Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 July 1895 — Page 7

THE SIGN OF THE FOUR.

BY CONAN DOYLE.

"I told him the vvhole story, with small •changes so that he could not identify the places. When I had finished he stood stock still and full of thought.

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"I WISH TO HAVE YOUR ADVICE, MAJOR."

could see by the twitch of his lip that there was a struggle going on within him. "'This is a very important matter, Small,' he said, at last. 'Yon must not say a word to anyone about it, and I shall see you again soon.' "Two nights later he and his friend Capt. Morstan came to my hut in the dead of the night with a lantern. "'1 want you just to let Capt. Morstan hear that story from your own lips, Small,' said he. "I repeated it as I had told it before. 'It rings true, eh?' said he. 'It's good enough to act upon?' "Capt. Morstan nodded. 'Look here, Small,' said the major. 'We have been talking it over, my friend here and I, and we have come to the conclusion that this secret of yours 5s hardly a government matter, after all, but is a private concern of your own, which of course you have the power of disposing of as you think best. Now, the question is, what price would you ask for it? We might be inclined to take it up, and at least look into it, if we could agree as to terms.' lie tried to speak in a cool, careless wav. but his eves were shining with excitement anil greed. '"Why, as to that, gentlemen.' I answered, trying also to be eool. but feeling as excited as lie did, 'there is only one bargain which a man in my position can make. I shall want you to help me to my freedom, and to helprny three companions to theirs. We shall then take you into partnership, and give you a fifth share to divide between you.' ....-j,-.,, 'Hum!' said h^ fifth share! That is not very tempting.' 'It would come to hfiy thousand apiece,' said 1. 'But how can we gain your freedom? You know very well that vou ask an impossibility.' 'Nothing of the sort," I answered. 'I have thought it all out to thel'r.t tietail. The only bar to our owaTC is that we can get no boat iit i-. ii.e viyage, am! no provisions to last, u* lor so long a time. There re plenty of little yachts and :wlr at Calcutta or Madras which would servo cn:r turn well. Do you bring one over. We shall engage to get aboard her by night, and if you will drop us on any part of the Indian coast you will have done your part of the bargain." 'If there were only one,' he said. 'None or all,' I answered. 'We have sworn it. The four of us must always act together.' 'You see. Morstan.' said he, 'Small is a man of his word. lie does not flinch from his friends. I, think we may very well trust him.' 'It's a dirty business,' the other answered 'Yet, as you say. the money would save pur commissions handsomely.' "'Well, Small,' said the major, 'we must, 1 suppose, try and meet you. We must first, of course, test the truth of your story. Tell me where the box is hid, and I shall get leave of absence and go back to India in the monthly relief-boat to inquire into the affair.' "'Not so fast,' said I, growing colder as he got hot. 'I must have the consent of my three comrades. I tell you that it is four or none with us.' 'Nonsense!' he broke in. 'What have three black fellows to do with our agreement?' 'Black or blue,' said I, 'they are in with me, and we all go together.' "Well, the matter ended by a second meeting, at which Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Klian and Dost Akbar were all present. We talked the matter over again, and at last we came to an arrangement. We were to provide both the officers with charts of the part of the Agra fort and mark the place in the wall where the treasure was hid. Maj. Sholto was to go to India to test our story. If he found the box he was to leave it there, to send out a small yacht provisioned for a voyage, which was to lie off Rutland island, and to which we were to make our way, and finally to return to his duties. Cr.pt. Morstan was tlien to apply for leave of absence, to meet us at Agra, and there

we were to have a final division of the treasure, he taking the major's share as well as his own. All this we sealed by the most solemn oaths that the mind could think or the lips utter. I sat up all night with paper and ink, and by morning I had the two charts all ready, signed with the sign of four —that is, of Abdullah, Akbar, Mahomet and myself. "Well, gentlemen, I weary you with my long story, and I know that my friend Mr. Jones is inpatient to get me safely stowed in chokey. I'll make it as short, as I can. The villain, Sholto, went off to India, but he never came back again. Capt. Morstan showed me his name among a list of passengers in one of the mail boats

