Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — Page 3

< TELEPHONE 119. KELLEY BROS. Propr’s. < / . Office North Side of Public Square, ? ••■•£■••• ■ ■ - • -- ’ S Good work, prompt service, dose attention to details, improved 5 ? machinery, expert help, are making The Rensselaer Steam / \ Laundry one of the bes Lin Northern Indiana. Our constant S < aim is to give our patrons work that cannot be excelled. / > Our... f Linens, Our Remington, Reynolds, $ > oucT-towA teIX'ESSr < \ laltios Lace Curtain work,'— — 3: cie*.. Mt. Ayr. Fair Oaks, c / Woolens without shrinking. Shelby. < > Please tell your friends about the quality of work you get. / £ RENSSELAER STEAM LAUNDRY. ? DENTAL 1 Has reac,led its highest point in our office. We have J , conquered pain and anxiety. We have assured our pa- / tients that our methods and prices are in keeping with ? ’ dental progress. Contidence has been the keynote of \ our success. If we work for you once we’re sure of get- Z f tln < all y° ur work, as well as the dental work of your \ 1 relatives and friends. Our dental work costs little, wears C office upstairs r well, and is guaranteed to be the best that money can buy. > > IN NEW BRICK, / C < FIRST ST AI R S < > pvticx* POST 1 ( REN3SELIER DENIAL PARLORS, Df. J. I. HOTlon, Mr. )

CHICAGO. IHOIAHArOUS A lOUISVIAM ST. Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 8,1899. South Bound. No. 31—Fast Mall 4:48 a, m. No. s—Louisville5 —Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m, No. 33—Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45 p.m. No. 30—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 8— bonisvilie Express, (daily).. 11104 p. m. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40-Milk aocoiuin.. (daily) IJls. m. No. 33—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m. •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Ves. Mail 6:32 p. m. INo. 38—Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p. m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3 :21 p. m. •No. 46—Local freight 9:30 a. m. No. "4—Freight, (daily) 9.-09 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. tSunday only. No. 74 earriee passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular atop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Fbaxk J. Run, G. P. A., W. H. McDokl, President and Gen. M'g'r, Chas. H. Rocs wf.i.i . Traffic M g r, CHICAGO. W. H. Bran. Agent. Rensselaer.

> wwww :i New Undertaking :■ < xJtOiwliaKjwalWßx i 7 Jal < £ In Horton building, one door { i , west of Makeever House, with a c > comple e and first-class stock of i [ c FUNERAL FURNISHINGS 5 I respectfully solicit a share of the I! > public's patronage and guarantee sat-1 ? Isfaction in every respect. Calls', C promptly responded to day or night. <, A. B. COWGILL, c Residence at Makeever House, ahohi 1 i The Needle and the |S H Hook vßk ma k* c simplestand yak best Sewing Machine on earth Fitted with Bicycle Zj® Bearings the Lightest Running Sewi,ng Machine in the World... You Cannot Afford to do yoar tewing on the old style shuttle machine when you can do it BETTER, QUICKER AND EASIER on the new No. 9 WHEELER & WILSON. The Wheeler & Wilson is Easy Running," Rapid, Quiet and Durable. No Shuttle, No. Noise, No Shaking. Seo it before buying. Ageut or dealer wanted for thia territory nnd vicinity. For particulars address Wheelnr A Wilson, Mfg. Co., 80 A 83 Wabash Ara., ' Chicago, Ills.

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Business Now For 1900.

Buggies, surries, wagons, mowers and binders, threshing machine agency and a full line extras on nand for mowers and binders. The deering Roller and Ball Bearing machine and the South Bend wagons. Also the Lafayette wagon, the Boss threshing machine, the Russel and the Gaar-Scott. Our line of surries can not be beat for the prices. We ask you to call and see our goods before buying elsewhere. Remember we guarantee all goods. We also handle the John Deere goods, the Brown cultivator and harrows, and the Ohio Rake Co’s goods; and best of all the Deering binder and mowers, and binder twine. Goods will be found at our wareroom near Monon depot. Wishing our friends a good, prosperous season, we are, Truly Yours, Renicker Bros. You can get The Democrat, State Sentinel and Cincinnati Enquirer each a full year for only 11.85, cash in advance, if taken soon.

