Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 November 1897 — Page 2

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SOME SOtJUD IDEAS

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Greenbacks Shoald B« Retired—Stiver Dot. Uri Bedeemsble la (jotd-Bank Notes at PirOn Boadi. ^4§

Washington, -Nor. 11.—-Mr. Charles Parsons of St. Louis, "pfesldfijt of the Stale Bank, has replied to"a'request from tbe moftetary commiselojQ, now sitting in Wash'nston, for his views'qn needed reforms c,i tbe currency. Herstron^ly favora tue redemption silver dollars S^..silver certinc :es in. Bold, his co&teniiog being thit they w-vre put in circulation as at par with gold a.c.1 .) that it would be dishonest to refuse to redeem them in gold. He .loes not care to predict the amount of silver dollars and silver certificates that, under *hese circumstances, would-be presented for redemption, as they would remain in circulation unless

the government demanded their prompt liquidation—which lie would not favor. Otherwise, they-would be presented from t.m'e to time for taies tind other government dues. He would have congress pass a law declaring that the word "coin" In government bonds meant gold or its equivalent and gradually retire the treasury notes and greenbacks. He depreoales the suggestion of forcing silver upon people who do not want it and suggests the. teauance of email not*?, all of greenbacks, his theory being that the government would profit by the wear and tear of these notes, which is lar^e.

Mr. Parsons favors the retirement of all the United States notes on the ground, first, that their continued circulation is dangerous, and, secondly, because they -ire .ill flat nueey. He regards them as a part of tbe national debt, a forced loan, so to speaK, and It may add something to our interests charge to retire them. He believes, however, if the national indebtedness be funded .'nto a 2 or 2% per cent thirjty-year bend. that the Interest paid on the treasury note part of the debt would be nearly offset by the general reduction in rate.

In reply to the question now we couM maintain an adequate amount of currency available for business if the United States notes should be retired, without adding to our bonded debt, Mr. Parsons says: "Provide a fair banking law under government control, somewhat elastic, partially secured by United States bonds and partly on assets, with liability of stockholders for an amount-equal to their holding of stool:, not overtaxing them, and I think enough banks would be organized to supply circulation, for more than amount withdrawn of present currency—allow bank circulation at par on United. States bonis, nlso.''

BANKS AND TH"3 CURRENCY. #n Mr. Parsons' opinion, it'would be ur.wise .to withdraw th? government .:ssues any faster,than a substitute was provided either by bank issue or gold if our golfi currency increases largely, ih.it iicmwe might be counted, and he thinks that it should be. He would not reduce the volume of our currency now. Neither does he doubt that the banks would furnish all the currency needed, in tbe event that the government notes were withdrawn, provided the new banking taw is such that money can be made out of circulation.

The major part of Mr. Parson's paper is devoted to. banking, and upon this subject he entertains positive views. He does not, to b^gin with, think it possible to rely entirely upon national bondl as seurity for bank note issues, nor does he entertain a high-opinion of the plan for using other securities: tie thfaia/. iltarably,.of a plan based in part«n'United States bonds and on assets with safety fund and government control, perhaps adding government guarantee. He-does not now favor an exclusive basis of assets for bank note issues. He would prefer 60 ©T 65 per cent of capital in United States bonds and 35 or 40 on assets, with a proper-safety fund, careful supervision and thS stockholders' liabilities to be applied first to the payment of-notes. Tiie safety fund alone, he believes, would pay all deficits from failures, so' far as the notes are concerned. If £his plan succeeds well the ratio on assets might be Increased.

Mr. Parsons suggests as one of the influences that might be exerted to prevent the establishment of uneotind banks that of compelling all banks to report any evidence of bad''barfklhg ^thin 'their knowledge to the comptroller df the currency, such reports, of co£(tttfe 'as strictly confidential. 'So fafJ^fiS^tlle' examination and inspection' oTMnks'Ts concerned, he would con--tinue th(g/j)reS'|ent'system' with any additional lafeguards tha,t might be needed.

AVERTING. STRINGENCY.

In reply to the question, "How would you in times of panic or sudden stringency provide for additional issues by the banks to enable them to continue discounts and prevent commercial distress?" Mr. Parsons says: "Have congre^pass a bill for chartering the various clearing houses in the country and provide for au issue of clearing house currency on lines suggested by me some years ago. This plan calls, in brief, for tbe issue of clearing house certificates in eurr rency denominations intended for use as a circulating medium these notes to be guaranteed by all the banks in the clearing house and to be issued to any bank by the clearing house upon the deposit with it of approved collateral, with a margin of 33 1-3 per cent."

