Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — Page 3

GOOD ROADS

Road Development. i The great development of railways led to almost universal neglect of ordinary roads. It might have been thought that the object lesson of cheap transit by rail would people the folly of spending more to take products a few miles over bad roads to the railroad station than it .Osts to send them by train to distant markets. But it did not. The idea that the wagon road was an anachronism, and that it was beneath a modern nation to pay the attention to the highways which the Romans bestowed, seemed rather to prevail, and even in the most prosperous and thickly settled regions of the country the ordinary driving roads have been left until the present day In a very disgraceful condition. Perhaps the greatest factor in bringing about reform was the bicycle. The Influence of the wheelmen In stirring up public sentiment and securing the passage of good roads laws has been tremendous. Following the blcyclj comes another vehicle which should exert an even more powerful influence. This is the automobile. Somehow or other people could get over almost any sort of road with a horse ai:d carriage. The road might be uncomfortable and slow, and even somewhat dangerous, but it was endurable. The wheelman. If he could not get a whole road Improved, was well content with a narrow path. If people wanted their horses to flounder through mud or stumble over stones it was no affair of his. The automobile driver, however, wants a good, smooth wagon road, and if auotmobiles are to have any wide popularity and usefulness outside of cities in the United States —as they have in Europe, where almost all country roads seem marvels of perfection in American eyes—the good roads movement must be carried forward. Men will not buy thousanddollar machines to have them shaken to pieces on rough roads or stalled in sand beds. Just as the railroad tunnel attention from highways, the new vehicle which ought in time to be of universal use must turn attention to highways. Wtih proper road improvement an enormous market for automobiles might l>e secured. City populations are tending countryward, and will go as far ns they can with comfort. Where roads are adapted to automobiles the suburban area may be extended much further from railroad stations and trolley lines than now, and largo tracts of land can be made available for residence. Neither in city nor country will traffic forever be concentrated on railroad lines. More smooth streets will be demanded in the former, by which people can make their way in comfort with their own vehicles to and from their business. The development of good highways is as much a matter of public interest as the building of bridges and tunnels, and when the latter have iteen provided to meet the immediate needs of the greatest number it may be expected that with the rapid improvement in automobiles, making them even more than now practical vehicles for general business and travel, the demand will be irresistible for extensive street and road improvements. —New York Tribune.

SLATE WRITING IS AN ART.

It May Be Acquired by Anyone Without Spirit Aid. Spiritualistic slate-writing, If cleverly done, always makes a marked Impression on a magician's audience, because It utterly baffles their efforts to detect the trick. They see a small cabinet suspended above the stage by means of cords or ribbons. It has an open front and is empty. The magician turns it around so that every part of It may be seen and taps It inside and out with hia wand, to show that it is hollow. On n stand near by he has n small easel, a common school slate, a bottle of India ink with a quill pen in It and a few sheets of ordinary white writing paper. All these he passes arouud among the audience for examination. Then he fixes a sheet of paper to the slate by means of wafers, places the •late on the easel and the easel in the cabinet, together with the bottle of ink, the latter having the pen still in It. Having allowed the audience to see the articles thus arranged in the cabinet, he throws a large silk handkerchief over it Mysterious sounds are immediately beard, and the cabinet shakes as if some living thing had entered It. When the sounds and the shaking cease he removes the handkerchief. showing an inscription written in bold black letters on the paper, and the i»en not In the ink bottle, but lyinjT on the bottom of the cabinet. He then removes the paper from the slate and passes it around for examination, when the writing Is immediately recognized as having been done with India ink. The explanation of the trick is simple. The writing was done in advance t»y the performer, the fluid used being a solution of sulphuric acid of the f.urest quality. To make the solution fifty drops of the concentrated acid are added to one ounce of filtered water. Writing done with thia solution is Invisible until exposed to heat When so eamsod it comes out perfectly black, looking exactly like dried India ink. The heat is applied by means of an ♦lectrlc running over win with

which the slate is wound. The cords by which the cabinet is suspended conceal copper wires which conduct the current to thejslate. Black silk threads suitably attached enable the performer to make the sounds in the cabinet, to cause the cabinet to shake and to Jerk the pen out of the ink bottle. Several sheets of paper are prepared in advance, each with a different inscription, the performer telling one inscription from another by secretly marked pin pricks.—New York Herald.

RAILROAD SIDE LINES.

