Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 June 1889 — Page 4

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THE_MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

EDWIN P. WE8TFALL, DOUGLAS H. SMITH, AUBHCBIPTION PRICK, VUJO A YKAB.

FtrsxaoATiox orncat,

Ko«. 20 and 23 South Fifth Street, Printing Home Sqoarv.

TERRE HAUTE,

JUNE 22, 1889.

GEW. ALGKR, of Michigan, in said to lie in training for the Republican presiden tial nomination in 1892. Gen. Harrison will be there also about that time.

DON'T drop a nickle in the slot this time, but drop a dollar or a five dollar bill to help the starving miners in Clay county. There is no class of workmen who are more deserving than the men who burrow in the dark caverns of the earth for our coal. These men and their wives and children are suffering for the necessaries of life. No need now to go into the merits of the strike, though as to that there is much to be said on their side of the question. What we know is that the Clay county miners are in distress and relief should be prompt and gene rous.

THK case of the coal miners in Clay county is serious and distressing. They havo been barely able to earn enough to live on at the former wages and do not see how they can live at all at tbe reduced scale. On the other hand the operators claim that the competition with, natural gas and petroleum has cut into their market so that it is out of the question to do more than they have offored. Meantime the miners are suffering for the necessaries of life and are subjects of charity. There seems to be no question but that help should be extended to them until something else can be done.

IF thore is any sort of business that Chicago doesn't think of going into, we would like to know what it is. The newest thing in the big windy city at present is a oompany organized to execute criminals. They propose to relieve sheriffs from this unpleasant duty by taking the business at so much a head, or rather neck, furnishing all the necessary appliances themselves. Not a bad scheme, either, if they will employ experts and avoid the miserable, bungling work that is too often witnessed in the exeoution of criminals. But it was a curious thing to think of and the idea gives Chicago the palm for unique mothods of making money.

SOMK fearful scientist is predicting a terrible upheaval of the earth as the result of taking natural gas out of the Pennsylvania gas field. It will be recalled that a similar convulsion of nature was prophesied to follow the extraction of oil from the earth. It was found, however, that the water went in and filled up the empty spaces and so there was no oataclysm. It Is safe to predict that water or air or something else will fill the vacuum (if there be a vacuum)

caused by the removalofthenRtural

gas and that no convulsion of nature

will follow in this case any more than In the taking out of the oil,

in the taktug out °rtneoi.

see that no harm shall come from taking them out of the earth.

JrsT as New York has decided to kill criminals by electricity instead of a hangman's rope, and had her first subject ready for the experiment, a man comes forward to demonstrate that electricity is a very uncertain executioner and cannot be at all depended upon to produce death. This same individual some years ago by an accident had more electricity run through Ills body than it is proposed to run through those sentenced to capital punishment. Supposed to be dead for a whole hour, when the electricity had gone out of him he revived aud survived and is still above ground. The pity Is that this man did not tell his story beforo the New York Legislature passed the law for electric executions.

IT is announced that a growing agitation has set in for stopping the teaching of free trade doctrines in American colleges. It is about time. Of recent years the principal text books on political economy and the best known teachers have given prominence to free trade sentiments. Cut off from practical business life, these teachers and author* have become absorbed in looking at the question from theoretical and abstract point of view alone, have read largely the books of English free-trrdew and have no sympathy with the American Idea of protection. The consequence to that our higher institutions of learning have in the main been teaching English political economy rather than American. It Is high time this were changed and a return to the system of the fathers inaugurated.

the oil and gas to bo unod and He *111 nobodv would have neck until dead nobody would have kioked" at It, not even Kimmler himself. But that he should be shockod to death with electricity Is not to be thought of. If he can't be killed in the old, approved fashion, better let him go, the lawyers say. The Impression of the lay mind will be that Mr. Kimmler better be killed by eleotricity and decide afterwards whether the law be a good one or not. It Is quite too hard to convict murderers nowadays to let them off after they have been sentenced. If avoiding inhumanity is what we want the whole business of legal executions should be abolished.

