Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1884 — Page 8

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HORRIBLE COT IN PRICES AT L. S. AYRES & CO.’S. In addition to the eight bargains advertised on Sunday we offer the following; WHITS ROBE DRESSES, Elegantly embroidered and put up in boxes, cat down to $5 each from $7.50 and $lO. ANOTHER LOT, still finer and handsomer, cut down to $lO each from sl4 and sls. llsGingta anil ChambFay Dresses. One lot cut down to 65c from 85c and SI.OO. One lot cut down to 75c from SI.OO and $1.25. One lot cut down to 95c from $1.50 and $1.75. One lot cut down to $1.50 from $2.50 and $5.00. SWEEPING SALE Os all our Ladies’ White Suits. L. S. AYRES k CO. N. B.—See onr Bargain Tables all over tbe store. HIS! DEALERS IN Chamois Skins, Sponges, Feather Dusters, Furniture Polish, Insect Powder and Guns, Moth Paper, etc., etc. APOTHECARIES’ HALL, Nos. 7 and 9 E. Washington street.

SPRING SHOES. In these times every lady criticises a shoe in regard to wear, fit, comfort and style. ,I am glad to announce to every lady in want of a '4 jt that X did not spare any pains or money to meet the demand of the most fastidious, as we have elegant assortments in French Kid Button Boots, the finest ever brought to the city. In medium and cheaper lines, we have superior to any competition. For Gentlemen’s Spring Shoes we beat the world in Styles, finish and patterns. X,. SIEKSDORFER No. 41 E. Washington St., Fletcher & Sharpe’s Block. THENEWYORKSTORE (ESTABLISHED 1853d SHOE DEPARTMENT. Ladies will be interested in our Elegant Line of Slippers and Lowcut Shoes, of which we are showing all the newest styles. Our two and three-strap Slippers for Ladies and Misses are very popular. BROKEN LOTS. We have about 250 pairs Slippers, Ties and Low-cut Shoes that we have placed on one of our tables and marked them very cheap, to close. Sizes for Ladies, Misses and Children. CAPRICES ALWAYS IN PLAIN FIGURES. PETTIS. BASSET J CO.

A DESTRUCTIVE WIND-STORM. Several Persons Injured by a Tree Crushing in a Roof at Broad Ripple. The rain-storm yesterday afternoon was accompanied by a destructive wind north of the city, and much damage was done to trees, fences, shrubbery and the growing crops. In many places the corn was not only blown down, but the stalks were completely broken off. At Broad Ripple several persons were hurt, but not dangerously. Several private picnic parties ■were ii> fioffifaan’s grove, and sought refuge in the dancing pavilion, a rough wooden building, during the storm. About seventy-five persons were in the inclosure when a large oak tree, which Stood near by, was twisted and broken about ten feet above the ground, the main part of the trunk and the branches falling directly across the building. The roof was caved in and several people caught under the falling timbers and debris. Sir were hurt, more or less, three men •Bd three women, but it was found next to impossible to ascertain their names and extent of their injuries last night Mrs. Jeremy, who lives on Morris street had her spine hurt, and a .young map named Adams, whose home is in tne northwestern piart of the city, had his side and shoulder hurt. The escape of the remainuer from death or dangerous injury was almost miraculous. The lightning last night partially demolished the east tower on the Exposition building and knocked several small trees out of time. Mr. Horace Comstock, the Illinois-street jeweler, and Ijis wife, who were in a buggy in the grove, drove ugder a tree for refuge, but Mrs. Comstock afterwards went into the house. While her husband unhitching the horse the tree was blown down on the buggy, breaking it in many pieces aqd severely injuring Mr. Cornstock, who received several bad cuts aud bruises. The horse was not hurt. Political Announcements. The Blaiue aud Logan Club will meet at room 17, Bates Block, this evening, at 7:30. All members are expected to be present. The next regular meeting of the Garfield Club will be held this evening, at the club rooms in Boston Block. The special programme for the evening will be the reading and discussion of the ttepshliiau platform by Mr. A- W. Wishard. A Sill attendance is desired. , A Kjlukh’s windows are very attractive.

I AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Personal and Local. Wabash receivers are said to be drafting a plan for dispensing with Wabash general mortgage bonds. Commissioner Spiers, of the east-bound pool, is catching on well with Indianapolis freight men. His rulings thus far have been quite satfactory. C. E. Henderson, general manager of the Toledo, Cincinnati & St Louis, Southeastern division, has appointed Mr. E. Hiserodt master mechanic. Henry Fraser, agent of the Continental line at this point, expects at any moment to hear of the death of his mother, who has been an invalid for some sixteen years. A. E. Touzalin, vice president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, sailed on the America from New York for Europe last week. He will return in about six weeks. The St Louis freight pool expires by limitation Aug. 1, and every road in the pool except the Ohio & Mississippi is bawling for a readjustment and increase of its per cents. As general manager, C. E. Henderson has under his supervision nearly 1,200 miles of road. This mileage includes the Danville, Olney & Ohio river road, of which he is receiver. The Bee-line advertises an excursion to Saratoga, under the auspices of the Dental Association. The round trip rate is to be $26.20; going, to be good from the Ist to sth of August; returning, until August 15. The Chicago, St Louis & Pittsburg was yesterday but twelve tons behind its per cent, in the east-bound pool. July 22 the pool statement shows that this road took 280,000 pounds of freight out of Indianapolis. The C., St. L. &C. people are this week securing the right of way over which to build the proposed cut-off at Greensburs, which will shorten the distance between Itushvilla and Louisville four and one half miles. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis road is just now doing an excellent local business. On Wednesday at stations on the line seventy four ears were loaded, mostly with grain, for Toledo, and yesterday sixty-eight were loaded. The railroad pools all over the country are in a stronger position than ever before and the time is rapidly approaching when those who expect to benefit by traffic wars must move quickly, as they fail to endure long after reports reach Commissioner Fink. Business over the Danville, Olney & Ohio River road is reported by Master of Transportation Marsh to be improving. At the local stations from twelve to fifteen cars are loaded daily. Until quite recently, were that number loaded in a week business was spoken of as being good. On Tuesday night the Vandalia depot at Greenville burned. The agent, Mr. Ogden, had just left to go home, a distance of about a quarter of a mile, but before he reached his house was alarmed by a cry of fire at the depot. It is supposed to have caught from a locomotive spark. The building was valued at $2,000. The earnings of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad for the second week iu July were $30,259, against $28,853 in the c orresponding week last year. The earnings of the Evansville & Terre Haute branch were $14,130, against $13,237 in 1883. This is the first week this year that increased earning over the corresponding week 1883, have been shown. L. D. Richardson, commissioner of the Chicago and Ohio River pool, has been in Cincinnati and Louisville for a couple of days, straightening up some slight irregularities, which are said to have arisen from a misunderstanding of his rulings. All things considered, theofficers of the pool and the roads interested are to be congratulated that matters move along as smoothly as they do.

The new machinery is rapidly being put in position at the Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg shops in the eastern part of the city, and it is said to be the best machinery yet erected in Western shops. The stationary engine which is to furnish the power will be here this week. It was built by the Cummer Engine Company, Cleveland, O.; seventy-five horse power, and is said to be a superior piece of workmanship. There was a little ripple yesterday in passen-ger-men circles over a rumor that the general passenger agent of one of the prominent roads had issued an order to agents that they might meet the rates made by scalpers over their lines. The road belittles itself which will permit the scalpers to fix its rates, and should such a policy be carried out, before many days another ugly passenger-rate war will be inaugurated. Giving W. G. Nichols the local passenger agent of the Bee-line a little lee room has demonstrated that he is a first-class passenger man as is evidenced from the fact that since the uptown office was opened the receipts from sales of tickets reading over the Bee-line and I. & St L. have averaged S3OO a day, while the sales of tickets reading over the same roads at the Union railroad office have been as large as usual. It might be well for the general freight agents and line agents to all rub out and begin anew, as each charge, that the other has been guilty of crookedness in billing out property since the advance in rates took effect. Let the agents try once to live strictly up to rates and see if it is not more agreeable so to do. As each road is allotted its per cent in the pool, there is nothing to be gained in evading the pool. What the general managers now want is earnings, not a big tonnage carried at uon-paying rates. ■Will Get Over the Best Walled Pool. Were the cars of all fast freight lines owned by the roads over which they run, as is the case with the Union-line, operating over the Pennsylvania system, there would doubtless be much less rate-cutting. To-day, probably, the greatest rate disturbers are the National Dispatch and Lackawanna fast-freight lines, operating over the Grand Trunk and D., L. &W. roads. Take the National Dispatch. The cars of this line are not owned by the railroad companies over which they run, but they are owned by a private company, which contracts with the road for employing them. Os course this company is desirous of keeping them in use. Freights are secured for them on private terms, or, if rates are maintained, drawbacks are allowed or some other system is contrived for returning a portion of the money, so that, whetherthejGrand’Trunk is in the pool or not, business will be done over it at rates not made by itself, and which will drain the best walled pool that was ever formed. There are several other lines of the same charcter which could be named.

