Marshall County Independent, Volume 8, Number 2, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 December 1901 — Page 3

MAR.Y

A Story of the Romantic Age in England.

By JOSEPH CHAPTER II Continued.) "Then lay it to heart." said Foster; -it is likely to be my last!" "You're beginning to weary me with i . i i . your grow is ami uut-ais. "Growls, not threats." Foster replied. I never threaten in the sense you mean." "And what is my idea of threats?" "The same as most of your other iueas. "And what are they like?" "Like yourself, handsome and unreliable." "I admit the first charge, because I cannot help it; I did not make myself." "Nor !." said Foster. '"If you had well, never mind that. In what respect am I unreliable?" "In every respect; ask the women -whom you know; a-sk the men you profess to lead." "Oh. am I really a leader?" "Ditson. Jones. Wild, and the rest think so." Do you?" "Sometimes." "Only sometimes?" 'Look here. Dick, you have had every penny we have made since June. I am hard up. We have both borrowed from Isaacs; you have borrowed from me." "Well, who put money into your purse and enabled you to lend? I will not ask you to reply. I will admit a certain laziness of late a holiday, if you like: but I will have no more of your scurvy tempers. Andy, do you hear?" "I hf-ar."' "What the devil i the name of this traveling bank of yours, this Midas in disguise, this argosy on the highway?'" 'Bellingham." Foster answered in a whisper "Tall, sinewy, with strong hands, clean-cut jaw. iron-gray hair? He is In the house." "He came from the back and went into the bar as Tom showed us up the stairs." Dick Parker had many accomplishments, and they gave him power as the chief of the enterprising company of gpntlemen. whose headquarters were in the metropolis, and whose operations were on the merry English highways. He was a gentleman by birth and education. His family had come over with the Conqueror. One of his ancestors had sat in the House of Lords, hut had lost title and estates for rebellious conduct. Another had been hanged for piracy on the high seas. On the othr hai d. there w;s a bishop in bis family, and his sister had marri'! a Spanish Don. He had a wondf'ful faculty of observation, was quick in resource, generous, fearless, and had never taken a life, except once, in a duel that was forced upon him. He had danced with the Duchess, whose party he had afterwards stopped and robbed on the way to Bristol. He had taken a big purse on Blackheath and gone straight to the swell taverns in St. James street upon which the present aristocratic clubs rest their foundations, and doubled it or lost it at cards. He had been the most apparently timid of inside passengers in the York coach, and at a favorable moment made the rest of the passengers prisoners, while Foster had ridden up and dominated guard and driver with his pistols. His escapades and triumphs were themes of admiration at a shady hostelry within the sound of Bow bells, where a few choice spirits, his friends and companions, met as members of a club of Merchant Venturers. "Supper." said a thick voice at the door, after the owner of the voice had struck the timber a strong hard blow necessary to make an impression upon the ears of those within. "Right:" said Foster. "Do you feel better?" Dick asked. "I am hungry," Foster replied. "After supper I am going into that little room, the bar parlor" said Dick. "No incivilities mind." "Let us go up to supper," Foster replied with no signs of better humor. "I am not joking. Andy." "I understand, and I mean business." It was a capital supper. Old MorIey himself placed the first dish on the table. They supped in the general room, which was furnished in old mahogany. The sideboard was brilliant enough in its polish for a lookingglass. There was a white cloth upon it. On the cloth there were two great bowls of celery, a Che?hire cheese, i sirloin of beef, a Yorkshire ham and a white loaf of bread. CHAPTER III. "The supper consisted of a joint of stuffed chine and a dish of partridges done to a turn, and with the most sav ory bread sauce that epicure could desire. At another table In the room was a gentleman whom Dick had already christened Bellingham. He was supping upon a hot stew of some kind, and the light fell generously from a couple of wax candles upon a starry cut decanter of sherry. The stranger eyed the other travelers curiously, and Dick talked to his friend of their escap.j through the French cruisers somewhere In the Mediterranean, and otherwise made himself and Foster out to be very worthy and very loyal persons. After supper Dick asked the landlord If he and his friends might crack another bottle of Madeira In his snuggery, or smoke a pipe, or otherwise make themselves at home, being travelers who had not seen England for some years owing to the wars breaking out In countries with which they were trading as British merchants. Morley, having consulted his niece, jave his consent, and upon the little table In the Inner bar, Mary placed torn fruit with the wine, and a dlsb

