Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 February 1885 — Page 7

HTAIBS OF THE RAILWAYS. Penonal ami Local. John R W#od has been appointed traveling passenger agent of the Chicago &. West Michigan |tad, at Grand Rapids. It is quite evident that unless roads wjhich are ♦n pools act more honorably in the settlement of balances, the knell of the pool business is jonnded. C. W. Fairbanks, attorney of tho I.* B. & W. load, left lost evening for Boston, Mass., where be goes to look after the interests of the Corbin lyndrcate m taoT., C. & St. L. narrow-guage fond. G D. Flagg has been appointed general superintendent of tbe New York Central Sleeping car Company. Mr. Flagg has lately been superintendent of the Shore line between New York find Boston. John Andrcgg has taken tho trains on tbo G, X St I* & G, hereto!ore run by Chalmer frown, promoted, and John Johnson, freight fconiluctor, has been placed on the list of extra fossenger conductors. Superintendent Ewan, of the Indianapolis division of the Bee line, spends his time during Ike present rush of business, at Union City, where the train dispatcher is located. Mr. Ewan Is attempting to do with some twenty-five locomotives the work of double that number. The usually cool headed George Reeh, assistant district passenger agent, of the G, 1., St. L- & G read, is considerably disturbed that his (tameappears in the new' city directory as “George Itech, ticket broker or scalper. No. 16 North dAerkiian street and 136 South Illinois street.* One of tbe best evidences that Indianapolis business men are treated quite fairly in the matter if rates is the fact that the attention of the fitrnttd committee of the Board of Trade was pot, during the year 1884. called to investigate Bny alleged discrimination or unjust treatment t>y the roads. General Phineas Pease has been appointed receiver of the Cleveland & Marietta road. This foad Is ninety-nine miles in length, and, in connection with the Wheeling <% Lake Erie, forms a direct route between Marietta and Toledo. Tho 'friends of the General will be gratified to learn that he has fully recovered Iris health. The Dayten & Toledo Railroad Company will be incorporated to-day in Ohio. This company have purchased the portion of the T.. C. & St. L. narrow-gauge road lying between Dayton and Delohos, some ninety-five miles of road, and will operate it under the above title. It is understood that C. E. Henderson is to be appointed general manager. The G, H. & I. people expect to get their yards at this point and freight depot.in snch shape by April 1 that tho L., N. A. &O. can do their business at this point in connection with the C. H. & I. rather than the Wabash. Tho Air line, however, has until May 1 to arrange Its other terminal facilities hero under their contract with the Wabash. Everything indicates that the lumbermen’s excursion, on Monday and Tuesday next, to Muskegon. Mich., over the L.. N. A. & G (Air line) and Chicago & West Michigan, is to be a grand affair. The party will number 150 or more. A quartet will accompany them, and General Agent Brecount says nothing will be left undone make the trip a pleasant one. The stockholders of the C., C, C. & I. meet March 17 to elect directors for the ensuing year. 7t is understood that Vanderbilt will, at this •flection, get in three mere thoroughbred Vanderbilt men which will enable him to handle the property abou£ as ho chooses. This by no means indicates a change in the presidency or general officers of the road, all of whom are, it is said, highly esteemed by the Vanderbilt management. At the meeting of general freight agents held fn St Louis* on Thursday. H. VV. Hibbard was questioned ns to the truth of the article published in the Indianapolis Journal on Weunes*" day morning, to the effect that tho Tandalia will withdraw from the St. Louis east-bound pool, answered that the article was correct; that unless there is a speedy redivision of percentages in the east-bound pool, the Vandalia road will withdraw.

