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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-25

re- ,ba Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal'
W., are to be congratulated on your arti-
ole "Rascality in Public Office wnlch APP
,,aared in your issue of the 22d inst Such
~, criticize should appear in every newspaper
of tho state and be read by every voter. IL
is not the government or State taxes that
ara onnressive. but the county, township
and citv taxes. The Office of township trus-
tee sbould be abolished. Many men who
hold public positions would not think OF do
ms, a dishonorable act as between individ-
nails hui appear to think that in an official
canacity grab game is permissible, ana
II is not confined to any party The motto
tbat "nublic Office is public trust" appears
TO have been forgotten. In order 70 cover
I'M these extravagancies a great nue. ana
CIV is often made against corporations Inc
C,iestion Of reform in state. county ana
tioVynshiD business is one OF great magIl-
tude end action should not be nasty Inc
bSst thought and mature deliberatlon should
~ Given to these subjects. NO ponucs
should enter into the settlement OF lhese
questions What is for the best interests
az al the people Of this commonwealth anu
for the future requiring honesty economy
and strict integrity from all puohc oIlclais,
and that in the simplest form so as 70 De
easily understood by all, should be Kept
steadily in view by those having these ques-
tfons in charge. The committee having the
preparation Of the present city charter for
Indianapolis was composed or intelligent
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come interested IN the Baltimore & Ohio.
will have something to say in naming the
man.
An enterprising clothing house OF Chicago
has adopted a novel method to get its goods
before the public, having chartered a pas
ssenger coach on the Northern Pacific. pay
ing fifteen fun round-trip fares TO Portland,
Ore. the car stopping at important points,
exhibiting and selling goods.
The Kansas City. Pittsburg & Gulf and
mixed up, but one thing is evident, the old
conservative managers of the Alton, the
Mitchells the brakes and Blackstones. have
decided to sell out, and the road is likely to
become part Of the gulf and seahoard outlet.
E. NJ Davis, division freight agent of
the Baltimore & Ohio at Clarksburg w.
Va, will be transferred to Cumberland, Md.
F. Fowler. travelling freight agent of the
Baltimore & Ohio in West Virginia, will
succeed Mr.. Davis as division freight agent,
with headquarters at Clarksburg.
On Wednesday the directors of the Penn
sylvania lines West held a special meeting
in Philadelphia, which was attended by
sylvania Company. A resolution approving
the dissolution of the Joint Traffic Associa-
ton was adopted. The same resolution was
agreed to by the directors of the Pennsyl-
vania a few days ago.
The car tracer of the Chesapeake & Ohio.
who was in the city yesterday looking for
empty cars stated that on Monday there
were loaded on the river division of that
road 729 cars of coal for Eastern markets
and 400 cars for Western markets, being the
greatest number ever loaded in any one day
on these lines. The daily average at the
present time is 200 to 500 cars.
The Philadelphia e. Reading is building
cutoff at Shippensburg which will be used
TO run the passenger trains around the
freight yards. AS soon as this is completed
a system of through passenger trains will
be put the Reading road from Jersey
City to the West These trains will be de-
livered to the Reading by the Jersey Cen
trail at Allentown. thence running over the
Reading to Shippensburg, thence by the
West Maryland to Cherry Run, where they
will be delivered to the Baltimore & Ohio.
1t is claimed that by this route the Balti-
cago and Jersey City one hundred miles.
The Reading contemplates double tracking
its line between Harrisburg and Shippens-
burg.
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Java. 2saS2c Roasted-old government Java.
g2tG3sc: Golden Rio. 24c bourbon Santos. 24c:
cofIee-city rrices-Ariosa l0l5c; Lion. 9.l5c Jer-
sey s.65c; Caracas. 965c; Dillworth's 10l5c; King
Bee 1e.15c Mail Pouch 10.15c.
Flour Sacks (paper)-Piain. 1-32 bril- per 1000,
Sso lie brl. $; y brl, s.; Y bril- SIG; No 2
< bri. $40 4 brl. $40 No. ! cream plain 1-92
5rl. per LOCO. 81 lis bril- 1915; y Prl, $3.50 4
brl. $3.50 Extra charge for printing, S1.10G1 Is.
salt-In car lots sO@S5c; small lots. 9ods5c
Splces-PepDer. 12a1sc; allspice. 1501sc; cloves.
Beans-choice hand-picked navy, Sl.SOQ1.S5 per
bp; Limas. California 4lGM4&c per h.
81 T-@5. NO tubs. So S5el4: 3-hoop pals. 400
l5o: 2hoop pals sl.2o@l 25 double washboards,
g 25Q2.75; common washboards sl25G1.5o; clothes
pins. 50660c FER box.
Molasses and syrups-New Orleans molasses.
fair 10 prime. 2s@SSe; choice, 35a4Oc syrups, $50
shot-slsoaLs5 per bag for drop
Lead-GiaGt7c for pressed bars E.
Twine-Hemp 12d15c per ID: WOOL sd1Oc; fax,
29qS9c paper 2e ute l2g o1S s s9tt9 On 1S2e
s225d25O; No. 3. s25OG2.75; No. 5, sSQS25.
Rice-Louisiana, 414G61ac; Carolina, 6lkGShc.
Iron and steel.
Bar Iron-1.5Oa1 soc: horseshoe bar. 2l4@2%c;
steel sale; tire STEEL 21zQsc; spring steel. Az
Nails and Horseshoes.
sl9od2 rates: from mill Sis rates. Horseshoes,
Fer key $50; mule shoes per keg $3.50; horse
nails, $lG5 per box. Barb wire galvanized, 81;
Produce, Fruits and Vegetables.
Appes-Common to good, s3@4; bulk apples.
ST. 70 per bril-
Pears-Kiefers, 81
has, i5c; Tokay grapes. $2a2.25 per crate.
Figs-California, s1.25d1.40 per box
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES per brl S225Q2.75 per crate.
Oranges-Mexican. $3.50 per box; Florida
Lemon LemonsrMesaina. Choice 800 to box 81; fancy.
Persimmons-sl per 24-pint crate.
Bananas-Per bunch. No. l, $1Q1.75.
Lima Beans-5c per ID.
Potatoes-White. 43Q45c per bu red, 4Oc per bu;
sweet Potatoes Baltimore. soc per bu: $1.6O per
brl; Jersey sweets. S5c bu; br, s2.75; Illinois.
cabbage-4O@55c per brl; Holland seed, 75c bril-
Onons-s125 per brl; Spanish onions, s1.25.
Celery Michigan and northern Indiana, 15@25c
per bunch.
Honey-White 15T1sc; dark l2c per h.
Chestnuts-6Gsc per Id.
Cider-$50 per brl; half brl, $3.50.
Provisions.
Hams-Sugar- is to 20 lbs average $40
g.; 10 lbs average SA@''s'' Z lbs average ~
Bacon-Clear sides. 40 to so lbs average, 64c;
Ne bellies % lbs average. 615c; IS to % lbs
average, sac; Il to 16 lbs average INC. Clear
backs, IS to % lbs average. &c; IA to IS lbs
average, &c; to 10 lbs average. TIC. In dry
Shou1ders-lS TO 20 lbs average exc; Is lbs aver
age. 6l4c; 10 to u lbs average 6lac.
Observation-Disclosures. SIC; pure lard. &c.
Pork-Bean, clear, s1425; rump, s10.50.
Seeds.
Clover-Choice 1915; prime. $3.50; English
clover. s275Gs; timothy IS lbs. prime sl15G1.2 20;
Kentucky IA lbs $1.15; extra clean. 6O@75c: or
chard grass extra, $1.15G1S0; red top choice, soc
OSLO; English BLUEGRASS "a lbs $115gi75; Ger
mon millet, 100000.
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Personal. Local and General Notes.

