Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1892 — Page 3

-ORHEIRESS or MAPLE LEAF FARM

chapter XVI. TBS COMPACT. A culprit apprehended by an officer of the law, a criminal accused by a stem judge, could not have mpre emotion than did the man whom Ralph Prescott had aooepted as Paul Dalton, at the soul-thrilling words of the excited Ruth Elliott. Strange words they were—wild words, bordering seemingly on incoherency. Were they the result of hallucination, •dolirium? No! As the rapt lurker studied the face of the beautiful girl, he knew that the penetrating gaze of reason, the great throbbing instinotof love, had aided her to see boyopd the superficial, and had unmasked villainy. In plain words, she accused this man with being an Impostor. In awful arraignment before the bar of her womanly conviolion, she oharged him with the •crime of robbing her of her husband. Then he was not Paul Dalton, not her husband, not the ex-Superintondent of Maple Leaf Farm! He was an impostor, a fraud, and, as the truth flashed upon Ralph Prescott’s exoited mind, he now comprehended many vague and perplexing utterances that he had overheard him use during the evenful evening just past. Furthermore, as he gazed, he marveled how he oouid ever have taken this man for Paul Dalton. There was a marvelous resemblance, but of features alone, for the dissimilarity in soul, in •expression, Was utterly laokjng. vVhat had aided to deoeive Presoott was the shaving off of the heal'd. This prepared him for a change in looks. As 10 the voioe, a slight oold might acoount for the huskiness that made this Paul Dalton talk so differently from the •other, the real Paul Dalton. Yes, there could be no doubt of it, the. truth was out, the plotter unmasked, a* fraud revealed that completely outvied all Ralph Prescott’s puerile villainy. This man, a relative of Paul Dalton, a man at least exactly resembling him, had heard of his legaoy. He had imprisoned the real hoirj the bearded man, his accomplice, was his jailer; he had boldly assumed Paul Dalton’s identity; ho was scheming to secure the Forsythe fortune and fly with it, leaving the real legatee a beggar. The bewildering complications that were thus put in play made Ralph Prescott’s brain fairly reel with surmise and uncertainty.

The false Paul Dalton oowered like a •craven before the flashing glance of Ruth Elliott. A woman’s shrewdness had penetrated his bold assumption of the identity of the man he resembled so extraordinarily. He had deluded Proscott and the lawyer, but now he was unmasked, and one ■word publicly spoken by the woman before him would not only cost him a fortune but might send him to a penal institution.

That word, however, was never spoken. Of a sudden, the nerves of the agitated Ruth gave way, the strain of the hour becoming too intense for her already weakened nature. With a moan she sank senseless to the floor. The impostor glauoed at her affrightedly for -rs moment or two, and then with a white, soared faee, hurried from the room.

Ralph Presoott was after him in a flash. He directed a hurried injunction to the woman who was attending Ruth to look to her charge, then he was dashing from the house in pursuit of a figure flying down the deserted street, as if pnrsued by a pestilence. “Stop!" As the impostor dashed across a vacant fir-llned lot the mandate rang out •clear, sharp, imperious. He was trembling all over, his face was the oolor of ashes, his eyes haunted with a fearful dread, his manner oowed, •crushed; little like that of the haughty, insolent tyro oi the early evening, as he turned and faoed Ralph Prescott. The latter, realizing his advantage, pressed it promptly. “What do you want?” “You.”

“Oh,” peering closer, “It is Prescott. ■Give me time to catch my breath, man!" He leaned against a tree and panted furiously. Ralph Prescott watched him, as might a cat a mouse. He had cornered his man. He knew what to do now, fast enough. “You’ve made a mess of it,” he said, bluntly, at last. “Havel?” And the other laughed uneasily. “What do you mean?” “I have followed you all the evening.” The impostor started. “I overheard your conversation with jour accomplice at the hotel, the bearded man. ” “Newcombe!" ejaculated the impostor. “Ah! is that his name? Thank you. Tes. Newcombe, the jailer of the real Paul Dalton at Black Rock. ” The shot told. Ralph Prescott had .guessed the truth. His companion shivered at his words. “You know all—l am lost!” he muttered. “At least, the game is.” “I furthermore," pursued Prescott, -coolly, “witnessed your interview with Ruth Elliott.” The impostor was silent. He was -overwhelmed at the fast-occurring disasters of the night. “Yes, I know all this,” continued Prescott. “I know your plans, and I hold the whip-hand now. No need of subterfuge now. You and I had better •come to an understanding.”. “What kind of an understanding?" stammered the abashed impo3tor. “Well, our interests are identical, in •one respect. ” “And what may that be?” “Did Geoffrey Forsythe’s fortune, left to the real Paul Dalton, coveted by you, and Rightfully my own. I see no means of regaining it by fair means. You have suggested and put in force foul ones. I hate Paul DaltoD. The first step toward revenge would bo the securing of the fortune.” -

