Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1903 — Page 3

HORSE BILLS. The Democrat would remind the owners of stable horses that it is fully prepared to turn out folders, cards or large horse bills on short notice and at very reasonable prices. The best selection of horse cuts in the county. Give us a call if wanting anything in this line. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store. KMNJNIISiRy. ‘•j Crown, Bar and Bridge 1 Work. Teeth Without wVWT Plates. Without Pain. . J. W. HORTON ~ IB YEARS IN RENSSELAER. Teeth carefully stopped with gold and other fillings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered daily. Charges within the reach of all. orrics oerosiT* court houss. Where to Locate? WHY IN THE TERRITORY TRAVERSED BY THE . . LOUISVILLE and NASHVILLE RAILROAD —THE— Great Central Southern Trunk Line, —IN KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, WHERE Farmers, Fruit Growers, Stock Raisers, Manufacturers, Investors, Speculators, and Money Lenders will find the greatest chances in the United Sta’es to make "big money” by reason of the abundance and cheapness of Land and Farms, Timber and Stone, Iron and Coal, Labor- Everything! Free sites, financial assistance, and freedom from taxation for the manufacturer. Land and farms at SI.OO per acre and upwards. and 500.000 acres in West Florida that can be taken gratis under the U. S. Homestead laws. Stock raising in the Gulf Coast District will make enormous profits. Half fare excursions the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Let us know what you want, and we will tell you where and how to get it—but don’t delay, as the country is filling up rapidly. Printed matter, maps and ail information free. Address. R. J. WEMYSS General Immigration and Industrial Agent, LOUISVILLE. KY. CITY, TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. MayorJ. H. S. Ellis Marshal Mel Abbott Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer J.C. Thrawis Fire ChiefC. B. Steward CO VN OILMEN. Ist ward Henry Wood. Fred Phillips Zd wardW.S. Parks. B. F. Ferguson 8d wardJ.C. McColly, Peter Wasson COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk,John F. Major Sheriff Abram G. Hardy Auditor W.C. Babcock Treasurerß. A. Parkison. Recorderßobert B. Porter SurveyorMyrt B. Prica Coroner Jennings Wright Bupt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips COMMISSION itHB. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District Frederick W'aymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. IKVBTBKB. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John RyanGillam Lewis ShrierWalker Elias Arnoldßarkley Charles M. Blue Marion John Bill Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox Newton 8. L. Luce Keener Thomas F. MaloneyKankakee Stephen D. ClarkWheatfield Albert J. Bellows Carpenter William T. SmithMilroy Barney I). Cotner Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Suptßensseleer G. K. Hollingsworthßensselaer George Hesse Remington Geo. O. StembelWheatfield JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting attorney John D. Sink Terms of Court. Second Monday in February, April, September and November. REVIVO hjw restores VITALITY l Made a IWeU1 WeU TMB of GR.EA.T FiunNrori produces the above results In 30 days. It seta powerfully and quickly. Curas whan all others fklL Young mon will regain tbair lost manhood, and old man will recover their youthful vigor by using REVIVO. It quickly and auroly restores Nervousness, Lost Vitality, Impotaney. Nightly Emissions, Lost Power, Falling Memory, Wasting Dlseaaea. and ell effects of self abuse or excoMand Indiscretion, which unfits one for study, business or marriage. It notonly cures by starting at tbo seat of disease, but feagreat nerve tonlo and blood builder, bringing back the pink glow to palo cheeks and restoring the fire of youth, ft wards off Insanity end Coniumptlon. Insist on having REVIVO, no other. It can be carried in vest pocket. By mall. SIAM) par package, or six tor •SAMI, with a post tlve written guarantee to cure or rotund the money. Advice and circular free. Address ROHL MEDICIN I: CO., *d®SR«. n * For sale in Rensselaer by J, A. Larsh, druggist. PLENTY OF EGGS And nn sick rhlrk.ru where Walls’ Hoosier P»a|. try Powder Is used. Ciirw Cholera. Oases and Sou*. Keeps poultry healthy. Frier. M Meta Sold by A. F. Long.

