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Oilice at 23!-.j W. Main street, eve? Early's drug store. Residence, ]2 Walnut street.

Prompt attention to calls in city or country. Special attention to Chddrens, Woinens' and Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Louis Childreus Hospital. 39tly

ELMER J. B1NFORD,

LAWYER.

Special Mttnnt ion r! veil to collections, sellllfl{ estates, sju.'irilian business, conveyancing, etc Notary always in office.

Cilice—Wilson block, opposite court-heuM.

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C. W. MORRISON' S SOS

UNDERTAKERS.

27 W, MAIN ST. Greenfield, Indiana.

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prompt answer and an honest opinion, write to Jll 1,'SN A: CO., who have had nearlytlftv years' experience in the patent business. Communications strictly confidential. A Handbook of Information concerning I'ateiUH and how to obtain them sent free. Also a catalogue of mechanical and scientiiic books sent free.

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Trains leave Ciiinbrdge City at 17.05 a. m. and t'2 00 l. "i. for Kuslmlle, Shelbyville, Coluinlius and lntfinnediatf) stations. Arrive Cambridge City f12 30 and t6 35 p. m. JO.SIil'M WOOD, E. A. FORD,

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Your sweetheart divsswl in white, "Kweet iu'lds arrayed ill living green And rivers ol delight!" —Detroit Tribune.

A JJait. I

Mrs. Rash—How do you manage to got vour cook up so early:" Mrs. uh—Well. I hunted up a young and crood looking milkman and hired linn to come. at 5 clock.—Louis\ lllo CourierJournal. I

An Appropriate Time.

Ilisjbee—Would you like to lie introduced at. the. Comos club. (.'happier Chappie—Delmiued, I'm shuah!

Jfi •!n-i—Ail l'lulit. I'll lake youaround Kuiiiu ladies' dav.—.Brooklyn Lil'e

•'The Humble Herald. Ad yet no fragile son.1. birds tell That penile sjinng is on her w.* And yet the f: :-t we know full wi

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"No feai-.said the child's father. "It won't- go far. I've got hold of the chain." —Eveneme-it.

Deficient.

Bryce—Algernon Pity, Sappy is one of those fellows wiio has more money than brains, isn't he?

Knowso—Yes, and he's poor too.—Life's Calendar.

Slimmer Anticipations.

Already the s:aall hoy dreams of the days When he to the river can scoot And enjo" himself in divers ways v. In a Trilby bathing suit. —huh.aiupohs Journal.

No Trouble.

She—I should just like to see any man kiss me! lie—That's easy enough. your eyes open next time.— Journal.

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Wife—I never heard you complain and suffer so over apiece of work in all my life, Husband—Dut,this is the first one I was ever paid for in advance.—Cleveland Plain Duller.

Not Necessary.

I did not ask her for a kiss As she sat close to me. I'd known tin." girl two years, and 90

I did nut have to. See? —New York World.

His lousiness.

"That fellow docs a rattling business." "Who is lie?" "End man in a minstrel troop."—Atlanta Constitution.

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You Want

To have your laundry done up in first-class shape, that is, washed clean and ironed glossy, the only place in town to have it done is at the Troy Steam Laundry. They have all the latest Improved machinery, and will guarantee all work they put out. If you try them once you will go agtiiu.

HERRING BROS.,

Bob Cough, Solicitor.

MM IN ILLIMOIS

Two Men Taken From Jail and hung to a Bridge.

GUILTY OF CRIMINAL ASSAULT.

The "W ol) Ad vised to Leave the Law Take Coarse, but They I)il .Noc Trust (jov-

rnicr .\Mgeld—Tliey Feared .1 1'ardon if

Ii:i rjmiiials were Convicted—Tlio Mob

?iio.sily l-armers.

