Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 34, Plymouth, Marshall County, 7 June 1895 — Page 7

THE MODERN DOLL Aß.

WHO OWNS IT AND WHAT IT BUYS. A Gold S'andard Is Made Possible at a Frightful Cost to the Producer Significant Figures In a Senate Document Laushlin's Bray. Gold Supply Inadequate. It is generally conceded that the aggregate of all classes of American debt Leid abroad is five billions of dollars, and that the interest ou this amount, Avhich must be paid in gold, reaches ; 2-J3.000.000 annually. In 1S02 the world produced $19,C0ö,00ö In silver, and $130,817,000 In sold. Deducting 40 per cent, used in the arts and sciences, we have left for money purposes only $10(5,15 1,000. With the output of both gold and silver for the whole earth aggregating only $197,000,000, how can we pay annually to Europe $J'J.",000,000 in gold? Surely no one would advise a new bond issue every time the interest fell due; even a Zulu would stand aghast at such a proposition. Iiut how are we to pay this interest? It is a serious question, and touches the very life of the American people. The foreigners who hold the debts and their American agents non-producers nearly every one of them see clearly that if this interest could be paid in the produets of labor cotton, wheat and corn that the gold would remain in this country to bo manipulated as they see lit. So far they have enforced this policy and made it possible for England to say to us with brutal frankness: 'I want cotton, wheat and corn to clothe and feed my millions. You Americans raise a very superior quality of these articles. Put them to me cheaper than they can be produced in my own India and Egypt where labor is only ten cents per day else I shall buy from them, and destroy your national credit by demanding your interest In gold." Thus do American wheat, corn and cotton go abroad In settlement of at least eighty-live or ninety per cent, of our foreign indebtedness. No wonder these conditions suit the corporate greed of this country, md that it is fighting so hard for a perpetuation of its interests. Pile up the debt. Continue the promises to pay in impossible gold. What care they? The farmer's products, competing with India and Egypt, pay the foreign interest, and a pittance of gold remaining here, as a basis for the expansion and contraction of national bank paper, gives them another lever for reaching the property of the mechanic, the carpenter, the bricklayer, the stonecutter -and every class of labor. Notwithstanding these facts, so well known to the world, the greedy holders of these tremendous credits, with their horde of agents, tools and puppets, have the temerity to stand up and declare that they advocate the use of an "honest," "truthful" dollar a dollar which, as far as the masses are concerned, might as well have no existence. Thus, then, is made possible a gold standard in this country, but at what a frightful cost to the producer. That it will drag him down to the level of the teu-cents-per-tay lalKr of the Orient there can be no doubt; but in the fall of the farmer, be it remembered, all things else must share his fate. Every class of property even in the cities is now beginning to feel the pinch. Nor can we benefit matters in the least by resorting to a high tariff. For the sake of argument, let us grant that such a policy would drive labor up in certain manufacturing centers in the East, for example to three dollars per day. This, however, would simply defer the inevitable for a brief space, since the producers of the South and West, competing with India and Egypt, and selling their products on a basis of ten cents a day labor, could not long continue to purchase the output of the more expensive producers of the East who were drawing three dollars per day. Such a policy would eventually work as much ruin as a perpetual bond issue. Thousands are now putting to themselves such questions, and, being unable to give satisfactory ttuswers, are turning to silver as the only remedy. It can work no harm, they argue, since if we had the whole world's annual output of both gold stud silver, it would not suffice to pay our interest abroad. If the advocates of "sound money" will elucidate this one point, it may be predicted witk safety that there will be no more "silver craze" to worry the life out of us, and to drive to distraction the patient and watchful souls of our great (?) politicians. Address to the People. The following address was promulgated by the Salt Lake City silver conference: "To the People of the United States: We desire to say that the people whom we represent are not an aggregation of thieves seeking to swindle honest creditors with 50-cent dollars. There are no more patriotic citizens of the American republic than those active, earnest, energetic men and women who have left the comforts of their Eastern homes to build the highways of national progress in the far West If they believed that the complete restoration of silver would operate an Injury to the country as a whole or an Injustice to nnj' class, regardless of its local effect In this Western region, they would at once and forever abandon the demand. "The greatest good to the greatest number is tlielr motto, and it is In this spirit that they, irrespective of party affiliations, present themselves almost as i unit demanding the free coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of IG to 1, with full legal tender functions accorded to each and no discrimination against either. It is not as silver miners but citizens of the republic, mindful of Its every interest, that we take

