Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — Page 3

REAL RURAL READING

WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DEPARTMENT. Wonderful Effect of Foreign Pqllen on Plante—Home-Made Device for Keeping Milk Cool—Advantages of ■a Low-Hung Farm Wagon. Effects of Artificial Pollination. The most Important plants showing the effects of foreign pollen are the pea, kidney bean, American corn and possibly the orange. W. N. Munson, of the Maine experiment station states that sweet corn shows the effects of foreign pollen- more frequently than other varieties, but plants in the cucumber, potato and rose families frequently show the effects of foreign pollen to a wonderful extent. The most important examples of agamic development of fruits result In the egg plant and the English forcing cucumber. The latter is usually deformed by the production of seeds

TOMATOES WITH MUCH AND LITTLE POLLEN.

tnd the consequent enlargement of the apex, though the amount of pollen does not usually determine the extent of the deformity. The amount of fruit produced by certain varieties of strawberries appears to vary in some Instances with the amount of pollen supplied by the variety used as fertilizer. The form and size of tomatoes are directly dependent on the amount of pollen furnished, as shown in the illustration. But not alone in garden vegetables are the effects of artificial or of cross fertilization apparent. Prof. Waite, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, a few years ago clearly demonstrated that certain varieties of pears and apples were unprofitable to plant unless grafted with some fertile variety or planted among trees whose pollen was fertile. The same rule applies to many of our best strawberries, notably the Crescent, and flowers partake of the same peculiarity In nature to a remarkable degree.—Farm and Home.

An Effective Well Creamery. Over a well of cool water I erected a suitable covering to protect it from the hot sun, and the dairy operator and his appliances from inclement weather as well. A three-block fall and tackle is fastened in the roof over the center of the well. Two pieces of wood 2x6 inches are nailed one end to the well curb and the other end to the roof frame; these are set parallel fee't apart and have holes of suitable size Into which are inserted the ends of an iron pipe inches in diameter and three feet in length. To one end of the pipe is attached an old cutting box balance wheel with handle. The rope from the pulley block is secured to the iron pipe, and, turning the wheel, very easily lowers or raises the cage, Which is fastened to one of the pulleys. The cage or elevator Is constructed of wood (galvanized iron would be better), as follows: To a 4x4 timber, four feet long, are attached two circular platforms three feet in diameter; these platforms are twenty-two inches apart. On the lower one the cans containing milk and cream are placed, on the upper one crocks of butter or other articles that one desires to keep cool. The cans are made of heaviest tin inches in diameter and 20 in height. To them are secured handles five inches from the top; on these handles set the can covers, which are nine Inches in diameter at the closed end, flaring to ten inches at the other end. These covers are six Inches deep, and when in proper place on the cans there is considerable air space over and around the top of the cans, allowing the gas and odors to escape, but preventing the water from entering when all are submerged in the well. Milk is set for twentyfour hours. Each morning and even-

DEVICE FOB COOLING MILK.

tog the cage is raised, new milk is put on, and that which has been on for twenty-four hours is skimmed. This skimmed milk is always sweet—J. 8. Fowler, in American Agriculturist Grubs at Strawberry Roots, Alexander MacLellan, in the Florists’ Exchange, says: “1 have found nitrate es soda a sure cure, or, rather, a preventive of destruction to strawberry plants by the larvae of the May beetle. My plan is to give a light application, sowing just before rain. Of course, It could b 6 applied in solution. I have also used soda on asters where the grubs had commenced work with like good effect Of course, this could be used en any garden crop, but don’t give too much at a time; rather repeat the dose in the course of three or four weeks. As the soda induces a rank vegetable growth, it will be well to use it sparingly where flowers are wanted, such as sweet peas.” Straining Milk. Straining should begin before commencing to milk by brushing off all dirt, hair, straw, etc., from the udder, teats and body of the cow. Let it be the duty of some one person to go over all the cows with a soft brush or damp cloth before the cows are milked. An ordl-

