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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-01-23

There must have been at least q
guests at Horizons house to celebrate
the homecoming, and these had pro-
crossed through nearly every course
when one of the girls, who sat opposite
Olga, remarked, suddenly:
"Why, Olga Horton! Where's your
pretty solitaire? The last time saw
it."
Olga flushed, then paled, as she rose.
trembling, and showed the solitaire "a
gift from Mrs. Horton from among the
family heirlooms) on the third finger OF
her left hand.
Its just changed hands, that's ALL"
she said, trying to speak brightly, be
cause Jack and are to be married next
summer" Then she smiled on them all
and was gone, and presently Jack. utter
Is bewildered, but entirely happy,
found her in the garden, crying.
Sweetheart"
$50 away! hate you! l."
Another lie," commented Jack, jul
dicially but exultantly. However,
you're forgiven, for the sake of the
cause in which it was told. But, here,
Sapphira, how are we to explain
thingsY"
"Why, just go and tell them that
you're an old slow-poke and a dutfer,
and that I'm silly schoolgirl, but that
what l say 'goes'-and, Jack, it's just
seven years ago this time that you found
me, and it's leap year, too; and, Jack,
you're not cross, are your"
"Of course, am" he replied, between
kisses. But he did not say it with any
measure of solemnity.-San francisco
Argonaut.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-01-23
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1897-01-23

perhaps you couldn't punch my head,
Jack, interrupted his friend, calmly,
mot If / were present. But let's say
nothing more, and-it shan't happen
again. You don't know how sorry /
am. suppose she'll never speak to me
again, after all this" he concluded,
sadly.
But she did, and she also officiated as
pallbearer at the funeral of his hopes,
q week or two later, when he proposed
to her at picnic given by the ladies
of the garrison in honor of Olga's de-
parture from the fort. She was kind
enough to him, and all that, but Dandy
took it rather hard, and swore he'd re-
sign his commission, retire to the noun
tains and adopt hermitage as a profess
sion. Instead, however, he exchanged
t. northern post, fell in love again,
and married his colonel's wife's sister,
who was plain, but who had money
enough to disguise the fact somewhat.
Fielding comes next. He was lead
| ing light of the local bar at one of the
larger Arizona towns, and attended to
good deal of business for Horton, who
was interested in copper over there.
He came to Silver City to consult with
his client, met the "papcose," and a
heart heretofore considered impregna-
bic capitulated at frst glance, and
Fielding was lost. He neglected his
other suits to attend to this one to
such degree that it hurt his practice
and in the end he met the same fate al
the charmer's hands as had poor Dandy
! with , difference. Miss Olga told him
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT.
FREE GRAVEL ROAD LETTING.


Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be
received by the auditor of Bartholomew county
for the construction Of ten Q0) miles of free
gravel roads in Sandcreek township bartholomew
plans and specifications now on file in the au-
ditors Office at Columbus. Ind. Said ten Q0)
miles are divided into seven 90 divisions fol-
Section.N Z is 74SS feet in length section No.
Is 6642 feet in length section No. is 655 feet
section No. IL is 622 feet in length; section No
y is S,6lS feet in length; section No. 10 is 1852
feet in length.
whole. No bid win be entertained in excess of
the estimated cost reported by the engineer and
viewers. Bidders to file bonds in double the
amount of their bids for the faithful performance
OF the work. with sufficient sureties, two of whom
must be pesident freeholders of bartholomew
unity Indiana. All bids must be filed with the
county auditor at Columbus. Ind, by 10 o'clock
q. m. November the 18th. 1897. when bids will
be opened and contracts awarded.
All bidders to furnish W. w. Lambert, county
attorney. Columbus. Ind, with a list of the
names offered their respective bonds Tor fur
ish other proof of the sufficiency of the bonds)
on before the 18th day OF November 1897 The
board reserves the right to reject any and all bids
the law and equity of the bids filed. In the event
that the bonds TO be sold to pay for the construc-
tion of said roads shall fail to SELL as is now
provided by law, said bidder bidders to take
the bonds in payment OF contract price.
II. c. HARRIS,
DANIEL WERTZ,
Board of Commissioners.
Witness my hand and seal of the Board of Com
nissioners OF bartholomew county. this the I'd
CAV Of November, 1897, at the city of Columbus.
fSeal.l /. b. BARRETT.
Auditor Bartholomew County.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04

