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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
COST GREATLY REDUCED
WHAT a BUSINESS ADMINISTR ALTON
HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
State Institutions Caring for More
People at Less Expense-Dependent
Children Law in Effect

The State Board of Charities issued new
number of the Indiana Bulletin yesterday.
The following abstract from it's leading ar
ticle is of general interest:
1.-THE close of the fiscal year in the state
charitable and correctional institutions
offers an opportunity for comparison with
the operations. OF the same institutions in
other years. A comparison of the reports
of the year just closed with those of the
year 1893 Will present some indication of
such changes as have occurred in eXpendi-
lures, population, etc. The number of in
mates of the state charitable and correc-
tional institutions upon the last day of the
fiscal year five years ago was 1924. OF this
number 4,1O6 were in the charitable institu-
tons. AT the close of the past fiscal year,
the number of inmates of the state chart
table and correctional institutions was 7,136,
of which 1854 were in charitable and 24S2
in correctional institutions From these
figures it is seen that the total population
of both charitable and correctional institu-
tons has increased 872 in the past five years.
The increase in the charitable institutions
has been 54S and in the correctional 324. The
increase In the total of all institutions has
amounted in the five year period to 1879 per
cent, while in the correctional institutions
alone the increase in five years has amount
ed TO 10 per cent. During the decade from
1880 to 1890 the total population of Indiana
increase has continued the population of In
diana has increased 51a per cent. in the past
five years, while during the same period the
number of inmates of our state prisons for
iueu mas increased 1O6 per cent. Apparently
the prison population has increased nearly
four times as rapidly as the general popula-
ton in the last five years.
while the population of the charitable
and correctional institutions has thus in
creased during the last five years there has
not been a corresponding increase in the
cost of maintenance. 1t is a singular fact
that the total cost of maintaining the state
charitable and correctional institutions in
the year Just closed was smaller by $6s90.17
than in the year which ended five years
ago. How this has been done is shown by
the reduced per capita cost of maintaining
nearly all the institutions. If maintenance
to-day cost as much for each inmate as it
did five years ago, the total cost of MAIN
tanning the charitable and correctional in
stitutions in the last year would have been
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
Mr.. MATHEWS OBJECTS
COMMERCIAL AGENCY SUED on THE
GROUND OF DAMAGED CREDIT.
More Gas Litigation iK the Supreme
COurt-Affairs of the Monarch
Grocery-court Briefs.

In the Superior Court yesterday Henry E.
Mathews, a Washington-street merchant,
began an action for $4,000 damages against
the r. G. Dun commercial agency and its
local agent, Joseph A. Kebler. The plain
tiff claims his credit and standing as a
business man has been injured by wrong
full statements concerning his financial af-
fairs placed before the public by the de-
PENDANTS. Ar
Mathews AYERS that in July, 1896. he had
$4,000 invested in his business, and that he
was clear of Indebtedness and up to that
time had been able to meet all claims He
says it was the. custom of the defendants
to send out ''colored' slips of paper to pa
irons and those interested in merchants
who were supposed to be embarrassed.
These slips gave no particulars,
but contained the name of the
merchant and requested the re-
cipient to call at the office OF the COM
mercial agency. Mathews says these
"colored" slips indicated that the men
whose names they bore were in danger of
insolvency. The plaintiff asserts that on
July g. 1896, the defendant, Joseph Kebler,
sent to his employers the following state
ment: Henry Z. Mathews, house furnish
ings, Indianapolis, Ind, July g. 1885, This
party was sued for $55; is asking for an ex-
tension of time; owes a bank $1700; has
some private borrowed capital, estimated
about $40, 900; carries a stock of $4,000, in
sIred for GOO; feels the pressure of times
for money, and is thought to be worth $10,-
O0O." Mathews charges that at the time
this statement was made the defendants
sent out "colored' slips to some of the
people he did business with. Ee AYERS that
when they called at the office of the de-
PENDANTS the following oral statement was
made: 'He is a fast liver. hard drinker
and is in close quarters financially" These
accusations, the plaintiff AYERS, are abso-
lutely false He further says that in May,
1897, the defendants published another
statement to the effect that he had changed
the style of the firm to H. E. Math-
ews & Co., and that the company was
composed of the employees of the store:
also that Mathews would not give their
names and declined to make a Statement"
The plaintiff makes a further denial and
says that the company was "Liday Elem
ing with whom he had formed a partner
ship prior to the last statement of the de-
PENDANTS. Mathews says his credit has
been greatly impaired by the action of the
defendants
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
THE MONARCHs AFFAIRS.
Evidence Heard I'm the Application
for Receiver.

