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Telegraph News by Direct Wire from All Over Indiana. Indianapolis. Jan. 24.-The Republican leaders in the house and senate have decided that at least five of the reform measures for which the Republican platform declared during the last campaign shall be passed by the legislature, and a movement has been started to line up the majority members in their favor. The list Includes the bill to create a separate department of Insurance, with a commissioner of insurance at its head, a private banking bill, a public depository bill, an anti-trust bill and a 2-cent fare bill. They Were on t lie Platform. The Republican platform specifically declared in fnvor of these measure, and the campaign was fought by the party along the lines of reform. When the legislature opened the people throughout the state expected that the party Mould redeem its pledge9 of reforms, and It is realized by the leaders, so they Pay, that the temper of the people cannot be misunderstood or ignored. Therefore, they have de cided, so one of them declared, that at least the five bills mentioned Rhall be passed. There are other measures of reform, alo, that they say will be passed, but the decision reached, so It said, Is definite so far as these five bills are concerned. Been Hearing from the Voters. As soon ns the leaders had decided on thi action they at once began the work of lining up the members of the majority In both houses. They are ex plaining to them that it is a matter of the utmost importance to the Re publican party that the platform dec laratlons and campaign promises be kept, and that nothing must stand In the way of their fulfillment. I Miring the last few days the members of the legislature have been hearing from their constituents on tho subject of these reform measures, and the tone of the letters and messnges that have been received bv them has caused them to sit up and take notice. Legislative. Notes. In the house the "blind tiger" bill was reported favorably and advanced to second reading. The "full train crew" bill was also reported favorably end advanced. The governor was authorized to is the emergency fund for the relief of Ohio river flood sufferers. The senate passed the joint resolution authorizing the general assembly to appoint a commission to Investigate causes of recent mine explosion lu Inniann. IMPORTANT TO CAS MF.N Suit in Court. That Is to Determine Whether Pumping Stations Are According to Iav. Muneie, Ind., Jan. 24. A trial that has begun In the Delaware county circuit court and that will last all week at least will determine whether gas pumping stations are legal. All oil and gas men in the state are highly interested in the outcome of the suit. There Is scarcely a city or tow n In the state that uses natural gas which is not denendent on nnmns to brine the gas r to the place where It is to be used, and If it should be decided that the use of gas pumps is illegally natural gas companies may about as well re tire from business in Indiana. The llo Oil company Is suing the Indiana Natural (las and Oil company for damages and a permanent injunc tion to restrain the latter from using Its big gas pumps near Fairmount. The llo company, which has extensive gas Interests in Grant county, alleges that when the Indiana company began opcrating Its pumps at Fairmount, the llo noticed a decided diminution In Its own supply, where upon It brought ruit for damages and to enjoin the Indiana company from using pumps'. The complaint was held good by Judge Paulus, of the Grant county circuit court, and the case was then takeu to Delaware county on a change of venue. Believe the Case One of Murder. Evansvllle, Ind.. Jan. 24. The coroner has begun tin investigation into the death of Miss Agnes Saulman, aged 13, a telephone operator who died. At the time It was announced that the girl took corrosive sublimate by mistake. The coroner is working on a theorv that the girl was murdered. Would Divorce Her Kighth. Boonville, Iud., Jan. 24. Mrs. Pooly Weed Baker, aged (o, has tiled a suit for a divorce from William Baker, an electrician. He is her eighth husband. She has the record of being the most married woman In the state. Want Some of This Stock? Auburn, Ind., Jan. 24. The W. H. Klblinger company, of this city, maker of carriages, has Issued $75,000 of per cent preferred stock, par value 0. Weather Hard on the Wheat. Hushville, Ind., Jan. 24. Farmers 6ay freezing weather is telling on the wheat, owing to its tender condition, following the warm, rainy weather.

