Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 January 1895 — Page 3

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ALL ABOUT THE FARM

HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS AGRICULTURISTS. FOR The United States Unable to Convert Germany to a "Wider Use of CornImproved Varieties of Fruit Tobacco as a Fertilizer Notes. Selecting Hatter Cows. Let the dairymen follow this course: 1. An A No. 1 bull. 2. Fall calves. 3. Weithin:; ami test inj. Kais; your heifers from the best cows. 4. Contleiioss and kindness in handling; all your stock. 5 Feed calves and heifers well, but do not have them fat, and have them to calve at about two years old. Fy so doin;: he will have a herd of cattle that will be hard to beat, especially if he chooses the blacks and whites, where nearly every heifer turns out a good milker. In selection by milk signs may be included: 1. The milk form, which may be described as a wedge-shape i. e.. shoulders thin, forward lgs comparatively close together, quarters without much llesh. 2. Coed, large udder. V. Large and crooked milk veins. 4. Escutcheon. 5. Openness between the spinal processes. b. Oiliness and depth of color. 7. Tail reaching to hock. S. Good, mellow, loose skin. I. Large openings of the milk veins into the body. 1. Fine head. As evidence of richness and quality cf milk, only mention these signs as a lielp to those who are about buying, as I Would rather have them than not; but the only true tests are the scales and Babcock or other tester. Both quantity and quality are inMuemvd by feed. In the selection and breeding of butter cows the character of ancestry should be carefully studied as regards quality and quantity of milk, and also the economy of its production. Philadelphia Press. Feeding "Wheat to Stock. The following points are the result of experiments by the Wisconsin Board of Agriculture: Feeding wheat to stock is yet in the experimental stagi in this State, but the best judgment of farmers and feeders estimate that 1?) per cent, of the surplus wheat will be thus used. Estimates of the feeding value of wheat, compared with corn, vary from 70 to 150 per cent., but the average is 10 i. estimating the feeding value of corn at 1X. There is more care taken in feeding Wheat, which, probably, increases it comparative value, for if carelessly fo! us corn is in the. ear, there would Ik danger from over and too rapid feed lng. It is fed every way-whole, dry cooked or soaked, cracked or ground coarse, dry or as ilop, and in the sheaf The latter method is commended by those who practice it on account of saving the expense of threshing the main und labor in feeding, but is not kugolv practiced. Feeding whole to hogs, even whe n soaked, is attended by a very appreeia ble waste from lack of digestion, but is nevertheless, a popular method of feed lng. The majority of reports, however, commend as the best and most economical way of feeding wheat: To horses, whole, mixed with bran, or corn, and fed dry. To cattle, ground coarse, mixed with one-third ground corn, and fed dry or fed in the sheaf. To milch cows, ground and fed as slop. To hogs, ground coarse, soaked and fed while sweet to pigs or young growing hogs, it is very superior to corn in the production of bone and muscle, but for hogs being finished for market, onethird corn added "will increase the fat. To poultry, feed in the sheaf or whole, cooked and mixed with bran. Forest Guardianship. Our country needs to study the systems of forest guardianships practiced In Europe and Canada. The protection provided for in Germany, for instance, is almost perfect The American pioneers have been a vandal people, cutting away forests without rhyme or reason, and paving the way for the very desolation from which their descendants are suffering. They were not without excuse for this, for they could not have dreamed a century or even half a century ago of the tremendous growth of our population or the increasing demands of a more highly ueveloped civilization. But the lesson is before the people of this generation. The country does not need more farming lands, but it does need to save its forests, and in a few years it will discover the necessity of enlarging its forest areas. Troy Times. Failure of the Corn Mission. The Government lias decided to discontinue its missionary efforts in Europe, particularly in Germany, in behalf of corn and leave the foreigners to their "invincible ignorance" of the value of maize for human food. After looking over the ground in person Secretary Morton evidently considered the cause hopeless and accordingly untitled the American agents, Col. Murphy and .Mr. Mattes, to close up their nflairs. Indeed, the hint is pretty broadly conveyed that the attempt to wean the Germans from rye bread and pumpernickel will not bo renewed. This is disappointing; but Mr. Morton evidently had good grounds for his action, to judge from the facts presented. Of course this is a bad year to push the use of corn. It lacks the ordinary qualification of cheapness to recommend it. With wheat and corn only a few cents apart in price, and often not even that small margin, it Is well nigh useless to endeavor to persuade people to give up their inherited prejudices. The saving by the use of corn us compared with wheat ia hardly

