Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1892 — Page 4

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BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL OC. S. E. MORSS. President. filtered at the Poitnffiee at Indianapolis aa Mcond tU.M waiter.) TERMS PER YEAR. BrgTe ropy (Invariably la Advance.) 00 V l democrats to bar in mind and select their tvii state paper when they come to take tubsertp tkc and make up clubs. Agents making up clubs send for hit Information tiid. AddtwTliE LSDlAArOI.lS SENTINEL Indianapolis, Ind. L WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20. 1S92. TWELVE PAGES. : Colcmbus, Ind., Nov. 1, 1S91. Dear Sirs I received the wat?h in good shape and am highly pleased with it. It is a correct time-keeper and a finelcoking watch. Yours truly, "Will Blackketter, To the Editor Sir: The watch which I received from Tub Sentinel is just as represented. It has given perfect eatisfaction in every respect. C. N. Pickett. Noble, I1L, Oct. IS. Last week's crop of railway horrora was a frightful one. Cardinal Gibbons speaks out boldly and eloquently against that great iniquity, the Louisiana lottery. His letter, published yesterday, will not be without effect in Louisiana, where the "octopus" is now enzaged in a desperate struggle for existence. Although Col. Samuel Colt was, through the manufacture of firearms, indirectly connected with the insurrection business, it seems more likely that the etatue surmounting his monument by the artist, Hogers, who died at Rome Friday, is that of the "Anel of Resurrection" rather than the "Angel of the Insurrection," the press dispatched to the contrary notwithstanding. Senor Garza, the gentleman who has been making things 60 interesting along the Mexican border, seems to have the agility of a flea coupled with the ubiquity of a Sentinel reporter. The latest advices from the frontier record his mysterious disappearance. V.'e take it that ere this he has ''bobbed up serenely." Iiis habit of being where he isn't wanted, and not being where he is w anted, appears to be xed and incurable. New Hampshire is having a eerious time with her new election law. It provides that the "moderators" shall be the central supervisors of the balloting aud the tount, performing about the same duties IS the inspector does in Indiana. Under the old system the moderators were chosen by open ballot in the town meetings, but this form of election is abrogated by the teeret ballot law, and no new provision is made for electing moderators except in the general election law provisions. There remains, therefore, no way of obtaining officers to conduct the first election, and it is possible that a special session of the legislature will have to be called to amend the law. George V. Howk, whose death was announced in The Sentinel Thursday, had ft notable career at the bar and on the bench of Indiana. He was a man of tine ability, a lawyer of learning, a wise and just judge, a sound democrat, and, above all, a thoroughly upright man. The New Albany Ledger, published at his home, well Ears of him: He was a good lawyer, probably the "best statute lawyer of his day. He was thoroughly versed in the principles of the law. He was eminent on the bench, from city to common pleas, from circuit to supreme court. Everywhere his decisions were in accordance with the law and his opinions models of judicial literature. Asa man and citizen the Ledger need not ntter a word to the people of this section of the state. He was everywhere known and everywhere admired. The scandal over the alleged bribery of republican members of the Ohio legislature to vote for John Sherman for senator is assuming an ugly aspect. It is known that a number of senators and representative?, who were nominated and elected as Foraker men, found their way in due time into the Sherman camp. There is no reaion to doubt that they were "boodled," and there seems to be a fair prospect that some of them will get into the penitentiary. The Columbus Pott is calling upon Senator Bkice to object to the swearing in of Mr. Sherman next March on the ground that his election was secured by fraud and bribery, and to demand a full investigation. If euch an investigation can be had, the Pott lays that it will, "through ita attorneys, offer to the investigating committee euch evidence of the corruption which secured Jlr. Sherman's re-election that the senate can take no other action than to unseat Lim." The Port adds : We offer thia suggestion to Senator TJrice in good faith, and with no other end in view than to serve the purposes of honeet government. If the senate will listen to the evidence, Jons Sherman will never serve another term. Ohio politics, as everybody knows, is thoroughly rotten, and nobody will be ecrprieed if It shall be proved that John Ehxbmax has bought his way back into the eenate. Tu täte democratic central committee effected a partial organization Wednesday by the election of Thomas Taggart of thia city as chairman. There were no candidates for the petition. Mr. Charles L. J ewett, who bad served as chairman for four years with great ability and acceptability, was anxious to be relieved of ita duties and reponsibUitiea. Several gentlemen had been -poken of in connection with th chairmanship, but none of them ought it, Ind Mr. TAGGABT'a flection involved no appointment to any one. Its fitness "illbenniveraa'dy recognized. Mr. TagIaht mar ave hia equals in Indiana as i organizer, but he certainly b no super He is a young man a tireless worker, Roughly devoted to democratic prino ,!ne democratic party, wnh a pies and -be unbounded irr? aeqaaiatance

