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SECOND PART. PÄGES 9 TO 12. 4 ESTABLISHED 182L INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 2G, 1893 TWELVE PAGES. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

FI YEARS' FIGHTS

In Behalf of the People of Indiana. Some of "The Sentinel's" Big Battles FOR DEMOCRACYAND RIGHT Many Victories and but Very Few Defeats, And Those Merely of the Temporary Sort. Tho Struggle for Cheap Gas A Movement Against Unclean Politics Tho War Upon Tariff I Jobbery A Temporary Defeat Followed by Overwhelming Victory The Campaign for Honest and Unintimidated 1 '.lections A Successful Crusade Against tho School-Cook Trust The Harret t Law and tho State Runrd of Charit leg Saving; the Miners from Starvation Tho Tight for Cleveland A Resume ot the Past Five Years. "It is tho purpose of the new management to make The Sentinel a complete, comprehensive and compact newspaper and a trustworthy exponent of democratic principles." Sach was the simple an I brief, but very significant, announcement mad when the present management assumed control of The Slntinkl fire years ago last February. From that day to this no reader of the paper can truthfully assert that it has swerved once from the path thenjaid down for it. It is not the purpose in the present article to review the business or news achievements of The Sentinll, but more particularly to treat of some of tho great battled it has waged in the intereft of honest politics, good government, private and public economy and ait thoso objects the attainment cl which u tho oao jjreat comprehensive aim of truo democracy. One of the firs: things to which Thk Sentinel gave extended attention waa tha matter of securing cheap and elfective lighting fur tho city of Indianapolis. About tho time tho change occurred in the management oi tho paper the contract with the city for lighting the street and for furni-hinillumination to private consumers expired. The .entinel te'.ieve.l that th-i o!J rate. and the t'ropoed new rates as well, were higher than tho public ought to ho osl;ed to pay bo near the end of the nineteenth century. It gathered statistics not only from ail over the United States, but from all over the civilized world also, phowmg the cost of manufacture and distribution at ail points and under r!1 circiix-tance. At the time, the g.'a company seemed to have control of the council andt he city administration. It hail brought to its assistance lobbyists trained in gecnnrg franchises and contracts, who were "niaiunir public eentiment" and having things pretty much their own way. Iu t the array of facta and figures presented by this paper, together with its evident determination to bold up before tho public gaze every councilman or alderman who Phu.ved a disposition to serve the interests of the Baa company aa against the inter ?!s oi the public, was too much for the combination. While Thk Sentinel did rot get for the people quite a 1 it de-i anded. which was dollar pas, it did secure gas at SI 25 acd a very material reduction in tho cos; of street li-ht:c.r. Almost simultaneously with this discussion of the price of illuminating gas was that referring to the price of natural g.ts. Tbia paper took an active und influential part in booming the Consumer-.' trust and ia getting through, the council the ?ate ordinance under which Indianapolis still enjoys cheaper gas than any other natural pan city of anything Iik ltd population in the world. Although the gr.s light, as it may be termed, was one of the hardest in which The Slntinkl ever participate J. its triumph in that connection wad one of tho most complete. For Clean Politic. Bell eving that true democracy meant honest politics and clean politics. The Sentinel early found it necessary to antagonize a somewhat large and intluential faction of the local party organization. It early warned the party that in the ensuing campaign it must have none but clean candidates and clean managers, against whom aot even the breath of su-picion had ever been directed. Ihe tally-iheet casea had just closed in the conviction of Coy and Bernhamer and a mistrial in the cash of John II Sullivan, county clrk. Mr. Sullivan announced himself as a candidate for delegate to the national convention at St. Louis. This was not in the line of clean politics or true democracy, and The Sentinel bo declared, announcing it a una terable opposition to the election of Mr. Sullivan. The announcement created a tremendous sensation, but' it brought tl.o party to its senses, and. thouzh Mr. .Sullivan made a hard hVht for election, he was overwhelmingly defeated. Mr. Sullivan never forgve the paper, and he carried his