Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 February 1899 — Page 1
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VOL. 29-SO. 35.
(jniRENT TOPICS.
When a committee of Terre Haute peo pie went over to Indianapolis at the opening of the legislative sessiou and talked with our representatives on the subject of a new charter, those representatives set a day on which they were to come over here and hear what the people of our city had to sav on the subject. They came, they heard, and they went, away convinced that the city needed a new charter aud that the people wanted a new charter. .By common consent Senator Early took charge of the legislative end of it. At first the council committee and the senator failed to agree, but very soon after got together and arrived at, an amicable understanding as to the course of procedure in framing the desired document. Two Republican lawyers in good standing, A. M. lliggins and .John O. Piety, were selected by Mr. Karly, and these with .Johu T. Beasley and City Attorney Foley, democrats, were to draw up the instrument. This was done, and when the work had been completed it was submitted to the council, by which body it was adopted unanimously. It, may be true that very few outside of those directly interested in framing the document knew much of the detail of i(N provisions, but the general scope- was 'Well understifod, ami tfmt is much more than can be said of nine tenths of the laws which are passed, and in which the people are, or should be, as much interested as they are in the new charter.
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and agreement-have been faithfully carried j1|Uj
out. The unvarnished truth is the people
to their aid wholesome business methods. jn
The people are not interest**! iu providing place* for T*w. lick and Harry. They want the best men for lhe placets, and th? time is at hand when the heist men will win. 'Die prese nt movement to defeat the charier i* ill advised, ami 1 he party which trie to shoulder the job i-i aaotiming a responsibility which ll prove a heavier ioad 'ban it can carry.
uvnship reform bill, which ps»««ed He last Wtek succeeded in passinil use mi Tuesday by a vote of fiftyTen Republican memlwr* bolted
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thw can. bolted he ad vi ruled with th »*ved the bii! urffc prepsr*-d hv the reform cot»mi-.*ion advisory hoard shall anthorit of the town
Democrat' Democratic Krpuhiie an*. This is our o!
«istency ds a very large jewel, and Mr. Durham possesses it. You always know I where tc find him, bat it is useless to look
Terre Haute'* new city charter was for him on the right side of any question, safely delivered in Indianapolis last week, and promptly panned the house of representatives under a suspension of the rules. Reaching the senate it was passed with amendments and is now with the house again. After all the talk and discussion as to what it should contain, and what it really did contain as a completed instrument, a number of citizens, distinguished, and otherwise, woke up the other morning and suddenly discovered that they didn't know what it contains. An effort was at once made to create a sentiment against it. The discussion which has followed clearly demonstrates that in at least one editorial room in Terre Haute there is a failure to grasp the situation firmly and read plaiu English understanding!?. The proposition to secure a new charter Is an old oue. It was made five years ago. and has been discussed at various intervals since. Two charters were proposed several years ago they were printed and thoroughly discussed at the time, but the matter was allowed to die, and nothing further was heard of it. till last spriug. Then Councilman IlrigKs brought it up and had a committee appointed to take the matter in charge. That committee has had it in charge ever since. There has been plenty of time for discussion, nor has the oppor tunity been lacking.
UMBRELLAS.
As the time of year approaches when we •begin to look up our umbrellas, a few hints in reference thereto may not be amiss. A person with a few years experience will notice a great many peculiarities about umbrallas and the longer he studies the Jess he is liable to know about them. I am that way about a good many things, only I scarcely ever admit it, and -neither do other folks.
Umbrallas are like yellow dags: they belong to whoe-ver comes .first and when not needed are even more useless. An -umbrella is not ornamental nor pretty. It is useful or nothing and the more expensive it is the more liable it will foe to try to turn itself wrong side out aud expose its gizzard to an unfeeling and relentless world.
Among numberless other eccentricities you will find upon close observation that umbrellas have the most delightful habit of being at the wrong end of the route. If it rains when you are down town, you may depend upon it your umbrella will be at home and if you should happen to be at home when a shower comes up, you may swear your umbrella is at the office. And unless you are better than most psopie you do swear. That is, you do when you are out of hearing of your family. hare also noticed that it never rains when you carry your umbrella with you.
The weather man must have a good deal of fun watchiug folks start out on a bright morning when the sky looks as dry as a sermon ou church creeds, and then when they are half way at their journey's end turn on a rip snorting rain-storm.
