnl;e Addrr hy the Senior Imll uun Siiiitor III Friend Start H Presidential Hooni. PITTIH"!:. Arril 27. The fifteenth an nual dinmr of the Arnerfcus Republican Club, comrn mor.itir. th birth of Gen eral Plys m S. Grant. w;s hHd to-night at the ITotrl Sehnb-y. The most elabor ate arrangements for the banquet had been in a ib- by ihn Hub. and the ') dinars in cluded rriariy 1f the most prorntm nt po litical lUnrs. and .wre fVitt rtuiud in a rnan:i-r i .m attempted by any organiza tion in th'- lity. The banqmt hall v::is tat.'fully ; i:d richly decorated, with th i.ali"nal colors or dominating. Twe nty tables In rows f irn were arrarr-rt-d fur tho banquet. Th sp .ikt rx' table faced the others. Ix'Im,- p.'ar th' east wall of tne hall. Th.ru was a table on the stage for the overll-iw and in th" gallery over looking th hall a table for the women guests was plan-l. At the !ite of earh gu-t was ilaerl a lalnty souve-nir pro crnnimf an.! nnm, which explained in If- own way th" si-jnllU -a nee of tho occa-f-iim. The souvenir is arranged in the form itt an old firmy canteen and on Its cover is engravd a liken of Grant, the inner i a,e be-in:-' d'-vote-l to the m mi, programme-, cb.ib history, etc. The ir.;rarame of t after linncr talks brought a hut rare results. Attorney Cen tral Philander C Knox was toastmaster. llobert Pitcalrn presided anil Rev. J: I. Milügan. LT. I).. offerM the invocation. The toasts included the following;: Rep resentative Joseph C. Sibley. "Grant;" Representative Charles If. Grosvenor, "Pol itif:. of the Gra:t Period;" General S. It. I. Voijm. ''Our Xew I'osossii.i:-! ;" I'niter! States Senator Char!- W. Fairbanks, "The Republican l'atty." The t.a ni i T ers Fat down ti the table nt 7:r.o rbxk. At the hunt of Toa.-tmas-ter Knox sat Senator Fairbanks, Robert Pitcalrn. General Vi.iin;:, Cor.gressmaii ipt-fpor ami W. V. Gelville. After the excellent roeni hid been enjoed ami ci gar lighted the real enjoyment of the oe c.Ion began. 1'iorn the moment Attorney Gcnrral Kn.ix was prv5-entetl by Mr. Pit cnirn as toastmaster. in a pleasing anl ti licitoux manner, there Wa? not a lull Instant. KNOX GIVKN OVATION. Vv'hen Toastmaster Knox was Introduced Iiis receitbm was so cnthn.-iastic that for a moment even the equanimity of tho at torney general was upset. The guests stood on their chairs and cheered, the ladt-s v.aved their handkerchiefs and clapped their hands. For several minutes the tu mult could not be stopped. Finally Mr. Knox succeeded Ui restoring a semblanee ef ord.r, and in a few graeeful remarks thanktd Iiis frh-ndV fr thir kindness and told th m how proud lie was of his citizen ship in I'ittsbur anl of hl- membership in the Aniericus flub. As it was then hi:.") m,iI:, th p.-;il;t r said he would refrain from further remarks and proceed with the programme, in a few well-ehoson wrU he introiluced R" pr sentat ive Sibley, who was given a cordial reception. Representative Sibley, in speaking to the tt .it "Grant." paid a glowing tribute to the memory of the great soldier citizen. Rep I tentative ;ncnor spoke to "IN.litics o the Grant lvri .d." General Young's address on "Our New JVssession" attvai'ted ir.ueh interest by reason of the p. anim-nt part he has taken throughout th.- righting in the Philippines, where he wr.s In command of the cavalry, nil dt v -loped the effeetiven -ss of that j.rru of the service a; a means of warfare. II' raid that b.-f.re the war with Spun r.d the ltritih-Roer war in South Africa j redlctlon-i wer.- mnde by many writt rs that the d.y of cavairy was over. Tiny said that the Infantry, with l-tng-range rlf!es and lapid and deadly lire action, made the use of cavalry suicidal. Actual -r net Ice in th" Philippines proved that 'u htead of cavalry having had its day, it was cfllcient as one of the mt formidable lranches of warfare. The general said: "The old Spanish tyrant 1 drad. lut the Fllipin wclconns us with a cry of 'Long live the- new tyrant.' for he must have a tyrant somehow. The keynote of the in surrection among the Filipinos past., pres ent and future is not tyranny, for we are rot tyrants. It is race. This Is the whole tiling In a nutshell. If uu ask me the quickest and easiest way to bring peace find good order to the Filipino. I can only s iy that, like the chameleon, we must put Mm on such a background that ho can Change his color." Senator I'n ! rla nk' Addrt. Senator Fairbanks, who closed the set Fpeechmnklrig. replied to the toast "The Kt publican Patty." lie aid: "Per almost forty c.rs Republican laws nml policies have been in force. They have teen tested; we know what they have ae- implished. They ha e met well the neces sities of the pit. and we believe that they v. Ill meet all the requirements of the In tu re. "Naturally. Increased power brings en larged responsibility. The problems of the century which is unfolding will tax the genius and courage and patriotism of the Republican party. The questions immedi ately at hand do not Invite repose. Many of them will continue to be vital, living paestions far Into the future. "Our continued