Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — Page 2

StlfStmocroticgfiilincl dr. W. MoEWKX, Publisher. RENSSEUER, ... - INDIANA.

POLICE CALLED OUT.

FILLEY-KERENS QUARREL NEARLY RESULTS IN A RIOT. Delegatee to Missouri Republican Convention Kept Oat of the Hall— Coaufniaeioa Will Investigate Bond B«les—Killed by a Drunken Husband. Trying: to Force Compromise. The Missouri Republican State invention at St. Joseph was almost turned into a riot before the delegates were admitted to the hall. The hour set for the opening was 10 o'clock, and at that hour fully two thousand people were in front of the Crawford Opera House, where the convention was held, clamoring for admittance. The cause of the trouble was a disagreement between the Filley and Kerens factions for supremacy. The former, as chairman of the State committee, issued tickets to his set of delegates before leaving St. Louis. Kerens and his followers were present in force with a contesting delegation and this caused the trouble. The local committee of arrangements recognized Kerens as boss and this committee also issued tickets to the convention, and, having obtained possession of the keys of the opera house, refused to admit anyone until Filley would consent to a compromise. For over two hours the delegates stood in the hot sun, cursing alternately Filley and Kerens, but all to no purpose. Finally, however, the crowd became so boisterous that it was feared an attempt would be made to break down the doors, and policemen were sent to restore order. FEEL THE WIND’S FURY. Reports of Great Damage from Several Western Points. Destructive winds were reported Tuesday from the West. Near Elkhorn, Neb., trees were uprooted, buildings overturned, a farmer named Carl Johnson was stripped of his clothes without serious physical injury, aud the high school building narrowly escaped destruction. At Lincoln, Neb., the Merchants’ Hotel lost its roof; flying debris smashed the plate windows of the State Journal office; the Muir block was unroofed; the electric light plant razed, and four people seriously hurt. Omaha had a tremendous rain. At Worthington, Minn., several buildings were wrecked and one boy hurt. Sterling, Kan., lost three buildings. .Around Council Bluffs. lowa, and all other affected points, the damage to orchards and farm buildings was very great.

CARLISLE HEADY TO ANSWER. Not Worried by Senator Pefler’s Bond Sale Investigation. Secretary Carlisle has received a letter from Chairman Morrill of the Senate Finance Committee, notifying him of the passage of the Peffer bond investigating resolution, and asking the Secretary if he desired to be heard orally, or in writing. The Secretary has replied that he is ready to do either, or both, as the committee may direct, but he calls attention to the fact that it will take time to prepare the information evidently desired by the resolution. Chairman Morrill of the Senate Committee on Finance has appointed a sub-committee of five to investigate the bond sales under the Peffer resolution, naming for that service Senators Harris, Vest and Walthall. Democrats; Platt, Republican, and Jones of Nevada, Populist. National League, Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 14 6 Cleveland . .10 8 Pittsburg . .12 7 Brooklyn . ..10 10 Chicago . ..13 8 Washington .10 11 Baltimore . .13 8 New York . . 7 13 Boston .. ..12 8 St. Louis ... 7 15 Cincinnati . .12 9 Louisville . . 2 19 His ~ Western League. Following is tae standing of the clubs of the Western League: W. L. W. L. Detroit .. ..14 2 Indianapolis . 7 9 Kansas City.ll 7 Milwaukee ..8 11 St. Paul ... 9 7 Columbus . . 7 12 Minneapolis . 9 10 Grand Rapids 5 12 Coal Land Deal Arranged. Confirmation has been obtained of the reported sale of the Bell, Lewis and Yates coal properties to the Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron Company. The properties include 12,000 acres in Jefferson and Clearfield Counties, Pennsylvania, with mines of a capacity of 10.000 tons of coal a day, 100 coke ovens, thirty miles of railroad and its equipment, four stores and several hundred miners’ houses. The price is not far from $3,000,000.

