Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 22, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 January 1892 — Page 2

Vol. 22.-No. 31

TOWN TALK.

THE POLITICAL POT BOILING FORTHE COMING CAMPAIGN.

Something About tlie Various Elections to lw Held this Year—Prospect. of the Enforcement of Lawi A grains Gambling —A tfnffSeation that all Should Clean Up.

Although the year la not yet a month old the political pot has already commenced to boil, and the candidates are getting themselves in readiness for the lightning's shock. Both parties have elected their state central committees, and the republicans are organized by counties throughout the state. As this is a presidential year, and as Indiana is considered a doubtful state each party •will do its best in the selection of candidates to put its best foot forward. The president will undoubtedly lead his party for a second term, while the Democrats will follow their leader with fidelity and enthusiasm whether he be Gray, Hill, Cleveland, Boies, Campbell, or any other man, no matter who, BO be leads the democratic hoats. The presidential candidates settled, then will come the selection of gubernatorial candidates and the remainder of the state ticket. Among the candidates for governor on the republican side are mentioned numerous gentlemen, among them, W. R. McKeen, C. W. Fairbanks, Governor Chase, George W. Steele of Marion, District Attorney Smiley. N. Chambers, ex Congressman Stanton J. Peelle, ex-Socretary of State Charles F. GriiTln, State Senator Thoodore T. Shocknoy, Warren G. Sayre, Clem Studebaker, Gen. Lew Wallace, John L. Griffiths and John H. Baker of Goshen. Very few of these are yet doing any active work, and no attention has yet been given to the remainder of the ticket. On the democratic side Congressman W. D.

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has the inside track and at the present time he seems to be the most available. But the offices in which this locality Is most deeply interested are those of the county of "Vigo. Next November there •will be elected a treasurer, sheriff, coroner, prosecuting attorney, commissioners for the second and third districts, surveyor, two representatives, 'senator and county assessor. Gu&.

Oonzman is now serving his second term as county treasurer and cannot make the 'race again at this tin?e but there are already several democratic aspirants in the field who want to succeed him. Among these are John

Walsh, the present deputy, Tom Ryan of Honey Creek, L. D. Scott, of Fayette and I\ W. SUck. Among the Republi cans the only name montioned thus for is that of Levi W. Dickerson, ex-county commissioner, a man of great popular ity, sterling integrity and good business capacity. He denies the soft impeach' ment that he is a candidate, however but may ohange his mind when the proper tuno comes. For sheriff Hilly Stout will have no opposition for a re nomination by tlie Democrats, and the only Republicans yet mentioned aro Thomas L. Johuson and Barnoy Greggs. The coroner, I)r. Win. R. Mattox, being on his first term will doubtless be rewarded with another nomination by the Democrats, but no oue has yet come forward to contest the honor among the Republicans. For prosecutor the incumbent wants to make the race again, and Sam Huston is willing to make him a flfht as the Republican candidate. For commissioner the only Democratic aspirant heard from in the second district is Martin Cnssld.v. In the third district Tom Lanuing, of Piersou, wants to make tho race for the Democrats, and if Sanford Hondorson wants to run agaiu tho Republicans can certainly make no better selection. For surveyor there is never a profusion of candidates, and the only one now in the field is the Democratic incumbent, Ralph Sparks. It is a little too early yet for legislative candidates, but the indications are that when the proper time comes the supply will be in excess of the demand. County Assessor Earney says he knows when he has had enoagh, and will be ready to turn over his office when his successor has been elected and qualified. Otter Creek township has a Democratic candidate for the place in the person of Robert Black, and there are pointers out that W. R. Ray, of Riley, and C. W. Lockman, of Harrison, would be willing to sacrifice themselves to making the race on the Republican ticket. It might be said just now that neither party j©ems willing to express much confidence in the final outcome. If the choice lay between the Democrats and Republicans there would be metre candidates, and each would feel certain of a fighting chance. Bat there is danger of a third party ticket, and that is where the rub comes in. There are men in the county who have almost made the hunt for office the business of their livea, and having given up hope of securing It are willing t® rain their party and old party connections. Generally these men are in favor of a third party ticket, and having considerable following will doubtless give considerable trouble and make the coming campaign memorable. While the third party movement hasn't the remotest chance of suooess it still contains

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sufficient strength to cause much uneasiness in the old parties, and is liable to canse destruction to one of them. In any event the coming campaign is going to be lively and full of interest.

GAMBLING MUST GO.

