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nr IMBIA-WAPOLIS JOTOMAI WKEKJ.Y F.ST A r T-T Sit HT 123. p.Mi-Y i:.tal;lishi:u isoo. i VOL. J.IV. NO. 77. INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY MORNING, MAKCII 17, 1904 TWELVE PAGES. PRICE 2 CENTS. rAlAla 'S TELLER PEOPLE OF THE NORTH ' EXCORIATED FOR CROEL TREATMENTOF NEGROES Sensational Speech in the House by Representative Spight, " of Mississippi. SOUTH IS DEFENDED Korea Invaded Xear Antung, Ac cording to an Unconfirmed Dis patch from Vin-Kow. RIVER BANK FORTIFIED Elkhart Case Takes Sensational Turn When Accounts Are Pointed Out in Court. TELLS OF NIGHT MEETINGS r BW REPORTED 10 HAVECROSSEDTHE YALU RIVER IN URGE FORGE WRECKED I PRODUCES THE BOOKSANO EXPOSES BIG SHORTAGES Seven Russian Ships, Possibly from Port Arthur, Said to Be En Route to Vladivostok. KOREA TO BE PUNISHED .Will Be Treated bv Russia as a Belligerent for Assisting the Japanese. YIN-KOW, March HL-lleport re ceived here nay n InrRe force of I iijh- i h n a ha crossed the Ynla near An trniK. Till report has not been con firmed. LONDON, Mnrch 17-Thc Tokio eor- renpontlent of the Time cables flint the Intent reports nay the Russians nre oeeupylnjc an nron linvinj n forty-mile bnse from AVIJn to Chnng- TotiK nntl extendiiiKT Month to the Pakrhon river. ST. PETEHSIll RG, March 10.- Ad v Icei from Vladivostok nay an army corps Im left tliut city overland for Koreu. TOKIO, March 1C It is reported nt Seciul that Knssiu has Indirectly de clared nur uKuiimt Korea an well- an Japan. It u in ii artillery lias been posted it I on;; the north hank of the Ynln rier. Seven Ilninn ships hare been re ported in pussins; Fort Lnzoreff. It Is not yet known whether the ships aire war vessels from Port Arthur upcUins to effect n junction with the Vladivostok squadron. RUMORED IXVASION OF KOREA NOT CONFIRMED LONDON, March 17. No further news of the progress of hostilities in the far East has been received here. There is much in- tere.st manifested in the report that the Russian main advance is crossing the Yalu, but this is not yet confirmed, and according to the Daily Chronicle's Ping Yang correspondent, all the Russian troops have left north Korea. 20.000 of them being concentrated at Kulion-Chang, north of the Y!u-river, in Manchuria. The Daily Telegraph' Sabastopol corre $1 endent says it ' is semi-ofiicially an nounced that Russia has abandoned th idea of sending her Baitic squadron to the far East by tha way of Bering straits as impracticable. A Port Arthur dispatch says that Ad miral Wittsoeft has been appointed chief of Viceroy Alexlcff's naval staff and has gone to Mukden. DISPOSITION OF THE JAPANESE IN KOREA PARIS, March 17. The Tokio correspond ent of the Matin sends this information, which he ays comes'from reliable author ity concerning the Japanese military situa tion up to March 10: "The first army of TCO") troops, under General Kuroito, occu pies northern Korea. The brigade landed at Gensan im :ns part of a second army of similar strength. The mobilization of the latter has been completed and the troops will sail shortly for an unknown destina tion. Tho mobilization of a third army be gan on March 7. RUSSIANS ACROSS THE YALU IN LARGE FORCE YIN-KOW, March 1G. The only reliable reports at the present moment from the main Manohurian cities show a quiet movement along the railway and such cities as Mukden, which are off the main line, are undisturbed. The people here are not in possession of definite news of out aide events. The chief movement on the Fung-Huang-Cheng military road Is the dispatch of riders to and from the Russian advance forces. A creditable native ar rived here to-day bringing a- report as late as March 12 from Song-Huang-Cheng to the effect that the main body of the con centrated forces had crossed the Yalu. leaving small bodies of troops at Antung and other points to guard the river. A fort night ago a few spies visited Antung. but since then no Japanese have been seen west of the Yalu. - The continued attacks of the Japanese have compelled the steady occupation of the Liao-Tung peninsula. The last bom bardment of Pert Arthur' rendered every fart of the fortress at Port Arthur unsafe. Residents assert that the fragments of Japanese shells fell everywhere and that acme railway coaches and buildings were destroyed, though most of the damage on the shore was unimportant. Foreigners choosing to remain in the in terior must now sign an agreement re itricting their movements and stipulating that a speeial pass is necessary when leav ing their bounds. It is authentically reported that for a week past there has