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NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Hollywood Inn, the
new social clubhouse for workingmen at
Yonkers, was opened to the public to-day
by William F. Cochran, whose Rift the
building is. The cornerstone of the build
ing was laid on Labor day of 1896. The club
house is located in Getty's square, in the
best part of the business section, the lot
having cost 130,000 and the edifice $120,000.
Mr. Cochran has given an additional SIO,OOO
for the purchase of a first installment of
books for a free circulating library which
Is to have u place in the building. Besides
the library, the Hollywood Club will be pro
vided with a commodious reading room in
which the leading newspapers and period
icals will be kept on file; a smoking room
a lunenroom, a gymnasium fitted up with
complete apparatus, lavatories, dressing
rooms, lockers, etc.; an auditorium capable
of seating five hundred persons; plunge
baths, bowling alleys, billiard end pool ta
bles. bike racks, etc. In addition to these
provisions for adult males, the boys are to
have a gymnasium, billiard tables and
baths on the fifth floor of the clubhouse
It Is intended that on one night in each
week the clubhouse shall be open to the
wives and daughters of the members.
Four Iloy* Heriauxly Hurt.
CHICAGO, Sept. 6. Four boys, whose
ages range from ten to fourteen years, were
severely injured to-day by the explosion of
a dynamite cartridge, which they found
while playing. The injured are: w. .Mar
tin, eye tom out; John -Martin, leg broken
Frank Oiieinski, face mangled; John Oil
shibki, face mangled.
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LUETGERT MURDER TRIAL
Defense Does Not Want Inspector
Selianek on the Witness Stand.
CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—lt is predicted that
the fiercest legal battle of the Luetgert
murder trial will come when Police In
spector Schaack, who has been very active
in ferreting out the mystery surrounding
Mrs. Litetgert's disappearance, takes the
stand, should it finally be decided to call
him as a witness. It is at the door of the
North Side inspector that Philip Luet
gert lays his present troubles. The accused
sausage maker is extremely bitter against
Schaack, and his attorney's have tried to
bring out evidence to show that witnesses
have been coached and that even money
has been used by the police in “fixing ’
testimony. Efforts were made to show
the police methods in the instance of Got
tli ba Schimpke by trying to draw from
her that the agreement with the police
matron was merely a scheme to keep the
girl under police control. This, taken with
the hitter personal feeling which Attorney
Vincent is said to harbor against Inspect
or Schaack would likely make the court
room scene that would follow the Introduc
tion of .Schaack as a witness one of the
most exciting features of thVi trial. In fact,
it has been learned that the defense has
planned to make this a strong feature of
its side of the case. Attorney Vincent has,
it is said, some twenty-five witnesses w r ho
will be put on the stand for the purpose
of impeaching the testimony of the in
spector.
An important conference was held to
day' between the state's attorneys and the
experts in the murder case. The vital
question of the corpus delicti was under
discussion. If the state can prove con
clusively the corpus delicti —can show' that
portions of the body of a human being
were taken from the fatal vat and the
ashes from the furnace—it will have a case
of remarkable strength- The conference
lasted for several hours. The great point
is the identification as human of the bones
found near the outhouse where Frank
Odorofsky said he dumped this residue of
the vat and of the bones found in the
ashes from the furnace. None of the par
ties of the conference would tell definitely
of this results. “It can be stated,” said
State’s Attorney Deenen and Assistant
State's Attorney McEwan, “that the state
has found that it can produce convincing
proof of the corpus delicti. Further than
that it would be unwise to state at the
present.”
WHITE FIEND LYNCHED.
Put to Death for Assaulting and Kill
lug: a Young: Woman.
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MT. AIRY, N. C., Sept. 6.—Yesterday
afternoon, near Friends’ Mission, Va.,
Miss Sadie Cook, a young white girl, was
assaulted by Henry Wall, white, aged
about twenty'-one. After accomplishing his
purpose, Wall dealt his victim several
blows over the head with a hoe, rendering
her unconscious, and then, placing her head
on a log, crushed it with a stone. Wall
then cut the girl’s throat, severing the
windpipe, and dragging the body some fifty
yards up a ravine, threw it into a branch,
where it was afterwards found. Meantime
he went to a spring and was found w'ashing
the stains from his clothing. The excite
ment became so intense that this afternoon
Wall was taken from the officers and
lynched near the scene of the crime.
GOLDEN BALL TAKEN DOWN.
Missouri Courthouse Ornament
Changed for Political Reasons.
WARRENSBURG, Mo., Sept. 6.—The ball
on the staff held by the goddess of liber
ty on the new courthouse dome underwent
a change Saturday morning before 6
o'clock. The ball was a rich golden color,
and Republicans had made frequent com
ments about it and complimented the court
on its efforts to keep in touch with the pre
vailing sentiment of the country. This was
too much for the county court, whose mem
bers are all Democrats, and secret orders
were given to supplant the golden ball with
one of silver. The contractor and architect
were surprised in the morning with the
change. The work was done at 5 o’clock.
TOO MANY WILD HORSES.
