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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
Mission Lodging Houses.

AlVln II. SanDOrn, IN the Forum.
Mission lodging houses, of which there
class. They have less human interest than
the clearinghouse without the religious
faint, and are, in spite of square yards of
printed rules and painted texts, quite as
demora,izing. In them. dexterity! with
pious can't is at a high premium, inasnluch
as religious experience is made the main
lodging in Boston is reported to have
elected a steady man because he refused
the man who gets himself. agloriousiy
saved to keep bed and board indefinitely.
The mission bum" is the worst bum
known. Any member of the hobo fra
ance and conversion now and then-all
trades have their periods of depression
habitually is regarded by his own ilk as
the most despicable of mortals. For more
reasons than can name here, | am bound
to respect the scruples of a bum who
refuses to be sent to a mission lodging
house.
1t may be hard to get a cheap bed even
l found it one bitter cold night when 1 had
fifteen cents in my pocket. Riley'S, Will
liams's. and Whitney's were all full, and
mission. The mission-hall was low and ILL
lighted. Scripture texts adorned the walls.
Prayer was being offered as I entered. and
devotional spirit displayed by the audience.
Nearly every head was bowed. The secret
end of the petition, inasmuch as the heads
continued bowed. What had locke like
devotion was really. drowsiness. Between
prayers, a f1oor-walker did his best to
wake up the men. The platform part of this
meeting was of the conventional city-mis-
sion type. but the listeners We're strangely
prayers; not one was reused to raise his
hand to signify he wanted salvation"
and the meeting closed gloonily enough
with prophecies from the desk of dire dam
nation.
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FACTS ABOUT CUBA.
An American, Familiar with the
Island, Describes Its Resources.


Island, Describes Its Resources.
New Orleans Picayune.
: Should Cuba be annexed to the United
States?
Il believe it should observed a gentle
man last evening in the corridor of the
Grunewald Hotel. AS he has Travelled much
in the island and understands It's condi-
tionS he presumed to speak authoritative
ly. The passage of the Wilson bill" he
continued, has done a great deal toward
creating an annexation sentiment in cuba.
The operation of the tariff law, as passed
by the recent Congress. has tended TO lower
the price of Cuban sugars in the markets
depends upon sugar. and economical condi-
tions are necessarily disturbed by huctua-
has suffered considerably recently from de-
preston the commercial interests or the
island realize ne grea, a ~ ah1sg Beens9 10 pc
The United States is Cuba's first sugar
market, SO it is perfectly reasonable for
Cubans to consider the benefits that must
accrue if they should become citizens of
the United States. Existing conditions are
very conducive TO an effort to dissolve the
political connection between the island and
nc mother country. me MAJOR
f ffy 0t wbere IN se any e@sshs' lead. ~ As sRe
welfare of Cuba and the prosperity of her
people depend upon a large crop OF sugar
would prevent their throwing off the yoke
of Spain and becoming a part of the United
sold at such low prices as to scarcely pay
the cost of production. Commercial pros
perity is the loadstone that draws CUBA
to the United States, and | believe the
island would be much more prosperous il IL
should become a part of this country.
About so per. cent. of Cuban sugar ana
tobacco comes TO the United States, while
10 per cent goes to Spain and the South
largely responsible for this in the past.
Commercially. therefore, Cuba belongs To
the United States. The economic portion
of the problem is solved and settled. The
reciprocity treaty with this country anni-
hilated trade relations between Cuba and
France. and Germany, and England The
Spanish ports are almost entirely closed TO
Cuba, because Spain made the mistake Of
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THE TRAFFIC RECORD
DURING FIRST QUARTER OF 1898
WE'RE HANDLED 217,s6s CARS.
large Increase i'm Local Freight BUSH
ness Over Last Year-The Pam
handle Tonnage system.

