Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1887 — Page 3

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ASKING TIIE COUBrS AID.

Green Smith'sAudacious VivalS'St'SSSS

iffeial Protection of His Usurpation. He Asks Jodge Ayers to Immediately Restrain Colonel Robertson from Performing the Duties of Lieutenant-Governor. The Case Filed in a Court Where It Can not Be Finally Tried Until February. Contest of the Democratic Aspirants for the Senatorial Nomination &t the Caucus To Be Held This Evening GREEN SMITH'S LATEST MOVE. Judge Ayres Asked to Issue an Injunction Against Lieutenant-Governor Robertson. Green Smith, the usurping presiding officer of the Senate, last evening instituted quo warranto proceedings against Lieutenant-governor Robertson, asking for an immediate restraining orfar preventing him from attempting to officiate as Lieutenant-governor or from assuming to be the legally elected possessor of the office. The move was decided on at the caucuses of the Demoorats Tuesday night. Although Smith has professed all along that he was in favor of having the question settled in the shortest possible time, the proceedings were brought in the Circuit Court, the regular term of which does not

X1 begin until the first Monday in February, so that there is no nossibilitv of getting thacase through

the higher courts during the session of the Legislature. There are two branches of the Superior Court open, in either of which the proceedings could have been brought The plan decided upon in the caucus was to have nothing but the temporary restraining order issued at present,

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&nd Judge Ayres, who is in the midst of court v work at Danville, was telegraphed to come to jr the city yesterday morning, as there was important business demanding his attention. He

did not come in the morning, and the attorneys for the plaintiff Messrs. Brown, Turpie and Byfield were nervous all day for fear he would not come. They climbed the stairs to the courtroom a half dozen times in the after noon to see if he had arrived. However, he came over on the evening train, and went directly to the eourt-room. A few minutes afterward the three attorneys filed in. and there was a general consultation. One of . them Went down to the Clerk's office, found Clerk Sullivan and had the complaint filed, and then took it away with him. The filing clerk, and no one else in the office, knew anything about the c document The utmost secrecy characterized th whole proceedings. The information states in the first paragraph : that Smith has been a resident of Jennings county since 1808, that he Was elected State Sen ator from Jackson and Jennings county in 1884 for the term of four years, that on Anril 13, 1885, he was "elected President of the Senate of the general Assembly, and under said lection ac tented aaid offloe, and entered upon the dis sbarge of the duties of the same: and yet is and remains in possession of said office, the Presi dent of the Senate, competent, duly qualified, willing And lee&llv entitled to discharge the du tiea of said office." On the 6th day of January, 1887, during a regular session of the General Assembly, he was recognized by the Senate as Its President, and was also at that time re-elect

h id as President of the Senate, and 5s now in

actual possession of the office and the discharge of its duties, no other person or member of the Senate having been chosen or elected to the 6ffice. He further recites the fact of General Man sou's vacation of the office of Lieutenant gov ernor, in last Julv, by the acceptance of a fed eral appointment, and feats: ''Because of said vacancy having occurred in said office of Lieu tenant-governor as aforesaid, the plaintiff, as President of the Senate bf Indiana as aforesaid. On the dav and year last aforesaid, succeeded to the discharge of the duties of the office of Lieu tenant-governor of the State of Indiana, and is in possesion thereof, and lawfully entitled to dist-harire tho duties thereof as required and provided by the Constitution and laws Of the State of Indiana, and to receive the pay, benefits and emoluments of said office as the same are Sxed by law." In another paragraph he sets forth the fact of Robert S. Robertson's election to fill the vacancy, which the plaintiff claims was "falsely assumed and pretenSed," the canvass of the vote in the Several counties, the transmission of officially sraled rfeturns to the Secretary of State, to be delivered by him to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and their delivery to Warren (J. Sfrr. the Speaker, on Jan. 8, 1387. The infor " matin then pars that "on the 10th day of Janu ary, 1887, the said Warren G. Sayre, as Speaker cf said House of Representatives, opened and published said returns in the presence of eaid House of Representatives for the State of lndi ana, the Senate of said State of In oiar.a not boing present at the open ing and publishing of said returns, nor in session at the time thereof, it having adjourned on Friday, the 7th day of Jan uarr. aforesaid, to met on Tuesday the 11th day of January, aforesaid, and upon the pubhea tion and counting of said returns declared that the said defendant had received the highest number of votes rast at said election for Lieu tenant-governor of said State of Indiana, and that the said defendant was duly elected Lieu-lenant-govtmor fer said State of Indiana, and thereupon the said defendant assumed to take the oath of office as such Lieutenant-governor and then and there unlawfully usurped and intruded himself into said office of Lieu tenant-governor by then and there un lawfully all em pun g to hold ana exercise the duties and functions thereof, and the

