Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1903 — Page 7

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts. Real Estate, Loan*. WEI practice in all the court*. Office orer r*a« die'* Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, in. Ms. loons and Real Eskk. RENSSELAER, IND. Office op stairs In Leopold block, first stair* west of Vanßensselaer»treet. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The JL A. AC.Ry, and Rensselaer W.L. AP. Co. HkiOpeeover Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer. Indiana. U. M. Baughman. G. A. William*. 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 899. Kbnssblakr. Indiana. J.F.lrwtn S. C. Irwl» Irwin &. Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Inauranoe. Offioe in Odd Fellows’ Block. RBNSSBLAER, INDIANA. R. W. Marshall, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Practices in all courts. Special attention given to drawing up wills -and settling decedent’s in county building, east side of court house square. nans sours. c. a. ariTusn. harrt a. auaai, Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Reel Estate. Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abrtract Books in the CountyRENSSELAER, IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTQR N E Y-AT-LA W. Remington. ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. Drs. I. B. & i/M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Or. I. B. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases.- He also test* eves for glasses. OfFlOl Tilifhoni No. 41. N«aio««e« Phoni Mo. 17. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over lineal Millinery store. Rensselaer. Onto. Srori 177. SWSIRC. PXORIi tie. Dr. Anna Francis, 08TEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank. Rensselaer, Ind. Hoars: 9to 18 at; Ito 4:30 p. m. Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEOJf. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. Office up -stairs in Forsythe block. General Practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Alls answered promptly, dav or night. Office and residence 'phones. a<>4 (Jasper Co.); also (Halleck) 4] at residence. W. w. MERRILL, M. D. Eidetic PDysician and Suiaeon, RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Chronio Diseases a 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, Inierest Bearing Certificates 0/ 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. 'S'S Crown. Bar and Bridga \ Work. Teeth Without JWmr < Plates, Without Pain. ..J. W. HORTOM .. IS YEARS IN RENSSKIAKR, Tooth carefully stopped with gold and other fillings. Consultation Tree. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered daily. Charges within tha reach of alt. o«nc« oeeostrs oou.T Mouse. PLENTY OF EfifiS sast’a Soap. Ksm* poultry bsslthy. rrtoo, W oosita. Sold by A. K. Long.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

