Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 May 1895 — Page 3

TEACHERS TO GO WEST

A HOST WILL ATTEND THE DEN VER CONVENTION. Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the National I'ducatlonal Association July 3-1 U Many Imminent Educators on the Program. Thirty Thousand Expected. The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the National Educational Association will be held in Denver. July 5 to 12. The association goes so far West this year for the second time in its history. In 18SS the session was held ia San Francisco, the president of the association for '8S was Aaron Goto, then and now superintendent of the Denver schools. The San Francisco meeting was the largest the association has ever held, before or since that time, and such en thusiasm aa was manifested in 1SSS has not been known until 1S03, when the fnme of Denver has vs. called forth, three time set for tlie July meeting, an enthusiasm on the part of educators throughout the country, DR. BUTLER. which assures an attendance of between 20,000 and 30,000 people. The San Francisco attendance was 12,000. The National Educational Association was established in 1SÖ7 In Philadelphia; It3 object, as stated in the preamble to the constitution, is "To elevate the character, and advance the interests of the profession cf teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States." Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia College,. professor of philosophy and education, and State university ..examiner for New York, is president of the association. Dr. Butler is one of the young men who have of late years come to the front in educational lines. He is 33 years of age and is recognized as one of the BtSVEK CITT HAIX. most advanced thinkers, and among the aaost progressive educators in the world. Superintendent A. G. Lane, of Chicago schools, is vice-president; Irwin Shepard, State superintendent of Minnesota, is secretary; Superintendent J. M. Greenwood, of the Kansas City schools, ia treasurer, and Superintendent N. A. Calkins, of the New York schools, is chairman of the Board of Trustees, the governing body of the association. The membership is composed of men and women eminent in educational lines in the United States and Canada, and numbered last year over 5,000. Convention Program. The National Educational Association has eleven departments, each of which has a meeting place and holds sessions of its own, in addition to those of the general convention. The departments are: Kindergarten, Elementary, Secondary, Higher, Normal, Manual Training, Art, Music, Business Education, Child Study; and a National Council of Education. Among the noted educators who will read papers and take part in the discussions of the convention and its departments are: President Do Garmo, of Swarthmore; Commissioner Harris, of the United States Bureau of Education: Hon. Hoke AAKOX GOVE. Smith, Secretary of the Interior; Frof. Jackman. of the Cook County Normal School, Illinois; Chancellor W. II. Payne, of Nashville University; George II. Martin, Supervisor of Boston Schools; Prof. William Carey Jones, of the University of California; James L. Hughes, Inspector of Schools, Toronto; Dr. J. M. Hice, of New York; Mrs. Mary Hunt, of Boston; Frof. Richard T. Ely, of the University of Wisconsin; N. C. Shaeffer, Pennsylvania State Superintendent; Halscy C. Ives, Chief of the Art Department of the World's Columbian Exposition. The Convention City. Not only has Denver become famous as a city of conventions, some sixty organizations having met there in convention last year, but no city of the age and size of Denver is so well known throughout the country for the superior excellence of its school system and for the educational advantages it affords. Ever since the Knight Templar Conclave, of August, 1S92, when 100,000 COLORADO STATE CAI'ITOL., DESVEB. ues s were so royally entertained in Donter, that city has always been considered in choosing a place for large conventions. Several other cities, east and werft, fought hard for the U5 convention W the National Educational Association, but Denver prevailed. From nil points in the East, railroads will sell tickets to Denver and return at one fare, plus $2 for membership in the association. These tickets will rend, "good returning July 15 or 10," but if deposited with the Union Ticket Agent in Denver the return coupons will bo extended to any time up to Sept. 1.

CROPS IN GOOD SHAPE.

