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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
Strict Discipline Among Trainmen
Lessons the Number.
IeSlia, WaaIx1,,


1t is recorded that the first railroad accI-
dent in this country occurred TO Peter
Cooper, when he tried to race his little ma
chine with a pair of stage horses. A band
slipped and in the attempt TO replace it
his finger was severely injured. That the
horses won the race is also a part of the
history of that first test. But since that
day, some sixty-odd years ago. there have
been many railroad accidents in this coun-
try and in all parts of the world. Several
tunes each year the world IS shocked by
some railroad accident: but as rule rail-
roed travel is as safe as staying at home,
and it is astonishing how the Various at
tachMents and the block signal and other
appliances have added to the security OF
life and limb.
But wonderful as has been the improve
ment In this country, which has more rail-
roads than any other part of the world, the
showing of safety is decidedly in favor OF
England. The special report of the British
Board of Trade on railway accidents. which
has recently been published, shows that
the total number of passengers and en-
on the railways of Great Britain in 1896 was
only eight and that the number of persons
injured was only 549. When We come to
think of the hundreds of millions of people
carried over these roads each year the hg-
ureS are truly astonishing. But the causes
are easily found. In England the grade
crossing is eliminated; single tracks are
rare, and, possibly most important of all,
the strictest kind of official INVESTIGATION
and supervision is maintained. 1t makes
no difference how small an accident is 1t
is Immediately investigated and the blame
is promptly placed The Importance of this
is seen in the fact that over 90 per cent. or
the collisions were caused by misunder-
standing or disobeying signals. In Eng
land. as well as in this country, the me-
chanical equipments of the first-class rail-
roads are well-nigh perfect, and it is ex-
tremely seldom that they go wrong. The
greater safety, therefore, is due In very
large degree to the strict discipline and the
absolute fixing of responsibility in the OPP
GRAFTON of the trains. That Is lesson
which many of our railroads and railroad
men must learn more perfectly for 1t is
the one thing which can largely decrease
the number Of accidents of all kinds in this
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

An exchange says that had the law for the
exclusion of immigrants been in force when
Commissioner Powderly's parents came to
this country they would have been sent
back to Ireland Possibly; but that was
fifty years ago when the labor market was
not crowded, and when Industrious Irish Ia
borers were needed. To-day there is no
place for the bulk of the lawless and
ignorant immigrants who come to our
shores Moreover. it is possible for condi-
tons in regard to immigration to change
in fifty years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune.
Dr. Grey editor of the Interior, made an
address yesterday before the meeting OF
PRESBYTERIAN ministers on Twentieth Cen
fury Presbyterians." He said the Presby-
terrain Church, with all it's wealth, intellect
and power, was not making the progress
it should
ut ought to sweep the coming centuries, !"
said the DOCTOR 'ard 1t will If the Presby-
terians put the pruning knife in play.
made more brief and the doctrines of Cal
vim softened to suit an intellectual and spir-
itual age He favored broader views that
would make dissension thing of no need
and reunite the divided branches of the
church.
He was opposed to the sectarianizing OF
the Christian Endeavor societies, and
thought the Presbyterian Church would not
lose any of its prestige by permitting its
young people to fraternize with the general
Christian Endeavor society. In conclusion
he advocated wider field for woman in the
church, and her recognition along with men,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
SHOULD BE PERMANENTLY RETIRED.

One of the subcommittee of the monetary
commission now sitting in Washington will
Investigate the several classes of United
States notes with view of devising a
plan for the retirement of the greenbacks
without causing a contraction or other dis
turbance of the currency This is one of
the most important subjects that the COM
mission will have to deal with. 1t has en-
gagged the attention of our best financiers
for many years past, including several Sec
retaries of the treasury. and it is the
unanimous opinion of those best qualified to
Judge that the greenbacks should be re-
tired. At the time they We're issued it
never entered the mind of any person that
they were to remain permanently outstand-
ing The fact that they were on their face
government promises to pay was construed
IS meaning that they were to be redeemed
and retired when they had served their pur-
pose at the earliest convenience of the gov
eminent This process of redemption and
retirement began soon after the war, but
It was stopped by Congress and law was
passed that when redeemed they should be
reissued From that time to the present,
but particularly during the Cleveland re-
gime, when the tariff law created deficit
in the revenues causing greenbacks to be
paid out, they have been a trouble-breedlng
factor in our currency system, constant
source of anxiety TO every secretary of the
treasury and disturbing element in busi-
ness. They should be retired. No doubt Score
tary Gage VIII recommon this in ms nrsr an
nuaI report to Congress and he may suggest
a definite plan for accomplishing it. Between
his plan and the one the monetary commits
sion VIII offer Congress will have no diff
Guilty Ia formulating one that Will be safe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

