Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — Page 3

WHAT WOMEN WEAR.

STYLES FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO LOOK PRETTY. hU Bodice Front* Are of Many Kind* —Designs that Are Applicable to Made-Over Dreaaes—Saving Devices Suggested by Adjustable Fronts. Gotham Fashion Gossip. New York Correspondence:

AGGY bodice \ fronts are now of many kinds and of many degrees |AI of bagginess, and from the long list of acc e p t a b 1 e ones, ft Is a coming? paratively simple matter to select U one that can be YV applied to last .'On, season’s dress, to render It entirely I f Vi\ stylish. It is, in- |! L l\ deed, rare that a W] ii\ hew fashion that tjffi prevails so gener- ]!, yA ally Is as easily //£•• adapted to processes of, home manufacture, or

to making over by the amateur designer. The following descriptions of several of the more distinct types of full fronts are complete and accurate, and show. In .each, case, excellent opportunities if or carrying them out on dresses that have passed from stylishness. First, many of these dressy full, fronts are made with a yoke top attached to the usual collar; ■ The yoke fastens smoothly along the shoulder seams and tits about the armholes. FrOm under it the bag front falls, either covering the entire front of the bodice, or being brought down to a curving loose point in front. This sort of front is also made without the yoke, the loose portion hanging from a band of passementerie or spangle work, the same trimming outlining the armholes and finishing the edges of the bagj The bodice over which > the front Is worn shows above the front in yoke fashion. Another method suggests that a simple tailor-fitted bodice buttoned down the lYont has been subjected to the scissors.

NOT PLANNED FOR ECONOMY.

The front portion bearing the buttons appears to have been cut out panel-like and in the space thus left is set an elaborate bag of material contrasting In color with the rest. Perhaps brilliant satin covered with baggy chiffon is used. Then the removed panel appears to be loosely replaced. Of course the effcet is not secured in this way in new dresses because the middle panel bearing the buttons is a flat pleat or strip. The fronts of other bodices are reduced to three or four straps of the chief material of the dress, loosely hanging over an under bagginess of contrasting stuff. Then a great many effects are obtained by the arrangement of two side bags, between which the closely fitting line of the under bodice shows. Now and then a slit appears to have been made horizontally across the buttons at the bust line, reaching about half way across the figure. From this slit a bag wells forth in an irrelevant and startling manner; indeed, when the bag is bright red, as it often is, and Vn strong contrast to the remainder, the wearer seems to be spouting forth what the dime novel calls “a steam of vital fluid." But what of that! The dress thus has its bag and its wearer need not stay in bed. The looping of several strips of ribbon to hang from the collar and turn under loosely at the belt will serve as a simplification of the mode, and a single strip of wide ribbon elaborated with spangles or lace edged is also accepted. Even when a woman has prepared her summer wardrobe with all the aid she can win from such saving devices as these adjustable fronts suggest, she is more than likely to,have nothing to

IN STYLISH GREEN AND PLAID.

expend on a gown to “get there in”— that is, a travelling dress. For though many of the loose fronts can be turned into a means of money saving, there are few other wrinkles of current styles that can be put to the same good end. So it is a common thing to have “any «ld dress” serve for the day or days of journeying. This is to be regretted for a neatly dressed traveler is a comfort to all who see her, besides being far more comfortable herself, and the trick can be done Inexpensively. The initial picture presents a servica-

able model Made of dark-blue mol hair, the moderately wide skirt shows at one side of the front three tabs fastened with buttons. Tbe bodice Is made ,to match, first hooking in the center and then the part with the buttontrimmed tabs laps over and is fastened with a few hooks and eyes. Especially handsome 1830 sleeves are added, and the standing collar is left severely plain. A leather belt confines the waist. The original of this sketch was prepared for a June bride, and made a remarkably neat costume. Devisers in economy need hide their heads at the approach of costumes like the one next pictured, for such are unattainable by even the most Ingenious of serimpers. Here the fabric is Illuminated taffeta, the godet skirt demanding the best quality of hair cloth, besides silk lining and an inside frill of lace. The bodice comes outside tbe skirt and has a deep yoke of white guipure and a pleated piece of silk that fills up the space between yoke and waist Its standing collar is made to match and spangled net tabs come over

A NEW AND NEAT LOOSE FRONT.