I )i ji )M N( ri'i Ills., May 25.—The Pantagraplrs Danvulu, Ills.,special says: At midnight a mob of farmers attacked ho Vermillion county nail ro secure John Had. .Jr. and. William Koyco, who raped Miss Laura Barnet Thursday wgiit. Shorn? Thompson denied them admission. The mob procured a telephone pole and used it as a battering

After repeated efforts to break down

he outer jail door with the telephone pole which produced little or no effect, I the crowd momentarily desisted iu its I efforts. Sheriff Thompson, his wil'o ami Deputy ii her iff Sloau beseechud

Ji e.u to disperse. lur. .Baruetr, the father of the injured prl. said to 31rs. Thompson "ALulam, you never had a (laughter oan'a.ued and her blood demands vengeance.'' I jii.s reply was wildly applauded. By this tiiiie a railroad tie was secured and I wit It three blows the oarer door was battered in. the besiegers thronged in i'.nd commenced work oil the inner door,

The police ar 2 o'clock brought Judge Book waiter, the circuit judge, to the j:i:l. lie made an earnest, eloquent plea let the law take its course and not bring disgrace on Vermillion .county by the lirst lynching in its history. He assured the men that Hall any Royce would receive a severe punishment if found guilty that the trial jury would do its cuity. I At iirsr liirf words produced a telling I effect, but the leaders who are among the most prominent men in the county, I ntially replied: "Yes, we know the jury will convict and give them a severe so,'Hence, but Uoveriior Altgeld will pardon them out. He recently pardoned three rapists you sent up from Ciiampaign county for 20 years, and he will pardon these men. If any other man il'.iui Altgeld was governor wo would ii"t lynch these men, but we are determined he will never have a chance to turn them loose." "With these words they again comI me need work, and at a. m. the mob tin ally got both the men and took them, our to a bridge in the east oud of town and hung them.

The lynchers wen-nearly all farmers from the southern part ox the county whore JUiss Barnett lives. The crowd gathered in a livery barn within a block of the jail and marched in a body to tii'.' jaii.

The criminal assault was made at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening on Miss Barnott by Hall and Royce, well known y. iung men of unsavory reputation. Aliss Barnett, in company with Lillian Draper, was walking on the Vermillion river bridge when accosted.

The girls started to run. One man knocked Miss Barnett down. ..iiss 1) aper made her escape up Main i-et and her shrieks collected a crow., who started in pursuit of llail and i„oyee, v. ho dragged Miss Barnett with them. They passed John Downs, an old man, WHO at tempted to interfere. He- was kuo.'ked down by Hall.

Tiic men took the girl to the river bottoius, where they accomplLhed their purpose. Miss Barnert was found unconscious several hours later. Hall and Royce were arrested, waived preliminary examination and were bound over to the grand jury.

EFFECTS OF THE EARTHQUAKE.

"i.'iy 1'ersons Were Killed and Tlireo Times That 7tlaiiy Injured. CONSTANTIxoi'LK, May 25.—"Word has

reached this city of a disaster lroin an oaitlnjuake the town of Baramythia, the province of Epirus, which is part

of Albania. Baramythia is a small town of about :!,o()0 inhabitants. The town is divided into the upper and lower town and lias an old castle garrisoned by Turks and the remains of ancient walls. It is a Creek bishop's see. Nearly all the houses in the town have been destroyed and oO persons were killed and 150 injured by the earthquake.

Vesuvius Very Active.

LONDON. May 25.—The Daily News has a dispatch from Naples, which says that the activity of Vesuvius which coincide in JbU4 with the earthquakes in .japan, Turkey and Calaberia, is again noi iceable.Thick columns of smoke, lire and lava are issuing from the mouth of the crater making a splendid spectacle by night. A new cone is forming 011 lie summit which *?s already 70 feet high. The seismic instruments are very active.

KILLED HIS CHILD AND HIMSELF.

A Despoil (lent Dohcitiiaii Commits a Horrible Crime in Chicago. CHICAGO, May 25.—Louis Kracman, a

Bohomian, despondent over the loss of work and unable to properly proyide for his ^-year-old daughter, shot and killed the child at his homo yesterday afternoon, and then put a bullet through his own brain.

