Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 38, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 July 1895 — Page 3

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I 0! what is the cry, that is rending the sky AH orer the South and the West? From far and from near the slogan wo hear, ; With never a pause or a rest. Though faint iu the East, it is ever increased 1 As you follow the course of the sun, fTill the Iiockies are passed iu a wild i trumpet blast ' For silver at sixteen to one! It sounds to the tramp in the far mining camp, Then comes over mountain and plain, .Till caught from the mouth of the planter down South, While the farmer takes up the refrain. Wherever 'tis found, 'tisn magical sound And a wonderful work it has done. Here, there, everywhere, it is tilling the air: Free silver at sixteen to one! From the far Golden Gate unto Washington State, Thence east to Superior's beach. Take your course, and then skip down the broad Mississip Till the shores of Kentucky you reach; Up the fair Ohio past Virginia go, Then eastward the boundary run; You will thus understand that threefourths of the land Is howling for sixteen to one! The goldbugs berate, and their lackeys they prate, And their newspapers fill up thir space; They tremble in fear when that slogan they hear And find it is growing apace. Though they fume and they sweat, we will get them, you bet, i And won't we have oceans of fun? As we bury them deep in their last final sleep i 'Neath ballots for sixteen to one! As fair futures ope, though the glory of hope, To the enchanted vision of youth; As the forces of right come on liko the ! light, 1 And triumph with justice and truth, So the prospects we see of a swift victory When the battle at last is begun; Things are coming our way, 'tis the break of the day For silver at sixteen to one! Southern Mercury. Dumpinc Silver on Us. It is said that if we open our mints to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 1G to 1 10 ounces of silver to 1 of gold all the silver iu the world will come to our mints and we shall 1)3 overwhelmed with It. If this were true, it would bo the first example in the history of the world of a country being overwhelmed with good money. There never was a nation yet that was overwhelmed with silver money. There never was a nation that had more silver money than it had good use for, and there never will be. The world would not pour silver upon us. The metal would be as high in price In other countries as here, so that there woiild be no profit In sending U here. On the contrary, there would be a loss, for silver is valued 'higher In comparison with gold In all other counvries than in ours. In our country the ratio Is 1G to 1 that is, 1G ounces of silver to 1 of gold. In t ranee, Belgium. Mexico, China and the Central and South American States It is to 1 that is, luVa ounces of silver to 1 of sold. There would be a loss of half an ounce on every pound of silver brought here. . Besides, the other countries have no silver to spare. The whole world's product of silver in 1S03 was $209,1G5,OOO and nearly two-thirds of this, $135.3S0,753, was coined into money and a large part of the balance went into the Industrial arts. In the year IS92 nearly four-fifths of the entire world's product of silver was coined. In the year 1801. out of a total world's product of $177,.52,300 of silver, $13$,204,:?.G7 was coined Into money In the countries of the earth, and the industrial arts consumed a largo proportion of the balance, if not all of it. Even If our mints had been open to the free coinage of silver in the three years named, the other nations would have left to us only $74,000,000 in 1803, $12,000.000 in 1S02 and $39,000,000 in 1S01 an allowance which would have fallen far short of overwhelming us; Indeed. It w ould have fallen short of satisfying our wants. It Is a mistake to suppose that the world is gorged with ch?ap silver for which there is little or no use, and that the throwing open of our mints would attract it. Every nation on the globe needs more and more silver every year, and there is not enough produced to satisfy them. Mexico coined, in 1S03 $2S.ooo.Ox) silver; Austria-Hungary, $1N.CMX.000; Japan, $12,000,000. and other nations smaller amounts. Even gold standard Great Britain coined over $7,000,000 silver for small change; and It is certain that if we should adopt the policy of free silver coinage at 1G to 1 the other nations would never allow us to have enough of tho annual product of the metal to hurt us. "Civilized' Money. We hear a great deal about the "civilize:!" nations and their money. Silver has now got to be a "barbarous" currency. It is true a great many nations r;r peoples we don't regard as "Christians" use only silver, yet they are veiy rich nations, and commercially the most Important In the world. Were It not for India, for example, England would be n mere fourth-rate power. In the rank of Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and like states. Yet India is not even a bimetallic, but a silver inouometal, country. In a look printed hi 1803 wo find tho single silver using countries are given as India, China, Japan, the South American republics, Mexico, Peru, Uussla, Tripoli, etc. The bimetallic countries, or those using both gold and silver,, were France, United Statss, Chili, Cuba, Greece, Ilaytl, Argentine Republic, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Itoumanla, etc. Now some of these ar Lüghly civilized they think.