appreciable at the present time; In

fact, as the markets go, corn Hour is dearer than wheat flour. But the cause of failure to convert Germany to a wider use of corn lies deeper even than the powerful argu ment of price. The habits and preju dices of the people are against such a change. Mr. Mattes was sent over to show the brewers how corn could be used in place of barley. But the brewers were prejudiced in favor of small grain for malting. As for "kornhrod," the one chief cause of its failure to become popular is that Germans eat their bread cold and corn bread is palatable only when hot. To adopt corn, therefore, would involve a change of national habits, something almost impossible to accomplish. That corn will be more largely used in Germany as food for cattle than heretofore is very likely; but Secretary Morton evidently looks upon the corn bread crusade as a "lost cause." Creamery Journal. Sulphur. There is no remedy and assistant so easily and cheaply obtained, so harmless to the fowls, and so satisfactory in its results, says an exchange, as sulphur. It being in the system of animals in a small degree, there is a greater aliinity for it than there otherwise would be. It can be administered to the fowls by having it in a small box, so that they can help themselves, or by mixing it with their food once a week, or as often as there are indications of vermin. Tenet rating, as it does, to every part of the system, all parasites are quickly and surely destroyed; also gapes are said to be prevented in chicken:-. Fow Is need it more than most animals, their feathers containing between 1 and Ö per cent, of sulphur. Their eggs also have a small quantity, which is noticed by the discoloring of a silver spoon when it comes in contact with a boiled egg. Applied externally to the fowls when on the nest, to the nest itself, or mixed with the soil in the dusting box, it is equally ellicacious in destroying vermin. Field and Farm. Oats. The high price of oats will doubtless lead to a larger seeding with this crop another year. It is not likely, however, that oats will ever N so cheap as they have been in years past. They are an exhaustive crop, and one which the farmers do not wish to grow except for use on the farm. For this reason the crop is largely left to farmers who care little for preserving the fertility . their farms. There is no reason why so large a proportion of the oat crop is of poor quality. It is light weight I) .?- cause it Is grown on land which fails to provide plentiful plant food, as the grain is tilling. There are also more weed seeds in oats than in any oilier grain sold on the market. Tobacco as a Fertilizer. The extremely low prices at which some tobacco growers have sold their undesirable crops of tobacco suggests a query why they do not keep it off the market and use this tobacco as a fertilizer to grow better samples in the future. The price they sell at is less than the tobacco is worth as a manure. It is rich in potash, and is easily decomposed. Market gardeners often use refuse tobacco as a fertilizer, and they lind better results from it than from man j manures that cost more money. One of the advantages of tobacco as a fertilizer is in repelling attacks of insects. It is especially valuable iu growing cucumbers and melons. Odd and Ends. Apply powdered alum to a fever sore; this will prevent it from becoming very unsightly or noticeable. For stains on the hands nothing is better than salt moistened with lemon juice. Hub the spots well with the mixture', then wash off in clean water. AY hen cane-sea tod chair bottoms have "sagged," to make them as tight as ever wash them with hot soap suds and leave theui to dry in the open air. AYhen anything lias been spilled on the stove, or milk has boiled over and a suffocating smoke arises, sprinkle the spot with salt, and it will quickly ilisappeat. It will be well to tack little rolls of cotton batting, covereel with a dark cloth, under the rear ends of the rockers of the chair that makes a practice tf "tipping over." It is said that a good remedy for strengthening and clearing the voice is to beat the white of an tgg with the juice of a lemon and sweeten it well with sugar and use as neetled. The annoyance of a rough griddle when baking cakes may be overcome by rubbing it with a slice of raw turnip. These who have used it say it makes the griddle smooth as glass, and cake baking, therefore, an easy operation. Do you wish to make a gruel for a sick friend? Take corn meal and sift it into a quart of boiling water, stirring it until it is of the consistency of cream. Add salt to flavor, and let it simmer for half an hour or longer; then ru; it through a line sieve. Have in a bowl a little cream or rich milk. Pour your boiling gruel into it, ami you have a drink a sick person ought to relish. To make excellent cough candy soak a gill of whole flaxseed in a pint of boiling water. In another dish put a cup of broken bits of slippery elm and cover this also with boiling water. Let these stand for two hours; then strain them both through a muslin cloth into a saucepan containing a pound and a half of granulated sugar. Extract all the liquor you can, stir the sugar until It Ii melted, and then boil it until it turns to candy. Pour it out at once when it reaches this point onto greased paper. This is the old-fashioned rule. The candy is more palatable If the Jnlce of two lemons Is added to it after It has cooked for ten minutes.

