Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 May 1889 — Page 2

DAILY EXPRESS.

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The Republican press of the state very frankly accords to Terre Haute the leadership in the political campaign of the year.

We have the best oil well in the country and have secured a big Republican ^victory in the city election. Why can't we have rain?

The sudden change from winter to summer, skipping the spring season, was not unlike the change in politics in the city this year. There was nothing halfway about it.

Some of our distinguished and disgusted Democratic friends can't laugh with the Gazette to whose antics in the campaign they generally ascribe the defeat of well-laid plans.

The Sentinel Is frothing at the mouth again There Is a madstone at Terre Haute.—[Indianapolls Journal.

The Terre Haute madstone never fails in preventing rabies caused by the bite of an animal, but it will not.effect a cure of self-inflicted political rabies.

The wild and wooly west, represented by a horse from Montana, took the Kentucky bourbons down a peg or two yesterday. The northwest is a great empire and will be heard from in other respects than the race track in the next few years.

It is an interesting fact in connection with the recent city campaign that a democratic grand jury went out of its way to fasten on the Republican board of cotinty commissioners some sort of responsibility for the wide-open gambling regime in the city but the traj) did not spring. No one stepped on it.

Pennsylvania is preparing for a vote on prohibition and the prospect is that the 'cranks will be defeated by even a more ^'decided vote than was recently cast in

Massachusetts. The danger of a tidal wave of prohibition, such as was threatened a few years ago, is disappearing. Good sense, conservative and practical treatment of the question of temperance, have manifested their inliuence with the people who are opposed to all extremes.

The "high plane" campaign of the Gazette as illustrated in its attacks on Unuck gave Hauck at leost as many votes as are to be found in his column of net majority. In other words the Gazette's "high plane" tactics have consigned Jimmy Pitzpatrick to the lower tfalkB of private life and in this opinion Tnr. EXI'KKKS is pleased to know that it has the support of a very general concurrence of opinion among the friends of Mr. Fitzpatrick.

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Speiiker Carlisle says: "Without the negro the Republican party would amount to nothing whatever as a political force In the South." And pray what would the Democratic party amount to as a political force In the South without the negro? Its sole stock In trade for years past has been opposition to the netrro, to negro suffrage, civil rights, social equality, etc. The Democratic party In the South, as heretofore organized, has had no other excuse for being but the negro. With him out of the way It would cease to exist unless organized on a new basis.—I Indianapolis Journal. •And don't let the fact be overlooked that without the negro aB a voter the Democracy in the country would have 35 less votes in the electoral college.

There is now no doubt as to the great value of the oil find. It is not a "pocket," nor is it oil of an ordinary quality. There is no reason why all values and all hopes of the city's prosperity may not be enhanced. In the panic nearly twenty years ago Terre llaute was an exception among cities as no bank closed its doors and no panic was felt in the city's industrial and mercantile pursuits. The same conservative spirit is abiding with the people as to the discovery of oil. In other cities there would have been, no doubt, bonlires, grand pyrotechnical and oratorical outbursts, but Terre Haute having a well which gives forth oil in quantity and quality of almost unheard of extent will continue to saw wood and sell no gallon for less than its market value.

The Indianapolis Sentinel has renewed its claim that the protective tariff is at fault for the suspension of work in the Clay county mines, and the Gazette points to the distress among the miners in the anthracite coal region as wholly due to the protective tariff. Of course the Sentinel is aware that natural gas in Indianapolis and elswhere in Indiana has reduced the coal consumption, and of course the Gazette knows that there is no protective, or any other kind of duty on hard coal, but theee facts are ignored as they frequently have been, and with such studied effort at concealment by such newspapers as the Sentinel and Gazette that we can not much longer remain in doubt whether their peculiar manner of dealing with the quee-

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tion is to be attributed to mendacity insanity. The same warm winter that had such a telling effect on the coal industry of the country also may have had a depressing influence on the brans of the able editors of the newspapers, referred to.

AN OLD TRICK.

