Marshall County Independent, Volume 6, Number 30, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 July 1900 — Page 3

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Hotv the Kortr at Canton Were Taften in 1856.

Tni3 is not the first time that American marines and bluejackets have encountered the hostile forces of China. In 1S56. when China was just oa the eve of her war with England. Comtrander A. H. Foote, afterward destined to play an important part in the civil war, lay eft Canton in the sloop of war Portsmouth. The city and the surrounding country was in a disturbed state, and he had gone to Canton to protect the American residents and their business interests. Then, as now, all China rang with the cry of "drive out the foreign devils," and the government of Pekin was backing the movement in an underhand way, while professing to be friendly. Canton was defended by four big forts. They were masonry affairs with walls eight feet thick and mounted 176 guns. In these forts was a garrison of 5.000 men. One day one of the forts fired on the Portsmouth. Commander Foote demanded an apology from the Chinese governor, but all apology or explanation was curtly refused. Then Foote got angry. Having been reinforced by two other warships, the San Jacinto and the Levant, Commander Foote decided to take matters into his own hands. On November "0. after his ultimatum had been treated with silent contempt, Foote ordered his ships to open on the forts. L'nder cover of a furious bombardment he landed 237 marines and proceeded to storm the defenses. He had with his landing party four howitzers. The water was so shallow that the boats could not approach close to the land, but the men jumped into the water and waded ashore, dragging their howitzers after them. They then made a detour through the rice fields so as to take the first fort in the rear. This fort mounted fifty-three guns of heavy calibre, and had a large garrison, but the Yankees charged it with great fury and carried it at the point of the bayonet. Fifty of the defenders were killed and the rest fled in a panic. As soon as the American flag v.;is seen flying from the first fort, a second fort across the river opet?d on the captured works. The Americans turned the guns of the fort they had taken against the fort across the river, and soon silenced it. An army came out from the city

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&?e Warriors of As hant ee Are Fighting England.

There is probably no other savage race who are capable of putting up such a stiff fight as are the people of Ashantee. now r.t war with England. They are born warriors and love their country with a savage kind of patriotism. Besides, they would not dare refuse to fight. Refusal would mean not only disgrace, but instant death. The power of thuir picturesque monarch is unquestioned. Should the czar of all tie Russias even think of doing what King Prempeh does and thinks nothing of doing, there would be a vacancy at the Winter palace. The sultan of Turkey is a novice in tyranny as compared with the black king of Ashantee. If his breakfast does not happen to asree with him, the cook is liable to lose her head literally, if one of his subjects should even happen to look at one of his wives, the said subject would be conducted by a subordinate to some shady grove or to the rear of the woodshed and he would never return. Should any of his warriors refuse to tight well, there is no telling where the gore-shedding proclivities of the monarch with the plug hat would stop! Whenever a king of Ashantee dies a guard of 2.000 of his subjects are slaughtered to conduct him to the other world. It is said that as rajty as 10.000 people have been slain on such occasions. Every time there is a national festival there are human sacrifices. In fact, blood-let A JVe'cv The New French armored train, which is expected to revolutionize warfare, is so constructed that there Is hardly an upright line in it. It is almost Impossible for bullet to strike it at a right angle. The train, indeed, looks exactly like a big cigar of steel. Tho cars, like the engine, are all cylindrical, and they fit so closely to

