Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN.

BRIEF HINTS AS TO THEIR SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT. A Machine for Pointing Fence Ricketa —Combination Farm Building—Sawing Wood by Wind Power—Movable Plant Trellia—General Farm Notea. Home-Made Picket Machine. I once had a job of picket fence making that required over 5,000 pickets, says a correspondent of Farm and Home. Our stuff was 1% by 1% and a Slice point was wanted, as on A shown in the cut Carpenters worked a whole day marking and trying to cut them with chisels, drawing knife, pocket jackknife, etc., but those ways were all too slow. I then made the machine shown in the cut With this machine two men could cut and point over 1,000 pickets a day, true and even. The machine is made in the form of a wooden miter-bos. Take a piece of 2-inch plank 4 inches wide and about 4% feet long for the bottom. Take two pieces of plank 18 inches long and 8 Inches wide for the sides. Set the bevel at 45 degrees and mark the two side pieces; then saw them, being careful to saw exactly on the line, as the drawing knife is to work against these ends and they should be cut very smooth and true. The upper comers of the other

TICKET POI[?]ING CUTTER.

ends of the sice pieces are sawed off for neatness. Spike thaue side pieces to the bottom, then nail inch boards 5 inches wide for the remainder of the sides where the saw works. For the lever use plank 18 inches long and work it out as shown in the cut The large end is a 6 inch circle, and should be cut out or sawed perfectly true and smooth. Make a- mark one-half inch above the center, as shown on the dotted line, and bore a hole. The siz# of this hole and the holes in the side* depends on the size of iron you are going to use for a pin. If your pickets are iy a inches square, the holes in tho sides must be 4% inches from the bottom of the box. Tack a little block one-half inch thick on the bottom to butt the picket against, then measure from this block the length you want the pickets and saw down through the boards; then fasten the whole thing on to a work bench. One man uses the knife and lever and another does the sawing, and turns the pickets when the lever is raised. Four thrusts of the lever and four jerks of the knife point a picket The saw should always be left in and the picket kept right up against it until the pointing is done. The machine can be made for any sized square pickets, or for flat pickets, and can be made for any bevel desired. Garden Soils. It used to be thought that only on sandy soil could good early gardens be made. It is true that the sandy soil is easily permeable to the air and is soon warmed, and it is also trell drained. But is has too little vegetable matter, and the sand dries out in hot weather, so that however promising the vegetables may be In the early spring they prove a failure. Welldrained, heavy land, thoroughly cultivated to a fine tilth, is best for most garden crops. There are few, however, that do best on sand, but It requires heavy and frequent manuring to make such land produce its best fesults. Sawing Wood bv Wind Power. The accompanying illustration, taken from the American Agriculturist, presents a plan for using windmill power for sawing wood—simply converting the perpendicular motion of the pump rod into a vertical one and 'Using it to propel a drag or crosscut saw. Any good crosscut saw may be used, or a piece of an old logging saw three or four leet long will answer. To give the saw' sufficient motion, it is necessary to attach the short arm of the bent iron to the rod from the windmill crank. At the left is a post, a, on which at b b are

INGENIOUS WOOD-SAWING DEVICE.

two stirrups or rests for the saw—the lower one to prevent the saw from dropping when the stick Is .sawed through, the upper one to hold up the saw when a fresh stick is to be placed on the buck or horse. Level Potato Culture, Almost everybody now agrees that level culture produces the largest and best crops of potatoes. But it is impossible to have level culture unless the seed potatoes are planted deep enough for the tubers to form under the soil. The constant tendency of the tubers is to rise as they grow. This, if the seed has been planted only one or two inches deep, makes it necessary to draw dirt around the bill, making a mound which sheds the water on either side. This also cuts the potato roots in the middle of the row. It requires dry and rich ground to make successful deep planting and level culture possible. But soil without stagnant water near the surface is always necessary for the potato crop. If the sub-soil is filled with water through winter and spring it is impossible to grow good potato crops on such land the following season by any method. Potted Strawberry Plants. These are obtained in this way. Flower pots of a size three inches in diameter at the top are sunk around the parent plants level with the ground. They are filled with fairly rich soil. As the runners are made the part bearing the young plant is made to rest on a Dot and is kept in place by a small

