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Democratic Press. DECATLE, IND. Brmocratic Press Co., - Publishers. HISTORY OF A WEEK. PEOPLE, PLACES, AND THINGS OF THE WORLD. Bouthrm and Western Racing Circnit Organized Brutal Deed of Mexican Ban-diU-Telesraph Station in Spain Wrecked by Dynamite—Belts in Prison. KACl.au CIRCUIT And Half a Million Hollars Hung Up in Purses. What will be tlie greatest racing circuit of the year was arranged at the Auditorium . Hotel, Chicago, recently. The western , and' southern circuit is in the field with , purses aggregating nearly half a Million dollars, and an aggregation of ten of the ■ strongest associations in the West. , The following dates and purses were , agreed upon: Joliet. July 29. $20,000; Terre , Haute Fair Association, August 5. $50,000; , Indianapolis Driving Club. August 12.540.. 000; Fort Wayne. August 19, $30,000: Columbus, 0.. August 26. $20,000; Chillicothe. 0., September 2, $2 i.o c Louisville. September i 9. $40,000: Indiana state Fair. Septemlier 16. $20,000: Chicago. Northwestern Breeders Association. September 23: $50,000; Terre Haute Driving Club, October 1. $50.000; Lexington. October 5. $"$,000: Nash- , ville, Tenn., October 14. $40,000. Mr. W. I’. Ijams of Terre Haute, was i elected president of the circuit ami R. G i \Vatson of Terre Haute, secretary. — < DOUBLE MURDER. ■ i Mexicans Shoot Down a Father and Son In Cold Blood. Tucson (Ariz.l special: The stage from Mammoth brought full particulaes of the 1 terrible double murder at a small town near i 1 that place, the victims being F. M. Doll ' and his son. who run a store here. The I family were at supper when two Mexicans shot the husband through the heart. The • son ran out the back door and was brought I down as he was crossing the road which ' passed the house. When the murderers left the room to kill , her son. Mrs. Doll extinguished the lights . , and conceal 'd herself in the brush near the building. The Mexicans searched an hour i 1 for her and were seared off by an approach- | , ing wagon. Mrs. Doll walked several j iiiiles to the nearest neighbors and gave the alarm. Tlie throats of the murdered men ' were cut from ear to ear and their bodies ' hacked terribly. At least fifty cowboys ' are now on the trail of the murderers and will make short work of the men if they catch them. Mammoth Combine. The United States White Granite Association. w hich comprises every manufacturer of white granite and sanitary pottery in the United States, is now complete. The western firms have paid in to Actuary J. M. MeCleve of hast Liverpool, Ohio, their bonds and the organization and its selling prices went into effect. The association is the most powerful ever formed among the earthenware manufacturers of the country, and takes the place of the old Eastern and Western compacts, between which organizations differences were always arising. The new association embraces every firm manfaeturing that line of goods in the East and West. It is formed solely to keep up prices. Bebs in Jail, Chicago special: Eugene V. Debs and the other officers and directors of the American Railway Union, went to the Cook County Jail Wednesday to begin serving the sentence recently imposed on them lor contempt of court. There was no formal procedure. During the day the men dropped in one by one and surrendered themselves to the Marshal. The appeal to the Supreme Court will be presented the latter part of this week, being now in course of preparation. The chances are the prisoners will be obliged to remain in jail for almost two weeks before the Supreme Court can be heard from. Unless the decision at that time is favorable they will have to serve out their terms. Murder at Crawfordsville. The body of Charles Whittaker, a wellknown citizen of Craw fordsville, Ind., was found by the Big Four tracks, seven miles from town. His head was splitopen, as by a hatchet, but no other wounds were on the body. It was supposed he was killed by tlie ears until Tuesday afternoon, when his hat, covered with blood, an empty jmcketbook, and a bloody ax were found in a vacant house in the'heartof Crawfordsville. The mystery has caused consid diement. Failed to Break the Spell. Arthur \ouni is a school-teacher at a country school near Crawfordsville, Ind., and during tlie noon hour he amu,.4 his pupils l.y mesmerizing them. He mesmerized Elsie Morrison and could not get her from under the “spell.” When he would snap his finger and say ‘ right" she would open her mouth instead of her eyes. A doctor bad to l>e summoned, and succeeded in restoring the girl. Dynamite Explosion. Madrid special; An explosion of dynamite occurred at the telegraph station of tiestato, near Bilbao. Full details of