Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1894 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1894 TWELVE PAGES.

ANOTHER WIFE MURDERER.

SIIERMW WAGOEK OF LYWVILLE COMMITS A BLOODY CRIME. Ofilcrr ami ttttsen In Paranit and the Criiuinul In the Lynoklutt Reit Other Mnte evm An I nknonrn Woman Killed ly the Carn-Yonog Ilarglnrit Arrested A Fire ut Mitehell Miller' Club House named ut EvjinTllle The Cost of a AVIll Contest. SHOALS, Jan. 8. Special. Sherman Wagoner instantly killed his wife at Lynnville, nineteen miles north of this city today. His wife had left him on account of bad treatment and gone to her uncle's house. Wagoner appeared thre and demanded that she return to him. She refused and he raised his shotgun and fired, Ftrikli;? her in the head. He then threatened to kill any person who attempted to detain him, saying he was determined to die rather than to be arrested, as he krvew he would be lynched. Intense excitement prevails and officers have gne from here to arrest him. Mrs. Wagoner was not warned of the fate that awaited her. He suddenly and deliberately poured the shot into her head and the woman dropped dead Instantly. Several weeks ar she had her husband arrested for frequent intoxication and abuse. This angered him and the sequel followed in the murder. A SAI TELEGRAM. George E. Brokavr of Terre Hnnte Learna of His Son's Suicide. TEJ1RFJ HAUTn. Jan. 2. Special. A private dispatch to George E. Brokaw, a leading merchant of this city, tonight, from Tittsburg. Pa., states that his son, Charles C. Brokaw, committed suicide la hts rooms there tonight and that the cause was unknown. Brokaw was a young man about thirty years old and was born and educated here. For pome years past he has lived in the larsrer cities. Charles Cruft Brokaw is a son of George E. Brokaw, one of Terre Haute's tvdidest and oldest citizens, who has been engaged in the carpet business here for about a third of a century. Mr. Brokaw received a telegram from Pittsburg tonight conveying the startling Intelligence to him, and both he and his family were completely prostrated by the tragic event. Young Brokaw was about thirty years cf age and was a strikingly handsome young man. He was not known to have had any bad habits uncommon to the general run or a smart set of young men. II was born, raided and educated here. He graduated from the Rr.se Polytechnic institute of this city in the civii cnsrinr--ri:is class, and after graduation accepted a position in Chicago. He lived there several years and then went to Pittsburg. lie had a tall, slender figure, with parting black eyes and a dark mustache, ana when he lived at home was knvn as one of the most stylish dressers here. He was a conftant attendant at all the swell parties and was a general favorite among the gentler s-x. His family are in utter ignorance of th? cause if the deed, and they sent pevfral tolepranis to Pittsburg tonight asking for further particulars. The TJrnkaws are next-d;vr neighbors to ex-Secretary of the Navy II. V. Thompson, and the family is one of the best known here. Your.? i:r k;av was unmarried. lie was known to drink, but not to excess, though what habits and associations he may have contracted after leaving here to seek his fortune hi the open world Is n t known to his old associates in Terre Haute. Fit OU niIM) TO A LT A It. James A. Wood mid the Illouut Mnrlr nt Itichtiioml. RICHMOXD, Jan. Special. The tae against Janus A. Woods, charged with the miirJ,-r of Jay Blount, one of Muncie's most prominent lawyers at one tir.v?, held in the state Insane hospital herj, at which place Woods was an attendant, was today noIMed. The murder was committed In September, IS.), and after a ery exciting trial Wood ä was sent up for twenty-one years. After serving cut nearly three years of the time the supreme court granted him a second trial, and owing to lack of evid?nce and other things that have since arisen to prevent his again being convicted, the state has nollied the case. Blount was kicked to death and It was not until some months afterward that the fact became known. A patient dismissed as cured revealed the mistreatment. Blount's body wa-s exhumed and the whole ended in Wood conviction. The trial was the most exciting in the records of this county, although It was thouRht at the time that Woods's deed was not wholly unexcusable. The event occurred during a state campaign and republican papers made capital of it in attempting to show the bad administration of the democratic party. For this reason there was much prejudice against Woods that was unwarranted. Ten days were consumed In the trial, ending In Woods's conviction. After the supreme court granted him a new trial Woods was released from the penitentiary at Jeffersonville and has since been. In this city under ?3,000 bond. Tomorrow h will be united in marriage to Miss Bessie Kaufman, a member of one of the best families In the city. KILLED Dl' THE CARS. The Sad Fate of an Unknown Woman ur Franklin. FRANKLIN. Jan. 8. Special. Today whll an unknown woman was walking on the track of the Fairland. Franklin & Martinsville road at this place, she waa run down by an engine, terribly mangrled and Instantly kil!ed. From appearances she was fully aeventy years old; rather small and square built. Her clothing was scant, consisting of a black dress, two underskirts and two waists. On her feet were yarn stockings and heavy shoes. -Vho che was no cne seems to know. A woman answering her description got off the train here this morning and inquired the way to Ncdharn's Station, which is a few miles east of here and which direction the lady was going when killed. The body will be held until tomorrow when It will be placed In a vault. THE TAU AD FEATHER CASE. natber a "Weak Cime Made Oat Far tty the State. KOKOMO. Jan. . Special. The state will res tomorrow morning In the eise egafoct L. B. Hodgin, the first of the eo-calk-d Garrlgu3 conspirators. It Is generally conceded that no case has been made against Hodgin, and unles more 'eighty t-st!mony Is offered tomorrow !t will hardly be worth while to make a defense. Nearly every witness Introduced by the state gave testimony favorable to the defendant, and he haa been connected with the conspiracy only in the moet collateral manner, though lome damaging points were brought out gainst some of the others under Indictment. Policeman Hutto testified that he day before the asault Hod gin

said to him, "I have nothing against

Garrlgus." It was shown by another of the state's witnesses that Hodgin was busy at his book3 In his office near by throughout the assault on. the night of July 1.