this position. The representatives from California, Oregon and Wyoming, which produce little or no silver, feel that their people have been as deeply injured by the demonetization of that metal as those living In any State or territory In which silver mining is a leading industry. In making this demaud we are asking for nothing new. The monetary system of this country was founded not upon gold alone not upon silver alone but upon both silver and gold at a certain ratio to each other, without limitation upon the coinage of either, and standing upon an equal footing before the law. "The system was founded by Hamib ton, sanctioned by Washington and Jefferson, Its wisdom and justice questioned by none until the year 1S73. In that year without notice to the people, the standard silver dollar was dropped from the treasury of the country and every debt therein existing, public and private, aggr gating thousands of millions of dollars, was made payable ia gold alone. Men that have intelligence enough to comprehend its significance and still oppose the undoing of that wrong should be exceedingly careful how they accuse other people of dishonesty. It was the great 'money power of the world that thus stealthily destroyed the time-honored monetary system of our country. Those men who own and control vast sums of money and debts payable in money understood that if silver could be destroyed by stopping its coinage and limiting its legal tender their claims thus being payable exclusively in gold or its equivalent, the gold itself would become more valuable. 'They understood perfectly that a gold dollar with a silver üollar by its side, sharing its function? and meeting part of the demand, was an entirely different measure of value from what that gold dollar would bo standing alone. They knew that bj- the inexorable law of supply and demand the value of gold must inevitably riso while the value of every other species of property must just as certainly fall. This is exactly what has taken place. The business of the world is done upon a money basis. It is measured la terms of money. Golditca Iindly Scared. Congressman Faker, of New Hampshire, talking on the ever present subject of finances, very frankly said that while he was opposed to the free coinage of silver, and the so-called leaders of both parties in New Hampshire were of the same mind, he was convinced that if the proposition was submitted to a vote of the people it would carry by a very comfortable majority. Congressman IJaker has been among Ihu people in his State, lias circulated among the rural population and comes back to Washington without giving what he has heard ids own coloring. He does not like the growth of free silver sentiment but Is honest enough to admit that it is spreading with rapidity throughout the whole country. The same story is heard from Massachusetts. A very prominent business man temporarily in Washington, but who is averse to being quoted, said this afternoon that much talking with the people from various parts of the State with whom lie came in contact had revealed tho existence in Masachusetts of a sentiment on the money question of which he and men like him, in business in the large cities, had not dreamed. The State, particularly in the country and smaller towns, was, ho said, firmly intrenched in the belief In the absolute necessity of free coinage, and this conviction could not be shaken by any argument made. So comes the word from Pennsylvania. Congressman William A. Stone, of that State, who Is now in Washington, makes no attempt to conceal his astonishment at the rapid spread cf free silver sentiment in Pennsylvania. He speaks glomily of the "damage" thru has been done in his own district, and says the free silver forces are thoroughly organized and conducting an educational campaign that is having a telling effect. I.au;?hliis Five Per Cent. Professor Laughlin In his reply to "Coin" says 5 per cent in money is all that is needed to do business on. A reliable gentleman tells of an incident that occurred in one of our leading Missouri towns not 100 miles from Kansas a few days ago that illustrates it. One of those people the gold bugs call "cranks," but who in Saline County are called "cattlemen," who had just sold his cattle went to one of the banks, and, presenting a check for $43, asked if ho could get gold for it? The cashier said "certainly" r.ud paid over the "primary" money. The "crank" then asked: "Do you object to paying gold on drafts?" Tho cashier replied: "Not at all, anything the customer wants we are glad to pay." The man then presented a draft for $9,000. Put there was not gold enough in the bank to pay it, nor did the four banks in the town all told have enough of the "primary" money to cash it, and the "crank" had to take "unsound money" in tho shape of greenbacks and silver certificates. This was an actual business transaction just reported to US. Ridiculous Ilraylngs. Even the donkey Imagines his bray is the most musical of all noises, and Prof. Laughlin, of the Chicago University, has evidently no idea how ridiculously his brayings concerning the gold standard sounds. IIo even goes so far as to assert that one railroad between Chicago and St Louis would be better than more than one. Of course It would for the owners of tho railroad Just as his gold standard Is better for the owners of the gold. Secretary Carlislo has Investigated the criminal records and is satisfied that tho crimo of 1873 was not committed. This Is in the nature of an allbl for John Sherman ...