"Well?” muttered his auditor vaguely. “If we can arrive at a harmonious conclusion, can make an equitable arrangement, I might be tempted to allow you to go on with your imposition. At the end of a week, unless I interfere, you will reoeive the legacy from Lawyer Drew. ” “You forget—that woman may speak.'’

BY GENEVIEVE ULMER.

“Ruth Elliott? She may not know of your plans in that direction." “She could denounce me—she suspects that I have imprisoned her husband." “But she is ill; the delirium may return, and—eee here, my friend. Agree to pay me one-half the fortune when you get it, and I will guarantee to keep Ruth Elliott silent until the week has passed away.” “A bargain!" cried the other with brightening eyes. “Very well. But there must be no deception, no double-dealing." Am I not completely in your power?" “Perhaps. Still, I shall watch you closely, and must be made a confidant of all your past history and present plot®. Now, then, go to your hotel. I will join you there and report progress in an hour." “And you?" "I shall return to Ruth. I . shall remove her to some safe place, where she will be kept a Becure prisoner until your plans materialize." “All right!" Relievedlv, hopefully, the impostor sped towards the hotel. He gained his room and lit a lamp. “A close shavel” he muttered, as he removed his hat; “but better half the fortune than none, and if I ever get my fingers on the money I’ll find some way to delude this meddler. The girl is the main oause of fear, but with her a prisoner, I can consummate my plots without fear of hindrance or detection. Ah! what is that?" He paused, and glanced down at a white objeot lying on the carpet at his feet. It looked like a folded note, slipped under the door of the room. He took it up and opened it. Ho started wildly as he scanned the single line it bore. Then a groan burst from his lips. Wretchedly pale, wretchedly heartsick, he read the simple words that conveyed a terrible warning, a mystic revelation to his guilty soul. “Leave Rldgeton, abandon your wicked plans, or I swear to unmask all your past, ” It ran. And the signature the horrid scrawl bore was: “Your deserted wife, Isabei*."

CHAPTER XVII. PHHCIOUS PRRV. Rldgeton had something new to talk about next day. The woman who had been called by Ralph Presoott to attend upon Ruth, had told her story with dawn, and the villagers were consequently treated to a new bit of gossip. Her story was a remarkable one. She had been summoned by Prescott to the house of the recluse, to find the pretended nurse, the real Ruth, in a dead faint, she said. . She extolled Prescott for his kindness to the sufferer, as did the attendant physioian. Later, Paul Dalton had appeared, and had left hurriedly. She returned to the sick-room to find the patient in a worse swoon than before. She left her a few minutes to go to her own home. When she returned Ruth Eliiott had mysteriously disappeared. Ralph Presoott flitted about town the next day, apparently terribly anxious as to the whereabouts of the missing girl. He craftily circulated the story that Paul Dalton had wedded Ruth only to gain her grandfather’s fortune, and, seouring that, would disappear; that he had undoubtedly secretly removed her to some friend’s home, away from the village. Farmer John Elliott heard all this gossip in silenoe, but with a lowering brow. What was Ruth to him now? What Paul Dalton? What oared he for their doings and Intentions? They were strangers to him henceforth and forever more! So several days passed by. The false Paul Dalton either kept closely to his room at the hotel, or did not appear in town at all. He visiteid Lawyer Drew several times, and tried to hurry up the settlement of the estate. He urged that he needed money to j#rohase some land to be had at a bargain. Ralph Prescott kept pretty clear track of his movements. The impostor sat awaiting his arrival early one evening. Affairs were about to materialize, the sohemers felt sanguine. The impostor. was anxious to secure the money and esoape, ere some new complication balked his projects. Ralph Prescott was determined to be on hand at the finish, and insist on a fair division of the illgotten booty of crime. The false Paul Dalton had grown terribly nervous of late. That there was a mystery about his past history; that ho might, if he would, explain many a dark passage in the life of the man he personated; that his own career had been olosely linked with that of the imprisoned man, Ralph Presoott was positive, but his new colleague in craftiness refused to divulge his secrets. The latter had been a changed man sinoc he received that warning missive, that menacing note that was signed “Isabel."

