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DAILY EXPRESS.

Ijc^M. ALLEN, Proprietor. -Publication Office 16 wrath Fifth street, Printing House Square.

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The question asked very generally yesterday was if the police would raid all the public gambling houses. There is -likely to be a great deal of agitation in police circles until something is done.

The city council to-night should pass the ordinance providingfor a$250saloon license. The

Booner

the city begins re-

ceiving a revenue from this source the sooner will come relief for the taxpayers.

The friends of Alexander Sullivan are 'performing the best act of friendship in standing by him in his present troubles, but whether or not he is guilty in any degree of the murder of Cronin, enough has been established to place beyond doubt the nefarious purpose of the Clan-na-Goel revolutionary society, in which he was a leading spirit. It is furthermore established that as custodian of funds intended for dynamite expeditions he misappropriated them to stock speculation. It might be urged in his behalf that had he not lost the money on the Chicago board of trade there would have been more dynamite expeditions.

JUST INDIGNATION.

One of the ill effects of the conspired effort to make political capital out of the miners'strike is the bad repute these sensational reports give to Brazil and Clay county. That there have been more serious disputes between employer and employe in this mining district is not disputed, nor is it held that other strikes have not entailed more distress and misery among the strikers and those depending on them. Yet never before did the free traders feel called upon to make a great ado over a strike as they have done in this instance, and this brings us to the comment that those who are now working upon the sympathies of the general public exhibit a great amount of audacity in their rebuke of any one who asserts that politics is at the bottom of it all. Let it be remem bered that the first act to call general at tention to the strike and the relief movement was the donation of Senator Voorhees. His generosity no one will call into question, but in the letter enclosing his F3rcontribution he brought a political issue

Vr into consideration. That letter was key-note to the Democracy and their free

true condition of things in Clay county. The Indianapolis News of yesterday gave place to the following which Turc EXI'KRSS gladly reproduces for the pu rpose of relieving our friends at Brazil so far as possible from the bad effects of y.. the unscrupulous work of those who had more at heart the benefit of a political doctrine than the relief of the strikers:

Special from the News Brazil Correspondent. BRAZIL, June 17.—The citizens of Brazil are L- justly indignant over the misrepresentations made liy special correspondents to the Sentinel ~r^r. and to the Emiulrer In regard to the alleged d6','Jjii plorable state of alfalrs here. As a city Brazil is

ife,

hounding forward rapidly as one of the best manufacturlng and industrial cities of its size In the West. Her streets are lively at all times. Her

(.^merchants

have large stocks ot merchandise and

f. claim that their business Is as good as It was at jSjjyt this season last year. Carpenters aud masons 'i^Sare at work In the erection of numerous residences and other buildings. Everything In the city Is moving on as though there was no tV strike here. With railroads running north, south, east and west, and Into rich farming land Ky,, in every direction, and with extensive and prosierous Iron mills and other Industrial enterprises in her midst, Brazil Is proud of her distinction as the metropolis of one of the richest coal fields fti the world, and yet at the same time she wears no mark of the ^ephemeral character popularly) assoclated with mining centers. Only In the vicinity of the mines is there dullness, and that of course

Is due to the strike. Our citizens are generous and would not permit any of their number to starve.

C. 0. D.

News to Him.

Mrs. .lason—Dlil you rand that little poem In the paper about "A Woman's Reason?" Mr. .lason-A woman's reason? That's the llrst time 1 ever knew them to be accused of having any.

Progress VH. Prejudice.

Laura,'' said the old man, "will you have some taters V" O'-If you refer to the farinaceous tnbers which pertain to the solanum tuberosum, and which are commonly known as potatoes,''replied the sweet girl graduate, "1 would be pleased to be helped to a modicum of the same. But taters? Taters? I'm quite sure, papa, that they are something of which never before had the pleasure of hearing."

The old man pounded on the table until the pepper castor lay down for a rest, and then remarked in a voice of icy calmness: "Laura, will you have some of the taters?" "Yes, papa."

Is our boasted High school system a failure, or Is it not? O. H.

Progress and Poverty—Driving street car at $1.00 per day. If the pictures can be relied on, the finding of Moses In the bulrushes was a nude discovery.

A. F. Jacassy. who contributes an article to the current number of Scribner's—never mind. Let htm go. It's too easy.

The man who laid the foundation of a large and growing case of dyspepsia by a steady diet of fried pork and molasses when he was a boy Is the one who kicks the hardest about the degeneracy of modem cooking.

IN A ROBBERS' DEN.

