Marshall County Independent, Volume 2, Number 1, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 October 1895 — Page 3

THE FINANCE FßAüD.

5CND5 TO STOP THE EVERLASTING LEAK. Sound Common Scribe i" " lecture frui the 31 cm phi Commercial Apj,cvV to the Louisville 'Courier-Jouriiai"-Arkausaa 1 All KibL The Financial Situation. l! seems that the treasury glI re-s.;-vc is about to be subjected to a raid that will call for a new issue of bonds. The syndicate finds it necessary to exIla:n to the newspapers the position it xvuples. Tiie members say that they cannot be expected to control the elements and this is true; but what has ihe syndicate done that the treasury officials could not have done? Nothing win t ever. It has seized the opportunity to make ten or twelve millions out of the. recent secret bond deal, but beyond that loss to the people and it is a direct loss the situation of the treasvry lias not been changed in the slighter degree. Note holders ran still go to the treasury, demand gold and get it, when the fa. e of the note they present declares that they shall be paid in coin, meaning ciiie r gold or silver. It is this violation of the law that has done and is doing all the damage, and no expression that could be used would be too strong to lei. ounce the infamy of this violation ,.f the law a violation that plunges the i .Ie deeper and deeper into debt and that is a constant menace to the treasury There ean.be ao relief for the people and no relief for,the treasury so b.ng us this clear violation of the law and policy of the Government is persisted in We have never doubted the sincerity of the .syndicate nor its purpose to make money out of a situation that was thrust upon it. Its contract with the Government, as we learn on the authority of tho who krow what th"y art talking about, ended in June. Hut since that date the syndicate has deposited twelve or fifteen millions of gold in the treasury. Why? Well, the pub'.ie. will very shortly see why. When there is a new bond issue, as there must be in the course of a few weeks, if pr sent .symptoms a re 'worth anything, ir will be found that the extra deposits f gld made by the syndicate will go to their credit on the new bonds. It is to be borne in mind, as we have taken occasion to point out, that the . mliTS of the syndicate are not encaged in this scheme for their health's sake. Thev were drawn into it by the exigencies of the situation. They were (..lie d, as it were. P. at what is to be the cud of this scheme on which the Government has entered? We have had three bond iss'.i s, and are no nearer a solution of our troubles now than when the lirst Rsue was made; in fact, we are farther off. What might have been nipped in tiie ;;rec!i leaf is n t o easily clipped in the gray. Are we to continue issuing bonds and carry the people deeper and d'-epcr into debt? This Is a question thnt calls for serious reflection. What remedy has been suggested by those who believe in the single gold standard? None that we have heard of oxrept a farther con' faction of the ct'.r-je'M-y the retirement of the greenbacks, the retirement of the coin notes 1S1N. Hut what sort of a remedy is ihisV A remedy that will plunge the p. ople deeper and deeper into despair. Nevertheless, we cannot have the single gold standard and still maintain our present volume of currency. To make sech an experiment would be ruinous, even as the present experim ::t is ruinous. What, then, is to he depo? Either wc must see the country ruin,d hy tic single gold standard, or we must supplement that standard by the free coinage of silver. Any old woman may poultice a canerrotis tumor. Hut the poultice is not a remedy. It is a palliative merely, a i:d not always a palliative. Under the perations of the syndicate, the newspapers have been trying to chronicle a revival of business. I.ut the revival, as far as it goes, is purely speculative. The eountrj' is in no better condition now substantially than it was in IS'.kj. and at any moment the boitom may fall out of speculation. Gold is still going out. The goldbugs ay that gold would go out if we opened the mints to silver. This being so, silver would come in to take the place of the exported gold. IJut the mints are wt open to silver, and still gold is going out. Our whole stock of the precious metal is gradually going abroad, and what Is coining in to take its place? Debt, which is worse than nothing. Debt, which is :i burden on the whole people. I this the boom which we wen? led to expect from the single gold standard? Debt at the beginning ami incroasetl debt at the end? If our gold is to go abroad is it not better by all odds that its place should Yh'. taken by silver? The goldbugs say thit if we open our mints to silver our id will rö abroad and leave us on a silver basis; but if our gold is going abroad anyhow, and in spite of everything that can be done, on what sort of a basis shall we be left? On a basis of debt? It is time that the people were making up their minds in regard to these things. The Great Fruud. Without the least warning when a silver dollar was worth .! cents more tlian ii gold dollar, silver was fraudulently and surreptitiously demonetized, many of the owners of the silver mines were driven into bankruptcy and ruin, and thousands of laborers in the mines were deprived of work ami their families brought to suffering and want Al! this was done and no reason given for it, as indeed no honest reason can be given for the outrageous wrong thus jxTpetratrd upon the people. W lie re was the honor of the country, and in whose keeping was it when the high banded crime was perpetrated? To

the mind of the gold-bus the honor can only lie maintained by jiving; Euglisü capitalists the control of the linance of the country and the inaintenaee of the interests of the Morgans and the millionaires! We do not favor such "honor" as that!-Hutler (Ca.) Herald.