The two ten-wheel engines, McQueen build, jeeently received by the C., 1., St. L. & C., are doing so satisfactory service that President Ingalls will order four or six more of the same build. Had they twenty more they could be sed to excellent advantage, so full of business is the road. These ten-wheelers handle thirtyfive loaded cars whenever there is a fair track, imdit is believed will in mild weather haul forty loaded cars with ease. Last evening there were in the Bee-line yards at Brightwood 520 loaded cars to go east, and loaded cars to go west. Unfortunately, several of their locomotives are not in good order to perform the work they should do. In the eagerness of the management to get the road bed of the Bee-line proper,, and the I. &St L. division, in first l class shape, the motive power has been allowed to depreciate, and a number of their •nginex-are reported, to be excellent subjects for the hospital. Where Competent Men Are Needed. There is a growing disposition with general managers wlio ride the economy hobby to ex. txemes to employ cheap men for the important positions of train dispatchers and telegraph operators at stations on the lines, often ai>2o permonth boy occupying the position where thero should be a competent, experienced operator, and a man of good judgment. The fact is that znose uvly wrecks have occurred through the employment of cheap operators at the smaller stations than any otherone cause, unless it be careless switchmen, through whose carelessness trains are derailed. As trains are now moved, almost entirely by telegraph the importance of the position of a train dispatcher or even the telegraph operator becomes of more importance. Very few seem to realize the weight of responsibility resting upon a train dispatcher. Not only must he keep a watch over one train which is speeding along at the rate of thirty five miles an hour, bearing its precious freight of human lives, but he must follow the complicated movements of many other trains, with their lives and property, which a blunder or inaccuracy of his would hurl to death and ruin. Realizing the truth of this, how vastly important that operators whose work is more exacting than any other calling, should b® men of unclouded character. of principles well defined, self-sacrificing, and absolutely temperate.

A Good Recuuunsudation. The supplementary report of the New York Railroad Commission contains one recommendation which every Legislature in the country should enact into a law. The Commission recoin mends that no railroad shall here after be constructed unless the railroad Commission certify that public convenience nnd necessity require such new railroad; if the Railroad Commission refuse such certificate an appeal may be taken to the general term of the Supreme Court in the district in which the proposed read runs, and if the appeal is sustained the Railroad Commission shall issue its certificate; that before construction every railroad corporation Shall file a map and profile of its contemplated road in each county; and that no change m the route or termini of a railroad shall be made without the approval of the Railroad Commission. _ The Pennylvania Holds the Whip-Hand. The belief prevails in higher railroad circles that the end of the trunk line railroad war is a long way in the future. It is thought that should the New Yo-k Central and the Weat Shore “patch up a peace” the contest between the trunk lines would only be brought out more strongly. The Pennsylvania railroad has engaged in the struggle with its usual earnestness. It took the step only alter the gravest deliberation; but, having taken it. the management will not look back. It lias severed itself from the trunk-line pool and refused to join tho coal combination. In some respects the one act is a sequel to the other. The company holds the whiphand because its co operation is necessary to the success of the railroad pool and the coal combination. Tho Probable Fate of the latent late Commerce* Hills. A railroad official of an Indianapsiis road, who Is well up iu congressional matters, last evening remarked that there will be no action taken at

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this session of Congress relating to the passage of an interstate com mere* bill. The SecetawiH never agree to the Reagan bill, and as the Senate bill provides for appointaneat of nine commia sioners by the President, tho Democratic House is not likely to place President Arthur in a position ts make these appoiatments by passisg the bill daring his administration. Open Competition the Winning Card. Pool Commissioner Fink’s defense of the practice of diverting freight from one railroad to another, in order to equalize business and maintain discipline among competing lines, shows clearly enough that the evil against which complaint was made to the New York State Railroad Commission is very small, and that in the only case where pecuniary damage was shown it was promptly paid for by the offending company. Nevertheless, the tone of his letter is desponding. It dwells at great length on the difficulty of enforcing upon the warring lmes anything like a modus vivendi. They will fight and cheat each other if they can. They will pay rebates, and resort to all sorts of underhafid practices to get more than their share. The diversion of freight from one line to another, under the circumstances, is one of the methods adopted to prevent a •'rate-demoral-izing strife.” In fcommenting on this matter of diversion of freight the New York Commercial Advertiser says: “Tho efforts of the joint traffic pool, of which Mr. Fink is the respectable and hard-working chief, have been a prolonged fight against natural laws. The attempt to apportion the railway traffic of the country among certain lines, upon any other plan than JLhat of open competition, is sure to fail sooner or later. It may work more ©r less satisfactorily a few years, but it will break down in the end. The very success wfcich attended it in the beginning led to the building of the Nickel-plate, the Lackawanna, and the West Shore lines.”

