Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1903 — Page 7

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts. Real Estate. Loan*. Will practice In all the courts. Office over Faa•dlC's Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, in, tin. mans and Real ism. RENSSELAER. IND. ■Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stairs west of Vanßensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The N. A. AC.Ry. and Rensselaer W.L. A P.Co. over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer. Indiana. V. M. Baughman. G. A. Williams. i 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 326. Rensselaer, - Indiana. ■J. F. 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, cast side of court house square. sunk volts. o. a. ariTLsa. massy s. sussis Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAWf Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Only set of Abstract Books in the aunty. 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 Bye, Bar. Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also testa eves for glasses. Ossies Tslssmoms No. 4*. Nssiosaoa Pmoms No. If. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Imes’ Millinery store. Rensselaer. Ossioa Pmoms ITT. Rssiobmos Pmoms, tie. Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICI AN ND SURGEON. Rensselaer, - • Indiana. Office up-stain in Fonythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night. Office and residence'phones. >O4 (Jasper Co.); also (Halleck) 43 at residence. . „ ——p-i ■ re: 1 1 - - . W. W. MERRILL, M. D. [Mlc Physician end sown, RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Chronic Disaasns a Specialty. Office 'Phone 308. Residence 'Phone 34S Dr. Francis Tnrfler. Dr. Anna Turfler, Drs. Turfler & Turfler, OSTEOPANHIC PHYSICIANS. Graduates American School of Osteopathy. 'Office over Harris Bank, Rensselaer, Ind. Houn: 9 to 12m; I to 4:80 p. m.

‘H. O. Harris, E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, President Vice-Fres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing .Certificates of Deposit issued on time. Ex* change 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. ' U H. L. Brown, W DENTIST. Office over Larsh’a drug store mmmm. Crown. Bar and Bridge \ Work. Teeth Without ZAp t/m . Plates, Without Pain. .. J. W. HORTON .. 18 YEARS lIS RKNSSKLAKR Teeth carefully stopped with gold and other ... fillings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Oas administered daily. Charges within the reaehof all. esmeo sr.oews oovwr wow. Morris’ EagfUh Worn Pewdtor ssaßtgßx&fflssrfiss per Sold by A. F. Long,

FARM AND GARDEN

STANDARD ARPLES. There: are several standard market apples, though not a long list. It Is surprising how nearly the majority of men agree as to which varieties make up this standard list. There are Spy, Greening, Baldwin, Ben Davis, King, Gravensteln, with possibly a few others. The list is short, and one would think that; with such rigorous selection, the surviving varieties ought to be prettly nearly perfect. Yet the fact is that every one who speaks of these leading varieties seems to feel It necessary to characterize each one byi its faults. Spy comes too late Into bearing. Ben Davis ha 3 no quality, Baldwin bears only every other year. Greening scalds badly, and King has an unhealthy tree. There is no ideal variety. Of course no one could expect that any possible variety would meet all requirements; but for the comparatively simple demands of the modern wholesale market it would seem as though one variety could be found which would come nearer perfection than any we yet know. If Ben Davis, for Instance, only had the quality of Spitzenburg or if Spitzenburg only had the thrift and prolificacy of Ben Davis, then we would be satisfied, we think. Progress in this matter is necessarily slow, but in the matter of securing the ideal market apple we have made less progress during recent years than the opportunities justify. The fact is, there has been comparatively little activity in the testing and introduction of new varieties during the last two decades. It has been unfashionable (as well as unprofitable) to bring out new sorts of apples. The apple growers have discovered that they cannot afford to be continually testing new apples; and the experiment stations have found that their limited tests were of small value to the commercial fruit grower. At the present time the apple market is rapidly changing; and one of the most fortunate signs of the change, as we view the situation, is that it is broadening the demand for fancy fruit. Smaller packages are being sought after, and special varieties, packed in special ways, find good customers. This will inevitably stimulate the growing of other varieties besides Ben Davis, Baldwin and Greening; and as the field is extended, new varieties will be coming to the front.

