Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, " WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1893

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 9. 1803.

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IN L I A N A FO Ll S JOURNAL T Can le fonnl at th following plare: Paicis American Exchange In Paris, 30 Boulevard le CapurlD a. NtV YOIiK-GUaey House and Windsor IIoteL PHILADELPIIIA-A. V. Kcmble, 3733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer Houte. CIXCIXX ATI-J. R. HawleyA Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE O. T. Deering, northwest corner of I clrd and J tfftraou streets. T. LOUIS "Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C ltiggs House and Ebbitt JlouMe. What does Mayor Sullivan do, anyhow? Indianapolis needs a Mayor who will be for Indianapolis rather than taxgrabbers. If a Sullivan organ should say anything about reform in city management, it would bo accused of being "agin" the party. If Congress should delay the repeal of tho Sherman law a month to make speeches, it had better not have been called together. From Sept. 1, 1602, to dato the city has paid in interest 821,688 more than it would havo bad to pay but for the trickery of the Snllivan crowd. Indianapolis needs a Council composed of men of public spirit and capacity. Such a. change would-be in the nature of a revolution mk. Cleveland says "numerous moneyed institutions have suspended." Why not havo said many banks instead of numerous moneyed institutions! m at-m m Fortunately for the victims of tho Indianapolis National Bank, no more Democratic politicians can find a trail to ita asuets unless a few inspectors are appointed. Sixty-four dollars a day is 2.C6 an hour. This represents the excess of interest which the taxpayers of Indianapolis are paying as the price of this "business administration." What Mr: Cleveland says is well enough, but his' manner of 6ayiug it is heavy and tiresome. The message would have been better condensed into two or three short paragraphs. Mr. Cleveland says "our unfortunate financial plight is not the result of Untoward events." Thcro are a good many millions of people in this country who will not agrne with him. TllE School Board of Louisville has decided to supply text-books free to the pupils of all the public schools. This action places that city among tho most progressive in the country on that subject. For the first time the capacity of deposit vaults is not equal to the demand. Hitherto only a part of them have been in use in Qhicago, but now twice as many could be rented. This shows where the money use. To tb end that the Sherman act shall be speedily repealed, the President should work the patronage annex ns the only possible power which can make statesmen of tho Voorhees typo seo tho evils of the present system. It may be remarked that Postmastergeneral Bissell has ordered that tho telegraph companies be paid higher rates than Mr. Wanamaker would pay. At the same time there is no money with which to extend the free-delivery system. It is altogether probable that the motion of Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, that the vote on the repeal of the Sherman act be taken the 22d inst. will be regarded as a dangerous innovation and consequently rejected. Still, people will ask, Why not vote on that day? It is said that Democrats of experience who are in Washington were never so gloomy as at the present time. They realize the situation; they know that they will bo held responsible therefor, and they feel unequal to the task of tho constructive legislation which will bring relief. It is unfortunate that a man is Speaker of the House who is at heart an ndvocato of the free coinage of silver and the repeal of the tax on State bank paper. It in said that ho is pledged to sustain the President in the selection of committees which will act upon the money questions, but as a Speaker ho has been irresolute and erratic. The self-advertised dispensary of sweetness and light in this city declares with some emphasis that no one desires to deprive tho veteran who is entitled to a pension of that right. The most virulent haterof the Union veteran says as much. In fact, no one proposes to cut off all pensions, but tho Hoke Smith bureau proposes to cut off a great many, and, to prepare the public mind for that, tho independent press, several magazines and n few Democratic organs have, ns worshipers ot tho Anointed One, raised a hue and cry to the effect that the pension rolls are "honeycombed" with f rau.l. All of these publications have been howling that charge for three months. The affair of tho Tammany Grand Army post, and its

declaration to the effect that none but those suffering from wounds, and who are umfble to earn a living, should havo pensions, wero applauded, and fraud, fraud was tho constant echo. Hoke Smith began to suspend, and if he has found a man in this vicinity who is not entitled to the pension ho receives, the Journal has not heard of him, but it has found ninny deserving men whose pensions havo been dropped. And now there is a disposition on tho part of tho Cleveland worshiping worthies to halt. There may bo frauds, but they are not honeyconhed. There is no more talk about the Grand Army coming to the parting of the ways. No; the local source of wisdom has not said that pensions must cease; it has simply printed all the magazine articles charging that the pension rolls aro "honeycombed" with fraud and has failed to print those defending: the pension rolls. There was space for the unsupported charges of two writers of the Forum, both of whom aro Tammany tux-eaters, but no space for the conservative statements of General Veazey, of the lnterstate-commerco Commission. There was spaco for clamors against the Grand Army, but silence' regarding tho defenders. And now, after publishing slanders calculated to poison the public mind regarding pensioners, the local luminary declares that no one desires to deprive of their allowance tho veterans who aro entitled to pensions.