Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1893 — Page 8

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25. 1893-TWELYE PAGES.

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. The Hope creamery still stands Idle. 1 The town of Corydon is Infested -with flre-bug. ' Horse stealing seems to be a relgmlng fad near Muncie . Nearly all the county fairs Buffer financial loss this year. The first ioe of the season formed In southern Indiana Sunday night. '. Crawfordsville has already begun preparing for a rousing .Hallowe'en. Over three hundred people from Posey county left for Chicago yesterday morning. The Ohio Falls car works conpany has ordered a reduction in "wages of 10 per cent. f Henry Hogan of Nulltown was thrown from a buggy in a runaway. His thigh was broken. ( . Jerry Collier of Morgan county has gathered and hulled 100 bushels of walnuts this season. Charles Romlnger of Hope has lost two children by diphtheria very recently and "two others are sick of it. Thousands of bushels of tomatoes lie rotting in the fields around Whiteland, due to the heavy frosts of this week. ; A 'Howard county farmer has been arrested for pouring water on. his hay when 1 went to sell it, so it would weigh more. " If the "Wabash river does not ris.soon the nimrods expect a glorious season catching bass in the tributaries and lake near that stream. . Five hundred inmates of the Indiana oldlers and sailors' home at Knightstown were admitted free to the John Koblnson circus last week. The late small-pox case will have cost Connersville $330.58 when everything is paid, and would have cost $700 if all were paid who wanted to be. William Strong:, -while working on a new barn near Fairvlew Thursday, fell from a beam twenty-five feet and received internal injuries that will result fatally. . Grand Juror Taffiinger, while going home from Jeffersonville Wednesday night over the Ohio & Mississippi road to Nabb, was relieved of $500 by a pickpocket. A Valparaiso woman recently lost her husband, his life being insured for $2.000. The broken-hearted woman at once telegraphed her relatives in Ohio: "Jim died this week; loss fully covered by insurance." Anthony Navarre died in Washington on Sunday, aped sixty-two years. He was the son of Toter Navarre, who was the first white settler of South Bend, and his mother wus a full-blooded Fottav.attomle Indian. Ben Jenks, who was sentenced to pay a tine of $1 and the costs for maintaining a nuisance in the shape of pet kunks in the window of his saloon in New Albany, has appealed the case to the supreme court. Frank Martin, a youns man who lives two miles southwest of OVieola. was out hunting Sunday and shot two fingers off hlsleft hand, beside badly lacerating his hand, by the accidental .discharge of his gun. Mr. Henry Sherlock of this city who, as has been stated, recently received a good paying appointment in the United States marine service, has selected Mr. Charles E. Pfau of Indianapolis as his private secretary. Madison Courier. Warsaw has an epidemic of diphtheria and the disease is prevailing in numerous places in the state to an alarming exent. All necessary precaution should be taken by our board of health to prevent it getting a foothold in the city.The Farmers and Merchants' (Nebeker's) bank of Covington, this state. Which susrended during the panic, completed its payment in full to, depositors Saturday. It Is the first bank in the fallen list. . either state or national, to pay up in full. The long delayed free gas line for factories will soon be a roaring reality. All arrangements have been made for the shipment of the gas pipe, and the work of trench digging will begin in & fw days as we are reliably informed. f okomo Tribune. O. D. Knapp, who teaches at the Carter school house, about four miles west of Frankfort, had his foot badly Injured Sunday by a horse stepping upon it. It will lay him up for some time, and being: enable to get a. teacher in his place, the echool was dismissed. Gatton & Hastings shipped their famous trotter. Gamer, to Memphis, Tenn., Sunday, where he will be in training for one year. Gamer is one of the coming wonders of the turf and one year of . good training will put him to the front in good shape. Vincennes Sun. R. H. Ashmore of Center Point has the boss pear tree, planted five years ago, which has now borne three crops, - that of this numbering 256 matured pears, beeide the windfalls. It is the KlefTer variety. We may challenge any other tre this side of California to equal It. An organization to be known as the Social science club has been formed at Richmond and the following officers elected: President, J. T. Joyce; vicepresident. Malcolm Ritchie; secretary, James Bond; treasurer. C. Patterson; sergeant-at-arms. Joseph Brunner The contest of the will of the late John Hilt, the wealthy Ice man, will be commenced at the November term of the Laporte circuit court. The estate is valued at $500,000 and the litigation is said to be the result of his failure to adequately provide for all the heirs. The residence of A. S. Reed, in Johnson township, was entered by a . burglar while the family was at the fair last week. The thief left