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us TWTR INDIANA 1 THE HATCRAL OA ORDINANCE Urn Maya mm 0rwka1mln( Morltj of th People) Coaadl't Aeliaa Prmm Or dlaanc Accepted by Capital Cit jr. A call for a special meeting of the eoancil last night to consider tbe (M propositlon.out lined la tbe paper by tb Indianapolis com peoy, called out several hundred citizens. wbo overran tba limited lobby of tba eouocil chamber and eagerly awaited tba action ot tho eitr legielalore. Cople of a' saw or li nance prepared by th Indianapolis com pa of (Alien Fletcher, George B. Boot, Georg F.

Branban and others; bad been spread oa the desks of couciltnen. When tha mayor called for order Mr. Thalman aroa and announced tbat be bad bees requeeted to present tba new ordinance Those unfriendly to the radical chaogus called fur in it supposed I bat it friend would attempt to drive it through, butlntbis there waa agreeable surprise. Uf general consent excepting Councilman Haugb. who thought tha council might Iben and there proceed to a consideration of tba ordimtuc tha new ordinanoa waaraierred toaeoiuaiit leeof tba whole, embracing counoilmen and aldermen, to meet pa Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Tha council adjourned alter a ten minuter session Dot tba etlizcns tarried, Tba new ordinance la In no essential re pecta afmiiar to the one now io force, borne of the friend ot tbe Indianapolis company ex pre tha conviction that it coram itt. a blunder ia preprint aa ordinance which ak for pretty nearly everything conceivable, ben i ilra ait increase in rate. The difl'erenca in the ordinance appears drat in the title. Thon In us provides for tba aaa of natural gas tor bsating and illuminating purposes. TI.e new one (fathered br a company which manufactures illumin atlng gas end charges' $1.80 therefor) omits tbe illuminating feature, tne om one pro Tides for a bond of $.50,000 that tha coin pun will not damage tba city nor streets.

Tba new one reduces this bond to The new ordinance provides for a horizon. tal increase of GO per cent, in the rates for ess as named under the existing ordinance, A tew of tbe rates well serve to show about what gas will cost if tba new ordinance pre vails: Old. New, chnVlneatovea. S'oa. 7 and 8.

ordinary size, October 1 lo May. pr fl 87 1 25 liaau burner tut bcatlna lire pot, from It to 1H inches la diameter, ptr i aive. flre pot. Irotn to Incnea In diameter, per uioutb Gratea and open froul iiealliiK atovea, per mouth Vurnaue. ordlnarv size.

uy lire Dot of 2 25 1 87 25 1 80 1 25 1 60 diameter. Mto lnulu per month 4 83 75 Tba annual price on thene aaina fires are as follows: Now. tlXuu 11.00 7.mi lu.oo Cookln stove. No. 7 and 8.

Base burner for beatmu 14 to 18 iucb lira pot 1A.A0 UpriKht (tovo, a to I inch fire 1" Ac Orate and opn front lVuu Furnace. 20 lo 3H Inch tire pot. 80 75 Tbe range on oook stoves ia from 1.15 to per month, from October to May, and 75 cent to $1.67 la summer; per annum rang 9 to 2'i. The raoge oa beaters la from $7.87 to $19.60 per annum. The annual furnace rates range from $30 to $M50, against $20 to under tha present The folio win? paragraph are of interest: "The said Indianapolis natural gaa com.

Cany are hereby granted for the period of ve rears from tba date of tba paaaag of this ordinance exclusive right and privilege. to tba ue of such streets, publio grounds, etc, for tbe purposes provided in this ordinance, as it shall have entered upon and commenced tha work ot layiug mains, pipes or eondolta, or in which it shall own or control melon, plc or conduits already laid before soy other company, association or individual bava entered upon eucb street or alley, etc, for conveying natural gas to be supplied to consumer. And tbe city agrees that during the said period of five years ft will not grant any right or privilege toany company, for the purpose of laying mains for convey. Ing gas, nor tha right to furnish gaa to consumers upon any street in which tba Indian apolia company own or eoa trol pipe etc The company agrees that la consideration of the prlvlletce named In the ordinance it will construct and have completed on or before the let of January, lKfttt. a twelve inch pip lis from a natural gas producing region to the corporate limits of Indianapolis, and have by said date twenty miles of mains wltbln tbe city connected with tba pipe line and fully equipped to furniah natural gas to consumers in said city.

The' company agrees to turotah a bond of $100; 000 that tha work will be done by tbe lime mentioned, and upon failure to forfeit and pay to the city 150 for every day after tbe 1st of January until tbe pipe line and tha mains connected (With it arc completed. It Is also apreed to expend within one year from tba paaaave of the ordinance $000,000 to supply tbe city with natural gas, and within five yenrs to expend tor said purpo.e The section in the old ordinance prohibiting a company when it Has once reduced the i rice of gaa below tba scbedule from ioereaa ng it within tbre ycara, is not inuluded in the new one. Tba price of gas per 1,000 feet is put at IS cents against 10 cent in the prewnt ordinance for domestic consumption. For manufacturers 7 cents remains the price, tbe party wanting tbe meter pays for it. Tba new ordinance also provides that "All gas furnished by said company shall be ued through mixers, such mixers to be furnished by, belouging to, aud bo tba property of said company, and said company aball bave tbe right aud authority to adopt and promulgate 1 rules and regulations; governing tbe use of gas by consumers, and to require container to stipulate and gree to abide by and conform to such rales and regulations before being supplied with gaa.

