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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

corporation of life insurance companies;
passed TO third reading.
S. B. No. s. BY Mr.. Gochenour: Authoriz-
ing counties to acquire title TO certain
lands: passed to third reading
S. b. No. ). By Mr. Culbert: Concerning
the employment of convicts in the state
prison. special order for this morning at
1880
S. B. No. is. BY Mr.. Lambert: Concern
ing universities Incorporated under state
law, ETC.; passed to third reading.
Bills Passed.
No. 232 BY Mr.. Hedgecock: To amend an
act 10 amend Section 229 of an act relating
TO the settlement and distribution of de-
No. 201. BY Mr.. Galley: To amend Sec
ton of an act to regulate the manufacture
l nay.
No. A. BY Mr. Noel: To require phar-
macists and assistant pharmacists TO be IL
bill; 50 yeas. 36 nays.
No. 100. BY Mr.. Hays: To vest a right in
the voters of any Incorporated town; 80
No. 2o6 BY Mr.. Williams: To provide
boards Of county charities: II yeas. 2 nays.
No. POS. BY Mr.. Kirkpatrick: TO regulate
the importation of dependent children; 50
yeas nays.
No. 22I. BY Mr.. Messick: To provide for
nays.
No. 269. BY Mr.. Reece: To prevent the
manufacture and sale of aduterated candy;
No. 300. BY Mr.. Hayes: To give to may
ors of cities of less than 5000 inhabitants
No 1892 By Mr.. r. Akin Akin co fee high
ways and supervisors thereof; II yeas, z
nays.
No. 81. BY Mr. HUFF: Providing for bull
letin boards for notices as to the condition
Of school funds; q yeas.
No. 800. BY Mr.. Reser: To provide for
nonpartisan fire departments in certain
cities; 70 yeas, nays
No. 2A. BY Mr.. Hayes: To provide for
the inspection Of steam boilers; Y yeas 4
No. pa. By Mr.. Morrison: Concerning la
Dor and it's projections "A yeas, l nay.
No. 2l5. BY Mr.. Noel: TO establish a
park board In Indianapolis; Il yeas, nay.
No. 60. BY Mr. Clements: For the COM
railway companies; 70 yeas
No. 1874. By Mr.. Aiken: To provide for re-
pairs of free turnpikes; 20 yeas, 8 nays.
No. 274. BY Mr.. Titus: To legalize titles
No. 26S BY Mr.. Schaa: To provide for
the survey and sale of certain swamp lands;
So yeas.
No. 9O4. BY Mr.. King: To provide room
space and facilities for the clerk of the
Supreme Court; so yeas.
Bills Defeated
No. 323. BY Mr.. Herrold: Providing for
the stamping Of all promissory notes. stocks,
bonds. etc, by the assessor; so yeas, "a n, VS.
The bill failed for want of a constitutional
majority.
No 179. BY Mr.. Furness: To encourage
the cultivation of sugar beets and the man.
ufacture of beet sugar Sc yeas, SO nays.
-Recommtted.-
No. 254. BY Mr.. Kirkpatrick: Concerning
assessments and liens on real estate fer
street. sidewalk and alley improvements in
towns of less than 1900 inhabitants; recon-
mittod to the committee on cities and towns
with amendments
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

