Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1903 — Page 7

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Win practice in all the courts. Office ov*r ken. dig's Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, low, Abstracts, loans and Real Estate. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stairs west of V'anßensselaer street. I Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The .N. A. AO. Ry, and Rensselaer W.L. A P. Co. tJL-Oflice 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 Riven to collections of all kinds. Office over "Racket Store." ’Phone 329. Rensselaer, - Indiana. J. F. Irwin S. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections, Farm Loans and Fire luiurano*. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RKNSSBLAHR, 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. 9FRANK FOLTI. O. O. IFITIIR. MARRY «. KURRIK 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 Karm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. I. R. Washburn will givespecialattentioD to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests evea for glasses. Omcs Tslsphons No. 4a. Ruioinob Pmons No. 07. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Imes' Millinery store. Rensselaer. Officr Pmoni 177. Acs* dimob Pmoni, lIS. Dr. Anna Francis, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank, Rensselaer, Ind. Hours: 9t012 m; Ito 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, 104 t Jasper Co.); also (Halleck) 43 at residence. W. W. MERRILL, M. D. Eieciic Physician and sufaeon, RENSSELAER. - INDIANA. Chronic Diseases • Specialty. Office ’Phone 308. Residence 'Phone 845 H- O. Harris. E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit Issued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on .principal cities, Notes Discounted at current rates. Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. We Solicit ■ Share of Your Business. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store, iRICANJNTHY. / ®S Crown, Bar and Bridge A Work. Teeth Without i Plates. Without Pain. J.W, HORTON IS YIASS IN NCNSSCLAKR. Tooth carefully stopped with gold and other fillings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxldo Oas administered dally. Charges within the ysaeh of all. ornes orroaira oouar hsuii. PLENTY OF EGGS And no sick chlcksna wtiars Walls’ Hooeler Pooltry Powdar la uaad. Curaa Cholara. Gapaa and Roup. Itaapa foaltry haallhy. Prlaa. Slaaala Sold by A. F. Long.

GARDEN AND FARM

SPRING SEEDING OF CLOVER. The usual practice among farmers is to sow clover on the Wheat In the spring. This is done in order that the growing wheat shay qhade the young clover until the clover is well rooted and able to take care of itself. Not every farmer, however, secures a perfect stand of clover, as it is impossible to cover the seeds. Some wheat fields are harrowed In spring, and with benefit, but the ground is usually too wet to do so when the clover seed is sown, which should be done very early. The cause of failure to secure a good “catch" of clover may be due to inferior seed, to inefficient quantity of seed, to washing by rains, to destruction by birds and to exposure to cold. Before the seed can germinate it must be covered, even if but slightly. Much of the seed is left on the surface, not being washed in by the rains or melting snows, and is lost. The two special fertilizers for cipher are lime and potash. When the land is occupied by wheat the wheat uses potash liberally, and the younger clover must compete with the wheat in securing a supply. The first growth of the clover after it. is seeded is the most important, as an early start and rapid growth places it more securely beyond injury of drought later in the season. The food most suitable for young clover should be that which is soluble, so as to enable the young plants to immediately use it. Lime, therefore, should be applied in a form that is soluble, hence plaster answers the purposes. Wood ashes provide potash ready for the rain to dissolve it. If, then, an application of 100 pounds of plaster and 500 pounds of wood ashes be applied on an acre the mixture will greatly aid the young clover, as well as assist the growing wheat to push rapidly forward. The chief cause of failure with clover is foul seed and imperfect preparation of the land. There are but few clover fields free from weeds, the seeds of the weeds being harvested with the clover seed and sold to all points, only to spread the evil. The quantity of seed used is also too limited sometimes. It should be a rule to always use too much seed rather than to incur the risk of too little. It would be well if corn should follow wheat, so as to work and cultivate the land, in order to clean it of weeds and sow the clover seed in the fall, as by so doing the land could be thoroughly prepared and made fine, the seed being lightly brushed in, thus enabling the farmer to have his field of clover uniform. Failures also occur from lack of a supply of lime and potash after the clover Is well under growth. All clover land should be well limed after harrowing, and If a supply of wood ashes cannot be obtained the crude potash salts should be applied as well as the lime. —Philadelphia Record.

