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10c
Quart bottle Ammonia.
10c
Quart bottle Laundry Bluing.
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2,400 best Parlor Matches,
5c
Large can Lye,
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Dozen Clothes Pins.
10c
Good Parlor Broom.
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Fresh Dressed Poultry ever}” day.
Try our Fresh Meats.
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Fresh Fruit and Vegetables in abundance
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AND RETURN
SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1897
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Keeps the leading Magazines and Periodi
cals and an assortment of fine Havana and
Domestic Cigars.
JOURNAL BUILDING CIGAR STAND.
fAMERON’S
*BAND*
In a selected program of popular
and classical music .....
AFTERNOON SUNDAY
Broad Ripple Park
Swimming Baths for Ladies
and Gentlemen
Bathing 6ult for Rent
Meals and Lunches Served at the Restau
rant at Moderate Prices.
COLORED TROOPS FASTIDIOUS.
Company from Chicago Demands
Pullman Chair Cars.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 17.—Considera
ble excitement was occasioned at the Chi
cago & Alton depot to-duy by the colored
troops. Ninth Battalion, Illinois National
Guard, Chicago, refusing to ride on their
return trip in old coaches provided by the
Chicago A Alton road, claiming they were
condemned, and demanded Pullman chair
cars. Violence was narrowly averted by
the conductor giving the signal to go. The
troops boarded the train as it pulled out
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL.
Generally fair.
.. OUR..
New Stock
Is being rapidly finished—room for it must be
quickly made. All once-smoked goods have
rapid-selling prices on them. Nothing but the
product of intelligent, skilled, clean hands,
from loom to tailor’s table, shall go from us to
our patrons. It was a misfortune that these
new, stylish suits, complete and correct in every
way, should have been smoked. The smoking
did no harm—the smoke has left almost no trace
behind it—but we are willing to say it didn’t
better the garments. And our way of saying
this emphatically is to make room for anew, sus
picionless stock by such reduced prices as these:
Men’s S2O and $22 Suits - $11.50
Men’s sls and $lB Suits - - $9.85
Men’s $7.50, SB, $lO and sl2 Suits, $4.85
The newest styles in Sacks, Frocks and Cutaways,
in clever Plaids, Stripes, Checks and Mixtures —all-wool
weaves of Cheviot, Cassimefe, Tweed and Clay Worsted,
Boys’ and
Children’s Suits
Are Going the Same Way.
$8.50 for Boys’ sls Long Pants Suits.
$7.50 for Boys’ sl2 Long Pants Suits.
$4.00 for Boys’ $6.50 Long Pants Suits.
$2.08 for $5.00 Knee Pants Suits.
$2.48 for $4.50 Knee Pants Suits.
$1.98 for $3.50 Knee Pants Suits.
The When
STOLE $30,000,000.
Stockholders Begin Mult Against Min
ing Millionaires.
NEW YORK, July 17.—Leonard S. Ballou,
of this city, and Alexis M. Lay, of Michi
gan, have begun suit for the largest
amount of money in the history of litiga
tion in this country. The suit involves $500,-
000,000, and the preliminary steps to it were
taken yesterday before Judge Moses Hdl
lett, in the United States Circuit Court, in
Denver. Mr. Ballou is a lawyer, who lives
at Marble Hill, on the Klngsbridge roa<J.
This suit, in which hundreds of millions
are at stake, is brought by the Eastern
stockholders of the Archer con
solidated mines at Leadville against
John F. Campion, Clinton Reed,
of tbe Ibex Mining Company, and
others. Mr. Campion lives at Lead
ville, and is himself worth millions in mines
and deeply interested in the Archer con
solidation, whch is made up of the "Home,
Sweet Home,'' the “Faint Hope” and other
mines. Mr. Reed was trustee of the Archer
consolidation. . , ~
The plaintiffs, the Eastern stockholders
charge very plainly that Campion and Reed
have falsified their reports of the yield of
the Archer consolidation. The stockholders
declare that $J), 000,000 has been taken from
one mine in the consolidation alone. They
charge that this mine was worked day and
night by men trusted by Campion and
Reed, who entered a secret chamber in it
through an aperture that connects it with
the "Little Johnny” mine. The "Little
Johnny” mine, say the stockholders, has
nearly petered out, but the gold which came
from a quartz lead in the Archer consoli
dated mines has been taken out through
the “Little Johnny” shaft, as if it came
from that mine, which Campion and Reed
have under lease. _ , ,
The stockholders, through their lawyers,
aver that there are bodies of gold-bearing
quartz worth $500,000,000 in their mines in
tho Archer consolidation, and that they
have not received their dividends and roy
alties on the vast amount of gold already
smuggled out through the "Little Johnny”
shaft.
They ask for an accounting and apply
for a receiver of the properties.
WOMEN BREAK ROCK.
