Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 February 1897 — Page 4

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THE MAIL.

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

A. C. DCDDLE8TON. F. J. PIEPENBHINK.

DUDDLESTON & PIEPENBRIHK,

PROPRIETORS.

PtJBLlCATIOH OFFICE,

NOB.

30 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

The Mail is sold in the city by newsboys and all newsdealers, or will be delivered to any address, by mail, at the rate of S2 a year, §1 or six months, or JW cents for three months.

Entered at the Postofflce at Terre Haute, Ind., as second-class matter.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1897,

THE wonderful vessels of our new navy, about which we have been hearing so much, seem to have all they can do to keep afloat, without any fighting. When it isn't the Texas, it's the Brooklyn, or the Marblehead, that has something the matter with it, that costs a small-sized fortune to repair.

IT has been practically decided that Mr. McKinley will call a special session of Congress immediately after his inauguration, for the express purpose of preparing a new tariff law, which it is expected to have in operation by July 1st. When such a measure goes into effect, and the idle workmen of this country, who have been making way for the workmen of England, Germany, Belgium, etc., get to work, then we may expect a return of prosperity. And not until then will it come.

NOT all ministers are as reasonable about things of which they do not approve as was that one in New York, who, talking about bicycles and women, said "In my boyhood I thought the most beautiful sight was a beautiful woman on a beautiful horse. There are degrees of ugliness, but I think the ugliest sight is a woman on a bicycle. Nevertheless, my daughter rides one. If she wants to be ugly, why I am willing she should be. If you young women want to be ugly in the fresh air don't let my opinion interfere with your bicycling."

THE territorial legislature of Oklahoma is demonstrating in the most striking manner possible the unfitness of that territory to become a state at the preBeut time, when her hopes have been set very high on that project. The legislature has passed a law prohibiting gold contracts within its boundaries, and another doing away with the militia, declaring the latter to be the instrument of a corrupt central government used to protect corporations and oppose the people. About the most appropriate thing to do with Oklahoma at the present time is to annex it to Kansas under the regime in control out there. The punishment in that case would certainly fit the crime.

THE more we hear of the terrible bubonic plague in India the more horrible it becomes. The best authorities unite in estimating the number of people who will be dependent for relief before the famine abates at about. M,500,000 and should there be any failure in the rains next summer it is impossible to estimate the disaster. Meanwhile the famine fund in England does not increase as was expected, and Russian relief lias collapsed entirely. The desired figure of £5,000,000 will scarcely be reached, and all eyes are turning to the Indian government. The most stringent quarantine measures are being adopted in Europe and in this country, and the fear of its extension has lessened.

THE work of cabinet building goes merrily on. This week it was announced that ex-Congressman James S. Wilson, of Iowa, had accepted the position of secretary of agriculture, and Judge Joseph McKenna, of California, will become secretary of the interior. Now that the Foraker forces in Ohio have agreed that Mark llantia shall not have the United States Senatorship that will be vacant when John Sherman becomes secretary of state, the name of Mr. Hanna is being used as a candidate for postmaster general. It was also announced this week that Hon. J. A. Porter, editor of the Hartford, Conn.. Post, is to be President McKinley's private secretary.

WAS there ever a person who thought seriously of death and burial without expressing a hope that he would not be buried until after it was certain he was dead. Scores of well authenticated cases are on record of discoveries showing that burial had taken place before death occurred, and the thought is too horrible almost for contemplation. A Washington scientist, Calver by name, is about to take steps to bring before the legislatures of the several states measures that will make it impossible for such a thing to occur. He was induced to take this step from his actual knowledge of the evils of our present system of burial. He states that there are numberless cases of cataleptic trance occurring every day and that a great many people are interred while in this state, sometimes awakening for a few moments to live a lifetime of agony in the coffin, and even enduring the pangs of the damned while conscious of! the preparations for their burial, but the absence of any ability to move a muscle preventing their breaking the fetters which hold them in an apparently lifeless state. Mr. Calver says that, while it is true that embalming does away with premature burial by killing life in anything into which it is injected, it is not the right way to correct the evil by killing live people He knows several persons who Sum-