Spitzenburg is looked upon as being the acme of quality in our markets. It is especially a desert fruit, suitable for*eating out of band. It is difficult to grow, however, and even with the best care it will not succeed in all localities. A few men of our acquaintance are now making special efforts to produce this noble apple, and are applying to the problem all the best means known to modern practice. They are top-working the scions in well-known trees in order to overcome the susceptibility of the trees to disease, and they are giving the best of pruning and spraying. Spy is almost as good an apple as Spitzenburg. In cooking it is as good as Spitzenburg. For apple pies or for baking the Spy cannot be beaten. In most ways the Spy is a more satisfactory apple to handle on the market. According to our observation of this variety in many parts of the country it seems certain that it is very fastidious as to soil and climate. It succeeds in northern latitudes and at high elevations, being particularly fine in r certain localities in Vermont and Maine. But even In the same locality it will succeed on one farm and fail on the next one. Just what determines these latter differences cannot now be said; perhaps we shall know some time. Though Spy has the reputation of beng a shy and irregular bearer, we know of a few stuations where it proves to be notably regular and pro-lific.-These are the places, also, where the form, color, and quality are unsurpassed. Greening has suffered in reputation badly of late years because it does not handle well in the new methods of cold storage. It scalds worse than any other variety. The scald was practically an unknown, or at least an unnoticed, disease, ten years ago; but now it is one of the troubles which the fruit storage'\men feel most keenly. In spite of the fact that it does not have a red skin, Greening holds it popularity with the consumers in remarkable fashion. Baldwin has been overdohc in some parts of the country, and is apparently waning in favor. It is not of high quality, and its biennial habit of bearing is against it Yet it is unquestionably one of the most profitable varieties known, particularly in New England. Gravenstein seems to be enjoying a temporary boom, owing to the fact that autumn apples have been comparativeyl profitable for the last three years. It is certanly one of the beet varieties of its season, especially as grown in Massachusetts, Maine and Nova Scotia. King requires top-working, high culture, careful prunfng and thorough spraying. Even with these provisions It Is sot a heavy cropper. Its fine sise, color and quality, however, make It a favorite with consumers; and when It is properly put on the market, It brings good prices.—Albany Country

THE LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. Clover is the chief crop upon which the farmer relies for improving or maintaining the fertility of his land.Other crops are sometimes substituted, but never with such good effect as clover. There are many ways, however, in making use of clover as an iifiprover of the soil, which are attended with different degrees of benefit, and while much depends upon the locality, distance from market, etc.,, there are certain principles which are alike applicable to all cases. The roots of clover are the most important part of the plant, so far as the improvement of the land is concerned, not that the tops are any less valuable (as there are many other plants which for bulk and quick growth above ground may be said to excel It), but which when turned under with the view of improving the land, are far less beneficial in their effects. Buckwheat, for instance, has a much more rampant growth of top, but the effects of this when turned under, are not near as good as those of clover, for the reason that buckwheat and such annuals do not penetrate the sub-soil and bring up therefrom and deposit near the surface the mineral matter contained therein, which is so essential to the successful growth of plants, their growth being due only to what the roots take from the ordinary surface soils. In other words, the roots of the clover plant bring up fertilizing matter from the deeper sub-soil, which the roots of buckwheat and such other annual plants cannot reach. Clover should never be turned under until it has reached its largest growth, as well below as above ground. For this reason the old practice of plowing it under when in bloom ia objectionable, for, although the growth of the stem and leaf is then at its minimum, the roots have not then completed their growth. But by cutting the first crop, a second growth is the sooner induced, which, although much less in amount, secures an enormous increase in the growth of the roots, thereby placing it in the best condition for turning under. The better way, then, to secure the full benefit of clover in the improvement of the soil, is to allow it two full seasons of growth before turning it under, as the plant is biennial, more*or less of the roots dying out at the end of the second year, thus causing the weeds to spring up and take their place, leaving the after condition of the field as a damaging offset to any good effected by the growing of the clover, but when the first of the second year’s crop is taken off, the second starts so soon, and makes so strong a growth as to completely smother the weed. It has been demonstrated that a clover sod is the more valuable as a fertilizer after it has been used for two seasons a 3 hay, as the roots will then attain their full development and be richest in fertilizing elements. What the farmer who wishes to avail himself of the full advantage of this crop should do is to turn the sod under when full of roots, preparatory to putting the land in corn and wheat, or corn, oats and wheat, as the case may be, and then seed down to clover again. Cut the clover two years for hay, or pasture It, which is nearly the same thing, then plough under the sod as before, and so on, turning under good clover sod every three or four years until the land is completely renovated, applying at the same time wherever barnyard manure can be spared to hasten the process.—Philadelphia Record.

