Decatur News, Volume 3, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1901 — Page 2

8P..-, - -■ i. " ~ €he JDccatur News | DECATUR, IND. ADAMS COUNTY PRINTING COMPANY, Publishers 1901. MARCH. 1901. Su Mo Tu We Th Fr sT ©©©© © 1 2 3456 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 « ©l® © © © ©F. M (TV Q£&N. M.-TNF. Q. sth. V£ 13th. ly 20th. 26th. NEWS IN BRIEF GUSTS BLOWN IN FROM ALL PARTS OF THE EARTH. An Important Record of the Week As Told by Ithe Telegraph—Latest front Foreign Shore*—Crimes, Casualties, Fires, Etc. Famine in Russia. The London Daily Express publishes the following from its Russian correspondent: Several of the Russian provinces are still suffering acutely from famine. In the governments-of Kherson and Bessarabia tens of thousands are famishing. Amid the additional hardships of the severe winter, hunger-typhus is rapidly spreading also. The condition of the peasantry in the famine districts of southwestern Russia is equally lamentable, but it is worst of all in the northern and east Volga provinces, where the people for months have been subsisting on roots, grasses and offal and are now dying of sheer starvation. Insane Mother’s Deed. Mts. Rose Werzer, a widow, in a fit of Insanity, drowned her six children, aged from 4 to 12 years, at Uniontown, Wash. Two were boys and four girls. She threw them into a well thirty feet deep, containing two feet of water, then jumped in herself and held the heads of the children beneath the surface until all were drowned. Mrs. Wer?er was found alive in the well with her six murdered children by the neighbors who pulled her out with a rope. She is violently insane. The woman’s husband died a year ago, since which time she has been supported by the county and the charity of neighbors. Gold Discovered In Hawaii. A dispatch from Honolulu, via San Francisco, says: 4- wonderful discovery of gold is reported in the Samoan islands. Black sand, running as high as $940 a ton, is said to have been found on the island of Upola. It is said that a company has been formed and an 800-ton schooner bought to work the sand and carry the product to Sydney. Nickel and tin are also declared to exist in large quantities in Samoa. The company will send these ores to San Francisco :1 „ Children Ate Morphine. Pittsburg (Pa.) special: Martha and Florence Spangler, aged 8 and 2 years respectively, daughters of Arthur Spangler, air-brake inspector of the Fort Wayne railroad, during a short absence of their mother, secured a box of morphine pills, and thinking they were candy, ate five of the pills. The children suffered greatly for a day and in spite of the efforts of four physicians, who were immediately called, died in great agony. ■? Mitchell Again Senator. John H. Mitchell has been elected United States senator by the Oregon legislature to succeed John W. Mcßride, whose term expires on March 4. His election was accomplished by a combination of thirty-five republicans and eleven democrats, making forty-six votes, she majority necessary to elect. Mr. Mitchell has served three full terms in the United States Senate from Oregon. Roar Shakes the Earth. Half enough gas to supply Pittsburg is escaping into the air at the W. J. Bryan gas well, nine miles east of Cameron, W. Va. It is burning in an enormous torch that reaches 200 feet in the air, with a roar that shakes the earth and can be heard for miles around. The well is the biggest that has been struck in years and is said by experts to be a greater producer of gas than the famous Big .Moses. Gen. DeWet Suffer* Defeat. A dispatch from Cape Town says: Colonel Plumer engaged General DeWet near Disselfontein, on the south bank of the Orange river, capturing a gun and a pompom, and taking fifty prisoners. The Boers were scattered and are being pursued by Colonel Plumer. It is reported that General DeWet escaped to the opposite bank in a boat and is now fleeing with a handful of followers. Ooly the Jail Remains. Manila special: The government buildings at Iba, capital of Zambales province, have been burned, the jail alone escaping the flames. The Twenty-fourth infantry’s supplies were in the buildings. A steamer has been sent to lba from Manila with stores. King Delays Irish Visit. King Edward has informed Earl Cadoga, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, that, owing to deep mourning he finds it impossible to visit Ireland this year, as he had wished to do, but that he hopes to make the visit next year. Fort Wayne Masonic Temple Attrac- ,' *— tions. March 4.—“ Josh Simkins,” March 6.—Vogel & Deming’s Minstrels. March 7.—Woman’s League. March B.—Tim Murphy. Surgeon’s Knife Slipped. Miss Via Lewis, a young society woman of Findlay, Ohio, died as the result of an . operation for tonsilitis. The surgeon’s instrument slipped, severing an artery, and before the surgeon knew the result of bis error she was in a dying condition. She died in twenty minutes. Calls an Extra Session. >. The President has issued a proclamation calling a special session of the Senate for executive purposes immediately upon the dissolution of the present Congress . March 4.

