Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 June 1897 — Page 7

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A. B. FELSENTHALDEAD

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TKRRF, HACTB'8 PKOKIUBSI HE. '^HBREW ATTORNEI PASSES AWAY.

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Bis Life One Long and Terrible Strangle

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With Disease, Bat His Mind Was Always Keen.

EARNED' HONORS AT WASHINGTON

HIS WAS A H08T INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE CAREER*

(lis Brother the President of the Chicago Bank of Commerce—History bf Hli Life. 'ittir

'Abraham B. Felsenthal died Sunday night

at 12:10 of Bright's disease, with complica

tions. The illness and death of Mr. Felsenthal

will be a source of sad surprise to many of

bis friends, for of them he possessed a host.

The' news of his demise was not expected

last flight. On Thursday last he took to his

dgath-bed with acute dropsy. On Friday

he was-"worse, but the next d&y "foe Tah&d*

so muclt that it 6eemed his recovery,

was assured. Yesterday a relapse^ occured, but of so gradual a nature that only those constantly about him feared thfe worst. It. was thought that he would be able to survive the night, but near the hour of midnight the dread araemic poisoning set in and Dr. Stunkard was hastily called. The sipk ma-n lived until the physician, arrived but that was all. He was conscious up to the last moment and seemed- fully aware and prepared for what awaited, him.

With the. death of Mr. Felsenthal occurs one of the greatest losses to the bar of Vigo county, the community and the large number of his Hebrew brethren in the city, that could happen. As a lawyer, praise toQ great can not be accorded the memory of this truly great man. For the past fourteen years hp has been compelled to use a- chair in which to move from place to place, as a result of an attack of locomotor ataxia. Yet this affliction did not obstruct- the progress of his brilliant faculties.-, Of.him the'"venerable Colonel R- W. Thompson? under whom-he at one time studied? law, said, "He has the most natural legal'mmd'ofc'any person I ever knew." The historyjafcvMr. Felsenthal 's life, and especially iirfer latter part of it,-is a wonderful exatapte-of the-mastery of mind of the body. Tortirrfedthe greater part -of his time with the:fmOst-excruciat-ing of bodily ailments,. he-: forged" steadily a.head -in his profession iandowas^only handicapped in the race for tfce^hlgiresf'fjlace in the scale of legal honors- .'by -Ms: infirmities.

He had the most pairistaktog habit &f research in matters coming, uMer'his jurisdiction. and his-decision' vassalWays:'lodked Tor as the most unbiased a'ritl the most just There, is no telling what heifeMs' iie might have achieved in law had he been gifted with the •use of his limb^'and body as other men. Mentally there Was rftf "ffiw, ho detriment to the highest honors.' As a man and citizen-MF. Felsenthal will Ibhgfie remembered. ^He was just afld''forgiving in the extreme. Not only his more intimate associates, but all those Who cfi.fae'in touch with him had cause to notieethe fact. To his friends he was alwajjfe" the'ka'toe. To jtrahgers he was always1courteous and forbearing. He was a proinih&fit 'tilember of the society of B'nai B'rithTri 'ftiis city, and took an active interest, "it! fti' i'f&irs. The citizen* of Terre Hautfe recognized his ability and merit, by him'llj ^he office of justice of the peace*^hich tfe helH for' so" long a time. In his service at Tifcjgljtagton, D. C., his superior faculty, for grasping details and,-:his capability/of 'doing right rail that could be found .t£ /J£,yearned him one promotion after the other^ until the.affliction wMch seized him qbirtpfefied J^p re-. linquish" tire office.

Abfahsiin B. Felsenffiar^as'bbrn .in.G^jrr many, January 31, lS^.^He j^Sa'oi' axist'o-.

to be "with tfaje boys" iand for this reason the old Governor T5uarde passed through its term of service "with A. B.' Felsenthal a private. He was a "charter "member of the company indeed, the eld list shows he waB one of the first men who signed his name to the muster roll. In the days when Mr. Felsenthal was young and strong his carriage wosr that of a commander. Then, too, there was no qualification lacking. He had the quick, active mind of a leader, his judgment was the best, and in the every day walks of life A. B. Felsenthal was a man sought after by his friends. Though they are now old men, most of them, the members of the old mili-i tary organization will read that A. B. Felsenthal is dead with tears very close to the eyelids. There was not a man but loved him, not a comrade but would' be willing to almost lay down his life for the man.

A .B. Fensentbal had the distinction of never miesing a turnout of the Governor Guards. Though he had to be wheeled about in a chair, no member of the old band ever became 111 that Abraham Felsenthal was not at his bedside to speak words of cheer. There has never been a member of the guards buried tljat Mr. Felsenthal was not ip attendance. He was with ex-Sheriff Cleary in his last hoiirs, he was with George Seemaii a short time before his death. His whole life seemed devoted to his friends and during bis terms as justice of the peace he has always exercised his broad mind in dispensing justice. He has adhered to the spirit of tha law, it is true, but at the same time he has conducted his office with the view to the bettering of humanity.

