Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 April 1889 — Page 1

Weekly Established in 1823

THE CITY FINANCES AN ISSUE

How the City's Running' Expenses and the Debt Have Been Increased.

NO EFFORT MADE TO KEEP WITHIN THE INCOME.

Tb.e Police and Fire Departments and the Council Itself Spending Too Mucti Money.

Mayor Kolsem remarked previous to the meeting of the city council, laet Tuesday evening, that he thought the running expenses of the city would be less during the present year, ending April 1.3, 1889, than they were during the year ending April 13, 1888. Such showing would be something in tpnii of the present city government. The present councilmen could'claim credit for making improvements and reducing the coet at- city government at the same time. As to the improvements, they show for themselves as to the running expensss of the oity government, the figures taken from the records must be brought forward. The following amounts were expended in the fire and police de partments during the last two years: Police department, April 13, 1888, to

AprlllS, 1889 $28,483 45 Police department, April 13, 1887, to April 13,1888 .• 25.999 20 1 nctvase for the last year 2,484 19 fire department, April 13,1888, to April 13, 1889 $42,198 22 Klredeoartment, April 13,1887, to April 13, 1888 47,040 74 Decrease for the last year 4,842 62

During the year ending April 13,1888, the fire department was greatly improved by the construction of new fire houses for the four's and the six's. Each of these houses cost several thousand dollars, and greatly increased the expense of the department. There were other purchases, the chemical engine, for instance, at $2,250. During the past year no new houses were built. The running expenses of the fire department for the year ending last Saturday will exceed the expense of the year ending April 13,1888.

But the expenses in these departments do not alone show the general tendency to increase expenses. They took upon the Main street sewer and pavement question and have kept it in council, unable to be persuaded to desist, even by an injunction. Even last Tuesday evening they instructed the city clerk to advertise for bids for the construction of the proposed sewer from the river to Fifth street. The paving of Main street, of course, was prohibited by the injunction because the coet of paving must be paid from the general fund and the injunction prohibited the aesumption of debt. The council, in blind haste to disburse thousands of dollars for the improvement of Main street, caused certain advertisements

and the Engineering News. These advertisements cost the city $284, as follows: The Argo ${84 15 The Gazette 112 46 The Journal 47 50 The Engineering News 40 bo

Total ...$284 70

These advertisements were inserted in spite of the fact that seventy-two property-owners, representing 4,280 feet of property along one side of Main street, or 2,140 feet of the total street of 4,250 which the council proposed to pave, remonstrated against the pavement and in spite of the fact that the council hod been assured that an injunction would be instituted against the improvements. The injunction wa9 granted. In the meantime the council had incurred the above expense for advertising and. for the junket trips—in all about two tnousand dollars—for a purpose which they might have known could not be accomplished. The city debt then was *£$•28!! The city debt, April 14th, 1888, was 373,709 increase In debt during last year $ 76,291

During the same time the oity borrowed $120,000, according to the report of Treasurer Fitzpatrick at the last council meeting. During the preceding year the city borrowed $99,800. The total amount of money borrowed during the two years was $219,800. Yet there are no more improvements in this city than in the average year, and there has been constant complaint on account of neglected work in keeping the city in proper repair.

The Normal school

money—$50,000—

may properly be taken from the $76,291 added to the debt during the year, yet there is a net increase of $26,291. The city's constitutional limit is less than three hundred thousand dollars. A continuance of the present rate of increase would place the total debt at nearly a half million in another year.

PKTHK DEMOCRATIC raiMAltfES.

Tlio Delegate!) to the City Convention to be Selected To-night. The Democratic primaries will occur in the several precincts this evening. The principal contest has been for the sity treasuryship, but yesterday there was opportunity to talk for city clerk. I As to the treasurer public opinion eveniy divided between James •fitzpatrick and George Davis. ,1 )avis has made a thorough canvass and 'has developed a good following. AB to the city clerkship, the contest has dwindled to two, Fred Katzenbach and

Doug Smith. The friends of each of these candidates have been presenting the same claims, that they are widely known, young and personally popular. The work to bring the two persons into the field has been conducted on the "still hunt" plan, and the excitement of the contest has been kept under cover of '•t,he contest for the oity treasurership.

