Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 August 1897 — Page 2

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AFFAIRS OF THE SAIL

RUMORS OF CHANGES OS THE VASDALIA ARE WITHOUT 70UKUATI0N

W. D. Ewlng May Be President' of" the Fitcfcburg Road—Receivers of BaUroads File Report*.

For more than a week there have been rumors in the air that this and that official of the Vandaiia was to be discharged. These reports have spread to the shops ^nd to the offices and as a result almost every em ploye of the system has been speculating as to what was going to happen. The names of those mentioned as being on the rack are of old employes, men who were in their respective positions when Mr. McKeen con trolled the Vandaiia. They had escaped the numerous shake-ups of the past and until the rumore of the past few days developed were supposed to be in every way acceptable to the Pennsylvania people now in control, H. I. Miller, superintendent of the main tine, said last night when asked about any contemplated changes, that so far as he knew there was to be none. He was not in position, he added, to know all, but so far as he was aware there was to be no change made in the present roster.

A New Interchangeable Rook. Chicago, Aug. 16.—The commercial trav elers in the territory west of Chicago are likely to soo nsecure a long fought for concession from the Western roads in the form of a 1,000 mile interchangeable ticket good over twenty-eight different railroad systems, A sub-committee of the Western Passenger Association will meet in Chicago tomorrovfl and recommend the adoption of such ticket. The Sebastian form of recent patent will probably be adopted. It consists of fives coupons. The first of these is returned by the station agent, the second goes to tho passenger, the third contains the purchas er's signature to the contract, which provides that a rebate of 1 cent a mile is to be paid so soon as the 1,060 miles have been traveled, the fourth coupon goes to the auditing department of the road making the sale and the fifth is a convenient form for the traveler to record his purchases. The ticket provide® for immediate refund, does away with identification of holders, precludes the use of the! tickets by scalpers and protects employes' against dishonestly inclined employes. It is proposed to have a Chicago bank issue a. coupon book for $25 containing 25 cent coupons. These coupons will be aocepted by the railroads as cash in the purchase of mile age strips.

The board of managers of the Joint Traffic* iAssociation has refused to allow the east bound lines from this city to join the Western roads in any rates below the authorized 110.60 round trip fare from Chicago to Buffalo on account of the Grand Army encampment at that oity. Notwithstanding this or der several of the east bound lines from here are joining hands with the liberal hearted Western roads in cutting the round trip rate from all Western points to Buffalo. The round trip rate from St. Paul to Buffalo is now down to $18.50 via the American lines and $16 via the Soo end Canadian Pacific.

Total east bound shipments from Chicago last week amounted to 55,900 tons, compared with 55,345 last week, and 51,014 tons for the corresponding week of last year.

Receivers of the Railroads Make Reports. R. B. F. Peirce, receiver of the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City Railroad, filed his report Saturday in the Federal Court. It shows that the amount of cash transferred to the receiver on May 22, 1893, was $7,863.89. The receipts from old accounts were $195,086.69, and on current accounts $13,075,220.93, making the total disbursements since May 22, 1893, were $13,228,330.38, and on August 1, 1897, the cash on hand amounted to $49,841.13. The total cash on hand, including the receipts of July, was $321,$23.19.

E. O. Hopkins, receiver for the Peoria, Decatur & Bvansville Railroad, also filed his report in the Federal Court. The receipts on old accounts amount to $123,510.49, and on current accounts $4,601,041.89, making the total receipts $4,724,552.38. The disbursements on old accounts were $344,978.74, and on the receiver's accounts $4,371,278.62.

Railroad Notes.

The Vandaiia last week handled 145 cars of stock east bound. The record of train accidents in June includes 40 collisions, 52 derailments and 3 other accidents, a total of 95 accidents, in which 45 persons were killed and 127 injured.

Plans have been completed for the new passenger station which the Big Four, in connection wfith the Chicago & West Michigan Road, is to erect at Benton Harbor. The contract calls, for Its completion in four months. As yet no plans have been drawn? for a new Big Four depot in Terre Haute. 'Business has so improved with the Big Four that President Ingalls, before leaving for the East, instructed Chief Engineer Kittredge to contract for twelve new bridges, to be put in on the different divisions, three each on the Cleveland, the Chicago, the Cincinnati and the St. Louis divisions.

Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is being criticised by members of that order for his policy regarding the minens' strike. The chief rushes Into print every day or two with the statement that "we are in sympathy with the miners," and then adds, "but will not assist them in any way." As a matter of fact the members of the engineers* brotherhood have contributed not a little money to assist the miners

A Btnaekold Mecensity.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most wonderful medical discovery of the age, pleasant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and howels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, oure headache, fever, habitual constipation an4 biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C. C. today: 15, 25, 50 cents. Sold aod guaranteed by all druggists.

MBHING OF ANARCHISTS.

