Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — Page 3

AGRICULTURAL NEWS

THINGS PERTAINING tO THE FARM AND HOME. Ttlaable Food for Cattle Sncceaafnlly Manufactured from Corn Ftallca— New Light on Spraying of Fruit Tree*—Shipping Potatoea in Winter.

The new corn produet, upon which Investigations have been conducted at the Maryland agricultural experiment station to determine Its value as a stock food, has been given much consideration by the farming community in many States. They have taken up the subject and are conducting experiments to ascertain its relative feeding value. In the process of the extraction of the pith, the blades and husk are first removed and the stalks are cut up In small pieces. After the extraction of the pith from the stalk the balance is ground up into meal, which in general appearance resembles coarse bran. This ground material Is termed the “new -corn product.” The new corn product contains eleven pounds per 100 more digestible matter and two pounds per 100 more digestible protein than the whole fodder shredded. Much has been done in the way of testing methods for preparing corn fodder for feeding, with most of the results In favor of some method of shredding the stalk. Shredding possesses many points which makes it superior to the ordinary or -old way of cutting fodder, the principal one of which is that the shredded fodder is almost wholly eaten by animals.

The new corn product contains within one pound as much total digestible matter ns wheat bran, but less than one-third as much digestible protein, consequently the nutritive ratio is wider. Animals fed with a fattening ration with the new com product base made more gain in live weight and upon less feed than with a fattening ration of the same grain and corn blades. The keeping qualities of the new corn product are as good as linseed meal, cottonseed meal or wheat bran and rations made up with this material can be fed with less labor and less waste of feed than wlien hay and fodder are fed separately, as ordinarily practiced.—Baltimore Sun. New Light on Ppraylng. At a recent farmers' convention Prof. Burrill, of the University of Illinois, gave to hjs hearers a piece of information that lie said had not yet got into the books. It was relative to the first spraying of fruit and trees for fungous diseases. It has been believed that In the case of most of these pests tlie Bpores lived over on the twigs of the trees. It was advised to spray, before the blossoms were open, for the purpose of killing these colonies of spores. Fruit-raisers have been religiously carrying out instructions In this regard, and the experiment stations have been sending out Spraying calendars year by year in which the fruit-raiser is advised to spray before the opening of the blossoms. But now it has been found that the theory of the spores living over on tne twigs is erroneous. The spores live over on the leaves that fall to the ground and lie there till spring. With the first breath of spring these spores ripen sufl3ciently to float In the air, and as soon as the young leaf begins to expand they find a lodgment there and begin their life work. It is, therefore, useless to spray at the earliest time indicated In most of our books on spraying. This discovery will add much to the comfort of the orchardIst, for it will decrease his times of spraying. It also adds greatly to hie hopes, for if the sporee live over on the dead leaves the proper way to get rid of them is to destroy the leaves. This may be done by clean cultivation, plowing under the leaves that escape the burning.—Live Stock.

Shipping: Potatoes in Winter. Those who grow only a few potatoes and know how easily they are spoiled If touched by frost, can hardly realise the business that is done in marketing potatoes from the places where they are grown during the winter months. Protected cars are used for this, the protection consisting of an Inside lining to the car which encloses a space of dead air. In Its rapid passage through cold regions the outside of the car becomes intensely cold, often down to aero or even below. Always with each carload an attendant goes to watch the temperature. He lias a stove and can keep comfortable himself. If it were not for these protected cars, enabling shippers to send potatoes to distant markets in even the coldest weather, many of the city markets would run short of potatoes, and there might be potato famine in one place, while at another, 100 or 200 miles distant, there would be thousands of bushels of potatoes awaiting shipment. With protected cars it is really safer to ship in cold weather, as the potatoes then lose less by rot and sprouting. Protect!ns Orchard* from Froct, An enlightened chief of the Government experiment gardens at Washington years ago insisted that the textbooks were wrong in teaching that heated air ascended—that Is, ascended In au active sens®. It was, rather, pushed up by the heavier cold alt pressing against It. jit feeerr a slight distinction, but It has Immense practical Importance. For instance, those who nnderstand this, smile at the Florida -ordnge grower who builds fires around hid orchard to make smoke when he fedra a frost, is coming. He lightens the atmosphere at the same time among the trees and makes It all the easierfof tbe berty cbkl air to pneh fn and tdke Its ptace. The modern thought to spray with water is more philosophical. Water is a good conductor of heat «nd would add to the chances of reslst-