nary wire sieve strainer does very well, but we add to this by doubling cheese doth or thin cotton so as to have four thicknesses. Lay the cloth across the bottom of the strainer, and then fasten it on by means of a tin ring .which slips over the cloth and bottom part of the Strainer. For quickness, we use a strainer that a pail of milk may be put into at once. This sits in a wooden frame over the can. Some use a woolen doth to strain with. Cloth of some kind is necessary to catch hairs and fine dirt. This doth must be kept clean. Scald it thoroughly each time after qsing. Economy in Weed Destruction. There are some farmers who atill think that there is nothing lost in allowing weeds to grow on land that has no crop, provided the weeds are cut down before going to seed. It is true that the weed contains all the mineral and nitrogenous plant food that it has taken from the soil. When it decays, as it lies, most of this is returned to the soil. But there is always some waste, and if It were otherwise the plant food in the weed is not available fertility as that which It took from the soil during its growth. The time when a weed can be destroyed with greatest benefit to the soil is immediately after It has germinated. This is also the easiest time to kill it The worst weeds, like the perennial Canada thistle, for example, are, when first germinated, as easily killed as are any of the annual weeds. The slightest' brush with a hoe will destroy them. Leave them a few weeks, and these perennial weeds begin to form their underground system of roots, and it takes a long time to accomplish what could so easily have been done at first

Slipshod Poultry. Farmers, as a rule, pay but little attention to poultry. Most of them, however, have a few running about th but give them little or no care, says the New England Farmer. Possibly, a pailful of grain is thrown out to them once or, at most, twice a week. If you ask the general run of farmers whether they give any of their time to poultry, the answer usually Is, “Well, no; the woman folks gather what eggs there are, and raise a few young ones, but they don’t pay.” No, of course they don’t pay when not looked after. Would their cattle, their horses or their swine pay if they were attended to in such a slipshod and ridiculous fashion? Poultry will not pay unless ‘properly cared for and attended to.

Lime in the Food. While wo believe fowls should have lime given them <to eat at will it is generally better to give them food that is itself rich in this mineral. Chopped clover is an excellent feed to make hens lay, as it contains both lime and nitrogenous matter. Peas are also rich in lime and excellent for laying hens. Whole or cracked wheat is also a lime food, and can be given freely, though it should follow a feed of chopped clover, so that the food may not be too concentrated and fatten the fowls instead of making them lay.—Ex. Low-Hung Wagon. Low-hung farm wagons are a great convenience and save lots of lifting. A simple, home-made device of this kind is illustrated. The rail about the

A LOW-HUNG WAGON.

sides can be removed or put into place in a moment, or light chains can be used in place of it Several styles of lowdown milk wagons, hay carts, etc., are also manufactured and have a wide sale and growing popularity. Remedy for Pear-Blight. This disease is most apt to affect the Bartlett, Seckel and winter varieties—trees that are strong, vigorous growers The disease is not very well understood, but it is supposed to be produced by an excess of sap. It always breaks out during a hot, sultry and very damp season, like we are having at the present time. Sometimes only a single branch will be affected, then again several in different parts of the tree, and at rare instances the entire tree will be scorched, as if by lightning. The leaves will turn, at first a dark-brown, then black, and, if the branch is cut Into, the wood will be found discolored.

Barbed Wire with Hedges. The chief difficulty in making barbed wire a safe and effective fence is that the wires strung on posts are not easily seen. Animals running loose in pasture do not avoid the barbs until they have been severely injured. But when the same wires are strung through a hedge it is different. The animal pushes until it feels the sharp barbs and then desists. Two or three barbed wires put through a hedge and con; nected with it at intervals of a few feet will make an effective protection against most animals. Stormy Days on the Farm. If storms prevail, muster every hand to a bee for cleaning the barns, carriage house and sheds, and preparing the stables for winter occupancy. Sweep down all the dust and cobwebs, take out the window sashes, wash every part clean, and after it has dried put in new glass and putty wherever it is needed. Then paint each sash carefully, and you will be surprised to see how much more light a single pane will admit Feed for Growing Hogs. Millers, during the grain season, want all the room in their blns for grain and will sell bran and middlings much cheaper than later. There is nothing better than fine wheat middlings with skim milk to make pigs grow. The amount of feed can be greatly increased by cooking the wheat middlings with small potatoes, refuse apples and the waste vegetables from the garden, all of which when cooked are eagerly eaten by pigs. Sheep in the Orchard. A Rural New Yorker correspondent says: “By stocking the orchard heavily with sheep and feeding large quantities of bran you will obtain two values—the feeding value and the manurial value—besides preventing the spread of injects which live in fallen fruit,**

ONE YEAR IN FORCE.

