Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1892 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1892.

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During the week ending Jan. 2 tho total number of deaths in New York city was CCD, of which eighty-six were from tho prip. People have ceased to ipeak slightingly of that disease. Those Democratic papers which do not wish to devote themselves to an exclusively crow diet after tho Democratic national convention should not now devote themselves to the abuse of David Bennett Hill. The Sentinel has already provided for a full flock. TnAT ex-Governor Hill is in earnest for the presidential nomination there can bo no doubt. "He is a candidate," pays tho New York Herald, "and takes the wholo world into his confidence." Tho srreater part of tho country has no confidence in the new Senator. When those who are seeking a "broadshouldered" Western Democrat as a presidential candidate name Senator John M. Palmer, of Illinois, a man who was seventy-four years of age last September, and an ex-Republican, they confess the scarcity of the "broad-shouldered" brand west of tho Allegheny mountains. The New York Republicans may as well abandon the hope that the Rev. Senator Edwards will co-operate with them in the State Senate. He poses as an "independent," and in the present condition of politics ninety-nine men out of a hundred who do this are Democrats in sympathy, but too cowardly to acknowledge the fact openly. It is reported that Senator Palmer will undertake, in connection with Chairman Springer, to defeat tho confirmation of Col. "W. R. Morrison as member of tho Interstate Commission. Both Palmer and Morrison are spoken of as Democrats of tho presidential size. It remains to be seen if Senator Palmer can defeat tho confirmation of Morrison. Tho betting man can safely back Mor rison, since the fight is a personal one. I TriE story comes from Washington, through tho New York Times, that Senator Gorman will not allow the new Senntor Hill to become prominent, as he has presidential aspirations of his own. He will seek to secure tho solid South, and will have Senator Palmer, of Illinois, appear ns a candidato in the West, to play tho part to Gorman which Springer played to Crisp in the speakership contest. ; . - ; The recent predictions of. London .Truth about tho independence of Canada and Australia in a few years aro reported to have canscd considerable indignation in England, whero the loss of n foot of territory once controlled by tho British government is regarded as a national disgrace. There is a good deal in this, and those who expect to seo Great Britain willingly permit Canada to becomo an independent nationality nro sure to bo disappointed whenever tho attempt is made. Senator Hill, of New York, is reported ns saying to a friend that Mr." Cleveland cannot get tho nomination and must now know it, and that he believed Mr. Cleveland knows that he cannot bo elected if nominated. Furthermore, it is said that the ex-Governor will resign from the Senate if ho secures tho presidential nomination, and will ask Governor Flower to mako Mr. Cleveland his successor in tho Senate. This is said to bo Hill's scheme for placating Mr. Cleveland and his friends. It will certainly arouse them. Mr. William B. Hess, of Plymouth, Ind., who was yesterday appointed by the President United States consul-general to Constantinople, is well known throughout the northern part of tho State. He is a lawyer by profession, and stands high a the bar, enjoying an excellent reputation for personal integrity as well as professional ability. Mr. Hess is a stanch Republican, an actlvo member of tho Methodist Episcopal Church, and enjoys the respect of all who know him. Ho has practiced law in Plymouth since 1870. The guerrilla operations along tho 31 ex i can border receive new interest and importance from the statement that they are instigated and backed by the clerical party in Mexico. It has been known for come time that this party and the influence of tho local Catholic priesthood were opposed to tho Diaz government, but this disclosure of an attempt to overthrow the republic is a surprise. The allegation is that the clerical party is furnishing the money for Garza's operations, and that ho is limply tho will

ing tool of a scheme to raiso a revolu- J

non ana overtnrow tno present government. The movement is said to bo in the interest of Iturbide, son of tho fornier Emperor of that name. If these statements arc true they furnish additional reason why the United States forces should try to capture Garza. Wo do not want an empire in Mexico. THE SUPREME CCUHT AED SAILWAY 8TATIOSS. Tho decision of tho United States Supreme Court relative to tho duty of railroads in establishing stations raises some interesting questions in regard to the relations between railroads and tho public. Perhaps it would be more accurate to gay that tho decision settles tho question referred to. though tho dissenting opinion of threo judges shows that there is room for a difference of opinion as to the law of the case. The question before the court was whether a railroad company may establish its stations arbitrarily without reference to the wishes of the public, and may even remove a station from an established town to a site on land owned by tho railroad company, whero it is proposed to build up a new and rival town. There has been a good deal of this sort of thing done in the new States, sometimes greatly to tho inconvenience of the people, or at least of some people. Tho object generally is to "boom" a new town and put money in the treasury of the railroad or in the pockets of its managers, or of a laud syndicate with which the managers aro in league. At first blush it looks like a great injustice and outrage for a road thus to remove a station from one point to another