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( E AHAPOI JOUENA iL J V!:f?ki.y i:sT.r.i.i?ni:r isra. daily KSTAr.r.int:i) is;o. i VOL,. L.IV. NO. 151. INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1001 TEN PAGES. PKICE L CENTS. 1 ON RAIT.VAT THAINS FIVn CENTS. F IS G01BINE W BUT THE DAY FOR IE GILLESPIE IS HELD IN THE RISli SUN JAIL Five Men Voted for Conviction and Seven Jurors Stood for Acquittal. ENPECTS TO GIVE BOND ELEMENT OF COHESION EAT Eight Successive Charges Driven Back, the Ninth Succeeding by Desperate Valor. AMMUNITION RAN SHORT mi iveieai oi i ar Ka li win lc Resolved Into the Factions of Rival Ambitions. GOSSIP OF REPUBLICANS Hitt Regarded as a Vice Presiden tial Possibility, with Fairbanks as the Probability. And the Bayonet Did What Shelh and Powder arid Ball Failed to Accomplish. James Gillespie Believes He Will Be Benefited by Habeas Corpus Proceedings. INBI HEA BST-8 ÄN-G0 mm WIE JURY Li ED JAPANES NAN-SHAN I j L:ML k Y& 1 fift WW I V 1 ' I l,, Ml I Ml I II im m W 4M I CORTELYOU AS CHAIRMAN Belief Growing that He Will Be a Good One Blvthe and Yerkes in the Public Eve. Special to the Indiana polls Journal. WASHINGTON. May 23. The members of the Bryan-Hearst-Gorman coalition, which I.i working on the same lines, but to different purposes, believe that the defeat of Judge Tarker for tho Democratic nomi nation 13 now assured. But the leaders In this movement are not pure of it. The un expected strength of Judere Parker In some of the Southern States, shown during the , past week, has surprised the opposition, j The strength of Parker among the South ern Democrats is set down to mean, not so much a desire on the p?rt of the South to support Parker as it is an expression of positive' hostility in the South to Tammany. Any effort to turn the convention delegates from Parker to McClellan, or any other Tammany candidate, will provoke a revolt in the South. That much seems certain. The next question to arise is, who will the opposition be able to unite on. If Park er shall be defeated? Mr. Gorman will be in the convention at the head of the Mary land delegation, and he has set out to pre vent tv nomination of Parker by holding up before the Western delegates the pos sibility of a Western man In the person of Governor David R. Francis, of Missouri. Francis would be much more acceptable to Bryan than is Parker, and probably more so than Gorman himself. Tbc conservatives are yet clinging to the hope that If the nomination of-Parker can be prevented, and a stampede to some sil ver dark horse of the Bryan-Hearst selec tion can be averted, there may be a chance to secure the nomination of Judge Gray. But this la a desperate chance and does not look very promising to the Eastern men. Senator John W. Daniel, of Virginia, has a respectable boom for the vice piesidential nomination and the indications are that if a Westen man shall be nominated to head the Democratic ticket the friends of Daniel will make a warm contest to place his name on the ticket. He Is by far the most promising Southern man for consideration this year. i 4 The f-Sremost of the Republican leaders cling tenaciously to the notion that Senator Fairbanks is the best man to be named for Vice Iljesldent on the Republican ticket. There it no doubtj that if the Indiana sena tor will signify a willingness to make the race, or that he and his friends would not regard it as unfair to insist on his making the raci this year, he can have the nomi nation. There is nothing but good words for Representative Robert R. Hitt, of Illi nois, but somehow it Is hard for the Re publican leaders to get away from the idea that it is better to take an Indiana man than tuVn to Illinois In making up the ticket. ;IIItt is a decided possibility and Fairbanks a decided probability, according to the opinions of the leaders who have been here during the past week, and the list Includes Aldrich. Spooner and several East ern senators and representatives. ! "You may put it down that George Cor telyou will be the head of the Republican national committee this year," said a close friend ot the secretary of commerce and labor, ind. moreover, that he will be a real chairman. George Cortelyou is a silent man, but he is not one of the stamp that hides ignorance behind a mask of stolid f ilence. j He is an able man, and a growing man, and you mark what I tell you, he will be a real pärty chairman. The talk about his beirg reinforced by a horde of vice