The Bondholders Have on Their War Paint. The holders of the first-mortgage bonds of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railroad Company have been requested to call at the office of Moran Brothers, No. 68 William street, New York, "to take prompt measures to protect their interests.” The road is leased to the Wabash, St Louis A Pacific for forty-nine years, six months and twenty-four days, from May 22, 1880. The rental is 30 per cent of the gross earnings, or, in any event, a minimum sufficient to pay the interest on the first mortgage bonds amounting to $4,500,000, at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum. The Wabash defaulted on the quarterly interest due July 1. Mr. Charles Moran says: "We are determined, if the gentlemen managing the Wabash say our road can’t earn the interest to take it out of their hands and make it earn it” With this comes a rumor that as soon as the first-mortgage bondholders get control of the road a favorable traffic agreement will be entered into with President Ingalls, of the C., L, St L. A C., the Big Pour being its most natural connection. The Wabash Evading the Pool. For some days post heavy shipments of grain have been made from Chicago eastward over the Wabash roundabout route. Investigation shows that to do this business they have resorted to a very ingenious method to evade the pool. The grain has been taken from Chicago to Forrest, a little burg ninety-three miles in a southwesterly direction, where a junction is made with the Detroit division. The cars were there transferred to the main line and taken to Detroit—a total of over four hundred miles from Chicago against a distance of less than three hundred miles from Chicago to Detroit by a direct route.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL., FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1884.

From Detroit the route lay over the Great Western and West Shore roads to the seaboard. The Hoosae Tunnel and West Shore fast-freight lines operate over the entire distance, and these lines have been the medium by which the scheme was carried out The most conclusive evidence was found that the grain taken by this route was placed at the old rate of 20 cents per hundred pounds—a cut-of five cents below the present tariff. The matter has been referred to Commissioner Fink, who will doubtless bring the tricky freight ageut up with a sharp turn. The Lumber Men Demanding Lower Bates. The lumber men of the Saginaw valley have organized a freight bureau, and they propose to show the railroad officials that, in establishing high rates, they are losing money. They say the policy of railroading has changed with the times. Now you find the host paying road is the one that does the largest business for the smallest profits per ton, rather than the one that gets the highest rates and the least business. They cite the New York Central road as an illustration of this policy, which has steadily decreased its rates, but increased its earnings, tonnage and value of its property Running right along the banks of the Erie canal and Hudson river, competing with the boatmen, it has driven the tolls now entirely off the canals, and their maintenance has become a charge to the State. With a volume of traffic to give business for four tracks, you pass a freight train every fifteen minutes and the road becomes an endless elevator chain, revolving day and night, where the loaded cars are the buckets. The lumber men state that with reasonable rates 75,000 carloads would be shipped from this valley annually. The Grand Trunk Still Hesitating. The Grand Trunk and Lackawanna are said to be still hesitating in the signing of the new trunk-line pool contract Commenting on this dil-ly-dallying policy on the part of these roads, the Boston Advertiser says the Grand Trunk people know that they can cut for some time before their competitors will go below them, and that the only way they can draw traffic from regions equally or better accommodated by the other roads is to offer lower rates. They have toyed with the promise of a pool until half the summer business is over, and thus have kept the other roads from invading their places of resort with hostile armies of agents; and now that the vacation season of farmers is at hand, when low prices must be made to secure much through travel, and when grain shippers are looking about for bargains in freights, perhaps the company is going to stand in its own light for the benefit of lines which have superior natural advantages, and perhaps it isn’t A short time will tell.

