Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1903 — Page 3

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Ven. 'dig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, lon, Abstracts, Loons and Real Estate. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stairs west of Vanßensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer nnd Investment Broker Attorney For The .N. A. AC.Ry, and Rensselaer W.L. 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 320. Rensselaer, - Indiana. J. F. Irwin S. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collection*. Farm Loans and Fire Insuranoe. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSBLAER, 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. nua* roLTi. c. o. s*itl*m. hmit a. «u**i« Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law. Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. 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. 31. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. B. Washburn will givespeclal attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests evea for glasses. Ornci Tilifhoni No. 48. Rest os noi Pnoni N0.,97. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Imes’ Millinery store. Rensselaer. Ornci Phoni 177. fIiUDiNCi Phoni, 118. Dr. Anna Francis, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank, Rensselaer, Ind. Hours: 9 to 12m; 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 ana residence ’phones. 304 (Jasper Co.); also (HalUrckl 43 at residence. W. W. MERRILL, M. D. fiectic Physician ana suraeon, RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Office ’Phone 808. Residence ’Phone 345

H. O. Harris, E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call. Interest Bearing Certiticates 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 La rail’s drug store, DENTISIRT. Crown, Bar and Bridge t Work. Teeth Without TSr I Plates, Without Pain. .. J.W. HORTON .. la YKASS I N RKNSSKLAEH. Tooth earefullr stopped with gold and other Allings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered dally. Charges within the reach of all. orpiet oreosiTß oounr houss. PLENTY OF EGGS A ad an sick chlcktns wbsrs W tils' Hoosiss Palltry Powder it used. Curst Cholsrs. Osass sad Bony. Kssyt aouitry bsalthr. PHst,Mtsals Sold by A. F. Long.

WHAT CONGRESS DID.

WORK OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH BODY OF LAWMAKERS. What Has Been Accomplished in th* Way of Legislation—Opinions Differ as to Most Important Acts—Some Consider Body Too Conservative. Washington correspondence;

TVO OW that the FlftyJLvl sevent h American vivl Congress is a thing of the past, It takes but little more than a glauce in retroIgC’’ spect to show that it was a hard-work--sj||§l lug "body which acifPfa complished much in the way of legislaBRgigftj tiou regarded by the TRaStf majority of people ns being in the main ajßsX. unsen national and salutary. HKVTPTI Opinions differ as II 11 r *° the most imperil U ’ taut work of the

Fifty-seventh Congress, the antitrust legislation being thought by many to hold the first place. As far as anti-trust measures are concerned, the advance has been marked. First came the beef trust excitement. Then the railroad merger forced sharp public criticism, and then, to increase the public’s hostile feeling against the trusts, came the coal strike, which, perhaps, more than anything else called attention to the vast power of the big corporations. Congress Acts. Congress heard and acted. The Department of Commerce and Labor was established, and Senator Nelson’s amendment providing for a bureau of publicity was adopted. This bureau has authority to insist 011 the bulking public of the operations of all great corporations. Legal authorities have held that the Sherman anti-trust law did not go far enough. It was this 'feeling that made the Fifty seventh Congress pass a special act making more rapid the progress of suits against the trusts under the statute as it exists. Attorney General Knox, acting under the power newly given, has put forces into action to expedite the Knits against the railroad merger in the Northwest. Touching this matter of railroad combinations. the Elkins bill, which has become a law, is of interest, it provides heavy fines for the giving or receiving of rebates. It has been charged that discriminating rebates were the menus of building up monopolies like the coal trust and the Standard Oil Company. Congress, as one of the first acts of the session, passed a Kill suspending the tariff on coal of all kinds coming from foreign countries.