He started at his own shadow; he rarely went out on the streets until after dark, and then his movements were uneasy and watchful. The man was haunted. He had bribed Ralph Prescott to silence; he had closed the Ups of Ruth ElUott, but there was another foe that he feared, and he alone realized why he so dreaded her. “She means what she says," he muttered concernedly, “but she has made no move yet—has made no effort to appear. Oh! I must get the money. It wiU buy comfort, luxury in a foreign clime —it will place me beyond the reach of the law I fear. Why, Prescott! What is the matter?" The man he had been waiting for had burst into the room abruptly. His face was ghastly, his manner agitated. “We are ruined!" he gasped incoherently. The imposter looked alarmed. “Speak, man!” he exclaimed; “something has happened?” “Yes, the worst—the very worst,” groaned Prescott. “Not only wUI you have to fly, but I myself as well, for now all my connection with this wretched affair will come out" “You mean ” ‘The girl, Ruth!" “What of her? Not dead?” “No. She has escaped. ” The impostor reeled where he stood, as from some terrible shock. "Impossible!” he gasped. “It is true. You know the night we made our compact, I removed her to the charge of a sordid old woman living in a osoluded cabin in the forest?”

"fes." “She watched her, drugged her, held her a olose captive. Two hours since I visited the place to see If the girl was all right. ” “And found " “Her gone, and the old woman tied hand and foot near the open door. She said that a woman had appeared a little before, and had demanded to see her oaptive." ' “Which she refused." “Promptly. The woman did not watt to argue with her. With a strength that was remarkable and effective she threw her down and bound her, unlocked the door of the room in whieh Ruth was confined, led her from the cabin, and disappeared." “A woman!” muttered the Impostor, with drawn brows, his anxious face growing white every moment. “Yes; dark-eyed, wild-faced, and having a scar under one eye " “Isabel!" groaned the impostor. “She threatened—she meant it. ” “And who is Isabel?" demanded Prescott. "Ask me no questions, but act," cried the other, excitedly. “Ruth Elliott is free. Her rescuer knows, or at least surmises, every detail of our plots, and is bound to balk them if possible. There is only one thing to do." “What is it?" “Secure the fortune." “If we can." “We must!" “But " “I saw the lawyer this afternoon. He characterized my haste as unusual, but the offer of a large fee induced him to expedite matters. I signed some neoessary papers, and he said if lie oouid get certain securities from the bonk this afternoon, he would close up the matter with me this evening. Come." “Where?” “To Lawyer Drew’s house." The impostor walked the street like a man who had just escaped prison or was fearing arrest, with his apprehensive backward glanoes and his cautious forward ones. He did not impart all his suspicions to his companion. Had ho told Ralph Presoott all, the latter would have shrank from going on with a plot in which a wronged woman's hand was yet to turn, the die of destiny, They found Mr. Drew immersed in documents In his library, deep in the intricacies of businoss rotating to the case in hand. “Not too late —she lias not been here, at least!" Lceathed the impostor, rellevedly. “I will bo ready for you in a moment, Mr. Dalton," spoke the lawyer. “I presented your papers in court, secured the necessary bondsmen, and as there is the really Btill left in my hands that would oover any possible future claim against a man who never contracted any debts, I dm Justified in paying you over the money Geoffrey Forsythe left you, only, I flkd it difficult to convert all the securities into oash." “Well, give me what you can," interrupted the impostor, impatiently. a 6h; I have realized on nearly all the persbnal property,” announced Drew. “Here," and he handed over some receipts, “are some papers to sign.” W.ith feverish haste and a'trembling hand the avaricious schemer signed the documents tendered. “Here you will find over thirty thousand dollars of the legacy, ’ continued Lawyer Drew, extending a long pocketbook. “The residue you can call for or have sent you within a month. ” Little danger of his ever calling for it; once safe in foreign lands, he would be fully satisfied with the bulk of the fortune, deoided the eager impostor. He took the wallet and counted over the crisp bills It contained and stowed it in his pocket, watched with wolfish, suspicious eyes by Ralph Prescott. He bade the lawyer a hurried goodby, and hastened down the street with the urgency of a man bound on a mission of life and death. fTO BE CONTINUED. 1

Value of a Passport.