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greesiTe ana winning campaign, ana win be universally acceptable to the democrat" ! of Indiana. a I The Connecticut Oti trace The republican organs which applauded the presidential theft of lS7t, the IVrwey and Dudley operations in Indiana in 1SS0 and 1SS3. the packing of the U. S. aenato by the last congress, the stealing of the Montana senatorehips, and alt the other outrages which have been committed from time to time for the purpose of perpetuating the g. o. p. in power, profess to be shocked at the strictly legal and constitutional methods employed in New York to give effect to the will of the majority of the people of that state. Rut they are eaying nothing about the spectacles which are presented in Connecticut and Nebraska, in both of which states men who received a majority of the popular vote for governor are kept out of office by men who were not even votod for (or tnat position at that election. Probably few of our readers comprehend the enormity of the offense against popular governineot which has been committed in Conmcticut. Ve give the factsand well do they illustrate the ehamelessness and audacity with which republican politicians are wont to override the will of the people when they find an opportunity to do so. The constitution of Connecticut requires a majority of all the votes polled to elect state officers. It also provides that, in the event of a failure of any candidate to receive euch a majority at any election, the legislature shall proceed to elect. It also provides a system of representation in the legislature under which a minority of the people living in the rural districts choose a large majority of the senators and members. The state is close, politically, and it seldom happens that any candidate for a state office receives a majority of all the votes polled. The legislature, therefore, usually elects. Almost invariably the democratic candidates receive a plurality of the popular vote (but not a majority), whereupon the legislature, proceeds to elect the republican candidatesIt is a system of minority rule which cannot be duplicated in any country on earth pretending to enjoy free government. The state of Connecticut has for many years been misruled by legislatures and state officers and misrepresented by U. S. eenators chosen by a minority of her people. And the republican party lias persistently refused to pera.it any change whatever in the antiquated and absurd system which permit. this outrage. Rut at the election of November, 1Q00, the democratic candidate for governor received a majority of twenty-six of the votes as returned. Even under the constitution he was entitled to the ollice, which was then held by a political adventurer named Rl'lkeley, to whom his party had refused a renomination. The constitution provides that the general assembly shall declare an election. The senate forma. ly declared that Judge Morris had been elected governor, but the republican house of representatives refused to perform that duty. Upon the strength of that refusal taking advantage of the wrong committed by his own partisans IJclkeley refused to surrender the governor's llico to Judge Morris. Quo warranto proceedings were instituted in behalf of the latter against Rulkelev. The information alleged that Judge Luzon R. Morris, the democratic candidato for governor at the election in November, 1S9 received a majority of twenty-six of the votes as returned; that his election had been declared by the senate though not by the house of representatives, and that he had qualified by taking the oath of office, but was prevented from assuming the functions of his office by the uiurpation of Morgan G. Rulkelev. To this Mr. Rulkeley demurred. Granting that the facts set forth were true they were not sufficient, he said, to establish the title of Judge Morris to the office of governor. He (Rulkeley) was not usurping, but was governor under the section of the constitution which provided that he should hold office until his successor had been duiy qualified. An essential of that qualification was a declaration by the general assembly. No declaration hid been made, and therefore no successor to him (Rulkeley) in the office of governor had been duly qualified. The supreme court of Connecticut has just rendered a decision sustaining the demurrer, which virtually ends the quo warranto proceedings and leaves Bclkf.ley in possession of the governor's office until the expiration of the term for which Judge Morris was elected. The court declares that "the exercise by the voters of their choico is not the whole of the election. The declaration of the result by the general assembly 'is an indispensable adjunct to that choice as 'furnishing the only authentic evidence of what the choice is.' " The court also holds that the legislature has not now the power to make a declaration. Such a declaration, the court Fays, must be made on the first or second day of the legislative session, and must bo made by both houses acting jointly or concurrently, i An election of governor by the general assembly, in the event of no election by the people, must be made, according to the constitution, on the second day of the session; therefore the declaration of an election or of no election must be made on the first or the second day. . "When the constitution commands a certain course to be pursued, that course must be pursued strictly," and "when the constitution directs the general assembly to proceed to choose a goyernor on the second day of its session, it in etlect forbids any choico of a governor by the assembly at any later day of the session." Further, "the power to declare that no one is elected governor implies necessarily the power to declare that some one is elected. If the former is cut off by the words of the constitution after the second day of the cession, the latter is also cut off after that day." Thia is a sufficiently clear declaration that the legislature is now powerless to do any thing in the matter. The court recognizes the absurdity and Injustice of the situation, and expresses the hope that "the general assembly will make haste to put an end to the anomalous condition of our election laws." The re publican party, intrenched in power by these) very "anomalous laws," has refused to permit any change iu them. The dem ocrats of Connecticut, however, believe that the events which have culminated in

the decision lust rendered will eie a de

cided momentum to the movement tr constitutional reform in the direction of plurality elections and f mote popular legislativ rvpr-vitMin. Inl"" thia movement sjeedily rulia in the adoption of a popular crtst Mutton the question will soon arise hther mo steps should not be taken to on tow, ns to Tonnpoticut, tho constitutional guarantee of a republican form of covfrnment "to every state in this Vnion."

