Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1902 — Page 7

• « » Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Ry. Rensselaer Time-Table, South Bound. No. 31—Fast Mail 4:49 a. m No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a.m. No.33—lndianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:46 p.m. No. 39—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. tl :25 p. m. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40p. m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk aecomm., (daily). .... 7:31a.m. No. 33—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m. •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. tNo. 38 —Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p.m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)■■■ 3:30 p.m. •No. 46—Local freight 9:55 a. m. No. 74- i Freight, (daily) 9:09 p. m. •Daily except Sunday. tSnnday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. __ L Fbank J. Rkbd, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, President and Gen. M'g'r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M’g’r, CHICAGO. W. H. Beam, Agent, Rensselaer.

CALIFORNIA Best pernoin mum msi twins. Leave CHICAGO Tuesdays and Thursdays -VIA THEGREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE AND SCENIC LINE. Tourist Car via Southern Route Leavea Chicago Every Tuesday. Daily First Class Sleeper Through Between Chicago and San Francisco. Crossing the best scenery of the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas by Daylight. Direct connection to Los Angeles. Best Dining Car Service through. Write for information and literature to K. E. Palmer, G. A. P. D.. Peoria. 111. John Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago CITY, TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor John Eger Marshal. Abram Simpson Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Harry R. Kurrie Civil Engineer H. L. Gramble Fire Chief Elder: K. Hopkins councilmen. Ist ward Chas. Dean. H. J. Kannal 2d ward I. J. Porter, C. G. Spitler 3d ward J. F.McColly. J.C. Chilcote COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk ....John F. Major Sheriff Abram G. Hardy Auditor W. C. Babcock Treasurer R. A. Parkison. Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John K. Phillips COMMISSIONERS. Ist District- Abraham Halleck 2nd District... Simeon A. Dowell 3rd District Frederick Way mire Commissioner's court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TBI’BTEES. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan Gillam Lewis Shrier Walker Elias Arnold Barkley Charles M. Blue Marion John Bill .' Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox Newton 8. L. Luce Keener Thomas F. Maloney . ...Kankakee Stephen D. Clark Wheatfield Albert J. Bellows Carpenter William T. Smith Milroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Rensseleer G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer J. D. Allman Remington Geo. O. Stembel . Wheatfield JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney John D. Sink Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Milroy Township. Wm.T. Smith, trustee of Milroy township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in •aid township on the First and Third Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such deaignater day. Wm.T. Smith. Trustee. Hanging Grove Township. Joseph Stewart, trustee of Hanging Grova township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on Friday of each week for the purix se < f transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. Joseph Stewart, Trustee. Jordan Township. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on the S-coad and Fourth Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making Contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. John Bill. Trustee. < Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and ail Pat-' ' ' .ent business conducted for Moot nave Fees. i OvaOmci is opposite U.S. Patent orrice!> ' .and woean secure patent in leaa time tlian those ’ , remote from Washington. j, ' Sand model, drawing or photo., with desertp- ' ' tion. We advi»e, If patentable or not, free of 1 ! charge. Otfr fee not dud till patent ia secured, i 1 ’* Pamphlet, “How to Obtain Patents,’’ with 1 ! .coat of same in the U.S. and foreign countries ! , want free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. ▲ whole armload of old pa peri for a nickel at The Democrat office Morris' English Stable Liniment ■Mee, Me. per Sold by A. F. Loo*.

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Money to burn. We know you hate to smell the smoke. Stock up your farms while there is money in live stock and save taxes on $700.00 every year. Takes 36 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know the language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red tape. Chilcote & Parkison. When you have a legal notice to be published, such as notice of appointment, notice of final settlement, notice of survey, notice of administrator’s or guardian’s sale, non-resident notice, or any other notice not controlled by county or township officers, bring it to The Democrat office. Our prices for this work are lower than others by reason of our setting them without any padding whatever, and we will appreciate the favor.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig's Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, lon, Ahsiracis, loons and Real Estate. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stairs west of Van Rensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Brokei Attorney For The L. N. A. AC.Ry, and Rensselaer W.L. AP. Co. {^.Officeover Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer. Indiana. U. M. Baughman. G. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Notary work, Loans and Real Estate. Special attention given to collections of all kinds. Office over "Racket Store." Rensselaer. . Indiana. Moses Leopold, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND INSURANCE, Office over Ellis & Murray's Rensselaer, - - Indiana. J. F. Irwin S.C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. rua> volts. a. a. shtuso. hasmt a. suama. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law. Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER. IND. Mordecai F. Chilcote, William H. Parkison Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Park’son, ATTORNEYS aT LAW. Law, Real Estate. Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over J. Makeever's Hank, on Washington street. RBNBSKLAKR, - - INDIANA. H. O. Harris, E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted at current rates, Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. We Solicit a Sharv of Your Business. Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. B. Washburn will give ipedal attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. Ho also testa eyas for glasses. Ovnos Tslitho.s No. AS. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Imes' Millinery stori. Rensselaer. Orrioa Phons, UFF. RiaioßNoa PmoWi Ht. H. L. Brawn, ’ DENTIST. * Office over Larsh’s drug store.