They Celebrate the Death of Canovas Del Castillo. *?ew York. Aug. 16.—A group of anarihtets, who make their headquarters in this city, held a meeting tonight at Clarendon. Hall, "to celebrate the death of the leading despot of Spain, Canovas Del Castillo. executed by the anarchist, Michel Angelo Golli." !The speakers were Emma Goldman, S. Pallavicini, P. Estere, Charles W. Mowbray, Aleardo De Moscoso, P. M. Kelly and a few ftthers less notorious, whose names were not umounced. H. M. Kelly presided. "We are tenight," said Kelly, "to celebrate the removal from this world of tears af a despot. Why should we not celebrate bds death? We are glad that the leading despot of Spain is dead. He will no longer torture human beings. If that opinion be a crime, then I must be placed in the category of criminals."

Emma Goldman next made her appearance, carrying with her pictures of the anarchists Cesario and Pallas. Among other things she said: "We can't be sorry for the death of a man who was not a human being, but a beast. He invented most terrible tor hires for the people. I glorify his end. Another tyrant will take his place and another Golli will rise tip. Tortures and prison will eot prevent it. I see all the police and detectives here. They are too lazy to go to work in factories. It is easier for them to itand on street corners and let their clubs tali oa some one's head. The death

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ovasl crasiderthe most "Important' act-of the last twenty years. I am mice that Golli will not be the- last man to show the world that we are tired of despotism."

Frequently while Miss Goldman was speaking" there was loud cheering, followed by cries of "bravo, bravo."

There was a large force of uniformed policemen and detectives at the meeting,which was a crowded one.

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tendent Jones and the feeling against him is so strong that he mores about wkh an escort and, his house is guarded day and night.

At the meeting tonight resolutions were adopted declaring the men would stand together if an attempt was made to discharge them for participating in the strike movement. A committee was appointed to wait on Manager La wall and demand restoration of the system which was in vogue prior to the advent of Superintendent Jones- to the distric-t. Mr. Lawall came here this ovenIng from Wilkesbarra and expressed the opinion that the strike might be settled early but he was not authorized as yet to say how the directors would meet the demands of the men.

Serious Trouble Am one Corinth Miners. Cumberland, Md., August 16.—From information received here tonight serious •trouble is likely to occur among the miners near Corinth, W. Va., caused by the release of three Italians who were arrested charged with threatening to blow up the mine' and brick plant of the Oakland Coal company. The release of the men tended to encourage the other strikers, who armed with guns, went to the house of six men who have been at work, broke into it and destroyed their property. Bx-(Deputy United &ta.Us Marshal Wheeler was guarding the miners and was shot at but made his escape to Oakland. Since the rioting has commenced there is no telling how it will end, and great alarm is felt.

Threaten to £nrn Miners Ont. Greensburg, Pa., Aug. 16.—Wild disorder prevailed In the vicinity of Herminie and the Oceon Coal Co.'s works tonight. The 200 miners who came from the river district today were successful this afternoon iu bringing the miners at Herminie out. About 175 men quit work. They all marched over to the Arona and Madison works and proceeded to fill up with "poiinki." They threatened the miners at Arona and Madison, which number about 250 men, intimating that if they did not quit work they would be burned out. The incendiary language created much excitement, and it is likely that deputy sheriffs will be sent to the scene. The Madison and Arona miners are not favorable to striking, hut tonight consented ta attend the meeting of the strikers tomorrow night at Madison.

More Ohio Miners Go Ont.

Bellaire, O., Aug. 16.—Another mass meeting of the miners was held this afternootf in this city andlarge delegations from Dillonvale, Long Run and Wheeling Creek mines marched here in a body, attended the meetingand outvoted the local miners in it. The meeting decided to shut down all the local mines in this vicinity andwill cause a number of yarge manufacturing plants to close and likely the city electric and water plants also.

After the vote had been taken there was great excitement for a few minutes, when the miners arose and said they would go to work in the Wegee mines tomorrow notwithstanding the order just voted upon. Trouble is looked for now at any time, as some miners will likely go to work.

Two Depntle* Have a Figfht. Pittsburg, Aug. 16.—Robert Kerr and rrank Anderson, two deputies employed as guardians of the New York & Cleveland1 Gas Coal Co., fought this afternoon and as result Kerr cannot live until morning.

Talk About Going to Work. Akron, O., Aug. 16.—It is very probable that some of the men in the Loomis mines at Wadsworth will reiWMWWfcr Tuesday or Wednesday. Manager J. P. Loomis has promised the men protection if they will go to work.

