Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — Page 7

THE FARM AND HOME

MATTERSOF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Value of a Fast-Walking Team—More Attention Should Be Given Green Crops—How to Grow Celery Best Varieties of Potatoes for Seed. The Walking Horse. We hear a great deal about the running horse and nearly as much about the trotting horse, but very little about the walking horse. The first two are valuable In their way, but neither of them Is as much needed In this country as the last. A slow-walking team makes work drag In spite of every effort, of the driver. Farm work must be done with the horses at a wallj, and a slight difference In the rate at which the team gets over ground makes a great difference In the amount of work accomplished. The great trouble with most farm teams is that they are allowed to get into the habit of dragging along at the rate of about two miles an hour, even when going unloaded, and this habit becomes fixed and impossible to remedy, for the farm horse that gets in the notion of going slowly will poke along In spite of ally urging that may -be used. There is much farm work tbgt Is very light on the team. Cultivation is not heavy work, and drawing a mowing machine does not call for more than a small fraction of the power a horse may exert without injury. Haul ing loads to market is not heavy work, when the roads are good, and all these kinds of work should be done with the team walking at a rate that would keep a man on a-comfortable dog-trot all the time. The fast-walking horse is made in breaking the colt. He usually wants to go too fast, and is held down until he comes to believe that his gait is to be a dragging walk. If the coP is trained to walk up briskly, but not trot; if he is never allowed to trot uutil he is thoroughly trained to walk as fast as he can without trotting, there will be no trouble about his walking In after life. When the colt that is being trained begins to lag, touch him gently with the whip to let him know that he must move up a little more briskly, but do not strike him hard enough to hurt and excite him. Make hint keep on walking as fast as he can, and the habit will soon become a fixed one, and his value will be increased,— Farmer's Voice.

> Green Crops. Farmers should give some attention to green crops, whether they use the •entire pasture or not. Green crops afford a large variety and cost less than any other foods, giving large amounts •of forage and assisting in keeping the land in good condition. Rye, crimson •clover, ret! clover, cow i>ens, green •corn, rape and oats are all suitable lor .producing green food in abundance, •and, as rye and crimson clover give a supply in the spring, before grass has made growth of any consequence, they should always be in the line of rotation. Oats and peas, broadcasted together, may be seeded now if the ground is not frozen, and they will give a larger amount of green food on the acre than can be secured from three or four (times that area of pasture, and the forage may be cut off and given to the ' animals at the barn. When the green food Is no longer suitable for cutting, sheep may be turned on the remainder, and will find a fair proportion of food. Later cow peas may be sown, and they will leave the land in better condition than before. It is not too soor. to sow Essex rape, and, as many farmers have not given it a trial, those who will make the experiment with rape as .green forage will not fail to g|ve it a place on the farm hereafter. It can be cut or eaten off several times during the year, and yields enormously, sheep being very fond of it, while cattle and hogs also relish it highly.—Philadelphia Record. ;•••" ' i r ® How to Grow Celery. Dr. S. B. Partridge*, of East Bloomfield, N. J., is raising celery on a large scale on the bed of a reclaimed swamp. He set 125;000 plants last year of the dwarf Goklen Self-Blanching, and produces from 1,500 to 1,800 dozen branches of celery per acre, marketable at from 20 cents to <SO cents per dozen. His celery kept for winter market Is placed in trenches made by means of a crib, 10 feet long and 14 Inches wide, which Is placed in the row and filled, with celery. Then a deep bank of earth is thrown up on either side to the top of the celery, after which the crib is taken up and moved forward its length, and the same process Is repeated. The trenches are left open at the top until the approach of eold weather, when they are covered with straw and earth. —New England Farmer. Selecting Potato Seed. In choosing varieties of potatoes for spring planting it Is advisable to select those that have been recently produced from seed, provided, of course, that their quality and productiveness have been tested and are generally known. The variety that is newly produced from seed Is generally more vigorous then than it Is likely to be after a few years’ contest with potato bugs and the blight and rots, which all help to decrease potato vigor and productiveness. But It is not advisable to jplant potatoes, however good, which are very: unlike standard sorts, and whose good qualities are not generally known. There Is so much difference In potatoes that the mere fact that a potato Is a potato Is not enough with most consumers to secure a market for It until after they have given It a trial. The Food of Hairy Cattle. With the advent of the growing seaton begins a lessening of the cost of

