Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — Page 6

®lje jPcmocraticScutiitci RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. w. McEWEN, - ' Publisher

ROBBED OF TERRORS.

RAILROAD TRAVEL NO LONGER WILL BE DANGEROUS. Mechanical Devices Which Insure Comparative Immunity from the Perils of the Track —Preventing Accidents from Derailments, Collisions, Open Draws, etc. Railroading Simplified. How to prevent accidents from the derailment of a train of cars, how to check a train moving at lightning speed at the entrance of an open drawbridge supposed to be shut, und thus prevent the train from plunging into the yawning abyss with terrific loss of life; how to bring as summarily to a standstill a train about to go on a trestle bridge a span of which has been suddenly swept away by some swift destruction of storm, or flood, or fire; how to prevent a train from being run into by. another train, with the wreck, perhaps, of both trains and instantaneous death to many passengers—these are problems of gravest importance and supremest public Interest These are problems that come home to the hearts and bosoms of everybody, for everybody travels nowadays on railroads. It is believed that these problems, seemingly impossible of solution as they appear at first glance, have been solved. It is not, however, to be wondered at. It is the natural but Inevitable sequence of progress in mechanical science—a step onward

In the great march of invention, which stops not at the seemingly impossible, but ever looking to the far off, unattained and dim, challenges combat with the most subtle and stubborn forces of nature, and in their utilization makes them subject to its impel ious will. Edwin D. Graff, of New York, claims to he the fortunate solver of the gigantic problems to which reference has been made. For each of his four inventions he has taken out patepts in this country and Canada, in England, and in all the leading governments of both hemispheres. He has labored on them for years, and has only recently perfected them. The present description of them is the first that has ever been given. ISlectric Signal System* The electric signal system Is a wonder In Its way, combining a usefulness hitherto unknown ■ in the art of signaling. At present the only signals are visual signals, and the vast majority of them depend for their correctness upon human operation, which has time and time again

ELECTRIC TRACK BOX.

proved fallible. But even if the signal has been set correctly the chance of safety is by no means assured. The engineer, for instance, may be consulting his clock, steam gauge, water gauge, air pressure gauge injector, lubricator, or any of the thousand and one things that this argus-eyed individual is supposed to keep watch over, or he may, or he may not, have dropped dead or become paralyzed, or be sleepy or dozing when the signal is passed, or it may be storming violently, or the signal light may have gone out, or the fireman may have the furnace door open, making it impossible to see out of the cab window on account of the glare of light within. Any of these things may cause an engineer to fail to observe the feeble red gleam that stands between him and destruction. The audible signal, however, is open to no such objections. Silent, yet vigilant, it travels with him in his cab mile after mile, and when its brisk ringing breaks in upon the thunder and crash of the engine as it groans under its load of precious human life the engineer knows that the time of danger is at hand and delay means death. How the Electric Signal Works. The electric signal consists of a rod, rail, or conductor, laid down the center of the track the entire length of the same. Its electric continuance is broken at intervals of every 1,500 or 2,000 feet, and a small piece of German silver—resistance wire—is inserted. The locomotive equipment is situated within the cow-catcher, and consists of a brush or roller, adapted to make electrical contact with the central rod, rail or conductor, an electric beli in the cab and a battery of one or two Laclanchc cells. One of the poles of the bell etKoit is connected to the brush or mler, and the other, after passing tbroogh a pole-changing switch, is grounded in the locomotive. It is so arranged that all locomotives going ■ortfe have the positive pole conto the roller and the negative pWMdei is the locomotive, and all iwanwOrn proceeding south are reCMtoected, so that when two

locomotives thus equipped approach near enough to one another to over* come the resistance Interposed between them a circuit is established from one to the other, causing both bells to ring and continue ringing while they remain within dangerous proximity. The block signal portion of this system is arranged so that at certain intervals along the track of a mile, more or less, the road is divided into blocks or sections. At these places a track instrument box is inserted. The track portion of the track instrument box contains two tongues or switches that normally lie along and complete the continuity of the center rod, rail or conductor, but by means arranged within the box, so

GRAFF’s STOP FOR RAILROAD TRAINS.

that when a train passes over it it moves one of the switches across a short insulated point and makes a contact, which short circuits a train following and causes its bell to ring when it shall have approached sufficiently near. t When the train which effected the movement of the switch reaches the next succeeding track instrument box it repeats the operation and restores the flrstmentioned box to its normal or safety position. The movement to danger is made mechanically and the return movement is effected electrically by means of a magnet in each box, which, on being energized, releases a spring that provides for the return

DERAILMENT STOP.

of the box to its normal position. Thus an open circuit system is provided that is so constructed that should anything happen to the source of electrical supply no clear signal would be given, and even should the system become damaged or broken yet would It be equally safe, so far as giving a clear or safety signal is concerned when danger existed.

