Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 July 1897 — Page 5
Paul Dresser, the well known song writer, who was formerly a resident of this city, has written a song entitled "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away." which he dedicates to Mian Mary E. South, daughter of Mr. and and Mm. E. E. South, of this city. The soug has as catchy a melody as all his previous efforts, and is likely to prove very popular. Joe Davis sang it the first time in public at an open air concert on south Seventh street Thursday night, and it met with success. The song in published by Howiey, Haviland & Co., the well known music publishers of New York, of which firm the composer is a member. Mr. Dresser. who has frequently appeared here as a vaudeville and comedy star, is the author of some of the most successful songs ever published, among them being "The Convict and the Bird." "Here hies an Actor," "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me," etc.
The trustees of the State Normal school met this week and took final action regarding the finishing and furnishing of the addition to the school. It was announced that all the officers of the regular army detailed for special duty as military iu-
atructor* at school* ar* at present em-
gaged for
a
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DB. H. C. mBFI
DENTIST.
McKeen Block. 7th and Main.
OF LOCAL INTEREST.
A: Son. The Jackson club will give a picnic at Reservoir AiigiiHt.
William Wright, who was sent up from this county in January last for breaking into the residence of G. A. Schaal, on north Sixth street, escaped from the northern prison last Sunday, and up to the present time has not been captured.
It is said that Bob Musgrave, who was pardoned by Governor Mount, because it was thought he was at death'* door with consumption, is in Chicago, under treatment for a throat trouble. His pretended consumption was simply one of his smooth" efforts to escape serving the remainder of his sentence.
One of the lights in No. l's fire house at Third and Lafayette streets went out Monday night, and Dan Roper, one of the members of the company caught hold of the wires connected with the lamp, with the idea of shaking the carbon down, and thus caust* the light to burn. When he caught hold of the light he restored the current, which ran down through his body and produced almost instant death. The current burned holes through the soles of his shoes, and in the bottom of his feel where it passed out. Roper had been a member of the department ever since the colored company was reorganized, and was looked upon as a good fireman. His funeral on Thursday afternoon was largely at tended by members of the city government and fire department, and the hose wagon of the l's headed the procession appropriately draped in honor of his memory. Robert Smith has In-en named by the fire committee as Roper's successor in the company.
Mrs. ('has. M. Fortune, a bride of a few months, died on Wednesday evening, at the house of one of her friends, on Third avenue, as a result of a dose of arsenic, which she had taken for the purpose of scaring her mother. She was formerly Miss Myrtle Sparks. When her stepfather died several months ago he left $U,000 life insurance moyey to her. and since his death she had been spending it freely, against the protests of her mother and husband. One day this week she wanted #l(Ki for the purpose of going to Haltivnore. anil when her mother and husband refused to permit her to spend it for this purpose she left home, and went to visit some of her friends in the neighborhood. In order to scare her mother she took a dose of arsenic, and it caused her death. When the poison began to take effect she sent for her husband and told him what she had done. A physician was sent for, but he could do nothiug for her relief, and she died in great agony. It is thought her mind was affected. Her husband is a most estimable young man, and is employed in the store of C. I). Flald.
St. Patrick's church, ut Thirteenth and Poplar streets, is to have a new nteeple at Whitlock were the successful contestants, a cost of fci.fioo. The plans for the im-jThe contest at Winona will be participroveinent have been prepared by Vrydagh pated in by teams from the associations in
Park near Paris on the 8th of
The Kloiidyke fever is upon Terre Haute, A number of parties are )eing talked of to visit the Alaskan gold fields next spring, I')r. T. W. Moorhearl is organizing one party that will be in charge of a young Norwegian of this city, I^ampson, by name, who is said to have had some experience as a gold prospector.
was
en-
similar position in the Normal
faculty. This is a new departure for this school, but it is one that is likely to meet with favor.
Manager Charles Baur. of the Terre Haute, has been in Evansville this
examining into
week,
the
condition of the St.
George hotel, which I# now closed up, ex-
pany, Miss Lucy Brokaw secretary,
while C. B. Brokaw had the active management of the business. The liabilities of the company are estimated to be $2,500, while the assets are in the neighborhood of $4,500
establish permanent near future.
Terre Haute, Evansville, New Albany, Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. Heretofore Terre Haute has been successful in these contests, and Director Kimball is hopeful that this year's team will do equally well.