Goldhiiig SillinessThe poor old Courier-.Iournal. says the Memphis Coinnmrcial Appeal, re plying to some imaginary -silver treak, declares that the silver dollar was "not struck down' in lsT'i because there were no silver dollars then in circulation, the silver dollar being at a premium. The supreme silliness of this kind of gibberish shows just how little thought the editor of tiie Courier-Journal has given to tins question since Mr. Haldeman woke him up at -:Ö0 in the morning with an order to put on his pants, come to the office and chan grids views on the money question, and to be blanked quick about it, as it was about time to go to press. When Mr. Watterson was the prize "silver freak" of the whole menagerie, which he was up to i::jo a. in., April IS!."., he could at least write something original; now he simply repeats whatever goose gabble he happens to hear from the gold standard press. Silver was not struck down, was not demonetized by the act of lSTo. because it was not in circulation! Well, then, when was it demonetized? If the act of 1ST. had never been passed would we not have free coinage of silver to-day? Hut the silver dollar was at a premium and was not in circulation. So the gold dollar was at a premium and was not in circulationit was at a premium over the paper money of that time. According to the Watterson logic, therefore, if the act of IS7.J had stopped the coinage of both gold and silver it would have made no difference. What c veryman of tolerably good sense knows is that the right of free coinage gives the debtor always the right to pay his debt in the cheaper metal, if one be cheaper than the other, while the single standard policy forces him to pay always in the dearer metal. The Courier-journal also says that if there had been any silver dollars at that time it would have been the right policy to strike it down according to "free silver logic." There being absolutely no sense in this assertion, it is only worth while to say that the goldbug logic was to demonetize the dearer metal in 1S7"J, and the logic would be as good to-day as it was then. Further slobbering, the Courier-Journal says that "the people of this country do not want a dollar that is worth one thing to-day and another to-morrow," and that "tiie only honest dollar is the HH'-oents dollar." The gold dollar, then. Is the very thing that the people do not want. Measure it by anything in the world except its precious self and its value has fluctuated widely and violently. IJut the "only honest dollar is the H0-cents dollar." Then there never was, and in the nature of things never can be, such a tiling as a dishonest dollar, for there never was and never ran be a dollar that is worth less than 100 cents, for the very simple reason that a cent is the hundredth part of a dollar. So long as the law hold good that the whole is equal to the sum of its parts. one dollar, whether the monetary stand ard be gold, silver, pewter or paper, will be worth 10O cents. It would have been just as sensible to have said that an honest dollar is n dollar that is worth two half dollars. It would be dillicuit to conceive of anything more nonsensical than this effort to test th stability of anything by measuring it by itself. Tin' value of a gold dollar never changes, because it is always worth 1m limes as much as the 1-H0 part of itself. And helpless imbecilv who jabber such foolhouse talk as this are set up as teachers of financial wis dom. Instead of being sent to the gooselot to converse with their kind! Arkansas for Silver. C S. Collins, writing from Little Kock, Ark., to the New York Herald. says: So far as the Democracy in this re gion is cotuvrned. the sentiment in fafor of the restoration of the Jeffersonian standard of measure of value as it existed prior to IST.", and by independent action, is, In my judgment, next to unanimous. The "boys in the treiit hes" recognize that, as the act of, lST.'i was placed upon the statute books by "covin and deceit," so the ndmiuistra tion elected by them for the purpose of undoing that wrong has transpired to be a device of the enemy to prevent, by treachery, the execution of their command. They are unable to appreciate the blessings of a "superlative back bone," which is obtrusively thrust upon them in lieu of the dish they ordered Woe betide the combination, however backed by wealth and official inlluence, that undertakes to prevent the execu tion of the demands of the voters as they have been