Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 November 1889 — Page 2

DAILY EXPRESS.

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And now we are informed that George W. Julian was removed because he was a hero o£ the anti-slavery cause. It is all very funny.

The addition of four passenger trains in the Terre Haute Union depot tomorrow, two by the Vandalia and two by the E. T. H., is an event of importance. It means a great deal in the way of commercial benefit. Terre Haute will then have railroad facilities excelled by no city in the state outside of Indianapolis^

The Evansville Courier is courageous and honest. It did not play the double dodge last fall on the tariff—denying that the Democracy was for Tree trade. Now it is more outspoken than ever. The defeat of Republican candidates on the prohibition issue, leadB it to say that "Free trade has come to stay. Eet there be no mistake about that."

Already there is a great scramble among the Democratic boodlers of Ohio for the senatorship. The men who are supposed to have unlimited means are the ones who receive most encouragement in the race. The Standard Oil election of Pt.yne has set an example that will make an election of his successor very costly to the successful aspirant.

The New York court's decision is a death knell to trusts under the prevalent style of trusts. That is so far as New York is concerned. Trusts, however. can be formed in New ork in other forms and it will be necessary to test each' in the courts and after all it will be public sentiment, a boycott if you please, that will give them their iinal death warrant. Forms of law under which they can operate, at least for the time being, will be found to be numerous enough to avoid prevention. Only the rigid ostracism of public sentiment will Berve the purpose.

The 1 ndianapolis Sentinel yesterday, and all the shrewder Democratic organs, claim for the free trade or tariff issue the credit of the victories on Tueedayt The Sentinel boldly asserts that it was the tariff in Iowa. Here is what Uov-ernor-Elect Boies snid to a correspondent of the Chicago Herald, a free trade organ:

It seems to me as fair Indication that a majority ol' the people of Iowa are tired of the workings of the prohibition law. alul prefer a good license law as the better method or regulating the liijuor train. Other Mtiestlona entered Into the result, or cjurse, but it would se?mas it the prohibition question was the greatest issue, as the two parties were squarely opposed to each other on that matter.

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the Kiot Started.

First compositor I wonder how Heaver wants this ad ol boys' hats set'.' Second compositor- In small caps, of course.

A I.ucUy Coiitemporaneosit.v.

It's lucky lor the poet that November days are murky. Kor now's the lime lie wants a rhjme to correspond to "turkey."

Slio Weakened.

First female burglar- (Jet your mm. We are go lug to crack old man (ioldollar's house to-night. Second female burglar—1 wouldn't go lilt* that house alter dark tor the world. It is chuck full ol mice.

O. H.

Does an asylum srber ever dye a lunatic'.'

A gang saw—"To the victors belong the spoils." A man's wife presents him with twins because she has two.

No. l'aultti" dear, a lire plug is not the horse that pulls the hose reel. l.ike a postage stamp, the reformed Inebriate sticks so long as he remains dry.

I'erhaps if elections were not held buckwheat season there would be less scratching.

Somebody has discovered that a chicken can be hypnotized. It is a lien-tracing experiment.

True genius much resembles a mustard plaster. The secret of its smartness lies In close application.

A system of paying money orders by electricity has been Introduced In the St. I.euis postoibce. Here Is a chance for lightning change artists.

EXC1UNGK ECHOES.

Cincinnati Commercial Hazette: So far as it goes It Is a case of popular In beclllty. All the gods tight lu vain against the Indurated forinldableness of stupidity.

Minneapolis Journal: Kmperor William. In iiis address at the opening of the retchstag. prayed lor the continuation ot peace, but asked for more money to build up the navy. This Is like the old deacon who said It was "wicked to drive fast horses, but he'd be darned If he'd take anybody's dust."

Chicago News: It has been fully demonstrated that the heating of ears from the locomotive, and in other safe ways. Is entirely feasible. The use ot stoves tor such purpose should be treated, in case of Injury to person or loss of life, by the In diction of exemplary penalties.

Sprlngtield Republican: The stress ot politics seems to have told upon the Democratic leaders of the house. Both Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Randall are broken In health, and Mr. Mills' physician has warned him against excitement and late hours. Here Is a tine chance for the younger men to try their hand at hanging upon the tlanks of the majority.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Miss Caldwell, who has given tfOO.OUi to a Catholic university, refuses to pay more than $10.01X) a year for a husband who can make her a princess. If he had lieen younger, or If he had been a tierman prince Instead of a nominal prince In a republic that does not cherish princes, she might have paid more and been Ued to a husband whose low estimate of her was shown by the high price he demanded for letting her wear his name. As her estate was not derived from any Pacific railroad steal she Is not anxious to put It In Europe out of reach of the lulled States government. and Is to be congratulated on the outcome ot the little "tlyer" .--he took In the foreign prince market.

VENDETTA IN THE WEST.

