Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1893 — Page 5

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1893.

HE CLAIMS SELF-DEFENSE

J. C Brown, Slayer of Samuel Wesner, Tells His Story ot the Traeedy. E&ji tbt h&zzrr Vm Drawn Before the Fistol Victim's Kemaioi at Letancn Tragedies Anions Wesntr'a Lielaiivea. DKOWN TALKS CALMLY. nil Story or the. TrgHly Preliminary Hearing To-Ijr Wiit' Itetunlna at Lebanon. J. C. llrown, president of the Lebanon Gas Company, and principal actor ia tho startling tragedy at Danville, Saturday, in vihich Samuel Wesner lost his life, spent a busy day in tho Marion County Juil yesterday. In tLo morning h retained John fc$. Luncau to conduct his defeuse. in connection with Clark Jt Hojrate, of Dauville. and a large portion of tho morning was spent in consultation with Mr. Duncan. During the afternoon a uuinber of his Lebanon friends and business acquaintances in Indianapolis called at the jail to see him. When a Journal reporter viaited him yesterday afternoon he found him in a very conlulent mood. "I Lave retained Messrs. Duccau. Iloato and Clark," said he, "to conduct my defense, and I bare no fear hut that justice will be done me. I am confident that the coroner's inquest will make such a showing as to admit mo to tail, and 1 can give bond if neces sary." When asked about his midnight trip from Danvillo he replied: "I did not want to come, and was brought over under protest. 1 felt just as sate there as here. In tho lirsl plaoe. 1 don's believe there whs any movrmeut toward mob violence on the part of Wesner' a fuends, uud If there had teen there were tifty or more of my friends there ready to do me any servioe. These uentlemen, such nitu as A. C. Daily, of the xtrst National Hank of Lebanon, and others aio ready to give any Kind of bond otbatl emu no borne, and we can goat tbe facts in this case in a businesslike vav." "it in stated. Mr. Brown, that yon made the litst udvanco toward Wesnur that started tho trouble." "1 made no advance upon Wesner. I had started to no to the hotel for dinner. 1 was in tie side of tho court room opposite the door, and in order to got out it ras necessary to pass Wesner." "It is stated that you had your hand in your piatol pocket as you came toward h:m." "1 did not have my ham on my pistol I acted portly in self-delense. liis dagger was druwn leloro 1 snot, ami it wsh simply a ease of kill or be killed, and I killed him without any malice." "Have you ever Lad any trouble with Wesner prior to this time!" "Our relation have generally been friendly, but this was tho third time Wesner ha abused me in a way that no selfrespecting man could hear.1' llrown is a prominent business man at Lebanoi. and is estimated to be worth about 100.000. lie has a wife and two children. The body of Wesner was taken to Lebanon overland, and arrived there incbargo of friends at midnight Saturday, and was taken at once to IVckthnl's undertaking establishment, where a crowd soon gatnered to view the remains. Urown'a preliminary hearing will be set at Danville t -day. The coroner's inquest will bo held this morning. WESN'EH'ft UNLUCKY STAR Well-XUsmeiubrred TrMlle la Which Ills Itelutlves W'ere Concerned. Samuel Wesner, the victim of the Danville tragedy, although not a fighting man himself nor of a particularly qaarrelsomo nature, wan directly related to a family of hot, passionato mtn, two of whom are victims now of their Quick aud tragic manner of dealing with thoso whom they believed had wronged them. Wesner was a cousin of the Evans boys, whoso deeds of blood are well kiiown to every citizen of the county of Putnam. Noah Kvans. tho elder of two brothers, is now servinn a life sentence in the Jefl'eronville penitentiary for the killing of Dick Adams, a saloon keeper, of Koachdale, i'litnaiit county. Tho deed was otnunited qn Jaue 2, J8.il, ia the little, town where Adams lived, and withiu a few miles of (irovnlatid. the home of Evans. Uti tho looming of the murder, Kvans and his young wife, by a second marriage, drove iuto lloachdale lu a dog cart, tied their horse in tho street, and walked np the sidewalk until they reached a grocery store, in front of which Adams sat with several companions. Tbe villagers knew there had been trouble between the two men, and on tbe approach of Kvuna aud his wife, instinctively withdrew inside the store. Adams had been ill and was very weak and debilitated, but kept his seut until Kvans stood witnin a loot of him. Mrs. Kvaus stood ut her husband's side and when he asked, pointing to Adams. "Is that the man!" bo replied: "Ye, that is the man." In an instant Lvaus drew two revolvers from bis pocket and lieitaD firm at Adams. Tbe ealoonkeeper full into the gutter after the first lew dhota. but his enemy continued to lire. AdMina was de.id before the last bullet entered his body and Kvans. placing his pistols in bis pocket, urow forth another and holding the weapon in fall view of the crowd, stepped to tho curbstone and made a few remarks, in winch no explained tbat Adams had assaulted his wife and dishonored his borne. While he was speaking Mrs. Kvans hud unloosed tbe horse and drove to where her husband stood. Then with a parting injunction to the towusmen not to follow him. he sprang into tbe seat bebtnd the woman aud drove out of -town. It was several hoars before the Koachrialn citizens recovered their paralyzed faculties, and then u posse, led by tho shenti. started in pursuit of Kvans. He was not captured that day. but on tbe succeeding morning gave himself up to the lioone county authorities. After shooting Adams he bad goue directly to Lebanon and to the borne of his