Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1892.

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Foreign poeu ge is usually double the&c rates. i Alt communication intended for publication in thin paper must,in order to rccexte attention, beattcmpanied by Vie name and address of the tenter ' THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUUNAL, Can be found at the following plare: i'A R 1 S A m c rlcsJi Exchange In Paris, 38 BonlerarA te Capuclnes. KEW YOBK-GUaey House and Windsor HoteL PHILADELPHIA A. rTKemble, 3735 Lancaster . avenue, CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. II. HawleyA Co, 154. Vine street. LOUISVILLE C T. Dee ring, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Co., Union Depot. WA8niKGT0N, D. C.-Eljrgs House and Zbbitt IIliUSA. Why We Shoald Give Thanks. The gifts of Cod to our people during the past year hate been so abundant and so special that the spirit of devout thanksgiving awaits not a call, but only the appointment of a day when it may hate a common expression. He has stayed the pestilence at our door; He has given i more tote for the free civil institutions, in the creation of which His directing providence was so conspicuous; He h as awake ncd a deeper reteren ce for lajw; He has widened our philanthropy, by a call to succor the distress in other lands; He has blessed our schools, and it bringing forward a patriotic and Gcd-fcaring generation to execute His great and benevolent design for our country; He has glten us a great increase in material wealth, and a wide diffusion of contentment and comfort in the homes of our people; He has given His grace to the sorrowing. President Uarrleon. Indiana's Vote on President. The vote for President published yesterday morning has been found to contain several errors which materially reduce tho rote of Gen. Harrison, in one place one thousand votes by a transfer of figures, and over seven hundred lu another county. Thus by two errors the Republican presidential ticket is deprived of 1,700 Totes, which will reduce the plurality reported for Mr-Cleveland yesterday from 8,838 to about 7,100. The correct figures will be given at a later day. Call a Democrat a free-trader now end he gets as mad as a Republican would before the election. Let a half million Democrats bo devoutly thankful to-day in anticipation of the positions which they are sure Mr. Cleveland will give them. If the American people shall always have as much general prosperity to be thankful for as they have to-day, we are, indoed, a favored nation. TnE Republican party is thankful today that it can eat turkey rather than crow. It fought an open and manly battle, and has no apologies to make. v The calamityite has abundant reason, to-day, when he looks out upon a land filled with plenty, to bo thankful that be has not had tho power to make himself a prophet. Let tho mugwump be thankful for what! That there arc so few of him, and that at all times and under all conditions he can worship his self-assumed Infallibility in ecstasy. Tns Scntinol finds in the vote of this State an indorsement of the present tax law, and yet the Democratic Legislature will to sure to radically change it beforo t completes its" session. Tfie Republican party is sincerely thankful to-day that there need not be a tramp in the land if he chooses to earn bis bread by labor. Such a condition is a vindication of its wisdom. Mr. Powderly says if foreign immigration is not checked "this Nation will descend in the scale until there will be no difTerenco between the workingmen of America and tho proletariat of Eu rope. Now that it has been telegraphed from Borne that the Pope never intended to station nn official representative in Washington to attend to temporal affairs, those excellent but nervous people who are always seeing something terrible in that direction should be relieved and thankful. TypnoiD fever of a malignant form is prevalent in several Western cities. As this disease is often a forerunner of cholera it should remind health boards and municipal authorities of the importance of utilizing the winter months m cleaning up and otherwise fortifying against the possible appearanco of cholera next spring. TnE 2GO,000 men in Indiana who voted for Benjamin Harrison are profoundly thankful to-day that they do not belong to a party members of which celebrate its victories by desecrating tho graves of Union soldiers. The number 2G0.000 is used advisedly, because of the 10,000 ballots thrown out as defectivo by Democratio inspectors 7,000 were intended for the Republican candidates. It is proposed in Alabama to pass a law providing that persons whoso tax amounts to less than 85 need not pay it If they did not vote at the last previous election. This is intended as an invitation and bribe for negroes not to vote. It is an ingenious scheme, but what is the use of such a law or any law to disfranchise negroes in Alabama when it is to effectually done by existing methods?

