Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1894 — Page 8

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING; JUNE 20, 189-1 TWELVE PAGES.

A PECULIAR HONEYMOON.

SNYDCR OF xnV YORK AXD IIIS CI. AY (OlM 1IKIDK. I lie In Denei-ted Soon After III Mnrriag? Other Stnte fw-Ft. Wayne Pbytlrlan rhiirgrd with Mnlprnrtice A Disappointed ilrideKronnt (ioM Home Without Uli IJrlde Almost n Similnr 'ne In Another County Prominent !enlh The I'arli Case nt I'm nkfort Sotes. BRAZIL, June Iv Special. On the seco.n J i.y of the present month a wedding took place at the county clerk's office, th0 ceremony being performed hy Judg Met .ireS'T, which was the eonsumtnation of an engagement brought aN"ut by correspondence between unknown parties. Albert Snyder, a widower of fifty-five ye.ir. residing somewhere in the state of New York, having advertised through one of the numerous matrimonial bureaus for a wife of comparatively tender years, a young woman nani-d Catharine Fretz, living thirteen mile? south of this city, aged twenty-live years, opened correspondence with hi:n some months ago, the engagement following. By prearrangemeiit they met f r the first time nt the lime and place as designated and wire married. Th" bride was accompanied to the city by a your.g:r sister. The party of three 1- ft here at 7 o'clock in the evening mi the K. & f. railroad to spend Sunday with the bride's parents, with the Intention of leaving for New York Monday. Mis.s Fretz had for some time fce.n engaged as housekeeper for an unmarried man at Ashboio, three miles from th- family residence. On the arrival of the party at Ashboro and on leaving th- trj.in they were met by the man with wh mi the bride had been employed us a domestic, whom she kc mrankd in the buggy, leaving the husb.md and sister to walk to the country homestead. Th- bride and her escort, however, fail". I to put in an appearance up to bteakf.ist tint th following morning, wldh was Sunday, loiter in the day Snyder trudged his way over to Ashboro t int-rview the newly made bride and consult her notions of propriety in the premises, finding her at hT old haunts end much unconcerned about the relations end responsibilities which she assuni i th" day before. On dt-m ar.diiig an explanation the man from New York was received very coolly ai-d a:Yorde-l but a modicum of satisfaction. Sa--p-'.-tintr that he had ome on a fool's errand and been bitten, Snyder put up at the neare-t hotel until Monday, then retraced his step toward the rising si n. perhaps n handsomer, but evidently a wiser man. Th b-nizens of Ashboro then gave their fellow citizen and hi domestic to understand that their relations must be at once broken off or they mut marry, or as the- penalty for failure to comply they would be treated to a free ride on the sharp sid-- of a triangular piee of split timber. But a divorce must be procured before the bride can make a seeon 1 venture, which the judge who solemnized their vows is not likely to grant at so early a day succeeding the nuptials. Th- bride de. lares her intention to go to the Empire state and join her Albert just as so m as he sends her the cash to m .ika th" trip, but up to date Snyder has n.'t renitte 1. Mayhap, when the honeymoon shall have, p.issed the groom will file suit against the "bureau" for resultant damag ;. both fj his affections and his pocketbook. ' THINKS HIPS MILLER. A ieli in of the Mont Peculiar Mental Drlimlou. ANDERSON. June R Special. A very X-eeuiiar individual came in Saturday uver the. Midland from Lebanon and Nrhlo-sville. He thinks his name is Miller, but bases his calculation upon the theory that he ome ran a sawmill. However rational he may talk on other subjects, this gray-haired man. probably fifty years old. is a victim of one of the most peculiar of mental delusions. He seems to have devoted the palmiest days of his life 'to the study of science, especially the application of electricity in its different forms. He now. In a semi-demented etate, thinks that he is a living phonograph and that Edison is trying to locate hli.i. He has told his peculiar story to a hundred or so people. He carries on his conversation on the subject of electricity In a hiurhly rational manner, explaining how he Is "wired" and how he works. He regards his mysterious condition as a secret, and is busy all of the time keeping away from Ed Icon, who, he claims, ha detectives on his trail. His etay in Anderson, he says, is limited. TUR PARIS CASH. Charged with YVrec-klnjc the Creenxtown Ruuk-A Jury Secured. FRANK FORT, June IS. Special. The celebrated embezzlement case, venued here from Howard county, In which J. W. Paris of Indianapolis i3 charged wdth wrecking the Lank at Greentown, was Called today. The best 1-gal talent obtainable in the f-tate is employed. The prosecution is In charge of Nat P. Claybaugh of this city, Reil &. Purdma and C. C. Shirley of Kokomo. The defense is represented by Judge Wiufield of Logansport, A. li. Kirkpatri-k and Judge O'Brien of Kokomo and Rayless & Gunther of Frankfort. The entire day was consumed in preliminary and dilatory motions on the part cf the- defense. Late this afternoon a jury was secured, composed principally of farmers, and Mr. Shirley ma.li the opening statement for the prosecution. It sounded like a fairy tale and was a scathing denundatlon of Paris, Dwlggins & Co. and their methods. Ex-Governor Chase was an interested listener. M1XWKIJ. F01M CH TO RETIRE. Do- Tnke Control of III Paper In the Inlereat of Johnntun. HAMMOND. June IS. The JohnstonLand Is congressional row has taken on a new phase. The two republican papers here were both for Landls and published his name as the regular nominee. The l osses were all for Johnston, and they determined to bring the recognized organ, the Tribune, to their tide. They threatened to ruin the editor's business; Jn fact, were going u start a new paper. They thus harassed Editor Maxwell until, last Thursday evening, they forced him to retire. Another editor was installed. Landis's name was taken from the published ticket and the paper made a radical Johnston advocate. The exrdltor was forced out by the managers tf the English syndicate, the G. H. Instead of bread Twas lead, she said, 'fill the privilege was allowed her To make and bake And take the cake With Cleveland's Caking Fowdcit

Hammond company, vhich drove its employes to vote the republican ticket at the spring" election and to the convention which selected Johnston delegates.

