Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1901 — Page 6

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1901.

JnURSAL'9 IU3ISES nillECTOIlY. owi I.NUiANAJ'ULW JOUHNAL ; Wm. L. P.lc. t'Pi West Mlchlxan street. TirHones: Oli. i7:r; new. SXii Territory west of VMt Hrer. . FLOP.XSTSDEnTEIlMANN1 HROS.. Nw No. 41 Mas. 224 N. DL St. Tel. S4T. MANTELS AND ü KATES , P. M. PURS ELL (Mantels. Furnaces), j CI Man- y PATENT L-Wvrnn.s V. H. LOCKWnoD. pamr-hltt or any general Information free of chre iV,-Wi Irncfc1 huildlng. SALE AND LIVEIiT STABLE3 HORACS WOOD (Carrla. Trap. Bur boards, etc.) 25 Circle. Tel. 1097. WALL PAPERS II. C. HTEVENS. New Ftyl T7aH Paper, Low pr',ce. S. Pcnaf ave. Tel. 1 on 21. FUNERAL DIRECTORS FRANK DLANCHARD. , 99 N. Delaware t. TL 41L Lady Attendant. TTTTEWILER SON. Undertakers. 12 W. Market SL TeL 1

FUNERAL IliriECTOFlSFLANNER & BUCHANAN (Licensed embalniers.) Can ihlp diphtheria and carlet ferer. Lady embalmer for ladles and children. ILM North IUI ttols at. Telwpnona 4U. uw and old. Old 2. C. E. KREOELO. New ZM. FUNERAL DU1ECTOIL , 123 N. IUtrt SC Kealdenca- 12 E. Vermont Ht. (Colonial Flat. ! New Phone. 1743. M. L. WKLLS-Associated with C. 1. Kregelo. : 1C0 Ccllze avenue. New 'Phon 33. died. GILL Frar.k. st 12:13 a. m. Tuesday. Funeral Thursday at 1:. p. m.. at IT1 Holly avenue, TYfft Indianapolis. Friends Invited. EIERSDOP.FEK-I.miln. Jan. 8. at 1:30 a. m.. . at,ed atxty-two y-ars. ten months and twentye!ht da-. Funeral rrorn the- ramny rei-nce, H3 Eait Vouth ttwt, Friday. Jan. il. at 8 a. m. eiiee Vt fit. Mary's Church at 8:30 a. m. Friends Invited. :VAIL Margaret S.. wife of Sidney J. Vail. Sun- ! day evening. Jan. . 1:"1. Funeral from ths family residence.' 1423 East Washington street, Wednesday, Jan. 9, at 2 o'clock p. m. SOCIGTY SIEETIXC.S. I. O. O. F. Th officers and members of American Lodge. No. I. O. O. F.. are requested to mwt at loutte hall WednesTay evening. Jan. V, at 7 p. m. to make. arrangements for the fu neral of Drotner UlllUm McKlnney. ; Slmed. W. C. HKENE.VAN, T. T. JACOI3H. Secretary. Noble Grand. FINANCIAL. i IXJANS Money on mortcagea. C F. 8AYLE3. IZ7 Kant waricet street. " 1-oa.n f ua city property; V per cent.; no com- ; mission: money ready. C U. WILLIAMS A CO.. 219 Lemck building. STORAGE. TOR AGE INDPLS WAREHOUSE CO. W. E. Kurtz. Pres. II. A. Crossland, Mgr. S. Penn. Telephone 1342. We STORE, PACK and HAUL. biOitAGE The Union Transfer and Storage Company, corner Last Ohio street, and Beolln'j tracka: only nrt -class storage solicited. CRATINO AND PACKING OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS A SPECIALTY. XOTICE. NOTICK JOHEFII OAIIDNEH. tin work and furnaces. 23 Kentucky ave. Telephone C2. ANTED Do not freeze, but keep warm. See Indiana CHI iiurner. at J East Ohio street. The annual meeting of the toclüioMers of the Indianapolis. Greenwood & Franklin Railroad Company will be held at the company's of.ice. at üreenwcod, Tuesday, Jan. 21, at p. m. WAMKD-MALE II II LP. W'AVTPTi Fi IT. . Jirmv: st.lHt-iitnH im. fna rria.. 1 tyw n lit nr a a n tV u a 0 f1 a " X citizens of the United States, of Rxxt crracter and temnrTjf -hlt .h.-k rnn 9lf rv4 oru writ Kngllsh. Recruits spe-iaUr desired for . . t . I X. . till ! . . T WANTED FK3IALE 1 1 ELI. WANTED Girl for reneral housework In small family; references. Zill North New Jersey street. V AN l KD T-n women to sell "Happineoa at Homo." 1.W0 of premiums. One with eacft paper. 123 Virginia avenue. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS 100 BOOKS FREE THIS WEEK Perfume. musls and notions. 