Derailment Stop. The derailment stop consists of a lever inside the driving wheels of the locomotive and within the trucks of the cars, whose lower end depends within a few Inches of the top sur- j face of the rail. It is pivoted so as to permit of a movement longitudin- \ ally of the train and its upper free end, which extends beyond the pivot, is connected to a link or arm, which in turn is connected with the handle of a cock situated in the main train pipe of the train’s air brake system. When the derailment takes place the lower end is brought in contact with the ground either by the wheels cutting Into the earth or by a sufficiency of the periphery of the wheel descending between two cross ties. By the forward motion of the train the lower end of this lever is vibrated rearwardly, the upper end moving forwardly from the pivot and by Its forward motion exerting a pull upon the link connected with the handle of the cock in the main train pipe, opening the same and causing the air to escape, thus applying the brakes. Co-operating with this ingenious device is the drawbridge mechanism, which consists of a sliding rod lying at and across the land end of the bridge terminal, and projecting out sufficiently to be engaged by a bracket or arm fastened to the bridge and moving with it This sliding rod has coiled upon it a spring, so arranged that when relieved from the pressure of the arm or plate it springs out, and upon the return of the bridge it is pushed back and the spring compressed. Pivoted to the cross-ties is a bell-crank whose ends are engaged respectively by the sliding transverse rod and a line of gaspipe lever running parallel with the track. This is carried back a sufficient distance and there connected to a crank arm, which in turn is connected to a lock-shaft lying transversely of the tracks, and to which are connected at suitable places sec-tor-shaped trip-pieces, which are raised and lowered by the rotation of the transverse rock-shaft as the bridge is opened and closed through means of above-described mechanism. These trips when in operative or raised position, which is the position they occupy when the bridge is opened, engage the levers of the airbrake system, and by turning them back apply the brakes and stop the train. Upon the closing of the bridge they are of course turned down and out of operative position. An engineer approaching an open drawbridge first* passes a signal warning him to stop, and failing to obey it for any reason his levers are struck and turned back by the stops and he comes to a standstill upon the rails.

Contagiousness of Leprosy.

In a paper giving the result of his careful and prolonged investigations of this subject, Dr. Duncan Buckley declares that it is not proven that any number of individuals have ever acquired the disease from direct contact with others affected, or that it has ever been traced, in any proportion of cases worth mentioning, directly from one person to another. There is strong reason to suspect, he says, that it may first be introduced into the system by the way of food, fish being the most likely of all substances to furnish and convey the poison; heredity probably accounts for a share of the cases, but the disease is not necessarily transmitted by inheritance; inoculation with leprous matter may be the means of conveying the disease when all the conditions are favorable.

MISCHIEVOUS ROBERT.

Young Hawke* Also Had a Fair Share of Conceit. Robert S. Hawkes, always known as “the Vicar of Morwenstowe,” and 3 poet of no mean ability, was brought up by tyfs grandfather, a very learned and religious man. In the church where this old gentlemen preached the evening service always closed with a hymn, “Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing,” which was composed by Doctor Hawkes himself.. His grandson, who did not know the authorship of the hymn, came to the Doctor one day with a paper in his hand, saying: “Grandfather, I don’t altogether like that hymn, ‘Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing.’ I think it might be improved in metre and.language, and that it would be better if it were somewhat longer.” “Oh, indeed!” said Doctor Hawkes, reddening. “And pray, Robert, what improvements commend themselves to your precious wisdom?” “This is my improved version,” said Robert, and he read aloud a very creditable hymn, after which he repeated the old version, saying innocently, “This one is crude and fiat; don’t you think so, grandfather?” “Crude and flat, sir! Young puppy, it is mine! I wrote that hymn!” “Oh, I beg your pardon, grandfather! I didn’t know that. It’s a very nice hymn, indeed, but—” as he went out of the door—“mine is better!” Some people think he was right In his judgment, though not, perhaps, in expressing it. Such a mischievous fellow was Robert that the parish clerk once exclaimed:

