Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1902 — Page 3

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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, tow, Meis, io® and w isioie. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stairs west of Vanßeusselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Brokei Attorney For The L. N. A. AC.Ry, and Rensselaer W.L.A P.Co. UffivOfficeover Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer. Indiana. V. M: Baughman. G. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Notary work. Loans and Real Estae Special attention giveu 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 8. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurano*. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loaus. Office upstairs in Durand Block. taini roi-TB. *. e. enruia. H*aav a. suseia. 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 s son, ATTORNEYS aT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Attorneys for the Chicago. Indianapolis A Louisville Railway Co. Will practice tn all of the courts. Office over J. Makee ver’s Hank, on Washington street. RENSSKLAER, - - 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 6 per cent Wc Solicit a Sharv of Your Business.

Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physiciana’A Surgeons. Or. I. H. Washburn will five ipeoial attention u> pise**** of the Eye, Ear. No*e. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also test* eyes for glasses. Ornes TailMtai No. 4*. Raaieaeoa Phoms No. *7. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Offic* over I me*' Millinery store. Renaeelaar. times Phoms. 177. Aaaioaeoa Phoms, ll*. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Laroh’s drug storm.

BARS THE CHINESE.

SENATE PASSES BILL TO RE-EN-ACT GEARY LAW. Final Vote Is Unanimous, with Single Exception of Senator Hoar - Plan Provides Against Shipment from the Philippines—Runs Until Dec. 1, 1904. Exclusion of Chinese laborers from the United States, such as exists under the present law, will be continued until Dec. 7, 1004, according to the bill passed by the Senate. The Platt amendment, extending the present exclusion act until that date, was passed by a vote of 76 to 1, the only man voting against it being Senator Hoar. By a vote of 48 to 33 the Senaite adopted the Platt amendment as a substitute for the House bill, which provided for the exclusion of Chinese indefinitely. The present laws relate only to the coming of Chinese into the United States proper, but the new bill extends their provisions so as to apply to the insular possessions. The Chinese in the East Indian possessions of Uncle Sam cannot, under the provisions of the measure adopted, go to his West Indian possessions, or vice versa, but those residing in one group of islands can go from one island to another of the same group. Article 6 of the Chinese treaty provides that the convention will remain in force fpr a period of ten years, beginning with the date of the exchange of ratification, and, if six months before the expiration of the period of ten years neither government formally gives notice of its final termination to the other the treaty will remain in force for another period of ten years. The bill passed provides that in case the treaty be terminated as provided in article 6 the exclusion laws now upon the statute books and the legislation adopted will be extended and will remain in force until a new treaty respecting the coming of Chinese persons Into the United States has been concluded and laws are passed carrying into effect the provisions of the new treaty. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to make rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the land necessary to carry out the legislation enacted. Under the laws now in effect every Chinese laborer who is entitled to remain in the United States is required to secure a certificate from the government, showing that he is entitled to reside here. In the absence of such a certificate a Chinese laborer may bo arrested and deported unless he can show that he is entitled to remain here.

WALKS ON THE WATER.

Captain Grossman, Inventor of WaterShoes, Does a 100-Mile Walk.

Captain Grossman of Cologne, Germany, the inventor of water shoes, recently completed a 100-mile walk on the surface of the River Danube. He started from Linz and finished his journey at Vienna, drawing his wife in a boat all the way. A dispatch from Vienna printed in the papers the other day told of

WALKING ON WATER.

the completion of the trip in less than two days and of the terror of peasants who saw the inventor from the banks and believed they were viewing the supernatural. The shoes are aluminum cylinders, thirteen feet long, and are light enough to be carried on the shoulders like a pair of oars. The wearer propels himself by a treading movement, which causes four oar-shaped wings to revolve. The inventor hopes to have his water shoes made a part of the outfit of lifesaving stations. In a flood in Germany two years ago he gave a practical demonstration of their usefulness by rescuing twenty persons. It Is said the shoes are no more difficult to operate in rough weather than on smooth water.

MORMONISM IN NEW YORK.