Henry W. Wolff, a traveler, had been wandering about Metz, asking questions and seeing the sights, and he says: On my return to the station I found a surprise awaiting me. The German police bad found me out—not a difficult task, since I purposely went about quite openly. However, that, it appeared, made no difference. There, at the entrance to the station, stood a Prussian gendarme, all on the alert, and looking very ferocious. He was on the lookout for me, and stopped me at once. “Have you a legitimation about you?” he asked, gruffly. “Yes; but do I want one? Am I not entitled to travel in Germany without a passport?" He looked angry, and eyed with disgust my “Murray,” which bore all too plainly upon its cover the title “France."

“I must see it. I hear you have been about the town looking at jthings and asking many questions.” “It is strictly true; that is what I am traveling for.” “I must see your passport. * “What! In defiance of the Emperor’s regulations?” He drew himself up pompously. “Do you not understand, ” said he, “that I must see your passport in order to be able to judge whether or not you are entitled to travel without one?” Here was logic, but logic which, however feeble, must be heeded. I produced my passport, and after having studied it for a tedious interval, he gravely announced that I was fitted to travel without one. The new direct process of making steel has been experimented upon at the Homestead Works of Carnegie Brothers with most satisfactory results, and although not yet entirely perfected, has been sufficiently advanced to warrant the statement that Its adoption will mark quite a change in the production of steel and in Its quality, as well as in the price of the metaL If the expectations of the company are realized, and they confidently expect they will be, there is likely to be a revolution in this line of production, which will work to the advantage of the consumer. How it will affect labor is yet a question, although the workmen are rather disposed to look unfavorably upon the innovation.

There is no more striking instance of the manner in which fame seeks the individual worthy of her crown thaa in the life of Puvis de Chavannes, who is conceded to be the founder, the originator, the creator of the modern school of painting. Regarding his fame a Paris correspondent says: “He has done nothing for this result, —nothing but paint! for he is the most noble, -the most simpleminded man in the world. Entirely absorbed in his art, beginning to work in the early morning, he toils until the evening shrouds his palette in mystery."

BLACK HAWK HEROES.

SOME OF THEM ARE YET WELL AND HAPPY. The Monument Erected In Commemoration o* the Bloody but DecUlvo Conflict Fought Over Sixty Years Ago—Cause of the IV ar. Some of the Survivors.

HERE stands a few miles from ’ TfcFreeport, 111., the only Black Hawk rlVw war inonumentel niarks the spot JR where the decidVi ing battle of the ' ■ great war was HBljy .1 fought, and was / Jf erected by the citm v izens of Stephen- \ vson County in . 'commemoration of that bloody conflict. Near its base

have been gathered the bones o{ the soldier dead. The monument is located In Kent Township, writes a Freeport correspondent, and marks the spot where the battle of Kellogg’s Grove was fought. It was Xhere that a handful of whites, under the brave Colonel Dement, pitted themselves against the Indian warriors and won a signal victory, the first of the war. The monument was dedicated Nov. 30, 188(5, and has attracted many tourists to view the historical spot. Nearly every one has heard of Bennie Scott, the brave little drummer boy who fell in that war. He was

but 16 years of age, and was a prime favorite among the soldiers. In one of the battles in the western part of the county he was killed,' his head being severed from the body by the blood-thirsty foe. A soldier’s, burial was given the

remains, and a grave Apple itivor, 111 was dug between two young oak trees. When this last kind service had been performed a thoughtful soldier companion took his jack-knife and with it cut deep on one of the trees beside tho grave the initials “B. S.” Fifty-nine years have passed away, and that soldier has long gone to his reward. Little did he imagino the lasting monument he was engraving. One who saunters through that quiet grove to-day will see those two letters standing out In bold relief. The part cut has grown much faster than the tree, and now the outline of the Initials extends several inches. The letters are plainly visible a long distance off, and have created additional interest in the brave boy who cheered his comrades on to victory with martial melody.