by an arbitrary exercise of power. No doubt it has sometimes resulted in great damage and hardship to individuals who havo made investments and engaged in business in the belief that the station was permanently located at a particular point, and in some instances promising towns have been ruined by tho building up of new ones in tho near vicinity. It is a selfish, cold-blooded policy on the part of the railroads, and tho first impulse of every right-thinking man is to say it should not bo permitted. ' Tho question is one of cold law, and cannot be decided on grounds of general prejudico against corporations. The popular feeling against corporations is largely justifiable, and there is every reason why they should bo restricted as much as possible, but it must be remembered that corporations havo rights as well ns individuals, and it is the duty of tho courts to enforce these rights. Tho question is. on what grounds can a railroad company be enjoined or prevented from establishing its stations where it 6ees fit, or from changing a station from one point to another, unless expressly forbidden from so doing by its charter? Admitting tho selfishness, the injustice and the hardship to individnalsthatmay bo involved in such a change, the question still remains, on what grounds can it be prevented? Certainly not under any State law or act of Congress, as thero is no legislation on the subject. Neither is there any implied or reserved right in any State or in Congress to require a railroad company to establish or maintain stations at any particular point. It cannot be on tho ground that railroads are common carriers, becauso the law in relation to common carriers does not by any means go to the extent of making the establishment of railroad stations subject to Stato control. The only ground, apparently, on which the courts could be asked to interfere to prcvont a railroad from changing its station from one point, or one town to another, is that of an implied contract between the company and tho residents of a particular town that it shall continue to bo a station, and that a chango would work hardship and loss to those who had made investments or engaged in business in tho expectation that it would so continue. It is asking a great deal of a court first to presume a contract and then to enforco it. Thero must bo mutuality in a contract, and a railroad company would havo as much right to ask the courts to compel the citizens of a particular town to furnish a certain amount of busineps ns tho citizens have to ask that the road be required to maintain its station there. Suppose a railroad company finds, after a station has been established and a town has grown up, that a mistake was made. Suppose the country develops in another direction and it is found that more business could be secured at another point. Shall tho company bo estopped, in tho abseuco of any agreement or contract, from moving the station to a new point? Tho courts cannot inquire into the company's motives in making tho change. Its motive may be, and no doubt generally is, purely mercenary, but that does not matter. Tho question i3 one of legal right, and not of motive. The question further is whether, in the absence of any legislation on tho subject, the courts have a right to presumo a contract between a railroad company and the public that a station shall bo maintained perpetually at a given point. Lot ns reverso tho case. Suppose that rich gold deposits aro discovered some distance from a railroad town and all tho inhabitants desert tho placo and go to the diggings, where they found a new town and destroy the old one. Would tho railroad company havo a claim for damages against tho people who had thus destroyed their station? Certainly not. In tho caso in hand Justice Brewer, who wrote the dissenting opinion, anid: I hold, as do tho two justices dissenting from thin opinion. that the Supreme Court of the United States, if not the court of tho States, has the right to compel a railroad company to locate and maintain a station where the interests of the public demand it. I hold, further, that it is a violation of tho law and a moral crime for a great corporation and public servant to destroy the property of others for their own interests, i hold that the Supreme Court of the United States has the authority, as an illustration of what the dissenting justices stand upon, to force a company to maintain established stations wherever the interests of the public demand them, even to the detriment of the company's interests. That savors a good deal of broad assertion. It is the popular side, but is it law? If the Supremo Court of the United States "has the right to compel A railroad company to locate and maintain a station where tho intoretts of tho

public demand it" where does it get the right? Justice Brewer should bo able to cito some clauso of tho Constitution or laws that confers such a right It is fallacious to assert that "it is a violation of tho law for a great corporation and public servant to destroy the property of others for their own interests." Of course it is, but the removal of a station is not a destruction of property in a legal sense. The majority of the court took the ground that the court would only interfere to compel a railroad to perform a particular act "where there is a specific legal duty on its part to do that act and clear proof of a breach of duty." In other words, tho court will compel railroads to observe their contracts and obey the law, but it will not presume a contract or a law whero none exists. Tho location or change of stations is a matter for tho directors, and tho court would not assume to direct the directors. We believe the decision of the court is good law as well as good sense. The dissenting opinion represents the popular view, but in our opinion it is not a correct view.