Fine Showing of Winter Wheat Corn Planting Well Under Way. Reports as to the conditions of crops throughout the country and the general influence of weather on cultivation and growth of crops made by the directors of the different State weather services and telegraphed to Chicago arc as follows: Winter wheat is reported as in excellent condition in Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland and over the greater part of Illinois; Nebraska, reports good condition In extreme southeast, elsewhere mostly winther killed; Iowa reports good condition; Ohio much improved and in fair condition except in northern portion; a good crop is promised in Indiana, except on clay soil; Arkansas and Oregon report crop much improved; Michigan fair condition, except in some central counties, where winter killed; in Wisconsin it has been largely winter killed; in Kansas the crop Is improved in western portions of the State, but in central counties much has been plowed up and the ground sown in other grain. Spring wheat is comiu up and growing nicely in the Dakotas and Minnesota, but in the southern portion of the last named Stute the late sown is needing rain. Corn planting has begun in Minnesota and is progressing in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and South Dakota; some damage is being done by cut worms in Mississippi and Kentucky. Cotton planting is nearly completed in South Carolina, Alabama and Arkansas and will be finished in Louisiana the coming week. Indiana Warm weather and few showers were beneficial, but rain is needed; wheat on favorable soil promises good crop, on clay ground it stands thin and spotted; plowing for corn nearly ended; planting begun in most counties. Wisconsin Weather too cold and dry for crop growth; grass and oats making slow progress; winter wheat largely killed and land sown to other grain; about 50 per cent, of the crop saved in east portion; planting begun. Iowa The week ended warm and favorable; a fair start has been made in corn planting; all small grain crops doing well; winter wheat in good condition. North Dakota Favorable weather, wheat seeding about finished;- oats, rye and flax being sown; grain coming up nicely. Minnesota Good rains in northern and central portions and light showers in southern portion; warm sunshiny days, with frosty nights; early sown grain good stand and sprouting nicely; potato plant ing well advanced and corn planting bogun; grass and late sown grain need more rain in southern portion. South Dakota Above an average temperature, with about average rainfall and sufficient sunshine caused satisfactory progress in all vegetation; wheat, oats, gardens and grass growing nicely; fiax seeding progressing; potato planting advanced; corn planting becoming general. Michigan Warm, dry week has greatly advanced farm work, but held back vegetation, which is badly in need of rain; nil winter wheat in fair condition except in eastern third of central counties, where it is poor and winter killed in spot. PYTHIANS ON PARADE. Delegates from All Over the World Meet at Indianapolis. Twenty-four States were represented at the first meeting of Supreme Council Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythias of the World, which began in Castle Hall at Indianapolis, Tuesday. There were In attendance the supreme chancellor and other officials, many representatives of supreme lodges, the brigade commanders of the various States and the members of supreme tribunals. The supreme council is the legislative power of the rank. This is the first meeting since the uniformed rank was authorized to be under control of its own members. James Camahan, who is at the head of the rank, welcomed the delegates to the convention, and Supreme Chancellor Kichof Ohio, responded. The report of General Caruahan was then read. It called attention to ths rapid growth of the uniform rank an& made recommendations for the future government of the rank. The report was referred to a committee. Committees were then appointed on rules and regula tions, finance, revenue, appeals and griev ances, mileage and per diem and law. The convention fixed a basis on mileage and per diem for the representatives and accepted and approved the bond of Wil liam J. McKee, of Indianapolis, adjutant general of the rank, who will hereafter handle all the funds of the uniform rank. In tho afternoon there was a magnificent parade, commanded by Gen. J. It. Itoss. At night tho delegates to the convention witnessed the exemplification of the proposed ritual of the uniform rank at the opera house. Mr. John W. Foster is well pleased with the peace treaty between Japan and China. He gets $1(30,000 out of it. The Princess of Wnles is a lover and collector of Cue and rare laces and has $150,000 worth locked up in her cabinets. John Ruskin can play chess and indulge in other similar recreations, but it is not thought that he will ever be able to resume literary work. Mr. Foote has been elected president of the Boston Boot and fchoe Club. Some years ago Mr. Foote was walking on his uppers, but now he is well heeled. Chief Clarence of the Mosquito Reservation is still at Kingston, Jamaica, under British protection, and is allowed $22 a day for living expenses. Dr. Edward S. Holden, director of the Lick Observatory, has been made a commander of the Order of the Ernestine House cf Saxony in recognition of his services ia science. Mrs. Fott3. the woman suffrage leader of Topeka, has applied for divorce for the reason that Mr. Potts has accorded her, among other rights, the otic of earning her daily bread. E. Clark, Jr., who recently resigned his position as general freight agent of tho New York Central -Railroad, had been forty-seven consecutive years in the service of tho company. E. St. John, vice-president of the Seaboard Air Line, was recently presented with a magnificent gold watch from the locomotive engineers of the Chicago, Uock Island ind PaciLc.Rallroad as a token of their appreciation of the kind treatment they received from him while he was general manager of the Rock Island road.