There have been no new development in the miners' strike thus far, and opinions vary as to its ultimate outcome. In Indiana the miners are said to be more thoroughly organized than ever before, and united in the stand to get their demands before they resume work. Less coal is being mined in West Virginia than heretofore, and an attempt is to be made to-day to bring out the Pennsylvania miners whose work makes it impossible to outgeneral the operators. The condition of the miners in this immediate vicinity is far from satisfactory, and soliciting com inittees are continually at work raising money and provisions for their use
The colored fire company seems to be peculiarly unfortunate. When the company was first decided upon there was a strong fight against it in certain quarters, and the first company appointed had to be changed completely. Following up the accident to Dan Roper, which cost him his life this week, the driver of the wagon. Robert Walker, ran into a tele graph pole while driving recklessly to a fire last evening, killed one horse, practically ruined the wagon, and hurt Robert Smith, the new member, so badly that he had to be placed under the physicians' care. The wreck occurred at Seventh street and the Big Four. The fire committee of the city council is investigating the case to-day.
The L.#A. W. Meet.
Terre Haute enterprise aud energy were never better illustrated than in the preliminary work that is being done in the interests of the L. A. W. meet in this city on the 10th and 11th of August. No race meeting of any character was ever so thoroughly and cleverly advertised, and the prospects now point to the meeting being the most successful ever held in the state. The work of the printing and advertising committee, under the chairmanship of Milton Herz, has been especially clever. A number of bright little brochures have been issued in the interests of the meet, aud everywhere they have been well received.
Forty thousand of the pamphlets containing lists of tours and information concerning the meet have been scattered broadcast over the state to work up interest in the meeting of the wheelmen at this place. The paper schedules the ten tours made bj the wheelmen toward this city and tells them what to do when they get here.
The parade committee has decided on the following route for the big parade on Tuesday of the meeting. With the exception of two squares, from Ninth to Seventh street, on Sycamore, the entire parade will pass over the paved streets. Form on Ohio and move west to {Second, then north to Main, east on Main to Ninth, north on Ninth to Sycamore, west on Sycamore to Seventh, north on Seventh to Tippecanoe, west on Tippecanoe to Fifth, and then south to Main.
The regular Sunday morning run of the W. C. C. will be made to-morrow morning, starting at 7:30 o'clock, to Brazil and back. Messrs Dilg and Probst are pacemakers. The visitors will be met by the club at that city and escorted over the principle streets, at noon and to the Brazil bicycle track. In the afternoon the two clubs will engage in a game of base ball.
Something Nice.
According to the following anecdote, from The Sacred Heart Review, people who do right as well as those who do wrong sometimes resolve never to do it again:
A gentleman heard that a young girl whose mother was in poor circumstances was convalescing from a dangerous sickness. Forthwith be went to fruiterer's and secured some choice bunches of Hamburg grapes at $ 1 or thereabout a pound.
He carried them, not without some self satisfaction, to the house of the invalid and left them with her mother, who received them in a dubious kind of manner that did not evince, as he thought, much gratitude.
This did not trouble him greatly,
bowever bnt the next when
ployed and Secretary Alger has received a blow which almost
promised that as soon as possible an o(H| will be detailed to take hold of the mil tary department of the Normal. Misc^. Alice Wright, who wa* instructor in phy^ sical culture at Coate* College,
tnsde him resolve never again to be generous to strangers. "How did your daughter like the grapes?" be said to tbe grim and undemonstrative matron. "Ob, pretty well," was the reluctant answer. "Did she eat them all!" was tbe next query. "Yes, she got sway with then," was the reply. "Bat she is a good deal lilre me. She likes something nice and tasty —like canned own."
nected with Evansville, the hotel Is in the] "Ever find things in the boxes?" was sere and yellow leaf, and an injection of ®sked of a postoffice collector who was Terre Haute enterprise is needed to make taking the letters from a lamppost letthe place a success. If he could secure it b°x* on anything like favorable conditions Mr. "Some, but not such an .everlasting Baur would take the place, but it would either,' was the reply. A thief require the expenditure of a large amount'
of money to put the hotel in the proper
condition. j!t
The C. B. Brokaw Co., dealers In wall
paper and house furnishing goods, turned
la Luippott Letter Boxes.
fleein8
from his
Planers
watch a
onf
lamppogt Jetter boxe&
his business over to H. J. Baker, "Once when I came op to a letter box yesterday as trustee, Mrs. Jennie L. found standing by it a policeman and Brokaw is president of the com-
a
The Young Men's Tompson club has turned in at the postoffice. The loser secured rooms in the Beach block, and will must apply for it there. If I had found any money in this box, 1 should have been compelled to turn it in. But there wasn't any money there. The lady
club rooms in the
In the contest at the Polytechmc campus
yesterday to decide on the team to repre-
sent the local Y. M. C. A. at the state athletic meet at Winona on the 21st of August. Perry Stephens, Jumper and
ers on file in my office.
dipped a
lamppost letter brx so that
wo°ld
*?nDd °P?n
watches are not
fl
ls
i, °or along the line of his flight, bufei
commonly found in
•woman. The policeman said that the
womau
hart dropped a dollar bill into
the box between some letters and she wanted to get it back. The rules of the postoffice require that anything that may be found in the boxes shall be
|mnst faave logt it have le
where
ft it some-
"As a matter of fact not many things of value are dropped into lamppost letter boxes. Up town you find a dead mouse in a box occasionally, but that's about all. Children pat tne mice in the box. Thcv find a dead mouse in the
street and think it's funny to put it in a lamppost letter box."—New York Sun.