NEAR TO STARVATION

WIDESPREAD DISTRESS IN WESTERN NEBRASKA. Failure of Crops in the Semi-Arid District, Not Yet Watered by Irrigation, Has Jriven Thousands of People, to Actual Want. In Sore Need of Aid. The stories coming into Omaha of the destitution and suffering in the central and western coeuties of Nebraska, as the result of las,- summer's drought, are hoari-rending. Appalling tale. are told of the condition u the settlers in this semi-arid district, where irrigation has not yet had a chance to tr.Vsferm the sandy soli into a garden spot. Thousands of people are reported on the verge of starvation, hut so Car there have been only three de;: tlx reported as the result of actual hunger. There may have been more, but so far they have escaped publicity. It is in the extreme southwestern counties of the State that the condition of the people is most appallh'g in Perkins. Dundy. Chase and Hayes Counties. In Perkins County alone, of whieh Grant is the county seat, there are people who are actually destitute. The situation there is told grapkically by County Clerk Wilcox, who has made public the following statement: "We are facing the most desperate sltuati n ia our history. AI. out $ 1 5. x ' ) of the county's money is tic": up in the broken banks of Grant, and id I three banks are broken. AY" have issued bonds to the full limit allowed by the law. and onr warrants have been refused by som of the merchants. The latter arj aiready out considerable momy for g ods furnished to 1.-. borers on the ditch. We voted '.(; in ditch bonds for an irrigati.i diteh whieh tapped the South Platte west of .luiesburg and ran the entire length of our county. This was in September, and about a mo.ith later almost every voter in the county between T(JU and OK went out there to wotk en ir. iiiey took uieir teams, ami in some cases cows and families. In the mean"NO WOLF EVEIt COMICS TO MV while the bonds have not been sold, probably from distrust of Eastern capital in AYestern investments. The consequence is that the fanners who did this work upon the ditch are a gre:'t deal worse off than if they had not gone out there at all. The crops of the last two years have been total failures, and in nine years we have had but three crops. The limit of our bond issue having been reached we are left heljde.-s for funds of any kind. Men and women sometimes drive in here for twenty-five miles for relief whieh we are unable to give. Farmers who have lived in the county for years and have sunk their capital here trying to raise crops come to me with tears in their eyes and ask for food. There is not a stream of water in Perkins County nor a living spring. AYells run from ) to -( feet, the majority being from about IT.0 to feet deep. The soil, if watered, raises good crops; if not, it bakes into a solid mass. Tie roads and much of the prairies resemble asphalt, so hard packed and smooth are they." As a result of these conditions many of the settlers have left the country, and n traveler through the county describes the situation graphically: On every hand lite bare country spread itself. Not a shrub, not a tree met the sight; no creeks, no rivers, no sign of anything which would give moisture or produce hay. The rolling swells of the table land are covered with the shot, crisp brown gass, but nothing above ankle high shows itself, except a dead and deserted tree claim on the right side. Ibit Hi'tlo stock could be seen, though what uv:s there was in good condition. A few deserted sod huts and frame houses were : seen, and there were signs, here ani citn. LoL'to L.iiu 1iV1 1.f.M ln i t 9 witlL r".ne iiooiLOt iwu-i ui-a lsv i taken down and removed with the other geods of the owners when they left. In some eases farm implements were seen in the fields, rud at a distance substantial granaries stood just as their ownera had left them. One farmer I talked with, who had come to this town for relief, said, with tears in his eyes: "I never applied for help before and I never thought to, but when a fellow has lost nil his crops for two years, and lias had his team and cows taken away on account of board while working on the ditedi, he can't see his family starve. I'm not above paying that there isn't a thing in the house but a little flour and about a peek ef potatoes that was left of the last lot they gave mo credit for at the store. "I'm no worse efi' than my neighbors," he continued; "hut the honest truth is that we're all mighty !ie:r starvation. They're all good, industrious men, and have worked night and day. some of them, to try and get a crop. Since Juno 1 f last not a drop of rain fell on my place except a light shower too late in the fall. It stood lOti and 10S in the shade, I'm told, several days in succession in June, and then the hot winds did the rest. I tell you there is going to bo starvation all over the county in a few weeks. The farmers are on their last row, and unless help comes in n few days I don't know what'll happen." It is not too much to Faj that his case is well nigh typical of the fanners throughout the county. On Sunday a visit to the house of one of the settlers revealed the farmer dressing a jack rabbit ho had killed. "I'll hang -this fellow out to freeze tonight," he said, "and I'll live high for a day or two." "Well, you manage to keep the wolf from the door?' I asked. "No wolf ever comes to my door," said the sand hills philosopher; "I'd eat hira ! if he did." i It" is said on good authority that in a

