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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1900. a MURPHY, HIBBEN Our NOTION DEPARTA1ENT solicits your favorable inspection of recent importations in Laces, All0ver Nets, Fringes, Very complete assortment of staple Millinery Seam Bindings, Bias Velveteen, etc. ovnoLKS. Useful fur Invalids. Reclining and Hoi Cnalrs for parlor ind street.

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asmuch as It has secured all that was aimed at In effecting the Immediate release of the seized ship. Although Mr. Choate has taken a rather advanced position as to the exemption, not only from seizure, but even from detention, of American goods on British steamships, the State Department has so far not committed Itself, being loath to unnecessarily establish a precedent that might prove dangerous In the future. Therefore the department's ground of objection to the seizure of the Sabine was confined to the statement that It was an unnecessary act, inasmuch as the vesfel was bound for a British port, where she was subject legally to the examination of British customs officials, who presumably could be relied upon to stop any contraband of war from reaching the Boen. The was In session little more than an hour to-day.

There was a general talk on the pending finance bill, the conference agreement on which Is known to be satisfactory to the President. The Torto RIcan tariff bill was taken up and discussed at some length. It was stated after the meeting that the President favors the passage of the 15 per cent, compromise measure. The President to-day sent the following nominations to the Senate: Henry B. Miller, Oregon, to be consul at Chung-King, China; Daniel Van Voorheis.

of Ohio, to bo second lieutenant cavalry, U. S. Daniel W. Blake, of Mississippi, to be second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Henry Osslan Flipper, a colored man who was graduated from the Military Academy at "West Point and assigned to the army as a second lieutenant, was tried by court-martial at.

Fort Davis, Texas, Nov. 4, 1SS1, and later, on the finding, dismissed from the army. On Dec. 11. 1S90.

Senator Baker, of Kansas, Introduced a bill to authorize the President to set aside, annul or expunge the proceedings of the court-martial and to restore Flipper to duty, grade, rank and status to which he would have attained had he remained continuously in the eervlce. A cablegram received at the State Department to-day from Mr. Adelbert Hay, United States consul at Pretoria, reports the arrivai at that capital of Capt. Carl Beichmann. the United States army officer detailed to observe the conduct of the war In South Africa from the Boer side.

Mr. Hay adds that. Captain Reichmann was courteously received by the Boer officials. The cablegram was dated to-day, and it is said at the department that all of the business of the consulate 13 being conducted with the greatest dispatch and smoothness. A six-inch armor plate Intended for the Russian government was tested at the Indian Head proving grounds to-day.

A six-inch gun was fired at the plate, the projectile having a velocity of over 1,900 feet per second. The plate was unharmed, the penetration being less than an Inch. Patents were Issued to Indlitnlans to-day as follows: William Baker, Fortville, harrow; Edmund B. Ball. Muncie, glass-blowing and pressing machine; Benjamin Charles, Evansville, nonpuncture and speeding attachment for pneumatic tires; Senteney 8.

Gastlnan. Indianapolis, calk attachment for horseshoes: Claf N. Guld-lln. Fort Wayne, pipe-valve connection for water-gas apparatus; Joseph W. Harrison, Converse, apparatus for casting metal; Rufus G.

Marcy, Bluffton, roller-bearing for windmill shaft; Edward Roberts, Brownsburg. tension pieces; Isham Sedge-wiek. Richmond, windmill for engine; "William M. Smith. Evansville, boiler; Otto Etechhan, Indianapolis, wrench.

If Prince Ponlatowskl or any other Individual has secured possession of- Bastian Island. In the Philippine group, as reported In a press dispatch, the acquisition was made In a purely personal capacity, and, of course, does not affect in any way the sovereignty of the United States now existing over the Island. It Js said at the State De partment that no concessions have been irrented to any one in the Philippines, so Ih it if there has been a change of owner- Lip as to Bastian island the purchaser stands merely In the capacity of a private land owner. The secretary of the industrial commission to-day submitted to Congress a report showing the work performed by the" commission. Its methods, etc.

The number of witnesses examined up to Dec. 31, 1S99, was 272 and the expenses of the commission to the same date $06,877. United States Ambassador Sorter has informed the State Department by cable that the situation in Paris as to the conflict over the Turkish pavilion and the American government building at the Taris exposition has Improved, certain concessions having been made by the Turkish officials. Senator Foraker gave a reception at home. Id this city, to-night, which was largely attended by senators and representatives in Congress.

lresldent McKin ley and Secretary Long attended and remained eorae time. The War Department to-day announced the customs receipts in the Philippine Islands by ports for the month of November. The total of Import duties collected was $327.607. of which $203.400 was collected at Manila. I18.K3 at lloilo and $13,371 at Cebu.