• Roue to High Place*. Many who engaged in that conflict have risen to high distinction. Threo becape Presidents, Zachariah Taylor

and Abraham Lincoln, Presidents of the United States, and Jefferson Davies, President of the_ Southern Confederacy. General Henry Dodge rose to the distinction of Governor of Wisconsin, Delegate to Congress, and Senator for twelve

W. O. NEVITT, ALBANY, ILL.

years. A. C. Dodge, of lowa, was a Delegate to Congress, United States Senator and Minister to Spain. Col. G. W. Jones, of lowa, was a Delegate to Congress, United States Senator, and Minister to the South American republics. Judge Sydney Breese, of Illinois, long a United States Senator and Judge of the Supreme Court of Illinois, and many others might be named. Early Trouble* with Black Hawk. The causes of that war were somewhat remote. The great ordinance of 1787 gave to the territory northwest of the Ohio River a civil government and provided that good faith should be observed toward the Indians; that their lands and property should never be taken without their consent, but that they should be treated with iustice and with hu-

THE BLACK HAWK MONUMENT.

inanity. Accordingly a nunlber of treaties were made whereby the Indiads sold and ceded portions of their territory. At last, on Nov. 3, 1804, at St. Louis, a treaty was made by William Henry Harrison, then Governor of Indiana Territory, with the Sac and Pox Indians, whereby they sold to the United States all that country lying south of the Wisconsin River and ca9t of the Mississippi, which included the Rock River and all its tributaries. At this time Black Hawk was a chief of the Sac and Fox, and dwelt at Rock Island, where were the graves of the Indians, and, according to their legend, the gnardian spirit of the Sac and Fox dwelt In a cave. Soon after Black Hawk, who possessed much cunning and ferocity, denied the validity of the treaty, as he had not 6lgned it, and said that the chiefs who did sign it had no authority to do so. He assisted the British in the war of 1812, and in 1816 himself signed a new treaty confirming the treaty of 1804. Then, again, Black Sparrow Hawk, as he was pleased to call himself, denied the treaty, and another

was made in 1825. Nevertheless; the Indians under Black Hawk, in 1831, in defiance of five treaties on the subject, recrossed the Mississippi from the west, drove away the white settlers from Bock Island and vicinity, and established themselves again in their former abodes. Gqv. Beynolds, with a body of militia, compelled the Indians to retreat across the river, and the treaty of 1831 was signed, Black Hawk and his followers agreeing to remain forever west of the great river. War Wa* Inevitable, x In April, 1832, Black Hawk, with all the force he could rouse, recrossed the Mississippi from the west, proceeded up Rock ltiver, and thus burst forth the storm of a dreadful war. Rev. Barton Cartwright, a nephew of the famous pioneer preacher, Petei Cartwright, and who was a circuit rider through the territory made his toric by the war, and who has probably had the best source of information on the subject of any living man, resents tho assertion that tho war was an unnecessary ono growing out of an unprovoked attack on Black Hawk by Major Stillman’s forces. He says that Black Hawk’s braves attempted to massacre the forces at Stillman’s Run whilo they slept. The alarm was given, and the soldiers began the attack which resulted in the bloody war.

flow It Can Ho Made to Draw a Groat Number of Charming Figure*. Take an ordinary spinning top, flat or nearly so on its upper surface, weight it with a fiat and perfectly balanced pieco of lead, which extends out over the top on either side, and in tho projecting surface of tho lead bore two holes. In one of these holes insert a match or twig and in the other a feather, long enough to sweep any surface on which the top spins. Then smoko a plate over a lamp until the surface of it is covered with a light layer of soot, and next set the top spinning on tho plate. Tho feather will draw a great number of curious images, rings and arabesques—some of them excessively

CYRUS LICHTENBEIIGER,

intricate —before tho top ceases to spin. These arabasques and rings will correspond in number to the revolutions of the top.

FAMED AS AN ASTRONOMER.

Mm. Mina Fleming Doing Notable YVorli at t'arvari! Observatory. In the wonderful stellar discoveries recently made by photographing the spectra of the stars the women as-

proved variable by the bright lines in their spectra. The examination of the plates, the measurement of the position and the brightness of tho stars, tlie discussion of the results obtained from the plates and the forming of catalogues from those results have been carried on mainly by Mrs. Mina Fleming and her assistants, at present numbering eight, says the Providence Telegram. Mrs. Fleming’s brief reports of discoveries made by her are sent to the Astronoinlschen Nachrichten and other astronomical journals over the simple signature, “M. Fleming,” but her work is well known to astronomers as that of a woman. The extent to which it Is appreciated may he judged by an extract from a review which appeared last October in the Observatory, the regular publication issued at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England: “It would be difficult to say too much in praise of the zeal and skill with which the great work (the catalogue) has been accomplished. The name of Mrs. Fleming is already well known to tho world as that of a hrilliantdiscoverer, but the present volume shows that she can do real'hard work as well.”

