Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — Page 3

(Chicago, Indianapolia tjnd Louisville By. Rensselaer Time-Table, South Bound. Eo.Sl-Fast Mail ... <:«». m Vo. s — Louisville Mail, (daily).... ..10:55 s. m. N 0.33 Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:46 p. m. No.39—Milk accomin., (dai1y) ...... tjU p. m. No. 3 Louisville Express, (daily)..ll:o4 p. m. •No. 45-Local freight. 2:40 p.m. North Bound. No. 4-Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40— Milk aocomm., (daily) 7:31a.m. No. 32-Fast Mail, (daily) ••““ “• •No. 30—Cin.toChioago Vea. Mall.. 8 =32 p. m. INo. 38-Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p. ra. No. G—Mail and Express, (daily)... 337 p. m. •No. 48—Local freight 9:30 a. m. No. 74—Freight, (daily) #•‘o9 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. {Sunday 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, Reed, G. P. A„ W. H. McDoel, President and Gen. M g r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic Mgr. CHICAOO. W. H. Beau, 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, first stair* 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. A P. Co. ittice over Chicago Rurguin Store. Rensseluer, Indiana. ,u>r. roiu. c. a. SPiTiaR. MASRY «. KunKta Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson & Bro.) Attorneys-at-Law. Law, Real Estate. Insurance Abstracts and I.oans. Only set of Abstract Books in the •County. RENSSELAER, IND. Mordecai K. 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 Sn all of the courts. Office over hanners’ Bank, on Washington St.. j RENSSELAER. IND. » : -J.P. Wurren J. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. •Collections. Farm Loans and Fire lusuranoe. •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. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Sauare.) RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bank in Jasper Co. DUtBCTOfiS. Addison Parkison, G. E. Murray, Jas.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 •hare of your patronage is solicited. Farm Loans at 3 per Cent. Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. B. Washburn willgirespeetalattention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eyes for glasses. Orncs Tslssmoms No. 41. •IssiaSNCi Phons No. *2. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E>C. English, • Physician & Surgeon. Offire over Postolfice. Rensselaer, Indiana. Orncs Phons, 177. Rssibsnos Phons, ll*. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larch's drug store Morris* English Stable Powder iii.'Kajsagasg.w*- ' Bold h, A. P. 1, - ,ti*.

“After suffering for two months from a severe attack of grip I found qnick 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 ana commission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County.

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 o.t write to S. P. Thompson, Rensselaer, Ind. Bear in mind tbat the clients themselves control the publication of non-resident notices, notices of appointment, notices of administrator’s and guardian’s sales, notices of survey, aud many other legal notices which do not pasw 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.

H|T That THE DEMOCRAT i. Prints The Best Ilf HUT Horse Cards ■ ]> A LARGE SELECTION OF HORSE CUTS FOR DIFFEREXT CLASSES OF BREEDING HORSES. TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES’ CARDS. Milroy Township. Win.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 purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will oe done on such designated day. Wm. T. Smith. Trustee. Hanging Grove Township. Joseph Stewart, tr istee of Hanging Grove townstiip, gives notice that he will be at bis residence in said township on Friday of each week for the purpose < f transacting township business: and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. Joseph Stewart, Trustee. Jordan Township.^ John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he 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.

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HANGED AND BURNED.

