Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 July 1889 — Page 2

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Michael Davitt eulogized Alexander Sullivan before the Parnell commission yesterday, and said he was an "honorable man." Michael Davitt is unacquainted with the developments of the judicial inquiry at Chicago or he has •queer ideei of honor. No one denies that it has been conclusively shown that Alexander Sullivan used end lost in stock gambling the funds raised by Irish-Americans for the Irish cause.

The people of Terre Haute may as well understand that if the council does not pass the saloon license ordinance it will have to pass an ordinance licensing all the professions, public vehicles and •, other callings in life as is done in some cities. How will our friends the lawyers, doctors, et al. feel when they find they are required to pay $50 a year license to help defray the expenses of the government of a city which stands alone among Indiana cities as having no saloon lic9nse.

THE CITY'S FINANCIAL CONDITION

To-day the city's warrants will be hawked about the streets and sold at a discount by the city employes and others who cannot afford to hold them until the city treasury is replenished. City Treasurer Fitzpatrick sent a communication to the council last night stating the facts as to the condition of things and urging the necessity of immediate action to secure relief. And what did the council do? Nothing. The councilmen lolled about in their chairs wholly indifferent to the cripis that has been reached. They allowed the monthly bills amounting to thousands of dollars but did not eve a d«*cuss the condition that will confront these creditors of the city when they apply for their money to-day.

The city fathers do not ssem to appreciate the duties of their official position. One would imagine that they looked upon the matter of spanding money as an illimitable pastime for them. The effort to borrow $50,000 has failed and money must be secured by other means. Yet the council will not even cor^'der the proposition to impose a licanse fee on the liquor deaelr or take any action toward retrenchment in the city's expenses.

C. 0. D.

AH a Business Venture. 't* r'

"1 wonder,,' said the f^arp-eyed man with a mouth like a three em dash. 'Htit tail* 1)6 'fflude a posslblHty to ."".juffcif the shah of Tersla to visit AniOi\5ri. I'd be w.lllng to conulbute my share toward the expense o! giving him a royal reception If he could only ba Induced to come.'' "So you area tiae American after all," said the long-hatred man. "You boast of your Independence and all that soit of thing, but If you think there's the slightest chance to bow down at the feet of royalty you are as servile as any king-rld-den European." -J^fcurd, no," was the good-humored reply. "It's strictly a matter of business with me. I fun a manufacturer of disinfecting compounds."

»*H' Of Irish Extraction.

Judge—What Is your name, prisoner Tramp—Henry Ganschnoldt. Judge (facetiously)—0£ Irish extraction, I presume, Mr. Ganschmldt?

Tramp—Yah, I dinks so. It vas a Irlsch boleesman dot pulled me up afretty yet.

Not Quite Exhausted.

"Laura, Isn't that your? man gone yet?" the old man called down the stairway. And the faint weak remnant of a once manly voice answered feebly from the dim dark parlor: "No not quite."

O. H.

"That was a pretty hard tory to swallow." said the cellar as the upper part of the house fell Into It.

The man who allows himself to drift ld'y down the stream vull never make much of an up-rower In the world.

It is hard to make the boy who hasbsenln swimming believe that there is any good luck In Inadvertently getting a garment on wrong side out.

Professor Darwin discovered that monkeys have the power of blushing, and a Vigo county farmer has discovers 1 that his kicking cow somtlimes turns over-pail

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

yew-Orleans Picayuue: Don't be a Clan. Philadelphia Enquirer: Simon Cameron had

'. no enemies when he dird—not because, I'ke Louis ., XIV., he had killed them all, but because he had outlived them.

New York Mall and Express: It is a pity that ttMChica-sopolice could not have arrested and Imprisoned every member of Camp No. 20 of the Clan-na-tiael

Albany Journal: Honor bright! What American citizen, without reference to politics, is not proud of the Amei .can from Maine who has rehabilitated American diplomacy *v Denver Republican: 1 he Roman Catholic

Church Is oppose 3 to secret societies, and It has persistently dlscouragrd them. As for the Clanna Gael, notwithstendlrj the protests of its members. the people look upon It with disfavor. It Is consider.'da menace to the peace end good order of society, it is the oplnlen of many persons that It was d'rectly connected with the murder of Cronln andif this were shown to be true, pubitsentiment would applaud its condemnation by the f" »ope.

All Quiet In Hayti.

»,•'*' NEW YORK, July 2.—The legation of Hayti to the United States is in receipt 1 of a cable dispatch dated Port-au-Prince,

June 30, to the effect, that the government lines remain unchanged, no advance whatever having been made by the insurgent forces, and that Hippolyte still remained at Cape Hayti.