They Have Become a Nuisance in Ari
zona and May Be Killed Off.
PHOENIX, A. TANARUS., Sept. 6.-Wild horses
have been so much of a nuisance in north
ern Arizona that Attorney General Frazer
has been asked if they may not legally be
slaughtered. That vicinity has been over
run by several large bands, hundreds in
number, unbranded and unclaimed by any
one. They have rapidly increased in num
ber and have become wilder than deer, and
vicious as well. The matter has been re
ferred to the live stock board.
NO MORE FUSION.
Colorado Democrats Decide to Stand
Aloof from Populists.
DENVER, Col., Sept. 6.—The Democrats
of Colorado to-day decided that hereafter
there shall be no more fusion by that party
with any other. After a heated session
John A. Gordon, of Las Animas county, a
straight Democrat, was nominated for Su
preme Court Justice by the decisive vote of
233 to 167. A notable event was the an
nouncement made on the floor of the con
vention by a silver Republican that Judge
Hayt, who was nominated on Friday by
the Republicans at Denver, and silver Re
publicans at Glen wood, would not accept
the Denver nomination because it would
necessitate his indorsement of the St. Louis
platform, whereas his sympathies were
with that promulgated at Chicago.
The platform adopted refers in laudatory
terms to Hon. William J. Bryan, predicting
his election to tlu* presidency in 1900, and
demands the free coinage of sliver at the
ratio of 16 to 1.
For Mayor of Greater New York,
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—The Prohibition j
city convention to-day nominated William '
T. Wardwell for mayor of Greater New i
York, Alfred H. Walker for controller and
Thomas Crawford for president of the Coun
cil. Mr, Wardwell is treasurer of the Stand
ard Oil Company.
Only $12,500 Stolen.
DEN\ ER, Col., Si pt. 6.—The officers of
the Pacific Express Company estimate the
amount of money stolen from their sale
by the train robbers, near Folsom N M
Friday night, at not more than $2,500. This
w as all the safe contained and it is supposed
the robbers took it all.
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1897.
SCOURGE SPREADING
-
DREAD YELLOW FEVER GETS A
FOOTHOLD IN NEW ORLEANS.
Thlrteen-Year-Old Boy Returns from
Ocean Springs, Miss., and
Dies of the Disease.
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DEATHS AT OTHER POINTS
A MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATOR SUC
CUMBS AT EDWARDS.
S
Six Hundred Cases of Dengue Fever
at Ocean Sp'tugs Before the Out
break of “Black Jack.”
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SCARE IN SOUTHERN CITIES
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WHICH ARE HURRIEDLY ESTAB
LISHING RIGID QUARANTINES.
Officers of Hie Marine Hospital Serv
ice Loath to Believe the Epi
demic Is Yellow Fever.
*
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 6.~The Louisiana
State Board of Health kept faith with its
sister bodies of the South and the rest of
the country this afternoon when it made
official announcement as the result of a
careful autopsy that Raoul Gelpl, thirteen
years of age, had died of yellow fever.
Gelpi was the son of prominent people
here and had been spending some time at
Ocean Springs, where he was taken down
with fever and brought home here. Soon
after arriving, despite the best medical at
tention, he died. Dr. Theard, the physi
cian in charge, immediately reported to the
Board of Health and expressed the opinion
that death was due to yellow fever. This
afternoon an autopsy proved that Dr.
Theard’s idea of yellow fever was correct.
Steps were promptly to prevent a
possible spread of the disease. As the case
was one of importation, the doctors ex
pressed confidence that they would be sble
to check the spread of the disease.
The death of young Gelpi naturally
caused no little excitement in the city
among the lay public- Physicians, how
ever, expressed no apprehension and stated
their belief that It was quite possible to
arrest a spread of the fever. The board
during the day ordered a rigid quarantine
against all points on the gulf coast and
has taken every precaution to guard all
avenue® of communication against the
entry into the city of any person from
Ocean Springs, Biloxi or other points on
the sound, which it was thought the fever
might reach.
During the day people thronged about the
bulletin boards; the Board of Health Office
was besieged and the Western Union wires
freighted with messages to and from the
various coast resorts. In the meantime,
however, reassuring telegrams arrived
from Ocean Springs that the Mississippi
Beard of Health had taken and would take
every precaution possible to circumscribe
the limits of the epidemic and prevent its
communication to the outside world.
“We have no fear,” said Dr. Walmsley,
acting president of the Board of Health,
“that the fever will spread in New Orleans.
The Board of Health is prepared to spend
$1,000,000 to stamp It out and we see no
reason to feel ahymed. People ought not
to get frightened. This one case was taken
charge of in time and such scientific fu
migation has been applied as to warrant
the hope that we shall promptly and ef
fectively ?tamp out the disease. We have
made arrangements to issue a circular to
every practicing physician In New Orleans,
commanding them to report promptly to
the Board of Health every suspicious case
of fever. We have made arrangements to
act promptly in every case, and if, un
fortunately, other cases of yellow fever
shall be brought to our attention we shall
without delay notify the world of the facts.