Tho Two trlnco. T princes lay deal in llinfland a prince spiritual and a t rinco temporal a prince of tho church and a prince of the state. Hiseminence Cardinal M ANNiNpanel away at 8 o'clock Thins. lay morning at tho ri;e jro of eighty-four. An hour later Ai.rkht Yiitok. duke of Clarence and Avondalo, prospective prinoo of Wale.and heir presumptive to tho throne of England, died at the ngo of twenty-eight. A more striking contrast between two characters and careers could scarely be imagined than is afforded by those of tho two men whose loss Rng:and is today called upon to mourn. Cardinal Mannin", was one of the most remarkable men of his time. No Eng'ishman in titty jears, with possibly a f-ingle exception, has made so profund an impres sion upon tne great public, not only of his own eountrj", but of every country within the pale of western civilization. 1'robably no Englishman in that time has been a greater factor in the vital affairs of human society, or has done more to give direction to the currents of popular thought and action, or contributed so largely to the development cf higher ideals of faith and conduct. An Englii-h-man by birth and by descent through a long line of ancestors, ho was educated in the creed of the established church, in which he took orders and for twenty-one years exercised clerical functions. He had touched middle age before he abjured the faith of his fathers, yielding lofty preferments to unite his destinies with the aucient church, to which he rendered such faithful and distinguished service until the day of his death. He found a congenial home in the catholic communion, and as priest, archbishop and cardinal he illustrated the best qualities of true Christian manhood. Ho was a many sided man. A scholarly man rich in the lore of the rlassies and the learning of the echools h was yet in touch with every phase of the teeming life which surrounded him. He was broad in his intellectual range, acute in his sympathies, practical in his methods; a tolerant, hopeful, helpful man, who owned all men his brethren, and whose life was a daily benediction to great multitudes that never saw his face. In London, however, there was no face more familiar, for tho cardinal went everywhere, mixed freely with "all sorts and conditions of men," was identified with all the great movements of social, moral and economic reform, and was, to the very last, a center from which radiated the best influences that were active in England. His prodigious industry, his great power of application, his persistence and his equable temperament were all elements of his marvelous success. He was a great man intellectually ; and no better man, none of more sincere piety or more worthy achievement, has walked the earth in this century. He will stand as one of the most imposing figures in the history of his time. Of the young scion of royalty who passed oyer to the majority yesterday there is little to say. But for the accident of birth the world would probably never have known that ho had existed. He appears to have been a commonplace, negative sort of a young man, with no very marked traits of any sort. What of ability or power the test of great opportunity might have developed in him none can teiL He had certainly given no indication of more than ordinary intellectual gifts, but even had he possessed them he could scarcely have found an occasion to exercise them. His death was sudden, and a circumstance of special sadness is that it occurred but a iow days in advance of the time which had been fixed for his marriage. There appears no reason to anticipate any important political consequences from his untimely taking off. Shall Indianapolis Become n Trotting Center? The efforts which aro now making to create a permanent trotting center at Indianapolis ought to receive the active encouragement and substantial support of every person who desires the prosperity and growth of tho city. Efforts of thia character have been repeatedly made, and without results. But the conditions existing today are more favorable than ever betöre, and if the state board of agriculture can be induced to pay some attention to the interests of this community and of the entire state, as well as to the interests of the enterprise in its charge, it will adopt a liberal policy in this matter and secure first-class epring and fall trotting meetings for Indianapolis. It is idle to talk of leasing the new track to any responsible persons for a single year. The reasons are well stated by Mr. Rronson, the wellknown and successful horseman of Cambridge City, in an interview printed in today's Sentinel. Mr. Rronson says: It would be folly to leave Cambridge City and come here for a year only. The track here will have to