been only a small and changing military garrison at Hal-Chang, but that a large force has been stationed at the invaluable fortified and strategical town of Ashang-Chang. where the Japanese army concluded its advance during the war between China and Japan. KOREA NOW REGARDED AS A BELLIGERENT SEOUL, March 16. The Korean superin tendent of trade at Kyong-Hung, on the Tumeu river, has received a note from the general in comniaud at Vladivostok saying that, since Korea has joined Japan, Russia considers Korea as belligerent and will net accordingly. Two thousand Korean troops now at Seoul will to Kent to the north next week. The Japanese have ascertained definitely that a strong force of Russian field artillery Is on the north bank of the Yalu river, and that earthworks have been thrown up. Ad icts from Chen-Ju. a town north of Anju, fay thai the pepl ;rc ln a state of panic owing to the treatment of women and the seizing of grain by the Russians. 'orthenat r.wUKe Too Kinky. PARIS, March 17. The Echo de Paris publishes a dispatch from its St. Petersburg correspondent which says that the idea of . tho Russian Baltic jguad run i going to the vf7C0NtlNUED ON PAGE 2. COL. U I" V i t 4 Rt -S.fr J 1 V Noted Russian Officer Who Is on the Ground Directing Movements of the Army, In Northern Korea. PENSION RULES WILL GO INTO EFFECT ON APRIL 13 Soldiers Who Are Over Sixty-Two Years Old May Be Regarded as Disabled. $6 TO $f2 PER MONTH Will Be Paid, the Highest Rate Going to Men Over Seventy Years of Age. WASHINGTON, March 16. Commissioner of Pensions Ware, with the approval of Secretary Hitchcock, to-day promulgated the most important pension ruling that has been Issued in a long time. It directs that beginning April 13, next, if there is no con trary evidence and all other legal require ments have been met, claimants for pen sion under the general act of June 27, 1S00, who are over sixty-two years old, shall be considered as disabled one-half in ability to perform manual labor and shall be en titled to 56 a month; over sixty-five years, to $S; over sixty-eight years, to $10, and over seventy, to $12, the usual allowance at higher rates continuing for disabilities other than age.' The order follows: "Ordered In the adjudication of pension claims under said act of June 27, 1SD0, as amended, it shall be taken and considered as an evidental fact, if the contrary does not appear, and if r!. other legal require ments are properly m.-,. that when a claim ant has passed the age of slxtytwo years he "is disabled one-half in ability to perform manual labor and Is entitled to be rated at Jt per month, after sixty-five years at IS per month, after sixty-eight years at $10 per month and after seventy years at J12 per month. "Allowance at higher rate not exceeding $12 per month will continue to be made as heretofore, where disabilities other than age show a xondition of inability to perform manual labor. " --.- "This order shall take effect April 13, 1004. and shall not be deemed retroactive. The former rules of the office fixing the minimum and maximum at sixty-five years and seventy-five years, respectively, are hereby modified as above.". Theorder itself is preceded by a preamble which, after citing the law, says the Pen sion Bureau has established with reason able certainty the average nature and ex tent of the infirmity or old age; that thirty-nine years after the Mexican war Con gress, in 1SS7. placed on the pension roll all Mexican war soldiers who were over sixty-two years old. MR. WARE SPEAKS. Commissioner Ware, just before leaving for a trip South for his health, spoke as follows regarding the order, which, he said, would save both the old soldiers and the government a great deal of money and time. "There has long been in the bureau a rule fixing a maximum ace limit at $12 for seveut-five ears. This was made during Mr. Cleveland's administration by Commis sioner Loehren, now federal judge in Min nesota. The sixty-five-year minimum limit has been a long while in force in the bu reau, but 1 am not advised by whom it was established, nor is it particularly material, since it met with general acquiescence. "The act of Congess wnich was passed in the latter part of January, liS7, and ap proved by President Cleveland put all the Mexican war veterans on the pension roll, thirty-nine years, exactly, after the end of the Mexican war. The Mexican war ended othrlallv by the treaty of Guadalupe Hi dalo. Feb. 2. 