Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 July 1899 — Page 8

WEDDING PRESENTS.

We can show you a g:oud selection of STERLING SILVER, CUT GLASS, FANUYCCHINA and fine S1LVKR PLATED WAKR. CiiU and see our stock.

OTTO, The Jeweler.

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103 N. Washington St.

DR. H.

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WANTED—

GREENE.

ract ci* I in it ort to I)iseas^s of 1 ho

Eye,Ear, Nose and Throat

OFFICK Umiiis9 to 1H. I!1 2 to 4 p. m.

•lonl Block. Orn wfordjvllle Indiana.

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HARNESS.

Now is tho time to bny a pood harness. Dome and see our 87 harness. Our $10 harness is a great bargain. Our S12 harness is equal to any $15 harness on the market. Come and see.

Ornbaun's Harness House.

Alf Jvookiibill. C. A". IIodKlmi*

Alf Lookabill & Co

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Real Estate and Loans.

Office—OvarJ Warner's Clothing Store, Crnwlbrdsville, Iiul. 1 nWlll say td the puollcthat we liave a larp a list of farms ana city property on our books for sale or t,rifli, also stocks of groceries and dry goods, hardware stores, business houses, flourishing mills and in fact noarly everything imu'illy dealt in In a first class real estate ollice. If you want to sell or buy call at our oillce. II you want to exchange city property for farms or farms for city property wo are ruady. We are in touch with ali the trading man in tills irt of the country and if we li ivu't got what you want we will find It fcir you.

The People's Exchange. WANTED—To

exchan^o a jack for horse

stock, young horses preforred. Call at Thompson & Bland's stables near Vandalia station. w3-.')tf

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jV5R SALE—Five lots under good, new wire fence or seven room house and good barn. Ali comparatively now. Price $1,200. For further information address A. H. Peterson, Darlington. Ind. wit

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SALE—Good send wlu*t., crop of 1898 cieined II per bushel. Also short horn bull, two years old, $50. A.J. UTTBIUIACK, vH-4 Rural Route, No. 3.

Crawfordsville.

Ph-itis 20c per dozen for tho

nexc20d»ys at the new gallery over Dlckersoo & Truitt's ernc rr. No. 131 north Washington street. Call and see samples. 7-2Z wit N.M. COFFIN'.

WANTED—Tolocatedfarmwell

rent a of 150 acres or

more, well and improved, or will buv a small farm. 7-28 FREDERICK 9onwiCK, Darlington.

OR t'A LE—200 o^k trees. Monroe Mason, Crawfordsville, 6 miles northwest. 7-28

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SALE—NO. 1. ^'arm 124 acres, almost ail under cultivation near Darlington closet) church and school and on rural Toute.

No. 2 Farm of 80 acres, all tillable, fair Improvements, on fine gravel road, good school close.

No. 3. 80 acres edfre Black Creek prairie, fine land.'tulidlnifs, etc. No. 4. 80 acres, no buildings. Cheap.

No. 5. 80 acres near Thorntown. Good bargain. No. 6. 82 acres, all cleared, fine land, on gravel road, finely drained. AH these except No. 5 are near Darlington. Correspondents will pletss designate by number.

For pale, farm of 82 acres, 1% miles of Dar lington: nearly all bottom laud large variety of fruit. Here is a snap to ihe right man.

Farm 80 acres 7 miles east oi Crawfordsville on Noblesville road. 60 acresiunder cultivation. Can be bought right.

House of 6 rooms and 3H acres of ground. Plenty of fruit near Crawfordsville fine location. 7 14 tf

A. K. PETKHSON, Darlington, Ind.

SWAPS.

Just what yoa want.

I have a well established bu«lnpsi that can be DOU^rht «T. a Tin lnvjjt ment win not exceed ?500 and the hooks actually show a business of from 120,000 to 25,000 aunuahy. If you are interested call at once.