supremacy must depend upon the dl!l and the success with which meet the rapidly increasing un I inex orable demands of the years before us. Fn ier Republican administration America's 1r.rtr.ence lias been greatly enlarged. YVe M-e more In touch with the powers than or before; we must deal with them. We must cultivate a sense of International justice, giving always what we would de mand, exacting oiilythat which we would concede. Or. to v.so the words of Grant: "A t should deal with nations as equitable law requires, individuals to deal with each ether.' . rep.eting 'the rights of ail nations demanding er;ual repct for our own.' We should not forget that if we would command a just measure of the worhl commerce we must win and hold the world's respect by exalted International jrecept and practice. "We have uu abiding c-n?-1 of security ncninst alien assault. We hae no fear that our Institutions will be Imperiled from Abroad; we must see to It that thv.v are se cure from perils within. Wo must see that right and might dwll as in perpetual wed lock. The Nation la no danger, no mat ter how numerous Its population and sreat its matt rial resources, jf j10 juople are con stantly pervaded w ith a s use of justice nii'l parties which control the government are actuated alone by exalted motives. MUST MKKT OPPOSITION. "We should not forget that Republican advance .has.-ben made against persistent and formidable oj;oit on. and that its future supremacy will be sharply con tested. It wen undoing renown, not only f r its abolition of the accursed institution of human slavery, but for its payment of Iii national Mt and the j-reservation of the Integrity .of the currency. Grant's title to the respect and the admiration of posterity does not rest alone upon the in rorn jarahle ncTibvemcnt of his sword. Iii rts-dute defeat of the repudiatlaidstj and inflationists :u;i his urgent insistence upon zr ultimate refurn to specie y-.yraents after delirium of the civil war. entitle him to p'rpetual remote branch and the Republican party to undving gratitude. 'The Republican party will continue to be the faithful guardian of both labor and capital the two mighty pillars upoa which rc?t3 our social and political fabric. "Who ever would pull down either invites both to hopeless ruin. The party which does not comprehend this Is deficient In statesman ship and is untlt to govtrn the Republic. Without harmony between labor and capi tal there can be no real enduring progress and prosperity. It should be always re membered that each has rights which the other should respect, and that they should dwell together In amity. We should seek to Inculcate a sense of justice among men, so that capital shall deal fairly with labor, and labor deal with equal fairness with capital. The opportunities of both were never better or greater than they are to day. The Republican party holds itself as the true friend of each. "It Is a gratifying result of Republican policies that our commerce Is extending into and beyond the seas, not by the sword, but by peaceful method?. We are fast possessing the world's markets without de stroying our own. "The events of the last few years have cast new and unexpected duties upon us. They are not free from difficulties, but they lie easily within our capacity. We shall deal with them without evasion, frankly, courageously. For tho new peoples who have come to us. we must have a care. Our arms have delivered them from Im perial rale; they know not the virtues of liberty, nor tho benencient ways of re publican government. But they will come In good time to bless the Republic; for Its priceless gift of freedom and civilization. "We face an era of unusual promise In the history of the Republic. We enter upon a future in which will be required a party level-headed and self-controlled; a party which has undoubted faith in the virtue and patriotism of the American people and which knows that the great Republic will endure when crowns and empires have faded away. "The Republican party enters the twen tieth century with high hope and un daunted courage; resolved to give the best it has and all it has to promote pood ad ministration and to- write a new record of splendid national achievement. It will held fast to its splendid traditions and uphold the rn during- principles of human liberty and the equality of all before the law and thereby establish it? claim to the con tinued" contidence and support of the American people." Whn Senator Fairbanks closed his ad dress he was given a round of rousing (hecrir.r:. A number of enthusiastic frien.is started the refrain: "Pour, four, nineteen four, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, nineteen four." This jingle was repeated several times, after which the band played a good-night air. and just as Saturday was verging into Sunday the banqueters dispersed, well pleased with the evening's entertainment. The honor guests, including Captain Alger non Sartoris, the only representative of the Grant family at the banquet, will leave for their homes to-morrow and Monday. AT GRANT'S OLD HOMH.' IU'v. Dr. Frank (i tinmt tilus UUcuhh's the Knee Problem nt finlenn. GALENA. 