Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1891 — Page 9

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A DRIVING HOD BREAKS

Hurling Four People Down to Their Death. Many Others Are Mangled and Crushed. Terrible Accident on the Pan-Hnndle Road. Prominent Richmond People the Victims. Three of the Dead Employed by the Railroad. Great Excitement in Richmond Over the Disaster. The Work of Rescue and Relief Prompt and Effective. Cause of the Accident The Killed and In lured. TlranroND, Feb. 25. Special. Hagerstovn, ft Yilliage sixteen mile west of this city oa the Logansport division of the Panhandle, was this afternoon tha tccne of a most frightful wreck resulting in the death of four persona, two more being probably fatally injured end twenty more others more or less severely hurt as follows: KILLEP. CHARLES B. CASK, conduotor, Logansport. Ind. C). F. PEAL, engineer for tba mainUnanea of way P.. C, C J. &. St, 1 railwa, Jlichluond. In I. H. C. NKEDIIAM, claim agent I, C, C, C !L St. I- ra.lway, Richmond. A Kill I'll M. liLLVLS, banker, Richmond. TROEABLY FATALLY HURT. Mr.S. OEORE McGrew, Richmond, cut about bead and body and leverely bruued aud thought to be injored internaly. Jilts J. C. Bus IM, Sacramento City, oat over If ft tax and terioua contusioa of cheat. OTnERS LSJCBETJ. M. IIlLP, 427 W. Front-it, Cincinnati, head and arms braised and hurt. U. W. Webster, Newport, Ky., porter Tollman car, 'taenia," left ankle dialocated and u. on forehead. Stast. Chicago, grandchild of Jin. McGrew, radly injured. Jo h.n W. Edwards, Richmond, Ind., hurt about the head. A dam Stf.xscebger, Weatyille, ent on back or Lead. Wiley stexeeroeb, Westyille, O., eat on back of head. Frank W. Eddy, Westfiald, Maaa. back badly aorained. lil KOTU, Dayton. O., right hand cot. Mrs. C. R. Dcdlsy, Dayton, On titter of above, severe contusion of ruht aide. Ma. and Mrs. May Bexscx, Loganaport, Ind.. badly bruiaed. Herebkt and Earl RE?S0!f, children of abore, badly bruiaed. Mrs. Ansa E.nglebrecht, Locanaport, Ind., an J threa children, bruised; not serious. Henry C. 1'ox. Richmond, Ind., aarera acalp wonnd and ontuaion of epine. Asa Keclet, Richmond, bad cut over left eye. J. W. GiLpr. 251 TV. FoorthaL, Fhiladrlf hia. Pa., cut on left forearm and internally uiured. Jonx Crocker, Chicago, eontnaion of back and face. Charles Page, Richmond, out on head and injured about Dipt G. iL Eomo.nds, Troy, O., eat on had and finder troken. ilrs.St.-8AX Utabatjgh, Trenton, Mo., both banda hurt. Opha Evans, Naw Castle, Ind., contusion cf right arm. Dora Clarke, Newcastle, contusion of bed. CLirrox Iriyix, Martins Terry, O., right foot hnrf. J. V. Stanga, Eaton. O., right cheek bone broken and left ami badly .bruised. J. W. Kramer, brakeman, Losanaport, eontug'ion cf left arm, left leg braised and aerere dip wound. Harriet d. Lombard, Amherat, Wisierere contution back of head. James T. Bootes, Richmond, Ind., very aerere contusion of left aide of head and ear. Bob Hodgiv, road foreman of engine, hand acaided, abrasion of right leg. How It Oecurrtil. The train wrecked was Xo. IS, known as the Cincinnati express, due in this city at 4:15 p.m. It was hauled by engine 404, in charge of W. W. Bartlett, engineer, and Noah Dunn, fireman. The train does not stop at Hag?rstown anl at 3:51 o'clock was coming around the curve at tho Hagerstown station at the rate of fifty miles an hour, when the framework of the engine broke, derailing every car of the train. The train, however, held togother until !at the station and to the canal bridge, a short distance beyond, where there is a fifteen-foot embankment. Here the smoker turned over, followed by the day coach and parlor car "Euirenia" which, in its descent, turned completely over twice and in the s ocking "compartment of which were all the killed. The last two cars held together in their descent but broke away from the smoker. Meanwhile, the derailed baggage car held to the engine until some distance further on, where it struck the guard of a wagon-road crossing, again mounted the track and escaped with scarcely an injury. The engine, however, was nearly as complete a wreck as the day and parlor roaches, which, after rolling down tho embankment, caught fire, but, luckily, the 3re was extinguished without serious damage. In leavinc the track the cars ton? down the telegraph poles, rendering it impoesihla to get accurate news of the accident until the trains bearing the dead and injured reached this city at o'clock. Im mediately after the accident a wreck and relief train bearing the company's physicians, Drs. Weietand Bond, followed shortly afier by a epecial train Waring Coroner Zimmerman and friends of some of the killed and injured, left for the scene of the wreck. A Pitifjl fteeoe. The scenes about the wreck were most heartrending, the cries of the unfortunate

victims mingling with tho shouts of the rescuers who wero quickly on hand aud 'III valiant work. As fat as the injured wero taken from tho wreck they were taken to homes near at hand, where every attention wns civen them until arrangements co:i!d bo mndo for their removal to frt. Stephen's Wpital, thb city, all of the injured that could posibly bo moved being brought hero thia evening. Reeves, Needham and Case wero killed outright, tho first having hU neck broken and the other two having their skulls fractured so that the brain protruded. Tlivir bodies wero piled together in the corner of the car. Deal was s'ill living when removed from the wreck, but his skull was fractured as those of the others wero. He was removed to the homo of Mrs. Charles Casner, near the railroad track, where he lived until 5:oT o'clock. The Caaae. The engineer and fireman escaped unhurt although both clung to the engine to the last. As to thecauso of tho accident, Kngineer Bartlett says that about thre,efourths