Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 48, Number 15, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 December 1905 — Page 2

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JASPER

INDIANA

In the .t tv years about 5.000.000 sjaulberry trees have been plant! In Argentina which hat now about 10. IMjOOJ of ruch trees.

Bostonian are tili trus to the baked bean. Iast year they spent on their favorite diet mor than the oust of two battleships, or $'.5S9.2,2. The Portuguese government will hui'd a railroad from Delagoa bay to Swaziland. That aJda one more to the many "openings up" In Africa

Akonla is the name of a substance Manufactured in England, which, dissolved In the water with which the streets are sprinkled. Is said to prevent dust from rising.

IDE WEEK'S NEWS TERSELY OUTLINED

An Epitome of the Most Important Event at Home and Abroad the Past Weak. NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH.

V. OSSkafrraa HuIuk. rorllirr With llil llitrliiimriilt In llItrmt l ulltU Iroiu I in r I a u I llanraiiig All Utrr lb. Uurld.

Gor. George il. I iter, of Rhode Island. Is a Seventh Iay Adventist, nd. therefore, on the last day of ths VMS. the executive department of the state does no business.

During the recent yel'ow fever ep dtiu.c in New Orleans not one casa undo its appearance among the soldiers of Jacaxos barnu-ks, only 150 feet from the nearest iufexrted point The dead bodies of prospectors are found day afrer day In Death Valley, Southern California. Always the unfortunates have discarded all their Clothing in the agonies of heat and thirst.

Italian prisons got so full this year that the go veraasest had to resort to royal clemency to some of the occu pants In order to make room for delinUents crowded out. A decree was is sued last August and since then 1,536 prisoners have bet n pardoned, and 1.072 have had their sentences reduced.

It !s extremely gratifying to learn that at .ist one of the great European countries. England, has material iy redu- I Its annual drink bill in recent years. In I MM the consumption of spirits in England was less than half what it was in 1900, while that of beer sss also smaller. I .a si year the total of England s drink bill w as ' :...;:) :t was Ave yean hsfore.

I o . . ii i BSIOXAA I i I The tenate aased the Pui.auia .anal

SJSffJsej appropriation bill, but not bMU several senators had ej.psd the cimioii it.ai tht a.-.i-s ja.d to the tU utne heavis were entire. loo .arg lteprceuuilie Mornii, of Pennsylvania, ciiaircnan of the houe couiuiitue un..iia, has introduced a resolution ;u the house providing for the r-tatiishaiei.t-ot the army canteen. Itcre . tad b.ood between J-tiu

Sharp Wi'liauis, leader of the minority in the house, and Messrs. Lamar, of Florida, and Ska, kief ord, of Missouri. il re.atKu to lonumittee ass.gnmeLUj It rsssitsl in a long and accnuiou.oua till ou the Hour, in which the two lat

ter huricj deüaLie at the .eader. Mr. Suae kit-ford guiug so far as to de line u be further ltd by the gi-nlicniau frum

MiutsstssL Kai. road rate iegis.ai u is to be allowed toMutxibvr until after the holiday rev. eis. There U every indication that the U.000,0M Panama canal appropriation Vlll Le acted upon and become a law : 'Tc tui.fcUsi aepara.is for the holi

day s. statehood legislation is looking up. and it se-ms reasonally certain that there U boon be two new stars, one i . i osc-d of Arizona and New Mexico and the other of Oklahoma and Indian I tory. For the first time in the history of the United States senate the death of a senator was permitted to pass unnoticed. The name of the late Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, was not mentioned

ilated that more arved to death in The famine waa Horrifying as arc

mortality

It has been calc than 2.000 persons s Spain last summer, due to the drought.

these figures the Spaa!

occupies an unimportant place in th record of the world's great famines In the great famine in India In 17C970, 1,600,000 people are supposed to have perished, and 1.500. 000 died It the famine of

A Western railroad with an Eastern terminus in Chicago has announced a

new pian in excursion business. Here

after it will conduct excursions In

wuct. nerc-iotore. the harvest time of railroad excursion traffic has been In

We summer season. But the railroads apparently have persistently overlooked

me ract that this Is also another bar est time. The farmer is busy in rum

Muri, uu in? excursions, no matter how much they may tempt him, are

xn possibilities of which he oan tak

a! ant ages.