The only way to be safe is to hare two umbrellas, one for each end of yout daily trip and then you will discover that you have very opportunely left both at one end.
Umbrellas are like eats. They are privileged property, and all colors. They make no selection of their society, but associate with anyone. Au umbrella -jets just as much enjoyment out of cutting up capers with a decrepit* old woman as with .John L. Sullivan and it would just as soon, or a little rather, leak on a sedate and dignified clergyman as on a beautiful dude. Umbrella holders are made to hold umbrellas, but, they never hold them. All they hold is umbrella juice, which is the extract after a rain, but it is not useful. It gets into a good many places, but does nobody any good.
There isan umbrella etlo **not always observed. When your neighbor carries off your umbrella, that means that you got left, and if he jabs it into your short ribs, that is a sign that you are a good man and will not swear. If a kind person allows thu umbrella juice to run down your back, that is a good sign that he thinks there is more room for it there than elsewhere. There are many other little bits of pleasantry like that, but you will do well if you have an umbrella, and if you have none, I am not sorry for you, because anybody can have an umbrella.
The truth of the matter is the question has drifted into politics. The only objectionable feature thus far pointed out is the' provision for an election of three councilmeu at large next year at an expense of several thousand dollars. That clause should be stricken out, but with that change the charter should be allowed to pass. It was understood and agreed. that in this entire matter politics st.ould be eliminated, and so far As the city covin-i nhjy, because nobody ever stole It. Nociltnun and the gentlemen who drafted thu could steal it. very well unless Rob. chartej are concerned the understanding jm(j
Some umbrellas have become historic. Robinson Crusoe made an umbrella out of goat skin and it became famous prob-
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The taxpayers dont carv a rap about the ju washing .machine. An interesting exi»eudit uw uf a few hundred dollars more
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or less iu salaries. The big luaks are to he vunhrella mender, but fragrant Mound iu ot.hwr quarter*, aud it is the biu leaks which (be taxpayer wauts to stop.
however,
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ouutyand township provides that an assume most of the dup trustee, who
Kg left with hardly more than the one duty if veewtiijjj the order* of the baanl. The 1^ Republican caucus in the !lmi«« amended the hill, so that the membership of the i"ad*i*or Iv-wri *haU tw* three iustesd of ti\,- \s the Dt»mK-raSs wen" shut off by '^fhe previous question they used their jtime for explaining vote* to informing the Kepnbiican* thai if the law w»m fail nuri- *he Republican j»ar!r of Indiana will a!! the credit of pacing it- The :«Hy sign the hill.
governor WHJ The vote sh vo!!ng fo 'Mr Durham i» found th.w who .jvoted agamot it In Mr Durham the Re ffcpuhlican* of thi* countv a gem of '{fcfarv value and rtsrx's" rav serene Ooti-
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memory, he makes me weep: so I will tell about him some other time when I am more able to control my emotions.
The handsome Kimball piano given away by Myers Bros, was drawn for on \V«lue* day afternoon. For the contest ."U.7IS ticket* had been issued to those who purchased goods of the firm, and eorres{Huiding numbers were placed in a box from which the drawings were made. The drawing w*« superintended by a commit-j tee consisting of Mayor Stceg. H. Graham, Thomas Ilaird, Jesse Hobertson. George C. Ht'ssell, John Iionsmith. Otto Hippelh«u*er and H. H. Six. The committee tiittwl that, the 2&1 number drawn from the box should lw the winner, and little Karl I,«angsford was blinded and proceeded to draw the numbers. Of the twenty-two numbers drawn seven were for persons tesiding in surrounding towns. The lowest number drawn was fi.4+5 and the highest
The twenty-second number taken
from the box was 13,HT, belonging to Mist* Nellie Colfer, Twenty fifth street and! Fifth arenue- The instrument was at once sent to the lucky winner. Irame4iately after the piano bad been disposed of two Stearns chainless wheels were placed in the window, and will be gim away in
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W, Noel, proprietor of the Kim}all u*ic House, announces a big cut iu prices in an advertisement in this Issue of 5 The Mad Mr. Noel never does tilings by halves and when yon read that be i# going to cut pric«»s St will be done. A slight change in the business arrangemeota at the store has led to this sale, and those wishing a big bargain in musical instrunsents should not fail to call. Sale lasts! one week I
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Were you the person who declared tb&t^ Mademoiselle Terre' Haute is not the cellter of the werld? "You are another." She can prove rf, and will proceed to do so.