Ing cold by the heat It would abstract from its surroundings. Horticulturists have long known that evergreens are quite hardy In a moist atmosphere, when they would easily succumb under the same temperature in a dry one.— Meehan’s Monthly.

Top Grafting Apple Tree*. More or less grafting is always necessary in the orchard. Even when the farmer has secured the varieties which he deems best, changes of fashion, and the greater productiveness or price which one variety has over others, will often make It advisable to regraft bis trees, and thus put himself In line for getting the best results. If the farmer knows how to do this himself, and be an energetic man the work will be done. If he has to hire it done the work will cost so much as to take off his “profits,” and he wiß probably neglect it. The operation of grafting is very simple and is easily learned. The usual rate for grafters used to be a cent and a half for every graft that lived. With an active attendant to cut off the limbs to be grafted and make the clefs, an active grafter may be able to make $3 to $5 per day if he lias the wax to excluae the air spread on strips cloth to bind around the graft after it is set. A good grafter should be able to make nearly every graft set live. By fall it may have a growth of one to three feet or more, according to the number of grafts set and the vigor of the tree.— American Cultivator. Why Not American Horses? That there is a market abroad for good American horseflesh is evidenced in a letter received by the Secretary of Agriculture from United States Minister William J. Buchanan, at Argentina. Mr. Buchanan states that during the last year and tlie year before a royal commission purchased for the English army something like 3,000 horses in Argentina alone. Good prices were paid, the average being about $l9O. The commission’s requirements were ns follows: For cavalry, wellbred horses, fifteen to sixteen hands high, from pure bred sires and halfbred mares. For artillery, coarser-bred horses, with more weight, bone and substance, fifteen to sixteen hands high. Cobs; coach-bred, weight-carry-ing animals, fourteen to sixteen hands high, for mounted infantry. The collection was made from horses only- between four and seven years old. Some mules also were bought. There seems to be really no good reason why breeders in the United States should not secure some of this trade. Argentina does not possess the combination of cheap grain and good pasturage that Is found in the States where fine stock is raised.—Germantown Telegraph. lowing Clover in the Iln’l. Farmers who grow clover seed only for their own use often thresh It out by hand, and sow the seed, chaff and all. It is rather unsafe to do this, as it is difficult to tell while throwing out the chaff how much clover seed is going with it. The better way is to clean up the seed carefully, sow that with a broadcast seeder, which will distribute it much more evenly than can be done by hand, and then sow the clover chaff afterward with what seed may be in It. and make that also cover the whole surface if possible, though as this has to be done, by hand, the hand sowing cannot probably be made to cover half the piece. But there is generally more or less clover seed lying In the soil on land that has once grown clover seed, and this may insure a fair catch even if no clover seed is sown. It is such land of which farmers say, “It is natural to clover.” It is always good land, but the clover does not grow’ on it spontaneously; on the contrary, every clover plant comes from a clover seed left some time in the soil, possibly many years ago.