the explosion are lacking, but it is known that the telegraph lin were broken, in? -erupting all communication by wire, and that a great deal of other damage was doue. To Protect L -tter Carriers. Senator Lodge introduced a bill to make it unlawful to remove or to request the resignation of any letter carrier, postoffice clerk or railroad postal clerk, except when arrested for crime, until written charges are preferred and have been acted on by the postoffice department. Crushed t » Death. At Kenneth quarries, near Logansport, Ind.. John Wilson, the foreman, was caught m a cave-in of over a ton of rock and was fatally crushed. His home was formerly a Columbus, Ohio, where his family still reside Hotel Burned. The Riverside Hotel, near Archbald. Pa., was burned with all its contents. The loss is SIO,OOO partly insured. It is reported a , man named Richards perished in the building. *

A BOLD RAID. Two Un:na>ke,i Men Rol-b a Bank la Broad Daylight. Los Angelo (Cal. special: The Ontario : State Bank, in the little town of Ontario, b< tween this city .mil san Bernardino, was , robbed, by two unmasked men of between I $4,000 and $5,000. The crime occurred | shortly before 10:30 a. m., win n no one was ; in the bank except Fred Stamm the cashier. ! At that time two men entered the bank and I approached the desk of the cashier. The ; cashier had no suspicion that there was an) - ' thing w rong w ith them as they approached 1 his desk. The first that convinced him of i his error, how ever, was when the men sud- I denly drew revolvers, and presenting them ; at him. ordered him to throw up his hands. He at once oG-yed orders. Then one of the I men told him to go into the vault and ae- I eompanied him. The other roblier stayed out in the main room on guard. The one that entered the vault kept his pistol in readiness while he gathered up • all the money in sight. Then he backed out and shutting the door, locked it. making the ' cashier a prisoner. All this time the men ; had worked without interruption but just I as they were on the point of starting I a Mr. Dibley entered the bank. Before he could realize that anything was tlie matter one of tlie robbers struck him on the head with his pistol, knocking him senseless. | They then ran out. jumped into a buggy near by and made off. The robbery was not discovered until they had safely left the neighborhood. A large number of men, most of them armed, an in pursuit. THREE KILLED In a Terrible I’ower Mill Explosion Near Xenia. A coming Mill at the Miami Powder Works. located at Goes, five miles north of Xenia, Ohio, blew up wit li dreadful force, killing three men. The explosion made a tremendous report, which was heard for miles around, and there was not a stiek of the building left. The only parties about were the three men w ho were killed,and no one can tell how the accident happened. The coming mill is where the eaked powder is ground and granulated ready for market. The process is by machinery, the ■ men feeding the cakes of powder into a sort of threshing niachin •. and is consequently very dangerous, but yet there has been no mill of this kind exploded at Goes for a number of years. When this explosion occurred there w asja great white cloud went up and with it ! everything tangible al suit the place disap- : peared, though the bodies of the victims : were not very much mutilated, as is usu- | ally the case in these explosions. The ' killed were Adolph Kreibl. aged 35 years, leaves a wife and two children; Arthur 11 ii ■ s:-<lI. o --i wife ai d three children: Clifford Homey, aged 20 years, single. They were al! excellent men and had I son w ith the company for some time. None of the other buildings about the premises were effected by the explosion, and the loss will be no more than a couple of thousand dollars. SENSATIONAL. Recent Eleclion leads to a Tragedy in Kentucky. Harrodsburg. Ky. special: Sheriff John I i. Van Arsdall shot and almost instantly! killed Dr. F. L. Harrod. The killing took | plaee in Lawyers' Row. The physician had just returned from a call on Judge C. A. liardin. who has been ky ingat the point of death. After going to the postoffice he had gotten as far as his office door, where he was intercepted by the sheriff, who opened fire on him at close quarters, firing three shots.two taking effect in the body and ! one missing. Just a few seconds before the shooting Van Arsdall was talking to Jailer Chatham, w ho bad started home, but hearing the shooting and the doctor call out •murder." he turned in time to see the last two shots and the doctor fall. The causes leading up to the killing is attributed to the recent election in this county. Van krsdall w as a candidate for re-election and was opposed