THE HENYARD. Ashes and hen manure if mixed together before being applied to the soil result in a loss of ammonia from the droppings that greatly lessens the value. Put ashes on after the manure has been mixed with the soil; the ammonia will be absorbed by the soil and remain in it for the use of the crop. Wood ashes make a valuable application to hasten decomposition in coarse manures, but absorbents should be used to prevent loss, or the manure applied at once to the land. The smaller the poultry quarters, the cleaner they must be kept. Clean out the coops often; filth is unhealty at any season of the year. Poultry is the cheapest and most economical and best meat raised on the farm. Coarse food promotes digestion and helps to keep the fowls in a healthy condition. Feed as much of it as possible. Are you keeping accurate record of your poultry account, including cost of labor and the income from your sales? As a table food a good fat duck ranks among i the best, and for this reason they are , never a drug on the market, but sell ' rapidly at good prices. Do not simply throw the water out of the drinking | vessels and put in fresh water, but wash the vessels thoroughly every j time you change water. Leaves and dry earth make an excellent combination on the floor of the poultry house. Dry earth absorbs and disinfects, while the leaves make scratching material for the fowls. Re very careful about your eggs, and gather them daily and market them when good and fresh. Do (lot be so foolish as to salt them down, and try to use some of the so called methods for “keeping eggs fresh.” for you cannot do it, and the result is that such products on the market destroy prices and disgust egg consumers, and you will do more harm than good.—F. H. Sweet in The Epitomist. VALUE OF NEST EGGS. Perhaps it may be a whim, or possibly it may be because my grandmother thought an egg should be left in the nest, that I think so, too. At any rate, my grandmother was right, as usual, and experience teaches me each year that it pays to provide nest, eggs. The reason is not hard to see. It is apparent to any one who will observe the nature of fowls. The cause Is true of all bird kind. Anything that excites suspicion that the nesting place Is unsafe causes them to hunt a new one and the same exciting cause to retard egg production, as does fright or change of location. It Is an inherited instinct, a splendid example of Darwin’s great law of the survival of the fittest. This is easy to understand. In the wild state it would be a fool hen that, having stolen her nest and having had her eggs eaten by a fox, would keep right on lay-

ing in the same old place, thus keep* ing the fox in eggs all summer. Such hens, no doubt, have existed from time to time, but they failed to perpetuate themselves—they were *' not fit. The wise hen, when her eggs were destroyed, straightway sought a new and safer place to lay her eggs and rear her young. Her prudence saved her family. They naturally inherited their mother’s goodgjjpnse. This Inherited trait, transmitted through countless generations, became an inherited instinct. That, is why hens always prefer to hide their nests. That is the reason why they like nest eggs. That is one explanation why hens often prefer to lay in the same nest with others rather than in a nest by themselves. They feel that other hens have found the place safe, therefore they do not have to find out for themselves. It is not, I am charitable enough to believe, because they want the credit of laying the whole nestful. One nest egg seems to satisfy them, though they like more. Perhaps they can only count one. However that may be, it pays to have that one. The nest egg should not be a doubtful egg. That should go without saying. It is too apt to get broken and befoul the nest and injure the other eggs. Eggs are very apt to absorb bad odors, as is milk. Besides, there is always a chance that the doubtful nest egg will , get into the egg basket by mistake. Plaster of Paris eggs are good, but they get diity. Medicating them may do some good while it lasts, but it does not last long, and is apt to taint the eggs. Generally, china eggs are the most satisfactory. They are not apt to get broken, are oderless, are easily distinguishable from true eggs, not only by sight but by touch, which is important. Moreover, they are cheap. Buy some. Then make some nests where the hens can hide. Put in some clean, soft hay, the nest egg, and then see if the hens do not reward your effort.—James E. Rice, in New York Tribune Farmer. CARE OF SWINE. Well-bred swine cannot be treated in the haphazard manner which is often given to the common pigs of the farmyard. I have seen farmers pay good prices for pure-bred swine, and then abuse and neglect them so that the results of the experiment were poorer than from common pigs. In order to get proper results from purebred animals of any kind they must be treated carefully, and with the idea that they are very susceptible to their surroundings and environments. Chase and worry a pure-bred sow, as many of the common farmyard animals are, and she will refuse to produce progeny that shows any advance upon the scrubs. Indeed, I think sometimes they tend to degenerate faster than the common stock. This fact is often noticeable when fine-bred swine are shipped by railroad to distant points. They arrive in a nervous, frightened condition, and they will scarcely eat enough to keep them alive. Animals in such condition need nursing.’ They require the kindliest sort of attention. Treat them as if you wanted to make friends with them, and in a few days they will feel at home.