Warmtb in the Henhouse. A small store set on the earthen or cement floor of a henhouse will do much to keep up the warmth that la quite os necessary as feed In producing a large number of eggs. Even if the floor be of wood there is little danger that the building will burn. The amount of fuel burned will be much more than repaid by the eggs produced at the time of year when fresh eggs always sell highest. When the weather is fine the hens should be left to run opt of doors in the daytime. But cooping them up with enough fire to keep frost out of the room Is always advisable at night. This precaution is especially needed for the breeds with large combs, which are sure to be frostbitten when freezing weather comes. A hen with a sore head from frost-bitten comb has enough to do to repair damages to Itself without trying to lay eggs. Poultry Pointers. Too much young stock is used for breeding purposes. The young chicks will be hardier and make larger fowls if from 2-year-old stock. The poultry house should have plenty of windows, and if the fowls are permitted to roost in It In summer all the windows should be open. Kerosene and lard will prevent further loss of feathers and produce new growth on the head from which the feathers are falling out In summer. Better give your water troughs and dishes a thorough cleaning before It runs too long. It will head off some of those numerous cases of drooping among the flock. For quickness of growth the young chick is not In it with the duckling, but 1 they should be hatched early to catch the high prices. It will not pay to raise late (Inekllngß 'for market any more than it will late chicks. With both It is the early ones that bring the large t>roflts.—Kansas Farmer. The public at large Is but an elevator used to hoist the chosen few to prominence.

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NEED OF A PACIFIC CABLE.

The Frea : dent Sends Congress n Special Message on the Snliject. The following message from President McKinley was read before Congress on Friday; Executive Mansion. Washington. I>. C.— As a consequence of the ratification of tlie treaty of Paris by the Senate of the fultetl States and its expected ratification by the Spanish Government, the United States will come into possession of the Philippine Islands onithe farther shores of the Pacific. The Hawaiian Islands and Guam being United States territory and forming convenient stopping places on the way across the sea. the necessity for speedy cable communication between the United States and al! the Pacific islands has become imperative. Such communication should be established in such a way as to lie wholly under the cotprol of the United States whether in time of peace or war. At present the Philippines can lie reached only by cables which I«tss through many foreign countries, and the Hawaiian Islands and Guam can only be communicated with by steamers, involving delays in each instance of at least a week. The present conditions should not be allowed to continue for a moment longer than is absolutely necessary. Tin- time has now arrived when a cable In the Pacific must extend as far as Manila, touching at the Hawaiian Islands and Guam on the way. Two methods of establishing this cable communication at once suggest themselves. First, construction and maintenance of such a cable at the expense of the United States Government, and second, construction and maintenance of such a cable by a private Uulted States corporation under such u safeguard us Congress shall impose. I do not make any recommendation to Congress as to which of these methods would be the more desirable. A ontde of the length of that proposed requires so lnueh time for construction and laying that It is estimated that at leas' two years must elapse after giving the order for the cable before the entire system <u»u!d be successfully laid and put in operation. Further deep sea soundings must lie taken west of the Hawaiian Islands before the best route for the cable can lot selected. Under these circumstances It becomes a paramount necessity that measures should be taken before the close of the present Congress to provide such means as may seem suitable for the establishment of a cable system. I recommend the whole subject to the careful consideration of the Congress and to such prompt action as may seem advisable WILLIAM M’KIXLEY.

BATTLE IN A JUNGLE.

Americans Have Another Fight with the Rebels and Force Them Rack. A third encounter took place late Saturday afternoon between American troops and insurgents, in which General Otis’ men were once more victorious. A squad of the Fourteenth Infantry, which was on outpost duty to the south of the city of Manila, in the vicinity of the coast, while engaged in reconnoitering came upon a large body of Filipinos. The presence of the insurgents in force so far removed from the scene of the recent hostilities, was a surprise to the Americans, and after a few shots had been exchanged the infantry squad fell back upon the main line.

Oil their reporting the presence of the enemy a portion of the Fourteenth Infantry and the Fourth Cavalry were at pnee ordered to advance and drive the insurgents from their position. A determined stand was made by the rebels, and the engagement lasted a considerable rime without any perceptible advantage being gained. In the meantime a small gunboat, which had been cruising in the vicinity, hearing the noise of the firing, steamed up to the support of the American troops. She swept the coast with her rapid-fire guns and Colts, with an excellent effect, and the Americans finally succeeded in driving back the enemy, after inflicting a heavy loss on their ranks. The only losses on the Ameriean side were five wounded, three of the Fourteenth Infantry and two of the Fourth Cavalry. The rebels dispersed and took refuge in the thickly wooded country to the eastward.