cousin. Samuel Wesoer, to whom he toW tbe story of his deed and enganed Wesner to defend htm. At the trial of the ca.se. at Ureencastle. Wesner assisted iu the selection of tho jury but withdrew before the testimony was taken, and took no part in the defense. Harper Kvans, the younger brother of Noah, and another cousin of Wesner. was eut from (ireoucistlo to the northern prison for the brutal murdT of a voting man and his wife, of the name of Ilantia. This uttair occurred at liroveland, 1'utnam county, shortly after the eluse of th war. l'rora tbe evidence brought ont during the trial it apprared tbat Mr, llauna, before hr marriage, wa a sweetOeart of Harper Kvana. He hut her aud brooded over the Umppoiutment until he thirsted for revenge. A year or two after her rnarruge Mrs. llanna and her husband were found one morning, dead iu their home, their bodies having been chopped to pieces witb an ax. Suspicion pointed toward Harper Kvans and the 3-00114 man wm arrested and subsequently tent to the peniteutiary for life, liy a piece Of wonderful strategy be escaped iu a few years and has never been heard from, thouith citizens of 1'utnam conuty aver that they havo recently seen him in tbe vicluity of his crime. Wesner was unfortunately the father of a sou whoso reo. rd as a peace breaker and fichter is very bad. The young man is known by the appellation of "Tance." and is now under several indictments for unlawful acts. Recently he attempted to cut the throat of hi father-in. Uw. Jim Livingstou. of Lebanon, and ia also reported to have ahot at a saloon keeper of the town. "William I5eck.tl.al. of Lebanon, it is said, Carrie h knife wound which he claims was indicted by "Tame." Through the influence of bis father nouo of the indictments against young Wesner havo Lcou pushed. Street Cars mm Child Killer. Harper's Weekir. The question of the most importance to strret-car companies just now is not whether the trolley, the sioraue battery, r ammonia makes the best motor, but how surface cura cn be run at a high rate of apeed without killing too many children. Children described "about six years old," girl preferred, ure the trolley cur's easiest Same. TLvir judgment of speed and dis

tance is imperfect, and they are liable to pantos. Tbe street cars killed about one a week last month in Kocb'stcr. and a proportionate number in lioston. The oldtime ability of India to keep np its population in the face of tbe institution called Juggernaut Is quoted ' in support of tbe belief that our city population can stand hi ah speed on surface roads. liutthoageof marriage in so much earlier in India, and life is ho much cheaper and more common there than here, that the argument is not good for much. Americans are in a hurry, and are willing to pay n good deal for rapid transit; bat when it come to spaying a redlar tribute of children, mostly girls "about six years old." there is liable to be a good deal of computation on the question whether it really saves much time to go so fast. There is an average loss of some thirty years of time rn every six-rear-old that is run down, and that must o!let some of the minutes saved, llesides, the noxt six-year-old to be ground np may be yours, and there is no denying that that makes it awkward. There are bank presidents that could better be spared, and that it would be ch oarer tornn over, than some six-year-old children. NEWCUUUC11ES DEDICATED

Second English Lutheran Congregation Installed in Its Cozy Abode. lias Not Been Organized Quite Two Years The Little Blue Cards of a Year Ago Sermon by Prrs'.Jsnt Ort. On Aug. 28. 1S01. the Second English Lutheran Churoh was organized, witb a membership of but nineteen, and began worshiping at the hall ovorSGl Virginia avenue. The organization has grown slowly, but surely, until there are now' fifty members. It was just about a year ago that the ediftoe commutes had printed a little blue card, containing the design of a substantial little church, titled "What we hopo to have a year from to-day." Last week, when neatly-printed invitations from pastor and congregation to the dedication of the new church were issued, it was with considerable pride that they inserted in tbe same envelopes the little blue cards. cj-s53353,limujji Otcvml KnjlisU Lutheran Church. The church stands at the corner of Hosbrook and Klk streets. It is a frame buildinir, with au audience room 30x40 feet aud a large Sunday-school room in a wins attached to the south side of the church. The cost ot tho church has been ?4.C0J, Sa.oTO of whioh has been subscribed by tho members of the congregation. The dedicatory service were held yesterday morning, and were made tbe occasion of quite a gathering of distinguished members of the church. Dr. S. A. Ort, well kuown as the energetic and successful president of Wittenberg College, at Spnnglield, (J., presided, and delivered an eloquent dedicatory sermon, in which ho told of the rupid and healthy growth of tho church all over the country, lie was glad, ho haid, to seo this new cnurch as an evidence that in Indianapolis the members were awake and active in spreading the faith. Remarks were also made by Itov. A. li. Steck and Hov. 1. D. Wormau, pastor of tbe new churoh. In the afternoon and evening services were held, with sermons by visiting ministers. ABOUT MOJiEY PANICS. They Will Not Com to Us 80 Lon? as We Sell Alore Goods to Foreigners than We Buy, To the Klitor of the Indianapolis Journal Those who predicate their fears upon the old data and ere predicting a great money pauic do not consider the differences existing now and in 1837 and 155(1. We have sometimes grown 10.000.000 of besheis more