There is profit in improving the herd with pure-bred stock, but the better these animals get the more careful we must be in feeding, tending and handling. They require better treatment all around. If one is not willing to give this to them, it will not pay to make the investment. Stick to the scrubs. They are better suited to such a person’s conception of the business. There are farmers today who argue against purebred swine, simply on that score. They do not care to raise hothouse animals, as they style them, and so they stick to their scrubs. Now’ pure-bred swine are not hot-house animals, but then neither are they scrubs. They dd not demand coddling. but they do require good rational feeding, breeding and attending. These are essential to their best development. They are also necessary for the larger profits which the farmer has a right to expect. Starting the herd with a good boar is the first step, but the good blood thus injected into the herd must be kept up and cultivated. It is necessary in every possible way to make the most of the qualities developed which go toward improving the animals. We cannot emphasize these good qualities any too much in our treatment of these animals, and if we fail to be in sympathy with the work and the animals we cannot well succeed as we should.—E. P. Smith, in American Cultivator.

MULCHING IN WINTER

In districts where winter grain is liable to be disturbed by frost, a slight mulch is always preferrable, for, in addition to protecting the crop from heaving during the winter, its quantity will be inaterhi'ly increased. Let those who doubt this principle place a board in their fields when plowing at this time, removing it in early spring, and they will find that during the whole summer the portion that had been so covered will produce more luxuriously than elsewhere. In some districts, where blackberries, and even currants and gooseberries are raised, they are materially improved by a slight winter niulrh; even grapevines will better protect their fruit the following year by being, thus protected during winter. Where salt hay is required for bedding, it may be collected with a horse rake from the land where it has been used as mulch in early spring to supply the stables with bedding during the summer. The amount invested in the Siberian railway le $401,700,000.

GAIN FOR THE MINERS

STRIKE COMMISSION GIVES RESULT OF ITS INQUIRY. While Labor Leader* Are Commended for Their Attitude, Rioting and Boycott Are Denounced in Stronu Terms —Union la Not Recognized. Although declaring the anthracite er al miners entitled to the increase in pay for. which they fought, the Btrike commission ’selected by President Roosevelt, in its report gives no formal recognition to the union and has some harsh things to say regarding the lawlessness that marked the recent struggle. The Individual men are blamed for crime* committed during the strike, but the commission exonerates the president of the union and the natiohal lender* of any responsibility and declares they did all possible to maintain peace. Complaints against the militia and special guards are held to prove the bad intent of those objecting, as peacefully inclined meu should not oppose the presence of officers of the law. la brief, the commission recommends a general increase of wages, amounting in most instances to 10 per cent. Some decrease of time. The settlement of all disputes by arbitration. Fixes a minimum wage and a sliding •cal*. Provides against discrimination of persons by either the mine owners or the miners on account of membership or non-membership in a labor union. Provides that the awards ..made shall continue in force until March 31, 1900. The increase in wnges where based on the sliding scale will in some instances amount to as much as 20 per cent, especially if the present prices of coal are maintained. Social conditions in the mine region are declared good, and it is stated that the average pay will compare favorably with that in other lines of work of the same grade. Touching the question of discrimination, lawlessness, boycotting and blacklisting, the commissioners state

FEATURES OF DECISION BY STRIKE COMMISSION.