be built up and advertised in order to make it a paying thing, and no one can afford to do this by taking hold of the venture for one, or even two years. It is a great expense to keep a track in first-class condition. We would like to come to Indianapolis, but such a guarantee as the board proposes, by keeping down to a single year, will not do. If the board will lease the ground for five or ten years we are ready to make a liberal proposition. If the track is properly and judiciously managed for five years a money interest in it would be better than any batik stock in Marion county. It is safe to say that no horseman of responsibility and reputation will throw away his money by taking a lease on the new track for a single year. It is almost certain that the first year's operations will involve a considerable loss to tho lessees, and it is not likely, considering the fact that Indianapolis has now no standing with the horsemen of the country, that the enterprise can be put on a profitable baein short of three or four years. What the board ßhould do is to lease the track, etc., for live years say with the privilege of ten if the right kind of men can be induced to take hold of the matter. "Br the rirht kind of

men" we mean men of experience who are favorably known to the horsemen of the country, who are financially responsible, and whose names at the head of a trotting association will be accepted by the public as a guarantee that first-class sport will be provided and good faith scrupulously exercised toward the people. The advantages of Indianapolis as a location for trotting meetings are unsurpassed. The ground has been gone over so frequently that it is unnecessary to traverse it again. The citj- is located, as Dr. Wright showed in his address before the Indiana breeders, in the heart oi the great horse breeding region of the country. Her railroad facilities are better than those of any other city in the West, with a single exception. She has plenty of first-class hotels, a nd can take caro of great crowds handsomely. AVith proper effort spring and fall meetings can bo held here which rill attract the moBt famous horses in the country and bring hither immense multitudes of people. Now is the time to inaugurate this euterprwe under auspices that will insure its success. It needs only the adoption of a liberal and sagacious policy by the 6tate board of agricuituro and proper co-operation on the part of our business men. The proposed meetings will build tip the trade of the city and add to its importance and reputation. We want them and must have them. Tho Tax Law Works Well. Some very interesting information concerning the effects of the, new tax law has been compiled in the assessor's office which lliustratos forcibly the correctness in theory of that legislation. The principle underlying the new tax lav was that aesessment at actual value was the best remedy for existing inequality in taxation, and that its application would bring to the assessment books at just valuation much of the property of corporations and wealthy persons that wag not being taxed in proportion to their less fortunate neighbors. A list of . the persons, firms and corporations assessed at over $25,000 dhows that there are 549 tax-payers of this class, and that they own, together, property valued at SöS.SaS.O'.X). The same taxpayers were asi-ossed in 18.Q at $:0,72l,180, and their property valuation has therefore increased SL';?,100,i 10, or an average of a little more than 75 per cent. The total valuation of the township and its municipalities is $105,058,575 and in lS'K) it was $t4,0(7,410. Deducting from these numbers the valuations of the class holding over $25,000 we have all remaining tax -payers assessed at 551,823,485 now, and in 1SW at 53,344,230, which is a total increase of $18,431,255, or an average increase of 55 per cent. This difference of 20 per cent, in favor of tho smaller holders is not, however, tho complete measure of benefit to them from this step toward equal and just taxation. There were returned by the assessor this year 3,5t3 assessment liöts, while in 18(.0 there were only 35,103, a gain of 3,455. With only fifteen exceptions these new lists all come in the class of holders under $25,000, and therefore decrease the proportion of increase on the remainder of that class formerly on the lists. A part of these new lists are due to natural increase, but the larger portion represent property brought to light by the more eearching methods of the new law. It should also be remembered that a large part of the increase in this class is due to the advance in suburban property, many persons of small means having invested in vacant lots for speculative purposes or in provision for future homes. This distinctive increase is not confined to Center township, but is also to be observed in the country. The total assessment for the county is $124,005,220, as against $78,14S;11K) in 18Ü0. or an increase of $46,517,030. It will be noticed that the increase of valuation on the class holding over $25,000 in Center township is just about one-half of the total increase in the entire county. Of course, there are a number of tax-payers outside of Center township who belong to tho class holding over $25,000. The railroads alone in the county outside of Center township are increased $1,503,000. It is evident, therefore, that small property-holders outside