The "gold" countries are Germany, England. Denmark, Portugal and somo of the more dependent colonies of these governments. Or on a liberal estimate of the population of the gjobe, seveneighths of the human race use silver alouo as money or the two metals to gether. So if we really want to have a money cosmopolitan and that will pass anywhere we ought to have silver. Hut the gold people only regard one country as "civilised," really England. They admit for the sake of politeness that Germany is civilized, but as her civilization only dates back about twenty years, the time silver was superseded, they don't say much about her. The truth is the gold story is all a lie web and woof. Gold is not the money of the world universal. It is unknown to tW3-thirds of the human race but it is tho money of tho usurer, and the usurer only. To make gold the only money of ultimate payment is to enslave the world to those who own the gold. And this is the one most effective way to destroy the freedom, civilization and progress of mankind.

"Defeat" of Silver. "Honest money" from the gold side view is a dishonest dodge and the "campaign of education" has been an organized system of falsehood from th- beginning. For example, a bimetallic or silver convention was held at Memphis the other day, and the press report of its action was "the defeat of the silver men at Memphis." It would be very funny indeed If a convention in which every man In It was for silver could vote down itself. Yet sucui was the headline work of the gold press. This "defeat" was because tho convention did not bolt both the Democratic and Republican parties and form a new or fourth one in national and State politics. That would have suited the gold men exactly, as their only hope is deception and division. As tho Philadelphia American aptly says: "As the friends of silver are in the majority in both tho chief parties, it would be suicidal to abandon the old organiza tion for a new one." Nothing would suit the foreign monometallists better than this policy. Tho practical political situation Is just this, and all practical politicians in tho gold ranks sec it much moro clearly and ncrvouslj than the friends of silver do: If tho Democratic party follows Cleveland in its national platform and nomination and the Republicans dty tiare for silver restoration, it is doubW ful if the Democratic nominee could get an electoral vote. And if the situation should bo reversed tho result would be reversed as well. And if both should be controlled by tho gold policy the wisest among us could not foresee the consequences. The great majority of tho American people are for silver. So universal i? this sentiment that the masses have not yet realized the fact that it has been demonetized. When that fact is fully realized by the masses and they an brought face to face with it, a proposition to do away with the Constitution itself would not be moro universally rejected. For the people Instinctively feel that to put the nation In the hands of a foreign money power, as the gold policy does, is but the first step to destroy Constitutional government and liberty. There is no such word as defeatKansas City Journal. Let It He Restored. Reing barbarians enough to tie ourselves to a metallic basis system of finance, if we have only half enough of that metal to do the business of tho country the hardship falls heavily upon all classes of legitimate busluess and particularly so on producers. Rut when a nation deliberately takes out of circulation one-half of tho established amount, after business interests have become adjusted thereto, debts contracted, property purchased and wages fixed, of course there remains only half as much with which to pay debts, employ labor and carry on commerce, and the inevitable result is idleness, stagnation, foreclosure and bankruptcy. This is what our Government has done, and consequent tho condition we are in. "With silver restored partial realonement would be made, debts could bo paid with the same vabies in which they were contracted, prices of products would increase, therebj rendering some profit to industry and furnishing employment for the millions now In forced Idleness, better wages would be paid, and there would result a wonderful improvement Farmer's Tribune. Prices of the Metals. AVith the present gold price of fine silver at about r.I)1 cents per ounce, the silver value of the bullion in a gold dollar is more than $1!.17; or the gold value of the bullion in a silver dollar is only about 4d cents. Thus r0.." divided by 1.1H..1!9 equals .40. or 1.29.110 divided by .."0.5 equals $2.17. To thbj I anomalous and most startling ratio have the two great nionoj' metals by which all the material wealth of the world is measured, and by which all tho commerce of the world must bo carried on, been brought by the revolutionary practices of gold standard or creditor nations in this last quartei of the nineteenth century! During this period there has been no such thing known as a stable parity so absolutely necessary to commerce between the two standards of value. Exchange as carried on between gold and silver nations, has degenerated into a species of gambling during tho last twenty years. Ryron Is said to have preferred Chlhle Harold" to all his other works, lie said It contained moro of his hearthistory than all the others combined. He seems to have regarded It as Dickens did "David Copperüeld" as his own biography. A thought embodied and embra'ned in fit words walk the earth a living be Ins. Whipple.