“I doan’t care whether I ring the bells on the king’s birthday, but if I never touch the ropes again, I’ll give a peal when Robert goes to school and leaves Stratton folks in peace!” “I don’t know how it Is,” said his brother one day, “but when I go out nutting with Robert, he gets all the nuts; when Igo rabbiting, he gets all the rabbits, and when we go out fishing together, he catches all the fish.” “Come with me fishing to-morrow,” said Robert, “and see :f you don’t have luck.” Next day he slyly fastened a red herring to his brother’s hook. “There," he exclaimed, when it was drawn out of the water, “you are twice as lucky as I am! My fish are all raw, and yours is ready-cleaned, smoked and salted!”—Youth’s Companion.

REPRESENTS CHINA.

Yang Yu, the New Mongolian Minister to This Country. The new Chinese Minister to Washington, Vang Yu, who bore a special protest from the Chinese Emperor to Secretary of State Gresham against the enforcement of the Geary act, is only a few degrees removed from royalty and is the most influential representative of China ever commissioned to this country. lie is favorably known to the foreign residents in China, whose esteem he. won by his energetic attention to their interests at the time of the riots at Wuhu, and he is reputed to be an enlightened and very broad-minded official. Yang Yu is accompanied by his wife

THE NEW CHINESE MINISTER.

and two daughters, with five ladies in waiting. His entire suite, when he disembarked at San Francisco, consisted of eighty-two persons, whose baggage, as weighed at the custom house, aggregated eighty tons.

CHATEAUBRIAND’S GRAVE.

The Great Frenchman Buried on the Lonely Kock Where He Whs Born. Chateaubriand, the famous French author who, after dining with Washington at Philadelphia, said, “There Is virtue in the look of a great man,” is buried at the actual spot where he was born, and probably no one was

THE GRAVE OF CHATEAUBRIAND.

ever laid in a stranger resting place. It is on a jutting point of rock in a lonely, exposed position. The father and mother of the Vieomte Chateaubriand were on board a vessel bound for St. Male. It was night when they neared the coast, and a terrific storm was raging. No boat could venture to the assistance of the crew, and the vessel was wrecked upon a rock not far from the shore. The mother of Chateaubriand passed the night upon the rock, and there he was born. He afterward purchased the rock and built upon it the tomb in which he now lies.

Typewriting by Wire.

The telotype, or electrical typewriter, has been designed to meet the requirements of a rapid and reliable printing telegraph instrument,

which has long been needed. This instrument is manipulated very much in the same way as a typewriter. The transmitter as well as the receiver makes a copy of the message, and the liability of mistakes is thus largely decreased. The instruments worn in unison, and it is impossible to send a message from one machine unless the corresponding machine at the end of the distant line is properly receiving. The record is plainly printed on the strip of moving paper in front of the operator. The same instrument can send and receive.

OLDEST DENTIST IN AMERICA.

Also a Vegetarian and an Abstainer from the Use of Tobacco and Liquor. Dr. Robert B. Baynes, the oldest dentist in America, supposed to be the oldest Free Mason in the New England States,, and among the oldest people in the State of Maine, recently celebrated his 98th birthday at his residence, Rockland. He was born of wealthy parents in London, England, but through the dishonesty of a clerk his father was ruined when young Baynes was 10 years old. Tgn years later the young man sailed lor America, learned the watchmaker’s trade in New York, and theD went to Boston, where he studied dentistry for five years. Aiter practicing in Boston for years he moved to Rockland, where he has been for thirtyfive years. For half a century he has not tasted meat, his principal diet

DR. ROBERT B. BAYNES.

being graham bread and cocoa. His most noticeable peculiarity is that he never speaks until spoken to. He was married in early life, but his wife died many years ago, and since then Baynes has lived alone, making a good part of his own clothing, including his shirts and collars.

It Worked Well.

