Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 1, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 July 1893 — Page 1

Vol. 24.—No. 1.

RANDOM SHOTS.

It seems that the city Is about to bear the last of the conspiracy casos. Judge Taylor has announced that the motion to qnash the indictarent against ex-City Engineer Prank Cooper, cl- trged with conspiracy, is sustained, »d at tlje proper time the same actiu will also doubtless be taken as to Contractor Kinser and the otirar alleged conspirators. It will be remembered that these cases grew ootof the Crawford street sewer contract. It was alleged by Jeeee .Robertson that a number of the contractors, himself amo®K the number, lwd agreed to bid on the sewer in question at an enormously high figure, and that one of them should secure the contract and divide the surplus among alL, "beating the city out of about $10,000. When the bids were opened it was found that Fred Fischer had put in a bid below those agreed upon by the ring and carried off the prise. It was the impression that Fischer had been given a tip, but of that there was no evidence, and bestenuously dented it. Then came a squeal, and the contract was rescinded. Aftar that funds were raised and a committee went to work on a tour of investigation. The report of that committee is known to all, and it wan through its labors that evidence on which the conspiracy indictments were returned was furnished the grand jury. The accused promptly appeared in court and gave ball. The indlotments aftorded satisfaction to some, amusement to others, and no one supposed for a minute that any of them would stick. Especially was this true of the Cooper ease. Although an effort has been made to use him as a scapegoat there never was any evidence against him, and the Indictment never should have been returned.

There are not a fow people in Terre Haute who would llkotoseean ordinanco passed by the council against the steam whbtlo in the city or within hearing distance of it. There are others who would have it include whistling by mouth as well as by mechanical contrivance. They would like to suppress boy's whistles, men's whistles, railway $ and'steamboat whistles and factory and I shoi whistles, all of which they consider common aggravations of mankiud. 'Xheso people who think thus reason about this way? **Wlio the douoewants to hear a whistle? I don't. You don't.

Then who does? Without them Terre Haute would be a quiet reposeful town, in which the residents could sleep all night and until dinner-time next day were it not for the pernicious activity of the mosquitoes and the whistles. KM the two evils neither one is the least. "The-soreech of the railway whistle comes from evey point of the compass at all hours of the day and night. One's slumbers are broken at au unearthly hour in the morulng bv the deep bazoo from .the rolling mill. Later one's sleep Is disturbed by the six o'clock whistles from numerous factories, aud at seven sleep Is routed entirely by the general cliU to work. Thare is no suggestion of fuusic in any whistle I ever heard except a glri's, and girls are afraid to whistle Iwcauso It is predicted "the whistling j«lrl, like the crowing hon, will come'to }6me bad end." That Is the way the inti-whistling "rank reasons. Other people listen ut the whistle uomplsoently, -bacaus? tverv time they hear it they see in it an ©videnee of pro-perlty. it means that industry of some kind is a operation where it comes from, and hat prosperity is behind it. When the whistle-quite the town quits.

The inevitable conflict between the oal operators and the coal miners is on igntn. Seven weeks ago the scale was greed upon, aud it was geuemlly unlerstood in all quarters that there would bo further trouble until the next ume, nd it appears the next time Is here, he legislature of 1891 enao.tod a law dividing for a seuil-monthly pay day ytthe mines. It is alleged that the oprotors spent thousands of dollars to revent the passage of this and other ot* which didn't meet favor in their yes, but that which they opposed Hssed as easily as though the machinery ui been specially oiled for the purpose. mi winter the operators concluded to

I things take their course, vrhlch, by 0 way, was very kind in them, so our tons passed another law calling for a LMkly pay day in the mines. Two ecM ago the bituminous operators met and agreed to fight the law which vide® for a weekly payment of the tner* and the weighing of the coal a*

Vines from the mines. The block operators hair© also join«d In the it and the war is now on. In the ce of the law it appears that the tniusigued an agreement for a semi'mthly pay day. By signing the ptttent the miner* rouuot honorably ke'.'my «mtc*t, though many of «eet» willing to do »o. Away of 1 slug *nuad the difficulty seem* to ve ieen found, the matter tun been before the •tat* mine inspector and is teeing urged upon him that Hi* unty hi* duty to go ahead and en- .-© the law, while on the other h# operators are prepariog tw resisted.

Ich, on account of the general preenceof bard timee throughout the ntry, would b« very apt to succeed.