Frank Schmidt and Councilman San Person are stronger as candidates for .n ay or than a day or so ago. Justice -/Wildy

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absent from duty as judge of

the police court this week. Thetioket will be made next Saturday evening, and even good Democrats expect the clique to make the ticket and present it to the convention. A lifelong Democrat, while speaking of the clique and its mantier of operating, said: "I am getting tired of this ring. I don't believe in a f-^tew

persons

who are on the inside of the

party workings, and others who run saloons and gambling dens, managing the [5£emocratic party as they please. This prilling of a few men making the ticket

and expecting us to vote for that ticket without a murmur is getting to be too much for me."

TH&BE BUfclED.

TheFuneral* of the Hartt Family, Who Were Rilled in Railroad Accident. BOSTON, April 17.—The funeral serv­

ices over the remains of Mrs. Emma L, Hartt, Robert W. Hartt, her 15 year-old eon, and Alice WinBlow, Mrs. Hartt's niece, victims of the railroad accident at Lorenzo,' III., was held yesterday at J^rfeat Brooklyne. Among thoee preset* were many prominently copjg*51®® with the Atchison, Topeka.^ Pe road, as well as othj-'tnends, the assemblage being largest that has ever gather**^ a private residence in Boeton attend a funeral service. The ^-vices were of a simple character aad were conducted by the Rev. Charlee F. Dole, pa*tor of the First Congregational

Church, Jamaica Plains. CHICAGO, April 17.— A special from "joliet says: "The coroner's jury, which have been investibating the SanteFe railway disastey, has returned a verdict charging gross criminal carelessness against Conductor Fred Hughes and Engineer Frank Converse. It is reported that the sheriff of this county has gone to Chillicothe to arrest the men.

NO NEWS OF THE DANMABK.

Arriving-Boat* Have no Tidings of Her or Her Passenger*. NKW YORK, April 17.—The steamship

City of Richmond, of the Inman line, which arrived from Liverpool this morning, brought no news of the ill-fated steamer Danmark. The officers of the City of Richmond did not see anything of the wreckage of the Danmark and did not hear anything of the reported loss until told by the pilot off Sandy Hook. The City of Richmond brought 427 immigrants.

The steamer Den mark, of the National line, arrived this morning, but had none of the passengers of the Danmark on board.

The Alsatia, of »the Anchor line, was reported as leaving the rock of Gibraltar on April 1st, and as she passed near the spot where the Danmark was seen, it is thought likely she may have fallen in with her boatB. The Alsatia carries fruit for Mediterranean ports, and is large enough to accommodate all who were in the abandoned steamer.

The Pullman Vestibule Patent Wins. CHICAGO, April 17.—Judge Gresham

to-day delivered an opinion, Judge Blodgett concurring, in the case of Pullman palace car company vs. the Wsgner palace car company, in the United States circuit court, declaring the Pullman "Session" patent for vestibule cars valid, and that the Wagner company was infringing it. The "Sessions" patent covers that portion of each half of the vestibule, consisting of iron face plates under spring preEBure, completing the vestibule by tight joint when cars are coupled in train service. The iudi

BBQ'turatgnpatentB alleged to an

ticipate the "Sessions" invention, finding that none of them anticipated or even suggested that invention. The court therefore made the temporary injunction against the Wagner company perpetual, and referred the matter of damages to a master in chancery to take testimony.

Results of Fish Culture.

The average catch of food fish in the great lakes in 1886 and 1887 was 5,232,947 pounds the catch in 1888 was 8.870,780 pounds gain, 3,637,833 pounds. The catch of shad from Connecticut to North Carolina in 1880 was 4,140,986 fish the catch in 1888 was 7,000,474 fish gain, 2,859,488 fish. The average cannery catch of salmon in the Sacramento river in California in 1875 and 1876 was 5,205,102 pounds the average cannery catch in 1881, 1882 and 1883 was 9,596,984 pounds gain, 4,391,882 pounds.

RECAPITULATION.

Gain In flsh catch In Great Lakes.... 3,637.833 lbs. Gain In shad catch (rating shad at 31 lbs each) 8,578,464 lbs. Gain In Sacramento salmon 4,391,822 lbs.

Total gain 16,608,179 lbs.

The fact that all these species of hsh were on the decrease when their artificial culture on a large scale began gives an added significance to the above figures.—[Livingston Stone, in Forest and Stream.

The Street Car Strikes.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 17.—The street car company succeeded in running some cars over the most of the lines in the city to-day. The Btrike is not by any means over. There were Beveral "brushes" between the strikers and their sympathizers and the police. The attempt to effect a settlement of the differences between the company and the strikers this afternoon was a failure. Chief of Police Brackett ordered that no cars be run after 6 o'clock, which order was obeyed.

