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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

1t has been decided that the deaconesses
Of the Methodist Church shall wear black
gowns, with gathered or plated skirts,
bishop sleeves, round waists, turn-down
collars and white cuffs. They may .'friz'
their hair II they desire to do so.
The people of Finland have shown their
admiration for Alexander II by erecting a
monument to his memory in Helsingfors.
They do not feel so well disposed toward
the present ruler, under whom many Of
their privileges have been withdrawn.
Rudolph Hertzog, the "A. T. Stewart Of
Berlin" died In Carlsbad a few days ego,
seventy-nine years old. His store was
known far and wide in Germany and made
him one of the wealthiest men of the capt.
tai. although he had begun with almost
nothing.
Canon Farrar repudiates having asserted
anything so wrong and so foolish as that ii
IS a sin 10 drink wine" St. Thomas Aaui-
mas declares that mo food or drink is un-
lawful in itself" According to Bishop
Walsh total abstinence is not imposed upon
Nor is 1t imposed upon all Christians by the
law OF their baptism.
Mr.. CT. II. Parker. of West Midway. was
refused admission to a Boston theater sew
eral days ago because he presented him.
self at the ticket office and wished to 60
In and see the performance in his shirt
sleeves. w nile MT Idrksr Is SAID 10 De a
clean, sober. well-behaved gentleman with
lots OF money, he believes that people now
adays wear too much clothing and conse-
cuently he refrains from wearing either q
coat or overcoat. He threatens to bring
suit.
DIR. Conan Doyle says that fhe manu-
script OF Micah Clark came back to him
so often from publishers and was at last
so tattered that he would gladly have sold
1t for 50 cents. Yet 1t has since brought
In thousands of dollars TO both author and
puhlisher. IN stature the novelist Is nearly
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29
WHAT DO.
Sozialer T%urnverein Gives an Object
Lesson i'm Its Work.

Nearly five hundred girls and boys, misses
and youths. young ladies young men
assited in showing last night, at Tomlinson
Hall, what the Sozialer Turnverein is doing
to bring about a generation Of sturdy men
and women. 1t was the occasion of the So
ciety's annual gymnastic exhibition. The
programme comprised most of the exercises
which are used in drilling the pupils in the
school,, from the simplest form of calls
themes to the more complex and difficult
exercises on the parallel bars and slack
rope climbing. Little tots of four or five
years Of age did their part in as graceful
and perfect manner as did those of mature
years and strength. The opening tableaux
showed not only the training of those TAX
ing part, but that the persons who ar
ranged the positions have an eye for effect
in grouping. The march and calisthenics"
by the boys and girls from six to ten years
of age also showed a fine taste for the eff
navy blue suits, were mingled among the
boys in grey. and the movements were con-
trary, the blue moving one way and the
gray the opposite, and only on these oppo-
site movements were the pretty blue uni
forms seen from behind the line of gray in
front. The plastic ladder pyramids by the
seniors, which closed the exercises, we'll
displayed the final results of a long course
of training in such an Institution. On two
ladders held in position only by the men
upon them were sixteen men, in all kinds
of positions requiring strength and a steady
nerve. The exhibition was witnessed by
about $500 people, of whom only about six
hundred paid an admission fee, so liberal
is the society toward the teachers and pu-
pills of the public schools.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29
THE REGULATION OF COAL MINING.

In the course of a few weeks at most
all the miners will be at work as the re-
suit of a settlement OF existing difficulties,
either by the representatives OF the miners
and the operators or through arbitration.
Meantime much property will be destroyed.
much time lost. manufactures will be closed
and States and counties will be put to I'M
necessary expense. Next year. or at no dis
tant period. there will be another, strike
and the same disorders repeated. When the
whole matter can be arranged by a board
of arbitration. why have these demoraliz-
ing occurrences repeated?
The mine owners in different States prac-
tically compete in the same markets. The
difference is in the cost OF mining and ship
ment. These factors can be adjusted by a
board Of practical men SO that each mine
in the different localities can have a scale
OF wages which win insure all operators a
fair chance In the market The present
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29

