Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1893 — Page 2

rtSBUTTAHY 8, 1893.

B« tt resolved, bjr the B»r Association of L’ounty, that Ihia the eenae of said aa-

•f the

la the A—wibly.

of the legislative aewion baa

pMMd that the leaden of the majority are beginning to feel the need of prompt work. In the twenty-six days that remain after to-day will be concentrated a van quantity of busineaa. The third Boom b now well organized, and tta interference will tend to obstruct progreea. The apportionment bill alone will eonrame nanch time. The ainking-ftind question, which b receiving attention, also threatens to be a matter that will divide the majority. They feel that some provision for the State debt most be made. The new tax law gives a much larger valuation upon which to derive revenue, and it k now proposed to take four or five cents of the sixteen centtCchool revenue and apply it for sinking fund purposes. Advocates of this plan say It will-afford a sufficient fund, and will still leave for school purposes as much revenue m was collected before the increased valua-

tion of taxable* was agreed to.

One of the harmssing questions is the proposition to amend the fee and salary law. Several bilk to this effect are already before the House. If one amendment ie made, it is believed it will be but the beginning, and if that question is once opened tiie remainder of the entire session, as Representative Ader said to-day, could be occu-

pied with it FOR A SINKING FUND.

Proposition to Rednco the School Uery—

Opposition Developing.

There is to be a joint meeting of the ways and means committee of the House and the finance committee of the Senate to-night to talk over the financial questions. Work on the general appropriation bill has only fairly begun. At the last meeting of the committee a proposition to create a sinking fund for the extinguishment of the State debt was referred to Representative Ader, of the

socisticm that the compensation of the judge of the Marion Circuit Court should be in-

creased; and. be it farther Resolved, That the Senators

tentative* from Marion county be and they are hereby requested to vote for and use afi proper means to secure the passage of i bill now pending in the General Assembly em powering the county commissioners to in crease the some as is provided in said hill, and pay the amount of such increase from the

Hinds of said county.

Says Ho Was Wrongly Accused. When the session opened this afternoon Senator Gilman arose to a question of personal privilege. He objected to the statement in an Indianapolis paper that he was a preacher. He said he had been mistaken for Senator McLean, who poses as the Lord Chesterfield of the Senate. The roll was then called for bills on tile second reading. THE MARKET STREET TRAGEDY.

JUDGE BAKER BUST ATX# WATERCOMFAXY’S COMPLAINT.

Perpetual Injunction will Be Granted to Prevent Pollution of Fall Creek-What the Complaint Charges.

panics have held back their taxes until the law could be defined, and how much money has been paid to the fund is not known

The Attorney-General held, some that where there was any volunteer company was not a paid one.

TRAVEL IN CAPE COLONY.

time ago,

irk the

NEFF AND HIS MEDAL.

committee, who will prepare a bill taking

of the school revenue for sinking

nd purpoi introduced

off part

fund purposes.

As a forerunner, he to-day a bill to redneo: the

school-tax levy to 11 cents. There is opposition to any redaction of the school fund levy, and Mr. Ader says he doubts if his bill will pass. The committee on education has promptly killed all bills to reduce the levy, and, while a test

Mystery Connected With the Shooting Increases—What the Inmates Say. The further the death of Philih Fahrbach Is investigated the greater becomes the mystery surrounding it. Dora Bartlett was the first witness examined by the coroner. She, it is said, knows most about Bessie Pitman’s affairs. Her first statements were contradictory. She afterward stated that Philip and Bessie had often quarreled before, and that two or three times they had shot at each other. She also stated that they had shot at each other in her room on one occasion, and that the two bullets could be found, one imbedded in the door, the other in the wall. After close questioning she contradicted herself, and stated that the two bullets were fired by Bessie herself at another woman with whom she thought Fahrbaoh had fallen in

love.

Flora Boyle Winkels, another inmate of the house, who has only been there a week, stated that she had heard the girls of the house say that Bessie Pitman had shot at Fnhrbach once when he was in bed. Bbe thought this was about the 9th or 10th of October. Bessie was drunk at the time,

she said.

This morning Jessie Pitman, a sister of the wounded woman, was summoned before the coroner. She has only been an inmate of the house about a week. She stated that before this time she lived with her mother, Mattie Bell, just across tile street. She had known Fahrbach for three years. She said that the former]

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over of her sister was one Tom Fosner, who lived in Lebanon, but was in the boat business. He ran a boat on the

w wu.w a*™, h ver; she did not know what river, nor vote has not been taken in the House, the where he ran the boat On the morning of dkenssious have shown that the influential the shooting Bessie Pitman was asked by

members are nearly all opposed to a reduc-

tion. The Ballot Bill Passed.

