Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. " lIcNSSELAER, ■ • • IHBiAPU.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

At Griifithsville, W. Va„ Minnie Waddell, 12 years of age, shot a burglar a* lie wus entering her home (luring the ab gence of her parents, and then stood watch through the night over her wounded victim till her parents returned in the morning. The directors and stockholders of the Hamilton and Liudewuld Electric Transit Company have transferred the street car property and Lindenwald Park over to the Ohio Southern Traction Company, which runs from Cincinnati to Dayton, Ohio. The purchase price is said to be )f250.0(H). The jury in the case of Herbert W. Pearson of Duluth, Minn., against the Greut Northern Railway Company reported its inability to agree and was discharged. Mr. Pearson sued to recover $1,500,000 for the location of vast beds of coal in the States of Washington and Montana. Thomas Langford, chief of the fifth battalion of the New York fire department. was thrown thirty feet by the breaking of a ladder at SS Prince street. It is feared his spine is broken. The fire, which burned for an hour before it could lie located, caused a damage of at least $40,000. The grand jury at Indianapolis that has been investigating the insanity trust reported. It failed to return indictments against the parties involved because there had been no evidence of criminal intent. The report says: ‘‘There has been no violation of the laws of teh State of Indiana, but we are also of the opinion that the law has been abused.” The combine of light oilcloth rontpanies of the country, to be known as the Standard Table Oilcloth Company, was effected the other day under the laws of New Jersey. The capital stock is $10,000,000, underwritten by Youngstown, Ohio, capitalists. The combine consists of seven concerns. It is expected that Youngstown will lie the headquarters of the new combine. A pitched battle in which 3,000 persons took part resulted from the invasion of Evanston, 111,, by a band of 1 hiwieitvs attended by one hundred /ion guards in uniform. Bad eggs, decayed fruit, stones Hnd dead cats were thrown at the e£horters. The guards undcrßßilc instantly to punish those who had done the throwing. A wild riot resulted, in which tlie Dowieites were defeated. At the bi-monthly wage conference between representatives of the Amalgamated Association and Secretary Nutt of the labor bureau of the Republic Iron and Steel Company at Youngstown, Ohio, the wnges for puddlcrs Were advanced from $4.87% to $5.25 per ton. Finishers were given un advance of about 5 per cent. The increase dates from July 1 un I affects about 40.0(H) employes. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L. VV. L. Pittsburg ~,80 25 Brooklyn ....84 82 St. Louis. ...37 21) Boston 21) 31 New York. 1.32 20Cincinnati ...28 30 Philadelphia 85 30 Chicago- 22 47 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Boston 88 21 Washington. 20 20 Chicago .....42 24 Philadelphia. 25 35 Baltimore .. .32 25 Cleveland ...24 30 Detroit 30 20 Milwaukee . .22 43 South-bound passenger train No. 7, on the Chicago and Alton Railroad, from Chicago, crashed into the second section of freight train No. 88, two miles west of Norton, Mo., shortly before 0 o’clock Wednesday morning. Both engineers and the conductor of the fredght train were killed instantly, and fourteen pus seiigcrs were killed and forty others were Injured. The coaches took lire and were burned. The truius collided headon while going at a good rate of speed. The engines were pushed to either side of the track and practically demolished, while the forward cars of the passenger train telescoped each other.

NEWS NUGGETS.

High prices were puit] fur magnificent jewel* auctioned nt Christie'* in London. Privilege of pay chairs in New York parks will be revoked, owing to opposition of the public. Ohio Democratic State convention refused to indorse Bryan and the Kansas City platform. Kilbourne was nominated for Governor. The State Department has received the amount of the American indemnity claim againNt Turkey, $'.15,000, through the American legation at Constantinople. The Younger brothers have been released from prison by the Minnesota pardon board after twenty-five years' imprisonment. They must uot leave the State. An explosion in the engine room of the El Paso, Texas, smelter started a fire. The fire was confined to the furnace department, and shippers having ore at the smelter will lose nothing. The dunutge cannot yet be estimated. The residence of John M unroe, 1 Hue De Longchamps, Paris, has l»een robbed of jewelry valued at 80,000 fran s. The robber* entered an opeu window on the ground floor in the absence of the family and while the servant* were at dinner. The mill operatives at Tapper Lake, N. Y., tKW in number, are on strike for shorter hours. All the mills are closed and trouble is feared. Home of the strikers, it is said, threatened to burn the mills if their demands were not granted. The international convention of the Independent Order of Good Templars held Ita annual session in Utica, N. Y. The order bad its birth there flfty years ugo. A special from Greenville, Tenn., Mays: “Mrs. Martha Patterson, the last of the children of ex-Presldent Andrew Johnson, la dead. Her last boura were peaceful.” By a seeming error in the will of Jacob 8. Rogers, the sura of ‘‘seventy-five thousand thousand dollars” is bequeathed to bia nephew Theodore B. Rogers, Jr., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art may 4get nothing.

