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The second week in February, 1899, will long be remembered by the coal dealers of Indianapolis, The winter previous to last week was so mild that many had concluded to worry through the year with their nat-ural-gas supply, hiving up In the sitting room and kitchen, where the gas was best, but when the thermometer dropped to IS degrees below zero something had to be done. On Wednesday orders began to come in, and by noon some of the dealers were obliged to ‘stop taking orders for the day. On Thursday the business Increased largely, and on Friday they were fully as numerous. On Saturday there was but little falling off, and the coal dealers would promise to make no deliveries until Sunday. One company had forty teams of Its own, which, for the four days, averaged a delivery of ten tons each, making fully 400 tons a day. Then there was not an hour of the day that there were not from ten to thirty express wagons at the yards, waiting their turn to get coke or coal. Another firm had eighteen teams of Its own In service, working fifteen to eighteen hours a day, and the deliveries daily reached fully 200 tons. At its yards there were a score or more of wagons at any hour of the day to get coke or coal in smaller quantities. Another dealer was fully as busy as any of his competitors, not only keeping his own teams in service sixteen hours a day, but hiring the teams of lumber companies to aid in making deliveries, and he made no deliveries south of Washington street, ao pressed was he with orders. In three days he sold ten carloads of anthracite coal, this being the most In demand. All the dealers speak of there being a demand for anthracite coal and coke, and if that could not be found Pittsburg and Hocking valley coal was purchased. When the stock of these varieties of coal ran out, as they oid with some of the dealers on Friday and Saturday, Brazil coal was taken. While the three coal firms above named are the larger of the dealer.®, there are several coal yards where two to six teams are ordinarily required to do their work, and such yards were obliged to hire outside teams to make deliveries. Fortunately all had a very good stock on hand, and when the demand set in placed orders for more coaj, which were filled with unusual promptness, so that every dealer in the city did a big business, more coal and coke being sold in Indianapolis last week than in any two months sinco the introduction of natural gas. The last two years more manufactories have used coal in the winter than during either of the first six years after natural gas came into general use. The stocks of all the dealers on Saturday, however, were quite low. but all have large quantities on the way, so that by to-day there Is not likely to be any trouble as to the supply. It is said that the dealers, notwithstanding the unprecedented demand, did not raise prices and did their best to meet the emergency, BATH TOO MUCH FOR HIM. One Unfortunate's Henson for Lenvlng the Friendly Inn. A man called at the police station yesterday and demanded that he be provided with lodging. He was asked to tell something about himself and he replied that he had come here from St. Louis und had been living at the Friendly Inn. ••I’ve been working there, ’* he said, "and I've got tickets for two meals and one night's lodging, but I’m not going to stay there.” "And why not?” asked the desk sergeant. "Because they make .you take a bath every day. This is too cold weather for me to take a bath even’ day. v As he said this the full realization of his wrongs rtußhed his face and clenched his fists. The sergeant reasoned with the man, telling him all efforts were being made to prevent a spread of smallpox and cleanliness was absolutely necessary In a place like the Friendly Inn. where all manner of men. many of whom disliked to take baths in any kind of weather, came together. At last the man consented to return to the inn, but he would try to make some different arrangement about his toilet. Death of Mr. ltuth Crosby. Mrs. Ruth Crosby, aged seventy-five years, died yesterday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John H. Human, in Irvington. The cause of death was grip. She was a native of Connecticut, and came to this city thirty years ago. She was the widow of a well-known contractor, who built the Atlas works and other buildings about the .city. Besides Mrs. Human she leaves two sons. William H.. of Benton 'Harbor, and EdwardL., of Illinois.