111.. April 27-The seventy-ninth anniversary of the birthday of General Grant was celebrated here today. The oc casion was the tenth of a series and in every way was successful. The Rev. Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, the speaker of the day, and a party of distinguished guests arrived from Chicago at 1:1$ o'clock and were escorted to Turner Hall. Dr. Gun saulus's address was warmly received by an immense audience. The city was deco rated in honor of the event, which was par ticipated In by leading citizens of towns and villages within a radius of one hundred miles. Letters of regret were read from Mrs. General Grant, Mrs. Sartorius, Ad miral Dewey, Senator Depew, Senator Alli son and -other prominent Americans. Wil liam Rippen, president of the Grant Rirth- lay Association, delivered the addrtss of welcome. Rev. Gunsaulus, the orator of the day, In his address said: "Justice must be done to the negro, who has the ballot in his hands, and the franchise must be pro t cted, or we must at last sink into abysses of hypocrisy, with Grant's monument cart ing a shadow over us. Our American life needs now' as never before to emulate tho man who was as gentle as he was strong, who never knew how to boast and who believed in tlu simplicity of righteousness. It was Grant who prevented the Republic from breaking its moral contract made by the greenback, and It will be the Ameri can spirit such as we then saw incarcerated in Grant at a inomenf when dividends were counted more- precious than honor or manhood which shall now redeem eatr pledges to the negro, who was as effective as the greenback In helping to purify our l!ag. When Grant sent Sheridan to Louisi ana to carry Justice to the negro, his was a republicanism which must always believe that a Hag worthy of respect will protect Its citizens, black or white, from outrage and wrong. It will require a stern hero ism at the North to beat back a wave of supercilious and unmanly prejudice against the negro which will as practically deprive Mm of his civil rights as that same preju dice ome enslaved him at the South. It Is a great day when Wise. rf Virginia, who has in his lib od the memory of that Wise, of Virginia, who hung John Brown, stands courageous! v ajninst the apparent rleea dence of the Fnion League" Club of New York city and helps to bring it back to the standard under which It fought in the days of Grant and Lincoln. It was mer cantilism which was willing to permit Lin (ii!n and Grant to be Ineffective against the slave power nearly forty years ago. ft is now a sodden and greedy commercial ism which chokes tho conscience of the Republic, and nothing but the love of Justice in which the sword of Grant was sharpened and ground will save our Nation and our Constitution as before. So long as state sovereignty may annul constitutional amendments and destroy the liberty or threaten the ballot of an American citi zen, be he black or white, we are utterly unworthy of the memory of Ulysses S. Grunt. His spirit alone makes us a Na tion." Grnut liul nt Horton. ROSTON. April 27. The annual Grant night of the Middlesex Club was held at rtho Hotel Rrunswick, the North and the South being tmited by the fact that the principal speakers came from Maine and Virginia. Hon. Hugh Gordon Miller caive from Virginia and Hon. Charles R. Iättle lield from Maine to address the gathering of of the most prominent men of this State, while I.leut. Gov. John L. Rates wel comed both on behalf of Massachusetts. Fx-Gov. J. Q. A. Rraekett. president of the club, presided and introduced the speak ers. Roth were given a warm greeting. GENERAL CLAY OUTWITTED. Cn tiKlit ityliiK y a Cnnntnlilc nntl nn Attachment Served. RICHMOND. Ky., April 27. Ry a skill fully planned ruse Constable Karle An derson succeeded yesterday afternoon in serving a writ on Gen. Cassius M. Clay notifying him that his bank account at the State Rank and Trust Company, of this city, had been attached by his daughter, Mrs. Mary G. Clay, and her son. Attorney Green Clay. The attachment grew out of the trouble a few weeks ago, when General Clay, at the muzzle of a riu, dispersed a sheriff's posse which went F White Hall to secure some household goods belonging to Mrs. Clay. Despairing of obtaining tbe goods without serious trouble. Attorney Clav decided to let him keep them, but sued out an attachment for J1.4, the value of the goods, and levied on the general' bank account. Constable Anderson was commissioned to Kerve the notice, and afte- several hour of patient watching he stealthily crept up to the general's guarded castle and slipped the important document under his doo. The otl.cer did not tarry to note what tram jired. but as he fled from the premises he heard the general's alarm bell calling for his armed retainers. C bitunrj . MOUNT VRRNON O.. April 27. Captain Louis Y. Mitchell, who for twenty-two years prior to KU was connected with the United States Treasury Department at Washington. D. C, and who subsequently served six year.