GARDEN AND FARM

AN EXCELLENT COMBINATION. Oats and peas are grown early in the season and the combination is an excellent one. The seed should bp broadcasted as soon as the ground can be prepared, in order to escape any dry weather that the crop may possibly encounter. Oats and peas provide early green food for cows, and may be cut at any stage of growth, but the nearer the milky stage of oats the better. THE COW’S PRODUCT. The cows on many farms would be considered first-class producers if each product amounted to 200 pounds of butter per year, yet it is claimed by some of the best dairyman that 200 pounds of butter per year from a cow does not pay. Those who aim to make the most butter from their herds have the standard up to 300 pounds per year, and some fix the limit higher. Every farmer can have the individual members of his herd reach that amount by breeding for better cows every year. STRAW AND CORN FODDER. It is not many years ago that farmers in the Western States were burning their straw stacks to get them out of the way. There was apparently no market for it excepting at points where the cost of transportation was likely to exceed the price for which they could sell it. Now at nearly every market In the states the price of good straw is as high as that of No. 1 hay, and in some places It is higher. There were some who would not burn it, but put it in the wards for the farm animals to pick what they wished to of it, and to trample the rest into manure. After a few years it was found that the farms of these men increased in fertility and productiveness, and the practice of burning straw was nearly discontinued, even before the common use of the bailing press made it profitable to ship it to Eastern markets. A change almost as great has taken place in the opinion of the value of corn fodder. It is but a very few years since the corn growers of the Western States cut no corn fodder, but after picking off ears, let the cattle and hogs in to pick and break down the fodder or what they would of it, and then it was a task in the spring to break down the rest so that it could be plowed under. Now it is nearly all being put through the shredder, and made so fine that any stock eats it, and it is thought as valuable as the average Western hay. DAIRYING A DRUDGERY. This fall I visited two friende, each milking about the same number of cows (twenty-five head.) Both of these friends worked in their fields until dark, then milked and cared for the milk, and by the time ail the work was done it was along toward 10 oclock. Drudgery? Yes, but whose fault? From such dairying, drudging and slaving deliver me and my family. We do sometimes put "in twelve hours a day, but never sixteen to eighteen, as do these friends and hundreds of other farmers. Our dairy work has its place in our system of farm management, and is done on time. Milking time comes and milking begins at a certain time, not at this or that time, but at such a time, and under ordinary circumstances without nny variation The time is gauged according to the time of the year and number of cows irf milk, but we always begin in time, so that all work is don« in good season. In the summer time our teams leave the field at 5 o’clock and our milking begins at 5.30 o’clock. With five milkers, milking is done, milk separated and everything fed by 6:30 o’clock. Thus we still have plenty of time for rest, recreation or reading before night. If such a system or a better one were generally adopted by farmers who, like the writer, are interested in dairying, w.> would hear no more about dairying being a drudgery. Let our motto be “System.” Let us write it in our houses, in our barns, on our farms. It will lighten our la bors and gladden the heart, ’t will bring prosperity, contentment and good will to all who in their work strive with a system.—M. E. K ng, In Kansas Fanner. HOW TO FEED COWS. The cows requires not only materials for her maintenance, but must also have proteine, fat and carbohydrates to make milk from. The milk contains water, fat proteine (easel ne or curd), sugar and ash, and these are all made from the constituents of the food. If insufficient proteine. fat and carbohydrates are contained in the food given her, the cow supplies the deficiency for, a time by drawing on her own body, and gradually shrinks in quantity and quality of milk, or both. The stingy feeder cheats himself as well as the cow. She suffers from hunger, although her belly is full of swale hay, but she also becomes poor and does not yield the milk and butter she should. Her milk glands are a wonderful machine, but they cannot make milk caseine out of carbohydrates or coarse. unappetizing. indigestible swale hay or sawdust, any more than the farmer himself can make butter from skim milk. She must not only have a generous supply of good food, it but must contain a sufficient amount of nutrients needed for making milk. Until this fact is understood and appreciated, successful dairying is out of the question. The cow must be regarded as a living machine. She takes the raw materials given her in the form of food