drive of thirty miles In any direction frora Graut ten tons of fodder could not be found. The situation in Hayes and Hitchcock Counties is but littl? better than in Perkins. County Commissioner Rhodes, of Hayes County, gives the ollowiag de-

tails of destitution and suffering in his uistnet: 'I tell you the situation is about as bad as it can be. Wo have raised no crops no. sir. none. I sv.cak from bitter exnerienee. for you can see for yourself that there wasn't au ear of corn on one of j those stalks, F.wn the stalks are not i any too good fodder. And I am no worse j than my neighbors. The stock has been J driven out of the country and sold for , whatever it could brine. Cows brought as low as So or -SS although to-day they art' worth .Sid. So we have no stock. Our funds are about exhausted. There is very little money in the treasury, but the merchants cash cur warrants at par. Wo are offering limited aid only to the most urgeut cases, cutting our requisitions d.'wn to the lowest living quantity of nil th necessaries. No sugar, coffee or tea is given out except to old or infirm per sons. There is the greatest need Of leel and Hour at present. In tüo spring cir!nT I everyone except a few will need seed of ! ali kinds." ?dui:y Deserting Their Farns. Postmaster Nickerson, of Marengo, tells the following tale of helpless starvation as he has seen and experienced it in his neighborhood: I am keeping three families on a pen- J sion of Si'J per month. Luckily. I have a little credit here and there. The other day 1 ailed on :ome neighbors of mine, not suspecting that t'-ey were in want. Tim v.'.::-an met me at the doer in an old and torn calico dress and a pair of rotten shoes. I asked her if that was the best clothing she had. S'.ie said it was. but that she needed something more than clothing, and that was food. I irave he-r i .,, .....I.- r.... i it. .r n -i. o- i