bald company shall have tha right to require all monthly charge to be paid ia advance and in cane oi tea days' urfau by any consumer In tha payment of charges, tho company shall bava the right to diaoootiiiue the supply ot gaa, but when payment of such charges has been made, gas shall again be furnished to such consumer oa bis request. veclion 8 of the proposed ordinance says that the trains, apparatus, except those now laid ia the streets and controlled by tbia company, "shall be ol the most approved design and quality and of standard weight." Is it to be inferred; from this that the mains already down are not what they ought to be? The ordinance repeals all others a fleet lug tba rights granted the Indianapolis company After the adjournment of tha council the citizens stood about in groups and discuaaed the gas lasae. Excepting tbe stockholders and attorneys of the petitioning company, the overwhelming majority of those present were against any change in the ordinance. 1. P.

Erwin, A. Bardaall, Cieorge Porter, Henry Coburo and men of that olaaa engaged the representatives of tha company ia warm discussion. An enthusiast stood on a table aad moved that a meeting of cltl ttoi to instruct councilman against tba change be held la tha criminal court room to night. It was csrrUd by tbos who I were not too busily engaged in personal diaeuaaloo. Many of too council men were outapokrn against the proposed ordinance.

Any councilman who would have advocated tha ordinano as it cam from the company, weald have imperiled bis repntatioo for statesmanship. The sections granting exclusive privilege of streets to tbe company did not with defenders outaida the roster of tbe company's stockholder. "Such a thing," aaid Mr. Burdsall." would be to grant aa absolute monopoly of all the streets. The company has already preempted Washington, Meridian, Illinois aad a sooiw 1 of tbe bast highway in the city, for it Em vtom down oa those streets Into which it prsposs to natural gas tb pipes laid by the old eonpaay.

1 it possible that wt aeaaaU wlU say au tr tbat they aball not be permitted to ust these most prominent highways csuae a aether company baa seized opoa tbemr "But I don't believe that the company will hold eat for this clause granting exclusive rights." suggested a stockholder. "Then tbe company ha acted la bad faith la asking for it, aad baa mad tbe entire ordiBsoce subjeet to criticism and sua. picloa," replied I). P. Krwlo.

A nd thns It we at tor aa hour. i The friends ot tbe company are to day making no strenuous eflorts to save this ex clusive right clause, but on of the director aav there is no authority for the report that ii ia io ne BDenuonea. luia is in repi the assertion that the section was Inserted In order that it might yielded In a spirit of seeming eomproiutae, nd tnatilbe com pinr bai eo bop ot securing its paaange. Evan If such a section should be inserted Into the gas ordinance it would probably not stand in law. Judge 1 Walker lei his recent decision atierting a street car rompaay case bald.

that city councila mar not grant exclusive privilege of streets. The courts have generally so liekl. It is noted that, there ian't a word about the city having tbe right to acquire the gas pUat. This verv proper reservation, which in the gas company's proposal. Ao the city would.

In practice, never bave th cliancato supply llaeii with tree gas.l lime for discuwlon should be allowed, Several thing will coin out with time, They ar going to come out, ordinance or no ordinance. Th people are going to know mora than tbey 90 now about the cost and pronts or natural gas I There ie an Impression that th Octopus sriouid.com back bore and take a lew js sou. i The last elauseef the ordlnanc measure the size of tbe investment for which this eoinpaoy wants a monopoly of tbe streets and to go free of taxea and have an enormous increase of prices. Tbe clause say th com pany will expend fSOO.QOO la live years. it is believed that nobody bos the gall to denr.

that In that live years tbe company will furnish feet of gas a year. If It dotau 1 lurnlau more than, this betor th end of tha first year it ia. a failure. It has 70,000.000 to 100.000.000 feet in aigbt now. which.

Mr. Fletcher says, will yield only 23,000100 feet more. Suppose In five years they can never increase this at preseut ordinance prices; divided on half i at 7 cants a thousand to manufacturers and th other half at 10 cent to private con sumers. yield For five year It would yield That is the return of only 23,000,000 ia five years, during which time, the company says ia lis own ordinance, it will xiend only her. It will put $800,000 Into th town and talc out, at the loweat possible calculation, A fair exchange is no robbery.

"What warm under the collar," writes on ot the thousands of cltlzeot who are today oppoalng radical changes in th gaa ordinance, "ia the thouuht that in thta "day anyone would even auggeat that another monopoly be created la our midst, bom of th papers which are In favor of doing all that tbe Indianapolis company asks for bav been ssalona in denouncing the street car company, tb water works and illuminating gas company aa monopolistic, and now they warmly espoos this nw proposition to add to th burden which monopolies Impose! My place of business is on Merldlaa street. 1 he Indianapolis company has a pip on that thoroughfare. uppoa tb ord inane should be passed as proposed aad gas should be brought. I would bav to take gas ot th Indianapolis company or do without. No other company could enter that street.

It ia as base a proposition a it would be tor th council to sav that I should have to buy my ooal of George ltoot. Hut 1 don believe tbe company hopes to pull this absurd section through. There is, in my oclnion. a nult baek attachment to the ordi nano. It is hoped that councilman may mad to appear wla and fair by proposing a cotnpromia which will grant the advauc in rates and strike out tbe street iriononolv clause.