July is with us, and the knowledge of the fact, accompanied by a palm leaf

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suggests to our mtad the season of picnics. There is an immense amount of association and thrilling incidents connected with the word picnic. No ®ild or inexpensive dissipation that is so susceptiole of such a variety of inckients. It is generally •conceded that the dinner hour is the attraction and the pivot on which the chief excitement and interest bang and therein has much of the tragedy, the comedy and spectacular pleasure of a pionic. The pickles will invariably telescope the custard pie, and the angels food and the deviled bam mingle like long separated relatives. The ants will take possession of the butter, and the spiders are perfectly at home on the well spread ^dinner table, making the women folks scream with fright, and yet with all these drawbacks there Is a rustic enjoyment about a picnic that can be found no where else. The little discouragements and vissltudes only serve to make the festivities more festive. We all will no doubt indulge in this favorite amusement during the sultry months of July and August. The women folks cooking and baking all the previous day, vieing with one another In the variety they concoct, the gentle men having the beBt of it by only having to enjoy the tempting repast, and improve the shining hour under the shade of the tall spreading branches of our numerous forest trees. And of course the thought of July reminds us that the grand, glorious Fourth approaches and the season of lire-works is at hand. A season which promises a bountiful harvest here

Tho tramp is prolific iu his excuses for his leisurely habits, protjeness to beg and general worthlessness. One of the tribe was sitting in a back yard the other day quietly polishing a bone, evidently contented with himself and the world at large. The lady of the house was watching him in a quiet sort of way. "You are well and strong looklooking," she said to him. "Quite so, lady, thanks to a beneficent Providonce," he said reverently. "Why then don't you work for a living instead of begging for it?" He finished the last sliver of meat on the bone, wiped his mouth on his sleeve aud looking frankly into her face said, with deliberation and

The safe of the Buokeye Cash store, was cracked last Sunday night and robbed of $000 iu cash and some valuable papers. The safe is in the rear part of tho store aud the thieves reached It by going through the basement under the Prairie City bank and the plumber's shop, reaohing the Buokeye basement by cutting through a door. From the basemeut they went up stairs and In a very short time opened the safe by drilling a small hole between the combination tumbler and the handle, through which the tumbler was punched out of place and the safe was open. Evidently it was the work of professionals and the potice set to work to find them. A clue was found *f»rly Monday 'morning and a couple of i^ysterious strangers were traced to No. 206 south Fifth street, a boarding house kept by Mrs. William Poths. They had been there since June 9th, and gare the natuea of John Henry and F. F. Mings, the "latter having a woman with him who claimed to be his wife. About ten iu the morning Superintendent Meagher aud Captain Hyland made a professional call. They found Mr. Henry at home and escorted him to headquarters, leaving Patrolman Welch behind to look after the other. Soon Mr. Mings and his wife hove in sight. They bad been making an early call at Hoberg's before the rush began, making a few purchases and probably seeing if the safe was in the same place as when it was robbed year ago. Officer Welch, with politeness suggestive of the Blarney stone, escorted the couple to headquarters, from whence the men were taken to jail. Their rooms were searched and their belongings were taken in charge by the police. Money amounting to $115 was found hidden in every conceivable place, and Included 125 copper pennies. Three watches and a large assortment of diamond pins, rings and jewelry were also found. In the afternoon the woman was released. She at once hunted up an attoraey and while In the office was joined by another female, with whom she was again arrested. The new find gave the name of Mrs. Kain. She claimed to be hoarding on Cherry street, but couldn't toll where. She was turned loose and followed by Captains Picree wad Hyland to fiader3* howl oafNinth and Chestnut, where she had a room and where the officers found two Oil's revolver** 4^-caliber slid g.Jnoh barrels, a large number of coppers aud some bills. Mr», SLain said her husband had left for the east on the afternoon train, but this proved lobe false, as Kain was found on Chestnut

precision* "Well, madam, rvev triedfanci electrical displays, with cooler working, and I've tried begging, and I find people find more fault with the work than they do with the begging. So I concluded to choose the jlosser evil and stick to It, for after all in this world you can't please everybody, can you? Thanks for the lunch, good bye," and he walked away as though he had settled a pouderous question.

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street on Monday night and lodged in jail. The women were also locked up. Another man named George Coleman and his wife are also implicated, but left town several days before the robbery* Mings has some linen marked "F. Fairbanks," to which he probably added Mings, making it "F. F. Mings."||He has recently been shot in the band and has a hat with a bullet hole in it and the lining spattered with blood. Detective Andy Rohan arrived in the city on Wednesday and identified Mings as Frank Bruce, alias Boyd, one of the most noted safe blowers in the country he has been in prison a number of times and is wanted In several places. The woman who claims to be his wife was also recognized as a shoplifter who was under arrest at Detroit not long agOi Kain turns out to be "Red" O'Brien^ another notorious safe blower, and Mrs. Kain is Florence Wilkins, of Burlington, Iowa, who was shot by her lover about three years ago. John Henry is known as "Little Dick," another expert. Taken as a whole the gang is a veTy choice selection, and the community is to be congratulated on having a police force that is able to cope with them. It 1s to be hoped that they will be properly cared for by the state for maoy years to come.