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Frank Green Is Michigan Central. a new man on the T Learv and his force of linemen of the Erie road are working at Highlands today. Fred Collins of the Erie yard office spent last night with friends in Chicago. Wabash train No. 11 from Detroit to Chicago was two hours late in Ham mond yesterday. The Chicago, Indiana & Southern road's surveyor is working at Blue Island today. Dan Rich of the Indiana Harbor road transacted business at Gibson to day. The Erie road has announced the appointment of Robert 8. Parsons as assistant general superintendent of its unio division, with headauarters at Cleveland, O. E. O. Hayden, traveling freight agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, stopped over In Hammond yes terday on his way to Indianapolis. J. B. Barnes, general superintendent of the motive cower of the Wabash road with headquarters at Springfield, 111., was in Hammond on business to day. William McMasters has been appoint ed assistant purchasing agent of the Chicago. Indiana & Southern and the Indiana Harbor roads with headquar ters at Chicago. Both are New York Central Interests. Vice President Grammer of the New York Central lines was yesterday re ported as lmnrovlnic from his recent severe surgical operation. The opera tion was performed successfully and the patient is now rallying satisfac torily and will be on duty again within a short time unless new complica tions arise. Good headway is making in the for mation of a freight car pool which is considered the only remedy to minim ize car shortage. Under the rules of the organization when a railway in the pool Is short of cars, it can draw on another member of the organization for them. Arthur Hale, who is to be manager of the pool, is said to be very competent for such a position. The Pennsylvania and New York Central have not as yet become members but will probably come in. President McCrea of the Pennsylvania line has made known his atti tude toward two projects having an important bearing on the future wel fare of Cleveland, which deepnds somewhat on the co-operation of his company. It is believed that the Penn sylvania company is willing to do Its share in pushing such improvements and that Cleveland will soon have & passenger station and approaches to it which will be very creditable to that city and to the roads entering it. Traffic agents located, at Pittsburg, including both initial and foreign lines, are forming a Pittsburg chapter of the National Association of Freight Traffic agents. This association is a reor ganization of the old national associa tion of traveling freight agents and has been placed on a larger and firmer basis. There will be several meetings each year and a general convention of chapters throughout the country once a year to take up questions of import ance and discuss them. Car Shortage In Germany. J. I. Brittaln, united States consul at Keil, Germany, reports that there has for several months been a severe shortage of cars on German roads. All the railroads in Germany are operated by the government. To Advance Freight Rates. It was reported yesterday that some of the larger railroad companies held secret meetings recently to discuss the advisability of making a general ad vance in freight rates of all classes, owing to the tremendous additional cost of transportation by reason of the advance in the price of material and the Increased cost of labor. Officials yesterday claimed to have no knowl edge of any such plans. Manufact urers ana shippers, however, believe rates will be advanced. They will op pose any move of this character on the part of the railroads. Men Go Back to Work. lhe emrioyes at the Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville railroad shops In Feru, about 200 men all told, resumed work Monday after being out since Saturday morning. The men were sup posed to get their pay checks on Jan. 15, and because the checks did not come the men combined and refused to work any more unless their pay was forthcoming. The situation waa im mediately telegraphed to President Jo seph Bradford and the checks arrived Saturday evening. ihe men then agreed to go to work Monday morning. Unconscious Irony, A New England man says that one night last winter when the thermometer fell below zero his wife expressed her concern for the new Swedish maid, who had an unheated room. "Elza," said she to the girl, remembering the good old custom of her youth, "as It is bitterly cold to-night, you'd better take a Cat-iron to bed with you." "Yes, m'm," said Elza, in mild and expressionless assent. In the morning the girl was asked how she passed the night. With a sigh, she replied: "Wall, m'm. I gat the irron most varm before morning." Harper's Weekly. .Blind as a Bat. "Do you believe that love is blind?" "I know it" "How do you know it?" "From looking at tho kind ot men