Th real nut th company meats ia tbe scbedule of prices." I Mr. L. Claypool said this afternoon that he had been talking with a number of capitalist on th gaa situation, and was sure that could easily form a syndicate to Luy out the Indianapolis company' plant for tbe money tbey bad Invested in It. (Jive them cash bonus and then agra to furnish ludlanapolis all tbe gaa wanted, at tbe rates fixed by tha present ordinance. Tha directors of the Indiauapoiia company bava very tittle to say to day about tb ordinance.

Mr. Fletcher did not care to quoted on any matter touching tha business or th policy of tb However, said: "I regret eery much that it should have been deemed necemaryi by any one" to appeal to the prejudice that may exist toward 111, aa an Individual, ia tbe pulilie mind, to atlect legislation to tbe end of deciding what should be considered purely in a business way and as a business proposition. There are thirty or forty gentlemen aaaoclated with me In this company, owning fully one half of the cap ital stock, lo assail tb company on my persoual account Is unjust treatment of tb Interests of these business men, which I very much regret." becretary Light. of the liroad KIpple com pany, said that his company is willing to give bond that It will bring gas into th city under tb ordlnanc now in fore before January 1. Tbe company, he says, has better backing than bss been heretofore aupttosed.

Kiugan A K. C. Atkins, Josepb A. Moore, Hchmidt ami Maus, tbe brewers, William liuchanan. K.

II. F.ldridge and oth er of like ability ar interested. It is un derstood that tb 11 road Kippl company has a representative at Pittsburg purchasing pipe with a view to laying a line by way of tichofivld'a mill and College avenue into the city. I question In recent years has provoked more universal comment than.b gas proi oeiiion now beore the council. a Manufacturer, men ia all Hue ot business in fact, everybody is talking gas, and talking it strongly.

The overwhelming run ot sentiment is' against th change In the gas rates. If 'counbilmea vol tor radical changes, the iodicntioos are that tbey will bear thunder roll all around the aklea. Tb citizen of th eecondward will meet at lbeeulne noun on hevcnlb street tbia evening at 7:30 o'clock, to consider th natural gas business UrdlMnee Accepted lly tho Capital City. At a mealiug of tb director of the Cap ital' City (ia company this afternoon tb nicer were ordered to me with me city clerk an acceptano of tb gas ordinance as it now stands. 1 hi wax to be don late thia afternoon, or aa sooa as th papers could irepared.

Under this change la tbe out 00k It would seem unwise to change th scbedule. Tbe Capital City company has gas In four wells and several others will be in next week. They aro in th neighborhood ot I awrcuce, and giv promts el good flows. 1 bis is tb first time tb ordfaauo baa been formally acc pled. and it would appear utter folly to change th schedule to accommodate another com pany when on baa already aignified tta willingness to rbide by th requirement already set oat.

A good maoy peoni wbo used to think that gas should admitted freejust a a cart load of potato or a oor of wood bav changed views. Colonel Oran Perry I on of these. He baa beea over lo Pittsburg and cornea bom "loaded" with facta which justify tlx position ot Tb News and of th people generally that gassbould be furnished at cheap I rale so that it may not be a luxury auch aa manufactured gas at existing prices. "I supposed that after tb people bad stood between tb Standard Oil company and th borne companies ib latter would return tb favor by furnishing gaa at price which they one said were eminently aa Lie factory. Bat bow that competition has ba driven away, th Indianapolis company step forward with a proposition to pat as almost waer the octopus would bav bad as.

1 foaod at 1'ittaburg that terms ar roach mor favorable thaa tho proposed her. No charge for tb service pin I mad wheo th connection ia within fifty feet of tb line. On of my iaformaau need 120,000 fee gas fa. th year adlog ta bepUaabar, pay. Ing for th same 10 ceoU per 1,000, lea 2 cents (If paid ia tea da a total ef $25.00.

Thia supplied gaa for a rang and threw fireplace. Tber is great competition on com streets as many as thro emmpeni. Hi the streets price ar sealed down to $3. and per annum lor grstea. Anotber l'lttsburg citizen, wbo baa a rang, a laua dry atove aad six open fires, pays $50 a year, Tho llomrd of Trade's Flan, i Th latest and most promising outlook for cheap ga come from aa action being taken by th Hoard ot Trade.

A request for a call of tb board of governors' fW Moa lay morning at 11:30 has been numerously sigoed, at which meeting th subject will Tb plan proposed 1 in brief as follows: Th board of governor will, be requested to elect tors men from a number ot tb most reaponsibl business men ot th city who have signified their willingness to ae cepl, to act aa ga commiuloners. A com pany will be formed and the entire capital stock transferred to these commiaaioners.who will hold it la trust to passed to their successors In ollice. to be apiwinted every two years the governor of tbe Itoard ot Trade or should that organization tail, th men filling th oil ice of th judge ot th superior court. The object of this provision ia to keep th appointing power in th nanosoi reaponsiol men and out 01 politic. The capital stock, being vested ia trustees, can never be sold to any rival company, and ihua monopolization I prevented.

The compaoy will, after its organiza tion, laaue certificate or bonds of tba denomination of $.0 each, payable to bearer 00 or before five yeara with tl percent, interest, and will pro Id that the holder may present his bond at the office of the company and bave 75 per cent, ot his monthly or yearly bill for gas credited upon It until it 1 redeemed. The certificate will be sold to investor and to future consumers, and so heartily is the enterprise greeted by the peopl that citicvu have already pledged themselves to take from $50 to $10,000 each of the certificate when laeuod. When all certificate are redeemed tbe surplus ia the bauds of tbe commissioner Is to be expended to future Improvements, and enpeclally indue the location of manufacturing establishment in th city by tbe donation of natural gas and other means. All calculations agree that it will not tak but about tbre years to pay for the plant and that tber will then be a surplus of nearly $400,000 annually to use for publio enterprises, through tbe direction of the itoard or 1 raue. Mich ma auvcrtlsement or Indianapolis double its population iu five years.

