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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06
GREAT BRIDGES.


The bridges built in modern times are the
most stupendous monuments of the age.
Mountains may be tunneled; the experience
of men in mining leads naturally to such re-
suits as the underground ways between France
and italy. But to span great rivers and arms
of the sea with light and graceful webs of
eight years ago when the Cincinnati Southern
was first projected, the piers for a suspension
bridge were built at High Bridge on the
Cumberland. But the work was post
poned for score Of years, and
in that time the Bessemer method of
making mild steel was perfected, and truss
bridges of 500 feet span had become possible.
The suspension plan was abandoned, CEN
trail pier was built and the present truss
bridge built, section by section, one on the
end Of the other, until, starting from the
shore end, the central pier was reached. And
so we have the new cantilever bridge span
ming the Niagara few hundred feet above
that marvel, for its day, among bridges-the
Niagara suspension bridge.
American engineeIS have taken the lead in
bodybuilding, and particularly in placing
firm abutments on treacherous foundations
A recent work of this kind was awarded to
the Union Bridge Company, Of New York, for
double-track steel railway bridge across the
Hawkesbury river, thirty miles north of Sgd
England Canada, Belgium, France, Scotland
and Australia. The location was in soft mud
and sand, requiring seven piers to be sunk
227 feet in depth from the railway to the hard
| gravel at the bottom. AS this is a greater
depth than bridge piers have been sunk
| before, the methods pursued have at
tracted great attention in both this
country and Europe. Like mcgt of
the methods of American engineers when
called to unprecedented work Of great diff
Guilty, the chief character of the plans fol-
lowed is their simplicity. The plan was tested
in sinking the foundations, to depth of lbs
feet, of the Atchafalaya bridge, on the Texas
& Pacific, three years ago. The piers are to
be Of concrete, one part Portland cement, two
of sand, three Of gravel, and four of broken
stone, inclosed in awrought-iron tube of boiler
plate three-eighths of an inch thick. These
tubes are twenty feet wide, by forty-eight
feet long. and will be built up in sections
above the water as the pier sinks down.
| To remove the mud and sand from within the
great tube, three smaller tubes, eight feet
in diameter are built within the great
tube at equal distances apart, and firmly
| cross-braced. At the bottom the lower parts
of the smaller tubes are extended to meet the
cutting edge of the great tube. Through the
smaller tubes the sand and mud is dredged
out with ordinary mud dredge apparatus,
there being no caissons or compressed air
| used, as no men goodwin in the smaller tubes.
As the mud Is taken out, the great pier tube
steadily sinks in the mud, tho space between
the outer wall aud smaller tubes being filed
] With conorets WhsR tho cylinder haa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

From Recent Interview.
What is your opinion Of the stock market.
Mr.. Gouldp
''Oh, don't know anything about 1t. have
no interest in stocks. have not bought or sold
q share since last January
'.How do you regard the general business sitHs
ationln
Business is improving. The earnings Of al
our railroads are showing steady improve
state of affairs since the elimination OF tha
strikes and labor troubles. ] think people ara
taking hold again for q long pull. The condi-
ton Of the Western crops, according to my re-
ports is most fattering. / think there will be
general Improvement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06
KISSED TO DEATH.