understood by them for the twenty years in which they have been battled and cheated out of their own by such ubiquitous methods. Notes. Platform adopted by the Indiana Democratic State convention l.s': We demand the free and unrestricted coin age of silver upon the basis existing prior to 187.". Tree coinage of silver and gold wil bring prosperity to the country and al of its people. It will change the husi ness of the country from illegitimate to legitimate channels and open up every branch of Industry and business calculated to supply employment. Thu. plenty would be produced in all de partments and the people would have money with which to buy and there would be a market, a business, a min lng and manufacturing Held. Free coinage Is the key note, the leverage to success. Just as a single gold standard Is that of continued and increasing de presslon.--Aloia Bulletin.

More Horse Sen?. You'll lind the hers If you'll inquire, In favor of A broader tire. Road Work by Convicts in ITawall. There is no doubt whatever of the practical value of employing convict abor on the public highways wher ever it has been tried it has proved highly successful. In the Hawaiian Islands, feir in stance, the road work is done entirely y the convicts, and the result is that he little republic away off in the Pa cific Ocean can boast of far better roads than the United States. During over a year's stay in the isl ands I had an excellent opportunity to watch the working of this system, and n several hundred miles of wheeling never came across an unridable road. The Hawaiian convicts themselves told me they preferred road work to any form of punishment, as it gave them a chance to be out in the free air and occasionally see their friends. From the Honolulu prison, gangs are constantly being sent out to the other Islands to open up new roads and keep the old ones in good repair. The ma jority of the prisoners taken in the re cent revolution are employed in this way. No trouble has ever been caused by the prisoners during the many years the system has Ikmmi in operation. In various South American countries also the convict system has proved highly successful. Why should not the system then be tried in the l.'nlted States, where good roads are so badly needed? K. Percy Crandall, I". S. Navy. Fully Qualified. Harper's Magazine published, more than twenty-live years ago, an amusing avyry of the ineffectual efforts made by a young man to escape from serving on a jury: When I was a young man, I spent sev eral years at the South, residing for a while at Tort Hudson, on the Missis sippi river. A great ileal of litigation was going on there, and it was not always easy to obtain jurymen. One day I was summoned to act In that capacity, and repaired to court to get excused. On my name being called, I informed the judge that I was not a freeholder, and therefore not qualilied to serve. "Where do you reside';" inquired the Judge. "I am stopping for the time be'ng at rort Hudson." "You board at the hotel. I presume?" "I take my meals there, but have rooms in another part of the town." "So you keep bachelor's hallV" "Yes, sir." "How long have you lived in tli: t manner?" "About six months." T think you are qualilied," gravely remarked the judge. "I have never known a man to keep bachelor's hall for the length of time you name without having dirt enough In his room to make him a freeholder! The court docs not excuse you." lie Credits livery thing. The Sedalia Ha zoo is a newspaper which really exists, says Moses 1. Handy in the Chicago Tiuies-Herald, although many people doubt it, just as many people used to doubt whether there was really any such a place as Oshkosh or Kalamazoo. Sedalia is a flourishing town in Missouri, and the IJazoo is a good paper published there by Col. (Joodwin, a unique type of Southwesterner. A few years ago, at n dinner of the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York, Col. (Joodwin followed Charles A. Dana In the speech making. He said: "I am mighty glad to meet Mr. Dana and hear him talk. I admire him and his paper very much, but have always had a grudge against them both. One day the Sun had an editorial on Tlural Wives,' which seemed to me 'iO be a pretty good thing. So being short of editorial matter that day I just scissored it and slapped it into the Hazoo. During the next few days I had to barricade my ofHce and keep my revolver out of the Wheel-Tire rmi.osonnv Scene on troua effcc.ta of nnorow Urea.