A. B. Felsenthal will' be followed to his last resting place by many devoted friends. There are many of the old Governor Guards ,yet living in Terre Haute and these men i\ym have the. funeral services in charge, jAmong the men who were once young and strong and capable of shouldering the rifl® with A. B. Felsenthal are the following: M. W. Stack, ex-chief of police also Daniel Fasig and C. E, Vandever, ex-superintend ents of the police department A. L. Buck ingham and Frank Morrison, ex-city marshals V. G. Dickhout, ex-chief of the fire department G. A. Schaal, ex-county auditor Neuton Rodgers, ex-county treasurer James Pierce, captain of police John Cleary, ex-sheriff George Seeman, ex-deputy auditor Fred Appman, ex-deputy ciay clerk

John Reagan, ex-postmaeter James Fitz Patrick, ex-city treasurer, and Drake Burton, ex-deputy sheriffs

Nothing is known as to the disposition Mr. Felsenthal has made of his property. It is not known whether he made a will in th» last few days of his life or not. His friendshad often urged him to do so, but he laughingly put the matter off. His wonderful constitution had resisted the underminings of the complication* of disease years after, other men of less determination of character* would have given up.

Funeral will take place tombrrow morning, from the residence of Mrs. A. Tomer.

LOOKS LIKE HODGH

DEMOCRATS WIU tIKBW NOMINATE HIM FOR GOVERNOR OF OHIO.

McLean la" the Man For Senator—Convention Will tee Strong For Free Sliver and Chicago Platform.

ColumbtfS, O., June 27.—Although the Democratic state convention does not begin until Wednesday, .a Jialf dozen candidates for. the nomination for governor opened their headquarters'here tciday. The delegates will meet by congressional districts Tuesday afternoon and the committees Tuesday night and most of-the preliminary work will be done tomorrow night.

There will be no endorsement of any candidate for United States senator, but all aspirants for that honor will participate iu the proceedings, especially iq the district meetings of Tuesday and the contest preceding those meetings. It is conceded lhat. Johu R. McLean has enured such a large majority of delegates, that he can be endorsed for senator if he desires endorsement now. While Mr. McLean is recognized as a candidate for senator, his friends state ne .does not want a resolution of endorsement. .-He bag told his friends that he sees no reason for the Democrats following the practice of tha. Republicans in endorsing at thc-st$te convention a. candidate for senator when suelp selection is vested in the legislature... Th« McLean men. are aggressive only to the extent of seeing that nobody else is endorsed

cratic Semitic parentage?" !Wfiea he was for senator. Owink to the McLean paen hav-=. years of age the family 'emigrated to.thisv' ing a lar.ge majority of the delegates, tbere^ country and settled in Chlcagp. Here j'oung 1 will be no~ccftitfest for the campaign chair-^ Abraham attended school for severkl years manshlp or the control of state committed and when nearing-man's" instate he entered It is understood that Daniel McQpoyille the Cook county clerk's oflSfefc Here he rfc- will be chairman again of the state legislamained 'for some time, leaving the capacity tive committee. As there are no Democrats of clerk for a partnership In hfs'^brbthet's holding state offices in Ohio, a complete nev*i commission business in ihat city.' This ticket is to be nominated, and there ar? morte brother, Herman, afterwards' becaihe the candidates than ever before. president of the Bank of donijnerce, and still Among the candidates for the nomination holds that position. One other, brother, for governor are Robert T. Hough, Paul J. Michael, is in th$ insurance husirieas at the j, Sorg, D. D. Donovin, R. A. Smalley, J. M, me place. Of his two sifters. Mrs. Stilus Van Meter, S. M. Hunter, A. W. Patrick, lives in Chicago and Mrs. Alpine"*1 in Kanki- John C. Welty, Horace L. Chapman, A. W. kee, 111. Thurman, J. J. Lentz, C. P. Noble, John

Mr. Felsenthal came to Terre Haute in W. Winn, E. B. Finley, James Kilbourne, 1S71. He was the local agent for the Wheel-j F. C. Lay ton, F. M. Merriott, John G. er & Wilson sewing machine, for a year or Reeves, Henry T, Niles and Frank Southard, two and later acted as salesman for Nick. The lists of tfandicfatea for other places are Katzenbach. This position he left to enter correspondingly large. the abstract office of W. E. Hendrich. While it is believed that R. T. Hough of Hillsthere he began the study of law and under boro will be nfim*a for governor after the Colonel Richard. W. Thompson, he completed! first ballot, on which the long list .of other the study which resulted in his admittance aspirants can be complimented. Hough is to the bar. Aftef that event he began the

ne of the radical free silver men. He re-

practice of law in the firm of Felsenthal & signed as solicitor of the internal revenue Berry. I department because of Jiis opposition to thei In the year 1.SS1 Mr. Felsenthal went to financial policy of the administration. He Washington, D. C.» whore he obtained a owed that appointment to Senator Brice, but position in the census department. Here he he iS now for McLean fot* senator. As tha remained but a few months, his mental I

convention

quickness being readily recognized by the iiver, there will be no contest over the head of the department. He was promoted to platform, except on the endorsement of thd place in the government land office. In Chicago platform as a whole. Some want this department he received four promotions

Hospital, where he lay for a long year. At the. end of th4t time he came back to Terre Haute.

