Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1899 — Page 6

A LIVING LIE

By The . Duchess.

... CHAPTER XlV.—(Continued.) This afternoon, one of many that Barbara has given up to duty, finds her as lusual in Lady Monkton’s drawing room listening to her mother-in-law’s comments pn this and that, and trying to keep her temper, for Frederick's sake, when the old lady finds fault with her management of the children. She has one compensation for the visit. Dicky Browne and Felix Dysart drop in and are both surprised and glad to see her •nd to learn that Joyce, too, Is in town to stay for the winter. Before Barbara returns home she has confided to Dysart the fact that Joyce will visit the art gallery in Broad street the next day. i “Well, did you like the gallery?” asks Monkton, throwing aside her book to (greet Joyce as she returns from Dope’s the next day. Barbara had let the girl go to see the pictures without telling her of the meeting with Felix. She had been afraid to say anything about him lest that guilty secret of hers might transpire — that deliberate betrayal of Joyce’s intended visit to Broad street on the morrow. “Very much. So did Tommy. He is ▼cry graphic in his remarks,” says Joyce, sinking listlessly into a chair, and taking off her hat. She leans back in her chair, the troubled look on her face growing intensified. She seems glad to be silent, and with downcast eyes plays with the gloves lying In her lap. “Something has happened, Joyce,” says her sister, going over to her. “Something is happening always,” returned Joyce, with a rather impatient ■mile.: “Yes, but to you just now.” “You are sure to make me tell you sooner or later,” says Miss Kavanagh, “and even If I didn’t, Tommy would. I met Mr. Dysart at that gallery to-day.” “Felix?” says Mrs. Monkton, feeling herself an abominable hypocrite, yet afraid to confess the truth. Something in the girl’s whole attitude forbids n confession, at this moment at all events. “Yes.” “He was glad to see you?” very tenderly- “ Was he? I don’t know. He looked very ill. He said he had had a bad cough, lie is coming to see you.” “You were kind to him, Joyce?” “I didn’t insult him, if you mean that.” “Oh, no. I don’t mean that; you know what I mean. He was ill, unhappy; you did not make him more unhappy?” “It is always for him!” cries the girl, with jealous anger. “Is there never to be n thought for me? Am I nothing to you? Am I never unhappy? Why don’t you ask if he was kind to me?” “Was he ever unkind?” “Well, you can forget! He said dreadful things to me —dreadful. I am not likely to forget them if you are. After all, they did not hurt you.” “Joyce 1” ... “Do you mean to tell me, that for all that, you didn’t know he would be at that place to-day?" turning flashing eyes upon her sister. “How could I know? unless a person says a thing right out, how is one to be sure what he Is going to do?” “Oh! that is unlike you. It is unworthy of you,” says Joyce, turning from her scornfully. “You did know. And it Is not,” turning back again and confronting the now thoroughly frightened Barbara with a glance full of pathos, “it is not that—your insincerity that hurts me so much, it is ” “I didn’t mean to be insincere; you are very cruel—you do not measure your words.” “You will tell me next that you meant It all for the best,” with a bitter smile. “That is the usual formula, isn’t it? Well, never mind; perhaps you did. What Ido object to is that you didn't tell me. That 1 was kept designedly in the dark both by him and you. Am I,” with sudden fire, “a child or a fool, that you should seek to guide me so blindly? Well,” drawing a long breath. “I won’t keep you in the dark. When I left the gallery, and your protege, I met—Mr, Beauclerk.” Mrs. Monkton, stunned by this intelligence, remains silent for a full minute. It Is death to her hopes. If she has met that man again, it is Impossible to know how things have gone. His fatal influence—her unfortunate infatuation—all will be ruinous to poor Felix's hopes. “You spoke to him?” asks she at last, in •n emotionless tone. “Yes.” “Was Felix with you?” “When?” “When you met that odious man.” “Mr. Beaucbirk? No; I dismissed Mr. Dysart as soon as ever I could.” “No doubt. And Mr. Beauclerk, did you dismiss him as promptly?" “Certainly not. There was no occasion.” “No Inclination, either. You were kind |o him, at all events.' It is only to the man •who is honest and sincere that you are deliberately uncivil.” “I hope I waa uncivil to neither of them.” “There is no use In giving yourself that •ir with me, Joyce. You are angry with me; but why? Only because I am anxious for your happiness. ph! that hateful tnaa, bow I detest him! He has made you unhappy once—he will certainly make you unhappy again.” “I don’t think so,” says Joyce, taking up oer hat and furs with the evident intention of leaving the room, and thus putting «n end to the discussion. “You will never think so, until it ia too late. You haren’t the strength of mind |o throw him over, once and for all, and give your thoughts to one who U really Srortby you. On the contrary, you