animosity with him to Canada along with a goodly roll of the people's i. oney. From May untii November of 1SSS The Sentinel battled hard for true democracy and tarilT reform. It exposed the fallacies of protection, laid before the workingmen and the farmers the facta which ;proved unmistakably that protection waa a delusive cry raised for the purpose of catching votes and enabling the trusts, the manufacturers, the combines and all their horde of parasites to continue the plunder of the people under the guise ot patriotism and public benefit. No such a clear exposition of the wholo tarLT question waa ever published by a newspaprr a that which appeared in The Sentinel during tho campaign of that memorabl) year. To be iure the battle wai lost, but it was not lost on principle. Millions of money were expended throughout tho country, under the direction of Quay, Dudley and Clarkson. in the outright purehasa of votes. More than a million of this vast corruption fund waa poared Into Indiana, and tha state was literally bought for Ilarrißon and pro

tection. But the people had been enlightened; they had feen the iniquity of the proposition to tax the maws of tho people for the benefit of a few favored manufacturers, and from the moment that the polls closed on election day, 1SÜS, the republican party, even in the hour of its triumph, was doomed to destruction. lor Honeftt Election. It would not be truthful to say that The Sentinel was not disappointed at the result at the polls. But it was neither dismayed nor dishearttmad. It saw clearly that tha onlv way to secure popular elections in Indiana was to make election boodling obnoxious and dangerous and to wipe out the system by which it could bo accomplished. It demanded, immediately alter the election, the arrest nnd punishment of those who had purchased the electoral vote of the slate. It insiated that Dudley, whose iu famous blocka-of-five letter it had uuearthtd and published a few days prior to the election, be among the first to feel the grip of the law. The federal grand jury, largely by tho assistance of facts placedbeloro it by The Sentinel, indicted Dudley and a couple of huudrad of hi eubordinato conspirators from all parts ot the state. In ltd attempt to land these enemies of popular government in the penitentiary The Sentinel waa defeated, through the ehameful conduct of Judge Woods?, District Attorney Chambers and Attorney-General Miller, who stultified themselves and debauched their high oiiices in order that tho boodleis who had made it possible for them to hold otlice might go unwhipped of justice. But Tin: Sentinel has had the satialaction of knowing that in the years that have elapsed since then it Las bo Bucceesfully p acöd the facta before the American people that the namea of these men are synonomous with all that is corrupt in American poiiica. Tho full exposure of election corruption in Indiana made by thia paper has done much in nearly every state in the Union to eccuro a reform of the ballot laws and to restore the American fcullrage to its original purity. Though balked in its etiorts to secure the punishment of election corruptors ia thiä atat?. The Sentinel did not despair of eventually securing honest, unintimidated and unprejudiced elections for the commonwealth. It pointed out that tha great necessity to tho accomplishment of auch a result lay injsecurint an absolutely secret ballot, whoeo secrecy and freedom should bo guaranteed and enforced by coordinate l iws. It studied the electoral systems and ba'lot methods of every civilized government of the world, arriving at the nnai conclusion that the law bant suited to the American people and their system of government and most likely to 6ecure an exact expression of the jeopie'd wil was what was known as the Au?tra.ian pyateui. When the legislature convened in the winteroi IS ".., In;; Sentinel ur-d that i; apply the Australian svetem to the electoral machinery of Imiiana. It presented it a views to the leisla; ure, to commitlues and individual member-, and.w itli the aid of brouil-gauro H'.atesmeu in various pans . of tho Siaie, fccured the adoption of the preon: Au.-tralian law a- a party measure. After a long tmi hard etrugclf a bill was enacted with but one di.-seiiting democratic vote in tho entire ce.