T foresaid Sneaker of said House of Represent

tires then and there recognized the said defend ant as the rightful and lawful Lieutenaut-gov srnor of the said State of Indiana, and then and there surrendered to him the right to preside aver the Assembly, falsely and fraudulently siaimed bv said Sneaker and said defendant to be a joint convention of the two houses of the

1 General Assembly of the State of Indiana, and

I the f aid defendant thereupon usurped and exer

cised the right to preside over the so-called joint .Anr.niiAn " f .alii nnara! Aoeomtilv nrif nrl . journed the samt to meet at a future day, to wit, the 19th day of January, 188." The relator of the information further avers that it is "the intent &nd nnrnose of the said de

N fendant, Robert S. Robertson, to unlawfully C intrude himself into, and usurp the rights end duties of presiding over the Senate of the State of Indiana, to the exclusion of your relator, and

s thus unlawfully and wrongfully deprive him of his said office, and the right , to discharge ail of the duties pertaining, and your relator has reason to believe, and does believe, and bo charges, that said defendant, Robert S. Robertson, will, unless restrained by the order and injunction of the court, surreptitiously, clandestinely, er forcibly, attempt to take unlawful possession of said office." A similar Averment as to the intent and purposes of the defendant is made regardine the joint convention of the assembly on the 19th inst. He further aver that he is supported by the majority of the Senate, and that he 'is informed and belieres that the Speaker, Sayres, supported by a majority of the members of the House, ere unlawfully aiding, abetting and supporting Robertson in his nnlawfnl attempt to nsurp and intrude himself into office of Lientenant-gov-ernor and presiding offirer of the Senate, and that there is, unlets restrained by the ardor and injunction of this court, imminent darker of violence, and that the said defendant, Robert Robertson, aided as aforesaid, will caue ierisus interruption of the public business of tbe State of Indiana, and disturb the public peae-i?ni therefore your relator charges that the remission of the threatened damages and lojurier hereinbefore set forth and charged vrijl pur relator treat, grievous and if-

reparable Injury, damage and detriment, and to tho deprival of tbe relator of his rights, benefits, pay and emoluments as President of the Senate, lawfully entitled thereto."

