Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 46, Number 35, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 May 1904 — Page 2
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The funeral if Mggraus Jokai. the Hungarian novelist, who died of Inflammation of the IMP at Buda Pe.-t, on the Cth. will be made a state affair. The bubonic plague has reappeared In the hear: of Johann--. Sonth Africa. Two casea have been detected In the. .r.arkef. ah h La- l t. . r lereJ clo.. .: - gj . i The trial of Charles Kr-.r.. of 8t. Louis, charged with bOOdUug, & called at Butler. Mo, on the Sd, Imt was postponed by sgnuegnenl of b th idea until August 1 before Judge Gra
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Allen Mooney, the rondcmne,i murderer who bot and killed two women nt Saranae Lake, N Y.. ou November 4, IMt, wu put to death in the electric chair at Clinton prison, Pannemora, on the 3d. Dr. William W, Barton Hopkins, well known in medical circles, died at Philadelphia, on the 4th. of chole-a morbus Dr Hopkins was the author of manj valuable medical articles, and his book on fractures is widely known
NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Source. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The time Uralt of Sr. Louis World' fair tickets has been extended by nearly all of the western road from ten days to 15 days. They are the Burlington. Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul, Rock Island. Frisco. Illinois Central Missouri Pat iflc and l uion Pacific.
The war department has determined to ignore the charges made by Capt. J. P. Walker. United States army, retired, against Col. Mills, superintendent of the West Poin' military academy, and a recommendation that no further action be taken was submitted to Se. retar y Taft HaJIme Ho-hi Is installing his Japanese prinrtug office in the Liberal Arts building at the World'r rp.ir at St Louis, and it wit! be In operation In s few days. The type are metal, of the same height as American type, and are w. .1 . a.-- u ,m characters.
Prof F. Lamson Scrlbner. chief of the bureau of agriculture oi the Philippine government, has resigned, and has been placed in charge 0f the bureau Of plant industry at the St. Louis exposition. Mr Scrlbner formerly was the chief agrostologist of the department of agriculture.
The Liberty bell will be taken to St. Louis This was dsclded upon, on Um 6th. when both branches of the city council of Philadelphia passed a resolution appointing a special Joint committee of 24 to escort the revolutionary relic, and appropriating $ 15,000 to defray the expenses. Robert A. Smith, democrat, was reelected mayor of Sc Paul. Minn., on the 3d. by a large plurality over Col. E. P. Wright, republican. Mayor Smith's plurality, according to early returns, may run as hieh as 3.'o" The demo rats probably w ill have a majority of the common council. i gaMir. is'er Conger has cabled the staff department from Pekin that some fln portraits of the empress dowager oi China, which were dispatched to th
A London d'spatch of the t ri sail: Tort Arthur is .-ompletelv cut off by
land and s-a One great Japanese army of oi'.i "o men and guns is landing, or has landed at Piisewo. about fifty miles nort heast :f th doomed form .s. aid already an equally powerful iwp. OSS reached Kin Chow, on the e:cs: i-nle of the LsJo Tung pogfllHln while at the south Admiral Togo Ins shut the sea pates en the RttSI in stronghold " Fearing to stand IBS new trial that might have bees granted him, Curtli Jett, the cor. i ' d a-s.issin of James M Man um and Town Marshal Cockrill if Jack. in. Ky . has uism - i his appeal and accepted the life ana tat en
given him for the murder of Marcun.
After an absence of 39 paars, dating
which time he has served the eounf of his adoption in IkmIi peace and war.
den. Peter - J. (; rtaaui arrived in Bt,
Lsulu, on the night of the 5th, ami ngl warmly v. ; many of h:s oM comrade- la arms. Confirmatory report? were received, on the Cth. of the complete isolation
of Port Arthur by the Japanese, who had gained possesion of the railroad
i on the narrow neck f the Liao Tung
peninsula, thus la Testing Port Arthur by land The investment by sea is now practically complete as the result of Admiral Togo's persi.-cnt efforts. The tornado that swept northwest Texas, on the night of the 5th. killed Mrs Mary Wagley. her daughter Anna and C5. Anthony at Moran. A dozen persons were seriously injured. At Putnam one man was killed and one woman injured There were casualties it eher points. When they found that the isolation of Porth Arthur was inevitable. Viceroy Alexleff and Grand Duke Boris hastily gathered up all important doc
uments and siyplus money, loaded what field artillery there was on to s. train and retreated to Mukden, leav- : ins Qon. Btoesatl to hold the bag till the Japs should relieve him. The tag Michael Davitt. of Buffalo. Ilea on the bottom Of the We! land river j at Montrose. Ont.. under 1" feet of i water, with a badly damaged bottom. he was soing from Buffalo to Weiland, and strack a sunken pile jn the North channel a' Montrose bridge. No one was drowned.