TRIUMPH OF THE WILSON TARIFF MEASURE. All the People Have Profited by Democratic Tariff Legislation— What the Next Congress Cannot Do-Pro-tectioniata Like Barnum's Monkeys. A Year of the Wilson Law. The Wilson tariff law has been in force one year. When It took effect commercial conditions in the United States were more’ distressing, more disastrous than they had ever been since the time of Black Friday. After one year’s operation of Democratic legislation there appear striking revival in business, marked increase in wages, a healthier tone in every market The triumph of the measure, to which the Democracy in Congress lent its most intelligent energies, has been complete. A New York paper signalized the anniversary of the Wilson law by the publication of an itemized statement showing the experience of one year under the McKinley law and one year under the Wilson law. The statement, which was gathered from the most trustworthy sources of information, demonstrates that within a year after the enactment of the McKinley law wages had been reduced in an Immense number of establishments; factories and mills were closed down, and the whole tendency of the manufacturing Interests in the United States was toward disaster. On the other hand, the year which has passed under the Wilson law has seen mills reopening, running at double time and a voluntary increase of wages by a host of manufacturing corporations. It is further demonstrated by these statistics that while wages have risen prices have decreased. It Is shown that not only has the wage worker profited by Democratic legislation, but the consumer as well. More is put into the pockets of the people. Less is taken out.

Postmaster General Wilson himself, author of the law, writing to the World In comment upon its statistics, reduces the whole theory and practice of tariff legislation to an axiom when he says “There is no way to protect American Industry except by relieving it from burdens upon the materials with which it works; no way to Insure good wages and steady employment to home labor except by freeing it from the shackles which have confined it to a glutted home market and prevented It from seekings its customers all over the world.” Freedom after all is the only stimulant for the Industrial world as for the individual. Take off the shackles In each case. Let every man be as free as every other man to do what he will. Let him enjoy with every other man access to all natural opportunities. Let the nation, like the individual; be free —free from limitations imposed under the guise of protection. This done, justice will be secured in the case of individual and of nation, and he is but a poor American who does not believe that with absolute justice, with equality of opportunity, the American as an individual or the American as a race can hold its own against any people of the earth. - ( The Next Congress. In the Fifty-fourth Congress, which will assemble in December, no party will have a majority of both houses. In the Senate there will be forty-three Republicans, thirty-nine Democrats and six Populists. If two Senators shall be admitted fjom Utah the entire body will consist of ninety members. There will be in the House 244 Republicans, 104 Democrats and eight independents or Populists. The Republicans will have one of the most numerous majorities that ever controlled that body. It is more than two-thirds. They could pass a McKinley tariff bill over President Cleveland’s veto. They could pass any bill of their own, which might show what they would do if they had the power to absolutely control legislation. They could menace the country with revolutionary bills which ipight render unsafe all business interests. What course the Republicans will pursue it is difficult to predict. They cannot revive the McKinley tariff. Probably no Republican tariff bill that •would pass the House would pass the Senate. These facts constitute the security of the country against any disastrous legislation for at least two years to come. The business revival, therefore, probably will continue. For this security to trade and commerce the country is indebted to wise Democratic legislation and to the fact that existing legislation cannot be repealed by the new Congress. The prospect also improves for the election of a Democratic President and Congress in 1896. Such a result would secure the domination of Democratic policy in the affairs of the Government at least till the end of this century. With this prospect in view there could be no reaction from the present growing prosperity of the country.—Chicago Chronicle. Thread Industry Not Dead. / Day by day evidence is being furnished by various industries which disproves the protectionist claim that a high tariff Is necessary in order that factories may run. One of the latest examples to be added to a long list is the spool cotton thread industry, which, under the McKinley tariff, was protected by a 56 per cent. .duty. When the Wilson tariff proposed to reduce the duty to 40 per cent., the largest thread manufacturers issued a statement that the effect would be most Injurious to their business, and that they would probably have to close their factories if the Wilson bill became a law. Well, the duty on thread was reduced, but instead of closing down, the mills have been running this year to their full capacity, With a larger number of men employed. The manufacturers found that people still wanted thread, and they continued to make it. So fades another high tariff illusion. Result of Freer Trade Conditions. The increase of iron and sfc*el prices reported by cable from Birmingham is a direct result of the flush times in American iron production. For some time past American orders have been going to England because of the inability of onr mills to keep up with the