Innovation Introduced at Leaven
worth—lt Works Well.
LEAVENWORTH. Ivan./ July 17.
Women were put at work breaking rock in
the Leavenworth city jail yard about six
weeks ago. The local Populist police of
ficials instituted this “reform” and tl\ey
claim whatever credit there may be at
tached to it.
When there are no more than two
women confined in the city jail they are
used in cleaning and scrubbing, but when
ever the number is greater they are put at
work breaking rock with small hammers
under a shed In the jail yard. The women
are kept apart from the male prisoners, but
they are close enough to talk and joke with
each other.
The women are compelled to put on over
alls while at work.
The Leavenworth police officials claim
that f* w of the women prisoners object to
breaking rock and that some of them ask
to be allowed to do so. They also claim
it has a good effect on them. The women
as a rule do not break much rock and they
are allowed to work in their own way,
while tho men are treated with more firm
ness.
NOT MURDER TO KILL,
Providing; You May the -Run Who
Hnlns Your Home in Kentucky.
LEXINGTON, Ky„ July 17.—City Judge
Gray Falconer acquitted Jacob S. Harris
for killing his wife's lover, Thomas H. Mer
ritt, here lust Friday night, holding that
the action of the man who avenges the de
struction of his hiasted married life and big
INDIANAPOLIS, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1897-SIXTEEN PAGES.
dishonored children by striking down the
destroyer, after all must be determined at
the bar of human nature, and human na
ture will excuse the one who so avenges.
WILLIAM NEFF’S BODY.
The Suicide's Remains Still Awaiting
Buriul in Lon Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 17.—The body
of William Neff, of Cincinnati, 0., who
committed suicide at the Hotel Broadway
on June 22 last, is lying in an undertaking
establishment ir. this city awaiting a
claimant for tho remains. For weeks be
fore his death relatives were scouring the
country to arrest Neff on the charge of
forgery and embezzlement committed in
the far East just before he came to Califor
nia, and it is now certain that Neff com
mitted suicide because he hud reason to
believe the officers were close on him.
Neff's family is among the wealthiest and
most prominent in Philadelphia and Cin
cinnati. He was, however, wild and dissi
pated, and after the death of his lather his
relatives refused to furnish him with
money. He secured employment in a Phil
adelphia hotel, committed the crime of em
bezzlement and followed it by forgery in
Delaware. He then disappeared and ar
rived in Eos Angeles June 1 without funds.
He received financial aid from friends in
his family, but on the night of June 22 he
w r as ejected from his hotel for failure to
pay his bill. He secured a room in the
Broadway and took a dose of morphine
Elis mother, who resides in Cincinnati, was
notified that he was dead, but the physi
cians succeeded in resuscitating him. and
another telegram was sent that he was
alive. A third telegram sent to his mother
announcing the facts was never delivered,
and the body of the suicide still awaits in
terment.
KIPLING'S LATEST.
Poem on the Aftermath of the Great
Juhiiee Freuxy.
LONDON, July 17.—The Times publishes
five stanzas by Rudyard Kipling, entitled
‘‘Recessional.*’ The first stanza is as fol
lows :
"God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung oattle line.
Beneath whose awful mind we hold,
Dominion over palm and pine;
Lord God of hosts, be w'illi us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget—
The tumult and the shouting dies,
The captains ami the Rings depart,” etc.
Describing the cessation of the jubilee
festivities the poem continues:
"Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre,
Judge of the nation, spare us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget.”
Then, as a warning against idle boasting,
the final stanza reads:
"For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard,
AH valiant dust that builds oil dust.
And guarding, calls not Thee to guard;
For frantic boast an i foolish word.
This mercy on thy people, Lord.
"Amen.”
ALL FOR SAKE.
Women Prisoners at the Tomb* Not
Allowed to Smoke Cigarette*.
NEW YORK, July 17.—Mrs. Nacks dis
like to cigarettes has caused a reform in
the jail. When she was looked up several
days ago she said she thought it was ter
rible that women smoked.
Nearly all the women who find their way
into the Tombs are smokers, many of them
cigarette fiends. There is an old-standing,
dead-letter rule at the prison that smoking
in the female prison is prohibited. Since
Mrs. Naek’s objection, at the request of
Commissioner Wright, the rule has been
brought to the fore. Yesterday orders were
issued that smoking must cease.
Mrs. Nacks objection to the female
smokers will not tend to make her popular
•ouoiig her companions,
THE SUGAR MEN LOSE
#
HOUSE DIFFERENTIAL OF ONE
EIGHT AGREED OX BY SENATORS.
•
Deadlock Broken and Speedy Passage
of the Dingley 'Tariff Bill
Now in Prospect.
*
OTHER ITEMS COMPROMISED
SENATE BATE ON LEAD ORE AND
HOUSE SCHEDULE ON PINE.
