Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 July 1897 — Page 6

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WHAT IS THE MATTER

WITH FORSTER, THE CRACKAJACK FKOltt IDS VANDALIA SHOPS?

rppUe Capture* First Place In of Six Races Ran at Jfift'janapoiis Yesterday.

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Five Oat Indl-

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ME nAUTE TOOK ALL IN SIGHT.

LIST OF PRIZKS FOR THK I». A. W. STATE MEET RACES.

^,1) itlnc Company Offera Gold For Best Decorated

UJcycIe--®lO

Wheel iq Parade,

Terre Haute riders at the Pennsylvania

,.5^ races Saturday won every first in the six few fe'i^run. C. A. Forster, tbe crack rider of the

,,^Vandalia shops alone .took five of the six. %ftand C. D. Franklin took the other first and

second, while H. C. Davis, a third Terre

Haute invincible, captured one second and1 5®S4 4

nvi third. Saturday morning at 9 o'clock the Terre

Haute employes of the system, in a special

ear and with a commissary car behind, fur-

nished with a force of cooks to feed the

Excursionists, left the Union Station. There ?',' were 300 in the crowd and they started with W1^ the confident expectation that the scalps

should be theirs. The company gave them

ill the conveniences of travel and furnitehed them with meals and free passage. All it

asked was that they bring off some the prizes.. It is easy also to see that the company should feel more than satisfied. No champion team of the National Base Ball

League ever returned from a tour with a larger per cent of victory or glory than the 1 employes of the Vandalia here did as the train steamed once more into the Some ^'aids last night.

The Indianapolis News speaks of U'.eir

entry

into the capital city as follows: "The number of Pennsylvania employes that are here today to attend the bicycle races, arranged by the shop men surprised the officers of the road. The limit figure was placed at 400, but fully double that number came in. At 1:30 o'clock a special train on the Vandalia arrived from Terre Haute, bringing 300 employes, fifty more than was expected. Fifty racers took part in the exer--r cises this afternoon and over 100 entries were scheduled."

The races were run on the track at the Business Men's Driving Park, north of the ci(y. An immense crowd witnessed the events. The races were open to any employe of the Pennsylvania system and over 100 riders nterdd. Some vsrv gool racing 7 was there and it may be seen from the time made that the boys from this place had no walkaway. The list of races, with the suc)J cessful competitors, was as follows:

One-half 'Mile Open—C. A. Forster, first Charles Sewenbaur, Richmond, second H. C. Davis, third. Time—1:08%. £.' One Mile Open—C. D. Forster, first C. D.

Franklin, second H. C. Davis, third. Time mt'y- —2:35. Hr1' Two Mile Open—C. D. Forster, first A. L. 'v Burgert, second J. Ramsey, Indianapolis, 'V third. Time—5:12.

One-quarter Mile Open—Charles Sewenbaur, first C. A. Forster, second H. C. Davis, third. Time—:35.

Five Mile Open—H. C. Davis, first J. S. Jenks, second C. A. Forster, third Time— 14:32.

One Mile Tandem—Forster and Franklin,

first Davis and Burgert, seoond Ramsey and Weiss, third. Time—2:24. As the result of the meeting in Indianapolis yesterday the Inter-Division Athletic

Association will be formed. It will be composed of employes on every division of the Pennsylvania and Vandalia lines, and its' object will be the physical development and social advancement of the employes of the company The central headquarters will be in this city.

LOOK AT THE PRIZES.

Complete List for the Races and the Parade At the State Meet. The complete list of prizes for the winners*in the races held out on the race track the two days of the state L. A. W. meet has been given out and is published below. In addition to the race prizes, which will aggregate over $1,500, there are prizes (firsts, seconds and thirds) for riders in the parade which amount to $109. The best decorated wheels, the most comic wheels and the best high wheel of "ye olden," break-neck kind, as well as the tandems, will be awarded prizes in 6hining coin of the realm. Those next in point of excellence, according to the decision of the Judges, will receive a valuable prize contributed by wide-awake business man of the city.

The officers of the local board are more than pleased with the enthusiasm shown all over the state in regard to the coming grand convention of wheelmen. The letters from moers desiring entry to the races are piling up on the committee chairman's desk like drifts of snow. All eyes of scorchers and enthusiasts are turned toward Terre Haute. It will be the Mecca of the bicyclist and the* streams of striped-legged wheelmen will all flow Into the city on the 10th of August and make a crowd which will strike awe into the heart of the oldest inhabitant.

