Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 May 1889 — Page 2

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DAILY EXPRESS.

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The Democratic newspapers continue to reiterate the statement that the Democratic party has nominated a defeated candidate for the presidency and ring the changes on the case of Andrew Jackson, "whose defeat when first a candidate made his nomination certain," as says one newspaper. The newspapers engaged in this equivocation are, appropriately enough, the same newspapers which day after day declare that the tariff is added to the cost of the article on which it is imposed, that the farmer is not protected bj tariff duties, etc., etc., although they have seen the reverse demonstrated over and over again. They ignore all things that do not Gt in with their plans and theories. No president defeated for re-election was ever again nominated for the offica. Defeated candidates, Jackson, for instance, were again nominated, but no man whom the people having once tried and found wanting turned out of office was ever again nominated.

THE DEMOCRACY'S ELEPHANT.

No newspaper Is doing more than the New York sun to make certain the nomination of Mr. Cleveland In 1892.—[Louisville Courier-Journal.

Is this remark to be accepted as a wail of regret? Remembering the fact that Mr. Cleveland is the recognized champion of the cause of the CourierJournal's star-eyed goddess it would seem that the paragraph was intended to be a thrust at the Sun for its squaretoed opposition to the Cleveland movement. But in another column is this:

Whether Mr. Cleveland is to receive the nomlna tlon In 1892 can not be decided one way or the other just yet. There Is time enough for such a decision, and we doubt

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that the matter will be

wisely decided at the proper time. It Is a little too early to consider the nomination.

So we are left in doubt aB to whether the Courier-Journal desires the re-nom-ination. Indeed, the newspaper places itself in an attitude that is intended to leave its readers in doubt, and thereby shows that it is heeding the bitter lesson of experience of three years ago when it violently opposed Mr. Cleveland's nomination in 1888, only to be humilated later on. 1

Some excitable persons are indulging in invective toward President Harrison because he withdrew the name of Beverly Tucker, of Virginia, as one of the commissioners to Hayti, after he and General Lew Wallace had been named. It is even said that General Boynton was the instigator of the withdrawal, inasmuch as he went to the White house after Tucker had been named and furnished the president information on which the latter felt it incumbent to undo what he had done. We hope this is true. General Boynton is vindictive, perhaps. General Harrison is cautious and courageous. Combine the two and you are pretty certain to reach a just result in accordance with the facts and a spirit of loyalty. We are the more confirmed in this opinion by the fact that the rebel-sympathizing correspondents at Washington are calling the president "a pusillanimous coward" and the like. The two or three days agitation of the question as to whether Beverly Tucker is a man to be recognized as a loyal agent of the government go to show that he is not.

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will be more developments, of

course, and what their nature will be we can only judge by the past of Beverly Tucker and General Boynton. We, for one, have no doubt.

C. O. D.

Tommy—Us.

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The Most Important.

Teacher—Name [some of the most Important things existing to-day which were unknown 100 years ago.

He Nevor Will.

The Lending Lady—Do you believe In the supernatural. Mr. Rosclus? The Walking Gentleman—I never saw one act natural yet.

The Pronoun Was Impersonal. Said Brlggs to Braggs "Can you tell me why eternal punishment Is like a life Insurance policy?" "NO, Why 18 It?"

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"Because you can't realize It until you are dead."

One Exception.

He—The ladles dearly love the military, don't they. Miss Frysk She—Yes, as a rule. There Is one exception, however. Every day see advertisements lu the oapers of a girl wanted for general housework.

A Jaded Palate.

Chicago Woman—It Is a great credit to our city that Kyrle Bellew drew such small audiences. St Louis Woman—Oh, they had learned so much about him from the papers that his mere appearance on the stage failed to excite any Interest.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Detroit Tribune: To every Union soldier who fought to put down rebellion. Memorial Day stands tint among the naUonal holidays.

Albany Journal: President Harrison. It can be stated authoritatively, has made no arrangement for a fishing expedition on Decoration day.

Buffalo Express: The Baltimore clergyman who committed suicide did more damage to the cause of religion thereby than his life Is likely to have done good.

Milwaukee Evenlug Wisconsin: As H1U Is one of the most pestiferous politicians that ever existed In the United States, it will be the cause of rejoicing among the people it Cleveland and nls presidential following shall bruise the head of that serpent.

