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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1901
Page
5
The December 7 1901 issue lists subscription rates for carriers mail and clubs and public notices. It also contains editorials on immigration tariff reciprocity Philippine governance and political strategy plus commentary on Georgia prosperity and the Kansas City platform with references to figures like Lew Wallace and the Taft commission.
General Wallace argues for amending the Constitution to define treason as conspiracy to destroy the government and to empower Congress to act against such subversion. He asserts authority to unite with other powers to suppress anarchy, diverging from the President and ex-Minister Harris on authority.
The Hay Pauncefote treaty sent to the Senate ends the Clayton Bulwer pact and grants the United States exclusive rights to construct and regulate the Nicaragua canal with a neutral, open policy for all nations in war and peace. Britain concedes sovereign control while preserving U S military police to protect the canal. If not ratified, the Clayton Bulwer treaty remains in force.
The recently read resolutions show Tammany Hall planning to steer the national Democratic Party with Edward M. Shepard as its leader and instrument. Shepard authored the resolutions, endorsed by Tammany leaders including Richard Croker, signaling a shift from Bryan Cleveland disputes toward unity on core issues. The move provokes caucus turmoil and questions about party cohesion and the New York platform’s influence.
The piece argues Tammany’s bid for control under Shepard weakens unity, with western and southern papers opposing. It critiques tariff reforms, warns against protectionist shifts, and notes figures like Representative Alexander and Brownlow urging parks and forest reserves as national memorials to McKinley, while cautioning Congress over private expositions’ losses.
A collage of jokes from humor pages with quips about babies, a woodyard, and a small boy remarking on the postprandial oration. The Southern Telegraph and Money Order Company rooms in St Louis were raided by detectives, eight wagons of men taken to the Courts.
General Chaffee reports on the military situation in the Philippines with rebels active in Batangas La Laguna Samar Mindoro Cebu and Bohol Islands. Joint operations and security measures are outlined as U S forces respond to insurgent activity across multiple provinces.
The War Department releases Major General Adna R. Chaffee’s annual report on the Philippines. He details disturbed provinces Batangas Laguna Samar Mindoro Cebu Bohol and notes guerrilla warfare driven by amigos and foes alike. He urges gradual civil administration, warns against rapid troop withdrawal, and outlines cost estimates for permanent posts near Manila and other sites.
In this province three teachers are based in Wigan, with several more native instructors totaling around fifty in the province. Attendance in Wigan reaches about fifty students by day and the same at night school, mirroring Elkhart county’s size.
The secretary of war moves the transport Kilpatrick from the New York Manila route to the San Francisco Manila route to speed troop and supply shipments. The vessel, currently at Manila, will sail around mid December to assist in moving forces between Manila and San Francisco.
A Rome dispatch reports Mer. Sbarretti, ex archbishop of Havana and new apostolic delegate to the Philippine islands, will depart for Manila to seek a modus vivendi with the Philippine monastic orders.
Import merchants prepare a petition to Congress demanding Manila be declared an American port free of duty. Major Valesco, an insurgent outlaw who attempted to murder a Filipino judge, has been sentenced to garroting.
The Speaker condemns Roosevelt on trusts as trivial and insincere, deeming his diagnosis of industrial ills insufficient. Saturday Review says U. S. industry is highly organized and trusts reflect the system, while Britain’s canal treaty gains aim for friendship. The Outlook offers cautious, mixed notes on reciprocity and anarchist theory.
A Canadian Pacific freight train moving slowly around a curve near the Fraser River slid past a rock slide. The engine and fireman died as the locomotive plunged three hundred feet down the bluff. Three cars were wrecked, tumbling after the engine. Engineer Randall and Fireman Petruff perished.
In Malvern Arkansas five more deaths from a head end wreck on the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern occurred. Maggie Stevenson of Landersville Alabama died from injuries. two colored children also died. two white men found dead in the baggage car wreckage. Twenty eight injured colored passengers were taken to Little Rock hospital. Coroner’s inquest ongoing. The crash appears caused by a misunderstanding of orders. A separate Oregon wreck near The Dalles left engineer Maurice Cavanaugh scalded and fireman Frank Crase seriously injured. no passengers hurt. Wreckers suspected as a nut on a curve and another on the rail were found.
In Moundsville a collision between the second and first sections of a B. and O. freight train left the engine and ten cars badly wrecked. Conductor I. C. Kelley of Marietta slept in the caboose as it caught fire from a stove. his head arms and legs were burned off. Firemen saved all but about six cars.
A switch engine on the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad left the rails at Ross switch near Wagoner Oklahoma while running in reverse at high speed. Engineer J L Hutchinson and Brakeman Johnson were instantly killed. A conductor and a fireman were slightly injured.
