Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 42, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 August 1895 — Page 3

WAS SKINNED ALIVE.

GOLDBUG HORR BEATEN IN EVERY ROUND. the Original Silver Unit Is ProvenKv idcnce of the Crime of '7IJ liroujjJit Outt and Every Proposition Viatic by Coin la Sustained. The Debate a Waterloo. . It is evident to everyone reading the reports of the great Horr-IIarvey debate that Mr. Harvey won every point, and that it was an inglorious defeat for Mr. Horr on every question raised. The result of the debate is a Waterloo for the goldbugs. From the very opening of the discussion Mr. Horr failed to make the points expected by his friends, while the friends of silver were pleased to observe the ease with which Mr. Harvey handled the subject. Mr. Horr announced that he should attack each and every proposition laid down in Mr. Harvey's book, would show that the silver dollar was not the original unit of value and that the law of 1S7H was not passed surreptitiously, was not a crime, but was fully understood and openly discussed throughout. During the debate Mr. Harvey showed that the act was fraudulently passed, and Mr. Horr refused to reply, and simply retreated from the question. It was a part of the tactics of the aggressor in tho Horr-IIarvey debate to deal largely in misrepresentation, ridicule and abuse. We speak of the agent sent out by the New York Tribune as the aggressor in the debate, because the proposition which brought about the debate was that he should undertake to prove that the statements given for fact, and the arguments based upon them, which Mr. Harvey used In his "Coin's Financial School," were fallacious. He undertook to do this by placing unwarranted construction upon many of the points he attacked, and by misquoting and otherwise deallug in practices of the small bore stump orator when referring to the verbal arguments of his opponent. When Mr. Harvey undertook to give Iiis reasons for the charge that the demonetization feature of the act of IST! was surreptitiously put through Congress by questionable methods on the part of a few individuals, his antagonist made a bold bid for applause by the declaration, in a tone of voice indicating the most profound indignation, that the American people were as honest as any people on earth, and he Mould resent the imputation against tue Integrity of the larse majority of their representatives in Congress. Mr. Horr knew that the words of his opponent warranted no such inference as he claimed, but he was talking for the unthinking. He knew that prejudiced readers would satisfy themselves by following his side of the debate only, and that his virtuous denial would be taken as proof that the debater on the other side had been guilty of an outrageous assault upon the assembled honor of the nation as he would have Congress considered. And all through the debate he made use of like tactics. We wore told with the regularity of a refrain about President Jefferson stopping the coinage of silver, while the act of 1702 was in force. This -settler," as the gold people regarded it, was put to Mr. Harvey with the evident prestige of an annihilator. But the answer only showed the shallowness of the pretext. That President Jefferson did not suspend the free coinage of silver under the act. for the very good reason that he did not have the Czar i'.ower to repeal an act of Congress he was sworn to see executed, but simply through the treasury the management of the mint was directed to coin the T0 cent, 2.", cent and lesser cins because the country needed a larger supply of these than of the dollar coin. A school-boy ought to have known that in that early day the repeal of an act of Congress by a Presi. lext or Secretary was an unknown act. It was left for Mr. Carlisle to redeem silver certificates in gold, while the act of Congress is explicit that these paper notes only represent coin for convenience in circulation. Jefferson did not understand how to do such things possibly because the house of Koths--hiM-I5clmont-Morgan had not been evoluted at that day. And then Jefferson had helped make the constitution, and had a personal as well as official respect for it. We have some respect for a. pure and simple gold man particularly the simplebut for those who wilfully distort histtry there is nothing but the contempt that dishonesty ought to inspire. It is as plain as the calendar of the years that silver was the staple money of the United States at the formation of the constitution and for eighty years thereafter. Even when the gold discoveries of 1819 made that metal abundant, did the people know practically anything about any distinction. If the business of the world demands the destruction of silver, say so and advocate it on Its merits, but don't lie about plain statutes which the known practice of the government and the face of the national coinage demonstrate to be the fact. Gold and silver not or is the money declared by the constitution, and able lawyers, as able as any on the Supremo bench, hold that the act of S7u is an unconstitutional usurpation by Congress, so far as It demonetizes silver. The State to-day cannot under the constitution make gold the exclusive legal tender, nor could it make silver so because the constitution expressly and In terms prohibits It from doing so In these words: "Article 1, section 10. No State shall enter into any Treaty Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque or Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of