* : Vr...-' •• • -A * Railroad Horror. One ot the worst collisions in the history of the Amboy division of the Pennsylvania railroad, occurred at Ruslin’s siding, about eight miles south of Trenton, N. J. The “Nellie Bly’ ; express from New York for Atlantic City, collided with passenger train 880 j, running, from Camden to Trenton. The number of dead so far known is ten and the injured upwards of twentylive. The scene at the wreck is described by those who were present as horrifying. The two trains collided at full speed and both engines were demolished. The forward car of each train, in both instances a common baggage and smoker, were demolished also, and to add to the horror the wreckage took Are. The second car of the express train turned over and the passengers had to climb out the windows. In this they were assisted by passengers from the cars that did not leave the track. American Schooner Lost. The North German Lloyd steamer Weraa which has arrived at New York from Genoa, Naples and Gibralter,reports that on February 18, in latitude 20.28, longitude 65.05, she spoke the British steamer Saint Quentin from Savannah for Liverpool, which signaled “report American schooner, Isaac N. Kerlin lost, all hands saved.” It is presumed that the Isaac N. Kerlin has been lost at sea and that her crew was picked up by the Saint Quentin. The schooner Isaac N. Kerlin, Captain Steelman, left Jacksonville January 29, for Baltimore, with a cargo of lumber. She was built at Leesburg, N. J., in 1888, and registered 338 tons. London Review Advocates Resistance. London special: The Saturday Review, discussing American affairs, says: “They who fancy we are going to get anything in Alaska in return for futher concessions in Nicaragua must be willing dupes. Our government has the game in its own hands. If it choose to take the European powers, who have every claim to be consulted, into their confidence, American statesmen are well aware, with difficulties thickening around them, that they dare not defy this country, much less Europe. Russia is giving an object lesson of the proper way of meeting an American “bluff.” Another Mine Horror. Thirty negro miners were entombed in the coal mines of the state insane asylum, about two xniles from Tuscaloosa, Ala., by a flood of water from an abandoned shaft which rushed in upon the men, almost without warning, filling the mine to a depth of ten feet. There is a large force of hands at work pumping the water out of the mines but little progress is being made as ft fills up almost as rapidly as it is pumped out. The fate of the entombed miners is problematical. At present there appears practically no hope unless aid reaches them in a short time. To Celebrate Centennial. Articles incorporating an exposition to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the arrival in Oregon of the Lewis and Clarke expedition in 1805 will be filed with the Secretary of State of Oregon, at once. The Oregon legislature will .be asked to pass a resolution guaranteeing State support and also a resolution asking Congress for appropriation for the exposition, which will be held in Portland, during the summer of 1905. Five Men Killed. Five men were caught on the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge at Sharon, Pa., and killed. The men were walking on the track on their way to work at the Sharon furnace and were caught by the southbound freight train. They were knocked' down, ground under the wheels and terribly mangled. Girl Set* Fire to Sister. In the absence of her mother, the 6-year-old daughter of John Myers, a farmer living near Ingalls, Mich., set fire to the clothing of her sister, 2 years old, putting burning brands under her clothing. The qhild was so badly burned that death followed in a few hours. Coats Over $400,000,000. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of exchequer, said in the British house of commons that the cost of the Boer war up to the present time was $407,500,000. Punishable With Death. The Delaware Senate has passed the Clark kidnapping bill which makes the crime of child stealing punishable with death or life imprisonment. Fire at Rising Sun, Ohio. The council chamber; Church of God and several stores were destroyed by a fire at Rising Sun, Ohio. The loss is $15,000. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.60 to $5.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.45; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2,37 cto 38c; oats, No. 2,24 c to 25c'; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, fresh. 15c to 16c; potatoes, 39c to 43c per bushel.

Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, common to prime. $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.25 to $5.70; hogs, $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2,25 cto 26c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.00 to $4.85; hogs, $3.00 to '55.45; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 78e to -79c;'com, No. 2 mixed, 41c to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $4.60; hogs, $3.00 to $5.40; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, 52c to 53c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, $7.00 to $7.10. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 3. 37c to 38c; oats, No 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 1,52 c to 53c; barley, No. 2,57 cto 58q; pork, mess, $13.50 to $13.92. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.60; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.45. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.30; hogs, $3.00 to $5.60; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; com, No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 83c; butter, creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, western, 15c to 16c.

Pacific Mail Steamer Rio de Janeiro Is Lost. STRIKES MILE ROCK. Disaster Occurs Just Outside the Entrance to San Francisco Bay. While Trying to Make'fSan Francisco in a Fog the Vessel Goes to the Bot-tom-Effort to Get the Small Boat* Ready Proves of Little Avail—Con* *ul General Wildman and Family Among the Lost—Panic of Passenger* Adda to Horror. The most terrible steamship disaster that the Pacific coast has "ever known occurred a few miles from San Francisco

Friday morning at daybreak, when the Pacific Mail steamer City of Rio de Janeiro ran on a hidden rock just outside the Golden Gate, as she was attempting to make the entrance to San Francisco bay. Within ten minutes she was a total wreck, and somewhere in the kelp that fringes the

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coast or imprisoned in the cabins of the vessel were more than a hundred bodies of men, women and children, who a few moments before they went down to their death were beginning a new day, happy in the thought that in a few hours at most they would be ashore Os the 201 souls on board but seventynine were saved. The bodies were washed ashore. Against all the rest ‘of the names on the roster of passengers and crew is placed the word “missing.” And with only a part of the vessel’s smokestack and rigging showing above the sea’s surface near treacherous Mile Rock that word has hut one meaning. Rounseville Wildman, United States consul general to Hongkong, his wife and two children were among those who perished in the wreck. The Rio de Janeiro was. inbound from Hongkong via Honolulu and was three days overdue. The vessel sailed from Hongkong Jan. 22. Pilot Frederick Jordan, -who was at the helm when the ship struck. Was washed ashore, bruised and insensible. ’ The steamer reached the Heads Thursday night, three days overdue from Hongkong. For several miles up and down the. coast where she rode waiting for her pilot the fog hung like a blanket,, and the liio lay to. Pilot Jordan picked her up with his schooner, boarded her and then began to maneuver for a good position so that he might draw in line with the lights on Fort Point and the Cliff House when morning came. At about 4 o’clock the fog lifted and the lights were plainly visible. The Rio was started under a slow bell toward the Gate, but in half an hour ran into another fog bank. She felt her way again, but was makiug sufllcient speed for many passengers to dress and make their way to the deck, where they stood peering out into the darkness and speculating whether they would be eating their hreakfast in San Francisco or not. Between them and their desire lay Mile Rock, a jagged, sharp spur running out from half-shore to the south of the North Head. This same Mile Rock has been dreaded by mariners ever since vessels began to pass in and out of San Francisco bay. Exactly ten years before an American deep water ship, the Frank Jones, ran on to it, shuddered and went down with all hands. But the Rio’s passengers had no thought of grim sea tales like this. A bare mile from harbor, daylight already peeping out of the east and p. pilot aboard. What could there be to fear? A The 810 JANEIRO. moment more, and then a sickening, grinding crash, a stagger and recoil, as if the ship were a living thing. In the brief space of a few minutes after the vessel struck and before she took the final horrible plunge with her living freight thie officers had launched three boats. The testimony of several of the survivors is in accord about one other thing. Captain Ward made no effort whatever to save himself. He had rushed to the bridge, at the first shock, and there he remained shouting his instructions through a megaphone and straining every nerve to get the women and children off in the boats. At the last moment, as his ship went down, with the waves lapping and then closing over her amidships, he was still standing rigid at his post. When the ship struck the officers assembled and at once §et about notifying all the passengers of the danger. In the steerage forward were fifty-eight Chinese and Japanese passengers, and stewards raced into the bows Os the vessel to get them out. Screaming and crazed with fright, these men swarmed oVer the decks, mingling with the other passengers, cursing and climbing into the rigging. „ • One small boat that was launched near the bows was caught by the forward end of the vessel on her final plunge and was smashed to pieces. Purser John Rooney, who had in his possession the passenger list, was drowned, and his death will prevent very much being definitely known about the identity of the drowned till ths Agents in Honolulu can be communicated, with. When the Rio went down by the head she drew in with her a whirlpool of watex that all but engulfed the two boats containing the passengers that had been saved.