wheat nuder these new conditions than the world demanded, and had low prices. o of corn, and cotton, and the production of iron. This will occur whenever any staple is overproduced. Hut low prices are not money panics. Tne latter are produced, first, by loss of onntidence; second, hoarding money for that reason. The new conditions that .havo come in since specie resumption in 1871), aod urown almost constantly siuoe. have very Jaritely neutralized both of the final causes. In the old-tune panics money was in c6mparatively few bauds, and was readily hoarded. Holders took convenient advantage of the shocks to confidence, and sometimes had the additional motive, under such conditions, of making oue dollar buy property worth two or three. In lbtX) tbe annual appropriations by Congress were not a third what they are now. The circulation per capita was flO.1'3. The Annual disbursement of tho public funds is now about ViO.OOO.OOO, and the circulation per capita is $24.47. In 1NXI tho pension list was small and the disbursements ou this account were l,0?2, 4')1. Now there are nearly one million portions on tbe rolls, and the last annual appropriation for this purpose was $lCti,b31.L50. This is disbursed in sixteen States quarterly, and from a million hands goes into general circulation in the chief commercial States of the Union. Not only so, but since we passed our provincial period in IfcO ). millions of money is disbursed on numerous publlo improvements, and this ulso tfoes through the hands of millions of operatives and laborers and also into general circulation. The sum of this new conditiou is that a titfht money market, usually begetting loss of confidence, and hoarding, ia constantly, monthly and quarterly being relieved by these immense disbursements. Those who court shaken confidence and go to hoarding for the saltish reason alreay named, lind themselves confronted by others witb money to pay $2 for the property tbat is worth it and find their occupation gone. And so those who are predicting u money panic are looking backward, instead of counting the existing conditions. Of course, it must te considered that with all the advantaces of these new conditions, tbe country nu.y be plunged into panic and depression. Our reveuoe laws may be so ndujsted as to put the country to buying hundreds of millions annually more than it sells. That would etlect a nation as it does an ludividnal, and neitber can maintain prosperous conditions under such policy. This is the only thing that threatens us. Tnereia no mternal cause which can bring about general depression. Kven gold will stay here if we sell mora than we buy. If we overproduce this, or that, wo can soon correct tho mistake. But if we are by any reason induced to buy abroad millions more than we sell abroad, and thus curtail the earning power of labor, we heck the Mow of tho current of prosperity, and the end of that sin is death. No great aud ruinous financial revulsion has ever coino that was not preceded by buying more than selling importing more than exporting. The present hope of the coudtry is its necessities for revenue and tbo healthy piihlio sentiment azainst getting it by selliutr inoro bonds, or by direct taxation. Here aud there a departure from the policy which has brought us great prosperity may be entered upon, but it will require a bold band to readjust our revenue laws in a way that will so far relinquish the tax on foreign producers, who sell in our markets, as to drive tbe Nation to some other method of raising tho requisite money to maintain its establishments. Jno. U. Connlu,

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DEFENDING TOE CHINESE

Sew York Ministers Take Occasion to flay Political Demagogues. Dr. Edwtrd Tayson Draws an Eloquent Tictare of Chinese Intelligence and Says tfe Can't Keep Oat tbe Fa?&a Immigrants. Nnw Yokk, May 21. Tbe Chinese question was disoa6sed by the Kov. Madison C. l'etrrs this morning at the Bloomingdale Reformed Church. Dr. Peters said: "In the name of God, who, of one blood made all cations of men to dwell on tbe face of the earth, I protest against our unmanly, un-American and unchristian treatment of the Chinese. They are human beings, having tho same parts, affections, passions and tho same material rights as other men have. When we needed cheap labor to develop our country we be gged the Chinese to come. In 144 our government began to coax them to come. The Chinese came aizainst all their prejudices, and our treatment of thetu has been one long scene of prejudice, brickbats, taxation ana robbery. "The Chinese aro no worse than the same nnmber of the same class of! any other nationality in our midst. I bespeak for the Chinese American fair play. Having simply failed to register, because they were misrepresented by counsel as to the constitutionality of the law, there is no reason why the discretionary power of the authorities should not be used to extend temporarily the period of registration. If we have a Christian civilization let us present it to the Chinese in a Christian way. We send missionaries and money to China, and profess a deep interest in thrm thousands of miles away1, and there they are an interesting object to as, bnt at our doors we avoid them, and the very ministers who make the most eloquent pleas for too Chinese in China will, without protest, allow the Chinese in America to beaomo tho victims of political cruelty, if the Chinaman had u vote our demagogues in CoiiKrens would profess great love for the Chinaman, and they would go around on election day with an opium pipe sticking from their pockets." Khv. Dr. K. P. 1'ayann, one of the most