Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 45, Number 29, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 March 1903 — Page 2

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Veeklu Courier. C. DOS.MK. fMaOUsnae.

1 INDIANA. File March heat record for IS veare it broken at Milwaukee. WkL, on e lbth, when the thermometer reg ertd 72 ! ;. reca. Hie Arlriui legislative council sscd the eqiud uffrage bill report from the house, by k two third ajority vote "ii the i''1 Jewed s ralued nt about ' 0 MU" tllishing a piiimi about 'lie high Ur of St St, ph. tu rat Im .IrmL it i met 1 1 a ra v tuifii tin tin l'-'th. Former Speaker Henderson era imh welcomed tu Iii ol ' home m abuqne. In . on the Kith. Men f uU STties united in the ceremonies. Announcement of the coming "ed ing of Catherine Neil, daug-hter f Mr. Frederick Neilson. to lleginuld anderbilt. wua na.ie on the 20th. The privnte levee nt Da. is island, ear Vicksburg, dynamited, on he 20th. to prevent a tuddea roost oi rater when the levee givea iy. The Western I'ass.-nger a--... ia t ion. n the 19th. made a rate of one fare ills $-' for the n.mul trip IOV the St. ouis World's fair dedication service. Methodist women hnd a Mormon jetted from their nii-si..nar meetng in Philadelphia, on the 18th, b.ause he wanted to deliver an adireaa. .lose .lavier, the head of a secret ao 0tv In the Philippines. w.ti conrietad md'aentenc.d to five year' ImprteonEat and to pay a fine of tt.ooo on he 10th. Faxton P. Hibbon, 1903, of Indianrpolia. Ind.. was awarded the Ilaird arize, on the ITth. for the beat poew the Princeton senior claa contest ii poetrv Maj. L.T. Waller, United States marine corps, who w.i- with the first relief partv to enter I'ekin. was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel on the 17th. The Missouri legislature., on the KMh. aubmltted to voters an amendment to increase the salary of mem hers of the legislature from $3 per day to 11,000 per J tar. Judge Cray, chairman, and Carroll f. Wright, recorder of the strike commission, called on the president, en the 18th, und presented to him the report of the commission. Frank .1. Ulrich, repreeentatlvi in the Sixth (X. V.) district, was probahlv fatally stabbed, 00 the SStk, by 'William Getteys, a clerk, in an alter catii-n over two young w men. Secretary Boot announced, on the 1Mb. that he would meet the president in St. Louis April r?0. on the occasion of the dedicatory exereij.es of the Louisiana Pun hate exposition. Dr. A. A. Ames, la custody of Sheriff Dreper, reached Minneapolis on the '17th. Arne' defense, according to W. W. F.rwin, his leading counsel, will lie insanity. He is charged with bribery. By direction ol Becretary Hoot the war department, on the tth. began eomnilinir and nuvdishina; a complete roster of the officers ami -nlisted men of the Union and confederate armies. The Nova Seotia. one of the larg.-t mines in West Virginia, owned by the Ciaulev Mountain Coal Co. nt Huntington, caught lire, n the 20th, and Its complete destruction was threatened. Sidney Dlalr. a farmer, aped 1 years, was murdered and his niece, Miss Sallie Walk-T. wa- -Iwt Ihre time and aerioualy wounded by John. Broodnax, at ReidsviUe, N. C, on tin tOth. The seaate. on the 17th. ratified ih treaty with the republic of Colombia for the construction of an isthmian eannl. The vote for rut irical ion wa, 73 in the affirmative to 3 in the neg alive. . n i President David H Francis of thi Ft. mall World's fair announced, on the ITth, in New York, that Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, would Boon i'it St. Louie and tha went. Two prisoners saved the sheriff an', his wife from drowning at Walnut Ridge, Ark., on the Itth, and aftervan! knocked fr admittance at tin jail door. The sheriff's baby MM STOW lied. .lohn B. Bsataiaa wm granted a di ron e fr-un his ifc. Feat I Thontp son Kemaree. un the grotmd of crueU ty. ut Oreendllo, lit, on the ruh. Dematee claimeil he hal been dypno-ti-d hv hiy bride. N . C Hlckox, vv ho was irdered committed to jail for refnaing to ansvxer ja stir. ns nakod i the Miwoonrl leg vlii t i r hriherx loveatlgatiofl 'ointinte, on the Rth, was releufeil on hia vn ion aj.nl i am ontll the -ist fieorre letjrer. posttnase- for ivenport. la., vx.i- removed front of e by Special Bxaminoi Itowort, H . 80th, on demand of hi- bondamen. Wcljrer was formerly department nommander in Iowa nt the A. B. Ferlinnnd BoUberger announced, an the 90th, thai his firm, Bchwar liild Sulherer, would paj the flue of W.OOO imposed i. the Mlaeouri Oupretne court for combining to control prices of meat, " heir attorney $o advised.

