Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1893 — Page 8

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY .MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1893-TWELYE PAGES.

GENERAL STATE HEWS.

Fourteen divorce cults are booked for trial in Wayne county. The price of wheat la again advancing In the central markets. Peaches In New Albany are bringing from J1.23 to $1.75 per busheL The Bllsh milling company of Seymour received 17,160 bushels of wheat last week. Joseph Burkhart of Jackson county gathered 1.200 pounds of grapes off twenty-two vines. The county fairs, so far as held in this state this season, have all been successful In the point of attendance at least. Immense clover crops are reported from all narts of the state. At present there Is more money in clover than in wheat. Xo liquor or gaming devices were admitted to the "Washington fair grounds, and the result was very gratifying to patrons. Lieutenant-Governor Nye has been invited to deliver one of the addresses in the Goshen lecture course for the ensuing year. Laporte Star. The state organization of the baptist church will hold its sixty-fifth annual convention at Columbus, Oct. 2. About five hundred delegates are expected to be in attendance. Johnny, the little eight-year-old son of John Cook of Knlghtsvllle. fell about thirty feet out of a walnut tree Sunday afternoon, breaking both bones of an arm and dislocating the wrist Joint. A prospective bridegroom In South Bend tiled to bleed his future mother-in-law for $2G0. but the daughter unconditionally bounced him. The bans had been published three times in the Polish church. Elmer Smitha held the drawing ticket at the opera house Saturday night, and received from Managers Baldwin, Berryhill and Lockwood a round-trip ticket to Chicago and J2S for expenses of a visit to the world's fair. Lebanon Pioneer. 1 he big venty-ome pound catfish caught by Joe Brooks and Tom Doup et al. at Ewing, Jackson county, Monday, arrived here Tuesday in the flesh and life, by express, and made a dinner for several hungry mortals. Columbus Times. Dr. McCIellan. a veterinary surgeon of this city, received notice from Washington City yesterday that he had been ar'polnted a cattle inspector for the government, with headquarters at Chicago. The salary is $1.400 a year. "Washington Democrat. Frost came earlier this season than It has for several years. Tuesday at daybreak the ground and foliage was covered with a white hoar frost. No damage was done, but it was unpleasantly sugrgf-stive of an early autumn and winter. Crawfordsville Journal. A great deal of gold is in circulation here at present, both of our banks havIr.fs received consignments of It. There are good counterfeits of the J20 pieces, tfee of which were detected at this ofhee Saturday during the course of regular business. Bluomlngton Progress. Mny farmers in the south part of the county, who left their wheat standing in the shocks experienced very much troubl whn they go to haul it in for thrashing by having nearly every bundle fall to pieces, the binding twine being cut by the grasshoppers. Bedford Democrat. The First national bank did not open Monday morning, but will do bo as soon as the compt roller's permission is received. Examiner Packard pronounces the bank's probable condition at opening as excellent, and feels assured that the necessary permission will be forthcoming. Hararaand News. The line officers of the Howard county battalion, G. A. lt., have elected the following field officer?: Colonel, O. L. Moulder; lieutenant-colonel, Joslah Stanley. Greentown; major, J. A. Adams, Galveston: adjutant, A. N. Grant; surgeon. "William Scott; quartermaster, G. W. Haun. Russia ville. A South Bend professor discarded his old-fashioned key-winding watch and purchased a stem-winder. Before retiring that nipht he spent two hours in winding the timepiece. Next morning it stopped running and a friend discovered that the professor had been winding it backwards. Valparaiso Star. The Hon. Samuel MeCaughey cf Huntington i5 dead. He was seventy-eight years old. As far back as the Polk administration he served as postmaster at Massillon, O., removing to Huntington county in 1SC1. During his residence in Huntington he served as trustee, treasurer, represntative and school commissioner. A bright Clinton county lady said a volume of truths in a very few words. She was a good democratic housewife and was being chidded by her republican neighbor about "these democratic times." Well," said she, "almost any kind of a team can pull a load into a mud hole, but it requires strength to ret it out." "William Graves, while attending the world's fair last week, came near losing his life by choking on a chicken bone. The bone was one Inch long and orefourth Inch wide nnd about one-sixth inch thick and it passed down his windpipe so far that it was with the greatest difficulty that it could be dislodged. Columbus Times. Frank, the seventeen-year-old son of Leander Hamilton, living southwest of Lebanon, has been missing since last Sunday. He was dressed in a black diagonal n.it, black stiff hat. new congress shoes, white shirt and blue tie with yellow stripe. His parents f-ar his mind Is deranpTfd from an injury received when quite young. The National Association of Haymakers, which held a meeting at Trenton, X. J., last week, will meet next week at Flora. Attorney G. "W. Poague of that place attended the Trenton meetin? and it was through his efforts that Flora was selected. Mr. Poague was elected vice-chief president of the association. Delphi Times. Talk about women scaring fish away! Wes Barnard and Mark Farley took their wive along and went fishing last week. They caught a catfish that weighed fifty pounds. They brought him home alive (ao folks would believe it) decapitated him and cutting him up into Eteaks distributed him among their neighbors. Sullivan Union. According: to the Crawfordsille Star John Robertson of Green township Parke county, borrowed J300 of Wash Spencer, township trusts, with which be went to the world's fair, after which he returned homo and made an assignment. His liabilities are placed at J''0000 with but $10.000 assets, of which $3.000 Is pledged to secure the Waveland bank. W113 "Wagner, the brute who attempted to commit an outrage upon little Maggie Parker last week, was caught at Danville, 111., Monday and brought to Covington Tuesday, when a preliminary trial was held which resulted in the court holding him in the sum of $1,000, which he was unable to give and now he languishes in the county Jail. Ben F. Kobbe. who owns a bottom farm in Jackson county, a short distance The best known writers on domestic science, as Marion Harlaod, Mn. McBrid, Mrs. Parker sod m3y Hayes, and teachers of cookery, as Mrs. Rorer, Mrs. Lincoln od M.S. Dearborn, m m use ana recommend Cleveland's Baking Powder.