The Spectator will dedicate space to President Roosevelt with praise for his Congress message and stance on trusts and foreign policy. It notes European powers unlikely to accept Monroeism, contingent on American naval strength, and welcomes talk of constitutional amendment. It lauds his essay The Citizen and the Public Man as showing Cromwellian vigor.
Cleveland public schools adopt a secret contribution system for the McKinley Memorial Fund. Pupils receive sealed envelopes with their name and home address. teachers forward contributions to a treasurer. Any amount from 4 pennies is accepted, with a souvenir certificate for all donors to ensure equal footing between a penny giver and a millionaire.
Bud Wilson, a convict who killed Yell County guard R H Naylor last September, was hanged in DanvilleArk today. The trap was sprung at 15 o clock and at 10 05 the body was pronounced dead and lowered. Before the lid, the body moved, eyes opened, tremors shook his frame, deputies removed him for a second hanging attempt, but he remained limp and died from strangulation.
The Minnesota state railroad and warehouse commission plans a Washington trip to confer with the Interstate Commerce Commission on countering Governor Van Sant's opposition to the proposed Northern Securities Company merger. Governor Van Sant and Attorney General Douglass are invited, transportation arranged for five.
London editor asserts a Philippine tobacco growers combine is likely and Rothschilds may be involved, while a signed AP statement denies any denial of the story. In New York reports the Mail and Express cast doubt on a Philippine tobacco grower cartel and officials say they know nothing of a $3,000,000 capital combine.
Reverend Edward Eby, a United Brethren minister from Elkhart, reports from Indiana that Filipino children in the Philippines show exceptional progress under American teachers. He notes bright students reading, speaking, and writing well, with strong memories and diligent study habits.
Thomas J. Hampton colored man hanged at Lake City for the 9 year old Fort White double murder. He smoked a cigar until the cap was adjusted and confessed to five murders including a conductor on a Lexington South Carolina train. He had escaped but was captured recently. Other killings occurred in Georgia.
In Ottawa on December 6 Miss Bessie Blair daughter of Hon A G Blair minister of railway semi canals and H A Harper assistant editor of the Labor Gazette were drowned at a private skating party. They broke through swift ice while separating from the others. Mr Creelman a bank clerk was rescued unconscious after drifting through the ice while aiding Harper and Miss Clair.
The Mississippi River is unprecedentedly low causing reduced street car service in Minneapolis St Paul and Stillwater. Flour mills are seriously affected as water shortages hamper power needed for operations. Authorities cite dry spell and upstream water impounding as factors.
Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Co joins Louisville warehouse partner to ship 7000 barrels of spring 1598 and fall 18h whisky to German foreign warehouses. The move aims to dodge taxes as the 11 year bond period nears expiry. It marks the largest single Kentucky whisky export, about 2000 gallons, requiring two large trains to the seaboard.
The Women’s National Indian Association voted to remove the word women from its name, forming the National Indian Association. The convention’s closing session in Boston announced the change allowing men to be admitted to membership.
A resolution passed to end Indian dancing in public exhibitions including the Boo exposition and to block such dances at the St. Louis exposition. Another measure seeks to curb liquor sales on reservations to prevent vice and poverty.
In Washington on December 6 the Presbyterian committee revising the creed spent most of the session debating the divine purpose to be included as an article. Differences centered on wording rather than concept as they discussed God and divine revelation. No final language was agreed, pending further consideration, with Dr. Herrick Johnson pleased by evident harmony.
Scranton Pa December convention of the American Federation of Labor wraps two sessions with routine business and a lengthy debate over a St Louis delegate. Edward F McSchweeney speaks on immigration. Eighty eight resolutions are referred to committees including a denunciation of Wu Tingfang and a thanks to President Roosevelt for his stance on Chinese exclusion. Bradt seating and brewery engineers debate remain unsettled, referred to executive council. Adjournment set for tomorrow morning.
Rochester, Dec 6 At this afternoon's Protestant Episcopal convention session the panel on What Are We Doing for the Negro featured Bishop C Kinlock Nelson of Georgia, discussing education for colored people and urging training for practical vocations. Other talks covered the Philippines and Brazil with grim notes on illiteracy and spiritual need and praise for church growth and native Christian liberalism.
James H. Livingston editor of the Bennington Reformer sued former Governor Carroll Page of Hyde Park for editorial services in support of Page for Congress. The judge ordered a verdict for Page, deeming the contract illegal and against public morals. Former Congressman Powers will appeal to the Supreme Court.
Miners of lead and representatives of the American Smelting and Refining Company reach a satisfactory agreement in New York after ongoing talks. The pact limits lead ore output to meet demand for the coming year, with no immediate broad reduction in current production.
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