Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — Page 7

POLITICS OF THE DAY

HANNA S VICTORY. Hanna's victory in the Senate is not such a triumph as an honorable man would delight in. He retains his seat, It is true, and for Hanna this is perhaps the main thing, but the verdict in his favor does not acquit hint of the charge of bribery, and is, in fact, the Scotch verdict of “not proven.” Of course, the Republicans in the Senate committee stood by Hanna. He represents the Republican administration, and to him more than to any other man McKinley owes his election. But the Democrats on the committee were not forced to lay on the whitewash, and they pointed out (he fact in their minority report that Hanna and those who acted for him at Columbus disregarded the subpoenas of the Ohio committee and declined to appear before it. The Democrats of the Senate committee take the ground that there should be further investigation. Hauna'srecordissuch that the charge of bribery causes no surprise, and the burden of proof rests upon hrm. He plotted to force John Sherman out of the Senate, so that, as boss of the Republican party, Mark Hanna could secure the coveted position. Later he joined the conspiracy to make Sherman step down and out of the Cabinet. Now, as Sherman has always served his party with absolute fidelity. Hanna showed treachery to his friend, and it is not at all improbable that he would use corrupt means to retain the seat which he secured so discreditably. It is not probable that Hanna's case will receive any further investigation in the Senate. His Republican fellow Senators have applied the whitewash to his record, and by so doing have ranked themselves with the man who plotted" against his friend, and who refused to testify In bis own behalf wl» n offered the opportunity.

Revenue Dfflzit. Representative Cannon, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, says there will be a deficit of $150,000,000 at the end of the present fiscal year. - This is a comment on Republiopn legislation which will cause a good deal of serious consideration by the people. How is this deficit to l>e met? Will the vast riches of the trusts be taxed? Will the men who have incomes ranging from $5,000 to $5,000,000 a year be required to bear their share of the burden? Under Republican rule these questions can all be answered in the negative. Trusts are protected. The incomes of rich men are held sacred and the mon who are least able to pay taxes will be the men who will have to pay them. What does the $700,000,000 steel trust pay in the way of national taxes? Nothing. But every poor woman who buys a pound of tea pays the Government 10 cents to help protect the steel trust. The New York Journal pictures the condition of affairs most truthfully and most vividly as follows: “If any more taxes are to be Imposed they will be levied, not on the men with the millions, but on the men that do not have $179 apiece. The values of franchises, the profits of corporations, the stealings of trusts will remain untouched. while every rag worn by the shivering child of a day laborer out of work is taxed.” And yet poor-men, wage-earners, men in moderate circumstances continue to vote the Republican ticket. Are they not, Indeed, their own worst enemies?

G rover C1jveland.

An absurd story comes by wire from Princeton, N. J., to the effect that Grover Cleveland Is to be a candidate in 1900 for a third term as President. Grover Cleveland may try to be a candidate, for there is no limit to his selfesteem, but the absurd part of the proposition is the assertion that he will be a candidate. If there were no other objection to Cleveland, the fact Hint his candidacy would have to fight the established and popular conviction that no nan should be given a third term in the highest office of this country should be enough to rule him out of the race. But the Democrats of this nation, the 6,500,000 voters who cast their ballots for W. J. Bryan in 1896, have no desire to stultify themselves by approving the nomination of a man who made the record which stands against Grdver Cleveland. No greater mistake could be made by the Democrats than that of selecting Cleveland to lead the party. Defeat would be certain, and the leadt >*--»f this party need not be told this farfßor they know It already.—Chicago Democrat.

McKinley’s Shiftiness. Because the President has suddenly changed his mind nnd is trying to drive the country in a directly opposite direction to that which a few months ago he said its duty nnd honor required it to pursue, are we to be told that it is incumbent upon men of more stable convictions to whirl into line with a shifting adtainlstration? Such talk does no credit to those who indulge In it, and certainly does hot strengthen the administration.—Atlanta Journal. What Worries the Organs. ■ The administration organ* severely censure Miles for uttering words calculated to damage our export trade tn

beef. Up to date none of them has been particularly vociferous in denouncing the issuance of had beef to the soldiers. As between building up our export trade and properly caring for the soldiers, the export trade will always receive first consideration at the hands of the administration organs.—Omaha World-Herald.

