Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 December 1896 — Page 1

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ON THE QUI VIVE.

The resolution introduced by Dr. Larkns at the council meeting Tuesday night looking to the investigation of the books of the city clerk and treasurer from 1880 up to the present time is a move in the right direction. The only objection that can be raised to the move is the expense attached to it, which will be considerable. Certainly no former official of the city can object to such a movement, although it is questionable whether it will pay to look up the books as far back as 1880. It will cost several thousand dollars to engage an expert to do this work, and the expense should-be reduced as much as possible, There can be no question but that the books of every city official, and county official as well, should be fully investigated at the end of every term. It is due the official and his bondsmen that his books be examined at stated periods, and Dr. Larkins' move will certainly lead to the adoption of an ordinance or resolution looking to such Investigation. It has been customary for years for the city treasurer and clerk toreport to the council the results of every tax settlement, which report is referred to the finance committee for investigation. The members of the finance committee look at the report, perhaps compare the totals shown on the settlement sheet with the report of tax collections made by the treasurer from month to month, and then recommend to the council that the settlement be approved. Sometimes they dsn't even compare the Reports, but present the recommendation juBt the same. There is but one way to examine such a report, and

that is to check up the receipt books of the treasurer, as credited on the duplicate, add the collections credited on the tax duplicate, and then compare with the figure in the report. It would take considerable time, of course, but there is only one way to do such things, and that is the right way. The treasurer's books are open at all times to the finance committee for this purpose, and it should be done as said before in justice to the treasurer himself and to his bondsmen. The settlements are made twice a year, and after a trial or two the members of the finance committee would become familiar with the manner of procedure, and could report knowingly to the council whether or not tho report was correct. What is true of the treasurer's report is true of that of the city clerk, and there could be no possible chance under such circumstances for any mistakes to be made in the books. The taxpnyors are entitled to know these facts, and the officers would certainly welcome such an investigation. Whether or net the resolution of Mr. I^arkins is adopted, the council should adopt a rule that tho books of the treasurer and clerk should be examined at stated periods by some one familiar with such matters, and a record of such repprt made apart of the proceedings of the council. If the resolution of Mr. Larkius, should prevail the books of the following city treasurers would be examined: "Hugo Duenweg, 1880 1883 Charles Robinson, 1883-1885 James Fltspatrlck, 1885-1880 W. W. Hauck, 1880-1894 Charles Balch, 1804 to the present time. The following are the city clerks whose books would be investigated: Eugene V. Debs, 1880-1883 George W. Davis, 1883 1887 A. C. Duddleston, 1887-1891 Charles H. Goodwin, 1801 to the present time. The man who gets the job of going through the books from 1880 to the psesent fime will have a long and wearisome task before him, and the men who do that sort of work get a trifle better pay than the men who work on tho streets.

The Gaxette editor la a firm believer In the justice of visiting the crimes of the father on the son. General Grant, several years ago, did something that made him personally unpopular with the Gazette editor, and w! Ue Grant lived there never was an opportunity lost of saying something mean about the old soldier. Even after he was dead his body was dug out of the grave to be held up to the public for abuse. Now that he has been so long dead his son. Fred Grant, receives the "roasts" that formerly fell to the lot of the father. The Gazette's "Col Fred Grant bids fair

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take rank in local history with the 'M' Klnley monstrosity." "Morton's buffet ipronounced loofny "Marcus A. (whatever the A. stands for) Hanna" ediJRrial expressions with which all readers Wf the Gaxette are thoroughly familiar. 'jwt week it was announced that the r*»on. John Clark Kidpath. the eminent .oholar it was proposed to put into politics

In this congressional district, for the purpose of purifying them, was to take the position of editor of the Arena, at a salary of #lrt.000 a ymr. This week the Arena went into the hands of a receiver. The voter* of this district are cudgelling their brains to know whether the last announcement was a result of the first.

