Plymouth Tribune, Volume 6, Number 24, Plymouth, Marshall County, 21 March 1907 — Page 1

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NEGROES RESPONSIBLE. Mystery of Bloody Brownsville Tragedy Explained by Discnarged Soldier. The mystery surrounding the murderous midnight raid 01 the negro soldiers from the Twentytiftn Infantry upon the people ot Urownsville, Tex. on August 13, last year, has been cleared up. A full statement has been made by one of the discharged negroes. After seven months of investigation by the authorities of tne United States ,during which time the most searching inquiry has failed to shake the testimony of the negroes that they did not commit the outrage, what ap pears to be the true version of the crime has been secured from one of the discharged soldiers, who admits that he partially participated. The man ".as been living in Galveston a large portion ot the time since he was discharged without honor from the military service of the Nation, which he swore to serve honorably, and is still in the city. According to the statement th; outrage was not premeditated, but was the result of an alleged injury done one of the soldiers by a white man in Brownsville about a half hour before the raid was made. The negro was struck by the white man at a resort in Iirowns ville. The negro, returning to the barracks, seized his rifle and announced that he was going to kill the white man. Several of the negroes promptly volunteered to go along and see the work well done and to wipe out old scores on account of injuries which they claimed to have suffered. The negroes returned to the barracks after commiting the assault on the town and many soldiers assisted in the hurried clean ing of the guns for the inspection which followed soon after the shooting in the town ceased. Apparently the soldiers from only one company participated in the raid, although. practically the entire battalion knew that the soldiers had done the shooting. Religious Railroad Men, It is said that when a railroad man gets religion he gets it right, a fact which is amply illustrated by the following story : : Along , the Southern Kansas road, about two miles north of Arkansas City, passengers may see the inscription: "Christ Died for the Ungodly," in large letters on the side of a hill about onefourth of a mile west of the railroad track. The letters are thirty feet long and the inscription covers a length of more than 200 yards. The letters are formed of white stones laid in heaps upon the ground. The inscription may be read from the train for mort than two miles. It was placed there by a railway train aispatcner at Arkansas City, who belongs to a religious sect which believes in coming out into the world with its religion. Across the river is a tall bluff about one' mile dis tant from the Southern Kansas railroad station at Arkansas City is another inscription in stone. It reads: "Eternity Where Will Tou Spend It?" The Latest Theory. In their failure to locate any trace of the thief who took $173,000 from Uncle Sam's strong box in Chicago, the government de tectives have evolved a good many theories to explain the ab sence of the money. It was first suggested that some bank, being in a tight place had borrowed the roll temporarily from some em ploye in order to use it in making srood with a bank examiner. Then it was concluded that some civil service employe had taken the money out while suffering from a loss of memory a theory that is supported by the fact that no one seems to remember taking it out . Some time ago the gov ernment's bacteria department irave it out that all paper money was covered with microbes. The microbes on a thousand dollar bill ought to be bigger than those on the currency with which mosi of us are more familiar, and it is possible that the germs grew big and strong enough to walk off with the money. In Aid of Temperance. Another good bill which the Legislature enacted toward the last of the session was the one concerning the remonstrance law against saloons, and which wil prevent applicants from haras sing signers of remonstrances Under this bill the applicant for license can only question the va lidity of names of remonstrators by filing affidavits against indi vidual names. The applicant may single out such person on the re monstrance whom he has reason to believf. did not sign It or who has no right to sign it. As to the others the fact that their names are attached to the remonstrance is prim.: facie evidence that they signed it and had a rigni to place their names there. Paoli Repub