the contents of drawers and wardrobes scattered all over the rooms, but carried away nothing except a cake which had been left in the pantry. . . , Lewis Wlnshlp, a farmer living near Rushvllle, claim to have the best crop of corn in the state of the same acreage. The seed planted is known as the Dent corn, each kernel being dented and sixteen rows to the ear. Six ears strung out measured six feet and six inches in length. Leo F. Tomaszewskl. the hustling real estate man of this city, has been named by Governor Matthews as a dele- . träte to the world's real estate congress to be held Oct. 23 at the world's fair grounds under the auspices of the National real estate association. Madison Democrat. Adam C. Ilumbarger, an aged resident of this county, was found dead in an open field near Tamplco Monday evening. He Is well known in this city, where he has made his home with his children, Mr. M. Ilumbarger. corner of Markland and Courtland-aves., and Mrs. Will -Eoott Kokomo Tribune. George W. Burnham, formerly a resident of Mt. Vernon and a brakeman on the Air line, tried to suicide in the Princeton Jail on the 14 th, where he was confined for larceny. II used a rope but was cut down before he succeeded irj his attempt He was twice under arrest there on suspicion of crooked work. r The game law of Indiana has been changed In such a manner that some of our sports are liable to gel in trouble If they don't poet up. 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but the new law says you can Only enjoy that sport from Nov. 10 to Jan. 1 The change was made in order to give quail, ducks, squirrels, etc.. a chance for their "white alley." Mt. Vernon Democrat. . A Goshen school boy is said to have brought ta his teacher a letter from a physician stating that "this boy is unfit to attend school for 304 days." The long and exact period aroused the suspicions of the teacher, and he discovered that the doctor had written . "3 or 4 days." The boy had changed it to 304 days. A young lady examining and pricing some hosiery in a Laurel store recently, finding a pair that she liked, asked the clerk "how high those came?" Green Clerk: "Why, I don't know exactly, but I think about two Inches above the knee. Tou "may step Into the back room and try them on if you like." Connersville Examiner. Uncle Sol H'xon has his wood house full of wood nicely corded eight feet high, which he has ranked all himself. Uncle Sol is nearly eighty-eight years old, has a wooden, which is the best of the awo, so he says, and he can do a big day's work yet. His health is better this fall than for a number of years. Mlddlebury Independent : We have a sample of corn on our desk raised on some of the swamp lands reClaimed by the big ditch lately constructed through this county. It Is as fine as one could wish for and will average at least seventy . bushels to the acre. Mr. Randolph Hire has one field of seventyfive acres that will yield at least 5,000 bushels. Ligonier Banner. The family of John K. Welker, near Ramsey, Harrison 'county. Is terribly afflicted. Mr. Welker, his wife and four sons are all prostrated by typhoid fever. Mr. and Mrs. Welker are thought to be past recovery, and two cf the sons are so low that their lives are despaired of. The other two sons are showing some indications of Improvement. Miss Nellie Agnes Var.cleave, a Greencastle girl and a daughter of Tllton A. " ancleave, will be married Monday at Kokomo to Charles F. Burns. The proom Is a wholesale oil merchant of Chicago, and the bride, who is beautiful and accomplished, has served as his stenographer and private secretary for a long time. Greencastle Democrat. It has been four days since any peaches came t South Bend by express over the M ich I gran Central and the busy peach season Is at an end. During the busiest time three car loads of peaches' came here by express over that line each day. Several days the express managers handled twenty-two tons of peaches were received over that peach market and no mistake. D.r, Clark was called seven miles south of the city yesterday to attend Jacob Martin, who. the messenger said, hal had some fingers mangled in a hay cutting machine. Waen the doctor arrived at Mr. Schaff ner"s he found that he had not only lost all his fingers but a good portion of his hand. The result was that the hand was amputated two inches above the wrist. Elkhart Review. , At a wedding In Aurora. Ind.. recently the contracting parties were James W. Chase and his step-daughter, Samantha E. Cloe. Ills present wife is the daughter of his second wife and becomes the step-mother of her half sister, a child about twelve years old. He has been married three times and Is about fortyfive, while the age of his bride is twentyrllve. The Ohio Falls iron works, that has been Idle for two weeks, will resume operations in all departments next Monday. During the temporary suspension of work at these mills an immense new fly wheel and two large cog wheels have been set up, giving the mill additional power and capacity. The Ohio Falls Iron works has orders sufficient to- keep it busy. A German at Batesville, Ripley county, has received a jatent op a oneWheeled road