food for stock. Dairymen have less la* bor to perform in spring and summer; as the cows can be put on pasture, and consequently feed themselves. Nevertheless, there are many points from which the matter of producing milk and butter at the lowest cost may be viewed. Every dairyman should first know the characteristics of the cows in the herd. With the aid of the scales he should be able to estimate the amount of food consumed by each individual, and by the use of the milk tester he can keep himself Informed of what each cow Is doing. Unless he uses these precautions he will be operating in the dark. There is a wide difference in the capacity of cows, even when of the same breed, and this difference may be sneh as to cause a loss from one cow, while the other gives a profit. In a herd of from twenty to forty cows there may be some excellent animals, and the entire herd may give a profit, yet among them may be some that entail a loss, and at the same time increase the cost for labor. In a recent test at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station it was found that a cow in a herd that produced 200 pounds of but-ter-in a year only gave a profit of S3O, while another cow that produced only 276 pounds in the same period gave a profit of SOO. The capacity of one cow was to digest and assimilate the food better than the other. The profit was not In the quantity of butter produced, but in the reduction of the cost. Straw as Mulch. In grain-growing localities farmers have a cheap supply of excellent mulch in the straw of the grain crops they raise. In most cases no better use can be found for this than to use it as a mulch for trees sot recently. If the ground is plowed the soil under the tree should be covered with at least enough straw to keep the surface from becoming compact. By keeping the surface soil loose and friable, air is enabled to enter it, and this is absolutely necessary to give vigorous growth to the roots. Quite often in planting trees deep holes are dug into the subsoil, and earth without any vegetable matter is thrown to the surface. Some mulch around the tree so far as the subsoil extends will prevent it from becoming hardened and excluding air.

Food for Young Chicks. It 1s useless to attempt to raise young chicks on corn-meal dough, as such food is not sufficient. Very young chicks should lie fed three times a day, and millet seed should be scattered so as to Induce them to exercise in seeking the seeds. An excellent food for yoting chicks is bread, made of the following substances: Sifted ground oats, 1 pound; corn -meal, 1 pound; bran, % pound; middlings, % pound; ground meat.JL pound; ground clover, 1 pound; salt. 2 ounces; bread soda, I'ounce. The bread should be crumbled, given dry, ami on clean board!?, allowing no food to remain, as it will become sour if uneateu. The Cream Separator. Recent German trials indicate that the separator removes from milk and cream not only the dirt .and slime which pass through the strainer, but the greater portion of bacteria. As cows are usually oared for and handled there is always some dirt and dandruff from the cow’s udder gets into the milk. This cannot always l>e caught in a strainer, but if any passes through it is included with the slime .which remains in the separator bowl. The German trials indicate that most of the bacteria remain with It. Grape Vine Fertilizing. Grape vines usually need very little manure other than mineral, and that chiefly potash. In European countries it is'.the habit of vineyardists to burn the primings each year, and apply the ashes. No other fertilizer is used. In fact, stable manures are objected to, as they--makethe vines grow rank, and tlie fruit will lack the flavor that belongs to fruits whose vines are only manured with the ashes. Much of the excell'ciice'of French wines is possibly due to this sparing use of manure.

Productiveness of Strawberries. As many its 10,000 quarts of strawberries have been grown on afi acre. A plot 50 feet square will produce oyer (500 quarts—iu the same proportion. It is not every grower who receives 5.000 quarts per acre, but,a garden plot can be made to give larger proportionate yield than a field.