below Jonesvllle. stated a day or so ago that on ground that he got from fifty to seventy-five bushels of corn last year, he would not raise over five bushels per acre this year. Another man in that section spoke of a ten-acre field in which not more than ten bushels could be gathered. The funeral of the late Joseph K. Edgerton occurred at Ft. Wayne Thursday. The honorary pall-bearers were Judge John Morris, Judge Robert Lowry, Judge Allen Zollars, the Hon. R. C.Bell, Platt J. Wise and O. G. Hill. The active pall-bearer were Charles Worden. Albert Bond, Georr.e Ewing, Frank S. Lightfoot, John M. Kuhns and Perry N. Dellaven. A warrant is out for Clel Flora, a brother . of Jim Flora, who is now in the Delphi Jail charged with assaulting and robbing Cleon Key es at Flora last week. Cleon is thought to have been Jim's accomplice and he has skipped to avoid arrest. Mr. Keyes is up and around attending to business and may suffer no permanent injury. Delphi Times. A stir.lng party went out from Crawfordsville Tuesday and successfully dragged the waters of Sugar creek for nh. A good haul is reported. This seining business is becoming too notoriously open and above board. If the gentlemen indulging in this festive pastime are not careful they will, perhaps, be in a haul made by the grand Jury. Crawfordsville Journal. The contract for building the new asylum for the poor on the farm four miles west of town, has been let to Abe Donaldson, his bid being $11,303. This does not include the heating apparatus and plumbing. Seward & Co. were awarded the heating apparatus contract at $1.690. The building is to be of brick 104 feet 4 inches long and 54 feet wide. Dloomington Progress. Dr. A. P. Fitch recently received, unsolicited, from Governor Matthews the appointment as one of the Indiana delegates to the Pan-American medical congress which convenes in Washington this month. While the doctor heartily appreciates the honor conferred upon him. previous engagements made It Impossible for him to attend the congress and he has declined the appointment. Lebanon Pionetr. John Bellamy and Margaret Bellamy were united in marriage Tuesday by Justice France. Six years ago Justice France joined the same couple in marriage. After living together for some time they thought they were not suitably matched and the result of their disagreement was a divorce. Justice France was agreeably surprised to see them before him asking to be remarried. Ft. Wayne Gazette. There is no use in talking. Shelby county Is bound to have the best county fair in the state. Notwithstanding the encampment and other attractions at other points, old Shelby will be found right at the front, with fastest horses, finer cattle, hogs and sheep, larger corn and potatoes, more fajicy work, the largest crowd of people and the handsomest ladies In the state. All join in and let's have a week of pleasure. Shelby Republican. There are several farmers In this locality who are still holding this and last year's crop of wheat and there are a few who have the greater part of the yield of 1S31 still ''in the granary still holding it. we suppose, for one dollar a bushel, having refused 92 cents for it when threshed out two years ago. While It is good policy to hold wheat rather than sell at present prices it is always safe to sell when offered a good profit. Mt. Vernon Democrat. Among the world's fair visitors this week are Judgre H. C. Duncan and family, Prof. Marsters, Dr. Eigenmann, Miss Kate Mobley. Trof. Foster Hight, H. S. Bates, Eph Hughes and wife. Prof. Wylle and wife. Prof. Atwater and family, Mrs. Dr. P. C. Holland, Miss Maude Hoiland, Jcmes Showers and wife, William N. S. lowers and wife, Charles Showers and wife. Earl Showers, Charles Booth and wife, Lern Martin, Dr. Hiram Lindley and wife and A. J. Shields and family. Uloomlngton World. A lady from Winamac recently went to Logansport, saw a noted physician there who prepared a dollar bottle of medicine for her, started to the depot for home, on her way dropped the bottle and it crashed into a thousand fragments and spilled the fluid upon the earth beneath, hadn't time to go back for another prescription, stepped Into a drug store, bought a bottle of patent medicine, came home, took the patent medicine and got well. That was lucky for our lady friend. Winamac Democrat. The explosion of the boiler in the water works and electric light plant at Franklin, resulting in the death of John Dennis, is the fifth boiler explosion in Franklin in eight years. In the McDaniel & Wright disaster in 18S5 Engineer James High was killed outright. Three years afterward Moses Snodgrass and Thomas Stewart were victims of the Payne. Johnson & Co. calamity, and the same year John Cheatham lost his life In the Landis explosion, which mill was a second lime blown up two year3 later. Attorney-Gen. Smith in answer to an Inquiry from Columbus says: "Any citizen has a right to inspect any paper or record of a public office, providing the application for such inspection is during office hours or upon any other proper occasion. A paper relating to public or official business is open for Inspection whenever filed with the proper authorities. Although this Is a matter over which I have no Jurisdiction and no right to give an opinion, what I say is simply an unofficial statement." Roy Soogsear. one of the West Point cadets, was rather unfortunate in Ft. Wayne Monday evening. The boys were en route home from the world's fair, and when the train reached FL Wayne, Roy proceeded to the tlephone station to enjoy a few minutes conversation with his sweetheart at Marion. The conversation