Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1897 — Page 6

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JOrn\AL AJ^RTI^omTIQM^ BRANCH OFFICES—OF THE JOURNAL H,ve be*n cenvenler.tiy located at the following aru# stores In the various sections of . _ the city, from which „ _ ADVERTISERKNTB WILL BE TELEPHONED , Direct to this office at regular rates, * CENTS PER LINIToF SEVEN WORDS. —STATIONS.— and 7th Sts.-6. Muhl. f ,? nUine St.. No. 4ut>—Claude Fields, thrtattan Ave., No. J97—F. F. Lannettelia. Clifford Ave., No. 32f—Philip Miller. College Ave. and 7th St.-Geo. F. Fisher. Columbia Ave. and 7th St.—Geo. C. Kuch. Columbia and Hill Aves.—R. C. Hampton. Delaware and McCarty Sts.-H. A. Dillon and Fletcher Ave.—Hugo H. East and McCarty Su.-E. C. Retch. Wayne Ave. No. 19>.-Thos. K. Thornburg. Hillside Ave.. No. 19—H. W. Carter. 7 1"°!® Rnd let Sts.—S. Muhl. Illinois and 13th Sts.—S. Muhl. Il.Jnois and 7th Sts.—J. M. Scott. Illinois and 22d Sts.—Frank Keegan. Illinois and North Sta.-R. M. Navin. Indiana Ave. and Vermont St —R- P- Blodau. Indiana Ave., No. 201—John D. Gauld. Madison Ave., No. 427—Jos. M. Invyer. Mass, and Cornell Aves.— C. E. Barmm. Mass. Ave., No. 301—L. E. Haag. Mer. and Morris Sts.—C. H. Brolch. Mer. and Ray Sts.—John E. Myers. Mer. and Russell Ave.—Geo. F. BorsL Mich., No. logs East—Van Arsdale Bros. New York and Noble Sts.—E. H. Enners. New York, No. 378 West—F. E. Wolcott. Pine, No. 201 South—A. L. Walker. Senate Ave. and 3d St.—A. M. Eyster. Senate Ave., No. 1053 North—E. E. Steward, fchelty St.. No. 183-C. A. Eltel. Talbott Ave., No. 250—M. Schwartz. J, rglnla Ave. and Coburn—C. G. Mueller. Virginia Ave. and McCarty-M. C. Staley. Wash. St. and State Ave.—N. 8. Drtggs. wash. St., No. 703 Eatt—Baron Bros. West St., No. 503 North—C. W. ElchrodL Yan.les and 9th Sts.—Dixon. . _ North Indianapolis Library Building—A. BGauld & Bro. Tel. 1894.

CLARK—Carrie Reagan Clark, wife of Isaac G Clark. Funeral aervicesat 1922 Highland place, Tuesday, October 19. at 10 a. m. Burial at Crown Hill. Friends invited. FINUKA ITd mmoit3.~^ FLANNER * BUCHANAN—I 72 North Illinois street. Lady embalmer, for ladles and children. Office always open. Telenhons 541. Hacks at lowest prevailing price. SOCIETY NOTICES. MASONlC—Keystone Chapter, No. 6, K. A. M. Stated meeting in Masonic Temple this (.Tuesday) evening, at 7:80 o'clock. Members please attend. HUGH O. M’VEY, H. I*. JACOB W. SMITH, Secretary. FINANCIAL. LOANS—Money on mortgages. C. F. SAYLES, 76 East Market street. _____ LOANS—Sums of 3690 and over. City property and farms. C. E. COFFIN & CO., 90 East Market street. LOANS—On city and farm property at 6 and 6 per cent. Correspondence invited. MEREDITH NICHOLSON, 606 Stevenson building, Indiana polls. l FINANCIAL—Money to loan on tarm and city properties in Indiana; lowest rates; with partial payments; money on hand; no delay. C. N. WILLIAMS A CO., 319-322 Lemeke building, MONEY—To loan on Indiana lanns. Lowest market rate; privileges for payment before due. We also buy municipal bonds. THOb. C. DAY A CO., Room 325-339, third floor Lemcks building. Indianapolis. FINANCIAL—Money to loan on furniture, pianos, etc., ir, small or large amounts, on lowest terms; easy payments; confidential. SECURITY MORTGAGE LOAN COMPANY. Rxm 297 Indiana Trust building (old Vance block), comer Washington street and Virginia avenue. IiILLAS EOl’S. WANTED—Security for u good clerkship, Accirewa F. H.,care Journal. WANT lib—Free clinics at the now Central College of Dentistry. Old Telephone Er-range, corner Ohio and Illinois streets, WANTED—Young men to learn barbertng; only eight weeks required; catalogue mailed free. MOLER SYSTEM BARBER SCHOOLS, Clark and Van Buren streets, Chicago. PERSONAL—Party car furniture to California has room for more. Address B 900, Journal. WANTED—MALE HELP. WANTED—Patients at Central College of Dentistry. Everything free. Coiner Ohio and 1111Boia atreeta. WANTED—Young men to learn barbering; only eight weeks required; catalogue mailed free. MOLER SYSTEM BARBER SCHOOLS, Clark and Van Buren streets. Chicago. Wanted—Men and teams to work on the grade of the Columbus & Lima Northern Railway; desirable scraper work to sublet to responsible parties. Apply at our office, Bellefontaine, O. FERGUSON CONTRACTING COMPANY. NOTICE—The Board of Trustees of the Central Indiana Hospital for Insane will receive sealed bids until Friday, Oct. 29, at 10 a. rn., for furnishing FRESH MILK for said Hospital for one year from Nov. 1, 1897, to Nov. 1, 1898. Specifications will be on file at Room 45, Statehouse. from and after Monrifcy, Oct. 25,1897. By order of BOARD TRUSTEES. LOST. LOST—Qn Virginia avenue, Lexington avenue, or Shelby street, a Indy’s pocket book, with name, receipts and eight dollars In it. Reward for return to 140(i Lexington avenue. STORAGE-Indianapolis Warehouse Cos., 265-273 S. Penn, at Pennsylvania tracks Phone 1343. THE QUAKER CONFERENCE 7 Will Convene at the Friends’ Church This Evening. The quiruiuc-nnlul conference of American Friends will convene at the Friends’ Church, on North Aiabuma street, at 7:30 o’clock tonight. Some of the delegates have already arrived. President J. J. Mills, of Earlham College, Is to officiate as chairman of the conference. Andrew B. Malone, of Cleveland, is secretary. This evening the conference will open with devotional exercises, after which the credentials of delegates will be received ami the nominating and business committees