Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — Page 7

GARDEN AND FARM

ITEMS OF INTEREST ON ACRICULTURAL TOPICS. Cleaning Eggs For Market-Banking Up Around Buildings—Feeding Mash to the Fowls-To Find Weight of Live CattleFeed Cutting-Etc., Etc. CLEANING EGGS FOR MARKET. I have been engaged for ten years In buying eggs and shipping them to market, and in almost every lot there have been more or less dirty and stained eggs. The only way of cleaning sueh eggs that I have found to give satisfaction was to wet a fine sponge, squeeze it as dry as possible, and use it to wash or rub off the dirt. As for stained eggs, they are unfit for market, and no hqnest person will sell them for that purpose, no matter how much they may have been cleaned with acids.—H. B. Howard, in Agricultural Epitomist. BANKING UP AROUND BUILDINGS. For banking up around buildings sawdust is without doubt the best. When it cannot be secured, use partly rotted manure, with a large portion of straw in it. That left about old straw stacks, around which stock run all' winter, will do very well if the banking up is done early, so it can have time to settle down before frost. This will resist cold wind and keep out frost wonderfully, and it will not heave or crack by frost, as soil or the more heavy kinds of manure will do. Partly rotted horse manure is also very good for banking up around buildings. FEEDING MASH TO FOWLS. The pet theory of feeding mash to fowls early in the morning has been exploded practical tests, which prove that fowls cannot be kept thrifty when given a full feed of soft mash for first meal. Fowls must be kept busy, and the only sure way to do this is to give only a small portion of what they actually require for first feed and then put them to work on grain of some kind buried in straw or litter. A full meal should be given just before dusk so that the fowls may go to roost with ! well-filled crops. A very good system of feeding is one ’ heaping tablespoonful of mash, made of boiled vegetables, scraps, etc., thickened with equal parts of cornmeal and middlings, for each grown fowl, given as -early as the fowls can see to eat, then follow this up with one quart to each twenty fowls of whole oats, I wheat millet or cracked corn. * If this amount apparently satisfies the fowls then decrease tire supply, but be sure to cover entirely with straw or litter of some kind, so that not a grain can be had without work.— Home and Farm. THE POULTRY AND EGG BUSINESS. It Is probable that if an accurate census of poultry and eggs can be taken it will be found that the value thereof will exceed $300,000,000. This is ah enormous sum am’ throws the ••fancy” part far into the shade. It is the great trainloads of poultry and eggs going to the large cities that show the magnitude of the poultry industry. With a population of 80,000,0)0 people, and estimating that each person consumes $5 worth of poultry and eggs in one your, the sum is S4OO 000.000. Then there is the large number of eggs used in the arts. Wo are sti>l importing eggs, npd our country does not supply itself. While the farmers largely assist in this production, yet the cities, towns and villages contnbi thousands who keep small flocks. The hen Is but a small creature, buc there are millions of hens, and they produce something every day in the year. In the face of a great array of figures and facts let the poultry business have its proper place, for It Is the rival of any other. Cattle, horses, sheep, swim* and even wheat are falling to the rear aehiud poultry. And yet it is styled a “fancy” business, and breeders fail to comprehend the figures.—Connecticut Farmer.

SHEEP AS FERTILITY CONSERVERS. A large proportion of the lambs which are rained In West Virginia for the production of mutton are tnarktteti In the fall, and although this Is iimloubtC4lly tlie simplest way of disposing of the surplus lambs, yet this practice possesses some serious defects, for when animals of any kind are constantly irnlng nokl from a farm, with now nnd then some hay or grain, the* fertility of the soil is continually carrletl away, and unless commercial f< rtlliters are employed to supply the deficiency of potash nnd phosphoric acid, the productiveness of the land must constantly diminish. On the other hand, if them* lambs can be profitably ffltteniHi during the winter they may be mntlc to consume the clover hay or other coarst* fodder of the fnnn which lias only a small commercial value. Also the farmer is enabltxi to feed his grain nt home instead of being obliged to draw It several miles to the railroad station. In addition to the grain which Is raised upon the farm, some of the concentrated feeding stuffs, such ns cottonseed meal, linseed meal or wheat bran, can generally be used to advantage In the fattening ratten, nnd as ench of. these materials contains a large quantity of nitrogen, phosphoric add and potash, which Is recovered In the manure, It is seen that when the policy of feeding lambs dur-

Ing the winter is intelligently carried out the land will gradually become richer, instead of poorer, because more fertility will be added by the manure than is carried away by the lamb crop. —West Virginia Experiment Station Bulletin.