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, No one can mistake the meaning of the President. He is in favor of the repeal of the Sherman silver-purchaser law without any qualification. More than that, he declares for the gold standard until other commercial nations shall join tho United Statesin restoring silver to full money power. He would not get rid of the silver now iu use, but he would have the government purchase no more. Ho condemns free silyer coinage, and in so doing declares that tho majority of his party in the last fifteen years have acted unwisely. Of necessity, the President refers to matters whicli have long been discussed, but he treats them with the air of n man who has made a discovery of great importance, lie reiterates the policy which tho Republican party has maintained for years. It pasocd the Sherman act to prevent Democratic freo coinage of silver. The mass of Republicans will agree with the President, and those who represent tho party in Congress will, like Kepresentative WauKh, of this State, vote in favor of repeal. In fact, outside of the few alleged Bepublicaus in the silver States, there is reason to believe that the party in Congress will support the repeal with earnestness and will urgo that such a measure shall be passed at an early day. It caunot bo done without solid Republican support, and there can be no doubt that it will bo givi n that one hundred of the 120 Republicans will support the recommendation of Mr. Cleveland. "The declaration of tho President to the effect that the revision of the tariff should follow at once the repeal of the Sherman silver law will not tend to stop tho closing of factories or to promote that confidence essential to industrial prosperity. It means that while tho repeal of the Sherman law may restore confidence in financial circles and lead the timid hoarders of money to restore it to circulation, the promised opening of the tarili question will close more factories and increase the army of the unemployed. AN APPOINTMENT 7ITH0DT AUTHORITY OF LAW. Tho appointment of Hon. John W. Kern as attorney for the receiver of the Indianapolis National Bank before tho receiver had taken control of the bank's affairs or filed his bond is suggestive of undignified if not indecent haste. Whatever else may be said of Controller Eckels ho cannot .be accused of lack of promptness in providing places for his political friends. Ho might at least have waited until the receiver had qualified and asked for the appointment of an attorney, or until circumstances had shown tho necessity for such an appointment. There is much doubt as to tho right of the Controller to appoint special counsel for a national bank receiver in any-case. It has been done in a number of cases, but there is no law for it. On the contrary, tho law by implication prohibits such an appointment. Section SS0, United States Revised Statutes, reads as follows: All salts and proceedings arising out of tho provisions of law governing national hanking associations, in which tho United States or any of its otlicern or agents shall h? parties, shall be conducted bv tho district attorneys of tho several districts nnder the direction ana supervision of the Solicitor of the Treasury. This is comprehensive and explicit. It makes it the duty of the district attorney to appear for.tho United States or any officer or agent of tho government in all suite and proceedings arising under the national banking law, whether criminal or civil. As a bank receiver is an officer of the United States, and every suit instituted by him is under the national banking law, it follows that his proper counsel and legal adviser is tho district attorney. This principlo has been recognized by the courts. In Kennedy vs. Gibson ct al. 8 Wallace, a bill in equity brought by tho receiver of a national bank was signed by tho special counsel of tho receiver, the namo of the district attorney not appearing in the case. Tho defendants demurred on tho ground that the suit should have been brought by the district attorney. Mr. Justice Swayne, delivering the opinion of tho court, said: "The receiver is tho agent of tho United States, and according to tho fifty-sixth section of the act, this suit should havo been conducted by tho United States district attorney." Attorney-general Garland gave an official opinion to tho effect that it was the exclusive duty of the district attorney to act as counsel in all such cases, and pood lawyers aro of the opinion that if his services are declined, or if he is prevented from acting by the appointment of special counsel, he can sue for and recover his proper fees. Tho

depositors iu an insolvent bank have rights which ought to be recognized. They are interested in keeping the expenses of tho receivership as low as possible, as the greater the expenses the less they will get. The appointment of a special attorney for tho receiver is calculated to increase tho expenso of a receivership, since his fees will always exceed tho court's allowance to a district attorney. The national bank law was not intendrd to provide places for political pets ov party workers, and in view of the provision above quoted it is a question whether tho Controller of the Currency has a right to appoint a special attorney for a receiver in any case.