Cold Weather AND Coal Famine

r77N/~N weather and the coal famine have canned intense sufferUUV in « throughout the Middle West. A' drop of seventeen following several inches of snowfall, is what occurred in Chicago Sunday The wind blew from the West, and it swept the prairies of Nebraska, lowa and Illinois with cruel and ley blasts. Zero weather prevailed Monday in all that country north of a line running through points 100 miles south of Springfield, 111., and Indianapolis, Ind. Freezing temperatures gave to the Gulf States what to the Southerners is a cold wave. It was as low as 32 degrees above zero at Galveston and New Orleans. The snow which preceded the cold wave delayed trains on every road, and coal cars from the anthracite and bituminous fields headed West were greatly retarded. In Chicago unspeakable suffering is reported. Thousands of homes are tireless and thousands of women and children are sick and at the point of freezing. 'There lias come no relief from the fuel famine and even the rich are with difficulty obtaining coal with which to warm their homes. The poor are abject. The death rate is alarming. According to the Health Department reports it Is 20 per cent higher than a year ago among the children and 36.7 per cent higher among grown folks. The report of the Health Department declares that 10 per cent of the city’s population were ill last week. Mayor Harrison appealed for aid to relieve the suffering.* A season of extreme low temperature means misery and distress for many of the residents of a large city even when the coal supply is normal. Under the best possible conditions the shrinking of the thermometer below the zero notch marks the opening of a time of acute discomfort for even the moderately well to do. For the very poor, of course, it means positive physical distress. This season the conditions are aggravated by the lack of coal. The effect upon the city’s living conditions of a cold snap intensified by a coal shortage is plainly shown not only in the great amount of sickness due to privation and exposure, but in the failure of certain public utilities like the street railway lines to meet the requirements of the most ordinary public comfort. The gravest evil of all just at present, of course, is the absence of fuel among those who have been unable to pay the high prices demanded for it.

COAL SITUATION SUMMARIZED.

In Chicago a special grand jury began an investigation of the alleged coal conspiracy under instructions from Judge McEwen, who told tin- jurymen that the situation spells “crime and infamy.” Witnesses testified to the existence of a ring to control die market. Detroit “get coal” convention committee decided at meeting to reconvene fqll body in Washington to demand federal action. Coal famine at Arcola, 111., was broken by the seizure of sixteen cars of coal destined for Chicago. Preachers, bankers and policemen aided in the raid. Tenants in St. Paul houses are tearing up back stairs and other woodwork that can be dispensed with to use for fuel. Mayor Low of New York asked for a conference with the presidents of coal roads with a view to relieving the famine in that city. Milwaukee authorities arranged to secure 10,000 tons of anthracite from Canada within a week to relieve the shortage. Great suffering prevails at Philadelphia. and people who cannot afford to burn gas are in a deplorable condition. , Wealthy people at Boston depend on gas or oil stoves, but the wants of the poor are well supplied owing to energy of charitable societies. Heavy snowstorms, accompanied by blizzards, swept the North and middle West, causing much suffering, owing to lack of fuel. Railroad trains on many roads were delayed. • Fuel famine, coupled with rigorous weather, has caused the illness of 200,000 persons in Chicago. AJams County (Neb.) farmers are burning corn worth 35 cents a bushel. Anti-trust sermons were delivered in many Chicago pulpits Sunday: the Rev. R. A. White hoped coal famine would hasten public ownership of mines; the Rev. J. A. Milburn declared socialism will be fostered. Ordinance making combination to raise coal prices a misdemeanor punishable by S2OO fine was introduced in the Chicago City Council. Nearly 13,000 cars of soft coal are held by dealers in railroad yards of Chicago suburbs, according to Illinois Manufacturers’ Association. «

Chicago correspondence: ONSIDERING the paramount im((j. portauce of coal as a necessity of Ky life, it is not surprising that the menace of a continued shortage should have atirred public opinion so deeply throughout the country. There la no mistaking the signs of the apprehension which underlies tlie present movements In every important center in the country. The congressional investigation at Washington, Mayor Low's call for a conference in New York, the appeal issued by Mayor Maybury of Detroit for joint action on the part of Governors and Mayors and the prosecution begun in Chicago before a grand jury are indications of a serious and widespread agitation. There la evidently a general agreement with the sentiment expressed by Judge McEwen in his charge to tlie special grand Jury that such nn interference with the coal supply as is now charged is “a crime and nn infamy.” The “oldest inhabitants” remember when hard coni cost S2O a ton in Chicago. It was in 1860 or 1870, but the S2O was depreciated paper representing really sl3. The special Cook County grand jury is now investigating the coni question. It is alleged by business men that there is a greater volume* of coni in Chicago this year tbnn there was last year, when there were no complaints of scarcity. It is asserted that there are thousands of cars tilled with coal in nnd nltout Chicago whose owners will not have them unlonded and their contents delivered to consumers because they have conspired to force up prices. In Arcola and other towns in tbs West snd Northwest tho grlevsnce is not so much the price of coal as the lack of It.