At meeting yesterday of the board OF
directors of the Commercial Club it was
reported that arrangements had been made
where, under the presentation of a mem
ber's card to any of the following organiza-
lions, would entitle the holder to all the
privileges of it's clubhouse: Commercial
Lincoln, Neb.; Commercial Club, Omaha,
Neb.; Commercial Club, Muscatine, Ia
Commercial Club. Kansas City, Mo-; Com
mercial Club, st. Joseph, Mo-; Commercial
Club. st. Louis, Mo-; Commercial Club, Red
Wing, Mimi; Commercial Club Minneapo-
lis, Mimi; Commercial Club, st. Paul.
Mimi. Commercial Club, Superior, Wis
Merchants Club, San Francisco, Cal.
Deadwood Club, Deadwood, S. D.. Sioux
City Commercial Association, Sioux City,
Ia; Business Mems Association, T,ysns-
vile, Ind; Commercial and Industrial Elk
change. Montgomery, Ala; Chamber of
Commerce, Cleveland, o.: Columbia Ath-
letic Club. Washington, d. c.. Manufac-
turerS' Club, Philadelphia, Pa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04
ATTEMPT TO KILL A WoMAN.
A Gardener Shoots Mrs. Henry and
Then Commits Suicide.

CINCINNATI. Nov. "A cowardly at
tempt to assasnate Mrs. John Henry,
wealthy and prominent woman, at her home
in Clifton, was made this morning by Lind
say Neighbert, a gardener, whom she re-
Gently discharged. While Mrs. Henry was
at breakfast alone Neighbert suddenly en-
tered the room and began firing. A servant
came to her assistance and bravely seized
the assassin after he had fired two shots.
He. managed to get him out of the room
and he fed to the woods, where an hour or
two later he was found dead with a bullet
through his head. Mrs Henry's life was
saved by the bravery of Delsine Barrett
who overpowered Neghbert. Mrs. Henry's
wounds are in the arm and are not re-
garded as serious. Neighbert had been sus-
pected of theft and was discharged last
week, the day after the marriage of Miss
Henry to Mr.. E. o. Mccormick, of the Big
-Four, because a number of articles were
missing at that time He was fifty years
old
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04
THE COURT RECORD.
Supreme Court.

1900 James VS. Lake Erie & Western
Railway Company. Madison c. G. Affirmed
Hackney. il Any question decided on
appeal is res adjudicata in that cause 2
When cause has been appealed to the
Appellate Court, reversed and sent back to
that the demand is increased so as TO
bring the second appeal to this court, will
not justify the trial court in departing
from the law as laid down in the appeal to
the Appellate Court.
1915. Winstanley VS.. Breyfogle. Monroe c.
G. Affirmed. Howard, il. A special find
ing must be identified by the signature of
record by bill of exceptions by order of
court. 2 The judge is to state both the facts
and the conclusions of law in writing, the
conclusions Immediately following and in
connection with the facts and his sigma
ture after the conclusions will be sufficient,
and the exceptions to the conclusions of
law should Immediately follow such conclu-
sions. or be taken by the party before he
takes any other steps in the case. 8. The
clerks certificate should authenticate the
bill of exceptions.
Appellate Court.
1888 McNillen VS.. Dearborn. Tippecanoe
G. c. Affirmed. Black il. The surety on
a promissory note is discharged If the
creditor does not proceed to bring his ac-
ton within a reasonable time after the
surety shall have required the creditor, by
notice in writing. forthwith to institute an
action thereon. 2. When a surety attempts
TO discharge himself from liability, he
must proceed according to the method pro-
vided by the statute g. A notice which does
not so far conform to the statute as, by
the language used in X, to require the
creditor forthwith to institute an action
upon the contract, is not sufficient to re-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04