The train records show that in the month
Of March a total of 101, Sill cars were re-
ceived and forwarded at Indianapolis. 80, 29
being loaded. In the three months ending
March 81 there were handled at Indianap-
oils HIS loaded cars, against 183, SIG in the
corresponding period Of 1894. an increase
this year of 24,O52 loaded cars. but. going
back to the corresponding three months of
1893, 233,572 loaded cars were handled at
indianapolis, or 15,704 more than this year.
The loaded car movement by months this
year was as follows: January. 1882; Feb
fuary, 65.667; March, so, 209.
The train records show that there were
received and forwarded at indianapolis in
the week ending April 6 17,416 loaded cars,
a decrease as compared with the week end
ing March 80 of 1,450 loaded cars; still the
movement of last week was LIZ loaded cars
in excess of the corresponding week OF
1884. A study of the loaded-car movement
shows this falling off was almost entirely
iii aast-bound traffic, which is taken as
evidence that the low rates east bound
which prevailed at Chicago drew business
which at the same rates would have been
carried over Indianapolis lines. Indianapolis
proper last week shipped a heavier tom
siack o. and provisions csrsi9irs. p produce; f fnn,oe r awe ays
week for some months, the falling off
being in business from points west of here.
~ tst-bctid Snlpiitrhto dStlaSt1 "CAA Nis'
those OF March. 1t is noticeable that the
shipments of iron structural work, nails,
glass and railroad supplies are on the in
crease. which is thought to Indicate an
improvement in business with Eastern
industries. Shipments of heavy groceries
are larger than usual. Transcontinental
line business in both directions is at a
maximum. The quantities of goods handled
in refrigerator cars is heavy beyond pre-
cedent. Local business Is reach,
agricultural and harvest implements are
large and with the increase in building and
the beginning of street improvements in
bound business is greatly improving. Man
ufacturers and wholesale merchants are
Beginning to ship goods in increased vol
une and about the city freight depots in
the trading and unloading yards more is
doing than at any time in months. Below
Is given the car movement for the weeks
ending March 30 and April 6 and the cor
RESPONDING week last year.
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imposing a heavy duty to protect her own
sugar industry. against her own colonies.
should be done conservatively, and not by
revolutionary methods. To add the island
70 the forty-iour states OF the Union Wonia
United States. This would alleviate condi-
tions brought about by overproduction, and
the products of the United States. / be-
lieve that commercially it would be to the
alike, and it has been discussed with that
conclusion for a long time in the island.
The only tie between Cuba and Spain is
graphical kinship, as the islands relations
are with the United States and other
h hme rnled Suba hes almost lime de obliternted 'n all
the bonds of consanguinity. Cuba's rela-
tons with Spain are disguised under senti-
mental manifestations
The island is burdened with taxes. No
other country in the world pays as much.
In Spain the proportion between the income
taXation is 26 per cent. but in Cuba 1t is
a per cent. From a calculation of all the
between the income and the revenue shown
by 1T is as high as 20 per cent. France is
the highest taxed nation In Europe, the per
death by Spain. SPANS displomatic SER
taxes, as are the expenses of war. Gov
eminent favorites and employees on the re-
tired list or in active service are paid out
of Cuban money. Any Spanish official who
spends a year on the island and returns,
having in the meantime held some Cuban
office, is afterward entitled to a pension,
which is paid out of the Cuban revenues.
THE soil of Cuba is wonderful. 1t is not
only fertile, but inexhaustible. Three crops
of cane grow from one planting. No fertil-
izers is used. The soil in places has the
great depth of q feet. Tobacco needs no
guano to make a crop, and not near as
much labor as is required in cultivation
elsewhere. Anything that grows under the
tropical sun can be grown in Cuba, al
though at present the soil is given up to
the production of sugar and tobacco.
Cuba would be happy and prosperous if
she was a part of the United States. She
would live in peace and enjoy all the lux
uries of life, even though a wall was built
about the island. Tea and coffee could be
taxed without infiicting hardships upon
Cuban citizens, just as wheat and bread
stuffs are taxed there at the present time.
From a strategic point of view / con-
slider there is an advantage in the annexa-
ton of Cuba. 1t is the key to the Gulf and
the Mexican and Central American coast.
1t commands the eastern entrance and /
believe would also ommand the trade of
any canal built across the isthmus.
tion movements since the days of Thomas
Jefferson. Then it came near being an
nexed. Joseph Bonaparte was King of
Spain then. 1t is no good reason to oppose
annexation because a mere body of water
separates Cuba from the United States. l
believe in annexation, and think the COM
mereial reasons alone justify the addition
of Cuba to the Union as a full-fiedged
State,'
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The Tonnage Basis.