chair-eh managing the campaign in differ ent sections of the country is nonsense. He will be; the chairman, and the party or ganization will not be in the least changed from what It was under Mr. Hanna. It certainly would be a good idea, and the plan must be carried out. to have a num ber of tjhe old party leaders who have had experience on the committee to remain In their places and aid in the work. But Mr. Cortelyou will ask no aid in doing the hard work of the campaign as chairman. All he will ask will be the advice and aid of the older men in the party. He is accustomed to seeking and accepting advice. ) But he will speedily demonstrate that he is big enough to rill the place, and he will have the confidence, as he now has the personal good will ajd friendship, of all the old party leaders. He has made good in every posi tion to .'which he has been assigned, and each onp was of a higher and more burden some responsibility, and he will do likewise In the chairmanship of the national com mittee." Amid jill the gossip which has been afloat here the past week about the feeling of dissatisfaction among the great prrty lead ers of the Senate and House over the sug gestion : that Mr. Cortelyou be placed at the heal of the national committee of the Republicans this year, the comment of a distinguished Republican senator, who would not be quoted on the subject directly. Is much to the point. He said: "I know of no particular objection to Mr. Cortel you. On the contrary, it is not unlikely that he; may make a decidedly acceptable chairman. But. conceding that the selection might Be improved, whpm would you se lect? The timber seems to be notably scarce thls year." Much Interest is manifested by conserva tive Democrats here as to the course to be outlined by the managers of the Dem ocratic congressional committee in the making; of their campaign handbook for this year. It appears that while there Is a division of responsibility in the commit tee, Mr. Cowherd, of Missouri, the new chairman, desiring to be clashed with the conservatives, and the old secretary, Mr. Edwards, who is retained as one of the at-sets of the campaign two years ago. btlng a Bryan-Hearst advocate, it is nat ural there should be speculation as to which wing of the Democracy will control in mak ing' up the issues of thi year. But the real ly amusing thing In the situation- is the fact thPt the man retained to have charge of the literary work of the bureau is Sen ator Carmack. of Tennessee. Two years ago Mr? Carmack was consumed with the Idea that the "imperialbt" lsue was all that was required to turn the Republican party out of power. Throughout the cam- faign Mr. Carmack whs engaged in flood ng the country with "carelines" to prove that the Republican administration was da!in.? brutally with the poor Filipinos in the distant i.l:?ud, and that the flag of liberty pad become a blood-stained rag and badge of oppression. The country laughed at Mr. Carmack' fervid literature. Now he ha dropped the task cf standing by the Filipinos, and is engaged in proving that bv increases In the cost of living and what he will attempt to rrove a fall in . iCONTIN UEDON rAGE'srcoLTß.) WOULD RESTRICT SALE OP NARCOTICS And oisohs Indiana Druggists Will Take the Initiative in Securing Legislation to Curb "Dope Fiends." LOCAL MEN INTERESTED Matter to Be Brought Up at 'Meet ing of Indiana Pharmaceutical Societv This Week. Tre next General Assembly of Indiana will be asked to enact a law restricting the sale of poisons and narcotics. A movement has been started to this end by leading druggists of the State, and a definite cam paign will be inaugurated this week at the meeting of the Indiana Pharmaceutical So ciety at Fort Wayne. The rapid Increase in the number of peo ple who are addicted to the use of nar cotics and stimulants to the extent that they become moral, mental and physical wrecks has led the druggists of Indiana to take the initiative in securing this leg islation. Within the last few years the druggists state the increase in the demand for narcotics, morphine, and cocaine in particular, has bee.i startling, and with the increase in the demand for the drugs ha,s come a corresponding increase in the number of wrecks "dope fiends," in police parlance who find their way to hospitals, asylums, jails, workhouses, reformatories and prisons. The druggists, who are the first to come in direct touch with these unfortunates, have been Impressed with the