-enibiy. The workings of the new law have been ail th&t Tili: Skntinkl claimed they would be. They have practically put an end to the purchase of o t in Indian and, what ia etill wore imioritant, have prevented manufacturers, railroads and other large employers lrom coercing their employes into vutian a they wish. Simultaneously were enacted number of brioery and intimidation laws w hich have materia. ly ais:eii in carrying out tue purpüoü oi the Australian law. Ill:: M'liuuidtuuk 1 l;;llt. Speaking of the legislature oi lSs3-Si) recalls vivid.y another of The Sentinel's great battle, in which it 6tood almost alone and in which it secured a great victory, i or years the echool-book trust had been furnishing the books ueed inthi public t-choo a of Indiana and incidentally had been robbing tho people of vast turns each year. It had a powerful grip on tho politics oi the etate, ignoring party lines entirely and gt.tt;ng within its clutches township trustee?, city school boards, county B'.ipemilem'.cnts aud ail others who wou d bo useful in mrtk'r.g frequent changes of text books, al.owing exorbitant bills and doing tlio.-e many other nericea fo valuable to a corrupt combination oi iis kind. Karly in the eetiiuon i the legislature The Sentinel o'. eLeii its batteries on this gii:tntic octopus. it cxpohcd its operations, demonstrated its whollv unneccthary cost to the parents of the etat and laid before the public tho evidence of its curtupt connection with public tliicials and political parties. The octopus responded by ponding to the legislature the moct powerful lobby ever gathered in Indianapolis. It had newspabers. state otliciala, county ollicials, ex-leifidlntarg. ex-cougref-men, and all manner of inthtential people in its etnidoy. It attempted to bribe Tim Sentinel and to purchase the legislature, but failed in both, and the new schoolbook law, which eaves the people of the t-tute hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, waa placed on tho statuto books. But the octopus did not Kiveover the ficht even tl.en. It arranged a still broader combination, embracing nearly all the school-book publishing houses ot tha country, with a view to preventing the ftate from fecurino; bids under the new law. But The Sentinel had not quit lighting at the clone of the legislature. Aware of tho ellorts of the octopus to prevent the law from becoming elective it kept the matler before tha peoole tilt a number of the state's leading cip;;aliets and mott distinguished public men formed a company for tho purpose of bidding for the new school books. When the time for letting the contract arrived the octopus was jubilant. It believed that no bid would be o tiered which the ptate could accept. But a disagreeable surprise awaited it. For the new company proved its ability to supply the state with uniform text books of tho 'first quality and tho new law went into full and ntir-ly satisfactory etlect. Creatures of the octopus throughout the (date sought to disobey the provisions of the new law. But thev were beaten in the courts and theirconduct waa made odious in the ttL'ht of the people. Today no law on the statute books of Indiana is more deeply engrafted on tho affections of the people than the school-book law. The IJnrrett Law. Another achievement of which Thk Sentinel is juBtly proud waa the pasaago of what is known as the Barrett law, providing for an installment plan of payment for public improvements in cities and towns. Under the old law public improvements were comparatively unknowD, for the cost was put upon the tax duplicate and the increased assessment usually resulted in the defeat of the party making the improvements. Again, the constitutional limitation upon taxation prevented improvements from bscomiu; in any way general Under tha Barrett law tho cost

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TlIE SnNTINKL t3 taken a lease of the fine three-story and basement building at 23 X. Illinois-at.. and will issue its paper from that place on or about May 1. The location is one of the best in the city, being just oil Washington-at., and tho building will furnish, when remodeled, mopt excellent facilities for the transaction of Tiik Sentinel's larre and rapidly increasing business. A complete description of the new building will be published when the alterations are completed. Important as is the matter of securing a more desirable and convenient location still more important changes will be made in The Sentinel itself when it moves to its new quarter?. The typo sotting will be done by machines, pivin? the paper a cleaner and brighter typographical appearance, while a great deal more matter will be printed then at present. New and complete mechanical equipments will be put in, and in the near future The Sentinel's prees facilities will be more than doubled. All these chances involve tho outlay of a great deal of money and labor, but they are in the line ot progrcFS and advancement, and The Sentinel never stopB at anything which will improve its facilities or add to tho attractiveness of its columns.