TO FIND WEIGHT OF LIVE CATTLE. There are many rules for estimating the weight of cattle by measurement, but one of the authorities on the sublet says' that ‘ there is no rule that comes nearer- than good guessing,” and that “no two animals will weiglp alike according to measurements.” The same authority further remarks that a rule, as good as any, is to find the superficial feet by multiplying the girth, just behind the shoulder blade, by the length from the fore part of the shoulder blade to the root of the tail. Thus an ox girthing seven feet nine Inches and measuring six feet in length would contain seven and three-fourths times six, or forty-six and one-half superficial feet. For cattle, grass fed, the following is given as the weight per superficial foot: Girth less than 3 het 11 pounds Girth 3 to 5 feet it; pounds Girth 5 to 7 feet 23 pounds Girth 7 to IT feet .31 pounds Thus the steer, as per above measurements, should weigh 46.50 x 31, or 1,441 pounds gross. Under this rule, it is usual to deduct one pound in twenty on half-fatted cattle, from fifteen to twenty pounds on a cow having had calves and if not fat an equal amount. The author of this rule suggests its use only when the scale is wanting, as the scale is the only true standard.—Omaha World-Herald. FEED CUTTING. I have been asked what advantage there is 1n cutting feed; I would say the principal advantage Is the saving of waste. There is less opportunity for the stock to pick over and select out the best than when the roughness is fed whole. Then, too. there is a better opportunity for making up complete rations, as bran, middlings, cottonseed, and oil meal can all be used to a good advantage, rather better than with the feed given whole. Clover hay and bran or middlings, or, in fact, any kind of hay or straw run through a ?utting box and a small quantity of ground feed added makes a good ration for all kinds of growing cattle, sheep or horses. Unthreshed oats can be fed to O good advantage in the same way. In nearly every case where ground feed is fed, it will pay to cut a sufficient quantity of roughness to mix with it in feeding. All will be. eaten up dean, lie more thoroughly masticated and better digested and the animal will secure a larger amount of benefit, and at the same time save from thirty to fifty per cent, of your feed. The more we look into the question the more I am convinced that If the intelligent, economical farmer will save everything that grows on his farm suitable for feed, in five years he may be independent; able to keep a year’s supply on hand to tide over an occasional off year when it comes. The value of corn fodder and bright straw when reduced to a pulpy mass will be surprising, and is enjoyable food for the animal and a profitable one to the farmer and breeder.—William H. Patten, in Farmers' Guide. THE APPLE ORCHARD. Perhaps you know an orchard in which every tree had dead limbs on it the entire season. They were certainly not retained for ornament or utility, and that living the case, their retention cannot be accounted for, except upon the supposition that the management has been negligent. These disfiguring limbs should have been removed last spring, or earlier, but there have been times during the summer when they could have been taken from the trees. If the season has been as wet in any other locality as it has been in this section, there has been a great deal of time that the farmer could hardly employ to advantage in ordinary farm management. The ground was too wet to cultivate for many days, and the orchard could have been greatly Improved by lopping off dead limbs, and burning such portion of them as could not be used for fuel. But if the work has not been done, do it now, or just as soon as it can be done. Any tree that does not produce good apples is an ineumberer of the ground, a self-evident fact that none will care to dispute. If the tree is starved, it should l>e fed. If It needs pruning, prune it. If it needs cultivating, cultivate it. But these things need not Im? elaborated, for the necessity of doiu* them is well known. It ought to be well known, too, that a wedling tree that is worthless, ought not to Im* left standing without being grafted. Yet I know an orchard that contains 30 worthless seedling trees, good vigorous trees. It goes without saying that we have land In this country to waste and that we waste it In one way and another, but what can be the operation of the mind of a man. who will Incumber the ground with worthless trees that he might make valuable by so simple a process as grafting? The apple is good for years to come, and those who prepare to supply the demand will bo wise.—M. G. W., in The Epitomist. Corpses of paupers are being used as targets In testing rifles and field guns by German army experts. Australia, a country remarkable for Its large enters, has the h'lghest death rate. About 36,000)000 bableaare born Inta the world every year.