Lincoln's Prediction. To Abraham Lincoln seems to have been given the power of prophecy. With the vision of a statesman, Lincoln peered into the future and raised a voice of warning. In one of his prophetic moods, the great liberator said: “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an area of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of the country than ever before, e/en in the midst of the war.” No words could express more clearly the present condition of affairs. The great corporations are doing exactly what Lincoln feared they would do. They are working upon the prejunices of the people. They are aggregating the wealth of the country into a few hands. They are endeavoring to estab-, lish an aristocracy of wealth. They are striving to crush the workingmen and to put the classes in a position of absolute power over the masses. It is the alm of the money power to i make riches supreme. To reduce wages to their lowest terms, to take away all methods of redress from labor, to kill competition and to rule with an iron hand is the aspiration of the trusts. . These money sharks have secured ■ control of the Republican party. They i rule the administration. They control the army and the courts of justice. There is no hope for the people except in the Democratic party. When ! will the wage-earners leain this? When will the men who labor cast off thel bonds of Republican tyranny and vo'jn for their own freedom with the only party which is ready and willing tc come to their relief?

The Anjrlo-American Conspiracy. Lord Charles Beresford 16 somewhat too frank for his mission. He wants the United States to go into partnership with England, Germany and Japan to control China, yet he inadvertently quotes a parallel case, which shows that the job will be utterly profitless. “Save for its strategic advantages,” he says, “Egypt has not been worth a shilling to England. Great Britain has sacrificed lives and money to make Egypt safe and secure, and she has put the Egyptian army and polled in order. She has gained no financial advantage.” The admission is opportune, for what England has done in Egypt is precisely what we tuA expected to do in China. We are tt sacrifice lives and money to make China safe and secure, and we shah reap no adavantage whatever, for tbt strategic value of the joint occupation would be enjoyed not by the United States, but by England, Germany and Japan. If we go into the partnership we shall ihcur the fate which invar.’ably overtakes the greenhorn who plays in a game with professionals. We shall come out with a large and perhaps valuable stcck of experience, but with considerably less assets.—Chicago Chronicle.

McKinley Seeing the Light. President McKinley has changed his opinion about foreign trade. In 1890 rn his speeches in defense of his tariff bill he declared that “the foreign market is illusory.” Yet in bls speech at the Commercial Club in Boston the other night he admitted the protection racket was played out, just as Senator Aldrich did in the Senate a year ago. “We Jtave turned from Academic theories to trade conditions,” he said, “and are seeking our share of the world’s markets.” This is the very thing which only eight yedrs ago McKinley declared would lead to national disaster.—Pittsburg Post. Went na Far ng They Dared. Many Congressmen are pointing to the imperial schemes for spending hundreds of millions which Congress rejected in spite of the urgings of ’Mr. McKinley and his friends, and are saying, with Clive, “In view of our opportunities we marvel at our own moderation.” But the simple truth Is that even Congress did not dare spend any more money. The menace of the figures of deficits was too vivid not to Impress the most reckless of prodigals.—New York World. | Governor Pingree’* Hopelees Taek. Governor Pingree is still protesting that the Republican party is dominated by the trusts and combines, and still persists in maintaining his allegiance to that party. The Governor should have learned by this time that no man can fight the monopolies effectively within the Republican party. In fact, this is a pretty difficult matter even outside of the Republican party.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Reached a Queer Verdict. The gist of the report of Mr. McKinley’s war inquiry board was: “There was very bad management, but ths managers were not to blame.”—Bk Louis Republic.

INDIANA WAS YOUNG.