ROW OVER GARCIA’S FUNERAL.

Cuban* A altered Because They Are Refused the Post of Honor.

The late General Calixto Garcia was buried at Havana without the presence Of a single uniformed comrade in arms. Immense throngs of his compatriots paid honor to his memory, wondering as the long procession filed through the streets of Havana where the Cuban soldiers were. The townspeople learned after the funeral that the Cuban generals had had a dispute with Governor General Brooke’s staff over the question of precedence and had withdrawn in anger, ordering 150 other officers and 200 privates out of the lines.* The members of the Cuban assembly also withdrew.

CZAR STRENGTHENS OUTPOSTS,

Russia Pour in it Troops Into Port Arthur and Taltcn-Wan. Advices from the orient state that the Russian government Is pouring troops into Fort Arthur and Talieu-Wan on the ground that the force now garrisoning those places is too small in view of the apparent discontent of the inhabitants of laao Tung peninsula, who have within the last two months risen up against the Ru:£ans in thirteen towns and districts. No less than 9,000 men have landed at Port Arthur within a month

SMASHED THE RECORD.

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ADVANCEMENT OF ADMIRALS.

Secretary Long Gives Particulars About tampion and Schley, Secretary Ling has sent to the Senate an exhaustive report in reply to the resolution recently passed by that body failing upon the Navy Department for all records in its possession upon which the nominations of Admirals Sampson and Schley to their present grades were based. This resolution was passed in executive session. Secretary Long goes into the naval history of the Spanish war at great length, citing orders, movemenu and ail the details which preceded the battle of July 3. In summing up these facts and citing tin- reasons for the advancement of Schley and Sampson he says: "The advancement of Admiral Sampson was proposed in recognition of his services in the execution of his duties as commander in chief of all our ships engaged in the campaign in the West Indies; for the supervision of all its details, wherever distributed for the blockade of the island of Cuba: for the conveying and landing of the army and co-operation with its movements, and for the pursuit, blockade and destruction of the Spanish fleet, which destruction, on the 3d day of July' by our fleet under his command, was the consummation of his orders and preparations beginning on the Ist day of June. In this connection the dispatch of Commodore Schley dated July 10 is a pertinent fact. "The advancement of Commodore Schley was proposed in recognition of his services as next in rank at. the victory- of Santiago. Where so much was achieved in this culminating battle and where his ship was such a eonspicuius force in the tight, his conduct, while in independent command prior to June I, the report of which lias been given above and which, by reason of its unsteadiness in purpose and failure to obey orders, did not meet with the approval of the President, the department was yet not permitted to stand in the way of his nomination for promotion to a higher grade for the part he took in that final triumph. In this connection a pertinent fact is the letter of Admiral Sampson, in which, while not overlooking Commodore Schley’s reprehensible conduct, as above referred to, be asks that ample justice be done him for his part in the action of July 3.

It is just to I Kith these officers to say that each of them was selected for his command in the war without solicitation or suggestion on the part of himself or of anyone in his behalf.”

Avalanche at Silver Plume, Colorado, Claims Twenty-four Victims. A snowslidc, one of the most disastrous over known in the Clear Creek country, occurred at Silver Plume. Twenty-four lives are believed to have been lost. The dead are Italian miners, with their families. The slide started two miles away, and came with terrific force, carrying along huge bowlders and immense trees. A short distance from the starting point the avalanche parted, one section coming down Cherokee Gulch, taking with it two cabins occupied by Italians and the shafthouse of the Cary City mine. The other slide came down Willihan Gulch, between the Pelican and the Seven Thirty mines. The intersection did the most damage. Settlements of miners, mostly Italians, were situated in both gulches. For several days the inhabitants had moved from place to place to escape threatened disaster, should the mountains of snow start down the mountain sides. Some lingered in their homes aud were carried away in the slide.