Hayes Center ami also one on the conn- j heavens. ty. A ioed many of my neighbors have Examined with a telescope, it Is left. Their teams were mortgaged and ! found to be composed of two nearly they co'ddn't pet away. I have fifty j equal stars which appear to be connector more head of horses, and I told live : ej hy llvh. mutual attra-ihm. so that

men o p.eu oui le.uns ;i:iu .o on. l nej, ; din him, leaving ineir laorigageu leania j to run at huge. The stock of the county DOOII. I'D EAT HIM IF HE DID. is mostly gone. People either tek it away with them or the mortgage men have got it. Some irrigating was done near our place on the lied Willow. One man, on a patch about 120 by feet, raised cabbages which sold for 23 cents a head and potatoes which a while ago brought ft bushel." Stories like those- are coming from all direction In the afi'icted district. In Other States. In more than twenty of the counties of western Kansas the suffering and destitution are fully as great as they are in Nebraska. H. A. Gilbert, writing from. ?daeon, AA'allaeo County, that State, gives this truly startling description of the condition of the destitute there: "At one time wo had nothing in the house to eat. My daughter Kose came across an old flour sack containing some stale bread nnrt crusts, which had boon in the house eighteen months, hard and dry as a bono. Hy po-ending with a hammer and soaking in warm water, we were able to eat them, while my son was away in search of work. AYo have lived the past year almost exclusively on bread and llour-and-water gravy. There sire many ia this vicinity who are fully as destitute as we are. Food and f tit i are what we are the most in need of. AYo can burrow iu the ground to hide our nudity and keep from freezing, but it will not satisfy hunger." The letters which come from the afflicted portions of South Dakota, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas are equally touching. "The drought has left us without resources ef any kind." writes II. J. Ilenhow, of Galla, S. I). "Many have left the State, and many others have sent away the most of their stock, as there is no hay or straw with whieh to feed them. Our crops were a complete failure, and hundreds are living on bread and water, and very little of that." And C. A. Yeosin. of Ibirlington, Col., says: "There is an army of destitute people in the eastern counties of this State. Only a fourth of a crop was grown in 1SIK, and absolutely nothing in 1S'.4. I heard of a family the other day who have been living for some time on wheat ground in a coffee mill, and one of this family is a man 70 years old. This old man has only an old overcoat for a bed. Such is the present condition of many of our people." Mrs. Mira Lamb, of Stillwater, Okla., writes: "The people of this section have suffered untold misery from the drought whieh has exist rd for the past two years. Heing a new country the suffering and hardship hero are greater than they can possibly be elsewhere. Thousands are already at the end of their resources and in danger of starving unless they are helped." Trlrgraithlc Clic'. Hishop McDonald, acting for the Pope, invested Itev. Dr. Joseph P. O'Connell, ef New York, will the title of Monsigimr. AA'üIiani Childs, reading nt Coatsville, Mo., had trouble with his sister-in-law and shot Ora Long, her lover, when he championed her cause. Harry Dauehmnnn, aged ?2, train dispatcher on the AYabash Koad nt Andrews. Ind., committed suicide with poison while temporarily insane. Harry AYells and Charles Howe, two Philadelphia lumber swindlersi, wore nrrestod iu Atlanta, Ga., and will be taken back to Pennsylvania for trial. Chief of Police Pratt and Detectives Sheets and Ferguson, who had been in jail for ton days nt Salt Lake, Utah, for contempt in refusing to answer questions, were released.

FIFTY MILLIONS IN GOLD.