I have a well p*tabllshed grocery store for sale or trade. The stock will invoice about $350. If you are Interested, c*l). 1 have plontv of mmev to loan at the very loweBt iuterest. rates. If you want to sorrow or change your loan, call and see me. 1 have 40 acres well improved :.»d all under cultivation, 4 room home in /aircondi lion barn, orchard smoke house, well with wind pump, etc. Will sell fur 11,800 It is located on a go"d gravel iad and has froe mall delivery, Spleutiid black land.

I have 40 acres well located on a gravel road, froi mail delivery, all under cultivation, 5 room house, jrnorl barn, well, cistern, orchard, etc. Splend'd land. Will sell for $2,200.

I have 51 acres ot good land in Madison townBiiip. 4 room bouse, large barn, orchard, well, cistern, etr Will sell at a bargain.

I have 87 acres of splendid land on a good gravel road, all under cultivation, room bouse in good condition, 2 wells, cistern, 2 cellars, orchard, larire barn. etc.. and near church and school. Will sell for ff0 per acre.

I have a 4 room houseand an acreof ground 6 miles from Crawfordsville, cellar, cistern, well, garden, barn, orchard, etc.. free mail delivery. Will sell cheap or will trade for a Bmall house in city. Price $600.

I represent the old and reliable Continental and Hartford insurance companies. See me for Ore, cyclone and livestock insurance.

Anything you want in the way of property you can find at my ollice at the lowest price. List your property with me If you want to sell or swap.

Yours truly,

CHAS. W. ROSS,110 8. Green St.

..THERE'S A..:

.Difference.

Betwean clothing made exactly right and clothing made "just to sol!." The latter may look well for a few days, but wear and weather soon betray the "just to sell" sort.

Clothing honestly made of honest stulT keeps its shape and style proves its quality the longer you wear It. That's economy.

Gilbert & Gregg,

Merchant Tailors and Haberdashers.

WEEKLY JOURNAL.

ESTABLISHED TN 1848.

PRIDA JULY 21, 1899.

Welt Known in Hlooiulogton. Bloomington Telephone: Cards are out announcing the coming marriage of Robert L. White to Miss Cecil Crouse, at tbe home of the bride in Crawfordsville, Thursday evening, the 27th, at 8 o'clock. Mr. White is well known in Bloomington, and until recently was connected with tho veneeriDg factory.

The Uig Four I'iculc.

The committee from the Big Four workmen of the Chicago division, were in the cityThursday to complete the arrangements for tho picnic which will be held here next Wednesday. If the day is at all suitable they estimate that there will ba five thousand visitors here that day. An interesting programme is being prepared and all comers will have a merry time.

An Error Corrected.

In the list of prices on school books appearing iu another column of THE JOUJINAL the exchange price of New Advanced Arithmetics should be 35 conts instead *of 25 cents There should also be listed New Elementary Arithmetics, retail price 35 cents, exchange price 25 cents.

MYERS' CORNER.

Blackberries are scarco in this neighborhood Mrs. Rosella Ham and daughter are on the 6ick list.

Andy Davis is working for Ransom Myers through hay harvest. The ice cream supper Saturday night at Lutheran was well attended.

Tuesday while Everett Ham was attempting to climb into the haymow his hand slipped and he fell back 10 or 12 feet and broke and dislocated his wrist.

NEW ROSS-

Marion Loop is back from Irviugton. JUO Davis has returned to Anderson.

Dr. Shotts, of Mace, was here Wednesday. W. B, Sparry is visiting in eastern Virginia.

Joe Dalzell, of Carlisle, Ky is visiting here. Miss Lulu Turner was at Ladoga Wednesday.

Will Coddington was at Indianapolis Wednesday. Mrs Lou Gott returned to Ladoga Wednesday.

Mrs W. H. McVey has returned from Chicago. Aubrey Bowers is spending a few da /e at Lapland.