necessity of a remedy for the evil, and will urge re strictive legislation in spite of the fact that it will result in a loss of profitable business to themselves. They point out that the fact that it is so easy to get tne narcotics and stimulants is largely responsible for the increased number of salves to the habit. Prominent Indianapolis drug dealers are interested in the movement, and will be on hand at the meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society to participate in the discussion of the subject, which will be a feature of the programme. The legislation proposed will be an amendment to the present pharmacy law, which will prohibit the sale of any poisonous or narcotic drugs except on the prescription of a regularly licensed physi cian. The druggists of the larger cities are more awake to the drug evil because it is in the centers of population that most of the victims are found. The sessions of the Indiana Pharmaceu tical Society will be held Wednesday and Thursday at the Wayne Hotel in Fort 'Wayne. About twenty-rive or thirty In dianapolis druggists will be in attendance and a large number of representatives of the wholesale establishments will avail themselves of the gathering to get in touch with the retailers. Arthur Timberlake, of this city, is the secretary of the society. CLEVELAND REPEATS' PARKER INDORSEMENT Says the Judge Is the Man on Whom Democrats Can and Should Concentrate. PHILADELPHIA. May 30. The North American this morning prints a dispatch from Princeton, N. J.. on national Demo cratic politics, in which ex-President Grover Cleveland Is quoted as saying: "I have believed for some months, and I believe now, that Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York, will be the nominee of the national Democratic convention for Pres ident. This expression of my opinion Is not new. In reiterating at this time, when there seems to be a lull in the Parkei move ment, I do not mean to yield my original Judgment, which was 'that either Mr. Olney or Judge Gray might have proved the strongest candidate for the nomination in the contest with Mr. Roosevelt.' "Circumstances and the state of public sentiment were such, however, that months ago it became apparent that Judge Parkt r was the man upon whom the conservative element of the party could and should con centrate. Neither the circumstances nor the state of 'public sentiment have changed, and Judge Parker remains now, as he has been for gome months, the logical candidate of lila iaru-.' On the Last Quarter MILLION-DOLLAR LOSS CAUSED BY DOCK FIRE Seven Freight and Coal. Piers of the Lackawanna Road Burn at Jersey City. DESPERATE FIGHT MADE Firemen Powerless for Hours Rolling Stock, Merchandise and Floating Property Burn. NEW YORK, May 29. Seven freight and coal piers of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in Jersey City were destroyed by fire that started about 5 o'clock this afternoon on the barge Allen C. Churchill, which lay alongside Pier 12. Only four persons received injuries that required them to be taken to the hospital, and one of these was hurt seriously. The loss is about $l,0on,(i0. The fire spread quickly to the pier, a lot of barrels of oil being near, and the flames progressed rapidly. Pier 12 was 800 feet long, and was soon ablaze its entire length, and the firemen who were trying to fight the fire from the shore were able to ac complish but little. The flames swept to Pier 11 and beyond, being finally checked at Pier 5, which is a new coal trestle, steel framed and iron clad. Here the firemen and fireboats mado a desperate stand and stayed the advance of the fire until the burning piers crumbled and fell into the water. Although there was but little wind, sparks fell all along the water front for the better part of a mile, endangering the Lackawanna depot, and even the Hamburg-American line and Bremen line piers, where the firemen were kept busy playing streams of water on the buildings and over tho ships at their docks. A number of canal boats and several tugs were burned, the loss of small boats being variously estimated at from thirty to liCO. The number of freight cars burned is not known, but on this class of railing stock and on coal cars the loss will be heavy. Piers 11 and 18 were full of general mer chandise. Piers 7, 8, 9 and 10 were used for coal and Tier 6 for grain. Vice President Loomis, of the Lacka wanna, placed the total loss by the fire at $0,000,000. based on the