TH« Indianapolis New* declanw the simple truth when it says that 95 a week for the head of a family to "pauper nuiow We know that a wife and chil

dren

cannot be kept in comfort and deoencrin this county on *5 a week how-

erer

plalnly they may lire Mid every •fttmr industrious mm

ought to be abk

to keep his family d^ ^metWni must be wrongwttJ* aciriU»tf wlwre ZTb men can make from *SL-» to a and many «M» barely earn wife «fatldrwimr wrong and our bu*iu««a Is to

o££*\*rm. We are aU «ieo«taf the MOM COMMON DAY.

THE Celestial City is a new paper started in New York. Not that anyone would ever suppose Gotham to be-the Celestial City, but this paper has to do with the celestial world in that It em-

MAVAGBB. ployes spirit reporters, among whom are LOCAL EDITOR. Greely, Raymond, Ben Franklin, George Washington and other well-known worthies of the past. As people like to be humbugged the Celestial City should have a great financial outlook. But imagine the Father of his Country in the role of a common newspaper reporter!

Mr. Greeley, too, ought to be fit for better work than reporting at this late day.

WHAT The Mail long ago predicted, viz, that when the tide of civilization in its journey around the globe should reach the Pacific ocean it would cross over to tbe Orient and start on its course anew—seems about to be fulfilled. It is announced that New York capitalists have pledged their aid to the construction of a railroad between Stanley Pool and the lower falls of the Congo, in Africa, and that a British syndicate are also considering a projected line 250 miles long, from Suakim to Berber. It is claimed that these roads would soon become profitable and there is little doubt but they would. There must be great undeveloped resources in the Dark continent. All it needs is that the light and progress of civilization shall enter and anew continent will be born.

IT is an ill wind indeed that blows nobody good. There are the Carlsons, for example, who own the cottage in which Dr. Cronin was murdered. It rented for $12 a month and it was feared that nobody would rent it after the murder and that the old people would lose their little income. Well, this is what happened: The cottage was made so notorious that people got to going there In crowds. The happy idea occured to the old people to charge a ten cent admission fee. Last Sunday they took in $36 and their daily receipts. are said to average about $20. They also sell Dits of the blood-stained wood to the curious fools who are willing to pay fifty cents for such a keepsake. The Carlson cottage has become a bonanza instead of a wrecked property by the scandal that fell upon It.

A NOVEL CASE.

A singular case is pending in the New York courts, the decision of which will be a novelty In judicial literature. The question involved is the right to execute criminals by means of electricity. Kemmler, the Buffalo murderer, was sentenced to be executed by electricity on some day next week. Kemmler confessed his crime and tbe only question in the case is the validity of the law passed by the last Legislature providing for executions by eleotricity instead of by hanging. The point made by the defense is that the law Is invalid as being in conflict with that provision of the State constitution whioh forbids the infliction of "cruel and inhuman punishment."

The argument is that fitting the para* phernalia for causing death by electricity and the uncertainty of«an electric current in producing death, amount to an

Rnd oruelformof punlshment

thot ir-fnmllttl

There Is no doubt that Kemmler deserves killing and if the judgment of the

00urt had

that he be hanged by the

But in any view of the case the decision of the question presented will be of general Interest.

CHEAP FUEL.

A recent Issue of a dally paper contained an article showing that the anthracite coal mines In Pennsylvania will be exhausted within the next seventyfive years, another giving an account of the manufacture of fuel gas in Jackson, Mich., at a cost of only 80 cents for 1,000 feet, and yet another detailing the discovery by a Methodist minister of away to burn water itself, by a simple device for separating it into Its component g«af.