The Panhandle company has reached such
Favorable results through the tonnage sys-
tenn of making up. trains that the plan is to
be introduced on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
e. Chicago lines. A train official of the
Fort Wayne road says: "The difference in
the pulling power of the locomotives Of the
Fort Wayne does not amount to much, and
when an engine failed to take its train over
the hill 1t was owing to the fact that the
total tonnage in the train it was hauling
was occasionally equivalent to thirty ordi-
nary loads. 1t is an easy matter to perceive
r,how, under such circumstances, one engine
was sent out with from three to four cars
less than IT'S pulling capacity, while the en-
CINE of the following section might have,
with the same number of cars as the first.
q much heavier train to contend with. and
consequently fail to get over a grade or
lose time. causing delays and annoyances
that could not be well obviated- In the
future all Fort Wayne Glass r engines viii
DE loaded on a tonnage basis, with l,lO0
tons as the limit. The yardmasters and
conductors have been instructed to, get the
light weight of each car, the weight OF its
load, and then add eight tons to each car
as an allowance for resistance. In this
simple. methodicai manner they are en-
abled to tell how many cars are required to
make up a train, and they keep on adding
ears until they reach the limit of 1,l00 tons.
If cars are loaded with heavy material,
such as coal, iron, stone, coke or shelled
corn. the number of cars in the train will
be less, and when the material that con-
stitutes the load in cars is bulky and light,
a greater number of cars can be handled
In one train section
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08

CHICAGO, April 6.-John 5. Runnels the
wealthy Chicago attorney, formerly chief
counsel for the Pullman company, and
whose name has been connected with the
big telephone syndicate deal, admitted to
day that he is a member of the syndicate
which is to enter the field against the Bell
company. 1T is true" said Mr.. Runneis,
that / am a member of the syndicate, and
that the preliminary arrangements have
all been c-onsummated. / will go further
and say that l am glad to be included
among the elect, for there are, in my oE.n-
ion. vast possibilities in the telephone field.
This is not a fight against a corporation, a
local company or a patent. 1t is rather a
project which is to cut the telephone from
the list of luxuries and to give each house
holder the privilege of talking TO his fam
ily and friends when they happen to be in
the country at a nominal cost We have
not kept pace with the times in the tele-
phone Industry. and every Travelled man
knows there are better and cheaper tele-
phonic communications furnished in a
small state like Sweden than in this great
and growing country. As TO what has been
published, ! can only say that part of it is
true. but that all regarding the capital is
wrong"
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Thompson Arnold a Free Man.

WABASH, Ind, April 6.-Thompson Ar
mold, one of the proprietors of the South
Whitley Bank, which went to the wall
during the panic of 1888. and who was ar
was known to be insoIvent, is a free man
again. In the Whitley Circuit Court, last
December, he was sentenced TO one year
$25. As the minimum penalty for the Of
Tense of which he was convicted is two
years, the attorneys for the defense asked
that the verdict be set aside. and Judge
Penfield last evening sustained the mo-
ton, declaring void that part of the YER
dict relating to Imprisonment Arnold's
friends paid the SO fine and he was dis
charged. Although there are a number of
other counts in the indictments against
him and his father, Jesse Arnold, president
of the defunct First National Bank of
North Manchester, it is understood there
will be no prosecution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
Pythian FUNDS Secured.