The Harvard Observatory Is the first to develop a corps of trained women assistants, dealing with difficult problems as successfully as men deal with them at other observatories; and this corps of women, in addition to doing thorough routine work, has shown great capacity for original Investigations.

"When a horse falls while drawing a vehicle: Jump down and hold the animal’s head to prevent his dashing it about to his own injury. Loosen the check-rein (if you are so foolish as to use one) and the parts of the harness which fasten on the vehicle. Back the carriage so as to get the shafts and traces clear. Steady and support the horse’s head, and excite and encourage him, with hand and voice, to rise. When you have got him up pat and further encourage him, and see if ho is wounded or otherwise injured. Let him stand still a short time and recover himself, and then proceed gently and with greater cauton than before.

Bogus medical diplomas—not of fictitious colleges, but of reputable institutions—are sold in New York at from S3OO to SSOO each.

Though Wales is deteriorating, and even the language is dying out, there is a colony of 50,000 Welshmen in London.

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TAE TEETOTUM.

sistants at the Harvard observatory have accomplished important results, and one of tho most striking ol these is the discovery made by IMrs. Mina Fleming that variable stars of a certain typo may be

MRS. MINA FLEMING.

What to Do Whan a Horse Falls.

Bogus Diplomas.

Welshmen In London.

IT IS RIGHT IN LINE,

IS THIS COLUMN OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS. A Large Number of AccUlent-—A Few Sul* clrien and Death.—And Other Important News. Indiana at tlio Exposition. Tho Indiana World’s Fair Commission has arranged the construction of tho Indiana State Building so that It will bo a great exhibit of Indiana's host building material, consisting of stone, hard woods, glass and encaustic tile. The building will be ono that will be a pride to tho pooplo of tho State. The building will bo a great picture gallery of Indiana’s prominent people. The mines and mining exhibit promises to be one of the greatest exhibits. The geological and archaeological exhibit will bo a lino ono. The best archaeological exhibit belonging to any private individual in tho United States belongs to Josephus Collett, of Terre Ilaute, and it is understood that he will loan it for exhibition. The manufacturers of tho State will surpass tholr old competitors, tho gas belt having revolutionized manufacturing in Indiana. The committee on woman's work have tho work in the State well in hand, and tho State will not be belli ml her sistor States In showing the advancement und culture of her women.

Tho manufacturing, agricultural and educational exhibits from Indiana will bo tho greatest exhibits from tho State. Tho committee on agriculture lias formed an alllanco with tho State Board of Agriculture, and with seventy-two county and district agricultural associations working hand in hand will place Indiana in tho front rank us an agricultural State.

Tho pride ot Indiana is her schools, colleges and universities. The educational committee has enlisted the assistance of Indiana’s 15,000 teachers, as well as tho aid of her fifteen colleges and universities, and it is safe tosav that tho work In any State Is In no bettor ban its and condition than is tho educational work for tho exposition In Indiana. Do Pauw University, the State University, Hanover, Franklin, Notro Dame and all other colleges in the State will make a great showing. The Boso Polytechnic will make a lino exhibit. Purdue University, under the generous action of her trustees, anil In ehargo of its able president, Smart, will make tho best and greatest technical exhibit of any school in tho country. Tho greatest interest Is manifested by all classes of Indiana's citizens In the exposition, and they ail join in tho elfort to make, the Stato’s exhibit tho greatest ono of the exhibition. The executive commissioner, Mr. Havens, does all tho work of tho commission, being the only man beside the secretary and clerk In tho office In tho employment of the hoard.

Minor dtMtn Itnms Safb-blowicus are working Salem. Brown County has a sheep ranch of 300 acres. Tiib North Salem Creamery burnod Loss $5,000. Frankfort wants to clean out street Takirs with a high llconso. Washington will begin work on her now opera houso very soon. Am, Union Cltv gets up at 3 o'clock 3vcry morning to see tho comet. Bka/.u. proposes tv build a wigwam cut of coal for political meetings. Ei.i Hour, who stole Mrs. N. T. DoI’auw’s diamonds, got a three year’s sentence. LaPobtb peoplo are having tholr ears plugged. Town baud has begun to give concerts. An effort to stop drinking and gambling at Blue Klvor Park ou Sunday is being made. Rohkht Decker, aged 11, foil Into tho river near Seymour, while falling, and was drowned. The Lafayetto Tlmos says Purdue University was worth $200,000 to the city last vear. David Moreland, aged 80, had a narrow escape from being run ovor by tho cars at Bourbon. C. M. Leslie, Hunovor Collego, won tho SIOO Baldwin prize for tho best essay on tho McKinley bill. Skeletons of a supposod prehistoric race wore unearthed In an excavation near Flatrock, near Columbus. The small daughter of Frederick Jacorha, of Logansport, was scalded to death by having coffee spilled on tier. John Kiikiner, aged 53, former superintendent and large owner In the Madison Browing Company, dlod of paralysis. A portion of tho mill of tho Elkhart Paper Company was destroyed by fire. Loss, $800; Insured. This is the second lire the company lias had within a week, both of which are considered lncondiaries.