-1 as a postollice inspector, d.ed at his home here to-day of paralysis, aged tifty-nlne years. SPUING FI LLD, 111., April 27.-Word was received last night announcing the death of Mrs. Charles C. Rodgers, at Tucson. Ariz. Mrs. Rodgers was the daughter of the late millionaire P. P. Mast, and a sister of the wife of Minister Frank R. Loom Is. The funeral will probably be held here Thursday. GRANT CLUB BANQUET iovas ci:Li:imATi: tin: sili;t com3iami:ius" ihhtiiday. J Governor Shaw, Senator Dolliver anil Othrm Gntertttin Albert J. Hever iilRe, the Orntor of the Day. SPEECH .BY THE INDIANIAN ox Tin: situation i cm a. Tim rillLIPPI.XRS A.D HLSCWIICRC. Forcible Address on Problems Rniseel hy Our ew Possession) Trust nntl I'orelKii Trade. DRS MOINES. la., April 27. United States Senator Albert J. ReverJdge. of In diana, arrived here this morning and was met by a party of prominent citizens anel members of the Grant Club and driven to the residence of his half-brother, Charles Doyle. This afternoon at 1 o'clock Senator Beveridge dined at the Savoy Hotel with Governor Shaw, Senator Dolliver and oth ers, and was afterward shown about the city, meeting the state officers at the Cap itol. This evening Senator Reveridge de livered the principal address at the annual meeting of the Grant Club, the leading seicial and political club of tho State, on the subject, "The American Situation; Wo Will Fight It Out on This Line." He sail in part: "There are two points of acute American interest and activity at present; and it is a fact so suggestive that it is almost dra matic, that these two points are on oppo site sides of the globe. When it is midnight in the Philippines it is. sunrise in Cuba, and thus it is that, even as stands the world to-da3 American authority never sleeps. "The Philippine situation is that our business there is inextricable and perma nent. What ia the nature of that business? It is neither obscure nor dimeult. It is to gradually establish such government as tits this particular situation and not some other situation. It is to apply appropriate meth ods to actual facts and not try to make those facts fit maxims never intended for them. Government by manuscript is futile. Administration by catch-words is absurd. -Results are the only tests. Schoolhouses are better than declarations; good roads than proclamations; impartial justice than orations; stable currency than resolutions; commerce (nature's method of civilization) is better than platforms. The way to ac complish all this is to do it; and we are about that business now. We are building roads, dredging harbors, erecting quays, surveying ocean channels, systematizing education, administering Justice, setting up and defending order. We are doing those things which alone can make the Malay breed, after generations of patient effort, a better race. THK CUBAN PROBLEM. "In Cuba, as in the Philippines, the American people will take no counsel from doubts and fears. No people ever chose their leaders from among their faint of heart. Those who complain of broken faith in Cuba, impugn our purpose in Cuba and deny our power to provide for Cuba's safety and our own will never be commis sioned by the American people to devise ways and means for this practical, imme diate and propinquitous problem. What of this problem? The purpose of all Ameri can statesmanship with- reference to Cuba has been and is the welfare of the Cuban people as related to the welfare of the American people. The welfare of the Cu ban people is not ineonsistent with the in terests and safety of the American people. Cuban interests and American Interests, Cuban safety and American safety. Cuban prosperity and American prosperity an identical In the nature of things. And wiv?n we provide safeguards against Cuban fndebtedness we are not conspiring against the welfare of the Cuban people; we are providing for the welfare of the Cuban peo ple. Whtn we provide that Cuba shall never become entangled in foreign rela tions we aro not destroying Cuban inde pendence; we are establishing it and set ting metes and bounds where all interfer ence shall meet tho sentinel ed American authority. When we provide that Ameri can guns from Cuban ports shall command tho entrance to tiie gulf we arc not im pairing the safety of the Cuban people; we aro guaranteeing It by the blood of every American soldier who mans our Cu ban garrisons pledged to be shed to the last drop if need be in defense of the Cu ban people. And when we ordain that at any time American authority may re-enter Cuba to protect rights, property, liberty I itself wo elo not demolish Cuban liberty; we preserve ami defend Cuban liberty be cause we preserve and tiefend order, law and Justice, and order, justice and law aro tho methods of liberty, if It be said that the Cuban people will conduct a govern ment of order, justice and law the answer is that in such a case our intervention nev er can occur, but if they do not conduct a government of order, justice and law then our intervention is necessary. For