Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1886 — Page 7

trying to bilk the people. A Scheme to Take Advantage of the Tax-Payers of Center Township. How Near a Railroad Company’s Lawyers Succeeded in Depriving the Township of a Large Sum of Money. Sixteen years ago the Indiana Central & Illinois Railroad Company wanted aid in its proposed enterprise of building a railroad from Indianapolis to Springfield, 111. It was a time when schemes of that sort moved nnder the hallucination that private railway undertakings of any kind were a public benefit; hence the public ought to supply largely the resources. This company held out the bait of building its projected shops ir> Center township, if the people thereof would vote a tax in the interest of the road. The property-holders jumped at this promise, and the electors agreed to the tax at a special election in 1871. Everything regarding the enterprise was in high favor, and the proceed* of the levy voted for were collected and held in the treasury. Os the levy $55,000 was paid in, and afterwards, through pushing delinouents, the sum reached $60,000. But the money was not to be paid over to the company unless it built the shops in Center township within three years. It did not do so, nor did it begin even the construction of a roadway anywhere along the proposed line. “It did put a spade into the ground,” as a citizen expressed it. But the failure in accomplishing anything like practical work in furtherance of the project did not prevent the company from going before the County Commissioners with a petition for a year's extension. In the event work on the shops was not begun in this last year of grace, the money was, under the law providing for the levy, to go to the township treasurer. The Indiana Central & Illinois company were at the end of this year as far away as ever from fulc lu g its conditions of the contract. The money lav in the county treasury, and as the company’s rights to it had lansed, the County Commissioners proposed to utilize it ostensibly for the benefit of the people. Tne new court house project was on in full vigor just at this period, but the difficulty of petting money to start the enterprise worried the Commissioners. It had been decided to erect a costly structure, and the Commissioners of that period were fearful their several terms would exniro before any of them could have a showing for fame in the outset of the enterprise. This $60,000 that the railroad company had lost was considered a nucleus for the after expenditure of $1,500,000 for court house purposes. The Commissioners decided to use it in this way, and by go doing were able to get the proposed structure ns far as laying the corner stone. Their names are in that stone, ready to be discovered by the last man when he explores the ruins of Marion county, centuries hence.

While the original $60,000 is in the foundation of the court-house, it left the baleful influence of money behind it. Who is entitled to this snug sum filched from the tax-payers under a promise never fulfilled to build railroad shops in Center township has been ever since a source of contention. If there is any show of getting a share of a disputed sum, something like $60,000, or possibly a few thousands less, claimants can be easily turned up to meet the emergency. Since the railroad company failed to carry out its contract, the tax-pavers thought that the money ought to be held for their benefit. Center township had some right to it, however, claimed under the law which regulated the special levy. It was in Mr. King’s term as township trustee, when the first litigation began. On behalf of the township h filed a complaint against the County Commissioners to recover the money, but the ink of ..the file mark had hardly time to dry before ' numerous other schemes to expond this sum stepped to the front. Judge Martindale, as the head of a syndicate, wanted to build a coal road with it. and somebody else had another improvement. and so on, not passing over JacksonLandders, the then county treasurer, who was anxious to keep the money in trust, as he could, according to the custom of the office relative to surplusages, let it out at interest. Dye and Harris were the lawyers retained by Mr. King. The trial came on before Judge Elliott, then of the Superior Court, and after evidence and argument he decided in favor of the taxpayers on the ground that both the township and county had forfeited their rights. In general term of the Superior Court this decision was sustained, but the Supremo Court held that the township ought to have the $60,000. By this time. Mr. King had been succeeded in office by Captain Harvey, who. under the last decision, made a demand for the money. The Commissioners of that year had a trick worth something more than the Supreme Court’s decision. They said to Mr. Harvey, “If you are to have u 6 pay this enormous amount of money to you, we will require you to increase your official bond from $60,000 to $125,000." The trustee had trouble in getting sureties, and tlie Commissioners, no doubt, chuckled over the prospect of holding on to the money. But Harvey insisted, and a plan was agreed to whereby the Commissioners would pay to the trustee 6 per cent, interest and a part of the principal each year. It was to cover his salary and office expenses. This continued until some time during Ernst Kitz’s term as trustee, when the Commissioners refused to pay either principal or interest.

