Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1893 — Page 8

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1893-TAVELYE PAGES.

ANOTHER MURDER IN CLAY

THOMAS KUKSV DHATII AT TIIK HANDS Ol- II MILKS COUI'KIOCK. Ml JIle-lnrj-, Turatr Milrn Snnlh of llrnxil, the Sitii of the Trnftedj()(,lifr MhIp Nh A Saloon Itlonn 1 I rlth 1) n it in I e nt llruuklfn Seven Head of Cattle IiiMtuiitly KllleU hy I.llitnlnK State Minor BRAZIL. July 27. Special. A mst Fhockin homicide was committ-d at Middkbury, twenty miles south of this city, about 9 o'clock last evening. Charles Cooprider and Thomas Kress renewed an old grudge while at Lankford'a 5tt.rc and agreed to go outside and settle it. On the porch they sat down on a lx-mh to talk it over, Kres3 assuring Cooprider that he was not afraid of him. Coorrider challenged Kress to stand tip an 1 face him, which he did, when he opened fire, putting: three balls into Kress' body. Kress, on turning to walk 'away, fell dead. Kress was about forty-five years of nge, and leaves a widow and three children-. Cooprider is a single man about thirtythree years old, the youngest son of the Kev. Kll.is Cooprider, an ex-member of the state legislature of 1S;1. The murderer left the scene warning all on the round not to follow him. He went home, armed himself and is supposed to be hiding in the Eel river bottoms. The men were both born in that community, h id Krown up together and lived much of the time on adjoining premises. Neither of them was regarded as desperate. This is about the seventeenth homicide in Harrison township since 1SC0. Tin: ii:i.piii mom'mknt. A rieimant ana Profitable i: perlene? to All AVIiu Were Present. DELPHI. July 27. Special. The dedication of the Carroll county soldiors and sailors' monument occurred today. The day was ushered in by the firing t'f a, salute by the Montioello battery. Distinguished speakers arrived on the evening and morning trains, neighboring posts came with hundreds of people, bo that by 10 o'clock the court house yard and the streets were densely crowded. The decorations were profuse and exhibited the good taste of the committees in charge. The reception committee was alive to its duty, as were all the various committees entrusted with the management of a most successful occasion. The parade through the principal Streets occurred at 10:4) a. m. Several cornet bands, martial bands, made the welkin ring, good feeling and fine order prevailing. The exercises in the afternoon were witnessed by O.O'iO people. The address of the department commander of the G. A. It., "SV. T. Johnson, was appropriate and well received. The beautiful monument ereetid in the southeast corner of the court house square at a cost of $12.ö'". was unveiled at the conclusion of the ceiviii- ni-s. Governor Matthews delivered an eloquent address. He was followed by Gen. W. II. Gibson and Gen. M. 1. Mansoii. Col. John II. Gould presided. Instrumental and vocal music was Interfax rsed, rendering the occasion highly instructive and entertaining. The addresses were eloquent and patriotic. The veteran ranks were thinned by tim. Thise In attendance with trvny hairs and feeble step toM in Uim.l.-i ikable lan'uaee that in a few more .:rs that tin y would be numbered with ''cir dead comrades. The present generation, in no s?lfisli qr parsimonious way, would perpetuate the memories of the deeds of heroism, valor and sublime patriotism of those who offered themselves as a sacrifice to maintain the indissolubility of the union. Among the distinguished veterans present none seemed to meet with a more heartfelt weh. me and "God bless you" than Gen. Manson. 1.3 knows nearly everybody and cveryld" knows him. Although feeble in body, his mind is strong and he rejoices in the company cf the boys who endured the hardships of the march. He was entertained by Col. J. II. Gould. Governor Matthews was hospitably entertained by C. It. Pollard. Gen. Gibson was cared for by Lieut. J. II. Karnes. The citizens threw open their houses nnd all received the kindliest attention possible. The occasion served as a reunion of the soldiers and an opportunity to recount the trials of soldier life. After an enjoyable day. which was perfect In the feast of reason and flow of soul, all dispersed happy and satisfied. "Long may they all live and prosper." STRICK V LIGIITMXG. peven Head of Cattle Initnntly Killed In AVednendaj-'M Storm. RICHMOND. July 27. Special. The rain storm yesterday afternoon was heaviest at Centreville. Olive Hill and north of this city. South of the city there was a very heavy hail storm. Hail tstones fell the size of partridge eggs and did some damage to crops. On the farm of David Kullerdick, near Hawkins' springs, seven head of cattle were killed by lightning. Mr. Bullerdlck had twenty-seven head of cattle in the field, and when the storm came up the cattle were under a sycamore tree. The tree was struck and the current passing down among the cattle killed neven of th -n. They were on the bank of the river and four of them tumbled Into the river. The cattle were skinned and the hides and tillow saved. A woman on the New Paris pike, whose name could not be learned, was neverely etunned by the lightning. Some freight cars on the side track at Centreville were moved bout two squares by the wind. A threshing machine on a farm west of Centreville was broken to pieces. The

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storm did considerable damage in the neighborhood of Isara Smelser's farm, southwest of the city. At Olive Hill the roof of the depot building is reported to have been blown off. Much timber is said to have been broken and blown down. No one bo far as learned was Injured.

