Marshall County Independent, Volume 7, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 January 1901 — Page 3

TA L31 AGE'S SEltMON.

THE DOOR OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION OPEN TO ALL. Timely DUcourse on the Ocornlon of the Twentieth Anniversary f the Uowfrj llsnioiis in New York City tCopvrisht. by I.oui-5 Kiopsch. N. Y.) New York, Jan. fJO. On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the liowery minion Jan. 12. Dr. Tallage preached to a st audience at the New York Academy of Music. M nisters of all denominations were present. The text was. John x, 16, "Oaer ineep I have which are not of this fold." There is no monopoly in religion. The grace of (Jod is not a little property that we may fence on and have all to uii; selves. It is not a king's park, at which we look through a barred gateway, wishing that we might go in ami see the statuary and the deer and the royal conservatory. No; it is a Father's orchard, and everywhere there are bars that we may let down and gates that we may swing open. Well, my friends, there are Christian men who have the church under severe guard. There is fruit in this orchard for the whole world, but they have a rough and unsympathetic way of accosting outsiders, as though they had no business there, thotuh the Lcrd wants all to come and take the choicest and ripest fruit on the premises. Have you an idea that because you were baptized at eight months of age and because you have all your life been tinder hallowed influences you therefore have a right to one whole sid of the Lord's table, spreading yourself oat and taking up the entire room? I tell you no. You will have to haul in you- elbows, for we will place on either side of you those whom you never exp-TtM would sit there, for, as Christ said to his people long ago, so he says to you and to me, "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold " sheep of Many Fohl. McDonald, the Scotchman, has thousands of he rid of sheep. Some of them are browsing on the heather, some or then: are lying down under the trees. sorne are strolling over the mountains, some of them are in his yard. They are scattered all around in many places. Cameron, his neighbor, coin s over and says: "I see you have thirtysix s'.v-ep. I have just counted them." "No." says McPmald. "I have a grett many more sheep than you found in this yard. Some are here, and some are elsewhere. I have 4.000 or 3.000 in my flocks. 'Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.' " So Christ says to us. Hf-iv is a knot of Christhins and there is a knot of Christians, but they make up a small part of the flock. Here is the Episcopal fold, the Methodist fold, the Lutheran fold, the Con gregational fold, the Presbyterian fold, the Baptise and The Pedo-Raptist fold, the only difference between these last two being the way in which they wash the sheep, and so they are scattered all over. And we come with our statistics and say there are so many thousand of the Lord's sheep, but Christ responds: "No, no; you have not seen more than one out of a thoufand of my flock They are scattered all over the earth. 'Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.' " Itrnnrler Sympathy tirqiilred. We need as churches to get into sympathy with the great outside world and let them know that none are so broken hearted or hard beset that they will not be welcomed. "No," says some fastidious Christian. "1 do not like to be crowded in church. Do not put any one in my pew." My brother, what will you do in heaven, when a great multitude that no man can number assembles? They will put fifty in your pew. What are the people assembled in Christian churches compared with the mightier millions outside? Som churches are like a hospital that should advertise that its patients must have nothing worse than toothache or runarctmds.but nohrok'n heads, no crushed ankles or fractured limbs. Bring there for treatment moderate sinners, velvet coated sinners and sinners with a gloss on. It is as if a man had a farm of 3,000 acres and put all his work on one acre. He might raise never so large ears of corn, never so big heads of wheat, still he would remain poor. The church of God has bestowed its chief care on one acre and has raised splendid men and women in that small inc'nsure. But the field is the world. That means Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America and all the islands of the sea. Kirlurtivr nem In IteHgloti. Years ago I visited a New England factory village. I went up to the door of a factory, and I saw on the outside the words. "No admittance." Of course I went in, and. coming to the second door, I saw the words, "No admittance." Getting clear on into the factory I saw they were making pins, useful pins, and nothing but pins. So I think there is sometimes an exclusiveness among some of the churches. The outside world comes up and look3 at the door, and there is something which seems to say, "No admittance," and the