The information concludes with a prayer for an ant-jrovernor, or attempting to perform the daties of President of the Senate, "or presiding or attempting to preside over 6aid Senate, or any joint convention or meeting of said Senate and House of Representatives, or exercising or attempting to exercise any other rights or privileges pertaining to said office of Lieutenantgovernor." He further sets forth that emer gency " exists for an "immediate granting of a restraining order, without notice, to prevent threatened wrong and injury, restraining him in the manner above prayed, until notice of the foregoing application for injunction can be given and heard." On the final hearing of this cause judgment of ouster against the dependent excluding him from the office of Lieutenant-governor is prayed for. At 5 o clock Lieutenant-governor Robertson "was served at the Denison House with a notice to appear before Judge Ayres at 9 o'clock this morning and answer why a restraining order should not be issued. Tbe notice served on him was drawn up in a way that made it illegal. Tbe language of it is that "he shall ainear before the judge of the Circuit Court on the 14th day of January at 9 o'clock, the same being the nrst judicial day or the February term of court, which begins tbe first Monday in February, the same being the 14th." The proceeding was generally commented upon, last evening, as one which is, to say the least, very audacious, and it so nearly involves the same question that was recently ruled upon by Judge Ayres and the Supreme Court that it is almost certain at the final trial to result as the previous case did. Judge Turpie himself was overheard to say. last evening, it is reported, that he did not believe the court had any jurisdiction in the case. THE SENATORIAL FIGHT. Gray Working Hard to Defeat tbe Nomina tion of McDonald. The Democratic senatorial caucus will be held to-night in the Senate chamber, but the opinion prevails that it will take several nights of wran gling before anyone is named. If there was any change in the situation yesterday or last night it was in favor of Judge Turpie. He is not an avowed candidate as yet, but it is understood he has consented to allow his name to go before the caucus, with the understanding that his friends are to bo charged with the act His strength is coming from the Gray men, who are working unscrupulously to defeat McDonald. With them it is any one rather than the "old fossilized politician," as they style him, and in Turpie they see the most available man. Within the last two days many petitions have come in to the Gray men from all sections of the State, asking that in case Gray cannot be made the nominee Turpie should be chosen, and these petitions have greatly strengthened the courage of the few supporters Turpie had when his name was first mentioned. "Is there any possibility of Gray yet re-enter' ing the racer' was asked a leading supporter of the Governor last night "There is no possibility," was the answer; he is out of the' race, and out to stay. He still believes that there will be no election, and he has freed himself from all entanglements in or der that he may go into the next race unham pered. His ambition is to ne United Senator, and he knows tnat u he does the right thing this time he will have a sure thing of it two years from now, in case there is no election, or in four years, when, it is believed, Voorheea will step down and out Gray is young yet, and he is willing to wait" Whether or not Gray is doing the fair thing Was being discussed by McDonald supporters about the hotels lat night They do not consider it the proper thine for him to come ont and personally work against any other candidate, and that was what he was doing last night, and has been -doing ever since he announced his withdrawal. He was about the hotels last night,, and was using all the argument he could command against the nomination of McDonald. His action created some indignation, and not a few who have heretofore looked upon him with a a" malt degree of favor were free to express their disgust at the course he is pursuing, and threaten to treasure up their wrath for use on the day Of judgment in his case. Gray himself expresses no preference among candidates, outside of McDonald, but. his demand is for a "man wh6 represents the young Democracy and who is a good organizer." He takes no stock in the "old-style" Democracy, of which he nas much to say, but seems to nave a patent on some sort at a new breed, for which he is having much trouble in finding a competent representative. While the strength of his forces has gone to Turpie, he expresses no preference for the Judge himself, but it is understood that there is some sort of understanding between them that leads him to secretly indorse his candi dacy. Although Turpie's chances havo been strengthened, and Holman has a considerable following, McDonald is still in the lead. His support is considerably Btronger than that of any of the other aspirants, yet not a hair dozen Democrats could be found last night, outside of his support ers, who believed that be would be nominated. Even some of the Senators who are doing all they can for him have little faith in being successful. One of them remarked to a Journal reporter last eight "McDonald is the choice of the Democrats of the State, but I am afraid that we can't pull him through. There is a faction in the party composed of men who do not like McDonald,, and who will leave nothing undone to defeat him. The men who are opposing him are unscrupulous, and in accomplishing their designs will stoop to things that McDonald will not, and will not allow his supporters to engage in. There isn't an intelligent Democrat who wjll not admit that McDonald is the best-qualified man for the office." Holman still reclines in a big arm-chair, in Room 45, at tbe Grand Hotel, and is serene, if not sanguine. His door stands ajar, and ell who desire to enter are welcome and are always given a hearty reception. He will not return home ntil after the nomination is made. When he came to the city one week ago. in response to a telegram from his friend, Dr. W. D. H. Hunter, he found but a few members who were willing to come out and pledge him their support, but hia friends say he has made a very favorable impression on all tbe members who have met him aud they have all been enticed up and has organized a very formidable opposition to the leading candidates. There is no question but what lie is much more of a senatorial quantity than he was when he came. The labor organizations, through their appointed committees, are stiil urging the claims of Bynum, but he has developed no strength worthy of mention, and, it is said, his name will not be presented to the caucus to-night The representatives of thelabor organizations are attempting to use argument for Bynam to the effect that he is tbe only man who can be elected, but all such talk is hooted at by the party leaders, and some of them have been indiscreet enoueh to say that they got all the service out of the labor organizations they wanted at the election, and want no advice from them cow. Last Night's Democratic Caaeua. The Democratic Representatives in caucus at the Capitol, last night, dealt only with surmises as te what would be tbe next move of the Republicans. A great deal of talk ensued without leading to any definite plan, although it is believed the majority will decide to act with the Senate Democrats in whatever is arranged for the joint convention to elect a United States Senator. In New YorK. Boston Courier. First broker's boy What is your pa, Johnnie? Second broker's boy My pa is a bull. F. B. B. And what is your mal S. B. My ma! I dunno. O yes hold on. I saw her when she ws dressed to go out to a tarty last evening, and I guess she must be a are. Do not be deceived by unprincipled persons who are offering vorihjs preparations, but ask for Goocb'a Mexian Syrup, and take no other. U will cure your cough.

