Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1901 — Page 3

STORM IN THE SOIITH

Devastating Tidal Wave Sweeps the Gulf Coast. LIFE REPORTED LOST. New Orleans and Mobile Flooded and Other Points Isolated. Many Gulf State* Are Swept aad a Heavy Loa. of Life and Property la Feared—Ship* Destroyed and House* Carried Away—Resort* Alon* the Coast Wiped Out by Angry Element* Greatest Flood Since 1803. Tremendous storms on the Gulf of Mexico sent a devastating tidal wave careening along the entire water front of the Gulf States, sweeping away lives and property, backing up the rivers, inundating thousands of acres of low land and isolating important points. The damage to property is extremely heavy, and it is feared that the loss of life will be appalling. Communication was cut off with districts where the chances for fatalities ■were greatest. Mobile, Ala., Thursday night was completely isolated. Great damage has been done there along the water front, and in the lower part of the city. What loss of life there has been in Mobile can only be conjectured. At 4:30 o’clock in the afternoon the Western Union Telegraph offie* there was abandoned. About that time there was three feet of water in ths operator's room. The Associated Press operator mad* his way to she operating-room in a boat, lie took a position on top of the switchboard several feet above the flooded office and succeeded in detaching his wire from its place on the board. Then by dint of labor and through contortion o* the body he sent the following message: “Am on top of the switchboard here with a lineman. The water is over three feet deep in this room, and it is still rising. The wind is blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and we look fo'» worse-things to-night. The business district Is deserted ”

Here the wire failed, and nothing more could be gotten from the plucky fellow, though repeated efforts were made. A report from Mobile received over a railroad wire in the afternoon said that the mill of the Dixie Lumber Company was carried away and several employe* were killed. In and near New Orleans vast stretches of lund are under wate’ - , there is much suffering among the poor In the flooded district*, and along th* Mississippi River. Reports from points in Alabama and Texas show that a hurricane of unusual fury devastated an immense strip of country. It sfa* regarded a* probable, from the nature of the bulletins, that not only have railroad and factory properties been extensively damaged ad'll traffic crippled, but that hundreds of people have been drowned. It is also feared that thousands of acres of ric* fields have been laid low by the wind or covered deeply by the water. There was a general tie-up along several branches of railroad lines, the Louisvill* and Nashville being particularly hard hit. Shipping interests were also imperiled, and ttfere were many stories that a number of ships had gone down, all on board being lost. Heavy Lot* of Life. The storm which swept the gulf coast from Pensacola and moving westward during Wednesday and Thursday prostrated telegraph and telephone wires to such an extent that new* from the outlying section was hard to get. The greatest fears were entertained for the safety of the people living at Port Eads, which is at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and for the ships that started for sea just before the storm began. The wire* to Port Eads were prostrated Tuesday night at 8 o’clock. The storm which swept that section is described as a regular tidal wave, similar to the one which resulted in such awful loss of life in 189 Q. The house of a man named Cobden, half a mile above the quarantine station, wag swept aw*y, and the fifteen members of the family, including nine children, were drowned. The quarantine buildings were badly damaged, but no one injured.

The government boat General Reese is believed to have been lost. Capt. O'Brien’s house was swept away, but he was on the boat which was believed to be outside. The pile driver nt Port Eads was sunk. The steamboat Buras was driven ashore near the lighthouse, and later it was reported that she had sunk. Her crew were said to have been saved. The-tugboat Velasco went down to Pass I’Outre. which Is the eastern mouth of the river, with two barges. When last seen ahe Lad her decks awash and is believed to hare gone down. Twenty people were on board. There are numerous reports of Individ* net casualties all along the rlyer from Bums down to the Passes.'' There is serious apprehension concerning the Cheniere Caminada and Grand Isle sections, on the South Txmlsiana coast, west of the Mississippi River, where 2,000 lives were lost in 1803 by the tidal wnve. Up to this writing no word has been received from that section, which is largely inhabited by fishermen, mostly Chinese and Malays. Up to Wednesday midnight everything seemed to be safe at the Mississippi coast towns, Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Biloxi, Mississippi City and Ocean Springs. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad <s blocked off beyond Chef Menteur, thirty miles from New Orleans. The big steel bridge there is safe, but beyond there are several washout* an the road. The New Orleans and Northeastern Road Is blocked by washouts, and Its big trestle over Lake Pontchartrain has bee* shaken by ths heavy seas breaking against it.

LIKE A SECOND HELL GATE.