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awakened from a trance when just nU m? to be interred. There is no infallible tot of death, except advanced deeomp run. and it is this which be would employ. Hibill will advocate the erection iu every

place near the cemetery of a morgue in which all bodies will be placed prior to burial. This dead house is to have a large room whose walls are of glass, so that all within can be seen by an attendant who will be stationed in an adjoining apartment. Here all corpses would be placed with a string attached to the wrist, so that any movement will ring a bell in the guard's room. They will lie here until decomposition has proven that it is impossible that any life exists. Disinfectants could keep the place perfectly healthy. A morgue similar to this is now in use in some European towns. Just what steps he will take to present his measure and just when it will be done are points which have not yet been decided upon, but Mr. Calver asserts that just as soon as he finds time the measure will be presented for the consideration of the legislatures of the different states.

WE are likely to awaken one of these mornings and read in the telegraphic dispatches of the lynching of a Baptist minister in Texas. The editor of the Texas Baptist Standard is Rev. J. R. Cranfill, who was the Prohibition candidate for vice-president in 1892. In a recent issue of his paper he said of the horrible lynching affair at Bryan, in that state: "The sheriff out of whose jail the poor victim was taken by the mob ought to have killed a half dozen of the assailants, which would have put a quietus on mob violence in Brazos county for the next hundred years." He says that everybody in the neighborhood knows who participated in the murder, and that for a change he would like to see about a hundred murderers hanged according to the forms of law. This isn't perhaps the orthodox teachings of his church, but the words are so true that a few experiments like that he suggests would lessen the number of lynchings, and the hanging of a hundred or so murderers according to the forms of law would reduce the number of homi cides. But nevertheless he is likely to be taken to task by some of his Texas friends for his utterances.

SOUTH AFRICA is resting over a volcano, which is likely to burst forth at any moment. Recent remarks of Mr. Chamberlain regarding the Transvaal invasion by Jameson and his followers, and its investigation by a parliamentary commission, in dicate that the matter of reform in the interests of the Uitlanders,- in the Boer republic, is not to end with the promises of President Krueger. Meanwhile the Boers go on preparing for war, and spending thousands and thousands of dollars for military defenses and munitions of war, all the time having the moral, if not the direct, support of Germany. The feeling of Germans in Africa toward England is marked by great bitterness. No greater irritation, at the warm reception given to Cecil Rhodes in Cape Town and elsewhere before he sailed for London to render an account of his actions, was displayed in the Transvaal than was evident among the Germans, who went so far as to say that the British would, at no distant day, be driven out of South Africa. German papers have spoken of Rhodes as the "Robber Chieftain," declared that "all kinds of violence" may be expected of him, and intimated that "Germany and the Boer republic will have to make arrangements for opposing the policy of this Napoleon of the cape!" This hostile spirit

THE senate committee on foreign relations still has under consideration the arbitration treaty between England and the United States. Much has been said regarding this treaty, and the advantage* it is claimed it gives England in settling all disputes between the two countries, especially in regard to the Monroe doctrine and the territorial boundaries. Ex-Sena-tor George F. Edmunds, one of the best posted mem in the country on international law and the rights and privileges of nations, has in the New York Independent :hts week an exhaustive review of the reaty. 11 receives his unqualified endorsement as a good measure, and among other thin** he says: "As to disputes in regard territorial claims, the treaty provides .or a tribunal of six—three to be chosen by each party and it requires a majority of

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the relations of England with the Transvaal more delicate and difficult and careful diplomacy will be required, to avoid rupture, if the demand of the Uitianders for reforms is upheld by the British government.

THE French people are very much concerned over the showing made of the population of that country by the last census. It is the one nation on the face of the earth that is not following the scriptural injunction to increase and multiply. The subject has been taken vigorously in hand by public men and others, and various plans have already been suggested for making Frenchmen amenable to compulsory fatherhood. It has been pointed out that by reason of her shortcomings in this respect, France loses every year a battle of Sedan. The National Alliance for the Increase of Population of France last week presented a petition to the prime minister, setting forth certain drastic measures which the government is urged to adopt. I)r. Bertillion, inventor of the system for measuring criminals, is the head of the society, and its plan includes some inters esting features. It proposes that government scholarships in schools, lycees, and academies be given only to families having at least three children living all favors of government, such as tobacconists' licenses, concessions in colonies, etc., to be given to such families when the claims of government officials for promotion are decided, their number of children to be taken into account allowances and travelling expenses to officials, as well as the salaries of subalterns, to be regulated according to the number of children the posts under the government, except those requiring special qualifications, to be given only to fathers having more than three children. Already something has been done to encourage large families. For instance, every seventh child may be educated and boarded at school at the expense of the nation. This law was passed some years ago, but no results are apparent.