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very shortly afterwards, liis uncie had died, leaving him a fortune, and he had left the army, yet he could stoop to treat five men as he had treated us. Morstan went over to Agra shortly afterwards, and found, as we expected, that the treasure was indeed gone. The Bcoundrel had stolen it all, without carrying out one of the conditions on which we had sold him the secret. From that day I lived only for vengeance. I thought of it by day and-I nursed it by night. It became an overpowering. absorbing passion with me. I eared nothing for the law—nothing for the gallows. To escape, to track down Sholto, to have mv hand upon his throat—that was my one thought. Even the Agra treasure had come to be a smaller tiling in my mind than the slaying of Sholto. "Well. I have set my mind on many things in this life, and never one which I did not carry out. But it was weary years before my time came. I have told you that I had picked up something of medicine. One day when Dr. Somerton was down with a"fever a little Andaman islander was picked up by a convict gang in the woods, lie was sick to death, and had gone to a lonely place to die. I took him in hand, though he was as venomous as a snake, and after a couple of months I got him all right and able to walk. He took a kind of fancy to me then, and would hardly go back to his woods, biit was always hauging about my hut. 1 learned a little of his lingo from him, and this made him nil the fonder of me. "Tonga—for that- was his name—was a fine boatman, and owned a big, roomy canoe of his own. When 1 found that he was devoted to me and would do anything to serve me, I saw my chance of escape. I talked it over with him. lie was to bring his boat on a certain night to an old wharf which was never guarded, and there he was to pick me up. I gave him directions to have several gourds of water and a lot of yarns, cocoanuts and sweet potatoes. "He was staunch and true, was little Tonga. No man ever had a moi'e faithful mate. At the night named he had his boat at the wharf. As it chanced, however, there was one of the convict guard down there—a vile Pathan who had never missed a chance of insulting and injuring me. I had always vowed vengeance, and now I had my chance. I was as if fate had placed him in my way that I lgni pay my went oeiore licit tne island. He Stood on the bank with his back to me and his carbine on his shoulder. I looked atout for a stone to beat out his .brains with, but none could I see. Then a aeer thought came into my head -..nd showed me where I could lay my hand on a weapon. I sat down in the darkness and unstrapped my wooden leg. With three long hops I was on him. He put his carbine to his shoulder, but I struck him full and knocked the whole front of his skull in. You can see the solit in the wood now where I hit him. We both went down together, for I could not keep my balance, but when I got up I found him still lying quiet enough. I made for the boat and in an hour we were well out at sea. Tonga had

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brought all his earthly possessions with him, his arms and his gods. Among other things, he had a long bamboo spear and some Andaman coeoanut matting, with which I made a sort of a sail. For ten days we were betrting about, trusting to luck, and on the eleventh we were picked up by a trader which was going from Singapore to Jiddali with a crowd of Malay pilgrims. They were a rum crowd, and Tonga and I soon managed to settle down among them. They had ore good quality—they let you alone and asked no questions. "Well, if I were to tell you all the adventures that my little chum and I went tiirongli, you would not tnank me, for I would have you here until the sun was shining. Uere and there we drifted about the world, something always turning up to keep us from London. All the time, however, I never lost sight of my purpose. 1 would dream of Sholto at night. A hundred times I have killed him in my sleep. At last, however, some three or four years ago, we found ourselves in England. I had no great difficulty in finding where Sholto lived, and 1 set to work to discover whether he had realized the treasure, or if he still had it. I. made friends with some one who could help me—1 name no names, for I don't want to get anyone else in a hole—and I soon found that he still had the jewels. Then I tried to eret. at. him in many ways but he was prettv sly, and had always two prize-fighters, besides his sons and his khitmutgar. on guard over him. "One day, however, I got word that he was dying. I hurried at once to the garden, mad that he should slip out of my clutches like that, and, looking through the window, I saw him lying in his bed, with his sons on each side of him. I'd have come through and taken my chance with the three of them, only even as I looked at him his jaw dropped, and I knew that he was gone. I got into his room that same night, though, and I searched his papers to see if there was any record of where he had hidden our jewels. There was not a line, however, so I came away, bitter and savage as a man

could be. Before I left 1 bethought me that if I ever met my Sikh friends again it would be a satisfaction to know that I had left some, mark of our hatred so I scrawled down the sign of the