of a milo from town he heard something break and boforo ho could control the train tho right side connecting rl broke and at the water tank, a quarter of a mile further on a piece of iron from the engine fell acro?s the track and derailed tho train and then tho fated train rushed on to its doom beyond the control of the man at the throttle. The news spread in this city rapidly and by 6 o'clock the depot and the streets leading to it were packed with a mass of humanity so that it was next to impossible for the police to keep the tracks clear for the arrival of traips. lteaolotloua cf Sympathy, Klwood, Feb. C Special. As the result of a telegram announcing tho death of Otis F. Peal, who was killed in the late disaster at Ilagcrstown, tho ritiona of Klwood nsHcmbled tonight and adopted appropriato resolutions of sympathy ami reelect. Mr. iVal for th pat two yeara was prominently identilk-d with tho social and business interests of this p'ace. Our citizens feel that to him more than an) other person does Kl wood owe its preseut prosperity and future advancement. ALU TOOK CHAMPAGNE.

Soneei Cox's Joke ou ft Judge Who Was WUIIu to Hland Treat. St. Loula KepubMc. "The late Sunset Cox," said Judge Abbott of Texas, "was a man whffo love ot burner did not find exclusive vent through his facilo pen. His merry nature delighted in g tting the laugh "on some one of his friends, and I shall never forget a little prank ho played on my colleague, Judge Hare. Haro "and Cox had struck up a friendly acquaintance, following c.loselv upon the former's entreo into the Kit'tieth congress. One day they chanced to meet about noon in one of the canitol corridors, and Hare invited the Kew Yorker to go down stairs and luuch with him. "'Much obliged,' said Cox, 'but won't you wait on me live or ten minutes? I must see a man on the floor on important busine.", then I'll join you.' "'All right,' paid Hare, 'I'll await you down ftairs, and if you tee a friend you would like to have, bring him along, too.' "Into Cox's fun-loving cranium a scheme straightway crept. He dispatched what business be had in a twinkling, and then proceeded to confer with first one congressman and another till at last nice of us followed him out of the chamber and down into the house restaurant, 'where Judge Hare was sitting at a table alone. A rather surprised look camo over the face of the Texas representative when he saw the company Cox had brought. But it vanished in a moment, and he bade us ail welcome in the heartiest manner. "'Now, gentlemen,' said he, 'by wav of an appetizer, what will yon take?' Cox, who was next to him, ppoke up without a moment's hesitation : 'I'll have a bottle of champagne.' 'Rring me a bottle of champagne, also,' said Moore. 'Ditto,' ordered Crane, and thus it went around, each man ordering a 'small bottle,' until the waiter got back to the eleventh and last man, the host of the day, who, bringing his fiat down on the table w ith some emphasis, said: 'Why, I'll take a bottle of cbampsgne, too.' "Xobody smiled, but when tho fluids were disposed of it was a study to note tho changes of our entertainer's face as each man began ordering the most expensive dishes on the till, tut thing-; went on swimmingly and hi!arity rose to a great bight among ten of us at least. Finally the feat ended and Hare, beckoning the waiter to him, said: 'I don't know whether i've got money enough with me to pav this account, but bring on vour ticket and I'd see.' "lie looked more puzzled than at any time when the waiter came back, saying that there waj nothing to pay. Then it dawned on him that Sunset Cox had been playing a little joke, and amid roarH of laughter from the crowd he protected that Cox should not pay a farthing. Hut i: had all been prearranged, and the statesman humorist got more than the $50 that the lunch cost out of the fun of watching the bewildered looks of the judge." THE ANGELU3 BELL. Something About ti Cuatoiu Portrayed in Mill-f Pitlntinc. Haw EoylanJ M;in c The An2clus is a prayer to the Virgin, introduced by Porn' Urban II in lOltoj as an intercession for the absent cruaders. It begins with the words: Angelus Domini nuntiavit Marue The angel of the Lord announced unto Mary. 1 hen follows the salutation of Gabriel Ave Maria, etc. The prayer contains three ver-es, and each verso -nds with the salutntion, Ave Maria; and it is recited three times a da)-, at tho ringing of the Angelus btll, so named from the first word in the prayer. After the crusade., the custom languished until, in 13-J7, Tope John XXIII ordered all the faithful to retito an Ave i Maria at each ringing of the bell. IIo an nounced an indulgence for each recitation. Other nan. cm are the "Ave Maria Poll," and the "Vesper Hell." nr V)r.t AUerapU IPuci.l Miss Maguire "Any letter for me?" I'ofltmater "vVhat name plea3e?" Miss Maguire "Must I tell?" Postmaster "Certainlv." Mia Maguire "Well, Tom Dolan; but he'd be mad if he knew I told on him." A Irtfol thr.al, (Texaa Sifting Lady "I've got nothing for vou." Tramp "You haven't, eh? Well, you'll be sorry for this. If vou don't give me something nice to eat I'll recommend you to all my friends between here and the Gulf of Mexico,"

THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