spend your time comparing him favorably with that good and faithful Felix.” “You should put that down. It will do for his tombstone," says Miss Kavanagh, with a rather uncertain little laugh. CHAPTER XV. It is Bix weeks later, “spring has come np this way,” and all the earth is glad with a fresh birth. March has indeed come; boisterous, wild, terrible, iu many ways, but lovely in others. Mr. Monkton had come back from a sad journey to Nice some weeks ago, to bury his dissolute brother. He had very little to tell on his return, and that of the saddest. It had all been only too true about certain iniquitous debts, and the old people were in great distress. The two town houses should be let at once, and the old place in Warwickshire —the home, as he bad called it—well! there was no hope now that it would ever be redeemed from the hands of Manchester people who held it; and Sir George had been so sure that this spring he would have been in a position to get back his own, and have the old place once more in his possession. It was aii very sad. “There is no hope now. He will have to let the place to Barton for the next ten years,” said Monkton to his wife when he got home. Barton was the Manchester man. “He is still holding off about doing it, but he knows it must be done, and at all events the reality won’t be a bit worse than the thinking about it. Poor old governor! You wouldn’t know him, Barbara. He has gone to skin and bone, and such a frightened sort of look in his eyes.” “Oh, poor, poor old man!” cried Barbara, who could forget everything of past unkindness where her sympathies were enlisted. Toward the end of February the guests bad begun to arrive at the Court. Lady Baltimore hnd returned there daring January with her little son, but Baltimore had not put in au appearance for some weeks later. A good many new people unknown to the Monktous had arrived there with others whom they did not know, and after awhile Dicky Browne bad come and Miss Malipbant and the Brabazons, and some others with whom Joyce was on friendly terms, but even though Lady Baltimore bad made rather a point of the girls being with her, Joyce had gone to her but sparingly, and always in fear and trembling. It was so impossible to know who might not have arrived last night, or was gong to arrive this night! That, up to this, neither Dysart nor Beauclerk had come to the Court, had been a comfort to her; but that they might come at any moment kept her watchful and uneasy. Indeed, only yesterday she had heard from Lady Baltimore that both were expected during the week. That news leaves licr rather unstrung and nervous to-day. After luncheon, having successfully eluded Tommy, the lynxeyed, she decides upon going for a long walk, with a view to working off the depression to which she had become a prey. This is how she happens to be out of the way when the letter comec -.fir Barbara that changes the teno: of their lives. The afternoon post brings it. The delicious spring day has worn itself almost to a close when Monkton. entering his wife’s room, where she is busy at a sewing machine altering a frcck for Mabel, drops a letter over her shoulder into her lap. “Wbnt a queer-looking letter!” says she, staring in amazement at the big official envelope. Mrs. Monkton has broken open the envelope, and is now scannfng hurriedly the contents of the important looking document within. There is a pause—a lengthened one. Presently Barbara rises from her seat mechanically, as it were, always with her eyes fixed on the letter in her hand. She has grown a little pale —a little frown is contracting her forehead. “Freddy!” says she, in a rather strange tone. “What?” says he, quickly. “No more bad news, I hope?” “Oh, no! Oh, yes! I can’t quite make it out—but—l’m afraid my poor uncle is dead.” “Ybur uncle?” “Yes, yes. My father’s brother. I think I told you about him. He went abroad years ago. and we —Joyce and I, believed him dead a long time ago, long before 1 married you even—but now— Come here and read it. It is worded so oddly that it puzzles me.” “Let me see it,” says Moukton. He sinks into an easychair and drags her down on to his knees the better to see over her shoulder. Thus satisfactorily arranged, he begins to read rapidly the letter she holds before his eyes. ' “Yes, dead, indeed,” says he, sotto voce. “Go on, turn over: yon mustn’t fret about that, you know, Bnrbara—er—er—” reading. “What’s this? By Jove!” “What?” says his wife, anxiously. “What is the meauing of this horrid letter, Freddy?” “There are a few people who might not call it horrid,” says Monkton, placing bis arm round her and rising from the chair. He is looking very grave. “Even though it brings you news of your poor ancle’s death, still it brings you, too, the information that you are heiress to about a quarter of a million!" “What!” says Barbara, faintly. And then, “Oh, no! Oh, nonsense! there most be some mistake.” “Well, it sounds like*it, at all events. ‘Sad occurrence,’ h’m—h’m ” reading. “ ‘Co-heiresses. Very considerable fortune.’ " He looks to the signature of the letter. “’Hodgson & Fair.’ Very respectable firm! My father has had dealings with them. They say your uncle died, in Sydney, and has left behind him an immense sum of money. Half a million. In fact, to which you and Joyce are co-heir-esses.” ‘There must be some mistake,” repeats Barbara, in a low tone. “It seems too like a fairy tale.” “It does. And yet lawyers like HodgMB it Fair are no' MJulf to bo ted Into a