In the meantime the Indiana Central & Illinois Railway Company ceased to exist and the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield Company came into existence, purporting to be the successor of the old organization. It built a road, but not between the points named in the charter of the origiual company, nor did it follow the line in Indiana laid out by its predecessor, nor did it pretend to have any title to the name of the first company. It was anew enterorise. It constructed its road Hnd built its shops without the Center township money, procured from the special levy voted in the interest of the Indiana Central and Illinois company. And above all, the shops were erected in Wayne township, a few feet beyond the Center township line, and there they stand to-da}\ It was not the purpose to put them within the limits of Center, nor was it ever pretended that they were in this township, until later circumstances made it necessary to set up that claim. The 1., D. & S company never expected to realize from the ]e\ y voted in favor of the old company until the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Super ior Court, with an intimation that possibly the railroad company had some rights which did not appear in the case before it. When the County Commissioners refused to pay interest or princioal any longer UDder the Agreement made with Trustee Harvey, the then trustee. Kitz, renewed the suit against the Commissioners, with Henry Spaan as'attorney. Mr. JSpaan, in his complaint, made the material error of not alleging that the company failed to ®roct its shops in Center township. It is here that the 1., D. & S. Railway Company, through Its attorneys, Shepard and Elam, asserted its claim to the money on a cross-complaint. For the socond time the case was tried before the Superior Court, and for the second time judgment was given in favor of the township. An pppeal followed, when the attorneys, Henry £ peart for Trustee Kitz, Shepard and Elam for fht'railroad comuany, and W. A. Ke tchr.tn for she countv, agreed to a statement of facts that the shops were in Center township, and thus the f.ase went to the Supreme Court. It was here urged by Mr. Shepard, and pot controverted by Spaan or Ketcham that the conditions of the contract with the first company had been fulfilled in placing the shops in Center, when, in truth, they were a few feet beyond the line, in Wayne, and, therefore, the alleged successor of this company was entitled to the money raised on the levy voted for in 1871 for what would have been a different road. went in favor of the 1., D. &S. company, carrying £60,000 with interest to its favor. Returning in this shape to Judge Ilowe’s tfourt, Addison C. Harris, the attorney, on bebklf of Trustee King, in the first suit, came into iourt with j petition asking for a correction of the pleadings where they stated that the shops ▼ rer# u> Center >. wnship. The lawyers all lirounu, including Syaan, Ketcham and Shepard, rn mediately asked for a change of venue on the tearing of this position. They did not

want any judge in Marion county to consider the question; hence the petition was sent to Judge Vinton, in Tippecanoe county. A few months since he decided that the attorneys for Center township did cot use due diligence in showing that the shops were not located according to the contract under which the levy was raised. From this another appeal went to the Snpreme Court, and it is pending, but a decision will probably be reached next Tuesday. Everybody connected with this case seems to be imbued with the idea that the railroad company has got the best of it. The lawyers, without exception, have been desirous of working up a compromise. The County Commissioners have ail along intimated that they were ready to settle with the party that is entitled to the money, but the three honestly believe that the county is being milked for the benefit o£ lawyers and the railroad. What they came very near doing day before yesterday is not consistent with their opinion as to the rights involved. Each Commissioner thinks that the money belongs to the tax-pavers, without any ifs or ands about it, but somehow the expectation prevails so extensively that the next decision will still favor tbe railroad company, that the Commissioners are ready to compromise. This has been the purpose of the attorneys for some time to secure a settlement without waiting for the decision of the court Tuesday they progressed 60 far that the Commissioners had reached the determination to let the railroad company have $70,211, which includes principal and interest from the time the money was first in the treasury, except about $22,000 the county paid to the township under the Harvey agreement If the county would settle, pending decision in the Supreme Court, the railroad company said it would relinquish all claim to the amount paid to the township. If not, then a second suit will be instituted to recoverthis sum also. TbeCotnmissioners have been in travail over the matter for months. It did not look right to them to pay out money they believed belonged to the taxpayers, but the negotiations reached a climax when the railroad company agreed to take its payment in three six-month time warrants, one for $50,000, another for $17,000, and the third for $3,211. To secure monev to meet this the Commissioners thought about ordering the county treasurer to issue SIO,OOO time warrants. It was presumed Tuesday night that this would be the arrangement, and the Commissioners and the representative of the railroad company, Charles Martindale, waited until 5 o’clock for Trustee Many to come and perfect the compromise with his assent and signature.' Trustee Many, however, sent a note that he would not further consider the question of compromise until he saw Mr. Harris. As that gentleman is in the East and will not return for several days, the proceedings for settlement are held in abeyance. County Attorney Spencer threw another block in the way yesterday. He said to Trustee Many that while the railroad relinquished its alleged claim of $22,000, the county had one of its claims of SIO,OOO against the township. This, the attorney represented, was overpaid under the Harvey agreement. But, all the same, the shops remain where they wore first put—in Wayne township—and the people are expected by the interested attorneys, including those who represented the county and one who represented the township, to pay $70,211 on a contract that was never fulfilled.

PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. John A. Finch has gone to Memphis, Tenn. Miss Bessie Day has gone to Chicago to spend the holidays. Mr. B. B. Peck returned last night from Franklin, after a short stay. Theodore Hanneman leaves to-day with his family for Los Angeles, Cal. Walter Stanton, of New York, is in the city, stopping at the Denison House. Dr. P. G. C. Hunt will leave for Florida the last of this week to spend the winter. The young ladies from this city who are attending Yassar College will not return home for the Christmas vacation. State Geologist Maurice Thompson is still confinod to his home at Crawfordsville with rheumatism. His physicians have advised him to go South and spend the winter, and this he will probably do. Society, A number of friends gave a surprise progres - sive euchre narty, last night, to Mr. ,md Mrs. Courtland YanCamp, at their home on North Delaware street. The invaders provided their own entertainment in the shape of prizes and refreshments. Tuesday being the twelfth marriage anniversary of Mr. aud Mrs. W. O. DeYey, a party of friends proceeded to their house in a body, costumed in Bheets and pillow cases, to assist them to celebrate the event. The costumes being all alike it was difficult to recognize even one's best friend. The promenade and supper given by the ladies of the First Presbyterian Church, Jast night, was a success, notwithstanding the cold atmosphere. The parlors were decorated with hanging baskets, and the tables with smilax, while in the center of each table was a tinted candle. The music was furnished bv members of the Lyra orchestra, and was excellent. The refreshments were delicious, and daintily served by the ladies. The entertainment will no doubt be repeated on a more agreeable evening. The marriage of Miss Anna Barbour, a wellknown young lady of this city, to Mr. James A. Morrison, of the Star Union line, was celebrated, yesterday afternoon, at the bride's home on North West street, in the presence of a few friends. Rev. Mr. Gautz, of the Central Christian Church, of which the bride is a member, assisted by Rev. J. Albert Rondthaler, of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, performed the ceremony. The bride wore a handsome traveling dress. Both were übe recipients of numerous gifts from friends in this and other States. The sister and daughter of Mr. Morrison, Mrs. Carrie M. Norton, of Peru, were among the guests, Mr. and Mrs. Morrison went to Chicago for a short visit, and will make this city their home. An exceedingly enjoyable programme was rendered before a large audience at the Matinee Musicale yesterday afternoon. The miscellaneous compositions were in charge of Miss Lizzie Walker and Miss Macie Coughlin. Parts were taken, vocally, of Mis3 Thompson, Miss Farquhar, Miss Walker, Miss Cooper, Miss Hauk, of Cincinnati. A trio was sung by Mrs. Lynn, Mrs. Levering and Mrs. Morrisen. The instrumental numbers included the overture to “Rosamunde." for two pianos, played by Misses Meigs, Coughlin. Bamberger and Hunter, aud solos by Miss Meigs, Miss Whittier and Miss Nannie Branham. All were admirably performed. A concert will be given on the evening of the 14th, to which the members have the privilege of inviting their friends. The president has been presented with a handsome mallet, the handle of ebony and the hammer of ivory, with the inscription: “Presented to Sirs. A. M. Robertson, President of the L. M. M. for 1883-4, ’B4-5, ’BS-6, ’B6-7." Mrs. Ida Scott was elected a member of the society. There will bo one more regular meeting before the holiday respite. Yesterday, at high noon, occurred the marriage of Miss Margaret Hooker, niece of Mr. Austin IL Brown, to Mr. Henry Bliss, of Chicago, at the residence of the bride’s uncle, on South Meridian street. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. A. Rondthaler, of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, and was witnessed by the relatives and most intimate friends of the bride. The house was very tastefully decorated with flowers. The bride wore a costume of white satin en train, with a veil enveloping her whole figure. The bouquet was of niphetus rosebuds. The ribbon-bearers were the little cousins ; —Masters Russell Sullivan and Russell Wilkinson—who performed their parts very uicoiy. The attendants were Miss Mary Brown and Miss Ella Poor, also cousins, who wore costumes of white cloth nnd carried bouquets. Among the guests from away were Mr. and Mrs. Buck, Mr. George Thayer. Mr. and Mrs. RoiloOclesbeo, and Miss Joanne Oglesbeo. of Plymouth: Mr. H. G. Bliss, father of the groom, aud Miss Mary Muuson, of Chicago. A large number of handsome and useful presents were received from friends, both from this city and elsewhere. After the service the guests sat down to a lunch. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss left. at. 4 o’clock for the South, whore they will, visit for about a fortnight, returning to Chicago to live. The bride is a very popular young lady among her associates. gaw-m’bkide. Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Mattoon, 111., Dec. I.—Thomas W. Gaw, cashier of the Mattoon Bank, was married this •veniug to Miss Lucy A. Mcßride, an accom>lished lady, formerly of Cleveland, O. The marriage ceremouy was performed at the residence of A. M. Mozier.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1886.

AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS. Pergonal and Local. The station on the C., St. L. &P. known as Willow station was closed yesterday. The result of the recent railroad elections at Jeffersonville makes it quite improbable that the L , C. & D. road, if built, will touch Jeffersonville. The proposed railroad from Cannelton, Ind., by way of Tell City and Troy to Gentry villo will be built The surveyors will commence locating the line on Saturday. Morris McDonald, of New Albany, is president of the company. J. L. Raibel, formerly chief clerk of E. B. McClure, when tbe deceased was superintendent of the I. & St. L. road, is spending a few days with friends In this city. For seven years past he has been in Denver in the service of Wells Fargo & Cos. The impression prevails that the court will order the Illinois Midland resold, as the recent foreclosure sale was unsatisfactory, seemingly, to all parties. Sbojild the road be sold again it will doubtless become a part of the system of one of Indianapolis’s best roads. There has been a general advance of wages by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company to the employes on the Lake Erie division—the engineers. firemen, brakemen and conductors. This advance is a voluntary act on tbe part of the managers of the road. It is stated that there is not a road in this State, or in Illinois, that derives so large a per cent, of its gross earnings from its passenger busiuess as does the Indiana, Bloomington & Western. The earnings of this department often reach nearly 50 per cent of the total sum of gross earnings. Horace Scott yesterday received a telegram stating that he had been elected president of one of Kansas’s new roads, the to-be built Wichita, Dodge City & Trinidad. The road runs west from Wichita, and i.. to be 273 miles in length. Colonel Scott will leave for Wichita to-day to look the field over. Herbert Royston, who represents the Indianapolis car works in Chicago, is spending a day or two in the city. He has two or three good contracts which he expects to close in a few days. The first question now asked by roads that wish to contract for cars is, “How soon can you furnish them?" A. E. Schrader, traffic manager of the Illinois Midland road, was in the city yesterday. He states that the road will withdraw from the Peoria pool, as the other roads show a disposition to crowd them out of business there by awarding a much smaller per cent, in the east-bound pool than they are entitled to. There is a good deal of scolding among Western freight men that the trunk lines are using the cars of Western roads to handle the accumulated grain which is to go forward from Buffalo and other points to the Eastern markets instead of promptly returning them to the roads which are entitled to their service. “Tom Anderson," says a Kansas paper, “is to have high official connection with the passenger agency of the Chicago fc Rock Island road. The ‘great Rock Island’ route could not do a more popular thing. Tom Anderson knows all about Kansas, and is a thorough railroad man. He gave the Santa Fe very much of its popularity.” The St. Louis. Jerseyville & Springfield railroad, a portion of the Wabash system, extending from Bates, 111., to Elsa, on the Mississippi river, and thence to Grafton, has been secured by a syndicate of St. Louis capitalists, who will operate the road independently hereafter, under the name of the St. Louis & Central Illinois railroad.