eloquent of the Presbyterian clergymen of New York, preached at the old Canalstreet Presbyterian Church this morning on tbe Chinese exclusion law, recently adjudged as constitutional by the I'nited States Snoreme Court, as unjust and unchristian. He began his sermon by reviewin brielly tho history of the Chines empire and its contributions to the world. WHAT CHINA HAS DONE FOR US. "It has given to the world," he said, "teas, spices and silks and inventions, gunpowder and tbe mariner's compass. I do not hesitate to say that it has given more varied benefits than any other nation of tbe earth. Tho Chinese have proved themselves to be strong intellectually and commercially, as has been shown by what they accomplished in the ten years following the war carried on by the Christian nations of Kurope and th United States, which resulted in the breaking down of tbe Chinese wall of exclusion, aud the Admission of Christian missionaries. In those ten years the Chinese made their exports double their imports, ana they have shown themselves to be tbe equals, as merchants and diplomats, of any nationality on tho faco of the earth." Dr. Payson then exhaustively argued what ho claimed to be the injustice of the exclnston act, which discriminated against the Chinese, and vet admitted tbe ltnmi grants from Kurope. "Wo combine with the Lnropean nations to break down tbe Chinese wall. and. now, with charming consistency, we build a wall against tho Chinese," said he. "Wo. childrou of immigrants we immigrants of HVJ0 aay to tbe immigrants of lbO.'l: 'Yon shall not oome here.' hen did we acquire this right! The inherent and inalienable riuhtof men to change their homes and allegiance was recognized in our famous Jmrlincame treaty with China in lbGS. Let me read you a section of that treaty. It says: "Tbo United States ana the Kniperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable. right of men to cunnce their homes and allegi ance, and also the mutual advantage or iree lui migration of their cltlens and subject?, esre dally from one country to the other, for purpoxes of curiosity, trade or as permanout resi dents. ."Well do I remember tbe joy with which the news of the signing or this treaty was received. By the terms of this treaty the United States induced tbe Chinese to come to our shores, aud in later years, wben the hoodlums of San Francisco protested against Chinese immigration, tbia govern ment, in s second treaty, asserted that while it could and would regulate Chinese immigration, it would never prohibit it. Thus have we, a Christian nation, broken faith with Chiua, whom we. in onr rigbteousness. designates as a nation of pagans. Bat even if we had tho right to exclude and deport tbe Chinese. we have nt the power. No act of Congress can keep them ont. ion might as well try to stop with a rail fence a hord of batlaln lleeing from a prairie tire, or dam the gulf stream with bnllrnsbes. The principles of Christianity say tbat we must welcome nil the strangers within our gates to o-ur schools and chnrches, and teach them tho lessons taught to us by Christ. We bave tried to convert the Chinamen. Many havo been converted, yot I say yon cannot convert him aud then pitch him into the Paeiiic; and yon cannot call him brother and then say 'get out.7" HIGH SCIIO'U SPORTS. Interscbolsstlo Association's First Annual Meeting at Champaign. Special to tbe InrtlaoapolH Journal. CitAMrAUiX, 111., May 21. The first an nualmeetof the Intersoholastic Athletic Association of the High bohool Athletes of Illinois, was held hero yesterday under the auspices of the Athletio Association of tbe University of Illinois. Seventeen high schools were represented. There woro .25 entries. Peoria easily cartied oil the vhaiu pionship pennant, which was otlered to the school making the most points. Peoria scored forty-two points. Lake View was second with thirty-one. Gold, silver and bronze medals, to the value of l?5. were offered to the winners of lirst. sscond and third places in each event. Hell, of Lake View, won tlu balf-mile run in -:lf. and the mile rnn 1c 5:1. Hall, Farmer City, won tho quarter-mile run in :5!. A. Jamison, Peoria, won the milo bicycle race in 1! 4'). H. Jammon. Peoria, won the 190-vard dash in :10 2.5. the 'JUO-yard dash in :23U and tho ISO-ysrd dash in :t!. Kossean. Peoria, won tho standing broad jump; distance. U feet 10 inches. Knggles. Lake View, threw the baseball 53 feet b inches. Field. Peoria, won the running broad jump; distance, 20 feet. Hogardos. Soringtield. kicked the foot ball ISC feet. iieneseo's only representative. Lowes, won the running high jump; height, 5 feet 1 inch; the hop. step and jump. 43 leet 1 inch, aud got secona place in the pole vault, scoring alone l.'i points and winning third olace in the contest for his nebool. Herscbberger, Peoria, won the pole v'i!r. s feet finches. Pourland. Peoria, put tbe 12 pound shot SG foot U inches. Vorrisrm. Urbana, won the high kick, ith 8 feet 0 inches. The meet will be ) i.i nnuualiy at the University of Illinois. This afternoon Lake View bull team played with a team from the university, the latter winning by a tcore of 15 to 2. btaag's team, of Chicago University, will play here Monday against the University of Illinois. Nuval Aeademv Kle 1 Sport. Annapolis, Md., May 21. Tho second spring meeting of the naval cadetn. under the auspices of the Naval Academy Auxiliary Athletic Association, took place Saturday. The contest were as follows: One-huudrr t-yard Da.h Won by Graham; McCornnick second. Hn.e. :1 (.. Jlalf-inUc Hun Won by Palmer. Time, Srl Vg. HU'h Jump-Won by Cillpiu; TauMig second. Height. 0 feet luchca.

