Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1899 — Page 3

“BUST THE TRUSTS.”

THIS IS LIKELY TO BE THE DEMOCRATIC SLOGAN. » *? “Bm* tk tnttT b to hr the Drawtrafiem aj far UMOIf the luynhici HoMi at OnMcnb «nt to the lbni City to toft A s exchange news Ui to test at a $2 per plate banquet on the fnhurh Beer of the CoKw. The •pwMi «nw»i hy there Pwoentg, “hattrahdirdr"eaeh other and the epeechea hr Democratic onton at the GaEaeum were “anti-trust.” Free *Srer is npuM as aa iane that ed hy the after dtotr speakers the old the yefl ease vhs ‘toHmf was called BfH The WI of tore and program of speeches at the diner was labeled “amti-trast banS«(t" The tapirs tor the set speeches ape awl hpn to say spraty srhat they had whhgrred dariag the day—that “afiwr as wait; the Sewate is paid for six years,, bat we cans wia aa the platform tost the trast*.’ ” The haagmt seas a kage, —s^stohaMe taUes, srtoch were phalaaxed ia the arena of the Oshsesaa. la toe amphitheater are fjBBO haayij Democrats eat sad to overflow meeting was held la the unditamating capacity of the Xwnc Hall is were jaumndand toe'waOs were hashed doe deep with these who toaad standing iwa. It m estimated that 20.000 people heard CeL Bryan and the other speakers, roaaa had a Kttle lac. sad the excited lattcrisps of the tosiy standards added ante* riahr to toe pittsnwa character at the The mm ihwslisy began with the id* dress of will si hy Harry R Hawes, the pressdewt of the liftiwa Club, omler Champ Clark far presenting same hnwntra Whew Mr. Clark had finished the crowd began ealfing tor Bryan. They brake into toe apeettomakaap of C. R. Faria. who seMoKSreShSawaSß Bryan. Bat toe antortf the prapnmtm tolimf^inytostonnM^d A. De Anmand of Miasoari who spoke on "The "Dost awl Its Patent*.” The crowd grew impatient before he brake oat. Bat the llismri naan kept on despite toe wdfmas reminders that it was n o’clock and growing late. It was aa toe pragmas tor the aadienre to sing -America"” before Mr. Bryaa spoke. The tor efectne rfimaxe*. had arranged matters so that Mr. Bryan's ovation woold be aae of the aid fstbioae* kind. Bat it Stomto^ktpß>riarCosgrest ahoaf, and the shoots and cheers dtua wrd the manse of the hood. Thems* shins played two semes of the aid soap and then toe aadoari slopped cheering aad took ap the weeds. Frem “Aaterica” the band changed to “Hold the Fort.” Scarcely any one heard the ssaaie. for Mr. Bryn forward. and tor three sir ■tea he stood in aOenre while the Dear mts tried to Est the roof. Mr. Bryan was hisiar The apstthmaHsp of two day* pn tioai had strained the raral htoßhTamWtoS He fiaitoed ia a tßasalt of wild applause. Mr. Bryan’s aabject was “Mmopoßes.” Mm actor she 'ManWridi recently, rnM.flaahlft Wd aSn^dcSSiud mamaa eaoramaa that the peaple. without reapoct to party, ate joking theta* riven how llteiietoamatoti w. JPlre», theanion y"m- towiib aSreriatytte Ipeainet. 1 peainet. to*tt*aso dietotas tons to those who aril the raw material and to thane whs totaiih the lahsr. If the Irapto continney we aSSct It Wperatttto so la PM toil ha