LIABILITY OP NATIONAL BANK OFFICIALS. The whole tenorof the national banking law ehowr. that it was intended to provide the greatest possible security for note holders, stockholders, depositors, and nil having dealings with the bank. Noto holders are made secure beyond the possibility of loss in any case. No person ever has lost or ever can lose a cent on a national bank note. even if the bank fail and is wound up by a receiver. The provisions of the law against embezzling, abstracting or willfully misapplying tho moneys or funds of a bank by any of its officers or directors were evidontly intended to protect the stockholders and depositors. The penalty for every such act is imprisonment not less than five nor more than ten years. Tho violation of the provision against loaning an amount crenter than 10 per cent, of tho capital stock of a bank to any individual, firm, or corporation does not constitute embezzlement, but under some circumstances it may constitute such a willful misapnlication of the bank's (unds as to bring it under the penalty above named. The dividing line between an honest error of judgment on tho part of a bank oflicer in making bad loans and a criminal misapplication of funds is sometimes difficult to find, and yet the courts have drawn it. In tho JJnited States vs. Harper, the Fidelity National Bank case of Cincinnati, tho court held that "tho intent to defraud does not mean malice or ill will, but such intent to defraud as may be inferred from tho willfully and knowingly doing that which is illegal, and which, in its necessary and natural consequence, must injure another." In the same caso the court held that "the rii-' rectors of a national bank may, in the honest exercise of official discretion, make loans or discounts for the supposed benefit of the bank, and although the transaction may be injudicious, and actually result in loss or damage to tho "bank, there is no criminal liability so long as their nets are not in bad faith, for the purpose of personal gain or private advantage of the. officials." , Again, in tho United States vs. Fish, 21 Federal Reporter, the court said:, "The misapplication of the funds of a national bank by an officer in the honest exercise of official discretion,, in, goo faith, without fraud, for the advantage or supposed advantageof thebank.isnot punishable; butif ollicial action be taken, not in the honest exercise of discretion,, in bad faith, for personal advantage, and with fraudulent intent, it is pun-, ishable." In the same case the court said: "A known abuse by nn officer of discretionary power in making a series of loans which it is known tho directors would not sanction will constitute a criminal misapplication of tho funds ot; the bank, if done in bad faith for private gain, and not in the exeiciso of honest judgment." Again, tho court said: "Where an officer of a national bank, with an intent to defraud the bank, allows a firm of which ho is a member to overdraw its account he is guilty of a misapplication of the moneys, of the bank within tho meaning of the law." From the foregoing it is evident that a bank officer may commit gross errors of judgment without becoming liable to the penalty for willful misapplication of funds. To constitute the latter thcro must bo bad faith and "such intent to defraud as may be inferred from the willfully and knowingly doing that which is illegal." In every case, how ever, where a bank officer knowingly permits an account to be overdrawn or excessive and illegal loans to bo made for tho purpose,or with the expectation., of personally profiting thereby, diroctly or indirectly, his act takes on criminal color. Tho whole tenor of the law shows that it was tho intention of its frnmers to furnish very possible protcction, not only against fraud on the part of bank officers, but against mis-' management. THE GREED OF THE MAYOE'3 MAETEES. .Why is it that the proposition to refund tho $C21,G00 of bonds was rejected and thereby the obligations of the city defaulted? Why was tho proposition, which Controller Woollen urged, trifled with and finally rejected when, if he had been permitted, tho 8C21.000 of bonds could havo been exchanged at an equivalent of Gh percent? Because a Democratic banker who is a Democratic magnate was able to control tho Mayor, tho Democratic finance committee and the Democratic Council. But for the interference of that Democratic boss and his friends tho