of improvement ie assessed upon properly benefited and tho payments are m:ide iu ten annual installments, thus making the burden of improvement scarcely noticeable. Under this law hundreds of miles of threats have beon improved in the cities an 1 towna of Indiana and tho law has been adopted as u model in many other progressive states. It may bo said also in passing, that Indiana practically inaugurated the move ment for the Au6trainn ballot, whion has ; becomo ko geaeral all over the country, and that many states have patterned thir ! echool-bcok laws after our own. During the fame session of th legislature The Sentinel urged the paasage of th j bill to repeal the iufamous conspiracy law, the bill to prevent the robbery of coal miners by tho pluck-me stores, and in fact ad tho splendid laws which have inado that legislature a lasting fame. Although it has to some extent been overshadowed by the other greai reforms of lsv., theie is no reform that has been accomplished since tho civil war that ia of creator significance or farther reaching in its ejects than the etate board of charities law. This law practically creates a standing, non-partisan, investigating committee, clothed with full power to investigate f.i any time any charitable or reformatory intitution of tbestite; to require witnesses to testify under oath; to require otlicers to produce I . 1 books and pap-rs; to make personal examination of any part of such institution or any person confined therein, and to publi-h the resu t of its investigations. No political party in power in any state of the union ever gave auch extraordinary authority to a non-partiean board to scrutinize and make public the conduct of its nflicials. This law has admittedly been of the greatest benefit in elevating the administration of our benevolent and reformatory eystein, and as The Sentinel predicted it has been a bulwark of defer.so to the party in power against unfoundsd and malicious criticism. The Sentinel advocated the pans aeo of this law from the first, and has since been its constant champion. The Street Railway Fr.inchlne, Shortly after the adjournment of tho Ipgiblature a franchise was presented to tho council, indorsed by Mayor Denny and the republican citr administration, which would, if passed, have continued tho grip of the Citizens' street railway company upon the city for another thirty-five years, with practically no additional restrictions to those which now govern it, and which are popularly considered, and rightly, too, of no practical valae. The Sentinel nt once attacked the new franchise and succeeded in so arousing publicsentnrent that the council and board of aldermen, though largely composed of the tools of the etreet rail way, durst not pass the franchise. The fight was a long and bitter one. But in the end the franchise failed. Had it been otherwife the people of Indianapolis would not now be in a position, as they are, to dictate terms to whomsoever shall secure the privilege of operating the etreet railway. At that time Thk Sentinel declared that "no franchise ouiht to be given away to anybody," and it has harped upon this principle from that day until this, the consequence being that it has been made the base of the proposed new franchise, and its truth has been so generally accepted that do proposition looking to tho

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; : """7Wsssr1 ' to. i E: giving away of a Etreet railway franchise could now lind an advocate in the city of Indianapolis. l or the Starving Miner. During tho spring acd Eummer of 1SS0 tho locked-out miners of Clay county were oa the verge of starvation, indeod cases of actual starvation were noted. The Sentinel started a fund in their behalf. Immediately the republican press of the täte, which but a few months before had been promising the toiLrs in the mines unbounded prosperity in the event of Mr. Harrison's election, pet about the uncharitable task of rendering The Sentisi-l's etlorts futile, but without avail. The Sentinel collected and forwarded to the miners several train loads of provisions and clothing, besido liberal contributions of monev, and its e'Jcrts in their behalf tided them over until the lockout waa ended. The i'My Democratic. Up to 1SS!) tho city of Indianapolis had been under the uninterrupted control of the republican party for about fifteen years. The government had become corrupt, extravagant and negligent. The streets of the city were run down, the fire and polico departments had become mere political machines, and the city hall but a rendezvous for ward workers. The government was controlled in the interest of the great pub.ic corporations, the railroads and other inlluences whose dominance in a city government is always detrimental to the best interests of the people. The Sentinel early inaugurated the local campaign of 1SSJ. It demanded of the democracy the nomination of none but clean and capable men jor positions under the city government It exposed the corrupt