A Generous Proposition. The British government appropriates £BO,000,000 for the construction of railways in India, provided a similar sum Is invested by private enterprise. This means an investment of S3OO, - 000,000 in the course of a few years in the extension of the Indian railway plant This will not build more than 10,000 or 15,000 miles in the manner in which British engineers build. Moreover, in British railroad building, capital is not expected to go through bankruptcy and sink out of sight every fifteen years. On the contraiy, capital will demand a guaranty of 4or 5 percent, and freight rates will be kept up to pay that figure. Great Britain profits by the follies of American railway managers. The former operate roads for the earnings, while American roads have been operated, for a couple of years past, for the purpose, seemingly, of seeing which could carry the largest tonnage. A Wrong Impression Regarding the Movemeuts of the Corbin Syndicate. As the impression is abroad that the Corbin syndicate is taking in the several divisions of the TANARUS., C. & St. L. narrow-gauge road with the intention of making them a part of the L, B. & W. system, it is proper to state that there is of ficial authority for saying such is not the case, but, like the Ohio Southern road, they are to be operated separately, but will contribute as far as it is practical to the business of the 1., B. & W. proper, as does the Ohio Southern. At least this is true as far as the eastern divisions of the TANARUS., C. & St. L. system is concerned. Should the Corbin syndicate secure the St Louis division of the narrow-gauge, from Veedersburgto St. Louis, it will probably be made standard gauge, and will be a part of what is now known as die St Louis division of the L, B. & W. Educating the Boys. Percival Lowell, general passenger agent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, accompanied by all his general passenger agents from the eastern cities, also by passenger agents from the Hannibal & St Joe, and the Kansas City, St Joseph & Council Bluffs and Burlington & Missouri roads, are on an extended tour of inspection, and expect to go over all the lines immediately identified with the Burlington system. Their object is to learn the points of interest, and to increase in every possible way the passenger service of that system.

Manager Smith’s Denial. St. Louis, July 24.—General Traffic Manager Smith denies emphatically that the Wabash has cut eastern rates, as was asserted here the other day, and states very distinctly that if any agent of the road makes a contract below the regular rates he will discharge him at once and repudiate the contract • It is reported that Colonel Robert Andrews, consulting engineer of the Wabash, has resigned. Miscellaneous Notes. The Erie has just issued a handsome guide to the summer resorts along its line, giving views of places of interest. Work on the Ashland division of the Northern Pacific, which has been suspended since last November, is to be resumed at once. The war in passenger rates between New York and Chicago continues under the head of "special excursion rates,” and a $lO ticket is thought not improbable unless the war is soon brought to an end. A contract was closed July 3 with San Francisco parties to transport 10,000 tons of ore from Butte, M. TANARUS., to New York via the Northern Pacific and the lakes to Buffalo, and thence by rail. It will be the first large shipment by this route. Mr. Powell, one of the Erie railway English investigators, is understood to have said that he found nothing wrong with the auditor’s books. No one who is posted ever expected he would. The crank, McHenry, is the only person who ever spoke of H. J. Jewett as being a dishonest man. It is said that the Vanderbilt system is to undergo a thorough overhauling from New York to Chicago, with the view to reduce expenses to the lowest possible basis, and that the work will commence at the top and go thence to the bottom. New York, the report proceeds, wiir be the headquarters of one general manager, who will have supervision of one half the system, and Chicago will be the headquarters for the general manager of the other half of the great system. The Texas cattle drive this season is the largest known since 1874, and is variously estimated at from 300,000 to 500,000. The cattle are in much better condition than usual, and will find purchasers in Kansas, Colorado and the Northwest A much larger per cent than ever before are coming forward by rail. It Is pretty generally affirmed that next year will see all of 65 per cent ot the Texas cattle shipped by rail, and that in a few years the drive from Texas north will only be a camp fire story related by old cowboys while on the Western ranges. “I would not live alway." No; not if disease is to make my life a daily burden. But it need not, good friend, and will not, if you will be wise in time. How many of our loved ones are moldering in the dust who might have been spared for years. The slight cough was unheeded, the many symptoms of disease that lurked within were slighted, and death came. Dr. Pierce’s "Golden Medical Discovery” cannot recall the dead, though it has snatched numbers from the verge of the grave, and will cure consumption'in its earlier stages.

