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Untold Wealth Lies Still Untouched Underthe Surface
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OOLITIC STONE DEPOSITS IN SOUTHERN INDIANA
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DAILY SCENE IN QUARRIES IN LAWRENCE COUNTY—QUARRYING STONE FROM THE HILLSIDE
lFront a Staff Correspondent.] BEDFORD, led.. May 11-Tbe entire oolitic stone buetoese of Bedford is withto a radius of five mites from the court house. This, of course, does cot include .quarries In other counUes-Owcn and ! Monroe. The town of Oolitic, three miles 'from here, has a population of about ’and is made up entirely of people who! work In the quarries. It is well built, ilus stores, several handsome residences .and about all the necessities of the average country town. It Is estimated by General Manager Whitney, of the Hooeler Quarry Company, that the stone industry of the Bedford district alone fives employment to nearly 1.009 men. Tbt monthly pay roil averages about DNi.MO. iThere Is invested about 14,000,000 and the (annual output will amount to at least
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Orest Shipments of Stone.
Taking it the year round. 100 cars of atone, each containing B0 feet, are daily •hipped out of Bedford. An average trainload is twenty cars, so there are five trains of atono leaving here dally. iThis shipped stone is worth 8» cents a (toot to 13 a foot. The quarries are 'worked to a depth of from thirty-flve to (forty feet, this being a fair average. About 41 per cent of the stone quarried Is marketable, and it is estimated that 1,800,000 cubic feet la taken out of on sere of ground. At this time shout 1,800 acres are being worked, but there are thousands of acres In the county that are still undeveloped. The railroads that take this great mass of stone out of Bedford are the Motion and the Southern
Built of the Bedford Oolitic.
' Federal buildings—Birmingham. Ala.; 'FT. Smith, Ark.; Tallahassee. Fla; EvunsjVHlo, Xnd.; Indianapolis; Sioux City, la.; ^Louisville, Ky.j Richmond, Ky.; Baton
AN OLD ENGINEER’S STORY BY JOHN A. HILL. COPYRIGHT BY M’CLURE, PHILLIPS A CO.
tRouge. La.; Monroe, La.; Opelousas, La. •Bhreveport, La.; Haverbill, Masa.; Grand |Raplds, Mich ; Jackson, Mich.; Duluth. Allnn.;’Lancaster. Pa; Springfleld, Mo.; ^Charlotte, N. C\; HI Paso. Tex.; Roanoke, jVa.: Winona, WIs., and Terre Haute. Ind. Contracts have been made for dosena of other ^buildings in different parts of the
aurt houses—Bloomi. III.; Rock Island, olumbia City, Co-
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ilumbus, Evansville, Frankfort Franklin, 'Greenfield, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Liberty, Marion, Lawrenceburg, Montlcello, OLogansport. Ruahvilk-, Mt. Vernon. New Albany, Princeton, Renaaelaer, Richmond, Rochester, Salem. Valparaiso, Vlncetrnoa And Warsaw, Ind.; Beaumont, Tex.; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Richmond, Tex. State Capitols—Atlanta, Ga.; Spring-Tt-enton^k 1 j ulli,na l ,oU *i Topeka, Kas.; State* 1 'buildlngs-State Normal School,
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. . Academy, Morristown, and Central Hospital, IndJanapoMs
N the summer, fall winter of 1*44 I chips into an old skier up In New
and early was tossing Hlnkley InEngland for
versations. Once Jim. smiling, observed that, if I had any hair on my lace, he
would be Jealous
I remember that it was on December 14, 1863. that pay-day came. I banked my
money with " *'
counted out
financier.
“Uncle Sam'd better put that 'un in the hospital,” observed Jim. as he came to a ragged ten-doilar bill. “Goddess of Lib-
mother,” and Jim. as usuai, his half to that dear old
an engineer by the name of James Dillon. Dillon was considered as good a man as there was on the road, careful, yet fearless, kind-heart-ed, yet impulsive; a man whose friends would fight for him and whose enemies hated him royally. Dillon took a groat notion to me and I loved him as a father; the fact of the matter is he was more of a father to me than I had at home, for my father refused to be comforted when I took to railroading, and I could not see him more than two or three times a year at the most-ao when 1 wanted advice I went
to Jim.