Mrs. Kraouian was at work but returned home at an early hour. She tried the door but found it locked attid vainly endeavored to affect an entrance. Some neighbors assisted her in forcing the door. The dead bodies of Kracman and the liWlo girl were found lying

MUNICIPAL BONDS.

A Court Decision That. Will AftVcfc Millions 1 of Dollar-,. CLF.YKLAND, May 2~.—Judge Ricks

sitting in the United States court yesterday handed down a decision which establishes an important precedent and indirectly affects millions of dollars worth of municipal bonds issued on the authority of special legislation and not authorized by a popular vote of the peop.o living in the town or city by which the bonds are issued.

The ease was that of the GermanAanerican Investment company of New York, against the city of Y'ouim-stowu, O. The Investment company was the highest bidder for .^iNJi.OUO worth of water bonds authorized by the city administration, and aiterward approver! by a special act of the legislature. Later, the Investment company reiused to accept the bonds on the ground that they were not authorized by a tworuirus vote of the citizens of Youngstown, as required by the statutes of Ohio. The case was then taken into court by the Investment, company suing he city of Youngstown to recover-fo,-c-UO deposited as a bond.

The court decides iu favor of the Investment company, and holds that the city had not met with the requirements of the constitution, and that the general assembly in passing an act giving lungstown authority to issue bonds, had violated that part of the constitution, which says the general assembly shall pass no special act conferring corporate powers. Bonds issued without a two-thirds vote of the people urs practically declared to be worthless.

It is said that millions of dollars worth of bonds have been issued by various towns and cities throughout the state which will be affected by this uocision. Another phase of the case is the possibility of such bonds being re- I

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the floor. He left a note for his wife saying that he had killed the child and was going to kill himself because he could not find work and would not leave the little one to be a burden on his wife.

One Kilhxl mill Twelvu Injurod. DHNVKK, May 25.—A .special to The News from Como, Col., says: A pushcar occupied by 13 workmen became uncoiltrolablo 011 the newly ypened Gunnison branch 011 the Denvor, Leadvillo and Gunnison railroad last night and shot down the grade like lightning. The men jumped, Charles Michaelson being killed. The others were all seriously injured.

WantH to S«LL tin.- Canal.

CoboN, May 25.—It is reported here that the new French company, which has been pushing the worit along the route of the Panama caiial, is trying to Hell the canal to an American syndicate.

deemed. Such redemption could be re strained by any tax payer on the ground Scmu v.'ore in Berlin, that the act by which they were issued was unconstitutional.

LAID TO REST WITH HONORS.

I'unoral Services Over the Remains of tho Jjato Congressman Cogswoll.

SALKM,

Mass., May 25.—The funeral

of the late Congressman Cogswell yesterday afternoon was the most imposing scene in this city for a number of years. There was a general suspension of business and many buildings were draped in mourning. When tho body of General Cogswell arrived, escorted by the congressional committee and that sent from the state legislature, it was met at the depot by a guard of honor from the national guard and the local G. A. li. post", which escorred it to the city hall, where it lay in stare for three hours and a half, being viewed by a great number oi' people.

The funeral services were held at the tabernacle church, which was crowded to the doors with a distinguished company. The services were conducted by itev. J. P. Franks of Grace Episco.1 church, assisted by Rev. James L.

J. acting pastor of the tabernacle. ±1 torment, was at Harmony Grove, where the Grand Army ritual was performed. During the passage of the funeral cortege to the grave all the bells of the city were tolled.

HONORS DISTRIBUTED.

l'oojd Kenelil ted by Oisovn Victoria on ller lliitInlay. LONDON, —Among the honors

distributed yesterday on the occasion of the queen's birthday are the following: bir Henry Brougham Loch, former governor of Cape Colony, was made a privy .: ancillor, ^enry Irving, the acior Lewis Morris, the poet, anil Howard Russell, the war correspondent, whose service dates back to the Crimean war, were knighted. The Earl of Aberdeen, governor general of Canada, has had his title raised to the tirst class.