cart, which he-' styles a monocycle. The vehicle goes upon a single wheel, and its inventer claims that It has many advantages. The traveler can drive along footpaths and through woods, through narrow gates and over rough ground. The cart is drawn by one horse. W. B. Godfrey has turned over the pootofüee'at New Albany to his successor, Charles W. Schindler. Mr. Schindler has made the following appointments: Thomas J. Harmon, assistant postmaster; Miss Fanny Schindler, money order clerk; W. B. Richardson, engineer. Within a few dajB Mr. Schindler will appoint a Janitor for the pubUc building, and this will be all the appointments for some time. Leonard Miller, one of the Staunton burglars, has given the Information that it was Edward Alexander and Edward Thompson who Tbbbed William Modesltt of $26 in cash the early part of last summer while Modesltt, in a state of intoxication, was lying in the rear of the tore building of Cooper & Blller. Modesett had drawn his pension money that day. Thompson has not yet been arrested. Brazil Democrat. William Nobes, residing west of Purdue, was the victim yesterday of another accident, dislocating his left wrist while sawing timber on the Madendorf farm, four miles west. Mr. Nobes seems to bo a victim of fate against that good left member. Recently he mashed a finger and that having no more than healed when the thumb was mashed. Yesterday's accident was to the wrist. Mr. Nobe says the elbow Is due next. Lafayette Daily Courier. John Dougherty has been peddling lead pencils about the city for some days, and Officer McConlogue found him In the railroad yards yesterday morning drunk, and arrested him. At the calaboose the officers were searching htm, when he took a handful of nickels and dimes from his pocket, put them in his mouth and swallowed them. It is needless to say there Is money in that man, but the officers cannot get it. He went down. Richmond Dally Indepenent, The final test of their new car coupler was made yesterday by the Anderson steel and forging company, arid the test proved - more than satisfactory. . Although the test was the most severe one by several tons burdens yet applied the coupler worked like a charm. The company will now perfect arrangements as rapidly as possible to manufacture the contrivance and expect to have the car coupler in use on soma of the railroads within a few weeks. Anderson Herald. A pitiful case Is reported" from Martinsville. Lizzie Rödgens has been living with her stepfather, Mortan C. Barnes, a few miles northwest of Morgantown. Recently he drove her from home. Friday the girl went to a woods near by and gave birth to a child unattended by any person. Doth lay there all day in cold and rain, and the child died from exposure. The mother was found and is being cared for, but her condition Is serious. She is mly twentythree. . Yesterday afternoon a large living tarantula was caught alive, at Frank Noltlng' store. It was observed crawling, about in a large bunch of bananas that have been hanging there almost a week. It was captured, placed in a bottle of alcohol and then put on exhibition In the show window of Ernest Stalhuth'a drug store, where it may be seen. When at liberty its long scrawny limbs spread out covering a space alpovrder. 10 tester Best.

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most as large as a saucer. A dead one was also found in the same bunch. Columbus Daily Times. Barney Stewart, a lawyer of Wakarusa, was gathering hickory nuts one day last week, and while cllmWng a tree and when about thirty feet from the ground the limb upon which he was holding broke, precipitating him to the ground. The shock to his system was so severe that he has been in a critical condition ever since, with little hope of recovery. One arm was broken in such a manner that it is thought amputation will be necessary if he survives. Tippecanoe county has certainly contributed Its share toward the world's fair patronage. So many west-slders having contributed it wi)j be quite a' surprise when it Is known that the railroad companies here up to the present time have sold to residents of this county nearly 20.000 tickets, and it is a low estimate to say that the entire amount expended by the above number is not less than J400.POO, and still they say business Is dull. Lafayette Dally Courier. Saturday night at 6 o'clock Jacob Altadder and Fred Steinhauser, farmers from Posey county, were robbed by three masked men on the Mt. Vernon road. Of late more than four farmers are reported to have been robbed while returning home. The amounts stolen in each case were small, however. Last week the authorities were notified of a case which occurred on the road leading to the St Joseph cemetery. As yet they have made no discoveries. Mt. Vernon Democrat. Calvin Gibson has brought suit at Brazil against the T. H. & I. railroad company for damages in th3 sum of $3,000 in consideration of the death of his son, Thomas Gibson, aged seventeen years, who, as alleged, lost his life by being violently ejected from a train by the employes of the road, while moving at the rate of fifteen miles In this city on the 5th of June last, the wheels of the