Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — Page 3

“Fifteen gallons of l iSc iiays the Monarch man, “heat^VJlgßftf/y < jLST| quickly in the Monarch en- J i*jg|J f T illlt I /If cased reservoir. The tank is of 1 |w|l|y A i SBa yif copper, coated inside with pure I ggpßg a rMß=~y2j block tin. The casingsurround- 1 Jl I ing is open at the bottom. No sweat nor drip; no damper complications. I* cannot affect the oven if filled with cold water. 1 TO INTENDING PURCHASERS ONLY Postal Card ns for our new booklet, "Hints for Range Buyers or how HS to cut kitchen work in two.” It’s worth reading. If you State about how JffiSL-soon you expect to purchase a range, we will send you Free a Toy Monarch EVJ Range, 6 inches high, 6J4 inches wide, 2)4 inches front to back. Address WT MALLEABLE IRON RANGE COMPANY, formerly of B*. Louis. Mm) / 191 Lake st. BXATIB DAM. W»

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office oygt Fen(tiff's Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. r_ 1 Judson J. Hunt, un. mm, lams and Real tsue. RENSSELAER. IND. Office up-stairs In Leopold block, first stairs west of Vanßensselaer street. f , *• jtr.M. Baughman. G. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams, j ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. 1 Law. Notary work, Loans, Real Estate and Insurance, bpecia* attention given to collections of all kinds. Office over “Racket Store. 'Phone 839. Rensselaer, Indiana. i . War. B. Austin. Arthur H. Hopkins. Austin & Hopkins, iLuw, Loans and Real Estate. ! Loans on farms and City property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, Mil and rent farms and city property. Parm and city fire Insurance. Attorneys for American Building. Loan and Saving* Association, Office over Chicago Departtueot Store, i RENSSELAER, IND. 9. Irwin S.C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. boUeettona, Farm Loans and Flra Imuran**. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RBNSSBLAK&, INDIANA. ( _____________ R. W. Marshall, * ATTORNEY AT LAW. [ Practices in all courta. Special attention given to drawing up wills and aettilng decedent’s esutes. Office In coonty building, {east aide of court house square. *uua* bolts. o. e. serua «*««» a. aeaaae v Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Socoessors to Thompson A BnJ I attorneys at law. i Law. Beal Estate. Insurance Absracts and Loan*. Only set of Abstract Books In the P 0 RENSSELAER. IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, • Indiana. i Law, Real Estate, Collections, Insurance giH Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand 1 . brs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, , Physicians & Surgeons. !Dr. L B. Washburn will give special attention 7to Dieeases of the Eye. Ear, Nose. Throat I and Chronic Diseases. Ha also testa avsa for glasses. Ormos Taunton* No. AS. ( Nssioti.cs Phsti No. S 7. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. : E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. pffiea over lines’ Millinery More. Rensselaer. Ootoi Pmoss try. Rtaieano* Psstt, tin. Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Rensselaer, Indiana. I Office up-stain tu Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night Office ana residence ’phones, ao* (Jasper Co.); also (Halleck) 43 st residence. W. W. MERRILL, M. D. Hectic Ptiysscian odd sun, RENSSELAER. • INDIANA. Chronlo Dlaaaaes a Specialty. Office 'Phone 80S. Residence 'Phoneß4B Pr. Francis Turfler. Dr. Anna Turfler. * Drs. Turfler & Turfler, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS. > Graduates American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank, Rensselaer. Ind. Hours: 8 toUm; 1 to 4:80 p.m. » - _ PLENTY OF EMS Aai mm p_« '

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 ami Sold on principal cities, Notes Discounted at current rates, Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. We Solicit a Share of Year Business. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF RENSSELAER, (NOAddison Psrkison, Pres. John M. Wasson. Vice Pres. K. L. Hollingsworth, Cashier IUCCSSTOR TO TH« BUTISIH U TMS COM MS SC lAT OTATO tank. Opened March 3, 1908. at the old location. NORTH SIDE PUBLICSQUARB. A general banking business transacted; deposits reoeived. payable on time or on demand. M oney loaned on acceptable security; Drafts on all cities at home and abroad bought and sold. Collection of notes and accounts a specialty. 9 per cant farm loans. Your Business Solicited.