earning of the McClurg Book Store in Chicago. A. C. McClurg &, Co., the Chicago book merchants, lost their entire stock iu a fire which consumed the building occupied by the firm. The loss on the stock will foot up $450,000. The building was owned by the Rutter estate and was valued at $140,000. Fifty thousand dollars of the total loss is represented by the destruction of one of the most extensive and complete collections of rare books, fine bindings and costly manuscripts in the United States. This collection constituted a department in the business known as the “saints and sinners' corner,” a name given it by Engene Field and made famous by him in his writings.

President McKinley’s wedding present to Mrs. Henry Harrington Seott (nee Sampson) was the original of her father’s now celebrated telegram announcing the destruction of Cenrcra’s fleet. “All of the guests,” says one account, “were loud in their praise or Mr. McKinley for his dellcacy in thinking of such a gift for the daughter of the victor.”

The grave of Chief Justice Marshall in Shockoe Cemetery, Richmond, Va„ is utterly neglected, and a movement has been started to induce the Legislature of Virginia to take some action in the matter.

SWEPT TO DEATH.

RARE BOOKS ARE LOST.

STATE LAW MAKERS.

The constitution of the State of Indiana will not be revised in 1901. The Senate on Thursday defeated the hill for a constitutional convention to.bte held ia May of that year. Senator Huggs’ bill to change the rule of practice in personal injury cases so as to make it conform to that of the United States courts passed the House. It is the result of ten years of agitation by organized labor.. Under the new rule the plaintiff in personal injury cases will not have to prove that he was not negligent. The House passed t,hc bill, which originated in that body, exculpating the buyer of votes and providing that the seller be disfranchised for ten years. The two old political parties by enforcing such a law hope to take “floaters” out of the market. The bill prepared by the State commission for a uniform system of bookkeeping in county offices and for inspections under the direction of the State Auditor, which passed the Senate. was killed in the House. ' • By a vote of (53 to 7 the House on Monday passed what is known as the “Wolf Lake harbor bill.” The measure grants, the right of way through a neck of land between Wolf la£e and Lake Michigan for a waterway, and it is designed to make Wolf lake a harbor for the city of Hammond. The bill does not appropriate any ■ money for tlie enterprise, but the work is to be done through an appropriation by the general government, supplemented by funds raised among the people of Hammond.

, The bill to create county councils in every county in the State passed the Senate on Wednesday. The bills for reforms in county arid township government are now all in the House. Bo;h branches suspended the constitutional rule and passed a bill creating a commission to make plans for taking part in the exposition to be held at Toledo in 1902. A special committee id the House reported iii favor of allowing the claim against the State of $5,000 held by Mrs. Edwin May of Chicago. The claim is thirty-nine years old and lias been before every Legislature for twenty years.