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MITCHELL APPEALS TO MINERS.

Asks the Men to Aid in Ending the Coal Famine. , President Mitchell of the United Mine Acrkers of America on Monday issued tile following circular letter to all local unions in the anthracite district: To ,! h ? Officers and Members of Local Inions of the U. M. \V. of A in the Anthracite Region: lou an- no doubt aware that a serious coal famine exists in all the Eastern and seaboard cities, due to the shortage of the anthracite coal supply. The situation has reached an acute stage and has resulted In great suffering and hardship to the poor of the cities, whose earnings are Insufficient to enable them to pay tiie excessive prices now charged for fuel, and. It Is subjecting the general public to great Inconvenience. To relieve the situation and alleviate, as far as possible, the suffering now being endured is the duty of every one connected with the production of coal. With this end In vj»w we are prompted to address this communication to nil members of our union and request they co-operate with the management of tlie mines in an effort to increase the production of coal. The gravity of the situation is such as to require that every mineworker shall exert himself and use every means at his command to this end. Upon reading this communication In the columns of the papers local unions should hold meetings and devise means whereby the daily output of the mines mar be increased These efforts should be continued until the weather moderates and the great necessity for fuel shall have passed JOHN MITCHELL. President United Mineworkers of America

BILL FOR REBATE ON COAL

Will Equal Duty Now Imposed and Continue for One Year. Tlie ways and means committee of t’’e national house Tuesday decided to report a bill providing for a rebate—equal to tlie duty now imposed—on ail kinds of coal coming from all countries for a period of one year. This bill is a Substitute for the one introduced by Representatives Hill of Connecticut, which provided for a rebate until June 30 next. The bill adopted provides: "That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized and required to make full rebates of duties imposed by law on all coal of every form and description imported into the United States from foreign countries for the period of one year from and after the passage of this act.” Representative Richardson of Tennessee proposed an amendment striking out the words “for a period of one yenr," which was voted down. He then proposed an amendment placing all coal on the free list, which wns likewise voted down. The final vote on the adoption of the bill was unanimous.

ILLINOIS SOLONS ACT.

House at Springfield Adopts Resolutions for a Fuel Inquiry. The Illinois House of Representatives Tuesday adopted resolutions providing for an investigation of conditions ipveruing the supply of coal in the Kta/e. The suffering caused by the shortage brought out a set of resolutions from Representative Davies of Cook County, providing for a committee of five House members clothed with full power to subpoena awd swear witnesses nnd order the production of books and papers and all accounts that may assist the committee in arriving at a conclusion concerning tho hardships endured in Illinois as a result of the'coni shortage. The committee is Instructed to work in conjunction with the State officials now conducting an investigation along the same lines.

Price of Anthracite Raised.

w-holesnle price of that exceedingly rare article, anthracite coal, was advanced in Chicago $3 at one jump Monday. The increase makes the present wholesale price $11.50 n ton. Dealers could give no particular reason for the raise in price, further than tho “condition of the market." Dealers declare the supply of hard coal is still small and that there is little prospect of more for some time.

Heavy Output of Anthracite.

The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad officials state tiint for the week more anthracite coal was taken down the main line than for any previous week in year*. The total is 10.2(H) of all classes of cars, or an average of 1,700 cars for each working day of the week, equal to nearly 225,000 tons. This wras distributed In the company’s territory as fur as Next York and along its branches in Pennsylvania nnd elsewhere. The only safe investments nre education and health.—Daniel Ever tan.

TARIFF IS OFF COAL.

