Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — Page 7

POLITICS OF THE DAY

THE BOY ORACLE. The boy oracle has opened his lips and told the American Senate what it ought to do with the Philippines. With the exuberance of youth and the selfconfidence of precocity, young Mr. Beveridge of Indiana, has appeared before lawmakers old enough to be his grandfather, and given what a few enthusiastic Republican newspapers call “expert” testimony. Beveridge became an expert by taking a summer vacation in the Philippines and looking as much of the ground over as the insurrectionary forcen would permit. That 18 to say, he stayed for a few weeks in Manila and,its suburbs. This is supposed to have Inspired him with a profounder knowledge of constitutional law and limitations and a firmer grasp on the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence than mere stay-at-homes like Hoar and Cockrell and Berry could ever acquire. Beveridge is 37 years old and baa been a member .<of the Senate thirty-five days. Had he followed precedent he would have kept his mouth shut and looked things over for at least one session. But boy oracles never follow precedent. George Frlsbe Hoar is 74 years old, just twice the age of Beveridge, an'd from the latter’s view point he knows about half as much. He has been in the Senate twenty-three years. The Indiana Senator’s views are set forth at such great length that we cannot spare the space to print them, tfut wp can tell what they do not represent by quoting from Mr. Hoar: “What I want the American people to do is to do in the Philippines exactly what we have done, are doing and expect to do in Cuba. We have liberated both from Spain, and we have had no thought—at least I have had no thought—of giving them back to Spain.”—New York News. National Debt and the Banka. If the refunding scheme which the Senate Finance Committee has recommended for adoption becomes law, then the United States will be saddled with a debt of nearly a billion dollars,' no part of which It wHI be able to call in for redemption until thirty years have passed. For thirty years the people are to be taxed to pay the interest on the bonds in order that the national bank system may be kept in existence for the same length of time! This is part of the Republican plan of currency reform. The interest-bearing debt is to be perpetuated in order to give the banka something to do business on with profits coming in from both ends of an ingenious transaction which only the government's loan of its credit makes possible. Ihe obligations which the Senate Committee is in favor of refunding will all become due in less than nine years. The greater part of them will be pay - able July 1, 1907. It is proposed to extend them twenty-three years more, together with others that fall due tn 1904 and 1908. Practically the government will not be able, if this plan goes through, to redeem any part of its debt for almost the lifetime of a generation unless' it goes into the market and pays the holders of the bonds any price they may demand for them. This refunding scheme ought to be fought earnestly by every Democrat in Congress. 'Hie Republicans should not be allowed to fasten this national bank incubns on the country for at least thirty more years without a protest so strong as to rivet the attention of the voters and hold it there until next election day. ■ Democratic policy has never sanctioned the plea that a national debt is a national blessing. The perpetuation of the present debt for the benefit of the bank trust is something to which the Interests of the masses are particularly opposed. The interest on these bonds, which it is proposed to keep on paying for thirty years to come, can be saved very largely by stopping the iasue of bank notes and putting those of the government In their place. “No perpetuation of the national debt” Is a good Democratic slogan, and “No perpetuation of the bank trust” Is another. A third is: “Put the banks out of the government business of issuing money.” ' Impending Dangers. I At the instance of the sultan of Sulu the American flag has been raised on Sibutu island, and the United States has another new possession. So long as the sultan confines his attentions to Islands everything is serene. But should he suddenly and in another fit of friendship take It into bis head, as the shah of Persia did on the occasion of bls first visit to England, to propose an exchange of some of his numerous spouse* for those of American statesmen, who knows what complications might arise? —Chicago News. Will Not Be Coerced. A German-American, Henry Wolf, of Havana, writing to a friend, says about-the German vote: “When the time comes to cast our ballot, we will serve notice that wp Germans will not be coerced to sustain a principle contrary to our convictions. We came here to find a republic, and we will guard it with the ballot, that It may so remain and not become a country of imperialism and military despotism.” - i Protect! uk the Trusts. We have societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, children, fikh, bugs. etc., and new conies' a new one. which may be called “Society for the Protection of Trusts.” w* McKinley

