Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 March 1895 — Page 1

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Vol. 25,-No. 39

ON THE QUI VIVE'.

The Metropolitans are not out of the woods yet. That mysterious Moore bill which crept through both House and Senate like a cat and was signed by Claude Matthews as he would attest the ten commandments now seems to be an ogre of "frightful mien."

Section 3106 of the Revised Statutes is ftfloog one, prescribing the powers of ©Ity councils, and is divided into fifty one articles. Mr. Moore, who is a Greencastle lawyer, wanted to amend article 13 of this Jaw so as to give councils the right to restrain the liquor traffic. He foufid that he oould not amend article 13 without passing and re-enacting the whole fifty-one articles and while the state of Indiana was going from hysterics

into

convulsions over

the Innocent Nicholson bill Mr. Moore rushed section 8106 with all its many articles through the legislative laundry and out it oame a

spick

and-span new

law, with all the frills neatly ironed. Now several lawyer? tell Q. V. that section 31061s the newest and most enforceable law as to cities and towns, and that article 8 of the act whioh was re pealed by the metropolitan laws of 1883, 1891 and 1893, is now re-enacted and re peals by implication ail metropolitan law as far as the latter conflicts. This slippery article rfeada: "The common council shall have power to enforce ordinances: "Eighth. Toestablish and regulate the police of the oity, and may, in their discretion, authorize the mayor or aBoard of Police, to be selected by the common council, to make all appointments of officers and members of such police and give suoh Mayor or Board of Police full power to remove from office any officer or member of such police for neglect of duty or other good cause."

The attorneys who seek to uphold the metropolitan police say that the Moore bill "cuts no ice," because it has no repealing olause, and although it is a more reoent enactment than the odious metropolitan laws of two, four and twelve years ago, yet they can all stand together. In answer to this, other attorneys, who favor home rale, say that there are two kinds of repeal, one where the new law says so and the other where

Te deWTaW1,,fr"ftt0^^ the old and this latter repeal, which they call "by implication," is the kind of a dose the Moore bill gives the "met" law. To make it plain to my newspaper mind the lawyer added: "When .the metropolitan act was passed it wonld have-knocked out the old oity police of Terre Haute whether it expressly re pealed the old law or not, for it was in consistent with the old law and being the newer and more recent, became the law. Now, the tables are turned and the old law arises and takes a seat *at the head of the table. "And," he added, "if the Terre Haute council wishes to appoint three police commissioners next week, it is my opinion they oould do so, and regain control of our police."

All this chatter about the police bearing the brunt of the enforcement of the Nicholson bill is senseless** The Nicholson bill was not framed to help the police but to allow a citizen to enforce the saloon law himself. And it does. It allows voters to remonstrate and defeat a license by mere numbers. It forbids screens and blinds in prohibited hoars, so that any oitteen can file an affidavit. It has many other provisions, all of which rather take hardens from the police than load thorn down, Whenever you hear a fellow say that he Is glad Terre Haute failed to get home rule, be oauae of the Nicholson bill, ask him if he has really read the Nicholson bill, anyway. _____

Before we leave the police subject, let Q. Y. ask you if you read Con Meagher's speech to his men last Saturday night. That was a "corker, sure." In substance it meant: "Now, boys, we've got to brace op for a day er two, Yoa have had a bully good time loafln' oil the town, but Claude Matthews is in a hole and we must help bim out. No more keepin' saloon while on your beat goes. Any man leanin' on a bar for over thirty minutes gets reported. Hold your chins higher, and don't associate with Republicans any longer. They're not in it for two years. When the next election oomes and another Republican legislature is voted in, yoa can beat the city oat of another three months' pay by 'sojerln' on it until oar fate is again decided." Suppose Abraham Lincoln should have allowed the Federal army to "play horse" in 1864, while he was anxiously awaiting his re-eleotion And yet that was no more his daty than strict discipline was necessary from the poiioe commissioner* of Terre Haute the {Mat three baonthi*

IS £1,*

If the order closing up the gambling rooms is enforced severely it Is likfely to cause total of the saloon* to stop selling a oertain brand of beer* the sale of whioh heretofore is said have saved them from poiioe interference.

