Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 August 1898 — Page 5

OF LOCAL INTEKEST.

It is reported th^t Dr. S. V. Leech, formerly pastor of the Centenary M. E. church, has resigned his pastorate at Atchison* Kas., his resignation being forced by the friends and relatives of a girl of eighteen years, whom the pastor had kissed. Dr. Leech is a man of venerable years and appearance, having been pastor during forty years of many prominent churches. He denies any evil intent in the indiscreet familiarity which caused his retirement from Atchison.

The railroads will make a half fare rate for Labor Day and special trains will be run from Danville and Vincennes to Terre Haute. Thos. J. Kidd has been selected as speaker of the day. Among the attractions of the day will be a dance in the art hall on the fair grounds, for which an admission of ten cents will be charged, and performances on the track.

Harry S. Richardson, Jr., who has been working during the Polytechnic vacation for the Advance Electrical Co., of Indianapolis, has assisted in the wiring of the soldiers and sailors' monument and fountains, which will be lighted by five thousand lamps. They were turned on last Monday night for the first time for the benefit of the Pythians and made a splen did spectacle of the noble monument.

The ball game for the benefit of the Union Hospital promises to be one of the most exciting seasons of athletic sport ever known in Terre Haute, as will be shown to the most careless observer of the players. The Mail makes no mistake in announcing that there will be no Sunday exhibition by the following teams, which are to play ball for charity's sake and represent two learned professions. The teams as selected are: Minister—Rev. Simmons, lb. Rev. W. M. Tippy, p. Rev. J. E. Sulger, c. Rev. Wilmer, 2b.: Rev. Mountain, ss. Rev. Taylor, 8d. Rev. Gee, rf. Rev. Witmer, cf. Rev. Green, If. Attorneys—Judge Stimson, rf. Judge Piety, lb. Judge Henry, 2d. Judge Pierce, ss. Judge Long, p. Judge Jump, c. Judge Eggleston, If. Mart Hollinger, cf. Tom Harper, 2b. Substitutes, Attorneys— O. D. Davis, Crane, Bindley, Price, Caldwell, Newton, Kelley, Whitaker, D. V. Miller, Turk, Tabor, Walker, Russell, Tabor and Mulligan. The game will be played September 15th, and John L. Walsh will sell tickets and W. T. Sanford will collect grand stand coupons.

Paymaster Ben F. Havens was in the city two days this week, to attend a meeting of the Peoples' Telephone company, •and returned to his army work Tuesday night. At a meeting of the directors of the telephone company, which was attended by W. R. McKeen, W. E. McLean, M. F. Hoberg, and B. F. Havens it was shown that the prospects of soon establishing anew telephone line are very bright. While at Jacksonville, Major Havens saw much of Col. W. J. Bryan, Major Russell B. Harrison and other conspicuous men. He says Col. Bryan, is a very handsome ofllcer. Russell Harrison has an Important position as provost marshal of Jacksonville and the camp and shows great ability and energy. He has to preserve order in a camp of thirty thousand men and has six companies at his command. Major Havens says that it is no finmll job to watch over a large body of men just after pay day. The camp at Jacksonville is in splendid condition and the comfort of the men well provided for. Water is piped to the grounds and enclosures containing shower baths are scattered through the camp. Major Havens is Assigned to different camps for duty and expects to be ordered to Porto Rico this fall. He paid out at Jacksonville, this month, 1176,800.

George Hammerstein is a veteran of the last war, who follows with the jjeepest interest the fortunes of the boys in the field and camp, aud admires the conduct of the war by the administration. "I

a S

(TevelaiKlS

Baking Powder.

Cooks like it It's sure to make cake light and dainty.

Recipe book free. Send stamp and address. Cleveland Baking Powder Co., New York.

& 2 8 .5

No Bicycle more reliable, easy running, or serviceable.