1S1S, although hostilities had eeaied before that time, according to the capture of the City of Mexico, it would seem that if, thirty-niue years after the ex piration of service, a Mexican war soldier was entitled to a pension at sixty-two years, and no other requisite for drawing a pen sion should exist except age. that to sol diers of the civil war, who fought vastly more and longer, at least as good a rule ought to apply. "The Mexican war limit of sixty-two years was probably hi ought about by the well-known army limit of sixty-two years, at which officers are retired. There seems ÖN'INÜELrON-PAGE5, COL. 6.) GERMAN SETTLERS VICTIMS OF MASSACRE IN AFRICA Details of Horrible Treatment at Hands of Natives in Oka handja District. SOLDIERS ARE ENRAGED BERLIN', March 16. Letters from Ger man Southwest Africa have arrived here giving details of the ghastly treatment of Gorman settlers, 113 of whom were killed outright or tortured to death in the dis trict of Okahandja alone. Women out raged and dismembered and with pieces of their bodies nailed to the doors of houses and boys mutlliated and left to die slowly were frequent spectacles. The expeditionary columns on coming In sight of a farmer's house would see the heads of its former occupants fastened to the roof. These sights appear to have ex cited the rage of the soldiers. The letters express longings for revenge and a deter mination, as one writer says, "to kill every thing black,! that causes some papers to urge the government to telegraph instruc tions to Colonel Luetweln, the Governor of German Southwest Africa, that he order the soldiers to restrain themselves and conduct the war ln a civilized manner. Colonel Luetweln, himself, comes In for criticism, as it is alleged that he'left in sufficient number of troops ln the exposed districts and was misled by the temper of the natives, having frequently had at his own table chiefs who are now in rebellion and who are wealing decorations and swords of honor bestowed on them by the Governor in beharf of the Emperor. The Tageblatt Intimates that Colonel Luetweln will be recalled. TA CHANGE IN "Better for You the Less You Say About It," Brodrick's Words. ACCOUNTS OVERDRAWN J. Walter Brown and Cashier Col lins Are Attentive Listeners During All-Day Hearing. Daniel C. Thomas, who for eight years was teller of the Indiana National Rank of Elkhart and after its failure clerk of Re ceiver C. W. Ros worth, was the principal witness yesterday in the trial in United States District Court of Justus L. Brodrick, charged with having been involved in crooked transactions which wrecked the Klkhart bauk. The testimony of Mr. Thomas was introduced by the government attorneys, J. B. Kealing and J. J. M. La Follet te. Testimony given by Mr. Thomas late yes terday evening exposed alterations which had been made in the records of the bank's books during VjOZ. Entries which had been made by himself, Thomas said, had been changed, in one case to as much as $40,000 difference. In another case the entry on 'the daily cash register of over Ul.OOO, Thomas testi fied, had been changed, and should be, ac cording to his balance on that day, over $121,000. Alterations, Thomas testified, had also been made in the records of the gold vault, on one day in particular, wheu a figure 3 had been placed before the record $2,400,- the gold on hand, making It appear that there was much more gold iu the bank than there actually was. In giving his tes timony Thomas had reference to the books of the bank, of which he had made the original records. According to the testimony and examina tion, Sept. 22, VM, was the day on which the books had been altered. MANUFACTURER ON STAND. The evidence was deduced through the testimony of Frank D. Coiiger, of Benton Harbor, secretary of the Harper Manufac turing Company, which had had dealings with the Elkhart bank. Mr. Conger said that on June 22, 1003, his company had exe cuted a note through the Elkhart bank, made payable to the Elkhart Paper Com pany. It was paid, he said, on Sept. 15, 1003, by a check on the Farmers' and Merchants' National Bank. "Did you get the note back?" asked At torney Kealing. "No. I don't know where the note is." Keailng said that he introduced this as evidence iu Count. 