Oboe again it may be noted that a policeman has been suspended on ttharges preferred by Captain Hyland. There has never betn a suspension, in

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Q. V.'s knowledge, since the present system has been in operation, wherein any other than Republican offloers have preferred charges that led to the suspension or removal of a patrolman. The reasons therefor may be apparent to those who are familiar with the workings of the present police regime.

I see that by an order of the poiioe commissioners the oaptains and sergeants will be compelled to wear full uniforms, although they object because it will interfere with their "detective" work. It's too bad the commissioners didn't make a rule requiring Superintendent Meagher to wear at least one day in the week, and on holidays, the full dress uniform he wore to have his picture "took" for the souvenir issued here last year. No one ever saw him in tbe uniform except in that picture, and it would be a revelation to see him parade up and down the streets in that gorgeous uniform, which makes him look live a brigade oommander.

The telephone company has found out that it has been charging Terre Haute patrons too muoh for its service for years past, and this week considerately announced a reduction in its rates from $48 and $36, for business houses and residences respectively, to $42 and $80 a year. It was genuine philanthropy that induced the moguls of the Central Union company to reduce the rates. Of course there will be some so small to insinuate that the ooming of the new telephone company had something to do with this reduction, but of course this iB preposterous. It was pure unadulterated love for the oltizens of Terre Haute that caused it.

There are said to be about sixty Catholic members of the Knights of Pythias in this oity, the membership being about equally divided between the three lodges. One of the most prominent of these members said this week that the order of the Pope requiring them to leave the Knights was looked upon as something for each man to settle with bis own conscience. He said that no Oatbolio had joined the Knights antil permission had been given by the church authorities, and now that they had be^ come identified with the order they felt1 that it was anjast for the authorities to forbid them farther association with it. He- knows all the Oatholio membera of this particular order, and gave it as his opinion that if an attempt is made to en force the Pope's ruling that very few, if any, Catholic K. P.'s will desert that order.

Said a young "lady friend of Q. V. the other day: "I wonder if it would be constitutional (one can't take a deep breath nowadays without dreading the asconstitutionality of it) for the council to pass an ordinance making it a misdemeanor for a man to expectorate on the sidewalk. While the 'wave of moral reform' is sweeping over theoonntry, here is a chance for some oonnoilman to render himself famons." All of which is respectfully referred to the city counoil for consideration.

WHAT THE MAIL HEARS.,

That Louis Tomer is not going to be (he mascot for the new ball team. That the Charit^ Circus will be the "biggest thing" on wheels this city has even seen* •.

That the Terre Hautes will win ttt champions sip in the Western InterState League.

Many compliments on the approved appearance of the remodeled oity hall and council obamber.

That Manager Hayman was disappointed at the small size of the Eddie Foy crowd Monday night. ^4?

That the city oouncll is not clamoring for a chance to take up the muoh-talked-of Moore law, for controlling the poiioe force.

Tbet "Cap" Smltlj is going to wear that big hew bicyle as a watch charm, to prevent it from being stolen, as his other

That there Is a somewhat sensational story back of the reoent resignation of John McFall as county commissioner—-a story that reflects credit on that gentleman.

That Superintendent H. W. Curry is sure of four years more in office if he "wins out" in September, as the same condition of affairs will be in existence two yean from now—barring death, $r resignation.

That the six Republican township trustees, who tak# office next August, will make a handsome present to the man who will devise a scheme to defeat Superintendent Curry, when Ihe election ocours in September next*

The constitution of th* new I^dustral Md $du«%M0nal Uflioft adopted last ShhtUy after nod after muoh discos* fcUra. Oapt. Oi A* Power, who has been prominent in the meetings was ruled oat of otdet in some of his remarks. 8inoe the meeting he has notified the chairman that he cannot become a member of any labor organisation ti^at exclude* so many Amerioan eltteem (torn membership. The election tak»s jrtaoe to-morrow, and promises to fee 1m exciting affair.

NEWS OF THE CITY.

Ringliug Bros.' circus, one of the largest on the road, will visit Terre Haute on the 18th of June.

There la a general 00mplaint among real e*tste agents and* intending renters of a scarcity of desirable houses.

Fourth street from Ohio to Poplar has been ordered paved with brick, a needed improvement to that thoroughfare.