EASTERN.

The President has appointed Fred Greiner postmaster at Buffalo, N. Y. Tornado hit Sing Sing and did natch damage, causing a panic iu the penitentiary. Attorney General Philander C. Knox has bought a home in Washington at a cost of SIIB,OOO. St. Agnes’ Church, Brooklyn, was struck by lightning and burned down, and three firemen were fatally crushed by falling masonry. Pierre Lorillard, Sr., well known because of his success as tobacconist, yachtsman and turfman, is dead. He left a fortune of $25,000,000. At Binghamton, N. Y., the explosion of a dynamite bomb ended the life of Floyd W. Lewis, a cousin of the late Philip 1). Armour, of Chicago. Prof. John Fiske, of Cambridge, the famous lecturer and historian, died at Hawthorne Inn in East Gloucester, Mass., front the heat. He was 59 years old. The six-story building in Baltimore occupied by A. Hoem & Co., lithographers, was damaged by fire. The four upper stories were gutted, causing a loss of $150,000. James Burke, a printer, was found dead in his lied in New York. There was a pool of blood at liis head. A woman, supposedly ids wife, has been missing for a few days. A north-bound car on the Main street line smashed into a New York Central coal train at the Jewett avenue crossing at Buffalo. The car was crowded with passengers, and several were injured. Frederick D. White, sou of Andrew I>. White, United States ambassador to Germany, while temporarily insane, shot and killed himself at his home in Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. White was 38 years of age. Four Italian miners, while on a apree, went to an abandoned coal mine at Catsburg, about a mile from Monongahela City, Pa. They were overcome with tire damp and-were found dead later in the day A collection of United States stamps from the first issue to the present time was stolen from the postoflice exhibit in the government building at the Buffalo exposition. The value of the stamps is $4,000. The Baltimore nnd Ohio accommodation train from Connellsville, crashed into nu engine on a siding near Mount Pleasant, Pa., and was wrecked. Many passengers .were more or less injured, but none of them fatally. Iu Albany, N. Y., Raymond Albers, a 13-year-old lad, shot nnd killed Emanuel Koehler, u boy of 12 years, and then hanged himself. The boys were playmates, and according to statements of neighbors they hud quarreled some days ago. The big dressed beef storage warehouse of A. A. Jewett & Co., Philadelphia agents of Swift A Co., of Chicago, was almost destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $300,000. The immense stock carried by the company was nearly all destroyed.

WESTERN.