FRENZIED HOOSIERS TORTURE GEORGE WARD. African Who Killed Miaa Finkelstcln Taken front Jail at Terre Haute, la Swnng from a Bridge, and Later Incinerated in Oil. George Ward, the uegro who murdered !/liss Ida Finkeisteiu, the aehool teacher, near Terre Haute, Iml., was placed in jail at 11 o’clock Tuesday moruiug, and shortly before 1 o’clock was tnken out by a mob, dragged face downward to the banks of the Wabash, only two squares away, at the wagon bridge ut the foot of the main street of the city, thence to the draw, and hanged from a beam more dead than alive. Then his body was cut down and tumbled off the bridge on the west hauk of the river and a tire built, on which he was burned. For two hours the crowd came and went in thousands, while a few hundred gathered close to the fire and renewed it as k died down with oil mid-crates from a near-by poultry house. The hat was passed around several times foe money to buy oil. Home of the bridge weather-hoarding was torn off for fuel. No effort was made by the authorities to stop the inhuman conduct, uud so far as appearances went it was simply a big bonfire, watched idly by a great number of people. The lynchers were not disguised. When'the crowd near the fire tired of renewing if after two hours, it was seen that the victim's feet were not burned. Home one called an offer of a dollar for one of the toes, and a boy quickly took out his knife and cut off a toe. The offer was followed by others, and the horrible traffic was continued, youths holding up toes and asking for bids. Ward’s arrest was brought about by his neighbor, who, having read in the morning paper of the murder of Miss Finkelstein ami knowing that Ward hnd been hunting, informed the police. Ward was a day laborer at the car works, and there the police found him. He denied everything, and told a story of his whereabouts Monday afternoon. His hand was badly cut. lie said the wound was made in climbing a barbed-wire fence. At police headquarters he was searched, and a few dollars found in his pockets. The first story told was that he had robbed Miss Finkeisteiu of sls, but her money was found where the struggle took place iu the woods east of the city, along the path she took from her country school. After u time at headquarters Ward confessed to Sheriff Fasig- He said: “I was out hunting and while walking just north of the golf grounds met u young lady. I was walking behind her when she turned to me and told me not to walk behind her. but to walk in front of her. I replied, ’All right, lady,’ aud started to walk around her. When I was almost even with her she turned to me and called me a ‘dirty nigger’ and struck me. 1 pulled up my gun and shot her. I was about ten feet away from her aud she fell on her face. I pulled out my knife while she was on her hack and cut her throat. I then got up and walked toward the car and came into 10th street, where I got off.”

MANY HURT IN TRAIN WRECK.

Thrc! Fatally and Twelve Severely Inj tired on Wabash Railway. The west-bonud Wabash limited from Detroit to Chicago jumped tho track a mile and a half west of Millersburg, Ind., plunging over a 20-foot embankment with forty-three passengers aboard, all of whom were injured to some extent, three fatally. The train had just passed over a high trestle, running fifty miles au hour to make up lost time. A defective rail caused the wreck. It caught the baggage car, Vblch left the track with the day coach and two slec|>ers, the ears rolling over and over iu their terrible descent. Every ear except the baggage car landed top down. It seemed as if the passengers, who were thrown pell-mell in the quick revolutions of the cars, would all he killed.

Few-Line Interviews.

Chauncey I*. Overfield of Halt Lake City—Outside of Halt Lake City, iu the rural districts, polygamy is being practiced by the Mormons in Utah almost as much as it ever was. Polygamy is not extinct in Utah. The younger generation does not practice it so much. I might say for them that they do not as a rule, hut their fathers do. In Salt Lake City liot over 45 per cent of the population is of the Mormon faith, but outside tho Mormons dominate the towns, and they make up between 70 and 75 per cent of the people. They send Mormons to the State Legislature, and everything is of that church. The men will have their wives iu different towns, many miles apart. The wives may not, and probably do not, know where their consorts reside.

11. B. Ilickox of Ottawa, Kan.—As long as the government licenses the sale of liquor I don’t rco why it Is not legal. But, come to think of it, there may i>e n constitutional question involved in that it may he questioned whether or how far the general government has the right to recognize as legal a traffic in n State which that State says is illegal. Senator-elect Joseph It. Burton of Kan* sns—lt is a matter of surprise to the people of Kansas that so much notice is paid to Carrie Nation by .the Eastern papers. She’s a molehill in Kansas, and a towering peak in New York. We have put the lrndge of illegality on the saloons In Kansas, and When the people get tired of having them they can close them up. Congressman Littlefield of Maine— Culm is n foreign country mid as such we have no right to prescribe limitations in drafting its constitution. Legally, I do not see that Congress has uny power to modify, reject or amend in any way the Cuban constitution. The Teller resolution is binding upon Congress, and I believe that Congress should stand by its pledge. I should very much like to see Cuba and the United Htntes on very Intimate terms, but there can lie no such thing as a dependent and independent government.

SAMPSON-MORQAN INCIDENT.

REAR ADMIRAL SAMPSON.