world comes up to the pew door and sees written over it, "No admittance," and looks at the pulpit, and there ia something there which seems to say. "No admittance," while we stand inside of the same churches hammering out our little niceties of religious belief, making pins. Oh, for the deeper appreciation of the sentiment of my text, "Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold." There may be some here who say, "I stopped going to church ten or twenty years ago." Is it not strange that you are among the first that I address today? I know 11 your case. You have not been accustomed to going into the house of Ood, but I have a surprising announcement to make to you. You are going to become one of the Lord's sheep. "Oh," you say, "it is lmpowible. You don't know how far I am from anything of that kind." I know all about it. I have wandered up and down the world, and I understand your case. I have a still more startling announcement to make In regard t ou. You are not only going

to become one of the Lord's sheep, but you will become one now. Send Out the I.ITeboat. When the steamer Atlantic struck Mars rock and the people clambered up on the beach, why did not Mr. Ancient, that heroic minister of the gospel, of whom we have all read, sit down and take care of those men on the beach, wrapping them in flannels,

kindling fire for them, and seeing that j they got plenty of food? Ah, he knew that there were others who would do i that. He says: "Yonder are men and women freezing in the rigging of that wreck. Launch the lifeboat." Now I see the oar blades bend under the strong pull, but before they reach the wreck a woman was frozen and dead, she was washed off, poor thing. "But," lie says, "there is a man to save." Arid he cries out: "Five minutes longer, and 1 will save you. steady, steady! (Jive me your hand. Leap into the lifeboat. Thank God, he is saved!" So there are those who are safe on the shore of God's mercy. They are as safe as though they had been a thousand years in heaven, "kept by ths power of God through faith unto salvation." But there are some who are freezing in the rigging of siu and surrounded by tempest. Pull away, my lads! Let us reach them. Alas, one is washed off and gone. There is one. more to be saved. Let us push out there for that one. Clutch the rope, O dying man; clutch it as with a death grip. Steady, now, on the slippery places! Steady! They are saved, saved, just as I thought, for Christ has declared that there are some still in the breakers who shall come ashore. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." incline Lot Sheep. The heavenly Shepherd is going to find a great many of his sheep among those who are now rejecters of Christianity. Some of the mightiest advocates of the gospel were once skeptics. Thomas Chalmers once a skeptic. Robert Hall a skeptic. Christmas Evans a skertic. Charles G. Finney a skeptic. Paul, the apostle, once a skeptic. But when once with strong hand they laid hold of the gospel chariot they rolled it on with what momentum! I do not know how you came to reject Christianity. It may have been through the infidel talk of some young man in the stoiv or shop or factory. It may have been through the trickery of some professed Christian man who disgusted you with religion. It may be that thirty years ago you lost all faith by what happened in an oil company which was formed amid the petroleum excitement. The company owned no land, or if they did there was no sign of oil produced. But the president of the company was a Piesbyterian elder and the treasurer of an Episcopal vestryman, and one director was a Methodist class leader and the other officers prominent members of Baptist and Congregational churches. Circulars were got out telling what fabulous prospects opened before this company. The circular had all the hues of earth and sea and sky. Tho letters flamed with all the beauty of I gold and jasper and amethyst, inno cent men and women who had a little money to invest and that little their all said. "I do not know anything about this company, but so many good men are at the head of it that it must be excellent and taking stock in it must be almost as good as joining he church." So they bought their stock and perhaps received one dividend to keep them still. But after awhile they found that the company had reorganized and had a different president, a different treasurer and different directors. Other engagements or an overcoming modesty had caused the former officers of the company, with many regrets, to resign, and all that the subscribers of that stock had to show for their investment was a beautifully ornamented certificate. Sometimes that man, looking over his old papers, comes across that certificate, and it is so suggestive that he vows that he wants none of ! the religion that the president and diI rectors of that oil company pro- ! fessed. I Why Itejert 1 hrMtUnlty ? But I do not stop now to know how ; you came into rejection