Not long after his return from the hospital Mr. felsenthal was elected justice of the peace, an office which hfe has filled ever since with complete satisfaction to all. He has also beta the attorney for Typographical Union a long time and was ap honorarymember.

A. B. Felsenthal was one of the most prominent members of the old Governor Guards. The Governor Guards was during its term of service the crack military organization of Indiana and was composed of thfe best drilled men in the city of Terr Haute. A. B. Felsenthal was one of the mainstays jf the organization. The company was organized in 1877 and Mi*. Felsenthal his the distinction of never missing a drill. He was always there when the roll was called and there was oot a member of the organization but recognized bis true worth as a soldier and as a gentleman. As a soldier'Mr. Felsenthal •as a model. He never aspired to a commission. although he co^rhave been an officer on several occasions.-

Jji* j¥*s OJW ot^th©

will be vefy strongly for free

in one year. t0 avoid" the enitorsement of what are termed It was at this time that Mr. Felsenthal anarchistic planks in the Chicago platform, received, the first warning of the trouble Among the candidates for governor who are a\vaiting him and which would make life a already here with headquarters open are burden to him. It was when walking down T. Hough, John C. Welter, J. J. Lentz, the steps of the Capitol one day that the .first Thurman and Horace L. Chapman. premonitory twinge caught him in the lower limbs. The affliction increased gradually. He obtained a. position as United States tim-i ber agent at Little Rock. Ark., in the hopes that the water at the adjacent Hofc Springs would help his trouble. But relief was notT for him ani in despair he came back to this city. When he was stricken, never to walla again, he was taken to the Michael Reese

declaration for free silver in order

BOLD BANK BURGLARS.

Tapped Trolley Wires and Attempted To Melt Safe Door Knob. Cleveland, June 27.—Burglars resorted to a novel scheme to open a bank safe at Chargrin Falls, this county, last night They entered the bank of Rogers^ & Son, some time early in the evening. They had previously attached a wire to the trolley line of the electric railway. This wire was run through' an alley" over a transome and to the safe. Another attached to the rail of the street car track was brought into the bank. At the ehds of thes^ wires were car bon points. With the carbons an attempt was made with the arc light thus formed to melt the knob of the combination. The experiment worked all right and the knob had been nearly melted away, when the cut rent was shut off shortly after midnight. The burglars tben gave up the task. The job was planned scientifically. The thieves had even gone to the trouble of placing a little pile of sand under the knob for the molten metal to fall on, and thus avoid setting fire to the floor, There is

the burglars.

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Warsbip Brooklyn Sails.

Portsmouth, June 27.—The United States warship Brooklyn sailed westward this evening after 'excba^ng'the usxial salutes vlOl

LEAVE ALMA MATER

SEVENTY-FIVE STUDENTS GRADUATE FROM STATE NORMA* SCHOOL.

They Receive Their Certificate# of Graduation Bat Mast Teach TwoYears Before They Get Thnlr Diplomas.

FINE ADDRESS GIVEN BY MR. BDILER

T£KRE ifcAtTE EXPRESS, TUBS1A¥ MORNING UN-ft LMJ

GOV, MOUNT ADJURES GRADUATES TO BE BRAVE IN LIFE'S BATTLE.

Mr. William H. Armstrong Delivers An Address to the Class of '95 In Handing Over Diplomas

curred the twenty-sixth annual commencement exercises of the Indiana State Normal School. The programme began at 9:30 o'clock and ended at'noon. It embraced mwy notable featufes, musical and intellectual. The address of the day was delivered by Nicholas Murray Butler, Ph. D., of Columbia College, New York, and it was the effort of a thinker and a scholar. Governor Mount spoke briefly to the graduating class and Mr. William H.-Armstrong, president at the board of trustees of the Normal, ad dressed the class of "So, in delivering to them their diplomas. President Parsons, of the school, gave a short account of Normal School work in the United States in general, and in this state in particular.' Mr. Parsons also acted as master of cereMonies, and offi elated in the presentation to- the class of '97 of its certificates of graduation.