train severing his head from his body when thrown from the train. Greencastle Democrat. The bodies in an old graveyard at Laporte are being removed to another plat to make room for modern improvements. Over one hundred graves have teen opened so far. In the majority of the graves nothing but a few decayed bones and a skull are found, while in others the . bodies are found to be in partially decomposed condition. Theremains of one woman, who was buried In 1831, were found ' to be turned completely over, as if she had been burled alive, and had turned in her grave. Goshen Democrat. - Aaron Turley sold to B. II. Hancock this week nine two-year-old mules that average 1,134 pounds, four of which averaged l,2o5 pounds. They were bought by-the pound at 12 cents per pound. This is the first we ever knew of mules selling that way, and they were the finvst and fattest lot of mules we ever saw. They were bought for a eujrar plantation in the South. Mr. Turley has been feeding them for several months for the market and realized a handsome profit from them. Orleans Examiner. Chief of Police Lewis of Connersville received a communication from J. W. Stout, sheriff Vigo county, to be on the lookout for an escaped convict named Harry Sullivan, sentenced for picking pockets. While on the way from Terre Haute to Jeffersonville he jumped from the train at Seymour and escaped. lie Is about twenty years of age and claims Anderson his home. He is a telegraph operator, claiming to have worked at Hyde Park. A reward of $50 is offered for his capture and detention. The Ripley county court house stood in need of a pew coat of paint, and thereby hangs an interesting tale of the county commissioners. The board of commisslo lers ordered the court house painted, awarding the contract to Fred W. Bohnen at a good price. Now come all the other contracting palntera in the region around; they testify with one accord that the contract has been awarded at a price double what it should have been. It also appears, from their statements that no one but Mr. Bohnen and the board knew that a contract was about to be awarded. A meeting of the patrons of the Ashboro public schools was held at the school house last Friday night A motion was made that M. A. Jones's son be permitted to re-enter theschool without correction and punishment, on which seven votes were cast for and four against, nineteen of the thirty present not voting at all. Of course, the meetlnsr accomplished and settled nothing. The matter rests substantially as previously. The young man Jones was ejected from the school by the principal, Henry Cromwell, for violent Interference with the punishment of another pupil. Fred Weik walked rapidly down Jack-son-st. Wednesday morning with an Immense pane of glass under his arm. He was reared back like Bismarck on dress parade and eagerly sniffed the bracing October air, feeling that it was good to be alive. But a monster, cruel and relentless, the terrible octopus of terra flrma, had camped on his trail. It laid for him'. His foot struck a banana peel, the glass was shivered into a thousand pieces and Mr. Welk was Jarred. A bystander says Fred addressed the -wide, wide world for some time in all the dialects ever heard in Flanders. Greencastle Democrat The dead body of a child, which apparently had not lived many hours after birth, was found in a brush pile at New Albany Wednesday by two young negroes. The body had been placed in a pasteboard box and thrown over the embankment under the trestle of the New Albany Belt and terminal railroad, and the absence of decomposition showed that it had not been there long before It was found. The only mark on the body was a bruise upon the left temple, but that was probably caused by a fall. Coroner Starr was called and examined the corpse, but -was unable to determine whether the infant had ever lived. Last Saturday night Lew Brown and some other parties got into a difficulty In a saloon on N. Second-st, but soon made up and Brown thought the matter all settled. About midnight Mr. Brown started to his home on 13. Perry-st and Just before reaching there some one shot at him. the ball takinj effect in the thigh of his left leg. Th3 party was bo close that Mr. Brown's coat caught on fire from the discharge of the revolver. Mr. Brown savs he does not know who did the deed. He says he hasn't any enemy In the world that he knows of. A doctor was summoned who dressed the wound and says he will soon recover. Mr. Brown is a teamster Ik the employ of Charles Halter. Vincennes Sun. For some time Mr. and Mrs. Clint Haggard have not dwelled happily together and a few weeks ago they concluded to separate. This morning Mrs. Haggard, in company with thtlr eight-year-old son. took the Lake Erie for Lafayette where she intends mrking her future home, but the lady had scarcely taken her seat in the car when the husband rushed In and asked that she surrender the boy to him. This the mother refused to do, but the excited father, paying no heed to hei objections, seized the child and rushing from the car, left the train with the little one, while the mother went on to the Star City, not, however, without promising that she