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Children as Law Enforcers. Astonishing results seem to have been achieved for civic betterment in the efforts of the children of the east side of New York organized under the direction of the People's institute. The original idea was the banding together of the children of the tenements and teaching them in various ways the necessity of respecting the law. To this end they are assembled at the instiute every day, and in their games, as well as their lessons, the principles of fair play, justice, and fidelity are made prominent. And in this way the children, unconsciously perhaps, have learned to esteem it a point of honor to "play fair." The expansion of this idea has taken the form of instruction in the simple forms of civic government, by which every child is taught not only to keep the law but to assist personally in its enforcement. The cleanliness oi streets and tenements is maiic primarily the significant lesson, and the children are divided vA t little societies with the assurance that they have power to see that the employes of the city in their district attend faithfully to duty. That this power is appreciated and exercised is shown in various instances where the children compelled an ashman to return for a can he had overlooked a street cleaner to go over a block he had hastily swept, and a police man to handle with less roughness a man under arrest all with the threat of "reporting to the station." It is agreed by all who have watched the experiment of training these children that as practical reformers they soon learn to eclipse their elders. And in applying to themselves the laws and obligations they have been told to enforce on others they have worked many and needed changes in their own homes and have been the means of creating a reforming impulse in their parents. These and kindred experiments serve to illustrate the more

forcibly that reformation which begins with childhood is the safer and surer way to perpetuate good work and to- build on a strong bundation. Cmmpacker With President. Representative Crumpacker and President Roosevelt are workin 2 land in glove to secure an effect ive investigation of the condition of women and children in the United States. They have devised an arrangement whereby this investigation shall be conducted by James B. Reynolds, whose thorough work in uncovering the practices in vogue in the packing houses of the country will long be remembered. Judge Crumpacker says thai there is a mistaken impression abroad that the information to be derived -from the investigation is necessarily intended as a basis for legislation by congress. The Indiana cogressman has insisted all along that Senator Beveridge went off on ,the wrong foot in trying to obtain national legisla tion for the amelioration of child labor. This subject Judge Crum packer holds, is one over which congress has no constitutional jurisdiction. "The investigation, said he, "is not intended to be of a mere statistical character, such as are the investigations of the census bureau. It will enter into the so ciological, moral and industrial conditions surrounding women and children of the country, and it will be an inexhaustible source of information for state legislatures on this subject." It is the general opinion that the inquiry will develop manv shocking abuses and that the report of Mr. Reyonlds will be decidedly interesting, if not sensational. New Pure Food Law. Local retailers will be interested in the work of the state board of health which will soon commence the enforcement of the new pure-food law. The board will draft a set of rules for the enforcement of the law, and upon their adoption notify butchers and meat dealers throughout the state that the pure food inspectors appointed by the board will regularly inspect their shops and slaughte houses. Similar notices will be sent to dairymen grocers and druggists who will also be told that the sanitary conditions of their places of business will be noted as well as the purity of the goods they sell. The new law absolutely forbids the sale of meats from unsanitary slaughter houses and meat markets. It gives the inspector power to seize upon the stock of goods sold in such places and fake it before a justice of the peace or a judge and demand an immediate trial. The law defines unsanitary houses and makes it unlawful to feed hogs on scraps picked up about the slaughter houses. The inspector will be re quired to report daily to the state food and drug commissioner, Dr. H. E. Barnard.