1t seems that the Sentinel will be COM
PEELED to take issue with DR.. Van vorhis, in
view of his recent structures and revelations
regarding the mayor. A year ago the rela-
tons of the Sentinel and the doctor were
of the David and Jonathan variety. He
knew more than the Sentinel did regarding
the l6-to-l heresy, so that he contributed
long speeches and the Sentinel paid him
in editorial praises Now that Dr. Van
Voris has charged that Mayor Taggart Sc
cretly helped the gold Democrats, the Sem
tinel must deny it. At the same time it can
not escape the painful duty Of chastising
this vigorous assailant of the mayor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
Denver Republican.


The Salvation Army colony plan improves
the more it is revealed. When it was first
not commend itself to public approval. 1t
looked like a scheme to colonize Colorado
from the slums of New York, and for peo-
pie of that class this State has no room.
But it appears that this is very far from
the intention of the promoters of the enter
prise. The plan is to give honest working
people chance to acquire homes of their
own and thus lift them out OF those condi-
tions which are so hard and depressing for
men in New York who can get nothing to
do 1t is not charity enterprise, and 1t is
not the purpose to make the Arkansas VAL
lev or any other part of the State Botany
Bay for New York criminals. Honest in
dustrious men who are heads of families VIII
he admitted into the colony. But the land
to which they will remove will not be given
them. 1t will be sold on easy terms, adj
hitting of their paying for it in reasonable
time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

Tuesday it was announced by sensa-
tional paper that an influential English pa
per had predicted that International free
coinage would be adopted by Great Britain
on the basis proposed by the United States
When the dispatch of the Associated Press
was printed it appears that the basis which
would be adopted by Great Britain was free
coinage in the United States. France and
India. while the Bank of England will carry
one-ffth of its reserve in silver. That is
not international free coinage, and it is not
the United states plan.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
New York Letter.

Mrs. u. S. Grant, accompanied by her
SON Col Frederick d. Grant, and her
daughter Mrs. Sartoris. paid a visit to the
tomb of General Grant in Riverside Drive.
yesterday afternoon. 1t was the second WIS.,
ii that Mrs Grant has made to the maus-
oleum since it's dedication last April. She
appeared to be very feeble and to have
Colonel Grant assisted her up the steps to
the entrance of the tomb. Sergeant Fitz-
patrick with Roundsman Wall and eight
policemen, cleared a path in the great
throng of visitors She was very much
pleased with the improvements made in the
interior of the tomb. For ten minutes, with
her son and daughter on either side of her.
she gazed at the crypt and the place that
has been reserved for her body beside that
of her husband.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
CoMPAssEs GO CRAZY.
Point Where the Magic Needle Cam
not Be Relied On.
New York Sun.

New York sun.
A most phenomenal island is that of Born
holm, in the Baltic, belonging to the king
dom of Denmark. 1t is famous for its geo.
graphical peculiarities, consisting as it does
almost entirely of magnetic, and its mag
netic influence is not only very well known
to the navigators of those waters, but also
much feared by them on account of its in
f1uence on the magnetic needles. which
makes the steerage of a ship correctly
matter of much difficulty. In fact this in
f1uence is felt even at a distance of miles,
and so palpably that. on the island being
sighted by mariners on the Baltic, they at
once discontinue steering their course by the
needle and turn, instead, to the we'll known
lighthouses and other holds to direct their
craft. Between Bcrnhohn and the main
land there is also a bank of rock under
water which is very dangerous to naviga-
ton because of it being constantly sub
merged, vessels having been frequently
wrecked at that point. The peculiar fact in
this case is that the magnetic influence OF
this ore bank is so powerful that mag
netic needle suspended freely in a boat over
the bank will point down. and II not dis
turbed will remain in perfectly perpen-
dicular line.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

side world without whose well-being the
home cannot survive. The church and the
home. the school and the home, industry
and the home, society and the home are all
part of a great whole. and the women who
attend these meetings realize as never be-
fore the solidarity of the home interest and
the world interest. Though these state
federation meetings are held with very little
advertising in the press and with no blare
OF trumpets, the work which they accom-
plish plays an important part in the adj
vancement of the Nation
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

In his short speech accepting the Repub-
hcan nomination for mayor of Greater New
York General Tracy said: I'm the provi-
dence of God the Republican party for
more than forty years has been the great
bulwark of national honor and prosperity
and it's mission is not ended. In the future
as in the past, it should be the effort of all
Republicans to make it the instrument of
the people to secure good government in
the city as well in the State and the Ma
ton" If any Republican in this city thinks
OF voting for T. Taggart, let him ponder
that WELL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

Washington Post.

