Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — Page 7

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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, nonresident notice, or any other notice not controlled bj 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. Honaiv ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig's Fair. RENSSELAER INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, law, Abstracts, loons and Root Estate. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stair* west of Vanßensselaer street. - Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Brokei Attorney For The L. N. A. AC.Ry. and Rensselaer W.L. AP. Co. tA-Oftice over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. U. M. Baughman. G. A. William*. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law. Notary work. Loans and Real Estate. Special attention giveu to collections of all kinds. Office over "Racket Store,” Rensselaer, - Indiana. Moses Leopold, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND INSURANCE, Offiee over Ellis A 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 upstair* in Durand Block,

MAN! ROUTS. O. •. ISITkIR, MARRY «. RURRIR. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrle, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in tha County. RENSSELAER. IND.

Mordecai F. Chilcote, William H. Parktson Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Park>son, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate. Insurance, Abstracts and Loan*. Attorneyaforfbe Chicago. Indianapolis A Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over J. Makecver'a Bank, on Washington street. RENSSELAER, - • INDIANA.

H. O. Harris. E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris. President. Vtce-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call. Interest Bearing Certificate* of Deposit Isaued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal citlea, Note* Discounted at current rates, Farm Loan* made at 5 per cent. Wa Solicit a Sharo of Your Buslosss.

Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. B. Waahburn will give ipedal attention Vo Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. Ho also tests eyss for glasses. Orrtoi Tiiipmoni No. 41. Ruidinri Phono No. *7, Rensselaer, - - Indiana.

E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Offlo* over lme»' Millinery store. Rensselaer. Omos Phdns, 177. Hssissaes Pmohs, lit. H. L Brown, DENTJST. Office over Larah’a drug store,