The Hon. John G. Shanklin, ono of the best Democrats and most pronounced aristocrats to be found anywhere, informed his audience at the banquet on Tuesday night that "whether our victory is a permanent release from plutocratic tyranny will depend on the uso we make of it." Sir. Sbnnklin can get oil tho "plutocratic7' gag as

well as tho best of them. Jly tho way, this kind of talk ranst afford infinite amusement to Messrs. Whitney, Viliard, Brico and other Democratic millionaires who are in Mr. Cleveland's confidence. No doubt at their swell banquets they have many a good laugh over tho success of tho "plutocratic dodgo.

TEE EXTRA-SESSION QUESTION. Tho Dry Goods Economist, of New York, simply for the purpose of ascertaining the tendency of public opinion regard in the best thin g to bo dono by tho party wnich has come into power, sent out an inquiry to hundreds of firms engaged in the distribution and production of dry goods, to obtain the opinion ofthetrado regarding tho advisability of nn extra session nnd the policy to be pursued regarding revision of the tariff. The result is more carious than instructive, as tho answers do not tend to solve the doubt regarding the course which it is best to pursue. Thirty correspondents favor the calling of an extra session of Congress, while forty definitely oppose it. The reni.tinder, a largo number, fail to express themselves upon tho important question, showing that they are not determined. Tho Economist, in commenting upon its replies, says they "indicate a decided feeling against an early revision of the tariff, but when the reasons given for many of these negative votes are studied it does not seem so conclusive." Tho Economist itself is inclined to favor early action. It believes, now that the tariff-re formers are in power, they will be moderate. In other words, they have not the courage of their convictions. Tho plan which some suggest is to have the revision referred to a non-partisan commission of business men. If this should be done nn nil interests wero allowed to bear influence, it is plain to Bee that not very material changes would bo made. But the report of a tariff commission, if one could be made, would be nothing but a recommendation. Its bill would go to Congress, and there be subject to amendment. Tho ono thing which tho symposium of the Economist makes painfully evident is that the business of tho country has been brought to face a crisis which it does not know how to meet, and which it would escape if it could. Before party success is tho welfare of tho American people. Therefore, tho wish of all patriotic men is that some way may bo devised which will enable the country to retain for years its present unprecedented prosperity. DEFICIENT IN C0UP.AQE AND DIGNITY. President Harrison did not find it necessary to run away from his party friends in the interval between election nnd inauguration, though probably no President-elect ever bad a greater number of visitors. Indeed, from the day of his nomination to tho 4th of March he practically kept open houso And denied himself to . none who called. He was criticised by those who did not know him as a "cold" man, but though he may not have greeted all who camo with the effusiveness suitable to the reception of long-lost and beloved relatives, he at least received them with civility and listened to what they had to say. But Mr. Harrison wa3 not confronted with tho difficult problem of explaining to tho representatives of party factions how Qhe coming administration was to reduce the tariff without injuring business or how it was to avoid tho reduction without confessing that the party policy was a failure and its platform a lie. Mr. Cleveland is a ' stolid person, but ho cannot 6tand this strain, and therefore slips off between two days to a secret hidiDg place. But if Mr. Harrison had had such n problem to consider can any ono fancy him indulging in such n cowardly ref acre from his difficulties! And can any ono imagine Mr. Hatrison dismissing inquiring reporters by sending back their cards with the cheap and ancient "gag" that he "could not read writing!" Mr. Cleveland is President-elect, and as such, the people, regardless of party, would like to respect him, but unless he prepcrves bis dignity better they will find this increasingly difficult to do. FAILURE OF THE INTEESTATE-COUMEECE LAW. The decision rendered at Chicago under the interstate-commerce act practically renders it a dead letter so far as any power of enforcement goes. The suit referred to was brought against the general freight agent of the C, B. & Q. railroad, on a charge of cutting rates iu favor of certain shippers. Of course, tho proof of tho charge could only be elicited from tho shippers or from