BALLOTS ARE CAST.

ELECTORALCOLLEGE PERFORMS .QUADRENNIAL WORK. Cnmberaome Method of Choosing the Nation’* Chiefs—Resultj Forwarded to Washington Popular Vote and Pluralities for President Since 1876, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt were, elected President and Vice-President, of the United States at noon Tuesday. The electoral college met at that time. It cast 447 votes. Of these 21)2 were given to McKinley and Roosevelt and 155 to Bryan and Stevenson. The electoral college does not meet in a body. Its membership consists of the electors chosen in each of the forty-five States of the Union lust November. The electors of each State journey to their respective State capitals. They meet with the Governor of the State and other dignitaries. At noon each member casts a ballot for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates he was chosen to elect. The ballots are then counted. When this ceremony is completed three statements are drawn up. Each statement is a duplicate of the others. These statements certify that the votes of the electors have been cast according to law and the will of the people. They also state the number of votes given each candidate. The statements are sealed in envelopes. One is sent by mail to the Secretary of State at Washington. Another is placed in the hands of a special messenger, who Is directed to proceed by the shortest and most expeditious route to Washington and deliver it to the President of the United States Senate. The third is placed in the hands of the judge of the district in which the electors convene. In this way loss of the,statement or failure of it to reach Washington according to law is avoided. The House Tuesday passed a bill appropriating $12,500 to defray mileage of electoral messengers bearing to Washington...the verdict of .the people in the. last presidential election. At noon Feb. 13, the presidci.it of the Senate will summon the doorkeeper of that body, and opening the safe will deliver to him the forty-five sealed envelopes. The doorkeeper will place them in two new cherry-wood boxes, and carry them into the Senate chamber. The members of the Senate will form themselves into a procession and inarch under police escort to the House of Representatives. There the House officially will receive the Senate, and the business of counting the official returns will begin. When the result is known the president of the Senntu will announce to the assembled Congress: "William McKinley has been duly elected President of these United States, and Theodore Roosevelt Vice-President, for four years beginning March 4, 11)01." Then, and not until then, is the full ceremony of a pi'esidential election an accomplished fact. The electoral vote as cast by the electors of the various States Tuesday is us follows: McKln- Bry-1 McKln- Bryley. an.- ley. an. Alabama 11 Nevada 3 Arkansas .*• V Hampshire 4 California .. I) o .\ew Jersey., to Colorado 4! New York ... 3(1 Connecticut. <) .. X. Carolina.. .. 11 Delaware .. 3 . .j.X'. Dakota .. 3 Florida 4 Clino ...23 Georgia 13 Origin 4 Idaho 3jPennsylvania 32 Illinois 21 . . Khode Island 4 Indiana .... 15 ..’B. Caroilna. . ... 9 lowa 13 ..is. Dakota ... 4 Kansas .... 10 . .Tennessee .... 12 Kentucky .. .. 13 Texas 15 Louisiana .. .. 8 I'tah 3 Maine <» ..[Vermont .... 4 Maryland .. 8 ...Virginia 12 Massaehus'ts 15 . . Washington .4 Michigan ... 14 . W. Virginia . H Minnesota .. t) . . Wisconsin, ..12 Mississippi . .'. ti Wyoming ... 3 Missouri 17 Montana 3 Total 292 155 Nebraska ... 8 ..I McKinley's majority, 137. In connection with the recent quadrennial meeting of the electoral college the popular vote of this and some preceding elections is of public interest. The figures are: 1900— McKinley 7,200,077 Bryan . 0,374,397 McKinley’s plurality 533.280 189 G—McKinley 7,104,779 Bryan 0,502,925 McKinley's plurality (311,854 IW2-Cleveland 5,3541.918 Harrison 5.17H.10S - Cleveland's plurality 380.810 1888—4'leveland 5,588,233 Harrison 5,410,210 Cleveland's plura'itv 98,017 ISM— Cleveland 4,911.017 Blame 4,848,381 ("level ind's plurality C 2.683 1880 -Garfield 4.440.0.53 Hancock 4,442,035 Garfield's plurality 7.018 1676 T 1 den ? 4.284.885 Hayes 4,033,950 Tilden's plurality . 250,935

WILL IGNORE EMPRESS.