INDIANA DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

WE, the delegates of the Democratic party of the State of Indiana, in convention assembled, do hereby adopt the following declaration of principles, and appeal to our fellow-citizens who agree with these principles, to co-operate with us in the coming campaign. We denounce the Republican party for its surrender to and alliance with the trusts, and we favor such legislation as will suppress and destroy all trusts or combinations to control the production and the price of commodities. We denounce the Dingley tariff law as the breeder of trusts, and demand that tariff duties shall be levied for the purposes of revenue only, and limited by the needs of the government honestly and economically administered. AID TO THE TRUSTS. We condemn the Republican party for refusing to give the Interstate Commerce Commission power to enforce its decisions against discriminations in railroad rates, which discriminations have been a potent cause of the creation and maintenance of trusts, and we demand that the commission be giveu power to suppress this evil. We favor the restoration and expansion of our merchant marine. To this end we demand the reformation of oiir navigation and tariff laws which are, and have been, the chief obstacles to our ocean commerce. We denounce the ship subsidy bill recently passed by the United States Senate, with the assistance of the Senators from Indiana, as an iniquitous appropriation of public funds for private purposes, and a wasteful, illogical and useless attempt to overcome by subsidy the obstructions raised by Republican legislation to the growth and development of American commerce on the sea. OPPOSED TO FOWLER DANK BILL. We are opposed to the Fowler bank bill indorsed by the Republican leaders, which would give the people a paper currency based on bank assets of unknown value, and for which the government is not responsible; we are also opposed to its proposal of bank concentration and the formation of a great banking trust; and we are also opposed to its proposal to destroy the security of depositors in banks. We recognize as an economic fact the increase of standard money arising from the vast increased production of gold, from our own and foreign mines, and the prodigious influx of foreign gold into this country, as a result of an exceptional demand for our products, arising from foreign wars and other causes, and we point to the results consequent upon this increase of the circulating medium as a demonstration of the truth of the quantitative theory of money. PHILIPPINE POLICY. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just power from the consent of the governed. Therefore, we condemn and denounce the Philippine policy of the present administration. It has embroiled the republic in uu unnecessary war, sacrificed the lives of many of its noblest sons, and placed the United States, previously known and applauded throughout the world as the champion of freedom, in the false and un-American position of crushing with military force tlie efforts of our former allies to achieve liberty and self-government. The Filipinos cannot be citizens without endangering our civilization; they cannot be subjects without imperiling our form of government; and as we are not willing to surrender our civilization or to convert the republic into an empire, we favor an immediate declaration of the nation’s purpose to assist the Filipinos to establish for themselves an independent government, protecting them from outside interference, ami securing to this country such commercial and moral rights and advantages as would be just and fair and fully protect American interests. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. We hold in reverence the valor, patriotism and services of the soldiers and sailors of the republic, and will, at all times and in all places, give our unswerving and enthusiastic support to our army and navy, which have always ami everywhere maintained the dignity, power and honor of the American people. The beautiful shaft that rises above the capital of otir commonwealth is a worthy monument to the glory of those silent victors of Indiana, who so freely offered their lives to secure the perpetuity of our free institutions. We favor liberal pensions to the soldiers and sailors Of the republic, and their dependents. We congratulate the republic of Cuba upon its entering into the family of nations. We deplore the cruel and wanton destruction of the republics of South Africa. We favor the construction and control of .in isthmian canal by the United 6tates. SENATORS BY POPULAR VOTE. We favor the election of United States Senators by popular vote. We favor freedom of debate in the legislative bodies of the State and nation. The Republican party has, by rules, made the popular branch of Congress, the House of Representatives, subject to the arbitrary control and domination of a few members, thus disfranchising constituencies in matters of vital legislation. We deplore the death of President McKinley at the hands of a self-con-fessed anarchist, whose unholy crime was committed against the whole nation. We denounce anarchy in all its forms and declare that it should not be permitted to find an abiding place in this country. CONGRESSMEN INDORSED. We indorse the course of our Democratic Representatives in Congress in standing for economy in public expenditures, for just principles of government and for the doctrines of the Democratic party. We point with pride to the long list of laws enacted by the Democratic Legislature of this State in the interest of labor, and we favor the enactment of auch further legislation as will prevent the sending or transfer of accounts or other obligations of persons out of the State for the purpose of oppressing laboring men by unjust ami expensive proceedings in attachment and garnishment. We denounce the hypocrisy of the Republican party in assuming to Itself credit for the reduction of the State debt, when it is a well-known fact that the State debt has been reduced by the operation of the Democratic tax law of ltfill, under which railroads and other corporations have been compelled to pay a more just portion of the public burdens. LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT. We are in favor of the principles of local self-government and of leaving the control of local matters in the hands of the people of the counties, cities and townships of the State. We oppose granting to corporations of any other State or States the power to acquire any railroad organized and operating under the laws of this State. We are in favor of restoring to the citizens of the State the right to appeal to the Supreme and Appellate Courts in any civil ease within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, where the amount in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, exceed* SSO.

INSTITUTIONS PROSTITUTED. The wisdom, prudence and foresight of the Democracy of Indiana placed the penal and benevolent institutions of the State under humane and nonpartisan laws and administered them in harmony with the reformatory and benevolent purposes for which they were founded. The vicious and cruel prostitution of these institutions to partisan ends by the present administration merits condemnation by the people of the State. We call attention to the fnct that the last Republican Legislature of Indiana was the most reckless and dangerous in the abuse of legislative power in the history of the State. Its deeds of commission and omission should serve as a warning to the people of the State against further continuance of the Republican party in power in this commonwealth. GOV. DURBIN CONDEMNED. We condemn the Republican Governor of Indiana for his violation of the constitutions and laws of the United States and the State of Indiana ih his refusal to honor the requisition of the Governor of Kentucky upon regularly returned indictments for murder against fugitives from justice, and denounce this fin grant violation of his oath to support the constitution of the United State* and the State of Indiana as a species of official lawlessness, vicious in iself and subversive of that comity among the States which is au essential element of the union of the States.

A Surprising Person.

Uncle Grimm—Mrs. Soggy is the queerest old lady of my acquaintance. Nephew—How so? Uncle Grimm—Why, although she weighs 210 pounds and has a wart on her chin, she never boasts about what a terrible flirt she was when a girl.—liar per’s Bazar.

As Explained.

