Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 August 1896 — Page 1

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OS THE QUI VIVE.

A comedy in high life is being enacted in Terre Haute. Admission free. It is entitled, "The Blinn Sisters or, Is Marriage a Failure?"

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of the severe spinster who says that it is, while Miss Sarah says that, If allowed, she can prove it is not. The heavy villain role is assumed by agentleman named Combs, who has lost one wife and is willing to carry Miss Sarah down the ladder from the second story window and fly with her to some Gretna Green where she can be his, /"second." The other characters in the play are lawyers who knit their brows and clench their fists and talk like Hamlets to a jury who look and listen and discuss and decide

It would all be very funny if it were not HO real to the parties interested. The two hisses Blinn are very respectable little ladies, neither of whom it is no slander to J- say will ever see thirty-five *again. They ". have considerable property and while they enjoy pet cats more than their neighbor's children, that is no business of yours and mine. No one knew of their little foibles and much less of their love affairs until suddenly Miss Charlotte notified the public that a dreadful man is in the house. When the daring Adam who entered this Eden I justified his course to Mtss Charlotte by saying that his affinity was Miss Sarah, then it was that Miss Charlotte's slipper stamped and she uttered "It cannot be."

The cruel man laughed. Then he swore. It might only have been an explosive under his breath, but it sufficed. It brought the constable, the red eyed law, reveuge. It knocked the ladder down and "queered" the elopement. But after the ball was over and the fine paid, the true lovers met again and Romeo advised .Juliet to bring her purse and not to forget her little deeds. Thwarted once, Miss Charlotte sought the law again, and Sarah Blinn has faced a jury this week who have passed on hei»sanity of mind.

The most sensible labor paper that I have ever read is the Sunday Times, of this city, published by Otto Wurtzebach, a well-known printer. He never refers to unorganized labor or non-union men as "rats" or "scabs," and the choice word of so many labor advocates, "plutocrat," is barred from his columns. It is a reasonably conducted labor organ, and if there were more of them like this there would not be the wrong impression created among a certain class of people that a labor organizer, or a member of a. labor jJTtinimi, Is an enemy Wftoclefcy, and oughf to lie repressed by law. This Is, of course, an unjust impression, but the labor agitators who are continually talking about the plutocratic press, and the plutocratic oppressors of labor, are In great measure responsible for this. As a result of the decent way in which the Times is conducted it is making

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There will lie uo Naylor's Opera House. Even tf the insurance is adjusted satisfactorily this month, there will be none. Not enough room exists to build one uuless it follow the unsafe plan of the old house. The old opera house was not a good investment, except wheu the flames devoured it. A new office building will more likely take its place. It is the model place for a den of offices. Put six or eight stories on that corner with a light elevator running to the top—a roof garden, it may be on the deck—elegant store rooms on the street, and it will be the pride of Terre Haute. Let some one else build the opera house, Mr. Cox. J)o you see to it that the apple of the eye of the Wabash country is "The Naylor," the only eight-story Are-proof office block in town.

The Indianapolis police are enforcing a foolish rule that street and curbstone debates on silver will not lie allowed. Q. V. hopes that the Terre Haute blue coats will not molest any group of men who are so patriotic as to stand under the X-rays of an August sun and ai^ue whether George Washington was a plutocrat or not, and whether Judas's thirty pieces of silver were coined at a ratio of 16 to I.

Democratic Chairman Al. Schaal challenged Republican Chairman Frank Ben »miu to have a gold day ami a silver day the Vigo county fair next week. Very pleasaut diversion that, but County Chairman Benjamin is not playing to the grand stand, and while Mr. Schaal is getting applauded for the fine balk he made, Mr. B. is swiping the ball clear over the left field fetuv. One of the very good grounds which Mr. Benjamin gave was that the gold day would bring so many people to the fair that Mr. Schaal would get so much money for his share as fair director that the free silver Democrats wouldn't have to contribute to the campaign, and "Beu" wain# to see 'em put up or shut np.