A GBEAT NEWSPAPER YEAR. Tho year 16C2 will be a great newspaper year. Indeed, to an intelligent man who proposes to keep up with the times, a good newspaper is the next necessary after food and raiment. To escape being ignorant, the citizen needs to read 'a paper carefully every day, or at least every day's paper some timo within tho week. But this is to bo ayear full of stirring events. Toward its closo comes the presidential election, and rarely, if ever, has such an election been raoro important, and certainly none since 1600 has attracted wider attention than that which is pending. In fact, it may bo said that tho campaign has already begun, becanso combinations aro being made and questions are being discussed with a view of affecting tho presidential election. Then wo have a new Congressso new that a largo portion of it may bo labeled "fresh." The action of tho House will n fleet the presidential struggle, and indicate to tho country the fitness or unfitness of tho Democracy to direct the affairs of tho country. The fact that the Democratic House is divided into two factions only serves to make its proceedings matters of greater interest. Tho issues turn largely upon economic questions, which n fleet every man, whether he works by the day, tills a farm or runs a factory. Thero is a deal of self-interest in tho issue, and for that reason everybody should carefully secure tho facts and examine tho arguments. The real newspaper will give all tho news. It will present the platforms and tho addresses of the leaders. Tho press dispatches will report faithfully and impartially, while the editorial columns will bo filled with criticisms, discussions and facts to sustain one side or the other. Thero will be no independent papers in 1S93 those which will attempt to discuss both sides with judicial fairness. Every man who is qualified to say anything on the pending questions will say it in favor of one side or the other, and his paper will bo as much a partisan paper as those which honestly declare themselves to be party advocates. Therefore, if any newspaper publisher asks support becauso his paper is on both sides of the presidential contest regard him as unworthy of confidence. In the panorama which the life of a great nation presents there must be much which is not only of interest, but of importance, to tho man and woman who would be intelligent. As the years pass, with tho railroad, the telegraph and broadening commerce, the vision of the intelligent citizen has widened, and his interest extends beyond his immediate locality. Ho has relations with other parts of the world. His kindred livo in the East, tho West and the South. Commercial changes in New York affect him, and political events in distant States interest him as a member of a great nation. Tho daily paper, once a luxury, becomes a necessity to himalmost as necessary in tho morning as sunrise and breakfast. But this year of all, tho full daily morning paper is essential to tho well-being of the American citizen. Such a paper the Indianapolis Journal proposes to be. In reconstructing tho Interstate-commerce Commission the President has reappointed Hon. W. R. Morrison, of Illinois, and has added two new members. Judge Coolty. of Michigan, is succeeded by Hon. James W. McDill, of Iowa, and Hon. W. L. Bragg, deceased, is succeeded by Uon. W. M. Lindsoy, of Kentucky. Judge McDill is a native of Ohio and a graduate of Miami University, where he was a classmate of the President. In Iowa, whither he removed in 185G, he has been circuit and district judge, Representative in Congress from 1872 to 1877, United States Senator from 1880 to 1SS3, and has served two terms as State Railroad Commissioner. He is a man of high character and unquestioned ability. Ho is a Republican. Hon. W. M. Lindsey, of Kentucky, is a native of Virginia, served in the confederate army, and has been a member of the Court of Appeals and Chief-justice of that court in Kentucky. Ho stands very high at tho bar, and is a Democrat. Tho commission consists of five members, and as now constituted thero are threo Republicans and two Democrats. The law requires tho commission to be divided in politics. Old members of the House are persuaded that tho desks of members in the hall of fhat body aro tho cause of a great deal of .the confusion and noiso, since members do a great deal of noisy work at them, paying no attention to the proceedings of the House. Tho House of Commons in England has no desks in the general hall, simply seats for the members, tho decks beiug in adjoining rooms. This rather compels tho members to pay attention to what is going on, and, being thus compelled, tho custom is to make matters unpleasaut for speakers unless they are entertaining. It is said that Speaker Crisp is seriously considering the adoption of tho British system in the new rules, and that exSpeaker Reed is an advocate of the

chango. Still, the average American Representative will be likely to fight for his desk in the hall of legislation.