Its Rapid Growth There la Alarmln* Other Missionary Bodies. The rapid spread of Mormonism In New York ia attracting the attention of the home missionary societies, the mem* beri of which bodies are about to take steps to prevent its further growth in the metropolis. Already the Latter Day Saints own three churches and number 8,000 New-Yorkers as sdherents of the faith. At a meeting of converts there Sunday, Apostle John Henry Smith, of Salt Lake City, one of the twelve charged with the direction of the church’s affairs, traced the history of Mormonism and explained the doctrines of the church. Apostle Smith msde no reference to polygamy during his discourse, but throughout there was a note of defiance of the Federal authorities, and he recalled with pride how in the early days of Mormonism the followers of Joseph Smith, who was his uncle, expelled the Federal troops from Utah. He stated that the Mormon religion had now become an international question and spoke of the thousands of converts gathered in recent years throughout England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and other parts of continental Europe. The doctrines of Mormonism seem to attract the masses and converts ar* being made in New York at an alarming rate. The directors of the church claim to have gained 20,000 converts In this country last year. They maintain 2,000 missionaries in the field all the time.

The world’s conference of the Y. M. 0. A., which meets once every four yean, will bo held thia year In Ohrletlanla, from Aug. 20 to 24. Th* storthing, or parliament, of Norway, has made a government appropriation for this conferones.

THE UNITED STATES HAS THE MOST TERRIBLE GUN EVER MADE.

DESTRUCTION BY A SHELL.

The United States has just developed a cannon that will be the despair of foreign gunmakers. A gun has been built, weighing only four tons and with only 4%-inch caliber, which, the experts figure, will throw a 555-pound shell 25 miles. After 15 years’ of experiment the new gun has finally been perfected. It is called ths “Brown regimental wire tube rapid-fire” gun. The shell starts with a velocity of 4,ooo'feet per second, sails ten miles into the air and strikes the earth 25 miles away, all in one minute and 48 seconds. It requires only 32 pounds of powder to accomplish this. The tube and foundation of the gun are curled sheets of steel, one-seventh of an inch thick. Ten miles of wire Is wound into each gun, giving a tube that will stand the unheard of pressure of 92,000 pounds to the square inch. The range and energy of this gun are attained by using a comparatively big powder chamber, together with a long barrel, and a special carriage has been designed to stand the recoil that comes from firing the gun at an angle of 40 degrees. Time was when it was considered that New York, owing to the batteries at Sandy Hook arid on Coney Island, was impregnable to the guns of a hostile fleet. Now, a foreign fleet armed with such a gun as this might lie out of sight of Sandy Hook and blow New York off the map.

SEEKING A FAVORABLE CITY.

Location of the Next M. E. General Conference Not Decided Upon. What city wants to entertain the Methodist general conference two years hence! Rev. Dr. Henry Spellmeyer, as chairman

of the committee having the location and general arrangements in charge, gives public notice that he wants to hear from such cities as do. The requirements are not burdensome. The churches at large are assessed for the principal expenditures of the general conference.

REV. SPELLMEYER.

These expenses cover transportation delegates anl their entertainment while in attendance. The sum amounted in 1896 to 162,000 and in 1900 to 179,000. The local committee is expected to raise about $20,000 with which to pay hall rent and other incidentals. A Methodist general conference sitting three weeks costs the church SIIO,OOO, with a tendency to increase SIO,OOO to $12,000 each quadrennium. Thus far the only city to make any attempt at all to secure the honor is Minneapolis. The general expression seems to be in favor of an Eastern city, however, since for twelve years the conference has been held in the West It is said were Boston to make a strong bid it would get it. The conference has never met In New England, where Methodists are strong, save in Boston, and not there since 1852. New York would get it if it tried hard, since it has not met there since 1888. No Eastern city has, at writing, made a move to secure it Rev. Dr. Henry Spellmeyer is one of the most able and influential clergymen in in the Methodist Church. He is the chairman of the general conference committee cn entertainment and resides at Newark, Ji. J. A fine preacher and writer, it is predicted that the highest honors in the M. E. Church will eventually be his

MUST GIVE UP CIGARETTES OR LEAVE SCHOOL.

