Marshall County Independent, Volume 8, Number 1, Plymouth, Marshall County, 13 December 1901 — Page 3

MA ELY

A Story of the Romantic Age in England.

By JOSEPH CHAPTER I. There wa3 no pleasantcr coachingbouse between London and the far North, in the days when the great nlghlands of England were lively with the romance of travel than the Star and Garter at Kirkstall. To this day it challenges admiration for its picturesque sjte, its handsome bay windows, its pleasant smokingroom, and its old-fashioned bowlingffreen, which is still frequented by lovts of a time-honored game. From the bright windows of the old Inn one still looks out upon the ruins of the famous Abbey, and though the rjver Aire is no longer clear and full Of fish, it flows through green meadows and reflects such local beauties of landscape a3 the needs of the busy town of Leeds have not yet annexed. In these days the river is begrimed with dust, and clogged with the refuse of mills and dye-works. When Mary Lockwood was the belle of the field and river thereabouts, and the bright particular star of the bar-parlor of the local inn, it was a mirror In which Venus herself might have been satisfied to cast the reflected image of her beauty. England was a merry England then. In spito of the severity of her laws, and the constant drain which continental wars made upon the manhood of the nation. Troops were continually on the march. Highwaymen on fleet chargers dashed along the. roads ard levied toll with a pistol and an eriSrani. Judges of assize entered the jreat town.s in state, and left behind them vague snatches of tragic stories, and In the name of Justice, an occasional grim sign-post as a warning to Til-docrs. Cn dark nichts the clink ing chains of the gibbet made the ! chimney comers seem more than usu- j ally snug, and gave an additional spice I of fear to the story of the local trage4y, cls the gossips loved to tell it, ' whRa the wind whistled down the j chimney, and the rain rattled at the j casement. j With all their drawbacks, these were i merry days, yen loved the country, Jived country lives, and ate plain but wholesome fare. And what superb women delighted the eye. You might, nevertheless, have traveled all over England and never have seen a more lovely woman than Mary Lockwood, who has been Immortalized by the poet Southey as "Mary, the Maid of the Inn." She was tall and straight as a Normandy poplar. She walked from the hips, as an athlete does. Her figure had all the graces of a woman's curving outlines, with suggestions of great itrength. Her arms were white as if they knew,none of the labor of housebold work. Her head rested upon her shoulders with the easy pose that sugjeots the head and neck of the race horse. She was fair, though her hair "waa of a rich brown. Her complexion was healthful rather than ruddy, her tyes a deep blue; her mouth firm, but with a tendency as if it were to curl Into a smile. She wore a pleasant, fearless, innocent expression. There was no self-consciousness in her manner. She would rather be complimented upon her strength and courage than her beauty. She was five and twenty, and had the strength of a man and the courage of an army. She had been brought up to rough it on a farm, a. wild girl of the meadows, until her ancle, Joseph Morley, the landlord of the Star and (barter, losing his wife, took it into his wise old head that Mary would be a useful girl in the bouse, and would well repay the cost of keeping her. The girl won upon the old man, not only on account of her usefulness, but for the reason that Motley, being naturally weak and timorous, admired in Man an exactly opposite physical and moral capacity. She was to him a possesion of which he boasted. She could beat any of his customers at bowls. There was not a man in the neighborhood who could fling a quoit as deftly. Therp was no kind of a horse she could not ride. She had broken in a dozen or two of the colts up at Master Taylor's farm; and Master Taylor had often said it was a good thing for Mary he was not a young man, for in his early days he had been "a devil among the women." and boasted of it. But Mary had no fear of men. There was not one of her acquaintances who had ever thought of offering her an insult, or who would have dared to do It: and none of them ever made the slightest impression on her heart. It Is true honest Jack Meadows had hung about her skirts for a matter of four years, but he was looked upon both by Mary and her uncle, only in the light of a neighbor and friend. Jack had never ventured to speak of love to Mary, but he had insinuated himself into her good graces by many acts of consideration and thoughtfulnesa. He was about her own ag. and well-to-do. His father had died and left hfm a comfortable little farm a few miles beyond the abbey; the only incumbrance being his mother, whom Jack found a solace rather than an incumbrance, for he was a good son, and everybody agreed that he would make a good husband to the woman who would be fortunate enough to win him. Jack Meadows was a steady young yeoman of mild manners, but of a resolute character. He owned his own farm, hunted with the local hounds, was respected by everybody and cared for nobody, he would say. But he always said this with a mental reservation which included Mary and his mother, but more particularly Mary. He usually dressed in a velveteen hooting Jacket, and did not mind at all if some stranger mistook him for a jamekeeper; In fact, he rather liked to be mistaken for a gamekeeper; the position had for him a spice of romance, and, moreover, he was a crack shot, a rare fellow across country, and muter of all country sporta. He rolled somewhat In his ga.lt as sailors do, and spoke la a loud voice, except when he

THE MAID OF THE INN....