Orders were issued by the superintendent of police this week to close all gambling houses. Some people, and they are quite numerous, have no idea that the order will be enforced. These skeptics are those who believe that the metropolitan law was created as a sort of refuge and shield for gamblers and saloons. There are actually men in this town who will tell you in earnest sobriety that one saloon keeper in town paid six hundred dollars to aid the bill through the legislature, t.nd that there is no danger of the law being enforced. But there is every indication that everybody is going to be disappointed. Under the old city force it was the custom to issue an an ti-saloon order at roll call in the evening and countermand it before midnight saloons were run wide open every day and night in the week gambling was considered a privilege with which the police had no right to interfere, and the mercury was on the point of freezing when a daily paper appeared without an account of one or more cock fights. There was a demand for a change and no change could have been for the worse. As there was no indication that tbe«ity would make a change the state made it for it, and if any set of men are to be thanked more than another for the metropolitan bill it is the city council, and, pre-eminently, that portion who howls so loudly against the alleged usurpation of the city'? rights. But the metropolitans now have full swing, and may have some surprises In store. They are out of politics and have no axe to grind. The Order that gambling must go is going to be enforced they say, and the indications are that it will, or that those who carry it on must do it in such places and in such away that they cannot be detected. It seems as though there is to be no discrimination between the first floor on Main street and the back rooms up stairs places suspected of gambling will be raided when lights are seen there at night, or when there is reason to suppose they are at work during the day. The young men of elegant leisure who were never known to do an honest day's work in their lives who wear good clothes and on fine days stand around on Main street and stare women out of countenance will be forced to hibernate during the remainder of the season, or seek other fields. These things the police say they will do, and it is to be hoped they will. There is evidence of greater efficiency all along the line. The men are being watched while on duty, and one was suspended this week for ten days, the charge being that he wasted fifty-five minutes of time loafiing around a hotel. There is also a still hunt after the saloons which are running without license, and the pool room operators lost their breath the other night when compelled to stop their games at eleven o'clock. The police are doing very well, and if they continue this course will soon wipe out all prejudice against them.

EXERCISE MORE CARE.

More cases of infectious diseases have been reported this week than for severa| weeks previous, and there is still a disposition on the part of some to hide their existence from the public where it is absolutely dangerous to do it. The other day a doctor was called in to see a siok child and immediately reported it to the health authorities as a case of diphtheria, the child dying an hour or two after he saw it. It is alleged that the little one had been treated by others, but the case bad never been reported to the authorities. People were going in and out of the house constantly, and when Health Officer Ryle went to put up a card one of tho persons doing business iu the house objected because "they didn't do it in Chicago." How long are the health officers going to stand this sort of thing? It is the opinion of many that there have been too many preventible diseases here this winter— as diphtheria and scarlet fever. With perfect sanitation these maladies need not exist here as a local disease. For the entire number of cases developed here bad water, dirty streets and imperfect drainage may be held responsible. It may be that a few cases wer« brought in from outside, but had the city been thoroughly protected by proper sanitary precautions the diseases could not have spread if properly quarantined. When the present snow disappears it is very likely that there will be an increase of sickness, and the evil effects of throwing slop and filth in back yards and alleys will become more apparent. There should be a general cleaning up all around. It may cost something and cause considerable growling, but it will be much cheaper and more satisfactory than a siege of sickness and heavy mortality during the spring months.

The loss on the workshop of the Rose Polytechnic has been settled by the insurance companies paviag $3,660, the estimated damage by the late firs. Hie work of repairing it will be commenced immediately.

A MAN'S OBSERVATIONS.

POPULAR DISSIPATIONS UNDER A RELIGIOUS GUISEl'f'M W «, isS! Mothers, HuSbands and Daughters who

Injure Themselves and Others by False Conception of Duty—Common Dissipations of the Present Day.

Champaign suppers, fast horses and even more rapid companions are all supposed to be the "hall mark" of dissipation. Another form, equally as violent, though bearing the sanction of society and the world at large, is prevalent among classes of well-brought up and unswervingly righteous men and women, who would draw away from the con taminating touch of "Jack Wildoatt" because he is such a "dissipated" young man. These paragons dissipate time, strength and health in a false conception of their ideas OL duty.

Take for instance, the wife and mother, who, in her zeal for the heathen, utterly forgets and neglects the needs of the litr tie people at home, who, in consequence, run wild in the wilderness of the city streets, subject to far greater peril than the happy Hottentots or the pigmies of darkest Africa.