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to try to recapture the fori occupied by the Americans, but was driven back with loss. The next day an attack was made on the fcrt which had been silenced temporarily the day before. The fort was lively enough now, and the landing party, which this day was composed of detachments from all three of the ships, was met by a heavy fire from this defense, and from the other forts still occupied by the Chinese. A heavy shot plumped into one of the San Jacinto's boats, killing three men and wounding seven, and another shot sunk the launch of the Portsmouth. But the Americans pressed on with dash and determination, and by 4 o'clock that afternoon the Stars and Stripes flew over the second fort. This fort mounted forty-one guns and commanded the third fort. The guns were at once turned upon the third fort, which surrendered. While the forces were landing a six-gun battery near the shore had been giving trouble; so while the main body went for tne fort a small detachment of marines carried the annoying battery with a rush and spiked its guns. The sailors and marines had been fighting for two days now, and were pretty well tired out, but the fourth and last fort remained to be taken, and so, about daylight on the morning of November 22. the Americans advanced to the great walls over which the dragon flag was still flying, and which frowned in the early light with thirty-eight guns of heavy calibre. This fort was captured as gallantly as the others had been, in the face of tremendous odds. The guns of the forts were spiked and the works undermined and blown up. Having read the Chinese this little lecture on the clanger of firing on the American flag, the sailors and marines returned to their ship.-. The American loss was ting seems to be one of the principal occupations of royalty in Ashantee. Back of the town of Coomasie there is a place called by travelers the Grove of Ckulls, where the bones of victims are thrown. The king of Ashantee is opposed to progress, lie does not want any roads in his domain. When the English cut their way inland from the gold coast they left a fine road behind them. With several pistols pointed at his head, the king agreed to keep this road in repair and not allow it to be overgrown, but he knew that the rainy season was at hand and that the English would have to hurry back to the coast. The road was never touched. The system of human sacrifices practiced in Ashantee is founded on a wild idea of filial duty, for it i3 believed that the rank of dead relatives in the next world will be measured by the number of descendants sent after them from this. There are two periods, called "The Great Adal" and "The Little Adai," succeeding each other at intervals of eighteen and twenty-four days after the death of some member of the royal house, at which human victims are immolated to a moostrous extent. On the Great Adai the king visits the grave of the royal dead at Bantama. where their skeletons, held together by links of gold, sit in grim mockery of state.

French Armored Train.

11.1 s f gether that the train Is practically like a huge snake. The servants of the household of Mrs. Emmons Blaine, of Chicago, are now working under union rules. Eight hours constitute a day'a work. The Idea Is said to have been suggested to Mrs. Blaine by Prof. Patrick Geddes,