STATE TO CONTROL IT.

TRANSFER OF THE LINCOLN MONUMENT. Tribute to the Martyred President Given Over to the State of Illinois by the Monument Association Lav IIqh Been Lately Passed. History of the Shaft. Among the bills passed by the Illinois Legislature which became laws on the first of July is one providing for the transfer of the Lincoln monument from the Monument Association to the State. The law makes appropriations for the repait of the monument, the pay of a custodian, und the erection of a custodian's lodge, or house. It also provides that the Governor, State Treasurer and Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be trustees of the State to have the care and custody of the monument. The monument was dedicated Oct. l.", 1S74, the occasion being signalized by a tremendous outpouring of the people, the 1 Ttv-rt THE LINCOLN MONUMENT. oration commemorative of the life and public services of the great emancipate being delivered by Richard J. Oglesby. President Grant also spoke briefly on that occasion and a poem was read by .Tame Judson Lord. The monument was built after the accepted designs of Lark in G. Meade, of Florence, Italy, and stands upon an eminence in Oak Ridge Cemetery, occupying about six acres of ground. Ground was broken on the site Sept. 10, 1S09, in the presence of 3,000 persons. The capstone was placed in position on May 22, 1S71, and on Sept. 19, 1S71, the remains of Lincoln were removed from the temporary tomb and placed in the crypt under the monument. In the other crypt reposes the remains of Eddie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, who died in infancy, and of Thomas (Tad), their youngest son, who died in Chicago July 15, 1S71. The monument is built of bnck and Quiuey granite, the latter material only KS BIS THE LINCOLN HOME, SPJtlNGKIELD. appearing in view. It consists of a square base 72t feet on each side, and 15 feet 10 inches high. At the north side of the base is a semi-circular projection, the interior of which has a radius of 12 feet. It is the vestibule of the catacomb, and gives access to view the crypts in which are placed the bodies of Lincoln and his sons. On the south side of the base is another semi-circular projection of the 6auie size, but this is continued into the base so as to produce a room of elliptical shape, which is called Memorial Hall. Thus the base measures, including those two projections, 1PJ1- tt from north to south and 7-1 feet from east to west. In the angles formed by the addition of these two projections are handsome flights of stone steps, two on each end. These steps aro protected by granite balustrades, which extend completely around the top of the base, which forms a terrace. From the plane of this terrace rises the obelisk, or die, which is 28 feet 4 inches high from 3K H Hmttz Ilm 8k WHERE LINCOLN KEPT 8TOKE. the ground and tapered to 11 feet square at the top. The statute of Lincoln is, of course, the central attraction of the monument. He Is represented as standing with fasces at his right hand, in which is his pen. In his left hand beholds the proclamation of emancipation, while on the pedestal beneath his feet is the bronze coat of arms. In a fight between State Constables Tettigrew and Toland and two moonshiners named Fisher and Durham at Spartanburg, S. C, the latter were killed. Pettigrew was shot through the lungs and will probably die. Toland is badly woundtd. O. O. Cottle, the lawyer who wai kidnaped from his office, failed to appear before a grand jury at Ruffalo, N. Y., to give evidence toward indicting John C. Emery and George Allen, accused of being his abductsrs.