became so Interesting that he forgot his train, and not having previously notified the conductor to hold the train until his return, the "iron horse" steamed out of the city while Roy was Just in the act of bidding hia turtle dove a fond farewell. Mrs. Catharine Floch. near Rockport, nearly seventy years old. during the last twelve months, using common knitting needles, knitted four (men's) jackets, thirty-two pairs of silk gloves and mitts, twenty-five pairs of Saxony yarn glove3, two bed quilts, eight yards of lace, twen-ty-f tir pairs of socks and twelve of stockings, besides spinning on a little old wheel brought from Germany twenty barrels of wool. Just as It was cut from the backs of sheep. She also did much other manual labor. Three times a year she walks to the home of her daughter, twenty miles away, returning in the same manner. Mrs. N. J. O'Rourke, a well-known character In this city, was killed by the cars last week near Brazil. It Is supposed that she fell off the train while it was in motion and instant death was the result. Her son William, a boy about twenty-one years of age, seemed to occupy her every thought, and her peculiarity was her constant search for him. The boy would go from place to place and the mother, fearing that some harm would come to him, attemptej to follow whereTer he went. She did rot have any means and her way was often paid by the charity of those with whom she came In contact. Bloomlngton World. Mrs. B. C. Layton of Chicago, accompanied by her husband, arrived in ihe city Sunday at 12:80 on her trip to New Orleans on a wager of $1,000 to tramp the distance of 1,200 miles between the two cities within sixty days. After registering at both railroad offices and having the agents place their signatures to duplicates on a register which Madame Layton carries with her, which they are required to do at all railroad stations, they moved on to Ashboro, where they put up for the night. Their baggage is sent on the railroad to nations ahead of them, then reshipped again. Each carries a revolver. Brazil Democrat, James Watson, a prosperous farmer of Vanderburg county, went to the resld?ne of Mrs. Alexander H. Innis. his step-daughter, and attempted a criminal

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assault.' The woman- made a most desperate resistance and her struggling attracted the attention of her husband, who accidentally returned home for a drink of water. Instantly he attacked Watson, and after a sharp battle drove him out of the house. Watson attempted to escape, but friends of Innls took ud the chase, pelting him with rocks and sticks until he surrendered. He was then claced under a one-thousand-dollar bond. Watson Is a man of wealth and standing. Samuel II. Alklre was sitting on his porch, Wednesday, thinking how he would get 2,000 brick moved about twenty feet without doing it himself. Just as he had come to the conclusion to do the work himself, a tramp came around and wanted hl3 breakfast. Sam asked him how he would like to work a little, and the tramp replied that he was ready for anything. Sam gave him his breakfast and then set him to moving the brick, supposing that as soon as he left the tramp would skip out. Sam came up to town and when he went back found his brick all moved and piled up In good shape. That tramp needs a chromo and we think that Sam does, too. Sullivan Times. Lafayette Weyand, the fourteen-year son of Mr. Isaiah Weyand of Franklin township, was fomd in the barn last Wednesday evening nearly dead of strangulation. His neck had caught in a strap, which was hooked on the end of a long chain suspended from the roof, but how it happened, whether by accident or design, the. Ind was, at last accounts, unable to tell, as he had not then sufficiently recovered to convene. When first discovered he was unconscious ' and resting with his knees on the floor and his neck hanging In the strap or belt, which was one he usually wore j buckled around his body. Dr. Moss was ' called, but he thinks the young man ! will not recover. Winamac Democrat. There is a class of fool republicans who will in spite of everything refuse to admit that there 13 any possibility of times rettins: better. They of course lay all existing evils to the democratic party. ! They are much like those democrats who when crops fall by reason of drouth or grub worms want the people to believe that the republican party should be driven lrom power so as to make better times. Every one knows that there is no sense in the recent flight ind alarm of capital by reason of which it went into hiding, and It will remain In hiding ' until the senseless friprht which caused the lack of confidence is over with. Happily for the country the business condition Is rapidly recovering. Richmond Independent. The legisUture of the state of New York some years ago appointed a commission to award medals of honor to all soldiers of that state who had distinguished themselves on the field of battle. Among the medals awarded was on to Charles Meyer whose bravery and heroism at Gettysburg won for him the proper recognition. Mr. Meyer lives somewhere In this vicinity. II. H. Talbot, commander of McPherson post, has the medal and is endeavoring to locate , Mr. Meyer so that he may receive the honor which his state has so kindly and patriotically voted him. Should this fall under the eye of any of Mr. Meyer's friends Capt. Talbot will take It as a favor if they will Impart to him this happy Information. Crawfordsville Journal. If some LeG range farmer had a piece of land that he could irrigate he could make money gardening. Nearly every year there