THOUGHTS ABOUT THINGS.

The Ideas Suggested to Rev. Myron W. Reed by Tennyson's Locksley Hall. An Entertaining Lecture on Old Ways Compared with Those of the Progressive and Improved New World. There was a large audience at Plymouth Church last night to hear Rev. Myron W. Reed's lecture. As he rose to speak he said he had made the mistake of naming the lecture before it was written. He had called it "Concerning Optimism;" after writing it he thought perhaps the title of Tennyson's last poem, "Locksley Hall, Sixty Years After," would do as well. "I prefer," he eaid, "the old poem. This latest of Tennyson's seems to be a miserere. While we have been trying to follow his advice and 'ring out the old, ring in the new,' he finds fault with us. He seems to have lost his ear for the marching steps of the good time coming. What is the matter with old Mr. Tennyson anyway? He seems to have had a good time in life. The weather of his worst day has been kinder than that of the best day of Robert Burns. Tennyson has been a favorite with the powers that be, from the Queen to the book-seller. When an old man dies at noon saying that it is night, the sun has cot fallen; it is only that the old man's eyes are darkened. Isaiah saw many cheerful things, and so did St John, and John Brown, and Plato. I prefer to take their word for it as against the word of any four cynics. Of course, the book entitled, 'Is Life Worth Living?' was written by an Englishman an English gentleman who had nothing to do but to ask questions. People who earn their living seldom commit suicide. It is some Prince of Denmark who argues the advantages of dying. The voice of Victor Hugo did not change when he was eighty. He believed in the outcome. He had a thousand things begun that he had cot finished a thousand things planned that he had not begun. He wanted to be immortal. He said it was necessary to him in order that he might attend to the unfinished business and the new business. He did not adjourn when he died he took a recess, and was soon at work again in some department of 'God's labor-house vast' "Mr. Tennyson is looking backward at the good old times.' When Locksley Hall was in a flourishing condition men were hung for snaring a rabbit If three men met together to talk polities, It was a felony. Little children worked in coal mines. There was a great deal of British military glory being made bright by the black background of industrial misery. Contrast Gladstone with Tennyson. The story of Gladstone's life increases in interest The chapters toward the end are the best A good foreet fulness is a more blessed gift than a perfect memory. A great lover of statistics was at the funeral of his wife. The coffin was lowered. He held his bull's-eye watch as if at a horse race, and announced that it was lust twenty minutes past Z when we got her in. I am getting somewhat tired of things that ought to be buried-and the memory of them. What is the use of walking round a dead ox and telling people what a loud he used to pull. A man may sit, on Christinas, and can think of nothing but the days that hate been; but his little son is thinking of the days to tome. I hear him ask: 'When is fire-crarker day coming?' which is expressire for the Fourth of July. It was remarked by a Colorado editor, last October, that by the time a certain candidate had gone through with his campaign he would have lost the cheerful optimism which so pleasantly characterized him. I do not see why the result of what a member from Colorado calls the 'idees of November' should change a philosophy. Some men make a miscue, and then stand back and think the earth is off its center, and some men chalk the cue and try it again. John Banyan sees the Delectable mountains and the celestial city from the floor of a jail. The best and most hopeful work has been done by invalids. Thev put their personal patn aside and see things as they are "All this talk of freedom and equality is very depressing to Mr. Tennyson. It was to his grandfather, in 1776 It is to anybody who holds more than he has earned. There is an irritation manifest in the poem of the same kind as that of a certain doctor of divinity at a meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the good old days when Abraham Lincoln was a boy. Some one presented a petition for some action on the slavery question, and he then inquired if they were 'to be pestered every year by this sort of thing?' And the 6ame General Assembly put in a day and a half on the sin of dancing. 