Following is the list of prizes: Prlates For th« R«c«rs. FIRST DAY, AUGUST 10. First Race, One Mile Novice—First pfize, #ne 6hotgun, Finkbiner & Duenwog, $25 :ycle pants and cap, A. Arnold, $3.50 cra?h mit, Myers Bros., $« $33.j0. Saco/il prize, »ne set C. & J. tires, with rims, Indianapolis Rubber Co., $14 one pair :nade to order racing shoes, J. Storz, 129 South Seventh street, "13.50 $17.50.*"Third prize, nickelplated bicycle chain, W. CA C„ $5 Gillam saddle. Gillam: Maintfirtfm^nfc fio., $3.50 \lladin lamp. A- Cha^ey, Fourth prise, rocking chain* Wfl^r Failing, $4 pace maker,? wqod hatfdleba|s,indiana Noyslty Co., $S fTotal|$72.

Second Race—One-Tourth mile Indiana itate championship^rrFireefcrize, feold iifed*T Indiana division L.. Av W. second, silver medal. Indiana division L. A. W. third, bronze medal, Indiana division L. A. W.

Third Race, One Mile l^ofeesional—First irize, cash gold $50 second'$25 third, $10 otal, $85.

Fourth Race, Terre Haute Brewing Co.'s Jne Mile Amateur—First prize, diamond, Terre Haute Brewing Co., $35 second, oil minting. Bretnig-Miller Co., $20 third, pair earl opera glasses, Hughes. Wolf & Miller, »10 fourth, Dunlap hat, Schluer & Foulkes, $5: pacemaker, one pair Morgan & Wright tires, Morgan Wright Tire Co., $10 tout. $S0.

Fifth Race, One-quarter Mile State Championship—First prize, gsld medal, Indiana tvision L. A. W- second, filver medal,

Indiana division L. A. W. third, bronze medal, Indiana division L. A. W. Sixth Race, Five Mile Handicap, Professional—First prize, cash, gold, $50 second, cash, gold, $25 third, cash, gold, $5. Total, $90.

Seventh Race, Half-mile Open, Amateu^ —First prize diamond, W. C. C., $35 second, custom made pants, Tune Bros., $10 cycle robe, H. D. Pixley & Co., $10 total, 20 total, $20 fourth, fancy table lamp, Theo Stahl, $5 total, $72.

Eighth Race, Two Mile State Champion-ships-First prize, gold medal, Indiana division L. A.W. second, silver medal, Indiana division L. A. W. third, bronze medal, Indiana division L. A. W.

SECOND DAY, AUGUST 11. First Race, One-tbird Mile State Championship—'First prize, gold medal, Indiana division L. A. W. second, silver medal, Indiana division L. A. W. third, brone medal.

Second Race, One-half Mile ProfessionalFirst prize, cash, gold, $50 second, cash, Third Race, Carl Stahl Two Mile Handicap—First prize, silver trophy, Carl Stahl, $35 second, four leather seat chairs, J. Fred Probst, $12 rocking chair, L. Silberman, $6 Hammock, L. D. Smith, $2 total, $20 third, bicycle chair, Warwick & Stockton, $5 dozen carbonette, H. T. Biel, $4.50 total, $9.50 fourth, lamp, $4 hammock, George C. Rossell, $2 grand total, $70.50.

Fourth Race, One Mile State Ch-impion-ship—First prize, gold medal, Indiana division L. A. W. second, silver medal, Indiana division L. A. W. third, bronze medal, Indiana division L. A. W.

Fifth Race, Outing Two Mile Handicap, Professional—First prize, one Outing racing wheel, donated by the Hay & Willits Manufacturing Co., Indianapolis, $100 second, cash, gold, $25 third, cash, gold, $25 third, cash, gold, Krietenstein Bros., $10 fourth, cash, gold, Krietenstein Bros., $5 total, 140.

Sixth Race, Terre Haute Brewing Co.'s One Mile Amateur, 2:20 Class—First prize, diamond, Terre Haute Brewing Co., $35 second, one pair Chase tires, L. C. Chase Tire Co., $10 one bamboo fishing rod, Ed Tetzel, $5 gold filled bicycle chain and charm, S. Swope & Co., $5 total, $20 third, bicycle suit, M. Joseph & Son, $5 cycle sweater, belt and hose, Ford & Overstreet, $5 total. $10 fourth, rocking chair, J. G. Dobbs, $5 pacemaker, Kokomo tire, Kokomo Tire Co., $10 total, $85.