Owing to the scandalous sa'e of tl ties the aristocracy in France bday Is exactly twice as nurn-rous as it was before the great revolution of 11c years ago. which was aimed at the aristocracy, and by which all titles o: nobility were abolished. Previous t that time there were not more thar 38 French princes and dukes; to-dav there are 400. At the beginning o"i the 19th century there were In al 83.H0O titled people. There are now 100.000 In dlviduals duly possessed o. patents of noiOllty.

President Roosevelfs Instant and cordial response to the request of the Kational Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis reflect

in rar-n aching activity now In prog ress not merely Oiat tuberculosii may be cun-d, but that it may be prevent Sd. Tho president recently appoint d a committee to prepare and sub Wit a plan by which government offl ces and workshops may be so irr proved and protected that the dansr

iuum-uM).s,s cjn lamination will be

reduced to a minimum, lutely eliminated.

if not abso-

According to a report Issosd by the

swiogicai survey the total output of

cruuo pcimieum in tho fnitod Stat da. S t1 M

u im was u..tMi.;.4Ll barrels. Thr. a

wii vaiue (r all the petroleum

marketed in the United StAtes n 1M ttoa tl AI 1 -n a rm

i ".too. rne gain over tiie

production ,f lfi3 was K.C2.084 bar

res in quantity and $6.47C,4l In val . n . ,

j no re-port says that all indica

wons point to an increase In the pro

uu uun oi p.troieum In the I'nited

crates ior a series of years. The In creased demand for petroleum is attributed to the use for autos. I aggregate entrances and clearances i ,ho foreign trade liondon Ja H ' ! '' " "r! I'm ix.rts. vk h HSV Jork i ond and Antwerp third. New orks tonnngs in the f-'gn trade 1 growing faster than lxndoni It Will probably pa, Indon in that eM by 1010. But by 1910 or lm Antwerp u likely to pass both linden and New York, and take ths first place among the world's foreign skta, ling pirta In foreig;. trada sSV ver. the jg farter ltl,n lu ür)Uat xne(icJ

1 in: I I l I IO IN HI " " I A . It begins to look as though the reactionaries were gaining the upper hand i..st vio.- n' r-j,re.-: i:.. a-,:es aie about to be inaugurated, in which een. there is no teding what the result will be. Authority has been given the governors of dijtritts and provinces to proclaim a state of siege, or if they deem it r.eeesaary. martial law. Th.s stSB. has Miuck terror into the hearts of the Kuat ans, as they know what it means m ths hands of the ractit nary officials. liloody collisions are reported to have occurred or. the streets of Riga, during Lieh machine guns were used with

trr.b.e effect.

Foreign Minister Lamdorff, whye not unduly optimistic, expresses the opinion that the political situation and outbok i-i Improving.

The empc-ror is g. ing to Moscow to proclaim the constitution from the Kremlin. The outbreak in the army in Manchuria is now attributed to failure to pa iu 1 properly feed the troops. Keiorts from the interior of Russia Ir.uicate that the country generally remains at the boiling point, ready to slop over on the slightest pretext. Despite the persistent efforts of the rea- tionary canioriila, headed by Gen,

Count Alexis Ignatieff. formed to effect the downfall of Count Witte, and

b i reatc a dic tatorship, the emperor is

stan.I.ni: firmly by the nremier.

The Russian imperial family has de

cided to remain at Tsarskoe Selo for

the present.

A correspondent at Riga says he fears

that the deep hatred felt by the Lithuanians for the German nobility and

German capita ista will lead to an awful

calamity.

The Lithuanian have tteclared their

separation from the Russian empire

and have sent up an Independent gov

ernment In Livonia. Dvina fort, com-

maning Riga harbor, has been seized.

and many of the troops have joined ths

u..-l.:p ( uon ista.

the north wing of ths

North. n Michigan normal m hnt at

llarcjuette ai d damaged the library fcsildtnj lxxs 9&2.O60; do iuMirane.

