Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1893.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY. AUGUST.l 1893. WASHINGTON OFFICII .!. Fourteenth SC.

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Tilt 1MIANA1'UL1 JUUU.NAL Can be foinul at tho folio win if place: 1AI:I American Exchauein Paris, 30 Boulevard tie CapuetRcH. INliW YUKK-GUsey House and Windsor IIotoL PUILADKLPIIIA-A. P. Kemble. 3733 Lancaster avenue. CU1CAGO I'sdnivr llouac C12 CXXX ATI-J. tt. llawley & Co.. 154 Vino street. LcVISVILLK C. T. lermg, northwest corner of 6T. LOUIS Union Iitws Company, Union Depot WASHINGTON. I). Clllgz llouao and. Ebbitt UuUr.OHow dots Mayor Suilivun put in bis tim-, anyhow! i - TilK citr Bhouhi be decorated during encampment week ih never before. Tin: American people uru waiting to h :n My Coiniuissioiier's explanation for hiuling donn tlif American flatf. RrfiiN to Knock oat "the pood old D muciuiic times" by vetoing Sullivanism in October. The veterans will not march past the aoidiera' monument. Thy.pive tho Co'd shoulder to tho Mexican dates. Still, the country can more easily adjust lt.iulf t a 73-cent dollar than to tub wages of Europe lnt why do either? These are the goou out Democratic timed when the Democratic parry is in full power in Nation, State, county and ciiy. Do not postpone buying 'decorations for encampment week until the last m nient. There will bo a great mail ril.tii nwf vnn rti w ti.a ti In 1 1 " The Secretary of the Treasury has r- quested the resignation of J. Webb Fiuinagan, collector of customs at El Paso, Tex.' "Vhnt are w here fori" Fkom Sept. 1, 181)2. tu date tho city has paid, in interest on its debt, $22,5U2 more than it would have had to pny but lor the trickery of the Sullivan clique. No Republican, in full accord with! the party platform, and who did his duty to. his party ticket last year, is hindering the immediate passage of financial legis1 ition. Til eke would be money with which to move the crops if the Democratic C ingress would pass the bill permitting national banks to increase their circulation 10 per cT.t. Now that the silver statesmen have got to utakinjT speeches in Washington, day out and day in, no one can doubt the authenticity of the account o( Balaam's as talking. Sixty-folk dollars a day.is S2.C6 an hour. This represents the excess of interest which tho taxpayers of Indianapolis aro paying as tho result of this "business administration." It would not be so-, embarrassing for many Democrats to vote to repeal tho Sherman act if they had not been demanding the free and unlimited coinage of silver down to the presidential election. If Representative Bryan or his friends iin limine that the American j coplo think ) h made a great speech ou the silver question they are very much mistaken. Tue people regard all such speeches as verbal rubbish. A few days ago a cwivis of 147 Connecticut veterans was taken, including sixt -two who admitted that they had voted for Cleveland. Of that sixty-two, titty-eight declared they would never again vote a Democratic ticket. No one did the Democratic party more e&Vetive service last year than General Weaver. His services should have been recognized as wero those of his party in the South. If they had been he would lot now be makinir silver harangues. The National Encampment will be the severest test that has ever been made of the city's ability to handle and entertain large crowds. The reputation ot tho city is involved, and it is the duty of everybody to aid in maintaining it. The throwing of 6,000.000 new national bank circulation into the channels of business would, in all probability, allay the fears of those who are hiding their money and lead them to return it to the banks. A Democratic Senate permits its Bourbons to prevent its passage. Senator Yoouuels, since his elevation to tho chairmanship of tho finunco committee, has evolved the novel theory that a man's vote or other action on any question is not necessarily a test of bis opinions on the subject. Mr. Voorhees has a ' very elastic political conscience. Br the way, what has become of the savage attacks upon the Union pensioner which tilled the Cleveland papers two months ago! One might read an Kubteru mugwump paper a week now and scarcely find a jeer at those who a few months ago were stigmatized sla thieves. Thk cashier of a bauk in Detroit has devised a method for meeting the proTailing scarcity of currency, which, after an experience of nearly two weeks, EiccU tho approval of the other city

banks and of tho local business community. It consists in issuing, instead of currency, certificates in any denominations desired by depositors, payable only through t'io clearing house and redeemable in clearing-house certificates if the bank issuing the same so desires. These certificates rad' as follows: "John Smith has deposited in this bank dollars, payable to bearer on tho return of this certificate, only through the Detroit clearing house," signed by the cashier and teller. The important thine about this certificate is that it is payable only through the clearing house. , It cannot be cashed at the bank, but must go out and become part of the circulating medium of tho city. As they can be deposited in any city bank, merchants and tradesmen are willing to take them In payment of bills, and they become, to all intents and purposes, currency. When they reach the clearing house they are charged up against the account of the bank issuing them, and are then redeemed by that bank and destroyed, after having, for the time being, performed all the functions of currency. The device-has proved quite a relief to the Detroit banks, and. if the money stringency continues, could be advantageously adopted in all clearinghouse cities.