The programme opened with a chorus by the Normal choir, "Holy, Holy is the Lord," by Goeb. The Rev. John A. Blair delivered an eloquent invocation and then the choir sang "Gloria," by Farmer. Mr. Butler was next introduced to deliver the commencement address. He is a man of good physique, modest demeanor and complete self-posses sion. The title of his remarks was "The Scientific Study of Education." He spoke out of bis consummate mastery of the sub ject and needed no notes. The discourse was uttered with great deliberation and with singuiar plainness of manner. Judged by some standards, Mr. Butler would not be an orator judged by the true standards of force and intelligibility, he is an orator and an unusually fine one. His voice is clear and his enunciation distinct. He makes himself perfectly understood as he goes along, the directness of his language and the acuteness of his logic setting forth his meaning in almost palpable distinctness.

It is the invariable' characteristic of the poorly trained mind that it -wanders, seeking the line of least resistance it is the unfailing" characteristic of the well trained •mind that it-follows the straight course ot the demands of its subject, however strenuous the exactions placed upon it. Mr. Butler is a splendid exampfe of the educated thinker. He exercises a becoming self-de-nial in the choice of words and arguments. He does not take up with something pretty in rhetoric or illustration simply because it is pretty it must answer the definite requirements of his theme else he lets it alone. He set forth scientific education in clear, simple, classic English. His" address was a masterpiece of acute articulation and compact logic—not a word too many, not a word too few. He plucked the very heart out of his subject and then quit. The applause persisted in at the conclusion of his address showed that it had been appreciated.

A CENTURY OF EDUCATION. In beginning his discourse, Mr. Butler referred to the immense progress of the present century in .respect to material things. It would appeal to the historian of every sort and every ideal. But there was one other marked feature of the century's advance—1 something above its political, economic and industrial achievements. The present was pre-eminently a. century of education. It had begun without any broad provision fo* the training of the children of any country in the world. Germany had nothing of the kind, nor Great Britain^ nor France. Even in the United States we had no wide and profound conception of the duty resting upon a democracy to educate its children. We did not realize then that tbe safety of a state depends upon the intelligence and character of the people who-compose it. The curtain of the cen|ury rose1 upon a world without anything corresponding in the most remote degree to civilized man's present belief in the supreme necessity and the supreme •blessing of education. But great worldforces had been at work. They had touched every nation on earth but had been most felt in the great modern democracies of the United States and France. Ninteenth century democracy had produced the highest understanding of the value of education. The United States alone was spending annually $150,000,000 for public education—more than the cost of any two of the vast standing armies of Europe. It was one of the chief items of expense in the budget of the disbursements of public money.

SCIENCE OF. EDUCATION. What, then, asked the speaker, should be the attitude of every man and woman, and especially every professional teacher, toward a great movement like this? It could not be ignored. We must turn upon it careful, sympathetic, scientific inquiry and study such as have made such conquests in other fields. There should be a scientific understanding of what education means. Teachers should free themselves from the current of the great educational movement, stand aside and note its direction. Some contended that there could be no such thing as a science of education. Education could not be managed by machinery. It was not amenable to form ulas and rules. There was no such thing as an educational multiplication table. Similar factors in education could not be made al ways to produce similar results. The speak er thought this objection to rest upon a misunderstanding of the word science. Science was merely classified knowledge. It was not always exact or mathematical. There were two kinds of science—the exact and the descriptive. The former had mathematics and mechanism as a. basis. Education was not a mathematical science. It belonged to the dscriptive class—to ffiose sciences that rest upon wide observation, cireful comparison and recording of truth, it was not an affair of axioms, postulates aid definite rules yet it was science to illumine our minds and guide our action.

Mr. Butler compared the science of education with the science of medicine, between which he said there was a close analogy. The science of medicine was based upon anatomy, physiology arid Chemistry, but the phy sician was forced to consider each case in the light of its own peculiarities. He had no definite rules of treatment for universal and1 invariable application. So with the science of education. Teachers could not be given formulas and rules for uniform and mechanical enforcement. The human mind before the teacher was as variable and indi vidual as the human body before the physician. The science of education would not go with things mathematical, demonstrable, axiomatic it belonged W^h'^j^destiriptive^ ii&friamg' the

sftuMtfo of a human being required a higher setenefe" ttian one having'to do "with axioms and postulates,

BEfc$ferr OF rtrrSicXk TRAINING. Scientific education must be approached, Mr. Butler said, from three different lines. Thre^^i|terent aspects ol the pupil must be taken into consideration. The first was the physiologio&l or the body, the second the psychological or the mind and the third th$ sociological qr the human being as a member of socyfy. Mr. Butler stated that the physlologieal"siffe of education had been neglected. Physical training was once appreciated, especially by the Greeks, but Europe forgot the lesson and a narrow,^nd ascetic idea took possession of her schools. The teachers of the Middle Ages edvised the humiliation of the body. From the revival of learning until today all the world bad been trying to get the physiological or physical element back into education. The results were various. In Germany there were no contests or' gaffiies, but a great deal of systematic training? of the bodies. In England there were many outdoor cohtests and sports, but very little use of the gymnasia or apparatus In America the elements of the German and English solution of the question were being combined. But in France they were groping about' in this matter with neither systematic training nor games.