Some Hare as Manx Kinds of Fnsiness os a Villnj-e Store. “The thrifty railroad man of the day thinks up and puts into practice as many Ingenious varieties of economy as can be crowded into the company’s messages of instruction. The economic laws governing the increase in the trainload have become axiomatic. There is no scope for a free imagination here. The details of the business, however, fairly teem with possibilities. When the railroad man considers the question of sending those six carloads of potatoes out to Berryville he knows full well that all his cars may need to be hauled back empty. If this sort of thing happened often enough, it would pay the company to hire an agent to scour Berryville and the surrounding country for return freights. If this canvasser were appointed and labored a while, and found his labor unproductive, it might then be thought worth while to subsidize some local industry, which would in good time yield a fair return in freight. These are but one or two of the ideas which would gyrate through the heated brain of the railroad man considering the cost of carrying freight out Berryville way. The past ten years have seen some American railroads loaded up with as many kinds of business an a village store. "And no matter how great a hodgepodge the details of a railroad’s business may seem to be, it is certain that the railroad managers will treat the thing as If all its knotty parts were so much ineffable dovetailing. Whether it is running an iron mine at Hylo or furnishing geranium beds for brownstone stations out on the line to Ingleside, they will affect to treat each of the multitudinous features of the enterprise as a simple affair, readily submlssible to the rules governing the maintenance of railway systems. That the men sometimes think differently everyone knows. Nothing of human invention and supply ever becomes absolutely scientific. An old hand in an Eastern freight yard innocently summed up the situation when, with a descriptive gesture, he said: “ trains is run on a mathematical certainty, and they takes their chances.’ Ainslee’s Magazine.

Massage for Dyspepsia.

A French medical journal cities a number of cases where great and lasting benefits were derived by people suffering from dyspepsia and abdominal diseases from a gentle massage treatment of the abdomen, says Leslie’s Weekly. One case mentioned is that of a young man aged 20 years, who for six months had been suffering with his stomach. In spite of varied treatment he was gradually growing worse and looked like one in the last stages of phthisis. He suffered from constipation and insomnia; he was very nervous and was convinced that he was about to die. After Instituting the abdominal massage his condition rapidly improved; his abdomen, which had resembled that of a child with meningitis, became supple and daily enlarged. The treatment was not severe nor very special. His pain disappeared, and he was able to digest all that was given to him. The patient gained in six months about sixty-five pounds, which be has not lost since that time, now five years ago.

Perfumes Were Popular.

The rage for perfumes reached its height during the reign of Louis XV. Throughout the continent his court was known as the “scented court.” It was then the custom when giving a large entertainment for the hostess to inform her guests what particular odor she would use for perfuming her rooms, and each guest would use that odor in making her toilet. At court a different perfume was used for each day of the week. Much more attention was paid to the use of perfume than to soap and water, and cleanliness was not numbered among the virtues of that age.

Lightning Strikes Feathers.

The popular idea that feathers are a non-conductor of electricity, laboring under which delusion many people scary about lightning climb under feather beds, even in summer, was exploded bi a very remarkable manner during a heavy thunderstorm at Chambersburg, I*a. While the storm was at its worst a bolt of lightning struck the center of the public square of a country town and struck a rooster which wns running across the opening. It hit him square on the head, and, of course, killed Klin Instantly, and also burned all the feathers off his beck and sides.

A Very Wicked Man.

An old Georgia negro arose In prayer meeting and said: “Bredderln and slaterln, I been a mighty mean nigger In my time. I had a heap er ups and downs—’specially downs—since 1 jlned de church. I staled chickens and water mill ins. 1 cussed. 1 got drunk. I shot craps. I slashed udder coons wld my razor, an’ I done er sight or udder things; but, thank the good Lawd.Jvredderin and sisterin, I never yet lost my religion.” A man’s favorite way for his wife to show faith In him la that she aak him no questions. All prominent people are not promls-