Tue ! ureau of statistics deiar;iuent

of riHuiverie and :Ur estltuatss that the- commerce letwcen the I'nited States and the Philippine will reah, for the current calendar year. HhdtV ' a . a . -1 $:'--' tu 1!' 4 .Ini A Hurlank. a former territorial governor of Pakoia. died at his home in KtthssCind, Ind., after a brief ll'ness, aged 78

A bomb found on a train on which President Loubet of PfsjkCS was trave.irg w;th a short hik party proved, oq examinatl. n. to be a harmless affair. Some uneasines has l een cau.ied In France by the Spanish prop.! to change the meeting plate of the conference i n Moroccan reforms from Algec iras to Madrid. Prof. & Sttnhope Orris, professor emeritus of Princeton university, and one of the foremost scholars in ths I'nited States, died at Harrisburg. PSv.

of paraicsis a:ed 7 years.

.Margins Ito is said to have accepted an appointment as resident general In Korea. Two men who he'd up the Colby stite bank at Coiby. Wis . were captured In saloon in Wattsau. Wis . and all of the stolen money recovered. They claimed to be farm hands, out of work an 1 desperate. Mrs. Wm. Marsb ar.d her two children and Jan..-- Pwyer lost their lives iu a

I fire that dest roved the Verbcck theater In Lorain. O

Two of the principal blocks in Dallas. Ill . Including the Kiit national bank ar.d the Weekly Review office, were detroyed by fire. Lo-- $8'.onn w'.th but little insurance.

TV W. S Forbes, professor of ar.atomy and clinical sorcery- at Jefferm medical college. Phiia lelphia. died at

his home. In that city of angina pectoris, aced "I years Charles R. Karnes. rire-pr- t of he St. Iuiis creadit-clearinghouse. was killed at his home while burning off 'he stork of an old mimle-loading irmy rifle w hich he had bought to add to his collection of old firearms, a bullet from the gun penetrating his head.

Henry E. Weaver, president of the Weaver Ccal & Coke Co. Chicago, dropped dead in his home on Drexel

t" ilevard. F.-rir.er State Senator W. R. Baron, presid-nt of the defunct Chamberlain bai.k. has been bound over to the district court st Tecumseh Neb., on a (harge of perjury in connection with testimony given at the trial of Cashier Chamberlain. R K Hoffer. an ayyer. widelyknown in western mining circles was

overcome by the fume of ore he was toting at Salt Lake City, Utah, and die,! shortly after being found. The Jury in the case of Mrs. Sarah Ca'lwell, charged with the murder of her husband, at Sallna. Kas . disagreed tad was discharged. Two are said to hae held out for acquittal The transport Before sailed from San Francisco for Manila and way ports carrying ten troops of the Third cavalry, a runder of r- ruits and J 0', t.;ns t army supplies. Secretary of the Navy Bonanarte Is

incensed at the latest act of hazing at the naal academy, and has declared that the gtiilty midshipmen will le

summarily dismissed and that other dismissals will follow as often as midih pmen are found guilty of hazing or countenancing It. H J Freeman, alias W H Morton, wanted at Memphis. Tnn . on a harz of embezzling $25.000 from the Chickasaw Bank A- Savings Co.. was arrested In the Bad River country in South Dakota and taken back to Memphis. Nebraska is not yet done with Pa. Crowe, therefore Gov Mickev has de-

WALSH CONCERNS

EMBARRASSED

John R. Walsh, the Chicago Multi

millionaire, Forced to Assign.

rt)0 MANY IRONS IN THE FIRE

" I iimni-lal I na 1 1 u tlu a la

n i. i. it ..I ibr eta as bbssjIss sears BSSSeSd lulu ihr llrracb aud llt- Airrlrd m 4 raali.

.KM KCl M Wi liKHS. Mi.s Alie Roosevelt paid ths duti

wu me vinous i i , and Huuvei.'.ra

brought back from, the orie nt with her

pei Pönal chock for $1.20. 15.

i no international fleet whic h has

teen making a demonstration in Turk

ish waters has len recalled. Karl Rush and Glen Jones were drow ned and three others narrowly escaped a like late, by the ice on Eel river, at .ganspnrt. h.i., breakin with ohem w bite skating. Mrs Msjrsjpiiet Hamdorf. of St. Louis, art.-, i the go i, samarium to a sraigeT duririK the World's fair lie piovd to be Ifsrdie p. Smith, a Colorado mining n " 'f- 'vh d.e.i re . nf'v at Col. . raiO Springs, and In his will left Mrs Haasdotf ItOjaaa worth of mining '.-( I. . As the result of a panic caused by a strc. t car Uking fire following: ths

SICWiavg out of a fuse, at Cleveland. O.. Anna Staba. a 13-year-old irirl. was

trampled to death.