It was gratifying, in Mr. Butler's opinion, that we were coming baofc to the understanding that no education can bo complete thati does not take full account of the importance of the physical element. We had all heard the saying of the Roman poet *bout "a souricl mind in a sound body," but it was only recently that we had come to grasp the great profundity of that aphorism. But now w* realized that the wise, sober, sane intellect and the sound character must have their foundation in a sound body. Attention to the physiological aspects of the human being had revealed that the body did not-grow all at once ^hat one limb grew now and another later that one part of the nervous system developed now and another at another time. But every part of the mind was growing at once. Some faculties might be dominant at certain times but all were always growing a little* They must bte appealed to while they were growing. If we let a faculty go too long we have lost the power to use that fac ulty In the most perfect manner. People talked about a remote judgment day life wa& filll of judgment days. The sentence Is continually being pronounced, "Too late thatr power cannot be developed now." The time* was constantly arriving when the par ent, teacher and pupil were alike helpless in tb&fe matters. It was also a gain of physiblogy as a part of education that it taughC

sthe

dangers of fatigue and the Te

quirements of nutrition. It saved the pupil from blame for shortcomings that were the restjl^ pf physical defects. f'

STUDY OF HUMAN MIND Th^i second mode of approach to a sclr entiflff! education was by the studyv.of it he human mind. This fact had been understood for about sixty years., At fi£sfe,.jts results were not eatlsfactory, due to' a. mixing of the exact and descriptive sciences Mathematical accuracy had been expected. That narrow notion must be discarded.. The teacher must stand before the individual mind and know itV individualities. No twa minds eould be'dealt with just alike. Thtf teacher must know the contents- of her. pupils' minds, their interests, their joys, sorrows, loves and hates. It must be realized that all children cannot be reduced to a com-i mon denominatori They must be studied and understood as separate problems, with a full appreciation of the close relationship bf mind and body.

There remained the third approach to a scientific" education—the socldlogrc^r or .Social. That was new. It was based upon the modern conception of society. Once society was reckoned as separate molecules*- Now it was known that no individual is complete in himself. He has his social side, his social dependence. Man is not complete until he becomes Citizen. It Was when we recognised this that we faced the third approach to a scientific educaion. Mind had its' social, its civic, side. Society was an organ-. ism. Each man was somehow and some-, what his brother's keeper. Under po other', tibndition could there be harmonious citizenship. Robinson Crusoe had been represented as happy in his isolation, but be was the creature of a lively imagination. The principle of individual sufficiency was a demoralizing and destructive one. Pupils .must be looked at from the social point of view. We must understand their relation to the

tate—what they received from it, what they owed to it. Man had worked out many great institutions such as the common law and the church pnd now he is working out the institutions, of education. The institutional Ufa of society must be handed down to posterity —the community life, the social life. We were the oldest people who ever lived—the people

of thls

diy- Everything belonged to

—every victory over barbarism, atheism and anarchy. We were the heirs of the centuries. The battle of Marathon was of no Importance as a contest between a few hundred Greeks and a few thousand Persians it was of importance us as a contest between institutions, between the oriental and European life it was of importance to us because it made European civilization possible. We were not the owners but merely the trustees of this civilization of ours. Therefore, we should teach our children to understand and to hand it on enriched.

DELIVERING THE DIPLOMAS. Dr. Butler was followed by Ptesident Parsons, after the singing of Wagner's "Spinning Chorus" by the choir. Mr. Parsons delivered a short address appropriate" to the occasion-. He omitted the formality of handing the certificate of graduation to each member of the class of '97 separately. Mr, Wijliam H. Armstrong came after Mr. Parsons with a brief speech in delivering to the class of '95 their diplomas. In this class there were 138 graduates, and they stood in th eauditorium while Mr. Armstrong addressed them.

Governor Mount's address to the class of '97 was in the nature of an exhortation to them to be loyal to lofty Ideals and never to falter in the battle of life. All the speakers were generously applauded. The choir sang Schumann's "Gypsy Chorus," and the Rev. Mr. Blair pronounced the benediction.

The hall was plainly but prettily decorated for the occasion. The colors of the class of •97, ^tjse and white, swung from the chandel'iere and the stage was surmounted with palms .and flowers. On the stage with the graduites sat President Parsons and Vice President Sandison, the directors of the Normal, the city school board, the speaker of the day, Governor Mount, Mayor Ross, Mr. "W. R. McKeen, Rev. J. A. Blair, Judge D. "W. Henry, Judge "Mack, Superintend'ent Wiley. State Superintendendent Geeting, the Rer Witmer, the Rev. Cl«f/k, ex-Trustee I. H. €. Royse, ex-Trustee Gilbert the Rev. Haaip, the Rev. Shuey, O. P. Foreman, B. F. Scudder, F. Mcintosh, Prof A. E. Humpke.' of Vincennes, and many others

The following are the members of the graduating class:

JJona P. Alexander. Hafrcey M. Barcus. Oiga Beck. l^aura A« Bcn^diqU Tillie E. Billiodi. Ann* R. HoruJf. Anna M. Brown. Edward M. Bruce. Anna Carr.