THE FALL IN PRICES.

DUE TO CHANGE IN THE MONEY STANDARD. Loss Sustained by Farmers Ia Occasioned by Change in Money and Not in Land Commodities Careful Study of u Great Question. Kxtent of the Decline. The extent of the fall in the poneral range of prices cannot bo exactly stated, but tables made at different times by Soot beer, Saurbock, Palgravo. tho London Economist, and various tables lu this country, brought down to lS'Jo, show an average fall of prices of from 3.J to 45 per cent., which is equivalent to a rise iu the purchasing power of gold of from r. to S per cent. That is, on an average, throe to three and a half measures of every thing, or three to throe and .a half days labor, must bo given for the same quantity of gold which two measures or two days' labor would obtain before silver was demonetized, and the fall continues and will continue as long; as tho single standard of gold is adhered to. Tho London Economist of July 2, 1S11 says: 'There has as yet boon no cessation of the fall in the prices of commodities." Tho table published in the Economist shows that tho index number, adopted years ago by this journal, representing the prices of twenty-two leading commodities, has gone down from where it stood July L 1S'.)0, to for July 1, IS'.)-, which shows a fall in the Nieral range of prices of 7.Ü per cent, in two years; but from Jan. 1, to July 1, 18.2, the fall has boon 2.4 per cent., or at tho rate of 4.8 per cent, per annum; and tho fall is still greater for iso::. As a fall of 33 1-3 per cent, in prices is tho same thins as a rise of öo per cent. In the value of money, so is a fall of 4.8 per cent., in the general "auge of prices in a year, equivalent o a rise in the money standard of over T per cent. That is, at the rate of fall in prices shown by the London Economist, 95.2 cents will buy as much at tho end of a year as $1 would at the beginning. This continued fall of prices is Irrespective of tariff, which proves conclusively that neither protection nor free trade can prevent, under existing conditions, tho continued downward tendency of prices. It would bo idle to claim that there had boon any material change in the past six months in the Inlx-i cost of producing- any of the twenty tv. articles included in the table of the London Economist. There can bo, therefore, but one explanation, and that ii that the change is in tho money standard and not in the commodities, and what is hero called the fall of prices is nothing but an increase in the value of the money unit, arising out of the growing scarcity of gold. Tho fall of prices and the rise of money are hero, in fact, one and the same thing. An increase of 5 per cent, in the value of money in a single year rieans, of course, an increase in all taxes and debts in tho same proportion. Does anybody need to be told that there must bo an ond to this some day, or that revolution aiid repudiation for half tho nations of the world must be the final outcome of such a monetary policy? What Careful Study Did. President W. P. St. John, of the Mercantile National Hank of Now York, is the loading silver champion among the Eastern bankers. lie recently told Kate Field's AVashington the reason for the faith that was in him. In ISKi Mr. St. John was tho junior member of the Finance Committee of the Now York Chamber of Commerce, lie was then an ardent champion of tho single gold standard. The chairman of the committee told Mr. St. John that it was his duty to thoroughly inform himself upon the currency question, ascertain the historic facts, and "marshal thorn against the array of alleged facts with which the Western advocates of free coinage wore continually urging their demands." Mr. St. John studied the question carefully. Ho was nine years coming to a liual decision. As a result ho is unalterably in favor of "equally unlimited coinage for gold and silver into legal tender money." Thorough study and investigation ot the currency question will do the same for every intelligent citizen. Denver Times. Effect of the Rise of Gold. In 1873 corn was worth to tho farmer 10 cents a bushel, and yielded a return of $11.41 an acre. In lSU.'l corn brought 4 he farmer not more than 13 cents a bushel, and yielded a return of'?r.ro an aero. Tho yield per acre and price both being low. In IST.'J the home value of wheat was $1.15; average yield, 12.7 bushels, and worth $11.50 per acre. In ISO.'