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HATTON. of fresh walnuts, and she hovered about the parlor all the time they sat j and chatted, and uncorked a couple of her uncle's best Madeira: for Mary j had extra duties on the night in ques- j tion. otherwise she might have sat by j the fire and joined in the conversation. ! The bowling club members had held their usual weekly meeting, and, scenting the first frost of the season, had made it an excuse for mulled ale and egg sherry; so that Mary was busy with the flush of her various responsibilities on her bright cheery face. She looked in Dick's eyes more lovely than he had even at first thought her. He could not keep his eyes away from her, and he thought, being accustomed to conquests among women, that she was not displeased with his undisguised admiration. "Your daughter?" he said. Morley having spoken to Mary about the wine. "My niece," said Morley. "and the best and bravest girl in Yorkshire." "Or in anv other shire. 1 am sure," adf! Parker. "And you may say that. I believe," said the landlord. "You will excuse the admiration of travelers who have seen none but foreign wenches for five years." said Dick: "it does one's heart good to see such a picture of health and beauty as your niece. What did you call her?" "Mary." said Morley. "Mary Lockwood is her right name. She was my sister's child. Cod rest her. who lies with her good man in the Kirkstall churchyard this ten years." "And so you took charge of her and I became a second father to her?" i hat is tue trutn. wnoever may have made it known to you." said Mor ley. "Many guests in the house?" asked Foster, looking in an opposite direction from the person addressed, as was his wont. j "No; York coach went through with ! full complement of passengers, but none got down, and she don't change horses till she gets to Harrogate. Beyond yourselves and 'Squire Bellingham. a married couple from Derby, and Harry Dunstan. who fishes the Aire every autumn, we have nobody in the house; not as we have accomj modation for many more, not laying j ourselves out for much custom in that i way. "'Squire Bellingham!" said Foster, touching Dick with his boot. i "Well, we call him 'Squire, 'cause j his father before him was 'Squire in ! these parts and farmed most of the land; but his son well, he's more of : a merchant than a squire, for that matter. He does business in wool and is a hit of a broker in a way. and a rare good gentleman, and strong. He ! once had a quoit march with my Mary. ' I furgci. how many yards, thinking to ! get the betetr of bei by distance and i weight, but I won my bet I tell you j I won it. and he give lass a new gown i into the bargain." , Old Morley chuckled at the rememj brar.ee of Bcliingham's discomfiture, j adding: "But he bore no malice, not j he; he is a gentleman, 'Squire Belling- ; ham!" "Does he live hereabouts, 'Squire Bellingham?" asked Foster. "He do. and he don't." said Morley. "Do, and he don't." repeated Foster in his morose, grumpy fashion. "A traveler may be said to live in a good many places. I reckon." said Morley, evidently thinking he had said something clever. "That is true." said Foster. "For instance, take yourself." "I live in London." said Foster. "Of course you do. except and perad venture when you live in some good old hostelry on the road such, for instance, not at the same time desiring to be arrogant, as the saying is; such for instance, and peradventure. as the Star and Carter." "You say true," answered Foster stolidly. "I make no doubt the 'squire Is well content with the Star and Garter." "The 'Squire is not well content with anything," Morley replied. "The 'Squire is as warm as warm can be, and yet he will go on laying up riches; the 'Squire is continually on the road; he buys in this market, he sells In the other; he is partner in the bank at Leeds; he buys cattle; he sells wool; and he has one of the finest houses hereabouts; and best servants, a groom as can hare no equal; but being a bachelor, he s restless like; and must have occupation, as he says; though, mind you. he don't care for no occupation in which there hain't good sale and barter, and the like; though there is no more charitable 'Squire in all Yorkshire." "And a brave man to boot, I hear say." "If you mean brave In the sense that he neither fears heaven nor hell, because he is a good man, and has no reason to; if you mean that he makes no account of highwaymen and the like, If you mean that he is ready to back his opinion with his money on any question why 'Squire Bellingham is a brave man; but If you agree with me in thinking that to be prop erly brave you should also be cautious, then I think we shall come to the conclusion that the 'Squire Is not brave in the right way, but rash rash, sir, reckless, decidedly reckless." "In what way is he reckless?" "In riding alone and sometimes at nightfall with large sums of money in his possession, with gold and notes in his belt or what not. These are perilous times, sir. when the roads are infested with men from the wars, who went to fight only for the fun of it, and who, being at home again and out of employment, are ready to fight their own countrymen, aye, and to slay them for that matter, for the sake of a booty ever so small yes, sir, ever so small." "But the 'Squire Is well armed, of course." "You never spoke more truly;

armed to the teeth, as the sayinf It; armed back and front, and mounted on a horse that can talk yea, sir, talk! I'll be bound that 'Squire Bellingham's groom has had many an intelligent conversation with William, as was bred and broke on the 'Squire's own farm." "Then he need, of course, have no fear, the 'Squire." said Foster, beating his boots with his whipstock. "Your highwayman is no fool; I suspect he knows who he is attacking. I have ridden over nearly every highway in England, and it is well known that I carry barkers that bite like the devil, and if any unfortunate ruffian had had the hardihood to stop me he would not live to stop any other honest traveler."