There have been at least four cases in ad
dition to the Gelpi one, of people suffering
from fever, who have come to New' Orleans
from Ocean Springs. Ten of the most
prominent physicians of New Orleans have
been pressed into service and we gave the
closest attention to each of these cases. In
every instance bacteriological examinations
showed the existence only of malarial
germs and no evidence of yellow fever mi
crobes, I am well within the truth, there
fore, when I say the Gelpi case is the only
one of yellow fever in New Orleans up to
the present time and I am sure we have
the city fully covered.”
600 CASES AT OCEAN SPRINGS.
During th'e week ending Aug. 21 reports
reached President Ollipant,of the Board of
Health, of the prevalence of sicknesg at
Ocean Springs, the nature of which was
in doubt. Dr. Ollipant, with a m’ember of
the board, went there and teamed that
there had been up to that time some 400
cases. Os these there had been only one
or two deaths, but in two cases thfe symp
toms were so suspicious as to give rise to
the belief that the fever was of a violent
type. Dr. Ollipant then brought on Drs.
(Jz irnowski and Salomon, of the Board of
Experts, and Dr. Patton, secretary of the
Board of Health, all experienced in the
treatment of yellow fever. They visited
some eleven patients, and after a careful
and thorough examination and investiga
tion unanimously reached the conclusion
that the Fever was dengue. The physicians
agreed that none of the cases up to that
time showed any symptoms that would
even lead to a suspicion of more serious
diseasa All these physicians have had ex
perience in yellow fever epidemics and are
eminent in their profesion, and their unan
imous conclusion seems to leave no doubt
that at the period spoken of the fever wins
of a mild type.
During last w'eek, however, yellow' fever
in virulent form appeared at Ocean
Springs. The quick death of Dr. Bemiss
aroused suspicions, and by Saturday the
boards of health of Mobile and New Or
leans were In possession of information
that justified thVi fear that yellow fever
had slipped into Ocean Springs. Official
representatives of the boards of health of
Mississippi. Louisiana and Alabama and
the representatives of the Marine Hospital
Service w ent at once on Saturday to Ocean
Springs. They were at once con'ineed that
their gloomy apprehensions were not un
founded. Careful autopsies were made,
but aside from Dr. Saunders, of Mobile,
the experts were disposed to await a fur
ther and complete autopsy to remove all
doubt before making official announce
ment to the wor! : of the appearance of the
scourge. Last night another patient, a
woman, died, and this morning an autopsy
was held. Its result was to dispel ail
previous doubt.
Acting President Walmsley, of the Louis
iana board, said this evening: “There was
never a doubt about the first diagnosis. At
that time beyond question dengue fever
only prevailed. Out of 600 cases the death !
rate was only onv-half of 1 per cent. In
epidemics of yellow' fever the death rate
is infinitely heavier. In the past few' days,
however, yellow fever has got into Od an
Springs. That Is proven both by the rap.d
death rate by thorough diagnoses
which have been made by the physicians.
No earlier announcement could be made,
for the reason that prior to the last few
days there was no yellow fever existent
in Ocean Springs.”
A SOURCE OF DANGER.
Dr. Walmsley was disposed to hold the
representatives of the Marini Hospital
Service and the Mississippi Board of
Health to some responsibility for the inva
sion. He said that the fever had unques
tionably been communicated by the con
stant intercourse of Ocean Springs with
Ship island, where there is a United States
government quarantine station. Ships
from all portions of the world touch there.
A large number from tropical countries,
where yellow fever is indigenous to th’e soil,
report there weekly. There has been steady
and uninterrupted communication between
the island and these coast towns, and Dr.
Walmsley has little or no doubt that this
has been th'e means of bringing Into Ocean
Springs the deadly germs of yellow fever.
If a rigid quarantine had been ma.ntaint.d
between the island and shore he believes
that Ocean Springs would now have little
else to contend with than dengue fever.
Immunity from epidemic, however, has had
a tendency to breed carelessness, and the
result is to be found in the calamity that
has befallen the popular sound resort.
The following was issued this evening by
Dr. Oliphant, president of the State Board
of Health: “A case of yellow fever
originating .at Ocean Springs, Miss., on the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, sixty miles
w'est of Mobile, having died this morning
in New Orleans, the Board of Health of
the State of Louisiana, according to the
compact existing between the state health
authorities of the United States, hereby of
ficially give notice of the fact. No other
case of yellow fever is known by this board
to *'xist within the State of Louisiana. The
bedy of deceased was privately buried im
mediately after the autopsy, all bedding
and ther articles in connection with the
ease have been burned and the premises
thoroughly' disinfected by the most ap
proved methods. The family of the patient,
though apparently quite well, has been
placed in quarantine. Under the circum
stances there is no reason to appre
hand that any further spread of the
disease will occur from that point of
infection, and as rigid quarantine has been
instituted against Ocean Springs and ad
jacent towns, supplemented by the active
efforts of health authorities of intermediate
stations on the Louisville & Nashville Rail
read, the further introduction of the dis
ease effectually prevented.”