•tone or lump of earth on the stem. Very soon the pot is full of roots, when it may be severed from the parent plant and set out on its own account Mo attention is required while it is rooting in the pot save, perhaps, watering, if the season be very dry. An Idea in Trellises. The illustration shows how a trellis may be made upon which some tender variety of fruit or flowering vine Is to be trained. The difficulty of properly protecting climbers during the winter

MOVABLE PLANT TRELLIS.

has often led to the abandonment of many tender varieties that, given protection in winter, would have proved highly desirable. With such a swinging trellis as that shown herewith tender grapevines or other tender climbers may be laid upon the ground and carefully covered during the winter, then placed upright again when the jCold weather is passed. Grain, Poultry, and Hog House. An arrangement is here shown by which the poultry, grain and hogs can be brought into proximity—an arrangement calculated to lessen the work of caring for both kinds of stock, for both are, to no inconsiderable extent, fed on grain. The plan calls for a story and a half building with two wings—one of the wings for the accommodation of hens and the other for the hogs, pens for each being arranged along the sunny side, with a walk extending the length of the other side. The central grain building has a chamber where a part of the grain can be stored in bins, the latter having chutes to convey the grain to the first floor. If this central building can have a cellar, so much the better, for in this can be stored roots and vegetables for the use of the fowls and hogs, the cooking of these being done in a boiler set on the first floor. The building should be so aranged that runs and outside pens can be arranged in front of corresponding inside pens in the two wings. The building should

COMBINATION FARM BUILDING.

be upon well-drained ground. —Orange Judd) Farmer. Fruit for tlie Family. No matter how far from market a farmer may be, he can grow a patch of strawberries and be sure of a market at home. It is astonishing how much fruit of all kinds can be eaten by a small family when the supply is unstinted. There are few neighborhoods where those who begin by growing a supply of strawberries for home use will not find a market springing up around them from neighbors who keep on in the old ruts because they think they haven’t time to attend to such small affairs as the culture of berries. They are small in size, but more bushels of strawberries can be grown per acre than of any kind of grain, and the fruit may be sold cheap and yet bring more than grain profits. Bine Grass. Blue grass forms a very nearly perfect pasturage. The fall rains make it furnish nutritious food until the snow covers it, so that the grazing season is lengthened in the autumn as well as hastened in the spring. It is the least injured by tramping of all the grasses. No words can speak for it as can the fact that it is the basis for the finest agricultural product grown upon American soil—the Kentucky horse. Shading the Soil. This Is of great advantage In converting ammonia into nitrates, a process which has served to enrich forest

lands while they ate covered with dense growth. The mulch of leaves added annually is a carpet which prevents influence by the direct rays of the sun. 'that a soil which grows forest trees increases in fertility is demonstrated by the larger crops grown upon such “virgin” soil after it has been cleared of its forest growth. On the same principle the mulching of the soil with a dense crop, or with leaves, is beneficial in certain respects. Straw. It will pay to have an open shed, or some kind of shelter, for the straw at harvest time. Straw answers many purposes, and Is indispensable on some farms. If bright and clean, it is often relished by cattle. Whether wheat Is high or low, there is a class of farmers who will always grow at least a small plot of wheat or rye for the straw, or buy it from those who have it to dispose of. The scarcity of straw will be an inducement to growing grain in all sections. The Sod .of Old Meadows. The sod of old meadows sometimes becomes so matted as to be unproductive, and the impresion prevails among those who don’t know better that such land is worn out, exhausted. Whereas the trouble is the land Is too crowded. The remedy Is simply to go over It with a sharp tooth harrow, and, while tearing out about half the plants, admit-) ting air to the, rest