She —What a terrible clamor that fellow Is making. He —Of course. That’s his business. She—What's Ills business? He—Claturner. He laddies elnins. See?

Society Molars.

Dentist—Well, how ilo the new testh work? Everything satisfactory? Patient—Not exactly. They seem to cut the others. Dentist—Naturally. They don’t belong to the same set, you know.

His Sartorial Condition.

Mrs. Goodsoul—Are these all the spring clothes you have, my poor man? Soiled Spooner—l rsgret ter say. maddim. dat I'm staodln* In de middle uv me trunk at dls moment.—Judge.

This and That.

There are few sougs that flatter the sharper. Everyone can master a grief but be that has it.—Shakespeare. “Ignorance Is the mother of lmpu•donee;” no father Is named. Nearly 4,000,000 acres of land are Irrigated by fhfmers In Colorado. Nothing Is more friendly to a man than a friend In need.—Plautus. When a man says he has a stand In he doesn’t mean he has his foot In It. The Spanish army costs 142,000,000 pesetas a year. Twenty-ttvo pesetas equal $5.

There are 5,180,000 Hebrews In Russia, according to the late census returns. Only 480 words are contalnedriu tbs Nicaragua canal hill passed by tho House. .The spring and autumn maneuvers of the European armies cost annually over $10,000,000. The deepest nrfnlng shaft Is at Prls dram, In Bohemia. 8.280 feet deep. Frauds will creep Into money and churches of all denominations.

NEW POSTAL CURRENCY.

Bill Authorizing the Isenance of Poat - Check* for Small Sumo. An administration bill for the establishment of a postal currency has been drafted by the committee appointed to consider the question. It authorizes the Postmaster General to cause to be issued postal checks of fixed denominations, not above sl, in even multiples of five and ten cents. Th"se are to be redeemable or payable at any money order postoffice. A fee in addition to the face value will be charged for every cheek issued. It is generally conceded that the present postal money order system is both inadequate and inconvenient, and Congress has been attempting to perfect a design for currency intended especially for transmission through the mails. Particularly since the adoption of rurnl mail delivery has the need been felt of some [dan for sending small sums of money by mail without necessitating a special Journey to the postofhee on the part of the sender.

The committee on postofliees and postroads have had before them a measure providing a post check in denominations of $5 and down to the denominations of fractional currency. It was proposed to retire the five, two and one dollar bills now issued by the government and substitute the post check and make the latter the regular paper money for those denominations.

The proposed post check was nothing more than an ordinary government note so printed ns to permit its transformation quickly into a veritable check. Ry affixing a stamp nnd writing upon provided spaces the name and address of the payee this note would become a money order, payable only to the payee. To forgo the signature of tlie payee was made a penitentiary offense, same as counterfeiting. As rapidly ns the signed bills would come into the possession of postmasters they were to be sent to Washington for redemption. By this process, should one desire to make remittance by mail be would simply take out a bill or piece of fractional currency, write the name of bis creditor, affix and cancel a stamp, and it would only require the signature of the latter to again mnke the money as good as gold “tt the office named.

The committee of postal and treasury experts appointed to consider the above plan for the establishment of a postal currency, however, submitted an adverse report to the Pastmaster General. While commending the general scheme, the report said the methods of detail seemed impracticable. The bill since framed is supposed to be free from the objections advanced and it is said the measure is likely to be favorably considered by Congress.

A “BUMPER” GRAIN CROP.

Largest Yield in Many Years Is Looked For in the Northwest. A “bumper” grain crop for the four great States of the Northwest which are traversed by the lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad is the prophecy of A. J. Barling, president of the company. Mr. Barling, together with several of the executive officials of the company, recently completed an inspection tour of the entire St. Paul system. The trip was taken largely with a view of ascertaining the crop conditions, and the president and his party have returned to Chicago enthusiastic over the prospects. “Never before in my connection with the St. Paul road,” said Mr. Earling. “have I seen the Northwest so big with promise of abundant grain crops. I speak, of course, for those portions of the States of Minnesota, Wisconsin, lowa nnd South Dakota which are traversed by our lines, and I understand that a similar condition prevails over the entire Northwest. In South Dakota the acreage is somewhat larger than in former years, while in the other States it is about the same. Unless something unforeseen happens between now and harvest time, I believe crop records will be broken In the territory which I have named.” Based upon the present crop conditions, the Bt. Paul officials are looking forward to a material increase In the earnings of the company, and are correspondingly well pleased. Everywhere over the system, it was stated, the farmer* are in good humor, and are talkiug of big crop* and increased prosperity.