Hides Will Be Taxed and the Arrange,
ment for "Wool Unchanged
from Frevions Reports.
o
MAY BENEFIT THE TRUST
SENATORS DID NOT ENTIRELY OVER
LOOK. MR. HAVEMEYER.
*
Further Discussion Showing Up the
Deal, Concerning the Union
Paeilie Railroad.
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WASHINGTON, July 17.—When the Re
publican conferees on the tariff bill repre
senting the two houses of Congress ad
journed at 6 o’clock to-day, the announce
ment was made on behalf of each of the
houses that they had agreed on all the
items of the bill and that the result of the
partisan conference would be submitted, to
the Democratic members of the conference
at a full meeting to be held Monday. This
announcement had been made informally
to the Democratic members of the confer
ence at noon, and hud formed the subject
of general speculation about the Senate
during- the afternoon. It appeared, how
ever, after the Informal statement was
made, that there was still much to be done
in the way of putting the bill in shape, and
the conferees spent six: hours in close ap
plication to the work in hand. They Were
for the most part merely running over the
bill, but there were still some rates to be
agreed to on articles which had bteen passed
over until the sugar schedule should be
fina'ly disposed of. The revision was not
even completed during the afternoon ses
sion, and some of the members returned to
renew the work to-night.
"We cannot,” said Senator Allison, “say
just what time we shall ’expect the attend
ance of the Democrats on Monday, for
there is still much to be done to get the
bill in readiness for them.”
It is understood that some of the mem
bers will work to-morrow for the accom
plishment of this purpose, and it is hoped
to have the bill printed and prepared for
the inspection of the Democrats by 10
o’clock Monday. Th’e Republicans still
further hope to secure the assent of the
Democratic members to the reporting of the
bill after one session and to thus be able to
present it to Congress at the beginning of
the session Monday.
The members of the conference still pre
serve the strictest silence in regard to the
changes, giving out no official confirmation
as to changes made In the bill. It is learned,
however, from an entirely reliable source,
that a Very large majority of the Senate
amendments w*ere accepted. This was ren
dered necessary by several circumstances.
A number of amendments made by the
Senate werts verbal; others were trivial, and
still others were made necessary to secure
harmony of construction and would never
have been mad’e by the House if that body
had had the bill under consideration for
so long a time as the Senate had. All such
changes as these were accepted without
question by the House conferees. They also
accepted in most cases all the alterations
made by the Senate in order to secure the
passage of the bill in that body.
JONES IS NOT LEFT.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, holding, as he
d‘d, practically the balance of power in the
Senate and in committee, was enabled to
secure many concessions for Western in
terests in the Senate, and these he held
without exception in the conference. He
oven succeded in securing a degree of pro
tection for beet sugar greater than was
given either in the Senate or the House
bill.
The bill as agreed on will, when made
public, present an entirely new sugar
schedule, at least in the main item of duty
on raw and refined sugar—the fourth pre
sented since the bill emerged from the re
cesses of the ways and means committee.
When the announcement of an agreement
was first made to-day the indications were
that the Senate had surrendered every
thing in the sugar schedule to the House.
No one not in possession of all the facts
could see how it could be otherwise when
it was known that the House differential of
one-eiglith of a cent had been accepted and
the Senate provision for throwing off one
tenth of a cent on low grade sugars re
ceded from.
"You will discover,” said Senator Aldrich,
In discussing the matter among his col
leagues, “that the Senate saves something
after all, and that it is not a complete sur
render on our part.”
The wording of the paragraph which fol
lows shows that he was right:
"Sugars not above No. 16 Dutch standard
in colors, tank bottoms, syrups of cane
Juice, melada, concentrated melada, con
crete and concentrated molasses testing by
the polariscope not above 75 degrees, 95-100
of 1 cent per pound, and for every addi
tional degree shown by the polariscopic test
3Vis-100 of 1 cent per pound additional, and
fractions of a degree in proportion, and on
sugars above No. 16 Dutch standard In
color, and on all Sugar which has gone
through a process of refining, 125-IuOO of 1
cent per pound additional.”
It will be observed that the modification
of the sugar schedule still leaves the rate
on pure sugar testing 100 degrees at 1.95
cents per pound, which was the S-nate rate.
The differential on refined sugar is, how
ever. one-eighth of a ctni per pound, while
the Senate differential was one-fifth. The
House also secured the elimination of tho
one-tenth of a cent reduction allowed on
jaggary and other low grade sugars test
ing below 87 degrees by the polariscope.
It is claimed that the inert use on the higher
grades of sugar which will result from the
Increase of the polariscope gradation al
lowance will add materially to the protec
tion to the beet sugar Industry. The re
finers necessarily receive incidental benefit.