HEARD IN LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. Th I'utur cf tii AllUnc Intle ot Aaeevaora Lobulation Wanted The CumIn Iue Sittarlta of County SuperInteodawte Tbo Inaaoo lloapltals. To nin KniTon Sir: In a well-w ritten editorial which you copy into Tuesday's Skxtixkl, the roton Jl.-ral.l predicts the early defection ot the farmers' a' I Lance party to the democratic orgmizatiun. It is true that on most of tho demands for reform which the alliance have set forth the democratic party is in accord with the movement, aud might reasonably expect to be benefited by it hereafter as heretofore, tut I take it that there is a widespread mistake aa to the true ri$ at erpt of the a'liance raovemeut. Thoso w ho, like myeelf, are now mingling with the meeting of the new organization, taking part in its speech-making and essay-writing, w ill bear me out in saying that the finance question is the vital one in the new movement. Tho free and unlimited coinage of silver, the retirement of the national banks, and above all the the direct loan of nioucy (greenbacks) from the government to the people together with an itsuo of three thousand millions of trc9sury notes are, to the rural part of the great labor movement, the paramount questions for the coming campaign. Overshadowing all other questions ia this finauce question as above outlined aud over all other parts of it is that part which demands the issue of enough full and complete legal tender treasury notes to do the whole business of the country without resort to credit coinp ote legal tender by being roeoived fr u I dues, public and private, without exception. In ray opinion t'.e democratic party did not win on the t-rifi in tho latt olection, but upon the geueral uprising aaainut Wall-st. by reason ot the srarcity of money and the imminence of panic luring tho campaign. To go from M hoolhnuso to Hi'hool-liouso in Indiana, and to hear the speeches thut are nalu and tho (Mugs that aru sung, and to Witness th wonderful revivification of the old greenback party spirit, would oven co far to make the writer of the toston flernlit article designate "the greenback uneasiness" (which preserved $.t" I, O0.,000 of greenbacks, by tho wav!) by come more respectful title! I cad your attention to the utterance of (iovernor Tillman of South Carolina upon this point. Tho financial situation will bo the big quehtiou in the next campaign. Can the democratic party g far enough to include tho demands of the farmers' nlliancj in this diroction? There is no reason, outside of tho great commercial centers, why tho democratic party should not champion every demand of the allianco and therefore bind this mighty body of independents to the party of the people, ad we are proud to call ourselves. l?ut unless tho democratic party shall take upon itaelf all these demands there will bo a third party as ominously threatening to the democratic party as the republican. Sometime ago in an editorial you anked, Who are tho farmers' allir.neo? Answering respectfully and without ciptiousnes, and from personal and reliable information. I say that it is a very large body of the democratic party of Indiana aided by a respectable minority of tho republican party of our state. Iieforo we decline to wear the gauntlet of the alliance in our political cap next campaign hadn't we tetter set about a serious (study of the ne-.v organization, its demands and its possible relations to other parties? Anderson, Feb. 21. II. . Taylor. COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS. The Importance of Tlila Office Shuwo by a Correspondent. To the Editor Sir: Our legislative committee seem to be laboring under a delusion as to whit salary reform is. If it means that qualification and responsibility are not elements demanding larger compensation; if it means that a gross injustice must be dons to some officers that others may receive justice; if it means a horizontal reduction of salary, then theso men are not deluded ; but it means no such thing. While in the majority of state and county ofiicr'8 reform doss not mean reduction of salary, in a few it means a lightening of the burdens of olUco, or an increase of salary commensurate with tho dnt'es and requirements of the oflice. The otlice that needs a fourteen-hun-dred.dollar man ought to offer that sum to the competent and tho olliee that needs an ettfbt-hundred-tloll&r man should not jay three times that sum to such a man. The former of thoe two things is what the legislative committee ia not proposing to do, while tho latter in just what it is proposing to do. The othce of county superintendent has brought to the people greater results for the money expended in its support than any other oflice which is tho gift of the people; yet it is proposed to reform itout of existence. Under tha direetionand zeal of the county superintendent the rural schools of the state have risen from chaos to a high degree of organization, a)d have thus p!ace.l lxnliana in tho front rauk educationally, tut now, in tho very midst of his career of usefulness, it is proposed to dippeuMO with this valuable oflicer by reducing his salary and so hedging him in by incompetent authority that he must Feek other fields and leave his w ork to the fossil element in the profession, for no man can afford to prepare himself for this responsible position and labor in it as zealous y as ho should for the princely sum of $3 per day, though he were to receive it for every day in the year. But this is not the worst feature of the measure. Who is more competent to judge of the time necesnary for the adequate management of tho schools of the county than tho superintendent? No one, tut he is to be deprived even of this right Ho and the schools under his care are to be made subservient to the judgment of aboaid of county commissionfr. Theo men would begin retrenchment by cutting short the time of the county superintendent and thus depriving the school of a much needei service. The wisdom of employing competent men to direct the work of tho city schools of tho state has never been questioned. The county needs more and better rather than less supervision, and a proper inducement should be held out to the Dost men to assume the duties and responsibilities of the position. Let the efficient county superintendent be compensated for his labors, and let the fetters of the incompetent board of county commissioners be kept from oS his hands.