I wa* a young fellow then, and being without a home at either end of the run, was likely io drop Into pitfalls. Dllloz, saw this long before 1 did. Before 1 hau been with him three months he told me one day, coming In. that it was against his principles to teach locomotive runping to a young man who was likely to turn out a drunkard or gambler and disgrace the profession, and ho added that 1 had better pack up my duds and come up to his house and let “mother” take care of
me—and I went.
I was not a guest there: X paid my rent and board Ju*t as I sho done anywhsre else, but I bu comfort# of a home, and enjoy
aand advantages that money could not buy. I told Mr*. Dillon all my troubles, and found kindly sympathy and advice; •he encouraged me in all my ambitions, mended my shirts and went with me when 1 bought my clothes. Inside of a month I felt like one of the family, called Mrs. Dillon ‘•mother,’' and Messed my lucky stars that 1 had found them. Dillon had run a godd many years and was heartily tired of It, and he seldom passed a nice farm that he did not call my attention to it, saying: "Jack, now there's comfort; you just wait a couple of years—I've got my eye on the slickest little place Just on the edge of M , that I am saving up my pile to buy. I’ll give you the Roger Williams one of these days. Jack, say good-evening to grief, and mo and mother will take comfort. Think of sleeping till 3 o’clock—and no poor steamers. Jack, no poor steamers!” And he would peach over and give my head a gentle duck as 1 tried to Ditch a curve.to a front corner with a knot; those
Hinkleys were powerful on cold water
In Dillon’s household there was a “system'* of financial management. He always gave hi# wife Just half of what he earned; kept W0 for his own exoenses during the month, out of which he clothed himself, and put the remainder in
the tank. It was before the days of —- _ . high wages, however, and even with this i that nigj^t I got the engine out. oiled,
wore
re glasses, und glass.
and one of the lights was
ground glass. The right cheek bone was crushed In. and a red scar extended across the eye and cheek; the scar looked blue around the red line because of the cold. “I used to be an engineer before the war,** said he. “Do you go to Boston?”
“No. to M
HOTELS II THE STITEI IICE-PBESIOEHCy
NAMED THE SUNLIGHT, ON THE; JUNIOR SENATOR OF INDIANA DRUMMERS' HOME. WILL STAND FOR RE-ELECTION
ROOMS CALLED AFTER STATES PREFERS SEAT IN THE SENATE
[Fham a Staff Ccrrespcadent ] CANXELTOX. lad-. May IS.-One of the unique hotels in Indiana is located at this place, and it is such a favorite with traveling men that the •’boys" will go many miles to take a meal there or spend a night. It is called, according to the sign. ‘The Sunlight Hotel. or Drummer s Home.” George W. Fohl, who is probably known to ever?- traveling man In a dozen States, is the boaa There are twen-ttro-rooms, each lighted by electricity and heated by steam. In each room jare three rocking chairs. On the stand is always a dish of fruit and a stick of chewing gum. On the wall is & large cushion. In which | are stuck pina. needles, .with white and black thread, and an assortment of buttons. Writing material is on the desk, \ and five towels, two kinds of soap, with ; comb and brush and whisk broom and!
FT. WAYNE. Ind., May !«.—During a meeting of the bar association yesterday afternoon an address was delivered by Senator Beveridge, his theme. The Lawyer in Legislation.” and last evening he was ore of the guests responding to toasts at a banquet to the legal fraternity, in which he discussed cloture In the Senate, and prophesied that at the next session the Senate would adopt the cloture rule as to appropriations, but not as to general legislation, although he asserted that the lack of a cloture had never prevented the passage of any law demanded by the
people.
Much Interest was aroused In a letter made public at Wabash by James P. Roes, of that city, which he had received from Senator Beveridge, in which the latter sets at rest all speculation as to fits vice-presidential aspirations, and a»-
plenty of rain water in the washstand are | ^ts that he will not permit his name
“M ! I thought that was on a
branch."