KXOWS HOW IT IS HIMSELF. Detective Xorrla Heat-hen a Cell In the Jail at Peru. PERU. Jan. 4. Special. John T. Norris, the Springfield detective, came to grief here today in an attempt to arrest Dick Weldon and others on a warrant charging conspiracy, sworn out at his Instance in a county In the southern part of the state. Norris arrived here this morning, accompanied by the sheriff of Lawrence county, and while both were busying themselves with the preliminary arrangements Incident to making a wholesale arrest of citizens of this county on ä trumped-up charge, Marshal Colgan swooped down en the foxy' Norris and placed him under arrest for Impersonat ing an officer, an offense that he was j charged with on the ocasion of his former visit here last Tuesday. Sheriff Holmes then discovered the full extent cf the sch"ir.o in which he had been used as a cat's paw and took the first train from home, sore and thoroughly disgusted wuli Norris and his methods. Norris was taken before Justice Fulweller and his ctse continued until Saturday, and in default of $1,500 bail he was committed to Jail. i He will be indicted by the grand jury ' Vi V 4 V- V 1 -. a. T V. J C7T I I'U J . I 1 '1 I v. c against him, and it is highly probable a term of years In the penitentiary will put an end to his p.-actices. CORRECTING FALSE STATEMENTS. Xnt Trne That the Wilkinson Saloon Wna Illotvn t 1. MIDDLETOWN. Jan. 4. Special The sensational special published in The Sentinel from Anderson a few days ago and connecting Je Wetz of this place with an attempt to open a saloon at Wilkinson, and ttatlng that he had been horsewhipped out of town and the building blown up, is absolutely and unqualifiedly false. Mr. Wetz is a law-abiding citizen, is now busily engaged in operating a hotel at this place and has made no attempt to open a saloon at Wilkinson or any other place. Investigation proves that the sensational affair described by the Anderson corresondont did not occur at all. No attempt was made to start a saloon there and consequently no one was driven out of town for that reason. No damage suit waa brought and no explosion occurred. It Is evident that the correspondent had mistaken Wilkinson for Kennard. this county, and had just learned of an affair of the Kind described, which did occur at the latter place some three or four months ago, tut Mr. Wetz was in no way connected with it. A PEtlLIAIl St IT. Claimed That a Saloon Has Cntmetl n Decline In Property Yalrte. MARION". Jan. 5. Special. The recent decision of the supreme court in the case of Haggett vs. Stehlln, In whkh damages were awarded the owner of property adjacent to a saloon by reason of its proximity, has sugrested to the citizens cf Fairmount that there Is a way to fisnt the saloon other than with dynamite. This morning th?re was filed in the circuit court here a complaint by Alvln E. and Alvln IX Bryan against Luther Morris and Mary E. Miller for f 2,000 damages. They aver that they are owners of a house and lot adjoining the saloon operated by Luther Morris and owned by Mary K. Miller, which before the location of the sloon was worth $3.r00 and easily rented for $20 a month. Now they cannot get $s n ut and the property is worth but $l.ft" For this reason they desire damages ar.d ask the court to enjoin Morris from carrying on said business. THE io j ii:s I.. MSO. One of the Oldest Attorney In the State Die lit i rrrn flelil. GREENFIELD. Jan. 2.-Special. The H n. James L. Mason, an attorney of this city, died tonight from a complication of diseases. He was one of the oldest residents here and one of the most prominent attorneys. He served in the Indiana legislature of 152 as the joint representative from this and Shelby counties. In 14 he was elected state senator. He was born at Brownsville. Ind.. April 3. 1V!'". He has probably had more law students in his office than any man in the state. He was the owner of about two thousand acres of land, and it is said that he was worth about one hundred thousand dollars. He was a very peculiar man, and one of his characteristics was never to sell anything he owned, and he rarely ever did. CIIANGKO HElt KELIIO. One of Brother Znck Sweeney' Lnniba Illen to Another Flock. COLUMBUS, Jan.. 7. Special. A letter was received here today from Washington City announcing that Miss Bertha Cooper, the second daughter of Congressman George W. Cooper, whose engagement to the Rev. Fenwlck W. Frazer of this city, pastor of the presbyterlan church here, was made public one week ago, would tonight become a member of the presbyterlan church at Washington, D C. Mr. Coopers family is now residing there temporarily. This adds to the social and religious sensation created by the engagmnt, as Miss Cooper was one of the leading members of the Christian church of this city, of which ex-Consul-General Z. T. Sweeney Is pastor. The Pendleton Hurglnry. ANDERSON. Jan. S. Special. One night last week several stores were burglarized at Pendleton. A number of revolvers, razors, knives and other articles were stolen. No trace of the thieves could be found. It is believed now that they have been arrested at ParU, 111. This morning Chief Welker received a letter from Marshal Owen of Paris, stating that he had arrested ihre men from this county. One, giving his name as W. E. Elrnore, Is believed to be Oliver Copper, because a tax receipt bearing that name was found In his pocket. A lot of new knives, razors and revolvers were found on the men. Chief Welker left this afternoon for Paris and. will bring the fugitive thieves back to this - city. Bloodhounds were brought from Seymour to trace the thieves, but they will be returned, as it is believed that the right men have been caught in Illinois. Willie Heed' Trial. GREENFIELD, Jan. 8. Special. The trial of Willie Reed, charged with the murder of Merchant Policeman Barker at Indianapolis on the night of Oct. 13 last began in the Hancock criminal court this morning. The Jury wns selected at noon out of a special venire of thirtytwo Jurors. The state Introduced five witnesses this afternoon, and the most Important testimony was that of Joseph Blarkwe'.l. a hack-driver, who testified that he was an eye-witness to the murder of Barker and srtw Heed strike the fatal blow; saw the policeman fall and secured the rock that Reed committed his deadly work with. The testimony of the five witnesses thla afternoon was very damaging against the defendant. J