This the teachers and children of the state demand. It is their right. It is economy. It i salary reform. T. F. Fitkoimiox. I ll wood, Feb. 21. ASSESSOR'S DUTIES. The In)rtanef of Ht nf Competent Men in Such Poaltlnn. To tun I'ditor Sir: I noticed your suggestion ofi'ered in yesterday's issue of

your paper in reference to tho oath and other duties of assessors. I agree with you thatassessment laws should be made very stringent. As to fixing values on taxables, I can hardly seo how language could be made much plainer than tho wording of tho statutes now in force on that subject see sue. u,::)0, revised statutes. Such langusge pught to be pla'n enough for any assessor who is determined to do his duty, and right here the trouble lsys, I venture to Bay, end the people agree with me, that in nine ca-ics out of every ten there is no oath administered by tho assessor or his deputy to parties making assessment lists, although our statutes provide for a penalty in such eaes. What is the u?o of new laws if thoso laws now existing are not enforced? It is generally charged, and evidently true in many cases, that our assessors are not competent, but could it well bo otherwise? Any fair-minded man will concede that an honest msn who has tho required business tact, would value his services higher than $2 per day, hf.nce tho fact, that you cannot pet the men qualified for the ofTieo of a?sessor. I understand there is but one township in tho state of Indiana which by epecial act allows tho assessor more than $J per day. Would it not be w iso for our present assembly, while they aio contemplating revenuo laws, to fix graded salaries for our township assessors (and trustees as well). The present compensation is no inducement for men properly qualified to become candidates for tbeso po.itions, as they can do better ns privato citizens in some other wall; of Iifa. This especially applies to the larger townships. If you consider that in some largi townShips the taxable? run up in the millions, it is certainly nn important and difficult task to distribute honestly, fairly and in proportion with tho respective values tho burden of taxation, to that tho tax dodger cannot take advantage of the honest citizen, who returns for taxation all tho property ho owns. Now. enmpnre the duties and responsibilities of a township iiSMHS ir us tho law provides wilh thoso of a county recorder, who is the lowest paid of any of the county odicers, and also take tho promised salary measure on rountv othcers, which is considered a fair onu. In consideration ; it will bo very easy to point out the unfairness in tho revenues of the two office. For example, the assessor of tho township in which Terre Haute is located receives $2 rer day about $000 per year but a recorder in a county of the Fame number of inhabitants as the Terre llauto township receives for his services oO. And now what are the duties if a county recorder? He takes instruments filed in hi3 office r.nd sees that they are copied correctly on his records; how is that compared with the stringent measures contemplated for our assessors? Yours for - ALtit'Of I-NTCR OMXM CIVLS JL'S. Indianapolis Feb. 20. INSANE HOSPITALS. A riea for Better Admit. titration of Th InatttntloD. Toihe Kpitor Sir: The Shxtixel of Feb. 20 aptly pays "Tho democratic party has nothing to Joee in putting the appointment of attendants in the benevolent institutions out of the hands of tho political leeches." Providing always that the superintendents of such institutions do not make the greater mistake of becoming autocratic and surrounding himself with favorites by the selection of personal friends, thus crippling his ovn usefulness, bringing upon himself well-deserved criticism, und injury to hi unfortunate wards,' the patients. This, to my mind, is the subtle danger in Senator MagL-e's otherwise excellent bill. It is not sufficiently far-reaching. The cryinz evil in our benevolent intitutions, notably the hospital for the insane, past and present, is favoritism, and the employment of so-called experienced attendant whose record will not bear investigation. Is not this more to be deprecated than partisanship, involving as it does the absolute safety of the unfortunate inmates 7 A marked example of this abue is the recent brutal murder of Mr. Blount at tho Richmond hospital, wbo met his death in the helplessness of insanity, at the hands of a hospital tramp, "experienced"' in cruelty certainly. Time indeed, that an example was made of those who hold tho value of human life so cheaply. Allow me, an ex -patient, a suggestion or so. Before adopting the civil service plan entirely, study well its dangers; sweep clean our benevolent institutions of all such barnacles which abound in many of them ; then seo to it that the superintendent bo a man well qualified, loth by knowledge and experience, in the treatment of mental and nervous dNeas.?. Also let nepotism bo strictly prohibited in the employment of officers and subordinates; relationship instead of fitness' surely is detrimental to the best interests of the inmates. This matter comes near my heart, for I have an honest and pure impulse toward tho helpless iisaue, for whoso sake I gladly stand marked "as that most disagreeable of ell parsonages a woman with a grievance." 