Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — Page 7

POLITICS OF THE DAY

ENCOURAGING TO DEMOCRACY. One of the most encouraging signs for the Democracy is the general interest taken at this early date in the discussion of the party platform to be formulated by the national convention of next year, and in the question as to who shall be the candidate for the Presidency. If the chances of victory in the election were not good the public would not concern itself as it does about these matters. The conferences that are being held by the various State leaders are also good auguries for party success next year. They show that the men to whom the voters look for guidance fully realize their responsibilities, and are anxious to meet them, so that Republican misrule will be overthrown. In this general discussion about both its platform and its Presidential candidate next year the Democratic party has also the opportunity to ascertain what the voters who will decide the election wish. There is a strong sentiment against the McKinley second term trust syndicate even in the Republican party, and it is not improbable that if Mark Hanna and his friends and associates make themselves too conspicuous, there will be trouble in flip ranks of such magnitude that their defeat will be surely brought about. The drift of discussion also shows that the imperial expansion policy, in which there are millions of dollars for favored contractors and speculators, Is decidedly unpopular, and that hundreds of thousands of votes can be gained by the Democracy if it will stand courageously for justice for the Filipinos .and for the safe-guarding of American institutions. As for the money question, opinion still seems to be divided with the Republicans anxious to keep it at the front during next year’s contest. This should serve as a warning to the Democracy, and it will doubtless do so to the men who are earnestly anxious to relieve the country of the incubus of McKlnleyism and all tliat it implies. When it comes to the discussion among Democrats of the candidate who is to lead the national ticket next year there is really very little difference of opinion, although, of course, there are "favorite sons.” They are not as numerous as is usually the case, however, and it is clear that the nominee of the convention of 1900 will be supported most loyally by the rank and file of the party and this fact alope is a strong augury of victory. The free and open discussion now going on within the Democratic party Is the best help possible to the achieving of success next year. It clears away the cobwebs from the brains of the people, and makes them see more clearly, which means tliat they will repudiate at the polls the conglomeration of evil called * McKinleyism.—NewYork News.

Expansion.

Thpse who favor the imperial policy of the Republican administration endeavor to make it acceptable to the people under the guise of expansion. But expansion is one thing and imperialism is an entirely different thing. Legitimate expansion as illustrated by the territory acquired under Jefferson, Monroe, Polk and Pierce added about two-thirds of the area of the Union and supports over 20,000,000 people, but imperialism gives to this country a tropical archipelago, peopled with 10,000,000 savages, at a cost of $20,000,000 and a terrible war. Under the circumstances it is not to be wondered at that conservative Republicans, such as Boutwell and Burrows, see danger in imperialism, nor is it a matter for surprise that the majority of the people are opposed to such a measure. Senator Burrowa has been made the target of abuse by administration organs, but he stands manfully to his guns and replies to his critics as follows: “I ohly stated in the interview what have been my convictions from the first. So far the warfare has raged 50 miles north of Manila, and only a few miles to the east. There are thousands of miles yet to subdue, and fully 10,000,000 people to subjugate. I believe in terminating the difficulty as soon as possible, and before many more lives have been needlessly wasted. I have said nothing that deserves censure. Ido not object to legitimate expansion.” It will be observed that Senator Burrows draws a distinction between expansion and imperialism, and this distinction is worthy of careful consideration. No patriotic citizen objects to the legitimate expansion of the United States, but all patriots will oppose the abrogation of fundamental principles and the establishing of monarchical methods in this great republic. Pensions. * It is a significant fact that the war with Spain has already proved responsible for the filing of 17,000 pension claims. From this fact one can readily infer that the Philippine war Is going to prove a most costly enterprise. But it is stated with much approval that Henry Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pensions, In his annual report announces that the number of pensioners on the national list has decreased some 2,000 over that recorded last year. , Perhaps this decrease may be traced In some degree to the fact that sixtythree pension attorneys were disbarred, ten suspended arid two dropped during the year. The total number of

attorneys dropped to date is 1,163. And yet 37,000 new pensions were granted. Undoubtedly many of these were fraudulent claims, for at this late date since the ending of the war between the States it does not seem reasonable to believe that all of these 37,000 pensioners had valid claims.

There is no disposition on the part of the people to refuse aid to deserving survivors of the wars, but the very fact that nearly 2,000 pension attorneys have been disbarred shows that fraud and rapacity are largely responsible for the tremendous burden w-hich a pension list of $150,000,000 a year imposes.—Chicago Democrat.