GREWSOME FATALITIES HAVE PURSUED PACIFIC \ MAIL LINERS. ■ , A strange fatality seems to hAve pursued the Pacific Mail’s liners. The City of Rio de Janeiro is only one of twenty steamships of the line which have been wrecked since the incorporation of the company. - The Nicaragua, on her maiden voyage, struck a sunken reef and was (lost. The San Pablo, in 1887, wrecked in Formosa Straits and attacked by Chinese pirates, who were finally beaten off. The Japan, burned to the water’s edge; 400 Chinese passengers lost. The Southerner, lost in the early days. The Northerner, a total loss on the rocks off Cape Flattery. The Golden Gate, in 1872, on the rocks fifteen miles out from Manzanillo, caught fire and went to the bottom; 200 lives lost: The Golden City, a few months later, stranded on point San Lazars. All reached land safely. The America, in the same year, burned in Yokohama harbor; number of crew lost. The Guatemala, same year, foundered off Yonolobon; fifteen lost. The Sacramento, lost in December, 1872; fifth of the year. The Honduras, a few years later, went ashore San Salvador coast. The "City of San Francisco, in 1877, wrecked on the Central American coast. The Georgia, in 1878, sank off Contra Costa coast. The City of Tokio, • in 1885, wrecked near Yokohama. The Granada, in 1888, went on v the rocks at Point Ticussan, after leaving Manzanillo; all saved. The Nicaragua, in 1891, totally wrecked on a hidden reef at Point Romidias; all escaped. The City of New York, some years later, struck the rocks at Point Bonita, just outside San Francisco harbor and sank. The Colima, in 1895, wrecked in a hurricane off Manzanillo; nearly all on board lost. The Columbia, wrecked on her maiden trip; no lives lost. wrecked off the coast of Central America. The Rio de Janeiro concludes this grewsome list of ocean tragedies. Some threw themselves into the sea and others tried to swarm into the boats. Two of these had been lowered, and, with at least fifty people aboard, stood off just clear oY the wreck to aid in the work of rescue. It was hard to gather the truth about the final scene from so many witnesses whose terror made it impossible for them to know what was transpiring. Acts of heroism and of cowardice, scenes of wildest grief and confusion, wild struggles of men and women and brave and calm, though futile, efforts of the stronger minded to allay fears and save life were blended in the awful sis-