cal-de-sac. If"—be pauses sod looks earnestly at bis wife—“if it does prove true, Barbara, you will be a very rich woman.” “And yon will be rich with me,” she says, quickly, in an agitated tone. “Bat, but ” “Yes; it does seem difficult to believe,” interrupts‘be, slowly. “What a letter!” His eyes fall on it again, and she, drawing close to him, reads it once more carefully. i “I think there is some troth in it,” says she, at last. “It sounds mote like bring all right, more reasonable, when read a second time.” She steps a little bigaway from him and rests her beautiful eja full on his. “Have you thought,” says she, slowly, “that if there is truth in this story, how much we can do for your father and mother!” Monkton starts as if stung. For them. To do anything for them. For the two who had so wantonly offended and insulted her during all her married life. Is her first thought to be for them? “Yes, yes,” says she. eagerly. “We shall be able to help them out of all their difficulties. Oh! I didn't say much to you, but their grief, their troubles, have gone to my very heart. 1 couldn’t bear to think <*f their being obliged to give up their houses, their comforts, and in their old age, too! Now we shall be able to smooth matters for them!” Monkton had to ran across to London about the extraordinary legacy left to his wife and Joyce. But further investigation proved the story true. The money was, indeed, there, and they were the only heirs. From being distinctly poor they rose to the height of a very respectable income, and Monkton being in town, where the old Monktons still were, also was commanded by bis wife to go to them and pay off their largest liabilities—debts contracted by the dead son, and to so arrange that they should not be at the necessity of leaving themselves houseless. The Manchester people who had taken the old place in Warwickshire were now informed that they could not have it beyond the term agreed on, but about this the old people bad something to say, toot. They would not take back the family place. They had but one son now, and the sooner he went to live there the better. Lady Monkton, completely broken down and melted by Barbara’s generosity, went so far as to send her a long letter, telling her it would be the dearest wish of hero and Sir George's hearts that she should preside as mistress over the beautiful old homestead, and that it would give them great happiness to imagine the children — the grandchildren—running riot through the big wainscoted rooms. Barbara was not to wait for her —Lady Monkton's — death to take up her position as bead of the house. She was to go to Warwickshire at once, the moment those detestable Manchester people were out of it; and Lady Monkton, if Barbara would be so good as to make her welcome, would like to come to her for three months every year, to see the children, and her son. and her daughter. The last was the crowning touch. For the rest, Barbara was not to hesitate about accepting the Warwickshire place, as Lady Monkton and Sir George were devoted to town life, and never felt quite well when away from smoky Ixmdon. 3 This last was true. As a fact, the old people were thoroughly imbued with a desire for the turmoil of city life, and the three months of country Lady Monkton had stipulated for were quite as much as they desired of rustic felicity. (To be continued.)

BOY’S ESSAY ON POLITENESS.