ST. PAUL, April 17.—The streel car strike situation has been unchanged hereto-day, no cars running,. but hundreds of people walking. An attempt to start the cars will be made in the mornin

S TEARING DOWN THE WIRES.

Work of Demolishing New York's Street Telegraph Poles Continued. NEW YORK, Aril 17.—The work of cut­

ting down the poles and wires on Broadway above Fourteenth street proceeded to-day. Better progress was made than yeeterday, as there was no longer any danger from live wires, and because yesterday's experience tended to facilitate the safe lowering of the poles with lesf delay than when the work first begun On account of the rain there were very few people watching the downfall of the wires, but the most casual observer could not fail to notice the difference in the appearance of the thoroughfare bereft of its network of wire.

A Valid Reason for Baste.

Lovely Daughter—Father, Jack wishes to marry me now, instead of after Lent. Father—Indeed! By the way, Marion, have you ordered your aster bonnet yet?

Lovely Daughter—No. Father—Then tell Jack that he can marry you this week.—[Fort Worth Gazette.

So Kngllsb, You Know.

Yale college is soon to have a cricket eleven.

IDG MARCS INTO OKLAHOMA.

The Rush of Settlers Increases Each Train Load at the Border

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With

CROSS CHEROKEE STfJO^I-INE TO-DAY. .*

Excitement at the Point* Nearest the Border—The Town Site Companys.

KANSAS CITY, Ma, April 17.—As the day for the opening of the Oklahoma lands draws nigh, the capacity of the Union depot in this city ia taxed more and more every day. The settlers come from all over the country.

ARKAN&AS CITY, Kan., April 17.—Thft announcement of CaptainHayBS, who is commanding the cavalry detailed to guard the border here, that settlera would be allowed to cross the line into the Cheokee strip immediately after midnight Thursday, haa created a great stir among the prospective prospectors here, and it is thought the large majority of them will taKe advantage of the opportunity, and that midnight to-mor-rew will witness a grand rush into the strip. The campers realize that all cannot cross the border at the same place, and there will tie a scattering along the border for miles. A terrible wind and rain storm passed over here last night, which played havoc with the boomers tents. Women and children were drenched and badly frightened.

CALDWELL, Kan., April 17.—The Oklahoma excitement is at its height here today. It is almost impossible to get along the streets as the crowd is so dense. Five hundred wagons wis the estimate placed on the arrival of to-day, while the reports of those to come tomorrow will double the amount. One townsite company will leave here Friday morning for Lisbon, which will consist of at least five hundred men. The Rock. Island stage line outfit, consisting of 160 horses, with forty-five stages, left yesterday for Pond Creek to get in readiness for the rush. Captain Woodson, of the Fifth cavalry, says he will search every outfit to make sure that there is no liquor of any kind taken into Oklahoma. If he does he will prevent no less than a dozen men, who are camped here, with all the way from a ten gallon keg to ten barrels of whisky, who intend opening saloons in Aklahoma. A bank was organized here to-day by prominent capitalists, which will open for business on the 22nd at Lisbon.

KANSAS CIT Y, MO., April 17.—A Times special from Arkansas City (Kan.) says: Reports received to day from the Indian Territory stated that heavy rains bad fallen, and that the rivers were rapidly

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their march to Oklahoma will be ser-~ iously impeded, and that the fording of the large streams will be extremely,dangerouB.

IOLA, Kan., April 17.—The first number of the Oklahoma Times will be issued at Oklahoma City, on the 22d, by A. C. and W. W. Scott, formerly of the Register, of this place. The Times will be Republican in politics, and will be printed from a complete steam plant.