u.tMimnu Aoohs. a young miner, was
burned to death, and six other p t-
had a narrow escape from being
mated in a fire that d.-st,oed the Ho- '
tel Turret, a two-stor wooden structure, at Turret, a ruining camp Vi miles north of Halida, Col Fight hundred TsibetaaS coming from the direction of Shu i . atta.ked the Brmsti ssiaBkMI at Qygggdas at dawn tn April S The Thibetans were repulsed with heavy legs ar.d tld. The British loss was two wounded. (ieorge W Parker, of Sag Kram i U .. preside at nf the Pacta (lt Oypsum Qgv, was run down by an atttoas and probably fatally injured on lis tlth. His shoulder and three ribs wert broken. The ministers of the powers, according to good authority, without exception are seeking to make ihe Chmesi government observe strtc ralit Joseph Ciibbs. a p cger on a Fnion Pacific train, was killed, on the thh. in attempting to hoard the train H was on the way from his California home to Pittsburg.
THE BRAZIL-PERU
ALL OTEB THE STATE.
BOUNDARY DISPUTE
LATE NtWS ITEMS.
Peruvian Legation Makes Counterstatement to Brazil's Claims. SAYS BRAZIL WAS HOSTILE
latin Bvaalllaa fwifi tiuu'tt hu, l Mitiicr'l it "mull l.nrrl.iMi uf frniTtea i'rii nmi orn'ImIo Omntrni lteaBMBSlS)IIAfr.
Events In Various Portions of Intlianu Told by Wire.
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A hou in Progresso. Yuc-'.t in. has been raided by the police, who raptured two Americans by the name of KorU and Williams, who were taught manufacturing counterfeit mo,- -y The treasury department has awarded !. the thil- sb-yx this & Fhetric Light Co. tho contract for the installation of steam-heating: apparatus in the public building at Oalesberg. 111. The artillery hand (the ,3pador.si. the band selected to represent Mexico at the musical contests at the St. Louis
expositlaa, will leave there for that city June 1 It is eottposed Of w select mu.-ii ians. Carlisle D. Graham, ago earned for himself the sobriquet of "Hero of the
Niagara by his frequent trips through the whirlpool rapids In a barrel, is gome abroad, and will make an attempt to swim the English channel. Contrary to what has been deemed probable a cneral strike of all union bakers In New England VSS not ordered at the Convention Of the Massachusetts state branch of the Bakery and Confectionery workers, held at Boston on the 8th. The treasury warrant for 140,000. to
be delivered to J P Morgan & Co., of New York, on account of the Panama
canal purchase, ergs taken to that city on the 8th by Secretary of the Treasury Shaw. It was delivered bv the Secre
tary to Morgan & Co on the Mh.