A shower of frogs fell on Minneapolis during a storm. Ernst Reid, colored, was hanged at Carthage, Mo., for the murder of his wife Jan. 19. 1900. Jose Sanchez, who killed Catherine Almundares last December, was banged at Silver City, N. M. John T. Higdon and Earnest E. Grater were drowned by the capsizing of a boat near Wheatland, Wyo. Guy Monett, an express company's employe at Bucyrus, Ohio, committed suicide. He was SSOO short in his C. O. D. accounts. Mrs. Bridget Croghan, aged 73; died at Xenia, Ohio, from nervous collapse caused by the explosion of several cannon firecrackers. Hollin Hawkins, a farmer residing near Newton Falls, Ohio, shot and killed his wife and then attempted suicide. Jealousy was the cause. James Wilson, Jr., son of tho president of the First National Bank of Fremont, Ohio, committed suicide while temporarily deranged by heat. An envelope containing $2,000 in bonds of the City of Hiawatha, Kan., was lost recently by an express messenger at Topeka, and has not beeu found. Autone Flnstad and Gunder Paulson were drowned near Starbuck, Minn., while fishing. John Finley, the third member of the party, was saved. Mrs. Annie Post, of South Bt. Paul, and Oscar Norris, recently of Independence, Kan., were drowned in the St. Croix River near Rush City, Minn. Comptroller Dawes has resigned, to take effect Oct. 1, so as to devote his entire attention thereafter, to hia Senatorial contest with William E. Mason. Harry Thomas, a bo.v, was fatally burned at Lima, Ohio, by hot asphalt thrown upon him by Hays Tailor, a street laborer, whom he was teasing. Jacob Eidenauer and hia son were killed and three others of the family fatally wounded by three Italians who attacked them with knives at Wheeling Junction, Ohio. * President Hoeffner of the Hoeffner Packing Company, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who was seriously burned by the bursting of a pipe In the establishment, is dead. Fire at Wilbur, Wash., raged for six hours, destroying the principal business district of the town. The cause of the fire It unkuown. The losses aggregate about $175,000. Mortimer Nye, ex-Lieutenunt Governor of Indiana and one of the beat known public men in La Porte, was stricken with paralysis at Union Mills just as be closed an address. The celebration of the Fourth at ChL cage makes a record for the city. Them are no fatalities, no big fires, fewer accidents than usual and less disorder than ha* been known for years. Donald Nichole and Samuel Taylor, each about 5 years old. were burned to death lockad In an outhouse in Louisiana, Mo. Thay had been playing and probably set fire to a can of coal ofl. Thraf men held up a Great Northern tMtft In daylight near Great Falls, Mont., wrecked and rifled the secured $00,01)0, injured three passengers and escaped to the Bad Land*. The business portion of Polo, a town of 1,000 Inhabitants la Caldwell County, Missouri, was destroyed by fire, causing

a loss oi over $50,000. The bank of Polo and twenty buildings were consumed. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the First National Bank lot Hope, N. D., and the First National Bank of Thief River Falls, Minn., to begin business with a capital of $20,000 each. .. i ■ • . Thomas Spaulding was shot and killed by Albert Johnson, who then blew his own head off with a Krag-Jorgensen rifle at the United States barracks in Columbus, Ohio. The men quarreled over a woman. Barney Fisher, 45 years old, sat in the third story window of 33 West Court street, Cincinnati, to cool off. The next day his body was found on the pavement with his skull crushed and the legs broken. •» Miss Eva Itecd, artist and botanist for Shaw's garden in St. Louis, was run over and killed by a train near Louisiana, Mo. She was a sister of Mrs. Carrie Marshall, of lowa, who is well known as an authoress. At Dendwood, 8, D„ the Jewelry sjore of S. Solomon was entered by burglars. They succeeded in escaping, after securing $5,000 worth of diamonds. Three men have been arrested and are held pending investigation. Several bridges went down stream during a cloudburst at Sandyville and Westfield, Ohio. Farm implements floated off like cork, and crops in the vicinity were destroyed to the extent of $35,000. Lightning struck four barns. General Manager Taylor of the Republic Iron nnd Steel Company, of Youngstown, Ohio, has just made an inspection of tho Buhl mill at Sharon, which has been idle for more than a year, and it will be started within thirty day*. 8. R. Dawson, inventor of Damascus steel process, who has served half of ten years' sentence for killing his son-in-law of a day, has been paroled by Gov. Shaw of lowa, that his valuable discovery might not die with him in his cell. Striking misers at Telluride, Colo., engaged in A riotous attempt to stop operation* at Smuggler-Union property. Two men are killed and several wounded. Troops were ordered out anil held in readiness in expectation of further trouble. Jessie Morrison, convicted of manslaughter in the second degree for the murder of Mrs. Clara Wiley Castle on June 22, 19(H), was sentenced at Eldorado. Kan., to iJTt- years in the penitentiary iu dose confinement at hard labor. The south-bound Indianapolis express on the Cincinnati, Hamilton nnd Indianapolis road jumped the track at a switch at the South Hamilton, Ohio, crossing. The engine and two of three passenger coaches turned over, but miraculously no one was killed. The grasshopper situation in some sections of Minnesota is alarming. Acting State Entomologist E. B. Forbes defines the boundary of the scourge in these words: "The Red River Valley, all the way from Wiikiu County to Kittson County, is suffering." The strike of freight handlers employed in the warehouses of railroads oxtering East St. Louis, who went out recently to enforce a demand for an increase of wages, has been declared off, the railway companies granting an advance of 15 cents a day. Four men were fatally and three others seriously injured by a gas explosion in pit No. 1 of the series of shafts of the new waterworks at Torrence road, Cincinnati. The explosion is supposed to have been due to a small vein of gas that was struck in the excavation. Mrs. Ida O. Heim, wife of Michael G. Heim, the millionaire Kansas City brewer and park proprietor, secured a divorce on the ground of cruelty. Judge Teasdale awarded her $30,000 cash alimony and $l5O a month for five years, together with the custody of-their 10-year-old boy. E. W. McConkey, for many years one of the most prominent stockmen and farmers in Northern Missouri, murdered John Bryant and his son, aged 18, at St. Joseph, and soon after the double erixlfe sent a bullet into his own brain. McConkey went insane from the of the heat. Ole McMillan, a night watchman, was shot and killed by J. Metzner while the latter was resisting arrest at Humboldt, lowa. McMillan's body was riddled with a charge of buckshot. Metzner is said to have been intoxicated nnd was abusing his family when the officer attempted to arrest him. Thomas Davis, of Frankfort, Kan., shot himself three times fifteen minutes after he had been arrested for embezzling from the Austin and Western Manufacturing Company of Chicago, for which he traveled, selling road graders. It was alleged that he sold machines and failed to make returns. Miss May Harding, 20 years old, wa« burned to death in a farmhouse, three miles west of Indianapolis. She tried to start a fire with coal oil while alone In the house nnd her clothing was iguited. The house was entirely consumed and only the boues of the young woman were found in the ruins. '