WILL DIE PAINLESSLY.

The proceedings on the day of potting to death of Kemmler, June 24, the murderer, who is to be executed by electricity at Auburn, N. Y., so far as they are at present arranged, will be aa follows: On whatever morning shall be decided upon in the week of the execution the prisoner will be notified and whatever opportunity he desires for religious consolation and farewell words will be given him. These over, juB.t before the hour fixed upon for the execution the officers will enter his cell| and the death warrant will be read His shoes will be removed, and a pair resembling regular army brogans will be substituted. In the soles of these there will have been inserted a metal plate covering the whole sole, and connecting with wires passing out through the heels. While one officer is making this change of shoes another will fasten the prisoner's hands together in front, and will place around his body, just beneath the armpits, a stout leather strap, with a buckle fastening it in front, and snap hooks projecting from each side at the back.

Another

officer will place upon

the back of the prisoner's head a peculiar close-fitting cap, apparently of black rubber, made around a small metal piece in the center. It will look somewhat as if made by taking a rubber foot-ball and with a metal cap at the hole for a center, cutting off the end of the ball into a sort of hood. The cap will fit over almost the whole of the head, from the base of the brain to well toward the forehead. Inside of it, in the center about the metal piece, will be a spiral arrangement of copper wire, about five inches in diameter, and made to

fit

down over the part of

the head that it will cover. The wires, just before the cap is placed on the prisoner's head, will be covered with sponge saturated with salt water.

While these arrangements are being put on the prisoner will be sitting on a chair in his cell. This chair, not differing apparently from an ordinary one, but which is being made especially for the purpose, will be connected with wires leading to another room, and the prisoner, sitting in the chair, will, without knowing it, be subjected to a current of electricity too light to be felt, but heavy enough to give an expert electrician in the other room an exact measurement, by the use of what is known as the "Whetstone bridge," of electrical resistance of man. This will take only an instant, and will be done before the officers have the prisoner ready to leave the cell.

From the cell the procession will be much as now to the execution-room, where the deputies and other persons permitted by law to witness the execution will be waiting.

Near the center of the room, raised upon a small platform about eight inches abo ?e the floor, will be a chair, made somewhat like a large reolining chair. The long, straight frame that forms the slanting back will be of hard wood pieces, three inches square, and will be long enough so that if a 7-foot man should lie in the chair his head would rest upon the back. The seat and arms will be of plain wood and without any peculiarities. The upper part of the back frame on each side will be fitted with a slot, in which will Blide back and forth a email arrangement with a ring at the top and a thumbscrew beneath. The rings are to receive the hooks in the back of the belt about the man's body, and the screws are to fasten the arrangement in place at the spot where the rings will meet the hooks, which will vary according to the height of the prisoner. In front of the chair will a foot-rest, something like those in a barber's shop, except that the top portion, instead of being fixed, will be balanced on a pivot to permit it to dip front or back, so that the feet will lie firmly upon it. This whole foot-rest will be arranged to slide backward and forward, and to be secured with a screw at the point where the prisoner's feet will rest upon it.

From the ceiling over the back of the chair and over the foot-rest will dangle two flexible wires, like those from which Bmall electric lights swing. On the wall at one side will be a Bmall round -dial attached to a brass instrument. A hand upon the dial will indicate the intensity of the current that will pass over the wires. Near it on the wall will be a small double-pole switch, a brass instrument similar to the familiar switches used to shut off or let on the current wherever electricity is used, but designed especially to show at a glance whether the current is off or on, in order to prevent accidents which carelessness in handling the apparatus might bring about. This will be all of the apparatus apparent in the room.

The prisoner, immediately upon entering the room, will be led to the chair, and in a moment will be pushed back into it, the hooks in the belt about the body slipped into the rings of the chair, and there fastened to place by the turn of the sorews. At the same moment his feet will be raised, the footrest slipped under them and fastened by a turn of the screw, and a strap on top of the rest will be buckled tightly over his ankles. In another moment the two dangling wires will be fastened, one to the metal at the center of the back of the cap and the other to the metal connection on the heel of each shoe. A black cloth will be pulled over the faoe of the prisoner, the officers will stand well back from the chair, and at a signal the excutioner at the switch will turn on the current, the volume of which has previously been adjusted to suit the resistance of the prisoner, as shown by the test in the cell-

Only the experience of Joseph Kemmler can certainly tell what will happen then, but if the confidence of those in charge or the efficiency of the apparatus is well founded at the instant that the switch is touched there will be a little stiffening of the prisoner's body, a little quivering of the limbs, life will flutter for a bare instant, like the needle that will be dancing upon the dial on the wall, and then it will all be over. There will be no pain, no oonvulsion, scarcely a moment to make the passage from life to death, but the victim will be hopelessly and unmistakably dead.