practices of the existing administration, pointed out its neglect aa well as its open defense and rousd tho people to the assertion ot their rights. No hotter city campaign Las ever been fought in Indianapolis. All tho franchise wekers, all the franchise possessors, all the contractors and all other interests reeking to profit at the city's expense were opposed to the democracy. But it won and Judga Sullivan was chosen mayor. He inaugurated a broad and progressive policy of administration and soon had the city government upon a business basis. Fire Chief Webster, who had been deposed by the tinhorn gang of republican politicians bocause he wouid not entirely turn over tho department to the republican machine, waa reinstated, as The Sentinel had insisted that he f hould be. The year 1800 witnessed tho triumph of The Sentinel's advocacy of the Australian ballot law aud a reform of the tariff. The campaign opened early, especially in the columns of The Sentinel It continued its arguments against tho policy of protection and its exposure of the fallacies of that policy. It also daily educated tho people in the uso of tho new ballot, and let-Is justified in claiming a largo share of the credit for the overwhelming democratic victory ot that vear. The New Charter. During tbe latter part of ISOOandthe early part of 1891 The Sentinel industriously advocated tha adoption of a new charter for the city of Indianapolis. The agitation resulted in tho drafting of a plan

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oi memoers oi tne commercial ciuo ana leading citizens in all the walks of life. This charter aroused the opposition of the peanut politicians and ward-workers of all parties, who paw in it what was ono cf its beet foatures the death ot their dominance in the city government. As the maioritv in th9 legislature was democratic the hardest ! part of the battle to secure the adoption of that charter devolvod upon this paper. The task of advocating it was no light one, but The Sentinel accepted it without complaint and mado one of the best Cents in its career in behalf of the charter. Not till the legislature was in its last throes was the bill enacted into law. It waa immediately put into force and its euccessful workings soon converted all its hoaest critics to its support and silenced the opposition of mII others. Under its provisions the city government has been administered on strictly bnstness principles for the first time in its history. Public improvements have been made and projected on a scale never before attempted and the finances of the city have been put in better condition than at any previous time within the past twenty-five years, and the police and fire departments have boen raised to a degree of etficieucy and discipline heretofore uuknownin Indianapolis. The w Tax Law. Of the legislature of 1SD1, in addition to the city charter. The Sentinel demanded a new tax law, a fee and salary law, and a laf creating an appellate court. None of these measures were at first favored by ad the democratic members of the legislature. Bat the liu'ht in their behalf waa never lessened until they were all enacted And a part of the law. The tax law has been a subject of attack by all the corporations, great and email, doing business in the state. In the campaign of lS'.'J the republicans fought it bitterly, and made it the leading issn of their canvass. In the ei'ort to brenn it down they had the support of all the corporation attorneys, ti.e railroads, backs, etc., uniting in the attempt to deceive the taxpayers by making them believe that the new law imposed additional burdens upon them. But the people were alivo to their own interests and the law tt&nris today substantially unchanged. Under its provisions millions of dollars of property have been placed upon tho tax duplicate which had previously escaped taxation. No increaees have been made In any case where the taxpayer had been wont to pay his just proportion of tha general expense of government ia the pat. But the railroads, telegraph, telephone and other creat corporations have at last been forced to pay lludr share of the taxes. Under its provision?, too, the work of wiping out the State debt has already begun, and where county ollicials havu done their duty there has been a material r-duciion in the taxes aaeeased against ordinary propertyowners. The fee and salary bill enacted by the same legislature has cut down the extortionate fees of the othciala throughout the entire ntdte, and whi e it has not met tho approval of the otlicehoiding claa, it has the unaaimous indorsement of the taxpayer. Thk Sentinel a!o urged upon the legislature the iu cesaity cf euac'ing a suburban street railway law which should, in some measure, trive thn peoj:e relief from the monopoly enjoyed by the Citizens' street railway company in Ip.dianapolis. While no road have been constructed under this law, its existence end the possibility ollsred by its proviaiona of getting a foot hold within tho