have been benefited in about the same proportion as thoso inside the township. These figures demonstrate conclusively that the new law has done exactly what it was claimed it would do, and make it plain that Indiana is on the right road towaid tho solution of the problem of taxation. Tho Projwsetl Silver Bill. Mr. Springer, it is said, favors the passage by congress of a bill to provide for an international eilver congress, to be held at Chicago next year, in lieu of any other measure upon this question. It is also said that Senator Carlisle, Senator Palmer and other eminent democrats at Washington favor this idea. We think it will meet with the approval of all except the small number of democrats w ho would sacrifice every other party and public in terest in an effort to secure free coinage, even though euch an effort were morally sure to fail. There is very much to be said in favor of the plan proposed by Mr. Springer. It would, in the first place, remove the greatest obstacle that stands between the democratic party and success in the national election. In the second place, it affords reasonable promise of bringing about an international agreement, by which, every one admits, the whole coin age problem can be solved. An interna tional congress, held in the United States, with its proceedings fully reported by the press, would stimulate public interest in this great question and prove a potent educator of the people. Whether or not it resulted in an immediate agreement among the nations, it would unquestionably result in focusing the public opinion of the United States in support of a definite policy. As Senator Carlisle says, "the silver question has not yet received adequate consideration from the people of the country." The Springer plan is in the interest of an early and wise solution of the silver question; of democratic unity and success; of tariff reform, honest gov ernment and the right of the people to control their own elections. Democrats who aro democrats first and free-coina.'e men afterward will support it cordially unless some more practicable method of attaining the desired result is proposed Order The Sentinel's "Indiana Almanac for 1SJ2" of your newsdealer. Trice 25 cents.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. H. C. Rlack. Rainbridge, Ind. : The llowint ft.ro thA winter onnrters of all the

foil circuses of the United States and the ad dresses of the managers: Rarnum & Bailey, office 1342 Broadway. New York. quartered in Bridgeport, Conn.; Adam f . . - . rorepaugn, l'biladelphia, Fa.; John Robinson, Cincinnati, O. ; Sells Bros., ockton, Cal. ; Ringling Bros., Baraboo, is. ; Wallace & Co.. Peru. Ind. . Santiaaro , 9 ibillones. Havanna. Cuba.: Orrin Bros.. yr. .... ' ' " i -uy oi Mexico andSturtevant house, ew ork City; Walter L. Main. Geneva. O. : King fc Franklin, Chattanooga, Tenn.; ... ' ashburn & Arlington, Frt nrhtown, N. , and 201 Center-sL. New York Citv : lob Hunting, New Castle, Pa. ; Charles ,ee, Canton, Ra.; Irwin Rros., Courier thoirrat)hinfl' Pnmr,nr UnfTalrt V V ohn McMahon, Oakland, Cal. ; J ames Mnovan. 2ul Center-sL. New York Citv: Gollmar Bros., Baraboo, Wis.; Jackson Bros., box L'ö, Fontanelle, la.; Thomas L. Logan, Carbondale, 111.; William Main, Ashtabula, O.; E. . Rogers. Friendship. N. Y. ; Terrell Bros., Paducah, Ky.; F. J. Taylor, Creston, la.; Stowe Bros., Cincinnati, ().; Sig. Sautelle, 219 N. Salina-sL. Syracuse, N. Y. ; i. K. Bich. Mechanicstown, Md.; T. K. Rurk'a consolidated lows, Augusta. Ga.: Lernen Eros.. Arcenr.e, Kas.; W. II. Harris' nickle piate. ew Orkans, La. Mr. Bailev has verv cently purchased Forepaugh's circus and menagerie. A Reader, Clermont, Ind.: (1) In the present congress there are eighty-eight senators and 332 representatives. (2) Under the reapportionment the next congress will contain 35t representatives, being one member for each 175,500 population. (3) Harrison's cabinet is composed of James G. Blaine of Maine, secre tary of state; Charles Foster, Ohio, secretary of the treaeury; Stephen B. Eikins, Wet Virginia, secretary of war; Benjamin