Delicious Philosophy ia Recard to the Treatment of Girls. Politeness is rather a difficult thins; especially when you are making a start, says a boy, quoted by London Tit-Bits. Many people haven't got it. 1 don’t know why, unless it is the start. It is not polite to fight little hoys except they throw stones at you. Then you can run after them and when you've caught them, just do a little bit at them, that’s aIL Remember that all little boys are simpletons, or they wouldn’t do it. It is not the thing to make fun of a little chap because he Is poorer than you. Let him alone if you don’t want to play with him, for he Is as good as yon except the clothes. When you are in school, and a boy throws a bit of bread or anything at yon over the desks. It Is not polite to put your tongue out at him. or to twiddle your fingers in front of your nose. Just wait till after school, and then warn him what you'll do next time; or, if yon find yon are bound to hit him, be pretty easy with him. Some boys are very rude over their meals. Don't keep on eating after yon are tightening and you will be far more happier. Never cat quickly, or yon might get bones in your throat. My father knows of a boy who got killed over his Sunday dinner. The greedy boy was picking a rabbit's head in a burry and swallowed one jaw of It; and my father says he was choked to death there and then. Be very polite over your meals, especially when it's rabbits. Since my father told me that I have always felt rather queer over a rabbit dinner. It is not polite to leave victuals on yonr plate, especially anything you don't like. If yon don't like turnips It Is better to eat well into yonr turnips first, while you are hungry, and you'll eat the meat and potatoes easy enough after. Boys should always be polite to girts, however vexing they may be. Girts are not so strong as boys, their hair is long and their faces are prettier; so yon should be gentle with them. If a girl scratches you on the cheek, or spits In yonr face, don’t punch her and don’t tell her mother. That would be mean.

No Wonder.

The reprehensible practice of kissing babies, and thereby subjecting them to danger of contagion as well as to discomfort and annoyance, is so hard M suppress that one cannot greatly marvel at the means of combating the practice- which a certain father is reported to have adopted. “Why, I should like to know" » friend asked this prudent father, “have you taught your baby to eat onions?” “It keeps people from kissing him,** answered the father.—Youth's Companion.

MAY USE THE TORCH.

Philippine Kobe's Threaten to Barn the City of llello. CoL Potter, special emissary of Gen. Otis between Manila and Iloilo, arrived ill Manila with dispatches. When he left Iloilo the streets of the city were barricaded, and it waa reported that the principal buildings had been “kerosened,” the insurgents having threatened to destroy the whole business section by fire at the first shot of bombardment. The banka were shipping their treasure to the United States transport Newport and other vessels. The family of the American viceconsul had gone on board the Newport. CoL Potter reports that President McKinley’s proclamation had to be typewritten aboard ship, as the printers on shore declined to do the work, and when the text of the proclamation was read to them ridiculed the notion that conciliation was posable. Both sides, Col. Potter says, have been impressing the local shipping for military purposes and the Francisco Reyes has landed 530 natives. The foreigners were taking refuge on the British cruiser Bonaventura. Public demonstrations were held in Pampangas province in ratification of Agninaldo’s proclamation, and the excitement was intense. A Washington correspondent asserts that Felipe Agoncillo is talking so much and with such braggadocio that he may be expelled from this country. In view of his activity to date there is a disposition on the part of some influential Senators, well versed in national and international law, to introduce and adopt a resolution providing for his expulsion Agoncillo, according to their complaint, has filed a protest with the peace commission against the cession to the United States of the Philippines by Spain; he has offered his credentials as Philippine minister to the State Department; he has filed a demand for the recognition of Philippine independence; he has been communicating news of all kinds to Aguinaldo, and by so doing has stirred up resistance to United States authority in United States territory, and has uttered public denunciations of United States governmental action. The last two counts are regarded as valid grounds for the adoption of the suggested resolution. If Agonrillo's advice to Aguinaldo results in bloodshed at Iloilo there is no question as to what will be done with the dnsky envoy.

SIXTEEN ARE KILLED.

Bad Fmash-Up on Lrhivrh, Twenty tlilei from New York. Sixteen dead and forty-eight injured are the results of a wreck that took place on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Two passenger trains, each crowded with its human freight, going in opposite directions, rounded a curve on the same track and crashed into each other at full speed. The scene of the collision was near West Dunellen station, on the Lehigh Valley road, abd about twenty miles from New York City. The accident occurred on a quiet country spot just at the beginning of a long curve. It was converted into a scene of death and disaster in only s few seconds. The victims of the wreck, dead and dying, were scattered about the tracks, some free from the debris and others pinned beneath it. Those who escaped injnry were so overcome by the disaster that it was some time before any united efforts were made to relieve the suffering and secure outside aid. When the work of rescuing the injured and the removal of the bodies of the dead began the scene was like that of a battlefield. There were no appliances at hand and the bodies had to be carried out on seat cushions, planks and anything that came handy. The locomotives were crushed out of shape, while several of the cars were reduced to kindling wood. A freight wreck in the morning, just east of the Bound Brook station, was primarily the cause of this horrible catastrophe. It blocked the east-bound track and disarranged the train schedule on the Lehigh Talley road.