TnE President yesterday sent in the name of Mr. William D. McCoy, of this city, for United States minister to Liberia. Mr. McCoy is one of our best known and most popular colored citizens. He is a gentleman of good education, high character and pleasant, dignified manners. For some years past he has been a teacher in one of the public schools in this city, and in that capacity, as in every other, has earned the respect of all who know him. Mr. McCoy is well qualified for the position to which he has been appointed, and the appointment will give entire satisfaction to the Republicans of this city and wherever he is known. Elsewhere in this issuo of the Journal is a biographical sketch of the new minister. Minneapolis, which does not greatly exceed this city in size, very greatly exceeds it in the number, acreage and value of its parks. It has twenty-seven parks and boulevards, embracing 1,136 acres, valued at $4,054,500. In comparison with this statement it is hardly worth while to enumerate, ours. The difference is largely duo to a difference of local pride and public spirit, thirteen of the parks of Minneapolis, valued at S1.C00.000, having been presented outright to tho city. The spirit of giving has not yet struck our wealthy citizens. The plan to build a long boulevard in the city is a good one, and one that should be carried out as early as circumstances will permit. The level ground in and around Indianapolis is well adapted for pleasure driving, but good roads for that purpose are wof oily lacking. Heavy traffic not being prohibited from any of the streets, it naturally goes to those that have the best pavements, making carriage driving there attendant with risks and soon wearing the pavements to a roughness not suited to light vehicles. While the street improvement is under way arrangements should be made for reserving a thoroughfare here and there for the use of carriages exclusively. Tennessee and Alabama, two of the streets mentioned in the petition to the Board of Pubho Works, are well suited to the purpose, the former especially, being wide enough from Washington street north to admit of a central strip of parking in boulevard fashion. Such an improvement would add immensely to the attractions of Indianapolis as a place of residence. If Maupassant, the French novelist, recovers from his attempt at suicide he can use his experience as "material" in one of bis highly-colored romances. A hero who fires six shots at himself and then gashes his throat with a razor, all without hurting himself seriously, will serve admirably as a subject for much lurid writing. And so KingMalietoa is out of patience with the foreigners in Samoa. Let's see: isn't Robert Louis Stevenson loafing and Inviting his soul down there? May be the trouble is that the old King is tired of waiting for the last chapter of that interminable serial, "The Wreckers." It is easy enough to account for the Czar's denial that there is famine in Russia. He believes that the' Czar is the state, and, finding plenty to eat at his end of the table, sees no reason why his subjects should he hungry. '. To the Editor or trie Indianapolis Journal: When wan the. edict of the Ctnr of Russia issued for the expulsion of the Jes, and were any other reasons assigned than their religion! The edict was promulgated about six months ago. Religious prejudice was one of the causes, but hostility to the race was a more potent influence, Jews have gradually beeu excluded from the army, local o flirts and tho mechanic trades for several years. It is said that the Russian peasantry is very hostile , to tho Hebrews because they surpass them in cleverness in business transactions. ' To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: 1. What a?e is required for admission to West Point and Annapolis? 2. Can a Representative appoint without a iree-for-all examination! BUBSCItlUEB. 1. Seventeen to twenty-two years for the Military Academy; fourteen to eighteen years for the naval. 2. Yes; but he must pass the official examination after appointment before admission to the school. UCBBLES IN TUE A1IL A Schemer. What! You gwine to put dat littlo brack imp in de baby showl" ' "Yasin deed. 'Boot de time de mudders o all dein white younguns git after dat committee dcy'll be mighty glad to coniperwlse on my little Raatus, an doun' you fergit It!' II nd Seen letter Days. "I once had an income of $5 a minute,' said the man who had just accepted a dune with p:ofuso thanks. "Really I" "Yes, indeed. It only lasted about three minutes, though. I was playing laro at the time." nest He Could Do. Nice way yon have," said Choilie's father, "of alluding to me as tho 'old gent.' You might at least call me the 'old gentleman I think' "But, gov'nah," responded Chollie, in tones of pained expostulation, "you-just "will keen on wearing thos hawld wcady-made ties, don't yoa know." False Pretense. "I wont my money back," said the squarejawed woman. "This stuff ain't what it's cracked up to be, by a heap." "NolH ventured the druggist. "No, indeed. Doesn't it say on the bottle that three applications to the hair will convert the most pronounced brunette into a charming blonder' " "I guess it does." "WeU, It didn't work with me. I'm blonde eDOUgh.but I don't eem to charm for a cent lie's gone and married that pug-nosed widder on Central avenue." ABOUT riOPLE AM) THINGS. Robert Lotjis Stkvknson said some years ago: "Certainly, if I could help it, I would never marry a wife who wrote." Hut Mrs. Stevenson could surely do something better than much of her husband's recent South sea writings. Zadkiku the English planet-reader, in his sixty-second annual almanac, just issued, has found a message somewhere in his stellar readings to the etlect that in November of next year there will be "a death of an empress or a queen." The Duke of Cambridge, who is a cousin of Queeu Victoria and Generalissimo of the British army, has the reputation of nsing the most violent language of anybody in the English army. His profanity is pioturesqne and high colored, of the character customary a half century ago, and as his Royal Highness is a man of proverbially short temper the occasions on which his conversation is embellished with bloodcurdling oaths are frequent. No man is a hero to bis valet, but there is a Pullman porter on the l'ennsylv.ma road whose admiration for ex-Senstw: Ingalls is unbounded. The ex-Senator has frequently traveled in the darkey's car between "Washington and St. Louis and caused him to marvel at his prodigious