CONGRESS VOTES TO SUSPEND DUTY FOR ONE YEAR. Measure la Favorably Acted Upon by Both Branches of Congress, Together a Senate Amendment Putting Anthracite Permanently on Free List King Coal swept everything before him in_Lhe national capitob Wednesday. The House passed the bill admitting coal duty fi-ee for a year, there being only six votes against. Then the Senate sprung a surprise on the country. It passed the same bill within nine minutes after it was received from the House, without debate and without a vote in the negative. But this was not the greatest surprise the coal panic which had seized the statesmen produced during the day. z Representative Jenkins of Wisconsin, generally supposed to be a conservative* public man, and occupying the important post of chairman of the House judiciary committee, introduced a resolution aimed to prepare the way for government seizure of “all coal, coal beds and cqal mines in the United States and all lines of transportation used in carrying coal.” Mr. Jenkins believes the government ought to step in and take possession of every coal mine in the country and all the railroads which carry coal to market. Votes Off Coal Duty. In the House the bill providing for coal duty rebates passed in short order. The five who voted against it were Cushman and Jones of Washington, Gaines of West Virginia, Mondell of Wyoming and Patterson of Pennsylvania. The bill was considered under the operalion .of a rule which cut off opportunity to amend. The only opposition to the measure came from some of the members representing C'sugStates, who“expressed the fear that the admission of Chinese-mined coal from Canada Would injure the coal industry in their States. Both Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Mr. Payne of New York expressed the opinion that the bill would not relieve the existing distress. They said it would satisfy public demand for action and show the disposition of Congress to do what it could. The Democrats, although they all supported the hill, said that coal should go on the free list, and when the bill came back from the Senate with a provision which virtually placed anthracite on the free list they applauded vigorously. The Senate amendment was adopted without division. The Senate went further than the House, for it ■ adopted an amendment which practically puts anthracite on the flee list, by adding a section to prevent the imposition of a duty on anthracite after the expiration of the time provided for in’the bill.

FORTY TRAINS OF COAL A DAY

Heavy Receipts of Bituminous Fuel in Chicago. Seven different lines of railroads, known as the “coal roads,” entering Chicago have been supplying that city with forty train loads of bitumirious coal daily since the winter set in. From 1.200 to 1,500 car loads, averaging thirty-five tons each, have been delivered to dealers each day, and yet the consumer has been unable to understand why he cannot get what he wants when he wants it. The "coal roads” entering the city with the product of western mines are the Illinois Central, the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, tlie Wabash and the Panhandle. They tap a mining region within a radius of 200 miles of Chicago. The lines which haul coal into the city from the mines of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio are the Baltimore and Ohio, the Pennsylvania and the Lake Shore. When a trainload of coal roaches the city the railroad people send notice to the -shipper's office, and the shipper at once begins the work of supplying the consumer. He notifies the railroad to deliver so many cars to the "team tracks,” where it can be transferred to wagons, or to hi.s private yard, or, as is done with certain large customers, to the customer’s yard direct. Here is where cold weather upsets the calculations of the dealers and consumers. Nothing handicaps a railroad’s operation like a temperature near zero. Brakemen, switchmen ami engineers cannot work to an advantage when freezing weather prevails. Even the engines are hampered by zero weather. Consequently there is trouble for every body concerned in the future of a ton of coal.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS

The German painter, Christian Alter, who was said to lie responsible for the charges against the late Herr Krupp, bus Is-en arrested. The continued decline in the value of silver is causing Chinese officials to talk of repudiating the payment of the war indemnity in gold. Martini law was proclaimed in Argentina to enable the government to deni with a general strike which threatened to paralyze business. King Edwnrd knighted several civilians for their services during the Boer war. Among them are a politician, an author and a railroad man. The Japanese government has offered a subsidy of 500,1X10 yen a year for more than four years for the location there of a modem glass plant like those in America. It was announced nt Pekin that Bussin had decided to establish a customs service in the province of Manchuria, the duties to Is'' paid over to Chinn, however. The Italian financial budget for 100102. including the cost of the China expedition, shows a surplus of 32.<XM),(XX) iires. The estimated surplus for 1!M)208 in 1,600,000 lires. China’s foreign trade for the past year amounted to about $315,000,000, an increase of >27,500,000 in imports and $17,700,000 in exports over 1806. Last year’s exports reached >125,000,000.