The following are given second class titles: Hon. John Sliultz, ox-governor of Manitoba Henry Gustav Jolly, expremier of Quebec and Collector of Customs j\!i!".e at Victoria, B. C. The title conferred upon Michael George Milne, is for his services in connection with the Bering sea negotiations.

A FREE MAN.

Not Indicted

Ilis Wife and

For Killing Archie Drown.

LOUISVLLLK, May 25.—The grand jury yesterday before adjourning dismissed both cases against Fulton Cordon for the killing of his wife and Archie Brown, son of Governor Brown, in this city, several weeks ago. The day had been set apart specially to inquire into the case, and nearly all of the witnesses examined at the preliminary trial were present, but only a few of them were examined.

The prosecution will take 110 further action 111 the matter and Gordon is now a free man. Members of the grand jury declined to state whether the action in dismissing the proposed indictment was unanimous or not. Tho action of the grand jury was favorably received by nearly everybody.

Minister Indicted For Wife 1 urdeiv INDIANAPOLIS, May 25.—The Rev.

William Honshaw was yesterday indicted by the Hendricks county grand jury for the murder of his wrife about three months ago. Henshaw claimed at the time that robbers had killed his wife and wounded him.

Auotlior Personal Friend of Lincolns. OMAHA, May 25.—A spefial to The Bee from Hot Springs. S. v., says: J. B. Hawley, general attorney for tho Northwestern railway in Nebraska, and a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, died suddenly here yesterday. His home is at Omaha.

lMatilleries Shut Down.

PreoniA, Ills., May 25.—The Manhattan, a distilling and cattle feeding distillery, and Hanover, Independent, shut down yesterday. Great Western, a distilling and cattle feeding house, has reduced its capacity from 3,8I30 to 2,500 bushels per day.

Town Surrounded by Fire. RAMSAY, Mich., May 25.—This town is surrounded by forest fires and the people are in great feai that the town will burn, and are taking necessary precautious. Tho weather is oppressively hot and the brush and undergrowth is dry as tinder.

Formosa Declared a Republic.

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SHANGHAI, May 25.—Formosa has declared its'felf a republic, the flag being a yellow dragon on a blue ground. The governor, Chang Ting Sung, is made pres.deiit and lias notified the foreign lopresentatives.

Imperial Dignity Conferred on the Man of Ajaccio.

PIUS VII PRESENTS THE CROWN.

lluler of Mankind Kver Confirmed by

Such Acclaim—I'lots Against His I,ifi.

Piche^ru, Georges Cadoudal and tlio Dnko

of l^ngbien l'.it io Death.

[Copyright, h.vo, by John Clark Rnlpnth. XV—S t.\-T-JL, EMI'KUF.l'fl DKS Fit AN*

CAIS"'

To the ancient order in Europe the apparition of Bonaparte was intolerable. His cs'.iblishnieut i:i the Consulate was a menace to all that survived of the eighteenth century. To the princes of Christendom the Man of Ajaccio appeared at iirst as an ambitious adventurer. Risen to power, they esteemed him a parvenu and political bastard. Now they behold him confirmed by the almost unanimous voico of a great, people, For him the allic enthusiasm burst out in wild applause. By the Treaty of Amiens ho was recognized as the follow of kings and emperors. The greatest portent of all this—that the peaceable ratification of the Consulate for life tended to inako jicniuinait the results of the French Revolution, thus invalidating the ancient regime, and converting its offspring into stalk-horses and specters.

The phantoms of the Past accordingly resorted to conspiracj'. Franco had blown her feudal ghosts across the borders. Some of them hovered iu London.

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right hank of tho RI11110 were infected by them. Tho descendants of the Houses of Bourbon, of Orleans, of Conde, flit ted dimly in the horizon. They had their following. Tluir secret friends squatted in tho very shadow of the Tuileries. As for open war, they had had enough of that. Of secret intrigues and plots and crimes there was now 110 end.

Tho conspiracy which exploded in-the Rue tft. Nieaise was only tho beginning of plots and plotting. It is in evidence that, tho agents of tho British government lent a willing hand to the secret

was equivalent to death for any to lift tho hand against, him. His immediate subordinates were without exception 1 loyal. But all tho disapointed, hovering at a distance, scowled at his rising star.