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four of us, as it had been on the chart, and I pinned it on his bosom. It was too much that he should be taken to the grave without some token from the men whom he had robbed and befooled. "We earned a living at this time by my exhibiting poor Tonga at fairs and other places as the black cannibal. He would eat raw meat and dance his war dance: so we always had a hatful of pennies after a day's work. I still heard all the news from Pondiclierry Lodge, and for some years there was no news to hear, except that they were hunting for the treasure. At last, however. came what we had waited for so long. The treasure had been found. It was up at the top of the house, in Mr. Bartholomew Sliolto's chemical laboratory. I came at once and had a look at the place, but I could not see how with my wooden leg I was to make my way up to it. I learned, however, about a trap-door in the roof, and also about Mr. Sholto's supper hour. It seemed to mo that I could manage the thing easily through Tonga. I brought him out with me with along rope wound round his waist, lie could climb like a cat, and he soon made his way through the roof, but, as ill luck would have it, Bartholomew Sholto was still in the room, to his cost. Tonga thought he had done something very clever in killing him, for when I came up by the rope I found him strutting about as proud as a peacock. Very much surprised was he when I made at him with the rope's end and cursed him for a little bloodthirsty imp. I took the treas-ure-box and let it down, and then slid down myself, having first left the sign of the four upon the table, to show that the jewels had come back at last to those who had most right to them. Tonga then pulled up the rope, closed the window, and made off the way that he had come. "1 don't know tnat 1 have anything else to tell you. I had heard a waterman speak of the speed of Smith's launch, the Aurora, so I thought she would be a handy craft for our escape. I engaged with old Smith, and was to give him a big sum if he got us safe to our ship. lie knew, no doubt, that there was some screw loose, but he was not in our secrets. All this is the truth, and if I tell it to you. gentlemen, it is not to amuse you—for you have not done me a very good turn—but it is because I believe the best defense I can make is just to hold back nothing, but let all the world know how badly I have myself been served by Maj. Sholto. and how innocent I am of the death of his son." "A very remarkable account." said Sherlock Holmes. "A fitting wind-up to an extremely interesting case. There is nothing at all new to me in the latter part of your narrative, except that you brought your own rope. That I did not know. By the way, I had hoped that Tonga had lost all his darts: yet he managed to shoot one at us in the boat." "He had lost them all, sir, except the one which, was.in his blow pipe at the time." "Ah, of course." said Holmes. "I had not thought of that." "Is there any other point which you would like to ask about?" asked the convict, affably. "I /hink not, thank you," my companion answered. "Well. Holmes," said Athelney Jones, "you area man to be humored, and we all know that you are a connoisseur of crime, but duty isduty, and I have gone rather far in doing what you and your friend asked me. 1 shall feel more at ease when we have our story-teller here under lock and key. The cab still waits, and there are two inspectors downstairs. I am much obliged to you both for your assistance. Of course, you will be wanted at the trial. Good-night to you." "Good-night, gentlemen, both," said Jonathan Small. "You first, Small," remarked the wary Jones as they left the room. /-I'll take particular care that you don't club me \Vith you wooden leg. whatever you may have done to the gentleman at the Andaman I files." "Well, and there is the end of our drama." 1 remarked, after we had sat sometime smoking in silence. "I lear it shall be the last investigation in •vhieh shall have the chance of studying your methods. Miss Morstan has done me the honor to accept me as a husband in prospective."

He gave a most dismal groan. "I feared as much," said he, "I really cannot congratulate you."

I was a little hurt. "Have you any reason to be dissatisfied with my choice?" 1 asked. "Not at all. I think she is one of the most charming young ladies I ever met, and might have been most useful in such work as we have been doing. She had a decided genius that way witness the way in which she preserved that Agra plan from all the other papers of her father. But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which 1 nlace above all thinxrs. I

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should never marry myself, lest 1 bias my judgment." "I trust," said I, laughing, "that my judgment may survive the ordeal. But you look weary." "Yes, the reaction is already upon me. I shall be as limp as a rag for a week." "Strange," said I, "how terms of what in another man I should call laziness alternate witji fits of splendid energy and vigor." "Yes," he answered, "there are in me the makings of a very line loafer and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: "Scliade dass die Natur nur einen Menscli aus dirschuf, Denn zuin wuruisren Mann war unil zum Schelmon tier StofT." By the way, apropos of this Norwood business, you see that they had. as surmised, a confederate in the house, who could be none other than Lai Rao, the butler so J6nes actually has the undivided honor of having caught one fish in his great haul." "The division seems rather unfair." I remarked. "You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it. Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine-bottle." And lie stretched his long white hand up for it.