HATTON. was addressing Mary Lockwood, and then his voice dropped into soft tones like those of a woman. It was a common remark in Kirkstall that Jack and Mary would make as fine a couple as ever stood before an altar. Mary paid no heed to this kind of observation, and the fact that Jack had, under the influence of wis? instinct, spoken no words of love to her, enabled Mar to have him as a constant companion, hawking, fishing, riding, nutting, or climbing the walls of Kirkstall Abbey. But, at the opening of this history, Mary had become too valuable in the management of the inn for her uncle to he able to spare her for more than occasional indulgence in these holiday kind of sports and rambles. She had settled down to the work of the house, to the management of the bar; and, although she had a very limited knowledge of reading and writing, she kept Joseph Morley straight with his customers, and with the bank at Leeds. She was, in short, a treasure of good sense, good conduct, and good looks, and was both famous and beloved by all the travelers along the road. She was always scrupulously neat and clean, in cotton or woolen dresses gathered about the waist, and often wore upon her head nothing more than a kerchief, but it was deftly draped and pinned as a Spanish mantilla, or an Italian head dress. Her only corset was the band about her waist, and thus having the free use of her limbs, she walked with a stately grace that was beaming with health and vigor. It was a curious contrast, and yet full of human nature, the picture of Joseph Morley thin, wizened, short of stature in a posture of admiration and worship, as you might have seen Iii in now and then, drawing attention to his nieces in some act of physical prowess, trying a horse along the road, Hinging a quoit in the yard, or deftly rolling a ball to Its goal oa the green at the back of the house. "I am an old fellow," he would say, "but I have alius paid my way, alius can. alius mean to, and. when I'm gone, if Mary don't choose to marry and give the Star and Garter a newlandlord, why. she is man enough and woman enough to manage the house herself. And so I shall die happy whenever my time be come; and what can a man want more than to see straight afore him up to the last journey he makes, and that's to the church yard. If man wants any more below, well, I haven't heard of it!" Mary would smile at the old man, and pat his thin cheek, and say it was not for folk to look too far ahead; the main thing wa.s to do your duty and trust in God's mercy and cultivate content! CHAPTTR II. But when you are happiest, beware! One pleasant autumn evening two travelers arrived at the Star and Garter. One of them was young and handsome, the other might have been any agv from 33 to "0. The younger of the two was dark and fiery-looking, but he had a fine mouth and a musical voice. His name was Richard Parker. He was London born and bred. His hair was black as night, and h wore a slight mustache. He came swinging into the outer bar, with its cups and jugs, and ale-warmers, its blight polished floor, its wide fireplace and its pretty screen, which cut it off from the bar-parlor, otherwise the sanctum of Mary ana her uncle, but more particularly the sanctum of Mary, the Maid of the Inn. where she kept her accounts, presided over the cellar, and where she and her uncle ate their meals and lived their indoor life. He came swinging into the outer bar this young, dashing, Corsican-like hero, in a light coat or cloak with a cape (such as was worn by our fathers at this picturesque period), corduroy breeches, an undercoat with a tall collar, a steeple-shaped hat with a buckle on it, and he carried a riding-whip with a lash. "House!" he exclaimed. "Where are you all?" "We are here-some of us," said Mary. advancing from the inner bar "who is it in such a hurry?" "A fair good evening to you!" said Parker, dotting his hat. "The like to you." Mary replied. "1 was lighting the candles and had not heard you. If you had ridden, your horses can hardly have been shod; I did not hear them." "We have ridden and put up our horses, too. my pretty maid." Ihe young fellow replied for men paid compliments of this kind those days, and no harm meant. "And want nipper, and drink, and beds." said the young fellow's companion in a testy tone, as if he wished to put an end to useleKS talk or courtesy. "What can you give us?" Mary eyed the second traveler with no great favor, and called the barman, or groom, or waiter, or whatever Tom Sheffield's position might be at the Star and Garter, and, whatever his office, he had held it since boyhood, and to the satisfaction of all parties. "Supper, drinks, beds." said Mary, addressing Tom, and indicating the travelers with a courteous wave of the hand. "Yes. mum." said Tom. "Come this way, gentlemen; there's the blue room and the red. both at your service, and the balcony room that's doublebedded, If you'd lolke to see 'em before you sup; your 'ossea is all right, and I mek no doubt Star and Garter can mek you as comfortable as 'osses good accommodation for man and beast isn't a sign as we put up, but we does it wi'out boasting this way." They followed Tom without more ado, for Mary had quietly retired to her little room, and the younger of the travelers, after looking in a dreamy kind of way at the spot where she had been standing as If she were a beautiful vision that had vanished, strode after his companion.