A BILL THAT SHOULD BE PROMPTLY PASSED. It has been rare, indeed, that the Journal has found itself in accord with Sen ator Voorhees on any public question, , but it is entirely so in regard to the proposed amendment of the national bank law authorizing those institutions to issue notes to the full par value of their bonds deposited to secure circulation. There is no politics in this measure, as there is nono in the national bank system, ft is a financial measure, pure and simple, and ought not to bo discussed or regarded from a political standpoint. It is approved by a Democratic Secretary of the Treasury, supported by Republican as well as Democratic Senatore, and advocated by many papers of both parties. The Journal was among the first to, propone it, and is glad to believe the prospect is &o good tor its passage. Even if the measure were not euro to result in a material increase of the currency, it ought to bo passed in order to relieve the government of the obvious inconsistency of discrediting its own bonds by virtually declaring that, as security for bank circulation, they are only worth 00 cents on tho dollar. But the strongest reason, and an unanswerable one, in favor of its passage is that it will result in an immediate increase iu the volume of currency of, from' $20,000,000 to $2. 000,000, thus affording great relief in tho prevailing financial stringency. Senator CockrellV proposed amendment to the measure should be promptly voted down. It directs the Secretary .of the Treasury to pay tho holder of two-per-cent. bonds who may present them for redemption, their face value, with accrued interest, in United States logal tender notes. The avowed object of this amendment is to place all bondholders on an equality with national banks iu respect of ability to obtain notes for bond. They can do so now if they wish to. . There is no monopoly in national banking, Mr. Cockroll and any of his friends who wish to engage in it can do so by complying with the law. The business is open to everybody who has bonds and wishes to engage in it. And that is a muc h better way of increasing the currency than to require the Secretary of the Treasury to pay it to every person presenting bonds for redemption. Mr. Cockrell's amendment is superfluous and is, moreover, open to the objection of being a rider on a bill which is heartily approved by the finaucial intelligence of the country and which offers a speedy means of financial relief. It is -to be hoped that all amendments to the bill as introduced by Mr. Voorheus will be voted down and the original measure passed without delay. AN ELEMENT OF DANGER. The mob of several thousand Russians that broke into a hall to hold a meeting in New York is a spectacle which should set all intelligent people to thinking. These people hnvo been coming to us by tens of thousands tho post few years from a country witSi a repressive government. None of them can speak English, or that languago which is next th3 English in this country, the German. Moreover, they are ignorant, few being able to road their own language. They have not only boen taught to hate government, but have come to this country with the crudest ideas regarding American institutions. Liberty, with thorn, means license. They are controlled by a few leaders who are Nihilists, which is another name for Anarchists. They came hither because it was not safe for them as plotters against the Russian government to stay at home. Those thousands of men have neither intelligence nor conscience. . They are the dupes of leaders whom they follow. There is no way in which they can be reached, because language and clannishness form a wall alout them and keep them alien. The German cornea here a reader, with ideas of civil government and an inborn race regard for social order. o with the Swedes; the mass of them can read, and the idea of making homes makes them good citizens. These Russians and Poles are simply tho refuse of an empire which has no public school system. They simply know how to be vicious, and by instinct they hate authority. Tho proprietor of a hall denies them admission, and they forthwith break down doors and smash costly windows. Their leaders demand the same wages that American laborers have. They are just as likely to demaud that the government furnish them employment and bread. During sea sons of prosperity, when employment is abundant, they are simply cheap labor competitors, but, when thousands can find no employment they are a menace to law and order; and yet here in Indiana all these ignorant aud vicious can vote after a residence of six months. At the present time all fair-minded people must work together to tide over the hardships incident to the condition We shall cet alone if

peoplo in every circumstance will do the best they can to be mutually helpful and excrciee forbearance. On the other hand, every sort of agitator is a foe to the general good and to a return of brighter days. Crowds of ignorant, vicious and violent men marching about and demanding they know not what will simply make ho situation more hopeless. Meantime, it would be well to turn back every ship loaded w ith ignorant and vicious people like thoso Russians who seized the hall iu New York city on Thursday.