would return later and have the boy or know the reason why. The affair caused not a little excitement among the rest of the passengers and the bystanders at the depot. Frankfort News. Last Wednesday evening a dance was given at Bell's hall by Dick Kline. Good Huntington music was In attendance, alsoN a nice company of respectable Andrews ladfti and a few gentlemen. They were enjoying themselves when a couple of women staggered In who were soon found to be drunk. In a few moments Another woman, more drunk than the others, ran to the marshal near by for protection, claiming a man with whom she had driven from Huntington had threatened to , shoot her. but she was soon quieted. The Andrews ladies seeing the company they were In, scampered for their wraps and went home. All of the Huntington women and one of the men disgraced themselves by their ac-

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tlons. Such conJuct is disreputable and the Signal will advertise them if they appear here again in that condition. Andrews Signal. Henry Burnslde, a Pleasant township farmer, well-to-do, was found yesterday morning in his home, near Ferguson station. Just recovering from the effects of a chloroform sleep. A burglar had en tered his house by cllmblng througn a cellar window, and had ransacked his sleeping room, taking $18 in silver from his pockets. A sharp ax stood near Mr. Burnslde's bed and on a small stand in the room was a bottle of chloroform and a handkerchief that had been used in applying the stupefying drug. Farmers from the neighborhood formed themselves into a band of man hunters and started in search of a strange negro who was seen in the neighborhood of Mr. Burnslde's house Monday evening. Sheriff Clausmeier and the Ft. Wayne police are keeping their eyes open in the hope of catching the burglar here. Mr. Burnslde Is weak from the effects of the drug. Ft. Wayne Gazette. A carload of little children from the Boston orphan's home arrived at Hoch-, ester, Ind., on the 7th. The little fellows were eagerly takn by good families of that locality, the supply being Inadequate to meet the demand. The conditions upon which these orphans are so placed provide that those taking children agree to receive them into their own family as one of their own children. To give them a good common school education, to go with them to church and Sunday school, to give them parental care in case of sickness, to report their welfare to the home once every six months, to not dispose of them in any way without . the consent of the home, to return them to the institution within three months at no expense to the home if the child is not agreeable or satisfactory. and to irrender the child to officers of the hcuie if not treated according to the articles of agreement. Goshen Democrat. It is really painful to see. such a good officer as the Hon. A. C. Beares, of Peru, postoffice inspector, with headquarters at Cincinnati, step down and out to give place to a democrat. Mr. Bearss is such an inoffensive citizen. There is nothing partisan about him. Because he helped nominate Harrison for president and Is a republican who never roasts or slanders a democrat only when it comes handy is no reason why he should lose his fat place with the government. Mr. Bearss is a fine inspector and all that, but does he suppose that fll the fine inspectors are in the republican party? He thought so much of his fat place that he' went to Secretary Oresham, whom Bearss dubbed a "renegade" last fall, to obtain a "pull" with tho secretary. Bearss blubbered around, but it was all in vain. He had to go. It is more than, the republicans can stand. If they are all to be kicked out within the next few years they might as well give up the ghost. Wabash Times. ' The steam yacht Lois of Benton Harbor arrived in port last evening on her way down the Mississippi and along the gulf coast to Florida. She started from Benton Harbor yesterday morning and put In here to open up her grates. Those aboard the boat - are Silas Sink, her captain; E. H. Goldman, the owner, accompanied by his wife and daughter, and Arthur Gray, the coast pilot. They will be joined at Chicago by a friend, Alvin Toney, of Benon Harbor. The party are making a rleasure trip to Florida and the expedition was gotten up by Mr. Goldman especially for his wife's health. He Is golrrpr to Florida to spend the winter at least, in order that his wife may be benefited by the milder climate. The boat departed this afternoon for Chicago, whence she will sail down the Illinois canal, thence down the Illinois river to" the Mississippi. Then the trip will be made down the Mississippi and around the cor. st to Santa Rosa sound, where the town of Point Washington is located. The party will locate In the town of Point Washington. Michigan City Dispatch. William Houston, a recent arrival at the Jeffersonville penitentiary, sent from Brazil. Clay county, to serve a term for larceny, does not know what a narrow escape he had from being hanged last Monday. Alexander, the boy train-wrecker, whose arrival at the prison was noted yesterday, related the following story last evening: "He was confined in the C-ay county