F. Tracy, New York, secretary of the navy; John Wanamaker, Pennsylvania, postmaster-general ; John W. Noble, Missouri, secretary cf the interior; W. H. II. Miller, Indiana, attorney-general; J. M. Rusk, Wisconsin, eecretary of agriculture. Sip.scr;eer, Greencaetle, Ind.: Cleveland in 1SS4 received for president 4,845,255 votes and Rlaine 4,818,671. In 1S88 Cleveland received 5,538.421 votes and Harrison 5,43'.,877. ET CETERA. It is when the turkey is in the oven that the cook studies Browning. Lowell Conner. Mrs. James Rrown Potter and her shadow, Mr. Higgins. alias Bellew, are about to show the South Africans how little they know about acting. Ofcourse is possible for a woman to be "fair and square," but we like her better if she is rounii. Iizton 1'osl. A sort of an "all-around" woman, as it were. William A. Slater, the millionaire manufacturer of Norwich, is soon to embark at Norfolk on his yacht for a long cruise to Rermuda and in the Mediterranean. Mrs. Jackson Bays in her memoirs of her husband, Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson, that when ehe visited the egneral in camp he "spent all of his leisure time in playing with their baby." O. H. Rentley, who lives at Wichita, Kas., is one of those men neyer happy unless writing to somo public man. During the last three years of Senator Plumb's life he wrote on an average two letters a day to the senator. The president of the French republic haa a salary of S1S0.0OO, but when he gives receptions to his thousands of feilowcitizens there is something besides cold tea on the sideboard and cheese and crackers in the dining-room. M. Soufeliot; a French "Waterloo veteran, recently celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday in Paris in hearty health and spirits. The death of.the last British survivor of Waterloo, Samuel Gibson, was recorded a few days ago. He was aged 101. A close friend of Mr. Gould says that the reports that ho is worried over the threats of a crank who intends to assassinate him whth dynamite are true. Severul detectives are now at work on the case, but have not yet succeeded in establishing tho man's identity. Gustave Rannewitz, who saved Bismarck's life twenty -five years ago from the bullet of the would-be assassin Rlind, died recently in u small German town where he lived in prosperity and in the enjovment of many honors the grateful ex-chancellor had procured for him. Cait. E. P. Howell, editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Cuntiitution, will oppose Governor Northen for the governorship in October next. Two months ago the alliance began their pressure on Howell to be their Btandard-bearer. He was reluctant at first, but it is stated by those in a position to know that he has finally conben ted. There is no special ceremony connected with marriage among the Esquimaux. In some tribes the husband joins the wife's relatives and is expected to hunt and fish for them. If he is lazy or refuses to give tho furs he gets to his father-in-law he is likely to be bounced, and some one more active and obedient is installed in Lis place as husband. Sometimes it happens that a girl has ten or twelve husbands in succession before she finally settles down to a permanent conjugal state. Prof. Swing of Chicago in a recent sermon made an earnest plea for the dumb beasts. In the course of his remarks he said: "Our millionaires, who in making their wills are puzzled what great library they should endow to perpetuate their names, should endow the humane society instead. Thev would build for themselves a monument which would reach higher into the sky than the highest of our church steeples. J he humane society. now composed of a few select members and a limited capital for its great work. should have millions of dollars for its cap ital stock and more than hail the population of the city men, women and "children as its champions. THE LAW UPHELD. Judge Richardson of Evansville Sus tains tho Tax Law. Thursday Judge Richardson of Vanderburgh county handed down his decision in the famous Pigeon township case. Pigeon township includes the city of Evansville within its limits. When the state board or tax commissioners met it ordered the assessment in the city ot Evansville increased 20 per cent., while the valuation of property outside the city was increased out iu per cent. In the suit decided Thursday the Lvansvilleians sought to restrain the auditor from entering up the new assess ment on the ground that the increase or dered by the tax commissioners should have been equal throughout the township. . Judge Richardson upholds the action of the commissioners and refuses the in junction. The total of the increased valuation sought to be set aside is about $3.000.000,

ABOUT WATCHES.