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i ii weather croy uüetin for the week is issued from tho Chicago station j y Professor Villi L. Moore, is is follows: The vcek lias been ren-'v-rallv favorable, aloVl- though too cold in mates oi me .uisi"rr sinsippi Valleys, with fAt. tl0 much rain over portions of the Gulf States and Northern Texas. Cotton ha3 been injuriously a fleeted by the" excessivo rains over Northern Texas, and in Louisiana, but in Southern Texas the conditions have been favorable. The crop has also sustained an injury from excessive rains in Arkansas, but on higher ground it is reported as in excellent condition. Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida report the crop growing finely, but in Alabama the plant is small and the crop grassy, with bad stands. In the Southern Srates the corn is now practically laid by in generally excellent condition. Cool weather has retarded the growth of corn in the Dakotas, and while Nebraska and Minnesota report the crop backward, it is in good condition. Arkansas and Kentucky report th? crop outlook for corn most promising in years, and while rains have been beneficial and the crop is doing well in Ohio. Indiana, and Illinois, in the last two named States there are complaints of damiigc from chinch bugs. Winter wheat harvest is nearing completion over northern portion of the wheat belt and threshing is becoming genera!. Spring wheat is now heading and the condition of the crop continues favorable. Tobacco is growing nicely in Kentucky and Maryland, and has experienced improvement in Ohio. Light frost occurred in portions of the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, causing slight damage in localities. The crop conditions reported by States are as follows: Illinois Week very favorable, rain plentiful, except in southern section. Wheat and rye harvest practically completed, oats cutting begun In southern section. Corn growing finely, but damaged by bugs in central, southeast and southern counties. Fruit excellent, early apples, peaches and plums being marketed. Wisconsin Corn, potatoes and small grain in lino condition; cool weather has been beneficial. Rainfall sullicient except in southern portion. Haying in progress. Oats heading and barley beginning to turn. Some damage to cranberry vines by frost. Minnesota Weather cool, with frost Friday; damage slight and mostly con. fined to low grounds in west portion of south half. Condition of small grain excellent. Corn backward, but thrifty; potatoes unusually promising. Haying progressing; yield uneven, but will average good. Rain needed in Upper Minnesota Valley only. North Dakota The weather has been favorable for small grain during the week, but frosts have damaged gardens and tender vegetation. Corn still backward; small grain heading out; hay good. South Dakota Temperature and rainfall considerably below normal; showers scattered, mostly light, some localities need rain. Fine growing weather, except nights too cool for eorn. Ieal damage from hail. Light local frosts; slight damage in northwest portion. Rye harvest begun. Nebraska Week cool, with nearly normal rainfall. Winter wheat and rye harvest in progress in southern counties-, crop light. Oats somewhat injured by wind and heat first of week in southern counties. All small grain in northeastern section unusually good. Corn has grown slowly, and is now backward, but in good, healthy condition. Iowa Temperature and sunshine below normal, with ample rainfall, except in a portion of eastern districts. The cool weather has been favorable for spring grain and flax and nut detrimental (o other crops. Kansas Cloudy, damp weather greatly improving all crops. Wheat threshing begun; results favorable. Oats harvest began. Second crop of alfafa light. Missouri All growing crops ding well, but in many counties rains interfered with harvests, haying and cultivation of corn. Wheat about harvested, threshing commenced; oats being cut, crop fair; prospects for corn excellent and much laid by. Ohio Wheat harvest well advanced; yield good, but below average. Day harvest progressing, yield light; oats, pastures, potatoes and tobacco show slight improvement; corn made good growth. Indiana General rain beginning; local rains end of the week very beneficial to corn, potatoes, oats, and other crops. Wheat and hay harvest continue; threshing commenced; crops light. Tree fruit, except peaches, abundant. Chinch bugs injurious to eorn in localities. Michigan Rainfall light and not sufficient to check drought, which continues with severity. Haying in progress, very light crop. Wheat harvest commenced and is of poor yield; oats boking bad; corn and potatoes in good condition. Notes of Current Rventa. Defaulter Taylor's parachute seems to have worked all right. The condition of Representative Ilitt 1 reported to be encouraging. Lord and Lady Sholto Douglass are living at Alameda, Cal., incognito. W. I J. Chamberlain, of Chicago, was elected President of the National Association of Elocutionists at the convention in Roston. The Northern Trust Company of Chicago has increased its deposit of securities with the Auditor of Public Accounts at Springfield, 111., from $200,000 to $500,000. Roth north and south bound stages on the Klamath Falls and Ayer route, ia Oregon, were held up by a highwayman, who rifled the mail bags and robbed th one passenger. At Dallas, Texas, J. Dickerson, a jeweler, killed a 10-year-old boy who h claims was a burglar. The body was identified as that of John F. Reeves, son of a ridh planter. Conspiracy is alleged.