by the doctor. An anonymous circular in which Van Arsdall was raked fore and aft in his domestic relations. was sent out. JVan Arsdall was defeated for re-election, and thought that Dr. Harrod was the author of this circular. The dead man graduated at Louisville lour years ago and located here. He is a native of Ohio and leaves a young wife, a most charming lady, who w as a Miss Wallace of Lexington, this State. No citizen stood higher, and he had built up a large and remunerative practice. MOUNTAIN SMASH-UP. Two Men Killed and a Car Load ot Sheep Slaughtered. Two persons lost their lives and a car of sheep were slaughtered in a wreck on tlie Lehigh Valley Railroad at White Haven, Pa. The western freight train had stopped at the depot siding to shift some ears. In the I rear of the train were several cars of stock, j considerable Chicago beef and the caboose. Tlie drovers accompany mg the stock were I Nathan Fuller, of Nebraska, and Charles King, of Milton. These men were asleep in the caboose. The mountain grade is very heavy here, and extends for a mile. At the top of th.' grade the gnardman saw- engine No. 457. in charge of Engineer John Thompson, pulling another freight, and approaching at a terrible speed. The man made every effort to attract the attention of the engineer, but it was seen that Engineer Thompson had lost control of the engine. The runaway train dashed into the caboose witii tremendous force grinding it to splinters, and the two preceding carsw ‘rethrown over a thirty-foot embankment to‘he Jersey Central tracks. The sheep in the c •» were crushed to death. Fuller s body was mangled almost beyond recognition. King was alive when taken from the wreck, but lived only a few minutes. The tracks of both the Lehigh Valley and Jersey Central were blocked for several hours. Almost Cremated. Wiiford C.Smith of the Newark, Ohio, Gas Light and Coke Company, was almost cremated by tramps, who have been in the habit of sleeping in his barn. Mr. Smith determined to put a stop to it. It was dark when he went to the bam, and just as ho reached the top of the stairway leading to the haymow some one struck him a severe blow on the head and escaped. He then went up into the mow. w here he was again assaulted by another man. and in the struggle he fell down the stairway unconscious. After recovering he found himself surrounded by tire and Ins clothes burning. He was so badly burned that the skin peeled off his hands and lips, the entre face being parched. He died. holmim Writing a Book. Congressman Helman dislikes the notoriet.v which has been given in his forthcoming book. The project was not the result of Mr. Holman's defeat for re-elec- | fion. He has been collecting material for I such a work for a number of years, with the intention of publishing it at some future

I period. He does not know just when this work will lie ready for the press, nor has . he decided yet what form it will take. He | may simply deal with his ex;>erience in thirty years of legislation, giving to the work a reminiscent flavor. He bas re- , ceived many suggestions for a subject. Murderers C'aiighr. Betrayed by one of their pals, the murderers of Officer Edward Huddles of Chi- | ca; o. were captured by thirty policemen : who raided the hiding place of the gang, a dilapidated house on South Green street, ‘ several miles from the scene of the murder, i The burglars who killed Huddles are j ••Billy" Roche and John Carey, members ;of rhe murderous Market street gang. They were found with Win. McCormick I hiding in a bedroom, having retreated | when the officers in plain clothes took ]K>ssession of all exits, the street and the house. The watch and wedding ring which were stolen from the residence of August Lundvall a few minutes prior to the murder, were found in the room and a I revolver with two empty chambers. The ; murderers drew their pistols on the officers i who entered the room, but were quickly seized at the point of revolvers. A crowd of toughs swarmed around the police on ■ sidewalk while the exciting raid was in piogri-s and attempted a rescue when the | prisoners appeared, but the display of pistols kept them at bay. Shot His Family and Himself. At .Savannah. Ga., in a fit of jealous rage George Jordan, a negro of excellent reputation, killed his 10-year-old son. shot his wife, shot his 3-year-old daughter, then shot himself. He begged for poison that he might be relieved of pain. His wounds are fatal: his w ife w ill die. The little girl may recover, but it is probable the entire family of four w ill be wiped out. Jordan's wife says her husband left her two weeks ago. Christmas lie attempted to shoot her, and she swore out a I>eace warrant. Sunday he came to the house, drove some women into the street, and drawing a revolver, shot her. She ran into the street and saw her son fall dead. Later the little girl fell. He was sober. His only explanation was that he wanted I to die and thought it best to take hi.