fondness for reading. From one end of the journey to the other the Senator used to read incessantly, says the porter, dropping his book only for meals and at bedtime. OwrEN Meredith's (Lord Lytton's) coffin was borne to the grave without a blossom to decorate its pall, according to the direction of Lady Lytton, who said that her husband had requested that not so much "as the tiniest violet or the smallest rosebud' should be used about his bier. "What, in heaven's name, have poor flowers done to be condemned to serve such a horrid purpose as being consigned to vaults and graves! 1 like a sad-looking funeral was a frequent saying ot the poet's, and his funeral ceremony was, indeed, a gloomy one, TnE senatorial seat which Plumb vacated by his death, and to which Perkins succeeds, has had an eventful history. General Lane, who held it first, committed suicide. Governor Carney, who occupied it for a brief period, found it a grave for his political hopes. E. U. Ross, who went out of politics after the Johnson impeachment proceedings, is now a printer in New Mexico, poor, forgotten and politically dead. Plumb died before his time. The other Kansas senatorial seat has had but three occupants in thirty years Pomeroy, Ingallsand Peffer. Miss Harkirt Monroe, who is writing the ode for the world's fair, has had a good deal of poetry of a high order in the Century. She is the daughter of a Chicago lawyer, and was educated at a Georgetown convent. This is the way she is described: Miss Monroe is of medium height and slender figure, with a clear-cut face, just a trifle too earnest in her expression. She has an abundance of soft brown hair, with eyes of dark hazel, and when she smiles her whole face is lighted up. There is strength in the delicately chiseled face, and. with its intellectual stamp, it is one to inspire a second look from one in a crowd. They, are telling in Washington this story of Senator Kyle's campaign methods: When a candidate for Congressman he made a house-to-house canvass; and he had a very large district to cover. At the time which he put in his best work the farmers were really too busy to talk politics. Mr. Kyle took with him in a buggy a big stout negro, and then went right into the fields after his votes. Introducing himself to the busy tiller of the soil, and engaging the latter a moment in conversation, he would have the negro take the plow and continue the field work, while candidate and farmer would go oft under a tree, take a smoke and talk things over.

FLAGGING A TRAIN. A Cautious Conductor Tells II ow Easily s Trainman Slight Make a Failure. New York Tribune. The terrible collision on the New York Central railway, near Tarry town, has been the subject of conversation among railroad employes 6inco it occurred. A conductor on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railway, to whom is entrusted one of the fastest trains on the road, the other day said to a Tribune reporter: "Yes; it is very dangerous to stop a train on the mam track when the lightning express is due. Few people ever think of the responsibility that is placed on tho man who is sent back to signal the following train. You dee him take his red ilag or lantern and run down the track, and you feel perfectly secure, but suppose something happens to that man suppose he should fall in a tit or suppose he should moet any sort of accident, which happens to dozens of other people in ditlerent stations of life, what a terrible collision would be the result. I have thought of it a hundred times, and I oan assure yon that no brakeman under my charge goes back with a ilag whom 1 do not watch carefully. I note how far back he goes and I look him . over to see that he is all right, for I know how oasy it is to miss signaling atrain and I know what the awful consequence is. "Now, take a ferryboat for instance: there is a law requiring that two men shall be in the pilot-house all the time the boat is in motion. Who would think of letting an engine go out with only one man on her, even if he were able to attend to the tiro and keoD her running at the same timet It is not an nncommon thing for an engineer to faint . while on duty, or to strike his head against some obstacle outside the cab window while the train is running along at a high rate of speed, which renders him unconscious, but you see the fireman is always there to lean to his assistance and take charge of tho locomotive and save the train from destruction. It seems such a simplo task for a man to signal a.i approaching train to stop. So it is simple; very simple. All you have to do is to stand between the rails and wave the Ilag across the track and back until the engineer sees you. lly the signal frum the whistle on his locomotive you know that you are eeen and understood. First he blows one short blast, which means 'down brakes.' Then he blows a long blast to warn the train ahead that he is coming slowly and won't rnu into it. But, as I said before, how simple it would be for the liagman to miss the train. He might stumble and hit his head on some rock, or on the rails, or he might faint away from a dozen ditlerent causes; then who would there be to warn