Walter Bratton and Charles and Frank Hurt have returned from Sugar Oreek,

Misses Lizzie and Mary Tomlinson, of Nicholasville, Ky., are guests of J. T. Bronaugh.

WHITE CHURCH.

Preaching at this place Sunday by Rev. L. M. Dunbar, of Darlington. Several from this neighborhood went to the, lake Sunday.

Nige Bowers and wife passed through this vicinity last Tuesday. Ellen Hamilton returned from her Logansport visit Saturday.

Lulu Martz is home again from staying with her brother, Charley. Mr. Yeoman has sold his farm to SilaB Bowers, of Darlington.

It is our sad duty to chronicle the death of Asa M. Cook, son of Shade Cook, aged 21 years, 1 month and ID days, lie departed this li/e Monday night, July 1U, by shooting himself. He was born May 22, 1878, and united with the United Brethren church Nov. 19, 1898 Asa and another young man made application and were»baptized during the week, when there was no meeting. He leaves a father, stepmother, two sisters and three brothers and other relatives to mourn their loss and feel that the shock and trouble is almost more than they can bear. Funeral services at White church on Wednesday by Eld L. Dunbar,from Matt 24:44 Interment at Union cemetery, near Ciark's Hill. The family have the sympathy of the entire community in their sad bereavement.

.Local Markets.

Craw lords ville dealers were paying the folowlng prices for produce yesterday: Wheat por bushel, new G0@65 Wheat, old 70 Corn, 68 pounds 30@35 Oats, new 17@18 Oats, old 22 Timothy Ilay, new 5 Kye 50 Butter 12^4 Bess 10 Hons

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Old.Turkey toms 4u Voung 4$ Turkey hens 6 Ducks

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Geese BW Cocks 2 Side Meat Lard per pound

GEN. ALGER RESIGNS

Informs the President He Is Ready to Quit, the Cabinet.

WILL RETIRE AUGUST 1

The ltesignation Came In the Nature of Surprise to His Colleagues. Positively Declines to Give Any

Reason For leaving OfHee—His Successor Not Yet Made Known.

"Washington, July 20.—Secretary Alger yesterday tendered to the president his resignation of the war portfolio. The resignation will become effective Aug. 1, though it wus tendered "at tlia pleasure of the president."

Gossip has begun already as to his successor, but is entirely speculative, for, notwithstanding the reports that Mr. Alger would not long continue at the head of tho war department, his actual resignation was unexpected. That it would come by the eud of the year was generally believed, but so littlo was it expected at this time thai some of the cabinet officers, when tho news first becamo public, were inclined to regard the announcement as premature, the announcement that it was act-

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ually in hand coming to them in the nature of a surprise. Formal acceptance of the resignation had not been made by tho president up to this morning, but will be in a letter to be written withi» the next day or two. No official statement us to the causo of tho resignation was jn'oenrable cither from the president or from Alger, neither of whom would talk on the subjec}.

For the present nothing will be made known officially concerning the severance of the official relations between the president and his war minister, but later 011 the correspondence closing tho latter's career as chief of the \yar deXjartmcnt doubtless will be given'to the public.

The belief had prevailed here for.some time that Mr. Alger would resigu, but the date generally sot was towards the close of ths year, after he had submitted his aimual report, in which ho intended to sum up what hud been accomplished during his brief but eventful direction of the war department.

Almost- before th« executive departments wero opened for business yesterday Secretary Alger called at the white hJ»ee and visited the president in his uili£, announcing 1M liad concluded to resist his office.

The secretary shortly after returned to tho war department and wrott out his formal resignation. To the lewspaper men who sought to secure some expression, the secretary was courteous, but firm. On the one side General Corbin and 011 the other Victor Mason, liis private secretary, by his authority, as they said, made the announcement that Secretury Alger hud submitted his resignation to the presidotit, to take effect r,t the ple-fl.sure of tho priiident.