CUltKfiXT TOPICS. THE HEW8 IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

luniietttt V. lire wer. wife f gWfeOfj Brewer, of the Bpiacopal di reae of Montana, died, on the iTtti, of hrmt taltare, aitl Hb Wllhoti McAlpin, of WhltteoMMro la., charged with using the inaila IM fraudulent gurpoaoii aroa placed in uii at Biotaa i Ity, la., oaj the loth. Dr. lien luinin 1 homas Whit more. once a proininent St. uoniaon, hua been indicted bj New oi k for attempted extortion. Joha Vhittaker. a suwinill owner, walked half u mile to ail home at sandstone. Mich., on tin iTth. with a seal ling in Ins side, wha ll had been driven there by a circular saw. He Will recovrr. Iiu Q man reiehataa. on the tsth. adoptetl the appropriation of $3?&,Q0Q for the St. l.ouis World's fair, being the tirst piota oi the $;:.o.ihh) to Ihs Bpjir pi iated to defray the ev" BOOa of Qermany'i exhibit at the fair The hearing in the case of the United States against the $4110.000,000 Northern Securities Co., formed for the purpose of consolidating Am itteat Northern. Northern Pooukt and Durlington railways, began, on the l-:h, before Judges t aid well, Sanburn. Thayer and Van Decanter of the United States .circuit court at St. l'he world's largest elephant. .Ii:.g. years old and weighing six tons, died on board tha steamer Oeorgic, eu route from Liverpool to New York, and waa dropped overboard. He was valued at Jiu.ouo. Tha supreme court of Missouri, on thf nth handed down an opinion. Ill the case of the state against the meat Hackers, for unlawful combination, Lnmiinir n txouiltv of '.0IKI on each ' " I p. " I .- tirin. with costs, n default of pa. 111. M t , if w i i,. I, w iihin 90 davs to be forbidden to do business in the statt President Francis of the Louisiana Pun ha ia Exposition Co., inxda anothr Important capture on the MNh, ivheu he met and conquered all the prominent BUIgnaina publishers, who unanimously agreed to put his name mi their lists and work assidi.oualy for the success of the fair. Six neraona vvere Killed and a mini oer injured as the result of :i eolUaloa between the big passenger steamer Plymonth, Of the Fall Kiver line, and the freighter City of Taunton, in long; Island sound. early on the morning of the 20th. The Plymouth reached New London in a badly damaged condition. The jury of award in the Philadelphia McKinley memorial competition has selected five models as worthy of the WOO in prizes offered to contestants. The memorial nil be in the form of a statue of the late presi dent, will cost $:!0.000. and will no placed in Memorial hall in Fairmount pa rk . Official returns -how that the Vic torian wheat hardest in Australi;'.. this season will average only onequarter bushel par acre, owing lo the drought. This is the lowest average in M venrs. The Venezuelan oonffTCaa assembled in ( aracas on the l'th. The flood situation at Memphis waa considerablv improved on the 1'.th The Woman's Suffrage association convened in New Orleans or the l'Jth .lohn Cusey, aged kL farmer state senator, died at Btoomingtoa, 111., on the ttth, Work was begun, on the l'Oh, on two half mile railway tunneln in Taney county. Bo. ( oal cars ran away at Johnstown. Pa., on the 19th. killing three men and injuring nine others f'ro Peabodv of Colorado apndnted an adviaorj board, on the itth, to settle the strike at Tripple ( reek. Four men were killed and 7s horses