selected. The election of officers will take place Wednesday morning at 9:30 o’clock. After this Dr. James Carey Thomas, of Baltimore, will lead the discussion of “Quakerism; Its Theory and Its Practice.” In the afternoon the question for discussion will be “Should Future Conferences Have Legislative Authority?” This will be led by Rufus Jones, editor of the American Friend. The consideration of the question of “A Uniform Discipline or the American Yearly Meetings,” led by Edmund Stanley, state superintendent of education In Kansas, will be on the programme for Wednesday afterneon. There will be an address Thursday morning on “Our Periodical Literature,” by President A. Rosenberger, of Penn College, lowa. Other addresses will follow. Thursday evening President Mills, of Earlham, •will talk on the “Qualification for the Christian Ministry.” and J. P. Wooten, of Boston, on "How Shall We Foster the Spiritual (Jilts of Our Young Members?” Friday morning at 9:30 o’clock El wood Ellis, of Falrmount, will deliver an address on “The Regulation of the Ministry.” In the morning there will also be an address on “The Authority of Evangelistic Committees,” by Eliza C. Armstrong, editor of the Missionary Advocate. Consideration of subjects proposed by the business committee will come up Friday aternoon ami in the evening Allen Jay. of Richmond, will speak cn the topic. "What Is Pastoral Work?” Thomas Brown, a former pastor of the Indianapolis Friends' Church, will discuss “The Position and Authority of the Pastor.” Saturday morning Matty M. Hobbs will discuss the subject, “The Position and Function of the Elder.” WANTS THE MOB PUNISHED. Wife of n Mon Lynched ot Versatile* Colls on the Governor. Mrs. William Jenkins, wife of one of the men lynched by the mob at Versailles, called on Governor Mount yesterday to learn whether or not there would be any step taken to punish the mob. She said that In behalf of the relatives and friends of the lynched men the investigation should be curried on until something is accomplished. She was told by the Governor that he had not abandoned his intention of punishing the mob, and the Indictments would be forthcoming In the near future. Attorney General Kitcham refused to discuss the matter. Week nerves indicate deficient blood. 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PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS • . PRESIDENT THOMSON AND ASSOCIATES VISIT INDIANAPOLIS. - The Inspection Party Found Muat of the Lines In Good Condition—The D. A O. Reorganization. President Thomson, of the Pennsylvania lines east and west of Pittsburg, and his associate officials, who have for several days been inspecting the lines owned or controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, arrived in the city at 7 o’clock last evening. On Saturday the party inspected the Vandalia line between Terre Haute and St. Louis, having on Friday inspected the Michigan division of the Vandalia, and yesterday they inspected the Peoria division and the main line from Terre Haute to Indianapolis. President Thomson stated to a Journal representative that their trip thus far had been a very pleasant one, and the portions of the system they had passed over were, as a rule, in excellent condition, and on ail sides he could see that the manufacturing interests were more active and that business men generally talked very encouraging over the outlook. Over the Vandalia lines the party were accompanied by V. T. Malott, receiver. Vice President Brooks, when questioned concerning the length of the Vandalia receivership, said there were no new developments in the matter, and to name any time would be mere guesswork. The Vandalia main line, he said, was in fine shape and nearing the Pennsylvania’s highest standard, but on the Michigan and the Peoria divisions a good deal will have to be done to bring them up to the standard desired. The tenor of his remarks was that the Vandalia was, as a whole, a good property, but the Peoria division was an unnecessary adjunct to the system. James MeCrea, first vice president of the Pennsylvania Company, said everything had moved along very nicely since they started on the inspection trip, and what he had seen had convinced him that, after reaching the bottom we have turned the other way again. The Pennsylvania lines were doing a good business and he was confident that rates were being much better maintained than at any time in years. Rates were held to tariff at St. Louis, and when this is the case rates were generally firm at other points like Peoria and Chicago. Concerning improvements at Indianapolis, much depended upon the manner the city treated the company in the matter of allowing it to lay additional tracks across Delaware street to the grounds recently acquired by the Pennsylvania Company. The party, which travels on a special train of five cars, will leave for the East over the Panhandle at 8 o’clock this morning. The Pennsylvania management has set the standard for this country, one to which other railroads endeavor to approximate, in many cases with success, though this rivalry has not yet resulted in placing the Pennsylvania in an Inferior position in such respects. It is a lesson in practical railroad management of the most instructive kind to learn that this great corporation has not allowed its property to deteriorate or even to stand still during the period of uncertainty and unfavorable conditions in railroad traffic.