If there is any virtu® in pool*, let there be a west-bound pool out of Indianapolis formed at once. A3 matters now stand, neither of the Western lines are realizing any revenue on any freight they carry for points west of the river, where arbitrary rates take effect —hardly enough to pay for the oiling of the equipments on which the freight is moved. At one of the monthly meetings of the directors of tlie Pennsylvania Railroad Company the fact came out that that corporation had just paid out $274,000 for “overs" to other companies in the trunk-line pool which had carried less than their quota. President Roberts was asked what the company was getting in return, and he frankly admitted that he did not know. The earnings of the L., N. A. & C. road for the third week 'To November were $37,702; increase over earnings for corresponding week of 1885, $1,340. Tbe earnings of the Wabash were $246,000; a decrease of $33,000, as compared with earnings for the corresponding week of 1885. The earnings of the C., H & D. were $lB6 more this year, in the third week of November, than last year. The southwestern system of the Pennsylvania lines, of which John F. Miller is general superintendent, earned in October, gross, $1,146,000, against $1,014,671 during the corresponding month in 1885. The net earnings this year were $319,300. The earnings for the ten months ending Oct. 31 wore $9,719,200, gross; netjearnings, $2,250,500; increase over tho net earnings of the corresponding period in 1885, $1,751,300. The Boston Commercial Bulletin says the bull point on Atchison last week was the extension to Chicago and this point, on which the stock went up to par, would three months earlier have sent the stock down ten points. The idea would then have been that running in debt $12,000,000 or $15,000,000 more was perilous in the view of the experience the Wabash got in extending to Chicago. Now it is simply an evidence of enterprise on the part of the management Several changes In agents on the C., T. f St. L. & C. took effect yesterday. E. Woodington, night operator at Kankakee, took the agency at St Ann, vice E. C. Corkins, transferred from St. Ann to Fowler, ho succeeding George Richmire, who resigned to take the office of county clerx of Benton county, to which he was recently elected. E. M. Lakin takes the agency nt Eastman. vice F. A. Doll, appointed night operator at Batesville, one of the most important offices on the road, Joseph James Coleman has been appointed general freight agent of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road, W. H. McDoel, who formerly held that position, having been premotod. with the title of general traffic manager. Mr. Coleman was until recently the general freight agent of the Milwaukee & Northern and the Wisconsin & Michgan roads, at Milwaukee. He is thirty-five years of age, and has had twenty years’ experience in railroauiug. He assumed his new duties yesterday. In the eleven months ending Nov. 30 the Island City Coal Company has forwarded to this market, over the Indianapolis & Vince nnes road, 92,000 tons of coal, and are now placing it on this market at the rate of 600 tons per day. Then there is the coal traffic of the Duggor mines to be added to this. Its less than five years ago that the high officials of the Pennsylvania lines smiled and made fun of the young sunerintendents who asked for aid to develop the coal industries on the line of the I. & V. The net increase in earnings on the whole Pennsylvania system the ton months ending Oct. 31, were $1,272,396. There has been an extraordinary increase of expenses, which indicates a continuation of the policy on the part of the Pennsylvania of improving the condition of the road and the equipment, even though dividends do not grow. Thi6 will prove to be wise in the loug run. Big dividends encourage competition, A good road-bed and equipment make a railroad do business at a profit even when rates are low. Chicago and there are four good lines running through trains between these points, yet it takes, practically, two days and a night or two nights and a day for a business man to visit Chicago and transact a few hours’ business. All roads leave at about the same time at both terminals, which seems business-like. If the L., N. A. & C. wants to strike out in the lead they will put on a train out of Indianapolis at 6 A. m., arriving at 12 o’clock (noon) at Chicago, and an answering train leaving Chicago at 4:30 p. m., arriving at Indianapolis nt 10:30 p. M., making connections with the several trains out of here for the West ani Southwest. The Big Four people would do weil to give such a change their attention. Passenger business for the month of November makes, in the aggrer ite, a better showing than had been anticipated, as the effects of the low-rate excursion business the preceding months hsd hardly passed off yet. The receipts from saies of tickets at tbe Inion Depot exceeded those of November, 1885, about 16 percent, and at the outside offices larger sales are reported than last year in Katember. the receipts at the Pennsylvania dalia offices being $2,300 larger, nt the C., L, fct. JL. & €. office S6OO