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Big Thieves Shielded. "In order to preserve the public lands from spoliation the first thing to do is to wipe out corruption. We must have honesty as a rule and not as an exception among land receivers, land registers and district attorneys. Finally, we must keep these officers out of politics and deprive them of the support of influential politicians who put them in office and retain them there for personal profit." The man who spoke thus emphatically was Ethan Allen Hitchcock of Missouri, who retired a few days ago from the office of secretary of the interior. No man deserves better of his country than Mr. Hitchcock. For ten years he was in the service of the government two as representative of the United States in Russia and tlie remainder of the time as secretary of the interior. In the latter office he became the most execrated man among grafters and thieves who has ever fill ed the position. Spokesmen for these classes of criminals in the senate and house berated him on every possible occasion and sought by every measure, even to the point of making charges against him, to bring about hi removal. In spite of the storm he created Mr. Hitchcock proceeded, with rugged determina tion, to execute the policy of pro tecting the public lands from ex ploitation by private monopolies and greedy evaders of the law. Mr. Hitchcock said: We have had Indian agents against whom positive proof was secured show ing that they had violated the law and the rules and regulations of the department. In one case it was not possible to secure the removal of- one of these men until after three separate investigations, so strong was influence ex erted in behalf of the offender. "We have had district attor neys who either failed to do their duty or who sought, to minimize the guilt of influential men they were prosecuting and secure for them, if convicted, the lightest sentence under the law. In the prosecution of persons holding high office extraordinary prcs sure was brought to bear to prevent their trial. "Never during my administration was the position of the offender allowed to influence the dtcision as to what should be dope with him. .To, my mind a guilty man U a guilty man, whether he is the humblest citizen or the -highest official in the land. And in the latter case he should be treated more rigorously, because he has committed a greater crime against society and law, and become a more forceful example. "I think one of the most important acts of President Roosrvelt was the issuance of an order empowering an executive officer to remove summarily any subordinate found violating the law. Now, it is not necessary to give the reason for this; action, although, in certain cases, a statement may be filed in the department. This order permits the secretary to reach the influential and crooked subordinates to whom I refer, and the president deserves great credit for the measure which enables a certain class of corruptionists to be dismissed." Not a Good Democrat. 1 T Tfc William j. isryan has once more called President Roosevelt "a good Democrat" and account ed for his popularity on that ground. This implies, of course, that the people regarded Mr. Roosevelt as a much better Democrat than Alton B. Parker in 1904 when they elected the former over the latter by such a rousing majority. It is natural enough that Bryan -should think Roosevelt a beter Democrat than Parker but the people who have no personal reason for thinking so, think otherwise. The impres sion prevails that Mr. Roosevelt was elected not only because the people liked him, but because he was not a Democrat. The Indiana Legislature. The generally expressed opin ion that but little worth mention ing was done during the recent session of the Indiana legislature is predicated upon prejudice or due to a want of information While it is quite true that the general assembly erred greatly in not enacting some legislation that the best interests of the state demanded, it is equally true that much wise legislation was enact ed that is in the interest of the people. Very little has been said about this, but it is there, nev ertheless. South Bend Times. Vehicles Will Be Higher. The retail price of buggies, wagons and general products of the wagon-makers' craft, are to be advanced nearly 50 per cent, this spring, unless conditions regarding raw material and trans portation take a beneficia change. This decision was reach ed at a special meeting of the Na tional Wagon-Makers' associa tion.