WHEBE THE 810 DB JANEIRO BANK. teen minutes it took the Rio de Janeiro to be swallowed in the lashing sea. Most of the boats’ that were lowered were stove in and the occupants drowned. Most of the survivors came ashore with life preservers or on rafts of furniture and wreckage. Unaccountable carelessness and a deliberate disregard of warnings are at the bottom of the disaster, according to a story told by the pilot who boarded the steamer twelve hours before she foundered, and who claims that he protested to the captain that his action in running ahead in a dense fog was foolhardy. Captain William Ward, commander of the vessel, will never .'be able to defend himself against this charge, for he went down with the Rio. Three fisher boats hugging the coast and spinning along with their morning catch for the city markets swept by between the wreck and the shore. The Italians aboard worked hard to save some lives from the gulf in which the Rio had plunged, but it was impossible to do anything, and so they turned homeward to take the news to the docks. Help Came Too Late. Half an hour later steamboats of all kinds were pounding full speed down the bay, but when they reached the spot where the steamer had disappeared there was nothing to be done. A little wreckage tossed idly about by the waves and two dead bodies loosened from the tangle of death below to pick up and save for burial. That was all. The Rio’s resting place is about half a mile from the shore, a mile to the southward of North Heads and a mile and a half to the south and west of Fort Point. The cargo of the Rio de Janeiro was valued at over $500,000. There was besides SOOO,OOO in treasure in the specie tank, The steamer itself ifras valued at from $650,000 to $700,000. Captain William Ward had been in the employ of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for several years. He first entered the service as, a cadet on the steamship Tokio, and in 1888 was assigned to the command of the Rio de Janeiro. Later he was transferred to the Peru, then to the China, then to the City of Pekin. He was then placed in charge .of the Rio de Janeiro again, and had been three years and a half on the ship when the recent disaster occurred. The captain was 35 years old and a native of North Carolina. He leaves a sister and two brothers, who are residents of Raleigh. The Fort Point life-saving crew was out drilling at 7:40 o’clock, when the fishing boat with the first of the survivors passed in and reported the wreck. The rescued people were taken ashore t# the Use-saving station and the crew start* ed out to the wreck, but there was nothing to be found.

Congress.

In the Senate nearly the whole of Monday was devoted to consideration of the postoffice appropriation bill. Amendment appropriating $500,000 for an extension of the pneumatic tube service remains undisposed of. Point of order was made against it, but on the appeal of Mr. Mason the entire question was passed over until Tuesday. Mr. Pettus of Alabama delivered a speech in opposition to the ship subsidy bill. Conference report on ttye military academy appropriation bill was submitted. Mr. Daniel of Virginia madexa vigorous attack upon the provision which debars a cadet convicted of hazing of holding a commission in the army, navy or marine corps. The report is still pending. The House, under suspension of the rules, by a vote of 191 to 41, passed the bill appropriating $5,000,000 for the St. Louis exposition. The bill to define the word “conspiracy” in the Sherman anti-trust law to avoid the possibility of its being held applicable to labor organizations was defeated by almost a two-thirds vc-te on account of two amendments which the judiciary committee placed upon the bill and which were opposed by the labor organizations. The sundry civil bill was under consideration late in the day

On Tuesday the Senate by a vote of 18 to 42 rejected conference report on -military academy appropriation bill. This action came at conclusion of spirited debate upon provisions against hazing inserted in bill by conference committee. Report of conferees was rejected because regarded by large majority of Senate as too drastic. Mr. Deboe delivered his announced speech upon Nicaragua canal, advocating construction. of waterway by United States. Effort was made to obtain consideration for bill reviving grade of vice-admiral of the navy for benefit of Rear Admirals Sampson and Schley, but it was unavailing. The House devoted day in consideration of sundry civil appropriation bill, debate being chiefly upon national irrigation of arid lands. Passed resolution calling upon Secretary of State and Secretary of Treasury regarding shipments to South Africa of horses, mules and other army supplies. The Senate spent Wednesday on the postofflee/appropriation bill. The amendment of Mr. Butler proposing a reduction of about 9 per cent in the pay for railway postal service was defeated—lß to 51— after a debate in which Mr. Depew answered Mr. Butler’s criticisms on the large profits made by American roads. Late in the day a sharp controversy on the pneumatic tube question was precipitated by an amendment offered by Mr. Mason extending that service to Chicago and one by Mr. Vest extending it to St. Louis. Mr. Hale severely criticised those promoting the system, referring to a “job and lobby.” When he made a point of order that a committee had not passed on the amendment the advocates of the extension quickly circulated a call for a meeting of the committee on postoffices, and the session closed with Mr. Wolcott’s humorous announcement of the committee meeting in response to the imperative demands made on him. The House passed the sundry civil appropriation bill and entered upon consideration of the general deficiency—the last of the general appropriation bills. On Thursday the Senate considered postoffice appropriation bill. Amendment providing for pneumatic tube service killed. The old controversy over the special appropriations for fast mail service engaged much attention. It was decided to begin holding night sessions Friday night. The House passed deficiency appropriation bill, after day of exciting debate.