UK HOLDS THE CH VMPIOXSHIP. Over 1,1 (M Co up leu Married by the Ilev. Ha j den Itaybarn. KOKOMO. July 29 Special. The Rev. Ilayden Rayburn holds the championship of the state In the number of marrlge ceremonies performed. He rounds out this week a total of 1,102 marriages. He solemnized his first marriage in 1S4S. In the early days of this country, while Indians yet roamed over the Miami reserve, of which Howard county was a part, the Rev. Mr. Rayburn was often called twenty to thirty miles away to officiate at a wedding. He did this cheerfully and established a record of being the most accommodating preacher in northern Indiana. Later, as the country Improved, he abandoned horseback riding and made the journeys in a carriage. This he continued until seventy years of age, after which out-of-town wedding partlei desiring his services were required tj come after him with a carriage, and. is he expressed it, return him "as good as found." This did not in the least detract from his popularity nor lessen the demand for his services. Five years ago. being seventy-seven 1 ears old and admonished by increasing infirmities incident to his age. he refused to respond to calls, though expressing a willingness to accommodate all who might call at the parsonage. luring the latter period he has married nearly four hundred couples, all of whom went to the Rayburn home, where the ceremony in many instances was witnessed only by the venerable minister's good wife. "I don't know why It is the people still want me to marry them." said the good old man today, "unless it is because I married their fathers and mothers, and grandfathers and grandmothers. I've had pretty good luck, though, and that may have something to do with it. Out of the eleven hundred and odd couples I have married I know of but three or four Instances vh.re they did not stick. I don't know of but three divorces in the whole lot. I don't know as it has done any good, but I generally give the youngsters a little lecture after the ceremony, and I d n't know but it does them good. I know it don't cost me anything and if it's any benefit to them they are welcome to it." Though past eighty-one years of age. Father Rayburn is yet quite hale and active, attending to business daily. He owns, besides a comfortable residence, a brick business row in this city and with a son is engaged in the tin and hardware business. He takes an active interest in the advancement of public affairs and is one of Kokomo's wide-awake, progressive citizens. ANOTIIKK FAIOIKIl SSVIMiLKIJ. Peter Hmtheri Pern:ided Out of S::iK My n ovel He t hod. GOSHEN. July 20. Special. A very smooth Swindler has just buncoed Peter Krothers. a well-to-do St. Joseph county farmer, out of f.TX) In cool cash. The scheme practiced to get the "gelt" was a novel one. It seems at one time Mr. Krothers carried a policy of J1..VK) In a western insurance company, but had faiWl to pay an assessment, and according to his interpretation of the contract supposed the policy had lapsed. The other day a well-dressed stranger called upon Mr. Krothers and assured him that he was an agent of the company and that by the payment of $::00 he could secure him the face of the policy. The farmer was not the man to permit J1.Ü0) to slip through Ids fingers when a paltry $300 wouM secure it. and he straightway mortgaged his farm and came up smiling with the required amount. The parties went to South P.end lat Saturday to get the insurance company's check cashed at a Lank. Unfortunately the hour was noon and the bank was closed. The gentlemanly agent declared that he did not wish to take advantage of his friend, so he placed the J:no in an envelope and gave it back to Mr. Krothers to Iwl J until the check could be cashed after the bank had opened. Roth men were anxious to get dinner, so they separated for that purpose with the understanding that thy should meet at the bank at 1 o'clock. I5y some means they failed to come together again at the time specified, and the farmer, secure in the thought he had his $::c0 In the envelope, gave himself little uneasiness. At about 3 o'clock he began to think something was wrong and opened the envelope. To his consternation, he found that his crisp bills were gone and in their place were pieces of brown paper. The agent was also gone and now Mr. Brothers realizes that he will never come back any more. The check for J1.Ö00 -was a clever forgery. LKillTMM; liKVASTATIOXS. Severe Storm Vllt Clay und MontKomery Count! cm. BRAZIL. July 2D. Special. The severest storm in the history of the county visited here last night, bringing with it a beautiful but 'damaging display of lightning. It struck here from the northwest at 10:30 o'clock and raged for two hours. The house of Henry Tiefel, west of the city, was struck and badly damaged, the occupants being considerably shocked by the bolt. Reese McGuire, a boarder, had one toe almost burned off by the current. The house of Mrs. Vanhise was seriously damaged by lightning. The bolt entered Mrs. Vanhise's room and shocked her almost fatally. The large barn of Peter Enfield, south of here, was struck by lightning. The structure and its contents were soon consumed, burning four horses and several head of fine stock. His loss is about J1.500. County Commissioner Warren Wolfe, living north of the city, had about five hundred bushels of wheat and oats burned by lightning In the field. A house at Knightsville was almost torn down bv a bolt of lightning. The house of J. J. Waterbury, the tailor, was struck twice and the occupants considerably shocked. The house of the Rev. Mr. Frazer. pastor of the presbyterien "We ?l(now it makes the nicest J? cakes;" 'akin?