"By Jupiter, and Venus, and Diana, a Juno and Hebe In one!" exclaimed Dick Parker to his friend when they, having settled to sleep in the doublebedded room that looked upon the bowling green, were alone. "Oh. she'll pass muster for a country wench," said the other, who was known to his companions as Andy Foster, Andy being short for Andrew, "she'll pass muster, and if she's handsome, she knows it." They did not carry much luggage, for travelers, though they had been on the road for some days. They each had a saddle-bag (in which were a few common necessaries of the toilet, a map of the country and a flask), and pistol holsters, in which were weapons of weight: for men did not travel in those days without being prepared to defend their money and their lives. Except for the general cheeriness and well-known respectability of the Star and Garter, any two men being shown into the double-bedded room of this famous hostelry might have deemed it necessary to be prepared for emergencies, it looked so dark and shadowy, lighted with only a candle now that the sun had gone down. The two great beds might have been tents for generals on the march in a hostile country, so hung about with somber curtains, so tall, so wide, so seemingly mysterious as were they. And the great bay window, with its outer balcony, which could just be seen in the fitful moonlight, might have been the entrance place of banditti or midnight assassins, such as one reads of in stories of old days. But Dick Parker ("Gentleman Dick" they called him, the friends who called Foster Andy), and hi3 morose friend had no fear of these things, though the small pistols they carried in addition to those in their holsters might have been looked upon as arguing the contrary. "Oh, curse the girl!" said Foster, presently, in answer to fresh outburst from Dick, as he swilled his face at the capacious wasustand. "That's not the business that has brought us all these miles out of our beat." "But it may bo an incident of pleasure, you snarler." 1 aid Dick. "It may be anything you like, if you will not make it the first consideration, as you generally do; damme, I'm getting sick of your trifling! You've had every stiver we've made for the last six months. Your gallantries, as you are pleased to call them, have twice run our necks within measurable distance of the gallows; and now that we are in the locality of our newest and most promising quarry, you begin raving about a country barmaid, as if she was my Lady Dolly, or the Duchess of Seven Dials, or some other crack beauty made to drive men mad, and to ruin millionaires!" "Bravo. Andy! That's a long speech for you!" (To be continued.)