In Room g. Superior Court, Judge Carter
yesterday heard evidence in the suit of p. J..
Ryan to have receiver appointed for the
Monarch Supply Company Mr. Ryan is one
of the stockholders. He charged misman-
agement on the part of David Curtain, the
manager, and claimed the stockholders had
failed to elect directors, and that he was
not permitted to have proper share in the
management of the company's affairs An
answer was filed by the defendants, in which
they denied the allegations and averred that
Ryan had large share in the management.
All the checks they claim, were counter
signed by him and aVerred he mad access
because Ryan did not get complete control
he seeks to either wreck the company or
compel the stockholders to let MIN have his
way. The defendants say their assets are
$1,000, as against $500 liabilities
1t was shown by evidence that Ryan
bought his interest in the concern of George
r. Root. Ryan claimed he bought into the
business with the understanding that he was
to have control over the finances Mr. Root
testified that in selling to Ryan he fully
explained the affairs of the concern. While
Root was partner in the business he went
East, leaving the management to David
Curtain He said that when he returned he
found that Curtain had charged himself
with about $500 in excess Of his salary. Cur
tain told him his wife had been i'll and he
had been at an extra expense. Root then
sell out Curtain said he would find pur-
chaser, and Root sold to Ryan.
The evidence was not concluded and the
case will be continued to-day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04

The New York Central Chicago express
ran into the Grand Central Station in New
York last Saturday about six minutes be-
hind it's schedule time. This fact would not
have been worthy of note had it not been for
the fact that the cause of it was the thirst
of young lady, who is said to have trav-
eed on a pass issued to Miss Caroline Hurt,
of Chicago. The train was a few minutes
late, but was making up time rapidly on the
stretch of the road just this side of Garri-
sons. Suddenly the engine gave out ter
rife screech, and the train came to stand
still so suddenly as to throw the passengers
half way out of their seats. The engineer
reported to the conductor that some one on
the train had closed the emergency air
brakes and that he had supposed something
must be radically wrong. An investigation
showed that the young lady, becoming
thirsty. had tried to open the faucet of the
water cooler. Being unsuccessful and spy
ing above her head the lever Of The .emer-
gency brakes, she had supposed that 1t was
Intended to turn on and off the water. One
tug at it had brought the train TO its sudden
SfandSfi1I
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04

FOrtitude i'm Adversely a Family
Characteristic.
Boston Globe.

The poverty of Ulysses S. Grant before
he found his appointed place in life showed,
as his wife has said, the best that was in
people to live with in evil times. Here is
a story of another of the family, the Earl
land who is third cousin of the youngest
Ulysses, grandson Of the general who sleeps
in Riverside
1914, when Alexander II was King of Scot
land and Gregory de Grant was sheriff of
Inverness. TIE family has just been
brought into notice again by the coming of
age of the eleventh earl of Seaheld, the son
of a farm laborer in New Zealand, and the
return of the young man to Scotland.
Stranger than a creation of fiction has
been the history of the vicissitudes of the
Scottish Grants. Death and poverty have
rapidly have the bearers of the title of
Seafield died that the widows of the sew
enth, ninth and tenth earls are still alive,
and 1t is the first mentioned dowager, the
great aunt of the present earl, who has
whatever property has been saved out of
the wreck of the fortunes of this illustrous
house
The ninth earl was so poor that he was
unable to provide properly for his son.
dered out to New Zealand ou w5ere he got
employment as a farm hand and being an
industrious, hard working man, he man
aged to acquire notability in the little
colonial community of Oafaru, where he
lived.
Everybody knew he was an heir of the
bankrupt earldom of Seafield, but did not
think any the less of him for that as he
never put on side" AS Farmer Grant he
talked crops and politics with the country
folk, and was as good a judge of top dress
ing as anybody in the neighborhood. FL
nally Farmer Grant was elected to the local
legislature, and was as proud of the distinc-
ton any of his ancestors had been when
royal hands were showering lands and peer
ages upon them.
One day in 1885, when Farmer Grant went
to the country postoffice for his mail driv-
ing down to the village in his farm wagon,
he found a letter from Scotland telling him
that his father was dead, and that he was
Sir James Ogilvie-Grant, Earl of Seafield
ford and Cullen, Baron Strathspey of
StrathSpey ard a baronet. That was all
right as far as titles went, but titles would
not build q new barn or put in another crop
of potatoes, and titles was all that Farmer
Grant had inherited.
So he drove slowly back to the farm.
thinking all the while of the strange things
that happened to noble families. When
Grant had begun to do we'll enough in New
Zealand to support a wife he had married
Annie Trevor CORY Evans, a daughter of
the noble house of Carberry, who, for the
love she bore him, had been content to fol-
low his fortunes and become a farmer s
wife in far-off New Zealand.
They raised six children, three boys and
three girls, and had given those old enough
to go to school the best education that thew
could in that far-away place.
Mrs. Grant herself had attended to the
teaching of the younger ones in the time
she could spare from her many household
duties and, more than ALL they had been
brought up to be honest and God-fearing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
TO CURE NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA
To Gain Flesh, to,sIeep Well, TO Know
what Appetite and Good Digestion
Mean, Make Test of stuarcs
Dyspepsia Tablets.
Interesting Experience OF an Indian
apoIis Gentleman.