The press dispatches of last week contained
notice of the death of George and Essie Cut
ter, of Flatbush. N. Y, from diphtheria, con-
tracted by kissing their grandfather, suffering
Washington. d. c., has an extended article on
the dangers Of kissing in the May % number
Of the journal of the American Medical As
ISOLATION, giving in detail the medical history
and literature of the subject from the earliest
times. Not only is scarlet fever and diphtheria,
well as worse diseases given with the fatal
kiss, but also series of trifing ailments not
often fatal, but the source Of which the par
rents do not know. Among these are herpes,
eczema and Lucrative sore mouth. Children
are sent to the parks and on the streets with
nurses who are themselves not infrequently
the sources of contagion. These custodians of
infancy assemble in knots of half dozen or
more and extend the morning salu-
round. This continues until the passive
victims are three or four years old,
when they begin to repel the moist and sticky
invasion. They defend themselves from this
time on fairly well, although stupid parents
instead of combining kissing to the family,
often force them to submit to this distasteful
ordeal, even to the point of punishment for
refusal Nature and the child protest, but
the parents and the casual visitor do their
duty firmly, and the pouting bashful
Child is mashed into the neck and
whiskers, and the ger1n-laden breath
and lips of foul and fatal disease.
Finally with full development, the innate
modesty Of women manifests itself, and the
girl, standing where brook and river meet"
attempts to adapt her mode of life to the nat
ural requirement of her sex and years. She
asserts her womanhood and draws the line at
Misunderstanding, cuts the privileged bachelor to
whom the taste Of ripening girlhood lips is a
vulgar appetizer, and at the same time
brings down upon herself from the
eligible spinsters of her set rep
utation for prudery and haughtiness.
st the same age, or little later, the boy be-
comes kisser, and takes every advantage the
opposite sex will give, and without much
reference to either age or social equality. In
stead Of properly directing and controlling
these new instincts in boys and girls, modern
society encourages them to full develop
ment. This used to be done by kissing games
at school, picnics and donation parties,
and church socials. Ringworm and itch
were among the physical evils, to
say nothing of the precocious development
such games fostered. Happily, they are we'll
nigh abolished in modern juvenile society.
Boys and girls should be taught that fingers
ends is near enough-that promiscuous kiss
ing is dangerous to health and morals. Orig
inally an utterance Of affection in man, as in
lower animals, kissing has been perverted
into an insincere, unmeaning and common
place salutation, and, as frequently INDUCED
in, source of disease and danger, and in
hundreds of well-recorded cases the kiss has
been the kiss of death
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06
Telephone Calls.
Business Office 238 Editorial Rooms. "a
TWELVE PAGES.
The Sunday Journal has the largest and
3est circulation of any Sunday paper in In
diana. Price five cents.
Sam Jones,s sermons.

During the continuance of the meetings of
Sam Small and Sam Jones. the evangelists
the Journal will publish full report including
their sermons. Persons in the city or outside the
atty desiring to obtain the Journal for these re-
k,orts. can subscribe for the two weeks at the
special rate of FIFTY CENTS, and have the
raper sent to their address each day, either by
carrier or by mail
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

Washington special.
The manner in which the President is being
used as an advertising medium for the Baltimoro
& Ohio summer res ort is being strictly criticised
A gentleman who returned from Deer Park last
night says il IL the most God-forsaken hole hu
ever saw, with absolutely no attractions The
Presidents critics. In commenting on the painx
taken by the Baltimore g Ohio do not forget
that the President will PROBABLY have the Stated
Island bridge bill TO sign within the next year
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

LEGITIMATE business is looking up. The
Providence baseball club has disbanded. after
sinking all its available funds and ST. 500 besides
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

THE consuleeneral at Halifax teiegraphs tn
authorities that American merchant vessels Cal
purchase fresh fish of all kinds. Thanks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

THE Cincinnati baseball club expects to win
the championship in the same year that the Pan
anna canal is completed and the Keely motor is
made to work
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

feeling of self-approvaL Last weeks record was
q glorious one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

his nibs," my. what brace Of them." etc
The inquisitive but respectabls crowd about his
front door, which he went to SO much trouble to
escape, would hardly have been more disagreea-
bly, familiar than this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

SrREEr-cAR companies do not always own the
cities in which they are located. Ono at New
Bedford, Mass.. recently laid A-trAck On street
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

WHEN Mr.. Cleveland and his wife wended
their way through the back door and the alleys
to the train which was side-tracaed in q suburb
known as "Swampoodle," they found crowd Of
hoodlums about the car, who greeted them with.
Hello. GrsYeF.s You dear girl" "Just gaze ct
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

WALLACE CoBURN, of Lancaster, N. H.. aged
twenty-six, following the fashion of the week,
on Saturday led, or carried, to the altar Miss
Lizzie Sweezy, of Winnebago, ILL.,, aged thir-
teen. The bride is wee tot of thing, and
wears short dresses. Twenty-six to thirteen is
just two to one. That is not quite as bad as
forty -niae to twenty.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-07
MARTINS FERRY.