Chinese Plenipotentiaries Will Not Heed Latest Elict. Prince Chiug and Li-Hung-Chang have been presented with the identical agreements of the powers arranging the preliminary peace terms, and havi* both declared their intention of signing them even if it costs them their heads. They received a deem* peremptorily directing them not to sign the preliminary note nnless the demands for the razing of the Taku forts, the estiildishmeut of .permanent foreign military posts between I’ekin and the sen. nnd of legation guards at I’ekin, and for the prohibition of arms in Chinn are stricken out. After a conference, nt which they went over the whole situation, they determined, in spite of the order of the Dowager Empress, to sign the note. Disobedience of a dt*erce of this nature is always punishable by death. Prince Ching and Li-Hung-Chang telegraphed to the Dowager Empress repeating their nrguiU4*nts in favor of signing the note, nnd pointing <*ut the impossibility of Chinn making nny resistanc4* to the demands. They ad<k*d tjiat they had received the first edict directing the acceptance of the terms, nnd ordering them to sign th<* note. They hail communicated this to the powers, which In lfse|f coustitutvii an acceptance which it wns now impossible to revoke. Chicago’s public library has 200,000 vohimes and sixty substations.

SIZE OF HOUSE INCREASED.

Burleigh Amendment of Hopkins Bill Fixes Membership at 357. By a vote of 165 to 102 the National House Tuesday afternoon adopted the Burleigh reapportionment bill as a substitute for the Hopkins measure. The Burleigh bill fixes the membership of the House at 387 and does not reduce the representation of any State, but increases the representation of twenty-one States and provides for thirty more members than are now authorized. The Hopkins measure provided for a House of 357, the size of the House as now constituted, and deprived eight States of one member each and increased that of seven States. The States that would lose under the Hopkins bill were: Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina, Maine, I Virginia. Texas would gain two members, while Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and W<?st Virginia would gain one member each. Under the Burleigh reapportionment bill adopted by the House no State will lose a member, and those that will gain and the number are: Arkansas 1 Missouri 1 California li New Jersey 2 Colorado New York 3 Connecticut li North Carolina 1 Horida 1 North Dakota 1 11 1 toots ... ........ 3- l*e a usy tva n 1 a .. ~ lowa 1J Texas 3 Louisiana ........ 1 Washington 1 Massachusetts* .. . I'West Virginia 1 Minnesota 2 Wisconsin 1 Mississippi 1[ As the measure was agreed to, Illinois will have twenty-five members, and together with New York and Texas will gain three members each, and Minnesota, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will gain two members each, while fifteen other States will gain one member apiece. If the reapportionment is adopted by the Senate in th*- shape in which it went through the House, the representation of the States will be: Alabama 9 Nebraska <; Arkansas 7 Nevada 1 California 8 New Hampshire .. 2 Colorado 3 New Jersey 10 Connecticut srNew York 37 Delaware ........ liNcrth Carolina ...10 Florida 3' North Dakota 2 Georgia 11 Ohio , 21 Idaho ............ 1, Oregon ...2 Illinois 25; Pennsylvania 32 Indiana 13 Khode Island 2 lowa 12; South Carolina .... 7 Kansas 8; South Dakota 2 Kentucky 11 Tennessee 10 1.0u1.-iana 7: Texas Iti Maine .. 4 I tab 1 Maryland 61 Vermont 2 Massachusetts ...14 Virginia 10 Michigan 12: Washington ..3 Minnesota t)j West Virginia .... 5 Mississippi 8 Wisconsin 11 Missouri 1C Wyoming ... 1 Montana 1

Few-Line Interviews.