The amount of interest the Gasette is taking in the effort to get Hon. B. F. Havens a job under the incoming administration is something painful to content plate. It is remarket! that the Gaxette never manifested such an Interest in Mr. Havens' weifarv when he was a member of the same party as the Gaieett# editor.

If John Breidenthal is elected United States senator from Kansas to succeed the bewhiskered Peffer, (j. V. is going to strike him. on the ground of old acquaintancefthip. to use bis influence to get a friend a Job as minister to Dahomey. Way back la the seventies -wi far back that it seems like ancient history to recount it—the prospec ti re senator and Q. V. w*r« seatmatea In the old public school at Fourth and Mulberry street*, when Henry Grwnawalt fwas principal, and Albert Wyeth, hi* bit

school, and Miss Clara Graff were teach ere there. Breidenthal, as I remember him was a heavy-set, rosy-ckeeked country boy. with the knack of making friends on all sides. His father, Matthew Breidenthal, was a grain dealer, and had charge of the old warehouse at Fourth street and the Yandalia road. The family lived on north Second street near the Vandalia road. The father was a Republican while here and served a term of two years in the city council from the old Fourth ward. He was elected in 1872, defeating Harry Douglass, long since deceased. He was a candidate for re-election in 1874, and was defeated by Jacob T. H. Miller, the wellknown clothing dealer. The family removed from here shortly after that to Chetopa, Kansas, where the father died about seven years ago. The son, John, came into prominence with the wave of Populism that swept over Kansas a'few years ago, and has been a leader in the counsels of that party, althongh but a young man of thirty-eight years. He has served as state bank examiner, and during the campaign just closed was chairman of the Populist state central committee. If a Populist senator is to be elected from Kansas the office could not be given to a more deserving man than a former resident of the Prairie City. If he gets there Q. V. hopes he will use his influence with the administration, if he has any, to secure the job for Q. V.'s friend of minister to Dahomey.

The work of securing subscriptions to a new opera house will begin next week, and in a few days the Dicksons will be able to tell whether or not it is possible to raise the money among our business men to put up a new opera house. The directors of the Terre Haute house"company have done nothing thus far towards futhering the plans for a theater back of the hotel on Seventh street, and the Dicksons are determined to go to work once to see what can be done. If they do not meet with the proper encouragement they will abandoil the scheme, and give up their theatrical interests In the city. Every time there is a show at Paris a special train runs from Terre Haute, ann quite a number of amuse ment patrons attend the performance there. A great deal of money has been taken out of the city In this way, to say nothing of the money that goes to Indianapolis on account of shows. It will seem strange if tho effort to erect a theater here should fiiil, and leave this city without a place of amusement in keeping with the size and importance of the city. It will take but a few days for the promoters of the present enterprise to discover whether the project will be a success. If it fails it can be Bet down as a sure thing that we will not have a theater next year.

AMUSEMENTS.

CHAKMC8 A. GARDNER.

Handsome, manly, taleuted Charles A. Gardner, known as "Karl, the sweet singer," the peer of all German comedians, will appear in his clever comedy, fatherland,n at Germanla hall next Tuesday evening, December 8th. The play portrays tho life of a heroic German, developing an interesting story of love and devotion, devoid of the modern melodramatic clap trap, but abounding in intense heart interest. The scenes are laid in the Austrian Tyrol and are reproductions of photo graphic views of this picturesque country. The naturalness of the action of the piece is considerably heighthened by the introduction of plenty of singing and dancing by a company of exceptional strength. Mr. Gardner will render all his famous songs.

THK AMKT MAONI8COPK.

The wonderful Amet Magnlscope has been secured for the attraction at the Avenue theater for all next week, opening Monday night. It is an improvement on the Vitascope, which has attracted so much attention in all the large cities. It reproduces wonderful pictures on the canvas, and everywhere it has appeared has attracted much attention. Popular prices, 10. 2T and 30 cents, will prevail during the woek, and on Monday night a ladies' free ticket will be given with every reserved seat sold.