1 for embezzlement. Mr. Conger s.aid that another note was executed on June 4 for $l,7S3.95 and was paid on the same check Sept. 13. In the testimony of Thomas It developed that on the books of the bank it appeared these notes had been seid but the notes were -4ater found in th-bank and taken away. Thomas said he did not know who took the notes from the bank. The government will attempt to show that It was Brodrick. Mr. Conger testified that he was not personally-acquainted with Brodrick, although he had done some business for his company with him. Mr. Kealing introduced a letter and askeci the witness If he recognized Brodrick's writing. lie replied that it was the same writing as that in letters he had received fromo Brodrlck. BANK BOOKS IN EVIDENCE. The letter was read to the jury. It was in reply, to a request of the Harper Manu facturing Company to pay their notes be fore they were due, that he, Brodrick, would gladly have granted the request and heped to repay the favor some day. Thomas was then placed on the .stand again. He said the bank carried the note of the Hf per Manufacturing Company un til Nov. IS. He said he didn't know who got the note on the evening of the ISth. Journal F, a record of the general trans actions of the bank, was then given Thomas. He said the journal showed thj total cash accounts of the bank as made up from day to day. Mr. Kealing asked him to turn to Sept. 22, 1003. and read the entry showing the total cash on hand in the bank that day. Thomas read, "$jl,34S.0O." "From what figures was this account made?" he was asked. "From the amount of cash on hand the night before, plus the cash received during the day minus the cash taken out during the day. Thomas was then asked to turn to the teller daily cash ledger and read the foot ing of the cash items for Sept. 22. He said it was $121.461.41. ('Who made up the cash account on that day, Mr. Thomas?" asked Attorney Keal ing. "I made up the accounts," Thomas re plied. "Have the original figures of the cash items been changed since you made them up," continued the prosecution. "They have." "What is the difference?" "Forty thousand dollars," said Thomas. JOURNAL FIGURES CHANGED. Mr. Thomas then testified to similar alter ations In the records of the gold cash ac counts. He was jjsked if the currency In (CONTiNUED ON PAGE 6, COL. Z FRAUD IS FOUND WREN BUSTLE GIVES UP SECRET Illegal Document, Concealed in Woman's Clothing Thirty Years, Produced in Court. HEIR HAD WHOLE ESTATE SpeciAl to the Indianapolis Journal. WILLIAMSPORT, Ind.. March 16. Brought from its hiding' place in a woman's bustle, where it had reposed for thirtj-four years, a document wrinkled with age was produced in. the Warren Circuit Court yes terday, and the biggest attempt at fraud in the history of the county was frustrated. The document wa3 a deed which Mrs. Emily C. Taylor contended conveyed to her the estate left by her father, but the court held that the deed was fraudulent. In 1S72 James C. Swank, a wealthy farm er, living ln this county, made his will ln favor of his children and their heirs. He died In 1S73. and the title to the estate passed to the wife during her lifetime, as willed. In 1003 one of the sons died, and application was made to the court to sell his share in the undivided fstate to pay funeral expenses. At this time the fraudu lent deed appeared. By it the title to the whole estate passed to Mrs. Emily J. Tay lor, a daughter of Jame C. Swank. The deed was unacknowledged and unrecorded. Mrs. Taylor said that she had never shown the deed to anyone for fear that she might lose it- Shp claimed that she had carried it constantly during the -thirty-four years In her bustle, or In her corset. Had the ded ben genuine, the .will would have been ante Ja ted by It; but the jury found it fraudulent 'ilj ipjl -vY UNCLE SAM SAID TO HAVE SWINDLED FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS J. B. Stevens Charged with De frauding Merchants by Use of the Mails. HOUSE ' FULL OI? GOODS LONDON, Ky., March 16. Postoffice In spector Oldfteld to-day arrested J. B. Stev ens, charged with fraudulent use of the mails. The operations, it is alleged, cover a period of seventeen years and extend from Virginia to California. Stevens's scheme, it is charged, was to buy goods under the alias of W. G. Sin clair, Stevens & Co. and J. B. Stevens, always furnishing references. He gave his place of business as 107 Main street. Add, Ky. Goods were shipped to London and hauled to his residence in the country, where he disposed of them fcr what he could, it is said, and when bills were due he could not bv located. Thousands of dol lars worth of .goods were secured. Root, shoes, clothing,;, furnlture, harvesting - ma chines, organs. graphöphbnes and groceries are known to have been handled. CIGARETTE CAUSED THE BIG BALTIMORE FIRE Theory Advanced by Special Com mission at Conclusion of Thor ough Investigation. BALTIMORE. March 16. The special commission named by local and Insurance people appointed to inquire into the origin of the late fire here has formulated Its report. They find in substance that the fire originated from outside causes in the