Jail with Houston, the notorious Noah King and three other men aocusod of serious crimes. King planned a jail delivery, which, but for the interference of Houston, would have liberated every inmate. It had been arranged to kill any one who tried to prevent the escape and the longer Houston studied over the matter the more nervous he became. King's rage became something terrible, and he proposed to his confederates to hang Houston in Jail. Accordingly a quilt was torn into strips, and late Monday night it was the intention to hang Houston and declare he had committed suicide. By chance Houston was brought to Jeffersonville Monday afternoon, otherwise he . would now bo a corpse. Courier-Journal. The Joys of hickory nutting are many If a man has a keen appreciation of Joy. What delight there is in getting up early in the morning and walking or riding eight or ten miles over a rough road. And what boiled down, concentrated Joy in running two miles across fields to escape from an angry farmer and his bull dog. when the tiller of thesoil does not allow trespassing on his farm. What inexpressible happiness in sitting down on a logr and riälng up suddenly after about twenty-flve "chlggers" have found their way to-various portions of your anatomy and are staking out claims with all the perslstance of a Cherokee strip boomer. A chigger is a small red Insect about as big as a grain of Cayenne pepper and with 1,000 times the stinging power. To add to the pleasure of the day you can fall out of a tree, tear your clothes on the bushes, lose your watch, stumble into an old ditch, get hU on the head by a club thrown at hickory nuts, drop your lunch basket in a brook, get burrs In your hair, have your trousers stuck full of Spanish needles, and come home at night with a peck of hickory nuts that are too green to hull, and will simply dry up until they look like overgrown buckshot. Muncie Xew3. The recent Baldridge sensation hao been the topic of discussion for the past few days. So nearly as we can learn the facts in the case are as follows: Harry Baldridge is a boy of average ability but of bad disposition. Ills mother haa long been regarded ' as a reckless character and. Is generally . feared by everybody. At the beginning of the school year Mrs. Baldridge went to the school house and stated to the superintendent that she wanted her boy punished If he did not bring up . his work, or If his conduct was cot satisfactory. Last week the boy absolutely refused to get any of his lessons. All means of persuasion were exhausted but without suocess. : As a last resort the boy was' purdähed by his teacher, Alfred Symonde. The whip ued was a trifle over two feet long and but little larger in circumference than an ordinary lead pencil. Aftrr the boy went home hU mother took him to a prominent physician of this place (whose name need not b mentioned), who examined the boy's back and reported the skin cut open In many place. This was a gross misrepresentation, as all who saw j the , hny's back affirm that nothing "was visible save some blue marks such as might be expected to re-

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suit from a severe whipping.' Mrs. Baldridge Bwore out I warrant for Mr. Symonds's arrest and he was taken to Richmond and brought before the court. Mr. Symonds acknowledged that he did the whipping and was fined $10 and costs, amounting in all to $34.70. When the news reached this place the people were indignant. Money was quickly raised to pay Mr.. Symonds's fine and the whole affair Is consldered an outrage. Our people, with one accord, are determined that law and order must be maintained In the public schools. Richmond Sun. ' Jesse Brant, living north of here, got on a high lonesome Saturday night and getting hold of a butcher knife attempted to scalp his wife. Hs ma-de a pass at her throat, but only left a rash about two Inches long, not having taken the distance in according to his reach. After chasing her over the hills and far away to a neighbor's house he returned and gave chase to his oldest son,' Harry, who let no grass grow under his feet in getting over the same amount of land his mother did. Returnlg, he chased all but the last two out end then commenced to break up housekeeping by demolishing the furniture, etc. The brave neighbors were afraid of Jesse's knife and let him have his own way until he got tired. When overcome by exhaustion he fell in bed and slept the sleepas he supposed of the innocent. Jesse, It seems, Is jealous of a certain minister who has been around the county, and whether or not he has any grounds for his Jealousy is not known. Jesse declares the next preacher that fools with his wife's affections shall be crucified instanter, and Without a church trial either. Crawfordsville Review.' Danville people were startled by the announcement that Miss Ada. Brill of Pittsboro had died from strychnine poisoning. It was at first reported that she had taken the strychnine by mistake for quinine, but later reports shoiv that she knew It was strychnine when Ehe took it and that she did so purposely, and with the intention of destroying; herself. She left no word of any kind to