THE TKRRE HAUTE EXPRESS of yesterday lets (ly the American eagle over the Republican victory In that city, in which it was a potent factor. It says members of the police and fire departments worked openly for the Democratic ticket, one fireman.acting as challenger, while the suiierlntendent of police hauled voters to the polls in his buggy. It was high time for a Democratic defeat In Terre Haute. The result is a victory for law, and order, and good government.—[Indianapolis Journal.

Our Indianapolis friends get but an imperfect idea of our political situation here at the best. The city is not inclined to le provincial or prohibitive, and because it is conservative the gamblers ring ran away with the bit in the teeth for a year or so.

The result of the election on Tuesday was a victory for the good sense of the community. This good sense sentiment is opposed to extreme and when the gamblers ring had run to the extreme with the conservative sentiment it was called up with a sharp turn.

It has been a trick with these card tricksters to class themselves with the "liberal" element in the city and to' use this liberal element to pull the cheetnuts out of the lire. They know that Terre Haute is not afflicted with puritanical rabies but they try to make it appear to this liberal element that some demon of crazy prohibition proclivities is going to hold sway here. There is no prospect of anything of the kind. The only purpose is to kill the gambling house ring that has been using its money and peculiar means of influence to arbitrarily control all municipal affairs for the past year or more.

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A. Doubter

She—So you don't believe the stars ever sang together? He—No. If they were stars they would be singing solos.

She—Indeed But you ought to remember that the ordinary chorus don't sing together, either.

Supply and Demand.

Mr. Dlbley—A penny for your thoughts, Miss Browne. Miss Browne—Don't you think you ought to offer more than that, Mr. Dlbley, In view of the fact that you were entirely out of them?

Serenely Secure.

Sympathizing Friend—Weren't you awfully scared when you saw that the fellow had you covered with a pistol?

Hardware man—I was at first, until I recognized the gun as one I had sold the day before for $1.50. Then I sailed in and licked the slufling out of him.

A Sisterly Sneer.

First Chorus Girl—My husband from Jayvllle Is In the audience. I'm arrald to goon he might recognize me and raise a row.

Second Chorus Girl—You needn't have any fear of that, with those tights on.

J, EXCHANGE ECHOES. Kansas City Times: The Cherokee strip and the rest of the Creek and Seminole cessions will have to come along this year or next in their due order.

St Paul Pioneer Press: Ben Butler accuses Admiral Porter of having run away at the battle of New Orleans. It was impossible for Ben to run away. He was "bottled up."

Philadelphia Times: Base ball is booming, the Icebergs are majestically moving south, the peach crop Is a failure, the sea serpent Is taking of his spring overcoat, and the pigs are In clover.

Philadelphia Press: There are 858 veterans of the war for the Union who are drawing pensions on account of total blindness. There is but one who receives a pension on account of being a complete wreck.

Peoria Transcript: Mr. Clarkson ousted about one thousand Democratic postmasters last week. For a man who Is not In robust health Mr. Clarkson is doing quite well. We look for great things Irora Mr. Clarkson when he gets his second wind.

Blnghampton Republican: The Carter Harrison who has just been announced as the president's brother is not the ex-mavor of Chicago. There is, at least, this to be said In favor of his appointment to the oflice of United States marshal of the middle district of Tennessee.

Philadelphia Times: No foreign government could land 75,000 men on our shores as quickly as we could collect that number to repel an invasion. The riot or rebellious outbreak that could not be put down with a fraction of the 75.0C0 militia available would be a phenomenal one, Indeed.

Indianapolis Journal: It Is a cold day when the Mugwump papers cannot find something to criticise In General Harrison's acts, but his appointment of civil service commissioners receives their

unqualified

approval. They are, indeed, excellent

appointments, notwithstanding the Mugwump praise. Philadelphia Ledger: General B. F. Butler, after a quarter century's stlence on the subject, has started In to prove that Admiral D. D. POrter was lacking In bravery during the civil war. The general who, to use the phrase of General Grant, was himself bottled on a historic occiislon, will hardly succeed In bottling Porter.