of Christian- ; ity. You frankly tell me that you do i reject it. You do not believe that j Christ is a divine being, although j you admit that he was a very good ! man. You do not believe that the Bible was inspired of God, although you think there are seme very fine things in it. You believe that the Scriptural description of Eden was only an allegory. There are fifty things that I believe that you do not balieve, and yet you are an accommodating man. Everybody that knows you says that of you. If I should ask of you a kindness, you j do a kindness for me or if any one else would do it. If, when you are ill, I should come to you with a vial ol medicine and say, "This kind of medicine has cured fifty people who were just as badly off as you are; take it," and you replied, "I do not want to take it; I have no confidence in it," I would say, "Take it to oblige me," and you would say, "Vell, if it will accommodate you I will ake It." Now, you have found that this world is insufficient and you are sick of sin. I come j to you with a gospel medicine. It has i lured hundreds and thousands and millions. Will you take It? "No," you say, "I have no confidence in It" Take it, then, to oblige me. I tell you of a Physician who has cured more blind eyes, and bound up more broken hearts, and healed more ghastly wounds than all the doctors since the time of Aesculapius. Be obliging and Just make the experiment. If you are not acquainted with the ordinary modes of prayer, say in substance: "O Iiord Jesus, this Is a strange thing for me to do. I know nothing about the formulas of religion. These Christian people have been talking so long about what thou canst do for me I am ready to do whatever thou commandest me. If there be any power In religion, as these people say, let me have the advantage of it." Will you not try that experiment? Gospel of Ptaee and Hop. Oh, men, skeptical and 'struck through with unrest! I beg you come off that great Sahara desert of doubt Into the bright and luxuriant land of gospel hope and peace. You do not want your children to come up la that

skepticism. If you do not believe, In anything elce, you believe in love a father's love, a mother's love, a wife's love, a child's love. Then let me tell you that God loves you more than all these together. The great heart of Christ aches to have you come in, and he looks into your eyes thid moment, saying, "Other sheep I have which are not cf this fold." I want to tell you that God loves to take hold of a very bad case. When the church casts you off. an I when the clubroom casts you off, and when society casts you off. and when business associates cast you off, and when father casts you off and when mother cast3 you off. and when everybody casts you off your first cry for help will bend the eternal (Jod clear down to the ciitch of your suffering and shame. The Good Templars cannot save j-ou. although they are grand institution. The Sons of Temperance cannot save you, although they are mighty for good. Signing the temperance pledge cannot save you, although I believe in it. Nothing but the ?raee of the eternal God can save you, and that will if you will throw yourself on it. The Modem Catacomb. They talk about the catacombs or Naples and the catacombs of Rume and the catacombs of Egypt, the great burial places under the city where is the dust of many generations passed on.but I tell you New York has its catacombs and Washington its catacombs, and all cur cities their catacombs. They are underground liquor dives, full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. There ia no need of going into the art gallery to see in skillful sculpture that wonderful representation of a man and his sons wound round with serpents. There are families represented here today that are wrapped in the martyrdom of fang and scale and venom, a living Laocoon of ghastliness and horror. Cut I turn to outsiders with an expectation that thrills through me, body and soul. "Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold." You are not gospel hardened. You have not heard many sermons during the last few years. You feel the Holy Ghost this moment in your heart. You do not weep, but the tear is not far off. You sigh, and you have noticed that there is always a sigh in the wind before the rain falls. There are those here who would give anything if they could find relief in tears. They say: "On, my wasted life! Oh, the bitter past! Oh, the graves over which I have stumbled! Whither shall I fly? Alas, for the future! Everything is so dark, so very dark! God help me! God pity me!" Thank the Lord for that last utterance. You have begun to pray, and when a man begins to petition God steps in and beats back the hounds of temptation to their kennel and round about the poor wounded soul puts the covert of his pardoning mercy. Hark! I hear something fall. What was that? It is the bars of the fence around the sheep-fold. The Shepherd lets down the bars, and the hunted sheep of the mountain bound in, rome of them their fleece torn with brambles, some of them their feet lamed with the dogs, but bounding in. Thank God! "Other sheep I have, which are not of