CHAPTER IV. Had not Dick Parker been quietly engaged in a conversation with Mary he would have put a spoke into the conversational wheel of Mr. Foster. It was well agreed in the company to which they belonged that Foster had no social gifts: that the less he said the better under any circumstances; but he plumed himself upon having j drawn the landlord of the Star and Garter, though he had not added one iota of information to that already in the possession of his chief and himself. If Mr. Morley had been as good a judge of character as he was of a glass of Madeira or had he been a man of ordinary observation, he would hardly have been as friendly and confidential in his conversation with Foster as he was with the other stranger guest. Mr. Richard Parker. But Morley, when he got the opportunity, liked to hear himself talk, and Foster was very willing to give him all the opportunity he could desire, and also to put in a word or two himself. It was well for Foster that Morley was as weak as he was good-natured, otherwise he might have suspected his guest's calling this gentleman, who wished it to be understood that he lived in London, had much more the cut of a freebooter than a I merchant; had much more the appear ance of a man to attack than to be a tacked Foster had no redeeming qualities; Parker had several. Foster was a thick-set, colorless-looking person. He had strong, heavy hands, long arms, big feet, and a hard, rasping voice. He was popular with those gentlemen who met now and then at that shady tavern in London, because he was a man of his word. He never went back on anything he said or promised. His persistence, his capacity to creep where he could not walk to his quarry, his delight in his work, his physical strength, made him next in importance, if not next in popularity, to Dick. (To be continued.) THE MARCH OF PROGRESS. It IIa Keen Murvelnut During the Lifetime of Thof Now Living. Attention is called by The Electrical Review to the fact that strangely near to all of what is called modern progress has been accomplished not only within the lifetime of men not very old. but well within the memory of such men. Seventy years ago scientists had little more knowledge of electricity and its practical uses than did the -mass of the people, and the lightning rod was the beginning and end of real attempts to control the mysterious force. it took nearly a week for a New Yorker to send a message to Philadelphia and get a reply, and an answer to one sent to London could not be expected within six weeks. Heavy freight went by water or not at all, and the transaction of merely local business required the services of an enormous army of messengers. When the te.-sgraph was invented the claim mad that by the aid of the new device communication over long distances was practically instantaneous was received with general derision as an obvious impossibility. The more wonderful telephone excited only wonder, the day of incredulity as to the limitations of electrical science having already passed, and now nothing that the electricians do or say creates even surprise, since people are ready to believe anything that comes from them. The Review hesitates to decide whether the development of Svlam transportation or that of electrical appliances has done more in improving social conditions. "The telegraph and telephone," it says, "have caused the world to shrink in size, and emancipated countless messengers to more productive employment. The electric light has vastly extended the working hours of the race and made the evening hours both more attractive and safer. The trolley car has been the chief of municipal blessings, and has made cities cleaner, quieter, more habitable. All Ü 9 things, and more, electricity has t jne in seventy years, and thus made an ever-widening difference between the citizen of today and his - forefathers." It Is certainly an amazing record. Why nine Fyen are Admired. "There is reason for the almost universal admiration of blue eyes," says an experienced optician, according to the Philadelphia Record. "Nine-tenths of the rt ilroad men, pilots ana men in whose business keenness and correctness of vision are a necessary adjunct possess blue eyes. "Haven't you ever noticed the penetrating quality a glance from an azuretinted eye seems to have? The cold, steady look from such an eye appears to read you through and through. In a great many years of practice I've discovered that very few blue-eyed people are compelled to wear glasses. Blue eyes are very attractive, but brown eyes are the most beautiful. Intellectuality is usually denoted by gray eyes, and hazel eyss Indicate a talent for music. The commonest eye Is the gray eye, and the rarest 1? violet." Self-control, however difficult at first, becomes step by step easier and more delightful. We possess mysteriously a sort of dual nature, and there are fewer truer triumphs or more delightful sensations than to obtain thorough command of one's self. Sir Joha Lubbock.

