Newspaper Page Text
V 3 IMBI y?OLIS JOBENAI i J. in 0 WKHKLY E STA P.LT P1IEÜ 1523. DAILY LSYAHLIH1ILL) 10. VOL Iii XO. 103. INDIANAPOLIS. WK I) X 12 S DAY MORNING, JULY lO, 1001. PRICK 2 CI2XTS 12 VI2K Y WIIKHH. RUSSIA IS WILLING hit secretary o.n has no rowi:it to rescind ins action. Offer lo Vnrntr Retaliatory TnrlfT 1 (he lulled Mute Will Remove Sugar Differential. AN EXCHANGE OF NOTES THAT IIA J 31 AIli: CM? A II THE RUS SIA oovernjient attitide. 31. De Witte Informed Thnt the Suar 3Intter I ov In the Courts and ont of (inge's Control. ?500,000 ASKED BY CHINA INDEMNITY I)i:ilAM)i:i) FOR OUT RAGES AT IllTTE, 3I0NT. Celestlnla Alleged to Hare Reen Treated In Shnmeful Manner Army Promotion and A ppolutuients. - WASHINGTON. July 9.-Another impor tant exchange has occurred between the Russian government and the United States relative to the tariff. The Russian minis ter of finance, M. De "Witte, has proposed that Russia will vacate all of the addi tional duties levied on American goods since the Imposition of the sugar differential if the United States will vacate its action on the tugar differential. To this Secre tary Gage has replied that the offer of the Russian government cannot bo accepted, as the question of the sugar differential is now In the hands of the court, thus pre cluding action by the executive branch. These exchanges, although made nomi nally by the minister of finance and Sec retary Gage, have gone through the me dium of the Russian Foreign 0:flce and the State Department. The proposition of the Russian minister of finance was the direct result of Secre tary Hay's note of about two weeks ago. In that note Mr. Hay pointed out that the action taken as to petroleum was not new, nor was It meant to have any connection with the previous action of the government on sugar. This appears to have recon ciled the Russian oflUIals in their view that the petroleum order was only another step In the policy previously taken respecting sugar. Accordingly M. lc YYitte's response was communicated to Washington, Count Lemsdorf! forwarding It to M. De Wol lant. the Russian charge here. It is not lony, but Is quite to the roint. It makesJ no further Issue as to the petroleum order. The chief attention Is given to sugar, anil the specific order is made to vacate Im mediately the increased duties which Rus sia has levied, if the United States vill vacate its action on sugar. This would amount to re-cstabllshlng the status quo which existed before the United States took Its Initial action relative to Russia. The Russian proposition was duly com municated to Secretary Gage, who has re sponded promptly that as the sugar ques tion Is now before the courts. It Is not pos sible for him to avail himself of the Rus sian suggestions. Thus the matter stands. The reductions which would have resulted under M. Do Wltte's tender are those af fecting cast-Iron wares manufactures of Iron and steel, boiler work, tools for artists, factories and workshops, gas and water meters, motors and dynamos, sewing ma chines, portable engines, not Including threshing machines, nre engines and other machinery of Iron and steel, also white rosin, galipot, brewers' pitch and bicycles. The Increased duties on iron and steel goods followed after the Imposition of tho sugar differential, while those on bicycle and rosin followed the Increase on pe troleum. M. De Wltte's proposal was to take off all of the Increased duties. In the course of his letter It Is stated that the sec ond retaliatory move on bicycles and resin was not due to the American action on petroleum, although It had so appeared in th original Russian note, but that it re lated back to the American action on sugar. This 1 thought to be the result of Sec retary (Jage's reply to Russia to the effect that Its action. In Increasing the duty on American bicycles and resin, was a viola tion of our treaty with that country. No European Combination. LONDON. July 10. "Contrary to the pinion expressed In Vienna," says a Ber lin dispatch to the Daily Express, "It 13 held that there Is no possibility of a gen eral European trade combination against the United States. Germany's trade rela tions with the United States bing too ex tensive to permit her to assume an atti tude of hostility." CIIIXA WANTS INDEMNITY. Lanndrymcn nt Iluttc Alleged to Have Ileen Ooxerlzed." WASHINGTON, July I.-The Chinese government, through Minister Wu Ting fang, has tiled a claim for Indemnity to the amount of a half million dollars on account of alleged outrageous treatment of Chi- r.ese at Butte, Mont. There is a suggestion of Boxer outrages reversed In the presen tation of the case to the State Department, the treatment inflicted on the Chinese at Butte being claimed to have been cruel and oppressive. It is charged that some of them were killed, others lost their property and nearly all were ruined la business and many of them were driven out. The claim ants number several hundred. The outrages date back to and it is declared that the City Council of Butte and the state courts upheld the rioters and boycottors. ARMY APPOINTMENTS. Promotions in Itejgnlnr Service and Surgroos and Assistants Named. "WASHINGTON.. July 9. The President has made the following appointments: Colonel of infantry. John W. Budd: lieu tenant colonel cf infantry. John J. OVon nell. John W. Hannay; major of lnfantrv. "William A. Mann. Millard F. Waltz. Edwin Y. Glenn. Geors R. Cecil. John H. H. Thine; captain of Infantry. Isaac Newell. Georgo H. Shelton. Hörschel Tupes, Elwyn E. Hampton. Harry F. Rethers. William B. Cochran. Aim P. Berry. Captains of cavalry. Herbert A. White. Harry T. C.ive-n.u.gh. Nathan K. Avcrill. Paymaster, rank of in.j-.r, Thomas C. Goodman. James B. Houston. Major engineer corps, James C. Warren: captain engineer corps, George P. Howell. Captain artillery corps, Samuel A. Kep hart. Chaplains, Joseph Clemens, Timothy O'lCeefe. Surgeon volunteers, rank of major. Rob ert Bv.n.r.. Ralph S. Porter. Assistant sur geon olunteers. rank captain. Ge orge H. Calkins. Afaitunt surgeons, rank of first lieutenants. Charles ll. Wr. Patrick H McAndrew. Gideon Mel). Van Poole. Henry H. Rutherford. Err.est I. Ruffiicr. William II. Brooks. Matthe. v A. Deluriey. Horace- I). Bloomberg. Conpton Wilson. John A. Mur tARh. Eugene R. Whltmorc. Charles Y. Brownie.