Baa Francisco Fee* Duplicate of New - York Explosion. Thirty tons of nitrogelatine were exploded under Arch Rock, in San Francisco Bay, the other day, and thousands of spectators on shore three miles away wity nested the spectacle, the greatest of its kind since the destruction of Hell Gate in 1878. Two acres of solid rock were lifted 300 feet into the air by the mighty force of the " explosion, and when the maelstrom of foam and swirling waters had subsided Arch Rock, always a menace to the lives of men ami ships, had disappeared from view The thousands of persons who lined the shore three miles away expected a heavy shock, a sudden upheaval of rock and sea, and a tremendous concussion which might possibly throw them from their feet. Biit it was not in this way that the force of the explosion was to illustrate its intensity. With no premonitory signal or shock, the smooth green waters of the bay began to rise. There vtcre shouts of wonder, which increased when an instant later a great bulk of milky white foam—surrounding the pyramidal base of Arch Rock for severs. 1 hundred feet in all directions —begau to climb slowly into the air, completely hiding the rock. There was no tossing of tons of water high into the sunlight. The great bulk of green water, capped with foam, rose almost majestically into the air—2oo, 300 feet—and thm still higher. It wus like a great black and-jrreen storm cloud crested with vapor. The cloud of water seemed to hover an instant when it bad reached its greatest elevation. And it was at this instant that the tremendous force exerted by the thirty tons of nitrogelatine was seen and appreciated. For, as the mass hesitated before its fall, great pieces of rocks could lie seen tumbling about in the smothering volume of water 300 feet and more above the surface of the bay. Then the huge bulk settled slowly back into the bay and the spot occupied by Arch Rock ever since ■the memory of the oldest inhabitant began was marked only by a slowly revolving mass of white foam. It took many months of work, with specially invented tools to drill and cross drill the thousands of holes in the base of Arch Rock, but the culmination lasted only a minute, perhaps two. The explosion is said to be the greatest blast ever set off in this country. The blowing up of Hell Gate, in the harbor of New York, in IS7B. consmueil a greater quantity of powder, but it was block powder, which did not have the destructive effect of the modern explosives.

GREAT LAKES YAUHT RACE.

The Invader made good her name and succeeded in winning the blue ribbon of G.Vat Lakes yachting. The champion of the Canadian yachtsmen won her third race in the competition for the Canada's Cup and established her right to that coveted trophy. Toronto, therefore, ani not Detroit, comes out triumphant. The three fine rates of the four in

which the supremacy of Invader over Cadillac has been established proved conclusively that both are splendid boats, the former being able to show her heels to her rival when light breezes are blowing. though the latter has the best of it in a strong wind. Altogether the contest was an entire success and should prepare the way for other great races in coming season*.

TRAP NOTED FORGER.

American Detective* Catch German Fugitive In Milwaukee. Gerhardt Terlinden, accused of forging German government securities and securing approximately $400,000 by his operations, was arrested in Milwaukee, after eluding European and American detectives for several months. The fngitiv* had been in Milwaukee about two week*. He was taken to Chicago in charge of a Deputy United States Marshal aud Henry Vocke, attorney for the German consul at Chicago, and extradition papers issued for his return to Germany. Terlinden was at the head of a manufacturing concern employing 3,000 men. He is charged with having forged certificates of stock in this corporation and with having counterfeited government stamps to be attached to the certificate*. The total of hi* alleged forgeries is fixed at 1,500,000 marks.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Thirty Puget Sound snhnon canneries have consolidated. Capital, $3,500,000. An unknown man assassinated Dr. 11. E. Fricks, a prominent citizen of Rising Fawn. Ga. Alvin Seaton, 10, Glentnore, N. Y„ wa* murdered by hi* inaane mother, who cut his throat. The prufte trust has advanced the price one-qnarter of a cent a pound. The price may go higher. Mrs. J. Davis, Christian Scientist, Spokane, Wash., wa* fined for not reporting a case of scarlet fever. Missouri Daughter* of the Coafederacy unveiled a $20,000 monument to the Confederate dead, Springfield, Mo. Michael Griffin, who claimed to be a brother of former Congressman Griffin, deceased, of Wisconsin, hanged himself by hi* suspender* in jail at Farmington, Minn. Burglar* at Salt Lick, Ky., amaahed the doors to Whitcomb’* store. Clerk Leake, sleeping inside, fired on them. About • dozen shot* were exchanged They escaped. Joseph Hartael, • wealthy cattle man living near Buena Vista, Colo., 1* missing, and it la believed he ha* been murdered. He was in the hnbit of carrying large eum* of money. I