Fight on Immigration Law. Congress did not go as far as was expected in the matter of the immigration law. The alien measure is considered to be of little value. The bill as passed by the House contained educational features by which it would have been possible to bar from the country undesirable foreigners. The Senate killed the educational clause. The law as it stands is merely ail improvement on the old statute in that it strengthens the administrative power of the former law. Measures of importance to our eastern possessions have become laws as the result of the work of the last session. A Currency system was provided for the Philippines. Another act promoted the efficiency of the islands’ constabulary, and ■till another has for its object the extradition of criminals from one island to another. An appropriation of $’1,000,000 was made to relieve the distress among the inhabitants of the Philippines caused by ravages of disease among the water buffaloes, upon which tlie inhabitants depend for agricultural work. Hawaii is Interested in the passage of an not for the redemption by the United States of Hawaiian silver money, and in the appropriation to pay judgments growing out of the destruction of property in the suppressing of the bubonic plague. The bankruptcy law lias been ntrended nnd a large number of bills of interest to different localities have been passed, together with several private pension bills. A new building to cost $1,500,000 was authorized for the Department of Agriculture. The omnibus public building measure was the cause of differences between the House nnd the Senate, but the conferees finally reached nil ngreemnt and $750,000 was added to the new Chicago postoificc appropriation, an amount believed to bo •uffleient to finish the structure.

Killed Ship Eubekly Bill. While the Fifty seventh Congress did much in an affirmative way, it negatived several measures tlint wore strongly urged. The ship subsidy bill, which had powerful influence back of it, was killed. The statehood bill, after a long light, was shelved, Mr. Quay, oue of Its chief sponsors, deserting its cause. The tariff was left alone. Senator Aldrieh’s treasury plan bill was killed during the last hours of Congress. Certain clauses of the measure had aroused the hostility of bankers, and this, coupled with the long fight over statehood in the Senate mid the Democratic filibuster, killed the bill. The Lodge Philippine tariff measure also went down to defeat at the Inst moment. The tobacco nnd sugar interests fought the bill from the start. Lllluokalatil, once Queen of Hawaii, but now n resident of Washington, will not get the $200,000 voted to her by the Sennte to compensate for property taken by this government. The House refused to give the dusky queen a cent. It was stated in the lower branch that the lands for which she demands payment never belonged to the crown, hut to the state. The measure known as the anarchy bill was passed quickly and without serious opposition. It provide* for the protection of the President from assassination, and fixes punishment for those who attempt his life. The militia bill pnssed by Congress marks an advance in ail previous legislation touching’ the armed forces of the several States. It provides for the general organization of the militia of the United States and put* it on a footing to make It quickly available when its services may be required by the government. Patronise thoee who advertise.

IMPORTANT WORK OF 57TH CONGRESS

Established Department of Commerce and Labor with a “corporation publicity” bureau. Authorized construction of Panama canal. Passed Elkins anti-rebate act. Provided for expediting suits under anti-trust law. Sanctioned general staff corps for the army. Passed militia reorganization bill. Enacted law to protect President from assassination. Suspended tariff on coal. Amended bankruptcy act. Established currency syst< m for Philippines. Provided for redemption of Hawaiian silver money. Repealed war taxes. Provided civil government for •astern possessions. Established consular and diplomatic relations with Cuba. Passed sundry civil bill. x « Bills that Failed of Passage. The ship subsidy measure. The statehood bill. The Aldrich financial measure. The Philippine tariff bill. "

ADIEU OF HENDERSON.

Tribute to the Retiring Speaker Closes the House Session. A touching tribute to the retiring Speaker and a valedictory address by Mr. Henderson, who was greeted with an enthusiastic demonstration, closed the session of the House of the Fifty-seventh Congress. As usual, the scenes iu connection with the closing attracted vast crowds. They besieged the portals of the House even before the doors were open and when the seats in the galleries were filled they stood in long lines outside waiting patiently for admittance. The veteran chairman of the appropriations committee, Mr. Cannon, with a red carnation in

DAVID E. HENDERSON.

his buttonhole, came into the hall with his arm around Mr. Dalzell just as Speaker Henderson, whose long career in Congress was soon to end, ascended the rostrum. The Speaker was smiling ami serene as he faced the House, gavel in hand. As the roll call was concluded a remarkable scene occurred. Speaker Henderson yielded the gavel to Mr. Cannon, the incoming Speaker. As the latter took the chair the members broke luto a burst of applause in which the galleries joined. It was quite as much a compliment to the retiring Speaker as to Mr. Cannon. The Speaker retired to his room in the rear of the hall. Amid intense silence Mr., Payne, the majority leader, then arose and off“red the following resolution of thanks to the retiring Speaker: -‘‘Resolved, That the thanks of this House are presented to Honorable David B. Henderson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the able, impartial and dignified manner in which he has presided over its deliberations nnd performed the arduous and important duties of the chair during the present term of Congress.”