Much interest Is manifested In the case and the court room was crowded to Us utmost capacity.

Deaths. GREENCASTLE. Jan. 4. Special. Col. John R. Mahon, aged seventy years, one of the pioneers of this county, died last evening. He was a native of Flemingsburg, Ky., and was sheriff, of this county in 1S58 to 1S60. 'When the war broke out he enlisted here In a company organized and known as the "Asbury guards," the most of whom were students, and he was chosen captain of the company and assigned to the Fourteenth Indiana volunteers. In the organization of the regiment he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. When the regiment reached West Virginia he was attached to the staff of Gen. Ladder. He was next commissioned as colonel of the Fifty-fifth Indiana volunteers, ar.d was in the engagement at Richmond. Ky. After returning to Indianapolis he was placed In command at Camp Morton, and soon after was changed to Camp Carrlng'on, where he organized the One hundred and fifteenth, One hundred and sixteenth. One hundred and seventeenth and One hundred and eighteenth Indiana volunteers, and In September, took them as a brigade to Eist Tennessee, and was with Gens. Burnside and O. B. Wilcox in all the East Tennessee campaigns. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Grooms In February, 1844, who survives him, though in very feeble health. The funeral will take place at 1 p. m. Saturday, the 6th inst. The G. A. U. will have charge and the Rev. G. W. Uainum of Bement, 111., will preach the sermon. NEW CASTLE. Jan. 7. Special. Josiah Dundy died yesterday evening at 7 o'clock. He had been ill for several months and for a short time before his demise was almost helpless. Mr. Bundy had been a resident of Henry county for sixty years, and for a long time was the proprietor of the Bundy hotel, now owned by his sons. He was a familiar character to hundreds of traveling men for the past quarter of a century. He was born In Wayne county In 1?23, and moved to Greensboro, this county, when twelve years old. In 18G2 he moved to Minnesota and engaged in farming. Six years later he returned to Indiana, selling as farm land his Minnesota property, which now is a part of the most populous portion of Minneapolis and worth millions of dollars. ALBION. Jan. 3. Special. Nelson Prentiss died at his home here yesterday, aged eighty-four years. He was a pioneer of Northern Indiana, having come here from New York when this part of the state was a wilderness. His life was a useful on", and he had the esteem of all who knew him. His father was a soldier of the revolutionary war. Mr. Prentiss held many offices In the county, all of which he filled with ability and fidelity. He was a member of the presbyterlan church all his life. He was the biographer of the old settlers' association of Noble county, and a man of marked literary ability. He was a prominent member of the masonic and odd fellow orders. BRAZIL. Jan. 4. Fpecial Ehler Reuben A. Webster died at hi home In this city this afternoon of kidney disease, aged seventy-fcur years. The deceased was a pioneer, who manufactured by hand power the shingles for the original T. H. & I. depot at Terre Haute. Hi3 estate is reputed to be worth JiO.noo in lands, bonds and cash. He had lived by himself, a widower, for twelve years, and had on his body at the time of his death $1.700 in gold and greenbacks. He secured the right of way for the I. & St. L. railway through Clay and Vigo counties. COLUMBUS, Jan. 7. Special. The estimable wife of George Pence, county auditor, died last night after a short illness of pneumonia, aged about forty years. She leaves a large circle of friends and relat'ves to mourn her death. PRINCETON, Jan. 3. Special. George Byers, residing south of this city, agt-d eighty-one years, died this afternoon. He was born and raised on the same farm on which he died and was wealthy. His wife died recently. More Krntnrkr Elopers Married. JEFFERSONVILLE, Jan. 4. Special. Tillo S. Gudgel and Stella P. Gaines, a handsome couple, eloped from Anderson county, Kentucky, to this city late tonight and were married by Magistrate House. The groom is a prominent farmer and the bride is a daughter of G. II. Gaines, a retired wholesale liquor dealer near Lawrenceburg. Her father objected to the match because he did not want the girl to marry, but the young folks entertained more conservative views and an elopement was planned. They were assisted by J. H. Gudgel, a cousin of the groom. JEFFERSONVILLE. Jan. 4. Special.--Laden with red clay from their native heath in the wilds of Hart county, Ky., a verdant couple bent upon matrimony landed here tonight and were married by Magistrat? Kelgwin. Th contracting parties were William Casell, aged nineteen, and Lucy Steeple, three years the groom's Junior. A third party came with them and filed an affidavit that they were of age. The bride's parents objected to the union on account of their daughter's tender years. David Louden' 9nlclde. SHELBY VI LLE, Jan. 0. David Louden, a justice of the peace, sixtyseven years old, one cf the best known men In the county, was found dead with his threat cut in his office late last night. It was a case of suicide. He had removed his clothing, save an undershirt, and with a small pocket-knife he had cut ten gashes in his throat before death came. About two years ago he was found up the river with hi3 throat cut, he having attempted suicide, and he was coniined for a time in an asylum. The deceased was designdent because he failed to be appointed storekeeper by Collector Bracken. Squire Louden served two terms as county recorder. He leaves a widow and family. Lawjfr and Costs Did It. VALPARAISO. Jan. 8. Special. The celebrated case of Andrew J. Doollttle vs. Marcus L. Coplin, which has been in court here for the past five years, was concluded this afternoon and submitted to the couij.. Judge Gillette rendered a decision for the plaintiff, claiming the late Samuel Doolittle of unsound mind and, the alleged will void. Samuel Doolittle died several years ago. leaving a will In which he bequeathed his entire estate, valued at J38.0QO, to his niece and grandchild, disinheriting his con, who contested the will and who will receive the etate which is now valued at JS.000. the cost of litigation consuming the balance. Indiana. Pension. Increase John H. French, RomervUIe; Oscar Jackson, Aurora; Joseph T. Hard!sta, Muncle; Isaac N. Nungester, Unlonvllle. Reissue Mathew Bodle, Sugar Branch; Duke Fralm, Jr., Loogootee. Original Widows, Etc. Lavin Holt, Eugene; Hannah A. Ruth. Angola, Widows Indian War Mary P. Lemnie, Evar.sville. v Additional Charles Wagner, Evansvllle; Peter Hess, Columbia City. Restoration and Increase Francis B. Smith, deceased, Carlos City. Increase Thomas S. Lewis, Albion; John Hardman, Palmyra. Original widow, etc. Mary E. Letkllder, Ren.So.laer. A Korty-Year-Old Debt Paid. LAPORTE. Jan. 4. Special.-Ex-rpft-master David Shaw of Kingsbury, this county, has had a pomewhat singular experience. Over forty years ago he allowed a poor man to get In debt to him som $40. The fellow could not pay and finally left the county and nothing was heard from him. The debt was regarded as lost and nothing more was thought about It, but It appears the debtor went