Remsas Eail Wilson, an extra con
ductor in the employe of the Fort
Washington, May -la view of the Sstisssni made oy the Brasilien tagging defining Brazil s QSSitlOS in the xiundary dispute with iVru. the PS ruvian legation Sunday made a coiiutcrsta'ement to the following effect: "Peru has neer admitted in B'-a 11 iiiy right srhatsoerer to the territory
actually in dispute. "The treaty of 1851 contains no rec)gnition in Brazil's rights as alleged by ;he Brazilian legation The treaty is one of amity and ooniUtSfOS, and SSSdO so reference as to the territory now in dispute. "The Peruvian legation does nit Know of any instance that can be cited n Which Petll admired any of Brazil's pretended rights. On the other hand. reiem statements of Brazil's fnfgfgg jfflce admit that the government at Lima has asserted it.s claims and maintained Its title over the region in dispute "According to Igte reports, it would seem that the govern ment of Brazil. Instead of framinc its policy in SCCOTd
nce with the provision of its Constitution, which provides for the settlement of internationad disputes by ,tbitration. has assumed a hostile attitude, and taken stem bv no means ''oti-
duc ive to the pacific solution it haa
pledged itself to seek. "The Brazilian legation's statemer' :hat Peru took advantage of Brazil's trouble with Bolivia to send military forces to headqua.-'ers of the River.-. Yurau and Purus is unwarranted, ts Peruvian population always hau existed there, as well as small gsrrtsonf to preserve order. According to prev:: reports, one of thes- garrisons not lor.t ago was assaulted oy Brazilian troops, with the remit that some of the Peruvians STSTS IHIHgllH, and
some made pri-loners and taken to
To Held Llbuuy Inatitutea. IndlaniSOllS. lud. May g, The pub 'ie 1 1 Brat coininissioii, of Indnina. beginning May y and continuing until tin Ifta, Kill hold library Institutes at Brssll, BvsaavtUe and Bedford The parpoes sf Inns institutes in to Interest the cnizeiis cf towns in the state in souring librarUs. Inder the recent Indiana law it is eoSSlM for any iBCOrporated town or city to establish
and maintain a free public library, and the commlNsioii inutcM citi .m to cooperate with them In the organ izatiou of such libraries. During the Instituten prominent thinkers and educators of the state will talk on Hi' !:.'- of , n-g.ini '.it ion and the a'.ue of good bimks. A New Counterfeit. Indianapolis. Ind.. May 6 - A new SOnnterfeit lfl national bank note has made its appearance. As the note is supposeu to be issued from the Denver na-
ticnal bank the authorities have very reSSOg to believe the counterfeit ihr work is b.lng done in the east and are making every attempt to locate the counterfeiters there. Government ftt' ials in this city have received a c rude, photo of the note. It is of the series of
lss2 The harter number is 3 tgS; the bank number. I&MS, and the treasury number H4.M9. The check letter ia E Death of Judge Studebaker. Decatur. Ind . May 6- David Studebaker. banke r, lawyer and Jurist is dead. He was born in M roST county, o., August 12, lt27. He wss prominent sll over the state' His wealth Is estimated at orer $i. 1,000, I'p to the thneof nil demise he was director of the Bankers' national bank, of Chi ago, and vice president of the old Adams County bank, in Decatur. Ind. Forme rly he was president of the bank in IVcatur He had been connected with the Chicago bank since is.2. and was highly respected among his banker associates.
IN NEW YORK CITY
Many Policemen Alleged to Holding Hog; us Papers.
Be
Four bandits. onvictd of mur 'er, wer parroted, on the 4th. in the provincial jail at Santiago. Cuba. It was the first legal exeeution since the Span
ish regime. The I'niteel Stas canal commission, on th 4th. took formal possesion of the Panama anal rout and of the
property of the Panama Canal Co. Th"
Body Turned Green. RokomOi Ind.. May 6. The year old son of Dr Rov Thompson, a vet er i nary surgeon here was playing In his father's office, and got hohl of some protoiodide of m re ury tablets, one of which is all an adult can take With safety The ebil.l lfe 40 or r.u
of them, and soon after was thrown into convulsions. The effect of the poi- ; son was to turn his body green for a j time. He had eaten so many of them, however, that they acted a- an emetic
ad-
WSjrne & Southwestern Traction Co
St mit Wayne. Ind.. met instant death. Manaos. where ;h Brazilian officials on the 7'h. receiving an elec tric shoe k ' set them free, stating that neither the
as h attempted to make a telenh i an 1 that fact and the antidote
connection with the company 's private sponsible for such assault Such would j ministered saved his life.
tv.tem. no, have been the attitude of Brasilien Seventeen business places and ten ffkials toward he Peruvian sol oil rS, dwellings were destroyed in a fire had they thought for a moment they which wiped oty half of Ftiea. Mich., had invaded Brazilian ferritin. Pe ru on the 8th. Practically nothing could , to-day is desirous of resorting to erbe done in the way of fighting the lire bitration. without d- manding previova unt:l the arrival of an engine and com- 1 conditions BBaamnn to mwubmu
really wishing to rosea a prompt, fust and pacific settlement of their differences This she can offer as the hegt proof of her good fr.it h and fraternal sentiments towards her sister republics."