PULSE OF THE PRESS

The coni shortage is great larks for the pneumonia microbe.—Hartford Post. Bret Harte left only SI,BOO ami a name that is sure to live.—Boston Globe. Our compliments to the Czar; he kept his feet off the Monroe doctrine.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Come aboard the national car, Oklahoma—and step lively, please!—New York Mail and Express. There’s only one of the territories aspiring to statehood that seems to be positively Ok.—Boston Herald. Why shouldn't Hawaii be happy, with i the inriV cable working and no special need for coal?—Boston Globe. Foreign governments are doing what ’ they can to keep Janies Monroe's memory green.-—Rochester Herald. Chiengo has ‘had another Tio>''l fire. As a rule, it is hard to find a well-heated Chicago hotel.—Atlanta Journal. So far the labor leaders have not advised their men to save their money and g<> a-gunning for President Eliot.—Washington Post. “Chicago leads in hogs,” says an exE\ ery st rangv-r who ever ",isited the Windy City will believe this.—St. Paul Dispatch. It seems hard for slow-going Europe i to realize that the days of buccaneering I on the Spanish main were over long ago. | —Toledo Blade. Every time Europe agitates the Mon ‘ roe doctrine it makes it a more substan- ; tial quantity in international affairs.— j Washington Star. 1 1 President Eliot of-Harvard still insists upon proving to the public how i far off lie is on tlie labor question.—At- ' hinta < 'oustitution. if the extreme view of the hereafter is correct, tin- anthracite coal mine owners i will probably l*> roasted on soft-coal fires. —Boston Traveler. Tin l University of Wisconsin needs a medical department about as much as a lien needs a troth. brush.-—Milwaukee ! Evening Wisconsin. If there's any side of the labor queg- ’ tion that President Eliot has neglected to swat hi- will shortly arrange toHeU] drive.—Hartford Post. Now Mexico and Arizona cannot get j into the omnibus. Oklahoma has pre- | empted all of the seating space.—St. Louis Globe-1 lemocrat. Mrs. Molineux will probably tell the divorce court that during the past four years her husband never came home : nights.—Hartford Post. Now coal dealers have learned •how much the public can be foTeed To j pay they will wonder why they never did j it before.—Detroit Tribune. A Chicago ordinance forbids barbers ! talking while at work. There are not ■ enough soldiers in Illinois to enforce this i law.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Is it the perversity of fate or the fiendish revenge of the trusts that has reduced the price of meat while coal is impossible?—Detroit Journal. The various substitutes for coal we ' hear so much about will probably be ready in a bunch about next Fourth of July.—New York Commercial. Coal is now being shipited by express from New England. We may next expect to see it come by registered mail or parcel delivery.—Galesburg Mail. Composer Mascagni, to compose his discomposed nerves, is writing a book on his disagreeable and disastrous tour of the United States.—Terre Haute Gazette. While reading a newspaper a St. Louis •woman fell asleep and all efforts to wake her have proven fruitless. The name of the paper is not made public.—Denver Post. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, those who have friends in Indianola, Miss., will do well to direct their letters via the rear-door route.—Washington Post. The overplus of water in Kentucky's streams just now may account for the thinness of some of Marse Henry’s rec. nt lucubrations.—Cincinnati- Commercial Tribune. Thanks to wireless telegraphy, Canada can now whisper into John Bull's ear if every cable was seized and destroyed by hostile fleets.—Toronto Mail and Express. Now for a navy that can whip anything Europe can offer. This Venezuela affair is hint enough; a battleship lor every State and territory.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Sultan of Bncrdod is warlike again, and calls us "American hogs.” But the Sultan should remember Spain'ii adventure with the "Yankee pigs."—Milwaukee Sentinel. Those saucy messages which the Sultan <>f Bacolod is sending us remind one of the remark which the little boy made when he saw his father taking the -trap down off the nail.—Detroit Journal. The Sultan of Bacolod, it seems, Ims been calling our soldiers pigs again. The Sultan of Bacolod will find himself rooted out of his hole pretty soon if he keeps up that sort of tiling.—Syracuse Herald. It is encouraging to note the promise of tlie anthracite mine operators that there will be a normal supply of bonl by next fall. In the meantime, however, the people will have to got along as best they cun.—Cleveland Leader. The papers nrc publishing numerous directions telling people how to save coal. Now, if some one will supplement this advice with trustworthy information na to how to get coal. a long-felt want will be filled.-—Philadelphia Inqulrvr. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford of the British nnvy declared in London the other day that “the United States could whip world from any standpoint whatever." Right, of course But how did a British naval chieftain happen to think of it? —Toledo Times. A Duluth student of the occult thinks that Marconi’s system can be used to establish communication between the material and the spirit worlds. One thing about this theory is certain—that tho fees in the case will all be collected at tlie material end of tlie line.—Baltimore American. -