A dispatch to the Picayune from Ed
wards, Miss., says that the report gained
circulation throughout the country that Mr.
Champion died of yellow fever. He was at
tended by three prominent physicians—Dr.
Quinn, of Vicksburg; Dr. Hunter, of Jack
son, and Dr. McCullum. his family physi
clan—all of whom pronounce it a typho
malarial fever, and there is not the slight
est foundation for the report, as Mr. Cham
pion had not been exposed to the fever on
tne coast.
EXPERT SENT SOUTH.
Marine Hospital Service Not Snllsfled
with Dr. Wftftdln'M Report.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—The Marine
Hospital service is investigating the fever
at Ocean Springs, Miss., and the informa
tion so far at hand inclines them to the
belief that the disease is not yellow fever,
though conclusive Information is not yet
at hand. Surgeon General Wyman is ab
sent from the city'. He has been attend
ing the British Medical Association at Mon
treal and is now at Vineyard Haven on his
way back. During his absence Surgeon
Bailbache Is in charge. The cases at Ocean
Springs w’ero first called to the attention
of Mr. Bailbache last Friday in a. telegram
from Assistant Surgeon Wasdin, who is
stationed at Mobile, asking permission to
accompany the State Board of Health to
Ocean Springs to Investigate the fever. Dr.
Wasdin was directed to proceed. Yesterday
morning he telegraphed as follows:
“Os five or six hundred cases here, have
seen five; an endemic infection, spread by
carriage; mostly white; nonparoxysmal;
disproportionate in pulse; prostration;
made first autopsy on ~ault of sixty, said
to be typical case of fever; matter under
advisement. Doctors Oiiphant (president
Louisiana State Board of Health), Haral
son, Saunders and others will be here
later.”
A copy' of this telegram was transmitted
to Surgeon General Wyman at Vineyard
Haven, and he immediately requested Dr.
John Guiteras, professor of the University
of Pennsylvania, to proceed to Ocean
Springs. Dr. Guiteras was formerly in the
Marine Hospital service and is the ac
knowledged authority on fevers in this
country. Dr. Bailbache also wired Dr. Was
din to inquire into the result of the autopsy
and consultation, to give the number of in
habitants of Ocean Springs and the num
ber of fatalities. Dr. Wasdin replied that
the population of Ocean Springs, which is
a summer resort on the gulf coast near
Biloxi, was about 1,500 in winter and 3,900
in summer. He also reported the existence
of pasmodium of malaria, a condition of
the blood said to be never present in yel
low fever cases.
Dr. Bailbache says that Dr. Wasdin is
making a bacteriological investigation to
determine the existence of yellow fever
germs. He (Dr. Bailbache) believes the
disease, so far as his information goes, is
dengue, or bone-brake fever. In support of
this he points to Dr. Wasdin’s report that
che fever is endemic, not epidemic, and
that the fatalities have been few, whereas
y'ellow' fever is fatal in a majority of cases.
This lack of fatalities he considers the
strongest evidence that the disease is not
yellow' fever. The existence of the pasmo
dium of malaria is another strong evidence
against the yellow' fever theory. About ten
days ago he says the State Board of Health
of Mississippi investigated the fever and
pronounced it dengue. If it should, how
ever, prove to be yellow fever, Dr. Bail
bache says the lateness of the season will
materially aid the authorities in keeping
it confined to the locality in which it has
broken out, and gives assurances that there
will be no widespread epidemic of the
dread scourge.
The latest information received by' Dr.
Bailbache, acting surgeon general of the
Marine Hospital Service, is to the effect that
the disease reported at Ocean Springs,
Miss., is yellow fever. This information
comes from Assistant Surgeon Wasdin,
whose regular station is at Mobile, but
w r ho was granted permission to go to Ocean
Springs in company with other physicians,
and it is In accord with the conclusions
reached by Messrs. Harralson and Hunter,
of the Mississippi Board of Health, in their
report to Governor McLaurin. Dr. Was
din’s dispatch is as follows: “A second
autopsy confirms the diagnosis of yellow
fever. There is general acquiescence in this
opinion. The town is nearly depopulated.
No need of great alarm.”
Notwithstanding the opinion reached by
Dr. Wasdin. the officials here are loath to
believe that the disease is yellow fever.
While attaching much importance to Dr.
Wasdin’s conclusions, the bureau, in view
of the gravity of the subject, will a wait a
report from Dr. John Guiteras before any
action is taken. Dr. Guiteras Is a Cuban
by' birth, has himself a case of yellow fever,
and has spent much time in places where It
has existed. It is felt that his opinion of
the disease should be known before any
stringent measures of precaution are taken,
especially in view of the fact that the regu
lations incident thereto always involve
hardship, and in view of the further fact
that the mortality in the present cases has
been so light as to make the officials doubt
whether there is any yellow' fever at all. It
is not known iust when Dr. Guiteras will
reach Ocean Springs, but the assumption
is that he w'ill start promptly' for that place.