General Gomez and his army fare better
than washington and the American patriots
lid The Cubans set liberty, independence
and 100000 American money in hard cash.
Washington declined to receive cent for
his services, and his soldiers, if paid at all,
were paid in continental paper money that
was not worth a continental A committee
of Congress which visited Washingtons
camp at Morristown, n. j., in the spring of
$780, made a report to Congress in which
they said that 1.-THE army was five months
unpaid; that It seldom had more than six
days provisions in advance and was on
several occasions, for several successive days
without meat: that the army was destitute
Of forage; that the medical department had
neither sugar, tea, chocolate. wine nor spir-
its: and that every department was without
money, or even the shadow of credit"
Gomez and his army We're never worse off
than this. and when they got liberty and in
dependence they also found an angel to give
every officer and man his share of 100000
in good money. If they do not remember
Uncle sam in their prayers as long as they
live and teach their children to revere and
bless his name they viii be the worst in
CRATES that ever lived.
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derson. who was present, said the county
stood ready to donate all the land needed
and erect the buildings.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
The reading of committee reports was
the first matter attended to during the
afternoon session and a discussion at once
arose over the divided report Of the
judiciary committee on Senator Early's BILL
No. 276 providing that all mortgages, leases,
deeds or other legal papers must be record
ed in order to be collectable and valid and
giving priority to the paper first recorded
The bill, while aimed at the installment
houses and money loan people who do not
pay taxes on such evidences of indebted
ness, touches directly on the oil and gas
leases inethis State. compelling the holders
of them to record them at once. Several
senator's from the oil and gas counties
looked on the bill with favor because OF
this. alleging that. in some cases, several
leases would be given for the same piece
Of land and, in the end create complicated
litigation in ascertaining whose lease was
tho valid one.
After quite a stormy discussion in which
Senator Drummond urged that nothing be
done to upset the present law the require
mentS OF which are we'll understood by the
people, the minority report, recommending
the indefiniate postponement of the bill, was
adopted.
Senator Burns's BILL No ga, providing for
an increase in the pay of circuit judges in
counties of $1,000 or more, was the next
Ollt 10 tISdSt luS dlt6ullpH ol LflC SCAld-
tors. Senator Stilwell asked that the rules
be suspended and that it be placed on it's
passage. This proposition was not looked on
with favor by some of the senators. partic-
ularly Senator Hogate, who voted against it.
Although he signed the favorable commit
tee report. only because he wanted to have
the bill printed for the scrutiny of the
Senate, and, in the end. the proposition was
voted down. The bill virtually increases the
pay of most of the circuit judges from $500
to 1920 a year.
Senator Miller asked and received consent
to call up the finance committees subSti-
tute bill for the two bills drafted by the
Union of Literary Clubs, and the State
Library Association. 1t was ordered en-
crossed.
The introduction of report on Senator
Corrs bill, placing tax on all building and
loan association stock on which money has
been advanced also brought trouble in its
wake, but after some discussion, in which
Senator Hawkins said he was unalterably
against the proposition to tax individual
stock, the favorable report of the committee
was adopted
The committee on education reported a
substitute bin for two bills touching on al
most the same points. The principal feature
of the substitute bill is the doing away with
of cities, and making the work of that off,
cal a part of the duties of the township
trustees.
The committee on benevolent institutions
submitted a report on Bill No. 1856, by Sem
ator Brooks, fixing the salaries of boards
of trustees, recommending an amendment
giving trustees of benevolent institutions
salary of 5000 year, with expenses not to
exceed $780,
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ECONOMY in state Colleges.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
How can there be economy in state COL
leges when the trustees of Indiana Uni
versity and Purdue University pay 5000 an
nually for their presidents and the State
Normal $500 and then presidents charge
IS per diem and expenses when acting on
the State Board of Education? Are the
other expenditures for professors on the
same basis? The salaries OF the other Off
GERS and employees in 1898 were: Indiana,
& SaS a.. Purdue 81 9t5 Is. State Normal "a :
467 IS; trustee expenses 1898. Indiana 81
500 40: Purdue, sofia: State Normal, 81, 40. TO.
or an annual salary for Indiana of $3.50 0S
Purdue So 76; State Normal, S3eS.O2. No
wonder the cost per capita of each student
is: Indiana 1897 $l53.92; 1898. S11SS7: Purdue,
ISL S1l023: 1885, $17SS2. Indiana pays the
Governor 5000. Is he not worth more to
the State than either of these presidents?
indianapolis, Feb. 3. INQUIRER.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

Almost every General Assembly considers
some proposition regarding a residence for
the Governor ana ends by dropping the mat
ter It is probably just as well that no
permanent provision of the kind should be
made. When the capital was located here
provision was made for the erection of a
residence for the Governor in the Govern
or's circle" The provision was never car
ried out and ended in the waste of several
thousand dollars II Governors residence
were provided by the State there would be
frequent appropriations for repairs and per-
haps for furnishing. and the Legislature
would set tired Of carrying it. The present
method Of paying the Governor fixed
salary and $50 for the rent of residence is
not altogether satisfactory, because the APP
preparation seems TO carry with it a sort of
obligation that he shall spend that amount
IN house rent. whereas circumstances might
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04
The Police Pension Rlil.