It may have occurred to you that people all over the world seemed strangely interested in Mademoiselle Terre Haute, and also strangely anxious to show that in BO me way they were connected with Mademoiselle aud her city. At least it is very evident that hardly a man lives who is not so connected. For whenever a man or a woman is honored, or does some great thing, or receives an advance in salary whenever a man 1s appointed to a position of trust or influence whenever any man's name appears twice in the newspapers whenever any man wins a race or gets married or invents a superior brand of chewing gum or sells or buys a borse, a cow. a dog or a bicylce or makes a trip or imposes upon society: or goes crazy: or starves to death or is tarred and feathered in short, whenever a man does anything which the newspapers notice, whether it be extremely brave or extremely cowardly, extremely meriterious, or ex tremely disreputable, extremely wise or extremely idiotic, straight-way he sends word to Mademoiselle Terre Haute and claims kinship with her, realizing what a rare honor it is if one can only show some connection with Mademoiselle. And if Chat does net prove that Mademoiselle Terre Haute is the center of the world, just tell us why.
Yoa may say, and think it very sly and smart, that Mademoiselle Terre Haute 1c the one who claims the relationship. Other people have said it. They have said that the papers in Mademoiselle's town spend all their time tracing these relationships. ambitious of proving that the worid could not possibly get along without the aforesaid town. Some people ask why ic is that people never seem to b3Com^ great until they leave Terre Haute. But. the question is silly. All greatness begins here. (If you don't believe it, for particu lars study the Terre Haute papers). All claims to the contrary are malicious and untrue and absurd, and are known to spring from a contemptible spirit of envy. And here and now we propose to prove for all time that Mademoiselle Terre Haute is regarded as the only person in this world worth knowing.
Mademoiselle herself would pay no attention t"» her caluminators. She knows her own value and position. But her friends, indignant "at the Incredulous reception accocded some claims made on tell ilf of Mademoiselle, propose to see that justice is done.
Mademoiselle Terre Haute owns some interesting archeological specimens. She has specimens of writing in every tongue and from every age. It is through examination of these that her friends discovered the irrefutable proof of her central position in the world. It is not necessary to reproduce many of them, as a few will answer. And the first specimens offered is an authentic autograph copy of Adam's Memoirs, written in the year million. B. C., published by Lion, Lamh, Serpant & Co., Limited.
In Vol, 847, page 02, Adam speaks of the beauties of Eden, and says: '"This garden in Eden, however, had a bad location. If I had been consulted, I should have planted it on the banks of the Wabash, about 110 miles north of Evansville, for by looking into my prospect mirror, which shows the future, I can see that the mosquitos and malarial germs together with the greasery and cattle-shed and distillery odors, would have settled the hash of that big snake." (You see Adam did not know all varieties of snakes, but the point is clear that he thought Mademoiselle Terre Haute*s town-location was central
Next let us consider a few documents of a later date. Rameses II goes on record as regretting that he could not get bricks from Terre Ha'nte, where they make them without straw. Asurbanipal would have been very glad to have seen the place. Tiglat-Pileser says "I have conquered mtny places, but I wish I could live to get a chance to conquer Terre Haute, the peerless capital of Harrison towaship."
Mademoiselle Terre Haute has a large number of brick books from Babylon and Nineveh, which speak of "that city of the future, Terr* Haute." Alexander the Great died of mad rage because he could not enlist a phalani or two iu Terre Haute.
Confucions and Zoroaster were both accustomed to say that the ages in which they lived were pretty good breeders of greatness, but if they could only have lived in Terre Haute, or could have been born in Terre Haute, the world would not have been Big enough to hold tbero. (There are quite a number of things about Terre Haut* which are calculated to make people feel just, that way
We do not need to do more than mention G. Washington, Napoleon, Benedict Arnold, George III. {who said that tbe only reason be wanted to whip tbe Americans was that be might own the ground on which Tern Haute was bullt—and, is fact, every one of prominence: down to Dink Bolts and President McKinley—for all of these have signified t&at a man might well never have been born as to never know Terre Haute or is some way
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be connected with it. How sorry we are for Shakespeare and all the rest.