It is estimated that the changes in the
sugar schedule will raise about $2,000,000 ad
ditional revenue. Following are among the
more important changes made in other
schedules:
AD VALOREM ON HIDES.
Hides—ls per cent, ad valorem, in place
of the 20 per cert, fixed by the Senate. The
House representatives made a strong fight
to have hides restored to the free list, but
they were compelled to submit to the un
yielding demand of the Senate.
Wool (as heretofore sent out) —First class,
11 cents per pound; second class, 12 cents
per pound; third class, 4 cents on that be
low 12 cents per pound In value and 8 cents
on tha\ abort 12 cents in value. These
late* on third-class wool were the result
of an agreement between the wool growers
find the carpet manufacturers.
Lead Ore—l‘s cents per pound; pig lead,
2 1 * cents, the Senate rates.
Iron Ore—Same as fixed by the Senate.
Coal—Bituminous, 67 cents’ per ton.
Tobacco—sl.7s per pound on imported
wrappers. This is the Senate rate. It is
also understood that the action of the Sen
ate in striking out the internal revenue pro
visions on tobacco, leaving the existing law
in force, was accepted by the House con
ferees.
Cyanide of Potassium— per cent. This
is the Senate rate, the House rate being 25
per cent. The reduction was demanded by
the gold miners of the West, cyanide being
largely used in the reduction of auriferous
ores.
Boracic Acid—s cents per pound, the Sen
ate rate. The Senate rate on borax was
also sustained, as was that on soda ash, the
rate being r >„ of a cent per pound.
The Senate rates on all fruits are re
tained, including 1 cent per pound on or
anges, lemons, limes, etc. On walnuts the
House rate of 3 cents per pound was re
stored, the Senate having lowered this rate
to 2Vs cents.
White pine lumber was restored to the
House classification and the Elouse rate of
$2 per thousand feet, instead of the Senate
rate of sl.
The reciprocity clause has been trans
formed into a modification of both the Sen
ate and House schedules—that is, the num
ber of articles which can be used as bases
for reciprocity agreements has been in
creased, but the President’s discretion as to
rates and the ratification of treaties by the
Senate, which was the main feature of the
Senate provision, has been rejected.
A HOUSE VICTORY.
One of the biggest victories won by the
House was in the restoration to the dutia
ble list of burlaps, jute and jute bagging,
cotton bagging, gunny sacks, floor matting
and cotton ties, which the Senate placed on
the free list. While restored to the dutia
bles list, however, the rates are lower than
they have ever been on this class of arti
cles.
Another victory of the House was in the
elimination of the Senate stamp tax on
bonds and stocks. It was decided that the
machinery of collection was too cumber
some. .
Raw cotton is restored to the free list,
as originally fixed by the House. The Sen
ate, with the aid of some of the Demo
cratic senators, made cotton dutiable at 20
per cent.
The amendments as agreed on will go to
the printer to-morrow and the completed
bill will be laid before the Democrats Mon
day morning. Assurances have already
been given by the Democrats on the con
ference that there will be no attempt to de
lay the report when the full committee
meets. But it is possible that the Demo
crats may ask more time than the Repub
licans now anticipate. The Republicans be
lieve that the report can be made to the
House Monday afternoon, and if the pres
ent intentions of the House leaders are car
ried out the report will have been acted
on before the House adjourns on Monday.
Representative Dingley expresses the
opinion that the bill will be law and that
Congress will have adjourned a week from
to-day. The conferees are generally con
gratulating th< mselves on the result of
their work and the expedition with which
it has been accomplished. The McKinley
bill was in conference two weeks and after
a six weeks’ struggle in conference the
conferees on the Wilson bill were compelled
to abandoh all efforts at adjustment. Mr.
Dingley, who was one of tin- conferees on
the McKinley bill, said that the problems
which the present conferees had to solve
wrere both more numerous and more impor
tant than those which confronted the con
ferees in 1890. Yet the present conferees,
by working night and day, sometimes as
high as fourteen hours a day, had com
pleted their task in less time than the con
ferees on the McKinley bill required. Mr,
Dingley appeared pleased with the result,
and spoke in high terms of the spirit the in
dividual conferees had displayed in their
deliberations. While there may have been
occasional flashes of irritation, he said,
there had been no manifestation of acri
mony.
The Democratic conferees are by no
means pleased with the transfer of such
items as cotton bagging, burlaps, floor
matting, etc., from the free to the dutiable
list, and express the hope to-night that
they may be able to reverse the conference
committee on these articles. They claim
to have the pledges of the Republicans who
assisted in making these articles free anJ
in reducing white pine that they will as
sist in forcing their restoration to the free
list, even to the extent of opposing the re
port The Republicans, however, profess
to feel easy over the fate of the report,
and say that the worst they fear is delay
occasioned by long debate.
PRESIDENTIAL. APPOINTMENTS.