"Well, twenty-five years ago, in Virginia City, Alder Gulch, Madison county, Montana—it's 125 miles south of here —said X. Beidler one evening in the Grand Central in Helena—"we had been run over by road agents and robbed and held down. Friends of ours had been shot down for money on the road, and we buried Nick Diebold now get that name right, D-i-e-b-o-l-d, that's it a German—who waa murdered for S'225 in greenbacks aud three mules. He was killed down at Stinking Water, and one of the mulee. Black Bese, waa mine—X. Beidler's. I lent her to Nick. You see, Nick kind of disappeared like. Some men says: 'He has gone to Salt Lake.' I says: 'No, he has not Nick has his winter'a chuck up at Summit, and he hain't that kind of a runaway fellow, either.' We hunted for him and couldn't iind him, and one day Bill Palmer drove into Virginia City with Nick

Diebold's body in a wagon. He had been murdered by road agents. This Bill Palmer had been hunting chickens on Stinking Water, using a boy to play dog for him. A bird Hew up and Bill killed it. Then the boy run in the bushes for it, and thera it lay on the body of a man. The boy hollered, and Bill took a look at the body. Then he went to George Hillerman, .Long John, and some of the road agents that was camped on the creek, and wanted them to help put the body in a wagon. They wouldn't do it, aud Long John says, 'Bill, when you find a dead man don't monkey with him. Jest tend to, your own business. It's the safest way.' That's what they said to Bill Palmer, but Bill he brought the body to Virginia, and a man comes up to me and says, 'X., do you know Dutch Nick?' I says,'My God, yes,'and I looked over into the wagon and there he was. I ex amined his pockets and there was a knife 1 had given him in Californy years before. Now we never knew who killed

Dutch Nick. George Ives and Aleck Carter had tossed up a coin to see who should kill him, but we never knew who dorfe the work. These fellers did give Long John $20 to bury the body, and in stead of burying it Long John throwed a lariat around Nick's legs and dragged him through the bushes over the brush face downward, and that's why his lipfi and nose and eyelids was turned up kind of contrary to nature like. He was killed when the weather was warm. The cayotes had chawed on his fingers, and the magpies had picked on his eyes, and the boy didn't look good at all. We •made a collin, but couldn't put Nick in, because one of his arms had froze straightout. So 1 got a saw and sawed off the arm, and put it in th9 collin by Nick's side and we gave him a big funeral. "Then we arrested George Ives aud a lot of fellows aud we tried them, too. Colonel |F. W. Sanders, now here in Uelena, prosecuted them, and Ives was first found guilty. There was great excitement, for the road agents had lots of friends aud guns plenty of 'em were drawn. Colonel Sanders got up on a wagon wheel and says, 'I moves to hang George Ives in an hour.' Then Jim Thurmond, he was a kind of an attorney for the road agents, he says. never knew any kind of jurisprudence where a man had to hang so quick.' He wanted time for a rescue. I was standing nigh the wagon, and pistols by thegross was drawn. I see that Sanders WAS in a hole, and I hollered as loud a9 I could. 'How long a time did they give the Dutchman?' This settled it. Colonel Sanders wilt tell you he never hoard a word come in such play

It kind of let him out, and the crowd yelled, 'Hang him on time, hang him on time!' O, he was a beauty, was (iaorge I

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years old, line looker, with steel

gray eyee, and he wore a cavalry overcoat with collars and cuffs of beaver fur. Bob Horreford, the sheriff, hung Ives, and the last man he ehook hands with was X.

This same George Ives and me had words about a tnule of mine that he used without

my

consent. He took the ani

mal and rode it to Fire Hole and back that's a hundred miles in one day, and I told him if he done it again I would kill him. I had charge of George during his trial, and a feller offered me a sack of gold dust worth i?:,000 to let him go. I told the feller to make tracks with his little £5.000 or he would hang with Ives Then Ives says: 'You have got it in for nip, X.. on account of the mule.' 'No, 1 haven't,' says I, 'mule scrapes don't count now this for killing the Dutchman.' About midnight, 1 think it was, George called to me, and he says 'X how's she going to go?' 1 says, 'George, you are going to be hung.'. He kind of stopped in his speech, and he says, 'X., I don't want to die with my boots on.' He had as line a pair of boots as you would wish to see. One of my boys was wearing moccasins, and I told George he might trade with him, which he did. Later in the night there came up a little rain, and George's feet got wet and cold. He complained to me, and told him to trade back for his boots again,'for the time Ueiug. He did so, and d—n me, if we didn't forget all about it later, and George died with his boots on after all. "The hanging of Ives cut the starter, and Jack Gallagher, Boone Helm, Frank Parrish, Club Foot George and Haze Lyons was sentenced to be hung. This Haze Lyons and me was friends, and when the judgment was give in Haze called to me to walk with him, and stayby until he died, and I did. On the way to the unfinished house where the hanging was to be, Club Foot George weakened, and asked Judge Dance to say some words to save him. Judge said he couldn't do anything at all. Then George wanted the judge to pray for him, and the judge and George knelt down in the snow, then and there, and the judge prayed. We all stopped and Lyons took off his hat. lie asked me as to the delay, 'What are we stopping for, here in the snow?' be asked. I says, 'We haven't made all preparations. We are only tixed for four, and five of us is going to be hung,' that's what 1 said. That was true, too we had to get more rope. Then Jack Gallagher asked me to get him a drink. I went down to the Shades saloon and got a liask of liquor. Jack tipped it up and glugged it down—glug —glug—glt'g—and all this time Dance and Club Foot was a praying. Jack thanked me and said I had always treated him right. Gallagher had a line overcoat, and Boone Helm, who stood at his side, 'was dressed like a trapper. Boone