Capt. Coghlan, "our Cap.," in an interview with a representative of the Assassinated Press, said without hesitancy that Dewey's victory was won because he (Capt. Coghlan) had told Dewey about Terre Haute, and it so inspired the Commodore that he could have whipped two or three more Spaniards if they had been there. And it must be true. Hobson's brave deed was inspired by hearing the song about the Wabash, and it is said the charge at San Juan was successful because a soldier from Terre Haute scared the Spaniards* to death by yelling, "The Terrible Hut forever." Some of the Spaniards thought he was talking about heaven and died happy, smoking cigarettes and saying over and over, "Terry Hut, Terry Hut," thinking it too good to be true. Admiral Schley (we can prove it by Gen. Egan) dreamed of Terre Haute the night before the battle (he had been eating mince pie and green cucumbers), and he just had to win after that.
And so we might go on. Nothing happens that does not have its beginning or ending in Terre Haute. And the one great ambition of all.mankind is to have Terre Haute's approval. The following letter lately received by Mademoiselle explains itself. It is from a hard town small by: "DKAR Madkmoiskli.K TERRK HAI'TK Our town has at last come to the point where everyone in it except one man can say that he or she is connected with Terre Haute. We are going to hang that one man to-morrow, and then we shall all be immortal. I can't tell you just how all of us are connected with Terre Haute, but I am going to tell you about some of tbe folks:
Old Doc. Humbug used to live in Terre Haute. Bill McFiddle once rode half-way to Terre Haute on a hay-wagon.
Jim Gates once leaned against a freight oar that Was built in Terre Haute. Sam Julep oncc smelt the cattle pens back of the distillery in Terre Haute.
Molly Hawkins has a dress her aunt bought in Terre Haute. Joe Smith remembers what to get at the grocery by -jing on his finger a string that some one in Terre Haute once used to flsh with.
Hank Myers was arrested in Terre Haute. Jerry Peters was fooled and robbed by a real estate fakir from Terre Haute.
Pete Jackson's^ little boy was bit by a dog which used to belong to a man whose sister's bast friend knew another girl who hired out to a womau whose brother-in-law once saw a man who rode through Terre Haute in a box car.
Jack Hamstrung's uncle, Ned Doolittle, owns a piece of rope that was tied around the neck of a dog that a fellow took all the way from Skunk Holler and drowned in the Wabash near Terre Haute.
Minnie Bell stubbed her toe on a piece of wood that was part of a tree that a fellow named Bunker said was tall enough to let you see the smoke of Terre Haute, if you could climb it. And it wasn't very high wither.
Bob Budd has a knife that was owned by a man who got it of another man whose step-brother knew a family that lived across the road from a blacksmith shop where a horse was shod once that was raised from a colt by a man that had a pain once from eatiug a can of sardines which came fromaTjjrre Haute trrocery.
You see that they all have some connection with Terre Haute and are proud of it. I haven't told you about half of the folks. But I want to send you some poetry that Riley Waters wrot«, because be just tells the truth, and when you read this poetry you'll see what I mean when I say that no one ever lived or could live who hasn't known Terre Haute. f.tNKA TO M'l.I.K. TEBKE HAUTE. This world Is full of wonders new and old
A thing no one who lives can fail to note. But strangest of them all Is, we are told. A man who never lived in Terre Haute. All other men all over this broad earth
With pleasure 011 this one fact seem todote: No matter of what joys they've known a dearth.
This one !s theirs—they've been In Terre Haute.
No honor this earth knows, men all agree. Beside this one is worth a copper groat, it's the height, of all ambition just to be connected in some way with Terre Haute.
We speak of Devil's Island. Dreyfus' fate. Of deeds o'er which the Sultan loves to gloat: But these are naught. His woe alone is great
Who nerer saw or lived in—Terre Haute.
Tlien pity this poor man whose life is dark A horrid fate has seized him by the throat. A hopeless, blighted outcast, ruin's mark.
For he never, nerer lived in Terre Haute.