All awards made by commission to count from Nov. 1, 1902, and remain in force until April 1,190 G, except in case of sliding scale, which does not become effective until April 1, 1903. Contract miners, engineers, firemen, and pump men to receive 10 per cent increase. Sliding scale from this rate to be based on selling price of coal and to affect all. Engineers and firemen to work in eight-hour shifts. All employes to have one day of rest a week without loss of pay. Present methods of payment to be continued. Board of concilation for each of three districts to rule on all disputes between employers and workers. No strikes or lockouts to be allowed during the attempts to adjust matters in dispute. Miners are given the right to hire weighmen or clieckmen, the company to pay them, holding out their salaries from workers' wages pro rata. Compulsory investigation of all difficulties, but not compulsory arbitration. Strict enforcement of the child labor laws. Discontinuance of the coal and iron police. Union is not given formal recognition and employers are declared entitled to biro men regardless of union. Men are forbidden to discriminate against non-union workers. \ Individuals are denounced for the lawlessness and crime during the strike, but Mitchell and other leaders are exonerated of any blame. Boycott is denounced as unjust and a weapon which should not be permitted. Miners are said to average well in the matter of wages with other workers of the same grade. The cost of the strike is estimated as follow*: To operators $4G,100,000 To mine employes * ’ 25,000,000 To transportation companies 28.000,000 Total $99,100,000

that during the continuance of the late •trike disorder and lawlessness existed to some extent over the whole region and throughout the whole period. President Mitchell and his immediate chief* of the miners’ union are held officially blameless for violence, actual and threatened, in the anthracite regions, but a strong rebuke i* administered to those persons who resented the presence of the militia called out by Gov. Stone of Pennsylvania to protect the collieries. It appears that all th« concessions made ara clear gains to the miners, the operators having conceded nothing and havjng denied the right of the commission to inquire into their contractual relations with the miners. According to the labor leaders they flatly refused to arbitrate. According to the miners’ counsel all the awards made by the commission represent net gains to the miners, although it is admitted that Presidont Baer offered at one time to fix the minimum wage scale on the basis of $5 coal. The commission fixed this basis at $4.50. Better Wattes and Shorter Honrs,

Under the commission’s awards miners not working by the day, month or year will be granted an advance in wages of 10 per cent and minors working by the day, month or year will be granted a nine-hour Instead of a ten-hour day. The wages of the former class, it Is figured, will be advanced 12% per cent, ns they, too, have been granted a nine-hour instead of a ten hour day. 'Firemen and engineers under the decision of the Gray commission are given an eight-hour Instead of a twelve hour day and the wnges of some of these employes have been advanced. In addition to a general advance of 10 per cent in most instances and a decrease in working hours the commission recommends the settlement of all disputes by arbitration and provides a minimum wage with a sliding scale. Provision is also made against discrimination of persons either by mine owners or miners on account of membership or nonmembership in a labor union, and it is provided thnt the awards of the commission shall be in force until March ill, 1906. The miners having worked 120 days since Nov. 1, 1002, it is estimated that back pay due them will reach nearly $3,000,000 and that advanced wages will amount approximately to $8,000,000 a year. The commission in no instance met the full desnands of the miners, but the •wards made are considered liberal, in view of the bitterness of the strike controversy. Ths commission also favored tbs miners by recommending the withdrawal of tha coal and iron police and a modification of ths child labor law in fn« of ths miner*.

MRS. MAYBRICK TO BE FREE.