Dr. Herbert F. Fisk is principal of the

Academy of Northwestern University of Chicago, where there are 300 boys. He asked the stu- , dents to stop using cigarettes or t» leave school. He said that there Is no division among educators as to the injurious effect*, both physical n«.d [(mental, when cigarettes are used by young men who have not reached maturity.

From Far and Near.

The Grand Arch Council of the Phi Kappa Psi, in session at Pittsburg, selected Indianapolis as the next place of meeting. Private Healy, of the Twenty-scveuth Infantry, was banged at Manila for the murder of Sergt. Moreland, in April, 1001. Charles M. Schwab, president of the steel trust, has been elected an active member of the Automobile dub of America, New York. Col. Albert A. Pope will not even nffirm or deny the report that he will resign «s chairman of the directors of the Amt ican Bicycle Company. An attempt was made to blow up with dynamite the house of Dr. P. S. Byrne. Mayor of Spokane, Wash. But little damage was done and no one wo* hurt. Miss Elsie D. Richards, aged 52 years, of Barkfhumsted, Conn., while temporarily insane, shot her mother, Mrs. Emily Richards, aged 74, and then attempted* to commit suicide by shooting herself.

An order has been issued by a London justice for the committal to Holloway jail for tweiv* days of Effie Fay, the America* comedienne, for default In the paymVirt of • judgment secured against her for debt Mias Fay is now in Paris, wbor* she has been for some time. Ths judgment is for a disputed dress bill of s mh^a entirely email amount.

CROP CONDITIONS ARE BETTER.

General Improvement Observed in Most States. The regular weekly crop report of the weather bureau was compiled before the sweeping changes of weather throughout the M est and central West were reported. It says: The week ending on April 21 was warmer than the average in the Pacific coast and Rocky Mountain regions, in the Missouri valley, and the northern districts to the eastward; it was too cool in the middle Atlantic and Southern States and decidedly dry over the greater part of the central Talleys and middle Atlantic States. Rain is badly needed throughout the Rocky Mountain districts and central valleys and would prove beneficial in the middle Atlantic States, while excess of moisture has hindered farm work in portions of the central Gulf States. 'Die latter part of the week was marked by abnormally high temperatures in Kansas and Nebraska, intensifying the drought conditions in those States. The general weather conditions, although not conducive to rapid advance of vegetation, were favorable for farming operations in nearly all parts of the country. The progress of corn planting has been rather slow, except in Missouri and the Southern States, this work being about finished in the central and the west gulf districts. A large acreage of ground is prepared for planting in the States of the central valleys, and some planting has been done in southern Illinois, but none elsewhere northward of the Ohio. The early planted is coming up in southern Kansas, where cultivation has begun.

Winter wheat has continued to make slow growth, and on the whole is in less promising condition in the principal winter wheat States of the central valley than at the close of the previous week. Moisture and milder temperatures are generally needed for this crop throughout these districts and also in the middle Atlantic States. The outlook in California continues promising and the crop has experienced improvement on the north Pacific coast. The germination of early sown spring wheat over the southern portion of the spring wheat region has been and seeding has been retarded by freezing in North Dakota. The Red River valley lands in Minnesota are drying nicely and seeding began on the 15th. Some reseeding will lie necessary in Minnesota as a result of the dust storm of April 10 and 11. Seeding has progressed favorably on the north Pacific coast.

HIGHER PRICES FOR FOOD.