THE RESULT OF FREE SILVER IN MEXICO. A correspondent of an American paper writing from Monterey, Mexico, says there is a movement on foot among tho merchants and importers of that country to call a meeting of tho boards of trade to assemble at the capitals of tho States to deviso ways and means to prevent the depreciation and destruction of the silver industry. In order to get their views tho correspondent interviewed a number of the merchants of Monterey on the subject. H says: A majority of them are in favor of shutting down on all foreign trade. That is, that tbey will not purchase auotuor dollar's worth of goods, nor import Another article from the United States or Europe, until they put Mexican silver dollars on par with the American dollars. As the Mexican dollar contains more silver than the American dollar they think it should have the same purchasing power as tbn American silver dollar. But it has mt It takes ono dollar, a half, a ten and a livecent piece to bay an American silverdollar. If the merchants and manufacturers of the United States will not protect them and allow them the same value for the Mexican silver dollar that they do for the American silver dollar, they will not purchase another dollar's wortn of goods from them. If they will not do so then they propose to erect their own factories and manufacture their own goods. Many of them think that this conspiracy asainat silver has been concocted in Europe, and they propose to cat her oil entirely. Persons who wish to study the silver question in tho light of facts will find much food for thought in this description of the situation in Mexico. That country produces both gold and silver, the latter in large quantities, and has free coinage of both metals. The silver-mine owners of Mexico enjoy the privilege which thoso of tho United States are contending for viz., of having their silver bullion coined by the government and returned to them in silver dollars. Free coinage in Mexico, however, differs from tho free coinage which our mine owners want, in that the Mexican dollar contains more silver and theroforo has greater intrinsic value than our dollar. Yet, notwithstanding this fact, what has been the result of the free-silver coinage in Mexico? Gold has been driven out of tho country and silver has depreciated to such au extent that it takes &1.G5 in Mexican silver money to buy an American 6ilver dollar. Tho question arises at once, if tho American silver dollar contains less silver than the Mexican, why is it worth so much inore? Mark tho answer: because the American silver dollar is redeemable in or convertible into gold at the option of the holder, and tho faith of tho government is pledged to maintain its parity,' with gold. Tho status f tho Mexican, dollar represents the value of silver unsupported by tho fiat of the government, while that of the American dollar represents the value of silver plus that of government fiat. One is a real value and the other fictitious, one honest and the other dishonest. Can any person doubt that free 6ilver coinage in this country would eventually produce the samo results that it has produced in Mexico? Beyond a doubt it would drive gold out of the countrv, place our currency on an exclusive enter basis and cause a great depreciation in the value of tho silver dollar. The government can and does maintain the silver dollars now in circulation at par with gold by making them interconvertible, but with free silver coiuage and the volume of silver currency multiplied (ive, ten or twenty times, it would be impossible to maintain the parity of the two metals. Gold would disappear and silver would depreciate. It is interesting to note tho similarity between tho methods proposed by the silver monometallists of Mexico and thoso in this country. In Mexico they propose to cut off all trade relations with tho United States and Europe if we do not put our silver dollar on -a par with theirs. In this country they propose to cut oiF trade relations with tho East unless the latter will agreo to the free coinago of silver on some impracticable and dishonest basis. Tho Mexican silver fanatics declare that if tho United States and Europo do net adopt tho Mexican silver standard they will erect their own factories and manufacture their own goods. The silver fanatics of Colorado and other silver Statc3 declare that if tho rest of the country does not adopt their views on the silver question they will establish their own factories and manufacture their own goods. Finally, we