corporation ia a fictitious person,'created by law, the power that creates ffan regulate, restrain cr annihilate. To say that the GaP? eminent is impotent to prevent fhenoffanU, nation of trusts is to say that It has called Into existence a fictitious person, and that the fictitious p;r.oa cr.uteJ has become greater than the c renter. Ore of the difficulties which hare been cneaontered In cppcglng true a is that the treat hides behind the Federal Constitution when attacked by State legation, and shields itself behind Its State charter when attacked In the Federal courts. No remedy srßt be complete that U not coextensive with the Federal government If Ihe extinguishment of the trusts la left to State legislation the public at large will be vie* tlmised aa long aa a single Stale will tarnish a robbera roost where the spoils collected la other States can be divided. dost now people are startled by the principle of monopoly as It manifests Itself (p tho industrial trust, and well may they be startled. The principle, however. Is the same as that which manifests itself In the effort of the national tankers to secure a monopoly of the Issue of paper money. The greenback to a rival of the bank note, and its presence Is a cans aut menace to the bdnka of issue. Some who re.ogn’zo the evils that flow from a soap trust fferent to the dangers that attend the formaUawef a paper money treat. The principle of monopo.y not only lies at the foundation of the attempt to destroy the green backs, but it is the controlling princiN* that underlie# the crusade against sliver ■* * standard money, li t tr.-en 1853 and 18®h when the production of gold was Increasing and the production of sliver was small, three nations demonetised gold and gave to silver a monopoly of mint privileges. Early in the ’7o‘s the financiers became alarmed at the increase in the production of •liver, and conspired to destroy sliver as a standard money and give a monopoly to gold, the production of which at that time was stationary. The standard money trust Is not only the parent trust, but Is in the hands of foreigners The Republican party is Impotent to destroy the treat* It is controlled by those who are interested in treats, and Its campaign fund and sinews of war are supplied by the trusts. Abraham Lincoln in the very beginning of h's presidential career, warned the country against the threatened attempt to pnt capital above labor In the structure of the governneut. Modern republicanism is fulfilling the prophecy made by Lincoln—lt to putting the dollar above ■*•*- The Democratic party is opposed to the prise'pie of monopoly wherever it manifests Itself. It has declared war on the trusts. Not a little trust only, bnt a big treat ea well. Not against one kind of trust only, hat against all trusts. The man who opposes trusts In Congress is entitled to as much cred.t for bravery as the man who •warn a river or marched np San Juan hill. B- F* Belmont for Bryan. When Mr. Bryan sat down there were calls for O. H. P. Belmont, and ex-Gov. Store led the New York man to the front of the platform. Mr. Belmont began by saying: ‘Tf I were in complete party control I would point to an easy path to tri■mph- Fd name Bryan the candidate, make Bryan the platform, and with Bryan as the issue go before the people.” He declared that he would give his full support to the platform and candidate of the Democratic convention of 1900. He said he believed the platform would declare for the election of United States Senators hy the people. He dwelt at leugth on the trusts, and said trusts were the pure result of the carefully matured principle of protection, which has kept the Republican party going, furnished its money and fooght its campaigns. He ended by saying: And on the subject of harmony, speaking for New Tork alone, if yoa give us Bryan for a candidate and “smash the treats” for a war-cry, the Empire State Democracy, moving as a unit, will sweep to victory. Altgeld Ppeaks for Filver, The crowd called for ex-Gov. John P. Altgeld, and the Illinois man came forward while the audience applauded him cordially. He gave the only free silver speech of the evening, and declared that if the Democratic party should abandon the ratio of 16 to 1 it would amount to abandoning the cause for which the Democrats fooght in 1860. He urged the Democrats to stand by the whole of the Chicago platform, which, he said, could be added to, bnt which could not be taken from. Then he launched into the silver question, in which he alluded to Bryan as the leader of the party.

YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY.

Boys ia tkt Argentine Republic Pose aa Men at 14. We bear a good deal said of Young America and bis impudence, writes Frank G. Carpenter. Tbe boys of the Argentine %re even more precocious than those of tbe United States. An Argentine father seldom whips bis son, and children have much more liberty south of th* equator tbnn north of it Tbe Sunday school Is almost unknown, and ideas of morality are so loose that children ary. brought tip In a most perniciods waj. Aa to lying, this is common among men, women and children. The polite lie Is met with everj where, and a father will sometimes say about bis little giij or boy In admiring tones: “Why, hear that child lie,” or “How well it does Ue;”. “Why, I could not 110 better than that myself.” They do not think It disgraceful to lie, and have tbe Spanish idea of honor. You might, for Instance, call an Argentine n liar, and be wotjd think nothing ot it. He might think it a compliment more than anything elje. But if you should call him a coward he could not consistently rest until hn had knocked you down or stabbed you in the back. The young Argentine learns wickedness at a much earlier age than do our boys. Many of them have reproved minds at U, and already pose as men. Boys begig to talk politics before they are out of knee pants. Nearly every college has its political factions. The boys organise revolutions against tbe professors, thus training themselves to get np revolutions against the government wbajt they grow older. The well-to-do young Argentine is not brought up to any business. He has a prejudice agalsst trade and work, though he wiU study for a profession. It Is the fashionable thing to study law, and thus get the title of doctor to the name, though the young man may never expect to practice. The children, as a rule, learn the language* easily, and many young men speak English and French. Girls are also good linguists, but outside of the languages they know but little.

