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The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
CURTIS AND KERN.


City Attorney Curtis followed the attor-
ney general. He declared that Section 90,
Article "A. OF the State Constitution. de-
claring that general laws must be of uni
form application throughout the State,
gave to the Legislature discretion as to
what laws could be made uniform i'm opera
tion. He showed by a decision of the Su-
preme Court that classification by popula-
tion legitimate not only for govern
mental purposes. but also for other kinds
OF legislation. He declared that this method
of classification was particularly just in
this case. for the receipts of street rail-
roads depended 80 largely upon the popu-
lation of the cities i'm which they operated
He went into the history of this legislation
slightly and showed that il was passed
practically at the invitation OF the Street
car Company extended through the same
attorneys now opposing it as representa-
tives OF the Central Trust COMPANY They
had even suggested In their arguments and
briefs that il be made TO apply TO Indian
apolis alone. He showed that there We're
other street-railroad regulations applying
10 this city alone that had never been at
tackled by the company. He also showed
that there were numerous valid laws an
plying To Indiana cities CLASSIFIED ACCORDING
10 population, and cited various decisions
in other States uphoding this method OF
(4eS-lutdNiou- tiuOiCu various decisions
or the federal courts declining TO interfere
with city ordinances fixing the price of gas
and other quasi-pubiic service.
Mr.. Curtis raised the point that the plain-
tiffs could have no standing I'm court be-
causiS their bonds We're not stated 10y the
bill 10 be issued in compliance with the
Indiana statutes. which authorize street
railroad companies TO borrow such sums
OF money as may be necessary for the com
pletion or operation" of their road Nor
was there anything TO show that these
bonds had been or were about TO be de-
faulted. The bill simply declared that they
were about 10 nuctuate In value. All Sc
cur1ties were likely To fuctuate from day
10 day. and injunctions could not pre-
vent II.
Mr. Kern, also representing the city, fol-
lowed Ar. Curtis. He said the case was
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
Texas Idea of Wholesome Diet.

New 0Ofk tribune. ,c~
When Representative Sayers. CX-chair-
man of the House appropriations commits
tee, and one of the most respected men,
berS of the House. goes down 10 lunch he
indulges in corn bread and bacon. 1t is
the most wholesome diet I'm the world,
says he. land / believe that every man
ought 10 eat his heartiest meal IN the
middle OF the day. This late dining Is not
a good thing. / remember once" said Mr..
Savers yesterday. coming down TO lunch
and sitting at the same table with the late
w. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania. He asked
me to lunch with him. and passed me the
bill of fare. Without looking at il. i or
dered a pint Of buttermik, big piece OF
hot corn bread and some broiied bacon.
Mr.. Scott looked at me with astonishment.
Do you intend to eat tnat miXture2' he
asked me- Certainly. said |. 'Sayers.' he
said. 4 would give million dollars this
minute If l could eat "A meal. like that and
digest it, and he went on slipping his milk
while told him that 1 would not exchange
places with him for two millions. The
fact is" added Mr.. Sayers. that the way
for a man To keep healthy is to eat plain
food" and he went on munching his corn
bread with great satisfaction.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16

PhiladelDhia. Pres


Professor Cope belonged to that brilliant
band of scientists which, with Marsh and
Leidy as leaders has not only been honored
at home but abundantly recognized abroad
His particular work i'm zoology and paleon-
toogy resulted i'm the amass!ng of "A tre-
mendous amount of material which threw
light upon the organic and inorganic facts
of the worlds development. and in his Keen
hands became part of the great demonstra-
BILE facts upon which the hypothesis of evo-
luton was broadly builded. NoI only
skilled i'm analysis but in "A synthetic treat
ment Of his own collected facts. Professor
Cope did much i'm his extended writings 10
explain and develop the theory of evolution
as il came to him from the older men, and
his important congratulations in this lnle
of thought were not only brilliant but con-
Vincng.
Honored last summer by the American
Association for the Advancement or
Science, which made him its president the
last of many like honors in various assoc
Citations, he dies weighted with the rewards
of a life OF intense application and fun or
results. He represented in himself that trl-
umph of mind over matter which IL was
his delight TO prove factor i'm the develop
ment of animal life. and his vitalizing con-
cepts, which made many cretaceous
valley of dry bones speak with living VIII
nesses. will be the inspiration OF many and
his real monument.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
Professor Cope's Home.