Will tlie Trunk-Line Pool Oo to Pieces? The announcement of the resignation of Albert S. Pink as trunk-line pool commissioner will* not be much of a surprise to persons who have been aware of the strife which has been going on between the roads in the pool, and the bitter feeling which has sprung up between the pre3identsaeho, when they sign an agreement, live up to it, and the presidents who look upon agreements as of no consequence outside of the pool office. Mr. Fink proposes now to take a good rest. It is stated that he will, about March Ist, proceed to New Orleans; thence to Texas, to Mexico and to San Francisco, returning home by way of Chicago. The Commissioner says that his trip is intended solely for pleasure. The importance of Mr. Fink's present position is his understood determination to insist that he shall be relieved from his offico, and the probability that the whole machinery of his office will be abandoned. Already there has been a large reduction in the pool working force, the discharges of clerks in the last few days amounting to about 150. As these clerks have been engaged in the work of compiling statistics, which is as necessary when rates are cut as when they are maintained, the discharges can bo explained on no other ground than that the pool system is to be abandoned. A Restoration of East-Bound Rates in Prospect. Commissioner Doherty, of the Indianapolis east-bound pool, yesterday afternoon called together the local freight agents to talk over rate matters. In the early part af the day it was reported that Chicago had restored east-bound rates to 25 cents per 100 pounds to the seaboard, and that Peoria and St. Louis would restore rates to the usual proportion of the Chicago rate, and were this true the Indianapolis roads would take similar action and restore the rate to twenty three cents per one hundred pounds, Indianapolis to the seaboard. Afternoon reports did not confirm those of the morning, aud after talking the matter over the Indianapolis agents decided to defer such action until at the first named points there was a genuine restoration of rates to tariff. The Eastern roads all have more business than they can carry, and it is believed on the basis of 25 cents, Chicago to seaboard, there would be as much business as the roads could comfortably take care of. Another meeting is to be held to-day to consider the matter, at Commissioner Doherty’s offico.

Mr. Fink Insists on Resigning. New York, Feb. .G. —Kiernan's News Agency has the following: Commissioner Fink says: “I shall insist upon my resignation being accepted at this meeting. My successors will probably be Pierson for the passenger department and Guilford for the freight interests. The presidents of the trunk lines will only review the general situation to-day. They cannot restore passenger rates until the Central and West Shore roads cease fighting, and as the war is a private affair, the trunk-line presidents are powerless. The freight questions aro about settled. A twenty-cent rate exists between here and Chicago; east-bound rates are moderately well maintained. Barring the acceptance of my resignation, Ido not see that anything of importance can be done to day. ” • All roads are represented at the meeting, which is exclusively private, even the commismissioners secretary being absent. THE RESIGNATIOX RRJECTED. The trunk-line presidents met at Commissioner Fink's office to-day. There were present: President Roberts, of the. Pennsylvania; President King and Royal C. Vilas, of the Erie; General Freight Agent Hegemau of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; H. J. Hayden, third vice-president of the New York Central, and Frank Harriott, general freight agent of the Baltimore & Ohio. The question of suspending the pool contract was considered, and the proposition was unanimously voted down. Commissioner Fink’s resignation was read, and rejected. . After the meeting Mr. Fink said he was still commissioner, but had been granted a vacation, which he would begin about March Ist. He denied that the New York Central had withdrawn from the pool, and stated that the reports of the reduction of force ip his office were exaggerated. Os his 320 employes, sixty had been discharged, not 100, as reported.

ClmrcU Services himl Notes. The religious interest at Hill-avenue Mission Church continues. The Sunday school numbers more than 200, even daring the late' unpleasant weather, and the members are preparing to build an addition to the house. Rev. Mr. Roberts, a superannuated member of the Illinois Conference.will preach there to-morrow morning, and services may be expected every night next week. Rer. P. C. Holliday, of Madison, will preaah at Fletcher place M. E. Church on Sunday morning. Special services will be begun at Centralavenue M. E. Church on Tuesday evening of next week. They will be continued throughout the week. liev. Matthew L. Haines, of Astoria, Long Island, will preach at the First Presbyterian Church to-morrow. Mr. Haines is the son of an old citizen of Aurora, a graduate of Wabash and of Princeton, a man of fine abilities and thoroughly cultured. He has been in the ministry for a number of years. Accused of Robbing the Malls. Detectives Bird and Mitchell, of Frankfort, oa yesterday, at that place, arrested Wm. Smith, a young man, formorly a resident of Clinton county, for robbing the mails in 1863, near Springfield, Mo. Smith has been hunted by the postoffice authorities through Texas and other States for over a year. His detection and arrest was a shrewd piece of detective work. Deputy Marshal Andy Hart went oat from this city during the afternoon and brought the prisoner to this city and lodged him in jail