The Big Four lines proper have earned
since July $5,740, 1856, an increase over the
corresponding period of 1897 of $296,176.
The Monon earned in the second week of
November $62, 529, a decrease, as compared
$l,5i9
Dr. Charles Mcdonald, of Chicago, was
yesterday the guest of his brother, A. F..
Mcdonald, city passenger agent of the Big
Four
At the present time the Southern Pacific
system leads the list of roads showing in
creased earnings this year, the Illinois Cen
trail Oning second.
L. NJ. Allen, who will on Dec. 1 become
assistant general passenger agent of the
Chicago q Rock Island, was for years en-
gagged in journalism.
H. B. Plant, president of the Plant rail-
road system, who was taken Ill In Jersey
City, is recovering, the danger point having,
IT is thought, been passed
A movement is on foot which may result
in the Grand Trunk dsposing of all its
branch lines in Michigan to the syndicate
owning and controlling the Wabash
The new passenger engine of the Big
-Four on Tuesday hauled a train of eight
cars from Greencastle to Indianapolis,
thirty-eight miles, in thirty-one minutes
The receivers of the Detroit q Lima
Northern have applied to the court for per-
mission to borrow money to purchase pas
senger equipment the road is greatly in need
OF
Vice Presidents McCrea, Brooks and
Wood, of the Pennsylvania lines West who
went to Philadelphia on Monday to meet the
officials of the parent line, returned to
Pittsburg yesterday.
On Dec. ]. S. Turner. formerly with the
Pennsylvania lines at Altoona, will take the
position of superintendent of motive power
of the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf. sue
ceeding NJ. f. Egan.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe has
been incorporated at Santa Fe, n. NJ, the
capital stock being placed at 1898, $4,000. By
this action the various extensions of the
line heretofore run under different names
will be unified.
William Green, general manager of the
Baltimore & Ohio lines. will to-day retire
from that position to assume the duties of
vice president OF the Baltimore q Ohio
Southwestern lines. Who is to be his sue
cessor on the B. .. has not been an
nounced, but II is understood that President
Hill, of the Great Northern. who has be-
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ElaeWherR.