The intention is to use a eurrent of 1,000 volts, the same, it is said, as that used in the Westinghouse street-light-ing system. The resistance of the average man is about two thousand five hundred ohms, and the current will be calculated to 'meet a range considerably above and below that figure.

A curious thing about the electrical execution business iB that it is a leading feature in a contest between rival electric systems, backed by companies in which many millions of capital are invested and vast financial and electrical interests. The WestinghouEe company controls the alternating current system of electric lighting, and claims that it is more economical and just as safe as the ordinary continuous ourient systems. Between the Westinghouse and the continuous current companies there is a

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deadly rivalry, and long time ago the oontinuous current folks set out to drive the alternating current people out of^buainess by|declaring that the alternating current was unsafe (and endeavoring to secure the passage of laws and ordinances forbidding its use- Th§ nvwry has been especially bitter in this city, where the two systems are in direct competition, and when the electrical execution subject was under discussion, the continuous current people thought they saw a chance to get a whack at the alternating current company. They jumped in inthu9iastically to favor the substitution of electricity for hanging, and when the bill became a law they were eager to have experiments made to determine -just what system was best for killing purposes.

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CLAEK80N AND THE SOUTHEBN SENATOR.

How the Former Met the Gutter's Plea for Office.

A favorite argument with the Southern Democratic senators who are putting in their time quite industriously trying to save as many Democratic officeholders from the wreck as they can is to talk of the era of good feeling, and to say that if the people of the South are not prejudiced against the administration by being compelled to take their mail from the handB of colored postmasters, there is no telling what political changes may take place in the next four years. Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, is an adept in this sort of campaigning, says a Washington special) and already has a nice little string of scalps thus won hanging from his belt. But at last Ransom has struck a snag. Calling at the department the other day to plead for the retention of a white Democrat in an office for which a colored man is strongly recommended,he exerted his plausib:lity upon Postmaster Wanamaker with such success that the postmaster general was half convinced. Before surrendering, however, he took the senator in for a talk with his first assistant. "Yes, that seems plausible," Baid Mr. Clarkson, "but before we decide this thing let's sit down and talk it over. Senator, when the Democrats came into power you found none but Rspublicans in office iu your state, did you not?" "Yes, they were all Republicans." "How many Republicans did you leave in possession of their offices?" "Not one. We cleaned them all out." "Just so, and you expect us to be more generouB than you were, and leave a lot of your friends in power?" "We don't ask it on political grounds, at all," replied the senator, resuming his former plausible tactics, "but forfthe good of the service and the proper accommodation of the people. You can readily see how unpleasant it must be for the refined, cultured people of the South to take their letters from the hands of coarse negroes." "I have heard that argument before," Baid Mr. Clarkson, "and I am, to tell the truth, getting a little tired of it. Now, I want to ask you a question or two. Are not the children of many of the refined, cultured people of the South reared by black mammy nurses? Does not a colored servant cook your meal, another wait on your table, another shave your face, and still another mix your toddy for you? You admit that. Well, then, I'm unable to see why it is that if as babeB you can take your nourishment from black breasts, if you can take your breakfasts from black hands, you can't also take your letters and newspapers from the hands of negro postmasters. At the office in question, senator, a colored man will be appointed before night."