is the President of it and the chief executive, and if any trust gets hurt during his administration it will be la violation of the by-laws. Mr. McKinley and his aiders and abetters hate trusts, but they follow the pious dodge of doing good to those they hate, and heap coals of fire on their heads by taking them by the band and loving them. Trust Prices Go GuCompetition among producers is the on£ bulwark of the consumer. Monopoly spells final pauperism for him. Competition means to the consumer lower price and better quality. Trusts, which poison competition and kill It out of the way, mean higher price and poorer quality. And to-day “prices” are “up.” There isn’t a commodity that hasn’t clambered. Here Is a list built bn what is purchased for the home. The poor as well as the rich must have these things. Read; you may thus learn what, under rule, is taking place in your pocket: • 1888. 1888. Articles. PricA Price. Brooms $1.75 <3.85 One-gslleu galvanised oil cans, dosen 1.35 LBS Canned peaches, dosen 90 1.45 Sardines, case 2.50 4.00 Salmon, dosen 1.35 1.80 Canned beans, dozen 75 1.35 Canned coni, dozen 80 1.05 Canned ■ pea*, dozen 75 . 1.00 Canned kraut. dozen TO 1.00 Carpet tacks, gross I.SO 2.75 Cheese, pound 00 .13U Wire clothes lines, dozen.. .90 1.75 Boiled oat*, barrel 3.25 4.00 Matches, case 4.50 7.80 Galvanised buckets. ■ dozen. 1.10 2.25 Lead pencils, gross 75 1.35 Pickles, barrel ........... 3.25 4.00 Pocket knives, dozen 85 1.25 Salt, barrel 75 LIO Laundry soap, b0x,.'..:... 2.35 2.85 Starch, pound 024* -04% Syrup. gallon t" .26 Tapioca, pound 08 .07 Stogies, thousand 7.50 10.50 Tuba, dozen 4.50 0.75 Washboards, dozen 1.40 2.25 Spices, pound 12 .18 Canned beef, dozen 1.40 2.45 No one may cavil at these figures. They were fixed and offered by salesmen who handle the articles. And the above is only a partial list of instances. The roll of those commodities, the price of which within a year has had arbitrary trust advancement, with no reason save the loot reason that moves a burglar or gives impulse to a footpad, would swell to thousands.—The Verdict. Lincoln Wan Right. Mr. Bryan in his address before the anti-trust conference in Chicago, repeats Mr. Lincoln s warning against the approach of a monarchy: “In 1859 Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to the Republicans of Boston who were celebrating Jefferson’s birthday. and in the course of the letter he said: ’The Republican party believes in the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict it believes in the man before the dollar.’ In the early years of his administration he sent a message to Congress, and in that message he warm'd bis countrymen against the approach of monarchy. And what was it that alarmed him? He said it was the attempt to put capital upon an equal footing with, if not above, labor tn the structure of government, and in that attempt to put capital even upon an equal footing with labor in the structure of government lie saw the approach of monarchy. Lincoln was right. Whenever you put capital upon an equal footing with labor or above labor in the structure of government you are on the road toward a government that rests not upon reason, but upon force." Would Be Lost Without Mark. Mark Hanna will remain at the head of the Republican organisation. This is President McKinley’s earnest wish, and Hanna’s acquiescence will be hailed with glad acclaim by the Republicans of Utah. McKinley would feel lost without Mark. There is no other trnst magnate who understands “Our WilL iam" so well or knows so much about the peculiar methods required to boost him. It is just as well. Since there is to be a Republican party in the nation a typical Republican should lead It. Without Hanna the organisation would resemble a man without a head. He is it.—Salt Lake Herald. Hanna Found Out. The recent intimation that Mark Hanna was upon the point of resigning his management of the government turns out to be the case of the man who published his own obituary before he was dead just to find out what people thought-of him. Hanna found out, and it made him so mad that he refused to give up. Maa It Come to Thia? Has it come to this, that a President of the United States may inaugurate a certain policy, the perfecting of which wjll compel the American people to reelect him to office to save the nation? If so, then consider Mr. McKinley as life President, without any further bother. Must Stand and Deliver. If the gold standard banking conspir ators succeed in getting tifeir measure through the Senate, all other classes of Americans must prepare to yield up their substance to this band of highwaymen who have captured the government.— Washington National Watchman. Cubans Are Not Prisoners. Now while the administration organa are praising General Wood because of his determination to do justice to the Cuban prisoners, let them Ire equally solicitous of the Cubans who are not prisoners and demand justice for them, too.—Omaha World-Herald.

TO BUILD A MODERN ZION.