Klka'-Mouiortul .services. The annual memorial exercises of the B. P. O. E. at the First Baptist church tomorrow afternoon promise to possess more than ordinary interest. The programme includes the regular memorial exercises of the order as provided by the ritual, a recitation of Bryant's "Thanatopsis" by Frank H. Cooper, a solo by Dan Davis, a quartette by the Davis family, a duet by Dan Davis and Miss Carrie Hyde, a solo by Mrs. Walter Scott Duenweg, a violin solo by Prof. E. F. Col berg, remarks by Rev. J. S. Holmes and an address, "Our Brotherhood." by Daniel V. Miller. Dr. H. C. Medcraft, exalted ruler of Terre Haute lodge, will have charge of the exercises.

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John F. Morrison and Dora Popp. IMUen Rarldln and Rosa Jewell. Geo. Rlpttajp and Flora Belle Morris. as. llarring and KmmaJol ». Walter Sullivan and £ulla

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and Cora Lee.

Otto Shaley, who is one of the editors of the High School journal "Crimson and White," and a brother of Dr. F. W. Shaley, met with an accident at Third and Main streets Wednesday morning, that came near costing him a foot. He jp»?ed off a street oar without noticing the iroachof another, and his foot was caught under the wheels and badly mangled, and It is fe*red that amputation will be necessary. Young Shaley Ua carrier on the Express, and was on his way home after delivering his route.

ABOUT WOMEN

Ever since Eve raised Cain in the neighborhood of Eden, there has been more or less interest manifested in the subject of, parental care and training of children, writes "Aunt Lucy" in the Housewife. Every mother thinks her system the best. What one woman doesn't know instinctively she has probably read in medical works or obtained second-hand from her mother.

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didn't have a mother or

mother-in-law, and couldn't lay her hands on one of those everybody-his-own-doctor sort of books to consult when the world's first baby boy had the colic. But she discovered, doubtless, that she wouldn't be able to bring up Abel along the same lines of procedure as in the ease of the first-born, after he was weaned, because the boys developed widely different characteristics. Cain grew up a sullen, self-willed »nd selfconfident man—something like our athlete of to-day, who can sling a club with marvelous skill, and if the games had been in vogue when he was young he would have been widely sought after fpr a place in a base ball nine or afoot ball team.

Abel would have been found in the Sunday school, had there been one in the vicinity, and so we read that a murderer and a martyr were reared right under Eve's nose. How many another family since that time has thus come to grief and sadness bscause it is almost impossible to train up two children by the same rule. Children's dispositions are as unlike as leaves on trees, though there may be a family resemblance in other particulars. Even in the first year, or nursing period of infancy, mamma will notice little indicacations of "spunk" in Johnnie or Mamie.

Cain and Abel weren't "bottle babies," that's certain. The fact that Abel offered a lamb in sacrifice shows there were sheep on the original farm, and possibly cows and goats, and the boys might have been favored with one cow's milk, or one goat's milk, instead Qf ths ??nd?ns^ t?rapd, but for the fact that the glass-blower hadn't got in his deadly work yet on the nursing bottle (and it would have been a blessing to suffering infants if his wind had failed ere he blew his first pattern.) The rubber plant was also unknown to soience or Mother Eve in the primitive days of creation. The Chinese hadn't smuggled opium into Messapotamia, and no morphia, or soothing decoctions were obtainable, and there wasn't a drug store in sight. No painted* rocks lined the banks of the Tigress and Euphrates rivers announced that children were weeping for anything else save their natural food—which was served, in those days a la American Indian style. What bottles can do for babies may be learned from French statistics, and figures will not lie, it is said, if the accountant doesn't juggle them. Out of the 60,000 infants born in Paris annually, 88 per cent, "of them die the first year of their existence —"farming them out" being a feature in that city. I haven.'t looked up New York's record.