The House, upon reconvening this afternoon, resumed the consideration of the bill to stop the printing of sample ballots in newspapers. Representative Dailey, editor of the Jeffersonville News, stated that being an interested person, having reaped some of the reward, it might be presumed that he was opposed to the repeal of the law. He desired the members to understand that such was not the ease. He realized, he said, that the law had led to an unnecessary expense u pon the State. The bill was passed—yeas 78, nays 2. The members who voted against the bill were Messrs. Ader and Rodabaugh. After the roll-call had been completed Representatives Foster, Manwaring and Thornton, who had voted in the negative, ( hanged to

the affirmative.

After the passage of the above bill the House took up the special order, which was the consideration of Representative Fippen’s bill to tax money loaned in the State by nonresidents. The bill, with the amendment previously adopted, was op for engrossment The amendment whs that all contracts made between mortgagee and mortgagor shall be void. The author of the bill spoke at length in favor of the bill. He stated that the mortgage indebtedness of Indiana amounts to three and one-quarter millions of dollars, secured by 360,000 square miles of land. It was but jpst and right, he said, that this enormous sum of money loaned in the State should be taxed.

Mr. Bailey and legislative Bills.

Leon Bailey claims that be has been placed in a false light in relation to the MeHugh horse-race and pool-selling bill. Messrs. Carr, Richardson, Holt, Taggart and others, after a meeting of the Indianapolis Driving Club, requested him to prepare a bill, which he did without compensation. It was read to these horsemen and approved, and Mr. Bailey says he then asked McHugh (who is not a horseman) to present the bill. Bailey’s work was entirely gratuitous, he says, and the omission of such points as have been criticised was not intentional. As to the bill for the relief of Treasurer Backus, he had asked no one to support it He was not lobbying nor working for any legislation, but had done all that he had done simply to comply with the requests of ac-

quaintances.

Wanted: Ministers To Oilier Prayer. The two Houses of the General Assembly are not always opened with prayer. The duty of providing minister* to make the opening prayers has devolved upon the doorkeepers of the two Houses. Each principal doorkeeper has in his employ one man who pats in most of his time in trying to get ministers to consent to come over to the State House and . pray. These assistant doorkeepers say that the ministers of the city have in most instances been willing to accept invitations to appear before the General Assembly; but it has been found difficult to get a minister for each House each morning. Two years ago the city ministerial association assigned ministers to the General Assembly, anil the doorkeepers wish that plan had been

adopted this session.

Decry and Hts Illinois Visit.

Chairman Decry, of the House eomnJittee on labor* wbt- went to Joliet, 111., Saturday, to investigate the prison contract-labor system in Illinois, returned this morning. *’1 found much to convince me that the contract system ought to be abolished in Indiana,” said he. “The oontraet system became so obnoxious in niinois that four year# ago a constitutional amendment abolishing it was adopted by the people. The warden of the prison claimed that he could not do away with the system at once, and in the last campaign the system was made one of the issnee in the eampaign. As a result of the Democratic victory the old warden has been removed and a new one appointed. The reform in the State is In its infancy, but it will be

carried out,”

Meeting of County Officers. - The county clerks, recorders and auditors •f the State are bolding a meeting at the Hendricks Club room this afternoon. They are here to oppose || ;the passage of a bill to iths and the recorders r kna the audit-

rfSaswR*

the coroner where she got the revolver, and by close questioning he learned the weapon had been given to her by. Tom Fesuer, who, she said, was a man who used to come mid see her sometimes. It is this man, it is said, of whom Philip Fahrbach was jealous. It was rumored that Bessie received the visits of a river man, and that when he was in town Philip had to be eontent with second place in her affections. Jessie Pitman, who occupied a - room adjacent to that in which the tragedy occurred, states positively that she heard four shots, although the other girls of the house say they only heard two. She also stated that between eight and ten minutes elapsed be-

tween the first and the last shot.

Many theories have been formed about the ease, but all of the opinions so far have ignored the fact of the trail of blood landing across the street and up an alley on the opposite side. The doctors who have been on the case state that the trail of blood found leading away from the house was not such as could have been made from saturated garments, but must have drioped from

a fresh wound.

Bessie Pitman still remains in the same condition. She is weak and suffers from pain in the wounded eye. She has eaten nothing since Saturday morning but a little Unless septic poisoning seta in, the

nance to re-

soup,

doctors say, she

cover.

poisomni

las a good cl

SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHIC CASES.

Judge Cox Overrules the Motion to Quash—Reasona Given.

Ueberlnchcr Decision Affirmed. Two years ago Frank Ueberlacher was struck | by a Big Four ‘ train at Market and Pine streets, and permanently injured. He sued the company and got a verdict for $13,000. The verdict was set aside and a new trial ordered, and on the second trial Ueberlacher secured a verdict for $8,000. To-day the general term of the Superior Court affirmed this verdict The case will go to the Supreme Court. Yesterday'* Fires. A small fire was caused by a defective flue in the house of J. H. Ralph, 1M9 North Tennessee street, yesterday. Loss $25. A defective flue caused a small fire yesterday morning in the meat-shop of F. Quiesser, at 20 Spruce street The property waa owned by J. Allison. Loss, $200. COMING EVENTS.