FRENCH AND ITALIAN WINES. On Keon Why the Former Kxcel in I'opalar Favor. France and Italy produce about the same quantity of wine, red or white, excluding champagne, in a year, but while the value of wines imported into the United States from France last year was $5,147,000, the value of those imported from Italy was only $347,000, Germany and Austria standing far ahead of Italy as wine exporting countries. This condition is not exceptional, but is observable each year, irrespective of the extent of the crop of France and Italy, which varies enormously. This year France is far ahead. On the Pacific coast, where American wine making has become a well-established industiy. a majority of those employed on or connected with the vineyards are Italians and they foilow, to a very considerable extent, the rules of wine making which, while they have added much to the productiveness of the vineyards of

Italy, have done so at the expense of the quality of the wine produced. It is an established principle among wine makers that the quality of the wine is in inverse ratio to the exuberance of the growth. The chief defect in a commercial way of Italian viticulture is that the grapes when gathered are not separated, and there is no distinction observed in the planting of the vineyards. Quantity is sought irrespective of quality in the same wsy that some Italian grape growers in southern California have constructed a marvellously large masonry vat into which the wine of grapes of different varieties is poured, somewhat after the fashion of the Heidelberg ton. The French method of vine culture is to separate the vineyards according o topography and exposure to sun and wind, preserving the individuality of the culture in each case, whereby certain vineyards gain a distinction which, if preserved, gives their product an unusual value. The French method of grape culture is constantly gaining more support in California, HOUR GLASSES IN DEMAND. Many Purposes for Which They Are Superior to Watched. "Most people think that hour glasses went out of style years ago,'' said a clerk in a Twenty-third street store, "along with perukes and knee breeches, but as a matter of fact we have more calls for them today than we have had at any time within the last ten years. That this renewed popularity of the hour glass augurs its universal acceptance as a timepiece by the coming generation I am not prepared fo say, but. if such a renaissance were to become assured it would be no more surprising than some of the other recent fads based on a revival of lost customs. Anyway, a brief study of the hour glass will do nobody harm. There are thousands in this generation who have not the slightest idea what an hour glass looks like, and it won't hurt them to broaden their education a little along certain iines. Of the hour glasses sold at. present the threeminute glass is in the lead. This glass is used almost exclusively to measure time in boiling eggs and it"? usefulness naturally places its sales a little in advance of the more sentimental varieties. Next come the five, ten and fifteen-minute and full-hour glasses, which are bought chiefly by musicians for piano practice and by lodges and secret societies. The sand used In an hour glass is the very finest that the world affords. The western coast of Italy furnishes most of it, as it has done for ages past. The cost of hour glasses is regulated by the ornamentation of the frames. A glass set in a plain rosewood case can be bought for $1, while a mahogany frame comes to 11.50 or ?2. Of course the price can be brought up still higher by fancy carving and decoration. Swell lodges sometimes go to this extra expense, tut most people are satisfied with the cheaper grades." New York Sun. Enemies of the Fisbes. Hatchers of trout and other fish find that the finny tribe has more enemies than they ever supposed before they came Into a position to know. Mink und weasels will enter a pond, and, using their claws as gaff hooks, pull numbers of the fry out of the water. Hawks, kingfishers and herons are always on the watch, to say nothing of tame ducks and geese. A favorite method of killing the former sort of marauders is to line the ponds with tin. Then a mink or weasel