'Is one little ship-load of immigrants, .driven by the wind to settle at Ply men th, to settle the fashion for all the people who arrive at various times along the coast? Is the child of the Puritan to settle and remain rorever on the bleak hill side and harvest the annual, only-unfailing-crop of stones, or shall he, moving West forget something and learn something? Our young men can no longer go West They must go up or down. Not new land, but new virture must be the outlet of the future. Our halt at the harriers of the Pacific is a more Berious atzair man tnat wnicn broagnt our ancestors to a pause before the barriers of the Atlantic, and compelled them to practice living together. Men from Cain and Abraham knew how to go apart; they must now learn how to live together. "The plow of Egypt is a good plow for that old country or for New Mexico. Tbe modern butcher finds that Moses's way of killing cattle is wise and adopts it. Henry George finds much of his new doctrine in the old Bible and in tbe oldest books of the Bible. We cannot break suddenly and utterly with the past It takes a long time to change a sheen dog into a shepherd or a Ute into a farmer. The alligator lingers still above the earth. He does not flourish, but he lingers. He and Locksley Hall are in poor health. Less than a week's journey will Jet you see a threshing floor and and a winnowingfan of the time of Abraham. I have seen women bringing water from the Gila river in;ars on their shoulders. It was a good enough picvure of the Hebrew trirl of Genesis. I have seen a woman on a burro carrying the baby in the fold of her blanket, her husband on- foot at her side. That is the flieht into Eevpt. There is no better place to read in the old Syrian books than in Colorado and New Mexico. Ben-IIur was written by a man who had never seeu Palestine. He had read books and looked at the low white-walled Till- es of our Southwest He found the old hatats, and customs, and colors. Since the book was written he has been abroad walked to Emmaus and found nothing to correct in his vivid nictures. . "Nothing new has gone perfectly out, nothing new has perfectly come in. Cleopatra's needle and the statue of Robert Burns are visible in the same new city. I read with delight that the stone of Egypt is flaking off that it cannot stand the atmosphere of the new world. Nothing built by slaves and sold by thieves can long endure our climate. Robert Burns, in Central Park, is not flaking off. He has come to the new world to stay. Cleopatra and her luggage belong to the Nile. "Much eruelty has gone out of the world. God was represented as a magnified Peter the Great, or the Tycoon, doing things for his own pleasure commanding tbe creature to be better than the Creator. There is much to make one think in this that the same men who believed in the utter corruption of human nature yet believed that man was capable of self-government The Declaration of Independence well believed in has much to do with a man's social and, religious creed. It is a document that will not allow an American citizen to call himself a worm of the dust" Here at some length Mr. Reed contrasted the hard and cruel religious tenets of ibe eighteenth century with the present He continued: "But they are still trying people for heresy. Fire Andover professors of theology think that it is possible there may bo repentance after death, and if repentance, then forgiveness. They ask the question that Robert Falconer, ot the nineteenth century, propounds to his grand-