No trouble is more common or more mis-
understood than nervous dyspepsia People
having it think that their nerves are to
blame and are surprised that they are not
cured l,y nerve medicine and spring rene
dies; the real seat of the mischief is lost
sight of; the stomach is the organ TO be
looked after.
Nervous dyspeptics often do not have any
pain whatever in the stomach, nor perhaps
any of the usual symptoms of stomach
weakness. Nervous dyspepsia shows itself
not in the stomach so much as in nearly ey-
cry other organ; in some cases the heart
palpitates and is irregular; in others the
kidneys are affected: in others the bowels
are constipated, with headaches; still others
are troubled with loss of flesh and appetite.
with accumulation of gas. sour risings and
heartburn.
Mr.. A. w. Sharper, of No. 81 Prospect
street, indianapolis. Ind, writes as follows:
"a motive of pure gratitude prompts me 10
write these few lines regarding the new and
valuable medicine, Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
let's I have been a sufferer from nervous
dyspepsia for the last four years; have used
various patent medicines and other rene
dies without any favorable result. They
sometimes gave temporary relief until the
effects of the medicine wore off. l attributed
this to my sedentary habits, being a book
keeper, with little physical exercise, but
am glad to state that the tablets nave over
come all these obstacles for l have gained
in flesh. sleep better and am better in every
way The above is written, not Tor noto-
riety but is based on actual fact. Respect
fully yours, A. W. SHAKPl1k,
''61 Prospect Street, indianapolis, Ind.
1t is safe to say that Stuarts Dyspepsia
Tablets will cure any stomach weakness or
disease except cancer of the stomach They
cure sour stomach, gas, loss of flesh and ap-
petite. sleeplessness, palpitatiop, heartburn,
consultation and headache.
Send for valuable little book on stomach
diseases by addressing Stuart Co.. Marshall,
Mich.
All druggists sell full-sized packages at 50
cents
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
A Comrades New Years Greeting.

The battle of Stone River, or Murfrees-
borough. began on the 31st of December,
1862, and continued three days. 1t was one
of the hard-fought battles of the war, re-
sulting in a loss to the .Confederates of IA, 700
men, while the Union forces lost $50 men
killed, 1900 wounded and 5000 prisoners.
They fought the old year out and the new
year in, and then cinched it with one more
days fighting In memory of this event Col.
C. D. Bailey of this city, on last New
Years day sent Gen. Fred Kneier both of
them having been in the battle, the follow
ing lines:
Comrade of days of storm and stress,
OF camp in field and wilderness;
OF toilsome tramp in summers heat,
OF cherries march in winters sleet;
And Life and Death walked hand in hand;
When continent, from shore to shore,
Resounded with the cannon's roar,
And every loyal soul was strung
And every tender heartstring wrung-
On this first day of the new year,
l offer thee my hearts best cheer.
Years thirty-four ago we stood
Amid Stone Rivers battlefield.
Breasting the Sanguinary waves
That swept our comrades to their graves.
Throughout long years of storm and stress
In camp. in field and wilderness.
BY bivouacs fire, in battles swell,
1 learned to know and love thee well.
On our heads Time has laid his hand,
And in our glass of Life the sand
Runs in a much diminished stream,
And long gone years seem but dream.
AS in those days of wars alarms
Each valiant soul must stand to arms,
For Peace hath duties no less stern
Than those that in the battle burn.
But whatsoe'er the year may bring
For who may tell the reckoning
OF all the days that make a Year,
Accept, o friend, my hearts best cheer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
Years thirty-four ago We stood
Bar Association Affairs.