GRAFT IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Officials, Prominent Politicians and Millionaires Involved. San Francisco, March 18. A climax was reached in the graft scandals in this city today when the grand jury received the testimony of the members of the board of supervisors. At a late hour tonight the grand jury is still in session, and while authorative statements cannot be secured, if is said that dishonesty involving high officials and wealthy business men was revealed. It is asserted that Reuf and Schmitz vl. betrayed by men with whom they had dealings, and it is charged that at the very time the city was staggering from the great calamity of last April, certain officials accepted $430,000 as a bribe from the United Railroads. The Pacific States Telephone Company, it is claimed, bribed the supervisors to refuse to grant a franchise to the Home Telephone Company, but the Home Telephone Company appealed to Schmitz and Ruef, and through them the supervisors, some of whom, it is said, had already tak en money from the old company. were coerced into granting the franchise to the new company. The supervisors thus got mon ey from both the telephone com panies. - These are only a few main points of the complicated tale of graft now being laid before the grand jury. Deals hitherto barely suspect ed were divulged with an amplitude of explanation and a wealth of facts that amazed the inquis itors, prepared by their previous investigations to expect an unparalleled condition of corrup tion, stenographers will be working all night and probably far into tomorrow preparing the formal indictments that will coy er every particular transaction now before the body. Indiana and Her Universities. "Other states," says the Lafay ette Journal in lamenting the 'stingy" treatment of Purdue un iversity by the Indiana legislat ure, "are appropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars to build up institutions that meet in com petition with . Purdue. Our friends of the Indiana institutions of higher learning might as well give up the idea that Indiana will engage in any "competition" foolishness along the line sug gested. It is true that the legislature of Illinois has appropriated to the State University of Illinois for the ensuing two years a sum equivalent to one-third of the en tire Indiana budget for all purposes for the same period. It is doubtful if Illinois is getting its money s worth. At any rate, in the face of appropriations of this kind for institutions in other states Purdue has been able to go on doing a character of work that has kept it abreast of all these institutions. The mere lavish use of money tloes not make a great educational institution. The University of Illinois has been building cowbarns that resemble the Alhambra but the question is whether it is turning out dairy experts under these circumstances who can get results in their work outside of the environment of a Spanish castle. By the way, the demand for huge appropriations at Purdue comes not from the needs of the agricultural department, but from the desire to excel in engineering and other phases of work with which the character of Purdue as the state's agricultural school has no relation. If it is necessary to reduce expenses, the institution can keep with in its financial limitations by confining the matriculation to Indiana students, who comprise only about two-thirds of the entire number of the whole student body. It is lor Indiana students that tlie institution is primarily maintained out of the state treasury. Marion Chronicle. Indiana to the Front. Under the heading of "Indiana to the Front," the Chicago Record-Herald commends the recent action of the Legislature for being the first to pass a resolution making a formal demand for a constitutional convention to consider the reform of electing United States Senator direct by the people. The Record-Herald further says: "The Indiana resolution should be followed by prompt resolutions from every other state which has a legislature in session." Postoffice Promotion. First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock has announced that 19,900 clerks and 24,227 letter carriers in first and second class postoffices throughout the country will receive promotion under the new reorganization provision of the postoffice appropriation bill, beginning July 1. These promotions involve an ex penditure of $4,500,000.

Hughes and Hanly.

One of the leading periodicals of the country devotes a good deal of space in its current issue to an exhaustive and appreciative study of Governor Hughes, the New York reformer and statesman. The secrets of his power and the methods of his success are very interestingly set forth. Perhaps the most valuable and certainly the most timely portion of the article is the description of his relations with the New York Legislature. Governor Hughes holds to the doctrine that the executive and the legislative departments of the Government are distinct in theory and should be distinct in practice. He is often approached by members of the Legislature who wish to frame up bills so as to meet his views ; but if they think to gain his favor in this manner, they speedily find out their mistake. Upon one such occasion, Governor Hughes expressed himself to members of the Legislature in this wise: "I am not here to tell you how to draw your bills. I am not here to dictate the form or fashion of bills that are to be passed by the Legislature. I have nothing to say about that. When your bills have been passed and come to me in the regular way I will consider them and not before. Go ahead and draw your own bills. If they do not fit in with my ideas of what they should be you will get that information after the bills have been passed not before." The author of the article goes on to explain what Governor Hughes means by this sort of talk." He believes that the Legislature is a co-ordinate part of the State Government, responsible to its constituents, and not to him, just as he is responsible to the people who elected him. He is studiously careful, also, to avoid even the appearance of being the boss of the Legislature. He prefers to be the Governor of the whole State and of all the people rather, than become identified with one faction in the Legislature as a part of that faction. He thinks he is in a stronger position to be independent in this way than to tie himself up so that bills before the Legislature can be known as administration measures, or the governor's measures, and so that members max' tro about the caoitol oosiner as ' '"the Governor's representa tives. Governor Hanly attempted to dictate legislation and lost orestige. Hanly listened to Jim Good rich, who made him believe that the Republicans of Indiana were not capable of self-goverment. Goodrich deserted Hanly at a critical moment, but the power of Boss Goodrich is broken. His oily tongue will never give him a chance to boss the Republicans of Indiana. Soldiers Home Changes. A special meeting of the board of trustees of the State Soldiers' Home, with chairman W.S. Haggard presiding, was held Friday for the purpose of considering extensive improvements that are to be made at the institution with the $95,000 appropriation of the Legislature for such purpose. It was decided to erect a new .$50,000 hospital on a high bluff, southeast of the present hospital, and to have the structure a modern one in every respect. The building now being used as a hospital will be converted into an old people's home, in which the most infirm members will be cared for. The building will be completely overhauled, and $15,000 will be spent on the improvements. A large dining room will be added, in order that the old people may remain in the building for meals. The board will spend the remainder of the appropriation in the building of a cold storage plant, a large water Unk, a trunk-line sewer and in new bo'lers and engines, an extension of the steam heating system and a lighting system. Calumet Permit Refused. The people of Chicago and vi cinity who wished to see the Calumet river used as a feeder for the drainage canal are doomed to disappointment. Secretary Taft denied the application of the san itary board for permission to have a certain part of the water of Lake Michigan so diverted. The secretary held that as the chief of engineers had refused the application and as it could be granted only by the joint action of that officer and the secretary of war he found himself also ob liged to refuse the permit. Judgment Reversed. A judgment annexing to Mish awaka a large tract of adjoining teritory by order of the board of commissioners was reversed by the supreme court Friday on the ground that it included a half dozen platted additions to the town and the commissioners only have jurisdiction to annex terri tory to a city when it is unplatt ed.