getting Into the water will find It impossible to climb out and may he shot or speared as desired. Hawks and kingfishers have a way of alighting on some convenient perch near the pond, says the New York Times. The fish hatcher makes a perch for them by erecting a pole with a groove in the top. cut so that a steel trap will just fit into it. When the next bird alights it is caught and killed. Eat naked Grasshoppers. A Kansas soldier serving at Tarlac, In the Philippines, writes home: "The natives here are not so backward In many things, while In others they are no better than savages. Some of them have good educations, and about 70 per cent can read and write, but they are Idle and lazy. Their food Is not choice In the least. They eat baked grasshoppers and June bugs with relish. Snails are another great dish for them. Of course, these are delicacies for them. Rice is their main dish. They cook a big pot of It, and then all sit down around it and eat with their fingers." Fear of Darkness. Ask yourself if it is a tangible danger you fear, or if it is simply night itself. Sleep in either case with a low shaded light In your room. Satisfy your mind that you have no reason to be afraid, by that Investigation of closets and the limbo under the bed at which the brave are Inclined to laugh. Exert your will to conquer this bondage, and also say your prayers and take comfort In knowing that God hears you. The darkness and the llg-bt are both alike to him. Margaret E. Sangster In the Ladies' Home Journal.

INDIANA STATE NEWS

President Van Horn of the Indiana ; miners' organization has teturned to j Terre Haute from investigating the I singular conditions at the Frisco mine in Gibson county, which has attracted j the attention of miners throughout the ! state, many of them insisting that the men at Frisco had forfeited their right to membership in the labor organi- j zation because, by adopting a profit- j sharing plan, they had become opera- j tors. President Van Horn says that ! the men have not violated the laws of ; the I'nited Mine Workers, and thai their schein- is a commendable one. Each man at the mine works tor th' j state contrad price per ton. and twice j each month eiraws his pay just as the miner employed by an operator. The j amount of this pay roll and the rental j i... ;. thou ni'tii.l I'viini tli ' Ui lilt" 111111 1 lllT-H 4 V ... gross earnings of the mine, and the remainder is divided pro rata among the men. The employes are all union men. and Van Horn ruled that their course was not antagonistic to union principles. Adam Baumunks has been appointed postmaster at Saline City, Clay county, vice James T. Iash. resigned. Early last fall the Tipton Light. Heat and Power Company and the Citizens Gas Company notified patrons that they would not guarantee a sufficient supply of gas during the winter months, and a number of coal and woodyards were established. The past few weeks, however, both companies have drilled a number of strong wells, the output of which was turned into the service mains, and as a result patrons have an oversupply. which bids fair to continue throughout the winter. Owing to this fact the wood and coal merchants of Tipton find themselves overstocked and are shipping supplies to other cities. Two sons of Ugan Fish, a wellknown farmer, residing in McCamerou township, eighteen miles north of Shoals, were mining coal on their father's farm, four mile; north of Burns City, for home use. and. failing to return home for supper, a search was made and their dead bodies were found in the mine, crushed by falling slate. The young men were 20 and "J2 years old. respectively. Mrs. Martha YVhitsitt of Scottsburg is dead of exhaustion incident to old age. She was born in ISUo, and married Daniel C. Vhitsitt in 1S4X. Five children are living, among whom is Albert Whitsitt, a well known teacher. , Thomas Marshall, 10 years old, is alarmingly sick at Economy. (leu. "Ileub" Williams is rounding out the forty-sixth year of ti.e Warsaw Indianian. The home of Miss Tillie Goslee at Evansvilie is daily being despoiled of valuable furnishings, but so far the thief has defied detection. John KiMiey. while intoxicated, at, Evansvilie, as it is alleged, went to the home