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church, was struck and damaged somewhat. John Decker, living west of the city, was thrown from his bed by a bolt of lightning striking his house. He escaped serious damage. The wires of the Postal telegraph company were burned out. and all having electrical appliances suffered loss. CRAWFOUDSVILLK. July 2. Special. During the storm last night the residence of Henry Ret ringer, near New Ross, was struck by lightning. The house was badly shaken up. from roof to foundation, and the plastering largely knocked off. The chimney was dislocated and the roof partially torn away. Mr. Hettinger and his wife were badly shocked, but recovered in time to save themselves and the house from the Hames. The house was insured in the Hartford company. JKKFERSnVlLLE. July 29. Spe cial. A terrible rain storm accompanied by fierce Hashes of lightning and heavy peals of thunder passed over this city and vicinity this afternoon. Several houses and barns in the country were more or less damaged by the electric fluid. A MAN CIT IN TWO. Horrible Death of C. K. TreMcr by the Cam nt Prlneeton. PRINCETON'. July 23. Special. A horrible accident occurred in this city at 11:30 o'clock last night. C. E. Trester, a journeyman cigarmaker, was run over and killed by the north-bound E. & T. H. freight. His body was cut in two just above the hips, and his lower limbs were horribly mangled. It seems that Trester was; beating a ride on the train. When the train stopped at this city he got off, and in attempting to board the train as it started out missed his footing and fell under the wheels. He had in his pocket a traveling card of Cigarmakers' union. No. 97, Boston. Mass., showing that he had been a member of that lodge but had been suspended, and showing also that he had been reinstated by Paducah, Ky., lodge, No. IS."), and was a member in. good standin sr. Telegrams were immediately sent to the secretary of the Cigarmakers' union at EvansvlHe and Paducah, and William Diller of the Evans ville union. No. ."i. came up at noon today and took charge of the remains, which Werj buried in the Old Fellows' cemetery In this city this evening. TIIK IlItlDl'. THAT FAILED. Sail Disappointment to n Fort Wnyner itt Itielimond. RICHMOND. July 2S. Special. J. L. Compte. a resident of Fort Wayne, Is a much disappointed man. He advertised for a lady correspondent some time ago, and though a man of fifty years, is bent on marrying. In answer to his advertisement came a letter from a Miss Greenfield f Oxford, O., and from that time letters were frequent. In due season Mr. Compte set forth his reason for wishing a correspondent and expressed his love for her. This was seemingly reciprocated ami finally a day was set for the marriage, it being July 2S. and this city was to be their meeting place. Mr. Compte arrived here yesterday morning and tall-'d at the residence of the Kev. E. C. Howe, pastor of the Christian church, with whom he made all the arrangements for the wedding. Miss Greenfield, however, failed to appear and word received from Oxford says there is no one of that name there. Y.NAMITINti .V SALOON. George II. Momm' Sample Iloom Lifted Into Sinee. BROOKLYN, July 27. Special. George B. Moss has been running a saloon in this place for some time past and It did not meet witn the approval of the better class of citizens. Last night some one placed a stick of dynamite under this saloon and it was shifted into the Immensity of space. This Is the second saloon that has been blown up here. One saloon-keeper was whipped by white caps and several others given white cap notices to quit or suffer the penalty, and they always took warning. It is a celebrated fact that a saloon is very shortlived in this town. There Is a condition In all the original deeds that "In case intoxicating liquors as a beverage are ever sold on said premises the land falls back to the original owner, the Hon. Franklin Lauders." This condition was tested about a year ago when Parker and Orr ran a saloon here, aud it held good. Ul'NI'OWDLni KXI'LOSION. Several Ketc Go OfT In n AVnvelnnd 'Hardware Store. WAV ELAND, July 2G. Special. ' About 12:30 o'clock today a fire In the room occupied by George Dillman caused an explosion of several kegs of powder. The entire building was wrecked and the loss Is unknown. The stock of goods consisted of hardware, stoves, tinware, queensware and glassware. The fire was under control before It caused much damage. The Insurance probably covers the loss. J. R. Canine's grocery store two doors south was badly shaken by the explosion, and considerable damage was done to the stock. The windows were broken out of buildings on the opposite side of the street. No one happened to be in the building at the time of the explosion and no one was injured. The origin of the flre is unknown. Hoy Accidentally Shot. RUSIIVILLE. July 23. Special. Yesterday evening while Robert Atwood and a young man named Hedges were out hunting. Atwood who Is eighteen years old and the son of a widow, fell from the dam embankment, one mile north of town, when bis shotgun was accidentally