Commodore Conlson Is Dying. Several days ago Dr. Conley, in a street encounter at Yankton, S. D., with Commodore Coulson, the best known steamboatman on the Upper Missouri River, bit the latter on the finger. Gangrene set in, and Coulson is not expected to live. Coulson is the wealthiest man in that section and very popular. Windstorm in lowa. A terrific rain and wind storm passed through Sibley, lowa. Many barns and ■mall buildings were demolished. The roof of the three-story Academy of Music building was blown off. Part of the city building was destroyed by the wind. Ten Hnrt at a Fire. Ten men were hurt in a fire at 320 and 824 Olive street, St. Louis, early Monday morning. Shot His Wife. Daniel McCarthy, a Chicago printer, shot and instantly killed his wife Addie. The shooting occurred at the home of Mrs. McCarthy’s mother. Immediately after firing the fatal shot McCarthy ran through the house and succeeded in making lps escape by the rear entftince. Mahon Nicaragrua Canal Bill. The House Committee ou Interstate and Foreign Commerce ordered a favorable report on the Mahon Nicaragua canal bill, as amended by. the sub-committee. The vote stood yeas, 7; nays, 4. Congressman Cooke Is Better. Congressman E. D. Cooke, who was taken seriously ijl on his. return to Washington from Chidagsb. Thursday evening, is better. He has charge of the RinakerDowning contest from the sixteenth Illinois district, and will call if up in the House at the first opportunity. Boy Gets a Life Sentence! J. Watson Hildreth, the boy train wrecker of Rome, N. Y„ received a life aentence. His” companions, Plato and Hibbard, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first degree and were sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment on two indifctmenU, or forty years ia all.

FIRM IN OFFICES. Democrats Pleased Over a Sweeping Civil Service Order. Almost 30,000 Government employes were brought with one sweep under the protection of the civil service Wednesday by the issuance of an order by President Cleveland making a general revision of civil service rules. The order is the most important since the inauguration of the system more than a decade ago. It takes effect immediately. Its practical extent ia the classification of all Government employes below th: rank of those •object to nomination by the President ■nd confirmation by the Senate and above the grades oflaborers or workmen, with a few exceptions. The new rules add 29,399 positions to the classified list, increasing the number of classified positions from 55,736 to 85,135. The number of classified places which are excepted from examlnation has been reduced from 2,099 to 775, being mdinly positions as cashiers in the customs, postal and internal revenue service. The only classified positions in Washington which will be excepted from examination under the new rules will be private secretaries or confidential clerks (not exceeding two) to the President and to the head of each of the eight executive departments. No positions will hereafter be subject to non-competitive examinations, except in the cases of Indians employed in a teaching capacity in the Indian service. TO FIGHT FOR CUBA. New Jersey Militiamen Enlist in the Insurgent Army. It is reported in Newark, N. J., that several members of the First Regiment of the National Guard, which is located there, had accepted generous offers to fight for Cuban independence and had left the city under orders of the Cuban junta. The number of guardsmen who are going is not definitely known. It was learned, however, that at least a dozen have already signed nn agreement with the representatives of the junta and a much larger number are seriously considering the matter, with the prospect that they will join the expedition. One volunteer is said to have been offered a bonus of 3700, together with his fare to Jacksonville, and a monthly compensation of S3O. Another statement is that the men are to receive a bonus of SIOO and $22 a month.

FOR BETTER CITIES. Municipal Reform League Meeting in Baltimorei Md. Friends of municipal and civil service reform gathered in Baltimore from all over the country to attend the second animal meeting of the National Municipal League and the fourth national conference for good city government. The chairman called the delegatus to order in the assembly-room of the Music Hall. Merritt Starr was present to explain the workings of the civil service in Chicago and compare the system in operation there with the laws adopted in other cities. It was a representative gathering in every respect, illustrating what is best and noblest in the reform movement now sweeping over the country. Big Pool in Flonr. R. D. Hubbard, the executive front of the linseed oil trust, has succeeded, with the aid of the Pillsburys, in perfecting the organization of the greatest millers’ combine ever put together in this country. The purpose is to advance the price of flour from the present low quotations, to secure satisfactory rail and water transportation rates and to compel every spring wheat grinder in the country to become a part of the pool. There are 500 spring wheat millers in the United States. More than 100 have joined the new pool, which had its inception last fall, reached a head last February and is now a bona fide organization. The pool has been incorporated. Its name is the North American Milling Company. It is commonly known at Minneapolis, in St. Paul, at' Duluth and in Souther.! Minnesota as the American Milling Company. It is the successor of the Southerr Minnesota Millers’ Association, of which Hubbard was the leading spirit. Representatives of the trust claim to represent 110 mills having a daily capacity of 105,000 barrels. The whole aim of the-organization is to protect the gigantic flooring interests of Minneapolis, now threatened by competition. Humiliation of Chamberlain. President Kruger, of the Transvaal, has won a famous victory. With sword and with pen he has shown his prowess over British arms apd over British diplomacy. Secretary Chamberlain, .regretfully, no doubt, was compelled to acknowledge in the House of Commons Friday at London that the Government was ready to concede to the Transvaal any reasonable guarantee it demanded that in the future it would not be th’ victim of any more English forays. It is a question whether this reluctant concession is commensuratq with the calm and generous attitude of the South African Republic after the terrible injury and the provQcation it has received, but there is“no doubt that, meager and limited as it is, the concession is a source of great humiliation to the colonial secretary. It dissipates his iridescent dream of imperial federation; it wipes out the possibility of the rich region north of the Vaal becoming part of the British Empire. For Cecil j Rhodes, who engineered the Jameson raid, the secretary had both censure and praise.

