Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 44, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 August 1905 — Page 3

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CHAPTER XXI. (Continued.) Mr. Billy Biler, talking very earnestIj, and mumbling his words a little by prying among his white, even teeth with t goose quill toothpick, and constantly turning his whit looking eyes out of their corners so as to see what Mr. and Mrs. Wickly are doing, pauses a minute after havinjr fairly stated his case, before he goes cn to argue it "So now you're. the heaTiest taxpayer In this county, by a long ways, Miss Lizzy. Un if you haven't no Tote you've gut influence plenty of it! You are tie very person to bring Coon Redden rouud all right And I hope you'll do that fur me." What else he said in the innumerab'repetitions of every statement which he happened to think, as a lawyer, neeled repeating, she could not remember. He staid long after her own som'rwhat affecting meeting with her father. In fact, to far from having the delicacy to withdraw, he assumed an air of legal ac'Tiser and supervisor of the whole affair, making remarks upon the various phases of the unhappy portion of this episode that were intended to be humorous and light, but which were, in fact, coarse and brutaX 5 Again, the good-natured people of Sandtown who '"neighbored" with the Wicklys, or the Weeklys, as they were Indifferently called, dropped In to se9 the "Squar." It was plain that they still had apprehensions seriou3 apprehensions of the mental condition and stability of the returned pateint "Hello, 'Squarl" said Conrad Redden, when he came in some time after 11 o'clock at night "Hits mighty late fur tirse farmers to be up, but I've gut to shake han's. Howre yuh feelun, Squar, tny way? Tar'd, haint yuh? Rid all the way over h-yur without restun? Better lay down, purty soon, hadn't yuh? Wont uo io sei up au nignt, yun Know. There was the deprecating solicitude in every word and look of Coonrod Itedden's, that showed very plainly that he could not divest himself cf the preconceived notion that the "Squar" still needed medical advice and supervision, and in his opinion, and that of the public of Sandtown, he might always need it. "Well, I gut to go home now, Squar. Lizzy, you didn't come down to ar house this evenun? They was lokun fur yuh! I thenk Huntley wawnted to see yuh bad. 'fore he left." "Is he gone?" she asked, with an unavailing effort to keep back the hot rush of blood to her face. "Yes said Conrad Redden, looking at her curiously and contemplatively, "he's gone. He had to light out on that train that went at 8:30. I thought he druv up h-yur before he went I'm shore he did. Didn't you see im?" He was looking at her rather scrutinizingly. " "Yes, he drove up h-yur jist ahead of me," put In Mr. Biler, "but he couldn't stop a minute and he couldn't find where Lizzy was at He said he'd write in reference to the payments on the land and the signing of deeds, and ro on. Well, if you're ready, Coonrod, 111 go down with you a piece." CHAPTER XXII. Congressman Billy Biler having been John Wickly'a attorney in the prosecution of his claim against the English crown for his thirteen hundred and twen-ty-fourth of the Wicklif estate, naturally retained his employment in the management of the much greater estate that had suddenly and fortuitously fallen to John Wicklys pretty and accomplished daughter as she was termed by the very first Issue of the Sandtown Gazette, after the fabulous purchase of the Wickly Woods by the munificent S. . S. W. In this capacity of attorney and counselor, Mr. Billy Biler found it indispensable to the proper conduct of the business ti.it '.e should put in an appearance a: tie Wickly house at least once a day, v hen he was not in company with John Wickly, journeying to and from the great city of the lakes that was faster and faster reaching out across the prairies and drawing unto itself all the ambition and all the enterprise of the Wabash country. The question of the proper, safe and profitable investment of each large sums of money being one in which Miss Lizzy Wickly herself must actually be consulted in direct reference to her opinion achieved upon a personal Inspection of the property or securities. It also became Indispensable that she should be a member cf the traveling party on many of these expeditions to that grasping and teaching, and' hauling city that seemed to be seriously attempting the feat of kpreading Itself all over the great yellow ind purple-flowered prairies outlying and contiguous to it She had been to the city once before her first trip in the character of heiress, riiat was on a rainy afternoon when the Jjreat flat prairie looked like a mighty pool, white and boundless, and bleak and thill. Then she had seen the little, new, lomber-hued cottages, dripping with rain, ind the great smoke-blackened parallelograms of brick, looking so illimitable in Iheir interlacing reduplications as the cars flew along them that it had been jays before she recovered from the sense Of "loneliness and depression that the Inivitable contrasting of her own little familiar Sandtown with this mighty blackfcrowed, pufilng, roaring, steaming, ringbag, reaching and grabbing city had canskd her. Not at all the less had she remembered the very different sense cf qniet Sabbath loneliness that had displaced the other, in her return to Sandtown. How still jtnd