Hugo King one of the ticket brokers at
Columbus O., has retired.
The receipts collected from excess baggage
at the Union Station last month were near
ly $1,000.
on the Wabash lines, is candidate for colec-
tor of customs at Toledo.
The receipts of the Big Four at Indianap-
oils for October were $45.S60. exceeding those
of October. 1896, by $l2,S4S54
p B. Doddridge has been appointed gen.
eral agent of the Denver & Rio Grande at
St. Louis, vice w. T. jeffrey, deceased.
r. b. +. Pierce, receiver of the Toledo
ST. Louis & Kansas City, left last night
for Toledo, to be absent during the week
The party of Panhandle supervisors who
have been Inspecting the different divisions,
travelling on a special train, numbers eighty
The stock trains of the Big Four between
St. Louis Indianapolis and Cleveland are
now the fastest scheduled stock trains run
in the country.
died at the baggage rooms of the Union
Station 80, 432 pieces of baggage. an increase
over October 1886, of 5066 pieces.
Chief Train Dispatcher Sullivan, on the
Wabash, who has been very i'll with typhoid
fever recently. has so far recovered that
he was at his Office in Peru yesterday.
In tearing up a siding on the Straitsville
division of the Baltimore a. Ohio the other
day. the section men discovered that sew
eral of the rails had been made in 1863.
Subsequent investigation revealed the fact
that these rails We're part Of a lot that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04
THE NEW CARNEGIE LINE
A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT IN
RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION.
Locomotive Works Thought to Have
of Time on Safety Appliances.

The Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie
road, better known as thu arnegie road,
is completed. The road, which was built
for business without any solicitation has
paying traffic awaiting the movement of
its trains The road was projected less than
two years ago; the survey was completed,
and the line located by July 1, by Sept.
/, 1895, the contracts were let and construc-
ton work begun. The construction is the
heaviest ever put into railroad throughout
the United States; the amount of work for
the distance exceeds anything in railroad
history; the quantity of steel used is greater
than ever was known in railway work for
the same distance; the rails are one hun
dred pounds to the yard; the maximum
grades are little more than half the usual
grades Of other roads in the vicinity of
Pittsburg. The rolling stock is of new char
acter, the cars being wholly of steel and the
locomotives of the heaviest pattern. Pas
senger business will cut no figure in the
traffic of the line. 1t is asserted that no
railroad has ever opened business under
such fiattering prospects as the Carnegie
line. The total amount of excavating on
the line was 100000 cubic yards. The fill
ing was of equal amount, as all the earth
and stone was dumped into hollows on the
line where it was desired to raise the grade.
In building the bridges 1900 tons of steel
were used. The trestles range in height
from thirty feet to 1876 feet If these were
made into one bridge the length would be
two and three-fourths miles, The road from
Butler to Bessemer is series of half a
hundred cuts and fills. seventeen bridges
and two tunnels. 1t is said that there was
only one spot on the line where the natural
level was awaited of. The largest bridge on
the line is that across the Allegheny river.
1t is 160 feet above the river level It is
1,SO0 feet from one bluff to another, and it
is called deck bridge. The bridge is $500
feet long. The largest cut made is about
thirteen miles from Butler, Here 100. 600
cubic yards were excavated The longest
tunnel is near Unity. 1t is $500 feet long.
Only where it was impossible to make a
fill was trestle built. The road does not
go around anything unless it is absolutely
necessary. The greatest fill used up 1000
cubic yards of material 1t is believed that
about two miles were saved by the cuts,
bridges and fills. 1t is asserted that this
road will show the highest average of any
road on the continent for any substantial
distance of haul of freight. 1t is perhaps
the nearest Decline of any road traver-
sing a hilly country. From Butler to Bes-
semer the new road does not pass through
a single town.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04