Inn cornor-stono of the now Masonic Temple at Wabash will bo laid July 4, ami the lodge Is making preparations for a celebration of magnificent proportions. The temple will be the largest and handsomest building in the city. A Chicago syndicate has purchased Section 19, known as the Morrison tract, for tho sum of .$05,000. The land, which lies one mile from Hobart, will bo platted Into streets, macadamized, and factories and buildings crcctod. Annette Mkykrh, American, and Henry Man Gee, Chinese proprietor of a laundry at Lafayette, wore married recently. About 300 spectators witnessed tho celebration, which Is tho only caso of tho kind on record In that city. It was a peculiar marriage, Man Gee, It Is said not caring at heart to wed tho girl. As passenger train No. (5 was going east, being several hours late, Frank liltner, 4 years old, was on tho track Just eastof tho depot at Dublin,and was struck by tho engine. He was almost instantly killed. Tho train stopped, and the passongors were much affected by the sight About $35 was quickly raised for tho needy parents. Two Anderson girls were on a lark the other night In boys’ clothes. All went lovely until one stepped In a puddle, gave a girl’s scream and gave herself away. A i.arge crowd of boys and girls repaired to Lewis Rector’s new honse in Perry Township, Clay County, to get up a charivari on tho young couple In their cozy home. During tho ovation a revolver was tired accidentally by Alfred Vanoss. The bullot struck William Roberts, aged 13, in tho side, inflicting a fatal wound. Another boy was also badly injured by being struck in tho back of the head by a flying missile. The neighborhood of Kurtz, on the E. <fc R. Railroad, in tho western part of Jackson County, was startled by the suicide of John Nelson, aged 73, who was found near his own door with his throat Cut. Two TRAJirs entered Book’s store tho other night at Princeton and loaded themselves with everything that could be carried away. Then they ran across Charles Saltzman, a young man 20 years of age, who is mentally unsound, stripped him of his clothing, pot a suit of tho stolen clothes on him and started him homo. Of course tho boy was arrested, but, before the officers could understand tho situation, the tramps had made good their escape.

Trie vi no tramps are worrying Man* cm, Richmond Is going to adopt standard time. Chablestown has a saloon fight on hand. Attica is raising a fund for fresh air concerts. “Stag” picnics are popular among Fort Wayne men.' Muncie is mighty badly taken with female ball games. The Peru basket factory gets its ratan from tho East Indias. The wl/o whippers of Evansville seem to be growing in number. Simon Yandes of Indianapolis, gave $30,000 to Wabash Collego. There will be competitive drills and horse-racing at Franklin July 4. Shelbyville furniture factories are all preparing exhibits, for the Cincinnati Exposition. The Lafayette Gun Club will put up a S2OO badge to bo shot for in the State tournament July 0. L. W. McDonald, County Auditor, Is under arrest in Princeton, charged with Imposing illegal fees. Noblesvili.e newspaper reporters enjoy tho freedom of all the strawberry patches in that town. ' In Now Albany George Jamison died after drinking a quart of whisky. Jamison was an old soldier. The Indiana crop of black and rod raspberries is due next week, and the output will be immonso. Wm. Newton and Miss Eunice MeQuinn, Clifford, near Columbus, ran away, and woro married. David M. Spuroin, agod 77, and father of Capt. William Spurgln, U. 8. A., died in ids chair at Greencastlo. , John Collins at Jeffersonville, attending t ho funeral of ids sistor, felt In a lit and tho congregation was stampeded. A quantity of bad coin was found In a barn near Noblosvillo. The work Is very poor and supposed to be that of boys.