Valley of the Euphrates.
John Pnunett Peters, in his book, "Nippur, or Explorations on the Euphrates," thus describes the valley of the Euphrates "Below Hit, in the alluvial delta of the two rivers Tigris and Euphrates, existed one of the primeval seats of civilization—one of Dame Nature's kindergartens, to teach her children the rudiments of higher life. Out of this valley westward toward the fertile uplands of northern Syria, downward to the rich coadt land of the Mediterranean, outward to Cyprus and the isles, southward to the rival valley of the Nile, the road of commerce and conquest had been the Euphrates, and for a large part of the way the Euphrates is no more than a road—a narrow path way, sunk 100 or 200 feet beneath the plateau of a sterile wilderness swarming with wild Arabs. In the earliest ages this was the road that led the conquerors out and over which conquest and civilization traveled hand in band. Later it became the road by which conquerors entered iuto the very heart of Babylonia. So it was that Babylonian aud Egyptian, Syrian and Assyrian, Persian aud Greek, Parthian and Roman, Sassanian and Byzantine, Moslem and Christian, surged back and forth along the highway between the eastern and the western worlds, battling for possession."
Identical Motive*.
When the Indian football team from Carlisle, Pa., came to Chicago to wipe up the gridiron with their paleface brethren from Wisconsin university, the copper colored visitors received a great deal of attention at the hands of the young women students of Dr. Harper's school.
A gronp of the girls surrounded one of the swarthy athletes, and, having taken him prisoner, began to cross question him. "Tell me," remarked one gushing, radiant creature, "why do you red people paint your faces when you go on the -warpifth?" "For the ea\ reason, I presume, that yon white ladies powder your faces when you po upon the warpath in society, qnictly replied the Indian.-— Chicago Times-Herald.
Cheese causes much illness in England. Cheese poison is called tyrotoxicon, and investigations have shown that the toxic agent is in the milk, owing to improper mantigement, the milk not being cooled until some hours after milking.
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Guarantee.
Grocers are authorized to give back your money if you do not find Cleveland's the Best baking powder you have ever used.
Cleveland Baking Powder Co., NT.Y.
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The Deception of Distance.
"It's very deceptive to judge of the lize or capacity of an object which is 50 feet or more in the air," said an architect to the writer as we were passing the royal courts of justice a few days ago. "Now, look at that clock," pointing to the law courts clock, which hangs about 70 feet above the pavement. "It looks very small, doesn't it? Hardly big enough to hold a man. Yet a party of us breakfasted in the case before the works were put in."
Everybody knows how deceptive is the appearance of the Westminster clock. Looking at the dial from the embankment or from Great George street, it seems as if a man of medium size could easily stretch across the dial with both arms. Yet it would take four pairs of outstretched arms to cross it. The minute hand, which looks like an ordinary walking stick, is longer thau the two tallest soldiers in the life guards. The figures on the dial are bigger than a 8-year-old child, and the second dots are as big as a dinner plate.
Equally deceptive are the funnels of the Atlantic steamers. The funnels of the Uinbria aud Etruria are 18 feet in diameter, while the funnels of the greyhounds of the Cunard line, the Lucania and Campania, are 21 feet across. Each funnel from the top to its junction with the furnace is 130 feet in length. Bets are frequently made by passengers as to the diameter of these ocean chimneys, and many a laugh bus been raised when a passenger has estimated their diameter at the seemingly extravagant figure of 10 feet—London Standard.
On a Technicality.
"I see your friend Giltedge, the banker, has had some hard luck lately." "How was that?" "He was out fishing, and the shore Caved in with him, and he swallowed about a gallon of water before they could get him out. "That was pretty rough." ''Yes, but that wasn't all.* He was arrested afterward for taking in a draft when he knew the bank to be broken." —Detroit Free Press.
A Restorative.
Supplicant—I'm feint from lack of food. Rich Lady (generously)—How dreadful I Here, smell my vinaigrette.—New York Journal.
_iur»nes ot l3nmark.
From 1875 to the present time over 100,000 acres annually have been reclaimed from marsh and sea by the people of Denmark.
BALANCE SHEET.
FUKDS.
..County Revenue.. .Township Revenue. Road Re
Bridie Revenue
.8peclal School Revenue. DojrTax Local Tuition
State Common School Fines and Forfeitures Land Redemption
..Corporation Tax West Terre Haute .. Show License Liquor License ..Clerk's Fund
Common School Principal
.. Common School Interest Recorder's Fund .New Court House Bonds and Interest.