An agreement has been reached by the
Ohio river roads which brings to an end a
Town drawn out fight. 1t relates to the rum
ming time between Chicago and Cincinnati
and between Chicago and Louisville. BY
this agreement the minimum time between
Chicago and Cincinnati will be nine hours
and that between Chicago and Louisville
will be nine hours and forty-five minutes
Under this agreement the Monon will now
become member of the mileage bureau OF
the Central Passenger Association. When
announced yesterday that an agreement OF
this kind had been reached there was an
evident sense of disappointment. 1t had
been hoped by passenger officials that the
Big Four, with its aggressive spirit, would
at least have kept on one fast train. But
the most mysterious thing about 1T is that
for two years past the Big Four, the Monon
and Pennsylvania lines have been spending
money lavishly to get roadbeds in condition
to make better time, and now all lines go
back to the speed of ten years ago.. To
passenger men who are aggressive IL is a
keen disappointment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04

Fred M. Snyder, a prominent stone and
cement contractor, died Tuesday night of
organic heart trouble after an illness Of
three months. He was the senior member
of the firm of F. M. Snyder & Co., which
has the contract for building the cascades
and doing the cement work at the soldiers
and sailors monument now nearing COM
pletion The firm has had several other
large contracts.
He died at the home of Mr. Monroe
Schreckengoss, Al Yandes street, which has
been his home for the last three or four
years. His daughter is Miss Leanore
Snyder, who has attained prominence as a
vocalist Mr.. Snyder was in the fifty-fourth
year of his age. He was a member of Ma
rion Lodge, No. /, K. of p, under whose
auspices the funeral will be held at No. Al
Yandes street, at o'clock tomorrow aft
ernOOn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04
WELL-KNOWN MEN DEAD.
Death of DIR. Elijah MendenhalI Mt the
Advanced Age of Eighty-TvO.

DR.. Elijah Mendenhall died at ZIG West
Twelfth street yesterday morning. He was
in the eighty-second year of his age. hav-
ing been in the practice of medicine more
than sixty years. first in Cincinnati, but
for the last twenty-five years in this city,
where he was much esteemed as a citizen
and as physician until the infirmities of
age incapacitated him for the duties of his
profession. He was member of Roberts
Park NJ E.. Church from the time of COM
ing to the city.
His Oldest son, Rev. James w. Menden-
hall, d. D.. was for years editor of the
Methodist Review, and had been reelected
in 1892, but died before reaching his home,
after the adjournment of the General Con-
ference. Three sons, all physicians of high
standing in Illinois, and his widow, aged
eighty, to whom he had been married over
f1fty-six years. survive him. He will De
buried from his late residence at 2 clock
this afternoon, Rev. G. M. Smith, of Hall
place NJ. E. Church, conducting the serv-
ices.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04
Mark Twain's Debts Paid.
Hartford Times.

A letter received from Mark Twain by a
pc. sonal friend in New York within a few
DAYS brings the pleasant news that the
eminent humorist is now ''out of the
woods financially. He has succeeded in
paying all his debts by money which he has
earned during the past two years. This
success shows what Mr. Clemens can do
when he feels thai he must. His actual
earnings since he went abroad amount to
$50, 600 of which about $4,000 has been re-
ceived for lecturing and the remainder has
been paid to him for his writings. He has
now the comfortable prospects of a very
large income from his books during the re-
mainder of his life, and the certainty that
his family will be we'll provided for. He is
naturally in a very happy frame OF mind,
and, although he has been suffering some
what from the govt since he has been in
Vienna, the removal of the burden of debt
from his shoulders makes the world seem
vastly pleasanter to live in. The rapidity
with which Mr.. Clemens has paid off his
obligations by his own efforts shows that
there was absolutely no justification what
ever for the attempt of a New York news
paper to get up a public subscription re-
Gently for his benefit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04
notice OF APPLICATION FOR ADMIN
ISTRATIoN.