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Anti-Liquor War at Winslow—Kokomo Maids to Seek Happiness in North Dakota—Steel Workers to Take Trust Stock—Suicide of Merchant. A reign of terror prevails in the town of Winslow as a result of a contest between the temperance people and the saloon men. Houses have been blown up. citizens assaulted and beaten at day and night in the streets, and one murder is attributed to the anti-liquor war. At present the town is patrolled by a large force of deputies appointed by the marshal. The resideftee of John McConnell was wrecked by a charge of dynamite. A saloon man who had been refused a license met McConnell in the street and assaulted him. Lawrence Goff, the town marshal, while attempting to make an arrest, was pounced upon and injured seriously. The drug store of F. J. Fenton was blown into the air niiii surrounding buildings were damaged. The more active of the temperance workers maintain a close guard around their homes during the day and night. Arthur White, a prominent league worker of Princeton, was assassinated while changing cars at Hazelton. He was standing on the station platform when an unknown person shot“him five times. Girls to Go Miles for Men. Forty-eight Kokomo and Howard County girls are making preparations to start to Rugby, N. D., to become wives of men they have never seen. Several weeks ago J. R. Walters, formerly of Kokomo, now a resident of North Dakota, wrote a letter to a Kokomo paper stating that there were 500 bachelors near Rugby wanting wives. As a result Walters received nearly one hundred letters from young women of Kokomo offering ty go there and marry their share of tlie lonely bachelors. Tlifi names of the women were given the Dakota men, nnd correspondence was opened, the young women being willing to take chances on securing good husbands with quarter sections of land. The girls are making preparations for the journey, and will go in a body if rates can be secured. Steel Employes to Take Stock. Iron, steel and tinplate workers in the Indiana mills of the United States SteeW ’orporiitionrntrTlieif~feceht meetings reconsidered tlie profit-sharing plan of the steel corporation and will take some of the $2,006,<100 worth of preferred stock. Tinplate workers of Anders >n have prepared their applications for stock. Subscriptions will be made by the men in mills in Anderson and at Muncie. Elwood. Gas City and Terre Haute. Of the 6,000 men in tlie steel corporation lifiliana plants, about one-fourth will take corporation stock, being advised that it will not affect their positions or future wage schedules. Injunction Against Strikers. Judge Anderson of the federal court lias granted a temporary restraining order against the striking employes of the I Rockwood Manufacturing Company in Indianapolis, to be in effect until such 1 time as shall be set for a final hearing. 1 For several months a strike has been on at the Rockwood plant, and the owners i charge that men who have been willing to work have been intimidated and as- • saulted by strikers. Indiana Merchant Ends Life. • B. F. Cohee, a wealthy dry goods mer- \ chant, was found hanging in his xvoodi house at Frankfort. He had been a suf- > serer from nervous prostration for sevi eral weeks, but had apparently about recovered. When he left his bed he told ' Mrs. Cohee he was going to kindle the I tires. Temporary insanity is the only j explanation.

Alleged Forger Brought Buck. Thomas Dunn. Vincennes chief of police, returned from Bastrop, Texas, having in his charge John Selby, who is ♦anted for forgery. Selby's alleged forgeries on prominent people amount to nearly >15,000. All Over the State. William Holliday, a Civil War veteran at Brookville, was found dead in bed, fully dressed. Levi Huffman, a miller of Wheeler, was caught in a belt, drawn to the ceiling and fell to the floor, dying instantly. Mrs. Mary Forba Cobb of Kussiaville celebrated her one hundred ami first birthday. Her father was a captain in Gen. Washington's army. State Senator D. L. Crumpacker of Laporte County will introduce a bill in the Legislature to establish whipping posts for the punishment of wife beaters and wife deserters. Affidavits have been tiled against William Tobin and George Cunningham, of the Muncie polo team, who engaged in a fist fight during a game a few dayti ago. They are charged with assault and battery. In Elkhart the jury in the case of Dr. Harry Gulmyer returned n verdict finding Gulmyer guilty of assault with intent to kill. The penalty is an indeterminate term of from two to fourteen years in State's prison. A motion for a new trial was made by the defense. Joseph Swoboda, an old tailor who died in Terre Haute, wah tailor for the Suita* of Turkey a number of years, and escaped from Constantinople at a time, thirty years ago, when the Sultan of Turkey was condemning to death persons suspectci! of complicity in a political conspiracy. Walter Clark. 10. preached at the General Baptist Church in Vincennes, to n large congregation. Be made a big hit. Six weeks ago tile boy caused excitement in his neighborhood by declaring that he bad been visited in the night by an angel which told him he should begin preaching. He took up the study mid made his debut in Vincennes. Notwithstanding the general discussion of the coal shortage in December the Indiana output in that month was 10 per cent larger than in December a year ago. Taylor Browning, aged 18 years, shot twice at Miss Ernestine Arnold, who was passing on the other side of the street in Terre Haute, but missed her. Patrolman Westetidorff called on him to surrender and he replied with a shot. Starting for closer range, a second shot bit the policeman in the leg and then the officer fired nnd struck Browning in the breast, a fatal wound being averted by the bullet passing through a. package of papers.