Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 45, Number 24, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 February 1903 — Page 2

C. DOAWK. Pofcltsher

0 ARPKE- i I t I INDIANA.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

A W.U. Vev.. on the 13th, th

thermometer recorded kl ahneaeai I low Mro, and .1.1 ut W innc muiva. The Kansas legislature, on the ltth, defeated the bill to gfC wcaneo the right to vote for presidential elector. ltv a vote of M to Ml the Itoliana enate, on the 11th. killed a hill to legalize Sunday baseball in all cities in the state of tfcjMt popeaUtloal or oer.

rhineas Sturgls. a pioneer anil wellknown politician and former member of the Iowa legislat ure. died at hin home at West Fnioti, la,, on the litta, aged 73. R Carver, editor of the

Grant City (MO.) Times, was fatally lajured in an assault M him by F. V. Stevena, a prominent politician, on the 11th. In an Interview, on the U'th. Speaker Henderson denied all reports current connecting his name with effortl to thwart anti-trust legation in congress.

A bill waa introduced in the senate, mi UM 10th. tWHj an appropriation of hi.OOO for "fall satisfaction of all claims or pretended claims" of exQueen l.iliuokalani of Hawaii. The joint committee of ways and means of the Indiana legislature, on the 12th, decided to report a hill appropriating 1150,000 for a state build i el the St. I.ouis exposition.

A package. Of letters containing cm r $50,000 in comrc.etci.il paper, hipped from Louisville to Chicago, January 31. is missi: ig, and postal authorities can pet no trace of it. - . .. 0 - The principal storehouse at the Ku.k Island (111.) arsenal was destroyed by fire, on the night of the Ulli, together with its content!, vir Und at $1.500,000. The building cost $400.000. TIM St. Louis grand July, "n tlio Uth, began an investigation into lie! tiki! agement ami workings of tbe different ttirf investment win panics which have leen doing business in

that city. Miss Nellie Seullv. f Austin, DL, -,1 v-rdiet for nOjOM. n the

10th against the l-tk Street Elevated Ballrond Co., Of hicag '. for permanent injuries received in a colli, ion on that road. The Kansas authorities began an investigation, on the 13th. of a charge that an aged inmate of the asylum for the insane had died as the r . of a severe beating given him by two of the guards. At the trial of Mrs. Kate Taylor, on the Mth, for the murder of be htMr l and, at en t or i lie. N. '.. hot 14--ear-oM daughter told hoof her naothrr shot h-r husband and burned the body piecemeal.

'1 he Audubon theater, in Now Orleans, better known as the Academe of ktank, was destroyed hy a lire Which broke out just before the evening J erformance began, on the 11th. The loss is $55,000. The Tennessee legislature ndopted resolution, on the b'th. instructing the Tenneeeee delegation to the next r.ati .nal democratic convention to endeavor tfl plnoO a southern man on It preeldeutial t ii bet . et t hief Joseph, Of the Ne Fere Indian tribe, with six of his followers.

were preaCBt at President an.I Mrs. Boosovelt'l reception to the iinny and navy, on tbe 12th. attired in typical Indian costume. In a tight, with Filipino ladrOneO on the Mit, Inspector Harri and "ne nan of the conntubalery wer.- Wiled nd ten other Americans wounded, While the ladr.-nes left II deed an.1

three wounded oil the field. A charter was Issued by the secre tnrv of state of Missouri, on the "th, for an electric railroad to exten 1 fi-,,m BroohfteM t. Qlangow, hfo., and thence to St. bonis, to he complete! In time for the World's fair. , Q The coal strike eonnni--ion coneluded the bearing of utgennenta n-

philedelphea- on the I3tn. it win jiow hold secret sessions in Washington, and its decision in the cine i ected by the end of IVIir nary H. v. Krohnekya arrived 1 Te coma. Wash , on the Itth, from S.'oul, t'orea. on his way to New York to contract for idols to be used in the temples Of his country. Aincricanaaado Idols are In demand In Cores.

tgMSOMl Session) In tl ' the KS Mi Carmacfc

i ,kr n tli" K.iwni'S nwiiiiM ii "

on the secretary of war for rew.u is in ...