Powtlerly Receive** His* Reward, Reins
Made CommlHNloner General.
WASHINGTON; July 17.—The President
to-day sent to the Senate the' following
nominations:
Treasury—Terence V. Powderly, of Penn
sylvania, to be commissioner general of im
migration.
To be collectors of internal revenue—
Frederick E. Coyne, of Illinois, for the
First district of Illinois; David A. Nunn, of
Tennessee, for the Fifth district of Tennes
see.
Postmasters—M. A. Gilson, 'Harvey, 111.;
Samuel S. Dingce, Wilmette, 111.; Huitt H.
Nutter, Martinsville, lnd.
Interior—G. W. Heist, register of the land
office at Sidney, Neb.
Justice —C. S. Johnson, of Alaska, to be
United States district judge for the district
of Alaska.
Senate Confirmations.
WASHINGTON, July 17.—The Senate to
day confirmed these nominations: Horace
N. Allen, of Ohio, minister resident and
consul general to Corea; Wm. L. Merry, of
California, to be minister to Nicaragua,
Costa Pica and Salvador; Myron H. Mc-
Cord, Governor of Arizona ; Isaac Lambert,
attorney of the United States, district of
Kansas; Alva H. Eastman, receiver of pub-
Uc moneys at St. Cloud, Minn.; Cyrus Le
land, jr., pension agent at Topeka, Kan.
To be consuls of the United States—C. W.
Erdman, of Kentucky, at Furth, Germany;
John C. Covert, of Ohio, at Lyons, France;
Samuel E. Magill, of Illinois, at Tampico,
Mexico; Wm. K. Anderson, of Michigan, at
Hanover, Germany; Daniel T. Phillips, of
Illinois, at Cardiff, Wales; Adam Lieber
knect, of Illinois, at Zurich, Switzerland;
James M. Shepard, of Michigan, at Hamil
ton, Ontario; Wm. H. Bradley, of Illinois,
at Tunstall. England; E. Z. Biodowski, of
Illinois, at Breslau, Germany; Wm. I*. Sew
ell. of Ohio, at Toronto, Ontario.
O. F. Liggett, receiver of public moneys
at Lamar, Col.: C. S. McNichols, of Illinois,
Indian agent, Colorado River Agency, Ari
zona; R. H. Jenness, receiver public
moneys at'O’Neill. Neb.; W. Q. Ranft. re
ceiver of public moneys at Missoula, Mont.
To be commissioners to examine and
classify lands within the land gram and in
demnity land grant limits of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company In the Bozeman
land district, in Montana—Joseph G. Auld.
of Glendive, Mont.: James A. Johnson, of
Bozeman. Mont.; Watson Boyle, of Wash
ington, D. C.
To be commissioners to examine and
classify lands within the land grant and in
demnity land grant limits of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company in the Missoula
land district, of Montana.—Edwin S. Hath
away, of Missoula. Mont.; W. V. Tompkins
of Prescott. A. TANARUS.; R. T. Rombauer, or
Princeton, Mont.
Fred D. Huestes, collector of customs for
the district of Puget sound. Washington.
Postmasters—lndiana: W. A. Stevens, at
Columbus, and J. E. Shryer, at Bloomfield.
Illinois: D. R. Fish, at Lawrenceville; E.
W. Osgood, at Winnetka.
To be civil engineer in the navy—F. T.
Chambers, of Kentucky, Also, some army
and navy nominations.
Militn ry Ottielttl*Chnn|sel.
WASHINGTON, July 17.—The following
assignments to regiments of officers re
cently promoted have been made:
First lieutenant, J. P. Haines, Battery H,
First Artillery; additional second lieuten
ants, P. M. Kessler. Light Battery F, Third
Artillery; Colonel William 11. Powell, to the
Ninth infantry; Lieutenant Colonel C. E.
Bennett, to the Eleventh Infantry; Major
S. P. Jocelyn, to the Nineteenth Infantry;
Captain C. H. Bonesteel, Company B,
Twenty-first Infantry: First Lieutenant E.
L. Butts, Company B, Twenty-first In
fantry. Captain W. H. C. Bowen has been
detailed to duty with the National Guard
of Alabama front July 17 to Aug. 5. S--cond
Lieutenant W. B. Ladue, Corps of Engin
eers. has been ordered from Willet’s Point,
N. Y.. to Cincinnati, for duty under Major
Heuer. Captain Willis Willich, Company
K. arid Captain C. H. Bonesteel. Company
B, both of the Twenty-first Infantry, have
exchanged companies. Surgeon I’. R.
Brown has been ordered before a retiring
board. Assistant Surgeon F. R. Keefer has
been ordered from Washington Barracks,
District of Columbia, to Fort Sam Houston,
Texas, relieving Assistant Surgeon A. N.
Stark, who comes to Washington Barracks.