of .Jessie Mitchell, fifteen years old. during the absence of her father, and slashed her with a razor, cutting lir about the arms and abdomen. An elder sister, who tried to protect her, was knocked down with a chair. Itaney was arrested. Mrs. Ar.stin Downing was found dead in her home at Bourbon, where she was alone during a temporary visit of her husband to Chicago. The cause was heart trouble. Miss Josephine Schaats, released from the insane hospital one year ago. became violent at Vincennes and beat her mother until the old woman was unconscious. William Sheets, a brother of Fred Sheets, of Indianapolis, was found acting strangely at Crawfordsville and was removed to the jail, where he died. A post mortem showed a blood clot on the brain. Mrs. Eli Clark of Washington was burned to death while trying to save her little niece from flames. The child also died of injuries. John S. Ilolloway, director of the Laporte Savings Bank, and Miss May Belle Johnson of Harvey. 111., have been united in marriage, and arc spending the winter at Hutchinson, Kas. The bridegroom is seventy-eight and the bride forty. Theophilus Hargrove is president of the Hancock County Agricultutal as sociation with E. CI. L. Tyner, vice presiuem; u. is. urancienuerg, secre tary, and William C. Barnard, treas urer. Charles Downey, former secre tary, declined re-election. The Lawrence county grand jury has indicted Schubel Burton, saloon keeper of Mitchell, growing out of the killing of Willis Holler some days ago. John McQueen of Huron, who tried to kill a constable several months ago. has also been indicted. The Muiuie polo (earn gave Richmond's champion team its worst defeat before 2.000 people, the score being 10 to 1. Harry Ellis, who had not scored before this season, made seven. Anderson. Fort Wayne and Montpelier are organizing teams for a state league. The city council of Vincennes has passed a resolution inviting Lieut. Albert Niblack. United States Navy, whose boyhood days were spent in that city, to make a short visit there during his stay in Indianapolis, the latter part of the month. C. W. Prewitt, a farmer near Cartersburg, killed an eagle measuring seven feet one and one-half inches from tip to tip, and thirty-six inches from point of beak to tip of tail. Mrs. Henry Ashworth, of Mt. Vernon Is the mother of triplets, all doing well. Mme. Celestia. clairvoyant, and Matt Itusier, manager, accused of avenging themselves on their landlady by pouring sulphuric acid on the carpets, were fined $.10 ami cost. Emmett Owens, eighteen years old, near Austin, was arrested for threatening Mrs. Stella Uutherford. and he escaped from the court room while the constabulary was impaneling a jury. Riley King of Hoachdale has made a large shipment of furs to New York City, and he boasts that he has In his possession one of the blackest cooni ever ciptured in Indiana.

George B. Manning, a iarge laud owner near Economy, is dead. Mrs. Marion Gibler of Huntington several months ago was kicked by a horse which was frightened by a passing automobile, and she is lying at the point of death. Attorneys have been retained looking to a damage suit against the automobil. driver, (burning that he did not use proper precautions. The Daily Republican at Bedford has

temporarily suspended publication, ami j the plant may lie leased by Dade Rob- ; erts. formerlv citv editor. The Repub- ' i Mean is owned by Lee L. Robinson. formerly of Jeffersonville. and Mayor ' D. Y. Johnson of Bedford. The suspension will have no effect ou Che j weekly publication. ! .lames Mortimer and ten other farmers have been swindled at Winamac by signing supposed hunters' permits, which afterward turned up as promissory notes calling for $.100 each. Two men called on Farmer Mortimer and asked permission to hunt on the farmer's lands, and paid $.1 for a hunter's permit. This permit later turned up in the form of a promissory note calling for $.100. Three saloons, a barber shop, two restaurants, a drug store, a dwelling and five other business blocks were burned to the ground at South Bend. The fire was started by thieves, whose object was to rob other parts of the city while residents were at the fire. The loss is $'.0.000. A woman threw herself