suffocated in a mine explosion at r.iaee p.ay. Cape Breton, on the ruh. Whittaker Wright, the English promoter, who is wanted in London, was denied hall in New York 00 the ttth. A relief train re a bed Marion. Ark.. on the l''th. but the inhabitants who were held by the tood refused to leave, believing lhawalee safe. ft.r ratifying the a ban rectproeK ty treaty the senate adjourned sjne die at IB minutes past the o'clock on the 10th. Whiteeaps whipped Ibnry Mattyaa at Nashville. Ind.. on the IMh, beMttae us thev said, he too lay to work. Discover was made, on the 10th. that ihe Mir, of Preaident Palma of ( uha and Mi-s Mab. I .bo obs were secretly BMITied in New- i k February 11. President BooaortU racelrad an InTitntion. on the l'-'th. engraved on a soliil gold plate, to lie the guest of tha t'nion Leatnie club at San I ranciseo Joaepfe Bradley. farm hand, supjos,.( to be unsound mentally, killed Mr. F. K. Bovverman. dangcrooalf wounded her daughter and nttempt.'d to kill her aon at Hear lake, Mich., on the 19th. He then committed sui cide. Former Qaje, Francis was the gneet of honor nt a big banquet in New York on tha Itth, Three men were killed and several seriously injured by an explosion of dynamite at Bluefietde, W. Va.. on tha Itth. Dave Steele'- ev es were blown out snrf his nose 1 ml ears were torn aw ay. The QailOBB steamer V -ren", Cnpt, Pnkke. from Portland. Ore, tlctoinjr It, which arrived at FaPnoiith. on the MNh, reported thai bar captain died durin.' the fOyage, John Hooney w-tis sMiteneed to death at Fargo. X. I)., on the Mt& for the nmriler of liar M Sweet, a boy from White Fai th, Minn . last AOgust, during an attempted In lj un

01 e Olson, who killed hia daughter with a bateherhaifa baeanaai ain a tended to imirry contrary to Ida wishes, was hanged at tltin. Miun tu the JOth. s.itc . rat kera r.-cke.l the knf of

the stale b,i;,u at liulney, Kaa., oa the Itth, and eacaped oa a I. ami car. it is not knows aon much anone) waa secured William (J Bnwkina, a traveltai . . . A man. waa nurneil to ileum at v.i aim Bapida, Mi. h on the :o'.b. in a Art which daatroyed the I i.ir-n.ion hotel James J. Mow hind. Powderly'a 01 aacinta la tha Son Vorli Central stüke, med 111 islnngton, on tin ','Oth. aged S7. William Jennings Bryan -pent nil birthday serving on a hjry m IhO Üa tin t nonri at tanrnln. n. i.. on kht Itth, (oal miners in the s, nd bitumi nous district of Pennsylvania aeounaf an eight-hour day on the Stth. Two aarlona breaks oceu rred n tin St. rranela leveei n rw naai on uu lOtfe LATE NEWS ITEMS. A. M. Betty, hi wife md baby wer found dea l in Cincinnati "ii tue --a. Betty left a hOta saying- that she killed the babe and it la ttpfa and that she killed horaolf onrSag to d(v nie-tic troubles. Finding them dead he took his ow n life. Nathan M. Bollock, nre-blent of the Merchants' national bank of Middleton. X. Y.. died Buddealj -it Los igeles. Cal.. on the ttd, lie was a reteraa Of the eivil war and hnd received a ppeclal medal from snngroaa for bravery. Dr. I.. A. O'Brien, Hia American dentist who i. aid to have been too friendly with the crown princess of faxony, arrived in New York OB the ltd. lie aaya ha left Saxon) before the Saxon officials had a chain c to ax 1 el him. Itert and Jesse Hills. Indiana desperadoes, were captured, n the -'-'d, in a wild country known is theShades f D.ath. They were chained togetber and inarcneu iiito tu- ssswn m hands nt Crawfords villa. Three tnaaked men la attempting to hold iq an electric ear in Los Angeles, Cat, on the 88d, killed one Hlsenger and wound- 1 three other-. 