New York Post.
His house in Pine street. Philadelphia
is as unique as his life. stored from cellar
to garret with his wonderful collection
heavily dust laden. His own room like
Huxley's study. is piled waist high with
pamphlets. fossils and alcoholic specimens
chaos 10 the visitor. but perfect order in his
own mind. Occasionally an aged tortoise
would wander out from beneath the plevis
of a saurian, and his latest pet was a gila-
monster. who, contrary To the popular be-
lief W. ) perfectly harmless, and loved 10
have the Professor scratch his head. Here
Professor Cope was always 10 be found
keen with interest for everything in the
world of natural science, a champion OF
the supremacy OF intellectual over material
forces. q free lance i'm scientific criticism.
Here he showed heroic fortitude through
years of aCVersity and financial reNers,s.
and endured uncomplainingly the terrible
suffering which preceded his final collapse.
His devoted wife and daughter rightly feit
that il was fitting for him 10 pass away
amid these surroundings Father than TO
have him removed TO 4 hospital.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16

Philadelphia Time

If ever there was occasion for the gods
of Olympus TO intervene in the affairs OF
men il would seem TO be now. when their
own Greeks are fighting TO rescue Mount
olympus itself from the hands of the Tur-
kish barbarian. The scene of these opening
hostilities quickens anew the romantic SYM
pathy which the brave struggle of the
Greeks has awakened everywhere. Civili-
Zation owes so much 10 Greece, OF philoso-
ply and poetry and art. and the story OF
Greek heroism Is so closely interviewer wi n
our earlier conceptions of human progress.
that the world is quite right i'm the admira-
tion it extends TO what in any other people
would appear mere squirt OF madcap ad-
venture.
For the ncursion beyond the borders OF
Macedonia there is not, to be sure. the
same justification apparent in the uprising
in Crete. The Cretans demand for free
dom had the sympathy of everybody out
side the official circles of the European
concert; the undertaking of a general war
against tremendous odds seems only an
invitation to disaster But il is the med
ding of the so-called Christian powers that
has brought all this about, and the spler d.d
defiance of the Greeks. however foolish
and foreoTdained To failure. will stir more
human enthusiasm than anything that has
happened within this generation.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

William ]. Bryan last night addressed in
Music Hall Cincinnati, over four thous sand
people. who had paid % and so cents adj
mission.
Part of the Globe iron works. at Day
ton, o.. weakened by recent floods, col
lapsed yesterday. The worSmen had mar
$500.
Captain Daniel Haynes. formerly claim
agent of the st. Louis Southwestern Rail-
way, who has been on, trial at Pine Bluff.
Ark. several days for embezzing $4,000
of the Companys money, was convicted yes
terday.
James NJ Gordy was last night convicted
of murder in the first degree for the kill
ing of his wife. formerly Mrs. Mary Esteile
Lewis, of New York. by throwing her into
the Broadkill river, at Milton, Del,
March II.
The Board of Health of Boston. in q re-
view of the past month"; notes the prev
alence of cerebro-spinal meningitis, ap-
preaching an epidemic. DR.. DurSin stated
yesterday that there were no prospects OF
a continued increase III the number of
cases.
At Mobile, Ala. yesterday. J. Leonard
Mueller general manager OF the snyder
onnGd Si%af n M shof prSate ana oSe
letters to relatives and friends, nervous
prostration was alleged as having induced
the attempt at self-destruction.
Martin Mowry was taken from Harris
vile r. L. yesterday and lodged in the
Cranston prison, where he will be held
pending his trial next Wednesday on a
charge of murder of the Reynolds family.
All efforts TO remove the bullet from Now
rvs head have been unsuccessful
The appraiser OF the estate of Maria
Louise Vanderbilt. wife of William III. Van
derbilt filed his report with the New York
surrogate yesterday. The value of the per-
sonal property is found, after deducting ex-
penses and paying certain debts. to be
$625,41S. Under the Will she gave SZoOwO TO
St. Bartholomew Church.
Nh H. c. Holabird general passenger
agent Of the Erie Railway, denies a report
that the Erie had changed or modified Us
first offer. which was to carry te New York
and back free OF charge to the Grant mem
orial exercises April q, all troops of the
Ohio State National Guard from all points
local TO the Erie road.
The dead and badly decomposed body of
c. J. Strand OF Shell Lake. Wis, was
found lying in the woods a few miles from
the lake snore near falrvlew, Pa, yester-
day The body had on il sI7 and a railroad
ticket from Chicago to New York, under
date of Feb -. The indications are that
death was the result of suicide.
Ernest Ridgeway, one of the four young
men who on Thanksgiving night last held
up ana attempted TO ROB a car iuli OF peo-
pie on the Independence electric line, was
Yesterday sentenced at Kansas City, Mo.
10 one year in the county Jail. Oscar
Bridges. the leader. had previously been
given like sentence. The other two mel
are still in jail awaiting trial.
Judge Harlan of the United States Su-
preme Court has allowed writ of error
| In the case of Elizabeth Mobiles, of Georgia
| who is under sentence OF death on the
| charge OF murder and was to have been
| hanged next Friday. IL was represented by
| Mrs. Mobiles counsel that she Is insane
/ The allowance of the writ will operate as a
| STAY of proceedings and will insure post
| ponement of the execution.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
No WONDER SHE FLED.
Princess Chimay Was Threatened
with Rotten Eggs and Rabbits.