NOTICE We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on two 25 cent bottles or boxes of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, if it fails to cure constipation, biliousness, sickheadache, jaundice, loss of appetite, sour stomach, dyspepsia, liver complaint, or any of the diseases for which it is recommended. It is highly recommended as a spring tonic and blood purifier. Sold liquid in bottles, and tablets in boxes. Price 25 cents for either. One package of either guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded. A. F. Long. B. F. Fendig. Tell your neighbor to take The Democrat for all cc/unty news. 5 PER CENT. MONEY. Money to bum. We know you hate to smell the smoke. Stock up your farms while there is money in live stock and save taxes on $700.00 every year. Takes 36 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know the language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red tape. Chilcote & Parkison. S. P. Thompson will sell hie lands in Union township, in tracts, and on terms to suit those desiring to farm or raise stock. See or write to 8.4*. Thompson, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale:-—Lots 5 & 6, Newton’s addition, 134 feet front, good location. Easy terms. Enquire at this office. Craft’s Distemper and Couch Cure Sold by A. F. Long.

MOBS STOP THE CARS.

Complete Tie-Up of the St. Louis Tran•it Company’s Lines. —i-—— One of the greatest strikes in the history of St. Louis was inaugurated Tuesday, when, in pursuance of action taken at a mass meeting, 3,325 employes of the St. Louis Transit Company quit work to compel the acceptance Of their demands previously formulated. The salient features of the men's demands, which the transit company refused to grant, are briefly as follows: That all conductors, motormen, gripmen, and all men employed in the sheds shall be compelled to be members of the union; that the officers of the union, together with the officers of the company, shall have full power to adjust all differences that may arise, and that in the event of their failing to agree, shall, if mutually agreed to, place the case before three arbitrators. That any member suspended by the union shall be suspended by the company, without pay, until such time as the union requests his reinstatement. That any man elected to an office in the union requiring his absence for not inore than one year, shall, upon his retirement from such office, have his old place with the company. Practically every car line in St. Louis was tied up. The Suburban line, the only one in the city not a part pf the extensive St. Lottis Transit Company’s system, ran cars for several hours, but later was compelled to shut down, as their men were pulled off the cars by strikers. Despite the police there were wild scenes of disorder in the very heart of the business section. Motormen and conductors were stoned and driven from their charge while the passengers fled terrified and preferred to join the big stream of pedestrians which poured in from every street to the offices and stores. Mob violence was not confined to the men alone. Women and children who. sympathized with the strikers hurled stones and epithets of contempt at those who tried to handle the cars. Thousands of St. Louisans suffered the inconvenience of not having transportation facilities. A majority w.\kcd to work Wednesday, while others rode wheels or pressed into use vehicles of every description. Owners of ed many a dollar by transporting residents in the outlying districts. Downtown and on every streel during the early hours there was to be seen a constant procession of nondescript vehicles. The steam railroads entering the city from the north, south and west helped out by putting on additional trains and making numerous stops. The St. Louis Transit Company leases and operates nearly all the street railroad lines in that city. It has more than 300 miles of street railroad track under its control and it carries more than 100,000,000 passengers a year. Practically the entire population of St. Louis is deliendent upon it. Employed on their cars and in the sheds the St. Louis Transit Company had 3,000 men, most of whom belonged to the Amalgamated Association of Street Car Employes.