TOPICS FOR FARMERS

A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Surface Cultivation for Corn Will Give More and Farlicr Grain No Profit in Home Mixinji of Fertilizers How to l'ruixe Fruit Trees. Corn Culture. Surface cultivation for corn Is in the nir, and the manfuacturers of coruworkiug tools are working along that lino, and the company that will give us the best is the one wo want to patronize. I am so fully satistlednhat surface cultivation will give us more and earlier corn, says S. Favill in the Prairie Fanner, that I believe the time will soon be here when the intelligent farmer will no more allow the corn roots to be broken if he can help it, than he would allow the leg of his calf or pig to be broken. My plan for planting the corn is this: First lit the ground nicely, have it firm and free from lumps, the rows only one way. This will save all checking and marking. Would prefer it put in drills, kernels ten inches apart. In this way ono can be plowing, fitting and planting at the same time (if he has teams enough); if it is a small fanner, with only one team, he can fit any part of the piece and plant It, and then tit the rest. In that way part of the corn will be growing and ready for the cultivator as soon as one can get to it. I am in favor of a free use of the common harrow on the field corn. Commence in a day or two after the planting is done and harrow till the coin is four to six inches high, but do not commence in the morning after the corn is up. till the dew is off, for the com will break easily when it Is wet. Put, after the sun is on it awhile, it gets tougher and will stand a good deal of knocking around without breaking. Be sure and go over the whole field before the corn is up and level it down, nnd then the after harrowing will be less likely to cover any of the corn. Do not be scared if it does look a little bad when you first go over it I mean when the corn is up; unless there is a lump or a sod on it, it will straighten up and take care of itself, and the harrow will break any crust that may be formed on the ground that you cannot break with any kind of cultivator, and, besides, you can Mil weeds much faster than with any other tool, and kill them, too, before they start much. So keen the fine tooth harrow going as long as you can, and it will do you good. Home Mixing of Fertilizers. Nothing can be gained by the purchase of mineral fertilizers and mixing them by hand. All tho large establishments where fertilizers are made have facilities and machinery for grinding and mixing the fertilizers, so that the work can be done much more cheaply than it is possible to do it by hand. The competition among dealers insures a low price for all commercial fertilizers. Thirty years ago, when phosphate begrn to be used ia the Northern States, the price by the ton was $5, and in small amounts it sold at 5 cents per pound, or at the rate of $100 per ton. We think that at this time Southern farmers got their phosphate somewhat cheaper than this. They bought by the carload for growing cotton, and paid as high as $10 per ton. Competition has reduced tho price. Owing to strict State Inspection of fertilizers there is less cheating than there was then. All fertilizers have their guaranteed analysis marked in each package, ahd they are almost invariably what they are represented to be. rrnnins Fruit Trees. In pruning fruit trees attention has to be given to tho manner in which the particular kind bears its fruit The cherry and the pear both bear their fruit on short spurs, and in trimming, therefore, the effort should be to produce a large quantity of healthy fruit spurs. Summer pruning does this admirably. The branches that we want to remain as leading shoots should not be touched; but the weaker ones may be pinched back, about midsummer, about one foot or two-thirds of their growth. This will Induce the swelling of a number of buds that will produce flowers Instead of branches, and in this way, fruit spurs can be obtained on comparatively young trees; but with such kinds as tho grape vine, the fruit is borne on the branches of last year's growth, so tho effort should be to throw all the vigor possible Into those growing branches that we want to bear fmit the next season. To do this we pinch back the shoots that we do not want to exterd, or even pull these weak shoots out altogether. A little pruning is then necessary, In the winter, to shorten back theso strong, bearing canes, cr to prune out altogether the weaker ones that we check