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

While the census officials are investigating the cases of clerks who are eiuployed iu another department as well as that branch, some of the War Department employes would be glad to see attention called to favoritism whi h permits certain army officers on the retire! list to draw two salaries, one from the military pay foil and the other as an employe of the civilian branch of the government. One such officer is a I retired captain, who was transferred from the active list on account of disability. He receives $2,100 a year from the government ns a retired army officer, rendering no service whatever for this salary, and he gets nearly as much from the pension office, where he discharges every day, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Pensions, the clerical duties devolving upon him, despite the fact that he was deemed incapacitated for active duty in the army. Another case of dual -employment is that of an officer. retired with the rank of major, and who has been employed as civil engineer >B' the corps of engineers. Even the President of the United States is not paid in advanie. I’robably in view of the fact that the United States Treasurer believes he earns Ins salary, the Chief Executive does not have to wait until the first and middle of each month to receive it, as government employes do. The President is the onlyofficial of the United States government who is paid on a direct individual warrant from the Treasury Department. Each mouth in the year President McKinley receives by mail a warrant covering the money he has earned as his salary. The Treasury officials divide the salary into four quarters of $12,500 ea< h, and under the law could not under any circumstances exceed that, but they pay the President practically the same salary every month in the year, no matter whether the month is a long or shot oue. For two months of each quarter the President’s check is drawn for s4,lfßi.i>7, but the other month sees the check reduced to s4,l<iti.t><>.

The United States will claim about $2,000, the amount of an insurance policy on the life of the late Capt. Howgate. who embezzled thousands of dollars from rhe United States while Chief Signal Officer, and which policy was kept up for twenty years by his daughter, Ida, who never believed he was dead. Howgate died in Washington last .June. Miss Howgate spent about s<loo in this practical, as well as loving, work. Recently she asked for powers of administration on the estate. The power has been granted. The court will allow her the S<M)O, but it is understood the government will take the rest. Miss Howgate must give boni for $3,000. to guarantee the faithful performance of her duties as administratrix. If she had not kept the policy alive she could have saved the st>oo in some other way and the government would not hav.e received a cent. It is alleged that this insurance policy is all the property left by Capt. Howgate.

War Department officials are determined to interfere with the traffic in children which has been going on in certain parts of the Philippines, constituting one of the gravest problems with which army officers in that section have to deal. Reports received at the War Department say the traffic is confined to the natives iu the departments of Mindanao and Joie. The traffic comes as a result of the improvidence of the people, and families who are bitten by famine do not hesitate to seek relief by the sale of their children. Maj. J. 8. Pettit. First Infantry, formerly colonel of the Thirty-first Volunteer Infantry, the commander of the Seoond District in that department, says, however, that he has about broken up the traffic, which has been going on in children of the Tirenarya, a degenerate race south of Cattabado.

The presure upon the Commissh.ner of Internal Revenue from banking institutions for the return of cheeks turned in under the provisions of the act repealing the stamp tax is growing so strong that in self-defense he has been compelled to issue an appeal for time to apply to Gpncress for relief. It appears that the cost *>f engraving, printing and binding the '•hecks issued under the war revenue tax law was so great that the banks, as a matter of economy, are demanding that the checks, after the stamps have been .-edeemed, Ih> returned for further use. It is represented that the stamps imprinted upon them can be canceled and a great staving worked. The commissioner of internal revenue is without authority to act, and request* that he be given time to go to Congress for relief.

July exports were larger than in July of any previous year, and the imports were larger than those of July in any year since 1895. The figures of the foreign commerce of the United States during the month, of July show .total imports of the month. $72,897,087, total exports. $109,031,158; excess of exports over imports, $3(1.134.071, or considerably more than $1,000,000 per day. There is consternation in department circles over the discovery that government clerks working regular office hours in the departments were drawing double salaries by doing night work at the census office. To expedite census reports Director Merriam has been employing two sets of clerks, nnd in violation of law clerks have been working doulde time. Sugar planters of Hawaii have lately used efforts to secure a modification of the Japanese edict so that men from that country may bo allowed. to go to Hawaii Assistant Secretary Taylor told the Japanese minister Recently that desirable Japanese persona will Im* allowed to go Hawaii freely, provided that they do not go under contract, cither verbal, or written, as laborers. The 12-yeur-old daughter of J. M. Bi vim-, of Springtown, Tex., died from lockjaw, ctlised by sticking a pin in her feet.

