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Lirn Grove Grist. Our Grist will contain the following removals this week: Wni. Mesbberger has moved on the Schaup place just east of town, Charles Sfialley moved to Decatur last Monday where his services are engage I to Mr.'Gastas cigar maker, Lorenzo Dunbar moved last w eek into the property vacated by John Crisman, John Heller now occupies the property vacated by Lorenzo Dunbar. John Welchli has sold his farm to Frederick Miller and will move to Montana, where he will resume the manufacture of Switzer cheese. Benjamin Sales, after a three months’ visit to Delaw are county, Ohio, returned home for a few days, leaving again for Ohio on Monday, for the summer as a farm Oscar Anderson, of the firm of Anderson & Anderson, has sold his interest in said firm to his brother, Orestes. Ephriam Reynolds made a business trip to Paulding county, Ohio, this week. How will the weather croaker apply our Easter snow storm to the old adage, that if it rains on easter, it will rain seven consecutive Sundays. We wonder how? Our township graded schools closed on Thursday of this week. Edward Huffman, the intermediate grade teacher of our school, leaves for Valparaiso on Friday to attend bollege. “ John Rhine, of Camden, one of the purchasers of the mill machinery, was here on business on Thursday ot last week. Our community is honored wljen it can be said that it has no representation in Coxey’s Commonweal army. The impression had gone out that nothing but cranks need apply. - Honduras Hooting. Mrs. Freedman Voigt still continues ill with neuralgia. Mrs. Lyman Babcock is slowly recovering from an attack of rheumatism. Easter was a stunner for farmers who expected to be unusually early this season. Singing at No. «, under the direction ol Prof. Coots, is progressing finely. County Superintendent J. F. Snow visited . our schools lust week. E. Fulk will remove his mill to this place'fs soon as the weajher perWfs; A few of our staunch bachelors still remain. Among them are W. E. Fulk, our . next County Surveyor. But the future » seems to brighten. At any rate he goes “fouth quite frequently. Marriage License. The following marriage license have been issued since our last report. Samuel Purdy to Mary Conrad. Herman B. L. Confer to Dolly Corbin, James V. Hendricks to Bertha L Lobenstein. to Marwiitta Urick. ** '*•4o Ejfc- ; ■-V ytiu.

' .' ... —— : KEEP TO TEE LINEII MONEY MAKES THE STOCK .GO'l! I 1 * We are under-selling’ them all. Our Spring Stock is complete. MEN’S SUITS:—In Cut-aways and Sacks. I ! • j i ! 5 ZL jh\ = /V/ V ■ -Ms © ZWx \ S- 1 h 5 S/ZhZ-ZkAeF “ 5 Al i d/ ! i W > ■ M i J \ W/ '\ z- ' > I - \ i! i ' i V i j / / «< « \Z ‘ Z/ s ■ J 3 k<wj ‘■' i\. i r >7 ® « \ V■' ' ’U ■'/ I isl ' VZ 'ZI : L . § I CHILDREN’S SUITS :-What they all want. - I What we want is money. We have the"goods and at prices that will bring it. The latest patterns in piece goods and at i prices and fits that no one can touch us. Yours truly, lEHINGER & MEYERSz CLOXUIERN AND MERCHANT TAILORS. ~.. , ; , 2 „ ■ ...^—v ..; A ■ - : —■ — i

BROKE HlSßAlffi’SNEek ’ i ,-£>> .i ' ~ , I Ccfifession of a Wife Results In the Indictment of Her Husband. ' LONG SILENT UNDER THREAT. James R. Hicks Accused of Having Murdered His Infant Child Two Years Ago. Difficulties of Indianapolis Police In Enforcing Saloon Laws—Other Interesting Items of the State. Bloomington, Ind., March 27.—The county grand jury yesterday afternoon returned an indictment against James R. Hicks for murder, his wife being the prosecuting witness. Her story is to the effect that two years ago he cruelly killed their infant child by choking it and breaking its neck. The reason assigned for her long silence is that the husband threatened to kill her if she made known his crime. Hicks by some means got word of her confession and his probable indictment and has left for parts unknown. POLICE DIFFICULTIES. Patrolman Fined For Trespass In Trying to Suppress Liquor Selling. Indianapolis. March 27.