and works them over into milk. If the supply of proper materials is small the output will be small. The cow that will not repay generous feeding should be disposed of at once, and one brought that will. There are certain Inbred characteristics which even liberal feeding cannot overcome. fornia Experiment Station Bulletin. TO PRODUCE HARDIER PLANTS. Gaideners will recall the apparent peculiarities often manifest in the behavior of plants subject to frost. Two plants of the same variety, standing side by side, may show altogether different results, the one being killed or severely injured and the other remaining practically untouched. At times these differences may be due to varying atmospheric conditions, but much of it must be the result of difference in inherent vigor and resistance of the ‘individual plants. It is possible in the case of tender plants, by selecting and breedings from those individuals which show greatest resistance, to develop a hardier strain. This question has been under test with garden beans. Three varieties of bush beans were planted in a hotbed in the spring of 1899. After they were well up the sash was removed, exposing them to frost on a cold night. Mary of the plants were killed outright, others severely hurt, while a few showed little injury. Seed from these was saved and subjected to similar treatment in the spring of 1900. This time an unusually hard frost occurred on the night when the sash was first removed. The temperature reported by the meteorologist of the station, as occurring in the village near by, was 28 degrees. Yet a few plants remained unharmed, others were less severely injured, and many were killed outright. Other seeds saved from the resistant plants were planted in the open ground in comparison with ordinary seeds. The plants from these have shown greater v igor in resisting cold and untoward conditions, and at the present writing are decidedly in advance. The question asked at the beginning of the experiment cannot be answered fo~ some time, but the indications now are that careful selection may produce valuable results in securing plants less subject to frost injury.—Rhode Island Experiment Station Report. APPLE CULTURE Apple culture when conducted properly pays better profits than almost any other branch of agriculture, but an intensive system of scientific treatment of the trees and soil must be closely followed. An acre of apple trees may barely cover expenses of picking and marketing them, while another may yield a profit of SIOO or more per acre. Returns of S3OO and S4OO per acre are not unusual, but then neither are returns of SIOO and $l5O per acre unusual. Figured on these yields one can readily see whether the work is profitable or not. Spraying is absolutely necessary to get good crops of apples, and to neglect it may reduce a S3OO yield to $l5O in a single season. It is almost useless to try to make a success of apple culture without spraying. One may have his theories about it and convictions, but they do not count in view of the vast amount of facts obtained from thousands of farmers and scientists who have shown the value of spraying. The spraying should be made just after the blossoms have fallen, again two weeks later, and once more when the apples are half grown. The conditions requiring such spraying may not be apparent to the eye, but the only safe way is to do the spraying every season without fail. The mixture may consist of any of the approved formulas, such as half a pound of paris green and three pounds of disparene to fifty gallons of water. Such systematic spraying will in all probability make the yield of apples large, and the fruit fine, free from specks and rot, and handsome in appearance. The orchard needs fertilizing and draining, and the trees pruning and protection, if the work is to be done properly. Plant the trees In the fall, select only such trees which will pass rigid examination by yourself, and in setting incline the tree; a little toward the prevailing heavy winds. This will save them from growing up with a slant. Protect the trees from mice and rabbits by surrounding them wi’h fine galvanized wire screen, which may be wrapped around the t:ee an inch or two below the soil and two or three feet above it. This pro.ection will last for years, and costs -> ily a little for each tree. Low and wet grounds are bad places for orchards, and the fruits will often fail there when they succeed on the hillsides and ‘ higher grounds. On heavy clay soils good tile drainage ia essential, and will benefit the trees a good deal. Trees should be fertilized every year just as regularly as a field of corn or wheat. Every dollar put in fertilizer m the orchard will be returned twofold. The trees need thorough pruning every fall and spring. This should take the form of cleaning out the mass of Inside twigs co the sun can get at the middle of the tree, and also to shape the tree so that the branches will not hang on the ground nor shoot straight up in the air. Good shapely trees are generally the best producers, and they are also the easiest to pick.—C. T. Mildron, In the American Cultivator. The most extensive cemetery in the world Is that at Rome, in which over six million human beings have been interred. When a woman is fatigued in bargain hunting she might be said to ba shop worn.