drawer. There wn a constant procession of Indignant men wno called un to account for making personal reflection on them. I had to come out the next week and explain that the article was from the Sun, and was only aimed at Mormcns. That taught me a lesson. Now I aiways credit every tiling I take from other papers -especially what Is likely to hurt anvhodv's feelings."

The Stopping of Fast Trains. When railway roadbeds have been made as nearly perfect as possible, and. as far as practicable, leveled, and when the best types of locomotives and cars have been devised, how fast will steam be able to carry us? An answer to this question, based on a scientific examination of the conditions involved, is furnished by Mr. Theodore X. Ely, an authority on facts relating to railways. One hundred miles an hour is about the limit of speed suggested by him. Another very important question growing out of the first is: Within what distance can a train running 100 miles an hour, or but little less than loO feet in a second, -be stopped? Tho reply is that under the most favorable circumstances, a distance of nearly half a mile would be required. A train running a mile a minute can be stopped, it is estimated, within a distance of 900 feet. Hy adding only twothirds to the speed, therefore, the distance required for bringing the train to a standstill would be increased almost three times. It is evident that when we are whirled across the country at the rate of a hundred miles an hour, "a clear track" will become a far more important thing even than It Is to-day. A Philadelphia Mustache. "I've seen some peculiar whiskers in my day," remarked a 0th street barber the other day, "but there was a fellow in here who simply beat the deck foi mustaches. They were of the long, flowing kind, and when in repose hung gracefully down over his shirt front. After I had finished shaving him he asked me to dress his mustache, giving me my instructions how to do it First I gave it a brilllantine bath and combed It out. Then I waxed it until the points stood out on each side of his face like bayonets. He seemed very proud of it, nnd didn't object when I asked him if I might measure It. In fact, ho seemed rather pleased. I took a tapelino and found that from tip to tip that marvelous mustache measured a trifle over twenty-three inches. Ho next asked mo to curl it. This was a difficult operation, but, after exhausting several curling Irons, I succeeded in heating a section of gas pipe to the proper temperature and finished the Job." Philadelphia Record. Trouble from Lack of Thought. "You would be surprised at the frequent unnecessary accounts of missing persons that we are compelled to register," said Detective Allmendinger. "If a woman misses her child for a few minutes, without taking the trouble to look around the neighborhood for it, she rushes up here to me and registers the case. We no sooner have It telegraphed throughout the city than she. returns and says the little one was In a neighbor s house, or makes some similar statement. They little realize the trouble we arc put to, for we have to send word throughout the city that the lost one has beim found." Philadelphia Call. Change of Ideas. It is curious to note how the progress of knowledge causes tho medical profession to change its opinions. It has always been thought that the use of new bread is most unhealthy, a doctrine which is religiously believed in and acted upon in most households. Put a Russian doctor now asserts that new bread is far more beneficial to the consumer than that which has been cut and exposed to the air, and has had time to gather the numerous germs which find in the material a nutrient medium. The heat of the oven is destructive to these germs, and hence new bread is found to be perfectly free from them. His Pog Name. A boy's fishing pole was fastened to the root of a tree on the river bank, and he was sitting In the sun playing with his dog. idling the time away, as he had been fishing all day and caught nothing. "Fishing?" inquired the man passing. "Yes," answered the boy. "Nice dog you have there; what is his name?" "Fish." "Fish? That's a queer name for a dog. What do you call him that for?" "'Cause ho won't bite." Then the man proceeded on his way. Erie Messenger. In 1SSO the approximate wealth of the country was ..''.0 12,000,000, an average of $S70 to each individual. country road, showing deey ruta anddwa.