TWO EFFECTS OF CROWDS. One Man KxliilarMtcd by 'oise and Another repressed. "What I like about New York," remarked a westerner, "is its tremendous energy. The crowds and bu-stle have upon me the exhilarating effect of a stimulant. As I move along among the masses on the sidewalks and look upon the perpetual stream of vehicles of all descriptions in the streets 1 am conscious of a buoyancy of spirit and an increased physical energy. I feel like going all the time, my mind is brighter and clearer, and. in fact, my whole being seems toned up. New York and its crowds are more beneficial to mo than any resort I have ever struck. After a two weeks' stay h're I return home feeling like another man." "Well, th;.t is strange," said the person to whom this statement was made, according to thv New York Times "Do you know, New York has upon me just exactly the opposite effect. To me, what I might term the .surplusage of life here is depressing. I am by no means fond of solitude. I have lived in a model ate-sized city all my life, and it bores me to stay in the country for any great length of time, but when I come to New York and am caught in the tides of humanity, see the overcrowded tenements and have my ears assaulted with the perpetual din of the streets I become positively melancholy. I feel what an insignificant atom I am, after all no more than a drop ot water in a great river and the feeling oppresses me. It seems as if there was nobody here who cared what became of anybody. The only relief I find from the feeling is in the theaters. I go to a show every night while I am here, and. of course. I enjoy that immensely. Hut as soon as I have made the rounds of the shows I am ready to return home, where I know most everybody and there are many who care." FOUND AT LAST. Hut the I,uly Sincerely WUhed That It llaal ICeiiiaineri Lost. "My wife will be careful hereafter how she takes liberties with the truth," said Jones with a grin. "We had our minister with us the other day for dinner, and the conversation turned upon absent-mindedness, and my better half had to tell her story. '1 am dreadfully absent-minded, said she. 'I remember some six or seven years ago a friend of mine gave me her celebrated recipo for making jam. When I reached home I carefully put it away where I would be sure to find it when I wanted it. Hut, do you know, a few weeks later, when I needed it, I couldn't remember for the life of me where I had put it, and to this day I have never been able to find it. After linner she turned to the Rev. Mr. Thirdly and said sweetly: 'Would you mind reading a chapter in the Bible We make it a rule to read at least one chapter every night' This statement caused me to look at her in surprise, for it was news to me. Tha reverend gentleman consented graciously and she brought the family Bible, which she had carefully dusted and placed in a conspicuous spot before be had arrived. As he turned the leaves a paper fluttered to the floor. 'Goodness! gasped my wife, as she picked it up, not realizing how her words were going to sound, after her somewhat pious statement, 'it Is that recipe for jam!" Detroit Free Press. If all fools were dad what a babel of sound there would be among arguing sages.

Persons, Places and Things

WAR ON THE COYOTE PEST. Ranchmen Find That Greyhounds Alone Can Kuu Them Down. The ranchmen of the west, who have luffered serious loss for many years from the depredations of the coyotes, think they have discovered a means for their extermination. Greyhounds lone of all the dog creation are fleet of foot enough to run down the cowirdly little pests and at the same time brave enough to give them battle. Ranchers throughout the country are paying big prices for blooded dogs, and the friendless coyote is on a run for his life. For years the ranchers and plainsmen have been skeptical of the stamina and fighting qualities of the greyhound in a finish fight with a coyote, but that idea, unjust to the bighearted dogs, is now entirely eiadlcated. Clinton E. Worden, an enthusiastic greyhound man, was the first to give the dogs fair trial, and his experience showed that greyhounds can run down and kill singly and collectively hundreds of the marauders of the plains. At close quarters the coyote has not the ghost of a chance against the greyhound, and when a pack of the dogs or a portion of them overhaul the quarry it Is very quick time to mincemeat for the coyote. Packs are now being trained on numerous ranches, and the sport and ex:itement of a coyote chase with greyhounds is adding a new zest to life on the plains. Incidentally the ranchers are ridding themselves of disagreeable aeighbors. PRINCESS DIES IN ILLINOIS. Urs. S-In vier. Wife of :i Doctor In Kloomincton, Is Dead. Mrs. Herman Schroeder, who died at Bloomington, III., recently will be remembered as the only princess of the bload royal of Germany who has ever died in the state. Mrs. Schroeder was the daughter of Prince Raron Yon Buchau, adjutant general on the staff j of General Clin her of Waterloo fame. Her parents would not consent to her marriage with Dr. Schroeder, a teacher of natural philosophy and an architect, and when she married him she was banished from the court. Later her husband gave vent to revolutionary ideas and was ordered to be shot. Dr. Schroeder escaped with his wife to this country, where he settled In Bloomington. Dr. Schroeder laid out the towns of Oilman and 121 Paso, 111., and built many business blocks in this MRS HL'ltMANN SCHROEDER. (Princess of the Blood Royal of Germany Who Died at Bloomington, 111.) city. Mrs. Seht oeder was rich in her own right and her husband's estate is estimated to be worth ?.".Ui.000. Two children survive her. SOUTH AMERICAN TROUBLES. Not only do the states quarrel within, says the National Review, but they are perpetually fighting with their neighbors. It would be tedious to give a list of South Anurican wars. The most famous was that waged for five years between Brazil, the Argentine, and Uraguay. on the one hand, and "'Marshal" Lopez of Paraguay, on the other, from 1SG3 to 1S70. In this murderous conflict the population of Paraguay was reduced from a million to a quarter of a million, and heavy losses were inflicted upon the other states. In 1877 the Peruvian navy mutinied and turned pirate until it was coerced by the British squadron on the spot. In 1879 Chile one of the most orderly states attacked Peru and Bolivia and fought them for two years, eventually despoiling them of much territory. In the Ms there were two serious civil wars, of more than usual dimensions, endangering in some degree the peace of the world. There was the bloody revolution and war of 1S91 in Chile and a less sanguinary struggle in 1S33-4 in Brazil between the Peixotoists and Melloists. Since 1894 there have been continuous civil wars or insurrections in Colombia, Venezuela and Uraguay, and two of these states are at this moment in conflict. Durk Condition In Turkey. Briefly stated, the conditions in Turkey are these: The Mohammedan religion has degenerated Into the practicing of dead rites mere lip service, lacking any meaning to most of its followers. The eastern Christian church, corrupted by centuries of Moslem dominance, has lost its vitality, is down to par with Mohammedanism so far as concerns the teaching, or even the comprehension of I lie vital principles of living religion; the masses of the Turkish the Armeniin, the Greek and the Jewish elements of the population have actually lost their old and once mighty literatures Arthur Mcllroy in National Magazine. (ircitt Hritrtln'a Tonnage. Great Britain, with her colonies, owns nearly one-half of the total tonnage belonging to the marine of forty nations, or 14.01)0,000 tons out of a total of 2H.ooo.ouo. A process has Just been patented for making artilklal woods out of pulp, so as to imitate such costly kind as mahogany and rosewood.