—The woes of the Indianapolis policeman who attemps to obey instructions against liquor law violations are manifold, and yesterday afternoon the cap sheaf was laid on by Justice of the Peace Habick, who fined Patrolman Kerins $25 and costs for trespass on the Circle House recently. Kerins, under instructions from his superior, stationed himself in the hotel recently to see whether or not the laws were observed, and when ordered out by the proprietor he refused to go. The landlord contends that officers have no right to act as spies. The case has been appealed, and if the decision is affirmed there seems no method by which those saloonists who are determined to copduct their business without respect to the law can be brought to justice. Chief Powell, however, declares that the fight is to be kept up. Ministers Will Meet In Court. Anderson, Ind., March 27. — Rev. Moses Hull, the noted spiritualist lecturer of Chicago, has announced that he will institute libel’proceedings against Rev. Clark Braden and perhaps the Muncie newspapers. Rev. Hull has been lecturing at Muncie. Rev. Braden was employed by the anti-spiritualist society to attack spiritualism. He did it and made seiious charges against the character of Rev. Hull. The latter refuses to debate with Mr. Braden on ahy subject, and Says the next meeting with him will be in the courts of justice. Now is the tiipe to subscribe for the Democrat. f

I DR. C. V. CONNELL, Veterinary Bxxx-geoxi. a,xxd ZDJEJIXrTXST. Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College and Toronto Veterinary Dental School. Treats all diseases of the domestic animals. 411 calls promptly attended day or night. Surgery and Dentistry a specialty. Headquarters at Nachtrieb's drug store. 2-* Berne Happenings. We are pleased to announce that another new firm has been organized under the name of Lbiigacher, Campbell & Erwin, ; who are the successors to Hirschey, Ilirschey & Co. Dr. Stoneburner and R. K. Allison were at Cincinnati the forepart of the week. Mr. Eminhiser and daughter, of Hoag-1 land, are visiting relatives and friends here I this week. A new business is now in operation in town. It is a millinery store with A. A. Lehman and sister as proprietors NOTICE. Last Saturday while in Jefferson! ! township. I was reliably informed that i John T. Kelley had been circulating a • report that I had withdrawn from the ; race as a candidate for Representative. Tho report is a fabrication unwarranted by me or any other person by my authority, and has been given without t my knowledge or consent. Will Mr. Kelley explain and give hik author? ’ 7 Jztcoii Butchßr. '

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BLANDEXI’fTTXAVETO ! Counting Siberites With a View to ' Passing the Bill Over Objections. THE HOOSIERS CHAGRINED. Senator I’ngh Think* the I’renldent OppoM'.l Only to the Ambiguity of the Seigniorage Bill and That He Would Approve » Differently Framed Measure. Senator < olquitt’s Death —Other New*. Washington. March 27. —Representative Bland is consulting with his silver I associates of the house as to the passage ' of the silver seigniorage bill over a veto. He finds most of the men who voted for the bill ready to indorse it again, even ■ ..gainst a veto. Whether he will make I the move or not is not yet certain, as the moat radical friends of the bill recognize that the necessary two-thirds vote to • overcome the veto cannot be secured in j the house, and without this the move could be nothing more than a protest. I Senator Pugh of Alabama expresses j the opinion that the president will send in a veto ot the Bland bill, accompanied ■ by a message explaining his objection I to the bill, which would be based on the . second section and saying in effect that I if a bill could lie passed devoid of the ambiguity of the one now' before him ; and providing .-imply for the coinage of the silver seigniorage it would receive his approval. The senator also expressed the opinion that in this event 1 such a bill could be passed without much trouble or delay. H<>O4icrx Anxious About the Bland Bill. Washington, March 27. — Indiana Democrats heje are chagrined over the ! prospect that the president will veto the. Bland bill. Senator Voorhees is the 1 most uncomfortable on|e among them. He still has faint hope that Mr. Cleveland will approve the bill. A strong effort was started by the Indiana Democrats to induce cX-Secretary Hugh McCulloch to go up to the white house and try*to persuade President Cleveland to sign the Bland bill. The movement was discouraged by the ex-secretary's sou. who Said his father was in feOble health and taking absolutely no interest