STEEL MEN JUSTIFY REFUSAL.

South Chicago Men Issue Address Explaining Why 1 hey Do Not Strike. Employes of the Illiuoi* Steel Company's plant at South Chicago have issued a statement in which they give their reasons for refusing to answer the call of President T. J. Shaffer to strike in sympathy with the Eastern steel workers. They contend that they have a contract with the Illinois Steel Company and that under the laws of the Amalgamated Association they were not permitted to break it. They also assert that Vice President W.‘ C. Davis had supported them in their refusal to strike. The statement declares that the nun have always been stanch unionists, and that their present course is in keeping .with the fundamental principles of trades unions. The ruling of President M. M. Garland made in 1897 when a number of rail straighteners in South Chicago went out on strike in the face of an agreement with the company is cited, as also is a ruling of President Shaffer in 1898 when the International Tin Plate Workers' Association asked the Amalgamated Association to enter into a defensive alliance with it.

Shaffer's answer was to the effect that his organization stood for the observance of contracts, and that it would not enter into any alliance, either offensive or <lf>fensive. which would obligate it to violate any of its contracts with employers. '1 he recent statement of President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers', in which he mentioned instances where the constitution of a union hail been ignored so that a contract with employers might be carried out is also quoted as showing that the denunciations of labor organizations against the South Chicago men are unwarranted. The statement concludes as follows: " Ihe principles of union labor are as dear to us as to any men in the country who earn their living by honest toil, but we do not think we should be expected to violate every rule of business integrity aui.LpersonaL honor for a matter of s-nti-inent. for this is a time when we must not let our sympathy get away with our better judgment. It may not be generally known, but the fact is we were supported by our district vice president, W. C. Davis. in our action in refusing to strike.’’

MOB RULES THE TOWN.

Pierce City Drive* Negroes from It* Borders asd'BtirnsThelr Homes. With the exception of a few car porters, who are known to be respectable, there is not a negro in Pierce City. Mo. For fifteen hours an armed and fujjops mob coursed through the streets chasing away every negro. The homes of live negroes were burned, and in one of them I’eter Hampton, aged 71 and feeble, was cremated, as he was unable to escape. Beginning Sunday afternoon, when the mangled remains of Miss Gazelle Wild were discovered iu a ravine, where she had been murdered while struggling with a negro assailant, the community has been in a terrible fever. Will Godley, a suspect, was arrested and lynched. His grandfather, French Godley, was shut to death. Eugene Carter, alias Barr. tt. als > a suspect, was strung up until he confessed, and may die of his injuries. A boy was perhaps fatally injured by a stray bullet during the raid upon, the negro quarters. After the lynching of Godley it was thought the excitement would die down, but instead it became more intense, inasmuch as the impression grew that GodId* was not the real culprit. Early the following morning the mob broke into the arsenal of-the local militia company, secured the rifles and ammunition nnd started out to clear Pierce City of all negroes. The work was thoroughly done. The terrified blacks, bullets whistling about their-ears and in some instances finding lodgment in their bodies, tie 1 to the woods and near-by towns, where they are lieing hidden by friends. In the afternoon partial quiet was restored, but this faet is due to the lack of negroes to work upon. Citizens, mindful of several atrocious crimes against women hereabouts within recent years, have decreed that no negro can hereafter live in Pierce City or pass through the place on pain of death. This may necessitate a complete change in the car porter system of four railroads centering near there.

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It is stated that the St. Lawrence and Adirondack will soon be merged with the Canada Southern. The Nickel Plate bridge over Conneaut Creek, just completed, is 1.320 feet long and 90 feet above the stream. Union Pacific Inanagers promise to lop twelve hours from the running time between Chicago and San Francisco. The Jackson & Sharp car works has completed a drawing-room coach ani a dining car for King Alphonso, of Spain. Citizens of Nashville, Tenn., voted tp authorise the city to subscribe for sl,000,000 stock in the Nashville and Clarksville Railroad. William Revel, of the I. & V., is the oldest Pennsylvania engineer in time of service. He has driven an engine fortyseven years. He will be pensioned in two years. Illinois railway commissioners have decided that hereafter one railroad shall not cross another at grade, but that one must go over the other. Present crossings must not bo disturbed. The Chicago and Northwestern has been chosen as the offi< lai route for the delegates to the national convention of the Christian church, which is to le held in Mlnneapolia Oct. 10-17. Arrangements have been made by the Rix-k Island, Lake Shore and Nickel Plate Roads to tr%* the Grand Central station and terminals in Chicago during the construction of the new tb'an Buren street depot. It is likely that building will be begun inte in the fall. »for it is the purpose of the Lake Shore and the Rock Island to have the new depot completed by one year from next October.