Eays,

'Jack, you never did

give me anything make me a present of that coat. You won't want to wear it much longer, anyhow!' Jack looked at him and said: 'It will be hot enough where you are going without a coat." These were the kind of remarks that were going on while Dance was a prayin'. Finally we got them all in a houee that waa being built. Tnere was five boxes, one for each man to stand on, and a rope from each box ran out into the street, so the crowd could pull it away and the hanging go ahead. They hung Jack Gallagher and Boone Helm stood look­

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ing at him. 'Kick away,' he says, will be in hell with you in a minute. Every man for his principles. Hurrah for Jen Davis!' and his box went from under him. Parrjsh was strangled, and Haze, calling me to him, gave me his watch and chain to take to a lady. Haze went

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must tell you about that fellow Club Foot George. He wore a great big sombrero hat, one of them light-colored Californy hate, with a rim as atiff as a shingle. Them was the proper hats here at 8n early day. Well, the hat was so big that we couldn't get the rope over it all, and I says, 'George, you will have to take off your hat, as we can get the rope around your neck.' "He took off his hat juet to oblige me. Now George was on the box, ready to hang. The people was gathered below him like, for the house was built into the side of the hill in Virginia City. George shied hie hat into the crowd aud its rim cut the nose of a miner who stood in the street below him. Then George actually jumped up and with his clumpy club feet kicked out the box from' anunder him. He didn't wait for the fellows who had a holt of the rope, but hung himself. And right here in this saloen, not long ago, I saw that same miner with the clipped nose, and on his head was Club Foot George's hat. Yee, it was the same old hat. How do you like that story! Good one? Well, I should' think so. Put it in the paper iC you waut to. O, X. has been there! M*et me to-morrow if con venient and I will give you another. No, thanks, I don't care for an thing to-day —the drinks come a leetle too fast yes terday. I've got a pocketful of cigars.'

COAI, DOT AS FUEL-

A 'e» Method for L'tiii/.itig the Enormous Waste at Coal Mines.

The Reading railroad ofliciale, headed by President CorbiD, visited the com pany's coal plant at Mahanoy City Wednesday to inspect a new process of making fuel from coal dust. Heretofore about one-seventh of the product of the coal mines has been lost in dust. It ie no? intended to utilize the dust by making it into bricket-ts that will burn like coal, except that there is HO clinkers and the brickett burns to ashes. The new process consists of the coal dust being evenly distrib uted with one-tenth per cent, of pitch This, by on ingenious contrivance, is pressed with great machines ra large cakes, steam being used to moiaten the mass. So hard does it become that it possesses the same power of rosistence as coal, or in other words, 100 pounds of coal dust pressed will last as long as the same amount of hard coal. A pressure of thirty-live tons is brought to bear on each brickett. There are two presses in operation, and when run to their full capacity will turn out about eight hundred tons of the bricketts in twentyfour hours. The bricketts take up 23 per cent, less space than ordinary coal, and in consequence an engine can be loaded to go one-fourth further without replenishing the supply of fuel. All the ollicials expressed themselves very much gratilied by the new process, and expect the company will be enabled to save from 8o5,00U to $40,000 per year by the use of the fuel. Mr. C. M. Jacobs, an expert in fuel-making, has bsen brought from Eogland to superintend the works. A company has been formed, with Austin Corbin as president, for manufacturing this fuel, aud it is intended to place it on the market for a lower price than is now paid for coal.

General SherUlau's Family.

Colonel M. V. Sheridan, brother of the famous general, dropped in at the Pal mer house a few days ago. "I am doing 'frontier duty' now," he said with a smile. "I'm stationed at Fart Leaven worth I think I like it better there than in Washington. It is the pleasanteet post the army has, and will continue to be until Fort Sheridan is completed. Colonel Sheridan is putting in all h's spare time revising his brother's memoirs, and expects to have the work ready for publication about the holidays. Mrs. Sheridan is living quietly with her children in Washington in the beautiful home presented by Chicago citizens to the general at the time he went to Washington jto take command of the army. She is devoting her life to the rearing and education of her children. Master Phil, his uncle sBye, is a miniature General Sheridan, and seems born to command. He already rules the household. He is destined to a career in tho army, ani an appointment at West Point will be his as soon as he is old [enough. He is now in his ninth year. He is stout, sturdy, and does not seem to know what fear is.—[Chicago Herald.