by pinching back during the growing season. Cultivating the Small Grains. English farmers have learned that there is great advantage In spring cultivation of winter wheat. Nut the English method of hoeing the grain by hand labor Is much too expensive to be afforded at present wheat prices. What Is quite as good as hand hoeing, and much less expensive. Is thoroughly harrowing the surface in spring before sowing grass and clover seeds. Holling should follow tho harrowing. With spring grain the rolling ought to come first, and compact tho soil around the younr plant. It is a mistake to roll as Boon as the seed Is sown, as is often don'e. If rains follow after this compacting of the surface tho young plants do not easily break through it, and arc weakened. Holling tho surface after the grain Is up operates differently. It breaks any crust that may have formed, and presses tho soil closely about the roots. Then In a day or two run the smoothing harrow over the rolled surface, and It will be as good as running tho cultivator through young corn to

Increase its growth. After the grain is up heavy rains will not compact the surface soil, for the force of the rain drops Is broken by the leaves, and no crust over the surface will be formed. If clover or grass seed is sown with spring grain it should be afti-r the rolling and cultivating, else the small seeds will be covered too deeply. Irrixatinsj the Garden. The subject of irrigation of the garden is one of present interest The garden is the most productive part of the farm, but quite often the product is greatly reduced by a few dry days during which young j.lants are destroyed fur the want of water, or the older ones :ue so weakened at tho blossoming time that they fail to set fruit. That most important crop, the strawberry, especially suffers from the want of wa-! tor, and it has been found that some simple method of irrigation has tripled the average yield, with an equivalent improvement in the quality of the fruit. It has boon shown by scientific experiments that the yield of any crop is in proportion to the quantity of water passing through the plants. This is not only reasonable, but easily demonstrable, as the only food available to plants is that dissolved in water, and if the water is deficient in supply the plant is starved to the extent of the deficiency, while the contrary applies equally. So that a short supply of water in the soil is equivalent to a shortening of the supply of food, and the most fertile soil cannot yield more than a meager crop. It is the same as if the soil were deficient ia fertility. It Is usually proper to irrigate most garden truck at the blossoming period, especially if the soil is dry and the weather warm, and it is again essential to water when the fruit is set. Denver Field and Farm. Black Minorcas. This breed of poultry is rapidly growing in favor in this progressive age of poultry culture, as their good qualities are bettor known. They are of Spanish origin, and have been bred for many years in England. They are the largest nonsitting breed In existence, and excel as egg producers, both in number and size of the eggs, says Ohio FarmerThey combine two points that render them especially desirable, xiz.: utility and beauty. They have large single combs, red face with pure white ear lobes, lustrous black plumage, and are proud and majestic. The American standard weight for Black Minorca cocks is eight pounds, and for hens six and a-half pounds. They are very hardy, mature early, pullets begin to lay when five months old, and continue through the winter. Their ability to fill the egg basket is recognized not only by tho fancier, but by tho practical farmer. Butternuts for Profit. It does not take long to bring a seedling butternut to bearing. About sixteen years ago, says the Vermont Farm Advocate, we planted a few butternuts in tho rows with apple seed planted to grow stock for grafting, and theso trees have been bearing very fine nuts for several years. There is a great deal of difference in the size of nuts on different trees, and the larger ones can readily be grafted upon trees bearing inferior ones. Tho wholo business Is very simple, and we believe that growing butterunts will pay, at least as well as growing apples. At any rate, we do not find any difficulty in getting $1.00 per bushel at the stores for what nuts we can spare. The whole subject Is vrorthy of more attention than it has yet received. Bruises and Wounds of Trees. Nothing is better for covering the