citv itself lms drawn the attention of capitalists until competition in the Indianapolia street railway bu.sineus has become an assured tact, cs shown by the bid o:!ered to the board of public works yesterday. Early in thespringof 1 SOI The Sentinel betrau the work of Securing full compliance with the excellent featurra of the new tax law. aud to tho instruction which it gave to as.'eesors, county commissioners and others bavin to do with the enforcement of tho la it boiieves is largely due the eucceas of that most meritorious ineaeuro. L:t Yeui-'s Great TiM. The eummcr and fall of 1801 witnessed a very remarkable city campaign. The republicans attempted to consolidate thu wort elements of both parties with the "truly good," but unthinking republicans who voto the ticket bearing their party label regardless ef its merits. They made the but, is of their campaign hostility to the new charter and by promises of "soit times" to the ward workers and their constituents souk'ht to carry the day. The Sentinel laid bare their p. ans and projects aud maintained tho righteousness of the city charter. The result was an overwhelming victory for the democratic ticket, and as a consequence, a continuance of the beet city government Indianapolis ever enjoyed. During all this time the work of educating the people on the tariif waa continued with unabated energy. The work of completing their education in the Australian system was not neglected. In a word The Sentinel was continually preparing its readers for the great presidential contest of 1S")2, when, it felt, popular government in this country must be upheld or go down forever. In the work of organizing the state for the campaign it did not hesitate to ive its advice. I-'eeling also that with him as a candidate the democratic party would stand a better show of success, and that its principles would be more clearly defined, it alvocated the nomination of Urover Cleveland for president. This course was antagonized by a considerable element of tho party within the slate, but was vigorously maintained. The eweeping democratic victory of last November has amply justified The Sentinel in its course. In the campaign preceding that victory hard work was done for the democratic state and national tickets. The issues were cleariy and concisely presented to the public and no doubt had great influence in shaping the results, at least in Iudiaua. Indeed, the vunous "'clipping bureauB" are authority for tho statement that no paper in the country wasso widely copied and so frequently referred to iu other newspapers aa The Indianapolis Sentinel. Of course the foregoing is but a very imperfect review of The Sentinel's achievements under its present management. It has at all times stood for the best interests of the peoplo of Indiana and of the United States. It has opposed corruption in all places. It has never shielded a rascal because ho had the etTrontery to wear the democratic label. It has never advocated a job because democrats were interested therein. It has never waited to learn what public sentiment wos going to bo before advancing its ideas of what it deemed to be right Tompoiary defeat has never discouraged it. It has not always triumphed, but it feels that its failures' uavo been through no fault of its own. On such an occasion as this it vill be pardoned for tee seeming egotism of referring to some of the reforms which its advocacy has accomplished and for which, at the time, universal opinion has given it the credit.

THE AMERICAN DERBY.

Some of the Kntrles for the 3"SO,O0O I'urso at Chicago. Chicago, April 18. Tha coming race meeting at Washington park, which opens June -4, promises to eclipse anything of the kind ever held in tho West. Secretary Brewster ia daily besieged w ith applications for stable room and it is probable that not lets than 1,000 bor?es will be on the grounds when the flag falls on the first race. Interest naturally centers in the American derby, which will be worth $50,000 to the winner this year. With all the declarations in over 100 colts and fillies remain eligible to start. These include the cream of eastern and western three-year-olds. The race will possess international importance as Col. John T. North's filly, Klthon (Juoen, is in the country now training for the event, aud will be a starter barring accidents. The duke of Beaufort's three, including tbo son of a staka winner last year, will arrive from Ungland next week and come direct to Chicago. Secretary Urewster expects not less than thirty starters for the big stake. The local American derby book of Ullman and Kckard hss already taken in over 1 0,000. It is a $;J0,0)0 book. (I. W. Johnson has been backed for the limit of the book, and now marked full. Don A Ion zo of 10.000 to 1,000; Dare, 10 to 1; Hugh Benny, 20, and others ranging from 20 to 1.000 to 1. Some of the largest bets taken have boen : Aldebaran, JJO.000 to JJO0; Antrim. S15.0JO to 10; Buck Mct ann, SIO.OjO to S-'OO; Fidelio. 