"Do you Vant to go through a thieves den?" said Officer Peter Whalen, of the southern station, to a reporter of the San Francisco Examiner. "Well, hustle home and get into some old clothes, and 111 show you a hole that beats Chinatown, and where the toughest gang in this city hang out."

Half an hour afterward the reporter and the officer met on Jessie and Fourth streets. "Now, you are Sergeant Smith if any questions are acked, and we are looking for a couple of runaway boys. I'm going to take you "to the underground headquarters* of the Jessie street gang, and let you see for yourself how hard it is for a policeman to make an arrest when the thief once gets down in this neighborhood.*7

Turning into Jessie street, the policeman and "Sergeant" stopped before 264 and 266. A crowd of young hoodlums who had been "holding up" the lampposts scattered like so many sheep as the officers approached. An old woman came out on the steps and smiled at the officer as she said: "Shure, it's m' b'yes ye'U be lookm' for. Well, ye'll find none av thim here at all. They're all foine lads, so they are, an be's aff at .their work."

Entering a narrow alleyway, the officer walked around to the rear of 266. The houses were perfect rookeries. The boarding was decayed and broken and there were great gaps in the planking under foot. Flights of rickety steps led to the first floor of the shanties, and everything around was in a state of rottenness and decay. Heaps of refuse matter filled the yard, and scowling faces filled the back windows of the house on Stevenson street as the officer and reporter crawled under No. 264.

Lighting a candle, Officer Whalen said: "Now, here's where the more aristocratic members of the gang bunk."

The flickering rays of the candle revealed a strange scene. In a space about fifty feet wide and five feet high were a number of bins which had evidently been used at one time for the storage of coal and wood. These bins were partitioned off with rough boards, and Were covered with hay and musty straw. Clambering through them, the space growing narrower every moment, the officer and reporter bobbed up in the alleyway of 266, through a big hole in the planking. "Now we come to the retreat of the junior members of thiB gang," said the officer, "and you'll have to do some crawling."

A hole three or four feet in width and two in height was the entrance. A stout man could scarcely have wedged his way in, and as Officer Whalen is somewhat of a heavy weight he stood guard on the outside.

The reporter got down on all fours, and, lying flat on his stomach, worked his way in by grabbing the supports of the house overhead.

Long, black cobwebs httng from the walls and posts, and the smell was sickening and the dust stifling. When the reporter had crawled a distance of thirty feet or so he lighted a candle and looked around. A choice collection of empty bottles, broken tomato cans, and ham rinds and bonee of all descriptions filled the place. In the corners were piles of dirty straw and old rags, which had been used as beds.

Bats squeaked and hustled away into their holes, and the dust raised by the reporter in the crawl was suffocating.

Turning at right angles toward a spot where daylight could be seen glimmerirg, the reporter snaked his way in that direction, and the space grew wider as he advanced^ In £je^r -""Wei what do you think of it?" asked Officer Whalen. "It isn't what you'd call a job lot of bridal couches, is it?"

The reporter admitted that he had been in more comfortable places, and took awash at a dilapidated pump in a rear yard. "That cellar runs clean out to Fourth street under the houses," continued the officer, "and I understand you can go through to Stevenson

Btreet

by way ot it,

but we'll get there another and quicker way." Scaling a tumble-down fence, which creaked and bent under his weight, the officer clambered to the roof of an outhouse, and from thence to the roof of

wooden shed in the rear of a Stevenson street house. The reporter followed as best he could, and, by moving along the top rail of another fence, and descending a flight of steps the two found themselves in the rear of Ah Quong's wash-house. Several Chinamen poked their heads and drew them in again when they caught sight of Policeman Whalen's uniform. Pushing open a door, the officer and reporter found four or five Celestials lying curled up on the floor, engaged in "hitting the pipe." They were too stupefied to get up, and lay still, blinking at the unexpected visitors.

Ah Quong came running in from a front room and assured the officer he was a "Belly good man." He was scared half to death. "Now we'll go round to Jessie street again and talk to some ot these people but they'll all swear black is white, as most of them stand in with the gang, and buy the stolen property from them.''