A number of citizen bav volunteered to make the eanvai and sev eral well known men bav signified their willingness to assume the dalles of commiaxioners. Attorney Micbeuer and several other prominent lawyers hav Investigated th plan proposed and find 110 legal flaw In It, and th only question 1 whether tb peopl will giv it their en couragement. Th ordlnanc rates are to be accepted and a soon as the cost uf delivering gas is ascer tained by th commissioners th price to consumers may be lowered. There is to be no individual proht, the plan having in view solely the building up of the city by a liber al supply ot ga at cheap rates. iters from several companies have already been received for the sal of well and it I thought that instead of prospecting tbenc.w company will simply buy all good wells, as is done by th l'ituhurg companies, at fair prices, and thus encourage th work of prospecting in the gns field.

Tb whole matter will fully discussed by tb board of governor on Monday and it is hoped tbat there will be a lull attendance. Certainly th council should do nothing until this plan can bave a fair and impartial discussion. I ST It EAT EN Of Patient Tito Insan Uospltitl Causes Ills Itemoval. UlastrAtion ot tb manner of manage ment of th insan hospital under the new administration continue to com to light. Yesterday a lady cam from th northern portion ol tho slat to inquire Into tbe con dition of her husband wbo baa been an in mate of.

tb hospital but a few wek. ltccent report of abuses, which have appeared ia the papers, mad bar uneasy, ah said, and after worrying 'for some lim over th waller, ah decided to com and see fur her self the condition of thing. 8 he brought with her the sheriff of her county to assist, in she should desire lo remove her hus band, as shs waa determined to tak hiin. bom It any Indications of abuse wer no ticed. On entering th hospital and giving the name of the person whom she desired to see.

tha official explained that tb man bad unfortunately been recently injured by falling out of bed. When taken to her husband she lound a cut in hi forehead and one eve blackened and swollen. besides other bruise about the head, and was very weak and feeble. There not the least indication ot violence1 in hi insan ity, and he was etupid and alow ot motion. The lady, after carelul examination, felt certain that a fall from the bed could not have produced the wouuds, and at one had the patient conveyed to the depot, where tbey took the first train for home.

She said she would hire a nurte to care for her husband. as be was completely harmless, and would keep him at home, wber stie would not be continaily in fear of hearing of his death from violence. A Wlmt Ie lt? An enormity in human sbap was seen about 'th depot to day, awaiting a train. limb wer very large and wavered about as shuffled along, as though Im mature and rickety. 'Hi broad aboulder wer stooped to such "a remarkable degree that the observer from behind could not see his, bead.

However, when tiie crooked figur on on occasion was straightened up lis lull hight, it towered head and shoulder abov tb tallest man about the depot. verybody stared in amazement, and 0110 bold individual timidly approached and deprecaliugly inquired of th giant his real bigbC "Heven feet, five inches" wa the reply, and to avoid further attention be stooped and entered his car. 1 wo Wives' Complaints. Jennie Maiaartiu is suing Tony before Justice Htnock to recover certain pemoool property, conaiating largely of wedding pres ents, which she charges him with unlawfully withholding from her. They ware married one year ago.

In tb unit court the wife of Mugwump Alfred Harrison was complaining this morning that th reformer bad sold a cow which belonged to h.er, but ther seemed to bo no relief for such acasn. New Telegraph Hale. Nnvr York, October i Ir. Norvln Ureen, president oi tb Western Union Tel graph oompaoy, say that it ia intended to make a vaitorm rate of 25 eenta for ten word moaaagea from any point to any other point In tbe earn staMf in all of tb territory cast of th Mississippi river. Ib IlopabUeava Convention.

PitTbBUBO, October 22. The Chronicle Telegraph to day print Chairman li. Jones' call for the national republican com mitt to meet at th Arliogton hotel, Waob iugton, at 10:30 a. December 8, to fig th date and place of tb next national republican convention. A Valuable) 1oj Horace Comstock' fin Irish setter, "Iloyal th most valuable dog ia this part ot th eonntry, was killed on day last week by a aavage bull dog.

He bad beea in aix big dog show aad bad taken five first premiums. Mr. Comaktck bad' been oflered $300 lor bin. Isnltcanowa. Washinotox, October 22.

Indiana and Illinois Warmer, fair weather; light to fresh southerly wiada. Local, TsarrnATtTaa. 1 I p. 49 MOB LAW DISGRACE. AM Eft GItEEX I.

INCHED TO DAY Naor tho Beano of III Allege Crime ta C'as County Ills AceosnpHe Wot Moletteofttat rneectal ta Tb Indlanaoolta Ksws.1 DRLl'llt. October When th son area tbia morning it disclosed the body ot Araer Oreen hanging in the woods, eight miles southeast: of IelphL Last night 2 0 masked men quietly catered this town, They surrounded the jail, aud afisr placing a line In tb middle ot th street, about twenty of th most determined started for the jail. They mad no demand on'tb sheriff before beginning operations, but sent a sledge hammer crashing through th wooden door leading ioto tbe residence) part of the building on the east side. Hushing in with revolvers In their band aud hand kerchief over their faoca, they demanded th key to th doors leading to Ameer Greeo'a coll. This was' refused" by the sheriff.