Hints to Beekeepers. Adjusting boards should be used in hives of all weak stocks. Colonies having defective queens are always the foundation of trouble. Colonies selected for breeding should contain a good supply of drone comb. Little wooden troughs holding about % pint of sirup are good for feeding bees. The supply of drones depends entirely on the amount of drone comb fur-; nished. Colonies selected for breeders should be pushed by early feeding to their utmost limit. . Do not feed In the morning, as It tends to cause robbing and to make the bees restless. It Is just as necessary to select for the production of drones as for the production of queens. Pollen Is always stored iu or near the brood nest, and here is the place where the bees will cluster. Bees are not apt to attach comb to cloth, so cloth divisions between frames serve as a gtilde. Queen cells should never be retained In any colony except one that is In a natural, healthy condition. Be sure that the entrances to the hives are-kept open. The bees want good, fresh air to breathe. Confine each colony to only as many combs as the bees can conveniently cover, giving more combs as needed.

SILVER SENTIMENT. It Btill Has a Strong Hold on the People who Think for Themselves. War talk has not diverted the attention of the people from the consideration of the political battle which was fought between the forces of gold monometallism and bitmetallism in the autumn of ISIHi. William J. Bryan has been given a most enthusiastic reception in the South, and has demonstrated, to the dismay of the gold clique, that silver sentiment is deeper and broader and wider, more enthusiastic and. more earnest than ever before. In discussing the triumphant tour of Bryan, the Washington Post, a newspaper devoted to the gold cause and opposed to the Democratic candidate for President in 1890, says: “Those eminent mugwumps and cuckoos who are trying to ma£e themselves believe that Mr. Bryan is a dead issue will do well to take careful note of the manner in which the people receive him everywhere along the route of his present journey. There can be no sort of doubt that Mr. Bryan received in New Orleans a welcome of unparalleled warmth and enthusiasm. Those Democrats who refused to accept the Chicago platform in 18UU were as zealous and as cordial in their attentions as the other Democrats—a vast majority—who stood by the party and its candidate.” Under the circumstances it would, perhaps, be just as well for the gold clique journals to restudy the theory that “silver sentiment Is dead.” Differences of opinion among Democrats are being harmonized, and Secretary Gage lias been forced to admit that the-Wttle of standards will have to be fought over again in 1900, This is not a propitious time to discuss political questions, but it is just as well to call attention to the fact that rumors of war. or even war itself, cannot divert the thoughts of the people front the,vital question of bimetallism. —Chicago Dispatch. Michigan and Lumber Duties. The furniture manufacturers of Michigan are turning against the Dingley law. They point to the disappearing forests of that State and then to the new $2 duty on lumber, which shuts out the Canadian product, upon which they are coining to depend. It is a duty excellently designed to stimulate forest slaughter in the United States, but the trouble in this case is that there are few more forests left to slaughter. So a united protest against the Dingley duty goes to Washington from the very State which, next to Maine, was supposed to be a chief beneficiary of the imposition.—Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

Incalls ns a Populist. It would lx> a sight for gods and men to see ex-Seriator John J. Ingalls of Kansas running for Congress as a Populist candidate for the purpose of overcoming a big Republican majority in the tirsjt Kansas district. If Ingalls can really down his former party in such a struggle—and is willing to do so—the opportunity should certainly be given. And whether iie can or not. it might be well to encourage the effort. The example would be valuable to many persons not yet fully awake to the versatility of politicians of the Ingalls type or to the wild and weird possibilities'of Kansas politics.—St. Louis Republic. The Boodler’s Pet Stronghold. Republican and mugwump spoolers love to talk of the depravity of New York under Tweed and other Tammany bosses, but they never refer to Philadelphia, where boodle!sm and all sorts of knavery have flourished for years, and where the people are worse governed and more shamefully plundered than those of any other great city in the country. The developments, now making of rascality in the Council of Philadelphia are only in line with similar, revelations which have been made from time to time for many years past. In Philadelphia boodling has been a fine art for more than a generation.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Sordid Commercialism Scored. Boss Hanna’s insolence was fittingly rebuked by Senator Thurston. The high priest of sordid commercialism, ready to sacrifice every thing to gain, stands for a group which is struggling to make itself a class and a caste, a group already laden with iniquity, and which is now bent upon turning an ignoble penny out of national perplexity. Senator Thurston <liid well to rebuke these men, and his words will be cheered by”every honest heart, by every true patriot, by every man who hates wickedness and, loves the Tiglit.—St. Ixniis Post-Dispatch.