a giant. and he shines on the golf field.
which he frequents as often as his hard
hours OF labor allow. He Is very hos
pitable TO American authors who visit
London. and is reputed 10 be a genial and
good-natured man.
Buffalo Bill is one of the most remark
able Illustrations OF the value of outdoor
exercise at the present time in the public
eye. Mr.. Cody is a little bit sensitive
about his age. but no condolences are vio-
lated when 1t is said that In tbs opinion of
his associates he is nearer toe sixty than
the fifty year mark. Yet ne is as trim in
build as a lieutenant of cavalry, has a clear
skin, a bright eye and nothing to show his
advanced years except the gray IN his hair
and moustache. He is in the saddle three
or four hours a day.
Bronson Howard mas not copyrighted
any of his plays In the last sixteen years.
He says it is of no use because YOU can
drive a coach and four through the copy
right, and the best way is 20 protect your
property by common law. 1t is the same
with patents, a patent being not worth the
paper 1t is written on il some other fellow
chooses TO initiate the article that you
have patented and mas money enough to
stand YOU off in The courts. The United
States of America, that has granted TIE
patent. Will not protect You from the pi-
rates. nor will It TO anything 10 keep a
your book. All that is for the courts to do.
And the amount of money required by a
dramatist 70 protect his property in q
court is rather appalling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29
He Will Preside Over the Supreme
Bench's Spring Term.

The May term of the Supreme and APP
pellate Courts began yesterday. Judge
Hackney. the youngest member. being elect
ed Chief Justice of the former tribunal.
The new calendar is ready 10 be sent out.
The number of cases on the Supreme Court
docket at the May term last year was 5l5.
At the opening Of the November term. 1893.
the number was 555. There are 431 cases
on the docket now. The Appellate Court
had 231 cases at the beginning Of the last
May term. 23S in the November term, and
the docket yesterday showed 1S cases.
From May to November last year the
docket gained forty cases on the Supreme
Court From November TO May, 1894. the
making the gain Of the court for the year
eighty-four. From May TO November, 1888.
the docket gained twenty-five cases in the
Appellate Court. From last November to
the present time the court gained forty-nve
cases on the docket. making the gain twen-
ty cases for the year irS favor OF the court.
From May, 1893, to November, 1898. the
docket gain on both courts was sixty-hve.
From November, 1899. TO May, 1894, both
courts gained 169 cases on the dockets.
The total gain for the year was 14 cases.
Court during the term just closed Judge
Hackney wrote opinions in fifty, Judges
Howard and Daily fcrty-seven each, Judge
McCabe thirty-two and Judge Cofey thirty
one. The individual record OF the Appellate
Court Is: Judge Davis. Gavin and Lotx,
forty-three each; Judge Reinhard, forty
one, and Judge Ross, thirty-nine-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29

II the report is true that the Corbett-
jackson fight is "or' look out for elab-
crate explanations that do not explain
from the champions" friends. There have
been skeptical persons bold enough to say
from the beginning that Corbett would
never light Jackson They assert that he
does not dare to pit himself against the
Australian, knowing that to do so would
be In all likelihood to lose his present
proud supremacy as worlds champion
They say he now holds that coveted title
by lucky chance and not by his ability as
a slugger; that If Sullivan had not been a
dissipated wreck the result at New Orleans
would have been different. and that the
fight with Mitchell was a farce. the En-
glishman being so far his physical inferior
that but one outcome was possible. They
say that he has never been matched with
his equal In weight and training: that
Peter Jackson is his equal. and therefore
he will avoid meeting him in a contest.
All these assertions may be true or not.
but the very numerous gentlemen who
take an interest in the prize ring find them
highly entertaining. IL not exciting. and
the public may now expect to be RECALLED
with charges and counter charges con-
csrring the two athletes made BY their
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29
AN AGED MANS DISAPPEARANCE.
Thomas Cook Came to Attend the Ma
sonic Grand Lodge.