The bank reserves should consist of gold, so far as it is needed to protect their currency, or a deposit of gold at the point of redemption. For other liabilities he would allow the reserve to be in legal tenders, so long as they exist, and afterward it should be in gold, gold certificates and national bank notes: No bank, he thinks, should be expected to keep all its reserve in gold. If all the maheys above named are included then the total reserve be 25 per cent of deposits.

Mr. Parsons does not see how it is pos%U ble to avoid the payment by national baftks of interest on the current deposits of other banks'. In his Judgment, the prohibition of this privilege would result in a large number •f depositors^ going to the brokers. He does not in fach beiieve that,a banking system forbidding the payment of interest could succeed. However .desirable such a consummation might be, it,is now too well established to chauge. In this connection, however, he believes that the practice of counting the deposits of country banks in reserve cities »s a part of the required reserve is overdone, and that it is really a menace in panicky times to the reserve banks. He is frank to my that while, he does ,not think the practice ran be abolished it might be, to some extent, limited.

Mr. Parsons ts obviously not in hearty lympathy with the system of establishing branch banks, except wkh very large capital, nor does he favor in such an event permitting the branch: banks to redeem the totes of the parent bank.

CIVIL SERVICE COMPLICATION.

Ur. McKenna IJe^-lines to Give an Opinion On It. Special to the IcdUgaoolfs News.

Washington, Nftv.^H.—Attorney General MsKenna has deSlifii&d to give-ah opinion on Ike question whether or not deputy customs collectors, marshals apd internal revenue collectors are un^|he civil service. The Question was referred wjuipi by Secretary »f the Treasury Gag§ a .hypothetical case, and for the reason that it is such a caise ittorney General McKenna declined to pass

count of the action of Collector Brady of

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HOME MISSIONS.

mission problem of the church and to

of the state plan are firm and are prepared

to make a minority report to-the general as-I

sembly, in case the compromise offered not satisfactory to them.

Prof. Shield* Insists On Withdrawing. Princeton, N. J., Nov. 11.—The New Brunswick Presbytery met in the First Pres-

byterian Church here today. Professor

presbytery for signing the petition for a license for Princeton Inn, tendered his withdrawal from the Presbyterian Church in order, as his letter said, that he might "enter some other portion of the church to which the good hand of God may guide him."

A resolution was presented by the Rev. Dr. John Dewitt that the resignation be accepted. There were immediate protests and requests that a resolution of regret accompany the withdrawal. It was finally decided to appoint a committee of five members to inquire into and report upon the case.

OLD VETERAN DEAD.

Benjamin Murray Dies as a Result of Fall—Other Deaths.

Benjamin Murray, a veteran of the late war, died Wednesday night as a result of a fall he sustained about a week ago. He died Ithe

city. Murray was about

0 years old and avoid

will be held at 2:30 p. m. today from Mt. Zion Evangelical Church.

MORE GREEK SCANDALS.

Tire prince is known to be deeply affected by the scandal.

OBJECTED TO OLD DRESSES.

So Mrs. Barbetta Offein Was a Rectuse for Thirty Years.

Mascoutah, 111., Nov. 11.—The death of Mrs. Barbara Offein at Belleville yesterday at the advanced age of 82, closed the life of a remarkable woman. For thirty years she has le'd ibe life of a recluse, and during alj that time has spoken to no one but her husband, who also lived the life of a hermit. A high board fence inclosed their home, and she was uever seen outside of that fence.

A curious story related as the reason for her strange life. When she married her second husband thirty years ago she was a beautiful woman, fond of society. He insisted, ^t is alleged, that she wear out the dresses of his deceased wife before new ones were purchased.

She refused to do so. When her own feowns wore out she made dresses of old rags and quilts. In summer she went without shoes and in cold weather she wrapped rags about her feet. For twenty years she has rarely been outside of her hoiise and never beyond the high board fence.

Itlllr Hartmxn On** ro New York. Philadelphia, Nov. 11.—There was no meeting of the National Base Ball League today and the transfer of Grady and Hartman, of St. Louis, to New York, and Holmes and Donnelly from the latter club to St. Louis, was the only deal that went through. A number of other deals are on but definitely arranged.

StnrtjrluE V«llow Fever In Havana. Washington. Nov. 11.—The president has detailed Passed Assistant Surgeon Wardin and Passed Assistant Surgeon Geddings, United States Marine hospital service, for special duty at Havana, for the purpose of making bacteriological investigations into the cause and nature of yellow fever..,

W«av«ra Are ranted An Advance.-: Philadelphia, Nov. 11.—The 250 weavers employed by F. A. Bachmann & Co., who struck about three weeks ago for higher wages, returned to work today, tie firm having granted them an advance of from 5 to 8 per cent. The strike affected nearly 1,000 peresns.