EAST WAY TO DIVORCE

INDIANA LEADS AND ARE VALID. DECREES iloosicrs Were the First to Iccogni.e tiie I'lility of llexibtc Lnns urn! to Make t'scape from Marriage a Matter of Little Difliciilt.v. Statistics of Several Counties. A rei-eiit i.t;e el" jbe t'hie:ig TriVune I'a.l the following to say about tie- livere"' Vulustry in ibis Sf;ite: While ertain well-detin! ruh govern all other trades. hing their locations :( establishing their eeiiters. those of the 1 vofi-e industry seem to be s migratory as a strong-legged tramp and as uncertain jis the inarMe in a roulette wlcel. Imiiar.a was the tirst StHte which ever reeognh'.ed the poxsihiiifics of mutual protit between suitors and residents in lax divoive laws and for a long time had a monopoly of the business. Then the laws of Illinois were so ,-nieuidt d that the marriage bonds could be mere eas'ly untied and Chi. ago had quite a boom. It advantages as a pbiee of residence during the ear of waiting were q; iekly recognized. Put lately th Dakotiis. Wyoming, and Oklahoma offered inducements no person s"cking a divorce could resist Put if is one thing to secure trade and mother to hold it. and so much fault has been found with the divorce goods offered on Western bargain counters that their custom is deserting them and now Indiana's trade is looking up again, with every prospect of an in-.n-asing and wellmaintained boom. On the Septemlr docket of the Parke t'oi.iity. Ind.. Circuit Court, just ended, the divorce cases were one-eighth the entire number of cases set for 1 rial. In Clay County there were thirty-eiirhl divorce cases tried during the September term, while in Viiro County there wore four times ns many as in Parke. There are already five eases tiled for the November locket in Parke County. For the February trm f this year there wxre si'vcii. wliil ix iivorce suits found p'acs 11 th" April locket, making a total of twenty-nine in the Parke County courts thus IV r ihis year. Forty-Count 'Km. The records in the clerk's otlice for November show forty divorces luring the year. In the IS'.;, locket this record sinks into insignitica n-e. out of the 1.V cases tri' (here hinc forty-nine of litem for divoic or m-arly n-third of the entire list. Of these the I'bruMiy ttTin put up six of them. April eleven. Septemb't brought in sewnle'ii. while by Noveniber ou:te'ii mere dissati-uied couples wanted to be rehaed. Thv livoive business in Park County was only in its in-fan-y in lsul. and in is'.rj it only brought up sixteen as's during the year. Sep-b-mher. with -ven petitions, being the heaviest nioniii. With twenty-nine livrces on r-cord in Parke County at th pivsent date. th "'a r 1MÖ will outstrip all its pr-dec's-sors before it givs up the light on Iee. . From every ither -oun'y in th? Stab-, win-re the September term f 'ourt has cosci. o:n's tli r'port if an amazing number of livr-es m triai. Th population of the county is eipial to mo iii'-hnni!rItli of tie- population d" the State of Indiana. Taking tin h-vi'H liv rces in ihe S'ptembcr court as an a Veras, which is a fair ami -uis. rvativ estimate for tie Stab' as a whole, it imnns tiiat then' were l.loo divorce suits on trial in th Indiana September onris just .isei. They repivseni iVJMO partis to the suit. An army big nough to alefend the State from any military intrusion. I f this great ompany of liappoIntoil mortals cotihl he got together in a kind of refitting school, with sly littli Cupid as the a hief instructor, it is believel fully MW new couples could be made from ihe old l.loo ,ljsunions and misfits. Iloosicrdom's Way of I)i vitrei 11 1. I "pon investigation it is found that the common imdhod of pr-i:ri;ig a Iivorce in Western Indiana is to ha' the clerk f tin -ourt make .,ut a notiv of noii-resi-I'1kv. Tin fee for this pro ss belongs to the -lerk. but it happ us that ihre ti;n.s out of live lie tia'ver gets it, and it is also a fact that nearly all divorce i-nscs are worrical along through tin mrts m a dad-beat proess. Thaui when tin complainant. r attorney, asks tin