this fold." OLD CHECK CASHED. It Vi Drawn Twenty Year Ago. but Wai ooil for the Money. In the year 1S79 C. W. Merchant of this city was engaged in buying cattle all over this part of Texas, says the Galveston News. In those days Port Worth was the headquarters for banking business, and Mr. Merchant, in common with all cowmen, had his money on deposit in one of the banks there. While in Haskell county that year he purchased five head of beef cattle from a Mr. Mobley and gave his check for $100. On account of the distance from Fort Worth and the inconvenient facilities for transacting such matters, Mr. Mobley did not present the check for payment until six months after its date. When presented the cashier informed the gentleman that Mr. Merchant had long since closed his account with the bank. Nothing further was ever done to collect the check, until recently both gentlemen met in the town of Haskell, just twenty-one years later, and began talking of "old-times." Mr. Mobley suggested to Mr. Merchant that he held an unpaid check signed by him and dated in 1879. and wanted to know if it was still worth 100 cents on tho dollar. He was informed that it was, and on inquiry as to how it came into his possession explanations followed and Mr. Mobley got his $100. In speaking of the incident to the News correspondent, Mr. Mei chant said that in 1879 he purchased something like $00,000 worth of cattle, and most of them in small herds, and that, with a "saddle horn" for a memorandum book, it was very easy to lose run of a $100 check. TRIO OF OLD FOLKS. Three FhiUtle'phlan Whose Age Krach Total or 350 Yearn. Philadelphia has the most celebrated trio of old folks in any city in the United States. Each one of the remarkable group has attained the century mark, and the oldest has exceeded it by thirty years. If the ages of these three venerable Philadelphians could be added together they would reach the astonishing total of 350 years and make a span of life which would extend clear back to 1550, contemporaneous with the time of Elizabeth and Shakespeare! The oldest of the trio is Mrs. Mary McDonald, according to the best obtainable information the oldest woman in the world. Mrs. McDonald Is colored, an inmate of the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons, and is now almost 130 years old; next comes Mrs. Celestina Nigro, aged 111, an Italian, and who, when she arrived in Philadelphia from Campagna, Italy, nine yers ago, was conceded to be the oldest immigrant who ever came to the United States; the youngest member of the group, and Philadelphia's oldest male citizen, is Michael Mooney, a healthy young stripling of 109 years, who resides at the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, at Eighteenth and Jefferson streets. Boston Journal. Police expenditures in St. Louis this year will foot up $1.830.000, or onethird of the total revenue of the olty.

Hunter Dies in Effort to Cross the River, HIS COMPANION ESCAPES. night of Two Men WltndMed by Teople from the Shore One Adventurer Ferlsbes by llelng Hurled Into Roaring .Abyss. Two reckless duck hunters of Buffalo, John Wiser of South avenue and Joseph Marsh of Lin wood avenue, tempted fate in the wild current of the Niagara river Sunday morning at dawn and fate met them half way with outstretched hands. Wiser vanished in the crashing billows of ice which thunder over the mighty fall and Marsh, who survives, emerges from his awful experience after a thrilling battle for life which turned his black hair white within an hour and made of a man strong and stalwart in the early morning a shivering and trepid creature who will hunt no more. The men rowed safely pa?t Connor's island and into the middle of the river. There the ice was clogged so they could not use the oars and they lost control of the little boat. Their plight was discovered by people on shore, who telephoned to the fire department at the Falls to send a rescue corps with ladders and ropes to points along the banks. The wind was blowing so hard that the firemen came too late. When the boat passed the Niagara Falls electric power-house Marsh realized that he must make a desperate effort for his own rescue. lie stepped from the boat to a cake of ice, calling to Wiser to follow. But Wiser could not swim and lie sat still in the boat, trusting himself on the uncertain ice. But when they had been carried past the paper mill Wiser, too, saw that something must be done, and he jumped out on the ice. Marsh was about thirty feet nearer to the shore. The current was getting less secure. At Henry Perky's residence on Willow island a group or men was watching the hunters. E. A. Deeds, president of the board of engineers of the Natural Food company, got a long pole and, placing himself on the shore at a point projecting into