TRICKS OF MEMORY.

Notable Example* of Forgetfulness that Are Supposed to Be True. The first man to start a school for the training of memory was a Greek, Simonides, who read one of his poetic compositions to a large audience and so fascinated them that when he bowed and withdrew from the building they sat spellbound. The roof caved iu and killed them all, mangling them so that the bodies were unrecognizable, but Simonides came to the rescue of the despairing relatives and said he could remember where each person in the audience sat and who he was. As there was no one to dispute his decisions his identification was satisfactory, and he profited by the enthusiasm to start a memory school. A young woman of no education fell ill in a small German town. She could neither read nor write, yet she raved in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, aud the simpie villagers thought she was possessed of the devil. Investigation proved that at the age of 9 she had been taken by a charitable old Protestant pastor. It was his custom for years to walk up and down a passage of the house into which the kitchen opened and read to himself in a loud voice out of his books. These books were ransacked by the physician in charge of the curious case, and who had made inquiries into the sick girl's past life, andTn them were found the identical Greek and Latin passages which the girl in her delirium had repeated. There is an authentic case of a brilliant young woman, happily married, who had a long illness, the result of which was that when she recovered she had lost every recollection of her life from the day of her marriage, inclusive of the ceremony. The rest of her life up to that point she remembered clearly. At first she pushed-her husband and her child from her in alarm, but her parents and friends have convinced her she is married and has a son. She believes their word of necessity, though she lias never recovered her memory of that one year which is lost to her.

DR. MAX NORDAU

Now Appears as a Critic of Industrial Conso' id a tions. Dr. Max Nordau, who has lately turned his attention to the consolidation of large companies ot capitalists, is one of

the most skillful and learned physicians of Europe. His very widespread fame is due, however, not to his scientific ability, but rather to his brilliance as an author. In 1883 he shocked and delighted two contl-

DR. NOKDAU.

nents with his rarely analytical book. “Conventional Lies of Society.” In 188'1 he published his "Paradoxes," and in 1893 the work by which he is best known, “Degeneration.” In this remarkably original book Dr. Nordau attempts to show on purely psycho physiological grounds that all modern tendencies are toward degeneration. He fortifies his position by examinations into art, literature and life, and claims that degeneracy is seen in all mental aud moral phenomena. Dr. Nordau is descended from a well-known Jewish family of Budapest. He began writing to the newspapers on many topics even while he was a lad at school. He is 52 years old.

Must Do Their Work Well.

The courts are taking cognizance of the competency or incompetency of professional men. A short time ago a New York tribunal held that a physician was liable for unskillful or negligent treatment of a patient, and now the Court of Appeals of that Stat,* has rendered a decision holding a corporation liable for unskillful dental work. This corporation, according to the complaint, represented that it carried on the practice of dentistry iu connection with its other departments. The plaintiff, a woman, having undergone Ireatmeut. sued tor alleged resultant injury and received a verdict. Apparently the defense of the corporalion was that the dental business was not. in fact, carried on by it. but was owned by the dentist. But the court held that the company, having having held itself out as carrying on a dental department, and the plaintiff having been ignorant of the fact that the company was not the real owner of the dental department, the corporation was estopped from making such a denial. For. under the circumstances, the court said that the plaintiff had a right to rely not only on the preiumptlon that the company would employ a skillful dentist a* it* servant, but also on the fact that if that servant, the dentist, whether skillful or not, was guilty of any malpractice, she had a responsible party to answer therefor in damages.

Arsenic Eaters.

Styria, a duchy having a population of about 1,500,01)0, and lying south of Gratz, In tbe mountainous portion of the great German Confederation, Is noted for its arsenic eaters. Arsenic eater* abound in every city, village and neigbl>orhood. and iu thousands of case* every adult In a family use* It almost the same as sugar, consuming about SV» grains in the 24 hours.

Not a Climatic Distinction.