THE NATURAL GAS SUPPLY.

The capacity of the Indiana gas field is aoon to be seriously testedisays the Indianapolis Journal. Indianapolis was the first large city to draw upon it, but next winter will showjeveral great pipe lines, conveying the new fuel to distant points. The that of these is Richmond, which pipes from near Chesterfield, in the southwest corner of Delaware county, a line forty-seven miles long. Lafayette has laid a pipe into the gas country, and on Thursday will give a natural gas il lumination to celebrate the event, her' supply coming from the neighborhood of Kempton, Tipton county, forty miles away. Within four months Fort Wayne will be burning the new fuel, brought from a point between Hartford City and Portland, in Jay county, a distance of forty miles. Cincinnati is proposing to pipe gas from the Indiana field, a distance of ninety miles, probably from a point in Randolph county, and Chicago has a company with $6,000,000, which will go probably into Grant county. This company proposes to build three sixteen-inch mains, two the first season and one afterwards. Both Cincinnati and Chicago are awaiting the decision of the supreme court as to the constitutionality of the bill passed by the last legislature prohibiting the transportation of natural gas beyond the borders of Indiana.

The gas field in this state is almost an oval, and its total area is about 2,500 square miles. It includes the entire counties of Delaware, Madison, Blackford, Grant and Tipton. Nearly all of Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Randolph and Howard, parts of Clinton, Jay, Rush and Miami, and the northeast ccraer of Marion. There is a small supply in Shelby county, but it is too inconsiderable to be taken into account. In addition to the larger cities named that propose to get their supply of ges from this field the two little cities of Crawfordsville and Lebanon intend to tap Hamilton county at a point north of Sheridan. These are conditions the home company must face, and H. E. Pickett, who is probably as well informed in all matterd connected with natural gas as any man in Indiana, says the more pipe lines there are the shorter the time the gas will last. "Cannot the Indianapolis companies take time by the forelock and secure options on more gas territory?" the reporter asked him. "It doesn't make any difference how much surface you own or control," he replied. "You don't get the gas from the surface. There is no trouble to get g83 land now if you give the farmer fuel for the privilege of putting down a well. No man living can get an option on all the farms in the gas territoi/. The gas rock itself is a pipe-line delivering gas from all pairs to one part, or from one part to all parte." "Where do you consider the center of the gas field to be?" "The geographical center is at Alex andria, in Madison county. Anderson is nearer the center than any important town. Our lines are constantly extending toward the canter of the field, and Indianapolis will have gas as long a? there is any to be had." "How much benefit will Cincinnati get out of a pipe line ninety miles long?" "The projectors of the Cincinnatilline cannot expact to get a supply for manufacturers they will get some to sell as a luxury at twenty-five cents a thousand feet. In a manufacturing way natural gas cannot be piped ninety miles and compete with Ohio river coal. There is a tremendous resistanca in long lines. Another thing, wells attached to short lines will deliver the gas when the long line wells do not. In this warm weather,with small consumption of gas, we loe9 only fifteen pounds pressure between our re-ducing-station, at the edge of the city, and the welJa, twenty-one mile away. In the coldest weather last winter, when the consumption was great, the pressure went down a few time 3 more than 150 pounde. Remember, this is on a line only twenty-one miles long take a line ninety miles long, and sea where that would place the pressure. In Cincinnati they are figuiiDg on delivering daily 20,000,000 feat. Of couue they can do nothing of the kind. Ge9 will come to Cincinnati on conditions similar to those under which Buffalo, N. Y., recaivee it. The initial pressure at the wells on the line supplying Buffalo, also a ninetymile line, is over eight hundred pound? The gas comes from an isolated point where there is nothing to interfere with it. Now the wells to Cincinnati start with an initial pressure of only 325 pounds. If the pressure on a line twen-ty-one miles long supplied by such a well went down when the consumption was great below two hundred, where would it go on a 12-inch pipe at Cincinnati, four times the distance from the well? That is a problem that will do to figure on, especially as the Buffalo line, staining with an initial pret aure of 800 pounds, hae, at the reducing station at Buffalo, only forty-five pounds working press ure. "What sized pipe line would Cincinnati require to put her ninety miles of distance from the field on an equality with our twenty-one miles of distanca?" "To put herself on an equality with Indianapolis as to ges conditions she would require a pipe as big round as a barrel or larger, say four feat in diameter. Resistance would have to be overcome by diameter." "As to the continuing supply of gap, is it not being generated all tne time?" "Admitting that it ip, we all know that nature's great processes are slow, so slow, as in the formation of rocks, as to be inappreciable, and it is not unlikely that we will be taking it away one thousand times, perhaps ten thousand times more rapidly than it is replaced. I suppose you understand that the conpection of one part of the gas field in Indiana with another is intimate, and when a great quantity is taken out at one place it will be noticeable in a diminished pressure elsewhere. Capping wells and not using them does not prevent a loss of pressure, and proves the connection of the supplv. One of our well?, two and a half miles away from any other, wes capped and never used yet the pressure in that well has gone down from 325 pounds to 300 pounds." "What do you think of the probability of the continuation of tne supply here?" "That is a delicate question. Of course, it must be entirely a matter of conjecture. We should know that the lifetime of gas here is ehorter than in Pittsburg, because the pressure will sooner go down to a point when the gas will not operate. There are thirtytwo great lines now coming into Pittsburg in pipes varying in size from 8 inches in diameter to 36 inches, and none of these linf come from a distance exceeding twenty-six or twenty-seven miles. Cincinnati ehould bear that, too, in mind. What chance has she to get a manufacturing supply ninety miles away from so low a pressure as the Indiana