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The promise of a big display for th* Vigo county fair never waa so good as at present in the days preceding the opening. The entries never were so large nor re prevented much that Is really worth seeing. The fair association people are surprised, because this Is not a year when mnch was to have lieen expected. It has become necessary to build more stalls far the cattle. Ninety six head of beef cattle had engaged Mall* last night, which is more than the number for a state fair the week before the opening. For the fine art hall there are more than two thousand entries, which i* a record breaker.

It has been arranged to hav* two night exhibition*. The grounds will be lighted and opened Wednesday and Thursday

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evenings. The art hall will be as completely lighted as in the day time, and through the central part of the grounds there will be many arc lights. It is hoped that many persons will go to the grounds late in the afternoon and have lunch there, or get lunch or supper on the grounds for which ample preparations will be made

Wednesday will be the children's day, on which all children will be admitted free. In the afternoon there will be a bal loon ascension, as there, will be Thursday afternoon. Thursday afternoon there will also be a running race for farmers' horses.

MCSORLEY'S TWINS.

erguson arid Emerick at-the Casino Xext "Week. No company of comedians better able to please all classes of people will appear at the Harrison Park Casino this season, than the company presenting "McSorley's Twins," and headed by those thoroughly capable and entertaining Irish character artists, Terry Ferguson and George H. Emerick. What they do not know in the line of Irish comedy is hard to find. Their humor is spontaneous. There is no straining for effect, but it comes out natural and strong, and carries the audience with it in bursts of fun and merriment. It is surprising to witness the amount of fun Ferguson and Emerick will extract from apparently trivial situations. The dialogue of "McSorley's Twins" is ingeniously witty. and the action is bright and sparkling. The songs, specialties and dances are introduced in a manner that does not mar the unfolding of the plot, and the ever changing scenes of charming originality, presents to the eyes, long to be remembered. As a scenic production, "McSorley's Twins" is a little more pretentious than the usual run of farce-comedies, and some decidedly unique mechanical effects are also introduced. The music is original and the entire musical program is under the personal direction of V. C. Minnell. They appear at the Casino Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, August 11th and 12th. Prices, 15, 25 and 50 cents.

PAIN'S GORCEOUS FIREWORKS.

The ".Last Hays of PompeU" JUere Next Week. The grandest exhibition of pyrotechnics ever seen in this city will be given at the Base Ball Park Friday and Saturday nights, next week, August 14th and 15th, when the magnificent scenic spectacle, "Pain's hast Days of Pompeii" will be presented, with its worfttof novel features and glittering costumes. 350 perform ances, chariot races, hurdle races, athletic sports and games, ballet chorus, marches brilliant illuminations, and aquatic fire works display. Sale of seats will begin at Buntin's Drug store Tuesday morning August ltth. Prices 50c, reserved seals 73c, tiox seats $1.00. Grand street parade Friday morning, 11:30 o'clock.

The Qulndecupiet.

The latest thing on wheels, a quindecup let, or cycle for fifteen riders, is to be built for a Club of fifteen enthusiasts. The captain of the club, C. H.-Jones, walked into a Park Kow bicycle store and asked if a machine could be made that would carry fifteen riders. "Certainly," said the man ager, if you want to pay the price. It will come close to $500." He was told to go ahead and make plans and specifications for the giant cycle, and in a month the machine may be finished. In England vehicle to carry twelve riders has already been built, and in this country an enterprising firm turns them out for six riders. These are not bicycles, but tricycles, with one wheel in ftont and two in the rear. The newest machine is to have one seat in front for the steersman, and then seven pairs of seats behind, side by side. The gear will be 168, which is enormous, And every revolution of the pedals will drive the machine ahead 46 feet 8 inches. Special tubing will have to be ordered, and the stoutest of pneumatic tires. If the riders are experts they conld make phenomenal time on their new qulndecupiet.

