Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — Page 3

Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Ry. Rensselaer Time-Table, South Bound. Wo. 31—Fart Mail 4:48 a. m No. 11—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m. Wo. 33—Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45 p. tn. Wo. 30—Milk acoomm., (daily) 6:15 p.m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:04p. m. *No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p.m. North Bound. Wo. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk aceotnm., (daily) 7:81a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (dally) 9:55 a. m. •No. 30—Cin. to Chicago Ves. Mail 6:32 p. m. iNo. 38—Cin. to Chicago 2157 p.m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:27 p.m. •No. 46—Local freight 9:30 a.m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) 9:09 p. m. •Dally except Sunday. tSnnday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Frank J. Rbkd, O. P. A., W. H. McDobl, President and Gen. M’g'r. Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic Mgr, CHIOMO. W. H.Beam. Agent, Rensselaer.

Edward P. Honan, , ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office first stairs east of Postoffice. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, Law, Abstracts, Loans and Real Estate. Office up-stairs in Leopold's block, west of Van Rensselaer street. Jas. W. Douthit, LAWYER, Rensselaer, Indiana. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The L. N. A. AC. Ry, and Rensselaer W. L. AP. Co. over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. .uh< rOLTz. c. a. »riTu««. haksv a. kuaris Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) Attorneys-at-Law. Law, Real Estate. Insurance Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Mordecai F. Chilcote, 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 Farmers' Bank, on Washington St.. RENSSELAER. IND.

J. F. Warren J. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellow's Block. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT. LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. H. O. Harris. E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris. President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issusd on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted at current rates. Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. We Solicit a Share of Your Business. Addison Parkinson. John M. Wasson. President. Vice President. Ein met L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bankin Jasper Co DIHKCTOBS. Addison Pnrklson, G. E. Murray. Jns.T. Randle, John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank 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 Loan* at 5 par Cent hrs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn. Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. R. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Ornes Tslsshoms No. 4S. Rssiosmos Phoms No. S 7. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Postofflce. Rensselaer, Indiana. Ornes Phoms. ITT. RssiasMCs Phoms, tig. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsb's drug store Morri*’ EngiUh Stable Powder rrlee, Ste. per psM-kag*. bold by A. F. Long.

“After suffering for two months from a severe attack of grip I found quick relief and a lasting cure by using Dr. Miles’ Nervine Pain Pills and Heart cure.”—Harry Abbott, Cincinnati Ohio. Warren & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest and commission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County. t Cows For Sale. 200 milkers and springers; always on hand. Sold on one year’s time. Sam Yeoman I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates Funds always on hand. W. B. Austin. S. P. Thompson will sell his lands in Union township, in tracts, and on terms to suit those desiring to farm or raise stock. See or write to S. P. Thompson, Rensselaer, Ind. Bear in mind that the clients themselves control the publication of non-resident notices, notices of appointment, notices of administrator’s and guardian’s sales, notices of survey, and many other legal notices which do not pass through the hands of county or local offices. When you have anything in this line insist on your attorneys placing the advertising in The Democrat.

|i|r That THE DEMOCRAT ? 1 1 Print* The Best m^ orse ar< * s in l/lulllll '' A LARGE SELECTION OF R llllwU HORSE CUTS FOR DIF--11 11 I 111 <’ * ERENT ( LASSES OF 1111 VII <’ BREEDING HORSES.

TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES’ CARDS. Milroy Township. Wm.T. Smith, trustee of Milroy township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on the Second and Fourth Saturdays of each month for the purCose of transacting township business: and usiness relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. Wm.T. Smith. Trustee. Hanging Grove Township. Joseph Stewart, tr istee of Hanging Grove township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on Friday of each week for the purpese < f transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated dav. Joseph Stewart, Trustee. Jordan Township. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that be will be at his residence in said township on the Second and Fourth Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. John Bill, Trustee. PATENTS-’W ) ADVICE AS TO PATENTABILITY < r Notice in “ Inventive Age " ■ Icpte « ) Book “How to obtain Patents” | 4 r Charges moderate. No fee till patent is secured. ’ Letters strictly confidential. Address, ’ r E. G. SIGGERS, Patent Lawyer. Washington, D. C. ’ U. A..A. A A kJ Ed Trade-Marks obtained and all Pat-' l conducted for moderate Fees. 1 ! C IS OPPOSITE U.S. PATENT OFFICE ' secure patent in less time than those l [ i Washington. ;, el, drawing or photo., with descrip-. < idvise, if patentable or not, free of'! ir fee not due till patent is secured. ', ;r. “ How to pbtain Patents," with, i e in the U.S. and foreign countries'! Address, ', SNOW&.CO. urr Ovpice, WASHiwaTON, 0. C. J ’