One-hundred-nnd-twentr-rard Ilordle Ilace

Won by Taussig. Time. ll'J. Mile Knee Won by Parkor, Hinds second. Time. 5:1 4-5. Urond Jump Won by McCormack; Taussig second. Distance, 1 feet 2 Inches. Putting shot Won by Karns; McCormack second. Distance. 38 feet 3a tucn. 1'ole Vault Mustla and Powlsoa tied for first place with y feet 2 inche. Hammer Throwing Karns won; (.lei in second. Distance, 7'J feet 2 inches. tjuarter-niile liun Won by Graham In lS1. Graham winning tho mo tal for general excellence, Sunday Hall Games. At Chicago (Attendance, 11,700.) It. E Chicaco 2 5 0 4 1 0 2 0 014 17 3 Loutivlllo...O 2 4 O O O a O 1 J 12 C ibitteries McGill and Echrivcr; Hemming lllilncs and Grim. A t Cincinnuti (Attendance, 9,9'Jo.) H. e. Cincinnati ..2 0 1 0 2 0030 8 12 2 kU Louis....! 2 3 O 0 O 0 O 3 U 10 3 Hatterios Jones and Vaughan; IGlca&on and Pictz. Prallna Wins the Prix de Diane. Paris, May 21. The Prix do Diane, or the French Oaks, was run at the Cbantllly courso to-day. There were twenty-one starters. The race was won by P. Aumont's chestnut tilly Praline, by Saxifrage, out of Pauquerette II. L. Merino's chestnut till bylphine, by Ilroce, out of ouveuance,was second; Lanterne, by Maguire, third. The race was for three-year-old tillies. Purse, 12,70 and distance tun and a half furlongs. AN TJNI)EK(il;OC.D TROLLEY. It Is Very Successful, and Not More Costly than ths Overhead Ttfm in Large Cities. Wsshlncton Letter In Fit'.sbur DlspaUh. The construction of an underground electric road, as it appears to the eye of the layman, is simple enough. Midway between the rails is a slot five-eighths of an inch wide, the slot rails being live Inches deep. These rails curve inward and protect two hall-inch copper wires, oue being tho positive and the other tho negative pole of tbe battery which runs the motor. The wires are divided into lengths of 500 feet, and at tho end of each section the wire works in a sleeve with a play of two inches to allow for contraction and expansion, and is hold taut by strong spiral springs. There are switches by which the wire can be thrown ont of circuit iu any particular section if there is repairing to bo done. The Washington road is double-tracked, and throughout its entire ' length the positive wire under the track is coupled to the positive wiro under the other, and the negative wires are also coupled. By this arrangement, if one wire is cut out for any purpose or by accident, the current is fed around the break by the wire of tbe other track, and there might be breaks innumerable without shutting down the line, providing these breaks were not in corresponding sections in botb tracks. The question of flooding has always been considered the most serious obstacle to the construction of underground electric roads, for it has been held that the presence of moisture would weaken the current. This objection does not seem to be so serious as was once thought, for Mr. Verkes, tbe president of the Chicago underground electric road, bears testimony that "the insulation is not interfered within any man; uer by moisture," and says that at times their trolleys have run through water, but at no time was the road stopped from this cause.. The current is taken from the wire to the motor through a two-wheeled trolley which consists ot a il;tt piece of iron about live inches wido. thin enough to run through tho slot with comparatively little friction. At one end of this bar are the two wheels, one on each side. They are mounted on springs and aro jointed so as to have a triple motion whioh permits them to adapt them to any turn or twist in tbe wire. Tbey are deeply grooved. Tbe (trolley bar is fastened nnder the motor car by a small iron pin, strong enough to resist ordinary pressure, but constructed so as to be the weakest part of tho motor, aud the first to give way iu case of accident. The only accident which the Washington underground has had. with one exception, has been in the breaking of the trolley. Tbo exception was a collision of an electric car witb a cable car on Fourteenth street. The cable was broken by this collision, and the cablo road was stopped for two nours while it was belug spliced. The electric road was delayed just eight minutes while tbe car was being put back on the track. It requires a very pretty bit of engineering to carry one cable road across another. One cable must be carried down under the other, and the gripman on one line must be taught to drop bis cable before coming to tho crossing aud pick it up again beyond. If he forgets to drops the oable, an ugly accidont and tbe stoppage of tbe road lor an hour or two are the almost invariable result Where the electric road crosses the cable tbe construction is of tho simplest. The wire is carried down and under the cable; but auxiliary wires carry the current to '.ho point where the conduit is broken, and then for a space of only a few inches tho momentum of the car is expected to carry it along. It is better for the motor that tho current should be shut off when the car passes this break; but this is not absolutely neceanary, and no dolav or accident will occur if the motorman forgets to turn it oil. At intervals along the line there are wells tn hold tho sweepings of dirt from tbe conduit, which is cleaned out once a day bv a sweeper attaobed to one of the electric cars. There is a manhole above each of these wells, and through this tho uirt is removed. Thero are arrangements made also for draining the conduit rapidly. In the two months and more during which the Washington road has been in operation there has been no delay or inconvenieuco from interference with the current by obstructions in the conduit No accurate statement of results can be inndo with any certainty of absolute corroboration s soon after the inauguration of the road; but it is claimed that by the use of the double wire giving a complete circuit ;J0 per cent more power is obtained than by the overhead system, and bo far the cost of operation has apparently been' about per. cent. less. The Washington road has botb au overhead and an tinder ground system, ami it has at hand a good basis of com parison. Tho overhead system is running outside the city limits and tho underground within tho city. One car makes the whole rnn, provided with an overhead trolley for the overhead wire aud an underground trolley for tbo other. At the end of the underground road a man lu a man-hole nnder tbe track removes the underground trolley and the car goes merrily on. The overhead trolley is permanent. Tbe chief obstacle to the introduction of this underground system apparently is the first cost. Compared with a cheap overhead system it is very costly. It isclsimed, howevtr.thatit isnotmuchmore costly than the. overhead system in large cities, where iron poles mnst be erected and auxiliary wires for tbe protection of the trolley wire. Tbe chief obstacle to its introduction, according toils inventor, is the fact that there is so mneh capital invested in the overhead system. Juuti'l Inspiration. . New York. Pre-is. Editor Do you use glasses while yon are writing! Contributor From one to three. It de pends upon the length of the article. Pve gone as high as four. Xotice Chantjr in Time on X. :. .C If. 1Z . It Beginning Monday, May 22, train No. 10 will be changed to No. 20. and leaves Union fetation at ?:U a, m., instead of 7:15 a. m. 1Z1VOUTAST Cll.tXGE OF TIME OX TIIK VAMtAI.IA LIS 12. Under fcchcdnle taking eilect Msy 21st trains will leave lndiuuapo;is at 7:20 u. tn.. 11:50 . m.. 1 p. m., 4 iu. an. I 11 j. ui. Note tnat tl;e 7::JO a. in. tralu now makes close connection at Terro Haute for Vlncennes. Princeton and Lvausvilie. l or details applv to uoarrst ticket agent or to W. T. Lrunner, D. 1. A Indianapolis.. "Jlrs. IIfMfoir'j Soothing Syrup" Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children wLilo teething, witb perfect ucce. It soothes the child. olteus the gums, allays pain, cures wind colic, regulates the bowels, and 1 tho beat remedy for dlarrhaa. whether arising from teething or otber o.r.ea. For sa!e by drutrgUta lu every p-irt of the worlo. lie sure and a.k for Mrs. Wlualow's Boothlug tirruu. 25 o a bottle.