LONDON, April ia special dispatch
from Paris says that Princess De Chimay,
formerly Miss Clara Ward, of Detroit,
Mich. recently divorced by her husband
on the ground of her intimacy with Janos
Rigo, hungarian gypsy musician, was
only induced to renounce her debut at
with the project of police i'm Paris who
threatened to close the hall and expel her
from France if she carried out her inten-
The princess is reported to have gone to
6he south of France 1t is said the pre-
1ect's action was due TO the influence of
the Prince De Chimay and several lead
ing members of the Jockey Club. In addi-
tion the police learned that the friends
of the prince intended 10 create scandal
i'm the Music Hall. pelt her with rotten
eggs and rabbits and perhaps invade the
stage and administer physical correction.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16

colors cased. but old Eli. who had carried
our flag in every march. skirmish and bat
tie since he enlisted. and was never on a
single day stepped proudly TO the 'front.'
and. with Old Glory held aloft started for
the rebel works. and he got there. Eli; with
but with nary a scratch himself. An
artist connected with Frank Leslie's was
on the ground and made a very good
in my home now. 4 third of century has
passed since that day. and ! wonder how
many of the boys who charged on Fort
Bakely are still alive.
Many people think and say that the gov
ernment is doing too much for the old SOL
diers, giving them big pensions and pro-
vidiIG homes for them | wonder again
how much pension and how fine home
would induce one of those soldier haters To
face the storm of lead and iron those boys
faced at Blakely. All honor To the old men
of to-day who were the boys of 81 and 10.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
Moody and the Bible.


Another factor of power which impresses
one at once is his familiarity with the
Bible. For q score and a half of years he
has studied it night and day; he knows
where TO find the most precious passages
the life-giving texts, which are radiant
with light. and which yibrate with spirit
ual meaning. His mind and heart are
saturated with scrptural truth; he has
studied the narratives of Scripture with his
imagination, his mother w.t. and his sense
of hunlor all alive, until the incidents in
the career Of Noah, Lot, Elijah. Paul and
our Lord are as real to him as the news
of the day, or the things which happen to
him on the street or in the home Upon
TINS vantage ground ne pictures, often with
remarkable power. the scenes and the
characters of the Old and the New Testa-
ments. until they stand out like the events
of own time before the eye. He has
cultivated the power of picturesque expo
sition OF the world until this happy faculty
has become one of his most effective re-
sources on the plaform.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
Anna Dickinson's Case.

Philadelphia Times
Anna r. Dickinson was at one time the
most popular woman on the lecture plat
form and on the political hustings ever
known this continent. and she wei
earned the distinction 1t was not won by
the efforts of friends or fortuitous circum-
stances. She forged her way as the first
woman the forum by her matchlcss
ability and the rare courage with which
she maintained her convictions.
A pitiable anti-climax TO such "a career
occurred in the United States Court in
Scranton few days ago. when after "A
prctracted legal battle for the recovery OF
$50 600 in damages for her alleged wrong
full incarceration i'm an insane asylum. the
jury rendered verdict of six and a quar-
ter cents in her favor. The case had been
tried before in the same tribunal with a
disagreement of the jury.
1t is sad. indeed, that one of the rare
ability and heroic qualities of Miss Anna
+. Dickinson should have thus outlived her
usefulness Her earnest struggles as author
and actor presented the first positive fall
ure in her career. Since then she has
never been wholly herself. and her ag-
gressive efforts, often made with more
courage than wisdom, TO maintain the
proud position she had won. have done
much to obscure her early and grander
achievements. She should be remembered
only as the Anna +. Dickinson OF a genera
tion ago.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
MR.. SPALDING ASSIGNS
sURRENDERS HIS PROPERTY TO THE,
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.
Statement That duplicates Ex-GOv-
ernOr AitGeld's Examiner in the
Globe Savings Bank Scandal.