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SMALLPOX IN MANY STATES.

Diaeaae Wirfeapread, but It Ta Not ViO’ lent at Any Point. Smallpox in mild form is reported from many points in many States, but at no place is it considered really alarming, as far as can be ascertained. Many communities are afflicted with occasional cases of what is sometimes described as “Cuban itch,” because it was first observed when the volunteers returned from the Spanish war. The disease is declared to be smallpox by physicians at some of the places where it developed. Inquiries made through press correspondents all over the country show remarkably few fatalities from this disease. Precautionary measures are not neglected in the majority of States, and the health officers are doing an immense amount of vaccinating to anticipate any appearance of the disease. Unmistakable cases of smallpox have been reported and quarantined in the States of Illinois, lowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Colorado, California, Utah, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The Southern States, Louisiana, Alabajnfl, North Carolina and Georgia, report about as many cases as usual in those localities. . The North and Northwest are having quite an extensive visitation of the mild type of disease, but the fatalities are not many. Places in Michigan which report cases are: Indian Village, G; Saginaw, 3; Essexville, G; Grand Rapids, 2; Detroit, 2; Holton, 3; and Manistee, 2. It is reported in Detroit that the official reports of the health department during one week reported 272 cases. Minnesota estimates place the total cases in the State at about 300, nearly all mild. Those places from which cases are reported direct' are: Stillwater, 8; Mankato, 20; St. Paul, 7; Duluth, 10; Minneapolis. 0. Most of the Minnesota cases are laid to the lumber camps to the north, and a few to supposed infection from returned soldiers. Wisconsin has had quite a battle with the disease in mild form. The places where cases have been and are now quarantined are: Madison, 3; West Superior, 35; La Crosse, 5; Appleton, 1; Milton Junction, 1. Appleton has had quite a scare over the efforts of a physician to test his disbelief in the contagion theory. In lowa the disease has spread over quite an area, but has not become particularly violent at any single point. Cases are reported at Hawarden, Davenport, Sioux City, Dubuque, Keokuk, Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Council Bluffs, the highest number reported being at Fort Dodge, where twenty cases are In quarantine. Aside from Chicago cases are reported in Illinois: At Cairo, 5; Peoria, 2; Quincy, 2; and Bloomington, 8. Indiana is having several small outbreaks, the towns reporting cases being McCool, 4; Wheeling, 12; and Indianapolis, 7. The larger towns in Ohio report a few cases, Cleveland having 20, Toledo 2 and Cincinnati 12. Missouri is quite a heavy sufferer, Kansas City leading with nearly 200 cases in the quarantine, and other towns reporting: St. Joseph, 50; Sedalia, 25; Springfield, 23; Joplin, G; and St. Louis, 21. Salt Lake City has 35 cases to take care of and Butte, Mont., 25. New York Stcte has had 129 cases and 15 deaths so far. Pennsylvania has on hand about 30 cases, but only a few fatalities.