TEN KILLED IN A TORNADO.

Storm Deal* Deuth and Destruction Near Lake Park, Minn. Ten persons were killed and many hurt in a tornado which swept across the country twelve miles north of Lake Park, Minn., at 5 o’clock Monday afternoon. The storm devastated a strip as country three miles long and two miles wide. Nine farm houses were destroyed and their inmates crushed and maimed. Barns and other outhouse* were blown down and crops were ruined. The church at Spangels was demolished and several other buildings in the little towu were damaged. Lake Park is a small town in the northwestern part of Minuesota, 217 miles from St. Paul, about thirty-three miles from Moorhead and forty miles east of Fargo, N. D., and is attuated on the main line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. It is in Beecher County and has a population of COO. Spangels is a country district near I/*ke Park.

TOO MUCH MUSIC.

Rag Time and Other He lections Driving Chicngo We»t-Hidel-« Mud. Complaint after complaint Is coming to the police station at Desplulnes .street, says a Chicago dispatch, because of the talking machines which arc producing raucous tones from morning until night. A wild-eyed man rushed into the station the other day with hair disheveled and clothing awry, lie begged to be sent to the Philippines, or Martinique, or Patagonia—he didn't care where, so long a* he could have at least live .minutes of peace and quietness. “It's these infernal talking machines,’’ he said. “They are driving me crazy, and not only me, but hundreds of others. You'll soon hare to start an emergency insane asylum in my neighborhood if It keeps up much longer. . It'a a fright! Send me to Martinique. The music of an exploding volcano would he sweet for a chnuge." Robert Wilson, a stonemason, attempt ed suicide at Beading, Kan., In an upstairs room In Dr. Brown's house, by shooting himself in his side with a shotgun, the load taking effect Just above tbq heart.

HEAVY STORM IN WEST.

lowa, Illinois and Sooth Dakota Bifftr from Cloudburst*. A tornado, coupled with a rainfall unprecedented in the State, swept over lowa' Friday and caused immense damage to Des Moines and several other adjoining counties. One death is reported and many persons are seriously injured, while the property loss will be several millions. The crops have suffered fearful damage and the railroads throughout the State had to suspend traffic until the washed-out tracks were repaired. The rainfall was the heaviest recorded in the history of the weather bureau. At half a dozen different places the storm was nothing short of a cloudburst. Considerable stock was drowned. At Clarinda the rainfall was 5.24 inches, at Carroll 3.16 inches, in Des Moines 2.15, at Ogdon 2.07, at Marshalltown 1.77. Hardly a town in the State reports less than one inch and a half. At Marshalltown rivers and creeks nr* bank full and low lands are inundated. Bomford Langdon, a 9-year-old boy, fell into the swollen current of Linn creek, three miles from town and was drowned.

From Clinton it is reported that destruction to the growing crops on thousands of acres of land on Rock river bottoms has resulted from ; >rflow of Rock river, which went on .. .page and covered thousands of acres of the best farming land along that valley. Carroll County, 111., was visited by the second disastrous tornado in throe years. A heavy storm came up from the southwest and descended upon tke country estate of George N. Melendy, one of the finest in York township, and in two minutes three new barns and a number of other buildings were in kindling wood. From there the cloud jumped eighty rods to Jenks Melendy’s, where it badly wrecked his residence, and next struck the farms of Timothy Dunshee and \V. E. Shoemnker, wrecking barns, then unroofed the Baptist Church and tore one end out. The loss will foot up to $25,000. A cloudburst is also reported to liav* fallen in Chadwick.