Utlca Herald: The New York Times has a story that Senator Quay Is the disbursing agent of thj Pennsylvania brewers, who have raised $200,003 to defeat the prohibition amendment. The Times, of course, doesn't believe any such thing, but it feels that the Democratic cause n°eds misstatements to keep It up and doesn't hesitate.

Philadelphia Press: The contest over the "selection of a successor to the late W. H. Barnum as chairman of the National Democratic committee Is almost certain to precipitate an uncanny quarrel in the household of our friends the enemy. And no matter how It ends, the man who steps Into Mr. Barnum's shoes is likely to waddle around In them to a distressing degree.

The Rev. Mr. Crtitu will Be Here To-day.

The Raw J. II. Crum is expected today and will begin his pastoral duties next Sunday at the Congregational Church.

ABOUT PEOPLE.

Justice Gray and* Miss Jeannette Matthews will be married June G. Queen Victoria's traveling railway coach is built of satin wood and maple, with white silk hangings and decorations of nure gold.

Mr. Jeffereon Davis has accepted an invitation to attend the centennial celebration of the adoption of the federal constitution of North Carolina, on November 21,17S9.

Lewis Leland, who has been prominently identified with the chain of Lieland hotels from the Atlantic to the Pacific for forty-two years, has retired from the hotel business, and has been appointed special representative of an insurance company for the state of Illinois.

Miss Anna Dickinson has been confined to the sick-room of her aged mother for the past six months, and has not been from her heme for an hour at a time since last November. Mrs. Dickinson is in a state of almost complete prostration, and her two faithful daughters anticipate her death at any time.

The Count Tolstoi, Russian minister of the interior, whose death is announced, is not the celebrated novelist. There are three Count Tolstoi's in Russia. The most noted is Count Leo, the novelist. Count Alexis Tolstoi- has considerable reputation as a poet and dramatist, and the third one, who has just died, has been minister of the interior for several years.

A MASTERPIECE OF CRIME.

Translated from the French of Jean Rlehepin for the Courier-Journalrj vi.

Still in all the articles, even the mart flattering, there were two things which irritated the anthor.

The first wae that they insisted upon regarding his real name as a pseudonym, and calling him Anatole Dee rosea.

The second was that they said too much about his imagination and did not make enough of the versimilitude of his tale.

These two points tormented him until he lost all pleasure in his daripg glory. Artists are so made that even when the critics give them a bed of roses to He on, they suffer if a single leaf is wrinkled.

So, one fine day, when some one-con-gratulated the great man who had written "The Masterpiece of Crime," and was swinging the censer before him with might and main, the great man answered to his face: "But, sir, you would congratulate me in a different manner if you knew the least word about this thing. My story is no romance it happened. The crime was actually committed as I have told it, and I am the man who did it. My true name is Oscar Lapissotte."

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conviction, separating his phrases as one who wished to be belived. "Charming! charming!" cried his acquaintance. "This jest is startlingly somber it is equal to Baudelaire's best."

And the next day the newspaper told the incident It was thought very clever, this attempt in mystification, by which Anatole Desroses wished to pass himself off as an assassin. Decidedly, he was original and worthy to live in wicked and witty Paris.

Oscar Lapissotte became furious. In making the terrible confession he had acted in a way mechanically. Now he had an irrepressible feeling that be must be believed by some one, he cared not by whom.

He renewed his confession to all his friends whom he met on the boulevards. The first day this was droll. The second day they found the farce monotoneous, and the third day he was put down as a bore. In the course of a week he began to pass for a veritable imbecile.

He was unable to maintain his reputation as a great man. The most jealous partisans now chaffed him.

The beginning of his downfall irritated him. "This is too much," he said to the incredulous in a crowded cafe." So no one will believe what is the bare truth no one is willing to admit that I have not only written, but committed, the 'Masterpiece of Crime.' Well, I am not discouraged. To-morrow all Paris will know who Oscar Lapissotte is!' in.

He found the judge who had tried the case of the murder of the Rue Saipt Denis.

There was foam on his lips and a mad light in his eyes, his whole body shook with passion. He would have strangled the judge, if the man's cries for help had not been heard. Oscar was overpowered, bound and immediately put under lock and key.