Western roads have agreed upon a rate to Washington for the inauguration of President McKinley. It will be in effect in all the territory east of the Western State lines of Colorado and Wyoming. The rate will be one fare plus $2 for the round trip, except that from points from which the local one-way rate to any of the Eastern gateways, including Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis, is sf> or less the rate will be a fare and a third for the round trip to such gateways, to be added to the rate tendered therefrom, provided that where the one-way rate to Chicago is $2 or less 50 cents will be added for transfer charges. In divisions the amount in excess of one fare will accrue to the lines west of Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis. Tickets at these rates will be sold Feb. 28, March 1 and 2 in the territory east of Colorado and Wyoming and in those two States Feb. 27 nnd 28 and March 1, but the sale of tickets in all cases must be so regulated that holders will not reach the Eastern gateways ear‘Her than March 1 or later than March 3. Returning, the tickets will lie good leaving Washington up to and including March 8. Illinois roads have agreed to the following rates for the G. A’. ft. encampment of the department of this State to be held in Peoria in Muy: A rate of a fare and a third for the round trip from all points in Illinois from which the local one way rate to Peoria is $1.50 or less; a rate of $2 for the round trip from place's from which the Jocal round-trip rate is $2 or more than $1.50, and a rate of one fare for the round trip from all other points in the State and from St. foul*. A bill has been Introduced in the Colorado making “tipping" in sleeping cars a criminal offense. The Rock Island has let a contract for ten passenger coaches of the latest design for February delivery. The pay rolls of the Wabash for December were the largest ever recorded for that month. In the shops more men than ever were employed and the traffic of the system has given employment for •very locomotive owned by the company. • With the taking effect of the springtime table the Canadian PacVftikwill put on a fast train eadpavay between New York and Puget sound, covering the 3,511 miles in eighty hours, twenty-four hours quicker than on any former schedule. Charges of ticket scalping have been preferred against the Mobile nnd Ohio by the Illinois Central management.

PULSE of the PRESS

When speaking of the population of the United States do not forget that it is about 84,000,000. This figure, of course, includes all the islands. —Topeka Journal. Dreyfus is firm in his conviction that the art of “hazing” cannot be developed to its complete perfection, except among full-fledged army officers.—Washington Star. The upper-class men at West Point are not the persons authorized by law to sit in judgment on the qualifications of young men to stay in the academy.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Missouri river has lost its pull with the river and harbor committees of Congress, but it will not cense to pull at both shores all the way from Bismarck to St. Louis.—Omaha News. If salt is the real elixir of life it is puzzling to understand how people who live on the sea and constantly-breathe salt into their systems ever manage to die natural deaths.—Kansas City Star. It looks as if Maine was one of the unhealthiest -States in the Union. Thousands upon thousands of barrels of strong drink were consumed there last year, and all of it as medicine. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. The rapid growth of manufacturing industries in the South is bringing a new class of labor questions to the front there. Just how they will be dealt with will be watched with interest.—Louisville Commercial. The center of the country’s population is still in Incliana. It should not be forgotten that an ex-President who seems to be something of a factor in shifting the balance of public opinion on important issues hails from. Indiana, also.— Philadelphia Bulletin. It seems that Li-Hung-Chang made a present of Manchuria to the Czar last summer. This was the more generous ou the part of the venerable Li, when it is remembered that Manchuria is alcout the only province in China that Li does not own.—Peoria Herald-Transcript. The War Department will be justified in taking the most thoroughgoing measures to put a stop to these degrading customs. They only serve to lower the idea of what honor is in the minds of our young officers, a result harmful to us, as well as to them.—Detroit. And now comes a Yale professor averring that this Chicago University “discovery” of salt as n fotmta in Trf youthhas been known in New Haven for years and years and years. Thus does the effete East smother the scientific enthusiasm of the bounding West.—Newark, N. J., News.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