Rear Admiral Sampson, jn official cor respondent made public in Washington, has taken a position distinctly-offensive to American ideas, says a correspondent. The naval appropriation bill authorized the President to promote six warrant officers in the navy to the grade of ensign each year after an examination to determine their qualifications. A young gunner in the navy named Morgan, who was iu charge of the divers that investigated the wreck of the Maine, and afterward served With Sampson nil the flagship New York, applied to his former commander for recommendations for promotion under the provision referred to. Capt. Sigsbee gave him a hearty indorsement. but Admiral Sampson, while testifying to hi- efficiency as a non-commis-sioned officer and his soldierly appearance and behavior, advised against liis advancement on the ground that lie had not enjoyed the social advantages necessary tu qualify him to enter the navy. The admiral also expressed the hope that the Secretary of the Navy would not carry out that provision of the bill which authorizes the promotion of warrant officers because the chief duty of the navy in time of peace is to represent the country abroad, and the officers should therefore be men of refinement. Secretary Long and the President do not agree with Admiral Sampson. While Sampson will be criticised aud denounced for snobbishness .by the public generally, his position will be sustained by The officers of tlie navy, who have assumed to be the aristocracy and exclusive branch of the government and have stubbornly op nosed every proposition that looked to the promotion of men from the. ranks. Then* are now oil the list several officers, like Admiral llichhom, who came into the service from civil life through the engineer and construction corps, but since 1860 no one has been commissioned who lias not been educated at Annapolis. The law authorizes the President to promote private soldiers who have distinguished themselves in. the army after an examination that shall demonstrate the mental and moral qualifications, but .this lias never liecu allowed in the navy until now. The engineer corps in the navy have complained of social ostracism by the officers of the line in eases where the officers entered the* service from civil life. Candidates for paymaster and surgeon have been compelled To bring powerful social influences to secure appointments, and there is no question that Admiral Sampson has expressed the almost unanimous sentiments of the navy.

TO PUNISH WIFE DESESTERS.

Chicago Bureau of Charities Discuss the Whipping Post. In a report issued recently the Chicago Bureau of Charities urges au amendment to the Illinois law on wife desertion which shall compel offenders to support their families by hard work in prisons. The whipping post method, as adopted in Delaware, is discussed and the European

A DELA WARE WHIPPING POST.

system of hard labor is advocated as th< more feasible and humane plan. Attention is called to the fad that las! year the local Bureau of Charities wui called upon to deal with <KIS families left destitute by the desertiou of the husband The Cook County agent gave relief ic ],tHmt such families and the Chicago Re lief and Aid Society assisted ISO. Iu view of these statistics the bureau consider, the situation alarming and calls for a more effective law.

Telegraphic Brevities.

The output of rice for this season in Eastern Texas is not less than 150,00(1 tons. Two white deer have been killed in tits Adirouducks this winter, the first in fifty years. Lord Roliert*’ title has been gazetted ns “Earl of Csiidnhar and Pretoria and Viscount Ht. I’ierre.” Knoxville, Tenn., proposes to put up a big convention lin 11. so as to gather all the big public meetings in that section. Chief Justice Lore of Delaware, who has had forty years’ practical experience iu dealing with criminals, declares ihnt the whipping post drives criminals out of tho Htate. A tree-planting association in New Jersey, after nn experience of several years, reports that “the results In improved nppearanee, general attractiveness mid comfort during tile Rummer season are most favorable mid out of all proportion to the comparatively small cost." Gov. Beckham has been presented with a cane liy a Virginian, who claims that it was made from n piece of Thomas Jefferson's office desk. The date of Jefferson's birth nud death, his dying words ami extracts from the declaration are cut into the wood iu the most unique aud artistic style.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Muat Answer for Old Mnr Jer—Great Religious Excitement Roused by a Woman-Plan of Widespread Trolley System—Arrest r.f Boy Mail Thieves. George and John Reeves, charged with murdering Deputy Sheriffs John E. Gardiner and William Cox in Dubois County June 1, 1885, are now confined in the county jail at Jasper. Sheriff Herman Castrup uud a deputy having received the prisoners recently from the authorities at Frankfort, Ivy., where they had just been released from the penitentiary. On the day of the murder the two deputy sheriffs came upon the Reeves hoys on a country road and attempted to arrest them for robbery. The officers were pounced upon by the two brothers, who took their revolvers from them, and after emptying the contents into the bodies of the deputies stole a couple of horses and fled. They were not heard of until ten years later, when it was learned that they were in the Kentucky penitentiary serving a sentence for burning the town of Cadiz. A requisition was secured, but before it could be served the Reeves boys broke out of prison and were at liberty until recently, when they were arrested by the sheriff at Mount Vernon, 111. Gov. Durbin issued a requisition on the Governor of Illinois for their return, but the Kentucky authorities were ahead and thn prisoners were taken to Frankfort, where they had two weeks of their original term to serve. Await “Coming of Christ.” The vicinity of Burlington and New London is at the present time iu the throws m a new and peculiar religions excitement. A strange woman, who refuse! to give her name, has been going about the country preaching what she terms ‘‘Christ's tempcval kingdom.” Her work, at first confined to family visits at the home, lias made such progress that she is now holding large day and night meetings and many people are in a religious excitement bordering npotr frenzy and are contributing large amounts for the construction of a great temple, ip which they are to await the “coming of Christ" to take charge of this “temporal kingdom.” The woman shows evidence of a splendid education, is richly garbed and mere than ordinarily good-looking. Her speeches are not mere harangues, but are delivered in an impressive, oratorical style. Project Big Trolley l ine. A. B. Clark, local attorney for the Clover Leaf Railroad, says that plans are well toward maturity for the capitalization of an electric railway corporation to construct a system with Frankfort as one of the main terminals from which there will radiate electric lines to Tipton, Kokomo, I.ogansport, Delphi. Lafayette, Crawfordsville and Lebanon, with Indianapolis as the southern terminal. Toy Gang Kofis Mail Boxes. John Cook. Oscar Hayworth, li> years old, and William Sherry, 11) years old, were arrested in Muncle charged with robbing postoffice mail boxes. A United States detective made the arrests after several weeks’ investigation. Sherry made a partial confession, implicating Bert Williams, Frank Burnette and \Y« liam Overs «s comprising au organized gang. All are under arrest.