bruises on trees than oil shellac with, perhaps, a little flower of sulphur and a few drops of carbolic acid, which last Ingredient should be used very sparingly. Tho mixture can be applied with a paint brush. For the exclusion of the air from wounds, it is suggested that a grafting wax, made of four parts of rosin, two parts of beeswax, and one of tallow, melted together, poured lnti water and Immediately worked and made up into half-pound rolls, is convenient to have ready for use. Held iu the hands so that it Is softened, a small lump of it may bo spread over a wound, and It will remain for some time and keep out air and germs of disease. If tho wound is largo the application may need to be repeated. Hural New-Yorker. Feedinsr Whole Grain to Horses. As horses grow older and their teeth are poorer they bolt their grain moro greedily and do not attempt to chew it as they should. Wholo grain fed thti3 docs HUIe good. Grain for horses whoso teeth are poor ought always to bo ground and given with cut hay. Even when younger horses are fed wholo grain some finely -chopped hay should be cut and wet to mix with it. This will make them eat more slowly and they will chew their food better. Hut for horses of any age feeding wholo grain is wasteful however It may be given. A great deal will pass through them and give them very little nutriment Ii ose Growing. A rose grower says: "I would never mix stable manure with soil for roses. It may be used when thoroughly decomposed as a top dressing, but in the soil it is bad. I have seen beds in which It was used so full of white fungus they were fairly matted together. Sheep manure 1 consider one of the very best fertilizers we have, either in liquid form or mixed with soil at the time of planting. It should not bo added to the compost heap, foj too much of it in one place is sure death to all vegetable life." Keep Cows on lry Feed. In a majority of cases, tho better plan is to keep tho cows on dry feed until the pastures havo made a pufllclent growth to furnish a full feed, and then mako tho change from dry to green feed gradually.

SANK BY THE SC0ER

COLIMA VICTIMS OVERTAKEN BY DEATH WHILE ASLEEPLatest Keports Swell the List of Lost to 10 ; The Vessel's IJoilcrs Hurst Fifty Miles Off the Mexican CoastNinctccn Were Saved. Had 1S'2 Persons on Hoard. Only meager and unsatisfactory novices have been received regard iu- the foundering of the Daehie Mail steamer Coiima Gt Manzanilln, Mexico. The officials of the l'acilie Mail iu San Francisco persisted in the statement tii.it they had received no information of the wreck of the steamer, and they tried to diseredit entirely the statements of the disaster. Several dispatches have l en received by the Merchants L'xehango nnd by private shipping firms nil continuing the tale of the ocean tragedy, nnd varying only in the minuteness of tho information convoyed. Capt. Tilts of the steamer San Juan telegraphed that he picked up a boat containing nineteen pi-rsor.s, fourteen of whom were passengers and live members of the crew of the Gulimi. The rescued boatload was taken to Manzanillo and the steamer San Juan started out a sain in search of other boats from the Colima, the presumption being that the balance of passengers und crew was afloat ia o'her boats. The Colinia's Poller Hurst. The latest intelligence regarding the disaster received was in cipher message to a San Francisco shipping firm containing the statement of Third Officer Hansen, who was in charge of the boat picked up. Hansen stated that about 11:15 at night as the Colima was about fifty miles from Manzanillo, and between that port and Punta Ht. Almo, nn accident occurred to her niachinery. Hansen had not time to investigate the troubh, but believed a boiler had burst. The Colima was put about, but began to sink rapidly. A scene of wild confusion followed. Ono boat was lowered and most of the others swung out, but so far as Hansen knows the boat he commanded was the oidy one which got clear of the sinking ship. It quickly foundered, and to avoid tho suction Hansen's boat quickly pulled clear, and the night being dark, it was impossible to tell whether the other boats got away fr-r.n the ship or not. The Colima was a single-screw propeller with iron hull. She was built in 1S73 nt Chester, Fa., by John Roach & Sons. Her tonnage was 2.1 0.01 gross, "j,143.So net, her horsepower l.loo) and her speed eleven and one-half knots. This was her ono hundred and twenty-ninth voyage to Pannma. She carried about 2,000 tons of cargo