MARRIED.

Thompson--Boyce. At the home of the bride's mother, on West Jefferson street, Plymouth, Indiana, Sunday, March 18, 1907, at high noon, Ernest P. Thompson and Miss Myrtle E. Boyce, were united in marriage by Rev. O. F. Landis. There were about twenty invited guests present and a splendid wedding dinner was served. The young couple will go to housekeeping on a farm in Green township where both groom and bride grew to manhood and womanhood and have many friends. Craige--Rupel. James Nathan Craige of this city and Miss Samantha Rupel of West township, were married by Rev. L. Shatford at his home near Sligo, Sunday afternoon. March 17, 1907. The bride is the daughter of the late Ammi Rupel and has been a resident of West township all her life. Mr. Craige was born in this city, which has always been his home. He is at present employed in Leonard's furniture store. Both are excellent people and they will make their home in this city on West South street. Powell--Carl. Thomas Powell and Mrs. Mary E. Carl, old residents of this county, aged 60 and 65 years were married by Justice Harry Unger Monday. Practical Forestry. In the primal days of this country it was covered with the giant forest trees except on the prairies and marshes. The land was filled with many springs of water and small streams. As the forests have been cleared away the springs have dried up and the small streams have ceas ed to .run. The marshes, by drainage and the lessening of the forest area, have become tillable ground, while the prairies, through the planting of forest trees and orchards, have become more moist and fertile. This last statement is most noticeable on our western prairies, where but a few years ago they were arid plains; by the persistent planting of "timber claims," shade trees and orchards have conserved the : moisture 'and is making of it the richest of agri cultural lands. If all our timber here should be cut from the land it would soon be like the arid plains of the west or some of the lands of the east where all the timber has been destroyed and the land is .y' worth cultivating. Large tracts of timber set aside as forest reserves, either by state or general government, are not worth so much to the whole country nor so helpful to agriculture as smaller tracts dispersed .throughout the country would be. While large tracts situated in almost inaccessible places will equalize the rainfall, conserve the moisture and add millions of dollars to the value of our agricultural products. The Canal in 1915. The members of the commercial clubs of St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati and Boston, who have just returned from Panama, say they think the canal will be completed in about eight years from now. This is only a guess, but it may be worth as much as the other guesses which have been made. Some of the recent attaches of the canal's constructive forces Wallace, Shonts, ötevens and others have .made guesses ranging between six and ten years as the time for the opening of water communication between the two big oceans, and even though those personages are pretty well discredited by the country, some of their time estimates are likely to come close to the mark. Under the efficient administration of the army officers who are now to take hold of the work a good deal of digging ought to be done in the next seven or eight years. Heretofore the chief activity on and pertaining to the canal seems to have been the squabbling between various personages on the isthmus and the wrangles between the isthmus and Washington. Oratory is not taught at West Point or at the army posts which means that the dirt flying hereafter is likely to be physical and not metaphorical, as it has been along to this time. Wireless Telegraphy. A severance of communication with any part of the earth will henceforth be impossible. An ex plorer like Stanley in the tropical forest or Peary amid ice fields, will report daily progress to the press of his own country says a current periodical. Every wandering tramp steamer will have its wireless spar and will be in con stant touch with vessels that dot the ocean all about it. The dream of signaling to Mars may yet be realized.