Near Satina, Ivan., Joseph Bass and L. It. McDowell, farmers, were drown; ed while trying to cross swollen creeks. The Smoky Hill river is ton feet above its usual height. The greatest storm that has visited that section for years descended on Mitchell, 8. D. A violent windstorm was followed by rain that fell in torrents for an hour and the streets were turned into running rivers. Seven inches of water fell during the hour. Hundreds of trees were blown down and many buildings more or less damaged.

SAYS A THOUSAND ARE DEAD.

Town of Ratalhnlen, Guatemala, Destroyed by Volcano. Upward of 1,000 lives hare been lost and half the city of Ratalkulcn, Guatemala, has been destroyed by the eruption of Tacana volcano, according to advices received by the Chilian steamer Palena, from Valparaiso and way ports. Ratalhnlen lay several miles back from Champerico, on the coast, and it was at the latter city that nows of the disaster was secured. Earthquakes, it was said, had continued at short intervals every day since the great disturbance of April 18, when the city of (Juczaltcnango was destroyed. The shocks have been of sufficient Strength to keep the residents of the entire region in a state of terror, and little has been done to repair the damage done by them and the volcanic eruptions. Pumice stone and ashes' thrown from the crater of Tacana have spread a thin coating over the territory surrounding Champerico. A few days before the Palena left Champerico an earthquake destroyed a small town near Guatemala City, but Ita name was not learned.

CANNOT STOP STRIKE.

President Roosevelt Finds No Authority to intervene for Peace. The President will not intervene at thia time to obtain a settlement of the anthracite coal strike. The invitation which the New York Board of Trade extended the President to appoint a committee to settle the trouble was discussed at length at the cabinet session Friday, when it was discovered that the law of ISSB, under which the proposed action was to he taken, had been repealed in ISDK, aDd that the President was powerless beyond the use of his good otliees. There are no legal grounds for interference, and when the Board of Trade and Transportation was informed of the repeal of the law the committee that had been appointed to visit Washington decided to abandon its mission.

Religious News and Notes

Mormon missionaries are numerous throughout the Easteru States. The Church of England ha* thirty-sev-en bishops, but only thirty deans. The outcry against the desecration of the Sabbath in the United Statea Is growing. The Holy See has rnled that It is not proper to receive confessions over ths telephone. Thieves stole a 1.000-pound boll belonging to the Parkvilie, L. 1., Congregational Church.

Alden Speare, who died recently is California, was one of the most influential laymen in Methodism. President Roosevelt hns been invited ta address the great triennial Sunday school convention, to be held in Denver Is June next. The large but “unchurchly” chancel of Trinity Church. Boston, is to be remodeled. Choir stalls are to be put in for a vested choir. The Russian Government has appropriated $1,000,000 for the promotion of 'temperance among the people. The Rev. Dr. William Howe of Cambridge, Mass., the oldest living graduate of Colby College, wa* graduated Is 1833. He is 00 years of age. Sir James Parker Denne, Viear General of the Province of Canterbury and Chancellor of the diocese of Salisbury, is dead at the age of DO years. Dr. and Mrs. Kudisill, on their return to Madras, India, were tendered a reception by the employes of the Methodist Publishing Mouse of that city.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORp OF EVENTS OF THE PABT WEEK. A Roseburg Man Shot Dead Without Warning —Great Increase hi Land and Live Stock Values Whitecapa Whip a Woman—Bold Desperado. James Lacey, 30 years of age. was shot and instantly killed and Jacob Gottsckull, aged 25, was shot through the right arm near the fork in the Roseburg pike, three miles from the central part of Marion. Charles Sloderbeck, Henry Poe, Gottachall and Lacey were on their way home to Roseburg from Marion. The four men stopped at g suburban resort conducted by Carrie Barnes, but were refused admission. They started down the road and had walked about one mile, when two men approached from the rear in a buggy and demanded the return of a robe, flynet and whip alleged to have been stolen. The men in the buggy then opened fire on the four in the road. One bullet struck Lacey In tile left breast over the heart. Another passed through the right arm of Gottschall uear the shoulder, inflicting a wound from which he nearly bled to death. The other two men were not injured, as they fled in the darkness,. Gain for Indiana Farms.