EUGENE DEBS'S NEW UNION

The Well-Known Railroad Man Outlines the Purpose of the Organization He Will Do Away with Red Tape ani' Extravsgance, and Bring All fUilroad Men Into Ons Harmonious Society. New York, May 2h En zone V. Debs of Terre Haute. Ind.( has been In New York several days consulting friends and old, time associates concerning the details of the'organlzation of the American Railway Union, anew labor order. Mr. Debs was secretary aud treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen for a dozen years, but, although unanimously re-elected last fail, resigned. In an interview Mr. Hebs says that although there aro in the United States from fcOO.OOU to 1.0J0.00J railroad employes, not more than .150,000 are members of organizations. Mr. Debs gave as the reason for the small membership in the various orders now in existence ' that their machinery was too cumbersome and altogether too expensive. Thore was also, he said, too much one-man power In the present organization, Mr. Debs added that it was proposed to gather all branches of railroad employes into the new order, and that its expenses worJd be reduced to the minimum. There would be no initiation fee. and as fewoilicers as possible. The organization will not be a "secret oath-bound society," but each member will be bound by his simple word. Continuing, Mr. Debs said: "Wo shall reduce expenses by consolidation in the matter of halls or meeting places. We shall establish a daily newspaper in the interest of railway employes, and also a monthly magazine. Our daily newspaper will be published in Chicago. The capital is ready in plenty, and tbe plans aro about completed, it will not be a large newspaper, but it will be large enough to contain not only the newa. of tho labor world aud tho railroad world in particular, but all the essential telegraphic news of tbe day as well. We shall furnish this paper at tbe cost of production, our object In publishing it not being profit in any sense, except to the men who support it, and wo believe tbey will profit by the possession of 6uch a newspaper. We shall not run especially to editorials, but shall make news our chief feature, though, of course, we shall discuss questions of general interest Tho magazine will be run ou the same lines as far as price is concerned, as the daily, but necessarily it will not be so much a medium for the distribution of news. The newsoaoer will sell for a sent, and the magazine 'will be pot out at the lowest possible figure. Another feature of the educational department will be the monthly meetings, which will to a large extent H not altogether, take the place of the ordiuary weekly lodge meetings. To these meetings all members of the order in the town where thoy aro held will be invited, and they will be addressed by the heads of the distriots on such subjects as are of vital interest to workingmen. . We believe tbat these meetings will stimulate the thought of tbe railroad men greatly. Ameting for the perfection of American Union's organization will be beld in Chicago June 20, aud tho plans, sofar as they have been deoided, may be roughly outlined as follows: 'The entire country will be divided into districts, of which there will be twelve. From Chicago twelve organizers, one for each district, will be sent out. and they will go from center to center organizing, first, district headquarters or capitals, and, after thin is done, headquar ters for subdivisions. The bouudalies of the divisions have not yet beon fixed. The subdivisions will be subordinate, of coarse, to tbe district capitals, and each subordinate organization will be entitled to delegates in proportion to ita membership, say one to every two hundred. There will be no yearly State conventions nor grand conventions these cost from $03,000 to $T0.0o0 but there will be a quadrennial convention of tbe entire order, and sixty days before the holding of a quadreuuial convention tho lodges or ouoos will elect delegates, who will meet at the district capitals and choose delegates to the quadrennial convention. Kach district will be entitled to delegates in proportion to its membership. It is proposed that the quadrennial convention shall do its work in a day, or at most two days, and that its business shall be mainly the election of a board of directors of say twenty or thirty practical railroad tncn. To this board of directors will do intrusted the business of tbe order. "We propose to make this