BEGINNINGS OF THE STATE BRIEFLY SKETCHED. Two Classea of Settlers in th- Lower Wabash Kccion—Toilsome Life of the Early Home Makers—Recreations of Pioneer Days. Two converging streams of humanity met in the lower Wubash valley and began the herculean task of subduing the wilderness. Both came from Kentucky. One of them was composed of Kentuckians who were actuated by various motives—some to get away from the blighting influence of Slavery as well as to provide homes for their children: some in the hope of bettering their condition, but without any well-defined plank for the future, while not a few entertained more sordid motives and hoped that slavery would be introduced into the now territory, notwithstanding the prohibitory clause of the ordinance of 1787. United to all these was a number of persons who had originally come to Kentucky from the central States, especially New Jersey, at the close of the revolutionary war, and who now wished to cast in their lot with the people of a free State, and so joint'd in the movement towards Indiana territory. Nearly all of these emigrants went down the Ohio in flatboats, generally starting from Limestone (now Maysville, Ky.), or from Louisville. The second stream was largely composed of people originally from North Carolina and Tennessee, who had first emigrated to the southern and central portions of Kentucky, and who also wished to better their condition and get homes for their children, since nearly all the pioneers were blessed with more or less girls and boys—generally it was no small task to get a farm for Tom, Dick and Harry, Nancy, Jane and Carrie, in the older States. The North Carolinians and Tennesseeans, where it was convenient, used flatboats; otherwise they utilized wagons, some of them of the “barefoot” type —strong and durable, but rather cumbersome. The Indian boundary line at the time of this emigration ran considerably south of the center of the territory, that is of a line running east and west, except on the eastern border, where a narrow strip extended quite a distance along the Ohio State line, and in the west, where a similar strip extended north of Terre Haute. It was but natural, therefore, that the first settlements should be made in the southern and southwestern portions of the territory and also sufficiently near the navigable streams to render communication with outside markets, especially that of New Orleans, easy and rapid. When the present century was young land was plentiful and good, and it only required a few hundred dollars and a visit to the land office at Vincennes (established in 1804), to acquire a quarter section. The best land was rated at $2 per acre and the limit fixed at 160 acres, but Gen. Harrison afterwards succeeded in getting the limit reduced to forty acres. Men of large means could get hold of all the land they wished, but, fortunately, the greater part of it fell into the hands of actual settlers. After getting the land, it was no small undertaking to prepare it for cultivation. While the trees were of majestic growth, the woods were comparatively open and there was none of that dense undergrowth so characteristic of semi-tropical regions. The small trees consisted mainly of dogwood, paw-paw and similar varieties, while in various nooks and corners might be found spice brush and similar shrubs, all of which afforded an admirable retreat for the various small animals with which the woods abounded. While there was a sufficient quantity of shrubs and small trees, many of them fruit or nut-bearing, the country was not a taugled mass of rank vegetation. The country lying along the lower Wabash is composed of bottom lands, occasionally extending several miles inland and bordered by a gently undulating region that was heavily wooded and very fertile, but with less naturaLriehness thau the bottom lands. The permanent settlers chose the uplands, reserving the bottoms for pasturage, and as many of these lowlands were covered with rich, juicy canebrakes, they would sometimes take theit horses to them in autumn and allow them to remain until early spring. But there were selfish, greedy individuals in those days as well as these, men who claimed exclusive jurisdiction over the canebrakes, and more than one farmer found some of his horses in the spring with their tails cleanly shaven and minus an ear or two, “merely as a warning against intruding upon pre-empted territory,” notwithstauding it still belonged to the State.

It wns a cardinal doctrine of the pioneers that every able-bodied man should “earn and they carried the doctrine into practice with Unrelenting severity. There was no room for the idle. Houses and barns were to be erected and the ground cleared. They soon began a deadly assault upon the forest. A thousand axes gleamed in the morning sun and the crash and boom of a thousand giants groaning in their last agonies were heard as they fell prone upon the ground. Whnt, with rail-making, fence-building, barn-raising, plowing, sowing and reaptng there was plenty to keep all hands >usy. Within doors it was also work, work. “Woman's work is never done.” Cooking, washing, sewing, spinning, weaving, taking care of children—no rest for the weary; breakfast must be over before daylight so the men could get at their work. Yet they were not unhappy. They had few of the comforts and were blissfully ignorant of the conventionalities of modern civilization, nor did they wish or care for them. Life to them was indeed a stern reality. Duty was their watchword and well they did their duty. When a barn was to be raised the whole neighborhood was invited, and so with the logrolling. As for recreation, our ancestors were not wholly without amusements. True, they had no theaters and “social functions,” and that sort of thing, but they had fun and pleuty of it. They not only looked upon the serious side of life, but also, and very frequently, upon the sunny side. There were glorious camp meetings where wide-open hospitality was dispensed to all comers. There were also musters on State occasions which drew the people from far and near, and occasionally some dignitary would grace the occasion by his presence. About the year 1810 Gen. Harrison attended one of these musters in the southern part, of Gibson County—an event that was for long the ztnndtrd topic of conversation. The Wabash pioneer, had he had the time and inclination, might have become a great naturalist, perhaps rivaling Gilbert White or Audubon, for sv,-al» bo