Tbe fire desd seems to have it io for W. Albrecht & Co. He destroyed their entire stock In tbe Naylor opera house fire less than four years ago in tbe big firs last December be burned them out again, and last Sunday night only tbe prompt discovery of the flames in* their new store saved them from another disastrous conflagration. As it was the loss reached about ttOOO. Some miscreant broke one of tbe windows on the alley and deliberately set fire to some of tbe papers on tbe floor on tbe inside. Hie fire was di*dbverad immediately, and tbe prompt responae of tbe fire department saved tbe building and stock, except tbe loss mentioned.
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TO-WIT.
Once iu awhile some rural paper "points with pride" to the alleged fact that "our county officers remain at home attending to business instead of going over to Indianapolis to lobby against the reform bills." Such bald statements are very funny sometimes. While it may be true that there area few of the county officers who are honestly at home attending to their business, those of Vigo among the number, it is also true that there are others who also remain at home, but whose money is screeching in" the hands of the lobbyists in Indianapolis. Just noy the lobby is the loudest thing in Indianapolis—in fact is about the noisiest and most perS»sfent gang that has ever struck the hoosier capital during a legislative session. It is everywhere at all times, and it is no uncommon thing to hear some member complain that business is impeded by the lobby force. And they are still there, floating proudly and waving iu the breeze well filled pocket books, the contents of which are always ready for general distribution. In the last few days the lobby force has been reinforced by the bridge builders. Here in Vigo we know something of bridge building, and when that crowd joins forces with the county officers association every one knows what to expect. If such a combination cannot gain its ends there is still reason to believe that there is a God iu Israel.
The latest proposed steal is a bill introduced by a gentleman named Hedgecock last Tuesday. Under its provisions the pay which county officers receive would in some instances be doubled, it is stated. It is provided in the bill that the clerk shall receive ten per cent, of the fees turned into the treasury in excess of his salary, and shall be entitled to all fees for work done for the county. The bill proposes to allow the auditor one-half of 1 per cent, on all school funds loaned, and 8 cents for every 100 words of ditch and gravel road record made. The "lift" provided for the auditor is 50 per cent, of the fees collected by him in excess of his salary. Under the bill, the county treasurer is to receive one-fourth of 1 per cent, of the first $100,000 of current taxes collectedj and one-eighth of 1 per cent, on the sum iu excess of $100,000. The sheriff, if the bill becomes a law, will receive $2 a day for attending court 20 per cent of all fees collected in excess of his salary, uud 6 cents a mile for transporting prisoners Then the bill also proposes to repeal the section of the fee and salary law which provides that county officers shall earn in fees their salaries before drawing them. The bill is looked on by many members as the biggest "steal" that has yet appeared in the General Assembly.
It has been announced that if the county officers can get this bill through they do not care if the legislature passes all the reform bills now before it.
Of course every county officer in the state knew what the compenation of the office was when he accepted the nomination and made the race for it. He had it all figured out how much it would cost him to run it, and how much he could make out of it. He was wide awake, had both eyes open and had figured out all the profit and loss. The county official never goes it blind 011 anything in the way of fees and salary, and when he went into office he knew just what the law allowed him. In most of the county offices the officials are paid much more than any of them ever earned before, or ever could earn again. Half the pay would be along odds too much compensation for the material which frequently lands himself in office through superior trickery and falsifying qualifications which sometimes go for political shrewdness. Time out of mind the state has been in the grasp of the county officials, and when an honest effort is made to bring about reform in the conduct of county affairs the attempt is resented by a lobby of cormorants whose appetite would demand more if the entire state treasury was tHrown open^to them. This is the kind of people to be found in the lobby now engaged in the work of dtefeating honest legislation. There is not a member of tbe legislature but knows them all, ami knows tbem well. Yet those fellows are not only tolerated around the corridors of the capitol, butare frequently given tbe liberty of tbe floors.
It is expected that when the vehicle tax injunction ease is called up in Circuit court the lis! of petitioners will have grown smaller by degrees and beautifully less. At first tbe owner of some name which appeared on the list mildly protested that the use of his cognomen was a mistake. Then others were beard from in mild protest that tbe use of their names was unauthorized. Still later the mild protest form was dropped, and other persons indignantly announced that tbeir names had been procured through fraud, and there is no telling what kind of protest will be adopted next Attorney Stimson is in no way to blame for tbe existing mess. He brought tbe suit in good faith relying on tbe correctness of the lists of names given him for use as petitioners. He had every reason to believe that each name banded him bad been secured from its owner in a legitimate way, and that everything was entirely regular. It is a well established principle that is law nothing is taken for granted, and hereafter Mr. Stimson will in all probability bear it in mind. It Is not known what stand tbe city attorney will take in tbe matter jrhen tbe case is called for trial on Monday, but Mr. Foley will probably be charitable and
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take the view that plaintiffs attorney has been imposed upn. It is said that a wellknown man of business who is materially affected by the tax, is behind the movement, but as a matter of economy takes no part in it which might reuder him liable for costs.