HOW MANY HENS PER MAN?

Nine fanners out of ten are interested in poultry raising and realize that they ought to make more money from them than they are doing. The trouble seems to be that they cannot understand how the proceeds of a number of hens will pay a man to give the bulk of his time to their care, the argument being that one can not care for a sufficient number of fowls to give him an income which would pay. This depends entirely upon the man. Some men can care properly for 1,500 or more fowl*, while other men could not take cate of 300 as they should be cared for. The writer has had at various times, on the colony plan, from 800 to 2,000 fowte and all of the work of caring for them was done by one man, except the preparation of eggs for market and the daily trip to town for the purpose of shipping eggs and fowls to the city market. This work was done in from nine to ten hours daily according to the number of birds in hand. This is less than the average farmer labors during six months of the year and the work is not as hard as that which the farmer must perform. With proper buildings conveniently located, with experience in feeding and general care of houses and birds, it is safe to say that an energetic man with the help Of the woman of his household in preparing the eggs for maket, can readily care for 800 or more hens the year through and this number ought to give him a verv fair return for his time and investment. —Indianapolis News. The fellow who can’t make a living can always be depended on to make excuses.

USES OF FRUITS

Often More Useful Than Prescription* of Physician?* Many of our common fruit* are Juat as useful and much nicer than doctors' prescriptions. The apple, for Instance. Not only Is the apple an excellent purifier of the blood, but It Is a jcure for dysentery, and has also the effect of restoring an intoxicated person to sobriety. A diet of stewed apples, eaten thr?e times a day. has worked wonders _ln cases of confirmed drunkenness, giving the patient an absolute distaste for alcohol In any form. The pineapple Is another fruit most valuable in throat affections. Indeed, It has saved many a life of a diphtheretlc patient. The juice squeezed from a ripe pine is the finest thing In the world for cutting the funguslike membrane which coats the throat In diphtheria, and is used in time never fails to cure. After a severe attack of Influenza the throat Is often relaxed and the tonsils painful. An old-fashioned remedy still In use In many parts of the west of England Is a conserve of roses. This is a sort of jam made from the hipa of the common wild rose. It Is not unpleasant in taste and certainly possesses strongly astringent properties. To eat a grape a minute for an hour at a time, and to repeat this performance three or four times a day, eating very little else meantime but dry bread, may seem a monotonous way of spending the time. This treatment works wonders for thin, nervous, anemic people whose digestions have got out of order from worry or overwork. It Is no mere quack prescription, but a form of cure recognized and advised by many well-knewn physicians. Grapes are, perhaps, the most digestible of any fruit in existence. A cordial made from the blackberries Is greatly recommended by the Devonshire country folk as a cure for colic, and many a farmer's wife makes blackberry cordial as regularly as elderberry wine. The latter, heated and mixed with a little cinnamon. Is one of the best preventives known against < chill. The flowers, too, of the elder come in useful. An ointment made by layering them in mutton suet and olive oil is soothing in ease of boils. Nowadays doctors forbid gouty pationts to eat any kind of sweet foods, but recommend them to eat at lehst a dozen walnuts a day. There is no doubt that walnuts are most useful to gouty subjects, or In cases of chronic rheumatism. Swelling goes down and pain decreases.—London Answers.

Worried by His Secret.