Trnsts and Wages. The wonderful material prosperity of part of the people of the United States and the lack of It with the greater number Is an anomaly that Is startling and naturally leads to Investigation to discover the cause. To Judge by the numerous strikes that are In jjrogress there must be a large percentage of workingmen that do not consider their condition prosperous. Before a strike is decided upon or ordered a majority of those striking evidently consider their circumstances so unfortunate that they are willing to make themselves and their families more uncomfortable for a time, in order that in the end they may be prosperous, or at all events that tlieir case may he bettered. It is out of all reason, that all these workingmen who have voluntarily surrendered their wages for an indefinite period, would have done so if their condition was prosperous. If the ordinary citizen is living comfortably and laying up a bit for a rainy day, he is enjoying prosperity. If he and liis family are obliged to be satisfied with the bare necessities of life and then can hardlymake both ends meet, one can hardly blame him for striking, for his predicament, short of starvation, could hardly be worse. That is the plight of a vast number of hard working and industrious citizens to-day. WSges are about 15 per cefit higher than in 1800, but the cost of living has advanced nearly 40 per cent. So the margin, if there was any, in 1809, is wiped out and it is only by reducing expenditures that the weekly or monthly bills can be paid. Every citizen who is receiving no more emolument now than in 1800 is in the same fix as the workingman who is striking. It is only by cutting off ali luxuries and pleasures and restricting expenditures to absolute necessities that those with like restricted incomes are able to make both ends meet. The plutocratic press is very generally denouncing the workingmen for demanding more wages and are much exercised lest tills general demand to participate in the prosperity will bring about conditions that will restrict and soon overthrow it. One of these newspapers, the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, of New York, admits that the organization of capital and its greed is the chief source of the trouble that the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer, but it joins organized labor with the trusts as being equally responsible when it says: “It Is a broad fact in this era of prosperity that its benefits are enjoyed in but a moderate measure, if at all, by a large majority of the people. The small capitalist in business, the manufacturer and trader in a modest way, the .great mass of clerks and others In salaried places, the independent and unorganized workers in a multitude of occupations, with the rising cost of living caused by the high prices that large profits of combined capital and high wages of organized labor induce, have the same struggle for a comfortable existence that they had in less prosperous days. They are deprived of their share of prosperity by the greed of aggressive combinations of capital and labor.” That is rather tough on President Roosevelt, who is dally declaiming that universal prosperity prevails and that nothing must be done to disturb the present conditions. His claim that to stop a big bad trust from charging exorbitant profits might hurt others and ruin the small manufacturer is not borne out by the facts. All the combines are making too much and the good trust is not visible to the naked eye. If the trusts must be allowed to continue to overcharge the consumers, the latter must l>e pnid or allowed to make enough to l»e able to pay the exorbitant trust prices. If the present prosperity will not stand that strain, it is a delusion and a snare for all but the favored ones. If President Roosevelt could throw off the shackles that the cunning of the protected trusts have now bound him with and aid Instead of hinder the reform element of his party, the tariff schedules That protect the combines could be revised and the exorbitant prices that now prevail would be reduced forthwith. As it is, the voters who are being gronnd betweu the millstones must await their opportunity to bring about reform until the election of another Congress in 1004. There is no hope from the Republican party; it is controlled by the monopolists. Tariff Plank. The ability of the Republican leaders in the past to compose a platform that will straddle a troublesome question is admitted, but if the report that comes from lowa is true Senator Allison and Governor Cummins arc attempting the most barefaced scheme to fool the people that ever has been tried. Instead of the plank of last year, “We favor any modification of the tayiff schedules that may be required to prevent their affording a shelter to monopoly,”*the platform this year is to be modified and “It is practically agreed that the word ‘monopoly’ ahall appear In the platform in some connection, *0 as to express the sense of the Republican party to be that in case it la found that tbe tariff ta building up apy monopoly It is to be

revised immediately.” From this it would appear that as long as the word ‘monopoly’ Is used in the platform the voters of lowa are expected to be satisfied though It is not intended to pledge the delegation from that State to try and relieve the situation by urging action by Congress. If these lowa political contortionists know of any trust that is not supported by monopoly they need not trouble to pass resolutions supposed to denounce it. Without monopoly there would be no trusts, or at least no bad ones. No Need of Protection. The protectionists, who so fear the sacred tariff will be revised or that even reciprocity with Cuba might become an opening wedge to demolish It, worship their Idol for an entirely selfish purpose. Tbe voters who pay the tax can afford to take a more liberal view and should ponder on a fact and a question propounded by tbe New Y'ork World: “What Andrew Carnegie does not know about industrial conditions alike in Great Britain and the United States is not worth knowing. “When, therefore, he tells a London interviewer that British competition with the United States in manufactures Is Impossible, because ‘the very size of our great Industries’ enables us ‘to supply the demands of the world at prices you (British people) cannot think of,’ tlie question that pointedly presents itself is: “Do American manufacturers, especially those of iron and steel, really need the shelter of a 5d per cent tariff to enable them to hold their own against rivals already put out of the race by natural disadvantages and a superior industrial organization?” Advance in Window Glass Prices. It was announced 011 May 20 that the Window Glass Trust had advanced prices 5 per cent and that the Plate Glass Trust would probably follow suit. When and where will this trust extortion end? Prices of glass have already been advanced from 100 to 300 per cent. Glass blowing machines are being installed which will reduce, by more than one-half, the cost of making window glass. Prices should be reduced about 75 per cent. They go up instead of down because there is a trust, protected by tariff duties averaging about 100 per cent. It is this tariff trust which turns blessings into curses and day into night. • The bill of the Knights of Labor to put window glass on the free list should be pushed in the next Congress. It Is badly needed. Trnsts, Tariff and Prices. Can the Republicans afford to continue their opposition to a revision of the tariff, when it is admitted that the trusts “have played a very considerable part In forcing up prices?” If the tariff on trust productions was reduced the trusts would have to lower their prices to prevent similar productions from abroad competing with them. If the tariff was abolished on some trust made articles, that the trusts are selling abroad cheaper than here, to hold the home market the price of such trust productions would have to be made as low as the foreign goods could be Imported for. This should not stop home production, but would cut the exorbitant profits now made by the trusts and divide up prosperity a little more evenly so that we might all get a share of it. Miles Entitled to Thanks. Secretary Root is said to have asked the President/to oust Gen. Miles for telling the truth about the Philippines. The War Department since Root lias been in charge has persistently refused to allow any light to be thrown on its doings and has suppressed every attempt to investigate ft. Gen. Miles Is more than ever entitled to the thanks of the American people for his exposure of the horrible conditions that exist. ' Political Potonrri. It v would be rather strange if the “open door” In Manchuria and other Eastern countries should be left wide open to us, when our own doors are closed to everyone by a tariff of 40 to 100 per cent. What is the matter in Indiana? Has prosperity struck a snag there? Two bank failures in one day looks suspicious. Will Senator Beveridge please explain why these banks did not get their sbare of the boom? There are symptoms of the old feud breaking out in Ohio and the Foraker faction may give the Hannaites a warm half-hour when the State convention meets next month. Uncle Mark has been coddling the workingmen for a year or two, bHt he will have to take, off his coat and do a smart bit of labor himself before he lands another six years In the Senate. Herrick is to pay tlie bills and look pleasant. We are threatened with a big scandal in the War Department, involving the quartermaster’s department at the national capital and the quartermasters’ departments of the various State militia organizations. Astounding conditions are btuted at and huge misappropriation of supplies. Is there any department of this Republican administration that does not need overhauling? Reform is needed all along th« Una. 1