SITUATION GROWS ALARMING.

France Aroused Over Tone of the English Press. France’s defeat in Shanghai by England, aided by the United States, is liable to foment Anglo-French hostility, coming, as it does, upon the friction between the two nations, caused by serious difference* in Madagascar, Newfoundland and elsewhere. England’s persistent worrying of France in every quarter where their interests approach is only explained in two ways—either England wishes a war with France or el * she is too phlegmatic to see the effect of her repeated diplomatic onslaughts on the sensitive French nature. Editorials in the English papers have taken a domineering and insulting tone, which shows an inherent racial hatred of the GanL ' j

LOOT MASSACHUSETTS BANK.

Barzlara Blow Open the r afe and Secure 91,287. The safe of the Ashburnham, Mass., Bank was Mown open at 2:30 o’clock in the morning and $1,287 stolen from the cash box. The thieves escaped. A lot of securities, bonds and paper representing $6,000 or SB,OOO, on which realization could be made, were overlooked by the burglars in their evident haste to get •way. The explosion was a violent on*, completely destroying the office and arousing the entire population. The burglars drilled a hole in the top of the safe, using powder and dynamite, two cartridges of the latter being found.

GRIP EPIDEMIC GROWS.

Hckaea aa Widespread as It Waa # Tea Tears Ago. In response to requests sent out by the marine hospital service, answers have been received in Washington from thirty cities on the extent of the grip, showing the sickness to be as severe and extensive as daring the epidemic of 1880-90. Surgeon General Wyman says the reports indicate that the grip started in Turkey and Asia Minor In the middle of November, and made its way westward, following tike established lines of transatlantic trmveL

Kavanagh as a Baritone.

Biatchford Kavanagh created a sensation at Des Moines by his first public appearance aa ■ baritone singer. Eight yean ago Kavanagh acquired a national reputation as • boy soprano. This is his first appearance in public since that time.

Weds Laundress Daughter.

Louis Fisk, son of Millionaire Engene D. Fisk of Chicago, and a law student at Yale, has ended a quiet little romance by marrying Mary Lynch, the pretty daughter of a laundry Woman in New Haven, Conn.

NO RIGHT TO CONQUER.

Senator Hoar Argnea Power of Gov merit la Limited. Senator Hoar’s long-expected and much-advertised speech against expansion, or imperialism, as he is pleased to call the sentiment in favor of keeping the Philippines, was delivered in the Senate Monday, and for two hours the venerable Massachusetts Senator held the elose attention of his associates. It was a remarkable speech in many ways and was filled with lofty sentiments and constitutional argument. Much withering sarcasm was leveled at Senator Platt of Connecticut and some at the President. Mr. Hoar confined himself pretty closely to the constitutional aspects of the question, disclaiming at the outset au intention to discuss exeept in an incidental way the policy proposed by the administration of entering upon an expansion of its Jterritory, but making ‘a clear enough statement of his personal position on the subject. He based his argument principally on the declaration of independence and on the national constitution, saying that if the doctrines of the fathers were to be preserved, no right exists whereby we could govern subject peoples. He declared that labor would suffer, that the national debt would be materially augmented, and that the necessary increase in the army and navy would be a menace. The SSenator added that if Congress should vote for annexation it would be in palpable violation of its declaration a few months ago that “the people of Cuba are and of right ought to be free and independent.” Mr. Platt of Connecticut made a terse reply, saying the Massachusetts Senator had been building up a man of straw, and that he stood in fear of a mere specter. SENATOR MASON SPEAKS. Illinois Man Tries to Arouse Feeling for Filipinos. 'V Senator William E. Mason of Chicago was the star attraction iu the Senate Tuesday, and the galleries were filled to hear his speech against expansion. Senator Mason was just as earnest and enthusiastic in his appeal for the Filipinos as he was for the Cubans last spring, when he declared himself for war and for the independence of Cuba.. He spoke for an hour and a half. The keynote of the Senator's speech was the belief that in considering the welfare of the natives of the Philippines we should be in reality studying our own best interests. In the course of his speech he said: “It is easy to drift with the tide, but it is not always safe. The simple resolution I have introduced has nothing necessarily to do with any treaty nor do I intend to speak of any proposed treaty. The resolution does not involve a question of law, but is a question as to the future policy of this republic, I am willing to trust the people and I want the people to hear both sides of the case before the verdict is rendered. In speaking of the Philippines I am speaking one word for them and two for ourselves. A black man said to a Senator the other day: ‘I thank you for spenking for my race,’ and the Senator replied: T am speaking one word for your race and two for my own; nothing ever dwarfed the white race so much as stooping for 100 years to keep the black man down.’ T may appear to speak one word for the Philippines, but two for my own people, when I plead for the broad manhood of the man who wrote: ‘All just powers of government are derived from the consent of the governed.’ You cannot govern the Philippines without taxing them. You have not yet their consent and the proposition of taxation without representation is made again. Look out for tea parties; those little semisocial functions are likely to break out even there, for ‘Hail, Columbia!’ and ‘Yankee Doodle’ hav.u-.been heard iu the archipelago.”