4. ovo in all. One free with every copy of "Happiness at Home," to advertise It. Call early. L3 Virginia avenue. SEALED rilOPOSALS. PROPOSALS For camp kettles, pickaxee and pickax neives. ht. Louis. Mo.. Jan. 5. 1'JOI. Sealed proposals. In triplicate, will be received here until 12 o'clock, noon. Wednesday. Jan. 1G, 1X1, for furnishing and delivering at the Bt. Louis, iio., ciotninif depot. 5,öw camD ket tles. 15! pickax helves and 6.004 clckazes. United. States reserves right to accept or reject any or all proposals or any part thereof. Information and specifications furnished on aopllcation. Envelopes containing proposals to be maraea 'ropoais ror camp kettles, pickax reives ana pickax-. addreswd D. D. vuiLtn, Deputy tiuartermaster GeneraL LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS TRUSTEE'S SALE. Notice is h-rrehy jrlven that pursuant to an or der of the District Court of the United States for the district of Indiana, this cay mad in the matter of Ttiomai J. Chrictlan and Harry E. Christian, bankrupts. No. in bankruptcy, 1 will offer at private sale on and after Thursday. Jan. 10, 15CI. at my rdtWe. corner of Lewi and Fifteenth atreeta. City of Indianapolis. Indiana: 41) About l.i:;.0Cd feet of oak. poplar, pine ana cneetnui lumber, ituuted at or near Junction City. RockholL Mahan. PuUskl nd Somerset. Kentucky. belr.nKir.z to the estate of Christian Bros., bankrupts. O) About 4.0.UOO feet of loss near Rockhold and Woodbine, Kentucky, belonglns to thi estate cf sai.t tnrtsiian i;r.s. i?.) HoiTf, wazon. hamese. lumber fries and, eutht. !-ated at Junction City, Kentucky, belormc to ?aid estate. Said salts will be for rash or for not Ie than cre-ha'if cash and lalance on time not excedinjt ninety days, to fe represented by neyotls.Me r.oles bearing 6 per cent. Interest, with securitr tu the approval of the court, and any and all saies in tw uoj-ci to tne approval of the court. For further particular se the undersigned. Jan. 7. 1SJI. WILI.Al.D S. WlCKAitD. Trustee In Jiankruptcy. niXK STATEMENTS. Annual tatemnt cf the statt Dank r.f In dara. at t V cUe if bulnes Jan. 2, 13(1. Re'Urc. Hills receivable J117. Fvrnltur and fixtures 7.4.2.74 lTcftt ana Kss Taxes 3. lev. (HI 14,r.s7.54 3 vi. O) .m:.i7 Cvm-nt etienKs .. Revenue .tamps.... Real estate Cath Due from banks.... 54.97.CS-Si$J.97:.0O Liabilities. Capital afK-k 2 AVCO burplus , Interest and exchar.j:e.., Jrw.lvi .ul dejx.Mts Cert innate of dtp sit.,., Certified t hecks Cashier's checks , Ive clearSnir ho! lue banks and-tinkers ..!.' t ..... n.4( j.t-ä . . 24. 14. 1. i?.?4..r. i.4K r 31 VS.". 1.41. It 45,.V.o.:4-r5S.377.00 We. II. W. Miller, president, and .Tarne r? Henry. eahter. wcar that th above Is tru an.j correct to me pest o cur KPow:r.U'l and Ivllef. H. W. M1LLKK. Present, JAM KS R. HKNliY. I'MsM-r Fubcrtivi an orn t bfire me this 3d cav cr jAnus.ry. ihi. I SEAL! W. F. C COLT. Notary Public. Ccmmlmiiw expires S pt, 2. 1301. ANNUAL BANQUET GIVEN. The Caledonian Quoltlnar Clnb Also Install Its OiUcers. The Indianapolis Caledonian Quoltlng Club Installed its new officers and gave its annual banquet In the hall on Massachu etta avenue last nixht. The toastmaster was John A. McGaw. Those who attended the banquet were: James Suminervllle, G. IL Gauld, R. M. Foster. J. Loudon. Asa Balfour. William Yule, John B. Cockrum. William Petrie. Andrew Smith, Alexander Cra!g. Jamra Calderhead. Georg IL MatWfo:i, Dr. Dryb.jurh. William Ritchie. Albert Scott. G. M. U Kerr, G. M. Clark and John MoOregor. The club is making extensive preparations for the celt brat kn of Hums' anniversary, on Jan. 25. Mayor M. M. Dunlan. rf Anderson, will deliver the address on tat day.