KILLED I1Y A rOLICEMAX. Frank finllil. an Oil Driller, Shot nt Portland. PORTLAND. June 17. Special A Sunday murder, or rather a mysterious killing, must be recorded against this usually quiet town on this day of the week. Considerable excitement resulted tonight from the information that came from the suburbs that a man had been shot and killed there early this evening. The Sentinel correspondent repaired promptly to the scene of the murder, but the alleged murderer had ben arrested and taken to jail and his victim's b-' ly removed to his home. The parties to the tragedy are Stmu"l In and Frank Guild. The former is a poiu-oRian and the latter was an oil-well dridr. Hone shot and instantly killed Guild. All reliable information stops at that pint. There is a sc.-re or more of rumors flying, but it is impossibe to gt particulars that are at all reliable tonight beyond the stern facts that Cluild is dead and that the policeman for some reason or other shot him. I.yilln Trente-.I Hint Tljidly. SHELBY VI LLE. June IS. Special. Last January William II. Hopkins of Farmer City, 111., a cousin of Chicago'3 mayor, visited friends in Sugar Creek township, this county. lie met Lydia .1. Ware. It v.ai a case of love at lift sight, so far as he was concerned, at b-ast. William returned home and a correspondence ensued and on the 5th of May Lydia wrote a letter Informing Hopkins that she was willing to be made his wife and for him to corne on. He arranged things, sold his crops, etc., an 1 landed here yesterday morning and made fT Lydia's home, ten miles in the country. On arriving there he was greatly disappointed, however. Eydla Informed him that she had no idea of marrying him: that sh loved another man. and f - him to g"t off the place or she would s"t the clogs on him. He returned home this afternoon. KpvrortJi Leaarae Convention. j RICHMOND, June 18. Special. The ! sixth annual convention of the Richi mor.d district Epworth leagues convened at Lynn this afternoon. The session will last three days. This afternoon there wis a devotional and consecrational servi-'A and a reception to the delegates, and this evening the program was as follows: Song service, led by A. O. Detch, Richmond; devotional service, Xellio Gllmore. Dublin; address of welcome, Frank Halladay. Lynn: response, Clara Adair, Portland; address. "Two Armies," H. L. Burr, New Castle; address. "Junior Work." J. W. rieice. Ko korno, state superintendent of the juniors. The above was followed by a social. Death!. XOBLESVILLE. June 18. Special. O. II. Moudy, formerly editor and proprietor of the Mooresville Guide, and one of the brightest young new?paper men in central Indiana, died in Sheridan yesterday of consumption, aged about twen-ty-eic;ht years. A widow and one small child survive him. RICHMOND. June IS. Special. Wayne county lost two of her old residents by death yesterday. One of them was Timothy Coughlin. eged sixty-three years, and the other was John Smelser. aged seventy-two years. Both were well known agriculturists. Delaware District Meillcoa. ANDERSON, June IS. Special. The Delaware district medical society holds its annual meeting in this city tomorrow. The local organization, numbering twenty-nine, have made elaborate preparations to entertain the guests, which will be here from the district Madison, Delaware. Blackford. Jay, Randolph and (irant counties and also from Indianapolis and Cincinnati. A banquet and reception tomorrow night will bring- the meeting to a very fitting close. It 13 thought that fully seventy-five delegates will be present. The Delaware district is the largest in the state. Kor ItnylnK- n. Vote. COLUMBUS, June 13. Special. A sensation in republican ranks was sprung here today by the filing of a suit by William Ilobsen. an old pensioner, against John IloIlanJ. Sherman Jones and James Pears, asking for $300 statutory damages and $100 attorney's fees for buying his vote at the last city election. Jones and Sears are prominent young republicans and Holland is a large real estate dealer. Hobson says he was paid $1 for his vote. The case will be watched with considerable Interest. The AbufouillnB Real Rntnte Denier. ANDERSON, June 1C Special. Capt. Coburn of the city police force returned this afternoon from Columbus, .Miss., and brought with him Herman F. Wilkle In handcuffs. He is the absconding real estate dealer of Elwood who swindled his creditors, including business men and building rnd loan associations, out of J.'O.üöO. Wilkie absconded May 25. He is also charged with mutilating the records In the county recorder's office and committing forgery. Wilkle originally came from Ft. Wayne. An Rleetrlc Storm. WABASH, June l5?. Special. Lightning last night struck the tall steel standplpe of the Wabash water company and ran from that to the residence of Adam Sundheimer, a block distant, doing little damage, but shocking Mrs. Stunlheimer and a number of the neighbors badly. Mrs. James Stewart was playing the piano at her home and the electricity blazed along the key board, burning her arm. leaving a long red mark on her wrist, but otherwise not Injuring her. Itain fell In torrents during the tremendous elctrical storm. A Stenmer "Wrecked. MADISON, June IS. The steamer City of Madison while returning from Evansville to Cincinnati with a big crowd of bicycle excursionists on board, struck a dyke In front of this city at 4 o'clock this morning and sank. The dyke knocked a hole sever.ty-five feet long in her about midship. Fortunately no lives were lost. It is doubtful if the boat can be raised, as the river is receding. A (looil Time. WOrtTIIINGTON. June IS. Special. Sunday was the day set apart by Alexander M. Brown to meet all his friends In this town and have a Jolly good time. By 10 o'clock there were more than 100 guests present with the Clay City band and the Worthington orchestra. Much enjoyment was experienced by all who were fortunate enough to be present. ftettlnar Ready for Keller NEW ALBANY, June 15. The city council held an extra session today and decided not to allow "Gen." Kelley and hi3 army to stop in this city. The police force being small, 100 deputies will be tiworn in to help enforce the decision. The army Is expected here some time tonight or tomorrow. Frnri of Lynehlnjc. PORTLAND, June IS. Sam Bone, the policeman who killed Frank Guild, was taken from Jail here and removed to Winchester for safety during the night. It waa feared he would be lynched if left here. Dr. Price's Cream Baking: Powder World's Fair Highest Award.