100008 ISLAND, BICHES

Virginia, who appointed new deputies in hie TREASURE VALUED A*' 30,000,000 Office., SAID TO BAVJE BDVKOt Secretary Gage decided that, while deputies could hold only for the time their chiefs wer£'appointed, that new Jeputles might. be selected from the "certified" list of the civil service. Mr. Brady took issue with the secretary and finally the case went to Attorney General McKenna. His assistant, Mr. San Francisco, Nov. ll.-jT^e story that

Stcry or ftMrch On a Loirif Fleifie Islet For Wealth Uarled Byd Feepl* of Central Amerte*.

the treasure fcuried on CoccaUsi^d has been

\the civil service and dealt it a stunning blow, as fc his custom always. Then the I discovered is reiterated by fcas&engers who attorney general declined to issue the opin I arrived here on the steamer tfHy of Sydney ion. Boyd's opinion is in accord with the from Australia. August W^tJ^en, a ISattdecision of Judge Baker of Indiana. Secre-Lerof

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tary Gage has now referred the matter to ithe solicitor for the" treasury for an-opinion. years ago in the sioop Hayseed to search That will be the basis for the treasury's I for the treasure, was among the passengers •ction. land he says positively the hiding place of the $30,000,000 has been found:

Now

Special Committee of Presbyterians Seeking to Solve the Problem.

Indianapolis, Nov. 11.—The special corn mittee of fifteen appointed by the last gen eral assembly of the Presbyterian Church I ^gnt and adventure. When the .vessel left met in its first session this morning. The headquarters on September 22d, there was committee will endeavor to solve the home|a

Eecret

tween the national and state plans of control supP°sel interpreter was no other than of the home missions. The state plan is V^arles Hartford, the repute^ discoverer of better known as the Indiana plan, because] *11® Cocos island treasure, and his companion it was founded in this state. The central

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states' representatives will favor the reten- remarkabfe tale of burled -millions. The tion of the Indiana plan, and say that they

know a majority of the members of the com- I

mittee are in sympathy with it. They haye I miles distant from the nearest land, a fortified themselves with facts and figures

taken from the churches reports under the

little

two plans, showing the increased results that Ia^ time the Imperieuse landed her party have come from the use of the new plan.

The members of the committee believe that

an agreement wili be reached but the friends

nied

The slab was found at th& depth-lie named and there was no lack of energy iff compliance when Hartford next gave the order to dig ten or twelve feet deeper, when the tunnel would be struck, leading to the cavern of gold and jewels. The continuous rain made the work extremely difficult, but it was nevertheless continued until a depth of ten feet was reached with no disclosures. At this point the water had so welled into

tbat

at his home, about seven miles west of the feen_|°Tsway /.r°™

for some time has needed the services of a I pletely filled the excavation made and neuguardian in the care of his property. The tralized the work already done. Instead of funeral will be held at 10 o'clock this morn- blasting out the obstructions and continuing ing and ipterment will be at Mt. Pleasant, operations according to the -original plan, The services will be held from the r^sid^nce Admiral Palliser ordered a blast in the hill of George Borders, 908 North Second street. 1 side itself, and this being carried out without

The funeral of John Sullivati, who was killed Wednesday night in the railroad vkrds, will take place Saturday morning at 9 from St. Ann's.

William Goss, son-in-law of W. A. Nichols of this city, died at his home in Champaign, 111., yesterday, aged 3S. Ho 'eaves a wife and three children. Deceased W8s

Brindie!,' Italy, Nov. 11.—Letters received objective point. Some of theip, went so' far here today from Athens-says that the torpedo

percuesiop caps and fulminating mercury and that therefore' thejf would have been useless In case they were needed. Two officers, Captains Rastopoulo and Andstasi, are to be trjed by court martial on tbe charge of culpable negligence. Rastopoulo, who Is ^"ice' now being tried, has asked that Prince Geprge of Greece, who commanded the torpedo flotilla during the war, be called as a witness. The court has refused to do this and tbe Greek newspapers are publishing vigorous articles on the subject, the antidynastic Hestia going so far as to demand

TERKE HAUTE EXRESSS. FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12,1897.

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wh()r ieft

mystery

this port about

On November 3d the Imperieuse, tie flagship of Rear Admiral Palliser and of the North Pacific squadron, returned to Esquimau It, B. C., completing a cruise of less than six weeks' duration, but full of inci

in regard to her orders, not usu

reportapfoftwar.'

rent Ae

0vemf^.