The action to be taken hereafter will de
pend almost entirely on the nature of his
rei>ort If the disease is found by him to
he yellow fever active steps will be taken
to prevent its spread and to stamp it out.
A camp of detention will bo established and
other neeessarv measures taken. The opin
ion of Dr. Bailbache is that the disease can
be confined to a limited area, and that it
can make but little if any headway as the
season of frost Is now near at hand.
Telegrams of inquiry' from physicians In
all nart of the country are being received
by Dr. Bailbaeh concerning the reported ex
istence of yellow fever.
SCARE AT JACKSON.
Many People Leaving the Mississippi
Capital for tlie North.
JACKSON. Miss.. Sept. 6.—A telegram re
ceived by Governor McLaurin this morning
at 10 o’clock from Drs. H. 11. Harrelson
and J. F. Hunter, members of the Missis
sippi State Board of Health, now at Ocean
Springs, Miss., stating it was the unani
mous opinion of representatives of the
boards of health of Louisiana, Alabama and
Mississippi and of the Marine Hospital Ser
vice, that without doubt yellow fever was
now raging at that port. The City Council,
at a special meeting held late this after
noon, decided to inaugurate a limited quar
antine against the gulf coast, the scene of
the yellow-fever epidemic, and police officers
will meet all trains coming from the south
and see that no person from the infected
iCouiinut'U ou Second i'agcTji ’
SMALL NOT INVOLVED
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NO IMPROPER PRACTICES BY THE
POSTMASTER AT ANDERSON.
Unsuccessful Efforts Made to Impli
cate Him in a Serious A dotation
of Civil-Service Rules.
BROPHY TO BE REINSTATED
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TERRE HAUTE CASE THAT HAS AT
TRACTED MUCH ATTENTION.
Warren Postmaster in Hunger of For
cible Ejection—Perry S, Heath's Re
port In the Western Union Case.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—The Postoffice
Department has no official information
about the alleged irregularities in the con
duct of the Anderson, Ind., postotfice. The
results of the investigation which has been
carried on by inspectors of the Civil-service
Commission have not yet been received, al
though they are overdue and appear to have
been advertised extensively in advance of
transmission. Unofficially it is learned,
however, at the department that efforts
made to implicate Postmaster Small in im
proper practices have been unsuccessful.
Candidates for position on the eligible list
might sell their chances of appointment to
others low’er down on the list and the fact
not be known to the postmaster. This has
been done time and time again. It is an
offense which, if discovered, is a very
serious violation of civil-service ethics and
held by the Civil-service Commission to be
a high crime, yet the practice is common
and is usually confined to members on the
eligible list. If a discovery is made the ap
plicant who benefits by the transaction and
obtains an appointment is liable to dis
missal. This is the condition of affairs
which is said to exist in Anderson, although
nothing appears to have come to light in
volving the postmaster in the deal. When
the Civil-service Commission makes its re
port on the case to the Postoffice Depart
ment a postoffice inspector, probably Mr.
Fletcher, of Indianapolis, will be assigned
to inquire into the case. Indiana comes un
der the jurisdiction of First Assistant Post
master General Heath, and when all the
facts are before him he will take such
action thereon as may seem to him best. In
other words, he will do as he pleases, and
the Republicans of Indiana have come to
look on his judgment in such matters as be
ing sound. • • •
In the case of Brophy, the Terre Haute
postoffice clerk, w r ho was dismissed owing
to a misapprehension of facts, it can be
stated by authority that he will be rein
stated either by the voluntary action of
Postmaster Benjamin or by order of the
Postoffice Department. It is believed, how
ever, that this action will be taken with, the
tacit understanding that Brophy will resign
in the near future and make w-ay for a suc
cessor in harmony with the local adminis
tration of the office. Considerable attention
has been attracted to this Terre Haute case
by reason that It was investigated by a
joint commission consisting of inspectors
from the Postotfice Department and Civil
service Commission. There have been six
similar cases of investigation in Ohio and
Indiana during the last five months over
dismissals. In five of the seven cases the
investigation has sustained the Postotfice
Department and in two of them reinstate
ment was ordered, one of them being con
ditional on the resignation of the party
complaining, * * *
The Postotfice Department has no infor
mation as to the outcome of the fight at
Warren, Ind., in which Hamilton, the in
cumbent, refused to get out to make way
for Capt. J. S. Elliott, appointed to suc
ceed him. The finish, however, is plain.
It appears that Warren was made a presi
dential office a short time before the end
of the Cleveland administration and Hamil
ton insisted that he was entitled to serve
four years from such reclassification. He
accordingly refused to make way for Capt.
Elliott, who reported the fact to the de
partment. Mr. Hamilton was advised by
wire that he had been removed and his suc
cessor appointed. Captain Elliott was in
structed to take possession and advised to
take with him a deputy United States
marshal, w T ho would have authority to ar
rest the obstructionist and forcibly eject
him from the premises. A case in kind oc
curred recently in lowa, where an ob
streperous Democratic postmaster was
thrown bodily out of a window and instruc
tions tjiven to prosecute him for illegally
attempting to exercise the duties of a
United States official authority.