J. Fred Probst

p0t$

know," said he, "what it is to be under fire, and to feel one's knees tremble," as he related how a squad of thirty-five men in the Second Ohio Artillery were chasing eighty guerillas among the Clinch mountains of Tennessee, and unexpectedly found that the guerillas were chasing it, ani were firing down from the mountain side at great advantage. He also experienced the same want of food, shelter and clothing that many have in the last three months, At one time his regiment was about seventy-five days in the Tennessee mountains, looking out for guerillas, without receiving a solitary scrap from the government. They had no tents and lived on little pork and a pint of meal for a day'per man, which was ground from aged corn, with an occasional bit of mutton from some stray sheep.

Fred Dubridge has been appointed physical director of the Y. M. C. A.

Hot Monday struck very hard the 550 pound bicyclist, Joe Grimes, who was lingering here. He had been deluded by a daily paper, which makes a specialty of weather, into thinking that Terre Haute is a mountain resort.

A deserter from Co. B. is being looked for by the police. His name is Charles Clenin, and he originally came from the south. The Hoosier born boys of Co. never desert. I

Scott Dennis, the son of J. P. Dennis, the Terre Haute aeronaut is the "Balloonist of Santiago." He is a boy of eighteen years, and 170 pounds weight, who left home without his parents' consent, to enlist at Columbus, O., and finally got into the signal corps. While J. P. Dennis was trying to find employment at Tampa, Scott was sailing with Shafter's expedi tion to Santiago and went up in the only balloon used in this war, the one so badly riddled in the battle of July 1-2, while in front of the army. While the balloon did not accomplish all that was expected it did one good thing in allowing the signal officers to discover a narrow ford on the river which crossed the road to El Caney, which saved a march of seven miles to a lower ford for the soldiers, who stormed El Caney. Scott was attacked by the fever of the island and arrived at Camp Wlkoff, Montauk, last Sunday, thirty pounds lighter than his fighting weight, He has written to his parents in cheerful vein and says the worst complaint he and many soldiers have is home sickness. He does not speak favorably of the accommodations at the camp, and expects, as soon as he can get out, to take the fastest train for Terre Haute.

The two new telephone companies seem to be approaching the work of construction. The Citizen's Company has found its long lost poles which will support its wires in the air, and the Peoples' Company has, it is reported, made arrangements to borrow 175.000, to enable it to put its wires under ground in the city and on poles in the suburbs.

Work was begun this week on a new residence for J. M. Tune on the Brokaw property, on south Sixth street.

The city schools will open for the fall term September 12th, two weeks from Monday.

The fall race meeting is three weeks off. Labor Day celebration at the fair grounds, and parade, occur September 5th, one week from Monday.

An alarm of fire after midnight, Tuesday, called the department to the residence at 656 Eagle street, owned and occupied by Mrs. E. L. Hayman. It required diligent work with water and the chemical engine to put out the fire and. prevent it spreading in the closely built square. It was found that a number of holes had been punched through the plastering of the house, into which were put excelsior, saturated with kerosene. If instead of being closed the windows had been open, to allow a draft, the house could not have

RED CR0S5

BICYCLES

ARE STILL COINC AT

ROSE DISPENSARY BUILDING.

Of \b

& ib

ill#!

iisAiJiSI

been saved. Mrs. Hayman and her son James, were put under temporary arrest but released after examination. The house is insured for $1,700, and the furniture for $800 with Riddle-Hamilton Co. Nicholas Filbeck holds a mortgage on the property for $3,000, but the insurance was not in his favor. It is clearly a case of incendiarism and the police department is subjecting the occupants to a rigid examination.

The Vandalia officials granted the request of car and truck builders for increased wages, raising the car builders 100 per cent and the truckmen 50 per cent this week

A porch climber was scared from the residence of John McClure, 116 south Twelfth street, Tuesday night, after climbing to the roof of the porch.

The petition from the 159th Indiana, to the president, asking to be mustered out was not signed by the men of Company B. Their captain, George W. Biegler, advised against it and sensibly suggested that it was a matter which could be safely left to the president and war department.