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DIDN'T HAVE ANY USUAL BRAND IIow a Country Cousin Made Miserable a Nt:\vly Made Alan About Town.

When an adaptive young man from the far corner of some New England or western state lives for a time in New York, and absorbs enough of its atmosphere to gain the prestige of a regular boulevardier, it's pretty hard 'now and again to have old times thrust upon him in the person of a primitive cousin or brother-in-law, whom he is bound in conscience to entertain. A case of this kind occurred last week, in which the artless relative saw nothing but a screamingly funny lapse of memory, while the man about town found a mortification therein which was pretty hard to live through.

A complete deliverance of the bumpkin into the hands of the outfitter made him presentable, and then there was the little bachelor dinner at a Fifth avenue hotel given by the swell to all the smart men. who wanted "to meet your cousin, don't you know."

All went merry until the wine list came forth. To be sure, the bumpkin talked too loud and refused to understand any monitory wink, but then he said nothing too badly out of place. "What wine will you have?" said the cousin, addressing- him. "Haw! haw! I don't know, Cousin Dick, anything about the wine. You'll have to settle that yourself." "Shall we begin on a bottle of Sauterne?" "Lordy, how can I tell! Anything you like!" shouted the red-checked, bullet-headed youth, who couldn't make head or tail of the winks and looks of deadly warning emanating from the swell's eye.

People at adjoining tables pricked up their ears in amused curiosity, while the guests at the table looked a trifle disconcerted at the bumpkin's noise. "\v hat, said the swell, firmly planting his index finger on the word "Medoc," and glaring at the youth mesmerically. so that lie might understand and repeat it. "do 3-011 generally take?" "Usually!" shouted the youth. "Haw! Haw! Haw! Isn't that great? Usually nothing. Oi course never see wine. IIow could I? You know that, Cousin Dick, as well as I do. You never saw wine at home, and now New York makes you forget all about it. Usually

Haw! liaw! and the terrible youth stretched out ut full length and roared satisfactorily for about five minutes, while a sense of frozenness stole over his cousin and the swells looked on in amused pity.

That frozen cousin is dead henceforth to family ties, in so far as dining social recruits is concerned, at least.— N. Y, Herald.

The Fatal Word.

"My darling,"'he exclaimed.'rapturously, "How brilliant you are. You fairly—er—bristle with ideas."

The Chicago girl drew herself up to her full height and brushed him haughtily aside as she swept out of the room. "You seem to forget"—she turned on her heel at the door and faced him— "that I cannot brook any reference to my father's business."—N. World.

It. Y. P. ('. (.'(invention.

Baltimore, Md., July 18-31, Bier Four Route is the official route from Indiana. One fare for the round trip, tickets good going July 10 and 17, and good returning until August 5. The official train will leave Indianapolis at 3 p. m., July lflth via the Big Four and Chesapeake & Ohio Railways. For full information address Transportation Leader, L. A. Clark, Crawfordsville, Ind.

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CURRENT OF DEATH.

It Closes the Career of Dr. Buchanan at Sing Sing.

IDE WIFE POISONER ELECTROCUTED.

A Second Shock Necessary to Complete the Grcwsomo Job—Story of 11 Ih Crime and Ills l"ij ht for Life.

SING SING, N. Y., July 2.—Dr. Robert Buchanan, the wife murderer, was put to death in the electric chair at the prison Monday morning.

The witnesses assembled in the warden's office and at 11:15 were conducted

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to the execution chamber, which adjoins the cells sot apart for the use of prisoners awaiting the death penalty.

The Futal Current Turned On. At 11:21, exactly one minute after Buchanan entered the chamber, a nod was given by Dr. Gibbs, who officiated as time-keeper, and the electrician pressed the button which was the signal to the unseen executioner to turn on the fatal current.

The body in the chair gave a sudden convulsive movement, which strained the straps by which he was bound, and remained motionless. The only outward indications of the effect of the current were the heightened color of the face, due to the rush of blood to the head and slight burning of the right leg where it was in contact with the electrode. The current was applied at first at the full intensity of 1,7-10 volts, and after seven seconds was reduced to 400 volts, where it remained for fifty seconds, when it was turned off. The physicians immediately sought for evidence of life, and after a hurried examination announced that Buchanan was not dead. They were able to detect a slight pulsation of the heart. There was a gasping sound, from the throat such as has been observed in other cases, and is attributed to sudden expulsion of air from the lungs.