Sheriffs Fund Auditor's Fund ..County Bridge Congressional Principal
.Congressional Interest Per. Endowment .. State Debt Staking Fund
State Tax
State Benevolent
... .. ... State School Educational
Total
Condition of the School Funds flay 31, 1897.
A unt of Funds Safely Invested ..|SMB3 83 $161,278 81 A ant Not Invested and in tbeCouaty Treasury at this date 155 39 689 97
Total Funds as above. |57.14» 03 V61JB0 18 Amount in Treasury at last report .... M4I &3RS98 ABO of Loans Paid wlthl• be year 3.490 76 BJHM Amo of Fucda Loaned w^a the year 4.173 00 16.45660 An»oaut of Interest 00 the Fund Collected during tbe year &S18 44 9.7*6 34
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At THE
CORNER FIFTH AND MAIN STREETS.
Annual Report of Auditor of Vigo County, Indiana.
To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Vigo County, Indiana GENTLEMEN—I have the honor to submit herewith my Annual Report of receipts and expenditures of said county for the fiscal vear ending May
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lis
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$154,019 84 5,467 13 1.148 31 2.403 06 20,633 31 736 11 13.575 801 43.472 28 2,346 79
1.681
Congressional Common Township Fund. School Fond.
MYERS BROS.
HOT TIME SALE
TWELVE DAYS LONGER
There'll be no dearth of real bargains for the coming
week. On the contrary, we'll have a deluge of them— every one desirable, every one well worth the coming & for. Detailed descriptions are unnecessary with the magnetism of low prices that rule in this week's bargain sale. Come at any hour, but the morning hours are preferable for the most profitable selections.
flYERS BROS.
Leading One-Price Clothiers, Fourth and flain Sts.
Store open till 10:30 to-night.
BIG
Excess Stock Sale Big line of children's pretty of wash dresses the regular prices Children's Wash Dresses on which were very low, but at OOe-third off. now they go like this: $1.00 kind go at 67 cents. $1.50 kind go at $1. $2.25 kind go at $1.50. $3.00 kind go at $2.
Excess Stock Sale Monday we place on sale our Of entire stock of crash suits at Ladies' Crash Suits just half price. These suits are all new and stylish, well made, and at half off our regular low prices won't last long. $5.00 crash suits go at $2.50. $6.00 crash suits go at $3. $6.50 crash suits go at $3.25. $7.50 crash suits go at $3.75.
When You Order Your
TABLE BEER
Get the very best, and that is the product of the
TERRE HAUTE BREWING CO
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1154.019 84 5.467 13 1,14* 31 2.403 06 20.633 31 738 11 13.575 80 43.472 28 2^46 70 1.045 89 144
10 50
$29,203 66
$106 77
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680 37
5.322 08 1,157 30
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4.175 00 3,430 14 679 25 4.075 88 12*70 77 6.793 13 15^74 22 2.106 64
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2,612 61 5 20
730 35
1.681 4.175 3,439 14 679 4.075 1 12,870 6.793 la 15.074 2.166
155 SO 627 86
131.911 47
OVERDRAWS, $IU01 54
Examined and Approved, this 15th day of June, 1907.
STORE
TERRE HAUTE'S BIGGEST RETAIL STORE.
31,1897,
as per vouch-
RftHRflCtftl 11V JAMES SOULES, Auditor Vigo County.
Dlsbarsemeot of Cosoty Revsonc.
Poor I Specific Roads Books and Stationery Poor Asylum Insane County Officers Public Buildings Criminal Circuit Court Jurors CI remit Court Bailiff Superior Court inquest Grand Jury Assessor's Revenue Special Judge Court Reporter Public Printing Elections Janitor Fuel, Light and Water Commissioners' Court Bailiff Bridges Gravel Roads Benevolent Institutions Venued Cases Board Children's Guardians Vigo Cottage State Soldiers* Home. County Attorney Secretary Board of Health Drainage Justice Returns Sheriff's Coats Tuition Refunded Soldiers' Burial County Insl ite Jury Commit ners Clerk's Cost*. Insurance Taxes Refunded Circuit Court Docket Fees
1 12,226 41 7,169 43 3,112 04 5,465 Ot 6,887 10 3,988 20 18.024 75 3,666 02 0,633 51 2,603 10 2.618 76 3.510 15 4.523 25 1.028 65 7,133 45 680 00 927 25 965 55 5.230 85 4.401 17 3.076 54 636 68 17.m 78 6,410 29 6,171 95 2.352 95 5,745 00 2,500 00 1,000 00 400 0T) 27 00 10 50
U73 19 95 01 1,100 00 50 00 98 00 332 47 403 00 1.00H 25 120 00
Total 1134.019 84
THOMAS W. ADAMS, ANDREW WISEMAN, K. IL COCHKAN,
Board of Commissioners, Vigo County.