-; family with him. Over Eighty Million!*. Lawyer David McClure, w ho, in March ■ IN I :',, was appointed appraiser by the surrogate to fix the value of the estate of the late Jay Gould at the time of his death with ' a view to determining the amount of tax should be imposed upon the personal property, has made his report, by which I he finds the value of the personal estate of 1 tlie late millionaire to be sSO.'.i;s4.sSl>.7y; less amount of debts, $<>,553,520.71 and less legacies, annuities, etc., to his brother, sisters, grandson of $1,156,513. making the amount of the residuary estate to be 573.224,547.08. Wave of Reform Beacbes Minneapolis*. A special from Minneapolis says: A well attended secret meeting of business mi-n was held at the Nicolet House for the purpose of making arrangements to investigate the Minneapolis police and fire departments. A petition to be presented to the State Senate was prepared. Those who . were in attendance at the meeting claim ■ they have possession of proof that one of ! the candidates for chief of the fire depart- ■ inent lias offered an alderman half of his first year’s salary for his vote at the election of city officers. Municipal Sensation. Terre Haute i Ind > special: A loea< sensation in municipal affair developed the other day when Fire Chief J. D. Jones made public letters from the Revere RubIx'r Company of Chicago, offering to bribe < uuncilman Fuqua and himself to secure a contract out of the city for 1,000 feet of hose. The company admitted iu its letters that it had spent money improperly in this city. It has been supplying the city with hose. The Council has ordered an investigation to find out who has been bribed. One Hundred and Twenty Drowned. Rio Janeiro Special: A terrible ac cident and great loss of life occurred in the bay here. The boilers of the steamer Port Nichteroy, which had quite a large number of excursionists on board, exploded and the shock drove the red-hot coals in the furnaces in every direction. The steamer caught fire and a great number of those on board jumped overboard to escape the flames. Altogether 120 persons were drowned. Nearly Wiped Uit. Hamlin, a small tow n and the county sea. of Lincoln County, West Virginia, was almost wiped out by fire. The fire originated in the Eagle flour mills and soon spread to the Hamlin handle factory, a large plant, and also to a large sawmill. All these buildings and several smaller ones were entirely destroyed. The origin of the fire and extent of loss are not know n. There was little insurance. Fatal Wreck. A freight wreck touk place between Massillon and Orville, on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. Brakeman Weils and Fireman Ryan were badly injured and a ! tramp was fatally hurt. Others snstainea i injuries. It was a head-end collision, and , dozens of cars are piled up. THE MARKETS. Chicago—Cattie, common to primp, hogs, shipping grades, $3.50 <7(4.75; sheep, fair to choi« e, wheat. Xo. 2 red. 53 < xZ54c: corn. No. 2. 44%<u45Lhc; oats. No. 2, 2ft'd:U»c; rye. No. 2. 4^7?.V»c; butter, choice creamery, 23-Zr’ 24c: eggs, fresh. li*’7/20c; potatoes, car lots, per bnslici, I ndi&»apolis — Cattie, shipping, 5<50; hogs, choice light. S3</4.75: sheep, common to prime. $2'7(3.23; wheat, No. 2 red. 52qX33c; corn. No. 1 white, 43<g, 43Ljc: oats. No. 2 white, .*2»'7(34c. St. Louis—Cattle. : hog*. O7Z-4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, corn. No. 2. 42<a42’ijc: oats. No. 2. 29 1 rye, No. 2. 52(g54c. Cincinnati—-Cattle. $3.50t/5.50: hogs. $3.50(55; sheep. $1.25(54; wheat. No. 2. stZ»zs4c; corn. No. 2 mixed. <>ats. No. 2 mixed, 32'u33c; rye, No. 2. 53^155c. Detroit— Cattle. $2.5(X5J5.50; bogs, $4 / g 4.75; sheep. wheat. No. 1 white. 55<556c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 45'.(4<k‘; oats. No 2 white, 33@34c; rye. No. 2. j 53Cd56c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 red, 54<7|55c; : corn. No. 2 mixed, 43@44e; oats. No. 2 white, rye, X ' :, z."2c. Buffalo—Cattle. $2.30'.7 5.50; hogs. s4(rj 4.75: sheep. wheat. No. 2 red. ! corn, No. 2 yellow, 46@47?; * oats. No. 2 white, 35<773<k‘. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring. 584*jc; corn. No. 3. 41@42c; oats. No. 2 white. barley. No. 2. sikdssc; rye. No. 1. 4‘X<(slc; pork, mess, sll.oo@ 11.50. > New Y’ork—Cattle. $36(5.50; hogs. $3,50 @5: sheep. $2,506(4: wheat. No. 2 red. Bl 4zt)2c; corn. No. 2, 51@51’*>c; uats. white, i Western. 3Nc/42c; butt*. < rcamery, > 25c; eggs. Western, 2%25c.