-. Irvine W. P;itt.r. William W. Reno, Robert U. Patterson. Carroll D. Buck. George H. R. Gj man. Conrad E. Koerpr. John H. Allen, Bnderle i. O'Con nor. William Roberts. George P lizard Robert E. Noble. James W. Van Dwsen.' Rr.Kr Brooke. Jr.. Wallace I e Witt, Albert B. Henderson, Robert M. Thornburg. Arthur M. Bine. Paul S. Hal!ran. Herbert, (J. Shaw, Clement ('. Whlteo'nb. Robert B. Grubt. Edmund D. Shortlldse. Vcrgee Swayne. John R. Dsveraux, Kent Nelson, Peter C. Field. Lloyd L. R. Krebs. Robert Smart. Louis Brechman. Jr.. William 1. Woodall. Charles Barney, Milton E. Lando. George M. Ekwurzel. Tnornas R. Wallace, of Iowa. United States consul at Crefeld. Germany. Pletro Cuneo, of Ohio, United States con sul at Turin. Italy. NATIONAL HANKING SYSTEM. Controller Dawes Says Its Condition Indicates Illxh l'roperltr NEW YORK. July O.-Controllf r of the Currency Dawes Is quoted by the Wash ington correspondent of the Press ns say ing relative to the condition of the national banks of the country: "Tho latest dftailrd reports received from the national banks of the United State Indicate an unusually high degree of prosperity. The condition of the national bnnklng system can be taken fcs a practical barometer of the Industrial and commercial condition of the country generally, and. therefore, the remarkable showing now telng made by these Institu tions Indicates clearly thru every branch of American trade nnd Industry Is flushed to a correspondingly high degree. The resources of the banks are greater than ever before In the history of the national system and the condition of the banks generally Is ratisfactory. The present condition of the banks stands out In strong contract against tho dark background of the condition that prevailed some seven or eight years ago. In ISfKJ, for Instance, the record for bank failures was reached when thirty-eight of the national banks went permanently Into the hands of receiver. During the first six months of the present year only seven banks have failed, while during the entire year 1000 only five went under." Colonel liny Receive Cbeklh Der. WASHINGTON. July 9.-Secretary Hay returned to Washington this morning from his New Hampshire home. He was driven directly to the State Department and was closeted for some time with acting Secre tary Hill and Assistant Secretary Adce. The new Turkish minister, Cheklb Bey, called, in company with All Ferrough Bey, the retiring minister. Tho new minister must await until a later date to be pre sented at the White House, owing to the President's absence, but he will from now on exercise all the functions of a minister as a matter of courtesy. This course is (CON T I N UE I)Ö N rA (1 E 2,L0 L 6. ) WANT MORE SAFEGUARDS CUBANS AFRAID OF THEMSELVES AT THE ELECTION POLLS. Conservatives Oppose the Law Framed by the Electoral Committee and It Is Defeated, 13 tu 12. HAVANA, July 9.-The Cuban constitu tional convention this afternoon rejected the committee's project for the electoral law by a vote of 13 to 12. The Conserva tives claimed that the law as proposed was too radical. Inasmuch as it provided that there should be no Interference with the elections by the central government and because the last elections showed it to be impossible to conduct elections Hon estly without some restraining power. They pointed out that the provinces and municipalities were as yet unable to gov ern themselves and contended that a free hand regarding elections would result In calamity to the country. In the opinion of the Conservatives the first elections under the election law should be conducted with all possible safeguards, with safe guards equal at least to those provided by the military Governor. Rather than accept the commission's project the com mittee said It would favor holding the elections under the existing law and leave to the Republic the task of drawing up a suitable law later. Another objection was that party lines had not been clearly de fined as yet and that the law provided for political representation on the election boards, which, under existing conditions, would be a farce. General Sangully voted with the Rad icals, explaining that, although he did not believe in the projected law, he thought it would be a better plan to amend than to reject it. A new committee will be ap pointed to-morrow. The Conservatives claim a majority In favor of the plural vote, based on the Belgian law. The Municipal Council to-day passed a vote of thanks to Capt. Luden Young, captain of the port, for his recent display of promptitude and resolution In saving lives threatened by the overllowing of the Almendares river. Mr. Young has Informed the contractors who have undertaken to raise the wreck of the United States battleship Maine thaj: unless the work Is begun immediately the contract will be annulled. PROBABLY WILL RESUME SEVENTH NATIONAL RANK MAY' DC REOPENED FOR BUSINESS. Fred S. Heath Said to Be Confident All the 3Ioney Required Has Been Promised. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. July 9. rrlvate advices received here from New York through Fred S. Heath, of Muncle, contain assurances that the Seventh National Bank will furely resume; that the money to pay the de positors In full has been promised, and that the Jl.flJO.OOO loan to Marquand & Co., which led to the bank's suspension, will be taken off the bank's hands. These things accomplished there appears to be nothing in the way of the bank resuming business at an early date. W. G. Nicholas says In the New York Tel egraph: "The three Heath brothers Fletch er S., Perry S. and Fred may decide to concentrate their resources and reorganize the Seventh National Bank and build it up as a distinctively family Institution. Strong friends have given them assur ances that they can have all the help they may want should they conclude to remain in metropolitan banking. The brothers can mass about iJ.OOO.wO, and as a matter of family pride they are likely to decide to make a stand in New York to re-establish themselves and regain the position and prestige lost through their connection with the col lapsed bank. It now is well known In the Inner councils of Wall-street banking circles that President Kimball was responsible for the batl loans that resulted in the closing of the bank. Fletcher Heath had no idea of the fix the bank was in until the Saturday before the failure, and the time was too short for him to raise the money for salvation. If the Heaths and their friends reorganize the Sev enth National Bank it will be with a capital of not less Ban Jl.öOu.uo and a surplus of ' $rtirm additional, thua start ing off with large increased resources. An other party Is also anxious to reorganize th? bank, and at th meeting of directors and important str.c khol.iers on Tuesday of tills week definite steps will be taken to ward the upbuilding." Gen. Henry L. Burnett. United States dis trict attorney at New York, was In con sultation on Tuesday with W. S Ball, his assistant, who was designated to examine Ino the affairs of the Seventh National Bank. Subeiu titlv General Burnett said: "1 do not curt- to say at this time whether anything has b--n discovered by Captain Ball of a criminal character In the manip ulation of the affairs of the Seventh Na tional Bank. Nothing will be done until the investigation ij completed." STRUCK AN AXLE KNICKERBOCKER FLYER" PARTLY WRECKED AT N OTT INGHAM, O. Run Into nn Axle Dropped hy Freluht Car nnd NVhm Hurled Over nn Embankment Into a Ditch. TWO MEN INSTANTLY KILLED ENGINEER ANDERSON A N II POSTAL CLERK O. S. M'CTLLEN. Flremun nnd Unknown Man So Ilnilly Hurt They Will Die and Others Seriously Injured. SEVERAL INDIANIANS ABOARD PEOPLE FROM THIS CITY, ANDERSON AM) ELSEWHERE I.N TllE STATE. AH Reported to Hare Escaped with a Shuklnir Up nnd to Have Contin ued Their Journey Eastward. NOTTINGHAM, O., July 9. One of the worst wrecks on the Lake Shore road in years occurred at 2:30 o'clock this morn ing in the center of this village, ten miles east of Cleveland. The southwestern lim ited on the Big Four from St. Louis, Cin cinnati and other Western cities and which goes onto tho Lake Shore tracks at Cleve land, was ditched by running into an axle dropped by a freight car. Investigation shows that the Journal of a car near the middle of a freight train was burned out. As the limited was passing the freight the nxle on the car dropped to the ties and thence over onto the opposite track, direct ly in front of the fast-running passenger train. No passengers were killed. The Dead. FRANK ANDERSON, engineer of the passenger train, of Buffalo. 0. G. M CULLEN, of Cincinnati, mail clerk. The Injured. WILLIAM, ELLIOTT, of Buffalo, fire man of passenger train; probably will die. WILLIAM BAKER, of Columbus, mad clerk, injured on head and body; not seri ous. WILLIAM REGAN, both hands smashed. E. F. LOVELESS, Cincinnati, mail clerk; slight. A. HIRTZ, Cleveland, serious. 1. JOHNSON, Buffalo, serious. TWO UNKNOWN TRAMPS, hurt. The shock to the passenger coaches was terrific and although the occupants were badly shaken up no passenger was hurt. When the front end of the engine plowed into the ground of the gully it became dis connected from the other coaches that went over the embankment and whirled sideways so that it pointed In the other direction. The mall car crashed into the tender, surrounding it completely. The engineer met his death by being pinioned under his engine. McCullen, the mall clerk, was crushed between the side of the car and coal tender. He was found with his head forced down between his knees. The other clerks, when they awoke to their condition, were able to extricate themselves from the wreck without as sistance. At least one person is believed to be burled under the wreck. Two Not tingham doctors responded to call for as sistance. The roadbed and the two tracks were torn up for quite a distance and tha embankment will nave to be repaired be fore the track can be relald. The Lake Shore track Is blockaded east, and all trains are beln? sent over the Nickel-plate. The passengers of the wrecked train were taken to Cleveland over the Nickel-plate, and wrecking trains are at work on the Lake Shore. CLEVELAND, O., July 9.