indicate the cause of the rash act, and her friends are at a loss to attribute any, as she appeared as happy and contented just previous to the act as ever. The fact that Bhe had been In poor health for some time may have temporarily unbalanced her mind and it may have been while in this condition that she did lt.. Miss Brill was nineteen years fad, bright and intelligent and was popular and respected by a large acquaintance throughout the entire county. She was a leading member of her home T. P. S. C. E., and had Just returned from the annual meeting of the Hendricks county union at Plainfield, where she had led the prayer-meeting services the evening before. Hendricks County Gazette. The watchfulness of Guards Huth and Cotton prevented the escape of two convicts from the Jeffersonville penitentiary Monday. Confined in "A" cell house were Edward Evans and Charles Simpson, both of whom are ncted burglars. The former is serving a term of eight years and the latter a four-year sentence. At intervals in the night the guards had their attention attracted by an unusual noise, but they were unable to locate It. Just before daybreak they observed Evans In the act of leaving his cell. Several bricks had been removed from the wall and a epace sufficient to permit a man to crawl through had been made with tools which had been Etolen from the shops where the men performed their tasks. Evans was armed with a heavy piece of iron, but mada no effort to use It. as the guards advanced vith pistols drawn and commanded him to surrender. Under his coat was a saw, which he intended to use, in cutting through the roof. Simpson had a knife, but this he dropped when a pistol was hrid in his face. The men wer provided with ropes, which they had made from blankets. After reaching the cell house roof these would have been utilized in lowering themselves to the ground. Warden Patten waa warm in his praise of Guards Huth and Cotton. ; .1 . .The Rev. William F. Pettlt. who died in the northern prison Friday evening, was bom in Mexico. N. T., thirty-five years ago. He was educated at the town school and graduated from the Mexico academy. He was intelligent and absorbed knowledge rapidly. After graduating from the academy he went to West Monroe, N. Y., and taught school in the Ostrum district. He professed religion while residing at West Monroe and became an exhorter in the methodist church. He conducted services at Gayville and other points and was quite successful in his work. He became acquainted with Miss Hattie Sperry, youngest daughter of the late J. W. Sperry, and their acquaintance terminated in their marriage at West Monroe In January, 1881. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Pettit had taught school ,at South Bend and, soon after their marriage, she and Mr. Pettit moved to South Bend, where Pettit taught school fcr a while and then found employment with the Studebakers. He was employed in different capacities for some time and then relinquished commercial pursuits to enter the ministry. He was assigned to a small charge in the northern part of the state, but his first assignment worthy of notice was at Shawnee Mound. He was a man of commanding stature, possessed a deep, sonorous voice and could be extremely genial when he pleased to do so. He had an easy flow of language, expressed original ideas in forcible language and gained some prominence as an orator. He made friends rapidly and became very popular with the members of his congregation, devoting much attention to the ladles. Mrs. Pettit 'was a quiet, reserved lady and was quite intelligent; but nhe did not possess the dash har husband did and was not so much given to worldly matters. She was decorous In her conduct and was regarded as a true lady by all who knew her. Pettit devoted much of his time outside of the pulpit to masonry. He rose to th thirty-second degree and was grand prelate of tbo grand commandery of the Knights Templars of Indiana at the time of his downfall. He was an active member of the order and was always a welcime guest at the bannuts given by the order. In connection with his church work he was secretary of the . . Battle Ground campmeetlng association and entered .upon his work with the same energy he displayed in lodge and church work. After he left the ministry he came to this city and was admitted to the Tippecanoe county bar. After leaving1 her he went to Columbus, O., and became the agent of a publishing concern. One daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Pettit, Aalne, and she is now living with her aunt, but is hardly old enough to realize the full Import of the legacy that has been left her. Lafayette Journal. Horned to the Ground. OGDEN, Oct. 18. Special. The farm residence of Mrs. Rebecca Phepley, onehalf mile northwest of Ogden, ' caught fire near the roof about 1 o'clock p. m., Tuesday, and burned to the 'ground, with moat of the contents. Losa on building and contents, $2.000, with Insurance for $725, in the Phoenix of Hartford. ,.-. For Sale, One complete natural gas ' pumping outfit. For prices and particulars address Wapakoneta natural gas company, Wspakoneta, O, ..........

WAS KILLED BY A WOMAN.