officers of the railroad, and as all these were informed by the court that they need not answer any question tending to criminate themselves they politely but firmly refused to testify. The result was that tho prosecution could not produce any evidence and the court instructed the jury to fiud a verdict of "not guilty." This decision renders the law almost worthless and calls for its immediate amendment by Congress, if it is to be made of any uso whatever in correcting the evils aimed at. In the Chicago case there was no question that the law had been violated. The witnesses who refused to testify practically confessed this by admitting that by so doing they would criminate themselves. Yet, notwithstanding this admission that the law had been openly violated, no case could be made against the defendant?. A law that cannot bo enforced is no law at all. Prominent railroad men express tho opinion that no interstate-commerce I law can bo made effective that does not permit railroads to form traffic arrangements which they nro interested iu maintaining. "If the roads," says a railroad president, "are permitted to mako reasonable pooling arrangements and traffic divisions each lino will be interested in complying with the law, and prosecutions will bo properly backed up by the members. If this is not dono tho whole interstate-f ommerce law might as well be wiped off the federal statute-books and the commission abolished." This seems to be equivalent to saying that no

law regulating interstate trade can be enacted that the railroads will not find somo way of evading and violating with impunity, as they seem to have dono with the present law. That position is not to be tolerated. Admitting that interstate railroad traffic ought to be regulated and that Congress has a constitutional right to regulate it, of which there is no doubt, there must be power enough somewhere to wake tho railroads obey any reasonable law on the snbjoct. Tho trouble seems to bo that tho present law is not a reasonable one. It was largely an experimental measure in tho beginning, and time has not demonstrated its wisdom. It undertook to interfere with existing conditions in a very arbitrary .way, and to establish at a single bound a new system which might or might not bo better than the old one. It wns so arbitrary in its provisions, and involved so radical a departure from former methods, that it caused a great deal of friction, nnd has been a continual provocation to tho roads to violate it. t Now that it has been demonstrated that' it can be violated with impunity, it is practically a dead letter. Congress will havo to amend the law, or enact a better one.

INCONSISTENCY BEQABDINQ PENSIONS. The assault which tho Eastern Democratic papers have begun upon the pension system is based upon the assumption that the rolls are filled with the names of persons who have no right to the bounty of the government because they aro cot suffering from disease or disability directly incurred in the late war. Fortunately for veterans who are pensioned under the act of June, 1600, such objection comes too late from Mr. Cloveland nnd his organs if they care to bo consistent. Tiie Mexican pension bill wns passed in January, 1867, and was made n law by tho signature of Mr. Cleveland without delay. That law provides: FirstThat every man whose name was npon the rolls fur service in tho war against Mexico eixty da vs. even if he never left the State in which he enlisted, shall receive $8 per month on reaching the ago of sixtytwo years, whether ho has suffered disability or not. 5S o -nd That any man whose name'had been on the rolls of the Mexican war sixty days, having any .decree of disability, no matter how incurred, and any degree of dependency, except it if caused by his vieions habit, shall receive b pension at tho rate of $8 per month. . Third That subsequent service in the rebel army shall not bar a pension under this act if tho applicant's political disabilities have been removed. Tho law embracing tho above features received the votes of every Democrat in Congress nnd the approval of Mr. Cleveland. Iij point of liberality there is" no law on tho statute-books regarding pensions which approaches it. It contains all the features of the disability act of 1600 and an unequivocal pensioning of nil when they reach the age of sixty-two years. The first man to receive a pension under the act was an ex-confederate general. ' It has been said that snch a pension act for Mexicau veterans was warranted by the remoteness of. the Mexicanwar from the time of tho pntsago of the bill. Tho first Mexican pension bill was taken up by a Democratic House Fob. 25; 1873 long before a dependent pension bill was thought of thirty years alter the close of the Mexican war. During the period that the Senate was Democratic that body passed, Feb. 23. 