FAVORABLE FOR TRAFFIC

IIA IL WAY 1HI:K;HTS Aim !OW HANDLED AT A 31 IM 311 M COST. Ills Earning of the Iii; I'onr Line In December 31 ny IooI the Cnrrylne of Theatrical Troupes. One of the older of the general superin tendents In this section .ays that he has never known Fix months in which weather and track conditions have been so favorable to moving traffic economically as dur ing the period ending Dec. 21. There has not been a day that engines could not haul cars to their full capacity; no floods to interrupt traffic and no snow thus far the present season. At present locomotives are hauling from Ave to fifteen more cars than five years ago, owing to the Increased weight of locomotives and Improvements of roadbed, and these trains are moved at fully 23 per cent, less cost under present conditions than U9ual in the fall and early winter. The car shortage has prevented the roada doing the business they could have done could they have supplied all cars called for. Still, the roads have been using all the power in moving the business that ha3 been done, and the fact that the pay rolls show the usual number of train crews in service when the roads are busy is evi dence that the roads are enjoying unusual prosperity. One thing can but be noticed that is that the Big Four lines, the Penn sylvania line?, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the Vandalla are showing the largest earnings In their history, which substantiates the statement that rates are well maintained and the net earnings show that the business is carried on an economi cal basis. The same remarks that will ap ply to Indianapolis lines will apply as well to all roads in the Central Traffic Association territory. Ruling aa to Hated. The Interstate-commerce Commission yes terday, in an opinion by Commissioner Prouty, announced its decision in the case of George J. Kindel and the Denver Cham ber of Commerce against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company and others. The case involves the legality of greater freight charges to Denver than to San Francisco from the Missouri river and points east, greater freight charges from Denver than from the Missouri river and points east to San Francisco, greater freight charges to Denver than to the Miosourl river and points east from San Francisco, greater freight charges from Denver than from San Francisco to the Missouri river and points east. It is held by th commission that the rates complained of are in violation of the fourth and third btctlons of the act to regulate commerce, and that as a matter of general applica tion rates at Denver to or from the East, or to and from the Pacific coast, ought not to be higher than those between San Francisco or other Pacific coast terminals and the Missouri river or points east. In the case of east-bound traltlc the carrlerV contention that tne rate on sugar might be higher to Denver than to the Missouri river 1 eustalned. it being- found that the circumstances and conditions governing thj traffic are different when it is carried f.o Missouri river points than when it stops at Denver. The commission also decides that Denver is not entitled, by reason of its being nearer to San Francisco, to a lower rate than that in force from the Missouri river. To Pool Theatrical Itnainess. While theatrical managers are combining with a view of taking concerted action that they think will enable them to force the railroads to grant them better terms for the transportation of their companies, the passenger agents of the trunk lines have under consideration the feasibility of enter ing into an arrangement for pooling this business upon the same basis that military trame has been and -is still being nandled. Should they succeed in arriving at an agreement for tnis purpose, it will kill the nicely laid plans of the theatrical people, and at the same time put a stop to the necret manipulations that every season have been provocative of friction and heart burnings among the representatives of the interested lines, and who have been forced to resort to all sorts of little tricks to checkmate one another. The most trifling sort of concession has often enabled one road to take business from another, just when the latter supposed it was absolutely secure in bidding ror a company. This has invariably been none far below the sur face, and while there was no question as to an irreeularlty havlnir been resorted to. It was impossible to produce incontro vertible proof or it. Another Risr Deal Under AVny. The New York Commercial Advertiser says: " ell-lnformed wall-street men have information that the New York Cen tral Railroad management has made or will make application to lease the Dela ware & Hudson Company's railroad and coal property. This proposition it is as serted has been talked over by representa tives of the vanderbllts and some of the large holders of the Delaware & Hudson stock. The terms of this alleged lease are stated to be a guarantee of 6 or 6Vi per cent, per annum on the 135.000,000 of Delaware & Hudson stock. The negotiations for the control of the Delaware & Hudson have been conducted so quietly that but a few men are informed as to the details. President R. M. Ollphant and other officers of the Delaware & Hudson Company dis claim knowledge or any Impending change in the control." Economical Reform Story Hevlved. The Chicago Record says this morning: "The financial powers, controlling the destinies of the great railway s3-stems of the nation are reported to be planning one of the biggest economical reforms in" the his tory of American railroad operations. The intention is to dispense with the vakt army of traveling passenger and freight agents and other officials directly engaged in the solicitation of business for the lines. Should the plan be carried out. it means the dis charge of more than &0.000 men and the an nual saving of millions of dollars to the carrying companies will be the result. The intention of the railroads to bring about the new reform came as a result of the rcent big deals engineered by J. Pierpont Morgan, James J. Hill, John D. Rockefeller and others. UIk Fonr Earnings, The Big Four lines proper, in the fourth week of December, earned $511.316.22. an Increase over the corresponding week of 1S09 of $17,957.15. In December the earnings were the largest of any like month in the road's history, being $l.tr.352.34. an Increase over December, im of $152.522 9S. The Peoria & Eastern lines earned in the last week of December. $1.1056. an in crease over the corresponding week of 1S99 of $20.636.76. For the month the earnir.jrs v.ere $230.511.21. an increase over December, 1S99. of J27.4J2.05. Personal Local and General .otea. The Lackawanna la to establish an agency in Boston with E. S. Auchincloess in charge. Willis E. Gray denies that he has been appointed general manager of the Kansas City Southern Railroad. The roads comprising the Indiana Car Service Bureau will hold their annual meeting at the Union Station to-day. William Cannon, secretary of the Union Railway Company, who has been ill several days, was at his office yesterday. The big roads have In the last thirty days contracted for over two hundred locomotives and $1,500,000 worth of new cars. John V. Smith has been elected president of the Railroad Commission of Alabama for a term of four years, vice James Croak, retired. General Passenger Agent Lynch, of the Pig Four, has called a meeting of the summer tourists' committee, to be held in Montreal Jan. 29-30. L. P. Burgess has been appointed NewEngland passenger agent of the Nickelplate with headquarters in Boston, vice F. W. Tlbbets, resigned. W. O. Thompson, formerly with the Lake fhore road, has been nppointed master mechanic of the Toledo, St. Louis & Western at a salary of $J.txO a yenr. George E. Melteynolds. Lake Erie utaUoa tigent at Kokomo, ha been transferred

to Michigan City, to succeed D. R. Couch,