A Second Current Neronnitry. At 11:22:32 Electrician Davis again gave the signal, and the current was turned on at full force. It was not reduced this time, but was held at 1,740 volts for twenty-three seconds.

At 11:22:55 the current was again turned off, and this time the victim was pronounced dead.

As soon as Buchanan was pronounced dead the body was turned over to the physicians and the post mortem examination was begun at 11:30 o'clock. All of the physicians took part in the autopsy.

Kesult of Autopsy.

The most remarkable feature was the size of the brain, which weighed but jy ounces, or less than three-fourths the average. All the doctors agreed after the post-mortem examination that the execution had been as successful as any which has preceded it in point of painlessness. The condition of the brain indicated the impossibility of consciousness after the application of the current.

Hard Fight for Life.

The persistency with which Buchanan clung to life marked his case to the end. Since the death of the wife whom he murdered 011 April 25, 1892, in order to re-marry the wife from whom he. had previously been divorced, his case has been marked by uncertainties which have made, it famous.

His ease has been twice before, the court of appeals of the state, once before the United States supreme court, anil any number of delays and unusual legal proceedings have marked its course through the lower state and federal courts. Invitations to his execution were sent out four times by Warden Sage, but in the first, three instances, on one ground or another, a respite was secured and the infliction of the death penalty wt.j post poned.

The Murderer's Career.

1 Ir. Hobert Buchanan came here from Nova Scotia. In 188.1 I10 married Amiie Price Palterson and procured divorce from her In New York 011 November 12. I8UJ. lie was at the time a practicing physician In that city, lie became acquainted with Mrs. Amiu 11. .Sutherland, who was alleged to be a woman of Questionable character it was known that she kept a house of ill-fame at Newark. N J.

A few days prior to his marriage to the Sutherland woin.m, on November u, lwo, she executed a will, leaving her Newark and o:hor property to Uuch man. Alter their marriage they went to live at ^(37 West Eleventh street. New York city. Mrs. Buchanan was taken iil and Dr. Melntyre was called, lie proscribed twice for her. and he and Dr. Watson. who was also summoned, held a consult .t on as t. her dise.se The woin.n died t:e following Saturday, April 18Ui

The body was embalmed and i/itorre I in Greenwood cemetery. April £4, IH'JS. where ii remained until July 5, IHUi. It was then removed to the Carnegie laboratory. New York city, for examination. Unmistakable sljjn.s of the presence of morphine were found in the stomach, and the expert opinion was that death was uue to morphine. Dr. Buchanan, having an interest in the woman's death. WIK, accusod of poisoning her, and he was arrested 011 June 6, charged with the murder, and three days later ho was indicted.

On March 20, 1893. the trial was begun and on April 20 a verdict of guilty of murder in the first decree was rendered by the jury. A motion for a new trial was argued before Recorder Smyth, who denied the motion, and on August 14, 1893, Buchanan was sentenced to die during the week beginning October 2. An appeal was taken to the court of appeals and was argued January 21, 1895, and that court rendered a decision affirming the conviction of Buchanan. He was resentenced to die April 24. but a petition for a stay on a writ of error was presented to the United States supreme court or April 11.1

The population of Jersey City, N. J., according to the state census just completed, is 182,081.

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IxniAN'Aronis, Ind., July 2.—ITereisa brief epitome of the Nicholson bill, which is now in effect, the governor having issued his proclamation:

Section 1 provides for an accurate description of the room in which the liquors are to bo sold. The applicant must bo a male citizen and over 21. and of good moral charactcr.

Section 2 says tho room must bo separate from any other business. without any partition in tho room or any devices for amusement or music of any kind. Tho applicant may carry on other busindss by so stating In his application for license.

Section 3 makes ll unlawful foranvonc other than tho proprietor or his family to enter his saloon at any time when it is unlawful to sell 011 Sundays and holidays.

Section 4 requires a saloon to bo located on the ground floor and fronting tho street and an unobscured view of the room must, bo had from the street at such times as the salo of liquor is forbidden by law. and lr not complied with at such times will bo prima facio evidence of guilt in court-

Section 5 forbids tho loitering of boys In saloons. Section 0 forbids tho salo of liquors In any manner to minors.

Section 7 provides for the enforcement of tho law by sworn and special officers. Section 8 limits the liquor licenses to 0110 for each person, the applicant being tho owner and the proprietor of the business.

