Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 January 1895 — Page 2

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small boy who baa bad a great deal of experience in "hopping sleighs" says the city man is not as accommodating as the countryman. The latter nearly always tells the boys to "jump on" while the city man responds to tbe request for a ride by flourishing his whip in a menacing-way.

Tbe grip is here although the dootors do not talk about itprouiifouously. Dr. Jenk tiH said he had seen several genuine case*. such as were numerous during the epidemic a few years ago. That epidemic caine tbe

tirsst

part of January,

too, and in just such weather as we have been having. Tbe doctor said there are yet many persons who believe 'Ma grippe" is a fad and noihing more. Of course these persons have not been afflicted. The person who has had the grip does not doubt that it is a very painful affliction. The reports from eastern cities are to the effect that tbe epidemic is likely to be as serious as it was when it first visited the country.

Axle, tbe son of Axtell, who died at Versailles, Ky., this week, was what is known as a "man eater." When a youngster here he was played with as a bull-dog is teased with a rag or stiok to make his jaws strong and encourage him to be pugnacious. Axle was fuil of life and was in for a good romp with whoever would give him the end of a rag. After awhile he became vicious in his struggles with those who would play with him. Then he began trying to bite persons when -V ims near until he was a fnll-fl^'fy^-a ".ann eater." He had great .i. was expected a a came wbie to train him because he -i) o-. anyone come nearj him to huoju him to a sulky. A year ago he was turned over to Russell Raiiey, of Versailles, who undertook to cure him and in a few months brought him here, supposedly cured for all time. He no longer tore down fences ntr tried to kill those who came in his reach. He died of lock jaw.

The Max^nkuckee ice people have bad a big harvest during tue past tea days and will begin the summer season with full houses. The ice will average more than ten inches in thickuess.

The Congregational church people have ta&en the first step toward build ing a new church. Tbe trustees have teen empowered to sell the property at Sixth and Cherry and select a site for new church. Heretofore the trustees could not sell the property without first reporting to the society of the church organization. It is said that some one has asked if the property could be bought for $25,000. If the trustees have in mind a location for tbe new church they are not advertising tbe fact. They are no doubt justly apprehensive that the owners of property in that particu lar locality would raise the price on them. That they may not "get the worst of it" all around, the trustees will call into play their combined sagacity in selling the old property for the highest.possible price.

Only one of the Methodist churches in tbe city voted on the question of admitting women delegates to the conference. The time for voting was up with the end of tbe year. The vote was taken by Asbury. Under the peculiar form of the proposition aa submitted those who voted in favor of representation voted in the negative. The vote really meant that Asbury was fifty-six in fayor of representatidn and seven opposed to it.

Representatives of the United States Mutual Acoident Association of New York have been here investigating the death of William A. Peelle, late state statistician, who wa9 found dead in a bath tub at the Visitor's Home, the hotel at St. MHys of the Woods. Mrs. Peelle had just taken obarge of the home when Mr. Peelle met his death. The insurance company thought it could establish the fact that his death was not accidental but that he died from heart disease and therefore they would not have to pay the 95,

000 polioy for accidental insurance. He carried another policy for |5,000 in a company which is not named. In addition to this he had $14,000 insurance in regular life policies, whloh, of coarse, are not affected by the question as to whether his death was the result of an accident. The representatives of the oompany named were a dootor and a special agent. They wanted the coroner of this county to conduct an autopsy bat as he had rendered his verdict and the body had been taken to Indianapolis, out of his jurisdiction, he could do nothing further had he so desired. His verdiot was that Peelle oame to his death by drowning. Mrs. Peelle told the coroner that her husband had been in the bath reom longer than she thought advisable considering the fact that be was in bad health and she called to bim. He did not answer and she entered the room when she fonnd that be was dead, lying on his side with his faoe under the water. The testimony taken by the coroner went to show that be had probably slipped in the new and deep porcelain 4ub and fallen in such a manner that he could not extricate himself. No autopsy was held here. Indeed, tbe authorities at the Institution and the attending physician were averse to any Investigation by tbe coroner and had not that offioial proeeeded with an investigation, there would be a record of death from heart disease, in all probability, and the insurance companies would gain their

point. It is understood that an autopsy was held at Indianapolis ^ut what it disclosed is not known hefre. Mfhethlr or not he had heart diseaae and death was caused by this affliction the troth is he met with an aooident that brought on the fatal attaok. It would seem to b£ the insurance company's risk in Issuing the polioy. Else if a man should fall off a house the oompany could escape paying by setting up that death was caused by a broken neck.