When Thermuthis, the Egyptian princess, found baby Moses in the bulrushes, she didn't send a maid to procure a skin bottle. The baby's Sister was in the neighborhood purposely when the "find" was made, and told Thermuthis where a good and reliable wet nurse was obtainable. Moses' own mother was engaged (at a less price than $20 a week) and she pulled him through the vicissitudes of two Egyptian summers fraught with cholera infantum, marasmus, etc. If it hadnj'i.been for Pharaoh's'daughter's good sense, the Jews might have been in Egypt yet. Some are still down there, is is said, in better business than working in a brick yard.

The object of this preamble is to prevail upon all young mothers to make the resolution to nurs^their offspring. Some may assert that they cannot do it, but where there Is a will there's a way. Look in any lexicon you please, and you will find a "way" even before a "will." Try nature's way for the nursing mouths and you will bless me for this advice, and Instead of having a little blue or pink shoe in yonr bureau drawer to remind you of a small mound in the cemetery and a large wound in your heart, you will have the wee pink toes to kiss and your darling to snuggle to your bosom.

There is a popular fallacy that slavery has been abolished. It is a delusion and a snare. In every hamlet, town and city in the land dwell the bondservants of dust, women who are slaves to household cleanliness*, to their ambition to reverse the edict, "Dust thou art, and unto dost shall thou return." They possess an unwillingness to submit to the fact, that, if made of dust and returning to it, there will certainly be dust on the way. Life is, to them, an Increasing warfare with the dustatom, says Fannie Perry Gay in the Housewife.

It is true that a certain amount of opposition to particles of matter in a state of rest on floors and furniture is necessary, but there are two ways of keeping it up. One is, to exist two-thirds of the time in a seml-mortuous condition, the direct result of constant over-doing in the vain effort to keep clear of dust. The other is to accept the inevitable, use reason and discretion in the battle and bear in mind the .proportionate value of things: to prize steady nerves and rested muscles, an acheless head and painless back more than carpets immaculately but temporarily dean and dustbag apartments, which remain so for one brief day.

Dust has come to stay. It wears an air of quiet determination worthy of a better cause. It to one of the evils of life, furnishing a home for the moth which doth corrupt and the disease germ which doth kill. It has accompanied us from the time

iw breath, and wailed because rn into a wicked world. Is it reasonable to be resigned* to Besides, the old poet, Shirley,

Wtr fat| d= :'t ^Onfy the actions of the just tv Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.1

It does seem as if the laws of polite society might permit us to dust enough around for our deeds to smell sweet and blossom in, surely. Ah! it is not so. Let but the fraction of a speck of dust be found on the parlor table and the verdict "she is slack" pursues and overtakes one. Even Milton, scholar and poet that he was, evi dently realized the utility to which the dafet—devil could be put—when he wrote, "I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that nelftf sallies out and sees her adversary butrillnks out of the race, where the immortal garland is to be run for, without dju^fe and heat."

It Would really seem as if, when a virtue dad have the temerity to run a race, it ought not to bq denied the necessary concomitants of heroic effort, namely dust and heat.

Nevertheless, it is decreed by the alldominant power "they," that dust should be ostracized, and the Question is how to do it. ^To begin with, let it ever be borne in mind that the end and aim of existence is, or Tpther should be, something higher and holier than keeping a house immoderately clean* Please observe the adverb and lay espqpial emphasis on the word "house" also. It is the chief business of life to keep clean, soul and body, and clean abiding places aid materially in this direction, but it is th$ excess of energy bestowed on the casket instead of the gem, which is now deplored. lief the feminine mind submit itself gracefully to the command, "Let your moderation be known," and we may add with all reference, and let it be seen, too, when engaged in the combat with dust. JEte^lve, an^ ftdher§ t? jt, that $!1 the hottfe shall not be swept and dusted in one daygbut let a room or two be the maximutfe limit. Banish the idea that the sweeping must be done on a certain day, fair tor foul, in spite of aches or ills, or whatever betide. Determine never to when tired or ill. Sweeping is try:ercise for women, bringing into play es not venally the strongest, and nent injury has undoubtedly resulta too prolonged use of the broom ove all sources of dust as far as pos-