I ships On board were two civilians

its solution to the next general assembly. Ja New York correspondent and an ihterThe members of the committee express I pretfciv It was when Cocos island was reach themselves generally as 'being of the opin-l®-^' 'October 14th, that their identity and ion. that a compromise will be made bp-

of the trip was disclosed. The

A. Harris, whom he had interested in his

Island iteelf was

east

*0*"$ to lie 550 miles south

of San Jose de Guatamala, although but

Sreen Patch in the sea, scarcely eight

miles

lo°S

were

by half that wide. Its inhabitants

Mrs-

Nova

Gerster and a new arrival from

Scotia, a German, who was accompa*

his

wife-

where to be

G^rsler himself was no-

seen.

nor

wbo

was the negro servant

played the part of "Friday" to Hart

ford's "Robinson Crusoe." They had gone to the mainland, Gersler explained. Gersler Ihad made away with the negjjq-ADd secrsted I himself, according to Hartford's theory.

No time was lost in beginning ,work under I Hartford's directions, and with 4hfc aid of his

°ucl1

Charles W. Shields of Princeton University, contemptuously described aat "only a copy who has been censured by members of the

discussed chart, which Gersler

one

^ve

bave-"

Digging: fOE $30,000,000

is fascinating employment, antfralthough it was raining hard the watch TS^ppnded with alacrity when Lieutenant Lee informed them that all hands were to go ashore and "dig diamonds." The digging was?j}ommenced at a spot indicated on the 'chart knd designated by Hartford. At a depob of five or six feet, he said, a large flat stone or slab would be discovered, out of which hs had previ ously chiseled the distinguishing number that it had originally borjie.^ ,#ft

large overhanging rock was

un^ermining,

and Lieu

tenant Lee retired his men just in time to

a serious fatality. The rock com

result, the Imperieuse turned homeward despite the pleadings of Hartford. The admiral said it was impossible to remain longer from headquarters. The officers and men of the ship united in saying they believed the treasure was there.

MANY FRUITLESS QUEST* Commenting on the above, the New York

|sm 01 Noventer ith

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the officers of the British flagship Imperieuse is true and the buried treasure of Coco3 island is actually there, there will be chagrin and lamentation in many citleflU of 'both East

„e, ,, iaDd Wes\ among others thisPcfiy. In the ®inB-a(i®toI^ragPrince George jast fifty yeirs many excursidn^ have been nto the Torpedo Affair. planned with the lone Pacific islet for, their

e™1?arke(3- 0th®rs

.. on paper. Few ever reached

scandal continues ro be the sensation Of the those few a startling proportion jjound death Cretan capital. The basis of this scandal on the rocky shores or by fever/otl starvation, was the discovery,of the fact that all ibe None found the treasure. Chartes Hartford, cartridges fitted-to the-torpeddes during the ™an ^0 cl&lms to have Mund" it foundwar witH Turkey were not provided with I

died

JCQCCS,nl

and of

Sba^tly skeletons of ,thqse who had

gone, before ghastly monuments of failure. He is back in this country no^.l^nd the Imperieuse, which took him to,C^cois on his second trip, lesft a detachment o^iparines to guard the hoard. .Hartford l&jffiSjonly man who has ever gone or tried, to 'g/x to Cocos

'Cocos island .is a mounjtainou^cock, with thirty miles of coast line, that rises from the depths of the Pacific ocean about 450 miles out from Costa Rica, of which it is a possession. Only storm-driven vessels ever sigjit it.. It is out of the traveled world, the

.. .picked spot of the universe for a cache of that Prince George be tried by court martial.

valuables In 1820 when Central America

was iu revolt against the cruel sway of Spain, the richest among the colonists formed a close-banded company for the preservation of their gold, silver and precious stones, and, jQtting out a schooner, set sail for thfc far island. Written history says nothing of this excursion, but the history which is handed down from father to son and eventually spreads and becomes intefwoven with legend has it that half a dozen picked men of the band buried the treasure within -the outer vein of the mountains that line the coast at night and in close secrecy that each a map of the cache, and that upon

struck with a far-reaching aword. Of the late attempts to find the treasure the most businesslike was made by a Mrs. Brennau, a Nova Scotia woman of considerable means and great reselutlon. A drunken sailor brought one of the maps to the town where she lived and it came into her possession, .After a week's consideration she was ready to set abopt getting that treasure. She went to Victoria, B. C., got several business men of that city inerested inner project and in March, 1807, sailed for Cocos in the schooner Aurora with Captain Fred Hackett and crew of eight men, reaching the island in June.

A VOLUNTARY MAROON.