Tlie B. & O. Reorganization. The problem with financiers now is the reorganization and rehabilitation of the Baltimore & Ohio road and who will formulate the plan. The light for control will soon begin, and is already attracting the attention of railway financiers and managers. The stake is a magnificent one, for, while the B. & O. is greatly burdened with debt and nonsupporting branches, Receiver Murray and other expert railway managers are of opinion that it will again take rank as one of the greatest railway properties in the country. Receiver Murray played a strong card by not ignoring Baltimore as an important point on the system, where former managements had made a mistake. The United States Investor, in commenting on the reasons for the bankruptcy of this valuable property, says: “The people of Baltimore attribute the downfall of Baltimore & Ohio to the Garrett and Mayer management. When Mr. Spencer retired from the presidency some fourteen years ago the tioating debt had been well cleared up by tiie syndicate loan of slo,mx,ooo, and he had pricked the profit and loss bubble of S4B - UOO.WJ, proudly referred to by Robert Garrett as a surplus. Most of it consisted of tiie securities of acquired lines or advances on these roads, on which there was very little hope of realizing anything. It well represented the folly of extensions, but President Mayer did not take this lesson personally. He simply continued to perpetuate the Garrett regime by acquiring roads right and left which only proved a burden to the company, and rendered it necessary to turn out more securities in order to keep the company afloat. In fact, it appears that most of the floating debt was incurred under the Mayer management. A further mistake which contributed to the downfall of Baltimore & Ohio was the resumption of dividends soon after the commencement of the Mayer regime Not satisfied with paying a cash dividend in November, 1891, a stock dividend of 20 per cent, was paid to represent money said to have been put into the road. There was also an issue of new stock for improvements, and since then bonds have been turned out in great abundance and car trust obligations have been "Saddled on to the property. It was the policy of the Garrett management to throttle instead of encouraging industries along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio, to fight everybody and everything, even Western Union, Adams Express, Pennsylvania, New York Central, and it was the extension of the road from Baltimore to Philadelphia, right into the enemy’s country, that still further crippled the road.” Autoina-ttc Coupler* mid Air Drake*. It is evident that the railroads will not, by Jan. 1, 1898, have carried out the requirements of what is known as the federal coupler and air-brake law. The fact that such roads as the New York Central, which owns 38,897 cars, has yet no automatic couplers on its cars and has yet to equip 55 per cent, of its cars with air brakes, is evidence to that effect. The Erie has 40,388 cars, and yet has 74 per cent, to equip with automatic couplers, and 30 per cent, with air brakes. The Chesapeake & Ohio owns 13,927 cars, 55 per cent, of which are yet to be equipped with automatic couplers and 43 per cent, with air brakes. The Baltimore & Ohio owns 33.231 cars, 80 per cent, of which are yet to be equipped with automatic couplers and 0 per cent, with air brakes. The Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg own 64,275 cars, 58 per cent, of which have yet to be equipped with automatic couplers and 48 per cent, with air brakes. The Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg own 52,543 cars, and have yet to equip 67 per cent, with automatic couplers and 38 per cent, witn air brakes. The Chicago & Northwestern owns 35,017 cars, and has yet to equip 94 per cent, with automatic couplers and 67 per cent, with air brakes, and the exhibit of other Northwestern lines is but a little more favorable. Coming nearer home, the Cincinnati, Hamilton A Dayton owns 7,310 cars. 25 per cent, of which are yet to be equipped w’ith automatic couplers and 6 per cent, with air brakes; the Monon owns 5.20s cars, 32 per cent, are yet to be equipped with automatic couplers and 32 per cent, with air brakes; the Wabash owns 12,330 cars. 40 per cent, are yet to be equipped with automatic couplers and 18 per cent, with air brakes. A singular feature of the exhibit is that the poorer roads have done more to carry out the spirit of the law than have a number of the dividend payers. Voluntary Relief. The monthly report of R. F. Smith, superintendent of the voluntary relief department of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, shows that in the month of September there was disbursed in deuth benefits from accident $2,500. In death benefits from natural causes SB,OOO, In disablement benefits from accident $6,108.50, from sickness $7,754.40, making a grand total of $24,362.90 disbursed during tiie month to 934 members, or, in case of death, their legal heirs, in the ninety-nine months the association has been in operation there has been paid out in death benefits on account of accident $177,007.19, on deaths from nutura causes $556,197.78, in disablement benefit 1 from accident $518,542.50, on account of sick-

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1897.