It Would Not Make Puch a Huso L.nmp After All This TaJk. Men's minds and newspapers have recentlv been full of the borrowing br our noble country of S.VU in gold to ,VIdeuish the national yellow hoard. avs the Now York World. Fach man has had his own sweet dreams, usually seeing in his grasping eye rows of vaults piled up with yellow gold. Fifty men questioned by World reporters guessed strange guesses about the size of a .. "o. K m ., i: lump of gold. Some thought the lump would be about as big .Asi ,, ,.;tv i,.,n. n were wide of th. mark. The pitiful facts an these: A man wiih lii'ty millions could only buy a hunk of gold live and a half feet square. He would not have gold enough to ill 1 even a hall bed-room. His nugget would not be bigger than a small piano. G rover 'levehmd. if made of solid gold, would be worth lifty millions. A '.- (iKt(4M cube would be live and a half feet in dhiiieter. Those statements are .... ..,l..3,t,,i..:i tl. it v.m1.1 noo.l. lessiy worry the usual mind. They are :ircnr:iri I .t tle tutor mnn i'oioe Let th i - ....... . ... ... j--- .. .i -. . . J he man with lifty millions has not so much -gold after all. and isn't it funny that a nation full of brains, with Ci.j(HM!.oiH inhabitants, thinks it n-cls a j yellow cube live and a half feet square to make it solid? Arc Tbey Planets? In th constellation Cygntis. which Is plainly marked out to the eye by the ligure called the Northern Cross, is a faint star, numbered "d. which was the lirst star whose distance from the earth was measure!!, and which. mt withstanding its insignificant appearance, is one of the neatest stars in all the tn,.v revolve slow' aru?:d their com mon center of gravity. There are. then, two suns, each considerably smaller than our sun, linked together by gravitation. Hecently Professor AYilsing. at Potsdam, has discovered something very peculiar about this starry pair. He finds that there are periodical variations in the di. taiue between the two stars which are not accounted for by their own known relations to enc another, and whMi, he thinks, could be explained by supposing that there are ojie or more invisible bodies connected with them. The thought that these invir il 1. bodies may be planets is a natural one. The belief that there are planets revolving around some, at least, of the stars is widespread., but the telescope has not yet been able to reveal any to our eyes. Their attraction, however, must have some effect upon the motion of the stars to which they belong, and in ease they are very large and massive, stub an effect might be perceptible to us. If the suspected invisible bodies connected with the double stüi. 01 Cygni, are planets, they must be enormously larger and heavier than the earth. The possibility that a star which is comparatively so near us actually possesses planets cannot but stir the most sluggish imagination. Harnest Musicians. Doctor Stephen Elvey, who did so much to tender the chanting of the Psalms intelligible in the church serI vice by "pointing" them, was absorbed In his subject. His pockets were tilled with bits of paper bearing verses from the Psalms in different forms and with different readings, and these he used to discuss with any one likely to be interested or to afford him help. One summer he paid a visit to AYindso; and a friend of his says that he can remember Doctor Elvoy's pulling up suddenly in one of the streets of the ! town, and to the astonishment of the passers-by, asking him, in anything but a whisper: "What is a manpeiee?" "I don't know." "Neither do I; but when chanted, the error of putting the accent on man. instead of peace, is almost universal, and is an instance of the nonsense made of Scripture through careless reading and indifferent punctuation!"' The verse to which he had reference runs: "Keep iimoconcy, and take hoed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last." Once, when Sir George Elvey was contlueting a rehearsal of tin "Messiah," one of the singers finished her solo with an elaborate cadenza. Sir George waited until the end. and then asked: "What's that? Don't you think if Handel hail wanted that, he would have written it?" "Oh," said the lady, "we always do it that way in London." "Never mind," said he. "Here Handel shall have it in his way, so please sing it as it is written." The Potato. AA'hen America was discovered the potato was cultivated in all the temperate parts cf South America, but not in Mexico. Hieronymus Cardon. a Spanish priest, is believed to have inrodueed the plant into Europe. From Spain it went into Italy, ami thence to P.edgium. Some years later it was introduoeHl into A'irginia, and specimens were brought to Ireland about l.V.r). For nearly a hundred years it was cultivated very little in Great Hritain. In lbUi the Eoyal Society urged its cultivation, but it is only within the last century and a half that it has boon a common vegetable there. Put the sweet potato was brought Into England in 150;, and was called the "common potato" as early as 1.V.V7, when the w hit a potato was first described in au English book. Narrow Gauge Hoads. Light narrow gauge railroads are again being tr'ed in England and France.