the stream, called to the men to swim for it. Marsh jumped instantly, but Wiser shook his head and remained on his ice cake, which quickly passed into the rapids. A high wave washed him off the ice and he was carried along and to&sed over the brink of the falls just behind the boat which he had deserted. Marsh's struggle for the shor"1 was observed by a large crowd. Three times the ice and waves carried him under. Each time there was a cheer of encouragement as his head showed again and he courageously struggled on. He grasped the end of the pole? and was drawn ashore unconscious. Then he was carried to Perky's house and put to bed. QUEEN VICTORIA IS DYING. Aged Sovereign t'ueontclou-t and 'an Not lie Kevlved. The queen of England is dying in the imperial bed-chamber at Cowes, Isle of Wight. It is understood that the physicians have resorted to artificial methods to prolong life such as are used only in the case of persons in extremis. The paralysis is chiefly evident in the face, one side of which appears to have lost all nerve and muscular power. Keenly sensitive to her affliction and appearance, the queen has absolutely refused to see anyone but her nurses and doctors, and it is understood that the Prince of Wales is the only exception to this rule and that his interview yesterday with the queen lasted but a few moments. Hence the exact nature of the malady is known only to a very few, and it is the royal wish that the public should not be informed of the existence of paralysis. Arrangements have been made with a local undertaker to have all the preliminaries to burial ready in case of an emergency. Married iu a Sheep Wagon. A new style of marriage ceremony was inaugurated at Casper, Wyo., when Ross Lambert, a sheep man, and Miss Lovisa Morrison were wedded in a sheep wagon. The ceremony was performed at midnight, and was witnessed by the bride's mother and a few friends. The Rev. Mr. (Jillespiu performed the ceremony, after which the couple set out for Lost Cabin, traveling in the wagon. It was not because the couple could not afford a stylish wedding that the marriage was celebrated in a sheep wagon, for Mr. Lambert is well-to-do. but because the young couple wanted something romantic in the way of a wedding. rolltlclao Killed by Pistol. Martin Wright, late socialist candidate fqr governor of Utah, who was en route from St. George, Utah, to Los Angels with his two sons, was instantly killed by the discharge of a revolver which accidentally fell from his pocket while he was preparing dinner at their camp. Faber Dies at Nuremberg. Johann Paber, founder of the famous lead pencil factory, died at Nuremberg, Germany, aged 84 years. When he began business English pencils were In almost universal use In Germany. Passenger Train Wrecked. At 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon a Union Pacific passenger train was wrecked near Hilliard, Wyo.. by a broken rail. Six cars were derailed, twö of which went over an embankment. Thirteen persons were injured. linker Again on Strike. A new strike of Hebrew bakers has commenced oft the east side. New York city, and about 500 men are out. After the bakers had won their recent strike about 1,500 went back to work in 140 bake shops. Since then the owners of fifty of the bake shops have refused to discharge their non-union men or to make them join the Hebrew Bakers' union and this was the cause cf the Ten Killed In Kxploaion. An explosion in the Koenig Ludwig mine at Recklinghausen. Westphalia, has caused the death of ten persons.

A DECISIVE TEST.

SXethod of Determining the OrLffln of Blood Stains. In trials for murder it Is often of the first importance to determine the origin of blood spots found on clothing, weapons, etc. Do they come from human blood, or frm that of animals, is the question asked. Recent experiments have shown that if red blcod corpusclesleucocytes from any animal are introduced into the blood of another animal the serum of the latter acquires the property of destroying other corpuscles of the sort subsequently introduced. This specific property of the serum can be utilized as a test In medico-legal matters. To carry out the test it is necessary to have at hand serums already trtatcd with the red corpuscles of the blood of sheep, cattle, fowls, etc. Each one of these prepared serums will destroy the red corpuscles of one kind of blood very quickly. The sheep serum will, for instance, destroy red corpuscles of sheep's blood In a minute or so, and its effect on the red corpuscles of any other blood Is very much less rapid and effective. If then, in any special criminal case, the accused declares that certain blood stains on his clothing are spots of sheep's blood, and not of human blood, a decisive test can be made by treating this blood by the serums previously prepared by the introduction of the red corpuscles of the blood of different animals. If the serum previously prepared by the introduction of sheep's blood at once dissolves