WHERE BLAME RESTS

REPUBLICAN POLICY CAUSED DEMOCRATS TO BORROW. Measure of the G. O. P. Brought on the Panic—The Attempt to Have Democrats Punished for Republican Blunders Will Not Succeed a Second Time. Whose Incompetency? Through the mouth of that illustrious public and private fluancier, Charles Foster, the Republicans of Ohio have the amazing effrontery to denounce the Democratic party “for its deplorable Incompetency in handling the national finances, borrowing §162.000,U00 in two years." Why did it become necessary to borrow that much money in two years? Harrison entered the White House on March 4. 1889. During the fiscal year ending four months later the revenues exceeded the expenditures hy §105,053,443. During the following year, under the same revenue laws, ffie excess of revenues over expenditures was §105,344,490. Then the Republican party, having complete control in both houses and their own man in the White House, so changed the revenue laws and increased tlie expenditures that the excess of receipts fell in 1891 to §37,239,762, and In 1893 to §9,914,454. Before the end of Harrison’s administration the revenues had fallen below the expenditures, and Financier Foster went to New York to negotiate a loan the resumption act. By whose deplorable incompetency was a surplus of more than §105,000,000 annually converted into a deficit in less than three years? As a result of whose deplorable incompetency did the deficit grow after the Harrison administration gave place to the Cleveland administration? The same-revenue law —the McKinley law—under which the surplus disappeared remained in full force for more than a year and a half. The same laws increasing the continuing expenditures remained in force, and, with the exception of the sugar bounty, still remains in full force. All these were Republican laws, for which the Democratic party is in no way responsible. The revenues fell off after the panic of 1893, as they did after the panic of 1873. But to whose deplorable financial inepmpetency are we indebted for the pauic of 1893? When that panic occurred the Republican organs throughout the country were practically unanimous in attributing it to the Sherman silver law, passed by a Republican Congress and approved by a Republican President. They, with the Republican leaders in both houses of Congress, applauded the President for calling an extra session to repeal that law.

When the disaster first befell the Republicans did not attempt to deny that their party was responsible. It was a measure of their own party which by their own admission brpught on the panic and greatly reduced the treasury receipts. It is undeniable that the Republican sugar bounty and other additions to continuing expenditures and the repeal of the duty on sugar contributed to the creation of a deficit. Yet the Ohio Republicans, through Financier Foster, coolly charge that the deficit and the necessity for borrowing were due to the “deplorable incompetency” of the Democratic party! Comment would be superfluous. It would add nothing to the force of the naked facts. The . attempt to get the Democratic party punished for Republican blunders and crimes succeeded in in 1894; it will not succeed again.—Chicago Chronicle. McKinlev’s Set-Back. In the Ohio convention Gov. McKinley was badly beaten. He was not a candidate for any office, but he is the head of a machine, and the traditions of Ohio require the head of a machine to control everything within reach, to give battle to every challenger. So when Mr. McKinley’s candidate for Governor was beaten, tiie Governor was beaten. He may have a “solid" delegation to the national convention, but he cannot trust it. Ho has ceased to be the sole dispenser of patronage. His own followers will be disheartened, and he will be exposed to treachery. It is a vulgar and- sordid game they are all playing, but they know the rules and the risks and they seem to like it. The man who beat Gov. McKinley was ex-Gov. Foraker. He is much the same sort of a.Republican as McKinley, only more so. He is keener, more active, more unscrupulous, and more vindictive. But it is plain that Foraker could not have beaten McKinley had the general feeling of the Republican party in Ohio been as strongly on McKinley’s side as it has been until recently. Foraker is a shrewd and energetic organizer, but you can’t organize successfully against a strong sentiment. The final test is at tlie polls, and there the votes of men count who take no interest in the preliminary struggling and scheming. These men have long been great admirers of McKinley because of his very simple and intelligible, because extreme, protectionism. They have “gone back” on him, because they have begun to lose faith in protection. He was the representative of their favorite theory In iiolitics, and the theory having lost favor, the representative suffers. Probably the average Ohio Republican would deny that he was any less a protectionist than he was five years ago, but he is, and the set-back he has given to the champion of protection shows it. The fact is that for the first time in nearly forty years the sincere protectionists, the men who really believed that the country could be taxed into prosperity and would be ruined if the tax were lessened, have had to face actual experience of lower taxes, and they find that they are not ruined. Take a single perfectly conclusive illustration. In 1893 large numbers of employers of labor declared that they would have to reduce wages if the Democrats carried tlie elections. Before tlie McKinley act was repealed they did reduce wages. Now wages are going up again. These very employers are raising them. Some are doing it willingly, some reluctantly, but all are able to do it and know that they are. Their strongest argument for McKinleyism is wiped out Now, these men cannot help being influenced in politics by this fact. They can no longer look on McKinley as a savior of society. They will not give money lav-