Tigiilman Graham, a prominent farmer living noar Shelbvvllle, died very suddenly after taking a dose of medicine. Mas. Charles Neal, at Lafayetto, was killed by lightning while wheeling her babv across a commons. Tho infantjwas not hurt. Spreading rails wrecked a freight train on tho I. & V. road at Martinsville, and passenger trains wore delayed ovor four hours. The Crescent paper mill, Hartford City, will be rebuilt. Tho lire was caused by an oxplosfon of gas. The loss will reach $150,000. Richmond people are scheming to got one of tho Hotchkiss bicycle railways built thcro, connecting with outlying towns in tho county. Albert Whisnand, aged 12 years, at Martinsville, was splitting wood, whon the ax glanced and spilt his right foot almost Its entire length. T. A. Conk, a Batavia, N. Y., commercial traveler, was bathing In the river at Anderson, and took a dive. When ho catno up ho was dead. The barn of Hans Freed, noar Valparaiso, was struck by lightning and destroyed, togothor with its contents, Including three horsos. Loss, $1,200. A sign on a Montgomery County farm reads: “Hunt all you ploasu and when you hoar tho bell ring coine to dinner.’ Now, there Is ono of God's noblemen. The Clerk's Union at Wabash has Instituted an early-closing movement, and merchants have agreed to lock up at 7 o’clock each evening through tho summer.

House thieves have been at work around Union City, llorsos stolon from other localities were taken there and exchanged. Rewards are offered for the thieves. Benjamin Cullen, noar Milford, was arrested a few days ago for having a fish seine in his possession. His wife couldn't bear tho disgraco and is violently insano. Agents of tho Covorntry (England) Blcvclo Cprnpany, the largest in the world, are looking for a site at Richmond for locatlug tholr branch American establishment. Mas. Elizabeth Stilgkniiaukr, the oldest resident of Bartholomew County, dlod noar Columbus, in her 100th year. Hho was born in Morksboim, Rbelnlsh Prussia, Jan. 10, 1703. In the case of John C, Cope and Will- . lam A. Shuck for possession of the Jannlng* County office of auditor, which was on trial lor ten days the jury returned & verdict for Shuck, tho Democratic incumbent. Fiiank Pearson, a young farmer near Bloomingdale, had his foot spilt opeh while planting corn with a corn' drill. Tho too sudden backing of tho drill caused one of the attachments for covering the corn to be driven through his foot. At Arctic Springs Floyd Williams; a 12-yoar-old boy, of Jeffersonville, climbed a towor sovonty-ilve feot high, and, reaching tho last turret, dived off into tho river. Tho descent was made In safety and the boy, alter coming to the surface, swam arouud for several minutes. it Is regarded as a marvelous act Tho towor was built expressly for Prof. Louvonmark, tho famous diver, who gave an exhibition by diving from tho top, and who was said to bo considered the only man in the United States able to dive safely from such a distance. A natural-gab explosion occurred ib a very peculiar manner at Muncie. Inferior plumbing causes the ground to be saturated with escaping gas from the many pipe lines, and It finds a retreat in the large sewers. A new sewer was being tapped into another which was filled with gas. George Hallock, a brickmason, was making tho connection, and in pounding a brick with bis trowel a spark set off an explosion which fairly shook the city and shot man-hole covers along the lino of the sewor high in the air. Mr. Hallock was badly burned about the face and hands, ana considerable damage was dona A Knightbtown woman nas walked to and from the Soldiers’ Home every day for twonty years, the • distance covored being over 24,000 miles.

While Prof. O. B. Zell, principal of the high schools at Farmland, wais out driving his horse took fright at a Big Four engine, and, making a short turh, threw the Professor out on his head and sevoroly injured him. He was accompanied bv his little son. who sat In the vehiclo as brave as if he knew what to da The horse ran about a mile *before it was brought to a bait, and it was found that tho little follow was still , clinging to the linos. Myron Manrow, aged 20,' and Loren L. Haney, aged 18, were drowned in Elkhart River, at Goshen, whilo bathing. The former was taken with cramps, but when Haney went to tho rescue both sank. Tbe body of Haney was found a few hours later about a mile from the scene, but Manrow’s body has not been recovered. Reuben Green of Carr Township, near Jeffersonville, has a high-toned well whose waters In May, June, and July always resemble very much the flavor of lemonade. The neighbors ail flock to the geuerous curb and quaff until they are ready to burst of tho delicious drink. The original item was un* l accompanied by an affidavit.