oppressively slow and quiet, and deliberate this little old Sandtown was, to be sure! .Now, however, it was as a well-known rich and unmarried young woman that Ihe rent And how differently everything appeared to her. Surely wealth Iocs something! It was the president's own car that ok her. And how many gallant and accomplished gentlemen were Introduced her by Congressman Billy Biler, and Sy the president himself I She had never dreamt that here could e in all the world ?ne-half so many presjrere presidents of banks, and presidents f railroads, and presidents of insurance romp a nl es, and presidents of mining, itock, real estate and newspaper companies, and these were only a foretaste. What agreeable and accomplished genJemen they were, too! How they were perpetually putting this and that and the ither, at her dirposaL -What bales of. bvitations she received to every imaginibla kind of an entertainment public and rrirate. And how was she astonished to L-d that her very first visit designed orig- . bally to occupy .but threa days, drew itnlf irresistibly and Inexorably into four la which time the had gone with lCx and every prcdliat in the, known üzzM, tia ttlisTci, to torn fascist!:; r iirr"-'--t cl cert cr cilrr al

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TAYLOR ways chaperoned by her happy and buoyant father and Congressman Billy Biler of course. The newspapers had annoyed her a little by publishing apparently well authenticated statements, always from reliable sources, and conveying the detailed information of her approaching marriage with a certain brilliant young Congressman and four or five young and fascinating presidents of banks and railroads. But her natural buoyant organization soon enabled her to so far overcome her annoyance as to permit her to laugh as heartily as could her jubilant father. And how quickly she learned some of the ways of the city! For instance, she had not completed the? second week of her first stay, until she had acquired the remarkable art, utterly unknown to Hoosierdom of having a headache just at the time when, had it not been for the timely interposition of the said headache, she would have been compelled to entertain Congressman Billy Biler, or one of the five young and fascinating presidents above mentioned. About that time, too, that is to pay about the beginning of the era of the headaches, she fell into the habit of taking her father's left arm and slipping out of the side entrance of the hotel, and then walking him all up and down State street and Wabash avenue, and goodness only knows where she didn't walk him, according to his cwn asservations! On one of these walks she had acted in such an unaccountably strange and reckless way as to seriously disconcert her father, and even begin to make him think that the city was entirely too ex citing for her; although nobody could deny that it was Just the thing for him. They had been talking about Mr. Mason Huntley. Or, to speak more accurately, he had been talking about that mysterious and seclusive gentleman who had not shown himself or signified in any way whether he yet held residence on any part of this planet when all at once Lizzy stopped, dropped his arm, ran a little way down the sidekalk, and Just as he was starting to run after, she turned and ran back in great and eager agitation. "Call that cab, father! Quick, or he won't hear you! There! Cab! Cab! Cab!" She had screamed out in such a shrill, resonant penetrating Hoosier, Reelfoot Prairie voice, that two or three cabs came dashing up that way. Then she had literally broken into one of them before the driver could open the door, and pulling her father in by the collar hal stood up where she could see and tell the driver where to go. And my! but she did tell him. She nearly drove the felow wild teling him to go first this way and then that, and now to gallop his horses faster and faster! And now to pull short up and turn round and dodge down a cross street somewhere! What a lot of wagon drivers stopped and shook their whips at that cabman! But he was a conscientious fellow, and obeyed orders with a singleness of purpose and an energy that would have insured success if success had been one of the attainable things. But it. wasn't. The young lady showed after awhile a wavering and a hesitancy in her directions that discovered an irresolution not Incompatible with the stern and peremptory decision of her earlier manner. At the end of the half-hour she gave it up, and told the cabman to drive back to the hotel. As Mr. John Wickly handed her out at the side entrance and hunted the cabman's fare out of his vest pocket, he said: "Lizzy, if yoa take me such another chase I'll start right back to Sandtown with you on the spot." "Sandtown!" cried the cabman In smiling surprise and evident gratification. "Sandtown, Indyanny?" "Yes." "Well, by gum! I used to live right down there at the lower end ut Reelfoot Pon myself. Know everbody . from there up to the Overcoat road. Anything else I kin do fur yuh!" -There was so much of that remarkable Hoosier trait of "being acquainted with you" as Soonrod Redden would have put it in the words and manner of the cabman, that Lizzy instantly beckoned him to her and held a low-toned conversation with him, in which her father only heard this: "Whut? The yaller'n? The yallerwheeled bnggy? Why, I'd a kotch that yaller-wheeled buggy way up h-yonder at Madison street ef I'd