supplied (coin Murraysville, tweut mils* out. The first pipe-line wsa lai_ in 1883, and .the rock pnafuwrtbM over 700 pounds, has ran down below 200. Three years ago Grapeville supply, in a different district, was reached. There was only one line running out ot it to supply Jphnstown, Latrobe and some other small places. Now the Philadelphia oompany, the chief one of Pittsburg, to keep up its supply,hascontinued over from Murraysville and has laid a thirty-six inch pipe connecting with its other lines, from that point. In one winter the pressure has been taken from 7G0 pounds down below 400 poundsfar that big pipe." "Suppose," asked the reporter, •'the Indiana wells with 325 pounds or lsss pressure are reduced 300 poundp, what will become of our gas supply?"

Mr. Picket merely shrugged his shoulders and said nothing.

RAILROAD NEWS NOTES

General and Personal Mention of General and Local Interest.

No. 114 was turned out of the erecting shopyest9rday afternoon thoroughly repaired.

Ticket collectors have been put to work on the Springfield branch of the O. A M. road.

A fine cow was killed at Brazil Monday afternoon by an east bound passenger train on the Vandalia.

Colin McLean, of the machine shop, is visiting friends in the country a few days for the benefit of his health.

Two new passenger trains 'have been placed on the Monon route. These trains stop at all stations along the route.

The "Cloverleaf Loan Association," capital $1,000,000, has bean organized by the employes of that road at Edwards ville, 111.

Messrs. Wiser and Kelley, of the machine shop, laid off yesterday to repair their boat preparatory to a trip up the river on the Fourth.

The officials of the new Big Four road passed through the city in a special car yesterday on an inspection tour from Cincinnati to St. Louis.

The last str ije of the O.. A M. shops at Vinoennes has been removed, and where formerly Btood a large number of buildings is now a barren waste.

Monday afternoon, No. 45, on the C., C., C. A St. L., went through in six sections, and yesterday No. 5 in three, necassitated by the unusually heavy freight business.

The Midland railway manajerj have a suit in Marion county court p^ainst the auditor and board of commissioners of Hamilton county, claiming that out of $28,230.80 voted to the old A. L. A St. L. road but $12,000 had been paid. This is claimed to be due, and the non-payment of the same has greatly embarrassed th company.

Mr. Howard, who is thus compli mentarily referred to by our Evansville contemporary, is well and favorably known in this city. In the past few years he has been with the Coronado Beach company in California.

Cincinnati immercial Gazette: Mr. M. E Ingalls, president of the new "Big Four," will look over the property this week with his staff, leaving this morning. Traffic Manager Murray, General Superintendent Blee, Assistant to the President W. M. Greene and others will be of the party.

Lodge No. 7, Brotherhood ot LocomoFiremen, of Indianapolis, assisted by a number of siBter lodges, gave a monster picnic Sunday in a grove near Montezuma. Messrs, McNabb, Dangler, Eichelberger, Irstin and Bell, from the shops attended, going up the river on the uniatta.

Indianapolis News: The Mackey system of railroads wai represented at the meeting of the state board of equalization, to-day, by J. E. Igleheart, Colonel W. D. Ewing and W. J. Lewis, of Evans ville, who claim that their assessment on their lines, particularly the branches, is much too high, and is comparatively much higher than the assessment on farm land.