Thomas McKinley, rcwd master of the Evansville & Indianapolis division of the Rvansville & Terre Haute, was killed at Maysville, near Washington, Indiana, Monday by the caving in of a bank of earth. He was with a gang of men at work making a waterway when the accident occurred. Mr. Mckinley's body was brought to this city that evening accompanied by an escort of Knights Templar from Washington. Mr. McKinley was one of the twenty-five thirty-third degree Masons of the Mate and in Masonic circles as in private life was esteemed by scores of friends. The body was taken to the residence. 1508 north Eighth street. Mrs. McKinley and daughter were visiting in Rockville and did not arrive here until the next day, Mr. McKinley was 58 years of age. He came here from Crawfordsville In 1886 to take a position as guager. At the end of the first "Oeveland administration be became road master of the K. & I. The fn~Til services were held Wednesday af :ioon and interment was at Highland Lawn. Several members of the Scotish Rite degree of Masons from Indianapolis being present to take part In the ceremonies.

Klva Waldron, a former Inmate of the Rose Home, aged 1$ years, committed suicide at Lafayette. She had been incorrigible and It waa intended send her to the reformatory. Her father lived near Staunton hat she could not live with her stepmother and waa went to the Rose Horn several yean ago. She had lived with a number of families after leering the hom*.

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ABOUT WOMEN.

There has been a recent change in the accepted bicycle outfit for women that hygienically and artistically is for the better— the rejection of leggins. Leggins are hot, ugly and unnecessary. They seldom fitsmoothly, even when made to order, but the warmth is the principal objection to them. The shops now offer bicycle or golf stockings for women and the better class of riders are rapidly adopting them. The heavy hose such as men wear are not popular because of their clumsiness. It is difficult to draw ordinary shoes over them. This drawback is now 'being obviated by the manufacture of golf stockings with feet of a thinner weave. But better than these are the cool stockings of lisle or plaited silk that may be purchased now at the best shops and are made in dark golf, colors. About $1.50 is the price of one pair,1 but they are fine in quality and wear well. The rejection of leggins is not immodest, as may at first appear. It is sensible. A skirt of proper length meets the shoe top just above the ankle. The stockings dp not show except when the wind becomes* little too boisterous,.and no more exposure is made than when leggins are worn. Women are also rejecting the high lacedup boot. They, too, are warm and are absolutely harmful. To fit well, they are laced up tightly, and so interfere with the proper circulation of the lower limbs.

At many summer resorts women riders wear tan low shoes with heavy bicycle stockings, or ordinary tan laced walking boots with thinner ones. Tuxedo is also responsible for the introduction into al most all country places where cottage life prevails of the adoption of the bicycle costume—short skirt and shirt waist—as the accepted morning dress. Women appear in it at breakfast, and are then ready for a spin, a tramp, golf, boating, or any sport* that may be better participated in with a moderately short skirt. This does away with the weary waiting so tedious to mas^ culine impatience while a woman goes to don her bicycle attire. The change necessarily takes time, bicycling clothes differing so essentially from ordinary feminine garb as to elicit the refnark from ne girl that "it was useless for anyone to invite her to ride without first giving her a month's notice."

A woman may not be be&utiful, but if

she possesses a graceful carriage she has a power of attraction that mere regularity of feature might well envy. All grace consists in motion. The great secret of i( is to unite in-the same movement apparent contradictions—quickness and softness, vivacity and mildness, gentleness and spirit. Ease is the essence of grace. When Milton describes the grace of an angel, it is "smooth-sliding withoutstep," and Guido's angels, graceful as Taglioni or Duvernay, seem to have been painted after Milton's description. The seat of grace is in all parts of the body that have motion—the legs, hands, arms, head, lips, eyebrows, and particularly the neck. As the head is almost continually in motion, the muscles of the neck, in order that the head may move with freedom and ease, should be extremely supple. This suppleness may be acquired by practice. A French women, sitting between two men, will address the same phrase to both of them, by a free and easy motion of the head, without even moving her shoulders. The women of other countries can seldom do that. When they turn the head, there is a stiffness in the joints or muscles of the neck, making them turn the body with it. Nothing is ever graceful that is forced or unnatural. The smallest degree of affectation destroys grace, and hence the necessity of attending to that precious rule—"Rien de trop"—do not overstep the modesty of nature. To trespass against this precept is to become theatrical in manner.