The Michigan Compromise. An animated fight over the money question at the Michigan Republican convention at Detroit Thursday resulted in squelching both the gohjl plank offered by the majority and the silver plank submitted by the minority, substitution therefor of the money 'plank of the Minneapolis platform of ’92. McKinley was indorsed and the delegates instructed in his favor. Four delegates-at-large were elected, two without contests. D. M. Ferry was chosen chairman of the State Cent-ai Committee. Indiana for McKinley. Indiana Republicans declare for McKinley and the delegates-at-large from the State to the St. Louis convention are instructed to “cast their votes for William McKinley at frequently and continuously as there is any hope of his nomination.” The instruction resolution is the last plank of a platform, which declares for protection and reciprocity, and for “honest” money, favoring the use of silver only under regulations that will maintain its parity with gold. More Plums Tied Up, ’ The President has issued an order extending the civil service rules ,to the interstate commerce commission. This brings all offices in the commission in and outside of Washington within the classified service, except the chief executive ones requiring Presidential nomination and confirmation by the Senate. The order, which takes effect immediately, makes a total of about 85,200 Government positions now included in the civil service. Asked fpr Prayers and Died. A 1 Chandler, a Gallup, N. M., liveryman, calleu Rev. William Farley to his house and asked him to pray for him. As the minister was beseeching for divine help, Chandler poured poison into a dipper of water, drank the mixture and died. Marriage Not Their Aim. Mrs. Luella Wilcox Sf. Clair, president of Christian College, Columbia, Mo., recently requested all the members of- the ■lass which will graduate this year, to

I state briefly in writing their principal purpose in life. A number of interesting ays wen resulted. Ten of tfie girls replied that It was their principal desire to obtain further education, especially in art ami music. Three prefer quiet life at home, that they may be a comfort to their parents in their declining years. One desires to be a missionary. One prefers a career us a physician, and the highest ambition of another young lady is to be a hospital nurse. Three girls stated that it. w is their wish to travel as much as possible. Only one admitted that marriage was her principal purpose in life. Several of the replies were written in poetry. PUSHING INTO EGYPT. Railway Complete to Murrat W’elln— Khalifa Has 110,000 Men. The head of the new railway is now at Murrat Wells, fourteen milas from Sarras, Egypt. In the last few days the work accomplished under Bimbashee Girouard averaged one mile a day. The greatest drawback experienced has been having to carry from Sarras all the water for the laborers and the guard, numliering 1,600 men. There is only a su-.iil quantity of water at Murrat, and it is not suitable for drinking. The railway will probably b« continued to Abuenadmah, on the third cataract. The khalifa's total force has been estimated at 110,000 men, of whom 40,000 are armed with rifles, but owning to the enormous extent of territory that requires guarding it is impossible that he coul. concentrate more than one-fourth of the number to repel an attack of the Egyptian army. SENTENCED TO DEATH. Snmtnary Proceedings of the Spanish Conrt Martial at Havana. The court-martial trial at Havana of the crew of the American sehooner Competitor has resulted in sentence of death to ail. The boat was captured by a Spanish cruiser, aud is alleged to have been on a filibustering expedition. The prisoners were not allowed to call witnesses in their defense. The matter has excited interest in the State Department at Washington, and a noteworthy coincidence is that unwonted activity prevails in the North Atlantic squadron, now at anchor off New York. Fires are kept banked on all the cruisers, and steam could be raised within an hour. Admiral Bruce has been in constant receipt of cipher dispatches from Washington, and the men are kept at drill. SITUATION 16 BETTER. , Dnn & Co. Take a More Hopeful View of Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “That exports of $5,850,000 gold the past week have produced no monetary disturbance is at once proof of the soundness of financial conditions, and of the prevailing confidence in better things to come. Much of the hesitation at pres-. ent is due to temporarily reduced demand in some industries, nnd in iroh and steel the power of the new combinations is being gradually tested by refusal of orders, so that production exceeds consumption, but consumption exceeds new buying. The general irregularity of prices and slackness of demand for finished do not prevent the marking up of prices by combinations, but are largely due to doubt whether such prices as are fixed can be maintained.’’