the engineer of the dangerf No one! And an accident like the one on the Central would bo the result. T11 tell you a littlo story ot a flagman who once saved my train from being wrecked by presence of mind. We were on the night line and it was a dark, rainy night, just like the Christmas eve when the Tarrytown collision occurred. The rails were slippery and we were nearly au hour lute getting out of Washington, where we lind changed engines and prepared to go over the mountains. We were somewhere the other side of Oxford on our journey. It was so dark you could not see your hand before your face, and the old enixitio was swinging the train along at a tremendous gait when suddenly I heard Billy, the engineer, whistle for brakes, and then heard the long blast of warning. The train came to a stand-Ktill, presently and I jumped off and ran forward. "'What's up, Billy,' I said, 'some one flag yout' No,' he replied, but I heard something hit the side of the boiler, just outside of the cab, and I see pieoesof red glass on the running-board. 1 think some one threw a lantern at me. Better rnn around that curve and see if every thing is all right!' "I started ou a jog trot, one of the brakemen with me, while Billy followed with tho engine and train. When we got around the curve we could seo through the mist and fog probably a hundred yards in front the reflection of tire, and hear the hissing of steam from a big freight engine which had gone down the bank, dragging some cars after her. There was a wreck ot the worst kind, and we came near running into it at full speed. 1 ran back to the rear of my own train to send back our signals, while we waited for orders to run around the wreck, aud on my way I met the 'flagman of the freight. His lantern had gone out just as we came in sight so he stepped back by the side of the track, and an Billy rushed by bo threw his lantern at the cab window. His aim was bad, but his judgmont was good lor it is more than likely there would have bem an awful wreck if he waa got by him. The train was crowded with passengers, but none of them knew what a narrow escape tbey had that night. "Torpedoes are good things, but uncertain. They don't always explode. The only sure thing is a trustworthy man, and a wide-awake conductor, who will keep a sharp lookout to see that nothing happens to him when he is back with a flag. The block-signals are of great assistance, but tbey sometimes fail as well as everything else." Can lie Steal the United States Senate? New York Press. In bis remarks on Friday ex-Governor Hill encourged the Democracy with the prospect of obtaining control of tho United States Senate through the elections to be held in l&fi. Ile did not explain how it was to be done, and it is a mystery how it could be done in the legitimate course of events. But it is well to remember that Hill's field of operations now includes Washington, and he goes there with the prestige ot having captured two State senatorships of New York by nnlawful means. The birds of a similar feather from every State will flock about him. and he will be called upon to give advice aud direction in schems similar to that crowned with success nt Albany. It i eminently prudent, therefore, for Hepublicans to be on the lookout lor Hill. lie will not sleep, even in the Senate. His busy brain has an object in view, and this is the year in which he means to accomplish that object if he can.

NEW MINISTER TO LIBERIA

Mr. W.D. McCoy, Colored, of This City, Is Tendered the Appointment. Something of lbs New . Minister's Boyhood Days and Attainments as an Educator The Appointment Gives Satisfaction. Word was received yesterday afternoon that William D. McCoy, the wellknown colored educator, had beeu selected by President Harrison to rep. resent this Nation as minister to the African republic of Liberia. The appointment meets with general favor, not only among the people of Mr. McCoy's race, but among his white fellow-citizens, every one being free to acknowledge his thorough fitness in every way for the position, and that no better appointment could have been made. Mr. McCoy, it will be remembered, was nominated on the Republican ticket in 1S00 for the reason that he alone, of all the colored men named for Representative, could unite all factions. His gentlemanly bearing during that canvass won him many friends, and as a quiet but effective speaker he was recognized as a man of more than ordinary ability and force. William D. McCoy was bora at Cambridge City, in this State. Nov. 17, and was brought by bis parents to this William D. McCoy. city when only five months old. When he became of school age he was sent by his father to a pay-school, the colored children of that day not being admitted to the so-called free eonools. In IS61 the family removed to Cambridge, Mass. Governor Andrew had called for colored volunteers and the father wished to enter the service. lie took quite a number of colored men from this city to Boston, but was not himself allowed to go as he was over age. He remained in Cambridge, Mass., continning his business there as a barber, and sending his rod to tbe publio school where colored children enjoyed equal privileges with the whites, though at that time there wero few colored families in Cambridge. Here he continued in school for nearly ten years. In his eighteenth year he went to Sidney, O., to see an aunt, and while there taught 60hool for six months. He came from Sidney to this city to succeed L. E. Christy in charge of tho old school on Soventh street, where the tile factory now standi. He was barely eighteen years old when he took charge. That was in 1672. In June of that year he received a call to go to Helena, Ark., to teach in the publio schools of that city. He went, and for the following nine years was a resident of the South, residing most of the time in