ishly to restore tariff duties that they are getting on very well without They will not work as they have worked for the protection party. They will not try to scare their employes to voting for it because they know it would be of no use. They have been living in dread, honest dread, of a disastrous crash, and they have landed quietly and comfortably on their feet. That does not mean that the Republican party Is going to pieces, but it means that the essential Republican doctrine of extreme protection is being outgrown.—New York Times. . No Tariff on Tunnels. New York City is preparing to construct a system of underground railways, which will Involve the digging of about fifteen miles of tunnel, costing about §55,000,CK)0. By some strange oversight the McKinley bill omitted to impose a duty on foreign tunnels, and the manufacturers of tunnels In this country will have to compete with the pauper tunnel Industries of Canada and England. In those countries it is alleged that tunnels can be had for practically nothing, all that is necessary being to dig away the earth and Insert the tunnel. Whereas, owing jo the import conditions of the tunnel industry of the United States, the cost of underground excavations is much greater here than in foreign countries. If it is not too late the next Congress, which is a truly high tariff body, should provide for a duty of at least fifty per cent on all imported papuer tunnels. In this way we shall be able to keep our borne markets for ourselves; pay hlglj wages to tunnel builders; and In the course of time establish the tunnel Industry ou as firm a footing as that of growing wool or making steel rails. Senator Sherman Forgets. “We are in favor of a protective tariff,” says Senator Sherman. “We bad such a tariff. While It was in force we hgd prosperity, good times and mon6y in plenty.” Is Senator Sherman falling into “second childishness and mere oblivion” that he thus forgets the truth of recent history ? “We had such a tariff” in 1873. Widespread bankruptcy followed, and for five years thereafter this country passed through the worst period of industrial depression ancf general business paralysis it has ever known. All over the land the highways were thronged with tramps. During all of that period “we had such a tariff,” but through tlie highly protected industries of the Senator’s own State and of Pennsylvania resounded the cries of starving labor and Ihe ratling volleys of Pinkerton guards repressing labor riots. Surely the Senator cannot have forgotten how all this reached its climax in the terrible scenes of 1877 and continued until his own party was forced temporarily to modify its policy ? —New York World.

What Makes Prosperity. To attribute the revival in business to tho hope of a return of the Republican party to power and of a new era of McKinleyisin is the worst of partisan fanaticism. If any professional tariff-monger imagines that the Industrial world attributes the Industrial movement to such a hope, let him go and ask the Carnegie Company and Its fellow manufacturers, as well as the hundreds of thousands of workingmen whose wages have recently been advanced, and he will be told that the prosperity is due to conditions of which a prime factor Is the confidence that the industrial peace will be disturbed by neither tariff nor financial legislaion. With these conditions party sentiment has nothing to do. The tariff idol lies prone, and the crowd of its worshippers is dally diminishing.—Philadelphia Record. Admits Increasing Prosperity, But— The New York Tribune, chief of calamity howlers, has at last been constrained to acknowledge the glad recovery of business. With delightful inconsequence it says that the people are beginning “to enjoy the fruit of two overwhelming Democratic defeats,” and “hearty congratulations are in order for the substantial improvement in business which has already appeared." It is no small tribute to the new tariff that its most malignant enemies are compelled to acknowledge the revival in trade under its beneficent operation and,influence in less than nine months from the day of Its passage. In less than nine months more they will wish to forget that they were ever in favor of the McKinley tariff.—Philadelphia Record. Silks as Luxuries. The voice of McKinley is to be invoked in favor of higher duties on silks. Cheap silks have become one of the few luxuries of the thrifty poor, and a little group of manufacturers demand tlie right to tax them more for the indulgence. That there is no reason for it the record shows. Under all tariffs raw silk has been free. The present duty on manufactures of silk is 50 per cent. This is exactly what it was under the Republican commission tariff of 1883-90. The McKlnleyites raised it to 60 per cent. A call for more than 50 per cent on any article of clothing will never again be popular in this country.—New York World. • Readers Who Believe Anything. An incorrigible Republican joker insists, with an air of gravity, that the advance in wages and revival of business are “a direct consequence of the restoration of the law-making power to the Republican party.” Is not the Senate a partof the law-making power—likewise the President? There are two elections between the Republicans and a restoration to power. Are wages really jumping up on that contingency? What sort of readers do the orgniis imagine that they have, anyway?— New York World. How to Catch Plntocrats. Chief Justice Fuller to the American people: “Here is your income tax, what there is left of it. It didn’t hit the fellow it was aimed at. Just open this door here, labeled ‘direct taxation,’ and you will see how to catch the big millionaires, monopolists and speculators.” • McKinley’s Views. At the latest reports Gov. McKinley’s position on the silver question was still that the tariff is not a tax.—Louisville Courler-JournaL