the shoulders. Epaulettes consisting of five circular ruffles top the full sleeves, and white gloves and hat are the completing accessories. In the third picture it will be seen that the design for the full front is one of those that were mentioned In the beginning of this depiction as being applicable to made-over dresses, but here It appears in a new dress made of dark-green cloth and Rob Roy silk plaid. This dress is princess in effect, the skirt’s front panel extending into the bodice, while the remainder forms deep godets. Fitted at the back, the green fronts of the bodice are rather baggy and are held at the waist by gold buckles. The sleeves are very full at the top, but fitted at the lower arm, and the green collar is garnished with plaid rosettes. Greens and greenish blues are much worn and are seen on the daintiest of summer dresses. Take a gown of muslin striped narrowly with pale green and white, worn with a white sailor set on either side with a bunch of Ivy leaves; what could be cooler? Really, philanthropists should provide girls in such a uniform to walk up and down the streets on hot days, just to make folks feel cooler. Extremely wide and swirly skirts are rarely seen, for when a woman in an attempt to be stylish makes herself look like a pen-wiper, she misses her aim. Underskirts are all made in balloon pattern and present a swirling symphony of lace and muslin to view when the gown is tipped up, and also to the wash woman when the skirt goes to the laundry. For those who have in the past delighted in the freedom that the eton jacket affords, there has been a drawback in the slit-like exposure of the skirt waist at the back. To meet this a wide belt of the material of the

TWO MATCHED IN STYLISHNESS.

skirt is worn, or a sash belt of color to harmonize clasps about the waist, the folds being laid prettily in front The fastening is at the back under a bow whose ends fall to the edge of the skirt or are cut jauntily short. This gives a pretty and graceful finish, and relieves the mind of all dread of parting placket or sagging skirt Another combination of plaided and plain stuffs appears in the artist’s fourth offering, brown sack cloth and Scotch plaid being the materials, and besides this attractive partnership the costume presents a very dressy loose front that is confined by a plaid belt ending in a bow. The plastron Is also of the plaid and the yoke is perforated, the edges being embroidered with brown silk and underlaid with plain scarlet silk, which also gives the collar. Collar and basque-girdle match in the left hand costume of the concluding illustration, and are ingenious enough to be recorded in the Patent Office. Before considering their construction it is well to know that glace silk with dahlia reflections is the skirt fabric, and that pink silk gives the bodice, the latter being entirely covered with Florence lace. Then the box-pleated collar is from the changeable silk, and the black girdle of the same, fastening with a pair of fancy buttons. Biscuit colored crepon is trimmed with figured bluet silk In the other dress of this picture. A wide fold of the latter borders the foot of the skirt, and is slashed at the top, buttons being set in the open spaces to look as if crepon tabs were fastened over the silk. The bodice is of bias cloth, fastens at the side and is trimmed with fitted basque and girdle |of the bluet silk, cut in one, - for which the silk is taken bias. The collar and straps along the shoulders afe silk, and the sleeves of the skirt’s stuff. Copyright. 1595. i / The princess gown Is coming into style again, but in such a modified form as to be scarcely recognizable.

DEVIL AND THE SEA.