A man with a sledge hammer began his work, and on lock after another succumbed to bis powerful blow. When the sledge waa not sufficient it was aided with a Cold chisel. When tb mob reached the cell they had only, to swiug open the door and tak out tbelr man. (ireeu. wbo hsd always, ever sine his capture, showed the most defiaut aud nou nhalent mien, bad begun to weep aud cry a soon as he found the tiiob wa coming.

Jn bis desiMsratlot be bad wrenched loo a section of the water pi i In bis cell with which lo defend himself. Hut four men made a bold and simultaneous rush lor hltn, grappling hi hands aud throat at tbe same lime, lie was bound and hurried out out into a double seated covered carriage held la waiting and yl whip was then applied to tbe horses. Tb carriage containing tb prisoner want at a break neck speed uutll it crossed th i'eor creek bridge and reached the top of tbe bill, when It was joined by about sixty other carriages, buggies, wagon and borse back riders, uud tb proces sion moved towara walnut urove, wherotwo large fire bad been built, and which illuminated the woods. There the. leader of tha mob told Green he mast llher produce Luella Mabbitt or die.

11 called for Mr. Mabbitt, father of tb missing girl, and, standing fac to fac with him, stated that Luella waa alive and living with a man named Samuel ane, at (ort Worth. Tsx. He was asked why had not t.l 1,1. ha.

I vised him to the contrary. Conviooed tbat be was lying, a rope was stretched around his neck by the mob and he was drawn under the tree. Ureen stood up on the seat as erect as a atatue. hi bands pinioned aud th run so tightly drawn tbat be was almost choked. The crowd was orderly as a sheriff's 'poss oould bave been had Amer Oreen been go ing to bis death in accord auc with the man date ot th law.

Tb wazon was about to be driven ahead. spectator, asked Die doomed man: "Ar you an innocent man?" "1 am an innocent man." "What 1 your last request?" continued tha newspaper man. "That vou lulortn my mother, send her my body aniftell her I desire to buried by the side of ray sister in Ohio." "At Hebron, Ohio?" "Yes" but here th horse gave a lurch forward, and Amer (jresu waa suspended between earth aad sky. Ilia body was cut down at 0 o'clock this 'morning, after it bad been viewed by thou ssjuda. Th ooroner's iuquest i now going on.

When th sheriff lound that th mob waa on him, his first move waa to secure Wm. Walker, who wa in jail awaiting trial as an accomplice of Ureen's. lie was in th women's department, and was easily aud quickly put Into th cupola of the building, but the mob mad no demand for him. The whole atlair wa admirably planned and On man, who ud the hammer, waa familiar with every detail of the locks and cells. Members of th mob hav been in town all day.

but their purpose was not suspected until tbey wer at work tonight. Amer Green wa on of the moat dcaporate criminals that ever sllilctcd Indiana. in August. hH. he abducted and is supposed to have murdered Luella Mabbitt, a wealthy farmer's daughter.

He Was captured in Texas last July with his brother. Kill Ureen. also a murderer, and both ware taken to Michigan City for protection front mob violence. Hill Ureen la now on trial in Miami county, and "Amer's case would bav com up here to day on a motion lor Chang of venue. Illll flreen In Abject Terror.

(Hpectal to 1 be Indianapolis Newa I Pr.uir, October 22. Kill Ureen, brother of Amer, wbo Is in Jail in this city, is in abject terror, fearing the fate his brother met last night. There ar rumors of lynching, but without foundation. He reiterates tbe state. meni that Mis Mabbit Is alive in Texas.

Th Konta Victims. Kot'TS, Ootober'22. It transpires that on of th Miller family, all of whom wer sup posed to bav perished la th Chicago A Atlantic wreck, except Herman, th little Itoy, still litre In Uermany. His name is Carl, and is twenty eJghl years old and never cam to this country. No efforts will spared to find him.

Tbe fat of hi relative was not mad known lo Herman unlit Wednesday. Iaui.Ii LI PjiaI ItAatAn rk. tmmm am I a J. www ill fated train and sustained a painful lojury, has left Routs. It is understood that compromised witb tb company for $1,000,.

A Missing TrustM. Hpaclai to Tb Indtanaiwlla Jtawa 1 TlPTO.v, 22. II. C. Finney, th mlaaing trustee of Cicero township, baa not beea found yet.

Hi books ar in a terribl condition. Is i thought Is short in hut aocounta about Minor aleauon. Ther have bean more than lS.OfX) biishcl of apple shipped from Waterloo this sea son. Joslah Monroe, a farmer near Brooks burg, wa fatally shot while hunting yester John Brown, cf Boone township, Harrison county, was killed oa Tuesday by th caving in of a wall. Near New Albany on Thursday.

Johnny Featheringill, aged seven, wa thrown from a horse and killed. At Lafayette yesterday Lkwrenc Carroll. a teamster, sustained fatal Injuria by being rruabed by tailing lumber. Eraatus Jooe. a well to do citlsen of La layette, attempted ulcid yesterday by taking laudanum.

Hie condition Is precarious. Tb barn of Israel Taylor, a farmer living near Argus, was burned Thursday night with all hie stock. Lose $3,500, and no insurance. Ther wa a considerable snow fall.th first of th season, at Oosben yesterday. At time tb ground wa whit with snow, but it all melted oa.