Blocked Gold Seeker*

Washington, Aug. 16.—William J. Jones, United States commissioner to Alaska, assigned to St. Michaels, haaeent to the interior department the fillowing report on the gold rush in a letter dated at Dyea, Alaska, dated August 4th. There are nearly 1,800 people in the Dyea and Skaguway country and both trails are blocked. People are throwing away their packs and provisions anJ rushing headlong to the mines. Great dietrees, hardships and suffering and possibly death from hunger and exposure is sure to follow next winter, an opinion that is entertained by all old Alaska prospectors who have visited that part of the world in late years and know the situation.

Second Assistant Paymaster Bhellenbarger has been notified by telegraph that arrangements were made today for forwarding mails for the Alankan Klondyke gold fields by the steamer Humboldt, which sails this evening from Seattle. About 300 pounds of mail matter is being shipped, together with numerous money remittances.

I'eace, r.et Him Rest,

Washington, Aug. 16.—The boay or the late Colonel Samuel Chester Reid, son of the famous Captain Samuel Chester Reid, who sailed the brig Armstrong, and himself

mnd the chief has not been consuUeYaboutTt' ^note^offlcer and writer, was cremated toalther.

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tomorrow the ashes will be taken to Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, and placed

in the grave of his father. "Colonel Sam has been a character about Washington for many years, and. like Billy McGarrahan, was wholly unselfish and bore good will even to his enemies.

United States Senator Married. New York, Aug. 16.—H. C. Hansbr.ough, United States Benator from North Dakota, and Miss Mary Berri Chapman of Washington, D. C.,were married at the Hotel Burlington, in this city, today. The ceremony took place in one of the parlors of the hotel. The Protestant Episcopal service was used. The bride wore a corn colored silk with brocaded stripes and tulle trimming and a white leghorn hat with plumes.

Senator and Mrs. Hansbrough after November 15th will be at home 2023 Florida avenue, Washington.

Had ffargaln*.

Occasionally it is discovered that a woman has more than her lawful share of husbands, but the men are most given to piling up the matrimonial surplus.—?few York Journal.

There Is"a Class of People:

Who are injured by the use of coffee, feecently there has been placed in all the grolery stores a new preparation called GRAIN 0, made of pure grafns that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it with out distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-quarter as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15c and 25c a package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.

SAGES.

Save your bread tickets, with every ten returned to us we will give a glass of delicious ice cream soda. Remember Saturday, Aug-.

ofCaT 21 is the last day.—SAGES

NEWS OS* THE COURTS

JUDGE H'NOIT ASKS AN INJUHCTION, AGAINST WARREN-80HA3F COr:' N VVf VW til* &

Claims It Is About to Appropriate SOW, of Hir Property—The Bay PltorW' Salt—Other Corca News.' s, V4-1-wrr

Judge Cyrus F. McNutt filed suit in tlje Superior Court yesterday against the oM? of Terre Haute, the Warren-Scharf Asph Co., D. W. Moudy and John R. Coffin, He asks the court to enjoin these defendants against tearing dOTpn .the fenca before ln& property on Ohio street and otherwise'molesting the property. He asserts the company iaabout to appropriate a strip in tlro front of the property, one foot deep 'a'lfi thirty feet wide, for the purpose of laying a cement sidewalk. The origin of the/ffiift Is in a disputed property line. The lotia,$fa Ohio between Seventh and Eighth.

Notes of the Conrta

County Assessor Athon has returned from a visit with his son at Lincoln, 111. Officer Lints is off duty on account of sickness.

Amos K. Carr filed a complaint yesterday charging Kate Evans with trespass. Lincoln Doll has been committed to .the Insane asylum. It is not yet known whether he will be admitted.

August Ohm reports that parties are taking his horse out of nights and driving it without his consent.

Charles Corey, Wesley Brown, Walter Able, Fred Fisher and Ed Warrick were assessed for drunkenness in yesterday's police court.

Oliver M. Larkins filed complaints yesterday against Roy 2inn and Fred Burton charging them with raiding his melon patch, north of the city. •Catherine Ray has filed suit for dhrocce from Austin Ray, alleging cruelty and abandonment. The couple has not lived together for seven years.

The petition for a new road in Linton township, signed by several prominent residents, was set for consideration by the board of county commissioners in the September session.

In the present calmness of things at the court house a loiterer in the marble halls may catch the sound of Prosecutor Ticljienor's new Blickensderfer.

Dave Buchanan is trying to make life miserable for his divorced "wife, who lives fet Lafayette and Second avenue. The police have been notified and will arrest' Dave if he persists.