The new officers of the Indianapolis
Bar Association We're installed yesterday.
after which C. w. Dryer, the new presi-
dent, announced the following standing
committees:
Amendment of Laws-W. A Ketcham, A.
G. Ayres, John w. Kern, Martin Hugg and
w. L. Taylor.
Judiciary-J. s. Scott, S. NJ. Shepard. w.
n. Harding. Ralph Hill and ]. B. Curtis.
Grisvances-S. o. Pickens, Charles Mar
tindale. ]. S. Berryhill. J. A. Finch and G.
S. Denny.
lott. ]. r. Wilson, T. L. Sullivan and Vim
cent Clifford.
Auditing Committee-Nathan Norris Mar
tin Hugg and l.. b. Ebank.
Nathan Norris for the telephone commit
tee, reported that the County Commission
ers had made contracts for long distance
telephones to be placed in the Circuit and
Superior Court rooms. The judges have
announced that they must not be called
from their benches to answer the telephone
under any circumstances.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
WILLIAM GRAY ACQUITTED.
He Had No Intention to Defraud-
Tried Under New Hotel Law.

He Had No Intention to Defraud-
Tried Under New Hotel Law.
A case was tried in the Criminal Court
yesterday under the new law created for
the protection OF clearinghouse keepers.
Several weeks ago William Gray was fined
one cent and costs in Justice of the Peace
Hays court on complaint of the manage
ment of the Spencer House. Gray lived at
the hotel last June He was expecting to
secure contract for some bridge work and
ran up board bill while waiting. He left
the hotel without settling in full and was
prosecuted. After being fined in the justice
court he appealed to the Criminal Court, and
yesterday the case was tried and he was
found not guilty. Gray testified that when
he left the hotel he promised to pay as soon
as he could, and while he lived in the house
his intention was to settle. He said he ex-
planned to the hotel people that he had
failed to get the money he was expecting.
The new law provides that before there can
be a conviction on the charge of beating
board bill 1t must be shown the boarder
entered the house with a determination to
defraud the keeper if possible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
IMPROVEMENTS OF 1897
LARGE MILEAGE OF Steel. LAID
AND BALLAST DISTRIBUTED.
The Paying of ExOrbitant Commits
ceIIaneous Railway News.

In the year 1897, when business conditions
are considered, the improvement to road
beds Of Indiana lines especially the In
dianapolis lines, is matter worthy of COM
mendation. 1t is stated that in Indiana
fully three hundred miles of new heavy
steel has been laid, and a large portion OF
this on the Indianapolis lines. The Monon
laid during the year on the indianapolis d.
vision fifty-six miles of heavy steel; the
Vandalia, forty-five miles; the Big -Four, on
divisions centering here, thirty miles; the
Pennsylvania lines, twenty miles; the Lake
Erie &. Western, thirty miles; the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton. ten miles; the Indiana,
Decatur & Western, five miles, the Belt
road, two miles. 1t should be borne in mind
that the Big Four, the Pennsylvania and
the c., H. & d. had at the beginning of the
year large mileage of heavy steel on their
tracks. so that new steel laid in 1897 was
to further complete the work. The track
of the Monon from Indianapolis to Chicago,
the Big Four from Cincinnati to Kankakee
and from st. Louis to Cleveland, is now 80
per cent heavy steel rail- A good deal has
been done in laying new and extending old
sidetracks. In new bridges less was done
than in any year since 1892, owing to the
fact that in 1894 1895 and 1896 majority OF
the wooden structures crossing streams
were replaced with iron bridges, which are
now in good condition. During the year
the Big Four completed its double track
out of Cincinnati as far west as Cleves,
and on the Chicago division, the st. Louis
division and the Cincinnati division there
was a good deal of reballasting done. On
the Peoria & Easterns western division a
large sum of money was expended in doing
away with trestles, filling the space with
dirt and reballasting the tracks. and on the
eastern division more was done than In any
year since the Big Four took control or
the property. On the MOnon a good deal
of money was expended in Stralg htenlng
curves reducing and balasting. Nothing
extraordinary was done in the way OF pur-
chasing new equipments until late IN the
year, consequently such improvements are
to be much more extensive in 1898 than in
the year just closed, as is shown in the
fact that several thousand cars are now
under contract to be delivered in the next
power a considerable increase is to be made.
However, but few roads purchased more
new engines in 1896 and 1897 than did the
lines centering at Indianapolis. AT the
railroad shop located here more men We're
employ ed at longer hours than In any pre-
ceding year, except 1892. In passenger
equipment great improvements were mace
in the last few years. and 1897 comes In
for a good share of this. The Nandalla,
the Pennsylvania lines the Big -Four, the
Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton and the
Monon are all now running complete Vesu-
bule trains of the most modern pattern
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04