MAYOR IN A DILEMMA. Must Determine the Musical Qualities of a Firecracker. Mayor Schott, of Massillon, 0., is struggling to determine whether or not a firecracker is a musical instrument. This problem arises from the giving of an open air concert in the park. The musicians concluded their evening's performance with the national hymn, “America,” and in order to give the selection according to the score detailed two of their number to shoot off firecrackers. There is a city ordinance authorizing band concerts to be given in the park, and also one fdrbidding the exploding of firecrackers. The firecrackers exploded and a bold policeman arrested the musicians. They have pleaded not guilty and will have a jury trial. Lnmber Docks in Flames. At Ashland, Wis., flames laid waste property amounting to $500,000 Saturday. It was the worst fire in the history of the town, utterly wiping out the leading mill plant in the city and throwing hundreds of men out of work. In the short space of two hours nearly $500,000 worth of property was destroyed by the flames, three men had been driven by the flames only to meet death by drowning. It is reported tbnt four others have met the same fate. Shores’ mill, with docks, worth $100,000; the main dock of Durfee’s plant, with 18,900,000 feet of lumber, were consumed by flames. Shores’ loss is nearly $300,000. W. R. Durfee loses about $30,000 on the dock. Four Persons Suffocated. the tjniversity Riding School at Heidelburg was burned. Four persons were suffocated and several others had narrow escapes. Twenty-seven horses perished. Kentucky Town Is Scorched. The town of Sebree; iu Webster County, K.v., has lost thirteen business houses and three dwellings by fire.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2 oO to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 rert. *s2c to O’le; corn, No. 2,28 cto 29c; oats. No. 2, IBc to 19c; rye, No. 2,36 cto 37c; butte.-, choice creamery, 15c to 16c; eggs, fresh, 8c to 9c; potatoes, per bushel. I2c to 20c; broom corn, $25 to SSO per ton for common to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,64 cto 66c; corn, No. 1 white, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23e. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 17c to 19c; rye, No. 2,36 c to 38c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, SB.OO 4o $4.00; sheep, $2.09 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 36c to 37c. Toledo—Wheat,. No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye. No. 2,35 cto 37c; clover seed, $4.00 to $4.70. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 61c to 63c; corn, No. 3,28 cto 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; barley, No. 2,32 cto 33c; rye, No. 1,37 cto 39c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.25 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. New York—Cattle, $3,00 to SS,OG| hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.00 to '54.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 71c; .corn, No- 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter,- creamery, 12c to l7c; eggs, West--9c to lilt. ••■oo;:.-:

OUR RURAL READERS.

SOMETHING HERE THAT WILL INTEREST THEM. Claims Made for the Adams Corn r- New Whiffletree for Three Horse Plowing—Handy Scaffold Device—Shallow Plowing for Barley. The Adams Corn. C. r. Augur, of Connecticut, writing In the American Agriculturist, says: M/ experience leads me to believe that

dwarf early ADAMs ma^es desirable CORK—K size of ear. In both sections. For other sections of the country, while It may not excel other varieties, it certainly can lose nothing by comparison. It Is a general-purpose com, If such a thing exists. As early. If not earlier, than the earliest sweet variety, it has large handsome ears, that are tender and toothsome on the table, and sell readily In the market. Not only will its size, .earliness and general appearance sell it, but those who have tried Its quality are ready to buy again. It has unusual vigor, and will grow sturdily on very moderate fertilization. It is a hardy variety, and can be planted safely a week or ten days earlier than the sweet varieties. There are four types ,of the Adams—Dwarf Early, Early, Late and Zigzag Adams.