• I could not plead the want of opportunity ' for observation. As a matter of fact, his | whole life was spent in the midst of na- ! ture of the most animated character conI ceivable. I once heard one of those pioneers say that he occasionally heard echoes of thit deafening chorus which greeted his ears when a boy. He said that at certain seasons the efforts of the feathered choir were so successful that the dinner horn could not be heard and that the clamor was so great that n gun could not be heard when fired a few yards distant. Wild game, such as deer, wild cats, foxes, i raccoons, oppossums, groundhogs and squirrels were plentiful. But the buffalo, notwithstanding the great seal of the : State of Indiana shows him gayly friskipg in the open, while a youth, to fortune and to fame unknown, is vigorously engaged in felling a tree, went west with the Indian and had disappeared from the lower Wabash before the permanent settler arrived. But he did linger in the upper WaI bash region until a later date. It was observed by the pioneers that there were no fox squirrels in the country until it was fairly settled. But there were birds galore. Gray and bald eagles, wild ducks, wild turkeys in profusion, quail and grouse, wild pigeons so numerous as to sometimes obscure the sun in their flight, wild geese, brant, blue and white cranes, swans, whippoorwills, owls innumerable, carrion crows and paroquets. That old king who had only four and twenty blackbirds for his pic might as easily have had four and twenty thousand, had his dominions extended to the Wabash, so numerous were those birds at one time. Insects were numerous in early times. One of ! these pests, that of the white weevil, played havoc with the wheat for a time, but finally disappeared in 1845. Snakes were very much in evidence, especially rattlesnakes. A party of snake hunters in Gibson County once killed seventy-five rattlers in half a day. and one of the party always maintained that “it was a poor day for snakes.” Thus passed away the early years of the century on the Wabash. The roaring loom of time was busy at work weaving the threads of each individual life into that fabric we call history. Those early days were full of romance, and as we compare the free, simple and independent life of the pioneers with the rush and push of the kaleidoscopic present, with authority and limitations touching ns on every side and with the list of “don’ts” and “warnings” increasing as population increases,- we are tempted to disregard the preacher's injunction: “Say not thou what is the cause that the former days better than these.” But there is nothing to prevent us from reveling in imagination over the scenes of “Auld Lang Syne” —events which transpired in the same region to which many a Hoosier to-day is bound by the ties of pleasant recollection. “Be it a weakness, it deserves our praise; We love the play place of our early days.” —T. M. Weaver, in Indianapolis Journal.