GARDEN AND FARM

EFFECT OF RAIN UPON THE SOIL. Rains and snows assist to a certain extent in adding fertility to the soil. In one year rains bring down about four pounds of ammonia per acre. Nitric acid, chlorine, sulphuric acid and ammonia are all brought to the ground, though the amounts are not large. KEEP ONLY PRODUCTIVE COWS. A cow that gives sixteen quarts of milk per day is worth two that give eight quarts each, for the reason that she will occupy but one stall, while the others require two. One cow will incur less expense to the owner for shelter and also for labor and care, consequently she gives more profit not only by reason of greater product but also because she is less expensive than the un profitable cows. BUILD CISTERNS FOR CATTLE. Cows in order to do their best and give us the greatest amount of profit must have ready access to pure drinking water at least three times a day in summer. Farmers who have no wells or springs on their land should dig a few large cisterns around their buildings and see to it that the supply of water is constantly replenished by each rain. Cisterns will be one of the best investments they can make, for they are not only useful in summer, but in winter as well. During the cold days water freshlydrawn will be drunk in pails full, whereas a few swallows would suffice if sucked through a- hole in the ice. POULTRY IN THE GARDEN. Late in the season all kinds of poultry may be allowed the run of the garden, except geese and ducks, which should be turned out on a pasture. Fowls do not injure gardens after the crops are well under way, though hens with chicks will scratch for seeds on newly-prepared plots. The fowls will destroy many insects and also consume the seeds of some weeds. They also eat the young and tender weeds that are coming up. Geese will consume that persistent and annoying weed known as purslaine, or pursley, while both ducks and geese will thrive on green food entirely if allowed. It is a waste of grain to give it to fowls that have the run of grass and young weeds, as they can select for themselves ill the food desired. A LATE FODDER CROP. Listing corn is a quick way of growing a late crop for fodder. A lister is a double plow, or a right-and-left hand plow set together at the landsides, so as to throw a furrow both ways, thus making a ditch. At the back end of the beam is a subsoiler, which stirs up the bottom of the furrow. The one-horse drill follows, which plants the seed, though the lister and drill may be combined if preferred. The seel is thus planted deep and somewhat thick, no checking being required, as the corn is cultivated but one way. Even as late is August corn may be planted with the lister, and as the method is a quick one the cost is not great. If too late to mature the corn it may be cut at any stage of growth and cured, but the proper time is when th? ears are in the milky stage.

TRENCHING. It is doubtful if there is any more effectual method of pulverizing the soil to the depth of two feet or more than by trenching. In fact, it is difficult to see how it could be dpne in any other way, as the surface soil which is the richest should be turned below and the subsoil thrown on the top. This is the indispensable condition of a good vineyard. It is not the mixture of the surface with the subsoil that is wanted, but about twelve inches of the surface soil, mixed up and put below, and the subsoil thrown on the top of it, a complete reversion of the soil, so the foot roots of the vines will have rich soil and make a strong growth. There arc other methods of partially accomplishing this result. One is to dig large holes and throw the rich soil below and the subsoil on the top. Another is to trench in narrow rows about two feet wide and deep, reversing the soil. And still another is by plowing with a heavy plow as deep as can be done, and follow after with a subsoil plow. This method might do in loose, rich or sandy soil, but in clay soil is of little value over digging holes. It is the cost of trenching compared with other methods that must be considered in going into the business on a large scale. Trenching costs about $75 per acre, in narrow strips about S4O, digging holes about sls and plowing and subsoiling about $25. 7 he Efitotni/t.

WHERE THE TROUBLE WAS. While making cheese I once had a patron whose milk was seldom perfectly sweet. I expostulated and lectured, and he seemed to really try to improve matters, but without success. He claimed to aerate and cool his milk down to a low temperature every night, yet in the morning it would be on the verge of acidity. In passing his house one afternoon just as I had finished my day's work I saw his wife washing the milk cans, which had stood in the- hot sun since early morning! The next day I told my delinquent patron that I had discovered the source of his trouble, and that if he would still continue to aerate and cool his milk with the same assiduity, and in addition sec that his milk cans were thoroughly washed and scalded with boiling water before 8 o’clock every morning I would be almost willing to guarantee the quality of his milk. He did 00, and we had no trouble thereafter.