The consolidation of the Big Four and Bee line companies was completed yesterday, and hereafter will be known as the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago A St. Louis railway company. General Superintendent Robert Blee officially announces that J. O. Ewan and Geo. W. Bender will be located at Indianapolis as super? intendents respectively of the Indianapolis A Chice

division of the system.

J. G. Van Winkle will be superintendent of the I. A St. L. division, with headquart9rs at St. Louis. Oscar G. Murray has been elected traffic manager, but has not yet announced his subordinates.

The Evansville Courier of Saturday announcad the resignation of Mr. Barnhart as master of transportation of the E. fe T. A fl. and E. & I. railroads. On Saturday night Mr. George W. Howard and wife registered at Haynie's hotel, .says the Courier, and it transpired yesterday that Mr. Howard is here as the result of a correspondence that has recently taken place between President Mackey and himself, in which he was tendered and has accapted the position of master of transportation of the Mackey system, beginning to-day. Mr. Howard has made the record of being one of the most competent railroad men in this particular branch of the service to be found in the country. His career has been typical of the vaBt possibilities for the development of character and capacity which opportunity under our frea institutions so frequently illustrates.

The Louisville, Evansville A St. Louis, the Tell City, Huntingburg, A Caonelton, the Belleville, Centralia A Eastern, the Illinois & St. Louis railroad and coal company ahd the Venice A Carondolet railway companies have been legally consolldatad, and will, hereafter, be operatad as one property, under the title of the Louisville, Evansrille A St. Louis consolidated railroad company. W. J. Lewis has been elected

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retary and treesury, and G. J. Grammer traffic manager, with offices at Evansville, Ind. George F. Evans has been appointed general manager and J. J. Collier auditor, with offices at Louisville, Ky. P. F. Parke has been appointed assistant secretary and treasurer and C. H. Sharman superintendent of construction at St. Louis. D. J. Mackey, who is president of the new company, is alio president of the Evansville A Terre Haute and the Peoria. Decatur A Evansville railroads.

•r. "Sunset" Cox is All Bl(ht. ST. PAUL, Minn., July 2.—S. S. Cox,

who was yesterday reported to be very ill in this city, is in the best of health, notwithstanding reports to the contrary. Yesterday he recaived a delegation from Huron, Dak., and on July 4 will deliver the oration at that town.

Out His Throat With a Table-Knife^ HAMILTON, Ont., July 2.—A man sup

posed to be W. J. Coster, cashier of the City club of Buffalo, committed suicide here yesterday by cutting his throat with a table-knife.

£M»OUUI WITBOOT B010M.

When the state board of education late yesterday afternoon eattled down to their work they found eightvommunications before them to be opened, says the Indianapolis News. Of these there was one bid from publishers beside the proposition of the Indiana school book company, which was given in the News yesterday. The Bowen-Merrill oompany of this city, offered to furnish a series of writing books, six in number, at 5 cents each, and submitted a bond, as the law revuired. None of the authors who offered to seH manuscripts presented the required bonds.

W. F. L. Sanders, superintendent of the Connersville schools, offered the manuscript of an advancad grammar, asking a royalty of one cent on each book. Ralph St. J. Perry proposed to compile a~physiology of the "first order of excellence,"and present it to the state^ and all copies sold outside the state, provided that he shall have a reasonable royalty on all copies sold in private schools and colleges in the state. John Carroll offered his new English grammar, reserving the "small pittanoe" of 5 cents per oopy royalty on all sold.

M. D. Mugan, of St. Louis will ask only one oent per copy royalty on his elementary English grammar, if the board will adopt it. George W. Michaels ahd W. W. Williams, of Indianapolis, will donate thecopyright of Michael's system of rapid Teimanship to the state, or if preferred will publish tne oopies requited for 4 cants each. Finally, J. M. Stradling, of Chicago, will furnish the manuscript of a United States history if the board will guarantee him 6 cents royalty on each copy sold in the state, and 10 cents on eaoh copy Bold in other states.

At the efssion this morning a letter from President Smart, of Purdue university, was read, stating that owing to bad health he could not te present at the meeting and could not undertake to examine any of the books submitted to the, board.

The board disposed of three of the books submitted. Not because it was known to be inferior in quality, but because it did not comprise the number of pages required by law, the board rejected Holtze's physiology, which was among the text-books submitted by the Indiana school book company. Holtze's physiology consists of 192 pages, while the standard fixed by law must have 403. It was admitted that the statutory standard was not good, but the board could not undertake to remedy the defect. The offer of Ralph S. Perry to prepare a physiology was also rejected, and the proposition of a Chicago man to prepare a history of the United States was rejected, because a book with the number ot pa^es required by law could not be published for the statutory price.