Thrown" Over the Jonahs. It has become quite the reigning fad with President McKinley to throw overboard the Jonahs of his present administration in preparation for a successful course after the second term in the White House. Eagan was the first to go, and shortly after him followed Alger. Now it is whispered that Vice President Hobart will be gently dropped over the side of the Republican ship when the nomination of a Vice President is taken into consideration. Now, Hobart has not proved an exception to the general rule, and has been as impersonal and as inconspicuous as most Vice Presidents. But Hobart comes from New Jersey and is not only affiliated with trusts, but represents a State which is the breeding ground of the trusts. It will be the policy of the Republican party to get up a sham battle with the trusts in 1900, and it won't do to have the candidate for second place on the ticket a great captain in the army of the trusts. But the rejection of Hobart will have little effect upon the people. Indeed, the hypocritical arraignment of trusts will lie discountenanced and the actions of the administration during McKinley’s first term will speak louder than platform declarations in 1900.

No action taken by the Hanna. Elkins. McKinley politicians can fool the people ns to the attitude of the administration toward trusts. McKinley was elected by the trusts in 4896. He has been the friend of the trusts all through his term of office, and this show of hostility will simply prove a subject for ridicule by the people when it is made evident at the Republican national convention.

McKinley’s Cabinet.

President McKinley’s administration is only a little more than two years old, and yet only three of the original members of his Cabinet are in office. They are Gage, of the Treasury; Long, of the Navy; and Wilson, of the Agricultural Department. One Cabinet position has been changed twice. First Sherman resigned, and was followed by W. M. Day, and Day resigned and was succeeded by Ambassador Hay. Mr. McKinley s administration has not been a smooth one. As when he was Governor

of Ohio, most of his troubles have come from his inability to judge of the character and fitness of men. It is said by those who are quite close to the President that he still refuses to believe the stories of the unfairness, not to say downright trickery, of Senator Hanna in political affairs, and adheres to him against the advice of many of his old friends.—Columbus Press-Post. t 'trike» nn’ An»rchv, The State militia had hardly departed from Cleveland. Ohio, before another street caf was dynamited. Strikers wonder why the general public do not more generally sustain them, yet they have their answer in the fact that the general public is opposed to violence. Violence was attempted in Brooklyn and the strike failed. Violence has been prevalent in Cleveland and the strike will fail. Force begets force, and violence as a weapon leads, to violence as a defense. The general public is opposed to both uses of violence and the overthrowing of law and order. —Nashville American. Tewey Keep* Mum. lV As Admiral Dewey approaches home waters the liars are buzzing about him endeavoring to make him deny something or trip over some of their clumsy contrivances. But the old sea-dog has cruised among the heathen too long to be upset by the bogus newspaper reporter and he pays no more attention to their buzz than a grizzly in the Rockies does to a swarm of gnats.— Burlington Hawkeye. A Natural Choice. Exposing the imperialistic policy of McKinley in his Philippine war, showing the animus back of the Republican hatred for Germany, denouncing the money power for its heartless greed and its upholding of the tyrannical gold standard, and showing how the bondage to the trusts may be thrown off, William J. Bryan will be the people’s choice.—Newark Advocate. Aborigine* Disappearing. The aboriginal population of Australia is dying out so rapidly that it has been proposed to establish reservations where the remnants can be instructed in agricultural labor and cared for. ' .-■ An insult in Chin*. In China to salute any one by taking off one’s hat la a deliberate insult Tooth brushes should be washed in strong salt and water.

THE FARM AND HOME.

MATTERSO PINTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Water for Stock on the Ramge—Rural Mail Delivery Has Been Received with Great Favor Potato Bread Fed to Herses in Germany. If the stock ranges are to be restored to anything like their former value water must be provided In sufficient amount so that cattle will not have to travel long distances Tor it in times of severe drouth. Whenever the drainage slopes are not too precipitous, artificial tanks may be formed across the draws by building dams, and if the bottom of the tank is carried downi to hardpan, or is puddled before being filled.a supply sufficient to last through the dry season may be secured at small expense. Such tanks or wells, either artesian or where the water is lifted by windmill pumps, should be provided at least every four miles over the range, so that cattle will never have to travel more than two miles to water.

Where the wells, water holes or tanks are eight, ten or more miles apart, as they very frequently are on seme ot the Western ranges, cattle greatly overstock the range in the vicinity of the water, while the back country is thickly covered with good feed. The forage on the large ana back from the water is entirely lost through not being grazed. The cost of constructing dams or providing windmills will often be but a small percentage of the loss incurred when no water is provided.