Indiana Gas Has Brief Life. W. H. Blatehley, Htate geologist, gives out a discouraging report concerning tho Indiana gas supply, lie says the decrease in pressure the lasi year has been greater than in any year since gas was discovered. He now places the life of the field from fom- to five years. Htate News in Brict. Mrs. Jacob Miller. 54. near Union City, hailgcd herself, Uutil recently mic was iu nn itisanc asylum. Judge W. C. L. Taylor. Lafayette, died of bronchial pneumonia. He was twice elected to the bench without opposition. Fedullas Rhodes, aged 71 years, an Indiana pioneer, fell out of bod at Muncle anil sustained injuries from which he died soon afterward. Linas Brown, aged 25. attacked his aged father with a shoe knife and stubbed him several times at (’handler. The <•1.1 mail cannot survive. Brown, who is insane, was arrested. The cost of maintenance for each inmate in the Marion soldiers' home is 15 cents a day, or a fraction less than 855 a year. The total cost of each inmate is u little over SDM> a year. There is a case of smallpox at Petersburg, and tin- town council closed the -schools and prohibited public meetings. This action broke up a revival, and some of the chqreli people are worked up. The closiug of saloons is demanded, mid a Carrie Nation crusade is threatened. The Indiana natural and illuminating gas company, Frankfort, recently covered nil meters with locked Iwixes, refusing to give patrons keys to the boxes. Judge T. H. Fulmer tore off the hs-k. Another was put on, nud notice given that gas would he shut off if the net were repiwted. Judge Palmer tore off the second lock mid brought action to restrain the shutting off of gas. It will Ik* made u test ease. Gilbert Emmons, Itusliville, was given judgment for $t!,54M) against the Big Four Railroad Company, in Anderson. Emulous hoarded a train iu Anderson, with the intention of beating his way to Ritshrillc, having spent all his money looking for work. He was ordered off, but says that before he had time to comply, one of the trainmen kicked him iu the face. He fell under the wheels and his leg was so badly injured that it had to lie amputated. Mrs. Mary A. Paschell, postmistress at Trenton, has just celebrated her eightyfifth birthday. She was appointed to the positiou by President Lincoln and lias held it ever since. Frank Boyce, South Bend; James Harris, Elkhart, nnd Arthur 'Wells, Chicago, arrested at Kankakee, 111., confessed to robbing Jeweler C. C. Wolf, Rochester, of ftißU worth of valuables. Vance Gynn, an employe at the tin plate works at Middleton, murderously assaulted Superintendent Gilt suer with g gas pipe, crushing his skull mil Inflicting fatal injuries. Gynn escaped.