Credit; make any Thing but gold anl silver coin a Tender In Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law or Law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility." We have given the whole clause, and if the reader will keep it in mind it may often come handy when dealing with men who deny facts and history both in their attempt to bolster up the foreign policy of the money power. Kentucky might as well try to create a Sir John G. Carlisle as to discriminate against silver by statute. The country can see at once not only the object of the Horr-IIarvey debate on the part of the gold men, but discount its failure. The whole thing the challenge, the rules, the ten-mlnuto speeches, which, In the language of the call, was thus to be "a running fight at close range, giving no chance to dodge on any question or issue." The reader can see from the style and tactics of Mr. Horr what he was expected to doplay bluff and be personal in his attacks, so as to throw an Inexperienced debater off his balance as Mr, Harvey was supposed to be. But they made the same mistake in their attack upon the person of the author of "Coin's Financial School" they did as to the book itself. At bottom, the fact of the challenge to debate and the selection of the man to take the gold side Is an ill-concealed admission of tho power of that remarkable book. Mr. Horr has a national reputation as a personal controversialist, made in the forum of actual discussion for many years in Congress and on the stump, while until Mr. Harvey's discussion with Prof. Latighliu he had never been in forensic contest outside of a very short experience as a practicing attorney. But he is as hard to handle as his book, and substantially won the battle, for he drove his opponent entirely from the legal and historic field and all that was left for him to do was to assert and maintain that the gold standard Is best That was not an issue in a debate, but only in argument. The "tight at clse range" winded toe gentleman from the New York Tribune, sent out to annihilate the "Western craze."

Narrowing to a Point, It is satisfactory to note that the goldbug forces are dropping all pretense at bimetallism and coming to an attempt to defend undiluted gold monometallism. The last pamphlet in the New York Reform Club series directly advocates the single gold standard and endeavors to demonstrate that it is superior to bimetallism. It reasserts the claim that gold has fixed an unchangeable value and therefore is the best yardstick with which to measure values. The goldbugs are being rapidly driven to take their stand upon this position and we may hope that before the national election the issue will bo dearly defined between the double and single standard and that the cuttletis'i who are trying to becloud the issue shall be compelled to get on one side or the other. There is no possibility of maintaining a claim that gold has not appreciated In value because of the increased burden thrown upon it, ami if the gold men can be forced to make such assertions and base their case upon them their lack of veracity will be apparent to the masses who have made no study of the financial issue. But truthfulness or consistency cut a small figure in the mass of gold literature that is being unloaded on the country. For instance, la Senator Morrill' article in the New York Independent, the Senator declares it a gross falsehood to assert that the act of 1S7JI deprived the silver dollar of legal tender prerogative, yet within the same column he uses this language: "The government is compelled to hoard its ponderous tons of silver and humbly to issue Instead certificates of indebtedness for wt.Yh gold may be wanted, whether obiuiaable or not." Since silver retains its legal prerogatives, why does the government redeem silver certificates with gold? If the silver can be used to pay debts in the same manner as gold why reduce tho silver to the position of token money valuable only because it is redeemed in gold, and thus contribute further to the appreciation of gold, the demand for it and the drain on the gold reserve? Simply and solely to carry out the plot to discredit silver, to make it appear incapable of maintaining its place by the side of gold and to facilitate the fastening of the gold standard on the country. Silver Advocates Aroused. The silver advocates held a Statt convention at üntlin, (Ja., which wa3 attended by members of all parties. Tho convention adopted uncompromising 10 to 1 resolutions and declared for a light to a liidsh with the gold standard advocates. The principal speaker was Senator Morgan, and he delivered a very powerful address, full of fiery denunciation of the administration's financial policy. The Senator was unusually happy and forceful, and one of hH most crushing points was the following characterization of Carlisle's change of base on tho silver question: "His conversion," said Senator Morgan, "was not like that of Paul, who espoused error, was made blind, then saw the tru(4 mA embraced It; but like that of Aaron, who saw tho truth but became blinded to It, and espoused the darkness of Egypt typified In a golden calf." The Silver Dollar. The gold bugs say silver dollars nro unsound money. We admit It. Silver dollars, as recognized by the laws now, are only token money. Mr. Carlisle even redeems them in gold, they ore so valueless! What lie does with them after they are redeemed no one knows. When silver dollars are coined free, and are a full legal tender, and gold redemption Is knocked out. silver will be sound money, and not till then.