Around on Jessie street once more, a woman beckoned to the officer and the reporter, and they followed her home. "Don't give me name," she said, "for I don't want a brick in me brain. I suppose you're searching for the gang that lives under these houses. Well, you've hav hard work finding them. They sell every blessed thing they stale roight here in Jessie street. Bottles o' whisky, hams, sides o' bacon, cigars, foine ladies' underclothes. Iverythinc ye can think of is brought here an' sold to the neighbors. Many of the gang lives here, an' av coorse a mother's goin' to protect her own child. I cud mintion names, but it's as much as me loife is worth. I very mornin' in the year ye'll see these lads crawl out from under th' houses, take a wash at th' pump, dhry their faces on their vests, an' away wid thim. They stale everything they can lay their hands on, and they have a hundred plaoes to hide themselves in." "That's a fair example," said Officer Whalen, when the street was reaohed. "We know these people are receiving stolen property, but the thing is to prove it. Further down in Jeame street is the old Lincoln school building. It is the nightly sleeping place of the gang. The thieves roam from cellar to garret at will. Not a night passes but we have inquiriee from parents in the neighborhood for their runaway boys. Almost invariably they drift into this gang and become as bad as the worst of them."

The gang numbers about thirty and has as its principal leader a'slender young fellow about 22 yean of age, who has so far escaped the police. His name in Bob Ellis.

501* KANSAS.

Th* Bursting of a Cloud aad Its Serious Consequences. ST. LOUIS, Jane 17.—Additional ad

vices about the disaster in Kansas from wind and run storms are that Uniontown, about fifteen miles west of Fort Scott,.on the Wichita & Western railway, was swept away, and that two women and four children were drowned. Uniontown, which is a place of 600 inhabitants, is in the midst of a thicklysettled country, and it is feared that the loss of life is even heavier than reported.

IOLA,

the wires are down

for fifteen miles on either side, nothing definite can be learned. 'The storm struck the western part of Bourbon county late at night, coming from the West where it had played great havoe. At Augusta it assumed the form of a cloud burst, and though everything possible has been done to obtain details by the railroads, all is uncertain at present.

Several bridges were washed out and trains were stopped on both sides of Ft. Scott. The Memphis road is badly damaged for about one thousand feet, ten miles north of Ft. Scott. All the people in the bottom of East Ft. Scott moved out. At last accounts the water had stopped rising, and if no more rain falls, the flood will rapidly subside. Every effort is being made to obtain information from Uniontown.

ELDORADO, Kan., June 17.—The upper valley of the Walnut is flooded from excessive rains, the streams being higher than they have been for years. Saturday night the river came up so suddenly •.hat, a family by the name of Graham started from their home to the highland. The mother and a babe were drowned, the father and one child escaping. Grain fields are flooded and much damage muBt result. A portion of the Missouri Pacific track is washed away, and there have been no trains in over the Santa Fe since yesterday. It is Burmised that a number of people have been drowned, in the lower valley.

Kan., June 17.—Allen county

has suffered severely during the past thirty-six hours from floods in the Neosho river and its principal tributaries. The streams have been unusually high all spring and the heavy rains Saturday night brought them out of their banks, flooding the bottoms for a mile or more on either side. There has been no loss of life or of live stock, as those living on the low land were warned in time. It iB feared that hundreds of acres of wheat which was just ripening and which promised a very large yield will be almost a total loss, while the submerged corn and other crops will be greatly damaged. The St. Louis, Wichita &, Western railroad bridge across Rock Creek, east of town has been undermined, and is only held by the iron track from going down stream. On this side of the bridge nearly a quarter of a mile of track has been washed from the bed while the road bed has been seriously damaged. The water reached its highest point at 3 o'clock Monday morning, since which time it has been slowly receding, and it is now hoped the worst is past.

Trying to Draw the Color Line,

An attempt to draw the color line in Butler university at Indianapolis, has failed on the vote of the white students concerned. John Mahoney, jr., the son of a colored Democratic politician of Indianapolis, as a senior entitled to preference, became a candidate for president of the Matheeian literary society. Two Kentucky young men, whose fathers had been slave-owners, protested threatened, and finally revolted when the majority of the society decided by their votes that Mahoney should have the honor he had won. After the contest was all over, Mahoney thanked his white friends, and not his resignation -K"* however, their homes.

A Mysterious Murder.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 17.—A mysterious murder came to light yesterday. Nicholas Schular discovered the badly decomposed body of a man in the woods. The sheriff and coroner were notified, and upon examining the remains, found five bullet holes through the back part of the head. It was clad in a suit of dark clothes, fine boots and soft felt hat, and on the underclothing were the initials "M. L." Near the place was a five chambered revolver with two chambers containing empty cartridges. Gao. Lehman thinks the body is that of Matt Lange, a bartender who has been missing since last Monday. :f

Acting Like White People. PINK RIDGE, Dak., June 17.—At the

council between the different bands of Indians yesterday afternoon, it was decided by them' to hold another council among themselves and then break up their camps at this agency and scatter to their homes. If this is done it will greatly delay the commissioners. The only IndianB now ready to sign are those who were either present at the discussion at Rosebud or are influenced by the action. As matters now stand they are in the minority. The opponents of the bill have been aided by outside support and the united strength is formidable.