who was recently transferred to Indian apolis. The freight report of the Big Four at Anderson, shows that 2.viS cars were handled at that point during the year just closed, an excess of 2,04tt over the IStf) figures. The Northern Pacific has cid all Its lands in North Dakota, amounting to J.M.OfO acres, to a syndicate cf New York and I 'astern capitalists for the establishment o." ranches. A company has been organized with $50.000 capital to manufacture the railroad track mover Invented by I). C. Creese. The plant will be built at Sharon. Pa., and give employment to several hundred men. The Louisville & Nashville are to make extensive Improvements at Mobile, among other things building a freight depot.' a contract for which was awarded to a Chi cago contractor last week for $00,000. The passenger committee of the Trunk Line Association met In New York yesterday to discuss changes in passenger differentials between New York and the West. At the close of the meeting Commissioner L. r. Farmer said no decision hrd been expected and none had been reported, but that another meeting would take place within a month at which the discussion would be continued. The Illinois Central on Saturday closed a contract with the Pittsburg locomotive works for thirty mogul type of engines, five ten-wheel passengor engines and five six-wheel switch engines, a total of forty locomotives, costing $350,000. General Ticket Agent Stilz, at the Union Station, says the sales of mileage. books the first eight days of the month were largely in excess of those of the first week in January of cither year the mileage book has been Introduced. George Klttredge, chief engineer of the Big Four lines, was in the city yesterday looking after some contemplated Improvements, and in the afternoon went to Terre Haute to inspect the work on the new bridge over the "Wabash, now nearing completion. While fewer cars were loaded in 1000 at the Indianapolis freight depot of the Vandalla, so systematic was the unloading that a considerably larger tonnage wa3 placed in the cars than in lSt9 and the earnings of the station were handsomely in excess of IW. In the year lf00. 31,478 carloads of live stock were unloaded and loaded at the Union Stockyards, Indianapolis. The shipments were as follows: Over the Big Four. 3,238 carloads; Pennsylvania lines, 2.9S6 cars; Cincinnati, Hamilton .& Dayton. lr4 cars: the Monon, 95 cars; the Lake Erie & Western, 16 cars. J. S. McCullough, who for several years was prominently connected with the passenger department of railroads in the South and West, has been selected to succeed It. E. L. Bunch as chief clerk of the general passenger agent of the Southern Railway in Washington. Traffic officials of the Northwestern, the Western and Southwestern roads are finding it a difficult problem to carry out the orders of the executive officers that rates of all kinds be strictly maintained. New Orleans Is the weak spot on account of its anxiety to build up a big export traffic and to divert the produce from entire territory west of the Mississippi and south from Minneapolis and St. Paul via New Orleans. Charles C. Trott his been appointed district passenger agent of the Northern Pacific Railway at Milwaukee, vice C. C. Mordough, who comes into the Indianapolis district to represent the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. II. W. Sweet succeeds Mr. Trott as district passenger agent at St. Paul. Mr. Mordaugh's title will be traveling passenger, agent and his headquarters will be at Cincinnati. The Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin prints an interview wjth its railway authority. In which it is stated legal obstacles are in the way of a combination of the Great Northern; Northern Pacific; Chicago. Mil waukee & St. Paul. The newspaper's in formant says there are laws In Minnesota and the Dakotas which forbid comblna tlons, leases or other traffic arrangements between and among parallel, competing lines, which the named railways are. There is considerable rivalry between the passenger agents over the business for' the Chicago-Florida special trains which will be placed in service on Jan. 14. The first train will be run over the Monon. the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton and thj Queen & Crescent: the next day over thi JUS Four, and the third day over the Pennsylvania lines, alternating each of the six days of the week. The ups and downs in the stock market are illustrated In the advance since the I-ake Shore road took control of the Lake Erie & Western lines. The preferred stock is now selling at $29 per share more than one year ago. and its common stock has advanced $23 per share; on the other hand. Panhandle stock, which, through pure manipulation, sold a year ago at per share, afterward declined to $49.73 and is now selling at $55. Western roads have agreed to make a rate of one fare, plus $2 for the round trip to Washington and return for the Inauguration of President McKinley on Maich 4. Tickets at this rate will be sold on Feb. 28 and March 1 and 2. from the western State lines of Colorado and Wyoming, and on Feb. 27 and 2$ and March 1 from points west thereof, but no tickets will be oM to reach Eastern gateways before March 1. Tickets will be good to return until March 8. The Lackawanna road is enjoying the largest business In its history. When the present management took hold the road was poorly equipped, and this has prevented even a greater development. The company has ordered sixty new engines, the roadbed is being put in first-class condition, over $3,000,000 having been expended in betterment in the last two years. With the change of time In the spring new fast trains will be nut on. making the run be tween New York and Buffalo in less than nine hours. For a number of years the Lake Shore has maintained a division known as ths Kendallvllle division, it extending from Waterloo, Ind., to Elkhart. On Jan. 1 the Lake Shore people enlarged this division, extending it as far west as South Ecnd. including the Elkhart & Western, end it is now to be known as the Elkhart division. John Wirley, who has had charge of the Kendallvllle division, continues in charge, but will remove his hearquarters from Kendallvllle to Elkhart. BREEDERS OF SWINE. The Intllnnti Association "Will Convene To-Day Other .Meetin-. A large number of swine breeders of this State and a number from other States came to this city yesterday to attend the twentyfourth annual meeting of the Indiana Swine Breeders' Association, which will convene to-day at the Statehouse. in Room 12. The programme consists of the reports of the various officers, the election of officers for the ensuing .year and papers by members upon various topics relative to the business of breeding swine. L. L. Moorman, of Winchester, is president of the association and Luden Arbuckle. of Hope, secretary. The annual conventions are usually largely attended by breeders land others and much profit results from the exchange of Ideas, and it is said that the attendance this year will be larger than ever before. Yesterday, at the Occidental Hole!, a number of associations, composed of breedera making specialties of one breed, held meetings in the rooms at the hotel, receiving reports of officers and listening to papers concerning the business. Amongr those that held meetings were the National Berkshire Record Association and Berkshire Hreeders' Institute, of which V. 1. Llllard. of Lawrenceburg, Ky., Is president, and the Central Poland-China Record Association, of which Adam F. May, of Flatrock. Is president. To-night the Standard Chester White Record Association. F. F. Moore, Rochester. Ind.. president, will meet in the parlors of the Occidental Hotel. The Animal Event. rehoM. the housewife, young and fair. Now earnestly commences To "keep a strict account" of all Her income nd exptr.st. Fhe has a lovely littl bock. of apect mot official; In gold and green upon the back Arpears her on Initial. Sh knits her brows and rroudly says: "Hereafter I'll account for Each cent I pet, and also note What 1 spend each amount for." She opens It most carefully. And tsn fh Is inditing The lay and dk. in nnirular And styllshest handwriting. Tvo months from now, if you should see . The book, 'twould be quite musty; Th pane would be clean and white. The covers very dusty. There'd be one pasre the leading one On which accounts were reckoned: "Received $1V on the "Ist." And "f pent It." on the "2d." W. D. Ntablt. in Baltimore American.