When a wool carpet, that absorbent rvpir of dust, wears out, replace ground floor with hard wood and rugs and on the second floor with straw carpets. It is true that straw carpets are not wholly free from dust holding quali ties, but they area great advance on the wool carpet. It is also said that strawcarpets attract that pest of the housekeeper, the buffalo bug. If this indeed be true, which is not yet demonstrated, the difficulty may be overcome by a liberal application of one of the numerous poisonous mixtures, so extensively advertised. The use of an oil mop once or twice a week lightly passed over a hard wood floor will remove the objection which many bring, namely, that the polished surface gathers the dust more quickly and makes it very apparent. The dustls there if a wool car pet covers the floor, it may not be so evident but it exists and flies all over the room* to be removed later from furniture and walls so that really very little is gained in the saving of labor and much is lost as to sanitary conditions.

If the wool carpet must stay down, it is wise to use the carpet sweeper generously and boycott the broom, for it is unhealthy in its agitation and raises too much dust. Then, when sweeping is over, use with judgment a duster, or cheese cloth. It is well to keep at least a half dozen and to wash thoroughly after using. A dusty dust-cloth In the hands of the careless and ignorant may become the root of much of the evil it is intended to allay and the sime may be said of the time-honored but now obsolete feather duster. Every housekeeper and cleaner should have an ever present and realizing sense of the won drous pugnacious character of molecules, how they take delight In bounding and rebounding, one against another, and keeping up»n endless activity. Unclean dustcloths very materially aid these tiny pugil ists, by setting the dust in motion, and should be avoided.

Finally, it would be throwing dust in other's eyes to say that, after all. is done, the house is really and truly clean. Only comparatively so, and that not for long, alas! But steep your soul in the soothing sense of duty done and then remember dear Whittier's blessed lines "Where is the victory of tbe crave?

What dust upon the spirit 1 God keeps the life sacred He gave,— The prophet never dies!" Thank God! there is one plaoe where dost never enters—the spirit. Let us keep it white and clean!

Charles W. McFarland, a well known fireman on the west end of the Vandalia, was struck by a mail crane Wednesday afternoon. near Stubblefield, and died from the injuries a few honors later. He pot his bead out of the cab window of the engine, the mail crane struck him in tbe head, and he fell back unconscious. The accident was not discovered by the engineer, Wm. Idler, until some time afterward. McFarland was forty-two years of age, and leaves a wife and five children. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and B. L. F., and those societies had charge of the funeral this morning. Tbe body was taken to Livingston, Clark county, Illinois for tin rial

DECEMBER 5, 1896. TWENTY-SEVENTH TEAK.

NEWS OF THE CITY.

Attorney D. V. Miller read a very interesting paper on "John Quincy Adams" before the Terre Haute Literary club last Monday evening.

The annual meeting of the Indiana State Board of Fire Underwriters was held at Indianapolis, Monday, Nov. 30th, and J. Irving Riddle was elected president.

John G. Williams has been made chief counsel for V. T. Malott, receiver of the Yandalia, with Thos. J. Golden as assistant.

The police board held a meeting Tuesday morning and exonerated Officer William Stoecker of the charges preferred against him by Merchant Policemen Joe O'Reilly and Dan Murphy.

Col. John E. Beggs, of this city, has been appointed by Governor Matthews as a member of the Indiana commission to arrange for an exhibit at the Tennesseecentennial next year.

James Ferrell, a pioneer citizen of Lost creek township and an uncle of Deputy County Auditor S. E. Gray, died at his home east of the city Wednesday morning. He was seventy-four years of age.

Preston Hussey and Judge Jump were appointed by Governor Matthews this week as members of the Indiana delegation to the Gulf and Atlantic seaport convention at Tampa, Fla., January 20th, to consider the question of coast defenses.