Fven -iKith the best facilities, coupleft with painstaking efforts, it is sometimes very difficult to preserve milk quality for twelve or eighteen hours in hot weather. Many fly to ice, and depend upon that solely. But this does not necessarily imply good dairying. If one is possessed of a supply of ice it is a valuable adjunct in these matters, but it should be used circumspectly. Do not cool milk down suddenly with ice before that milk has been thoroughly aerated. With pure air surrounding, and except in the most sultry and “muggy’” weather, I have no fears of preserving milk quality without the help of ice. I would simply aerate it, and thus cool it at the same time.—Dr. G. E. Newell, in Nebraska Farmer. BEES AS BLIGHT DISTRIBUTERS. I have thoroughly worked out the question relative to bees carrying blight. The conclusion reached is that bees carry pear blight extensively, and with other insects are the principal or almost the only agency of distribution of the germs. The occurrence of the blight on the blossoms in great quantities and the great rapidity with which the disease spread-, from flower to flower indicate a normal and very effective method of distribution. The germs were found growing freely in the nectar of the blossoms. Bees were seen repeatedly visiting the infected flowers, and some were caught taking infected nectar, and by means of plate cultures the pear blight germs were isolated from their mouth parts. By covering parts of the trees with sacks of various kinds of material, including mosquito retting, and then artificially infecting certain flowers on the tree, the blight was observed to spread very freely over the uninfected and uncovered blossoms, but was entirely absent in the blossoms covered by mosquito netting. Elossoms were infected and at once covered with sacks and the blight in such cases was retained in the infected blossoms. Pear blight germs died very soon after being dried up, and lived for only a brief period on exposure to weather conditions out of doors, hence they cannot live in dust and be blown around to any great extent by the wind. Pear blight virus, particularly that which occurs on the blossoms, is a very sticky substance, and is readily carried by insects. birds or other animals, but cannot be blown by the wind. It may also be well to state that as a result of this serious charge against bees I was led to carry on an extensive serieof experiments in the pollination of pomaccous fruits, and as a result of these I found that bees arc indispensable to the pollination and setting of most of our pomaceous fruits, hence they should not be destroyed, as some California growers think. They simply carry the pear blight incidentally while performing an important and necessary function. —Professor M. B. Waite, in American Agriculturist.

SPRAYING AND CULTIVATING ORCHARDS. In order to get the most from the orchards there is nothing like thorough spraying every season, and liberal fertilizing with ashes a.’.d commercial and barnyard manures. No surer protection against blights, droughts and other injuries can be conceived. The force of this is not always appreciated. Some- > times it is necessary to have a lesson brought straight home. Well, if one wishes to learn by experience, take two orchards or two parts of the same orchard, and spray and fertilize one and neglect the other. Keep at it for two or three seasons, in order to make sure of the results. If this does not convince one of the value of spraying and fertilizing, then you are justified in giving up both practices. Sometimes exceptionally good seasons will not make the difference between care and an orchard very apparent. When the blights and insects are not around in the orchards much, and the season is well adapted to produce good crops of fruits, even the neglected orchards will show a fair yield; but. then, every orchard in the country is full, and it is no sign of good farming that one has raised a good crop. It is the off season that tells. When all other fruit trees are injured by the blight, insects or dry weather, then is the time that your trees will pay the most in full. It is in the off season that the experienced horticulturist makes his greatest profits. He has fruit to sell when nobody else has. and the high prices he receives for it make his profits large and satisfactory. It costs to fertilize and spray the trees every season; but the work will pay if done thoroughly and economically. The spraying should be so thorough on every, tree and on every side and part of the tree that no insect is missed. Only in this way will the tree be absolutely guarded against attack. The fertilizing with ashes and manures should be conducted in the same thorough and economical way. Not a load of either should be wasted. Only so much as the.trees and vines need should be used, and some years the soil may get jo full that nothing but a little stirring and plowing will be needed. We do not wish to overfeed the soil lest it should get sour. Trees growing on rich soil, supplied with ashes, potash and phosphoric acid, will grow so thriftily that they will not be very susceptible tp the attacks of insects and blights. They form their'own protection in the strong, vigorous growth of root, trunk and leaves.—A. B. Barrett, in American Cultivator. The sun spot was a little late in getting into the hot-wave proposition, but when it did arrive it made up for lost time by promising four years of sizzling weather. About one-half of the world's requirements of camphor is produced in Formosa and about one-third in Japan.