John E. Hurst Company's building. The electric switches were cut off, the flow of gas was cut off at the meters and the fires in the boxes of the boilers were shown to have been drawn before the blaze started. It Is the theory of the commission that a lighted cigarette or cigar must have ig nited Inflammable material in the cellar, which smouldered until the firemen dis covered the smoke and began work. It Is suggested that the opening of the doors caused a vent for the flames. DEAD BODY FOUND AT END OF BLOODY TRAIL Evidence of Brutal Murder of Un identified Woman in Dead wood Gulch. DEADWOOD, S. D.t March 16. The body of an unidentified woman was found to-day In Deadwood gulch, between this city and Central City, bruised and bloody. She had wandered a short distance after receiving her wounds, leaving a blood-marked trail. It Is thought she had been thrown into the creek after having been struck and that she crawled out only to die on the bank. Her purse contained a small sum of money. REV, DR, E, Ar SCHELL IS V Dr C;,ir!c Pa khui.t and Zion Herald Publishers Are Mulcted for Libel. CASE TRIED IN BOSTON BOSTON, March 16. A Superior Court jury to-day returned a verdict in "favor of the Rev. Dr. E. A. Schell, of Chicago, for merly general - secretary of the Epworth League, ln his shit for libel against Dr. Charles Parkhurst, editor, and the Boston Wesleyan Association, publishers of Zion Herald. The jury fixed the damages at $24.000. The suit arose over statements printed in Zion Herald in 1S99. regarding the publica tion of Dr. Schell in collaboration with E. O. Excell. a composer, of Chicago, of a sacred songbook for the use of the Ep worth League. The alleged libel was con tained in statements that Dr. Schell was dishonest and had utilized his position in the church for his personal gain. The de fense was a general denial of the allega tions and a claim that the published state ments were true and privileged. FRENCH LINE STEAMER SAFE IN THE HARBOR HALIFAX, N. S., March 16. The French line steamer Propatria, thought to have been lost, arrived at St. Pierre to-day. She had been out more than two weeks, from St Pierre, bound for Halifax. She was caught in the ice and remained helpless for many days. The steamer escaped serious damage, though she had to use some of her wood work for fuel. $24,000 DAMAGES (is St. Patrick). "How's that I OF ALL FIRE E Plan for -Maintaining Uniform Rates and Fixing Class of Risks. BUT ONE CENTRAL BOARD PHILADELPHIA, March 16. The In quirer to-morrow will say that the National Board of Fire Insurance Underwriters, at a meeting held in New York to-day, came to an agreement with the committee of twenty representing insurance companies by which all fire insurance companies in this country and all foreign companies represented here will form a combination. Uniform rates, the Inquirer says, are to be fixed for the same class of risks In all cities, uniform leg islation in all States and cities is to be ad vocated and all technical work of all com panies is hereafter to be done by a central board Jnstead of local, state or city boards, as has been the custom. Old Insurance men say that: this is the first time the companies haye been able to agree-upon plans, although the subject has beeu frequently proposed. "Had we got together long ago." said one of the leading insurance men of the city, "we would not now be seeing an average ash-heap of $150,CO0.uC0 every year in this country." A special committee of seven was ap pointed at the New York meeting to carry out the plans and an assessment made on each company doing business in the coun try to make up a fund of $100,000 annually to carry on the work. The Inquirer quotes C. A. Hexamer, chairman of the local board of underwriters, as follows: "It begins to look as if the dream of all Insurance men for years was about to be realized. The combination of all companies for united action, as agreed in New York, Is in no sense a trust. It might be likened to a combination of all railroads to have the civil engineering throughout the country planned by a cen tral body and all improvements upon a uni form plan. "The committee of seven appointed will now plan and aid in carrying out a simi lar scries of regulations affecting the safety of buildings in all cities. Similar districts in all cities will be rated the same, so that the merchant in one city will know he is faring just the same as the merchant in every city where the business places are similarly located. There will still be use for local boards in aiding to carry out the work" as planned, but they will not be left to their' own 'resources as heretofore, but will be backed up by a great power." ALLEGED BOODLER ON TRIAL AT KANSAS CITY KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 16.