At his residence the secretary was equally noncommuuicative, and positively declined to assign any reason for the action he had taken. His plans for the future have already been defined. Mr. Meiklejohu, the assistant secretary of war, is at present supposed to be iu Wisconsin, whither he went two weeks ago to make a personal inspection of the

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river improvements. He has been notified of what hae happened and is expected to return to "Washington to assume charge of the war department until mioh titne as the president shall name a permanent secretary. Probably that will be V7 the end of the present, month and by Au£. 1 Secretary Alger will be at liberty to my down hrs task.

AlXiKll'S SUOCKSSOK

Close Inquiry Fails to Klieit the Pres. illent'1is Intention. Washington, July 20.—The closest inquiry fails to elicit any information as to the intentions of the president respecting the appointment of a successor to Mr. Alger as secretary of war. Names are mentioned, but they are only those which have already been suggested with more or less of plausibility in the press, without securing either confirmation or denial from any well informed persons.

Among the nanres which have been mentioned from time to time when talk of Secretary Alger's forthcoming resignation has been rife, have been those of General Horace Porter of New York, now ambassador to France Governor Roosevelt of New York, General Harrison Gray Otis and Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn.

The news of the resignation caused a buzz of comment last evening iu all public plaoes, but at the white house there was no evidence that any unusual eiit had occurred. There were no •ers of importance during the early

part of the evening, but about 9 o'clock Secretary Hay, accompanied by Senator Fairbanks of Indiana came over for a! talk 011 the subject. There was no evidence of a cabinet conference, and 110 suggestion of anything in that line. There was nothing to give out for publication it was said.

Secretary Alger's departure from the cabinet will leave in it only three of those members who entered it at the beginning of the administration—Messrs. Gago, Loug and Wilson. The number of changes that have occurred in the two and one-half years of its life has been very unusual. Six cabinet officers in all have resitmed their nortfolios, saher to retire to private life "or to accept other positions of honor and trust at tho haii-is of the president. These include Secretaries of State Sherman and Dnv, Attorney General McKenua, Post .or General Gary and Secretary Bliss.

INDUCEMENTS

Offered by the Government to Iv*peel Keci-tiitinff. Washington, .kuy 20.—The war department is oifering extra inducements to expedite the recruitment of the 10 volunteer regiwients. Nearly all the coin missions having been issued, many of the disappointed applicants have been advised to enter tho ranks, as in that way it may be possible for them to secure commissions. General Corbin says that the policy of the administration will be to lill all vacancies which may occur among commissioned officers from the ranks. A number of applicants for commissions have enlisted as privates in the different regiments, and have been appointed noncommissioned officers wherever possible und consequently are next in line of promotion to commissioned rank in the event of a vacancy. Another method of securing recruits is to offer commissions to men otherwise qualified who will undertake to furnish in each case not less than 40 men who cau pass muster as soldiers and will enlist tor service in tho Philippines. There have been several cases of this kind during tile past week. A former officer of the Texas volunteer infantry recently told General Corbin that lie would guarantee to recruit 200 good men from Texas, providod he was assured of a commission. General Corbin promised hiui a second lieutenancy if he would recruit even 40 men for the volunteer army.

Fairbanks Keports to Hoy. Washington, July 20.—Senator Fairbanks, chairman of the join high Amer-ican-Canadian commission, gave to Secretary Hay yesterday his conclusions of his Alaskan trip. Tho senator still expressed confidence that some arrangement might be made which would result iu a resumption of negotiations on tho Alaskan boundary question.

Military Surycons.

Washington, July 20.—Colonel Charles H. Alden and Majors G. H. Torney and J. L. Powell of the medical department of the army, have been detailed to represent tho department at the eighth annual meeting of the association of United States military surgeons at Kansas City, Sept. 2T-'-39.