Section provides for prohibition. A majority of the voters of any township or ward can file a rcmonstranco with the county auditor throe days prior to tho meeting ot tho board of county commissioners and may prevent the issuanco of a liconso at any timo within two years, and one-half prohibits drug stores from selling in less quantities than a quart except, on proscriptions.

Section 10 applies tho provisions or tho tu.t to-porsons and liquor resorts, whether doing business under state or national laws.

l'oul Play is Suspected.

iNniANAroi.is, Ind.. July 2—Bryce Carter, a prominent contractor, died very suddenly Sunday morning and an autopsy failed to disclose the cause of death. The story then became known that for several months Mrs. Carter has claimed that her husband was being poisoned by a servant who was dismissed several years ago, and she called in detectives and even went before the grand jury. Both the detectives and the grand jury concluded that Mrs. Carter was insane and dismissed the matter. Her husband and adult children also credited her suspicions to mental disturbance. Mr. Carter's death has occasioned much surprise and the contents of tho stomach will be chemically analyzed.

Storey'n Nicco Swindled.

SOUTH BUND, Ind., July 2.—Mrs. Agnes Farranil, of this city, niece of the late Wilbur F. Storey, of Chicago, has been swindled out of $2,.'100 by a smooth stranger who gave the name'of W. J. Moore, claiming to come from Wabash. Mrs. Farrand bought a mortgage apparently given by Isaao lieamer, a farmer, on 1(10 acres of land. When it was recorded Reamer said tho mortgage was a forgery. .1

Final IHvlilcml PitM.

FAIKMOPNT, Ind., July 2.—The llnal dividend is now being paid tbe creditors of the Fanners' and Merchants' bank of this place, which failed in 1893. The bank owed depositors $1110,000 when it closeu its doors, and it was then thought it would not pay fifty cents on the dollar, but improvement in business and careful management will enable Receiver .Matter to pay all claims in full, with interest.

School or Science.

TBKKK 11A IJXK, Ind., July 2.—A summer school of science will be held at the state norma.l lor five weeks, beginning early in July. Four of the members of the faculty will conduct the school They already have appliea-^ tions from more than :.'()!) students. Prof. Ilettger will tea,eh biology, Prof, (iiilum, physics and chemistry, J'rof. Stalker, psychology, and l'rof. Kelso mathematics.

Desperate JKiglit 11 llie High way. IvKHANON, Ind., July 3. During a desperate fight 011 the highway :i miles south of this city George VV. Seott was fatally eut with a razor by Tead Lee and John Kdwards was seriously injured by Frank Scott. The fight eaine about over a horse race. Lee was arrested and was held to a wail the action of the grand Jury

Kelity Kucu to St. I.oiiin.

ixi)iANArox.it', Ind., July 2.—The Indianapolis light infantry relay race, carrying dispatches from" Indianapolis to the Indianapolis artillery in camp at St. Louis, left a.t ,'i a., in. The riders reached Stilesville thirty minutes ahead of schedule time: arrived at Harmony, 50 miles, thirty minutes ahead of time. llarinony ends the first division.

Only One Man finished.

Mi xciK, ind.. July 2.--The bicycle road race from Indianapolis to Mathews via Muncie was pronounced hardest ever run. Thirty-six started and but one finished. lie was Marshall Taylor (colored), 18 years, who covered the 75 miles in eight hours and twenty ininiit.es. It rained all day and the race was in deep mud and water.

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WAHAKII. Ind., July 2. William Summers, of this city, left on his wheel for Meriden, Conn. The distance is nearly 1,000 miles, and he expects to cover it in twelve days, making several stops en route. From Wabash he goes to Fort Wayne, thence to Toledo, Buffalo, Albany, New York eitv, and thence direct to Meriden.

Miiiicie Class Factories Clos«». Ml II :, Ind.. July 2.—C. II. Over & Co. and Maring, Mart it Co.. Ha 11 Bros., the Nelson, Muneie Flint. West Muncie and 1'ort glass factories closed for two months' vacation, and nearly 8,000 hands are out. The Midland steel works and Muncie pulp mill closed for two weeks to make repairs.

Indiana I.aws In Torcu.

I NIII AX A roi.is, Ind., July 2.—Thegovernor's proclamation was issued Monday declaring the laws passed by tho last legislature in force. One is excepted. the law taking the power to appoint the state-house custodian out of the hands of the governor.

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