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EDITOR WAN7S A SERVANT GIRL.

Nebraska Man Minutely Describes His Needs in That Line. Wo want a girl! Not a girl to love, to till with ice cream and soda water, to act as bookkeeper, typewriter, or check drawer, nor one to wear bloomers and show us how to ride a bicycle, read lbseu and "Coin's Financial School," or to teach us lawn tennis, the Rye waltz or the sublimity of tho mi! lime, but a plain, everyday maiden, who has a face that would scorch the sun, a hand that would act as a stove lid and a foot that would give the 1oddes of Liberty odds and then beat her in the race for the prize as a Trilby model. She need not be as tender as a nowiy cut onion or a restaurant porterhouse, nor as pert nor as flippant as the wren, or as Intelligent as the lady's maid who plays the piano ami goes into ecstasy over the latest foreign arrival while the baby of the house is upsetting the spittoon and lacquering its angelic face with the nicotine contents or trying to imitate tho ostrich in tilling its stomach full of tacks or mamma's hair pins, but we would like to see her as tough as the trunk of an elephant or a heavy tragedian, that she may look on a little work without experiencing an attack of vertigo or a desire to marry an Italian nobleman; as lively as is necessary for one to be to arise before sunup to cook a plate of ham and eggs or a dish of summer flapjacks by the lime the family arose at S o'clock or thereabouts; and Intelligent enough to distinguish a napkin from a baby's hood, or to tell the ward policeman that it is the parlor and not the kitchen where she receives her company. She is not supposed to slee: over fourteen hours a day, as there are times when we might want her to go out and tell the tramp to levant or to assist us in getting a lunch when our restaurant asks for a small payment on account, or to entertain our unexpected friends while no are changing our toilet. As there are only seven evenings in the week we can allow her that many off to take In Manawa or the ball game, whil, we, unable to raise car fare, sit at home and wonder when our landlord intends to send us our uaal notice. If the girl we ask for will come to this oilieo ami satisfactorily answer a few orthodox questions put to her by the religious brownie his political leg-pulling partner may afford her a iosition of ease and retirement in his kitchen, provided her Ideas of a good salary are limited and not subjected to union rules. 1. S. Wanted A good servant girl. Apply at tiiis ollice. Good wages. South Omaha Tribune. How She Keeps Her Freshness. Fnt'l the physiological principles which account for the phenomenon are understood, it must remain a very puzzling fact that an actress' life should be more favorable to the preservation of good looks, and even of girlish freshness, than the life led by women who occupy their natural sphere, and who cultivate (as they think) all the physical and moral virtues. A successful actress must work extremely hard, generally by artilicial light, and in a gas-befouled atmosphere. Her hours for work, meals and sleep are all utterly bad from the hygienic point of view, and not unfrejjently she makes bad worse by falljg into those bohemian habits which :re an immemorial tradition of her class. Her secret, apart from tho laws regulating the expression and nutritiot. of the face, consists chielly of avoidanccof monotony and petty worries thosa p.rrh-caemles of feminine good looks and good temper. Her work. If rxduous. Is generally performed rxth ftith earnestness and lightness of heart; and. above all, she gets a sufficiency of bodily exercise of the kind (although not under the conditions) most conducive to health, viz., exercise involving quick and general movements of the muscles, combined with a certain amount of mental excitement. Blackwood's Magazine. Antiquity of Itetls. The ancients slept on the door