Casualties to the Second Oregon. Washington. July 20.—A statement of the war department shows that of 5G ovffieers and 1,310 enlisted men of the Second Oregon regiment 49 were killed iu battle or died uf disease during the campaign in the Philippines, a percentage of 3.6. Only two men deserted.

Xationu.1 Treasury Statement. Washington, July 20.—Hie statement of the condition of the freasurv shows: Available cash kalance, $279, "i i,252 gold reserve, §245,021,258.

REV. T. C. WARNER DEAD

Was Past Chuyiam-In-Cbiof of the Grand Army ol' tho llepnbiic. Kuoxville, Tenn., July 20. Rev. Thomas C. Warner, D. D., past chap-laiii-iu-Chief of the Graud A»my of the Republic, died last eveuing, aged 53 years. He was born iu Medina county, O., and served two years in the Fourth Ohio volunteers. He has filled prominent Methodist pulpits in Ohio, Tennessee, California, Maryland and the District of Columbia.

5 Drop In the Pricie ol' Flour. Chicago, .iuly 20.—The price of flour dropped 20 cents a barrel yesterday and is now cheaper than for some time. The price to jobbers fell from $4.20 to |4 and, according to the statements ot dealers, there is likelihood of an up turn. The drop is said to be due to the steady decrease in the price of wheat.

Damage Was It) Per Cent. Waco, Tex., July 20.—E. S. Holmes, government, expert, who was seut to Texas by the agricultural department to determine the extent of damage to the crops by the recent floods, reports the damage to cotton in this section at 10 per cent.

WIRE FLASHES

Tho third annual meeting of the PhotoEngravers of America is being held an Put-In-Bay.

The striking ore handlers liuve returned to work at Cleveland. The men quit work through a misunderstanding.

Archbishop Ireland is expected to sail for home 011 the Britallica in week or 10 days. He is now visiting in Ireland.

The steamship Huttie E. Worcester of Gloucester, has been wrecked 011 Sable island. The fate of her ere7 of 12 men is unknown.

Micliaol O'Connor, agod 40, and Mich ael MoGlinchy. aged 38, painters, were killed at Philadelphia by the breaking of a swinging scaffold.

Tho Choctaw officials, under arrest for executing William Goings, have been discharged by United States Commissioner Haskett for want of jurisdiction.

Sam Ketohuin, one of tho train robbers wounded in the light at Cimarron, N. M., was captured at a farmhouse about three milos from tho scene of the light. He hud called for something to eat and medical assistance.

RIOTS I NEW YORK

Sympathizers In the Great Streetcar Strike Make Trouble!

WOMEN PERFECT FURIES

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Becond Avenue Cars Are Stoned From the Sidewalks anil Housetops—1*0lice '.Tossed Hither and Thither.

Windows In Cars liroken and Many Passengers injured. fK:

New York, July 20.—If tho strikers wanted to mak-- plenty of work for the police and at the same time get into a strike by which they could depend on popular sympathy, they made a wise selection in taking the Second avenue line for the principal fight^of the strike.

Several times yesterday.afternoon the police were called upon to, quell riots in Second avenue, but none was of sorious import. The real trouble did not begin until thousands of working people who live along ihut great thoroughfare came home from work. Last' night Second avenue, from Tenth sireeL_to the stables at Ninety-sixth street, and even as fur as One Hundred and Tenth street, was filled, and on both walks was a dense mass of people, all eager for trouble. Captain Donohue had sent out a squad of mou to keep people our. of the middle of the street, so no tampering with the slot might- occur. Bat, his men were like so mauy chips on a river when the tide is strong, and they', were tossed hither and Lhither. They .used their clubs with all their power and,the only result was to anger the crowd so that little discrimiuatiou was shown- between the police and the car men, wheu bricks were thrown.