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The Catboiie Knight* of America. Cincinnati, August 16.—Ir. J. A. Averdick, of Covington, Ky., was elected supreme medical examiner of he Catholic Knights of America six vears agfS. Jfts time expired about the 1st of July, tout tke council, which met at Ft. Wayns^ Jyfty 3, failed to elect a successor. 1'he supreme officers were called to meet at Vlrf^CTinfes August 12 and elected Dr. Breunan, tot Pndianapolis as Dr. Averdick's suct'eastw'. Today Dr. Brennan met Dr. AverdWk 3n a hotel in Cincinnati and demanded^11 t?ie books and records of the offi.e of supreme medical examiner. Dr. Avordiok adCused on the ground that the requlremqijt)9.tpf the constitution were not complied wlthkt Pt. Wayne meeting in July, in tnVrt "it failed to elect his successor, that cennes meeting electing Dr. Brenn^gtt cwtravenes the consti ion of the crdw' and iS illegal and that therefore he holflH^r 11 his successor te legally elected

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17.1897.

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Tribe of Ben Bar Sued. Hv

A peculiar suit on life insurance has been, filed in the Clay county Circuit Court. The widow of Odo St. Clair Hall has sued the Supreme Tirbe of Ben Kur for a payment of $2,500 indemnity on his life. Hall died suddenly in this city last August, while am his way home to Rockville from Brazil. Mrs, Hall made a demand on the order for the insurance and was informed that her hus band was not a member of the tribe. Attorneys Payne and Coffee have been retained by the plaintiff, .. ...

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RAILROAD VS. STREET CAR.

James Worsham, Conductor on the Vandaiia, Acquitted of Blocking Crossing. The court room at the city building was crowded with railroad men and the blue uniforms of street car employes yesterday evening when the case against James Worsham, accusgd^of' blocKlng the Thirteenth street crossmg of the Vandaiia by Charles Berry railroad policeman,

was called. Berry complained that Worsham, who runs a freight train, stood fits' train across the street car tracks'fbr at least ten minutes, thus delaying)(the street cars, on the night of the 4tJ^ o^ ,thia month. Several street car men substantiated the story of Berry. On the oth^rhaffa, there were quite a number, of Wtthflfesiss for the other ^lde. McNutt & McNatt defended ,Worsham, who was acquitted. ,*,

If one were td~ Judge by the statements of more than one citizen who lives in the neighborhood of- thsncrossing, tha conductors on the railroad are exceedingly careless at times. Bfrtry, against whom there is said to be a lifforement among the railroaders, seeking- fqrrhia removal, has given much satisfaction ,wiihrinost of the people. The report is that the .reason the railroad people are working for his removal is because he is so strict.

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ease ls li,kely to go to the civil coiiEtsr a

Married Woman and Paramour Arrpsted Mrs. Mary Owens, wife of a fireman of Decatur, 111., and a man by the mlihe' of Kinser, were arrested yesterday ^morning by Detective McRae on a warrant for adultery. The guilty couple had eloped from home and had been living as man and wife in this city for several weeks. They were rooming at the home of George A. Netherton, 1429 Eagle street, and as their actions were not suspicious, nothing was suspected until they were informed against by a brother-in-law from Deca tur.

The fellow Kinser, wtio is a vile sort of a personage, was given nne or 525 snd thirty days in jail by the mayor. The woman at first refused to sepa'ated from him, but was finally Induced to turn to her husband, who will forgive 1 er. She was about 30 and has a pleasant home. Her brother-in-law claims she was hypnotized.

Hog Cholera Cnritblw.

Dubuque, la.. Aug 16.—The fact that hog cholera is curable has again been demonstrated on the farm of the Dubuque Fruit & Produce Co., near this city, where, under the direction of Division Freight Agent Clemens of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, fifty-four out of sixty-two sick hogs were treated and saved. Last year 3,000,000 hogs died it Iotfa of this disease. The agents of the Chicago, Milwaukee & S\ Paul Railroad Co. have been using the remedy for over a year and have succeeded in saving fully 90 per cent of the hogs trated along the line of the road.

School of Osteopathy Exposed. Kansas City, Mb., August 16.—In a signed article in the Star, this evening. Dr. William Smith, a professor in the Kirkville (Mo) school of osteopathy, exposes "the national school of osteopathy." socalled, of this city, which he declares -sold him a dirloma for $150 within a? tfSeek. although he had not taken a -day's -study in the institution. The supposed school has been in existence for some time, and had as its faculty E. D. Barber and W. A. Cormack. and Bertha M. Barber. The officers of the Kirkville school wt$ose founder is Dr. A. T. -Still, the discoverer of the. science, have decided fo bring criminal proceedings agairist the concern.

Hathaway Tell# HI* utorr.

It has been published that Satntfel* O. McAdams was looking for James HathaWay with a big revolver and was determine® to blow the ypung man's head off on jyght. The story of the* contemplated jx}i^der grows out of the fact that last Tliurgday night McAdams' wife and daughter found James Hathaway, who married McAdams' daughter, down at the home of Lucia, Parish on South Eighth street, it has been (Stated that Hathaway wjut 'paying attentions the Parish girl all of which was against the wishes of the entire McAdams family. Young Hathaway says thai, he had been accused of going to St. Louis with the Parish girl, who was a sweetheart of. Colly:

XjUtz. He says that the accusation became go strong that he went down to Miss Parish's Home last Thursday night to assure them that he had circulated no such reports and would do all in Ms power to prevent the circulation of the rumor. While there, he says, his wife and mother-in-law came upon the scene. Hathaway has instituted suit for divorce from his wife and he says that the allegations w31 be the most sensational ever .'brought in a Vigo couty court. ...