Begun Under Democratic Auspices. The Philadelphia Press speaks of “the development of the modern navy as begun uuder President Harrison.” These are times when even party organs can afford Jo* be fair." The “development of the modern navy” was begun under the first Cleveland administration, and the credit for the inauguration of the good work is due to William C. Whitney.—Washington Post.

Disgusted Republican Organ. Tfiepersistent interference of the proSpauishparty, represented in Washington chiefly by Secretaries Bliss and Gage, is having a disturbing effect both on Congress and ou the people. American citizenship cannot endure the thought that a question of principle and duty can be determined or considered by the profits or loss of stock speculators or of anybody else.—New York Tress. - * Patriotism of the Highest Order. I The attitude of the Democratic party, from the inception of the Cuban crisis to the present moment has been In the highest degree patriotic. Mere considerations of partisan advantage have been utterly lost sight of, and the Democratic party has stood as one man in favor of a policy which would maintain the hatlonal honor and be worthy of the best traditions of the American people.—lndianapolis Sentinel. ,

MANX,JURIED ALIVE.

DEATH t lES AN AVALANCHE IN & ILKOOT PASS. Gold-Seekent Are Swept Down by the Score-Full Extent of the Disaster Not Known—One Hnndred Argonauts May Have Perished. Trail Strewn with Dead. Lost Sunday afternoon a disastrous Bnowslide overwhelmed Cbilkoot Pass .while it was crowded with miners. It is thought that there are no less than 100 victims, representing nearly every State in the Union. Thirty-one bodies had been recovered when the news was sent. The accident occurred in* the afternoon, after a heavy chinook wind had softened the snow and ice. The point of the disaster was about midway between Stonehouse and the Soak's. A brief account of the accident was brought to Seattle by the steamer Alki. The story was telephoned from Dyea to Skaguay just before the steamer sailed. It is known that several women were among the victims. Fully 100 people were overtaken by the slide and were either buried in the snow or scattered along the borders of the avalanche in a more or less injured condition. The point at which the accident occurred is some five miles above Sheep Camp. The nearest telephone station is four miles distant. The telephone wires at Dyea were carried away by the slide. A blinding snowstorm was raging all day upon the summit, and as a consequence many of those in the vicinity were making no attempt to travel. There had been a preliminary snowslide at 2 o'clock in the morning and people on the trail were digging out their goods when the second and disastrous slide occurred. Thousands of people were encamped in the vicinity of the accident at the time and were soon upon the scene rendering such assistance as possible. Thousands of Tons of Snow. All day Saturday and Sunday a southerly storm, with rain, wind and snow, prevailed in the vicinity, and it is believed the softening of the snow on the mountain side by those; agencies was the cause of the avalanche. The quantity of snow and ice, that came down in the slide is estimated at thousands of tons. It swept directly across the trail, which, notwithstanding the fact that the weather was unsuitable for travel, was thronged with wayfarers. The last vestige of the trail in the Vicinity was wiped out of existence, and where it led is now a mountain of snow and ice, under which are many dead bodies that cannot be recovered for many days to come. At Stonehouse the'valley narrows to a width of about 150 yards, walled in by sheer and slight wooded cliffs reaching from the east Of the trail to almost a vertical glacier which is variously estimated from 18,000 to 20,000 feet from base to crown. Within the shadow of this majestic cliff stood a little c-olony of tents, many of whose occupants were awakened only by the grip of death to fight for life against a rain erf ice and rock that in a few minutes had buried the little white village under thirty feet of avalanche debris. Not a few were mercifully spared a waking death, being crushed as they slept, with no forewarning of the disaster that was to overwhelm them. Witnesses say that it seemed as though the entire face of the great white wall had been suddenly by some unseen hand hurled down with frightful velocity on its inissiou of destruction, the roar of the slide being plainly heard several miles away. Men and women who were overwhelmed htay have realized what happened, but they had- no possible opportunity to escape. The high waves of snow had buffeted and tossed, coffined and graved them in au instant, l>efore they could cry their agony. And only a great silence and a vast mound of snow marked where humanity and hope reigned but a moment before. Rescue parties were immediately organized and at least 2,000 men were soon at work. The bodies were found in all sorts of attitudes, and almost every face bore the expression of intense terror photographed upon it by slow death. Those whose lives had been crushed out at once were easily distinguished by their facial placidity and the undisturbed condition of the snow entombing them. The slides were caused by a rise in the atmospheric temperature, occasioned by the warm wind that had been blowing from the south for several days. Although snow-laden, this breeze is balmy enough to thaw the icy waters of the mountains.