Assistant Surgeon C. M. Gandy has been
ordered from Washington Barracks to Fort
Mason, Cal., relieving Assistant Surgeon G.
M. Wells, who is ordered to Fort Ringgold,
Texas, in place of Assistant Surgeon W. D.
McGaw, ordered to Fort Thomas, Ken
tucky; Assistant Surgeon Benjamin Brooke
is ordered from Fort Thomas, Kentucky, to
Hot Springs. Ark.: Assistant Surg on W.
H. Arthur, from Fort Myer, Virginia, to
Philadelphia, for recruiting duty, r liming
Assistant Surgeon R. G. Egbert, ordered to
Fort Missoula, Mont.: Assistant Surgeon
W. 1). Crosby, from Fort Missoula, :o Fort
Preble, Maine, relieving Assistant Surgeon
li. S. Harris, who goes to Fort Washakie,
Wyoming, In place of Assistant Surgeon J.
T. Clarke, ordered to Columbus Barracks,
Ohio. Assistant Surgeon W. E. Richards,
from Fort Grait, Arizona, to Fort Apache,
Arizona, relieving Assistant Surgeon W. F.
I, ordered to Fort McPherson. Georgia,
in place of Assistant Surgeon M. C. Wyeth,
who is ordered to Baltimore. Mu., in place
of Assistant Surgeon W. F Carter, ordered
to Fort Assinaboine. Montana, relieving As
sistant Surgeon G. E. Bushnell, who goes to
Boston, Mass.
SENATOR MORGAN’S CLAIM.
Finuros to Sliovv In ole Sum NVould
Lose $25,000,000 In C. P. Deal.
WASHINGTON, July 17.—Senator Mor
gan, of Alabama, qjvupied most of the day
in the Senate to-day in support of the Har
ris resolution relating to the Union Pacific
Railroad. He severely arraigned the ex
ecutive offiieals connected with a sale of
the government Interests in the road. Final
action on the resolution was not reached.
Mr. Quay, who yesterday tried to induce
the Senate to adjourn over until Monday,
made the point of no quorum as soon as
the journal had been approved In the Sen
ate to-day. Only forty-one senators an
swered to their names and on motion of
Mr. Jones, of Arkansas the sergeant-at
arms was instructed to notify absentees
that their presence was required. The Sen
ate conferees on the tariff bill were sum
moned from their committee room and
swelled the attendance to a quorum. After
the usual routine business connected with
the presentation of bills and memorials, the
Senate, at 12:15 p. m., on motion of Mr.
Carter, of Montana, went into executive
session. The doors were opened at 2:80 p.
m. and Mr. Morgan then took the floor in
support of the Harris resolution.
He presented figures to show that the
loss to the government if the pending
Union Pacific settlement was carried out,
would be $25,000,000 and he commented on
the fact that in doing this the Union Pacific
would secure a property which they pro
posed to capitalize at $262,000,000. The sen
ator declared that the agreement for the
sale of the government’s interests in the
Union Pacific was violative of the statutes.
Mr. Morgan urged that the agreement by
w r hieh the reorganization committee would
bid $45,000.(i00 for the government interest
was expressly designed to shut out other
bids, as it permitted the committee to use
the $17,000,000 sinking find in the treasury
as a part of their bid, while other bidders
had no access to this $17,000,000. He pre
sented a series of points showing, he said,
the “monstrous fraud” and the ‘ scheme of
extortion and oppression” constituting the
"most audacious plan of railroad wrecking
ever devised.”
The senator said President McKinley
could not afford to carry out the agreement
concerning the Union Pacific made by
President Cleveland; he could not afford to
become the administrator de bonis non of
a Cleveland administration so offensive as
to wreck any man. Mr. Morgan had nor
concluded when at 5:25 p. m. he yielded for
an adjournment.
CHANGING TO GOLD STANDARD.
ItiiHHian Government Found It Hud
to Recoin Its Roubles*.
WASHINGTON, July 17.—Russia has ex
perienced some difficulty in reversing her
standard of value by simple decree, as
shown in a report to the State Department
by United States Consul Heenan at Odes
sa. He says: "The change inaugurated
about two years ago in the currency of
Russia from a silver to what is supposed to
be a gold basis has had a somewhat de
pressing effect on the mind of the peasant
farmers. By imperial edict it was made
known that a five-rouble gold piece would,
until further notice, be equal to seven rou
bles and fifty copecks paper currency, and
a check drawn on any Russian bank for
75 rhubles must be considered paid should
the holder receive 50 roubles in gold. The
masses of Russia are said to be uneducated
and ignorant; nevertheless, when they were
offered a five-rouble gold piece in payment
for a debt due them for seven roubles and
fifty copecks, they refused to accept it and
pointed out that stamped on the gold piece
in plain Russian characters, were the words
"Five Roubles,” and they furthermore de
manded to know why it was. that they were
expected to believe that twice two and a
half made seven roubles and fifty copeeks
in money or anything else. The govern
ment officials were equal to the emergency
and recoined the same hve-roubla piece and
stamped on it seven roubles and fifty co
pecks, which illustrates the old adage that
"there are more ways of killing a cat than
by choking it with butter.”