five to one for a decision, so that the United States cannot suffer unless two of our own three members decide against us. Can we not afford to run the risk of submitting to this We certainly can, unless we mean to have our own way, right or-wrong, all the time. If such are our sentiments, we ought never to agree to any sort of arbitral tion, and ought to stand on the ground that the will of the strongest is the only test of justice and right. This is barbarism pure and simple. The treaty observes most carefully the clear and definite distinction in public law between the rights and claims of each nations against the other, and their political interests and policies, as it regards other countries. This leaves the Monroe doctrine—including the Nicaragua canal matter which is simply an incident under it—and evsry other doctrine and policy either nation may entertain, just where it was before. This very important line of distinction, it is true, makes the treaty a narrow and circumscribed one. But it does something, it does much, as the first step along the great highway of peace in the hopeful future, not alone for the two great parties to it, but as an example and suggestion and inspiration to other nations. However small it may be, it will—if finally concluded—mark the dawn and the coming sunshine of justice, confidence and good will among the nations of the earth a future that all our Christian civilization has taught us to hope for."

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A Clay county woman who is insane imagines in some of her moods that she is in hell. It wouldn't be surprising for sane people to imagine this in some parts of Indiana, but we hesitate to say it about Clay county.

The Rockville Tribune speaks of a baseball button souvenir originated in that place, which is about the size of a "Billy Bryan" dollar. What is a "Billy Bryan" dollar, and when did Billy go into the dollar-making business

Mayor Ross thinks there isn't enough Cuban interest in this city to justify an attempt to organize a branch of the Cuban league, but the mayor is mistaken. There are more patriots in this city willing to sacrifice their wives' relatives in the cause of Cuban liberty than e'er he dreamed of.

At last, to the great relief of all the people of the earth, the Prince DeChimay has been divorced from the Princess, who ran away with a gypsy musician. Now if the Prince, and the Princess, and the gypsy lover will gracefully retire to the oblivion they have earned for themselves, all will be forgiven.

What is fame, anyhow, but a hollow, barren mockery The Indianapolis News speaks of Charles "Guffun," of Terre Haute, responding to a toast at the banquet given the Jackson club at Indianapolis the other day. Of course it referred to Charles Duffin, ex-president of the club, who has quite a reputation as an afterdinner speaker.

The street railway company has issued an order forbidding, under penalty of dismissal, any employe from having his pay checks cashed in a saloon. If the campaign wasn't over here would be a splendid chance for some orator to cry out against the soulless corporations that are eating out the hearts of the people, and infringing on the birth rights of free men

Somebody will have to "sit up o' nights" with the editor of the Rockville Tribune before long, and no mistake. McKinley hasn't been inaugurated yet, but the Tribune man has reached that hysterical stage of wholesale condemnation which leads him to say that the Republican party has lost "every vestige of its orig inal virtue, and is a mere aggregation of public plunderers, with no cohesive forcesave that of promoting the welfare of a moneyed protectorate." That is rather an unkind thing for him to say of his 2,847 friends and neighbors who voted the Republican ticket in Parke county last November.

Let some of the mean things that have been said of "poor old Missouri" be sponged out. A young man of St. Louis, worth millions of dollars, is to be hanged there this month for murder. His money, and the best lawyers, and "expert" testimony to prove that he was insane, could not secure his acquittal, and although it took over two years to secure his conviction, the Supreme court has finally decided that he must dance on nothing, just like common criminals. There is no reason why a rich man should not hang for murder, the same as a poor man, but a case like this is so unusual that it is deserving of special mention.

Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when It is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever, nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but an inflamed eondition of the mucous surfaces.

We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.

F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 73c.

Lump coal $1.69 per ton. Cadi only. Ehrmann Coal Co.. 605 north Seventh.