What the State Sentinel Can Do for You and Where the Header Can Save Money. Everybody knows that there is a socalled watch trust for the purpose of keeping up prices, also to keep newepapers from handling them. The Sentinel, however, has been able to get ahead of the trust, and is enabled to furnishfine filled gold watches at wholesale prices. A filled case for all practical purposes is just as good as a solid gold watch. It will wear a life-time, and in case of its being stolen the loss is not 60 great. some of our bargains. No. 5. Size No. IS Liberty (engineturned) case, New York standard movement, will wear ten years, $12.25. No. 8. Size No. 6. Liberty (or Ameri can) engraved case, Doret movement (Swiss), seven jewels, il'2. No. 14. Size No. 18. Box case, Louis XIV stv'e, Walthain or Elgin movement. seven jewels, $19.75. The-e watches are sold by retail dealers at from A) to 3o. 'o. 1G. Size No. 18. Walthain or Elgin movement, seven jewels (engineturned), Mootauk case, $18. This watch Mould cost from $23 to $35 at jewelry stores. No. 17. Size No. IS. Waltham or Elgin movement, seven jewels, beautifully engraved Montauk case, $18. This watch would cost from $2S to $3-5 at jewelry etores. No. 18. Size No. 18. Monarch ense, twenty-one years' guarantee, 14 carat, Waltham movement (engine-turned), $20.25. No. 19. Size No. 18. Monarch case, fancy landscape engraved, Elgin movement, $21.50. No. 20. Size No. IS. Monarch case, with wide Vermicelli border and engraved center. Waltham movement, seven jewels, $23. This is the finest watch we oer and is well worth $40, according to the prices charged in jewelry stores. The cases are warranted for twenty-one years. No. 21. Size No. 0. Monarch case, Vermicelli border, fancj' Elgin movement, seven jewels, $19.50. No. 28. Size No. 18. Montauk case (engine-turned ), New York standard movement, seven jewels, $10.25. The Sentinel does not keep the watches on hand neither do we furnish any other make or kind. Just the Matches advertised are all that we can sell. The readers of The Sentinel never had an opportunity to get first-class watches at any such prices as the above, and after this stock is sold they w ill probably not soon have such a chance acrain. This oiler is open only to subscribers to The Indiana State Sentinel. One of these watches will make a handsome birthday present for your wife, your sister, your daughter, or your sweetheart; ior your husband, your father, your brother or your 6on. In order to avoid confusion and mistakes the watches should be ordered only by their numbers, thus it is only necesaary to say: "Send watch No. 8 (or whatever number is iesired) to the following address." Write the name, town, county and 6tate very plainly. The cash must accompany every order. We should prefer to have our subscribers use the following coupon, which can be cut out, filled up and sent to The Indiana State Skntinel Mith a draft on Chicago, New York, Indianapolis or Cincinnati or a postoifice money order for the amount. All orders and cash should be sent to State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Ind. 1CQO ................................................. xc. Indianapolis Sentinel Co. Please tend one watch No. lowing address: to the folNrae. Poitoffioe County........ ........ StateEnclosed find JUMPED FROM A MOVING TRAIN. A Woman's Terrible Leap to Save Herself from an Assault. London, Jan. 15. Notwithstanding the terrible injuries sustained by Mrs. Siddala, the woman who on Monday night last jumped from a rapidly moving train near Tainworth presumably to escape the advances of the Rev. Mr. Goodal, is now improving and hopes are entertained that ehe will recover. Mrs. Siddalla regained consciousness today, and she was at once questioned regarding the circumstances of the affair, and her 6tory confirms in substance the theory formed by the police. The only point on which there is any difference is the manner in which she reached the footboard, Mrs. Siddalls says that the minister engaged her in conversation after they had ridden some distance together, and after a time Le attempted liberties which she repulsed, fie was made very angry by be. uk foiled in his lesitrns, and grasped her by the throat. He then forced her down on the seat and attempted to outrage her. Owing to the peculiar construction of English railway carriages it was impossible for the other passengers to know what was going on in the compartment, and Mrs. Siddalls knew that she would have to depend on her own efforts to foil the brute who was attempting to take advantage of her. She struggled desperately to prevent dishonor, find finally the preacher, whether simply to escape detection or to cause her death is not known, pushed her out of the compartment. Fortunately she caught upon the footboard as she M as falling and regained her footing. Sue 6ays, however, that she was so terribly excited that she did not realize the danger of jumping and with only the thought of escaping the man who attempted the crime against her, she leaped from the carriage and remembers nothing further. Goodal will shortly be arraigned to answer the serious charge against him. THE INDIANA BUILDINGS. Plan Received by the World' Fair People A Ileantlfal Building. Executive Commissioner Havens of the world's fair department has received the plans decided npon for the Indiana building at Chicago. There were eight architects who competed, and the committee approved the drawings of Henry Ives Cobb of Chicago. The building w ill be three stories high. The first floor will include the main assembly room as well as the check rooms, waiting rooms, etc. A covered veranda will be built in front and on the two sides. The second story will embrace the reading and writing rooms and officers' quarters. A balcony corresponding to the veranda of the first story will be a pleasing feature. On the third story will be found bed rooms. The coat of arms of Indiana will be placed over the doorway of tho main entrance. The building will have two towera or spires in front. Themain part of the building Mill be built of stone, the upper portion being in imitation of stone.