-Jesse D. Jewell, state senator from Kansas City, was brought to trial In the Criminal Court here to-day on a charge of soliciting a bribe. The charge is that Senator Jewell went to J. W. Hess, manager of a baking powder company, and offered for $9,000 to influence legislation in the State Legisla ture that would be beneficial to the com pany. This is another of the many prose cutions growing out of-alleged boodling in connection with baking-powder legislation, others of which have been tried or are pending at Jefferson .City. BARGAIN MATINEE PANIC; SEVERAL WOMEN HURT Virginia Harned Declined to Play Before a Fifty-Cent Audience. RUSH FOR BOX OFFICE riTTSBURG, Pa., March 16. A small sized panic at . the Alvin Theater to-day resulted from the announcement that Vir ginia Harned refused to appear in her ad vertised part. Fully 2.000 people, mostly women, had "been seated for the perform ance at the usual "bargain matinee," 50 cents for any seat in the house, and when the announcement was made that Miss Harned refused to appear before such a cheap house a rush was made for the box office to get money back. The theater au thorities were powerless to check the rush, and many women were hurt, but none ser iously. The Alvin people claim Miss Harnd had J agreed to abide toy the custom of the house and she was advertised accordingly. WANTS HER BRITISH HUSBAND PROTECTED TELLUniDE. Col., March 15.-Mrs. Stew art Forbes, wife of the secretary-treasurer of the Telluride Miners Union, who was deported by the Citizens' Alliance, has taken the matter of her husband's banish ment up with II. V. Pearce, British vice consul at Denver. Should Mr. Pearce fall to guarantee protection to Mr. Forbes upon his return to Telluride she will, the says, appeal to the British ambassador at Wash ington. Forbes is a British subject. M T U COMPANIES for a starter? " GRANT COUHTY PROBABLY SOLID FOR G, W, STEELE Marion Man Says All the Thirty Five Delegates Will Vote for Him at Peru. CLAIM OF A LANDIS MAN Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind., March 16. Republicans of Grant county elected delegates this evening for congressional, state and district con ventions. Major Steele, candidate for Con gress from this county, when seen to-night said he would have thirty-five delegates, a solid county delegation beyond any doubt. State delegates are for Warren G. Sayre, the district candidate for Governor, and it is the avowed purpose of the Grant county delegation to stand with the Wabash coxinty candidate so long as he is in the race. It is the general belief that for second choice in the governorship contest J. Frank Hanly, of Tippecanoe, stands the favorite. In fact, a majority ,of the thirty-five delegated arc said to be friendly to Mr. Hanly. In a number of precincts the congres sional fight was the first paramount issue, because of the appearance of opposition to Major Steele. In Van Buren township, where Dr. C. II. Good, of Huntington, had a delegate two years ago, the Steele dele gate was elected to-day by a vote of 161 to 2S. In Marion, at Thirtieth street, there was a fight on congressional delegate and the Steele man won by a vote of 101 to S. This has been regarded as an anti-Steele center. The Soldiers' Home precincts, where an anti-Steele effort was made, turned out a vote of 2S9 to 73 for Steele and against Landis. The fight at Matthews, where the Landis supporters worked hard, resulted in a victory for the Steele forces by a majority of seventy-eight. In no other parts of the county were there contents against Steele- delegates. Work was done to-day by the Landis people at Gas City, some of the latter's strongest lieutenants being on hand. A spirited fight resulted from anxiety of several Steele adherents to sit on the delegation, but the effort of Landis men to secure the place was de feated without great trouble. The following were the congressional dele gates elected, all being Steele slate men: Fred Drake, James McTighe, Edward Dan iels, E. G. Quinn. F. M. Searles, W. B. Wal lace, T. C. Kimball, E. P. McCluie, A. C. Jay. J. W. C. Titus, Charles W. Haider man, John Hayes. John Shearer. T. II. O'Neal, W. C. Irvin, J. N. Brown. F. M. Piper, Edward Bowlin, John R. Hadley, William Kiefer, Edward Morgan. Asa El liott, Joseph Walthall. Levi Teeter, J. A. Ballenger, Everett Trook, Ed Morgan, Rob ert Reeder, John Stewart. John A. Jones, Otto Tutor, C. M. Echelbarger. B. F. Tign er. Jesse Huffman and Ross