Precious Stones His Fortune.

The present shah is enormously wealthy, find almost the whole of hia fortune consists of diamonds and precious stones. The royal family of Persia ts one of the largest In the world. There are some thousands of princes and j princesses, and the present occupant es toe throne has a family of about t ffNffififfifififffir

DEMOCRACY WILL TRIUMPH.

&SfJtiBE!£USZ cast for next year is that it will amount to $30,000,000. The possibility Is also hdmftted that it may become Imperative to pnt on the market the remaining $200,000,000 of 3 per cent, whr bonds authorized by Congress. Thlß means that the Dlngley blllils a failure. As McKlnleylsm in one of Its phases Is but a reflection of the Dlngley bill, the McKinley administration has failed to produce a good reason for Its existence. It has been found wanting in the very essentials whereby It made Its bid for popularity and power. * It is difficult to see how the financiers of the McKinley school can avoid the issuance oTbonds and still more difficult to see how the Republican party can avoid the destruction which such an Issuance would precipitate. Under the guise or disguise of great moral ideas, however, the party is capable of performing some very extraordinary legerdemain, and it may yet attempt the task of explaining why, in time of peace, with the much vaunted Dingley bill, plus a war revenue, in operation, Republicans can ask for support while admitting that they are incapable of avoiding a deficit of $30,000,000. The failure of the Republicans to perform any of their grandiloquent promises, their dishonesty in claiming a prosperity which their measures did not cause, and their secret or avowed support of the huge industrial combinations that are sucking the life blood of the country, all point to an excellent opportunity for Democratic success. . ■ V The conditions affecting recent years will certainly cause considerable new alignment during the coming national campaign, and there will be some changing and adjusting of political views, but as government by party is still to remain In vogue and the Republican party has taken the necessary steps prior to committing suicide, Democracy will come again into her own. It will be a severe blow to the selfseeking demagogues who have usurped the functions of honest men, but a glorious entrance of the United States into the coming century.—New York News. 1

All for the Galleries. There appears to be a general disposition to concede the truth of Mr. Chauncey Depew’s prophecy that the next Republican platform will declare against trusts. It is equally well understood, however, that the trusts will accept the declaration In a Pickwickian sense, as a proceeding rendered necessary by public sentiment, but not to be taken seriously. That is to say, the Republican party will follow its usual practice of promising anything and everything in its platform and calmly repudiating its pledges after election. The trusts will not be fright-ened-much less angered—by a Republican anti-trust declaration, though Mr. Hanna may find his annual fat-frying tour somewhat less easy than usual. The whole performance will be for the benefit of the galleries, like the bimetallic plank in the St. Louis platform of 1896. Republican ante-election promises are like pie-crust.—Chicago Chronicle.

Alser’a Ideas. The grasping “we own them” policy which actuated the administration’s seizure upon the idea of territorial expansion was emphasized by Secretary of War Alger in a speech at his home city of Detroit. He said: “Supposing the soldiers had a little beef spoiled, what of it? If they had no beef at all they would have more than Gen. Joe Wheeler and I had in that other war. Whatever else may be, we can l>e assured that as the flag has been raised In Porto Rico and the Philippines there it will remain. These islands are ours.” There Is a big lot of the theory of benevolent assimilation and Christianizing of an unfortunate people in that doctrine which measures the effect by the extent of the gain—Rock Island Argus. Menace* Designed to Soothe. From this time forward till the meeting of the national conventions there will be much threatening on the part of Republican politicians. We shall bear on all hands that the Republicans have always-been zealous In legislating against- monopolies in trade, and that they are determined to suppress the trust system by tbe enactment and vigorous enforcement of such laws as may be necessary. But the trusts are not likely to take alarm, for these menaces are designed to soothe the discontents of American consumers till after the election.—Philadelphia Record.