15.100 to .500; Bestraint. $20,000 to $100; Spartan, S15,t!00 to $:)00: Tyro, Sl'O.OOO to 100; Voorhee. $15,000 to $200; Gould and Currv, $o0,000 to $0; Hasty, $35,000 to $115." THE CIRCUS MAXIMUS. San Francisco Knjoyinj; an Unlqno Kntcrtein mcut. San Francisco, April 18. The peoplo of San Francisco are enjoying thie week an entertainment which, for uniqueness and magnitude, surpasses anything ever Eeen on the Baciflc coast and perhaps in this country. It is tho Olympic club's circus maximus opening performance, w hich was given in Mechanics' pavilion last night. The circus maximus is tho exact reproduction of the lloman holiday in the time of Casar and the pavilion has been arranged to repreaent the coliseum at I tome. The Olympic club is an athletic organization with a niemberehip of 2,000, composed of the best classes of San Francisco, and has recently completed the finest athletic club house in the United State. In order to pay olT the remaining debt of ?"'". 00), the circus maximus was conceived and judging from the attendance on the opening nibt it will be a grand tuccees. 2so entertainment given here in recent years has excited such public interest. The memtiero of the Olympic club take a prominent part in the performance and tho influence they wield in the community attracts thousand of peoplo. The interior of the pavilion is arranged in the form of an amphitheater and the charioteers of Ctcsar and members of Lis court es we 1 as the contestants in the games aud ghtdintoral contests are mostly taken by the Olympic club members. Tho entertainment opened with a triumphal procession which was reviewed by Ca-sar as he nat on the throne butrounded by his court. RELIGIOUS WAYE IN KENTUCKY. Sam Jone Cause t-inncrs to Repent and Saloone to Clo.je. Bowling Gueen, Ky., April 18. A religious wavo has swept over Bowling Green and has carried everything before it. Themost hardened tinners have become convert3, and tho most interesting results have followed. Sam Jones was hired by some of his admirers to come to this city and rescue it from itB depths of Bin. For $C00 he uudertook the job, and sejms to have earned his money. He preached ten days end during that time more than 2,500 people made professions of religion, 300 of the number joining the various churches Sunday and being baptized laet Dight. Besides the work of converting sinners, the Georgia evangelist inaugurated a great moral wave agcinbt the liquor traffic and for the next twelve months at least Bowling Green inebriates wiil "spit cotton" or irrigate their burning, copper-lined stomachs at tho town pump, the city council having refused to reissue the saloon men licens. Two weeks ago the men who had predicted the saloons of Bowling Green would be closed soon would have beon set down es crazy, and the fact that they are to be closed is the work of the great moral wave which was inaugurated by Saui Jones. There are forty-three ealoons in tho city. AFTER TWENTY-FOURYEARS. Father and Son Have a Happy Reunion at St. Louis. Bt. Boris, April IS. A most remarkable reunion was that of father and son in this city. The pcrties ere Jacob Canmann, an old gray haired gentleman of seventy-three and his son Ddward age forty-five years. For twenty-four years neither had eeen the other and the meeting at the father's home 1320 Califorriaave. was a most joyous one. A quarter of a century ago they lived on the Kock road near Bast St, Louis. One dinner hour an argument sprung up, a hot flow of words aud Bdward left the family threshold. Not a word was heard of him amce and he was given up for dead. He is now a pucaessful lumber merchant on the I'acific coast and a few days since determined to visit his family. He traced them to the above address and waa received with open arms by the aged father. Lucy Larrom Mead. Boston, April 18. Miss Lucy Larcom, the poetess, died last evening. She bad been ill for some time. The day on which Dr. Phillips Brooks wss taken ill ho received a letter from Miss Larcom, in which she said she had a presentment that she wouid never see him again until thoy met "beyond the river." Tersons whose occupation gives but little exercise aro victims of torpid liver and constipation. Carter's LittU Liver Pills will relievo you.

A MILLIONAIRE MISSING.

STRANGE DI3APEARANCE OF LYMAN 0. LA M 3 AT CHICAGO. In Company with Attorney Newman Tie Prcw sK,000. and, I-envlnn- the Money In the l'ormer'a I'oftM union, Left Him for Lunch and llae Not Ilt tn Seen Since. CincAcn, April 1!. Lyman B. Lamb, m millionaire from Akron, O., has broken the record for myfterioua disappearances. Tho Chicago police were informed today that Mr. Lamb in company with Attorney Jacob Newman of this city, drew $2S.O0O in currency from a bank here Monday ' coon and leaving the sacbel containing tho money in tho lawyer's hands, he went to a restaurant for a meal. From that time nothing baa been eeen or heard of him and it is supposed that he was followed from the bank by men who saw him draw the lanre rmount of money, and under the