original cost of the piers burned, on the freight stored on them and to some extent on the loss of business which must necessarily ensue. The Lacka wanna Company, Mr. Loomis said, carries its own insurance. POLICE HEEDED AT CHURCH TO GUARD MISS ROOSEVELT Curious Crowd Assembles to See President's Daughter Pass Into Sunday Services. WOMEN ARE OUTWITTED ST. LOUIS, May 29. A detachment of police was needed at the First Presbyterian Church to-day to control the curious crowd that assembled to see Miss Alice Roosevelt pass into Sunday service. So unostenta tious was Miss Roosevelt's departure after the service that but few recognized her and nearly 1,000. women stood for half an hour in the rain thinking she was still in the church. In his invocation the Rev. W. J. McKitt rick, the pastor, prayed for divine guid ance for the President. BOY DROIVNS WHILE PLAYING WITH DOG Special to the Indianapolis Journal. AURORA, Ind., May 21. While throwing sticks in the Ohio river for his dog to swim after Lewis Dewers, aged twelve years, son of Charles Dewers. fell from a float this morning and drowned. The body was re covered. Another Lake Moniner Clear. BUFFALO. N. Y.. - May 29. Another break in the tie-up of lake vessels came to-day. when the steamer Senator cleared. She 1 commanded by Captain W. G. Malt by. She i the sixth boat to ct away thus METHODIST MEETING IS ENDED AT LOS ANGELES Last Session of General Confer ence Not Finished Until Sun day Morning. IMPORTANT WORK DONE Executive Action Taken Makes Church History Memorial Day Services. LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 29. It was after midnight when the General Con ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church finished the final roll call last night, which brought to a close the most memorable gathering in the history of the church. To-day memorial services were held during the afternoon and in the evening a jubilee service at the pavilion closed the series of meetings. When the final roll call was taken last night J00 of the 750 accredited delegates were in their seats. The conference just closed has accom plished much for the interest of the Meth odist Church. The action of the General Conference in retiring five bishops and electing eleven others probably attracted the widest atten tion of any other single happening, but there were many other subjects that affect ed the great membership of the Methodist Church and which were watched with deep interest. Among these were the decision to stand by the present attitude of the church on the subject of prohibited amusements; the refusal to return to the time limit of pas toral services; the exonerating of certain theological schools of the charge .of heret ical teachings: the unification of the Meth odist publishing houses; the consolidation of the boards of church benevolence; pro viding of support for superannuated min isters; fixing the status of superannuated bishopc: creating a commission to revise the ritual of the church; continuing the commission appointed four years ago to bring the various branches of Methodism closer together In the use of common prayer books, hymnal and catechisms; a referen dum of the much-discussed question of a colored bishop, and many other matters of similar importance. To-day memorial sermons were preached in nearly every Protestant church in this city and in other near-by cities by bishops and ministers in attendance on the con ference. OPENS COMMUNICATION Thibetans Abandon the Investment of Younghusband's Expedi tion's Rear. NATIVES AGAIN ROUTED .GYAN-TSE. Thibet. Saturday, May 28. The Thibetaus have abandoned their Invest ment of the British rear, and communica tion with the mission has been restored. A dispatch from Simis. British India, May 26, said that the British Thibet expe dition under Colonel Yoünghusband was isolated, and that no communication with it had been had for three days. Further reinforcements, the dispatch added, had been ordered to the front. THIBETAN STRONGHOLD TAKEN BY THE BRITISH LONDON, May SO. The Dally Mail's cor respondent at Chumbl, India, says the Brit ish expedition on May 26, after a fight of eleven hours, expelled the Thibetans from the village of Palla, close to the British camp at Gyang-Tse. A British officer and three sepoys were killed and three officers and nine men were wounded. The Thibet ans suffered heavily and thirty-seven were takn prisoners. Palla is n walled stronghold from which the Thibetans started building works with the view to outrank the British position. CirowliiK Custom Receipt. SHANGHAI. May 29. The total customs revenue at this port for the first quarter amounts to Sl3,0u0, against a total of 791. 