V*ln Plot Against General Miles. The whole wretched attempt to cover up the facts and to protect the men responsible for periling the lives of the soldiers, even to the extent of praising the canned beef ration and preventing any reform, has failed. It has done so simply and only because Nelson A. Miles challenged the wrong situation in a way that had to be heeded. Then it tfas purposed to “down him.” That Attempt has signally failed, and ont of It all comes the order for a study of how soldiers in the tropics ought to he fed.—Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Bosalsm Among tho Bnckejrea, The demoralization of the Republican party In Ohio can be traced directly to the Introduction of bossism. It was the boast of both parties In this State that there was no State boss, either Republican or Democrat. In an evil hour the boss made his appearance. But the Ohio Republican boss was deficient In tact and instead of a union of the party under an all-powerful leader there was revolt against arrogant dictation. The result Is the present division and deBioralizatlon.—Cleveland Plain Dealer, S< . ‘ - ' i l ' 1 ' 1

THE PEOPLE'S MONEY

England’* Conquest of (Jo. I see som* one says that England about owns this country and la now furnishing us a policy of conquest You ran arrive at it by examining oar exports. Since 1873 our excess of exports over Imports of all kinds has been $3,516,100,295, which means that wo should have received that much In money, gold and silver, in return. When you examine the tables of gold and silver for the same period you find that the net result Is not an Importation of gold and silver to ns in payment of our merchandise, but that we have also exported for the same period $392,000,000 of gold and silver In excess of that Imported. What does all this mean? It means that practically four billion dollars’ worth of our cereals, gold, silver, etc., has gone mainly to England, to pay interrat on bonds and dividends on their American stock. We have In twenty-five years given them four billion dollars’ worth of our exports, for which we have received nothing. The wretched financial policy England gave us has lowered the exchangeable value of our breadstuff! with their money till we can never hope to pay the principal on the debt we owe their money-changers. Talk about conquest! They have cunningly exploited us! We are becoming English slaves! Moses said: “If yon want to destroy a people loan them money.” And Rothschild & Co. are acting on his advice. To one who can sea clearly the current of events, England’s peaceful conquest of the United States Is what we should be discussing. The poor Filipino Is to be pitied, but so is the proud, vanity-bitten nation, tumbling to its fall unless broad-minded statesmanship shall come to the front. —John B. McDowell, in Chicago Journal.

Depressing Fffect*. The depressing effect of the gold standard on the industries of the land is such that only an extraordinary conjunction of most favorable circumstances, such as crop failures abroad and unprecedented home crops for two years, has been able to stay for the moment tbe downward course of prices and torn a scanty flow of gold to our shores. But for these strange and conclusive facts prices would be lower than ever, and bond issues to maintain gold redemption the order of the day. It seems as though Providence, seeing we were madly determined on self-de-struction, interfered wonderfully to prevent it. An unparalleled excess of exports over imports of over one billion dollars in two years is due mainly to our vast agricultural exports, nearly nine hundred millions of dollars’ worth of which was sent out the last fiscal year. This, under a wise money system, would have sent a most wonderful flood-tide of prosperity throughout our land, blit, as it is, it has simply arrested the fall of prices for the moment by adding slightly to our gold currency. The bulk of the vast sum due us was kept back to be paid on our foreign indebtedness that has been doubled under the gold standard. What would have been our financial condition if, instead of big crops to fill a Mg foreign demand, we had had poor crops and no foreign demand? It can be better imagined than told.

All [?]orts.

A teacup bolds one gill. Tbe bogs of Ireland cover 2,800,000 acres. The Plain of Sharon is about twenty miles wide. A Chicago justice has fined a man $25 for being a liar. A New Jersey man has voted 143 times n seventy years, and is proud of his record. American birds have decreased in number nearly 50 per cent, in the last fifteen years. Bears have been more plentiful la Hungary lately than at any time within the past fifteen years. Secretary Hay has promised to attend the ceremonies attendant upon the laying of the corner-stone of Chicago's new postoffice. The residents of Alva, Oklahoma, have decided to change the name of that town to Capron, in honor of the Bough Rider captain killed at Santiago. Some of the colored people in Alabama try to cure themselves of rheumatism by sleeping with a young dog. They Imagine that the disease Is thus transmitted to the dog. A French doctor has Invented an electric helmet, inside of which Is a small motor that vibrates strips of steel, the motor making 600 turns per minute. This whizzing Is supposed to cure nervous headache, and put the sufferer to sleep. In Cyprus the first articles of gold of andlent workmanship discovered on the island has just been found. It is a plate of gold three inches long by one and a half inches broad, and on It an the figures of a sphinx and two beardless warriors. Here are some preventives used in va rious parts of the world: A dried snakeskin is good against snake bites, a piece of a human skull against epilepsy, a wolfs tooth against hydrophobia, an alabaster bead against tempest and hall, a sapphire against blindness, a snail shell against gravel or fever, a bronze Byzantine coin against warts, a pig’s tooth against trouble In teethhig, and a horse chestnut against the rheumatism.