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CHICAGO POLICE THINK THEY WILL CONVICT HOLMES. The Modern Bluebeard's Gauzy Tale Concerning Pitzel Says the Latter Committed Suicide The Mysterlou "Mascot" Located In Arkansas. Holmes Tells a Story. II. II. Holmes tells to the- Thiladelphi i police an entirely new version of his connection with Pitzel, who is supposed to have been murdered for his life insurance, lie says the two had on foot a plan to defraud the insurance company; that while in Philadelphia" Pitzel became despondent over financial difficulties, the sickness of his daughter in St. Louis, and other matters, and threatened to commit suicide. Holmes then avers that he jokingly remarked to Pitzel: Vel!, your body is as good as any other, but I would not advise you to do anything rash." On the following day, Sunday, Holmes says he wont to the Callowhlte street house wheie Pitzel was stopping, and found a note telling him that the suicide had been accomplished. The letter pleaded that Holmes look after ritzel's children, and suggested that there, would be no difficulty in getting the insurance money from the Tidelity company, now that the dead body of Pitzel eorid be produced in evidence. Holmes then told of the appearance of the corpse, and said that he sat in the room with the body for over an hour. He finally made up his mind that sii.ee Fitzel had taken his life there would be no harm in destroying any evidence of suicide, so that he might be able to get the insurance ou Pitzel's life without any difficulty. Holmes has confessed that he thereupon dragged the dead body to the second floor, laid the corpse on the floor, pried open the mouth of the dead man with a pencil and poured in a quantity of explosive chemicals. He then, he says, placed a lighted match to the man's mouth, when the explosion which so horribly disfigured the corpse followed. To give the mora forciblo impression that Pitzel came to his death by an accidental explosion Holmes stated to the police that he got a pipe of Pitzel's, filled it with tobacco, lighted it, then blew out the flame, after

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the tobacco had been partly consumed, and placed the pine beside the dead man's body. Search in the basement of the Chicago house has revealed almost everything suggestive of dark crime except a. corpse. Skeletons nud bones were there, but thes may have been procured from medical rolleges or other sources; they furnish no proof of murder. More mysterioui vat?, tanks, retorts and kindred devices have been unearthed. And most important of all, there has been found in the Arkansas penitentiary a man who is said to have been closely associated with Llolmes in his fraudulent life insurance deals and who assisted in tho transfer of the Fort Worth, Texas, property of the missing Williams girls. This man is known by the name of Hatch, A. F. Allen, A. EDocd, Caldwell and "Mascot," and it is thought was Holmes' confidential agent. He is serving a fifteen-year term for horse-stealing, and he is now 5." years old. He claims to know all about the disappearance of the Williams girls and the Pitzel children, but refuses to tell until he is pardoned for his present term and relieved of two more indictments for horse-stealing. Holmes not long ago asserted that the man Hatch took the Pitzel children to Toronto, in the company of Minnie Williams, and that if he could be found he could clear up the mystery of their death. An attorney went from Chicago to Little Kock to treat with the authorities of Arkansas for tho release of the old man. and the strongest influence will be used to secure all he knows. One other man now held by the Chicago police is thought to know enough to convict Holmes. This is Pat Quinian; but in convicting Holmes he will also convict himself, so he has the strongest incentive to keep his mouth shut. On the other hand, Hatch will have the reward of liberty for his disclosures, in case the latter are conclusive. So it is upon him that the police pin their faith. Close of the Harvey Horr Dehnte. While it is not likely that the IlorrIlarvey debate has had the result of converting any one from his dcp-rootcd