Great ReUsbMta City Near Chic*** Where AU WHI Be Parc. A great religious city, where the commerce of the world will center a*4 where there will be no wickedness. will, if the present plans of, the promoters are carried out,%mon be built up in the suburbs of Chicago. The leaders of the peculiar sect who are to be founders of the new Zion are so firm in their belief that destruction is soon to overtake Chicago because of the wickedness, of its inhabitants that they have bought. or have an option on. <*.«!«» acres of land near Waukegan, a suburb of Chicago. on the lake shore, and here the future city, where ail is to be pure and good. is to rise. John Alexander Dvwie and his wife

JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE.

are the leading pnmtoters. Ground is to be broken for a temple eariy iu May. with most impressive ceremonies. The ill are to he healed. Dowie declares, and the world is to receive its first revelation of what a mod* ru Zion is to be. Later, building of two factories, the industrial beginnings of the city, is tn begin. One is to be for the making of shoes, and the other is to be a lare factory. Next on the program will be the laying of the corner stone for the Temide

MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF ZION CITY.

of Zion, aud then there are to he portents in the heavens, which may be read by all men except those enclosed in the Chicago streets. letter Dowie is to make a triumphal tour to- the Holy I-aud. On the lake front will he situated 32«» acres of the tract, and there Itowie promises the commerce of the world is to be centered. Dowie. who rails himself general overseer of the Christian Catholic Church, was born iu Scotland about sixty-six years ago. He was educated for the ministry in the Edinburgh Seminary. He appeared in Australia about' eighteen years ago and start*d a grocery store. He was elected to the Common Council

MRS. JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE.

of Melbourne and then opened a tahernade. Becoming violent in bis language against the Council he was giveu thirty days to leave, and came to San Francisco, where he o|*encd a church. Going to Chicago the year before the World's Fair, he started a tcut service on what later became the Midway Plaisance. He is now the lessee of a church with a seating capacity of 3,309. and also of a hall where he has a printing establishment, with a perfecting press, three duplex presses aud mauy job presses, 118 stands and a chapel of sixty union print era. The building is also the home of the Zion Bank, a wealthy institution, and the Ziou City Ijsnd and Investment Association.

Gives Largely to Charity.

When the will of Captain I. Friedman, who died in the Palace Hotel. San Francisco, is opened it will be found that of an estate rained at <750,000 a large part has been given to charity. After bequests which wil| reach an aggregate of <500,000 are paid the residue is bequeathed to the Hebrew Home for Aged and Disabled Persons. New York suicides: Paul Duncan, 19. took carbolic add: Michael Biedennau. blind, jumped from a third-story window.

ROBERTS IN DEFENSE.

Mormti* Makes a Strong Plea for Justice Before the House. Debate on the Roberts case reports began in the national House Tuesday. Chairman Tayler argued for the majority resolution, which provides for excluding the Utah member. Mr. Littlefield of Maine argued for the minority resolution to permit Roberts to be sworn in and I then expel him.. Mr. Roberts cloSt-d the I debate for the day, without exhausting the period allotted to him. He quoted (from the. findings of the committee, and [ asked. “Without a violation of the eon- | stitution of our country can you deny me the right to appear at the bar of the ! House, from which 1 have been improperly turned away, and prevent me from bring sworn?” The House, he continued, was subject iVo a great temptation at this time to respond to the popular will, without regard to the limitations imposed by the constitution. Other great and proud nations, as mneh so as the United States, had for violations of this kind gone into decay and naught but ruins marked the places they once occupied. "And so I would warn yon of the danger of the departing from the constitution to respond to the clamor of misled people.” What was proposed in the House now, Roberts said, was that because in the sanctity of the ehnrvh men hare taken a plurality of wives, one of whom has been elected a Representative in Congress, and the sanctity, of the home is threatened, a more lawless act than polygamy shall be done ito rebuke the man so elected. Mr. Rob|erts said, as he had said on the second day of th*' session, that he did not stand as th** advocate or defender of polygamy. It had been conceded by 'Lutljpr, to I whom more than any other man tbp people of to-day owe whatever of religious and civil liberty they possess, that .polygamy was not prohibited by the scriptures, and that it was a crime merely because it was prohibited by law. The people who I believe,! and practic'd polygamy, he said, did so as a part of their religion, which they believed came to them direct from Gad. In that view they had not at first submitted to the laws against it, hoping for a favorable judgment by the court, and when that failed, for a reversal. But the reversal did not come. Thirteen hundred Mormons iu Utah suffered puuish-