WRIT FORBIDS STRIKE.

Wabash Railroad Injunction Is Most Sweeping Ever Issued. The injunction issued at St. Louis by Judge Adams of the Federal District Court against the employes of the Wabash Railroad absolutely forbids* the men from going on strike. It is the most sweeping court order ever isstiod in a strike in the United States and its effect leaves the men in a quandary ns they cannot strike without being in contempt. Officials of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen say the men will obey the order and make a legal fight to have it rescinded. The demands of the employes on all divisions of the road are for an increase in wages of from 12 to 15 per ceut, nnd, according to the ultimatum sent President Ramsey, 2,500 men are directly involved, although engineers, brakemon, conductors nnd telegraphers, numbering approximately 50,000 more, may be drawn into the struggle. The injunction forbids the men—1— To order, coerce, persuade, induce or otherwise cause, ill rectly or indirectly, the rren to quit the service of the company. 2To molest or interfere in any way with the business of the company. 3 To order, advise or otherwise influence men on connecting lines to refuse to interchange traffic.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Charles M. Schwab made tho trip f rom Cannes to Paris, 550 miles, in hia automobile. Alabama citizens presented n vilwr service to the battleship Alabama. The exercises were held in tho Mobile theater. A scheme is said to be on lo purchase all the lend and silver mines in the Coour d'Alene district of Idaho. It will take $20,000,000 to do it. Citizens of Arizona favor the annexation of seven counties in southern pnrt of California, with a population of 500,000, making n State which they would call Calixonla. The Union Terminal Railway, the Combination Bridge Company of Sioux City, lowa, nnd the Omaha Northern Railway Company have been merged. The new concern will be capitalized at ; $5,000,000.

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

FIFTY YEARS AGO. Jefferson Davis was chosen for Secretary of War In President Pierce's cabinet. " V The first submarine telegraph message was received at New York, bringing uewi from Prince Edward Inland. The Secretary of the Navy recommended that two warships be constructed with screw propellers, modeled after Ericsson’s boat, then on exhibition at the Washington navy yard. News from California “only nineteen days old,” nnd showing “unparalleled dispatch,” was announced by the newspapers. It came via Acapulco and Vera Cruz to New Orleans, and the Postmaster General forthwith contracted for semi-monthly service by that route. Ex-President Martin Van Buren announced he would make a tour of Europe, nnd the newspapers predicted “furore and excitement” would follow, because no American who had been President was ever abroad before. President-elect Pierce was presented by office seekers with a carriage, blooded horses and a complete wardrobe. FORTY YEARS AGO. Forty Confederate prisoner* at Camp Douglas offered to take the oath of renunciation and allegiance, and serve in the federal army if called upon. Gold jumped to 7 per cent In New York, while paper money fell to 28 cents on the dollar. of the Southern negroes Into a federal army was reported on adversely by United States Senate committee. Beet sugar experiments were announced as proving the industry would succeed in Illinois and Ohio. The Kentucky Confederate convention met ut Frankfort, was refused the use of the capitol by the loyalists, and dispersed on being told by Col. Gilbert of the Forty-fourth Ohio that its nominees would not be allowed to run for office. The national banking bill, providing for the Issue of $300,000,000 or less government notes to various banks on deposit by them of government bonds with a 10 per cent margin, was passed by Congress. Admiral Porter ordered Che captain of the Indianola to visit Jefferson Davis’ plantation and carry off all his negroes and cotton.