000 last year. BR TISH AGA DAL NY ABOUT DESERTED Only a Few, Guards and Mine Op eratives Remain Cruiser Bay an in Sore Danger. TOKIO. May zv. 6 p. m. The details of the fighting at Kin-Chou emphasize the he roic tenacitv of the Japanese in their con duct at Nan-Shan. Nine successive times the Japanese charged the fortified heights i:i the face of a storm of deaih-ucaliiig missiles, and in their last effort they carried the forts and trenches only after a bayonet-to-bayonet conflict with the Russians, who made a desperate despairing struggle to beat back the oncoming hordes. The final a.cüault of the Japanese in which they at last succeeded in taking posses sion was marked by the most desperate hand-to-hand encounter that has thus far characterized the war. The Japanese left, throughout the entire action until night, was exposed to an en filading fire from the Russian infantry, a gunboat on Talien-Wan bay and four nine centimeter guns posted at Ta-Feng-Chen. At a critical moment the ammunition of the artillery ran low, and it was decided to cast the remaining ammunition into one final desperate assault. Fortunately, how ever, at the moment this decision was reached the Japanese squadron in Kin Chou bay, "which had ceased bombarding when the infantry had first moved forward, suddenly resumed the shelling of Nan-Shan. Then it was that the issues of the day were determined, at a moment when the outcome was fluttering between success and defeat for Japan at that moment was an almost certain repulse converted into vic torv so, successful that the forces of the Czar were swept into disorderly retreat. LAST DESPERATE CHARGE. , With every Japanese gun centering its fire on the Nan-Shan forts and trenches, the Japanese infantry sprang over , the bodies of the dead comrades who had sacri ficed their lives in the previous fruitless charges. The entire line rushed forward toward the Russian left, where the fire of the Japanese squadron had proved most deadly and which was the first to weaken under the death-dealing bombardment. And it was there that the first breach was made in the human wall that all day had been an invincible barrier to the impetuous assaults of the little brown men. It was the Fourth Division of the Osaka men that stormed the Russian left. It had once been said that Osaka men were not brave. It will never be said again. The first division of Tokio, which had the center, and the third division of Nagoya, occupying the left, and which had been ex posed all day to the Russian fire against the front and flank, now followed the ex ample of the Osaka men and rushed for ward, and the battle became transformed from an artillery duel into one of personal conflict, with the bayonet as the instrument of warfare. On every parapet the rest less, death-defying Japanese surged for ward in Increasing numbers, and, hustling the Russians from their Intrenchments, swept over the hill. At 7:30 o'clock, as the run was sinking beneath the horizon, the flag of the Land of the Rising Sun floated above the blood-sodden Nan-Shan hill, while the shouts of "Banzai" swelled from hill to hill and re-echoed from squadron to fort. HEAVY LOSSES. The Japanese paid for their victory In 3,500 killed and wounded. To the Rus sians the humiliation of defeat was in tensified by the loss of sixty-eight cannon and ten machine guns, while lying dead in the forts and trenches were 500 men. the victims of the accuracy of Japanese long distance markmanship and of close-range fighting. General Oku, in command of the Japanese, began his aggressive movement on the Rus sian position at midnight on Wednesday. He assigned the Fourth Division to the right, with instructions to swing around Kin-Chou and move south. He gave the First Division tne center and the left was allotted to the Third Division. During the night a terrible thunderstorm, accompanied by a heavy rain, broke over the advancing army and impeded the movements of the men. It had been planned to begin the fire at 4:30 o'clock in the morning, but a dense fog had followed the storm and it was an hour later before all of the artillery under General Uchiyama opened on .Nan-Shan hill. A detachment seized Kin-Chou Castle, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COL. 