It is announced that Dr. J. T. Scovell will build a row on flats on Mulberry street, between Fourth and Fifth this spring.

New fronts will be put in the Kaufman buildings on Main street oocupied by the New York Shoe Store and Alex. Sandison.

D. Y. Miller read a very interesting paper before the Terre Haute Literary Club, Monday night, on "Compulsory Arbitration,"

John Sughrue, for forty years a resident of this oity, died Tuesday evening, at his home on north Eleventh street. A wife and five children survive hKn.

The Jackson club will move into Its new quarters in the Rose Dispensary building early, next month.. The new. furnishings for the rooms will cost in the neighborhood of $3,000.

City Treasurer Charles Balch, who is a base ball crank of the most pronounced type, had the honor of being the first purohaser of a season tioket when they were plaoed on sale this week.

Griffith fc Miller have seoured the oontraot for furnishing the uniforms for all the olubs in the Western Inter-State League. The home team's uuiform will be of blaok, with white trimmings.

Manager Baur has opened his new Turkish smoking room at the Terre Haute. It* is a very inviting looking place, and makes quite an addition to the conveniences of that model hotel.

Bernard Croson, father of ex-Deputy Sheriff Tom Croson, died Sunday afternoon, at his home on south Thirteenth-and-a-half street. He was eighty-five years old, and had been sick for almost a year.

Frank Surber, the young man injured at the Coleman heading faotory several weeks ago, beoame vlolentlyinsane this jreek and had.jp.^ r^^ Anthony's hospital, where he was under, treatment.

James Burwiok, the railroad evangelist of this city, has been engaged to do some evangelical work in Kansas, for the International Committee of the Y. M. A. He leaves to-day, and Will be gone a month.

Tom Hanson, an employe of the Vandalia boiler shop, had an eye pat out this week by apiece of metal striking it. This is the second man to lose an eye put out in that shop in like manner in the past three months.

There wss a baby show at Mattox chapel Thursday sfterhoon, in which twenty five little ones oompeted for a prize ef a solid silver spoon. Edith Asbury, aged eighteen months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Asbury, won^t^e Pr,Ze« n' "I0''

The last entertainment in the Union Lecture Coarse will be given by the John Thomas Conoert Company, March 28th. The oompany includes Miss Thomas, soprano Miss Webster, violinist Mr. Hopkins, 'ooroetlst, aod Mr. Thomas, comedian.

George W. Dinkel has been appointed a mail carrier to fill a vaoanoy oaused by the promotion of A. C. Ringo to the position of registry clerk. He is a son of H. W. Dinkel, a well-known oltizen, and was formerly superintendent of fire alarm on the fire department. "Aoe" Stewart, the Terre Haute boy who is to cover second base for the Chicago league team the ooming season, is showing up well on the southern trip. At Galveston one day this week he led the club in batting, with five hits, iqgladiug a home run and a two base hit.

Rev. W. H. Hiokman leotured at Asbury church Tuesday night, on "Sherman's March to the Sea." A number of old soldiers listened to the lecture, whioh possesned an additional Interest from the fact that the leoturer himself was a participant in many of the scenes he depicted.

Miss Kate Nelson, Miss Weir, Will K. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Davis, Mrs. John R. Hatter and Allyn Adams, assist* ed in a concert, Tuesday night, at a Columbus, 0., church, by fohg distatic4 telephone. The Terre Haute artists made qftite a hit with their Columbus auditory

SonUst in tLe bbtib&U in progress

sinoe last summer fts to whether the water works od&£aoy can be oom|iell%d to furnish th'e city with water for httee washing purposes without eitft 00m pensatton, was settled Tuesday night,, when the compiny won. The bill for $62Uso for street washing was then •Mowed.

Harry E. Feloht, nntaager of the Dickton A Talbott opera houses at Dayton, Ohio, was in the "city this week and eloeed a oontraot #ith the Elks' trustees for The Charity Circus that Is to be given here oa thfe Fourth of July.

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TERKE HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1895. Twenty-fifth Year

Elks'committees have met with much encouragement in the way of proffered assistance from business men generally, and The Charity Circus gives promise of being the biggest thing etfer undertaken by bpme talent,

Allen tVeinbardt,draughtsman at the Yandalia, has resigned jjls position and will go into the plumbing business with John Freltag in the place formerly occupied &y Diokbout on Wabash avenue be twetift Sixth and Seventh streets. Mr. WelQbardt has been in Ghioago this purchasing goods for the ne^v esbment.