James J. Hill—We have as a nation gone further in mastering the problems of land transportation tliiin any other country in tin* world. We have some advantages over Europe in matters of railway transportation on account of the enormous size of our country and the length of our extreme hauls, but even with that a comparison of the rates paid by the public in the. United States with those paid by the people in Europe is very instructive. The average rates paid in Great Britain is more than 2*4, cents a ton mile. The average on the continent outside of Russia is from 2 to 2.1 cents per ton. mile. Russia is about 1.8 cents. In the United States about 7 mills is the average rate, or less than one-third of the average rate charged throughout Europe, whether the roads are operated by private corporations or by the respective governments. In Germany the rate is about 2 cents per ton mile. The rates east of Chicago are, I may say, % cent a mile. West of Chicago they are from % of a cent to 1) mills.

Andrew Carnegie—Capital, business ability, manual labor are the legs of a three-legged stool. While the three legs stand sound and firm the stool stands, but let any one of the three weaken and break, let it l>e pulled out or struck out, down goes th?* stool to tht* ground. .And the stool is of no use until the third leg is restored. Now, the capitalist is wrong who thinks that capital is more important than either of the other two legs. Their support is essential to him. Without them or with only one of them be topples over. Business ability is wrong when it thinks that the leg which it represents is the most important. Without the legs of capital and lalior it is useless. And lust, let it not lw forgotten that labor also is wrong, wildly wrong, when it assumes that it is of more importance than either of the two other legs. That idea has been in the past the source of many sad mistakes.

Matt Dougherty of Sydney, Neb.— There is one improvement in the cattlesheep situation that I am glad to see, and which I hav?* long hopeil would come nround, and that is tlie realization on the part of the sheepmen of the need of I>ermanent pastures. The time is fast drawing to a clone when free and tinreatructed range can Im* had in the West. The country is becoming too thickly populated, Those parts of the country where It can Im* said that it is twenty to forty miles from OU4* ranch to another are now very few, mid the “cattle on u thousand hills” have become the cattle on a thousand acres.

Capt. F. N. Dickens, U. S. N.—The Indiana was put out of commission Im-cpusc the navy had not enough men to officer ami man her. Our navy, so far as whips, ordnance and men go, is admirable. But there Is n dearth of men nnd officers even now. We can’t, as It is, keep nil our ships at sen. What will be tin* discrepancy when the new ships building dr soon to lie built nre demanding men and offi cers along with those ships we now have? The crying need of the navy is more men and otticers, very many more. Bishop Thompson of Mississippi—l snppoze there is n larger penvntnge of old men in Mississippi than in any other State—at least, It seems so to me, and I have been in a good many. By old I mean from 80 to IX). They nre not decrepit old men who hug the fireside, but are quite lively old fellows. There is no chance to b4*eome rich in Mississippi, Everybody knows it and does not w?>rry himself into an early grave trying to. The population of Arizona is now 122,000, a gain of 65,000 in ten years.

WINTER WHEAT DOES WELL.

Crop Report for December la Decided* I ly Favorable. The climate and crop bulletin of ths weather bureau for December shows th« following general conditions of wintei wheat: While the middle of December wa« §nite cold to the eastward of the Mis* sissippi, especially over the northern dis tricts, the month as a whole ’was mild and generally dryer than usual, the tenv perature being much above the average over the northern districts to the wesb ward of the upper Mississippi valley, There was, however, decidedly jnore than ■the average rainfall in the south Attain 'tic and east gulf States and on the north [Pacific coast. The winter wheat region has been practically without snow protection through* out the month, but the crop has not been subjected to marked extremes of temperature and is generally in promising condition, especially over the western portions of the winter wheat belt. There is quite general complaint of injury by Hessian fly, but the ravages of this pest seem largely confined to the early sown wheat. In western Kansas, the greater part of Texas and Southern California winter wheat has suffered from lack of moisture. The following reports from Middle Western States are also given: Missouri-—Month remarkably pleasant and exceptionally favorable for wheat; aside from some damage by fly to early sown in eastern and southern counties the crop is in excellent condition, Illinois—Favorable weather for wheat which is generally in very good condition; there has been considerable damage in the central and southern districts by Hessian fly, though it is serious only in a few localities; absence of snow covering caused slight damage from freezing is a few localities. Indiana—Weather mild and dry; rain or snow needed; rye and wheat hav« made some growth and look green; fly injured some early sown; clover and timothy look well; tobacco stripping has begun; corn most all cribbed; much corn fodder shredded; plowing and other farm work well advanced. '< Ohio —Reports on wheat variable, but 'general condition only fair; weather favorable for growth except too dry in some eastern and central Counties; very little snow protection; slight damage by freezing and thawing; injury by fly in early seeded general; of later sown there are many healthy fields, but many with unsatisfactory stand. ■ Michigan-—Lack of snow protection with alternate freezing and thawing has been detrimental to wheat, the genera.' condition of which is rather poor; correspondents quite generally note the pres ence of Hessian fly.