Five days after he was taken to Charenton as a madman. "See then whither literature leads its votaries," said I know not what newspaper gossiper the next day. "Once by chance Anatole Desroses wrote a good thing. He was so affected by this success that he has ended by believing in the reality of bis own creation. It is the old fable of .Pygmalion enamored of of his Statue. Poor Murger, the prince of Bohemia, said to me one day," etc., etc. vv ~"V

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And what is moet remarkable is that Oscar Lapissotte was not insane. He had his reason, and he was therefore the more tortured. "Ah," he thought, "my misfortune is complete. They are willing to believe neither in my name nor in my crime. When I am dead I shall be remembered simply as Anatole Desroeee, a scribbler who wrote one good story. And thev will regard as a character in the tale

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tiM nan arfeootaaa, of deeMoutof action, the buo of farocity,the living negation of remocsa. Ob, would that they had grrillntined me, if they might only have knowttaod admitted the truth. If only tor a ioMBt before putting neckintothe eocket. if oniyaseooni while the loufe was falling, if only for the instant ot lightaing's flash, I might have had the oertainty of glory the vision of immortality

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"Sir," he said. "I come to give myself up as a prisoner. I am Oscar Lapissotte." "It is useless to continue, sir," replied the judge, with an amiable air. "I have read your story, and I compliment you. I am also aware of the eccentricity with which you have amused yourself for the past week. Another than myself would be angry, perhaps to see the jest carried so far. But I am fond of literature and I shall not blame you for trying upon me your clever farce, since it gives me the pleasure of making your acquaintance." "But, my dear sir," said Oscar, irritated at this politeness, "this is no jest! I# swear to you that I am Oscar Lapissotte, and that I have committed a crime I will prove it." "Very well, sir," said the magistrate, "you will see that I am good-natured. For curiosity's sake I will take part in this little comedy. I anticipate a great deal of pleasure in hearing a clever man like yourself prove to me an absurdity." "Absurdity! But that which I shall relate is the absolute truth. The coachman was not guilty. It WBB 1 who arranged—" "I believe I told you, dear sir, that I have read your story. If you are pleased to repeat it to me yourself, I shall be delighted, 1 am sure. But that will prove nothing to me, since that which has already been demonstrated to my satisfaction is that you have a singularly rich and strange imagination." "I have only imagination enough to commit a crime!" "Not to commit it, to write it, my dear sir, to write it, and wait, let me tell you what I think about it. You have a little too strong an imagination you pass the limits prescribed to the fancy of a writer you have invented circumstances, which sin against probability." a "But when I tell you that—" "Allow me one moment! You will admit that I know something about crime and criminals. Well, then, I assure you, on my conscience, that your crime is not planned out wholly according to nature. The meeting of the maid in the hospital is too -much a matter of chance. The chloral, (if I may use the expression) is hard to Btomach. And there are other details I might speak of. Yet, as a work of art, your Btory is charming, original, cleverly devised and absorbing and I admit that you writers have the right to transgress reality. But your famous crime in itself is impossible. My dear M. Desroses, I am sorry to give you pain but, while I admire you as a man of letters, I am truly unable to take you seriously as a criminal." "You shall see!" shouted Oscar Lapissotte, leaping upon the judge.

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This form of insanity is treated by al ternate hot and oold bathe. At lMt through oonstant harping upon his one fii'd idea and living among insane peopla, he became insane himself. It was then that he waa sent away aa cured. For Oacar Lapissotte at last came to believe that he really was Ana toleDesroses,and that he.had never committed murder.

He died with the conviction that he had invented hir masterpiece of crime and not performed it.

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OBITUARY.