Fresh Meats of All Kind, Poultry and Score Advances. Higher prices for various foods, particularly fresh meats and butter, which are regarded in this flourishing country as necessaries of life, although looked upon as luxuries in some others, have not only come, but they are here to stay. Moreover, according to expectations of men in the trade, they are likely to go higher still in the very near future. It is not only beef that has advanced almost sensationally in price within a few weeks. Lamb and mutton have gone up, as have hog products, and so also have poultry and butter. Lard has been advanced 1 to 3 cents a pound within a few months, and it has become known that there has been formed some sort of a working agreement between the great producers, who have held meetings in western cities to come to understandings as to the conduct of their business profitably in view of the gradually advancing prices all along the line from hog to lard. The rise in the price of butter is said to be chiefly speculative, not as turningupon any attempt to corner the market, but owing to a belief among the dairymen that Congress will pass the proposed law prohibiting the manufacture of oleomargarine. The advance in the price of poultry is a sympathetic one, consequent ii]>on the high beef market. The price of beef in the carcass, as the butcher buys it, is now about 3 cents a pound higher than six months ago.

PRESIDENT REBUKES FUNSTON.

Must Cease Further Public Discussion of the Philippines Question. President Roosevelt has reprimanded Gen. Fred Funston. The Kansas fighter has been ordered to cease the discussion Of the Philippines question. This is the result of Gen. Funston’s recent statement In a si>eech that Senator Hoar of Massachusetts was “afflicted with an overheated conscience.” The following letter in regard to the matter was made public by the War Department: “War Department. Washington.—Sir: I am directed by the President to instruct you that he wishes you to cease further public discussion of the situation in the Philippines and also to express his regret that you should make a Senator of the United States the object of public criticism or discussion. Very respectfully, WILLIAM ( ARY SANGER. "Acting Secretary of War. “Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston. Commanding Department of Colorado, Denver, Colo.”

Brief News Items.

Building trades of Cincinnati want nn eight-hour day. James it. Keene, New York, wants to form a rubber trust. Silas C. Croft, surveyor of the i>ort of New York, is dead. One thousand men representing the building trades of Niagara Falls, N. Y., struck for an advance of wages and nn eight-hour working day. The contract has been let for the erection of the monument in Guthrie to the memory of Itoy V. Cashion, the Oklahoma rough rider who was killed in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. J. Gage, former Secretary of the Treasury, has been elected president of the United States Trust Company of New York. He succeeds John Stewart, who resigned on account of ill health. Adolpluts De Wet, a nephew of the Boer Gen. De Wet, who was wounded and captured at the battle of Jacobsdal. and who afterwards escaped from Bermuda by swimming to a schooner bound for New York, arrived nt Guayaquil, Ecuador, recently. He spent a few days in that city and proceeded to Lima, Peru, where he will engage in a mining enterprise.

CUBAN BILL PASSES.

BEET-SUGAR MEN SCORE SENSATIONAL TRIUMPH. Hard Blow for Sugar Trust—Thirtyfour Republicans Join Democratic Phalanx in the Intensely Dramatic Struggle—Lively Time in the House. Doubtful victory for Cuban reciprocity, smashing defeat of Speaker Henderson and his lieutenants in the House, a hard blow at the New York sugar trust and a sensational, though perhaps temporary, triumph for the beet sugar protectionists. All this happened in the House of Representatives Friday afternoon amid scenes of excitement such as have rarely been known in the history of that body. The Republican Speaker was overruled in a Republican House by the combination of thirty-four men of that party with the solid Democratic vote —by long odds the most dramatic political coup seen in Congress in many years. By a vote of 171 to 130 control of the lower branch was wrested from its leaders and the majority party and turned over to the Democratic ultra protection alliance. Then by a vote of 199 to 105 the Morris amendment, striking off the sugar trust’s differential protection of oneeighth of a cent a pound, was adopted, thus admitting refined and raw sugar for two years at the same rates of duty. And finally the Cuban 20 per cent reciprocity bill, thus amended, was passed by a vote of 247 to 52.

The provisions of the bill as passed are summarized as follows: The President is authorized as soon as may be after the establishment of an independent government in Cuba, and the enactment by said government of immigration, exclusion and contract labor laws as restrictive as those of the United States, to negotiate a reciprocal trade agreement with Cuba by which, in return for equivalent concessions, the United States will grant a reduction of 20 per cent from the Dingley rates on goods coming into the United States from Cuba, such agreement to continue until Dec. 1, 1903. During the existence of such agreement the duty on refined sugars and all sugars above number 16 Dutch standard ia to be 1.825 cents per pound.