George W. Hoffman, the druggist, is not a bloated bond holder Or a syndicate, though he has bought for his little girl one of the new war bonds for $20, decorated with eighty fifteen cent coupons, redeemable quarterly. •The heirs of Michael O'Brien, who formerly lived near this city, and died lately at Crescent City, Cal., are advertised for by Attorney John L. Childs, Crescent City. There is an estate to be settled

The street railway company has completed the work of putting in anew curve at Third and Main streets, at a cost of about $1,200.

E. H. Wilvert has secured the candy privilege at the Grand Opera House, and his boys in white uniforms will attend to the business.

The most intense heat of the summer was experienced this week, the mercury rising to 98% degrees on Monday and Tuesday. Several cases of heat prostration were reported. Yesterday, Isaac Rynerton, the farmer, was prostrated on Main street.

John F. Brinkman was re-elected treasurer of the German Catholic societies by the National convention at Milwaukee, this week. W-

Carl Krietenstein, a veteran of the last war, will attend the G. A. R. encampment at Cincinnati. His old regiment, the 32d, and two other German regiments, are to be specially entertained by the Turners' Society of Cincinnati. V,

Fred Bolton, of east Poplar street, whue hunting on Thursday, was shot through the left foot with a load of duck shot by the accidental discharge of his gun. He will probably recover with a permanently maimed foot.

The Terre Haute Brewing company will build another addition to its great plant at a cost of about $75,000, which will enlarge the daily output of bottled beer, by 50,000 bottles, but the improvement will not be made this season.

Two freight engines collided on the Big Four road, at Fourth street, Thursday morning, the through freight train from the west running into a switch engine with cars attached. The engines were damaged but the crews escaped by timely jumping off.

The bicycle works were sold at receiver's sale Thursday. Frank McKeen bid off the building for $12,000 and the machinery and sewing machine stock were sold to E. H. Bindley for $7,500. The buyers held mortgages on the property. Alfred Marshall, of Chicago, the only competitor, bid $2,500 for the bicycle stock. 4 "'7'

The Ohio street opening case will come before the city commissioners on September 6th..:r*i:.^V 5"$

A fine brass gate for a burial vault was shipped this week to A. Stafford, the banker at Paris, Ills., from the establishment of Ed. Hazeldine, who manufactures artistic wrought and hammered iron and brass work

A colored woman was arrested Friday for hitching her horse to a shade tree but was discharged with a reprimand, t,

Manager Armstrong, of the Sullivan Telephone company, was in the city this week endeavoring to secure connections between his line and those to be constructed by the new company, rf t* .* If

John A. Miller, of Cairo, 111., was in the city, Thursday, to interview the street fair managers. Cairo is to give a street fair in October, and Mr. Miller is gathering points.

Ex-Governor Matthews was strick#rt by paralysis on Thursday, and was in a most alarming condition when heard from. He was attending an old settlers' meeting at Mehara's grove, near Wingate, in Montgomery county. He had been speaking to a large audience for about an hoar when he stopped and, placing his hand to his head, said with alarm, "I feel very weak and queer," and, staggering back,' was caught and removed from the platform. His right side was paralysed and. while conscious, he was enable to apeak. The physicians summoned to aid him felt great doubts of his recovery from the first. In Terre Haute, where so many know and •rteem him, the dangerous attack of the ex-Governor Matthews Matthews caused ii«§

TERKE HAUTE SATUEDAY EYENIKG MALL, AUGUST 27, 1898.

The Wabash Cycle Club has appointed a committee to examine into the feasibility of making a cycle path along the tow path of the old Wabash and Erie canal, which can still be traced between this city and Lafayette. Wheelmen desire cycle paths, connecting all the towns in the state, and an effort will be made to secure favorable legislation at the next session of the legislature. week, of pt.

The real estate transfers, this show the transfer by F. T. Barada, section 3, tp. 12 v. 12, for $4,000 to the St. Louis Trust Co. Mr. Barada owns the Willow Ridge stock farm, which he bought of P. J. Kaufman.

great solicitude. Mr. Matthews has had much trouble of late. It is .barely two years since his only son died, and his wife but lately recovered from an alarming ill ness. Later reports are more encouraging as to the governor's condition.