ment by the courts, including the Representative from that State. “They need not have suffered." he went ou, "if they had but said the word." Th*' laws against plural marriages did u«*t obtain in the States surrounding Utah, so that many plural wives had been <*-nt into them, the husbands remaining in Utah and there observing the law against plural marriages. Rolwrts said it was a mistake to hold that he was the representative of the Mormon church, chosen over the protest of the gentile citizens. He had been elected after a thorough canvass, in which the people knew all about him. by a plurality of 5,065. The right of. a constituency to the free choice of its representative ought not be denietl or abridged by the action of the House. In conclusion Roberts said he could neither be excluded nor expelled without dangerous action—action that threatened to overthrow the foundation of Government. “And I intend, gentlemen." he continued, his voice rising to its highest pitch, and his whole manner intense and dramatic to the last degrtH*. striding up and down the aide, “to cliug so closely to the pillars of* liberty that you shall not drag nu' away unless *<>u pull the pillars down with me." The Honse resumed the debate on the Roberts ease at 11 o'clock Wednesday. The galleries were again well filled, most of the occupants, as on Tuesday, being women. Mr. Powers (Vt.)'waß the first speaker. He argued in behalf of exclusion of Mr. Roberts. The contention of the minority for expulsion, he said, ran up against the very precedents which were cited in its snpport. "We are not separating wife from husband,” said Mr. Power*, commenting on Mr. Roberts’ speech. “Polygamy has never been legal in Utah, either before or after her admission into the Union. Polygamy was illegal under the common law of England. The moment he took wife No. 2 the marriage was void. Mr. Roberts knew the law. He cannot now plead the 'baby act' against the law and stern justice.*' M.*. Bnodgrass of Tennessee followed Mr. Powers, supporting the views of the minority in favor of seating and then expelling Mr. Roberts. Mr. Landis (Ind.) argied that Utah had violated her compact w >th the United States. Mr. Landis wets over the record of the apostles of th** Mormon Church to show that most of them were guilty of continued polygamous practices. Some of his statements were sensational.