knowed hit was the one." Then there was more cf this conversation In an undertone, ending with this, that Mr. Wickly heard: "I'll be right h-yur to the minute. H-yur's my number. You knowed old Cappen Joe Eilet up awn Big Rattlesnake Crick? Well, I'm little Joe Ellefs sen! Bud Eilet! You've h-yearn urn talk about Bud Eilet? Clabber-eyed Bud, they usen to call me! My eyts is all right now. Un I'll do anything I kin fur you folks! Jist Ienimy know." And the cabman was up and off. On the next day there were more presidents to take them to new places of interest, and Bud was sent away empty as to his cab, bnt with his fare in his pocket against his earnest protest In fact. It was not during that visit that Lizzy Wickly found an opportunity to ride as far as she wished in Bud Ellefs cab. But on the second or third, perhaps, they had slipped away again between periods of possible new presidents, and had bowled along those delightful, long, broad streets on the north side almost a whole afternoon. Again had John Wickly made Mr. W. Mason Huntley the subject of their conversation. He had been to the city office of the S. & S. W. to make inquiries as to his whereabouts. There he had found that Mr. Huntley was only a special agent of the company, and nobody could tell him anything about where he was at present They did not know whether he was iu the employ of the company, even. And as to knowing where he lived, and such like minutiae, that was too much fox the red headed young man who was writing at a desk all the time he was making short and pointed answers to these ques tions. ,The president might know, but he was out of the cit7. Ah! where wa he? Mr. Wickly had ventured to ask. Where? And there was astonishment for you, on that clerk's face! He had said out of the citj ! And there were only two geographical points to him one of which was In the city, and that was Of rast import, while the other was out of I the city, and that was of no Import at lull! V . Mr. Wickly, with his great exhilaration, and his fair average sense of hu mor, was making this conrerratloa in the repetition, as ludicrous as pcrble for the purposa cf amusing his daughter a little. For when they were alon3 she was utterly trdiia her old rilf being dull, at::zt-n::d cl Ir:;- c? car-

prislngly excited and anxious. For this purpose, too, he had told her how every man and boy along the Big Rattlesnake Creek had procured long Iron rods for drilling In the ground, and were spending their Sundays and rainy days, when they couldn't "plow for wheat," in rambling over the hills north of the Overcoat road, drilling down Into and below the yellow clay, after coal. And many of them had found good veins, too! And the whole country was wild about It I And companies were being formed to work these mines. And the Sandtown Farmers Bank had resumed business, with Columbus Redden as cashier and president And money was plenty again. And Lizzy, springing straight up off her seat, and fairly screaming to Bud Eilet through the little aperture In the roof of the cab, back of his seat! "I seed utl" Bud answers, swinging his whip. "Blame fi don't run the theng to uts hole this time." And away they go at a terrific pace up the street with a yellow-wheeled, top buggy, with the top laid back, leading them about a square, and fairly humming along "after a mighty good stepper," as Bud turned to Inform Lizzy. Nor was it a very difficult task this

time, for Bud Eilet to "run the theng to j uts hole." The 'thenjr" made a comparatively short run of six or eight squares up the thoroughfare, and then turned upon a little, short, quiet street j to the left, and stopped before a small, plain two-story cottage. Directing Bud to wait and watch the horse that had been tied to a hatching ; ring Lizzy, preceding her father, ran np j the front steps, and hndlng no door oeu, turned the knob, pushed the door open and walked into a little hallway. Through an open doorway on her left she saw a man standing beside a little table, and removing his gloves slowly and abstractedly, as he looked down at some plans and diagrams, drawn in broad red and black lines upon a wide sheet of paper. "At last I've chased you to your lair," Lizzy said, as she threw the door wide open and almost ran into the room, with her right hand outtsretched in good. hearty Hoosier fashion, and her pretty face beaming, "now do you do, Mr. Huntley? And haven't you treated me wretchedly! Positively wretchedly!" (To be continued.) RAILWAY SAFETY. Standards on Better American Road as High as in England. American- railways have recently come in for considerable unfavorable criticism on account of the number of serious accidents In some of the less thickly populated districts of the United States, while nt the same time English roads have been praised as having attained ft combination of speed aud safety unknown in this country. As a matter of fact, many American railroads are gradually being brought to a standard of safety which is fully as high as the English, while the comfort of passengers Is given far more attention here than on the other side of the water. From the American standpoint safe railroading is primarily dependent on a system of signals which are practically Infallible. This is attained by a combination of automatic machinery and human Intelligence, each of which supplements the other and each of which Is powerless' to do anything without the consent of the