The board resolved itself in a committee of the whole to examine the books submitted, and decided that the adjournment should be until July 9, when consideration of the books would be resumed.'

The book authors who were present were given an opportunity to make explanatoiy statements regarding their work. M. D. Mugan, a principal in the St. Louis public schools, talked at length about the superior features of a grammar he has written, while statements were also made by John Carroll, of Chicago, author of a grammar G. W. Michaal, a copybook publisher, and others.

Edward Hawkins, the secretary of the Indiana school book company, said that it had bean falsely esserted that the text books offered by his oompany were old and not up to the requirements of the times. The company's readers were originally compiled in 1883, and were revised in 1887. They contained new mattar from recent authors. The Bpeller, a companion to the readers, was prepared in 1886, and the arithmetic in the same year. The elementary geography was written in 1885, and the complete geography in 1887. The copy books were entirely new. He said that if the books did not have the merits claimed for them he wanted them rejected. Still, he be lieved that all the hpoks should be published by the same fiim. He did pot think that any one or two books could be published and distributed as the law requires, with profit, but there would be some profit in publishing all of them.

S MORE LITIGATION AHEAD.

Dr. Yancey Will Arrest Anybody Unless Appointed by Himself.

Governor Hovey's oil inspector, Dr, Yancey, will open an office at 78 south Meridian street, probably Wednesday, and begin business officially, says the Indianapolis Newe. He is to-day notifying dealers in oil of his intantion, and that he will expect them to c&ll upon him to inspect their oila. "After I get/started," he said this morning, "I will have anybody except my appointeae who may b9 inspecting oils arrested. I understand Nelson Hyde, appointed by Mr. Gorby, is pretending to attend to the duties of the offiea. If be is, he iq simply impersonating an

offi

*ar without the shadow of

authority. The law under which he says he is operating requirei that he shall file an oath of

officii

and a satis

factory bond with the secretary of state. He ha 3 done neither." Dc, Yancey is certain he will win. Merchants who have Mr. Hyde inspect their oils, he says, are liable to arrest for not having the inspecting done by a legal officer. 5-v An Institution Crisis.

A crisis has come upon the Indiana institute for the deaf and dumb, Bays the Indianapolis Newe. The o.'d superintendent, Eli Baker, hei resigned. The man who is, perhaps, best fitted by experience to fill the vacanoy, and who is certainly the most competant instructor in the institution, Willism F. Burt, has bean elected to the sup rintendency of the western Pennsylvania institution for deaf and dumb at Pittsburg. The man of next largest experieaca in the institution, Mr. Noble McKee, fitted to succeed Mr. Burt ss principal of the school, happens, like Mr. Burt, to be a ipublican. The board is Democratic, but does not agree in its estimate of candidates. If Messrs. Burt and McKee were Democrats the board's course would probably not be in doubt. The most available Democrat for the head of the institution is Richard O. Johnson, who for several years has been the bookkeapar of the institution. To-morrow the board meets to elect a superintendent.

The Coldest Jane.

The higheet temperature in June at this point by the sigaal servine instruments wsa

degree? on the thirtieth

day. The loweet was 41 degrees on the first day. The mean temperature was the lowest of any June in the past twenty-seven years. The total rainfall for the month was 4 88 inches. There wss one dear, twelve fair and seventeen cloudy days. Seven, thunderstorms