The miners at the Standard Iron Works
are striking against reduction from = 90
per ton 20 $lSj.
The Lima mill will resume in full on
Monday next.
Mayor NJ. T. Mitchell lest = fine full
bred jersey call last night The animal
was present to his Honor ana YVES very
valuable one.
Peter Raazal, Esq is iyIBy seriously i'll
and shows no improvement
On Friday night Presiding Elder, Rev
W. B. M"bb #iIl preach at the NJ. T..
church.
4 B. Cyourn oi Fast Liverpool, is at the
Hanover
Al7ah J. Hastings, 0: Smithfelt, o is
the guest Of lis father, James Hastings,
Esq.
Joun !.=w.s Is lyluE dan-rloaay ItI "a.
the home OF his brother, VIM Ii. Lewis,
ECO
Rev. Winters, OF Bridgeport, will occupy
the N. +. pulpit Sunday next, az which
time quarterly services will be held.
Winfield Coates and Mas Matte Mean
inch were married by Rev. Earl d. Ho'iz
on Sunday night last
Manager Gray, OF the Standard mill, ex-
pressed himself as very much pleased Tor
long and prosperous run alter Monday
next
The REGIsTERs 5 statement OF yesterday
morning concerning the new nail mill ere.
ated quite q stir in town. For the beueii;
of those who want 10 know, we are now at
liberty to say that Mr. q. r Woods is the
man who oilers to furnish the land and
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-07
WELLSBURG.
Court aud Church Notes and "ev.
sUnals.
Snsrirg n M Esgfrs-

Court aud Church Notes and Per.
sOnals.
Spsrid! to Mc Rsgislsr
WELL. BURG, January 6.--Cognty Court
net in adjourned session to-day; present,
D. McClcllaud, President, aud Friend Cox,
Commissioner. The contract for boarding
the county poor for five year from April
lst, lsSG, was awarded to Geo. ". Barnes,
he being the lowest bidder, the price con
tcactoi tor being one dollar and fifty
cents per week for each person. This is q
reduction of little mere tha % per cent
from the preseu; price Erroneous assess
mDnts we're corrected in the case OF L. W.
Paxton, guardian, Mrs. Good and Il. N.
Morton. The petitions for reduction in
Advertisements Of the real estate Of Mn.
Councilman snd Thomas Hartley were not
granted.
The Episcopal church building is com
pleted aad nearly paid for. The ladies OF
the church have been busy for several days
supplying and arranging the inside orna-
mants. such as putting down carpets, dec
Grating the waIls with evergreen, etc pre-
paratory to q couyocation which COM
mences this evening, al which the rectors
of the Panhandle and adjoining territory
vii be present. Right Rev. George W.
Pcterkin, Bishop Of the diocese, is expect
ed to be present on and after Saturday.
Mrs. Brian, OF PlltSburg, is visiting her
father, Capt. Vim. Oake5.
The country roads are reported to be IN
a bad condition for travel on account OF
the mud.
The three mile race at the Gas City rink
las. night between Burke;t, Of Wheeling,
and Curran Nelson, Of this place, was won
easily by the former.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-07
SHOT FOR TEN CENTS.
A Lodging House Clerk Fatally Wounded
BY a Cripple.

A Lodging House Clerk Fatally Wounded
by a Cripple.
CmcAao. Janaary 6.--A probably ta.al
shooting aGray occurred at JOAN Bor.!es
I0ceut lodging house g; 2l7 State street
q little before : o'clock to-day. Gus
Rsib,, p years old, clerk az the lodging
house, was sho, By one legged man who
is oaly known By the name Of p -gy
Frank About 10 O'Clock las night,
"Ptggv" called at the place and paid tor
2 bed for the night, He was intoxicated
and made it 50 disaCceea5le for the other
lodyars that the clerk ordered him 10 leave
the place. de lett az 1880 this morning
and obtained shelter tor the rest OF the
MIR, at 2-3 State street.
II 10 o'clock he returned 70 Bort!e.s5
and demanded the 10 cents be had PAID
Tor q bed. Bsj0a refused 70 return tas
money and the one legged man lmmed'-
a.-ly drew O revolver and shot the clerN
The ball passed through tine CLERK lett
.r, Peggy Left the place immediately
s.. he shooting, and has rot been cap
FED He is we'll k1osn to the police.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-07
BELLAlRE,