There are 16,738,362 children and young men and women being educated in the schools and colleges of the United States—l,so3,92l in private institutions, the remainder in public schools, as follows: Public Piivate schools. schools. Elementary 14,(162,488 1,113,822 High schools and academies (>8.519 JC6,t:7B Universities and colleges 30,030 73,201 Professional schools .... 8.540 46.591 Normal schools 41,808 23,572 There are 244,527 school houses, dormitories and other buildings in the United States devoted to education, and they are valued at $524,689,255. There are 415,660 teachers —131,703 men and 283,867 women. In 1899 the people of the United States spent $197,281,603 to educate their children, which is $2.67 per capita of population and $3.20 per capita of children of the school age. The average salaries paid school teachers in the entire United States in 1899 was $45.25 a month for men and $38.14 a month for women. In Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Nevada schoolmasters come high. The average paid to men teachers in Massachusetts in 1899 was $136.23 a month; in Rhode Island, $103.74; in Nevada, slOl n month. Schoolma’ams do not fare so well in those States, their pay in Massachusetts averaging $51.41. in Rhode Island ssl and in Nevada $61.50. The highest wages to women teachers are paid in California and the District of Columbia, an average of $64 a month. In Illinois tho average for men was st‘>o.42 and women $53.27; in Indiana, S4B for men nnd $43 for women; in Michigan, $44 for men an<l $35 for women, and in Wisconsin, s4l and $29. Wisconsin pays her schoottna’atns less than any other of the Stated.

BIG FIRE IN MONTREAL.

Property Valued at Nearly »3,(MX),DIM) Destroyed, At 8 o'clock Wednesday evening a fire started in the clothing house of M. Saxe & Sorts, St. Peter street. Montreal, Que., and before it was brought under control, had destroyed property valued nt lietwecn $2,500,000 and $3,000,009, including the $600,000 Board of Trade building. Outside of this building, however, there was not a modern structure among those burned. The narrow streets. antiqnntisl buildings nnd the inflammable nature of the stocks they contained made a combination which the department was powerless to overcome, and for a time it seemed that the entire business portion of the place would go. Tho tire practically burned until it came to an open space which gave the firemen nn opportunity for effective work. Numerous crowds of people jammed the narrow streets, and the police could not control them. Women fainted nnd their clothes were torn nnd n few slightly injured in rushes for safety. Outside of the Board of Trade tenants thirteen firms were burnod out. Audew Carnegie has offered nn annual prise of SSOO for the most meritorious oil painting by an American artist. Capt. J. E. Bernier, Quebec, will try to reach the north pole, using ice traveling inventions of his own.

INDIANA LAWMAKERS

The Legislature on Thursday passed to engrossment a bill which will be of great interest to the people of northwestern Indiana. It was introduced by Senator Agnew and provides for a waterway from East Chicago on Lake Michigan to Calumet river, to be used as a ship canal. Senator Agnew says he has heard of no opposition to the bill, whihe provides that on petition of one-third of the affected property owners the circuit judge shall appoint three disinterested persons to assess benefits and damages to pay the cost of the waterway. Senator Agnew says if the measure becomes a law northwestern Indiana will have oue of the greatest of inland harbors. The Senate on Friday passed the bill providing for the infliction of the death penalty by electrocution. There were only two votes against the measure. A bill was introduced in the Senate which, if passed, will probably prevent the transportation of natural gas from Indiana territory to the city of Chicago. The present legal pressure at which natural gas may be piped is 300 pounds to the square inch. The bill provides that gas fihall not be piped either within or outside the limits of the State at a pressure to exceed 200 pounds to the square inch and that no pumps or any kind of artificial appliances shall be used to increase the flow of gas from the wells or to force it through the pipes In (lie House A. L. Cooper was seated as member from Clinton County and A. NN . Kidmore unseated. The former is a Republican, and tlie contest was decided by a strict party vote. Bills to establish a minimum wage scale of 15 cents an hour on public work, making void a contract by an employe surrendering the right to sue for damages for personal injuries, and requiring safety appliances for steam boilers were reported for passage in the House. The bill prepared by the fee and salary commission, providing salaries for State and county officers, was killed in the House, being the second measure of the commission to meet that fate. The Senate committee on the judiciary reported favorably Monday on the bill making the taking of a prisoner from the sheriff and lynching him prima facie evidence of neglect of duty and at once vacating the office. The bill was amended so that the sheriff, before he can be reinstated, must show to the satisfaction of the Governor that lie was not to blame. The same body amended the railroad subsiily bill so that no road can secure a subsidy in excess of $4,000 per mile through the township voting the hid. The bill providing for a canal from Lake Michigan to the Caluffiet river was advanced to second reading. The House passeiThy a practically unanimous vote the bill to encourage the borrowing of the school fund, so much of which is now unloaned. The bill takes all the expense of appraisement and recording mortgages from the borrower, and also provides that counties may borrow from the fund, but not for a longer period than five years. The'bill to prevent the desecration of the soldiers’ monument was also passed. In the Senate on Tuesday the Lieutenant Governor held that the resolution offered by Senator Stillwell instructing the Governor to recognize requisition for Taylor and Finley, should Gov. Beckham present one. was out of order. Senator Stillwell appealed, but the Senate sustained its presiding officer by a vote of 28 to 9.