TOO COLD FOR SERMONS MANY CHURCH SERVICES WERE ABANDONED YESTERDAY. s Rev. J. C. Smith Discusses New Catechism of Free Churches of England. The Tabernacle Church was one of the few churches in the city which opened their doors for worship yesterday. Most of the prominent Protestant houses of worship found the weather too severe to admit of a congiegation listening to a sermon with any degree of comfort, and, as a consequence, few of them were opened. Rev. J. Cumming Smith preached a sermon on an entirely new subject, it being "The New Cathecism of the Free Churches of England and Wales.” He said, in part: "We referred a few weeks ago to the exposure of a ritualistic plot in England, and now in the tumult of parties we see the olive branch of peace between churches. A new statement of religious truths always marks an epoch, but this last statement is unique in that it has sprung from sects that until lately made fierce war on one another. About sixty m.llions of believers in all parts of the world are involved in this last effort to construct some common platform as a basis of united effort. Protestants have blushed in private over their sectarian collisions and have envied the organio unity of tho Church of Rome. All the more distaste’iil are these sects when time has worn smooth all the old points of fray, when tho old fighters have lost their bigotry and prickliness, when pulpits abreast of to-day’s thousand choral messages are blind to the controversies of century, and when, as a fact, our churches are all blending in the one earth-lifting truth of Christ.

“But while there has been a conscious conveyance of our best messages, still the churches marched on under the old banners, torn in many a hot strife, and every attempt to uplift the doctrinal positions of churches was choked at its birth. Indeed, some who put no value on truth Itself found in ethics the last hope of wedding the sects. Others believed missionaries would be the instruments in merging the camps. But, after all, the world’s heart always protests against religious movement which has not truth as its core and secret dynamic. Both ethics and enthusiasm are vital kindling forces, but there has never been a crusade in history nor any new tide that ever carried uplift and emancipation to the millions which did not enthrone some eternal verity. The heart of humanity thirsts for realities, and now the singular beauty of this recentest effort to league the sects is that It makes bold to touch the great ideas of God; to bank and build on the modern worth of those waging ideas and then to leave in the future the possibility or desirability of some mighty confederation. "This catechism was prepared by Calvinists and Armenians, and, while conciliatory, it is not colorless, while catholic and symmetrical, there is no muffled disloyalty to regenerating essentials. It is statesmanlike rather than political, and the sword of polemics is sheathed in a large faith. We have not time to dissect the niceties of this new catechism except only to say it was born in minds alive to our best needs. That the church Is on the eve of a quiet revolution we can hardly doubt. Each age presses home its own demands on the church. The uppermost requirement at the dawn of the twentieth century is the patient application of live truths to our complex social conditions. That the gospel must produce anew manhood is, of course, an ever new and ever live truth, but the world persists, and, we think, justly, in Its challenge to our higher manhood to sweeten and recast our environments. It must leaven the whole lump. "Now, the pulpit must brace itself for this crisis or it must prove its incompetency. This is the one imperial desire of the present time. Now, what have the faded controveries of a hoar past to do with this supreme necessity? As well use old war ships in our modern navy! or old muskets in our modern infantry! Why so many small churches, each starving in order to starve a little more, each straining every nerve to wring moneys from the poor people to pay salaries for preachers and carry heavy mortgages! Why all this, when after all the trouble tho work is slovenly, there is no chance for specialists and the tide of spiritual power is often at too low an ebb! The reason is that the public is maintaining far too many churches and also as a result we do not have finances to encourage real live specialists, as men do in business, in law or medicine or architecture. The public is not getting the worth of its money with so many small meeting houses, each loaded with debt. A church wishes to send forth surplus of money and influence in the reaira of benevolence and missions. Hence each church, if normal, ought to be large, ought to have a college of pastors, should control the higher education, the benevolence, the reform questions, all of which suffer financial shortage. In one word, if one has any sane idea of what a church was meant to do, what it could do if its strength was not drained in so many pigmy efforts that beget so many waspish feelings and petty methods, then he will see how far the modern church has drifted from the ideal. Our age is sociological. Its genius is a wise concentration of energy. Syndicatism The churches must waive their minute points of disagreement and meet the need of the hour. In England the master minds as well as the millions seem ripe for large movement. In Canada for years the churches have mourned the waste of energy and the slipshod quality of most of the work done* and recently the desire for more generous applications stands at the forefront. The too close rivalries between churches must really block the path of their true usefulness. There are too many cocks crowing on the fences and too small a hatchery. The new catechism formulated by Oongregationalist, Methodist and Presbyterian leaders, men who are giants both in toll and thought, proves that truth can be so stated as to match a Paul and crown the truest thought of this great age. I cannot just here sketch the Targe ideal church with its finances and influences. But we must hail as a good omen this manly attempt to reach a broad creed full of power and hope for one time. Take such questions and answers as these: ‘‘Q.