The report which Perry S. Heath, the first’
assistant postmaster general, has filed with
the Court of Claims in the claim made by
the Western Union Telegraph Company
against the government on business done,
during the Harrison administration will
form the basis for an appropriation by
Congress of over $250,000 in favor of the
Western Union. The history of this claim
is an interesting one. When Mr. Wana
maker assumed the office of postmaster
general he fixed the rates for the trans
mission of official messages for the gov
ernment at a very low figure, the minimum
rates being one-tenth of a cent a word.
The Western Union, handled the business
under protest, and at the end of the Harri
son regime filed an application with the
court for permission to bring suit against
the go\ eminent for what was considered a
fair compensation for the work done. The
matter dragged along indefinitely and the
government and tho telegraph company ul
timately both agreed on Mr. Heath as a
referee. He put several of the experts in
the department at work examining into
the papers in the case. Telegrams to the
number ot 1,i59,;>00 W’ere examined and com
putation made as to what the charged would
amount to at the valuation for such service
at the present time. He found that the
total amount would be $610,470, against
which payments have been made amounting
to $351,600, leaving a balance due of $258,869.
An appropriation by Congress will be neces
sary before the money can be paid over,
but with the indorsement of the Postotfice
Department and secertary of the treasury,
which will come along in due form, the
amount will eventually find its way into
the treasury of tho telegraph company. Th*
charge is made that Mr. Wanamaker fixed
this extremely low rate on telegraphic bu.d
ness for the government to prove how
cheaply business might be done, thereby
hoping to score a point in favor of the
government postal telegraph system.
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t
The Navy Department is more concerned
than it would have the public think over the
discovery that an attache of the Spanish
legation, in the person of a Spanish naval
officer, has been for several months engaged
in an inspection of our fortifications along
the Atlantic seaboard. Uneasiness has been
augmented by the recent suggestive ut
terances of the new Spanish premier, Aza-
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carrago, in which be is represented as fore
shadowing an inviting trouble with this
country over Cuba, and intimating that in
case of war Spain will have the backing of
Europe as against the United States.
• * *
It has remained for Elliott Woods, a
Washington specialist in X ray photogra
phy, to discover a process whereby the
human flesh will not suffer from exposure
to the mysterious power of that penetrating
agent. He was drawn into this particular
feature of investigation by the fact that
on several recent occasions subjects of X
ray experimentation have suffered the loss
of their hair and acute physical agony in
their hands and arms. He .says he has
proved that by the nso of an intervening
gold film the destructive qauiities of the
ray are neutralized without in the least
interfering with the results.
♦
NEW FRENCH CABLE.
Its Right to Lund on American Soil
Not Yet Decided.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Officials of the
State Department and of the attorney gen
eral’s office have been conferring recently
relative to the French cable which lands
at Cape Cod. The cable was first laid under
authority given by the President, through
Secretary' Evarts, in 1879, and recently the
French company has been replacing this
line with anew copper cable. This met with
opposition and Senator Frye introduced a
bill to prevent the landing of cables with
out the assent of Congress, while Senator
Nelson afterwards offered another bill
leaving the question with the President.
Neither bill passed Congress. While they
were under consideration in the Senate
committee on commerce the statement was
made that if the French cable was landed
pending congressional action a United
States revenue cutter would cut it. Through
the summer work on the cable has pro
gress: and steadily and information received
hero to-day indicates that the last link in
the line will be completed in midocean in
about ten days, although there may be de
lays owing to the delicacy of this final op
eration. The American connection at Cape
Cod is said to have been completed with
the line running into midocean. The ques
tion before the State Department and at
torney general has been as to the right of
a foreign country to land a cable on Amer
ican soil. There appears to be much doubt
as to the law, or whether there is any law
on the subject. The French company has
urged that the line was a renewal of the
old line and not anew line. It also has
pointed out in a communication to the Sen
ate committee on Commerce that the line
w’rs of strategic importance to the United
States, as it is said to be the only cable
whic h does not pass over British territory.
What, if any. action the government will
take has not been determined so far as can
be learned.
Argentina May Retaliate.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Senor M.'Gar
da Merou, the Argentine minister, has not
yet received official notice of the message
sent to the Argentine Congress by Presi
dent Uriburu suggesting either reciprocity
treaties with the United States or retalia
tory tariff legislation if the United States
declines to make a treaty, but he is famil
iar with its purport, as it is in line with
negotiations he has conducted for some
time with the State Department. He is ex
pecting information from his government
at an early day. The present action in Ar
gentina was foreshadowed by Senor Merou
in an official note which he seut to Secre
tary Sherman some time ago. In this the
minister referred to the painful surprise of
his government on hearing of the practi
cally prohibitory rate of duty which threat
ened Argentine wool. He also presented a
statement on the condition of the trade be
tween the two countries, which, he said,
showed that the main article's sent by Ar
gentina to the United States are wool,
hides, goatskins and bristles.
Meat Inspectors Scarce.