1L A. Qriawold, of Man-on. In., died in his agi-d mother's lap. The Venezuelan COagrea appealed to President astro, on tne o, gine him t recall his resignation. He persists in his intention and the mat ter will be settled tltialiv miring ma pffa I BP! week. William S. Watson. lawyer Of San Antonio. Te.. was found dead in be 1 at the White BoOM hotel, at Warsaw. Ind., on the 22d. A bottle partly full of morphine was found in his room. Carlos Ft ta. exprexiilent of the republic Of Salvador, died in Maatlan. Mexico, on the ltd, in exile, po..r and laaoat friendless. OoT. Conedo paid the expenses of his burial. There was a sharp earthquake shock accompanied bj anhteiTam an noises at li Union. Mexico, oa the 22d. An eartLquake shock also waa felt nt Zihuatniie jo. The dowager empress if China, on O'Jd onlered nil aimr otiiiat ion of half a million taela to le made for the ( bines,, representation at the St. Louis exposition. The heaviest snowstorm of the winter struck Kaaaaa Ity and st. Joseph on the ana. The river began receding at Memphis on the ltd. Dr. ,T. R. A. Crossland. T'nitt 1 taten minister to Liberia, and Washing ton Fllis. secretary if legation, reached New 'ork. on thrf -3d, und.T aaannkad names, hoping t- .- ape be hig questioned OB the shooting affair In which they were involved. ( barbs Arnett. he II year-old aoa of Col, Arnett. a BfboaBng W. Va.) criminal lawyer, walked into the river and, refusing aid from scores of people, was drown. td on tha 13d, He was temporarily deranged. Mrs. Louis Barke kilN-d her four children with an a at her nome in the town of Fiskd ale. Mas.. on the 2:d. and then kille.l herself by cutffffg her throat. 11 is thought the woman was insane. Mrs, Mice Hull ".iirdi k, widow of Fdwin T, P.urdi. k. was called to testify in the munler lupiir.v at Buffalo on the 13d. Letters received by her from Arthur I'ennell vv.re read in court. A revolution brok t at San Domingo on the 2.'td. The w vernmenfs cominamler-in chief U killetl and the aalnister of foreign nffairs sought fajfago in the Cnitei stai.- lagptloa Christian college, at ABtoa, Mo., beloaging to Ihe Disciple chorea, mat destroyed by fire OB the ltd. The loss e 110,000. The eoIleajO was founded 19 eais ago and had IM -tudents. Bar. Oeorge B. Ida, i. D . foe M years pastor of the Grand venue I Congregational church in Mi'waukee. died in a sanitarium in KenoOBO 01 apOplCXJ on the 23d. Treasurer Harry L. Nirdlinger. of the alargnerita Bylra opera eoaaaaay, was robbed of about 13,000 at Milwaukee, on the ltd. I member of th eoaapaay is ml adag After yajaaiaf without interruption for three days, Mrs, William Henry Jenner died at Oahhoah, Wis.. n the 2nd, physicians being nriahla to provide relief. A riot broke out on tha aland of Trinidad, on the 13d, and the Brltloh hnd to land marin-s to restore order. , torch watt applied t. fneeeiiajaart bnJldiaga. Juilj.'.. Hael Instructed the special irrand iurv at Jefferson ity. on tne 'j::d. cnllimr attention t.. tha fact that I. U.rislnt nre held a -s-iou oil Sunda V. Mrs. daran Benuel llaggatA who for a long time had beOfl proininent in Illinois Rastern -tar Work, died et 1 her home in Austin on the 2.d.