Clifford E. Greene. Elm* Helen Greyer. Jennie Hadlcy. Charles Hamilton.

Mark Moffett. Mayme Mogle. Marguerite Moran. M. Katliarine Allen. Lifzie M. B?al. I^arkcn L. Beeman. Frank McCabe. Joseph J. McKlnney.

Lawrence MeTurean.

Mara Margaret Clark. M. Nettle Needham. If Oli.okatk n«ri%n William A. Cole V. AUca CowglU. Charl« N- Curtis. Elnwr E- De$m. Ron. D. DeLay. Jessph 3. Fagan. -Carie Ellison. Nelllo M. Faivey.

M. Elizabeth Owen. Susie Paine. Clara E. Patrick. Grace Pearce. filtie Gortruda Peree. ^Charles A. Phillippe. Grace Pre. Lclah Preston.

Emeii* Freera* William C.

John ReWrl" Thoma* W. Iteftsrts. iFtuth Iiirtle Roberta. Lydla M, Route.

LUAliCo nSUJill4 "U «w Clara (Claytoe) Harder. John W. SaW£rfieT. Daniel E. Harrington. Refcecca (M.) Sct»aer,

Ida Hieatte. J. Emanuel Hcff. Kate Howard Lilian V. Howarth. Orlando M. Huff. R. Eleanor Jaggers. James Kessel. Clara M. Klein. John Walter Laird. Mary A. Layden. Colfax Martin. Jared B. Mattindale. Tresiie Rett* May berger,

Nellie 55- Shepherd. Ilarry Shields. Ida F. Stocker. Charles Swain. Flora Swan. Jennie Thiebaod. R. Solomop Tine. Orpha E. VanKirfc. Alveretta Warvcl. Edna WUscjb. A. Jeanette H^inWgler.

V. -Wolfen-

A VICTORY FOB VIGO

ESTATE OF CASSIUS B. BEEVES WIIX BE TBAN8FERRED FRO/A CLAY.

Old Soldier a Resident of This CoontyClay County Refused to Keep Blm §jp While a Faopw.

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'Many of the residents of this city and almost all the old soldiers will remember Cassius E. Reeves, who cow, blind and crazy, occupies a cell in the insane asylum at Indianapolis. He was born and reared in Vigo county, enlisted iu tho Eleventh Indiana volunteers, and while In the army suffered the sunstroke which finally dctljrojj.od his reason.

Reeves was adjudged insane and sent to the asylum at the capital by the authorities of this county in 1S82. Ho afterward was discharged and camo back. A second time his mental condition became such as to need attention, and he was sent to the hospital for the insane at Logansport from Clay county.

His brother lives in Clay county, and Reeves was accustomed to spend the greater part of his timo with his family. But he was often obliged to call upon the county for support, and when that happened the officers at Brazil never failed to send him back to the poor farm in Vigo.

It wasa short time after Reeves came back from the asylum at Logansport, and whilo he was living in Clay county, that he received word from Washington that a pension of 572 a month had been granted him. In addition to the monthly pension he received as back pay the sum of $14,000. Ever since that time Clay county has been collecting taxes on the estate. A guardian in the same county was appointed to take care of it. Under his judicious management it has been added to until it is now worth about £16,000.

In some manner the full knowledge of the matter came recently to the ears of Vigo officials, and Couhty Auditor Soules at once commenced an investigation. Deputy Sam Gray went over to Clay county and had a talk with the guardian. The latter has agreed to relinquish the estate. Mr. Gray also saw the brother of Reeves, and without revealing his reasons for wishing the information, was told that fche. ©ld soldier was really a resident of this county* The brother informed Mr. Gray that he Would be in Terre Haute yesterday, and when he came he was asked to step up to the court room, where he told the same story to Judge Piety. Judge Piety at once appointed Auditor Soules guardian of Reeves' estate, having found that he would serve.

So that the estate of over $16,000 will be placed on Vigo county's next tax list. It is altogether improbable that Clay county will contest the matter. There are .fifty persons in the city who would be able to testify as to the residency of Reeves.

W ALSH IS fiECEIVER I

OF 'ELECTRIC LIGBT COMPANY, AS RESULT OF CREDITORS* PETITION.

Action Taken By McKeen it C6.,' Who As Trustees, Held Notes For S25,OQO— Total Liabilities 940,000.'