The Political Pot

For the pres,'nt year at least it seems safe to assume that the leading parties will cling to their Bills. A candidate (or County Treasurer nt Jeffersonville. Ind., introduced in his campaign the- novelty of stump speakilg by phonograph. There is an active movement in Mississippi among the politicians toward some measure for increasing the small number of «itto:i mills in the State. The voters at Beattie, Kan., who a year ago elected women to fill all the municipal offices, have turned them out because they did what they promised to do before they got in. The Virginia Legislature adopted a resolution calling upon the United States Senators from that State to try to secure a constitutional amendment for the election of Senators by the people. The Republicans of Idaho will hold their State convention at Boise on July 17. A Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General are to be voted for in November. Some big attorneys' fees were paid in the case of Senator Clark. Ex-Si-nator Faulkner of West Virginia looked after Mr. Clark's interests and ex-Senator Edmunds represented Marcus Daly. A union cwnm’ftee composed of the members of the Pennsylvania Civil Service Association and the Pennsylvania Ballot Reform Association has been selected to aid in the effort to reform the ballot laws of the State through the election of members to the Legislature pledged to work toward that end. There are seventeen farmers and fifteen insurance men in the Massachusetts Legislature, nnd it ia pointed out as indicative of clos? relations existing between the various New England States that seventeen member* of the Legislature were born in Maine, eleven in New Hampshire, ■even in Vermont, two in Rhode Island and two in Canada. The indorsement by a Republican State convention In Ntw Orleans of Cornelius N. Bliss of New York for Vice-President on the ground that he Is a native of that State is an error. Mr. Bliss was bom nt Fall River, Mass. He was educated in New Orleans, and from that circumstance arose the error into which some of his Pelican partisan supporters have fallen. By the Federal census of 1890 four Static only—New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois-had more than 1,000,000 male residents of voting age. There will be no addition to the group of “mill-ion-voter" States in 1900, Missouri, Michigan and Texas, the next highest on the list, being several hundred thousand voters each short of a million. It is pretty generally agreed among politicians that the total vote of the country will be 10,000,000 this year, of which 0,000,000 collectively will be cart in the four States of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and < >hio

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

New York.—There have been further shipments of gold this week, but money rates continue easy and the outflow of the metal has had no appreciable effect on the situation. Even the stock markets have almost entirely ignored the matter. Money in New York is being freely offered as low as 4 per cent on loans running the rest of the year. Call money in Wall street has this week loaned below 2 pef cent, and the Chicago banks have voluntarily reduced their rates from 5 to 4% per cent. The stock markets have been dull and narrow. Throughout the week the movement has been unsatisfactory to both the bull and bear interests. Neither side has shown any aggressiveness, and the consequence is that fluctuations have been too small to permit of much in-ahd-out trading. Chicago.—Speculative dealings on the Board of Trade were of fair volume and more than average activity in all the chief markets, with the one Important exception of wheat, which was for the most part dull. Fluctuations in the latter were confined to a narrow range. From such a showing it is clear that speculative feeling is not far from being evenly balanced between bulls and bears. That is likewise further attested by a remark heard frequently from both sides, and as often from the one as the Other, that they can see “nothing in the market.” The equilibrium might easily be upset by any one of quite a number of possibilities. The world has still to live three months on last year’s crop, and from the present outlook and rate of consumption commercial. stocks are likely to be reduced to a point that might of itself threaten serious loss to short sellers. The season in Europe is late, nnd consumption might be prolonged thereby somewhat beyond the usual time. In addition the prospect at present is for a poor crop in France and n deficient yield in the United Kingdom. Perfect conditions for thr home crop in the Southwest are minimized so some extent by the poor outlook in several of the important wheat-growing States of the central winter wheat «rea. Accidents may happen where the crop is now the most promising, and the ravages of insects in the already infested districts are, from recent information on the subject, rapidly spreading into fresh territory. Anything is possible of the spring wheat crop. The priie of wheat is low; cautious men are not selling it short. The advance in corn and provisions has been, checked nnd both have suffered some depreciation in value,

ROBERTS CROSSES THE VET.

Campe at Sinaldeel, XVhilc Gen. Hamilton Occupies Winburir. Lord Roberts’ march on Pretoria still continues. The British field marshal, with eleven divisions, encamped Monday at Smaideel. The occupation of this village was accomplished after some clever maneuvering, which resulted only in nominal casualties on the British side. The capture of Winburg by the British is confirmed. By the occupation of Winburg Gen. lan Hamilton puls himself nearly parallel with Lord Roberts, and only twenty-nine miles eastward, while he has the additional advantage of being connected with his chief by means of the ruilroad which runs from Smaideel,, or Winburg road station, as it is sometimes called, to Winburg. The only feature of the carefully devi’sed plan of general advance that is not disclosed by the swift developments is that part Gen. Buller has elected to take in the operations. At present there are no indications of any movement on the part of the Natal army. Two guns are said to have been captured by Gen. Hamilton, while Gen. Hutton's troops took a Maxim and twentyfive prisoners at Smaideel. The Boers are represented ns fleeing toward the Zand river, in the direction of Kronstad. Lord Roberts appears to intend to leave the Boers about Thabanchu to be dealt with by Gens. Rundle, Chermside and Brabant. It is hinted that the British commander of the forces in South Africa wishes to demonstrate that hescan cope with the main Boer army along the Orange Free State railway with only a fragment of his whole force. Londoners are severely criticising the Government because of its failure to grasp the seriousness of the Ashanti rebellion. It is declared that the Government is deliberately minimizing the gravity of the situation in order to avert n general clamor for heroic measures to suppress the uprising.