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0r Remarkable Immunity From It Due to Ceaaeleas Secret Service Vigilance. THE WORK OF THE LAST FISCAL YEAR. The H rl BtsOWa thnt Ihe I usstf f" latteen are .l.a Hn I. Uli Heal nd Their U.... r I 11 U le 11 l'li 'I'heir Hun"" Hrilai ril tu the VilliIninni B aoMngtoa, March '4. The re Baorkahla exemption, when compared with the records f other eoaatfftot in whieii paper inoiu v is in goaeral use. of the people of the Ualtod States from counterfeii urreiny and false culls is in great niea nre one t. the acttvltj of the set ret service di vision of the trcasurv lepartntetit ihe arreota io agents of this division in the last fiscal year numbered IT! Of whom 153 were convicted. Itt are awaiting' the action of the 1'nited States grand iurv AO H Watting OCtiOB of court. .15 acquitted, M ignored by grand jurv. 19 eases aoBed and thi same immoer uisuusscsi n.-r. stal es eomniis-ioiifrs. Four hundred and thirteen "f Ihooi arreatod were natives of the Cnitei States, IS Of Italy, ft Of liermany. IS of Ireland gad the oth-rs of other nationalities. New York state takes first nlaee. with M rkdat irs, Missouri, 0-: l'eniisy lvuuia. 1'.; Illinois. 40; Kentucky, tV; Tesaa, IS; Ohio, 21; Ooor-j gta, S; South Carolina. gO; Mabnina IS: North Caroliaa, 14; Tennessee. It; i Massachusetts. 0, and with smaller aamhera for the other states. The character and amounts 01 altered and counterfeit nOtee, conn terfeit coins and imitation money eapturod repreaent. a value of tdd, 000.99 of paper money mid SJOgS.4i of coins. In addition to thaao there were vast piles of miscellaneous advertising matter, eoantotlng of facsimiles of confederata not.-, labor ex change notes. Tenncaaeo e-tate warrants. Missouri defense bonds, prints of United State- coins, old state bank notes mid other "fla-h notes. More ler Thin Other ..imlrles. The United state- has more paper money in actual circulation than any other country in the world, and yet counterfeiting is not carried on to 1 very great extent. Although the facilities are great. One of the most an noyiag features which the secret service force has had to deal with was tlie circuiauon 01 nmnciwi Beaatea, laia is a phase of petty eonatorfeitlng which has affected the jrin.iial eastern cities almoot exclu slvely. Nearly a year of patient work on Ihe part of the agent! in the New York and Boat on districts w is Anally crowned with -iiccess. and a skilled coppersmith, who had I " reaptmslhie for probablv M ,er cent of these counterfeits circulated in the hist 'our years, was arrested, proaeentod itid sentenced f. r a term of ream. While the makers of spurium c '.n jive the secret sendee men a great leal of trouble, it is the well ee uted bank-note bobbin;.' up in different parts of the oonntrj which causes them to siiend sheid.-- muht .less 111 ihadowing auspects men of intelligence on the market, anil in eoverlng up thel nornnt. unlettered . It w bo thev generally ahme theaa ire careful tracks, luntei fa 1 he ig:er is an easy mark for BgentU. One of the most perfect hand-eNccntcd counter felt bills was made by a ureen tieor gia faraier named W C. Boiinell, be nv a compo-h f -ix shinph: -ters confederate inotn v and 1 eetlon of I one dollar genuine ErTeetimick. The-. were s.. perfectly '.vrwiighl togethei as to make a seemingly genuine IH graaahacki Bownell a rati made a piantity of silver money, nnd wa- ir't t'mir ri.