To the Editor Of the indianapolis Journal:
If it be true. as alleged i'm the communion
ton of Eucius b. Swift which appears in
this morning Journal. that the bill of Sem
ator Hugo pensioning policemen and their
families imposes a tax on the citizens of
Indianapolis then it becomes vicious legisla-
ton of the most pronounced character. 1t
may safely be asserted that not single
taxpayer outside Of the ring interested
favors the pernicious scheme K would he
Just as rational 20 pension all other enl-
ployas of the cfty~fhe street scrapers the
garbage collectors, the doctors and nurses
who attend 10 smallpox patients the physi-
clans and others employed at the city fios-
pital all connected With the Jall With the
Workhouse with Sellers iafil. FroDaoiy
some men now on the police force may have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

The action of the House Republican eau
Gus on the currency reform question means
delay but it may not be injurious delay.
The appointment of committee of men,
bers-elect Of the new House to confer with a
committee of the Senate may result in
agreement on a measure that will insure
more speedy action than if the matter were
left to open discussion in both branches after
Congress meets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

Township trustees in several counties have
had meetings Of farmers and others called
to which they will present their views of the
pending reform bills and thus secure the
passage of resolutions denouncing them.
About next week the members and newspa-
pers will hear of such meetings.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

The first pages of the current issue of the
Forum are given to an article urging rati-
hcation of the Spanish treaty. written by
Colonel Charles DENLY. of this State. In
the article Colonel DENLY says: There are
men in the United States whose political
theory is to antagonize the government.
There are others who are so devoted to
human rights that they pass their lives in
treading the dangerous line which separates
freedom from anarchism."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

The secretary of agriculture has called at
tention to the statement of man named
Fernan who says that he went into the
Swift Packing Company's establishment, in
Omaha. last summer and saw the employees
take chunks of meat and inject fluid chemi-
Gals into them. The secretary says that
refrigerator meat is not cut up into chunks.
but is shipped in quarters. Attention was
called to this mans statement because his
evidence has been used by General Miles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04
A visit to KnIghtstown.

Several members Of the committees on Sol
diers' and Sailors Orphans Home and
benevolent and scientific institutions, spent
Thursday evening at the home at Knights
town. Those who went were Messrs.
Furness. Stevens, Patterson. Owen. Barlow
and williams. They were highly pleased
with the institution and a number of adj
speaker was Mr.. Stevens The trip was
without cost 10 the State, the members
bore the expenses out of their own pockets
Mr. Stevens was delighted with the insttu-
ton and yesterday said money was well
spent on that institution and he could not
speak too highly of il. Last evening a num-
Der of members Of the ways and means COM
mittee went 10 the Reformatory at Jeffer-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

The Pittsburg Dispatch gives figures from
official sources showing that the street rail-
ways in several States are capitalized at the
rate of $4,000 a mile. and declares that it
is preposterous. That does seem a large
Company, of this city, is about $4,000 a
mile
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

Marriage by telephone viii certainly do
away with lot of expense in the matter OF
a trousseau. The money saved in that way,
however. might be Offset by the exorbitant
tolls. If the bride appear trlhe distant
during the ceremony, no one could feel ag-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

The House deserves credit for abolishing
mileage and substituting payment to men,
bers of their actual travelling expenses. If
the measure passes the Senate it will do
away with !ong-standing abuse If the
present per diem is not sufficient to secure
the services Of good men it should be in
creased
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

It seems strange that large amounts of
money can be voted to river and harbor inn
provements, portion of which are believed
by many to be of doubtful utility while
large cities ask in vain for appropriations to
afford them adequate accommodations for
postoffices and other branches of the public
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