PRESIDENT’S HOMEWARD TRIP.

, Boost volt the Gaeet of Many lowa and Illinois Cities. President Roosevelt finished his transMississippi tour and early Wednesday morning he entered Illinois on the last Stage of his loag journey from the national capital to the Pacific coast and back again. Wherever the train stopped the l’resideut wns greeted by an enthusiastic crowd. Following arc the Illinois cities to be visited by the President Wednesday in tlie order in which they were readied: Freeport, Roekford, Rochelle, Aurora, Joliet, Pontiac and Bloomington. When the special train hearing President Roosevelt and party arrived in Dennison, lowa, the home of Secretary Shaw, the presidential party and other distinguished guests were driven through the city past the homes of Secretary Shaw and Congressman Connor through cheering crowds and returned to the station, where they found a crowd of not less than 10,000 people assembled. The President was Introduced by Secretary Shaw, who was receives! by the people of his home with loud cheering. The President spoke for nearly twenty minutes and paid special tribute to the lowa members of the cabinet and Congress. On the platform aside from the regular members of the President’s party were Senators Allison and Dolliver, Secretaries Shaw and Wilson, Congressman Connor, Editor Rosewater of tlie Omaha Bee and a score of distinguished lowans. At Independence, where a moment's stop was made. President Roosevelt paid a tribute to lowa's sons and daughters and said he believed in tlie future of this country because he believed in the equality of the men and wonieu composing it. A few minutes’ stop was made at Manchester, where tbe President was introduced to a big crowd. Five-minute stops were made at Webster City, Cedar Falls, Waterton and lowa Falls. Day of Dedications. One of the features of President Roosevelt’s visit to Rockford. 111.. was the dedication of tlie memorial building

MEMORIAL SHAFT.

untent commemorating the event was unveiled in the presence of many thousands from Freeport and vicinity. At Pontiac the monument to the soldiers and sailors of Livingston County was dedicated late Wednesday afternoon. President Roosevelt arrived shortly after 5 o'clock. He was escorted from his train to tlie siiaft. The - monument is fifty-six feet high rtnd stands on a base fourteen feet square. The shaft is stir mounted by a bronze soldier’s'figure at parade rest. The base of tlie monument bears military and naval relief emblems and tablets commemorating deeds of Livingston's soldiers and sailors.