Senator Agnew’s bill providing for the construction of a ship canal from Lake Michigan, at East Chicago, to the Calumet River, a distance of about three miles, was passed by the State Senati on Wednesday. The project which the bill authorizes will take s2,<>o<>.ooo or $3,000,090 and will provide for the entrance of large l lake freight steamers into the 1 canal, making the ground along its borders of immense value for the location of factories. The proposed waterway is to be as large as the Chicnco drainage canal, and Senator Agnew says there is a great demand in Chicago for good factory warehouse sites, and if the ennal project is carried out the result will lie that a large niimlier of factories will come into Indiana territory. The Calumet River nt Hammond will have to b: dredged. The court, under the provisions of the bill, is to appoint a commission of three disinterested persons, who shall make report to tho court us to the bene fits an I damages resulting Crom the con struction of the canal. If the damages exceed the benefits the court may dis charge the commission ami.the work will not have to be carried on. unless by petition If tho canal is constructed, the an thor of the bill says, the land along its course will be worth $5,000 an acre. At no point along the proposed waterway is the land more than seven feet above the level of the lake, which fact will make the canal easy of construction.

Short State Items.

Peter Staub. 100, Madison, is dead. William E. Denton, 101. Madison, died. Indiana glass plants will close April 1 instead of June 1. Smallpox in Michigan City. State prison is quarantined. H. K. Ross’ dry goods store. Sul’ivan, burned. Loss SIO,OOO. Said that zinc in paying qUantit’-es has been found in Carroll Comity. Logansport is already “whooping 'em up" for a big July 4 celebration. Little daughter of Charles E. ,Vaughn, Greenfield, has six living grandmothers. New Indiana postmasters: Bremen, .lames M. Ranstcad; Whiting, Charles D. Davidson. S. 11. Goodman, Wabash, is the heaviest buyer at the great Hereford cattle sale in Kansas City, Invested SIO,OOO. Deputy State Factory, Inspector Richards caused the management of four glass factories to lx* fined for violating the child labor law. A Marion man who, it Is said, swore falsely to bls son’s nge, was prosecuted. John I) Stewart, 83, died in Laporte. He assisted in the construction of tho first blleV building in ludintiapolK Aniuew J. Guy, formerly of Logansport, who was one of the heirs to a large estate, but could not be found ' when it was divided, has liven located in n Colorado hospital, in need ot financial assistance. Benjamin Miller, father of the four children cremated near Pashun, is a raving maniac and It takes three men to restrain him. He imagines he is still able to save his children nnd wants t? rush U> their rescue.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Tale of Double Life Eared—Fatal Re* ault of Quarrel Over a Girl--Fire Destroy* ()p:ra House at Peru—Coin I* Not Found. The recent reunion of tho Sipe family In Kokomo brought to light a romantic story of double life. In 1805 8. T. Montgomery, who married into the Sipe family, was editor of the Kokonr.o Tribune. In 1870 he went to Mishawaka and published the Mishawaka Enterprise. Soon afterward he was reported to have been burned to death in the fire which destroyed the Studebaker wagon works. Mrs. Montgomery returned to Kokomo, l ive years later NVilliam Montgomery, the oldest of the children, found his father at La Grange, Ohio, where he had married again and was serving as Mayor of the village under the name of “Maj. NN right 8. Clarke.” Young Montgomery did not dfitelose his discovery to his mother. Mrs. Montgomery died several years later without knowing that her husband was alive. Ten years later young Montgomery met “Maj. Clarke” at Manistique. Mich., where “Clarke” was publishing the Manistique Pioneer. Thia time lie introduced himself and the father acknowledged his identity, but the secret went no further. Young Montgomery Obtained control of the Manistique Sun, a rival publication, and run it in opposition to his father’s paper, a bitter newspaper war being kept up for years. Eight years ago the son moved his paper to Republic, where he was burned to death in trying to rescue his family. “Maj. Clarke” died at Manistique a short time ago. He was a Mexican and Civil War veteran.