proposition of the Controller would havo becomo a contract. That financial boss presented a scheme for refunding the debt which Controller Woollen declared to be so vague that it could not bo treated as the ba&i? of a contract. At first Mayor Sullivan Was interested in tho proposition urged by tho Controller, but when his master and the Democraiic dictator appeared as nn opponent and as the agent of parties making an alleged 1 proposition, he ceased to care for tho city's interest. When it became a ques tion of a suro contract and tho vague proposition of the banker-boss, tho chairman of the finance committee turned his back upon tho city's interest. Again, last Mny, when no proposals for four-per-cent. bonds were o tiered, and a sudden change was made for foui-and-ahalf-per cent, bonds, this Democratic boss, who defeated tho threo-aud-

a-halt-per cent, proposition, practically j

browbeat the Mayor when Mr. English announced that ho was there to make a proposal, by declaring for the Mayor that he (Mr. English) "couldn't play that." He was there for tho purpose of pushing through the contract for a four-and-a-half-per-cent. bond by bidders who subsequently refused to take the bonds, and who have, through that Democratic boss, who was dictating, refused to pay the forfeit which they had placed iu his hands. From the first to the last, this Democratic boas, who holds the Mayor, tho chairman of the finance committee and a majority of tho Council in the hollow of his hand, fought against the interests of the taxpayers, defeating tho refunding of the now defaulted bonds and aiding in pushing through a contract with parties who havo broken faith with tho city. As long as Mr. Sullivan shall be Mayor and the present Democratic regime shall have the control of affairs, the finances of the city will be managed in the interest of this boss, who has shown that he has Mayor and Council under his thumb. Mayor Sullivan is the tool of that boss, ignoring the interests of the taxpayers and promoting those of grasping money-makers who will sacrifice the financial interests of the people, as they have in the defaulted bonds, to add a few thousand dollars to their wealth. So long as tho pliant Sullivan shall be Mayor the city will pay tho highest rate of interest while loaning its deposits without the payment of interest, and the outrageof thedefaulted $G21,000will be repeated unless his tools aro removed from the control of tho affairs of the city. So long as the Sullivan regime exists it will bo under the control ot that grasping coterie whoso only interest in the. affairs of the city is to compel taxpayers to pay them tribute. Without public spirit, caring nothing for public sentiment, delighting in the role of a rough-shod dictator, the finances of the city will pass from bad to worse under the nerveless Snllivan. Captain Boggs, of Rochester, Pn., has received a pension of $10 a month for twenty years. It was cut off the other day, and ho is about to begin legal proceedings to havo his rights restored to him. Congressman Dalzell urges him to do this in order to test the power of the Secretary of the ' Interior to stop pen sions. Tho outcome of the case will interest all veterans. Probably the manner in which tho pensioners and their friends show fight surprises Hoke Smith, but he should remember that tho men earned their pensions by fighting. In Cincinnati the employes of the United States, all of whom aro paid in checks on the subtreasury in New York, have been compelled to pay banks a percentage for their collection, and yet there is a subtreasury in Cincinnati in which United States funds are locked up. The Carlisle people are so anxious to put Democrats in every possible place that they have no time in which to attend to the public. Out of a dozen iron and steel manufacturers interviewed at Pittsburg on Monday, nearly every one said tho business depression was caused by the uncertainty of tariff legislation. Tho very fact that the country is under a Democratic administration destroys, confidence, they said, in everything. This is an unfortunate condition of affair, but, the Democratic party alone is to blame for it. HCBBLES IN TllE A III Snlveif nt Lr. Minnie I wonder why men drink so much! MaudoSo they can endnro one another's society. G-ttinir to the Toint. v Ho Are we alone! SkeOf course not. Onlv one person can be alone, and there aro two of us. Ho Kr urn but suppose wo two