The total amount of export duties collected was $24,912. of which $8.679 was collected at Manila. $1.759 at Hollo and at Cebu. Other dues collected brought the total collection of customs in the Islands for the month up to of which $3.18.501 was collected at Manila, at Hollo and $30.059 at Cebu. Xotea About Iiidlnnlans.

Special to th Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. Capt. Daniel M.

Ransdell. sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, left for home this afternoon to make arrangements for his permanent residence Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum katung powders arc the greatest menacers to health of the present day, OVAL SjUCKO IKJWOf ft YOflX. CO. Ribbons, Buckles, Trimming Braids.

EXCLl'SI VELY.) In this city. He will remain In Indianapolis the rest of the week. Bills for the erection of $130.000 public buildings at Elkhart and Richmond were Introduced In the Senate to-day by Senator Fairbanks. For the establishment of a fish hatchery In Indiana Senator Beverldge has Introduced a bill appropriating $25,000. The chairman of the Senate committee on finance lets it be known that the nomination of W.

D. Bynum for general appraiser, salary $7,000, will be favorably reported at the first favorable opportunity. The opposition has given Mr. Bynum several unhappy and uncomfortable half hours, but his terra In purgatory Is evidently about over. UALSTATEGOVERNMENT KENTUCKY'S RIVAL Ill'LEIlS NOT RECOGNIZED BY BANKS Public Fonda Tied Up and State In.

atltutlona Suffering Senate Refnsea to Confirm Appointments. FRANKFORT, Feb. state governments, completely officered anu each claiming to be the regular and legal officials, are in Frankfort to-day and will remain, each claiming the right to administer the affairs of state till the question is adjudicated in the courts. The only ludicrous thing about the contest came Into the situation to-day. As anticipated, the banks refused to recognize either of the contending factions, and as a result both ant without money and the state funds are as securely tied up as they could be.

Legislators, county, as well as state officials, and all kinds of contractors with the state will have to wait until somebody is authorized by a decision of the court to pay them, and the state will have to wait on what is due It till the courts say who is authorized to receive it. The Democratic state officers have opened offices in the Capital Hotel. The charitable and penal state Institutions are among the sufferers. The Democratic Senate, with a full quorum present, to-day refused to confirm a batch of appointments made by Republican Governor Taylor before the report of the contest boards was adopted. Among the appointments are those of the members of the present State Board of Equalization and trustees and other officers of various charitable Institutions of the state.

The Republican Senate, usual, held a formal session prior to that of the Democrats. Against a Porto RIcan Tariff. NEW YORK. Feb. 27.

At a meeting of the West Side Republican Club to-night resolutions were adopted stating that the club does not believe that discrimination should be made by Congress against Porto Rico in the application of the United States customs tariff, but that the products of the newly acquired island should have the same access to our markets as is enjoyed by the products of the States and Territories of the United States, and as recommended by the President in his recent message to Congress. A copy of these resolutions will be sent to the President and members of Congress. Bryan at Jackson, Mian. JACKSON, Feb. 27.

W. J. Bryan spoke to an audience of 1,500 people in Representatives Hall this afternoon, dividing his time equally between free silver. trusts and imoerlalism. His denudation of the latter was especially severe, the policy of the administration In the Philip pines and Porto Rico being compared with that of the government toward the South during the reconstruction period.

Mr. Bryan left to-night for Baton Rouge, where ni speaKs to-morrow night. For Harrison and' Crowley. MARSHALL, 111., Feb. 27.

The Clark county Democratic convention instructed the delegates to the state convention, to vote for Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, for Governor If he Is a candidate, and Instruct ed the congressional delegates for Con gressman Crowley against former Con gressman Hunter. Resolutions were adopt ed reaffirming the Chicago platform, con demnlng Governor Tanner's admlnistra tion and declaring against the acquisition or the l'hiiippines. Ohio Republican Nomination. TOLEDO, Feb. 27.

The first congression al convention held In Ohio this year, met at Defiance to-day. The Republicans of the Fifth district nominated Judge F. L. Hay, of Defiance, by acclamation. The Fifth Ohio district is at present represented by David Meeklson, Democrat.

Delegates to the Republican national convention were also named. AMERICAN INFLUENCE. It la Said to lie Sow Kelt Throaojnout the Orient. CHICAGO, Feb. Ashmore, a Baptist missionary who has spent half a century In China, has arrived In Chicago.