I the jurisdiction of the 1 probably be pushed W the court has only a upon which to pass and lawyers

The Indianapolis bar-tenders will give a ball at Mosart Hall to-morrow night. The Board of Trade governors and the finance committee will meet to-night. ■ Lonis F. Post, of New York city, will lecture ai Y. M. C. A. Hall Thursday evening. The Rousseau brigade will hold its ninth annual reunion at Columbas, February 10. The Sixth Presbyterian church will give a musical entertainment next Friday night A K. of P. reception will be given by Center Temple, No. *7, Pythian Sisters, on Wednesday evening, The Ovide Musin Concert Company will appear in the Y. M. C. A, entertainment course at Tomlinson Hall to-morrow night. The annual convention of the Lincoln League wRl be held in the United states District Court room, Tuesday. February it, at 1:30 pm. The Rev. J. Hogarth Lozier will give an entertainment entitled “Your Mother's Apron String” at the CWifbrnia-street M. B. church, this evening. A meeting of millers from the winterwheat belt will be held at the Board of Trade Tuesday afternoon. They come to discuss questions of interest affecting their bwsiheea. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL. Miss Bertha Eldridge has returned from an extended visit in Chicago. The little daughter of Assessor Wolf is r and the friends of the family icerned. F. Seymour will be at home after S o’clock. Mr. and oeive in the evening. vice-president of r of this dty, who „ National Milling Comat Toledo. !■ here to-dar.

Judge Baker, of the United States Court, has made a decision in the strawboard case. The Indianapolis Water Company brought suit against the American Strawboard Company to enjoin it from emptying the refuse from the strawboard-works at Noblesville inlo White river, on the grounds that it polluted the water near this city. The question that Judge Baker passed upon was the sufficiency of the complaint The Strawboard Company filed a demurrer, claiming that the Water Company does not show such ownership in the bank of the river as to give j,t a right to complain of the pollution; that if the facts show it has such ownership it does not exhibit such a state of pollution a* to entitle it to relief; that the United States Court, as an equity court, has no jurisdiction in the suit, because the action ought to have been brought on the law side of the court. The court held for the plaintiff. Judge Baker, in his opinion, says: A riparian proprietor upon a non-navi gable stream is entitled, in the abuence of grant, license or prescription limiting his rights, to have the stream which washes his lands flow as it is wont by nature to flow, without material diminution or alteration. * * * Any diversion or obstruction of the Water which substantially diminishes its volume, or the depositing of any substances in the stream which corrupt or pollute the water to such a degree as essentially to impair its purity and prevent its use for any reasonable ana proper purposes to which running water is usually applied, is an infringement or the right of other owners of lana through which the stream flows. An action for damages maybe maintained by a riparian proprietor for the puliation of a stream. Ho a perpetual injunction will be granted to restrain such pollution, especially if it is of a continuous nature, even when the plaintiff could orily recover nominal damages at law, because of the inconvenience of repeated actions, and the danger of the acquisition of an adverse right to pollute it by its continuance for twenty yews. So also a perpetual injunction will be granted to restrain the pollution of a stream, where the nature of the injury is such as to render it difficult or impracticable to adequately measure the damages and fully compensate for the wrong

The Hero of the Peru Wreck Presented Wltl} New* Medal. Richard Henry Nsff, the hero of the Peru wreck on the L. E. A W. road, whose deed is known throngbont the State and beyond; whose devotion to duty at that trying time has been an inspiration to all sorts and conditions of men, is progressing favorably toward recovery. He suffers still a good deal from the pain in his hip, and is still disabled except so far as being about tiie house on crutches.

The injury alleged is

contingent, remote or speculative^ It is

tinctly charged that the defendant daily passes through its factory three million gallo

* ses eight *

Ions of

water and uses eighty tons of straw, twentyseven tons of lime and five t ions of muriatic acid, all of which are wor]

ntyr?ed

each day, and only about forty tons are-taken out, and the remaining sixty-seven

tons

the

daily pass into the river; that water passing tnrough the factory as it reaches the nver is or a dirty brown in color and glutinous in consistency, and has the effect, and has had ever since the works were started, to render the water of the stream at all points below on White river from Noblesville to a point somewhere below the city of Indianapolia, which was, before the starting of said works, clear and pure for drinking and other like purposes, brown in color, odorous to the smell and impure and unwholesome for drinking and other like purposes; that urior to the starting of the works the river was well stocked with fish, and was acceptable for drinking to domestic animals, but since the starting of said works, by reason of the flowing of the water and other matter therefrom into the river the.fish be-

renders their mouths sore; that the water in the canal is now also amber brown in color, stained with said offal from said mill, and from being the same degree of purity of the water formerly in the nver, it has, by reason of said oJ'al, been rendered impure. These facts clearly show actionable injury to plaintiff’s riparian rights. The bill also Shows that the plaintiff has been and is suffering, and will continue to suffer m»' ‘ injury from this infringement! extent of its pecuniary injury of it, and from the extent and character of the uses to which plaintiff devotes tbe water is incapable of any certain admeasurement. * * * The cause will now be tried on the complaint, and if the facts set forth are proven, the straw-board company will be perpetually enjoined from using the river at NoblesWATER, WATER EVERYWHERE.