SOUTHERN WOMEN AT THE CHICAGO MONUMENT DEDICATION.

Miss Catherine Stewart, Chicago. Miss Marian Sullivan, Chicago. Mrs. W. B. Walker, Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. K. D. Currie, Dallas, Texas. •Miss Virginia L. Mitchell, Charleston. Miss Laura L. Mitchell, Charleston. Mrs. Albert Akers, Washington. Miss Luoy Lee Hill, Chioago. Miss Belle Armstrong, Washington.

A TRAMP'S RIDE.

He Was Found Hidden Under the Pilot of the Locomotive. There are two different kinds oi tramp. There la the Wandering Willie, who travels afoot from place to place, keeping within the circumscribed area of three or four States, and there’s hla brother, who hops from Boston to Pensacola, or from Philadelphia to Chicago. This fellow yearly makes a dozen or two tours of the country, and he accomplishes these flee-llke feats by using the railroads. The Ingenuity be displays In evading the officers Is remarkable, and the risk he runs in tucking himself away under car and caboose are sometimes balr-curllng. A

PERFECTLY SAFE.

few days ago a Pennsylvania Railroad engine ran Into the West Philadelphia yard, after making a run from Pittsburg, and stepping to the front of the machine, the engineer discovered a man hidden away under the pilot He had ridden hundreds of miles In this perilous position, and did not seem at all fagged out by his experience. He had crawled In when the engine was standing over an ash pit, and It was necessary to run the engine over another such opening In the track before he could be released.

CHINESE WOMAN’S FOOT.

Effect of Tight Binding ns Resorted To by Celestial Ladies of High Caste. The picture here re-produced Is from a photograph of a Chinese lady. It shows the effect of tight binding, a

FOOT OF A CHINESE WOMAN.

method resorted to by the women of high caste to keep their feet small. Large feet are looked upon as a sign of vulgarity in China.

Outwitting the Trade Unionists.

An English paper tells a story, which goes to show that, resourceful as they are, even delegates of trades unions sometimes have to confess themselves outwitted. A certain firm of marine engineers In the north of England had the misfortune to Incur, for some trivial offense, the displeasure of the union, with the result that the men were ordered out, and an entire stop was put to the work then In the shops. As It happened, an order for the boilers of a new vessel had just been received. As

i sat alone in the jury box, A “provisional juror,” too; And I had been badgered and lashed and probed To find out how much I knew. A gentleman took me in hand at first, And praised my intelligence, But afterwards held me up to scorn As a man without common sense. Another gentleman proved me a fool And a liar—conclusively— Bnt afterwards said that the jury box

delay was out of the question, the work was promptly packed off to another flftjj. But the union was up to the move, ant) Wflrm which proposed to give 1 Its help was warned that suMi a step would be taken at Its peril. The moldings wore sent from one place to another, but the delegates set apart as watchers were always on the trail, and every attompt to have the work done seemed to bo checkmated. As a last resource, the moldings one sight were put on a barge, towed down the canal, and there painted a fresh color and stamped with a French mark. Thus changed they excited no suspicion, and secured admission to the yards. All went well until the work was about completed, and then In some way the whisper got abroad that a trick had been played. No sooner had tho rumor gone tho round of tho yard than the puzzled delegates appeared upon the spot, furious at being so cleverly hoodwinked. They bearded the principal In his office, and announced their Intention of calling out tho men at once. But they were a day too late. The principal was not to bo browbeaten. Ho expressed himself delighted, Btated that there was no work on hand, and lie was about to give uotlce himself, and begged the delegate who was acting as spokesman to act forthwith wlthotlf the loss of a minute. It was now the delegates’ turn to turn tall, and after a short consultation they generously, as they declared, gave the firm the benefit of the doubt, and retired from the field, leaving the ready-witted partner to laugh in his sleeve. Tho works, needless to say, were neither closed nor placed on short time.