(jf ORIGIN OF THE DOG.

tome Interesting Information About Ktw't Faithful Canine Friend. 1 There seems to bt a stnog leaning among cstrmralists to the theory that oar numerou§/varieties of domesticated dogs are descended not from a single species, bat frojr, Several kinds of wild anlmaia—as, for instance, the wolf and the jackal.

There are recorded examples of tamed wolves, which In gentleness, love for their masters and intelligence showed a truly doglike capacity, with regard to tamed jackals, Darwin has pointed ont that, when caressed, they jump about for joyj wag their tails, lower their ears, lick their master's hands, crouch down, and even throw themselves on the ground, feet upward. When frightened, they carry their tails between their legs.

On the other hand, it is understood that, whatever animal we may oonsider his progenitor, the domestication of the dog began at an epoch exceedingly remote. The fossil remains of a large dog have been found in tertiary deposits, and there is no doubt that the dog existed in a domesticated state during prehistoric times. His bones are discovered in the shell heaps of Denmark and in the lake dwellings of Switzerland.

The dog meets ns in the dawn of history, for such varieties as the hound, greyhound and watohdog are depicted on Egyptian monuments 5,000 years old. It is well known that in Egypt the dog was worshiped under the title of Anubis, and dog mummies have been found. There is a mastiff figured on an Assyrian sculpture belonging to 640 B. C.

The faot is often overlooked that dogs were used by the Greeks and Romans not only in the chase and hunting down escaped prisoners, but for war, being armed for that purpose not oiidy with spiked collars, but with a coat of mail. It is said that Corinth was on one oooasiofeJpaved by 60 war dogs, which foiled a night attack of the enemy, fighting until all were killed but one, which succeeded in arousing the garrison.

It is worth noting that, according to some naturalists, the Newfoundland and St. Bernard dogs form a group by themselves, derived neither from waives nor jackals, but from a distinct species of progenitors. It is a disputed question whether the Newfoundland dog is indigenous to North America or was introduced either by the Norwegians in the year 1000 or by Cabot in 1497. Bearing on this question is the Interesting fact that the Norwegian! have dogs closely resembling the Newfoundland breed. The Dingo dog of Australia does certainly seem to constitute a distinct indigenous species, since it is now found in both a wild and a domesticated state in that country, and its fossil remains are associated with those of extinct maminals.—Philadelphia Times.

A Hair- Palliut Contest.

Squire, Turk had a big task on his hands yesterday afternoon. Three women were before him and under the searching eye of the prosecutor. One sat with her bonnet pulled down over a very black eye, and she cast withering glances at the two others when they made a, statement unfavorable to her cause The woman with the bruised eye and b^t^Wfe "forehead was the plaintiff and her nanie Was Mattiw Cupps. She had caused the itcHest of Mattie Frost and Hat tie Snyder assault and battery. One of the latter Tiad held the Cupps woman's hands-while tljg.pther beat and banged her and puiled her-hair. Before her claws had been piniongl, however, she had managed to defend h^eelf to the extent of a few large tufts ef, hair from the heads of her assailants. The trouble originated In a remark a fellow named Shaw made about the Cupps wotnart, -and jealousy also figured. After listening to the contradictory evidence long enough to make most people stark mad, the justice dismissed the case and the hairpullers together.

Mail Carriers Get Back Fay. Yesterday morning a number of Terre Haute mail carriers were notified that their claim for pay for over time had been allowed by the government and that the money was waiting for them. The men were not very slow' about getting their names affixed to tbe pay roll. Some of the men, who were put on the force under the Harrison administration, drew as much as $550. Others drew ?60 and over. Following are those that drew money: John Richel, Phil Jacobs, David Smith, Ed Clark, Harvey Jackson, A. O. Honnung, John Llewlyn, Jack McCarty, Linde Gosnell, Al Hoffman, Ralph Thomas, Lawrence Kretz, "Fanny" Trogdon, George Shea and Ed Rupp.

National Silver Kepnbilcan Party. Duluth, Minn., Aug. 16.—Chairman Towne late this afternoon announced the executive committee of the National Silver Republican^ 'party. The members are: Chairman. Fred

T. Dubois of Idaho, Judge J. J. Harper of Washington Court House, O., Ben S. Dean of Jamestown, N. Y. A. M. Stevenson of Denver, Nathan Cole, Jr., of Los Angeles, James H. Teller of Chicago and Charles S. Hartman of Bozeman, Mont.