Mother is never at home. There is so much for her to attend to elsewhere. She is president of the "Ladles' Xieagvle for the Relief of Motherless Children" and connected with a dozen other societies. The children see her at breakfast, usually already arrayed in bonnet and wraps for an immediate departure to the field, as she delights to term the scene of her labors. Dirty little faces, ragged and untidy gowns, a miserably cooked meal and a scowling husband are what she sees, if she takes the trouble to look around hor breakfast table.

If she notices, sho is apparently unconscious perhaps her mind is so occupied with higher things that the trivial, mundane annoyances have no place. With a parting admonition to the frowsy servant to "take good care of ftie children" she rushes off to open a most im* portant meeting, where, for an hour at a? time, she will harangue, exhort and perspire in her mistaken zeal for the, distant heathen, when Ijer duty lies .so plainly at her own door.

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The husband of such a wife is deserving of the greatest sympathy. He is a nobody in his home and no one is tfaore fully aware of it then he very shirks, collars and cuffs bear witness against him, for the dreadful rents, frayed edges and generally buttonless condition of 'his linen calls forth from John Chinaman the one word, sentient with meaning, "mallied."

The children regard him as a'cipher and would not listen to his authority even if he were disposed to exercise any. Poor man! he is too thoroughly disheartened by the dreariness of his surroundings to venture even the mildest sort of a rebuke. Wrapped in the cares of his business he finds more pleasure and comfort in his dark and dingy office than in the noisy, untidy home that has lost its head.

Tne worthy president, wrapped in her dream of deluded duty, would feel highly incensed to be classed as "dissipated." In her ardor and zeal she is just as surely dissipating her home joys and the delights of a green old age, made smooth and pleasant by the loving care of husband and children, as though she were to come home reeling at 4 o'clock in the morning.

Young women, devotees of fashion, lovers of pretty things, will go on a protracted spree of shopping with as wild an abandon as their wicked male friends enter on the celebration of someone's promotion, the advent of a bouncing boy or the winning of an election bet. As with all old topers, there are times when a sedate calm reigns. An enticing advertisement or the sight of some pretty article, bought at a bargain will as surely sot them off as a round of champagne cocktails. The fever runs its course in about a day. **T

The premonitory symptoms are the dragging out of old finery or the unsuccessful embellishment of last year's bonnet. Then it is that the advertisements act like poison. With cheeks flushed, eyes bright, and a determination to do or die, they set oat on their periodical fit of dissipation. Elbowing their way through dense crowds to the counters where odds and ends, at distractingly low prices, are displayed, they ra if sack and rummage to their hearts' oontent.

A luncheon, if any, partaken of hurriedly, and amidst the confusion and clatter of noisy plates and dishes. An afternoon of weary tramping, selecting and baying, and at last, thoroughly tired oat, a ride in a car so crowded that thwe is no possible chance of getting a seat.

As with all other bouts, repentance comes with the morning. As is the usual custom, a frightful headache is now their portion. The remnants and odds and ends that yesterday seemed so desirable are not at all what they wanted, and their souls are filled with rage and wonder as to what possessed them to bay such useless things simply because they were cheap. ,4«

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TEBRE HAUTE, IND., SATTJRDAT&EVENINGf JANUARY 23,1892.. Twenty-second Year

There Is a sort of literary dissipation known as bibliomania, that is one of the most absorbing of all the forms of unusual dissipation that can take a hold upon the virtuous, the godly and the Upright. Once let the passion for book collecting take possession of a man or woman, and they are irr»trieyably its slayes forever.

It is nolCss potent than the chloroform or opium habits, but far less degrading. The eye is ever on the alert, and the ear ever in readiness to hear of some rare and precious work hitherto unearthed. With whateagerness they search through the musty volumes exhibited for sale by Second-hand dealers. How they haunt the libraries, their stealthy, suspicious glances, their soft and noiseless foot&te'ps, not at all unlike the slouching "gait and shifting eye of their degraded brother, who seeks from empty barrel and upturned keg the dreg3 of liquor which will add fuel to the flame that is islowly consuming him.-

And should they be so fortunate as to secure for their own some ra»e and and" valuable tome, of which there is no other known to be in existence, then they go mad with joy. Above all, and more seriously than all others, regard the man who is daily and hourly dissipating his health and strength in the mad rush for Worldly u^in.

The sight'is so common it is seldom one gives it a thought until from overwork, the tired body and brain give way sand the worker is iound dead at his post. Too much of a good thing is bad. Steady, careful attention to business is to be com mended. But the man who, year in and year out, tenaciously olings to his round of business cares, with never the simple relaxation of a week or two away from the office, is undermining his constitution as seriously as though he went on protracted and periodical drinking bouts.