As a matter of course it the last discovery shall bold out it will matter little how soon the coal mines may be exhausted, since we will have no n. 1 of them. It seems a l,4,1e p*er, V^yver, that In spite of all Uio duniM »de for aheap gas fuel, we go on burning coal in the same old way. Every now and then it is authentically reports I tt fuel gas is being te or-i aoiuewhere which is fflUv- che—rar tl^a solid fuel. There ought to be a pile of mot in supplying the enormous demand for the article, hot the new process nevor cornea where we live. t*. iiik sieknees, it is alwar*

Thla process of what we want. It has been known by tbe chemists for ever so long that :s composed of oxygen and hv.Tr.-i .- -.\ .rVaa, t'-fKi.-r.

Th-- ,:y

has'-torb oat too much axpesna. Now if h« preeAerhesaoh-M acuity we may belndf of ai am, *w .4 If-* U-'vc ll«". i* r. *4-r,.r.^ slu v- 1-nitaf «l 1. she rv»m will h,A\ne any intavwt in tbe pot or its tenia. Bat has tbe prmdtur solved it? Thai i» the big, doubtful question.

SSI

TERRE TT ATTTE SAfTJBlSAY EVENING MAIL.

BRAINS IN DEMAND. {New York Tribune.]

"I hear a good many young fellows," said an old New York Merchant recently, "growling nowadays that the chances to make a fortune in this city are all gone, that is, for men whose only capital is their brains. They look around at the great business houses already established and consider the fierce competition in every branch of trade and their heart fails them. The truth is that there never were such chances to make money as noW for young men of real ability in this city. It is a hard place, of course, for men of mere average talent to get along in, but brains are needed here as never before. Merchants who have built up great trades and want to 'let up' a little in their labors, must have smart men to whom they can safely entrust details. Tbe complaint that the 'bosses relatives are put over the heads of more deserving clerks is not true. The scheme is played out and will not work. No wise man will risk his business in the hands of an incompetent son or nephew if he can get abetter and more faithful employe to attend to it.

First-class Cabinet Photographs at Holloway fc Buckingham's for $2.00 per dozen. a-, mi

Mantels and Grates,

A nice and elegant assortment at Finkbiner & Duenweg.

Oxheart Cherries at Cliver's to-day.

vJ. I Mil

There is one place in the city that is well worth anyone's time to visit who has an eye forthe beautiful. C. W. Mering, at 22 north Fourth street, has a store well stocked with beautiful Pictures, Satin Etchings, Colored Photographs, etc., at remarkably low prices. Easels and Fire Screens of all kinds. Extra low figures on Picture Frame Mouldings next week. Strangers will do well to call and see. ______________

Dr. E. E. GLOVER, 5

Specialty: Diseases of the Rectum. REMOVED TO SKVENTH AND POP:LAK STS

Dr. Elder's

telephone is No. 85. 5

New Tomatoes at Cliver's to-day.

Order Ice Cream for Sunday of E. E. Lawrence, 4th and Cherry.

Flies Must Keep Out

If you buy your Screen Doors and Windows at Finkbiner & Duenweg.

Choice country butter atCliver's to-day.

All kinds of Vegetables at Clivers to-

dfty-

*jNi

The best and cheapest in the city at the hardware store of Finkbiner fc Duenweg.

Rock bottom prices on Groceries at Cliver's. First-class Cabinet Photographs at Hollo Way & Buckingham's for $2.00 per dozen.

•a?Mile It Solii'lQ

Any way to suit you, our soda water. Ain't it delicious this hot weather! And our ice cream. It is not doctored, made of arrow root, nor sea foam. It will hold up for 24 hours without re-iceing. It is that pure Philadelphia ice cream that has a reputation from 19 south Sixtjb street, Terre Haute, to Florida. Our goods are pure and we guarantee them. Williams' Confectionery, Oyster & Chop House. C-

Laws uv mercy! Ain't us apples a swimmin'? I alius did say Terry Hut wuz the plase tu liv in an' fer that matter tu die in when yer timecums. But az I wuz about tu remark, we air jist gittin' down tu biz. With ile an' prospex uv natr'l gas ther wont be a town in Injeanny 'at kin hole a candle along-

side~uv Terry Hut. Then my next door nabor tells me we air tu hev fule gas. All we've got tu du Iz tu turn 'er on an' du our cookln'. Gudness onley knoes, invenshuns iz duin' so much nowadays that after while well hev ev'rything dun by sum mashine er uther$ Its all rite as fur az I km see but they kin invent an' invent, peple hev got tu eat an' ther's no gittin' aroun' that. An' the place tu du yure tradin' is E. R. Wright & Co's. White Frunt, where kin be found everything sich a*:—