-Flve of the men Injured in the collision were brought to the Cleveland general hospital early to-day. One man. whose name Is unknown, lies at the hospital unconscious. His con dition is critical. I. Johnson, of Buffalo, and A. IHrtz, of this city, suffered serious injuries, but will recover. The two tramps who were riding on the freight train are also at the hospital. They received broken collar bones and are not seriously injured. Indianapolis People Safe. The wreck early yesterday morning at Nottingham, O., of a train on which there were a number of Indianapolis peopU caused for a time much concern as to their safety, but it was ascertained that none of the pissengers was injured. Tho train was the Knickerbocker special on the Big Four, which leaves this city at 6:23 p. m. It was composed of ten cars, 'one being a sleeper put on in this city. In the Indian apolis sleerer were Miss Sue Ketcham, Misses Lila and Lueii Ketcham, Miss Jessie J. Smith, principal of school No. 33, Miss Kate Metcalf and Miss Helena Wills, en route to the White mountains: Mrs. John M. Spann and daughter and Mrs. R. M. Seeds and daughter en route to Buffalo. A telegram late yesterday after noon from Miss Ketcham announced that all of the persons from this city were safe and were proceeding on their Journey. Advices from Anderson and other cities in Indiana say persons from those places were on the train. All escaped injury, but some were, shaken up. AVest Coast Limited Not Wrecked. ST. PAUL, Minn., July 9. A dispatch from Helena, Mont., says it was reported there that the North Coast Limited No. 3 west bound train on the Northern Pacific, due in Helena at 6:43 p. m., had run Into a wash-out between Custer and Big Horn stations. At the offices of the Northern Pacific In this city the statement was made that the north coast limited had not been wrecked as reported. There had been some trouble with another train, it was stated, but the officials denied that the accident was of a serious chaiacter. Mail Clerk Badly Hurt. HAMILTON, O.. July 9. The southbound Cincinnati. Hamilton & Indianapolis ex press No. 41 jumped the track at South Hamilton last nlRht at a switch. The en gine and two passenger coaches turned over, but nobody was killed. Mall Clerk John Connor, of Hamilton, was thrown from his car and badly cut on the head, but will recover. A number of other passengers were Injured. JAPANESE WON. Whlie Fishermen on Fräser River Overnwed by Superior Numbers. VANCOUVER. B. C July 9. The Jap anese are now In control of Fräser river. They won the light during the night through clever tactics. About 3.00") Japanese spent the night In fishing. The union men organized patrol of boats manned by armed whites and natives. The Japanese, how ever, had a good pitrol comprising a much larger number of boats, including the larg est and widest fishing boats In tho river, whereas the union boats had each only half that number. Whenever a union patrol b"at went near the fishing grounds several of the Jüpam-se patrol approached th boat, surrounded It and simply overawed the strikers by force of numbers. LOST PART OF HIS TONGUE. Operation for t ancer Performed on Rear Admiral Ilonce. BOSTON, July D.-An operation for can cer was performed upon Rear Admiral Francis M. Bunce, United States navy, re tired, of Hartford. Conn., at the Elliott Hospital yesterday, entailing the removal of nearly the whole of his tongue. The admiral rallied finely after the operation, ills Condition is such that he is expected to be ablo to have the hospital In a week. Although tho surgeon was obliged to re move Hie major portion of tho tongue. Ad miral Bunce will not be wholly deprived of the power of speech. His wife and daugh ter are with him at the hospital. PREACHER "CANED." Publicly Benton ly a Mayor, Who Paid S:i find Costs. EDINBURG. HI.. July 9.-The Rev. T. M. Dillon, a Methodist minister, was caned on the street to-day by Mayor Vigal, of Edlnburg. Dillon had published In the Rochester Item, of which he Is editor, an article headed "Czar W. II. Vigal." in which he denounced Vigal, who refused to allow a bandstund on the main street of Edlnburg. as "Un-American, ungentle rnanlv. un-Chrlstlan and Insane." To-day Mr. Dillon visited Edlnburg. Mayor Vigal met him. cane in hand, and beat him se verely. The mayor was then taken before Justice (Jeorge and lined $3 and costs. BROOMS ARE HIGHER. Advanced 2.1 Centn n Unsen 1' the C(utral Association. CHICAGO, July 9. Brooms were ad vanced 2j cents a dozen in price to-day by the Central Broom and Brush Manufac turers' Association. The higher price takes effect at once and another advance of n similar amount will be made on Aug. 1. The retailer Is expected to add at least 5 cents to tho price of every broom he fells. The scarcity of broom-corn and the In creased price of the product Is the reason assigned for the advance. LOSS OF $10,000,000. Knnsns Crops Have Suffered from the Protracted Hot Spell. TOPEKA, Kan., July 9. The hot weather in Kansas continues with no Immediate prospect of relief. Corn Is fast shriveling up. The oats crop Is worse than a failure and hay is scarcer than for years. In west ern Kansas the conditions are better than In eastern Kansas. It Is estimated that Kansas has already suffered crop losses from the protracted hot spell to the extent of lln.GoO.Kn). To-day's temperature here was lo3. iEFICIT OF 025,267 PYTHIAN ENDOWMENT n ANIv FUNDS IN HAD CONDITION. Shortage Aliened to Have Ileen Found, nnd It .Must He Made Good Without Delay. REPORT OF 0. II. FETHERS RECKLESS FINANCIERING AND 3llS APPROPRIATION IS CHARGED. Tast OlHcers May Be Prosecuted Only $1.15 to Meet ..