Official Announcement I* Made of Her Intended Release. Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the American woman who was convicted at Liverpool in 1889 on the charge of poisoning her husband, James Maybrick, at Aigburth, and whose sentence of deatli was commuted to penal servitude for life, will be released in 1904. The announcement conies from the Home Office, which now authorizes her Washington lawyers to nse the fact of her release next year as a reason for securing the postponement of the trial of the law suits bearing on the prisoner's interest in land in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Miss Florence Elizabeth Chandler, th* daughter of William G. Chandler, *

MRS. FLORENCE MAYBRICK.

banker of Mobile, Ala., was married to James Maybrick of Liverpool, Eng., in 1879. Mrs. Maybrick was 17 years old at the time, and Mr. Maybrick, who was a well-to-do Englishman, was 42 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Maybrick lived at Liverpool, where two children wore bom. There was some trouble in the family and Mrs. Maybrick started to get a divorce.

Maybrick went to the races at Wirral one day eleven years ago. He waa caught In the rain and waa taken sick with a high fever, which the doctor* said was fatal on the following day. Mr. Maybrick was addicted to the arsenia habit, which was unknown to his wife. During his illness he asked his nursa for soma whit# powders, but she, knowing them to contain arsenic, refused. While the nurse was away Maybrick asked his wife to get him the powders, which she did. She put the powder in a cup of beef tea at his direction, but while she was preparing this Maybrick fell asleep and never drank the liquid. He died thirteen days later. Brothers of Maybrick began the prosecution, which resulted in the conviction of Mrs. Maybrick. The trial was a long one, and held the attention of England. Popular sympathy was with Mrs. Maybrick. Sir Charles Russell conducted her defense ably, although given the ease at a late hour, but the police had collected an overwhelming mass of circumstantial evidence, and after thirty-six minutes’ deliberation the jury returned a verdict to convict Mrs. Maybrick was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to life Imprisonment

The Comic Side of The News

_ Of its 127 original plants the Americas Can Company has canned eighty aix. Russia could also use freedom of the press, if the Czar should ask any one. Is the Mississippi trying to show us what a twentieth century flood is like’/ Cznr Nicholas would like for once to take the role of advance agent of prosperity himself. Grip has attacked members of the Supreme Court. Is there no way of punching the germ for contempt? A Michigan man 92 year* old hns taken n blushing bride of 88 summers. In the spring the young man’s fancy lightly turiiH to thoughts of love. One never can tell what a Jury may do, but tha Chicago coal barons doubtless breathe easier that their enso was not left In ths hands of the twelve mon good and true. In his tour of the courts of Europe President Francis of the St Leuls exposition is making a success that will stand comparison with ths triumphs of eJthtf J. Plerpont Morgan, Gen. Miles, Buffalo BUI or John Philip Sousa.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Divorced Husband Is Accused by Ulood-Rhound-Outlaws Shoot Up a Town and Are Landed In Jail—Woman May Have Poisoned Her Husband. While Mrs. Willard Catt and her two sisters were singing at the piano in their home in Pike County a shot tired through the window fatally wpunded Mrs. Catt. Early the next morning searching parties were organized, one of them being headed by Marshal Sumpter of Howell and accompanied by a bloodhound. Though no evidence existed to show who committed the crime, suspicion rested on Willard Catt, the woman’s, divorced husband, but lie and his father joined one of the parties. The bloodhound started on a trail leading to William Catt's home, and from there continued the trail to the searchers led by Catt. The dog attempted to leap upon Catt, lmt was held back. Catt was arrested at once and charged with the crime. lie refused to make any statement. Yield to Fire and I'owe, A fight took jdace at Brown’s Valley between Jesse and James Hills, self declared outlaws and a sheriff's posse. The Hills attacked Agent Johnson of the Vandaiia, who drew a revolver and shot Jesse in the shoulder. The desperadoes swore vengeance, held up the local hardware store and supplied themselves with revolvers, shooting out windows and completely terrorizing the entire town. People fled to the woods for safety while the men shot out almost every store window in the town. A running fight followed between tho men and the posses. The fugitives were pursued by the posse to a log cabin sixteen miles from Brown’s A alley. By shooting through cracks in the cabin they kept the posse at bay until their ammunition gave out. About this time the sheriff managed to sot the cabin on fire. Just as the roof was about to fall the fugitives ran out and were overpowered. Woman May Be Poisoner. Mrs. Robert J. Drake of Ilarveysburg, widow of a well-known fanner, lias been arrested and charged with poisoning her husband, who was taken suddenly ill and died a few weeks ago. Before his death Drake told his family physician that he was afraid iiis wife was trying to kill him by giving him poison. When he died the doctor refused to allow the remains to be embalmed and assisted by the coroner removed the stomach and sent it to Dr. Hurty of the State board of health, at Indianapolis. The report from the analysis showed enough poison to cause the woman’s immediate arrest. Driyke came from Wisconsin, having answered a matrimonial advertisement inserted by Mrs. Myers. After their meeting two years ago they were married and have quarreled frequently. All Mu«t He Vaccinated. The decision of the Appellate Court upholding the power of school hoards to compel the vaccination of children, will be obeyed in the ninety-six counties of the Stnte. Rigid enforcement of vaccination orders will be effected. l>r. Hurty, secretary of tiie State board of healtii, has defined his reasons for the belief that the State will be scourged with smallpox unless radical measures are enforced. The Terre Haute case arose from the action of the school authorities in keeping a child out of school, the father having forbidden vaccination.