AKR0W SHOTS.
I shot an arrow Into the air. It fell to the earth: 1 know not where. Longfellow. Some folks are always being swindled. It is very seldom tlfot a woman admits that her baby cries.
A photograph of a man with a string of fish is never believed. Men who disbelieve the Bible usually have some selfish reason.
No man is too worthless for some woman to* get stuck on him. Some men think they deserve credit for liking their own children.
There is many a clock in a fine case, that doesn't keep accurate time. It is shocking how few men have sense enough to save their money.
A postmaster gets cussed more than anybody else, except an editor. We wonder every day how trifling people find one another so quickly.
As soon as a girl gets a new beau, shs celebrates by getting a new suit.. Nobody ever sees a train without wondering where everybody is going.
A married man enn tell his overcoat iu the dark by the holes in the pockets. Some men try just as hard to avoid paying their debts as others do to pay them.
A woman thinks if she repeats gossip just as she heard it, there can be no harm. Every man can think of at least a dozen business enterprises better than his owu.
We can't understand why any man will sell out for the sake of having time to loaf.
Wfhat a lot of fool talk a preacher is obliged to listen to without being allowed to swear!
You can tell a good deal about a man's character by the kind of peopla who mourn his death.
When a man buys something extra to eat, his wife always wants to put it away till company comes.
Anew way to save money is to ask the fellow you wish to pay, for a check book with revenue stamps.
We hear people complaining that there is no suitable society, when they wouldn't make good dog pelters.
By the way some men act, you would think they were putting in all their time trying to keep off the petit jury,
A woman thinks a house isn't well kept unless she can put her husband's slippers away where he doesn't want them.
Last Monday the Circuit court was petitioned to restrain the city from enforcing the tax on vehicles. The petitioners are eighty-six tax-payers of the city, and are represented by the law firm of Stimson & Condit. The city is represented by City Attorney Foley. The complaint alleges that the ordinance is void for tbe following reasons: 1. It is unreasonable and not, authorized by any statute of the state of Indiana. 2. It is unreasonable and not authorized by any valid statute of the state of Indiana. '3. It, deprives property owners of the use of tbeir property and restrains them in the free use of the same without fault 011 their part, in contravention of section 1 of article 1. of the constitution of the state of Indiana. 4. It provides for an equal and uniform taxation of property aud a taxation not based upon valuation, in contravention to section 1 of article 10 of the constitution of the state of Indiana, 5. It abridges the privileges and mnnities of citizens of the United States and deprives them of life, liberty or property without due process of law, and denies to them the equal protection of th(*Iaws, in contravention of section 1 of the 14th amendment, of the constitution of tho United States.
Judge Piety granted a temporary injnnction, restraining the city from making arrests of persons who have failed to pay tbe tax. The court will besr arguments in tbe case next Monday morning, after which a final decision will be rendered.
Tbe executive committee of the G. A. K. state encampment held a meeting at tbe Filbeck House Monday evening, at which it was announcer! that a rate of one cent per mile had been secured on the railroads from all points in Indiana and from points in Illinois bounded by Areola. Mattoon, Greenup and Robinson. On tbe recommendation of Chairman John E. Bickeli, of the bureau of information, tbe following names were added to that committee: Harry O. Welch. W. G. Tully, h. M. Rosenbaum, G. E. Brandenburg, Win, D. Phillips and James Dempsey.
A mortgage for $0,000,000 was filed for record in tbe recorder's office of this county this week. It was given by the Central Union Telephone company to tbe Old Colony Trout company as trustee. It was given to secure bonds for tbe amount named, tbe bonds being payable in gold, with five per cent interest, and roust be (•corded in every county in tbe state in which tbe telephone company does businesa. Hie revenue stamps on it cost $3,000.