other. In the operation of such a system the salient feature Is the division of the road Into short sections or "blocks" by means of signals worked primarily by an electrical connection with the rails. On the New Haven system, for Instance, which has built up a line of 233 miles from Boston to New York that complies with all the requirements found necessary in American experience for safety, these blocks are from half a mile to four miles in length. A train, cannot enter one of them until tho preceding train has left it, a fact indicated by tin rising of an automatic semaphore t.t its further end, which protects the next block ahead. The system is so arranged that the normal position of all semaphores Is at danger and were the towerman a maniac he could do no harm beyond neglecting to lower a signal at the proper time to let approaching trains through. He might tie up all traffic on the road in this way, but he could cause no accidents. While signal systems, roadbeds and bridges have been brought as rvar perfection as ingenuity can bring them, the safety of others than their passengerg is not neglected by the well-managed railroads. Between New York and New Haven, for example, a distance of seventy-three miles, there. are no grade crossings at all and between New Haven and New London there are only five, r.oue of which is considered dangerous. He Was Chad wicked. "They say Deacon Jones fell from grace during hU recent trip to the city," said the village gossip. "Indeed I" exclaimed the willing listener, "What was the cause of it?" "A banana skin, I believe," answered tie v. g. "Oh, he slipped on the sidewalk, eh?" queried the party of the other part. "No," replied the information jeddler, "he purchased three green oies of a train boy for a dime." x.t A Threat. "Well," said Mr. Roxley, "if my daughter is determined to marry you I can merely say 'take her " "But suggested Lord Brokeleigh, "you must know, me dean sir, I aw shall expect to have something thrown In "Indeed? I shall expect to have something thrown out if it doesn't go of Its vwn accord." Philadelphia Press. So.r- Grapes. "Yes," said the bride of a waek, "Jack tells me everything he knows and I tell him everything I know." "Indeed!" rejoined her ex-rival, who had been left at the post "The stnee when you are together must be oppressive." Fully Explalaed. cr: Bacon I Just heard of a man who doesn't ciaim that he has been awarded a world's fair prize. Egbert Indeed! Wba is he? "Oh, he's a man who didn't have anything on exhibition there." Yonkera Statesman. With the withdrawal of the training chljf Northampton and Cleopatra from the active list, the last shrert of canvas tlzir-zirci frcm the British lzt?.

What's the Use. What's the use of making trouble when it's with you every day "" What's the use? What's the use of doing things in the most inconvenie&t way What's the use? What's the use of hunting worry? What's the use to fret and stew. When there's not a ghost of reason To believe it eases you? What's the use? What's the use of lamentation when a good thing passes by . What's the use? What's the use, when you may laugh and shout, to turn it to a cry What's the use? What's the use of breeding frenzy And indulging in a howl When the world is not disposed to Listen to your peevish growl? What's the use? What's the use of blaming others for the fault that is your own . What's the use? What's the use of shifting burdens you should carry all alone What's the use? Will it make your buriea lighter If tho world refuses to Weep about the home-made troubles That have made their home with you? What's the use? Home Monthly. The Most Useful Usefulness. It is not easy for a young woman to decide what sort of accomplishments and possessions will be really useful to her In life. For example, th? ability to work out a problem in algebra, skill in playing accompaniments on tle piano, a knowledge of cookirg, an appreciation of great poetry, may dispute with one .mother for place in her education. When It comes to her choice of things, who shall help her settle the claims of a set of Shakespeare as against a new gown, or a good photograph of the Sistine Madonna as against a dictionary, or a piano as compared with a summer at an expensive seaside hotel? The young woman may well address herself to distinguishing the really useful from for the really useless in life. Whatever makes her days and those of her family richer and fuller is useful. If the piano makes attractive the center of the home life in winter evenings it is worth ten times the Joy? of a summer hotel. If a love for Wo rtU worth's sonnets comes inte her life to allay perplexity over the adapting of household expense to income, Wordsworth is more "useful" even than more money would be. The enlarged income might again be reduced, but the deep sense would remain of Wordsworth's truthfulness when lie wrote: The world is too much with us. It may at first sight seem a paradox, but it is nevertheless true that of nil the useful havings of a woman, the most useful is an ideal. Youth's Companion. Nam ins the Baby. At a certain period in most girls' lives there is a sentimental liking for romantic and uncommon names; and, if the girl marries young, it frequently extends to the birth of the first children. As a consequence, men and women of middle age often resent the name bestowed upon them by the young mother, which is sometimes decidedly inappropriate to their