Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — Page 3

Public Sales! CLYNE, IlmlKlM. Harins located at Monticello, TMollcit your patronage. Have made and am now booked for some of the largest stock sales in the coun* try. I guarantee satisfaction on my part er no pay. I'll make you money on small as well as lajge sales, Terms reasonable. Write for dates before advertising. V. D. CLYNE. Auctioneer. 7 omei wm« o*eoMHonacAaa Monticello. Ind. aaouae rsooa. Professional Cards. Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Lay. Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Will all the courts. Office first stairs r-xSt OMretoffice. INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, Law, Abstracts, Loans and Real Estate. Office up-stairs in Leopold's block, first stairs west of Van Kensselae, street. Jas. W. Douthlt, LAWYER, Rensselaer, Indiana. Wm. B. Austin, « Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The L. N. A. AC.Ry, and Rensselaer W.L.& P. Co. over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. n*«< rouTx. e. o. wmM. H«awv suaais Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) Attorney»-«t-Law, . Law, Real Estate, Insurance Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Mordecai F. Chllcote, William H. Parkison Notary Public. Notary Public.

Chilcote & Parkison, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law. Real Estate. Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago. Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over tanners’ Bank, on Washington St.. , RENSSELAER. IND. J. F. Warren J. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office iu Odd Fellow’s Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. R. S. Dwiggins, COUNCELOR AT LAW, Office in Room 7. Forsythe block. Rensselaer, Ind. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, - - , Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. Addison Parkinson. John M. Wasson. President. Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. « The Only State Bank in Jasper Co DIBBCTOBS. Addison Parkison, G. E. Murray, Jas.T. Randle, John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bauk is prepared to transact a general banking business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. , Farm Loans at 5 per Cent 1. B. Washburn, Physician & Surgeon. Dr. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear. Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Ornes TcLsrHOHS No. 48. Rsaiasnoe Phoms No. 07. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Postoffice. Rensselaer, Indiana. Orr c* Phoms, 177. RsStooMCS Phoms, MS. H. L. BROWN, Dentist Office over F. B. Meyer’s drug store. fVtrrryvrrervv V v v v v v v v v v 'vv ,4 PATENTS-®’- : FREE ’ Book “How to obtain Patents” 1 ■■■■Kl * ’ Charges moderate. No fee tin patent is eeewed. ‘ We sell envelopes and writing paper cheaper than any place in the city. The Democrat.

POLITCS OF THE DAY

WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING? That we are on the shoals of adversity Is made plain by the New Orleans Times-Democrat. It punctures the bubble of prosperity and gives a resume of the causes which are bringing the nation to certain ruin. “The present industrial status in the United States is a striking illustration of the aphorism that ‘things are not what they seem;’ for, as a matter of fact, the magnates of the trusts are taking advantage of the prosperity that followed in the wake of the higher prices of grain in the Leiter year to rivet the fetters of producer and consumer alike. In truth, the entire organism of our economic and political life is undergoing a metamorphosis which will not be apparent to the general eye, until the cycle of events shall have once more made the masses of a critical temper. The average man has neither inclination nor leisure for philosophical investigation. From emptiness of stomach, as a rule, comes the fullness of heart, out of which the mouth speaketh. “In every direction one sees certain tendencies at work. In the first place, the control of capital is passing into fewer and fewer hands. Giant corporations seek to establish monopolies in various lines of trade. With each sunset the individual is of lighter weight in the balances of life, the will of the multimillionaire being thrown into the opposite scale, after the historic fashion of the sword of Brennus. Doctrines of absolutism are boldly preached which would not have been endured, a decade ago. It is contended’, indeed, that the average American stands in direst want of a guardian, and that the trusts respond to the need, as the scabbard protects the blade from the rust. Russell Sage maintain? the thesis, in its baldest form, but the monopoly’s real weapons of precision are forged in the silence of academic retreats.”