He Is on his way to his old home In New England, after an absence of fifty-four years, yet despite his age. he says he in tends to return to the Celestial empire and continue his mission wrk. Referring to the political situation in the East, he said: "The presence of the United States in the Philippines has changed the whole Asiatic question. The influence of tho United States government Is now felt throughout th-i hemisphere. An American Is leader of the reform party In to day.

He legan the reform movement shortly after the close of the war with Japan. The Emperor, aiding him, established a system whereby books were purchased and libraries formed. He aided In the founding of newspapers. He became so enthusiastic that he promulgated an order to do away with queues. This resulted in the Empress dejoslng him.

It Is not tiue that he la dead, or even a prisoner. He may be sren dally taking exercise on the platform along ihe palace walls The relorm movement Is sleeping, but by no neans dead." Contempt Proceedings Quashed. MADISON. Feb. 27.

The Supreme Court to-day handed down a decision quashing the contempt proceedings against the mayor, city clerk and twenty-live aldermen of the city of Milwaukee for parsing and approving the street railway ordinance after they had been enjoined from doing so by the Superior Court. MILWAUKEE. Feb. decision of the Supreme Court at Madison whereby the contempt capes against city officials are quashed la looked upon as establishing th validity of the ordinance, holding in substance that a court of equity has not the power to enjoin, a legislative body, which tho City Council was held to be. FARIS WILL NOT TALK IlEFL'SES TO SPEAK CONCERNING III 31 OILS OF HIS WITHDRAWAL.

Frlmnry Recount at Marlon Trial for Marder at Illoomfleld Hrisk. Morning Fire at Greensbnrg. Fplal to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Feb. 27.

Repre sentative Faris absolutely refuses to talk about the report that he has returned from Washington to withdraw from the rce for renomlnatlon. However, it Is very generally believed that he will withdraw, and that he has said as much to those with whom he has consulted. It is announced that James S. Barcus, who recently moved here from New York, will enter the race, as also will A. M.

Hig-gins. Mr. Wlmraer, of Park county, says that with Mr. Faris out his county will have a candidate, presumably Howard Maxwell. So far Catlln, of this city, Is the only avowed candidate.

A for Drlck. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINAMAC, Feb. 27. The Republic ans of Pulaski county met In mass conven tion to-day and selected the following delegates to the state convention: James R.

Guild, Charles W. Barker, R. B. Minton, William Kelsey, Samuel G. Brown, Harry W.

WIdup, Wm. W. Rosier; congressional convention, Charles Parott, Elmer W. Wil liams, William Sable. Wm.

R. Jones, H. P. Low, George Douglas; representative convention, Samuel Fisher, Frank Harpster, Charles Westfall, James R. Guild.

Walter Weeks, Noah Klstler, John S. Troutman. Charles Hazel, John S. Gllslnger, Charles Becker. Frederick convention.

Edward F. Larrabee, Richard Johnson, Edward Klstler, Henry Kroft, H. S. McKInney, Harry E. Wldup, Frank Kochel.

Joseph Tomllson, John R. Pugh, William R. Jones. Ferdinand Wakinltz, William Crane. The congressional delegates are instructed for A.

K. Brick. Field Will De Candidate. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PRINCETON, Feb.

27. Martin W. Fields, of this city, will be a candidate for the nomination for lieutenant governor, before the Republican State convention. This announcement was made to-night by an intimate friend of Fields. Mr.

Fields is the leading lawyer at the Princeton bar, and has a wide acquaintance over the State. He was a member of the House in the Legislature of 1S88. In 1SDG he was the Republican candidate for a judge of the Eleventh judicial circuit. In 1S9S he was urged to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress from the First district, declined to make the race on account of friendship to Representative Hemenway. He is recognized as a brilliant orator and a leading advocate of Republicanism In Southern Indiana.

Recount at Marion. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION, Feb. 27. The committee appointed to recount the votes cast at the recent Republican primary election In the cases of II.

O. P. Cllne and F. M. Haines, for recorder, and Cortez Knight and F.

M. Baldwin, for surveyor, returned its report to-day. The recount gives Cllne a plurality of 68. Instead of 38, and Knight 23, instead of 20. Baldwin claims to have an affidavit from a member of the election board of Precinct 17.

at the Soldiers Home, by which he confesses to having cast sixty illegal votes himself. The matter Is being investigated by the executive committee. If the vote of the precinct is thrown out it means the nomination of Baldwin and Haines. Another Love Feast Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND.

Feb. G. Swain, Republican chairman for Wayne county, to-day announced that the evening preceding the Sixth district congressional convention in this city, March 8, will be given up to a love feast. This Is to be made an Important event and many of the prominent Republicans of the State wilfrbe present. All the candidates for state offices will be Invited.