PECULIAR LEGAL FIGHT

rnOCEEIHNGS IN FOHECLOSrilE IIRUIGHT BY 3IARY BLANCH ARD. A Former Legal Tangle Involving the Same Partien to the Salt Recalled Other Court Cnae. The foreclosure suit of Man Blanchard against her brother, Jacob Ehftsman. and her daughter. Ida Blanchard. in Judge Carter's court, took up the greater part of the day yesterday in getting the case straightened out for trial. The suit is the winding up of matters that have figured ir. tho courts of Marion county in various forms of litigation for several years. Mrs. B.'anchard holds a note against the estate of Samue'l Ehrisman, Jacob Ehrisman's son, for $5.C00. In 1SSS Mrs. Blanchard, who then lived in Philadelphia, advanced money to her brother for his son to invest in a mill. The amount given him aggregated $1,600. Besides this amount 51,000 more was needed, which was advanced by Jacob Ehrisman, but was turned over to Mrs. Blanchard, who took a note for $3.600 and a mortgage cn the mill. In ISO! Mrs. Blanchard came to this city and made her home with her brother. In answer to the claim of Mrs. Blanchard Jacob Ehrisman says she lived with him. drew money and he made othe." provisions which amply repaid her. She does not deny that he gave her $1,000 of the money advanced to his son and asks for but $1.600. Ida Blanchard is made a defendant because she is trustee of the property involved. The way she came to be appointed trustee was through a peculiar chain of circumstances. Several years ago, when ex-Judge Harvey was on the bench in the Superior Court, suit was brought by Jacob Ehrisman to annul the marriage of his son. The grouna for the complaint was that his son married when he was of unsound mind. Samuel Ehrisman had lived with a wotnan for several years In the relation of a common-law marriage. He began to show symptoms of Insanity, and the common-law wife, fearing such a marriage would not be recog nized as legal in coming into possession of ner nusDanti s property, set about to have a ceremony performed. They went to Greenfield and were married. A few months afterward Samuel Ehrisman was declared of unsound mind and was sent to the insane hospital, where he died. Jacob Ehrisman then brought suit to have the marriage annulled. Judge Harvey held that as they had lived as husband and wife and he had introduced her in society as his wife the marriage should stand. The case was not appealed and in setKing the estate a compromise was effected. The widow received $2.200 to release her claim and deeded her interest in the property to Ida Blanchard as trustee. Jacob Ehrisman also deeded his Interest to Ida Blanchard as trustee. The trusteeship was established to secure the mortgage of Mrs. Blanchard. A peculiar coincidence about the case is that the litigants in the foreclosure procedinps now pending before Judg-e Carter are the same who figured in the former suit and the same legal advisers are having a hand In the battle. In the former mixtion George Spahr represented Jacob Ehrisman and Mrs Blanchard. but as he could not act as attorney for both in this proceeding ex-Judge Harvey was employed by Mr?. Blanchard, and the, judge who untangled the other complication is now trying to unravel this one before another judge. In the High Coart. The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed the case of the Gaslight and Coke Company against the city of New Albany. The appellee had granted the gas company a twenty-year franchise In 1S71 with a proVision for extending it another twenty years In case the city did not elect to bnv the gas plant at the expiration of the first term. But after seventeen ""years a new contract was made by which the company agreed to furnish eas for a la of street lamps at $1.50 a thousand feet ana to iurnisn it iq private consumers at a slightly increased rate, and the city undertook to maintain the agreed number of lamns for twentv.thro voar.j wv, new Council was elected and provision was made for lighting the streets by electricity the company sued for damages. The trial court decided against it and the Supreme Court affirmed the decision. An appeal by Timothy T. Overshincr from a Judgment convicting him of practicing dentistry at Marion, Ind., without a license from the state board was filed in tho Supreme Court yesterday. ProaecntinK Witness) Sick. Judge Carter yesterday sustained the motion to advance the cause of Minnie Allen against the Pennsylvania Railway Company for damages. The affidavit filed with the motion sets out that Mrs. Allen" Is seriously 111 and may not live to attend the trial unless it is set at an early date. Mrs. Allen avers that she was forcibly ejected from a Pennsylvania train at West Newton Oct. 11. 