Democratic Success. The Washington Times thus disturbs the brilliant dreams of imperialism indulged in by the Republican ostrich, which hides its head in the bushes and thinks it conceals its whole ungainly body: “Mr, William J. Bryan will take his seat in the White House on March 4, 1901, standing on a platform which will mean laws rehabilitating silver in its legal tender power at the ratio of sixteen to one, the destruction of trusts, and a total collapse of the expansion movement. “The evidence in support of these statements is contained in the following truths which we beg to present for President McKinley’s most distinguished consideration: “(1) The vast majority of the American people, Democrats and Republicans alike, believe in national expansion, but not in imperialism. “(2) The American people believe in putting an end to all monopolies and trusts in restraint of trade. “(3) The American people demand that the triple alliance which now exists, with every prospect of its rapid enlargement, between the national banks, the trusts, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall be dissolved. “(4) The American people, including Democrats in the South not more than Republicans in the New England, Middle, and Western States, resent the thought of any attempt on the part of the Federal Government to interfere with the rights of the citizens of the various States absolutely to control their local affairs.”

Concealing the Evidence. Secretary Gage informs the Senate that if a reply to the famous Hepburn letter was ever made no trace of it can be found on the files of the department, and it is his Itellef that no written or verbal answer ever was made. This is no doubt the case, and yet Mr. Gage made a very substantial indirect reply when he proceeded thereafter to load down the City Bank with treas-ury-deposit favors. After being reminded by Mr. Hepburn that the names in the directory of the City Bank would show what claims to treasury consideration the bank had upon the administration party, Mr. Gage would have done better to drop the bank from his list of special depositories and fiscal agents of the government once and for all. His failure to do so only serves to create a public suspicion that there must have been a good deal of basis to the claims referred to by Hepburn.—Springfield Republican.

Hanna Demands Pay from Bonks. I must impress upon you the exceeding importance of the immediate furnishing of money. The Democrats are already at work. We are employing men to counteract their influence. Only by the utmost assiduity can the truly prosperous condition of the United States be made continually apparent Now Is the time for the merchants and manufacturers and bankers of the country to get their armor on.—Mark Hanna to Philadelphia convention committee, Jan. 18, 1900. Would Do Anything. 1 The Republicans would vote against the Ten Comamndments and the Lord’s prayer if they were presented by a Democrat or if they were made an Issue by Democrats. At a meeting of the society known as the Sons of the Revolution held at Cincinnati the Republicans happened to have a majority of the

members present, and when that in defatlgable Democrat, Col. W. A. Taylor, presented a resolution reaffirming that part of the Declaration of Independence which declares that all men are created free and equal and possess certain Inalienable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, etc., the Republicans present actually voted down the resolution by layfhg it on the table.—Champaign (Ohio) Democrat.

Nicaragua Canal. Democrats in Congress should oppose the Republican Scheme to make the Nicaragua canal a means of weakening instead of strengthening the power of this country. By binding the United States not to fortify the canal it becomes a menace and uot a protection. The New York Journal puts the case concisely and strongly when it says: “A Nicaragua canal open to our warships and closed to those of our enemies would double our naval strength. A Nicaragua canal that would let the fleets of Europe through to attack either coast of the United States at their pleasure would double the strength of our enemies.” As a matter of fact, the Republicans wish to surender all the strategic benefits of the canal to the powers of Europe and especially to England. If Nicaragua is willing to give this country the' right to construct the canal and at the same time to fortify it, no European nation has any right to interfere. It is enough for this country to grant foreign powers the use of the canal in times of peace. It is criminal folly to spend millions of dollars to put this nation in the power of great foreign navies in times of war. The canal should be free to the ships of other nations for all commercial purposes, but it should be fortified and held inviolate for the use of our own navy in times of war.

Total Depravity.

While the administration is mumbling vague threats of the terrible things it will do to American citizens if they don’t stop daring to think; and the newspaper lackeys howl that the people who protest against war are the only ones to blame for It—these troubled gentlemen are forgetting the chief offender. They want to get after the Declaration of Independence, and “proceed against” it, and exclude it from the mails, and let us know what a seditious, copper-head, traitorous document it is. And then the constitution, which is about as wicked. For these two old-fashioned papers have done more to “encourage the Filipinos” than all the anti-imperlal speeches of to-day—just as they inspired Mexico, Central America, Peru, Chile and all the other mainland colonies to revolt from Spain; just as they to-day inspire the people who protest against a war of conquest These wicked manifestos of human rights should be suppressed! They make trouble, at home and abroad—for those who violate them. Let us wipe them out and tie to Commerce and Chances for American Capital!—Wilmington (Del.) Justice.