are told that many Mexican silvorites "think that this conspiracy atrainst silver has been concocted in Europe, 'and they propose to cut her off entirely." So our old friend "conspiracy against silver" llourishes in Mexico the samo as here. It would seem from this that the silver disease develops the same symptoms everywhere. It is a common peculiarity of drunkenness that the victim thinks every person drunk except himself. Everywhere tho peoplo who nro plotting to drive gold out of circulation regard opposition to their scheme as a "conspiracy against silver." "The danger point iu the House," says a Washington correspondent, "is on tho ratio COtol. If that danger is once passed, unconditional repeal will at once go through." Fre"o coinage with a ratio of 10 to 1 is only worse than f reo coinage on the basis of 20 to 1. At the present ratio of 1G to 1 the silver dollar is worth about CO cents, an ounce of silver being worth about 7G cents, whereas a silver dollar, with silver at the present price, would be worth 73 cents if the ratio were changed to 20 to 1. Then the capitalist who could purchase silver at the present prices, instead of having CO cents' worth of f'.nllion stamped a dollar, would be ain polled to take 75 cents' worth to the mint to get n dollar. As a remedy for thy Sherman purchase bill, free coinago in thi raiio of SO to 1

could be compared with that compassion for the culprit which would change his sentence from imprisonment for life to hanging after a respite of thirty minutes. r

No doubt there are a great many honest workingmen and deserving people out of employment at present, and the situation may grow worse before it is better, but i will not do to hold this class of people responsible for the riotous demonstrations in cities. In all large cities there is an idle, lawless class, half agitators and half Anarchists, who are ever ready to avail themselves of an opportunity to make trouble. In nearly all cases of riotous demonstrations it will be found that these aro the fomcnters of violence. If the bill authorizing national banks to increase their circulation to tho par value of the bonds deposited to redeem their notes becomes law, the volume of money in the country could be increased $25,000,000. There is not a national bank in .Indiana which could not add onetenth to its circulation to help business. Why is it not done? Because a very small-sized Bourbon in the Senate, from Missouri, Mr. Cockrell, has said "I object." The last men in the world who should be led to demand a dollar of decreased purchasing power aro the wage-earners and those who sell labor of any kind. They must exchange daily labor for such dollars, and if the dollar is worth less than the best dollar in tho, world the depreciation is just so much deducted from every day's pay. There are half miles of streets in this city on which the dirt has been scraped into embankments near the gutter on each side, about two feet high, and left there. Should a heavy rain come it would be swept into the gutters to form obstructions which would cause the overflow of the streets. In some instances these embankments have stood for weeks. Why is this done? Tu give employment to several hundred men that they may vote for Sullivan. Why are not these mounds of earth and filth hauled away? Because horses and teams cannot vote, and two voters can be employed and kept in hire to vote for Sullivan, Buskirk and Reform for the price of one team. Is the scraping of this dirt to the sides of the street, there to remain, of any use? Yes, to Sullivan, Buskirk and Reform of that variety, but. so far as the residents are concerned, the embankments would be better spread out over the surface of the street. IIotel9 all over the country report hard times and dull business, but hotel clerks have not begun to haul down their diamonds as yet. BUBBLES IN THE AliL The Great Prototype. ' Little Rastus Daddy, who wasdishyer Judas! Undo Moso lie wuz de first Christian dat made any money out ob it. Peaceiiinkerti. Watts You see, that Bering sea business has been settled by arbitration,- and that goes to Show what I have contended for all along that there really is no need for a nation having expensive armaments. '. 