3.) OESPITE THREAT OF EXCURSIOHSCROWD CITY Many Visitors Come to Hoosier Capital, and City's Parks Are Thronged by Thousands. GERMANIA PARK OPENED Even though rain was threatened a greater part of yesterday morning. there Was no dearth cf excursionists to the city yesterday, and all of the parks were crowd ed. The Pennyl-ania, Lake Erie & West ern and the Big Four railroads ran excur sions out of tha city, and all of these lines but the Pennrylvania, with the Vandalia and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton in addition, ran specials Into the city. Those going out of town were: A special to Louisville, in two sections, over the Pennsylvania line; one each to Michigan City and Fort Wayne, by the Lake Erie & Western, and two over the Big Four, one to Cincinnati and the other to Terre Haute and Greencastle. Tho.-e entering the city were: One from Michigan City over the Lake Erie &. West ern; one from Cincinnati, over the Cincin nati. Hamilton & Dayton; two over the Vandalia, the ifirst from Terre Haute and Greencastle, and the other from South Bend. On tho Big Four one came from Springfield, O., and another from Cham paign and Peoria. Ill: - The Vandalia train from South B-?nd was considered the best patronized sperial of the day. All of the cltV parks yesterday were filled with people, and the crowd at Riverside was estimated at fifteen thousand people. Formal opnirs were held at Broad Ripple Park and at Germania Park. The exercises at the latter lilace were especially notable, there being a rpeech by Frederick Francke. president of tihe Park Association, music and gymnastiV? exhibitions. The formal opening had been set for the preceding Sunday, but it was, postponed because of the cool weather. RAI JAMES GILLESPIE, Leading Defendant in the Rising Sun Mur der Case, the 'jury in Which Disagreed Yesterday. PASTOR SAYS CHINA DOES -HOT HEED . CHRISTIANITY i At All Souls' Church Rev. E. E. Newbert Makes Startling Com ment on Pu Lun's Visit THEME IS NEW PAGANISM Minister Thinks Orient Needs Modernization and Civilization Rather than Christianization. That China does not need the Bible, nor the Christian belief, nor the New England Sabbath, but rather the telegraph, the telephone and railroads, with a commercial aw;akening and an industrial and educa tional revolution, was the startling state ment made by the Bev. E. E. Newbert in his sermon yesterday morning at All Souls Unitar'an Church. This statement was made in the course of an original and frank comment on the recent visit to In dianapolis of Prince Pu Lun and -his suite, the presentation of a Bible to the prince by a minister of this city, and the failure of the prince's partv to attend " church on Sunday. The speaker's theme was ."The New Paganism." "The epithet infidel or 'atheist or 'ag nostic' is quite without meaning to-day as applied to men who think." said the Rev. Newbert. "An individual thinker scarcely can draw the fire of the critic. And this is so because Paine and Parker and Huxley and others are so many times multiplied that a multitude of people think freely and live fearlessly. Frequently, how ever, we do get a severe arraignment of our age. It is often pointed out that we are losing In reverence, that we are irre ligious, and that the Sabbath is desecrated. Indeed, how great a change has been wrought in the past quarter of a century! Within this period falls the bicycle, the trolley car, the automobile and other pleas ure and health-giving devices to call the people to live more out of doors. As a re-; suit Sunday is not less a holiday than a holv day. Is the critic right who cries a halt and a return? Is this larger use of Sunday by the masses of the people evi dence of moral decadence and paganism? Or does it argue an advance toward a freer and happier living? "Indianapolis has entertained royalty, and royalty enjoyed itself. Granted that the prince learned some things, what have we learned? What of thes pagans from Asia whom we so loyally treated? Did it once occur to the committee or to any one responsible citizen to convert these repre sentative Chinese to our faith? Indeed, does anrbody seriously want to do so? What do we in China with our Chris tian propagaudism? China has a faith of her own, ancient and sufficient. PRINCE PU LUX'S SUNDAY. "Much adverse criticism was aroused be cause the prince did not attend church last Sunday. It is held that because he was shown a continental Sunday he was made