W dSUIIISIUIl TU5I.
Mr. H. H. Hanna of Indianapolis, who
has been the leading spirit in organizing
the monetary commission which is now
wrestling with the reform of our system OF
finance, is probably three score years, but
there is nothing about him suggestive OF
physical decline. He is above the average in
height and has q commanding appearance
His hair. snow white frames an intellectual
and attractive face. In manner Mr.. Hanna
is the embodiment of courtesy, and he inn
presses. every one with the earnestness and
sincerity of his purpose. He Is large en-
ployer Of labor and at present has at leas;
500 men on hts pay rolls
He is a manufacturer of stationary en-
gines and boilers, and told a Post reporter
at the Arlington last evening that he be-
leyed the Improvement in business was not
of a transitory character. He thinks that
the era of good times has come TO stay.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

Tammany has troubles of its own. Unless
platform the silverites will support Henry
George. who has already been nominated,
for mayor. If Tammany supports the plat
form thousands of sound-money Democrats
will fail to vote Tammany's ticket. Mr..
Fitch. whom the Republicans have nominat-
ed for controller. was sound-money mem
Der of Tammany last year and has been a
conspicuously able controller. A few years
ago ne was a Republican. but broke away
while in Congress because he would not vote
for the Mckinley law.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

ton, ETC. but it does not forbid removals.
Only the rules do that. JAS to the spirit Of
the law, it is not more against removals for
partisan reasons than the spirit of the city
charter is. yet Mayor Taggart, the evening
organs candidate, fired all the Republic
an appointees of his predecessor in one
two-three order
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

A dispatch from Key West reports great
activity in the naval station there,
Strengthening the works, accommodating
naval stores. etc This may not mean that
our Uncle Samuel expects war with Spain,
but evidently he does not intend to be
taken unawares
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

The $4,000 which recent meeting of the
Council set aside to re-elect Mr.. Taggart
would remit the taxes of more than two or
three thousand people who are now being
threatened with sales of personal property
for overdue taxes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

With the near approach of the end of the
season the information is given out that
the sales of iron ore have been larger this
wear than ever before. 1t is a simple state
ment, but a significant one. Furnace men
never buy iron ore for fun, and When the
of prosperity is close at hand. This item
of news is worth notice by the calamity
howlers as second only IN Importance 10 the
advance in the price of wheat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

Only three of the 2OS men employed on
Pogue's run to help the Taggart campaign
are colored men, And yet it is rumored
that Mr.. Taggart expects a large number
of colored men to vote for him. If colored
men do vote for him it is because they have
been won by the Taggart smile, which
means that they have been duped.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
A Sign of the Times.

did you get that shooting scrape?"
asked the city editor.
Yes" replied the police reporter. Two
workingmen were assailed by couple of
tramps and shot the fellows
Get the names?"
"Yep. The worlxingmen were named
SlkcvinsH and Polackowitcx and the tramps
were named Smith and Brown"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
Small Re0uest.

'Is there anything I can do for your"
asked the visitor
"Why, no. not MUCH said the man who
had drawn ninety days for scorching, "un-
less you would be so kind as to use your
pull with the authorities and get them to
let me have a home trainer in my CELL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

Mayor Taggart's evening organ questions
the right of Marshal Kercheval TO remove
employees appointed by his predecessor be-
cause clearly it is the spirit of the law
that men in such places should not be dis
charged for partisan reasons. or for any
other reasons except such as are connected
with the good OF the service" The civil
service Law regulates the mode of appoint
uaent 70 Office. az to competitive examine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

The latest advices are that the Mikado
of Japan is not so strenuous in his oppose
ton to its annexation of Hawaii as he was
months ago. The Japanese are said to be
q very discreet people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

Until recently the truly good papers of
New York called him "Jakey Worth of the
machine" but since he has supported Mr.
Low for mayor his name appears in those
papers as 1.-THE Hon. Jacob Worth, of Brook
Ixyr,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
PifiahIe Case.

Dismal Dawson-Mister, 1 amt had a bite
TO eat fer three days
Mister-Get out with your lies.
Dismal Dawson-But this is dead square.
I amt even had drink fer eight hours.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

ley countys municipal organization abol-
ished and the county wiped off the map
than to let the recent lynching go entirely
unpunished.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

Washington Post.