convictions it may, and undoubtedly has, broadened the views of many. The mere fact that Mr. Horr and Mr. Harvey could keep each other so busy in making replies Is of some value as n-n indication that the subject Is broad enough to admit of inspection from opposing sides. From the opening of the finance controversy there has been n general feeling that the public would be helped and enlightened by the collection of the arguments on both sides and the arraying of these arguments one against tho other. Through Mr. Harvey and Mr. Horr each faction to the financial question hau presented its case, and in such a waj that the arguments pro and con come into immediate contrast. The rules of debate forbid a contestant to submit an opinion Cor which ho. cannot immediately offer a

1 ,0S!cal explanation, the result being that there is ,ittl0 chance for the slurrinff of

doubtful points and the suppression of adverse facts which are possible in a mere ex parte argument. It is, of course, to be regretted that the debaters buried their arguments in such an enormous mass of verbiage, but the arguments are there and may well repay the digging out. On the whole, a public which has shown a genuine desire to get enlightenment on the financial issue can hardly fail to find some profit in this general stirring up of the fundamental facts. WEATHER AND CROPS Not a State Report Tells of Unfavorable Conditions. The reports as to conditions of crops throughout the country and the general influence of weather on growth, cultivation and harvest are summarized by the U. S. Department of Agriculture us follows: Illinois. Exceedingly favorable week. Severe local storms northwest counties on Friday, damage not irreparable. Corn growing splendidly, roasting car3 in early fields. Oats, wheat and rye threshing retarded. Late potatoes, gardens, pastures and second crop clover, millet and fodder crops growing finely. Fruit abundant in central and southern sections. Fall plowing general in same sections. Wisconsin. Heavy soaking rains have generally benefited corn and potatoes. Pastures again becoming green and milk supply increasing. Threshing and fall plowing now general. Cranberries promise a fair crop. Tobacco growing finely. Michigan. Very beneficial showers in southern half of State, but not enough rain in northern half. Corn and potatoes generally improved, but pastures are still very poor. Oats harvest well along, straw short and yield of rsiin liht. Indiana. Good growing weather, with several roins. Corn oaring and growing last. Potatoes look well. Pastures recovering. Wheat and rye threshing done. Oats threshing continues. Fall plowing progresses rapidly. South Dakota. Temperature averaged about normal. Fair to copious, though scattered, night showers benefited all late crops, but more general rains needed. Fine harvesting weather and wheat harvest advanced. Corn growing rapidly and potatoes and flax improving. Nebraska. Small grain harvest nearly Completed, and some threshing done; yield very heavy in northwestern section. Corn has continued fo suffer from drought in southeastern section, where about onehalf crop is now eipcciod. Corn in northern part of State needs rain, but is not dam:ij.'(Hl; in southeastern part it continues good. Kansas. Abundant rnins in west hall' of State, light rains iu east half, greatly benefited all crops west, permitting threshing and haying cast. Harvest begun in western counties. Much corn dead in Dickinson, Cloud and Washington Comities for want of rain this season. Iowa. Temperature and sunshine about normal. Considerable damage to Tops by lo-al wind and hail storms. Oats harvest about completed and threshing in progress ws-th heavy yields. Corn Rteadily mail. raining its I nd and promises to break previous records. U tfaV Gladstone, having retired from politics ho ceeiiis to have taker his majority with him.. Arizona comes t& the front with a petrified human heart. That's mighty hard to ben t. Mrs. Frank Leslie is coming home again. There will bo Kneral curiosity to learn 1 is name. Michigan lias decided that for judicial purposes nn oath jidciinisU red by telephone is binding. That decision seems to be sound. Cincinnati has a woman's street-cleaning brigade. 