the United States are answerable for the Cu ban people. "Our Cuban legislation is the most im portant elevelopment of national power since the constitution was aelopted. Upon the future use of that power In other situ ations and in other quarters of the globe may depend not only the preservation ef the Interests of the American people but the peace of the winde world. Within the present century international complications will occur where territory may be assigned to the keeping of the Republic by the other great powers of the world. Wo may not want to annex such territory, thus mak ing it inhabitants citizens of the Republic; arid yet, up to our Philippine period, an nexation was the only method we had em ployed. It may be also that we shall nor want to ewn it as property anel govern it as a possepsion; and yet, up to the hour of our Cuban legislation, annexation and own ership were the only methods we had ?m ploved. iBut our Cuban legislation createi a new method of practical guardianship of any territory which may fall to us. No man can now eleny that the Republic may be suzerain wherever the interests of the American people or the peace of the world may mske.that form of control convenient. Herasiofon we could only annex acquired territory or govern It as a possession. Rut by the method devised in our Cuban legis lation any territory falling Into our keeping may be given Its separate government by Its own people, but assisted In Its foreign relations, restrained in its finances and helped In its Internal workings by the gov ernment of the United States. The value of such a development of national power i'.s we hav? exercised in our Cuban legisla tion thus becomes plain to the simplest mind. It Is a power which concerns not Ct:ba only and the present hour, but the entire future and nil the worM." ECONOMIC CHANGES. The senator rext spoke of the economic changes taking place In the world, saying: "The developments of business are bring ing to pass as actual realities those things which to the mere man of words have been nothing but hoped for Impossibilities. One of the" most prosperous railroad companies of America is making stockholders of its employes and finds that the experiment pays. More than a hundred business houses in the United States are making partners of their employes and lind that the experi ment pays. He is indeed a daring pessimist who denies that the stock of the mightv madern combinations of production which control the necessities of the people will finally be held by the people themselves small quantities In the hands of each of a vast number of individuals instead of vast quantities in the hands of each of a small number of Individuals. The idea of co operation is working out its own realization. Rut this evolution will proceed as fast as it ought and net as fast as tlreamers think It shauld. Business conditions will bring it about and not tho appeals of demagogues who elo not understand the great forces with which they trllle. And who can deny that this very evolution is to-day the chief problem In the minds ef the world's master financial and Industrial organizers them selves? "American Industrial evolution and Amer ican Internationa! relations are Interwoven And our International relations demand the exercise by the American fovernment ol that power of the free hand developed ;n our treatment of the Philippine and Cuban questions. We are literally engaged in a world-wide war of commerce. We are abie, to wage thi3 war successfully because we have developed such skill among our work ingmen. such a totality of manhood among our laboring classes and have produced such masses of wealth that, with these ele ments of industrial power all" combined and organized, we are given the advantage of every other producing nation. For example, the immense capital and wonderful organ ization of the great meat-packing combina tions of America enable them to sail re frigerating ships to everv port and feed the world with American beef of a quality and at a price with which the inferior organizations of other nations cannot com pete. This is true of many of the other principal lines of trade. Therefore other nations will erect are erecting tariffs against American products. Free-trade England will not much longer remain free trade. Within twenty-rive years every manufactured article entering Engllsa ports will pay a heavy duty un less by reciprocal tariff arrangements we keep Great Britain's markets open to our products. The same is true of every other European nation; and this pol icy of self-preservation will be applied to their colonies also. It follows, therefore, that the American tariff must meet these new conditions. But cur tariff will be made to meet these new conditions along the line of international reciprocity. While the tariff will be readjusted, it will never be revised on horizontal or universal reductions or advances according to so-called principles of schoolmen and theorists; it will be ad justed along the lines of international give and take, with which practical nations, like practical men, conduct practical bus iness. The American people will never per mit ignorant enemies of tho tariff principle to modify it. The American people will de mand that our tariff adjustment, delicate as a watch and affecting interests as wide as commerce, shall be made by those who understand its workings at home and its effect abroad. To intrust it to reaction aries and doctrinaries would be like putting a crew of rock-breakers from our public streets in charge of the vast and compli cated engines of a modern and mammoth ocean steampship." IN Tili: FAR EAST. In discussing the situation in the far East the senator said: "American trade throughout the Orient I.