Arkansas, and a short time in the neighboring State of Mississippi. He was for a while at Little Rock, where he had charge of the ofiice of publio works. Stephen A. Horsey was bis neighbor in Helena, and Mr. McCoy used his influence for his election as United States Senator. Mr. McCoy was a member of the City Council of Helena for two terms, four years, was city recorder for two years, was superintendent of education for one year. The last-named office he resigned, lie was the first and only colored man ever elected to that position and had seventy-two schools, white and colored, under his charge. Ho returned to Indianapolis in lb79, and since that time has been continuously connected, as a teacher, with the publio Bchools of this city. No teacher stands higher in the estimation of the Board of School Commissioners, and he received the heartiest indorsement of the board when it became known that he was an applicant for the position of minister to Liberia. He was married in this city, December, 1979, to Miss Celesta H. Walker, formerly of Cincinnati. He has accumulated considerable property, and is one of the largest taxpayers among his race in this city. When asked if the appointment took him by surprise Mr. McCoy frankly answered that it did not: that he expected it He does not know when he will leare; prob.-v-bly about tUiy days after the Senate C0I firms his appointment. George L. Knox, proprietor ot the Bates House and Grand Hotel barber-shops, aud a prominent colored citizen, said last night concerning the appointment of Mr. McCoy: "This news of the appointment of Mr. McCoy minister to Liberia will be gladly welcomed by the colored people of this city, and President Harrison has made no mistake. He has done, as he generally does, the right thing at the right time. This appointment will tell for him, with not only the colored citizens of this city, but all over tho State, for two reasons. Tho fact that the appointment was made in this city and State, of course, is one, and the man chosen having been for several years one of our leading educators and a man of eminent fitness for such a distinction is the other. The colored people of this State rould not among themselves have made a better selection." DOWN ON GLANDERS. The State Sanitary Commission Proposes Active Measures Governor's Proclamation. The quarterly meeting of the Sanitary Commission of tbe Stato was held yesterday atthe office of the State Board of Health. Dr. M. E. Knowles, tbe State Veterinary Surgeon, Adams Earle of Lafayette. Samuel Bowman of South Bend and George W. Hall of Rowlev comprise this commission. Dr. Knowles reported a minimum find of j glanders and only a few caf.es of tnbercu- ( losis among tho horses. In some of the ; Ohio river counties there was a slight mortality among the horses from influenza. Twenty-one investigations were made the pant quarter, and nine Horses and mnles suffering from glanders were shot The cost to the Stato for these animals was about 15 each. Thirty-two horses and mules are now in quarantine because of exposure to the glanders. The State Board of Health officers met with the sanitary commission to discuss wava and means of overcoming those animal diseases which are most likely to be communicated to man, such as tnbercnlosis and diphtheria contracted from milk. It was decided to issue a circular to the county commissioners of all the counties of the Stats, urging them to have all the milk that is sold thoroughly analyzed. Statistics show that one ont of every rive prsone who are stricken with tuberculosis dies. (iovernor Chase will issue a proclamation against the sending of Texas and Indian Territory ponies into this State until they have been carefully examined by competent veterinary snrgoons. This is to guard against the ravages of the glande;s. What Inhibitors Must Do. Mr. B. F. Havens, executive commissioner of the world's fair, has issued the following circular to the manufacturers of Indiana: The Columbian exposition authorities at Chicago Unto that already fifty foreign roun tries have applied for spare st the exposition for the purpose of making exhibit. "Only by early application aud coaiplhtnco with tbe rules printed

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on the blank applications can lntrnl'.ng exMMV or promote their own Interests." Blank applications navlug been nt out from this ofiice la December to all manufacturers In Itdlana. ths attcntiou of such Is urgently called U niling out the aame properly aud at on c, and returning them to this o:!lce. m CAIX IS STJMi LIVING.

It Is rcssilla Now that-V&rtla lloraa'l Bullet Was Not Fatal. John Cam, the victim of Martin Moran's revolver, showed a great deal of vitality last evening, and some hopes were enter taiued that he has a chance for recovery. When a Journal reporter saw him at St. Vincent's Hospital he seemed free fro:a suffering and in an equable state of mind. His temperature was not threatening, and the inflammation in his stomach had not(Le come worse. There wa nothing to indicate that his kidneys had beeu pierced, and, with that ascertained the doctors' hopes revived. The greatest fear is that the lesion of some nerve center will produce 1 nil acim ration which will cause a turn for the worse. The basis of this is the force and size of the ball, forty-tour calibre. The flesh wound in the thigh shows that the bullet tore its way through hard.resisting muscles in a lacerated course. Cain was able, yesterday morning, to tell his story of the shooting. After he had o tie red his hand to Mo ran and had been spurned, tna latter threw oil his coat aud challenged Cain to fight. When he found himself bested he callt'd to his bartender, Lyons, to strike Cain with the beer-mallet, and he hims&lf ran for tho revolver. Cain was struck with the mallet and then started out of the saloon. He