Condition of Indiana Hanks. 'Washington, Aug. 16.—The report of the condition of the thirteen national banks of Indiana for the July Teport, as compared with that of last May, shows an increase in the average reserve held from 41.41 per cent to 41.78 percent. The total of resources and liabilities has decreased from ?61,344,310 to $61,120,438.

Honnd. Gagged and Robbed. Hicksville, Ohio, August 16.—Early this morning two masked men enterod the home of H. C. Humbarger, aji r-ged man living four miles west of this citv. They bound and gagged him and cscaix-.l with $1,300 in money, about #00 In notes and $1,SOO in bonds. The not^a and bonds were dropped, however, and were foun-l today. Humbarger Is In a cri-jcal condition.

Big Picnic at New Goshen.

Today the annual picnic of the old soldiers of Western Indiana and "Eastern Illinois will be held at New Goshen. These reunions are the largest of any held In the state outside of a state reunion and the attendance this year promises to surpass that at all previous meetings. Several hundred people will go from this city.

Nothlnenens.

"What's in the magazine, this month?" asked the editor-in-chief. "Nothing," replied the assistant editor. "Good!" exclaimed the editor-in-chief. "We'll advertise it as being up to the stand,a A an a on it on

Where is Abdni Hamld?

Two figures supremely pathetic are In the eye of Europe today. One is an aged man, the other little more than an infant. Bismarck ic the name of one, Alfonso of the other,r-iNew York Press.

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As She Is Spoke.

The Shakspearean phrase "3o to" was recently defined by a etudefit as equivalent to the modern expression "Come olt." English i9 certainly a flexible language.— Globe-Democrat.

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^he Price of Silver.

New York, Aug. 16.—At today's bid price for silver in New York the intrinsic value of

the ^afdtcd-SUv.er

dollar is

42.25.

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WHY BICYCLES ARE PLENTY.

Che Crop li Beta* Sold by Installment, Be On* On Stay. The democracy at the bioyololies not so much in the vast number of riders as in the diversity of oapital represented. Peo-

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le who never owned or expected to own a now sport the most approved machines. They are, for the most part, people whose appearance and calling would indicate a struggle for existenoe.

Where do they get the money to Invest in a wheel or indulge in the sport at all? one is tempted to qriestlon, in encountering the army of wheelers on every side. A blcyale calls for some hundred accessories, more or less essential, If not imperative, to safety or comfort. Then if the steel steed has not the physical cravings of the horsey it is at least constantly incurring accidents. When a rider is not settling an account in a dootor's office or an apothecary shop ha is likely to be discussing tires in a repairing emporium.

The installment company anticipated this perplexity. The general vogue of the bicycle in New York has unquestionably been precipitated by a manufacturer who sells a wheel on one year's time. For a wheel that retails at f75 this manufacturer asks $80. The purchaser deposits the extra $5 as a guarantee. The remaining $75 is then divided by 18, leaving a monthly installment of $6.26. Before the wheel leaves the establishment, however, the purchaser must sign a legal agreement and secure for indorser of same a property bolder whose property may be reached by process of law. This secures the manufacturer from all loss. At the expiration of the year the purchaser finds himself sole owner of a good wheel for aboat the same amount of money he would have expended had he rented a machine for the same length of time.

The costume is another outlay. A good oycling suit costs at least $15, not including leggings, "leather stookings," sweater, gloves, eto., which easily swell the sum to $25 or $30. "Had 180 bicycles, instead of 80 horses," said the oldest liveryman at Port Chester. "I could rent them at 86 cents a day and make more than I do now with my livery stable."—New York Herald.

LACK OF EASE IN CONVERSATION.

How to Remedy This Lack of Ease by Practice In the Home Circle. There is one great reason for this lack of conversational power—in too many cases the art is never practiced inside the home cirole, writes Louise Royle in The Ladies' Home Journal. No attempt at pleasant converse is ever made save when visitors are present. The various members of the family may gossip a little or discuss purely personal affairs, but tbey make no attempt at entertaining talk. In point of fact, tbe art of conversation is like a game of battledoor and sbuttleoock—one needs tbe quickneas and dexterity of constant practioe. In many busy households the only general gathering of the family is at mealtime—a time above all others when worry should be banished, if only for the sake of physioal comfort. Yet this is the very time when the mother will complain of domestic worry, tbe father of business cares and the daughters of shabby frocks.

All this should be changed. It ought to be a rule in all households that disagreeables are to be banished at mealtime. If complaints must be made, let them oome at a proper time, but do not imperil your digestion by eating while you are in an irritated and discontented frame of mind. Pleasant talk relieved by an occasional laugh will bo more beneficial than pounds of pills. In the household there should not only be an avoidance of unpleasant topics, but an attempt to find agreeable ones. Bach member of the family should come to the table prepared to say something pleasant. Any bright little story or merry joke or any bit of world's news that will loosen the tongues* and cause animated talk—how it will increase the brightness of the working dayl There need be no profound discussion—it should be just lively touch and go talk.