Second Seventy-seven By FRANK H. SPEARMAN

Copyright, 1900. by Frank H. Spearcso - the new worn was done on the fiver division Beverly hill was a terror to trainmen. On rainy Sundays old switch men in the Zanesville yards still tell in their shanties of the night the Blackwood bridge went out and Cameron's stock train got away on the hill, with the Denver flier caught at the foot like a rat In a trap. Ben Buckley was only a big boy then, braking on freights. I was dis patching under Alex Campbell on the West End. Ben was a tall, loose joint ed fellow, but gentle as a kitten; legs as long as pinch bars, vet none too long running for tho Beverlv switch that night. His great chum, la those days was Andy Cameron. Andy was tne youngest engineer on the line. The first time I ever saw them tosrpther Andy, short and chubby as a duck J was dancing around, half dressed, on the roof of the bath house, trying to get away from Ben, who had the fire hose ! below, playing on him with a two Inch ! stream of ice water. They were up to some sort of a prank all the time. June was usually a rush month with us. h rom the coast we caught the new crop Japan teas and the fall importations of China silks. California still sent her fruits, and Colorado was be ginning cattle shipments. From Wy oming came sheep and from Oregon steers, and all these not merely in carloads, but in solid trains. At times we were swamped. The overland traffic alone waa enough to keep us busy. On top of It came a great movement of grain from Nebraska that summer, and to crown our troubles a rate war sprang up. Every man, woman and child east of the Mississippi appeared to have but one object in life that was to get to California and to go over our road. The passenger traffic burdened our resources to the last degree. I was putting on new men every day then. We etart them at braking on freights. Usually they work for years at that before they get a train, but when a train dispatcher is short on crews he must have them and can only press the best material within reach Ben Buckley had not been braking three months when I ' called him up one day and asked him If he wanted a train. ' "Yes, sir, I'd like one first rate, but yon know I haven't been braking very long, Mr. Reed," said he frankly. "How long have you been In the train service?" I spoke brusquely, though I knew without even looking, at my service card just how long it was. "Three months, Mr. Reed." It was right to a day. "I'll probably have to send you out on 77 this afternoon." I saw him stiffen like a ramrod. "You know we're pretty short," I continued"Yea, sir." "But do yon know enough to keep your head on your shoulders and your train on your orders?" Ben laughed a little. "I think I do. Will there be two sections today?" "They're loading eighteen cars of stock at Ogalalla. If we get any hogs off the Beaver there will be two big sections. I shall mark yon up for the first one anyway and send you out right behind the flier. Get your badge and your punch from Carpenter, and, whatever yon do, Buckley, don't get rattled." "No, sir. Thank you, Mr. Reed." But his "thank you" was so pleasant I couldn't altogether Ignore It. I compromised with a cough. Perfect courtesy even in the hands of the awkwardest boy that ever wore his trou sera short is a surprisingly handy thing to disarm gruff people with. Ben was undeniably awkward, his legs were too long and his trousers decided ly out of touch with his feet, but I turned away with the conviction that In spite of his gawkiness there was something to the boy. That night proved It. When the flier pulled In from the west In the afternoon it carried two extra sleepers. In all eight Pullmans, and every one of them loaded to the ventilators. While the train was changing engines and crews the ex curslonlsts swarmed out of the hot cars to walk up and down the plat form. They were from New York and had a band with them as jolly a crowd as we ever nauiea ana i noticed many boys and girls sprinkled among the grown folks. As the heavy train pulled slowly out the band played, the women waved handkerchiefs and the boys shouted themselves hoarse. Half an hour after the flier left, 77, the fast stock freight, wound like a great snake around the bluff after It uen jJUCKiey, iu.n ana straignt as a pine, stood on the caboose. It was his first train, and he looked as If he felt it In the evening I got reports of heaTy rains east of us, and after 77 reported "out" of Turner Junction and pulled over the divide toward Beverly it was storming hard all along the line. By the time they reached the hill Ben had his men out setting brakes tough work on that kind of a night but when the big engine struck the bluff