'l'otts-SUui didn't get any great amount of arbitration, did she I A Needed Invention. Timmins I am working on au invention which will make my fortune, if I can only make it work. eiminons What is it! Timmins A motor to run by sound. Attach it to a cradle; seel The louder the baby squalls, the faster it will rock him. The Cdltor Fooled. From the Plunkvllle Bugle: "This morning, as we and the wife of our bosom wero eating our humble repast, our office boy came in iu rreat hasto with the information that a man from Indianapolis was at our onlce waiting to interview us on the financial situation. Pleased at this supposed metropolitan recognition of our humble talents, we put on our coat, and putting one of Billy Watson's Justly celebrated cigars in our pocket to do the honors to tho city reporter with, we hastened to our sanctum, to And what! A. mau who had como down to see what we could do on our paper bill. We hope those of our subscribers who are in arrears will come nobly to the front in this, our hour of need." WANT TO bUCCEED JUDGE TAILOR. Large Number of Applicants for the Vacant Jadgeship Their Friends Are Active. The executive rooms at the Statehouse were thronged with visitors yesterday morning and for some time in the afternoon. Besides a number of men and women who were seeking pardons for 'friends, there were supporters of the various candidates for the Superior judgeship. Since the death of Jndite Taylor the number of candidates has increased almost daily. The list now numbers seven. They are Judge Cox. Eben Parker. J. M. Winters. F.J. Keinhard. Pierce Norton. W. VV. JSpencer, James Cropsey and if. E. Urmeten. Nothing whatever could be learned at the Governor's ollice except that the appointment will not be made for several days. Some believe it will be two weeks hence. Governor Matthews is very bnsy now, most of his time being taken at the meetings of the Tax Commission. Among the callers yesterday were Judge Hoache, ex-Judge Avers, John 'Holtzman and Pierre Gray. It is whispered that the latter, while pretending to work for ono of the candidates, would not decline the position if it were o tie red him. Judge Koache.who arrived late in the afternoon, went iway without seeing the Governor. He said: M have no idea who will be appointed and I don't believe anyone except the Governor knows any more about it than 1 do." They Do Not Clem Up. There is considerable complaint on account of the failure of the contractors who Lave byn putting down granolithic pavements tf remove the barrels and rubbish after the work is completed. It has been customary for them to place barrels around the pavemeut while it is drying and then let them remain on the spot much longer than is necessary, causing needless blockades. A striking example of this is seen on the Circle, where tho barrels still remain strewn about the street, both on the outside, where the work has been completed for several davs. and on the inside, where the men are still at work. llltten by u Horse. Mrs. Albert, landlady of the Roosevelt House, was injured by a vicious horse at the corner of Washington and Meridian streets yesterday about noon. She was about steeping into her carriage when a horse attached to a fruit wagon bit savagely at bur shoulder. The teeth of the animal oaught her dress, and tearing the gnrment from her nrok and shoulder, left painful bruises in the flesh. Mrs. Albert fainted and wasoarried iutu a store near bv until she revived enough to be sent to her homo. e iaolln) tv'xplnalon. By a gasoline explosion at the home of Harry Banders, corner of Urookside and Clifford avenue. yesterday morning, llameg were started mid damaged the ore mi se to the extent of $.rH. No one was injured by tbeexpm-fnV " , '

SCHOOL BOARD FINANCES

Estimates for the Next Year Show There. Will lte a Heavy Deficit. Mr. Coffin Talks Emphatically About "The Gang' to Its Face SelfCiinj: an Engineer Koatine Badness. At the meeting of the School Board, last night, was presented a fJood of bills and recommendations of more or less importance. The recommendations came principally from the committees on buildings and grounds, finance aud auditing. The chief interest of the meeting centered npon the proposed increase of the salary of Mr. O'Meara, superintendent of buildings and grounds. The proposition to increase the salary from Sfl.200 to $1,400 wa3 bitterly opposed by Mr. Cotliu and a few others. In spite of their efforts, however, a motion for the increase carried. "Of course." said Mr. Collin, privately., "the increase does not amouut to so much when all expenses are considered. But' it is one case out of many others in which the gang has full control. Everything that will add strength to the Prenzel faction is done with impunity." The vote on this question indicated this. Those lavoring the increaso were