Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1903 — Page 3

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will •practice in all the courts. Office over Fen* dig's Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, Law, Abstracts, loans and Real Estate. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-Stairs in Leop'old block, first stairs west of Vanßensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The .N. A. AC.Ry, and Rensselaer W. 1,. A P. Co. over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. U. M. Baughman. G. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Law, Notary work. Loans, Real Estate and Insurance. Special attention given to collections of all kinds. Office over "Racket Store.” 'Phone 829. Rensselaer, - Indiana. J. 7. Irwin S. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. R. W. Marshall, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Practices in all courts. Special attention given to drawing up wills and settling decedent's estates. Office in county building, east side of court house square. dint root. C. a. SP.TLSN. MASSY 11. KUBSIS Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Tkompsou A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington, ... Indiana. Law, Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. B. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Kye, Ear. Nose. Throe* and Chronic Diseases. He also tests eve* for glasses. Ornct Tili.mohi No. 48. Smilaci Pmoni No. 87. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Imes' Millinery store. Rensselaer. Office Pmoni 177. ftiSioiMOl Pmoni, lIS. Dr. Anna Francis, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank. Rensselaer, Ind. Hours: 9t012 m ; 1 to 4:30 p. m. Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. Office up-stairs in Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night. Office ann residence 'phones. 204 (Jasper Co.): also (Halleck) 43 at residence. W. W. MERRILL, M. D. tieciic Physician ana sum, RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Chronic Diseases • Specialty. Office 'Phone 308. Residence 'Phone 345 H. O. Harris. E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, . President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received oh 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 Share of Your Business. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store, IMERICINJEKTiSIRY. '•j Crown, Bar and Bridge A T Work. Teeth Without I Plates, Without Patti. .. J. W. HORTON .. IS YEARS IN RENSSELAER. Teeth carefully stopped with gold and other filling.. Consultation free. Nitron. Oxide Ga* administered daily. Charges within the reach of all. orrtc. oeeo.iT. count houii. PLENTY OF EGGS And no tick chickens wb.r. Wtils' lloosisr Pmltry Powder is ntM. Cnrm ChoUra, Omh sod Koup. Ks.pt poultry htalthy. Prior, SS ml. Sold by A, F. Long.

NINE SLAIN IN RIOT.

TERRIBLE RESULT OF MOB'B DEFIANCE OF OFFICERS. In West Virginia 250 Workmen Meet Posse Bringing Injunctions with Winchesters and Open Fire—Nine Killed and Fifteen Wounded. In a desperate battle with Winchesters between striking West Virginia eqal miners and a foree of United States deputy marshals Wednesday nine persons were killed and fifteen wounded. The battle, which occurred at Wright's coal mine in Raleigh County, resulted when 250 striking miners attempted to prevent 100 federal officers who had been specially nworn in to serve them with injunction papers. The posse of deputies was met by the strikers, who were armed with rifles. They defied arrest and warned the officers against any attempt to serve the papers. Then followed their defiance with hostilities, opening tire upon the foree of deputies. The deputies responded and the battle raged furiously for several minutes. Special Officer Howard Smith of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was shot in the arm. A striker slipped up on him and fired. Smith dodged the bullet intended for his heart and received it in his arm. He then killed the striker with a pistol. After the posse had repulsed the miners they followed up this advantage and secured the arrest of more than a hundred, who were taken to Beckley under guard. An ugly strike is the cause of the trouble. Most of the mob are foreigners.

LABOR FAMINE IN THE WEST.

Railroads Arc Compelled to Abandon Large Improvements. Because of difficulty, amounting almost to an impossibility, in obtaining competent unskilled labor, the western railroads are seriously hampered in their efforts to improve their lines. Officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, for this reason, have abandoned temporarily nil contemplated improvements that afe not absolutely necessary to the physical well being of the system. Most important of the improvements which will be abandoned is the double tracking of the St. Paul from South Milwaukee to La Crosse, a distance of R>7 miles. Of this about ?K) miles has already been completed. The same policy will be pursued in regard to other extensive alterations that were planned. It is understood that the Kansas City extension is so nearly completed that it will not l>o abandoned. On the contrary, an effort will be made to complete the work as rapidly as possible. The improvements that will be given up call for the expenditure of nearly $3,000,000. The same situation that has so handicapped the St. Paul also confronts the other railroads of the Middle West. The complaint is made that laborers who apply for work in Chicago are little better than tramps, who find it easier to be transported from one place to another as employes for a railroad than to follow the customary mode of travel adopted by the vagrant. After they have reached the desired goal and have worked fur a day or two they draw their pay ami leave. The difficulty in obtaining laborers has driven up the wages of this class of workmen to such a point that railroad operatives have decided to decrease the demand for labor that the price of this work maydecrease. The Chicago and Alton Railroad, following the example of the St. Paul, has ordered work stopped on extensive double tracking that called for an expenditure of approximately $2,000,000, and It is expected that other lines will adopt similar measures.