Rudyard Kipling will visit the seats of
government of this country and Mexico. If
he should not fancy his treatment at the
two places he can scarify them in his sto-
ries and show them what he can do in the
way of capital punishment"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

The passage by the House of Representa-
tives Of the river and harbor bill authorizing
the expenditure of nearly $31, 100000, by a
vote of 100 to Z, was fine illustration of log
rolling in legislation. The districts of the
seven members who voted against the bill
probably were not in it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

Brother Abner-The cause will rot pros
per until we can offer some satisfactory
substitute for the barroom.
Brother Jehiel-Even so. But do you think
it necessary that it should be managed by
a graduate in pharmacy?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

grieved. and a great deal of embarrassment
would also be dispensed with To the BASH
full man it should prove an ideal innovation
the realization of the dreams of a life
time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

"A man is as old as he feels said the gen.
tleman of the old school, land a woman as
old as she saws she is.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

Since Gomez has sprung his little patri-
otto surprise it might be well TO go a little
slow with Aguinaldo and Henry L. John
son. There may be hope for them also.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04
A Sordid View.

do you believe in women going into
business?"
Wei, if she has money there is more
chance Of getting it than If she put it into
bonds"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

Every woman, maid and girl baby in
Central America is entitled to membership
in their local society of Daughters of the
Revolution"
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL
Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.

Ill o Iounu at the foIIOWlng pIaces'
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHICAGo-Palmer House. p o. News Co, 217
Dearborn street Great Northern Hotel and
Grand Pacific Hotel
cINcINNATT-J r. Hawley & Co., 1874 Vine
street.
LOU1SVILLE-C. T. 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, Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel
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BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
More Information.

Tommy-Paw, what is a war horse?
Mr.. Figg-One that is fit only for army
heef.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-04

1t is due the State Normal School to state
that it has cost SAT per capita the past
year, and that it is the lowest rate of any
important state normal school in the United
cyfafae
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STATE PREss OPINION.

The average pay of an Indiana gas mike
is So a month and bored.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1899-08-26
A Bridge of Collins,

When the British forces were march
ing to Peking in 1860, after the capture
Of tho Taku forts, one Of the rivers be-
came so swollen with the heavy rains
that it was rendered almost impossible.
While in this quandary bright idea
suddenly struck one Of our officers. Be-
ing we'll aware that the Chinese gener-
ally order their coffins years in advance
and keep them on the premises and also
that they are perfectly alright, he con-
suited with his brother officers, with
the result that orders were given to
search all the houses of the village and
collect every coffin. With the aid of a
few empty casks the soldiers construct
ed pontoon bridge of coffins sufficient
ly strong to bear the artillery, and the
river was thus passed in safety.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1899-08-26
An Ugly Story of Uruguay.

Here is one of Robert Crawford's eto-
zies about Uruguay ''Two men sur
prised a farmer and his wife in their
little hut while it was broad daylight.
The man was seized and bound, and the
two villains proceeded to torture him
to make him disclose the hiding place
of his hoard. The wife begged and
pleaded as the horrors increased. the
man proving obdurate.
'Finally she said she would tell them
where the treasure was if they would
follow her. One of the two accordingly
went over to the chest in the corner
with her. She opened it, fumLling about
inside of it for moment until she
found what she was looking for. In an
other moment the thief at her side was
dead and his fellow covered by large
revolver in the hands of small but
eager woman of the people. He got
away before she could quite make up
her mind to shoot him too.
''Then the husband was released and
the neighbors, some miles away, called
in. Word was finally taken to the cen.
trail police authority of the state; the
officers came, viewed the dead thief
and identified him as their attorney
general. 1t is not unlikely" Mr.. Craw-
ford adds, "that his accomplice was the
judge of the criminal court.
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A Miraculous Escnpe,