Among the plots of tho day that of Georges Cadoudal, leader of tho Cnouans of Britt any, was conspicuous. From being an insurgent, i:i tiio Royalist revolt of 17!!!), J10 had fled to England, where tho count of Artois, afterwards Charles X., received him with open arms. In 1803 ho made his way secretly to Paris. There ho conspired with tho disgraced General Pichegru, Napoleon's old master in mathematics at Brienne, to destroy tho liio oi tlio First Consul. Tho plot was di. ooverotl, Pichegru was sdzI ed, imprisoned, and on tho 5th of April, 1804, was strangled in his cell. Cadoudal, trying to escape, killed two policomen, but was overmastered, condemned, and on tho 25th of June, 1804, wasguillotined. General Moroau, tho hero of

Hohenlinden, who had become a Royalist, was accused of complicity in theso schemes. Convicted of having knowledge of the plot of Cadoudal, ho was condemned to two years' imprisonment but Napoleon commuted tho sentence into exile, and Moroau chose tho United States as his refuge. After eight years, lio entered tho service of Russia, and in 1813 was mortally wounded at the battle of Dresden.

Tho result of these attempts was farreaching. At this time the living representatives of tho demolished monarchy were the count of Provence, afterwards Louis XVIII., who was at Warsaw tho count of Artois, in London the young Orleans Philippe, afterwards the Citizen King, in Switzerland and tho duke of Enghion, descendant of tho great Conde, at Ettenhoim, in Baden. All of these were moro or less implicated in the plots against Napoleon. Tho duke of Enghien in particular was believed to be a fellow-conspirator of Pichegru and Cadoudal. Tho latter had boon secretly visited in Paris by a mysterious personage whom the passion of the hour doclared to be the Conde prince. Notwithstanding tho fact that Baden was neutral territory, a body of French soldiors was sent secretly to Ettenhoim tho chateau was surrounded, and on tho night of tho 15th of March, 1804, tho due d'Enghien was seized in bed and hurried away to tho fortress of Vincennos.

A court-martial under General Hullin was immediately ordered, and without witnesses or other logal proof, tho Duko was condemnod to bo shot. On tho morning of tho 21st of March, just boforo tho day, ho was lod into the ditch outsido tho wall, and thero, by the ghastly light of torches, was shot dead. His body was thrown, without removal of tho bloody garments, into a pit that had beon digged the day before! The Cousnlato, as well as the Revolution

crimes that were to compass tho destruction of Bonaparte. On his side lKld been applied to Bonaparte! History there was corresponding vigilance. It

I which succeeded, nan a sword afWI sharpness for all its enemies. I The killing of Enuhien created a tramentions sensation throughout Europe. I Europe had not jTet learned that tho" I blood of kings ami princes is even a3 tho blood of other mui.

Certain it is that the death of Enghien I hastened tin transformation of tho Consulate into tlio Empire. Tho seat of the

First Consul was already iu everything hut the. name a throne. Why not make it a throne in tact.-1 Tho facility of theFrench lor cham rendered easy th© project which tho temper of a heavier and more serious race would have rejected. 1 i'ro tlio Athenian fancy, the Parisian mind flies quickly to the new. It hovers about tho brilliant, the extraordinary. It satisfies itself with glory and enthusiasm. All these qualities in the soul of tho people worked to tho advan age and purpose of Bonaparte but there was not wanting a measure of opposition. Tho Napoleonic desiro soon found expression. Petitions began to bo sent up from all parts of France. The~o were couched in suggestive hints to the First Consul that ho shouid cunxolidatc his ]oiccr.

On tho 13th of April, 1804, the first formal proposition for tho conversion of tho Consular Republic into an Empire was made by Cureo in tho Tribunate. Tho measure included the title of Einpcreur des F." ucais for Napoleon, with tho right of hereditary succession in his family. Though tho influence of tho government, was strongly devoted to the scheme, tho proposal met with serious opposition. The conspicuous voice of Lazaro Nicolas Carnot, grandfather of the recently assassinated President of the French Republic, was hoard above the din of affirmative applause. But ou tho 18th of May the measure was carried in the senate.