ahead of last year, notwithstanding the fact that this road had no office open on Bouth Illinois street The 1., B. &W. outside office, as well, shows a handsome increase in sales, and th* business of the Bee-line up-town office was th* largest in any month since the office was opened. The Chicago & Indiana Coal road is attracting a good deal of attention tor a road that has beep in operation bnt a few months. An effort is being made to bull the stock on tbe belief that the common stock will pay a dividend. The Wallstreet News says of the Chicago & Indiana Coal and Railway Company: “The president of the company is Mr. H. H. Porter, who started the Omaha road and carried it safely along until he landed it on the Northwestern. Mr. Porter’s Omaha friands are in with him in his present enterprise, and are confident he will carry it through as successfully as he did the Omaha. It is not so very long ago that the street used to thiuk Omaha consols remarkably high around par, because they were comparatively new. The bonds and stocks of the Chicago & Indiana company, it is claimed by President Porter and his friends, will pay present purchasers as handsomely as did the early purchasers of the Omaha securities.” Geo. Daniels, assistant commissioner of the Central Traffic Association, has issued the following circular, under date of Dec. 1, which shows that the position of arbitrator, declined by Wm. B. Shattuc, still goes begging: To All Members of the Central Traffic Association— An important meetingof managers will be held at Chicago on Dec. 14. I have been requested by Commissioner Blanchard to call a meeting of this department at the same time. The regular monthly meeting of this department is. therefore, hereby called at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1886, at 10 o’clock a. m. A full attendance is requested. If any member is unable to attend in person, he is urged to send a representative empowered to act, that the business of the meeting may not be delayed. Mr. W. B. Bhattuc, having declined the position of arbitrato-, Mr. Blanchard requests that the passenger department suggest other names for that position, to be acted upon by the managers at their meeting. One of the special orders of this meeting, therefore, will bo the nomination of a passenger arbitrator. Tlie Southwest the Growing Section. Seldom a day passes that there is not two or three new railroad enterprises sprung in the Southwest, and this is, in fact, becoming the great growing section, with all the promise that the Northwest ever held out, and the building of new roads in that territory or the reorganization on a sounder basis of the roads which were built before their time is merely a healthy growth of transportation facilities to meet the increased necessities of business. Among the more importaut projects contemplated or under headway we note the following: The Rock Island intends to build down into Texas, and will go on to El Paso; the St. Louis & San Francisco road will goon to Albuquerque, and the Atchison is going in the same direction. The Denver & New Orleans is extending down from Pueblo to meet the northern extension of the Fort Worth & Denver City, which company has just completed contracts for a two-hundred-mile extension, and will join the other road at a point on the Canadian river. At this point the Rock Island extension and the San Francisco extension will unite, coming from different directions, while the Atchison will cross the Fort Worth & Denver City road somewhat south. Arrangements have been made between all these companies not to parallel each othor, but to so run their lines of road as to be of mutual assistance. The line the Fort Worth road takes is through northwestern Texas, and rather a hard country for a railroad to knock a living out of; but this is mainly a matter of good management and of low capitalization at the start.

Believes in Honorable Competition, A railroad man well acquainted with President Garrett, of the Baltimore & Ohio road, says that Mr. Garrett believes in competiton; that so long as it is conducted on a healthy basis ho believes that it helps the transporter, the producer and the consumer. For this reason he took little stock in the rumored deals between, the Pennsylvania and the B. &O. The railroad man thinks, however, that the two managements are on better terms now than at any time in some years. The Philadelphia Record, as well, attaches littloimportance to the rumored friendly deals. The Record says: “For years it had been the aim of his father and himself to reach the trade of New York, and to share the valuable traffic that originates in Philadelphia, amounting to an average of nearly 25,000 tons of through freight per day. After the car3 of the Baltimore corporation had been driven off the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; after Mr. Garrett’s company had spent nearly $12,000,000 in carrying out his plans; after it had overcome the greatest obstacle which confronted it—that of the opposition of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to its entry into Philadelphia—does it seem probable that the advances and promises which the Pennsylvania Railroad Company had persistently urged, and which had been as persistently rejected, would induce Mr. Garrett, when his work had been accomplished, to suddenly abandon his project.” The Western Passenger Pool. Chicago, Dec. I.—The members of the Western passenger pool were in session to-day for t.he purpose of accomplishing a reorganization, but they ran up against anew obstacle. The Wabash agreed to adopt the same periods as the other roads for ascertaining business upon which to award percentages, but insisted upon being allowed to make the same rates per mile between St. Louis and Kansas City as the Chicago ronds between Chicago and Council Bluffs. All of the other lines were a unit against this proposition, and no agreement being possible, the question was referred to Managers Potter, Chappell, Newman and Talmage, they to reach a compromise, if possible. The meeting adjourned subject to the call of the chairman. A Proposition Rejected. Chicago, Dec. I.—A special to the Daily News from Springfield, 111., says: Officials of the Ohio & Mississippi railroad appeared before the railroad aqd warehouse commission to-day and offdred to make an agreement to put the Springfield division in good condition, provided the comnissioners will withdraw their suit in the courts to compel the road to make tbe improvement. The commissioners declined to consider the proposition.