Seventh Race, Thorman & Sehloss Onehalf Mile Open—First prize, suit to order, Thorman & Sehloss, $25 second, Peoria tires, Peoria Rubber Co., $8 pair custom made pants, A. L. Engle, $5 Lefevre chain, Lefevre Arms Co., $5: total, $18 third, Euclid chain, St. Louis Screw Co., $5 pneumatic saddle, Cutting & Kostner, Chicago, $10 fourth, Baldwin chain, Baldwin Cycle Chain -Co., $5 parl-handled knife, $2, $7 total, S60.

Eighth Race, Five Myle State Champion-ship-^-First prize, gold medal, Indiana division L. A. W. second, silver medal, Indiana division L. A. W. third, bronze medal, Indiana division L. A. W.

Prizes For the Paraders.

Best Decorated Ladies* Wheel—First prize, by W. C. C., in gold $10 second, one dozen carbonettes, by the Modern, $4.50 third, one-quarter pound Triple Extract, $2, by George Hoffman one Seth Thomas cyclometer, $1.50, by Seth Thomas Watch Co., $3.50. Total, 18.

Best Decoratcd Gents' Wheel—First prize, by W. C. C., in gold $10 second, gold Trump cyclometer, by Waterbury Watch Co., $5 Third, one hat, by Goodman & Hirschler, $3. Total, $18.

Most Comic Decoration of Wheel and Rider—First prize, by W. C. C., in gold, $10 second, one silver flask, by E. W. Leeds, $4.50 third, one cycle lamp, one box polish, by Terre Haute Stove & Furnace Co., $3. Total, $17.50.

Best Decorated Tandem—First prize, by

W. C. C., in gold, $10 second, palm and jardinier, by Fred Heinl, $3.50 one U. S. cyclometer, by U. S. Manufacturing Co., $1.50. Total, $5. Third, one croquet set, by George Rossell, $3. Total $18.

Best High Wheel of Ye Olden Ti*e— First prize, one bicycle lamp, by E. B. Breckenridge Co., $3 one Garford saddle, by Garford Manufacturing Co., $3.50 second, Lenox saddle, by Lenox Saddle Co., $4 third, box cigars, by H. A. Burgett, $2.50. Total, $13.

Largest Visiting Delegations in Parade— First prize, by W. C. C., in gold, $10 second, shaving outfit, by W. R. Teel & Bro., 4.50 King pedals, by A. L. Moore Co., $4 third, bicycle saddle, by S. L. Fenner. $4.50 Veeder cyclometer, by Veeder Manufacturing Co., $1.50. Total, $24.50.

Best decorated ladies' wheel, $18 best decorated gents' wheel, $18 best decorated tandem, $18 best comic decoration of wheel and rider, $17.^0 best high wheel of ye olden time, $13 visiting delegations, $24.50. Grand total, $109.

For the Two-Mile Ont.lng Race. For the two-mile Outing handicap for professionals the Hay & Willitt's Manufacturing. Co. of Indianapolis have offered as first prize one of their high-grade $100 Outing wheels. Their popular local agents, Will and George Krietenstein, also offer as the third prize for this race $15 in cash. The generosity of the Outing people should be appreciated by the wheelmen, for they are the only donors to the prize list to offer a bicycle. Their president. Thomas Hay, who is also ex-chief consul of the L. A. W., and has hundreds friends in Indiana, will be at the meet here to greet them.

The Ran to Marnhall This Morning. The Wabash Cycling Club run to Marshall this morning will be undertaken by about thirty-five members. The start will be made from the club rooms at 7 o'clock and the return to reach this city in time for the ball game. The riders will be met on the road by the members of the Marshall Cycling Club, who will entertain them whie there. Messrs. Nebf and Nitisehe have been appointed pacemakers for the run.

Deliver Wheel Head Clamps. All members of the campaign organization known as the McKinley & Hobart Wheelmen, who are not intending to enter the grand parade on the morning of the 10th, will please deliver their bicycle head clamps for torch holders to J. Fred Probst at an early date. By order of Charles T. Nehf, president.

7 A Japanese Prince Coming. New York, July 16.—Prince Takehito Arisugawa, a nephew of Emperor Mutsuhito, of Japan, will ba in this country within ten days. Prince Arisugawa is one of the richest men in Japan and holds the rank of rear admiral In her navy. He is described as a handsome man of military appearance and is about 35 years old. He is now in England, where he was sent by the emperor as a special representative during the queen's jubilee. According to the programme mapped out thus far, it is the intention of the prince to take passage on the Empress of India ftom Vancouver August 2d for Japan. In that event he will have but a few days to spend in New York. There is a possibility, however, that he will change his plans and travel through the United States.

McKinley May Jo to Yellowstone.