A great crowd gathered between Forty-second and Forty-fifth streets and attempted to overthrow the cars that came along, but 30 minutes apart. Policeman Owen Conivan, who was 011 a car bound south, was hid on the head with a brick and knocked -to the pavement. His left eye was almost knocked out. Louis Minku*, a !)-year-old boy, got in front of a policeman's clnb, and, in the excitement, the bluecojit made no distinctions. The boy was knocked over and was carried homciwith a bad 6calp wound. Mike Sheridan, a strike sympathizer, was taken home-'with a fractured skull. A sergeant, uud 40 reserves dispersed the crowd, making a number of arrests.

Another crowd got together in a minute or two, uud wheu a cur hound dowu came along it meta per leer, shower of bricks, stones and other missies, thrown from the street, the windows of the flats and the roof. Women were perfect furies. While a car was passing Seventy-second street, with Policeman Gallagher as an escort, a score or more of the mob tried to board it to take off tho conductor and motoytpau. Gallagher got off and, drawing jvp revolvers, walked ahead of the cap, clearing the track, the crowd retreating sullenly.

The cars coming into the stables from down town looked as if thev had run the gauntlet of Balaklava. Windows were broken and sides dc:itL-d in and more than 0110 motormau ie.c his post With the statement that lie had all I10 wanted. One car had 111 fares and transfers rung up at Fourteenth street and had ouly the inotornian, conductor and police escort aud two men aboard when it reached Eighty-1ifth streetSeveral passengers had been hit and wounded and left the car. The plaza, near St. Mark's church, Second avenue, near Tenth street, was t-hronsred with a jeering crowd of 2.000 or moiH). Police Oapcaiu Diamond nad a large, squad of men there and found it almost impossible to keep the crowd movii-.g.

A great mauy men were injured along the line. Policeman Ollsou was thrown from his horse during a, titrht near Ninety-fourth street. Tile uorse was struck 011 the head with a stone aud so frightened that it reared, throwing its rider heavily. The policeman leg was broken and he received internal, injuries. A motormau was struck 011 the chest with a brick near tho up-town car stables and seriously hurt. Several ol the passengers of one of the cars going up town, near Tenth street, received nasty scalp wounds from sr-ones thrown by the 1110b.

The Brooklyn police, on durv along upper Second avenue, declared the riot was infinitely worse than any that had taken place in Brooklyu. 'J ho crowds were very much greater and more auxions for a fight.

DEMOCRATIO-

Nalional Committee May Adopt New Utiles as to Vacancies. Chicago, July 20.—It is probable thai a new rule will be adopted today by hi natioual Democratic committee, which is iu session at tho Sherman House providing that whenever a vacancy occurs iu the natioual committee, the staicommittee shall elect a member of thnational committee to fill juclt vacant:.

Another rule which is und-jr,conr-.i.. eration gives the national ,yoyi:iiir the right-to judge of tho qualification of its own members.

Still another rulo is being talked t. which would force ex-Governf»v Aicgcl.i out of his positiou as a member of "flu auxilliary committee," whioii was originally composed of Mr. Altgeld,Senators Jones, Teller and Alleu, and William J. Stone. This rule will provide that all committees, auxilliaries atul otherwise of the natioual committee.shall' be made up ouly ot members of the big committee. As Mr. Alt-geld ia not a member o) the national committee the adoption ol this rule would prevent his serving

any auxilliary committee.

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EMPRESS OF CHINA Has Issued a Decree ltecognizing the Koiuan Catholics In Her lStnpiro.

Tacoma, Wash., July 20.—The steamship Olympia brings uews that the empress has issued a decree recognizing the Roman Catholic religion throughout Chiua aud has accorded an official grade to all Catholic missionaries who thus-rank as mandarins. The French protectorate of Catholics in Ohiua is also recognized with all its privileges. The recognition was secured as a result of strong French demands made following the murder of French missionaries, asking greater protection than they have had heretofore.