Rather Embarrassing. In the midst of Republican prosperity it Is rather embarrassing for them to contemplate a strike of 40,000 miners, who have for months been begging the coal operators of Pennsylvania to grant them living wages. The coal operators are too busy making profits for the trust interests and have refused to even confer with the miners. The men have a national organization and have about concluded that if it is a question of starving anyhow they may as well go on a strike and see how that extreme measure will appeal to those who are reaping the profits from their labor.—Sioux Falls Press.

Apologizing for Trusts. It is amusing to see the administration organs apologizing for the trusts with one breath and kicking against the extortionate price—at an advance of from 40 to 60 per cent—charged for print paper by the paper trust. A trust is a good thing so long as it confines its squeezing attention’s to some other fellow.—Los Angeles Herald. Party of Law and Order. The Democratic party is the party of law, order, patriotism and genuine morality, as Its conduct in 1870, when the Republicans stole the Presidency, and in plenty of other emergencies has shown. The Republican party also believes In law, order, patriotism and morality, as virtues which others should cultivate.—Albany Argus. Make* a Hot Issue. The auarchy and assassination which prevail in our suffering sister commonwealth are the evidences of what Republican rule is in the South. We don’t believe our States will need any other Issue during the coming Presidential election.—Knoxville, Tenn., Sentinel. * Government by Force. Government by force and by assassination is being tried in this country earlier than had been expected by even those of us who contend that government by force In the Philippines will result in government by force in this country.—Joplin (Mo.) Globe. McKinley in" 1898. “I speak not of forcible annexation, for that cannot be thought of. That by our code of morality would be criminal aggression. WILLIAM M’KINLEY.” Message to Congress, April 11, 189&

CRONJE IN A CORNER.

SAID TO BE PURSUED BY 25,000 BRITISHERS. .; 1 London Has a Rumor that Boer Commandant Is Surrounded—Gen. Buller Drives the Burghers from Monte Cristo Across the Tugela River. Up to Tuesday London had no light on the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Gen. Cronje except the reputed remark of a cabinet minister quoted by the London Daily News to the effect that Gen. Kitchener with nis mounted troops had Cronje completely surrounded. Reports from Boer sources contributed nothing toward an explanation, but rather added to the mystery. A Lourenao Marques dispatch says: “Heavy lighting is reported around Kimberley, where Gen. Cronje is said to be holding his own." This dispatch is balanced by a telegram from Cape Town which says that Gen. Methuen’s force advanced from Madder river and entered Kimberley without fighting. The Lourenzo Marques report is totally at variance with recent British dispatches. Those who believe the prevailing rumors that Cronje has been surrounded are disturbed by an opinion which has 'gathered strength the last few days that the Boer force retreating on Bloemfontein before Kitchener and Kelley-Kenny is not Cronje’s army at all, but a big Boer supply train convoyed by a Free State commando sufficiently strong to give the impression of an army in retreat. The' censors in Natal have carefully concealed Gen. Buller’s intentions, and, as a result, the latter's report of the fighting to the cast of Colenso lacks interest. Some think that Buller’s movement is nothing more than a demonstration calculated to occupy the attention of the Boers in Natal while Roberts moves in the Free State. Others believe that the British are trying for the fourth time to force the Tugela and relieve Ladysmith, but are careful to state that their ground for this belief is that Buller has received information that the Boer force in Natal has already been weakened by drafts to re-euforce the federal troops defending Free State territory.. Encouraging news comes from Buller in Natal, where he is pushing steadily northward toward Ladysmith, though meeting with slight resistance and occupying hills and points of vantage evacuated by the burghers. Already the fourth dogged attempt of Sir Bedvers has resulted in pushing the enemy back across the Tugela and the planting of British guns on Monte Cristo mountain and Mount Hlangwani. Lord Kitchener was hot after Cronje s fleeing column at last reports, and had captured over 150 supply and ammunition wagons, together with large quantities of cattle. The movement of Gen. Buller before Ladysmith resulted in the capture of a large number of stores. This is taken to indicate that the Boers are in severe straits, else they would not give up such valuable adjuncts to iiu army s success.

THE NATIONAL CENSUS.