San Francisco, July 16.—President McKinley has planned tj visit the Yellowstone Park next September, and steps have been taken to induce-him to extend the westward journey to San Francisco. A meeting of citizens was held to consider the best form of presenting the president with an invitation to visit San Francisco at his earliest convenience, and a committee was appointed to go to Washington and personally present to the president, an invitation to visit the Pacific coast .. :f... „.sr

READY FOR PASS®

AFTER THE LORG STRUGGLE TARCFF BILL IS AGREED UPON!

In tbe Mala tbe Senate W»» Victorious Bat tbe House Won Oat on tbe Raw Sugar Kate*.

THIS IS A BLOW TO THE SDGAfi TRUST.

JONES OF NEVADA HKtD BALANCE OF POWER.

Changes In Sugar Scbednle Will Held •2,000,000 Additional Revenue— jp|J Duty On Coal 1* 67c.

Washington, July 17.—When the Repub

lican conferees on the tariff bill representing the two houses of congress adjourned

at 6 o'clock today tfce announcement was

made on behalf of each of the houses that they had agreed on all the items of the bill

and that the result of the partisan confer

ence would be submitted to the Democratic members of the conference at a full meeting

to be held on Monday. The members of the conference still ob

serve the strictest silence in .regard to the

changes mad©, giving out no offlci&l confirmation as to the changes made in the bill.

It is learned, however, from an entirely re

liable source that a very large majority of

the senate amendments were accepted. All such changes as these were accepted with

out question by the house conferees. They also accepted In most cases all these alterations made by the senate in order to secure the passage of the bill in that body. Senator Jone6 of Nevada, holding as he did practically the balance, of power in the senate and in committee, was enabled to secure many, concessions for Western interests in the senate and these he held without exception in the conference. He even succeeded' in securing a degree of protection for beet sugar greater than was given either the senate or the house bill, "f wfFfL

The bill as agreed upon will, when made public, present an entirely new sugar schedule, at least in the main item of duty oa raw and refined sugar. When the announcement of an agreement was first made the indications were that the senate had surrendered everything in the sugar schedule to the house. No one not in possession of all the facts could see how it could be otherwise when it was known that the house differential of one-eighth of a cent had been accepted an the senate provision for throwing off onetenth of a cent on low grade sugars receded from. "You will discover,'* said Senator Aldrich, in discussing the matter among his colleagues, "that the senate saves something after all and that it is not a complete surrender on our iart."

The modification of the sugar schedule still leaves the rate on pure sugar testing 100 degrees $1.95 per pound, which was the senate rate. The differential on refined sugar is, however, one-eighth of a cent per pound, while the senate differential was one-fifth. It is estimated that changes in schedule wiil yield $2,000,000 additional revenue.

Coal, bituminous, 67 cepts per ton tobacco, $1.75 per pound on imported wrapper. This is the senate rate. It is also understood that the action of the senate in striking out the internal revenue provisions on tobacco and leaving the existing law in force was accepted by the house conferees.

SCHEMING FOR THE TRUST.

Figures Making Plain the Senate's Purpose to Aid Sugar Trust. Special to the Chicago Tribune.

Washington, Jul* 16—The house sugarschedule, which was agreed to this evening, fixes a specific rate of 1 cent per pound on raw sugar testing 75 deg by the polariscope. For every additional degree there is added 3-100 of a cent per pound, and fraction of a degree in proportion. All sugar above No. 16 Dutch standard in color and all sugar which has gone through a process of r©i fining is made to pay a duty of 1.875 cehta per pound.

In other words, this is a differential oa' refined sugar of one-eighth of a cent per pound. Refined sugar tests 100 deg. The duty on the raw sugar contained in it would therefore be 1% cents per pound, while the duty on refined sugar itself is'made specifically 1% cents per pound, the difference being the differential as protection to the refining industry.

The senate, through its finance committee, undertook to remodel the house schedule entirely. It reported a paragraph fixing a rate of-79-100 cnt for sugar of 87 dg, with an addition of 2-100 cent per pound for each degree up to 100. In addition to that there was to be 35 per cent ad valorem. The duty on refined sugar was to be 1.16 cents per pound and 35 per cent ad valorem in addition.

This complicated sugar schedule, which was notoriously the very thing asked for by the trust, and which combined specific and ad valorem rates in such a way that the trust would be absolutely masters of the situation and enabled to continue the system of undervaluation which has discredited the present law, aroused such a storm of indignation in the country that the senate committee, le'd by Aldrich of Rhode Island and Jones of Nevada, were obliged to submit a compromise.