H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drag store jIHCINJIHIM. Crown, Bar and Bridge A Work. Teeth Without nr 1 Plates. Without Pain. .. J. W. HORTON .. IS YEARS IN RENSSELAER Teeth carefully stopped with gold and other filling*. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Get administered daily. Chargee within th* re*oh of all. tmea oeroarr* cottar house. Attention Farmers Why remain in the North and stay in doors six months in the year consuming what you raise during the next six months. Go South Where you ean work out doors every month in the yeas, and where you are producing something the year round. If you are a stock raiser you know your stock are now “eating their heads off' and, besides, have to be protected from the rigors of winter by expensive shelter. Economical stock feeding reJuires the*combination of both esh-focprfng and fat-forming fqods in certaiu proportions. Alabama and Florida produce in abundance the velvet bean and cassava, the first a flesh i. producer and the latter a fat producer, and they are the cheapest and best fattening materials known to the world. .» More money can be made ■ and with less labor, in general farming, fruit and berry growing and truck gardening along our road in the South than in any other section in the Union. If you are interested and desire further information on the subject address G. A. PARK, Gen'l Immigrations! and Industrial Agt, Louisville & Nashville R.R. Co. Louisville, Ky. 60 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE : JSB I V L J J Y L Jm. «§ ” fill j i IDL «I■■ k ■ ] s ffip "j s ’ ■ * Trade Marks Anyone feeding a sketch mod description may SHSHSSfefco&sssa ■eat free. Oldeet tgeocy for eecnttogpetenta. Patent* taken through Mann * Co. receive §peeUU notice, without clnf|B, In tbs Scientific Hnwricati. A handsomely Uluitrsted weekly. lanreat rirculatlon newfdeelCTa erne report en pnientnuiiity, ror pw dooz, . -- . -j

LOOTED OF MILLIONS.

■furrow 3 REPORT ON POSTAL FRAUDB MADE PUBLIC. V 1 Postal Scandal Inquiry Bhost* to Involve Parry A Heath—Grave Frauds Found Trusted Men Help Swindling Games—Roosevelt’s Comments. The report of J. L. Bristow, fourth Assistant Postmaster General, on th* postal fraud investigation, with a memo-

PERRY s. HEATH.

tha frauds have been going on since 1893 and the evidence shows that the Arnold concern alone profited illegally to the extent of $3,000,000. Perry Heath, who waa first Assistant Postmaster General under McKinley, is severely scored by Bristow. Reference is mad* to Heath’s alleged connection with the Doremus Coseeling Machine Company. On this point the report says: “The organised Aug. 8, 1899, and capitalized for SIOO,OOO, divided into 1,000 shares of SIOO each. Of the 1,000 shares 250 were reserved for treasury stock, the remaining threefourths being owned equally by Doramus, Truesdell and the firm of Dudley & Michenen. • • • “When Interviewed by tho inspectors Truesdell stated that before the second order on June 30, 1900, was given for 100 machines, Green told him he had transferred to Perry _S. Heath, first Assistant Postmaster* General, $20,000 worth of his stock in cfgisideration of receiving an order for not less than 800 machines. “Truesdell states that he contributed $5,000 worth of stock to Green as his share of the amount given Heath. H* also stated that Doremus transferred $5,000 worth of his stock in the same manner. Doremus denies any knowledge of the stock having been given to Heath, but states that he did contribute fifty shares, par value $5,000, to Green to bs used for the best interests of th* comBny. Doremus admits that Truesdell Id him subsequently that the stock was to be transferred to Heath in consideration of receiving a large order for machines.” In concluding this feature of th* report Mr. Bristow says: “Heath refused

to make a written statement, but said verbally to Inspector Simmons that he never received any stock from tha Doremus Canceling Machine Company or any remuueration of any kind, directly or indirectly.” Evidence against Heath, Mr. Bristow says, was laid before the grand jury,