TOWNE IS AGREED UPON.

Minnesota Maa, ’Tis Said, Will Be Bryan’s Running Mate. A Chicago dispatch sdys: Silver Democrats, Populists and Lincoln Republicans have practically agreed on cx-Congress-man Charles A. Towne of Minnesota as a running mate for William Jennings Bryan. At a conference lending representatives of those three parties delved into the vice-presidential question nnd all of them agreed that Mr. Towne was the one man best fitted to run an Mr. Bryan’s partner. The Democratic representatives nt ths conference wore Vice-Chairman J. G. Johnson of the national committee and Daniel J. Campau of Detroit, national committeeman from Michigan. The, Populist leaders in attendance were Senator Marion Butler of South Carolina, chairman of the Populism national committee, and Gen. J. B. Weaver of lowa. Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota nnd exSenator George Dubois of Idaho were present in behalf of the silver Republicans. Ex-Congressman Towne was in the city, but both he nnd Col. Bryan remained away from the conference. Recent sanitary reports give tho population of Boston ss 555,(XX); Baltimore, 541,000; St. Louis, 023,000; Minneapolis, 225,000; St. Paul, 200.000; Cleveland, 395,000; Philadelphia. 1,2tW.,800; Pittsburg, 00,000; Albany, 100.000; Rochester. 180,000; Buffalo, 370,000. A "Jack the Ripper” is at work in North Germany. He has recently killed two young women. Their bodies word horribly mutilated. Cigarette smoking will he forbidden at the Paris exposition.

NEWS FROM OUR COLONIES.

Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, who made a tour 1 of the Philippines last year while the first volunteer regiments were camping on the trail of the insurgents, pays a very laudatory tribute to the character of the men composing the invading army. Writing in the Philadelphia Post, he says: “The American soldier looks the master: his face is the face of nobility; hi* stride is the stride of a prince. In the Philippines, in China, in Japan, he looks the lord of the land. He lias a fine loftiness of conduct. He goes every place. All doors open before him. He absorbs everything. He has the spirit of acquisitive inquisitiveness. In Japan, every street of every l>ort at which he touches is full of him. ’The shops are infested by him. He inspects the palaces with the curiosity of intelligence. He wanders among the temples of the ancient gods, a modern Omar meditating a new Rubaiyat. At the giant tombs of the dethroned Shoguns he sits and muses on the eeaseless tide of time which changes all and finally submerges all. He is n learner at first hand. No printed books or papers for him when the book of the world is before him. No painted map for him when the chart of the earth itself is beneath his feet. No dry nor fanciful account for him of the strange peoples of humanity’s first homes when he may see and know nnd absorb the spirit’ of those peoples themselves.” A belated war story comes from Ponce, Porto Rico, and is told by Lieut. Juan Arato of the Spanish engineers. “When tile war broke out,” said the lieutenant, “we found that our supply of ammunition of nil sorts was very low. Some was new and some ofti; some was blaek and some brown; some was old-fashioned and some was smokeless and mysterious. There was one lot of brown smokeless powder which was marked. ‘Use with care! Very powerful! Keep cool and dry!’ and to it was attached a legend that it-had burst a Krupp field gun. I determined to try it. I employed a .small chnrjje. in a gun, and to my surprise if refused to go off. My gunners were Very much disgusted, and one of them said: ‘Bah. this is no good for war. I'll use it for cooking our supper.’ We nil jumped as he threw a double handful into a small camp fire. Judge of our feelings when we saw the fire go out. I afterward learned that powder of this sort deteriorates with age, and that long before this case was opened it was as harmless as wet .'•and." The plant which is being erected in Manila by the United States Government for refrigerating and ice making is an enormous affair, with a capacity for cooling at one time no less than 5.030 beef carcasses. 7.500 sheep, 100 tons of salted meats, as well as for the storage of immense quantities of eggs, vegetables, butter and other articles, enough to supply the army in the I'hiliptiiues for mouths at a time. In addition it will be capable of producing fifty tons of ice per day and 0,000 gallons of distilled water. The ice will be manufactured by the ammonia process. The building will be nearly 300 feet square and about fifty feet it^ height. In Porto Rico the laboring classes are on the verge of starvation; there is work for them to do. but the planters who need their services are without funds with which to employ them. Even the Porto Rican people do not know, nor do they realize, the condition into which the island's people as n whole have been thrown. The distribution of relief supplies was discontinued temporarily some weeks ago. As a result many people began to drift in from the country district’s to the larger towns, where smne rations were distributed. Recently more than sixty ragged, starving women walked to Ponce from Narinjito, twenty miles away, to present a petition to the Governor General. The Cuban company, of which Sir William Van Horne is president, has secured. options upon all of the railways in Cuba. Gen. Samuel Thomas of New York, who is one of the directors, made a hasty trip to Loudon, where the roads are owned, and returned yesterday with tile options in his pocket. The Sagna railroad will cost the syndicate $3,000,000. the Caibarien railroad $2,000,000, tlie Savinialn road $5,1X10,000, the Cienfuegos S2,S<X).<MM) and the Jucaro line SB.<XX),TXXi. It is the intention of the syndicate to purchase, consolidate and extend these railroad'* over the entire island.