KANASS CITY, April 17.—In his telegram from Caldwell to-night, a staff correspondent of the Kansas City Times, says: The town is not especially full of strangers. Probably the fact that the creeks and the Cimarron are very high, has had some effect in keeping them to the Arkansas City route, but the truth is, that the number of people at all border points has been very much overestimated. There are plenty of town lot schemes hatching. Colonies of old soldiers are forming at several points to get homestead and use the shorter time of their residence to secure a title and then turn part of the land into townB. The heavy rains of last night have made the streams worse than ever and unless they subside there will be great difficulty in reaching Lisbon (formerly King Fisher) from here. The stage company has just ordered nearly 1,000 feet of heavy rope to be used in fording if necessary. The outfit for the hotel at King Fisher arrived here to-day. The managers have sleeping and eating tentn, ranges and a huge lot of eatables of all sorts. The managers have a permit from the military to go in advance and erect their tents. They promise not to use their advantage to get claims and think the chances of the profits in the "biz" are better than those of lands. Manager Parker, of the Rock Island, is expected here during the night. The company is doing everything in its power to handle the "biz," but is working againBt many difficulties. The country here is very beautiful now, and the Cherokee strip south of Cald well-is as good as any- It is fertile, roll ing prarie. The cattle men are not reconciled to the situation and look on the settlers with ill-concealed dislike. This is the headquarters of the live stock association, and many business men are connected with the cattle companies. The boomers will start altogether to-morrow, with the troops in front of them. It will be a sight not often presented before in

America—a thousand or more settlers marching toward homes under the regulations of the war department. The settlers here are of a remarkably good class. Most of them have comfortable outfits. The sound of the violin and banjo "proceed from many of the tente, and tenants have newspapers and Oklahoma literature in Bight, reading all the time. Everybody seems to be for himself, rather jealouB and suspicious of others. Some experienced frontiersmen say there will be no trouble of any sort •at Lisbon, while othera say it cannot be prevented. After Monday the soldiers cannot act except on request of the civil authorities, so the deputy marshals will have to do pretty much all the work of preserving order.

Sound Sense en the School House Question.

One trouble with the school house sanitation is that the work too often stops with inspection, and the recommendations are seldom complied with. There are some matters wherein the boards of health should be empowered to act to the extent of enforcing regulations in compliance with their reoom mendations, and this iB one of them.— [Sanitary News.

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TERRE HAUTE, INDyiEyRSDAY MORNING, APRIL 18,1889.

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this belief ~i% the madstone, says the New fork Soil It goes back to the *""«t ancient times. For ages it ha* continued in China and the East Indies, and Pliny speaks of the ability of the petri fioation called ammonia cornu, andnow known as ammonite, to extract the virua from wounds inflicted by m«^ dm and venomous reptiles. This ia the foeeil of an extinct molluak, and one brought from Bombay to Richmond many years ago waa believed at the time to have cured several cases of hydrophobia in a very marvelous way, affidavits supporting the assertion. But the madstone at present in use ia described as a formation found in the bladders of deer. At least such a specimen was ob-

As it is a porous atone it operates, if it operates at allr by absorption, but in that respect, as Dr. Hamilton says, it has no more curative power than a common sponge. Any porous substance applied to a wound would act in the same way. The belief in the madstone as a cure for hydrophobia is, moreover, only one among many auperstitionB as to the methods of dealing with that terrible disease which 'have been held in both ancient and modern times. It is a question, too, whether the disease itself is not imaginary qjiite as much as real, and for that reason especially adapted for the use of superstitious means of cure, madstones, incantation?, charms and faith cures.

Both Dr. Hamilton and Dr. Spitzka express some skepticism on this point. Few physicians allege that they have seen a genuine case of hydrophobia in man, and Dr. Spitzka goes so far as to say that real rabies, transmissible from dog to man by a bite of the dog only, has not yet been demonstrated. In the great majority of cafee, at least, it is a purely imaginary disease, and in other blood-poisoning or lockjaw may furnish the explanation.

But people will answer that in their own experience they have known of rabies of men, women and children dying in horrible torture* because of the bites of mad dogs. From this time forth until the end of the summer many alleged cases will be reported in the newspapers. Whole communities, very likely, will be terrified by dogs- regarded as mad, as happened in Newark a few years ago, and there will be a wild demand for the slaughter and extermination of the entire canine creation.

To these the physicians answer that

this very terror may provoke nervous respective of their fitness, is which, among their manifold -W,U

take on the

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Btartling"ancr l^MrSW^/SSftfVfiere is no doubt that the imagination is capable of creating what Beams' to be a case of rabies, with all the Irightful symptoms attributed to it. CjVie person bitten is thrown into a {jondition of abject terror by the *xoitement of the chase of the mob ftfter the equally terrified dog, and he akd his friends live thereafter in constant Bread of the consequences. Thus it (times to pass that finally his own imagination brings on him what seems to te the expected disease. The sufferer, ffi Dr. Spitzka says, dies from fright.