FLOOD AT CLEVELAND

CITY SUFFERS $1,000,000 DAMAGE FROM FIERCE STORM. Etreeti Flooded, Houses Undermined, and the Panic-Strleken Occupants Hemmed In by Raging Torrent—The Corpies in Cemetery Are Washed Out. With the breaking of dawn Sunday morning the citizens of Cleveland awoke to look upon a scene of unparalleled devastation and destruction, caused by a raging flood. While the entire city was more or less affected, the great volume of raging water vented its anger over miles of the eastern portion of the city an I caused an amount of damage approximated at $1,000,000. The appalling overflow was caused by a terrific rain that com.jeneed to fall shortly after 2 o'clock, turned into a perfect cloudburst between the hours of 3 and 5 o'clock, and then continued with great force until nearly 10 o’clock. The storm, according to the weather officials, was the heaviest that ever swept over Cleveland since the establishment of the government bureau in that city over forty years ago. That no lives were lost is nothing short of a miracle, as stories of thrilling escapes from the water on several of the principal residence streets of the city are .told. The surging waters spread over an area in the east end nearly eight miles long and a mile and a linlf wide. This extended from Woodland Hills avenue to East Cleveland, and back to East Madison avenue. Torrents Rush Dowu Streets. Great volumes of water poured over from Doan and Giddings brooks down Quincy street, swamped Vienna street, rushed over Cedar avenue, back over on East Prospect street, rushed like a mill race down Lincoln avenue to Euclid avenue, and then on to Glen Park place, where houses were undermined as though built of straw, and almost incredible damage done to streets and property. Over a large share of this exclusive residence territory the water rushed with terrific force, varying in depth from one to six feet. Culverts, trestles and bridges were torn down, and for hours nothing seemed capable of stemming the tide of destruction. Rowboats plied back and forth assisting whole families from perilous positions, but these boats proved pitifully inadequate, and it was soon found necessary to go to the extraordinary precaution of calling on the life-saving crew from the river, a distance of seven miles. Rescued by Life-Saving Crew. The torrent surged with awful force for hours in Deering street from Fairmount to the boulevard, and over a dozen families were penned in like rats in a trap, with water five aud six feet deep surrounding their homes. At this point the life-aaving crew worked, and, assisted by squads of firemen ami policemen, finally succeeded in landing the terror-stricken people in places of safety. The fear was greatly enhanced by the momentary expectation that the great Shaker Heights dam would break loose and belch forth terrible destruction. Shortly before noon the torrent succeeded in undermining a score of graves in the St. Joseph cemetery, at the corner of East Madison and Woodland, ano the bodies were soon being tossed about in the waters. Fully a dozen of the corpses were washed into gutters. Every steam railroad entering the city and the street railways suffered great loss. But the vast amount of damage falls upon the householders within the Hooded district. The great sea of water reached a depth of one foot on the first floors of scores of the East End homes, boiling up from the sewers and pouring in from the streets, carrying everything that came in its path along with it. In many cases the fear-stricken residents buttered down cellar walls in order to give the torrent an outlet and prevent the swamping of their entire homes.

THIRTY-SIX ARE DEAD.

Disastrous Wreck on Great Northern Line in Montana. Thirty-six persons were instantly killed and thirteen injured, some of them fatally, in a wreck on the Great Northern Railway nt Nyack, thirty miles west of Kalispell, Mont. The dead include thir-ty-three Scandinavian laborers. None of the passengers was hurt, the fatalities being confined to the employes of the road. The wreck was caused by the breaking in two of a freight train on the steep grade of a Rocky Mountain foothill. The passenger train wns just pulling out of Nyack, when the rear end of the freight train came thundering down the track nt terrifle speed, crashing into the rear end of the passenger train. The private coach of Superintendent Downs was the first to suffer, it was smashed to kindling wood nnd he nnd his son and their cook: the only occupants of the car, were killed. Just ahead of this car was one containing forty-six laborers on their way from Duluth to Jennings, Mont. Only thirteen of them were taken out alive, and some of these will die. Fire immediately broke out in the debris, consuming the broken cars. The bodies of the dead were cremated anu some of the injured must have been burned to death. The bodies of twentyeight of the laborers were reduced to ashes along with the remains of the inmates of the private car. The third car from the rear was also badly smashed and caught fire, but those within managed to escape. Twelve freight cars, filled with valuable merchandise, were destroyed. The passenger train was finally cut In two between the third and fourth cars and the remainder of the train was drawn to a place of safety.

News of Minor Note.