! the home value was 45 cents; yield per acre, 11.3 bushels; value per acre, $5.08. The quantity per capita was loss in 1S03 that in 1S73, and the world's supply relatively loss. Oats in 18711 were worth 37 cents; In 1S'X 20 cents, and yielded to the farmer $0.2(5 an acre Instead of $10.37 In 1S73. In 1S72 milch cows wore worth $33 each. In 1S03 not over $20 each. The number of cows in 1872 was one to a little loss than four of population. In 181)3 the number was one to a little more than four of population, so that, relatively to population, tho number of cows had decreased and their value at the same time had fallen 40 ier cent. A Common American Money. What wo want In this country Is a common American money. We want a money whoso basis is interchangeable and whose supply. Is not necessarily dependent upon another country. A nation that Is as inqortant to the commercial world as the United States Indeed, a country that is as necessary feu the commerce of the world as

America surely could determine the character of the basis of its monetary system without lirst asking permission to do so of another country. It is ditlicult to reconcile patriotism with monometallism iu the face of our well known ability to establish and maintain a common American money. Omaha WorldHerald.

Loss Sustained by Farmers. Groat as has been tho fall in agricultural products, the fall iu tho price of farm lands has boon greater still, notwithstanding the fact that tho area of arable land, relatively to population, is rapidly decreasing; and nowhere has the value of laud fallen more than in tho old settled parts of tho country. There must be some cause for this change in the relation of money to land and commodities. Is the change in tho goods or in the measure in the land and commodities or in the money? It is plainly In the money. Since the demonetization of silver the world's standard money has boon shrinking in volume relatively to population and wealth ami its value has correspondingly increased. Tho gold in the world has boon spread over larger and larger areas, and divided among .noro and more people, and gets dearer and clearer every year. At the price of wheat in 1873 the value to the farmers of tho crop of 1S03 would have boon $455.00 umjo, instead of $17S.(HMj.(Mto, a difference of $277,OOo,m:. This would have gone a long way toward paying off mortgages. The corn crop of 1S03. at the price of 1873, would have yielded 1?Mi.i.hmu instead of $412.ouO.in0. Tho cotton crop of ls:i3. at the price of cotton in 1K73, would have boon worth to the South $4'.h;.000,mh. instead of $181,000,000, its actual value in is;3. The difference in the value of farm products in 1S73 and in 1803 correctly marks the difference between prices with free coinage of silver, as well as gold, and prices as measured by the single standard of gold. The value of farms and farm lands has fallen oven more than farm products. It is not easy to calculate the loss to farmers and planters in the twenty years from 1N73 to 1st by the fall in the value of farms and farm products, as tho direct result of the change in tin money standard. Their ability to pay debts and taxes, at any rate, has been reduced in the exact ratio to the fall in prices. The earnings of labor, counted in money, have been reduced also. While many things which the laborer uses have fallen with his earnings, taxes, debts, cost of education, and many other things have not been reduced, the net result being a proportional loss to labor; the greatest loss being, perhaps, in loss of employment and consequently in tho total earnings of tho laboring class. People Not to Be Fooled. The people are not to be fooled by platforms disguising the monopoly of gold under the rubbish of "parity," "honest dollar" and like subterfuge. The question is silver or no silver. A