1900. She says she was In 111 health ar.d had been in Indianapolis taking treatment Hhp and her husband boarded the train to go home. Her husband wont into the smoking car, she says, leaving her in the rear coacb. It Is averred that while h? was away from her the conductor collected both tickets from hin and then asked her for her ticket. S asserts that she told him her husband had given him the tickets, but he denied it and put her off at West Newton. She says she suffered a severe nervous shock. Bond Supervisor Contest. Elias Highshue, on the relation of the State, yesterday brought suit in the Circuit Court to oust Perry Hardin, road supervisor of district No. 2 of Pike township, from office and for $300 damages for detention. Highshue was the Democratic nominee for road supervisor and Hardin was the Republican nominee. He averts that the township canvassing board at the last election illegally counted enough votes to elect Hardin when he (Highshue) was really elected. He says he qualified as road supervisor before a notary public, but Hardin took possession of the tools and refused to turn over the office. Albert Xevrhotiine Tried. Albert Newhouse was tried before Judge Alford, of the Criminal Court, yesterday. The case was on appeal from Justice Lockman. It is charged that Newhouse wrote a threatening letter to his wife, who is divorced. Newhouse was once tried and acquitted of a charge of setting fire to a barn belonging to his wife's relatives. Helle Poland Injured. Belle Poland yesterday brought suit against the street car company for $15,00) damages. She says she was riding in a bncsy MU her husband Blake street when the buggy was run down by a street car. She ayer that she was thrown out and sustained permanent injuries. A Gnnrdlnn Appointed. Florence E. "Wallace wa3 yesterday appointed guardian of June B. "Wallace and gave a bond of $20.000. 1 e THE COIRT RECORD. SUPREME COURT. 193'C McC'aughey vs. State of Indiana, Hunttnston C. C. AR:rmed. Monks. J. In Section VJ.i, Hums. ISM. the word "administrators" coers th whole jrround named tu said section, making It an offense to give, furnish, supply, provide with, or cause to be given, furnished, tupi'lied or provided with, er taken, any drug, meülclne or substance, with the intent and either result named In said section; and, also embraced and was1 intended to embrace every mole of giving, furnishing, supplying, providing with, or causing to be taken any such drur. medicine or substance. A penal statute shod!.? be construct according to its plain Import to Kive It life according ta its apparent purpose. 3. To render a persn criminally lit.1. under raid nee t ion. for furnishing said drug, etc.. to a female for the pui poses therein provided Hralnst it is Immaterial whether she knew of the properties of uch drug and the purposes for which it H used, or whether she requested such lrnn to procure it fcr her. or he furnished it t.j her without such rt-queet. or whether she 1 elded to take it before such person procured and gave it to her. lsS73. tla Light, etc.. Company vs. City of New Albany. Clark C. C. Atflrmed. Hadiey. J. L To present an action ex contractu for damages, on the part of a gas company against u. city for refusing to con-sume ga according to contract, plaintiff must show the existence of a valid contract with defndant that has been broken; a contract which not onlv Inuvw irwi

defendant the obligation to receive gas from

plaintiff, but receive it in such definite quantity as will make the damages for refusl to receive ascertainable with r?ascnabl certainty. 2. Where a city reserves the right to determine. at all times, the quantity of gas to be consume.! by the city, there is no liability on the part of the city for reducing the amount of gas con sumed, or refusing to take gas at all. 3. Mu nicipal officers have no power beyond these ex pressly conrerred by &atute or necessarily implied to enable them to make effective the powers granted or to protect the public welfare. 4. An ordinance granting the right to furnish a city gas for lighting purposes, for a period of twenty-thre years, under the act of March 3. 1M3 (Acts 1SS3. P. 851. wherein the time is limited to ten years, is void. I-oster vs. Stewart. Lawrence C. C. Dismissed. Podd vs. Dodd. Tipton C. C. Dismissed. IM-fO. Home Power Company, tr. vs. Collins, .'ikhart C. C. Transferred to Apellate Court. 19m. Utter vs. KerF-y. iioore O. C. Submis sion set asiie. Leave granted to substitute parties appellee and amend a-?ijrnment of errors. Minutes. 1S15L J. Marsh Wilson vs. State of Indiana Shelby C. C. Arr!lnt's reply brief. m,. jonn c.. rris vs. state of Indiana. Shelby C. C. Prief fcr State. 19194. lb nry Baker vs. George Hancock. Washington C. C. Appellant's brief. Samuel Utter vs. Elizabeth Keirey. Boone C. C. Appellant' motion to tet aside ojbmiion sustained. löüM). Jasper Ollett vs. State of IndianaRandolph C C. Brief for State (2.) 1S433. Alonzo L. Jaqua et al. v. Susie Jaqua. Jay C. C. Appellee' brief 'S.) l&GSg. Adelbert TilcH-n vs. Whitley Malleable Casting Company. Grant C. C Appellant's reply brief S.) 19253. National State Rank, Terre Haute vs. Sarford Fork and Tool Company et al. Vigo C. O. Prlef of appellees (f additional. 13172. Salem-liedford Stone Company vs. Joel L. llobbs. lawrence C. . C. Appellant's reply tHef (2.) li""4. In the matter of the petition cf George L. Dennv for admlüicn to practice law. Additional brief for State. Marlon C. C. APPELLATE COURT. 53:9. Corneille vs. Pfeiffer. Allen S. C. Affirmed, Robinson, J. In an action upon a Joint and several note by an lndorse. when tho lndorser and makers are all parties defendant the Judsnnent may ba taken agralnst the Indorscr and such Judgment will not merge the causo cf action againt-t the other. 3331. Sherfey Company, etc., vs. Board of Ccmmisf loner. Clay C C. Affirmed. Cornstock. J. l. In an action by an undertaker to recover from the county commissioners the funeral fxperfes of an honorably discbarged Union solJier his services must have been rendered by the authority of the township trustee or from the Board of Commissioners. 2. Nor can a county be charged by an undertaker for the burial of a pauper without authority from the township trustee. 