Slain with a Knife. Lee Walker, a farmer lad 20 years old, stabbed to death Edward Brown, a lifelong friend, at a church in Point township. The young men had for several months past sought the company of the same young lady. NValker took her to prayer meeting on a recent night, and after the meeting Brown met them on the outside. A few words followed and NN alker drew a barlow knife and began cutting Brown. “Don't kill me,” he cried, as he fell at the feet of the young woman. After he fell NValker stabbed him several times. He then walked up to the girt and wiped the knife on her apron with this remark: “I guess you are now satisfied. You chose him jn preference to me.” NValker escaped.'

Opera House I* Destroye 1. The Miller opera house in Peru was destroyed by- fire, together with its contents. The plant of the Daily Chronicle, the job printing plant of Miller & NVallick, the confectionery store of Charles Griswold and the farming implements store of D. E. Inkenbury were also damaged. , The loss on the opera house is $20,000, covered by insurance; loss ou Daily Chronicle plant, $2,500, and to Miller & NN allick, $2,000, both insured. A defective light in the dressing room Of the theater caused the fire.

Operation Without Results. Surgeons cut into the trachea of the little son of \\ illiam Purdy of Pawpaw township, to remove the gold coin which the boy swallowed six months ago, .and which with the aid of the X-ray, was found lodged in the trachea. The surgeons failed to discover the coin where it had been located. They say the gold piece must have slipped down into tho bronchial tube ami that another operation will be necessarv to save the boy’s life.

Within Our Borders. Oscar E. Lewis will be Shelbyville’s next postmaster. South Bend will celebrate its seventieth anniversary. Marion United Brethren Church reports a revival with 134 accessions. Anderson business men are trying to secure the Hoffman automobile factory from Cleveland. Gus Theobald of Shelbyville, by mistake moved his goods into a house which he had not rented. Delaware County Prohibitionists endorsed the actions of Mrs. Carrie Nation at Wichita, Kan. Anderson people believe that burnedout carbon ends of electric lights are good for rheumatism. North Lincoln citizens have their guns loaded for a “peeping Thomas" who has been annoying them lately. Elizabeth Parigin of Clinton County has lived under every President of the United States. Her age is 104. E wood has ordered up till board sidewall;* because of the large number of damage suits caused by "trips."

A country boy who clerks in n Knightstown store walks to and from his home, three miles, and is always on time. Montgomery County Commissioners grunted two franchises for electric roads from Crawfordsville to Indianapolis. Naw Castle has a chib called "The Western Star." Its motto is “Purity,” anil its aim to do all the god possible. The proposed election to choose a i ostmaster for Kokomo has fallen through, lis all the candidates have withdrawn. Walter Cason. Lebanon, plead s! pu’lty nt Frankfort to assault and battery on Miss Minnie Kern, nnd was fined $25 and costs. A worm tub in a Lawrenceburg distllle.'y burst, flooding everything in reach. Several workmen narrowly escaped drowning. Jchn Lockridge killed nn eagle near Veruailles which weighixl fifteen pounds nnd measured seven feet two inches from tip to tip. Benjamin F. Jones, 71, and Charles G. Adams. 46, well-known business men of Columbus, an l dead. Several persons were poisoned at a social, near Washington, by eating popcorn balls Mveetenml with syrup. There wore no serious results. After shooting JI. C. Brannmati, near Clearspring, John Plummer killed himself. They quarreled over gravel. Brananiati was not seriously injured. Mrs. Mary Bryan Cobb. New Ixindon, 98, delivered nu address to school children. She has a personal recollection of all the wars since the Revolution.