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twelve killed and twenty-eight wounded. Over 400 of the Chinese were killed and a large number wounded; just how many will never be known. Ward Wouldn't "Kotow." After the defeat of the British at Taku in 1839, the French and English envoys went back to Shanghai to catch their breath and talk over matters. The Chinese government had told the envoys that if they wanted to come to Pekin they must travel by way to the Pehtang river, a small stream ten miles north of Taku. Mr. Ward, the American minister, decided that he would try to reach the Chinese capital by the route indicated. He sailed to the mouth of the Pehtang and there disembarked with his suite on July 20. He was met by a Chinese official, who bundled the Americans into rude country carts and escorted them to the Pelho river above TienTsin. There boats were awaiting them and they proceeded by way of the river to a point twelve miles- below the capital. Here they were again ordered to get into carts, and in this undignified manner were taken into Pekin. Mr. Ward was now treated with a show of consideration and was told that he would be allowed to present his credentials to the emperor if he would perform the "kotow." He was given to understand that, as the emperor of China was the ruler of the whole world, he would have to appear before him as an envoy from one of tho outlying parts of hi3 majesty's domain, the same being the United States. The "kotow" consists' of an elaborate ceremony of crawling on one's hands and knees into the presence of the "descendant of the sun" and knocking one's head several time3 on the floor after a prescribed manner. Mr. Ward objected, but the Chinese authorities were obdurate, and, the matter for awhile. was- obliged to return to the mouth of the Pehtang river and exchange ratifications of the treaty there. COLLEGE GI'RL'S' HOffOHS Another clever girl who has been winning honors in university circles is Miss Mary Francos McClure, who has just been awarded a scholarship at Bryn Mawr college by Cornell university. Miss McClure was born in Philadelphia and received her preliminary education in the public schools. She has not only distinguished herself in a scholastic way, but socially she has been very popular with the students at Cornell. During her freshman year she was second vice-presi-Miss McClure. dent of her class, serving as president of the girls and second vice-president of the entire class. This year she has been a member of the "athletic council" for the women of the university, manager of basket-bali, and president of the dramatic club. Miss McClure's most recent honor is her election to the honorary scientific fraternity of Sigma Psi. doxhle EJVG1J1E. Two complete locomotives coupled together is the new type of railway engine for steep grades just finished and shipped by the Baldwin locomotive works to the St. Cloud River railway, a part of the Southern Pacific system in California. It is a monntain-climb-A MOUNTAIN ENGINE, ing motor which will pull 125 tons of freight, aside from the heavy cars, up a 7 per cent grade, which is a rise of 360 fet to the mile, to say nothing of lifting its own enormous weight of 161,400 pounds. Bars connect the two engines and render them practically cr.e. of Edinburgh, who lectured in Chicago recently. Capt. Francis Martin, of Detroit, who is said to be the oldest American ifival officer, celebrated his 100th anniversary the other day. He walks firmly and but for a slight deafness he is la possession of all his faculties.