Ii i va n coins menial m1 " ,, m, rdrs la Uw Phlltpptnea A '" ' v. . er Kan i n to common tnal tnei could not bear Investteatton, and ' " ; it . . Ih i .biet of iH.tli the ...-staet - ox el ear M- Ke.o. e..nttn. ue.t hi- ,.vh ..n the st.u.h.-.Ml l.lll. anl Z "eral enators Indulaad n s a. k U on tht ouctstton of th mterftrenee of tne moimon church In i-uin Mr J-l" iH-k ut favor or statehood for Wew i, ,, The hou ipcnt almoet the emirs . ' : ..t i'..liilll I .1 IIOI'IO-

tta v mi i i 'ii 1 1, i v. . - rUtton btll one to authorise the sovf""" ' . . .......... i.i ills-

ernnu-ni V." ' " Y, . .:"r.,,..rt

trtct .iih.i i "in u-i .V.n-,". r. .. .. ,1-

on tho un an muni'" ,,in. ms defeated and the latter sent b-ck to

c,,."f,,.",t''' .v.-,., tn utiOssd

bill w..P o. in up an.1 Mr M-'r.V", f spoke ott it for same time Mr nP presented the conference report . n tt genannten, of .eojnmercabUl .etotogO

nnal tele on o 10.. . - -

th.it II tt:.iv Oi- IMliueu in- ;! :! . ,. rheK.neral staff bill wasaare.d fo ami numb, r ol Mils were passed ..... In lh Uoum after some dlst uwlkm, tne conference report on the department of commerce bin ..s adopted by a vote oi 1 io IP. oat republican and tune demo?rats TOttni aeilnst -. Th,.iT!,,Ä of the a.iv v..H ilovi'tetl to the siiuur ctvi bill. Mr l Arrnond i M poke In h Var. Vsti, v.l:, cf the Hanna bill to jmn-

shm ix-?! f. "'t mi tTenti t toi.k a serious m-w at tt nutt. r. und K.-.ur. d an assurance from Mr Cannon thai Um P ft such si sjeaa-

un w.'.h i "i l inn' hi , Si said that adventurer In UPj south Wen UStnS the bill l" ISSBCSS oti Imtorant an, I '-- ii. on negn . In the senAte, on the ltth. Mr. Hanns calle.1 up the conference rwirt on the department of comm. rce Mli and it was I .., to Ith. .tit debate, and now g". ij io th- Pr,.M.nt. Mr. M.n resumed

bis n nt.-UK- on in.- - br oi. i.. -.1 off mi the subject of the pro-po-il treaty with folombla. Mr Depen .in ;i si..-..h In ni'P'-sltJon tu the lateKod fill, but did not rintah. ... In h..u-o fair PtoKrc- w "a it made Ith the sumirv elvT appropriation lull. rne .ndmeati of Mr.ttnw W etven notice were adopted, rhej can tor I , appropriation of r- for the matn bulldlns of the capltot. and a limit of $:.:. .'-' Ik tlaed; for a site I for a n.-w ofTtee bulldtB for member.- I7W.WÜ U ipproprlsted. the coat of tho bulldln t be 13.1 . In tbe senate, en the Uth, with th. exceptio,, of a tew ralnudur1tujwhlch

: so nie routine nu-ii n us "' At ! , s,.Sslon s - bei .-ol elos.-.l iloorx At I the Vii'er'ü:?.

How progress was rnxd- with the sundry ? v.l bin. th- delays b. thi-- occasion. ! b protru-te.1 illsousslon of the If-m W the bill for the maintenance of the WWW lb, use. and a considerable debate on tne Hem approprtattng Sl.OUO.OtlO for the relief of dlatress ln the pSltlppln. s, an amendBMBt t.. ret thu smendmeot la bait

IriL' .1,-feate.t. I'll' the laiiK u .;.- .. Mrasxapn waa so modified as 10 require Sumual reports of the expenditure of Uie money . In the ,enate. on the Uth. an lmmer.se crow.l was or. suit to hear th.- Invocation It Qen. William Booth, founder and waa-maoder-lnmhWf of the Salvat km arm . li'i .h.. . . , ..h,,.i(t In eallie a ' Mr. L'e-

p,v resumed hi remark.. attacWn ms Mormon church h. ause, he said, he be i ueved Its tnembei- still cling to the prsoI lice ot polygamy. Mr Bawllns repUjd. coin that If the M-.rm.m were no 1 1

t,rfei.-.l ih tney ,ui,,i " ..... ....... own destiny. Atter an ese. uttve set Hon lh m nate ad Journed In the bouse the Kiklns Mil, to prohibit r. h.it. s to shippers. was pass.il by a vote of Be i r a I reptib'lcin m.jubers practically utnouneed that the passage of this bill th- anti-trust legislation for this s; ssion of eoiuxrese would be complete, l he remainder of the day was . vote.1 . the sundry civil appropriation bid. a hl. h was nracttcally completed, but no effort was made to pass it, as there was no quorum present.