ness $658,255.20. making a total of $1,909,002.67. the money being divided among 87,349 of the members. Personal, Loral and General Votes. The Cincinanti. Hamilton & Dayton is r.ow delivering daily at Toledo 200 to 225 carloads of Ohio coals. The Big Four, in the first fifteen days of this month, including Sundays, handled an average of 5,007 loaded cars per day. The Ohio Falls car works are now- very busy building both passenger and freight equipment, largely for Southern lines. John Elliott, the Vandalia conductor who was killed accidentally hist Friday, carried a policy for $2,000 with the order of Railway Conductors. The Big Four people expect to get 10,000 tons more of new heavy steel rail in their track between Indianapolis and St. Louis before winter sets in. Last week, in one day, the Columbus & Hocking Valley delivered to lake vessels 9,218 tons of coal, it being transferred by a Brown hoisting machine. Last week the Indianapolis & Vincennes hauled from the coal mines on its line 572 carloads of coal, the heaviest for many months in any one week. The stockholders of the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland, operated by the Big Four, will, on Nov. 1, receive a semi-an-nual dividend of 3 per cent. The Cincinanti, Hamilton & Dayton inspection party, with General Manager Waldo at its head, yesterday left Toledo for an inspection of the main line. The general managers and general superintendents of the roads constituting tha Union Railway Company's operating department will hold their regular monthly meeting to-day. Yesterday Frank Sladden succeeded R. C. Longacre, promoted to division freight agent of the Erie, as chief clerk of the general freight department of the Erie lines west of Salamanca. Wells, French & Cos. are building one hundred refrigerator cars for the Santa Fe, which are said to be an improvement on any cars of this class yet built in the way of storing and keeping ice. On Sunday last the Big Four, on different divisions of its system, ran thirteen lowrate Sunday excursions, and all were well patronized, that from Indianapolis to Cincinnati carrying 782 excursionists. The Central Vermont is about to be reorganized, the Grand Trunk having a voice in the reorganization. The Central Vermont turns over to the Grand Trunk annually a million dollars’ worth of business. On the later train yesterday Harry Fuller, general passenger agent of the Chesapeake A Ohio, and D. B. Martin, passenger traffic manager of the Baltimore &. Ohio, passed through the city en route to St. Louis. O. V. Eaton, of San Francisco, representing the passenger department of the Southern Pacific, was in the city yesterday. He states that California passenger men are looking for a large Pacific coast travel the coming winter. The general passenger agents were much disappointed that General Passenger Agent Wood, of the Pennsylvania road, who was to accompany them on the special train to St. Louis, was taken so ill en route that he had to return to Philadelphia. One of the finest trains that ever passed through the Union Station was the special of the Pennsylvania road, yesterday morning, carrying the general passenger agents to St. Louis. The entire distance the train made a very high speed record. The earnings of the Northern Pacific are now so large that dividends on its common stock are predicted. The track of the road has been put in good condition and rates are being maintained. The road never handled as large a tonnage as this fall. George Burns, private secretary of General Manager Ramsey, of the Wabash, and general fuel agent, was in the city yesterday. He states that the Wabash could hardly be doing any better than at the present time. Every engine and ear fit for service is kept on the move. The street fairs at different points in this State and Illinois have been quite a revenue earner to the railroads. On three successive days last week the Big Four took several thousand people each day to the street fair at Mattoon, 111. It is estimated that on one day the railways carried 20,000 people to that town. The estimated gross earnings of the Baltimore & Ohio for September. 1897, as compared with September, 1896, when the Harrisonburg branch, now cut off, was a part of the system, were $2,319,065. an increase of $26,134. The Harrisonburg branch in September. 1896, earned $15,282.53, making a legitimate increase for September, 1897, of $41,416.53. The 1 Brooks locomotive works have secured the order to build twenty ten-wheel freight engines for the Lake Shore road. The engine proper will weigh 108,000 pounds, which, on the Lake Shore roacl, will haul as many loaded cars as an engine weighing 130.000 pounds on a majority of roads. The engines will have 17 by 24-inch cylinders and 56-inoh driving wheels.

An official of the Big Four remarked yesterday he could not see what train the Big Four could take off between Cincinnati and Chicago either way to advantage, as every train run is a good paying train the year round, and the only way any change could be made would be to make the fast express train do more local work between stations, and this would not satisfy business men. The complaint of Mortimer Hendricks, of New York city, against the Manhattan Railway Company, alleging that its directors had unlawfully paid out funds of the corporation in dividends to stockholders aggregating $3,000,000, and asking that an investigation bo made of the affairs of the company for a period of six years, was dismissed by the New York railroad commission yesterday. At the meeting last week of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville first mortgage Atlantic Trust Company certificate holders the plan of reorganization was submitted by the first mortgage bondholders’ committee and unanimously adopted. Present indications are that the road will soon be placed on its feet