“A few weeks ago,” confessed a man, “I became engaged to quite the most fascinating member of her sweet sex, but instead of being—a* I ought to have been—the happiest lover in Chicago, I have been living ever since on thorns. The truth is, my conscience, such as is left of it, was uneasy, for before putting my fate to the test I omitted to tell the lady of my love that she was not the first idol who had been enshrined in my heart—in other words, I had been engaged before. “Ever since I won her promise to be mine I felt that I should have no peace until I broke the dreadful secret to her, but how I dreaded to do It! Many a time the confession trembled on my lips, but it stopped at the tremble. At length, driven desperate, I forced it out, and it sounded all the more dreadful for its long Imprisonment. "In an agony of suspense I awaited my doom. It came at last In this form. First she looked at me in an amused way; then, to my astonishment she burst Into a peal of laughter—sweet silvery laughter—and then, when she had recovered sufficiently, she said: ‘ls that really all? Why, you silly boy, I have been engaged three times before ever I saw you!* ’’—Chicago Tribune

A Bridge of Coffins.

One of the most curious bridges ever built perhaps unique In the history of the world, was that made by the British troops In China in 1860. They were marchng on Pekin, but found their progress barred by a flooded river of considerable width and depth. A timber party was formed, but found nothing to cut down or borrow suitable for a bridge. At last a huge store of coffins was discovered In the village, and with these the Tommies built their bridge and crossed alive over the receptacles for the dead.

An Ant's Great Strength.

A. R. Miller recently weighed a small ant and a dead grasshopper, which it yvas dragging to Its nest The weight of the grasshopper was found to be sixty times greater than that of the ant The force exerted by the ant in dragging the grasshopper along the road was therefore proportionately equal to that of a man weighing 150 pounds, pulling a load of four and a half tons, or a horse of 1,200 pounds a load of thirty-six tons.

Too Curious.

“There is never any uncertainty where I stand." said the speaker at the ward meeting. “I am • stalwartl” Whereupon the Httlf man with a squeaky voice half arose; and, patting his hand to Ifts ear, inquired: “What kind of a wart?”—Kansas City Journal.

The Merry-Go-Round.

Sidney—When I owe a man |5 I pay it as fast as I can. Rodney—That's kind. Sidney—Yes; he might owe $6 —to some nun who owes me $3. —Detroit Free Press.

Confession.

He—Did you think I would propose to-night? S£e— I didn't dare

PULSE of the PRESS

The flood poetry is yet to come.—Topeka State Journal. In the case of the presidential insect it should rend. "How doth the little buzzy bee.”.—Washington Post. The Russian government’s hatred of newspaper publicity is worthy of darkest Pennsylvania.—Portland Argus. If we once get started killing off the imbeciles, it would be almost impoesiblo to draw the. line.—Detroit News. The papers have room for an item about Kipling’s latest poem, but not for the poem itself.—Brooklyn Standard Union. The Philippines have been swept by a hurricane, but we susiwet that there is a lot of dirt in the odd corners yet. — Baltimore News.

The Servian parliament is called the Skuptchina. Pronounce it what you please; the Press pronounces it a Rumpski. —Dayton Press. Explorations in the Postofflee Department show the presence of rich deposits Of something closely resembling “alum.” —Kansas City Times.. The arbitration germ is doing well, considering the backward season, but is still a pygmy compared with the strike mi-crobe.-—Washington Post. It will undoubtedly be safer for the new King of Servia to remain in Geneva and do his reigning by long-distance telephone.—Detroit Free Press. That large projection discovered on Mars may lx- our press muzzier. It got away from these parts in most extraordinary haste.—Philadelphia Press. Isn’t it lucky that the trees have the longest and most pliable shoots just at the season when the children are at home for idle holidays?—Atlanta Journal. The burning of the Monte di Pieta at Naples is something calaniitousl Pawnbroking is one of the leading industries of southern Italy.—Boston Herald. It is not rain that is making Wal) street so sloppy underfoot. It is merely the water the market is squeezing out of trust securities. —New York World. The shipbuilding trust is being reorganized. It was found that two or three hundred per cent of water was too much for it to float in.—New Haven Union.