John (*. Woolley, who is to deliver temperance leotures here to-morrow and Monday, is a Paris, 111,, man, and .talks against the drink habit from personal experience

Tbe oity ooupoii the other night spent nearly an hour considering a petition from some east end property owners to have a mud hole filled. And then it was brought out that aotion had onoe been taken in the matter. The reoords were hunted up and it was found that such was the faot. The discussion had proceeded along the old, familiar lines. Would the oity become liable by filling the mud hole and throwing the water on some man's property? Instances of damage suits were oiled. Could wells be sunk and thus drain j.^e locality? Could the street be .'improved? All these questions and the confusion attendant upon tbe introduction of halfconsidered motions and amendments served to take up the time of the meeting. I understand that this is frequently the case. Certainly there ought to be a form of government that would be capable of devising the safest and best plan of disposing of such matters without involving twenty counoilmen in an hour's discussion every time a mud hole is reported by property owners.

The three bills regarding insurance matters whioh have been endorsed at a meeting of larg9 property owners and capitalists of this city were introdu^^ in the legislature this week. Whil. ui city took the iniatative in the proposed legislation it is now learned that at least one of the measures will be supported by representatives from the°k)tber city districts in the state. It is the one to declare invalid the clause which insurance companies have been inserting in all policies in tbe past few years to the efiect that the insured must carry insur ance to the ampunt of 80 per cent, of the valueof the property. Theclause is notin serted in policiesotber than on mercantile and indnstrial property. There is some thing to be said in favor of the provision as applied to stocks of goods. If there is 510,000 worth of goods and but $2,000 in surance and a fire loss of $2,000 the in sured gets the $2,000 and the damaged goods too, if there is no 80 per cent clause in hi* policy. With the clause inserted he gets but $500. In other words this requirement for co-insurance as it is called, on tbe part of tbe insured is that he shall carry $8,000 insurance on the $10,000 worth of property to get the full value of his policy in the event of fire loss.

The insurance companies which are members of the board, which is another name for a "combine," begap inserting this clause in policies in tbe Southern states a few years ago and gradually put .the provision in efiect in the Northern states. It. was about a year ago that the clause was first written in policies in this city. In several legislatures tost winter bills were introduced to make it inoperative. What makes the policy holder particularly rebellions is the fact that be is given no option in the matter. As I said last week in this column, some of the most vigorous kicking was by persons who already were carrying in surance to tbe amount of 80 per cent or more. The companies have become high-handed in their treatment of the people, and there is no occasion for it It is simply a display of that arrogance of power whioh is allied to the tyranny of kings. If the oompanles had said to the people that they felt they must have more money on these risks and that those who carried 80 per cent would pay tbe old rate but chat if less were carried the co-insurance policy would be written, the property owner would at least have imagined that he had a desirable option, but the' companies arbitrarily put the clause in the polioy without so much as a notice to the policy holder who bad no alternative except to become bis own insurance oompany by doing without insurance from the board companies.

Following the Insertion of the 80 per oent. olause in the insurance policies, tbe rates were raised so that altogether the holders of polioies on business property in this state are paying about 40 per1 oent. more for their insurance than they were three years ago. When the experts oame here to rerate the risks they not only snnbbed the people whose property they inspected but the local agents of tbe companies a* well. When the new rates were made known no explanation ao oompanied them. A committee of the local agents went to Cincinnati to protest to the boss of the board bat the best satisfaction they got was a promise to let them know the grounds on whloh each raise in the oost of insurance was made.

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Another bili introduced in the legislature, and whioh was endorsed at the meeting referred to, was to amend the insurance law so that companies might be organized in this state. The best evldenoe that the law as It now reads Is not a good one is the faot that there is not a oompany doing business under that law, Until the adoption of the constitution of 1852, insurance oompanles were organised under special charters from tbe legislature and there are fonr or five of these old companies yet in existence. The new constitution prohibited the granting of these charters and general law was placed in the statute*.

Xhis law virtually gave the auditor of state opinplete control of the businessof tbe oorpo?ation.^ Among other onerous provision* is ott« that *|qftiiW tbifi payt metit of 1Q per ^nt. s^ditlohal ofj the

oedlhg the pay meat on the policy, which means that the oompany would be in* timidated into paying losses whiob«per haps ought to be resisted in court. Then, too, the oompany has to deposit witb the auditor securities to the amount of the capital stook. The life of a oompany is limited to thirty years. The bill that went from here this week permits tbe organization of a company when 10 per oent. of the subscribed stook is paid in cash and the officers of the oompany file an affidavit with tbe state officer that tbe remaining 90 per oent is invested in government, state or oounty securities or first mortgage on real estate. Tbe life of a oompany is to be perpetual. The minimum limit of capital stook is $100,000 but this may be increased to $1,000 000. The company is to make a semi-annual statement to the auditor of state of its affairs and every December it is tbe auditor's duty to made a olose inspection of the books and securities of tbe company. He is to be given muoh tbe same duty that be performs in regard to tbe savings banks of tbe state. Witb such a law it is believed companies will be organized in tbe oities among the men who are large property owners and who have capital to invest. Indeed, I am told that a company with $200,000 oapital stock will be organized here immediately. This oity pays about $125,000 a year in insurance premiums and it is thought that one fifth of this amount oould be kept at home.