WEALTH IS IN LAND. CONSTITUTES 90 PER CENT. OF THE COUNTRY’S ASSETS. Interesting; Rejiort of the Census Bnreau Has Been Made Public —Percentage of Farm and Home Owners Compared with Different Nationalities Fisrnrcs Are of Interest. The Census < Iffiec Las made public a i port showing that the owners of farms | and homes, reganle ’ as substantially the landowners of the United States, own more than 90 jm'f cent, of the wealth *»f the country. Os the whit ‘ owners and j tenant heads more than 51 per cenE are owners; of the negroes. m< re than 1* r cent.: of mixed white and negro parent- j ago. 25 per cent.; of the Indians. C»5. and of the Chinese and .Japanese, 14. The white owners of farms and homes tb.ai are free from mortgage form 71 per cent, of ' all white owners; of negroes. of 'L - ■ mixed parentage. 87; of th*' Indians. : and of the Chinese and Japanese. 97 pvr ! cent. The percentages of ownership are ! slightly higher for women than for men. | and free ownership is also hiehcr ffm ; g ; women except with the Indians and Chi- | nese and Japanese. The results for farm properties show ' that 72 per cent, of the whius an» own- | ors, 21 of the negroes. 290 f those of mix- 'l | blood, 79 of the Indians, and over 10 ’ “ ; cent, of the Chinese ami Japanese w . for home 39 per cent, of the whi:Vs are owners, more than 15 of the negr«>es. 23 of those of mixed blood. 53 of the Indians. I and 14 of the Chinese and Japanese. the white farmowners who are free fr m i mortgage are 71 per cent, of all white owners: negroes. 99; those of mixed parentage, 89: Indians. 95; and Chinese an-1 Japanese, S7. The corresponding figures for homes are nearly the same. In the fifty-eight cities of 3'MMM) 'i- | lation and over almost 25 per < ent. “f t!• white proprietors arc owners, and not quite 9 per cent, of the negroes. For farms and homes 53 per cent, “f the native proprietors are fr Austria-Hungary. 41 per cent.: fr n < ■- ada and Newfoundland •!’•._h-h 1 . 47; ; from Canada ami Newfoundland «Fr» n 31; Mules and England. 4G: Frv.i> . Germany, 52; Ireland. 44: Italy. 1’ N rway. Sweden ami Denmark. »‘,l: R •>< i. and Poland, 31: Scotland. 45. : I :r a ail other countries, over 47 per The native farm proprietors are x ' ed in ownership by the na*.r - : i f these countries except It. cent age for native owners the Italians 98. The b.;g : - • * ’ is 87, for the Irish. Owr. - - r prevalent among native tn- ; — eign-born proprietors in tb- f u " - than it is ain >ng farm jt - •*f the native proprietors of h :■ - 41 -r i cent, are owners, and the lowest p- r* * n:- '■ age representing the ownership of 1. for places of birth is 12. for the Ital: ' The ownership of homes in the fiftyeight principal cities is nearly as great among the foreign born as among the natives. Among the native home proprietors in these cities 23 per cent, are owners. The highest percentage is 32. for the Germans, and the lowest 6. for tae Italians. The result of the inquiry as to nativity of parents of the white native farm and home proprietors shows that for farms and homes 55 per cent, of the proprietors have both parents native born and owners and 43 i»er cent, those who have one or both parents foreign born. The percentages for farm owners having both parents native born is 69 and in the case «>f homes 42 per cent. The total for both sexes and for farms and homes shows that of the proprietors under 25 years of age 20 ner cent, are owners; fr <m 25 to 29 years. 28 per cent.; from 30 to 34 years, 37 per cent.; from 35 to 39 years. 42 per cent.; 40 to 44 years, 49 per cent.; 45 to 49 years, 53 per cent.; 50 to 54 years. 57 per cent.; 55 to 59 years. 63 per cent., and 60 years and over, 69 per cent. Percentages are generally somewhat higher for women than for men. Farm ownership is more prevalent at all ages than home ownership. Almost 35 per cent, of farm proprietors under 25 years of age are owners and the percentage increases with age up to 83 per cent, for owners of 60 years and over. Among home proprietors of less than 25 years of age 13 per cent, are owners and the percentage increases without interruption to 58 per cent, for owners of 60 years and over. Ownership is more prevalent among women who are farm and home owners and heads of tenant families than among men, the ownership of the women being represented by 57 per cent, and the men 46. The women exceed the men also in the fifty-eight principal cities, where of the male home proprietor* 23 per cent, are owners and of the female 31 per cent. One reason for the difference between the figures for the two sexes is the custom that makes the- husband instead of the wife the head of the family. The ownership of farms and homes is divided between the two sexes in the proportion of 83 per cent, to the males and 17 to the females. Slightly more than one-quarter of the 2,928,671 