discharged, the contents of the gun entering his right leg Just below the knee. Young Hedges picked him up and carried him to the Campbell barn, a distance of one mile, and sent for Dr.C. H. Parsons. When the latter arrived It was found necessary, upon examination, to amputate the limb, and ether was administered. He never rallied and died Just four hours after being shot. His leg was horribly shattered. Another Pioneer Gone. WEST FORK, July 23. Special. John C. Doolittle. an old and prominent citizen, died here recently at the age of sixty-four years, after an illness of nearly four years. Mr. Doolittle's illness resulted from melancholia. He was three times an inmate of the state asylum for the Insane. II came to Crawford county fifty-six years ago from Canada, being one of a family of fourteen who ruude the trip la sleighs over the lakes

cm and through the wild forests to the Ohio river. Deceased closed his days upon a portion of the farm settled by the family fifty-six years ago. He leaves a widow and seven grov. n children, four boys and three girls. All of these seven children are (or have been) public school teachers, remarkable for their Intelligence. None of them was over fifteen years when their first school license was won. He is the father of Dr. I. II. Doollttle of Campbellsborg, Ind., and the brother of H. B. Doolittle, the patentee, of Perry county. Minor State Item. Tipton county fair Aug. 7-11. The Middletown fair Aug. 8-11. Andy Gooll has purchased a fine farm near Madison. Lebanon defeated Elwood at Lebanon Thursday by 9 to 3. Frank Shriver lost three fingers in a saw mill at Petersburg. Ferman Nice died at his home In White county Tuesday. Sixty persons united with the Bluffton methodist church last Sunday. The Brownsburg canning factory will begin operations in a few days. The quarries at Smithville are now running, but not with full force. J. J. Dawson of Vincennes was knocked down by the lightning Wednesday. K. F. Baker of ChK-ago is in the melon belt shipping nutmegs to this city. The premium list for the Jackson county fair will be out in a few days. Mr. Adam Ruppel died suddenly in Lafayette Wednesday, aged sixty-one. The. Columbus postoffiee will pass into democratic management Tuesday, Aug. 1. Five eloping couples from Kentucky were married Thursday in Jeffersonvllle. Four car-loads of nutmeg melons have been sent north from Seymour this week. The Hagerstcwn fair association expects an average of 3,000 people per day. There are thirteen patients taking the gold cure at the Charlestown Keeley institute. The old settlers of Miami county will meet at Chili the second Saturday in September. The wheat crop of Perry Innis of Rush county averaged thirty-three bushels to the acre. The royal temperance legion is preparing to give an entertainment Aug. 17 at Seymour. A tramp had his toes cut off in attempting to board a train at Mitchell Wed nesday. Sixty acres of Hendricks county land near Stileville were sold recently for $G0 per acre. The edd republican pension board of Jackson county held, its ladt meeting Wednesday. W. N. McDonald is making 30.000 staves at his several plants in Jackson county daily. Tiie Flora Leader has renounced independency and shackled itself to the populist cause. Mrs. Josephine Fry of LaGro died at the Logansport insane hospital Thursday, aged thirty-two. Flora's hoof and ladder company is now rigged out to fight fire with plenty f l td Its and buckets. N. Kvsar of Jackson countv has a fine ' crop of potatoes, some of which weigh more than a pound each. During the past month there have been seventy-five houses burglarized in Valparaiso and $3.0o0 stolen. A boy named Sweet was killed at Forest. Clinton county, Tuesday by a train on the Clover Ieaf road. Despite the alleged hard times, many buildings are going up and much improvement H being made in Seymour. It Is feared that the failure of W. C. PePauw of New Albany will materially inlure the DePauw university at Greencastle. C. C. Davis lost his store room and all of its contents by flre near Oakland City. It was the only general store at that point. A large, fine-looking man, over six feet tail and weighing over 200 pounds, is working the masonic relief committees in southern Indiana. Altogether the wheat yield In this neighborhood is very satisfactory above the average in quantity and quality. Seymour Democrat. Nicholas Cullom committed suicide at Jefferson by cutting his throat last Tuesday. He could not find any work to do and grew despondent. George MeNiece has a wheat yield of twenty bushels and M. F. Rottorff's crop yielded twenty-one bushcU to the acre in Jackson county. Home grown watermelons will soon be cn the market. Growers say the prospect for a large and line crop is d ecided 1 y go d Seymour Democrat. W. T. Pritchard has ' been threshing out about about twelve hundred bushels of wheat a day with his outfit since the harvest season Is on. Franklin Star. George W. Kurnham, the man that was wanted in Princeton for breaking into the store of A. S. Ford, was run over and killed by a train- in St. Louis Monday. Jacob Stark, living four