U. S. AUTHORITIES TO INQUIRE Mli'lte) Hiriill-el I "e, II m c-1 I., He
Kl mill lie, I I,, -i'fala Wliiu, W In re nml Mol l lo- timi I loir I ii iti. New York. May lo. - lu th- c ourse at a sweeping Investigation lata naturslisztion frauds which has I a in progress hero during the pit 15 months, the authorities have been luformed that many me mbers of the police force hold papers said to have been secured by methods not in accord with the law Most of the nun under suspicion are said to have been e n tht force some ye-ars. It U likely tin naturalized policemen in Greater New York nU be examined. I'tcimtikImii, In, lull,,,. Assistant l'nlted State District Attorney Marx, appointed SOSM tun agi by Attorney-General Knox, at the request af United S'ats District A'torney Bottett, to prosecute these who hold an I tn.thY in .purious ii i :. -Bij. paper-:. Said la regard to the matt. r: "Ar niigements hav - jus beer , mpleted between ths dessurtnMn . justice an ! State sojm rintendent of BhM tions Morgan that th bureau of Meettans eno the Fnited Btatee distrlci attorne y's ffic e shall m-nmmti vt
are lafjnned that a Bonsldersblc QUUV her c f th-j polic e force hold pap. r- obtained by fraud, or have n. v. : l, .-er, naturalei. c o-0,,-nic ion mi SkwrseaassM. The co operation o, the government cvlth the bureau of elections will . nable the district attorney to have win. -eg suhpoenae i. "It is )ir plan to su,bnoena. if norrssary. and raturalized pollosniaB and gasaine him as to his naturalization daf cf arrial In this country, a ( on It would b Ssetani for si " oi them to tell SaytfllOg BUI the truth, because the KOVernSXSl has in its BOS session evidti with regard to their landing." FsaYSetfaaM tlrsaeii rrnmi. Since the Inauguration of the work more than a year ago. about lio men have rte.e,, (ceiTirtsd in complicity in securing fraudulent palters. Mom of them were lls'isna fhsn tendM ransj
A 0 Taiaittg, former president, and D C. C'trnell. former treasurer of the defunc t Monmouth Trust Co . of Asbury Park N J . were, on the 3d. sentenced respectively to six and four years in state prison. Counsel for the prisoner? announce. i that an appeal would b taken, and the two men were releasee nder K.OOO bail each.
St. Louis expedition on the steamer SI- I property is now under the control and beria. will be .donate! by the empresi j direction of MaJ. Mark Brook, United dowager to the I'nited States govern- I Stafps engineer corps teeni after they have been on exhibi- j Jame Horton, of Joplln. Mo. aged Jon at the fair. j 17, broke down, on the Ith, and re
lated details of the murder of his stepfather. J II Kennell. In that city, March ." The deed, according to the confession, was committed by the lad's brother. Ollie Horton, aged 19. who Is in jail in Carthage. Met
The Tampa Bay hotel at Tampa. Fla
wa threa'enecl with destruc tion. on the
"th. by an explosion In the basement. The blaze was extinguished without erious loss. The hotel was crowded with delegate? to the Panama canal convent iftn, and a panic was barely
iverted F II. Hubbard, of Sioux City. Ia , was nominated for congress by th republicans of the Eleventh district on the fifty-fourth ballot on the r,th. defeating rYillgioSSIIinil Thomas and eher candidates. A Jury having at lenirth been secured, the se. nncl trial of former Mayor A A Ames, cif Minneapolis. Minn, on a corruption charge, began on ths r.th termed Roby. a farmer near Liberty, Mo, shot ar.d fatally wounded Mrs. Thomas Pennington, and then shot and killed himself on th. Ith, Mr- Pennine-ton and her husband were visiting Roby's home, and th" tragedy, it Is 'aid, was caused by Jealousv The Presen genrsrhsseat has decided to reject both in substance and form
the note of p-ote-t aa t.-t Prc-ohut Umbet's visit to the quirtnal at Home, sent by the Vatican to all Catholic powers. The French ambassador to the Holy See has been Instructed by Foreign Minister Delcsase to notify the papal secretary of state to this ff :. end to declare that France considers the protest to lie null and void. fudge Tuley. of Chicago. n the r.tb, issued an injunction restraining the Woman's "athollc Order of Foresters from goMlgg the biennial convention of the order at Minneapolis. May 10. The date named, it was c harged, would prevent the attendant e of many who wlched to attend The navy department has refused to grant a third trial for the cruiser Denver, which was delivered to the gorTument under the contract, on the 6th, and the payment to the contra tors will he made on the haaia of the Bhowlng of that vessel at her Iat trlsl.