Is a July or August drought that about ruins one or more garden crops and some times gardeners will make provisions to meet such emergencies by storing water or pumping it. A few hundred barrels of water put on a garden at a critical time of a drought would doubly repay Its cost where the ground is properly situated. Where a stream could be dammed or a lake utilized a power pump could be made to do the rest and such an outnt would last a life time. Perhaps after our water works plant is comleted some of our local gardeners will be able to utilize the water to good advantage. LaGrange Democrat. The rumor was current Monday evening that Clarence Ireland, former proprietor of the Herald, was to be married Tuesday evening to Miss Maud Emerson, daughter of Judge Frank Emerson of this place. The report was true and the stated time brought about the union of the lives of these two young people, who embark upon the matrimonial sea with the kindest wishes of a lepion of friends who have known them all their lives and hope a prosperous future is in store for them. The ceremony that made them one was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Fletcher at the home of the bride's father at 7 o'clock in the presence of the immediate relatives and a few friends. The happy couple took the evening train for SL Louis, where they will make their future home. Clarence expects to accept a position In a railroad office at that place. Brownstown Herald. A Clay City romance: He had not known her long, but as 6he stood in the moonlight a white dress and black sash set off her figure so .well that he thought he had never seen a prettier picture. And he did an awful thin, he klsstd her. The innocent girl shrank from him in horror and the young man realized that he had gone tcv far. Indeed as the panting girl strove to collect herself sufficiently to express the scorn surging in her bosom the younjr man thought of the beating he must receive the next day from her father and brothers, and of the long accounts of the fight that would be in the newspapers. Fortunately he had his hat in his hand and turned to go. But the girl struggled to speak; she would express .r contempt for his action though killed her. "When." she said In lot, faltering voice, full of deep seated hatred, "are you coming back?" Clay City Sentinel. Monday morning a. runaway team dashed through the streets of New Haven, overturning a carriage and throwing out a well-dressed young woman aged twenty-five, and a young man accompanying her. A email fruit basket rolled out on the road which con tained an illy-clad baby two days old.4 Under the carriage seat was another child six months old. The man and woman were total strangers here, and they procured another carriage and drove rapidly to the depot, where the woman took a. train for the East, taking the child with her. The young man hired a livery man to return the team to its owier at New Haven, and then he disappeared. They would answer no questions beyond stating that neither of the children belonged to them. There is a mystery about the case, as the parties came from over the Ohio state line. She paid her fare to each succeeding station so that the trainmen would not learn her destination. Friday night three young lads, Tom and John Brown and Harry Graham, eluded the watchful eye of Matron HIner of the orphans home and succeeded In making their escape. The expedition had been well planned for they wre ; well provisioned and clothed for the ha -d. j cruel winters in the Rocky mountains, their destination. Their object was to ; assist the government In wiping from tiie j face of the earth the obnoxious r.nd bloodthirsty Indians, and they no d'ubt i would have succeeded had they only ! steered clear of the town of Alamo. Saturday night about o'clock three as dirty, disgusted and tired out Indian hunterj as ever followed a trail walked Into the Flshero hotel at Alamo and

begged for lodging. The landlady began plying them with questions and in a short time they gave the whole snap away. The boys were made captive and kept there until Charley Gregg went down and brought them home Sunday morning. Crawfordsville Review. The Hon. J. B. Stoll, a personal friend of the late Hon. Joseph K. Edgerton. pays this tribute to his memory in the South Bend Times: "Mr. Edgerton was recognized as one of the ablest men in the Indiana delegation In congress, and for years had been regarded as among the ablest men of the state. His modesty, his self-respect, his high 6ene of honor and his sturdy Integrity kept him aloof from active participation in Allen county politics ?s practiced of late years, thoujth on special or critical occasions when work requiring a high order of Intellect was to be done he was generally called upon to 'help ont.' This he always did in a masterly manner. Had sterling worth and unswerving integrity been adopted as a standard of eligibility and availability Mr. Edgerton would years ago have been presented as Allen county's choice for governor of the state or for a seat in the senate of the United States. He would have graced either position." Sunday the annual reunion of the Bowen family took place at the farm of Jim D. Bowen, near Arba. There was 150 people present, and of this number there were only about twenty-five who were not directly related to the family. Grandma Bowen. in honor of whom this pleasant occasion was held, was present. She was eighty-one years of age and is wonderfully sprightly for a lady of her years. She strolled over the grounds and enjoyed looking at the scenes of her childhool. This event took place on the farm which