The census bureau has issued a bulletin giving the final agricultural statistics of Indiana. It shows that the 221,897 farms enumerated in Indiana June 1, 1900, were valued at $841,735,340, of which 82 per cent represents land and improvements otln'r than buildings. The value of farm implements and machinery was $27,330,370 and of live stock $109,550,761. These make the total value of farm property $978,016,471. The total value of Indiana farm product* in 1899 was $204,450,196, of which 40 per cent was in animal products and 60 per cent in crops, including forest products. The total value of farm products exceeded the total for 1889 by 116 per cent. The gross farm income of Indiana for 1899 was $155,980,796 and the gross income upon investment 16 per cent.

White Caps Flog a Woman. Mrs. Alice Hanger, wife of Otto Hanger, a farmer who lives near Marengo, was taken from her home by a band of twenty White Caps, tied to a tree in the yard and severely switched. Her busband was held under guard in the house by a portion of the gang while she was flogged. After the whipping the woman was warned by the band to be more care-’ ful in her care of her stepchildren or she would receive another visit from the mob.

Desperado Jeers at Officers. Harry Kelly, a negro desperado and bank robber, who was arrested at Brazil and escaped from the sheriff of Ballard County, Ky., when being taken to that place to answer for a crime, returned on a recent night. He left the handcuffs and shackles at the Vandalia depot and wrote a warning note to Detective Louderback, who had arrested him, to leave bvS property where he could secure it. . Within Onr Border*. Montpelier will have a street fair, June 24-27. Miss Franc Peddycord, Goshen, will go ou the stage. Mount Pleasant Methodists dedicated a ffefv church. Increase of $266,000 in the tasables of YVflyne County. Dayton creamery burned. Loss $3,500, partially insured. Friends of Richmond will build a new church at Victoria, Mexico. Arrests have been made in Parke County for Illegal hunting. Hamblin township has had fifty cases of smallpox and three deaths. John Dake, 47, Franklin, hanged himself in a barn. Temporarily insane. Police Superintendent Page, Richmond, has resigned on account of ill health. An explosion of dynamite tore off oue of Joseph Gorby's arms, Aiuui Cave. John McCann, Lafayette, was seriously injured by a natural gas explosion.

Water rates for modern homes in Anderson have been boosted to S3O a year. Ehvood has a “Peeping Tom” and several men are looking for him with shotgnus. G. C. Wood’s grain elevator, Nevada, burned. Ix>ss $5.000, with $2,000 insurance. H. N. Gallimore, 34, Kokomo, fs said to be the youngest “grandpa" in the world. W. 8. Evans' mill at Otiseo was destroyed by fire. Loss sll,OOll, fully iusured. AHen Pittman. Sullivan, fell on the blade of a road scraper aud was seriously injured. Epworth League of Richmond district will hold n convention at Union City, June 24-20. Democrats of the Tenth District nominated Capt. William Guthrie of Monti* cello for Congress. A tine Monou engine and several cars were destroyed at Crnwfordsville in a collision. No one was hurt.

Ollie Pitzer, aged ID years, shot and fatully wounded his cousin, Otis Richman, aged 13 years, at Daleville. Fred Noble anil Victor Clark of Anderson will go abroad to cuter the ltoynl conservatory of music at Dresden. A gift of SIO,OOO has been made to Del'auw by a person whose name the authorities have not made known. Willis B. Wheeler, who murdered ids sou-in-law, Elias Burns, in ..Warrick County Sept. 7 last, expiated his crime on the gallows iu the northern Indiana prison at Michigan City. George Bnrr McCuteheon, author of “Graustark," had u narrow escape from death. While he was cleaning the desk formerly used by him as city editor of the Lafayette Courier, an old pistol was accidentally discharged, the bullet grasing his body. Mrs. Florence Mcllrath of Russisvills was thrashed 214 times in about two years, according to her testimony on ths witness stand. She kept a record of ths beatings for use in divorce action. Bho kept piling up evidence until ahe thought the ground* sufficiently strong, then sho applied for a decree. She got it.