-'i when he gat to Imbibing to freelj of his own outoul of iiii. it whisky aad gave ins counterfeiting business nwny. Ha waa seal up tot Ave rears, aad aald thai when he served hi- time he would dt vote hitn self to the business f making illi.it whi-kv nnd let counterfeiting alone He expressed the opinion thai the government wn. against an none.si man mahing an bone t living. EIGHT COMPANIES SUMMONED. cnni apeanloia la IsMülooa railed tnawea dmaae at Vtataataui I lie hrriiinii 1st. Indianapolis. 1 11 I . March 2. RUW mouses have been -eivcl on eight 10 diaaa aaal tum pa aire ordering th. .t to appear before Judge C. C. Kohl' saat. of the Cnit d States district court at Chicago, to-day to an-wer an application for n restraining order tiled hv I ni ted State Watrtet tttn n.v Bethen. Use defendants are charged with violating a BewrlsloO ni the Sberanaa act. Thaq ira the una coaapaalea that were uadieted nt Chicago f..r conspiring t raise the price of coal daring Ihe famine laat -'immer. a Pauaaannl r Camamagoee PO'iagt RristoL it. L. March M. N'ai Bay moad B. I'erry. a lineal descendant of Commodore Oliver Hazard I'erry. of Like Erie fame, ia dead here aged Oi .ear- Mai. I'errv s,.r,., .ith dis tinction with Gen Ihtrn-ide In the civil war. Murk T11 nl n III. Maik Twain home with Net. York, March 14, u iii at bis Riverdale hronehinl trouble, ills nhvsictaa, n leaving bite Saadaj nig'it. said hia patient would be able to leSUMM hit work soon

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lold in Brief by Diopatchea from Various Localities. it uu is lessnoee, IsHHaaanidia. lad., March Whiles Un WBlard Cat! and her two rlttera MTOfl -ingili: ut the pjsifl IB home in Pika com y ahd through ib.- avladon fatallj wouadeu Mi-. Gott. Benreliing parties wara oegaalaedi actoin pun ieil bv a who started OS B bloodhound, trad leading Vt'Blaid att, husband, ami to the art tlit- h c or imaa'i divorced on arriving lh re 'he5 -s . . 1. . . a dog attempted t.. leap upon 1 at was held back tt OS! a. ie-lctl at once and charged v ith the el line B refnaed lo make anj rtatamaot. SJaot "aai rwawaoo. Indianapolis, tad . March B3 Johm Willis ami Mrs. .uni Jettro- vvere killed and Frank lOWdOS a'"1 1 u. Coloaaoa were woaadad hj Iben Wright at the home of Mrs I oluiun. tVrtght had beoa olkUag on Cora (arr, a visitor at the house. He . based her through the house. WIUU tried to quiet him and was kille.l. Wright then Shot Mrs. Jeffries through the luai t and emptied his gun at BowdOB and Mi. . plcanaa. The Carr glri eacaped i hiding under a bed la . ar rOOSt Wright eacaped. All are negroes. tCsrfh aatlta Oiirn. Waba-h. Ind.. Marth BS Tiuatee Bhibaugh, of Tipton .kin raa anaatl vv . II t out oil hi Whel. t.nv 11f a 1 11 to look at a tile ditch he had worked on the previous day, he was surprised to find a huge crack in tin earth several hundred feel h ug where the ditch hail been peare.l. been felt The dit.h itself bei Ma .arthiiiiake so t!l-a-k had in the vicinity and the l aomenoa is inexplicable to persoai ill the neighborhood. Thaeraek la broad aad .h ep and naeaw to have followed the line .f the ditch. t hum. i nitJt starawe, t raw for.. sv die. Ind., March II, - Mr-. Uobert J. Drake. of Barvcysburaj, w kjon of u well-know n farmer, was arrest, d and charged a Ith pobtoning her husband, who wa- taken su.ltlenly ill und died a few wc. k- ago. Bef irchla death Drake told his family physician that he w as afraid hi Wife Waa trying to kill hlaa by giving htaj polaon. Au naalyakt of the atomaeh of Drake i Dr. Ilurty. of the state hoard of health. at India an pirift showed enough poison to cause the vvouiaii'k iininetiiatf ar 1 e-t. Hainan Hrsd Found. Era as villa, Intl., March 23. A head was taken from a vault in the rear of a gambling bouse la the central part of thi- city . Three day s ago 1 1 In iy of a man was found there, and the othe rs have been -earthing for the head ever since. The pliy-iciat,- at. unable to -tale whether the head is that of n man or woman. The bod wa- buried in a short time after it w as found, aad win ha exhumed for 1 pool mortem essaatanth n. The coroanr think- a crime ha-been commit ted. Oollnt., I sutured. t raw fordai ille. tad., March 23. t rawfordoVillo jail contains the Hills brothers, who attempted to kill the .