STORM IN THE WEST.

Unprecedented Snowfall Buries the Pacific Slope. A terrific snow and windstorm swept over the entire Pacific slope west of the Rockies, in many places paralyzing al', lines of communication, causing great property damage and burying large districts under unprecedented falls of snow Within forty mile's of Reno, Nev., a heavy passenger train was thrown from the rails by the force of the wind. At Yreka, Cal., seventy-two inches of snow fell in two days, and the precipitation in many other sections has broken all records. Under the weight of snow build ings have collapsed, trains have been in definitely stalled and grave fears are enz tertained for ranchers and farmers, while the stock loss undoubtedly will be large. Many trains and snow plows are tied up in the Siskyou Mountains, where eleven feet of snow has fallen. Telegraph wires are prostrated. The Fort Jones and Etna stage was stalled in the mountains. The gale seems to have raged not only on the southern coast, but all along the line from Santa Cruz to Cape Flattery. The waves rolled mountain high at Fort Ross. Old-timers report that it was the worst storm ever known.

THE RAILROADS

The Chicago and Alton company has arranged to establish a passenger agency in Pittsburg. The California limited passenger train of the Santa Fe is now operate?! daily between Chicago and San Francisco. The Grand Trunk Railroad will soon put in service on its Western and Middle divisions thirty-six "mogul” fr?*ight engines. General Passenger Agent Daniels ot the New York Central officially announ<*es the lease by bis road of the Boston nnd Albany. The Union Pacific fast mail made a record of little more than a mile a minute for 150 miles from Grand Island to Omaha the other day. Projcrts are now under way to extend th?* Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf road in two directions, and in each ease, if the liii?»s are built, connection will be mad?* with th?* Santa Fe. Employes of the lowa division of the Northwestern system have Ikm-ti requested to Im* vaccinate?! to protect themselves nn?l patrons of tin* road against smallpox, which is prevalent in several lowa towns. Vice-President Morton of the Snnta Fe Railroad system believes that the Nicaragua canal will prove injurious to the mercantile and manufacturing Interests of the interior portion of the United States, even though it should greatly benefit the extreme eastern nnd w??Btern sect ions. On?* of the interesting little of the year is one issued by the passenger department of the Eastern UMnois. It Is entitl?Bl ‘ The Riviera of America.” It is descriptive of Florida ami its coast rw sorts. This road hns through connections between Chicago and Florida. Not earnings of the Rock Island Railroad system for Noveniber nm?>unt?*d to $718,650, an incrcas?* of s<’>,o37 over Nor?Tnb? rof last year. Net enrnings of the system for the eight months ending Nov. 30 were $6,174,171), an increase of $284,314 over the corresp?)nding period of ths yreewding year. w