INDIANA'S ERRATIC RIVER

Crossed by More Railroads than Any Other in the World. “What is the name of that river?” asked a traveler on one of the trains on the Louisville division of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis the other day as it was swiftly going north. “White river.” Silence and the smoke of cigars prevailed for a little while, until another bridge and. apparently, another river was crossed. “White river.” Again there was silence and smoke, and the train ran a little farther, to cross another bridge and stream. Once more the query came: “What river is this?” “White river.” “See here, neighbor,” and the man, evidently a Kentuckian, sat up straight in his seat, “is every river in this d—d State called White river?” To the uninitiated traveler it certainly seems as if there were no less than a few hundred White rivers in Indiana, for this otherwise rather insignificant stream is crossed by more railroads and oftener than any other river in the world. The Louisville, the Indianapolis and various other divisions of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis cross it, some of them as often as three times. The Monon, the Indianapolis and Vincennes, the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, the Big Four, the Lake Erie and Western, among the north and south roads, not to mention a score of east and west*roads and divisions.. are compelled" to span it with their bridges, and have trouble enough with it, for it is a turbulent stream, although it is neither very long nor wide, and in the summer months far from imposing. Not many months ago it took a notion to get out of its banks, and the result was that almost the entire railroad system of Indiana suffered and hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage was done to embankments and tracks, not to mention wrecks and loss of life. It is usually supposed that mountain torrents are dangerous, but White river can give any mountain stream odds and take the trick, even though it flows through an almost level country, across the entire width of Indiana, from the Ohio line to the Wabash. The Wabash, Indiana's chief river, is celebrated in song and poetry, but in this respect it does not compare with the little White river. White river tries to keep up its reputation from season to season by taking along a bridge now and then or dumping a train from an embankment and making the crew take swimming lessons. Incidentally, it gathers up snch trifles as an occasional cow, a few shocks of fodder or manages to put down a gravel bank in a wheat field. It is full of fun. White river is almost exclusively a southern Indiana institution, since it does not extend its meanderings much north of Anderson.— Ghent Times.

State Items of Interest* Natural gas has been struck at Loogootee at a depth of 700 feet. Kokomo Elks will give a street fair next August. The county fair has given way to the Elks. ' John Street, Mnrion. was fined $5 for beating his daughter black and blue with a rasor strop. The late Mrs. Sarah U. Brown, Greensfork, left $3,000 of her $7,000 estate to Earlham College. Sidney C. Lombard, a pioneer insurance man, capitalist and real estate dealer of Fort Wayne, is dead. The State bureau of statistics is advised that wheat has come out of the severe winter in fairly good condition. Dr. A. J. Allen of St. Louis. Mo., died at Martinsville of cancer of the stomach, aged 62 years. He was for twenty-five years superintendent of the Presbyterian board of publication and was editor ,of the Midcentincnt.

NATIVE ARMY IN A PANIC.

Filipinos Are Demoralized by the Work of Wheaton** Men. With each day the Filipino cause is becoming weaker and Gen. Otis is confident that a few more lessons such as administered during the last week will bring the larger part of the native army to time. The followers of Aguinaldo are almost in panic and with each engagement their resistance becomes more futile. Although the American advance was commenced only a week ago, remarkable progress has already been made. Several well-fortified villages have been taken, an important strategic position secured, property worth $500,000 destroyed and American gunboats are cruising Bay lake, spreading consternation in all the towns along its shores. It is impossible to accurately estimate the number of Filipinos killed in the recent engagements, but the total for the last week, it is certain, is about 1,000. Many- mortally wounded were carried away by their comrades to die in distant villages. Several hundred prisoners are held by the Americans. On the other hand, the loss to the troops in Gen. Wheaton's flying column has been slight, only an occasional man killed and few wounded. This is extraordinary under the circumstances, for the United States soldiers in taking the offensive have been at a disadvantage, invading new country and approaching from the open well-built intrenchments defended by the pick of Aguinaldo's army. Gen. Wheaton's brigade Sunday advanced against the Filipinos, clearing a tract of country two miles wide and eleven miles in length, to guard against another attempt at a surprise. Some of the Filipinos recently expelled from Cavite and the small towns in the vicinity of Pasig combined forces and Saturday night attacked a company of the Washington volunteers, a detached post at Taguig. about a mile and a half southeast of Pasig. Gen. Wheaton immediately re-enforced the Americans with two companies each of the Washington and the Oregon regiments. The post bad held the natives in check and the fire of the re-enforcing companies trepulsed them, driving them across to a| island formed by the estuary. They were thus in front of the Twenty-second regulars. On discovering that they were entrapped the natives fought desperately, aided materially by the jungle and the darkness, but they were completely routed with heavy loss after two hours’ fighting. The lost two killed and twenty wounded. Gen. Otis says that the American army ami gunboats now command the lake. He estimates that property of the insurgents valued at $500,000 has been destroyed, while quantities of rice and sugar and 400 tons of coal, which is very valuable, have been captured. Many prisoners represent that the Filipino soldiers are weakening.