—What must we think of God? "A.—God is the one eternal spirit, Creator and sustainer of all things. He is love, boundless in wisdom and power, perfect in holiness and justice, in mercy and truth. "Q.—What does Jesus say about himself? "A. —That He is the Son of God whom the Father in His great love sent into the world to be the Savior from sin. "And as the cateshism sweeps a large field and although its style is chiefly for youth we cannot forget that we ure all children in the realm of the unseen.” OUR FRIENDS. Rev. George M. Smith** Sermon at Hall-Place Church. Rev. Georgo M. Smith, of Hall-place Church, preached yesterday morning on “Our Friends," choosing the text from St. John xv, 15, “I have called you friends.” “Man is so constituted,” he said, “that society is necessary to his happiness. Let him command all else besides. Let the land and the seas accumulate their treasures and pour them at his feet. Give him an everlasting tenure to the wealth of the world and he would be inconceivably wretched if there were no living being to whom he could communicate the intelligence of his prosperity. We must have friends. Occasionally there have been known persons who practically isolated themselves from the world. Sometimes a miserly, morbid greed for gold has so destroyed the higher faculties of the soul that the victim looks upon all his fellow-men with suspicion and sturtles at the rustle of a leaf, fearing it is the tread of a robber. Sometimes a great disappointment has caused persons to turn in disgust from the world to a life of seclusion. Without mentioning other causes of this unfortunate state of mind, it may be said that the human heart in w'hich the spirit of love and friendship is dead Is like a sepulchre in which the beauty of life has decayed. “Since we must have friends, the next matter of Importance for our consideration Is who our friends shall be. Much has been said and volumes have been written upon the subject of choosing our friends, but who our friends are does not depend so much upon whom we choose as it does upon who we are, what we, are and where we are. There is a law of social affinity that is as positive and as righteous as any law in nature. The same law that drives to themselves the vulgar and vile protects the purer and better element of society. The social standard varies in different countries, cities and communities. When the people of any country generally consent thut the highest

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good that can be attained is in belonging to a nobie or royal family, that country will have an aristocracy of blood. When the people of any country generally consent that the highest good that can be obtained Is in culture and fashion that country will have an ariztoracy of culture and fashion. When the people of any country generally consent that the highest good that can be attained is In the accumulating of money that country will have an aristocracy of wealth. These false ideas and artificial standards often crush truth and virtue and enthrone vice and villainy. God’s social standard is virtue. He does not estimate a man by what he has, or his occupation or the kind of a house he lives in, or the kind of clothes he wears, but by what he is. In the sight of heaven the man who is living a righteous life, though he has not a dollar in the world, belongs to God’s aristocracy. In the sight of heaven the man with his millions and a vile nature and corrupt heart is a villain. In the sight of Him who is to be our judge riches cannot elevate us and poverty cannot drag us down, learning cannot save us and ignorance cannot curse us. "One of the most beautiful revelations of Christ in the Bible is that of a friend. "I have called you friends. 1 Again He is said to be ‘a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.’ If Jonathan had given his life for David or if Pythias had given his life for Damon, it would have been friend dying for friend. Christ died for His enemies. God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. The world has never produced such an example of friendship and heaven has never given but one.” *- THE BEGINNING OF LENT. Services In Catholic Church—nishop Cliaturd Recovering. Ash Wednesday, Feb. 15, is the first day of Lent. Among Catholics it is the pious custom and practice for them to assemble in their respective parish churches and have the sign of the cross (with blessed ashes) made by the priest on their foreheads. The ashes used on this day are from burnt palms blessed on Palm Sunday. On Wednesday morning the ceremony of blessing the ashes will be performed before the 8 o’clock mass at St. John’s Church. In the diocese of Indianapolis the rules governing the adult members of the Catholic faith through Lent are promulgated in the shape of a pastoral letter sent by the bishop of the diocese to each parish priest and read by him to his congregation, usually on Quinquageslma Sunday, the Sunday immediately preceding Ash Wednesday. This year there is no material change in the diocese of Indianapolis. The general rule requiring all Catholics between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years