MORE FREE LAND.

But the Strip to Be Opened Will Never Repay the B:ttler»' Trouble. It is officially announced by tlie United States land office that on and after June 15, 1903, a certain portion of California, hitherto unsettled aud undeveloped, will b 4 thrown open to entry and reclamation. This strip, which stretches from Mojave on the west to the Colorado riveton the east, comprises about a million acres aDd may be taken up either under the desert land act or as homesteads in 40 to 160 acre lots. Irrigation or 110 irrigation, the vast sizzling stretches of desert lands to be thrown open to settlement, will never repay the bulk of those who go to the trouble and expense of "making the run” west, unless, indeed, they should ehauce to discover a mine or strike oil. White it is true tlie government is making extensive preparations to irrigate certain portions of the desert contiguous to the Colorado river, both in California and Arizona, otily a comparatively Sinai! area will be available under the desert land act, for tlie reason that no lofty dams arc to be constructed, such as will irrigate millions of acres of land. It is the iutention simply to divert the Colorado river waters at certain points, allowing them to fertilize through the medium of canals, considerable lauds lying below the point of su«;h divergence. Picture, if you can, an illimitable expanse of brown, barren, sloping, brushcovered, cactus-grown landscape, with dim mountain ranges peeking above the trembling horizon, the whole scene sweltering under a bronze sky in which the sun, a daxzliug ball of fire, swings pitilessly from east to west. Under foot coarse, gritty, pebbly sand and gravel and rocks; 011 all sides giant, gaunt, oddly shaped cactus growths that seem to thrive upon the ozone in the atmosphere rather than upon anything in the pumicedry, sterile soil. Little bunch-like growths, never green, stunted bushes of a desert species, afford the ouly shade to the timid rabbits and squirming, ugly toads, lizards. Gila monsters and poisonous snakes that crawl over Hits dismal plain. Day and night there reigns n ghastly, chaotic - tifence, unbroken, solemn, all-pervading. Verily, a country- cursed of God himself—devoid of promise—barren of agricultural possibilities, except in extreme* ly limited localities, Intended by nature to lip/lu unproductive idleness for ali time. This is uot a description of some one bad section, but of the whole monotonous expanse of country stretching for scores of weary miles hcan endless succession of reaches, liogsbncks, arroyas, dr/ lake* aud rugged, forbidding, terrible mountain ranges—a Titanic synonym for sterility. Here, then, are to be located the ‘homesteads” of prospeotire settlers. As trfell offer a stone to a starving beggar, for not one In fifty of thoee who will make the ran in June will draw aught hat bitter disappointment, coupled with hardships untold and unimaginable.

recently completed by Wi 11 tic l) ag o County to commemorate tlie deeds of valor of soldiers and ■sailors who enlisted from this county in 1801-5. In the presence of 31UMH) people the President unfurled the flag over the building. President Roosevelt ami party arrived in Freeport at S o'clock and immediately afterward were-driven to the site of tiie LincolnDouglas debate in 1858, where a mon-