USED 12,539,717 HEAD.

That la Chicago's pt ion of Live Stock-Easi V6Bll Chicago's'c'dffiiimptiou of live\tock in 1902 amounted to 12,539,717 head, according to the December summary of internal commerce just issued by the treasury bureau of statistics. The receipts at the five leading stockyards of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Louis nnd St. Joseph during the year were: Cattle, 7,710,559 head; hogs, 15,614,129. The average weight of the 7.895,238 hogs received in Chicago was 220 pounds. Tho contributions of live stock to railway traffic nt these five markets amounted to 588,245 cars, compared with 022,352 cars iu 1901, and 582,257 cars in 1900. It would thus seem that the high tide of live stock traffic was reached in 1901. Tho stock of cut meats nt tlie five markets of Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Lott is nnd Milwaukee Dec. 31, 1901, amounted to 209,137,147 pounds. On the corresponding date of 1902 the stocks were 179,029,100 pounds.

ODDS & ENDS OF SPORT

American sporting men and papers are criticising severely the recent rule adopted by the stewards of the Henley regatta debarring professional coaching for crews. The crews of all countries except England use professional conches—or nearly all. The six-day bicycle race in 1002 in Madison Square Garden, Now York, was won by George Lcander of Chicago for himself and ids team mate, Floyd Krebs of Newark. The score was 2,477 miles and 3 laps, nnd the first prize $1,500. Lennder wus considered a ronmrknblo rider, because of his good condition nt the finish. Three new speed skating records were established by Maurice Wood at Verona lake, .Montclair, N. J. The distance nnd time wero ns follows: Seventy-five yards, 81-5 seconds, supplanting the old record of 8 8-5 seconds, made in 1883; 100 yards, 9 8-5 seconds; 220 yards, 19 seconds. Circulars announcing the organization of the Amateur Skating Association of the United States, wifTT headquarters in New York, have been sent throughout the country appealing to lovers of tho winter sport to help for a permanent organization to hold annual competitions In speed, figure skating, etc.

FLEE FROM THE PEST.

Panic Amoag Cornell Students, University Being Deserted. Panic rules among Cornell University •tudents on account of the spread of tha typhoid fever epidemic. The university is in danger of being deserted, about onehalf of the 2,900 students having fled to their homes or other places to escape the pest. The exodus goes on daily, with no Signs of abatement. The dead list from the pest in Ithaca now numbers thirty, fourteen of the victims being students. Added to the fatality list is the news from Auburn, N. Y., that five Cornell students who had drunk Ithaca water are seriously ill with fever at their homes. Every outgoing traiu is crowded with panic-stricken students, and at the present rate the university will not have a corporal's guard ten days hence. The university authorities have made no effort to restrain the students from leaving. On the contrary, they have rather encouraged the exodus by suspending the rules that might penalize the frightened fugitives. On this point President Schurman said: “There can be no denying the fact that the fever epidemic has assumed t. serious aspect. We cannot get away from that view of it. It is therefore patent that the alarm existing among the students of the university is not without cause. We have been forced to the realization that there has been a very marked falling oil in the attendance at lectures and in class rooms.” An alarming feature is the fact that so many of the students have died after reaching their homes. Of the hundreds who have already fled a considerable percentage had shown signs of illness. Many students are preparing to hurry away before the first symptoms of sickness shall have an opportunity to make tneir appearance.

MAKE WAR ON FOREIGNISM

Miners Abolish Local Unions Composed Exclusively of Aliens. The convention of the United Mine Workers went on record at their session in Springfield, 111., as being against "foreignism.” This was done by the adoption of an amendment to the constitution abolishing local unions composed exelulively of -foreigners. In various districts throughout the State there are locals composed exclusively of Italians, Lithuanians, Poles, Germans and other nationalities. It is stated that violations of the laws of the miners’ union occur alin these unions, and men of other nationalities are not allowed to Join. A resolution to the effect that these unions be dropped was introduced and reported favorably by the constitutional committee and was passed by the delegates. A provision that a fine of SSOO be fixed as a penalty for the abuse of an officer, check weighntnn or committee in the discharge of duty, by any member of the union or the abuse of any member by a check weighman, officer or committeeman, was introduced and adopted. The convention has gone on record as being firmly opposed to the organization going Into politics to any extent. There have been several resolutions offered favoring government ownership of railroads, and all have been voted down.

