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well as the statement that Commissioner
Fink had been notified that the
broken down r., G.. & ST L. narrow gauge was
cutting rates and the other lines were obliged to
do 50 for seIf-protection. OF course the excuse
for cutting rates is a mere blind. Until yester
day it was thought that the Vanderbilt lines, as
soon as they got their in transit" property
moved, would restore rates, but instead their
business has increased daily, and on Monday the
fast-freight lines, operating over the Wabash
took hand, and yesterday the Erie lines be
came tired of being lookers-on and began
to make contracts, 1t is stated, not only at
st. Louis, but at Peoria, Terre Haute, and In
dianapolis are rates cut and reports from Chi
cago show rates at that point to be demoralized.
At st. Louis twenty cents per 100 pound rate is
said to have been given; at Peoria twenty five
cents per 100 pound rate to New England points;
at Terre Haute rates were cut five cents; at In
dianapolis three cents per 100 pounds. The only
remedy left for the trunk line commission is
seemingly to drop east bound rates at all west
ern points to the lowest rate offered in the last
week, and hold them there until the lines which
inaugurated the rate war cry enough in earnest.
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superise Court.

Room No. 1.-Eoh. N. B. TAYLOR. Judge,
Minnie A. Woodland vs. Mason J. Osgood ct
at; suit to quiet title. Finding and decree for
plaintiff
Edward Griffith vs. Edward T. johnson ct al
suit to set aside a conveyance Trial by court
and finding and decree for plaintiff.
Sarah c. Van Vorhis VS.. John NJ. CASTOR ct
al; suit on notes. On trial by court
Room No. 2-Hou. D. W. Howe Judge.
Robert Roe VS.. Anton Inner; suit for rent and
possession. Jury returns verdict for defendant.
Ewald Over ct al. VS.. Alfred B. Gates ct al.
suit for damages. Cause dismissed. Judgment
against plaintiff for COSTS
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
VS.. George Love- Judgment against defendant
for costs.
Elizabeth A. Spicer ct al VS.. Byron G. Mar
ney. Plaintiff defaulted for failure to discharge
rule.
Mary Foley vs. Francis Wright ct al; suit for
damages by reason of misunderstanding in
sale of real estate. On trial by jury.
Room No. 3-Hon. Lewis Q. Walker, Judge.
Marcus L. Hare vs. John Garley; suit on ac-
count. Jury found Judgment for 81 for plant
if.
Jesse Pugh VS.. l., d. & S. Company; suit on
condemnation of right of way. Finding for
plaintiff
John R. Needham ct al. VS.. Henry Frankeberg;
suit on repevin. Judgment for $94
Cortland Van Camp VS.. Frank Martin ct al;
suit to quiet title. Finding for plaintiff.
John T. Duncan ct al vs. James S. Russell;
suit on injunction bond. On trial by jury.
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AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

The Guillotine Put in Operation on the L.,
N. A. & c. Road.
Division superintendent Marshall and Sala,
of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road,
are in the city.
Superintendent Evan, of the Decline, and
Burrows, of the l. s. st. L., are in Cleveland for
q conference with General Manager Thomas.
The Offices of the Erie & North Shore line and
the Commercial Express at Detroit, Mich, have
been consolidated, and Edward Wiles appointed
the agent
G. Clinton Gardner, general manager of the
Mexican National railroad, has rendered his
resignation to except the presidency of the Buff
falo, Philadelphia & New York road.
General Wilson declines the receivership of
the North River Construction Company, and
will probably be elected president of the New
York, Buffalo & West Shore road at their com
ing annual meeting.
The large circle of friends of H. B. Hammond
president of the l., D. & S. Railway Company,
win be pleased to learn that his health has
much improved. He writes a friend in this city
that for some weeks past he has been fighting
aches and pains and at last has the better Of
them.
George Sealey president of the Gulf, Colora-
10 & Santa Fe road retires from that position
on March l. and John Sealey. now general
udidSeI vi ule IOdus SuCC0cNo ilfiA- NCpSuol
Snyder, now acting manager of the Louisville,
Evansville & St Louis Airline, succeeds the
last named as general manager.
The following circular is issued from the gem
sral Offices Of the Louisville, New Albany & Chi
sago road:
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 23.--Mr. D. F. Jen-
nings having resigned, the office of assistant
general freight agent at Chicago is abolished.
Mr. A. B. Southland win, in connection with his
Dther duties, assume the title of general freight
agent and the duties thereof. with Office at
louisville, KY, from and after Jan. "a.
BENNETT II. You've, President"
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GENERAL NEWS.
Capitalists Not Inclined to Put More None!
Into ParalleIing Old Roads.