"To their intense amazement and disgus they met upon the shore by a human being. To be sure he had almost forgot how to talk end was inclined to look upon them as apparitions who would presently vanish over the waves, as he declared all his other visitors had done but lie was still a man, and his wits soon returned when he became used to the companionship of his fellow-beings, In two respects, however, the Aurora people considered unsound. First, he was positive that he had been there several years, al though he admitted that he had lost track of the lapse of time, and next, he insisted that he had found tie treasure by a map which was the only genuine map in exist ence. It developed that he was wide of the truth as far as his length of stay was con cerned. Little by little his story came out The Costa jftitian government had sent him to the island by the gunboat Turalba in September, 1896, under contract to search for the trefisut^'and divide it with the government Should fiis search be successful. The Turalba was to return in three months Those three months the voluntary maroon tallied on a small sapling. The gunboat did not return, and at the end or the fifth month be gave up hope. His fate was the more bitter in that he had iocated the treasure after three weeks' work, the map having been somewhat indefinite. This story the newcomers refused to believe, and for nearly two months they explored that island with pick and shovel, while Hartford smiled. Finally he dictated the following agreement: 'I, Charles Hartford, have an agreement with and permission from the Costa Rican government to search for hidden treasure on Cocos island. I was landed by said govern ment on September 22 (I think), 1896, and that government agreed to come back for me inside of three months. I have not heard from said government, and being in a starving condition and with no means to obtain food and no -way to get off the island and having located the large treasure, I make this agreement with the the captain and crew ot the schooner Aurora of Victoria, B. C-,'to let them take half of the treasure, of whatever nature, whether gold, silver or preefcus stdnes, for their side of the agreement, and to land me, Charles Hartford, at some convenient port in the United States with the other half of said treasure. The information we came to the island for proving no good, we hkve hunted, dug and bored, and were about tp return home when said oifer was made and accepted.' "But the offer' was. not accepted. Mrs. Brennanj Captain Hackett and two men of the crew held out against it, and finally these two men agreed to stay and search while the ship returned for a supply of dynamite, with which the intended to facilitate the work. Hartford returned in the Aurora, hick landed at Vancouver, B. C., on August 14th last. He left there to organize another expedition. "In Wall street there was no little interest in the news, as many Wall street men remember an expedition which was organized here about fifteen years ago to get the treasure. A company was formed and several men of wealth went into' the scheme, the organizers of which'"were as reckless and irresponsible a crowd of treasure seekers as ever mistook fancy for fact. Perhaps it was for this reason that the plan collapsed and the excursion Was given up before much of the money had been spent. That is why, the treasure has really been found, there ill be some regrets in this vicinity. And that 'if' is substantiated it will be the first case where treasure island has ever given up its gold, except in the pages of fiction, and Long Island may be expected to turn out en masse immediately upon a certification, and conduct an investigation into the record of the late Captain Kidd with so many picks and shovels that the whole island will look like a plowed field from Brooklyn to Montauk Point." f'*-

KER HONEY BOY WAS THERE.

Mighty Warm Time at the Big Four Depot Wednesday Evening, v* a-.'* "Silver Bill," the hackman, played ibe part of a good Samaritan at the Big Four. depot Wednesday evening. For a few *tort moments he was the whole thing. Weduipedajv afternoon there was a wedding at the office of Justice. Brown. The contracting parties were Perry Ingram, a wealthv farmer from Chrisman, 111., and Ella Msrrii!. a young woman cf this city. Both.gave it cut they had never been married before, but this seems to have been incorrect. The women up to the time of her marriage has been occupying rooms in the rear ot George Reese's saloon, on Walnut street. From what took place at the Big Four depot it would also appear she has a dusky lover in the person of Frederick Scott.

Scott in some manner dropped to tbo fo.ct that his-taistress was aboui to be mariitd and was on the scene bright an 1 early He stayed and stayed, and as Ingram was at .the sttion there was nothing for the Merrill woman to do but buy the negro off. She secured some money from her intended, gave it to Scott and sent him out to get drunk. This he did in the most approved fash-on. But he didn't get so drunk as to forget where the Big Four's depot was, and (here he went to see Mr. and Mrs. Ingram off for Chrisman. He wate tvlld with rage when he ?aw Mr. and Idrs Ingram, both apparently su-

mutual agreement when the watr should be premely happy, walking -"tito t.ie station. A ove^.-.-they:- should sail away again to recover the hoard, which was said to be of the value of $30,000)000. Of the six, so goes t-he story, one?was killed and two died within a short time. Their maps of the islet disappeared. The other three some years later fitted out an expedition which was storm beaten from the four quarters of heaven and finally driven back upon the Central American coast, where still another of the band perished.' Undaunted, the remaining two fitted out another ship, were cast upon the rock-bound shore' of Cocos in a gale and perished. "Then begins a vague iportnary record. Early in the forties a party sailed Irom Honduras in great secrecy, suppbsaifiy for the

few minutesjkter the limb a ml started off down the sti^&t and then Scott walked over to where Ella was sitting. There was trouble, any amount of it. The negro, lover snatched the marriage license and tore it into a thousand pieces. He was drunk enough to be a "mighty bad coon." Mrs. Ingram saw her husband coming and was in a fidget. Right here it was that "Silver Bill" stepped into the breach. He knew Scott and he also knew the woman. So. without ceremony, he called the negro to one side, got him into his hack, telling bim he would call and bring Mi s. Ingram. In another minute the hack was whirling off down the street. By the time tho negro