THIRTY YEARS AGO. Benjamin Butler’e report on the demand for Vice-President Colfax's impeachment was read in the Hous* of Representatives, and Congres* was declared to have no power of Impeachment for offense* committed by its officers before they were sworn In. The Illinois woman's suffrage Stats convention at Myers' Opera House, Chicago, denounced tho new statute allowing them to practice law as a “sop and humbug." ' Commodore Garrison threatened to expoae twenty “carpetbag” Congressmen who asked -$30,000 for passing his Brazilian subsidy bill after it was defeated and the Pacific Mail subsidy bill passed. The Illinois Supreme Court decided railroad freight discrimination could not be punished in Illinois. The motion to expel James Brooks and Oakes Ames from the House of Representatives for their connection with the Credit Mobilier was defeated. TWENTY YEARS AGO. Western railroad officials met nt New York and signed an ironclad agreement to atop cutting rates on east-bound freight. England, Italy, France nnd the United States offered to arbitrate tho trouble between Chili and Peru, while Germany refused to have anything to do with it. The St Louis Cotton Exchange advised Southern farmers to stop raising *e much cotton and devote themselves to cattle and grain, because cotton was being overproduced and was causing hard times. Germany shut out American hog product*, but P. D. Armour declared Chicago packer* would not be hurt, a* that market cut little figure. Irish farmer* in Donegal were said to be starving, and Lord Ardlilaun's bailiff wa* beaten nearly to death In County Mayo.

Church and Clergy.

Minneapolis may have a bishop coadjutor at tha Church of tha Immaculate Conception. Blahop O'Connor of the diocese of Newark hai celebrated his sliver Jubilee. Two hundred priests were proaent. One wing of the 11,000,000 memorial church which Henry 11. uogera has given to Falrhaven, Mass., h bean dedicated. The Jesuit Pater Zottoll, who recently died at Shanghai, aged 70, waa one of thO leading authorities on the Chinese language and literature. The Rev. Dr. Charles L. Rplnlng of Orange, N. J., once nn Indian known among the race as Chief Blackboard, la now a preacher In the First Presbyterian Church. cThe Rev. Iloraoe Porter, formerly assistant pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, who was dlsobled by a serious accident and Ulnesa two and a half years ago, has recovered. ▲ memorial hospital, to honor the Siemory of the late Rev. Richard 8. tom, the eminent Brooklyn preacher, and to bear his mime, will be erected oy friends In Fooch'iw, China.

INDIANA LAWMAKERS

Botli the House nnd Senate again Thursday devoted most of the time to passing bills, the purpose being* to hurry them to the other branch and to the Governor before Friday of next week, after which bills that go to the Governor will stand little chance of becoming laws. In the Senate * bill was passed creating a commission to codify the laws by the last of 1904, and report to the next General Assembly. The Secretary of State was made a member of the commission without salary. The bill to amend the law on vote selling to save the counties from paying a reward for each conviction was (JofVated decisively. A resolution by Senator Wolcott was adopted requiring the immediate printing of the railroad commission hill. Many other bills reported from committees after the commission bill are already printed and a thorough investigation of the cause of the delay may be made. The House passed a bill creating a State Board of Optometry and (lie bill for a commission to investigate contract labor and report to the next General Assembly. The bill to tax the surrender \ able of life insurance policies as personal property was killed on a committee report. Both the Senate and the House had exciting incidents Friday. In the former, the doorkeeper, at the direction of the presiding officer, seated Senator Milhurn, who wished to stand up for the bill to increase the school levy from 11 to 10 cents. A substitute agreed on iu the Republican caucus was brought in and adopted, by which local school authorities^^uiaydncrcasejliejqcallevy from 35 to 50 cents, and thereby relieve the townships that have gone to the limit and still have short school terms. In the House when the Senate bill increasing the salary of the State tax commissioners to $3,000 was handed down, Representative Sayre attempted to deal a death blow to the recently enacted law increasing the salary of the Supreme and Appellate Court judges to SO,OOO, and of the reporter of the Supreme and Appellate Courts to $5,000. He offered an amendment striking out all but the enacting clause, and substituting a new bill, which fixed the salary of the tax commissioners at $2,000, the present salary, the Appellate Court judges at $4,200 and the reporter $4,100, his - present salary. A very r*ixed-up parliamentary tangle ensued and the whole matter was put over until the Speaker had opportunity to consider. The Senate killed Senator Johnston’s bill to require foreign corporations that wish t 5 develop Indiana coal lands to incorporate in this State. Many of the Senators heretofore for the bill changed their views. The general appropriation bill was introduced in the House Saturday by Warren G. Sayre of Wabash, chairman of the House committee on ways and means. The bill is the joint work of this and the finance committee of the Senate, of which Senator Good wine is chairman. The report of the legislative visitation' committee was followed more closely than ever before. It was expected by many me in tiers that the recommendations would be cut, inasmuch as Sayre, the “watch dog of the treasury," was at the head of the committee, but in most Instances the recommendations of his committee for maintenance of the State institutions are higher than that of the Governor’s investigation committee. Mr. Sayre said that the aggregate of the appropriations—specific and regular—would exceed $2,750,000. About half of this sum will be available during the ensuing year. The general appropriation bill was taken up by the House Monday in committee of the whole, with Representative Ralph Bamberger of Marion Couuty as chairman. The various items were approved with little discussion or amendment until the appropriations for the Appellate Court were reached. The committees that prepared the bill left out any allowance for stenographers for the Appellate judges. Mr. Muminert moved to amend by allowing each judge SSOO, ns was done two years ago. Mr. Sayre fought the amendment and won by an overwhelming vote. The Senate concurred in the report of the conference Committee on the bill increasing the salaries of certain Superior and Circuit judges. The committee cut out Judge Rasch of Evansville. The anti-cigar-ette bill was called out of the linmla of the morals committee and advanced to engrossment. The Harley bill, giving telephone companies the right to put their poles in public highways, was advanced to engrossment after being amended to give the county commissioners supervision of the placing of ihe poles. Two new bills were introduced, at the request of Russell B. Harrison, for the Spanish-American war veterans —one to put them on tlie same footing as Civil \Vitr veterans in being admitted to the State Soldiers’ Home, and the other to fine any person that uses a badge without right.