INDIANA LAWMAKERS

The hill to require women to remove their hats and bonnets in all public places, including churches, was killed by the House Thursday. The women gained a second victory when a constitutional amendment giving them the right of suffrage, which was supposed to baveibeen dropped, was reported from committee and agreed to by the Senate. The House passed the Senate bill providing for the consolidation of railroads under provisions which, it is claimed, practically destroy the power of tho judiciary over them. The House also passed a bill defining the practice of medicine and recognizing osteopathy as a science. The Calumet equal bill advanced Friday by the adoption of the majority report, favoring it. The debate Was very bitter. One member pronounced it “damnable.” Railroad members fought it to the end. Fortner's quo warranto bill was reconsidered aud killed. The bill permitted a citizen, on giving bond, to bring quo Warranto proceedings when the prosecuting attorney fails to net to determine whether a franchise has been violated. The Brooks express bill was advance 1 to third reading in the House ou Tuesday, nfter an attempt was made to kill it, by 42 to 35. A strong petition from I.ogansport was received by the Governor protesting ngainst his signing the consolidated railway hill. A bill passed the House for life imprisonment for kidnaping. Many Representatives justify the Terre Haute lynching and the anti-lynch-ing bill made no progress. The House, by n practically unanimous vote, passed the bill to remove the hoard of woman managers of tho Woman’s Prison an I Industrial School for Girls. The bill requires tho Governor to appoint a now board of managers and makes the members removable at will. This is the result of the investigation by a legislative eonimit’tee of charges of cruelty made against the management of-the institution Gov. Durbin on Wednesday vetoed th<Joss railroad consolidation bill, said to have been drawn at the instance of Eastern financiers. In his message the Governor saiil he objected decidedly to taking from the State all control oyer i s own domestic corporations. Further, h - insisted that the bill would take must -of foe suits against railroads out of the Htate courts into federal courts and force citizens to go long distances to pres - cute suits, The 14tate also would surrender all power over Indiana roads an 1 would he powerless to cope with foreign railroad corporations, and once this power were lost it could never fie regained. As n result of the lynching TXeirenrcnt the Legislature has indefinitely postponed ‘ all action on the only anti-lynching bill before it. All temperance legislation before the Assembly was killed. The express companies fighting the Walsh express hill joined forces with the railroads in fighting the Calumet canal bill.

Short State Items.

N*nv Methodist Church dedicated at Hhnrpsville. Shelbyvilie Knights of Pythias dedicat ed a nc-w castle halt. Work has begun ou an electric line between Wabash and Peru. The 11. & M. Railroad will build a slo,ooodepot in Richmond. M. M. Nye will lie recommended for postmaster of Crawfordsville. Capt. William D. Htone. Union City, well-known soldier, preacher and teacher, is dead. There will be five postmasters to appoint in Madison County, and a lively light is on. Frank Samuels, Brawn County, crawled into a hollow log and caught five young wolves. Matthew Chambers, Andersou. has sued the Big Four Railroad for damages because of the loss of his Bible. At Brazil Benjamin F. Simpson was appointed receiver for the Chicago an 1 Southwestern Railroad Company. Mrs. John Jordan, near Dresser, is dead. She weighed 070 pouumis. and was the mother of thirteen children. Several flint bottle plants have been closed for au indefinite period, owing t > the depressed condition of the trade. Miss Lou Kudieil, 22. Connersville, killed herself with morphine. She is said t<• have quarreled with her sweetheart. Isaac Gibson. Linden, tried to board a freight train, but missed his hold and was beheaded, lie was going to a dying sis ter. Anderson Liquor Dealers' Association has ordered its members to observe the Nicholson law to the letter. Result of revival. Indianapolis capitalists have proposed, to furnish Anderson $200,000 to extend tile water works and electric light plant and build a city hall. J. E. Brady, Chicago, will buy 1.000 acres of land near Columbus to be used as a ranch for tho bleeding find raising of white-faced Hereford cattle. Word lias reached Terre Haute that Rev. William Situs, formerly a pastor at Highland Place, a suburb of Terre Haute, lias been convicted of wife murder at Poplar Bluffs, Mo. Ceci. 1 Miliick, near Yorktown, was badly injured by trying to ride a blind mule through a barbed wire fence. The unite hit the wires at full gallop. In the recoil the rider was thrown under the animal. A syndicate of capitalists has leased 10.000 acres of land ill two towusliips of Lupurte Comity, in the Kankakee marsh district. They will secure leases covering 15.000 acres more, it is said, and drill for oil. Experts say that this is one of the best oil fields iu the Htate. Milton Haney was accidentally shot by a woman member of the. local tribe of Daughters of Pocakontns in an initiation ceremony held at the lodge room in Kokomo. In mistake she used a revolver that had fallen from the pocket of a me tuber instead of the one filled with blauk cartridges provided for tin- occasion. Men interested in the Deitrich gas syndicate luivo a project on foot to build a a electric line from Fort Wayne to the Fountain County coal fields, through Lafayette. The only saloon in Deep River was cleaned out by women. Porter saloonkeepers have been warned that their places will be demolished unless they stop selling liquor to certain men. Minnie Hultx, 15, daughter of a wealthy farmer of Arcnna, Grant County, eloped with John Marlow, and they were married iu Niles, Mich. It was at first feared that the girl had been khlunped.