l. en William Booth, of the Siij.-

Moa army, sddrssssrt two soormous SudU to es US IVSShiSUftoa, "i the afternoon sad nifhl of the 1 Pour hesmiss bousss at lobnnon, ii., . srere burfierlsodi oa the nlfbt of the Itth. and imsll amount of

sjMHioj seeured mi sooli i.1-"''

i t Inn- W. Turner, a t bieav'O traM-i-

lag man. Boaualtted lelelds beohoot-

bag blmself on the 1,1 sal

at tiriiinell, la., on me lain.

Ihre,- CMll -hafts in th, iciniiy M Sprii.oiiei.l. 111., wete eompeUcd to suspend operatloae, on the Uta, ow lag to a lack of coal cars. Dr. Franklin a. Gardaer, physlclss at the White House during the Bar-ri-..ii sdsalnUtretlen, disd at Ws s inoton, on the 131 Itt apt. Henry I. Taylor, the Oldest eaptaln Ol the Missouri national guard, tiled at hi" home in BtasM City, on the Uth. William sfarconi, the inventor ot rireless telefrapbT, was received hy

K.ni.' Edurard, in ttuclttngnani jaia.e, on t bc loth.

i. Mi HOI it

He Reaches New York

Tour in Wl kh He Circled the tarth.

TELLS OF THE MANY PLACES VISITED.

rSlllelll Hrrfhr.1 ad STUlSISi k Ihr CSeWnsi Heads uf HaSWBMI ad Asia InifT Wseeease Heeesni Kdward U he llenassff w Nesstsai v,,rk-

LATE NEWS ITEMS.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The 1'nite.l States district court nt Bpringfleld, in . ne the llth, decided ths1 Mis. Annie (ierstell. ol BsSl St. Louis, bed defrauded lur ercditors out of ItSVOOO, mid ordered hi-r to pay 1liat sum within ten das or eo to

jai I. The National Union VsiereaW snhM met at Borlngftetd, .. n the Wtb, :it etates being repre ented, (lea f It Hutchinson, of Rochester, v v.. n elected ruinn ilrr ill i li'n i. ml ii. ii fierce, of Stöllns, in , woo ol th. deputies. Dr. I. L. M. furry died of BrighVl disease, nt Ashevillc If. I '.. OB the ftth, lb- was one ol the most proininent edaeatore In the snath, ana at he tinu- United Slates minister to Spain, ii ii I v. as gtnerel sgeal uf th l'MUody rdueutional fund.

As the news of the collapse of th

Arnold Turf Investment to., at BW. Louis, lHcon.es pen. -rally known the vtenf "f its ranaineatlrma become erduaJly sppareaL Scarcely a eoav inunit v uithin I few hundred miles of the base of operations but has furnltbed its quota of rierisoa. The os crstions tatended eves Into Csnsdi Frederick Hartley, one of the beet know B residents of BlOOUttiBgton, HI-. dropped deo.l. on the Uth. SgCd M years. He was born in Santiago, Chili, his father being ss Englishman and bis mother S natbe of Chill. He hud lived in Illinois since lsl'Willi:, it of Germany was

an interested witness, oa the 1-th. of

a t- -t of i he ronaa-virus; telegraphy syttena in the technical UeWwrsltjr at' Herlin. The apparatus Svera)gei SO,000 wrorda Sa hour over a nii-mile circuit.