WASHINGTON, Sep. 6.—The Agricultural
Department is finding difficulty In supplying
the demand from the live-stock centers for
inspectors required to examine the dressed
meats for foreign shipment. There has re
cently been a very pronounced improve
ment in the European market for American
meats, which the law requires should be
inspected before shipped, and as a conse
quence Inspectors are called from Chicago,
St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and other
Western shipping points. The shortage in
inspectors is due to the fact that the civil
list includes no eligibles for the work. The
deficiency has been temporarily supplied by
permitting the re-emp’loyment of persons
who have heretofore been engaged as in
spectors.
Superintendent of Next Census.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—The Evening
Star to-day says: "It is stated that Mr. S.
N. D. North, of Boston, has been selected
*as the superintendent of next census, and
that his appointment will be made as soon
as the necessary legislation can be enacted.
The President is said to favor the estab
lishment of a permanent bureau of census
and is likely to express some views on the
subject in his next message to Congress.”
Walter E. Faison Dying.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Advices re
ceived here from Wilmington, N. C., are
to the effect that Walter E. Faison, late
solicitor of the Department of State, is
hopelessly ill in that city.
M’KINLEYS LEAVECANTON,
President and Wife Go to the Snnimer
Home of Abner McKinley.
CANTON, 0., Sept. 6—President and Mrs.
McKinley remained with their Canton
friends until 9 o’clock this evening, w'hen
they boarded a Pennsylvania train for
Somerest, Pa., there to be the guests of
Abner McKinley, of New Y r ork, at his sum
mer home. The President expressed him
self as having most thoroughly enjoyed the
short visit here, and says he is much rest
ed and refreshed by the sojourn among
his old neighbors and friends.
There was a large number of people seek
ing interviews with him to-day on matters
of an official character. Tho callers came
from all directions, and some of them a
considerable distance. California and other
Western States furnished some of the vis
itors. Many of those who stopped at the
heme of “Mother” McKinley were merely
actuated by curiosity to see the President
and shake his hand. Quite a few wanted
to say something about appointments in
w r hich they were interested.
During the early forenoon the President,
his wife and mother started out for a drive.
They carried some beautiful flowers, which
were laid on the two little graves in West
Lawn Cemetery, where lie the two children
born to them. Then they took a turn about
the city, and passed the historic house and
lawn where they made their home last
summer and where so many people visited
them. Shortly before noon Mr. and Mrs.
McKinley drove to the suburban home of
Mrs. Maria G. Saxton, Mrs. McKinley’s
aunt.’
WORK FOR THOUSANDS.
The Amoskeag and Other New Eng
land Mills Running Full Time.
MANCHESTER, N. H., Sept. 6.—'The
Amoskeag mills started on full time to-day
after a shut-down of one month. Eight
thousand operatives thus return to work.
All the big mills in the city are now run
ning.
FAIRFIELD, Me., Sept 6.—Superin
tendent Shaw', of the textile woolen mill of
Fairfield, run by Sampson <S2 Williams in
connection with their Vassalboro woolen
mills, states that the Fairfield plant is be
ing wired for electricity, ami it is expected
to put on a night crew Wednesday next.
This will give employment to seventy-five
additional hands and double the pay roll.
NORWICH, Conn., Sept. 6. The Fails
Company, manufacturers of cotton goods,
started up on full time to-day, giving em
ployment to five hundred hands. The plant
shut down Aug. 14 for the annual repairs,
but prior to the shut-down the concern had
been operated short-handed.
Portraits of Two Noted Poles.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 6. -The Polish
National Alliance celebrated the opening of
its annual convention to-day by presenting
to tho city iHjrtraitS of Kosciusko and Pu
laski. the revolutionary heroes, which wi re
placed in the patriot gallery of Independ
ence llall. in the gathering were 600 Poles
from New York 400 from Chicago aud 400
from other citica
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) TRAIN'S AND SUNDAYS 5 CENTS.
LABOR DAY AT MUNCIE
ADOI'T 10.000 VISITORS THU
STATES CELEBRATION.
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Next Annnnl Event Will Be Held la
Indianapolis, with Small Af
fairs In Other Cities.
EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY
MR. COMBERS THE STAR ATTRAC
TION' AT BLOOMINGTON.
♦
Miners Make a Demonstration at
Terre Haute and Brasil—At
Other Indiana Towns.
♦ •
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 6.—Muncie, the
“magic city,” was tilled to-day with labor
organizations from many parts of the SJate
that came here to participate in the third
annual state celebration of Labor day. Citi
zens of ail ranks of life did everything pos
sible to show that the honor of having the
celebration held here was appreciated and
the various visiting organizations expressed
satisfaction with the arrangements made.
The events of the day included a big street
parade at noon, horse races and bicycle
races in the afternoon at the fair grounds
and a ball and reception at night. There
was a business session at 6 p. m., at which
the question of where the next celebration
shall be held was discussed. An active con
test for the honor was made by delegates
from Indianapolis, Elwood and Marion.
There was a big crowd in the ‘‘magic city”
to-day. Some estimate it as high as 20,000,
but this figure is probably exaggerated.