were made one . Artful AVrptch. He I wish you would give me one of those ruotocxaphs you had taken the other day. They reudnd ine of the only woman I ever loved. She I'll never speak to you as long as I live. Who waa she! Be-Vou. Ueconnlderert Trifle. It is only civilized nations which have tho idea that heaven la a place where there wUl be a chance to get a good rest at last When inarrtape strengthens two people's similarities, it does well. But when It accentuates their differences Myl The reason Eve never paid she wouldn't marry Adam If he wero tho only man on earth was because there was no other woman she could say it to. A fkmai.k writer in a Chicago paper declares that the rows in tho board of lady managers are doe to the fact that one leadina member is jealous of another because the first is homely and the latter beautiful. The Journal is in favor of woman, either with or without a capital "V." but if "business" women, women who ure avowedly engaged in the work of elevatinir their sex, cannot repress, even for a little time, their feminine yearnings to "make mouths,'1 and tear each other's eyes, if the other eyes are prettier than theirs, then it is constrained to say that they have oome out of bondage too soon, and shonld have been kept down-trodden by the tyrant man a generation or two longer. But it is only just to say that the Journal does not believo tho chargomade by the writer !i the Chicago paper. If a pretty woman is not having things all her own way, as she is accustomed to do in berhomo circle of male admirers, it is no donbt beoause her present associates are too serenely indifferent to the charms of fair complexions, sweet smiles and bright eyes to be disturbed by them, but aro able to jrive their unbiased attention to business and tho dispensing of justice. That is the wav "advanced women" do. und though the tears and loud talk among tho lady managers make a bad impression, that is undoubtedly whatthey at least the plainer ones among them aro doing. Pkopli: who visit the world's fair spend money freely within the grounds. Up to this time the managers have received 3,OCO.OOd from the various concessionaires. The percentages paid range from 5 to the average being roughly estimated at 20. At this rate the amount thus far paid over to the managers would represent an expenditure among the various concessionaires of S15.0CO.000. and the expenditures and collection are expected to increase very much during the next two months. Many of the concessionaire are doing an imuieoso hueineKs, The Ferris wheel is not

to nay a percentage until It has earned $X0,O0Ofor its projectors. It has already taken in over tmOOO. and' that has been included In the auditing. It is now averaging about $3,500 a day, and the fair managers expect to niaKe a protit of 575,000 from the 50 per cent, which will go into the fair after earning the $300,000.

AtULT FtOPhE AND THINGS. The Duke and Duchess of York received over nine thousand wedding presents. Thf. Horden trial cos; the State of Massachusetts $14,000. hut vhe mysteiy is still doing duty at the same old stand. Mm:. Ruka has joined t he small but conspicuous number of distinguished women who have ta&en unto themselves boyish bridegrooms. Mine. Rhea is about fortyrive years old, while her husband, Mr. W. F. Uart, her leading man. is only twentyfive. Edward S. Ellis, tho author of numerous boys' books, is a native of Ohio, and is about fifty years old. He began writing some ten years ago, and has been ever since nroducina literature which, while absorbingly interestiug. will put no falso j ideas into the heads or the youugsters. Alluding to saeh associations as the American Protective Society of Authors, tho San Francisco Argonaut says: "Reputable authors do not join these tradeunio'js, and have no Interest in their petty squabbles, liut the skutu ot literature finds in such organizations a notority that would be impossible elsewhere." Thk provisions of the late Mr. Anthony Drexell's will afforded a pleasurable topio of conversation at Long llranoh. where all the heirs are so well known. Little Cra,ig (id die. to whom his grandfather leaves 1.000, COO cash, i captain of the Elberon basoball nuio and pla a wiih all the skill and sangfroid of "Sliding" Kelly. He is a bright, handsome little chap and a great favorite. It is said that Mrs. Mary Lease would be a handsome woman if she did not have to wear skirts, for they hang as