THE RAILROADS

It is understood that favorable action has been taken by the Pittsburg council regarding the entry of the Wabash into that city. Six thousand freight and switch engine drivers on the Erie Railroad, between Jersey City and Chicago, threatened to strike if their wages are not increased. Reductions in the freight rate on wag ons and agricultural implements to the southwest from Louisville nnd St. Louis have been equalized by the Louisville and Nashville and the Illinois Central lines. Shipments of flour, grain and provisions from Chicago and Chicago Junction points last week show a decline in grain and provisions as compared with the previous week, but an increase in ths amount of flour. It is estimated that there were built in the United States during 1902 6,000 miles of railroads, the greatest amount for any year since 1890. The largest stretches were 570 miles in Oklahoma and 500 miles in Texas. The New York Central has introduced a very artistic series of menus which will certainly add to the attractiveness of the meals en route. They are real works of art. A copy is given to each lady patron of tlie dining cars. The route of the Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad will be along tlie Ohio river from Cincinnati to Mudison, ind., and will then deflect toward tlie table lands in order to nvoid the river hills. The line 'will be built within a year. A statement prepared by the Interstate commerce commission shows that during tho three months ended Sept. 80, 1902, there were 263 persons killed and 2,013 injured in train accidents. Other kinds of accidents, including those sustained by employes while at work and by passengers in getting on or off the cars, etc., bring the total number of casualties up 1 to 12,007, the killed numbering 845 and the injured 11,162. The total number of collisions nnd derailments was 2,448, of which 1,444 were collisions nnd 1,014 | derailments, of which 51 collisions and 02 derailments affected passenger trains. The damage to cars, engines and roadway by these accidents amounted to $2,108,500. It is announced that tho Lake Shore is now handling between 13,000 nnd 14,000 freight cars a day and that during tho first ten days of February It handled 8,500 more loaded freight cars a day than during the corresponding period of last year. The success of tlie agent of the Grand Trunk who was sent to England to eocure the transfer of tho Canadian Northern is said to have been all that was expected. By the conclusion of the negotiations the Grand Trunk acquire* the Northern lines and rights, and undoubtedly will Invade Canadian Pacific territory.

WARDS OF THE STATE

STATISTICS COMPILED FROM THIRTEEN INSTITUTIONS. Amount Expended in One Year by Indiana for Maintenance of Public Dependents Exceeds $1,000,000 —Souk Figures of Interest. The annunl statistical reports of th» thirteen State institutions for the year ending Oct. 31, 11)02, have been compiled by the Board of State' Charities. The report shows tiiat during the year over 2,500 persons were received ns wards of the State at the various institutions. These, with the 8,500 present Nov. 1, 1901, make a total of more than 11,000 persons cared Jor within the fiscal year, the daily attendance having averaged 8,507. Tlie State expended for their maintenance over a million and a quarter dollars, and nearly $300,000 additional for new buildings and extraordinary repaires. The report continues: “Every person received into the State institutions during the year cost the public nn average of $153, ranging from $270.40 at the Institution for the Blind, where the expenses for administration and supplies are necessarily high, to $122 .13 at the Reform School for Boys. "The number of insane cared for by the State continues to increase. At the beginning of the fiscal year there were enrolled at the four hospitals 3,901, and by the end of the year this number had grown to 4,039, an increase of 78. During the same period the increase in average dally attendance nt the hospitals for insane was 131. The School for Feeble-Minded Youth shows an increase of 71 in average daily attendance, the Institution for the Deaf 3, and the Soldiers' Home 52, during the year. The average daily attendance at the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphaus’ Home decreased 10. and at the Institution for the Blind 3. The net increase for the nine benevolent institutions was 239. In the correctional institutions the average daily attendance shows a decrease of 40 at the State prison, 9 at the Industrial School for Girls and 39 at the Reform School for Boys, while the reformatory increased 17 and the Woman’s prison 7 in daily attendance. The net increase amounted to 34. It, therefore, appears that the State is annually re« eeivlng into its care more of its defective and dependent citizens, and that tha number of criminals and incorrigibles sentenced to State institutions is continually decreasing. “The State employs 1,375 persons in the conduct of these institutions, of whom 155 are trustees and officers. The average number of inmates to each person on salary is five in the charitable institutions and twelve in the prisons and reform schools. The administration expenses during the year amounted to 5455.000, nn average of $01.45 per capita in the charitable institutions aud $44.91 in the correctional institutions. “The expenses of the thirteen institutions for the year amounted to $1,882,897.19 for maintenance and $270,851.52 for the construction of new buildings nnd unusual repairs, total $1,653,248.71. “The receipts and earnings turned into the State treasury amounted to $131,137.66, making the net expense $1,522,111.05. For the preceding year the net expense was $1,514,272.15. The regular running expenses of the institutions for the year just closed have been practically the same as for the preceding year, the per capita cost in some having increased and iii others decreased. The followiug statement will serve to show the per capita cost of maintenance for 1902 as compared with 1901: 1902. 190 L Central Hospital for Insane. J 180.55 $168.46 Northern Hospital for Insane 108.17 1 63.28 Kastern Hospital for Insane 174.27 179.26 Southern Hospital for Insaue 166.97 1T0.02 Soldiers' Home 167.30 165.51 Soldiers' and Sailors' Or-