and was valued at $10.'J,000. YOUTHFUL SOLDIERS. Growing Movement to Kstahlisli Military Drill in the Schools. The movement lately inaugurated to train boys in the public schools in military tactics is meeting with great success. The b.ys havo named themselves the American Guard, and those of New York and Brooklyn on Memorial Day paraded to the number of I'd, W0. All over the country the- military drill movement is meeting with favor, and the schools in most of the cities, as well as in many cf the smaller towns are getting into line in favor of the innovation. Tho question has become one of national importance, and has already been taken up in Congress, as well as in the Legislatures of most of the States. The Grand Array of the Republic is really behind the movement to give some soldierly discipline to the lads in the public schools throughout the country. Although the national movement is a new one, military instruction in the public schools has long been practiced in some cities. In Boston the system has been thoroughly worked out, probably, nnd there the "Boston School Regiment" mauctuxo to Tin:ii: owx misic numbers about l.öW uniformed boys. In New York and Brooklyn the movement is making rapid strides. Tho American Guard has been formed from the battalions of the public schools, and each battalion has i!-s number and place in line. As in Boston, they turn out on special holidays, and have been the feature of more than one big parade of real soldiers. In Washington, Cincinnati, Columbus, Des Moines, Omaha and scores of other smaller cities and towns the idea is waking headway. That military drill is popular among tho schoolings is evident to anyone who sees the lads at drill. They willingly give up part of their play hour to take part in it, and the competition for officers' positions is keen. One lias but to look at the air of pride with which these youngsters wear their neat little uniforms to appreciate their feelings. In most of the schools only the larger companies are uniformed and equipped, and there are one or two companies composed of the smaller and untrained boys, which correspond to a drill squad, from which the ranks of the regular companies are rccr iited. Notcis of Current Invents. Two big claims against the Stanford ctate have been compromised. Frank Scott, dry goods merchant, failed at Leavenworth, Kan., for J?lSt,S00. A young socialist, charged with writing tlire.it en in g letters to the King of Saxony, is under arrest nt Dresden. The body of the son of Faster Davis, of. Bod us Point, N. Y., was found in Sod us bay, as predicted by a fortune teller. The Guatemalan Government has made reparation for its t rent men t of Argle, the American whom it Ill-treated in prison.

NEWS OF 0U11 STATE.

A WEEK AMONG TMZ HUSTLING H00SIERS. (That Oor Netghrors Ar Doinq: Matter of CJcneral and I.oe:l I nt-rest MarrlaRM and Deaths Accident and Crimes Pointer About Our Ousi lVop.e. 3!rs. l'!i:s.' !is Nord, lust after R.-v. '.. T. ve.-n-y. of the Tabcrnacl'" Christian Church. Columbus, hr.d co!iel'!I d bis se:nn l;i.t Sunday be read the following .st;it--iient concerning the lile of the late Governor Ira .1. Chase: "Notwithstanding Ids long and valuable sen ice to l.i- Su:ie. tlie country at large and the chr.rch. ox-Gocnnr Clr.se left hü family hi :u 1 iul j --- I This information will be most distressing to thousands of friends and admirers of the late Governor. For more than t -.venty-I: v years his wife has l-eoa a contirrrod invalid, confined nearly ;;I1 of the time to her N-l, and for lifteMi years has be n lolally blind. Governor Ci.a.-e was a ::.an of large and warm heart, wvA in his time gaeaway thousands m ( h.irity. In his young manhood, when tho N;iii !i called for de:o!lders. heolb rod himself and bore his full .share of the givat coMliet. Allhowuh be was a party Iran, he had wv.w.x f r IT-i tls in both parties. Th-Te are bundled of largehi atcd men in Indiana who doubtless would be happy to give io .help create a fund to ;nal;e the last da s of his window comfortabl". To h i hi r remain destitute would be a shame o:i tho good name of the State he served so long and well. On net Sunday night, .lane "J. I will p reach a memorial sermon on Governor (hae, bow he lived und how be die 1. end stait a fund for the suppoit of his widow." f?!ror State ptt. Tim: New Richmond bank has decidM to discontinue its deposit department anl has paid its depositors. Watchman lt x of the Lake Erie road, at Frankfort, at the risk of bis own life, saved little