lerk lr tin papers, he lias no lioice bvt to giv them, ami place tho case on the locket ready for a Imaring. NVxt a notice is taken to the printing o!liv f a paper af general a-iivulation, and the ditor is asked to print it four sr.c-ssive times. When -ourt oiivenes tin attorio'v asks this sani editor for a statement showinj; the noli to have been printe! fijr times, which stab'inent is given the court. Here the dead-beating process 'o:n in again, and the Parke County papers haw inaugurab'd a -rusade against tin practice, claiming that not one of four d tln'se divorc complainants av-r pay for the publication if the notice. They say that hreafler all notiavs must be paid fr bef on lhy will testify to their having appeared, which testimony is absolutely ssa'iitial to every granting of a livnc. The attorneys are also shvring shy if thesa manifold livon e cases, stating that of tin ten to tv'iity in every term of the Circuit Court int more than half of them are good pay. And still furth.er tin court oflici.ils are ga'tting a little weary of this divorce business on the gnmnd that it is largely lue to th's iivoiva suits that so much important curt matter must be subjected to sumlry loaketiiigs, nnd. in many cases, held a;ver from taTin to trm owing to a Ia k af tiim to hear it. Thus the moral reformers, the ilitors, the court -l'iks. th lawyers, tin -ourt officials in Indiana have at last struck a synipathcth chord and it will biinl them all toget hr on thin livorc juest ion. Tinaverage tim of these divorces is funl to be within three years after mariag Minor State News. Aaron F. Shinier, of Spencr County, is wearing a mlal as th tallest soldier in the Fnion army luring the late war He is o years dd and 0 fvt i incho high. Dr. I. M. Shively, of Yorktown. whil attending a patient, aavidentally fell am broke hi log. While th Pearsons were playing ai Lebanon Miss Alhv Louise Perin the oubrette. attached the company properly for $lo unpaid salary. Sh also tilel against Charles Phillips, the comdian, for assault ami battery, and Phillips was fined $17.1!.". The manager hal funds, hut he declined to pay under duress. Eventually, however, a compromise was rearlie!, the company agreeing to retain the souhretle until. Kalamazoo, Mich., was reached.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TOLD. TERSELY (Ircat Ouaiitit ics of Fruit Wustid Recause of Poor Shi ppin;; FacilitiesLoser His Lifc-Savings-i:arnett Kefuscsi to DisKorc His Plunder. A (Ircat Apple C"ri;. The i-ountry about Corydon is cert J inly one of the finest fruit-growing sections in the Stat A summer nnn'ting of the Indiana Horticultural Soa-iety was held in Washington Township in Tv.ll, but thr was hut little fruit that season. Tie scene is piite different now. Tie very hillsides appear ml with apples. It in stimated that there is at least IOO.im) barrels of apples in th township. Pickers enouyh -aniiot be .s.. urd to harvest che immense erp. Shipprs from Chicago are in the on hards with h Ipers. Apple a an b Iniught in soma orchards at price ranging from 10 --nts to jr cents per barrel. I Iuiidr als of barrels now lim the river bank, ready for shipment, but th water is so low that but tew boats an? navigating tha i hio. Tie indienti!is an? that many apples will be lost been use af the inability to handle the givat crop. Swindled Out of $7,000. Frank Harbin. finnrly of Muneie, was wry natly reli'vd of ST.'HM), the savings af thri'o years' work, n fv days ago. Kepresentatiws af th I 'avis & Itankin Manufacturing Company, f Chia-ago. induced Harton to invest S7.nm) in the company and accept a positin as beekkerper. The Iay after he made th investment the eaimpnny assigneal with SiiDO,!) liabilities. Harten had bvn euipIoyM by the Umpire Cordage Company at Champaign, III. His parents live in Muneie. Harnett and Farden in Jail. James Koert Harnett and J. Don Farden. who took an express package at Trre Haute containing $1 OH )0t are both in jail at InIianaplis. Harnett was brought from New Orleans, where he was arrested. No money