The entire police department is looking
for Thomas Cook. who was seen last in this
city May %. Mr.. Cook resides in Solsberry,
Greene county. He is seventy years old,
and is one of the oldest Masons in the
State. He came to this city as a delegate to
the Grand Lodge. He was seen with a num-
Der of feQow-members of the order on May
q, and appeared in good spirits. A num-
Der of the members remembers ed seeing Mr..
Cook leaving the Grand Lodge Hall
Wednesday, but that was the last seen OF
him. Yesterday morning his son came TO
this city TO look for his father, and stated
TO the police that the only reason that he
could give for his ather's disappearance
is that he has met with foul play, as his
mind was perfectly clear and he was in the
best OF health. Mr.. Cook has a nephew,
Charles Z. Cook, residing at No. 162 Pat
terson street. but the latter is also at a loss
TO explain his uncle's disappearance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29
CITY AND COUNTY SHARES.
Belt Railroad Cases Not Reached by the
Supreme Court.

Deputy County Auditor johnson in 9; re-
cent calculation ima that If all the de-
linquent taxes due the county from the
railroad corporations were paid in the city's
share would be s4s.OO7.2 %. but as the Union
and Belt railway taxes cannot be collected
until the United States Supreme
Court passes upon the case
the city will get but $5,127. 80.
The county is entitled to $40. 1890, the State
to SAC. 49, 60 and the School Board 20 81, III %.
BY the recent decision Of the courts the
amount of taxes due from the Big -Four
railroad is $34, 0S7. "a; from the Pennsylvania
lines, SIC, 704.01. The Union Railway Com
pany and the Belt railroad are not included
in the decision. The Union and Belt COM
panies are delinquent S192, 49, S, which
makes a grand total of $2f9, 2Os. 33. The au-
ditor can make nc attempt 10 collect the
Court certifes the case back TO the Dis
trict Court. which may not be done for a
couple of months.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29
SCHOOL FUND DIVIDE
ANNUAL APPORTIoSMENT AMONG
THE NINETY-Two COUNTIES.
Enumeration of school ~ChEldren-
Nearly a Million and n quarter
Dollars Collected.

The apportionment Of common school rev.
emu for tuition made by the Superinten-
dent Of Public instruction was completed
yesterday. Ii shows the enumeration or
children in each county, the amount of
school revenue ready for ap2or-
tionment in each county. and tie
source from which the same is de-
rived. the total amount OF school
revenue for distribution, and the distribu-
tive shares thereof apportioned 10 each
county, as required by law and the amount
deducted for the Normal School FUND The
amount collected from the ninety-two coun-
ties was 81. 2ls. secs the amount in treas
ury from all other sources was Si7. 7S0.l6:
making a total on hand OF S1.231 5000. The
amount apportioned was 81, 227. 1850. and
the balance now remaining in treasury
is SO. 453.54. The per capita is $50.
The following is the apportionment by
counties:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29

A. photograph of the mental processes of
the Fort Wayne man who amused himself
at odd moments for two years by throwing
liquid paint on ladies' dresses would be
interesting to psychological and sociology
cal students. When finally detected and ar
rested be was found to be, not a tramp
nor an idle vagabond, but a hitherto re-
spected citizen and head of a family, which
he supported by his labor as car Inspector.
Doubtless. he had a grievance against So
ciety which, by some obscure process Of
reasoning. seemed to demand retaliation,
but what was the grievance that this par
ticular form of revenge seemed to satisfy?
Had some woman with a fine gown once
injured his sensibilities, or had he a secret
objection to all fine raiment? Was it the
individual or society in general which had
reused in him a spirit of malice and stirred
him to mild acts of anarchy? Whatever it
was, he is not the first Of his kind. He
may have gained his Inspiration, indeed,
from the indianapolis Jack the Splitter"
who, last year, ruined SO many handsome
gowns by d~eluging them with tobacco
juice. Another of the same brand was the
"Slasher." who created CONSERVATION in
Washington households not long since by
entering when the families were absent and
cutting upholstery, hangings and clothing
into fragments. 1t will not do to say that
such men are insane. They undoubtedly
have queer twists in their brains, but they
have discretion enough to pursue their cow
ardly occupations by night, when the
chance for discovery is least, and they
should be treated with the severity their
offenses merit, not only as a punishment
for themselves. but as a wholesome check
upon malicious destructiveness among
those who might possibly emulate them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29
PATRONS OF THE BLACK CAT.
The HOO-HOO's Give Sixteen Men A Hor-
rible Sensation.