COURT DECLARES MRS. BRACE SNELL COFFIN A BANKRUPT,

Mrs. Grace Snell Coffin of Chicago, one of the four heirs to the $500,000 estate of her father, the murdered Amos J. 'Snell, is a bankrupt, according to a decision in the United States Court given at Milwaukee. Neither she nor her creditors under the law can touch the principal of the fortune left her by her father, and all she has is the income. Her liabilities were $53,588, and the one visible asset was a $12,000 home in Salem, Kenosha County, Wis., whifti it was claimed was exempt. Ouly $14,775 of the liabilities was secured. Mrs. Coffin was married to F. N. Coffin

MRS. GRACE SNELL COFFIN.

sixteen years ago, and lias two children. She was divorced from him six years ago, and remarried at the son's deathbed, but another separation followed. She married Mr. Walker three years ago, and was divorced from him last spring; then she married Mr. Coffin for the third time and was divorced two days later. Mrs. Coffin has written several short stories, and is said to be something of a litterateur. Her husband, F. N. Coffin, threw several of her manuscripts in the fire after their second marriage, and this was used as evidence in the subsequent divorce proceedings.

KILLED BY AN AVALANCHE.

Many Miners Swept to Death in ■ Colorado Snowslide. The most terrible snowslide accident ever known in Colorado caused the death of from thirty to seventy-five men at the Liberty Bell mine on Smuggler Mountain Friday. Nearly all the buildings of the Liberty Bell mine were carried down by the slide, all the books which show the number and names of the men employed being lost, so that the death list may not be known until the rescuers have removed the immense quantity of snow, rocks and logs from the canyon where the victims lie buried. It seems that two slides occurred, practically in the same place, the second burying those who were trying to rescue the victims of the first. The first slide occurred at 7:30 o'clock tn the morning, while the men of the day shift were preparing for their work. About 200 men are employed in the mines and mills of the Liberty Bell company, and less than half of these were at work at the time of the accident. The others were in the boarding house or in the bunk house near by. Both these buildings were carried down the mountain side, a distance of 2,000 feet, and crushed to kindling wood by tons of snow. It was 10 o’clock before news of the disaster reached Telluride, two miles distant. At once a number of men started for the scene. Meantime the surviving employes of the Liberty Bell began the work of rescuing the victims of the slide. Several were taken out alive, and a dozen or more bodies were removed from the snow, which lay piled twenty-five feet deep in the bottom of the canyon. A little after noon a second slide, starting a short distance above the first, and practically following its track, swept down the mountain side, burying many of the rescuers. A third slide came down at 3 o'clock, about one mile below the Liberty Bell mine, killing several men. The Liberty Bell mine is one of the three largest mines in the district, the Smuggler Union and the Tom Boy being the other two. It is owned by Kansas City people. The Liberty Bell is located about a mile and three-quarters north of Telluride, and has an altitude of about 12,000 feet at the mouth of the tunjieh