A consultum was promulgated, by which the Imperial dignity was conferred 011 Napoleon Bonaparte, and tho decree was at once sent to tho people. Another surprising election was held, at which 3,52-1,25-1 voters recorded their decision. Of these, .'5, 52 I, (T5 wero in tho afiiriiiafivo, and only 2,57!) in tho negative! Whatever critical history may say of the antecedents of tho Empire, certain it is that no other hereditary ruler of mankind was over confirmed in power by such an acclaim of his countrymen! With good reason tho feudal notion of territorial dominion hitherto expressed in the titles of rulers, gave way under this Imperial election, for Bonaparte was made Emperor, not of Fnniri-, but of the I'raich.

Notified by tho Senate of tho establishment of tho Empire and of his owu lionr'nation thereto, Napoleon accepted tho trust. The ceremony of notification was at St. Cloud. Josephine was also congratulated by the Senate. Thoi'alace of St. Cloud was thronged on the occasion with the distinguished and elite of France. Just after the ceremony was over, a footman, rich in gold lace and scarf, made his way into the crowd, where tiio Baron Claude-Francois do Meneval—secretary to Bonaparte after the disgrace and dismissal of Bcurrienne—was standing, and said: "Sir, tho E.Mi'KRou wishes to seo you!" It was tho first time that that astounding word

for nearly a century has confirmed it. At St. Helena he himself—olfeuded at tho small-minded ofliciality that designated him as Hon nil Bonaparte—said indignantly, "I shall always bo known in history as tho Emperor Napoleon 1":

Tho Empire thus created was made to date from tho 18th of May, 180-1 but tho coronation of Napoleon did not take place until tho 2nd of tho following December. Practically, tho change in the government was not great. Tho stream of Consular power flowed into tho widening river of Imperialism without a bend or tho noiso of cataracts. Tho coronation was a scene memorable in human annals. Pius VII., conciliated by tho late Concordat, came willingly from Rome to crown the soldier of fortune, and to leave on him and his work the Papal benediction.

It was at the altar of Notre Dame— where tho Revolutionists of the Terror had danced the Carmagnole—that tho Emperor-elect of the French knelt to receive tlio diadem. The Popo gave it but N' poleon, taking it from his hand, put it 011 his own head—a thing most fitting to do for ho had made it for himself!

Josephine was crowned with her imperious lord. Returning from Notry Dame to the Tuileries, the Emperor, 011 reaching his own apartmout, tore ott as rapidly as he could the imperial vestments, and got himself into his usual apparel for he was a man of business. Tho occasion was sunlit with splendor, and all hearts seemed full of life aud light: all but om—tho heart of Josephine. To her what ominous significance was in that clause of the sonatus-consul-tum which made tho crown hereditary in the family of Napoleon! Dire word was that word''family" to Mario Josophe Tascor, whilom Madame de Beauharnais, now Imperatrice des Francais. For sho was forty-one and a-half years of age—epoch well fligh fatal to possible motherhood.

Only slight changos wero made in th(y new Imperial administration. All such modifications looked to the unity and glory of tho Empire. Napoleon preserved as much as ho could of the personnel of the preceding Consular government. His two colleagues, Cambacoros and Lobrun, were appointed tho one arch-chancellor and tho other arch' treasurer of state Joseph Bonaparte was made grand elector, and Louis tho Imperial constable. Eighteen of the great generals who had become such with Napoleon in tho field wero made marshal* of Franco. Tho transformation swept over tho landscape like tlio dappled shadow of a sunny cloud. Tho Christmas holidays of 1804 came to Paris in a blazo of splendor. Tho Gallic world danced and smiled under wreaths of ivy and tha flash of crystal candelabra, antf the mutter of distant war was scarcely heard on tho widened and confident borders of Franco.

JOHN CLARK UXDFATBL

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