1879, a bill giving every man who had served sixty days in the Mexican war a serv ice pension or fca per month, regardless jof ago or disability, all tho Democrats present except two voting for tho measure, while the Republicans voted nearly solidly against it. The itext day it was reconsidered and a proposition to exclude exconfederates from, the benefits of . the proposed law wns lost. Subsequently, a proposition to exclude Jeff Davis was added, whereupon the Democrats voted down tho bill thus auieuded, preferring to exclude nil Mexican veterans if Davis should be left out. This was thirty-one years after the closo of tho Mexicau war. Tho disability net of 1890, for the Union veterans, was not passed until more than twenty-five years after the closo of the war of the rebellion, and now the men and the organs of 'the party which' enacted the Mexican pension law are fighting the disability law when the war in which the beneficiaries served is nearly twenty-eight years awny. It is, therefore, very ' evident that tho party which practically passed a Mexican pension bill in February, 1S78, pensioning nil Mexican veterans, hold that they are more deserving of pensions than the veterans who fought to save the Union. ii i i , FOOT-BALL'S POPULARITY, There are those who profess to be unable to explain tho popular enthusiasm over the game of foot-ball, but it is easily enough accounted for. In the first place, normally constituted people men, women and children havo a fondness forcontestsolpbysical strength and skill when tho contestants nro well matched and tho purpose is not to injure, but to prove superiority one over the other. Such athletic encounters are manly, tho interest in them is entirely n:tural, and the extent to which this feeling goes gives the denial to tho assertion, not infrequently made, that modern civilization tends to effeminacy. Its playerB are college students, whose efforts are directed to tho one laudable end of dofeatingtheir competitors in fair contest, and thereby exalting tho fame of their own crfnia mater. Spectators may, if so disposed, indulgo their bet ting propensities, but they baee their wagers on personal judgment, sure that tho result, whatever it may be, is not prearranged. 'It is not probablo that the collego players will ever enter into objectiouablo alliances, "and they may therefore count with reasonable confi dence upon the continuance of the wide spread interest in their games. Tun Sentinel culls on the county offi cials in the counties whero soldiers1 graves have been desecrated to ferrot out tho perpetrators and bring them to justice, adding: "Certainly -no true Democrat will put any obstacles In their way' In the language of tho street, this is "too thin." The perpetrators of tho outrage were "true Democrats,' and

they have plenty of friends and sympathizers of the same stripe. They are tho kind of "truo Democrats" that have held Indiana in line with the solid South.

Mr. Cleveland's hastening to a retreat for an indefinite period, and his statement to the effect that the men who want to see him about tho offices they and their friends aro languishing after will not bo welcome, will serve to mar the otherwise perfect happiness of this Thanksgiving dny for several thousands of the faithful in Indiana and several hundred thousand in this mag nificent conntry of ours. BUBBLES IN THE A1B. lleasnnnb'e. "Toctor, meln boy has awallowet a qvarter. Vat you sharge to attent to him!" "Five dollars.' V But unppose you toa't jrit It owitl" 'In that case I shall only charge $4.75." So Cruel. At the ball: ne-Who is that bored-looking damsel over there alone? 6ho Oh, Mr. Blnx, you ought not to bo so cruel. Miss Pry in mo is a little thin, bat you should not be so rude as to compare her to a board. ' ' - It Reminded. This turkey reminds mo of ths kind I used to get at home when I was a boy," said Billings. Does it. Indeed" twittered Mrs. IlashcrolL "Yes. I shouldn't wonder if it Is from the identical flock that was there when I left, ten years ao." FRENZEL'S GRIP TIGHTENS Allerton Says Be Himself Has Secured Control of the Strcot-Car Lines. Will Make No Change in the Management Bat fch&flVr Says Aller;cn Had Ko Option. If all reports be true something was finally done in the streetcar deal yesterday. Although those interested in this city still say they will not be able to talk for a day or so it is believed the deal has been knocked in the head by 6. W. Allerton and that Mr. Shatier's Eastern syndicate has not seenreu control of the property. This theory is based upon the following special dispatch from Chicago, received by the Journal last night: 8am Allerton