party honestly pledged to the restoration of the metal to the place it held in the government for over seventy years will have no need to talk about honest money or a parity between that kind of money and any other kind. The trimmers might as well get on the band wagon at once so they may play in harmony with the music that is to head the procession in next year's campaign. Kansas City Journal. Use Deceptive Terms. The advocates of an exclusive gold standard of money are fond of imputing motives of dishonesty to all who venture to differ with them by insisting Mil tho use of silver as money. In the face of the fact that there never has boon a depreciation of a standard silver coin of this country they prate continually about "50-cent dollars," and use other deceptive terms. If the friends of silver wore disposed to retort in kind they would ask for a definition of the particular brand of honesty which these advocates of gold money arrogate to themselves. Chicago Mail. Cm't Stand on One L.er. The enemies of free silver tell us that free coinage at 10 to 1 moans silver monometallism. And pray what does their single standard contention mean except gold monometallism? As between the two, tho American people intinitely prefer the former. But they don't have to take either. If metal is to be continued as the only money of final redemption it must be both. If one is demonetized, the other must be. The whole world can't be made to stand on one leg, and a game leg at that. Not Kor Monometallism. It Is a fnvrite argument of the gold advocates that the friends of silver are not argaing for bimetallism but for silver monometallism. The friends of silver are doiug no such thing. They are working for the restoration of silver to the place it occupied before 1873. They do not ask any more. Wo did not have silver monometallism then, and the friends of silver do not. believe admitting It to the mints will bring silver monometallism now. Augusta ((la.) Chronicle. Notes. One of the. gold-bug organs hhouls "Silver is gone for good." Wait and see. Will the gold people insist that China pays Japan in gold instead of silver? Why should they permit such an outrage without a protest? Tho gold bugs call their English reform "getting the wind off their stomachs." They should try and keep the wind out of their heads. It Is believed that only a very small percentage of the people of the Unite.1 States, or of any State in tho Union, are gold monometallism. An overwhelming majority of the opponents of free coinage are bimetalllsts, Washington Tost

The House of Keys. Tlv Isle of Man, again brought inta prominence as the scene of a popular novel, is only thirty-two miles long ami twelve miles wide. While belonging to the British crown, it is neither English, Scotch, Irish nor Welsh, but is a separate country, with a home rule government, and a language of its own; yet loyal to the imperial government and devoted to Queen Victoria. The government is known as the "House of Keys" and consists of twenty-four members, elected every seven years; but no person has a vote unless ho possesses real esate of the value of forty pounds, or occupation at the value of sixty pounds per year; all women are entitled to vote. Tho court of Tynwald, presided over by the lieutenant governor, is composed of the Council, which embraces the bishop, attorney general, two judges, the clerk of the rolls, water bailiffs and the vicar general. All laws passed by tho House of Keys are siibmitod for royal assent, and when that has been secured then the law must bo formally read in the English and Manx languages on Tynwald Hill in the open air, where tho Council and the Keys united form a Tynwald Court, before they become laws. The fifth of .Inly in each year is the day chosen for the proclamation. The coat-of-arms of the Isle is three legs of a man within a circle. The motto translated roads: "Whithersoever thrown, I shall stand." Sure enough, there are cats hero without any tails. The Manx language, like the ancient language of Ireland, is fast passing away, and in a generation it will bo one of the dead languages.