The Street Fair Carnival enterprise is progressing favorably. The subscription list is growing and the managers expect to be able to spend about 16,000 in making the greatest week the city has ever known At present a number of the directors are absent from the city, which delays active work, completion of plans, but during September a tremendous amount of work will have to be done and the aid of hundreds of men enlisted on the various committees. Mrs. Fravis of Kalamazoo, has been engaged to manage a great flower parade in the s&:ne style that it has been given at Grand Bapids, Milwaukee, San Antonio, Santa Barbara and Omaha, where the attraction has been immensely popular. One day of the fair will probably be an "Old Glory" day to celebrate the return of peace and of our soldier boys. It can be made a great day

S. J. Lockard, saloonkeeper on north Sixth street was robbed of $180 yesterday by his barkeeper* "Shorty" Chandler.

Frank P. Sargent will resign the grandmastership of the B. of L. F. to serve by presidential appointment as national labor commissioner.

An Invincible.

When Aloibiades was told that his countrymen had passed sentence of death upon him for being at the head of a conspiracy to overthrow the religious and political constitution of Athens, he said, "I will show them I still live." He obtained from Sparta assurance oi personal safety and went hither. He de lighted and charmed the Spartans, as he had the Athenians in his earlier years He adopted their customs and dress and was the strictest Spartan of them all He wore his hair short, bathed in the ioy waters of the Eurotes and ate their blaok broth and barley bread. They believed that he had been misrepresented. In truth, as Plutarch said, "he changed color more quickly than a chameleon.'' In Sparta he was grave, temperate and fond of physical exercise in Ionia he was easy going, luxurious and merry, in Thrace he was drunken, in Thessaly he was devoted to horsemanship, and in the court of the Persian satraps he sur passed Tissaphernes himself in magnificence. As Sparta was to be the prize of the Athenian victory he showed the people their danger, advising them to begin active operations against that city. No better advice could have been given them, and they profited by it.

Manilla Hemp.

Every'engineer knows what manilla hemp is, but few are aware that it is the product of a species of banana which is cultivated in certain localities in the Philippine islands. The plant, oalled by the natives "abaca," throws up a duster of shea ting leaf stalks to a height of 20 or 30 feet, which spread out at the top into a orown of huge undivided leaves. When it is 8 years old, 4t is out down and the stalks are torn into strips. These strips, while still fresh, are drawn between a knife and a wooden block, and the soft oellulose matter is removed. The fiber is then hung up to dry in the open air until it is fit for use. Each stalk gives about a pound of fiber, and two natives will turn out about 25 pounds a day. The inside fiber, which is thin and weak, is used by the natives for making articles of dress! The familiar manilla rope is made from the fiber of the outer layer, which is hard and strong. The whole supply of manilla hemp practically comes from the Philippines, and the United States consumes 41 per cent of it.

Picturesque Description of Arizona.

We live in a land of high mountains, high colors and high taxes, low valleys, low neck dresses and low wages, big, crooked rivers and big, crooked statesmen, big lakes, big drunks, big pumpkins, big men with pumpkin heads, silver streams that gambol in the mountains and pious politicians who gamble in the night, roaring cataracts and roaring orators, fast trains, fast horses, fast young men, roses that bloom the year round and beautiful girls with rosebud mouths, sharp lawyers, sharp financiers and sharp toe shoes, noisy children, fertile plains that lie like a sheet of water and thousands of newspapers that lie like thunder.—Yuma Sentinel.

A Zulu Rain Charm.

The Znlus employ a rain charm which is very remarkable considering their usnal fierceness and cruelty. They catch a bird, and after the tribal wizard has consecrated it and made it a "heaven bird" they throw it into a pool of water.