A programme of short addresses will be given. State Senator C. C. Binkley will make the address of welcome. Committees have been appointed to arrange for the event, which will be held at the Phillips Opera House.

Love Feast at Muncie. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Feb. 27. Muncie Republicans met with District Chairman Goodrich last' night and completed arrangements for a grand Republican love feast In this city on the eve of the Republican district convention the night of March 12 previous to the renomlnatlon of Congressman Cromer, which will be by acclamation.

Tho candidates for state offices and other leading Republican politicians will be invited to be present. John W. Parka for Senator. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WARSAW, Feb.

Repub licans of Marshall and of Kosciusko counties met in joint convention this afternoon and nominated John W. Parks as the joint senator for the two counties. ON TRIAL. FOR ML'HDER. Aired Woman Changed aa Accomplice In the Killing of Her Daughter.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMFIELD, Feb. 27. The trial of Mrs. Mary Ann Atrderson.

charged with being an accomplice In the murder of her daughter, Clara Waggoner, began here to day. Last October William H. Waggoner was found guilty of the murder of his wife on the 10th of October, lSll. The murder was committed near Newark, this county. and such was the mystery surrounding the case that an indictment was never returned until eight years afterward.

William Waggoner, at the age of sixteen. while in a state of intoxication, married Clara Anderson, a paralytic and weak minded woman. The woman had been a burdensome charge upon her mother and was also such to her husband. Waggoner finally left her and married another wom an. It was claimexrby the prosecution that Waggoner came to Newark on the night of Oct.

10. 1S91. and choked his wife to death and threw the body in the cistern, where it wns found. He was found guilty and given a life sentence. After his conviction he made a confession implicating one George Watson and the woman's mother, Mary Ann Anderson.

He says he was present at the time of his wife death; that she haJ been given a dose of poison, but did not ex plre under its effects and that thereupon Watson choked her to death, and he and Watson then carried the body out of the house, the mother l. adlng tne way to the cistern and taking ths lid off. The men threw the body in the cistern and the old woman threw the rope and cistern bucket in and covered up the opening. Waggoner was brought here from the Northern Prison to testify. Mrs.

Anderson Is about seventy years old thin and feeble, and makes a plMaole ob ject In court. She Is defended by Messrs Cavins Henderson. In Jnll on Serlou ChnrKe. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE.

Feb. Gardner was placed In the Delaware county jail last night after a preliminary hearing at Albany on the charge of having assaulted his wife with Intent to kill. The young man was arrested at Fort Wayne, his former home. His wife, a bride of but a few weeks, died two weeks ago after he had abandoned her. It Is claimed that he has previously been married to a Fort Wayne woman and never divorced.

There Is great Indignation at Albany over the case. He waived examination at the preliminary hearing and went to JaiL ALEXANDRIA'S GAS WAR. Cltr Entern an Injunction Salt Afrnlnst the Company. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ALEXANDRIA, Feb.

citi zens are still very much agitated over the gas situation and were much startled by the turn of affairs this morning. The city brought an injunction suit ask ing that the company be restrained from operating In the city, and when it came up for hearing before Judge Ryan this morning the gas company was practically defeated, although the attorney representing the city said he would prefer to withdraw the suit rather than to have the restraining order granted. It is rumored that the Alexandria Gas Company has made a proposition to and received one from the Indianapolis Gas Company and there is only a very small difference between them. The Indianapolis i.as Company engineer was nere to-aay surveying the lines and getting some gen eral information concerning the wells, and It is believed that unless the city and the gas company come to an understanding In the very near future, the gas will be sold to the Indianapolis company. Fine New Gna Well nt Windfall.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINDFALL, Feb. 27. A. F.

Swove- land, owner of the Windfall Gas Com pany, completed a well yesterday. Just In side the northern limit of the city, which developed enough pressure to enable Mr. Swoveland to resume operations with his glass factory which has been closed near ly a year for lack ot ruei, and to turn about half the product of the well into the public mains. Gas has been very short this winter, coal and wood being largely in use. and the increased gas pressure is very wel come.

Several additional wells will be put down as soon as possible. BRISK FIRE AT GREEXSBl'RG. Losa of Tiventy-EIjrlit Hundred Dol- lam, Covered by Innnrance. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENSBURG.

Feb. 27. Fire was discovered this morning at 6 o'clock In the rooms of the Emanon Club, Odd Fellows' building, and was extinguished by the hard work of the fire department after a loss of $1,000 on the building, $500 on the stock of clothing of Carter $1.000 to Grover Bonner, drugs, and $300 to the Emanon Club. The building was insured In the Continental. Fire Association.