Chinese Gentlemen and. Virtuosos. You must know the Chinese is far more commonly virtuoso than we. And a Chinese collector is a real connoisseur. He has no idea of .beauty except to eye it suspiciously as probably of Japanese or other foreign origin; all he worships is age. And mark this most curious trait antiques ol his own country alone. What a conservatism to boast of this! Tho Chinese scholar find virtuoso has the profoundest admiration for lr!s own country's ancient literature and art. Ho will not deign to have anything foreign or now on his shelves. I think this is somewhat of a rebuke to us. hunting for relics of every country but our own. It puts us on the stand of nouveaux riches. Don't think that a Chinaman spends nothing on his collection. Ho will outbid the vulgarest millionaire in the world for a genuine old bronze or porcelain. His collection is not built up in a day by wholesale commissions given to dealers. His is bought piece by piece as opportunity and finances allow. The collection made by a single man's lifetime is nothing. You will see pieces ia his catalogue bought by father and grandfather, and remote ancestors. They are heirlooms. They are passed down from father to son. They are tho mark of education and noble birth, because the only nobility there is education and ollicial rank, and noble birth is being the descendants of ancestors who have held office and taken degrees. An heirloom of a choice bit of porcelain proves education and wealth in the purchaser. Iois this not make you feel rather new with your twopenny fans and plates on the wall? Temple liar. Eiglit laves Saved by a Iog. Some years ago a vessel was driven on the beach of Lydd, in Kent, England. The sea was rolling furiously. I light poor fellows were crying for help; but a boat could not bo got off, through tho storm, to their assistance, and they wore in constant peril, for any moment the ship was in danger of sinking. At length a gentleman came along the beadi accompanied by his Newfoundland dog. Ho directed the animal's attention to the vessel, and put a short stick in his mouth. Tho intelligent and courageous dog at once understood his moaning, sprang into the sea, and fought his way through the angry waves toward the vessel. He could not, however, get. close enough to deliver that with which he was charged; but the crew understood what was meant, and they made fast a rope to another piece of wood, and threw It towards him. The noble animal at once dropped his own piece of wood, and Immediately seized that which had boon thrown to him; and then, with a degree of strength and determination scarcely credible for he was again and again lost under he waves ho dragged it through the surge, and delivered it to his master. A line of communication was thus formeil with the vessel, and every man on board was rescued. His Lust Commission. There is a story current in the profession respecting a Jew proprietor of a small theater near Loudon. One night the spectators were few, very few in number. They were playing tho Immortal bard's masterpiece, "Hamlet." The proprietor, after counting the night's receipts, Hew around to the stage door In a rage. Meeting the stage manager he blurted out: -Misthcr Shmith. vat kind of bouth do you call thllhr Solemn silence on the part of tho stage manager. Proprietor (returning to the attack) I thay, Mr. Shniith, who wrote this pieth? Stage Manager Why, Shakspoaro, sir. Proprietor Did he? Veil, he'll never write another for mo as long as I llf !" The Irish Kxlles. One million Irish soldier-exiles passed away In France from the date of the broken treaty of Limerick at the olee of the seventeenth ccnturj to the closs of the eighteenth. The soil of the Luited States, of Canada, the Argentine ltepubllc. Chili, Pom, and far-off Australia, tho land of the Southern Cross, covers the ashes of several millions of the Irish race.

NEWS OF Oüß STATE.

A WEEK AMONCS THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. TThat Oar Neighbors Are Doing-flatter of Cioneral and .oral Interest Marriajrc and Deaths Accident and Crime Pointer About Our Own People. Don't Waste the V.sm. Prof. . I. C. I. each. State las Inspector, Who has returned from a tmr of the gas belt, authorizes the following statement, warning the public against the needless waste of gas: "Thre are many sections of the gas Held that I have nut visited at all, and am, therefore, net sufficiently informed to give an intelligent estimate of the gas supply: but judging from what data I have at hand. 1 believe that the statistic pressure of the gas field is decreasing. True, there are some wells that show a very slight decrease, if any, but this is the exception and not the rule. The bc'.ief in many places that gas will last forever, and the extravagant use and waste cause! thereby, are doing great damage to the commercial interests of the gas field: for no one knows better than the manufacturer, who is looking