5io longer a perbonal grievance, thank God ! Hut I am happv to write mj-sflf, sister, to every man nod woman in tho land, and I will cry out, by voice and pen, as their champion, u nder any and ail circumstances. Anna Aosew. Indianapolis, Feb. 21. LEGISLATION WANTED. Bufgeatlone For Acta Hegulatlng m Numbar of Important Matter. To t jte Editor Sir: When any man or association of men extend their action or powers nnder the claim of liberty to oppress or deprivo of liberty tho great masses of the people by taking from them their hard earnings w ithout just compensation, whether by consolidations of railroads to raiso tariif, combines of manufacturing industries to advance prices above equity, trusts in prod acta of the farm to reduce them below equity or cornering the legalized currency of the country in order to get the products of labor without Just compansalion, it is the unquestionable rigut and absolute duty of our legislators to enact stringent laws to protect tho people against such oppression. 1 will present some method of the most vital importance needing legislative enactments br a revision of previous enactments against them: fl) A stringent prohibitory law aginst liquor traffic. (2) A

stringent law ngaint trusts and combines of capital or stocks for tho purpose of breaking down competition that they may rob the people of a largo jkt cent of "their hard earnings. Co) A law to equalize taxation, providing that the debtor clrss may ttko his bona fide indebtedness (whether mortgage uote or account) out of his assessment, and onlv pay on w hat he is actually worth. (4) A law fixing salaries of county ofiicers at such price as justice and equity to ad will admit. Fixing a price per hour for surveyors and civil engineers so they can

not put in three, or e en four days in One, i as they have been doing. (.") An amend- j nient to the ditch law on allotment cf I sections to these assessed, providing that j allotments male on constructed ihtcues shall be on land assessed w hich ditch runs through, or when it does not ruu through the land assessed the allotment shall be made as near said land as practicable, and all former allotments on ditches be changed wherever necessary to conform with this amendment. If to cut drains was all, there would bo but little in this, but they are to bo kept open. Those making the allotments seem to have no regard for tho conveniences of those assepe!, often putting allotments six to cignt miles from their laud. 0:t.v Kxowi.tox. Xew Brunswick, Feb. 21. MILITIA EXPENSE. A Trotcat Asalnat Maintaining the Indiana Natlonnl 4iUrt. To Tnn Editor Sir: When our legators find themselves confronted with a depleted state treasury, would it not be well to stop some of the useless expenditures? Last session an act (acts IS80, pages S23 etc.) was passed, giving annually to the mi'itia of the state tho enormous sum of S-irXW, which is practically thrown away on "fuss and feather." What good does it do the tax-payers, whose money is spsnt? None, whatevor. The young ineu who spurt their brief hour in blue and brass may feel temporarily puflVd up, but it is M no permanent advantage, even to thm. If they aish to wear k uuifonn, let them Join one of the military orders, hke thu Knights of Pythias, for instance, which has a larger and better organization than ha the atato militia, and is kept up at the member' own expense, not at that of the toiling taxpayer, by tho repeal of ko much ol that act as appropriates any money, there will bo paved to the state, in tho "years JW1, U.iJ and lvt!, U1.00O, which would enable us t make a creditable display at the wor'd's fair, without spending a cent more than is now yearly taken from the treasury. Aside from this, why fhould 2.000,000 people bo taxed, that 2.0iX mav wear a uniform? 1 am a plain man, and I ay plainly that there is neither tensa nor justice in it. . QrxiRoz Lawkkxck. Feb. IP. A Troteat As"!aat Atrbim.' To the Editok Sir: A day or two ago bills advertising the opening of ancv store, in explaining location, contained the following: "Opposite deaf and dumb grounds." It is time people knew there is a vast diilcrence between "hsvIuui" and "institution," and that they should en3SH mistaking tho ono or the other in referring to our benevolent institutions. Some people are so grossly illiterate as to per(tist in spejikiug of the school for the deaf as an asylum. There is no pos:ble excuse for the mistake except the most palpable ignorance. It is unjust and entirely pernicious, and calls lor vigorous protest from those interested in tha welfare of the deaf. This school, of which the Btato can In justly proud, is one of the grandest of her many grand institutions. Here children bereft of the sensre of hearing and the faculty of speech are educated and brought up to a level with the best of