niGII-SCIIOOI. DEBUTANTES. The Members of the January Class Drop Their Courtesies to tbe World. Promptly at 8 o'clock, last evening, at Plymouth Church, tho January class of 1885 of the High-school, twelve in number, took their places, under Principal Grant’s guidance, on the rostrum. The overture to “Tanered” was given by Wm. H. Clarke ou the organ. The invocation followed by Rev. Reuben Jeffery, and the eleven young ladies, attired in white and decorated with flowers, said their brief say, and fluttered forth into tho ■softly-falling snows of the eager and waiting world. Everything was in apple-pie order. There was no halting or prompting—all went with the accuracy of a military drill. There was no crying, no encoring, no flowers, no nonsense —just eleven “girl graduates,” “standing with reluctant feet,” and with the only boy in the class as end-man. The graduates and their subjects, with the interludes of music, came as follows: Essay—“ Raise the Standard” Maude Robinson Essay—“ Consider the End” Agnes J. Young Essay —“Hobbies’... Ella Worland Music— Air du Dauphin Roeckel Essay—“ The Marble Waiterth” Ivy A. Roberts Essay—“ Perseverance” Ida M. Webb Essay—“ The Gilded Hand” Klla Pedlow Music— Overture to “Poet and Peasant" Suppe Essay—“ Liberty Enlightening the World” Cora Donough Essay—“ Ruins” Mary Hayes Essay—“ Men and Trees” Emma L. Bacon Music—Gavotte “Secret Love” Retsch Essay—“ Our Possibilities” Anna M. Hasely Easay—“The Prancing of the Colts"...Grace Phillips Oration—" Whatever Is, Is Right,” Geo. A. Reisener. jr Music—Fanfare Militaira Lemraens All spoke easily and confidently; the enunciation was excellent, and no essay was over six minutes long. The “standard was raised,” the evil considered, the hobbies dissected, perseverance commended, the image hewn from the marble, the gilded hand of unjust wealth condemned, liberty applauded at the proper place, ruins resurrected, men and trees compared, our possibilities canvassed, tho “prancing colts” of O. W. Holmes trotted around the arena, and the proper construction put on Pope’s maxim that whatever is. is right. Tho ever-welcome organ gave them a closing military salute, Principal Grant said* “In behalf of the president of the Board of Education I present the January class of 1885 of the Indianapolis High-school their diplomas,” with which brief utterance, and the benediction by the Rev. Jeffery, the exercises closed as promptly and orderly as though the class had simply been dismissed from their assembly room at school to their homes. The essays were ail good, and better for their brevity. They were serious and didactic. Markedly earnest and reverent were those of Miss Hasely and Master Reisener. Only Miss Grace Phillios dared to crack a joke or elicit a smile, .and she put the whole audience in light and cheerful mood by her serio comic treatment of commencements in general, and this one in particular. Except the essay on men and trees, not an il lustration or figure was drawn from tho natural world or common life, and the seutiment seemed all pervading that the “proper study of mankind is man.” The audience was quiet and appreciative; enthusiastic in spots, as each group of friends applauded the effort of its favorite. The next crop of High-school flowers will come fluttering down in the middle of June, and though nature may be in a more smiling mood, she will not greet a more earnest, faithful and hopeful class than the twelve signs of the educational zodiac that graduated last night.

PERSONAL MENTION. Lucius Nebeker, of Covington, is 3t the Grand Hotel. Prof. John M. Bloss, ofMuncie, is atthe Bates House. Chas, A. Robinson, city treasurer of Terre Haute, is at the Bates House. Hon. Albert G. Porter will lecture on “Gladstone,” before the Morton Club, at Masonic Hall, on Tuesday evening next. Jno. B. Chores, attorney of the State-house contractors, arrived in the city from Chicago yesterday morning, and is registered at the Bates House. Chas. B. Kimball and family, of Chicago, are at the Bates House. Mr. Kimball is secretary and treasurer of the Singer & Talcott Stone Company, Chicago. Mr. Russell Elliott has formed a partnership in Kansas City, in the real estate business, with Mr. R. J. Johnson. The new firm seem to be doing a rushing business. Albert Wishard, of this city, was married on Thursday, at Hopkinsville, Ky., to Miss Cora Wallace, of that place. The marriage was a surprise to most of Mr. Wisliard’s friends, who will unite in wishing the young couple a prosperous future. Miss Wallace is well known in thin city, where she has frequently visited. A letter received from Pa., announces that Mr. Thomas B. Mclntire, formerly superintendent of the Indiana Institute for Deaf and Dumb, is still dangerously ill, and there seems to bo but little reason to hope for his recovery, a fact that will be known with sincere regret by his old friends hem

