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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
THE VANDALIA EXTENSION.
Pushing the Work Vigorously-The l.,
q. & w. in Clear Sailing.
The General Passenger Agents Worrying
the Scalpers-The Roads which Pro-
pose to Restore Rates,
READY TO BOND THE ROAD.

A Light Bonded Debt to Be Placed on the
Northern Division of the Vandalia.
The McKeen syndicate are pushing the north
ern extension of the Vandalia on to South Bend.
Some thirty miles of the extension is nearly
completed, and the syndicate has advanced
every dollar to build 1t, but they have now ready
to place on the market bonds amounting to 81 :
900, 900 secured on the extension and the Terre
Haute q Logansport division of the Vandalia,
upon which there is at the present time no
bonded or floating debt. This will make the
bonded debt from Terre Hsute to LogHnspor5
and from Logansport to South Bend less than
$4,000 per mile of the bonds which the syndi-
cate issue. WIN. r. McKeeD, president, takes
100000. The Terre Hante & Indianapolis Rail
road Company, in which Mr.. MeKeeni ia the largest
stOckholder, takes 100000, leaving practically
but $500, 600 to go on the marker, and 1t Is sta
ted o very handsome hid has been made for that.
the 7. II. &c L. division Is now in excellent CON
dition and finely equipped, and in the construc-
ton OF the extension no pains is spared to mako
IL a first class road in every respect.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

A Reorganization of the Official Roster of
the t., C. g. St La Road.
L. ". MoKenna, superintendent of the ]. NJ. &
l., has gone to Chicago.
NJ. O. Roach, Northern passenger agent of the
Michigan Central railroad, is In the city on
official business.
j. ]. Turner, superintendent of the Indianapo-
lis & Vincennes road, left for Chicago last even
ing to take in the exposition.
Gaylord Beach, of Cleveland. chief engineer of
the Bee Line system, Is spending a couple of
days at this point strengthening out matters.
George T. Sullivan, who was appointed agent
OF tho Empire Line. after serving one day, re-
signed, and has returned to Indianapolis, his old
freight hunting grounds.
D. W. c. Rowland. master of transportation OF
the Louisville & Nashville road, was In the city
last evening en- route for Chicago. He reports
business on the L. & N. system good for this sea-
son OF the year and the prospects good for a
heavy fall traffic,
F. L. Parker, who for about a year has heen
general freight ana passenger agent of the Mex
lean Central Railway Company at PasO del
N0rte, has been ordered to the City of Mexico to
take charge of the same departments on that end
of the road. Mr.. Parker Is a competent and
faithful official. He was formerly connected
with the Central Vermont, Fttchburg, and Atchi-
son. Topeka Il Santa Fe railway companies.
The directors of the Toledo, Cincinnati & st.
Louis ruad have again revised their official rOs-
ter, and announce as their auditor c. s. Anthony:
general freight and passenger agent, George A.
Sanderson;c chief engineer, II. A. Phillips; super
inteudent of machinery, Lewis James; superin-
tendeDt DelphOs d Cincinnati division, with Of
fee at Cincinnati, d. T. Bacon; Albert w. Saltefs.
superintendent of the DelphOe & Southwestern
division. The appointment of John H.. Cook as
general Western agent at ST. Louis has been re-
Vnkad.
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IN GOOD SHAPE FOR BUSINESS.

The l., b. q W. Has It's Eastern Outlet via
the Lake Route In Working Order.
General Manager Henderson,, of the Indiana.
Bloomington & Western road, VINO has been
spending two or three days at sandusky. cast
srn terminus of the road, returned yesterday,
accompanied by ]. D. Campbell, general
solicitor of the company. Both officials ex press
themselves as highly pleased with the situation.
On Tuesday ana Wednesday three sehooners
were loaded with grain for Buffalo, they c-rry-
ing 1000 bushels. and four more vessels were
due at 5sndusky, yesterday, loaded witt authra-
cite coal, which will at once be reloaded with
grain for Buffalo. The company has
now got It's lake-craft limo fairly
established. and can, il 1t chooses, reach
a connection or the seaboard over the Del
aware. & Western road without
carrying business over either OF the roads in the
pool. However, they ana Eastern roads which
are in the pool are again working together har-
monIously, but the business which Is carried by
the water route can, o. course, he carried at a
lower rate. Consequently the water route from
Saudusky Is preferable TO q certain extent. The
tonnage now being carried over the middle dt-
vision reaches fully the expectations OF the man-
agemeut IN amount.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
THE sCALPERs' TROUBLES.