DESPERATE FROM POVERTY

TIIRER DRAD ItOniES FOl'XD XBAR SCOTTSVILLR. Investigation Shorr That They Are t;eorce llrock, Wife nnl Son-ilr Firt Killed the Two Latter nml Then niew III Own Ilenil Off irlth n Shotgun A Tnle of Misery, Murder anil Suicide The Hod ion Dimruvered by Drork'i Eldest Son, NEW ALBANY. June 14. Special. The bodies of thre1 unknown persons were found today near Seottsville, four miles east of here, supposed to be man, wife and son. They were scantily clothed and supposed to be tramps, as a shotgun was found lying beside the body of the man. It is presumed that he first killed his wife and son. and then committed suicide, for want of food. Later in the day the bodies were identified by some p?rson3 as John Brock, wife and son. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. June 14. The bodies of. the three people found near Borden, Ind., today prove to be those of George Brock, aged forty-five, his wife Lizzie, about the same age, and their son William, ag?d seven. Brock had become desperate from poverty and hunger, brought on by enforced idleness. As near as can be ascertained the crimes were committed Monday night about 9 o'clock. The bodies were, found Inside of a rude ien that Brock had built to keep the hogs from devouring thrm. They were badly decomposed and had been lying there two days, and the heads of the woman and boy were covered with sacks. The fact that the pen had been built during Monday showed that the man had planned the crime and carefully thought it out beforehand. The lives were all taken with a double-barrelled shotgun borrowed from Brock's brother-in-law. William Berkley of Borden. During Monday evening Brock persuaded his wife and the seven-year-old son to leave the house with him on the pretense of going to call on the mother of Mrs. Brock, who lives a short distance away. When they neared the hollow where Brock had erected the pen, he shot and killed his wife and son with the gun he carried and then dragged the bodies inside the pen. There were evidences of a struggle oetween the husband and wife before Brock killed her. After covering the heads of his two victims with sacks. Brock lay down on the ground beside the body of his wife and by the aid of a wagon spoke he touched off the gun. His heal was blown entirely off and was found some distance away. The discovery of the bodies was made by the elder sons of Brock, who had been searching since Monday night. The horror has created a profound sensation as it is one of the most sensational crimes that has ever taken place in southern Indiana. BATTLE WITH COXEYITES, Deputies Have a Genuine Skirmish In Aorth Dakota. BISMARCK, N. D., June 16. Seventyflve deputies, who left yesterday in pursuit of Coxeyites who stole a freight train, returned this morning and report S3veral hot scrimmages with the Coxeyites. At Dawson Chief Deputy Reagan, with a squad of thirty deputies, was struck over the head with an Iron bar and received a se.ere scalp wound. The Coxeyites at once overpowered him, took away his Wine-heater and opened fire upon the balance of the deputies. One deputy was shot through his hip and another bullet cut the iV.-sh across the back of one of the deputies. Ancther was struck on his head with a coupling pin and three shots were tired at him as he tried to escape, the bullets passing through his hat and coat. Late last night a squad of deputies captured ten Coxeyites who were engaged in stealing a rta!n. Resistance v:as offered and one Coxeyite was shot through his hip. The last reports said that about twenty ringleaders. Including those who acted as firemen and engineers, have been captured and will be brought back here for trial. Twenty-Three Sentenced to Jail. PPRINGFIKLD, 111., June 16. The twenty-three Coxeyites arrested at Fairfield Thursday for capturing a fast freight train on the Louisville, Evansvllle & St. Louis road appeared before Judge Allen today and each entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of contempt of court in interfering with the property of a road in possession of the United States court. The men had separate trial and each was found guilty and sentenced to fdxty days In the county jail. Judge Allen read the delinquents a severe lecture. Another Army to Do Pennnee. OMAHA. June 1C Judge Dundy has decided that the 250 Commonwealers captured at Ogallala shall be taken to Ft. Sidney, recently abandoned, and kept until tried, and, if convicted, compelled to serve sentence there. GAMBOLS OF A CYCLONE. Xehraska Farmer nnd Ills Horse Curried UOO l-"eet nnd Are Inhnrl. HARRISONBURO. Neb., June IS. The northern part of Sioux county was visited yesterday by a cyclone, which was terrible in its severity, but comparatively small in its territory. It was about twenty rods wide and five miles in length. Everything In its path was swept from the earth. A log fourteen feet in length and fifteen inches in diameter was picked up and carried a distance of sixty rods. The barns, sheds, wagons and Implements of D. W. Woody were completely demolished and ten rods of a wire fence was swept clear. Ruf us Woody and his horse in a shed were picked up and tarried through the open roof and landed ugain about two hundred feet away. Neither received any serious damage, although Woody's face was considerably bruised by the flying sand and gravel and hl3 clothes torn from him. No other reports of damage have yet come in. VAPOR STOVE COMBINE. It Is Incorporated nnd Capitalised at $ S,.-i(M,00). CLEVELAND, June IS. Within ten days the vapor stove .combination will go into effect. The companies included are the Quick Meal vapor stove company and Johnson & Brandon of St. Louis, .the tleorge M. Clark company of Chicago, the Baxter stove company of Mansfield, O., and the Aurora vapor stove company, the Schneider & Tremkamp company, the Standard lighting company and the Dangler stove and manufacturing company of Cleveland. The new corporation is named the United vapor and gas stove company. It was incorporated in Illinois and is capitalized at $8.500,000. The combination will deal directly with the retail trade. It 13 estimated that the total saving per year on account of the poole will be $250.000, of which $100.000 will be 03 account of roaltles cow paid.

Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report

GENERAL STATE HEWS. The teachers of Carroll county are notified that the county normal will begin Monday, July 9. and continue six weeks. James Malotie caught a rattlesnake In the act of swallowing a squirrel in tha marsh of John Shrock in Lagrange county. The snake measured two feet and a half in length and had seven rattles and a button. J. W. S. Mercer, ex-editor of the Brownstown Banner, and who of late years was a partner in the Indianapolis Gazette, is lying at the point of death with consumption at Us residence in Brownstown. Ex-President Harrison, who was invited by the Battle Ground memorial association to deliver the memorial address at Battle Ground June 21, has declined the invitation, urging pressing business affairs as an excuse. The brl(.k residence belonging to the estate of the late Capt. Ruben A. Riley, father of Jams Whltcomb Riley, at Greenfield, was destroyed by fire Monday. Loss. 2.0'i0. The house was an old landmark and was first used as a county seminary. W. R. Beatnan writes from Ilarrisburg, Ta., that he believes that the late Capt. E. C. Beaman. found dead on the railway near Lafayette recently. Is his father. He has not seen his father for fifteen years and has reasons to believe that the deceased bore that relation to him. The barn of Marion Whipple, four and a half miles west of town, near Upton, was destroyed by f.re Tuesday night. Two mules were burned to death, and one horse was seriously injured, losing both eyes. All of his hay, corn and farming implements were also destroyed. No insurance. Mrs. Emma Wyburn, who occupied rooms upstairs. Is missing, and no one seems to know where she is. She left the city poms two weeks ago and said she was going to New Castle, but It is learned that fhe did not go there, and where she is seems to be a mystery. Richmond Independent. "The county is now in p mighty good condition," said Perry T. Gorham. "We have $17,000 In the treasury and only owe $15.000. All oi the bridges recently ordered built ate already paid for. so we won't have to go to the fund again to settle for them. I think you will find very few counties in the state that are any better off than Clinton county." Frankfort Crescent. The Brownstown town council reduced the liquor license from $i:.0 to $100 at their la.st meeting by a vote of 4 to 3. The salary of secretary of board of health v:as Increased from $25 to $."0 per annum. After the reduction of the liquor licence James B. Stllwtll, a councilman, tendered his resignation, saying that he did not desire to be a member of a board that would reduce the license of the saloon men. L. M. Wilkinson, a noted mind-reader, gave an exhibition of his powers on the street last Saturday. He drove a team blindfolded through the street and found an article that had been hidden by a committee. These feats are not difficult and are easily understood when the parties are in contact wdth each other, but In this case he drove the team without touching 'a member of the committee. Laporte Argus. Complaint Is made that certain bicyclists speed their wheels on the paved streets at night without any light or warning fur people on the street. One of these wheelmen made a boast of a rate of forty miles an hour the other night, and he traveled without light. A little hard "horse sense" ought to teach a man to provide some warning if he expects to travel a public street at such a rate. Hammond News. A delegation of visitors from Monmouth, 111., inspected the court house Saturday. Such pilgrimages from surrounding towns are of frequent occurrence and the visitors are all greatly pleased with the building. The expression is universal that while the building cost a grod deal of money. It shows honest and beautiful work and is well worth the money paid for it. Nothing but the highest praise is given to both the exterior and interior. Laporte ArA couple came down on the electric car shortly after noon today. The man, who was under the "flooence," asked to be directed to where they could get married. Gus Tabbatt piloted-them to Judge Irish's o'Tiee. whore they were soon married in the presence of three parties who chsnced to be present. The groom gavejbis name as Cale R. Sharp and his age as thirty-two. The Irlde answered to the name of Catharine Williams, and both gave South Chicago as their home. Hammond News. On Saturday the fire bell rung long and loud. Th streets became packed with people all anxious to learn where the fire was. Tho bell rung on and on. Finally some one wandered upstairs at the town building and found in session a monster Johnston indignation meeting. There were Just seven persons present. Speeches and speeches was the program, and all denounced Landis. Some went eo far as to say they "be d n" if they'd vote for him. There being no other buisness this large gathering dispersed. Hammond News. A man and wife of this city, who have been married some thirty years, have not spoken to each other for a number of years and neither of them are deaf and dumb. They art not divorced and live under the same roof, eat at the same table, but occupy separate couches. Thev have grown children and are grandparents and live with a son. His wife washes, patches and sometimes cooks for her hu.'band and he furnishes part of the living. They became estranged a long while ago and both are "sticking it out" and may die without speaking. New Albany Public Press. While Ixirlng for water on the farm of Joseph Weist, three miles southeast of Kentland, coal