treasure. The disappearing sails.the ship realized what was bappening^he was nearly on the horizon were the last thju mortal eye

ever saw of that venture. Two ^rermans, wanderers upon the face of the earth, reached Cocos with an excursion and refused to return, preferring to stay and 'search. Another excursion three years later found what had been the two Germans. One was a skeleton on the shore. The other ,w$s foul animal, human only in form. They took him hack—though not until lout^of their party4ad died of a mysterious feve^—and he died, raving, within two days after they reached the mainland. There are indeflnite statements of two other parties,, wjikh found the island, but nothing to reward* {Jjeir venture. "In the meantime maps of the isiahd bearing alleged markings of the treasure's location were traveling abroad upon the earth in the hands of sailors. Some came to New York, and there was an abortive attempt to organize an expedition here. One landed in Boston, and a wealthy storekeeper had such faith in it that he fitted out a ship to go around the Horn, only to die of a fever two weeks before the time set for sailing. The angel cl death who guarded that island

back ta Main

street. He left the hack and

started for the depot again., arrivrJ just as the train was pulling out for th. west. Mrs. Ingram waved her hanfl at hho a? the train steamed down the yards.

Try Gralno! Try Oraioo!

Ask your grocer today to chow 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 tbe price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by all gro•l iff -4 cers^ X-

f^i^L'an Import Cattle 1 rto Cuba Free Washington, Nov. 11.—Vice Consul Springer has sent to the state department the governor general's decree permitting, from the 10th inst, the importation of all borned,pgttle into the island of Cuba free of 'jiqjfoi or other dues. The decree will remain fn^ force until January next.

AFFAIRS OF THE RAIL

J. m. CHB8BBOP0H IS lit THl HAtC-*-NESS ON£B MOKE,

Will Become Northwestern PwmjM Acwt For the C., K. O. A T. P.-r Railroad Notes.

...

J. M. Chesbrough, once assistant gftnerat paseenger agent of the Vandalia and who Recently severed iis connection with the Balth more & Ohio Southwestern as general senger agent, will, on the lath inst, tiike service with the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific road as northwestern passenger agent, with headquarters at Detroit,

Mr. Cheebrough is a very able passenger man, and for eighteen yean was with the Vandalia as assistant general passenger agent, which position he resigned to go to Cincinnati as general passenger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, which position he filled for three years.

Mr. Chesbrough is a man who does not like to remain idle, and while the position he has accepted with the C., N. O. & T. P. is not as good a one as his ability as a passenger mkn (entitles him to, there is no doubt he will in the near future be filling abetter one.

When W. C. Rinearson, now general passenger agent of tbe Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific, retired from the position of general passenger agent of the Brie, he accepted the position of general traveling agent of the Chicago, St. Louis & Kansas City road, and it was not very long thereafter that he was offered and accepted the position he pew fills

Robsrt T. Lincoln Sncceeds Is 1 nan. A meeting of the directors cf the Pullman PalaceCarCo. was held at Chicago yesterday. Robert T. Lincoln was elected a director. The most Important action taken was the appointment of an executive committee consisting of H. E. Hulbert, of New York, and Marshal), Field and Robert T. Lincoln, of Chicago, which will have charge of the general affairs of the company. Robert T. Lincoln was elected chairman of this committee. The election of a president to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George M. Pullman was postponed. Yesterday's action, however, practically makes Mr. Lincoln president of the company

teg Strikers Not Taken Back* Superintendent Gould, of the Wabash railroad, announced Wednesday as false the report that the company is taking back the train and engine men who left its employ during the great strike of 1894. These experienced railroad men have secured employment with other lines, but many have always desired to return to the Wabash. The circulation of the story that the old men were to be reinstated has brought a flood of letters from them all over the country, and to these Superintendent Gould has replied that the men taken on during the strike would not be dismissed. ..

A Bonne For Dependet Engineers. The Meadow Lawn Farm, consisting of 250 acres, which has been in litigation for the past five years, has been sold under the hammer- to Grand Chief P. M. Arthur in trust for the benefit of the Brotherhood 4f Locomotive Engineers for $17,450, at Mattoon yesterday. It 1 sthe Intention of the brotherhood to establish on the farm a home for the dependent engineers, their widows and orphans and for this reason there was no competition in the same.

ttailroad Notes.

August Barbarzette .has been appointed a special policeman for the Vandalia yardsii® .-uf-i,

The Vandalia is arranging to pave a roadway from Main- to Chestnut, on its property that place.