A niemlnsrjiMp in the New York

slork exihnnsr was sold recently for Ma ooo. the record prie

Theo. I Krke. a path..'iutist and e-

pert m cherricRl resetr.h. died in DU.

ca. N Y He was freaner tlv mnim,i

In making eiamlnatlons to trace doI-

I' has been decided 1rt hi A Ihm

o 0 nunoayst nool cosTSltiOB. tt". in Horns IigJr. May 2-23.

in

cltied not to honor for the present at

leaid the requisition of the governor of Iowa for the removal nf Pn,- tn

that state. Hush Watt, financier and former member of parliament, was placed on trial at the Old Bailey la London, on the charre of inciting hired agents to murder i is divorced wife, Julia Watt, and Sir Reginald Beauchamp. Fire. In Portland. Ore . destroyed the wholesale grocery establishment of Wadaros & Kerr Brothers, causing a loss of upwards of finnoio. Four firemen we-e seriously Injured. M. M Lett, convicted of arsoa and rcblry at Princeton. Kas, and who ascaped in a sensational manner some UaSt ago. is en route home from Colon. Panama In the custody of two officers. In her four-hour endurance test

along the New England coast the battleship Louisiana made an averare

'!"'! f ivs.T. knots an hour. Her

contract iK-ed was IX knots

The actual number of pot offices lr

the I'nited States at the close of the 1 f : l! ' '-ar s,: First ?-.

second das. J.258; third class. 4.120; fourth cls. r,;.478. Total M IM

The abolition of the concordat in

I'r.'n e. and the substitution of the new

re.in.e follow inn the Fpnintinn f

hurrh and state Involves an extensive han;e ;n the existing conditions un

ter which the stato carried n thou-

- i: of i hup ,fv

Tho Kansas state board of railrosd

commissioners decided to order a re

duction of five per cent. In freight rates

o-i a1 1 elase of grain

An ffnrt is being made to securs a

pardon for "Long John ' !o'n r.rtr,Ar

halrman of the St luis demnrmiir

nty committee, who is serving a fiveear sent, ne e in the föderal pr'son at 1-Vrt Leavenworth. Kss.. for procuring fraudulent naturalization of aliens. Jarnos B. Oliver, president of the tJtlrsr fron e- Stel Co.. died In Pittsburg, Pa after a four days' illness from pneumonia, aged 61 years. Former Circuit Judge Horatio WVnd "Iropped dead at his borne in St Ixiuis of apoplexy He ha I been ill for sev-

weeks ard bad Jst returnsd fmi

Asr.pvjjie .n (

tticago. Dec. 19. Three of the high

est financial institutions In the west.

the Chicago national bank, the Home -' - nk an ! the Ecj utal 'lYuit

Co.. all of them com rolled by John R

Walsh, of this city, and in great meas

ure owned by him, suspeuded operations Monday. Mr Walsh, who was the president of the Chicago national bank and of the Equitable Trust Co. and all the other officers and all the directors of the Chicago national bank have resigned. I SSBStSSS lloiorlk in BWSSjSi National Bank Examiner Bosworth has succeeded Mr. Walsh at the head of the Chicago national bank, and the places of the directors have len filled by men appointed by the Chicago clearinghouse. Back of the new management stand the allied banks of Chicago, who have pledged their resources

that every depositor shall be paid to

the last cent, and that no customer of any one of the three institutions shall lose anjth-ng by reason of the suspension. Had not this action been taken by the banks of the city a disastrous panic sjsjsj have followed in the financial world. Aa it was, the only effect in 'his city was the decline on the local stock exenange of 2't in the price of National Biscuit common stock, which

has er.pl.ned the Equitable Trust as transfer agent, and had, besides, dealings with the Chicago national bank, but is not affected by the failure 'n the sighted degree. The closing of the two banks had the effect also of shutting off all demand on the local excliarifee for bank stocas, none of them being purchased. llo- (auir of thr rslSSSJSS The immediate cause of the collapst of the institutions controlled by Mr

a sh is said to be the large amount of money which they have loaned to

various private enterprises of hi

notably the Southern Indiana railway

and the Bedford Quarries Co., of In

fi ana .vir uaisn claims that If he

could have had a little more time and

been left untrammeled in his operation

ne ccuu nave saved his banks and

made enormous profits for himself and his associates He bases this statement on his estimate of the value of