The General Passenger Agents Fast Crowd
ing Them to the Wall.
Meeting an indianapolis ticket-soalper whose
face was long and countenance Respondent, the
railroad reporter of the Journal asked him what
was up. He answered, with a big oath, that the
bottom had dropped OuJ of their business. A
majority of the railroads looked upon them as
grand rascsls, while they were doing more to
protect their interests than paid detectives by
exposing tricks of passenger conductors and
agents, but as matters now stood there was little
money in the business for scalpers, or. as he
wished to be called, ticket-brokers. They couid
get plenty of tickets to sell by some roundabout
direct lines the general passenger agents
had got matters down so fine
that only occasionally could they get
hold Of tickets on which they could make any
money. Before they got this limited ticket bust
ness so near perfect he mad often made 800 to
$3.50 per week in s~calping. Another trouble
they had to contend with was that conductors
were watched more closely, and when seen with
one of them II conductor was usually spotted as
being on the make. Then tine arbitrary rules as
regards paying commissions, which was IN
augurated by the trunk lines, is reaching west
ward ana promises 70 severely enect thelr Dusl-
ness, and about all that was left TO them now
was their petty margin scalping business. He then
commenced berating the passeug ger men of the st.
Louis roads. Taking a st. Louis Republican out
of his pocket, he said: "See what the id fools
did over there the other day" The st. Louis Re-
publican SAYS: '"Fhe latest blow at the scalpers'
income was made Yesterday by a meeting held
at the office of Fl. C. Townsend. g. P. A. OF the
Gould system. There we're nresent the follow
inRt II. G. Townsend, L. M. Dickey. @. z. A. of
the Diamond 10 (-teambOal Lines r. A. Snow
don, OF the st. Louis q St Paul Packet Company;
J. H. Beat, of the KeOkuk & St. Lnuis railroad;
W. ID. Sanborn, general agent of the c., b. & Q;
j. NJ. Chesbrough, assistant general passenger
Egsnt of the Vandalia, and s. II. Knight, general
agent of the &. d A. After = brief discussion IL
was unanimously agreed that the policy OF pay
isR commissions for northern business should be
discontinued. No further business was trans
acted, but that one resolution means a loss of
thousands of dollars to the brokers duriag the
present excursion SEASON."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
Local Notes.

The Indianapolis g. Vinoennes track. between
Switz City and Vincennes, is being heavily gray
oled, and o large number Of new c~ross-ties are
being put In.
Master Mechanic Ransom, of the Indianapolis
& st. Louis road, ia testing another spark
a~rrester. the invention OF a mechanic in the
MattOOn shops.
The earnings of tine Wabash, St. Louis & Pa
ciic the second week in June were $274, 1874. 6l,
an increase over the corresponding week in
1882, of SI0,794.74.
The ~car-trnst obligations of the Wabash, St.
Louis & Pacific have been extended three years,
thus relieving the company from obligations
that would have been onerous.
|. The break In the provision market is creating
a free movement OF provisions eastward, the
tonnage for three days past being iu excess of
that at any time for some months.
The business mems excursion from points on
the Chicago & indianapolis Airline, on Saturday
next, bids fair to be a big success. Indications
are that there will be fifteen TO twenty carloads
of people.
The Pennsylvania Company is giving the In
dlanap0lts IL Vlcennes division more attention.
Thirty-hve miles of steel rails have been or
dered for this division, to be delivered within
the next few weeks.
The Chicago, Sc. Louis & Pittsburg and Penn
sylvania roads. on Sunday next, again shorten
the time OF their live stock trains between Indi-
annapolis and Jersey City. Indications now are
that the time is not far distant when live stock
trains Will be run on as fast time as passen ger
trains.
ia. Lewis, Western manager of the Erie fast
freight lines, who returned from Chicago yester-
day, Is much gratitied over the business the Chi.
oago e. Atlantic road is doing out of Chicago, this
road on Wednesday hauling slxty-tive through
oars from that point laden with grain and pro-
visions.
The IBternational TRAVELLING Passenger Agents
Associ 4tIon holds its annual meeting in Detroit.
on August 10. Secretary Ttnney has received
letters from passenger agents OF nearly all the
more important lines Offering FREQ Transports
ton for delegates, but two of those asked de
olfning so to dO-the Bee Line and Lake Shore.
Tho New York Central and Michigan Central
have acted very hOnOrably In the matter.
The Chicago. Sc. Louis & Pittsburg Company is
putting In the interlOcking switch system at
M Micnnho and ,Sa me ~; 1si H. ~ H. Sne Llttls
tracks intersect each other. The C., st. l.. & P.
has also commenced doubling it's tracks betw cen
Richmond and New Paris. This company now
has one of the besU single tracks in the West.
and the n6xt move Is to double It as fast as prac-
tIoabto.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
GENERAL NEWS.