Kuhn. Loeb & Co announced that : the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking got potation and Parr's bank, limited, I
of London, has purchased from th Japanese government 10.0O0.0oo, seven year six per cent, treasury notes, redeemable after three years at the option of the goverr.no r.V and . ; r by an exclusive first lien on the customs. The case of Charles Cunningham, the eastern Oregon "Shenp king. '' Glen H V. lallng, Shelly Jones and Dallas O'Hara. charged with conspiracy to defra id 'he I'nited FtateK rov. rnni.-nt of public lands, was brought to an ab m'pt and unespected rnnelnsiog on the Bth ly pleas of guilty being made grhen these defendants were arraigned in the I nited State district court, a' Pcrtland, Ore After a search rove rine the whole of the fnited Stat. - George Miller, h. Ir to more than HOtjOOO, hft him gftet he had been exiled from Brookiyr N 1 for three years, has been found at lart While mi'ti's -f his father's exo -ntora were looking for him all over the west, he was tossing in delirium upon a bed In the Sacramento county hospital in Sacramento. Cal. He is etill in that Institution, slowly recovering from a long run of typhoid fever. e 1 -1 N Th proposal Wore the assembly that Panama should adopt the I'nited States gold standard was rejee after an excited discussion, on the ? rev M notes to U The government and the opposition parties did not act as units The two to one system was proposed, on th Ith. the government to issuf 2.000.000 iHvar dollars. 9O0 ne depoicitlng enough money with the fnited Statea to gnarsntee the differ. ea r- . . 1 1 si sm . v.
'-'11 uih inuii ana the noes.
il value of the issue
n:inv of firm-n frum fw.tr. kt Th -n '
and scarcely any fire fighting apparatus The demand for pr -s seats at 'he two national conventions far exceed! the capacity of the space set apart for the newspapers of the country. At the Chicago convention there will he 8 seats in the pres reservation, and already tlore have been received 1 .7
applications. The demand for scats at the St. Louts convention also is far in excess of the capacity of the .-pace re erred for the ores Re-urns from the officers of the Indian bureau thoV that 4.'.t; bids fog furnishing Indian supplies were received at Chicago and 74 at St. Louis. No awards of the bids have yet been made The treasury warrant for 140,009,001 j on account of the Panama canal pur- 1 ehaae was delivered to J. P. Morgan Ac I
tx. by Secretary Shaw at the subtreasury on the Hth.
After numerous posfponsmBUtl th trial of William I) Haywood, secretary-treasurer of the Western Fech-ra ticm of Itinera, on the charge of desecration of the flag, was held in Justico Hyne' court at Denver Col on ths 9th. Reports from st Petersburg say the statement that Russia is preparing to make an elaltorate exhibit at St Louis is incorrect There will be ro official partic ipation by Russia, but there will be a Russian art sec tion and some priva'ci exhibits
are still pending. TWO RELICS
OF ROYALTY
Dedicated. Lifnyefte. Ind , May fi The most brilliant event of the university year at Purdue was the dedication of the Kli.a Fowler hall, a $7". structure eh voted to assembly purposes. The new hall bears the name of the donor a wealthy Lsinjretts woman, who died three years ago. shortly after she had made known her purpose togftre Purdue .in -..ml,'v ,ti ,1.0, ia
stand as a nlswratt mai tn u ,' a,,,U''1 "f royal personages
i:-ctiii.-n 1.1 1 1 11 ik 11 in u 1 nf Hawaii col M-r m. PrlaWHI cilel. at tiie WmrWm I nlr.