Miscellaneous Notes. Montana Central engineers are said to be in the field running a line to Butte. A meeting of the Northwestern Freight Association has been called for to day. The Manitoba announces that company’s branch between Elk river and Malaca was opened for business yesterday. The Northern Pacific has issued a circular announcing that the Spokane & Idaho line was opened for freight business yesterday. The Railroad Gazette attributes the recent wrecking of a train and burning of passengers at Rio on the St. Paul road, in Wisconsin, to defective switching arrangements. Commencing with yesterday, the Omaha will hereafter run its through trains over its own track to Omaha, and connect at its own depot there with the Union Pacific. The Omaha through train now runs betweon Kansas City and St. Paul via Council Bluffs and the Burlington’s Kansas City road. The Chicago Journal says: ‘‘Simply because another car-load of people have not been burned to death since the Rio disaster is no excuse for letting the car stove drop out of sight. A safer method of warming railway cars is imperatively demanded. Let the railroad companies see to it that the want is supplied." President Corbin, of the Philadelphia & Reading, is promptly carrying out his ideas for the re organization of the management of the property. By an order issued yesterday the engineering department is swept away, or, rather, the maintenance of way bureau is separated from the engineering department. The chief engineer will hereafter be in charge only of new work, although he will probably continue to act in an advisory capacity. Oxe hundred doses one dollar is inseparably connected with Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and is true of no other medicine. A bottle of Hood’s Sarsaparilla contains 100 doses, and will last a month, while others will average to last not over a week. Use only Hood's Sarsaparilla.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Names of Members Elect, with Their Districts and Postoffice Addresses. The following is a list of the members of the Ouueral Assembly, as appears upon the face of the returns. As is known, the seats of many are contested, and the political complexion of the Legislature as it shall finally be determined may Dot be shown in this list: The Senate. REPUBLICAN HOLD-OVER SENATORS. DeKalb and Noble counties —N. F.nsley, Auburn. Delaware and Randolph—J. W. Macy, Winchester. Elkhart—W. J. Davis, Goshen. Fayette and Henry—J. N. Huston. Connersville. Fountain and Warren—A. Marshall, Harvevsburg. Hamilton ank Tipton—C. C. Duncan, Sharpsville. Hendricks and Putnam—L. M. Campbell. Danville. Kosciusko and Wabash—George Moon, Warsaw. Lagrange and Steuben—J. S. Drake, Lagrange. Marion—F. Winter, Indianapolis. Total—lo. REPUBLICAN SENATORS ELECTBD. Cass—A. R Schroyer, Logansport. Howard and Miami—B. F. Harness, Kokomo. Lake and Porter—Mark L. DeMott, Valparaiso. Parke and Vermillion—Robert B. Sears, Newport. Tippecanoe—Jasper M. Dresser, L&faj'ette. Wayne—Henry U. Johnson, Richmond. Benton, Newton and Jasper—Simon P. Thompson, Rensselaer. Lawrence and Jackson—W. N. McDonald, Seymour. Hancock and Rush—A. M. Kennedy, Rushrille. Total—9. DEMOCRATIC HOLD-OVER SENATORS. Boone, Clinton and Montgomery (2) —D. C. Bryant, Frankfort; S. Peters, Bowers. Carroll, White and Pulaski—E. B. Sellers, Monticello. Clark, Scott and Jennings—A. G. Smith, North Vernon. Clay and Owen—l. H. Fowler, Spencer. Decatur and Shelby—F. M. Howard, Bt. Paul. Floyd and Washington—John S. Day, New Albany. Fulton and Marshall—V. Zimmerman, Rochester. Hancock, Marion and Shelby—Leon O. Bailey, Indianapolis. LaPorte—Morgan Weir, LaPorte. Marion—W. C. Thompson. Indianapolis. Vanderburg—Wm. Rahm, jr., Evansville. Vigo—P. Schloss, Terre Haute. Grant and Madison—S. S. Shirley, Marion. Total—l 4. DEMOCRATIC SENATORS ELECTED. Adams, Jay and Blackford— S. W. Hall, Genova. Bartholomew, Brown and Monroe—W. C. Duncan, Noblesville. Brown, Johnson and Morgan—James F. Cox, Martinsville. Crawford, Orange and Harrison—James M. Andrew, Paoli. Dubois and Perry—Oscar A. Trippett, Jasper. Daviess and Martin—C. K. Tharp, Washington. Franklin, Union and Ripley—S. E. Urmston, Brookville. Greene and Sullivan—Liberty P. Mullinlx, Worthington. Knox and Pike—William W. Berry, Wheatland. Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland—Francis M. Griffith, Vevay. Huntington and Wells—J. H. C. Smith, Bluffton. Allen—James M Barrett. Fort Wayne. St. Joseph and Starke—Timothy E. Howard, South Bend. Allen and Whitley—l. B. McDonald, Columbia City. Spencer and Warrick—Hiram W. Logsdon, Rockport. Clark and Jefferson—David McClure, Jeffersonville. Posev and Gibson—J. W. French, Mount Vernon. Totai—l7.