Terre Haute Club bowling team is nly ff'cock of the walk" in that line of sport in this community. Last week the team defeated the Wabash Cyoling Qlub team by a ncore of 2471. to to 2286. Thursday evening the dose was repeated, the Terre Haute team winning by Hie decisive score of 2643 to 2281. The wlopers again banquetted the losers. ^tfien the people in the towns surrounding Terre Haute want anything ex^ra fine in the way of floral decorations they come to this city, as was shown, this week when Fred Heinl furnished all the, flowers for the swell Denby-Orr wedding at Evansville. In addition to this he ticketed Robert Collier and wif0, of Clinton, to Liverpool.

Work,Was begun this week on the two new residences of W. N. Kramer and Dr. T. C. Stunkard on south fifth street. W. N. Kramer's will be built at the corner of Mfth atijl Poplar, «nd the other Immediately adjoining It oil the north. They will be erected with pressed briok veneer, with brown stone trimmings. Daniel Hirzel has the oontract for the Kramer house,- and E. M. Cornell for that Dr. Stunkard.gg|

Theo&$re Trierwellelv for eight years a member of the police force, was suspended Sunday night by Superintendent Meagher, because be spent twenty-five minutes in an fpst Main street saloon, while supposed to be on duty. Trierweiler denies the truth of the charges and claims that he is the object of persecution on the part of- the heada of the department,. He has the record of having been a good officer. ork on tlie base ball parte is prorapidly* The south and east upland the grand stand will tCNiey. WeslC^. has been awarded- the -coti for the grand stand chairs, six hundred in number. The team was oompleted this week, with* the exception of a second baseman, by the signing of Whalen, a Californian who has quite a reputation as a first baseman. The entire team will be here week after next, and will begin active practice preparing for the preliminary season.

The formal opening of the remodeled council ohamber occurred at Tuesday night's regular meeting. The room was appropriately draped with flags, and Councilman Graham famished the flowers to transform it into abewerof beauty. A resolution of thanks was tendered to the market oommittee for the excellent work in making the room so presentable, and to Coanoilman Graham for hls efforts in decorating. The 'iwhtas of the members and of the oity offiott£, were in attendance at the meet :jag gttiade the occasion a notable one.

Frahk^Boegeman, oldest son of A. H« Boegeman, the well-known Fourth street shde dealer, had an unpleasant expeilence at Nashville this week, while on his way home from New Orleans, where he has been working all winter. He was arrested by Louisiana offloers, on requisition papers, charged with safe blowing at Baton Rouge. He telegraphed his father about it, and the latter was on the point of leaving for Nashville to oorrect the evident mistake when hereoelved adispatoh announcing that the officers had acknowledged their error and released the young mah. He returned home yesterday.

The old T. B. John* farm, consisting of 1,3Q0 aores, north of the city along the liter,' has been purchased by Ray G. Jenokos and Ulysses Blooksom. The purchase price was $81,000. It is said to contain some of the most fertile land on the Fort Harrisen prairie and is capable of producing 70,000 bushels of corn in an ordinary year. It is one of the largest transactions that has ever taken place in Vigo county farm land, and the new owners have a bargain in it. It was purchased from the Northwestern Life Insurance Co., of Milwaukee, which forolosed a mortgage gl?en by Mr. Johns ftdttte Ume before his death.

Sunday ni|ht afire did daflWfri In the reiF df Roy Confirms gtodMj stoiti} &t Second and Main streets, And *dly prompt work by the lire dipjrt* Inent prevented a titty serfo'dl nre. There were some mysterious features connected with the Cre that kave thus far escaped notioe. Mrs. JklBes Godsey ilivee above the Oonfare Ktore, and her front room was ooottpted by a young woman giving her nWhe as Emma Broderick. She was ode'flned to her bed and had to he rettwved in a oab to the horn# of friend' on north first street

When she "Vras being removed loan WiaHtttfcnd lying In the hall,on OonsoiO^s. He was removed to the •Opts ill Win he recotered oonsdowr-

iiess and disappeared. His name was^not given, but it is sai^ he is a resident of one of the large northern jpities, has an acquaintanceship in Terr? Haute, and a name that has a national significance. His presence in this city is said to be the result of an escapade, and he was enabled to get out of town, by the aid of local friends, before the facts beoame known.