rush of business. The increased demand in Engted sbowa hots fully English trade is coming to be controlled by American conditions.—New York World Poeera for McKinley ite*. While the Republicans are blustering about the certainty of their restoration to power next year, the Democrats prefer to let the great facts of the industrial revival and business prosperity speak for the wisdom of the tariff policy under which the change from hard times has come about. There is no necessity for Democrats to act on the defensive when their party is charged by the McKinleyites with being responsible for the trade depression of 1893-94. On the contrary they should ask the believers in protection some of these questions: 1. Is it not a fact that during the first two years that the McKinley tariff was in operation there were over a thousand instances, Involving hundreds of thousands of workingmen, of wage reductions and closed factories? 2. Was not the high protective tariff of 1890 in force and the Republican party in power, during the period of reduced wages and closing factories previous to Nov. 1,1892? 3. Are the benefits of protection due to the exclusion of trade, or to the political party which administers the tariff law? If the former, as all protectionists contend, was not the McKinley tariff in force during all the two years of panic which ended In August, 1894? 4. If- two years of bankruptcy and poverty existed under high protection, does that not at least prove that if it does not cause panics, a high tariff cannot prevent them ?

5. Is It not a fact that immediately after the adoption of the Wilson tariff, which greatly reduced duties, trade and industry began to revive? 6. Has not the past year witnessed more wage advances, affecting a larger number of working men and women, than in the whole period of the McKinley tariff? • 7. Have not hundreds of new factories been built and hundreds of idle ones started up since the adoption of the Wilson tariff? 8. Has not the New York Tribune, the leading Republican organ, admitted that over a million, workers have had their wages Increased since the Wilson tariff took effect? 9. If the country experienced the worst panic in its history under high protection and is advancing in prosperity by “leaps and bounds” under a revenue tariff, what reason is there for the restoration of the McKinley tariff? 10. If Republicans were honest would they not admit that their claim of prosperity under protection was false, and that the events of the past year have proved untrue their predictions of disaster to follow the new tariff?

Robbing One Another. When Barnum’s show was In winter headquarters in Bridgeport, Conn., a few years ago, a number of monkeys were kept in a large circular cage, divided into compartments by wire partitions. Each day when the animals were fed, instead of eating his own portion, a monkey would thrust his head through the wires and steal from his neighbor’s dish. While he was thus engaged the nejet monkey was stealing from him, and so on all around the cage. The result was that in the scramble and quarreling a good deal of the food was spilled and wasted, and while a few stronger and cunning monkeys got more than their share, the others were poorer than if each had eaten hl, own portion. These monkeys, without knowing it, were true protectionists, and illustrated perfectly the ideal state of society from a high tariff point of view. The McKinleyites would have us all engaged’ln trying to take by taxation from each other’s wealth, for the purpose of making everybody rich through stealing from everybody. The farmer would be robbed for the alleged benefit of the workingman, the latter for the benefit of the manufacturer, wfib himself would be robbed by duties on raw material for the benefit of the landowner, the landowner would have to pay higher prices to benefit the merchant, and so on around the circle. Instead of this complicated system of tolls and taxes the ideal Democratic society is one in which each mail enjoys the full reward of his own labor, and neither steals nor is stolen from. The Republican system means a scramble for favors, like a lot of hogs around a trough. The Democratic policy means an orderly company of gentlemen seated around a table. Which is the better system?

One-Man Rule in Pennsylvania. The events of the present week have proved that this autocracy Is still undisturbed in Pennsylvania. It has been an autocracy established by the Republican party, and there is no proof that that party has any desire to Interfere with it. The Republicans of that State this year have objected to the autocrat, not to the supreme jurisdiction which is implied in the form of government for which he stands. We say the Republicans, because there is no State sh the Union where the Republicans have a clearer control than in the State of Pennsylvania.—Boston Herald. lowa’s Democracy Unitct". The Democratic party in lowa is un£ ted,'thoroughly so, and It will make a stubborn fight for victory. Nor is there anything the outlook that is necessarily discouraging. But the Republican party is anything but united. Some of its hitherto strongest supporters are business men who are out of sorts with the plan of General Drake to ignore Issues that are vital to the commerce of lowa and make his canvass on sentiment.—Sioux City Tribune. ■ >9 Mendacity and Lack of Patriotism. ■ Just as the Republican papers had determined to their own satisfaction that our pusillanimous Government had allowefi itself to be crowded out of the Chinese investigation the news comes that the Chinese Government has appointed a commission to escort Consul Hixson to the place where the Investigation is going on. The want of patriotism displayed by these papers is only equaledby their mendacity.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Ammunition for Democracy. Every, advance in wages is ammunition for'the Democracy, and there have been many of them since the tariff question was settled by the passage of the Wilson bin.—Dayton Times.