AEOUXD A BK STATE.

chief compil.tigm of ifcdiana hew:;. What Oar NeicbWor Arc I:!isr -?.Iutf ri of ;-mral ar.il Local Iiit-ret "Uürria;M an! I)i-:t!is Ao-il-uts und 'riim-s IVr6on.il I'olutrrs About Imilunia:). .'.tllHT St. t O lt .1.. Tiir.r.r. are ocr " taoi. er.s in A'a'j araio. ' 1ai:ti!i.imkw ('? ntv school;, eo-t thJ tap:ie:s ji!M p, r d ty. AY. W. t'oi.M's tin,- barn, near Kok is in ashes. Im-endiary. CnAi:t.i F. b I '-::m; k of Pritic ton, wa dangerou-!;. hot while hmitiui'. Ii:. J.Vl D. V.'ll -iY of I!'.-; wool. fell down .-lairs fraeim-Ing i T ku'L, 'Vill die. ('iii;i:n Vac hrg' b.-ni at ljhville. together with two ali:::ble !..-, , burned. Mim ;ii;yi! -. t :... e;j boys awi-y the thin breaking t!. ghi-s fronts of fiv alarm boxe. Tin: Mavi r of Pivmouth "doe', 1!:. Councilman's .-ah.ri. s v. ::;! i lit . Ii! i .a - tend n.eeiings.. 1 1 . m :: :;'o: ;i. y v. ill -ta;.-n the coming L' gi-l: tt.r.- to eiabii!i a M:;Lii.r Court in that city. Ib itiiMi :i;i.a '. a b .m ,; r.s the nr.rr-.w ga:tge ro el ruv.iiisg into t! at city N ma ! a si;;:. '.;.:d v. id.ii. Tili. prep.-i: i .: t. bund ih- village of Ceiitcrvil'e. j .r i'b'.' for wat r " .: was voted down b a majority uf on--. A:.!::a ni i":v prt - ; t i t -Nti e city Hourly r'.o:t. pi-r :r f-r wal. r alone. The city i o about hydrants. Sam Si vi:s a:id a man mimed Smith were ser;oiil mjuivd in s p m.t-' -oal mines at sholburn. by laliim; v-'::. Gkokoi: Day. d.-peiate oi ie4 man of ?Iuneie, vi.-iled ho l e., of ill fain-, ami cet three girK w ith a hidfo. tie :' pod. Wnii. i: Wm. Ki-. 1 was hunt im.: rear Jefferson vi' hi.- gun exploded a!:! a fragment of the barrel was imbedd.-l in hi fon head. Y 111 die. In.v I.;:im;t:i:. farmer near Logansport, was killed by jan; ing from a -wittjv :uoing Waba-h pa enger train. lie alighted on his head, orce-hing t!; skru'.l. Sot i n l'r.M police have arre.-tcd a man who barks imcs-antly like a dog. hey d.n"t know what to do with him. lie claims he wants to get to Washington a::d remove the i':e.-id.".:t. Cii !;i.i:s ! i:eri. a v.ell-kn-.wn ÜViit of Importe, was caught pilh.giug residene of William Midtr r. ar I invsbv.ry. Hundred- of 1-d ia: s v.; ilii of go.i.is Were fern 1 in hi- h a.-e. Wai.-j !.:: Mm :ü:i.i. and Jo!.:i Christian quarrel'' 1 ;t Teire llar.te out a game ,f fards. Mitchell sir.iek hri-tia;i on t!i Lead witn a pair of bra-.- knack.-:, fract'ir'ng hi.-skull. ( hri.-ti.ut wiil ":i T:ik i ll li-v.1 h- adii g mill at Sah-n, which was -toivd full of hard-woo 5 i'.iinlvr belonging to Thayer V Mv-iowcn. burned. The stock and building w as aided at abo..l fj.oiO. supposed t' be the work of tramps. At Shelby il!e. Ma.n;-1 Montgomery, white driving the deliuTy wagon of Ihm(1:11 A Co.. was caught by a log Four freight train. The wagon was crushed tit atoms ami 1 1 1 - man badly injured about the Lead. Noktiikkv Iniuax. appears to lte a preat Held ft T sw indhT?. Two of t hehltest (rooks are iiistira'i'-e men w hot alio i wiws to collect dues on in-uiance polici v- v." hi !, It is claimed, their ku-bami h:ue ju-: taken out. Pom.ar Ca:.vs:::i h'.s bioaght rait against the Cla County Ce-ni lis-ion.