The Elks worked on John F. Regan Wednesday night, and at the conclusion of the initiatory ceremonies enjoyed asocial session. The Sages furnished an elegant lunch, and there was a feast of reason and a flow of soul until a late hour.

The improvements in progress at the Vandalia shops for some time past have been completed, at a cost, in addition to machinery, of $20,000. The new machinery cost $25,000, and the capacity of the shops has been doubled by the improvements.

R§v, JJ. H. Mountain, a student at DePauW university, has beeti S6curfld AS pastor of Trinity M. E. church, at Fourteenth and Third avenue, and he will preach his first sermon to-morrow morning. He succeeds Rev. Wm. Pack, deceased.

The commencement exercises of the January class, 1897, of the Terre Haute High school will be held in the high school rooms on the evening of January 29th. President W. W. Parsons, of the Normal, has been invited to deliver the address to the class.

Mrs. John Marshall, whose husband is engineer at the New Filbeck, tried to shuffle off this mortal coil by morphine, Thursday, as the result of domestic troubles. Dr. Wiedeman and a stomach pump relieved her of the morphine, and she will have to face her troubles.

It is said that the Women's Christian Temperance Union at its meeting last Saturday afternoon recommended to Gov-ernor-elect Mount the names of twelve gentlemen as qualifiad for the position of police commissioner. They refuse to state for publication, however, the names of the twelve.

The chess and checker players of this city have organized a club and will Becure rooms In the National block where their meetings will hereafter be held. The officers of the club are Prof. A. S. Hathaway, president Joseph B. Fuqua, vice president, and Will Shewmaker, secretary and treasurer.

Mrs. Sarah Tillottson, who died at the old ladies' home last week has by will left her property to that worthy institution, which is under the management of the ladieB' aid society, after setting aside enough money to pay for the burial expenses of her son, who is now an inmate of the soldiers' home at Dayton.

It was announced this week that Attorney Vern J. Barlow, who was defeated as a candidate for prosecuting attorney on the Democratic ticket last month, will remove from this city next spring and locate in the West. He has offers from Helena and Butte, Montana, but has not decided which of the propositions he will accept.

John G. Liehr, the tax ferrett, who did some work for the county commissioners a few months ago in looking up sequestered taxes, attempted to commit suicide at Ft. Wayne Thursday night. He had been arrested for forgery, and was in the custody of the sheriff when the attempt was made. It is that that he will recover from his in juries.

The Jackson club gave one of its enjoyable receptions at the club rooms Tuesday night. The earlier part of the evening was spent at progressive cinch, and later dancing was indulged in. The prises at cinch were won by Misses Perdita Pence and Margaret Sullivan, and Messrs. Finley McNutt and George Stuempfle. Refreshments were served.

One erf the porch climbers arrested for the robbery of G. A. Schaal's residence, Wm. Wright, has been Identified by the Boston police authorities as a criminal of many aliases, wanted in Massachusetts for breaking jail in PIttsfidd in 1887. The county commissioners will be asked when they meet on Monday to plaoe a special guard over tbe three porch climbers.

The wages of sin do not always seem to be death, if we may believe the charges made this week in a suit brought by the wife of Bud McCoy, a Second street bawdy house keeper. She alleges that he has made in the past few years 50,000, of which she wants her half, as she helped him make it. Recently they separated, it lljsid because she became enamored of another man. Now she wants an aocount-

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vng of their years in business together, and thinks nothing less than $25,000 will be correct. McCoy came here several years ago as a horse trader, and has prospered as a saloon keeper and keeper of a house of ill repute. He owns a number of pieces of property on Second street, and is said to be well fixed in this world's goods, although $50,000 is probably a high figure to place on their value.

When it comes to giving reasons for divorces, Terre Haute people can certainly take the lead. One man this week gave as his reason for asking for a divorce from his wife that she said that she was so much younger than he was that she could have more fun elsewhere. And just ou account of a little thing like that he got mad and asks for a divorce.