The following are among the new bills introduced: * By Mr. Artman—Concerning the construction of court houses in certain counties. By Mr. Arttmui—To prohibit commissioners from giving the right of way over county roads to electric railroads. By Mr. Barlow—To keep creeks clear of drifts, etc. By Mr. Dilley—To authorize county auditors to draw on other counties for the amounts assessed agaiust the school funds. By Mr. Dilley—To amend the law regarding justices of the peace. By Mr. Caraway—To require electric alarm bells at railway crossings. By Mr. Willoughby —To maintain day schools for the deaf. By Mr. Scott of Montgomery—To amend the act concerning real property. By Mr. Roots—To fix the compensation of State officers. By Mr. Roots—To provide for a fee and salary commission. By Mr. Baker of Whitley—To amend the act concerning interest. By Mr. Leif —To prohibit combinations. By Mr. Baker of Martin—To make posting of warning notices effectual. By Mr. Scott of Montgomery—To amend the dog law. By Senator Drummond—Allowing suit to be brought agaiust the administrator of au estate on property claimed to have been conveyed to him personally. By Senator Early—Providing for a uniform township government. By Senator Early—Concerning the election aud qualification of justices of the peace. By Senator Hawkins—Regulating the State inspection of oil and taking the appointment of the State oil inspector away from the State geologist scud giving it to the Governor. By Senator Wood —To prevent extortion by the owners of stock yards. By Senator Lambert—Amending the present hotel “dead-beat law" so as to not make it prima facie evidence of intention on the part of a guest to defraud the hotel by removing his baggage. By Senator Inman—To prevent lynching by compelling the sheriff to arm a prisoner in danger of his life with a Winchester rifle and a revolver, and if he fails to do so the next of kin to the prisoner may recover $5,000 from his bondsmen. By Senator Shea—Providing for the appointment of gravel road superintendents. By Senator O'Connor—Providing that where poor persons require the services of physicians they may select their own physician aud the township shall pay the bill.

By Senator Stillwell—Providing that “no person having one-eighth part or more of negro blood shall be permitted to marry any white woman or continue to live with such white woman in this State; nor shall any white man be permitted to marry any negro woman or any woman having oneeighth part or more of negro blood, or continue to live with such woman in this State.

By Senator Xusbnum—To prevent discrimination in rates of charges by express companies.

More Euphonious Dispatches.

William Blue was an engineei* In the employ of one of the trunk railway lines in this Slat?. One of his duties was to haul the through freight over the western division, and his pet eugiue was No. 2. One night he had au a eel-, dent. One of the flues in the boiler of his pet engine blew out and he was stalled, blocking the main line. He reported the matter to the division superintendent unwittingly as follows: “Engine 2 blew out a flue; wlmt’ll 1 do?—Bill Blue.” Then he sat down to await instructions. This Is what came over the wires from the superintendent’s office twenty minutes later: “Bill Blue- -You plug that flue in engine two and pull her through In time to get out of the way of twenty-two,” This order Is stuck up in the cab of cngiifr 2.-Slater (Mo.) Index.

A De[?]ibernte Fellow.

“Was theirs a case of love at first sight?" “No; he didn’t find out until a week or two later that her father bad money.” s

Other People's.

“Timmins is rather peculiar for a poet. He says he Is averse to notoriety.” “That is because of Its all being gained by other poets.”—lndianapolis Journal.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Pitched ITcnd Foremost Info a Fiery :M Furnace - College Singer* Danseri onsly Beaten-Frozs to Heath Under a Hedge. £ ’ As a north-bound Grand Ilnpids and ' | Indiana’passenger train was going into',; 1 ; the Pennsylvania yards at Fort Wayne ft collided with a rear end of a light freight engine. The freight crew jumped. Both engines were wrecked. Passenger. Engineer Frank Perry was terribly bruised, but no bones were broken. Fireman Geo. Crnbill had the firebox open at the time anil was pitched into it. While his clothes Were a sheet of flame he climbed back over the coal, took the cover off the engine tank anil dived into, the water. Al- ; though badly burned about the arms, he will Jive. Body Found Frozen. J. M. Hinkle was found frozen to death in a hedge by the roadside a mile east of Bloomington. He had been missing for three days, but nothing serious xvm thought of his absence. He lived on a farm in the neighborhood in which he was found and it is supposed that lie was on his way home when he fell into the hedge. Toughs Beat Glee Club Men. The Franklin College Glee Club gave a concert at Morgantown.* At the close oKv, the concert a gang of toughs levied upon the boys and severely beat them with clubs. Four of the singers were badly injured. Tlie assailants escaped. No cause is assigned for the act. Novel Plun for Paring Streets. The city of Anderson is negotiating to pave her streets on the plan adopted by the city of Norwich, N. Y., by which insurance companies build file streets and take policies on the lives of fifty or IUO citizens as payment.