"It is, but Is now an important manu-
erty pretty near got her throat cut there; factoring point, with regular trains from guess some reb has had hold of her.” he j there to each end of the main line.” continued, as he held up the bill. Then, t "When can I get to BostonT’ laying It down, Jie took out his pocket- j "Not till Monday now; we run no
through Sunday trains. You can go to M with me to-night and catch a local
to Boston in the morning.”
He thought a minute, and then said: “Well, yes; guess I had better. How is it
for a ride?"
"Good; just tell the conductor that I told you to get on.” “Thanks; that's clever. I used to know a soldier who used to run up in this country.” raid the stranger, musing. "Duion; that’s It. Dillon.” “I knew him well.” said L T want to hear about him.” "Queer man," said he. and I noticed he was eyeing me pretty sharp. “A good engineer." "Perhaps,” said he. I coaxed the old veteran to ride on the engine—the first coal-burner I had had. He seemed more than glad to comply. Eld was as black as a negro and swearing about coal-burners in general and this one in particular, and made so much noise with his fire irons after we started that the old mart came over and sat behind me. so as to be able to talk. The first time I looked around after getting out of the yard, I noticed his long, slim hand on the top of the reverse lever. Did you ever notice how it seems to make an ex-engineer feel better and more satisfied to get his hand on a reverse lever
book and cut off a little three-cornered strip of pink court-piafcter and made re-
pairs on the bill.
"Mother” pocketed her money greedily, and before an hour I had the very bill in my pocket to pcy the recording fees In
the (court house at M .
The next day Jim wanted to use more money than be had in his pocket, and asked me to lend him a dollar. As 1 opened my wallet to oblige him that patched bill showed up. Jim put his finger on it. and then, turning me round toward him, he said: “How came you by
that?”
I turned red—I know J did—but I said, cool enough: “Mother gave it to me in
change.”
‘That's a lie,” he said, and turned away. The next day we were more than twothirds of the way home before he spoke; then, as I straigntened up after a fire, he said; “John Alexander, when we get in, you go to Aleck (the foreman) and get
changed to some other engine.”
There was a queer look in his face; it was not anger; it was not sorrow—it was more like pain. I looked the man straight in the eye and said; “AH right, Jim; it ‘fxhall be as you say—but, so help me God, r I don’t know what for. if you will tell, me what I have dorie that Is wrong, I will not make the same mistake with the next
man I fire for.”
He looked away from me, reached over and started the pump, and said: "Don’t
you know?”
“No, sir; I have not the slightest Idea.’ “Then you stay and I'll change,” said be, with a determined look and leaned out of the window and said no more all the
way In.
I did not go home that day. I cleaned the “Roger William'' from the top of that mountain of sheet-iron known as a woodburner stack to the back casting on the tank, and tried to think what I had done
not done at all, to Incur such
provided. A full-length mirror adorns each room. In warm weather pictures of winter scenes hang on the wails, and in winter summer scenes are depicted. The beds are of feathers, two pillows and a bolster of feathers, and ail over the wails are little knlcknacks and bits of fancy
work.
Named After the ^States. The rooms are not numbered, but are named after the States. A traveler can thus sleep in New York one night, and in California the next. In each room is a telephone that connects with the office and with the exchange, so that the occupant can talk with any one he desires, without leaving his room. Most of the rooms have fine windows, and many of them face the river, a few hundred yards away, so there is always a cool breaze. The fire escapes are long ladders set In flush with the building, that can be dropped by loosening a hook—the simplest contrivance Imaginable. The hotel entrance and hall to the dining-room Is built to resemble a steamboat cabin, lighted at night with 150 tiny electric lamps. The writing-room has a long desk supporting a well-assorted library. On the desk are paper weights, blotting pads, etc., and attached to a chain are a dozen or more pencil tablets. A sign requests these be used for figuring on, instead of the hotel stationery. Traveling men from every pari of the country send
to go before the next national convention, as an adjunct to the Roosevelt ticket.