3. A claim for services against a county can only be founded upon a statute,, or a contract entered Into under cu thcrlty of law, with the proper officer acting within the scope of his authority. Minutes. 3519. Indiana Stone Railway Company vs. William Strain. Owen C. C. Appellant's reply brief-(3.) 3.'92. Mary Stanton vs. State of Indiana. Marlon C. C. Appellant's brief (S.) 32C0. Chicago & Erie Railway Company vs. James Newman. Pulaski C. C. Appellee's brief. 3357. Joseph Wortman vs. Adam Minich et al. Sullivan C. C. Appellee's brief (S.) 3C36. Chicago & Southeastern Railway Company vs. Empson T. Lane et al. Hamilton C. C. Api.ellees' brief (S.) The Crystal Ice Company vs." William Morris. Madlon C. C. Appellant's brief. SUPERIOR COURT. Room 1 John L. Mc Master, Judge. Rayton Walters, vs. Mary Walter; divorce. Granted plaintiff at his cost. . Indianapolis Manufacturers' and Carpenters Union vs. Albert Worm et al.; on account. On trial by court. Room 2 James M. Leathers, Judge. Ellas Wolf vs. Citizens' Street-railway Com pany; damages. On trial by Jury. R'Km 3 Vinson Carter, Judge. Harry B. Burnet et al. vs. Adeline C. Wright et al.; Mechanic's lien. Dismissed and costs paid. Mary A. Blanchard vs. Jacob Chrlsman et al. ; loreciosure. un tnai Dy court. CIRCUIT COURT. Henry Clay Allen, Judge. John B. Conner vs. Emily S. French's Estate: claim. Submitted to court. Allowed for $öö and ccm. On motion of Ira M. Holmes, Albert E. Cottey admitted to tar. . Joseph Collier, administrator, vs. Daniel Wellenan a Estate; claim. Submitted to court. Evt dence heard. Arguments had. Taken under ad visemont. CRIMINAL COURT. Fremont Alford, Judge. Albert O. Newhouse; surety of tho peace. Ap peal irom justice utrKman. Trial by court. Manen unaer aavisement; NEW SUITS FILED. Bell Poland vs. Indianapolis Street-railway Company; damages. Demand $13.000. Superior John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Com pany vs. Charles C Torp et al.: complaint for jioesefsion or real estate. superior court. ItGOUl 1. John W. Duckworth vs. Emma P. Duckworth; divorce. Superior Court, Room 2. Maud E. Schaettle vs. Philip P. Schacttle; di vorce. Superior Court, Room 3. Vincent O. Brenan v. Edward J. Brenan et al. : in partition. Circuit Court. State of Indiana ex rel. Elias Highshue vs Perry Hardin: complnlnt to cust from office and for WOO damages. Circuit Court. Eliza Scott vs. Charles F. Scott; divorce. Superior Court, Room 1. SHELVES WELL STOCKED, Dot in All the Iloxes Only Seven Pairs of Shoes Were Found. The building at 42 West Washington street seems to have the peculiarity of being tenanted by firms which cause creditors much concern. A short time ago it was occupied by a tailoring shop which could not be found one morning about the time some large obligations became due. Yester day when constables went there to serve papers on the members of the F. H. Read Shoe Company about twenty creditors were found clamoring for their monev. The shelves were filled with shoe boxes and the place presented the appearance of a prosperous place. The constables found in the boxes only seven pairs of shoes. A junk aeaier snowea a dim or sale ror the fixtures, which were claimed "by Mr. Peirson. The junk dealer said he had paid $1D5 for the fixtures. The situation yesterday was brought about by the alarm of creditors who heard of the trouble constables had several days ago In finding in the place twenty pairs of shoes to satisfy a judgment, with costs, against the firm. A woman had brought suit because upon taking a pair of shoes home she found they were not as represented and she was not allowed to exchange them and was unable to get her money back. It is said the liabilities of the firm are in total several thousand dollars. ART ASSOCIATION. The Directors Dlsicnss the Parcliase of the Tnlbott Site. Tho meeting of the Ar Association yesterday afternoon at the Propylaeum resulted in no further arangements relative to the site of the proposed Herron Art Museum, than were definitely settled at the meeting Dec. 11. At that time it was decided to buy the Talbott property and the closing of the deal was postponed only until, and conditional upon, the success of the neighborhood committee securing the vacation of that portion of Seventeenth street between Pennsylvania street and Talbott avenue, the alley between the two lots and the deeding of a forty-foot strip of ground immdiately north of Seventeenth street to the association. The finance committee, of which V. T. Malott Is chairman, was Instructed at that time to close the deal, with the payment of $50.000 for the Talbott property upon these condiions being complied with by the neighborhood committee. The finance committee yesterday only reported progress in the deal, baed upon the reports of the neighborhood committee. The securing of the vacation of the street and alley will take some time, and when this is done the deeds for the forty-foot strip and the Talbott property will be made over to the Art Association. MUs Mblnck'a Talk. Miss Lydia NIblack, teacher of music at Knlckerbacker .Hall, will give a series of programme analysis lectures Immediately yreceding the Symphony Orchestra concert, which Is to be given on Jan. 21. The guild room in Christ Church has been selected by Miss NIblack for these talks on account of Its central location. Miss NIblack will give a preliminary talk on the "Orchestra and Its Constituents." Friday afternoon nt 3 o'clock and by this method give music lovers who are not familiar with orchestral forms an opportunity ta study the principal works of the orchestra before attending the concert. A music house has loantd some of the rarer orchestral instruments with which Miss NIblack will illustrate her talk, enabling her hearers to get something of the tone color and appreciate the wonderful effects an orchestra gets out of the Instruments. The second talk will be on Friday afternoon, Jan. 17, when "Programme Analysis" will be the subject. Including an analysis of the symphony, the themes and how treated by the composer. Miss Niblack is well qualified to give these talks, having studied ymphony music several years in Doston, Chicago and Cincinnati.