mother of the eighteenth, 'gin the deil war to repent wad God forgie himP and these heresy hunters who have invoiced the mercy of God, and know jort how much there is of it, are asking questions of these preachers and teachers. Not all of us are up to Robert Burns's charity for the deviL We have gone from tallow dips to whale oil. from that to kerosene, from that to gas and electric light, but in the science of mercy we are behind the ploughman of MossgieL "I ought, perhaps, to say a word of Father McGlynn, who has lately exercised a citizen's right to speak and vote for Henry George. He has, I understand, been summoned to Italy to give an account of himself for his conduct What an Italian has to say as to what an American chooses to do is what I wait to hear. "I like the daily newspaper. It gives us the new version of the New Testament and 'Locksley Hall Sixty Tears After,' and turns a fierce

light on the house of Argyll. It tells how far the new has come in within twenty-four hours, and how far the old has retreated. It will make an optimist of any man to rep.d'the daily papers. Mr. Grady's speech at the late New England dinner pictures the old South and the new South. It is a hopeful, confident, forward looking speech by a man who believe in America from oeanu to ocean and from Maine to the golf under one nag. "I read 'Locksley Hall Sixty Years After,' and then reach for Robert Buahacan's poem, 'Tom Dunstau.' Tom was one of many shoemakers in a grimy shop. They stitched and stitched in the thiok smoke of their breath. He was working as his father and his fathers father, no light and no color. Bet he real the newspapers. Something was the matter with his lungs. So, finally, he did the reading whil6 the others worked, they sharing their wagres with him. From the news of the world he drew great draughts of hope. The more his lungs wore out the more liebt he saw. Dying, he raised himself on his elbow to whisper to the men: 'Courage boys! No matter though A man be dead ' It's a-eoraing! Wait a littfo. Freedom's ah&ad!'" TALK AEOUT MEN. Gossip Kegranlinir Some of the Persons About Whom Things Are Incidentally Said. Judge Roberts, Representative from Dearborn, county, is a courtly old gentleman with a long white beard. He is a suave, polished, and entertaining talker, a 6trong personal friend of Hon. Wm. S. Hilroan, and is a resident of Aurora, 8cmetimes called Holmanville. The Judge has a hobby the railroad pass syetem to legislators. He favors a law making it an offense punishable with fine and imprisonment for any member of the General Assembly to accept a pass from any railroad corporation or any agent thereof. Sereeaut Fredericks, a survivor of the Greeley expedition, was about, yesterday, in his shirtsleeves, complaining that the Weather was much too warm. "I auopose an Esquimau," said the Sorgeant, "couldn't he made to understand that heat, no matter how strong it might be, could. nnder any circumstances, occasion Buffering. A hereafter ef unquenchable fire would have no terrors for him, and when missionaries are sent to tbe ever-frozen north, they will have to pre atili a future for tho wicked of even more intense cold." Stto Senator Benjamin Franklin Harness, of Howard county, is not given to oratory, but will be found to be a man of plain, cid-faehioced common sense. He is a lawyer, aboafc thirtythree years old, acd has lived all his life in the county he now represents. He is nearly six feet high, weishs about 175 pounds, is muscular, of fine phyfique, ot untiring enercy and unswerving honesty. There is not a Democrat in Howard county to say a word m disparagement of Senator Harness' solid merits, and even the opposition paper ther9, the Dispatrh, when he was nominated gave htm a fairly good send-off. He has never bwfora held a political office and the nomination for Senator came to him without his seeking. Firemen Earned by an Explosion. PrrTSBTT, Jan. 12. Chief of the Fire Department Evan?, Assistant Chief Steele and firemen Hanpt, Graham, Milllcan and Becney were painfully burned by a n&tarai gas explosion in the cellar of A. D. Welling, occupied by Mrs. Anderson, on Twelfth street, this morning. A small fire was discovered in tbe collar about 11 o'clock, and a number of firemen had gone down to extinguish it Suddenly there was a heavy concussion, followed by a blinding flash, which enveloped the firemen, and then the flame died ont The explosion shook the houses in the neighborhood, aud as quickly as possible the unfortunate men were removed from the building. All were badly burned about the head and face, but nono of them are believed to have received fatal injuries. A leak in the gas pipes is supposed to have been tbe cause of tbe explosion. The damase to the house by fire was very slight Sensational Libel Suit. Jacksow. Tenn., Jan. 12. -Rf.r. Frederick Howard, D. D., pastor of the Central Baptist Church and editor of tbe True Baptist, this city, through his attorneys, Messrs. Pitts, Hars & Weeks, to day filed papers in the Circuit Court for libel against sixteen members of the First Baptist Church and the Forked Blade of this city, the Tennessee Baptist of Memphis, and the Baptist Reflector of Chattanooga, Tenn. Dr. Howard sues for $50,000 damages to his character on account of certain publications by the defendants. The date for ttial is fixed for the 2St.h of March, And thus begins one of the most sensational uDei suits ever Known m our community. i Advance In the Price of Nails. Pittsbttro, Pa., Jan. 12. At a meeting of the Western Nail Association, held here to-day, it was unanimously decided to advance the card rate on nails f rem $140 to $2.60 per keg. This advance was made necessary, the manufacturers claim, on account of the recent increase in the price of the raw material and the heavy de mand. The meeting was harmonious, and the attendance large, all the factories in the associa tion being represented. According to the nailers' scale, the card rate having reached $2.60. wages will new be advanced 1 cent pr keg, which will be an increase of about 5h per cent over their present wages. Another Accident at TifHn. TrFFiN, O., Jan. 12. There was another railroaa wreck here to-day. As e. Baltimore & Ohio passenger train was crossing the Saudusky river a freight on the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western jumped the track at the crossing of the two roads, ust east of the river, and before both trains could be stopped nine freight cars bad been wrecked and piled in everv direction. The passenger engine was damaged. The passengers were badly scared by the shock, but no one was injured. 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