The Garden a Help to Good Living. The fanner’s garden is not only the best paying piece of land on the farm, but it is the one that if managed as it should be, best shows what advantages farm life may offer. It is not creditable to farmers that the residents of cities and villages are able to secure cheaply better supplies of fresh garden vegetables than can the farmer. It ought Dot to be so. Even in the matter of earliness, it is within the power of the farmer with a good greenhouse to compete for his own table with the market gardener, even in the winter and early spring. But if he does not care to go to this expense, he will be Inexcusable if he does not provide an abundant variety of everything that can be grown in the garden in the open air. If the farmer was obliged, as his wife is, to provide the material three times a day for wholesome and palatable meals, he would pay more attention to the garden than he does. In any well-ordered family the garden ought to furnish half of what is eaten during the summer and fall months, and the half that will certainly give the greatest pleasure to unperverted tastes and appetites. New Whiffletree. A rig that beats them all for threehorse plowing, is shown by Farm and Home. The advantages are; The team is close to the plow and the plow beam needs but very little shifting when using a two-horse or a three-horse team. Fasten a standard 18 Inches long at right angles up and down to the end of the plow beam. It may be of wood or

THREE-HORSE WHIFFLETREE.

Iron. Put a single tree at the upper end of the standard for the middle horse and a two-liorse tree to the lower end for the outside horses. The standard must have 12 inches above and 6 inches below the plow beam to equalize the draft between the middle and the two outside horses. To measure the right length of the evener, place the three single trees in line on a work bench. Let the middle tree lap 3 inches over inside ends of outside single trees. Cut the evener just long enough and you.will have a compact rig. Remove Dead Limbs. There is some evaporation going on even from limbs that have ceased to put forth leaves and are actually dead. They should be cut off down to the live wood and a plaster be put over the wound, so as to exclude the air and let nature form a new covering of bark over the stump. More or less limbs will be found dead in orchards even of thrifty trees every spring when new leaves are put forth, Unless the dead wood Is promptly removed the trees are sure to become unthrifty, and the dead portion will spread to other portions until it embraces the entire tree. Beilins Voons Plirs. There is no quicker way to get money in pork than to keep a few breeding sows and sell their pigs when ready to wean or soon after. There Is always a good demand for such pigs and at considerably more than their pork value. It Is known by everybody that the young pig makes more growth tylth the same feed than it will at any later period of its life. But the seller of the pig gets the advantage of this without being at any expense to care for and feed the animal. Therefore his profit Is greater than that of the man who buys from him. Top Rampant Grape Vine Growth. Many American grape vines, especially those that are in part descended from sije native sorts, require much more room than do the grapes grown In European vineyards. Unless given considerable wood at pruning time the growth of the few buds that are left by close pruning will be stimulated too much. ' *4vv» ?!\j 542 V.T'

'.Tills is a frequent cause Of unfruitful ness in such varieties as the Rogers Hybrids. There is such an excess of sap flowing into ..he shoots that when they blossom the tendency to wood growth is so strong as to prevent setting the fruit Such varieties should be ■ pruned long, and If too many buds start, pull out every alternate one after the fruit has fuMy set and the danger of growing only wood has passed. The Early Planted Potatoes, Potatoes will grow at a much lower temperature than corn; but it is none the less a mistake for the early planting to put the sets in deeply while the ground is cold and wet. Cut potatoes thus planted rot very easijf. For all early planting we should use whole potatoes, entting out all but two or three of the most vigorous eyes This will make a much stronger growth than the whole seed not thus prepared. Three inches is deep enough to plant on heavy ground, though after the soil has been warmed to greater depth, potatoes will do best if planted four and a-bftlf to five inches deep. Such potatoes will not need to be hilled to keep the crop from growing out of the ground, and the deep planting is also to some extent a means of preventing the rot, which, as it comes from spores bred on the potato leaf, is most apt to attack the tubers nearest the surface. Testing Seed Corn. j.*-ere are every year so many complaints and losses from poor seed corn that the only safe way Is to test it by planting some under cover, and in a moderately warm place. This is not Itself a test of how many seeds will grow when planted in the open ground, but it will at least show whether the seed has retained its vitality, and under favoring conditions can be expected to make a crop. Knowing that his seeu can be depended on, the farmer can be saveti the loss sure to occur if he puts in more seed than is needed with the expectation that some will not grow. Thih loss is most serious of all, for the seed with little vitality usually makes a weakly growth, and the number of plants in a hill makes it impossible that any of them shall produce more than nubbins. A Handy Scaffold Device. Perhaps the east end of the house or barn needs cementing or replastering. If so, and you don’t want a quantity of lumber used, make an angle of 3 by 4