RAILROADS

Tension systems have been established on the North British and Caledonian roads. Three coaches for the Chilian government are being built at the Pullman works. The Southern Pacific has made an appropriation for an exhibit at the St. Louis world’s fair. , The Illinois Central road has finished double tracking the 200 miles of its line between Chicago and Effingham, 111. The Rock Island Railroad will probably build a cut-off ninety miles long from Fairbury, Neb., to Herrington, Kan. C. 0. Oraigie has been appointed traveling passenger agent for the Grand Trunk road, vice Benjamin Flether, deceased. Officials of the St. Paul road have practically determined to reduce the price of upper berths in sleeping cars by 25 per cent over the entire system. Warren 1. Lynch, general passenger agent of the Big Four route, intends to develop the summer resorts along the recently acquired Cincinnati Northers road. . The Minnesota House of Representatives has appropriated $25,000 to pay expenses of the contest of the State of Minnesota against the Northern Securities Company. That part of the Northern Connecting Railway system from Plattsburg, Mo., south to Kansas City, a distance of fortyone miles, has been sold by the Burlington to the Rock Island.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Engine Races with Death—Rich Vein of Coal Found—Serious Train Wreck Averted by Two Little Boys-Sport Recovers Money Lost at Gambling. While Engineer George C. Pettinger of the Peoria and Eastern division of the Big Four lay dying on the floor of the engine cab Conductor John Scanlon, with his hand on the throttle, was urging the engine to its limit of speed in a futile race against death. The train was bound for Indianapolis, and when ten miles out from Carlos City the engineer was suddenly seized with hemorrhage of the lungs. He pitched heavily forward from his seat,'at the same time reversing the engine and applying the air. The train came to a stop and Conductor Scanlon rushed forward. Taking in the situation, lie seized the throttle, and while the dying engineer urged him to greater speed and directed him at the work the conductor drove the train at over seventy miles an hour toward Carlos City in an effort to reach the station liefore Pettinger should succumb. As the train eanie to a stop at the depot, however, the engineer drew his last breath. New Indiana Coal Deposit. Farmers residing near Granger have become excited over the discovery of a rich coal deposit on the farm of the Alford brothers. Chicago and Indiana capitalists who have sought to acquire control of great tracts adjoining the land have failed, although in many cases the sums offered are five times greater than the same ground could have been purchased for two weeks ago. The vein of coal has been shown to be miles in length, and the engineers at work have not as yet been able to ascertain its depth. The find was made in an accidental manner, and immediately a rural company, with a capital of $75,000, was formed for the purpose of taking up coal mining on an extensive scale. The product is said to be of an exceptionally high grade and unmistakable traees of silver ore are found in various places. Boys Prevent Train Wreck. Clifford Chapman and Daniel Carbnckle. aged 9 years, prevented a disastrous wreck on the Clover Leaf road near Kokomo. Just as a freight and passenger were due to meet at Middleton the boys found a broken rail on the wildcat bridge. Realizing the danger, one boy ran ahead and flagged the passenger with his red cap and the other went to the depot and notified Agetrt Veach. The prompt action of the children averted a terrible disaster. Gamblers Pay Back. The jury in the case of the State vs. Mathew Kelly and Dallas Tyler, gamblers, to recover money won from Richard C. Davis while "shooting craps," returned a verdict at Vincennes in favor e£ the plaintiff for $9,000. Judge Cobb overruled the motion of defendants for a new trial. Charles E. Bailey was appointed a special judge to try several other similar cases now pending to recover money lost by Davis while gambling in Washington, Ind. Peach Crop Killed. W. B. Fleck, secretary of the Indiana Horticulture Society, has received reports from each of the ninety-six counties >n the State covering fruit conditions. The reports indicate that peaches are mostly if not all killed. Apples and pears promise well and other fruit will be as plentiful as in past years. Within Our Borders. Egg famine in many Hoosier towns. Falling tree killed Farmer Henry Seebode of Elberfield. At Jackson station Warren Bessler's right arm was blown off by giant powder. Maurice Lauer's home. Muncie, burned. The loss is placed at SIO,OOO. Too much gas. Farmer Silas Hock was perhaps fatally injured. Kokomo, by his wagon overturning on him. Virgil Brandon, Michigantown, accidentally shot and seriously wounded his brother, Clinton. May Woolsey, Evansville, took a dose of morphine with suicidal intent, but doctors saved her. Benj. Hutchinson, Marion, convicted of embezzlement, attempted suicide by the morphine route. Doctors pumped him out. Elisha Brown and. wife;. Hagerstown, celebrated the seventy-second anniversary of their marriage. Larry Phelps, a Wayne County soldier, saved two comrftdes from drowning; while on duty in the Philippines. He will be promoted. Charles Jackson, formerly cizcwhatioa manager of the Evansville Courier, took an overdose of ammonia by mistake, dying in a few minutes. May bury Neal, 45. Madison, a farmer, isxnmittcd suicide by jumping into the Ohio river. Two children survive. It is thought be was temporarily insane. The plant of the Kokomo Morning News was badly wrecked by a natural gas explosion. The floors were torn up, the machinery displaced and the type pied. A freak well developed on the Henry Moon farm, near Farmland. Smith Ac Neely of Muncie were drilling for oil and drew apparatus preparatory to shooting it, when salt water flowed, spouting several hundred feet into the air. Oliver Bunton, Muncie, will file suit for SIO,OOO damages against the Muncie Natural Gas Company. Bunton claims that his wife, who was seriously ill, was convalescent when the company turned off the fuel, causiug a relapse of the sickness, which resulted in death by practically freezing. William Overly, who is alleged to have robbed several stores three years ago, was captured at Marion when he returned to visit a woman who assisted him in time of need. Lee Stevens, the proprietor or a groery store, had remained in tfis place to protect it. Overly entered and was attempting to rob the safe, when Stevens shot him in the forehead, the bullet glancing off. Overly escaped and hid himself in a large street roller for several days. A young woman supplied him with food and dressed his wound until he had recovered sufficiently to leave town. w