There are some men in this city whose only rest from the care and routine of th^ir business life is the time spent in Sleep. If it were possible, what a fund of. rejuvenation would be found in a daily nap of an hour in the middle of the day. A drive of an afternoon or an outing in the (guiet country would act like a tonic to yjIfjflKed man of business. Perhajps the argument may be employed that there is no one to competently fiU the place of the absent.

Dad yoiVQUtf know of a place left un"fed rson died? Therfe is

greatest vacancy, and it is mere egotism \hat regards but one pair of hands able to successfully carry on the work. Let the man who is too steady and painstaking to ever drop for awhile the cloak of responsibility take heed lest in his censure of what to him may seem like idle loitering he is not undermining his health and preparing for himself a compulsory vacation, brought on by a course of dissipation he dreams not of.,

Obituary.

Joshua A. Dawson, one of the pioneer settlers of this county, died at Waupun, Wis., last week. He removed from this locality in 1855, since which time he has resided in Waupun.

Mrs. Charlotte Hendricks died Sunday morning at her home in Evansville. The deceased was born in Shelby coanty, Ky., seventy-eight years ago. Her maiden name was Sbaw, and in 1833 she was married. She iemoved to Terre Haute in 1870 and to Evansville in 1886.

Maude Alice Gaylord, daughter of John G, Gaylord and wife, died at their hom£ on east Mulberry street on Thursday morning, of congestion, aged 6 years. Owing to the serious illness of Mrs. Gaylord, the remains were deposited in a vault for the present, and funeral services will be held later.

Roy Werkiser, ihe 11 year old son of Thomas W. Werkiser and wife, died at their home on Main street Thursday morning. He had been a sufferer for years from spinal injury received when a mere child, and which had baffled the skill of many physicians. The funeral took place this afternoon. The interment was in Highland Lawn.

August Schonefeld died at his home, 336 south Twelfth street, on Monday evening, of consumption. The deceased was born in Hanover in 1842, and came to this country in 1860, since which time he has resided here. Daring the war he served three years in the Ninth Ohio infantry. He was a member of the Independent Lutheran church, and was for many years a member of Knights of Honor Lodge No. 1220, by which he was bnried. He leaves a wife and six children—William, Elizabeth, Ellen, Mary, Emma and August.

Mrs. Clarinda Lange, relict of the late Albert Lange, died at her home, No. 422 north fifth street, last Monday evening after an illness of several weeks duration. The deceased was 77 years of age, and was a resident of this city all her life. She was known as a woman of many notable acts of charity. She was a home woman, essentially so and her true worth, her real loveliness and nobility of character, was best known to the frequenters of her household. •Her surviving daughters are Mrs. J. C.

Burnett, Mrs. D. N. Gould, Mrs. George H. Hebb and Miss^ Lange. The funeral took place from the family residence Wednesday morning. The interment was in Woodlawn.

Mrs. Caroline Kirmse, relict of the late Herman Kirmse,. died of pneumonia last Tuesday morning at her home on north Ninth, after an illness of, six days, aged. 86 years and 6 months. Deceased was a 'native of Germany and was married to hor late husband in Baltimore in 1842. "She came to this city with her family in 1852, ancf has made her home here since. She leaves fbur children: Herman Kirmse, Mrs. Wilhelmina Altenberger, Mrs. Julia Meyer and Mrs. Emilia Stange. The funoral occurred Thursday afternoon. The inuaent was in Woodlawn.

pneumonia. 0—John Romlne, city, 22 years pneumonia. 7—Ellas W. English, city, 84 years cerebral menlngetls. 7—David C. Moore, city, 41 years phthisis pulmonalls. 8—Levi Shultz, 1017 north Ninth bronchitis. 8—Wm. Breinig, city, 8 years typhoid fever. 9—Maria K. Richards, city, 77years old age. 9—Harriet Kelly, 110 south Eleventh, 68 years bronchitis. 9

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catarrhal pneumonia. 9—Martha E. Dodson, Off years influenza. 10—Nellie Washington, 1826spruce, 12years diphtheria. 10—Sarah M. Hawley, Seventeenth and Voorhees, 80 years old age. 10—Infant Cook, city, 2 years: grip. 10—Mary E. Allen, 425 south Twelfth, 89 years pulmonary consumption. 11—T. C. Buntln, city, 76 years cardiac asthenia. 11—Geo. Willoughby, 223 north Fifth, 46 years: pneumonia. 12-J. M. Crandell,018north Eighth, 87 years lung disease. 12—Orville L. Haywood, city, 28 years grip. 1, 19

14_]Sora Wintert, 1400 north Eighth years pneumonia. 15—Catherine Mann, city,

15—(':atbcrine Mann, city, 76 years grip.