an organization of rugged workingmen. We shall study economy. -We shall include every branch of railroad employment from the lowest to the highest, and without doing away with special organizations we shall strive to bring all nnder one common fold. The first quadrennial convention of the Amerloan Kailway Union will be beld next fall." SOME roiNJS AIJOUT LACE. or Coarse, the Ileal Thing Is Hand-Made and Sot to lie Mistaken, New York Bun. It Is well to benp on lace lore this season, for with the revival of the genteel old-time decoration comes a demand for some idea Of tho characteristics of the different patterns for whioh one pays sucb fabulous prices. Iu the first place, all real lace is handmade lace, and is easily detected from the maohine-woven imitation, because the mesbes in tbe genniue are apt to be irregular, while tho other is uuiform in weave. Tbe net of the lace is called by the lacemakers tbe reseau, the pattern is the lleur; and it is in the shape of these meshes that lace distinotions appear. The square or diamand shaped mesh is used in Valenciennes, the six-sided mesh in point d'Aleucon. and Chantilly and point de Parislaces have an odd mesh of four-sided big holes, with triangular holes between. Now the chief difference between the pillow and needle laces, for real laces ure mado in but two ways, one with the pins aud bobbins, the other with the needle. Is in the way the lleur or pattern is worked on the net Needle lace has a distinctiveness of outline in the fleur, because the pattern is outlined by running a thread in and out of the mesbes of the reseau. If tho outline is to be very much in relief, as point d'Alencon, the most beautiful of all needle laces, the outline is corded in witb horsehair, and then tbe pattern made by rilling in the outlines with u 6ort of buttonhole stitch, making a rich and heavy etlect like embroidery. Tho reseau in this lace is complicated, too, by twisting the threads of ttemeshes together here and there to make bigger holes, and thus giving a variety to the mesh. This iace is made piece by piece, the Pe joined togetber by invisible seams. Pi.,ow laees have a tlat, smooth pattern aud aro smooth and soft in outlioe. Wreck on the Pennsylvania. 'Lancaster. Pa., May 21. A broken trnek on a freight train wrecked several cars on the Pennsylvania railroad, near Thorndalo last night Au east-bound train ran into them and twenty cars in all were wrecked. Kngineer C. W. Mann and rircinan John McCann, of Harrisburg. were badly injured, the former dying this afternoon. The fireman is in a serio is condition. Do not risk consumption when a few drops of Hale's Honey of ilorehouud and Tar will inevitably cure coiu'hs. cold, cutarrh. Influenza and every other ullment leading to that awful malady, cold by all druggists. 1'lku's Toothacfte Irop4 euro in one minute. RADFiLLDS FEMALE 3 REGULATOR has proTn an tnfalllblo fjiecills for all ccrangumcnts i-eculUr to tho f circle scs.such a s chror.io womb and ovarlin diseases, if tahen in tlmo it ril tt rvnrl trrin-.f hralthy action of all functions of tho generative r.4 ') I J) tIons of tho &:XpSSiA & orpins. Your lsZjLirry the n-o of y lim ' T elder or.es at Your)? ladies at yuoertj, sma psnpe.will flridin It a healinc, MTOthirj; tonic. The highest recorainendatinns from prominent physicians and t?me who r-avetrkd it. Wrlto f or book "To Women," ua'.led in e. ;V.ld by all drajrsms. Ukam izu llZGULAiua Co., proprietors, Atliaia, Ga.

Hood's Cures

A-'i '.VuV'-v yrvi

2Ir. Abncr C. Tolzovx, Drake. Mich. After the Grip In sTsisorabiO Condition 'I take this opportunity to speak my mind the virtue of Hood's Sarsapartlla. I havo found tint tho grip uses elderly people pretty severely, I run sixtv-nine years o! J, and when Via grip at tacked rr.Lit winter 1 crun3 very near dyics 1 wai all broken down and Reduced to a r.'oro Skeleton, I could not seem to r;aln any strength or cctany racdlcino to help ce. I was advised. to try Hood's Sarsapirilla, Or.e bottls cured me ; built n.e up so that 1 do not f oel cuy cUccti ci tbo disease left My son is taking E-Sood's Sarsaparina for liver nnd kllney troubles and is recovering very rapidly." A. C Fol&om, p. m., Drake, Mich. HOOD'3 PiLLS are rurely vegetable, and do not purg3, pain or gripe. Coll by all druggist THE POPULAR HATTERS DANBDRY HAT GO. 23 West Washington St. BOOKS YOU WANT. E. P. Ror'a grcatfst !