out of the window of a Baltimore & Ohio emigrant train as it passed through Whiting. Her throat was cut from ear to ear. yet she managed to walk nearly half a mile east before sb.e vucs discovered hy a section foreman. Medical aid was. summoned, but aid came too late. It was learned that she was a Swede and that her husband and three boys were still on the tr.tn and had not missed her. It appears that she had gone into the toilet room, after first requesting her sun to cive her ' a sharp knife which he carried. The body lies at Whiting, awaiting orders from the Baltimore Ohio officials. The Muncie health authorities and officers were called to Yorktown to endeavor to make children attend school. The case of smallpox la.-t week caused the school attendance to drop off .In 1 per cent, and patrons ret used to send . i ,.- tbrir children to school when ordered to do so by the health and truant of- j . . mm. , -. ... , i. , .... r.ii-... .i-i : iicei. i :t cisrii i ud'. inj .Mil- m j 1 1 1.1 i l llv. ! I ' illiMn i' I ' nvii j trouble i.- promised if the officers insist on enforcing the laws. Arthur Goble. who shot his father Saturday afternoon and then fired a bullet into his own brain, is dead at Iybanon. and his body will be forward ed to Charleston. 111., for burial. Theelder Goble will recover. 1 V'eiit to Lebanon frr'T.'i Me nuoia. Va . two years ago. j Thomas Nolan, aged .'IS. accidentally T fell into a tiy wheel p. it at the White- j ley malleable iron works at Muiuie. ! coming in contact with the wheel, which was running .'i -evolutions a ! minute. Both anus were torn o.f I and his face and head were cru-hed. ! He will die. I Mrs. Dr. Rush, wife of an o.-etopath, j with rooms in the ! 1.x icy Long block at Fort Wayne, has found her dia- I monds. worth $1.0i:n. which she had reported 10 the police- as lost. rhe missed theni on Monday and the police have been at work running down clues. Another search of her rooms by the worried woman on Wednesday resulted in her finding them in a suit of tights which she had thrown info the laundry basket in the closet. The Fniversity Extension Society of Rochester is holding a very successful series of meetings at which papers on the trend of modern thought are earnestly discussed. The Kankakee Valley Medical Society has just closed a very succe-s-ful meeting at Rochester. The next session will be held in May at Knox. Among others, papers were read by Dr. T. A. Burton of Plymouth. I):. N. W. Cady. Logansport, and Dr. C. J. Loring. Rochester. The Covington city council has granted to the Fountain & Warren Traction company a franchise to use Johnson street for thirty-live years. A condition is that the company shall continue its line at least eight miles east of the c ity. The use of the grade in the Wabash bottoms is not allowed. The company will apply to the county commissioners for the use of the bridge spanning the Wabash at this point. The line will extend to Danville. 111. Mischievous boys are looting and damaging rural free delivery boxes in the neighborhood of Rushville. Farmers are very much wrought up over the depredations. John Sharer, aged' IM, of Cib-on county, was instantly killed neat Owensville Tuesday afternoon by falling under a wagon loaded with lumber. Thomas Wood. Sunday-school organizer for Dearborn and Riplev counties, and Harry Wood, hotel proprietor and his son. were arraigned before 'Scjuire John Canfleld at Mooreshill, because of immoral conduct with young girls, and both were remanded for grand jury action; the father depositing cash bail, while the son was transferred to Lawrenceburg for safe keeping. The senior Wood was tried as a member of the Mooreshlll Baptist church, on Wednesday last, and was expelled from membership because of his alleged immorality. James Woods of New Albany was accidentally killed by a train at Hammond. The Y. M. C. A. has purchased the property of the Terre Haute Club: consideration. $16.000. John W. Hardin has been chosen chairman of the Brown county Democratic central committer, vice John B. Craven. While the freshmen of the high school at Washington were banqueting their friends, the seniors broke into the hall and tore down the class colors, and committed other depredatic.