Captain John Lindaey waa one within whose rugged, stalwart frame beat a warm and honest heart. When the writer, as a Ixtt? first knew him, John Lindaey seem£the realization, of Cooper's heroe, the Leather Stocking and Pathfinder. He was so strong and brave, so gentle and honest. He was one of the workers on thUftild Wabash and Erie canal. He could tramp day after day without fatigoAtjnd had made even sixty miles on foojj^ichih a day. When the rebellion came, and Indiana volunteers made their glorious record, John Lindaey was one of the first to volunteer. As lieutenant of Company I, of that great regiment, the Fourteenth Indiana, he followed Coldhel Nathan Kimball. Promotions were rapid in that fighting regiment, but Lindaey was an uneducated man, which,.in spite of his gallantry, kept him out of the line. It was at Winchester, when Stonewall Jackson was checked and Kimball deserved the honore of the day, that Lindsey.received

first serious wound, the

one which made him limp for the rest of his life. He and Slocum, of the Fourteenth, each fell with a minnie ball through the thigh. Carried to the hospital tent, the surgeons prepared for amputation in the too-often hasty style of army surgery. The two soldiers laid their hands upon their revolvers and swore they would shoot the first who touched them with a knife. Surgeon General Hammond, who chanced to be on the field, noticed the case and immediately shipped the two, with other wounded men, to Philadelphia, where, in a Catholic hospital, used by the government, under the gentle -ministration of the Sisters of Charity, Lindsey and Slocum recovered, the latter to go to Tennessee, where he fell in battle. It is a beautiful picture to recall that pleasant and neat room in the hospital, the cots so clean and white, the massive and rugged Lindsey on one, and on the other Slocum, blue-eyed and auburn-haired, a handsome and interesting patient. Flowers and delicacies came from many visitors to the Hoosier soldiers, and the honest captain would shake his head at the attentions paid his attractive comrade by certain romantic Visitors who did not know there was a Mrs. Slocum out in Indiana. LindBey came back to recruit for the Fourteenth. Afterward he wss with Colonel" Thompson, when he was provost with hii age to knew him, nor

npson, He lived, unmarried, mother in their old one who ever could fail to like marched or camped with

him'on dreary Cheat mountain, do else than honor him, nor none who remember the grizzled veteran cease to regret the noble old hero.

Died, at her home, corner of Eighth and Eagle streets, Mrs. Kate Brink man, in the 46th year of her age, of consumption.

She was born in Bavaria, Germany, removing to America with her parents, brothers and sisters] when but 10 years old. April 28,1863, she was united in marriage to John F.'Brinkman, at Bateeville, Ind. She leaves a husband and seven sorrowing children to mourn her loss. Mrs. Brinkman was a devout member of St. Benedict's German Catholic Church. Faithful and gentle in life, she kept the faith, and in death was abundantly comforted in hope. A true wife, a loving, devoted mother, a sympathizing friend. No higher eulogy can be pronounced upon any woman. How the mourning husband will miss her sweet companionship! And the little motherless children will miss her tender, watchful care! Truly the beet of earthly friends has passed away, but we have a sweet hope that in the golden summer of another life, mother and father, children and friends will gather again in sweet reunion. The church lost one of its most devoted members, and her loss to the family and all who knew her will be long and deeply felt.

O, why must our loved one thus early depart yKsi To be with Jesus so soon? ^4 Why must her sun, Just risen, "'Jg Go Uown while at it« noon Z. Why go so soon through the pearly gates,' With half sung life's sweet psalm, X. Into the land of Beulah— Land of the morning calm? E'n now thou art viewing the glassy sea, And pearl and jasper are shining lor ihee. We'll bow to his *cepter, we'll kiss the rod, For thou has entered the gttes of the city of God.

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Prize For the Heat Mixed Drink.

The prize of a gold medal offered to the bartender who gave the best I'eceipe for a mixed drink was awarded to James Dougherty, manager of the Minden house. There were seventy-six contestants, and nine ballots were taken. The recipe which Mr. Dougherty sent in was this: "Half a pint of champagne, a pony of brandy, glass of apollinaris water, a lump of sugar, three or four drops of Angostura bitters, and lemon peel. Serve in Tom Collins glasses and cold." Mr. Dougherty called this a "business brace."—[New York special.

Not Onions.