One of the Kentucky feudists has beeD captured and jailed, but it is suspected that the troubles won’t end until Old Bourbon is finally jugged.—Milwaukee News. Abdul Haniid is in an embarrassing position. He can fight Bulgaria all he wants to, but the powers will not permit him to whip her.—SL Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. Some of the platform builders will doubtless view with alarm too much irrigation in the West without the consent of the irrigated.—Richmond Times-Dis-patch. Before the press of Pennsylvania gets through with Gov. Pennypacker he will be worse disfigured than he has ever been by the cartoonists. —Memphis Com-mercial-Appeal. The powerful influence of the President during his western trip is demonstrated by the floods which have followed his eloquent talks on irrigation.—lndianapolis News. With all meat products at present high prices, what consolation is it to the farmer to read that cotton is worth 10 eesnta a pound when he has none? —Montgomery Advertiser. An exchange says “No woman ever boasted of being born in a log cabin.” No man does either until he gets into a brownstone front. Newport News Times-Herald. A newspaper epigrammatist says: “Every wife is the architect of her own husband.” Then she shouldn’t be too severe on the edifice when she botches the job.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Now that arrangements are being made to prevent the Filipinos from buying opium, we shall probably not freceive vo many pipe stories from the islands.—lndianapolis News.' The first politician to test that new Pennsylvania libel law seems to be a little backward about coming forward and securing the incidental advertising. —Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Germany is complaining again about American tariff discriminations. As long as they refuse to eat our pork, we are justified in knowing what they put in their sausage.—Washington Poet. If Gov. Pennypacker does not get “drawn and quartered” by the Pennsylvania press he seeks to muzzle, he may thank his stars for being born lucky instead of pretty.—Atlanta Journal. Woriian suffrage is defeated in New Hampshire. It will win everywhere when the women of the country want it to succeed. The men are not unfavorable of their own accord.—Buffalo News. Observant and scholarly Frenchman who has been here looking us over ax a nation says the dollar has no majesty for Americans. That’s awfully nice, unless the observant and scholarly one is jollying us.—New York Telegram. Miss Alice Snyder, an expert on the subject, says that "thorough exercise makes the more perfect woman.” It la a pity thiit some of the portraits of the female all around athletes don’t seem to bear out this theory.—New York Evening Sun. A German physician has revived the bee sting cure for rheumatism, and describes the case of a patient who after being stung 6,962 times experienced a complete cure. And yet there are people who prefer to believe in mental healing.— Boston Globe. » . The agitation in the anthracite region has not yet sobsided. \\ ith so many vexations disputes to arrange the settlement of all cannot be made at once. Bat there is no prospect of any serious trouble. That long row has taught wisdom to both sidea.—Philadelphia Item. A New Jersey court hat decided that a married woman cannot under the laws of the State bring suit for the alienation of hsr husband’s affections. This is a bint to girls thinking of marriage to learn to cook well. That is the way to hold a husband’s affections. —Philadelphia

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAST WEEK. y*— ■ i Pome Capture* Mutilated Man Sap* poeed to H« Robber—Girl Attempts to Imitate Snake Eater—Fight on Putting Up Pole* in Elkhart Street*. Lying in a ditch by the Midland Railroad tracks at Jolietville a man giving t.he name of George Marvin was found wit If his right arm blown off at the socket. He is supposed to be a safe robber from Chicago, and. it is thought, met with the accident by dropping a bottle of nitroglycerin with which he intended to blow open the strong box in a store at Jolietviile. Citizens of the town heard an explosion about 3:30 o’clock in the morning, and in the rear of the only store in the village a man's arm was found. A trail of blood was followed past the Midland depot and down the tracks about a quarter of a mile. At the approach of the posse a man was teen to spring from the ditch where the wounded robber lay and run toward a strip of woods. The injured man refused to tell how the accident befell him, but admitted his name was Marvin, and said he was from Chicago. Ilia companion, lie-said, was George Hunt. The village marshal, after finding the arm, took charge of the injured man.