THE BANKING COMPANY TROUBLES. Mr. narrison Ordered to Make a Settlement —A Receiver for the Tile Works. Judge Taylor did not appoint anew receiver to succeed Mr. John C. S. Harrison, for the Indiana Banking Company yesterday, and the appointment will probably not be made for several dajrs, at least until something like an exact settlement of the condition of the trust is, arrived at It is said that Judge Rand, who has been agreed upon by the depositors for the receivership, will not accept it. Yesterday, Mr. Harrison offered his resignation, which was in the following words: “Indianapolis, July 21, 1884. "Hon. N. B. Tuylor, Judge, etc. “I hereby tender to you my resignation os receiver of the Indiana .Banking Company, to take effect when you see proper to appoint my successor. “John C. S. Harrison.” The following order was made by the court relative to this matter; “And now said judge takes said resignation under consideration, and orders that said John C. S. Harrison, receiver, etc., forthwith make and file with the C j j , this court a full detailed report of his actions and doings, receipts and disbursements. in said trust, audit is further ordered by the said judge that said John C. S. Harrison, receiver, etc., do forthwith pay over to the clerk of this court all moneys with which he is chargeable in the premises, and file an inventory of all the remaining assets of said trust, and that a copy of this order be forthwith served on said John C. 8. Harrison by the sheriff. ” It is evident that this order means business, and its result will be that Mr. Harrison will be compelled to give an accurate account of his stewardship.