their hearing brethren, and receive training that lits them for almost any walk in lite and makes them entirely self-reliant. It is nothing but an institution of learning as much so as Butler university, except that in the luitcr the standard is more advanced, but what is licking iu tho latter industrial education is sufp i?d in tho former. IV;h are institutions of learning. How (hies it sound to refer to the university as "tut'.er asylum?" Th i lea is odious. It is equally so in appending tho appellation to other such institutions, and iq tho present case is particularly distasteful when used in connection with the deaf and dumb institution. Feb. 10. Ait.krt Bciui. Yntiroo An"tr. ToTnn Koitok Sir: The inclosed from the Chicago lfrrnM of tha 17th is applicablo to Indiana. I have letters from exAuditor truce Carr which show that he granted certificates to the agents of a foreign life insurance company, after he bad searched the records of the auditor's office and acknowledged tha! there was nothing on lil.; to enable him to say that the company had legal corporate existence or right to suo cr bo btied iu a court of record. This must be a ".Mm handy" company with which to deposit sacred trust funds, and the auditor permitting it to do business in Indiana under his certificate after putting himself ou rscord, as did Bruce Carr, must have a high appreciation of his official duty end contempt for the law. Will (iovernor Ilovey call forau investigation of the official acts of ex-Auditor Bruro Carr? I.afayettt Feb. 17. Joint M. Mott. The inc!ord clipping opposed tho proposed insurance rebate legislation iu Illinois, and among other things averts that "tlhre is cno lifo insurance company doing business in Illinois which h3s not filed, nor can it fiie, with the cecretary of (date a copy of its charter which on its faco will show that it has, or that it has had for tho past ten years, legal corporate existence." Two-Cent Fares. Tothe Editor Sir: The legiilaturo now in session has opportunities before it which, if embraced, will make it memorable in tho history of Indiana. Among the many subjects demanding attention is the two-cent fare bill (by the way what bus become of it?), making 2 cents the legal rato on all railroads in Indiana. We hope The Sextixhl will lend its aid to secure this important legislation. The traveling public demand thts matter be given attention, and it is no more than fair that it be enacted. The favored now travel on twocent mileage, but verv few of the traveling public can take ad vantage of this mode of travel, as very few mileage books are good on other roads than thoso by whom ieeued. Make it 2 cents straight. JOHX II. J ESSEX, Wabash, Feb. 18. David Marks. CONDENSED COMMUNICATIONS. John Huntington, Bloomington, writes advocating the abolition of road supervisors and giving the reads into the care of the farmers living along them. Phil Smith writes from Bristow, saying that the proposed remuneration of county

officers under the proposed fee and salary bill is still too high and should bo cut down from 10 to 20 per cent. William Hooper writes from Thorntown advocating the immediate taking elfect of the fee and salary set. He says tho county ofiicers have uo right to object to it becanso they were elected on a platform declaring in favorof eucli a law. "l air I'iay" writes from Atlanta that the people in his neighborhood oro well iitcased with the salary bill parsed by the ioue. They thiuk that thii amounts fixed are adequate for tho services rend en d, and that tho taking ellttt of tin bid should not be postponed four years. "Tax-payer," trazil, thinks that the pay of county superintendents should not be reduced, but their numlT of working days should be hmited. l!e also says that they should not be pai 1 for time spent in attending to busintss of their own and

from which they derive profit. t5. I. Smithson cf Indianapoli writes j urging the legitdature to:dio!isli the ttt board of ngncnlture. lie sars he is tired of the cheap John fairs at .V) cent admission. He thinks the salaries of the county commissioners should be fixed at $3 a day tor time cctua'dy employed. Alex W. Johnston of In lianapolis suggests that the Australian system of voting be adopted in the legislature in order to break the influence of tho lobby. Uo declares that some of the legislators who howled the loudest for fee and salary reform during the campaign are ivtvr doing their utmost to hinder and postpone it. The SKxnxEL has received a namber of letters protesting againt liepresoutativo Kern's proposition to compel merchants to invoice their stocks ot good every April in order to tile each year with the assessor a sworn statement 'of tho amount of 6uch inventory. As the amendment to the revenue bill embodying this pr -position was defeated in the hou3?, and is not likely to be considered iu the tenate, there seems to be no occasion to print ttojo letters. "Citizen," Conr.crsvil'e.wrirea protesting against thd passage of tho bill pn Inciting the pumping oi natornl gas, saving that u ia a measure entirely in t!'e interest of a few gas towns of the" tut which are ofiVring free lands to corporations that i:l etahlish plants in them. Tito hill, h is unjurtt to towns ou'eide the gas belt. If Indiana towns right in Wie belt ciuuot g.