Corporal Fair and Private Jockens of the Tenth infantry are held under sl.tM* ban at Papillon. Neb., for killing Private Morgan, a deserter, who was attempting to escape. John W. Haslam, student and prominent religions worker in Brown L’Diversity. Providence. R. 1.. has to stealing* watches and clothing of other students. John Filtx. a prisoner in the county jail. Celina. Ohio, strangled himself to devth with a small rope.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Remarkable Method of Suicide Adopted by a Young Man Near Winalow— Loveloyn Youth Shoots Sweetheart— Says He Has Solved Perpetual Motion. Ellis Traylor,, son of Thomas Traylor, a prominent politician of I’ike County, living near Winslow, committed suicide in a very peculiar manner. Baek of the Traylor home is a horse pond, and a fence extends through the poud. The young man waded into the pond iu a foot of water aud placed his head under the fence and remained iu that condition until death came. Young Traylor was 39 years old and leaves a wife and two children. Shoots a Girl for Laughing. John Scarborough fatally shot his sweetheart, Louise Mitchell at Evans•ville. He called to see the girl and 'upbraided her for her friendship with other young men. She laughed at him and he produced a revolver and began shooting. Members of her family rushed in and Scarborough fled, but was afterward arrested. Perpetual Motion Is Found. An inventor of English claims to have solved the question of perpetual motion by the use of hollow wheels charged with mercury. He says he will surprise the world by the simplicity of his contrivance. Within Our Border*. Indoor baseball is the rage at Laporte. Muncie uniforth ranks Nos. 90 and 01 have consolidated. South Bend is inaugurating an eariy closing ordinance. Muncie glass company will put in a plant at Cincinnati. Muncie Commercial Club will raise $40,000 for a hospital. Farmers of Hancock County are asking for rural mail delivery. Telephone line from Brownstow-n to Tampico has been completed, For the first time in twenty-five years, DeKalb County is out of debt. Ed Junkens, Knightstown, was badly hurt in a runaway, hear Muncie. Work on the new Michigan City harbor will begin as soon as spring opens. Armed party is being organized at Greensburg to hunt down a real wildcat. The Goshen and Indiana Traction Company has been granted a franchise until 1825. Fred Severn, switchman on the Big Four, Terre Haute, was killed by a locomotive. A missionary conference on Christian expansion will be held at Lebanon Feb, 6 aud 7. Party of "Saints" evangelists, who don’t Itelieve in churches, has invaded Wells County. David Grant and his 16-year-ohl stopdaughter, Kokomo, bad a rough-and-tnui-ble fight in the street. . * Employes of the Union Traction Company al Marion, Muncie and Anderson are forming a union. Eli Berry, near Washington, found a half cent, dated 1828, while walking across u field, the other day. Investigation by the fee and salary commission in Porter County shows that the county bookkeeping is bad. The first thing that Park Place did after it was annexed to Anderson was to ask for a bunch of electric lights. The Taylor Lumber Company’s planing mill was destroyed by fire at Lafayette. The loss is estimated at $59,990. Broken electric light wires fired the carpets in the Elwood theater, and several persons were badly bruised in getting out. ' .. An employe in Matzdorff's restaurant, Goshen, picked up a live wire to brow it out the back door. She has not tried it again. Judge Mattison. Evansville, has decided that when a child Itecomes 14 he is beyond the control of the compulsory education law. Mrs. D. H. Cooper, wife of Rev. Cooper, pastor of First ‘Baptist Church. Fern, died while .her husband was conducting services. Mary E. Cain, Grant County, has sued her father-in-law for $10,900 damages, alleging that ho alienated her husband's affections, Dr. Frank Du Bois, young physician of Liberty, has been apjtointed a contract surgeon in the army, and will be sent to the Philippines. Elmer Hunt, New London, who fought with Dewey, will soon receive between SSOO and SOOO of the prize money captured at Manila. William Hutton, Elwood, has sued Ira Kidwell, postmaster, for $5,090 damages. He says Kidwell told stories about him until he was forced to leave town. tried to steal the gifts Tod Sloan gave his foster parents, Daniel Blonser and wife, Kokomo, but were frightened away after getting $23. A fellow claiming to be Jack Downey, Indianapolis, had a number of "sporty" young men of Elkhart subscribe liberally for an athletic club, aud then scooted with the money. Richard Roberts, Terre Haute, has brought suit against Henry Handick, his landlord, for $5,000 damages. He says Handick's fierce manner in demanding rent in the presence of bis sick daughter caused her death. John Engleking, Seymour, was returning home in a box car from Medora with the savings of several weeks’ work, when a tramp drew a knife and commanded him to shell out. Engleking did bo, but not until he had received several bail gashes on the neck and arms. The tramp was arrested.

Pearl Lesb. Smithfield, dislocated 1 her shoulder while wrestling with Millie Brooks. They had an argument and wanted to see who was the more athletic. Muncie police rounded up eighteen boys, ranging in age from 6 to 13 years, for stealing brass and metal from factories and railroad shops, and selling it for junk. William .Smith, 38, Vincennes, who was the cnaih gang at Chattanooga, Tenn., for drunkenness, is said to have committed suicide by throwing himself under a street car. His father is a prominent wholesale dealer at Vincennes.

NAMING THE HOOSIER

Tecumseh, Su war row and Others Bkk*: J gested Before Choice Was Made. A ?: W. A. Bell, uow president of Antioch , College and formerly a resident of in- : dianapolis, has written an interesting palter on the development of Indiana, devoting considerable attention to the naming of Indianapolis in 1821. On this subject Mr. Bell says: Judge Jeremiah Sullivan, of Jefferson County, tells the following story:. Gen. Marston G. Clark proposed “Teenunseh” (in honor of one of Indiana’s most distinguished citizens), and very earnestly insisted upon its adoption. When it failed he suggested other Indian names. One member of the commission proposed "Bnwarrow.” Other names were proposed, discussed, laughed at aud voted down. Finally I moved to fill the blank- with “Indianapolis.” The name created quite a laugh. Samuel Merrill, however, seconded the motion. We discussed the matter fully, the members conversed with each other, informally, the name gradually commended itself and was finally * adopted. In 1821 another commission platted the city, a mile square, and sold at auction over 300 lots. The lot bringing the highest price—ssoo—was the one on the northwest corner of Washington aud Delaware streets. Up to this time almost the entire city plat was covered with immense forest trees. The first store came in 1821 and located on the bank of White River. There was no county organization and therefore no courts—not even a justice of the peace. This was then a part of Delaware Comity, but the citizens had to go to Connersville, in the White Wabash district, for all court business. About this time a young conple concluded to marry, and there was no marriage license to be bad nearer than Connersville, sixty miles away, through an almost unbroken wilderness. But the young man, nothing daunted, started out on foot, and in dne time returned wito bis, license. Even now the trouble wtts not over, for the couple had to wait three or four weeks for a preacher to come along who was authorized to solemnize their marriage. Mooresville, fourteen miles southwest, for many years outranked Indianapolis as a business center. When Calvin Fletcher, I. and Nicholas McCarty opened a drygoods store as partners they advertised through the papers by circulars that th£y had opened a stock of goodo which in size, variety, in quality and price could not be excelled at Lawrenceburg, Madison or Mooresville.