A RECEIVER FOR THE TILE WORKS. In the Superior Court, yesterday, James G. Douglas, John Dunlap and Isaac N. Pattison, instituted proceedings in the Superior Court against the United States Encaustic Tile Company, looking to the appointment of a receiver for the works. The complaint states that James G. Douglas is the owner of 474 shares of stock of the Tile Company, John Dunlap the owner of 25 shares, and that I. N. Pattison is the owner of three promissory notes of $5,000 each, made by the defendants. It is further stated that the company is indebted in the sum of about $200,000 to divers persons; that more than SIOO,OOO of the indebtedness is in the form of commercial paper, some of which has matured and is unpaid; that the company is unable to pay its matured paper and will be unable to meet, in the due course of business, as it matures, its other outstanding notes, and is in imminent danger of insolvency; that the company is employing a large number of hands m the manufacture of tile; that it has many valuable contracts outstanding, and has on hand a large stock of manufactured tile: that it would be very disastrous to the business of the corporation and to its creditors and stockholders if the operations of the factory should be stopped; that if a receiver is not appointed to take charge of its assets tbe same will be wasted and dissipated by sales upon execution, and large amounts of unnecessary costs will be made, and the interests of the creditors and stockholders sacrificed. Plaintiffs therefore ask that a receiver be appointed to take charge of the works and the company’s affairs. The complaint|was taken before Judge Lewis C. Walker, and defendants filed an answer, admitting the allegations of the complaint and confessing that a receiver ought to be appointed. After some consultation between the attorneys of the plaintiffs and defendants, it was agreed to recommend John L. Mothersliead for the receivership, and an order was entered appointing him as receiver, giving him control of the management of tbe works. He is to continue the business, and shall, as early as practicable, file an inventory of the property which comes into his possession, and report to the court the condition of affairs. Mr. Mothershead filed a bond in the sum of $25,000, with I. N. Pattison, James G. Douglas, William W. Lyon, W. R. Clinton, Henry C. Adams, W. H. Alien, James W. Morris, W. G. Wasson, Franklin Landers and John Landers as sureties. MR. FLETCHER’S ASSIGNMENT. Late yesterday afternoon Stoughton A. Fletcher, jr., filed with the county recorder a deed of assignment, conveying to Harry J. Milligan all his property, real and personal, that the proceeds may be applied to the payment of his debts. The deed is an exceedingly lengthy document. Briefly stated, it conveys the following real estate situated in the counties and States here named; Two hundred and eighty-eight lots (described) in S. A. Fletcher’s northeast addition; four lots iu A. E Fletcher’s first addition; lot 24 in A. E. Fletcher’s second addition; six lots in outlot96, etc., Fletcher et al.’s subdivision: part of lot 11 in square 59; two lots in Ingram Fletcher's first addition; part of outlot 160; one lot in Woodlawn; one lot in Hubbard et al.’s southeast addition, part of lot 14 in outlot 168; seventeen lots in S. K. Fletcher's South Brookside addition; one lot in Woodruff Placo. Also his residence property adjoining the city, together with 77.09 acres, 28.10 acres, 29.32 acres, II acre, 2.43 acres, all in Marion county, lnd. In Allen county, lnd., 86.35 acres; in Reynolds county, Mo., 80 acres; various lands in Owen county, lnd.; lands in Cavendish and Ludlow, and near those towns, in Windsor county, Vermont; lands in El Paso county. CoL: property in Mattoon, HI., and all his personal estate, goods, chattels, rights, credits and effects, save what is set aside to him by law. In addition to the foregoing, the deed conveys to Harry J. Milligan, as assignee: Notes of the Atlas Engine Works amounting to $125,000 Forty-six bonds of the Plymouth Congregational Church 4,600 Ten shares of stock in Indianapolis Gaslight & Coke Company a 1,000 Notes of S. K. Fletcher 3,500 Notes of E. B. Fletcher 6,350 Notes of A. E. Fletcher -. 6,000 Stock in Haverly Mining Company (no -value given) One thousand shares of stock in Atlas Engine works, par value 100,000 Thirty-three shares in the Electric Gas Lighting, Heating and Illuminating Company, par value a a 3,300 Uumatured claim against H. H. -Hanna upon contract for sale of Atlas Engine Work's stock Jd.. 83,500 And sundry other notes and claims, stock, tools, farm machinery and household goods, making, with the notes enumerated, exclusive of the value of the lauds, houses, etc., about $411,586. There is no way of arriving at the grand total iu this conveyance, but it is roughly estimated as being about three-quarters of a million dollars.

The Colored Citizens Ratify. The mooting of colored citizens called at the Michigan-street Baptist Church, last night, to be addressed by Senator Harrison and Hon. Stanton J. Peelle, was called to order by Dr. S. A. Elbert, and adjourned to meet in the same place on next Thursday evening, when the speakers who were to have addressed the meeting will be on hand. Notwithstanding the severe storm, nearly & hundred persons were present, and it was resolved that an informal meeting should be held. Mr. D. McCoy was called to the chair, and Wm. Franklin made an earnest and vigorous speech. Mr. Franklin scouted the attempts of the Democratic party to capture the colored vote and offered to donate a good horse to any man who would tell him of any good thing that party had ever done for the colored man. Allison Sweeny made a brief speech, opening with a touching and impressive allusion to the venerable speaker who preceded him. He characterized the Democratic party as having always been the organized foe of American liberty and not to be trusted. The last speaker of the evening was Elder Sweres, who, taking the so-called eloquent speech of orator Vilas to the Democratic national convention, commented upon its absurdities, and turning his batteries or humorous ridicule upon it, exposed the hollow pretense that was hid under its high-flown verbiage. He then made an equally felicitous comment on the speech of reformer Codman. He paid a glowing and eloquent tribute to Blaine and Logan and said that, in comparison with those glorious leaders, Cleve-