WINDSTORM DEALS DEATH.

Tornado Sweeps Across Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. Eleven (>ersons were killed and fifteen injured in Saturday night’s cyclone near Edwardsville, Cleburne, Ala. The cyclone began six miles west of Edwardsville, near Iron City, and swept the country for twelve miles. Its path was from 100 to 200 yards wide. The greater part of the country it moved over was wooded land and hundreds of trees were uprooted or twisted off at the ground. At intervals the storm would rise above the ground and skip along from fifty to 100 feet above the earth. Then it would descend again and lift houses bodily from the ground and dash them to pieces. Immense timbers were carried high into the air, and some were driven through trees. The residence of Lewis Coffee, tax assessor of Cleburne County, was a large double log house on a little hill. Coffee, his wife and nine children were at home. The house was crushed like an eggshell and its timbers blown 200 yards away. Ten of the eleven occupants were instantly killed. Their bodies looked as if they had been lifted high into the air and dashed repeatedly to the earth. The body of one of the children was found wrapped about a stump like a string. All were stripped of their clothing and all had their brains dashed out.

MRS. PLACE ELECTROCUTED.

Heath Was Instantaneous and Was Met Without a Struggle. Mrs. Martha Place faced death in the electric chair at Sing Sing. N. Y., Monday afternoon. She made no scene. Mrs. Place went calmly to the chair. She leaned on Warden Sage's arm. Two women attended her—one a prison attendant, the other a physician. She was calm beyond expectation. No one has walked into the death chamber as serenely as she. Death was instantaneous and came without a struggle. The crime for which Mrs. Place suffered the death penalty was committed a year ago last February at her home in Brooklyn. She killed her stepdaughter, Ida Place, by throwing acid in her face while asleep and then smothering her with the bedclothes. Then she waited for her husband to come home. At the door she hit him several times on the head with an ax, and it was several months before he recovered. Jealousy was the motive which led her to take her stepdaughter’s life, she being insanely jealous of the attentions her husband paid bis daughter.

AGUINALDO IN A RAGE.

Orders Gen. Lagarda Beheaded for ruggestinc Surrender. Aguinaldo is taking extreme measures to suppress signs calculated to cause a cessation of hostilities. Twelve adherents of the plan of independence, residents of Manila, have been condemned to death because they wrote advising surrender. Gen. Lngarda visited Mnlolos for the purpose of advising Aguinaldo to quit. He argued with the insurgent leader and attempted to convince him of the folly of his persistence in the face of overwhelming odds. Aguinaldo was furious at the advice and ordered Gen. Lngarda to be executed immediately. The unfortunate general was promptly decapitated.

SKAGUAY UNDER MARTIAL LAW.

Railroad f trikera Assembled Threaten Peace of th j District. The big strike of the construction men on the Pass and Yukon Railroad in Alaska is assuming serious proportions. The town of Skaguay is under martial laF. lO® armed men patrol the streets to give protection from the 1,000 strikers that have congregated there. The company of United States infantry, under Captain Yeatman, that has been stationed at Dyea all winter, is ready to move at a moment’s notice.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Will Not Make the Fisht-Operator* and Miner* Fail to Agree—Bic Fira at Patoka—Fatal Feud Between Relativ*s—New Industry for Peru. « _____ The manufacturers of the gas belt who organized a short time ago to tight the foreign gas pipe line companies have abandoned the project. The foreign companies assert that the pressure in their main lines does not exceed the 300-pound limit prescribed by law, and that the powerful (>umps used are not for the purpose of drawing the.fluid from the earth, but to force it through the mains. On these points the companies arc prepared to make a prolonged fight, and as the outcome, after much expensive litigation, would be uncertain, the manufacturers have decided to drop it. Coal Men in a Wrangle. The meeting between a select committee of block coal operators and miners held at Brazil to make a final effort to adjust a scale for a year closed sine die without an agreement being reached. Miners insist upon suspension of work at once, and it will be a difficult matter for the officers to induce the men to work longer. All the men employed at the Big Four mine, belonging to F. S. Peabody of Chicago, quit work on account of no settlement being reached. The miners are prepared for a hard tight. Greater Part of Patoka Destroyed. Fire at Patoka came near destroying the entire town. The tire started in Samuel Burns' saloon. The total loss is put nt $20,000, partly covered by insurance. The tire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. There hnve been six attempts within the last year to burn out the town of Patoka and there are now seven firebugs serving time, convicted of incendiarism in the town. Biscuit Plant for Pern. Hugh McCaffrey will establish at Peru immediately a biscuit works which may compete with the trust. lie is a man of large means, who has spent most of his life in the grocery trade, and sees a profit in Crackers and kindred articles at the prices paid the trust. lie has placed an order for nearly $40,000 worth of machinery and will install his plant at Peru before July. Fatal Fight at Carbon. \Vulter Jones shot and instantly killed Edward Adams at Carbon. Jones and Adams were relatives, and there had been a long-standing feud between them. Adams and Jones met at William Baxter's saloon nnd a fight followed. Jones shot Adams in the head and continued tiring until he emptied his revolver. Jones was arrested.