A Newspaper Man Proposes to Knock Pools
into "Smithereens."
The railroad man Of tho Lafayette Courier
still shows a determination to bust the east
bound pool at Lafayette if he has to use an In
dianapOlis road to do 1t. The Courier says;
Our people have been watching with interest
the result of the l., B. & W. contest, and If 1t be
made clear that this great thorOughfsre has the
capacity and fidelity to successfully resist the
insolent dictation of the pool, the way out is
open. Lafayette will build a branch line south
east to intersect the l.. B. & W.-or, building fur
Their south, find refuge with Riley MeKeen, of
Terre Haute, who has also, as we understand,
thrown down the glove to the pool. The narrow
gauge and the tOw-path lines are both vital pro-
jects in the same direction, while behind all
these, and best of all, stands the Improvement
OF the Wabash river, now 10 progress" IL adds:
1.-THE Courier some months since, IN an interview
with Major Smith, gave some remarkable facts
and figures on the increased tonnage, transpOr-
tation and reduced freights resulting from the
work already accomplished. This Infamous pool
will have demonstrated the good in things
evil " 10 shall eventuate in opening the eyes OF
the people TO the danger which menaces their
best interests from grasptng and blOod-suckiug
monopolies in lawtess combination Co defeat che
healthfnl and restraining Influences which come
of fair competition"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

Instruments filed for record IN the Recorders
office Of Marion County, Indiana, for "a hours
ending at 5 O'CLOCK p, NJ, June 81, 1888, as fur
nished by ELLIOTT & BUrLER. a0stracters of
titles. room No. 5. lEtns Building;
Thomas f.. spafford to Sarah A. Can
field, lot Id in SeideuetIeker ct ais
subdivision of a part Of block 10 in
annapolis. $4,000
Adolph seideneticker and wife 20
Sarah A. Canfield, lot ID in 5eideu.
sticker ct all subdivision Of q part
of block 10 in Holmes west-end ad-
dltion, to indianapolis ........-. 150. 90
Henry Koenig and wife to Henry
Frommeyer and wife, part of lot 1
in square &c, in indianapolis. ....... 1880. 90
Nicholas McCartv ct al. to Anna
Hamilton, lot 102 in McCarty's sub
division of the east part of Outl0t
100, In Indianapolis .....--.-... LOO
John l.. Retcham and wife to Afnan-
da Shafer, lot Il in Ketenam
Frank A. Fletcher 10 olive Fletcher,
part of the west half of the south
west quarter of section %, town
ship III, north of rang d east; also.
lot 80 in T.. r. Ftetcher's South
Brookside suburb 10 Indianapolis;
also part of lots 81 and GO ID r. r.
Fletcher's first addition to Bright
wood Observation-Disclosures. 100000
to Timothy X. Fletcher, part of the
west half of section g, township Is,
range A east. containing 8 acres -, 3,26e.O 90
The Thames Loan and Trust Com
pany to Joseph T.. Boswell, lots 10,
20 aud 21 in Bruce Place addition
Co Indianapolis .....-........... 1000 90
The Thames Loan and Trust Com.
pany to Martha p. Lemon, lots %,
90 and "a In Bruce Place addition
to indianapolis. ............ 100000
Jesse Il. johnson and wife to Mary g.
Danley. lots %, %. "a and % In s.
A. Fletcher jr.'s subdivision of the
north side OF the southwest quarter.
of section 81, township l6, range
east 5,5OO.0 10
Mary r. Danley 70 George A. DanleV,
lot % in 8. A. Fletcher, jr.'s subdi-
vision of the north side Of the soutlr-
west quarter of section 81, town
ship 16, range 4 east...-.....-....... 1000. 90
Conveyances, IL; consideration -. $3S,43S 90
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