Local Newspaper Changes. With the change in the management of the Times, which occurs to-day, there will be something of a general shuffle in the local journalistic circle. All of the old force retire, including Joseph E. Cobh, W. H. Smith, Adolph Maeulen and C. C. Heckman. Mr. Cobb, who has been the city editor of the Times since the foundation of the paper, will represent the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette as correspondent from this point. Mr. Oliver T. Morton, who will have the controlling interest in the reorganized Times Company, will assume tho editorial management of the paper. Mr. Scott C. Bone, who has been on the oity force of the Evening News for several months, becomes the city editor. George M. Payne and Clarence Goodwin will compose the reportorial force. Will Walkor, who has been the foreman of the Times, will become the telegraph editor. The positon which Mr. Bone held in the News, will be filled by Mr. O. R. Johnson, who has. been a valuable member of the Journal editorial staff for more than six years. Mr. Johnson is one of the brightest young newspapermen ever connected with the press of the city, and will prove a valuable acquisition to the staff of the News. He leaves this office with the best wishes of his associates on the staff. Mr. Bone is a bright and capable young gentleman, full of vim and ambition, who deserves all possible success. Examination at St. John’s Academy. The" semi-annual examination of classes at St. John’s Academy, which continued during the last two weeks, was extremely satisfactory and reflected much credit upon both the teachers and pupils. The reports were given yesterday by Rev. D. O'Donaghue. They show that great improvement has been made. She second session of the scholastic year commenced last Monday. Frenzel’b Had Flop. John Frenzel put in the afternoon yesterday, following banking hours, in close and mysterious confab with tho Governor, Auditor Riee and Secretary Myers. A well-known Democrat, a business man with a penchant for politics, expressed himself thus to the reporter: “Do you know the general opinion of Frenzelt I’ll tell you. He made an ass of himself without auffi

dent cause, and we can better afford to le:m the place vacant than to put, him back into it. I suppose he feels like the feathcrless young robin that, overestimating its strei jjf i, attempted to fly—an endeavor that resulted in the callow squab falling out of a very warm nest on an exceedingly cold day. Postscript: The robin never got back.” A DISCIPLE OF ROSSA, Senator Foulke Receives a Letter Indicating the Presence of a Local Dynamite Society. Does Indianapolis harbor a society of dynamite conspirators? Possibly. Some facetious citizen of the Dreythaler school, no doubt, has adopted a method of creating a local excitement by agitating the foregoing question, and has addressed the following letter to Senator Foulke. The missive was received by the senator from Wayne yesterday, through the mails, and was, in turn, shown to a representative of the Journal. Senator Foulke is the author a bill now before the Senate prohibiting the manufacture or traffic in dynamite or similar explosives for criminal purposes, and the writer evidently seeks to enlighten him on tbe subject The letter is as follows: “Citizen William D. Foulke—Being aware of the fact that there is a vast amount of ignorance abroad among the servants of the people in regard to Socialism and the aims and methods of the revolutionary Socialists or Anarchists, we hereby place in your hands a copy of the manifesto of the International Working People’s Association, hoping that you may benefit by the perusal thereof and be able to speak intelligently on the subject whenever occasion demands. “We understand that you are the author of a bill for the prevention of the manufacture and sale of explosives for ‘criminal’ purposes. We would suggest to you that measures of that description are a waste of paper, as they will be utterly disregarded by a plundered and oppressed people. Furthermore, if you will consult the Constitution of the United States, you will observe that tho same guarantees the right to bear arms to the people. Whether the arms consist of gun, dagger, or dynamite bomb matters not. Is it ‘criminal’ for a rich mau to murder his employes in a mine or factory by too hard toil, starvation wages, poor machinery, insecure buildings, improper ventilation, etc? Coroners' juries and a corrupt ‘bench’ answer ‘No.’ Very well, then it is also not ‘criminal,’ but eminently fitting when an employe protects his life and his earnings against the murderous robber who wants to deprive him of both by blowing the legal thief’s' brains out, or piercing his heart with a dagger, or sending him to hell per dynamite. “In order to save the Commonwealth some money, we suggest that you might vole against tho militia bills, as a dozen men armed with dynamite could annihilate the entire militia force of the State of Indiana. By order of the “Indianapolis Group. I. W. A." The handwriting is evidently that of a foreigner, for the letters are small and cramped, having some of the characteristics of the German letters. The copy of the manifesto referred to purports to have been issued by the Pittsburg congress of the International Working People’s Association. It is a voluminous and exhaustive review of the alleged impositions to which the laboring classes are forced to submit, violently denouncing “the oppression of labor by the capitalistic classes, ” and threatening dire vengeance upon all the “oppressors of the world.” The concluding paragraph reads as follows: “The day has come for solidarity. Join our ranks! Let the drum beat defiantly the roll ot battle: ‘Workmen of all lands unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains; you have a vorid to win!’ Tremble! oppressors of the world! Not far beyond your purblind sight there dawns the scarlet and sable lights of the judgment day!”