GOV. M’LAURIN ON LYNCHING.

Rte Message Deals with Necessity of Ftopping Outrages. In his message to the Legislature Gov. McLaurin of South Carolina deals with lynching in a most emphatic maimer. He says: “The remedy suggests itself. See to it that laws are so enacted aud so administered that conviction and punishment shall follow crime. It is necessary ia mere protection of society and vindication of justice that a stop be put to dilatoriness in the administration of justice, which tends not so much to the protection of individual rights as to the subversion of the rights of society. It should become of itself a high crime and misdemeanor for a sheriff or constable to allow a prisoner to be taken by violence from his hands, even though his own blood should have to be shed to protect the criminal. I recommend that any county in which the crime of lynching is committed shall be liable to the heirs of the victim of the lytichers in the sum of $5,000, and that men who shall be convicted of participating in lynchings shall be deprived of the right to vote or to hold oflice in this State.”

FILIPINOS SUE WILDMAN.

Declare U. 8. Consul Holds Independence Fund of 047 000. The Filipino committee at Hong Kong has broken off all relations with United States Consul Wildman. The committee has issued a writ in the Supreme Court to recover the sum of $47,000, which the Filipinos claim to have deposited with Mr. Wildman ns treasurer of the Filipino independence fund iu June last. The members of the committee further allege that sensational disclosures are probable, showing, they add, that the Aftierican Government recognized the Filipinos as belligerents by* affording them assistance in arms and moral influence to co-operate against Spain, “thus hidorsiug the agreement made with Aguinaldo at Singupore in April.” \ Great excitement was created in shipping circles at Philadelphia by the arrivaj at that port of the Norwegian steamer Fram. Everybody thought it was Explorer Nansen's historic craft. A solid five-foot vein of copper ore, 20 per cent pure, just below the surface, and containing silver and gold, has been struck by Tacoma men at the Leola mines, in Pierce County, State of Washington. A letter from President McKinley has been received at Macon, Ga., requesting half a dozen badges of the Confederate veterans, the same as the ones pinned on him on-bis recent visit to Macon, Farmers of New Jersey having failed with sugar beets are going to experiment with sorghum cane.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Natural Gaa Causes Flrca-What Hog Cholera Has Coat the Farmers-Grew-some Discovery by Railroad Men— Cruel Mode of Revenge. Marion had six fires the other day. Some were caused by increased pressure of the natural gas when the families were absent from home. One fire was in an empty dwelling which had contained no fire for a week, and was the work of au incendiary. The Kelley chair factory was slightly damaged. The most disastrous fire was the Boiler ice cream factory, which burned to the ground. The residence of Albert Boiler, the proprietor of the factory, also burned, together with all its contents. The family was rescued by the neighbors, who broke the doors do>vu and dragged them out of bed. Hog Cholera Costs Millions. A bulletin issued by the experiment station of Purdue University is to the effect that 900,000 hogs, valued at $5,000,000, have died in the State from cholera. The disease has been general over the State, but has subsided somewhat at the present time. During the past two years the station used 4,300 pounds of “guaranteed cholera cure” without finding a practical remedy in any one of them. Body In Box tent as Freirht. A mysterious box*bf storage freight was opened at Evansville at the Louisville and. Evansville and St. Louis freight house, and a dismembered body was found. The head, legs, arms and a portion of the trunk were found. The box containing the cadaver was skipped to “E. L. Thurman,” from St. Louis. No such party can be found in Evansville. Tie a Horse on the Tracks. James Hannon went to a social function in 'Monroe township. When he went to get his buggy to go