It has often been observed that the period of flow of the rivers in countries which have been overgrazed is very much less than it was formerly. This is because the trampling of the herds has compacted the soil, and also because the waters are not retarded from running off the surface as they would be when the land is covered with a thick coating of grasses.—Denver Field and Farm.

Tural Mail Pc.ivery. The Pos.office Department is constantly receiving a large amount of evidence tending to show the popularity of the free delivery system where It has been tried, and the desire for the extension of the service to other territory where it is not yet in operation. The original appropriation by Congress for the trial of the system, was $50,000, and the Fifty-fourth Congress followed Ibis with an appropriation of $150,000 to continue the experiment. The Congress just ended increased this amount to $300,000, and the system is now considered practically a permanent feature of the Postoffice Department. It is stated by the officials that very great satisfaction has been expressed throughout the country, and those familiar with the subject claim that in populous sections, where the country is thickly interspersed with farm houses and whose correspondence naturally is considerable, the system will be self-sustaining. The service has now been extended by the department to nearly all the States and Territories, and in such States as have made application. the department is now considering the most advisable systems to introduce. In some of the sparsely settled regions, where the farms are very large and the distances between houses great, experiment is being made with a bl and tri weekly system instead of a daily.

Potato Tread for Horses. According to Consul Hughes, of Coburg, potato bread is used by the natives of Thuringia, Germany, to feed their houses, especially when they are worked udrd in very cold weather. The animals thrive on it, and their health and strength are excellent. The method of preparation is simple and inexpensive. The potatoes are slowly stewed till soft. They are then mashed thoroughly, and an equal quality of corn meal is added. It Is mixed into a thick paste, with a small quantity of salt. The paste is then divided into four-pound loaves and allowed to bake tin thoroughly done. In the slow country ovens it generally takes from fir teen to eighteen hours. When cold they are fed to the horses and cattle doing heavy work at the rate of four loaves a day, viz., one in the morning, one at noon, one about 4 o’clock, and one at night. With the last about ten pounds of poor hay is given. It is claimed for this method that horses can do much more work on the same amount of food and that it is good for their teeth.

"'loor* for Henbonae*. A henhouse floor should never be made of boards. Rather than have board floors we would have one with* earth, underlaid with stone to secure drainage, and covered with sifted coal ashes to receive the droppings from the roosts. The most satisfactory of all floors is one of cement. This will not rot out like a board or plank floor, and It will not have cracks to encourage the breeding of vermin. On a cement floor under the roosts no litter should be allowed. Thus the excretions may be kept free from matter that cannot be rotted down, and if put into a large box with sifted coal ashes sprinkled over them they will be rotted down by spring, so as to be In good condition for drilling with grain or for sprinkling In the rows where early peas are planted. There is nothing better to give peas a vigorous start early. It will also make them several days earlier, and thus secure for them a better price.—Boston Cultivator. Winter Grain After Oita. The oat crop Is a very diflicult one to geet a good seeding with. The roots of oats spread much more widely than those of barley, and as the oat leaves are narrow the plant takes much more of the grain from the soil. Oats are the latest of the small grains to ripen,

and this extra time While their roots are drawing moisture from the soil la very hard on the seeding. If the land is plowed as soon as the oat crop la off, and is worked well on the surface, a good seeding may be got if wheat or rye is sown this fall. Timothy seed should be sown after the grain seeding, as the washing of loose soil over the seed will be all the covering it will require. Next spring six quarts of clover seed per acre will make a seeding that is much better than can be got on any land that is plowed for a spring crop.

To Make Lean Pork.

There is a gradual growth of a preference for leaner and better-flavored pork, and a breed of hogs—the Tamworths—have been introduced, the merit of which is tliat, while they grow rapidly and increase in weight like other breeds, they excel in lean meat. Farmers who have used boiled potatoes, crushed oats and peas, are of the opinion that hogs-receiving the varied diet will make more weight than when fed only on corn, while the meat is of much better quality and brings 1 cent or 2 cents more in the price per pound. The well-known “Irish bacon,” which sells at from 20 cents to 30 cents per pound, is produced without corn, the food being largely nitrogenous.

Manuring Pear Trees.