Washington Post.
In addition to coming out from behind
that big bunch OF Rushville whiskers Com
sui General Gowdy has discarded his bulg-
ing umbrella and is now able to manipulate
one of the close roll variety.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

chicago Times-Herald.

The Boston Globe asks: ''Win the new
woman knit her own stockings" The fifth
word of that question answers 1t, in the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

Sound-money Democrats should remember
that the election of Mayor Taggart on q
free-silver platform will be heralded
throughout the country as Bryan victory.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

A full Republican vote for Harding will
make him mayor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,
indianapolis, Ind.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
NEW XORK-Windsor Hotel and Astof House
CHICAGC--Palmer House and P. o. News Co..
III Dearborn street.
street.
LOUISVILLE-C. 7. Deering. northwest corner
Of Third and Jefferson streets, and LOUISVILLE
Book Co. 256 Fourth avenue.
st. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riggs House, Ebbt;
House. Wizards Hotel and the Washington
News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between
Penn. avenue and + street.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

The hog cholera has done far more dam
age in Iowa than it has in this State. The
loss last year was about 100000 hogs, worth
nearly S12OOO,OOO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
True Love.

Shell know 1 am not the first girl you
ever loved.
e-Well-er-at least, you are the first
girl 1 ever bought more than S17 worth of
presents for.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

There is no better Indication of business
conditions than postofilce receipts, and they
are increasing all over the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

The price of silver bullion declined "a
cents per ounce from Friday to Tuesday
last. but Mr.. Bryan continues to speak his
niece
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

To the regret of the Taggart regime, the
campaign is waking up.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
Whiting 10 Go that Far.

Washington Post.
Governor Mount should not be too severe
on that Indiana grand jury Its members
admitted that there was lyaching at Ver-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
should Return.
Pitsburg Chr

Pitsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
Mr.. Luetgert insists that his wife Is alive.
Then let her return and see If she recog-
nizes her own sesamoid bones.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

The talk of a Spanish fleet is not giving
US nearly so much anxiety as is the drought
OF the protracted fine weather.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

Iowa has the largest number of banks of
any State in the Union, viz, 167 national
banks and $40 state and savings banks The
market such as this State has not expert
enced for several years. The increase in
the available cash held by the savings and
state banks over that of one year ago is
$3,O4599S Yet Mr.. Bryan shuts his eyes
and says there is no prosperity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
a Pertinent Question.
Chicago Timet

Chicago Times Herald.
A ST. Louis contemporary proudly asserts
that a resident of that town drank thirty
two bottles OF beer at one sitting recently.
Is he still sttingg
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

Louisville Commercial.


Word comes from France that Uncle Jack
Gowdy has discarded his Hoosier calico
crayat for Paris-green tie,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

and feasible and that can be carried out
without causing any disturbance in our cur
rency system.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
And the Laymen, Too.

Indianapolis Sentinel
Every Methodist preacher in Indiana reads
the Sunday Journal, if he reads any Sunday
newspaper.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30

To the few persons who attended the la
Dor convention in Chicago this week Mr..
Debs said that his experience has taught
him that 1.-The more we strike the worse off
we are" Unfortunately. Mr.. Debs's ex-
perience has come to him after he has
ceased to have innuence with wage earners.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-29

VIII appropriate. will make a No. /
road. Commissioner Alf w. Neheker of
Randolph has completed q splendid
road from Meadowville 10 the summit
dividing the two counties.
Judge Hart returned home this MORN
ing from holding court at Ogden He
Will hold court tomorrow and next day
in Logan. Some important cases are
docketed.
Ripley S. Lyon, cashier of the First
National bank OF Logan, left on this
afternoons train for New York on bus
mess He expects to be gone about
three weeks.
County Commissioner Hayball, Sher-
iff Turner and County Treasurer Farr
left this afternoon for the head of Lo-
gan canyon to visit the road makers
With a view to asCeTtaining the amount
necessary to complete the road They
expect to return tomorrow.
James a. Langton and Miss Lucy
Edna Carbon were married today in
Logan temple Apostle NJ W. Merrill
performed the ceremony.
lie Roy Carbon, manager Of the Car
don JewelrY company of Pocatello
came down to Logan this morning to
attend the wedding reception tonight Of
his sister, Miss Edna,
A ball viii be given tomorrow even
ing at Nichols Dancing academy IN
der the auspices of the Brigham Young
college