(, ),MK Claims on July 1. CHICAGO. July 9. The Endowment Rank of the Knights of Tythlas has a deficit Of J22o,267. This announcement was made by Supreme Commander Ogden II. Fethers to-day to the Supreme Lodge of the order, which has been assembled in this city for the purpose of looking Into the affairs of the rank. Mr. Fethers's announcement was based on the oflicial report of the insurance com missioners of Illinois, Connecticut and Kan sas, who made an exhaustive examination of the financial condition of the order, and copies of these reports were placed in the hands of the representatives, efore the rank can legally continue doing business as an insurance Institution this deficit must be made good, and the question of how it is to be done, and the greater one of how the funds of the organization are to be safeguarded In the future, occupied the attention of the Supreme Lodge ollicers and representatives all day to-day and far into the night. That there has been misappropriation of funds of the organization by past otticers of the Endowment Rank was freely charged in the reports, as well as in the meetings to-day, and there was said to be little doubt that after the Supreme Lodge had finished dealing with those who are thought to be responsible the evidence will be laid before the state's attorney, with a request that it be submitted to the grand jury. At the session to-night a motion was made to expel John A. Hinsey, who was president of the endowment rank during the period In which some of the funds of the organization are said to have dis appeared and others to have been invested in poor securities, but the motion was laid on the table, when It was reported to the meeting that M . Hinsey had expressed his intention of appearing before the Supreme Lodge at its meeting to-morrow for the purpose of defending himself against any charge that might be made of misappro priation of funds or of having made In vestments which he had not previously assured himself were safe and amply se cured. The work of investigation by the Su preme Lodge was not finished to-night, and will be resumed to-morrow. It is stated that charges of reckless financiering, juggling of accounts and misappropriation of funds were made by the report of the board of control. On July 1. it is asserted, the Endowment Rank found itself with a half million of unpaid death claims and only $ir in the bank with which to pay them, whlli little more was available from 4V0"') of Investments, most of the proper ties being In the hands of receivers. The Knights of Pythias, however, regard them selves as legally responsible, the Endow ment Rank bing a part of the order, its control being vested In the Supreme Lodge, and will devise plans for making good the deficits, paying off the claims and putting the Insurance rank on a firm basis, with adequate rates1 and a good business sys tem. AMPITHEATER FELL. Governor nnd Mrs. Yates Escaped, but Others Were Injured. JACKSONVILLE. III.. July 9. During an entertainment given by a "Streets of In dia" show here to-night the amphitheater fell, throwing fully six hundred persons to tho ground. Governor and Mrs. Yates were present, but fortunately escaped Injury. Tho. receiving Injuries were: Mrs. Ed ward Yates. Pittsf.eld; Mrs. Larson. Mrs. A. M. Upham. Dr. F. P. Norbury, William Ncwmn, Walter Lacey. Miss Grace Green leaf a.td Miss Ethel Williams, all of this place, ill of whom received cuts or bruises. III M'LEAN AND KILIIOI'RNE MASTERS OF III CK EYE DEMOCRACY. No noosters, Eieept Those from Their Barnyard, Will Be Permitted to Crotv nt the Convention. TOM JOHNSON'S LITTLE FLOCK MAY FLAP ITS WINGS AND ATTEMPT TO MAKE A NOISE, Dut Paeans of Victory Will Be Crowed Only hy Products of the McLean Kilbourne Incubator. CLEAN SWEEP FOR THE BOSSES HAVE SECURED CONTROL OF ALL CONVENTION' COSIMITTCCS. Cleveland's 3Iayor, However, May Re Heard from To-Day When III Game Uantams Appeur in the Hall. COLUMBUS, O.. July 9. The McLean Kllbournc element at the district meetings this afternoon secured control of all the committees and will accordingly have ev erything thvilr way at the Democratic state convention to-morrow. They were so strongly in the majority that there was no friction. In the Twentieth and Twenty-first dis tricts, which include Cleveland, the John son men had things their way as much as the McLean men in the First and Sec ond districts, which include Cincinnati. But in tho rural districts the latter element got almost everything. The controlling ele ment did not "ride roughshod" over mi norities In any of the districts, but when names were proposed for places on the com mittees there were inquiries as to how they stood and if replies were not satisfactory "they were excused;" In some cases as quietly as Jurors and in others with bal lots. Tho McLean-Kilbourne element, while unusually courteous, made no concessions. The old state committee met previous to the district meetings and gave the tickets of thvj McLean-Kilbourne men when there were contesting delegations, and they took all the districts except those which In clude Cleveland, in which, under the unit rule, they could not control a vote. But the Johnson men, after the result of the district meetings, promptly announced they would carry the fight into commit tee on resolutions for an all-night fight and then into the convention to-morrow for a "finish." They have two strong men and vigorous speakers in Heisley and Baker, both members oX Mayor Johnson's cabinet at Cleveland, on the committee on resolu tions. As the Montgomery contest, and prob ably the Butler contest, will be carried by minority reports on