Mt-. and Mrs Henry shears, promi nent residents of 1'ana. III., celebrated t b.-ir gedden wedding on the 18th. Thev are old settlers of that vicinity, locating there in 186$, Mr. Shear in 73 yearn old. 1 adct the caption, "A Cell to Arms." William Jennings Brysn, limners tb Commoner, makes sa

appeal tO the Kansas City platform democrats of the country to organise ntid sax the party. Tbe mater part "f the flO.iHirt worth of jewelry stolen from aim ,V Co., of AJbejquerque, N. II . in Itoveaa her hist, was found, on the 13th, under an old bara Of two hoys who

were hunt inp egg. Tbe pries IUt for the natioial bowling tourney tO bS hehl In Indianapolis. Ind., February was mad public ., the ltth. They are the largest cash prics Ovar offered in BOW line; e.ilitest. ffiagiaeer Btokea, of Ogden, I'tah, killed in a "task of a Southern

PeCiflC train at IcSrUS, N., on the

1 .t h.

Pi.xty persons were injured and five

malms of saint-t blown f rotn eh u relies in a terrilie hurricane that swept out

thada-Peath. Hunaarr, oa the Mth,

anl did anormoua pronerty danaige.

I ti debate in the bOUM Ol I eji. e

entntiea. on the llth, Mr. fochra.t, ,.f Missouri, branded a statement of

Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, as "a deliher-

nt lie."

Three turf investment, concerns In f'ltienirn were raided 1V liolice, on the

1th. and a number of attnehes arwl ai In ,'itteil to hail ill $"'00

each.

gtobbere ttote fatia from Caariea Carpenler, a farmer living near kaleosa. la . on the 12th. which he had

aooratsd la the cellar of Iii hoase,

James Wiles mis killed and dust

Mild tuobaldv fatally iniured lit a

pi , nut uro explosion of powder lit

uiino at tttiiinwa, .a., on tlic 1 Iii

Tn the senate. 00 he Uth. the amendments made iy the bouse to Ihc Klkins anti reimte bill were agreed to. This completes coiiiftev aloaal action on the bill, and it noW goes to the president. Mr. Qnuj gave notice that, beginning no the loth, be Would ask the senate to take up the Statehood bill ea.-h .lay iauBodiately after the conelusioa f the routine ntortiitiK business. .. .In the house the BUndri civil appropriation bill W0i

under consideration m ccnunmwa the whole. The bill was passed after batog reported to the house, on i the eoaal leration f private bill" was begaa. it was the last opportunity for pension hills at this session, and T;r in nil were passed, breaking all previous records, 313 being the great

est number ever passen in on, .u before. Anion" them was a bill tO grant a pension of IM S month to the widow of the late Representative

Humple, of town, who died a row weeks ago. Orders were issued by the navy deport. nent. on the nth. for the monl tor Arkansas and the lsh de Luzon to cruise up the Mississippi as far as St. Louis, and they will probably

reach that port about April W, tin da s. for the World's fair dedicatorv ceremonies.

Very severe snowstorms occurreJ throughout Indiana. Illinois. Missouri. Kansas. Indian territory and T. vi-.

on the tSth, In some sections it v-v, the worst in years, and in In ban territory and TOJtas greet fears were felt for the safety of stock. Four hundred Americans with members of the Cuban Veterans' nasncintion. on the Uth, observed the Bfth nnnivcrsary of the destruction of the Maine bv appropriite aarvlci - at the remains ol the vessel where she lie? In Havana harbor. Memorial services were held at Gloucester, Mass., on the 15th. when 74 children threw 74 flowers into the waters of the bay. emblematic of tho T4 lives sacrificed in the fishing tleet

from thai port during tin- yenr.

'Hie jury in tne case oi it. .. . Al..v5.n,l, r nt Tndianatx.lls, Ind.. after

heinir out W hours, fade I to reach an

t niul were di-cli iroe.l. I l.e

stood right for actjttittal and four for

conviction. Dyaaaaltera attempted tu destroy Use tOtl Hoe cables of the ( ommerei ll Telephone I o., at Warsaw, 1 .d., OS the 1 in' the senate, on the ltth, there was no delate on the statehood bill. The Indian appropriation bill and the Philippine earrency bill were both passed. Mr. Veal Called attention to

,,f order winch na mauw . ne of the provisions f tbe appropriation bill oa the that it was new legislation.

the senate had passed tu

a point airainst

Indian f r tUttd lie If

Philippine pover nine tit bill ns a rider

to the army appropriation mil. aim yet rated other appropriations out. All rules were vbdute I. he BO id, when

a majority was in favor of any BteeO tire. Mr. Morgan sp,ke on a OjUOatioa of pernonal privilege, and complained that there was a he. ra val of the senate in the matter of w liat transpired at executive sessions ....The bouse rttannaeri of a number of bills, the

i ...

most ImiHirlanl niea-ure nasse l n.-m

flip sennle bill to amend the railwnv

safety nppliance taW. A -p.'. ial order

was adopted wnlcn practicaiij wm

ml. ,Ii. Cnnliir purrt'tlCV lull a oll-

tinulng order for she reaaalnder of

the session.

it was announced from the White

House, os the loth, Ihel the presiueai would annoin! damea U. Oarneld, son

of tbe ex-presi.lent, eommiSMOner of

corporations under the act creating

the neu deportment of commerce.