in public questions. FAITHFUL SENATOR DEAD. ! Mr. Colquitt. of Georgia Expires After a LoUg Illness —His Funeral. Washington, March 27. —Senator Col- j i quitt of Georgia died yesterday, suri rounded by his family and friends. He ; was born April 20, 1824, and had been in j the senate since March 4, 1883. his presi ent term expiring a year hemte. The j senator was stricken with paralysis in ‘ July, 1802. and since that time has been moved to and fro in an invalid's chair. He has bee.n one of the most faithful attendants upon sessions, and was present i during the fate c ntinuous sessions on the silver question, his answer to the call of i rolls being frequently the means of mak- : ing a quorum. His funeral occurred i this morning in the senate chamber and i the body wa- then accompanied to Macon. : by committees from both branches of ' congress. He May Appft- For a Pension. WasHlNgtlon, March 27.—The house has passed the bill authorizing Washington Hislop of Marengo, Dubois county, Ind., to make an application for a pen- s < sion for a wound received while acting with home guards in repelling the raid of John Morgan in Indiana m July, 1863. The bill does not peremptorily direct the secretary of the interior to place Hislop on the pension rolls, but it gives him the , privilege of making application for a pension, and then if lie proves pensionable disabilities which grew out of the service he is to receive a pension “at a , rate proportionate to the degree of disability," etc. He must prove his disabil- I ity the same as any other soldier. There are many similar applicants for pensions in Indiana. Cooper on the Tariff. Washington, March 27.—Representa- i five Cooper has returned, and said: ( “The Democrats in my district are , unanimously in favor of the passage of the Wilson tariff bill without the con- ' cessions made by the senate finance com- ; mittee to whisky, sugar, coal. iron, col- i lars and cuffs, and other minor industries." Mr. Cooper says the house will - never agree to the present tariff if it ! passes the senate. Mr. McNagny and ; other Indiana Democrats take the same view. — / |. Adjonrned In Respect Foy Colquitt. Washington, March 27. — Senator 1 Gordan announced to the senate the death of Mr. Colquitt, briefly recounting his Services, and after arranging for the . funeral the sgnate adjourned. The house passed a bill directing the land commissioner to issue a patent to the lands embraced in the Mace Clements i survey of the Virginia military lands in Ohio and adjourned in respect for the dead senator. Bering Sea Agreement. Washington, March 27.—Sir Julian the British ambassador, had | another long interview with Secretary | Gresham yesterday in connection with ; Bering sea matters. There are evidences I that a satisfactory agreement touching ! the regulation of the seal fisheries this I season are likely to be crowned with suc- ' cess within the next 10 days. Geary Favors the Chinese Treaty. Washington. March27.—Representa- i rive Geary of California,framer of the Geary Chinese registration act. has caused some surprise by coming out in approval of the new Chinest> treaty, lie looks upon ft as a recognition of the registration principle, which is the feature Os the law that beqrs his name. « ■ — . t Providing For More Judges. Washington. March 27.—The senate committee on judiciary has authorized favorable reports upon the bills providing for additional judges in the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth judicial circuits. The Seventh,circuit ( comprises the states of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Bankruptcy Bill Favored. Washington. March 27.—The senate judiciary committee has appointed a subcommittee to consider various phases of a bankruptcy bill. There is a general disposition in the committee to report such a bill. ... —;A- »..x

PERRY ROBISON will save you more money by buying’ your Farm Implements of him than any firm doingbusiness in Decatur. He will sell the yv- X’VOOI} Harvester janc3L HlxxcS-CX’, 'T’lac Harvester and. Binder, THo A.- allsteel -MZox’V'cr, The CAPITALi Wftgjon, ZBTXiKSIes, Hurries, U»,y Cultivators, Flows, Ha-rro-ws, Hay Tedder and Ladders. Everything kept in a general stock of Agricultural Implements you will find at “NOAH’S ARK,” OPPOSITE ROMBERG’S LIVERY SSABLE. PERRY ROBISON, Prop.