was found at a depth of forty-two feet. Above the vein of coal, which is tight and one-half feet thick. Is a strata of slate, and above the slate Is rock, vhich will permit of It being mined. The coal has not been tested by experts, but it appears to be anthracite. In the hist two w,eeks two veins of coal have been found, and it is probable that some effort will be made to put it on the market. A sample, of the coal was brought to this city Tuesday, and men who inspected it pronounced it to be as good as the Clay county or Pittsburg product. Kentland Democrat. Winamac is going to lose the Rev. J. II. Mavity ol the Christian church, a fact we are sorry to chronicle. He tendered his resignation as pastor a few days ago, and it was later accepted. This action is- taken with none but the best of feeling on both sides. Mr. Mavity likes his congregation and surroundings here very much and is held In the highest esteem by his people and the public generally. But they have a liberal offer to teach in the echools at Arcadia, Ind., he as principal and his wife In the primary grade, where they taught before he entered the ministry, and as a pulpit is also secured there for him their income will thus be very perceptibly increased. Pulaski Democrat. Miss Wllmie Coles was badly scalded at her home In Orinoco Friday. She was assisting with the family washing and had occasion to go to the w ash boiler.

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which was upon the stove, when in some manner one of the stove legs slipped out, upsetting it and throwing the scalding water upon her. Her left lower limb and foot were so severely burned that in removing the hose the sKin was torn off. Proper remedies were administered and she was soon resting as easy as possible vtnder the circumstances. Columbus Times. Last March Mr. Charles Johnson, an aged gentleman residing south of Wolcott. was held up in broad daylight on the public road by two young men and robbed of $15 and his watch. For some time the identity of the highwaymen was unknown, but Sheriff Dobbins was not idle and recently he located one of the men at Marion, Ind., in the person of a man named Charles Beard, the son of a wealthy minister of the gospe'. Sheriff Dobbins brought the young man here and placed him in Jail, where he remained until Friday, when he had a preliminary hearing and was bound over to court. Ills father and one or two other parties went his ball and he was released. White County Democrat. Tw young boys from Madison township are missing and as they were on their way to the river, to go in swimming, when lat seen it is thought they have been drowned. They are the son and adopted son of Henry Gilman, and are aged twelve and nine years, respectively. They left their home Wdne-day and came to town with Mrs. Jacob Buchhelt of Madison township. As they fcad not returned home at 10 o'clock last night Mr. Gillman came to town and instituted a search for them. No trace of them has yet been found, although Mr. Frank Lavelle. a brother of Mr. Glllman's adopted boy, and others have made diligent inquiry throughout this city and South Bend. Mishawaka Democrat. Last Monday afternoon George Kirby who lives near Puckerbrush, brought a white squirrel to the Times ofiice which he had shot on the farm of Grant Curtis, west of Puckerbrush. The squirrel was perfectly white, had pink eyes and was almost full grown. Mr. Kirby had killed four fox squirrels off the same tree before he saw the v hlte one and at first did not know' what it was. The little animal Is what would be called an albino and Mr. ICirby has placed it in the hands of a taxidermist for the purpose of having it mounted. There was another white squirrel killed in the same neighborhood ten or twelve years ago, but the one Mr. Kirby captured last Monday is the first that has been seen thereabouts since that time. Wabash Times. Under our present tax law the state board assessed the Big Four and other railroads, and the corporations refused to pay, carrjlnR' the cases to the court of last resort. This court decided it constitutional, and the result will be that $3,000,000 of uncollected taxe will go Into the treasury, a snug sum that will come very handy Just now. Attica Ledger. Put the above paragraph from a good republican party organ alongside the declaration of the party recently In state convention denouncing the tax law as "infamous" and the couplet both looks and sounds a "leetle" incongruous. The republican party of Indiana now wishes that their state convention had not been held until after this decision of the L'nlted States supreme court. Brazil Democrat. The G. A. R. veterans met in Osgood on Saturday to make preparations for the sixteenth annual district reunion. The district Is composed of the counties of Ripley, Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland. Osgood has been selected as the place for holding the grand reunion, and the date set 13 Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 15 and 16, 1S94. Officers for the occasion have been chosen as follows, and the selections bespeak proper organization for a successful demonstration: John M. Roberts, commander; D. K. Marsh, senior vice-commander; Davis Hranham, Jr., vice-commander; W. O. Evans, Henry Bostic, Amasa Munger, Albert Rix and George Buchanan, quartermasters; John P. Ruby, adjutant; James It. Hoover, corresionding secretary. Osgood Journal. The democrats throughout Indiana are closing un the lines and acting in a harmonious and enthusiastic spirit in the way of organization. There are no local quarrels over candidates, no bickerings. On the other side, however, the love of official spoils is causing the republicans much trouble. In some of the congressional districts and in not a few of the counties there is open disruption and a regular Kilkenny cat-fight is in progress. "Give us the oflu-es!" "(Jive us the