for a location for a factory, that at the present rate of reckless wasting of this precious fuel, the time is not far distant when he will have to return to coal. The gas companies have realized this for some time, and are doing all they canto husband their supply, and I am glad to say that in some places the ieople are awakening to tl.se facts: are doing what they can to create a sentiment against the waste of this fuel.v Minor Xtate News. Elkiiakt will build live miles of cement sidewalk. Vr. Wai.kf.i:, Jeffcrsoaville, has been, acquitted of killing Kugene llogv.c. 1Iomi:i: Thomas was thrown from a horse at Elwood. and fatally injured. Si iivi:v for the new electric road between Elwood and Anderson has legun. Mils. El.lZAr.KTH Pym.s, -4i, was kicked to death by a fractious horse at Columbus. Eakmiam college museum has received a tremendous alligator from a Florida friend. IIkxky county fair association has detided to build a half mile track at Newcastle. Fi:i:i Yi:atox. of Indianapolis, was serioesly injured in a runaway accident at Coluinuus," Tin: bam and four horses of Ileal -n Pierce cf Sullivan burned. Los, $1.0 '); lo insurance. m r Im.i:xsk f!cw of water was struck in feet down, at Danville. Will bo used for water .vorks. Iov cf an unknown man.about 5. years of age, w as found hanging to a tree near I'armcrsburg. Tm: Muncie architectural iron works were destroyed by tire recently, for the fojeond time since construction. Loss $'JJWauamt road lias paid Mrs. Ceorge Jones, Wabash. $.VJ0) for the killing of her husband by Ceo. Could's special train, last October. IIoMizn Thomas. 13 years old. whil horseback riding two miles cast of Alexandria, was thrown from his horse and fatally injured. A rim: of watch case has boon ploughed up in I.aporte county 110 rods from the spot where a man named Fletcher was blown up by dynamite eight years ayo. Mn. Ua'xta's three children pi aye. 1 with kerosine at Washington, and one of them struck a match. The house was destroyed and one of the children fatally burned. James Hakpixo, farmer near Nashville, Hrown County, was found dead with both feet and one hand burned otL Supposed lie was overcome by heat while, lighting forest fires. The reunion of theSixty-ninth Uegiin?nt will be hold in liichmoiid the last week .n September or the first week in October. There are now probably .") survivors ;f thi3 regiment, an l nearly all of them arc expected to be presold. "i:ai: Ekin, Tipton County, workmen w ho w ere boring for gas w ere astonished to see the drill sink whiio in hard rock " tofeet Ks low the surface. It was removed and a constant stream of water fifty feet high burst loose with a roar that could be hear 1 a mile. J a mks II. CiiAxii.Ki:. running a restiurant at Indianapolis, was npivoaled to bv a chamlHTinaid for protection against three drunken fellows. Chandler undertook to remonstrate with bis customers, and w as lnu led down a stoop flight of stops, fatally Iraeturing his skull. John' Sm TTiarr,a Cass County ioersaker, mcurned his first wife as missing, eighteen vears ago. Eight years ago he married again and, the ether day. his first wife made her appearance, shuttrunpf hustled around and got a divorce after eight years of illegal wedded bliss. I-ZUA SrvAi:i.i:s, of Mumie, has mortgaged his projerty for $."'v and gone to New York to try and get his son, Arthur Searlcs, out of prison by making .od the money the young man received by fraudulently representing himself to Ik? au agent of an Indianapolis newspaper. Ax enraged turkey gobbler tore the nose rnd part of tho upper lip on" and destrojed an eye of a small child belonging toC.eorge, It. Cutter of English. The babe was ia the yard, dtw.-ed in a red pow n. w hic'i enraged the bird. Urs. Ercnt and HazlewHd hope to restore tin nose an 1 lip by st idling, but the eye is torn from the socket. Ykti:kixai:iaxs are advicd of the appearance of a now and peculiar insoU w hich is alarming horsojium in the eastern part of Indiana. In appearance it is said to rootmble a mosquito, though alnrnt three times as largo. It attacks the horses dm nig the warm part of the day. stinging tli m on the inner membrane of the ear.4. The membrane becomes cry sore, and in mot instances the horses are unfitted for w oik lor several days. No one has been aide to name the jest thus far. Joskhuxe McCoy, the young daughter of J. 15. McCoy, of North New Jersey street, luvli;.naHlis,w as burned to death in aeeller. Her t lollies caught fire from a natural Raj furnace. In attempting to save her tho mother was I adlv burned. The other night Mrs. Savanna Pugan, who deserted her husband in Ohio live years ago, died in Fort Wayne. She was alone with William Newman, her lover, at the time. The coroner's inquest develocd the fact that the woman's neck was broken, and while the funeral was in progress Newman was placed under arrest on suspicion of being the cause of her death. The prisoner declares his innocence.