but it was not sufficient to Indict. Kevlewa the Investigation. Mr. Bristow in reviewing the investigation says: “More than forty inspectors have been employed upon this work, some of them continuously every day since the investigation began. The records of 1,000 postoffices have been examined, and the files of many divisions of tiie department, covering a period of from six to ten years, scrutinized. “The system of organized corruption that haa been disclosed began in 1893 and continued until stopped by this investigation. The amount of money secured by the corrupt officials and their confederates is small as compared to the total loss to the government. “To illustrate: Barrett received only $6 ,000 from Arnold, yet that company I defrauded the people out of over $3,000,000. a “Machen probably did not receive more than $26,000 from the Gross fastener. Yet the government has paid approximately $130,000 for that device, which represents a net loss, since the department, continued by th’e terms of the contract for letter boxes, to pay for the original fasteners. “Beavers and his associates received less than $20,000 from the automotic cashier. Yet the department expended $74,275 for this wholly unnecessary machine. “The total amount that the perpetrators of these frauds themselves received cannot be definitely learned, but it will aggregate between $300,000 and $400,000, while the loss to the government, considering the unnecessary supplies that have been purchased and th* Inferior quality of those furnished by fraudulent contractors, cannot be estimated with any degree of accuracy. "Aa the gross abuses have been

PERTINENT PERSONAL;

Henry Sanger Snow has resigned the presidency of the Brooklyn polytechnic Institute. The Her. Dr. Lnther F. Beecher, cousin of the late Henry Ward Beecher, died at Boston recently. Dr. J. Wilson Swan, inventor of the incandescent electric light, haa just entered his 76th year. The Astors are gradually disposing of their real estate holdings in the tenement district of New York. Dr. Edward Everett Hale in a recent lecture said that women must shoulder the musket in order to achieve equal suffrage.,’ i. W. Lamar, who claimed to be the last surviving schoolmate of Abraham .Lincoln, is dead at Buffaloville, Ind., aged 85. Lieut Gov. Guild of Massachusetts has added a full set of Filipino dagger* of quaint design to M* collection es

randum by President Roosevelt on its contents, has been mads public. In his memorandum President Roosevelt declares his purpose to see that every guilty man, not ahielded by the statute of limitations, is brought to justice. Mr. Bristow says

JAMES N. TYNER.

brought to light they have been promptly corrected by the proper departmental officers. Contracts where fraud baa been discovered have been annulled. “An n result of tbs investigation four officers and employes of th* department have, resigned and thirteen have been removed. Forty-fonr indictments have been found, Involving thirty-one persons, ten of whom have been connected with the postal service.” Praise for Bristow's Work. President Roosevelt, in commenting on the inquiry, says: “Mr. Bristow’s report Is n record of as thorough a bit of investigating work as haa ever been done under the government” Continuing, the President says: "No crime calls for sterner reprobation than the crime of the corruptionist in public life, and of the man who seeks to corrupt him. The bribe giver and the bribe taker are equally guilty. Both alike sin against the primary law of the State’s safety. All questions of difference in party policy sink into insignificance when the people of tliis country are brought face to face with a question like this, which lies at the root of honest and decent government. “On this question, and on all others like it, we can afford to have no division among good citizens. In the last resort good laws and good administration alike must rest upon the broad basis of sound public opinion. A dull public conscience, an eaay-going acquiescence in corruption, Infallibly means debasement in public life, and such debasement in the end means the ruin of free institutions. Selfgovernment becomes a farce if the representatives of the people corrupt others or are themselves corrupted. Freedom is not a gift which will tarry long in the hands of the dishonest or of those so foolish or so incompetent as to tolerate dishonesty in their public servants. Under our system all power comes from the peopfe, and all punishment rests ultimately with the people. The toleration of the wrong, not the exposure of the wrong, is the real offense.” The President refers to tho case of Perry Heath in a sentence as follows: “The case of ex-Firet Assistant Postmaster General Heath, who had left the service July 31, 1900, Is set forth In the report of Mr. Bristow.” The President severely scores Tyner, Machen and Beavers, who, he says, are the chief offenders. He approves the recommendation of Attorneys Conrad and Bonaparte that the statute of limitations be extended to a period of at least five years.