Those who hare watched Hick's predictions since the commencement of the year have found them, in the main, correct. It is true that frequently his forecasts have been a few hours ahead or behind schedule time, but they have been coming right along. For the opening of July we are promised pleasant summer days, with a probability of storms in the extreme east. Commencing on the 4th a warm wave will start from west to east, and from tho 4th to 7th a storm period may be looked for all along the line, followed by cooler weather and reactionary storms on the. 10th and Ilth accompanied by very warm weather, which, in the abaense of active storms will increase. The 15th to 18th is another storm period, checking the increase In beat, and bringing with It more pleasant weather. The heat will Increase from, the 19th to 2ist, and more reactionary storms are expected on tho 22nd and 23rd. More storms may be looked for from the 27th to 29th. Violent disturbances may be looked for at this time, acoompained by severe blusters

weather at the olose. A statementof the weather for July, covering a period of twenty-two years, shows a mean temperature of 76°. The warmest July was that of 1887, with an average of 8f°. The coldest was in 1891, with an average of 72°. The highest temperature in July during that period was on July 10, 1881, and July 30, 1887, when the tempterature reached 101°. The lowest temperature was July 1,1886, when it marked 48°. The average precipitation was 4.61 inches The greatest monthly rainfall was in 1875, when it reached 13.12 inches. The lowest prbcipltatlon was in 1884, when the amount was 0.82 inohes. The greatest amount of rain for any given twenty-four hours was on July 2, 1873, when 3.73 inches fell. The average number of cloudy days was fourteen. The prevailing winds have been from the southwest.

Human nature is a queer thing. A man supposed to be on his deathbed in a town not a thousand miles away, and who is worth a hundred thousand dollars and not a near relative, asked for a workman who occupied a little house on the place. Tho physician and nurse surmised that now the dying Dives was about to giye that little home to the workman who had been faithful for so many years. "Lasarus," said the dying Dives (that was not the workman's name, however), "you only paid me $4 on the last rent and in case I die I want to have things straight you know, so I'd like you to pay the other $2 The money was paid aud the dying Dives still wrestles with Satan in the flesh, too mean to die and too worthless to live.

The prospects now are that Indiana will, in 1893, have one of the biggest erop years in its history. There has been enough sunshine and rain to make an enormous corn crop. Wheat is in fine condition throughout central Indiana. As for grass the conditions could not be more favorable. Timothy is growing where nothing ever grew before. Indiana will have the biggest hay crop over known in the state. One thing that is becoming more common than the tale of woe growing out of the late financial stress is the story of the way the good crops have saved Indiana. The good that is to be realised is already in sight, as the harvesters are in the fields in southern Indiana. The wheat harvest in this locallty wlll .commence aext w©ek.

Oriental Lodge, No. 81, Knights of Pythias, elected officers on Wednesday evening as follows Installing officer, a H. Loot C, C., F. M. Clift V. C., O. O. Out P., W. J. White W. E. Young. The installation will take place on Tu^dax^the Uthinst^

^oiwlthsUo2ing the ^^njeincir of the money market the banks am all laying in »bountiful supply of hard coal for winter uae.

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•TERRE HAUTE, USD., SATURDAY EVENING-, JULY 1,1893. Twenty-fourth Year

WOMAN'S WATS.

If you want to see the true nature of people travel with them continuously for three or four days and you will get a better' insight into their character than if you met them casually for three years in a great city. It would be the advice of the writer to all young people who contemplate matrimony to start off on a preliminary\our where one could plainly discern all the little faults and foibles in the other. If you are selfish naturally it crops out on a trip, no mattefibow short it may be. The great ines more prominent, wants seat in the car, is put out if he not continually have the ide and in the rush for meals ^exactly what they are, even it other times they may be affaurteous to the last degree. The person^ho is sunshiny at the start and no less so at the finish is the desirable traveling companion. To be such, you niusi obliterate self entirely, accede to the wishes of those in whose company you ai[6, letting yourself, plans and purposes be merged into their's. This may sound like hard medicine, but it is not Ojnce you get used to it, and you will ^tnd,: perhaps, that in their methods t$ere is more novelty and pleasure than in the schedule you had laid out to follow by yourself. Nowhere does a good disposition count for so much as in along journey. Beauty succumbs tQ cinders and the dust'of travel, but an evon temper and gentle manners rise $bove such petty details, and, though you may be positively plain in a drawing room, you will be a raving beauty on board a train crowded with fretful, peevish humanity. Of jfburse everyone expects to do more or^Kss traveling during the summer season. It seems to be apart of our life that we should as soon as warm weather comes around pack up our traps apd start off on some trip that will make us long for and appreciate our homes many times during our absence, The comforts that we leave behind we shall sadly miss, but in traveling we must bear in mind that we cannot have everything to suit ourselves, and remember that in giving in to others we are in the end doing the very best thing to further our own pleasure.