Schools Teachers Salaries.

Senate Bill 228 fixes the mini mum daily wages of beginning teachers at "an amount determined by multiplying 2 1-2 cents by the general average given such teacher in his highest grade of license at the time of contracting." After six months' exrerience 3 cents is substituted and after an experience of three school years 3 1-2 cents is substituted as the sum to be multiplied by the teacher's general average; for teachers exempt from examination, 3 cents. Two per cent, is to be added to the general average of scholarship and success for attendance at the county institute "the full number of days." All teachers not "already in the service" must be graduates of a high school or its equivalent," and must have had training "in a school maintaining a professional course for the training of teachers or its equivalent". Beginners must have had one term of twelve weeks' work in such a school, or its equivalent" Twice as much training is required after one years experience, and a teacher with three years' experience to get the highest grade of wages must "be a graduate" of such a school "or its equivalent" I he Mate Board of Education is to determine what high schools and training schools shall be recognized and what "equivalent" in the way of ability to pass examination shall be accented as s, substitute for study and training in such schools. Any school officer who pays a teacher less than the legal rate shall forfeit the amount of the deficit to be recov ered by the teacher with an at torney fee of $25, and shall also be fined $100. The act is to take effect one year from the 1st of "next August. Three Strong Candidates. The Chicago Tribune says ari. effort will be made to induce Roosevelt take the Republican nomination for president but assuming that the convention nominates Roosevelt and he declines, or does it in advance in such an emphatic manner as to make a vote for him more or less of an insult, other candidates of course will be presented. According to the belief of most politicians, the the real fight in the convention will be between Secretary Taft, Vice .President. .Fairbanks, .and Gov. Hughes, with the chances at the present time in the order named. It is assumed that Speaker Cannon will not become an active candidate. He could, if he chose, have a large following in any Republican convention. He is persoally popular, fills the picturesque idea of a western man, and is beyond doubt typically American. But this is an age of young men, and Speaker Cannon has reached a point where, according to the Bible and life insurance companies, his expectation of life is not a great one. He is three score and ten now, and although he is an adept at a country dance and is really youthful in mind and body, his election to the presidency would involve the choice of a man for second place with the definite prospect of an early successor, because if Speaker Cannon should be elected president in 1908 and take his seat the following year, he would be in his seventy-seventh year at the end of his first term. The Newest Constitution. The latest thing in constitutions will be submitted to the voters of Oklahoma and Indian Territory on Aug. G. The draft which has just been completed by the constitutional convention con tains most of the "advanced ideas which are popular in the west and southwest but which . older states are slow to see the advantage of. About the only thing it does not contain is woman suffrage. It is easy to believe that even civilized Inidans are slow to concede equality to womenand it is possible that the white women of the territory have so much else to do in aiding the development of a new state that they have no time for politics. No Politics in Visit. Secretary Loeb denies a published statement that the White House conference Saturday, in which Governor Charles Deneen and Attorney-General Stead, of llinois, participated, was for the purpose of promoting the candidacy of Secretary Taft for the presidency. The story originated, it is said, from the fact that Secretary Taft and his brother, Chas P. Taft of Cincinnati, called at the executive office while the president was in conference with the Illinois officials, and were introduced to the President's visitors. The only reference made to politics during the conference was that the President asked Governor Deneen regarding the mayoralty fight in Chicago. Finest line of commencement cards and commencement stationery at Tribune office.