CHICAGO, April 6.-The board of control,
Endowment Rank, knights of Pythias, rep
resenting the insurance branch of that
order, and which has carried it's principal
account with the City National Bank OF
Fort Worth, Tex, the depository for the
suspension of the City National Bank will
not in the least embarrass the Endowment
Rank nor will a dollar of the funds be
a bono in more than double the amount.
The board announces that all drafts that
have been issued by them and are now
outstanding will be paid in full on presenta-
tion to the First National Bank, Fort
Worth, Tex, with which arrangements
have been specially made for that pur-
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ceiver. tt il assumed here that the COM
pact Will IN n0wise retard the construc-
ton OF the big antitrust distifiery to be
erected by the American Distributing Com
pany, and 1t is further given out that the
Ierre Haute DistilIing Company. allusion
patch, is a new organization of local cap
italists with the American Distributing
Company, the purpose of which is to handle
the distribution of spirits in the Western
territory. the American Distributing Com
pany conHning its sales to the Eastern
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
VIII Firhf ON tine Quiet.

ELWOOD, Ind, April GA match has
been arranged for a prize hight to be pulled
off near this city, probably in Upton coun-
ty, one night next week between Emory
Stokes and a Marion pugilist. Great
secrecy is being maintained regarding the
fight in order to elude the officers. The
purse is to be $1G0.
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verdict for $50 900 Damages.

CLEVELAND, o., April Zone of the
heaviest verdIcts ever. given in a personal
injury case was rendered in the United
Heathorne, who sued the b. & O.. railway
for $100, 600 for the loss of both legs and the
was awarded $4,000 by the jury after only
three hours deliberation. 1t is understood
the railway company will appeal the case.
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The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton hand
led at indianapolis last week s72 cars, 7S6
being loaded.
The Big -Four lines proper last week hand
crease as compared with the week end
Ind March 80 of 3S5.
The Peoria & Eastern last week handled
Ell this point 2.0o7 loaded cars, which was
400 fewer than were received and forwarded
I'm the week ending March 80.
co The smpp ,y ns'om mo tbaa ut l tha wreck nresed Was
week, the fifteen roads handling 1857 empty
cars. against 5.265 in the week ending
The Monon last week handled at this
point a totel Of 55 cars, 43 being. loaded.
There is 2 healthy g s;N hin, n the mnl bqsin m;S1
DOUBTLESS be increased when the company
has its own terminal freight facilities.
The traffic of the Lake Erie & Western
last week came near being equal in volume
in both dirctions. the road bringing in 29
against 26s loaded cars forwarded; Its out
bound movement fell below that of the
week ending March 80 twenty-five loaded
cars.
1t was an of week with the four Penn
sylvania lines. they handling at Indian
apolis but 1901 loaded ears. a decrease as
compared with the week erdfng March 30
of eli loaded. cars. the. Louisville division
being the only one which handled an avx
erage tonnage,
Personal. Local and General Notes.
The Big Four earned in March s1.102. s44. rs,
an Increase over March, 1894, of $47. 503.15.
John Hooper. passenge conductor on the
Panhandle. was called to Cleveland Sat-
urday by the death of his father.
On April Is the local freight men viii go
to Cincinnati on invitation to examine the
terminals of the different Cincinnati roads.
The party will number sixteen.
The clerks in the transportation depart
uaent of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern have been notified of cuts In their salar-
les, the cut ranging from 80 to SIS a
month.
The Office of assistant general freight
agent on the Cottcn-belt has been abolished
and w. II. Quigg. who has held the posi-
tifn, goes to P~ittsLurg 10 represent the
Cottcn-belt lires.
The Monon and the louisville divisions of
the PENNSYLVANIA lines are bringing north
large nj mbers of cross ties. telegraph poles
snd bridge timber turned over to them
by southern roads at Louisville. The inr-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
Thurston Sails for Hawaii.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 6.-L. A. Thurs
ton. Hawaiian minister to the United
States. sailed to-day for Honolulu. He
stated that the date of his return is prob
Washington since his departure from the
q apifa1
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
S65 900 i'm Stakes.

IEXINGTONoaKy, April 6.-The Ken
lucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association
to-day amour oed 500, 600 in stakes for the
October meeting. The new stakes, called the
Tennessee stakes, for 2:10 PAGERS, value ST.
600
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
Sinus IN Line Of promotion.