iva.pn Miber. one of the crack slab : men of the East -in League last season. has been signed by Indianapolis. Mil1 !er was with Baltimore in lHT and I 1MS. He was then transferred to Brooklyn with the remainder of tin I Oriole stars Me was sold afterward ' to Hartford and later obta.ned his re

lease. IVter Howes, formerly of Flora, I dead at Eagle. Colo. The labor trouble at the Prospec Hill coal mine has been settled, tb operatois agreeing to pay the scale am the non-unien men joining the union. All the strikers, with the exception c: two. returned to work. I'.ecause of a scarcity oi workmen in the window glass industry, the entir woiking foive of the American company's factory No. 11 in Muncie maj be transferred to factory No. 10, th former factory to be abandoned, at bast until additional workmen can be secured, while No. 10 will be worked at full capacity. The American company last week was compelled to close down the pot furnaces in the trust factories at Albany and Cilman cn account of a help shortage. It is reported also that the American took away fiva shops from its plant at Altoona, Pa., sending the men to the plant at Kane, i Pa. Rev. Mr. Julian, of the Baptist church at Camden, has resigned to enter the evangelical field. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Antonini, Ph. I).. C. L.. LL. D., of Rome. Italy, is at Notre Dame as the guest of the Rev. Andrew Morrissey. president of Notre Dame University. Terms were agreed upon at Decatur between Harry Heasley of Pittaburg, representing an Eastern syndicate-, and J. H. HardUun. R. T. Reddout. and . C. Ixut of Geneva representing the Superior Oil Co.. by which, for a consideration of nearly $300.000 the Superior Oil Co. disposes of all its large and productive territory in Adam. Jay and Wells counties to the l ittsbur" parties, together with its numerous fine well drilling rigs and other property The new owner will engage n developing the territory on J a vast scale. The scale is the most j important in the Indiana field for sev- ! eral years The $1.000 breach of promise suit of Miss. Ti Miß C'necll ) ! 1 1 rrti t o. -." A .... Dinitinsu.n. minister, and Charles Sab-, operator for the Erie and lake Erie railroad at Kingston, was compromised by the payment of $30u to ti.e plaiiu...'. together with costs. James Mortimer, near- Winamac. in consideration of $.1 gave Chicago par;es permission to hunt on his farm, and he now finds himself confronted with a note for $m, which has been t sold to an 'innocent pin chaser." Sev eral farmers in the vicinity of North Judsun find themselves simila ceived. A he et of g-ass l."ix-:.' inen..".: u'aa finished and crated at the p?ate glass Willi;; a: hokoino. Tuesday. it WC! : wenty men b, in is several .n r. quired to car ry it. re fee-t larger than e-vcr here tofore made in th- world. It :ie Sr. Lou!?.. Exwill !,e cv!4ii;iie,l f position in 11"'.'. Harry Phillips of mulctet-r. who went lerre Haute, a to South Africa in the- British service Horn New Or leans has just returned there. He says th Boers capture thi rt.--!oui ths of the mules and horses taken over by the English and that many of the American muletee rs desert to the Boers. The Nejtre Dame Fniversity Temperance Society has organized with the Rev. William Man-, spiritual director; IVter P. EIhgott. president: John P. O'Hare. vic-pii sideni ; .lo.-e ph Jenkins. !e-cre-tary. and John R. Kelly, treasurer. Mr.;. Rosie Haller brought suit at Evansvilie against the Woodmen of World to recover $1.000 life in-urnace pedicy on her late- husband, who committed suicide, and the' orde r resisted cm the ground that there vv.ts ;t clausa in the policy making the- claim of a suicide oid. The' fust trial was followed by an appeal to the Appellate court by the- order, the higher court bedding that the- proof of suicide was sc plain that the jury had no right to find tor the plaintiff. A second appeal will be taken. Many ne-w cases of smallpox have been reported to Secretary Hurty, of the state board of health, but he sayt they are in a mild form as yet. The mayor of Cannelton informed him by telephone that a number of cases thought to re smallpox have broken out in the vicinity of Cannelton and asked Secretary Hurty what precautions to take to keep the disease out of tl-e town. Harry Moore, the paroled convict at 'Jene Haute, returned to prison for Irving to kill his wife, seeing her in the stre-e-t as he- was eui route for the railwaved his manacled hands, saying he way station in the patrol wagon, would kill her as soon as lie was re-le-ase-el. Alexander H. Picke 1. one of the wellknown men of Putnam county, who has just ciieel. served during the civil war in the Eleventh and Forty-fourth Indiana regiments. President Gobin, of DePauw University, officiated at the burial this afternoon. Amos Stone of Bloomington a well known young man of the city, lies dangerously ill from injuries received in a football game Saturday. His back and spine are affected, and he was unconscious for some time. The two elevens were city boys, playing on the Jordan field. Prof. A. W. Abel, superintendent of the schools of Odon. has accepted a government position to teach in the Philippines, and he is succeeded at Odon by Edward Bennett. Friends at Evansvilie hare been informed of the death in Chicago of "Jack" Greig. commercial traveler, formerly well kmnvn In newspaper circles. He was the author of the opera "Tennessee." George W. Curran at Ia Porte Is dead of llrighfs disease; Robert Curran, his father, is fatally ill, and hU mother is also raciily sinking.