There was a winter trotting txeeting on south Sixth street this week.

T^e oounty commissioners ancl representatives of the ciitv council hnvebeen conferring outfit* imposHiou to act in inn so in some plau

TERKE HATJTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, JANUARY 19, 1895.

for public,

work by

which the unemployed of tbe oity mav be given employment. It was

leunn

that there could not be joint action in erecting tbe workhouse but that tbe county could build it and lease it to tbe city. It is understood that the city will add a city hospital to the structure wbnre patients may be cared for in an emergency. No final action has been taken.

The Terre. Hat(te Trust company opened its new room on south Sixth street Thursday. In the vault is the jatest pattern of a burglar proof safe. The doors and their bolts are massive aud the impression one gets from looking at tbe safe is that there is a great deal more door than space inside. It is not the purpose to keep money i*V| safe but bonds and securities wbich being valuable by reason of what is printed and written on them rather than because of their bulk the safe has ample capacity.

Professor McTaggart, of the Normal school, has tendered his resignation to take effect at the end of the present school year. jHe is a man of remarkably strong character as well as a proficient educator. His resignation from the Normal is voluntary, and the board hold him in high esteem. It has been suggested that he could be secured as principal of tbe High school. If be could, the school would be fortunate. Aside from his unquestioned ability as an educatoi he is a man who would command respect and inspire the students with a loftier and better idea el their opportunity to obtain an education

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It would be difficult to name four citizens who in the aggregate have a larger personal acquaintance than the .four who have died in the past ten days—Mr. Potter, Mr. Peker, Judge Rhoads and Mr. Blake. Their respective personal associations were so varied that it might almost be said that among them they were acquainted with everybody in the oity.

Judge Rhoads' name had been printed on the programme for the anniversary exercises at tbe Normal on the 81st of this month. He was to have spoken of the primary efforts to seoure legislation to establish the sohool, in which he took an active part, being a member of the legislature from Vermillion oounty at the time,

Judge White, in speaking of the failure of Newport, the oounty seat of Vermillion county, to increase in population, said the town was so situated that it bore the heaviest part of the strain in the drawing power of Terre Haate on one end of the oounty and Danville on the other. The ooanty is of the "shoestring" shape and is about forty miles long, with Newport at the half-way point. Judge White says there is no better olass of people In the state than Is to be found in Vermillion oounty which, with his own oounty, Parke, oomprises the judicial circuit, of which court he has been serving as judge for about ten years.

Will ex-Banker Beaoh fare better In Parke oounty than he would have done in his own eohntyf is the question that is being asked on all sides. The preponderance of opinion is that he will not. It is reasoned that whatever might have been the degree of prejudice against him here, he will be confronted by a prejudice that will net be disclosed by any of the questions legally put to a juror. It will be the prejudice whioh a Parke ooanty man will unconsciously feel when he tries to understand why the ex-banker Is brought there fdr trial.

During the proceedings In oourt in tbe change of venue matter, Thursday afternoon, Judge White spoke of the delays in bringing the defendant to trial. Tbe udge reviewed the history of the ease, by whloh it was shown that slnee he took It there had been no unnecessary delay. About a year had elapsed from •»J5

the titjiie of the failure of tbe bank before he was oalled in. Since then many questions tiad been raised whioh bad never beei) passed upon by a court. The law is a new one. It is a mistake to compare the procedure of a trial under it with an ordinary burglary case for which there has been well-established law for many years. Besides, in some of tbe comparisons, instances of speedy punishment have been cited when the fact is overlooked that the accused persons pleaded guilty. There is no doubt of tbe judge's legal ability nor of his integrity and aoyragtj of his convictions. He is not to be affected by any of tbe personal influences for or against tbe defendant. Nor is be tbe k[nd of man who would waive bis judgment to satisfy public olamor. He says lie has got to live witb himself, and be intends to be on good terms with himself. In send ing tbe oaseout of this county he was guided by the opinion that tbe law intends that tbe judge shall do what be oan to make certain a fair trial, and not to trust to cbanoe. As presented to bim there was a doubt as to securing a fair trial bere, and as be bad been' with tbe case getting it ready for trial be felt it to be his duty to take it into his own court. The next tbrm begins two weeks from now, and on tbe first day of tbe term a day will be set down for trial. It is probable tbat this will be about the 10th of February.