The schedule as finally passed by the senate abandoned the ad valorem duties. entirely and accepted the house rates verbatim on raw sugar 87 deg and above. The differential on refined sugar, however, under the senate bill was made one-fifth of a cent Ik stead of an eighth of a cent. The actual duty on refined sugar by the senate bill was 1.95 cents per pound, as compared with 1.875 cents per pound under the house bill. The senate schedule reduced the bouse rates on sugars testing 87 deg and less by onertenth of a cent per pound. This was In the interest of the trust, which by the introduction of new machinery is enabled toHise the low grade sugar to advantage."

The senate schedule therefor^ was playing both ways from the middle in the interests of the trust.* It increased the differential on refined sugar and reduced the pricp of the raw material, both being, qf course, to the refiners' advantage.

Senators Jones and Aidrieh stood out until the last moment for the adoption of the senate schedule, but were forced t® succumb by the demonstration or tte tyct that whatever the conference committee might report the senate would unquestionably yield to the house and send the conferees back with the sugar schedule excluded from their consideration.

It is a great triumph for the house knd

out for every item in the senate bill. The senate backs down somewhat on its wool schedule.

A compromise has been arranged, all the details of which cannot be arrived at tonight The senate has also agreed at least partially, to the high rates of pine lumber proposed by the house bill. The rate as finally fived by the conference may be as high as $2, which was the house rate, and will be at least $1.50, which was the compromise partially agreed upon a day or two ago. The senate conferees have also receded from the proposition to put bagging from cotton, gunny cloth, and similar fabrics, bags and sacks of Jute or hemp and burlaps and bags for grain one the free list They have also receded from their amendment putting cotton ties on tbe free list. These amendments in regard to coverings for cotton and grain and that in regard to coverings for cotton and grain and that in regard to lumber will provoke an active discission in the senate, but all items of this kind are liable to be lost sight of in the defeat of the trust in regard to the sugar schedule.

PLACES A WOMAN IN THE FACULTY.

Wisconsin University Appoints Annie Crosby Emery. Madison, Wis., July 17.—One of the most Important university honors yet awarded toi a woman has been conferred by the University of Wisconsin upon a graduate and Ph. D. of Bryn Mawr College, Miss Annie Crosby Emery, who has been elected dean of women and assistant professor of classical philology.

Although a very young woman, Miss Emery is splendidly equipped for the place. The new dean is a daughter of Judge Emery of Ellsworth, Me., and received her early education in the public schools of Ellsworth and in a private school in Dresden. In 1883 she entered Bryn Mawr College, where she specialized in Latin and Greek. In 1892 she received the degree of A. B., and was awarded the Bryn Mawr European fellowship of that year. During the years 1892-93 she worked as a graduate student in the classical departments of Bryn Mawr. During 1893-94 she attended the University of Lelpsic, hearing lectures by Professors Brugmann, Ribbeck, Gardthausen, Arndt, Lipsius and Windisch. During the second semester of 1894-95 and during 1895-96 she continued graduate work in the departmets of Latin and Greek at Bryn Mawr. In May, 1896, she passed her examinations for the degree of Ph. D. in Latin as her principal and in Greek as her subordinate subject, presenting for the degree a dissertation upon the "Historical Present in Early Latin"— a work which has won her great praise.

It will be remembered that Cornell University has also recently placed a woman in a faculty position, having appointed Miss Louise Sheffield Brownell of New York City (A. B., 1893, and Ph. D., 1897, Bryn Mawr), warden of Sage College and lecturer on English literature.

OBITUARY.

Mrs. Matilda Phillips of Otter Creek Township Died Saturday Afternoon. Mrs. Matilda Phillips, widow of Aquilla Phillips, died at her home in Otter Creek township Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. Phillips, with her husband, removed to the residence occupied up to the time of her demise since 1841. Seven children survive her. They are James M. Phillips, formerly county recorder Edward, and Fred Phillips, Mrs .Emma Brotherton, Mrs. Barbara Allen, Mrs. Clora Evans and Mrs. Bell Evans.

Deceased was a woman of strong personal character and one who has done much* good among the people' of the community in which she lived. The funeral will be held from the family residence Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Interment in the family lot at the home place.