Philadelphia, $2,000: Phoenix Assurance, of London, Carter on stock: Continentl. $1.000: Germania. Greenwich, Northwestern, $500; Merchants, $5j0; Royal Exchange, $500. Grover Bonner, on stock: Phoenix, of Hartford, Queen. Northwestern, Franklin, $2,000.

Elkhart Councllmanlc Investigation. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELKHART, Feb. to-nlghfs meeting of the City Council Mayor Turner appointed a committee to investigate the charge that Councilman J. J.

Shaw had bought of Chairman William Krau, of the cemetery committee, a plot of ground In Gracelawn Cemetery originally set apart for city firemen for $100, while its market value is at least $500. It is asserted, first, that the sale could not be made at all without the consent of the Council, and, second, that the price was one-fifth its real value. The Council's action was nonpartisan, Shaw and accusers being Republicans and Krau a Democrat. Drnkeman Killed at Seymour. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

SEYMOUR, Feb. 27. John F. Ney, a brakeman on local freight on the Pennsylvania road, was instar.fly killed here this morning at 9:43 by falling from box car to the track, three cars passing over his chest. He had been railroading about eight months, previous which time he was a country school teacher.

He was twenty-seven years old anu left a widow and two children. He was a member of the Odd Fellows and Masonic lodges of Jeffer-sonville. The body was taken to Jefferson-ville to-night forinterment. Violated Internal Revenue Law. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

MUNCIE. Feb. 27. A. N.

GifCord, manager of the Elwood baseball team last season, was before United States Commissioner Ellis to-day for violation of the internal revenue laws in failure to pay his ten dollars tax last season previous to collecting admissions to his exhibitions. The man pleaded Ignorance of the law, but was bound over to the United States Circuit at Indianapolis and Judge Baker will decide the case. Glfford furnished $200 bond. This is the first arrest of the kind in the State. Small Fortune Left to Mlftalona.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Feb. 27. A settlement was made in the Wayne Circuit Court today of the estate of the late Eleanor Scott, daughter-in-law of the late William G. Scott, from whom she inherited Two-thirds of the estate goes to the heirs of Mrs.

Scott, who are residents of Colorado, and the other third goes equally to the general foreign missionary societies of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. No demand has been made for the money. Released on Parole. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEBANON, Feb.

27. Frank Hall, the colored man, who narrowly escaped be ing lynched here on Feb. 5, 1S94, and who was sentenced to twenty-one years im prisonment on a charge of criminally as saulting Mrs. Mary Akers. a white woman.

has been paroled. He served only a little over six years of his sentence. His prison record is said to be perfect. During his im prisonment he earned Siw by working over time. He is now working as a molder.

Indiana, Pharmacentlcnl Convention. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SOUTH BEND, Feb. 27. The an nual meeting of the Indiana Pharmaceuti cal Association will be held in South Bend on June 13, 14 and 15.

It promises to be the greatest session of that body in point of at tendance and Interest in years, inere are over three hundred members. The prin cipal officers of the Indiana association are F. D. Warner, New Carlisle, president; A. Tlmberlake, Indianapolis, secretary; G.

G. Allen, Indianapolis, treasurer. A Thousand Cases of LnGrlppe. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH.

Feb. 27. An epidemic resembling the Russian Influenza is prevailing In this city. A local druggist says there are at least one thousand cases of the malady In the city, the attacks being par ticularly severe among young people and the extremely aged. The symptoms arc those attending a bad cold, fever runs high and the nervous system of the pa tlent is affected.

Roy Saved Mother anil Sisters. PERU, Feb. 17. Charles Hardwlck. fourteen years of age, rescued his mother and three sisters from their burning home early to-day.

He awoke just as the roof fell, and saved himself by jumping from the second-story window. His mother and Asters were still in the building. The boy placed a ladder under the window of the bedroom and succeeded in getting the family out just as the walls of the house collapsed. Tried to Commit Suicide. Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

RICHMOND. Feb. 27. Mrs. Elmer Landls, aged twenty years, married but six months ago, made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide last night, taking 15 cents worth of morphine.

Despondency over domestic unhappiness was the cause, Landls having recently sued for divorce. The woman's life was saved only by five hours of the hardest work. Muncie Win Another Game. Sjeclal to the Iadianaolls Journal. MUNCIE.

Feb. won the fifth successive polo game to-night In the championship teries of seven games with Richmond by the score of 3 to 1. In total goals, which decides the contest, Muncie has 20 and Richmond 7. A big delegation. with a brass band, will accompany the champions to Richmond on a special train for the next game Thursday night.

Indiana Obituary. JEFFERSON VI LLE. Feb. 27. John C.