"It isn't onions," he explained, as a man on the platform of the car-turned aside his head with a "phew" of disgust. "Are you sure it isn't?" "Perfectly sure. I have just been eating old cheese and herrings." "Thank heaven for that." "But why "That the poor onion escaped."—[Datroit Free Press.

Hot Enough at Home.

"When shall we go away for the summer, George, dear?" We won't have to go away for the summer. At this rate we will get all we want of It at home. Wheh! Ain't it hot?"—(Chicago Herald.

A Clear Conscience.

"Ma," said Bobby, "is it wrong for little boys to tie tin kettlee to dogs' tails?" "Decidedly wrong, Bobby I hope you'll never do

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a thing as that."

"No, indeed, ma," replied Bobby, emphatically "all I do is to hold the dog." —{Harper's Bazar.

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Ma Co!l«tt to Appointed State Gcologlit to 8ace«ed Qorby.

Professor John Colic tt has been appointed state geologist by Governor Hovey, saya the Indianapolis News. The appointment means that, it the governor has the power, Professor S. S. Gorby, who was elected by the legislature, is ousted from the office. When a News reporter called at the governor's office for information regarding a rumor that such action was about to be taken, a conference with the attorney general had just been concluded. When the reporter was admitted to the governor's private room, Private Secretary Roberts was directed to at once prepare the commission for Professor Collett. "Two weeks ago," the governor said to the News representative, "I sent for Mr. Gorby and asked him to mandate me for his commission.' He has taken no action, and I have determined to do something. I believe that he and his deputies are acting officially without legal authority. Mr. Gorby has no commission, and has not teken the required oath of office. I believe they arf liable for whatever they da Professor Collett, as geologist, will appoint the mine, oil and gas inspectors, ana will take control of the department." "Howsoon?" "His commission will be sent -him today. He can qualify whenever he is ready." "The burden of testing (he law will ret upon Gorby, then!" "It he wants to contest the right to the office it will be necessary for him to enter shit against Professor Collett, who holds the commission and the legal authority."

Profeesor Collett refused to say anything about the matter. The position is one of the number that, according to Governor Hovey's view, is not embraced in the supreme court decision as to the right of the legislature to elect certain officers, and, as Mr. Gorby would not undertake to settle the matter by mandamus proceedings, the governor determined to take action himself. Professor Collett was the state geologist under Governor Porter, and is recognized as one of the leading geologists of the country. He did more to attract attention to Indiana resources than any other man who has ever held the position.

Peculiar Story From Jeft'ersonville. Special to the Indianapolis News. JEFFERSONVIL:LE. Ind., May 9.—There is a young lady clerking in one of the leading stores in Louisville, quiet, modest and lady-like, over whom hangs the shadow of a dark secret. Her parents reside in this state. In 1876, while Bhe was standing on the street near her father's home, with a small pen-knife open in her hand, she was assaulted by a drunken scoundrel, and in her fright she struck him with the knife, the blade penetrating hiB heart and causing instant death. Horror-struck and not knowing what to do, she fled from home without acquainting her relatives of her distress, and through the inter vention of new found friends, she finally found a position in Louisville, where she has since remained. Her parents labor under the delusion that she eloped with a showman, and fears of her own safety has prevented her from informing them to the contrary. After her flight the murdered man was recognized as a tough, and his death was attributed to a drunken brawl with unknown parties. As he had few friends, no interest was taken in solving the mystery of his death, and at this late date it is hardly likely ever to be recalled.

The Indianapolis Assessor's Office. CHICAGO, May 9.—An *1 ndianapolis

special says: The discovery that money has been drawn for several persons whose names are on the pay roll of the assessor of Indianapolis without their knowledge Jias led to more sensational disclosures. Yesterday it was found that $1,200 has been drawn in the name of a young man named Jose Fawcett, distantly related to the assessor's chief clerk, who ren dered no service for the money. It has been found that another man was on the pay roll for more than a year without rendering any services. Six names have been on the pay roll without the knowledge of the persons for whom the money wa3 drawn. The Marion county board of commissioners are involved with the assessor, who claims that the commissioners made the allowances with the understanding that the money was to be kept by him. The grand jury is investigating the matter and it is expected that extensive frauds will be disclosed.