was entered in the year 1813 by Ephraim Bowen. From that time to this the farm has remained in the family, it having been transferred by Ephraim to his son, Squire Bowen, and by him to his son, James D. Bowen, vho still owns it. The younger ones employed themselves In swinging and romping over the grounds, while the older ones passed the time In hunting historical landmarks of their youth and rehearsing past events. A pleasant and memorable time watf enjoyed by all present. Lynn Tribune. The particulars of the phenomenally fast run made between Cambridge City and Indianapolis by train No. 25. one week ago last Sunday, are as follows: Ervln and Watklns had charge of the engine, No. 229. The train arrived In this city twenty-eight minutes late and made sllghlty better than their regular running time to Cambridge City. After stopping at Cambridge they opened out and fairly flew to Indianapolis. From Cambridge to the Belt Is flft-two miles, and the best time hitherto made was by Engineer Stake in forty-seven minutes. Ervln and Watklns have for some time been ambitious to break the record, and never were men in charge of an engine who were better fitted In nerve, skill and coolness for record-breaking work. They made this run in forty-six minutes, s'oplpng at Dunrelth crossing, and not deducting any time for their slowing up at the Belt. Deducting the time unavoidably consumed In the two stops the rate was something very nearly eighty miles per hour. And that's the record that the next man ha to break. Who'll break it? Richmond Telegram. Miss Ella J. Nickum of Oakland, Cal., a young lady who is on a visit to relatives in this county, met with an accident last Thursday that will cause her to have a vivid remembrance of her visit here to her dying days. She had been visiting the family of Joshua Straughn and Thursday evening started alone in a buggy to go to a friend's houso a few miles distant. There were no hold-back straps on the buggy she drove, and directly after starting a slight incline in the road threw the buggy against the horse's heels, which caused him to take fright and run away. Miss Nickum could not hold him, and, after running about a mile, in making the turn at a crossroads the buggy upset and the driver was thrown violently to the ground. She was picked up shortly afterward unconscious and apparently suffering mortal injuries. She was carried into a house near by and a physician sent for, who, upon his arrival, found her collar bone broken and the right side of the head seriously bruised and cut. For twenty-four hours her life hunpr in the balance with death. Kokomo Dispatch. A well-dresaed and nice appearing lady alighted from the train here Monday, carrying a tiny boy babv In her arms. She said she resided at Elkhart and that the baby belonged to a young unmarried girl who lives or Is employed at the Standard hotel at Elkhart, that the child 13 on a week old and that the mother could not efford to care for it, and to ac?ommodte the mother and perhaps hide her shame she had taken the child to the orphans' home at Mlshawaka this morning to have it cared for there. The matron there refused to accept the child on account of its age, but informed her that a Mrs. M. 11. Mankln of this place desired to obtain such a child. The lady then came here to confer with Mrs. Mankln but not finding the lady, upon the advice of Marshal Berhalter, returned to Elkhart and said she would return the child to its mother, who must make some other arrangements or provision for the child. She Btated that the father of the child had skipped and the mother was disposed to keep her own secret, but was willing to shirk the responsibility of the care of the child. Kendallville Sun. The man who was captured at a small town 100 miles this side of St. Louis is James Fields, the prisoner who escaped from the northern prison in a lime car about a week ago, and he was brought to this city Friday. Fields was coatless. He wore a soft hat, a checked shirt and a pair of cheap trousers which were without suspenders, all of which were the worse for wear they had received. Fields tells conflicting stories of his career since he disappeared among the hills and woods west of the city. He claims that he cast off his prison garb somewhere between here and Chicago and got his citizen's clothes by holding up a farmer with a club. He got his slouch hat by standing at an express car window and snatching It from the head of a passenger. These stories may or may not be true, but they are taken with a strain of allowance at the prison. Fields was captured through Information given by an ex-convict by the name of Nelson White, who gave Fields away for the sake of the $50 reward. White was once an inmate in the northern prison, and meeting Fields in the town where Fields was captured he at once caused the fugitive's arrest, and will get the reward. Michigan City Dispatch. A party of gentlemen Just from Mlchgan City, where they visited the northern penitentiary, is authority for the statement that the condition of William F. Pettlt is of the most alarming character, and his friends need not be surprised to hear of his death at any time. Pettlt, when seen by the parties referred to, was found a hopeless victim of that dreaded disease, consumption. Judging from his present condition, it seems that unless the supreme court soon get at the appeal taken in his behalf from this county, that Pettlt will never live to know the result of the court's Judgment. Those who saw him say that the prisoner Is a mere shadow of his former self, and cannot possibly live over two months at the farthest.