owned homes of the United States are owned by women and about one-tenth of the 3,142,746 owned farms. LUMBER THIEVES AT THE FRONT They Take Advantage of Order Permitting Indians to Cut Burnt Logs. More than one is asking the question: Is there a reward for incendiarism? The Indians of the While Earth and Red Lake reservations in Minnesota have been granted permission by the President, upon the advice of the Secretary of the Interior, to engage in iogguig and the sale of certain timber. The recent forest fires killed between 25.000.000 and 30,000.000 feet of timber which would have been lost to the Indians but for the permission given them to cut and sell it. While this permit is granted to the Indians, it is well known that it will be entirely assumed by white men. The Indians wili not cut or log a stick or tree —the lumber companies will do it all. It is the lumber companies who, ever since last summer’s forest fires, have buzzed about to get this order issued “permitting Indians” to cut and log dead timber. These lumber companies have had their way. Instead of being 30.000,000 feet, expert opinion put the burned timber at over 500.0W.0U0 feet covered Ly the orders to “permit Indians, etc.” This lumber is valued at the rate of $4 per 1,000 as it stands in the tree. The whole value would be over $2,000,000. It would be of interest to note what the Indians get for it. They usually make a fizzle of their financial operations. Last (summer Chicago insurance people accused the lumber pirates of burning these forests for their own business purposes. The same charge was made by the se-

.cents of tne Interior ' Whether the lumber e<>mp.n>‘’• burned j French I the criminal who committed s crime think first who would benefit by it, who hii<l the motive.” , , These woods were purposely ami or aforethought ““ fire > I “’ t only ° ne ’ Snttafortypia.es. The lumber eompnm ies while the forests still smok.sl came swarming to the Interior Department to get the dead trees in their elutehe. They never could hare got the trees ’' hl,c 1 '® timber was alive. It had to be killed by ! tire or some other force before the Inter- ■ h>r Department could dispose of it. in I tier this innocent “permission to inai- - ans” to log and cut timber some very blac k : . haracters. with not a drop of Indian blood in their veins, are going to get nch, I and when they have denned up from last summer’s fires without doubt another ac- • (ommodating tire will sweep new regions • i and lay them bare and blackened to their axes. WHEAT AS FEED. Some States Disposing of Fully Balt ’ the Crop in That Manner. i The Farmers’ Review says: Reports ‘ have been receive’! by the Review from * ’ correspondents in Illinois. Indiana, Ohio, • Michigan. Kentucky. Missouri, Kansas, • ; Nebraska. lowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, ’ I and the Dakotas on the extent to which ■ ! wheat is being fed to cattle. In some ’ I tarts of Illinois wheat has been fed large- ! I ly. psj>pei:dly where markets are not casi- ’ ’V r-achod. or where otb< r L'ed crops are ’ short. In other parts less has been fed j than in some other States, apparently Ihm u ’.se in* other farm product is found so ’ >a able. So a good many counties re- • jxirt little or no wheat l»eing fed. Indij ;.na is feeding probably a little larger prv- ; o- - »n. and in some of the counties a third of the crop will be disposed of in 1 i this way. Ohio is feeding the crop freely i and in localities more wheat than corn is 1 • iheing fed. Over a large part of rise State ■ a!f of the crop will be marketed in the I form of live stock, and there are counties •a here the protxirtion _of the crop fed j will not be less than 70 per cent. In : Michigan the amount fed varies great- ! ly. * >me <x»unties feeding none and others nearly all of the wheat crop. Reports of 30 and 40 per cent, being fed ’ •4 ; « < union. Kentucky reports J hrge quantities being fed, and some counj -.les wil; disi'ose of half their crop. Mis- > iri d -r■ -a like condition. Kansas 1 ! .ii.d Nebraska are feeding very largely, r he lew price making it a very economical •d. In some counties in lowa it is ng fed largely, even up to half of the - -. but in other counties it is receiving : Hu'e attention as a feed. In Wisconsin, Michigan and the Dakotas considerable is being fed, but the practice is far from I universal. ORIGINATED THE BLOOMERS. Death of Mrs. D. C. Bloomer at Council Bluffs, lowa. Mrs.D.C.Bloomerdiedat Council Bluffs, lowa, the other day. aged 76 years. Mrs. Bloomer was a woman of national re-

nown, being the origiiiator of the dress reform which bears her name. She and her husband celebrated their golden wedding four years age. They had lived in the same resi- ' dence in Council Bluffs forty-one years. It was in 1851 that she began to wear the costume

V .-V-; ■ MRS. BLOOMER.