SOUTHERN.

William Nunn and Airs. Nunn, of Ceredo, Ky., and Hownrd Mead, of Catlettsburg, Ky., were fatally injured by fulling from an electric car over an embankment near Clyffeslde Park, Kentucky, John B. Slaughter, of Fort Worth, Texas, bus bought the ranch aud cattle of the Nave-McCord Cattle Company, of St. Joseph, Mo., for *205.00,). The ranch comprises 100,000 acres of luud in the Texas panhandle. Rev. Ureenough White, late professor of ecclesiastical history and polity at the University of the South, was found dead in his room at Sewanee, Tenp. He had taken his life by drinking carbolic acid. Prof. White had been mentally unbalanced for some time. The Preshvteriau Theological Seminary has been handsomely remembered by the late W. T. Grant. All hia estate was 14ft to the institution, with the provision that an annuity of $5,000 be paid his wife. It Is said the estate is worth about $200,000. A charter has been filed at Austin. Texas, for the Houston Oil Company, with a capitalization of $30,000,000. The company has been organized to handle oil produced in the Texas field, and ie primarily iutended aa a competitor of the Standard Oil Company, firot in Texas and afterward in the domestic and export trade. The death of J. R. G. Pitkin, former postmaster of N#w Orleans, and ex-mtn-tster to the Argentine Republic, not with

standing tbe certificate of the coroner that death was due to natural cause#, ia believed to have been a ease of suicide. A half-emptied bottle of laudanum waa found in his room. Since his enforced reSignation from the postmastership, Mr. Pitkin had felt humiliated.

FOREIGN.

Danish schooner laden with naphtha exploded in the Kattegat, seven men being killed. Cassel Grain-drying Company failed aa a result of the suspension of the Leipziger Bank. Korea is said to have requested the withdrawal of Japanese officials from that country. Socialists and ministerialists had a riotous quarrel in the Belgian chamber of representatives. Joseph Chamberlain announces the title of King Edward Is to be changed, and London believes this means he is to become "British Emperor.” (Jen. Lord Kitchener reports that the Boers Wrecked a ti'aiu at North Nabroomspruit. Nineteen persons were killed, including four natives. After cabling to Krueger, Gens. De Wet, Botha and others have notified all Boers that nothing short of independence will satisfy the Transvaal President. Prince von Hohenlohe-Schillingfuerst, formerly Chancellor of the German Empire, died at Rogatz, in Switzerland, of senile debility. He was 82 years old. Cantou advices by the steamer Braemer give details of the loss of 306 lives by a landslide and flood, occurring at Lung Keng in China. The landslide was caused by a tremendous earthquake which unsettled land and sea.