personal appearance and character. Business women, who must sign their full name many times, are rarely pleased with a fanciful one A rising physician recently said that one of the greatest drawbacks to her success that she must constantly encounter was her Christian name Xinetta, the prefix of Dr. before it made such an incongruous combination. "How often I have wished it was Hannah or some other homely, sensible name." Mothers would do well to bear In mind the fact that women are more and more entering Into business and professional lives, and the present generation of girl babies may some day be grateful for the plain Mary and Susan and Elizabeth, which, of late years, have been looked upon with disfavor. Yf'hcre Many Laces Mingl , .V! The use of several Inces In the new gowns is a fad that Dame Fashion applauds vigorously, and. so far. from making a patchy effect the one design to cleverly used to offset the beauties cf the other. It 13 no uncommon thins to czo

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fine meshes and the net laces touched up with medallions of coarse guipure, and perhaps trimmings of radium silk or satin make a finish to the lace gown. The illustration shows the draped net lace, one of recent production, mounted on chiffon, and with radium silk in opaline shadings defining the little bolero, edging the sleeve drapery and furnishing the sash. The skirt has the upper part of lace and the lower of the radium silk, this latter inset with medallions of Russian lace; and a little featherbone crinolette run in the hem to afford Just the right swing.

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There is danger in the short skirts for the amateur dressmaker or seamstress, in that If they are not cut evenJy, or rather hung evenly, their beauty is lost. An uneven skirt, one which hangs down more at the back than In front, or hitches up too much in the front, Is an abomination, The skirt must be slightly shorter in back than In front, and it must be cut properly in order to preserve this "hang." Walking skirts should not be worn in the house, and the wearer cf a wellfitting skirt must be careful how she ROUGH AND sits and stands in it, for lf.it is at all tight, carelessness may ruin its hang in a little while. Although the new skirts take a good deal of material to make them, it is not at all likely this extreme fullne? will prevail for walking skirts of heavier woolens as the season advances. Drop skirts are the rule for all thin woolens, and of course silks. The newest models for very thin materials have been a strip of featherbone fnser:ed In the dust ruffle, through the half-inch hem. Another ruffle is then placed beneath this, on the Inside of the drop skirt, In order to keep the boned ruffle in place. This Is enly necessary with very thin materials. Don't Marry and Settle Down. What can I say to the married girls to keep them from "settling down"? That Is a common phrase, 'to marry and settle down." Don't do it, girls! Not that I would for one moment counsel you to neglect your husband or your home, or to look for the same kind of attention and fun you had while you were single. That would be foolish. But don't feel that you have won the goal of all your ambitious, and that it is not worth while to take any special pain3 to keep yourselves up, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. I have seen so much of that sort of thing! The girl who would not for the world that her beloved should see her anything but fresh and attractive In appearance marries him, and immediately relapses into curl papers and careless breakfast dress. She used to plan to make her evenings pleasant. Now she often meets him untidy and fretful. Yes, I know the day's work has been hard, but make the same effort for him that you would for a stranger. Try to keep your girl's fondness for looking well and for making yourself interesting. It pays! If I could Induce you married girls to live up to my ideals in this respect, I can hear your husbands arising and calling me blessed. . Another form of "settling down" I want to keep you girls from is that of losing ambition about your mental improvement. So many stop cultivating their minds and drop their accomplishments when they get husbands as if that were all the minds and the nc complishments were. for. Look about you, married girls! Dcn't let the daily round of duty at home absorb you, to the exclusion of everything else. Have your part in fun, study and charity, and, believe me, you will keep house and make your husband happy nil the better for iL - - - - Picture Frames. Unless you have tried It you cannot Imagine what pretty and Inexpensive picture frames can be made of wall paper. Select paper of a small design or of plain color and cover the panels which have been cut from heavy cardboard, turning the edges OTer and

gluing in place. Place the front panels In a row close together, face down, and lay a piece of ribbon at the top and bottom to form hinges. The backs are then glued to these, except the lower edge, which is left open to slip the photograph In. Place a board over this with a heavy weight until dry. Some very effective frames for large photographs are made of flowered designs and are quite as pretty as handpainted ones If fine, carefully selected" paper is used. Some of the tapestry papers make excellent frames and screens and are also effective for covering shirt-waist boxes.