PROHIBITIO

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ProcccdinQs of the National Convention. THE CLOSING DAY. Woolley I No hi I n it tt I. After an ineffectual attempt to stampede the national prohibition convention from John G. Wocl'cy tr Si'as C. Swallow by the l'ennsyjvania delegation, the former was nominUd at Chicago for president on the fi-st billot. The vote stood: V.'oolley. 3S0; Swallow, 320. Hale Johnson, wlio ha.l been placed in nomination by George W. Gere, Illinois, and to whom were pledged 2S4 votes of the Illinois delegation ?.nd the solid vote of Minnesota, withdrew from the race before the voting began. Immediately following the announcement of the result of th? vote on the presidential nominee. A. A. Stevens. Pennsylvania, moved thit the rules be suspended and that SUas C. Swallow be declared unanimously the choice of the convention for vicepresident. This motion started th? most enthusiastic df monstration of the convention. An improvised cho'r began to sing, but was drowned in thdin from the floor. The Pennsylvania delegation withdrew to the gallery, where Dr. Swallow told the members that for reasons which he had not tinr then to give he would not be a candidate for second place. Whn the announcement was made on the floor the call of states for nominations began. Henry B. Metcalf of Rhode Island. Prof. E. L. Eaton of Iowa, Thomas Jl. Carskadon of West Virginia and Jvnes A. Tate of Tennessee were pl."-?ed before the convention, but Mr. Tate withdrew before the balloting Kyin. The vote was: Metcalf. 340: Cnrskadon. 1.32; Eaton. 113. Metcalf was thereupon declared the nominee for vice president. In placing John G. Woolley in nomination Oliver W. Stewart said in part: "The republicans have nominated the one man who is responsible for the army saloon and the expansion of th? liquor traffic in tho Philippines and who has made more votr-s for tho prohibition party this fall than any other man. The democrats will nominate a man who claims to be opposed to the evil combination of capital, but who does not lare opjxK-e the only thin which makes their existence possible. The prohibition party is the most remarkable minority party the country has ever seen. It is the only minority party that has kept off the rock of fusion. "Four years ago the west accepted the candidate and platform in good faith and now it feels that it needs the candidate. We need the greatest campaigner in the party to go before the people on the platform adopted. This will be a campaign year of great speakers, and our party should nominate a man who can hold his own with any of the speakers of the other parties. Such a man is John G. Woolley." Homer Castle of Pittsburg, in presenting Itev. Silas C. Swallow of Pennsylvania, said in part: "Pennsylvania offers the services of a favorite son. Silas C. Swallow has done more toward the dethroning of Matthew S. Quay in Pennsylvania than any other one man. He polled more votes for a state office on a clean, clear-cut prohibition platform th?.n any man in any stale at any time. He is more cordially feared and hated by the politicians of his state than any other man in it. He has proved himself incorruptible. He tramped with the soldiers in blue to establish the doctrine that law was greater than any state or any official in any state and stands on ground that the republicans have abandoned that law may not be set aside if its enforcemnt is obnoxious to the powers that be." The Pennsylvania delegates, armed with plumes and pampas grass, sprang to their chairs at the close of Mr. Cattle's speech and led the shouting so well that for a time it seemed a Swallow stampede had set in. The friends of Woolley had their convention plans well laid, however, and waited for the Swallow demonstration to subside without making any effort to stem it. Hale Johnson was placed in nom'nation by George W. Gere of Champaign. 111., who recounted his cand'd ita's personal history and services fur his party. John G. Woolley is one of the owners of the Voice, th? party papsr. ard lives, with his wife and three sons, at 5335 Cornell avenue, Chicago. He ha been state's attorney at Minneapol's. Minn. Henry B. Metcalf's home is in Pawtucket. R. I., where he Is president of the Providence County Savings bank. He h?s been a candidate for governor of his state on the prohibition ticket pevrnl times and w formerly a republic rn state senator, has a wife and one son. THE OPENING DAY. Platform In Adopted. The national convention of the ProFlnrnl Pan I" h Nrrrow. The florl parade, the most p'cturesque feature of the Milwaukee carnival, took place with pomp. The weather was perfect. The parade wis headed by former Gov. Oeorge W. Peck as chief marshal, followed by h's aids, the prancing horses being decked with garlands of flowers. The riglit o." the line of the paride was g:v-n i:. Mayor Hose. who. w th Mrs. U5e. occupied a victoria cavercd with America n beauty roses. Transmit ttl From Katiier to Son. It has happened but once in tne history of th? nation, and it may not kappen again, that both father and son are given the high honor of pres ding over the afT'irs of the nation. Joha Adams was the second pres'dent. and John Quiney Adams, hi? son, the sixth president of the Cnitvd Statea. And 3nly once have grandfather and grandson served in this othVe. William Henry Harrison was the ninth president and Ilenjamin Harrison, his franiNon, the twenty-third president. ladiampOils Press.