List of Indicted Official*. Included In the President’s memorandum is the following list of persons implicated in the frauds, with the action of the government in each case: James N. Tyner, Assistant Attorney-Gen-eral for Poetofflce Department; appointed Special Agent Postofflce Department March 7, 1861; with Intervals of a few years has been In the service ever since and was Postmaster-General under President Grant for several months; he was removed April 23, 1003; he has since been Indicted three times. A. W. Machen, General Superintendent Free Delivery System; appointed clerk In poetofflce at Toledo, Ohio, March 1, 18871 continuously In service ever since save for three years; removed May 27, 1903; has since been Indicted fourteen times. George W. Beavers, General Superintendent of Salaries and Allowances; appointed to clerkship In New York Postofflce January, 1881; continuous service ever since; resignation accepted to take effect March 81, 1903; has since been Indicted eight times. James T. Metcalf, Superintendent MoneyOrder System; appointed Postofflce Inspector Feb. 2, 1882; has been In postal service ever since; removed June 17, 1903; has been Indicted bnce. Daniel V. Miller, Assistant Attorney, Postofflce Department; appointed July 1, 1902; removed May 25, 1903; Indicted once; after one mistrial was retired and acquitted. Louis Kempner, Superintendent Registry System; appointed clerk In New York Postofflce August, 1886; removed Oct. 21, 1903. Charles Hedges, Superintendent of City Free Delivery Service: appointed Assistant Superintendent Free Delivery Service July 1, 1898; removed July 22, 1903. James W. Erwin, Assistant Superintendent Free Delivery Service; appointed Postoffice Inspector June 27, 1887; removed Sept. 16, 1903; Indicted once. W. Scott Towers, Superintendent Station C, Washington, D. C.; appointed clerk Washington Postofflce November, 1800; removed Oct. 1, 1903; Indicted three times. Otto F. Weis, Assistant Superintendent Registry Division, New York Postofflce: appointed clerk New York Postofflce June, 1890; removed Oct. 21, 1903. T. W. McGregor, clerk Free Delivery Division, In charge of supplies; appointed Postofflce Department, March 11, 1891; removed June 5, 1903; Indicted twice. C. E. Upton, clerk Free Delivery Division; appointed July l.bWOO; removed June 5, 1903; Indicted once. M. W. Louis, Superintendent Supply Division; appointed Kansas City Postofflce April 17, 1&7: removed Oct. 21, 1908. Charles B. Terry, clerk Supply Division; Sept. 20, 1900; removed Oct. 21, A number of outsiders were also indicted. Heath on the Report. When Perry S. Heath had read the report of Mr. Bristow and the comments of the President, he said: “It is no surprise to me to see the denunciation of me in this report. Tie author of it, from the time he entered the Postofflce Department up to the present moment, has, in his official capacity, pursued me personally, in season and out, as every one who has been in public life In Washington during the past six years knows. Innuendo is artfully contrived and malice ill-concealed throughout the entire document.”

S. W. Nichols of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal has donated SIO,OOO for a public park in his town. W. T. Swingle has returned to Washington after a study of plants in the regions about the Mediterranean. James Putnam Stewart of Louisville, a direct descendant of Gen. Israel Putnam, is writing the history of the Putnam family. A. B. Seizer of San Francisco has brought suit for divorce against his wife because the spirits told him she no longer loved him. Gen. O. A. Whittier, who was in charge of the Uuited States customs at Manila, came home by way of the Tronsiberian road. He crossed Siberia in fourteen days. Prof. B. L. Garner, the “monkey man,” has gone to the west African coast again to study the simian tribe and learn their language. John Palmer, a full blood Ponca Indian and an Oklahoma lawyer, will address the forthcoming session of the Oklahoma Bar Association. Dr. Carlos J. Findlay of Havana, well known for his work on yellow fever, has been chosen president of the American Public Health Association. On* of the leading article* of export from the Philippine Islands Is hemp.

IN A RIOT OF CRIME.