Judge Cox, in the Criminal Court this morning, passed upon the motion to quash in the spirit photograph cases against Mrs. Foster and her son. The motion averred that tbe indictment did not contain facts to constitute a violation of the pretense law, because the pretenses alleged are those that a person of common intelligence and ordinary caution should not give credit to nor be misled by. The Coart overruled the motion upon the theory that if it were a question of the intelligence of the prosecuting witness, that was a matter for trial before the jury.) He said that it was believed by many that the materialization of spirits was a fact; that hypnotism and mesmerism were scientifically established, and that theosophy had believers who were of a high grade of intelligence. He concluded by saying that this would not prevent mountebanks from imposing upon intelligent bat credulous persons by false representations. The

motion he overruled.

The Warm Rain and Thaw Miniature Flood.

Make a

The rain yesterday and to-day has destroyed a field of ice that was almost State wide. “It has been sixteen years this month since the ground had been covered witn sleet and ice like that of the last few days,” -said a stockyards line conductor.. “I remember it well. I started with my horses the first morning for our blacksmith shop (I shod my own horses then), but saw that it was risking their limbs and lives, so took them back. I prepared the shoes at the shop. I carried them to the stable and shod the horses there. But I don’t remember that even the hills were covered with ice as they

have been during the last few days.” Between roadway and sidewalk the boys have been skating from one end of the city and suburbs to tiie other. The News, ip some instances, has been delivered by boys on skates. The parks of the city have been veritable skating rinks and were crowded day and evening. The eountiy lads and lasses were likewise spending their spare time on snow and ice, and the whole

country has been on skates.

Thirty-four hundredths of an inch of rainfall does not seem like a great deal, but with the ground frozen and snow and ice to melt with the warm rain, it has been sufficient, during the past twenty-four hours, to set the streams about the city booming. | iOn tbe principal streets snow swept from the sidewalks into the gutters has packed and frozen until it is almost like solid ice. This has clogged up the sewer connections, prevented proper drainage, and in many places water is standing in pools. At tbe intersection of Pennsylvania and Washington streets the standing water is especially plentiful, aud every hour is growing deeper, making it decidedly difficult to cross the street without wading. Along South street n

canoe might be used.

Pogue’s run is carrying off • great deal of water. At the turn above Washington street the water is within n few inches of

the top of the wall and rising.

Fears are entertained for the Washington street bridge. A new bridge is being built, and the old arefies have been torn out down to the street-car trade. The run is dammed at a point about a hundred feet above the ragged edges of the arches. The dam was made to turn a part of the water into the Washington-street sewer. While it accomplishes its purpose it acts as a fall and gives the water additional impetus, so that it comes down against the arches with a tremendous force, washing out the earth behind the stone. The electric cars pass over the arches within about a foot of tbe edge. Men are at work keeping the channel clear and there is no immediate danger, bat should the stream continue to rise, or should it become clogged, tbe result might be serious. There is much water in the northeast part of the

«ity.

Wi

RICHARD HENRY NEFF.

On Saturday afternoon The ftRWS presented to him the medal which it had had made in commemoration of his brave act Mr. Neff, in his cozy, tidy home, was surrounded by his family, his wife up and about with the little Neff baby, which came upon the scene of action just at the time its father lay on the hospital bed from the wounds he had received. There were present also Mr. Neff's mother, two of his brothers and a brother’s wife.

It was a pleasant little home party, and the scene that followed was in keeping with it. Mr. Ross, the managing editor of The News, introduced Mr. Williams, the editor-in-chief, and there followed general congratulations, and a pleasant talk concerning the deed which The News has so >erly marked by having this medal

by having

struck. In giving the beautiful object to

who so worthily wears it Mr.Will-

properly

the man

lams said:

We desired to see you and take you by the

What we think of yon ana your

hand.

that night at Peru Tbs News has already said. We meant it, every word. I do not need to repeat it now. The quality in your act that we wanted to recognize waa fidelity to duty, even under conditions or physical anguish which so often drives all thoughts of other things out of mind. We believe that in this busy industrial age of ours there are everywhere men so true to duty, who only need tbe occasion to show they possess the true heroic quality. Your act was typical of the heroism of many. But the world too often accepts such devotion as a matter of course. The News believed that it should be publicly recognized, by some token which should let you know what others think of your act. the News spoke, and rrom ad quarters came quick

acclaim of our words. You about with you in the scars ant reminders of the nigh

You will always ca: scars you bear unple night of wreck. ’

wanted you also to nave a pleasant memento

of it—something you would be

irry easWe

something that' the grows up, will be

> Rand

proud to show;

babe, when she proud to have

and to Rand dewn. The medal is in the form of the iron cross of Germany—a decoration that is never given to any one, no matter what his rank, except for some act of conspicuous bravery. Take it with the best wishes of The News. May you soon be well and strong. May this be your last wreck. Mr. Neff is as modest as he is brave. He was deeply touched by this recognition of his act, bat with his sense of appreciation of it he expressed also the idea that he had only done his dnty in a wav that a true railroader and a trne man would always do. But for all this, his wife and brothers evidently agreed with The News that his brave act had been only suitably marked. TT - * “ * ?