Strawberries, Lettuce, RadishSpinach, Young Onions, Kale, Asparagus, New Beets, Rhubarb, Maple Syrup, Dressed Turkey, White Clover Honey, Choice Sorghum, New Orleans Syrup, Honey Drip Syrup, Mince Meats, Apple Butter, Choice Teas, Dressed Chickens, Droouwi Trucks, Choice Oranges, Choice C. mi ine, Choice Bananas, Fancy Brands of Fruits and Vegetables, Smoked White Fish, Choice Creamery Butter, Choice Country Bui tor, all at Bottom Rook Plice*.

You can et twelve sheets oif writing- paper for sents at tbe Pooto:V -. aN-v,* Stand, aJbo twenty-five envoktH for S v*cats* No. 12 north

8#wnth

With two days notice any magazine or novel *al» at th» News Stand, No. 12 north Seventh atr-«

Any of readers wanting titions ri-'hfco&'oa salary and expenses (kM «!:'-i *n and r^Iabte fna i-h -old p"' n* on *-T the advertlfeeu'"t ell *1- .-': ^meheaded44AC—inceto Make 1"

Natatorium Artesian Bath House. Pool is open. Bathing suits for sale.

Money to Loan.

MamountsHouse.

ONEY—TO LOAN—In lam or small on easy terms. J. D. BIGBLOW, Opera

MONEY

TO LOAN.—In sums to suit the borrower, on the most favorable terms. RIDDLE, HAMILTON A CO.,

Fchnrch,oorner

No. 20 & Sixth.

For Sale.

OR SALE.—The pews of the German M. E. Fifth and Mulberry,are for sale cheap. Enquire of F. A. Recfeert, 522 Wabash Avenne.

Flett8ALE.—FinePrice,anaanaApply

OR building lots, near ColPark, on Seventh Etehth streets, 40 feet front. Street graded Btreet cars on Eighth street. 8250. to I. FECHHEIMER, NO. 20 fcouth Fourth Street.

TJ.

TRADE.—A McCormick self-binder, as good as new, for a good horse. Inquire of P. RYAN, 317 Main street.

Great Bargains.1

Qae of the most desirable lots on tbe lake. 66 feet front, east side, beautiful location, one of the very few choice building lots that are still vacant. 1 be Palmer, house beautifully situated on the north side of the lake, 27 bed-rooms, all furnished, dining-room 26x90 ft. kitchen complete, office and parlor nicely furnUhed, Including piano. Now doing a profitable business and likely to increase. A good Invastment for some Individual or syndicate, or would make an elegant club house. Can be had at a bargain.

RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO.. 20 South Sixth street

Before buying Spring Un

derwear, give us

call Our

line ia tbe largest in town. Our

prices we guarantee below any

other hefthe for same class of

good8||

JAMES HUNTER & CO.

ROBERT H. BLACK. JAMBS A. NISBET.

JgLACK & NISBET, UNDERTAKERS

and

EMBALMERS

26 n. Fourth st. Terre Haute, Ind. All calls will receive prompt and careful attention. Open day and night.

8 Fresh Arrival

€arnival of Novelties!

Brilliant Display.

Housekeepers

Terre Haute call with

out delay and see our magnificent exposition 6f more then one hundred pieces of the cheapest and most excellent colorings of

*:China Mattings

ever brought to this city in red, white, green, olive, blue, bronze and fancy colors. These goods growing more and more in favor every year, have indeed coHie to bd considered a household necessity.

BR0KAW BROS.,

Keeping pace with the demands of the times, are prepared to meet this want with such attractive STYLES and PRICES that no one can fail to get just the thing needed.