Early Dwarf Adams corn will give better results than any flint variety. This corn was first brought to my attention thirty-five years ago, a sample being sent me from Michigan, under the name of “Squaw” com. It was recommended as an extra-early table variety. It has been improved by years of careful selection, until now I think it has no superior for either the extreme north or the extreme south, as its early ripening

scantling, as shown in the illustration, and slide it up against the wall with a stout pole or scantling. Fasten it at the bottom, or let the end sink into the earth, and the more weight you put upon it the more secure it will become. You will want at least two of these angles and a board across them. Kes« as Chicken Food. For very young chicks, and until they are old enough to eat whole wheat, there is no better food than egg boiled hard, so that it can be crumbled. It should be given a little at a time, and the chicks be allowed to run around for an hour or two before any more is given. If the egg shell is crushed' fine and added, this will also be eaten, and it will furnish the needed grit to aid digestion, besides supplying the lime which is essential in growing bone and feathers. Many chickens suffer from indigestion because cooped on wooden floors, where they cannot get either sand or gravel, which all fowls must have if they would keep in good health. Stone as a Mulch. Wherever a stone heap has laid a few years, the soil beneath will be found more fertile. This is especially the case where the whole or part of the heap is composed of limestone. The disintegration of the stone is in part responsible for this. All rains and snows contain some carbonic acid gas, which makes them a good solvent. It Is from stone that the earthy portions of all soils were originally formed. Another, and in some cases the most important benefit to the soil from the stone heap lying above it is, that the stones act'as a mulch, shading the soil, and this enabling it to disintegrate the insoluble particles, and prepare their plant food to be taken up by the roots of plants.

Shallow Plowing; for Barley. The roots of barley do not run deeply, and the plant makes a much more vigorous early growth if the surface soil is merely cultivated, instead of being turned to the bottom of a furrow with a plow. The only objection to shallow plowing for spring grain is that it makes the plowing harder for teams and plows when the spring stubble is turned over in the fall for sowing to winter grain. But some farmers have found that here also the shallow plowing succeeds best. Deep plowing of stubble land only keeps the soil loose to a greater depth, allowing it to absorb more water, and thus increase the injury to the crop from winter freezing and thawing. Ground for Celery. Celery requires very rich and ye: moist soil. It should be made rich by previous manuring, as a large amount of fresh manure put on the year the crop is to be grown makes too dry, and though the celery will 'grow rank for a time, it will become dry and pithy. If the soil In which celery is to be grown is found not to be rich enough, some quick acting nitrogenous commercial fertilizer will be found more profitable as well as cheaper than the quantity of stable manure needed to secure an equal amount of growth. The commercial fertilizer will not dry out the land as stable manure will. When a girl is 16 the eligibility of a young man depends a good deal on what sort of a mustache he has. When she is 26 she Is likely to think more about his bank account—Somerville Journal

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INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Man and Woman Married in England Years Ago Meet Again-Mrs. Jones of Indianapolis Arouses the Ire of Judge Cox. Romantic Affair. Judge Marbro. of Kentucky, was standing on the platform of the Big Four station at Fowler Thursday when the Chicago limited pulled in. In the parlor car sat a lady whom he thought he knew. He approached her and they recognized one another immediately. It was his wife, whom he married twenty years ago in England. She was the daughter of Lord Lindsiey. Her father was so opposed to the marriage that he induced her to leave him about six months after they were married. She relented and decided to return to her husband, but \was informed and made to believe thut Marbro was dead. Marbro, incensed at his wife’s supposed infidelity, came to America. He was shortly afterward informed that she had secured a divorce from him. In a few months after' their separation a son was born to Mrs. Marbro. He is now in the English navy. On the death of Lord Lindsiey -Mr*. Marbro fell heir to $3,000.01)0 in estates and money. She has since married and has three children by the second union. She was eo route to visit a sister in San Francisco. Judge Marbro is very wealthy. He is also married. He accompanied his wife of former years to Chicago. ... j j Little Children Made Defendants. An unusual scene was witnessed in court at Indianapolis Saturday, when the officers brought in Annie Toner. Alice Eggerfield and Willie Eggerfield, 2. 3 and 5 years of age. As the children were brought forward Judge Cox looked in open amazement, and asked if thev were the defendants. He was informed that such was the case. Seizing tile affidavit he found the name of Mrs. Jonas.as the plaintiff. He asked her to come forward immediately. She came to the desk, carrying a few sticks, which she claimed had been thrown at her and on account of which she expected to. have the little ones fined. Judge Cox looked at her for a moment, and then said severely: “Madam, this ease will lie dismissed on motion of the prosecutor. I think it is an outrage for anyone, and especially i woman, to have babies like these brought into a police court. There is no occasion for such an act. and I hereby discharge them.” Mrs. Jonas was accompanied by seven women, who were to act as witnesses, ami presumably to claim the usual witness fee of .'<l apiece.