Most of the yardmasters who went last week
to Denver to attend the annual meeting of the
Ysrdmasters' Mutual Benefit Association have
returned, and report having had a grand time.
1t has always been the custom Of this associa-
ton to have an excursion after their session is
over, and this time they took u trip over the
narrow-gauge Denver & Rio Grange road, and
were delighted. Mountain railroading was
semething new to the boys, and they enjoyed it
hugely. They had always looked upon a mar
rOw-gauge railway as a sort of pIaything, but
this excursion to Leadville has taught them
many new things heretofore unknown to them
In the way of railroading. The steep grades and
the very fast running made on level stretches of
track were constant sources of stonishmens
The engineers of the trains had their engines
decorated in honor Of the occasion, and to show
their appreciation of the man at 'the throttle
q hat was passed, which was divided between
the two engineers who drew the train and their
dremen,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
OPPOSED TO MORE ENGINES.
An Insurance Man Who Wants Less Pre-
lection and More Fires.

An insurance man anbosomed himself yester-
day to n Journal reporter. insurance men,"
said he, "don't want any chemical engines here,
and the City Council will find that we will not
contribute anything to the purchase of one. Ad-
ditiOnal fire protection will do the insurance
companies harm, instead of good. We don't
want any more or any better protection than we
now have. What the insurance companies want
is a big fre-R hundred-th0usand-dollar one, at
least. a great many business men and owners
of small properties now carry a large amount of
insurance hemselves-tha is, don't take out as
much insurance as they once did. The losses by
fire in Indianapolis last year were only q little
more than $780, O This year the total losses,
at the present average, will not be much more
than 100000. The companies got about $685.
600 In premiums ont of the city last year; this
year they will get $500 900"
"Why have rates been increased herei" the re-
porter ventured to inquire.
because the losses elsewhere have been in
creased. For mat reason the rate here has been
raised nearly twenty-five per cent. The rate
camille hazards, which had got too low. We
have now gone back to the rate of five years
ago"
$50 there's not az much insurance carried here
as there ought to bel"
"NO, not near enough, Lots of Insurance has
been dropped. There's not, SO far rs risk is con
eerned, as good a city In the United States for
insurance companies as this. We not only have
wide streets and alleys, but a hrst-olass fire de-
partment and a first-elass man at the head OF it.
We don't want any chemical engines. Any more
fire protection would hurt us. More people
would drop their insurance policies and take
their chances. We want II fire. A good fire
would increase our premiums over $l5 900 in a
month";"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
The Roads That Are Pledged.

The following roads have signed the agree
ment to restore and maintain passenger rates
after July l, 1888: The Baltimore & Ohio, the
Chicago, st. Louis & Pittsburg, the indianapolis
Il st. Louis, the JeffersonviIle, Madison & Indl-
annapolis, the Grand Rapids & Indiana, tire Bee
Line, the Lake Shore, the Louisville & Nashville,
the Michigan Central. the New York. Psunsyl.
vania d Ohio the Vsadalia, the Terrs Hante &
Indianapolis, the Ohio & Mississippi, The Pitts
burg. Fort Wayne & Chicago, the Wabash, ST,
Louis u Pacific. aud che CINCINNATI Washington
" Baltimore; and the managunents OF ssveFaf
pthcr roads have given Commissioners Plorson to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

Room No Hon. Napoleon b. Taylor. Judgs.
Sarah May va. James II. Rice: mandamus pro
ceedings. Demurrer to defendants return over
ruled and Judgment gwen against plaintif
for costs, and an appeal taken to general term.
Alexander StOOps va James A, Parker; suit OF
account. On trial by court.
Room No. 2-Hon. Daniel w. Howe. Judge.
There has been judgment taken IN room No. :
tits week, by agreement, against J. ". Hess q
al. to the amount of $lO.51O16.
John b. Wilson VS.. Samuel Hauway ct al. Or
trial by jury.
Room No. S-Hon. Lewis G. Walker. Judge.
Amanda Heuherlngton VS.. Isaac HetherlnRton
suit for divorce. A decree granted on tbi
grounds of adultery; also 500.
jeremiah Caveuaugh VS.. Emeline CavenauEh
suit for divorce. A decree granted ON Tit
grounds OF abandonment.
Adam Scott, administrator, VS.. Timothy
GreenrOd; foreclosure. On trial by the court.
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Performing satisfactorily.