an opinion which Warden French indorses. It li learned that consumption is hereditary in the prisoner's family, his uncle and several other relatives having died from the disease, which is of that type termed hasty consumption. The many acquaintances of Mr. Pettlt will be surprised to hear of his really dangerous condition, and will sympathize with him. Inasmuch as all things point to his early death. Pettlt seems to be broken-hearted, and his present surroundings cannot be otherwise than of a character that can only hasten the end. Lafayette Courier. A writer in the Richmond Palladium says in a recent letter: "I had the pleasure of visiting White's institute near Wabash, where the government is schooling Indian children. Mr. J. White of Philadelphia over forty years ago willed $2,000 to be held in trust by Indiana yearly meeting, 6ald money to be used to buy land and Improve it and start a manual labor school for poor white children and Indians; it is now composed almost entirely of western Indians. The government gets the children by the parents' consent and they are brought to this school to be educated. The school consists of about seventy pupils composed of both sexes, ages ranging from perhaps six to eighteen years of age. The children attend school nine months In the year, working half their time .and at school half the time. The boys are taught general farm work, and some work at trades. The girls are taught sewing, cooking and all general housework. They, as the boys, are divided Into two groups, one-half going to school in forenoon and the other half in the afternoon, one one week; the next it is reversed. The buildings are large and comfortable and well arranged. The farm consists of 7C0 acres, all under good fence and good cultivation. This year they raised 1,700 bushels of wheat and 2,100 bushels of oats, ninety tons of hay." Referring to the looting of the Tipton county treasury the Tipton Times says: "James IC Armstrong has at last come down from his high perch and has admitted that there is not a dollar of the shortage in sight, so far as he knows. All along he claimed that the money would be turned over on Aug. 17, but on last Thursday the same of blaff was called, and in the showdown the 'pat which the Armstrongs held was worse than a 'bob-tail flush." Calvin, who is working the Kokomo end, has also weakened and says the cash i3 gor.e. When Calvin was arrested he turned over several horses and gave a mortgage on 'Bugle,' the runner. The animal has been at St. Louis all the time, and the bondsmen began to take steps tow.ird bringing him to Tipton. Last week while young Hayes was here he toll the bondsmen that he had a feed bill to the amount cf about six hundred dollirs against 'Bugle," and that unless the money was paid the horse would be sold. They evidently feed horses rather expensive grub In St. Louis, and it is not likely t'.at there will be much left of 'Bus-le' after hl3 landlord gets through with him. People In Tipton county are not in the habit of feeding their horses oats at $20 a bushel, and 'Bugle would not sell at an advantage in Tipton. The chances are that the St. Louis crowd will get to keep the animal." The Akron News tells the following pretty story about a man like whom. It is hoped, there are mriny in Huntington county: "Huntington county has a man whope generous qualities are scarcely excelled within the knowledge of many of us, not even Flor Sillin of old. The story runs thus: Some time before the war a failure of the crops made corn scarce In the Salamonle country and the relator of this story, whose name was not given, was directed to Uncle John Phillips as a man who had plenty of corn to sell. Such he found to be the case and one of the first questions Mr. Phillips asked him was, 'Have you the money to pay down for the corn? The gentleman answered in the affirmative when Mr. Phillips said: 'If you have the money go down to Liberty mills where they have corn for sale and buy what you want. .1 have plenty of corn, but there are many poor people in this vicinity who are hard up and cannot pay the cash and I wish to keep my corn to accommodate them for otherwise they would be unable to get it.' Such generous impulses have been the rule with Uncle John all his life. May he live many years yet Is the wish of all. He Is the father of ten children, five of whom have gone before their father. This year may be the means of developing many such noble characters." The Markle Journal editor has Just had his first tussle with Wabash valley aprue and this Is the way he tells It: "The classic Wabash is famed In song and story for its verdant beauty and the editor of the Journal has sung Its praises in season and out of season in his most tuneful melody until he believed all that was said of it himself. But he ha3 not been so much Impressed with its classic charms and verdant beauty of late as he was. The regular old-fashioned Wabash aprue seized him with Its remorseless grip and knocked all the poetry and imagery galley west. The pale, sickly green and distempered malaria has risen off of the alleged classic stream and settled down upon the flats so thick that you could scoop it up with a shovel, and penetrated his frame until every vein in his body seemed like a seething caldron and every bone like a festering boil. The cold chills played hide and seek up and down his spinal column until he could neither sit, stand. He down nor walk and life seemed an unbearable burden. If a man knows how It feels to be run through a thr-h!ng machine, then spread out upon the ground and have a dozen oxen tread back and forth over his remains then he knows how It feels to have the Wabash chills. Oh, no! we are not singing the praises of the classic Wabash so much as we were and probably won't until frost comes." Mrs. Andrew J. Shafer of Hagerstown thus straightens out one