A dlrasreetnenl in regard to w.iiri''

was the cause of . shut -down which

threw Wi men OUI of work in a col

liery at Kingston, Pa., n the loth, tlm

Rral tie-un ill the an t It i a ei I region

since the strike settlement.

Miss Marx E. Mill, of Decatur, III.,

mis on,, of the members of the senior

class ut Vnaaar college on whore

honors wer,- conferred, na the loth, for htgk standing throughout the college course President h'oosexelt Stated, 80 the Ith, thai In- had no intention "f withdrawing the nomination of lr. ( rum to be Collector of the jm r t of (haileston. S. t . from the senate. John Mitchell. president of tint United Mine Workers, urea enthusiastically cheered by all ai, lience of fww people nt a demonstration given i" his honor at hieegO, on the ltth, Ih.- Routhern Illinois normal unlsfrwity, at ( arbondale. was i loed baaasirnrily, on the hfth, owing In a hu h of coitl. Rain, inoa and sleef prevailcl in tpost of the southern states, no the 1Mb, und in SOatS places loss of life was reported.

New York. Feb. 10. lieot. Oca, N-'l eon . Miles, commandinff the I nlted gtatea an. iv. his wife and parly ai rived here Sim. lav MB I be steal. islup Lucania. The ceaeral, who has b Ubread five months has. iu ll.at time. been around the world, fk. ttuM of the rein roes the

Atlantic for the ireneial Ua the send Ingof a Marconlgraai to Klag IMward Ml. Pebruarj a, when the boeaaln MJ M miles' from 'he Marcuii station at Crook Haven, ben. Wies sent the following stessage: Mid... .an ireotiag, with best wishes for bnppineaa and bealtb to his Majesty and the royal family." To which the toil , win- replj was received by Cable on the arrival of the Lucania in port, Sunday: I have submitted your BBOaaagO to the klag. 1 "' commanded by bis maiestv to thank you for your good wishes' and to say for him that it af

forded him mock grutincntlon to re c. vc it at Windsor. "K NOMA'S." XSnn llinmd Five Monti,. To his interviewers On. Miles said: "I hmvm been abroad for live months.

I left gepteatber U lor the lncifle coast and there made an Inspection of the forts and the eorst defeases from Puget OOad to southern t ali fi iruin. "On the firat Of October WS sailed on the tranepori Thomaa Wc stopped at Honolulu and then sailed for Ghanas. We touched at the 'stand, then e n tinned ti the PhlHpfeaeu. We spent B month there. I examined the tnilitarv situation and isited the principal stations and forts and Inapccted ,1... ti-ooiis. There were n serious

hostilities ut that time. The 10,000 troops there were in tine Condition. Prom the PblUppinea we went tn Rang Konp. Centon, and thence to

Nagasaki and Yolcofcsma. we riate the military acadenay at I klo and naw Bometbing of the .lanaese troop-. In lil.i anil Japan. "The Japaaeee army i.-; rery well equipped and disciplined, and .- is Hie navy. When 1 was th.re they were diecaoatbg the uuention of raising n lerge fend for the equipment of the navy. In the uriny they ha.e most modern appliances. The .la (Kinase are ethcieiit in their system " t'ontinuinp. the general laid the party Wend from .b.pan to Port Arthur and thence to Pekln. I remnincl

there a short time. We have there i mall detaehinent of tlWOns- the le

gation gaard at the capital Everything there is tpiiet. We were accorded tin audience by the emperor and the dowager empress They receive I us with a L'reat deal of courtesy and atte ntion." Qen. Miles' party went through northern bins to Siberia, pneeinf tbroogh Ifaachnrie en route, and s.) on t Ifoscow. traltCd 1 Meet lt,e r. "We were 18 iajra toiag from PekH