House. REPUBLICANS ELECTED. Benton and Warren—George E. Nolin, Boswell. Clinton and Tippecanoe—Robert Carrick, Frank' fort. Daviess—W, R. Gardiner, Wasbyigton. Delaware-Joseph 8. Duckies, Muncie. Decatur— W. It. Pieak, Adams. Elkhart—John E. Thompson, Benton. Fayette and Henry—William Grose, New Castle. Gibson—J. M. Montgomery, Princeton. Grant —M. S. Friend, Hackleman. Greene —John D. Alexander, Bloomfield. Hamilton—Lafayette Ousler, Noblesville. Sendricks —Jacob H. Fleece, North Salem. enry—William A. Brown, New Castle. Howard—John A. Loop, Kokomo. Jasper and Newton —Isaac D. Dunn, Test Jefferson—John VV. Liil£k. Madison. Kosciusko—Daniel Miller, Sidney. Lagrange—John Kelley, Brighton. Lake—Joseph A. Little. Lowell. Montgomery—Hannibal Trout, Crawfordsville. Morgan—Alfred W. Scott, Martinsville. Noble—Hiram McCrea, Kendallville. Parke—George W. Hobson. Marshall. Porter—Nelson Barnard. Westville. Randolph—Jonah L. C'atey, Carlos City. Rush—Thomas M. Green, Rushville. Steuben—E. A. Davis, Angola. Tippecanoe—Job Osborn, Farmers’ Institute. Wabash—Warren G. Sayre, Wabash. Wayne (2) —Joseph A. Commons, Centerville; E. B. Reynolds, Hagerstown. Huntington—C. E. Briant, Huntington. Clinton—David J. McMath, Pickard’s Mills. Vanderburg (2)—Jacob Covert and Philip Kline. Orange and Crawford—S. B. A. Oonder. Orleans. DeKalb—Jacob B. Leeghty, Blair. Fulton—W. I. Howard. Rochester. DeKalb, Noble and Elkhart—W. M. Van Slyke, Gosport. Pike—Joseph Stubblefield. Carroll—Charles Harley, Delphi. Warrick—Edward Gough, Boonville. Perry—Henry Groves. Boone—James H. Kelly, New Brunswick. Fountain—Prior Coates, Harveysburg. Gibson, Knox and Vanderburg—R. L. Mackey, Vincennes. Hancock—Rev. W. T. Aekman, Fortville. Hancock, Shelby and Marion—Sidney Conger, Flat Rock. Marion (3) —John L. Griffiths, John Caver., William Morse, Indianapolis. Ripley—Donald McCallum, Benham’s Store. Spencer—Samuel Kercheval, Kercheval P. O. Vigo—Wesley Glover, Terre Haute. Washington—Lee W. Sinclair, Salem. Total—ss. DEMOCRATS ELECTED. Adams and Jay—S. S. Selvey, Dunkirk, Adams, Jay and Blackford—Elisha Pierce, Hartford City. Bartholomew—James T. Galbreatli, Columbus. Brown and Monroe—C. P. Werrell, Bloomington. Cass—L. B. Custer, Logansport. Clark—Willis L. Barnes, Charlestown. Clay—William Connelly, Clay City. I)earborn—Omer F. Roberts, Ijawrenceburg. Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland—George S. Pleasants, Vevay. Dubois and Martin—Thomas M. Clark, Shoals. Dubois, Orange and Lawrence—Thomas B. Buskirk, Paoli. Floyd—Charles L. Jewett, New Albany. Franklin —Samuel S. Harrell, Brookville. Franklin, Union and Ripley—Thomas W. Sunman, Suntnan Station. Harrison—Smith Askren, Corydon. Jackson—William H. Shields, Rockford. Johnson—Jacob L. White, Franklin. Knox—Mason J. Niblack, Vincennes. LaPorte—William Blinks, LaPorte. Madison—Frank P. Foster, Anderson. Marshall—Charles P. Killison, Plymouth. Miami—Jabez F. Cox. Peru. Owen—John 8. Montgomery, Quincy. Posey—William H. Whitworth, Mount Vernon. Pulaski and White—Simon Weyland. Pulaski, Starke and LaPorte—Sylvester Bertram, Knox. Putnam—Jcfcn R. Gordon, Greencastle, Shelby—Charles Major, Shelbyville. Sullivan—James B. Patton, Sullivan. Wells—Levi Mock, Bluffton. Whitley—Martin D. Garrison, Columbia City. Scott and Jennings—Charles W. Crusou, Scottsburg. Allen —(2) W. M. Shambaugh and Austin M. Darrach. Cass and Miami—Charles G. Cox, New Waverly. Clark, Floyd and Jefferson—John R. Cushman, Madison. Clay, Putnam and Montgomery—F. J. S. Robinson. Marion—(2) John Schley and Daniel Foley, Indianapolis. St. Joseph—(2) William IT. Stull, South Bend, and Edward H. Metzgor, Pleasant Lake. Tipton—James I. Parker, Tipton. Sullivan, Vigo and Vermillion—John T. Beasley, Sullivan. Vivo—Cornelius Meagher, Terro Haute. Total—4s.

Summary. Senate—Republicans, 19; Democrats, 31. House —Republicans, 55; Democrats, 45. Democratic majority on joint ballot, 2. Real Estate Transfers. Instruments filed for record in the recorder’s offico of Marion county, Indiana, for the twenty-for hours ending at ft p. if., Dec. 1, 1886, as furnished by Elliott & Butler, abstracters of titles, Room 23 iEtna Building: J. Hunt Smith and wife to Ernest Viewegb, part of west half, northeast quarter, section 18, township 15 north, of range 4 ead, SOOO.OO Isaac O. Walker ami wife to Cyrus H. McCormick, jr., lot G and part of 5, in square 77, in Indianapolis 40,000.00 Archibald Wlnlnga, guardian, to John W. Thompson, part of west half, southeast quarter, section 11, township 15, range 2 cast. 600.00