West and grew up with the country. He prospered and a few days ago he turned up In Kingsbury, made himself known, and liquidated the debt in full. Mr. Shaw thinks bread cast on the waters will return, although It may take forty years for it to get around.

A Vonngr Glrl'a 5irrov Eiicnpe. ANDERSON, Jan. S. Special. Nellls Ferguson, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Landlord Ferguson of the Perkins house at Lebanon, was rescued here this afternoon. Miss Ferguson Is a beautiful girl and had started to Kokomo. While on the train coming to Anderson she met George- Erown and Joe Buntln, two well-known young men of Lebanon. They enticed her into a questionable resort. The peculiar conduct of the trio on the streets caused suspicion. Tha men had drugged the girl and taken her to the house. Intending to return, when the police arrived. Brown and Buntin made their escape and have left town. A Crippled Veteran. LOGANSPORT, Jan. 4. Special. Fred Falbzsh, a one-armed veteran, was as saulted last night by four thugs in a lonely spot on Rallroad-st.. robbed of . an insurance policy for $2,000. which he ' carried, his pension papers and a little ! money. He was them pitched Into a ; box car of the Wabash road. This morn- . ing he was found in the car at Delphi, ' unconscious, his face covered with blood, , his eyes disfigured. Bruises were i found on his head and when brought ! to consciousness he was shipped back by the station agent at Delphi today. No trace of his assailants. Grant County Farmers. MARION, Jan. 6. Special. The farmers of this county held their monthly Institute at the probate court room today. The attendance was quite good and the interest very general. I. M. Miller of Upland was chairman and J. M. Gillespie of Jonesboro secretary. S. O. Kern of Pleasant township read an excellent paper upon "The Feeding Value of Wheat for Stock," which was followed by a lively discussion. This afternoon J. B. Strange of Arcana led the discussion upon "Swine-Breeding for the Average Farmer." Many of the speakers of the afternoon did not bring up their work. A Untie Bridegroom. JEFFERSONVILLE. Jan. 3. Special. Albert Reed and Mollie Mulligan, a rural eloping couple from Little Rock, Bourbon county, Kentucky, arrived In the city late this afternoon and the pair were married by Magistrate Keigwin. The groom was hatl.-ss, he having lost that Important headwear from a coach window while en route. The misfortune was no impediment to the marriage, which was solemnized in a befitting manner. After the nuptials Reed vent to the nearest furnishing house, purchased a new hat and the twain left for home. CcnfeMl to 1'erjury. BRAZIL, Jan. 5. Special. William Simpson, a young man seventeen years of age, living at Carbon, the prosecuting witness in a casa of larceny against five citizens of that locality, against whom an indictment had been found for complicity in stealing gold from a burled treasure, this afternoon, after testifying against the defendants, confessed to the judge of the Clay circuit court that he had sworn falsely. The indictments were all nollled and Simison sent to the reform school until twenty-one years of age. Tilg- Orain Failure. FOWLER, Jan. 5. Special. Ealdwin &. Co., grain dealers at Oxford, failed this morning for $60,000. Assets, $20,000. The ilrm is composed of Thomas Baldwin. Cephas Atkinson and W. E. White. Each made a personal assignment, as well as Mr. Atkinson's pons, Newton and Ipwls. The total assets are between J3W.O0O and $H0(O0o with an Indebtedness of ?25',000. The assets consist mostly of real estate and about 12.000 acres of land. The cause of the failure Is the inability of the firm to renew loans. For Attempted Outrnare. CONNERS VILLE, Jan. 3. Special. John O. Meek of Glenwood, this county, charged with the attempted outrage of Jeannette Morgan, a twelve-year-old child, was arrested today by Constable Ittese and brought here for