the stains found on the clothing of the accused then his plea was correct and the stains did, in fact, arise from the blood of a sheep. If the serum so prepared does not rapidly destroy the stains his statement is false. By trying other serums, previously prepared, one can be found that will dissolve the stains on the clothing and in this way the origin of the stains can be quickly and surely assigned. This procedure, proposed by M. Ladisias Deutsch of Budapest, is apparently destined to be of great service in many criminal trials. New York Sun. A BOY'S AGE. Doctor and Barber Diftasrrce and Court side with Harber. A youth clad in the shabbiest garments imaginable, but wearing a one karat diamond ring, furnished a problem in the criminal court that required the wit and ingenuity of experts to solve, says the Omaha Bee. It was necessary to ascertain the lad's age and before a satisfactory estimate was made several attorneys, a barber, a veterinary surgeon and a judge had passed judgment unsuccessfully. The boy is known to the poiice as "Doc" Silcote. He was before Judge Baker on the charge of having stolen 2S4 pounds of bullion from a freight car on a Union Pacific sidetrack near the smelter. When arraigned Silcote entered a plea of not guilty. His attorney informed the court that he desired to withdraw the plea and admit .his guilt. If he were of legal age, as alleged in the complaint, the admission of guilt would send him to the penitentiary; otherwise he would escape with the reform school. "Doctor, come here," commanded the courc. "How old are you?" "I never knew," replied the lad. "It's going to be hard work to tell this boy's age," observed the court. "Do any of the complainants know anything about him?" Detective Yizzi.:d of the Union Pacific Railroad Company attempted to prove that Silcote has been stealing so long he must be more than 10, but the court would not accept deductions for evidence. One of the attorneys then jokingly made a remark that was taken seriously. "There is a man skilled in horsecraft," he said, pointing to a veterinary surgeon among the spectators. "Bring him up," instructed the judge, "and let him see if hi can give us a clue." The veterinary expressed the opinion that Silcote is more than 16, as he had several teeth youngsters do not enumerate among their molars. As a precedent for expert testimony had been established, an attorney for the defense asked leave to call a barber from the crowd to express an expert opinion on Silcote's beard. The barber thought he must be younger than 16. The court ruled finally that Silcot3 is under legal age and cannot be sent to the penitentiary. He will be sentenced to a term in the reform school. Slaking Clieeae In Flanders. The manufacture of cheese is one of Holland's staple industries, and yet the two Belgian provinces East and West Flanders have come to the front in this business recently, and even export some of their cheese to the Netherlands. Of course the Belgian cheese will never be able to compete with the famous Holland varieties Leyden, Gouda and Edam. As there is practically no duty on Belgian cheeses entering Holland, French and Swiss cheeses are often sent here by way of Belgium to escape duty. A. F. J. Kiehl, in Chicago Record. Aontrallaus Dislike llachelor Governors. Lord Beauchamp's failure as governor of New South Wales is declared to have been due mainly to the fact that he was unmarried. Australians do not like bachelor governors, and have in the past so emphatically manifested this dislike that candidates for the position have been known to qualify by getting married in a hurry. The society women of the colony want more "doings" at the capital than are easily obtainable with a bachelor executive; hence Lord Beauchamp's fizzle. Senator Carter's Opportunities. The friends of Thomas Henry Carter, United States senator from Montana, are figuring upon securing for him a professorship in the Catholic university of this city, but Mr. Carter says he has not yet been defeated for r -election, and considers his chanc ?e:x good, although the legislature of Montana, Is largely Democratic. Mr. Carter was a school teacher in his younger days and knows how to do it. Washington Letter. Left a Ijtrg Estate. The late End of Airlie's personal estate In England and Scotland has been valued at 44,083 3s 6d., including shooting rents due to the amount Oi.' 5,069.