Needles have never been supposed to be hereditary, but a recent case reported by a physician of emlqence offers undoubted evidence to the contrary. A lady accidentally ran a needle into her foot thirty years ago, and It lay apparently dormant in her system for so many years that Its existence was almost forgotten. In 1878 she was married, and a year after the birth of her Infant daughter the needle made Its appearance In the Infant’s shoulder. There could be no doubt that It was the original needle by which the mother had been attacked In 1800, for It was of a peculiar and now obsolete pattern, and the mother distinctly remembered that needles of that pattern were In use at the time of her attack. There can be no doubt that the Infant Inherited the needle from her mother, and that henceforth physicians will expect to find a natural tendency to needles In the tissues. As It Is asserted that people have died from needles, although there are very few such cases on record, the Insurance companies will doubtless add to the questions which they put to candidates for Insurance: “Did your father or mother ever swallow needles, and, If so, how many, and of what kindsewing, darning, or carpet?"

An old cavalryman says that a horse will never step on a man Intentionally. It is> a standing order in the English cavalry that, should a naan become dismounted, he must lie down and keep perfectly still. If he does so the entire troop will pass over him without his being Injured. A horse notices where he is going, and Is on the lookout for a firm foundation to put bis feet on. It Is an instinct with him, therefore, to step over a prostrate man. The Injuries caused to human beings by a runaway horse are nearly always Inflicted by the animal knocking them down, and not by his stepping on them.—Boston Herald.

CHALLENGED

Was exactly the place for me. The Judge gave a long, hypothetical charge In a brilliantly positive style. • i > It sounded Tike '‘Alice in Wonderland,” And Browning and Thomas Carlyle! - But in spite of these troubles I took my seat, Serene, quite happy and cool; I knew that my chair would be wanted sooa For another and bigger fool —New York World.

Hereditary Needles.

A Standing Cavalry Order.

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Oar Neighbors are Doing—Matters at General and Loral Internet—Marriage* and Death*—Acrident* and Crimea—Per. ■onal Pointers About Indian la ns. Minor State News. The neighborhood of Newbum is Infested with chicken thieves. Owixo to a barbers’ war at Goshen a hair cut costs but ten cents. The latest improvement talked of for South Bend is a SIOO,OOO hotel. Ei.i West of Fairlaud, was sunstruck while fisliiug. He is in a precarious condition. Mrs. John Your, Peru, by mistake gave her two children kerosene to drink. May prove fatal. In the last few days a flood of counterfeit ten-eent-pieoes have found their wu/ into circulation at Elwood. Jesse Croup, 10-year-cld son of A.J. Croup, fell in the Elkhart River while fishing at Goshen and was drowned. Dope Cbcii., young farmer near Farmland, was in his bam when it was struck by lightning, lie was instantly killed. Q It is estimated that the wheat crop in Hamilton county will not average a bushel to the acre, and but little will be harvested. Met Kkrnai, of Itockport, aged 18, was accidentally shot and killed by Robert Meyers, aged 17. The boys were shooting birds. A ni'mheh of heirs to Lord Autrim’s estato in Ireland, valued at $75,000,000, reside near Elwood. They will push their claims. Jimmy Bkooh went Into White River at Columbus, for the purposo of drownlug two eats. He was seized with cramps and lost Ids life. Lons Ashwohtii, a young farmer living near Alpine, was fatally kicked In the stomach by a homo which became frightened at a passing bicycle. Suit for SIO,OOO has been filed against tho. Pan-handle railway at Kokomo by the administrator of the estate of Oscar Rontiok. Romick was killed while unloading goods from a oar. Mono an Bi.a<k rode uptotieorge Fisher's house, near Mt. Vernon, and shot him dead. Fisher kept company with Black’s sister and Black suspeoted ttiat something was wrong. William McDonald, a tailor, who had Just returned from a three woeks' unsuccessful hunt for work, committed suicide at Kokomo with laudaniini, leaving a wife and two children.