TOIRETHEROBBERS.I • . — JTysterimis Thefts at the South Bend j ' ±ostoffice Bat’le detectives. CASH TAKEN FROM LETTERS, i For Many Months the Practice Has Been Going on, but It lias Been Worked So Shrewdly That There Is Absolutely No Clew—-Indiana’s Big Returning—State Notes. South Bend, Ind., March 28.—Mysterious mail robberies, inscrutable detectives who cannot find the thieves, and huh- I dreds of angry corresiKindents whose | money has gone astray have lately been ■ making life miserable for certain vend- i ers of patent medicines and cosmetics at ' South Bend. More than SIO,OOO is said to have disappeared in some mysterious way from the letters sent to South Bend, and notwithstanding the effoits of the postoffice inspectors the leak has not been discovered. Federal detectives have prowled around the postoffice and have sent decoy letters through the mails. The thief or thieves declined to handle the decoys, in’d this scheme of catching the pilferers failed. i The sudden disappearance of the in- i spectors caused a ferment among the ' sufferers. When they learned that the detectives had given up the job in disgust the medicine men threw up their hands and wondered whether they would I have to go out of business—complexions i were being ruined irretrievably and there was no possibility of suing tor damages. But the hardest loss is said to have , fallen on the Indiana Traveling Men’s ' Accident association, with headquarters here. Secretary Russell reports the loss of 1,000 letters, each containing 82 or i more. Angry members claim they canI not be held responsible for the continu- ■ ous theft of their dues and the associa- ■ tion has suffered severely. Still the pil- ■ feting goes on. i However worked, the scheme of the . thieves is one of the most audacious in i the history of postal robberies. Every ! employe in the South Bend postoffice : has been watched and tested. Postmus- ; ter Crockett does not know what to do about it. He has been so worried over 1 the mystery that he is now feeling happy because a Democrat is to succeed-him as postmaster next week. The stealing has been going on since July. 1893, and the patent medicine men are becoming tired. , Over the entire ease an impenetrable shroud of secrecy has been flung'by the postoffice departments. Letters are still being purloined and robbed of the cur- . rency they contains Money orders never reach their destination and are evidently torn up by the thieves, as the presenters would be instantly detected. Postmaster Crockett has a bundle of advice notes for money orders which have never reached the medicine men. But the latter lose nothing but time on these, department at Washington furnishes duplicate.,orders. Starts Back With Cronkhite, Los Angeles. Cal., March 28.—Sheriff Moore of Fountain county, Ind., who came here after Cronkhite. the defaulting treasurer of Warren county, left for the east with the prisoner yesterday afternoon. Cronkhite appeared perfectly willing to return to the scene of his misdeeds. ■ - - - Indiana Claims the Record. Indianapolis. March 28.— Dr. Barnhill of Irvington deities that California ! is entitled to the big baby record on its ’ recently born U-pounder. that in October, 1892, there was born to Mrs. Moses Banner in this county a child whieli tipped the beam at 18 1-2 pounds. ; .... ' • Charged With Embezzlement. Fort Wayne, March 28.—Ex-Assist-ant Postmaster William F. Devinney of Lagro was arrested yesterday and arraigned here on a charge of embezzling $,500 of the government motley order funds last December. He says he refuuded the money on the Bth inst. Fsed Her Month For a Pincushion. English. Ind., March 28.—Mrs. Alice Grayson, during a coughing spell, swallowed three pins. One of the pins is supposed to have lodged 'in her throat and is giving her much concefn.