the bonds of the Southern Indiana Rail

roan ca The comptroller, the state

auditor and the members of the Chi

capo clearinghouse committee place the

value of the bonds at one-half the valu

ation of Mr Walsh, at I It was their

refusal to accept his valuation that caused the suspension of the banks. the UnrrKalr I. la I. Hit Ira. The liabilities of the three Institutions are estimated, in the aggregate, at I 00. Against this amount th banks and the trust cunnanr have re

sources that are on a conservative estimate worth $lfi.0OO.000. The bonds of the Southern Indiana Railroad Co. are estimated by Mr. Walsh as being worth $16.O0fl.C00. They are considered by the comptroller, state auditor and th clearinghouse committee to be worth a little more than half tht sum. Their value 1 a matter to be determined in the future, and the presidents of the local banks admit that if the estimate of Mr. Walsh is found to be correct, the two banks and the trust company will not only pay all of their d"bts, but

ie-ne a surplus besides. The directors of the two banks and Mr. Walsh, who has turned over all his private property as well as that standing in the name of Mrs. Walch, have pledged real estate and securities valued at IROOOOfto

and estimating the railroad bonds at

n.ni.iN) more, making a total of $29,-

ssseis against f26.ooo.ooo liabili

BRICK TRUST SURRENDERS

Nine Defendants Entered Picas of

lNon-Contender.

Ihr Urre Fined Two I'ltouaauil liollara I a. b, IVhlSti W aa laao. rid. Chicago, Dec. .-The so-called "brick trust ' of Chicago made a complete surreuder to State's Attorney Healy In court Monday and were fined an aggregate of fiyooo The company auf a number of Its officials, together with two labor leaders were Indicted for conspiracy to do an Hie! act. to prevent competition and to restrict the producticn and sale of brick in the Chicago market. As soon as the cases were called In

court, the deiense announced that Will

iam WSeaJsr, general suierlntendent of the Illinois Brick Co., had dec ided ts

turn s'atc's evidence and it was desired that the puni.shment to be inflicted on the other nine defendants should be re

mitted in bis case.

State's Attorney Mealy declared that

he was willing that this action shouhl

be taken In Mr. We.kler's case an l the attorneys then entered pleas of non-

contender for all the other defendants.

The lourt a.-seed fit.es of $J ON In

each instance. The amount was paid at once by the attorneys anl the de

fendants were dismissed

1 harre against the labor leaders

inchi.'.ed with the officials of the brick combine In the Indictment was that

they cal'ed strikes on building where

he contiactors ued bricks purchased

from others than these in tho crtmt.ina-

on. In cases where t!io-e strikes were

called It was stated by the state s at

torney, the contractors were compelled I

to pay their men for all the time they were under strike umler penalty of having a second strike called.

H00SIEK HAPPJSN1NÜ3

Told in Brief by Dispatches frort, Various Localities. Schoolbov Saves Train Laporte.lnd . lc. 15. - Eddie An a oU.ig schoolboy, whose SOSM tear mew, in this county, is a c andidate for a ( arnegb medal for heroism, wbn, , hi way home from school bedi. or i a broken rail on the Baltimore uu , railroad near Tracy. Knowing that fast passenger train wa then du. i tan to meet It, and as It came in Bithl was seen by the engineer running aloug the track and waving his schoolbag wildly. The train was stopp, d v lthin a fw feet of the defective rail by thessJc

of the air brak. s Without theboy'ssignal H would have been hurled to de.

struction In a creak bv the i,i ,i -

track. The pa s, -n-. . r and members ttß

the crew ,ie ide.i t take the Quest inn

of a reward Into consideration an. I a committee was Spsiate to dec ide bbqsj the best thing to do f,.r him.

WANT TO SAVE THEIR BACON MWUIilpmen at Annnp.tlla OsssSktSSJa Ina Ihr dalSSjhllli'S uf MuUIriK W huli-nnlr i oafriilou.