Bernhamer Asks For Mercy..-

W. A. Bernhamer, who was convicted with Sim Coy for the tally-sheet frauds, and afterwards released under the "poor convict" act, is circulating a petition asking President Harrison to remit the fine of $1,000 which is still hanging over him. When he presided over the election board in 1886 he was worth $10,000, but his property was all swept away in the numerous trials, and he and his family are now living over a grocery store. He apparently has neither money nor friends, and thinks his fine should be remitted^ i:

Another Fatal Accident on Yerkes' Cable CHICAGO, June 17.—Another fatal ac

cident occurred this evening in one of the power houses of the Yerkes cable system. A scaffolding, heavily laden with brick, fell a distance of thirty-five feet, killing Peter Doornboe and badly injuring two Italians. Two Poles were also hurt, but not dangerously. All the viotims were working men. The accident occurred at the Milwaukee avenue power station. A mishap exactly similar took place at the Yerkes power house on Madison street last week. This evening a mob of 3,000 persons gathered at the Milwaukee avenue house after the accident and indulged in threats of violence but gradually dispersed.

A Flood ID New Tor*.

ELXIRA,

N. Y^ June 17.—This city is

again excited over an anticipated flood similar to that of June 1. Rain fell all night, and the storm west of Elmira was more severe than that of two weeks ago. Dispatches from Hornellsville and Corning state that water there now is higher than at any time of the flood. The Lackawanna tracts at Big Flats are

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eoveterf and alf low lands in the •imnity submerged. All railroads have refused to accept western Creight.

THB SAM BBOWN RAID.

The Prisoners Fined 1m Police Court Teeterday—The Comment.

The prisoners who were arrested last Saturday night in Sam Brown's place were fined $10 and costs each by Mayor Danaldson yesterday on pleas of guilty, excepting Gus Carter and Jack McGIellan, who pleaded not guilty. These two were fined the same as those who pleaded guilty, but the costs were greater. In the former cases the fines and costs amounted to $20.80 each in the latter, $23-80. These fines were imposed under the law passed by the recent legislature which makes visiting a gaming house finable the same as gaming. The former law made the frequenter of a gaming house punishable, while the present law makes him who visits or frequents a gaming house punishable. There was a large crowd of spectators in court and many of the white gamblers stood unessily on-one foot while the fines were being impoeed. The remark was frequent yesterday that the police would have'a difficult time of it unless they should pull the white gamblers,too.

The

general opinion is that it looks too much like applying the law to one clan, and exempting the other because the color line happens to coincide with the political line as in this instance.

Testing the Missouri Gambling Law. ST. LOUIS, June 17.—In the court of

criminal correction, to-day, Singleton Cave was arraigned under the felony clause of the Johnson gambling law, charged with being the proprietor of a faro bank. Cave's attorney filed a demurrer and the case went over until Friday. There is much interest in this case, as it is to be made a test of the Missouri gambling law. The authorities have evidence in the shape of a special officer who got into the game and arrested Cave and others at the point of a pistol, while faro was being dealt. Cave is the man who replevined the faro lay-out captured in the raid above referred to. Gamblers all over the country are watching the Cave case with deep interest, and believe that his acquittal will throw gambling wide open in St Louis. Local gamblers have subscribed a fund for the defense of Cave, to which it is said the outside sports have contributed.

Honoring Captain Murrell, PHILADELPHIA, June 17.—Captain

Hamilton Murrell, of the steamer Missouri, was presented this morning, in the private office of George W. Childs, with a solid gold medal, the gift of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World. After the presentation at Mr. Childs office, Captain Murrel returned to the Missouri. Shortly after the captain reached his vessel, the committee having in charge the presentation of Philadelphia's testimonial medal, stepped on board. Captain Murrell, in receiving the medal, said that after all the won derful gifts he had received since the rescue,- he could not help thinking that one ETuman nature pervades us all and that the same spirit that prompted the giving of the medals

P'irst

have returned to

rompted him- to his act of heroism, Mate Thomas F. Gates, Chief Engineer Arthur N. Cross and Carpenter John Phillipe made speeches. Medals wore also presented to thirty-two others of the crew. Eight or ten of the seamen were not present, having remained in England. Capt. Murrell promised to forward their medals, and humorously accounted for their absence by saying: "The fund you

A Decision Against Blue Mountain Joe.