Friday morning suit was filed in the Superior Court as follows: W. ft. McKeen and Samuel C. McKeen,* as trustees for the first mortgages, ..vs. Terre Haute Electric Light and (Power Co. and Gustave Conzman, trustee of siecond mortgage?, foreclosure of mortgage and petition tp,appoint a receiver.

Soon after the. filing of the suit, all the defendants appeared and in writing waived issuance of nbtice and, service of process. They admitted the justice of the claim for a receiver by acknowledgment of the need of one.

The Terre Haute Electric Light and Power Co..has been in business for more than thirteen years. The plant is located on North Sixth and One-half street, at the crossing of the Vandalla- railroad. The officers of tbe company are: Andrew J. Crawford,' president Samuel McKeen, treasurer Edwin Ellis, secretary. For a considerable time the financial condition of the company has not been of the best, aid within the past few months the filing of suits against it by its principal creditors has given th'6 general impression that it was financially embarrassed.

On the 25th day of March, 1895, the company executed to McKeen & Co., acting as trustees for the creditors, twenty-five promissory notes, each for the sum of $1,000. The interest was at the rate of 6 per cent and

The primary reason of the suit was the failure of the company to pay Us first installment of interest, amounting to $1,500, which became due on the 25th of last March. By reason of this default all the notes and interest became due at that time also. The plaintiffs also alleged that a number of the notes left in their care had b6en sold and transferred to other parties, and although they had not the amount of the notes thus disposed of at hand when the complaint was filed it could be produced at ahy tiine.

It is further represented by the plaintiffs that on June 18, 1S97, the "company executed a chattel mortgage to Gustave A. Conzman, as trustee, to cover sundry obligations amounting $10,576:06. The beneficiaries in the mortgage were as follows!: W. R. McKeen, $350 Burns & Ray, $311.13 H. Hulman, Sr., $265 Kester Electric Co., $410.74 James P. Crawford, $2,265 Munson Belt Co., $123.50 Wabash Iron Co., $1,500.90 Vigo County Coal Co., $632.15 A. J. Crawford, $2,688.94 Steen Coal Co $650 O'Neil & Sutphen, $350.30 Edwin Ellig, $216 Standard Carbon Co., 381 Buckeye, Electric Co., $332.50, and LoghnerCoal Mining Co., $99.50.

Since the mortgage to Mr. Conzman was made out after that in favor of the plaintiffs, the latter petitioned of the court that tht first mortgage receive primary considration. They prayed for a judgment of $30,000 and a right to foreclose.

Judge Henry ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, and appointed John L. Walsh, the county treasurer-elect, to take charge of the! affairs of the company. The bond Was fixed at $50,000, which Mr. Walsh at-otoce secured. The bondsmen are G. A. CtJnzman,, A. J. Crawford and Frank MeKeeri.

There will be no discontinuance of tbe service. The customers of the company will receive their electric light service as heretofore. The receiver has announced his intention of managing the plant without interruption.

SEVEN BLACK COFFINS

TILL TBE BTOKY OF TBE WfifcCtt AT MISSOURI CITT, Ud.

Five" ot the Dead -Were Fostal Clerk* Who VFere Caaght Like Rats In a Trap.

COMfcioR COPELAXD IS NOT DEW

HE NINETEEN INJURED PASSES GERS WILL RECOVER. I#" 4^ (J$ Iff

A Courageous Farmer Tried to Flag the lli-Fated Train Bat

W. S. MILLS, postal clerk, St. Louis. O. M. SMITH, postal clerk, St. Louis. GUST AVE A. SMITH, postal clerk, St/ Louis. .CHARLES WINTERS, postal clerk, St.' Loui$.

F. W. BRINK, postal clerk. St. Louis.. CHARLES P. GREASLEY, brakeman, St, Louis.

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Kansas City, Mo., June 27.—Seven coffin* were forwarded to St. Louis today from Missouri City. They contained the remains of victims of last night's wreck on the Wabash Road. A correct list of tho dead is as follows:

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St. Louis. ,f The conductor ot the train, G. C. Copeland of St. Louis, who was reported last night among the dead, is 6tHl alive. He was removed this morning to the r&ilroad hospital'" at Moberly. With a fractured skull nnd several broken limbs he lingua between Uf% and death, but the surgeons express a hope that he will recover. Conductor Copeland was supposed to be dead wheb taken from tho wreck and his body, with a handkerchief drawn over the face, was ranged in a row with the seven corpses. A few minute* later some one observed a sign of life and ho was quickly transferred to "a stretcher and given every possible attention.