A red-nosed man, with shabby clothes, stopped before the row of seats under the big weeping willow near the bridge in the public garden the other afternoon, says the Boston Journal. The seats were mostly occupied by women and children. Bending down opposite a brightlooking little girl, the red-nosed man said smilingly: “I wish I had a nickel for you, little one. You would like a ride on the swan boats, wouldn’t you, dear?” “Yes, sir,” replied the child, looking up timidly. “I knew you did, my child, and if, I only had a nickel you should have it” “La! hear that old bum talk,” exclaimed a woman sitting near. “If he an’t got a nickel why don’t he shut up and move on,” remarked another woman. The red-nosed man pretended not to hear these remarks, and presently addressed the little girl again: “You remind me so much of one of my own little ones at home. If I only had a nickel you should have It my pet ” “Oh, you fciake me weary!” exclaimed another woman in disgust “Here’s the nickel for the child. Now do shut up and get out. ” The red-nosed man reached out his hand and took the money with an injured expression on his hard features. “Madam,” he said reproachfully, “the Lord loves a cheerful giver. So do I. It would hardly be right to bestow an uncheerful gift on this innocent lamb; so with your permission I will use this nickel to moisten my throat a little. But always give cheerfully, mu’m. It hurts the feelings of a sensitive man to receive an uncheerful gift. I had almost rather go dry. ” Then the red-nosed man passed under the bridge, leaving behind him a chorus of “Did you evers?” and “No, I nevers!”

The Drug Clerk’s Fun.

Drug clerks often derive amusement from the prescriptions that are left with them. A prescription which called for certain tablets, and which was written by a Chicago physician, was put up in a down-town pharmacy the other day. The directions were as follows: “One tablet every two hours for five days, skip four days and commence again.” The pharmacist smiled when he wrote the label, and professional etiquette alone prevented him from asking the customer, who weighed about 180 pounds, if he thought he would survive after so much skipping. Another prescription caused the patient himself to laugh when he read the doctor’s directions, which were: “Take fifteen drops one hour after eating in a little water.” “I don’t eat in water,” said tne man, “although I did chew an apple once when I was bathing at Long Branch.” Strangely spelt communications are often brought to the druggist. A woman handed a slip to a clerk recently and said: “Gimme ten cents’ worth of that” The clerk read, “Grocer’s supplement.” “I guess you mean corrosive sublimate,” he said, “but that is poison, and we can’t sell it to you. ” The woman went away, after dedaring that she wanted it to “kill boogs with.”—New York Sun.

Made No Difference.

Some years ago there lived in Perth, Scotland, a man of convivial habits, well known by his Christian name, Jamie. One dark night an acquaintance found Jamie lying at the foot of an outside stair. “Is that you, Jamie?” asked the acquaintance, in a voice of the greateat astonishment. “Aye. it’s me,” replied Jamie, in a tone of complete resignation. “Have you fa’en doon the stair?” was the next question. “Aye! I fell doon; but I was cornin’ doon, whether or no.”

POSTAL AMENITIES.

The Spirit of Accommodation May Bo Carried Too Far. It Is pleasant to have a public official—a postmaster, for instance—interested in his work; pleasant also, in a small town, to have him individually interested in the little public whom he serves. But this interest may be carried too far to be agreeable. That student, for instant, in a college in a small country town to whom the following little incident occurred was no doubt assured of the amiable official's interest in his love atrairs, but it is not equally sure that he welcomed it with gratitude. He was betrothed lo a very charming girl in ihe village from which he came, and was in the habit of maintaining a brisk correspondence with her. One day, when he had just mailed a letter and w’iis turning away from the postoffiee door, he heard his name called, and looking back saw the benevolent old postmaster racing after him, waving a white envelope, on which there was no inscription. “Beg pardon,” cried the old gentleman, excitedly, as he caught up, “but there’s nothing written on this letter you just posted. Don’t you want to address it to Hiss Jones?” This is matched by the anecdote related by a lady who, during the momhs of her engagement, received frequent visits from her lover, who lived in a town at some distance. One morning, as she ran to the door to gefr her mail, the postman, who was openly reading a postal card in his hand, looked up from its perusal and kindly relieved her suspense as to the news.