Within Our Borders. Twenty-six Amo farmers have formed | a telephone company. North Salem is wrestling with the ques- i tion of incorporation. Edgar Andrens lias been appointed oil inspector at Lafayette. Thieves robbed the Russiaville postofliee, securing 75 cents. New Evansville directory indicates a population of about 70,000. Vigo County farmers have organized a mutual insurance company. John Moulder. Russiaville, celebrated his ninety-fourth birthday. Over 100 head were sold at the Lackey horse sale at Cambridge. City. Lightning destroyed Andrew Beall's barn, Versailles. Loss $1,500. . Charles Lorg, Coal Bluff, has been appointed deputy mine inspector. Big tin plate trust, recently formed, robs Middletown of her plant and many residents. ?S Evansville school children will study the weather map issued at the station there ever dayLippincott lamp chimney factory "has posted a notice of an indefinite shut-down for repairs. Anthony Brinson, farmer, 46, hanged himself twelve miles north of Madison, leaving a large family. Miss Mabel Redwood. 16, Logansport, and Charles Hawkins eloped to St. Joe, Mich., and married. Harry Cummins. Shelbyville mail carrier, has quit his job and gone to California without even explaining to his wife. Well of the Byram Oil Company on the Stotler lease was put to work, nnd is producing at the rate of 700 barrels a day. Richard L. Marshall. Greenfield. 25, president of the Stove Molders’ Union, is dead of pneumonia. He once lived in Indianapolis. Wm. O’Haver, Mooresville, has organized a gold mining company to work on his farm. He hns taken out about SSO worth this winter. Rayfield Burton, who. by the aid of hia father, escaped from officers while on his way to the penitentiary, has been cap- " tured near Mitchell. The Byram Oil Company of Indianapolis has struck the biggest gusher yet in Washington township. The fluid spurted high above the derrick. William Stough, prominent in Brazil,— sues his wife for divorce on the plea that she purposely allowed his home, clothing, | etc., to be burned in his abseiice. Gas Inspector Loach says that rotten gas mains caused the recent explosions in several towns, in which twelve were killed ’ and $200,000 worth of property destroyed. ' Lawrence County Commissioners hare let a contract for building gravel roads in Shawswick township jto D. C. Dehority j of Elwood for $48,357. There were eleven bidders. O. E. Sutton. Kokomo, sold his housed hold goods to three different second-hand dealers, with the understanding that eacfc 1 was to call at the house the next day and get the stuff. Thou he left town. .3 Judge Piety upheld the Terre Haute J city ordinance imposing a license fee on * vehicles, including bicycles. It ia the first | decision in the State since the law ot 18Q7 * went into effect. Joseph 1. Irwin of Columbus has made a gift of $25,000 to the Bible school Butler College of the University of In-3 dianapolis on the condition that the trityl tees raise $75,000 additional. Twin girls born prematurely, owing toS an accident to the mother, Mrs. Frank Miller of New Albany, will be reared In J an incubator. Attending physicians say khat both of the infants will live.