Hills on Third Rending—Senate.

S. Is. 271—Compelling railroads to equip trains with safety appliances. BelL Passed —35 to 0. S. B. Ut»7 —Regulating tho incorporation of voluntary associations. Cray. Passed—3o to 0. S. B. 381—Providing for the manufacture of voting machines in penal institutions and their snlt/to counties at actual cost. Fortune. Judiciary No. 2. • S. B. 21)3 —Legalizing acts of county commissioners in building boundary line bridges. Wampler. Passed—3o to 1. 8. B. 883—Conferring the right to vote in subsidy elections on women who have property in their own name, and preventing men from votiug In subsidy elections who hnvo not paid poll tax. Uochenour. Elections. 11. B. 385 —Permitting people of Pike County to hold an election to decide whether they will build a new court house. Corn. Rules suspended. Purs-ed-—-01 to 7. S. B. 382 —To prohibit the draining of oil wells into running streams used for domestic purposes. Stricler. Judicinry No. 2. , 8. B. 280 —Authorizing the commissioners of Allen County to appropriate 125,000 for Oeneral Lawton monument Fleming Passed —38 to 0. 11. B. 310—Increasing the tax rate for the three higher educational instltutiona of the State. Stnusbury. Passed—--88 to 3. 8. B. 207—Concerning the written contracts of real estate agents. De Haven. Defeated.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PABT WEEK. Thirty-six Men Disfranchised atShoale for Selling Their Votes—Officials Sent to Jail for Contempt—River Water Poisons Noblcsvillc People. By sentences imposed in the Martin Circuit Court thirty-six men of Shoals were disfranchised for from ten to twelve years and ordered to pay the cost of prosecutions for having sold their votes. Twenty-nine of the defendants pleaded guilty and seven were convicted after having entered pleas of not guilty. Six other defendants were acquitted. Fiftysix cases yet remain to be tried. Some' of these may be postponed until the next term of court owing to the high state of feeling aroused by the prosecutions and because of the lack of unbiased material from which to draw juries. In addition to these cases it is said new indictments will l»e returned by the county officials to put an end to vote selling. The reward of SIOO offered to the prosecuting witness for each conviction is causing much criticism and the county council will refuse to make the appropriation to pay these claims and the county commission refuse to make allowance until the validity of the law concerned is tented in the Supreme Court. Officials Sent to Jail. During the hearing of the Case of Charles Kelso et al. of New Albany, charged with contempt of the federal court in ignoring the receiver appointed for M. Zier & Co., Judge Anderson imposed a sentence of sixty days in the _ Marion Couuty jail against Charles Kelso, the receiver appointed by the Floyd Circuit Court; ten days in jail for Thomas Smitliwick, the custodian appointed by Kelso for the property: twenty days against Raymond J. Morris, sheriff of Floyd County, nnd ten days against Claude Sittason, the deputy sheriff. Poisoned by River Water. In the recent breaking up of the ice in White river a water main connecting several deep water wells was broken, lotting "the river water int o the large reservoirs and mains of the Noblesville city plant, poisoning the water to such an extent that the board of health has reported 1,400 cases of sickness from the effects of drinking the water. Mahy are so seriously poisoned that their complete recovery is doubtful.