The township assessors of this county will meet with County Assessor Hoff next Thursday, to talk over the assess rnent for the present year, and to decide upon same uniform plan of action. The real estate assessment will be made this year, the second one under the new tax law, the first one having been made in 1891. Under the old law realty was assessed every six years A recent circular trom the state tax commissioners calls attention to the fact that township assessors' duties do not simply consist in tabulating the property, but go much further, and under their oaths they must see to it that the property is listed "at its true oash value," and they have an equal voice in determining what "its true cash value" ia.

OBITUARY.

MBS. JULIA MHURY.

Mrs. Julia Merry, widow of the late Samuel Merry, died last Sunday morning at the family residence, at Sixth and Locust streets. Deceased was born near Merom, Sullivan i-ounty, Indiana, Db cember 8,1816, and ail her life had been spent in that county and this, to which she came in 1837. She was married March 17, 1836, and it was fitting that a life that had been filled with, much kindness and goodness should have ended on the fifty-ninth anniversary of the day that united her to her life companion. She had been a consistent member of the Methodist church from early ohildhood, and joined Asbury church when she came to Terre Haute. She was the oldest member of that church, a fact that was fittingly alladed to by Rev. W. H. Hickman in his remarks at the funeral.

Her husband, who died in 1884, was one of the best known oltizens of Terre. Haute, and there was soaroely a lad in the city but considered himself on intimate speaking terms with "Uncle Sain" Merry, and as naturally his wife

The funeral servioes we-6 conducted at the residence on Monday afternoon by Rev. W. H. Hiokman, t\L choir of Asbury church furnishing the musio. Among those from a distance who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Thos. B. Springer, Mrs. Thos. Bland and John Giaham, of Sullivan county.

was known,«s "Annf Juli*." Jffc life, fli#j|omaa who ever held an executive it» man deeds of kindness, and many hearts have ached at the loss of so goed and true a friend. One son, John T. Merry survives her.

MBS. OHARIiOTTB A. WKIOHT. Mrs. Charlotte Anna Wright, wife of Edwin R. Wright, died at the family residenco on south Seventh street, Tuesday afternoon, after along illness. She had been in poor health for several years, and during the past few montha the complication of diseases with which she suffered led her death to be expected at any time. She suffered so long and so patiently that death came as a merciful relief, sad as it was to the loving olrole. Deceased was born at New Berlin, Pennsylvania, Deoember 16, 1831. She was educated at Canton, Ohio, and taught for a year in the institution from whioh she graduated. Later she came to this city, and In 1858 socepted a position in the first graded sohool established here. She was married in December, 1860, to Edwin R. Wright, and of this union, now so sadly broken, four children are living, William J., Sarah Louisa, M. Elizabeth and Edwin J., who with the bereaved husband have the syaft'iy of a large circle of friends in the .»• mess that has fallen upon them. The (.^ceased was a member of St. Stephen's church, and the funeral services were held there Thursday afternoon. v':

1YPE SETTING MACHINES. The Dally Express appeared this morning in anew shape, a six oelumn, eight page paper, the size of The Mail. The composition is now done on the most wonderful invention known to the printing fraternity, the ''Linotype" type-set-ting machine, four of which have been planed in the office. It gives the paper each day the app^araoOB of having been printed rrom n«w type. The Express compositors in ohargj® of the new machines are John Nelson, Matt. Britt, Bert Seldomridge and gvinger. Tb® improvement in the Ixprese it narked, And The Mail congratulates its tiilfhbor on the enterprise shown In adapting itself to modern oondltldni-.

LICENSED 10 WED.

Thnmaa JaokeoA and Emaline Briddle. [Ann A. Fm and Katie H. Mcuape. Folksrt F. Heyen and Lixiie &nderwood. BufusBLBoseetland MairBBlL. fm. T. Btner and MB®15. David W. Moore «nd Carrie UBtoner. Biotas Archer and Mary Jane Qrayless.