The Concatenated Order Of Hoo-Hoo.
which comprises between LOO and 1880
members of the National Lumbermen's
Association, took in sixteen new members
last night. Some sixty Hoo-Hoos assem-
bled in, Masonic Temple for the fun. and
they put the sixteen novices through the
several mystic degrees with a rapidity that
took away the combined breath Of the
candidates. The new members were in
itiated in squads, two black robed Hoo
Hoos coming after fresh material every
fifteen minutes until the operation was
complete. From the noises which ema-
mated from the hall at various times during
the ceremony it was evident hat the six
teen victims were furnishing a vast fund
of amusement for their more fortunate
brethren. The members initiated last night
were most all from this city. and were as
follows: c. d. Wells, H. c. Page, T. j.
Christian, Ansel Fatout. H. T.. Scarce.
G. G. Goss. I. r. Thomas, John Simmons.
A. F. Conkling, NJ. L. Brown, w; F. still
Louis Bucenz, Joseph Hoy, T. b: Kemper.
Several of these initiates are from Mis-
souri,, Arkansas and Illinois.
The Journal had an account of the or
ganiZation Of this popular "~side-snap" of
the Lumbermen's Association some months
tween three and four years old, and a
wonderfully popular institution, the in
crease in membership being phenomenal.
A local lodge is soon to be established in
Indianapolis. which city has now twenty
five Hoo-Hoos, a sufficient number for
such purpose. Chicago, st. Louis. Cincin-
natl. Louisville. Cleveland. Kansas City
and all the large cities have local lodges.
The officers of the organization. many of
whom were present at last nights cere-
mony, are:
Shark of the universe, NJ. A. Hayward.
Columbus, o.; senior high Hoo-Hoo. II. I.
Bennett. Indianapolis; junior high Hoo
Hoo. William Barnes, ST. Louis: holy
bojum, T. w. Schwartz. St. Louis; s~criven-
ater. j. l.. Peck, Indianapolis; bander-
snatch, l.. CT. Miller, Indianapolis; custo-
cation, H L. Sample, Lafayette; orcanoper,
G. E. Springer. Anderson; gurdon, Tom F.
Doyle, st. Louis.
There was a lunch for the Hoo-Hoos, and
they had fiash-light pictures taken, in
which everybody figured. 1t was a jolly
occasion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29
AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SCHEME.

TIL proposition under discussion in the
House to repeal the federal tax of 10 per
cent. on the circulation of State banks
comes from the South, where nearly ev-
cry Representative favors it under the
claim that the right to issue paper money
is one which should belong to the States,
and that the South desires to exercise that
power because it has not enough currency,
since not enough national banks are es-
tablished in that section to furnish it. This
is that there is not enough national cur
rency in the country to do it's business.
The crowded vaults of all kinds OF banks
with money they cannot lend disproves that
assumption. When any part of the country
has an article that is in general demand
money will go thither to purchase it. When
no money is in circulation in a community
1t is because there Is no employment for
it's labor which will require money to pay.
and that it has no commodity to dispose
of, which the rest of the world wants. The
iACob
cling to the proposition is the claim of the
right Of the State to authorize the issue
of paper money which cannot be a legal
tender in any event. Such a claim is one
which implies that the State has no right
to issue anything which shall be called
money. In a nation with the most extern
sive interstate in the world the
money which measures values should be
a national money. The Populists and the
Greenbackers demand a national money
which shall be "a legal tender and denounce
the issue of State bank money. The South
ern Democracy. which adheres to hostility
to things and powers national, demands the
right to issue wildcat money as the right
of the State. 1t is a demand which involves
a denial of nationalism and the right of
the State to hamper interstate trade by
the issue of State money, which, if good
at home. cannot be elsewhere. 1t is a de-
mand based upon the discarded heresy of
State supremacy. 1t is a demand which has
its origin in the same State right heresy
which led the Southern leaders to plunge
the country into rebellion against the ma
tional authority.
In and Of itself the attempt to establish
State paper money again has its inspiration
in a class of spectators who cannot make
money in national banking and desire to
do so under state laws by issuing notes
which cannot be legal tender money, which,
in the past, have been responsible for .ex-
banded credits and financial crashes, and
which have robbed the people of this coun-
try Of millions and millions to enrich a
scheme devised to make the rich richer at
the expense of the masses than that which
authorizes State banks to issue paper. The
poor man must take such money, and when
he turns about to pay a note he must pay
a premium to get legal tender money. which
this cheaper currency will drive out of the
country where the State notes are issued.
The scheme of State bank currency has
not a redeeming feature. In no sense a po-
ltical question now, the vote of the Indi-
ana delegation in the House will be watched
with interest when the repeating bill shall
come to a vote.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29
Why He Moved.