to partake of but one full meal each day from next Wednesday till Easter Sunday still holds good. At St. John’s Church on Sunday morning the reading of this pastoral was dispensed with, the severe cold weather causing the regular services to be shortened. Avery rare change was made Sunday morning; low mass, with no music, was said at 10:30 o’clock by one of the Capuchin fathers from Franklin, who is assisting at St, John's Church in place of Rev. Victor J. Brucker, away with his brother, who is in search of health. On Wednesday and Friday evenings through the season of Lent services will he held at 7:30 o’clock at St. John’s Church. Masses will be said every morning at 6 and 8 o’clock. Bishop Chatard is improving, His physician now permits him to sit up a little while each day. Water Got In the G* Pipe*. The Lincoln memorial exercises at Allen Chapel, on Broadway near Christian avenue, to have been held last evening, were postponed until next Sunday evening, at 7:30 o’clock. When the janitor of the chapel tried to light up the building last night he found that there was water In the artificialgas pipes, and until a plumber could be secured to pump out the water the church could not be lighted. During the hour after the time for the opening of the exercises, and before this was completed, the congregation, sitting in the hair-warmed hall, became so chilled that it was deemed wiser to defer the programme than to keep them there. The memorial exercises are to be held under the auspices of the Anacostia Club, a society composed of colored Republicans.

AFLAME IN PRISON CELL FRANK MAYS DELIBERATELY SET FIRE TO HIS MATTRESS. The Young Negro, Who Has Been Acting- Strungely, Kescned by Cell Boss. - ♦ Frank Mays, a young colored prisoner at the workhouse, set fire to the straw mattress of his bed in his cell yesterday afternoon, and was dragged out only in time to save his life. It is a question whether he Intended to make an "insane bluff,” expecting to be rescued before he was burned, or was determined to commit suicide in the most horrible way he could think of. He had been behaving strangely and the workhouse authorities believe he was trying to make them think he was insane. He asked to be sent to the City Hospital, but as he was looked on as a bad man seeking a chance to escape, his request was refused. A few days ago guards searched his cell and found two table knives that he had stolen from the dining room and had made into rough saws. He was confined in the dungeon for a time. About 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon a scream from Mays’s cell, “I’m goin’ to hell this time, sure!” rang through the building and called the guards. Smoke and flame were pouring out between the bars. Mays’s cell w-as unlocked and Cell Boss Robert Coxle, also a prisoner, dragged Mays out into the corridor. Mays was unconsious and his clothing was ablaze. A bucket of water was thrown over him. Mays’s face was bandaged and he was wrapped in blankets. His face and hands and body were burned. When he regained consciousness he was asked if he had tried to burn himself to death. "I guess I was,” was the only reply he would make. He was not fatally burned. He was sentenced to m days for stealing and his sentence will not expire until May 6. Ha has been in the workhouse before his present term. He has violated all rules and has,caused much trouble for the workhouse officials. THE LOCAL COUNCIL Point* from tho Report Which Will Be Presented to National Meeting. Mrs. Flora S3. Wulschner, president of the Indianapolis Local Council of Women, has prepared a report which will be presented to the triennial session of the National Council, which meets in Washington this week. Mrs. Wulschner says Indianapolis and Bloomington are the only places in Indiana w'hich have local councils of women, although there are several federations of clubs. "The first meeting called to consider the question of organizing a Local Council of Women in Indianapolis,” the report says, "was held at the Propylaeum on Nov. 6, 1891. The membership has increased steadily, but noticeably so in the last two years. The council in Indianapolis seems to tend naturally in the direction of civic reforms. Its accomplished labors present no remarkable array of facts, and yet they justify the existence. It finds itself to have been an inuuence rather than a solitary doer of deeds. After a written protest from the council against the open patrol wagon the closed patrol wagon only was used In our police service. “Close upon the council’s complaints of the slot machines did the city officers discover that existing laws would suffice for their suppression. The council has greatly popularized the Idea of women on the School Board, although failing to get one there. Its exposures of the evils of the liquor traffic In the city, especially the winerooms, led to the Nicholson law. The council gave a certain moral support to the police matron when that officer was only an experiment. The council has been active in urging the curfew law upon the City Council.” The report recalls the history of a number of legislative measures in which the organization lias been interested. A vacation school in 1898 was an outcome of some of the council's efforts. Mrs. W'ulsehner regards the school as having been a sueceszful one. Tobacco Heart 1* Easily Cured by Heart Chocolates. They stand without a peer aa an efficient remedy. 50c. nil druggist*. w