Kokomo Trio Heirs to $150,000. Mrs. Bertha Ellis, a young widow working as a waitress in a restaurant at Kokomo, has, with her two brothers, Clem and Rufus Laudrum, also of that place, fallen ‘heir to $150,000 through the death seventeen years ago of their greatgrandfather, C. C. Mobery of Anderson, Tenn. The heirs had never before heard of a great-grandfather. They are children of the late Thomas Laudrum and will receive $150,000, mostly in Tennessee real estate. The discovery of the heirs was the result of fifteen years’ search. Tries to Eat Live Snakes. Alice Fairchild, aged 12 years, of Logansport, tried to eat a dozen live snakes in emulation of a circus performer and is in a precarious condition as a result of numerous snake bites inflicted by the snakes, which objected to being eaten alive. Alice was taken by her parents to .see a Riiake eater who appeared in Logansport at a carnival. Thursday her brother caught a dozen small snakes and the girl tried to eat them. She was found in convulsions, with the snakes wriggling about her body. She will recover. Forbidden to Fetl Poles. After the city council had ordered the street commissioner and police force to tear down the poles of the Elkhart Electric Company on Crawford street, Elkhart, because put there without permission and against the residents’ wishes, the company secured a restraining order against the city. A bitter fight is expected, as the poles in question have been erected for the purpose of bearing the power wires from the $1,000,000 dam being built teu miles west. Belle a Hog fer $15,700. At a sale in Macy 198 hogs were sold. The highest price was $15,700 for Ideal Sunrise, sold to a stock company of ten men by Mine Lukens of Disco. Sunrise took the first prize at the Chicago world’s fair in 1893. It was a record breaker for Poland China sales.

State Items of Interest. A firebug i.s loose in Terre Haute. Creditors of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Coal Company of Brazil filed application for the appointment of a receiver. John W. Bradford, farmer near Columbus, while feeding hici stock, was seized with a violent coughing spell and died within an hour. William Bruner of- Ohio Falls was struck by a west-bound mail train on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad at Georgia and instantly killed. Missie 163, the imported shorthorn cow that won second prize at the international stock show at Chicago last year, died at the Burnbrae farm, near Delphi. E. W. Bowen was her owner. Six-year-old Harold Walters of Elkhart got hold of a flask half filled with gunpowder, poured some of the contents on the walk and touched a match to it. He may lose the sight of both eyes. John MeXairy, a Terre Haute street car motorman, discovered his wife with Elmer Field, a railway brakemail, and shot both of them. Field’s wounds are fatal, but the woman probably will recover.

At Shefbyville the jury in the case of John Maston Ituddell, for causing the wreck of a Big Four passenger train May 20. returned a verdict of guilty and he was sentenced for an indeterminate period of from two to fourteen years. After a meeting of creditors of the DeKalb & McClellan bank of Waterloo, at which the late manager of the bank, former Mayor Garwood, had been warned not to leave the county until affairs had been settled up, the latter at once left the city. Daniel A. Gillespie, a Logunsport councilman, was arrested on a grand jury indictment charging bribery in connection with the recent interurban franchise war. Councilman Boyer also was arrested charged with breaking a quorum of the council.

Vice-President Boyles of the United Mfcie Workers revoked the dinners of three local unions at I.inton. There is much excitement and a riot was narrowly averted following President Boyles’ announcement. Three hundred and fifty men, or all the employes jof the Island Coal Company’s mine No. 2, went on strike because the superintendent discharged a man for loading “dirty coal.’ v „ which is a violation of the agreement. The matter will be arbitrated. Alvine Brown, wife of Albert H. Brown of Indianapolis, who is well known in the sporting world, was granted a decree of absolute divorce and $lO,000 alimony. The defendant’s property is valued at SIOO,OOO. Brown owns tho Casino at French Lick Springa. Samuel Davidson, a saloonkeeper at Metcalf, shot Ed Van Sickle, a pugilist, four times while the latter was pounding Benjamin Davidson, the saloonkeeper’s brother, with a brick on a street in that town. Sickle is said te be dying. Davidson went to Paris and gava SM VOQJooi.