JUST LIKE CARLYLE. trtvac Epistle from the Iilographer f Oliver Cromwell. An unpublished and most characteristic letter of Carlyle's has recently appeared in the London Times. He had been asked to subscribe toward the raising, at St. Ives, of a statue to the Protector, and his adherence was qualified with no little ferocity for the people who presumed to celebrate at the same time Cromwell and "King Hudson," the great railroad speculator. The project for the Cromwell monument lapsed, and St. Ives waited until the other day for a memorial of its greatest citizen. The dedication, the Times correspondent assures us. passed off without the "ocean of flummery and mere idle balderdash." whict Carlyle deprecated. The biographer of Cromwell writes: "My private suspicion, I confess, is that the present generation of Englishmen who have filled their towns with such a set of 'public statues' as were never before erected by any people, ugly brazen images (to mere commonplace adventurers with titles on them, and even sometimes to mere paltry scoundrels, worthy of immediate oblivion only), and who have winded up their enterprises in the statue or memorial line by subscribing 23,000 to a memorial for King Hudson are not likely to do themselves or anybody much good by setting up statues to Oliver Cromwell. I fear they have forfeited the right to pretend to remember Cromwell in a public manner. Cromwell's divine memory, sad, stern and earnest as the gods, says virtually to them. 'Forget me and pass on, ye unhappy canaille; carry your offerings to King Hudson and strive to emulate him!' Nevertheless, I have privately resolved, if . uch a thing docs go on, to subscribe my little mite to it ou occasion, and to wish privately that it may prosper much better than I can with any assurance hope. I think it will be very difficult to avoid the introduction of such an ocean of flummery and mere idl3 balderdash into the affair (if the 'public' are fairly awoken to it) as will be very distressing to any one who feels how a Cromwell ought to be honored by the nation that produced him." New York Evening Post.