BANDITS HAVE DEBPERATE FIGHT WITH DETECTIVEB. Chicago Car Barn Brigands, Trapped In Cave, Shook Two Policeman—Kill n Brakeman and Seise Train In Effort to Get Away. Pursued by a posse of more than fifty Chicago policemen, two of whom they shot, perhaps fatally, three men, supposed to be Harvey Van Dine, Peter Niedemeyer and Emil Roeski, the Chicago car barn bandits, held up a Pennsylvania train at East Tollestou, Ind., Friday, killed the brakeman and compelled the fireman to run the engine with them aboard to Liverpool, Ind., where they leaped off, carrying their weapons and disappeared north. Tracked to a lonely cave near Miller’s Station, lud., Thursday night by Detective John Sheehan of Chicago and a detail of seven men, tfi% brigands, who swore never to be taken alive, made a desperate stand, shot Detectives Zimmer and Driscoll and escaped through the anow to the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks near East Tolleston. There they held up a Pennsylvania freight train, shot and killed Brakeman T. J. Fabio, and at the points of their weapons compelled the firemen to cut off the engine fyom the train and take them to Liverpool, Ind., where they disappeared in the wild country, going northward toward the Michigan Central tracks. Police Armed With Rifles. The “shoot to kill” desperadoes realized their danger when Detective Sheehan and his posse surrounded them. As soon as Sheehan could get word to Chicago that he had cornered the human quarry active preparations were made in the city linll for a posse of police armed with rifles. To stay in that desolate hole meant to be riddled with Winchester bullets. They got out of the ambuscade, ran through the snow and found the freight train on a siding. The engineer and the conductor were in the telegraph station waiting for orders. The engine had plenty of stenm up. Distance had to be “annihilated.” The deadly guns that had played so steadily on the police but a short time before were broughtinto play. The brakeman may have made a display of resistance. No one will ever know. He was ruthlessly shot dowu. The fireman whose practiced hand was needed to guide the engine was spared. But he felt the muzzles of revolvers nt his head and dared make no resistance. With a snort the Pennsylvania engine fairly darted out on the main line, bearing its freight of desperadoes aud the frightened fireman. Meanwhile Assistant Chief Schuettler at the head of the most determined posse of heavily armed police Chicago haa ever had to send out in a ©an hunt had arrived at the retreat on the snow-cov-ered sand dune near Miller’s Station. Tho quarry had fled in time. Hundred Shots Exchanged. More than a hundred shots were exchanged in the morning between the fugitives in the cave and the eight detectives who had them ambushed. The police were forced to fight in tho open, having the embankment of the railroad tracks aa their only protection. Only on£e during the morning was sight caught of the fugitives. They remained hidden in the cave, their rifles alone showing. The cave is out in the open, about two and a half miles from the station of Miller. There was absolutely no protection for the officers who surrounded the cave all night and approached at 7 o’clock in the morning. The first thing they met was a rifle snot The shooting became so hot that they were forced to take shelter behind the tracks. When they dodged behind the railroad embankment the shooting stopped. Driscoll and Zimmer had stepped to the top of the tracks to take a survey of things when the fugitives fired from Winchester rifles in rapid succession. Zimmer fell, shot in two places, once in the head, once iu tho arm. Driscoll was shot in the abdomen and became unconscious soon after. Th# scene of the shooting would stage the wildest of vendettas. After a careful study of the surroundings Detective Sheehan said that he was of the firm opinion that the cave had been picked out as a refuge by Mnrx’s associates long ago. Two Brigands Captured. After a pitched battle in the sand pits near East Tollestou, Ind., sand heavers and section hands in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad shot two members of the car barn trio and captured them late Friday afternoon. The men were disarmed, placed on a special train of Captain Briggs and taken to Liverpool. The third member of the party, who shot Brakeman Favio, escaped after exchanging shots with the railroad men. The two members of the car barn gang who were caught are said to bav* been Beriously injured, being shot from shotguns which the railroad men carried.

Railroad Notes.

Railroad and canal properties in New Jersey have been assessed at $228,070,690 during the current year, as against $223,486,892 a year ago. The directors of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway have authorized the issue of $50,000,000 of 4 per cent 25-year debenture bonds. The annual report of the Great Northern Railway for the fiscal year ended June 80 last shows gross earnings of $40,785,646, an increase of $4,753,390. The Kansas Co-operative Grain Association of Topeka has won a preliminary victory over the Burlington road by obtaining from the Supreme Court of Nebraska a mandamus compelling the company to grant It an elevator site at Upland, Neb., whereon the farmers propose to erect a large grain elevator. It is announced that the New York subway will not be opened for traffic until the new power house is completed, which will not be before May 1 next. The Traveling Passenger Agents’ Association convened in New Orleans, with over 000 members in attendance. The next year’s meeting will be held in Mexico City. TJi* 2-cent per mile fare agitation la Ohio, which has been continued for soma fears, will probably be revived again this winter, and it is claimed the meaaare has enough support to warrant it* enactment by the next LefisUture,