MENACE REPUBLICAN PARTY ON EITHER SIDE. G. O. P. Disciple* Endeavor to Disguise Internicine Strife—Why tbe Pnblic Ha* to Pay High Freight Rates—Tacks in Tariff's Coffin. Embarrassed Candidates. Republicans who are suffering from internecine strife thinly disguised profess to find Democracy rent and torn by the currency question. Let the gentlemen who are candidates for the Republican nomination next year look to their own fences. Where Is Benjamin Harrison upon the silver question? He will talk loosely, of course, about both metals and all that, but he signed the rejected sop to silverites offered by the Sherman bill and was doubtless as eager as Mr. Sherman himself to repeal that same bill. Where does he stand on the currency question? Thomas B. Reed, a promising candidate, twisted and turned, wabbled and worried on the subject matter in the House. Will Mr. Reed define his position on the currency question? Mr. McKinley is so enchanted with McKinleyism and so pleased with himself that he seems to desire that there shall be no agitation of the currency question at all. In his opinion he and his ism will be sufficient for the safety and triumph of the Republican party. Mr. Depew is now. as ever, merely the granger’s friend. If being and as how the granger wants silver or wants gold, why the granger’s friend is with the granger, but if being as how, as Bunsby puts it, he isn’t, why, then, of course! Levi P. Morton never did say anything, and is consistently preserving profound silence as to the use of the metals. True to a policy of trimming which has placed him on both sides of the tariff, and in his own State on both sides of prohibitory legislation regarding the liquor trafti£, Allison is blowing hot and blowing cold on the silver question, assuring everybody that his position is perfectly well understood, the fact being that his position is not at all understood, save as It Is meant to be one that will interpose no conviction of his own against being everybody’s friend. Meantime there looms in Pennsylvania the unique figure of Cameron, and across the Mississippi, all and singular, the extraordinary body of Republican silver Senators from California, Nevada, Idaho, Colorado and Washington, who bluntly inform the great body of Republicans, as the chairman of their national committee, Mr. Carter, has informed them, that refusal upon the part of the national Republican convention to declare unmistakably for free and unlimited coinage of silver will cost the Republican party its hope for victory in 189 G. The Republican party has the devil on one side and the deep sea on the other. High Tariff and Freights. The farmer who complains of the freight rates he has to pay on his food products and the goods he gets back in exchange for them, is beginning to find out that one of the chief causes of high freights is tie great addition to the cost of building and maintaining railroads, resulting from the protective tariff. The steel rail trust, created and sustained by the high duty on all foreign rails; has cost the railroads hundreds of millions of dollars during the past thirty-five years. To earn dividends on all this additional capital, the railroads were forced to charge higher freight and passenger rates. Then the cost of rolling stock was greatly increased by the high duties on the iron, steel, lumber, glass and nearly everything else which went into locomotives and cars. And in the long run all this artificially increased cost was paid out of the charges of the roads. Had prices been allowed to reach their natural level the cost of constructing and equipping our railroads would have been very much less than it was; more roads would have been built, and the result would have been greater competition and lower charges.

Protectionists try to meet these facts by saying that we export locomotives and cars, and that therefore we can make them as cheaply as in any other part of the world. It is true that we export some of these things, but as a rule the prices for the surplus exported are much lower than Is charged to the home purchaser. Besides, it is only recently that we have been exporting rolling stock, and we ship practically no rails. As to the question of the tariff keeping up prices, it is only necessary to notice the vigor with which the steel and iron workers fought a reduction in the tariff, to prove that protection makes their products dearer. If the duty on steel rails was abolished, as proposed in the last Congress by Tom L. Johnson, one of the largest steel rail manufacturers in the country, the rail trust would collapse and the price of rails would drop fully 30 per cent. Hundreds of railroads would improve their carrying capacity by equipments of new and heavier rails, and freight rates would steadily decline. The New Tariff on Woolens. The attempt on the part of some “protectionist” journals to discredit the new tariff by alleging that under it the imports of woolen manufactured goods are heavier than they wei-e under the McKinley tariff is likely to prove a boomerang. In the first place, the Treasury statistics haye not yet fully shown what the imports of woolens under the new tar. iff will be. There was naturally a marked increase of such imports on January 1, when for the first time the new tariff on woolens went fully into effect. The restoration of confidence in the winter also tended to encourage freer importations. And, furthermore, the allegations of the “protectionist" journals is by no means confirmed by the latest returns of the Bureau of Statistics. But what if the imports of woolens under the new tariff did exceed those under the McKinley law? For thirty years and more the manufacturers of woolen goods in America have had excessive “protection” Mven them by Republican legislation, And the excessive duties levied on all foreign woolens gave the domestic manufacturers a virtual monopoly on almost every kind of woolen goods which the masses of the people use or can afford to wear.