to-day purchased the majority of the otock of tLe Indianapolis street-railway Coinfany. lie now owns all that is held outside ndianapolis. Mr. Allerton ars he is alone in the purchase, and is associated with no syndicate or pui tners. President Frenzel, who w as hero yesterday and to-Uay, arranciug for the transfer of stock, left for Indianapolis to night. Allerton will not soy how many inarcs be bought, except that he acquired a controlling interest, llerefnsea to glvo the price paid. He s.iid that no change ot management or principal otllcers of the line would be made. Last evening Mr. J. C. Shaffer was asked by a Journal reporter whttt he knew about Mr. Allerton having purchased a controlt ling interest in the stock. "It suoh is the case,' said he. "it is more than I know." "Are yon iu a position to say anything about tho dal now!" "No, I cannot say anything for a day or two. Do you think Mr. Allerton has purchased a controlling interest!'' "1 cannot say anything now.' "Did he have an option on thestockt" "No,-he did not." This latter sentence Was delivered in an emphatio manner. If it is a fact that director Allerton has purchased a controlling interest in the stock, it will undoubtedly have been due to the representations of John P. Frenzel and bis friends here, the former 8 eintr in Mr. Allerton's ownership of the road a continuation of his present $5,0v0-a-year job as president of tne road. STATE NORMAL REPORT. Recommendations by President Parsons Interesting Statistics of the School. ' - i . - , The report of the Stato Normal School Was yesterday submitted to Governor Chase by President W. W. Parsons. It contains a handsome frontispiece engraving of tbe late Barnabas C. ilobbs, so Ion a member of its board of trustees. The number employed in the faculty is twentytwo, including tho president, professors and tutors. The whole number of pupils enrolled in 1SU1-2 was 1,11K), with an average daily attendance of 613. The number Jn tho previous year was 1,066, and in the year before that L0C9, showing a large and steady increase. The attendance at the soring term of 1803 was 57. Tho president says that the full capacity of tho school has been more than exhausted and that many had to be tnrned away. President Parsons makes the following recommendation: "This large attendance will necessitate increased uccommodatious and some additions to onr teaching force. An additional building is imperatively demanded, or we shall be compelled to turn away a large number of young men and young women who aspire to qualify themselves for successful work in the public schools. An appropriation of $60,000 is asked lor the construction of an additional building, plans of which will bo submitted during the eusuing session of the Legislature." The benefits of the institution have been utilized by eighty-seven of the ninety-two counties in the State. Vigo was represented by VM, Wabash by 107. The total number of students since 1870 is .435. CHAMPIONS WILL Sh'OOT. A Live-Eird Matfh in Tins City Dfc. 19 Between E. I. Fulford and J. A. P. Elliott The American Field will to-day announce that E. D. Fulford and J. A. P. Elliott have signed articles for a series of live matches to be shot next month. Each match will be atone hundred live birds per man and for 8-00 a side, with an additional $200 a side fcr the best three ont of live, a total of 2.400. The places and dates of the matches are as follows: Kansas City, Dec. 7; Indianapolis, Deo. 19; Pittsburg. Dec. 2C; WilliamnDort, Pa., Dec 21; liarrisburg. Pa.. Dec. G. A forfeit of $100 has been sent to the American Field, accompanying a challenge from John L. lire wer for a piceon-shooting match with any man in the world. Dr. W. F. Carver preferred, for the world's championship and $1,000 a Mile. The match in to be at two hundred birds pr man, fifty, sixty or eighty yard fall, within one hundred miles of Nw Vork city, between Feb. 1 and April 1. 1313. SHADOWING EMPLOYES. Detectives Watching Men Employed in the C, H.ifcP. 02ic?s Ikols Being I nvr stilted. The facts developed in the investigation into tho books of several C, II. Sc D. em ployes has been kept strictly private and no inkling of it has been permitted to reach publicity. All the while the investigation has been going on the shadowing of ono of the suspected employes has been kept up. Once during the time the man shadowed eludd the company's detective and it was thought for a while that he had left town, lie afterward appeared at his desk. how. ever, and resumed his work. Last nmbt the detective was agum outwitted and eould not fiud his man anywhere. The mysterious actions of the man cmiso considerable speculation upou what tho probable ontcooiH of the investigation ot his books will amount to.