Elizabeth Cad? Stanton ridicules the idea that a woman doesn't look well on bicycle. "No woman can look worse on a wheel than a man bent at an angle of 45 degrees, and with coat tails flying," she declares. As for dress,"she does not doubt that in time women will look pretty and graceful in long stockings, knickerbockers, tight-fitting sacks and military caps. "I like a trim vessel in a storm, with all sails reefed. They will, as an object les son, illustrate a great natural law—that woman Is a bifurcated animal, and does not run, as she seems to the ordinary observer, like a churn on castors, a pyramid in shape from waist downward. A being with two legs, for free motion, must, of necessity, have bifurcated garments. This revelation of legs has been a great shock to some sensitive souls, and debates on the question of what women should wear have been as hysterical as on the first pointshould she be permitted to ride at all

As she decided the first for herself, and defiantly rode off in the face of her oppomiS she will decide the second point, nod wear what she pleases, gradually making changes in dress and wheels, as added com far* and coa vcnience demand, and popular prejudices must yield her undisputed sway In this new field of activity, just as they have other strongholds from time to time In the past. ,.v

It la a deplorable fact that many girls just budding Into womanhood think it delightful to associate with young men who have the reputation of being a little bit teat. They openly assert that they cannot bear the goody goody sort and try themselves to be aa rakish as it is possible to be while keeping within the limits of accepted feminine deportment. Girls of l? and IS rather pride themselves on being dabbed "larky" and chat of Bohemia as a desirable land in which all is gayety and care free Mid. Of ooont, there are many whole-

some. lovely yonng women who are sensible enough to recognize the fact that a "woman's greatest charm is her womanliness and they do not attempt to cultivate any demeanor other than that which is refined and gentle. The writer, though not a hundred years old, has seen enough of life to realize that Bohemia is not a domain in which women find happiness. It sounds all very well in books, but in reality it is a very prosaic and unprofitable existence #hen robbed of the glamour of its ideality. The girls who long for a Bohemian career and are encouraged in their desires by the young men who are not goody goody will find that these self-same individuals may apparently delight in the good fellowship existing between the sexes, but they are not bMnging their wives, sisters or sweetheart* jnto that atmosphere that is entirely tdb unconventional for sweet, good women tpenjoy. We are not prudish, the joys of life are as much to us as to the veriest Bohemian that ever lived, but there is a right way ji securing them and a wrong v§ay. Go ifefor a ime, but do not t^ink for one moment that an acknowledged fondness for questionable escapades, a penchant for cigarettes and the company dlt men who claim the distinction of being Iffast" will add to the glory of your womanhood. It may seem all very delightful at 18, but at 28 you will blush even at the niemory of what you did in your thoughtlessness ten years before. Friends made ifr Bohemia are not apt to be the sort that a||e for a woman's best good. There are cither things in life than froth. There is a teal purpose, a definite line of duty, and higher aims than those that enter into the Itohemlan category, and there is lots of futi, too, pure innocent and refreshing, fun thl&oan be enjoyed without a blush either ifjfthe present or the future. Headaches aid heartaches are more numerous in Bohemia than out of it. Therefore, it is well to steer clear of the shores that look fair itfthe distance, but on which many a bark has been wrecked, many a life saddened if not utterly ruined.