Late In summer is the best time to apply stable manure to pear traps- It should always be used as top dressing, and if the soil is moderately fertile little or no stable manure will be needed. Too much stable manure plowed In the soil creates an excess of all kinds of germs la contact with the dear tree roots; these are absorbed and sent up into the trees, causing blight. If the stable manure is applied in August or September as topd.-easing the tree gets no benefit from it until spring, and will then make a healthy growth. Most of the manure for pear trees or any other kind of fruit trees should be mineral, potash, phosphate and lime.

When to Sow Binegrass Seed. This seed can be sown at almost any season of the year w’hen there is enough moisture to cause it to germinate. Hie best time, however, is in autumn, say about the middle of September, or iu early spring whqn the frost is conrng out of the ground. Possibly the best way to sow it is in connection with timothy or some other grass. If blue grass only is wanted, sow it alone in a well-prepared seedbed. Keep the weeds down until a good sod has been formed. It soon crowds out the other grass, so that sowing with timothy may be more satlsf-ictory in thnt a catch is often more easily secured than if sown alone. —Orange Judd Farmer. Cows Eating straw. Wherever grain is grown largely and its straw is stacked in the barnyard after threshing, cows have a great liking tor rubbing themselves against the stack to rid themselves of the flies that torment them. A fence should be built around the stack to protect it from being pulled to pieces. Cows will aat considerable straw*, picking at it, and they will often eat enough of the chaff to lessen their flow of milk. This chaff makes good winter feed if moistened and grain meal or bran is mixed with it. Thus fed even the straw will not help dry the cows off, as it will If fed dry.

Trees Grow Very Rapidly. It Is perfectly amazing to notice carefully how much an ordinary shrub will grow in a single summer. A silver fir, 2 1 / 3 feet high, was lately carefully measurM. It had put forth since early spring, 585 new shoots, varying from % inch to 6 inches each. The average was 2 inches, equaling altogether 98 feet. The total number of leaves on these shoots was 39,814. Taking the aggregate of the length of each shoot, this small tree has tn six months put or» a growth which, If laid in a line, would extend considerably over half a mile.

Uniform 'Milking. Cows are very sensitive to sudden changes. It is a mistake to change milkers if it can be avoided. Each milker has a magnetism peculiar to himself. The co>w knows as quickly as a strange hand takes hold of her teats that the accustomed milker Is not present, and will hold up her milk. Quite often she will not allow a strange milker to approach. Where the persons who do the milking are changed often It is impossible to keep up the flow of milk that the cow should be able to givel

Pwret Corn Fodder. If properly cared for, the fodder from sweet corn is as much better for stock as is the grain for eating as compared with ordinary field corn. Yet as the crop is never all ready to gather at once, it is the general practice to leave the stripped stalks standing until they dry, which will be very quickly after the breaking off of the ear admits air to the stalk. The small nubbins, which are generally the third ears on a stalk, are worth more to go with the stalks for cow feed than they are to sell or to cook. Saving Lettuce Seed. As usually managed, lettuce always tends to deterioration, the seed being saved mostly from the plants that produced seed most abundantly. The result Is that after a few years lettuce is grown that produces very few leaves before it sends up a seed stalk. This lettuce is not worth anything. The best lettuce seed is from plants that grow a large head of leaves and send np a seed stalk from that. Such seed must always be dear as compared with that where the growing of a large seed crop appears to be the object aimed at. Farming looks as pleasant to the lawyer as a lawyer’s work does to a farmer. ’

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Long Missing Man Returns HomeEngineer Killed by Stray BulletBalloonist Escapes Accident Unknown Person Attempts Murder. Fifteen years ago George Thompson, a young farmer near Bynum, deserted his wife and children without cause or warning. It was rumored he was murdered, as a search failed to reveal any trace of him. His wife kept the farm and made a living for herself and children, never married or applied for divorce, revering his memory, but believing him dead. The other evening Thompson returned home and the reunion was a happy one. He says he has been in Indian territory ever since leaving. He refuses to give any explanation of his mysterious desertion of his family. Truly Faithful Unto Death. Near Reeds Station, Engineer W. H. McCarthy of a Lake Erie and Western freight train was shot and killed with a bullet supposed to have been a stray shot from some hunter in the woods through which the train was rushing. He did not release his hold on the throttle of the engine till he had shut off steam, called for brakes and informed the fireman what had happened. Crowd Sees au Aeronaut Fall. At Union City, a large crowd saw a young aeronaut escape by a narrow mart gin from being dashed to his death. Herbert Williams made his first ascension. When the balloon had gone up about 500 feet the gas began to escape and the balloon to fall. In its descent the balloon caught in some telegraph wires and Williams climbed out to a pole, down which he descended in safety.