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hibition party at Chicago, was called to order shortly af er 10 o'clock Thursday morning by chairman of the National umimiUee Oliver W. Stewcit. Ivlr. Siew&rt predicted that the party would poll I.OiHi.uoo votes at the coming election if the spirit of 1SSS or 1892 ccuul be maintained. He thought that the convention proved beyond a doubt that the spiiit still lived. Touching the question cf the selection of candidates, his mention of the name of Swallow and Johnson evoked cheeis. but the greatest reception was accorded the name of John G. Woolley of Illinois. He then introduced the temporal y chairman. Samuel Dickie of Michigan, who delivered an address. At Wednesday evening's session the National Prohibition convention adopted a single issue platform, resolution was adopted in favor of equal suffrage, but the platform itself is silent on the subject. The platform adopted is lengthy. It censures the president of the United States and his administration. The action of the party in power in permitting the maintenance of the army canteen is pronounced "treasonable nullification of the rights of the Christian people. It severely criticises the president for serving wine in the White House.and charges him with injuring the cause of temperance and prohibition more than any president that ever filled the office. It proclaims both parties to be in control of the rum power, and continues with the i:sual declarations of the party. 'i he reference to President McKinley comes in the third division of the platform and is severe in its strictures on the chief executive. In regard to the army canteen it says: "President McKinley, through his a.s-s-cnt to and indorsement of such interpretation and refusal on the part of officials appointed by and responsible to him, shares responsibility in their guilt; and we record our conviction our country in the fact that its president, at the behest of the beer power dare and does abrogate a law of congress, through subordinates removable at will by him, nnd whose acts become his, and thus virtually confesses that laws are to be administered, or to be nullified, in the interest of a lawdefying business, by an administration under mortgage to such ba.-iness for support." Other points covered in the platform are: Condemnation of the administration because it has repealed the prohibitory laws in Alaska, an J because it has entered upon a license policy in the Hawaiian islands. Calls attention to the increase in exportations of liquor from the United States to the Philippines from $337 in 1S98 to $467,19S in first ten months of fiscal year, ending June 1. 1900. Frances E. Willard's picture almost disrupted the convention during the night . session. With outstretched hands and trembling voice Mrs. Frances Ikauchamp of Kentucky, insinuated that the picture of "that noble woman" had been remove! from the hall because she was a suffragist. Immediately the convention was in an uproi r. Delegate A. G. Wolfenbarger, standing on his chair, shouted: "1 protest against the slanderous words cf thy speaker." Cries of "Shame," "Put it back wheie it was," and a confusion of crks and hisses. Chairman Samuel Dickie sought to gain control of the convention, but his efforts were useless. Mrs. Beauchamp stood passive and unmoved by the storm of protest. The rhairman, when he could make himself heard, asked the speaker to withdraw her remarks. The Kentucky woman then said that "she had been informed that the picture had fallen down." At this point G. M. Decker came to the front and exhibited a bruised nose where the picture had struck him when it fell. The evidence was accepted by the speaker. The trouble came on the adoption of the report of the committee on resolutions. The committer had reported a platform for adoption, ana also offered a resolution that it was the sense of tne convention mat the ballot should not be denied any one on account of sex. The advocates of the suffrage plank objected, and the usual debate followed. The platform and resolutions were finally adopted amidst Fcenes of confusion. The vote on the previous question showed the strength of thoe favoring the single issue. It ws 374 to 173. Tken from Hm1 and Iteatru. Itv. Kobert Palmer was brutally treated by a band of masked men at Columbus, Ind., Wednesday. His assailants c ragged Palmer from his bed, covered his head with a quilt, tied him to a tree and whipped him severely with hickory switches. His son was tied to another tree, but not whipped. lB!mrr wjs aoeflgrd of having set off his rrperty under tbe- law to avoid paying a debt, which wis the cause of h wMte ciDp'ng. During the civil war Pa'rer ws a sharpshooter and is ; now a pensioner. Hl-l hu 1 A 1 1 inn I In the Sei nr. An opinion a to whether or not the w 'ter of the oe'ne ia pure can be readily drawii from h perusal of the fol'owing lif-t of objects taken during U 9 from the river which runs through the French capital: Two thoufiRd and twenty-one dogs, 97T cat-, 6t7 rats. 317 fow s and ducks. 210 rabbits and bar, 2. sheep. 2 horses, ruckling pig. " pigs. 27 geese, 2T turkey. 2 deer. 1 parrot. COD small birds. .I foxes. 1Ö0 plge.ms and 3 hedgehogs. f-f o-trit of the nlon Hone. 1 be go. den rose of virtue which the pope occasionally presents to those who work for the church was originally a single simple flower of wrought gold stained or tinted with red, in imitation of the natural color. Afterward the golden petals were adorned with rubies and other gems and finally the form adopted was that of a thorny branch with several flowers and haves and one chief flower at the top. all cf pure gold, with the exception of the precious stones with which the principal parss are embellished.