The blunt, hard-headed logic completely overcame the plausible Mr. Ransom, and he retreated in obvious confusion. In several instances where colored men have been appointed to postofficeq. white men, Republicans as well as Democrats, have made vigorous protests, not against the character of the appointments, but simply against their color. When these complaints are sifted down they are usually found to have had their origin in the meanest sort of selfishness and narrownest of race prejudices. A colored man was appointed postmaster at Ocean Springs, Miss., and the white people Bent up a fierce remonstrance. They said it would ruin the Springs to have a negro postmaster, for the ladies who usually visited the summer resort would refuse to take their mail from the hands of a black man. Mr. Clarkson's unimpeachable logic applied to this case with crushing force. He thought it absurd to talk of removing the new postmaster because his skin was black and because ladies objected to taking their mailB from his hands, when it was well known these same ladies were reared by black nurses, had black maids, black hairdressers and black cooks and table waiters.

The Court House Leap.

County Commissioner Black received a communication yesterday from the owner of the dog which made the famous leap from the third story window of the court house on Monday. The communication suggested that the employes of the court house who had nothing better to do than to scare and cripple innocent dogs by making them jump from thirdstory windowsgshould be made to seek other employment.

State Legislation.

The drainage bill was signed on Wednesday by Governor Fifer. The Michigan senate on Wednesday passed the Damon high license liquor bill. The bill has already passed the house.

A bill was passed in the Connecticut house, Wednesday, giving women the right to vote on the queetion of the sale of intoxicating liquors.

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series of such

experiments was made laat year, and before the alternating ctirrent people were fairly awake to what was going on, the current that they had all along been niniming was perfectly harmless had been officially selected as the most deadly current known, and therefore the proper one to use in killing criminals. Mr. Brown was the expert who conducted both the preliminary and the official experiments to determinethe beet current to use in carrying out the law. He is one of the foremost opponents of the alternating current, and openly says that he doesn't careanything for electrical execution, and wouldn't have anything te do with such business were it not for his anxiety to prove the deadly nature of the-alternating current. The Westinghouse people feel very bitter about the adoption of their current for executions, and declare that the attempt to use it will not be successful. One theory is that the nervous state into which the prisoner will be thrown when placed in the chair will operate as an offset to the effect of the current, and render harmless a current that might kill a man who was not expecting it. Mr. Brown said yesterday that this was all bosh. Nervous expectancy, he aaid, would no more negative the effect of electricity upon a man than it would increase his weighty

OAS NOM OOAL.

George

Weetleghouse, Jr.,la Ml

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Solved a Great

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Kokomo, Findlay and half a hundred other adoleeoent citiea, which owe their sudden growth to fuel which streams upward from the vTranton rock beneath them, are the envy of a thousand villsgee, whose inhabitants sse visions in whioh appear bonanzas of natural gai "finds," which shall presently make them rivals of New York and Chicago, says the Chicago Herald. Such towns as are the possessors of this latter-day substitute for ooal, wood, peat and petroleum are persuading owners of factories to remove to their midst to secure eheap fuel. To few of them does it occur that there can be any limit to the supply of natural gas. Did they apprehend its cessation they would scarcely enter into suoh elaborate and expensive outlay for pipes and other appliancsa.

Will the supply osase? The man who "handles" more of it than any other individual in America believes it will. Further, he deems the exhaustion a fact so close at hand as to warrant him in making costly experiments for the purpose of finding a substitute for it The man referred to above, whose level head induces him to pretise the future and guard against possible sunrise, is George Westinghouse, jr., of Pittsburg. The air-brake bearing hie name has made it familiar the world over. Mr. Westinghouse is president of the Philadelphia company, an organization which supplies to Pittsburg stores, residences, factories? eta, the enormous sum of 300,000,000 cubic feet| of gas each and every day. This, if charged for at the same rate aa that demanded by the Chicago gas trust, would amount to $875,000 per day, or $136,875,000 per annum. To understand the magnitude of the business done by the Philadelphia company it may be stated that the 300,000,000 of cubic feet of natural gas takes the place of 18,000 tons of ooal! A friend of Mr. Westinghouse, who is in a position to know what the latter has done and is doing, resides in Chicago, and was interviewed by a reporter for the Herald touching the matter under consideration. "Mr. Westinghouse," said the gentleman, "iB one of the foremost mechanical geniuses of this country, as well as a man of unimpeachable probity and sterling good sense. His experiefice in natural gas has led him to very decided convictions. Wells do not flow on forever. On the contrary they dry up—some in a few months, some in a few years, while a very few run for a decade or more,.but annihilation is their ultimate destiny, for, you see, it is only in certain localities that gas can be found. Distance diminishes the energy of the flow, and the environs of Pittsburg are not so widespread as a continent. Muoh wealth is invested in appliances for the use of natural gas as fuel in that city. It would be a bad business to have to tear out all those pipes, eta, and return to the dense atmosphere incident to the use of coal. "Well, Mr. Westinghouse set out to find a substitute for natural gas, and he "has found it. I mean that he has succeeded in manufacturing a cheap coal gas, whioh he can furnish the good city of Pittsburg when the occasion arises." "Why might not Mr. Westinghouse's discovery be made available in this city?" queried the reporter. "It might be. Last year the idea was taken up here, and certain gentlemen employed two experts, one from Boston and one from Troy, to go to Pittsburg and examine into the merits of the invention." "And they learned what?"