Pressing the Grapes.

The presshouse was a large vault witb a rounded roof, from the middle of which hung a small oil lamp, which lighted up the space beneath it, but oast dark 6hadows into the corners. The doors were shut, and the air was heavy With the smell of mout, tobacco smoke and human beings. The men, bluer trousere^, blue bloused, black capped, all had pipes or cigars iu their mouths, and matches and cigars lay on a shelf in the corner beside a quaint old candlestick of twisted wrought iron. A crowd of peasant onlookers stood about the steps.

The vats aid wine press oocupied the whole of the right hand:wall in the end waU was a door, which opened into an inner vault, where stood the large casks ready to receive the mout. The liquid "7is running from a tap in the side of the vat, through a basket which acted as a strainer, into a barrol. This first liquid, which comes naturally, without any pressure, makes the best wine. Inside the vat the mout foamed, not -'round the white foet of laughing girls, but round the bared brown legs of a sturdy peasant, who was throwing tbe disintegrated grapes by spadefuls into the wine press. This con sisted of a raised base, on which stood a sort of barrel of immense circumference built up of strong narrow slats of oak. each separated from the rest by a narrow space so that, when pressing began, the liquid could run out through the spaces into a circular groove in the surface of the stone base, thence down a cylindrical hole bored in the stone, and out by a tap into a hotte.—Cornhill Magazine.

Italy and Gardens.

The climate of Italy renders it diffieult and almost impossible to have flowers growing in the ground all through the summer. After the magnificent efflores oenoo of May and June tbe soil cakes into the consistency of terra ootta, and the sun, which has expanded and withered the roses and lilies and vines with such mar velous rapidity, toasts everything like so much corn or maizQ. Very few herbaceous flowers—the faithful, friendly, oheerful zinnias, for instance—can continue blooming, and the oleander, become more bril liantly rose color with every additional week's drought, triumphs over empty beds.

Flowers in Italy are a crop, like corn, hemp or beans. You must be satisfied with fallow soil when they are over. I say these things, learned by some bitter experience of flowerless summers, to explain why Italian Cower gardening mainly takes refuge in pots—from the great ornamented lemon jars down to the pots of carnations, double ger&hiunis, tuberoses and jasmlnefr on every wall, on every ledge or window sill^-so much so, in fact, that even'the famous sweet basil, and with it young Ldreir/o's head, had to be planted in & pOd. KXow, this poverty of flower beds and richness of pots made it easy and natural for the Italiad'gardeH to'become, liko the Moorish onfe, a^placO of mere greenery and Water, a palac&whoffefotrot&ind plashed in sunny yards walled in with myrtle and laurel, in mysterious chambers roofed over with ilex and box.—Longman's Magazine.

A Sculptor's Home.

Hamlin Garland describes Edward Kemeys, tbe sculptor, and bis wife and home in MoClure's Magazine: The cottage is not notioeableoutside inside, tbe presence of the soulptor is everywhere. In the little ball you enter are his trophies over the mantel a mountain sheep opposite, a huge black buffalo glowers in the corner is the bead of a grizzly bear, the hero and almost the victor in a battle with t' Hylptor. A browaa Motrin cock

brought back ^piing dagv on the farm 3 Iowa. A mountain lion Jn a beautiful and singularly graceful pose looked down from ft stand as if from a high rock. In each room bronae reproduction* in frames deeorated the walls. Italian ornaments, heads, arrows, pipes and all abound. The chief ornament of his home is his beautiful wife, his aotaal comrade and helpmeet.

Mrs. Kemeys Is also a sculptor, and works with her husband each day. Sher superintends the reproduction at his work, and aids him in a manual way when she is not studying. She hopes to be able ta take np his art and become his fallow artist. She modestly disclaims tbe possession of any SQcpial power. She V) almost as remarkable in many ways aa W husband. Her marvelous physique* her ytrtn

Walter Savage I.andor.

On the surface, Landor's Character npp^ers an odd mixture of opposing, and even mutually destructive, elements. A man of strong aristocratic sympathies, he had an unbounded hatred of tyranny and oppression in any form a lover of peace and quiet meditation, his entire career was a series of contests to a nature of such rare gentleness that he never plucked a flower, nor took a bird's nest, nor, after once finding a wounded bird, over used his gun for sport, was joined an impetuosity and uncurbed vehemence that openly advocated tyrannicide and could scarcely bo restrained from challenging Lord John Russell for some fancied slight to a remote and perhaps doubtful ancestor.