-t gas with which tu run their factories if is uot likely that ChicAvro woti'ui itteiupt to run hers with this fuel. Jnmes A. Me.vart f H-tgerstown. Ind., writi a: "I am a daily render ot your esteemed paper, and nm .unriscd to find so noble a friend of truth and honesty in this ago of corruption as Tii k Sfntivki. i. I thank liod that the people ot heiiana have such a good, faithful and patriotic organ. I have been voting the domocratic ticket in Wayne county for fortv years, but I am now 'on the fence' and okely to drop on the other side unless tha legislature redeems the pledges of the dmtx retic pf.rty oa the fee aud salary question." W. C. P. writes fro n hangdons inclosing the following clipping from the Seymour lirpvt'licm : "If the republicans in the ptates, which have been swept from their moorings by financial heresies and false theories, had met the demagogues proclaiming them face to face and exposed their abeurditie, Kansas would not bo disgraced by a society of crack-brained socialists and sot kless statesmen, and a Nebraska district would not have elected n man to congress because he never earned S-VK) a year and bad a lii'een-hundred-dol-lar mortgage ou hi. farm." He cites this as an example of th love of the republican party for the farmers which is now fighting them as it has always done. It co 31 pels the fanners, he nays, to pay from fi to 10 per cent, for borrowed money, while it ets the bankers have it at 1 per cent. Tlomas H. Dillon writes from 1'eterburg: "I have noticed, with pardonable pride and not a littie pleasure, tin', whatsoever measure The Sgntixel advocates and declares to be beneficial b the people of the stale, that incisure fiud.s hosts of supporters in the general :is -mbly, and is by them made a Ijw. 1 ned cito no instance of the pro .t of this assertion. The readers of Tiik Sfntim i. who watched the proceedings of th- H-l leiMituro kuow it is trui." Cotuinuin. he cat's attention to the fact that a man ni;iy, un.ier the present eledion law, by i-ttifn, get his nam on more thsu on- ticket as a candidate for th sime o:!ice, th:n givitc; him a decided advantage over hi opponent, an I deceiving tne voters. He suggests that the legislature d aouv-tliing to remedy this defect and frutr,b tin schemes of unprin-i;!"d ' ieTU;i'"guv? claiming to beiotig to more thin ono party. J. K. tephcnon, secretary of Archibald lodje, F. M. H. A., writes t'roiu Pilot Knob that his lodge ent rs its protest ngtir.st that part of the fee and s ilnry hi 1 alleging counties of the second td.is, as it n.akos the salaries, to high. In ionclu-ioii ho says: "The lodge h?.s express! adt-siro thnt no fee and s.dary bill a' ect the present incumbents or thoe who inny now fctand elected to any ofiice, bat that, it :ipply in nil cases of appointment and d- etion that takes plai n on and utter the passage of the bill. We would su?.st that the present bill be to amended to apply as indicated. To the mind of the conn'y assembly two prime reasons exist calling for such a provision, namely, justice to those selected tinder pr. sent compensation of the ntiice, and second, with such a clause it will be easier to get a fair and equitable salary, which should actuate tho tax-payer rather than a spasmodic e3ort for something quick." A correspondent frnm Zionvi!le, over the signature of "Yekrat." writos Tiik SESTixn. advocating the i nmediato t ikingellectof the feo and salary. a''t. He adds: "There ia au eat nest demand for a change ia the -law regulating th? aescsament of rroierty. Tiie law should be such as will reach all kinds r.f property ot every class of citizens, so that millions of dollars worth of property now paying but little, if any, tax ehull be made to pay its equitable portion; it ought to r-ach the property owned by corporationa within and out of the state ; it ought to explicity provide that every person should be made to pay tax onlv on properly owned over and above indebtedness. Haying had boiuo experience ia the politics of my county several years, I think I can safely say that our present legislators are bsing watched very closely anil auspiciously, and should there be "a faiuire to redeem pledges on the part of any member, he is doomed to private lifo hereafter. The affairs of tho Indbnanolis fc Terre 1 1 auto railroad company must be investigated by a committee that doesn't know how to whitewash. The present legislature must do it in life t not shirk.' georrtnry Windoni's WUL Wisoxa, Minn., Fb. 25. The late Secretary Windom's will will be filed for probnte tomorrow. The cross value of the estate ie from $150,000 to SlTo.OOO. When the debts are paid the estate will yield a revenue to the family of io.OOO a year. The will was executed June 22, 18S3, and leaves everything to the immediate family.

LIFE LOST IX THE FLOODS.