CARD-SHUFFLING MACHINE. It Has incited Womlor of Several Professinn;l G.'iutblrrs. A card shutUing machine has oeen invented by a Cleveland man. .t should make business poor for rook d card-players. The device is romplieated, yet simple in its action. Card-players who want a fair and honest game are enthusiastic in their praise of my machine," says the inventor. "They say it shufltes cards more thoroughly than can possibly be done by hand, and that it Is impossible for a dealer to put up a hand to suit himself. I have exhibited the machine to a number of professional gamblers. Some of the keepers of gamb ing rooms told me they would do all they could to prevent the machine being put in use because it takes away all th'e advantage which the dealer's skill in shullling gives to the house. Rut when the machine gets into the rooms where square games are played the fair players will go there, and the crooked rooms will then be compelled to adopt its use also." The shuffling machine is a metal box about twelve inches high, three inches wide and six inches from front to back. All the mechanism is inside. The cards are dropped in at the top and rest on a tiny shelf. Redow ibis there are live small fingers, one on each of five thin steel blades extending across the full width of the machine. When a shutter on the front is dropped the shelf falls and the cards drop upon the blades and are separated into live little irregular bunches by the lingers. The blades separate, and one by one cards drop from the various bunches into a receptacle at the bottom, the drop being regulated by a clockwork mechanism. lsl;tnU in the Indian Ocean. If you should want an island that is, an uninhabited island for the purpose of occupying it alone, Robinson Crusoe like, or to uso it for romantic fiction or any other purpose, to the exclusion of all others in the world, you need have; no trouble in finding one if you see fit to make a journey to the Indian Ocean. In the waters between Madagascar and India you can find more than 15,000 of them, where there is not a human being and where you can, if you will, be monarch of all you survey. An Knglish traveler has recently been among the email islands that dot the western end of the Indian Ocean to make an inventory of them and reports that he counted 1C.100 and found only about f,00 of them inhabited. Now, there is a good chance for any one who may want an Island. These particular islands are not huge, as islands go, but very many of them are sufficient for the purpose of a Robinson Crusoe or any other novel hero, or for even a small colony of shipwrecked manners or other persons who might be cast on one of them or seek for the purpose of making a home pretty much out of the busv world. Ton of lul-h In the Dutch town of Alkmar, on the great northern canal, about twenty miles from Amsterdam, which is noted for being one of the biggest cheese markets in the world, not less than r.,000 tons of cheese are disposed of in the course of twelve months. The Dutch cheeses are made in spheres of three sizes, respectively, of four pounds eight pounds, and twelve pounds in weight, and the best quality fetches about twenty guilders, or about thirty-five shillings, per 100 pounds. Immediately after being weighed and marked off "the barrows are taken to the canal boats nearby, and then the cheeses which they contain are rolled on by one into tho hold, through a wooden chute, to be transported to their various destinations. Ilefore exportation they are given a coating of vegetable red, and It Is in this guise they are known and recognized the world over. The church that flourishes itseb '- often far from flourishing.