Brief State Happenings. Randolph, Jay and Wells counties will get complete rural free delivery this year. The wife and 6-year-old son of Arch Temper of Spencer County were drowned in the Ohio river near Itockport. Gov. Durbin appointed Col. Oran Perry, quartermaster general of Indiana, to succeed the late Robert S. Foster. Henry Archer is charged with abducting the 15-year-old daughter of Joseph Bobbitt of Roland. They have been missing for several days, and it is thought that they went to Yineednes. Archer is 28 years old and a widower. Louis Burkhardt, aged 65, a hermit, was burned to death iti a shanty near Whitflstown. He long ago separated from hi* family. At one time Burkhardt was a prominent Odd Fellow and was a pioneer merchant of the neighborhood. The Supreme Court settled the Terre Haute vaccination tight by refusing to grant a temporary restraining order to prevent the school board and the board of health of that town from excluding healthy hut unvaceinnted children from the schools. Mrs. Henry Crowe of I.aporte recognized in a man who applied for hoard her brother, Edwin C. Hall of Chicago, whom she had mourned as dead for eighteen years. Mrs. Crowe believes tl« reuniting is n result’of her prayers for his r»ttirn, which she had offered since the day of his strange disappearance. Accused of brutality to a 13-year-old orphan boy, Justin Hlachley, a wealthy farmer in Union township, is the subject of au information filed by Prosecuting Attorney MeAlcer of Hammond in the Porter County Circuit Court. Burton Lncer, the lad, was adopted from the Indianapol.s Orphans’ Home by Blachley soms tii.e ago. A bold attempt to wreck a Pennsylvania Railroad train was made at Remington. A plank was placed across tha track rtnd the rails were wnrped out of position, so that the engine waa ever turned. Charles Laing. the engineer, was killed, and Charles Collett, the fireman, was seriously injured. Lewis Clarke and John Blight were arrested. Morris Callahan, the night messenger, Identities them ns the men on trial last August for an attempt to rob an express office of a package containing $150,000. Mrs. Arch Temper dnd her 6-yenr-old son Fred were drowned near Hock port in the Ohio river, by the capsizing of a skiff. The Indianapolis arsenal grounds were sold by the government to the Winona Technical and Agricultural Institute for $154,000. The money will be reinvested' in an army post near the city, to b« lftiown as Fort Benjamin Harrison/ Georgo T. Moas, aged 50. committed suicide at the home of a relative, XOI4 Moss, near Aaliboro, by shooting himself in tha head with a revolver. The aulclde is attributed to deapondeucy.