James Rlmhaugh, farmer near Laporte, allowed a stranger to make him believe that lie was a cousin of his and then gave him $0 and signed a paper. The latter turns out to bo a note. Alvahapo Hommell, Madison, has received a “white cap” notice, saying that ho will suffer bodily harm unless he executes a deed for a graveyard plat. Ho owns the ground but refuses to sell. Fred Smock, a farm hand near Terro Haute, while returning from u call on Farmer Pennington's daughter, was shot by some unknown person and dangerously wounded. Tho ussailaut is supposed to bo a jealous rival. John Cook, a colored barber, aged 80, attempted to crawl under a freight train at a street crossing on the Big Four road at Munoic, and both legs were mashed so badly that amputation at tho hips was necessary. Ho died throe hours later. Chjus Meyer's barn, near Jeffersonville, was struck by lightning and destroyed. His (laughter, who was alone at homo, succeeded In rescuing seven head of horses. Tho barn eon tai tied several fine buggies, surreys, cto., and the loss will reach $4,000. In a woods near Jonosvillc, Ham Smallwood, of that place, whilo squirrel hunting, was almost instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. Smallwood is the third son of tlie family to meet death in an unnatural way. One son died from the effects of eating a poisonous herb and another was killed in a railroad wreck.

Ciiaui.ks Stout, a well known resident of Monroe Township, Howard County, who has been ill, left his room and went out on the second story veranda to got a breath of fresh air. While there he fainted and fell off the structure to the ground. In the fall his hoad struck a step, tearing his scalp off and inflicting other injuries from which he will probably die. A petition Is being circulated at Brazil, and liberally signed, asking the Governor to pardon Janies Booth, aged 19, Robert Knnkin, aged 18, and William Wilson, aged 17, who are now serving twoyear sentences for the murder of Engineer William Barr of the Vandalia, on June 6, 1894. The prisoners were strikers, and stoned Barr, who was a non-union engineer, to death. Mahion Sm nr.r.Eii, a farmer aged 70, residing three miles northwest of Cambridge City, wus thrown from a load of straw arid died from his injuries. He was crossing the Lake Erie and Western tracks, his horses became frightened by a Big Four train using the tracks, and the team ran away. Rounding a corner, Mr. Shldeler was thrown off the hay, against a tree and his skull fractured. On May 2f, Mrs. Mary Day of Greencastle, a widow, placed 980 in paper money on a stove in an ordinary purse. She placed the top of the stove over the same for safe keeping. The next morning was a chilly one and she built a (ire In the stove, which burned her pocketbook and money into an unrecognizable mass of ashes. The wreck was gathered up by a newspaper reporter, who, as an experiment, took-the same to the Central National Bank to forward to Washington. This was done together with a statement of the circum-stances,-and the other day Mrs. Day received a draft for her SBO. How the money was identified is a mystery to one unacquainted with the system employed by the government, as the bills were nothing but ashes when removed and could not be told from the other ashes of the burned book. A fast fruit train on the Wabash struck and killed William Kuyjah in the yards at Logansport.' The victim was 58 years old, and was on his way to the home of Miss , Minnie Goldsmith, to whom he was to be married. Kuyjah was employed at the Pan-handle shops. Otto Huff, a prominent young man of Livonia, ten miles east of Orleans, was instantly killed. lie and Hersehel Kelly were hunting together and undertook to run a squirrel out of a tree. Kelley climbed the tree and Huff went to hand him his gun, when it was discharged, the entire load entering his abdomen. Hnff was 18 years old. Maktin Bassett, a young farmer living five miles north of Shelbyville, blew off the top of his head with a shotgun. The reasons given for the suicide is that the frost and cut worms had ruined his prospects for a corn crop and that his wife had threatened to leave him. An ancient swindle is being used in Indiana towns. All the police stations in the State have cards giving the description of F. B. Johnson and J. O. Bell, wanted at North Manchester. The information is that the men enter a town and victimize the business men under the guise of being agents for the; Davis, Allen & Co. Bad Debt Collecting Agency of Toledo, Ohio, and get subscribers to membership at $lB eacj>.