WAR IN THE TROPICS.

The Grave Difficulties of Campaigning in a Torrid Clime. The difficulties of conducting war in the tropics is great. This Government has had no experience with campaigning in the tropics. A good many years ago the Seruiuolos in southern Florida went on the warpath. There wore only 3,000 of those Indians, counting bucks, squaws and papooses. To subdue them the United States sent an army of 7,400 men. The Seniinoles fought about as the Cubans have been doing. They dodged about, hid in the everglades and bushwhacked. The Seminole war cost the lives of 1,531 soldiers, of whom 58 fell in battle. 214 died of wounds and 1.230 succumbed to malarial diseases. The United States has paid $53,000,000 iu pensions to survivors, widows and orphans of the Seminole war. The expeditions of the British and other European powers in the West Indies and Central America have always resulted iu an enormous loss of life from disease. 'ln 1741 Vernon’s expedition to Carthagena cost-over 20,000 lives, Other disasters due to similar causes have marked all England’s military operations in American territory. The intense heat the noxious vapors, and the poisonous dews and miasmas that arise from the tropical swamps are almost certain to result fatally to those who are unaccustomed.

News of Minor Note.

A naval recruiting station is to be established at Ctevelund, Ohio. Lewis Adams, aged 17 years. Is In jail »t Norman, Okla., charged with stealing a. horse from his grandfather. It » reported that Japan has asked the United States to join Gfeat Britain in support of Japan s position at Wei-Hai-Wel, China, Gov. Black, pf New York, sent to the Legislature a message asking for a contingent war appropriation of $1,0(X>,000. The bill was Immediately passed.

COUNTY GOVERNMENT.