Annapolis. Md.. Dec. 19. Midshipmen here have announced their intention of urging the whole student body to so to

the superintendent and confess that they have participated in hazing. They believe that as it would not be practical to expel the whole school, such action would save those who have been or may be caught. Nothing of late years haa so stirred the midhhipnien as the methods by which Admiral Sands. ::e superintendent. Is striking at hazing, ths reason

being ths almost every midshipman la in danger. Particularly are the membasl of the first and second clase worried, as they have been more active harers than most graduating classes. They are also the onea who are generally on duty in the quarters, and Admiral Sand's action In the case of Vandeveer, whose offense was failure to report hazing and not hazing Itself, shows that tey are In danger of dismissal for similar offenses. ALL DANGER IS ELIMINATED Tbnmna W . I.avraoa ( ttblra l.nmioa That He ts SSatS and Wonltln't Quit fur lallrd KiaRduai.

Fortune m Tiu Cans. Frankfort, Ind.. Dec. 15 Relativ.

of Mrs. Hannah Isgrigg made application for the appointment of a twaa.

dian, aliening that Mrs. Isgrbsg uaa not mentally able to care for her es

tate. The Information was ai o ,,uveyed that Mrs. snSD bad a larue.

üLm of money concealed in her home. The money was found in baklag powder cans and in cloth basts and a common water bucket was filled with sih, r dollars. Altogether there was In gold. t:7o in .silver dollars. $: To half dollars, and M in quarters ebl tho remainder was in small change. The money has been placed in lank. tel aaralf itianrt.:tL. . i

' "K'.uu in im apjmca : .a for the appointment of a guardian Death Cheats Hermit's Heir. Laporte. Ind.. Dec. 15. Knowing not nine of the death of hr father inlaw, but hoping she minht prevail upon him to help hr and h. r children Mrs. Cus ValiR came to Laporte from t'hlcaeo Xot having money to pay for a carriage she walked six miles Into the country to find the hut desolate and the old man. Swan Valin, known as "The Swede Htrmit." dead and buried. For six months the authorities had been searching for theihildr- n Elopes to Marry Her Third. VIncennes Ind.. Dec '. ir Maitis ras( h. daughter of Will

prnaaiBtBl farmer of Noble 111, and Alva H. Hesler. 26 y. ars old. a farmer of Nörde, eloped to Vincennes and were married by Squire C. W. IvfT. The bride is but 23 years old and this is her third matrimonial venture. Her first husband died snd she was divorced from her second.

Cars Hit Christmas Shoppers. Washington. Ind . Doc. 15. I-ula Zlnkan. his wife and two little daughters were run down by a Baltimore Ac Ohio f n icht train and all injured, t helatter three fatally. They had beca here doing Christmas shopping and were returning home when a train struck the wagon in which they were riding, totally demolishing It.

BoKton, Dec. 19. In an official announcement cabled to the London Daily Express at the request of that publication, Thomas W. Lawson states that whatever danger there might have been that he would become bankrupt before be completed his campaign acainst

Standard Oil Interests and the "system"

nas been eliminated. The signed cable

says:

"The uncertainty In my campaign as

to whether I have enough to live through It has been eliminated, as I have received additional offers of capital should my 1 15, 000,000 pool be in

sufficient. I know the Standard Oil hand to the letter. Thev know

- bm a uv. rrj

well tbat they would soend mllllnna

for me to quit. I would not quit for ti.a United Kingdom."

Indiana Firm OeU Contract. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 15. The flrra of Höllerbach & May. of this city, has been notified by the war department from Washington that it had . been awarded the contract for the construction of f iv.rnmnt dam No. 1 in the Ohio river, near Wheeling. W. Va. The estimated cost of the ork is $.'!. !.."i.".T. 25.

DOWIE GIVES UP THE HELM

ties

PerSSSMBSl of UM In-lllntlnna

The officers of the Chicago national

Dann were President. John R. Walsh;

-I i Kirm. r. M. mount, and the

directors were; John EL Walsh F M Blount, F C. McNally. John M. Smith

iniam Best. C K C, Billing-. Maurice Roserrfeld. The deposits in the bank were Hfm.OM. and the.-. ...

bS to othor banks $2.038. Ä51. The officers of the Home savings bank were president. William J. fmahan; vice-president. Maurice Rosenfeld The directors were: C. K. O. Billings Maurice Rosen fehl. John M. Smvth, W. J. Onahan. William Best, John R WaNh. Th ofllcer.9 and directors of the avqaitablt Trust Co. were particaüv the same as thore of the Home savings bark, with the exception of Mr. Walsh, who was president In nlac e of Mr rw.

han

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-- inv oovt-rnmrnt of Ion r

KB I'rlumv Iralr, m nil wa til urae Ilia Ilia.

aSaal aw

unicago, iiec. 19-John Alexander

Dome has abdicated. He has pla.ed the government of Zion City and his

vonowers the world over in the hands

or a triumvirate. The spiritual, moral

and materia! welfare of the Zionists

win ne looked after by Overseer J. 0. Speicher, Deacon AlexanderCranger and

Jtiage . . Barnes. Though he asserts he has healed thousands, Dowle

can not hoal himself, and is now In a dangerous phytlcal condition. He Is

sunering from paralysis and bronchitis.