No man ever expressed greater confidence in himself or had a profounder belief in the power and durability of his own work, yet, because a publisher refused to print "Count Julian," he burned tbe manuscript of another tragedy he had in hand, and declared his intention to abandon poetry forover. A professed follower of Epicurus, his whole Llfo was destructive of happiness and peace. His temperament was too strong for his philosophy. Ho was removed from Rugby to save expulsion was rusticated at Oxford had quarreled with his father and turned his back on the paternal homo "forever" before he had readied the age of 20. Yet he was capable of great tenderness of feeling and of firm friendship.—Temple Bar.

Walt ham Powder Works.

The description in an English journal of the royal gunpowder factory at Waltham would seem to show the establishment more in the light of a world's fair than tha prosaic plant that such a purpose involves. There are, it appears, some 400 acres o£ wooded land, intersected by four miles of running streams, and eleotrio launches ply between the different buildings, while cargoes of explosives are conveyed by sail barges in order to reduce liability to danger to a minimum. In what is known af the "danger building" there is a board set up acrods the threshold, which not even the inspeotor may step over without having a special pair of large over boots pal on his feet, to keep his shoes from tracking grit from outside upon the felt carpot. In one part of the grounds is a pond into which the water from tbe nitroglycerin factory is drained, and once a week thkr extraordinary lake is exploded with a dynamite cartridge, to prevent too great accumulation of waste nitroglycerin—some times, in faot, there is so much in the yv&ter that bales 96 feet deep are made and tho water is all blown away.

Queen Victoria has been queen of Great Britain during the administrations 4 Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln^ Johnson, Srvt, Hayes, QaariMd,. Artkmj H&rrtaw and Cfowfetfid.

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ANIMALS AS TEACHERS.

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Early Ancentors Borrowed Trades Trom Nature. In Ms study cf the "Relation of tho Earth to the Industries of Mankind" Professor O. T. Mason infers that the earth was in tbe beginning and is now the teacher of the activities through which commodities Me conducted through the progress of industries. "There were quarriers, miners, lumberers, gleaners and some say plasters. There were fiahatmen, fowlers, trappers and hunters before there was a genus homo. "There were also manufacturers in clay, in textiles and in animal substances before there were potters, weavers and furriers. There were all sorts of moving material and carrying passengers and engineering of the simplest sort. It might be presumption to hint that there existed a sort of barter, but the exchange of care and food for the honeyed secretions of the body going cm between the *nts and the aphid as looks very much like it.

The world Is so fnll «f technological processes brought about among her lower kingdoms that I would weary yea in enumerating them. Stone breaking, flaking, clipping, boring and abrading have been going on always, by sand blast, by water, by fire, by frost, by gravitation. "Archaeologists tell us that savages are very shrewd in selecting bowlders and other pieces of stone that have been blocked out and nearly finished by nature for their axes, hammers and other tools. "In tropical regions of both hemispheres, where scanty olothing is needed, certain species of trees weave their inner bark into an excellent cloth, the climax cf which is the celebrated t&pa of Polynesia. Furthermore, the fruits of vines and trees offer their bard outer shells for vessels and tot other doznestio purposes and as motives la art and handicraft. "Among the animals there is hardly on« that has not obtruded itself into the imag' inatlon of man and stimulated the invent* ive faculty. The bears were the first cav« dwellers, the beavers are old time lumber* ers, the foxes excavated earth before ther« were men, the squirrels hid away food foi tho future, and so did many birds, and the6e were also excellent architects and nest builders the hawks taught men to oatch fish, the spiders and caterpillars to spin, the hornet to make paper and th« crawfish to work In clay. "—Popular Science Monthly.

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Fortunes In Small Inventions. Some one has said that more money been made out of ingenious trifles than out of some of the most important inven« tions of the age. A great and expensive machine or article can be purchased by only the wealthy few, but the 6 cents and 10 cents novelties, the little trifles, the needles and pins and things, everybody wants, is able to buy and must hav& Even such an insignificant article as toothpick suggests the investment of enormous sums and the employment of a vast army of laborers. Some exceedingly fine inventions axe used in the manufacture at these little splinters, and the money in* vested runs well up Into millions.

Toothpicks are used for many purpose! besides the one that gives them theil name. They are invaluable to the florist and have their place in a great many household performances. As little skewers fo* boiled and stuffed eggs and as splints r-tf tie up broken plants tbey are useful, indeea indispensable, nothing seeming to auswel bo well. The day of small things is fa] from being despised, and there are companies representing large capita! that ar« constantly on the lookout for trifling inventions from which they may receiv* large sums either by purohase and manufacture or by putting them on tue market and paying royalty. The latter Hem, bowever small, foots up a very considerable aggregate to the inventor, and there art hundreds of people in this country who are living handsomely on the regular income derived from some of these children ol their brains.—New York Ledger.

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