phans’ Home 174.52 168.47 Institution for Leaf 261.66 215.13 Institution for Blind 276.40 247.86 School for Feeble-minded Youth 127.03 133.78 State Prison 133.32 126.86 Reformatory 130.68 136.69 Industrial School for Girls aud Woman's Prison 191.55 177.21 Reform School for Boys ... 122.13 113.48 “One of the important items entering into the cost of maintenance is subsistence, and tho reports show a noticeable variation In the per capita amount expended in the different institutions. Where farms and gardens are operated tho supplies furnished reduce this cost to tlie State. Tlie value of the farm products used by the institutions during tbo past year is estimated nt $56,981, nnd these were raised at a cost of about $28,000. There is given below the per capita cost of subsistence, and the estimated value of the farm products for the year ending Oet. 31, 1902: Subsistence. Farm. Total. Central Hospital for Insane J 64.70 $2.03 JC6.73 Northern Hospital for Insane 62.59 10.55 G 3.14 Eastern Hospital for Southern Hospital for Jnsans 69.94 8.37 67.31 Soldiers' Home 58.81 .4 5 69.26 Soldiers' aud Sailors’ Orphans’ Home .... 62.37 4 87 67.24 Institution for l>eaf. . 47.94 7.81 65.76 Institution for Blind. 48.79 .... 48.79 School for Feebleminded Youth 29.57 0 43 89.00 State Prison 87.66 4.54 42.10 Reformatory A. 40.97 2.25 48.22 Industrial School for Qlrla aud Woman's Prison 88.17 2.17 40.84 Reform School for Boys 28 20 22.73 80 00

Among Our Neighbors.

Tlie attempt to form nn Indianapolis milk trust, with Chicago and Milwaukee capital, has fallen through. The milk trust was the project of J. R. Brent of Chicago. It was to control twenty six dairies. Lawrence White, a Muneie young man, was sentenced to tlie Indiana reformatory for from two to fourteen years. He poured gasoline on the head of Miss Lilly Davis while she was nsleep, and ret fire to It. Miss Davis was seriously burned. Brazil pcoplo were excited tho othor flay because ferocious wolves were loose In tho town. School children were afrnld to venture from home, and through the morning the keeper of the wolves and a posse tried to capture them. A theatrical company appeared there the previous night, and the wolves were used on the stage. After the performance when tho nnlmals were taken to the station for shipment they escaped from their cage. By a majority of 1,880, it was decided that Putnam County should have a new oourt house. . -