In the case of the People vs. Blue Mountain Joe, the supreme court of Illinois holds section 11 of the medical practice act, which prohibits itinerant venders of medicines, nostrums, etc., from operating in the state, to be valid.. The point was raised in the present cace that this section was not covered by the title of the act and, therefore, invalid. The last general assembly attempted to repeal the act, it being thought it was invalid, but this decision sustains the act in every particular.

Mother and Child Bnrued to Death. BALTIMORE, Md., June 17.—Mrs. Eliza

beth Tyler, aged 25, poured coal oil in her fire while preparing breakfast yesterday morning. The oil can exploded, and Mrs. Tyler and her 8 months old boy (Benjamin Harrison Tyler, were burned so severely that they died within a few days.

A Colored Girl Stabbed to Death.

JosF.ru, La., June 17.—Last night at the colored church, on the Osceola plantation, Lela Mitchell was stabbed to death by Sallie Underwood. Both are colored girls under 16 years of age.

RAILROAD NEWS NOTES.

General and Personal Mention of General and Local Interest.

Engine No. 156 has been sent to the shop for an overhauling. The C. & E. I. is building a new station at Highland, Parke county.

The E. & T. H. pay car was in the city yesterday. The time for its appeatance here has been changed from the third Tuesday in the month to the third Mon day.

Friday night two colored boys were put off a train at Waynetown by a brake man and in return knocked him off the car with a rock. They were arrested and fined.

Material has been placed on the ground at Mattoon for the erection of a new telegraph office and watch house, to be occupied jointly by the I. & St. L. and Illinois Central roads.

A blind horse became frightened at an engine on the I.' & St L. at Mattoon one day last week and run his head through a window in the I. C. freigh office and totally destroyed the sash and glass.

Chris Woerner, absent a few days because of injuries received while at work in the round house, resumed work yesterday. He was transferred temporarily to the carpenter shop, where the work is lighter.

The Panhandle company has issued the following order: "All boeses must be present when their employes are paid, to identifylthem. Bills sgainst an employe for board, washing or groceries will not be accepted or paid except on written order of the superintendent. No liquor will be sold under any circumstances. Any employe who neglects to pay his board, clothing, washing and living expenses will be discharged.. No employe will be permitted to ride over the road, with or without a pass, to procure his pay, without proper permission. Suspension will follow a violation of the latter order. The company will give no heed to bills against its employes for liquor."

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CHICAGO,

June 17.—A dispatch from

Sault Stew Marie, Mich* says: The steamers North Star, of the Northern steamship company, bound north, and the Charles J. Sheffield came in collision. Friday evening, sixty milee west of White fish Point. There waa a heavy fog at the time. The North Star struck the Sheffield just forward of the smoke stack, and in eight minutes she sunk to the bottom of the lake.

All the officen and crew of the Sheffield were aaved and forwarded to Cleveland on the steamer Devearraux. The Star's bows were stove in, filling the forward compartments, and the boat would have sunk but for her collision bulkhead. The Sheffield was owned bv H. H. Brown, of Cleveland, and E. M. Peck, of Detroit, and was valued at $125,000. ,,

Obituary.

NEW YORK, June 17.—George Hillyear, for many years past superintendent of the custom house building in this city, died to-day, in his 76th year. He was formerly a page in the United States senate, and was appointed to a position in the New York ciistom house at the request of Daniel Webster, in 1814.

AUBURN,

N. Y., June 17.—The Rev.

Wm. Hoemer, a conspicuous bgure in the anti-slavery agitation, and one of the first temperance advocates, died this morning, aged 79 years. He was ordained a Methodisf clergyman in 1833, and was editor of the Northern Christian Advocate until 1856, when the general conference removed him for his abolition sentiments. He then started the Northern Independent in this city, and continued it until stricken by paralysis while delivering a temperance addrees in Cooper institute, New York, in 1.871.

BOSTON,

June

17.—John

Gilbert

the actor, died this afternoon.

A Chicago Sensational Suit.

CnicAGO, June 17.—A jury was secured to-day in the case of Ida Welch against Thomas R. Burcb, W. A. Pinkeiton, Robert A. Pinkerton and David Robertson for $50,000 damages. Mr. Burch is the Chicago agent of the Phenix insurance company, of Brooklyn, and the other defendants are members of the Pinkerton detective agency. The complainant alleges that she was pursued and traduced by the detectives till even her friends would have no more to do with her. Her husband, Ira Welch, was at one time employed by Mr. Burch. It is said that testimony of the most sensational and scandalous character, involving prominent business men, will be given during the trial.