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. McClare Found Guilty of Killing HU Sons-Plant Great Watarway—Wolf Slain in Kankakee Swamp—Freed of Hnrder Charge. The jury In the case of the State against Jesse McClure, on the charge of murdering his two sons, Omer and Dee McClure, by shooting, five miles from Windfall, Oct. 25, returned a verdict finding defendant guilty and affixing the penalty nt life imprisonment. When the Jury retired with instructions of the court the first ballot stood nine for hanging and three for life imprisonment. The crime for which he was convicted was the most cowardly aud brutal ever committed in the State. On Sunday, Oct. 25, after quarreling with his wife, he enticed his two children, aged 4 and 5 years, from the house, and, taking them in a buggy, he drove along an unfrequented road, shot them through the head, and threw their bodies in a fence corner. He was defended ou a plea of insanity. Canal to Cross State. P. H. McCormick of Columbus, who is a candidate for the congressional nomination against Mr. Griffith of the Fourth District, has taken up the plan for a huge waterway stretching across Indiana from Michigan City to the Ohio river, a distance of nearly 300 miles. The canal is projected to be capacious enough for large lake steamers and its route is to pass through Indianapolis, Logansport, Columbus and Seymour, terminating at New Albany, below the fulls of the Ohio river. The scheme is to employ the State convicts In the construction work and for the State to own the improvement and pay the costs. Mr. McCormick. who is one of the best known contractors in Indiana, has inspected the proposed route and is entirely confident that his plan is feasible. x Freed of Murder Charge, Benjamin Davis was found not guilty of the murder of John Dunbar. The men quarreled July 1 at Dunbar’s home, near Waverly, about Dunbar applying an epithet to Davis’ wife. Dunbar stooped and picked up a brick as if to attack Davis. The latter theu picked up a monkey wrench and struck Dunbar on the head, inflicting a fatal wound. Davis was acquitted on the plea of selfdefense. Big Wolf Drive. A party of hunters which left Union Center the other morning for a wolf drive through the Kankakee country rounded up and killed one wolf weighing 15<) pounds and wounded another, which succeeded in getting away. This was the first big wolf hunt for more than sixty years, and several score men took part. The Kankakee country Is said to be the only region iu Indiana where wolves still roam. Strike Picketing Enjoined. Judge Carter in the Superior Court in Indianapolis issued an injunction restraining the striking molders of the Indianapolis Foundry Company from interfering with the men who want to work, picketing being especially barred. The company, which is resisting the effort to make its shop a union shop, alleged that life and property were endangered. ,

Brief State Happenings

Indiana coal operators report that the advent of cold weather finds the supply of fuel upusually large, and it is not probable that prices at the mines will be advanced Dec. 1. D. M. Flanagan and wife were fatally burned and their G-months-old child, Ruth, was burned so she will be disfigured for life as the result of a gasoline stove explosion in Logansport. Because she accused E. E. Elkins of sending her husband whisky through the mail and causing her husband 'to get drunk, Mr*; Anna Bell of Logansport has been made a defendant in a suit for pro? voke. The Indiana Supreme Court decided that a woman should be punished for contempt of court just as a man is, upholding the sentence of Miss Ellen Joyce of Hancock County, who had been sent to jail. Passenger train .No. 11 on the Vandalia Railroad was stopped just west of Ben Davis. Two tramps compelled the brakeman, at the point of a revolver, to signal the engineer to stop so they could get off. Edna Vollmer, on trial before a jury in Columbus, on the charge of shooting her sweetheart, Otis Judd, with intent to kill, has been acquitted. The testimony showed that Judd struck her before she fired at him. John J. P. Phiel, aged 74, killed himself in Fort Wayne because of despondency. His wife says he grieved about his horse, which had grown old with him, and was no longer able to help him earn a living. He was too poor to buy another horse. Although a guard of policemen surrounds the house, a mysterious enemy, who, a week ago, began throwing missiles and acid at the women members of the family of George Elbrink of Terre Haute, when they stepped outside the door at night, continues his practices without detection. One Of the daughters opened the door the other night and several pieces of coal were thrown at her, one striking her. The watchers got no trace of the thrower. While the guard was surrounding the house one night another daughter stepped out and was struck with a stone. Her sister was struck with a bottle containing vitriol, which burned her shonlder. The man was shot at, but escaped. Miss Anna Endlcott, aged 20, at Darlington, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid- It is said she was disappointed in love. ; Charles Curnnell, aged 37, was killed Instantly near Yankeetown by falling from a pecan tree. His neck was broken and his skull fractured. It is stated in Elkhart that the amount of cash found in the vault of the Indiana National Bank was only about $2,000. It is known that four deposits aggregating $2,380 were made a short time before the bank closed and after payment m check was refused, ___