miles north of Winamac, was relieved of $2t0 by thieves Sunday. The family had gone away and the robbery was committed in broad daylight. A Shelby county couple wanted to get married and were so bashful that the minister had to take them away off from all beholders and say the ceremony to them. Masked men went to the home ' of Henry C. Dooley, near Corydon, and compelled him to surrender $140, whicji he had saved up for the purchase of a team. Rush county teachers will greet with delight the announcement that Prof. Andrew Graham of the orphans' home is to be one of the Instructors at the county Institute. Harry Hibben. The Sentinel swindler, is an old Connersville boy, his father having lived here twenty-five years ago, being a methodist minister. Connersville Examiner. The watermelon crop will be a little late, but the yield will be large and fine. The nutmeg melon crop is the best that has been raised In this neighborhood for years. Seymour Democrat. John A. Porter, a switchman ' for the Evansvllle & Terre Haute road, fell between a locomotive and a car at Evansvllle Wednesday and his head was severed from his body. Alexandria is Jollifying over the location of the Kelly ax works of Louisville, Ky.. a factory which, when in full operation, will employ about five hundred sk lied laborers. Vhe blood hounds failed to find any trace of the person who burned Albert Tow's barn in. Lawrence county Friday night. The owner of the dogs said the trail was too old. The poultry department of the Jefferson countv fair will be one of the leading features. The premiums are large on all varieties. Seventy-nine cash premiums are offered on poultry. Farmers should look out for the windmill sharpers, who are finding many victims In neighboring counties. They sell I a windmill' agency territory for what I appears in the agreement Igned by the victim to be a small price conditioned upon the sale of $123 worth of windmills,

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the same to be paid one year from date. By tearing off one end of the agreement It turns out to be an Ironclad promissory note, such as has been used with telling efTect in the past. J. D. Wallingford has been appointed receiver of the Diamond grocery store, A. B. Crawford, proprietor, at Alexandria. The store was at one time the leading grocery of the city. The Plymouth Democrat says that the dispatch sent from that city stating that C. L. Morris' large factory had closed down, throwing a large number of men out of work, is a malicious lie. Railroad men say that the wheat movement is about one-half as heavy as it was at this time last year. Farmr ers who are not compelled to sell are holding their grain for better prices. Patrick Carroll at the Kass foundry. Fort Wayne, was horribly burned Tuesday by a natural gas explosion. His whiskers and hair were entirely burned off and his neck badly blistered. Tuesday Henry Horn, wdth an Advance Cyclone thresher, on the farm of Smiley Boaz in Flatrock township, knocked out l.SSS bushels of wheat in eleven hours running time. Columbus Herald. W. R. Golden of Gas City was presented Monday witn a very handsome cane made of bone and horn, consisting of 4S7 pieces. The present comes from G. L. Crouch, who had the cane made at McKeesport, Pa. The Rossville school board has employed C. M. Shafor as principal; Mrs. C. M. Shafor, grammar teacher; Genevieve Price. Intermediate instructor, and Valley Walter, primary teacher for tlüs year. The Rooneville Enquirer has long been the leading democratic newspaper in the First district after the Evansvllle Courier. Since the death of its editor, Mr. Swint. the Enquirer has gone into republican hands. Unknown parties placed strychnine in the spring supplying the family of Peter Frakes of Boone township, Harrison county, with water and afterward burned several stacks of wheat and oats belonging to them. The Iagrange Democrat estimates that, notwithstanding the reduced railroad expense that is sure to follow the inauguration of the rate war, the world's fair will easily take ?23.D0 out of Lagrange county this summer. Monday, Dock Boone, on John Moberley's farm, near Ray's crossing, Shelby county, killed a black snake seven and a half feet long. His snakeship was running after men who weie pitching wheat in a field. A lady in Frankfort has a chicken that the sun's rays hatched out. The egg did duty as a nest egg in a basket, and when the lady went to gather up the day crop Wednesday evening she found the chick just coming out of the shell. Flora played Russiaville Tuesday at Flora, the score standing 21 to 0 in favor of Flora. Flora has played two games with Delphi, winning both, and one with Wheeling and won it a total of four games, all the new dub has played to date. Tat Duffy of Mills Corners says that nine years .ago was a hotter summer than this season. He worked for eight weeks upon the construction of the Bryant pike, during which time there was no rain and the dust was from four to eight Inched deep. The city engineer of Washington is busy surveying the ground for the new orphan's hme. It is to be a brick structure