Thimbles. The thimble was originally called a thumb bell by the English, because worn on the thumb, then a thumbler, and finally its present name. It was o Dutch invention, and was ilrst brought to England in 1003. Thimbles were formerly made only of iron and brass, but in comparatively late years they have been made of gold, silver, steel, horn, ivory and even glass and pearl. In China beautiful carved pearl thimbles are seen, bound with gold and with the end of gold. The first thimble introduced into Siam was a bridal gift, from the king to the queen; it is shaped like a cactus bud, made of gold and thickly studded with diamonds arranged to spell the queen's name. The Truly Cultured Woman. The truly cultured woman has a capable and well-stored memory. So our ambitious girl shall constantly add to her store of remembered good things. That is a .fine phrase, "to Icarn by heart." If the girl is slow of study, let her observe that the way to learn to swim is by swimming, not by lingering reluctant on the shore. So with remembering; ease in memorizing is seldom a gift of nature. When it is, let the happy girl accept it with gratitude. For the most part it comes by cruel pains, and by that very fact TUMBLE TOGS. trains courage and persistence as well as memory. Meantime, every line of Shakespeare, every sonnet of Wordsworth, every period of Macaulay, every happy phrase of Stevenson which is acquired is an education for taste. The girl eager for self-culture must let no day pass without some addition, be it ever so small, to her store of remembered good things. Handy Things. A sheet of sandpaper under your match holder, near every gas or lamp bracket A tablet with well-sharpened pencil in kitchen or dining-room always ready for use. A ball of cord or twine in a simple holder, to which is attached a pair of scissors (your old half-worn embroidery scissors will answer) above your kitchen table, where it Is always ready for the mother who has lunches to do up in small packages each morning. A rack in your bathroom containing a loofah for each member of the family. The loofah is preferable to a sponge for bathirg purposes, except for the face and hands, and is Just right In size and shape to take the place of the long-handled brush. A brisk use of It followed by a good toweling will produce a delightful as well as healthful glow. Weddinflf Goirn. Wedding gown of ' white chiffon satin, with panel- front of -silk inous seline, with lace design. Lace bertha and flounce. Sleeves composed of ruffles of the lace. How to Toughen Bovs. If you want to make an all-around, good-for-nothing tough out of your boy just butt in and take his side on every question which comes . up between him and the teacher, and If you want him to have a good start to the penitentiary be sure and let him know that he can always depend upon your assistance, In whatever trouble he may gt Into in school, right or vnrzzz.

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BRIEF COMPILATION OF IND. ANA NEVV3. What Onr Neighbors Are Polnc Matters of General and Locnl Inter est Marriages and Deaths AccI dents and Crimes Personal Pointers About Indianians. Brief State Items. Robert Teyton, 9 years old, was drowned while bathing in a pond cast of New Albany. Cracksmen robbed the law office of Zook & Jay at Goshen, of all the cash and papers in the place. The police have no clew. Ilenry G. Little, owner and editor of tho Garrett Clipper, died at his home in Auburn, after a long and painful sickness. Thomas Connelly, a wealthy farmer residing five miles west of Lafayette, died of lockjaw, superinduced by stepping on a rusty nail. Asa Cassel of Itedkey, who has been In the habit of beating his wife and misusing his children, was fiogged to within an iach of his life by a mob. Charles Taylor, 20 years old, an employe of the Lake Shore, was struck by a Wabash train near Millcrsburg while asleep on the track. He was instantly killed. The State Mine Inspector has ordered the Greenfield mine closed, his deputy having found conditions likely to cause a serious secident. The mine employs 110 men. Ilenry Chester, a rich farmer of Ilobart, is in jail charged with assault with intent to kill Thoma McCIain, his son's friend. It is said he stabbed the boy with a pitchfork. A trick bicycle rider named Dewey of Terre Haute, well known in show circles, was fatally hurt at Madisonvillc, Ky., while doing a turn at the Madisonvillo street fair. Owen Traylor, 11-year-old son of Anton Trayler, near Otwell, accidentally shot himself with a rifle, the bullet entering his groin and passing upward through his bowels. The wound is mortal. While working on the roof of John Hubbard's house in Green lield, Carl