“He ain’t coming this week,” he announced, cheerfully, “but he will next week, sure!” Still a third postal incident belongs to one of those country offices located, as so many are, in the village grocery and general store. The busy postmaster, his mind distracted by an unusual amount of store business, had failed to deliver her mail to a lady who called for it, having told her there was nothing for her that day. Several days later when she came again he apologized for his mistake and delivered to her a belated note, magnanimously adding: “I should have been real worried about it, Miss Brown, if it hadn’t been ’twas an invitation that I knew you wouldn’t care about accepting. 'Tain’t too late now to decline, I s’pose, if ’tis all over. Accepting’s different.” Of like nature, yet different, is a little anecdote related by Mrs. A. W. Greely. After the rescue of General Greely from the famine-haunted camp at Lady Franklin Bay,, but while he was still piaking the slow journey home, his wife was overwhelmed with telegrams of congratulations and sympathy; but her husband himself was too miserably 111 and weak to send her a message for some days. Knowing that unless he were very sick indeed she would receive word from him pcsionally, she waited in the keenest anxiety. At length, hearing one morning the sound of a galloping horse, she rushed to the door to meet the mounted telegraph* boy, who held in his hand the usual bunch of telegrams. But this timi flinging himself from the saddle with a beaming face, the youngster thrust them into her hand, and. showing that he had an intimate knowledge of their contents, exclaimed as he did so: “His is on top!”—Youth’s Companion.

Cholera and the Weather.

Dr. Dignat, in a valuable series ol observations, seeks to establish under what meteorological conditions cholera and influenza are most favorably developed. He inclines to think that no one condition can be found to exercise by itself a preponderating influence in epidemics of this nature, but * certain phenomenal combinations he finds present in all outbreaks which he has had the opportunity of studying from bis point of view. His researches cannot, of course, extend back many years, since systematic meteorological observations have not till recently been obtainable. He gives the following resume of his conclusions: “(1.) The development of epidemics of influenza and of epidemics of cholera seems to be favored by certain meteorological circumstances, invariably to be found at the moment of their appearance. (2.) rr hese circumstances are almost exactly the same whether it is a question of cholera or simply of influenza. (3.) They are determined: (a) By the dominant direction of the east, southeast, or north winds during the days preceding the epidemic; (b) by the lowering towards the same period and during the whole duration of the epidemic of the electric influence below the normal; (c) by marked variations, sometimes more, sometimes less, of the temperature above the normal average temperature of the corresponding period; (d) by similar variations of barometric pressure, these variations consisting always rather in an augmentation of pressure; (e) finally, and above all. by the coincidence of an elevation of this pressure with the lowering of the electric influence." M. Dignat considers it the greatest error to attribute to variations in the rainfall any influence whatever on outbreaks of influenza or cholera, —The Hospital.

Curran's Sarcasm.

A very stupid foreman asked a judge how they were to ignore a bill. “Write ‘lgnoramus for self and fellows’ on the back of it,” said Curran. “No man,” said a wealthy but weakheaded barrister, “should be admitted to the bar who had not an independent landed property.” “May I ask, sir,” said Mr. Curran, “how many acres make a wise-acre?”

Of Interest to Naturalists.

The green ants of Australia make nests by bending leaves together and uniting them with a kind of natural glue. Cook saw hundreds at a time on one leaf drawing it to the ground, while an equal number waited to receive, hold and fasten it. It seems that the Infanta’s farewell letter to America cost the paper that printed it SSO. It wasn’t worth it. Much better letters from much better women can be bonght for less mooey. v

A HOME-MADE KITCHEN SCALE.

Jn*t as Useful as One Which Costa Much Money. It Is no Idle boast that a pair of kitchen scales can be made with a ball of twine and two p eces of boards. This unique little kitchen implement recommends itself especially for its cheapness. A suitable

KITCHEN SCALE.

place from which the scales may be suspended will be . found beside a shelf. Two stout nails are driven into the side of the board, and a strong piece of twine, two yards long, is selected, and a knot tied in the center of it, the ends being provided with loops, hanging to the nails. The platforms for the scale may he made from heavy pasteboard or thin pieces of wood, and these are fastened with their hangings to the cross-bar, at a distance of one-quarter yard each from the center knot, which makes the cross-bar one-half yard long. A piece of white cardboard is nailed opposite the knot and the latter’s position indicated on the paper by a horizontal arrow marked with ink or pencil. The scale is now ready for use. Suppose a chicken or a duck is to be weighed. It is placed on one side, whereby the knot is moved from its central position. Weights are then placed opposite until the knot resumes its central position. The sum total of the weights is the weight of the article in question.