The group on the porch had been discussing everything from politics to pop

corn, and at las.t r. pretty girl who w»s twirling anew engagement ring on her finger propounded the question, "What is the best way to keep a man interested and awfully in love after he knows he is sure of you}-" "Don't let him know that he is sure of you," sententiously replied a friend who always has a dozen men on a string, btjt gs -yet no special one picked out for her fyjibire husband. The men in the party, wftn afr of indifference that failed to impress anyone, kept perfectly quiet until the. engaged girl shook the hammock in which reposed a lazy young lord of creation, whose reputation fcr being awfully spoiled by the fair sex was well known to t-very one in the group. "For ray part," he replied in answer to the implied inter rogation, "I wouldn't spend a minute chasing around aftef a woman who didn't care for me. A girl has got to show that she is fond of me and of no one else, and then if I am fond of her, all right in other words, I think engagements and marriage, and all that sort of thing, means the girl loving the man unreservedly and he giving her all the attention he can spare from other enjoyments." "Well, of all the selfish views! 'Love is of man's life a thing apart, etc.," quoted a young married woman, "but I want to say right here that I know that your royal majesty at present is awfully concerned over a certain individual who has been cold and indifferent to him for six months, while during the two years he was sure of her he scarcely gave her devotion, a thought." "Maybe she thinks that a little dose of his own medicine will do him good," said a masculine voice, proceeding from a married man, whose wife all women envied, owing to the devotion and gentle chivalry he bestowed upon her. "I think if two people really care for each other it is not wise to act as if they didn't in order to stimulate a feeling that is all right perhaps before they have exchanged vows, but which only causes useless pain afterward! Of course, a man cannot be protesting his love every minute,and a woman shouldn't expect it. On the other band, he ought to show his love if he doesn't express it, and she ought to be as ready to respond as he is to give. According to my views it is much better to show one's rail feelings than to enact. indifference, for once a breach is found It is then discovered how hard it is to get a man's love back." "I don't believe yon ever do," said the girl of many admirers, looking so solemn that the others felt sure she had let someone slip out of her life whom she would gladly have come back. "Warmed-overs are never like the real thing," announced the. man In the ham mock, "yon can't get the same zest into them, you are always haunted by thought* of the previous disagreement, yon can't depend cm her."

But suppose she said she was sorry," quietly interposed the girt, "wouldn't you believe her?

Yes, I think I would," and the long figure arose from the hammock, looking like someone who had heard good news, and when be and the fair questioner had strolled out into the moonlight, the engaged girl, the married man and the hosteas smiled Into each other's eyes and thought "silly as our talk has been, it has patched up one broken love affair, and the warmed-over, like turkey bash, may be better even than the first serving."

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Manoonrt, Mr. and Me*. D. W. Minshall, Miss Hden MlnshaO and Mr. W. D. Morris, the latter accompanied by Morris Hudnut, sre at Nan-

NEWS OF THE CITY.

Jacob May has bought the Annex saloon from Werkiser & Ray. Jerry Hughes' Thirteenth street base ball club will play a game with the Bloomers at the park Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock.

The Terre Haute Gun club has made arrangement for an all-day shoot September 11, and it is expected marksmen will be here from a number of cities.

The council did not act on the saloon license question last Tuesday, but fixed for a special session next Tuesday to consider the petition for a reduction from $250 to $150. thf*

C. O. Schultz, wfco has bfetta jJark police man at Harrison park has taken the position as manager of the Lyceum Theater company which he joined at Frankfort this week.

Harry M. Jac&son* has been appointed substitute letter carrier to fill the vacancy caused by the promotion of Substitute Edwin Cline to succeed M. F. D'.nighsrty, deceased.

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Len Olliver, the reform school boy who escaped from Chief Meagher from a fast moving train was caught in East St. Louis and brought to this city whence he was taken to the reform school. '1

Mr. William Dedert, of the firm of Dederb & Sudbrock, of Indianapolis, dry goods and notion dealers, has succeeded Mr. Scott in charge of the notion department at Ptavens & Geddes. He will take stock in tha company. .•?* "N

Ernest Whitehouse has again eseaped from the insane hospital at Indianapolis, and the Terre Haute police are lying in wait for him to return to his home here as he has done every time heretofore when he escaped from the hospital

The Wabash went into the bottoms this week and there was nearly twenty feet of water in the channel. It is thought there will be heavy loss for the owners of the growing corn crop. Little or no damage was done along the river bank in the city.