credentials into the convention for final action it is pre dicted that the convention will not reach the order of nomination till late to-morrow afternoon and the proceedings may be protracted Into the night. Ex-Governor Campbell Is with the Schwab delegation from Butler county and the Mason-Gray delegation from that county was to-day given the ticket by the old state committee. LOVELY TIMES POSSIBLE. With all the efforts of the McLean-Kilbourne men for harmony there is every indication of unusual scenes on the iloor of the convention over minority reports, especially on credentials and resolutions. Tom L. Johnson, who is still in Brooklyn, called Charles r. Salen on the long-distance telephone to-day and had a talk with him regarding the plank on a revision of the taxation laws of the State. When Salen informed the mayor as to the situa tion here and that the McLean-Kilbourne men controlled the committee on resolu tions as well as all other parts of the con vention's organization Johnson advised Salen never to surrender, but to Insist both before the committee on resolutions and in the convention for the incorporation of the Cuyahoga plank, which is made specific in that it mentions railroads and other cor porations as not bearing their full portion of the burdens of taxation. Soon after the talk over the telephone with Johnson Mr. Salen called at Colonel Kilbourne's headquarters and these two. with M. A. Dougherty, of Lancaster, and E. M. Heis ley, of Cleveland, went Into conference In Colonel Kilbourne's room, where they re mained behind locked and guarded doors for more than an hour. The taxation plank was under consideration. At a joint meeting of the Cuyahoga delegation this afternoon, when members of the committee were selected. Mr. Salen told his colleagues from Cleveland of his talk with Mayor Johnson and urged them to stand by the Cuyahoga platform to the last. He even warned them against getting mixed up with the interests of any of the candidates for nominations. He said Cuyahoga county had no candidate and was not represented here in the interest of any one. They were here for principles and not men. He ex plained that the platform would be adopted in the convention to-morrow before the order of nominations was reached, and that after the resolutions were disposed of all could then work for their per?onal preferences for the nominations, lie then modified this by stating that the delega tion would vote as a unit under Its instruc tions. EFFORT AT HARMONY. After the district meetings In the even ing the Kilbourne men advocated harmony in everything and the Johnson men got the benefit at the meetings of the com mittees to-night of the movement for har mony. In order to expedite business at what i3 expected to be a protracted ses sion to-morrow trie committee on perma nent organization voted unanimously to make the entire temporary organization permanent. This continues Charles I. Salen, of Cleveland, as chairman and Neg ley D. Cochran, editor of the Toledo Bee, as secretary. The committee on resolutions first heard expressions of opinion from each of its twenty-one members. The committee stood 17 to 4 against special mention of free sil ver in the platform In addition to indors ing the Kansas City platform. 15 to ti against indorsement of the Kansas City platform without any further declaration on silver and 14 to 7 against reaffirming the Kansas City platform with the John eon plank on state taxation. There were some- who favored no reference to the Kan sas City platform. No vote was taken, the tally on preferences being secured from the speeches as each one was called on for his views. The following subcommittee was ap pointed: M. A. Daugherty, chairman. Bar ton Smith, Judson Harmon, E. M. Kennedy, E. M. Heisley, W. H. Spence and W. L. Flnley. Of thesa Heisley represents John son, and Daugherty, who presents Kil bourne's name to the convention, favors a compromise, especially on the taxation plank. The others are claimed hy th"e con servatives, although some of thern differ among themselves as to the verbiage of the taxation plank. The committee on credentials to-night decided to report In favor of the Do ling delegation from Montgomery, the Masou BOSSS OHIO rfelegntlon from Butler and th McCioud delegation from Union county. The bands and glee clubs t vnlght sere naded the candidates at the Southern Hotel, where speeches wtre made by Kil bourne. Zimmerman. Monnett and oihrs. Including Congressmen Norton and Ixntz. Republicans Nominate a Drmnrrnt. DALLAS. Tex.. July 9 -At Corslcana to day the Sixth district Republicans nomi nated Judge Philip D. Lindky. of Dallas, for Congress. Judge Lindlev was a Gold Democrat and supported Mckinley In both campaigns. The Republican comcntion an nounced that the reason for putting out a candidate was that the .Democratic con gressional convention reaffirmed the Kan sas City platform. John Weaver's Pledjje. PHILADELPHIA, Fa.. July 9 -John Weaver, the regular Republican nominee for district attorney, to-day accepted the nomination, and In his address pledged himself to administer the office fairly and faithfully without fear, oxcept of God, and ab.-olutely without favor to any man or any set of men. GrnlnRcr Defents Jefferson. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. July 9.