Dinner to Minister Woodford.
WASHINGTON, July 17.—The President
gave a dinner to-night to Minister Stewart
E. Woodford. Among those present were
the President and Mrs. McKinley, Minister
and Mrs. Woodford, Vice President and
Airs. Hobart, Attorney General McKenna,
Secretary and Mrs. Sherman, Mr. Porter,
secretary to the President, and Mrs. Por
ter, Judge Day, Senator and Mrs. Davis,
Representative and Mrs. Fiitt and Miss
Buckingham, who is the guest of Mrs. Mc-
Kinley.
Three Clilnumen Shut Out.
WASHINGTON, July 17.—The attorney
general has given an opinion to the secre
tary of the treasury in which he holds that
a Chinese person who leaves this country
under permit must return within two years
allowed by law without reference to the
cause of his delay. The case in point was
that, of three Chinese detained at Victoria,
B. C., by quarantine officers so that they
could not reach this country until three
days after the time limit had expired.
Silver Service for the lowa.
WASHINGTON, July 17. —Governor
Drake, of lowa, with his staff and a num
ber of distinguished citizens of his State,
will be at Newport, R. 1., to present the
battle ship lowa a silver service as th*a
gift of the citizens of the State. Chief
Clerk Michael, of the Department of State,
who is an old navy veteran, has been in
vited to deliver an address in behalf of
lowa’s representation in the navy.
Consular Feet to Be Restored.
WASHINGTON. July 17.—1 t will be good
news for the people who have been lucky
enough to secure consular appointments us
well as those who rest in confident ex
pectation of tavors of that kind in the near
future to know that the President has
finally determined to restore the tees that
were cut off by the last administration. The
order will be promulgated in a few days.
General Notes.
WASHINGTON, July 17.-Secretary Alger
has gone to Spirit Lake, la., to attend a
soldiers’ reunion, after which he will go
to Chicago to participate in the Logan day
ceremonies.
Authority has been granted for the or
ganization of the Seguln Notional Bank of
Seguin, Tex. Capital. $50,000.
To-day’s statement of the condition of the
treasury shows: Available cash balance,
$221,580,247; gold reserve, $111,231,016.
TWO BROWNS MISSING.
Disappear from a Lake Steamer as if
by Magic.
CHICAGO, July 17.—De Witt T. Brown
and John Brown, the youngest sons of
Mrs. Annie Brown, of Chicago, were kid
naped Friday morning and have disap
peared as if they had dropped overboard
from the steamer on which their mother
last saw them. The mother left Milwau
kee Thursday night with her boys. A
woman who had become slightly acquaint
ed with Mrs. Brown in Milwaukee carne
down with them on the boat. On Friday
morning after the boat had tied in its
dock Mrs. Brown went to call her sons, but
their stateroom was empty. The woman
was gone, and Mrs. Brown came to the con
clusion that the stranger had stolen her
children and had slipped jt shore in the
darkness when the Ifoat first touched tin
dock, TWe woinun had said that she had
been an actress.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
LOOKS LIKE VICTORY
WEST VIRGINIA MINERS EXPECTED
TO Si rrORT THE STRIKE.
*
Delta Eoeaped Arrest by Fullliik to
Show fp at tlie Big Meeting ix
Fairuiuut Yesterday.
MOUNTAIN MINERS STRIKING
NET ADDITION OF OVER 4,000 MEN
TO THE RANKS YESTERDAY.
*
Mass Meetings To-Day In Different
Fields Muy Result in Bring
ing Out 10,000 More.
♦
PROGRESS OF ARBITRATION
*
DIG OPERATORS SIGNING AGREE
MENT WITH LITTLE FAITH.
*
No One Seems to Express Any Conti,
lienee in De Armitt—Situation
inttbe Indiana Field.
WHEELING, W. Va., July 17.—While the
strikers have suffered severe disappoint
ments to-day, the day as a whole has been
In their favor. Four thousand fewer men
are working to-night than last night, the
gains having been made in the Norfolk &
Western. The disappointments were at
Fairmont and Kanawha, on the Norfolk Sc
Western. At Thacker, Elkhorn, Logan and
Shamokin fields about seven thousand men
have closed, making a net addition of four
thousand strikers. The Flat Top and Poca
hontas fields aro working, but the organ
izers have moved on them and big meet
ings will be held to-morrow. The strikers
will also take the field and if need be force
will be used. In Kanawha two more mines
are out than yesterday, but the suspension
is not so complete as was hoped for. The
organizers held a meeting at Coal burg, but
got only sixty men to attend. Os these
nine voted in favor of a strike. At Wini
fredo the organizers and their allies found
one hundred guards armed with Winches
ters on the company’s property, inside of
which line are located the company’s
mines and the homes of miners. They did
no business. The Kanawha operators ad
vanced wages half a cent per bushel to-day.