trial. The crime Is said to have ben committed tost October. Owing to the sickness of the child's mother, who is an important witness, the case was continued and Meek gave bond for his appearance. If conviction follows Meek will have to take a trip to the pen. Mynterloun Attack on a Fnrmer. HUNTINGTON. Jan. 6. Special. A mysterious attack was made last night upon Daniel McLearen. one of the leading farmers of this county. He was returning home from a neighbor's house and while in a lane on his own farm he waa attacked by a man with a sand bag. After a hard struggle McLaren was knocked senseless, in which condition he was fuund sewral hours later. Ills mind haj been clouded since and he ha? not been alle to give an account of the assault except in a disjointed way. There is no clew to his a.sbailant. I'arlhnm's Summer School. BICHMOND, Jan. 4. Special. Earlham college has Just Issued Its announcement for a summer school In 1S94, and wl'.l put forth special efforts to surpass anthing yet done in that line. The professors employed, all of which belong either at Earlham or in this city, are as follows: History, Cyrus W. Hodgin; mathematics, O. S. Kelso; geography, T. A. Mott: the sciences. Joseph Moore and D. W. Dennis; language. W. N. Trueblood; latin, Marianna Brown; elocution, E. P. Trueblood; art, Elwood Bundy. An Error Corrected. To the Editor Sir: In your Issue of today you report from Anderson, Ind., an account of "Nellie Ferguson, the tlx-tecn-year-old daughter of Landlord Ferguson of the Perkins house." Lebanon, Ind., which Is an error and does me, my family and hotel an ini justice, and I will ask you to be kind to correct In another Issue of your paper. j Landlord Ferguson waa at one time proprietor of the Rose house In Lebanon, j not the Perkins house. J. E. RICIIEY. Jebanon, Jan. 4. A Fire at Mitchell. MITCHELL, Jan. 8. Special. Another of Mitchell's saloons was burned last j night at 12 o'cl xk. The building was a two-story frame valued at $S00, and was occupied by John Jones a.i a saloon with fixtures valued at $1.000. The fire is supposed to be the work of an Incendiary. The total loss on building, fixtures and some small dwellings adjoining Is about $2,000, partially covered by Insurance. Choked to Death. FT. WAYNE, Jan. 4. Spcc'al. The five-year-old son of William Brindle, a prominent Lafayett township farmer, was choked to death this morning. He was eating parched pop-corn and threw a handful Into his mouth. Some of the corn lodged In his wind-pipe and death was the result. Two Yonna- Men Sertonaly Injured. NORTH VERNON, Jan. 6. Special. While Charles and Henry Hole, prom inent young farmers near Butlervllle, were doing come work about a large and somewhat dilapidated building on their j farm the structure suddenly and with

out warning collapsed, burying both young men in the debris. Both were severely If not fatally Injured. One of the men was but recently married to a j-oung lady of Butlervllle. Weddings. FT. WAYNE. Jan. 3 Special. This afternoon at 4 o'clock, at Trinity episcopal church, occurred the marriage of Clarence Cook to Miss Emma Frances Gasklns. The Rev. A. W. Seabrease, rector, performed the pretty church service. The bride is a popular society young lady. MUNCIE. Jan. 2. Special. Ray R'ggins and Miss Nellie Sheets were married today noon at the bride's home, near M uncle. W. H. Smith, a prominent young man connected with the Midland steel company, was married to Miss Mary Smith at Sturgis, Mich., last evening. Youthful Thieves Arrested. LOGANSPORT, Jan. 8. Special. The police yesterday arrested five boys ranging In age from eight to ten years, who are known to be members of a youthful gang of thieves from whose depredations, a number of citizens and the PanHandle railway company have suffered for some time past. The boys confessed their guilt this morning and betrayed six of their companions, for whose arrest warrants have been Issued.