land and Hendricks, with their cant and hypocrisy, will double down like old dip candles before the noonday blaze of a July sun. • PERSONAL MENTION, Dr. Opheus Everts, of Cincinnati, is at the Denison. General T. B. Glazebrooke, of New York, is at the Bates House. Harry Crawford, the noted railroad lawyer of Chicago, is at the Denison. Mr. W. H. Seiders and his son Willie will leave to-day for Maine, to be absent one month. Postmaster-General Gresham arrived here from Washington yesterday and will be here for several days. He is at the Denison House. Miss Salome Trusler, daughter of the late Hon. Nelson Trusler, is in the city visiting friends. She will remain for several weeks. Mr. William N. Springer and Miss Anna L. Davis, daughter of the late William M. Davis, were married on Wednesday night by Rev. David Walk. Hotel Arrivals. Denison House: C. H. Prescott, New York; T B. McDowell, Detroit, Mich.; J. M. Justice, Logansport; C. E. Laferty. Pittsburg, Pa.: D. S. Pipes, St. Louis; D. B. Hoover, Hunting an; F. H. Dwenger, New York; Samuel Wilson, Buffalo, N. Y.; R. C. Mattlack Philadelphia; H. H- Prettynian, Kentucky; D. B. Bayliss, Covington, Ky.; Lawrence Maxwell, jr., Cincinnati; Joe I. Irwin, Columnus; Lemuel Moss, Bloom ington; S. F. Lockridge, Greencastle; John C. Goodridge. jr., New York; R W. Nixon, New Castle; Mrs. George Sweotser, Mrs. James Sweetser, Miss Gertie Cleveland, Marion; F. B. Brown, Crnwfordsville; T. W. Lothrop, Buffalo; R. J. Taylor, Chicago. Grand Hotel: W. C. Starr, James C. Ratliff, D. K. Zeller, Richmond; C. W. Brown, Terre Haute; T. E. Trueblood, Kokomo: J. R. Jackson, William Commons, Union City; H. B. Cord, Rockville; John B. Cromer, Fredericksburg; O. P. Beebe, New Carlisle, Ind.: J. P. Carr, Oxford, lnd.; Stephen E. Baker, Otterbein. Ind.; Francis E. Morey, Chicago; G. H. Cole, Toledo; W. B. Brinton, Moline, Ills.; Alfred Stanley, John A. Brittain, New York; M. M. Welch, Atlanta, Ga.; George Cave, Philadelphia; R. M. Lockhart, Waterloo; H. P. Gude, Baltimore; W. H. Clymer, Philadelphia; John Oxenford, Muskegon. Mich.; J 0. Conwell, Cleveland; W. B. Watson, St. Louis. Bates House: B. S. Botsford. Auburn, N. Y.; Dan McCarthy, Chicago; S. T. Yancey, Fortville; J. N. Hasten, Connersville: W. W. Carter, Brazil; John M. Barber, Anderson; J. L. Snyder, Crawfordsville; James O'Brien, Kokomo, Ind.: John W. Ross, Connersville; S. R. Brooks, Maysville, Ky.; M. R. House, New York; John Porteous, Norwich. Conn.; J. W. McLain, NewYork; L. D. Potter, Glendale, O.; D. H. Montony, Troy, N. Y.; John D. Gougar, Lafayette; J. S. Marks, Rochester, N. Y.; J. M. Freeman and wife, Palestine, Ind.; C. A. Montgomery, New York; W. V. Turpin, Greenville, O.: Gideon Myers, W. H. Forbes, A. M. Brown, D. B. Sachs, Cincinnati; J. M. Hays, Rochester, N. Y.; A. J. Stollenweck, Baltimore, Md.; R. A. Barnes, Buffalo, N. Y.