I!D LEGiSLAIURE Reports of Proceedings and Bills Introduced, CONCERNING DEATH PENALTY. The Illll for Kierutlan by Electricity, If I'assed, Would ot AnVtt Joseph Keith Anti-Trust LejMatlon Fropof Village for Epileptic. tVeilnel;ir, Jauuury 10. Senator Harrison's bill to amend the act "concerning the death penalty, ?tc." reads as follows: "Section 1. That the punishment of death prescribed by law shall in every ?aso be inflicted by causing to pass through the body of the convict a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death, and the application of such current must be continued until such convict be dead, which ex. t-u-tion shall take place before The hour of sunrise, upon such day, not 1 ss than 100 days after conviction, as tho court may adjudge. "The warden of the Indiana state prison, or, in case of his death, disability or absence, his deputy shall i the executioner. Provided, that in any county in this state in which any person may be under sentence or judgment of death at the time or the taking effect of this act, the said sentence and judgment shall be carried into effect and executed under the daws now in force for the infliction of the d ath penalty, which said law is hereby continued in existence for such purpose. "The execution shall tnke place inside the walls of the Indiana state prison and within an enclosure arranged for that purpose, and the warden and board of control of said Indiana state prison are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to procure ar.d place in position the necessary electrical apparatus to carry out tli1 -xt cution of said death penalty as provide ! in Section 1 of this act." If the hill becomes a law, Joseph Keith, who is under judgment of death in Warrick county, would be hanged instead of killed by electrici;y. 'I liurmlny, January 17. Senators Inmau, Miller and Agnow make up a special committee appointed by the late Gov. Mount to investigate the Yiucennes University claim. The committee has heard some evidence. 1 ut is not ready to make a report. Senator Agnew said that during the last session, the members of the committee were favorable to the bill, but hat is no evidence, he says, that the committee will make a favorable r port. Gov. Durhin was notified that a detective with requisition papers was coming from Kentucky after former Gov. W. S. Taylor and Charles Finley. former secretary of the state of Ken tucky, and that the expectation was I that the Indiana governor would sur render the fugitives. "I have nothing to say on that subject," said the governor, firmly. "When the papers arc on my desk I will give them consider; - ; tion." Friday. January IS. Many members of the legislature were practically stranded in Indianapolis for the day. because taey came to the capital with only a few dollars and had not been able yet to appropriate money to pay themselves. In the afternoon solons were going about borrowing money from their friends or wiring home for remittances to settle their personal expenses. The .senate rushed through a bill providing for executing the death penalty at the Michigan City prison, in order to correct the law before Keith is sentenced at Princeton for the murder of Nora Kifer. The primary election bill, requiring the holding of party primary conventions in certain large counties, was favorably reported by the elections committee. Despite reports to the contrary, no steps have been taken in the direction of preparing a bill to punish wife beaters by wnipping. motf.s of ij:;isi..titwi:. Senator Wir.hclds bill. No. M provides that when work has been done on a ditch by the owner of the lind, and a certificate has been isud to him, the assessment shall not be a lien on the real estate. Representative Coble i.s looking int the question of an increase in the salary of prosecuting attorneys. He his not prepared his bill yet. becau-e he is not certain whether the propocd f e and salary bill applies to prosecutus or not. The county commissioners, road supervisors and trusters of Grant county will have a meeting at Mario:: January 11), for the purpose of going over some prcpc.sed bills relating to road and ditch matters. Representative Gauntt and Burrier of Grant county. will attend the meeting. House bill No. t. Mr. Trout, amends the compulsory education law so that children between the ages of seven and sixteen, instead of from six to fourteen, must attend school. It also would abolish the county truant officer and make the township trustee the truant officer in his township. Senator Gard's bill, No. t5, provides that railroads paying their employes by the month shall designate the day on which they intend paying. Senator Osborne's bill. No. 75. provides that all cities of a population over J0.000 and under 35,000, according to the last census, shall have a board of metropolitan police. The hill in no way affects the cities already under this system, or any officer or employe appointed under the metropolitan police law. The bill will affect Marion. Huntington and one or two other cities. House bill No. 78, Mr. Horstield, prohibits the desecration of the Soldiers' monument by the holding of any entertainment or carnival in Monument place. House bill No. 7, Mr. McCarty, makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, handle, import, give away or otherWise dispose of cigarettes, cigarette paper, or any substitute therefor. The penalty for violation shall not be less than $100. Any one over fifteen years bid convicted of smoking cigarettes shall be fined not less than $2 nor more than $10.