in all pe

their part in life

is proud of him and it wishes him a speedy recovery from his injuries, entire immunity from any more like them and long life and

happiness. THE LAFAYETTE RIOT.

The Grand Jury Returns Ten Trne

Bills.

[Special to The Indianapolis News.]

Lafayette, February 6.—As a result at tbe grand jury investigations into the riot two weeks ago, ten bills were returned. Peter J. Clark, city street commissioner; Philip McCauley and Bart J. Murphy aer indicted for conspiracy to commit t felony, riot, assault and battery, with intent to murder, and disturbing a public meeting. The bond is $1,900 each— William Temple, Bert Carter, George Bennewitt and Frank Tengen are indicted for riot and disturbing a public' meeting. James Matthews and Gaberil Gillispie are charged with disturbing a public meeting. All gave bond save Gillespie and Matthews.

One arrest is yet to be made. Board of Public Works.

Petitions were filed to-day with the Board of Public Works to renumber English avenue, from Harrison street to the city limits; Prospect street, from Dillon to city limits, and Summit street, from Washington to Bates street. It is understood that the publishers of the City Directory will ask that so renumbering be done before October, as it makes the street numbers given in

the City Directory unreliable.

Foreman Burns was instructed to Investigate complaints as to bad holes in the mao a dam pavement leading to the viaduct.

A New Church Dedicated.

Duluth, Minn., February 6.—The First Methodist Episcopal church was dedicated yesterday, Bishop C. H. Fowler preaching the dedicatory sermon. The new structure is the finest church edifice in Duluth. It is

l* 1! ■ ■ built of Bass Island brown stone and cost 4 nter undermining the natural-gas main about $H)Q,000. It has a ten-thousan<i-dollar Illinois street caused a break at a joint organ. Its entire debt ($10,000) wls paid off

between Market and Ohio streets. The gas, finding an outlet through the hollow, iron poles of the electrio-ear line, was ignited when the current was turned on early this morning, and the electric wires were melted. No one was near enough to be struck by the falling wire. Inquiry About the Firemen’s Fund. The Auditor of State has been flooded with letters from the smaller cities of tiie State asking if they were entitled to the

liMttftt of the firemen's fund tax,. The fire-

men’s fund law was originally intended to * Indianapolis. By an oversisrht

the number of inhabitants

yesterday.

MON 6AY’S MINOR MENTION.

BAsrxa to-day. Clearings $357,846 40 i Balances

. 140,901 60

effect only lad a clause fixing of the cities ft

which it was to be ft force

was omitted, and as it stood it included Indianapolis, Evansville^Terre Haute, Ft. Wavne. and possiblv New Albany. Com-

A Peoria A Eastern freight train broke in two last night and tha two sections coming together smashed several care. No one was

hart.

The stable in the rear of Wnu Kuhn 1 * residence, 80S Broadway, was destroyed by fire Saturday night and three horses burned.

Total toss $800.

J. Emmett Beery, of this city, who wax with tiie Louisville ball club last year, to-day signed with President Brush to play left field

in the Cincinnati League team. The i said to be ?2,500 for the season.

salary is

MISS ALICE IL PALMER TELLS ABOUT LIFE IN CAPE TOWN.

Representatives of Many Races Found There—Railways of South AfHca— A Luxuriant Vegetation—Impressions of the Country.

rver witnessed in the fident of theirabi and have trained vu of the fight hinges a puree of $1,000, and the featherweight championship at the world. A GENERAL STRIKE Employes of All the Chicago Road* to Demand Higher <Wa«es.