INDIANA LAWMAKERS

The city’a track elevation bill was introduced in the House Thursday afternoon by Representative Muir. The railroads had not agreed to it anil will probably fight. The discussion over a bill empowering the State Auditor'to investigate for sequestered and delinquent tuxes was the cause of a lively tilt in the House. The bill passed to engrossment by a vote of 44 to 41. Half the members of the House were on their feet at once during the excitement. The Senate spent most of the entire day wrestling with the compulsory voting machine bill. Senator Wood made a vaiu effort to amend the bill by making the machines compulsory in all counties. Gov. Durbin signed tlie bill for the Indianapolis coliseum. The bill gives freedom to the executive committee to incorporate and tlie result will undoubtedly be articles of inCtSporation which will protect all hold ers of stock, whether large or small. By a vote of .37 to 5 the Senate Friday passed the House bill making the use of voting machines compulsory in all counties containing a city of 13,000 population or over. The law goes into effect at once, and the machines will be used in tiie next election. The counties tlint come within the provisions of the bill are Vigo, St. Joseph, Wayne, Floyd, Madison, Elkhart, Vanderburg, Allen, Marion, Tippecanoe, Grant, Laporte nnd Delaware. Lake, Clark, Knox and Howard are exempt by amendment. The House on Monday passed the Goodwine bill for the separation of the (Girls’ Industrial School from the Women’s Prison. The bill will go to the Governor ns soon as the Senate concurs in the House amendment that the board of control shall consist of three women instead of two women and one man, which was a provision of the bill as it passed the Senate. The new Institution is to be built near Indianapolis, on the cottage plan. The bill carries an appropriation of $150,000. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendment to the bill to increase the salaries of the Marion County judges, ahd the bill will go to a conference committee. In the Senate tlie Davis bill, to give a mau who violates an injunction out of sight of the court a trial by jury, was killed by a voto of 28 to 15. Senator Ogborn’s Dill, to assist in the merger of the Indianapolis Northern and the Union Traction Company, was favorably reported and advanced to second reading. The bill of Representative Kirkman to legalize' the pumping of natural gas was ndvnnced to third reading, under a suspension of tlie rules. The Gray railroad consolidation bill came up on second reading nnd brought forth a spirited attack by Senator Fortune and a defense by Senator Gray.

WHAT IS A "COLD?"

The Word that Covers n Multitude of Ills Expounded. Fros. Lohnberg, In the Vienne Clinical Review, in an essay on cold in the head, says that the “ordinary cold is no individual complaint, but only a collective name for a large number of different complaints.” He continues: “The attempt to discover a universal remedy agaiuat a ‘cold’ is Just as absurd as to search for a generally efficacious remedy for headache.” The particular complaint of which the “cold” is the symptom can only be ascertained by “careful examination of the uasal cavities and neighboring parts.” Hence sufferers sbould be circumspect iu the use of remedies. The professor says only that which is true, but of which the mass of mankind is Ignorant. Bolds are of innumerable varieties, but the most common one is that which is persistently misunderstood, It is attributed to anything but the right cause, which is a microbe. All its symptoms are those of a highly infectious fever, and the public, instead of blaming the microbe yf infection and striving to kill it, will persist In denouncing draughts, wot feet, low temperature, etc. They exclude air, tlie enemy of the microbe, from their rooms; they supply a temperature in which it cau multiply, and, having become thoroughly inoculated by breathing the germladen atmosphere, they And that a cold current of air causes them to shiver. It is significant of every fever that it begins with shivering, and a “cold" is no exception. Cold, wet feet, draughts, etc., are at most only accessories. By putting a greater strain on the animal economy they decrease its resistance to mierobal infection. “Colds” are not known in the arctic regions.

Information.

“There la something in this paper,” said Mrs. Chugwater, "about a ‘real estate pool’ and a 'railway pool.' What does that mean? What are they?” “They are merely organizations of business,” replied Mr. Chugwater. “Then why do they call them pools?” “That's on account of the water in their stocks, I suppose. Women can't understand these tilings. Don't bother me."

Awaiting an Opportunity.

Mrs. Newlyrlche—John, wo must really make some move to get Into high society! Now, how nre we going to do it? , Mr. Newlyrlche—Hanged if I know, Jane —but I’m going to put that question to tho butler Just as soon ns I cau catch him with a confidential Jag on!—Puck.

Crushing Blow.