—-r „ •• Official Figure* Showing Exactly What It Coats in Indiana. State Statistician John B. Conner baa recently issued a bulletin concerning the administration of the business of the various counties of the State for the fiscal year ending May 31, 1897- The most intereisting information is with reference to the total receipts of the counties, th* net debt of each, and the cost of county administration, total and per capita. Below is given a table showing the cost of administration, total and per capita, the total receipts ami the net debt: Total He- Net Counties. cost. *eeipts,f ' debt. Adams ..... .$13,412.41 $4,992.49 $50,672.95 Allen ...... '41.369.4U 18.330.70 . -10,189.28. B'rtUTniw.. 15.555.71 7,318,4:: 57,000.00 Menton 10.520.00 4.446.85 • Hlackford ... 10.092.05 7.165.54 119,000.00 Mooue 15.:w)4.50 909,90 20,501.55 Mrowu 4.590.04 4,434.5 V 9.515.74 Carroll 13,737.35 3,193.1» ftL335.0l Cuss 19.585.00 5,218.50 54,090.43 Clark 12,950.07 75.85 110,720.25 Clay 8,718.13 0.555.35 45.12tf.00 Clinton 18.739.80 9,391.16 Crawford ... 0,893.42 140.3 S 59,422.03 Daviess 10,900.87 10,449.09 50,000.00 Dearborn ... 9,522.00 7,094.13 M 1,089.91 Decatur 13,389.43 9:218.88 67,850.00 De Kalb 14,507.09 45,281.64 Delaware ... 21,991.50 15,739.41 119,858.98 Dubois 12,888.57 3,900.27 Elkhart 20.100.00 10,401.04 90.000.00 Favette 10.382.97 3,140.00 54,040.83 Floyd . 177029.00 5.449.50 75.205.63 Fountain 10,039.71 0,089.08 25,000.00 Franklin .... 10,053.56 2.098.25 ........ Fulton 13,570.03 5,718.92 171,500.00 Gibson ...... 14,509.40 8.031.59 ........ Grant 24,697.40 15.973.49 87.500.84 Greene 13.003.29 0,359.31 55.000.92 Hamilton ... 17.290.98 7,509.05 81.053,49 Hancock .... 12,888.50 4.807.78 128.000.00 Harrison .... 14.441.40 3,303.74 38,870.17 Hendricks .. 12.888.01 5.191.58 13,209.17 Henry 8,310.73 3,549.27 Howard .... 8.573,05 142.20 33,845.57 Huntington.. 17,092.52 7.830.45 57,344.03 Jackson 15,470.28 7.001.05 129,900.19 Jasper 13,301.38 9,275.58 .82.973.84 Jay 15,087.22 8,000.05 154,500.00 Jefferson .... 14.070.94 5J659.33 Jennings .... 12.094.09 4,073.71 ........ Johnson 13,345.40 3.000.71 30,000.00 Knox ..22,432.54 7,875.23 45,199.80 Kosciusko..; 17.634.44 0,300.74 Lagrange ....T0.685.47 ■ 5,723.37 ......... I.ake 20,258.65 12.301.08 8.000.00 Laporte 19,053.08 7,074.07 212,000.00 Lawrence ... 12,372.19 4,994.88 00,000.n0 Madison . ... 29.309.07 20,772.02 93,000.00 j Marlon 120,554.58 82.323.41 977,920.99 Marshall .... 18.004.55 11,530.38 21,741.73 Martin 9.595.49 3,093.08 60.000.00 Miami 10.837.32 9,278.18 18,174.12 Monroe ..... 10,984,95 1,810,73 120.783.32 Montgomery.. 15,552.00 47.000.n0 Morgan 10,555.29 5.109.54 53,000.00 Newton 8,530.27 4,903,59 Noble 15,5X1.45" 3,320.09 Ohio 3.500.05 . 2,500.00 Orange 10,035.84 3.001.01 O Wen 19.071.07 10.489.93 i,. Parke 8,167.00 5.1*40,14 13,000.00 l’erry 11.236.67 5.519.75 91,887.05 l’ike 11.860.05 3.763.25 39,000.00 Porter . ... ~ 15.565.99 4,863.10 13,939.11 Puspy ....... 15,125.15 0,556.32 Pulaski ..... 9.193.80 3.235.48 56,000.38 Putnam ..... 13.906.35 5.962.24 3.125.27 Randolph’ 19,531,83 10,510.21 2,051.02 Ripley ...... 13.304.99 1.712.89 30.812.79 Rush ; 10.719.13 4.138.98 160,000.00 Serttt 3,831.59 1.004.34 ........ Shelbv ...... 17.5tX1.82 7.307.35 Spencer 14.594.99 4.923.39 130,800.00 Starke ...... 8,489.43 4.100.00 . 70,301.44 Steuben 10,808.07 5,71X5.50 St. Joseph. .. . 31.031.71 Sullivan 10,293.59 4.295.03 10,955.07 Switzerland. . 9.249.14 2.513.14 11,601.93 Tippecanoe .. 14,499.11 -8.082.43 121.355.52 Tipton 14.752.34 0.135.43 200,900.00 T'nlon 5.373.1 X! 2.979.97 65,000.0(1 Vandt rhtirg . 43.812.87 18,980.81 596,980.05 Vermillion. .. 7.225.09 2,179.80 Vigo 30,338.23 8.985.23 357,795.00 Wabash 1(5.891.22 (5,349.51 42.104.87 Warren 12.223.08 4.41X5.31 21.(XX».(X1 Warrick .... 10,236.49 400.00 31,197.38 Washington.. 14*716.63 4,982.44 787.7(1 Wayne 1(5,018.44 884.07 402.747.37 Wells 12.805.10 7.274.48 122.000.00 White 14,539.52 9,085.02 67.819.(54 Whitley ..... 12,292.50 3,890.35 51,525.22

HOOSIER TEACHERS.