McCormlck, former county commis sioner, deputy county clerk and widely known citizen, died this morning at the Deaconess Hospital of paralysis. He was sixty-eight years old. and spent his entire life in Clark county, with the exception of the four years he served in the civil war. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Eighty-first Indiana Infantrv. Company I.

and served gallantly. Besides his wife, two daughters survive him, Mrs. Allen Adams and Mrs. Charles Taylor. The remains were shipped this afternoon to the late home in Owen township for interment.

VINCENNES. Feb. M. Moore. of St.

Louis, died to-day at Maxedon Somer's sanitarium. On learning of his ill ness his granddaughter, Mrs. J. M. Mur phy, of New Orleans, started for Vin- cennes on a special train and made the journey in eleven hours, reaching here be fore he died.

Mr. Moore was night superintendent at the Interstate Distillery in this city. SULLIVAN. Feb. 27.

Mrs. Rebecca Mayfieid. one of the oldest residents of the county, died this morning nt her home near this city. She was eighty-four years of aere and was the mother of Sheriff Charles May- neia. Indiana Note.

Dr. E. M. Trook. of Marion, has been appointed surgeon in the army, with the rank of captain, and ordered to duty in the Philippines.

The Tlerney-Trainor boxing mill at Marion was declared off, owing to threatened intervention of the sheriff, on orders from Governor Mount. Danville capitalists, who looked over the situation at Lebanon, have reached the conclusion that It is a good field for the venture, and will establish a Keeley Cure Sanitarium there. The Decatur authorities are making their first enforcement of the law requiring fire escapes on high buildings. Work was begun yesterday on the Odd Fellows- temple and other buildings will follow rapidly as possible. The Wabash City Council has received bids for the paving of a mile of Hill street, from the Barber Asphalt Paving Company, the Western, and a local company, P.

IIIps-kind Company. The tenders were all over anu so near alike that the Council scented a combination, and will investigate before reaching a decision on the award. BONDS ARE BOOMING. Refunding: Clause Adda to the De mand for National Securities. NEW YORK, Feb.

bonds continued very strong to-day, the notable advance being in the fours of 1923, which are not convertible under the refunding clause of the finance bill. The bid quotations for these bonds advanced ls points, following a similar rise of Yfa points Monday. Other classes of government bonds gained point "each. National banks in all sections of the country are sending to bond dealers In this city to procure United States 3, 4 and 5 per cent, bonds, convertible under the terms of the pending currency bill into the 2 per cent. Issue, which will be available to secure circulation.

New York banks will also, take out additional notes, increasing materially their circulation of $17,971,500, reported on Saturday last. The feeling was general yesterday that the refunding section of the bill will put In circulation a very large addition to the amount of national bank notes now outstanding, which might have an important bearing upon money market conditions at this center. Of the $235,830,170 of bonds now on deposit with the government to secure circulation, $197,000,000 are in the convertible issues. These, it was said to-day, would be immediately available and would necessitate, on conversion, a payment of $20,000.000 in bonds by the government, which would add that sum to the bank reserves, if Secretary Gage found it expedient to effect payment through the treasury. The expectation is.

however, that the banks will take out $23,000,000 additional circulation or the full 10 per cent, limit Increase on the basis of present deposits, as soon as the law goes Into effect. Should this be done, the additional notes tnus issued, with the $20,000,000 bonus payment by the government (If payment is made from treasury funds), will represent the possible effecc of the refunding settlon under conditions existing to-day. MILLIONS AT STAKE. Slab and Skeleton to De Used nri Evidence In nn Important Suit. ST.

LOUIS, Feb. 27. The battle for possession of the famous Sublette estate In this city began in Judge Wood's division of the Circuit Court to-day when the case of Peniston against Schleude, a suit for eject ment, came up. Seven similar cases are pending in the Circuit Court and they will, it is i aid, be determined in accord- ence with the decision in the suit of Penis-ton against Schleude. The.

property involved is bounded by King's Highway, Old Manchester road, Sublette avenue, and the Missouri Pacific Railway tracks and Is valued at several million dollars. The plaintiffs are suing as descendants of Pink ney Sublette, heir at law of Solomon Sub lette, and not as the heirs of PInkney Sub lette, residuary beneficiary of the purport ed will of Solomon Sublette. Of the evl dence that the plaintiffs have collected in support of their claim are a slab and a skeleton taken from a grave supposed to be that of Pinkney Sublette in Wyoming. The slab bears Sublette's Initials and the date of his death. The latter Is important and goes to the gist of the action, for it must be shown before the plaintiffs can establish their claim that Pinkney was living at the time of the death of Solomon Sublette.