ORGANIZED BELIEF WORK

Annual Business Meetinc of the Charity Organization Society. Old Officers and Committees Re-EIectcd Financial Report Phasrs of the Citj Charities Discussed. The annual meeting of the Indianapolis charity organizations occurred last n ght at the Plymouth Church. Mr. Hugh Manna occupied the chair, and. after calling the meeting to order, gave a brief general talk on the charity organizations, with a tender tribute to the late Oscar McCullooh and the broad basis upon whioh ho had founded the charity work in this city. 'The results of the labors performed by the different societies during tho last year." said Mr. Hanna, are particularly gratifying to the executive board, and especially are the board grateful for the abundant contributions and support received during that time from the citizens and business mon of Indianapolis. It has been tho object of this association to bind and hold together the charity organizations ot this city with a cord of sympathy that makes their work co-operative, and to support thoee younger organization whose existence has been so short that their neighborhoods have not as yet recognized them with sufficient substantial support, until they can be self-sustaining. 1 reler to such organizations as the lioara of Children's Guardians, the Dime Saving and Loan Association, etc. I regret to an nounce that the free baths have, for the time, been abandoned on account of hre and the interference of the water company in the work of rebuilding them. The water company claims that the bath is a nuisance. Police aid has nearly always been necessary on account of the very great patronage tho. baths received from the date of their opening. Next spring an effort will be made to re-establish such an accommodation for the poor." Mr. llanna urged n better attendance at tho Wednesday afternoon meetings of the charity organizations, that the work might be allotted without fear of being duplicated, Tne annual report of the general secre tary, Mr. James fcmith, was read and adopted. The report was prefaced with a tribute to tho memory of the Kev. MoCulloch. The report showed that the demand for relief was constantly crowing less in this city. This was partly through the help of the Dime Saving and Loan Association's work and the fact that impostors bad fonnd out they could no longer impose upon the societies, as well as the growing prosperity of the people. The Board of Children's Guardians had brought many parents to a sense of proper conduct toward their children, and the general conditions were greatly improved. Four hundred and eighteen families had been relieved, aggregating 1,418 souls; 510 children had been oared for at tho bioc Children's Mission, and all bat four bad been restored to health. The weekly meetings had been well attended. The statement of the income and expenditures lor tho year was as follows: Income. Subscriptions... .....$0,025.00 Special contributions.... 141.15 Dime SdvlnKs und Loan Association... 40O.00 Temporary loan 40O.O0 &ieof publications, etc.... 53.30 Caah ouhand Hoy. 1, 1691 1.42 $7,020.87 Expenditures. Indianapolis Benevolent Society $1,785.00 lioardoi Children's Guardians 500.00 Expense of collecting Dime Savings and Loan Association dues 644.00 Expense annual meeting 145.15 Lxiene McCulloch memorial meeting. 155.00 Hooks and magazines : 2D.07 Publication for gratuitous distribution 250.05 Printing ana stationery. 149.70 Oltice rent 150.0O Salaries 2.538.U7 Odice expenses.... 104.29 Traveling expenses..... 135.00 l'oatai:e i 2J3.10 Temporary loau repaid 100.00 Cash on hand Nov. 1, 1692 50.85 $7,020.87 The report concluded as follows: "The Charity Organization Soeiety competes with no others, but is supplementary to all. It endeavors to stimulate the responsibilities of the well-to-do and to teacn all that charity is progressive, and works a moral reform valuable to all alike.1' Hep resenting the Indianapolis Benevolent Society, Trustee Gold made a few remarks rejecting the advantages he had received through his attendenco at tho Wednesday afternoon meetings. Mr. Daniels talked about the Dimo Savings and Loan Association for a few minutes, describing its inception and growth. During the year it had handled about $50,000. and had an active capital of over $11,000 ou band awaiting loaus. The number ot shareholders is 2.500. Three hundred dependents had by its aid been piat ol beyond the uned of help. The ouly trouble the association encountered feas in tne matter of placing loans. A scheme would he welcome; whereby its money xuigbt be loaned to other charity organizations instead of its own members, when it would no longer rival other organizations of a like charaoter of the city. Mr. Charles Martindale told about the work done by the Board of Children's Guardians. By it 1C2 children bad been rescued from evil surroundings and placed upon the best latins in the State. The board regretted the lack of a building where tho children could be temporarily detained until homes for them could be fonnd. The Board of County Commissioners had been supplicated to provide such a building, not to cust over $10,000, but the petition had not as yet