In Moscow. The roads are ery g I mid the train service excellent. Tke weather w as erv cold at times, but in

my opinion it ns no . older than l have experienced in our northwest. From st. Petereourg we went to Paria, where W0 spent five .lavs, thence to London, where we remained sight days, and so on to New York." "Did von have an audience with tho czar?" was asked. "We received an invitation to meet tin- ear, but we wen- delayed a day, nt.. I s.i did not arrive in time. An

audience of the czar would have been riven ns, but we could not remain, Our invitation extended to a greal hall at the winter palace, but a- WO would have bad to remain at lea- SO" Other week for the purpose, we reluctantly had to forego the pleaaefO. III t'tstt t Kirn IUlMsr.1.

"I paid a very pleasant visit M King Edward when we reached Bagbind, and was u ot graciotisly reeeiv ed." Regarding the story that Mis Miles ama overlooked in tke invitation which the pener.il received from hint; EdWard, Gen. Miles said: "Mrs. Miles was not invited to Windsor through an oversight, it was nut known that she was with me. r tho invitation would have been extended to her also. The master of ceremonies wrote me a very nice letter tif explanation and regret, in which he Held the kinp did not know Mrs. Miles was present or she would have been iucluded in the in v it at ion." In Paris the geaerel was tin- guest of honor at a dinner piven al the residence i r iien. Brugere, Commander in chief of the PreUCh army.

WITHIN OUR LIMITS.

Hewn by Telegraph from Various Towns in Indiana. t lain, lleint nrlbe. (adtaaapoUs, Ind., Feb. 11 ..i...or Fortune, esnocratl ""r charged Ihursdaj that an atott had been made to approach him 1.. secure bla interest in the fnralahee bill ehtcn I being supported bj the Indiana Botail Mcichnnts' associatioe tad is e-

lan fought by orgnnied labor, liesays i was told by a lobbyist for the bill that if he would deliver (our dcaBOcratic votes th, re vv . uld be no limit as to terms. The M-nator Immediately maoe publle the proposition. I h. democrat have caucused against the bra.

11 IS I m

nrakemnn shot Him. Logaaaport, Ind.. feb. 13. Shod throagb bla right arm and abdomen, .lohn Murphy, of Bockport, N- v- was found mar th.- Wabsah tracks, hnvlag lain H hours in a stupefied condition He savs he was beating Ins way n the east bound freight from

Danville to Toledo, and was attacked by a brakenun, Who shot him on bis refusal to jump off the train. The identity of the brakeaauB h unkn iwa. More lin. Port Wayne, hid . Feb. 1 1 Then lined committee appointed to investigate and report whether the local ascoea mm was fulillina the terms, fits last

contract am! lupplying Fort Wayie with nil the ras possible to ?.'t had President ll.i t '. Haul on the -t. no!

under oath. He mode a freak -tatc-ment. which he tummcd up as follow "We are at the . ad I f our .t i icp The day of natura! cus i- e,,r,e." pttet Bleetten. Marion. Ind.. Feb, 1 ' The town of Matthews, recently incorporated, held ... ort ii., u .iml oractlcalh every

qaal lid b etör in tl . place Vote.!, the total votes cast betsgdM. Th. incceeaful cnadidntea are: K. Miller, republican, marshal; .lohn !' Hinckley, labor, clerk and treaaurcri tdam BenBel, labor. .Tohn Stohy. lepubliran. nti.l Emits Ma jot. labor, tru-t.-eh. Stohy

and Majot are Belgians. Befnee IWIm settee. Anderson. Ind.. Feb. 1 3Tb Mad:Count bar association ba r foi ed

to take any action in kUppoii of the plea sent out bj the Ecansrille bar asking for the hapcacbmenl ol .buic Reach, The feeling hew i- qnite pre noanced sgalnst tne action -f the Rvansvitte lawyers, V. P. Foster wan appointed chairman of a omnittee n resolutions condemning the action ol the Rennet ills bar. It ii nil lleli er, . rndtananolm. Ind.. Feb. 1 .- dviee.i

from Washington say that plans for the establishment oi additional rural free delivery servi.e in Indiana f'r the fiscal year, which will liem duly i have been completed and Indiana will pet in the neighborb 1 of MB new routes during the year, rhu moans that three fourths of the statrt