Tuesday was Michael Curren's birthday
and surprise party was rendered him by
number Of his friends in the evening.
Several hours were spent in singing aud
playing games. Those present were:
Misses Louisa and Mollie Troll, Lizzie
Eberle, Lizzie Long Johanna LsRoche,
Mamie Curran and Mollie Curran, and
Charles j. LaRoche, Wm. CurrRn, John
Lappert, George Webb, James Follen, Ed
ward LaRoche, John Long. Robert Purcell
Henry Rodewig and "Wiss' Purcell.
Black Prince Lodge, No. 81, X. of P,
will install officers tonight and transact
other important business.
1t is stated that workmen doing repairs
at the Bellaire nail works have been mott
fed not to tear up too extensively 90 the
works may be ordered on at any time.
Dr. Maser and wife leave for Kansas To-
morrow.
Gravel Hill ia clamoring for cinder
walks Other parts Of town want pave
ments, also.
The BARRIERS meet tonight at Lon
Leach's shop
Council is still agitating the question Of
collecting license from the Niagara rink.
Better tackle something weightier than
botEeriug rinks.
The First Presbyterian Church elected
FIVE elders last night.
Will Naylor is working for the postohice.
Miss Cora King, of Gravel Hill, enter.
tained friends on Tuesday night.
viii White is home from Cleveland
The Eureka Club dances this evening
The marriage of Charles Sheets and
Louisa Showacre occurs at the home of the
brides parents, in Moundsville, this even
ing. About twenty-five persons will attend
from here
The rise in the river was very near high
enough 10 cover the walk near Mcmahon
creek bridge.
Liberty Hose Company has elected new
officers President, c. Faupcl; Captain,
Vim. Earnest; First Lieutenant, John Poor
man; second Lieutenant, Dora Pediicord
Secretary, Thos. Hyatt; Treasurer, Andy
Schich
B. IL. Is c. has reelected its old board
Of directors.
A one legged tcilow singing in the streets
and i little sherman band, were some
Of the sights seen on the streets yesterday.
The Niagara mix vii have an attrac
ton on the 22d.
\ new Laundry has been started by
couple of colored g-rt!smen on Guernsey
street. The partnership heretofore existing
under The firm name Of ". J. ~ A. Nc
Claim has been dissolved.
All the bose companies will get new
gum oystcoata.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-07
BHIDGEFORT.

Mrs. Lewis Criswel ia lying seriously i'll
at her home in .ftnavlle
Smith Il Sons are making some eXten.
sive improvements in their Hour mill
They have p millinr expert at WORK Gcd
expect 10 make improvements which vii.
greatly increase their facilities Tor manu-
featuring good tour.
Captain I. Il. Morton and wife and son
Carl, have returned to their home in Dra-
vosburg, Pa, after week visit with Nr
Geo. NJ Bartholomew.
Reason Burdette has opened q meet
market on Pipe street, whsre he keeps
game, fish, oyerers and all kinds o. i'esh
meat
Mr.. Frank James, OF Cleveland, was in
town yesterday.
Mr.. Thomas Duncan has accepted a
position as bsggagemar on the upper end
Of the c., l.. i ". railroad
Miss Lucy Topping, Of kansas City
Mo, is the guest OF her brother, JoLr
Topping.
Miss Annie Brown is in Tiain, O., visit
ing Mrs. F. A. May5erry.
The Presbyterian Church will held prayer
meeting each evening during the present
week.
Miss Lee Mitchell haa returned from &
visit with Miss Bee Hough, in Fairmont
W. Va.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-07
MERE CANT.

His colleague (Mr. CockrelD and himself
had found unmistakable evidences of the
usa Of money under Republican admins.
ua,ions in the attainment OF public offices,
and they could convince the moral sense
Of any uan that they had been used
Mr. Voorhees, ympathized with the Re-
publican postmastegs who had been turned
out They would get used TO it after a
while IS the Democrats had got used 10 it.
Mr.. Vest thought that the President
bad honestly and conscientiously en-
deavored 20 carry out every particle Of the
pledge made By him. and he was astonished
that any complaint shouii come from Re.
publCaIs in that regard
Debate was closed BY the reference Of
the communication to the Committee on
Civil Service Reform.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-07
BIG WRECK NEAR HINTON
Causing the Loss of Several Lives an6
Much Property.