That is the true explanation of the great majority of wbj&t are called cases of hydrophobia and, ot course, imaginary cures may avail in imaginary diseases. The scientific physiciin constantly uses the imagination in this way with purely nervous affections, ancl quacks,charlatans and fanatics have always employed it successfully. Very often men may get well by determining td do so, or, in the cases of women mora especially, by reaching the true conclusion that they are well after all. Theiin lies such potency as the mind curel and the faith cures have, and to that Extent they may be useful.

The madstone cures because its curative poweis is believed in. But the true remedial agent is not the stone ammonite or the secretion of the deer. It is the faith alone. Very likely such cures as are credited ta Pasteur's method of inoculation are also due to the wonder-working power of the human imagination.

OBITUARY.

Mr. Wesley H. Hull died at his residence in Honey Creek township yesterday morning at 7 o'clock. He was stricken with paralysis one week ago last Friday.

Mr. Hull was born in Sullivan county in 1825 and was brought to this county by his parents in 1829. His father, the Rev. Samuel A. Hull, was married three times and was the father of a large family of children, of whom Wesley waa the oldest son. The deceased leaves a wife and six children, all grown. Mr. Hull lived and died at the homestead of his father, and will be buried in the family cemetery laid out by his father, who died in 1857, His brother, John A. Hull, of Boone, Iowa, died" from a stroke of apoplexy, as did his father. Mrs. Fred Cornell, of this city, is a daughter. Mr. Hull was one of the most favorably known of the old citizens in the county, and became one of its largest land owners, owning at the time of hie death between five and six hundred acres of choice land in the southern part of the county.

The funeral servioes will be held to-day at 3 o'clock, the Rev. Mr. Wateon of the Prairieton Methodist Church conducting the ceremonies.

The Rothschilds' Counties* Millions.

Report haa it that Baron Alphonse de Rothechild haa loet about three millions sterling over the breakdown of the copper syndicate. He can view the loss with comparative equanimity, for he has managed to considerably increase the paltry ten millions which he inherited from his father. Altogether, the Rothschilds are worth something over a hundred millions, and there is a family compact in existenoe by which they are bound to stand by one another. It is reported among thoee who Bhould know that nothing but the strenuous exertion of the personal influence of Mr. Alfred de Rothschild prevented the English branch of the family-firm from following the lead of Baron Alphonse.—[London Life.

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IDE NEWS AT WASHINGTON.

E. P. Lteey, of Michigan, is Appoinlgped to tho Position of Compiroller of tho Currency. V--

OTHER IMPORTANT. APPOINTMENTS MADE YESTERDAY.

The Railway Mail Service—A Cannon's Discharges in Dlinois.

WASHINGTON, April 17.—Secretary Windom haa signed the commission of Mr. E. S. Laoey, of Michigan, as oomptroller of the currency, and it ia expected

tained by the the president will arid l.in Carolina five or six seeks ago. Tt ttowuocument to morrow, in which event the appointment will be formally announced. Mr. Laoey ia president of the

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was said to have cured a case of bydrophobia and one of rattlesnake bite, these cures being also substantiated by affidavits. The madstone was more recently used with succeee at Terre Haute, Ind., according to a correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal.

First national bank of'Charlotte, Mich. He represented the Third district of t^at state in the Forty-seventh and Fortyeighth congresses, during which time he was a member of the committee on coinage, weights and measures. Ha haa had twenty-five year's experience in the banking business, and is said to possess excellent qualifications for his new position. He bad an interview with Secretary Windom to-day, and said he would be ready to assume charge of the office in about two weeks.

Appointments,

WASHINGTON,April 17.—The president made the following appointments this afternoon: Robert P. Porter, of New York, to be superintendent of censue J. W. Cunningham to be aesaver of the United States assay office at Boise City, Idaho, Wm. H. Calkins, of Washington Territory, to be associate justice of the supreme court of the territory of Washington John B. Donnelly, of Louisiana, to be marshal of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana.'

The Railway Mail Service.'

WASHINGTON, April 17.—Since March 1th, about five hundred changes have been made in the personnel of the railway mail service. First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson, in speaking of the matter to-day, said ft has been the policy of the department to displace incompetent clerks and appoint experienced and thoroughly efficient men who left the service during the last administration, where such were available and desirous of re-entering the service. Of course, he said, men whose faculties have become impaired, or whose thorough fitness has become questionable, will not be re-instated. Efficiency in the postal service can be obtained only after along struggle, and to remove such men to make places for jxilitical favorites, ir"a

appearancft«V ^p^tative Cannon's hand is seen in the appointment of the two Illinois

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postmasters to-day—William R. Jewell at Danville and Thomas R. Weaver at Mattoon. Mr. Jewell succeeds John P. Norvelle, who was removed, his term of office not expiring until April 28,1890. Mr. Jewell has heretofore been postmaster at Danville, he having been suspended under the provisions of section 1,768, revised statutes, by ex-President Cleveland. Mr. Weaver succeeds James L. Scott, at Mattoon, who was removed, having about a year yet to serve before his term expired.—[Washington special.