Club Honse Burned. EVANSVILLE, Jan. 8. Special. Miller's club house took fire this morning from a defective flue and was totally destroyed. John Miller, proprietor, and Eugene Mandal, barkeeper, had narrow escapes. The loss amounts to about $7,500. The authorities are rejoiced at its destruction. It was at his place that Charles Johnson has had two trials for killing Jacob App, and the police claim that manj- girls were ruined there. Death from Exposure. WABASH, Jan. 5. Special. At Roann today occurred the death of Mrs. William Pence, one of the oldest residents of the county. Her death resulted from lying in the cold in her front yard, where she had fallen. Being past eighty she was unable to rise and lay upon the cold ground until discovered by relatives. Mrs. Pence had lived In Wabash county ever since 1S40. A Mach Belated Letter. LAPORTE, Jan. 3. Special. A letter has just been returned to the Laporte postofflce from the dead-letter office that was sent from Laporte by N. Weber fourteen years ago. It contained a sum of money sent to parties in New York. It has been laying in the dead-letter office at Washington and the explanation Is that It was found in the desk of a clerk who had recently been removed. Telegraph Operntor Killed. MUNCIE, Jan. 4. Special. W. C. Valsard. a well known Big Four telegraph operator who had been recently employed here and at Anderson, was killed by the cars tonight at Quincy, O. He was on his way to Jackson Center, O., and It is supposed that in changing from one train to another he was accidentally crushed to death by the train. Ovrens Gets n Life Sentence. BRAZIL, Jan. 4. Special. The jury in the Owens-Blgg3 murder case returned a verdict at 4 o'clock this evening finding Owens guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged, and fixing the penalty at life imprisonment. This is the fourth conviction for murder in the first degree and sentence for life in the history of the county. A January Thunderstorm. FT. WAYNE. Jan. 4. Special. This city was visited by a terrific thunder storm and lightning storm about 6 o'clock. While the thunder rolled the lightning played havoc with wires and poles and one flash sounded the fire alarm. Even the oldest Inhabitant didn't remember when a thunder storm occurred in January'. Instuntly Killed. MUNCIE, Jan. 8. Special. William Fuson, aged nineteen, wax Instantly killed this afternoon while assisting in cutting timber three miles south of Muncie. He was working with an unci. A tree lodged and in falling caught the young man, whose head was mashed Into a pulp. Fnn for .Mnrtln. HUNTINGTON. Jan. 5. Special. James B. Kenner, a prominent attorney here. Is an avowed candidate for therepublican congressional nomination. A. N. Martin, democrat and chairman of the committee on invalid pensions, is the present congressman from this district. Death from Croup. MORRISTOWN, Jan. 6. Special. The baby of Mrs. Charles Workman died last night of croup. Mrs. Workman Is the wife of a prominent contractor of Indianapolis. She has be-?n visiting relatives here the past week. The burial will take place at Asbury cemetery Sunday. Successful llnrglars. SULLIVAN, Jan. 5. Special. The hardware store of A. J. Stewart & Co. was entered last night by a back window, and the burglars carried off all the knives, razors and revolvers In sight, disappeared without being heard and left no clew as to who did the work. Hart for the Wilson Dill. MUNCIE, Jan. 5. Special. President Hart of the window glass manufacturers' association says that the member of the ways and means committee misquoted him to the Indianapolis Journal correspondent, as published in today's Journal. He favors the Wilson bill. Two Pioneer Dead. NOBLESVILLE, Jan. 6. Special. Jonathan Goldman and W. B. Thompson, two highly respected and widely known old settlers of this county, died yesterday. The former was affiicted with dropsy while the latter died from heart failure. Terre Hnnte In Lock. TERRE HAUTE, Jan. 6. Special. With the election of Col. Joseph Hill as general superintendent of the Vandalia lines this office will be located in this city at the Union depot Instead of at St. Louis. - Gold at F.livood, ELWOOD, Jan. .Special While digging a trench today, at a depth of five feet James Davis discovered gold. All the Jewelers of the city pronounce It to ba genuine gold in paying quantities. Yoanc Man Found Dead In Red. CONNERSVILLE, Jan. 3. Special. Charles Fowler, a young man of this city, eighteen years old, was found dead In bed this morning by bis mother. Heart disease Is the supposed cause. Boys Arrested for Ilurjclary. HUNTINGTON, Jan. 5. Special. Bert Pile and Joseph Slonaker, two farmer boys, were arrested, charged with burglarizing Cornelius Myers's grocery at Pleasant Plain, this county. The Modern Invalid Has tastes medicinally, In keeping with other luxuries. A remedy must be pleasuntly acceptable in form, purely wholepome In composition, truly beneficial In effect and entirely free from every objectionable quality. If really 111 he consuits a physician? if constipated he uses the rentle family laxative. Syrup of Figs.

TARIFF DEBATE ON. Conclndcii from First Tage. Foster to conceal the bankruptcy of the treasury. The Fifty-first congress dealt with the treasury surplus after the true