A mad dog at Ix>ne Star, Toxas, bit seven people before being killed. Three prisoners, Steubenville, Ohio, bound and gagged the deputy sheriff, robbed him of S2B and escaped. Jacob Sigler, n farmer, while driving into Henderson, Ky., was thrown from a wagon by a runaway mule and kicked to death. Malvern (Ark.) business men have formed a SIOO,OOO company to bore for oil In that vf.cinity. Hot Springs capitalists are interested.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. “Insanity Trust” Is (ensured— Scott County Chickens Have Gold in Their Crepe—f core het’s Fatal Fall—You fat Woman Disappears from Peru. The State Board of Charities filed a report with the Governor on the result of its investigation of the insane hospitals. The report says no sane persons are confined and have not been within the last eighteen months, "unless it be iu the case of John Ross, or Morse, or James Haywood, who probably recovered after he was found insane and before he was received at the hospital, a period of fiftythree days." The board says the blame rests on the persons who conducted the inquests and suggests that it is the duty of the officers to recover that part of the $15,000 in fees wrongfully taken from the county treasury. The report says such a conspiracy as shown by the Attorney General's report renders the members liable to severe prosecution. The board suggests that an entirely new insanity law be enacted by the next Legislature, providing that all commitments be made by a Circuit or Superior judge. Gold Found in fcott County. Gold has been discovered in Scott County. A short time ago Mrs. H. W. Brandt of Scottsburg found a nugget in the crop of a chicken. She took the nugget to an expert, who analyzed it and found it contained a large per cent of gold. Another discovery has been made in the same manner on the same farm. The people in that community have the gold fever and will begin prospecting at once. The find was made on the farm of Prosecuting Attorney S. B. Wells. Messenger Uoy'i Mishap. Harry Mills, an American district messenger boy, was thrown from his wheel at Muncie and fatally injured. He was found unconscious in a pool of blood and when he partly regained consciousness he became delirious, imagining that a footpad is pursuing him. The boy was riding down a steep hill at terrific speed. His wheel struck a gutter at the foot of the hill, breaking the forks and throwing young Mills on his head. Peru Girl May Be Dead. Miss Nora Dinsmore, aged 23 years, disappeared from her home in Peru. When last seen she was in a dry goods store. Suicide is feared. A letter was received from her dated at Toledo, Ohio, by Ernest Thomas, her friend. In it she said: "I leave for the great unknown. Good-by to you all, who have smiled on me, and get all from life you can.” Find Dead Body in Canal. Albert Patterson, aged 35, was found dead in the canal by the Indianapolis police. He lived at Manistee, Mich., and was traveling for an advertising firm. A telegram arrived at the Circle Park Hotel signed by Mrs. Patterson at Manistee asking if Patterson was still there. The suicide theory is accepted. Within Our Borders. A fine gas flow was struck six miles southeast of Morristown. Lead ore in paying quantities has been found near Oakland City. Covert Anderson, Elwood, son of Rev. U. S. Anderson, is dead from a fall from a toy wagon. Citizens of Avilla, Andrews and Cromwell will start private banks to replace those wrecked by Keys and Leach. Charles Maguire was nominated for Mayor by the Democrats of Indianapolis at the first primaries under the new law. He defeated William Moore two to one. Nearly 10,000 votes were cast. The Indiana Central Railway Company has been incorporated with a capital of $1,500,000. The company will build an electric line from Indianapolis to Peru, seventy-five miles. At Kokomo Andy and Nelson Hershberger, orphan brotlusw. aged 12 and 0 years, were thrown frsm a horse which objected to "carrying double." Nelson died from his injuries. An iy is badly hurt. Twelve sheets of plate glas’, each H’J by 274 inches, aud weighing 1,800 pounds, were cast at Kokomo for a New York building. They were without flaw or blemish, and are said to be the largest ever cast. Lightning struck the Hendricks monument in Indianapolis, tearing away a portion of the base. The bolt tore off the shoe and stocking of a boy taking refuge from the storm under the statue, but did not injure him. A Baltimore and Ohio freight train, while switching in Nappanee, derailed and demolished four cars and crashed into the passenger depot, overturning the structure. The damage will amount to several thousand dollars. John Rhodes and James Harrison, miners at Seeleyville, had been fighting for half an hour without inflicting serious injury on each other, when Mrs. Thomas Jones, with a year-old baby in her arms, stepped between them to stop the fight. Juat then Rhodes got hold of a stick, and. not seeing the woman, struck wildly at Harrison, hit the baby on the head and crushed Its skull, causing a fatal injury. A man supposed to be William Riley of Riverton, 111., wai struck by a Big Four passenger train at Marion and Instantly killed. A few minutes befoft the body was found a Clover Leaf freight train went south and several Marion people gay they saw two men on top of one of the cars. One mau was swinging a club in a threatening manner. It Is believed that Riley was knocked off the freight car, that he fell on the adjoining Rig Four tracks, and was killed by the train. J. E. Black was caught io shafting and killed at the American Iron Company's works, Muncie. About (JOO glass workers will go West this fall to man two new green bottle factories started near San Francisco by Isaac Humphrey. Joseph Berger, Goshen, has sued Miss Mary E. Bearer, an heiress, for SIO,OOO, for slander, alleging that she accused him of swindling her father. State Geologist Bletchley warns Indiana fanners to check the growth of the Texas thistle, a sample of which baa been Co and in Hendricks County.