Cecil .Jones lro:a being crushed by an engine. Yoi n; men of Cowan, near Muncie. have threatened to tat and feather Deputy-prosecutor Krger unless he ceases proM-cuting them. AMr.i:o has a policeman who is so conscientious that h will not attend the ball games for fear that lie will ixvome infatuated with the sport and neglect his duty. Mi:s. Isaa" IIi mks, Ingalls, confessed that she had cut her own throat and then given out the report that she was assaulted A suspected tramp was nearly lynched for the su--posed crime. Mr.s. Gkoimh; FiM siioi n, of Marion, died in great agony at the home ol her mother in Goshen, as a direct result of a large dose of pan-sit headache cure bought in Marion a week ao. Tiii:i:i: was a desperate running battle between oniecrsand burglars. ;-.t the Pittsburg ards, in the eastern portion of Fort Wayne. One tramp and a Deputy sheriti" are probably fatally wounded. Lx-Iii:ri:!i:xTATi vi: Di:. L. S. Nn.T. and James Ihlderlack was thro An fro:: a buggy at New Haven. Allen county. Dr. Null was mjmvd internally, and it is feared his injuries will prove fatal. Ihlderback's skull is fnutMcd and face badly lacerate-1. Will!.!-: digging a well on the place of D. II. I.'i-mly, in Montgomery comity, the diggers found a block of wood, weighing several pounds, at the depth of sixty-live feet. The wood resembles walur.t, but it is not. and no jktsoii lias btvii found to U li w hat kind it is. Mi:. J ami: Sti:ax;:ia and daughter, Cora, of Alto, were fatally hurt in a rrnavvay at Kokomo. They wire going into town when an advertising man tried to throw a circus poster into the buggy. The paMT fi ll under the horse's feet, causing th runaway. Doth v ill die. Fai:mi:i:s from various ort ions of Clinton county rcpoit that there is absolutely little left of t!i.' wheat crop and many of them w ill plow it up and put thground i'l corn. In addition to the Hessian lly they claim that there is a new post in the form of a pccv.Iiar looking white worm embedded in itie roots and working disastrous results. A m müki: of farmers who are considered good authority on the fruit sv.b;ect were discussing the fn.it problem at Hagcrstown, and were unanimous in the conclusion that thoiuh lb. -re has bevn the most unfavorable fruit weather this spring, and especially in May, that they have ever experienced, apples i.iomise the largest yield in many year-. The t.ees are loaded. Fi:.ri ( rders !;aebeen issued against the following jhtsoiis an 1 corporations in Indiana debarring them fiom the use of the mails: Charles Adams and Flla Moore, of Mishawaka. Ind.. for alleged fraudulent patent medicine circulars; the Central American Fur and Woo! Company, r.enjamin Dernard. manager, Indianapolis, for obtaining money under false pretenses. The firm advertises for lodes, skins, Are., and thin, it is alleged, dies not pay for thim. Gi: axvii.u: Cowinu or Muncie, who i a recognized authority, says: "There w ill Kmio raspU rrit s t bhu kU'iries. and the crop of slrawlierries w ill not 1-e 10 er cent. Apples and cars are badly injured, but not as many killed as some people lolieve. There will lo some lato cherries, but very few grains. The drought is killing the mea'lows, and some wheat is being plowed up. while much corn is being replanted, live was badly injured during the late cold snap." Tin: Grand Lodge of. Ma.-ons of Indiana met at Indianapolis, in annual session, with alxmt live hundred delegates in attendance. The. annual report of Grand Secretary Sim thc shov s the order to le in a prosperous and growing condition. The following officers were elected: Grand Mas'.or, Kdward O'Koutke, of Fort Wayne; Deputy Grand Master, Simeon P. Gillette, of Kvansville; Senior Grand Warder., Mason .J. Niblack, of Yinecnnes: .Tunior GrandjWarden. George A. Maeombcr, of South Pcnd; Grand Treasurer, Martin II. IJice, of Indianapolis; (Jrand Secretary, William II. Smythe, of Indianapolis. Oxi: week ago the bouse of Mrs. Hewitt at Parker City was blown to pieces with dynamite. Since then, it is claimed, that 11.020 people have visited the scene. The injured women will recover. Gov. Mattiikwh has pardoned Harry M. llodson of Kvansville, who shot and killed his father, William T. llodson, in August, 1S92. The pardon w as asked by the Judge that tried the case, the twelve jurors who returned the verdict, and numerous citizens of Kvansville. The showing was made that the father had assaulted the boy first with a steel rod ana then w ith a pitcher, and hat the latter had shot iu ftelf-defeuse.