AN EMBLEM OF AUTHORITY.

Awesome Mace Which Preserves Order in House of Representatives. “The Goose” has not been “brought out’’ since the Fifty-fifth Congress, says • Washington correspondent. The “Bird,”

as it is also called, is the Mace, in official language, and is by all odds the most a w e s o m e thing around the House of Representatives. It is a silver eagle surmounting a globe and the traditional thirteen arrows which are bound together by silver bands. Altogether the Mace is about four feet in length and weighs some twenty pounds.

THE “GOOSE.”

When the House is in session the “goofee” is planted on top of a marble pedestal at the right of the Speaker’s desk. As soon as the House adjourns or is “resolved into committee of the whole," the Mace comes down from the pedestal. The most terrifying office of the goose, however, Is that of preserving order. After the Speaker has exhausted his good right arm in rapping with his ivory gavel for silence, after he has yelled his larynx raw, calling for “order!" he orders the sergeant-at-arms to bring forth the aweinspiring emblem of authority. The sergeant, generally pretty badly scared himself, grabs the goose by the throat and bears down upon the offending member. By the time he reaches the obstreperous Congressman’s seat, that rip-roaring statesman, who but a moment before was filling the atmosphere with brimstone, slides into his chair and becomes meeker than a lamb. Exactly what would happen to the member who defied the goose Is not definitely known. It is the general belief that he would be blasted by Jones' lightwings. Jerry Simpson, the sackless of Kansas, who was the last to invoke the Mace, came nearer destruction than any other member in history. “Take that buzzard away!” he cried as the sergeant-at-arms advanced with the “goose” before him. But Jerry wilted before the sergeant reached him. "By the authority vested in me by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, you are now under arrest!” Is what the sergeant-at-arms would say if the offending member continued in his defiance. Then, it is said, the disturber could be summarily “fired” from the House.

PAUPERS FOR UNITED STATES.

Thousands Are Being Rm uggled Across Canadian Frontier. United States immigration officials are experiencing a great deal of trouble at the hands of unscrupulous European emigration agents who are sending paupers to Canada, promising them that they can cross the frontier when they get there and enter the United States. The Greek consul at Antwerp recently dispatched 150 Greek paupers to America. Th* steamship line refused to transport them to New York, but it is believed they have entered this country by way of Canada. The agents are tricky in evading th* laws. It is reported that thousands of these paupers have entered the United States by way of the frontier.

News of Minor Note.

It is proposed to erect a $30,000 M*thodist temple in Ottawa, Kan. Hail and wind damaged the corn crop in several Texas counties. A bald eagle measuring seven feet across the wings was shot near Ottawa, Kan. Five Kansas Olty policemen brought suits against th* city for pay for their unexpired term* because they were discharged without trials, and the Missouri Supreme Court decided that they wer* not entitled to IL

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Law Regulating Merchandise Sales Declared Void—Attempt to Wreck a Train—Steer Races in Fast' TimeMerchant Suicides—Pittser Is Guilty. Judge Hiram S. Biggs, in the Kosciusko County Circuit Court, declared unconstitutional an act passed by the Legislature last year entitled “An act to regulate the sale of merchandise in bulk.” This law provided that in insolvency proceedings the word creditors should apply only to those creditors whose claims arose from the sale of some part of the stock of merchandise in question. Judge Biggs declares the act invalid for the reason that it grants to wholesale dealers as creditors of an insolvent retailer privileges not enjoyed by other creditors. The decision was in the case of Philip Jaeger, a wholesale grocer of Chicago, and other creditors against Frank M. Whiting. Jaeger and others brought suit to attach the stock of Whiting, which had been sold to an innocent purchaser. The opinion was given on a demurrer to the complaint, raising the question of the validity of the law. Attempt to Wreck a Train. An attempt was made the other night ,to wreck a passenger train on the Wabash road at a point in Jackson township. Ties were placed on the track, and but for the discovery made by the crew of a freight train half an hour ahead of ,the passenger train, there would likely have been a bad accident. Whether robbery was the motive is not known. '