'Tis woman who rules tho world, and the broom is oftentimes her weapon. Speaking of the silver movement tho Chattanooga Times refers to "the sober second thought in Kentucky." Is there auy such thing? An Aard wolf in the New York zoological garden's "happy family" made & meal of three terrier pups the other day. That was indeed Aard. The rubber trust announces that it will materially raise prices Sept. 1. In other words it purposes to substitute an "o" for the "u" in its name. For the first time in five years Kansas and Nebraska have all all the rain they want. This is also the first year that "rainmakers" have kept out of those States. A New York paper demands "some sort of invention which will make shipwrecks safe." That isn't a bad idea. But after it is secured wc give notice now that w shall rise and demand an Invention to make railway wrecks enjoyabla.

LOCOMOTIVES SEEM TO KNOW.

Engineer Tells of a Sample Incident in Railroading. "I will tell you about one of the strangest freaks of a locomotive that ever occurred in my experience on the road," said Harmon P. Butler, the bestknown Southern Pacific engineer in California, the other day. "It happened in the summer of 1SS4, when I was pulling freight from Tucson, Ark, to Los Angeles, and I have never come across anybody who could give an ex planati on of my experience, and have never been able to see through it myself. You may draw your own conclusions. "The night I had my experience was dark and stormy. It was in the period of peculiar storms and cloudbursts down in Arizona. I was ordered from Tucson for the overland express that left there at midnight. The fireman seemed to be slower than usual, and he had a great time getting his coa! placed In the tender. The locomotive hostler at the roundhouse had forgotten to fix the oil valves, and the boiler never made steam so slowly. To make i matters worse, the train dispatcher kept us in the station a plump hour past the regular leaving time, and just before we started the conductor came to ine und said the general superintentent was on board the train and would go way through with us. Well, we pulled out of the station with my mind made up to reich our destination on time If the wheels would stay under her. As soon as were out of Tucson I put on all the steam and let her go. But she didn't seem to move at half her usual speed, and then she didn't make steam well, either. I began to be impa- ! tient, and scolded the fireman for not (lo'ii good work with his fire. He seemed to try his best, but it was no go. She would not steam well, in spite of his exertions. Then the pumps began to be troublesome. One of them stopped working altogether, and the other became more ineffective every minute. It began to dawn on me that making up time was out of the question. "When we left Maricopah we were one hour and ten minutes late, and the conductor had just made a remark that nettled me quite a little. I asked him if there were any orders at Maricopa h. He answered: 'None except to try to got to Yuma in time for dinner,' which was pure sarcasm, for if wo made our running time we would get there in time for breakfast. Well, my heart was clean down in my boots, and when I shut oft the steam going into Big Wells I found the water so low in the boiler that something had to be done for the pump before we could leave the station, as there was then a heavy grade to climb for several miles. I informed the conductor that we would be delayed fifteen or twenty minutes with the work of taking dowu one (if thepuir.ps. and then proceeded with the work. We were just about ready to start again when I heard the sharp whistle of an engine, and, looking" up, I iav a Fpeclai tourist excursion train from Southern California approaching from the very direction in which we were going. When the train pulled into the station Ave found that the telegraph operator at Maricopah had neglected to ive us meeting orders for this train. Had it not ben for the pumps we would have rushed on to what would probably have been one of the most terrible collisions in the history of railroads. ".Vow comes the remarkable part of the story. From tho time we left Big