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"Nothing. Mr. Westinghouse was by no means satisfied with them. He did not believe them to be scientific experts or capable of understanding and grasping the subject. His time is valuable he is fully conscious of what he has, and had no special interest in employing his precious hours in explanation and costly experiments before men who, in his opinion, could not. take back the knowledge to those who had employed them. Since then nothing has been done that I am aware of." "What has Mr. Westinghouse succeeded in doing?" "He has proved it possible to manufacture at coal mines in the immediate neighborhood of Pittsburg a very good article of non-illuminating co§l gas at a cost of 15 cents per 1,000 feet. I should say that he had succeeded in doing thiB some months ago. As he is still experimenting it is not unlikely that he has programed still further, and reduced by a cent or two the cost of manufacture. Coal gas can always be manufactured cheaper at Pittsburg than here. In the first place, Illinois coal has sulphur and other foreign ingredients, and will not turn out more than 80 per cent, of gas. Pittsburg being:10ft" Again, the nearest mine is fifty miles away, and expense of transportation is an enormous item where so much coal is used." "Now about piping out to the mines?" "That would not be feasible—too expensive." "Fou say, though, that it is feasible to give Chicago a non-illuminating coal gas for fuel purposes at a very low price." "There is no doubt about—none in the world. George Westinghouse is a man too skilled to be deceived in any manner pertaining to mechanics and too honest to give out what is not true. The failure of the ill-timed visit of-the Boston and Troy experts naturally tended to end, temporarily, further proceedings but it was temporary only. Chicago cannot go on forever in a blackened atmosphere, whioh is profitable only to laundrymen and soap manufacturers. Capital is here, ready to be used. I know men who stand prepared to furnish all the needed capital." "If it be possible to supply fuel gas at a very moderate rate, why should it not be feasible as well to introduce a cheap illuminating ooal gas?" "That is a matter I do not care to speak of. Mr. Westinghouse is in dead earnest. He has expended no inconsiderable amount ef money, and will expend more in reducing the expense of manufacturing non-illuminating ooal gas to an abeolute minimum. He has the beet talent in his service, and he devotes much of his own time to these investigations." "Had he other cities in view while experimenting?" "Not at all. He had the Philadelphia company only. It has large capital invested immense capital depends upon the supply his company yields. He had no purpose of suffering it to be a limited concern, and he, like a very prudent man, has prepared against contingencies." T,.

The Venal Exceptioa.

Customer—You sell craoked eggs at half price, do you not? Clerk—Yee'm, we alwaya main a

50

per cent, reduction on oraoked, goods. Anything else to-day? j* Customer—Yes, you may m.& me a dollar's worth of crackecU^ieet, and

may V.e ikeda#jeat

[AY3l, 1889.

hw% your 50 owtB.—[Nslussfcs State JounuL

roftWAceH's SHOW.

What Ike St. Loate Xewipftpen flay A beat tkslxklMIlM

The following is from the Globe-Dem-ocrat of Wednesday: "Notwithstanding the rain yesterday and laat night, the people, big and little, old and yoong, went to- the eiren£ The attendance was very large, considering the weatfier, and the disoomforta were put up with good humor, the amusement being evidently considered -ample compensation. The entertainment ia exceptionally fine, and the sensational illustration of cowboy life ia proving a drawing card, especially that feature of it showing how horse thievee are. dealt- with. The thief in thia case is a colored man. He crawls up, aeouree the horse, leads it away a short distance and the aleeping cowboy, with revolver in hand, is then awakened. He fires, and the band of -oowboys is started, and at once in the saddle, ohsse is given and the thief lascoed. He is brought upon a turn, a rope fastened at his neck and in this position lie is dragged twice aronnd the ring on his back, the oowboys following at the full speed of their horess, firing their revolvers. The thief is then pulled up to the pole and lynched, and after auppoaably filling his body full of ballet holee the cowboys ride off. The soene is one of the most exciting ever produced. The colored man, is of course, heayily padded, but evpn then the treatment muat be very severe. The colored actor is, however, the proudest man in the oompany. The trapeze acta and all of the other features are good.

