Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL. [ARTICLE]

NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.

-[Special Correspondence.] Indianapolis, June 8,1894. The Capital City has been greatly agitated for the past week over the trials, conviction end sentence of the wreckers of the Indianapolis National Bank. The high standing and supposed wealth —of—alL the parties has made the case remarkable in all ways. Now that so many of the guilty ones are landed behind the bars for a term of years, the community has settled down into a comparatively dull routine with a feeling that justice has been done in spite of the powerful influences brought to bear to shield the offenders. The Coffins and Mr. Haughey have friends still, but considering their exalted station there has been a surprising lack of sympathy for them in their downfall. Few, indeed, will rejoice at the misfortunes oi men who have stood so high, but the uppermost thought of all who have watched the case from the time of the utter collapse of an institution supposed to be impregnable will be that the hundreds of innocent depositors —many -of whom have been ruined for life and must struggle on in poverty because of the criminal dishonesty of these men —have been in a manner avenged. William Finn, while trying to escape from officers, Sunday night, was shot and probably fatally wounded. A city paper states that all the men ever shot by Indianapolis policemen, and they have been numerous, have been shot in the back. Tfie impression is general that a great outrage has been committed. The man had not been known as a criminal and was guilty of no crime when trying to escape arrest.

More than 4,000 people visited the Soldiers’ Monument during May. At 25 cents each this brings in a revenue of over SI,OOO pel' month. The income from this source is likely to be permanent and sufficiently large to be satisfactory. In the course of time it will aggregate a fund that will go a long distance toward reimbursing the State for the outlay in the construction of the greatest memorial to a Nation’s defenders in the world. The naval astragal is now being placed in position and the great shaft is temporarily disfigured with scaffolding. Contracts have now been let for all the bronze ornamention designed by the architect except the Tower astragal, which will be arranged, for at an early day. The Monument, it is now believed, will be complete-4n~all details within four years. Gen. Lew Wallace is erecting an apartment house at Meridian and Vermont streets, three squares north of the Monument, that will be a notable structure when complete. The building will be seven stories in height, and will be arranged for twenty - one famiilies. Every modern convenience .will be provided. The building will cost $150,000 and tvill be quite an innovation in Indianapolis home life. State officials are discussing the erection of an official, or executive mansion, for the Governor. The law requires that the Governor shall reside at Indianapolis, and there is a real necessity for such a building to properly sustain the dignity of the chief -executive of a great State. Residences that are suitable for an executive residence are difficult to obtain at a reasonable rental and generally beyond the private means Of the incumbent of the office. Governor Matthews resides at No. 273 North Illinois St. Gov. Hovey had roomsat the Denison. Gov. Chase had a suite of rooms in the State House and his family lived at Danville. The next Legislature will probably be asked to wrestle with the subject. Indiana “can afford it," and should provide a suitable home for its Chief Executive in the near future.

Two men and a keg of beer camped out near the river west of the city last Sunday. While trying to escort the empty keg back to the city in the evening one of the men fell over a fence, —the keg falling on his leg and breaking it. The other man ran away and the unfortunate sufferer lay for two hours alone in great pain before he was discovered and removed to the City Hospital. * _________ # ♦

A globe of water fell near London in 1616, striking a gentleman sitting on his veranda and completely drenching him. It is known in history as “the water meteor.” The ex-Empress Eugenie has been engaged on her memoirs for many years. As soon as a page is written it is placed under lock and key, and not even her most intimate friends ever see it. The work is not to be published until twenty-five years after her death. The ex Empress uses in writing a penholder which is ornamented with diamonds. It was used by the fourteen representatives in signing the treaty of the peace of Paris in 1856, and was given to the ex Empress as a momen to.