Is It any wonder that when this monojH oly was weakened by tbe Wilson law the people should take advantage ot it? It would be much to the credit of the new tariff if imports of woolens should have been very much larger than they have been. The new tariff is itself excessively high In Its “protectionism,” and lays inordinately heavy duties, especially on woolens, which the people wIU never tolerate when once they begin to realize what burdens they Impose.—New York Herald. No Free Trade in Fish. The high tariffltes do weU to fight against free trade in fish. An eminent American scientist, Prof. Mark Twain, of Hartford, Conn., has shown that a fish diet is highly beneficial to the brain, and he strongly advises that each protectionist should eat a whale, a good large-sized whale, or two medium-sized whales. But while this might help the protectionists, it would be a very bad thing for the rest of the country. Suppost that the pauper fish of Nova Scotia or British Columbia were allowed to compete with the herring of Ohio, the codfish of Colorado, or the mackerel of Missouri. What would be the result? The American farmers and workingmen would be able to gratify their appetite for the pernicious codfish hall, the deadly lobster salad, or the loud perfumed mackerel, at far less expense than at present. Then their brains would begin to work, and what would become of our great protective system, the envy of all other nations (especially the Chinese), if once the fanners and workingmen commence to think? Imagination recoils affrighted from the horrible prospect. By all means let us keep the tariff destroying fish out of the country. What Protectionist* Arc Thinking. “Trade among the nations should be as free as the winds of heaven.”— Patrick Henry. “Pa, what Is a robber?” “A robber, my son, Is one who takes property that belongs to others.” “Well, pa, suppose he gets a law passed to tax others to pay him a bounty on the sugar he raises, then is bo a robber?” “Pa, what is a Democrat?” “A Democrat, my son, is one who believes in equal rights and no favors.” “Pa, were those Senntors Democrats who stuffed the Wilson bill full of protection?” “No, my son, they were wolves In sheep's clothing.” Bhould Unload. McKinley’s Presidential boom Is so weighted with McKinleyism that it has no fair chance with the others. He shofild unload. Tack* In Tariff’s Coffin. “Protection is not a theory; It is a swindle.” True democracy Is based on equal rights for all, special privileges for none. It is the weak, the helpless and the monopolists that need “protection;" labor, the producer of all wealth, needi no protection, all it wants Is justlce.Hon. Tom L. Johnson. Who filled Pennsylvania with the cheapest Imported European laborers? The highly protected coal and iron monopolists. And yet they say they want a tax on iron and coal in order to “keep up American wages.” California protectionists are pushing a movement having for its object the use in that State of only Pacific Slope goods. This is logical, for if protection is good for forty-four States, it ought to be good for one.

When was free trade ever un-Demo-cratic? When did a Democratic convention ever declare It anathema? What Democratic statesman but suid it was the ultimate end of the party’s tariff policy? What is there so awfully wicked in letting a man buy where he can buy the cheapest, and sell where he can get the best price? No free-traders? Why, bless your soul, the woods are full of them. The women are all the stiffest kind of freetraders. Just go down to any store whose advertisement in the morning papers announces a cut in the prices of some textile, and see the crowd of Women actually struggling to get to that bargain counter.—Minnesota Democrat. The New York Sun is the bitterest' opponent of the proposition for a commercial union with Canada, and professes to believe that we would be injured by allowing Canadian goods to come in free of duty. Yet the Sun is the most prominent advocate of the annexation of Canada to the United Stafes. How is that free trade with Canada would bo a good thing if that country was a part of ours, but bad when it is under a separate government? Facts About Putty. Pure putty is made of whiting and linseed oil. Whiting is made of chalk which is Imported from England and ground In this country. Barytes, mixed with the whiting is used as an adulterant of putty, and cottonseed oil is mixed with the linseed oil. Cottonseed oil is cheaper, and a slower dryer than linseed; its use is advantageous to small customers, for putty mixed with part cottonseed oil keeps in order longer. Linseed oil putty is used more by decorators and painters and other large consumers who use up putty quickly. Putty made in the Eastern cities of the United States is sold on the Atlantic seaboard and in the South, but not much Eastern putty is sold in the West, for there are putty manufactories in the Northern and Western cities. We export putty to Canada, Mexico, the West Indies, South America, and the Sandwich Islands. Manufacturers make colored putties to order, and white, brown And black putties are kept in stock. Putty has a variety of uses; a familiar one is-setting glass. Brown putty is used to point brownstone buildings and putty is sometimes used in pointing up brick buildings. Black putty is used in stove foundries. Plumbers use putty. Sometimes scene painters reduce it and put it on canvas to paint over. There are three or four putty manufacturers if New York and more In Brooklyn. A. single firm of manufacturers In this city has sold more than seventeen thousand tons in a year. These seem like large figures, but they are less surprising from the fact that there are few articles of more common use.

WORK OF BREAKERS.