I which is now known throughout the Eng- , lish-spi aking world as the bloomer. She : was then living at Seneca Falls. N. Y., > where she was publishing a temperance ' paper called the Lily. In addition to be- | ing a prohibition advocate the paper also . devoted considerable space to the subject r of woman suffrage. A Mrs. Miller, who > in 1851 paid a visit to Seneca Falls, ap- . peared in the bifurcated dress aud Mrs. i Bloomer published a description of it. . She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton adopted . the style and advocated its general adop--5 tion. Mrs. Bloomer wore the costume on f several lecture trips, and in this way it , became associated with and finally known . by her name. By end by Horace Greeley . took the subject up and was followed by other editors, the result being that the , bifurcated dress became known all over , the country as the bloomer. j LEVI P. MORTON INAUGURATED. 1 . , New York State Chaoses Executives f with Simple Ceremony. ? Levi I’. Morton was inaugurated as _ Governor of New York at noon on Tucs- » day. The ceremonies were simple. The

UEVI P. MORTON.

i new Governor and v his full military staff in carriages were . escorted to the f Capitol by four coms panics of the Nar tional Guard. In the » executive chamber 1 the Governor-elect 1 was greeted by the retiring Governor, who was surrounded by his military staff, after nhi<-h al! proceeded to the assembly chamber.

; prayer by Bishop Doane Gov. _ F.ow. r < xtmid.,l a formal welcome to his t successor in office. J u a brief rcpl} . GoT | _ Morton complimented his predecessor. I ; both as a man and as an official. There ' , wa« nothing of 3 partisan nature in either • 3 <ir / S u' c The oa,b of '’®ce was adminisj tered by Secretary of State Palmer. 1 Telegraphic Clicks. 5 A sneakthief stole S4OO worth of jew--1 I'7 fr zm- Herm!,n Lustig's Store in : Akron. Ohio, carried his plunder through r crowded streets, and escaped. s The trial at Clearfield, Pa., of the seven S Waners charged with conspiracy, riot and - the burning of the Coaldale tipple on July i ended m a verdict of not guilty. e P, aniel R - van ' «ced 80. ffiod in hig ' Church x nd ‘ n ’ ma?s at St. Patrick's j hurch. New York. None of the 3 00# 1 - 'ommutucanfs present knew the fact’ Attorney D. Walter Bell, of Muncie 4 Ind., was badly beaten by J X n u ff’ man. who claimed to have been insulted p : r n i‘" e ° u e Bnness stand ln a dama S J i ter's P < K? > f m V' TraCy ' ° DP ° f t ters (Ky ) most prominent citizens wh his no k ‘L kilk>d in aU C1 " a “”- k lnR broken - Capt. Tracy of C,J| - B^a >:dg y e

NEWS OF OUR STATE. A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. What Onr KHclstor, Are Doing—Matter. o f General auJ Lwnl Interest -MarrUsee .nil Draths — A<ei<l<-ola anil Pointers About Our Own People. , Bhop Blown Up. A natural gas explosion occurred mElwood, writ-king the building occupied by Milo Zee's barlvr shop and seriously injuring six men. There were eight persons in the room and all but two were seriously hurt. The furniture and fixtures were all domolished and the loss will reach $2,000. Following the explosion the wreck caught fire and was extinguished with difficulty. Several narrow escapes are reported, among them being that of Frank Holsworth, who had just taken a bath and stepped out of the shop. He came near being caught in (Jie recent power-house explosion, hating oult just left when it occurred. Had the explosion occurred an hour sooner, several would have been killed outright as the shop was crowdeil with customers. The explosion was caused by a leak in the natural gas mains communicating with a sewer. The gas had accumulated under the floor of the building and filled all spaces between the plastering and the walls, and even the air in the rooms was saturated while the barbers were at work on the few remaining customers. The doors had been ol»'tied to purify the air in the room and had this not been done the explosion which followed would have killed every one in the room at the time. Minor State Item*. Tirrox- will havea telephone exchange. Eggs are unusually scarce in the Seymour market. Cambridge Citt children are battling w ith measles. Liti Hi;: 11’ Pros ’ veneer works. North Vernon, burned. Loss, $3,E00. Vkedf.hsbvkg authorities are enforc ’ ing the saloon screen ordinance. A big rabbit hunt occurred near Crawntly, and RO wore caught. Bahtiioi.omi.w Cot xtv still has