or on a divan covered with skins. During the middle ages bods w ere made of rushes, heather or straw. It Is believed that feather beds were known to the Romans, since a mention in one of the poets of men so luxurious that they slept on feathers is supposed to refer to this kind of beds. Heliogablus had an air cushion, and also au air mattress, 21S or 222 A. D. Feather beds were employed by tho better clashes in England during the days of Henry VIII., though they were considered luxuries and were expensive. The bedsteads of the Egyptians. Romans and (J recks closely resembled our couches. The Russian peas:, uts place their beds on top of the family oven for the sake of the warmth given forth by the lire. To the present day bedsteads in Holland and some parts of Germany are fitted up with two feather beds, on ona of which the sleeper lies, while the other Is used for covering. The Donkey Vanished. In general we may say that the lonkoys belong to a vanishing state of human culture, to the time before carriage ways existed. Now that civilisation goes on wheels, they seem likely to have an ever-decreasing value. A century ago they were almost everywhere In common use. At the present time there are probably millions of people in tho United States to whom the animal is known only by description. In a word, the creature marks a stage in tho development of our industries which Is passing away as rapidly as that in which the spinning-wheel and the hand-loom played a part. Too Much for a Meal. The average weight of the egg of the ostrich Is three pounds. Its contents equal those of about twenty-four hen egga.

AROUND A BIG STATE.

CniZF COMPILATION C7 INDIANA What Onr Nri;li1o'- Arc IJo'.nj; Matter of (rnrral 3ml I.c-:il Interest Murrtn fciul A- li!-is! ainl frhiws-rtr-tonul Pointers Alsout Iiullauiua. Minor Slate JJpvm. I'l.v.fion m heated a b:g ii;ac limo l:;p to emil:y ! nu n. Ai.nr.KT Wiikiton:., a gia;:i w-ig!:in 4S2 pounds. :t r.-.tiv. ;f Atlanta. lIuMilt;n Comity, is dead. Mi Vmmü.ma I.' reeently injured in a runaway accident at ireencatk. died of her injuries. 'iiai:i.i:s Mi !tii:::, rged 1. f 11 from a fence at New Albany, :'.nd di-d in a lew minutes from condition of the brain. Jacoh Davis yp cutting wheat near Delphi, when bis t-:un ran away, draining the linder over l:i;:i, cauing instant death. Fi:i:i MiAri:i:. v.Mle riding on an L. S. Sc M. S. freight train, near Elkhart, was brutally asaultcd a:.d rob'ed by tramps. Tiik barn i f Curran Roll, south of Elwood, was struck by lightning during a thunder-storm, and bum! up. Loss$l,2(M. Tiit: Fn ion Steel V rks. of Alexandria, employing l.') men. liaü increased the wages of their employes ten per cent, all around. Tin: signing of the now ti:i-j late wage scale inures steady employment for the army of wor'ini:i is the American Tinplate Woiks M Elwo I. Joux Sin i i:kn:;i:aN:, a tinner, committed stiici le at Ro..weIl, R'-nirn County, by hanging hinwif. lie had Leen iu the Insane Asylum several times. Ai.nrur Ri:i:i:v, the ll- ear-old son of Prof. N. Rerry, w a. drowiu-d in Eel river at Logans it. while bathing with two companions. The bedy ;;s recovered. Eai:i. Lackv, aged t, was drowned in a pit at .'clvr:.o::vi!!e. The boy was Misled from home, and be was locatt-d by the moaning of big !;; near the edge -f the pit. Lr.r. Ki'iiN-:, who f.u:id a valuable led of aragonito. or limestone rock, on Iiis farm near Ingalls. has U'gmi the construction of kilns, looking t the manufacture of commercial lime. Tin: Elwoi.d Oil Pro luring Company hasdriil 'd in anoth-. r P4. -! arrcl well on its land near ö'tu'.a. an I six more wells will be put down immediately, as the lic'.d gives exceptional promise of richness. At Cowan in a ru.iaway accident Mrs. (forge Kellner, of Mum ie, was dangerously injured and her '-ycr-old daughter had an arm broken. A Mrs. Vorice. whe was i:i the carii:v", had au arm broken. Xi:w wheat is beiatsimr to