Among the various vehicles drawn up to the wharf at Cape Town to take paftengers off the steamships, are usually a row of oldfashioned cabs that might h»ve been exported from the United States after they had grown ton shabby for the enterprising Hoosier to b longer justified in repairing them. As . hing else is available, however, you finally trust yourself to one, which, from the mummy-like condition of the yellow-faced driver, the ancient appearance of the horses, and the odor of tbe dead past arising from its cushions, might have belonged to some Noah. We are surprised to find how well it holds together under moltitndinons Dockages and boxes, and the immense weight of depression attendant upon the living freight in consequence of parting from congenial fellow-travel ere. Cape Town, the capital city of Cape Colony, contains soma fifty thousand people. One is impressed with the idea that the sidewalks were intended as places for storing gouda, not to walk npon, and that the streets are constantly undergoing repair. The different sorts of humanity one sees during a few minutes’ walk is surprising. Coolies are employed as drivers and are found in most of the provision shops. Malays in great numbers walk about in their peculiar dress. Hottentots are very numerous in some quarters. When living in the towns and cities they very nearly resemble in manner, appearance, and in the kinds of work they do, the colored people in our Northern States. Kafirs are not commonly seen in Cape Town, but they tell us there are over two hundred “converted Fingos” living these. Yon may at almost any time be asked to dine with a company like that, to which your correspondent was invited, which was composed of a Scotch missionary, an English merchant, an Irish lady, a descendant of one of the early French settlers, a Dutch “Boer” and an American, given in the home of an “Afrikander.” The last term is applied to Caucasians boro in Africa. METHODS OP TRANSPORTATION. One goes about Cape Town a good deal in what is known as a- “single,” which is simply a very small* two-wheeled vehicle with a canvas cover and little doors in front, somewhat after the style of a hansom cah The Cape horses are small, but muscular, and draw well. If you wish to make the farther acquaintance of the colony you take the Cape Goveriiment railway. This line carries you in forty-eight hours to Kimberly, a distance of 647 miles. It takes eight hours and even longer, to go between Graham’s town and Port Elizabeth, a distance of 109 miles. The reasons for this slow travel Are obvious. The roads caa not be tunneled through the mountains- because of the nature of the soil, so ffiey must be constructed in and out, zig-zag around the mountains most of the way, save where the line crosses the Karoo. The roads are narrow-gauge only, with compartment cars aud small engines. As the different systems, western, midland, eastern and porthern, are all operated by one company trains must wait for connections at tbe different junctions. The refreshment-rooms are simply appalling. They are all in connection with ^bottle stores, and they give you anything they please, and charge just what they choose for it. Knowing this pecuharitr travelers usually provide themselves with sandwiches and fruit before setting out There is also a dining ear on through trains from Cape Town to Johannesberg, and from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth. They have what they call "sleeping carriages,” out yon must carry your ova blankets and pillows. There are excellent roadways built over and around the hills. Many of the more important towns are reached by from three to seven hours driving over these roads in the cape carts, which ars strongly built vehicles on two wheels, with from one to three seats and drawn by from two to six horses, These carts carry the mail and also passengers from the stations to the towns oft the lines. The rates are very high. We paid on one occasion £1 for a seat in the cart from Ft Beaufort to Grahamstown, a distance of forty-seven miles, and sent on ourluggsge by a private cart at a cost of half a pound. If we had had to carry it in the post-cart they would have charged at the rate of 12 cents a pound, or about $8.40 for a small steamer trunk weighing seventy pounds. As a consequence, people traYel with many small bags and packages that can be held in the hands, thrust under seats, or tied on behind. One of the most common articles of luggage is a “tin canister,” which, on account of its lightness and its water-proof nature, is much carried about, varying in sise from a small hat-box to a good-sized traveling trank. Everybody goes carrying a roll of rugs and pillows, too. There is no system of “checking,” and your belongings will soon begin to present a "crazy patch-work” appearance from the number of labels upon them. Then you must count your bundles up at every station to see that everything is going on. Cart traveling is vere pleasant dear days, even in winter, as the mercury seldom falls below 42°. The ‘ '

Chicago, February A—A morning paper to-day contains the following; “Dark shadows of an impending strike are hovering like nightmares over many, if not all the railroad lines entering Chicago. On authority from several reliable sources it teems more than probable that within tea days a herculean attempt will be made to tie up every locomotive and ear in the dty and paralyse the traffic on many thousand* of miles of track. So apprehensive have the officials of one of the Eastern trunk lines become that, it is reliably reported, they are refuting to receive east-bound traffic from Western lines. Starting with the unorganized switchmen, the disaffection has spread until it is claimed that the various branches of unorganized employes will unite in one of the most determined strikes ever known in railroad annals. The switchmen of Chicago have decided to demand an advance of 5 cent* per hour m their present pay and to strike if they do not get it. This important action was taken yesterday at a meeting of committees representing the twentv-seven railroad yards in this citv The new scale demands thirty and thirtyfive cents per hour respectively for day helpers and foremen, and thirty-fivs and forty cents per hour respectively for helpers and foremen working at night. 'Iffie demand will be made upon the several roads centering hew as soon as petitions can be cirenhtted among the men in the respective yards and a majority of the signatures secured. The peculiar feature of the movement is that the regular organizations of the switchmen are entirely ignored in the new move, and that it is a sort of general movement on the part of tfte men, irrespective of the heads of the old organnatioss. Telegrams from point* along the line of the Pennsylvania road, indicate that that company expects trouble at an early date, over the question of wages, as they have refused perishable freight at many points destined to Chicago, and the Pittsburg. Ft VV ayne & Chicago road officials here nave declined to receive such freight, on the grounds that they expect trouble on tbe road with their engineers. STREET CAR FRANCHISES. Council Meeting To-Night — The Mayor’s Annual Report. The Council will meetto-night. The first and most important matter to come before it will be the annual message of Mayor Sullivan, and the reports of the different boards of the eity government. The Mayor's message reviews the city’s business for the last year and the outlook for the coming one. It has been said that to-night the Board of Public Works would send to the Council, with the approval of the franchise committee of that body, a contract with the new Broad Sipple company. This, however, is not the case, as no eoatrict has been accepted by either tide in the Broad Ripple scheme and tn the new street railway project affairs have not been brought to such a state that a contract could be nude. Members of the Conncil think that the hoard is temporizing with the two applications for franchises now in hand, hoping that the Citizens’ company will offer term* by which the old charter will be abandoned and the company stand upon a new footing for a term of twenty or thirty years. Under the charter no exclusive franchise can be given for one street or all streets, but it is practical exclusion for one-company to have the center of the streets. It is said that the Citizens’ company is making ready to ask for a new charter aad will make many concessions in order to get one, among these concessions being the exclusive right-of-way. WITNESSES THIS AFTERNOON.