supposition that ho had the currency on hid person ho has loan foully dealt with. For several weeks Mr. Lamb, v. ho is ono of Akron's most prominent citizens, has been t arrying on negotiations with Attorney Newman for a valuable tract of property near Waukegan, a Chicago suburb. On this business he has been in Chicago a month, and Monday last the preliminaries bad been arran,rod for the purchase. That afternoon ti.e vendor anl vendee bad arranged to take a northwestern train to Waukegan for the r urposa of malting a final investigation, and it was agreed that if everything proved eatufactory to Mr. Lamb he should make a cash payment of ?'S,000. Mr. Lan.b requested Lawyer Newman to accompany him to hia bank where his funds were on deposit. Arrived there the $2,000 was drawn and the fact waa witnessed by a number of well-drossed men who appeared to be attending to thir ordinary business at the bank. The money was carried a little distanc3 from the paying teller's window, carefully counted and place 1 in a small sacbel which Lamb had w ith him for the purpose, Tho two thfn walked to Washington-fit. and went to tho chamber of commerce building, when Lamb told his companion he wus hungry and invited him to lunch. This invitation was declined and Lamb then said: "You take charge of the monev and I'll co over tha street and eat a lunch. I'll be back ia a few minutes." Tho attorney acquiesced end took tha pachsl expecting his purchaier to return within liftmen or twenty niir.utes. From that moment nothing has been eeen or heard of Mi.lionaire Lamb, and tho $2S,000 has remained in Attorney Newman's posßppsion. The polico when told of Mr. Lamb's dieappparaaco by Attorney Newman detailed a cnmlitr of officers on the case. They are working on tho theory that Lamb w&s enticed into a room in ejiih neighboring building and cither drugged or alugeed into insensibility and then upo-i linding that he had no money on his person the robber left hint for deal. If b waa struck on the head itia not unlikely that he is wandering about berof t of hi reason, and the police nil over the city have been informed to keep m fharp oiitlook for ths raiisine man. Mr. Lamb is described as a quiet business man and not in the least likely to have neglectol a business eegsgement cr to have left Puch a sum of money in tha hands of a comparative 6 tr untrer. RUN ON THE BANKS. Savings Institutions at Lansing Will Doubtless Full Through. Lansing, Mich., April 19. The Ingham county savings bank is experiencing a lively run today. It began when tha doors opened this morning and has continued without interruption ever since. A large crowd of depositors and curiosity seekers have fairly besieged the bank. The run was caused by a feeling prevalent around town that the bank was not any too Ptronj, and it, as weil as the Central Michigan savings bauk, which c osed its dcora yeterday, wes atlecte i by the difficulties of the Lansin; lumber company an i tha Lansing engino worka, whose paper is indorsed by M. O. Barnes. State Bank Bxaminer Sherwood, in a speech befcro the afemblel depositors thia morn inc. assured them that the bank was pound and that not a dollar wouid be lost. Tiie Centrp.l Michigan savings bank, which was closed up yesterday by tha state bank examiner, will, it is said, have ample funds to meet all demands. It has a capital of $loO,000, a aurplus of $35,(kJJ and deposits atr.'reatioc $500.000. Tha cause of tho run on the Io chant county bank ia now attributed to the fact that ou Saturday last the vice-president of tba bank withdrew $7,000 cn deposit there and placed it in another bank. His resignation was demanded and he is no longer connected with the bank. CRIME RECORD IN ST. LOUIS. Three Suicides and Two Fatal Quarrels Voaterdjy. St. Levis. April 18. Suicide and crime seemed to be in the air here for a short time today, judging from tho number of them that occurred. F. II Hargravee, aged twenty-one, blew his brains out with a revolver at his board ine house, leaving as an explanation of the act a letter in which some mysterious trouble waa referred to. Char.es Iloitzberg, manager ot the St Louis beef company's slaughter house on i'rairia and Garliald aves., hung himself to a rafter of tha slaughter house in a fit of despondency caused by heavy drinking. William O'Brien, an engineer, employed on tho Merchant's termiual railroad, committed suicide by eating a box of rough on rats. Cause unknown. The above three all occurred at nearly tho same time in different parts of tha city. At about the same hour during a quarrel Stella Gray was fatally stabbed by Clara Gray in a house of ill repute at 005 Cerre-st., and Charles Hamilton, colored, was fatally shot by some unknown person near tho corcer of Eighteenth and Spruce-eta. Generou. IPtrert A Siutth'i Good NfT. Mrs. Da Goode "Its perfectly awful 1 Tha caper pays there are thousands of families in this city who Lava Lover geca a bible." Little Johnny (hastily) "Send 'on mine, mamma." Tutt's Pills ia uso thirty years.