CLOSE TO ONE THOUSAND * NUMBER OF BILLS PRESENTED TO THE LEGISLATURE. - Many Measures of Importance Yet to Be Acted On—Couditiou of the Reform Bills. 4_ But three weeks of this session of the Legislature yet remain, and in that time a vast amount of work is to be done. A number of the important measures have not thus far been generally considered. It was expected that decisive action would be taken on the subject of lynching, but the only action taken was to defeat the bill prepared by the attorney general. There are now two bills pending in the House on the same question, but no action has as yet been taken on them. The reform bills, which were deemed about the most important measures to come before the General Assembly, will be finally disposed of before the end of this week. No action has been taken on the subject of primary elections, although a bill on th ; s question is pending in the House. One bill has been passed, to punish by disfranchisement the seller of a vote, and that bill is the sole action taken on the subject of elections or looking to the purification of them. Tho decided disposition has been to nip all plans for the forming of special boards for licensing different professions or trades, and those measures looking to an expenditure of money have not been favorably received. In addition to the bills on the questions above mentioned the appropriation bill must be passed between now and the end of the session. The disposition of the finance and the ways and means committees is to be as liberal as possible with the benevolent and penal institutions of the State. Indiana has far outgrown the capacity of the present institutions, and this Legislature wili undoubtedly be more liberal than the past Legislatures have been, so as to remedy the existing evil as far as possible. Anti-trust bills have been introduced, but none of them has come up for consideration as yet. There probably will be no legislation on the two-ceiV-fare question, and but little, if any, temperance legislation, the feeling being that the laws on this subject are sufficient. NUMBER OF BILLS INTRODUCED. In both branches 955 bills have been introduced. Many of these bills in each branch are exactly alike, so this number does not Indicate as many different subjects and questions as there are bills. Os this number 548 have been introduced in the House and 407 in the Senate. Os the 548 bills presented to the House by the members thereof 109 have been passed and 151 have been Indefinitely postponed by the committees, in which recommendations the House has concurred. There are yet in the hands of the House committees 160 House bills which have not been reported. The House has killed twelve of its own bills by striking out the enacting clause and the same number have been defeated on passage. The committees have favorably reported sixtyseven bills, which are now pending on second reading, and nineteen bills have been ordered engrossed and are pending on third reading. Eight bills have been withdrawn by consent and four have failed for want of a constitutional majority. Four bills are set as special orders, one has been read the second time and ordered printed and one has been reeommnded as a substitute. The House has received and referred from the Senate sixty-seven bills, of which twen-ty-three have been passed and fifteen are in the hands of the committees. Fourteen have been passed to third reading and ten have been favorably reported by the committees. The House has defeated one Senate bill and four have been indefinitely posteid. This brings the total number of which have been presented to the House for action to 615. Os this number 132 have been passed, 155 have been indefinitely postponed, 175 are in the hands of the committees, twelve have been killed by striking out the enacting clause, four have failed by want of a constitutional majority, eight have been withdrawn, seventy-seven are pending on second reading, four are set as special orders, thirteen have been defeated, tnirty-three are pending on third reading and final passage, one has been read and ordered printed and one has been recommended as a substitute. THE SENATE’S WORK. Tha Senate has received 407 bills from the members, and of this number eighty have been passed and seventy-one have been indefinitely postponed. The Senate has killed four of its own bills by striking out the enacting clause and has ordered to engrossment thirty-five bills. There are now pending in the Senate sixty-four bills on second reading and there are 143 yet in the hands of the committees. Six have been ordered printed, two have been concurred in, one postponed and one substituted. The Senate has received and referred eightyseven bills from the House and has passed seventeen of these bills. Three have been indefinitely postponed and one is on third reading. The committees are considering forty-two and have favorably reported twenty-two. One has been ordered printed and one has been substituted. This brings the total considered by the Senate to 4i*4, of which ninety-seven have been passed and seventy-four have been indefinitely postponed. On the third reading thirty-six are pending and on the second reading there are eighty-six pending. The committees have 185 bills In their hands. Seven have been ordered printed, two substituted and the others are as above given. Many other bills are under preparation and it is probable that the total number of bills introduced will reach 1,300. There are many of these bills on the same subject, and the action taken on one will dispose of all others on the same subject. This is particularly the case as regards fish, thistles and road amendments and commercial fertilizers. Speaker Littleton adjourned the House over Saturday only after cautioning the members to return this morning prepared to work hard, and it is not expected that any mercy will be shown by the speaker in working off the accumulated business.