Perhaps 10,000 is about the right figure,
including the great numbers that drove in
from the surrounding counties.
At 9 o’clock the first special train over
the Big Four Railroad arrived, bringing
eight crowded coaches with delegates from
Marion, Fairmount and Summitville. A spe
cial from Anderson with seventeen coaches
arrived at 10:30 o’clock. The Indianapolis
train, with fifteen cars, containing 900 ex
cursionists, was scheduled to arrive at
about the same time, but did not reach here
until 11:50 o’clock. There was a second spe
cial from Marion over the Fort Wayne
road, running in two sections, with about
600 passengers on each. Elwood was repre
sented by about 1,000 excursionists, with 600
from Alexandria, 200 from Tipton, 130 from
Hartford City, 50 each from Montpelier,
Itedkey, New Castle, Eaton, Farmland,
Winchester, Union City and many smaller
delegations from more remote villages and
towns. As the different trains urrivod the
streets of the city were rapidly filled by a
hurrying mass of people eager to witness
the street parade The number was con
stantly increased by visitors from the rural
districts wffio drove here In buggies, car
riages and farm wagons, most of the coun
try folk bringing well-filled picnic baskets.
Numbers of these hitched their teams In
the fair grounds a mile away from the city
and hurried dowm to join the throngs in
the streets. Many business men had deco
rated their stores and shops with gay bunt
ing and flags, but the decorations were not
so profuse as might have been wished by
the committee on arrangements. The city,
as a whole, had a gala day appearance.
The public schools were to have opened
to-day, but after the pupils were enrolled
they were dismissed in order to take part
in the general celebration. Quite a number
of the business houses closed, although
some remained open to take advantage of
the country tjfade. The afternoon papers
got out an eatly edition and then shut up
shop in order to allow their printers to
take part in the parade. Everywhere there
seemed to be an anxious desire to make the
celebration the most successful since the
plan of holding state demonstrations was
inaugurated at Indianapolis two years ago.
Expressions made by the delegates of the
different organizations were of a very com
plimentary character to Muncle’s hospitable
endeavors. That the efforts made to assure
a fitting demonstration were eminently suc
cessful was the general verdict.
LATE STREET PARADE.
Owing to the lateness of the arrival of the
Indianapolis train the street parade did not
begih at 10:30 o’clock, as was originally In
tended, and it was not until 12:28 that a
squad of mounted police officers appeared
at the Walnut-street corner of the publics
square in advance of the procession. Be
hind the police officers came several com
panies of the fire department with appa
ratus from the engine houses. Two open
carriages followed, one containing the
mayor and speakers of the day and the
other Edgar A. Perkins, of
president of the State Federation of Labor,
and other labor leaders. Grand Marshal
Will Tobin and his two aids, all mounted,
preceded a band. Large delegations from
Anderson marched at the head of the col
umn, the file makers, carpenters and tin
plate workers having a prominent placth
The parade, as a whole, was without nov
elty and w r as much like any other parade,
the delegations having taken less pains to
provide striking features than at the An
derson celebration last year.
Behind the Anderson unions came the In
dianapolis contingent, under the command
of C. I. Burgan. The j>ainters, in natty
w hite uniforms, came first, with the plumb
ers following them. As the Indianapolis
unions marched through the streets they
made an enthusiastic effort to boom their
city for next year’s convention.
"Where at?" was the question cried out
by some.
"At Indianapolis!” chanted back other*
“When?”
"1898!”
The enthusiasm of the Indianapolis men
awakened some responses in the crowds, and
their efforts to work up a boom met a
good deal of amusing chaffing. Music was
furnished the Indianapolis marchers by
Belchers’s and the When bands. The Typo
graphical Union, under the leadership of
Marshal Beadle, was applauded for its neat
showing.
An effective appearance was made by the
Marion workingmen. The marshals in front
of this division were mounted and had the
bridles of their horses decorated with golden
rod. A good many of the Marion marchers
wore badges urging the claims of that city
for the next celebration. One of the unique
features of the parade was furnished by
the Marion typos, who had with them two
mascots in the j>ersons of Imys dressed In
satanic red costumes, including the proverb
ial horns, hoofs and tatis. allusion to
printers’ “devils” was well understood.
THE M’KINLEY LODGE BANNER.
El wood’s organizations ware led by th
McKinley Lodge of Tin Workers. Their
banner this year was a huge heart-shaped
sheet of mounted tin, containing the name
of the lodge. There was no opposition to it
this time. It will be remembered that at
Anderson last year there was a good deal
of unpleasant feeling on account of the
officiousness of it marshal who w as about to
rule the banner out of the parade on the
ground that there was some political sig
nificance in it. All unions are supposed to
be nonpolltleal. At the time of the Ander
son demonstration political feeling at
the highest pitch. The tin workeis’t'efus t >d
to march without their banner. The lodge,
was organized when the first tin plant was
established in Elwood. and it was named
In McKinley’s honor, as he was at that
time recognized u.s the champion of proteo-
U„n of home industries. That was befor*