Its Taking Will Occupy One Month, and Will Coat $12,000,000. The work of taking the twelfth census of the United States will begin June 1 and the enumeration must be completed by the first of the following mouth. To accomplish this vast undertaking 50, (MM) enumerators will be required. Over 75,(MM).(MX) of people must be recorded within thirty days, and there will therefore be an average of 2,500,000 a day. In towns and cities of 8,000 inhabitants or over, it is required that the work must be finished in two weeks, however, and this will make the daily average still greater. The work is not especially remunerative. It is estimated that the average amount paid to enumerators all over the country is about S6O. This is based proportionately upon the amount of work done, but in any event will not run much over this amount, except for those who are retained for sjiecial work in getting statistics after the census work proper is finished. It is said that for some of these the job may last for a year or more. It is estimated that the census will cost about $12,000,000. or about 15 cents for every man, woman and child in.the United States.

Rich Country Opened Up.

By the first of April the completion of a new extension of the Burlington Raiiroad system will »i>en up an entirely new section of country. A territory never l>efore accessible for lack of railroads, but which is wonderfully rich in mining, grazing and agricultural possibilities. It has already been completed from Alliance, on the Burlington’s line in Northwest Nebraska, thirty-seven miles south to Bridgeport, on the North Platte river. From there a line is rapidly being constructed, about 100 miles, along the north bank of the North Platte to Guernsey, Wyo., which will probably be the railroad and commercial center of what is known as the Hartville mining district. A period of commercial activity neter excelled in the history of the West, is about to be inaugurated in the Hartville mining region. The stock business further back from the river is carried on extensively, and thereis reason to believe that Guernsey will be a busy shipping point for live stock. This new field of industry is attracting the attention of all classes of people. .1. Francis, the general passenger agent of the Burlington Railroad at Omaha, Neb./ states that he is every day receiving inquiries about the new country from all sorts of people.

News of Army and Navy.

The latest proposed French battleship Of 12,416 tons will cost $5,585,000. Japan will soon receive from Clydebank one of the largest battleships afloat. Last year sixty-seven officers were placed on the retired list of the United States army. The Nymphe,.the new fourth-class German cruiser, has a speed of 21.5 knots an hour. The Institute of Naval Architects started in Japan two years ago now has 250 members. Thirty-five warships, uot Including torpedo boat destroyers, were- built in Great Britain last year. French statistics are said to prove that 211 French officers threw up their cdbjmissioas to join the Boers. French army officers report that trials of aluminum cooking ntepsils have shown them superior to tir.

CONGRESS

On Thursday the Senate passed the Senate substitute for the House currency < bill by a vote of 4(1 to 29. Made the’ Hawaiian bill unfinished business, giving it right of way. The House completed twenty-six of the 124 pages of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill without amendment. During the general debate Mr. Boutell (Ill.), Mr Miers (Ind.) and Mr. Showalter (Pa.) discussed the Philippine question; Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) and Mr. Gillette (Mass.) civil service reform, Mr. Driggs (N. Y.) pensions, and Mr. Underwood (Ain.) his resolution to repeal the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution. The Senate on Friday resumed discussion of the Philippine question. Mr. McEnery strongly opposed permanent acquisition of the islands and believed United States ought to relinquish them as soon as authority of this country had been asserted. Mr. Stewart took pronounced position in favor of admission of the products of any of the island possessions of the United States free of duty. Hawaiian bill was read, but nothing was done with it. The House by a vote of 75 to 67, in committee of the whole, struck out from legislative appropriation bill all provision for civil servivce commission. Action regarded as .annual joke, as item will probably be restored in open session when members have to go on record on roll call. Rest of the time devoted to assertions by Mr. Sims (Dem., Tenn.) that northern volunteer soldiers in Spanish war were much more clamorous for pensions than the southern ones, and attributing this to the debauching of public sentiment in the North on the pension question. Mr. Pearre (Rep., Md.) raised the storm by stating that hundreds of Massachusetts soldiers who never smelled powder had applied for pensions. This brought out an indignant' reply from Mr. Fitzgerald (Dem., Mass.), who detailed the record of the Massachusetts volunteers. He was followed by others, who defended the soldiers from their sev?ral States. Mr. Hepburn (Iowa) especially assailed Mr. Sims. The Senate held no session on Saturday. The House passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. The civil service appropriation, stricken out in committee of the whole, was restored to the bill by a vote of 77 to 125. The Senate spent Monday in debate on rhe right of Congress to extend or withhold the Constitution Jo territory acquired by the United States. The House began expansion debate, the Porto Rico tariff bill coming up. Passed a bill to amend sections 3339 and 3341 of the Revised Statutes relating to internal revehue tax on fermented liquors, the purpose being to abolish the smaller packages of beer, one-sixth and one-eighth barrels.- The bill is to go into effect July 1,- 1900. Nothing accomplished at a night sesion. which was to have been devoted to pension legislation. Mr. Talbert, of South Carolina, made the point of uo quorum and blocked proceedings. The Senate on Tuesday heard Mr. Kenney in opposition lo retention of the Philippines and then resumed consideration of Hawaiian bill. The House heard Mr. Hopkins of Illinois in supi»ort of the Porto Rican tariff bill and Messrs, New-, lands of Nevada and Swanson of Virginia against it. On Wednesday the Senate passed a numlter of bills of local interest and spent the rest of the day in debate on the Hawaiian government bill, little progress being made. In the Hoiyg* debate on Porto Rican tariff bill was resumed. Adopted Senate resolution authorizing the President to appoint one woman commissioner to represent the United States and the national society of the D. A. R. at the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette at the Paris exposition.