Mrs. Woods broke in the windows and doors of Tilton W. Howard's saloon at Seventeenth and Lafayette avenue because her husband got drunk in the place. She was threatened with arrest but said she would as soon go to jail as the poor house. She was not arrested.

The Mail is in receipt 'Slumber ^i me,'' words and music by Mrs. Carrie B. Adams of this city.. The waUxJuMNffa* «iusipal abilities of this popular composer are well displayed in this beautiful lullaby song, which is meeting with great success. It can be had in this city of W. H. Paige & Co.

Dr. Mendenhall, formerly president of Rose Polytechnec institute, has been appointed chairman of the Mas.stchusetts highway commission. Massachusetts has appropriated $600,000 to be expended this year on the public roads. Some roads in the state are built at a cost of $10,000 a mile.

At a meeting of the directors of the Y. M. C. A. thfe resignation of Physical Director Barnes was accepted and the secretary not instructed to notify Mr, Barnes how much the association regretted his retirement. Secretary Jamison was instructed to visit the summer physical school the Y. M. C. A. in Wisconsin to find a successor for Mr. Barnes.

A labor directory has been issued by C. E. Carter and D. F. Kennedy, the two labor leaders who have been in the city for several weeks. The title of the book is "The Trade Unions of Terre Haute. The History and Biographical sketches of leading union officers and prominent pub lie men." The book is handsomely Illustrated.

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The readers of The Mail are referred to the advertisement of Goodman & Hirschler's great fire and water sale of clothing. The firm is well and favorably known all around this part of the country and their assertion that their stock must be closed out regardless of cost will no doubt be fully believed by all who know the reputation of this firm.

Mrs. Lucinda Barlow Tuell, mother of the late William B. Tuell, died Monday morning of paralysis. Mrs. Tuell was 89 years of age but until comparatively recently had been in good health. She had lived for a number of years with her daughters, Mrs. George Ripley and Mrs. Nannie Wilkerson. Her husband died in 1850 and she came here to live in the following year.

The sumtger school of science at the state Normal closed yesterday, ending th most successful term of the four that have been held. There were eight graduates who will receive the regular Normal certificate of graduation, having finished in the summer school certain branches in which they were deficient at the time of the commencement exercises of the 1806 in June.

Mary Ann Vale has been doing something again and filling the newspapers. Mary Ann Is a black woman of the total depravity type and the mayor asked her why she didn't take poison. She said she had bought some with the intention of committing suicide but thai Policeman Byte took it from her. Ryle has pleaded guilty, and if die authorities succeed in sending Mary Ann oat of town nothing will be done with him.

There was a call for a sound money Democratic meeting one night this week at the mayor's office, hat not more than a dosen persons were present. The meeting did not take formal shape, but in the informal consultation on the sidewalk it was deckled to amd two or three represent*-

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to the Indianapolis conference. Among those present at the eurbstone conference were Spencer Ball, one of the proprietors of the Gazette, Dan R^f gan, H. A. Urban, John G. Williams, Frauk Skelton and John S. Beach.

Michael Dougherty, of the lt-tter carrier force, died Sunday morning of congestion of the brain and paralysis. He had not been well for some time, although he wa» on duty until the middle of last week. Ho was a popular member of the force, and had many friends outside of those with whom he came in contact in the performance of his duty. He lived with his father, Barney Dougherty, who has been confined to the house for many months.

Engineer Cole made his report to the* council last Tuesday on the belt sewer submitting two plans, one for an outlet at College street and the oter for an outlet at Hulman street. There is some criticism of the plans submitted by Mr. Cole and doubt expressed of the practicability of building a sewer according to the plans. It has been suggested that before contractsare let that it would be a good idea for the council to submit the plans to an expert engineer who has no connection with Terre Haute affairs.