made a gradual ascent for three hours and a half one lovely afternoon in August to reach the “kloof” between two mountains of the Katsberg range. The road was beautifully level for hundreds of yards at one time. In places one oould look down over the side of

ining _

lilies in blossom. These lilies grow perfectly wild, covering acres of uncultivated ground and growing to an immense size,

sion of this

On the occasion

drive, one of our

■■■■■■ over four hundred -varieties of heath growing in the “veldts.” Geraniums grow wild in the eastern province, brightening up the view from September till tiie drought sets in, about Ghristmas time, with their rich pink and scarlet blossoms.

THE OSTRICH.

The ostrich farms form an interesting feature of the scene in passing through this country. Tbe great birds used to be shy of signs of civilization, bat since the erection of the railway it is no uncommon thing to see them following along beside the train some distance with a very knowing air, their long necks stretched in a friendly greeting over the wire fences built for thmr protecWe observed at Port Elisabeth one thing carious to our plebeian eyes. This is the

trams

C. E. Coffin Thinks the Signatures Are Ganulne—Austin’s Testimony. [Special to The Indianapolis News] Noblesville, February 6.—The first witness in the McDonald will case, when called tills afternoon, was Charles E. Coffin, of Indianapolis, real estate dealer. The witness testified to having had business with Mr. McDonald, and to having seen him sign four deeds. When shown the McDonald signatures to green and carbon copies of the will he stated ha believed them genuine; would accept them on any note or check without question. The next witness called was A. W. Austin, Washington, D. C., formerly stenographer and typewriter in the McDonald law office. Witness had seen Mr. McDonald write his name and had received letters from him; sometimes Mr. McDonald wrote “onaki" without a break; at other times it was broken; had seen him write his name Joseph to deeds; he followed tbe custom of the office and made duplicates of almost ' everything. The green and earbon copies of the will in question were handed to the witness, and he stated that in his opinion they were genuine signatures of Joseph E. McDonald. DEATH RATHER THAN DISGRACE. Dr. Chesley D. McLahlan, of HarrodstraiY, Kills Himself. [Special to The Indianapolis News.] Bedfobd, Ind., February 6.—The suicide of Dr. Chesley D. McLahlan at Harrodsburg, yesterday, created a furore of excitement in this city, where he was born and raised. He first took poison, and becoming impatient at delay in action, placed a rope over a beam, aad alipping a noose around hts neek, swung himself into eternity. He had borne a good name until recently. During the examination of the twelve-year-old daughter of Lum Deckard, who killed his wife in a fit of jealousy a few days ago, tiie girl charged Dr. McLahlan, along with several others with criminal assault. The girl is now in the reform school and her tether is in jail here under indictment for the murder oT his wife, to whom the neighbors give a bad character DJs claimed that the riri's moth* r assisted ft her ruin. Dr. McLahlan has acted strangely of late aad was probably insane. He preferred death grtim.

of the eastern pro* tram line, and the - * divided across by a

cross by a light which is printed

d-class,'

leading town of There is one < (street care ) are

partition, on one tide of

‘‘First-class," on the other “Seooni I Such a division is not made in the cars running between Kimberley sad Bescemrfield. The former is the chief eity of the

diamond fields sad tiie latter

town. 1 minute*

iny friend* m Keaeonutieid we drove into Kimberley one fine afternoon in September to remain till after a lecture, when we were to take the tram oat home. Coming suddenly around the corner from the hall, a familiar sight met my eyes. Nothing less than a New York street car, 10,OW miles

from home. I ro* * ^ ‘

possible occasion

Reports Made At the Quarterly Business Mooting To-Day. The State executive committee of the Young Men’s Christian Association is holding its quarterly business meeting ben this afternoon ft the association parlors. A number of changes of secretaries were reThe Indianapolis Ladies' Auxiia lunch to tiie

rode in that car on every Sa 1 1 ■ 1 1 j ■

The Griffin-Murphy Fight.