-ook. "Barriers Burns t Away." beantlfully printed anil bound la warlet an I white cloth, only 33c In torexr ;jsc by malL At'JYi lu store or sc liy mall we havo"Tli Scarlet Letter and House ct N-vin iabies," br llawtnorne; Lrcam Lilo" au l "Keveries f a Uichelor," by Mar. rel, and "Addrefses." br Drurnmond. "Uncle Tom's Cabin." 33o in etore or 40c )j nail. Send Ktaiups or poatal note. CAT II OA RT, CLELAND & CO.. 6 East Washington St,. Inllaniiiolla. lui. Flanncric Buchanan FUNERAL DIRECTORS. We hare removed to new and comnoo llons quarters. Perfect privacy and convenience asaarol. Cuapol and Morgue in charge or lady attendant. North Illinois Strt. DTK D. IIOLMES-Mrs. Lui U dray Holmes, wlfo of 0. 11. riolmts, of Miufleajid., Minn., and datututer of Od. 8arcme 1 F. Ory, at the reni.lenco of her father, X. 1110 North Pennnjlvanla Mtreet, on Sunday, May 2L, at 3:30 p. in. Funeral from resilience elneday, May J4, 2 p. nu will bo public. Burial private. ociEiy yyf-yifi' fASONIC MYSTIC TIB LODGE. NrO. ZJ-i. F. AlX, and A. M. -necUl meeting in Mawndd Temple, at 7 30 o'clock this en-alng for work lu third degree. Visiting brethn u conli diy wolc iued. C1IAKLES P. LESK.W. MU Willis D. Exglb. Secretary. ASONIC-SI'ECIAL MEET I NO or CEXTElt Lodsc, Xo. JK. and A. M., thl (Moud.17) evening, at 7:30 o'clook. for work tn tiio third decree Ixde rooms in ('lajp )ol Hiock. corn.-r Waunntun and IlIiocH stre-ds. Visitors welcome. Members ( the Orind eap-clallv iuvite'L Alo work IS third degree 'iuesday and Wednes tuy evenings. WILT, E. ENULlSli. V II. IL S. Bk :i.E. ."Mcnz. SfcntaryV A N T k'. I A 1 1 s C I : M ,AXE V S. tTANTF.I) LAblES To EXAMINE Till! Kensington embroidery a: lio'-j WetKtw Y01M srrecL T A.VTKI' CAPITAL NATIONAL JIANlv stock and dencidt. i EV 1UN XUUh, 7 InalU BIoc ftfAXTEU-KlVEOH SIX HKNCM .MOLDKItd. V fteaclv wmk on rittlu.H. Ai;lr at the BELL. AllMISTEAD MTU Co., VlnceiiUea. 1ml. f A N T Kl )- POSIT I ON AS M'EXOU KAP1IE U M and tvpewr.ler. br yniac lady. exnTkucL lleferentva Klveu, If required. Au irea Ji. A , Jourua IITANIEU J? I HS'l -CLASS SALESMAN T f rell neckwear in Ohio met Irniaua n ixjium fclon. I'UTZL& B0TIIMJ1IILI, 41U Market strttt, Philadelphia. fANTeI) PUP.':ilASLKS FOH MY OWN" y property, in ci-idr.il pirt of InlUnapoMa; clear titles; lmg tunc. lo-v intcrent. EC BEET HEN NY, criier Market an'l Delaware treeta. T AN TED SALESil EN TO SELL OOODS TO ? merchants l)yemple;Tfloamunth tor woriersj Hamples and ca?o . furnished free; inclose stamp. MODEL MFE CO., utli IV n. I. In L FINANCIAL. T OANS MONEY ON ' MOHTOAGES. O. b" la tJAYLEs, 7 Last Market tret. ONEY TO LOAN rt I'EK CE.VT. liOHACli MCKAY. Boom 11. Tlb:tt t JV'i Illo. k. MONEY T(i LOAN ON M0UTUAOKS-TEHMI reasonable. At Thorp" Block. Eaut Market street MCQlLLlAKD.fe DAItK. LOANS-MONEY ON WATCH E. DIAMONDS Jewelry, witliout pubUcitjr. CIT7 LOAN Olf 11CE. 67 Weet Waahlmftoa nttsrX. LOANS bUMS OK lOK TO Iim),000. Cltv proptrrtT andfa.rm. C. E. COFFIN Sc Co. '.() bat Market streeL MONEY TO U IAN ON FA it MS AT THE LOW est market rt: prtvib ru f.,r parmeut bfor !oe. We alo buy muiii ipal boudx. TilOS. C. DAX 6i CO, Market street. lniiaaapoiU. ANNOUNCEMENT. I NNOUNCEMENI" OLD HATSAXD HUBBLH i. repjit el by WM. DaPUY.47 juiacitamu FQlfTjUCKS PAID FOB OLD CLOTiII.S( hy H. OMSTFKLD.V.' F.at Waahiiiirtoa streeL s nd me in6tal ani 1 will call HurucUately. A XNOUNCEMENT-iLE MitS. DH. BlLVA, the noted sptriia.1 lnedlutn and adrUer. Ent-r. prlao Ilotfl. 7s .Vftiiarhu' tt avenue, llowm li. re. $1. Door I'.own stairs op n. TLF.(TION NOTICE NOTICE IS IIKKEBr 1j fiven that the arinual election of th In"UuHpo;i Boanl ot Trade will bo lu-l t in tti rooms nl tt.e lianl on Monday. June 12. at wLleh tie following o?:icrra are to te electeL A Prrs tk nt. Vice l'rtfcidejitfaiid a Treasurer, to servo for thetnning jearj two lueinLersof the tioveriiinir 'omiiiittee. tun iv fiT two year, and ten t wrvr for four years. The Iolla will bo t n Ht o'cliM-k a. in. and eb-ae at (I p. in. JolIN W. Ml r.l'HV, PiCNiKnt. Attrst: JK(tn W. mitu. "ecrt-.tarr. i:iILlICi .UMICIA 1 IONi BUILDINO ASSOCIATION A MEET1N( Olf the idocK! V. x f..'t!.e Miirsavjiir AsMoj;itioa Mill 1hj h-1 Uuut 17. IUJ.. t" consider t hiuiri- la th bylaws inKi'.ir.r to make tho Ltte of netting coulorni to the new state laws. IX. M. IIADLEY. Pres. IE IL Eay.Soct. FOlt s3 EE-- M 1 E EE A X I J t U I70U SALE-MEAT SHOP WITH tiOuD UCN ' ot riifctuiu. lu ya b it. Addn D. M. BHOWN, l'mdletoii. luA. THE SUNDAY I0URNAL Will be sent by uiatl to any adX eas lor S3 PER ANNUM SQ