Capitalists Not Inclined to Put More Money
Into ParalleIing Old Roads.
From the present crippled condition of the
New York, Buffalo & West Shore, capitalists and
wild railroad-building schemers are drawing a
lesson not merely that it does not pay to build
an unnecessary road, but it also teaches the
value of an established enterprise. Entirely too
common has it become to speak of the net cost of
railroad as its real value all beyond that being
water. The fact is that a railroad gradually ac-
quires property, which increases in value by its
own Development and an attempt to duplicate
an existing line for less money than its aggre-
gate securities, is almost to be failure
The New York Central is they say, heavily
''watered" but, matter of fact, that road
could not be duplicated for many years at any
cost Its terminal and way facilities have largely
increased in value because of its own business
Take any successful railroad, the Cincinnati, In
dianapohs St Louis q Chicago, or the Jefferson
Vile Madison & indianapolis. These roads
could not be duplicated for years. The West
Shore railroad-a double track road alongside a
four track road-was not needed. But the road
was built, and very well built There seems to
be no question about that. Yet it is swamped
with debt before fairly opened for business.
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NIiseeilaneous Notes.

1t is officially announced that heneeforth earn
ings of the Missouri Pacific and Southwestern
system of roads will be published monthly
Both the passenger and freight traffic of the
New York, Buffalo & West Shore road are said
to be exceeding the highest expectations of the
management, and are increasing daily.
The proposition to establish railroad com
mission in Mississippi has received a set back
Governor Lowry, in his message to the Legisla-
ture, took a conservative position on the subject
The Northern Pacific people are endeavoring
to obtain the passage Of a law permitting the
construction of a branch road through the Ma
tional Park, to Nford an outlet for the rich mines
of that region.
For the first week of January the Peoria, De-
catur 6 Evansville earned $40, 500, an increase of
So, 499, and the Lake Erie G. Western 49, 038 a
decrease of $ll, 5l2 as compared with the earn
ings OF the corresponding week of 1883.
The total railroad mileage in the State of Colo
RADIO is 2, 954 miles. Union Pacific has $50 miles,
and Denver & Rio Grande 3l7 miles. Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe 2S2 miles, Burlington & Mis-
souri, 1872 miles, and Denver &c New Orleans 157
miles,
The projectors of the Wichita, Mcpherson &
Denver Railroad Company are now engaged in
running a preliminary survey from Wichita
northwesterly along the Arkansas river to Mount
Hope, in western Sedgwick county.
The project to build the Logansport G Wheel
ing road is making slor-. progress The Wabash
Courier says: Just sIfnat demand exists for
the construction of the L. & w. railway, unless
it be for the purpose of unloading the old canal
towpath at "a handsome figure, does not appear. I"
The Union Pacific will open for freight to Port
land as soon as its Oregon Shortline reaches
Huntington, Ore The contract between the
Union Pacific and the Oregon Railway and Navi-
CATION Company provided that the respective
roads should build to a connection at Hunting
ton.
Stock of the Connotton Valley road is selling
at one cent on the dollar. The large sales of the
stock at nominal price show that the personal
liability question influences some people very
much and the fear that if there is a receivership
the stock may be wiped out influences others to
get rid of it as fast as possible.
Fort Worth, Tex, is rapidly becoming rail
road center. Railroads go out in six different
directions: The Texas q Pacific east; the Mis-
souri, Pacific south and southwest for points in
Pexas and Mexico; the Transcohtinental and
connections northeast to st. Louis; the Fort
Worth & Denver completed to Wichita Falls,
10 miles northwest; and is being pushed to
Denver, the objective point the Gulf Colorado
8 Santa Fe south and southeast to Galveston
which will be built north from Fort Worth
through Indian Territory to Kansas City. Two
other roads are projected, and will soon be
built OnesYill run north and the other south
vest.
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TIE L. d. 8 S. ROAD.
A Meeting of the BondhOIders Called t.
Consider Its Financial Condition.