An Evanstille youth who bad been told that« certain yonng lady's father had plenty of dough, proposed to her'before he discovered that the old man was tobaker.

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ABOUT WOMEN.

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Puts anojt^er face on the malter—^. rouge. fc? Kate Field thinks our divorce laws ought to begin at the other end and make marriage more difficult.

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Most women do not seem to care whether a photograph resembles them or not just so it is good-looking.

The Philadelphia Record chinks that it is a wise young housekeeper who excuses her bad cooking on the grounds of typographical errors in her cook book,

According to Mr. Cross in his metnoir, of his wife, the reason she took the name of George Eliot was, as he explains it, "because George was Mr. Lewia' Caristian name, and Eliot was a good, mouthfilling, easily pronounced word."

In a birthday cake ordered the other day by Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt for a party for .her daughter Consuelo two diamond rings were hidden costing $1,000. The'slices of one half were for ladles and the other half for gentlemen.

It id iuteresting to note that CasimirPerler's mother disapproved entirely of her son's resignation. Although over 80 year* old, this brilliant French woman does not look 60, and is a keener politician than many of the men prominent in Frauce to-day.

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A woman, Mrs. Henry D. Cram, of Boston, will furnish the Paris exposition of 1900 with seventy-five derricks, to be used in the construction of all the-build-ings that are to be of durable stone. Mrs. Cram will personally superintend the plaolng of these derricks. |yt

A cooking-school teacher spoke the* other day of rather a singular fact whioh she had discovered in conducting classes in various schools and institutions. This was that boys learned oooking' much quicker thau girls, "They take to it more readily," as she expressed it.

Miss Adele M. Field says mothers in China often turn their girl babies over to hucksters, who hawk them about the streets in a basket, selling them for about the price of a spring chioken. Mothers of Infant sons buy these girl babies and rear them as future daugh-ters-in-law.

ItiiM Phcebe OouzMs is said to be the

office under the United States asrvraftoithe eastern dlstriot of Missouri to her father. When he died President Cleveland appointed her marshal to fill oat his term at a salary of $6,000.

Anna Shaw, D. D., was giving some advioe' lately,to an assembly of women on how to talk in publlo. "The best way," she said, "to address an audience is to talk as if yoa were soolding your hasband." Kate Field said: "And as if every man, woman and child in the seats were so many heads of oabbage. Cabbages would not frighten you, an you oau talk loud by addressing one in* the top gallery."

San Franoisco is entertaining a princess who oomos out of the wide Paolfio. Her real home is an island in the South seas. The Prinoess Ninlto is a scion of the family of Fomare, rulers in Tahiti for nearly 200 years. She oame by the Mariposa, and is accompanied- thus far on a journey half around the world by two retainers who will stop In Sao Franoisco while the lady continues her journey alone. The prinoess will remain in San Francisco soms time.. She is going to Franoe, of whioh oountry her royal family is now a pensioner. When she starts east her retainers will return to their island home, ,v

1HE BRIDGES 1RIAL.

The most sensational murder trial this county has had for many years has been In* progress in the Cirpuit court this week, it is that *of Isaac Bridges, a former employe of the tool works, who in December last shot and killed Mrs. Eva Montgomery, wife of Joe Montgomery, who while running a west Main street saloon several years ago killed a man, for which he was tried and acquitted. The defense was that the, deed was committed in a fit of insanity, caused by Mrs. Montgomery discarding Bridges as a lover, after she had made way with all bis money, and expert testimony was introduced to establish his insanity. The testimony was as disgusting ss could be expected in suoh a case, but it succeeded in attracting a orowd that tested the capacity of the court room. Muoh feeling was displayed during the examination of the witnesses, and on Thursday the murdered Wdtxian's husband made an attempt to strike Attorney M. C. Hamlll for a reference he made to his (Montgomery's) record. The taking of testimony was finished last evening, and the speeches began this morning. Prosecu

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Hu ston

and A. Kelley will speak for the state and A. A. Beecher and Carson Hamill for the defense. The legal fight haa been a warm one. Prosecutor fluston has been assisted by A. J. Kelley and Duffy Caldwell, and although the state made a strong fight the prisoner's attorneys, M. C. Hamill and Beecher A Kelley, hare made a noble effort, and put up a stronger ease thau was thought possible nnder the circumstances.