THK NEW &AXS AND FITOIAW. -J-

Fall Text of the Measure Passed by the Recent Legislature.

An act conferring powers of conataUles on road supervisors in certain cases, and describing the same and affixing penalty for failure to discharge said duties.—Approved March 11, 1889.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly jit the atate of Indiana, that it shall be the duty of the road supervisors to arrest er cause to be arrested and to prosecute or cause to be proeecuted any or all persons violating any of the provisions of the acts or any law heretofore or hereafter to be enacted for the protection of game or fish. And said supervisors shaHibe allowed a fee of five dollars (15) to be taxed as cost against each person convioted of violating any of the provisions of said lawB.

SEC. 2.

Any road supervisor who shall

fail or refuse to discharge the duties of conatable as aforesaid, and make or cause to be made said arrests, and prosecute or cause to be proeecuted all cases coming to his knowledge of violation of the game or fish laws of the state of Indiana, shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not lees than five nor more than twentyfive dollars.

THE TBANCK SCFFEKKB DIING.

Ossification Believed to Have Set Ia—An Offer From a Museum.

Mrs. Emma Althouse, of Attics, N. Y., awoke Wednesday afternoon from a trance which lasted only two days, the ahorteet' she has had in the two years she has been in the trance condition. She now weighs only eighty-seven pounds, although she weighed 178 before she was taken ill. In the last month the only nouriehment she has taken has been about^ a pint of warm milk, whioh haa been given her in very small doses. She is unable to speak and can hardly move her head or hands. The rest of her body is rigid, and a physician who saw her yesterday thinks that ossification has set in. She is so weak that, without other causes, death from exhaustion cannot long be delayed. An offer from a museum manager in New York to exhibit, her was received, and if the manager had came in person he would hive been roughly handled, so indignant were her relatives.

Sufficient Explanation.

Irate Parent—See here, my young coxcomb! what do you mean by winking at my daughter?

Young Coxcomb (humbly)—lour daughter! A thousand pardons. Mistake, I assure you. I thought she was your wife.—[Judge.

BAILROAD N1WS NOTES.

General antl Personal Mention ef General and Local Interest.

A switch engine has b9en taken off in the E. fe T. H. yards. owing to light freight business.

The park along the Vandalia at Greencaatle was trimmed and decorated.'this week by Mr. Willis Cox, the florist.

Michael Bomberg, machinist, was absent yeeterday because of sickness as was also John Djugherty, of the blacksmith ahop.

Messrs. Hutton and Rigney, of the carpenter shop, returned from Greenup yesterday morning, where they attended the funeral of an aunt of their wives.

Owing to the inclemency of the weather the shops did not shut down yesterday, but a number of employes wishing to observe Memorial day were given permission to do so.

A stubborn cow which would not get off the Wabash track at Fairmount, III, Wednesday afternoon derailed a gravel train, piling several flat oars on top of each other. The loss was considerable.

The largeet railway station in the world is the terminus station of the Peninsular railway at Bombay, India, at which an army of workmen were at work for tenyears at miserable wages. It cost «I9jOOOyOOa gg

Citizens of Marion, Ind., have" offered the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansaa City railway company $50,000, thirty-five acres of land and a gas well as an inducement to the oompany locate its machine shops at that place..

Thomas Dayson filed suit in the Viocennee oourts Wednesday •_ morning against the Ohio & Mississippi road for $1,000 damages. He alleges that he shippsd a carload of cattle from that city over that road to Cincinnati and that the railroad allowed the car to stand on the track ten hours without feeding or wateriog them, and that the cattle became so weak that some of them dropped to the floor and were trampled on and killed.