HANDWRITING EVIDENCE.

Theft Fastened Upon a Yonng Woman by Her Own Hand. Of late Detective Bleakley has been reading about Sherlock Holmes and has picked up many valuable tips, ons of which was recently of great use to him, says the Hamilton Spectator. Last week a young woman, who is employed in an uptown hotel, lost her gold watch and reported to the detective department. Inspector McMahon lined up his men in front of him, questioned them on ways and means of recovering the stolen property, and then allotted the task of finding the missing timepiece to Bleakley. The officer went to the hotel, sized up the situation and looked over the employes. It did not take him long to select the joung lady whom he thought knew most about the whereabouts of the watch. The detective has an eye for beauty, and this particular young lady was both young and beautiful, and had previously borne a good character. This made the officer's task even more difficult, and he left the hotel, feeling sad at heart. The more he thought over the case the more convinced he became that the young woman he suspected knew something, and while trying to go to sleep Sunday night he decided that he would interview her the next day. When he got to the office on Monday morning Bleakley found a note waiting for him, informing him that the watch had been returned by mail. This, however, did not satisfy him, and he determined to bring the thief to justice. He went over to the hotel yesterday afternoon, secured the paper which the watch had been wrapped in and on which was written tne name and address of the owner, and then proceeded to interview his suspect. Of course she protested her innocence, but to make her statement stronger the detective suggested that she sign a declaration of her inno cence. The girl bit easily: the detective procured a note book, and the girl wrote: "I , do solemnly declare that I did not see or touc.n Miss watch. (Signed) .' After that the detective's work was easy. He compared the writing of the young lady with that on the paper, which was on the watch when it was returned. They were exactly the same, and th? guilt was fastened upon the nrettv domestic. Coneoraiiisr Dulcli Atute:t ion. Sir John Henry de Villiers. chief justice of the Cape of Good Hope, who is now in London, says that all Dutch South Africa would bitterly resent the annexation of the republic?. He adds: "This war was forced on President Kruger. What Mr. Chamberlain asked him to give up was the equivalent of Dutch independence. The story that Presidents Kruger and Steyn aspired to drive the British into the sea is fable. All the Dutch leaders wanted was to preserve the Dutch nationality. When the British field marshal, a brilliant general and a brave and good man, shall have flung his flag above the seat of government at Pretoria, we shall witness the conclusion of a dark chapter in the history of human greed." Aultior for I'mlniaKtrr. Senator Bacon has withdrawn his opposition to the confirmation of Harry Stillwell Kdwarris. the author, who was nominated for postmaster of Macon, Ga. His nomination has been hung up all winter at the instance of Senator Bacon, because, it is alleged, of a determination on the part or the southern democratic, leader that no young man shall be rewarded for joining the republican party. Mr. Edwards, who is a man of brilliant intellect, aristocratic connections, abandoned the political faith of his fathers and joined the republicans during the last presidential campaign. President McKinley appointed him postmaster as a recognition of his independent spirit. Indianapolis News. High Prices for Rare Slierrien. At an auction sale of old wines be longing to the estate of Kugene Keteltas, yesterday, thirty-two bottles ot Ferdinand sherry, said to be the last of a celebrated Montillo wine, brought $3 a bottle. Eleven bottles of Madeira of the vintage of 1S28 went for $5 a bottle. More than 100 bottles of "South Side Wedding Wine" were sold at from $2.50 to $5 a bottle. The liveliest bidding was done for eleven bottles of old bl ie seal "Rain-Water" Madeira. This wine was described n.s "of the old style of the last century, having been made probably in 1740 or 1750." It was sold for $8.30 a bottle. New York Post. Saltan's Christian Ambassador. Until a few years ago mostly Christians were accredited as ambassadors from the Sultan of Turkey to western states, and in London alone there served a Christian who remained there as representative of the Sultan for forty-four years. The present ambassador in Iondon is a (iierk and a Christian. So are the ministers in Brussels and The Hague. Artificial Coffr llerrte. Unroasted coffee berries are often made from oat and rye flour and corn meal. The natural aroma of these grains Is destroyed by some process, and, after the proper amount of coffee aroma Is added the berries are formed and caused to maintain their shape. ftklll of 1'ollHher Neerj. I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colors and makes the surface shine. Addison. Watching tUr War. Once a week the staff otncVrs of the Russian army assemble, under the presidency of the Grand Duke Vladimer, to discuss the progress of the Boer war. The czar attends the meeting. Military Program in India. In India the military program for the year Includes the rearmament ot the native army that volunteers with magazine rifles, rearmament of mountain batteries, and the reorganization of the field batteries.