felt himself shot, and turning to Moran. said; 'For God's sake. Mart, be a gentleman. Don't shoot me again." In spite of this pleading the second shot was tired, striking Cain in the leg. Moran was refused bail yesterday and was committed to jail until the outcome of tbe assault is known. He is prominent ia Irish and Democratic political circles, and if bail is permitted will have no trouble ia securing it. He has a wife who is in a delicate condition. The shock of her husband's trouble is said to be threatening her life. ARCADE TE0JECT KEVIVED.The Alley Between Meridian and Illinois, frca W&shiDctoa to the Depot, to Be Covered. There has for some considerable time been a project on foot to arcade the alley between Meridian and Illinois streets, from Washington street to the Union Station. From the first the enterprise had its opposers. The late Charles Mayer, in the first block, and Mr. Ayers. in the second, opposed the idea. Mr. William Hau eisen and William IX Bnrfonl have been the workers and have done all they could to get the other property-owners to favorably consider tbe enterprise. Mr. Haueisen sild last night to a reporter for the Journal: "We can say something definite by the last of this month as to whether or not the arcade will be built. If it is built at all it will extend frora Washington street to tbe United Station. Tbe property-owners in the lirst block are Mr. Burford, Daniel Stewart, Charles Mayer's heirs and myself, and we are all ia favor of the movement. In the second block there are Mr. A. Kiefer. Mr. Ayers,' who owns the wholesale grocery bouse occupied by Perry Co., Mr. Malott, Mr. John W. Schmidt and Henry Schnnll. all of wnom are favorable, except Mr. Ayers, and we think we can count on him. Mr. Malott owns tho rest of the property to the depot, and is in favor of the arcade, which will be built after tho European style of arcading, two stories high. The total distance we propose to cover in nine hundred feet, and the cost is estimated at 50 per foot, or $45,000 for tho entire building. a SCHOOL REVENUES. Beml-Anncal Apportionment of the Stats Fand Made Seme of the Figiirei. The semi-annual apportionment of the common-school revenues for tuition, mane by the Superintendent of Publio Instruction on tbe first day ot January, has just been .issued by Mr. Vorics. This shows the enumeration of children ia each county, the amount of school revenue ready for apportionment in each county and the source from which the same is dorived, the total amount of school revenue for distribution and the distributive shares thereof apportioned to each county as required by law, and the amount deducted for the normal-school fund, in accordance with an act approved March 6, lt&L, A sum mary of the document shows the amount collected from the counties to be S927JS3.70; the amount in tno treasury from all other sources, (41 SSS.0,"; the balance on hand, 18,577.94. The per capita is $1.23. The following are tbe totals of. the general apportionment: Number of children between six and twenty-one years of age, 7G3.247; amount derived from tax, (678,5S4.82; interest collected on common-school fund since last apportionment, fO.CSi amount to be paid by county to balance interest account. $18.b72.50; amount derived from unclaimed fees and other sources, SH.SS8.03; total collected and ready for apportionment. , 'J72.S71.7."; amount apportioned per capita, 1.2J, 5.73,S71.75. Marion, county has 45.204 children of a school age, and her apportionment is 55,G00.i!2. ' m s NEARLY ASPHYXIATED. Edward Carney Saves the Lives of Himself and Family by Falling Out af Bed. Edward Carney, who lives at No. CC3 South Meridian street, owes his life and the lives of his family, consisting of his wife and three children, to a fall out of bed. He suddenly found himself on the floor, yesterday morning, and with half stupefied senses discovered that thero3ni was full of gas. escaped from a base-burner. Mustering every energy under the sight of the unconscious form of his wife, be struggled to the windows and started a current of fresh air through the house, lie next made the discovery that not only his wife, but his two hoys and the baby were also unconscioue. Dr. C. I. Fletcher was called aud administered antidotes which put them all out of danger. The whole family, however, was confined to bed for the rest of the day. The dangerous stove is situated on tLo floor below, but tbe emitted gas, being liabter than the air, poured upward through the open stAirwoy and collected in the second story. Air. Career is an employe of Dean Brothers, on Madison avenue. He thinks the oppressiveness of the gas made him restive and caused him to fall from the bed. Detective MU Stick. Detectives Sam James and Jerry Kinney, who were appointed on probation, have shown much ability in this branch of the service and have been permanently appointed in this capacity. Chief Splaua speaks in the highest terms of their work. An unusually good record has been made by them in the Important captures of the psst few weeks. The detectives of much longer experience mut look well to their laurels to keep them. The best of feeliug exists amoug Chief Splann's men and alt are doing good work. i lind of th Cnylor Case. The caso of assault and Lattery In Justice Feibleinan's court, entitled State vs. Caylor, was yesterday dismissed b Mrs. Caylor. the prosecuting witness. She was assaulted by the Abram brothers, launderers, according to her allegation iu a suit against them lor damage, and was made very ill. The attack occurred at a visit to the laundry to ask her husband for money, and he, too, turned against her. hi Id Ch-rscHt with .ru. Louis E. Caldo, a diminutive colored lad of nine years, was arrested yesterday morning by patrolmau Smith toanswer a charge of arson.

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