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HAZING AT WEST POINT. Graduate gnys There Is o Drutnlity, and that It Would .Not Be Tolerated. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: In your issue of the 27th of December, I had occasion to read a letter to you written by W. P. Fishback, In which appeared many statements obviously born of Ignorance of the matter discussed. According to the writer of this article the West Point cadets are "cowards" and "bullies." but 1 believe that the reputation of the academy made by Its graduates for years past is sufficient to show such an expression to be false on the face of it. These remarks to which I am referring were probably incited by the testimony given to the court of inquiry now in session over the case of the late ex-Cadet Booz. The writer likens the West Point upper-classman to the playground bully. I am able to state as an absolute fact that a ttrst-class man. a "plebe" at the academy is never under any clrcumstances physically forced to do a thing. The plebe is told to do something, and if he refuses, the upper-classmen immediately leave him, after warning him that he will be "called out;" that is, he subsequently has to fight an upper-classman his own size and weight. In regard to the statement that young Nelson was strangled in a bath tub, I should like to point out that this performance censists of having a plebe stand on his head in the tub, with his face under water for an exceedingly brief space of time, practically momentary. I had to do this myself when a .plebe, and found the effects exactly similar to those experienced time after time after a dive when in swimming, and in the latter case I was seeking my own amutemcnt "strangulation" never occurred to me In either case. The most erroneous of all Mr. Fishback's statements was that in which he described Colonel Mills, the superintendent, and "the other members of the faculty" as sitting around "like bumps on a log," and that they "connive at and encourage these rank violations of the rules of the institution." Colonel Mills was the superintendent during the last two years of my course, and It was easy to see that he was exerting his utmost endeavor to stamp out every form of the so-called hazing, "bracing" and everything else. ' L'nheard-of punishments were meted out to upper-classmen for interfering with a fourth classman in any way whatever. In my own class the highest ranking cadet officers were reduced to the ranks and served as privates until their graduation because they refused to cooperate with the tactical department in camp in the effort to step this interference. It was last winter that the entire corps of cadets met and resolved to abolish that form of hazing known as "exercising;" this "exercising," 1. e., requiring a new man to go through certain physical exerc'aes. was used in camp as a form of punishment for any "freshness" or insubordination on the part of a new cadet toward an upperclassman. If the new man refused to exercise he would then be called out. The older cadets did not exercise the new men as a source of amusement; it was considered hard, disagreeable work, and extremely dangerous, as detection meant dismissal. Every old cadet believes that the new men must be taught perfect subordination at once, and It is true that when a riebe has been obedient and respectful to the older cadets for a year, he has formed a habit of respect and obedience toward his superior officers that remains with hlrn throughout his life, and which is so necessary in the army. The first thing that the old cadet Impresses upon the new one is that he must preface or append the word "sir" to his every statement when addressing a superior, and at t.ie same time stand "attention." During the encampment of the summer of 1 sie the "exercising" of fourth classmen was somewhat overdone, and at that time the abolition of such hazing was first discussed. The following winter the entire corps met and passed a resolution that the form of training new cadets known as "exercising" would thereby be abolished; this because It was being mlsunderstooo by the public and press, and the good name of the academy suffering accordingly. At present, the only thing of that nature that exists is the "bracing." which is unquestionably beneficial. Ily "bracing" is meant the carrying of the shoulders as far back as possible, chest thrown out. and chin well drawn In. In camp the plebe is required by the upper-classmen to carry himself In that manner whenever he walks anywhere, and in barracks, whenever he is in ranks with his company. After a year of that a man should have, and usually does have, an erect carriage The worst feature only of the attitude of upper-d'.assmcn toward fourth classmen are being described before the court of inquiry now in s-esslon at West Point, and nv such features exist at pufceoL u:..

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