Kll'fXU Ol'T H00S1EK HAS.

The Chicago Company Propohe to Get a Howard Count3' .Supply.

The decision of the supreme court holding that the law to prohibit the piping of natural gas out of the state is unconstitutional may affect Indianapolis seriously, in time, says the Indianapolis News. A company is already organized for the purpose of piping gas from the Indiana lield to Chicago, and if its plans are to be carried out there is a question in the minds of a good many people whether or not the drain upon the supply may not affect Indianapolis. Thi6 new company which has at its head New York aud Chicago capitalists, and a few mouied men of Indiana proposes to get its supply of gas from near Kokotno. The proposed pipe line will be i:»0 miles in length, and two pneumatic pumps will assist in forcing the gas through the mains. The line as projected will run through Logansport, Valparaiso and Hammond, and, these places are to be supplied with the fuel if they put up the money. The company has a capital stock of 62,000,WO, aud has already leased a large area of gas territory in the Kokomo district.

The officers of the local natural gaa companies doubt if the fuel is ever piped to Chicago. They think the distance is too great. James II. Rice, who is interested in a number of gas companies, believes that if the supply of gas doe3 not lessen this winter, the fuel will be piped out of the state in large quantities by another spring. He does not think the Chicago enterprise will take shape before next spring.

That Fort Wayne Ktving Fortune.

George W. Kwing, who is laying claim to valuable property in Fort Wayne, Chicago, St. Louis and other points, on the ground that the same was originally transferred to G-orge K.^ing, sr., and then deeded back, with the stipulation that it should be held for the descendants of George Ewing, jr,and was by him sold, contrary to this stipulation, has received a set-back at Fort Wayne, the court holding he has no cause of action.

Lived in a Glass House.

Mrs. Badger—You must have a nice kind of a mother, if she lets you tight in

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THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 9, 1889.

the street like this and get a black eye. Little Johnny—I was fighting with yeur boy, ma'am, and he's got two black eyes.—[New York Sun.

A PREITY^IL FIGHT. ©5

The Buffalo Clique's Fight With the Standard.

A syndicate was formed in Buffalo and Cleveland early last spring to buy all the loose crude oil certificates in the country, says the Pittsburg Telegraph.

Its purchases averaged 00 cents. The Standard promptly marked the price down to SO cents, as a "feeler." The syndicate didn't let go. Then came the struggle for the 3,500,000 barrels held by the Producers' protective association. The Standard got the oil, nominally at 95 cents, but there is understood to have been very lively outside bidding. Some say that SI'25 was bid by the Buffalo clique. The market regained 5 cents of the lose, and then followed the memorable jump from S5 to SI 03 i£ forty minutes, with a quick decline to 95. One month ago certificates were quoted at 99 cents. Within the past two weeks they touched momentarily SI 09. At that point the Buffalo crowd attempted to unload some of their 90 cent oil, when the Standard knocked the bottom out of the market, and the prices went down with a rush to fl.05', with but few

That is the history of oil speculation during the present year. The net stocks have declined from 17,000,000 barrels, when the Buffalo syndicate began buying, to 10,000,000. That they area "longwaisted" crowd is proved by their carrying their purchaees down to 80 cents. That the Standard people resent their intrusion aud will endeavor to make them tired, the well known policy of that company makes certain. Even with the big club obtained from the producers' association, *nd the overhanging Lima spectre, the Standard does not seem to feel competent to wreck the Buffalo syndicate. The game is, therefore, a waiting one, but in the face of the continuous decline in stocks it cannot much longer remain so.

WThen the Buffalo clique "bull" a little, the trade helps them without interference from the Standard. When the syndicate is inactive, the market falls away. When it tries to sell, the market breaks rapidly.

The advance to 8100 demonstrated that the syndicate is willing to let go at that point. The Standard has forced its opponents'^ hand to that extent, at least, but the syndicate's ability to carry its purchases to 80 cents and below is an offsetting feature.

Men who deal on light margins have no business fooling with the oil market now. The fluctuations will probably soon be so violent that to put up limited margins wiil be equivalent to throwing money away.

That a boom is inevitable cannot be questioned. But there is a chasm ns deep as Pithole between 81.05 and 75 cents, into which the Buffalo syndicate may be cast if the Standard chooses to repeat the Penn bank slaughter.

The conditions are such, however, that a compromise with the Buffalo people may become necessary, in which event SI 75 may be nearer the quotation.