offices!" This is the republican slogan and all the republicans care for. But the people of Indiana will not again entrust the republican party with powr. They have no use for a party of spoils, whose misrule has brought upon the country the present unparalleled hard times. New Albany Ledger. Some weeks ago William Huddleston of Paw Paw township turned a Jersey bull and heifer Into hi3 field and the following day both were missing. Mr. Huddleston searched diligently for his cattle, but they could nowhere be found, and he finally gave them up as lost. A few days ago, while walking through the same field, he noticed that an old strawstack standing in one corner had tumbled down, and the thought occurred to him that probably his bull and heifer had been under it when it fell. On removing the straw he found thern both, tottering frameworks of skin and bone. The heifer was already dead and the bull died a short time after being removed. The poor dumb brutes had been buried under the straw for thirteen days before discovered and literally starved to death. Wabash Times. One of the most peculiar cases that was ever recorded on the docket was heard before 'Squire Roach Wednesday. Over a year ago old Alexander Hunt and his wife were divorced. He secured the position as watchman at the MacBeth factory and she kept boarders in the plate glass addition. This morn1ing Mrs. Hunt went before 'Squire Roach and swore out a warrant for the arrest of Alex Hunt, charging him wdth being the father of her unborn1 babe. She took an oath that she was fifty years of age and that she had been pregnant over six months. The preliminary trial was very interesting and amusing. C. M. Greenlee appeared for the defendant and Prosecutor Call for the state. It is quite a mixed, up affair that is liable to terminate very peculiarly. The case was bound over to court and the bond, of the defendant fixed at $200. Elwood Press. Some time ago the Palladium published a sensational account of how Herman Berghoff of the Herman Berghoff brewing company of Ft. Wayne, Ind., had become disgusted wdth the democratic party and, deserting her, had enrolled himself under the banner of republicanism. We have Just received a communication from Mr. Berghoff declaring the above mentioned article a gross misrepresentation. He says: "I am a democrat on principle and shall be such as long as there is a fighting chance left for the democratic party to carry into effect these principles. Whenever you can successfully mix oil and water you may be able to mix my democratic ideas with republican doctrines." It is evident that Mr. Berghoff Is a sound democrat. By such fictitious reports the republican press hopes to mislead the public and cause voters to lose confidence in their ßajrtjr. But when they resort to

such methods of wdlMesale misrepresentations and slander they show themselves unworthy of any confidence. Richmond Sun. The rlcnic held at Laketon, Wednesday, celebrating the thirteenth anniversary of the founding of the Knights of the Maccabees order was a splendid success, about 2,000 people of Wabash and surrounding counties participating. The picnic was held under the ausph('s of the Maccabee tents of Roann, Laketon. Disko, Urbana, North Manchester and Wabash. The pleasant little grove just west of Laketon was crowded with Maccabees and their friends all day. A program of exercises of music, speeches and a grand dinner was rendered to the satisfaction of all present. The Revs. Mr. Grlsso of Laketon, Mr. Quayle of Roann and Mr. Stewart of North Manchester, delivered addresses, all of which were well received. A good social time was enjoyed by all present which was the prime object of the picnic. The Laketon band furnished excellent music all day. Wabash Times. John Dyar, a son of Jame3 Dyar, one of the best known and most successful stock raisers In the southern part of the county, was probably fatally kicked by an unbroken colt on the farm two miles south of this city Tuesday morning. On making the rounds of the farm Dyar found that two valuable colts, which he had Just finished breaking, had been killed on the Lake Erie road during the night. Shortly after he entered a boxstall in which there was a young filly that had never been put to harness. Tho colt was loose in the stall and took fright at the harness which Dyar carried on his arm. A vicious kick landed on the left posterior part of Dyar's chest, breaking several ribs and driving the point of one cf the broken ribs into the lung. Half unconscious Dyar dragged himself over the manger and out of the way of further harm, where he was found a few moments later. Kokomo Dispalch. A liquor deal.-r of this city has received a letter from a South Bend dealer, stating that a certain sharper is going through the country and making it a busines to order goods of wholesale liquor dealers and brewers, pretending that he is to go into business in a few days In a neighboring town. He is a man about medium build, looking much like a farmer, pretends to be a good catholic, speaks the French language, says he was in Europe on a visit a short time ago, and says that he Is a farmer and his son is going to run the business. He generally orders goods to be sent with b?d of lading attached to the draft and at the same time tries to borrow money. He has freckles. The dealers here are requested to look out for him, and should he ever call here dealers approached by him are requested to let the stranger "work" them and have the fellow arrested at once and report to Chief of Police Rose of South Bend. Michigan Gity Dispatch. On Saturday, while searching for his