A Meeting of the BondhOIders Called to
Consider Its Financial Condition.
At the request of some of the second mortgag
bondholders of the indianapolis, Decatur &
Springfield road, the trustees of the company
have called a meeting of both first and second
mortgage bondholders in New York, on the 2Sth
of this month. This is one of the cases where
the tail tries to wag the dog There are six second
mortgage bondholders, representing only $500,
600 of the bonds out of So 700 600 of both classes
and the minor element is trying to make it APP
pear that the road is in the hands of thieves and
their rights will not be recognized, and
they will, it is stated, go to an extreme,
even to throwing the property into the hands
of a receiver, if there is any legal way in which
such action can be brought about The fact is
that the floating debt is being rapidly paid off
most creditors accepting fifty cents on The dol
lar, and the bondholdArs, through the present
lease Of the road to the Indiana, Bloomington &
Western Railroad Company, are realizing more
money than they could were the l., ID. & s.
operated Independently; and one who under
stands the situation says the more racket these
dissatisfied bondholders make, the worse will
they fare in the end.
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The F. w. & 4. Fl. Companx Dissolved.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HUNTINGTON Jan. 23-The Circuit Court
here has dissolved the organization known as
the Fort Wayne & Terre Haute Railroad Com
pany. This organization was formed several
years ago to build a road between the two cities
named, and it was successfully built ON paper
Large amounts in the way of subscriptions, do
nations, and grants were received, for which no
service has ever been rendered This action
was commenced in 1881 as a quo warranto pro-
ceeding but did not reach an end until this
week. The action was based on the claim that
the company was not properly organized under
the laws of the State.
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PARTIAL treatment of Rheumatism or Neu-
ralgia, as with lotions and ointments is like
scotching snake when it ought to be killed. 1t
and perhaps more inconvenient day Athlo-
phoros does not parley with these diseases but
gets right beneath and behind them and roots
them out of the system. 1t is the uncompro
missing cure. Says S. H. Stevins, Natick, Mass.
Mother has been a sufferer from Rheumatism
for five years. In ten days after taking Athlo-
phoros her pains were entirely removed
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The Probable Outcome.

A railroad man whose predictions are apt to
prove correct, remarked yesterday: Don't
you be surprised IT, at the annual meeting in
February of the stockholders of the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago road, Colonel Bennett
H. Young is reelected president of the com
pany by handsome majority of the stock" He
added: Roosevelt does not want the pPesi-
dency. His election was for convenience sake
to enable the directors to carry out scheme
which could not as well have been accomplished
with Colonel Young as president
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There is only Swifts Specific, and there is moth
ing in the world like it, To prevent disaster and dis.
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In 1880 came from the North TO take charge of
the gas works in Rome as superintendent, and after
the overflow which occurred in the spring following
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1882 found my blood so contaminated with the poison
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THE RATE WAR.


The Erie Lines Finally Drawn Into the Fight
Tho war on east-bound rates seems to have
been 'naugurated at St. Louis, Peoria, Terrc
Hsut. and indianapolis kilograms from St
Louis show that the statement on Monday last
to the effect that the Vanderbilt lines were cut
ting rates, and that other lines were prepaFin;
10 take Il hand in the fight proves correct, as
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THE RECORD OF THE COURTS
Supreme Court-Jan. 20.