Sad Death of Mrs. Lizzie D. Crlder. Mrs. Lizzie D. Crider, known to

large

number of Terre Haute people, died at her home in Columbia City, Ind., July 12th, aged 47. She came to Terre Haute in 1891 with her two young daughters to take a course in the Normal as a better preparation for teaching. Becoming financially embarrassed, she took boarders the second year and eventually dropped out of school. She still hoped she might be able to finish the course, but her health failing completely, she returned to her native town and friends last February. Although an invalid, yet the end came unexpectedly to all. She was a woman of great energy and perseverance, tind created for herself a circle of warm friends wherever she was known,

Aged German Resident Expires. Mrs. Augusta Biel died Thursday night at 11:40 at her home, on North Eleventh street. Mrs. Biel had been suffering for over five years from a weakened constitution induced by a severe attack of the grip. Her strength of character and will was such, however, that she did not take to her bed until last Saturday. Deceased came to Terre Haute more than thirty years ago and was one of the best known and most respected of our older residents. She was a devoted member of the German Lutheran Church and a member of its ladies' society. 'Mrs. Biel was born August 4, 1820, at Ballhausen. Thuringen, Germany, and came to America in 1854 and to Terre Haute in 1864, where she hasTesided ever since. She was married to Henry-Biel at her native home in Germany in 1839, and from this union nine children were born, two of whom are dead. The other members of her family reside in this city and all of them are well known and highly respected. They are Mrs. Theresa Burgett, wife of Valentine Burgett, the East Side grocer Fred'J., the cigar dealer William, the insurance agent Charles KJoer, deceased Mrs. W. S. Mahan, deceased Mrs. Robert Wittenberg Henry T., the photographer Ferdinand and Miss Clara Biel. -.

blow to the sugar trust Senators Allison, Piatt and Burrows have never been enthusiastic for the senate '=ugar schedule and have supported it only because their position as conferees required jiejnjgomi&ally to make a s^ow ?vu "JU

The funeral will take place from her late residence, 105 North Eleventh street his afternoon at 2:30 o'cock. The Rev. Katt will preach the funeral services. The inter ment will be at Woodlawn cemetery.

August Schraman died at Thirteenth. and Ohio, the home of his son-in-law, John J. Shuttleworth, at 7 o'clock Saturday evening, aged 67 years, of consumption.

The body will be taken to Bellaire, O., today on the 12:37 Vandalia train.

Try Graino! Try Gralno!

Ask your grocer Rxlay to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it. like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. One-quarter the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all gro-

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Acquitted For Kilting His Wife's Lover. Lexington, Ky., July 17.—Judge Grpy Falconer acquitted Jacob S. Harris for killing his wife's lover, Thomas H. Merritt, here last Friday night, holding that the action of the man who avenges the destruction of his blasted married life and his dishonored children by striking down the destroyer after all must be determined at the bar of human nature and human nature will 'excuse the one who so avenges.

New York Weekly Bapk Statement. New York, July 17.—The weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Reserve, increase ,$4,675,525 Loans, increase 387,806 Specie, increase 726,000 Legal tenders, increase 5,345,700 Deposits, increase 5,584,700 Circulation, decrease .... 141.700

The banks now hold $46,036,900 Ifli excess

the requirements of the 35 per ceat rule.

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A TAX ON BICYCLES

ONE IS PROVIDED FOR IK AN ORDT. NANCK THAT I.IBS SLEEPING.

Tbe Scorchers Scorch and the Police Do Not Seem to Know It—CitUena On the Warpath.

About one year ago the subject of bicycles was up before the honorable common council. A general ordinance was adopted requiring wheelmen to equip their bikes with bells. The city attorney was instructed to prepare another ordinance regarding wheels. He is understood to have done so but just where the document is The Express is not prepared to say. It is sleeping somewhere —sleeping the calm and refreshing slumber of the just

This second ordinance was not prepared at the instigation of the Wabash Cycling Club or any organization of like character. Indeed, it does not embrace a proposition over which wheelmen are apt to grow elated and poetic, although it might make some of them swear with considerable animation.

In a word, this ordinance that is enjoying

a long rest in some secluded pigeon hole v: i„_ i*

provides for a taxjon bicycles. It says that they shall not glide up and down the pike, in and out of the parks, around and around the city without paying a cent for the privilege. One dollar a year is the amount fixed as due the people's treasury from each wheelman 1r wheelwoman in Terre Haute. When this ordinance is going to come to light, when it is going to wake from its protracted nap and stand up and be counted in the council chamber, is a question that The Express cannot answer today.

It is related by men who love a narrative that there are large and quaint hunks of ambition tumbled up in certain councilmanic minds in this good town. The council chamber is not large—just of sufficient dimensions to accommodate twenty councilmen and a few timid citizens who stray in now and then to witness the spectacle of municipal business in full swing under an arc lamp. Yet the room is large enough to house a number of swelling thoughts of offices higher than one which has to do with repairs to sidewalks and street crossings.