1MB OWXA

Their HkUaaamer RifBt'i Festival at Masonic Temple, M. ImlSi The Owls of Nsafe -Na 1, St Louis Flock, held their midsummer night's fsstivsl at Maaonio temple last evening, says the St. Louis Repnblic of Sunday, when they demonstrated iheir ability not only to prepare a right royal programme, but to carry it out in every detail. The gathering was a very large one, and all the distinguished visitors expected were on hand. In the absence of Mayor Noonan in the East, Acting Mayor Walbridge was present to deliver the speech of welcome, the response being made by the Hon. Frank C. Danaldson, mayor of Terre Haute. The Owls' greeting, extended by the Hon. H. Rodgers, presiding officer, was formally accepted by the Hon. Thomas B. Long, .while the festival class was heard from through the Hon. Frank P. Sargent, of Terre Haute. The opening of the nest revealed the handsome decorations, paraphernalia, costumes and accessories. The flight of the feathered strangers was accompanied by captivating music,, while the banquet given at 9:45 o'clock was elaborate and soul-satisfying. Vogel's orchestra furnished the music. Several of St. Louis' sweet singers contributed vocal selections, and "Doc" Ware, "king of cards," manipulated the pasteboards in a manner that made the most sapient of the acreeohers stare after the fashion of veritable owls. Twenty oandidatee were initiated during the course of the evening. Among those present were Acting Mayor Walbridge, with special escort, the Hon. Win. H. Stone and Colonel Jack P. Richardson the Hon. Frank C. Donaldson, mayor of Terre Haute, Ind., with special eeoort, the Hon. John W. Phillips and Colonel Jamee O. Churchill the Hon. Thoe. B. Long, grand master of Masons of Indiana Dr. Robert Van Valzah, past grand master of Mesons of Indiana the Hon. frank P. Sargent, grand master Brotherhood of Lbcomotive Firemen, a total delegation from Terre Haute, Incl., of twenty prominent citizens Mr. Thomas Taggart, county auditor, Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Wm. M. Knight, Chicago & Northweetern railroad, Chicago, III. a large representation of prominent personages from Cairo, 111., inoluding P. W. Barclay and S. W. Hopkins.

ILLINOIS OFFICES.

Congressman Hltt fend Senator Caltom do not Meet With Success. Special to the Chicago Journal.

WASHINGTON, July _2.—Congressman Hitt was at the White house this morning to have a final talk with the president about Illinois appointments before leaving. He has made a good many recommendations in the various departments but does not look for action until after the Fourth of July excursion of the president and cabinet. He said to a Journal correspondent to-day that he thought there was no prospect of a change in any ot the Chicago offices until tne expiration of the incumbents' terms.

Senator Cullom leaves for Boston today. He was not very succsssful even with his "six-bit" postoffices.- His secretary called at the postoffice department yesterday afternoon to ask why a lot of the senator's recommendations had not been acted on and was told that the department was not making removals now except where charges or cdtanplaints are made against the oc

Jupant of the office.

"Not even ii the fourth-class offices?" was the astonished query. "No, not even in fourth-class offices," was the reply. "Here is a great lot, you roe, of Senator Cullom's recommendations which have not been acted on, for there is no cause shown why the removal of the present officers should be made."

A Decision in the Telephone Case. BOSTON, July 2.—A decision was given

by Judge Colt this morning in the United States circuit court in the case of the United States of America against the American Bell telephone company et al. Plaintiff filed a motion for appointment of en examiner to take testimony generally covering the case, wh!,e Professor Alexander Graham Bel), one of the defendants, also Jiled a motion for appointment of an examiner to take testimony upon the issue raised by his plea filed in the case. The court denied the defendant's motion and granted that of plaintiff appointing Commissioner H. L. Hallett as examiner.

Joe Mackln Pardoned,

SPRINGFIELD, III., July 2—Governor Fifer this morning issued a pardon to Joe Mackin, now serving a tei

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penitentiary for election frauds at Chicago. The governor accompanied the pardon with a review of the papers in the 'case, in which he Btated that the application bad the stronger support probably than had ever been presented to a governor in a like case before.

Society Women Out Hustling. EAC CLARK, Wis., July 2.—Eau Clare

had its first eleotion for aboard of education yesterday. It brought out a heavy woman's vote, prominent society ladies spending the whole day with their carriages taking women to the polls. The anti-Catholic question was made very prominent in several wards, but the candidates alleged to represent the Catholic side ware elected.

A Case of Asiatic Cholera.

CHICAGO, July 2.—A dispatch from Waverly,0., says: A man whose name could not be learned was taken suddenly sick Friday le~*t in Scioto county and expired in a few hours. fro doctors who were summoned found the patient's limbs cramped and contorted. They pronounced it a genuine craeof Asiatic cholera. •'Crabbed Ago and Yonth."

Old Mr. Moneybags (after the proposal)—You neither say "yes" nor "no." Tell me, may I not hope?

Mies Violet (undecidedly)—Well-er-do not ask me for an answer to-night, but let it go just now, as a case of December and-and-may!—[Puck.

A Convalescent Congressman. HASTINGS, Neb., July 2.—Congressman

James Laird, ot the Second district, arrived home yesterday from Atlantic City after a two months'stay, much improved in health. He hes failed in flesh, but appears more cheerful, and is evidently on the road to recovery.

Total Kclipse of the Son,

The navy department is making preparations for observing the total eclipse of the sun, which will occur on Dscam ber 21st. It will be visible in ite totality at St. Paul de Loando, on the coast of South Africa.