The division of customs and insular affairs of the War Ib-priitnieiit has given out a comparative statement of receipts at the cnhtonw port of Manila during the years 1893 to 1897, inclusive, with the receipts of the port in 18!X>. Also receipts named comprised tonnage, taxes, import duties, export duties, fines, seizures, etc. The receipts by years were: In 1893. $2,109,540; 1894. $2.:t.85.2iK1; 1895, $2,208,234: 189(1. $2,421,532; 1897. $'4,910,870; ■18!H», $3,825,150. It is stated that in three months under the American plan the school attendance in Cuba has Itorn raised from 4.(MM> to HO.fXM) pupils, with 2,(N)0 teachers. Although English is taught, the teachers employed are Cubans. No local school taxes nre raised. The school expenses, which it is expected will Ibis year reach $4,000,000, are paid from the island treasury. The teachers’ wages are higher than those paid in the United States. A correspondent assert* that as a place for u permanent investment Guam has possibilities aside from that of v. cable station, and is unrivaled. Its soil is rich, well watered, nnd is nbundnnt in tropical products. Guam has other advantages—a delightful climate, a good-naturtsl population, and—an American flag. * Porto Rico is one vhst poorhouse and there are opportuultie* for charity nt every «t ep. Were SIO,OOO to la* expended immedlntely for medicine mid medienl aid it would possibly save the lives of 3,000 people. At one time the Government considered the feasibility of assigning n physician to each town at mi aggregate coat of SBO.<XM) per year, but the funds fur such »u outlay are not available. •J~> • The North American Trust Company has pun-haned nearly $1,000,000 of Havana first mortgage bonds.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. ✓ Cannot Locate the Grave of Lincoln’* Mother—Pujriliat Haves Himself and Friend*—Brokaw Fonnd Not GuiltyExpensive Fire at Petqrsbarg. Recent investigation as to the site of the grave of President Lincoln’s mother in Spencer County has raised a serious doubt as to whether the exact spot can be located when the time comes for tho Indiana commission to erect a monument and improve the grounds, and there is much question as to whether the stone that now marks the grave is really over the grave of Mrs. Lincoln. Some time after the burial of Mrs. Lincoln, the bodies of Dr. Cessna and Mrs. Gentry, pioneers of the county, were buried near - the grave of Mrs. Lincoln, but for many years no stone marked any of the grave*. When the headstone was placed at one of the graves, supposed to be that of the President’s mother, there were conflicting opinions regarding which gray's contained the body that it was desired to mark, and - lhe stone was placed in position without a certainty as to the fact. Henry Brokaw Not Guilty. Henry Brokaw, who married 13-year-old Essie McAllister in Jeffersonville, was discharged in police court. His young wife says she will stick to him through thick and thin. Judge-pro-tom. Ryan said he could not find Brokaw guilty of kidnaping iiecause the girl had said time and again that she loved him and that she had been planning to marry him for a year. Her father denounced the laws of Indiana for not providing punishment for Brokaw and her mother called Brokaw n devil and a scoundrel. Lawyer Thomas Hanna has jiapers prepared to annul the _ marriage, but the girl says she will not sign them. Fight to Avoid a Whirlpool. Harry Rogers, the pugilist, and James Riley, a companion, started across the Ohio river in a skiff between New Albany and Jeffersonville. Their boat was overturned by the current and the men were dashed down stream toward the falls and the big eddy, from which treacherous current' no man ever escaped. As the men floated under the Pennsylvania bridge Rogers seized one of the piers. He also caught his companion nnd for more than thirty minutes they battled for life. Finally they were seen and rescued by Louisville life-savers. Petembnr.'j Scorched. After midnight a fire started in Rodimei’s livery stable tit Petersburg, and in three hours everything except three stores on the main street was consumed. Help was asked from Washington, but could not be given. Th.