The Equation or Chances.

Special to the Indianapolis News. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 9.—W. D. Murphy, a student of the State niversity, has been making an interesting experiment on pint bottle filled with beanp, which he chooses to call the equation of chance. There were in all 1,317 beans in the flask and be received 845 guesses from as many different persons. The highest number was 12,000, the lowest 200, but the greater number were between 500 and 3,000. The nearest guess was 1,312, the second 1,325, the third 1,303 There were fifteen persons guessed 1,300, and sixteen persons guessed between 1,300 and 1,400, all of which gives one a good idea where the profit comes in with a lottery company.

Legions of Snits on Sullivan's Bond.

Ten suits were filed on John E. Sullivan's official bond, and a number more were brought yesterday. These were brought by Harry Milligan, receiver of the Fletcher trust, and will amount to several thousand dollars. The shortage in the clerk's office is $47,000, and of this sum Sullivan's bondsmen are held for 125.000. The only surety who is responsible is Daniel Burton, though the other bondsmen's wives are reported to have money. The other 822,000 appears to be a dead loss, so far as there is anything in sight now.

Indiana State Nnws Notes.

A grand display of natural gas will be made at Uuncie, beginning on the 15th and continuing three days.

The Evansville Journal says that a few firstclass funerals of wealthy people are needed in that city before Evansville can prosper as It should.

Fire at North Judson, Ind.. Wednesday, destroyed property valued at $25,(XX). The fire originated from a bonfire'started by small boys in an alley.

Dr. George W. Yates, of Evansville, Is dead. He has long lived in that city, and he was an important factor in establishing the boundary between Indiana and Kentucky, with reference to Green River island.

F. W. "Brlnkmeyer, who formally stood at the head of the manufacturing interests of Evansville, after suffering for several years with a strange dementia, has been takes in charge by the authorities for removal to the Insane asylum. A guardian was placed over him some time ago to save the reunant of a large and rapidly disappearing fortune.

A. McCain, of Indianapolis, has won the $100 prize offered by the Randolph county commissioners for the best design for a soldiers' monument, over numerous competitors. His design is a departure from established rules, and is neither a pyramid nor a shaft, but rather a combination of modern and feudal architecture. The base is a fort in plan, with embrasures, while the monument proper Is a castellated tower surmounted with a bronze statue of Mars at rest.

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INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

AMUSEMENTS. NAYLOR'S OPERA HOUSE

ONE WEEK OF COMIC OPERA,

COMMENCING

MONDAY, MAY 6th.

Matinees Wednesday and Saturday.

GEO. A. BAKER'S

Bennett-Moulton^"

Comic Opera Company.

8 PEOPLE 48

Our Own Orchestra! New and Elegant Costumes' Two-Prlnw Donnas 1

RKPKKTOIRK FOR THK WKKK:

Monday Boccacci Tuesday The Beggar Student Wednesday Matinee Merry War Wednesday Evening Robt. Macalre Thursday The Black Hussar Friday The Bohemian Girl Saturday Matinee Robert Macalre Saturday Evening Chimes of Normandy

Prices: 15. 25,35 and 50 cents. nsecure seats at Button's book store, ffy.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (PJ denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Buffet. Cars attached. Trains marked thus run daily. All other trains run daily Sundays excepted.

VANDAUA LINE. T. H. & I. DIVISION. LSAVK FOR THI W1C8T.

No. 9 Western Express (S&V) No. 5 Mall Train No. I Fast Line (PAV) No. 7 Fast Mall

1.42 a. m. 10.18 a. m. 2.15 p. m. 9.01 p. in.

LKAVB FOR THK KA3T.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) No. 6 New York Express (SAV) No. 4 Mail and Accommodation No. 20 Atlantic Express (P&V) No. 8Fast Line*.

1.90 a. m. 1 51 a. m. 7.15 a. in. 12.42 p. m. 2.00 p.

ARRIVE FROM THK EAST.