Causing the Loss of Several Lives and
Much Property.
CIyTON FoRGE, Va, January GA bad
wreck occurred on the Chesapeake y Ohio
railroad, in tunnel known as Stretcher s
Neck Tunnel, few miles west OF linton
". Va, on Monday morning., at an early
hour resulting in the death Of three
men and the wouuding OF three others.
Immediately after the morning train,
which arrived in Cincinnati at 9. p. m,
Monday, had passed through the tun.
mel about seven o'clock, George Clark,
the section boss, entered the tunnel with a
gany Of five colored men and proceeded to
raiss the track. Tne7 left no flags at
either end Of the tauuei, aud they had not
been at work long when the west,bound
freiyh. train entered the tunnel and came
upon them. The engine aud two cars
passed safely over the rail they had raised,
but the third car Jumped the track, and the
rear cars, twenty in number, were wrecked
and piled to the top OF the tunnel in Z con-
fused mass for several hundred feet.
Clark was caught IN the wrecs and nor
rs5lv uangled. Dick Howard was knocked
,,n,l distance, thrown against the side OF
o.. tunnel and instantly killed. Moses
.r.,ss hal q leg cut off and gas bruised about
me head and body c. r. Dickson was so
,.t.. tu arri that he died from his injuries
a....sp M. Ben Thomas was hur, about
,r-s.-ma.h l.' will recover. Geo Hurt had
.... .. ... ar4s caught under the wheels
,.. ives I'D n that position By the res.
..- rA..v. There was about foot OF
....... q he tunnel aud Hurt ieroicaliy
hell bis had above water till he was re-
..t aN)u. two hours after being Gi5cov-
I'D. lie then 90. up and walked out
...s u-l is badly bruised, an: Will proba-
q, have 10 oe smPu,a;ei.
d. Peek, O. Hinton, came dom anu
luealed the wounded \ temporary tele-
c-a9l office was erected az the tunnel, ANA
Nike Bolaud was put ia charge, and he
worked oil nigh: Monday With nobody
0sGv him Out two dead men, one on each
side The passenger trains which LEI,
Cincinnati ANA Louisville at eight 0 clock
On Sunday were delayed over twenty four
hours by he acciden, The wreck o.
curing in tuuusl, it ws9 hard to
handle. The passengers were returned 10
Eauswha Falls. where they were veil pro
yided for. Had the passenger train ar
rived OF ;as tunnel few hours eaCEyg the
accident would have happened 10 1t, AMI
tour car loads Of people would have been
imprisoned in q tunnel, which Is nearly d
mile long.
Hr Clark, above mentioned, leaves q
wife aud six children, and the ,Ho co.oGed
men killed both learc families. The loss
to the rsjlroi company is about $50 900
The tunnel mentioned above wa the scene
Of another wreck about three years ago,
wh-~ two trains coll;ded there.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-07
MORE WEST VIRGINIA APPOINTMENTS.
SDCcidi 10 the Register.
A GAS WELL PHENOMENON.
The Leyda Miller Well startIes the People
of Fairview.
Special 10 the Regis.er.

of Fairview.
Special to the REGISTER.
FAIRvIEw, W. Va, January 6.-The
great Leyda Miller gas well produced last
night about eight o'clock, very extraor
dinary and beautiful spectacle, which was
the csuse Of much speculation and admi.
ration to citizens of this place. A bright
streak or column Of light shot up from the
centre OF the radiance given and from the
burning well, in regular perpendicular
10 an immense height. the top being at an
elevation Of about IS degrees. The appa.
rent width OF the column was about ten
feet, and vas of the same width from the
horizon up. Whether the same appear
ance was noticed from other points we ore
not informed, but certainly it was a grand
and startling spectacle from this point of
observation. Will come scientist rise and
explain?
The Ohio Valley Gas %. Downing the
Miller well) have succeeded in obtaining
the requisite rights Of way, and are going
right Oh energetically to lay a pipe line
mot telephonel from Tomlinsou's Rum
residence Of p. A. Pugh, Esq y 10 last
LIVERPOOL Ohio.