Says the letter:
“My Dear Mr. Roes—I have your letter of May 9 caling my attention to a statement In the New York Independent concerning a supposed letter from me to a friend to the effect that I am a candidate for the vice-presidency. This dispatch from Washington was a direct falsehood, a newspaper fake of the rankest description. No such letter was ever written. On the contrary. I have on many occasions stated that I am not, and will
not be, a candidate for the vice-presiden-
>rk In the
t piotl
ana, to remain. J. BEVERIDGES.'
Senate, where, I expect, by the partiality
of the people of Ind tar
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SUITS FOR DAMAGES
Spring from an Interurban Accident Three Years Ago. [Special to The Indianapolis News.} ANDERSON. Ind., May M.-George T. Bebee, administrator for the estate of the late Etta Lancaster, wife of Frank Lancaster, of this city, has instituted suit for 910.000 damages against the Union Traction Company. This is the third case by the Lancasters against the Union Traction. The first was by Mrs. Lancaster, al-
ONE OF THE NOVEL HOTELS OF THE STATE IS AT CANNELTON
and feel the Ufe-throbs of the great giant under him? Why, his hand goes there by Instinct—just as an ambulance surgeon will feel for the heart of the boy with a
broken leg.
I asked the stranger to “give her a whirl.” and noticed with what eager joy he took hold of her. I also observed with surprise that he seemed to know all about “four-mile hill,” where most new men got stuck. He caught me looking at his face, and, touching the scar, remarked: “A little love pat, with the compliments of Wade Hampton's men." We talked on
rp^uro n from Dilton^-ke^arin^ ^^aJn^Lfo^Te ^erflv'er «- when 1 went to the house that evening, J?}?? VJlJ.J 1
and I did not see him until breakfast. He was in his usual spirits there, but on the way to the station, and all day long, he did not speak to me. He noticed the extra cleaning, and carefully avoided
Ing any ol _ awful quiet! I could hardly bear it,
frugal management, the tank account did not grow rapidly. They owned the house
ay liv
-flat*, Rink flat#, Claypool.A. C. HarSmith. Xhdlanapo- . _ «. 2^. S. Uarnea, ^exington, Ky.: H. Hecker, Detroit, Ilch.; Aator residence. New York: Dean loffman. New York; C P. Huntington, lew York; Ogden mansion, New York;
It- m*. - Potter Palmer, Chicago Buildings of All Sorts. Among other buildings may tie mentioned, Gas Company’s office, Hartford, Conn,; Washington Post Building, Wash-
/V'vttti ra i v* Anderson, al Bank Building. Indiana Trust Building. MaSlc
c IKaiErR thedral. Bt. Louis, and Union station. St. Louis. In New York are the followYork Commercial Building, Corn Exchange. Emigrant Savings Bank, Partners’ Loan and Trust. German Life InHerald Building. Hoffman iajeatic, Manhattan Hotel. £ SIS: _ and Sailors’ Monument at the soldiers’ monument at d the base of the statu* to
; Cara*
’from*' Bedford* 1 stone.
Venexuela, tone. And »ds of oth-
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hundreds and hundreds of
talk about gold mines,” said
Whitney, 'but In no i to there more wealth from the earth than can In Lawrence county."
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In which they lived, and out of her half “mother” had to pay all the household expenses and taxes, clothe herself and two children and send the children to school. The oldest, a girl of some sixteen years, was away at normal school, and the boy, about thirteen or fourteen, was at home, going to the public school, ano wearing out more clothes than all the
reel of the family.
Dillon told me that they had agreed on the financial plan followed in the familv before their marriage, and he used to say that for the life of him he did not see how "mother” got along so well on the allowance. When he drew a small month’s pay he would say to me, as we walked home: “No cream In the coffee this month, Jack.” If It were unusually large he would say; “Plum duff and fried chicken for a Sunday dinner." He insisted that he could detect the rate of his pay In the food, but this was not true—It was his kind of fun. "Mother” and I were fast friends. Sho became my banker, and when I wanted an extra dollar, I had to ask her for It and tell what
I wanted It (or, and all that.