♦ THE CITY IN BRIEF. The breacli-of-promise suit of Maria Horton against William Jessup has been compromised by the marriage of the parties. Abraham G. Schwab and others in the United States Circuit Court have obtained a judgment for $2,238.70 against Albert D. Lemon, of Attica. The Richmond Plating Company, for plating with gold, silver, nickel, etc., has filed articles of association with the Secretary of State. The capital stock is $6,000, with Warren Shum\rd, Sarah S. Shumard and William T. Noble as stockholders. A footpad attacked a pedestrian at the corner of Illinois and Seventh streets about 10 o’clock, last night, but the latter made a vigorous fight, and succeeded in frustrating the rascal’s design. The footpad broke his intended victim’s watch ohain, but left the pieces hanging to his vest. Frank C. Nuneraacher has been enjoined and restrained from prosecuting a suit in the Louisville Chancery Court against the receiver of the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railroad Company, the receiver being an officer of the United States Circuit Court of Indiana, until Saturday, I4th inst., when a final hearing in the induction will bo heard. The Western League’s First Meeting. The official call for the mooting of the new Western Base Ball League has been issued and it will be held at the Grand Hotel in this city on Wednesday next. Delegates have signified their intention of being present from Cleveland, Toledo, St. Paul, Kansas City, Dayton and Columbus. President Thorner, of the Cincinnati Unions, has signified a desire to join the new association, but will probably not be admitted, as ho has in his club McCormick, Briody and Glasscock, the black-listed League players, and while retaining them his team would not be admitted to the national agreement. Terre Haute has asked to join, but will not be admitted unless a bond is filed guaranteeing that the club will play the seasou out.

Following the Ministers’ Lead. At the regular meeting of the Morton Club, held last evening, the following resolution was adopted as the sentiment of the club: ‘‘Resolved, That the Morton Club does hereby heartily indorse the action of Commissioners Murphy and Morrison in the stand which they have taken, in accordance with their oath of office, for tho enforcement of the laws, and we pledge them our hearty support in the position which they have taken—a position which we believe to be in accordance with good morals, and the best interests of the citizens of the city at large.” The Second Polo Game. The second of the series of league polo games between the Chicago and Meridian clubs, of this city, took place at the Meridian Rink la3t night before a good audience. Parry Wright acted as referee and Mr. Updegraf as time-keeper. The visitors won three straight goals in four, nine and three minutes respectively. The two clubs w'U meet again to night, game being called at 9 o’clock. Plymouth Organ Recital. Following is the programme for the organ recital at Plymouth Church this afternoon: Kyrie from the Sixteenth Mass Haydn. Pastoral, in F.„, Kullah. Hallelujah, from “Engedi.” Beethpven. Lacrvmosa, from the “Requiem * Mozart. Sancta Maria, from “Diuorah." Meyerbeer. Minuet and Trio, from Synmhony in Eb .Mozart. March of Silver Trumpets, from ‘“Aida,"., Verdi. Gavotte, from “Nais,”. Rameau. Overture to “Zaropa” llerold ———- ■ College-Avenue Carnival. The fancy-dress carnival at College-avenue Rink, last night, was attended by a crowd that could scarcely find standing room, and the character of the entertainment justified the attendance. One feature of the evening was aa oration in negro dialect by Harry Martin, punctuated by snatches of musie and some fancy skating. Prizes were awarded as follows: Best lady character, the Princess, by Miss Sadia