IN GENERAL

The Allis-Chalmers Company is to build two big machine-shops, one at Milwaukee to cost $2,500,000. and another on the Atlantic const to cost $1,250,000. Lieut. Charles McClure, Jr., son of Col. Charles McClure ami grandson of Gen. George W. Getty, U. S. A., retired, died in the Philippines July L He was born at Sioux City, lowa, June 10, 1877. Nearly $8,000,000 for the repair of warships became available the other day and orders were issued to the commandants of the various navy yards directing the employment of the maximum working force. Twenty-five arrests have been made in the course of the investingation into the murder of Robert Remmett, an English mine engineer in Mexico. Gov. Yilleda has personally conducted the pursuit of the assassins. The big naval tug Fortune, now at Boston, has been ordered by the Navy Department to make the trip around South America to Puget Sound, where naval tugs are in much demand. The trip will be about 14,000 miles. The whaler Balena. of San Francisco, belonging to the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, was wrecked May 1 on St. Lawrence Island, in Bering Sea. Capt. P. F. Cotte and sixty men in the crew had an almost miraculous esy>pe from death. A telegram has been received at the mint bureau in Washington from Director Roberts, who is in San Francisco, confirming the report of the disappearance of government funds from the mint in that city. He says the cashier of that mint is $30,000 short, but gives no particulars of his investigation. "Developments of fresh labor troubles is a feature of a week that has made for conservatism in many directions, but throughout the country jobbing and retail lines are bustj - and are handling goods at prices which yield fair profits. There is a reflection of this activity in the continued improvement in the textile markets in the East, and the uneasiness over the money market does not extend beyond the ranks of speculators in stocks. Crop reports continue gratifying, much good having been done by rains in the Middle West. Harvesting of winter wheat progresses favorably.” The foregoing is from the weekly trade review of It. G. Dun A Co. It continues: “Manufacturing has been interrupted by the elements and labor agitation. Many prostrations from heat caused humane employers to close mills during the most distressing hours, while the sheet and hoop workers were ordered to stop work until certain disputed points were settled. No immediate settlement is anticipated. Commercial failures during the first half of 1901 numbered 5,759, with liabilities of $35,804,690, against 5,332 last year, for ST4,747,452.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3,00 to $0.15; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $0.15; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.15; wheat, No. 2 red, 03c to 04c; corn. No. 2,45 cto 40c; oats, No. 2,28 e to 80c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 47c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 10c; potatoes, new, 85c to 95c P*r bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hog*, choice light, $4.00 to $0.05; sheep, common to-prime, $3.00 to $8.25; wheat, No. 2, C2c to (file; corn, No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.25 to $0.00; hogs, SB.OO to $0.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,59 cto 00c; corn. No. 2, 45c to 40c; oats, No. 2,31 cto 32c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $0.25; sheep. $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,00 cto 07c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 44c to 45c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2. 55c to 50c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.90; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,07 cto 08c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 81c to 82c; rye, 52c to 53c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 04c to GBc; corn, No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye. No. 2,49 c to 51c; clover seed, prime, $0.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 08c to 64c; corn. No. 8,44 cto 45c; oata, No. 2 white, 81c to 82c; rye. No. 1,4 Tc to 48c; barley, No. 2,54 cto 55c; pork, mess, $18.85. Buffalo—Cattle, choice ebipping steers, SB.OO to $5.90; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.85; sheep, fair to Cholde, $3.50 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $0.25. New York—Cattle, $8.75 to $5.85; bogs. SB.OO to $6.60; sheep. SB.OO to $4.40; wheat. Mo. 2 red, 00c to 70c; corn. No. 2, 48c trSOc; oats, No. 2 white. BK»te 85c; hotter, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, western, lie to 14c.

HOW THE POPULATION OF INDIANA IS DISTRIBUTED.

Counties unshaded, lees than 50 persons to the square n>ile. Counties dotted, 50 to 75 persons lo the square mile. Counties with dingonnl lines, 75 to 100 persons to the square mile. Counties with crossed lines, over 200 person* to the square tulle.

According to the last census Indiana has an average density of population of 70.1 persons to each one of its 35,910 squnre miles. Marion County has 493, and both Floyd nnd Vanderbnrg exceed 200. Eight others —eleven in all—exceed 100, while in Illinois only five have more than 100, and only one exceeds 200. That this population is not evenly distributed is shown by the following list: Adams 07 Allen 118 Bartholomew 01 Benton 26 Blackford 101 Boone 02 Brown 00 Carroll 5* Gags 82 !Aark 83 “lay »> Clinton 7b Crawford 60 Daviess JJ Deairborn << Decatur 61 DeKulb «» Delaware 121 Dubois 411 Rlkhart . Fayette Floyd - 21} Fountain •*-> Franklin Fulton 4<» Hibson 61 Grant ,: *b Hreene 63 Hamilton ... 74 Hancock 88 Harrison JO Henry JJj Howard Huntington 74 lackaon ~ ■*••• £1 lasper leferson u:!