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16—Wm. M. Crosaley, Riley, 45 years pneumonia. 18—Clarinda Lange, city, 77 years grip. 18—Allen Jonies, city, 70 years tonsllitis. 19—John E. Smith, St. Anthony's hospital, 25 years railroad accident. 10—Caroline Kirmse, city, 88 years influenza. 18

Slmms, 127 south Twelfth, 73 years

pneumonia. 18—Clarence Hays, 013 Crawford, 10months bron. pneumonia. 14-Alice Gardner, Grandview, 111., 80years cardiac asthenia. 13—Jane Hersey, city paralysis. 14—Raymond Edwards, Seventeenth and Fourth ave., 3 years pneumonia. 12—Edward Wall, 1616 Chestnut street, 19 years consumption. l&-william It. Stark, 1625 south First street, 45 years typhoid pneumonia. 16-Harry Sparks, 617 south Ninth, 8years diphtheria. 20—Gennette Young, 118 Halman street, 45 years: congestion. 20—John Prosser, city, 24 hours premature birth. 21—John C.Christian, city,54 years chronic pneumonia. 21—Leroy Werkiser, city, 11 years spinal disease. 21—Mary Gaylord, 1128 Mulberry street, 0 congestion.^

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Wm. M. Crosley died "at the res of his aunt, Mrs. Childress, on Elm street, last Saturday evening, agqd 47 years. He was taken ill with la grippe the day before Christmas, and his sickness developed into pneumonia, and other complication^ which paused his death. He was bJrn in Riley township, where he has always been prominent i« Democratic political circles/ He was a member of«Riley Lodge No. 390, l?. & A. M.,1 and had a large circles of friends and acquaintances by whom he was universally liked. The remains were taken to Riley for interment.

The death roll in this looality has been exceedingly large this month, so far, as will be seen by the following returns which have been made to Secretary Glover of the board of health, up to last night: 1—Chas. Washington, city, 11 years diphtheria. 1—James M. Allen, city, 64 years complication. 2—J. B. Messlck, city, 60 years pneumonia.

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2—Chas. Hart, 1011 south .uightb, 3 years accidental poisoning. 3—T. J. Van Zant, city, 5 months marasmus., 4—Infant Miller, city stillborn. 8—»—Clark, 300 south Fourteenth. 4—Hattle M. Oweus, Vigo Co., 46 years la grippe. 4—Arthur Onyette, 806 south Fourteenth, 6 years diphtheria. 8—Anna Buscher, 1232 south Seventh, 32 years puerperal convulsions. 4—John lb Humaston, 601 north First, 71 years pneumonia. 4—0. Busby, 189 north Twelfth, 20 years pneumonia. 4—Mm*. Milton, 614 south First, 65 years catarrh#! pneumonia. 4—John Kafie, city, 82 years pneumonia. ,4-AMaria Gfroerer, city, 62 years cerebral ^^Minnfc Fredericks, Vigo Co., 7 years diphtheria. 5—Maud J3. Dlggles, 214 north Eleventh, 10 years diphtheria. 5—Julia A. Moon, city. 30 years grip, 0—Elizabeth Burns, »4Q ,Bouth beventh, 70

years, wugconuu. 15-George Handwerk, 807 Ohio street, ugustijichonefeld, city, 60 years conyears pneu-

years IS—August sumption. 20—Mary Albrink, city, 31 monia. 21—Lula Dai ley, 512 Walnut street, 0 years diphtheria.

"Boss" Buckley, the industrious gentleman who has been running the politics of San Francisco for fifteen years— on the familiar plan which is variously known as "Tammany," "ward-heeler" or "spoils" system—frankly gives his opinion that there is not much danger of the overthrow of "practical politics" in large cities, because that institution can never be overthrown except by the united action of a majority of honest, pubiic t$irited citizens, and he believes that there is not a sufficiently deep and strong public interest in municipal affairs to bring such concerted action about. Mr. Buckley has had a large experience and disagreeable as his conclusion is, it must be admitted that his opinion is entitled to very respectful consideration.

This is a funny age, anyhow. They pay two ceats for the head of a Chicago sparrow and send a man to jail for killing aChicago poet.