DISASTROUS EFFECTS IN CALIFORNIA It rid est, Itatlwaya amt llooasa CTahe4 Away and Railroad Trade Muapen tel l!ow Yarn YVaa Cut. erd with Water. I os Axr.ri.ns, Cab, Feb. 2 . Cp to noon today reports showed that at lesd persons lost their lives in the Cood. The family of Char.cs Watts is a'so missing from near Downey and is r!o supposed to ba drowned. The Wells family, consisting of man, wife and babe was drowned at Inart, and the bodies of two Mexicans wero found in the earno neighborhood. The worst of tho flood was probably at Dow ney and vicinity. Old and New ?an U.v briclle rivers broke from thair banks and ran together and made a great inland sea six to ten miles vide anil seventeen miles long. Mary houses were swept away ped a number of families occupying the territory inundated haven't been heard from. Shots were heard at Downey Mondiy morning, tired at Watt's ranch house and supposed to havo been a ;:ual of distress. The house wus econ ewept away and it is feared, that tho wholo family perished ia the current. S'ax Fraxcimo, Feb. 25. The Ihrgest reports show that the storm is about over. Serious damage has been done to railway property, specially in the suthrn portion of the State. Soledad ennon, en thi line entering Los Angles from thi3 city, is in almost as bad a condition an lest your. Much of the new and costly work whii h required ten months to complete has snffrom the storm. Two hundred feet of tho bridge wet of Los Artrelcs has been carried away, the track washed out, tr.e pile work broken up and tho tunnel at the. entrance, to the canon damaged. On tho Yum division eicht !ents of the bi bridge were destroyed and th track is six feet out of lino in insnv places. 'J h? bridge near Monte was also srtpt away. Three washouts of a serious nature have occurred between 1'omona and Cuyatnonga and east of Col ton. Twenty feet of the truck, round house, sidin:rs and evcrthin movable hns been carried away by th'i waters. IVtween Col ton and Binning several bridges have been weakened. On the Santa Ana branch, the track is under water lor long stretches and in some places has been swept away. South of Downpy station the new railroad bridge was destroyed and the town itself flooded. Ik-tween Soven Palms and Yuma the track is in a very bad condition and over three miles havo been swept away. Tor 150 miles between Seven Points and Yum the wires are down and nothing definite is known of the condition of the track. The Sunset loute will probably be inoperative for a week and no tickets to New Orleans will be sold at present. The Atlantic Pacific has had a washout near tarstow and has suspended the sale cf overland tickets via Mojave for one week. The passengers will ba s?nt east over the Central Pacific. The latter route is ia good condition as is the Shai-ta line. HOW YUMA WENT. The Faepla Forced to Tak to tha HUH In Hat. Yt'MA, Ariz.. Feb. 25. The work of strengthening the lvce against this swollen Hila river begin Saturday night and w as continued with energy Sunday, all the citizens being pressed into service. The river continued to rise a foot an hour and it was found necessary to tr.ke tha convicts from the penitentiary to a?si?t in the work. It finally became apparent that tho levee, which wns old and weak, could not be strengthened sufficiently to withstand the river, and tho people began moving their effects to higher ground. At 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon thu levee broke and in an hour and a h-ilf tho town was largely under water. Tho hastily constructed enbankment of earth and sacks of meal prevented a further spread of the waters in the etreets, but the Mexican quarter, covering some hundred acres, was flooded. The air was filled with th noise of fallins walls and the screams ot women and children. The water was Ua feet deep in places. Many pecple had no time to get out thetr furniture and lost all. Over a hundred bouses wi re ruined. An American named ius lx-e was drowned but there was no other loss of life. Tha railroad and telegraph offices were flooded out. Tho levee on the Colorado river sida was finally cut and the water inei ie was tnus kept from rising. Monday looming the water had fallen two feet. The business houses destroyed consisted of a machine-shop, eaddler's store and four saloons, threo general merchandise stores, two drug stores) tho Timet, two butcher shops and a Chinese wash bouse. The people are camped on the hihs and the United States quartermaster's buildings havo hern thrown open. There is much destitution but no sullcring as yet, there being provisions in town suliicient for a week. The board of trado meeting Monday made liberal donations for the suLVerers, A relief committee was organized by the citizens and at several stores goods are civen to all applying. Tho country east of here is all under water for as far as heard from, teports have reached town of u other rise in the Gila. The levee on Main-st. hrs ien made eight feet high and nearly all the eople have moveo" to higher ground. There is a reported riso in the Colorado also. There have been no trains since Monday morning, the last one being from San Francisco. The bridge across the Colorado is safe, but may go if the Colorado river rises. MURDERED HIS WIFE. Shot Ilia Mother-ln-Law and Tried to Kill I'oltc-tnan. CuiCAOO.Feb. 24.This evening, without warning, Joseph Hamer, a finisher by trade, fatally shot his wife and dangerously wounded his mother-indaw, Mrs. Mary Hasmer. The shooting occurred at bis residence, No. 7G1 W. Twentieth-sU The police ofuccr who arrested Hamer a few minutes after the shooting had a narrow escape from being shot, he wrenching tha revolver away from the murderer's grasp just in time to save himself. Mrs. Hamer Lad left her husband some days Rgo on a count of cruel treatment. sdie waa returning to her former homeia company with her mother to get some clothes when the shooting occurred. Kut Dlaphaooca. iurd "Did th ftshuoan have frogs legs, Bridget?" "Sure, I couldn't see, mam; he had his pants on."