Messrs. Frenzel, Adam. Martindale. Koth. Loeper and Kusse. Those opposed were Messrs. Vonnegut. Coffin, Scott and Galvin. Mr. Martindale, who opposed tho increase two weeks ago, seemed to have experienced a change of tieart in the meantime. LIBRARY HEATING. Another matter which gtve rise to considerable discussion was the heating of the new library. The committee reported that only one bid had been, received for the twenty-one. registers required. The cost of these registers is &00. This Mr. Cotnn objeoted to, also, but failed to get the necessary support. One of the committee said last night outside of the meeting that the furnishing of tue woodwork in the library is very inferior. ,4rne heating pipes." he continued, "were also allowed to remain, according to the original contract, notwithstanding that the committee had two experts at work on this very thing, and that the advice of said experts cost the board S'00. I understand that 'the contractor for the woodwork has reported on the street that if be had not succeeded in gettiug on the near side of the architects and chairman of the committee on buildings and grounds he would have lost money on the job." In the appointment of engineer for the library. Mr. McCarty was chosen. Again did Mr. Cofiin interpose without e fleet. He stated that he had the best ot information that the gentleman is incompetent, it is understood that McCarty is a compromise by the committee, which is composed of Messrs. Kuaie, Roth and Galvin. The committee met a few nights ago aud broke up in a row over this appointment. An Irishman,, a German , and possibly a Scandinavian were proposed by the ditl'erent members. There are a few members of the board who resent these attempts of the gang in taking advautage of every opportunity to reward heelers. But they are in the minority. The committee on buildings and grounds reported the following aocented bids: For window guards for the Library Building. F. Koch, $0.25: brick walks forscbool buildings 29 and 16, J. F. Heed. 218; tinting of the library, Frank Fertig. 245. m A DEFICIENCY TO MEET. The committee on finance and auditing reported that the tuition fund is insufficient to pay the salaries of teachers and officers. The deficiency caused by this overdraft amounts to 05,659.31. and was ordered to betaken from the special fund. The same committee also reported that the securities for the bonds of Treasurer Adam and P. J. O'Meara, superintendent of buildings and grounds, were approved. The committee on furnishings and supplies, whose duty it was to look after the furnishing of llags for the school buildings during the encampment, stated' that Schools 18, 19, 22, 23 and SI are without flags. They were ordered purchased at 5 each. In regard to fuel necessary for the coming school year, the coutraot for furnishing coal was awarded to William H. Gresh & Co., who will furnish Brazil block coal. About fifteen thousand tons will be required. The cost will be 2.50 per ton. The Ladies' Sooiety of the Fourth Presbyterian Church requested the use of the oid Library Building during encampment week. They were willing to pay a moderate rental for the building. Charles W. Moores,' who addressed a communication to the board, stated thatE. F. Clay pool, the owner of the building, who had had a controversy with the board upon this subject, bad finally promised the use of the building. The matter was left with the committee on buildings and grounds. The committee on teachers recommended the appointment of W. L. McMilien as teaoherof algebra and Latin in school Ho. 2. ANNUAL ESTIMATES. According to the rules adopted July 21 the committee on finance and auditing submitted to the board the estimated receipts aud expenditures for the coming year. Following are the estimates: For Janitors- J....$14,000 FuelKua - U.500 Coal - 500 llepaira and expenses 7,000 Gas 350 Water - Hoo Improvement , 4,000 Furniture - 2,000 Printing G50 Advertising lOO General expenses 2,500 Bupplies 8.000 Ol'.ice expeuses '2,S00 Oincers' salaries 4.100 Interest 17,000 nunieratton...... 250 Total....'.. ....$73,250 The estimate of expenses from the library fund is: Service. - $10,500 Books 3,500 Miscellaneous. 2.S12 Electric llcht 000 Interest on ionds 5,0oo Balance on furniture, etc 2,200 Balance on book stacks 7,440 Total ...$32,352 Tuition fund estimate: Teachers' salaries..... $247,000 Mauual training 60hool salaries aud tools 7,100 For the estimated reoeipts and expenditures for the special fund: Overdraft, $70,253.03 Estimated expenses. 