of the misrepresentations of the republican press in regard to pension matters. She writes the letter vo the Richmond Telegram: "In your issue of the 15th inst. appears an article relative to the pension of my late husband, Andrew J. Shafer, the main feature of which is void of truth. My husband drew his pension regularly from the time of its allowance to the time of his death, which occurred on the 23d day of July, and he had no notice or intimation of any kind from the pension department or from any other source that his pension would in any way be disturbed. And while his death was no doubt hastened by the disease contracted in the service, it was not due to 'the cruel order' mentioned in your article. My husband's pension was allowed under the 'old law.' This claim under the old law has never been rassed upon, and since his death I have been shown a notice from the department dated July 1, 1893. requesting my husband to appear before the board of examining surgeons at New Castle, Ind., for examination, without in any way Indicating the purpose of the examination. This notice was received by the agent or attorney who assisted In procuring my husband'o pension a few days before his death and owing to his enfeebled condition, its existence was not made

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known to him nor to myself until after his death. It contained no order of suspension. I make this statement and desire that you publish the same for the reason Uiat so many such reports have of late appeared in public print and my silence in this matter might be taken as giving credence to this report." A lively scrap occurred recently at Jonesboro. A barber named Brumley and a man named William Moore got Into a dispute in front of Brumley's barber shop and Brumley seemed to be getting the best of the scrap and had administered several well-directed blows that made Moore howl with pain, and had started into his shop when Moore gathered himself up and started after him. For some reason or other Brumley closed the door, which fastens with a spring lock, and the two infuriated men were locked in together. Friends of both tried to break open the donr, but it resisted all their efforts. Moore then proceeded to get even with Brumley. He drew a knife from somewhere and proceeded to cut Bromley in the most approved style. He cut a deep gash on his head, on the right side of his face near his ear, on the left side under his eye, on the neck and In the breast, penetrating the left lung. After his victim had staggered into a corner, Moore coolly opened the door and walked out and was not molested by anyone as he walked to his room at Flihu Pemberton's. Moore is a Kentucklan and has been working for Pemberton several months. He went to the house, washed, changed his shirt, his other being covered with the barber's blood, and, it is said, left Jonesboro on the night train. Brumley Is in a bf d condition and It is thought that he will not get well. Marlon Chronicle. While pursuing his dog-hunt Marshal Stewart called at the home of a colored woman and made Inquiry as to the number of dogs owned or harbored by the woman. "Yes, sah. I has two dawgs," answered the woman, "an they both belong to me pusonally and individually." "You understand." continued the officer, "that the council has passed an ordinance requiring every dog owner to buy tags for their pets, don't you?" "Lawd bless you, I knowd that a long time ago, but 111 tell you MLster Policeman, it's unpossible for me to get the money right now." The marshal kindly told the woman that he was compelled to either collect the tax or prosecute the owner. This information distressed the woman greatly, but after a moment's thought she exclaimed: "I'll tell you what I'll do. One of them dawgs is a worthless, no-count sort of a cur, an' I'll Jes' pizen him. The other I wouldn't kill for the world, so I'll send him down In Erwin township to some of my folks." This explanation was satisfactory to the marshal for the time, but he called next day. With a sorrowful face she met him at the door and told the officer that both her dogs were now in the back yard lying cold in death. She could hardly keep the tears from her eyes as she related how she had fixed a dose of poison for the "no 'count pup" and how, while her back was turned for a moment, her favorite pet had also tasted of the deadly potion. Kokomo Dispatch. The trustees of the State normal school have issued an address to the citizens of Indiana relative to the troubles in the school which culminated in the nongraduation of the senior class last June. It is the first official statement from the board. The address Is brought out by the knowledge that the trouble Is brewing again and is expected to break out as strong as ever when school meets. Sept. 19. The address is a lengthy one and is issued under the signatures of all five trustees. It charges that Prof Tompkins has set about to destroy the school because his wife was not given a place In the faculty by President Parsons, and that Tompkins himself, who is personally conceded to be popular, has Instigated the rebellion of the students and is back of all their movements. The address states he was dismissed on evidence that he attacked other members of the factulty and their methods and ridiculed them to the pupils. A letter from President J. P. D. John of DePauw university is incorporated in the address. In which that educator, who was quoted favorably on Prof. Tompkins, complains that his interview was garbled by the students and Is Improperly used In the circulars they are distributing. President John writes that Prof. Tompkins was charged with attacking the faculty of DePauw. when he (Tompkins) was a member of it. The trustees add that at the coming session the rebellious students will not be asked to sign any statements that they are sorry for