St Louis, Ma W Two
more eere
ALL HOPE IS ABANDONED. Batasakeg SUawaw liiBtltli, fn., I llllllllllll .il It'-n.l II Itl-Olllt of
lire In the Mine. Shamokin, Pa. May f. Rescuing parties are still at work in the LoeUSt Jap ddliery. where five ni"ti are entombed as a re-lit of he fire in OT.fl of the stojMs. The miners have been in the min? since Thursday night, and all gone cf finding them alive has been abandoned. The fire is burning as fiercely as ever, making it impossible to penetrate the workings James R. Roderick, chief of the state bureau cf mines, was here Sunday conferrim; with officials of the 'Philadelphia & Reading Coal K Iron Co. He expressed himself as being satisfied that everything po-;i ... i- ),. mg done to i'Mipi ah 'he fire and determine the fate Of the missing m n Six thousand p rsoni from the surrounding country visited the scene Sunday. MAY BE DECIDED SOON.
being entertained in Sr Loul In SOtt nection with the World's fair whet, lormer Queen Liluokalani of Hasrail and ggr son. former Prince- Cupid, now known as Joseph KslsatSSOle, arrived
Better Prospect for Fruit. Richmond, Ind., May Wnyns eonat) Eaneers, who had faared that the fruit crop might be damage I by the unseasonable weather during April and the frevo of March, find that the prospects are much improved The !ast few days of warm sunshine
have brought forth buds in profusion ' 'he wife Prl
on plum, apple and cherry trees. ' friends To "Raise" Fence Posts. Qu.e. n Uliuohalanl an. PrlBCC Monticello. Ind., May 6 Arthur I nav' '" ' 11 " Wa-h't-j-.-t. ,1 : .:
Ruchanan has plante-1 10, locust W1,1"'r Mlov r main in St Lou I
sprouts, which will be raisei and con ,WO an'' during that time it is
social activity which
Monday morning, and took a soil eight rooms at the hlf.!,j. nn a ctf the World .- fair In the tart .
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A sensation was created in criminal court at Cleveland. O . on the tith. when Prose tutor Keeler announcd that a bold attempt had been made to bribe the Juron. in the- egSS tf f.uvatiOano PleecloUa, an Italian, charged with the murder of Poticeman WhlU
1 1 n time sit.' t
Judge j. a. Elton. of Ordorado
Springs, Col. appraiser for the Win-
fleld Scott St rat ton estate, has filed his report, showing that the Intal value of the estate at the time of the death of Mr. Stratton was 0,3o7.1;o, and that the amount due to the Mate Slider the inheritance law Is s t ; Charles W Rryan. of Lincoln. Neb., and brother Of William Jennings Roar., said In an Intereview, on the Hth, that the reports erf dissension in the N' hraska democracy ar wrong, and that his brother will head the delega
tion to St Iiuls unitedly pledged to vote for reaffirmation of the Kansas City platform. Suddenly and without a moments warning to the large congregation, whose heads were bowed while the minister prayed for their welfare. Rev. 0 It Newell, pastor of the M E rhurch at Marshalltown.la . fell Rtricken with paralysis In his pulpit For a moment the parishioner, were terrorstricken, and the form of the stricken pastor wa allowed to pitch headlong to the floeir He was removed to his home, but can not livs.
SSa I oiii II II., c Mfl I mn I ii.-fi.r Ma Bit awwa.fi ii-ir.-sse aa rt.