AioSg with the other ^provisions for the comfort of sightseers at the Columbian exposition is a day nursery for tho reception of babies and youngsters too small or too troublesome to toddle along with father and mother, who are "doing" the fair. Twety-five cents is the modest fee charged by the managers of the creohe for a day's care, beside a bountiful feeding in the nursery dining room morning and afternoon. Sterilized milk is given the smaller ones and good, wholesome, nutritious food to those who have outgrown a purely baby diet. They are served at little tables and are much uiore contented than if they were dragged about looking at sights they care nothing for and worrying the life out of the mother who has been foolish enough to bring them along. When the ohild Is brought to the oreche in the morning its name and that of its parents is registered in the secretary's book. The permitient residence is taken as well as the temporary one in Chicago and the father's occupation or profession Is recorded. A minute description of the child's dress is also written out in detail and then around brass numbered check is given to the one bringing in the baby, while another is put on the back of the little one's dress under the collar, where it can not easily be detached. The sight of the little folks is a neverfailing attraction, but at the very beginning the rule was made that no outsiders should be allowed to enter the play rooms or nurseries, otherwise nurses and children would not have had-room to turn round, for even as it is the windows are obscured most of the time by crowds of curious men and women anxious to get a look at the checked babies. This nursery is really an exhibit of the Buffalo Charities organization. Miss Maria M. Love, chairman of the advisory board, is in executive charge, with Miss Fannie £. Harris as matron. The creche as organized and run in Buflklo is solely to benefit the laboring classes, the babies are thete taken for five cents a day and clothed, washed and fed, instead of being sadly neglected, as they would have to be while their mothers were at work, if there were no such blessed institution. If the well-to-do mothers who leave their little ones in charge are enthusiastic in their praise of such an arrangement, imagine tho amount of relief that the main creche brings to the hoarts of many women who must toil for their daily bread and who would find their burdens much heavier to bear if there were no such pleasant home in which to Wre their little ones while they struggle for their maintenance.

To the heterogeneous composite of a woman's nature there is sometimes very largely developed a morbid element that prompts her to do many things that seem to be utterly at variance with the other qualities that one generally associates with the feminine make up. Fur instance, have you not for some Ume is your life met a woman who

positively gloried in attending funerals? Once the writer owned a servant girl who enjoyed reading the most harrowing tales when her work was done and who whenever opportunity offered would rush off" to a funeral no mailer whether she had been acquainted with the dear departed or not. On questioning her regarding this curious taste she gave a ready but rather startling answer in the few brief words: "Shure, ma'am, the only plaishure I have in loife in the buryln' of the dead." Such a reply may appear flippant to some, but to a nature such as hers and thousands of others a funeral is a great and exciting event. To those whoso lives are almost stagnant the mystery and attendant ceremonies that death brings with it afiord a break in the monotony that marks their existence, and it means a temporary deliverance from household cares, a meeting with friends, perhaps not seen lor years, a ride in a carriage and food for reflection until some other ripple breaks the quiet surface of the tranquil stream that typifies their life. The desire to attend funerals is not one half as ourious to explain as the determined effort some women make to look upon that which makes tb^m shudder, yet which irresistibly attracts. The keeper of the Morgue iu Paris stated to an interviewer that nine-tenths of the visitors to his gruesome abode were women prompted by curiosity rather than impelled to visit the place through hope of finding some loved one swallowed up in the great vortex of Paris life and long since given up for lost. It is a queer element In the gentie, sensitive nature of woman and along with other mysteries that can never be explained will remain an unsolved problem to the end of time.