WORN BY THE WOMEN

SOME OF" THE Very latest IDEAS IN DRESS. Frivolity la to Reign la the Makeup of Fall Faalflona Taffet aa and Changeable Bilka, Dresden and Stripes Will lie aa Popular aa Ever. Styles for September. New York Correspondence:

LENTIFUL is , thesupplyof 1 handsome wool- ■ en goods to be I so u n d i n the stores, and these JR] materials have so much to recr/ ommend them A t h a ft h e y are y. sure to be touch Vy worn. Softyool \\ in new weaves \\ that give exqui%V\ site grace of fold I with the becomjl ing surface of wool unimpaired

are shown la all sorts of delicate shades, and it Is to be hoped that there will be a little rest from the glare and crackle of silk. Certain It is that silk has been so much worn for the past few years that any especially artistic significance that it should have been lost At the same time taffetas and changeable silks, dresden and stripes, opal and sunset taffetas will be as popular as ever. Whole gowns of the petticoat fashion will be made of these materials and the gleam of a satin petticoat all be-frilled with lace and a-flutter with ends of rib bon will offer no rest to the eye. Frivolity is to reign, and the young woman who has made an impression of late for smooth locks and demute old-time gowns must doff all that and prdtCnd herself a coquette, from the ruffle at the redjheeled foot to the nodding feathers in her curving locks. With woolen goods to start with as the basis of the new costume, it Is not easy to attain such a degree of airiness, nor is It desirable, but, on the other hand, these new wool weaves are not intended for entirely plain designs. If It seems Incongruous to.adorn them with laces and ribbons, there is stlll left an opportunity to express originality in a don’t-care-for-the-cost way, by

A BAK DEGREE OF ELABORATION.

slashing the drees goods tmre and there to shoV'a richer stuff beneath. For her who desires that her fall gown shall be distinguished by this characteristic, the costume shown beside the iniypl letter presents a model of Interest. The cloth of this bodice Is cut In straps that fasten In front with numerous pearl buttons over a round vest of fancy silk that extends to the waist Its standing collar has a lace frill finish, and the wide elbow fii'detes are gathered several times at the shoulder. In the skirt there Is no outright change from the style of summer, but Its front breadth takes unusual shape, and buttons to match those on the bodice aye put at top and bottom. There are women who can advertise the change of seasons by new dresses that are markedly different in Important Items from those they have but just discarded, but their number Is small, and the million are much wiser to meet fashion's shift slowly with such dresses as thls. In to-day’s second pictured model there is shown the extreme of elaboration in a dress of woolen stuff that is likely to prove tasteful. It would certainly seem as if there was no need of more elaborateness to satisfy any one’s taste, but there are always a-plenty of women who are forever overdoing In such matters. The dress material here Is brown cheviot and the entire bodice is covered with a cuirass of cream guipure threaded with gold. Then belt, collar, bretelles and rosettes are of brown and white striped satin ribbon. With so much that is highly wrought about the bodice, an entirely plain skirt would hardly be In keeping, so it is fan pleated from Its central boxpleat, and

IN GRAY SUITING WITH CHIFFON SLEEVES.

two pleats at the left side are set off by showy steel buttons.. Since sleeves cannot wpll became bigger, It Is at last safe to prophesy that they will soon commence to decrease In size, and once started. In this course, the chances arp-that progress toward tight sleeves will become rapid. Al-

ready sleeves are seen in new dreams that fit the shoulders smoothly. Just over the round of the shoulder there is set a frill of lace, as If the sleeve ended there prematurely. Then from under the lace will swell a great big puff that will extend bulgingly to below the elbow. This puff is so cut that it is much longer on the outside of the arm than on the Inside, and it hangs, not drooping, but in an extended slanting line. Sometimes at finish of the sleeve there is another frill of lace, but more often the bare arm emerges unmasked, or the sleeve Is met by long gloves. • I At mention of gloves women who have examined the new ones offered will doubtless be reminded of some oddities in the fall stock. They come from what seems to be a determined effort to coax American women to wear loose gloves. As a matter of fact the women of this country are the only ones who insist on having their hands tightly bound in their gloves, for English and French women all wear loose ones. French gloves fit truly without