and reorganized on a basis which w ill enable it to pay operating expenses and fixed charges. A leading official of the Joint Traffic Association denied yesterday that whatever the decision of the United States Supreme Court as to the legality of its agreement may be, it will proceed to wind up its affairs and go out of business. This official, who speaks by authority, declared that the association offices will be retained in New York in any event if only as a bureau of information and general assistance to the roads east of Chicago. Under the former management the physical condition of the lowa Central was allowed to deteriorate, as was its equipment, but under the now more aggressive management its earnings are increasing handsomely, and it is said that, without embarrassment, the company can begin the extensive improvements required to place the property on line with its competitors. The net earnings of the road the first two months of its fiscal year increased $75,654. The “Sunset Limited.” the vestibule limited train, composed of gentleman’s library, smoking and buffet car, ladies’ parlor, observation and library car, Pullman compartment and drawing room sleeping cars and dining car, which, during the past two winter seasons, has been operated on fast time between New' Orleans and Los Angeles and San Francisco, will begin semi-weekly service between Chicago and Los Angeles and San Francisco to-day. East-bound freight shipments from Chicago for the week ending Oct. 14 amounted to 67,135 tons, against 46,167 the previous week (five days), and 51,530 last year, divided among the roads as follows: Panhandle. 9,938 tons: Michigan Central, 7.261; Wabash, 5,771: Lake Shore, 9,751; Fort Wayne, 5,403; Baltimore & Ohio, 4.026; Grand Trunk, 5.024; Nickel-plate, 5.625; Erie. 6,753; Big Four, 4,583. The lake lines carried 151,600 tons. The Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad filed a bill in the Federal Court at Chicago yesterday against the Peoria & Pekin Union Railroad Company for an injunction to restrain prosecution of suits for rentals in the State court at Peoria. The suit arises from an old dispute over the rentral of tracks of the Peoria & Pekin Union Railroad, the Union Depot in Peoria being used by the Illinois Midland maxi, which property was purchased by the Terre Haute & Indianapolis road. Within the next sixty days the farmers of Greene county can reach the railway stations with grain, produce and live stock about as well in tlie muddy-road season as in midsummer. Already the Indianapolis & Vincennes has delivered 700 carloads of broken stone at points designated for improving the highways of Greene county, and under the contract 500 more carloads are to be delivered this month and in November, sixty miles of highway in that county being so improved. A. J. Frazer, now superintendent of the Birmingham division of the Southern Railway. headquarters at Birmingham, Ala., will be appointed superintendent of the Pittsburg & Wheeling division of the Baltimore A Ohio on Nov. 1. Mr. Frazer has been superintendent of the Alabama Great Southern division of the Queen Orescent system and trainmaster of the Ohio and Mississippi, Cincinnati division, now part of the Baltimore A- Ohio. He will till the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. M. B. Cutter. George Blanchard, chairman of the Joint Traffic Association, is not making much headway in securing control of the weighing and inspection bureaus at different points. The board of managers have canvassed the matter and have come to the conclusion, it is said, that this department is managed on a more economical basis than it could 'be If under direct control of the Joint Traffic Association. The Inspection and weighing

bureaus and the car-service associations in the Central States are the best managed and best paying institutions, in proportion to cost of operating, of any department of the railway service. The new Brooks engines on the Monon are developing remarkable speed. Engine 111 still holds the record, it hauling four vestibuled cars several miles at a speed of a mile in forty-seven seconds, but Engine 112 is now crowding the former, hauling the same-sized train from Ockley to Deer Creek, seven and two-tenths miles, in five minutes. Either of these engines will run a mile a minute on any part of the road without the least seeming exertion. Engineers of both claim that neither of the locomotives has yet been run to its highest speed capacity. No engines run on Indianapolis lines attract more attention that do these, unless it be the two large engines of the Garstang type on the Big Four, which haul a heavy train at full as great speed. The four engines are without superiors with trains graded to their power. C. P. Clark, general manager of the New England road, claims to have originated, or at least planned, the first combination car and locomotive for suburban service. This is a mistake. D. G. Edwards, passenger traffic manager of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton, has for many months been working on a similar plan, but this does not detract from its value as a method of handling suburban travel. The composite, as it has been christened by the New England road, made the trip from Schenectady to the Norwood shops of the New York & New England road, a distance of 315 miles, self-propelled, and performed very satisfactorily, and in a test last week a speed of thirty miles an hour was attained up a grade of fifty feet to the mile, hauling a regular passenger coach as a trailer. Five miles were run at an average speed of a mile in one minute and eight seconds.