Jefferson City, Mo . May .Division No. 2- the criminal branch of the Missouri täte supreme court will con
vene Tuesday morning to pas- upon motion-, and hand down opinion- It may bo that among the opinions rendered will be thOSS in the bribery and boodle cases of Robert M Snyder, the Kansas City Beaker, convicted in St. Louis and sentence d to serve five rears in the psnitentlufT. and aNo the perjury case of Julius Ix-hman. the St. I.ouis.tn. who Is under penitentiary Sentence. The point upon which ths Snyder case hinges Is as to whether or not he was a resident of this ttate
st the time his allcSecl offense was committed, involving his right to ths benefits of the statute of limitations. A PREMIUM ON IMMIGRATION giosrned r f..r njstetg Pnsaili Thnf ii a c, f,,- IfatO tc atosgnage in Ineicaltaswt Meridia. Yucntsn. May 9 The egls lature of this state has conceded to the immigration s.h iety few a term of five years a premium of $2.ri to every family that comes to the Mate for the purpeise of engaging In agriculture. Each family must DOOntst of thre members or more, and must have lived on some land in the state six montht before the sllowsnce Is made good.
verted into fenc e posts. He has eight acres thus set aside, and will add N aeres more On each acre g,f0! tree can be cultivated, each of which is e pected to yield three posts, at 75 cents each.
Library Out of Debt. Muneie, Ind . May 6 The last payment on the library building. ere-cte,l at a cost of $7f..oiic, has been made, and the city is out of debt so far as the library Is concerned Andrew Carnegie gave tSS.OOO toward the In stitutlon. and the city contributed S 1,000. Policeman Shot. IndlsnapollS, Ind., M nj I Patrolman Hnnford Burks was shot five tin.e s g a running street fight with SberglST VhOgl
n c augtit c nmteii.g from a window e will probably die. The burlar was shot twice by the policeman, but enospi d. Honor for Colored Girl. Lnporte, ind . May I, ies Haael Harrison, a young colored girl of this city, bas been invitee! to play itn the Phiiiuim.oni. ofchtetrn oi Bertis, Qnr gtany.and sbenedU concert will hi gieng here to enable her to accept Masons Have New Home. Crawfordsvllle. Ind . May f, -The masons of this cltv have e-omph t ed arrangements for the dedication of their temple on May 27. Memorial Day Proclntnntion. IndianaHlis. Incl . May f. Qoe Win-
field T Durbln has raSBSd gproelggMttOg designating Mondaj. May Ho. as Memorial day. Tlroke His Neck. Munrle. Ind. May C Reryl Oo'en-
or. If. years old. was instantly klil-.I by falling down ths elevstor shaft of the Johnson block He started the .levator and tried to climb in after ward He f only sight feet, but his neck was broken. Killed During a Quarrel. Seymour. Ind.. May 6 Oeorge Petrick shot and killed Hen Hetterly In Sam Rlttenhouse's saloon as the result of a gunnel. Betteriy had sttacke.i wlih e knife, and the latter fired three shota o of which took effect.
ejtpee feci that tin characterized th the Chicago c-xp. ?d
She ha.-, been
eX-Cjlieen s vi it to tion w ill be ran at
one of the 0KM1
pic
turesque figures in American life ince -he was deposed as queen of the Hawaiian, over whom she ruled ss the successor to her husband Kin;, Kalakana. a king of the comic BpSTi type, by the annexation Of Hawaii to the I'nited States She. her son and his wife hau- been prominent Id Washington society for several seasons, during natch time the ex-queen has no' 1 .-a . () to press her dim for financial reimbursement for the loss of her throne
BRIG.-GEN. S. W. GROESBECK lie Served i I'aaatrs nsHMallg Kir 1 gwarea -i r..n. wmwm in 1 ii.- i n 1 .
St. Ixuis. Ma 10 Stephe n W tiro, shc-ck. T'nit army, retired, died at his rci
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Maren he nag an at:a k of g grlppn, which :;r.-at!y enfeebled his coti .'itution Thr.-e wc-ks ago typhoid ferer developed Ofl Saturday there were ayaptogM of pnemaonin, and deati Bonn (nOnered Qgn. Onoenhech had a record of Bjargj ban forty jears of huuorable service iu th army.
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A Frenc h physician, Dr Petit, has made experiments which show that eight drops of nicotine sufin e to kill n horse. Snakes, frogs and llards an be killed by simply blowing tobacco smoke into their mouths, and he asserts that if the human mouth were cold the tame fatal result would follow ths introduction of smoke.
Krery man, woman and child In the United States took, on an average, ;j rides on the atreet cars last year, ac cording to a recent report of ths census bureau. That wss 31 rides more than they hsd tsken In 1SSI.