Wells both pumps worked liko a charm bear in mind that I found nothing whatever tho matter with the pump that I had taken down, and there was apparently no reason for its not workingand the old engine seemed to dart along with twice her usual speed. (Iradually fsho began to pick up time again, and in the next fifty miles we made up fifteen minutes, which was lightning speed in those days. There were just nineteen minutes to make up in the last twenty miles in, and I need not say that we pulled into our destination on time. Here was an instance of a cranky engine saving a collision that would probably have resulted in a great loss of life and property." New York Sun. Ancient Minerva Found. From Delphi is announced the discovers' of a colossal statue of Minerva in poros lithus, wiih traces of polychrome coloring, but unfortunately tho head is wanting. Soim important fragments of an archaic group in marble, representing a lion tearing to pieces a bull, have also come to light, as well as the tine reliefs which adorned the front of the seeua in the ancient theater. So far have been recovered the representation of Ilereu'es shooting arrows against the Stymphalian birds, tho contest of Hercules with Antaeus and that with tho sea monster for tho deliverance of Ilesione, and a portion of the Centauromaelda. It appears that when the works at Delphi are concluded, the French school will resunio its labors at Delos, whore recent researches have raised hopes that tho whole of the ancient city may be excavated. Among the statues recently found at Delos, three of particular importance have been transported to tho State museum at Alliens. One of theso represents a line athlete, apparently a copy of a. work of Polycletus, the other two being a heros and a female figure of rare beauty. Philadelphia Lodger. Hard Work for Most Immigrants. Over one-fourth of the Immigrants who come to this country are unskilled laborers and find employment In tho most arduous forms of manual labor. About the wisest looking thing In the world is a country boy who has been boarding In town and studying law three or four months.

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INDIANA INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH. FULLY RECORDED. An Intcrrstinj Summary of the More Im. portant Dcbig of Our Neighbors-Wrd-diiiffs and Deaths Crimea. Casualties aud General News Notes. Con!cimoi state Nerrs. nos!i:: people are about to secure a boiler manufactory in their city. Wiiiti: cap notices are being served on many persons in Daies County. CJuaxt Corxrv now claims to have three of the largest oil wells in the State. Tin: business portion of Kent, near Madison, was wiped out by Maines. PfcTi-.n Wkiiku was fatally burned by a gas explosion at an Anderson glass factory. YYAKAi:rA is jubilant over t he prospect of getting a buguy and wairon factory. Wai.tm: Wilkin-;. 15. was thrown from a colt near Nhe'j-vilk'. and fatally injured. Eaui. 1'oi:i:m'..v was instantly killed at Goshen, by falling in front of a wagon loaded with stur.. A 1-yi:ai:-i.i I y at South I:md exploded a cat tridge with a stone, lie only has one hand now. Cn as. Hi i:iii:n. a.n"cd is, roll into a chute in the sewer pipe works at Ilrazil and was sniot tiered to death. Wm. Dot glass, aged '21, committed suicide with laudanum under the iloor of Die dining hall at the Wabash fairgrounds. Tunr.i: prisoners in the Madison jail escaped by sawing i.ut several iron bars in a window and lowering themyjlvcs to thj jail yard. A tk am driven by .lohn Dofard and .Joseph llama, of Frankfort, was struck by a passen ser train. Damn's injuries may prove fuial. Alt. fruit growers asree that southern Indiana's apple crop, this season, will In? the heaviest and the best that has been raisci for many years. Xay vSr Aiam"s sawmill, together with a large amount of lumber and logs were burned at. Max. eicht miles west of Lebanon. Lo.-s, ."i.oTM: 3io insurance. Tun City Council of Wo.