been acted upon. Resolutions indorsing the work of . the Charity Organization Society and recommending it to the support of tho citizens of the State were introduced by Col. Eh Lilly, and adopted. The officers and members of committees were all re-elected on nomination and request of Dr. Kondthaler. After some explanations of the methods and work of the organization, at the request of attorney Kooker. who was present by invitation, the meeting adjourned. TO-DAViS FOOT-BALL CONTEST. Arrangements for It Ars Very CompleteCalled at 2:30 O'clock. The foot-ball game this afternoon will begin at 2:10 o'clook, sharp, at the State fair grounds. The College-avenue and the Illinois-streetcars may both be taken to reach the grounds. The Sold has been prepared by grading, and is in tine condition. It will include that part of the track in front of the grand-stand, which, having no slant, and being eighty feet in width, greatly adds to the smoothness of the field, and enhances the viow of the game to the spectators. The grand-stand will be seated to accommodate 8.000 persons. The fences nnd the judges' aud time-keepers' stands have been removed from the track. Mr. William Gneriti and Mr. D. W. McCord, of Chicago, will &o as referee and umpire of the game. Witliam P. Finney, or the Purdues, was in th city yesterday, the guest of friends. A few of the college men began to arrivelastnight at tbe hotels, but the thousands expected will arrive on the morning trains. The excursion from L ilav eti, containing 1,200 persons, w ill arrive at 11 o'clock. The reserve seat sale yesterday shows that a large crowd will witness the gme. All tho reserved seats except a few and nearly half of the carriage stands had been tnken yesterday afternoon. Superintendent of Police Colbort directed tbe police at roll-call, last night, that order must be maintained iu the city, llo called attention to tho law requiring all saloons to be clotd all day. and said it mnal le enforrod. He recalled tho riotous st eneof a year nm-, and gavd" instructions tor ail law-breakers to be arretted. It was not the students, he said, who caused the trouble, but unrnly fellows who don the ribbon and think Vius to escape the penalty for their drunaenness, quarreling aud lighting. Cnllrge Pre Asaoclatlon. The Indiana College Press Association will meet in annual session at the Bates House Thanksgiving day, and is for the

pnrposs of furthering its interests nnd tbe nnnusl election of olllcers. Tho morning session will convene at 10.CJ. and will be devoted to the reading of several pipers and ehction of otlicers. The evening ession. beginning at S o'clock, will be spent in discussion and th reading of several papers. The following panors aro now members of the association: 1 he Kosa Tecimic, Sunbeam, Karlhamito. Phcenixisn. Wabash. Indiana student. Exponent, Butler Collegian, DePauw Era aud the Bema, DAM EL NOE DEAD. ATeteran Gati.tJe-Who Has nd aTariei and Romit ti:: Experience. Daniel Noe. a well-known character about town, died at 8:50 o'clock last night, at his sister's heno on South New Jersey street, near Virginia avenue. He had reached his seventy-third year. His wife is living, and also four children, three sons and a daughter. Trained to the trade of a carriagesmith. Daniel was lured into tnt hope off sudden and great riches in tbe gold fields of California in 1S49. He left the forge and went to San Francisco by way of the ocean, encountering many narrow escapes on shipboard. His companion on the trip was the celebrated . Lafayette lawyer, Ruf us Lockwook. with whom a strong friendship prevailed as long as the latter was alive. When Noe was on his way home from California, his vessel, the "Yankee Blade, " was wrecked on the reefs of the wrstern coast of fouto America. Now escaped by means of the life-boat, and took the next vessel which was bound for tau Francic When be again started home be had $7.0v0 to $8,000, representing his winnings as a gambler, liis life ever afterward was that of a gambler, and during the war period be kept a faro game, and was the leading member of the fraternity in this city. At one time he owned the ground on which the Boston Block, on Delaware street, is now situated. He lost all his property, however, and of later years had been living upon what he could earn n connection with the gambling-houses of the city. His last employment was as doorkeeper for Tron, at tho Kiugston. liis sickness began twomontbs ago, and since t!ieu he had been kept alive Ly the use of stimulants, liis age was seventy-two years, having lived in Indianapolis siuce lt2. VVbile accounted "square' in his adopted profession, he had been follower of JngersoIL He remarked to his sons, a lew dvs ago. that he realized that the end wosuear, and that he would die as ho bad lived without the services of the church or of a preacher. He asked to havn a few of his old-time friends from th levee called in when the end came. Mr. Tron recalls, however, that ho had often said he made n great mistake that ho did not cling to his honest calling of a smith. HERALDS OP THE NEW COMET. "Shoctine Stars' So Plentiful That It Lcoked Like a Meteoric Shower Last Night.