New York, February The fistic contest between Johnny Griffin, of Braintree, Mass., and Billy Murphy, of Australia, will be decided to-night ft the arena of the Coney Island Athletic Club. If condition.

-H •• ; {BaflWo Express.] | “ifissF ■ ——. .... - - She Is Sighted. San Francisco, February 6.-The City of Pekin has just been sighted eighteen

dies, should know that the people wUl have Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrup.

[Special to The IndlanapoHs News.]

Wabash, February 8.—Last night a serf* ous and perhaps fatal wreck occurred on the Michigan division of tiie Big Four, three miles north of Nile*. The train, consisting of one freight car laden with potatoes and a caboose, drawn by engine 822, was coming south at a speed of twenty miles an hour, when a flange on one of the wheels of the freight car broke aad threw the car and the caboose off tiie track. At the point where the accident happened there is an embankment twenty feet high, down

which the caboose and freight

rolled, the stove in the latter upsetting and igniting the debris which was entirely consumed. At the time there were in the caboose James Scott, conductor; Fred Scott, brake®an, and William Palmer, brakeman, all of this city, and Frank Hammond and Henry C. Price, attorneys of Benton Harbor. Fred Scott waa so badly cut, braised aad bunted that he can not move in his bed. James Scott had his nose broken and the bone of his right leg fractured, while Palmer was so bruised, cut and burned on tha head that the doctors say he will not reeover. The two attorneys escaped with trifling cuts. The engine deprived of its train ran to Niles for medical assistance, and the patients are now

in that place.

Leaving Children to Nunes. [New York Times.) ‘It seems to me,” said a woman lately, one whose sons and daughters are grown and out in the world, “that if I had my children to bring up over again I would give What I did was

travesty of tbe

ten deriv-significajit word—from infapey to about that time, when I looked after them myself. One of my children—he is a married man now—cherishes still a most unreasonable fear of the dark, even of passing an open door of an unlighted apartment, because forsooth years in his babyhood a a nurse urged him to sleep lesta wolf should come out of the <iark ana get hhn. A second son will carry to hts grave a nervous dread of laughing, born of a practice by another nurse of showing her large, white, glittering teeth ft a mirthless grin, as an infant he fretted. I caught her at it one day and instantly sent her away, but the mischief was done, and I have been helpless to combat it And my nurses were no worse than my neighbors 1 . A child’s caretaker should be aiflehlld-lover, and who love* a child like his mother. I long to say to every young mother I know, ‘Stay with your babies if you possibly caa until they are big enough to know what is going on about them; let maids wait upon and assist you in supplying their needs, but let no nurse (f) have a chance to do them ignorant aad life-lasting harm.’ ” Exclamation Points a Libel. I London correspondent New York Ban.] Three exclamation points were the sole besis of a libel suit which yesterday occupied the attention of a London judge and jury. Frivolons suits under outrageous English libel laws have become so common that judges have frequently denounced the evil of late. The care in point was brought against Sir Richard Howard, aad grew out of a dispute over the custody of a child. 8k Richard wrote in a letter, “The mother stated that she wanted to take her child to France HI” Mrs. Austin, the parent referred to, did not mind the words, but the three exclamation points ent her to the quick, so she brought suit. The jury, with unexpected good sense, exonetatod the offending mark* of punctuation from all sinister meaning and gave a verdict for the defendant This jury was more sensible than one of the previous day which awarded to a sensitive playwright £50 damages because a dramatic critic had condemned his very poor play too severely. And the Front Door Slammed.

[Philadelphia Times.]

“You are the light of my life,” she said to him as she whispered ,l good night” at

the front door.

“Put out the light,” growled the father at

the head of the stain. THE MARKET NEWS.

[Continued From Sixth Pace.)

CnrcuwATi, February 8.-Flour - Steady. Wheat—Quiet, firm: 72c. Corn—Firmer; 42#

£ aU -f t i? a ; Me. Rye-Steady, 89c. Pork

-Quiet; tte.78. Lard-Firm; ILffto. Hulk TSWc, May W«e, No. 8 red tefco. Com-No. 2 0 «b *4>j. riata-No. t while S7Uc, No. 1

Rye—No. S cash 60c. Prime clover-

•“*-4*1* KeoeipU—Wheat 28,000 bushels;

corn 8,000 bushels; oats A0CR» bushel*.

Liverpool, February 8.—Pork—Demand chan reff 1 Deand> p ^ or ' U1 J'

No*I*red whiter steady L

spring steady to S^d. Flour-Demand fair, unchanged. Corn—Demand fair; March steady 4s fld. April steady, 4s-td. Receipts— Wheat-Past week from Atlantic ports 15,700 quarters, other sources 2>,000 quarters. Receipts American corn pest week 17^00 quarters.

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