will Im- covered bj the rural frOCKOU livery service. IIMt-a for I sir. Lafayette. lad., Feb, I M a meetina- nf the secretaries of the Central Indiana Fair Fin u t tl e following schedule of fair dales was arranged: Lebanon. Aogust 10-15; Franklin. Anpnst 17-115 Boswett, Angual M9t ! layette, Be pt ember 1-5; Covington, Beptember l -.": CtrawfordnvUle, iep I ember 7-12; State fair, September I4-F. IrewemMe Kaeleelea Raatlagharg, Ind.. Feh. bt The kitchen at the beam of Rdward Kalter a few miles ve-t of here, was

IT recked hy dynamite aid Mrs Kat-t.-r tinrrowlv mcaocd with lur life.

The farmer had been m'tup dynamite

to blast stump- and placed a pian

tity of i- in the oven to .try. Trrni Ratcndeeh Indianapolis, bid. Feb. 1 I. The county officers' bill, passed by the legtelatnre, providing that all eoantf officers shall bepin their servi.e the first f January follow ini: their . lection, hns been RlgBCd by 'he P"vernor, The bill extends tbe term- of n bout .10 county treasurers. sentence Commoted, I.aporte. Ind., F. l 13. 0ov Durhin ha commuted the life sentCBCC of Smith .lones. is years old, tolmpeison in nt at the PMlttfield Reform school until he is ','1 M ar ,.!i! .lor.es stabbed

Herbert Dickenson, a plavinnte, to d. atb two years ago. The boy's home is in Warw Yk county total Tien Time.

Bloomlngtofl, Ind.. Feb. Fl. Tlie

colored people a charity social for "Grandma" llnlford, vho says she is lo'i enr.s old. She was burn in

Virginia, near l.i.linionil. und has ben sold on the block seven times. she is the mother of II children1

In, r ell II. rue. I Uatoa, Ind.. Feb. 1 i. The M. thoflist church, together with its fen ni-hiiiirs. wet tot alt j deatroyed by flro here, the beiufr fl.'.uu; insurance, sf)0.

The Northern Blizzard Carries Rain Sleet and Snow Almost to the Gulf.

MANY SECTIONS REPORT GREAT DAMA6E

TelrBrk. Tel-l,,me anil MUilro4 resssnwnteetlee ! it"'""' Mlh, and tCStlon irtüui dd iiirir lessees Owoao "t ltta Hri.irtril. Louisville. K.v . Feb. 17. Kam. niim and sleet, eoauhtaed iu man; pin COM with bigfa winds, aero the prevailing conditions throughout the south hloadav night. Railroad trafle i delayed, wiiiie In somber of eitles the street rail wsj service Is almost at a stand still. Keports from T'eime-see. Ark uisiis. Mississippi, northern Teaaa, 1 . 1, Ceorcia ami all parts of

Kentucky, tell ol danuage done by the blisxard, Ol swollen streams mid of suffering on the part of man and bcasi and i.atbe of ail kin U delayed, and in s.m.e luntsncca knw -f life i- repcart. ed. In Louisville the laOWfall has been 1 1 inches, and a str..,,,. V In I having piled the -now in drifts the street mil w;,v company baa with Ihe treats I difficulty kept its cars in motion at Irremilar Interval during Iba -b..

1 ,,f ll.e tlol' lilies were en

tirely almadoaed Monday, aaow plows

proving powe

rlcss to cleiir the track-.

,.. v, i.: Tenu.. he ; now ami

sleet sti.ru, which prevailed Monday ,,ne of the worst in years, and laterfcred t some extent with the ope ration of trolley cure and telegraph end telephone wires. At Port fVorth und Dnllna, Tea., the inowfall was the heaviest in vears an I I general blixmrd prevailed throughout the eouthwest. -H.rts from Chsttanooga, Nashville and Knoxville. Tenu . tatC that the worst weither prevails sle.t, snow and wind crippling the trolley wires ead electric light plants In Atlanta a beavj rain fell all dav and high winds prevailed. The name conditions are report ad from manj portions of t.eorida. and Ihe Chatta hoechia riv.-t- i risiag rapidly. The ri-e in the Alahatna rive: also eon tit s end consider. ii.ie daasaga is anticipated, while the streams iu the eouthem part of Kentucky are owl of

their bunks. The 1 eiiness -e ana oiu berbtnd rivers also are risiiiff. Sever, wind storms, attended hv the loss of life, were reported t-day from South t arolina und ieoriria. Monday then i5is a ,'elie ral dron in the tempera

Iure throughout the sout!i and south

west, un l extremely cow weatner

fear l.