ninety feet long and seventynine feet wide. The foundation is to be laid now, but the contract for the building will be let Aug. 27. The following ofiuers of the Daughters of Rebekah were Initiated Tuesday night in Shelbyville: Noble grand, Mrs. Stella Friday; vice grand, Mrs. Anna. Weakley; secretary. Miss Anna Flaitz: financial secretary, Mrs. Louisa Neu; treasurer, Mrs Emma Deprez. The West Lebanon Gazette says that the Hoosier lumber and manufacturing company will shortly move their headquarters from Williamsport to Bakersfield, Cal. The company will also be reorganized and christened the Kern county lumber and investment company. There have been no marriage licenses issued for twenty-three days. This inactivity in the marriage market is attributable to the hard limes, the hot v.eathtr. the Sherman law and the McKinley bill. It is thought the panic will only be temporary. Columbia City Post. The plan to connect Dunkirk and Redkev by an electric railway is to be a go. The franchise was granted Thursday evening. Both towns will be lighted with electricity from the power house of the railway, which will be placed midway of the two places. Hartford City I'ress. An old farmer stated a day or two

ago, that he had never seen a more favorable season for saving crops than the present one. Hay, oats and wheat have been cared for without damage from rain, and the corn crop has not suffered materially up to this date. Seymour Democrat. Joe Williams, who attempted to criminally assault Mrs. Davis at Watson, Ind.. Wednesday and narrowly escaped mob violence, has acknowledged to Sheriff Donovan of Jeffersonvllle that his home is at Bowling Green. Ky.. where he says his wife and mother conduct a restaurant. He says he is an exconvict. Williams stands an excellent show of getting a long term in prison. Tommy Mathews. M. W. Bruner and Will Thompson and son have gone to Marshlands, near Warsaw, where they will be joined by Frank Cutter of Indianapolis. There they will begin their trip down the Tippecanoe- river and the Wabash to Lafayette, floating In canoes a distance of about three hundred miles and requiring two weeks' time. Crawfordsvllle Argus News. Mother Champion, living between the crossings north of here, is past seventy vears of age and the mother of sixteen children. She threshed last Thursday, at which time she shouldered a twobushel sack of wheat, something of a task for the average man. Something of her strength can be figured when we recollect that few latlies ever saw the time In their lives when they could shoulder one bushel of wheat. Angola Herald. S -tee are criticising the Incident ist for saying "over," "down from" and "up from" such and such place in our items as being improper. It 13 no information to us to tell us it is improper, but we use them for variety. Country papers are allowed more improper range in their expressions than city papers. If the editors were to get proper In all their expressions you would soon be calling them "smart." and "too big for their position." Wabash Incidentist. The latest Joke the boys have on Andy Tichard is his rather vociferous and frantic attempt to stop a funeral procession one day last week. He wished to see Zimrl Maris, who was at the time officiating as preacher, and was driving at the head of the procession, of which fact the Jolly Pit-hard was ignorant, and he kept calling and waving his hat until he had to be knocked down, figuratively speaking, before he "caught on." He has not yet heard the last of it. Rockvllle Republican. The postoffiee case at Russiaville Is at last settled. F. M. Hart, the present incumbent, claimed that his predecessor, Adam RIdenhour, had Invoiced to him a box of postal cards, claiming there was 10.000 in the box, when there was but 5,000. RIdenhour denied this and said they were invoiced at 5,000, the actual number the box contained. Hart finally brought suit for $30 aglnst Adam, Rnd the case was tried at Forest Wednesday. After a trial lasting several hours the Jury brought in a verdict for the defendant. The Rev. J. II. MacNeill returned Monday from his visit to the old home and mother orr Prince Edward's Island. He brought with him some beautiful specimens of his mother's handiwork the past year, which indicates that she is a woman of rare artistic skill and unusual vigor for her age almost eighty. The useful and ornamental are so perfectly combined in the work and its intnleacies are so thoroughly mastered as to instantly convince the beholder of the fact

that two of the maker's most prominent characteristics are economy arf. industry. Rushvllle Jacksonlan. Sheriff Lucas received a notice from the sheriff of Scott county Friday to arrest one James Monroe, who was wanted on the charge of petit larceny. Monroe was located near Elizabethtown. where he was on a farm. Lucas went to Elizabethtown and placed him under arrest. He was brought to the city and lodged in the county Jail. Monroe refused to say anything further than he was accused of stealing hay last winter for his mother's cow. Columbus Herald. A citizens' memorial meeting will be held at Mossburg. Wells county.