“I like your people and your Institutions In general." remarked the educated foreigner, “but tho streets of your city (ire the worst I have ever seen.” “Great Scott!" exclaimed tlie mortified Chicago man. “Have you ever been In Constantinople?” "Constantinople," rejoined the educated foreigner. "Is my native city.”— Chicago Tribune.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Running a Store as Christ Would Do It—Jealous Wife Shoots Husband and Another Woman—Farmer’s Sensational Suicide—Electric Road Planned A. F. Nprton is running a grocery store in Converse, lie says, "as Christ would run it.” The stock invoiced recently for nearly $12,000. He bought it at a bankrupt sale for less than $7,000 and got rid of all tlie tobacco, cigars, pipes, fmiff.etc., as lie said lie was opposed to their use. He pays his clerks every day and refuses to deliver goods by messengers or wagons. lie allows no arguments and especially 110 swearing in bis store, and the young fellows are not allowed to flirt with the girls. He has five stores iu the county, all run on the same plan. "Honesty is tlie best policy,” is his motto, and he is a member of the church and teacher in the Sunday school. He claims that his business has increased largely since lie adopted the present plan. Woman Drops Onl of Bight. Great anxiety prevails at La Porte over the whereabouts and probable fate of Airs. Sarah Wilkinson Martin, who was recently granted a divorce from Isaac VV. Martin. A few days after the decree had been made a matter of record a well-dressed man, alleged by Mrs. Martin to be a relative, appeared upon the scene. His advent was followed in a few days by tlie execution of deeds to him covering all of her realty interests, which were extensive and valuable. Mrs. Martin said her relative would invest her fortune in mining s-tock which would make her immensely wealthy, and she left the city ostensibly for Mexico. This was three months ago, since which time every effort to find some trace of her has proved futile. Jealous Wife Uses a Gun. In Marion Mr-. Henry Fleming armed herself wifli a shotgun and followed her husband to the home of Mrs. Robert t Jones, of whom she was jealous. She fired through tlie window aud the shot took effect in tlie face and shoulders of the couple. She fired a second time and sent shot and broken glass into their backs. Mrs. Fleming demolished nearly everything in the “house by using the gun ns a club. She returned home, where she was later joined by her husband, who threatened to shoot her, kicked her and left her helpless. Her condition is serious and the police are hunting for Fleming. Mrs. Jones is painfully but not seriously injured. Kills Himself with a Tree. Coroner lletherington at Lognnsport rendered a verdict that Martin Myers, a well-to-do farmer, had committed suicide. The evidence showed that in cutting down a tree Myers had arranged it so that it would fall across a stump. Then he knelt in prayer, with his head across the stump, and waited until a gust of wind brought down the tree, crushing his skull to a pulp. His body was taken to Logansport to be prepared for burial, and a brother was to take charge of it. The brother has disappeared. Plans an Electric Road. The Hobart and Western Electric Company of Chicago is buying a right of way between La Porte and South Bend for nn electric road which will form a part of a system between New York and Chicago. Judge Calos M. Stone, P. J. Masterson, B. Hanna and (4. H. Hanna of Cleveland are also taking options on a right of way for a line between South Bend and Michigan City, which will be part of another system between Cleveland and Chicago. Senator Hanna is interested iu this project. City May Sue for Citizens. The Supreme Court has rendered an important decision in respect to tlie powers of cities to enforce contracts with corporations, and held that a city government, represented by its officers, may sue an behalf of the citizens- as a whole. The ease came up from the Delaware Circuit Court and was an action against tha Muneie Natural Gas Company for violating the terms of its charter, Sentenced for Many Frauds. In Vincennes John Selby, an insurance agent, was sentenced to fourteen years in the Michigan City penitentiary. Selby forged notes ou farmers and others to the extent of $50,000. He escaped to Missouri and then to Texas, where ho was apprehended recently. All Over the Btata» In a dispute over the possession of his child Benjamin Anderson shot Bert Lane of Noblesville, with whom the child was living. Anderson is iu jail aud will be charged with murder iu the first degree. Three of the six wolves that escaped from a theatrical company at Brazil are still at large. Ira Jones was attacked by one of the animals and severely bitten. He fought the animal off with a knife. Loogooteo suffered the most extensive fire iu its history the other day. It started in a three-story brick building owned and occupied by the M. J. Carnahan Company, dealers in agricultural implements, and caused n loss of SIOO,OOO. about one-third insured. Rear Admiral Henry C. Taylor, who commanded the battleship Indiana in the Spanish-Ainerican war, lias been presented with a testimonial sword by the people of the State through the General Assembly. The sword cost $1,600, nnd Is a work of art. The presentation was in the main floor of the caplto! at Indianapolis, where Gov. Durbin, the State officers, members of the Legislature and other invited guests assembled. Admiral George Brown presided. James Whitcomb Riley recited Ids poem “Old Glory.” Gov. Durbin presented tiie sword and Admiral Taylor responded. Robbers blew open tlie postoffiee safe at Dnieville with dynamite and stole S2OO worth of stamps, SSO in cash nnd soma insurance nnd other valuable papers. Alliert Masters, 14, was dangerously burned about tlie neck and back by a red-hot Idowpipe in the hands of Marion Itnrkdull. Both were employes of tha Indiana bottle factory at Shirley. Burkdull cannot be found. Near Elkhart a Lake Bliore passenger engine crashed into a freight. Conductor James Connolly of Elkhart was kill* ed and John La Luby waa seriously in* Jared.