(..lit of the Vandalia raitwaj ut Browa't alley and afterwartl terrorized all the eitiaem of the town. One f them. Je--- Hills, is badly Wounded in ihe -houidrr. having been shot during the laVmlle running tight with ihe isherifT- posse preceding the capture Of the desperadoes. The prisoners Weft not -.-cured until they hod exausted 1 neu ammunition. ew l'.l.ir. South Bead, Ind.. March S3, I l. ni oat Stüde ha ker, Jr.. prealdant of the Booth Bend Watch conipimy. snrrounded by the officials, directors and stockholders of the corporation nnd in the presence of about 1 .o ep,-rt employes (tressed the electric button that starteil the current which -.t in BsOtioa the Improved BHtomattc mnehlnery of the splendidly eqaipped new watch factory which ha- taken its place la the ranks ((f the industries here. stfwteei in n Pant a, Michigan City, ImL. March S3, Tiie body of John St 11 1 lack, of ChkagfO, was found floating in the hartsor htre. "Oiiibiek told friend on .la unary I that he nraa going to Chiengn to i-it his wife and would return to Michigan CHy. That was the In -t st en of hitn. His death is a mvst, -ry. si tin unitr -slr. Marion Ind.. March :. It i--i.it.-d iti reliable authority that the Amerian Window Olaaa corapaaj hat dgned arnge agreement for the eomittg .ar with the old L. A. M0, which rellevei all teat that the men will be supplanted by machine- in the trunt'l factorie- at least for another ar. nenah of n trterns. loath Baad. Ind.. Mateh ak Cai lohn n. Olvea, aged N ream, r Mexican veteran, formerly an editor in St. Louis and later in Davenport, Iowa, died in thi- ity of porelynie, Pronilnest l'h,ielnn III. Winch, st, r. Ind.. kfarchtS. Ih .1. K. Markie, 1 nrominanl nb siclan ol astern Indiana, died a1 hi-home here, Mnrileri-r I siikIiI. Mount Vernon, Ind., If arch 18, it ob en Kane wa- stint and Killed Sunday bj Albert Roberta, who naada hia chcape into Illinois. Roberta vvio nrrcste' at t araal by sheriff afeYaddea, of Poey county, nnd will he brottghl back for trial. The oflieers heard n vcral shots, and upon Inveotigting found Kan. dt ad. and m ar hv him wa- Dam. I Duncan, aged M, who had been lasanlt ed with a knife.

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vun Palates on the Witn WW enow wm Stand a Domestic Chapter it Buffalo Tragedy. LOVE LETTERS PRODUCED IN COURT, Pmurll'i llsntl" rlltns Idenliaetl i'r.,.i.illiiH tlrne Here, I lrl Flare In Ihe riat mrhnsfir ol Utfea feSaaw mastthli Paltae "er raee Itutfalo. r March Mrs Alice Hull Durdick, widow ..f Edwin 1 ir .lick, i nadergolag a merciless exam .nation bv Di-tri. t Xttorney t oatsworth In the resumption of the IkV quest into the death of h-r hu-b..n I. who wan murdered 00 'Vbruary gi. With a package t letters in hthands. tome of Watch were written t Mr-. Bnrdleh bj irthar H- PenaeU, eorenpondent Is the dttatao proeoedIngo iii-titnttd by Mr. Bard rk. und other communications between Jr. Bnrdlck and his asjf, Mr. t ootawort 1 forced Mr- Bordieh toted the st .ry t.f her relations with Pelineil tram the time he first made love to her in i New Haven, ill " " ! these remtlons nera renewed after p.ur.liek hud fargiven his wire an 1 had taken her bad. to his home tor the sake of their children. evttaeea Vmlr ,,ri""Mrs. Bordieh waa deathly pal while on the witness stand. She anawereJ qneationa in .1 low, faltering ' e. ev a 1 pos, line a direct answui wueoe... rihk aad reloettatlv ndmlttlng facts when the di-tri 1 iwmrj (o leaaly read axtraeta of the teva 1 ters written to her by Itthu 'L Pen neil. Bot dace the laqueet nto the nn rder begaa has th. re been such Intens iiii.