This may Induce some to go to work. On
the West Virginia Central and in New
River no efforts have been made. They
ship East. The threat of the management
of the Wheeling & Luke Erie mines in the
eastern Ohio district to start nonunion is
likely to cause an outbreak if they Hnd men
to go to work. Shipments are enormous
from the West Virginia field. Thirteen
double headers passed through here to-day,
and coal was king. Passenger trains were
side-tracked two hours to let them pass.
A dispatch from Charleston, W, Va.,
says: The agitators of the strike in the
Kanawha valley received a set-back to-day.
They visited two places, Monarch and
Cedar Grove, to organise the miners, but
failed to do anything at either place. Tho
operators at some of the mines offered a
further increase of a quarter of a cent per
bushel, making three-quarters of a cent ad
vance in all, or about 21 cents a ton.
The Rig Meeting a Failure.
FAIRMONT, W. Va„ July 17.—T0 the
close observer of the mining situation in
this region a peculiar slate of affairs is
presented. Operators who were elated a
few days ago are now worried over the In
crease of freight of 45 cents a ton. All tho
operators are on the qui vive lest the men
be influenced to come out by the agitators.
Senator Camden, who, three days ago,
thought it very unlikely that the men would
join the strikers, said to-day that he was
prepared for anything. The mass meeting
so largely advertised for this evening was
a complete failure, as none of the speakers
were present, although telegrams of re
gret were read. W. D. Mahon, the street
car agitator, of Detroit, addressed the two
hundred men present. He announced that
a meeting would be held at Willow Tree
sehoolhouse, near Monongah, to-morrow
afternoon at 3 o’clock, but it will be hard
for the men to get there, as there will be
no trains. At least thirty men have decided
to walk the six miles, as they are greatly
interested. Eugene, V'. Debs will be here
Monday and will address the miners at the
courthouse.
To-day seventeen miners at Monongah
w. re discharged for attending Thursday
night’s meeting. These men are using
every means in their .power to induce tho
other miners to strike. The company
claims it will bring trespass suits, and W.
B. Meredith, the leading lawyer of the Sec
ond congressional district, together with
S. N. Arnett and J. P. Kirby have been re
tained as counsel, if all reports are true.
To-night Manon said the orrganlzers had
hopes, and lie predicts that not a man in
the Fuirinont region will be working when
next Thursday’s sun rises. A miner from
Hutchinson said the MO men there wer®
omy waiting tor an invitation to come out.
The Baltimore A- Ohio has broken all
records in the matter of moving coal. Pas
senger trains were sidetracked to-day to
ailow coal trains to proceed west. Every
thing is quiet on the Parkersburg branch
of the Baltimore & Ohio, and ail mines ar®
running full blast but one.
Nearly ,1,000 (fait,
HUNTINGTON. W. Va„ July 17.-Thia
afternoon upwards of five thousand men
employed in the lower coal fields on the
Norfolk & Western road threw down their
picks and sworo fealty to the cause of
their Pennsyjvunia and Ohio brethren. The
strike in that section to-day included the
following mines: Elk Horn, Thacker, Mari
time, Logan, Peelsplint, Shumokin and
Southern. The agitators who have been in
that vicinity for a wet k past will depart
to-night lor the great Flat Top field, sixty
miles furth, r up tli,- Norfolk it Western,
H e about si v, n thousand men are em
ployed. They apeak encourugtngly of their
work In \Y> st Virginia, and assert that
before Monday noon every miner in the
Flat Top field will be out. The Indications
are that their claims are well founded, and
In addition the miners at Dlngcs®, further
down the line, which resumed work only a
few days ago. will also have to susja-nd,
as dissatisfaction has developed among the
miners employed there. Several hundred
more men went out on the Kanawha to
day, and the next big break is expected in
the N'ew-river fields.
quit UurW in Illinois.
MOWEAQUA, 111.. July 17.—This city was
visited by an Immense throng of miners
from Pana last night, \Vho persuaded all
the men in the shaft here to cease work. As
a result, when the whistle sounded to-day
not a man responded.
A dispatch from Glen Carbon, 111,, says:
The miners here have quit work and joined
the marching strikers from Staunton and
Mount Olive and will arrive lure to-mor
row. The combined fores are now making
preparations to march to Collinsville
Casey v I fie, Belleville. Troy and other place*
in the Belleyille district.
A dispatch from Danville, 111., says: ‘ Til*
miners had a monster parade here 10-dajr