Tb Pnnc Albert hotel and Taylor's lly ery stable at Koonvlll wer destroyed by fir yesterday. Tb In to Taylor was $1,400, insured, and to Mr. Husk, th proprietor of th bold, $4,000, on which there waa an la. uranc ot $00. Tbe Itichmond Palladium telle tbtory of a handsome womad who waa granted a divorce from her husband a lew day a ago ia that city, bb answered hi advertisement lor a "lady correspondent" la tb Cincinnati Kuqalrer.

A corraspondenc followed, which in time resulted in tbalr uarriag. bh was tbedsnghter of a wall to do farmer and In herited $4,000 Irom bar mother' estate. This money be ran away with, abandoainir her In Jx'ww York City, after a wadding Jurny of MEWS POILI INDIANAPOLIS, SATUKDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22. 1887. mrc two rrrrj a is.

ix) 1 1 a a jla tsar WkOU THE NEW YORK STOBE. jltbllahl 1853.J FALL AND WINTER STOCK NEVER AS LARGE. Never as good as now. I I Never sold lower than now. SILK DEPARTMENT, i Crowded with Black and Colored gilks, PlusheH, 5Vel I 'vets, Satins, Surahs, Rha damcs, and all the new things i of the season.

Prices never, lower than now. DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT. Plain, figured, stripes and checks," both foreign and domestic. What is new and good you will find in this stock, and prices were never lower than now. BLACK DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT.

1 Here we are showing all the new things in plain goods and fancy weaves. 1 You will find good goodsl and prices never were lower than now. CLOAK Ladies', Misses' and Child ren's Garments. You can find what is new, good and stylish, and the prices, never were lower than now. DRESS TRIMMINGS.

If you are looking for Dress Trimmings, the. New York Store is tho place to find the correct styles, and the prices never were lower than now. ALL riUCES IN PLAIN FIQCKES. 5 PETTIS, BASSETT CO. KEEP HANDS OFF some months, paid for oat of her fortan.

Her husband, who represented himself as a rlcn speculator, with aa orang grov la Florida, wber they war to make tbatr homo, tamed oat to a bill poster wit Barnant'a show. Tb Delphi Time ha beea aold ta Mr. llobert button, ot Michigan City. Tho new proprietor baa been steward of tb Northern prison for tb last fourteen year. Mr.

R. l. Wber wood will bav charge of th paper. Th Times i th democratic organ of Carroll eouaty. and prior to last Jaauary we owned by A.

11. Crampton. Th nw owner take possession at one. Ther ar 193 'Presbyterian miniater In th Indiana nod, and 311 thurohea: H7 women' foreign missionary societies, and 53 mission board. These eooletie bav paid in over $112,000 to th Itoard ot th North weat, an average of $5,000 a year.

During th laat synod leal year Indiana Presbyterian gave $14,334 to foreign mixtions. Tb next synod will held at linshvill. J. It. MeCIung, late editor of th Wabash Ilala Dealsr, has purchased a balf Interval in tbe ancle Daily aad Weekly Time, and on Monday will tak posaeasion.

Th editorial management of th paper will be giveu lo Mr. MeC'lung, who ia a veteran nwapier writer, being known to ail lb old journalists of southern Indiana. The new firm will be McClung A Wildman. Tb prio of th ot no was CITY XKW. Tb Citizens street railway' rtaughvlll extension will be in operation by Tuesday.

Building Permit: Fanal Dorman, fram eottage oa Daugherty and Wright strte, Joseph Kissinger was sent to th grand jury this morning, to explain the possession ol seven hates, which the publio think ne baa no business with: The suit ot John Oayaford against August Hrhmidt, for damage on account of personal lulurie. resulted In a verdict fur plaintiff of on cent this morning. Oeorge L. Keynolds, of lleddrloh, indicted by th federal grand jury for sending an obtoen through mail, was fined $110 to day. Th real eotate butinea ha been onusuelly activ this weak.

Kxclu.lv of th transfer of lo slxty fiv deed bar passed, representing sales of Th petition of N. N. Morris to hav tb amount of hi deposit at Harrison' bank at th lim of it dissolution credited on a note held ther was refused by Jndg Walker tbie morning. Argument has been reached in tb Stull arson trial, and th jury will probably not be charged nntil Monday morning. Mr.

John Duncan sitok in behalf of th defend ant this morning. Judge Walker to day divorced Elizabeth Lent (rota 'Jess on proof of cruelty and abandonment, and Aonl Smith from Ham llton on th grounds of drunkenness, cruelty aud failure to provide. Diphtheria is reported at 14 Concordia tret, 180 Sheldon, rear 338 North Noble, 2J Deloss, 17H Kaat Walnut and 323 East Mar. ket street. A death Irora this disease 00.

ourred at tio'XKast Washington street. H. McCoy, llobert M. and W. P.

Fishback ar director of th McCoy Manufacturing company, incorporated to day. with $10,000 capital. Its object is to manuYaolurc doubletrees, neck yok and othr artlcl of that nature. Tb proceed of tb picnic given for th benefit ot tbe evicted tenantry by th IrlaU Amerlcaa club, footing wer turned over to Captain ODounell, treasurer, to be lorwaruau to tb national headquarter of th league. Th Women's Aid socletv of tha P.no lf.h Lutheran church will giv a concert in Ihsir new church Friday evening.