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The C'iiieiiiuall, Iiichmond and Munrle. Tk- work of construction on the Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie railroad, the new short line between Cincinnati and Chicago, U progressing ra;idly. About four miles have if"u graded between Richmond and Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, on the eouth. which is the southern terminal. The work toward Mum ie is also being pushed. Rochester is to be the northern terminal, as that completes the connection between Cincinnati and Chicago and affords a lino seventeen miles shorter than any other between those two points. No trouble is being experienced in getting the right ut way. Trains will be running by the first of the year, and perhaps sooner. Richmond will be especially benefited by the road, securing a north and south outlet and competition with the Panhandle, which now has control of all lines running in here, and also competition in the express business. Richmond gave the road a subsidy ot $225,000. Demand for MMK.oon. Suits have been brought by John G. Williams of Indianapolis and B. V. Marshall of this city against the Terre Haute &. Indianapolis railroad for money loaned to the company by the Rose Orphan Home, and W. R. MrKeen of this city. The obligation of the former is represented by tvvj note of 550,000 ea;-h. on the totnl of whi'-'i $20.000 has been pai 1. and to the latt-r by three notes two for $2.Vo0i) ca -h. and one for $18.000. After Mr. McKen sold the road to the Pennsylvania people, in the first part of 1SIM. tii company got hard up for money, and borrowed where it could. There debts were incurred rit thut ti::ie. All Tl-r r-.--pt the Itri Je. Miss P.ertha Sea graves, a handsom young woman of Starke county, has disappeaied mysteriously :nd her relatives and fiionds arc making frantic efforts to set vire trace of her. She h.ul been engaged to ti trach'T in Kankakee, 11!.. but was to have been wedded last week to a young man of North Jud:-on. Miss Sea graves left Kankakee the day preceding that set for tl:cercmony. according tn t '.cnm- iron: her friends in the- Illinois town. ht:t didn't reach her destination. Arrangements for the ceremony progressed uj to the appointed hour, bat the bri'!came not. r'rMiki f a I ol. Thousands of dead rsh are appearing on the surface of the Wabash river. The floods have brought into the stream from its tributaries considerable oil and ie'use from the nitixglycerine works in the oil fields, and these arc supposed to be fatal to the fish. Another curious result of the fiood is that large catfish have been found in the ditches discharging into the river. When the water was over the fields the fish were carried out of the channel and followed the ditcl.es. where the recession of the fiood left them. Ue-l nvefcted -At .Matth. John Clifton of Peru whose brick plant at Converse was recently destroyed by fire, entailing a less of $20,000, has purchased the brick works at Matthews, this county; consideration. $20.000. General Mnl Nw. Claude K. Faulkenberry, IS years old, of Anderson, is plaintiff against his mother L replevin proceedings, because she seized upon his wardrobe. The boy supported his mother until her recent re-marriage. ar.d because of his refusal to contribute to the support of his stepfather precipitated a crisis. The Spiceland Academy reports 15 g'iduates. Prof. William A. Julian of Hastings. Neb., was the orator, and commencement exercises were hold in the auditorium of the Friends' church. Prof. Murray S. Wildman will remain in charge of the school. A car attached to the Fort paughSells circus, and bearing cas?s containing tigers and other wild animals, broke down near Montpelier, and for a few minutes the involuntary release of the beasts was imminent. The peril was finally avoided. The Rev. Father Dhee of Montpelier. who invented a prcvess for making bent glass, has sold his stock in the National Rent Glass company for $14.000. The Kerlin Hro.. oil men. are the purchasers. Elocution will no longer be taught in the Richmond high school, and Prof. K. P. Trueblood. of Karlham college, will not be retained for another year. A desire to cut down expenses is th cause. Col. W. T. Durbin. the Republican nominee for gove ior. and Gurley Drewer and Kzra Roberts, of Indianapolis, have been selected for addresses at Marlon, on Emancipation day. -i K. It. Johnson, formerly principal of the Indiana School for the FeebleMindcd. of Ft. Wayne, has been appointed superintendent of the New Jersey school, at Vineland. Aaron Howe, a business man of Elkhart, drove against a live electric wire. His horse was instantly killed and he was shocked and hurled some distance. H. W. Markham.a tenant on the Holcomb farm, near Mishawaka, while In his barnyard fell in an apoplectic jdroke. and his body was mutilated by hogs. Webster Douglass and Miss Maud Newby, of Plainfield. have IWn unitei in marriage, the Rev. John Griffin of the Progressive Friends, officiating. The Rev. Dr. Webst ?r officiated at the marriage of William Williams and Miss Minnie Higgins. at the home cf the bride's mother, at Flwood. Dr. Fred Anderson of Richmond has 5?en chosen president of the alumni association of the Western Reserve Dental College of Cleveland. Farmers of Harrison township. Pu'askl county, have organized a co-operative harvesting association

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