METHODS OF PREPARING HARD COAL FOR MARKET. Calm Banka Where the Breei; Lada Drive Mules and Pick Slate—A Miner's Home and Its Dlamal Surround* inga—Everyday Life. « In the Anthracite Region. The original method of preparing anthracite coal for market was simply to direst It of slate and other impurities, and of fine coal and slack. It was passed over a chute with longitudinal bars about two inches apart, and all that passed over the bars was merchantable coal, and all that passed through them was rejected. There was, consequently, much coal deposited on the dirt banks, which, at the present time, Is considered of full value; also, much left in the mines as unmerchantable on account of its small size. The market would not accept any coal that would not pass for lump coal. After a number of years It was suggested that coal for household purposes ought to be broken at tho mines, and

A CULM BANK BOY.

favor, the system was extended. Screens were manufactured of Iron rods (subsequently of wire) with meshes of various dimensions, which assorted the coal into the sizes now known in commerce. This refinement of preparation, resorted to by the operators to captivate their customers, added greatly to the cost of the coal, for which they were not renumerated, and it cultivated a fastidious fancy for uniformity of size, which was lmpractible and of no advatage. Indeed the caprice of the

customers in the demand for different sizes of coal, and the fluctuations from one size to another in their preferences, have been a fruitful source of expense and annoyance to the operators ever since the introduction of tlio system. The first method of breaking coal on the pile with hammers was slow, wasteful, expensive and laborious. After being broken it was shoveled into barrows and dumped in to the cars. The coal was then hauled to landings with horses or mules on the railroad, dumped on the wharf, screened and assorted Into various sizes and deposited on a pile, ready to be wheeled into the boat. The whole process was crude, primitive, expensive and, compared with the present system, absurd. The matter of breaking and preparing the coal became the subject of great cogitation among the operators, and many Improvements were suggested, which finally resulted in the massive structure of wood and machinery, known then and to the present day as the “coal breaker." The machinery constituting the breaker is driven by steam engines, generally of 50 to 100 horse power, and consists of two or more cast Iron rollers with projecting teeth, revolving toward each other, through which the coal Is passed; and the coal,

A MINER'S HOME.

thus broken, Is conducted into revolving screens, separating the different sizes and dropping the coal Into a set of chutes or bins. Here, at this stage, the boys pick the slate, rock and Impurities from the coal. Then the coal is transferred, by raising a gate, into the railway cars. Sufficient elevation above the railway to the dump chutes above the rollers is always secured to carry the coal by gravity through all the stages of preparation into the cars below. The cost of the average breaker runs from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO, and employes from 100 to 300 hands. Such is the modern coal breaker, which enables the operator to handle an amount of coal that was impossible before its adoption, some of the structures having a capacity of I.SOO tons per day. The coal breaker is now the conspicuous and striking feature of every colliery

In the anthracite coal regions, per cent of the coal used for dopaeatTc purposes Is now broken, assorted Into different sizes and cleansed by tbs coal breaker. ioW Upon all the culm or dirt banks of the breakers In the anthracite coal regions are employed boys who do the hauling of t!fte dirt from the top of the plane to the dumping board. The coal In the rough—slate and dirt—is brought from the mines, carried up a shaft to the top of the breaker, and then dumped down a chute. Here it is crushed Into the different sizes and goes to the slate-picking rooms, where the good coal is dumped into delivery chutes, and the slate, dirt and waste Is dumped Into cars, which are hoisted to the top of a plane. Here the boy with his mule hitches the car and drives out to the end of the railroad, where the dump is made. A large colliery will employ ten or twenty culm-bank boys, some having nothing more to do than to spray the cars as they come up over the piano landing. Others attend to the switches, drive the mules back on the return trips, and change the dumping board. As a rule, these boys are cheerful, healthy good fellows, and enjoy their work. In winter their work is very undesirable, the altitude at which they work being uncongenial for mild weather. They, however, build rough shanties on the banks and in severe weather tako refuge In them. In summer their merry voices can be heard in the distance as they sing and ride up in the air. On Saturday nights they como into the nearby towns and replenish their supply of tobacco and enjoy looking into the show windows. Sunday is their play day, and after attending service once are free for the balance of the day. Of late years these boys very seldom follow their fathor’s footsteps and work In the mines, but, later on, choose work that leads to a business or tradesman’s life. The culm bank boy is fast becoming a thing of the past, as tho more modern colliery equipments supply little locomotives to haul tho cars and one locomotivo does the work that ten culm bank boys can attend to. In the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania a miner's homo is tho smallest part of his possessions. In most cases, tho little houses aro owned by the Individual or corporation that operates the nearby colliery. Nearly all of the houses aro either one and a half or tWo stories high and contain very rarely moro than four rooms. Never

purchasers paid 50 cents extra a ton for coal 'broken down to a size suitable for burning In grates. The coal, thus prepared, was known in the market as “ broken and screened,” and It commanded SO cents per ton more than lump coal. Finding this mode o f preparation receiving popular