TO Sarah J. syes and all others whom 1t may
cOncern:
Notice Is hereby given that on the 26th day of
June. 1897, application filed in the Elkhart
Circuit Court of the State of Indiana by Margaret
Close for the appointment of an administrator
for the estate of Sarah j. Syes alleging as a
reason for said appointment that on the LIST day
pf April 1885, said Sarah J. Syes then and there
being a bona fde resident of the county OF Elk
bart and State OF Indiana, left her said residence
Rnd said county and went to parts unknown. leay-
property, of about the value of one hundred and
nifty dollars AMI for the space of more than five
sears has continuously secreted herself from her
fzid residence, and her whereabouts is not now
known. BY said petition II is made 10 appear
that said property il suffering waste for want or
proper care.
Said application for the appointment of an ad-
H'nistrator for the estate of said Sarah ]. Syes
viii be heard by said court the first day OF the
ensuing December term thereafter as
the court can hear the same
Witness nv hard and the seal Of said court this
t6ih day OF June, 1881 80
Clerk OF Elixhs ri Circuit Court.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04
IT IS COSTING A HEAP
ATTORNEY GENERALS ESTIMATE ON
THE MONUMENT EXPENSE.
Wives Who Are Begging for Legal
Separation - Cases Decided by
the Higher Courts.

In the Circuit Court yesterday afternoon
argument was had in the suit of the board
of monument regents against the auditor of
state to compel that official to pay certain
expenses out of the general fund instead of
charging them to the fund set apart as Incl
dentals. The question was raised as to
whether the Peace" and War groups can
be considered as structural or as Incl
dental" Attorney General Ketcham con-
tends that they are structural. Smith &
Korbaly, who brought the suit, take the
other view of the case.
In order to ascertain from which fund
Bruno Schmit- is to be paid for services in
designing the Peace and "War" groups
the board OF regents filed the suit against
the auditor several weeks ago. In his argu-
ment yesterday the attorney general pro-
duced figures to show that before the monu-
ment is completed it will have cost in the
neighborhood of $6O0, Goo. He said he had no
complaint to make Of the expenses that pile
up from year to year. He was perfectly
satisfied with the work as it was being done.
He only asked that the expenses be paid
out of the funds to which they belonged.
The attorney general showed that up to the
LIST of last September there had been ex-
pended on the monument for things that
might be classed as 'incidentals" the sum
of $4,000. There had also been expended
up to the same date the sum of $3.50, 900 from
the general appropriation The regents
have shown that they have contracts al
ready made calling for $S5, 900 more. The
attorney general submitted other figures
which he said would probably bring the cost
of the great shaft up to $626,0O 1t was
originally estimated that the monu-
ment would cost about 5000, 900. He thought
if the regents could find no other way of
meeting these incidental expenses they
could find men who would take contracts
them. Judge Allen has taken the question
under Amusement
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04
THEY WE'RE M1sM ED.
Four Wives Who Seek Freedom from
Matrimonial Bonds.

FOur wives Who Seek Freedom from
Matrimonial Bonds. y
Alma Ordella Karcher makes serious
complaint against Joseph Karcher in suit
for divorce brought in the Superior Court
yesterday afternoon. She says they were
married in October, 1887. The defendant is
charged with referring to her as liar
and thief and with having kicked her
and struck her with a cane. She says,
among other things he did to annoy her,
was to instruct the grocer to refuse to
sell her the necessities of life. The COM
plant further charges that the defendant
was in the habit of sending his children to
the saloon to get liquor for him, 10th on
week days and on Sunday The plaintiff
says her husband has property worth $1,000,
and she asks altmOny in the sum of IS, 600.
Mary r. Denton brings suit for divorce
from Frank M. Denton, to whom she was
married in jennings county in 1873. She
says Denton left her in 1891 and she has
been compelled to support herself and Child.
She asks the restoration of her maiden
name, Mary r. Ellis.
Lewis p Shaler is the defendant in a
suit for divorce brought by Hattie Sllaler.
They were married in 1895. The wife says
Shaler has failed to provide dome for her
and drinks to excess. She wants her maid
en- name, Hattie Spencer, restored.
Jennie Taylor brings suit for divorce from
George Taylor, charging him with having
made her married life very unpleasant
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-04

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