-i p.r flo.ooO damages for broken-down health from ten da eeniiaem'-nt in jail, lb' alleges the jail is a biwd-T of vermin and Jisease. Mnmow City papers sa that that town's possession of li e i nitci;? iary has its draw backs. The w m -t -l.i.-s .f criminals locate in tl at city alter theirdi-ckarge, nnd N-eeme r.'s'eon-ible for n.uc i of the lawe.-.-ness committed thro. LoitA. 'T i i: a sw iiekrian i-. the rmp'.oy of the Air Line Ihtilread at Kvan--uii;'. r. c i.ed inim ieN from which he died three hoars later. He v ; s making a running sw itch w hen he v. thrown K-ii'-ai!: the wheels. P.e'.ii legs were broken and one arm cut elf. John I. lisoi't.::. a wealthy farmer i f Johnson Town.-hi p. Kno Comity, was fleeced out of Js- by two strangers, who caught hiii'. on tl: ihn e-card mi tite trick. One man wanted to buy a farm, and he and Piddle met the other .-irangei ia the loa I. wkvre the trick was u iked. Amos ;im:i;ni.::k of Tike's Peak. F.rowji County, was driing a yoke f oxen, a Illing c mmon ia that hi ality. when the animals ran away. throwing 1 iin against a fence, injuring him internally, resulting in hi death. iie. jilee v. as a soldier ia the Eight -second Indiana lh-giment and a v. ell-know n ci'ie.t. Cni:i r Mo.r. so. iih l suit in the Monro.' County court, for di orcc from his wife Amanda. agd i. They weromani'd Dil Thanksgix h:g Day. The couple were lovers in youth b:;t i.iair;'d ether companions. Their consorts di -d and they nut again and were mainel. After the ceremony, which w as i rfonal in Kokomo. Mtx.ro went to his bom.- ir Monroe Count' . his wife ivfu-od to follow himr.nl ho world tiot goto Kokeü.v. Iiis -nit for di one v as brought to sell! ' it. Tin: tir.-t of the Fontanel irron-wrecking murder cases v. as disposed of at Torre Haute, when George Kobalts was giun a life sentence en bis plea of guilty, llecoiifev'od that he hol cd throw the switch by whieh engineer Moel.rm in and Fireman Fleck were killed in the wreck of the New Yo:k express on the F.ig Four road on the night of July 1L llohadb N U a railroad man and a miner and. with i-trikcrs and sympathizing miners, had helped capture freight trains at Fontauet. AVith others, that night ho throw the switch, the purix'se being to wreck a freight train guarded by sheriff Hoc t and deputies, but which was abandoned and did not pass Fontanet. The lii'e sentence was given by agre-oment wiüi the prosecution. Ne.-.e of bis four confederates has hn n arraigned. Last wtsk James P. K dehor of English, Fold, his home for f2.i-0;uid hi 1 his moiey among some old papers in his tie.nk. The next day his wife burned the papers and : the money. 1M nixti a sermon by Kcv. llarland. at I the Miunnaii Church, in the southeastern j part of Johnsen County, an unknown mis-' creant threw a brick through a window,; triking Miss Anna Hean in the faev,! Vnoeking her to the floor and causing se-: lere injuries. The woman is still unconscious and the people of the community are excited. It is thought the brick was intended for a man who sit in front i Mis Stean

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