Pfafflin, pair club skates; best gentleman character, John Chinaman, by Will Pfaff, watch charm; best dude, by Charley Lee, skate case; best comic character, Topsy, by Harry Overman. Charlie Timberlake and Harry Dickerson, as Tom Thumb and wife, received special mention. Was It a Murder? Shortly after midnight, as Merchant Policeman Klingensmith was patrolling his beat, in the neighborhood of the old fruit-house on West Ohio street, he heard four shots fired in rapid succession, followed by the frantic shrieks of a woman, who cried, “My God, I am shot!” He ran in the direction whence Came the sounds, but all was quiet, and diligent search failed to reveal any evidence of a tragedy. The police were notified, but at a late hour had discovered nothing unusual. There are several resorts of questionable character in the neighborhood, and it is possible ..that the shots and screams may have eome from one of them. The Carnival Postponed. At a session of the executive board of the military carnival, on yesterday, it was decided to postpone the opening of the carnival till Tuesday, the 10th of March. It is urgently requested that the various committees meet their several appointments the same as if there had been no change of date. Obituary. Milwaukee, Feb. G. —A special to the Evening Wisconsin, from Beloit, announces the death of S. J. Goodwin, aged seventy-six. Ho was one of the oldest residents of the State, and was widely known in connection with the hotel and opera-houso bearing his name. He was very wealthy, possessing largo blocks of American and United States express and Western Union telegraph stocks, besides real estate and building property to a large amount. Caught in a Belt and Torn to Pieces. Scranton, Pa., Fob. G.—Daniel Kullman, a laborer at a steel mill, was caught while putting on a belt, this morning, and whirled around the shaft several hundred times a minute, being thrown against the beams at every revolntioq. Before the machinery was stopped his feet and hands were torn off and his body fearfully mangled. He lived thirty minutes. Assignment of I>. W. Miller. Cincinnati, Feb. 6. —D. W. Miller, proprietor Os the D. W. Miller Carriage Company, assigned this afternoon to Henry H. Gibson. The assets are estimated at $125,000; liabilities. SIOO,OOO. Miller has been embarrassed by building largo works, and in December last conveyed a portion of his property to W. H. Taft, to secure creditors holding nearly $50,000 of claims. Failures for the Week. New York, Feb. 6. —Failures for the last week, reported by R. G. Dun’s mercantile agency, for the United States, number 314; Canada, 32; total. 346, a3 against 354 for the previous week, and 411 for the week preceding. Failures are still numerous in the Western and Southern States; in other sections of the country the figures are about up to the average.

A Dishonest Library Official. Chicago, Feb. 6.—Marquis F. Moe, assistant secretary of tho Chicago Public Library, is missing, and his accounts are claimed to be short anywhere from S3OO to $5,000. The disclosure has caused some consternation among the officials of the library, in view of the recent disclosure of thefts by Otto Fuuk, another employe. Possible Clew to Mr. Conant. New York, February 6.—A copy of a photograph of the missing editor Conant, of Harper’s Weekly, has been sent to Athens, Ga. A dispatch from Athens, yesterday, stated that a man representing himself as Mr. Conant, of Harper’s Weekly, had been in that city interviewing people in regard to political sentiment there. Mysterious Death of B. It. Cornell. Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 0. —Richard R. Cornell, aged forty years, brother of Col. S, D. Cornell, of Buffalo, was found dead in a lawyer’s office here this morning. No cause is assigned. He leaves a widow and child, in Paris, France, and a child in New York. Parricide in Wisconsin. Eau. Claire, Wis., Fob. 6.— William Thorpe, chairman of the town board of the village of Thorpe, was shot and killed, last night, by his son, for abusing his family. The son was held for trial. _ Heavy Failure at Baltimore. Baltimore, Feb. 6.—Bruff. Maddux & Faulkner, wholesale dry goods dealers, made an assignment to-day to Moses R. Walter and Andrew D. Jones. The bond of the trustees is $300,000. BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS Are fast taking the place of all otners 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 hun" wherever 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 Electric Cos., Cleveland, 0., or to tho undersigned at Indianapolis. J. CAVEN.

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