Indiana State flet&s

Three dead and one perhaps fatally injured is the record of accidents for twenty-four hours ending Sunday evening in the locality of Terre Haute. William Laney. 12 years old. fell from a wagon loaded with logs, and the logs fell on him: Otis Goodman, a Yandalia switch Under, was killed by the cars, and Arthur Davis was drowned in the Wabash river while coon hunting with two other youths. Fishermen saved the lives of the two companions. Wiliis Turnbaugh, an employe of the trust distillery, fell into a vat of boiling mash and may die- from Iiis injuries. William Miller and Marion Retherford of Wabash have i.-en paid $l.",.i tor saving .Mrs. Sarah Highley from drowning in January. Renn. The two men were driving along the bank of a swollen reck near Mu r when they were attracted by cries for help proceeding from the stream. A moment later a man. who proved to be Highly, rushed up to them: 'Til give you $1,0'Mi if you -;ave her." he said, and Retherford and Miller, at the peril of their lives, rushed in and brought the woman ashore. Subsequently Retherford and Miller called on Highley to make good his promise, but he refused and assigned his farm to his wife. Suit was then brought. Wisconsin denies that Pat O'Dea of i Indiana, has been invitel to return there as coach to succeed Kins, but just the same the proposition has been s.H-n by friends of O'Dea. Notre Da nie 1 has engaged hi in to eoach the track '' and field teams, and i is understood ! that he will have charge of the foot- ' ball squad next year. O'Dea is laid up j with a broken shoulder bone received in the South Rend athletic association! game at Rensselaer, which resultedI) to "i. Special pel ire dubbed O'Dea and the other piav.rs pound-d and kicked him in an effort to get him out ot the game. Delphi ef.'ered Ji'ihi and .'c'.i .,e the entirt ;ate en-lpis far anoih-v game between the two t-ams, and Äouth Rend lias accepted with a side bet of anything up to ?l.'tiu. O'Dea says he will play in spit" ot his injury. Mr. and Mrs. Martin I. Rundy ef New Castle have celebrated the sixtysecond anniversary of their marriage. Mr. Rundy was a deb-gate to the Whig convention in 1S4S that nominated Ter. lie iias also served in the stale legislature, was circuit judge, bank president, national bank examiner and assisted in organizing the republican party. Jesse Ilolliger of Terre Ilaute has been appointed an examiner in the patent ollice at a salary of Sl.ü'tu. He is a graduate of Rose Polytechnic department. A brother has a position in the war department at Washington. The will of the late Aquilin Jones. the aged resident of Seeleyville. who i was killed i y a Vandalia train, has J bee n piobated. The estate is di.trib- j uteel among his children and his two sons. V. and Samuel, are named I as administrators. j John P. Hard ist y delivered an ad- j dress Sunday lief ore the Central labor ! union at Terre Haute ou "Relation of j Profit to Crime." ! Anna Caric-o. the .'J-year-old daugh- i ter of Newman Carico. of Terre Haute, j was senously burned by her dress; catching tire at a grate. Her father ; put out the lire, but not before the child was burned about the body. i T. R. Waters, a traveling salesman of Toledo. ().. jumped out of thirdstory window at tho Hotel Uih.r in ; Lafayette, hid., breaking his neck, b-tt thiuli ind leg. No cause for the sin -cide is known. i Th lo-year-obl son cd" Joseph Kmel-j Ier of Columbi.i City was drowned in : a pond near that place while skating. A wild man was captured in Waltz township, near Wabash. He hail inhabited the wo ids since Sptemi:?r. occaionolv emerging to get food. He; fright ned the residents and Sheriff j Sii wart instituted a man-hun. Re! offered little resistance and air he is : Thomas Marsh of Cleveland. (). Dr. Wiüard Matthews and Miss ; Ilessie Hendricks. aged ! years. eloped to Washington. Ind.. from Mariinsville to he married, hut were dciiifd a liiTiise. While they weie waitinj; for a train to take them to ltwlenceville. 111., where they hoped to have better success, the girl's father ;nd the Morgan county sheriff arrived with a warrant for their arrest, having driven to Washington, a distance ,f hixty miles. Friends of the runaways kept Mr. Hendricks and the of- ' cer on a false scent until the runaways caught a train for Ravrenceviile. wbiV" they were married at daylight Thursday morning. The bride is the daughter of wealthy patents. Judge John 11. Raker of the United States District Court at Indianapolis made perpetual the injunction issued by him live weeks ago against the strikers at the Conkey printing establishment at Hammond. The injunction prohibited the strikers from interfering in any way with the workmen at that plant Mrs. Rridgct Feeley. eighty-five i venrs old. living alone at (Reensbtiig. i :inght her clothing on lire and was i fatally burned. ! Plans are perfecting for the erection J ef a distillery in Lafayette, represent- j ing $'J,"0.nuO invested capital, with Charles Vecker as manager. Monday night Jack Salyards killed a wildcat about one mile east of Sullivan. The animal measured four feet in length and one and one-half feet in light. It has been terrorizing the farmers east of that city for t-everal months. The eleven-year-old daughter of John Doughit. near St. Raul. Ind.. was fatally burned, her clothing catching 'mm a bonfire. A county branch of the McKinlej' Memorial Association has been organ'?ed at Paoli. with the Hon. Amos i tout, president: Alvin IV Ham, treasurer, and John A. Lingle of th Paoli Republican. John R. Simpson of the Paoli News, and Fred Kimbly of the Kxamlner-Progress. secretaries. Dairymen at Jeffersonville have combined to advance milk froni 20 to cents a gallon.

Bert Flegel of Westville, near Ia Porte, is reported by physicians to be in a critical condition as the result of an uncontrollable spell of laughing with which he became afHicted Thursday. The physicians say that, unexplainable as it may seem. FlegTs long continued paroxysms of mirth tore the membranes from his ribs, causing internal complications which are likely to cause a fatal result. His sufferings are intense. Jessie Karl, a lfi-year-ol 1 girl of Advance, a small station v-st of Ciawfordsville, perhaps saved the lives of many people Tuesday night by flagging the eastbouiid passe ng. r train on the Chicago ami Southeastern railroad. Jessie was on her way home from : boo!, having a mile to walk along the railroad. Wk n sie- h d wall ' d half the distance she came to a trestle which was on lire. Refore she couid find any one to give the alarm she heard the whistle of the eastbound pasenser train, which was coming down the grade at full sper-d. Dropping her basnet, the little one rushed down the track and by frantic waving of her apron attracted t ho attention of the engineer, who brought the train to a stop. The crew found th?t the burning trestle would have succumbed if the train had rushed upon it. The crew and passengers almost smothered the little one with congratulations for her brave act and gave her many meiiKiitoes as re wards for saving the train from plunging into the creek, thirty fc t bdow. R. R. Scott, proprietor of tores at Ricknell and Mooresviile, iA ;1S j ;n, ,i, '-villi liabilities of $:;7e.tit and a-s- ts of ::t. cn io. William Royd. who was mourned ;ih dead, retunif d frei.i the Klondike to Marion with .;-. ci.r thai he h-..- ncruTiiulatc . by projecting in the Alaska, uo!d held. Royd form idy iiv d at. Rreat Fails. Moar.. was a o-;.. , tor a::d miner in lie v.-. s: ir, :o: - and