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 24.-Cattle-Receipts $3.50
natives and 525 Texans. Meager supply caused a
better market, the advance slaughtering cattle
amounting to 5@l0c; moderate demand for feeders
at steady prices choice native steers. 515G5 80;
light weights, A25Gp5; stockers and feeders. $325
Q4.50 butcher cows and heifers, $2.7OQ4.S5; West
ern steers, $3Q4.90; Texas steers sS@4.75; Texas
butcher cows $275G3.20; canning stock, $2G2 65.
Hogs-Receipts. $3.50 Light supply and good
local demand; yesterdays advance fully
tanned; heavies $3.45Q36O mixed, $SS5@o.o5; light
weights, 3256l3. As.
Sheep-Receipts 500 Improved demand, desr-
able saughtering sheep selling readily at slight
advance in prices; feeders steady; native lambs,
$5d5.30; native muttons. s3.9004.25; Western
lambs. $4.90Q525; Western muttons, $4,000. %;
Western feeding lambs, %Go4. 40; Western feeding
sheep, SS.5O@3.S0; stock ewes, $275@3.50.
ST. LOUIS. Nov. Acknowledgements 1900;
shipments not reported. Market strong to 10c
higher shipping beeves, %d5.25, bulk at A.5015;
dressed beef grades. 50: 100. bulk at $4G4.75:
steers under 1000 lbs. $350Q4.50; stockers and
feeders, $2.50Q4.50. bulk at S3G4.25; cows and
heifers, 81 25@450. bulk at s2.75G3.75; Texas and
Indian steers, S2,75Q4. bulk at $3.5Oq4; and
heifers, 81 2003.50.
nogs-Recelnts. $780, shipments not reported.
Market steady; Workers, SS.S5QS.45; packers, $S45
63.55; butchers $3.50GJ3.6 Go.
Sheep-Receipts 500 shipments not reported.
Market steady; native muttons, $3.50q450 lambs,
S46r5
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Gist of Recent Opinions by Courts of
Various States.