Attempts a Double Murder. A shooting, which may result in the death of two persons, occurred four miles west of Rushville. Mrs. Ruby Powell and William Searey were shot down by an unknown person, who used a shotgun, and Mrs. Elizabeth Veatch was painfully wounded. Three shots were fired. Within Our Borders. Diphtheria in DeKalb County. Lagootee has a third gas gusher. Ex-Congressman Ralph Hill died at Indianapolis. Lost Creek township is terrorized by an incendiary. Seven cement mills, Clark County, have combined. James Bower, Union City, dropped dead in his yard. Muncie and Anderson are tied for sixth place in Indiana. Fort Wayne will be connected with Auburn and Butler by trolley. Friends’ yearly meeting at Pendleton was attended by 2,000 people. Princeton had a big blowout over the completion of its first brick street. Flint glass workers in the new factory at Matthews have been organized. The two anti-trust wire nail plants, Anderson, are running double time. Peter Zane, Porter County, fell in front of a mower and was fatally injured.

Coal land near Linton has advanced 100 per cent within the last two months. Huntington handle factory of Turner, Day & Woolworth of Louisville in ashes. Loss SO,OOO. John Burnett, Cannelton, waded into the Ohio, river, while in a delirious fever, and drowned. United States fish commissioner threw 5,200 little black bass into Lake Maxinkuckee for seed.

William McKenzie. 30, Terre Haute, lineman, touched a live wire and fell thirty feet. He still lives. Commander Packard of the Lafayette soldiers’ home says there .will not be room enough to accommodate all applicants this Winter.

Geneva Bertsch, 6, East Germantown, was saved from being burned to death in a gasoline explosion by her mother smothering out the flames with her dress. Policeman Kirkhoff, Lafayette, will not be held for the murder of Charles Rewes, as an investigation developed the fact that the shooting was accidental. At Peru, Mrs. Edith Quick was arrested, charged with having poisoned her husband. A brother of the dead man was arrested charged with being an accomplice.

MfS. William Dalton, Anderson, accused a clerk with whom she had been trading. of stealing her theater tickets, and brought her hubby to the store, only to have him licked.

Harry Hamilton, aged 45, and Lilly Gray, aged 10, disappeared from Valparaiso. Hamilton has a wife and three children. He and Miss Gray are supposed to be in Chicago.

Mrs. O. P. Worley, wife of County Clerk Worley, Lebanon, jumped from a carriage in a runaway and died an hour later. Her 4-year-old grandchild, whom she held in her arms, was unhurt.

Airs. Henry Catterman, Miami County, has a peculiar affection of the bones, and the other night a bone in her right leg was fractured by muscular contraction. Two months ago she fell and broke both arms.

The Rev. Dr. Cole, who was recently called to accept the duties of archdeacon of the northern Indiana diocese of the Episcopal Church, has accepted the presidency of St. Stephen’s College at Allendale, N. Y. James Prifogle, Rush County farmer, who was distrustful of banks and kept his money secreted about the house, shot himself for fear that he might be robbed. Before he died he offered the doctors all he had if they would save him. Henry F. Meier, Columbus, drowned while seining in White river. Martinsville elevator burst, letting 6,000 bushels of wheift on the ground. New Christian church has been organized at Columbus, the result of the reeent split. Work has begun on the power house at Greenwood for the Indianapolis and Greenwood electric line. Mrs. Lavina Corn, wife of a rich Cuban planter, lost a sack containing $1,145 worth of diamonds in the depot at Mun-