-•S" GasKxploslon In a Mine. WILKESBARRE,

Pa., June 17.—An ex

plosion of gas took place this morning in the Nottingham mine at Plymouth, operated by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre coal company. Four Polish miners, Michael Andrew, aged 26 years Simon Novalk, aged 23 years John Kutschi, aged 27 years and Joseph Taylor, aged 35 years, were terribly burned. Physi cians say none of them can survive. Th accident was caused by the ignorance and carelessness of the Polanders, who went into a chamber full of gas without first testing the air.

No Strike of U. P. Engineers. CHICAGO,

June 17.—A private dis

patch from Omaha, Neb., received in this city to-day, says: There is no truth whatever-in. JJjA j-'w^feufclfaeere and firemen on the Union Pacific road. There are some questions of minor importance between the management and the em ployes now under consideration, and there is no doubt but that these questions will shortly be disposed of to the entire satisfaction of both employes and employers.

Evils of Intemperance.

Einstein (to his partner)—Isaacs, you vasoud late last night, I zee. Dot must stop, Isaac no more drinkin' dis mont'. You hear me, Isaac?

Isaac—I don't drink in peeziness heurs. Einstein—Dot make no differ. You drink ad nighd, ant effery mornings your hants tremble so you gan't show a gustomer any of dose cheap pants mit out shakin de buttons off.—[Life.

Weak Coffee Market.

NEW YORK, June 17.—The coffee market opened weak this morning, first prices being from thirty to forty cents below the closing figures of Saturday. This makes a drop of nearly two cents within the last ten days. Over fifty thou sand bags of coffee were sold in the first half-hour at the exchange this morning.

A Message frem a Shipwreck KINGSTON, ONT.,June17.—The

ing letter was found in a bottle near Gananquo: "Captain of the Bavaria. Help, the ship is Binking all have been washed overboard but me. I expect my turn will come next. About one hundred yards off Galoup island. Lake Ontario."

The Honolulu Cable.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 17.—The Evening Poet of to-day Btates that $1,000,000 has been subscribed for the proposed cable between Honolulu and San Francisco, and that the work of laying the cable will be commenced within eighteen months.

A Bucolic Illusion. "'i

Georgia farmer prevents his cows from jumping a fence by cutting off their lower eye-lashes—making them think the fence ie three times as high as it really is. It you cut the upper lashes a reverse illusion will follow, he Bays.

A Tempest From a Trifle.

A boy in Meriden, Conn., broke the handle off a teacup belonging to a neighbor, and the trifle has not only made enemiee of a dozen people, but led to several assault and battery cases and three lawsuits.

A Verbal Will Sustained.

An Australian who was hanging to the beam of a bridge and realized that he •must fall made a verbal will to a companion, disposing of about fifty thousand dollars' worth of property, ana the court sustained it.

The Second Worst Business.

Next to marrying a very cross old maid for a fortune/getting an office to live by iB the poorest business I can think of.— [Horace Greely.

Good Taste Is How the Custom.

It ia no longer correct to display the bride's gifts.

India's Railroad System.

India now has 16,000 miles of railroad.

KXPW FACKAtfB.

"Thia is nottoy flret visit to England, I. know my wagr about sosie "—[Mr. Robert T. Lincoln.

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But here's a link wttti Columbia In Llneoin! Welcome! .Weeet but far the sake of joar father, Know year way round about JtogUnd, sir? Batter! And where you do noktnMlrlead Punch to ln-

He goes everywhere, and will gladly eoodoct yoo. Your health In a bumper from Punch and the rifctloa. And long may you stay at the U. a. legation! —[London Punch.

A Vienna lad of 6 attempted auicide to eecape a strapping. Therein a company organized in England which insures you against burglary.

Therei are no fewer than 28,729 known thieves over 16 years of age in England. The income of the Free Church ot Scotland this year is £638,989, being an increase of £46,000 as compared with last year.

The newest English umbrellas have knobs with broad, flat tops, upon which designs are worked out in gold and silver and platinum.

The flood dumped fully $200,000 worth of lumber which cannot be identified on a farm near Milton, Pa. Many poor men have thus been enriched.

Among the curious things exhibited at the Royal society's oonveiaazioner in London the other evening was a tail of a Japanese barndoor cock eleven feet long.