come intr market at Wabash rar'er, by nearly ten ' days, than was ever known In fore. The, yield runs from seven to fifteen bu.diels acre, and the quality generally is rat hot ! poor. J Tin: Marion Circuit Court has decided; that the Adams Express Company can only le taxed on personal property in this State. ; The State Tax Commi-s;o:iers bad assessed '. the company on a mileage, basis, and the company prayed for an injunction. The; case will goto the state supreme Court, and probably to the I'liitcd States Supreme Court for final settlement. ; IIf.nky L'.tas, a farmer, aged 4jo, wa? i probably fatally injured at Knightstown : in a railroad accident. He attempted to : cross the track in front of the IVimsylvani. limited, w hen his vehicle was itruck ami demolished and the horse instantly I killed. Lucas was hurled a distance ol , thirty feet. He is seerely injured and : recovery is doubtful. j At Mick McCarty's sa!Kn. Mur.eie, : Thomas 1 lodgers was accidentally shot in ' the left groin by illiam Everett, lhe ; wounded man cannot live. The two men are Hint-glass blowers andemployed at the Muncie l!int-glas works. A crowd ol men w ere in the saloon, and Everett was reck'e.-sly flourishing the self-acting gun. when it went oil. !.i!h were the best ol friends, 1 ut had Kvn di inking. C ii bugs in large numbers have aptea red in theca.dcni putt of Euriholomew County, and arc doing great damage to ttie growing corn. In s-ovie local, ties since the wheat has been kar :td these pests hau become so numerous thai the cornstalks arc b'ack with thet.:. At llarn-biil aouart of the bugs wa gathered and shipped U Prof. W. C. E-itta. of Purdue University, to Ik' inoculated w iih !ii;a !i bug cholera. These bug will be letüüi 'd and scattered among the li ing ones with a hope of thu.exterminating them. V.'itn.i: Olto Logan was draw ning ob a barrel of ataidi in the barn of W. A Williams, Wabah, the lluid, from sorm unknown cause, exploded. Young Eogai was burned about the face and hands, bu hastened to turn in :.n alarm. Tin department responded piukly. but everything was very dry and the barn am contents were destroyed. Two ahubh horses were lost. The iktmes communicate fk V l: I '! I ii" t:il!i liii-h c:i consumed. Total loss, insuranci en Williams's lam, H ). St ATI-: (las Inspector d. C. Leach ha. . returned from Alexandria, where he habeen tri:ig for a week to compter ai obstreperous gas well own.il bythelk'Pauw Plate-glass Company. Three weckt ago the w eil w as anchored, ami soon thereafter tho contused gas logan blowing tht w ater out of all the water ami gas wells ii the neighlorhood. Tho gas cvidenth c-capod through ab ol cn casingand fount its way through th1 shale and clay to th surface of the ground. Eosidont of tin vicinity were al.umeo t i.ud tneir bouses cellars, wells and cuthuildiugs tilled witl the lluid, ami only utmost eare prevente many explosions. To prevent accident the oihcers ordere 1 the weil ojHmed again ami it has for three weeks b.vn blowing off 3.50i ,xn) feet of gas dady. Three ox per gas-wil men rolusM to undertake tin Job of nMraining the "runaway." Con tractor Decker was finally induced, ant lie bus the machinery on tho ground. Mr Loach and DcPr.uw Mplc bpe to hav the w ell under control sm. The escaping gas is Itoiling u in Pipe crook, balfj mile away. Tiik 1'nion City Council has authorize the School Eoard to issue bomlstoth amount of $U,H)J to build a new school house. The present bntx -live-thousand dollar school buiMing, built in lSVg, i overcrowded. Wm. IE Aktman ami Joseph Paxton two life-time convicts in the prison south died, the other day, within 13 minutes o each other, while lying side by side inth prision hospital. Artnian was the victin of consumption, while Pax ton died fror the effects of an assault by a fellow-convict Artiuan kille! his wife and son, at Tel City in lSftk Paxtou murderel Spciu.c Bryant, at JeiTcrsonville, iu U"S3. '