Along lato In November Jim had to make an extra one night on another engine, which left me at home alone with "mother” and the boy—I had never seen the girl—and after swearing me to be both deaf, dumb and blind, “mother” told me a secret. For ten years she had been saving money out qf her allowance, until the amount now (cached nearly $2,000. She knew of Jim’s life ambition to own a farm, and she had the matter In hand, if
p her. Of course, I was head nto the scheme at once. She buy the farm near M . and
give Jtm the deed for a Christmas present; and Jtm mustn't even suspect.
Jtm never did.
The next trip Z had to buy some underOtothea; would "mother’* te!l me how to pick out pure wool? Why, bless your heart, no, she wouldn't; but she'd jxist put on her things and go down with me. Jim
and read at home.
We went straight to the bank where Jim kept his money, asked for the president and let him Into the whole plan. Would he take $2,100 out of Jtm's money, unbeknown to Jtm. and pay the balance of the price of the farm over what "mother" had? No, he would not; but he would advance the money for the purpose-have the deeds sent to him, and he would pay the price—
that was fixed. —
Then 1 hatched ud an excuse and changed off with the fireman on the M branch, and spent , the beet part of two
fixing up things with the owner
hold back
Christmas. Every evening there'was some
tarnishing any of the cab fittings; but that awful quiet! I could hardly bear it, and was half sick at the trouble, the cause of which I could not understand. I thought that If the patched bill had anything to do with It Christmas morning would
clear It up.
Our return trip wus the night express, leaving the terminus at 9:30. As usual, that night I got the engine out. oiled, swltchedout tho cars and took the train to the station, trimmed my signals and headlight and was all ready for Jim to pull out. Nine o’clock came, and no Jim; at 9:10 I sent to his boarding-house. He had not been there. He did not come at leaving time—he did not come at all. At 10 o'clock the conductor sent to the en-gine-house for another engineer, and at 10:46, instead of an engineer, a fireman came, with orders for John Alexander to run the “Roger William” until further orders—I neves fired a locomotive again. I went over that road the saddest-heart-ed man that ever made a maiden trip. I hoped there would be some tidings of Jim at home—thero were none. I can never forget the blow It was to “mother"; how she braced up on account of her chil-dren-but oh, that sad face! Christmas came, and with it the daughter, and then there were two instead of one—the boy was frantic the first day, and playing
marbles the next.
Christmas day there came a letter. It was from Jim—brief and cold enough—but it was such a comfort to “mother.” It was directed to Mary J. Dillon and boro the New York postmark. It read: “Uncle Sam Is In need of men, and those wno lose with Venus may win with Mars.
Inclosed papers you will know best what
do with
u> do with. Be a mother to the children—
you have three of them. “JAMES DILLON.”
Ho underscored the three—he was a mystery to me. Poor “mother!" She de-
vision, but at lam we seemed talked out. ‘Where does Dillon’s folks live now’?” asked the stranger, slowly, after a time,
said I.
He nearly jumped off the box. “M I thought It was Boston!” “Moved to M ." “What for?” “Own a farm there.” "Oh I see; married again?”
“No." “No!”
“Widow thought too much of Jim for
that.” “No!” “Yes.”
"Br—what became of the young man that they—er—adopted?” “Lives with them yet.”
“So?”
Just then wo struck the suburbs of M ■, and, as we passed the cemetery, I pointed to a high shaft and said: “Dillon's monument." “Why, how's that?” “Killed at Five Forks. Widow put up monument-” He shaded his eyes with his hand and peered through the moonlight for a min-
ute.
“That’s clever,” was all he said. I Insisted that he go home with me. Ed took the Black Marla to the house and we took the street cars for it to the end of the line and then walked. As we cleaned our feet at the door I said: “Let me see, I did not hear your name?” "James,” said he, "Mr. James." I opened the sitting-room door and ush-
ered the stranger In.
“Well, boys,” said mother, slowly getting up from before the fire and hurriedly taking a few extra stitches in her knitting before laying It down to look
up at us, “you're early.”