73.250.00 Total $143,503.03 The estimated receipts from city taxes, at the same rate as last year, are $110,562.60. This leaves tt,J2u.7 to be provided for. Tuition fuud estimate: Estimated expenses... $247,000.00 Overdraft 03,05.31 Total ....$31 2,05931 Estimated receipts: City tax $75,241.83 fctate school fuud 115,175.01 Liquor license fees ' 37,OOO.oo Tax nonresidents 350.O0 Pi om other sources 300.00 Total - 2'8,06t"T"T To be provided for 84.51)1.62 Total . $312,059.31 Manual training school: Balance on hand 21.812.75 Keceipt trom taxes lO,b'J4.4J3 Total $41, GG7.CS Estimated expenses 7.1OO.00 Balance $34,507.03 Library fund: Balance ou hand $2,730.30 lteceipts Irom city taxes 27,014.57 Total ............ $J0.344.U3 Estimated expenses 32.U52.OU To bo provided for $2.0O.0O After all the above reports had been listened to the members of the board were anxious to adjouru. Amotion to this effect won tiiado aud carried so quickly that CtrmciiN Vonnetiut. who had been quiet all the while in vain endeavor to Mrcore the attention of the board. .1 lls time he had tno communications. licz&rdinn tha treat

ment be received at the last meeting of the board he has this to say: To the Honorable Heard tt Sih.o Co remission erst Ilcpresentim;. as I do, a large proportion ot citizens ot Indianapolis, and belnk' desirous that theysbali have a voice In this body, I appeal to your honorable tody aguiuat the insolent treatment received from our president nt our last meeting, by abndrinj; my rights and liberties as a member of this board, by not allowing me a reply to bU reprimand, but dictatorlly ordering inotufeitdotvu. Yours truly. Cl.KMF.N3 VONHLGUT. The secood was in the nature ot a private letter, highly complimentary to Mr. Von negut. The letter reads: Froctorsville, Vt. June 27, 1893. My Dear Mr. Vonnpguu I ee. by a 1 tc Indianapolis Journal, that you have been re-elected as one of the Board of School Commissioners. This p!caed me very much, for I believe, as I did when we served together, that you are tue right man iu tho rlKht place. 1 did notaluaya nree with you In j our views of the broken iollcy of the ioard. but this disagreement, wbiou was not often, w hs never coupled w ith any douit of thocntlro dUluteretednefs of .your tuotiv. That old board wa a unit in th'detiro for the b:st good ot the hcUooIm. aud it is one of tho pleasant recollection of my lbe. I wish you may long continue to be on it and do it good. While I cannot congratulate you ou your posir tion, yet your re-election is a vindication of your couie, and I think the schools are to bo congratulated that you are still w ith them. While this letter may be a little late, 11 is none , the less hearty. Very sincerely yonr. Cl UL'6 C. IIINES.

BOLD DAYLKiilT ROBBERY Till of a Grocery on Vireioia Avenue Robbed Under tho Owner's Nose. Had the Pleasure of bein? the Tbf Sbou a Koll of Bills in Ilia Pocket-Jewelry Store Burglarized. i-:he grocery storo of Louis Rowley, at No. 182 Virginia avenue, was, yesterday after noon, the scene of one of the most daring burglaries of the many that have been noted in the past few months. The thie! secured an even $100, aud after making bia escape coolly pushed tbe money into hit pocket in full view of his irate victim. Mr. Rowley related the circumstances of the thett excitedly, but retains a clear description of the man who, he is certain, did the work. About 4 o'olock yesterday afternoon m, well-dressed man of dark complexion, and wearing a full growth of beard, walked into the Rowley grocery and asked for a l(rnr TIia nrnnnnt nr w&a .Inn. unH n1sl the vreed to the stranger, paying 1 1 1 1 1 ev at tention to his appearance at the moment. The purchaser stood about for a few minutes, then lighted his cigarSand started toward the door, but before reaching the front turned back and requested the exchange of five silver dollars, which he produced, for a bill. Mr. Rowley, in accommodating the stranger, drew out the money drawer, and as he did so exposed to view several welltilled apartments, containing something over a hundred dollars in alL The silver tendered by the man he poured into a small bag. andclosiug the drawer stepped from behind the connter as the stranger walked out of the front door. At tbe moment his visitor had disappeared tho proprietor was struck by a peculiar action on the part of the man, and remarked to his wife, who had just come in, that he would bear watching. Mrs. Rowley, after a few words, started down town, and her husband stepped to the front of the store to