DECORATED BY THE QUEEN.

Army pets shore staffing worth b bp who rise to the poSsMOtalparcel of toe regiment at kaane and ia torn, are ounnritlidr lew. “Bob” was toe icgtamtol pet of toe Second BattaEnu. Royal Bntskires, Haiwand onTofrire'most terrific day’s fighting Oat baa been known daring toe past generation. Bob woold not be denied his share to toe Day. He kept on running to toe front, barking fiercely at toe enemy, until at length a bullet laid him tow. The wound was serious enough, as It tore nearly all toe skin off kto back, but he recovered and once again accompanied his old corps into action. When toe regiment retained to England the next year Bob received great honor at toe bands of toe Queen, her majesty not only decorating him with toe medal far the campaign, bnt tying it round his neck with her own heads when toe regiment paraded before her at Osborne House.

Like many another manioc. Boh did not live long to enjoy toe hie swines of peace. In a little more than a year he was run over and killed in the hde of Wight. “Regimental Jack.” the Scots Guards: dog took part in toe hottest fights In the Crimea. He became toe pet of too guards in a curious fashion, One cold winter’s sight he eras found by a sentry In St. James’ Palace Gardens. Someone bad been brutally illtreating him and had ended by dinging him over toe high walL In befriending the poor animal the sentry left his post, and this dereliction of doty being discovered, he was placed in toe guard roam under arrest. The dog followed his protector, and on hearing the stocy the officer was so toadied by toe dog’s gratitude that toe prisoner was released, with toe proverbial caution.

Henceforth Jock’s fortunes were to be bound up with those of the Scots Guards. When the regiment went to the Crimea he very soon showed the stuff of which he was made. At Alma he saved the life of his protector, and afterward carried a flask of brandy to the wounded. At Inkerman he was wounded in toe right foot, after literally performing prodigies of valor. With Us two legged comrades be charged, and with tooth and nail weat for his country's enemies. The fight over, the faithful animal went Joyfully to find his protector. Find him he did. but it was among the slain, and Jack was disconsolate. When the regiment came home the Queen graciously noticed Jack, and he was invested with a miniature Victoria cross and the Crimean medals; but be pined away from sheer lack of Interest in life, and one morning shortly afterward he was found beneath the snow, sleeping his last sleep;

Bookkeeping Made Easy.

There Is more than one way to keep an account-book. The method of one woman Is In the difectaan of amplifying the distracting matters of debit and credit. Mrs. Calloway b extravagant In bet expenditures for housekeeping, according to her husband's ideas. With a view to rectifying this failing, he recently bought her an attractive little account book, and carefully explained its nse to her. “Now,” he said, “here is twenty-five dollars. Put down what I give yon on one side, and yonr expenditures on the other. When that money » gone you shall have more.” A few days after, he asked to see the book, which Mra. Calloway produced with an air of modest pride. On one page was written, “Received from John, twenty-five doßara” On the opposite page stood one comprehensive and indisputable entry—“ Spent it aIL” —Youth's Companion

Napoleou Tambour Mejor

Probably toe most remarkable drummer who ever lived was Jean Henri, the famous tambour major of the Em peror Napoleon. One of hia feats was -to play on fifteen different toned drums at the same-time In so soft and harmodeafening uproar that might have been expected toe effect was that of a novel and complete Instilment. In playing he passed from one drum to the other with such wonderful quickness that the eyes of the spectators could hardly body-

Sand Used to Put Out Fires.

If a fire should occur In the new Telephone Company’s exchange, at Indianapolis, Ind, sand win be used to extinguish 1L It is used because It b less Injurious to the electrical appara turn than water or chemical would be. The sand b stared In a large tank above the exchange room, and b sifted automatically to any or all parts of the a fire effectively.