The propagatfng committee of the Knights
and Ladies of Honor will meet in this city
to-day at the supreme secretarys office for
the transaction of business pertaining to the
order. This committee is composed of the
supreme protector, i. B. Lockara, of Bed
ford. Pa; supreme vice protector II. F'reu-
denthal, Of Albany. n. Y; supreme secre-
tary, of this city, c. w. Harvey; supreme
treasurer, George A. Byrd, of this city and
the finance committee II. S. Blatt of FL
w ;1 10y I'd. ;. "; WaFlIann, OF Evans
sitting past supreme protector, r. G.. Lam
berton, of Franklin. Pa, and the supreme
medical examiner, DIR, L. d. whitehall of
Ninon. N. Y. Mr.. Blatt of the finance COM
mittee. was recently appointed postmaster
Of ElwooC City. In 1873 he was elected a
member OF the Legislature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
January.

To and fro,
To and fro,
Athwart the tingling icy air,
The linden branches blow, and So
With warp Of wind and wool of snow
The weaver Winters shuttles 60:
Such garments rare
The earth shall wear,
No Softest ernine, neither vair
No royal robing anywhere
Nor any cunning looms may show
A fabric half fair.
Upon the peach ana apple trees
A thousand frosty fTinges freeze
The nfaon vines lace the lattice bars
In fllny higrees
The grass is feclSed with fialxy stars;
The clover tufts hid from sight:
And and then. a bird alight
With burst of gleeful fiutter. Jars
The pearly-laden red rose lips,
And fitting arily, 50 tips
A tiny tempest, pelting down
The slender hriars bare and brown;
or else some sudden furry stirs
The fcecy drifts that freight the frs
And swept from silvery tassels slips
= swirling cloud of trailing. bright,
Light scarfs Of powdered white.
Prom Tsvaleen STEMS lone Way to the
Woods
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04

The suit of George w. Raikes against the
Louisville. New Albany & Chicago Railroad
for $4,000 for personal injuries is on trial
gin the Federal Court. The plaintiff, who
is shipper Of stock, was riding in a ca
boose attached TO a stock train, near Quin-
cy, Ind, on Dec. q, 1896 when the injuries
alleged We're incurred. The train had part
ed when climbing hill, and, upon discov-
ering the fact, the engineer, it is charged,
backed his engine so rapidly that 1t struck
the caboose with much force, causing
Raikes to be thrown to the floor of the car.
Witnesses for the plaintiff were examined
Yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
PENALTY CASE APPEALED.
All the Gas-OiI Litigation Is Now Be-
fore the Sunreme Court.

The Ohio Oil Company yesterday filed an
appeal in the State Supreme Court from
2 decision rendered in a case before the
Madison Circuit Court, in which the state
sued to recover penalties for the county I'M
der the law prohibiting the wasting of nat
ural gas. The company sunk an oil well
which also produced gas. and according to
the states complaint, allowed the gas to
escape for more than two days. Judge Me-
Clure, OF the Circuit Court, gave the state
Judgment for S400 and 800 attorneys fees.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
stone Feeder for the Monon.

The Indiana Stone Railroad was incorpo-
rated yesterday, the incorporators being w.
H. McDoel and thirteen other officials of the
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Rail-
road The road will be twelve miles in
length extending from Clear Creek to Har-
risbuT& and tapping one of the best stone
districts in the State.