order a sack of bran from V. J. Roase, who operates a feed store in the same block. He conversed with bis neighbors for perhaps five minutes and then walked back; to the money drawer to get the prioe of the feed just ordered. The till was half open, and at a glance the grocer saw that, bia store had been burglarized.. Closer inspection revealed an empty drawer, the money having been extracted without disturbing the papers and documents. Rowley called to Rouse that he had been robbed, and both instinctively ran out into tbe street to look for the well-dressed man who had secured tbe change ten minutes before. He was not in sight, but a delivery wagou and horse stood near, and both men jumped into tbe vehicle aud drove rapidly down the avenue in the direction of the city. As they approached the viaduct Rowley spied the suspeoted stranger hurriedly crossing the street a few yards ahead. He was readily identified by his beard and attire, and the fact that he was in the act of shoving a roll of bills into a pocketbook doubly assured Rowley that his burglar was before him. Just why the two men did not capture the suspeoted thief cannot be conjectured, but they made co attempt to apprehend the man, and drove by him and to police headquarters, where tbe matter was reported. An officer was dispatched to tbe viaduct, and le arned that the man had gone into the Co-operative laundry a few minutes before. The laundry was watched for a half hour, and finally a stranue man came out with a bundle under his arm. The officers followed him over to Illiuoti street and to the Union Nation, where ha was halted, examined closely and allowed to go. The police are exceedingly vexed over the mauner in which the thief w g permitted to elude his pursuers when they spotted him on the vladuot, and have little hopes of recovering either the stolen money or of capturing the man. How an entrance was effected into the atore r.itnnHt ItAfnrM his eyes the grocer is unable to comprehend. Ho states that the man must have entered from a rear door, and to accomplish this would be compelled to scale a fence fully eight feet in height. Jewelry Store I!urj;larlrd. On Thursday evening thirty-three watch chains of the aggregate value of 8200 were stolen from Christopher Bernloehr, a jeweler at 43 Russell avenue, and as yet no clew has been obtained that may lead to the detection of tbe thief, though it is supposed that they were stolen by boys. Bernloehr had been canvassing the city, and bad tbe chains with him in two olls of eloth. When he returned to bis residence, which is in the rear of bis store, be lefs the two rolls containing the chains in the buggy and the man who stabled the horse failed to notiea them. Bernloebi went into tbe house and remained about twenty minutes, when he suddenly remembered that he had left the chains in the buggy, which was not housed but allowed to stand in the alley. He went at once to the buggy and found the rolls of cloth, but no chains. Instead of nnsnapping tho chains from tbe rings by which they were held to the rolls, the thief badbrok n them all close to the ring and left tho rolls in tho buggy. There were several very valuable ladies' chains in thi lot. mum Drove a Horse to Lth. Yesterday afternoon a man giving the name of James Kingsley hired a horse and buggy at liailsback's livery barn, stating that he desired to attend a funeral. Later in the day tbe horse was found lying dead in tbe harness near the Brightwood streetear stables, and Patrolman Harris came upon Kingsley at the corner of Ninth street and Hillnide avenue. He was badly intoxicated, and could give no account of tho accident to the horse. People in the vicinity of where the dead animal was found state that Kingsley drove the horse until it fell exhausted and died soon after. Kingsley was locked up on the charge of intoxication. , Ho gave his residence as Brightwood. FU Down m StHlrtrar, - Thomas Moore, a tailor, residing at No. 231 North Noble street, while intoxicated, yesterday afternoon, fell down a stairway in the Yotin Block and an ire red serious injuries. For some time after the accident he was unconscious and was taken to his home in the city ambulance. An examination by the physicians disclosed a broken wrist aside from other injuries. DUupprMraiiee of Philip Siyker. The whereabouts of Philip Styker. a shoemaker, at No, 270 Coburn street, are unknown. He left his shop. Thurnday, 11 o'clock, and lat nuDt tid 110 returned. 'Considerable apprehension is foil by his family over tho di&appearauca.