McMahon, a carpenter of Shirlej-, '20 years old, slipped and fell to the ground, striking on his head and shoulders. His recovery is doubtful. Two burglars forced an entrance to the main building of Punluc University at Lafayette and made an unsuccessful attempt to blow open the bi vault u the basement, which contains valuable records and vapers. Goshen college, established as a private corporation in 1897, is to be transferred to die direct management of the Mensmite Omrch. The stockholders, numbering 200, will donate their interests to the religious institution. The annex to the Hartford City Paper Company, together with its contents, including machinery, stock and raw material, was entirely destroyed by lire, causing a loss of about S3,500, which is entirely covered by insurance. The administrator of the estate ot Charles Lipp of Evansville, sued the Illinois Central railroad for $10,000. Several months ago Lipp was stealing a ride on the freight train and it is alleged he was knocked off by the brakeman and killed. A livery barn and four dwellings were destroyed by a fire of unknown origin at Inwcod. For a time it was feared the entire business district of the town would burn, but help came from Plymouth and the fire vas prevented from spreading. Telling his wife that he was going to take a bath, John Docge, a well known citizen of Hammond, locked himself in the bath room and turned o.i the gas. When the family broke down the door later Doege was dead. Xo cause te assigned for the act. Henry Christ, a patrolman at Indianapolls, who shot and killed Edward Cory, business agent of the Electrical Workers' Union, July 12, was bound over to the grand jury, under a bond of $15,003. The bond was furnished by prominent business men. Wesley Osborne of Oakland City, was arrested at Mt. Vernon, charged with opening mail addressed to his uncle and taking $2. He was taken to Evans ville by Deputy United States Marshal Johann and will be arraigned before United States Commissioner Wartman. John Pierson, a mussel shell digger cf Vincennes, found a Wabash river pearl at the plant of the Vincennes Pearl Button Company, while he was examining shells, which are used in the manufacture of buttons. The pearl is said to be worth between $S00 and $1,000. Prof. Jordan, a clairvoyant, has disappeared from Terre Haute, according to tho police, who accuse him of having fleeced several persons out of more than $100 each, using tbe old trick of persuading them to leave with him for a given number of days either money or jewelry. By the will of Mrs. A. M. Jeff&rs, late of Itichmond, but who died at Chautauqua, X. Y., where she went to spend the summer, DePauw university at Greencastle, will receive $35,000 and Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, Ohio, $65,000. Other institutions benefit in lesser amounts. The Smith, Yager & Falk drug store in Decatur, was robbed of cash and checks calling for $1,000, and the work is attributed to home talent. Of the spoils $300 was cash, while the remainder was checks, all of which was in a large pocketbook. The money drawer was also rifled of $10. While playing on a log which rested on a stump, a small child of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Triblc, near Cynthiana, was kil'ed and another seriously injured by the iog rolling olf the stump on the little ones. The parents were pickiDg blackberries and had left the children to play in the woods. Fire broke out in Ed Xewlin's sale stable, in the old opera house building at Franklin, destroying it and several near-by barns. The residence of Mayor Dixon was damaged. The loss was about $3,000, with $1,000 insurance. Thomas Hopper is under arrest, charged with starting the fire. At Carmel the livery stable of Jackson Jefferies, the blacksmith shop of Joseph Horn baker and the shoe store of M. L. Martin, were destroyed by fire. Beeson's meat market, Burkhart & Painter's general merchandise store and K. L. George's harness shop were also damaged. The loss is $5,000, with no insurance. . . . , The Decade Incinerator Com j -any, which recently contracted to install in Muncie a garbage furnace at a cost of $18,000, has announced that unless the Board of Publio Works grants it another test, at which tho conditions of the contract with tho city shail be complied with to the letter, it will sue the city for the price of the furnace, A census taken by order of Postmaster Miller of South Bend and secured by the mail carriers of the city postoffice shows that there are 9,784 families served by the city carriers upon which is based a population estimate of 47,850 thus served, while there is in South Bend an estimated city population of 1,500 that has no carrier tcr-vica