In spite of their own indifference to the sufferings of animals they believe that the sky, which they conceive to be a personality, will be full of woe at the death of the bird and drop sympathetic tribute in showers of rain. ^s

Free Pmim.

The legislative free pass is still universal in France. Every member of the chamber of depnties has free traveling on any railroad in the country and is furnished with a medal of identification 1 to make sore that he gets his privileges, In the matter of pay they are better off than the British members of parliament, though their indemnity of $5 a day is small beside the $5,000 a year of the United States congressman. jig

A Xotee. -3®

Mrs. Hicks (shopping)—Harkl Didn't I bear something smash? Hicks—Good heavens, you have good ears. It was only me going broke.— Harlem Life.

No other preparation has ever done so many people so much good as Hood's Sarsaparilla, America's Greatest Medicine.

Grapes,

Eiaer'*.

Apples, Cocoannta, etc., at

•.V

5A S

S§s@

ft vE ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft

at.,

FIFTH AND MAIN

P.MAUFMAN

LEADING GROCER

Is the number of students enrolled at the Terre Haute Commerical College in 1894, and we have every reason to believe we will reach that number this y§ar. This war is over, prosperity is at hand, and we have the Finest Equipped College in the country and the most proficient corps of teachers of any one college in the land.

Consists of W, C. Isbell, president and manager, with twenty years successful experience A. F. Wallace, vice president and principal, who has been a student of the Chicago University, and has had twelve years of experience in teaching, both in high school and commercial school work Herman Church, graduate of the business department of the Terre Haute Commercial College, assistant in theory work Katharine H. Isbell, secretary and treasurer, has been for eight years a very successful teacher of shorthand and typewriting Lulu Morrill, who has had sixteen years of experience as telegraphy teacher and assistant in the shorthand and typewriting department, and can count her ex-students and friends by the hundreds.

No one contemplating attending a business college can afford to enter any school until they have visited the Terre Haute Commercial College. For full particulars see August number "Business Pointers."

AT THE BIG STORE

WASH GOODS SPECIAL

I have experienced this week. We generally have lots of this kind of weather in September. You can keop comfortablo at a small cost by taking advantage of one of the following bargains. These are absolutely the lowest prices ever made on wash goods of like quality. We offer to close out—

Two cases of 7-cent Dress Ginghams at vC 10 yards for 25D .' Two cases Fancy Prints, 10yards for..2So

Big line Scotch Lapettes, 10 yards for .350 Complete line of Wash Lawns and Percales—all go at 5o 27-lncb Madras Oloth, 10 yards for 35o Our entire line of Wash Goods prevlously marked down to 12M!c go at.. 7 CHILDREN'S WA8H DRES8ES and

.V LADIES'WAISTS Don't let the little ones suffer and swelter yourself when cool summer things can be purchased at such prices as these—

?so iio

-'/IQn

Dresses In three lots 49o 1 6 9

Waists in six lots.

Worth

•pii

has everything that money will buy in this market in the eating line* "Kaufman has the best" is on everybody's lips.

Seventh and Main

to $2.60.

PATRONIZE A HOME INDUSTRY!

The People's Telephone Co.

WM. E. M'LEAN, President. MAI F. HOBERG, Yice Pres't and Treas. 8. F. BAYERS, Secretary and Manager.

OEFICE: ROOMS 17 and 18, NATIONAL BLOCK.

TO THE PUBLIC:—This company is now soliciting subscribers for Telephones at the following rates

Residences .,.$18 per year. Business Houses and Offices.... .$30 per year. Long Distance Speaking Instruments and First.Class Service. teg-

Our solicitors will call, and we ask the citizens to give us their subscriptions, believing that it is to their interest to help sustain a home company, organized by home mea and capital, besides a saving of 40 per cent, from the rates charged by the present company. Yonr subscription will aid in bringing cheaper telephones.

Summer is not over. You know that from what we

SPECIAL BARGAIN5

-1 rf-

Ladies'

'•'V'

Cloth Top Shoes

aillit

AT-

O E E A I S

104 8. FOURTH STREET.