There are men in the council, if report is to be credited, who have read the dispatches of battles royal in the house of representatives of the United States and have said to themselves, as coyly as maidens, "Some day I'll be with 'dm." Yes certain of the city dads of Terre Haute are thinking of congress as the goal for which their brains and characters pre-eminently fit them. Others have ambitions that do not soar quite so high and yet that soar a little. Some have their affections fastened upon the elevated place where the mayor sits and smiles down upon the lesser ones of the municipal body. Others have thought of the office where the people's money is collected and paid out and have wished that they might be in charge of it. Still other councilmen, they say ,would take the clerkship and be satisfied.

But what has all this got to do with a defunct bicycle ordinance? What connection is there between political ambitions and the most popular machine of the modern world

Well, it is said that some wheelmen have votes. It is reported that some wheelmen cast votes on election day^just like men who do not take any stock in masculine bloomers. There is an impression, vague and far away, perhaps, but nevertheless .an impression, that these bicyclists would -riot fancy paying $1 a year year for riding their wheels and that they would not look with particular favor upon the man who should propose to make them do it. This may and it mdy not account for the fact that the wheel tax ordinance has not gone further than to issue from the legal brain of the city attorney. Such an explanation might not seem unreasonable to the innocent mind, but it is possibly far-fetched and groundless. It is said that if a tax were exaoted on wheels a corresponding one would have to be required from all vehicles. This would raise a fund of some $10,000 or $12,000 per year and would more than clean all the streets and ..keep them in repair.

In this connection it may be said that the scorcher continues to tempt citizens to commit homicide. He is in evidence everywhere, spinning along like the .Jvind and threatening death to children and dislocations to adults. On South Thirteenth he has a regular path where he passes along so rapidly as to leave nothing but a feeling in the mind that something went by. On the streets leading to the parks he is a numerous nuisance of evenings. One citizen said at the city building yesterday that he was obliged to keep his children securely locked inside the yard lest they be run down by the bicycle fiends flying up and "down the streets.

An ordinance regulates the speed of wheelmen while riding in the city. The police force exists to enforce such laws. A few arrests and fines would have a wonderful effect in sobering down the smart athletes and teaching them the beauty of moderation. It is thought that Superintendent Hyland will receive some complaints shortly and that he will give his men strict instructions to pinch every scorcher they can get their hands on. Children are liable to dash out into the streets at any moment, and a rider moving at a high rate of speed is powerless to keep from running into them if they get in his way. The feeling among citizens is that something decisive would better be done to suppress the scorcher before he gets himself into a pickle by killing somebody.

CITED FOR CONTEMPT.

Marion County Board of Review Recedes From Ruling to Assess Patents. Special to the Express.'

Indianapolis, July 17.—Two years ago the county board of review assessed for taxation the capital stock of the Ipdiana Manufacturing Co., and the company applied to the Federal Court for an injunction restraining the members of the board from assessing the company, as the assessment would be taxation of patent rights of the government. The injunction was granted. The state tax law provides for the taxation of such property specifically, and the county board of this ear acted under this law and assessed the company. The members were cited for contempt of court anff got out of going to jail by removing the assessment. The state board of tax commissioners was not enjoined and it took the matter up by assessing the company a few days ago. The outcome of the whole fight was the application of the Indiana Manufacturing Co. for a mandamus compelling the auditor to strike off the tax duplicate, ^assessment against this corporation^^^ ,'

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WATSON PREDICTS THE StND.

Says the Populist Party Is Going tw Placetf —Butler Accused.

Alanta, Ga., July 17.—Tom Watson public* ly acknowledges that the Populist party i4 going to pieces. In a five column editorial which is published in the regular weekly issue of the People's Party Paper, he tells the story of the party, which be saya was the altar upon which ho placed his political life for sacrifice and the editorial is start* ling, even when coming from Watson.

He speaks feelingly of the great principles for which ho fought and tells of hovf much he has longed to bring about the union between the South, and the West Of thi»

says

To bring about this union, I had put my political life upon the altar, and sacrificed it when I stepped out of the ranks of Democracy and joined Peffer, Simpson, Davis, Otis, Baker and rfalvorsen, in representing the new party in "congress. To effect thl» great union was still my ardent wish, for knew that in no other way could the money power of tho North and East be ever* thrown."

Watson claims he is still a Populist at heart. Ho says: "It is hardly necessary for me to defend my personal character

my Populist in-

tegrity from the attacks of a jealous trimmer like Butler. I was a Populist, open and above board, while he was yet playing 'alliance Democrat,' and Ihave always been a loyal friend and a manly foe, where he is ai snake in the grass to both friend and foe."