FARMERS' INSTITUTES.

Schedule for the February Season of 1909 Is Given Out. Following is tbe county, with place of meeting and chairman of instutute, date, assigned speakers: Madison, Anderson; C. C. Mays,Frankton. Feb. 5 and 6, Mrs. Bates and Husselmau. Franklin, Brookville; Clem Conn, Philanthropy, Ohio, Feb. 7 and 8, Mrs. Bates and Hussehuan. Rush, Rushville: E. A. Frazee, Orange, Feb. 9 and 19. Husselman aud Troop. Booue. Lebanon; R. J. Riner, Advance, Feb. 5 and G. Mrs. Erwin and Wolfe. Marion. Cumberland; W. B. Flick, Lawrence, Feb. 7 and 8, Mrs. Erwin ami Wolfe. Morgan, Mooresville; D. B. Johnson. Mooresville, Feb. 9 and 10, Wolfe and Mrs. Bates. Marshall, Plymouth; E. S. Freese. Twin Lakes, Feb. 12 and 13, McMahan and Babcock. Whitley, Columbia City: John Dietrich, Larwill. Feb. 14 aud 15, McMahan and Babcoek. Lake, Crown Point; C. B. Benjamin. Leroy, Feb. 13 and 14, Mrs. Bates and Husselman. I’orter, Valparaiso; A. B. Lantz, Hurlburt, Feb. 15. 16 aud 17, Mrs. Bates, Babcoek, Husselman and Latta.

FOURTEEN-YEAR FIGHT ENDED.

Lawsuit Between Indiana Men Travels Through Five Courts. After fourteen years of controversy the celebrated case of the Turpie brothers, of Lafayette, against’ Hugh Lowe, of Monon, came to an end in the Cass County Circuit Court ar Logansport. The suit was tiled in February, 1886. and was tried before Judge Adams in Clinton County, the original demand being $200,000 duhiages for an alleged breach of trust. A judgment was given Lowe, but the Supreme Court reversed it in 1888. It then went to Cass County and was tried, hut both sides being dissatisfied with the verdict a new trial was obtained. The ease was then consolidated with one tiled against the Tttrpies by a man of the name of Horner and one tiled by the Tttrpies’ wives for the value of land in Ohio. Judge Frazer tried the consolidated cases and rendered judgments in favor of the Tttrpies and against Lowe, aggregating $311,872. In May, 1896, the higher court reversed the judgment. The fifth trial was had before Judge Watkins, of Huntington, and closed with a judgment for Ixtwe amounting to $12,067 and costs, the aggregate not being known. Twenty witnesses, two attorneys, one judge and one of the plaintiffs have died since the case was filed.

FURNITURE PLANT FOR ALASKA.

Americana Have a Novel Plan to Win Wealth in the Far North. Elwood Madden, E. F. Murden, A. P. Murden and Omar Maris have started from Kokomo for Cape Nome, Alaska, with several car loads of machinery for use in that district. The Murdens will establish the first planing mil) iu that territory and will operate a sawmill with a furniture factory iu connection, and they expect to make a fortune. The price of lumber there is S3OO per 1,000 feet. Maddeu is taking gold mining machinery to work his extensive claims. He returned from the Cape Nome district a few weeks ago with a fortune estimated at several million dollars, which he claims to have picked up with his hands along the seashore and under the moss of the mountain sides. •

Brief State Happennings.

Philip Shinkle. 85, sixty three years, a resident of Anderson, is dead. S Special policemen are ke.pt at the Marion depot to keep rival.hackmen quiet. Veedersburg is raising a fund by popular subscription, to erect a soMiers’ monument in a park. t Independent Mated) Company, with $50,000 capital, has been organised in Noblesville. It will employ 200 men. Ely Reed. 92, who had lived on bia farm near Hop? for sixty-nine years, to dead.