FACKACMM.

BBS'S Alt USBT.

With wamMT dais and balmy alls, Com forth the ball and bait The wasmii change, bat little earas

The maid for She does aot frown, sbe does not poat. She's aiwsjs bound to win If oftteis with the May go out, lee cream comes In. —{Boston Courier. About five thousand people have received* railroad passee to leave Johnstown. Some of them have been sent ae far as New Mexioo.

The petroleum pipe line in the Caucasus is just about to surmount the Suram pass. It will reach a height of 5,200 fset.

above the sea.

A Mexican Jobber who was shot by order of government received six bullets in his breast and got up and ran thirty yarda before falling down to die.

Boston humanitarians are protesting against the proposed slaughter of blue jays in order that their plumage may be used for the decoration of women's bonnets.

The Association of Centenary firms of Philadelphia has been organized. The association consists of firms that have carried on business in that city for one hundred years or more.

A Yankee has set up a school in Paris, and advertises that he "will teach any Frenchman to speak the only eensible language in the world in six weeks, at a cost of only $25."

At the top of the Eiffel tower, for a fee, specially prepared note paper, dated from the summit of the tower, is provided, and the writ9r can have the letter poeted on the

Bpot.

A man in Coshocton has a sate that contains $125. It has been locked up three years, and he has forgotten the combination. Meanwhile he is awaiting the return of the agent of the safe company.

A Frenchman tried his flying mashine in the suburbs of Paris the other day. He flew off a barn, and it will be eaveral months before his broken legs will allow him to canter around as blithely ss before.'

The census of horses is being taken in Paris in order to give the authorities some idea of the animals available for military purposss should need arise. At the laet census Paris contained 98,080 horses and thirty-eight mules.

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J. T. Trowbridge, who grew famous by writing clever stories for boys, is one of the prominent anthors of Bostop. Though psst sixty and gray-haired, his face and youthful bearing make him appear much younger.

Recent experiments at the ear hospital in London indicate that stammering is. not a nervous defect only. In operations for deafness in several cases the patients were cured of stammering also, and the result is the opinion that stammering comes from some defect in the hearing.

General Butler seemed to those who saw him during

hiB

recent visit to Wash

ington to be showing signs of rapidly advancing age and physical weakness. Yet it WSB noticed thaf" he went about the capital unacoompanied by the attendant who of late years has followed his every footstep.

A resident of Lewistown, Pa, wss driving acrosB the mountain during the flood when a box of one of the bnggy wheels got hot and would not revolve. He had no axle grease, and did not care to pass a night on the mountain. Luckily he had Eome bologna sausage in the vehicle. He used it as a lubricant, and it got him safely home.

A lightning flash did freaky things at the house of W. P. Graham, in Juniata, Pa., during the laBt storm. Passing a basket full of eggs ready to be sent to the store, it accomplished the almost incredible feat of breaking every shell without spilling the contents of a single egg. The house has twice been struck by lightning within five years.

The editor of the Savannah News says that out of a thousand people bitten by rattlesnakes he does not think that a dozen recover. There is no known cure, though some bitten persons report that they were cured by whisky. The explanation of this is that there is a small snake resembling the rattler whose bite is less venomous, and whisky will counteract its poison.

On the day the cab strike was beginning, and as the cabmen were all taking their carriages in Paris, an old academician, renowned for his politeness, hailed one of the recalcitrant jehus.' "Cabman," he said, taking off his hat, "will you do me the honor to drive me to my house?" meantioning the number. The cabman melted. "Jump in, sir," be said, and away they whirled.

The late Mrs. Hayes was a tall, wellformed woman with black hair, which she wore smoothly combed back over the ears, and large gray eyes which would grow black with excitement. She was fond of dress, but dressed quietly and well. She liked mueic and had some talent as a singer. Mrs. Hayes was domestic in her tastes, and in the summer months could be seen working in her garden or driving out with her children.

Before the war the high water mark in cotton was 5,300,C30 bales. The crop of last year is not yet entirely out of the hands of the planters, but those wflose business attention is absorbed by the staple place it at 7,400,000 bales, an increase of 300,000 over the year preceding. This season, with average weather, it will be 8,010,000 bales, worth nearly four hundred million dollars, or five times the value of all the gold and silver produced in the United States in one year.

At the bickyard near Macon, Ga., last week two moccasins were seen engaged in mortal combat. Two others, apparently interested, stood on either side of the reptiles. The sentries or seconds were in a coil, with their heads erect. A negro laborer watched the fight for fifteen minutes. The snakes would wrap about eaoh other, bite and atrike at each other, and lash the ground around with their tails Finally the negro killed the duelists, principles and seconds.