1t happened that in the last month of
the reign of Charles 1 certain ship
chandler Of London was foolish enough
to busy himself over barrel of gun
powder with a lighted candle in his
hand. He paid the price of his folly. A
spark fell into the gunpowder and the
place was blown up.
The trouble was that the man who
did the mischief was not the only one
to perish. Fifty houses were wrecked,
and the number of people who were
killed was not known.
In one house among the so mother
had put her baby into it's cradle to sleep
before the explosion occurred. What
became Of tho mother no one ever
knew, but what became of the baby
was very widely known.
The next morning there was found
upon the leads of the Church of All
Hallows young child in cradle, baby
and cradle being entirely uninjured by
the explosion that had lifted both to
euch giddy height.
1t was never learned who the child
was, but she was adopted by gentle
man Of the parish and grew to woman
hood. She must surely all her life have
had peculiar interest in that church.
Sir Walter Besants "London.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1899-08-26
Ice EXplOsiOns In Siberia.

A recent Siberian traveller relates:
cat Sadonsk in the intensely cold
nights the silence was sometimes broken
by loud report as of cannon. This
was the bursting Of one of the ice bub-
bles in the river, phenomenon I had
neither heard nor read of before. The
streams coming down from the hills
were frozen on the surface some six to
nine inches thick. The water beneath
flowed faster than it could escape, and
the pressure, on the principal of hy-
draulic press, became irresistible.
First, the elasticity Of the ice was seen
by the rising of circular mounds from
six to eight feet in diameter and from
four to five feet high. The bursting
point came at last with a report like an
explosion. The water escaped, but soon
froze again. have seen scores Of these
ice hillocks in a few versts of the
river -
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Wednesday, Aug. 23.

Congressman Reed has resigned.
Montana troops have left the Philip
pines for home.
Three men were killed by boiler ex.
plosion at Appleton, Wis.
The Eighth infantry, now in Cuba,
will recuperate at Fort Smelling.
The bubonic plague has appeared in
Italy.
The mineral product of the United
States has increased nearly 10 per cent
since 1880.
Genesee, the Rochester IN. W yacht,
won the first race for the Canada's cup.
The Nebraska Democrats, Populists
and Silver Republicans fused and
adopted Bryan platform.
Documents are said to have been
found proving the innocence of Dreyfus
and the guilt of Henry and Esterhazy.
The Lake Michigan and Lake Supe-
rior Transportation company has hit the
Chicago.St. Paul lines by making ire.
mendous cut in freight 1ates.
Chinese Torture.
The ingenuity of the Chinese in de-
vising punishment for offenders sur
passes that of the most cruel people of
the middle ages. Some time ago boy
was kidnapped from village about 80
miles from Chin-Kiang and brought to
that city to be sold. The kidnapers
were arrested and returned to the vii
lage, where the people dug hole in
the ground, like a grave. about three
feet deep, covered the bottom and sides
with unslaked lime, placed the offend
or, with his hands and feet tied. upon
the lime and covered his body with the
same material. Then they filled the
hole full Of water and as the lime
Stacked he was roasted alive and his
bodY eongumad.
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ARRESTED BY FROST.
South Dokota Colonel Objects to Bell
Criticized.

South Dokota Colonel Objects to Being
Criticized.
Sioux FALLS, S. D., Aug. 23.-Sena.
tor Pettigrew is in receipt of the follow
ing cablegram, dated Nagasaki, Japan,
from DR.. R. G. Warne, major and sur
geon of the First regiment South Da-
kota volunteers:
ARRESTED by Frost; published letter. "
This is the elimination of charges
made by Warne against Colonel Alfred
S. Frost of the South Dakota regiment,
in letter published here last month in
which Warne referred to his colonel as
low, contemplate cur, looking only to
his own interests; that he would gladly
sacrifice every man in his regiment for
few dolla' in his pocket or a little
glory for himself, and that he has no
interest in the men except to use them
for his own selfish advancement.
Whether Colonel Frost and DR.. Warne
will continue with the regiment to San
Francisco or return to Manila is not in
dicated by the cablegram. In any
event it appears that Warne will De
courtmartialed.