Of the nineteen others injured not one to in a critical condition. Among them all there is not one broken limb, though many were thrown three-quarters of-the length' of the coaches in which- they w^re riding. Mrs. W. H. Wilkinson of Kansas City i» the most seriously hurt. Two small boner of her left hand are broken ftnd-ehe sufferedV' a severe laceration-oiuthe thigh? 'te well as bruises about the face and necte-.The wouBdsf of most of the-.others are trivial^"'

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almost instantly.. Their car .pitched enJIC first through the- break-in athetrfe6tle and they must have been drowned in ibe raging qtream while in aft. unconseJpus condition-' The remains of the four were carried froms the wreck and were recovered/some distant down the stream. There were signs of lifefe in the body of the flttii mail olark when rescuers dragged him from t-le wrgck, but ba.^ died in a few minutes^latef ,on ihe bank ot the creek. Laet night it. was feared thaty there were more bodies in4^rStream,. but! «_ i. -a iL.i it..

a careful search today proved that the fatal ities were limited, to those r^njed. Today I but a small stream was flowing, beneath tha^:

nary weather ft is, a dry fied. The storm of last night, which was almost a cloudburst, had swollen the little stream to a torrent./, The flood carried away* a, wagon bridge &> short distance above the Wab4?h trestle^. The wreck of this bridge, was hurled down. upon the railroad trestle, an?. parried away^, a row of wooden supports 4n the center.

A neighboring farmer, policed the perilous condition of the trestle andr resolved to flatf the passenger train,, which he k^ter to bei due. For nearly an hour, Jae,stood in thftj terrific downpo.ur of rain, only to fail at lasti in his good intentions^ for, wfcgn tije Wabash Co.'s New York fast mail:-came-thundering on the storm was almost blindifl®

died for payment i» Wo.ye.rs, the ..end de«ro™d. T*. «.!*

in three and so on, the last five thus maturing six years from date. These notes were held in trust by the (bank for sale, and were secured by a mortgage on the plant, the machinery and the poles and the wire* of the company.

Richard Yates, to be collector ot internal revenue, for the eighth district of IllinoUL To bo consuls: Edward H. Thompson, 6f Massachusetts. Progresso. Mexico Charley Kingston, of Grover, to be the register of the land office at Evanston, Wyoming Frank M. Foote to be receiver of pub

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engineer evidently could not-se®-ibe signal which the farnjer^franticalfy y?V.ed across the track. The engine-passed «»er, but the tender went %Wgha tumblingbridge, Theaggag9, ca£-toppl«i ^off on .ita side, while .the jp^ll^«i4ftS^

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stream end .first.-. Every* life- in this cair was lost. Tb£ .smpks^r.jRf^wbebind, followed. It was, in thte catahat-Conductor Copeland was riding-- -TfterioJtbejs.pccupants escaped serious, injury.- The-chair-car, next behind, also pl«ng4»(l

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wreckage end fir^t and--.all its*p8ssengers were thrown to the forward £Pd in an in-? ,. describable heap.. -How they ©scaped with, no more serious ipjury is, a mystery, which all the passengers in this jcoach .are puzsl.ecT otfer. The front end of the sleeper, next in: tbe rear, jammed into the protruding 6nd of the chair car aq4 was-thug, prevented from following the others into the chasmThe two coaches in the rear. remained, pn the track. »v

Tho scene of the wreck, which-is but twen-ty-one miles northeast pf Kansas City, n?ar Missouri City, was visited -today by many persons. A wrecking train wprked there, all day repairing the trestle and raising tbp shattered coaches and tonight trains arer ,, moving over the road as usual.

each evening carries all of Kansas City afternoon mail for the East and It is al*ay# heavy and valuable. •_

Confirmation# By the Senate. Washington, June 25.—The senate in executive session today confirmed the fallowing nominations: Albert,,C.. Thompson, of Ohio Alexander C. Botkin, of Montana, ana David B. Culberson, of Texas, to be tbe commissioners to revise and codify the criminal and penal laws of the United States.

moneys at Evanston, Wyoming: J. Otla Humphreys to be attorney for the southern district of Illinois.

To be United States' Marshal: Charley P. Hitch, for the southern district of Illinois.

a a On Main Street.

'Friday afternoon about o'clock ther5 was an exciting runaway on Main street, in •which a furniture wagon was overturned, a couple of new bedsteads ruined and several people had narrow escapes. Tho runaway. horse was hitched to the beavy delivery^, wagon of Silberman,. the. furniture dealer,)VJ The driver had Jumped off tho wagon at the drinking fountain, near Hulman & Co. wholesale house. Hp took the bridle off tho the'anlmal so it could drink freely. Instead of drinking, however, the horse struck oJI for the store. lie dashed down Main street at a furious gait, and at Seventh, where tco animal wheeled south, the wagon was overturned. The load of bedsteads was overturned. a bicycle was wrecked by tne overturning of the wagon and-a woman came near being run down.

Child Bitten By Do*.

Helen the five year old daughter cf Mt.and Mrs. Albert Pfeifter. w*s. badly-bitten-.:, last evening by a St. Barnar1 -dm to W M. A. Hughes, street. 3fhe dog has been ordered kill«d.