-? Increasing, while, in comparison. Great Britain's trade is diminishing. And so a system of protective devices throughout the Orient appears inevitable. We can look for nothing else from Russia; we expect this method from Germany, and we shall have to meet it, even at the hands of England; And if Japan shall assert her influence over that great region of whirh Amoy Is the capital and chief port she can be elepf- ded upon to secure to Japanese merchants and producers trade advantages throughout the districts she controls by effective methods. "In this serious situation a policy of drift will never answer the demands upon Amer ican statesmanship. No American states man can excuse himself for the exclusion of America from th3 trade of the Orient upon the ground that, while attending to our internal affairs, the territory where that trade exists has gradually slipped into the control of our rivals without precaution having been taken to preserve the ad vantages we now have. It is no answer to say that the danger is not imminent. Statesmanship must consider the future. Statesmanship must arrange conditions to day so that the result of those conditions a elecade or a century hence will be natural and inevitable. And so, while America wants no part of China; while America will decline to be an active, participant In China's commercial parti tion. America will insist upon American advantages being preserved in every prov ince of the Orient where any other power asserts Its Influence. America prefers that the integrity of China, commercially as well as politically, shall be preserved, and that the door of the far East shall be kept open to every merchant and manufacturer of every nation of the world on equal terms. But America will not go to war to prevent England, Germany, Russia. France or any other country from asserting their respective spheres of commercial influence in China. America wants no war any where or at any time when It can be avoid ed without sacritictng the honor or interest of the American people. All that America is concerned in is that when China's par tition occurs the door shall be kept open to American goods, no matter how tightly It is shut against any other nation. In this situation the possession of the Philippines makes us masters of the game." lion. John I. Webster, of Omaha, spoke on "The United States, the Nation of Des tiny." Senator Doljlver responded to tho toast, "Ulysses S. Grant." ' RAILWAY AFFAIRS. Senator W. A. Clark et al. have boen re strained from interferring further with the Oregon Short-line (the Harrlman interests) in building a railroad though Lincoln county, Nevada. A jury in Common Pleas Court at Toledo yesterday rendered a verdict of $l6.0o against the Wheeling K: Lake Erie Railway for personal Injuries to Fred Ruhrwiar. Plaintiff walk?; on crutches as a result of tho Injuries. A jury in the Circuit Court nt Vickeburg, Miss., awarded Lee Richardson & Co. dam ages to the amount of ?4.IT against the Yazoo & Mississippi Railroad Company. Plaintiffs alleged that sparks from one of the defendant's engines set lire to their warehouse in August, 1809. The San Francisco Call says: "It was definitely learned on Saturday that when K. II. Fitzhugh arrives here: he will take office in the Southern Pacific as assistant to President Hays. President Hays has mapped out a great deal of hard work, and h? is figuring on able assistance from Fitz hugh." Major F. K. Huger. of Knoxville, Tonn., bos accepted the position of general super intendent of construction of the Pittsburg, McKcesport ' fc Connellsvllle Railroad, el ective May 1. Major Huger was for years, until January, la. superintendent of the Knoxville division of the Southern Railway, and is known all over the South. President Samuel R. Knott, of the Kan sas City Southe rn Railroad, 'denies a re ported sale to the Standard Oil Company of the railroad terminals at Port Arthur, Tex. The terminal property is now in the bands of a receiver, and President Kmdt states th.'it no disposition of th property can be made until the courts dispose of the receive! ship. Officials of the Illinois Central Railroad Company held a conference at Chicago yesterday, at which the demands of the machinists were discussed. Iater the ofli cials held a Joint conference with the com mittee of the International Association of Machinists, but no conclusion was