Harvey. The head of the Landis forces in Grant county, Ross A. Heavilin, made the state ment to-night that he had secured one Landis delegate to-day, but the Steele men declare that the slate went through without a hitch. Mr. Heavilin declines to say where the Landis strength is located. It is reported that the Landis people have been claiming that at least eight, and possibly ten, delegates would be secured in this coun ty to vote against Major Steele. This claim is not borne out to-night, so say the Steele men. One man who is a warm supporter of Steele said to-night: "The Grant county delegation two years ago was very strong, but two delegates were taken from us at Wabash and the delegation voted 42 for Steele and 2 against him. This year the delegation Is solidly for Steele and there is no breaking in it at any point. If there is a Landis man in the delegation I do not know where he Is. The fact is the vote where any fight was made by the Landis forces was so overwhelmingly in favor of Steele that the result is wry pleasing to the major and his friends." Especial care was taken to give all dele gates ironclad and strictly correct creden tials In order that there may be no trou ble in seating every delegate when the convention meets at Peru to nominate a congressman. UNDER TORTURE FARMER GIVES UP HIS EARNINGS West Virginia Man Who Had No Faith in Bank Is Robbed. MORGANTOWN, W. Va.. March 16. Three burglars entered the home of James Pickenpaugh, a farmer living at Cheatneck. near here, early to-day and after torturing their victim secured $1.100 ln gold and silver and escaped. Pickenpaugh had no faith in the stability of bans and carried the money, which represented his savings for twenty years, strapped about his waist in wallets. POSSIBLE VICTIM OF THE IROQUOIS FIRE CHICAGO. March 16. It Is believed by the police that the one Remaining unidenti fied victim j f the Iroquois Theater fire may be identified through a letter which was re ceived at police headquarters this after noon. Relatives of Madame Fannie Norelli, a Swedish soprano soloist, who is thought to have attended the theater on the after noon of the fire, have Asked that an Investi gation be made, and their description of the missing woman tallies in some respects with th boilr of the woman now la the morgue. And the North Accused of Follow ing Lynchings with War on Defenseless Women. ROOSEVELT IS SCORED Charged with Inflaming the Negro by Treating Booker Washington as an Equal. WASHINGTON. March 16.-In the Hor? to-day, during the discussion of the post office appropriation bill. Mr. Spight. of Mis sissippi, discussed the nnrn question and declared unjust the attacks on the peopl of the South who had been charged with cruelty and barbarism toward the colored race. Comparing tho lynching? and burn ings at the take which had occurred In the South with tho in the North he said the people of the South in nuting out pun ishment to a negro who had committed a fiendish crime never followed it up with loh-nce toward defenseless women and children as hr.d been done in the North. He declared that President Roosevelt, by inviting Booker Washington to dine nt the White House, had done more to inflame the negro and give him a perverted idea of his lmportante and his near approach to social quality than anything that had been Jone for the I-ist ten years. In the South, he said, the negro had been denied the right to vote and hold office, but not the right to work for an honest living as had been done in the Northern States. "We sometimes kill them for out rageous crimes," he said, "but never bo cause they want to work." As for lynchings ho said thrtt sometimes they have unnecessarily occurred In th South. He referred to the Wilmington, Del., lynching last year, and to the nibse qucnt attacks on the negro .settlement. This never occurred in the South, he said. "When the guilty wretch has paid the pen alty of his awful crime, that is an end of it." he continued. "The mob is satisfied and does not wreak indiscriminate venge ance upon the innocent because they be long to the same race as the criminal." He said that unlike the people of the North, the people of the South "don't go out with a torch in one hand and a gun in the other, and pointing the gun at defenseless women and children, and shoot as they liee for their lives." He said this had occurred in New York city in 1000 and he referred to a numlxr of lynchings which had occurred in the North, including those at Danville. 