awkwardly on her as they would' on a man. Mrs. Lease is an Irish woman, and the chiof charm of her oratory is her graphio Irish way of putting things. She eavs she never has auy trouble in keeping her audience right through to tho end except occasionally when she sees "the heels of some Heisian editor twinkling in the door." Dk. St. Grokgf. Mivakt, whose speculations opo6 the possibility of "happiness in help have aroused so much interest in ecientitio circles, is still in middle .lfe and gives promise of further work. He was educated for the bar, and was called to practice in lbiSO. but turned his attention exclusively to scientific subjects. Dr. Mivart, though opposed to Darwinism, is a firm be liever in tho general principle of evolution, and applies it not only to this life but also to the next. The depoMtairo Is full of care. For he's loaded down with "rocks, And great is the wear And soiue J' the tear Iu the bottom of his socks. St Louts loatDlsp&toh. O man, forgive thy mortal foa. Nor ever strike him blow for Mow; For all the souls on earth that live To be forgiven must forrive. Forgive nim seventy times an d seven: , For all the blessed souls In lleavcu Aro both forgivers and forgiven! Alfred Tennyson CATHOLIC CHURCH CHANGES Report thai Bishop Rftdamacher Will Be Given aKewij Created Archdiocese, Prononnced a Canard by Monseiirnonr ls Bonien Vincenns IHccpso Likely to B Soon Divided Various Promotions. There is considerable agitation among Catholics of the Diocese ot Vincennes, and especially the Evausville deanery, on nocount of the selection of liishoD Kadamacher. of Nashville, Tenn., to succeed the late Kt. Rev. Bishop Dwenger. of Fort Wayne, Ind. It is reported that Bishop Radamacher has been made archbishop of anew archdiocese including Indiana and parts of Iowa and Illinois. There lias been talk for Borne time among tbe churchmen that this archdiocese wonld be created. It was expected that Bishop Chaturd, of the Vincennes diocese, would be recognized, but if the report concerning Bishop Kndamacber is true it seems he has been overlooked. Bishop Ubatard is out of the city, but this report was told to Father Bessonies, last night, and he was asked it it wan true, as stated, that there was to be a new arch(iocese created, including the territory named. "There is nothing at all in it," be said. "It Is a canard." "Is it true that the Diocese of Vincennes is soon to be divided and anew one created, with the bishop's headquarters in this city?" "That has been talked of. and it is probable that a new dioceso will be created. If it is, the bishop's headquarters will, of course, be in this city." A division of tho Dioceso of Vinoennes is expeoted shortly. It is getting too large for one bishop, and in case of a division there will bo a bishop in Indianapolis and one in Evansville. Of course, Bishop Radamacher mint havo a succesRor at Nashville, and it is the general belief that very Rev. Father F. F. MoBarron, pastor of tbe Church of the Assumption, in Evansville. and dean of the Evansville district, will bo honored with the place. The priests select tho names of persons whom they desire to be candidates and the list is sent to the Pope of Rome for decision. While Father McBarrou is preserving a dignified silence iu the matter it is stated on what is considered reliable authority that ho has received an in timation from the Tennessee ina that he is the most favored one on the list as Father Radatnacber's successor. FatberJMt.iWron is a very capable churchman, and would certainly please tbe Southerners. It is stated that in theeventof his appointment. Rev. Father Fitzpatriok. paator of the Sacred Heart, of Evansville. will become his vicar-general, and Rev. Father R. If. Rowan, assistant castor of Assumption, his chancellor MR. FALKKNUUKG'S OFFER. Unique AprdiCition lor a Position on the City Detective Fore. Chief of Detectives Splann is in receipt of tho following decidedly unique and selfexplanatory missive from a Tipton man who desires to beoome a famous sleuth: Tipton, Ind, Aug. 7th. 93. to the detective aguccy at Indianapolis: Jem lemen. Sir: I should like very ranch to hav a commlson In your work for which I can show a elUaot discharge of my deauty and tho county of tiotou will back up all that i ncceeary for th matter, for there is hardly a day I'asses But what I do good for my county and my elf also. I havo supped the Bitter cup or Punishment and sonce that time