Ida Fuller, the serpentine dancer who was at the Casino at the opening of the season, has had a sea serpent experienceand thereby secured much free advertising. She was bathing at Manhattan beach when the horrid thing caught her about the legs and pulled her down, down into the depthsof the ocean. With all her ability to kick she could not kick off the serpent, and a. man who went to her rescue was also caught by it. Miss Fuller is said to have been taken from the water in a lifeless condition but she soon recovered.

The new opera house project is In no more definite shape than it was a week ago. The insurance on the Naylor build* ing has not been settled aud until it is paid there can be no definite decision about a new theater. There has been talk of a building by Crawford Fairbanks on Main street opposite the Terre Haute house near Eighth but it is not to be considered as MrFairbanks merely offers to' lease tha ground on lor.g time to the Dicksons.. Colonel McLean expresses a willingness to build a theater for the Dicksons on his property on Sixth street below Ohio. It iir* understood the Naylor locati6n ha* thi^ first consideration.

Township Assessor Carr has addetf?4j about seventy-five thousand dollars to the tax list? this year by making a determine* flghtrfor it.- Six thousand of fhe Amount? is from the telephone companies which want a monopoly in the city and yet pay little or no taxes. Seventy thousand dollars were from the First National bank' which at first fought viciously against the* increase and secured favorable action by the county board of review. Assessor Carr'1 insisted on the increase and finally se-'. cured it, the bank, like Captain Scott's' coon, coming down and admitting It \vould stand the assessment without contest.

There is to be a big union meeting of railway brotherhood men of Indiana and Illinois at Harrison Park Casino August 23 and 28. One day is to be for a secret meeting and one day for a public meeting. To the latter all workingmen are to be invited. It. is announced that Chief Arthur, Grand Master Sargent and the higher officials of some of the other brotherhoods will be present. These meetings are being held., throughout the country chiefly for the# purpose of advancing the movement for' system federation by which the employes of each railroad system under one manage--ment are enabled to present a more unitedi front when they resist reduction in wages.

The Riverside Woolen Mill has been sold to the Terre Haute Chemical company which is to use the property for the enlarged production of what heretofore has been an Evansville product. Some of' the stockholders and directors are Evansville men but most of the stock will be held here in Terre Haute. The Terre Haute gentlemen interested are D. W. Minshall, Elisha Havens, C. Hansing C. Miller, H. Hulman, W. R. McKeeitr Frank McKeen, B. G. Hudnut and Robert Geddes. It is expected that within thirty days the plant will be in operation. In the soap department the brands, "Corn Meal," "Petroleum" an "Axtell" will be manufactured.

Miss Sarah Blinn is sorely hindered in her effort to marry Frank Combs. Her sister Charlotte has instituted insanity proceedings against her and the evidence is being presented to a jury. It will lie remembered that Miss Charlotte prevented an elopement by causing the arrest -of Combs on a charge of profanity. When the latter learned that Miss Sarah was again to try to elope she instituted the insanity proceedings, the court at the timeissuing an order to her not to dispose of hei property, which is valued at $7,000. Miss Charlotte alleges that Combs has acquired a peculiar influence over her sister and that it is his purpose to get her property. In the profanity essewhich was tried beforeJustioe Felsenthal Combs was acquitted. He had said nothing more than did the "ruler of the queen's navee" in Pinafore and that was held not to be profane. He bad told M'ss Chariot tee to "go in the bouse and shut her damn month." The insanity prooeeding is In Judge Taylor's court and before a jury. Miss Charlotte is accompanied In court by several women friemfs. Combs does not appear. Mls« Sarah Is much incensed at her sister and watches the trial with intetHgeot perception of all that is done. Miss Samh is past thirty years of age and old enough, to know what she wants,

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