-t Indianapolis unanimously passed a resolution oifering a reward of ?.7)0 for any information leading to arrest of the murderer of little Id.i Gebhardt. William LYkluman. the 19-year-old f.on of Louis LYkerman.of Tcrre Haute, has been misslpg for several months, and from information received it is believed he was drowned in Lake Michigan, while working on a Chicago boat. John IH nx. cnploved at the Kenneth quarries, took a walk on the Panhandle track, and w hi!" in th-' act of stopping to light a pipe was struck by the Chicage express and instantly killed. I Minn was 45 years eld. The accident occurred near Kenneth station, four miles from Logan. slort. Wuii.r fishing with a seininn arty, on ttie Wabash Kiver south of Willianisport, William Keefer fell from a boat and was drowned. It is suppose-. I he became entan !ed in the seine, as the young man dil not rise alter sinking. No lVlp could bo rendered him. He was a resjected young 'inner living near Williamspoit. Ciiai:i.!:s Lrr., foreman of the engine crew at the new Monon shops, Lafayette, was killed recently. lie was setting the brake ou a gravel car, and the stem broke, throwing him between tho cars. His right arm w as severed above the elbow, and the top of his head was cut off alove the eyes. Mr. Lucas was a brother-in-law of W. II. MeDel, General Manager of the road. The remains were sent to his home at btate Line, Ind., for burial. Daxiiil Ukittkmiam, a farmer, living two mites south of Windfall, was seriously jf. not fatally injured by having his arm caught in the wheels of a threshing machine, lie was working near the wheels. when his shirt sleeve caught in the cogs of the wheels near his elbow'. He made a desperate effort to rid hiinslef himself by tearing away from the sleeve, but the material was too strong, and his arm was ärawn into the cogs, catching near the lbow of the left arm to the w rist, grinding e t'.esh on one side of the arm to a pulp to the bone. In trying to extricate himself he threw his hand further into the machinery, cutting on" the palm of the hand ami three lingers. A. I). H t:si. . and other farmers of Literty Township, Howard County, were made the victims of the old tin box swindle last week. A man giving his name as John Schmidt, a horse buyer, went to HcnsJer several days ago, engaged boarding and Mr. Ilensler's assistance in buying horses, they purchasing a large number ol animals, some being paid for an I some not. Schmidt brought with him a small tin box which he said contained in cash, which he kept at the Hcnslcr home w hile buying ami shipping. The other day Schmidt mysteriously disapieared and has rut since been heard of. Tho defrauded fanners took the tin box to Kokomo, expecting to be made w hole out of the $'J,o) it was supposed to contain, but when Sheriff Sumption cut it open with a hatchet there w as revealed to sight two ordinary clay bricks, nothing more. Oxk of the boldest robberies ever perpetrated in that s-ction of the country occurred the other nignt within a stone's throw of the city limits of Union City. Tho resilience of David Potter, just north-west of the city limits, was the scene. Mr. Potter was aroused about 2 o'clock by a loud crush. He jumped Irom his led and was confronted by four men with red handkerchiefs over their faces. Mr. Totter was seized and bound, and his w ife and son were similarly treated. Mr. Potter had taken a large quantity of w heat to town the day K'fore, aud it i supposed the robbers entered for the purpose of getting the money he received. However, they found nothing but a certificate of deposit from one of the banks. The robbers left with bnt a small sum and a gold watch. Mr. Totter was bound w ith wire aud his llesli was cruelly cut. The marauders came in buggies and left in that way. The doors were burst in with fence rails. CoMMonoui: McCammo.v, aged 41, was struck by a south-bound freight train on the Pennsylvania road and instantly killed. Tho accident occurred at Speed's Station, eight miles north of Jcffersonville. McCamnion leaves a wife and three children in destitute circumstances. Tiikodokk FiuizLXPixK was driving from, a neighbor's to his home in Eden, when his w ife and four-months-old baby were in some way thrown from the buggy. The wife's neck v. as broken and she died instantly, and the baby was so badly injured that it is throught it will die. The tragedy is supposed to have leen caused bv reckless driving by Brizendinc.