and traditional methods of protection, which was to lessen or abolish those taxes which pass directly and undiminished from the pockets of the tax-payer to the public treasury and to increase those taxes which were intercepted In their passage from the pockets of the tax-payer to the public treasury by the j private toll gatherer. Iniquities of the McKinley Bill. The McKinley bill reduced the inter- ! nal revenue taxes on manufactured to bacco, abolishing special taxes on dealers and manufacturers of tobacco and wiped out the duties on raw susar which for years past had been our chief revenue-producing article on the customs list. Both of these taxes were In a just and proper sense revenue taxes and neither of them should have been touched so long as the rates of duty upon clothing and other n.-cessary articles of consumption were so enormously oppressive. Tobacco taxt-s were reduced under the cry that tobacco h3d Income a necessity for the poor as well as the rich, but new and heavier taxes were laid on the woolen clothing of the poor man so indispensible to his health and his productive energy. Sugar was untaxed to give the American workingman a free breakfast table, but new taxes were placed on his cups and sau cers, his plates and dishes, his coffeepot, his knives and forks, his food and his table cover. In a word, he was relieved from the taxes he paid his government in order that he might b? made to pay much greater taxes to the beneficiaries of that bill. Thes? released, the taxes would have yielded us since their i omission more than $150,oo,o'K) and would have saved us from any danger of the treasury deficit. Story of a Depleted Treasury. The magnificent surplus turned ever by the Cleveland administration was thus scattered. A large portion of it was usrd to purchase at high premiums bonds not yet due. In the first seven months of the Harrison administration $70,000.000 bonds were thus purchased at premiums ranging from 5 to 8 per cent, on the bonds of '91 and from 27 to 29 per cent, on the bonds due in 1907. In the first five months of the fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1S90 over $DS,O'Jii.injO were disbursed in the payment of londs and in the prepayment of interest not yet due. But. even this did not dissipate the surplus and the Fifty-first congress was obliged to try its hand upon it It refunded the direct tax to the states, a mere log-rolling scheme to get at the treasury surplus which Mr. Cleveland had vetoed when attempted in previous congresses. This was a pure gratuity, but it has taken out of the treasury over $14,000. OjO. Next came the sugar bounty act. under which suii amounting to $17.000.000 have been paid to sugar growers. Last of all as the chief means of distributing the surplus was the dependent pension bill, under which our annual pension expenditure has risen more than SCO.OtO.OOO. Whatever of merit or justice there might have ben in this bill, it is very certain It would never have become a law but that those other pensioners, our protected industries, might have the first pull and the largest profit out of the taxes gathered to pay the pensioners. Neither must it be forgotten in this story of a depleted treasury thut the Sherman law turned over to the last administration as available cash a trust fund of $34.000,000 deposited by national banks to redeem thoir notes, nor that Secretary Foster changed the forms of treasury statements by adding to it $20,000,000 of subsidiary and minor coins as part of Its available cash. If, then, to more than $200,000,00!) thus made .away with by the last administration, we should add the $13O,0W,U,"O loss of revenue by the omission of taxes on tobacco and sugar alone, we should have a clear idea of the rapid and headlong steps by which we have been brought to our present empty treasuryThe ri-dKr to the l'roplr. He did not believe that those who voted to put the last administration In power expected any revision from It in the direction of increasing raUs. The campaign of 1SSS was fought on the question of reforming and reducing the existing tariff and not on the question of revising and raising the tariff of 1SS3. No single interest in the country, either in congress or elsewhere, had the hardihood to assert that it meant to demand any increase of the protection accorded It by the bill of lssa and it was only the wantonness of self-greed, rapacity and selfishness and the knowledge that their demands, no matter how exorbitant, would be grai iously accorded, thit brought them to Washington In 1S30 to write up on their own interests the siicc esslve sehedules of the McKinley bill. Under the operation of that bill taxes in every one of the important schedule have been mercilessly and needlessly inoreiafed. In manufactures of wool they had been raised from an average of 70 to an averace of 1JU per cent. In manufacture.! of glass they had been raised from an average of 54 to an average of 64 per cent. In manufactures of iron and steel, although the year of 1SS7 had been a year of Immense production and prosperity to those interests, the tariff was raised from an average of to an averasre of 03 per cent. On cotton goods, although the tariff of JSS3 had been made by the manufacturers themselves, duties were increased from an average of 40 to an average of f7 per cent. Such is the bill that we have been called to revise in the interests of the people who consume, of the people who labor and of the people comprising the country in general and of the prosperity of the country itself. Mr. Wilson, who is in poor health, after speaking one hour and a half, suggested to his colleague, Mr. McMillin, that he would like to finish his speech tomorrow, and upon the latter's motion the committee arose. The democrats and galleries applauded vigorously when Mr. Wilson took his seat. Iteal Merit Is the characteristic of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and it is manifest every day in the remarkable cures this medicine accomplishes. Dm r gists say: When we sell a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparllla to a new customer we are cure to see him back in a few weeks after more proving that the good results from a trial bottle warrant continuing its use. Thla positive merit Hood's Sarsaparille possesses by virtue of the Peculiar Combination, Proportion and Process used In its preparation, and by which all the remedial value of the Ingredients used Is retained. Hood's Sarsaparllla Is thus Peculiar to Itself and absolutely unequalled in its power as a blood purifier, and as a tonic for building up the weak and weary, and giving strength. ' Mothers Friend" bukes child oirth easy. Colvla, La., Dec. 2, 1886. lly wif a used MOTHER'S FHIEND beforo her third confinement, and says sho would not bo without it for hundreds of dollars. DOCK. 21ILLS. Sent by express on receipt of price, f 1.50 per bott's. Book i'o Mothers " mailed ties. BHADriKLO KeSULATOR CO., tea saic iuumti, ATLANTA. O. POLITICAL. SSOUXCKMEXTS. FOIl COMM1SSIOXUIL SAMUEL PFENDLER. Candidate for County Commlsfioner, nm District, subjtct to ths Democratlo County Convention.

HOW A BABY WAS SAVED.