A COAL BREAKER.

are they built of anything but wood and their llttj/e frames look lnslgulflcunt in contrast to the mammoth culm bunks that are always in close proximity, very often five or six of theso little houses are built near one another, then they go under the general name of a "patch.” These “patches" and solitary houses nro generally within easy walking distance of the colliery, and In very few localities, are they embraced in any borough or city. They stand distinctly alone and by their location and appearance become recognized at once by the stranger as the home of the miner. The immense culm banks always are near by, in mining settlements of any ago and are destined to be the future environs of any new settlement. The length of these culm banks varies from 200 yards to half a mile, and in height they creep up to the heavens as high as 400 and 500 feet. These banks are composed of little else than the refuse from preparing the coal, and thcro is computed to be 75,000,000 tons of this coal dirt in the anthracite region. So far, it is a total waste, all the experiments towards consuming it In some manner being of no avail. There was a plant established at Mahnnoy City to use these culm banks, by pressing the coal scraps into fuel bricks, but the expease was more than the mining of coal and after the plant had a thorough inspection by prominent experts and Inventors it was abandoned. Day after day, then, these black hills are growing larger and in many cases are forcing their way into the yards of the miners’ homes. It is not unfrcquent that landslides and settlements take place, often being attended with disaster. The man that can advance some theory 6r devise some plan by which these culm banks can be consumed, has at that moment made a colossal fortune. Until then, the miners will go dally hundreds of feet below the surface and bring to the breakers the rough coal, and the refuse will accumulate proportionately as the coal is mined. u t to

“I hate to see'a man with a flower in his button hole,” said a pretty simpleton in toy hearing the other day. “It makes him look so dudisb.” My dear, Julius Caesar did not consldeiMt dudlsh to garland his distinguished head with Roman roses. Malicious chroniclers say it 1 was to hide his baldness. While severe Martin Luther wore a rose in his girdle, neither one of those gentlemen was ever accused of lacking the essentials of manliness.— New York Mail and Express.

In Ledyard, a small town in Connecticut, Is a house built prior to 1710 which bears the title of the “Devil’s House.” A curse is supposed to rest upon it, and in proof it is pointed out that in the present century more than 100 deaths have occurred In it, most of which were violent or more than ordinarily pathetic.

Among the Indians, as among most savage and barbarous people, all the ornament Is monopolized by men.

Foolish Speech.

Uncanny Place.

Male Savages Most Decorated.

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAa Interesting Summary or tho In*. portent Doings of Our Neighbors—Wed. dings nnd Deaths—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. The Centennial Commission. , , Governor Matthews has announced th« names of the men selected by him to compose the centennial commission. By a joint resolution of the last general assembly he was authorized to appoint a commission consisting of thirty persons, two from each congressional district, and four from the state at large. This commission is to formulate a plan and arrange for a centennial celebration of the organization of the territory of Indiana to be held in 1900. The commission is to report to the next general assembly. The appointees are: State at Large—Col. Eli Lilly and E. B. Mart indale, Indianapolis; Hugh Daugherty, Bluffion; DoEoo Skinner, Valparaiso. First District—Philip Fry, Evansville; James Burkett, Cannclton. Second District—Thomas Buskirk, Paoli; John Weathers, Leavenworth. Third Distrlot—Charles L. Jewett, New Albany; Dr. H. C. Hobbs, Salem. Fourth District—John 11. Russc, Lawrenoeburg; William Cumback, Greenfield. Fifth District—John W. Cravens, Bloomington; John T. Irwin, Columbus. Sixth District—Arthur W. Brady, Muncie; James N. Huston, Connersvllle. Seventh Distriot—U. 8. Jackson, Greenfield; diaries T. Doxey, Anderson. Eighth Distrlot—Ttiomas J. Mann.Sulli* van; Frank McKeen, Terro Haute. Ninth District—Eli Martin, Frankfort; C« S. Shirley, Kokomo. Tenth District—M. M. Hathaway, Winamno; Joshua C. Hadley, Logansport. Eleventh Distrlot—Harry B. Smith, Hartford City: H. L. Goldthwaite, Marion. Twelfth Distrlot—Charles MoCulloch, Fort Wayne, and Sol. A. Woods, Angola. Thirteenth District -James A. Arthur, Goshen; George W. Matthews, South Bend. The commission wilt meet as soon as ail the appointees have acoepted ttie appointment and effect an organization-