Lost Boy Is Found. Thornton Stansfield, 13 years old, son of Dr. Stansfield, pastor of the Meridian Street Church in Indianapolis, who disappeared recently, was located at Saginaw', Mich. The Mayor issued a proclamation asking for a general search, and many cities within 100 miles took part. The boy gives 110 reason for leaving, .»—! Child Burned to a Crisp. Dewey Znrr, aged 4, son of .Mrs. Charles Znrr, residing four miles north of La Porte, met a horrible death while playing with matches. The lad started a bonfire, from which his clothing was ignited, and his body was roasted to a crisp. The charred remains were not found until some time later by his mother. Brief State Happenings. Michael Kindrick, a farmer living near Russiavitlo. committed suicide by shooting after a quarrel with the family. At Frankfort the city novelty department store damaged $5,000 worth by tire. The loss is fully covered by insurance. A movement has been started at Tell City to divide l’erry County and create a ne wcounty with Tell City as couuty seat. The grand jury lias returned eighteen indictments against Tere Haute saloonkeepers for failing to have a State license. The efforts of the Terre Haute board of health to enforce its rules regarding vaccination in tlie schools were a decided failure. The contract Lor the erection of the new Muncle commercial club building has been let to Fred Illingsworth, the bid being $31,000. Earl Woods, who attempted to murder the entire family of his father at Frankfort, dipd from the effects of his sclf-intticted wound. The Rev. Thomas Conroy, assistant pastor of the Anderson Catholic Church, engaged in a shooting match with a burglar in the parochial residence. The priest Is uninjured, nnd it is thought that the robber escaped all the bullets. Newton Perry of Kokomo started up town in a buggy with Mrs. Newton Parker, to see a sick friend. Mrs. Parker applied the whip and drove furiously. On urriviug at their destination she was horrified to see that Perry, her companion in the buggy, was dead and that she had been riding with a corpse. Heart failure wns the cause. Five masked robbers, all heavily armed, blew the safes in the poetofflcea at Mexico and Denver, north of Twenty-five citizens heard the explosion* which blew the safe to pieces and saw the robbers board a handcar, but were afraid to give chnse. The men ran the car to Denver, three miles east of Mexico, and cracked the postofflee safe there. They left Denver on the same car. Small amounts were taken from both offices. The family of Wesley Gohring, living east of Kokomo, has had a thrilling experience with n niad dog. A large strange dog wns taken in and fed. While eating the animal Hew at Gehring and chewed his leg to ttie bone.. His parents went to the rescue nnd the mother was bitten on the neck, the mad heart having plunged at her throat. Mr. Gehring tried to kill the brute, but was himself terribly mangled, one of his arms being almost Btripiwd of flesh. The dog escaped. Game Wnrden James Hamilton has lieen Instructed to go to the marshes of the Kankakee river to look after duck hunters. Hamilton says ho will see that the game laws of the State are enforced. Suit hns lieen begun at Bhelbyville by Winfield 8. Thompsou against Sylvester Tinsley and David G. Tinsley for $lO,000 damages for injuries received from having his wagon overturned upon him, breaking an arm and internally injuring him. The complaint alleged that the de-> fendanta unlawfully obstructed the highway by throwing rails there while building a fence.