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SATURDAY TO SATURDAY

SOME OF THE DOINGS OF THE PAST SIX DAYS IN TOWN.

Probably Nothing Unusual, but Merely a NarratWe of Events as they Oocm-, without any Embellishment, and Taken just as they were Found.

The midsummer graduating class of the High school has forty members. ^\inong the patents issued at Washington this week were two to Torre JBLauteans. One to Audrew J. and F. D. Goshell for a guard rail for railways, and the other to Wm. J. Miles, Jr., for alloy.

A movement is on foot among tho teachers in the oity sohools to erect an appropriate monument to tho memory of the late Miss Jane Hersey, who was for so xnany years a faithful and successful tOacher in the public sohools.

George T. Zimmerle and a boy named Frank' Redelman came up from Worthi.ngton on Tuesday evening to try tho mad Stone. Both were bitten by the same dog, and while it was not known that the animal was mad they thought it best to. make sure. Thf Btone failed to adhere.

Arrangements are being made by Blinn Camp Sons of Veterans to oelebrate Lincoln's birthday on February 12th, by giving an entertainment in the Circuit court room. The committee on arrangements is composed of J. W. Perry, Geo. Krietenstein, John Trump, N. A. Haley and H. H. Sargent. Col. W. E. McLean will deliver the prinoipal adre

The first oouslgnment of the two-and-a-half million brick required to pave Main street has been recoived by the contractors, and is being stored along the north side of Main, between Ninth and Tenth streets. It is furnished by the Cautou (Ohio) Paving company. Work wil/bo commenced at Thirteenth street about the middle of April, and wilj^give employment to about 800 men.«jMifc^^ 4?he members of the Central Prebyterian church arid contributing members of the congregation, held a meeting inygf the church on Wednesday evening for%^' the purpose of considering the subject of calling a pastor, It was unanimously agreed to extend a call to Rev. R, V. Hunter, of Indianapolis,' w&Q has been pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian ohurch- of that city jfgr .the^last eigfyt' years. It a year and give him the parsonago rent i' free. ,'(V ••i'.,

At a meeting of the Short Horn Breeders' Association of Indiana in Indianapolis this week, James M, San key, of this city, was olected president. The following experts were selected to act as judges at county fairs this year: B. F. Legg, Tipton county Joseph Reppey, Elkhart J. D. Spahr, Wayne John Welch, Owen T. A. Cotton, Shalby F. Garten, Decatur Ezra Swain, Hamilton J. W. Harper, Wabash Jasper N. Lee, Vigo H. G. C. Bale, Marlon John McCoslin, Johnson Thomas Nelson, Parke J. W. Morgan, Hendricks.

The "C. L. Braman Company" has filed articles of incorporation with the county recorder. The object of the corporation is to buy dry goods and sell them in this city. The capital stock is $200,000, divided into 2,000 shares of 100 each. There is $50,000 of preferred stock, on which an annual dividend of 6 per cent, is guaranteed, and which must be paid in full in case of a suspension of business. The incorporators are Charles L. Braman, John C. Zimmerman and Patrick J. Hogan.

On Tuesday evening about dusk John Smith, a Vandalia brakeman, received injuries in the E. AT. H. yards from the effects of which he died the same night in St. Anthony's hospital. He had gone down to the E. & T. H. yar^a with a cut of cars. For some reason he jumped off the car on which he was riding, and in crossing the next track was knocked down by a locomotive going in an opposite direction. He was rolled over several times, and one leg was horribly mangled. He was removed to the hospital immediately,

where be died in a few hours. Deceased was about 25 years old, and came here from Logansport three years ago.

The famous Nippert Ijams suit ended in the Circuit court last Saturday even- .• ing with a yerdict in favor of the defendant, Mr. Ijams, the jury being out only a few minutes. The verdict was strict accord with public sentiment in the matter. The suit grew out of a purchase of bank stock in an Indianapolis concern by the late Firman Nippert, of W. P. Ijams, the bank failing some time after. On July 1st, 1889, Mr. Nippert instituted suit against Mr. Ijams, and died in November of the same year. His executors, Mr. Milton S. Durham and Mr. John Theobald continned the prosecution of the suit. In the complaint the largest amount asked for in any one paragraph was $50,000. Mr. Nippert had f21,700 worth of stock which he doubled on the reorganiztiotr^ making $43,400 to which interest wat added. The case was holly contestedand both sides were represented by the beit legal talent obtainable. The tiff wants a new trial.