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE 1 PAST WEEK. 3 Crime Found in Canal Bed—N«w Mail Routes to Be Passed Upon—Park at Nancy Banka’ Grave Father Pe» ■ dared Innocent of Murder. J " ■ 4 With the passing of the last vestige of the old Wabash and Erie canal tjiere has been brought to light evidences of one ot the many tragedies that have occurred along its banks. Workmen ejnployeil in excavating along the only remaining stretch of towpath in Pike Codnty unearthed the bones of a man and-woman. It is believed that the find explains the mystery that surrounded the sudden disappearance of Lillian O’Ryan and her sw'eetheart, Patrick Toole, almost fifty years ago. The story is that fifty years ago they took a walk together, that she refused to marry him and that tie killed her and himself. They both mysteriously disappeared. A plain gold ring with the initials "L, R.” engraved on< it served to identify what remained of Lillian O'Ryan and a rusty dagger near by shows how she met her death.— New Indiana Mail Routes. In this State alone there are more than 500 petitions on tile for the establishment of free rural mail routes, and word has come from Washington-that action will be taken on these petitions within the next sixty days. Indiana has been well looked after in the rural postal service, scores of routes being established in various parts of the State during the last six months. Some time ngo it was stated that the department at Washington would decline to grant more routes for Indiana until the system had been introduced in numerous other States that had not been so well looked after. It appears, however, that it has been d<*cided ' to extend the system all over the corn try and Indiana is not to be neglected Is Now Indiana’s Property. After many years of effort the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln, is now the property of the State. Gov. Mount has received the deed for the ground in the immediate vicinity of the grave in Spencer' County in behalf of the Nancy Hanks Memorial .Association, The*, ground4s-to be turned into a park and a custodian will be put in charge and much beautifying done. J Father Acquitted of Murder. The jury in the trial of W. 11. Fuller , on the charge of murdering James Tower at Vernon brought in a verdict of acquittal after having been out twenty-six hours. The case was tried twice before, the jury each time disagreeing. Tower was a school teacher at Brewersville, and March 10 last pun'ished Fuller’s 1 daughter. A quarrel followed In whicl Tower was shot and killed. >

Fatal Wreck on the Biir Four. A passenger train on the Big Four roai traveling at the rate of fifty miles a: hour ran into an open switch at Andei son. The engine fell on its side> and th ears left the track. John Crite, the en gineer, was killed, and John Bates, the fireman, of Wabash, seriously hurt. None of the sixty passengers was injured. Cracksmen Blow a Safe. The postoffice at Wellsboro station, 0: the Pore Marquette and Baltirpore ant Ohio railroads, was entered about nooi and the safe bloivn open and rdhbed oi a large quantity of stamps. There wai no money in the safe. The robbers escaped. The job is credited to Chicago safe blowers. Jealous Lover Stabs Girl. George Sizemore found his sweetheart. Belle Calloway, in company with Robert Julius in the Keystone club rooms at Marion, and, being jealous, attacked them both with a knife. The woman was fatally stabbed and Julius is in a serious condition. Sizemore escaped. 1 Within Our Borders. Columbus Elks gave a minstrel show, j Anderson's furniture factory destroyed by fire. Loss SIO,OOO. Skull <>f Valentine Huffman. Brazil, crushed by a street car. Dr. H. W. Cure, Martinsville, wellknown physician, is dead. About $10,018) was raised for.the new Christian Church, Shelbyville. Indiana oil hits gone up to 82 cents a barrel, and there is rejoicing among pro-i ducers. Sudden death of Vardeman Brown. i’>B, Elwood, thought to have been chused by his grieving over his wife's death. Mrs. H. Miller Howard, well known in the thentrii-nl profession a* Nellie Esniou*le, formerly of Bloomington*, died in Colorado, of consumption. Marion’s police force doubled, and all persons suspi'cti'd of being criminals, who cannot give a good account of themselves, will be arrested. Crime has been com- ! mon of late. Lodgootee doesn’t want her natural gas piped to Washington and Vincennes. The . town board will appropriate money to’ buy or drill wells, to furnish fn‘<* gas to j factories, as an inducement to locate there. During a severe windstorm nt Michi- . gau City Charles Ely and Fred Mecklenburg. two fishermen, went out ,to their , nets in Laki* Michigan, and before they could return their bont was capsized andboth lost their lives. * • Miss IJzzie Biers of Wntcrford is fa-t-Jly Injured ns the result ot being made tlie victim of a practical joker. Miss Bi<*rs attended n dancing pnrty. and as she was about to take her scat her chair was jerked away and she fell,'sustaining internal injuries. It is tin*.purpose of the family to hold tht* joker rcspoafil ble for her death. Daniel Alley. 12, Windfall, tridd to kill himself by drinking horse medicine, because bo thonght his father was going to punish him for some offense.' Mrs. Emma Adams, 50 years pld, died suddenly at it church entertainment in Evansville. Just as her little son rose to’ deliver a declamation she fell over dead. Death was due to heart disease. The big saw nnd tile mill of Graft & Kleigh. nt Echo, destroyed *by fire. The mill was fitted wp with expensive modern machinery nnd the buildings wers costly. The loss is SIO,<XMJ. The Mt* was the work of Incendiarhia.