A WEEK tX INDIANA

RECORD OF HAPPE MINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Promoters Who Are ltulLlins' a Trolley Lira Southwest from Fort Wayne Klect Otlit'tTn lather lrui Dead on 111 II.iu-IiUt's Kfcturu. w Onir rs Are C honen. The raaiit :iie;iL of tl.e- Inland Parle Chautanqua held its annual winter bu?:nes met ting ai Koine C.ty and arrangements for tie opening tweuti'th ce-iituiy s"sion wete compie-ed. X t ent y-oiio days' program will be died, openi:.- .July 1:4. 'i he dlitw;: officers w -! ( ! .;. !: Hey. L. J. Nalizirer, Mr.n.-ie. Ind.. c!ia:: e;;:jr; R v. G. V.. Moshe r, Hill.-dalc, Mich., vi.-e chancellor; Dr. P. .J. lie. Km I.t; ;;j, )., fcUper:nten; nt: Rev. J. F. Snidei, Ivtgrange, Ind., le:H s. crHary; W. F. Owen. Rom City, Ind.. pif. eient an I auditor; P. G. Cobb-, lb-rce Cry, secretary; M. A. Williams, i:o:ne City, treasurer. Arrangements wt:e perfected for tht publication of a monthly magazine by the assembly as-so iatio'i. to be called the Western Chautauquan. Rev. J. F. Snider will have charge of the editorial d part men t. Indiana I on a Iti;y Humeri The business portion of Roann, this county, was wiped out by tire this evening. The lhiiLs originated in a business block in Main street an 1 a terrific gale carried the fire entirely through the business portion. Th place is practically without fire prut, ction and assurance was called lor from all the surrounding :owr.s. 1'n-gim-s were i.-routrht fr.dn I'-ru an 1 North .Man 1 ae.-ter 0:1 .-; cial train, but they were service only preventing the Ihiiiie.s fron; -pr. ,;ding to i residence part of the town. Telephonic con'.n.'inie wUm with t!M place is cut oil and .iet iils aie not. obtainable, bu: the will amount a; least to $75,.i'.'U. "Oil l"eer" at Terre Il.t.Ue. The .Mewhinn.-y o;l well is -bowing a capacity of about t::ty barrels a day under pumping p- which is a profitable quiihiity. ina.-iiaiph a :!:; cost of pumpir. li.uht. the panipinu: machinery reeeiving pow-r from t: Mewhinney faciury nejr by. The iing of oil in this ii has rtntwed th "oil fever" t;;at has taken hull of some Terre Haute people several times since the first finding of ik- fluid fourteen years ago. and it i probable that other welis will be drilled. Ofttfert of n.ii.l IfltM le!. The Fort Wayne ami ,S.jüth'. stern Traction company, ban..! by Chicago and Iowa promoters to build a trolley line west from For: Wayne alou- the oid Wabash and File (anal, has elect- u the following u!.k-:s: I'ltsieut. W. S. lit ed ot Chicago: secretary, GeorgTownsend of lb s .Moines, Iowa. Tr.c grading is now cc-mpl.-led to Koauok. liftee:i mile-, and the ties are distributed over nearly all of that part of the line. H'Minr to Mount M-niory. The Indiana legislature adjourned out of respect to the memory of ex-Governor James A?. -Mount. The state officers met and adopted appropr.ate resolutions. The body of the former governor lay in state at the capitcl. Funeral strvicc- will be conducted at Indianapolis at the First Presbyterian church. The body was taktu to CrawfordsviTiC for burial. !t:tUe- lib (-!: le on Alldl:uI. Judge John H. L'.iker of the United States court lias raised th blockade of the Midland railroad on the Grantham farm in Montgomery county, where the movemen; of trains has been hindered for euer a week. Attorneys for the road asked for a restraining cutler against further bl. .eking of tho trains and Judge Paker granted it. Witnr ent to Jail. Charles Parrett. an employe of the Pioneer Hat works. Wabash, was subpoenaed to appear before th" grand jury. He refused to answer tpnstion and the. Judge lined him $. sent him to jail for twelve day;, with explicit instructions that he should b allowed nothing but bread and water. Parrot t swears he will never give ia. Indian Klettlon ( p. Jadge West of Montgomery county began tho trial of the election contest cases at Frankfort. There are four cases in r.il and two of them ho threw, out of court on faulty complaints, the attorneys of the Democratic contestants for county commissioner and surveyor having failed to allege that contestors were electors. Dropped Il.'ad on lmihter! ICctiim. Overjoyed at the home-coming of his daughter, Mary llulton, from Arkansas, Nathaniel Uramlott dropped dead in her arms at Shelby ville. He had not seen his daughter in twenty-tive years. Pupils to VUit Iclxlatur. Tho teachers in Terre Haute schools have decided to give another excursion to Indianapolis for the pupils of the city, that they may look in on the legislature and the state offices, as has been done for several years past. The date has not been fixed. Kx-Senator Hell 111. Former State Senator R. C. Hell, counsel for the Nickel Plate. Iake Shore and Iake Erie roads iu Indiana, is at the point of death at Fort Wayne. Fatal Wrerk on the Alton. A disastrous wreck occurred on the Chicago & Alton railroad, near the Diamond shaft, at liraidwood. Frank Parmalee, switchman, liraidwood, was killed. E. Ryan, fireman, llloomington, was fatally injured. Fonr Children Burned to Death. Four children of Benjamin iiiller, a farmer near Middlebury, lost their Uvea in a fire which destroyed their home. They were asleep wher the fir broke out.