The Senate on Friday passed two of the great supply bills—the postoffice and the diplomatic and consular appropriation. During the grea®ir part of the session a proposition to discontinue the appropriations for fast mail facilities from New' York to New Orleans via Atlanta and from Kansas City, Mo., to Newton, Kan., was under discussion. By a decisive vote the appropriations were continued. Ap effort was made to obtain an appropriation to continue the pneumatic tube service in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, but it failed. An amendment was agreed to authorizing the Postmaster General to investigate the question of establishing a postal telegraph system and to report his findings to the next Congress. After a spirited debate the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill was rejected and sent back to conference. Early in the day, Washington’s farewell address, in accordance with a custom of the Senate on Washington’s birthday, was read, the reader being Senator Bacon of Georgia. Thri House devoted an hour to unanimous consent legislation and two hours and a half each so the passage of private claims bills and private pension bills. Nine bills were passed by unanimous consent and twenty-nine claims bills and 139 pension bills were passed. Among the latter was the Senate bill to pension the widow of the late Gen. Henry W. Lawton, who was killed in the Philippines. As the bill passed the Senate it carried SIOO a month. The House cut the amount down to SSO upon the representation that Mrs. Lawton enjoyed a comfortable income. The Senate on Saturday passed St. Louis exposition appropriation bill, with amendments for Sunday closing and an appropriation of $250,000 for the Charleston exposition next December. Passed fortification appropriation bill. The House adopted a resolution to investigate the pay of its employes. The bill to increase the efficiency of the revenue cutter service was debated for two hours but no action was taken. Several of the appropriation bills were sent to conference. The seed amendment to the agricultural bill was agreed to. At 4 o’clock public business was suspended to permit the House to pay tribute to the memories of the late Representatives Clarke of New Hampshire and Shaw of New York. Odds and Ends. Arkansas legislators could not decide whether the State flower should be an apple blossom or passion flower, and referred the matter to the committee on education.' * A process of extracting rubber from the hule plant has been discovered. This plant is a species of sagebrush, with small leaves, which grows to a height of about three feet, and is found , not only in Mexico, but also in Texas, Wyoming and Nebraska. It grows in mountainous regions, mid is said to contain 4Q per cent of rubber.