She looked up, not ten feet from the stranger, as he took off his slouched hat and brushed back the white hair. In. another minute her arms were around his neck and she was murmuring “James” In his ear, and I. like a dumb fool, wonder-
a ed who told her his name.
>• i "Well, to make a long story short, it
THE SUNLIGHT HOTEL.
suggestions to Mr. Pohl, and h® carries them out as nearly as possible. He established a magnificently-furnished room for those who had to wait for late steamboats. In the dining-room large and beautiful panels excite the admiration of the guests. When he needs more tables, he pulls down a panel, and it is a table on hinges. Disappears As If By Magic. Next to the dining-room is a room in which are stored a number of buggies and carriages. If more room Is needed a door set with beautifully stained glass Is opened. The opening of this door opens several others and through the latter the buggies and carriages disappear, and in a short time tables are spread and the banquet hall is ready. At every turn there is a sign of some kind to tell you what you want to know. For instance, on the big office clock appears the word, “yes.” the significance of which is, “yes, this clock Is right." Every kind of a trick or device that the busy mind of the commer-
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of the fann and arranging to hold hack th« recording of the deeds until after Christinas. Every evening there was some part Of the project to be talked over, and “mother" and I held many whispered eon-
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dared that no doubt “poor James's head ! was James Dillon himself, and the daughwas affected." The papers with the let- ’ ter came in and Ed came, and between the ter were a will, leaving her all, and a ) three they nearly smothered the old fel-
power of attorney, allowing her to dls- i cw pose of or use the money In the bank. Not a line of endearment or love for that faithful heart that lived on love, asked only for love, and cared for little else. That Christmas was a day of fasting and prayer for us. Many letters did we send, many “Advertisements were printed, but we never got a word from James Dillon, and Uncle Sam's army was too big to hunt In. We were a changed family: quieter and more tender of one another's
feelings, but changed.
In the fall of '64 they changed the runs around and I was • booked to run into M . EM, the boy, was firing for me. There was no reason why “mother” should stay in Boston, and we moved out to the BUM farm. That daughter, who was a second "mother” all over, used to come down to meet us at the station with the hors® and I talked “sweet” to her; yet at a certain point in the sweetness I became
dumb.
Along in May, '65. •’mother" got a package from -Washington. It contained a tintype of herself; a card with a hole in it (made evidently by having been forced over a button), on which was her narile and the old address in town; then there was a ring and a saber, and on the blade of the saber was etched. “Presented to Lieut. James Dillon for bravery on the field of battle.” At the bottom of the parcel was a note in a strange hand, saying simply, "Found on the body of Lieutenant Dillon after the battle of Five Forks.” Poor “mother!" Her heart was wrung again, and again the scalding tears fell. She never told her sufferings, and no one ever knew what she bore. Her face was a little sadder and sweeter, her hair was a little whiter—that was all. I am not a bit superstitious—don’t believe In signs or presentiments or prenothtngs—but when I went to get my pay on December 14. 1886, It gave me & little start to find in It a bill bearing the chromo of the Goddess of Liberty with the little, three-cornered piece of courtplaster that Dillon had put on her windpipe- I got rid of it at once, and said nothing to •mother” about it; but I kept thinking of H and seeing it ail the next
day and night.
On the night of the 16th I was olffng around ray Black Maria to take out a local leaving our western terminus Just after dark, when a tali, slim old gentleman stepped up to m? and asked If I was the engineer. I don’t suppose I looked like the president. I confessed, and held up my torch, so I could see his face—a pretty tough-looking face. The white mustache was one of that military kind, reinforced with whiskers on the right and left flank of the mustache proper. He
You may think it funny he didn't know
me. but don’t forget that I had been running for three years—that takes the fresh off a fellow; then when I had the typhoid my hair laid off and was never reinstated, and when I got well the whiskers—that had always refused to grow—came on with 4 rush and they were red. And again. I had tried to switch with an old hook-mo-tion in the night and forgotten to take out the starting bar, and she threw It at me, knocking out some teeth; and taking it
altogether I was a changed man. "Where’s John?" he said finally.