COLUMBIA CLUB PLANS. A New Four-Story Building;, with Attractive Feature*. The Columbia Club has under consideration a plan providing for the extension of the club membership and the erection of a new four-story building on the present site. Plans showing a magnificent structure of stone and terracotta have been submitted to the club by Henry Ives Cobb, a wellknown Chicago architect, who designed the Stevenson building. Within the next thirty days a meeting of the directors Os the club will be held, when the proposition to erect anew home will be finally passed upon. It is understood that the carrying out of the club’s present plans will depend upon the increase in the membership. However, the club has assurance that sixty-five applications for membership are in sight, and, with the addition of these new members, the contemplated improvements can be made. Th; new building, if erected, will occupy the entire frontage owned by the club, and will be so constructed that it can be used for other purposes in the event of its ever being abandoned by the club. There will be four passenger elevators in the building, and everything about the structure will be on the most modern style. Turkish and plunge baths, a swimming pool, besides bowling alleys and a roof garden, are among the features contemplated. IN THE COURTS. On Account of a Building’* follapuft Millard F. Peters has sued the Hitz Baking Company for damages, the suit growing out of the collapse of a part of the company’s new building on Virginia avenue, near the viaduct. Henry Witte, the contractor, who erected the building, is made a party defendant to the suit. The plaintiff w’as hurt Aug. 13 last. He charges that a portion of the building was negligently put together, and by reason of certain excavations around the pillars and piers, the heavy timbers gave way, throwing the plaintiff a great distance to the ground. His knee was dislocated, his ribs crushed and he was cut and bruised. The plaintiff was a brick mason employed on the building. __ Mr*. McElroy’* Slunder Suit. Martha Francis McElroy has sued Hattie and Augustus Tibbltts for slander, churning SIO,OOO damages. The plaintiff avers that on a certain occasion while the defendants were together, one of them, in the presence of divers persons, used the following significant language: “You know, Mrs McElroy, that you had your cellar full of blooming flowers stolen from that greenhouse under the hill, and you knew they were stolen." Mamie Lewi*’* Complaint. Mamie Lewis Mas applied to the courts for a divorce from Dallas W. Lewis, to whom she was married in August, 1887. After eighteen months* she says, the defendant deserted her and she filed a petition for a divorce. While the suit was pendnig, Lewis returned and begged her to withdraw the complaint. She did so, and they lived together until 1891, when, as averred, the plaintiff was again deserted. Charles Reiffel’s Damage Claim. The damage suit of Charles Reiffel against the Big Four Railway went to trial in Room 1, Superior Court, yesterday. The plaintitl was injured by the Peoria & Eastern division of the defendant corporation. While crossing the track at Kentucky avenue he was struck by a passenger train. It is claimed that the train was running at an excessive rate of speed. Boyer Now Sue*. In the Circuit Court James Boyer, a colored man, is suing to recover damages for injuries received while assisting in the demolition of the old Indiana National Bank building on Washington street. The suit is against Nuerge & Relnking, the contractors. On Saturday in the Superior Court a verdict was returned against this firm in a similar suit. Inquiry ns to Parr’s Sanity. An investigation into the mental condition of John C. Parr, who was tried in the Criminal Court for perjury, was commenced yesterday. Parr is under sentence to the penitentiary. During the trial the defense of his attorney was that he was not of sound mind. Holt Scandal Not Taken l T p. Although it is understood that the grand jury will inquire into the Holt sewer scandal, the investigation has not yet begun. The jury has been busy with Jail cases and has not yet made a report for the October term. The jury expects to be in session for several days.

THE COURT RECORD. Superior Court. Room I—John L. McMaster, Judge. Charles Reiffel vs. C., C., C. & St. L. Railway Company; damages. On trial by jury. Room 3—Vinson Carter, Judge. Abraham L. Proctor vs. Wfilliam M. Manion: appeal. Taken under advisement. William Brester vs. Anna Vetter et al.; mechanic’s lien. On trial. Circuit Court. Henry Clay Allen, Judge. James Boyer vs. Charles Nuerge et al.; damages. Submitted for trial by jury. Criminal Court. John F. McCray. Judge. State of Indiana vs. Arthur Peck: incorrigible. Defendant twelve years of age. Taken under advisement and defendant discharged until further order of court. State of Indiana vs. James Robinson; incorrigible. Defendant committed to the Reform School for Boys. State of Indiana vs. Thomas Aruer; cruelty to animals. Appeal from justice’s court. Ev idence heard in part. Cause continued to Oct. 20, at 2 p. m. New Snlta Filed. Mamie Lewis vs. Dallas W. Lewds; divorce. Superior Court. Room 3. Millard F. Peters vs. The Hitz Baking Company; damages. Circuit Court. The Mutual Home and Savings Association vs. Laura Masters et al.; foreclosure of mortgage. Circuit Court. Martha Frances MoEtroy vs. Augustine Tibbitts et al.; slander. Circuit Court. Eva Linn vs. Adam Linn; divorce. Superior Court. Room 2. An Old Soldier Reinstated. William King, an old soldier, who was given an indefinite leave of absence from the postal service in 1889. when Wallace was postmaster, wfill re-enter the service to-day in the registry department. Postmaster Sahm yesterday received King's certificate of reinstatement. Settles with the Stale. The Hallen Manufacturing Company, which has been making bicycles at the state prison, has settled its indebtedness with the State. At the time the property was placed In the hands of a trustee for the benefit of creditors the company owed the Suite $6,500.