Brief News Items.

Canada may send 10.000 more troops to tiie Cape. Nicaraguans favor Americans controlling the canal. Russia will build a railroad across Persia, 1.300 miles long. Chicago Board* of Trade has abolished “put” and ’‘call” trading. Plague is about over in Honolulu. City has been thoroughly cleansed. George Barrow. abductor of baby Marion Clark, New York, is insane. A Liverpool physician has discovered the bacillus of pink-eye iff horses. Dr. Lapponi, the papal physician, says Pope Leo may live to be 100 years old. Preston Hurlburt, prominent stockman, Buffalo. N. Y., killed by a street car. G. W. Cross and Gus Leach were killed by a dynamite explosion, HillSworth, Ga. Porch climbers secured SI,OOO worth of jewelry from Mrs. A. S. Sturm, Chicago. A system of government inspection of nursery stock is expected to be enacted soon. F. O. Tait, amateur golf champion of England, was killed iu the battle at Koodoos berg. Owing to the Texas anti-trust law the bicycle trust refuses to ship wheels there unless money accompanies the order. Nearly $200,000,000 will be appropriated by this Congress for the support of the United States army and navy during the next year. The Ohio House of Representatives has passed a bill prohibiting the desecration of the American flag by its use for advertising purposes. Three hundred Spanish prisoners of the Filipinos dispersed their guard, escaped/ and barricaded themselves in a town, awaiting the arrival of the Americans. Judge William 11. Taft, who has been appointed president of the new Philippine commission, said be would no: remain in the Islands longer than two years. Said that tire insurance companies lost more than $5,000,000 iu New York the past year. A tornado passed over Custer, O. T., wrecking four buildings and killing Jas. Abney and wife. Thirty-nine Irish representatives from Chicago will go to Pretoria to join the Boer hospital corps. W. T. Hudson, Haskell, Texas, live stock raiser, filed petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities 1223,000. Former Goy; Wolcott, Massachusetts, declined an appointment on the Philippines commission.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE 3 PAST WEEK. Young Soldier Takes Poison—Son Mur- ; de roust y Assaulted by His Father-*;; Insane Over Christian Science— Hunter Accidentally Killed. . At Scottsburg .the dead body of Floyd Merrill, a prominent young man, wa* found in his room in a hotel. He was married alaiut two months ago. His" young wife left him for a few hours to 1 visit her parents. Returning she found the door of the room locked, and, becoming uneasy, the door was forced open and the husband was found lifeless on the bed. He had taken four grains of morphine, purchased from a druggist on false representation. No cause is known for the act. Deceased was a soldier in the war with Spain and was formerly from Rising Sun.