. Close Inspection of Cattle. Indianapolis, March 27. — Gattie ! shipped into this city for food purposes ' from other points undergo three differ- ! ent inspections, each timp the question ; of disease, injury .and the location from i which they came being taken into con- ! sideration.—— * Struck by a Train. Valparaiso, Ind.. March 27.—Willi iam pienhe-k, 22 years old, was struck I by a Baltimore and Ohio west bound • i passenger .train near ’ Woodville.e this I county, and was cut to pieces. He was deaf and dumb. Farmer Hangs Himself. Warsaw. Ind.. March 2 7.—Paul Perry, 32 year;' old. a wealthy farmer living three miles west of this city, committed j suicide by hanging himself in the hay i mow. It is supposed that he was inI sane. . Third Set of Teeth. I Muncie. . Ind.. March 27. — Samuel Swaney, resi ling near Muncie, has his j third set of natural teeth. He is 88 years old, and the last teeth are delicate and more perfect than any others he has had. NOTES OF THE STATE. Windfall Methodist revival reports 150 cbti verts. Project of a state baseball league lias, been, abandoned. • Oscar Johnson's 2-year-old child was ; burned to death in Sullivan. ! The Indiana Medical college turned out ■ 51 new doctors last night. Miss Lottie A'dams of Elkhart shot herI self twice in an attempt aLsuicide. ! Indiana dispatches announce the destruc- ' tion of all small fruit bj" the cold snap. The Indianapolis food market for the unemployed will probably close this week. Fort Wayne Republican city convention tabled a resolution denouncing the A. P. A. Cambridge City officers captured Daniel Miller, a burglar, after wounding him in the leg. Fred Sheehan, aged 14, fell into a vat of boiling water in Bluffton and was cooked to death. Consumers' Paper company, a new enterprise in Muncie, has started with 200 employes. « , The Century Cycle company’s plant in Indianapolis burned early this morning. Loss $40,000. James Rogers, an old man of Richmond, is missing. There is a suspicion that he drowned himsel f. Receiver FaileV of the Iron Hall has word that the Missouri funds will be turned over to him. George Newton and Ida Wallas, aged respectively. but IT and 15, eloped from Anderson City and were married. John Hill, a prisoner in the Vincennes jail, nearly killed Deputy Sheriff Hahn by hitting him. with a club in an attempt to escape. William Taylor, trustee of Libert y township, Crawford 'county, lost a hand by an shot from a gun in the hands of Pleasant Baylor. Miss Clara Daugherty, a society belle of Anderson, married Crank Delataur of Atlanta, G a., as I lie result of a newspaper advertisement for correspondents, creating a decided surprise. * There is a litter of five kittens at the home of William Same of Jeffersonville, all of them grown together. Each is well developed and were'it not thatthey arg, joined together by a lig;ir.ie:it in the region of the navel they ■would be perfect in form. AU are lively and bid fair to live. The prison .south is overflbwing, having 707 convicts. Frank Bady, a petit, thief, escaped from the Greenfield jail. Henry Arnold was fafttlly. crashed by mill machinery iu Evansvillfe. Madison dispatch -ays that peaches Were killed before the present cold snap. Eighteen-year-bld son of Ell Hobbs fell I from a building in Bedkey and was killed. Lotta Ellis, aged 7, played with her father’s revolver in Eaton and fatally shot: herself. Sherman .Sullivan was arrested at Paragon for alleged blowing of safes in Martinsville. ■-•>.. George Tucker of Pike pounty has sworn off smoking until there is another IhpubIlcan A receiver has been appointed for theVMarion electric railroad on petition of Russell Bl Harrison. • — All opposing parties in Richmond are trying to effect a combination against the Republican city ticket. The prosecution in the murder trial of Mrs. Augusta Schmidt in Kokomtf jlias ■ rested. It has made a strong ease. Sibert Youell. a young farmer near Shaftebind, was killed by a falling chimney dftfr.m the burning of his residence.