cattle, John Childers discovered the body of a dead man lying in what Is known as the Singleton ditch, in West Creek township. Coroner Seidler was notified and held an inquest over the remains on Sunday. The man was about forty-eight years of age, five feet eight inches high and rather stoutly built, had a clean shaven face and short cut hair, and was partially bald. Had a black hat arid brown suit, both considerably worn. Wore no suspenders but had belt about waist. In one poeket was a strong purse in' which there was three $10 bills, three $1 bills, 50 cents in silver, one nickel and two pennies. In his pockets were also a one-bladed knife now in possession of J. Sanders one card on which was a verse from the bible. Nothing was found to give any clue to his identity. The body indicated that death had occurred two weeks ago, yet at that time the water was very deep at the point where he body was found. Such being the case he could only have got to that place by wading or else have been carried there. The death is indeed a mystery. Hammond News. Thursday Sheriff Johnson, by his deputy. Will, arrested Joseph Lamb, an escaped convict from the prison south. Lamb escaped in April, 12, and has been at large ever since. He was first sent for stealing and burglary from Bloomlngton, Ind. He broke into some ten or more houses the same day. He escaped under his first sentence by scaling the walls, and in his hiding around he stayed all niifht at a farmer's house in Daviess county. The farmer gave him his meals and lodging fre and that night he broke Into the man's smoke house and the farmer awakening, heard the noise and fired at him and shot him In the leg. He was arrested and sentenced from Washington for four years. After serving for two years he again made his escape, and this arrest is under the last sentence. He has gone under several different names. At Sanborn he went by the name of Joe Sears. In this city he went by the name of John H. Wilkie. He married a daufihtor of the widow Bays, in Center township. In August. ISfii When first arrested he denied his Identity, but finally sa'.d h? was the man. He was taken from here by Detective John Hudson of Bedford. The reward was $50, which was divided. Bloomfiehl Democrat. The coal strike has cost th1 state about $20.000. It is estimated that the expenses will average about J.'.OOO a day. says the Indianapolis News. This includes the $1 a day paid each soldier while in active service, cost of transportation, food. bdgrams and incidentals. Thu troops have been out ten days. Since the soldiers at Cannelburg were ordered home the expenses have been reduced. The state sent most of the companies into the field on regular trains and pail a crnt a mile for their transportation. Only three of four special trains were usd that have to be paid for. The railroads that received protection have made no charges for special trains. The adjutant-general had a train of six passenger and four baggage cars with him at Cannelburg. He kept the train ready to move at a moment's notice. No charges were made for it. About 200 telegrams have been sent, -ome of them being long. All of this expense will be paid out of the general fund of the state. There have been 735 soldiers In the field during the strike. It is the largest number of stale troops called out since the rebellion. During the railroad strike of 1S77 about 900 troops were out here; about 700 of them were veterans, who received arms at the United States arsenal. Terre Haute Express. Si Allen, well known to most of our readers, died, very suddenly last Saturday evening In front of his home east of the river. Until Tuesday of last week Allen had been for a long time bartender in Chris Ehlers' saloon, and while there had contracted the habit of drinking heavily. Whether he drank afterward or whether the lack of the fluid affected him cannot be said, but cm Saturday evening he became wild with frenzy and after running about the premises for a time dropped down and soon died, despite the prompt medical attendance rendered him. SI Allen was at one time a hard-working and prosperous man. Besides owning a little farm In this county, he ran a threshing outfit and must have made considerable money at that. Many of our readers will recollect him in that capacity, always hard at work and always giving satisfaction. His sudden death furnishes another example- of the danger of excessive drinking. He leaves a wife and five children in very moderate circumstances. White County Democrat. It is a very crisp and frosty day when Waynetown cannot come to the front with some weird story to relieve the dull tedium of Montgomery county life. In hot weather like this she fairly perspires sensations and snake stories. For the past five years the farm of William Munns has been in bad repute because of a mammoth snake which lived in a gloomy blackberry thicket on the place. The snake was the largest ever seen in the community and everyone feared it. Dogs, cats sheep and swine were frequently found dead In the thicket with all their blood sucked from small holes In their throats. Children in search of berries were often forced to run for their lives from this ferocious and bloodthirsty denizen of the brush. On Sunday, however, the reptile met its fate. Jonathan Fruitts loaded up a double-barrel Photgun wdth gravel and marbles and entering the Jungle awaited the onslaught of the evening. Jonathan drew a bead on tha beast and blazed away with both bar-