INDIANA LAWMAKERS . . j On Monday the Senate passed the game law. Lindley’s bill makes it lawful' to hunt in swamp and overflow laudswithout the consent of the owner, when such lands are uncultivated, but thehunter may not hunt within forty rods of cultivated lands. This will throw open the game preserves of the Chicagoclubs. It is also made unlawful to kill more than twenty-four quail in one day. The closed season for wild geese and ducks is from April 15 to Sept. 1. and from Oct. Ito Nov. 10. The House com- g| mittee will recommend favorably the bill } which has passed the Semite providing for the Calumet river ship canal. Thearea to be assessed, however, will be limited to a mile and a half on each side of the canal. A bill was introduced in the House providing for the incorporation of navigation companies and taxing all shipping in the State. This will affect all Chicago vessels touching Michigan City- • These companies must pay to the Stateannually three cents a ton of the registered tonnage of all vessels commerce with Indiana ports. The Senate on Tuesday gave a second; blow to faith-curists and Dowieites by voting to accept a favorable report on Senator Wood’s bill requiring believers in faitn cure to call medical aid in the illness of children and dependents. Thebill makes it a felony to withhold medical aid from children and other dependents when such dependents die for the lack of medical aid. The bill was reported favorably after a hot argument in the Senate. The House passed .the Cooper anti-trust bill. It is regarded as a harmless measure and" is not nearly so drastic as Senator Agnew’s bill. The House killed the bill appropriating $120,000 for the payment of the claim of Vincennes University based on the sale by the State of certain lands ceded by the United States government for university purposes. The House on Wednesday passed thebill which provides fin* a special tax of 1 ; cent on each SIOO of property for the support of free kindergartens. The bill applies to all cities of the State having * a population oi’ 8.000. The bill establish? ing boards of children’s guardians was also passed. 0 The congressional reapportionment bill, which makes Marion County a separate district, was also passedIt strengthens some of the Republican, districts, but does not make any radical changes, and four districts Sye left to theDemocrats as at present. The bill authorizing the construction of a ship canal frqpi Lake Michigan to the Calumet river will be reported favorably in the House,, as the result of a final meeting of the cities and towns committee. There will probably be a minority report also. The State is not asked to donate for the work, assessments for benefits being made against the property one and a half miles on each side of the canal. - The bill to require women to remove their hats and bonnets in all public places, including churches, was killed by the House Thursday. The women gained- a second victory when a constitutional amendment giving them the of suf- , frage, which was supposed to have been . dropped, was reported from committee and agreed to by the Senate. The House passed the Senate bill providing for the consolidation of railroads under provisions which, it is claimed, practically de-. stroy the power of the judiciary over them. The House also passed a bill defining the practice of medicine and recognizing osteopathy as a science. The Calumet canal bill advanced Friday by the adoption of the. majority report, favoring it. The debate very bitter. One member pronounced it “damnable.” Railroad members fought it to the end. Fortner’s quo warranto bill was reconsidered and killed. The bill permitted a citizen, on giving bond, to bring; quo warranto proceedings when the pros- , ecuting attorney fails to act to determinewhether a franchise has been violated. - Short State Items. New Methodist Church dedicated at Sharpsville., Shelbyville Knights of Pythias dedicated a new castle hall. Work has begun on an electric line between Wabash and Peru. The C., R. & M. Railroad will build a SIO,OOO depot in Richmond. M. M. Nye will be recommended for postmaster of Crawfordsville. Capt. William D. Stone, Union City, ** well-known soldier, preacher and teacher, is dead. Matthew Chambers, Anderson, has sued the Big Four Railroad for damages because of the loss of his Bible. w At Brazil Benjamin F. Simpson was appointed receiver for the Chicago and Southwestern Railroad Company. Mrs. John Jordan, near Dresser, is dead. She weighed 676 pounnds, and was the mother of thirteen children. Several 'flint bottle plants have been closed for an indefinite period, owing tothe depressed condition of the trade. Miss Lou Rudicil, 22, Connersville, killed herself with morphine. She is said to-' have quarreled with her sweetheart. Isaac Gibson, Linden, tried to board a freight train, but missed his hold and was. beheaded. He was going to a dying sister. Anderson Liquor Dealers’ Association has ordered its members to observe the Nicholson law to the letter. Result of revival. Cecil Minick, near Yorktown, was badly injured by trying to ride a blind mule through a barbed wire fence. The mul& hit the wires at full gallop. In the recoil the rider was thrown under theanimal. Milton Haney was accidentally shot by a woman member of the local tribe of Daughters of Pocahontas in an initiation ceremony held at the lodge room in Kokomo. In mistake she used a revolver that# had fallen from the pocket of a men&er instead of the one filled with blank cartridges provided for the occasion. Men interested in the Deitrich gas syndicate have a project on foot to build an electric line from Fort Wayne to the Fountain County coal fields, through Lafayette. The only saloon in Deep River was cleaned out by women. Porter saloonkeepers have tjpen warned that their places will be demolished unless they stoptw selling liquor to certain men. .. . C j Minnie Hultz,ls, daughter of a wealthy farmer of Arcana, Grant County, eloped with John Marlow, and they were married in Niles, Mich. It Was at first feared that the girl had been kidnaped.