® origin of the fire is unknown. The loss reaches SBO,OOO, partly insured. Farmer H.xnga Himself. Albert Shepard, a farmer living near Linn, hanged himself with a rope to a rafter in his barn. His two sons found him nnd cut the rope and carried the body to the house. Th« rope had almost buried itself in the flesh. He was 55. D'espondency caused the act. Within Our Border*. Oxford ia in the dark. Electric plant burned. Epidemic of whooping cough at West Middleton. Tins Holcomb, Frankfort, sandbagged and robbed. Philip Leonard, prominent Jay County man, is dead. Indiana horseshoers and blacksmiths formed an association in Peru. Eleven tramps were found sleeping in Rev. Butler's barn in Albion. Walter Ryon of Muncie has invented a plater attachment to a sewing machine. Nathan Harcourt, 9, landed a six-and-a-half pound carp at Owens’ dam, near Moscow. Richmond has voted a $225,000 subsidy to the Cincinnati, Richmond and Mnncie Railroad. Mrs. Etta Houke. Westfield, is a candidate for department president of the Woman’s Relief Corps. Miss Pearl Bowls, 18 years old, was fatally injured by a gasoline stove exploding at her home at Brazil. William 11. Poqtifex, a horseman well known throughout Indiana, Illinois and lowa, while talking with his wife at La Porte, shot himself through the heart, dying instantly at her feet. There is a scarcity of window glass blowers and gatherers, owing to the fact that the laws of their union provide that only the sons nr.d brothers of members are eligible to apprenticeship and admission. The Ameciean members are mostly young men without families, and for this reason tho French and Belgian members, most of whom are heads of large families, increase the mem)>ersbip with practically alien subjects, frequently sending to their native country for a brother. American boys say they hav.« no chance of advancing in the industry. Owing to this ntffffition, not more than two-thirds <>Y the window glass capacity of the country is in operation. Frank Bulger, a farm hand employed on a farm near (.Idin, 111., has confessed to the murder of Mrs. Foreman and her daughter at Trailer’s point eighteen years ago. This tragedy has been one of the celebrated criminal mysteries in Indians’* history. Bulger told the story of hia crime to Murshil Murray of Odin, but the latter refuse* to divulge the nature of the confession until a reward is offered for the return t>f Bulger to this State. Murray says Bulger has in his possession a corn knife which he claims to have used in killing Mrs. Foreman on that inorw ing in March. 1882. Further details were uot given. Bulger says he was 18 year* old when the crime was committed. Hancock County Sunday School Association chose E- W. Felt president. Rev. Dr. D«nis O'Donagbue of Indianapolis has tnx'n made titular bishop of Pomario. Harry Thojias, 22, committed aulcida after returnlug' from a suicide’s funeral in Muncie., Elaworth kivingwton. 20, Frankfort, committed suicide by taking morphine. Disappointed in love. The receipts of the Muncie poatoffica are S4OO per month mere than enough ta put It ia the first class. (