:':"' a ru:i,i:? -1" "i Sev n years ago l.e came to Indiana Povd. four years a uo. procure. 1 ; n .;,t and went to Dawson. He , d las wife and ihiUL-iit-".' aft r a ;.' .,: s absence ;ü;d ie,mr!ed that he La. 1 not locate ! a piyii;g claim. !! w. n: back Jo the fio.eu north thrie (.t:.- :un with all the money he L.:d As nothing was beard from him it w:,.- thought that he had perished. His wi;"e was cotnpe lied to work as a servant in a hotel to support he-rself and iJa'if.Lfr during Iiis ab.--' nee. Minh intere.- is being taken in Rochester in the musical and vocal work of Miss (Jeorgia Holman. daughter of Reorge W. Holman. a prominent politician. Miss Holman. who has spent many years in a musical education, shows marked tale-ni. and it is believed tliat she may at :ie distant time seek a larger held in which to display l;er powers. Harry Crawford, pie-ride-nt of the Midland railroad, is making lh- fight of his life in the Pu'nam County Circuit court be fiire Special Judge 1 1 . I. Mathias, for the r-teji!ion of the control .f his railroad property. Char'es Kenney and others are suing the road for a receivership. The plaintiffs bold 177 claims which they have bought from the emploves in th3 last two years or more, and the vain as s;;in aggregate between $."..'!. and ?'..!' Revenue Colb-ctor Ronm !I has appointed John Austermüli r of TVrre Haute- stamp cp-pity. i.e W. 15 Hill who succeeds W. T. Ciba-oa . d the othce force-. A ust e;ni ; i el's appointment, like that of .1. . Putten, is a signal tveognit'on of the Mi K- n-Ihlbeck faction, an 1 coutirms the i ; : t that Mr. Rotmeil wo ild be rhlss d with that f.otion. The ceib-ctor has made a new record by collecting ? iTv:'.;"!:; for Pnc-te Sam ;n one- day in the m-vi-u;!i disttict lb has had sever;:! days when the collections ece.- led gleit e mi Rohc-rt IPiish. i miner, was .ü rested at Vincennes charged with In ing implicated in the labor troubb-s at the Prospect Hill coal mines It is reported that warrants are out for the arrest of thirty-two others, who wtll be arrested as soon as possible Rrush p!eab d nut guilty to the haig s of larceny, rioting, and assault and battery, with intent to murder. !! was placed under Jl.r.Dit bonds, whic h cov ers all charges, and in default of bail went to jail. John and William Arbuc kle inherited a house and lot at ICIwood jointly front their patents, but neither was willing ti buy or sell at the priee the other was willing to give. :md after mach dickering they became augiy and refused longer to hold the property jointly, it was then agreed to saw the house in two from roof to basement, and Thursday the work was begun, and at the direction of the two brothers woikmen began on the roof with large cross-cut saws, and each wall was sawn through till the foundation was rea bed. A huge cif'wd witnessed the destruction of the house and commented on the fc Rv i f che brothers. A fence will be run through the middle of the lot. each brother taking one side. County Commissioner Wiley (Jambrill has Hied a JltUUV.i damage suii at Sullivan against James R. Pigg. for personal injuites as the result of an encounter last September, in which Pigg struck ilambrill on the head with a neekyokc. inflicting serious injuries. Roth men are prominent farmers in Cass township. Pigg is a member of the county council. Harvey Hu.l. a we 1 to do farmer living near Vincennes, has disappeared and with him pretty Mary Clark, a 10-year-old girl, who resides near the Hull farm. The Main Street Christian church, Rushville. has aetvpled the resignation of the Hev. V. J. Russell, who has been tendered a pastoral call to Pittsburg. Pa. Marion Lutes. Perry Mitchell and Klias Henderson were killed by the explosion of a boiler at Lutes' saw-mill near Seymour. Cora, four years old. daughter of Charles Waiden, of Hrazil. was fatally burned. While playing by a bonfire, her clothing was ignited and every stitch of wearing apparel was burned off.