Minor Btato New*. Isaac Joy’s ti-year-old daughter died ol blood poisoning, near Urbana, Wabash county. Jamks Noltow was literally cut to pieces by a Pennsylvania freight train at Jeffersonville. Evansville 1s to have a packing house with a capacity of 200 head of hogs and 200 head of lieeves a day. Tiik Gas City Good Citizens League lias caused the rejection of six applications for license to sell liquor there. While Win, Fix, farmer near Shelbyvllle, was down lh a well, a heavy pieco of tlmlier fell and seriously injured him. Alma Cain, In trying to put out afire in a saw mill at Frankfort was seriously burned. The mill was greatly damaged. Fin:t> Waiinkb, young farmer near Brookston, died of a broken heart, having grioved himself to death over being swindled out of $1,200 by lightning rod shurks. COVNTEIIFKIT nlckloK uro ilootliiig Anderson, and scarcely a business man lias emaped tho spurious coins, it is thought Hint the notorious Peyton gang is at work. Bash. Share, 10, mado a dive into St. Joe River at Fort Wayne, in shallow water. 11 is head stuck in the muddy bottom, lie could not extricate himself and was drowned. Lake County Com mission kns threatened to raise Treasurer MeCuy’s bond to $400,000, ut their Juno session, ami he told them to tako the office and run it, whereupon they backed down. John Jones, tho Elwood tin-plate worker who recently fell heir to an estate of $8,000,000 in Wales, has left for Liverpool to take the necessary legal steps to put himself in possession of the money. John Eva ht, Blackford County farmer, Is slowly dying from a peculiar disease. Thousands of worms la his flesh aro gradually eating Ills life away. Physicians are bafiletl and no relief can be given him. James Bowman, aged 60, while attempting to flag a train moving through Evansville, was struck by a runaway team and was so badly injured that he died a short time later. Bowman’s homo was'at Vincennes. C. Ukim, extensive farmer of Warrick county, gTves a discouraging report of the wheat crop in Southern Indiana. Several samples of wheat gathered in three different countlos show up badly. Harvesting will begin shortly. In many fields binders will not enter at all. He attributes the present condition to frost. While throwing down hay froth & barn loft, G. E. Leazenbce, a young man of near lleadlee, fell through an aperture in the mow, ai\d, striking upon the prongs of an upturned fork, sustained injuries of a frightful and fatal character. After his fall, lie lay in an unconscious condition for twelve hours before being discovered, and was by that time so weak from loss of blood that recovery is hopeless. Joseph Schuler of Rockport, is dying from the effects of a dose of corrosive sublimate, taken by mistake. Since taking the poison lie lias lost his voice, the drug destroying the vocal chords. Soon after taking the dose his wife gave him the white of an egg every few minutes and greatly neutralized the poison. The drug was dispensed to Schuler by an inexperienced drug clerk, a mere boy, in the drug store ol D. A. Sexton.

Tiif, comparative exhibit of the state charitable and correctional institutions for the six months from November 1,1894, to April 80,1895, lias been issued by the state board of charities. It is compiled from the quarterly reports. The grand net total expenditures for maintenance and construction of charitable and correctional institutions for the six months ending April 80,1895,was $500,600.91; for the corresponding six months last year the expenditures were $523,172.25. An indictment was served against the Muncie Pulp Company for damming and polluting Buck Creek. It is the result of a complaint made by Robert Chiggish, ditch commissioner of lienry County. Mbs. Joshua W. Berby, sixteen miles south of Kokomo, met an awful death recently. She was smoking a pipe while at work in the garden. Her clothing took fire and she ran partly across a meadow, attempting to reach her father’s house, but fell, setting fire to the dry grass. When found she was in a te|us>le condition, all her clothing, with the exception of her shoes, being consumed. She lived but a few hours. The American Wire Nail Company at Anderson, one of the largest manufacturing industries in the gas belt, has posted notices of an iucrease of wages of 10 per cent. There are about 800 men on the pay rolls. The business of ttyj cbmpany has never been better than it is now, its books being'filled with orders for nails and wire. The mill will shut down June 29 for a three weeks’ vacation, during which time the company will equip a 60x90 addition, with machinery to increase the output. Philip Duncan’s child, while playing around a cook stove at Eminence, knocked one of the stove legs out The stove came down, fire fell out on the little one and the hot water in a teakettle poured over ita bead, fatally scalding it.