STATE CAPITAL CHAT

The bureau of statistics has Its compilation of returns on agriculture j from the 1,014 townships in the State of ■; Indiana. The reports show that there'3 were 3,427,577 acres of wheat sown last g fall, and of this 397.(144 acres were plow- , ed up this year on account of the hard I winter conditions. This left 3.039.933 / acres standing for the harvest. But many reports from the northern part of the State mention that considerable of that left standing would not pay for the bar- I vesting, but was left to stand on account of clover and grass seed having been fl sown in it. The wheat sown in the cen- 1 tral sections of the State, so far as reported, has yielded well, and the yield. I for the whole State will be reported to the bureau later on. The average remaining of wheat and other crops is as j follows: 1898. 1899. J Acres wheat ......3,012.332 3,03.1.933 A< res corn ............3,915.131 3.837,959 Acres cats 1.W2.431 1,99100 Acres Irish potatoes.... 6.',2v5 08.361 As to the minor crops it may be mentinned that there are 42,938 acres in rye: 42,758 in bailey; 4,283 in flax; 3.524 in buckwheat; 14,930 in tobacco; 7.020 in sorgum. The acreage in timothy meadow is 1.422.902 and in clover 1,240,988. Gov. Mount announces the appointment of the following delegates to the anti-trust convention to be held in Chicago Sept. 13 to 16, under the auspices of the Civic Federation: Delegates-at-Large—E. B. Martindale of Indianapolis, J. B. Stoll of South Bend t R. S. Taylor of Fort Wayne, Joseph Gwynn of New Albany, Aaron Jones of South Bend and John W. Spencer of Evansville. District delegates—Goodlet Morgan of Petersburg, Prof. Joseph Swain of Bloomington, Leonard J. Hackney of Shelbyville, William H. O’Brien of Lawrenceburg, Isaac H. Strouse of Rockville, William Dudley Foulke of Richmond, Daniel P. Erwin of Indianapolis, W. H. Eichorn of Bluffton, A. M. Scott of Ladoga, A. L. Kumler of Lafayette. M. Winfield of Logansport, J. N. Babcock of Topeka and A. P. Kent of Elkhart.

There are 33,404 farm hands regularly employed in this State and the average wages paid them by the month, including board, is $13.89. The highest average pay for the month is $10.70, reports the • bureau of statistics, and lowest average $10.50. There are 11,714 women and girts regularly employed in the families of farmers, and the average pay per week, including board, is $1.56, The A highest average in any one county is d $2.23 per week, and the lowest average in any one county is sl. These averages are found by taking the wages of all employed in either class, and dividing that 4 by the number employed iu each county.

In connection with the recent return of Senator Beveridge from Manila it is said that Mrs. Beveridge, who accompanied her husband, had the distinction of tiring five shots at the Filipinos. While the Senator was on the tiring line one day she went on a drive, escorted by a squad of Tennessee soldiers. She ventured too far, and soon rebel bullets were falling about her carriage. A hasty retreat was begun. Mrs. Beveridge drew her revolver, which she carried since arriving at Manila, and fired five shots in the direction of the rebels, who could be seen - skulking in the distance.

Short State Items. M. Sobra, Brazil, was fatally crushed in the Mclntosh coal mines. Arthur Wolff, Muncie, claims to have been a schoolmate of Dreyfus. A lodging house to shelter tramps during the .winter will be built at Lafayette. Miss Lulu Marie Alexander, who was missing from Sellersburg, has returned home. Sale of Jacob Billman’s flock of Shropshire sheep, near Sullivan, netted him $4,000. Goodlet Morgan, Petersburg Republican, will run for Congress in the First district. Mrs. Hannah Williams, patient iu the Long Cliff hospital, Logansport, fell into a bath tub in an epileptic tit. and drowned. Frankfort ordinance prohibiting loitering on the streets is now in force, and' the police are cracking it to every one who lets grass grow under his feet. This and That. Big fish dealers of Florida have formed a combine. Wages of miners at Stoneboro, Pa., have been increased. Mrs. Rachel dead at Washington, D. C. Miles Lewis, 14, was suffocated in an elevator at Rochester, N. Y. ' ’ Charles Winkler, 22, Canal Dover, 0., was killed by a fall of clay. Two men were killed by three boilers exploding at Portsmouth, Va. Michael J. Freeman of New Y’ork drowned at Mount Kisbo, N. Y. Frank Meehan, 14, was killed in an elevator at Oakland Station, Ohio. Body of Reuben Shaffer, 50, was found in a field at Coney Island, N. Y. Mystery. Wm. A. Cox, wanted in Havana for embezzlement, was arrested in New Orleans. Rose McConnell, 5, Seneca Falls, N. Y., was left alone at home. . Burned to death. Charles Bolton, a lineman of Pittsburg, was killed by an electric shock at Bridgeport, Ohio. An unknown “floater” fished out of the river at St. Louis. Believed to be a case of murder. ’ John A. Kiefer, a merchant of Carlisle, Pa., killed himself in u hotel at Hagerstown, Md. «<■- ■, S Mrs. C. E. Page of Cincinnati lost $2,000 worth of diamonds while taking a dip at Atlantic City. President Zelaya of Nicaragua has sent a special commission to study the conditions at Bluefields. Two tariffs are said to c.',:-l lb. >-• 11. a new sched- -