CHICAGO. April 15.-Charles W. Spald-
ing, eX-president of the Globe Savings
Bank and eX-treasurer OF the University
of Illinois, has made voluntary assign
mont TO the university trustees of realty
and bond securities approxmating s400,0 900.
some of the bonds conveyed TO them are
now in the hands of Receiver Leman, of
the Globe Savings Bank, and a desperate
fight will be waged by the depositors of the
bank to prevent them from going to the
university. Criminal proceedings are not
TO be brought against the former treasurer
by the trustees unless they cannot be in
demnified for the money and bonds used by
Spalding. Suits are to be begun against
the First National Bank, the Northwestern
National Bank and the Metropolitan Ma
tional Bank to recover s242, 900 of bonds n.y.
pothecated or sold 10 these institutions by
Spalding personally or through brokers.
Mr.. Spalding this afternoon issued q
statement giving the causes leading up TO
has no doubt all depositors will be paid in
full and 90 per cent OF the capital stock
paid to the stockholders if the securities
are conservatively managed in the hands
OF the receiver. He also claims that he
handled the university endowment bonds
in good faith and states that there Will be
no ultimate loss TO that institution or TO
his bondsInen II his investments are not
sacrificed oy forcing them the present
market and he is permitted to advise how
they shall be liquidated.
Charles Z. Churchill. the cashier of the
defunct Globe Savings Bank. has made a
statement on the failure, which. if true,
duplicates George r. Hayden. the state
bank examiner under Governor Altgeld.
Mr.. Churchill said: Mr.. Hayden, the state
bank examiner. made an examination of
the Globe Savings Bank two days before
the expiration of his term of office, but
/ have since found that he did not file his
report with the state auditor. When the
State auditor ordered examination a
few weeks later, i went to him and asked
why he did so. His reply was that there
was no report of an examination made by
Hayden in January and he made demand
on Hayden for his report. Hayden finally
filed his report, in which he recommended
that the bank should be closed. The re-
port was filed two months after the exam
ination on which it was based made.
Shortly after the examination by Hayden
a man, whom L know TO be close friend
of his. attempted to purchase the bank. or
at least talked about it, This man was
introduced to us by Hayden. The negotia-
tions for the control of the bank failed.
and soon after the report was filed. but not
until after the new examination had been
ordered and the fact that the other re-
port had not been filed.
SPRINGFIELD. H., April 15.-The State
| Senate to-day adopted a resolution provid-
| ing for the appointment of a special COM
mittee of five To investigate the reported
| misappropriation of the funds of the Uni
| versity of Illinois by ex-treasurer Spalding.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16

HAVANA, April 15.-In view of the ap-
proach of the rainy season. Captain General
Weyler has ordered the erection of an in
firmary on the trocha and the extension of
the military hospitals. New hospitals will
be constructed under the supervision of
the sanitary inspector general at Trinidad
CaSilda, Isabella and Sagua. The captain
general has ordered the demolition of all
houses inside the cultivation zone. This is
on the theory that the peasants will remain
at night in the blockhouSes and remove
their families to the towns In this way
says General Weyler, the regulars will not
be exposed to the risk, in case of insurgent
aggression, of shooting women and chill
dren.
Five well-known merchants have been
fined $500 each for issuing fractional scrip
without authority.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
An Important Office.
Boston Transcript.

New York is to have a new custom house
and Philadelphia new mint, and each
will be a high-priced addition TO the prop
erty of the national government. This fact
has not escaped the watchful eyes of Sem
ator II. c. Platt or Senator Matthew Quay,
who are said to be working their combine
To secure a supervising architect who will
listen to persuasion. That particular office
is under the control of Secretary Gage. who
believes i'm the spirit as we'll as the letter
of civil-service regulations and ne may
prove q lion in the way. If Secretary Gage
can bulwark this fat citadel of patronage
against clever campaigners like Platt and
Quay the country will admire and trust
him more than ever. III is about time this
place of supervising architect was put on
a business basis. 1t has been In politics
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16

altogether too long. It should be one of
the most carefully filed Offices under the
government. unless perhaps it might bet
ter be abolished and the service which IL is
now supposed to render committed to COM
petfnE architects Of national reputation
who should give proofs of their competency
and bonns Tor their responsibility The
United states should have the benefit of
as'good talent in this line as she possesses,
and If there is immediate progress OF un-
usual work to do. both in kind and quality.
II would be very unsafe to allow Platt or
Quay to designate the directing head and
designing hand
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
Father Kneipp Ill.