The Gymnastic Festival. The Indiana district turnfest will begin tomorrow. The committee on arrangements has completed all preparations for the reception and entertainment of the visiting societies and the successful carrying out of the programme for the festival. The societies will begin to arrive tomorrow morning. Their headquarters are as follows: Louisville, New Albany and St. Louis, C. C. Hedderich’s; Evansville, Mozart Hall; Terre Haute, John Weilacher's; Cincinnati, two societies, Circle Park Hotel and John Huegele’s; Lafayette, Central Garden; Danville, Illinois, Fritz Pflueger’s. The Evansville society will be the first to arrive. The decoration of Turner Hall and the Exposition Building will be completed this evening. A beautiful triumphial arch is being erected in front of Turner Hall. The arrangement committee once more requests citizens to decorate residences and places of business. About 2,000 seats have been provided for the reception concert at the Exposition Building to-morrow evening. The streets over which the torch-light procession will pass on Saturday will be sprinkled during the day. Reports from all sides indicate that the attendance will he much larger than at any previous festival of the Indiana district. Tlie County Coal Contracts. The county commissioners opened the bids for coal yesterday aftornoon. The bidders were G. R. Root & Bro., A. M. Kuhn & Cos., Slieilhouse & Cos., Mart. D. Ohr, H. B. Stout & Cos., and A. B. Meyer & Cos. The contract was given to G. R. Root & Cos. to supply block coal to the Court-house and jail at $2.23 per ton of 2,000 pounds, and to A. M. Kuhn & Cos. to supply Center township poor at $2.39 per ton. and the poor farm, delivered on Insane Asylum switch, at $2,121. A. B. Meyer & Cos. 's bid was $2.05 per ton for coal delivered for poor farm on the Insane Asylum switch, but higher than other bidders on the supply for Court-house and jail. They refused to accept the award for delivery to the poor farm unless given the contract- for all, so A. M. Kuhn & C-o.’s bid was accepted as the next lowest. Have your shirts made at Parker’s. Lawn Mowers and lee dream Freezers. A few lawn movers left yet at reduced prices. Call and supply yourself with a rapid ice cream freezer, screen doors, and window screens, monitor iron-clad lamp stove, tin water sets, water coolers, ice crushers, Hardware, cutlery, Howe scales, roller skates from 75c to $7. Hildebrand & Fugate. 35 South Meridian street.

HENLEY, HAYNES k VANARSDEL, Successors to Fortner, Floyd & Cos., !N“o. 75 South Meridian Street, WHOLESALE NOTIONS, GENTS’ FURNISHING AND FANCY GOODS. *®“Mail orders given Special Attention. Strictly Pure White Lead, 6 Cents per Pound, Jeffers’ Cash Paint Store, NO. 3B SOUTH PENNSYLV.-UIA STREET. D A DCD INDIANA PAPER COMP’Y, I A I P K * MANUFACTURERS. JL 1A A J—J 111 wif. o. DxYAY, President, No. 23 E. Maryland Street BTTbe paper upon which the JOURNAL is printed is furnished by this eonpanr. JAMES R. ROSS CO., Wholesale. Whisky Merchants, No. 184 S. Meridian Street, Indianapolis. AM. KUHN. JVX. KUHN & CO., W ‘ 71=5 GOAL j -A-ISTD LIME, 3NT o. 13 Virginia Avenue. CARPETS, STRAW MATTINGS, WALL PAPER, Lao© Curtains, Etc. A. L. WRIGHT & CO,, 47 aud 49 South Meridian St,

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LUMBER. I ft ELDRIDGE 4 CO, Alabama Street, cor. Maryland. BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS Are fast taking the place of all otnere in factories, foundries, machine shops and mills. Parties having their own power can procure an Electric Generator and obtain much more light at much less cost than by any other mode. The incandescent and storage system has been perfected, making small lights for houses and stores hungwherever needed, and lighted at will, day or night. Parties desiring Generators or to form companies for lighting cities and towns, can send to the Brush Electnc Cos., Cleveland, 0., or to the undersigned at Indianapolis. J• CAVEN. J. A. HOUSER, M. D., The Lung Doctor. Consultation rooms in Sentinel Building, corner of Circle and Meridian streets. Nice book on lung diseases sent free on application. RIGGS HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. C, Fifteenth and G Streets. First class and complete in all its appointments; is situated opposite the United States Treasury Buildings. and m the immediate neighborhood of the President’s Mansion, the State, War and Navy Departments. Street Cars to and from Depots, Capitol, and all Departments, pass the house every three minutes during the day. The honor of your patronage earnestly solicited. C W. SPOFFORD, Proprietor.