GOLD AND SILVER MONEY DIRECTOR’S ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE MINTS. Coinage of the Last Fiscal Year—Average Commercial Ratio Between Gold and Silver 1 to 31.94. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. The director of the mint has submitted to the secretary of the treasury his report for the fiscal year 1597. covering the operations of the mints and assay offices, together with the statistics of foreign countries relative to production, coinage and the monetary condition of each. The value of the gold deposited at the mints and assay offices during the fiscal year 1897, cents omitted, was $129,105,500. Os this amount $57,003,33< were original deposits, and $42,102,162 redeposits. The original deposits were classified as follows: Domestic bullion $60,618,239 Mutilated and uncurrent domestic coin 1,015,314 foreign bullion and coin 22,559,534 Old plate and jewelry 2,810,248 The coinage value of silver bullion received during the year was $9,725,022. Os this amount $9,470,623 were original deposits and the remainder, $254,398, redeposits. The original deposits were classified as follows: Domestic bullion $40,961,799 Uncurrent domestic coin 2,856,018 Foreign materials 940 2.2 Old plate and jewelry 612,’032 The purchases of silver bullion for subsidiary silver coinage, under the provisions of Section 3526, Revised Statutes of the United States, aggregated. $259,248 fine ounces, costing $171,455. The face value of uncurrent domestic gold coin received at tho mints and assay offices was $1,025,121. Os this amount $623,751 was transferred from the treasury for recoinage, and the remainder, $401,370, was deposited by individuals, the total coinage value of which was $1,015,314. The coin executed during the year was as follows: Gold $71,646,705 Silver dollars 21,203,701 Subsidiary silver 3,124,085 Minor coins 984,509 The silver dollars coined were from silver bullion on hand purchased under the act of July 14, 1890. The total coinage of silver dollars from bullion purchased under that act from Aug. 13, 1890 (the date the law took effect), to July, 1, 1897, has been 68,748,477 pieces, containing 53,172,650 ounces of tine silver, costing $51,532,154, giving a seigniorage of $17,216,322. Os the subsidiary silver coinage, $30,042,489 were coined from uncurrent silver coin transferred from the treasury for recoinage, and $81,595 from, bullion purchased under the provisions of Section 3526, Revised Statutes, for the subsidiary silver coinage. On the latter the seigniorage was $42,322. The remainder of the silver bullion on hand at the mints for the coinage of silver dollars and subsidiary silver coins, July 1, 1897, was: Fine ounces. Cost. Purchased under act July 18, 1.890 $115,438,461 $104,336,312 For subsidiary silver coinage 1,348,353 1,641,090 At the United States assay office, New York, for payments of deposits of fine bars.. 505,998 512,786 Including the balance on hand at the mints July 1, 1878, the net seigniorage on the coinage of silver from that date to June 30, 1897, was $84,822,821. The value of the gold and silver bars manufactured at the mints and assay offices during the fiscal year was: Gold $54,511,019 Silver 6,598,751 Total $61,109,861 The highest quotation for silver 0.925 in the London market during the year was 3iy 2 d, equal to $0.69051 per ounce, fine. United States money; the lowest quotation was equal to $0.60357. The average quotation for the year was 29 9-16d, equal to $0.64794 per ounce, fine. At the average prices of silver for the year, the commercial ratio between gold and silver was 1 to 31.94; at the average price of silver for the year, $1 would purchase 741.65 grains, equivalent to 1.54 ounces. The net imports of gold were $44,609,841, as against $78,901,612 net imports for the previous fiscal year. The net imports of silver were $32,636,835, as against $33,262,258 for the fiscal year 1896. The product of gold and silver In the United States for the calendar year 1896 was; Gold, $53,088,000; silver (coining value), $76,069,236. The net value of the precious metals employed in the industrial arts in the United States during the calendar year 1896: Gold, $11,395,934; silver, $10,204,273. The stock of gold and silver In the United States July 1, 1897, is estimated to have been: Gold $696,270,542 Silver 634,509.781 Total $1,330,780,323 The total metallic stock and uncovered Paper of the world, compiled from the latest reports, is estimated to have been, on Jan. 1. 1897: Gold $4,359,600,000 Full legal tender silver 3,615.800,000 Limited legal tender silver 652,500,000 Total metallic stock $8,627,900,000 Uncovered paper 2,569,200,000 Total $11,197,100,000 The world’s output of gold and silver for the calendar year 1896 was: Gold $204,396,600 Silver (commercial value) 109,406,.800 Silver (coining value) 215,242,700 The coinage of gold and silver by the various countries of the world, so far as reported, was: Gold, $105,899,517; silver, $153,305.740 The director of the mint in his loport reviews the decline of silver since I8 T 3, and attributes the decline to the great increase in production.

EXTRADITION DENIED. JcftdM Guerra. Will Not Be Surrendered to Mexican Authorities. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The State Department has refused the request of the Mexican government for the surrender to it, under the extradition treaty, of Jesus Guerra, who was in the celebrated Garcia raid into Mexico in December, 1892. The case is of more than usual interest because of the strenuous efforts made by the Mexican government to secure Guerra, and the fact that it was necessary to carry the case to the United States Supreme Court for construction of the functions of committing magistrates. Guerra was one of the party of about one hunderd and fifty men w'ho crossed til 3 border from Texas into Mexico, was attacked and captured in Mexican towns. He was sought to be extradited for murder, robbery and kidnaping. The murder was based on the killing of soldiers in battle, the robbery on the capture of cavalry horses, and the kidnaping was based on the capture of soldiers. Although there were some few instances during the raid of private robbery it was not shown that Guerra was concerned in them. Ho was arrested and committed in Texas for extradition, but his counsel sought a writ of habeas corpus, and the court decided that he could not be surrendered, the offense charged against Guerra being really political. The case was appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which decided that the lower court had no jurisdiction in its interference with the committing magistrate, and reversed its holding. This brought the case at last to the State Department, and Solicitor Penfield. in his opinion, rendered to-day, takes the same ground that was assumed by the Texas court, tiamely. that the offense was political, and therefore that Guerra shall not be surrendered. POSTOFFICE STATISTICS And Heeoninieiidatloni* of the Third AMMlatunt Pont master General. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The report of Third Assistant Postmaster General John A. Merritt for the fiscal year just closed was made public to-night. Following is an abstract: The postal revenue for the year and the total actual expenditures was as follows: Ordinary postal revenue, $81,698,281; receipts from ordinary money order business, $967,181; revenue from all sources, $82,665,465. Actual amount of the expenditures for the postal service for the year ending Jane 30, 1897, which includes all made on account of the year up to three months after its close, $93,781,278; expenditures on account of previous years, $295.9," l, a total of $94,077,242; excess of expenditures over receipts, $11,411,779. The total deficiency for 1896 was $8,127,088; total deficiency for 1897, $11,411,779. Through bad debts the Post-