was found in hi posstssion ami h refuses to tell what he did with his slinre of the Slti.OOO. The dttavtivs who tra-ed him lid not lieover that he had hn spauiding money freely, and it is susp-td that h- ha. leposite! the monv somewhere or has burieal it. Koth men will be tril in t!;e l."liib'l Stab's Court. The Jyvernnvnt was able to lay hands aoi them hcause th money takaui ba-longeil to the internal revenue denartmcnt. All Over the State. A ompany is forming at Anderson to build a market -house, to ist S7Ö.IHH). .lack Hurst, a saloon-ke'per of Il'is'i-villa-. was ri'a ently -aught for 1.! by a fake foot-rac A handsome nw Presby tria:i Church, near Flizabeth. in Harrison County, was I Hoati'd Sunday. Thomas King, an inmate of the Marion SolOb'rs' Hone, was instantly killed by a Pan Handle passngr train. .bilin Kiley. retail gmavr af S citii C reeii -astle. has made an assignm nt. Assets ami liability's S."t. N n t each. Clowrdala' :s s'king telphn sarvice. Ceorge Hartley, near Ha-tliel. was killed by an avi!'ntal fall into his cellar. The Muneie le-tria-al works has beon fold to Lal.iyette capitalists, n tri tin plant is being i movad to that -ity. A survey i being made atf White Iiirer with a view -f et'i mining if it in be m:ih navigable from the mouth t. Heap f.ml. Ir. S. W. I-Mwi'is. of Flwood, injured by coiIis:m with a Lake Frie and W.st'r;i railway train, has brong! t suit for .JÖ.(M!il alamaga-s. At Wabash. Mrs. Lin ind a Maddox has sua'il William Fms'iider. a sa! on-k ep r. for Slo.iMiO foi- loss of support of har husband, who is said to he ?j drunkard. Tie bakery and groaery af II ma & Hroihcrs. at Ho'o.:rt. was alestroyed hy !ir Loss. Sö.i k H . The family Lvl a narrow a scapa from burning to dita. Mrs. Ihn line Wiggins, of Fountain City, while in the woodsha'd attained b har resiala'iiiv. in the a-t f getting fuel, was praistrabd by paralysis. Her recovery is improbabh Half a a-a ntury ago and more there was a settbment in Fiily Township. Scott County, known as "Pigou lloost," nn 1 tin name still dings to that community. There was a famous roost for wild pigauis in that township in tin early l:i3-s, hence the name. If the venerable Walter Kerr, of Moore Hill, liva's liva' years longer he will have lived in tlmv centuries. He was ! omni 17'dO. lie is the ddst man in Iearborn County. H has nine children, and the aggregate age of the family is mare than "To vcars. The oldest alaughb-r i 73. The jury found for lefauulant in th Wonlen-Fries case at Logansport. Thj ab-mand was for alamags growing ::t of the shooting by Harry Wrhn aif Warren Kiniwla-s. wliil intoxica led. Varbn was s.uit to th penil'!iti:iry. ami his wife .sul Ni holas Fries for 2a mages, aila-ging that lie was resjvoiisibl for her deprivatiaui of har husband for having s.i.l him tha li.pior unlawfully. Th jury found for the didVmlant on the testimony of I'riis ami a.ilnrs that h was a-ann'!!ed at the point f a rvilver to sell the w hisky to Wonh'ti. With ringing f bells, booming ,f aviation and shrb'king of whistles, the four alays" 'lhratiou of th humlrealth anniversaryaif tha fou:iiingaf Iari W.-ihumvim ushered in at an early hour W'düesday morning. Nver lid the ia'jh of th city hear such a noisy, uthusiastie lniinstration. The city was handsomely la'aratel. grand archs illuminab'd ami the cbvtria lisplay the timst ever attemptcd. Three thusani pfaple at Prim-ess rink lisb-neil t tin formal apeniug of the exercis's and the mhlrcs of wj'hvme by Mayor C. H. Onklv. The city was cpovaled with eopI Otto Myer. of Fort Wayne, while on a hunting xp lit ion. in knocking an apple frm a trv with his gun. aeidentally 'is-liargeal the weapon, the lial striking him in the ablamen. He dieil within a few hours. At iaan Tuesday. tva men rushe! into Pickard's hardware stre at Fort Wayne, while the store was crowdd. an! grabbe! the nmney drawer out of the opn safe, and ran to the street. Mr. PiekanI caught an! hold one of the men. In the meantime the money Aggregating $."00. was scattered, and only part of it wa recovered.