SIMPLY MADE OF GRAY BRILLIANTINE.

a wrinkle, but that Is because they are perfectly cut and loose. When a hand so encased is taken, it can be felt; when an American 1 woman's hand, trussed up in a tight kid, Is clasped, it feels more like a little foot In a shoo than like a hand. The English glove does wrinkle, and the English woman has large hands, too. It does seem as If the American woman might submit to the two examples, and dealers are going to try her, because it costs them so much to have gloves made In foreign markets for hdme use. They must be of cornet tuflterlal. tjolop pnd shape, but in an entirely alfferent rliii of sizes, and In some modification in cut that the hand may have some bond, although so closely tied up. It is really said that, though women are not to be frightened by being asked to accept a glove a size or so bigger according to number than , their habit, the gloves actually will be larger thgn tijeir numbers will imply. If women submit, they will be loss troubled with red hands, and tliat's one point gained,. " To return to sleeves, examination o? the next Illustration will show that decrease in their size Is not apparent in cyeiy dress, nor is fit at thb shoulder an essential. Indeed, tlie Truncations nre, now that the powers that bo have granted permission for smaller sleeves, Hint there will be adlootlof odd shapes, each one”representing lhe attempt of some amyitjous designer to control the change of style. These were probably made as big as they are in the hope that t|iey would be more readily accepted because of their being little changed in respect to dimensions from the shapes that were passing. They had interlining of the dress goods and

JAUNTINESS IN OUTING DRESS.

the four puffs were gray chiffon. The gray suiting of the bo.dlce was entirely covered with embroidery of black silk, except for slashes In front through which accordion-pleated gray chiffon showed. Departure is made In the concluding two pictures from costumes that are Intended to be dressy, for one presents a dress for the garden, or to roam the fields In, and the last Is a neat tailor rig for fall outing use. The first of these Is of gray brllliantlne, with full, untrlmmed skirt. Its blouse waist has a vest of blue satin covered with guipure and a pointed satin yoke. On either side of the vest a pleat extends from waist to neck and Is finished with a draped collar of the satin. The full sleeves are draped with green knots, and end In lace-covered blue cuffs. The outing costume Is taken from gray-striped cheviot and Includes a fitted packet having a plain basque and coat revere with turned down collar, finished with stitching at the edges. A lined chemisette with tie of bright plaid and a tailor-made vest with shawl collar. and double row of buttons offers a pleasant change from the customary shirt waist or silk blouse, although either can be worn, If preferred. The hat is a felt alpine with a jaunty feather at the side. 1 Ucpyrlgbt. 1895.

Grows Rapidly.

Within the last two or three years French engineers have undertaken the sowing of railroad embankments with poppy seeds, as, when once established, that prolific plant covers the soil with a net-work of roots that prevent it from washing away during heavy rains, or from upheaval when frost Is coming out of the ground In the spring

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriagte and Death* Accident* sad Crimea— Pointers About Oar Own People. Minor State Raws. The Pulaski county jail has been condemned and ordered torn down. Milo Thomas’ hardware store at Corunna is in ashes. Loss, $15,000. Vincennes band has changed its name to the “Electric Street Railway Band.” Nickel-Plate passenger trains are frequently stoned in the vicinity of Edgerton. Quincy Nkhrvner and James Hoffman were killed, by a boiler explosion at Warsaw. A farmer near Goshen sold ninety fine watermelons for $2. Melons are cheap as dirt in Indiana. An unknown tramp was caught by a Vandalia train at Terre Haute and literally tom to pieces. Lapel citizens are forming a stock company to own a bank and are erecting a line building for that purpose. William Tooley was perhaps fatally hurt at Columbus, being buried in a cave while working in a city ditch. Samuel Norman, aged 25 years, was drowned near Morgantown while crossing a swollen stream to care for some stock. Mrs. Johanna Burgkrt of Terre Haute, was fatally injured by stepping off an electric oar while it was still in motion. A plant for the manufacture of icemaking machinery is to be located at Elwood, and will employ 150 hands, all skilled machinists. At Anderson, while practicing ladder movements, Nozzleman Frank Myers fell from the first extension to the ground, twenty feet below. There is no hope of his recovery. J. C. Beatty of Logansport, fell from a residence on which he was working and was badly hurt. Shortly after his removal home Mrs. Beatty fell down a stairway, breaking her thigh. A party of six young men of Elwood, headed by Robert Frost, John Minor, and his brother Charles, are preparing to leave for South America to take charge of a mining and exploring party. Arthur Sapp, an employe of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass works at Elwood, got his right arm caught In the polishing benches and it was crushed to a pulp, necessitating amputation. John Davis, aged 17, went down a well on A. W. Huron’s farm, near Plainsfleld to rescue Lon Crone, who had been overcome by firedamp. Crone was gotton out, but his rescuer lost his life. William Worley, one of a party of hunters from Logansport, shot himself while making his way along the bank of the Wabash River, Death resulted Instantly. Worley was 23 years old, and single. At Elwood Miss Lillie Douglass, frightened during a storm, attempted to shut a glass door. She ran her arm through the glass, severing the radial artery, two tendons and a nene cord, and came near bleeding to death. /J Meal Sloan, fireman on* |he Monon, was killed in tljo rqundhotiso, at New Albany. He was odttpling two and caught across the abdopiep fihd crushed, parents- reside in the town of Marengo, , # During the reunion of the Thirtieth Indiana Regimental Association at Fort Wayne, a costly drum was presented to Prof. W. 11. Mershon of North Manchester, known as the “Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” and who is now said to be the acknowledged champion drummer of Indiana. ,