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the heavy train was -well in hand, aad It rolled down the long grade a3 gently as a curtain. Ben was none too careful, for halfway down the hill they exploded torpedoes. Through the driving storm the tall lights of the flier were presently seen. As they pulled carefully ahead Ben made his way through the mud and rain to the head end and found the passenger train stalled. Ju;st

before them was Blackwood creek, j bank full, and the bridge swinging

T is a bad grade over the swollen stream like a grape-T-et Rut before! vine-

It. VA O T 1 i ti . . .vi iuc iwi yjL uf-vtriy uui mere is a siding a long siding, once used as a eort of cutoff to the upper Zanes ville yards. This side track parallel the main track for half a mile, and on this siding Ben, as soon as he saw the situation, drew in with his train so that it lay beside the passenger train and left the main line clear behind. It then became hi3 duty to guard the track to tho rear, where the second section of the stock train would soon be due. It was pouring rain and as dark as a pocket, lie started nis rnnd end brakeman back on the run with red lights and torpedoes to warn the sec ond section well up the hill. Then walking across from his caboose, he got under tne lee or tne Lmd Pull man sleeper to waxen ror trie expected headlight. The storm increased in violence. It was not the rain driving in torrent?, not the lightning blazing nor the deafening crashes of thunder that worried him, but the wind. It blew a gale. In the glare of the lightning he could tee the oaks which crowned the bluffs whip like willows in the storm. It swept Quartering down the Beverly cut a3 if it would tear the ties from under the steel. Suddenly he saw far up In the black sky a star blazing. It was the headlight of Second Seventyseven. A whistle cut the wind, then another. It was the signal for brakes. The second section was coming down the steep grade. He wondered how far back his man had got with the bombs. Even as he wondered he saw a yellow flash below the headlight. It was the first torpedo. The second section was already well down the top of the hill. Could they hold It to the bottom? Like an answer came shorter and sharper the whistle for brakes. Ben thought he knew who was on that en gine; thought he knew that whistle, for engineers whistle as differently as they talk. He still hoped and believed knowing who was on the engine that the brakes would hold the heavy load, but he feared A man running up in the rain passed him. Ben shouted and held up his lan tern. It was his brakeman. 'Who's pulling Second Seventy-sev en?" he cried. "Andy Cameron." "How many air cars has he got?" "Six or eight" ehouted Ben. "It's the wind, Daly the wind. Andy can hold her if anybody can. But the wind; did you ever see such a blow?" Even while he spoke the cry for brakes came a third time on the storm. A frightened Pullman porter opened the rear door of the sleeper. Five hundred people lay in the excursion train, unconscious of this avalanche rolling down upon them. The conductor of the flier ran up to Ben in a panic. "Buckley, they'll telescope us." "Can you pull ahead any?" "The bridge is out" "Get out your passengers," said Ben's brakeman. "There's no time," cried the passen ger conductor wildly, running off. n was panic stricken. The porter tried to speak. He took hold of the brakeman's arm. but his voice died in his throat Fear paralyzed him. Down With a rattling crash the ponies shot into the switch. the wind came Cameron's whistle clamoring now in alarm. It meant the worst and Ben knew it The stock train was running away. There were plenty of things to do if there was only time, but there was hardly time to think. The passenger crew were running about like men dis tracted, trying to get the sleeping travelers out Ben knew they could not possibly reach a tenth of them. In the thought of what it meant an inspiration came like a flash. He seized his brakeman by the shoulder. For two weeks the man carried the marks of his hand.