Why She Killed Him

JITTSBURG, April 17.—At Butler, Pa., about 4 o'clock- this morning, James Fields was fatally shot by his wife. Mrs. Fields was reading a book, and her husband ordered her to come to bed. She refused to do so, when he got up and struck her.

SALE OF SECRETARY TRACY'S TROTTERS.

The Sule of the Fine Horses of the Secretary of the Navy, NEW YORK, April 17.—The sale of the

trotting Btock of the Marchland stud, the property of Secretary of the Navy Tracy, was begun this morning at the American Institute rink. Secretary Tracy was present. The trotters sold at good prices. The bidding ranged from $200 to 16,000. Total for the day's sale was 159,820, and the average per horse $1,246. The sale will dose to-morrow.

.Turf Notes.

The great Clydesdale stallion "Favory," owned by John T. McMlllIn A Co., at Rushvllle, died of rupture ol the stomach Tuesday. He was valued at £10,000.

Robert Bonner say»: "So, under the circumstances. I must be a friend of the horse, and not at all Inclined to be 'bearish' or to break down the trotting market But I must still Insist that S26.000 for an undeveloped 2-year-old colt, by whatever sire or dam, Is too much money—as an Investment."

Kldd, Edmonson A Co.'s sale of trotting horses began at Lexington, Tuesday, with line weather, small attendance, and not brisk bidding. Thlrtyeight head brought f6.200, an average ot $163. The highest-priced animal was Headmark, brown colt, 3 years old, by Victor von Blsmarckjold to J. S. Arnold, Versailles, Ky., for $800. William Walker, the Jockey, has bought of MUton SouoR the bay colt Tbe Lion, 4 years old, by Billet, dam Veda, for $1,600. He Is In training here, anil is well thought of.

W P. Balch, of Boston, under whose auspices the great 110,000 stallion race Is to be held next September, haa changed the condlUons governing the payment of the entrance money. Nominations close June 1, when 2H per cent, of the total purse must be deposited. The second payment will be due July 1, and the third, of equal amount, August 1, when horses most be declared. The final 2 lb percent must be paid before 9 o'clock the morning of the day before the race, September 17. Horses are eligible up to June 1, and murtni after that date and prior to September 18 will not constitute a bar to this stake.

Base Ball Notes.

The Polytechnic dub wlU play the DePauw club at Greencastle, Saturday. A special rate has been secoied, a car chartered, and about fo. ty pen will go.

A

game of base ball will be played at tbe park next Sunday for the beaefit ot tbe Crescents. Two picked nines, composed of the Crescents and selected players from other nines, will play.

Ten thousand persons saw St Louis defeat Cincinnati at the latter place, yestentay. by a score of 5 to 1. Kansas City defeated Louisville at Louisville, 7 to 4. The other two opening games In the American association were prevented by rain.

General Sporting Notes......

Spider Weir Is in desperate straights and entew a Boston ww*"*** His hands will never be In shape lor a fight.

There is nothing In the story of a $10,000 gun* by the Soothorn California dub to have.the Sulll van-KUraln flght at Los Angeles.

C. W. Bodd, of Des Moines, challenges Dr. Carver to shoot 100 llvs pigeons, club match to be held In Chicago, St. Louis. Kuuns City or Cincinnati, for the championship ot tbe world.

THE WHISKY TBU8T.

The Anaual HeeUag-The Freese-Ont Poliey tobe Continued. PEORIA, HL, April 17.—The annual meeting of the whisky trust waa held hereto-day, and all of the old officers were elected and three new trustees. Morria and Kingman, of Chicago, and Terrell, of New York, wera elected in place of Duckworth and Bevis, of Cincinnati, and Francis, of Peoria. The policy of the trust waa outlined in the following^ ad drees by Preeident Greenhut: "Our special endeavors and unceasing efforta have been directed the past year towards improving the oondi tion of the running plants in every department in order to obtain the greatest efficiency and eoonomy in the production and handling of our gooda, ana 1 can say that we have attained gratifying reeults, and that we can feel Jin win our goods and plaoe in a (minimum cost, and gives us ability to cope with any compeli tion with which we may be brought in contact. It ia not good business judgment, however, to ignore our opposition, or underrate the competition we have to contend with, and while we feel confident of being able to combat any com jietition on low prices, we must not be misled and anticipate large dividenda and attempt to vanquish outside competition at the sama time. In other words, our policy should be to run on prices low enough, and for so long a time as may be necessary to overcome those outside concerns which have been, or may be now attempting to take advantage of our position."