AFTER FORTY-FIVE YEARS. Mrs. Harriet W. I'ntrr, I'o.lnm.lrr at sjeey ttraec, in.. iieim, rIrr IS rr' S.-rvlee. Washington. Feb. IS. The fourth MSriatant postmnster-frcnernl las received the realgaation of Mrs. iia.riett M. Coster, postnaaatof at TrOf Drove. III. Mrs. Poster ha" been conum led with the Troy UrOvO pnUl 'ifBee for l"i tears the pest II as pist matter, baring been appointed iecomber I87T. Thi enlarj of the of-fl.-e is v ' i a v ear,

UruU llnmnir. Ifnnclc, In! , Feb 13. Mrs. Hertha Pracier, widow ol Barton Prarief, the naotommB who was killed in the I'r.ion Traction company'i vvre-k at McCordeille on ChrlstaMI day. Im tiled suit in tl e Delaware circuit court Bgalnet the C Wapan for $10,(hh) f,.r the loss of her hui bo ml. miii itnir f Ceaetheeam, (Ireenchstle, Ind., Feb, i ,. ity a jMiJorlt Of 1,380, the people of Putrim county have ..t 1 1 1 to build aaal courthouse, and th unty romntla aioaers will now l nmpellcd to order th.- ereetion of he atructarei

M,tv, lirneral O er rkai,ns. Little Kock. Ark.. Feb. 17. Ban was (rent-mi over rkan-a.s Mondav. averaginj two and a half Inches In depth, except in the muHiem portion of the state, where it wns sUghtlv deeper. The lowest teinperature WUS 1 decrees, n fall of If decrees. An aeerflow of ib.- Black, White, ml t or lent rivers is feared. i in in:it H nos, Vmin I'lir to .-n Inehcn OSSP " the Ohio Vettef. daetaantl, Feb. IT. The heaviessnow storm of the s,.;ls,,n ftru k th. Ohio raUey Moudy, following thu heavt rams of Saturday and Bausdaj and a sleet storm Sunday sight, an I from live to seven ill dies of 00001 now Covers the ground. The street car i.ervice ut sum points is entirely suspended, while it other places it is badly crippled. I he In aw rains .f Sunday and th.

succeeding snow caused a rapid ns In the Ohio river .it all points from

I'ittsburjr to below ( ineimiati m Parkeraburg the river rose nine feet Monday, Bmklng a stae of M f"1'BUd from Pedal IM.-asaiit on down to this cjty it rose over eiphl feet bir tng the poet 21 hour, lit Ooolaaaatl the stream rose citfht f since Sun da naornlng, nn.l at si o'clock Ilea dag night the taRr here was Mi. flood IVarrU at IMltloirat. Fittsburir. Fa.. Wh 17. Fitlsbnre i threatened With Bnotbor Hood. At midnight the Ohio river at Docht Island dam repristcrcd M.I feet, and WM rbintf at the rate of two inches m hour. Ooveraaaoat Poreaotster Bidge way predicts a stage "f M feet, which would eoono conoid omhin oamnge in the low-lying portions oi Plttaburg and Alteenaaay. The inttahwrg -vWestern railroad tracks in Mbaghcnj are submerged,

ilrel nn.l Halt In New York. New York. Feb. IT. After B day of. . feet and diimUag rain, mm ' to fatl la this city 00 Monday at BW O'clock. The fall was heavy and fa -t and nt 11 o' lock had reached dctBl f four inches. The stein did II' cause material delay on the elcvab trains, but the surface lines ha Home ilfAeuAty hi kaaplag up Iba r schedule times. NOVELTIES FOR THE HOME. A wise and contented lookina; p'ff of metal with a small receptacle s.-t In his hack is supposed to I"1 mat. bes. Odd in basketry Is I work In the shape nf an nutomolulo. t .s of green and white and is really a perfect little model An odd-looking pin as spuamong other odd novelties lhat H i hnitntion of a Intel, key. " - " heautiful, but its iOW and lF" site.