Nearly Murders His Son. Thomas Morris, nurseryman at CMh- j ton, committed a murderous assault on his 18-ye.ar-old son. and is now in jail pending the results of the boy’s injuries. ; Morris ordered the boy to go home, and when he refused to obey struck him with - a stone, causing a severe fracture of the j skull. Young Morris was removed to Terre Haute hospital. Morris is an an- » nonneed candidate for sheriff. His wife ■ is in an insane asylum. Tortured Himself with Fire. Louis Kautz, a carpenter, became violently insane over Christian science at Elkhart. He drove his attendants from the house with a chair and then put his foot in a coal stove, almost burning the flesh to the bone. He also threw live coals around the room with his hands. After this he escaped from the house and ran six miles into the country, stopping only when thoroughly exhausted. Dog Guards Master’s Corpse. Armed with a shotgun and accompanied by his dog, Richard Cain of Shelby- . ville went in search of game, that his family might have meat for supper, he being out. of employment. The next morning his dead body was found with his dog beside it. lie had slipped, discharging the gun and the charge blew his head off. The dog had remained by the body throughout a blinding snowstorm. / Two Offices Robbed. The Pennsylvania suburban ticket offices at Silver Grove and Howard Park were -robbed the other night. A watch and pair of bracelets, belonging to the agent. Mrs. Lawrence Jackson, some tickets and $1.50 in money were secured at Howard Park and a quantity of confections. some tickets and small change were secured at Silver Grove, where Matt McCammon is agent. Within Our Bordens Baseball practice has opened at De- ’ Pauw. Cora Lock, 15, Laporte, is mysteriously missing. Fourth-class postniasters of district 5 have organized. Popu'tists of Daviess County will put a county ticket in the field. Elliortsville bank, robbed recently, has bought a burglar-proof safe. Residence of Charles Johnson, near Munch, in ashes. Loss S4,(MM). William Whittaker. 19, Versailles, was instantly killed by a falling limb. Joseph Henderson. Greenfield, had a finger bitten off by a vicious horse. It is said that fruit jar manufacturers in the belt are forming a trust. The first colored children have been sent to the Madison County infirmary. George Mclfowcli. 81, Rising Sun, stood before a mirror and shot himself dead. Power house of the United Oil and Gas Company, near Hartford City, is in ashes. Ixiss $2,00(1. There is nothing to rattle in the Crawfordsville cash box. and the city can’t build a sewer system. Anderson painters and paper hangers arc forming a union and will adopt a scale before spring work begins. A dismissal was filed for entry in the divorce suit of Helene Studebaker Ulrich vs. Russell Ulrich at South Bend.

Maj. James M. Hoskins, one of the lending Democratic politicians of Brazil, died of heart trouble, aged 69 years. Nelson Dickerson, tried at Jeffersonville for murdering “Toad” Richardson, at (Tementville, last October, was sent up for life. The heirs of Andrew Binkard of Peru found $1,300 in coin buried on his farm. A SSO gold piece once owned by Frances Slocum was included iu the lot. Mary Scott committed suicide at Ev- | ansville by taking laudanum. She was ! 20 years old and was recently jilted by her lover, who married another girl. I William Aggery. an old soldier of New- j port, drew his pension, $72. and went to Clinton to have a good time. He start- j ed home drunk, and was knocked down " and robbed of SSO, all he had left. The | old man has a dangerous wound on the j head. His assailant escaped. Miss Klien Voder, the pretty 10-year-old daughter of Quincy Voder of Plainville, was arrested at Vincennes on the request of her father, who came for her, She came to meet her sweetheart, Chas. Roach of Ball. When she alighted from the train the chief of i>olice took her into 1 custody. A wedding feast was spread at the home of Grant O’Neal, near Columbus, ’ and the guests ami minister had arrived to witness the ceremony that was to unite Miss Ida Barrett and Ned MeGeary, when it was announced that the ' groom had disappeared. The young man left no explanation and his sudden disappearance on the eve of his wedding is shrouded in mystery. West end school building, Washington, '8 burned. Loss $12,000, with $8,500 insurance. 1 Indiana miners and operators will hold ; their State meeting in Terre Haute 1 March 20. . By observations, some Richmond men found that the ground hog really did appear Feb. 2, and then went back into his | hole. The ground hog is in the zoological y garden in one of the parks there, and the ; last seen of him was Nov. 14. A thin layer of sand was sprinkled at the opening of his tunnel, hut there were 00 . tracks visible until the fatal weather day. *