to miss the distinctive feature of our Amer ican life. I deny that the so-called Sunday rest is the distinctive feature of American life, nor is it the feature most important for the prince to acquaint himself with. He was shown our streets and their miles of attractive home. He saw the happy do mesticity of our city. He visited factories and saw the workmen at their work, happy and contented and intelligent. Ile visited our schools and looked into the faces of the children. He was made to see the value we place on child life, and was introduced to our corps of noble women teachers. "Before his departure the prince was given a Bible. I hope the presentations was not obtrusive. It may have been the courteous thing to do. I hope it was, but doubt arises in some minds. Maybe in this instance missionary zeal outstripped good judgment. The prince does not need the Bible. I doubt if he has any use for it. He has sacred books of his own. But along with this Bible let the prince have a copy of the American Constitution; let him have our best educational works; let him know the crucial chapters in our hlstorj-, and let him carry from our shores the ideal of democracy. "WTiat China needs is not the Bible, not the Christian belief, not the New England Sabbath. China needs to rekindle the fires of her national life from the live coal of the vital Western civilization. China needs railroads. She needs the telegraph and the telephone. She needs a commercial awak ening and an industrial and an educational revolution. She needs to exalt vvomanhood, and to know the prefect liberty of every man, woman and child." SUDDEN DE A TH OF DR. ARTHUR LINE Son of Wealthy Marion Woman Is Stricken with Heart Trouble at Wilmington, Del. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Ind.. May 29. Relatives here received word to-night of the s,udden death at Wilmington, Del., of Dr. Arthur Line, who formerly lived at Marion, and who was the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Wlnchell, one of the wealthiest women of Indiana, and owner of the Spencer llotel and other large properties in 'Mario. Heart trouble is given as the cause of Dr. Line's death. He was thirty-three years old. and was a graduate of the Harvard School of Medi cine. He served in a New York command as a cavalryman In the Spanish-American war. and later was an assistant surgeon with the regulars, resigning a short time ago to locate at Wilmington. His wife is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Sweetser, of Marion, and was for several years a society leader. PRESIDENT GOES TO GETTYSBURG FIELD WASHINGTON. May 29. President Roosevelt and party left here to-night on a itdt to Gettysburg over Memorial day. The President was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ethel Roose velt. Miss Carew, Secretary Loeb, Surgeon General Rlxey and several White House officials. They went on a specitl train on the Baltimore & Ohio road. Tu Incrfnsr ColniutP Facilities. MEXICO CITY. May 29.-The coinage fa cilities at the mint In this city are to b largely increased. The foreign demand for Mexican dollars increases and Japan has bought heavily of late. NO TROUBLE IS , FEARED Dissatisfaction with Action of Jury Not Likely to Cause Any At tempts at Violence. ' m Srvial to tio Ii.cMar.apoll Journal. RISING SUN. Ind.. May 20. After delib erating forty-two hours without coming to r.n agreement, at l:3rt o'clock this morning the jury in the Gillespie murder c:se was discharged by Judge Downey. Whn the Jury was brought Into the courtroom Judge Downey askrd the Jurors whether there was any probability of the Jurors agree ing on a verdict and each one of the twelve men shook his head in the negative. Judge Downey then thanked them and dis missed them from further service. The jury, it is said, stood seven for no quittal and five fcr conviction. The five who, it is said, stood for conviction of each of the defendants are: Spencer Thompson. Hugh French. Albeit Pate, Wil liam Ward and David N. Bailey. The seven said to have held out for acquittal are: Martin Scranton, Samuel Campbell, David Gibson. William J. ipaulding. Ira Powell. George Ricman and J. P. Hannah. The bonds of Belle Seward. Carrie Pr bour and Myron Barbour were continued and James Gillespie was remanded to the county jail. Prosecutor McMullen 5 id tbnt the state would oppose any erToit on the part of the defence to release James Gil lespie and stated that the case would come up