111., and Spring field, O., and said: "Such race prejudice finds no place in Southern hearts." WHEN LYNCHING IS JUSTIFIED. Mr. Spight continued: "Fo far rs 1 am concerned 1 am opposed to mob violence as a general proposition. I do not think that lynchings for any other crime than tho nameless one against womanhood ought ever to occur. In all others the courts of the country are ample and generally, with us, swift to punish. But in the one class of crimes so brutal and destructive of all that i.s dear to an enlightened people, no one with a spark of manhood in him can doubt that instant death to the perpetrator should follow upon the ascertainment of the guilty facts. The ioor suffering woman who has been the victim of the devillfii lust of a brute, white or black, should not be compelled to appear in court and re peat before a jury the horrible details of the outrage." Mr. Spight recited that th burning at the stake of such brutes was not confined to the South, but had occurred in the North as well. Mr. Spight then sioke of the attempt of certain white persons to put the negro on a social equality with themsehes, and re ferring to the occasion when Booker Wash ington dined at the White House1 witii Pusident Roosevelt, said that 'this on incident had elone more to inflame th? pas sions ef the negro and give him a perverted idea of his importance, and his near ap proach to social equality, than anything that had been done for ten years." Ha said Booker Washington had sat down to dinner with the President "as graciously, as if he had been the Governor of New York." He was, he continued, sorry that Mr. Washington did not have more sense and self-respect than to accept the invita tion. It would have l-cn infinitely to his credit h;:d he dec-lined. "The more the ne groes are put on a pocial equality," h vigorously asserted, "the more dangerous becomes their position and the surer death by violence will overtake them sooner or later." INDIANIANS SPEAK. Subsidies to railroads for special mall facilities came in for consid rable criticitni by Mr. Robinson, of Indiana, and Mr, Gaines, of Tennessee, the latter character izing them as a "legalized steal." Rural mail carriers found many friends on th floor, who advrcated increased pay for them and the privilege of acting as agents for newspaper? and trades iople. Mr. Robinson said the Post office Depart ment was against the subsidy and congres sional .influence was perpetuating it. Tl. trend of events, he said, was in favor of. honesty and clean administration in th Postofilce Department, but he :aid when members put themselves on recerd against the jostmaster general in this matter "huw do they stand in view of his rejxjrt against themselves?" The House had b-en agi tated, he said, and the country elisturbed by the report sent in reflet tirg m mem bers, "but." ho said, speaking with much vigor, "here is a real scandal, a scanJal that you are forcing upon the istmastr gene-ral and his department." He closed amid Democratic applause by afking if th House was going to "stand for it." Mr. Sibley contended that to deny th subsidy would be doing a manifest injus tice to the interests of the South. A heated discussion followed, which was participated in by Messrs. Iunsb, of Vir ginia. HolHday, of Indiana, and Gaines. Mr. Robinson had charged the Republicans with being responsible for the subsidy, which brought ficm Mr. Imb an cmphaüa protest, saying there were as good iw-mo-crats ln the House- as Mr. Robinson who would support the propos:ion. Mr. Crumpaeker. of Indiara, entertained the view that General Britow did not pre tend to say that any member of th House made Improper requests of Beavers. and he said Beavers had granted requests without regard to the merits of the raws. He contendenl that the members had put an undue interpretation upon the report. b'caus? there was nothing in it to impute illegality or dishonesty ln the conduct of a single member of the House. He then took up the fubjoct of appropriations for special mall facilities granted certain rail roads and said they were nothing short f a mere gratuity.- The rural free delivery service he strongly favored. Mr. Flood, of Virginia, denied that Perry S. Heatn was entitled to credit for in augurating rural free delivery. He said Heath made the claim. "notwithstandu.g the fact that he had not yet emerged frona the postoSice scandal with a name as,fm sullieel as the Alpir.e snows thrice blc-chcd by northern blasts." l'nirlnerr Jump Orrrkaartl. PHILADELPHIA, March R-CapUia Davidson, of the steamship Barnstable, which arrived here to-day from Port An tonio, reports that Engineer David Murray committed suiclel In a fit of Insanity by jumping overboard while the steamship wu oft - Kingston. JamL-i.