-r.-t in the nroeeedlnga. Aa early as 11 o'clock la th .ruing men an t women. BsOatlj women, ipplied :.t tlie police court for s..ats. Jadge Murphy ordered the room cleared, an I no one was admitted until one o'clock. There was a hum of excitement when Mrs. Hurdick look the wltoe stand. Mrs. Durdick testified that ahe would be years of nge on oril .".0. She wns marri d to Durdi. k Ut Dsf. They hnd three children. Met at artl lsrl . Mr. Hurdick met I'ennell at a crl partv five or six year- ago at Whir. Mr. Bnrdleh waa preaeas. fflia went to New Haven and New York nlth the Penneh In Mr. Bnrdlck dil uot go, being detained by boalnem Io aauaual friendship -prane up I., nve.-n her and l'enneil. Witness did lod ieeall a letter from I'ennell written a New Haven in l'J'M. in which he Bail "yesterday I was at the gnteWg on the campus ground-, where aWl e thnn two years ago. 1 drew you ra n the aarkaeaa, This plaee enh4n me." Willie Treiulile tTtaSeUttV. The dietriet attoi icy produced tie letter and banded it to the adiae -. w ho trembled v lentiy. "Do jou recugnizc it as Pen in 1 handwriting?' Yes." whispered Mr-. Pordick "And von recall the meiden' mw . "Yes. sir." Mrs. Burdieh in recalling tin i? '.- .lent conf.'sed that Pcniioll wi nt into a doorway, drew her in. t. bei -i his arms and kissed her. .s!i" t . she remonstrated. Mr. Contaworth allowed th' wltnca. several letters, one was written frcm .'w l'orh by Pennoll ami nddtvtnsed to Mrs. Durdick. -she -aid it Wilt hlf handwriting, but he did n't rem. in her having ret eiv etl it. Mrs. Hu r.llel' Hrumr) II ef reahetf . 1 will read it and see if it v. ill refresh your reaolleetloai 'A o.kei into your beantlful eves last niirht I feared there was som trouolo hidden there. I did not know, but I feared it was because nf - ni" other reason than be.-nn-- I is g ong away. If there was. dearest. 1 wish ynu would tell me. I her is that .1 Ike iniinncr of your husband toward yOU that makes me fear sometime that 1 might kill him." Do von remember receiving tha' letter ?' "No. sir." In another letter Penncll wrote! 'Onlv a day more m l I hall OCO more aoa the ho .-light In jnnr eyas and experience th:- par-idi'j will, in your arm-.' What ! es he o m by thnt. Mrs. Hurdick'.'" "1 don't know." "What doe- he meai by the 'paa disc within your arm "I don't know ." "Pretty tr.ng language Isn't It?" Mrs. Durdick made no anaWW, snid he did not know whether 1 ef husband was aware of the Lot that he was receiving letters f 1 1 nnell. Her habit had been to keep bef letters looked In a box She was finally in I need to adtuit that she took the letters fr un her trunk and pave th.-m to he'- bust f. She said while -In did sei Mi. lb r dick held her tightly by 1 lie tin o it. The day prove.l 1 h.w ne for ikg w it ne-s. LONDON IS IN THE DARK. Nothing; Ha Bun llesitl there of ihr getanen of the Vaueseetun Baahnat Hetnursl,.p. Eamdaaj, March M The foreign office, as this dispatch is tiled, ha o confirmation of tha reported m?I of the Venesuelaa gnabont Besti a a ior by tha Jhitish cruiaes Palht 1 the ground that the former had n .1 in s airntical sssaaer. The foreign flee hau heard nothing direct from Caracas regarding Pn dent t'aatrsu retiicnat ion.