BERLIN, April 15.-Father Kneipp. well
known throughout the world for mis- fa-
nous water cure, is reported 10 be dying at
Worichofen, Siberia. He has been suffer-
ing from inflammation OF the lungs, which,
owing to his advanced age. IS likely to
prove fatal. He received the last sacra-
ment of the church yesterday. The after
noon papers of this city publish dispatches
from Munich which say that Father
Kneipp has greatly improved in health to-
day and that his life is no longer i'm danger.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
Five Men Burned by Molten Metal.

PITTSBURG. April 15.-While tapping n
blast at the Republic iron works. on the
South Side about O'Clock this morn ne.
the molten metal boiled over into a pit of
water. causing an explosion. Five men
were badly burned. two of whom will prob
ably die. Their names are Dennis Ma
honey and James Reilly. recovery doubt
full; Martin kinski. Stanley Persovar and
John Morton. The damage to the mill
property was very small.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
Committed Suicide i'm "a Chapel.

BRUNSWICK, Ga, April 15.-The dead
body of Charles Hoffman a well-known and
respected citizen, was to-day found in a
chapel about four miles from this city He
had evidently gone into the building for
the purpose of committing suicide and be-
fore taking his life had knelt in PRAYER
When found he was in a kneeling position
with his head resting on the bench He had
shot himself through the head. Reverses
in business and inability TO get work
caused the act
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
Chinese En- Route to Cuba.

MONTREAL. April ia party of nine
ty-one Cinnamon arrived in Montreal last
night by the Canadian Pacific Railway.
from China via Vancouver Tomorrow
they will continue their journey, where
they Will take a steamer for Havana
where they going to work on the sugar
plantations of Cuba. They say they are
going over at the instance of the Spanish
government, which has sent agents to
China TO induce immigration TO Cuba
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
Movementx Of Steamers.

BREMERHAVEN, April 15.-Arrived
Lahn. from New York via Plymouth
Sailed: Munchen. for New York.
QUEENSTOWN, April 15.-Sailed: Brit.
annie for New York: Belgenland, from
Liverpool for Philadelphia.
BOULOGNE, April 15.-Sailed: Veendam
from Rotterdam for New York.
PLYMOUTH, April 15.-Arrived: Fuerst
Bismarck, from New York.
AMSTERDAM. April l5.-Arrived: Schie.
dam from New York.
LIVERPOOL, april 15.-Arrived: Males
tic from New York.
ANTWERP, April 15-Arrived Illinois
from Philadelphia.
LONDON. April I5.-Arrived: Mohawk
from New York.
NEW YORK, April 15.-Arrived: Spree
from Bremen.
BREMEN, April l5-Arrived: Halle, from
Pa1tipanrp
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
Cable Notes.

Ex-Deputy Plantenu has been arrested at
Paris on charge of completely in the Pan
anna scandal.
NJ. Hanotaux minister for foreign af-
fairs. informed the French Cabinet yester-
day that a convention had been signed be-
tween France and Brazil for the purpose of
arbitrating the question of Guiana terri
tory in dispute between the two countries.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16

READING. Pa. April 15.-Father Joseph
Beresford. rector of ST. Josephs Catholic
parish. was found dead in bed In the par
sonage adjoining the edifce this morning.
Death was due TO suffocation from illumn-
ating gas. His age was about fifty years
The gas was discovered pouring from n jet
partly turned on. The suppOsitiOn is that
death was the result OF an accident.
The Indianapolis journal., 1897-04-16
judge rlodgett's Health.

WAUKEGAN. H.. April l5.-Judge Henry
w Blodgett and daughter. Miss Carrie
Blodgett. reached their home here last
night, having been absent nearly a month
at Eureka Springs, Ark. The Judge APP
peared TO be in his usual health and spir-
its. He spoke lightly OF the recent illness
which had alarmed his friends, and de-
clared that IL was not serious.