home he found it chopped to splinters. The leather parts were stripped and the horse was gone. He found it later tied in the center of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad tracks. A barb wire fence was constructed around it. The train was due in fifteen minutes, Within Onr Borders. Terre Haute is reaching out after a tin mill plant. A female brass band is one of the institutions Waterloo is proud of. Brazil is being asked to vote a subsidy of $40,000 to a new big steel plant. A co-operative company for the manufacture of window glass will be located at Daleville. Samuel Musser, Morgan County’s oldest citizen, died pear Waverl.v. He was born April 14, 1799, in Virginia. A horse, which for many years has done duty at the Indiana reform school, recently died at the age of 30 years. > Rev. Henry C. F. Ewers, a retired Lutheran minister, dropped dead at his home in Fort Wayne of heart disease. A company which proposes to build an electric railroad between Indianapolis and Logansport has been incorporated. The jail at Summitville bnrned and Fred Boriin of Anderson, who had been incarcerated for drunkenness, perished. James Phipps, white, and Van Suggs, colored, were fatally burned by a terrific dust explosion in Terry mines at Clinton. Will A. Jackson, until recently a large manufacturer of carriages, committed suicide at Goshen by banging. No motive is assigned. The Christian organizations of Elwood are receiving donations looking to the" establishment of a home for friendless women in that city. Frank Spindler, the locomotive fireman who was scalded in the locomotive explosion on the Evansville and Terre Haute road, died at Evansville. John H. Carter, who has been in the dry goods and grocery business at Matthews for thirty years, sold out to Ralph Sutton of Hartford City. * Orders were telegraphed from Washington recently to Postmaster Spaugh of Hope, to put ou an additional carrier for tree rural mail in Hawcreek township. Katherine Vannest, one of the first women settlers of Vermilion County and daughter of the first white woman who crossed the Wabash river north of Fort Harrison, was buried at Clinton the other day. Mrs. Vannest was 86 years old. George Kuight, senior member of the firm of Knight & Knight of Zanesville, reported to the health officers at Fort Wayne that in two weeks hog cholera killed off between 1,500 and 2,000 hogs within a radius of three miles of his place. The Elwood Electric Street Railway has been sold to the Union Traction Company, of which Congressman Charles S. Henry is president. This company has already completed the line from Anderson to Alexandria, and the Council will immediately grant the company the right of wa# into Elwood. The body of Henry Nehf, the missing druggist, has been found in the ruins of the big fire at Terre Haute. Young Nehf s body was face downward, and on his left arm was the nozzle of the line of hose which had been carried into the building. His neck was broken, chest a:»d hips crushed and one leg broken. The body of Peter Vanderweit was found under the bridge of the Chicago Terminal Transfer Railway at Hammond. Accompanied by George Devries the young man had - left home and skated down the river to We*t Hammond, 111., where the ice gave way . Devries escaped, but Yanderweit was drowned. The wool growers of the State have elected the following officers: President, W. A. Guthrie, Ilupont; vice-president, Sidney Conger, Waldron; secretary, J. W. Robe, Green; as tie; treasurer, John L. Thompson, Gat City; executive committee, Howard Rheime of Ladoga, C. A. nowlaud and W. A. Bell, LaGrangc. A peculiar accident happened to a Monon passenger engine at Crawfordsvillo. The whistle sot turned around some way and, striking the water tank pipe, it was off and shot back through the end of the baggage car. At a meeting of the board of trustees of the State Normal School at Terre Haute, president Parsons was instructed to get bids for a fire escape for the new building. It was also decided to take out an additional $48,000 insurance. The trustees are carrying $102,000, but the buildings cost $250,000 and the contents are valued at $50,000.