Compromise or no compromise, the Standard has never yet permitted interference with the crude market, and it is not likely that it will tolerate it now, when to lose control of tho market for certificates means tremendous loss in every other department cf that copuration's enterprises.

This is to be a battle of giants, and the public can only be amused and profited so long as they remain disinterested spectators.

WILL NOT (JIVE UP.

State Ollu'ors FToIdinu Place Do Not Vlelil Uiirior the Dtcibfon.

If any one has thought the decisions of the supreme court in tho shite cases yesterday finally settled and simplified the questions at issue, he will very soon have occasion to revise his opinion, nays the Indianapolis News. The decisions, in fact, Bt present appear to have complicated rather than simplilied matters. Acting State Statistician William A. Peelle was asked this morning if he will now give over the cliice to Mr. Worrell, the eovernor's appointee. "Not a bit of it," he answered. "My position is just this: I hold a commission signed by the governor of the state (Gray), which authorizes me to fill this ollice until my successor is legally elected and qualified. The supreme court now decides that the election of a chief of the bureau of statistics by the legislature was illegal. The result is, I am entitled to hold the office until my successor is elected legally, which, it is now decided, must be by the people. Governor Hovev has no more right to appoint my successor than auy other man has." "What will likely be the course pursued in the case?" "I suppose it will go back to the circuit court, and the judge will be directed to reverse hia former decision, which was in my favor. Then I will be required to answer why I should not. surrender my office to Mr. Worrell? In that answer I will set out what I have just given as my grounds for retaining my place. Then the judge will pass upon it again and from him it wili be carried once more to the supreme court."

Substantially the same question will arise in the case of the stute geologist and two members of the board of health. The act creating a bureau of geohgy and national science nnd naming S. S. Gorby as its chief is declared invalid by the supreme court. But that does not dispose of Mr. Gorbj's hold upon the tlioe. The act being invalid, the old ollice of state geologist is still in existence and Mr. Gorby holds a commission for that place for four years from April, .1S88. signed by Governor Gray. The legislature elected two members of the state board of health and similar complications will arise in their case. All in all the contesting aspirants for offices in dispute do not seem to be "out of the woods yet."

Thr«*#» Husband*

Mr. Amelia Rives-Chandler should make the acquaintance of Mr. James Brown-Potter and Mr. J. Ellen Foster and swap domestic incidents with them. —[St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Ghastly Levity on a Solemn Occasion.

Iowa is a prohibition slate but it is evident that her high-spirited citizens still have a liking for going out with the Boies occasionally.—[Milwaukee News.

(ilmoly ivhan is Coming Hark Again.

Hurrah! Ghooly Khan is coming back to have some more fun with ue.— |St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Impress This on Your Teacher.

Corporal punishment is not fashionable.—[Journal of Education.

You need not neglect your business when troubled with a cough or cold, if you only UEO the reliable remedy, Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, at once.

FLOOD OF BOGUS CHECKS.

Twenty or More on the Insane Hospital Already Discovered.

The bogus check game has been extensively worked in this city in the lost few days, says the Indianapolis News, though to what extent it is not fully known. A News reporter this afternoon waa able to get trace of ten or twelve forged checks, and there is no telliDg how many more are in existence. The names of Dr. Wright, superintendent of the insane hospital, and J. P. Carson, one of the trustees of that institution, are forged. The checks range in amounts from S10 to £50, and each of them is indorsed with a rubber stamp "pay roll." The writing is awkward and the spelling is very poor. Some of the checks are made payable to "John Smith or barer," and others to "John Gray and berer." The game is played in the good old way, that has been exposed time and agaiD. The forger makes a small purchase and gives the check in payment, receiving the balance in cash. The banks lose nothing, the victim being the person who cashes the check.

At the Merchants' National bank five checks have been presented by depositors who received the checks either from the forger or from the victim. Some of theee were signed by Wright and two were signed by Carson. One of these waa cashed by a Virginia avenue furniture dealer. Albert Horruff also cashed one chock. This morning two more of the checks were presented at this bank and were refused. Theee checks were written on the Merchants' National bank blanks.

The Indiana National bank has received one. It was deposited by Shrnder' Brothers, who received it from oce of their customers on the outskirts of the city. This check was ou the Meridian National bank, and had beou rejected at the clearing house.

The Meridian national is where the asylum authorities traueact business, but thev have as yet found only one of the checks. This is for 812, and Dr. Wright's name ia forged to it. It is made payable to "John Gray," and was brought in by a depositor who hfld received it from some patron.

Fletcher's bank has a check on the Meridian national made payable to "John Smith." It was deposited by Vantilberg A Janes, who received it from Vandever Brothers. The check is for S20.

The Indianapalis national has checks from the asylum authorities, but the tel ler is satisfied that they are all right. A check was presented a day or two ago, but as it was not payable for ten clnyp, the presenter held it until it was due. The Bank of Commerce has received no checks from the asylum people at all.