A DEPRAVED PEOPLE.

A Barbarous Custom of tfra Botocudus Indians, Brazil. The Botocudus Indians, inhabiting the country along the upper portion of the Rio Doce, 200 miles northeast

BOTOCUDP MAN.

[Ornament removed tndhajnnrta.o trromt,the distended lobe hang- a S real ing free.] er or less degree influenced by civilization, clothing is coming into more general u-e among them. The children are dirt eaters and are sold as slaves, usually for the merest trifles. The custom of wearing lip and ear ornaments is very ancient among them and is very general. The open-

ing in the lower lip, where the ornament is worn, is made when the person is quite young by piercing it with a long, slender thorn that grows in a : kind of palm tree; this opening is enlarged with the point of a deer’s horn and a stick or small stone is

BOTOCUDU WOMAN. [With both lip and ear ornaments of average size.]

inserted and: the wound is greased with some kind of salve. These openings are gradually enlarged by forcing bigger and bigger plugs into them until the desired size is attained. The ornaments worn aregreen stones, polished bones, and clay burned like pottery. The ear ornaments do not essentially differ from those worn in the lips. The plugs are of the same materials, size, and appearance; they differ only in that they are worn in the openings made in the lobes of the ears instead of in the lower lip.

A Cure for Stammering.

A gentleman who stammered from childhood up to manhood gives a very simple remedy for his misfortune. He says: “Go Into- a room where you will be quiet and alone, get some book that will interest but not excite you, and sit do wn and read two hours aloud to yourself, keeping your teeth together. Do this every two or three days—or once a week if very tiresome —always taking care to read slowly and distinctly, moving the lips but not the teeth. Then, when conversing with others, try to speak as slowly and distinctly as possible, and make up your mind that you will not stammer. “The first result was to make my jaws ache—that is, while I was reading—and the next to make me feel as if something bad loosened my talking apparatus, for I could speak with less difficulty immediately. The change was so great that every one who knew me remarked it. I repeated this remedy every five or six days for a month, and then at longer intervals until cured. ”

Tom Moore in Virginia.

A correspondent who has been rambling through Eastern Virginia recalls a description given by an old lady at Norfolk of Tom Moore, the po#t, who passed some time in his amorous youth in a quaint old .mansion near Norfolk and found nothing there except the ladies to please him. “I was to dinner in Richmond,” said" the old lady, as she took a pinch of snuff, “and at the other end of the table sat a littie red-beaded Irishman named Moore. We didn’t exactly know how he got there, for most of us had never heard of him, and he didn’t look the gentleman. But after a while he got to talking so comically and delightfully that we roared with laughing. Then in the drawing-room he went to the piano and sang some of his own songs, and we found out that he was Tom Moore. But he did not look Id the least like a poet "

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Summary of the More Im. portant Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths —Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes. Condensed State News. Factories at Frankton are preparing to start up in the near future. Mr. BrYan’s large farm dwelling, north of Wabash, burned. Loss, $1,500. The Common Sense engine works at Muncie will resume business with a full complement of men. Several farmers near Lawrenceburg have received “White Cap” notices lately, telling them to leave. Mrs. A. Swift, wife of a prominent farmer of Allen County,' committed suicide by drowning. Several Delaware County farmer; report that they have recently been swindled by fruit tree poddleis. A SENSATION was caused in Plain-. field last week by the finding, in an alloy, of the leg and breast hone of a human person. No clue. A dozen men narrowly escaped death by the bursting of a pot containing fifteen tons of molten metal at the McVay Iron Works, Muncie. „ Geo. M. McCoy, a brakeman, has brought suit at Richmond for 820,000 against the Pennsylvania Railroad for the loss Of a leg while in their employ. A large flow of gas has been struck near Marion. Several attempts have been macie to reach gas near that place but this is the first successful one. Israel Asbury, aged 60 and insane, was killed by the cars at Ellsworth, four miles from Terre Haute, on the Logansport division of the Vandalia road. While .driving a team across the track at Rossville, John Biesiecker was struck by a north-hound Monon train and fatally injured. Both horses were killed.