, Steer Makes Speed Record. Edward Holder, an animal trainer near Richmond, has performed a wonderful feat with one of his steers, “Garvin.” He hitched the steer to a bicycle and [speeded him on a race course with hob■bles on. He paced an eighth of a mile ( in eighteen seconds. This is at the rate of a mile in 2:24. The steer is about 1 ;year old. : Rushville Merchant a Suicide. j Samuel Abercrombie, a leading Rushville merchant, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Despondent over business matters and temporary Insanity is the supposed cause. He was superintendent of the Rushville city schools for seven years. Fittser Guilty of Wife Murder. Charles I'ittser was found guilty of murder in the second degree and given life imprisonment. Pittser killed his wife, Dona, in Muncie, Jan. 14. Pittser served in the Philippines in the Thirty-first volunteers.

State News ia Brief. John M. Willits, Wellsboro, killed by a train. Train killed Miss Sarah Julian, Crawfordsville. "• Marion! tes must pay 35 cents a hundred for ice. Elvie Burns, 28, Somerset, was killed in a runaway. Mariou Presbyterians are building a $35,000 church. Sam Nye, Madison, shot Charles Cox, colored. May die. William Phelps, Noblesville, slipped and fell. May die. Charles Edwards, Elwood, was killed by a train at Columbus, Ohio. Town of Elberfield had a $7,000 plaze. Heldt brothers were burned out. Tucker Reed, 28, Nulltown, killed himself with poison. Domestic trouble. Mrs. Maud McGinnis, Richmond, tried to kill herself with carbolic acid. Pumped out. J. S. Lackey, Cambridge City, will build a new barn, where horses will be sold. Syracuse voted “no" ou giving SIO,OOO to the proposed Fort Wayne and Goshen Railroad. Italians at Plymouth routed a gang of boys who had attacked them, Denver Fetters, 18, was shot iu the face. Will recover.

The Grand Coinmandery Knights Templar of Indiana, at South Bend elected Sidney W. Douglas of Evansville grand commander. L. A. McMillan, restaurateur, Danville, is missing. Owes wholesale houses. Sent a letter to Danville Trust Company requesting that it wind up his business. S. R. Beasley, formerly of Linton, who swindled several Hoosiers, then went to lowa, was arrested at Davenport for swindling and given seventeen years in the pen. John C. Hanover of Chicago was doing a trick at Winamac with five SIOO bills. He accidentally ignited the money with a match and it burned up. His hand was severely scorched. W. S. Robertson, a confectioner, was so badly hurt that he died and Wilbur Pell and Ada Green, children, seriously injured by the explosion of a soda fountain at Fuirland.

Officers of the grand commandery of Indiana Knights Templar: Grand c>unmander, Sidney W. Douglass, Evansville; deputy grand commander, Frederick Glass. Madison; grand generalissimo, Charles Goltra, Crawfordsville; grand captain general. Nathan L. Agnew, Valparaiso; grand senior warden, Oliver Gard; grand, junior warden. Vestal W. Woodward, Indianapolis; grand prelate, Cassius M. Carter, Muncie; grand standard bearer, Charles Day, Franklin; grand 'warden, William B. Hosford, South Bend; treasurer, Charles L. Hutchinson, Indianapolis. Superintendent of Schools Edward Ayres, Lafayette, resigned. R. B. Bedgood succeeds him. Robert Howell of South Bend Commercial College and Miss Zun Stetler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Stetler, both of that city, startled South Bend society by eloping to St. Joseph, Mich., and getting married. v A note has been found, written by Rose Bayless, the girl who committed suicide at Fairbanks because Ernest Clark failed to keep his promise to elope with her. The note reads: “Life is niLserablo, and everybody will sneer at me. Bury me in my wedding clothes, Place, me where my lov* can be placed by lay side. Yours in sorrow.”