The case of the state, oo the relation of James W. Stout, against John O. Ben* demon, Auditor of State, was filed in the Supreme court Monday morning. It is the test cane of the fee aad salary law, which Judge Brown, of the Marion Superior court* held to be unconstitutional. In Ute assignment of errors the Attorney-General says that the court below erred in overruling the demurer to the relator's petition, aad in overruling thd demurrer to the alternative writ, to which action of the court the appellant excepted at the time*

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It has been well said that trifles make up the sum of life especially do they make up the sum of "good mannerism," at the table. Mothers connot be too careful in guarding their children's table manners, far as "the twig is bent the tree iuclineth." We Amercians are always in suoh a hurry we have very little time to cultivate gentle, refined ways' we simply rush along. By jtfSd by we bring up against a circumstance* when' ^plsxion. we would give all we have gained by our rush to know to act. Som^ of the kindest hearted women in the world are a constant source of embarrassment to their friends. I recall one now, the mother of a large family and an excellent neighbor and friend, who, on sitting down to the table, pours her tea and then catches up the saucer iu an awkward, indescribable way and flirts it about to cool, the tea, usually talking in aloud, voluable manner meanwhile. All her table manners are "off the same piece," and her children call and clamor rudely, utterly regardless of etiquette. Some men holding high positions—Senators, Judges and the like—coming from tutelage such as the above, briog shame on themselves and mortification on their families. It is really robbing a child in one way to aggrandize him in another, to defraud him of home culture in order that be may be given to accumulating dollars and acres. Better launoh him with a well-balanced brain, a well-bred manner and an honest heart, without money, than with a mint of the latter minus the former. But when a delicate home-training has been denied a human being there is still a chance for him. It may be a little awkward, but still in time it may come natural if one is thinking. The trouble comes when one is off guard, in a moment of absent-mindedness or deep earnestness. The knife will assert itself and crowd food into the mouth, the elbow will rise and from a right angle, the lips will smack, dishes will clatter, the chewing will become loul, the napkin possibly slide to the floor, and last but not least, a toothpick may unconsciously get in a point. Using one's knife to mash a potato is a trifle, as is also cutting pastry with a knife elevating one's glass unnecessarily when drinking pouring water rapidly down the throat drinking with a spoon in the cup quite draining the cup putting salt on the table cloth, etc., but they count in making up the sum of manners. It is not polite to eat voraciously in company, neither is it polite or courteous unto one's hostess to eat very sparingly. Being placed at the table where one does not feel sure of himself it is well to "make haste slowly" and rather follow than lead the fashion, Napkins, excepting when used by little children or persons trembling with age, sbouid be spread in the lap, not tucked in the waist or vest. It is the duty of the hostess to give the signal for rising when all are done. On rising the chair remains where it stands.

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TO THE POINT.

The country needs more bank direotors who dlreot. The camp meeting and watermelon are about due here now.

The Duke of Veragua doesn't like beans, so he wou't go to Boston, Free trade won't build factories, but for that matter neither will free silver.

It is said that a recent hot wave melted the glass knobs off the weather bureau. If protection is a failure what's the use of extending it to Hawaii, Liberia or Samoa?

While it may be hard to live within one's salary it is always harder to livewithout it. "When John Chinaman leaves the oountry will lose the only man who never strike*.

The man who has the reputation of being a good fellow can^t raise anything on it in the bank.

It isn't policy to tell your employer that you know more than he does, although it may be true.

A Chicago man was robbed In Paris the other day and at hurried home to get even while the luu

Having found a petrified toad and petrified oat down in Evansville they are now after the petrified liar.

The meeting of congress will afford Mr. Holman another glorious opportunity to show what hedoesu't know about anything.

An ordinary brick weighs four tons but the one a fellow gets in his hat and carries over night weighs about four tons In the morning.

Down in Arlzoua when the thermometer reaches 140 degrees in the shade the average citizen discards his blanket and calls it a "sizzard."

The reform orgau that wants the names of all the pensioners published in the newspapers probably meant to take tho contract at so much per line.

The Illinois legislature resembles the Indiana legislature iu two respects—the enormous size of its appropriations ($9,000,000), aud in its political com-

Those brands of servitude which tho employes of the American Express^ company are compelled to wear are not calculated to make that corporation popular.

South Carolina's now liquor law goes Into effect to-day and hereafter the questlon will be changed to read: "What was it the governor of South Carolina said to the governor of North Carolina?"

This warm weather pie doesn't agree with any person but those who receive it officially from the Washington pie counter, and their stomachs are composed of material which could masticate crow.

In Its demands at the national pie counter the Crawfordsvllle Star wants it understood that it demands nothing for itself, its yoice being only for "the boys." In other words it wants to give the boys a chance.

It is a mistake to say that the Democratic kick in this part of the state is over the distribution of the spoils. On the contrary, it is caused by the failure of Voorhees, Brookshlre 6 Co., to* procure a distribution.

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