It may interest some of the readers of The Mail, and vex others, to be told what Hicks predicted for tbe past week. Tbe cold wave of ten days ago was to be followed by storminess with rain and snow beginning about tbe 13th and 14ih, wbich prediction was verified. There are to be more storms, from now up„tp tbe 26th. kI'"

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STATE AND COUNTY

Notice Is bereoy giventhat the Tax Duplicate for the ¥ear 1894 Is now in my bands, and that I am now ready to receive tbe Taxes charged thereon. The following table shows the rate of taxation on each $100 taxable property and Poll Tax in eacn Township.

Levied by State.

NAME OF OITY

Levied Com.

8:00

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Suitable and safe for all ages.

THIS

THE TIMES

Levied by Township Trustees.

19 12X 08 20 25 16 12 00 08 30 12 10 15

No Cdunty Order will he paid to any person owing Delinquent Tax. Road Receipts will not be received except on First installment of Taxes. Tax-payere who have Free Gravel Road and Drainage Tax to pay, should see that they have a separate receipt for each road and Drain the property is assessed on.

For the collection of which I may be found at my oiflce in Terre Haute, as directed by law Pay Your Taxes Promptly and Avoid Cost.-

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to 11:30 a. m.

HOURS

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Total .Rate and Poll Tax

JOHN L. WALSH,

Therr is no discovery for which we can claim such wonderful advancement in varied uses, as Electricity, as a remedial agent for the CCRK OF CHRONIC DISEASES, its power seems to be only limited by our own knowledge of bow to properly use it. Having given this subject our special study for the last twenty yetrs. we claim to know fomethingabout the proper application aud its power to relieve and cure. Our method of using the various forms of clectriccurrent combined wlihother suitableremedieswecailtbe"ElectroCure"forchronic and obscure diseases, by whicb we bave cured hundreds of cases that had given up all hopes. II All P~ \Z/"\| I tried nauseating medicines? Tried the ordinary means of cure i\ I until you have about given up all hopes? Still got tbat bad Head or Thr.-at trouble? Got enough of suffering from Neuralgia or Kheumatlsm?

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Am't levied by Trustees on each poll for Special School and Tuition Tax

2 74 2 74 2 50 2 74 2 74 2 74 2 50 2 74 2 50 2 50 2 74 2 74 2 74

49 49 25 49 49 49 25 49 25 25 49 49 49

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Dog Tax: For every male, 51,00 for every female, 82.00 for each additional dog, 82.00. Examine your receipt before leaving the office and see that it covers all your property. People are taxed for what they own on April 1st of each year.

Taxes are due on the 31st day of December, and tax-payers may pay the full amount of such taxes on or before the third Monday in April following or may, at their option, pay one-half thereof on or before the said third Monday, and the remaining one-half on or before the flrst Monday iu November following provided, however, that all road taxes charged shall be paid prior to the third Monday in April, as prescribed by law and provided further, that in all cases where as much as one-half of the amount of taxes charged against a tax-payer shall not be paid on or before the third Monday in April, the \jrhole amount unpaid shall become due and returned delinquent, and be collected as provided by law.

Delinquent Lands are advertised on or about the flrst Monday in January, and are offered for sale on the second Monday in February of each year. The Treasurer is responsible for taxes he could have collected therefore tax-payers ought to remember that their taxes MUST be paid every year.

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Treasurer Vigro County.

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35 Different Transportation Companies.

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Baltimore & Ohio. (For through passage between Indianapolis and Louisville.) Baltimore fc Ohio Southwestern. (For through passage between Indianapolis and Louisville).

Chesapeake A Ohio. (For through passage between Cincinnati and Washington, D. C.) Chicago fc Eastern Illinois. (BetweenDan* ville and Chicago).

Cincinnati, Hamilton A Dayton.1 Cincinnati, Jackson & .ckinaw. Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern. Cleveland, Canton & Southern. Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling. Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. Columbus, Sandusky Hocking. Dayion fe Union. Detroit A Cleveland Steam Navigation Co. Evansvllle A Terre Haute. Goodrich Line Steamers. Illinois Central. (Between Kankakee and Chicago.

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Indianapolis, Decatur A Western. Louisville, EvansvllleA St. Louis Consolidated.

Louisville, New Albany A Chicago. New York, Chicago A St. Louis. Peoria, Decatur A Evansville., Peoria A Pekln Union. St. Louis, Alton A Terre Haute. St. Louis Terminal Railway. Toledo A Ohio Central. jl Toledo. St. Louis A Kansas City. Wheeling A Lake Erie.

OMNIBUS AND TKANSFER COMPANIES:

Cleveland Transfer Co.

Cinclnnnti Railroad Omnibus Line. Columbus (O.) Transfer. Dayton Transfer Co. Frank Bird's Transfer Co. Parmelee Transfer Co. (Chicago). Venneman's lty Transfer Co. (Evansville).

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AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE Mulberry St., Cor. Ninth. «$ J.

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