Sixteenth Annual Meeting of North Indiana Association. The sixteenth annual meeting of the North Indiana' Teachers’ Association was held at Kokomo. Tile attendance broke all previous records. The United sessions arc held at Grace Methodist Church, which scats 2,500 people, and the hall was packed at the opening session. Mayor Kirkpatrick delivered tlie address of welcome. The response was by Emma Monterae of Purdue University. The address by retiring President Snyder of Muneie and the inaugural of Superintendent Stratford of Peru were delivered Thursday evening. At the later sessions addresses were made by Dr. John Dexvey of the University of Chicago, I>r. McClellan of the Ontario Normal School and Itev. Newell Dwight HHlis of Chicago.

Short State Items.

John Bowman, his wife and three small children were injured in a runaway accident at Bethlehem. -The Hagerstown Town Council lias awarded the contract for building twenty thousand feet of cement sidewalks. Amiel Franklin of Covington, advance agent for La Pearl’s circus; was crushed b.v a passenger train at the Danville, 111., junction and seriously injured. Judgments aggregating over SI2,OCX) Were taken against the Steel Casting Company of Montpelier, in the Blackford Circuit Court. The largest of the judgments was that of the Fort Wayne Smelting and Refining Company for $10,858.15. Tony George, a policeman, on trial for murder in the first degree, was acquitted at Marion. George killed John Boyd in an attempt to arrest him laid August. The police board decided that George was just tilled, and kept him on the force, but the grand jury found an .indictment against him. The announcement has just lioon made of the marriage of Prof. Charles E. Spaulding of the Hagerstown High School and Miss Nora A. Faueett of West Baden. The wedding took place Dec. 29 and the announcement caused great surprise in Hagerstown, where Prof. Spaulding has been teaching for two years. Thewpodwork department of the A. W. Charles buggy works at Tipton was destroyed by tire. The wind was blowing a gale and several houses caught fire in the neighborhood. A great deal of seasoned material that had been on hand for one. and two years was consumed, togethe* with a large amount of work partially " "'''Dieted. Loss, $.‘5,000, with only SSOO insurance. Mr. Charles will rebuild at once. During the recent high waters the highpressure pipe line of the Southern Indiana Natural Gas Company broke in two in the middle of Big Blue river, near Skelbyville. A few days before, the low-pressure line of the same company parted. Since the waters subsided an investigation was made and it was found that some one had cut the line. The cut had been made with a eold chisel and a diamond point and in a diagonal direction nearly around the pipe, hut at no place did the chisel penetrate the pipe, showing that it was done by ab expert machinist. A large stump V»dged and completed the break.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THB PAST WEEK. Lake Bhore Suffers from Four Wrecks In a Single Day—Bloodhounds Attack! a Man—Alleged Juvenile Murderer in Jail—Fell on a Saw. i Four Wrtajm All in One Day. Four wrecks occurred in one day on tie main lino of the Lake Shore Railroad. The most disastrous one was at Waterloo, where the Fort Wayne and Jackson branch joins the main line. A freight train loaded with grain and cattle wa* being switched, when the rear section ram into the front, throwing several ears off the track. Five tramps, who were stealing a ride, were hurt, probably none fatally. The other wrecks were at Swan ton, Corunna and near Elkhart. Ali of these were freight trains, and, so far as can be learned, none was fatally injured. Hmrted Like n Wild Beast. Robbers entered the blacksmith shop of James H. Winters at Atwood. They secured about SSOO from the safe. The next morning bloodhounds were brought from Fort Wayne and placed on the scent. In about two hours they ran down Charle* Cartright in the woods east of Atwood. Before the searching party could catch up the dogs had torn him quite badly. A sum of money was found upon him, and he is under arrest. Twelve-Year-Old Murderer. Eddie Weiu, raged 12, of Schererville, has been arrested for murder and placed in jail without l>ond. He shot and instantly killed John Van Milligan with a target rifle, and at the time it was thought it was accidental, but it is now claimed he had a grudge against the boy and shot him purposely. The trial, will come up next month. Mullany Jury Disagrees. At Laporte, the jury in the case of James Mulianey, charged with manslaughter, informed the court that no agreement could be readied and was discharged. The crime for which Mulianey was tried was the alleged killing of Oscar Christensen, a South Bend policeman, oa the night of May 11, 1807. Fell on a Circular Paw. Frederick Goddard, aged l*i, of near Sandusky, while voluntarily assisting one of the mill hands at n portable sawmill, feu on a circular saw sustaining serious injuries. The saw cut him across the Iwick from shoulder to shoulder, severing the point of each shoulder blade.