Within Our Border 6. Considerable Shelby County corn is still uu husked. Elkhart cigarmakers are boycotting the non-union article. Moses Keeney, Danville, well-known horse breeder, is dead. Kempton wants to shake off village kilts and become a town. At Shelburn Mrs. Stephen Braceweli was found dead in bed. Coatsvil’o has caught the incorporation fever and a unts to be a town. Elwood has taken up the fight to prevent the piping of gas out of the State. The Ma.’kland flour mill, near Yevay, was completely destroyed by an explosion. Jas. Vaoeleave, 5(5, Democratic politician of Cfawfordsville, is dead of heart trouble.

Ambrose St rebel, driver of a bakery wagon at c’ort Wayne, was fatally injured by a Wabash flyer.

J. S. Jeter & Co., dry goods dealers iij Oakland City, failed. Liabilities are $5.000 and assets $2,000. William Reid, charged with murderirg Samuel Barker, of Beards town, 11!., was acquitted at Shelbyville. At Osgood, the divorce ease of Charlotte Cook vs. John 11. Cook was decided in favor of tile plaintiff and $1,500 given her us alimony. Monroe township is becoming known as “the bloody township,” because of the many murders and mysterious deaths in that section.

Theodore Comstock, 24, farmer near Fountainlown, jilted, shot himself, but the bullet did not strike his heart, us he had intended. At Cherubusco, Mrs. Eliza Nelson, who had been tick for some time, arose from her hod, aud, falling downstairs, was almost instantly killed. The Hardemeyer-llile steel manufacturing plant will lie located at Kokomo instead of Tipton, the latter town failing to put up .Tie guarantee.

A number of veterans of (he ehil war have star ed-Ao erect a suitable monument over the grave of Lincoln's mother, buried ne3r Lincoln City. Albert Loudermilk, Vincennes, ex-mail carried, took his life by cuttiug his throat with a rasor. He lost his place and then ran a saloon in Princeton at a loss. William Williams, who settled near Valparaiso ic 1833. is dead. He was 91 years old and had six sons in the civil war, all ol whom returned home nlive. At Mitchell Miss Mollie Danner, 32, died of starvation. She imagined she could not cat aud so refused. It was thought ste had cancer of the stomach, but a post mortem showed that organ in perfect eor dition. Fred Scoble, a prosperous merchant of Washington, upon retiring at night, complained of a severe pain in his faee and head. AfAr a time he fell asleep. In the morning the pain had disappeared, but upon making his toilet he discovered that his hair had turned white, in which condition it still remains.

Goshen police officials have received a letter from William Morau, alias “Slippery Jim,” the alleged fraudulent pension agent, now in jail at Grand ltapids. Mich., in which hr? makes startling disclosures, aqd these, if true, will serve to clear the mystery surrounding the murder of Jonathan Crumpacker while the latter was returning to Bristol from a trip in Michi-. gan on the night of Dec. 20, 1804. Moran claims that he was with the man who murdered Crumpacker, and, while giving no names, says the murderer is serving in the Jackson, Mich., prison a sentence which is about to expire. Farther, he states that Crumpacker was killed by his (Moran's) companion, and the two then relieved the dead man of his gold watch and money. The watch was thrown into the Elkhart river and the money was spent in having a “good time” at Michigan lake resorts. Waymansville had a $3,000 fire. Mrs. Minnie Wallace’s house, Chas. Seuttel’s drug store and Cass Deaver’s blacksmith shop all burned. The bucket brigade prevented a further spread. Frank Siple was oouvic&ed of murder in the first degree at Washington and senteueed to life imprisonment. lie was accused of giving morphine to Franklin P. Smith, causing the latter’s death. A new trial has been denied Mrs. Rebecca A. ltosenbarger, at Princeton. Judge Wellborn sentenced her to seven years in the reformatory on the charge of goisouing her son Alva two months as»