have Peaked to Bring to Justice all who is gllty and deserves to lieo Punished. I have worked up one of the grandest Peaces ot work that has Ever Bin worked In Inuiana Br Bringing those trazuro Iiobers of tlptou county to Justis and the othcers all say it is a nohlo Peace of work Pleas give mo your attehslon In this matter and 1 am F.ver yourz, Frank B Falkenlmrg. if thero Is Eny re Here nee wanted address the sherlt and all the otllcers of tlptou who can ancer. Chief Splann will be compelled to rofnsa the services of tho Tipton man. as the detective force here in already full and presumably competent to cope with the ordinary run of crime. Jumped from a Trltt. Phillip Fugler and John Ho finagle, of Hamilton. O., passengers on hoard a C. II. & 1). train, jumped from the cars yesterday morning near the Home lirewing Compauv. Fngier rolled into the canal and was painfully injured, lie is at the City Hospital, -

CANDIDATES FOR COUNCIL

Plenty of Good Timber for the. Republicans of thi Wards to Select From. Place of lidding Tc-Morrow Night's Tri-maries-Kail and Dcnnelly Hoih Thrown Orer for fcrnlth Alycrs. To-morrow nmbt the Republican primaries will be held in the varions wards to nominate ward conucilmcn, and at a ma jority of the polling places there will be spirited contests, for it is recognized that the Republicans' opportunity for electing a majority of tho councihnen it excellent The following is the call of the central committee, giving the polling places: HfcAl'QUARTFRS ltKrtT.LICAS ClTV CENTRAL) Committle, Booms 33 and 34, When Block, isnuxAivus, Aug. 8, lfci3. ) To the Republican voters ot the City of indtauapo. lis. inc.: Your city central committee having fired Thursday evening. Aug. IU. 1S'J3, a the date to nouiinato one candidate for Council forearh of the various ward;) of said city, you aro requested to assemble at the platen deaitrnnt: below in each of said ward lor the purport o making said nominations. First Ward At Prick's Hall, corner of Coin n bla ana Malott avenues, from to V o'clock r. .. Second Ward At engine house, corner of tr entu and Ash street, at b o'clock Third Ward At Baton fc Dinwiddle's llv r, stable, on Seventh street, between Meridian Illinois street?, at 8 o'clock. Fourth Ward At corner of Indiana avenue and California street, from 4 to 8 o'clock. - Fifth Ward At No. t entente lioue. West Washington street, nt 8 o'clock. Sixth Ward At Owen's drug store, corner oi Illinois and North utreem, at o'clock. beventh Ward At headquarters of fire department, comer Massachusetts aveuue and Ohio street, at 8 o'clock. JJlchth Ward At No. 8 hose-resl house. Cast Washington street, at 3 o'clock. Ninth Ward AtFarp's cabinet shop, on Billot, 6treet, between Fletcher aveuue and pantv avenue, from 5 to i o'clock. Tenth Ward At Mansur's Hall, corner of Washincton and Alabama streets, at o'clock. Eleventh Ward At !r. Crose's ortlro. room No. y. Board or Trade Building, at 7:30 o'clock. Twelfth Ward Place to be announced Thursday morning. Thirteenth Ward At the Standard Manufacturing Company, "Old Virginia-avenue Rink." opposite engine house, on VlriuU aveuue, at 8 o'clock. Fourteenth Ward At Moh's Hall, corner of Prospect and Shelby street", at 8 o'clock. Fifteenth Ward At corner of Morns and Ma pie streets, at ts o'clock. II. B. Smith, Chairman. A. J. Joyce, Secretary. In the First ward there will be two candidates. T. B. Linn, tbe present incumbent, and Louis F. Tuttle. a pressman. Mr. Linn is the supreme recorder of the Order of Chosen Friends and has made a good councilman. Mr. Tattle is also strong in tho ward and has a good following. No opposition to John R. Allen, the present councilman from tho Second ward, has developed. In the Third ward A. A. Yonng will bo a candidate for renoraination. Charles Bookwnlter will make the contest and tho Republicans in that ward will haveexoel lent material from which to choose. Tho contest in tbe Fifth will no doubt be one of tbe closest In tbe city for there are three candidates in that ward: Councilman Puryear. who now represents tbe ward; John Cook, a white grocer, snd F. P. Smith, the lamp dealer. . In the Fifth Jacob choll is mentioned as a candidate. V. A. Rhodes, the coaluiercbant.will seek to wrest the nomination from Councilman Cooptr in the Hixth ward. Councilman Gasper announced yesterday that he would not be a candidate in the Seventh watt and this lo :ives the held open to Leon Kabn snd Henry