Within Onr Borders. A 2-year-old child of Ferry Rodgers was burned to death at Upland. At Milford, burglars robbed Arnold Bros.* safe of S3UO and took S2OO in gods. At Shelbyviile, Alonzo Barrett was acquitted of attempt to murder Edward Skotski. The board of pardons paroled Winnie B. Smith, who killed Weston B. Thomas of Anderson. T*‘ Howard County has five women assessors this year. The engaging of women in this official work is an innovation. The Elkhart County and the LnOrange Telephone companies, which will be consolidated, will make a complete line from Toledo and Detroit to Chicago. Solomon F. Hines of Nashville, who was shot by Charles Henderson, is dead. The trouble arose over a political discussion. Henderson is held on a charge of murder. Principal O. J. Lamb of the Ingalls schools lias been appointed to a position as superintendent in the Government Indian schools at the Pine Root (Dakota) agency. ' A special election was held in Vienna and Finley townships on the proposition to build about of free gravel roads. The contest was quite hot, and the roads carried by a majority of eighteen. Edward Wilson, while working in the basement of a business building in course of construction at Kokomo, was struck on the head with a keg of nails that fell from the second story. Only a slight scalp wound was inflicted. The Ringgold Band of Terre Haute will probably take the place of the Warren Band of Evansville, as the regimental band of fheAFirst Regiment, Indiana Legion. \£ne Evansville men have withdrawn from the service. The remains of Commodore Brown, a wealthy farmer of Burrows who died suddenly Jan. 19, were exhumed by direction of Prosecutor Odell of Carroll County. It is suspected that Brown’s death was due to poisoning. About five years ago a natural gas well in Prairie township, failing to produce gas in paying quantities, was abandoned and the i>ipes pulled. During the last few months gas was noticed issuing from the ground thirty rods from the well in such, quantities that it could be ignited. A fivefoot hole was sunk, a match applied and there was a four-foot blaze. Farm houses near by are threatened with fire and explosions. Several abandoned wells in what is known as the Ivempton field areacting likewise. Several welts that have been dead for four or fire years are now producing gas in paying quantities. . The trouble which has resulted in shotting down many gas belt glass plants due. ing the past month aud threatened a national sympathetic strike which would close all plants was compromised at Anderson by President Burns, acting for the Workers’ National Association, making concessions and lifting the boycott against certain workers. The trouble is a national one, and has reached such a point that although this settlement apparently removes all obstacles there is little hope that season will bo run without a general shut-down. The trouble arises from the fact that two rival unions are endeavoring to dictate working terms. The trouble among the glass workers at the Enterprise window glass factory at Dunkirk, where there was to have been a walkout of the blowers and gatherers, has been declared off. It required 2(54 ballots to make a nomination at the fifth Indiana congressional district convention of the Republicans at Martinsburg. George W. Faris of Vigo County at last drew the prize. At Sullivan, the jury In the Bates murder trial returned a verdict pf not guilty. Ella Bates was charged Wtth murdering, her illegitimate child, which was found la a crook ouo morning In .February^