W. C. Arp, superintendent of motive power of the Vandalia, hs at Atlantic City with J. J. Turner.

J. B. Modisett, chief clerk in the passenger department of the Vandalia, with headquarters at St. Louis, was in the city Wednesday.

John Rausch. engineer on C. & E. I. passenger engine 61, has resumed his run between Danville And Terre Haute, after a week's Illness.

The Vandalia wreck crew was calied to Lo^ington, on the Peoria division, yesterday, where several cars were wrecked by a a

President 'Barlow, Superintendent Corbett' and "Chief Engineer Pfafflin, of the E. & T. H., were in the city Wednesday night. They are Inspecting the lines of the company.

Trainmaster O. E. Raidy and Frank Cainibeii, of the Vandalia, have caused a big stir among the local nimrods. These two popular officials of the Vandalia went up to Waveland yesterday on a hunting trip. Late yesterday .evening they telegraphed "Bill" Griffith, the transfer man, to have three of. his largest trucks at the station this morning.

Two of the C. & E. I. engines, the new type of locomotive designed by T. A. Lawes, the master mechanic, have arrived and placed in service. Railroad men all over the country are watching these'engines.

SLOWLY -OSSIFYING..

A St. Louis Man.Whose Case Is Exciting Interest.

St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 11,—Dr. Felix Garcia is attending a most extraordinary patient. The man, whose name is Samuel Coulter, is slowly ossifying. Coulter is 48 years old and unmarried, and was born neur Stanta |^e, N. M. His father, he says, was a German miner and ranchman, and his mother was a half-breed Cherokee., He was letf an orphan at 14.

Four years ago .according to the story told Dr. Garcia, he went with a party of prospectors to Chihuahua. "During the time we were out," says Coulter, "our water supply ran out. I was almost dying with thirst when we suddenly came upon a spring. Everybody rushed for it, but our Mexican guide warned us not to touch the water. He said none of tbe Indians could be induced to drink from it, as everybody who did was turned to stone. My companions listened to the guide, but I only laughed and drank from the spring. About a year ago I became troubled with pains in my left arm. It would get stiff at the elbow and sometimes 1 couldn't move it. Tbe pains kept coming back and getting worse. I tried several doctors in New Orleans, but none of them could tell what ailed me."

Dr. Garcia does not take mucb stock in the story, but says Coulter is slowly turning to stone. The arteries are becoming hard like a rock, and also brittle. An unusual effort might break them, says the physician, and cause the patient's death. He says the case is a very curious one a,nd the' man's recovery is doubtful.

A LOUISVILLE. KY., MYSTERY.

A Prominent Young Society Womm tg Serious Condition. Louisville, Nov. 11.—Miss Mary G!!um, the beautiful daughter of Colonel ix D. Gil-, lum, a wealthy planter living near Sei.-ora, Ky., was the victim of a mys'.e.-ious assault last night, from the effects al wh .-n *be is in a serious condition. A prominent -eoeietv man is suspected of being her and is being shadowed by detectives. V-5

Miss Gillum had been visiting' her atjfit, Mrs. Sallie. Brown, in West Main sfreet^fbf two weeks. She lift for the depot yesterday afternoon to return to her home, but, inlying her ffaln/'^legraphed her father tlutitf "she would be home on a later train.

Nothing more was heard of her until last

night, when alio war seen to jump from a cab on Jefferson street and fall fainting to ithe ground. She partially recovered and screamed in her pain. Br. Hart eaya she •was drugged.

The police in their investigation discovered that Miss allium entered the coupe at the Union depot about dusk, and that It waa ^rapidly driven out the Third street Ifoulevard. A man was in the vehicle. Along -Third avenue several people heard scream* issuing from the vehicle and gave chase, hut the hackman whipped up his horses and escaped.

The vehicle was not seen again until Miss Giltum surprised Jefferson street pedestrians by leaping from it. The man left the carriage near Wenzel street, but he will probably be captured. The man who drove the carrUge deserted it and fled.

Dc, Hart announced that Miss Gillum i* in a very dangerous condition.

OUTPUT TO BE LIMITED.

Strawboard Combine Will Seek Foreign Markets—Closing Plants. SOT'

Ifidlanapolis, Nov. 11.—The meeting of the American Strawboard Manufacturers' Association resulted today in a plan for creating a market for the full output of the thir-ty-four mills in the association by extending the trade to .England and the European continent. C. W. Bell, of Cincinnati, export agent of the association, will sail for Landon in a few days to spend the wiuter and interest the English manufacturers in American strawboard.