reached. It Is the expectation that the joint confer ence will extend to the middle of next week. Owing to the unsatisfactory condition of the roadbed on the recently-completed coast division of the Southern Pacific, the com pany will withdraw its fast trains and wiil proceed to construct ami ballast the track between Santa Barbara and Saugus. layin eighty-pound steel rails. Until this work is completed only one train the Sunset express will be run each way daily over -he track in question. Details of a contract that will Rive the Illinois Central Railroad additional tonnage at New Orleans and greatly Increase the importance of that city as a seaport were agreed on yesterday. The contract is be tween the Illinois Central and the Leyland line, of Liverpool, and by its terms the lat ter company agrees to provide four steam ers per week out of New Orleans for Liver pool and other European ports. It is stated that President Hays, of thi Southern Fa trifle, is about to form a cab inet of advisors, to bet composed of the heads of practically all the principal de partments of the road, with the single ex ception of the law department. The object of this cabinet arrangement is to centralize the authority and responsibility. Prerdont Hays will by this means have a firmer grasp r,n the details of operation of the vast system, and all orders will be lr-sued directly by him, aft?r consideration by the cabinet. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS NOTES. Governor Odell. cf New York, has signed the Mil which authorizes New York city to accept the SSVmmi pjft of Andrew Carne gie for a free library system. Oscar Turner, former Democratic mem ber of Congress from the Louisville, Kv., district, will wed Miss Mary Jane Caldwell, of Chatham. 111., daughter of Representa tive B. F. Caldwell, of the Seventeenth dis trict, on Wednesday evening, May 8. At Lima. O.. yesterday a jury awarded Elijah Bow slu r judgment for $7fo against Gus Kalb, who accused him of robbing the American National Rank of Lima of over lls.'XiO two years ago. Kalb was the cash ier of the bink and Bowsher was the jan itor. The latter sued for $20.1 damages. The body of the missing priest. Rev. Mr. Joly. of St. Kmiile, Quebec, was found in the lake near the parish last night. Father Joly disappeared live months ago, but thi tact was not made public until April 20. Two weeks before his disappearance 1. elrew $J.X0 from the bank, which cannot be found. The United States transport Sedgwick, has sailed from San Juar.. Porto Rico, for New York, having pn board nineteen Por to Rlcan youths going to the United States to bo educated. Eleven of them are bound 0 0 m ill ' ill AIR. SULEEBA'S magnificent stock of Rugs sold without reserve or limit. Sales at 10 a. m., 127 E. WASHINGTON I r i r -1 1 - ' ft' v 1 . i r--;v -v v . s - e , . m, -. - . m tot rJvl for the United States iJovernmcnt Indian Training School, at Carlisle, Pa., The gov ernment will assume the expenses of the eleven students referred to. The thirty-sixth anniversary of the de struction of the government transport Sul tana on the Mississippi river, near Mem phis, by which many lives were lost, was crlebrateei at Knoxville, Tenn., yesterday. About ono hundred of the "'X) surviving men who escaped death at the time were present. About t) others participated in tho reunion. Several States were repre sented. Governor Nash, of Ohio, is urpring Gen. Thomas M. Anderson, who retired in Janu ary, VM as major general ef volunteers, to accept the post of commandant at the Ohio Soldiers' and Soldiers' Home at Sandusky, te succe'cd the late A. M. Anderson. Th.; appointment Is made by the board of trus tees, chosen by th$ Governor. It Is believed General Anderson will accept. Judge J. V. Stead, of the Circuit Court at Knoxville, Tenn., yesterday held that the by-law passed by the American Legion or Honors' Supreme Council la. t August invalidating all policies of over $2.0ün was void and cannot be enforceel as applied to J. W. Gaut, of Knoxville, who has for years held a $5.000 policy and who tendered payment of the premium, which was ac cepted. The captain of the fishing schooner Mary A. Fisher, which arrived at the Delaware breakwater, yesterday morning, reports that he aw the wrecked schooner Kmma C. KnoT lea noon after he had been struck n April 24. Thre steamers wer standing by the Knowlea at the time. The captain of the Fisher also reports that he picked up a yawl boat with oars gone off Barne gat, supposed to belong to the Knowlcs. Miss Alice Ravenhill, of England, who is making an ofheial tour for educational study in this country and who has been visiting the various schools and colleges of this city, has left New York for a visit to other cities. Mips Ravenhill holds a unique pedagogic position in England, being in spector of hygiene and domestic economic classes under the technical instruction com mittee of the county council of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Her work h to train teachers who can carry their hygienic and economic discipline into the elementary and other schools of the kingdom. LABOR, TRADE, INDUSTRY. All departments of the Falcon plant, of the American Steel Company, at Nilcs, O.. will resume to-morrow, giving employment to two hundred and fifty men. The mill has been idle almost a year. Marshal C. Rlain. a contractor, filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States Diftrict Court, at New York, yesterday, with liabilities of $1T5.