Widow Receives Damages. Bedford. I ii. !.. Mrs Amanda Wei. h was given a verdict for damages for XSM by a Iawren.e county jury against the I.ehlgh Portland Cement -ompany at Mitchell for the ieatl of her husband, who was killed last February iu that company's quarrie. where he was employed. She sued for

H'H'.'O.

One Cent for Whipping Editor. Terre Haute. Ind . Dec. 15. It coste only one cent to whip an editor is this state, according to a decision here. Timothy Donovan was fined this amount by a court for assaulting Editor K. H. Guthneck. of T- rre Haute. The editor had crltHsed the actions of Donovan as township trustee.

Oun Falls: Kills Boy. Prairie City. Ind. 1. 1.-.. Albert Hoffman, ac.l four. kn.cked down a shotgun, which dli-chargod. kllline

him. Many of th shot struck and seriously Injured a brother, who was

sick In bed with typhoid f-ver in the

Fame room.

Twn ahnt Klrera Killed. PtttSSSIT Kas. Dee. 19-John Mcllvam and John Hopper, shot Aren, were killed by an explosion in the Sheridan Coal Co mines. 12 miles north of this city. The top house of the mine was blown to piecs9 by the explosion and the Inside of the mine badly damaged. nvtfi nf l-rnf a. a. orHa. Harrithurg. Pa., Dec. 19.- prof. b. Stanhope Orris, professor emeritus of Pr:nr-tnn university, and -.re of tha

forerr.o.-t scholars In Ihe United LaSsa

died here of ptralysls.

Mlnr BlsetSBei tn mrrlran . r.

Montezuma, Ilex.. Dec. II Taaaw

T . . .1 e . . . ...

ju.ikv- isaiel KMssndo has rendered a

I t I in Ac- f . tn at.. - - ... awau

mine to Its contesting claimants, who

live In Kitn as City. Mo. The K.-ins-.-

City owners were ousted from ths

property by force of arms a few months

ago by rival claimants.

Wsysaal eed Kiiird a tMni,.

Bisjua Ariz. nec. 19. HermoslHo

anvices state that last Saturday after-

ncn a band of Yaqul Indians waylaid

sernancto Matorena. one of the wealthiet marrKttnt. . n a . .

, ouiiors, Mexico, on

ine outskirts of the village of May-

corens, ana killed him and his driver.

Fatally fetti. Evansville. Ind., Ds& i V-Benjamin

Btiraett, a workman on Ji KvansviHo

A Mount Vernon tract' SB line near Kansvllie, struck ai abandoned

cUrgo of dynamite wiij his pick. It exploded and Burnett w,s fatally hurt.

Coal Operators Meet. Terre Haute. Ind.. Dec. 15. About

i bituminous evial operators attended

tai meeting of the Indiana association

to select delegates to the Intersiats

Joint conference at in.i.anapolis neji. month.

. Grand Jury Cil,. Boys. Boonville. Ind . Dee. if, The parents

nf about 25 loys are uneasy becaus-- ths

oungstrrs have bcn called befor ths

tand Jury to testify as to cigarette vio

lations Wholesale indictments are ei-

;ected

llari lleen Married Mm ii Iran, tl'..l .i aava bbh

vvsriusr. iex., iec. 19 Mrs. Lottie Davis, cidored, aged 107, died here Her

mxseeee, .lames Pavis, 115 years old. .rr'vea her. The couple had Ness

iother for 0 rsATa

Filicide's Body Is Burled.

Madison Ind . Der 15... The Ik.v of

W. H He. I hfl r imnn'M I ...lf

--" v miiuhiit-,! , 1 . , , rMtorday at Cincinnati arrived hera

nd was burled In Sprlngdale cems-