“Here.” said L
“No!” *‘Yea.“
He took my hand and said: “John, I left all that was dear to me once because I was jealous of you. I never knew how you came to have that money or why, and don’t want to. Forgive me." “That Is the first time I ever heard of
that.” said mother.
“I had it to buy this farm for you—a Christmas present—if you had waited,”!
said I.
“That’s the first time I ever heard of
that.” said he.
“And you might have been shot.” said mother, getting up close. “I tried my darndest to be. That’s why I got promoted so fast." “Oh. James'” and her arms went around
his neck again. "And I sent that
GEORGE W. POHL.
most a year before she died, and she demanded $25,000 damages, and her husband
account of the loss of his wife’s
$6,000 on
assistance.
The first two suits are still
pending. It is alleged in the last case that Mrs. Lancaster died of Injuries sustained when two interurban electric cars collided near this city three years ago. Mrs. Lancaster died two months ago, following an
operation at St. John’s Hospital. BATTERED STEPMOTHER.
Enforcing Family Discipline Has its Serious Drawbacks. [Special to The Indianapolis News.] LOGANSPORT, Ind., May 18.-Brulaed and bleeding from wounda, said to have been Inflicted by her stepchildren, Mrs. Melissa Clary, who resides with her husband, John W. Clary, In Harrison township, this county, sought refuge at the home of Mrs. Mary Buchanan, this city, and late yesterday afternoon she filed an affidavit against her eldest stepson, Charles Clary, alleging assault and battery with intent to kill. The events leading up to the assault are shrouded in the mystery of a family altercation. As near as can be ascertained. Mrs. Clary had trouble In controlling the children. She asserts that her husband favored them, and this is given as cause for trouble. Thursday night Mrs. Clary claims her youngest child struck her. She chastised the child, and says that her eldest stepson took up the battle for his brother and inflicted the wounds from which Mrs. Clary may die. RAIDED A SALOON.
Number of City Officials Were Ban-
queting with Contractors. [Special to The Indianapolis News.]
HUNTINGTON, lad.. May 1«-As the result of a quarrel among the police ol the city, two of the night deputy marshals witched a saloon at which the) mayor, marshal, clerk, treasurer and four
has been put - -——>—... m -— —— far as nossi- councilinen were banqueting after a town iar as possi j ,, 0 f paving
place a few
clat traveler can suggest into use by Mr. Pohl, as
ble. There is a large bathroom, for the free use of the guests. In several of
the rooms is something that looks ’-ike , ^ w . a wardrobe built in the wall. Touch a but- j Jlc ta ,^^ demanding the resignation of ton and iwwn flys a cupboard for your | the officials found at the place. All ad-
council meeting, at the expense of paving
aided the pla
'clock- The proprietor
was charged with keeping bis place open
contrary to the Nicholson law.
LAJUiAt-X* wa®, <ai aaav x contractors, and raided minutes after 11 o'clock
never intending to
“Oh. James, how could you!’
saber home myself,
come back.”
you!”
"Mother, how can you forgive me?” Mother was still for a minute, looking at the fire in the grate. "James, It is late in life to apply such testa, but love is like gold; ours wifi be better now—the dross has been burned away in the fire. I did what I did fear love of you and you did what jou did fear love of me; let us all commence to live again in the old wav.” and those arms of hers could not keep away from his nedk Ed went out with tears in his eyes and I beckoned the daughter to follow me. We passed Into the parlor, drew the curtain over the doorway—and there was nothing but that rag between us and heaven.
clothes; the lower part, a bathtub, with soap, towels, brashes and all the necessities. Every guest In the house Is supposed to act as if the place belongs to him. and th® least incivility on the part of any
employe means instant dismissal. Table Keeps Up the Novelty. The table is as novel as the rest of the
place. There is always fruit on the tabic, and it is always prepared for the eating. Anything in the market is
rolt having been there, and excuse their visit bv saying that similar incidents have been customary during past years.
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