-Charles F. Grainger defeated Thomas L. Jefferson for the Democratic nomination for mayor of Louisville in a legalized primary held to day. FLORIDA "GUN FIGHT." Farmer Killed and Son-ln-Lntr, Wife nnd Baby Wounded. TAMPA, Fla.. July 9. In a gun fight near Plant City Edward Franklin, a farm er, was killed and David Klnard, Frank lin's son-in-law, Mrs. Klnard and their baby were seriously wounded. Franklin, it is alleged, had employed a farmhand to do some plowing, for which he was to receive 7M strawberry plants. Work hav ing been finished, Franklin gave an order on Klnaid for the plants. When th em ployed man presented the order Klnard refused to fill It. This was reported to Franklin, who nnncd himself with a shot gun and went to the Klnard home. Arriv ing there he opened tire. It Is paid, on his son-ln-law, missing him, but striking and senouslv wounding bis daughter and grandchild. Klnard ran for bis gun and returned the fire. Another volley was ex changed. Franklin falling dead and Klnard seriously wounded. Klnard has not been arrested. NOYEL WAR IN NEW YORK PEOPLE onJRCT TO PAYING FOR RE SERVED SEATS IX A PARK. Mol Defies Police, Rout Toll Collec tors and Smashes Chairs Terry 31cGoveru Not Disturbed. NEW YORK, July 0. The demonstrations against the reserved park chairs, for the use of which a fee is charged, were con tinued In Madison-square Park to-day. A mob of several hundred took the police by surprise and began a wholesale destruc tion of. the chairs at the north end of th-j park. Tho attendant was swept from his feet and carried down with his property. The chairs were scattered over the path ways and the police reserves were unable to quell the riot for a time. They charged with drawn clubs and teveral men were arrested. One of the occupants of a pay chair to day was Terry McGovern, the pugilist, who called on one of the attendants to "come and collect." The attendant, how ever, did not accept the invitation. In the early evening at Madison square the crowd kept growing larger and larger and blocked the path where the pay chairs were. The police were practically unable to clear a passageway. Two men sat down. One of the chair men attempted to collect from these. They only laughed at him. and another attendant without further parley walked to the rear of the chairs anel dumped the occupants out. This pre cipitated a squabble, and as the cheering crowd encouraged the men to "stand by their guns" the police Interfered and the two men and the second attendant were marched to the police station. The at tendant was not held, but one of the men was on a crnrge of disorderly conduct. Late to-night Park Commissioner Claus en announced that owing to the storm of opposition which bad arisen he would re voke the privilege granted Oscar F. Spate to place pay chairs in the parks. TWO CRIMES AT DENVER AGED WOMAN KILLED BECAUSE SHE IllMPEIJ A CRAZY MAN. Fourteen-Yenr-OId Girl Assnulted nnd Mutilntcd In Her Home Farm Hund Arrested Mob Thwarted. DENVER, Col., July 9.-Mrs. Armenia A. Bullis, sixty-two years old, was murdered last night on a lonely road near the elty limits, being stabbed to the heart, and Jes sie KInport, fourteen years old, was as saulted at her home and terribly mutilated with a knife. Christian Jensen, a farm hand, who is in custody, has confessed he murdered Mrs. Bullis. He says she ran against him on the road, and, believing she had a gun, he stabbed her. He Is believed to be crazy. Mrs. Bullis lived cn a small farm, and was walking hohr when mur- elered. Robbery was evidently not the mo tive for the murder, as the woman's money was not taken. Chief of Police Armstrong is of opinion that the assault on Jessie Kinport was not committed by Jensen, although some cir cumstances point to him. The girl was alone at her home when assaulted. The girl's assailant gained access to the house through a window. He choked her, cut her, and otherwise maltreated her. She was found lying on an ash dump about midnight by searchers after an alarm had been given by her mother, who, cn return ing home, found her child's bed empty and bloodstained. Physicians believe the girl will recover. It has developed that a young man was at the Kinport home calling on the girl and remained until after 10 o'clock. Jensen was arrested about o'clock In the evening, making It Impossible for him to have committed the assault. A crowd of several hundred gathered out side of tin; Jail to-night and made threats of lynching Jensen. A report carne to the station that a mob was coming from South Denver to take Jensen from the authori ties and lynch him. Chief Armstrong de cided that Jensen would be safer out of reach, and to-night he was taken to t;olo rado Springs on the 9:3) o'clock train. A Bad Necro Chased. DOUGLAS, Ga., July &. Jake Devos., a negro laborer on James McKlnnon's plan tation, to-day shot dead two mules because they balked. Dcvoss's wife expostulated with him and he shot her, probably fatally. James McKlnnon and his brother Charles appearing, Devoss shot Charles McKlnnon dead and wounded James McKlnnon so badly that he will protably die. Then De voss escaped to the swamps. County au thorities started In pursuit of the murderer with bloodhounds. Monte Jacobs Stabbed. NEW YORK. July S.