outstanding slo.lUt ill unpaid gravel-road bonds. The Soldi rs' Home at Marion is so it "'lisi that not another man can be received. l.rxA Savxih th' clothes caught fire from a cook stove in Brazil, and she was fatally burned. Ax unknown benefactor of a Catholic church in Hammond has donated an s>kX> altar to the church. Ch au; ; - M ai r.v was frightfully burned at Marion. Slielbv County. I.y tlieexplosion of a lamp at a “watch” party. Axbersox parties are leasing land at Fortville and will pen tram liieeaitli in hopes of developing an oil field. Elza Todera. a young farmer, residing nearOzalm, accidentally cut off his left foot with an ax, and came near bleeding to death. lx the damage suit of Mrs. Adda Neal against the cty of Bedford for injuries sustained by falling on a defective sidewalk, a Bloomington jury, awarded her $5,000. Charles Ui.shafer was arrested at Wabash, charged with passing forged c ecks. He eonfe-.ed and said that the desire to -teal and forge other fieople's names was inherited. It took pounds of fresh boiled ham, 12 bushels of jiotatoes, ND pounds of wheat bread. 4.500 sweet cakes, 300 pit's, 8 bushels of onions, 60 pounds of butter and 120 gallons of eoffee to feed tlie prisoners at Prison North i n Christma-s. The night watchman of the Speneer bank was showing a crowd of friends, the other evening, how he would ]»Tfonii should a robber try to get in. His revolver accidentally went off and the bullet passed through one of the spectator's coats. Edwin Gistix. a prominent young farmer, was killed iu a gravel pit. a mile southwest of Middletown. With a number of other men he was working the pit. when an overhanging ledge of frozen earth gave wav and fell on Mr. Gustin, crushing and killing him instantly. He was a land ow ner in Madison County, and was prominent in farmers'institute work, lb leaves a wife. A distressing accident occurred at the residence of Samuel White, a prosperpous farmer of Shelby County. .Miss Zora White, started down the cellar steps and falling broke I r arm in two places. Her screams brought her brother Joseph, who. in coming down stairs, kicked a eocoanut in such away that it knocked all the front, teeth from Zora's mouth as if removed by a dentist. A i.ii u.E excitement occurred in the Morrison will cast 1 at Richmond the other day. Congressman Johnson, attorney for the defense, took objection to a ruling of Judge Black, and said that the fact of ex--I‘resnient Harrison being on the opposite side should have i: > additional weight with tlie court. To tliis Mr. Harrison arose and said tiiat there was no ex-President in the case, as he w as there as an attorney erdy. The Imili-r in ti e saw-mill of Charles Davis, at lie- ton. ten miles east of Lebanon, explodwi. The escape of the five employes was the remarkable thing about it. They were called out into the mill yard to a--, t m rollin.• a log and had gone but a short distane ■ when tlie explosion occurred, f *ne side of the building was blown fully 200 feet, while » art of the machinery was thrown much farther. Although the debris fell all around the men in the yard, i not «>ne was -uriuusiy injured. The mill i was completely wrecked. Dr. Metcalf, Secretary of the State r.’iani of has completed a table showing the range of smallpox during the J ear ending Oct. 31. 1894. It is as follows, excluding the Muncie cases which occurred at that date: Lake, number of cases, 6, deaths, none: St. Joseph County, 26 eases, 5 deaths: Fulton. 24 cases. 7 deaths: Marion, 4 cases, 1 death; Marshall, 8 cases, 2 deaths; Wayne. 6 cas.-s, 1 death; Blackford, 1 case; Johnson, 1 case: Pulaski, 4 cases; DeKalb. 1 ease; Steuben, 2 cases, 1 death; Starke, 1 case, 1 death; Kosciusko, 7 cases, • death: M hitney, 1 case; Grant, 1 case, 1 death: Delaware. 1 case. The jicr eent. of leatlis to cases was about 21. The smallpox epidemic at Walkerton cost st. Joseph County $3,090 besides depleting the Walkerton treasury. Xhere was a touching funeral cortege arrived at Beech Grove Cemetery, at Muncie, recently. The child of a poor family in a remote part of the city died, and tlie family could not aslord a funeral. The father made a neat box in which the child was placed, and it was conveyed to the cemetery on a small hand sled drawn by >WO brothers, who had dug Lhe win , Rr ? ve - The father and mother w atketl along behind the sled. The burial wa« conducted by the family, with no other sjieetator except Sexton Jewett.