It is said that 60,000 riflee purchased Ht America for the Corean army are stored at Nagasaki. Corea's treaeury{being empty they have not been delivered.

A political "heeler" in New York City says he can hire 1,000 men at $2 each to remain away from the polls at an election. Of what UBe, then, would voting machines be?

The Union Pacific road offers $2,000 cash to any passenger on any train that will shoot a train robber, and several parties are making frequent tripe in hopes to get a shot. "Reduce your gas bills 75 per cent Secret for $1," read «n advertisement which a Brooklyn man answered. He received this terse reply by return of mail: "Burn kerosene."

The annexation of western Florida to Alabama is being seriously sgitated in the former state. A convention is to be held at Chipley on the Fourth of July to oonsider the matter.

Frank Morse, ot Bath, Me., died recently of catarrhal pneumonia, induced by excessive cigarette smoking, after a short illness, aged 19. This is another warning to cigarette smokers.

In a sixteen-page love letter exhibited in court in Providence, the other day, the word "darluut" occurred thirty-aev^j times, and yet the giri in the case said I was a "cold, unfeeling epistle."

A gorilla in the Bombay zoological gardens takes a bar of iron two inches thick and_bends it double in hiB hand, and with one bite of his teeth he shivers a mahogony knot into match wood.

It appears that the most of the members of the upper and middle classes of England, including several members of the royal family, are tattooed, and the fashion is said to be gaining in favor.

A man at Portland, Ore., drew $1,900 out of a bank, and started out with the intention of spending the whole before doing any more work. He had spent $400 when he was jailed

for

drunkenness.

Elberton, Ga., has a curioeity in the form of a colored boy. His advantage lies in the unusual sizb of his mouth. u,

A painting of the Madonna, dated 1384, has been discovered in the villages of Meesembria, an old Greek colony, near Bourgas. It has been removed to Sophia, where it will be placed in the national museum.

Thirty thousand letters written to Boulanger from sympathizers have been seized by the French government. Among them were offers of service from government officials, both civil and military.

The wise traveling public will insure its trunks against flood and fire, will carry identification cards and a coil of rope in case ot emergencies. Life preservers will form apart of the baggage of the more timid persons.

A wealthy and eccentric old man at Tyler, Texas, without relatives, who died recently, directed that his property be divided among all persons11 living in the southern states who were born on his bijthday, March 9,1833.

The largest ferryboat in the world is the Solano, used in carrying trains across the straights of Carquinez, between Belnicia and Porta Costa. It is 460 feet long, and has a capacity of forty-eight freight cars [and two locomotives.

A Connecticut women is suing her neighbor for damages for putting up fly screens. She claims that the flies that cannot get into her neighbor's house on this account will come into hers, and she will thereby have double the usual number.

A Florida cracker assigned as a reason for*raising thin hogs that can go through a crack in a fence that while the fat hog was much better experience has

Bhown

that "it ain't any use to raise a hog here that can't run faster than a nigger kin.' Here is a cricket curiosity which will take a good deal of heating. A Millhouses, Sheffield, Eogland, eleven playing against a team from Stanley scored one run in their first inning and three in their second. One greedy fellow got two of the three.

The Cherokee Indians support over one hundred common schools, with an aggregate of four thousand and fiftynine pupils, and a hitch school for boys with 211 students. They are just completing a seminary that will accommodate 165 students.

The Rochester Union observes that hunger and thirst are inextricably intertwined. Where the law shuts up saloons the sale of cheese falls off. The question is raging in the West whether cheese creates a hankering for rum, or rum a craving for cheese.

A Newfoundland dog in California which loet its master was found no less than three timee trying to dig open his grave. After the last visit the body, for some reason or other, was disinterred, and the dog upon

Bniffing

the coffin took

to the woods and thereafter refused all food.

Treatment of Hones.

Bad fences make breachy horses. Timid drivers make unsafe horeee. Too heavy loads make balky horses. Gentle treatment makes gentle horses. Abase in the pssture field makes wild hoi [The Stockman.

Marriage Ilc

Charles W. Day to Churl otta J. Knuuner.

PEAKS'

Soap is the most elegant toilet

adjunct.

fiw&fcsr' -r

long-Standing

Blood Diseases are cured by* the persevering use ot Ayer'a. SarBaparilla.^

This medicine ia an Alterative, and causes a radical change in the system. The process, in some cases, may not be. quite so rapid as in others but, with persistence, the result is certain. Bead these testimonials

For two years I suffered from a se» rere pain in my right side, and liadf other troubles caused by a torpid liver and dyspepsia. After giving several medicines a fair trial without a cure, I began, to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I was greatly benefited by the first bottle, and after taking five bottles I was completely cured."—John W. Benson, 70 Lawrence st., Lowell, Mass.