No. 9 Western Express (S&V) No. 5 Mall Train No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) No. 3 Mail and Accommodation No. 7 Fast Mail

1.30 a. m. ll).12a. m. 2.00 p. m. 6.45 p. m. 9.00 p. m.

ARRIVE FROM THK WEST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) No. 6 New Y»rk Express •(SAV) No. 30 Atlantic Express (PAV) No. 8 Fast Line

1.20 a. m. 1.42 a. in. 12.37 p. in. 1.40 p. m.

T. H. A L. DIVISION.

LEAVE FOR THE NORTH.

No. 52 South Bend Mall No. 64 South Bend Express ARRIVE FROM THE NORTH No. 51 Terre Haute Express No. 63 South Bend Mall

6.00a. m* 4.00 p. m.

12.00 noon 7.30 p. m.

SPASMS I EPILEPSY FITS

A new, prompt and permanent cure. Nothing like It No Kits after fivejday's treatment. Itls not in any way Injurious to the mind. Names kept private if requested. Call and investigate the medical properties of this wonderful Magic Nerve and Brain Tonic.

DR. 8. D. WILLIS, 1213 N. 7th St TerreHaute.Ind

Solicitor of

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PATENTS ""J.

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CiusMicf.'g-o0''WOOD

INDIANAPOLIS'IND*

$ .so

Our Leader!

A Ladies' Dongola Shoe of sterling excellence In material and workmanship. The prices tell the story.

$1.50.

D. REIBOLD,

300 Main Street.

PROFESS'ONAL OARDS

DK. E.

A.

GILLETTE, DENTIST.

Filling of Teeth a Specialty.

OWce—McKeen's new block, cor. 7th and Main ata

W. R. MAIL. L, H. BAHTHOLOMXW.

DRS. MAIL & BARTHOLOMEW Dentists,

(Successor* to Bartholomew A Hall. 529)( Ohio St. Terre Haute, Ind.

I. H. I^OYSE,

NO. 617 OHIO STREET.

DR. C. O. LINCOLN,

DENTIST.

All work warranted as represented. Office ano residence 310 North Thirteenth street, Terr* Haute. Ind.

FIRE! FIRI1 FIRE! FIRE!

•INSURANCE.

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You can get Fire Insurance or any other kind of Insurance of

.Kelley & (^s

665 Wabash Avenue, Terre Haute, Ind., TELEPHONE No. 248. This agency represents the best Fire Insurance companies now doing business, also the best

|UVE STOCK INSURANCE

company In the state." All Loesses are ADJUSTED Bf os and paid within .ONK or FIVE DAYS from date of same.

ASSETS, $153,000,000.00.

Very Lowest Bates and good treatment. Hive as a call,

A.

F. Froeb & Co.

1 JEWELERS.

Diamonds and all Precious Stones reset In any

J-

style on short notice.

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FINfc REPAIRING OF ALL KINDS.

A Large Stock of

Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry,

Sterling Silverware and _• '""'Novelties.

^506 WABASH AVENUE it 'f J"''

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Terra Hnnte, Ind.

GREAT

Plant Sale!

Thirty Days.

Immense stock. Choice, well grown novelties very cheap. Everybody Is Invited to call and see for themselves.

JOHN 5. HEIHL,

25 N. ElghthSt., Terre Haute.

M. A. BAUMAN,

Palming, Graining, Glazing, Calcimlnlng and Paper Hanging,

NO. 23 SOUTH SIXTH STREET.

(Residence, IKS Chestnut street) Tour Patronage Respectfully Solicited. WORK PROMPTLY DONE.

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A. J. GALLAGHER, PLUMBER Gas and Steam Fitter,

424 Cherry Street. Terre Haute

gEXCUM TO PARIS (PRAICI)

WORI.D'S EXPOSITION LOW RATES. Tickets to and from Europe over all the best Trans-Atlantic steamship lines.

JOHN G. HEINL,

No. 26 North Eighth Street, Terre Haute, Ind.'

For inventions promptly secured. Reference, by permission, to Hon. Wui. Mack. Address

O.E.DUFFY, 607 Seventh Street, Washington, D. C.