Bv the bursting of a cylinder of a hydraulic cider mill, William Wagler, of the firm of Wagler <t Tumpaugh, at Logansport, was perhaps fatally injured. Too much pressure was applied and the cylinder flew to pieces. Heavy fragments struck Mr. Wragler in the chest and head, and his life is despaired of. The American Tin - plate Company, which is operating the largest tin-plate plant in the world at Elwood, is arranging to add a big steel mil! to its plant, which will manufacture all kinds of steel supplld? find employ abdut BQO bands, when the twenty-one mills of the tin-plate plant all are-completed and in operation that will require 2,000 men, making 2,800 in all which this immense Industry Will employ In a few more months. ~*■ w* Opponents to the saloon in Franklin are rejoicing over their first victory under the Nicholson law. Two saloon keepershad given notice that they would apply tor license, for the ensuing year, at the meeting of the County Commissioners. These saloons wore both located in the First ward of the city. Remonstrances were circulated and 280 out of of 280 voters in that ward signed the papers. The overwhelming majority caused the Saloon keepers to make no application, and they will quite the business. One of them will open a grocery store and the other will continue in the ice and restaurant business. Of the seven saloons in the city, six, are located in the First ward, so it will be but a short time until the saloon will not be known in that place. Patents have been granted to the following Indiana inventors: John R. Alexander, New Albany, electrical burglar alarm; Cyrus N. Baker, Crawfordsville, planter; George M. Barney, assignor of one-half to J. L. Clough, Indianapolis, for four patents on door-knob lock; Joseph A. Brunner, Fort Wayne, actuating mechanism; James W. Fishback, Goldsmith, well or post auger; Charles W. Gresham, Fredericksburg, wheel-handling device; Frances M. Hoover, Brookville, assigned to L. Kinsey and L. E. Ward, Milton, saw guard; Thomas P. Kenney, Hartford City, glass melting tank; David Shulters, Greenwood, device for lifting invalids; George Hymans, Sheridan, device for separating liquid from gas; Lewis P. Van Breggle, Groomsville, apchor for fence posts. At Union City, the 2-year-old child of Mrs. Stella Guard met with a serious accident. In some manner the baby secured a box of matches, and while playing with them they ignited, burning nearly all its clothing off, and the front part of its body into a crisp. It is thought that death will result. The supreme court has declared the law passed by the last legislature changing s he time of electing County Superintendents to be unconstitutional. Had the law not been knocked out, seventy-six Republican superintendents would have been elected Sept. 1, instead of Demoorats, who now hold the offices for two years longer. The Chase memorial fund, of which Capt. A. M. Atkinson of Wabash, is trustee, has reached the two-thousand-dol-lar mark, and subscriptions are coming in. Capt. Atkinson states that Mrs. Chase has decided to remove from Irvington to Wabash to reside permanently, and a suitable dwelling will be erected or purchased this fall for her. The creeks of the northwestern part of Grant County are very generally said to have dried up, and parties from that locality state that much of the waste oil from the numerous wells in that part of the has found its way to the creek beds and fa flowing through them. Fears are felt by farmers along the creeks that the oil will ignite and dp serious damage to property.