A. shutdown was ordered for all the mills for one week from next Sunday. As th© production of the mills In the association, which is practically the production of the country, is JL,500,000 pounds daily and the consumption in this country Is only one-half that amound, a surplus has been created, which will be partially wiped out by one week's idleness. It was decided to run all the mills when any were running and when the overproduction assumes too large an amount, the shutdown will take place. It is thought possible another shutdown of one week will take place in a month or six weeks though it depends upon the market. After that time it is thought the English shipments will commence. Mr. Bell, in discussing the situation .said: "The present association is now but one month old, .having been organised in Chicago in October, and Includes practically all the strawboard manufacturers in the country. The price now prevailing is about $17.50 per ton, which is scarcely more than 50 per cent of what 16 has been in the past. This price will remain where it is and we shall In a short time be ready to give a guaranty to manufacturers that the price will not be raised over 2 at the outside end under all circumstances. ThU guaranty will be for two years. What wtf desire is not to milk the market but te in crease the market, and I am satisfied tb trade will 'be satisfied with the result. Wc want to run our mills at their full capacity all the time, and to do this we must increase the -market." 1*

». FORMAL PRESENTATION.

Much Ceremony Attends the Gift to tht President of a Rare Volume. 'J Washington, Nov. 11.—Secretary Sherman* (Minister Romero of Mexico «.nd Miniate* Merou of Argentine, members of the executive committee of the bureaa of America* republicans were at the White House today and presented the first volume of the commercial directory of the American Republic* to President McKinley. There was considerable formality about the matter, the pre* sentation being made in the blue parlor. Secretary Sherman presented the volume* saying the work was regarded as "of sucifi vast practical importance to the commerce of our'ccfafrtry as to be well worthy that w« should dome'in a body to present it to you."

President McKinley made a formal response,. hoping that the publication would lead to closer commercial relations between the republics of America.

The publication Is a commercial cyclopedia of the wesjtern hemisphere Intended to fur« nish information for the benefit of manufacturers, merchants and agriculturists.

NEW NATIONAL OPENING. "J

Sh&nhori'"& Weldele Opened Their Dosrs t® the Public La3t Night.

The .New National bar was opened last night. The new saloon has been doing business for a week or more, but the formal opening w,as„ reserved for last night. Tbe npijv ,saloon was brilliantly lighted and hundreds of the friends of the two popular young menuwho conduct it were present to gree{_ their friends. The New National Bar te located in- the room just south of the New N^iopai,, Hotel. In fact, it is a part of the hotel., The opening was made pleasant by reason of the.fact that tbe Ringgold orchestra was in attendance and seated in the lobby of the hotel .rendered sweet music throughout.jthe evening. Then there was a fine turkey lunch cooked by the caterer of the hotel. The place was thronged throughout the evening and the New National saloon is sure to be a popular place for the'drinking public, especially as long as it is conducted by Tom Shannon and "Heinie" Weldele.

TOUCHES UP ST. JOSEPH. SS1

Heavy. Galfe on'East Shore .of Lake Michigan Does Much Damage. Chicago, Nov. 11.—The gale on Lake Michigan today came from the right direction to make a boiling sea on the east side, while it left the western shore comparatively quiet.

The.sea at St. Joseph was said to be the heaviest seen there since the foundering of the Alpena in 1881. Houses and bathing pavilions were damaged to the extent of hundreds of dollars. The dock around the lifesaving station and also the one at the south pier was badly injured. The water in tha St. Joseph river was raised three feet above high water mark by the wind. The steamer Frank Woods, which was out in the gale, arrived at Milwaukee this afternoon after being out twenty-two hours. Nothing has been heard from the schooners Georgi Naughton and W. H. Dunham.

Opauloe «f PasIk Morse Sal* Cleveland, Nov. 11.—The fall horse sale at the Fasig stables in Glenville opened tbil afternoon. There was a fair attendance of out of town buyers. Thirty-three horsei were sold for a total of $9,005, or an average of $273 per head. The following brought $506 and over: Beautiful Bells, by Advertiser, $500 Coralite, by Altivo. $600 Conlan, by Dexter Prince* $800 Prince Idol, by Dextei. Prince, $725.

foatph (Ada* Kobbed lu blesgui Chicago, Nov. 11,—Joseph Ladue, wh« struck it rich in tbe Klondike, was rob*)td of $700 worth of nuggets in the depot of the Lake Shore railroad today. The goid was in a bag in his overcoat pocket, and the thief managed to secure it while Ladue was walking from his train to the depot door. There is a of pi —. i' "#(i

Speaker Heed Journeys Went war.I.

Montreal, Nov. Jl.—Speaker Thomas B. Reed left by the Pacific express yesierday in a private oar. «e will go through to :ba coast, and after seeing the situation of affairs in the West will return to Washington in time for the opening of congress.

ih Torklih Knbiiujr It !itniiiil*d. "-Vi Berlin, Nor. 11.—The condition of ht members of the Turkish embassy is deplorable. None of them has received his salary for over a year and their debts in this city aggregate 1,500,000 marks.

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