It is evident that the forgeries have been committed by some one familiar with the methods at the asylum, and has either had a stamp made or has secured a lot of blank checks. Detective Splann is at work on the case, and said this afternoon that he feared the forgeries wiil amount to two or three thousand dollars.

L'XWOHKKD OIL FIELD*.

A Scientific Theory About tho Formation of Itr»leuin.

In a pamphlet lately published C. Marvin draws attention to'the vast fields of petroleum that at present, owing to the supinenees cf the authorities, remain unworked, eays the Pittsburg Dispatch. In Burmah, which has not long Deen under the control of the fcJagiish government, great fields are known to exist, but instead of working them and exporting the oil, the people in that country actually import from Russia the quantity they need for their own consumption. In Canada, too, says Mr. Marvin, a similar Etate of things prevail.

The theory of the process of the formation of petroleum is a most interest iug one. It, is generally admitted that the crust of the earth ia very thin in comparison with the diameter of the latter, and this crust incloBea soft or fluid substances, among which the carbides of iron and other tbetBla find a place. When, in consequence of cooling, or some other cause, a fissure takes place through which a mountain range is protruded the crust of the earth is bent, and at the foot of the hill fissures are formed, or. at any rate, the continuity of the rocky layers is disturbed, and they are rendered more or lesa porous, so that surface wa tera are able to make their way into the bowels of the earth, and to reach occasionally the heated deposits of metallic carbides, which may exist either in a separated condition or blended with other matter. Under such circumstances it is easy to see what must take place. Iron, or whatever other metal may be present, forma an oxide with the oxygen of the water hydrogen is either set free or combined with the carbon which was associated with the metal, and becomes a volatile substance—that is, naptha. The water which had penetrated down to the incandescent mass was changed into steam, a portion of which found its way through the porous substances with which the fissures were filled, and carried with it the vapors of the newlyformed hydrocarbons, and this mixture of vapors was condensed wholly or in part ae it reached the cooler strata. The chemical composition of the hyrocarbons produced will depend upon the conditions of pressure and temperature under which they are formed. It ia obvious that these may vary between very wide limits, hence it ia that mineral oils, mineral pitch, ozokerite and similar products d-ffer so greatly from each other in their relative proportions of hydrogen nnd carbon. Artificial petroleum has been frequently prepared by a process analogous to that just described.

Fred (Jebhanl in Trouble.

Frederick Gebhard will either be expelled from the Manhattan club at the next meeting of the board of managers, says the New York World, or at least will be suspended for some months, because of his introducing George Work into the club-room at a time when Mr. Work was scarcely a fit subject for introduction. George Work is a very clever and genial young fellow, and now that he has got somebody else into trouble besides himself through his convivial habits, he may think it about time to proclaim a halt. There seems to be no doubt whatever thBt Mr. Gebhard and Mrs. Lsngtrv have cried quits. Of course, the general opinion has always been that the only respectable thing about the friendship between theee two people was the apparent permanency of it, and now that it is shown to have been ephemeral, instead of permanent, a color is given to the affair which before now it has not possessed.

But He Will Never Play the Part.

George William Curtis ia called by Jo Howard an "understudy for an angel." —[Baltimore American.

It Wax a Beerl'io.

It was 8 Waterloo, or rather a beerloo for the Republicans*.—[Tiffin Tribune.

FXPRESS PACKAGES.

TO THE POLITICAL

TYRO.

Ha! lia! you say that politics C'.-: Hereafter you will shun, Because you're finding out the tricks

By which your vote was won!

You tlnd It hard to understand Why politicians who Before the election shook your hand

Should after It shake you

Well, do not be oflended, but That you are grateful show The caudldates have helped you eu

Your wisdom teeth, you know. —[Boston Courier.

The Missouri runB 1,000 miles through Dakota and is navigable the entire distance.

In Waupaca county, Wisconsin, 752,200 bushels of potatoes have been raised this year.

A prisoner in the St. Louia jail is charged with having robbed another prisoner of over $1,009. Force of habit.

A Cleveland man bought a brokendown street car horse at auction for S10, kept him a year, aud sold him for 8175.

A Bellaire man is mad at himself for tearing up an old letter. There was a 810bill inside which he had forgotten to remove.

A German who intended embarking at Liverpool for America missed the steam er and swam out after it. He came near being drowned, but was rescued.

An AUentown, Pa citizen, in endeavoring to utilize all his time profitably, tried to cut his corns on a railway train, and while going around a curve he was thrown and the knife entered hia foot.

In removing the last pound of butter from a jar a Wheeling grocer discovered the remains of two mice. They had evidently been alive when the careful housewife began packing the butter in the jar.

Tho entire family of Thoma3 Stever.s, of Farmingdale, Me., are crazy on the subject of monkeys. There

Bre

none of

the simian animals about the house, yet the Stevenses profess to see them everywhere.