Aug. 27. Graves will at the cemetery. At tional exercises and be decorated 10:30 devoremarks by old settlers; 11:30 grove and take repair to the dinner. At 1:30, sermon at grove by the Rev. W. D. Samuel of Warren, subject, "Christ Risen." text, Luke 24-6. Remarks byother ministers who may be present. The meeting is non-sectarian. It is to worship God and respect the dead. The investigation of the books shows that Mr. Treasurer Armstrong of Tipton county is short $43.000, which will be reduced only $8,000 by the property turned over by the otlicer and son. The bondsmen have secured possession of a note signed by Frank Hays of Washington C. H.. Ohio, and calling for $13,000. This is money which the deputy claims to have loaned Mr. Hays, but the bondsmen say the note cannot be collected. Hays Is a cousin of the deputy, "and the two followed the races with disastrous results. Kendallville should now be for Kendallville all the time. Buy g ods of Kendalville merchants. Duy cigars made In Kendallville. Buy flour pround in Kendallville. Patronize Kendallville tailors. Kuy your bonnets of Kendallville milliners. Employ Kendallville dressmakers. Patronize Kendallville manufacturers. In fact, stand up for Kendallville by taking Kendallville newspapers. Mairy Kendallville maidens and raise Kendallville babies, and Kendallville will be all right, all of which is the advice of the Kendallville News. A smooth fellow worked a smooth trick on a Markle man Monday. Sylvester Brineman was returning home from Chicago and while riding along made the acquaintance of a stranger. They chatted pleasantly until Huntington was reached. The stranger was g--ing to Marlile, too, he said. But when the train was standing at the depot he approached Brineman and said: "I've got some baggage in this depot and need $2S to pay for it. Loan me the money and I will return it to you when we get to Markle." Brineman gave him the money, but the borrower di'ln't show up afterward. Renjamln Myers arranged for a reunion of the Myers family of brothers and sisters at the Myers house in this city last Monday. The family is widely separated now, no two of them living In the same state. There were three sisters and two brothers present with their wives and husbands and they came from Wisconsin. Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida and Indiana. One brother in Dakota could not attend. Those present from abroad were Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Myers. Orlando, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. Fenner of Coldwater, Mich.; Mrs. Taylor of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Averell of Wisconsin. Of course they had a Jolly time as some of them had not met before for years. Laporte Argus. Middlefork had two fires Thursdaythat resulted in considerable loss. Sam Rodkey's barn was destroyed together with its contents, such as grain, hay and machinery. At the time there were several head of Tiorses In the stable, but all were gotten out except one.- Before it could be rescued the flames were too hot to admit persons going inside and it had to be left to its awful fate. William Fisher was the other to suffer loss by fire. He was engaged in hauling wheat to the machine yesterday afternoon when a spark from the engine set the load on fire. Being dry as powder the flames spread rapidly and before both horses could be gotten loose, one had in some way got turned around and inhaling the hot flames dropped dead in its tracks. Frankfort Crescent. Henry J. Fielder lives near Dateville. Recently, while looking after a herd of cattle, he became overheated and drank freely of the water of a spring near by. Several days afterward he was taken suddenly and violently ill with nausea and cramping, and while vomiting freely, a lizard four Inches In length was expelled from his stomach. Strong emetics were freely administered, inasmuch as he continued to complain of peculiar sensations, and from time to time the bodies of small lizards have been expelled. Mr. Fielder believes that while he was greedily drinking of the water of the spring a tiny reptile ran down his throat without being noticed, and that from this reptile all this trouble has sprung. His condition is by no means reassuring, and there Is a strong probability of death. The following increase were made in assessments of personalty in Huntington county: Slack & Alpaugh. $4.000; Kenower & Sons, $4.500; J. M. Bronkar, $230; Cummins & Bartlett, $1.700; Briant & Bltz. $2.300; Withington handle company, $700; William Lininger, $430: John P. Lahr. $73; J. F. J. Setgmund, $330; H. C. Snyder, $r,50: W. A. Zeller, $300; Charles Mader. $800; Peter Scheiber. $700; Anthony Kindler, $C30; John Frash, $3,500; II. H. Arnold & Son, $3,00; Albert Alstaedter, $3,000; E. H. Murray. $2,000; Alice and Dessie Moore, $2,000; John Strodel. $1.300; Ewlng Sr Bro.. $1.300; F. Dick & Son, $4.500; Eeopold Levy. $7.000; McCaffrey & Co.. $2.000. Herman Franklin testified that the property listed in his name was the property of Esther Franklin, his wife. Her evidence was heard and the board added $4,500 to be her personal assessment. Lou Meyers was in Peru recently, and in conversation with a Sentinel representative' depicted a state of affairs which should raise the ire of every resident along the Wabash river valley. It Is well known that the poisonous matter which emanates from the strawboard works at Wabash and is suffered to run into the Wabash river has been a source of much annoyance, rot only to the farmer" who use the stream for watering their srock, but also to the towns below Wabash which depend upon the river for their water supply. At Rich Valley, last Sunday, several farmers were congregated along the river and their attention was directed to the large number of fish that were dead or