Jacob Swartsman, while nutting near Greenfield, fell out of a tree a distance of thirty-five feet. Both arms were broken and he was so badlv injured he cannot recover.' Many friends and citizens of Mitchell join in welcoming home Bent Jones from the Penitentiary South, where he was serving a life-time sentence. He was pardoned by Governor Matthews, having served eighteen years. He was the leader of the TolliverMoody feud; and his crime was the murder of one of the Moody family. Mrs. Greek, aged 82 years, residing twelve miles east of Wabash, was probably fatally injured by a vicious ram. A number of • sheep belonging to a neighbor escaped from the' pasture, and in trying to drive them out of her own place the ram turned upon Mrs. Greek, knocked her down, and broke an arm and a leg, and hurt her internally. She cannot survive. Mrs- Anna M. Wilson has brought suit against three of Danville’s prominent druggists for selling intoxicating drinks to her hnstand. She claims that by reason of such sales her husband became abusive and injured her hotel business to the extent of SIOO per month and the sale of her property SI,OOO. She asks for damages in the sum of $6,000 in two cases. Clark WiLFONG, a young man living ten miles east of Orleans, had an altercation with his father and used a knife with dangerous effect, stabbing the old gentleman in the left side, just over the heart. The wounded man died. The trouble grew out of the division of some property by the father, the boy not being satisfied with bis share- Young Wilfong has been arrested;

of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are little known to readers and are among the most depraved people of the southern republic. Formerly These Indians worn no cloth at all, hut now,

The Lafayette Natttrai-gas Company has closed & deal 1 with the Diamond Plate-glass Company whereby the latter turns over to the home corporation between five and six thousand acres of leased land in the gas belt. The tract is not far from Windfall. The strip secured is two miles wide and something over ten miles in length, and is said to be in the heart of the gas field. The Lafayette company now has somewhere- fa the neighborhood, of sixteen thousand acres under lease and plenty of gas is assured. Mrs. Thomas Moore, a colored woman of Columbus, has been sick for the last six months, and has sought relief of many physicians. Recently she applied to a Columbus physician for relief, and was given some medicine that eased her. The other evening she again became desperately sick and began vomiting. Something alive arose in her throat and came out of her mouth. Sheseized hold of it and pulled hard, breaking it in two, but secured twelve inches of the varmint. Shs was horrified*at seeing it squirm like a snakeon the floor, where it was thrown. The beast or serpent was killed and brought to the family physician who as yet has been unable to name it. Other physicians are making a pathological survey ot the new animal. One of the boldest robberies ever committed in Northern Indiana was perpetrated near South Bend. In a little old house nine miles northest of the city resided alone Mrs. Jane McMichael, a widow, and the wealthiest woman in St. Joseph County. She* kept a portion of her wealth in the house. The other night, while she was dozing in a chair, the door was burst open and three men, with faces partly covered by handkerchiefs, bolted in. The woman ran from one room to another, but she was finally caught and bound and made to tell where her money was hidden. The robbers got $l2O. Believing she had more, they threatened to burn her alive if she did not give it up. She told them it was ail she had, and they finally left, leaving her tied until friends arrived and released her, half dead with fright. The gold medals offered for the Indiana dairy exhibit at the World's Fair have been awarded to Mrs. James Riley of Thorntown, for dairy, and John Mingle of Centerville, for creamery butter.

W. H. Smith, who resides near Atlanta. four miles south of Tipton* while passing along the public highway,, just at the south edge of the city,'was shot by some unknown person, the ball striking his body about one inch below the heart. The physicians in charge of the case probed for the ball, but could not locate it. He wild probably recover. William Kase, one of the five alleged murderers of the Wratten family near Washington, now in the Jeffersonville Prison for safe keeping, has begun habeas corpus prodeedings in tho Clark County Court. He is trying to prove an alibi. Another incendiary fire occurred at Newport, recently. The torch was applied in the rear of R. E. Stephens store building on the north side, and it was totally destroyed. Robert Newlin occupied the building as a restaurant. Loss on building about SBOO, and on •stock $75, both insured in the Home of New York. This makes the sixth incendiary fire around the public square In the last three years.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.