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Napoleon Bonaparte began fitting out an expedition for the invasion of England. The American secretary of legation at Stockholm was expelled from the country because he had interested many prominent Swedish citizens in the introduction of free masonry. The Spanish census reported 257,000 free white men in the colony of Havana, Cuba, and 450,000 slaves. The total settled area of the United States was 805,708 square miles, with 5,500,000 population, against a total area of 3,025,600 square miles at tlie present time, exclusive of Alaska, and a population of 76,000,000. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. The Secretary of the Treasury subscribed for 10,000 shares of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company on the ground that it was n “favorite scheme” of George Washington. Hundreds of persons were reported en route to North and South Carolina as the result of gold discoveries In those States. Spain began a policy of commercial exclusion by imposing a duty of $8 *1 barrel on flour imported at Havana in other than Spanish ships. The discovery of over twenty sun spots was announced, tome of them being estimated at 50,000 miles in diameter. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, sole survivor of the signer* of tlie Declaration of Independence, was given the franking privilege by Congress. FIFTY YEARS AGO. The first passenger train between Syracuse and Rochester passed over the New York Central Railroad, ■ and work was begun on the first suspension bridga over the gorge of Niagara river. Turkey yielded to the demands of Austria and Russia and agreed to expel all political refugees from her territory. The register of the United States Treasury reported thnUCongress had appropriated $38,162,262 at its session just closed, or $13,987,262 more than President Fillmore had asked. FORTY YEARS AGO. The first plan for a railroad between St. Paul and Chicago was announced by Perry H. Smith and Ira Y Munn. Tlie New York Central Railroad announced that “Mr. W. Wagner, superintendent of sleeping cars,” had invented the most luxurious car ever built, which had two separate staterooms. Illinois coal Operators met at Bt. I,outs and voted to send Louis Doehez to Belgium to procure the immigration of coal miners from that country because of the exorbitant wage demands of Americans. President Lincoln wns warned by Gen. Sebenck that an invasion of Pennsylvania was being planned by the army under Gen. Lee. The Confederate army commissioners offered to pay $4.50 a bushel for wheat, $4 for corn, $5 for potatoes, $5 a pound for salt, $22.50 a barrel for flour, $1 a pound for coffee and $lO a pound for tea. Tlie St. 1-ouis Board of Trad* chartered a steamer, loaded it with SI,OOO worth of fresh fruit and vegetables, and started it south to the wounded in Gen. Grant’s army around Vicksburg, Miss. * . THIRTY YEARS AGO. Ralph Waldo Emerson and his daughter* were welcomed to their new house in Concord by a procession of citizens and school children. Cuban insurgents attacked the town of Guanja and were repulsed by the Spanish garrison. Tlie Philadelphia centennial commissioners appealed to the States for contributions to a “full cabinet of minerals.” Gladstone declared that the American claims against Great Britain for damages by the Confederate ship Alabama were a “gigantic error.” The United States Court of Claims awarded $610,000 damages to British citizens for cotton which Gen. Sherman seis.-d at Savannah, Ga., during the Civil War. TWENTY YEARS AGO. Alexander 111. was crowned Emperor of Russia in the Kremlin at Moscow. Jay Gould aud Gen. U. S. Grant closed a contract with the Mexican government for the consolidation of the Mexican Central and Mexican Southern Railroads. Michael Fagan was hanged at Dublin for participation in the Phoenix Park murders. Gen. Crook was reported to have defeated a large force of Apache Indians in the Sierra Mqdre mountains of Mexico. The. New Y’ork and Brooklyn bridge was dedicated by President Chester A. Arthur, Gsv. Grover Cleveland and Mayor I^ow. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll made a sixday speech for the defense in the Star Route trial at Washington. TEN YEARS AGO. A bail was given for the Infanta Eulalia aud the Infaute Don Antonio of Spain by the Cireulo Colon-Cervautes at New York. The Presbyterian general assembly at Washington voted to try Prof. Briggs for heresy. Lord Salisbury In a speech at Belfast characterized Gladstone's Irish horns rula bill as aa “imteoils” measura.