Last May a large carbuncle broke out" on my arm.. The usual remedies had no effect and I was confined to my bed fureight weeks. A friend induced mo to try. Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Less than threebottles healed the sore. In all my experience with medicine, I never saw more

Wonderful Results.

Another marked effect of the use of this medicine was the strengthening of my sight."—Mrs. Carrie Adams, Holly Springs, Texas.

I had a dry scaly humor for years, and suffered terribly and. as my brother and sister were similarly afflicted, I: presume the malady is hereditary. Lastwinter, Dr. Tyron, (of Fernandina, Fla.,) recommended me to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and continue it for a year. For five months I took it daily. have not had a blemish upon my body for tlit last three months."—T. B. Wiley, Chambers St., New York City.

Last fall and winter I was troubled* with a dull, heavy pain in my side. I did not notice it much at first, but it gradually grew worse until it became almost unbearable. During the latter part of this time, disorders of the stomach and liver increased my troubles. I began taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and, after faithfully continuing the use of this medicine for some months, the pam disappeared and I was completely cured."—Mrs. Augusta A. Furbush,, Haverhill, Mass.

Ayer's Sarsaparilla,

PREPARED BY

Dr. J. C. Ayer

Price

In June summer puts on her dress goods. Grsen, of varying shades, is the prevailing color, profusely ornamented with flowern ot every kind

JUNE IS THE TIME.

Lovely women then likewise puts on some her drees goods—all her dress goods in turn, if they be in season. We have provided the seasonable ones.

JUNE IS THE TIME.

French printed pongees, Mohaire, batistes, lawns, ginghams, organdies, Bateens, challies.

In price, from 5c a yard up to that of the beet goods imported. As to bargains, for instance: A full line ot 30inch striped, plaid and fancy mixed mohair—dust proof—at 29c a yard, Bold elsewhere at 55o.

rr AYRES M,

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

N. B.—We are the exclusive selling agents for those very fine plain black and figured Dress Satines. We guarantee that neither'sun, water, perspiration nor acids will change the color.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (8) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Buffet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANPALIA LIKE.

T. H. & I. DIVISION.

IJUVE TOR THE WEST.

No. 9 Western Express (SAV) 1.42 a.m. No. 6 Mall Train 10.1H a. m. No. 1 Vast Line* (PAV) 2.16 p.m. No. 7 Vast Mall U.IMp. m.

LEAVE FOR 1HE EAST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) 1.30 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (8tV) 1-61 a. in. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.16 a. m. No. SO Atlantic Express (PAV) 12.42 p. m. No. SVastLine*'. 2.00P.

ARRIVE FROM THE KAST.

No. 9 Western Express (84V) 1.30 a. m. No. 6 Mail Trato 10.12 a. m. No. 1 Vast Line (P&V) 2.00 p. m. No. S Mail and Accommodation.......... .46 p. ni. No. 7 Vast Mall 9.00 p.m.

ARRIVE FROM THE WEST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New Turk Express (84V) 1.42 a. m. No. 30 Atlantic Express (P&V) 12.87 p. m. No. 8VsstLine* 1.40p.m.

T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.

LEAVE TOR THB NORTH.

No. 63South Bend Mall 6.00a. m. No. 64 South Bend Express 4.00 p. m. ARRIVE FROM THE HORTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 68 South Bend Mall 7.80 p. m.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Die. E, A. GILLETTE,

DENTIST.

filling ot Teeth a Specialty.

Office—McKeen'n new block, cor. 7tb and Main sts

w. R. MAIL.

L, I.

Co., Lowell, Mass.

«ix

bottles, »5. Worth $&• bottle.

JUKI IS THE TIME

BAHTHOLMMW.

DRS. MAIL & BARTHOLOMEW

Derjtists,

(Baeeessow to BARTHOLOMEW HalU*

529)4 Oblo St. Terre Haute, Ind.

I. H. C. IJOYSE,

[flsoraDce Mortgage lx)aa,

NO. 617 OHIO STREET.

DR. C. O. LINCOLN.

DKXTHT.

All work warranted HO Hottli

pirn

fat Inventions promptly secured. Befermce, byjpermlMlon, to Bon. wm.

O. E.DUFFY,

D.C.