Dr. E. Ietchon'» Anti Diuretic May be worth to you more than $100 if have a child who soils bedding from contenenoe of water during sleep. Cures old and young alike. It arrests the troubleat once. *1. Sold by all druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

To Cure a Cold In One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 25c.

FOR KENT.

OR RENT—A desirable front room, No. 404 north Center street.

WANTED.

To borrow money on first mortgage securities. We can place several desirable loans on city or farm property.

For particulars apply to

WANTED—To

R. DAHLEN,

Real Estate, Loan and Insurance, 602 Wabash Ave.

AM READY to back up all the assertions I have made against the wholesalers, rectifiers and compounders, also the wholesale grocers, for the men who have done the work for years must know something about it yet ana I am on to all the crooked, nefarious, poisonous, murderous business which is carried on by them night and day.

PETER N. STAFF, Old Cobweb Hall.

rent from 8 to 15 acres with

house anywhere from 2 to 7 miles from city. Address, L. S., Mail Office.

WANTED.—Weas

want one good man (hav

ing horse), a permanent superintendent for Vigo county, to attend to our business, on salary. Must send along with application, strong letters of recommendation as to honesty, energy and ability. Firstman only. State occupation. Address P. O. Box 1632, Philadelphia, Pa.

FOK SALE.

OR SALE—The remains of my residence. Partially destroyed by fire. The same to be removed from premises by purchaser. EDWIN ELLIS, 1210 south Third street.

FOR

SALE—Four nice building lots on south Fourth street four nice building lots on south Third street very desirable and improved. EDWIN ELLIS, 1210 south Third street.

FOR SALE.

[38]. House 8 rooms south Fourth street nicely located cistern, gas and abundance of fruit bam, buggy and coal sheds.

[30]. A beautiful little home, 4 rooms and large pantry, at low price easy terms northern part of city, between Sycamore street and Liberty avenue large closets, cistern, well, cellar, electric lights throughout, barn and coal shed.

[31]. Nice building lot in Kinsley, Kansas will exchange for small equity in building and loan. Kinsley is the county seat of Edwards Co., Kansas.

I. H. C. ROYSE CO., 517 Ohio St.

FOR SALE.

Several pieces of desirable residence property centrally located cheap. For particulars call on R. DAHLEN,

Real Estate, Loan and Insurance, 008 Wabash Are.

OR SALE—Lot in Highland Place very cheap. Address "LH care this office.

FOR SALE.

On easy terms. One 6 room cottage. One 3 room cottage. Three 4 room cottages. One 5 room house. Also vacant lots in all parts of the city.

EXT.

Sux

By R. DAHLEN,

Real Estate, Loan and Insurance. 002 Main street.

We have Just finished two swell phaetons for private customers, but don't dare whisper the price. Other dealers couldn't live on assignee's prices at First and Wabash avenue.

O. D. DAVIS, Attorney for Plaintiff. OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS.

The State of Indiana, Vigo County, in the Superior court of Vigo county, December term. 1807.

No. 4181. The Wabash Savings. Loan and Building Association of Terre Haute. Indiana vs. Anna H. Kahili and Thomas Kahili.

Be it known, that on the 1st day of February. 18K. said plaintiff filed an affidavit In due form, showing that said Anna H. Kabill and Thomas Kaniil are non-residents of the state of Indiana.

Said non-resident defendants are hereby notified oft he pendency of said action against them, and that thi »i-. will stand for trial March 31st. 1897. tb being at the March term of Mid court

V^DL^ATSOS. I

[SSAJul Clerk.

One Week Till Stocktaking.

In the meantime every yard of fabricks, every article in the store, has to be measured, counted and listed. Troublesome work. We will simplify it by selling Monday, and every day next week, small lots, odd lots, and lots not to be continued in stock—sell them at prices irresistibly interesting. This isn't an unloading of bad merchadise. We haven't any to speak of. It's selling goods you want at less than you have usually to pay—for reasons just given. There is a wealth of newness ready. There will be more room to show it when this sale has reduced the stocks. This will be harvest week for prudent housekeepers.

L. B. ROOT & CO.

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LAST NIGHTS

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OTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITOR#, ETC.