October 24. at o'clock. Mrs. Korique Miller. Misses Dicker.

etricbs and Bamberger, and Mesxr. Hnadcs, Ioiuls and Professor Newland, th Hall Plac quartet aud othsr will kindly Si St, Hannah Jane I'ate. thlrtv.alv veara nl.l livlog at 1101 Masaachusetta aveuue, has be com Insan through religious exnltement. Mb imagines she ha' divine Instruction to preach. I subject to other hallucination, and think friends ar trying to do her in jury.

A commission adjudged hsr insan tbia morning. Fidelity Itann Inritctmenla. October 22. Tb expected entatious In tbe Fidelity national bank Indictment began to. develop at balf past 10 this forenoon.

It is now known that twenty ight I rue bills bav been found. Tb Fidelity bank cases, so tar a divulged, ar as fol lows: vie President tx L. Iiarpr. fiv indictments, fifty seven counts; Cashier Amml Jtaidwln. four indictment, fourteen counts: Josla Holme, tour indictments, fly counts; Assistant cannier IJen Jtopklns.

four Indictments, forty eight counts. Tbea In dictments ar for violation of. tb statute at large governing th national bank and tor fraud, j. w. Wllabir.

th broker, wbo led in th disastrous wheat deal, using Fidelity bank tunut, naa tour indictments against blm with eleven counts. W. 11. Chatfield and Henry Pogo, directors, wbo signed the May report of the Fidelity to the comptroller of th treasury, bava been indicted for signing a false return, and wer araigned this morning. Mis Joaie Holme, tb private aecretary of K.

L. Harper In tb Fidelity national bank, waa arrested laat night by United tales ofticers on a north bound railway train, at Hamilton. bb was brought to this city at midnight and, put in jail. Th First National bank ot Logansport, filed a'sa it to recover of David Armstrong, receiver of th Fidelity national bank, claim of which th receiver has acted upon and rejected. An Oil Company's tailnr.

Drtuoit, October 22. Th managers of th Alpha Oil company, th young rival of th btaodard oil monopoly, hav mad an assignment. It with tbat of branch institution, wa $0,000,000. It landing spirit ar th most prominent men of Detroit and Michigan, with a sprinkling of Cleveland millionaire. Judge Ieaao Marat on i secretary aad treasurer of th International Oil company, which ha fbeeani patent aa th Alpha, tb American branch of th or ganization.

He say th International com pany is not affected by th troubles of th Alpha company, and that th latter concern will be reorganized and continu. Cotton OU Truat ntocaholder I fowl. CniCAtio, October 22. Stockholder ot tb American Cotton Oil trust ar load in their complaint about tbe management and methods of tb concern. Th trustee announced in a published circular that tb treasury contained $750,000 ia oash and asset amounting to $500,000 and four quarterly divideads ot I per ceat.

wonld' oe paid. After thia announcement stork met with ready sale. Subsequently resolutions to pay dividends wer reconsidered, and Freaidsnt John V. Lewis resigned. Lewis was connected with Harper in a wheat deal aad wa oa Wiltshire A llmrper' paper for a larg amount, KuaI HarTragtta.

At th last meeting of tb Equal Suffragist society, th following named officer war looted: Prexldent, Mrs. J. R. Wood; vie peeddenU. Mrs.

May Wright Mswati; Mrs. Nettle Ransiord; Mia. Mary K. Hagvart; aeciwtary, Mr, (teorglo Wright; treasurer, Mrs. il.

A. Woody, exsoutire committee. Miss fcarah Mocrlsoa, Mm. Laura Ikiegelo, MlaaMary Uarldan, t'r. Marl Uaalep.

Thai Wh Kifht. New Yobk, October 22 Adam Bayer, a Osrmaa batcher, mad an attempt to kill hi wife and four year old child with larg knlfa early this morning. After a short traggl th mother and child escaped with, out injury, but tb father, ia bis fury, eat hi throat and was dead in a fsw minutes. Obituary. Los pox, Ootobor 22.

Tb death aa Bonneed of Waldetsar Adolpa ThUted, too Danish poet aad nsvalist, la hi vaty third yar. NOTHING DEFINITE KNOWN OF TWO LAKE DISAJSTEXM Bpsw4 Thia Morsdag Owo Clono Aahr statd AtsoUior Oavo WroeJtosl by an Explostosw Cbicaoo, October 23. A speolal from Harbor Hprlngs, Miciv, aayat "It 1 reported that a steamer of aorno description wont down near tb Sault Ft. Marl Tbnraday bight aad. that only aleven of svuty fl parsons wer saved.

Ther I nothing' definite yet." I'rspaller vwroehaMt by aa Kaptoetow. DmioiT, October 2X A special from Cheboygan, to tb Kvanlng Journal, ays: "Th Canadian propeller 'Ontario is reported blown to piece by tb explosion of her boiler in North Channel, near Brno mine, and thirty five people killed. particulars can obtained. It being isolated from any port or telegraph." tliwtar Cover from tb Mtorm, CiNC'tHXATf, October 22. A special from narbor Springs say th staamsr Cutumlag ha jnst arrived from th Keaver Island and reports a flaet of forty stsatn barg and vcsaela under covsr from th storm at that point.

Captain Bouchard say that is th largest Seat of the kind vr known tber. It Is reported that a steamer went down near th Hault Hie. Mart Tbnraday night, and only lven out of seven ty.fi person wer saved. i Aa Abaturtonee) Vessel. WjtfllMOTO.t, OcTtobar 22.