again next September. At-the present time the four defendants are in the same position as they were before the trial be gan, as the bonds. of those released from custody are continuous. Whether or not the defense will elect to be tried separate ly or jointly as on this trial, the futuro will determine. It is said that a motion will be made be fore Judge Downey to release James Gil lespie from custody and declare him ac quitted. In the event that this motion is overruled the defense wlll-sk that Jamc3 Gillespie be admitted to bail with the other three defendants, Mr. and Mrs. Barbour and Mrs. Seward, who were indicted with him. Should the writ of habeas corpus bo denied by Judge Downey the matter will be taken to the Supreme Court of the, State. The action of the jury in the recent trial has been the subject of conversation ever sine the Jury reported. Alm.ft universal dUsatisfaction is expressed.. It .was stated by one of the jurors who was for conviction that the seven members of the panel who voted for acquittal refused at all times to vote on the guilt or the innocence of the defendants separately, but all balloting was as to the guilt or innocence of the de fendants Jointly. It was also stated that they refused to consider the signed state ments of James Gillespie made before the grand Jury, claiming that it was not evi dence. The feeling against James Gillespie 13 still very bitter and outspoken. The de fendants are greatly disappointed at the result, as they confidently expected an acquittal to-day. James Gillespie stated to Sheriff Rump this evening that within .thirty days ho would be a free man. The' report that Au gust Grieve, a rpecial venire Juror in this case, who was excused from service, had hanged himself is not true. Mr. Grieve i very sick, but not as a result of this trial as stated. As it was understood that the Jury would report about noon to-day, the church serv ices were neglected, especially by the men. Judge Downey returned home this after noon, and will commence a term of the Dearborn Circuit Court to-morrow. Rising Sun is quiet to-night, and no trouble is anticipated. MILITIAMEN READY TO GO TO RISING. SUN Fpeclal to the Indianapolis Journal. CONNERSVILLE. Ind., May 23. It was reported on the streets' of this city to-day that Company L, I. N. G., Capt. Fred J. Barrows commanding, had been ordered to Rising Sun to aid in quelling a riot aris ing from the disagreement In the Gillespie murder trial, and that preparations were being made for a hasty departure. The report was started when the members of the company were ordered out to drill. As an effort was being made to muster the company in record-breaking time some of the corporals told the men to get ready to go to Rising Sun. This report had the de sired effect, as the entire company was mastered in forty-one minutes. BOY IS ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS MOTHER ' Fourteen-Year-Old Jersey Youth' Arrested When W'oman's Body Was Found. TRENTON, N. J., May 29. Nathan IL Sibbetts, aged fourteen, of Jacob's Creek, this county, was arrested to-night, and Is in custody here charged with the murder of his mother. The boy and his mother lived together. and the mother did washing for the people in the neighborhood. The mother had not been seen since last Tuesday, and to-day some of the neighbors broke into the house. The woman's body was found on the sec ond floor, covered with bed clothing. De composition had set In. The boy was found and arrested, and to-night was put through a searching examination by Prosecutor Crossiey. The boy denied all knowledge of his mother's death. HALF A MILLION FIRE LOSS IN NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS. May 29. A fire caused by crossed electric wires did about half a million dollars damage to-day. The Louis H. Rice saddlery factory, the Slmmonds Manufacturing Company and the Meig Brady and Lincoln woodenware establish ments were destroyed and half a dorej- others damaged. The fire was in-the heart of the wholesale district and was well fought, being stopped short of two oil com panies and several big drug establishments. , Insurauce $17).V0. l'lttrtburK World' Fair Mcnmcr. ST. LOUIS. May 2i. The iteam-r Green land, a Urge passenger boat, from Pitts burg, with scventv-flve world's fair tourists, arrived here to-day. being the ilrt packet to run through from Pittsburg to St. Louis in several vears. She made the trip cf I. 2C0 miles lu five and oue-half dak