“A Virginia man died at the poker table the other night.” “Nothing wonderful about that. Lots of Nevada nnd Arizona men have done the same thing."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. If you can't afford an alarm clock for every bedroom in the house, let In a fly or two.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Attempted Kidnaping at Vincennes— Street Car Collides with Freight Car —Gypsies Clean Ont Dundee—Jail Delivery Prevented at Marlon. Vincennes was again visited by a kidnapper and his attempt bore little fruit. The victim was Mabel, the 13-year-ol 1 daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. John Paynter. She was lying on a bed in a room when a man entered, picked her up and started for the door. She screamed, attracting the attention of her parents in the next room. They reached the door just as the man went out of the gate and the father leaped after him. Seeing escape with the child was out of the question, the thief dropped her. jumped into a buggy and drove rapidly away. Town Terrorize! by Gypses. Dundee was terrorized the Other day by band of gypsies. The nomads became drunk, and. after cleaning out the two saloons of the town, they rode up and down the main street in wild-west fashion, punctuating thiir whoops with shots in the air from revolvers. There being no police protection they were allowed to continue their revels un becked, while feared to put their heads outofdoOT*. After frightening women and children the gypsies returned to their camp du the outskirts of town and left tjie place. One Kille 1 an 1 c ix Injurs•!. An interurban street car, well loaded with passengers, crashed into a box car which was being backed on a Van lalia branch track across Main street, in Brazil. Brakeman Mort Hunt, of the Vandalia crew, was caught in th? collision and instantly killed. Patrick Coolihan, watchman at the crossing, was bruise 1 and. all the passengeri oa the car were thrown across the seats. The conductor says the air brakes refused to work an I he could qnt stop the car. Prevent Big Jail Delivery. A wholesale jail delivery at Marion was prevented by Sheriff Bradford and his deputies. Bars had been cut from the cell leading to the main corridor and one bar had been sawed from a window by which the prisoners could have escaped in a short time. Forty prisoners tire confined in the jail, charged with murder, arson, grand larceny and other crimes. The officers surprised the inmates while they were making ready to escape. Finds Long-Lost Brother. Mrs. Martha A. Martindill, of Cincinnati, advertised in a Chicago paper for information of her brother, William Yarnell, from whom she had been separated for forty-four years. The published notice came to the attention of James Yarnell in La Porte. He traced the relationship, being a grandson of William Yarnell, with the result that brother and sister will be reunited within a few days.

Within Our Borders. Mrs. Clark Stoneking, Terre Haute, has asked the police to tin 1 her daughter who went to St. Louis.re< cutly with Fred Lewis. Robert Brown. 73. who says he was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, was given shelter in the Jeffersonville jail recently. Two hundred bushels of oats belonging to John Garrett, near Hartford City, were burned from a spark from a thrashing machine. Frank White, 23. was fatally kicked in the head by a vicious horse while stooping behind the animal to recover a strap which he dropped. The body of Miss Nora Fiers, who committed suicide by drowning in Whit* River nt Decker, was recovered. The parents of the young woman live at Oblong, 111. Near Lafayette four hundred tons ot hay, owned by 11. B. Cochrane. ex-Coun-ty Commissioner, and thirty tons belonging to Jacob May were consumed by flying sparks. The South Bend Board of Education has secured the consent of the City Council to erect a $75,000 high school building and also a ward school building to cost $5,000. j The attempt of 2.000 South Bend bicycle riders to secure a repeal of the bicycle lighting ordinance, which has worked up so much contention, was defeated in the Council. Owing to the dry weather it is probable that none of the canning factories in the vicinity of Scottsburg will op<n. With the tomato crop almost a failure, the factories would find it unprofitable to operate their plants. The death of Prof. Jatnes M. Wellington. for several years manager of the Magic City Business College, of Muncie, occurred under mysterious circumstance*. There are' some who believe his death was the result of poison taken with suicidal intent. Petrified logs of a peculiar form hav* been unearthed on Morgan's Hill near Logansport nnd the discovery in lieates that they Isdonged to a primitive forest or were flooded to the place ages ago. All the logs are entirely foreign to the variety of trees indigenous to this section of the country ami some look very much like northern cedar. Developments in the Key forgery case* at Andrews show that the American trust aud savings association, Chicago, holds a large amount of forget! collateral paper. A man named Jamison, representing the company, called on the signer of every note, and found that every one was a forgery. Mrs. Key has istained attorneys. She will claim in*, ividual property and the statutory $4)00 allowance. The Governor's office finds in investigating the advertisement for the "Lcnr Beach turf house." that the picture* were sent to many officials, ministers end bankers. At Terre Haute. John Sanders, 71, and Mr*. Emma Warren. <l9, were married by Justice Brown. Both had been twic* married before this, nnd they were boy and girl friends. The general offices of the Tinplat* Workers' International Protective Association of America, which have always been in Elwood, will be moved Sept. 1 to Wheeling. W. Va. '