."I hear you have moved" said the lean
man, resting his elbow easily on the bar.
YES" said the fat man, blowing the
foam off his glass. II had to. TIL hired
girl next door was too good looking"
Come now. you don't mean to tell me
that your wife would get jealous of a
hired girl?'
l"Oh, no. 1t was on account Of the chill
dren. You see, they are smart enough to
get out of the way of the trolley cars If
they hear the bell. and ordinarily I am not
afraid to have them play out in the street.
But that fool girl next door keeps the mo-
torman so busy flirting with her that sew
eral times the poor young ones have had
to jump for their lives"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29

amounts to 19.9-almost 20 per cent. The
ad valorem duty under the Senate bill be-
ing 1873 per cent and under the Mckinley
law 12.5 per cent, it appears that the pro-
lection afforded by the pending bill is IA
per cent. more than that of the Mckinley
per cent. in excess of the present bill.
And here the Journal remarks that the
above illustrates that it is much better for
Republicans to accept the figures of Re-
publican papers than to take the state
ments of hypocritical free-trade editors
who are masquerading as better-than-any-
body-else independents or mugwumps.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29
McAn Mir-ion anarterly Meetins.

The quarterly meeting OF the McAll Mis-
sion Circle was held yesterday, with Mrs.
E. ]. Foster, and Mrs. o. j. Dearborn, the
president, was in charge. The exercises
pertaining to the work of the mission in
France were varied and interesting. Mrs.
r. o. Hawkins gave an account OF the an
nual meeting. which was held in Philadel-
phia, and read an extract from one OF the
addresses given by Rev. Arthur L. Pierson.
which was favorable to the work. Mrs
Perry gave an account OF the work, and
Mrs. Sickels spoke of the dispensary part
of the work and the spiritual advance con-
nected with it. Miss Sarah Foster read a
letter from Paris Which described the rag
pickers OF the city, and OF what the mission
workers had done among that class OF peo-
pie. Mrs. Bigger sang very sweetly an ap-
propriate selection. A committee represent
ing the Central Christian, Roberts Park and
the First Baptist churches was appointed
10 arrange an entertainment TO be given in
the fall for the benefit OF the mission.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29

The Breckenridge. who is a
member Of the House committee on ways
and means and one of the ex-confederates
who made the Wilson bill, has been de-
feated for denomination. He was all right
SO long as he was the opponent of Clayton.
who was assassinated while taking testi-
mony to contest Breckinridge's seat, but
when he followed Mr.. Cleveland on the sill
yer question his constituents just dropped
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-29

Captain Sampson having testified to the
armor-plate investigating committee that
$500. 600 is a moderate estimate Of the DAM
age sustained by the government through
the frauds admitted by the Carnegie COM
pany, the New York World Democratic)
asks the President upon what grounds he
reduced the damage to $4,000. 1t Is a very
embarrassing question in connection with
the Carnegie letter indorsing the Wilson