SpiogeL Mr. lvahn represented the old Tenth ward in tbe Common Coun cil n number of years ago. John Hcnmid, a stone dealer, it mentioned as a good man for the Republicans in defeating Sullivan's lieutenant Sim Coy in tbe Ninth ward. In the Ihirteenth ward Charles Roehring is mentioned as a candidate. t Among the good men who are prominently mentioned for. places on the Republics) ticket forconncilmen at large are F. Von nocur. Charles Krauss and William Kothe. Re publicans reoognize the fact that it will be a comparatively easy matter to defeat the machine ticket which was nominated by the Democratic convention ot Irauds. Myers to Snwi-ei Xllldebrand. Smith H. Myers trill be surveyor of port to succeed Mr. Hildehrand. The appointment has been determined upon, and By num so informed the other candidates when he was here tho last time. Thcro is sore disappointment among the lrich Democracy on account of the way John Kail and Maurice Donnelly were dumped by tha administration and Brnuin. Jnit before leaving for Washington Bynnm nnt for Rail and told him his case whs hopeless unless he went to Washington and stood an ex amination for the place. He would have to do this if he continued in the race because charges of incompetency had been preferred against him. Rail indignantly declined to consider any proposition of this sort, as none of the men who has held tbe othce in thin city have ever had to undergo any examination ot that kind. Ho naid that he would not humiliate himself in that way, and if the administration wanted to throw Iiitn overboard in that sort of a way it could do ho. Donnelly has been too pronounced a ninety-per-ceut. man to be even consided in the race. SIKEET-KAIJiROAD AFFAIRS. Transfsr and Checking Sjstetns No Superin tendent Yt Twll Not He Steele. Messrs. McKeeaod Verner, tho street-car magnates, dropped in on President Mason yesterday morning, and were'bn their way back to Pittsburg before supper time. They came over to receive the applications for the superiutendency left vacant by tha resignation of Mr. Boyd. The three candidates, A. A. Zion. John . Moran and exSuperintendent V. T. Steele, went before the directors in person and presented their claims. Mr. Mason stated last night that no selection had been made. It was re ported among tbe street-car men last night that Mr. Steele would be given his ol4 position, bat it was learned that the di tention of Messrs. Verner and Mcltee to bring some experienced man hero from ono of their systems in the Rant, either from Bnllalo. Pittsburg or Ilochfnter. Tho transfer system adopted by Superintendent Mason was approted. It was the intention to wait until the now superintendent wasappointcd before patting tbo system into e!tecr, but tho closeness of the encampment makes it necessary to get the system iuto effect as soon as possible, and the tickets will be used beginning next Thursday. They are very com plicated affairs, and it will take Nome little time to properly instruct the conductors in their use. These tickets have been described before in tho Journal. Anew checking system is to be adopted for tbe conductors, and this will be one similar to tbe one now in use by the Fenn- ' sylvania railroad, the cable road company at Raosas City, and various other companies over the couiitry. Bach conductor is to wear a numbered badge, and at the end of oaoh trip he will have to make a report, giviug his number, reporting tho number of fares collected, the number of deadheads carried and the number of tbeir badges. The register, fares und trip reports must all agree. The directors read a number of letters from manufacturers of life guards, but did not decide to adopt any particular pattern. Mr. .Mason stated that the Buffalo guard would probably be used. I IVnnTlvanl-Street Line. When tno citizens living along Pennsylvania street, from St. Clair to Seventh, awoke yesterday morning they found thnir beautiful shade trees that arched over the roadway stripped like a pullet half plucked for the pot. On the night before the wagons of the Citizen's Street Railroad Company went along the street and sawed, hacked and chopped the branches of the trees in order to string the wires for tho new electric line. T he people- felt m pang to see the wide spreading branches go, but they telt that the loss wa inevitable. Most of tho orona wirea have beun Mrutif acroet tho street and it is expected tb cars will bo running within a week.