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"Daley," he cried in a voice like a pistol crack, "get those two stockmen out of our caboose! Quick, man! I'm going to throw Cameron into the cattle." It was a chance single, desperate,

but yet a chance the only chance that offered to save the helpless passengers ! in Lis charge. If he could reach the siding switch ; ahead of the runaway train he could ' throw the deadly catapult on the siding and into his own train and so save the unconscious travelers. Before the words were out of his mouth he started up the track at topmost speed. The angry wind staggered him. It blew out his lantern, but he flung it away, for he could throw the switch in the dark. A sharp gust tore half his rain coat from his back. Ripping o3 the rest, he ran on. When the wind took his breath he turned his back and fought for another. Blinding sheets of rain poured on him. Water streaming down the track caught his feet. A slivered tie tripped him, and, falling headlong, the sharp ballast cut his wrists and knees like broken glass. In desperate haste he dashed ahead again. The headlight loomed before him Lke a mountain of flame. There was light enough now through the sheets of rain that swept down on him, and there ahead, the train almost on it, was the switch. Could he make it? A cry from the sleeping children rose in his heart. Another breath, an instant floundering, a slipping leap, and he had it He pushed the key into the lock, threw the switch and snapped it and, to make deadly sure, braced himself against the target rod. Then he looked. No whistling now. It was past that He knew the fireman would have jumped. Cameron too? No, not Andy, not If the pit yawned In front of hl3 pilot. lie saw streams of fire flying from many wheels, he felt the glare of a dazzling light and, with a rattling crash, the ponies shot into the switch. The bar in his hands rattled as If it would 'jump from the socket, and, lurching frightfully, the monster took the siding. A flare of lightning lit the cab as it shot past, and he saw Cameron leaning from the cab window with face of stone, his eyes riveted on the gigantic drivers that threw a sheet of fire from the sanded rails. "Jump!" screamed Ben, useless as he knew It was. What voice could live in that hell of noise? What man ea cape from that cab now? One, .two, three, four cars pounded over the spilt rails In half as many seconds. Ben, running dizzily for life to the right, heard above the roar of the storm and screech of the sliding wheels a ripping, tearing crash, the harsh scrape of escaping steam, the hoarse cries of the wounded cattle. And through the dreadful dark and the fury of the babel the wind howled in a gale and the heavens poured a flood. Trembling from excitement and ex haustion, Ben staggered down the main track. A man with a lantern ran against him. It was the brakeman who had been back with the torpedoes He was crying hysterically. They stumbled over a body. Seizing the lantern, Ben turned the prostrate man over and wiped tho mud from his j face. Then he held the lantern close and gave a great cry. It was Andy Cameron unconscious, true, but soon very much alive and no .worse than badly bruised. How the good God who watches over plucky engineers had thrown him out from the horrible wreckage only he knew. But there Andy lay, and with a lighter heart Ben headed a wrecking crew to begin the task of searching for any who might by fatal chance have been caught in the crash. And while the trainmen of the freights worked at the wreck the pas senger train was backed slowly so slowly and so smoothly up over the switch and past, over the hill and past and so to Turner Junction and around by Oxford to Zanesville. When the sun rose the earth glowed In the freshness of its June shower bath. The flier, now many miles from Beverly hill, was speeding In toward Omaha, and mothers, waking their lit tle ones in the berths, told them how close death had passed while they slept The little girls did not quite understand It, though they tried very hard, and were very grateful to that man, whom they never saw and whom they would never see. But the little boys never mind the little boys they understood it to the youngest urchin on the train, and fifty times their papas had to tell them how far Ben ran and how fast to save their lives. And one little boy I wish I knew his name went with his papa to the depot master at Omaha when the filer stopped and gave him his toy watch and asked him please to give it to that man who had saved his mamma's life by running so far in the rain, and please to tell him how much obliged he was If he would be so kind. So the little toy watch came to our superintendent and so to me, and I, sit ting at Cameron's bedside talking the wreck over with Ben, gave it to him And the big fellow looked as pleased as if It had been a jeweled chronometer. Indeed that was the only medal Ben got The truth 13 we had no gold medals to distribute out on the West End in those days. We gave Ben the best we had, and that was a passenger run. But he is a great fellow among the railroad men. And on stormy nights switchmen In the Zanesville yards smoking In their shanties, still tell of that night that storm, and how Ben Buckley threw Second Seventy-seven ) Et the foot of Beverly hiD

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