actions, but they must be loyal. The habit of Jumping on and off trains at the depots is a growing evil, and the officers do not seem to take any steps to put a step to It. The employes of the roads tell of a great many narrow escapes; but Ed Smith, manager of the Western Union telegraph, tells of one of the narrowest and moet temarkable escapes that we have ever heard of. A few days ago, a lame man who was walking with a cane, jumped on a moving freight train, and before he could swing himself between two cars, he was truck by a switch target. The train was moving at a pretty good rate, he was knocked off the train and thi-own across the track. Ed says his hair fairly stood straight on his head, it being impossible to aid him, as he was on the opposite side of the track from where he , stood. As the train moved on, he could not see anything of the man and supposed he was being ground to pieces. He was gratified, however, to find after the train had passed to see the man lying at the 6ide of the track, all in one piece. He went to his assistance and found that he was considerably bruised where he was struck by the target, and where hxs h&y hd striuik th rail; ch.r?itt

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he wan uninjured. It seems that the break beam of the first car that struck him was an unusually low one and had knocked him from the track befote tha wheels reached him. He said that he did not want to wait for a passenger train and took the dangerous plan to save a few hours. He waited for the passenger train and left for home, a sadde-. but wiser man, for his rougla experience. Winchester Journal. DOlllLE MURDER COMMITTED And a Third Uody May Vet Be Found la tbe Sen rcl. MIDDLETOWN, X. Y., Sept. 4. A discovery of what has the appearance of a double murder and may prove tc be a triple assassination, has Just been made at Burlingham. at the foot of the Shawagunk mountains. The events leading up to the supposed murders are: Paul Holliday, a widower, who resides near Builingham, recently married a young woman who had been worki:i& for him. Soon after the mairiage, H"lllday's house and barn were burned an i his crippled son was burned to death in the house. Mrs. Holliday was arrested for arson and held in the Orange county jail, where she showed eveldence of insanity. She was sent to the state hospital and subsequently being released, returned home. The latter part of last week Holliday was missed. He had not been seen by his neighbors since last Thursday. A watch was set on Holiday's premises and Mrs. Holliday questioned as to her husband's whereabouts. She said he had gone to Bloomingburg to work as a mason, but an Investigation proved her statement false. Mrs. Holliday made some inquiries as to what would remove blood stains, and her actions becoming mysterious she was arrested. A starching party made up to look for Holliday. In the barn at Holliday's place they found under a lut of hay the bodies of two women. One was that of a fleshy woman about forty-rive years old and the other that of a young girl aged about nineteen years. In the body of the elder woman there were eight bullet wounds. Death had evidently aken place In both cases about four days ago. While the names of the dead women are unknown it is thought they were summer boarders from New York City. Coroner ltoesch of Wurtzboro has summoned a Jury and local physicians are making a postmortem examination. The inquest will be held tomorrow afternoon. The search for Holliday continues. THIEVES AT M'OKK. Holding l"p Yrlrrnni at Cnmp "Wildef Sen red Off. At an early hour this morning word was received at the Central police station to the effect that a number of thieves were holding up the veterans in camD Wilder. A number of officers were Immediately sent to the scene from the Third Drecinct station. One of the thieves was a negro and he was discovered trying to rob an old soldier. A number of the latter's comrades started In pursuit and ran the negro quite a distance, but did not succeed in capturing him. Killed by tbe Cars. LAFAYETTE, Sept. 4. Special. The. labor organizations of this city went to Logansport today to unite in a celebration of Labor day. The Wabash railway ran a special train of cabooses. All of the passengers could not find seats in the cabooses and sat on the cupolas and roofs. At Colburn, this county, the spout of the water tank struck Barney Riley, aged eighteen, and Harry Cragln. aged twenty-four, who were seated on the cupola of the first caboose. Riley was knocked from the caboose and instantly killed. Cragln had his skull badly fractured and cannot recover. Dlaolnfion of Trnat. TE11P.13 TIAUTF, Sept. 4. Special. The Western wheel company today decided to dissolve, after running not quite a year. The company was an association of wheel companies, which has controlled 90 per cent, of the output of the West. It included in its list the Standard wheel company, with its various plants in all. rnd four other companies. The Standard manufactur?d 66 per cent, or 316,000 out of 618.000 fets of wheels made by the Western wheel company. The cause of the dissolution of the trust is the action of the outside companies. CHOLERA rLAGlE. A man. died at Belfast of Asiatic cholera. Eleven new cases of cholera and seven deaths occurred in St Petersburg Sunday. Three more children suffering from cholera have been taken to the Moabit hospital. Berlin. There are no further deaths from cholera at Grimsby. Ten suspected cases were discovered there on Saturday. FOR XERVOISNESS A.D DYSPEPSIA I'se Iloraford' Acid Phosphate. Dr. C. Graham, Chicago. I1L, says: "I have used it for years in cases of nervous exhaustion, insomnia and certain kinds of dyspepsia, and would be at a loss to find in the whole materia medic anything which would take its place and give as satisfactory results in the abovo L:enired dirw-der."