Will Await Fuller’s Release. J. W . Fuller, the noted forger, who was arrested and convicted at Richmond nearly three years ago, will lie released from the southern prison .Tune 1.1. The Philadelphia officers have notified the prison officials that they will be here with a requisition for him at that time. Fuller made a specialty of swindling banks, and it is said that he succeeded in getting money in nearly every city in the country. The sheriff of Wayne County has received a letter from Chief of Police Linden of Philadelphia, stating that he will send a couple of officers who intend to stay with him from the time he leaves the prison until the law gives them the right to seize him as their prisoner. All Over the State. I pon breaking the shell of his usual breakfast egg Saturday morning Major J. B. Cobb, of Goshen, was amazed to see a lire snake wiggle out. The serpent was diminutive, but active, aud had gone safely through a three-minute boiling. The major has preserved the reptile. The Citizens’ Bank of Union City, one of the oldest banks in the county, closed for want of funds. The last dollar was paid out and the Auditor of State notified. Liabilities. .$75,000; assets, $135,000. The cause of the failure is inability to collect and scarcity of money. The alleged American heirs of the late Lord Antrim, whose estate, estimated at $80,000,000, is said to be in chancery in England, held their second national meeting in Anderson. It was behind closed doors. A report of the attorneys appointed at the Chicago meeting to investigate into records was most encouraging and an attorney will be appointed to go to England at once and secure the property. Twenty States are represented at the meeting. There are about 150 alleged heirs in the United States. They are very confident. Gov. Matthews suspended the sentence of Thompson Arnold, of the bank at South Whitley, convicted of defrauding the depositors, until such time as the chief executive had opportunity to examine the evidence. Under the law the minimum punishment for offenses of which Arnold was convicted is two years’ imprisonment, but he was sentenced for one year. Thereupon the defense appealed to the Supreme Court, because the punishment was not conformable with the law, but the higher court refused to interfere. As a last resort, the Governor was called upon.

Frank Shields killed John Wade at Edinburgh, ten miles south of Franklin, Wednesday afternoon. Shields had been making the rounds of the saloons and had been engaged in several fights. At about noon he was ejected from the saloon of Wade Brothers, after a fight with John and Mack Wade. Shields went to his home and procured a single barreled shotgun. Coming down town he went to the Wade saloon. John Wade was standing in front and he Avas warned to look out for Shields. He stepped into the alley and was just looking around the corner when he received the full charge of shot full in the face. Death was instantaneous. Shields was captured and at once placed in jail. Wade was a well-known racing man. He v'as 50 years of age and leaves a wife and three children. Charles lvinsey, a traveling man, while asleep walked off a limited mail train which was going at the rate of forty miles an hour, near Anderson. Strange to say, he did not meet instant death, but he was very seriously injured. Ex-Deputy Prosecutor Doss, of Anderson, who brought proceedings against Prosecutor Scanlan. charging him with juggling fees in order to cut him out of his share, got a verdict for $223. It is said that actions will be brought against both Scanlan and Doss for bribery, and that the bar will hold a council to decide upon a proposition to disbar them. Because her parents would not let her marry the man of her choice Louise Dean, aged 17, of Wabash, swallowed a teaspoonful 'of poison. Prompt use of a stomach pump may save her life. At Brazil, Wednesday evening, a pug dog belonging to Joseph Britton exhibited symptoms of hydrophobia, frothing at the mouth and snapping at everything it came in contact with. Harry Baley and Gofilia Mitchell were playing in Britton’s yard. The dog bit both of them. The little girl was bitten through the eye and arm and the boy was bitten on the hnnd. The parents of the children are greatly alarmed. The dog was subsequently killed by a policeman.

WORK OF CONGRESS.