FOR ST. PATRICK’S DAY. Arrangrements Making for tlie Animal Irish Event. A meeting of the general committee that is preparing for the St. Patrick’s day celebration on behalf Qf the Ancient Order of Hibernians was held at the Occidental Hotel yesterday. M. E. Shea presided. Secretary P. J. O’Mahoney was directed to send invitations to all the Irish associations of the city to participate in the celebration. M. E. Buughlin, who is to be the grand marshal of the parade, made a partial report of the line of march and was instructed to make a complete report at the meeting to be held next Sunday afternoon. The following were added to the committee on entertainment: Jeremiah Costello, P. J. McNeils and James A. Deery. They are to assist in arranging for the entertainment at Masonic Hall on the evening of St. Patrick’s day. In place of the usual Irish drama it has been decided to give a minstrel show, followed by a musical entertainment at Masonic Hall in the evening. Janus F. Quigley has been selected as interlocutor of the minstrel show. He will be assisted by Michael Duffsey, Thomas K. Cantlon, John A. Quigiey, the Sowder brothers, Prof. George Hebble, Master O’Donnell and John McHugh, in addition to others that have not yet been selected. Peter B. Deery and Prof. Frank Mayers are to be the managers of the show. Miss Claudia Ballard, violinist; Mrs. J. T. Brennan and Miss Nellie Ballard are among those who will take part in the entertainment that is to follow the mintrel show. A German House Lecture. I.ast night Dr. Calvin I. Fletcher gave an illustrated lecture descriptive of his travels m Cuba and Porto Rico before a large audience at the German House. The lecture was Illustrated with several hundred atereopticon pictures made from photographs taken during the tour that Mr. Fletcher and a friend made of the Antilles. The pictures included photographs of natives that approached the touring party in boats, and showed them in the act of diving off their rude canoes into the water after small coins that were tossed to them by the passengers. Various other pictures that were thrown upon the screen showed

interesting events In the lives of the natives and described the journey Mr. Fletcher and his friend made across the Island of Cuba. CHINESE FEAST DAY. Skyrockets Went Ip Through the Chilly Air. Yesterday the Chinese Xew Year was observed in this city by about thirty natives of the Celestial empire. On account of the very cold weather there was not as large an attendance here from outside of the city as had been expected. Skyrockets were sent up in tha evening. Chinese from Muncie, Knightstown and Greencastle assembled with their local compatriots in t'he laundry of Quong Lee, SIS North Delaware street, to celebrate the occasion. On Quong Lee’s table were about a thousand bright-hued New Year’s cards bearing black heiroglyphic regrets from friends in ail parts of the United Stales who were not able to be present, but who sent kindly remembrances through the mails. Among those received were cards from Ling Yung King, Cincinnati; Lee You Ging, St. Louis, and Moy Du Shong, Peoria. The guests, as they entered Quong Lee's domicile, passed a large table tnat was decorated with potted flowers, laige caskets of oranges and a. profusion of Chinese confections, and a stone decanter setting on a tray of wine glasses, from which the guests took small sips of a Chinese beverage somewhat resembling whisky, but which is brewed from riee, or helped themselves to the dried fruits and confections wlih which the table was loaded. In the recesses, to which Caucasians were not permitted to penetrate, a great feast was held. It was not unlike a Thanksgiving dim er, from all accounts, roast turkey and roast duck being the principal articles of food, according to accounts given by those who sat at the board. Inquirers were gravely assured that as New dear’s was a religious festival, fan-tan and other games were strictly tabooed. THE