office Department lost last year $19,799. The estimates of appropriations for the service of the third assistant’s office for the fiscal vjar ending June 30, 1899, aggregate $1,288,- „ Tho total number of postal cards issued 523,608,250. The weight of second-class matter sent in the mails during the year, not Including free matter within the county of publication was 310,658.155 pounds; postage collected thereon. $3,106,581. Estimating that lo per cent, of ail the second-class mail is sei J_t free of postage within counties of publication, the total weight of seeornlcjass ma tter mailed is estimated at over 152..40 tons. The arrangement made by Postmaster General Blssell in 1894 for the manufacture of postage stamps by the bureau of engraving and printing will expire June 30, 1898. Concerning this General Merritt says he has concluded that the Postoffiee Department ought to have complete control over the manufacture and issue of its stamps. He says the Postoffice Department should have its own engraving anu printing establishment for making its stamps and its own vaults for their safe keeping, and that these stamps should be Issued by its on n agents direct to pratmasters and. through its- own exclusive machinery. Recommendation is made for the discontinuance of newspaper and periodical stamps. A significant recommendation is one urging that prepayment in full of all mail matter be required hereafter. The report says the department is and has for years past been suffering a heavy loss of revenue from the failure of postmasters to rate up and collect postage on first-class mail matter not fully prepaid. More Consuls Appointed. WASHINGTON. Oct. 18.—The President to-day made the following appointments; Frank C. Partridge, of Vermont, consul general at Tangier, Morocco. Consuls—-Chester W. Martin, of Michigan, at Amherstburg, Ont.; Joseph I. Brittain, cf Ohio, at Nantes, France. Col. Peter C. Hains, of the engineer corps of the army, at present in charge of the river and harbor improvement for the Baltimore district, has been appointed to be engineer commissioner on the Nicaraguan canal commission and has accepted the appointment. Mr. Partridge, who is appointed consul general to Tangier, has had an extended diplomatic experience and also has a wide knowledge of the business methods of the State Department. He came to Washington from Vermont as private secretary to Secretary Proctor when the latter was secretary of war and was appointed solicitor of the State Department to succeed the late Walker Blaine. He filled that place with satisfaction and later was appointed United States minister to Venezuela by President Harrison. His present post is an important one in view of recent troubles Americans have had in Morocco. War Ship Ordered to Guatemala. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The State Department has received a cable from the United States charde d’affaires at Guatemala City stating that owing tq the extension of the present revolutionary movement in the eastern portion of Guatemala American interests in that section and American citizens are endangered, and the presence of a war ship is desirable. Accordingly the secretary of the navy has sent orders to the Uniter States steamship Detroit, now in Florida waters, to proceed at once to Livingston, on the gulf coast of Guatemala, to protect American interests. The Montgomery, now at Staten island, has been ordered to relieve the Detroit of the work of looking after flilibusters, in which she has been engaged. Loophole fur Anarchists Closed. WASHINGTON. Oct. of Immigration Powderly has revoked the circular issued by his predecessor in 1894, authorizing the granting of certificates of re-entrance to cattlemen crossing to Europe with cattle. The commissioner has received information from American consuls that cattlemen have been selling these certificates to Anarchists and others desirous of escaping to this country. They receive from $5 to SSOO for them. Hereafter cattlemen who are not. native or naturalized citizens will have to prove their occupation and go through the same investigation required of regular immigrants. A Year'll Pension Rulings. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The annual report of Assistant Secretary of the interior Webster Davis, after reviewing the leading pension cases decided during the present administration and the decisions liberalizing the adjudication of the claims, summarizes the work of appeals in pension and bounty land cases during the last fiscal year as follows: Decisions sustaining the Pension Office, 3.084; reversing the Pension Office, 389; cases reconsidered by the Pension Offi e pending appeal, 327; appeals dismissed, 471; appeals pending on July 1, 1,742. Os original appeals alone there were filed in July, 754; August, 489; September and up to date, 884. Supreme Court Cae Advanced. WASHINGTON. Oct. 18.—The Supreme Court to-day advanced the argument of the Durrant murder case, brought here from San Francisco, and feet it for hearing Nov. 15. The cases Involving the constitutionality of the Illinois inheritance tax law were set for Jan. 10. and the Elizabeth Noble murder case from Georgia for ..ov. 6. Two New Indiana Pontmasters. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—The President to-day appointed two Indiana postmasters, as follows: Scott Cole, at Huntington; David S. Wilber, at Rising Sun. General Notes. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—To-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balances, $210,428,278; gold reserve, $150,706,678. Pink Sellers was to-day appointed postmaster at Sellersburg, .Clark county, Indiana, vice Valentine Helbig, removed. Secretary Alger has directed General Brooke that a court-martial be ordered for the trial of Captain Lovering in case the captain does not ask for a court of inquiry. Captain Lovering, it is alleged, brutally maltreated a private named Hammond at Fort Sheridan recently. The Japanese delegates to the tripartite conference on seal life, who arrived in Washington yesterday, called at the State Department to-day and were presented to ex-Seeretary Foster, who has in charge the negotiations for the conference. Colonel Thomas E. Barr, assistant judge advocate general, hois been transferred from the Department of the East to the Department of Missouri, exchanging places with Lieutenant Colonel John W. Clous,

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