Solomon Sublette was one of five brothers. trappers, who lived here early in the his tory of St. Louis and are known through cut the West. TURNED STATE'S EVIDENCE. ConfesNion That Caused a Sensation in Municipal Circles.

CLEVELAND, Feb. sensation was caused in Common Pleas Court today when Daniel A. Stewart, of the Ohio Heating and Manufacturing Company, who had been jointly indicted with A. E. Davis and Samuel G.

Brooker for defrauding the city, turned state's evidence against his codefendants. Davis and Brooker were clerks in the public works and auditor's departments, respectively, under the last city administration. They were accused of raising bills against the city and dividing the money thus fraudulently secured with the contractor. Stewart confessed on the stand that he and Davis had raised a number of bills. One for $49.11 was raised to $249.11.

On the day that bill was raised he met Davis in a saloon. The latter had a bunch of bills. This one was fixed by the witness, Davis telling him how to do it The next day he drew the money for the bill from the city treasury. He kept one-third of the money and gave a third each to Davis and Brooker. Experts who have been at work for several months unearthed alleged frauds by which the city was swin dled out of $15.000 or $20.000.

In one in stance, it is claimed, was paid for pig lead that was never delivered to the city The confession of Stewart was a complete surprise to the defendants, whose attor reys were seeking to hamper the prosecU' tlon by a report to technicalities. Criminal AMnallnnt Arrested. LEXINGTON. Feb. 27.

A telephone message from Nicholasville, late to-night, stated that "Doc" Lowry. white, had been arrested on telegraphic information from Valley View, that he had criminally assaulted Mrs. Haman Million, this afternoon. A crowd is gathering it Valley View, and tlW Nicholasville. authorities are apprehensive of a mob.

They contemplate moving Lowry Jo Lexington. Lowry confessed he was the man wanted when he was arrested, but denies the-assault. BIG STRIKE PROBABLE DEMANDS OF MACHINISTS BV FACTI REUS. Four to Ten Thousand Involved In Chicago Sixty Thouwnnd Elsewhere May Also lie Affected. CHICAGO.

Feb. 27. The Machinery Man ufacturers' Association voted unanimously to-day to refuse the demands of the machinists' union for an Increase in wages and recognition for the union. This action means the calling of a general strike by the machinists' union either to-morrow of Thursday. From 4.000 to 10.000 machinists will be Involved.

It is expected that every factory In the city will close down. The effect of the action of the association will not be felt in Chicago alone. Sixty thousand machinists throughout the coun try have made practically the same demands that the Chicago local union has. and It is expected the action taken by. the Chicago manufacturers will be taken by others in the United States and Canada.

President P. W. Gates, of the association. said: "I have little doubt that there will be a general strike of machinists. We expect one will be inaugurated and action was taken with this belief.

Rather than submit to their demands we will suspend work indefinitely. There are 10.000 machinists in this city and are members of the union. However. I think a majority of all the men will walk out. The number who will continue on a strike for any length of time will be comparatively small, luvery ritv will have to suspend operations if a general strUe Is called, for It will be Impossible to continue worn out machinists." WAGES TO BE ADVANCED.

Eighteen Thousand Coke Workera to Receive Advance of 12 Per Cent. PITTSBURG. Feb. 27. It is learned that the 18,000 coke workers in the Connells- ville region will to-morrow receive notice of an advance in their wages of about 12 per cent.

The last advance was made in May, 1S99, when an increase of 7 cents per 100 bushels was granted the miners as a basic price, the other workers receiving proportionate advances. Since then the price of coke has nearly or quite doubled. The Frlck Coke Company controls 14,000 of the 19.000 ovens in the region. Since the first of the year twenty-nve new mines v.oA Kann nrtoned im ahd 5.000 new ovens are being built. When in operation the new wage scale will be operative in these plants.

Altogether, directly and indirectly, between 25,000 and 30,000 workers will be affected by the increase. HONORED BY FRANCE. Clmrlea Wr. Dalmey to Be a Jndge nt the Pari Exposlton. KNOXVILLE, Feb.

Chas. W. Dabney. president of the University of Tennessee, has just been appointed to membership on the jury of awards for the Paris exposition, which will open in y.pril. The honor is a high one.

Dr. Dcbney's selection was made by the government of the French Republic, which has supreme control of uie exposition and its affairs. He received formal notice of his appointment to-day, but he has not yet fully made up his mind as to whether he will be able to accept the post. He will not, however, long keep the French government in doubt. Dr.