The people of Peru Wednesday voted almoet unanimously in favor of donating $40,000 for building a link to connect the Wabash and Eel river railways between Peru anf Denver. The rcid will be built enly upon the guarantee that the headquarters of the Eel river road will be removed from Iiogansport to Peru, and the repair shops greatly enlarged. Wabash also voted the same day on the proposition to donate $15,000 for the same object, and it carried by nearly seven hundred majority.

ZXPHK PACEASM.

B1THX6 SEASON. ,,

We'rs getting does to the month of Juae. And the bathing season's near. When we'll go tothe neaeh In the afternoon, for health and for lager beer. When we'll watch the nee who ge In to swim,

And dhe where the wavelets play. And the whlteeaiM yachts as Ibej call skim O-erthe waves ot the soalitbay.

But we win not look at the naMen gar As she saasbolsapso tbe shore. For the bathing ntlts this summer, ther ear.

Will be mailer thaa ever Mere. Esst Norwich, £. L, has a little redhaired darkey.

The Mexican government has commissioned two eminent physicians to study the cremation of the dead in Europe.

A Jackson county, Ga., horse can take off his own saddle and bridle, open his stable door and feed himself.

The republio of Chili has decided to Sut a atop to Chinese immigration, but aa appropriated $500,000 to encourage immigration from other oountriee.-

An Atlanta paper describee the song of the locust as "a cross between a frog pond chorus and a tintinnabulation in one's ears of an overdose of quinine."

A man up in Springfield named David Kinaey succeeded in killing seven out Of nine blaoksnakes which he found in crossing his field. They average 1% feet in length.

London has tweety-nine vegetarian restaurants, the staple articles of whose bill pf fare are the cereals, the legumee such as peas, beans, haricots and lentils, and various kinds of fruit.

An epicure saya that the eoup and gravies are the teet of a hotel. If theae are wrong the chief is at fault, for he never permits hia "second" to flavor hie soup or mix his gravies and aauoee.

The sum of $500 wss placed in the hands of the mayor of Ottawa, Can., last fall for purposes of charity, but there was so little demand for assistance during the winter that only $26 of it was expended.

In a French court: The pleader—Oh, well, if the preeident doesn't listen to me I might as well leave off. "Pardon'" saya the president, atruggling up. "It is because I was listening that I fell asleep."

A hot spring near Ragtown, Cola, throws a column of water nearly eight inohee in diameter to a height of thirty feet. The water is boiling hot and the spray scalds the skin whenever it comes in contact.

The Austria war office

Bent

out orders

to their officers to study the Russian language, and

at

an examination held

some time since every one of those examined ahowed a complete knowledge of that difficult tongue. "Death from misadventure," is the verdict returned in the inquest of an English laborer who met his death by sucking one of a number of pheasants' eggs laid about the grounds of his employer for the purpose of killing vermin.

The Texas flea is devoting much of its attention to killing chickens down in Georgia. It first attacked the quail, and, as it could not eat thirty of them in thirty days, gave up the problem, and has taken to chickens for a change.

While workmen were making an excavation for the sewer at Mankato, Minn., last week, they uncovered the body of some large preglacial animal. The bones were found at a depth of sixteen feet and were in a fair state of preservation.

The story is told of a South Carolina colored couple who were married the other day under difficultiee. They walked twenty miles to get a license, nnd walked ten more to a minister. One was seventeen and the other sixteen. They are happily married now, and, despite their tender years, are getting along nicely.

Near Abbeville, Ga., a party of young ladiee ran a rabbit into a hollow tree several milee from town. They stopped the hole, but could not dislodge the rabbit, leaving the hole closed. At midnight one of the party regretted having imprisoned the animal, and, going to the spot, removed the obstruction which made him a prisoner.

The movement for the tunneling^ of the Simplon, which is to be the subject of a conference between France, Italy and Switzerland, will be looked upon with much displeasure in Germany. A tunneled Simplon would mean the revival of the French railroad carrying trade, and a renewal of profitable commercial relations between Italy and France.

What odd wills people make. An Austrian nobleman, Count Heinrich Hardegg, left £60,000 to the Vienna university the other day for the establishment of fellowships, but coupled it with the provisos that the money should be left to accumulate for 100 years, and that when the fellowships were awarded members of his family should have the preference.