Watson goes on to say that he predicted the break-up of the party when Butler withheld his letter of acceptance. says: 'That letter, mailed to Butler long befora the campaign was ended, was my best vin- vi* dication. It pointed out then tbe blunders of Butler and prophesied the disastrous rej suits. The events happened just as I predicted

Watson closes his editorial with this td say of Butler's trade of the party: "To sell out the party by fusions belor« it secures enough men in office to change the laws, even if they so desired, seems to me the wildest of folly, and the basest ol treachery. Had I fallen into Butler's plans and assisted Bryan and Sewall, it is quite probable that Bryan would now be president. Sewall vice president and Watson a membe* of the cabinet."

SAUCY KNIGHT OF THE ROAD. «***&,.

Makes a Howl When Refused a Request After Having .Been Fed.

Mrs. Thomas Adams, wife of the count .'i commissioner, was given a shock to th4 feelings last Thursday which will doubtlesa cause her to regard every wandering Willie hereafter with considerable suspicion. It there is any truth in the claim made by th« celebrated Josiah Flint that the tramps havj each house where they are well treated marked in some way, then the home of Mr. Adams is one of those, and well at the top of the catalogue. A hungry man has never yet been turned from that hospitaole country .... home without having, been giving all he could eat.

Mr.

Adams'live'S"north

of Ellsworth 4

short distance, and on Thursday he was, ai usual, in the city. During his absence, a shabby fellow came to the door of the housf and asked for something eat. As suppe* was just ready, and the man seemed from hi language to be respectable, though in unfor* tunate circumstances, Mrs. Adams took hln| into the dining room and gave him the best of her bountiful larder.

When the tramp had concluded his repast, he asked the hostess for the privilege ol sleeping in the barn for the night. Mrs. Adams would not allow this, whereupon tb# ruffian commenced a tirade of vile abuse, It chanced that the commissioner himself was just coming home at this moment. Al friend of the family had been in the house while the tramp was eating and was in tht yard when the sound of his angry voice reached his ears. He immediately hurried back and drove the scoundrel out of the yard and down the road. The fellow in his pre* cipitated flight passed Mr. Adams on th highway.

RUSSIA'S GOLD STANDARD.

How the Government Made Five Rouble# •, Worth Over Seven. Washington, July 17.—Russia has experienced some difficulty in reversing her standard of value by simple decree, as shown in .k a report to the state department by United Slates Consul Heenan at Odessa. He says: "The change inaugurated about two years ago in the currency of Russia from a silver to what i6 supposed to be a gold basis haa had a somewhat depressing effect upon tha mind of the peasant farmers. By imperial edict it was made known that a five-roubla gold piece would, until further notice, be( equal to seven roubles and fifty copecks, paper currency, and a check drawn on any Russian bank for seventy-five roubles must be considered paid should the holder receive fifty roubles in gold. The masses of Russia are said to be uneducated and ignorant. Nev^ ertheless, when they were offered a fiverouble gold piece in payment for a debt dus them for seven roubles and fifty copecks,. they refused to accept it and pointed oud that stamped on the gold piece in plain Rus* sian characters, were the words, "five roubles," and they furthermore demanded td know why it was that they were expected to believe that twice two and a half madrf kseven roubles and fifty copecks in money, oa anything else. The government officials were equal to the emergency and recoined the same five rouble gold piece and srampeJr on it seven roubles and fifty copecks."

OFF TO KLONDIKE.'

Intense Excitement on Pacific Coast Over tha Fabulous Gold Discovery, i,,-

Seattle, Wash., July 17.—"When"vi?e* yotr going to the Klondike?" In twelve hours that question had been asked and answered a hundred thousand times in Seattle. 'Oa-Zj the streets, in thet houses, everywhere, is heard nothing but Klondike, and the whole town is feverish and agitated as never b*» fore over tbe Alaskan gold discovery

Ex-Governor John H. McGraw will leave on the next steamer. General E. M. Carr, J. of the state militia, who at one time camped Z'. within seven miles of tbe fabulously rich, placer, will go. Colonel Joo Green and A. J. Balliett, Yale's, great oarsman, are packing their effects, und attorneys, doctors, clerks and laborers are all scheming to secure share of the vast wealth in the north.

Indescribable expectation is directed to-. ward the steamer Portland, due a: any hour from St. Michaels. She has at least $1,000,000 in gold aboard, and will bring news of Seattle men who have risked their lives for gold. Everyone says that at least the moth-, er lode of the Pacific coast has been found,

and the hall has sot been told.