Hon. Geo V. H0wk, Chief Justice.
TELEGRAPH coMPANIEs--LIMITING CONTRACTS
1924. Western Union Telegraph Company vs.
Lucy X. Jones. TippeeanOe S. G.
Elliott, IA telegraph company cannot, by
contract, evade the penalty prescribed by statute
for breach of duty imposed by law. t35 Ind.
429; 40 i'd, SO; 81 id, sos But il may require
claims based upon failure to perform its duty
to be brought TO its notice within a reasonable
time (62 Pa. St, SO; 65 N. Y, I03; q Wall,
264 "A Ala, 101; 50 Ind, 429; 10 Mich, 525; As
N. Y, 1927 And stipulation, written in the
contract of the parties, requiring all claims to
be presented within sixty days is, on its face, a
reasonable and valid one But the limitation
would not begin to run until the sender of the
pany or by the exercise of ordinary diligence
could have had notice. Judgment reversed.
BILL OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF COUNSEL
1OS6S. l., B. g. w. Railway Company vs.
James r. Keeney. Marion C. c.
Hammond jim this case counsel for plain
tiff and for defendant entered into the following
agreements ut is hereby agreed and stipulated
that the bill of exceptions fled in the case of
James r. Hale VS.. l., b. & w. Railway Com
pany consolidated on trial with the above en-
titled cause, shall be considered and treated as
also filed herein. This agreement authorized the
clerk III making the transcript to insert and GER
tify, as a part of the record, the bill of excep-
tons referred to, but it does not authorize us to
hunt through the record referred to for the pur-
pose of finding errors in the case at bar. Judg
ment affirmed. Hale VS.. L., B. & w Railway
Company, No 10S67, was decided to-day. See
bel0yy-ERarf I
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I have had remarkable success with Swifts Specific
in the treatment of Blood and Skin Diseases and il
Female Diseases took it myself for Carbnneles witt
happy effect. D. o. G. HEERY, d. D.,
Atlanta Ga
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Marion Criminal Court.

Hon. Pierce Norton. JUICE. p
State VS.. Timothy Murphy; provoke case, on
appeal Jury out
State vs.. Daniel Lee; surety of the peace. On
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I used Swifts Specific on my little daughter, who
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sisted all sorts of treatment The Specific relieved
her permanently, and l shall use it in my practice
w. E. BRONTE, NJ. D., Cypress Ridge Ark
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Swift's Specific is complete antidote to Blood
Tant Blood Poison, Maarial Poison and Skin HUI
J. DICKSON SMITH NJ D.,
Atlanta Ga
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To this It may be proper to add 10 miles Of
road in the Vandalia system, as the Pennsyl
vania people, although not owners directly,
are more or less Interested and make it their
St Louis, Evansville, and Peoria route, and
their Southwestern business, as well. is carried
over the Vandalia This included makes the
largest mileage of any system in the Middle
States, covering 3, 500 miles of main track.
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Ev1DENcE-oPINIoN OF WITNESS.

1OS67 L, B. g. W. Railway Company VS..
James r. Hale. Marion c. c.
Hammond, 1.-THE opinion of witness is
not admissible in evidence where the facts upon
which it is based can. be stated to and intelli-
gently comprehended by the court or jury, or
where, from such facts, men in general are capa-
bic of drawing reasonably correct conclusions.
It requires no special knowledge to know
whether given point on railroad should be
edge of the facts upon this point, can draw cor
rect conclusions; and witnesses acquainted with
the facts can present them in evidence. The
opinion of a witness in such case is improper.
(25 Ind, 28S; % i'd, 43; II i'd, Co., 1t is true the
witnesses testified as to the facts, but as their
opinions were enormously received, and may, to
SOME extent have influenced the finding of the
court we are unable to say that the error was
harmless. Judgment reversed.
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PROFESSOR CROMWELL, tho art eonnofsedr.
was cured by st. Jacobs Oil, of rheumatism.
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ESTATE BY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

111sl. Henry G. Dodge VS.. Jno. S. Kinzy.
Elkhart C. O.
Howk, G. J.-Appel1ees being owners of real
estate decided to them jointly as husband and
mlIe, t me husband borrowed me money Tor winch he
mortgage the land to secure it. Held, the
mortgage was void as to the wife, because it was
contract of suretyship for her husband. (See
5ii9' 4. ). Being void as to the wife , it was
estate in the land which he could convey or
ineumber by his individual act. t6S Ind, 245; IS
d. 526) Judgment affirmed
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Extent of the Pehnsslvania system.