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"THE SENTINEL'S" GREAT PREMIUM FOR 1892. TTbat F.x-Preldat Cleveland and Senator Yoorhaaa and Tarpla Say or IU 1 Iadt"on-Aye.. I New York, Not. 3, 1891. My Dear Mr. Morss Please accept my thanks for the "History of Indiana" which you kindly sent me. The examination I have been able to give it is eufficknt to justify me in expressing the opinion that it contains a great amount cf historical information presented to the reader in a most pleasant way. I do not see why it should not prove itself a very useful book. Yours truly. What Senator Voorhffi Pay. United States Senate, Washington, 1). C, OcL 0. J Indianapolis Sentiael Company: Gentlemen I am just in receipt of the "History of Indiana" which has just bten given to tho public by Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks. I have looked through it with some care, and say sincerely that I am delighted with it. It ought to go in the hands of all our people. The young will receive instruction from it, and those advanced in life will be pleaded by the recollections it awakens. The people ot Indiana I think are not sufficiently aware of the real growth and greatness of their etate. It requires, in fact, but little study to ascertain, and not much effort to show, that Indiana according to area is the greatest and most productive state in the Union, and possessed of greater and more extensive educational advantages than any other cocmcn wealth of equal population in the Morld. These facts should be taught everywhere among our people. I fully believe in the doctrine of etate pride, especially when there is a solid foundation for it. Such a publication as the one now before me is well calculated to inspire the young and old alike of Indiana with just and laudable sentiments of pride and gratitude. It is indeed a most charming book. The likenesses, taken altogether, are the best I have ever seen in engravings of their character. Tlease accept my sincere thanks and believe me always very fai.hfully yours, What Senator Turple Say. Indianapolis, Nov. 7. S. E. Morss, Esq., Indianapolis, Ind: My Dear Sir I have carefully real "The Popular History of Indiana," and have verified its data by comparison with older and larger M orks. It is an excellent abridgement of our state annals, elegant, accurate, in style admirably adapted to the character of the book. The table of contents and list of illustrations make a very complete index, adding to its practical use for ready reference. Yours truly, J) What Ex-Governor Gray Say. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 11, 1891. The Sentinel Company. IndiDpo!U, Indiana; Gentlemen I have examined a copy of your illustrated "Popular History of Indiana." It is in my judgment an admirable epitome of leading events and mention of personages in both territorial and 6tate history. It appears to have been carefully and intelligently compiled, and certainly will be inspiring, and instructive to tho young reader, as well as favorably received by all who feel a patriotic interest in the subject to which it pertains. I trust it may obtain a wide circuit tion. Very respectfully, I hare a pnaitive remedy for the above diwiiM ; by ita use thousands of cases of the worst kind and of Ions standing have been cured. Indeed o ftrong is my faith in iUe:5cacy, that I will icndlwOBJTTUI FREE, with a VALUABLE TREATISE on this disease to any Bufferer who will send me their Exprcet and P. O. addreaa. T. A. Slocum, M. C 1S3 Pearl Su, N. V. RQTÄGDH R 0 F.DI EFFEN BACK'S Silt CUBE 'or UtMUt, I'SVOlit ICDtE-AClD Oil Mil. BO ITOItäEM MlllSiTlOi.ie BICIBUlin Ol OlHPrOUTluaT,!" tlTiy ril.ra to wont mtm la M boon. and prrafo"y earwin taumfw toaaloaatoa trial fcy ratarn nail for !. Otrnlar Ftm. THE PIRU DRUO CO., Bole aV 'or the U.S. 1 80 IS. IT-Stll Atlia. IS. NEPENTHON A CERTAIN CURE FOR OPIUM HABIT and ALCOHOLISM Iomk Tbeatmen'T. 5 drop doses. No opiates. No minerals. Relief Immediate. Kffects a cure In I wrck. Price, ip.0". If not kept r.y your ircr1t address Rr. I U. TYOV aientoa, tl. Inventor and Sole Proprietor. Waria l'llle Cure for thertfoci cf if abnte, Early Lieeaaea.KmiiMuent. erro leMlll-J f Hxuai l ower, lmoten-y A". irre I jr faltn m our 6f-irtewe will wrM cue r'all Moail ii....L. v.i. ..ui. t.,rn.n.ti..n Iii: ' Atitrrm. t. CO.. ! Drttadaay w Yer!l "ft Off Uli Fl Coro la 15 day; never n. ferrtapre-tiptl-.ut.eMl'in!Tria.a.s:Till wrok r (raiia. AO'irerure for LmlMion. Ixwt Manhood, Nea Com Debility, Vari'-ocrle, etc Adrtrwea, wrh atairp. Lm 5. i raüliUü, Music Deal, AT ami jl I, hLvSk A GEHT WANTED. AGFNTS MAKE 100 PE.i CENT. AND W1JT (744 raaa priie on my eor-eta, belt-, broabee ami remed e; aample frae; territory. Lr. BrlJaai 1-3 Mroadway. ew '

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