STREET-CAR SITUATION. Terms of Proposition to City Not Yet Mude Public. The directors of the Indianapolis Streetrailway Company, which is to succeed to the rights of the Citizens’ Street-railroad Company and the City Railway Company, were not realty last night to announce the terms of the franchise that they will ask from the city nor the names of the two additional directors that are to be selected from the Indianapolis stockholders. Neither were they prepared to give any information as to the amount for which the new company will be capitalized, the basis on which those interested in the old company would be paid, nor the manner in which the old bonded debt would be cared for. R. O. Hawkins, one <Jf the Indianapolis senators, will introduce the bill that is to be presented to the General Assembly today. Present indications are that it will be some days before a formal proposition is made to the city. Last night reporters were informed that there was absolutely nothing new to be made public in addition to what was contained in tne papers yesterday morning. The bill published yesterday indicates that the company realizes that it cannot buy nor the old company sell its plant until special power is conferred by the Legislature. It also appears to be accepted that the city could not enter into a satisfactory contract with the new company until the legislation of two years ago is abrogated or repealed by new legislation. BIG FOUR ROUTE. Mur <ll Grus, New Orleans, Lit.; Mobile, Alu., and Birmingham, Ala. For above occasion we will sell tickets Feb. 6 to 18, inclusive, at one fare for round trip, good returning leaving destination Feb. 28, 1899. Call at Big Four offices, 1 East Washington street, Massachusetts avenue and Union Station, for full information, H. M. Bronson, A. G. P. A. Insure with German Fire Insurance of Indiana. General offices, 29 South Delaware street. Fire, tornado and explosion. Gray Iron castings, Ellis & Helfenberger, Phone 958. 366 S. Senate avenue. Feed your horse JANES'S Dustlese Oats. Everybody’s favorite, Y. B. 10c cigars. Wegman pianos. Carlin & Lennox, 9 E. Mkt. at. THE POWERFUL Goerz-Trieder Binocular Glass Gives theater-g-oers more magnification and an entire view of the stage. DON’T purchase any other glass until you have seen this make.

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COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Boston Insurance Company On the 31st day of December, 1898. It is located at No. 96 Ki lby ati eet, Boston, Mass. RANSOM B. FULLER, President. THOMAS H. LORD, Secretary. The amount of Us capital paid up ia $1,000,G00.00 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persona $266,879.76 Real estate unincumbered 21,200.00 Bonds and stocks owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of— per cent., as per schedule filed, market value 1,530,148.63 Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same Is mortgaged, and free from any prior lncurabranoe 975,550.00 Debts otherwise secured 121,192.89 Debts for premiums 150,197.40 All other securities, including Interest due and accrued on mortgages and bonds 22,979.53 Total assets $3,078,148.24 LIABILITIES. Amount due to banks or other creditors (capital) $1,000,000.00 Losses adjusted and due, losses adjusted and not due, losses unadjusted, outstanding losses 236,641.00 All other claims against the company 17,513.15 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks.., 405,881.66 Total liabilities $1,860,035.81 The greatest amount in any one risk, $25,000. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undesigned, Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above la a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 31st day of December. 1898, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file In this office. In testimony whereof. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal thla [SEAL.] Ist day of February, 1899. \V. H. HART, Auditor of State.

COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Orient Insurance Company On the 31st day of December, 1898. It is located at No. 6 Haynsa (cor. Pearl) street, Hartford. Conn. CHARLES B. WHITING, President. JAMES U. TAINTOR, Secretary. The amount of its capital is $500,000.00 The amount of its capital paid up ia 500,000,00 THE ASSETS OF THIS COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Bonds and stocks owned by the company, bearing Interest at the rate of— per cent., as per schedule filed, market value 1,868,119.61 Territory of New Mexico, special deposit 10,000.00 Cash on hand and in bank -......595,373,21 Cash in hands of agents 188,436.60 Real estate owned by company, unincumbered ..............$96,141.74 Interest accrued 16,939.22 Loans on mortgages, first liens 237,149.66 Loans secured by pledge of stocks and bonds 1,750.00 Total assets $2,513,909.94 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and due, losses adjusted and not due, losses unadjusted $206,098.27 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 693,768.64 I Total liabilities $1,199,864.91 The greatest amount In any one risk, SIO,OOO. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned, Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1898, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement ie now on file in this office. In testimony whereof. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal this [SEAL.] 31st day of January, 1899. W. H. HART, Auditor of State. COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company On the 31st day of December, 1898. It is located at corner Broadway and Michigan streets, in Milwaukee, Wls. 11. L. PALMER, President. ’ J. W. SKINNER. Secretary. THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE AS FOLLOWS: Cash on hand and In banks $5,308,896.71 Real estate unincumbered 3,816,901.64 Bonds and stocks owned by the company, as per schedule filed, market value 24,199,396.48 Accrued interest and rent 1,828,956.63 Premium notes 320,346.55 Loans on company's policies assigned to company as collateral 6,003,357.00 ♦Due and deferred premiums 2,003,241.18 Loans on real estate, first liens, $72,012,604.79, other than first (free from any prior Incumbrance, except as to taxes assessed but not due when loans were made, and 87 loans where there were contested liens amounting to $68,779,87, for which the company lias full indemnity) 72,012,604.79 $115,493,699.99 Deduct agent's credits, etc 47,056.83 Total assets $115,446,643.16 LIABILITIES. Present value of not due installments $210,626.30 Dividends due and on deferred premiums not due. etc. (estimated) 143,298.00 Unpaid accounts not presented, etc 80,516.50 Losses and endowments, etc., unadjusted 674,757.84 Surplus accumulations held to meet tontine and semi-tontine policy contracts (approximate) 19,005,174.00 Legal reserve, including annuities, actuaries, 4 per cent 89,069,843.00 Total liabilities $109,084,214.64 The greatest amount in any one risk, SIOO,OOO. •41 4-10 per cent, deducted on new, and 7 3-10 per cent, on renewal premiums. 6t*ate of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned. Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above Is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company, on the 31st day of December, 1898, a shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on nle in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal tbit [SEAL.] 31st day of January, 1899. W. H. HART, Auditor of State. COPY OF STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES BRANCH OF THE Manchester Fire Assurance Comp’y On the 31st day of December, 1898. Western Department, Chicago, 111. T. W. EUSTIS, Manager. Home Office, Manchester, England. The amount of its capital is $10,000,000.00 The amount of its capital paid up is 1,006,000.00 THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY IN THE U. S. ARE AS FOLLOW’S: Cash on hand and in the hands of agents or other persons $65,993.29 Real estate unincumbered 2.900.00 Bonds and stocks owned by the company, bearing interest at the rate of 2 to 5 per cent., as per schedule filed, market value 1,481,628.75 Bills receivable 2,338.80 Interest due and accrued 6,559.77 Due for reinsurance on losses paid 219.68 Loans on bonds and mortgages of real estate, worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged, and free from any prior incumbrance 250.00 Debts for premiums 235,072.51 Total assets $1,794,962.70 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid $95,808.09 Losses in process of adjustment... 65,947.11 Losses resisted 23,740.03 Total 77ri50.496.23 Less reinsurance thereon 22,459.61 Net amount of unpaid losses $163,085.01 All other claims against the company 71,849.87 Amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 975,885.60 Total liabilities $1,210,791.09 The greatest amount in any one risk, $50,060. State of Indiana, Office of Auditor of State. I, the undersigned, Auditor of State of the State of Indiana, hereby certify that the above la a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above-mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1898, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement Is now on file In this office. In testimony whereof. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my official seal thla [SEAL.] Sint day of January. 1899. W. H. HART, Auditor of State Sunday Journal, by Mail, $2 a Year