various StateSs
A primary election provided for by statute
is held, in Spier VS.. Baker (Cal), II l.. r.
A 1856 to be an election authorized by
law" within the constitutional provisions as
to elections.
The right of a married woman to form a
partnership with her husband is denied in
Haggett VS.. Hurley (Me.), Al l.. r. A, 1862,
although the statutes make her liable for
her debts well as her torts.
Samples of merchandise carried by a.
travelling salesman are held, in Kansas City,
Pittsburg a. Gulf Railroad Company VS..
State (Ark.), Al L. r. A, 1888, not to be bag
gage within q statute regulating charges
on excess baggage.
Poles of an electric railway If properly
placed are held, in Snyder VS.. Fort Madison
Street-railroad Company Qowa), Al L" r.
A, 345, TO give no right OF action TO the
abutting owner whether he owns the fee
OF the street or not.
The reasonab leness of an ordinance pro-
hibiting a person TO ride a bicycle with han
dlebars more than four inches below the
top of the saddle is held in Moore VS.. Dis
trict of Columbia ID. c., Al l.. r. A, 20S,
TO be question of fact to be determined by
evidence
a person crossing a railroad track from a
station to a platform to take a train for
which he has a ticket is held in Young VS..
New York, New Haven x Hartford Rail-
road Company (Mass), Al L. r. A, 1913, to
be within the statutory provision as TO LA
oiiity to passengers.
A tax on succession to the property of
deceased person, although il creates classes
and eXempts some of the classes and makes
different rates for other classes, is held
valid in kochersperger VS.. Drake Qll), Al
l.. II. A, 446 If ii is uniform as to all prop
erty in the same class.
The practice Of Christian science for cur
ing patient without recommending or ad-
ministering any drug or medicine or giving
any course of physical treatment is held, in
State, Swarts VS.. Mylod Or. L., IL l.. r. A.
42S, not TO be within a statute as to the
practice of medicine or surgery
A building of which the foundation and
four walls remain substantially intact and
which can be repaired for about one-third
its value is held, in Corbett VS. Spring Gar
den Insurance Company IN. ", II l.. r.
a., 3lS not 10 be totally destroyed within
the meaning Of an insurance policy.
Failure to equip freight cars with self
couplers is held. in Greenee VS.. Southern
Railroad Company IN. c., IL l.. r. A, 399
to constitute negligence per sc. 1t is also
held that this is continuing negligence
which will preclude the defense of the
brakeman's contributory negligence.
Favoritism to high officials, large shippers
or powerful politicians is held Illegal under
the North Carolina statutes in State VS..
Southern Railroad Company IN. CD II L.
r. A, GAG, and the possible advantage to the
railroad company from the good will of
such persons is held insufficient to justify
a discrimination IN their faveT.
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The improvements that have been made
on the Baltimore & Ohio during the past
two years have rendered it possible to oper-
ate cars of a heavier capacity than have
been in use in the past. and the receivers
have just ordered from the Schoen Pressed
Steel Company, of Pittsburg, 1000 steel cars
of a capacity of 100000 pounds each. These
cars will be used for the seaboard trade,
and are expected to be in service during the
early part of 1899. In addition to these
cars the receivers have also ordered from
the Pittsburg Locomotive Works fifty more
of the consolidated locomotive, with % by
2S-inch cylinders.
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ashlngton special to chicago record

w
Last August Chang Chih Tung, viceroy of
central China. who is one OF the ablest and
most progressive officials, published q state
pire. which he estimated at 40900000 Then
he deducted one-haH this number because
they are v omen y no hy re ason Of their C ip-
pied feet are useless for labor. He next re-
jected one-half the remainder as men adj
dicted to the opium habit, and therefore UNI
reliable and incompetent to perform the
duty of citizenship. This brought the figures
down to 100000 from which he still de-
Quoted So Gee, who. in his opinion are not
able to render effective service TO the state
because they have not sufficient intelligence,
being unable TO read and write. Chang
Chih Tung has always been opposed to foot
binding on the theory that ii makes women
useless and is weakness TO the nation as
we'll as a cruel and absurd custom.
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Future of w. II. McKeen. Jr.

William r. McKeen, jr, formerly mechan-
ical engineer of the Vandalia, who a few
months ago resigned to engage in CONNER
cial pursuits, will return to the railroad
service finding two positions open to him
on the Union Pacific, one that of division
superintendent, the other that of assist
ant superintendent of motive power of the
system. When with the Vandalia Mr.. Nc
Keen showed much ability in a mechanical
way, devising a number of improvements
in machinery and the operating of the
shops which were useful and economical,
and which are still in use at the shops in
Terre Haute. In his new position he will
receive a handsome increase in salary, the
position he takes in either case being
more important one. Yesterday he had not
fully decided which position to accept but
leaned toward the mechanical department.
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Fight Fair. Gentlemen; Fight Fair.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
AS an Indiana taxpayer 1 am, in common
with a hundred thousand other taxpayers,
watching and reading the state and nom
state school debate without prejudice one
way or the other and only anxious to get at
the truth. 1 am amazed that the state
school advocates lay so much stress upon
the totally irrelevant argument of sec
tarianism. This cry raised by the state
school people is as foreign to the real issue
as was, in the Old slavery fight, the ques-
ton, Would you have your sister marry a.
nigger?" AS then millions of people who
rightfully objected to slavery without the
slightest reference to their sisters mar
riage, so the taxpayers of Indiana want to
know whether 1t is the States duty to make
lawyers or druggists or scientific specialists
wholly irrespective of the church question.
This foolish argument of Sectariansm urged
by the state schools in aid of their appro-
priatiOnS reminds me of Lincoln'S reply to
Douglass doctrine of squatter sovereignty:
Yes, said Lincoln, undoubtedly the peo-
pie of a territory have right to say
whether they want or object to slavery;
but how about the niger? Hasn't he some
thing to say about being kept in bondageY
the religious coat of his college professor.
He wants to know whether 1t IS right TO
take his money to support any college pro-
fessor TO teach some other mans children.
If the advocates of state colleges can't find
a better string to pull than this wholly ir-
relevant one of ''sectarianism" they had
better throw up the sponge / say "a better
string to pull for they have very good
case indeed. which only needs to be pre-
scented on it's merits to be very effective.
The question, as it seems to me- is TO
what extent has the State a right to tax
its citizens for anything beyond a common
school education which all the children can
equally enjoy without going away from
their homes?'' d. p. BALDWIN.
TOgansDort Ind Nov 25
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men of different political views. They, how
ever had but one object in view, and that
was for the best interests of Indianapolis,
and they worked faithfully to that end,
without pay or hope of reward One year
from the date of their appointment their
labors were enacted into a law which Will
stand for all time TO the credit of the COM
mittee that prepared the same.
The people are aroused on this subject.
Let equal and exact justice be done to all.
A public officer should be literally paid, and
in such manner as every citizen, however
humble. may know just what he is getting,
and no more. just a il is in the government
service. You have struck a keynote: keep
ii up CITIZEN.
Indiana olis Nov %
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Freight Earnings.