THE WEEK’S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers at Washington Matters that Concern the People. Lawmakers at Labor. The opponents of four battle ships sustained defeat in the House Tuesday on the proposition to accept the Senate intendment to the naval appropriation bill, reducing th * num!>er to two. Senator Hill added another day—the fifth—in opposition to the bond resolution in the Senate. Some progress was made on the river and heritor bill by taking it up is the hour. The only changes made were those restoring the authorization of contracts of $1,403,000 for Sabine Pass. Vex., and S!>S7,OOO Tor Savannah, Ga . harbor. A large number of pension bills were passed. The Senate again put in n day Wednesday debating the subject of investigation of recent bond issues. The House served notice on the Senate and the country that it had transacted its business and was ready for the final adjournment. ■l'he report on the contested election case of Thompson versus Shaw from the Third North Carolina District, which was unanimously in favor of the sitting member, Was adopted. A bill granting the widow of Secretary Gresham a pension of SIOO per month was passed. By a vote of 51 to C> the Senate Thursday inaugurated ai investigation, to be conducted by the Senate Coramittc-e on Finance, into the facts and circumstances connected with the sale of United States I bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury ! during the last thre_* years. In addition I to some minor business, the bill was passi e( I extending the tome for building a railj road by the Dennison and Northern Rail- ! way Company through the Indian territory. Also the bill to sand to the Court of Appeals the ease of “book agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church, south.” . The House Friday voted to give each member SIOO a month for recess clerk hire. A bill was passed to appropriate $5,000 for the deportation of the Canadian refugee Oree Indians from the State of Montana. There are about 500 of these Indians. They have been in Montana since the close of the Riel rebellion. The pension bills favorably acted upon at the last Friday night session were taken up and passed. The river and harbor bill was completed in the Senate with the exception of the item for a deep sea harbor on the Pacific coast. A bill was passed authorizing the Sioux City and Omaha Railroad Company to construct a railway through the Omaha and Winnebago reservation in Thurston County, Nebraska. Both houses adjourned until Monday. In the Senate Monday the Santa Monica deep water harbor fraud was debated most of the afternoon. The heat was so terrific that early adjournment was taken. The House lias practically finished its work, and did nothing of importance.

Ink-Slinging in Court.

“Speaking of lawyers fussing in court,” said Chief of Police Seip. “one of the most violent affairs I can remember occurred about twenty years ago, and John J. Ingalls and Judge C. G. Foster were the principals. I was sheriff at the time, and a man was being tried on some kind of a criminal charge. Foster was acting as county attorney and Ingalls represented the prisoner. Ingalls and Foster became involved in an argument about some point of evidence, and, after pawing eaeh other for some time, Ingalls finally called Foster a liar. Foster was at one end of a long table and Ingalls at the other. Foster grabbed a huge ink fountain and threw it at Ingalls, hitting him in the breast, and spattering ink all over the judge, jury, and all kinds of legal papers. The late Nathan Price was judge, and he fined them SSO each. They apologized next morning aud their fines were remitted.”—Atchison Globe.

"Out of Order.”

At a club meeting where the members, though old men, wrangled like so many schoolboys, this scene occurred, and the Louisville Commercial reports it: A feeble old man, whose yeilow complexion indicated liver troubles, offered a resolution. His opponent got up aud excitedly exclaimed: “Air. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, the gentleman is out of order, and therefore cannot offer the resolution!” The old man replied in .an equally excited manner: “Mr. Chairman, the gentleman is right. I am out of order. The doctor told me this morning that my liver was all out of order. But, Mr. Chairman, I should like to see the clause in the constitution which says that if a man is sick he cannot present a resolution.” The old fellow is still wondering why his hearers laughed.

Big Electrical Plant.

Mariposa County, California, is to have the third largest electrical power developing and distributing plant In the United States. The largest is at Niagara, the next is at Folsom, in California. and the third is to be constructed at the Horseshoe Bend on the Merced River. The location is near the center of a mining uistrict, having at least KK) mines that are sufficiently prospected to use cheap power. At the driest season of the year the power company calculates upon 1,800 horse power, and during eight months in the year they expect water enough to generate 3,500 horse power. The price the company proposes to charge its consumers is $5 per horse-power a month.

A Patriotic Girl.

A bright and patriotic America girl who was recently in Oxford, England, attended an afternoon tea while there, and soon found herself, her country, its institutions and customs objects of great interest. The conversation was animated and prolonged well into the evening, and the young American took a conspicuous part therein. Physically exhausted thereby, the maiden knelt for her customary devotions at her bedside that night in a mood somewhat less attentive than usual, so that, as she confesses confidentially to her friends, she discovered herself saying: “Thy will be done on earth as it is in America.”—New York Tribune.

Etiquette of Introductions.

Two ladies can shake hands on being introduced. It is considered good form. Young women when introduced to young men should not otter to shake hands. When an Introduction is given the name should be pronounced in a clear, distinct tone.