Mr. ParneU'a Llliel Suit.

LONDON, April 17.—Mr. Parnell has engaged Sir Charles Russell, Mr. Asquith and Mr. Arthur Russell to conduct the libel suit brought by him sgainst the Times. The trial of the case will take place in London in the autumn. Mr. Parnell will insist that the case be confined to the Bubject of the issue of the forgeries, and that all questions of a political nature be excluded from consideration.

LONDON, April 17.—The-Rev. Father Covenay has commenced Buit against the Standard for saying that he aproved of the murder of Police Inspector [artin at Gweedore, Ireland.

Another Brewery For the Syndicate. NEW YORK, April 17.—-The Tiinea'

Boston special says: The transfer of the Bay State beewery in South Boeton by Henry Souther to a syndicate composed of the Hon. Frank Jones, of New Hampshire, James P. Cook and Charlee A. Sinclair was effected yeeterday. None of the parties in the transaction will tell the amount paid. This is another step in the deal by which the English syndicate is to obtain the control of the breweries heretofore held by Frank

^"i'^Jjmmdictt^f^ano'Trade Failure. BOSTON, April 17—Thomaa F. Soan-

Ion, doing business as the New England piano company, with offices in Boston

and

New York, with a factory at Roxbury, Mass., has failed. The liabilities are $200,000.

About six years ago he re-established hiB large factory in Roxbury, where 400 persons are employed. The immediate cause of the failure was the suspension of Freer & Son, piano dealers, of Dallas, Texas. Scanlon had been backing the Dallas firm, and is on its paper for $100,-

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Pardoned After Twenty-nine Years. TRENTON, N. J., April 17.—The state

court of pardons to-day granted a pardon to Joseph C. Stewart, colored, who has been in the state prison for twenty-nine years, having, when a lad, murdered a playmate in Gloucester county. He was first sentenced to be hanged, but secured a commutation to imprisonment for life on the ground of not being mentally strong. Repeated efforts have been made during the last eleven years to secure his pardon.

"w A Big Fire in New York. NEW YORK, April 17—The big factory

at Ninth avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street took fire at 2 o'clock this morning. In an hour the large building was a heap of ruins—the

Buffalo

door, sash and blind company,

owned it, with all the machinery and the stock it contained in its five stones. The

loss

is put at $100,000. It is covered by insurance.

Ex-Governor Porter Sails.

NEW YORK, April 17.—Among the cabin passengers who sailed on the steamship Aller, for Bremen, to-day, were the Hon. Albert G. Porter, United States minister to Italy, and Fred Grant and family and the duke and duchess of Sutherland on the steamship City of Paris, for Liverpool. George M. Pullman sailed on the City of New York.

A Ferryboat Bnrned.

NEW YORK, April 17.—The Pennsylvania railroad ferryboat, New Brunswick, plying between the Pennsylvania railroad station in Jersey City and Desbroesius Btreet, New York, took nre to-day. All the persons who were on board' escaped, but some horees and trucks were burned. LOBS, $75,000.

The GrMt American Paw Post Company, NEBRASKA CITV, Neb., April 16.—The

great American tea compaey, of this city, is in the hand of the seriff, and the manager has disappeared. Investigation shows that the entire stock con ists of nothing but saw dust. The iabiliti es are unknown.

A Mine Explosion.,

VIENNA, April 17.—An explosion occurred in the Rotschilds colliery, in Tiffbin, to-day. Five persons were killed and two more dangerously wounded. Six others are missing.

Snlcide of a Speculator.

NEW YORK, April 17.—William Gould, a speculator in oil, committed suicide to* day by shooting. Death was instantaneous. Adverse speculation is said to have been the cause.

Obituary.

NEW YORK, April 17.—Brigadier General Samuel Kennedy Dawson, U. S. A.J (retired), died at Orange, N. J., this morning, after a short sickness.