Anti-Christian riots in Fokien province have caused all missionaries to flee to Foo Chow. Seven Chiuese Christians were niurderod during these riots. It was reported that Rev. Philip, his wife and other English missionaries were murdered, but the latest dispatches announce their arrival at Foo Chow. Mnch mission property was 'destroyed. The British gunboat Algeriue has arrived at Foo Chow.

Native papers report that- Viceroy Liu, at Nanking, has received a secret edict from the empress dowager directing him to use armed forces to prevent the landing of troops of European powers in Yaug-tse-Kiaug valley. He is held responsible for successful resistenco to English or other troops, and is authorized to hold taxes destined for the imperial exchequer to defray military expense.

A dispatch from Chemulpo states that two captains of the Coreau army aud two others had been arretted for plotting to dethrone the emperor. Their object was to causo a revolution and secure a more enlightened monarch.

A terrible explosion occurred last month at liohoku coal mine, Japan, in which 220 persons were killed. Over 170 bodies have been recovered. A naked lump, carried into tho mine, caused an explosion.

NO SOLDIERS

Will Be Sent lo Clay County by Governor Bradley. Frankt'ori, Kv., July 20.—Governor Bradley will not call a special session of the legislature, neither will he send state troops to Clav county under present conditions, lie reached this conclusion last night. He thinks the legislature would not enact laws relating to the judiciary necessary to reach Clay county's situation, aud he doubts if the military would do auv good there. A well known mountain official, who was called 011 by the governor for an opiuion as to what was the best measure to be resorted to for tho restoration of order iu Clay county, respondod that he thought the whole thing could be settled by introducing a better grade of whisky into Manchester, to take the place of moonshine liquor, distilleries for which are 011 almost every farm.

Kffeets of 1-Mecirolysis.

Cleveland, July 20.—The city electrician has just completed an investigation to learn the effects of electrolysis on one street in this city. He finds 42 house water connections were eaten off during the past two years and in a few instances the big water mains are badly damaged. The electrolysis is due to the currents from the return wires of tho electric railway on the street.

A Mysterious Epidemic. Stockholm, July 20.—A mysterious epidemic, which has been prevailing recently among the cattle 011 tho Island of Gothland, ha* spread to the humau beings iu the district, and a large number of patients have been admitted to tho hospitals. Some of the cases are extremely difficult to diagnose. Ca't-le are dying by hundreds throughout tho island as a result the epidemic.

Ijow Mortality Kecord.

Santiago do Cuba, July 20.—Notwithstandsng the fever epidemic only 16 deaths from all causes were reported last week. This is the lowest mortality record the city has ever known. No new cases of yellow fever have been reported in five days and nearly all patients iu the hospitals are convalescent. Tho medicai officers claim the danger ia past.

Standard's Comment.

London, July 20.—The Staudard in an editorial regarding Secretary Alger's resignation says: President McKiuley's prompt acceptance of Mr. Alger's resignation is equivalent to an admission that the war department has been badly managed. It is significant the resignation followed so quickly on tho Manila correspondents' round robin.

Tlione liirln.

Mae—So von are engaged to GeorgeI refused him thiee times. Ethel—That must have been what he meant when he told me that he had had several narrow escapes.—New York Journal

Honneliold Martyr.

Polly—Aunt Sally seems woefully downcast tonight. Jennie—Yes, poor thing, she hasn't been able to get her feelings hurt al any time today —Indianapolis Journal.

HIC KO Y~GROVE.

Ed Vail aports a new buggy.Sunday school at Young's Chapel every Sunday.

Picking berries and fishing are the order of the day. Moses Allen delivered hogs at Crawfordsville Tuesday,

John and Howard Wilcox are visiting at Henry Hitch's. Fern Weliver, of Darlington, is visiting Jason Phelps and wife.

Marshall Brown, of Crawfordsville, is helping Jason Phelps put up hay. Alfred Simpson and Jason Phelps with their wives went to Lake M&xinkuckee Sunday.

ESOBAVBD cards at THE ODT^AL.