-Monte Jacobs, a theatrical manager, was taken from the Murray Hill Theater to Bellevue Hojltal to-day suffering from a stab wound In the abdomen. He was bleeding Internally and his case was suid to be serious. ANOTHER ARREST 3IADE IN CONNECTION WITH THE ALICE CO I lilt ELL Ml RUEIl. Domestic In Dunn's Family In Jul! nt Fort Wnne and Some Strong Direct Evidence Adduced. TALE OF A NEW ENOCH AHDEN EVANSYILLE MAX LEFT 111 WIFE OVER TWENTY EARS AGO. Returned Recently to rind Her Affair Married, nnd Her Divorce Has Just Been Granted. CONDITIONS IN THE FACTORIES INSPECTOR M 'A 11 EE SAYS THEY ARC BETTER "THAN 1JVER BEFORE. Welcome to Clinton County Soldiers Water Pollution Suits In Prospect A n d c r o n Ulaiuoud Ilobbcry. Sreclal to the Indianapolis J"urnaL FORT WAYNE. Ind.. July 0. Marls Sample-ton, a domestic in Charles Dunn's family, was arrested this evening, charged with complicity in the murder cf little Alice Ccthrell, of which' Dunn is accused. Her detention was ordered on the strength of an incident related by a Mrs. Madden, of Wallen, who told Prosecuting Attorney Emrick this afternoon that IKi Reed, th boy employed on Dunn's farm, said h overheard Marie ay to Dunn Tuesday afternoon as they were coming down talrs, "She alnt dead yet." Dunn then, according to Reed, replied, "Well, she will be soon. I will finish her." Reed further said that Dunn warned him. to keep still about the matter or he would be put where the girl was. Reed also is under arrest, and both he and Marie wcro subjected to the police sweatbox to-night. Marie closed up like a clam and would eay nothing. Reed's story Is believed by the officers. He evidently has been in great fear of Dunn, and now that he has told so much it is believed that he will tell nil. It is now a matter of common remark that Dunn has been a neighborhood tyrant and' had the people of Wallen terrorized. Jt was not until the three farmer horse thief detectives of Huntcrtown braved his threats and overruled his objections that his premises were searched. The villngerg of Wallen had not courage to insist on ex amining his cistern for the live days fol lowing the girl's disappearance. There is intense excitement now about Wallen, and except for Dunn's safe incarceration hers in the strong county Jail there is no doubt there would be a lynching. Dunn has retained Henry Colerick to do fend him. and Dr. Grccnawalt and Dr. Rosenthal have been employed to make a postmortem examination for the defens. The body will be buried to-morrow. Th girl Marie grew up in a Chicago orphans' home, her mother being dead. Her father lives in Illinois. Dunn will be arraigned on Saturday. Almost Another Murder. Special to the Ii;i3lanaj.oll Journal. MUNCIE. Ind.. July 0. Mundo all but had another murder to her discredit this evening as a result of two colored men en gaging In a fight with razors in front of a barber shop whre they were employed. Manning Allen attacked Johnson Bradley, but the latter knocked the razor from his assailant's hand and then used his own weapon in a terriblo fashion. The Injured man had his chin cut olT. lias two deep gashes across his right arm. three other gashes in the face and two long cuts across the abdomen. The men fought until ex hausted fre.m loss of blood and is. now at the hospital in a dangerous condition. Bradley is in Jail. 9 A NEW ENOCH AHDEN. Queer Story Developed In Divorce ProceedlnR nt Evansrllle. Special to the InJlar,apo'l Journal. EVANS VILLI-:. Ind., July 9.-A divorce was granted here to-day that had a tinge of unusual romance and sadtuts In it. Seventeen years ago Peter G. ElgenbroeTt and Mrs. James Fisher were united in mar riage, and from that time until a few days ago lived happily, live years before this marriage James Fisher had disappeared from home and no trace of 1dm was found. Later the wife was led to believe ber hus band dead. She mounud him fr Feveral years, for their wedded life bad been hap py, but finally married Elgenbrodt. After all these years as the wife of Peter Eigenbrodt thu woman was suddenly startled bv the appearance of Fisher, her first husband, who a.ckd her to return to him. This was followed by the filing of the divorce suit, the decree lwing granted to-day. Fisher give out no Information as to his sudden dlsappcarar.ee and the woman will not talk regarding hr future plans. Eigenbrodt and lis late wife are greatly dlJ-trrss-cd oer the queer turn of fortune's wheel. INDIANA FACTORY CONDITIONS. Mr. McAbee Sns They Ate Contlno ally Improving. SreUl t the Indianapolis Journ.il. MUNCIE. Ind.. July 9. Stat Factory In spector Daniel H. McAbee, f Indianapolis, was In the city this morning inquiring of the court as to the time wh'-n the c?fe to enforce the weekly pay law, In which tho Republic Iron and Steel Company is de fendant, would come up for trial. Mr. Mc Abee is looking after the witnesses for the State and Is getting everything In readiness to fight the case. He was informed that the case would be brought up for trial dur ing the present term of eourt or before Judge Lelller adjourns for the summer va cation. If th time is not too short to have one. The many assault cases that have come to the notice of the court mu?t l tried first and the weekly wage ruit prob ably will be lat on the programme. The case Wits brought by the State at the tn stance of employes ef the company. It has been customary for the comptny to pay its men every two weeks. As the c mpany has everal mills In Indiana tho case is of con siderable slate Importance. This morning Mr. McAbee salJ. relativ to conditions in the factories over Ihn State: "The conditions in Indian are tnurh tetter than heretofore, and continue to improve. The manufacturer are fednj the benellts derived fre-m the department of factory Inspection and say they have found the i-eml-anuual lsits of the In spectors to their factories Li be to their benefit. Two-thirds of the manufacturers" In the State now pay wages to sick and in jured men and in addition to this many pay doctor bills. About Ave hundred jeop2e wer injured In Indiana factories lafct ye.tr and more than UVa11) was paid out In benefits