Melvin L. Parker to Henry C. Wright and wife, lot 5, of Phillipsa subdivision of block 24, in Johnson's heirs' addition to Indianapolis 2.330.0# Sarah Simmons et al. to Henry O. Wright aad wife, lot 4, In Phillips's subdivision of part of block 24, in Johnson's heirs’ addition to Indianapolis 800.0# Wm. H. Morrison and wife to Elizabeth Johnson, lot 23. in E. T. Fletcher’s subdivision of E. T. Fletcher’s first addition to Indianapolis 18.70 Wm. J. Thomas and wife to Henry C. Allen, lot 35. in Samuel Record’s subdivision. in the town of Lawrence...... 125.00 Ambrose P. Stanton and wife to Phoebe M. Taylor, part of lots 4 and 5, in square 30, in Drake’s addition to Indianapolis 4,000.00 Charles S. Fort and wife to DonD. Wells, lot 99, in Elliott’s subdivision of outlot 150. in Indianapolis 250.0# John H. Vajen and wife to Carl H. Matthias, lots 28 and 29, in Ezra A. Ollexnan’s subdivision of block 8, in Holmes’s West-end addition to Indianapolis 800.00 F. M. Churchman et al. to Wm. Tilford, lots 46 and 47, in block 1, in Wiley & Msrtin’s addition to Indianapolis. 400.00 John H. Vajen and wife to Richard Ryan, lots 27, 28 and 29. in John H. Vajen* subdivision of block 13, in Holmes’s West-end addition to Indianapolis 375.00 Conveyances, 12; consideration $50,296 70 THE RECORD OF TIIE COURTS. United States District Court* Bon. W. A. Woods, Judge. United States vs. T. S. Kest, and his sureties on hiß oflci&l bond as Indian agent for $3,100. Trial by jury; verdict for defendant Thomas B. Leiter vs. The Kankakee Shooting and Fishing Club; demands damages to tha amount of SI,OOO, for having been arrested and fined by the club for trespassing. Ou trial by jurySuperior Court. Room I— Hon. Napoleon B. Taylor, Judge. Samuel M. Vaughn vs. Martha Hughbankf; damages. Dismissed. Boom 2—lion. D. W. Bowe, Judge. Mary Denker vs. Christian Denker; divorce. Granted; srounds, failure to provide. Henry Paul vs. Louis Greiner et al.; damages. Jury find for defendants. Ira Krutz vs. G. A. Wurgler; suit for possession of personal property. On trial by jury. NEW SUITS. Joseph Kraminer et al. vs. Adolph Schwartz etal.; complaint on account. Demand, $1,200. Charles Lauer vs. Jackson Smith et al; complaint on note. Demand, S2OO. “Used St Jacobs Oil for rheumatic pains with great success.”—F. Mableuhoff, Cincinnati, When Baby was sick, we gave her Castor la, When ahe was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, in mm YOU WANT TO SEE THE RADIANT HOME BEFORE YOU BUY A BASE-BURNER, I. L. PKANKEM, 30 East Washington Street

ADJOURNED SALE OP CERTAIN PARTS OP THE imiAiwmmiLiY In the Circuit Court of the United States for ths District of Indiana, the Southern District of Illinois and the Northern District of Ohio (Western Division), The Central Trust Com nan of New York vs. The Lake Erie & Western Railway Company et al., and consolidated causes. Notice is hereby given that the sale of the line of railway and property extending from Bloomington, Illinois, to Muncie, Indiana, covered by the tirrt mortgage made by the Lafayette, Bloomington & Muncie Railway Company to the Central Trust Company of New York, bearing date May 1, 1879, and the sale of the line of railway and property extending from Muncie, Indiana, to Fremont, Ohio, covered by the first mortgage made by the Lake Erie & Western Railway Company to the Central Trust Company of New York, bearing date August 15, 1879, heretofore advertised in this paper to take place at the city of Muncie, in the Stare of Indiana, on Saturday, tnS 13th day of November, 1886, has been, by order of each of said courts entered in the above entitled cause, adjourned for thirty days from said last named date; and that, pursuant to the original order and dd cree of sale entered in said cause by each of said courts respectively, the undersigned, special master, will offer for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the door of the building used as a courthouse, in the citv of Muncie, in the State of Indiana, on TUESDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OP DECEMBER. A. D. 1886, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. ra. and 4 o’clock p. m. of said day, beginr ning at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, all and singular the railway and property covered by each of said mortgages respectively, os the Bame are described, and upon the terms stated, in the said decrees of said courts and the said notice of sale heretofore puW lisbed, to which decrees and notice reference 1* hereby made for a more particular description of tha property ordered to be sold and terms of sale JOHN A. HENRY. Special Master. Butler, Stillman & Hubbard, Williams & Thompson, Solicitors for Central Trust Company. **.*.,*oDS, Bolts, Stirrups, Plates, Washers And CONSTRUCTION WORK STEEL PDLLEY AND MACHINE WORKS (Successors to Machine and Bolt Works), 79 to 85 South Pennsylvania St., INDIANAPOLIS Its causes, and anew and sno* I cessful CURE at your own II 1,1 home, by one who mis deaf “ twentjr-eUht years. Treated by most of the noted specialists without benefit. Cured in three months, and since then hundreds of others. Full Sartlculars sent on application. V & PAGE, No. 41 West m.st St., New York Clift

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