Says a clock manufacturer: "The dial of the clocks which we make for China is marked, in lieu of figures, with characters which, I suppose, mean something to them. They don't to me. There are three circles of characters, the inner one having eight divisions, the next one twelve and the outermost twenty-four. There are two hands, the shorter one making a revolution every two hours, while the long one takee twenty-four hours to get around. But how they compute time by these is aChineze puzzle."

A negro, fishing in the Savannah run, hooked a huge catfish, which ran down stream at a rapid rate, the boat and darkey following, the cat not stopping until exhausted. It wss then captured, but placed in water. The next day the negro tied a ropa to it, attached the line to his boat and turned the fish into the river. Down stream the boat went, faster than oars could carry it or wind propel it. The fish is fed and petted with care. A aet of harness hae been made for it. The negro is now trying to educate it to go up stream.

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CHE AM

Ipwde?

Its superior excellence proven in millions of homes for more than a quarter of a century. It Is used by the United States Horornment. Kndoried by the heads of the 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. l'RICK BAKINW POWDKR CO. mnr TORI. CHICASO. ST. urns.

Drees goods continue to be the piece de resistance of dry goods. Our dress goods business is like a Niagara torrent, the main movement is deep and strong, and as it moves it is jeweled with a brilliant spray that Bheds over all a changing beauty.

INDIA SILKS."

They make the beauty. We make the bargains. Fifty different styles of these^

FIGURED FAVORITES.

AT—

$1.25 Reduced to

On the Counter Monday Morning.

A rare chance. No reserves.,

S. iVBES & CO,

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) 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 dally. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE.

T.E41. DIVISION. LKAVK TOR THK WEST.

No. 9 Western Express (S4V) 1.42 a. m. No. 6 Mall Train *. 10.18 a. m. No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) ii.16 p. m. No. 7 Vast Hall* 9.04 p.m.

LKAVK FOR THIS MAST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.S0 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (S&V) 1.61 a. m. No. 4 Hall and Accommodation 7.15 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAV) «... 12.4U p. m. No. 8 Vast Line*. IWOp.

ARRIVE FROM THX KA3T.

No. 9 Western Express (3AV) 1.30 a. m. No. 5 Mall Train 10.12 a. m. No. 1 Fast Line (PAV) 2.00 p. m. No. 3 Kail and Accommodation f.45 p. m. No. 7 Vast Mall 9.00 p. m.

ARRIVR FROM THK WEST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (SAV) 1.42 a. m. No. 20 Atlantic Express (PAV) 12.87 p. ra. No. 8 Vast Line* 1.40 p.m.

T. H. A L. DIVISION.

LKAVK FOR TDK NORTH.

No. G2 S6uth Bend Mall 1.00 a. m. No. 64 South Bend Express 4.00 p.m. ARRIVE FROM THE NORTH No. 51 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 68 South Bend Mall 7.30 p. m.

DRUNKENNESS

Or (he Lienor Habit, I'oailiveljr Circs tr AdminlHterinc Dr. Haines' Golden SpeciSe. It can be given In a cup of coffee or tea without the knowledge of the person taking it is Absolutely harmless, and will effect a permanent and speedy cure, whether the patient is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of drunkards have been made temperate men who have taken (ioltlen Specific in their coffee without their knowledge and to-day believe they quit drinking of their own free will. IT NEVEK KAILS The system once Impregnated with the Specific,li becomes an utter lmpossiblity for the lliiuor appetite to exist For sale by Jas. E. Somes, druggirt. sixth and Ohio stieets, Terre Haute, Ind.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

DK. E, A. GILLETTE,

DENTIST. -r

ruling of Teeth a Specialty.

Office—McKeen's new block, cor. 7th and Main sts

W. B. MAIL. .' L| B4BTHOI/)IHW•

DRS. MAIL «t BARTHOLOMEW

Dentists,

(Successors to Bartholomew A Hall. 529^ Ohio St. Terre Haute, Ind.

I. H.

I^OYSE,

NO. 617 OHIO STREET.

DR. C. O. LINCOLN.

DIHTOT,

All work warranted aa represented, offleeano ee 810 North Thirteenth street, Ten* Ind.

THE NORWOOD,

Fourth Avenue and Klngsly Street,

A S A

Vail view of the ocean. Terms moderate for. June, July and September.

S. N. SEVERANCE.