-VN" IMEIIESTIXC STORY FOR rAIU ETS. A Child That Wn Dorn with a Terrible Aflllctlon Pronounced IncursIle lr the LrndinK Physicians of Hxliiirntann College Saved by m Miracle. (From the Philadelphia Inquirer.) From time to time there have appeared In the leading and most repute ble newspapers of the country marvelous accounts of many wonderful cures that have been nfTected by a medicine called Dr. Williams's Pink Pills for Pale People. These statements have been made by some of the best known men in business circlrs, church circles and even medical circles, and have been backed up by their alldavlts. The Inquirer is pleased to add another to the list and gives the story below, properly vouched for. Little Ettie Moncrieff is the daughter of Mrs. Helen Moncrieff, who resides with her sister, Mrs. M. G. Meek, at 74 Wharton Street, which is a neat little bakery. The reporter found Mrs. Meek herself behind the counter and she said: "My sister's daughter, who is now a year old, was afflicted from her birth with a spinal affection, and the doctor who attended her said frbe could not live. We had two other doctors to attend her. They also said Fhe could not live. Finally I took her to the Hahnemann College. That was four months ago, when she was eight months old. The examination was made In the presence of a room full of physicians and students. The professor lectured on her case, saying it was a very rare one. He said that in such cases there was very seldom a recovery. It was. he remarked, the most peculiar case thit was ever brought to his attention. "I brought the child home Immediately, believing, as the professor and the oth?rs had said, that she couldn't live. In fact, at one time, we thought she waa entirely gone. She was unconscious, with scarcely perceptible pulse or breath. Several times she was In an almost equally helpless condition and we Ixiked for her dtath hourly. -Then I called to rrtnd hew Dr. Wl'.Ilams' Pink Pills for Pile People had one eured me. and the miraculous recoveries I had heard of and rud about of people cured from paralysis various stages, and even from physical deformities. I toll my sister that since all the doctors had alandoned th child, and she seemed to hava no chance for life. It could certainly d no harm to try the 1'ink Pills to see If they could possibly repeat their other wonderful cures. Neither my sister nor I had the faith that they would do so in a ca. so nearly gone as the child's and agreed that it would be a miracle Indeed if she should be saved. She couldn't move, at that time, both her arms and les being affected. But we betran that very night giving her the Pink rv.U, letting her have one pellet a day divided Into three parts. On the thirl day we could se that she was improving. Hefore that It was hard to get her to take food. At the end of two weeks we saw great Improvement In her. We continued giving her the pills more than a month. After we ceated giving her the Pink Pills, however, she seemed a little less happy and healthy and we began using them arain. Now he In a cheerful. beautiful child In splendid health, he has entirely recovered from her spinal and other troubles. She sleeps well and takes her food well. For a child of her age she seems to be as strong and healthy as could be exnected. When we hold her by the arm or she is at our knees she can stand, and for a chill who was once deprivel of a" power of -pine. arms and legs, this seen-a wonderful. We cannot have the slightest doubt now that she will grow up a strong, healthy child." Mrs. Meek then tol't how she had herself been cured bv Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. "Three years aso I had a very Fever attack of grippe. I thought I would lose the use of my rUrht arm. There was a. strange numbness in It and I would have to drop everything. It felt as If It was asleep all the time. I had doctors and they told me it was bad circulation of the blood, that I was run down and needed rest. I took only one box of Pink Pills and felt myself getting better. I took the second box and have never had a pain or ache since., livery on? who knows what work I have to do is astonished. It la certainly a wonder that with my work I am so strong and have never had a return of the trouble." Mrs. Meek's remarks were reduced to writing, after which she. accompanied by her sister. Mrs. Moncrieff and child, made the following affidavit: Sworn and subscribed before me this sixth day of May, 1KC JAM KS F. ROONET. SeaJ. Notary Public. The proprietors of Pr. Williams' link Pills state that they are not a patent medicine, but a scientilic preparation used sucessfuhy for many years in the private practice of a physician cf high standing. They are given to the public as an unfailing blood builder and nerve restorer, curing all forms cf weakness arising from, a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves, two fruitful ca'ises of almost every ill that tlesh Is heir to. The pills are also a specific for the troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, all forma of weakness, chronic constipation, bearing down pains, etc.. and in men will gie speedy relief and effect a permanent cure In all cases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. The pU's are sold by all dealers, or will be stnt postpaid on receipt of price (50 cents a lox or 6 boxes for $2.V they are never soH In bulk or by the 1'). by addressing Dr. Williams' Medical Co., Scheaectady, N. Y.. or Urockviile, Ontario. ELY'S CatarrH BALM pa; wes so much iroubted w th ca arrh it ser ously affected my voice. Ono bittle of Ely's Crenm Bafm did the work. My vo ce is fully restored.B. F. Leisner, A. M., Pastor of the Olivet Baptist Church, Phia. HAY-FEVER A part'ic'e if ftppl ad into eci nottri and 1 f rM. bl. I'r ire f O rents ml drutg at or by niUELT BEOTUE.,8, &t Wtrrta ttrrei. New Tora. Indianapolis ff USIÜESS UMIYERSIT V Eroding Colleg-e f hmlnrM A ft timc-t tiMid. Bryant A Sinttton. thlihei IHM. Wbn ISlork. El alor ir and nivat.. l i.CD former 'ndenti holahnf pap. ica iMlt ion. Widely known. Our ndorwiitiit pa port to bent situation. Orat railroad, tnanof artnrinf oil coroiuvroiuk vntr. C'ai aardlwav Lrs faoul. tj. IndiviUua' iumruction brcxparta. t mtf py Mmt. Liitor now. Writ toUar for Eiotfant I'sscrif ura Catay lofiae and Pair fre. 500 STUDENTS ANNUALLY. TouDgani middle-aged peopl prepare! for Ike active duties of Ufa. Leading mana aetarsra, railroad, professional and business men send Ihslr sons, dauchtT and wird to the Husioms Unlrirslty aai etuploj its r duales. It pays to attend the best. Telsphoae 43. F. J, HEE3, Fresüsnt. FOn SAI.K MISCELLANEOUS. U. S. PATENT FOR VALUABLE PIECE of machinery, or will trade for ftood farm land In Indiana or adjoining etate. E. J. Thlckstun. lielmont, Ind. AX X O I'XCE M CXTS. SOMETHIN'O PRACTICAL THE IM proved Daisv Fence Machine and the New Daisy Wire Reel. Address Zlepler &. Harmon. Anderson. Ind. U it XOTICE. NOTICE I. O. O. F.. RURAL LODGE. No. 41. Traders' Point, Marion county, Ind., will elect three trute Jan. U, 1SD4. DAN CALDWELL. Secretary.

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