At Augusta, Me., some boya playing in a sandbank unearthed a huge skull of some extinct auimal. The skull' is representee! ns being four feet long aud the huge jaws carry teeth six and seven inches long which are decidedly ugly looking.

Africa requires 2,000,000 blankets to supply the native papulation alone. Besides this there is a demand for woolen clothing for the ever-increasing white population. This has to be imported, although the cape wool i3 of the best quality in the world.

On the railroad near Canton, Ohio, a fine, large mastiff'was killed by a train three months 'ago. Those living near the place declare that they have seen the dog, or his ghost, almost every night since then and heard cries, as of an animal in distress, whenever a train went past.

A farmer living about three miles southeast of Akron has a hen which occaeionally lays an egg of solid shell throughout, usually after none of any kind have been laid for several daye. Six of these curiosities have already been secured. They are so hard that they can ba thrown smartly t'gainst a wall without any visible effect.

Experiments are now being made in Italy upon this year's vintage in the electrification cf wine. Fifty different sorts of wine have already been experimented upoD, and the results have been very satisfactory. The wine is clarified, acquires a "bouquet," and is said to stand pqually well transport by land or long journeys by sea.

The sheriff of Wood county, Ohio, is after a farmer who lives all alone by hitreelf and has fourteen dogs to guard his house and four spring guna set to guard his barn. He was once ro'jbed of a bag of oatp, aud he took it as a warn ing and is acting accordingly. The farmers around him claim that the bark ing of the dogs can be heard two miles,

A Brooklyn girl, who is an heiress, but whesa property is in care of a trust company, applied to the president for money with which to buy a sealskin sacque. He refused, on the ground that it was a luxury. The girl then applied to the supreme court through a lawyer, for permission, and it WBS granted, and in less than two hours the young lady was wearing the beat one she could find.

And now a report comes that the Hart Creek district in West Virginia is haunted by the ghosts of the two members of the McCoy faction who were lynched last week. The couple are said to appear every third night, when the entire sanguinary scene ia re-enacted by shadowy forms. Anutftberof residents of the neighborhood BEsert that they have been involuntary witnesses to a part of the proceedings.

In the lower house of Ihe state legislature at Atlanta, Ga., the gallery was crowded with visitors, and among the audience was an old countryman. The old man recognized a friend among the members of the house and leaned over the railing and yelled: "Hello, Bob! Bless my heart, it does me good to see yer." The speaker rapped for order and one of the doorkeepers "eat down" on the loquacious countryman.

A few months ago a London club advertised for a secretary. Six hundred candidates applied. The list included graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, barristers, doctor?, schoolmasters, solicitors, architects, and a whole regiment made up from all arms of her majesty's military Bnd navel forces. The salary was £500 perjannum. This looks as if there were a good many gentlemen who thought the profeasions were "played out."

A company has laid a main in Fulton street, New York, and will begin next week to supply the butchers of Washington market with cold air. The supply may be regulated by a cock. The air ia made frigid by the ammonia system. The butchers wiil use the space formerly occupied by ice to put meat in. The company intends to supply reatauranta and aaloons, and possibly summer resorts in the city, just as Soon as it gets its pipes laid.

For fifty-five years Christian Fegley, of Shamokin. has worked in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. He is the oldest miner in the state, but he does not look it. Although silver locks adorn his head, his eyea Bre keen, hia carriage erect and his arms are brawny. The average lifo of a miner i6 15 years, yet this man is as hale and hearty as many a miner of 40. lie was born in 1822, and entered the mines at the age of 12.

A man in Bangor, Me., who tarried in a cemetery after dark, in order to finish a job of digging, had an encounter with a ghost. It was of the regulaiion whiteness, and groaned just as did those encountered in similar p'aces by some of our great-grandmothers. The Bangor man waa frightened and started to run, but managed to run against the ghost, and both fell to the ground together. It was an innocent white calf that first recovered its feet after the collision.

The worst feature about catarrh is its dangerous tendency to consumption. Hood's Sarsaparilla curea catarrh by purifying the blood.

Dumflirvgi

WifN

Rpyal Baking Powder

No dessert is more delicious, wholesome and appetizing than a well-made dumpling, filled with the fruit of the season. l?y the use of the Royal Baking Powder the crust is always rendered light, flaky, tender and digestible. Dumplings made with it, baked or boiled, will be dainty and wholesome, and may be eaten steaming hot with perfect impunity.

RECEirT. One quart of flour: thoroughly mix with it three teaspoons of Royal Rifcinj Powder and a sm.ill teaspoon of salt rub in a piece of butter or lard the size of an egg, and then add one large potato, grated ill the flour: after tile hutter is well mixed, stir in milk and knead to the consistency of soft biscuit dough: break off pieces of dough large enough to close over four quarters of an apple (or other fruit as desired) without rolling, and lay in an earthen dish (or steamer) and steam until the fruit is tender. l!ake if preferred.