Clifford Stanley Sims, who has been in
The maintenance of way and motive power
departments of the Pennsylvania Company
IN Fort Wayne for the past three years,
received notice Saturday of his promotion
10 the position of engineer of maintenance
of way on the Toledo, Walhonding Valley
e. Ohio railroad, a branch of the Pennsyl-
vania Company, with headquarters at To-
ledo. Mr.. Sims is now in the line of pro-
motion to a SUPPLEMENTARY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
A whisky-Trust Deal.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, April Elf all
authenticated reports here are 10 be con-
sidered, the dispatch published this morn
ing regarding a compac between the Spirit
Distiliing Company and the American Dis
tributing Company mean more than the
dispatch would imply. Inside Information
is to the effect that the truce between the
distributing company and the distilling
company is only temporary. as Receiver
ing on the trust after he ceases to be re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
THE BLUES
Why do Women have the Blues moro
than Menu

ESPECIAL TO OUR LADY R~EADEas.1
Are not women naturally as tight
hearted, brave, and hopeful as men
Yes; but woman's organism is diff
ferent from mans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08
Phoebe's Love Affair.

ST. LOUIS. April s.-The full corre-
spondence between James G.. Fair and
Phoebe Couzins, upon which the latter
bases her contention that an engagement
of marriage existed between her and the
millionaire. has been made public. The
first intimation of matrimony, Miss Couzins
asserts, was in a newspaper dispatch hand
ed her one day by Fair, narrating, the
c~onjugal misery that followed the wedding
of an 'ideal' man and an ideal woman,
the judge who finally granted them a di-
vorce remarking: The first requirement
for an ideal wife or husband is a wicked
partner" The CORRESPONDENCE began July
q. 1892, and continued to May 81, 1888. In
none of the letters, seemingly, is Fair af-
fectionate, though always courteous. kind
and encoura ging. 1t shows that he loaned
Miss Couzins money, and told her when
ever she needed more to call on him. All
his letters are answers to hers, apparently,
and no mention of marriage or love appears
to be made in any of them. His last note
to her was written from the Grand Pacific
Hotel, Chicago, May 81, 1898. and is signed
Most respectfully" 1t was when Fair
reached this hotel at that time, Miss
Couzins asserts, that he said to her: Il
have come to claim my reward"
what reWard?'' she asked.
yourself and a thousand kisses" she
saws he replied.
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New w. r. G. President Honored.

GREENSBURG, Ind. April 6.-Mrs. Eliza
j. Crisler, department president of the
Woman's Relief Corps. has established
the Pap Thomas Post, G.. A. r.. gave the
w. r. c. a surprise in the way of a spread
in the hall. 1t was an enjoyable occasion.
Impromptu speeches We're made by Mrs.
Crisler and NJ. d. Tackett. Miss Minnie
Ketchum gave a recitation. Misses Ella
Mckay Georgia and Edith Griswold, Win
ona Crisler and Stella Alyea rendered sew
eral songs.
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General Farnsworth.

-ApriI 6.IGen. J. q.
Farnsworth was stricken with paralysis to-
day and died at 9:20 o'clock tonight. The
body will be taken to Albany for interment.
General Farnsworth was born at Town
er's Station, n. Y, in 1882. At the begin
ter's department, L. S. A., and served I'M
til the close of the war. Afterward he went
into the lumber business in New York and
amassed a fortune. He was prominent in
the G.. A. r., and served on the STATS of
Cleveland, Flower and Hill during their
pf;bernatorial terms.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08

When the woman does not understand
what the matter is, and her doctor can
not or will not tell her, she grows morose
and melancholy; that's the blues.
Mrs. Newton Cobb, of Manchester, O.,
says: Lydia e. Pinkhdm's Vegetable
Compound will correct all this trouble.
| cannot praise it enough. / am pleased
TO tell every one that it cured me; and if
it will cure me, why not others ? / am
sure my case was severe enough" 1t will.
Get it of your druggist at once.
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Best place to Build Summer Homes.

We have choice lots in Lindsay Park. at
Charievoix. Mich. on bluff overlooking
Lake Michigan and Pine Lake. Reached by
Chicago g. West Michigan railway. Send p
cent stamp for illustrated pamphlet. II. w.
BLISS a. Co. Grand Rapids. Mich.