In the matter of the estate of Ernest J. Langen, deceased. In the Vigo Circuit court. February term. 1897.

Notice is hereby given that Ewald O. Langen. as administrator of the estate of Ernest J. Langen, deceased, has presented and filed his account and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit court, on the 15th day of February, 1W. at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause, if any there be. why said account and vouchers should not be approved.

EWALD O- LANGEN. Administrator,

Witness, the clerk and seal of said Vigo Circuit court, at Terre Haute. Indiana, this mary. I»97.

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DAVID L. WATPON. Clerk,

To the Young Face

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I'V V.5 '.

Is the day on which the Vandalia will sell at very choap rates one-way tipkets to points in Southern and Southeastern states.

Tuesday, Feb. 16th. Round trip tickets at 92 higher than the one-way rate to points in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Indian Territory, Iowa, Kansas. Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Now Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas. Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.

Tickets to various Tourists' points at cheap rates on sale every day.

Washington, D. C. March 1st. 2nd, 3d, round trip rate, £18.26. Presidential inauguration.

For reliable information apply at city ticket office, 654 Wabash ave., telephone 37 or Union Depot.

The Best Time, The Best Service,

HALF FARE, one-way tickets sold tho 1st oints in Alaoorgia, Flor-

and 3d Tuesday each month to points in Ala bama. Mississippi. Tennessee, 0 Ida, North and South Carolina.

Homeseekers' Excursions

Samo days and to same points at one faro plus $2.00 for round trip. For further information apply to R. I). Digges, ticket agent union depot, or

Vandalia-

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Will You Remember The Date Tuesday, Feb. 23d.

GEORGE E. FAllRINGTON, General Agent.

26^ Hours to New Orleans, La. To Jacksonville, Fla., 29 Hours.

E.&T.H.R.R.

Tho E. &T. II. R. R. is soiling TOURISTS' TICKETS to the south, southeast and southwest. Two through trains to the south daily. Ono change of cars to Tampa and Jacksonville. Through to New Orleans without change.

J, R. CONNELLY. Gen. Agent. Tenth and Wabash Ave.

STIMSON. STIMSON

COM) IT. for PI if.

OITCE TO NON-RESIDENTS.

State of Indiana, county of Vigo, in the Superior court, Marcii term. 1W7. No. 51(13. August Gruenholz vs. Betsey Strader, Eliza Jane Strader, Susanna Strader, John Strader. Eliza Weed, Catherine Pickering, Charles Pickering, James Austin, Jane Richardson, W. H. Klansanger, Asa M. Black. Mary G. Zeller, if the aforenamed are living, and if dead, their unknown heirs, Susannah Chambers. William L. Chambers and Charles Noble.

Belt known, that on the 4th day of February, 1897, it was ordered by the court that the clerk notify by publication said Eliza Weed, Catherine Pickering.

Charles Pickering, Jane

Richardson, W. H. Klansanger. AsaM. Black, Mary G. Zeller, if living, or if dead, their unknown heirs, as non-resident defendants of the pendency of this action against them.

Said defendants are therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against them and that the same will stand for trial on March 31st. 1807, the same being at the March term of said court in the year 1897. [BEAI/I DAVID L. WATfON, Clerk.

TTACHMENT NOTICE.

[No. 4252.1

Before A. B. Felsenthal. J.

P..

Harrison town

ship, Vigo county. Indiana. Harry A. Mottier vs. EmmaClaybaugh and Joe Ciaybaugh.

In attachment and garnishee. Whereas, it appears by the affidavit of the plaintiff that the said defendants are nonresidents of the state of Indiana, and whereas also It appears from the return of the eousta bleto the summons herein issued, that the said defendants were not found In his bailiwick. it is therefore ordered that due notice of the pendency of this action be given to the sala defendants by publication In a newspaper of general circulation published in said county.

Said non-resident defendants are therefore I hereby notified of the pendency of said action 1 against them and that the same will stand for trial on the 27th day of February. 1897. at 2 o'clock p. m.. at my office, 115 south Third street, Terre Haute. Indiana.

Witness my hand and seal this 8th day of February. Iw7. [SEAL] A. B. FELSENTHAL. J. P.