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INDIANA INCIDENTS

RECORD OF EVENTS OF til PAST WEEtC^^Pfil ; 1 The Interstate Stockyards Cota Fa MM .wnk plant in Indianapolis, has beeixflJ ewrporated. The capital stock is $5009 W# and is largely held by Daniel P. Era via iff Indiana pobs and Frederick Squijifl at Boston. The project IS the outgrow® at a kxtg fight by some of the local at*® dealers, against what they call a trust opl crated in connection with the old stocß yards. The new company announce* fill it will establish branch yards at sevejH Jail Delivery la Prevented, I An attempt at jail delivery was foil® by Sheriff Bradford of Marion, and in deputies the other night shortly after nmfl night. Three prisoners were found in tbfl corridor engaged with a gas pipe in hen® lag the stone in the floor and then daufß tag water on it, causing the stone to cril® We. A hole nearly large enough to adfiH a man had been made over a tunnel pUjffi Eng under the jaii from the boiler bottafl® th** court house. jg Divide* * fit.ooo,ooo Estate. |fl The will of Mrs. Winnie Doxey, will ora of Maj. Charles T. Doxey, formerly a ca® dulate for Governor, was published at 4® derem. dividing almost $1,600,000 ego*® between her mother, Mrs. Winifred St® weEE; Iter sisters, Mrs. Kinnanl and M® Burr *>f Chicago, and Mrs. De Free* Cr® tea of New York, and her brothers, Thofl N. and Horace C. Stillwell, both of Are Big Deal in Indiana Land, A targe late! deal was consummated:® Vincennes. W. R. Baldwin of Deit® lit. bought 1.4*0 acres of land of J.|B Chancellor of Vincennes and HuggindSg Spargux of Sprint-field. Ohio, paying s6® M***- The land is all in one body and sotß of the best in the county. , B Oil at rack in Henry County. I Carbon has a telephone exchange. J B New Albany smallpox pesthouse is i® «lasher gas well struck near Haff® South Bend graduated 32 from the ffi® school. B Windfall dedicated a new ■ httreb. H Citiaens* Savings Baub, Owensboro^^H liquidate. Margaret Baiter. 103, spinster, Hoßi Hasten, dead. Counterfeit silver dollars are op in New Albany. 9H Georgia wants to send a colony F»s to Evansville. BH Louisville motormen want hoars and more pay. B Mrs. Charlotte Caldwell. 86, oldeo®H lent of Rash County, dead. 8H Charles Way of the 166th, Peru, jUj violently insane in Terre Haute. Tom Shaw, oil well driller. MontfjjHl had his arm wra off in a bull wheeLSMfire The Lutherans ami United Hartford City, will build new chnrel®Hg Hydrophobia among cattle andffijjjjjfi a round Elkhoru Mills, Wayne Count®® Electric fine is proposed from liOgH put to Keadallville by way of Wntraet for Elwood’s city to J J. Wood of that city for $27,7331® Miss Nora Robinson, Lafayette, dfiflffi the old folks and flew to the arms of fire "tarn Gaston, Terre Haute. fiH Non-union carpenters that have ttg to Marion to take the places ers meet with poor success. '*',l®

Union Traction Company, And® wili buck the interarban line to 3® sad It** asked for a franchise. j Jareb Young, farmer, near Owcmffi whose son accidentally shot him im hand, died from loss of blood. j Republic Iron Company, which ten part-based the Indiana iron works at g tie. raised the employes’ wages. 1 Two Washington Connty men km snake 33 feet BL. inches long. 1® thought to hare escaped from a she® J,»ha R. Brunt, quartermaster seta of the h.lst. Anderson, is orgasm® company to invest in farm land in On William Clintie. Wawnsee. stn® flam tiltek on the head with a-® weighing two pounds and he wili ® cover. M Bailer A Brownlee Grocery Cot® which failed at Marion a few yea® has paid a 3» per cent dividend to it® i tors. 1 At Osgood. I-ouis Smith commit?® vide by shooting himself. Two ye4® he tried to kill himself by cuttfi® throat, but failed. ff At Bloomfield, tbe jury in the t® Dr. E. E. Gray for the murder off® Skinner return-si a verdict of life i® oument after being out twenty-four® Gas has been struck on land owaaH Chicago syndicate. Drilling was ® sued ami a strong flow of oil was the® The land is near Porter, and the vri® I wring drilled for water. H Tbe 5-yearold son of WiU*a®| near New Pittsburg, was accident!®! by his uncle. The latter volver and. not knowing it vrufißg play folly pointed it at the child ai® cl tbe trigger. The child fell d® feet- .Jb Anna Bedker. known aa M®| Trixie.” who was ago to two years in the refbtmffißi gold watch in Marshall CoautftjDffi --scaped by jumping oat of Issi J was recaptured at Plymouth, i While playing with a potato® SheibyviUe. London Shaw. fi.j« match to the powder, which effigS blowing out both eyes. §§ Wm. Orwkk. TO, a farmer Ur® West Franklin, shot and kifif®H| law. Thomas Sanders. Saadna||jl| with her father. Sanders, wh®M