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELV TOLD. Aurora Mao Held for Two Krntat Murders--Heasville Mao Kills Himself on Wife’s Broken Shaft Causes Train Wreck, Harry Wheeler was indicted at Lawrencebnrg for a double murder at Aurora on March 18. Wheeler was arrested at Indianapolis. It is. charged that 011 March 18 Wheeler poured coal oil on Mrs. M. Schmidt of Aurora, then ignited her clothing with a match and hnnounccd that she burned to death accidentally. The same night the home of Thomas Johnson was burned and two weeks later the body of Johnson was found in the Ohio river with such marks*** to -show he had been murdered. Three Hart in Wreck. A broken driving shaft on the engine of a through freight, running at the rate of thirty-five nti|es an hour, resulted in the wreck of the engine at Shelbyvillo aud the injury of the engineer, Earl Nicholson, Fireman William llnpp and Drakoman Thomas King, whose condition is critical. The shaft pierced the call and struck the brakeman iit the back. The fireman jumped and was thrown fifty feet, tireaking an arm and otherwise injuring him. The engineer escaped with a few bruises. Simple Lends His Money. On information of John Simple, aged and feeble, Mrs. Ylattie Johnson, a boarding home keeper, was arrested at Kokomo on the charge of btitiko steering. Simple, whose home is in Chicago, was a lodger at the Johnson house. The woman is charged with obtaining various sums from Simple, at one time S2OO with which to obtain a divorce from an alleged cruel husband. An effort was made to secure $2,000 Simple bad in a local bank. Shoots Self on Wife's Grave. Despondent over hi* wife's death, which occurred last June, ex-Mayor George Slateihan of llessville visited her burial place and fired a bullet into his brain. lli*4body * was found lying upon his wife's grave. Slatemnn, who was a prosperous farmer, attributed much of his success to his wife. Since tlie day of her death, however, lie was a changed man. His temperament, once liappy and contented, 'became morose. He appeared to have lost nil interest in life. No children arc left. Indiana to Grow a Forest. Indiana lias purchased 2,000 acres in Clark County for a State forestry reserve. The clearing of tlie ground* of underbrush and dead trees will lie taken up at once. About 200 acres will be devoted to a nursery and trees of every variety known to the State will be grown from seeds. These trees are to be transplanted later at different parts of the State where their growth can be watched. Death Follows Graduation. A I.ogansport girl, who graduated from high school the other day, is dying and her father, James Morrison, is already dead as the result of a collision between their buggy and a street car. Both were thrown out of the buggy by the shock and the car mangled their bodies. State Items of Interest. is tlie owner of the Casino at French Lick. He is worth SIOO,OOO. A college for the Mennouite people o< the United States and Canada is to bo located at Goshen. Alexander Short, a lineman, was electrocuted by a live wire at Kokomo. Ha leaves a widow and twelve children. Mrs. Samuel Van Cleave of Kansas City was killed at Crawfordsville by junipiug from a carriage when she thought the horses were going to rug away. At Valparaiso Truman Beam entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of murdering Martha Lawrence. The defense secured a continuance until the September term. Because lie could not find a .-uitable housekeeper to care for hi* nine children, recently made motherless. I’eter Kansfield went to his wife’s grave at Hessville cemetery and shot out his brain*. George A. Homer, a young man living near Pleasant Mill*, while swimming with a brother and another companion, suddenly threw up hi* hands aud sank in eight feet of water. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental drowning. Farmers in Dearborn and adjoining counties are making a determined war upon negroes as a reisilt of the murder of Miss Anna Kaiser. Many families have been ordered to leave, ami negroes employed by farmers are being discharged. Indiana was- storm swept tlie other day. Four lives wen* lost aud over SJ,000,000 damage was done. The worst destruction was in the gas belt. Six faetories at Kokomo were partly wrecked, scores of buildings were blown from their foundations and partly destroyed and the eab from a passenger engine was biowu away while the train was at full speed. The loss in and about Kokomo is estimated at $200,000. Willie Black, aged 10, was killed at. Converse and Langford Ntephenson, a farmer at I.ogansport. by lightning. In the northern part of the State, there was heavy wind aud 'bail. At South Bend, Columbia City aud Chent* busco damage was done to wires, buildings and trees. Indianapolis suffered damage-to shade trees. Heavy hail fell. Evansville and other southern Indiana cities were visited by high winds with damage to trees and light buildings. Ira Dixon, a Wabash section hand, took refuge uuder a tree near Hamilton. The tree was blown down and it Crushed hint to death. Indiana was visited by a heavy storm and the damage will run into thousands of dollars. The principal damage was caused by lightning. Wind blew down large buildings at Lebanon, and at Elwood property worth $20,000 was do- ‘ etroyed. Roy Chenaweth. student in Do Pauw University, was drowned at Greencaatl*. while bathing in tbe river. He was exhausted and slipped from t companion's hands into twelve feet of water. Chettoweth’s parents lived at Union City until this spring, when they moved to Nevada. Mo.