THE VILLAGE OR WALTOS ODER MICH EXCITEMEXT. J. Oscar Walto Meets Ills DeathShot at the Hands of Mrs. Anguits Schmidt The Woman Taken to Logariport and Lodged In Jail Full Details of the Tragedy Mrs. Schmidt the Principal Claimant In the Howard County Ilooper Estate. LOGANSPORT, Oct. 20. Special. The town of Walton, ten miles south of this city, is greatly excited over the murder of J. Oscar Walton by Mrs. Augusta Schmidt. O . Walton had called upon Mrs. Schmidt at her farm, .three miles from town, asking her to vacate the farm, as he had obtained a lease of the same. Mrs. Schmidt claims that he threatened her with violence if she failed to give up the place, when ' she went into another room, got a revolver and returning, shot Walton through the head. The wpund has been pronounced fatal and Mrs. Schmidt gave herself up and "was brought to Logansport tonight and lodged in Jail. ' Walton was only about thirty-two years old and unmarried. Mrs. Schmidt 4s past fifty years old and is one of the claimants for the celebrated Ilooper estate at Kokomo. 1 Another report of the crime says that Mrs. Schmidt rented her farm to "her victim and was to have given possession t of the house last March, but failed to do bo. Finally she and her husband vacated a part of the house and Walton, together with his father and mother, moved in and repeated his demands for complete possession, which resulted in frequent disputes. This morning, Walton again pressed his claims for possession somewhat vigorously and Mrs. Schmidt, In the heat of passion, produced a revolver and Cred the fatal shot. KOKOMO. Oct. 20. Special. Augusta Schmidt, the woman who shot J. Oscar Walton to" death near the village of Walton, in Cass county, this morning, R-as the principal claimant in the Christiana Hooper estate in this county, valued at $60.000. . After a long litigation she secured the bulk of the estate. She came from Germany ten years ago and acted as companion of Christiana Hooper, her aunt. By verbal bequest she was given much of the personal property, beside her share as one of the three direct heirs. . Like Mrs. Ilooper, she was a woman of strange temperament, and was regarded as a rather eccentric character. . The choice of a husband was made for her by her patroness and they lived unhappily together. ' TTRIV TUE LIGHT OX II13I. A Character That Reveals Signe of Crookedness. BLOOMINGTON", Oct. 22. Special. W. S. Burton, special examiner United States pension bureau of this district, was a few weeks ago investigating the claims of various kinds, and among them the case of Mrs. C. B. Morgan, an attorney of record practicing before the pension bureau. It is understood here that one James F. Morgan, her husband, has been using her name to cover up his interest in his pension business. The object of this investigation seemed to be to disclose this fact. During the pendency of the examination other facts of an, incriminating character appeared to have been developed, among which are such things as the making of false affidavits, and the attaching of fraudulent jurats. It also appears tht James F. Morgan was disbarred from practice before the pension office more than a year ago. Finding he could not practice in his own name, he used that of his wife to cover up his real interest. Mr. Burton proceeded with the investigation in a quiet manner and has kept closely at it all week, but is, of course, very reticent about the matter. He declines making any statement relative thereto; but there is ample ground for believing, and It is generally believed, that some startling revelations In reference to this matter will soon be officially spread before the public in official documents, and a prosecution in the United States district court :wlll probably follow the investigation, and Mrs. Morgan likely disbarred from -practice before the pension department. Mrs. Morgan is properly regarded as a good Christian woman, and no reflection or stigma will be cast upon her, as she is the innocent tool used by her designing and somewhat notorious husband. The action of Morgan in so misusing the good name of his wife is regarded here as but another evidence of his infamy. The result of this matter will therefore be watched by this community with great interest, especially by those desirous of seeing the pension bureau purged from such evil practices. The witnesses whose testimony has been taken embrace men of the highest standing in the community, and cover almost every vocation in life; and the evidence is voluminous, judging from the number interviewed and examined and the length of time Involved in the taking of the testimony. The report' will be at once forwarded to the commissioner of pensions, when all the facts will then most likely be given to the public newspapers at on;e. In this connection it will be interesting to give a resume of the inception of this investigation: Rumors have been rife for many years that the practices of Morgan in pension cases have been very crooked. About two years ago he was Implicated in a scheme, a dastardly scheme to involve Congressman Cooper as an acceptor of a bribe under coJr of a fee or an alleged fee to adLnee a certain pension claim. Morgan volunteered himself as a witness, and voluntarily appeared befote the congressional committee on Invalid pensions at Washington, and his manifestly false and scandalous statements were then given a wide publicity by the dally papers of the country. The manner in which he disgraoed himself, and disappointed the then commissioner of pensions Green B. Raum by his flagrant actions before the committee, will be remembered by newspaper readers. Mr. Burton deserves credit for the manner in which he has conducted this investigation, without a semblance of malice, and endeavoring only to get at the facts as they exist. THAT TOTATÖ PATCH SIIOOTIG. Four Men Indicted for Marder at ( Marten. MARION, Oct 20. Special. The shooting of Abe Stumpft on the night of . Oct. 11. when entering the potato patch of James Lemon, occurred under circumstances that have flommanded considerable attention here. ' , Stumpft had foreclosed a mortgage on a team of horses he had sold to Frank Stevens, yet the latter claims that Stumpff requested him to Join In a raid upon the Lemon potato crop. Lemon is a brother-in-law of Stevens, who informed him of the proposed raid. When Stumpff entered the place he received a load of shot at a distance of fifteen pacesj from whi"h he died next morning. Before he died, however, Stevcr.s attempted to secui-e possession of the I team, pretending that he would sell

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