A dispatch from Tasley, ssys th schoonar rtrnde, of New York, drifted Into Hog Island inlet on tb 17th, dismasted and abaudonsd. Ther ar no tiding of th crew. NKW8 OK THE DAY I5t UltlKF. Oil at Pittsburg to day, 73i. Nashville.

believea that ga wUl lound in paying quantltla nr there. Th eooftmrtof Milwauk hav withdrawn from tb K. of becaus of th prohibition clan in th constitution. laaqaarr! at Magnolia, between Itoy. M.

Williams and Thoutas Decker. the former waa fatally stabbed. Th Toledo, Peoria A Western manag mut ar settling claim for damage on ao count ot th Chateworth horror. A jury at Little Falls, N. ha decided that when the K.

of L. employ people to stay away from work to aid a strike, tbey must John McOowan ha been arrested at Ur bana, charged with forging th nam of hu perinteudsnt Wilson, of th B. A to railroad passes. 1 By th falling of a srafioM at barbd wlr mills at Allentown, yesterday, Bamuel Mebu was instantly killed and Titus Bterner fatally injured. A local train on th Lackawana road ran Into th depot at Jersey City this morning at full the air brake falling to work, and Engineer Dan wa killed.

Th Bah way (N. tnurdar 1 again a myutsry. Th dead wotnsn was not.Anni Ingraham. Sh has bn taken Into custody at Philadelphia, presumably for not being dead. Late oa Thnsday venlng crude pelro leam was struck in th experimental well In Hontb Hutchinson, at a depth of 820 feet, thirty six feet below th oao hundred and uity fset salt vein, Counterfeit postal cards hav been disco v.

red at Pittsburg that ar so skiljiully eze cuted tbat their detection 1 very difficult. This I tb first attempt mad to pat spurious postal card in circulation. Lewis A. Leonard, formerly ef tbe Clocin natl TImes Btar. andofth late San, ha been Indicted for malting an unlawful ase of th mall in promoting a St.

Andrew Bay (Fla.) scheme. In which la concrnd. Th root of tb Warren even Baptist, church in Boston 1 In dangarot falling. Th sole support for tb roof of th great building consist of thro Iron rod on aad one half inohea In diameter, it 1 said that It will oust naarly to repair tb church which i on of th largest ia town. A never easterly gal prevailed yesterday and Thursday night on th Atlanti Th steamer Cbarles F.

Mayer, a mollimr, bound from Boston for Baltimore, went asbor last night at Chadwiok, N. J. Th crew, seventeen In number, wer all taken ashore ia th breeches buoy. Mr. J.

Arnoux Ilomesrot, of Newcastle, nico of tb famous Ktepban Glrard, founder of Glrard college, at Philadelphia, her father, Jsaa (ilrard, being btephen' youngest brother, will bring suit agaiost th oolleg trustees forth recovery of property alleged to bay been left by Htepfaen Olrard to ber father and whioh never got. Oovernor Church, of Dakota, report another year of wonderful growth and prosperity. Th population of th territory I estimated at an Increas ot 60,000 daring th year, the assessment of property Inthe territory is an laeraas of nearly $25,000,000 during tb year; tba bonded indebtednss of th territory ia $1,098,800. a Mr. and Mrs.

Cleveland at Iloan. (Moat tat to IDe Indlaoapolla 1 WABttlXOTOif, October 22. President aad Mr. Cleveland and party reached bom to day. Both th president and Mrs.

Clare land will liv in comparative retirement tbrdugbout tb wioter, aa Mr. Cteveland' bsaltb has been impaired by lb fall go aad excitement attending th president's pro trsoted journey tbronghont the west, A gentleman wbo saw tb presidential party in Montgomery say that whll Mr. Cleveland looks noo th wore for th trip.lt baa bad a manifest effect upon Mr. Clsvsland. who health ha always been mora or 1 oelicat and site will need a lengthened rest betor sh can again nndrtak tb datle lase parable from ber position a mlatr of th White bouse.

Tho Anarchist Appeal. WAfUUXOTO.x., October 22. Tb grat rvmi imhv am vvubiuud, men iv an first tim from tb United tales soprem court, of th words, "do process of law" and I thalr ralatlnn ty tha "llliv of IK. I and tb claim, for tb first time mad, thai tb United Blates supreme swart must tak tak oogaizaoo of aa appeal bassd upon tho admission of improper furors. Anotber poiot raised la that tk record how that aa szesption wa also at on tint noted to a ruling of tb eowrt a being; In violation of th state aad federal constitution.

This exception being recognized by th court. It I eJalmed that this fact alooa give inriaulctloa to tb United Htato no art. Convtetod of Ma rdr Attar S3 Tears. LOUI8VII.I.C, Ootobcr 22. David Roberte, baa baea convicted ot murder in th Morgan) county (Ky.) circuit court, and sealcncad to th peniteollary for lit.

Ia Ootober 1864, kUled J. T. Kendall, of Wst LIUsrty, arrsslsd, seaport, aod want west, where ho became a prominent dtiaen. A abort tiro ago a soa of Kendall learned ot bis wnr about, aad, procoriag a requsitloo, had blm arrested and brought to Kentucky lor trial. i about seventy years old.

Dieeattlsflsal With CaptaJa Btook. CniCAUO, Oc tolier 22. 6a ma el Pieldea, a 'of tb condemned anarch lata, said to Oeneral M. M. Trumbull, thia morning, tbat thy had lost faith la Captain Black.

pay to much attention to tb moral aid of tho aaa and not aaough to th lsgaL 11 la also, ther say, too sanguine. The svipeef to hang November IL.

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