The approach of tho new comet in the south heavens has been looked forward to with some eagerness. Lastnight a number of people who happened to be oking tor the cdrstial visitor noticed an nn'isual display of meteors, and conclndodgH something had broken loose. The comet, of coursn. was held responsible, and will in ail probability make proper refutation when it appears on the scene. It happens, however, that the earth at this time is passing through her semiannual meteor belt, and may be expected to continue her pyrotechnics several days, during which more , brilliance will be attained in tbe. display. Lovers of tho spectacular can find the desirable any clear evening by taking a short Walk across tbe commons and awaiting developments. There wero several meteorio showers last night, which the more 'speculative imagination might conclude wen simply celestial salutes, done fu honor of the tailless guest soon to appear in tho south. - A PECULIAR AILMENT. Jcsepb Bnchner'8 Family Becomes Suddenly , and Mj-6triculy IIL About halt past lOo'olock, Tuesday night. Dr. Ward was summoned to the residence of Joseph Buchner, a contractor, at No. 158 Woodlawn aveune, Mr. Bcchners family comprises nine person, and all but two of them were taken very suddenly and violently HL One of the children while walking across the floor sank down, too weak to stand alone. Allot them were affected with tits of vomiting, which it was ditlicult to check. The Doctor and several ot the neighbors worked with the family until about 3 o'clock Wednesday morning when it was seen that all danger of serious result! Lad passed. Yesterday all bad folly recovered and went about their usual employmeot. Tho cause of tbe ludde.i attack 1 a mystery. The family ate some cabbage for supper Tuesday night, and some of them are inclined to believe that it wm taintrd with paris green, which caused the sickness. m s ANOTHER DELAY. It Is Caused ly an Accident at the Chicago Bronzs Ccmrany's Foundry. President Langsdale. of the monument commissioD.received word yesterday that an f accident atthe Chicago Bronze Company's foundry has caused a delay of another two weeks in casting the crowning figure of the shaft. While tbe superintendent, Mr. Berchem, had a four ton core suspended, ready to put in the mold for pouring, and while Mr. Berchem and the molder were putting the last touches on the bottom of ft, a cable, by which it was suspended, gave way and fell to the bottom, completely smashing it and the mold, so that the whole mold will have to be made new. Mr. Berchem and the molder had warning enough barely to get out in time, when the great mass fell. They would have been crushed to death in another moment The company says the accident wipes out all profit on the work, but that it will spare no pains to complete it. ' WRECKED AT WALKERTON. Lake Erie Train Struck at a Crossing Nobody Known to Ee Injured. The Lake Erie &. Western Chicago train, which left Indianapolis at 1:33 o'clock yes terday afternoon, was wrecked at Walker ton Junction, In St, Joseph county, at 7 o'clock last night. There was a collision with tho east-bound Baltimore & Ohiorx pres. Tho Eno passenger had tbe right of way at the crossing of the two roads at that point, and wss standing on the crossing when tho B. & O. backed down, derail lng the cars and strewiug the wreck about. At the company's oilico in this city, at a late hour last night, it was given out that the tracks were still blockaded. None waa reported hurt. Kinbzz d th Funds. About? o'clock last night a men appeared at the polios station aud made complaint against a peddler, who he said had. tied with $13 in his inside pocket without leaving any word a to where he was gor,, ing. The man said that yesterday morning ho had given the peddler 13 in money, with which to stock a wagon furnished for a day's butines". Instead of doing so the man turned tbe horse loose upou the atreet and left with the money. The horse was . found by ahoy ou East Washington street. Lol 111. Hack A telephone message was received at Bird's transfer office, last night, for a hack, to be sent to a certain number on Bloom ington avenue, in Haughviile. Hack No. CO was sent, and the driver, on reaching the street, left th back standing alone while h hunted for the uuntt-er. When he returned tor his vehicle he found it not. It bid either been stolen or the horses had strayed away.

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