Dabney, although only forty-five years' old. has a distinguished career as a man of science and an educator. He was born in Virginia and was graduated from Hampden-Sidney College in 1873. After a short scientific course in the University of Virginia he became professor of chemistry and mineralogy in Emory and Henry College, a chair he left In 1SS0 to go to Germany. He entered the University of Gotr tingen and within one year he.

won his degree of doctor of philosophy in that institution. Dr. Dabney has taken a keen interest in meteorology and in agriculture, and before he became president o. the University of Tennessee he filled the office of assistant secretary of agriculture. He Is a member of several scientific societies and his researches in mineralogy and chemistry have made his name familiar to scientific men generally in this country and in Europe.

NETHERS0LE IN COURT. She Llstena to Mra. Henaley Condemn the Plar of Snpho' na Immoral. NEW YORK, Feb. 27.

Olga Nethersole, the actress, appeared to-day in the Center-street Court, where the examination was resumed into the question as to whether "Sapho" is an immoral play. She came in with Hamilton Rcvell, her leading man, Marcus Mayer, her manager, and Abe Hummell. their attorney. The hearing was private. Tha first witness for the session was Mrs.

Almon Hensley, president of the Society for the Study of Life. Other witnesses subpoeanaed to testify at the hearing were Mrs. Julius Harburger, Mrs. S. A.

Harris, of the New York Mothers' Club. Mrs. Amelia M. Scalkins, of the Study of Life Society, and Dr. Eloise F.

Church. 35 is 44 A Gentle Wind of Western Birth tt TcUs no sweeter story to hjmjLrJty fun (he announcement thai the And health-bringer, HooS SirsJtpjiruU, teUs of the birth of an era. of good hexltfu It is the one reliable specific for the cure of blood, stomach and liver troubles QQtS There were also several dramatic critics among the witnesses. Mrs. Hensley described the first scene of the first act of the play as stich a one as might Feen at the French ball, she thought, although t-he had never bten to one.

She thn described the staircase scene and repeated much of the conversation between Jean and Sapho. After some further testimony, the case was adjourned until Thursday morning. SPANISH STEAMER HELPLESS. Revenue Cutter Sent to the Relief of the Minerva and Creiv. PHILADELPHIA.

Feb. Instructions from the United States Treasury Department the Revenue Cutter On-endaga. Captain Haaiet. sailed from this port to-day to the rescue of forty men, comprising the crew of the Spanish steamship Minerva, now drifting about at sea In a helpless condition. The Minerva Is laden with 5,000 tons of iron ore.

She sailed from Porman. Spain, Jan. 27, for Baltimore, and when her cargo was discharged she was to have loaded general merchandise at either that port or Philadelphia for St. Nazair, France. On the arrival of the British steamship Parana at New York Friday from Madeira, it was learned that the Minerva was adrift without coal.

Th Minerva "was sighted Feb. 21 in latitude Cfi.20. longitude 69.03. and she was taken in tow by the Parana. After towing her for about two hours the hawser parted and the vessels became separated.

The Minerva is 2.315 tons net register and is a steel craft with triple, expansion engines. She is of modern constrution and design. She is valued with her cargo at more than The drifting vessel is supposed to be about 259 miles off the Delaware capes. Boiler Lenklnir nnd Rudder Damaged. NEW YORK.

Feb. Wilson Una steamer Marengo, Captain Bingham, which left this port on the 23d for Newcastle, returned to-day with her starboard boiler leaking and rudder slight- damaged. The repairs will be effected within twenty-four hours and she will probably be able to resume her voyage Wednesday noon. Five Stewardcaaea Drowned. SASSNITZ.

Germany, Feb. Swedish mall steamer Rex stranded oft Lohmruegen Island during a fog. Five stewardesses, were drowned in attempting to leave the ship. The rest of the crew and passengers and mail are still aboard. Fire Probably Lost.

ABERDEEN. Feb. 27. rive Aberdeen trawlers which started for the fishing grounds before the recent gale have not and all hope of their safety has been abandoned. Their crews number about seventy men and boys.

Movementa of Steamera. NEW YORK, Feb. 27. Arrived: Thlng-valla, from Copenhagen: Rotterdam, from Rotterdam: La Norrnandie, from Havre. QUEENSTOWN, Feb.

27. Arrived: Oceanic, from New York for Liverpool, and proceeded. GIBRALTAR, Feb. Werra, from Genoa, for New York. MO VI LLE, Feb.

Anchoria, from Glasgow for New York. BOULOGNE. Feb. 27. Sailed: Palatla, from Hamburg for New York.

JAFFA. Feb. 22. Arrived: New England, from Boston, on cruise. LIVERPOOL.

Feb. 27. Arrived: Taurie, from New York. GENOA, Feb. 27.

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