The Republican First Voters' club, of which George O. Dix is president, held a meeting this week, and decided to makethe organization a permanent one, aud a meeting will be held at the court house next Friday night, to take the necessary steps. The club was one of ths mostprominent engaged in the recent campaign, and is credited with the managers as having done most effective work.

Blinn Camp, Sons of Veterans, has elected the following officers for the ensuing term: Arthur G. Clark, captain J. E. Adair, first lieutenant Albert Whitmer, camp counsel Frank Turk, Walter Haley and George Krletensteln, delegates to national encampment. William Hoff, Alonzo Peas*and Henry Haas were elected alternates. Fred H. Corbin presided as installing officer.

Col. Dan Fasig did an act this week greatly to his credit, in recommending to clemency Ed. Matthews, who had been indicted for robbing the store of Apman,. Fasig & Starr last summer. Judge Piety released Matthews on condition that he' would abstain from strong drink, promising to send him to the penitentiary the first time he was found under the influence of liquor.

Thomas W. Dwyer, an employe of the Vandalia round house, and step-father of Myrtle Sparks, a well-known local poetess, died very suddenly at his home on Third avenue Monday evening. He was insured in the Ancient order of United Workmen, and a committee of that order Invited Coroner Payne to examine into the cause of his death. That official decided that death resulted from natural causes.

The doctors are looking forward with et good deal of Interest to an event which will take place here next Saturday afternoon. It Is a meeting between the foot ball teams of the Terre Haute High School anfl the University of Vincenues. Terre Haute is rather behind this year In her list of foot ball mishaps, and this is probably the last chance Bhe will have of furnishing her quota of maimed and disabled.

The DePauw club, of this city, composed of members of the alumni association of that university, have organized by the election of the following officers: W. H. Hickman, president, and Miss Elizabeth Rose, of the Normal faculty, secretary. An advisory committee haB also been appointed, consisting of W. I. Overstreet, Dr. Walker Schell, Milton Durham, Charles Whitcomb and Marshall G. Lee.

Oriental Lodge, No. 18, Knights o£ Pythias, which was organized January 18th, 1872, will celebrate its twenty-flfth anniversary with appropriate exercises at Castle Hall, in the Beach block, nes| month. A committee of arrangement#, consisting of Messrs. C. L. Burcham, Lawrence Burget, Joseph G. Elder, Harry Brown and Andrew Burget, has been appointed to arrange for the celebration.

Prof. Chas. Hoich, a member of the faculty of the State Normal School, died at the Union Home, last Saturday afternoon, of a complication of diseases. He was a resident of Oswego, N. Y., and bis body was shipped there for burial Wednesday afternootj, The deceased was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and his lodge in Oswego telegraphed to the local lodges to take charge of the remains here.

About the hardest working member of tbe newspaper business in this city is Otto Wurtzebach, editor of the Sunday Times, the organ of organized labor. He does all the editorial work on tbe paper, sets the type himself, is advertising solicitor, foreman, etc. With the revival of business, and the natural impetus that will thus be given to labor organizations it is expected that proper recognition will be given by tbe different unions to the Times, which has done much valuable work for the cause of organized labor.

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Landrum, of north Center street, entertained the "Blues" of tbe Y. M. C. A. Thursday evening. The meeting was both asocial and business one and proved to b! quite interesting. Tbe meeting was held for the purpose of reporting as to how their side stood in regard to the securing of new members. Tbe reports were quite satisfactory and showed that they had interviewed many as to joining tbe association and that they would greatly increase their already superior number.

Morton Post, No. 1, G. A. R., held its annual election Thursday night, and selected the following officers: John C. Haas*, adjutant: David Denny, quartermaster Henry Winter, chaplain Stephen Young, surgeon Frank McCoy, officer of the day Nelson Evans, officer of the guard Lawrence Burgett, trustee Cyrus Knapp.. Frank Benjamin, George Long and I. H. C. Royse, delegates to the encampment at Richmond Hank, Valentine, Hill Mid Gottschalk, alternates John Anderson, ajar GusZollin, ten

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