Daily Established in 185

NEWS ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

The Gambling Cases Postponed Until Next Term by Judge Mack.

LIKEWISE THE CASE AQAINST M'CARRAN, WHO IS NOT HERE.

But All the Petty Liquor Cases Are Quicklr and Severely Disposed of.

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Mr. LaSbrouFWl«^5B' sent a telegram from CincinnatiTiL.v.. ing the court that he oould not be here and Judge Mack postponed the trial until the next term. Mr. Lamb was in the oity at 1p.m.

The case against Joseph McCarran, for shooting Jasper Edwards, has been postponed from time to time on account

^MJerUoys'for perjury.

THE HON. BILL HICKS.

He Arrives in the City in Spite of Police Warning.

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of the absence of Mr. Lamb from the oity, and now McCarran iB supposed to be absent. It is a presumption that the McCarran case will be continued in this way until Judge Maok strikes it from the docket. There is no prospect of having any more gambling caees tried until after the city election.

The bond of John Bays, for assault and battery with intent to kill, upon his brother, has been raised to $1,000. Bays cut his brother's throat with a butcher knife last Friday afternoon, and the jatter is in a dangerous condition. Bays is in jail and says that he remembere Jj nothing about the trouble, because he was drunk.

William H. Cress was appointed guardian of Jamee H., Frederick and Edward Atkins, minor heirs of Charles Atkins.

Francis H. Parsons was appoint^! guardian of Mary J. Parsons, minor heir of Jamea H. Parsons.

The grand jury refused to return indictments for perjury against Colonel Manuel and Riohard Underwood, the two colored boys Judge Mack ordered committed for perjury, last week, during the trial of Colonel Manuel for larceny, and against whom the judge instructed the grand jury to return indictments, and concerning whom he said when he ordered them committed that he had heard enough to convict them. Therein lies a difference of opinion between the judge and the grand jury (a good Democratic body) which is difficult to explain. The judge claimed that they were guilty

Bill Hicks came to the city yesterday morning from Chicago, where he has been making hie home for several months. Bill has the reputation of being able to get into places where other crooks fail, and his presence in the city is always cause for solicitude on the part of citizens. The parting words of Superintendant Stout to him a few months ago were that he would do well not to return, and if he did so to report at headquarters at once. He has not been seen by very many persons since his return, and Beveral of the policemen claimed to have no official information of his presence. He is reported as saying that he did not think that the police would drive him away from the city if he would behave himself. It was also reported that he .. was making several purchases, and that he had considerable money.

The Local Oklahoma Party.

The local Oklahoma party of twelve left for that territory yesterday afternoon. Mr. William Ladd, captain of the party, expected to have between thirty and forty, but it seems that _Vigo county HooBiers prefer to remain at home. Six of the party were from Clay City. In addition to the above thereof were thirteen persons who'left in charge of Traveling Passenger Agent Jordan, of the I. & St. L.

Jesse Poe, colored, an Oklahoma boomer, now rests in jail, because he prepared himself for life in the wild West before getting away from Hoosierdom. He is a-stranger, and come to this_ city yeeterday. He purchased a leather belt, made to carry cartridges, and a knife. Tbe belt contained a large knife with a blade about six inches long. He was arrested and lodged in jail, although he pleaded that he was on his way to Oklahoma, and had paid bis way into: the city. ft A Child Killed by tlie Cars.

Mary Brown, the 8-year-old daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, of Fontanet, was instantly killed by a freight •. train, at Fontanet, Tuesday evening. She was crossing the track of a mine," siding as forty cars were backing to the Hercules mine. The engine was at the-, other end of the train and the little girl did not see that the train was moving.". Her right arm and right leg were cut offr and she was disembowled, causing instant death. Her father is the night boss of the mines. Coroner Haworth held an inquest yesterday.

The Catholic Knight of America.

On Monday evening the Catholic. Knights of America will give a banquet^* at Dowling hall at which it is thought at least 400 persons will be present from this city and neighboring cities. The order is based on the mutual insurance plan and has only members of the Catholic Church on its rolls.

The Terre Haute House Lease.

The Terre

Haute

House company is

receiving many answers to its advertise- .. ments in hotel trade papers offering

lease the hoteL

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The Vernon (Ala.) Courier offers a prize of $1 for the best snake story.

efforts are not to cover over one

side of a sheet of writing paper and are not to be chestnuts. Truth is not essential.

Fur capes and even beaded mantlets have taken the place of winter coats.

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