Lieutenant. Schwatka, who is exploring the Mexican Sierra Madre, writes to the Two Republics of the City of Mexico that by the Gadsden treaty, signed by Americans who knew nothing about the country, and by Mexicans who-were thoroughly posted, the Mexicans got possession of the fertile lands, while the American section is Bterile and valueless from the absence of water.

John Mayo, of Dooly county, Georgia, is a splendid shot. He is an invalid, and sits in the door of his house and shoots lizards from his fences with a rifle. He shoots crows on the wing with a pistol. When he has hogs killsd a negro man jumps astride of a hog, catches hold ot both ears of the animal and turns its head toward Mr. Mayo, who will shoot it in the head with his rifle.

Superintendent Given, of the Rock Island road, is making experimenta with carrier pigeons, with a view to supplement the telegraph service. He sayB that the windstorms often

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render the

telegraph line useless, even if the wiree are not blown down, and he thinka that a set of carrier pigeons at each station might be made very serviceable in such an emergency. *i

Realistic.

"Did you see the new ballet last night?" ssked the managerrof a critic. "Yes." "How did you like the dolls' quadrille?" "First-rate." "Natural, wasn't it?" "Very some of the participants fairly looked as if they were stuffed with sawdust."—[Merchant Traveler.

A Future for Her.

Miss May Davis, an Oregon girl, only fifteen years old, can crack a walnut with her teeth or lift a barrel of flour with her hands. What fun she could have with a good atipng piano and a aheet of Wagner's music.—{Yonkers Statesman.

Mo Laughing Matter.

Blooms—I can never understand Brown's witticisms, somehow. Crumbly—No wonder. 1 tell you when Brown gete off a joke it is no laughing matter.—[Chicago World

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Its superior excellence promt in millions of homes for mom than a tunat of a eentnry. It is used by the United States Gorernment Indorsed by the heads ot tbe Great Universities as the Strongest, Purest and most healthful. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder does not contain Ammonia, Lime or Alum. Sold only in cans.

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INDIA SILKS.

The mBiden who is all for lawn and yet likes silk—and who of them doesn't? —can be doubly satisfied at once by selecting some of our

INDIA SILKS. As light as lawn, as

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9 Western Express (S4V) 1.42 a m. 6 Mall Train «. 10.18 a. m. 1 Fast Line (P4V) 2.15 P. m. 7 fast Hall* 9.04 p.m.

LKAVK FOB THK KAST.

12 Cincinnati Express (8) 1.90 a. m. 6 New York Express (S«V) 151 a. in. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.18 a. m. 2D Atlantic Express (PAY) 12 42 p. m. 8Fast Line*. 2.00 p.

ARRIVK FROM THE KAST.

9 Western Express (84V) 1.30 a m. 5 Mall Train 10.12 a.m. 1 Fast Line (PAY) 2.00 p.m. 3 Mall and Accommodation 6.4S p. m. 7 Fast Mall* 9.00 p.m.

ARRIVI FROM THK WEST.

12 Cincinnati Express (8) 1.20 a. m. 6 New Y®rk Express (84V) 1.42 a. m. 20 Atlantic Express (r&V) 12.37 p. m. 8 Fast Line* 1.40 p.m.

T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.

LKAVK FOR THK NORTH.

No. 62 Sonth Bend Mall 6.00 a. m. No. 64 South Bend Express 4.00 p. m. ABRIVK FROM THK NORTH No. 51 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 68 South Bend Mail 7.30 p. m.

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666 Wabash Avsnus, Terrs Hauls, Ind.,

Tiucraoint No. 2£

Tills agency represents the beet Fire I rum ran oe companies now doing business, also the beat

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TIME TABLE.

Tralm marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car at- r. tached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bnltet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All otber trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANPAIIA LINE.

T. H. DIVISION. LKAVB FOR THE WBHT.

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BT us and paid within ,ONK or FIVE DAYS trow date of same.

-ASSETS, SI 53,000,000.00.

Very Lowest Bates and good treatment, dive ns a eall.

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DRS. MAIL & BARTHOLOMEW

Dentists,

(Successors to BartboloBMw Hsll. 529% Ohio St. Terre Haute^ Ind.

I. H. C. IJOYSE,

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Imraoce Mortgage

NO. 517 OHIO STREET.

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