dying, floating down the river. Large, fine channel catfish, bass, redhorse, In fact all kinds, succumbing to the nauseous, poisonous emanations from the Wabash strawboard works. Peru Sentinel. Robert Watklns is telling a good story. Robert's brother-in-law, a Mr. Sites, of Chicago, is his guest, and when the alarm of fire was sounded last night he took a notion to go to the flre, and, going out a side door, attempted to lock it. He had some trouble to turn the key and made considerable noise. Watkins awoke, and. hearing noise, supposed burglars were trying to force an entrance, and. going down stairs, he armed himself with a club, and. taking his place near the door, waited for Mr. Rurglar to come In. Mr. Sites was. still having trouble to lock the door, and finally stepped Inside to see what ailed the lock. No sooner had he entered the room than Rob began belaloring him with the club. Sites, after taking in the Situation, cried out: "Robert, I'm going to the fire." His voice was of course recognized, and the club lowered, and explanations followed. Frankfort Crescent. The coroner of Wayne county has rendered his verdict In the case of Mrs. Gantz and her two children, who were killed by a train at Rich Crossing a few days ago. The conclusion of the verdict contains the gist of the matter: "I therefore conclude Elizabeth Gantz was killed during some profound mental aberration or abstraction, or through gross carelessness on her part, and that Lena Malre Gantz and John Henry Gantz were likewise killed as the result of her mental abstraction or aberration, gross carelessness or profound lethrrgy to her surroundings, and It Is a question with me, whether she was at the time of her death mentally capable to protect and take the proper care of herself and children considering the responsibility in-

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The patriotic Wawaka correspondent of the Noble County Democrat makes the following plaintive lamentation: "Tha Fourth of July is past and we find th people did not want any band to play for the water works this year. They neither had wate r works nor tire works. Our citizens' pride must have been Mown up on that eventful night one year ago last Fourth, their ambitions drowned In the flood of the overwhelming, an I the band played a dad march and succumbed to the inevitable and is still succumbing with a vengeance that would cause your neighbor to smile exultantly and say this Is veritably a land ol peace. No flood, no tire and brass bands, a good supply of boot-jacks and the last of the Thomases peacefully lying beneath the sunburnt sod, where not a wail escapes to awaken him from hi slumbers at a midnight hour. Please re serve sad reflections uutll at a proper place as a break in th 1 quietude and stillness would cause us to weep, O, such bitter tears." Josiah Swashberger, a prosperous farmer residing near Bourun, was m Goshen in search of his runaway wife. He went to town Saturday with a load of wheat, returning home about 8 o'clock that evening, finding that his wife and hirei man had departed f-r parts unknown, taking with them $lv3 in cash, and jewelry and silverware to a small amount. He cannot account for his wife's rash act, stating that no domestic trouble had ever disturbed their domestic tranquility. At times, however, he had suspicions of the hired man, but would expel them, thinking it a streak of jealousy on his part. He is grieved beyond words, and says nothing satisfies his mind but search, and this he intends doing until they can be found. Joseph Pollock, the man who has robbed him of his happiness, came to his farm two years ago from VanWert, O.. and applied for work. He was In critical health and poorly clad and Swashberger pittied him and gave him a hojne. Pollock was a handsome fellow and soon won the affections of Mrs. Swashberger, who c-onsented to fly with him. Swashbertrer lelieves Pollock to be a former lover of his wife, as she is also from VanWert county. Goshen Xews. Roll, the cleven-yenr-oM s"n of Mrs. Jacob Weaver, has been drilling for the police force for several weeks by arresting small boys and administering punishment. Saturday he arrested Orville Moore's son. ar-ed about eight. His prisoner made some resistance nt first, but Marshal Wea rer cracked him on the nope with lead 'kniu ks" and he marc hed along. At Mercer & Krminun's lumber yard a halt was made and young Moore's hands were tied and he was bound to a post. The little fellow sincerely believed that he was under arrest, but on what charge he did not understand. After seeing his little prisoner securely fastened. Weaver appointed another boy to guard him and informed prisoner an I guard that he had to go to supper. It was over an hour before he returned. The prisoner had been murmuring against the torture, leing unable to keep the flies off his face, but the guard, true to his trust, remained faithful. Weaver then released Moore on promise of good behavior. Monday Mr. Moore entered a complaint against the bogus marshal and he was hauled up befre the squire. It was "sure enough" this time anil wasn't quite so funny to the lilliputim marshal Imitator. But he was released upon promise of good behavior. Weaver has made himself a terror to several small boys by his rigid way of enforcing the law (?). The next time he takes this role he will probably be sent to jail. Hartford City Telegram. Don't you know to have perfect health you must have pure blood, and the best way to have pure blood is to take Hood's Sarsaparilla, the best blood purifier and strength builder. Hood's Pills may be had by mail for 23c of C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. SCHOOLS AXD COLLEGES. ra Indianapolis W Business universit V Leading loIlt'Kc of BusineM A Shorlhaad. 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