MORTUARY.

Mrs. Jacob Ewald. Mrs. Jacob Ewald of Bremen, died last Saturday morning, aged nearly 74 years, of heart failure caused by an attack of the grip. Barbara Ewald, nee Geyer, was born May 16, 1833. In 1854 she was married to Jacob Ewald and to them were born twelve children, three of whom preceded the mother in death. The surviving children are Mrs. J. Berger, Mrs. F. C. Laudeman, Mrs. George Berger, Mrs. J. Holderman, and Messrs. Philip, Elias and Carson Ewald of Bremen; Mrs. Heinrich of Detroit, Mich; and Rev. Edmond Ewald, of Terre Haute. Mother Ewald felt proud of her sons and daughters and rightly so. About 32 years ago she was converted and united with the Evangelical church during the pastorate of the late Rev. Jacob Troyer. That she lived a good Christian life was manifest. Her life and service in the church were always in keeping with Christian dignity. Her departure will be greatly felt in the home, the church and the neighborhood. Besides the husband and children, there are 24 grandchildren, one great grandchild, three brothers and one sister left to mourn for her. Chester A. Werntz. Chester Adem, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Werntz, died at the home of his parents in this city, Monday evening, aged about 18 years. Death came after an illness of less than four days, from cerebro-spinal-meningitis, and is indeed a sad blow to his parents and friends. He was a bright, intelligent, industrious youth who gave promise of a noble manhood but the Angel of Death has claimed him and his work on earth is done. He leaves his parents, two brothers, Cleo and John Charles, other relatives and many friends whose hearts are sad. Funeral services will be held at the residence Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. W. S. Howard. Friends wishing to take a last look at the remains can see them Thursday between the hours of 10 and 12 a. m. and 1 and 2 p. m. Death of William Sult William Sult, a soldier of the civil war, who had been a resident of this city and vicinity fifty years, died Saturday morning, March l6, aged 68 years. Deceased was born in Ohio, came to this city when a youth, was a member of the Thirteenth cavalry during the war, and for twenty-five years had been in a condition that he could do very little work. He had, however, been downtown almost every day during the past winter until a week previous to his death. He leaves a wife and one daughter, Mrs. Adam Baugher, one brother, Jacob Sult, of this city and several nephews and nieces. Funeral services at the Methodist church at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. S. Crowder. Mrs. Boaz Vangilder. Emma, wife of Boaz Vangilder, died at the St. Joseph hospital, South Bend, Monday, March 18, aged 24 years. Deceased was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wenninger of this city and was a very estimable lady. She and her husband had been residing in Mishawaka for the past years or more and death came after an operation at the hospital. She leaves a husband, one son two years old, her parents and four brothers besides other relatives. The remains were brought to this city at noon Tuesday and taken to the home of her parents in the northwest part of the city. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. 0. F. Landis at the U. B. church Wednesday at 2 o'clock p. m. Henry Kaley. Henry Kaley, one of the oldest residents of West township, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clara Copp, near the Shoemaker bridge, Monday night, aged, 88 years. Funeral services will be held at the Stuck church, Thursday at 10 a. m. and the remains will be taken to South Bend for interment. Cruelty to Animals. A law passed at the recent session of the legislature strength rns, the existing law concerning cruelty to animals and should jrive a new impetus to the efforts of persons interested in humane work. The new law provides that the word animal, "wherever it occurs in any act on the subject shall include every living creature except members of the human race, and the words "torture" and "cruelty" shall be held to include every act, omission or neglect whereby unnecessary or unjustifiable physical pain or suffering is caused.