In all receipts calling for cream of tartar and soda, substitute Royal Baking Powder. Less trouble, never fails, makes more appetizing anrl wholesome food and is more economical. Royal Baking Powder is specially made for use in the preparation of the tinost and most delicate cookery.

ON TOP

We have them, that Is. TOP CAHMKNTri of all the late styled and materials In new markets, jackets, Kngllsh coats, short wraps, misses' cloaks, children's cloaks, infants' cloaks.

Our Plush Sacques

are better for the prices than ever before. We can show you qualities that cannot be duplicated at our prices. See our leaders at J'-ll and $2i), and better ones at $:)0. ,4(1 and $45. No house In the state can show you as n'od value lor the money. All we ask Is for you to come and see.

Our Fur Department.

We bought tills season almost two carloads or furs, aud can show you about everythina In that line. Capes In all Itirs. ninlTs In all turs. neck pieces In all furs, children's sets, seal sacuiies. seal newmarkels, seal walkingeoats. mink sacipies, etc.. etc.

Shawls.

EverythinK for house wear, street wear, evening, party and opera wear. In

Our Underwear Department

We have the Basket Knit Sliirls. which ate the only sensible garments in the market. Come ami see what we have In our store.

S. AYRKS & CO.,

Indianapolis, Ind.

^"Agents for Butterlek's Patterns.

NATr0R^J)TO

TO-N IGH I

'W. €LEV I^LAiV l)\S

HAVKKI.V MASTODON

MINSTRELS!

Headed by the highest sa'arled prince ol artists. It illy

Kinerson, ami

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llugliP)' lloiisrlu'rly\

SumntiiouH .Spectacular Scenic First-Part! Venlllan Mulits. The Japs.

Original I'atrol March. The Kgyptlun Phalanx,

(.rand parade at p. m. Saturday. Advance sale now open Prices, $1. 75, OU ami 25 cents.

AYLOR'S~OPERA H01JSE~

ONE NIGHT ONT-.Y,

'Wednesday, Nov, 13th,

Kir.st presentation 111 till" city ol Mrs. Hodgson Harnett's dramatic Idyl In three acts, entitled

Little LordFaunllerov!

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (3) No. 6 New Vurk Express (S4V) No. 20 Atlantic Express (P&V) No. 8 Kest Line

No. 01 Terre Haute Express No. 68 South Bend Mall

f/

BV IHE ORIGINAL COMPANY,

i'nder the management ot Mil. T. 11. Kkkm ii. Advance sale opens Monday. Prices- Ilowti stairs, *1 Family Circle, 00c (iallery, l!f)C.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car at tached. Trains marked thue (S) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bullet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other tralm run dally Sundays excepted.

IVANDALIA LINE.

T. H. 4 I. DIVISION.

I.KAVK FOR THK WEST.

No. 9 Western Rxpress (8&V) No. 6 Mall Train No. 1 Fast Line (P4V) No. 7 Kast Mall

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) No. 6 New York Express (34V) No. 4 Jlall and Accommodation No. HO Atlantic Express (P4V) No. 8 Kast Line

1.4 a. in. 10.1H a. in. 14.16 p. til.

U.04 p. m.

LBAVX FOK THK KAST.

1.WI a. m. 1.51 a. m. 7.15 a. in. l'l.M p. ni. i.(J0 p. ui

AKKIVB FHOM THK KAST.

No. Westwn Express (34V) No. 5 Mall Train No. 1 Kast Line (PAV) No. S Mali and Aoeommodatlon No. 7 Vast Mall

,H0 a. m.

10.2'Ja. m. 2.(X) p.

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(1.46p.

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U.0U p. Ill.

ARHIVK FKOM THK WK3T.

1.20a. in. 1.42 a. in. I'2.il7 p. in. 1.40 p. in.

T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.

LKAVX FOR THK H0HT1I.

No. S3 South Bend Mall No. 54 South Bend Express.

(j.UO a. m. 4.00 p. m.

AHRIVK FROM TUK HOHTH

12.0(1 noon 7.80 p. in.

TEREtB HAUTE, INDIANA..

a mnuim school and seminary.

""Write for special circular.)

Standard College Curriculum

(See calendar.)

SEMINARY OF MUSIC AND VOICE CULTURE, (Piano, Pipe Organ, Voice.)

AN ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS (Drawing, Water Colors, Oil, Portraiture.)

Opens Wednesday, Sept. ii, i88g,

Kor Information cail on or address the president, John Mason Duncan, or Sydney B. Davis, secretary board of trustees.

BOBKKT H. BLACK. JAMKS A. NISIUCT. A BLACK & JilSBKT, Undertakers and Embalmers, 20 North Fourth street. Terre Haute, Ind. Warerooms 20th st. and Washington ave. All calls will receive prompt attention. Open dayand night.