The electric railway at Chicago is proving
much more of a success than was really ex-
peoted. For nearly two weeks of the time which
the exposition has been open the electrician in
charge failed to get the electric engine to work
satisfactorily, but for a couple of weeks IL has
been performing finely, and 1t has been fully DEM
versed and slowed at vii. with electricity as the
motor, and, though the curves in the hall are
very sharp, a speed of eighteen miles an hour is
averaged. The only difference apparent in the
track from an ordinary railway is a fiat rail in
the center, through which the electricity is
transmitted from a dynamo, driven by a steam
engine, TO the motor of the train.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
Taxing EXPRESS COMPANIES.

The State Board of Equalization was in session
late yesterday afternoon, hearing the argument
OF General Harrison on the question OF taxing
express companies carrying goods for freight
corporations, It was argued that the earnings
OF the express companies in transporting goods
for the freight companies aro not subject to
taxation because the service Is rendered asian
empIoye OF q corporation. The decision Of the
board upon the question will not be made until
after an opinion has been Obtained from the at.
f0rnAY.ehneraI.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
Mexican National Troubles.

MEXICO, June 2I.-The general manager of
the National railroad states that the company
has not forfeited the works bet tween Morlia and
PatzouarO. Although the concession from the
State was forfeited, the federal concession au-
thorizes those works. He anticipates difficulty
from the government TO his laying rails over
the disputed section. Those Interested in the
recent CONCESSIONS Rrau ted by the State of
Michoacan claim that the National company can
not build to Pstzouaro under its federal con-
oessiOn. The excitement in M0rilia and Patz-
caarO over the railroad question: continues.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
A NOTED BUT UNTITLED wOaIAN

MessTo' Eo'tors&
The above is good likeness OF Mrs. Lydia T. PINK
man, OF Lynn Mass VINO above aliother hnmAn beings
may DO truthfuhy canedthe Dear Friend OF woman
as some OF ner correspondents love TO eau her. she
sSealousp ueYo'eu 70 her WORK which Is the outcome
OF a hIeStudy' ana Is Obliged to Keep six Indy
assistants TO heip her answerthe largo correspondence
when daily pours In upon her' each bearing It's special
burden OF suffering, or JOY at release from IT. Her
vegetable compound Is a medicine Tor good and NOS
EVIL purposes nave personally investigated IL ena
am sadisned OIL tne truth Oh this.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
Fast Trains ON the Grand Trunk.

MONTREAL, June 21.-The Grand Trunk rail
way will commence, on Monday next, to run
fast trains. The run between Montreal and To-
r0nto will be made in ten hours; between Chica-
go and Boston in forty hours. The company
will run night trains between Montreal and To-
rOnto both ways on Sunday nights.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

M wife had fits for 80 years." says Henry
Clark. of Fairfield. Mich. ''5amaritan Neryine
cured her. Your druggist keeps it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

DR.. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription"
always becomes a favorite remedy of those wht
try 1t. II is a specific for all female weakness
and arrangements, bringing strength to Nh,
limbs and back, and color to the face. OF al
drnrolRfR.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

understand that they will become parties to the
agreement before the time set for 1t 10 take
effect,
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1o,359. Wilson II. Cleveland vs.. Joseph Oben-
chain. Whitley c. G.
Bicknell, Con an appeal from a survey.
made by a county surveyor. the circuit court
has only power to order a resurvey, and appoint
some one to make 1t, but cannot direct its an
pointee to make a certain road the dividing line
between the parties. Sec. $3.50 Il. 81 Judg-
ment reversed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
PLEAD1NG-rART1AL ANSWER:

1O.I4l. Franklin Life insurance Company va.
James NJ. Dehority. Madison c. c..
Franklin, C.-suit by appellee to have GER
tain records, destroyed by fire. restored,
aud to quiet his title to 24O acres OF
land. The answer of appellant processes to be
to the whole complaint, but only claims a lien
upon the inchoate interest of the wife in forty
acres of the land. and Is therefore insufficient
tS5 Ind, 57l) udsment affirmed.
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Miles Flora vs.. Henry Cline. Carroll C. c
Affirmed. Morris. g.
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ERRONEOUS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The following oases were also decided:
Asa Johnson VS.. Samuel Mccullough. whitley
C. G. Affirmed. Franklin. @.
Caty of Lafayette vs.. Dundy James Tfppeca-
noe {. C. Reversed. Black, G.,