Brokaw Bros.,

412 Wabash Avenue.

MASONIC

ENTERTAINMENT

For

the Benefit of the Masonic Temple Building Fund..

OPERA HOUSE,

Monday, June 24th, '89.

wmm*.

________

James Whitcomb Riley. Indianapolis Masonic Quartette. Tyrolean Dance from the Kir-

mess. it. Uniform Drill by Ladies of the Order of Eastern Star, assisted by Mrs. Hoberg, Miss Kantmann, Dan Davis and Bey. J. D. Stanley.

TICKETS 75c.

.GALLERY t-.

No Extra Charge for Reserved Seats.

Sale Qoaimfflw* Friday, June 22, at Button's Book Storew

NEXT- WEEK

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RIDDLE, HAMILTON & CO. Leading Real Estate Agents. JP^OB SALE—MAXINKDCKEK PROPERTY—

186 feet front la Marmont. Near the lake and railroad. An eight room cottage on the east side of the ink#, complete with furniture, boats, etc. Best location on the lake.

*y.

Vw.A^' V./.-, Attn-

guifc

intellig r*ra

sell W in ont stock of boys'

§1S:1S

p. H-cW-

AtHoberlrEoot&CaV^. Dry Goods Store,

llif$ si You will find the Prettiest Line of

I Ever Shown in Terre Haute.

Handsome Ginghams, Sateens, Cballies, Bengalines, Batiste, Lawns, Swisses, German Dress Linens, Printed Mulls, etc. We will also show some Special Bargains in Wool Dress Goods at 29c, 39c and 50e, reduced from 50c and $1 per yard. Gold Cap Umbrellas at $1, $1.38, $1.75. More La Tosca Long Handle Umbrellas. Please call and learn our prices. Elegant line of India and China Silks. Choice patterns. We are fully prepared in all departments for the summer season. Our stock is unusually large. Please examine.

HOBEKG, ROOT & CO.,

Jobbers and .Retailers. 518 and 520 Wabash Ave.

TO DECEIVE PEOPLE AT 011B STORE.

ONLY THE BEST GOODS.

Honest Values in Every Department at Living Prices Don't buy till you see us if you want good value for your money.

WABASH .A/ViEJ.

GrltlJ^NJD

4tl ofu\y

OELEBR^TIOOSr, AT THE

Fair Grounds, Terre Haute, Indiana

UNDER THE AUSPICES OP THE A. O. H.

O E A O E 8 CD IP E A. I

Hon. F. C. Danaldson and Hon. John E. Lamb.

A Grand Street Parade, in which the Civic and Military Organizations of the city will lake part Horse, Bicycle and Foot Racing. Grand Chariot Race for Purse of $100. Base Ball and General Athletic Sport Oil Wells will be Open for Inspection of Visitors.

Reduced Rates on all Railroads. Street Cars to and from Gropnds.

Everybody Come and Have a Good Time.

Boys' suits slaughtered! Cost or loss not thought of! Qualities entirely ignored! Prices completely annihilated!^ Not a aingle boys' suit spared! Every one of the hundreds in our Juvenile Clothing Department is included in this deep and sweeping reduction. Why we do it This severe and sweeping reduction is made because it is an absolute necessity. Although businc

fnct, than any former year—we have more boys' suits, particularly in medium and finer grades, than we Lave room for. Hence this deep and general reduction. This sale will prove a glorious harvest to such as ll as hundreds of others, all others, in fact, who'll be wise enough to oome. First choice of this wonderful and mammoth display of

*!,,) desire to dress their bm*s in a line and select way. Our advice to all rned is, come to-morrow, if possible if not then, as soon after aa j,,* can. for THESE suits, at the PRICES, will GO like wildfire. Evex^

!$&*

#rrfe'

has been excellent—better, in

th*n it costs to make Vm, should be important to mothers

will see at a w'ance that we are determined to

tuiu

re rdleae, even, of loss.

SCH I.()ss.

isrebast Tailor ud Clothier, Cor. Ptflh and lalo.

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