(0. no assets. Th principal creditors are all in Huntington, Pa. The Building Trades Council, which hns p'.aved such a prominent part In the build ing industry in Chicago for the pa?t ten years, at its meeting Friday nlht prao tlcally eleckled to einband. A new counci. will be organized. The tramway strike at Madrid continues, but many cars are running, with higher officials of the company acting as con ductors. The picadors employed In the bull rings have decided to strike to-daj t theii wages are not increased. The British steamer Iridrapura. which arrived at San Franclse-6 yesterday from Calcutta, brought a car aro estimated to be worth nearly Jl.Wrt.oco. The cargo consisted of 12.000 bales cf Jute. O.OoO bales of bags and burlaps and 2,&iü bags of bone meal. Secretary J. A. Pryle. of the Internation al At-poclation of Structural Iron Worker announces that the American Bridge Com pany has signed the new scales submitted by the structural workers of the different 3 'irwvj y L3 ir mm ' l p vll If' vv mm i i tva-J 1 W m-rm i M mmWm No troublc to show thcm- t Uvi h k m w S r I k fen 0 0 A OOO AND B RI C A B RAC Itf t .1,1 ' l" ., raciimes and Orsaoizati' That we sell clothes fully satis factory clothes at the same price that it costs other merchant tailors to produce them is entirely due to our greatly superior buying and making; facilities. Look out! These sunshiny days will catch you without a new and seasonable suit. No fault of ours. We're ready to take your measure for a DoubIeBreasted Frock Or anything- you may prefer. We are making- handsome suits at $20.00 and upward. No house in Indiana can show one-fourth the new woolens we exhibit. Many of these are nov elties our own specials." Latimer Rubber Vehicle Tires Compound Spring Tires taks the place of PNEUMATIC and SOLID RUBBER TIRES. tiTlf Centra! Rubber & Supply Co. .VCi";.C;7 820 S. .Meridian St. Sole agents for Indiana. OUR GUARANTY IS QILT EDGE On every thing we srll, especially Diamonds. We can also save you money, as we buy direc t lrom the cutter, and have Miiall expense. J. IP. IVIUIIvAIIvY, 28 flonument Plscc. Who first beholds the light of day In spring's flowery month of May, And wears an emerald all her life. Shall be a loved jmd happy wife. You will find the finest collec tion of thec beautiful gems in the city now on exhibition at my place. Carl L. Rost, 15 N. Illinois Street. The Bates House is just across the street. P. S. Rings from $1.00 to &00.00 always in stock. cities to go into effect May 1, with the single exception of Milwaukee. The dis. pute is one which may result In trouble. The William Ritter I,umber Company which It Is claimed will control the-output of poplar lumber and 50 per cent, of tin output of white pi.ie In the South, was or ganized nt Columbus. O., yestrdav. with a capital stock of Jl.OOOioO. The company will control :?". 000 acres of timber land', and absorb a large number of plants. The consolidation of trolley lines now In operation or in process of construction has been decided on and will result In a con tinuous line from oungstown. O.. to Krie Pa., via Sharon. Meadviile and Cambridge Staines. The eanital of tho J corporation will be $-,0u0Ao and it .ill be ii.i-uii'uraiiu in: weeji unacr tnc laW3 of New Jersey. Judge Neely, sitting in the Circuit Court at Chicago, yesterday refused to issue a writ of mandamus to com no 1 the Weu Chicago Street-railway Comrany to lower Its tunnel under the river at Van Buren Ftreet. The writ was asked by the citv alleging that the tunnel impedes naviga tion. The case will be appealed. Cleveland capitalists are financing a com pany thit will propel canal boats bv elec tricity from Toledo to Cincinnati. It vill be known as the Miami and Krie Canal Transportation Company. Power will be furnished by small motors. The time for the trip from Toledo to Cincinnati will be litS t.-th1,rds- The line will cost UlflAO. arehouses will be established along the line and an extensive business can,riKd TV r,k on the Proposed plan In! Dayton111 atdy bctweeß CinclnnaU -1 T V 00000-0o0 AT and ceramics will be 2 p. m. and 8 p. m. STREET ?! Solid Silver. CREAM LADLES GRAVY LADLES OYSTER LADLES SOUP LADLES PUNCH LADLES AND BOUILLON LADLES Fancy Pieces of Every Description. Charles Mayer & Co. 29 & 31 West Washington St. Importers of Dealers in Art Subjects. Sterling Silver. w0 r rt BED ROOM SUITES Large Variety Popular Prices WILUG'S Cash Furniture Store, 141 West Washington St. Carpets, Draperies, Stoves and Ranges. VWI MAKE UBLRAL ADVANCES Cä mmwm 5r Doom Rooms 4 AND ALLTCAlCACTiONi STCKH CCOT MTV k a. ... t r . . . t w 1 fi Ii V'-vl';l PI I II ''A j Ladles jlKols Ioan OTrrr.rxr'TrsT.