The Pennsylvania Company, which controls
all roads in the Pennsylvania interest west of
Pittsburg, covers ITO miles of main line, as fol
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eleven members of the Legislature who voted
for Ward and five who voted for Pendleton,
who will bolt Mr.. Paynes nomination if the
Republicans will unite with them in electing
General Durbin Ward. By all means this
should be DONE if possible Of course, from
the purely partisan point of view, the best
thing for the Republican party would be to
have the Democrats complete their infamy;
but they have shown their spirit sufficiently to
disgust and alarm the country, while it would
be an immense gain to the nation, to purity
of politics and to public honor, if a combina-
ton could be made that would overthrow the
disreputable schemers who have masked them
selves behind the respectable face and private
character of Henry B. Payne. Durbin Ward
is man who would honor the Senate, and be
a standingrebuke to corruption could he be
elected as protest.
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CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

Tracing our great prosperity directly and largely To
protection to home industry the result having been
predicted by the authors Of the tariff laws, and that
prosperity having been acknowledged as result, the
tariff men are in no mood to decline discussion or 60
back on their good Unconstitutional Republican.
Among all the revenue reform statesmen and free
trade promoters in the Democratic party at present
only Frank Hurd really displays the courage of his
opinions and the logic of an upright thinker. John
G. Carlisle Henry Watterson, and Joseph L. Melon
aid don't seem to enjoy any more of those qualities
than many yearling children-New York Sun.
so nearly complete Is the immunity for murderers
ance by the courts that something has gone wrong,
and that there must be somewhere an error in the
procedure. And most always they find it, The scent
of setter dog is not acute than that of higher
court for an in trial which has resulted in the
conviction of murderer for the capital degree of this
crime. AS matter Of course such verdict requires
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A MEAT inspector, selected in advance, and
elected by the Board of Aldermen and City
Council, would be responsible to nobody, and
would be an utterly useless and inefficient Off
Ger. What is needed in city government is
concentration of authority. and, consequently,
concentration and directness of responsibility.
Give the Board Of Health another officer if
need be- who can be assigned to duty as meat
inspector, and then, if there are bad meats
butchered and sold we shall know who to hold
responsible. But with favorite elected by a
body outside of the Board of Health inspector
and board holding their places by the same
tenure, there will be nothing gained, except
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A DEMOCRATIC paper in South Carolina
takes decided ground that in Democratic
State all its federal officers should be Demo
Gratis. Ignoring the fact that Senator Pen
dleten has Just been assassinated in his own
household by his brothers, which ought to
make Democrats careful about proposing any
thing like civil-service reform, it may be as
sumed that by the same argument all the State
officers of the Union should be Republicans,
because the nation is Republican.
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IT does not pay to advertise. A dry goods
merchant who made liberal use of the Jour,
nal columns on Wednesday morning, was com
PEELED to close his doors three times during the
day because Of the crowds of customers in his
store, and yesterday morning he advertised for
fifteen additional salsemen Still there are
many business men who do not want their
ease and propriety disturbed in this way, and,
of course, they will continue not to advertise.
The Journal goes into the homes of people
who patronize the best class of business
houses, and, therefore, is the best advertising
medium in the city. It does not pretend to
compete in rates with publications which find
the great bulk of their subscribers among
those who, from one years end toanother, never
become customers of merchants whose adver-
tisements are secured because of cheap rates.
It is cheap advertising.