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Crawfordsvllle Journal. The colored peopie of Rockville ani Bloomlngdale have ben greatly excitel for some time over a peculiar hallucination that has affected Mrs. Anna Chavea of Bloomlngdale. Somo two weeks ago, white in conversation with a neighbor, a l-ird f.ew between them. This seemed to impress Mrs. Chaves as being an omen of death. In addition to this, she had a drtiam that the Rev. Mr. White, a. former minister here, told her that sh would die on Friday, the Sth of Juna, Thi3 she toll to Mrs. Noah Thompson, but it was soon told and retold, and con firmed by Mrs. Chaws. Hefinwhll ehA attended religious services and "shouted. So firmly had the idea seized her, thai she was to die on Friday at 10 o'clocla that sh ent for Mrs. William Lewis vi Rockville to lay her out. On that da over a hundred colored people assembled! at her home to bid her a last farewell! the time came; clocks and wutches wer anxiously consulted, and. as each tol the hour, Mrs. Chaves still lived. The-i she changed the date. She thought thel? might be some mistake, and put off tha time of shuffling off until the 8th. Tha Sth came and went with no more prospects for a funeral than before. Thl3 was too much even for tha most super stitious, and nearly all have ceased Xi put any faith in the additional, third an! last date, the ISth. which has now been fixed by this colored Cassandra. Whatever the outcome, it is bound to bi either "going, going, gone," or "thre times and soldi" Rockville Tribune. Bean Blossom township is again tj the front with another sensation. Thia time it is a case of white-capping, bull the midnight marauders did not succeed, in getting in their work to any great:, extent. It stems that there is a goodnatured, easy going fellow named Jason Vint, who lives up in that township-' Some of his neighbors say he was bornj tired, but be that as it may. Jason woul rather play base ball while the oldei folks got in the wood. Some of tha neighbors concluded that a healthy dosa of switches would be the proper thing to cure Jason of his pure cussedness and general worthlessness. Jason waa staying at Hubbard's, a relative, when; the distinguished commiLtee of his feU low-citizens made their midnight xlel for the purpose of applying a vigorous argument that would turn him from th error of his ways. But Jason wouldn't have It that way. When the committed made a demand that he should com out, Jason went under the bed. Theii Mr. Hubbard interfered and ordere! the vigilants off his premises. They lefft without firing a shot or striking a lick, but they were all recognized. AQdavtt were fiied against two young men named Peter;, als.) aainst Pulford, son of ta former county commissioner. They wiiy le tried at Stinesville next Saturday, and It is likely that the young fellowd will pay dear for the miserable fallursf they made of their white-capping jobj It is said, however, that the lesson ha been of soms profit to Jason, as he ha b?en getting a hustle n him since thai night. Bloomlngton Courier. John W. Somerlott wears the goldeif fish, which is indicative of the ehamplom ship of th? Nonesu:h fishing club fof the ensuing year, and which he fairlj won. though at the t-ost of most Intens excitement and no little fear, by success fully taking the largest catch. Our her4 waa early on the waters of Snow lake and in a boat an alone, wnen ne ieit vigorous pull at the end of his line. H frit sure he had a pickerel, and a bijj one, too, as he began to haul his line. The game would lunge first this way anl that, but Johnny tugpred at his linj and brou-rht it nearer and nearer at ea-cl successful move, until at length the headi appeared above the water a foot, thenj two feet and its great, dark, round) body grew larger with every inch disclosed, and there were (to all appearancesi' not less than five feet, perhaps ten. of the monster yet under the waves, John was not scared, of course not. ant yet he he had no desire to have a sea serpnt share his lxat with him. So hs quietly let it settle back and lost ri t'ime in hailing a companion boat with the distress call. Soon Ed Freygang an4 another member were at his side and in quired the cause of his distress. John, with almost breathless excitement, an nouneed that he had a sea eerpent, oi some other monster of the deep, iani wanted help to either land it or let It go. The boys took hold, and in a reasonably1 short time, succeeded in landing th$ game, which proved to be a very f.n specimen of silver eel, measuring fourf feet two inches from tip to tip. Johai had never s?en such game, and solemnly declared he wouldn't have touched li for a farm. The gun was fired to call in nil the club, who indulged In a bl war dance over the capture, not forget ting to make it highly entertaining fott the captor, who by this time needed an antidote to soothe his excited nerves.Angola Herald. ?rr ;l . .i A PECl'LIAIt REMEDY. ' Something About the XeTT Discovery, for Curintc l)ypeiia. pv.i-' The Rev. F. I. Bell, a highly esteemed; minister residing in Weedsport, Cayugai county, New York, in a recent letter writes as follows: "There has neve been anything that I have taken thafl has relieved the dyspepsia from which I have suffered for ten years except tha new remedy called Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. Since taking them I have ha4 no distress at all after eating and again after long years can sleep well." Rev. F. I. Bfll, Weedsport, N. Y.f formeriys Idalia, Cel. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets i a remarks able remedy, not only because it Is aj certain cure for all forms of lndlges ticn, but because it seems to act as thoroughly in old chronic cases of dyspepsl as well as In mild attacks of indlges tion ir biliousness. A person has dyspepsia simply because the stomach la overworked, all it wants is a harmless vegetable remedy to digest the food and thus give it the much-needed rest. This Is the secret of the success of this peculiar remedy. No matter how weaH or how much disordered the digestion; may be. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will digest the food whether the stomach works or not. New life and energy iJ given not only to the stomach, but ta every organ and nerve in the body. trial of this splendid medicine will convince the most skeptical that dyspepsl and all stomach troubles can be cured. The tablets are prepared by the Stuari Chemical Company of Marshall, Mich., but so popular has the remedy beeoma that Stuart's DyspepMa Tablets can nov be obtained at any drug store. . . j