LITTLE GIRLS PREVENT WRECK.

Son bonnet* Used to Flag Train Before It Reachee Burning Treatle. A freight on the Panhandle was saved a disastrous wreck near Aneka Junction by the prompt action of Edna Keener, aged 12 yearn, and Emma Tombaugh, aged 14 yenrs. The girls, while playing along the track, discovered that a trestk. over a small creek was on fire. Hearing the train coming, they ran down the track nnd with their sun bonnets flagged the train just in time to save it from going Into thp ditch. The train crew mnde up a purse for the little girls and the matter has been reported to the officials, who may remember the girls for tbelr bravery.

FINDS SON DEAD IN PRISON .

Mother Ha* Hnd Experience In Michigan City Penitentiary. A mother called to see her young con viet son In the Michigan Oity penitentiary the other day and found him very sick. The prison physician warned her against staying too long, as be feared the son would not stand the strain. After many a reluctant start the womnu finally got up to go, asking the son if there was anything he wanted. He replied: “Some oranges." The mother hastened to the city to get the oranges, but the boy was dead when she returned.

MURDER IN CHILD'S DEATH.

Wealthy Sawmill Owner Accused of Killing a Little OlrL Charles Dunn, a wealthy sawmill owner, aged 05, waa placet) tinder arrest at Wallen on the charge of murder. Several days ago Alice Cothrell, aged 10 years, disappeared. She lived four doors from Dunn's borne. The Huntertown Detective Association searched the cistern at Dunn's home and found the body. The coroner thought that the remains did not look as if death resulted from drowning. After the secret inquest held all day Coroner Barnett ordered the arrest of Dunn. There It evidence of attempted strangulation and the cistern is ao constructed na to preclude the theory •f accident. A horse driven by Mrs. George Burton, In Princeton, balked In front of a moving train. The buggy waa struck and amanT ed. toritlndllng, but’Kfra. Burton escaped with a broken collar bone and the hone Was uninjured.

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Among Our Neighbors.

J. C. Long, aged 22, of Muncic, was killed in the wreck of a gravel train near Milton. The Kiwood carpenters' strike, which lasted six weeks, is over, the men getting their demands. The pussnge of an automobile through Princoton nearly caused >an entire suspension of business recently. Nelson Tovenette, a wealthy peppermint grower, who lives near Osceolu, was struck by n train and instantly killed. Ed u railroad man. committed suicide at Muncle by shooting himself through the bead because hi* wife bad left him. Mr*. Harriet Goodwin, of Greensburg, was overcome by heat while cro*sing a barbed wire fence. As she fell her hair was entangled in the barbs of the fence and held her until she succumbed. , Argelina McCaria, 11 years old, who was injured in the Wabash Railway wreck at Peru, a few deys ago and whose mother and sister were killed at the time, died, making the total deaths fifteen. Catherine Rich, Terre Haute, who was released from the asylum some time ngo. was made insane again by the heut and tried to kill her 80-ycai-old mother. She beat the old lady terribly. In Mancie, Walter Driscoll waa Indicted for murder In the flrat degree at • special session of the grand jury, and the boy was soon afterward brought into the Circuit Court. He pleaded not guilty of murdering Minnie McCoy. Reports from all parts of Indiana hdvo placed the estimated wheat crop this year at 80,000,000 bushels. Some sections have been somewhat damaged by fly, but in others, where the fly has hitherto prevailed, It has almost entirely disappear* ed. While the acreage la short, the quality and yield have been good. While oiling the machinery in a furniture factory at Evansville, William Meyer, 27 years old, was caught in the machinery, whirled around a revolving pulley and mangled. One arm was torn off apd his back broken. He died an hour Inter. Alice, the 6-year-old daughter of Bdward Cothrell, of Wallen, disappeared from home several days ago, and parties have bees seeeriog the woods hi aeareh of her. The other afternoon her hndy was found in «-«istern on the .premises of <f neighbor. It Is not known whether death was accidental or not.