Recent investigation shows that the gross
earnings of American roads from freights
are practically the same as the operating
expenses of the more important lines There
are nearly 100000 miles of railways, the
operating expenses in round numbers are
$SOO,OOO,oO0 year, and the freight receipts
of the last three years have been substan-
TALLY the same. These facts are substar-
TALLY borne out by the last reports of some
of the principal lines entering Chicago, par
ticularly the lines from the East The
freight earnings of the Lake Shore 6, Mich
igan Southern road last year amounted to
$13,734. 2S2 and the operating expenses to $13,-
542, 400. The Michigan Centrars freight
earnings were s., ,461, against operating
expenses of $40 Cos, $780, The reports of the
Western lines show a somewhat larger
margin between the freight earnings and
the operating expenses The freight
earnings of the Chicago. Rock Island &
Pacific amounted to $lSS35. 1886 and the
operating expenses to ST., 595 500. The Bur-
lington's freight earnings were $50 543 $40
and operating expenses $27, 1886. The
Chicago & Northwestern's earnings from
freight amounted to $27 035, 1O5 against
operating expenses of $23 TAG, 4S5.
There are very few railroads in the
United States which have larger earnings
from passengers than from freight. One
such road is the New York, New Haven &
Hartford, which by the last official report
took in 100000 more last year from pasen-
gers than from freight and the New Haven
Railroad is generally known as one of the
most substantial roads il the country
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"pIease Pay the Conductor"
kansas CITY Journal.

hdIisd5 NIly OUtII 4tIIs
The public has always known that the
Pullman Company was on the verge of pow
erty. since the public is required to pay the
salaries of part of the company's servants.
But in the case of the Wagner dining cars
the company has apparently decided to go
q step further. for II openly prints at the
head of it's dinner bills the request: Please
pay the conductor" We have been paying
the porter all these years, and now we are
asked to pay the conductor. If this thing
keeps on we shall soon be asked to pay the
brakeman and the president of the COM
pany. or can 1t be that these notices imply
that travellers have been In the habit OF
beating the company out Of their meals,
and the emphasis is laid on the word ''pay?"
The literary editor of the Wagner Company
ought TO make things clearer.
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A Joke on Chandler.
Chicago Tribune.

Senator William E. Chandler last evening
admitted that the speaker of the Dominion
Parliament, Sir James D. Edgar, had come
back at him by proposing the exchange of
Jamaica for New Hampshire instead of
Canada for the Philippines as Mr. Chand-
Ter suggested in the November issue of a
New York Magazine.
THE Joke is on me-" the senator said,
after reading the Toronto telegram
IF Canada annexed New Hampshire
would it take you in. tco"' asked Repre-
the senator.
''Oh, yes, you would lose me in that event. "
was the laughing response. Then Mr..
Chandler added: Seriously I meant the
exchange proposition / would like 10 see
England get the Philippines, and if we could
secure Canada in exchange, well and good.
If not. let us take what we can get 1t APP
pears now that we will have to pay $20,ooO
coo for the islands"
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Education Abroad.
l. letter tn snrlngneld Renubllcan.

Paris letter in Springfield Republican.
AS 70 European education. we have heard
parents say they were going abroad TO edu-
cate their children, till we have become
tired of It, Fancy an American leaving
America for an educationi Lord Brougham.
who was a great educator. said England
for Englishmen Parents. keep your children
home and educate them there" a bit of
sound advice we might with profit follow.
Going 10 Europe for an education means 70
learn a little of two or three languages. just
at a time when the students own language
should be studied with the most persistence.
Once at home again the languages for which
such effort has been made (oftentimes the