Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — Page 6

THE JOURNAL. LESLIE CLARK, Ed. and Pub. MNBBELAER, INDIANA.

MINOR EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Items of General Interest Told in Paragraphs. COMPLETE NEWS SUMMARY. Record of H»pp«ilip of Math or Llttl* Importance from All Parte of the Clvlllsed World —Incident*. Enterprise*, Accidents, Verdict*. Crime* and Ware. The city of New York has building boom involving expenditure of $130,000,000. New project* coating $80,000,000 already under way. Fire on steamer Fannie C* Hart on trip from Escanaba to Menominee caused panic among 200 excursionist*. The Rev. Louis Hahn dropped dead while laying church corner-stone at Quincy, 111. Presbyterian General Assembly will resujne debate on creed revision Monday. President’s train reached Ogden Sunday night Mrs. McKinley standing the trip well. Burglar at San Francisco killed a 13-year-old boy who recognized him. Colonel = Olcofct, the Theosophical leader, mistaken at Chicago for Dowie and jeered by a crowd. Broomcorn valued at $200,000 burned at Chicago Sunday. Wreckage of lumber schooner believed to be the C. H. Hackley sighted off Sheboygan. The schooner, with seven men on board, was out in the recent gale and is the only one not accounted for.

One hundred Filipinos from various islands of the archipelago to be a feature of the Buffalo Exposition. Police believe another woman implicated in murder of J. S. Ayres at Washington, D. C. Three British officers and nearly 100 men in Portland prison for treason to the flag of south Africa Sir Alfred Milner, governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, elevated to the peerage. Mrs. Mary L. McWilliams of Quincy, 111., arrested on charge of being implicated in murder of Dr. Barnes in Jacksonville asylum, her son-in-law. Steamer Empire State, with 600 excursionists on board, beached near Ogdensburg to save it from going down with all on board. Presbyterian General Assembly Friday by decisive vote decided to continue consideration of the question of creed revision. President McKinley and his party left San Francisco for the east Saturday. Debate on revision of creed began at the Presbyterian General Assembly in Philadelphia, Thursday. Herrick Johnson and Dr. Niccolls argued for change. ' President McKinley, in address at San francisco Thursday to volunteers returned from the Philippines, thanked them in the name of the nation. Richard Mansfield knocked down by a “super” while playing at St. Paul. Karl Enkelsjon, a spy of the Filipion Hongkong Junta, arrested at Manila with incriminating documents in his possession. Professor Star of Chicago University characterized tatooed and shirt waist men as degenerates. M. W. Pretorius, first President of the Transvaal, died at Johannesburg. Senator Hanna joined G. A. R. Phillips of Chicago board of trade disposed of nearly 4,000,000 bushels of corn Thursday, closing out his deal in the May option. Bresci, the assassin of KiDg Humbert, committed suicide by hanging iu Santo Stefano prison. Four persons hurt in Rock Island passenger wreck at West Wyanet, 111. Three children killed by a bear near Job, W. Va. Eight or more lives lost and millions of dollars’ damage caused by floods in Tennessee and West Virginia. Shamrock 11. practically wrecked by a squall while racing in the Solent. It may prevent the match this year for the America cup. King Edward, who was on board, had narrow escape from injury. Registereo letter containing SB,OOO sent from. Kansas City mysteriously disappeared.

Creed revision question touched upon at Presbyterian General Assembly by several speakers Wednesday. General Cailles, the Filipino commander, willing to surrender if his men are freed after taking oath of allegiance. Presbyterian General Assembly delegates displayed remarkable outburst of patriotism during Tuesday’s session at Philadelphia. Two killed and three fatally injured in accident at steel works in Youngstown, O. J. B. Ricks, democrat, elected to succeed Judge Phillips in second Illinois district. President McKinley reviewed 50,000 school children at San Francisco Tuesday, making a brief address to them. Mrs. McKinley better. Men involved in Grand Rapids water contract scandal attempting to influence the grand jurors not to return Indictments. F. C. Foster committed suicide when arrested on suspicion of exploding the dynamite at the Cambridgeport national Bank. Hoped to destroy evidence of a fraud. Papal order of knighthood conferred on Alexander McDonald, who founded hospital at Dawson.

RESIGN FROM THE SENATE.

Political War Between Tillman and MeUorio Reache* a Climax. The fierce political war between Senators Tillman and McLaurin reached a climax when both sent to Gov. McSweeney of South Carolina their resignations as United States senators. Each announces that he will go before the primary for re-election. The resignations will take effect September 15. This is the second instance in the histc.y of the senate that two members of that body have resigned and appealed for vindication to the voters of their state. In 1881 Senators Conkling and Platt made a spectacular exit from the senate, their grievance being that President Garfield had ignored them in the matter of important federal appointments in New York. Neither Conkling nor Platt was vindicated, Platt returning to the senate twenty years later, when the feud had been forgotten. Senator Tillman seemed much pleased with himself after the resignation. He considered tnat he had gained an important advantage over Senator McLaurin and that he risked little, while McLaurin’s chances of coming out vindicated were one in a hundred. “McLaurin made a bluff at me,” he said, “and did not I would call him. After I had made an assault on his honesty and integrity of purpose he tried to parry that by taunting me with the assertion that I would not leave my six years’ bomb-proof position. I saw the opportunity to make & ten-strike for democracy, and was ready to take it, regardless of the personal sacrifice. I want South Carolina to say whether she wants two democrats or two republicans in the senate. If the people do not want to re-elect me I do no’t care to serve them. I shall announce my candidacy to succeed myself and shall take such other steps as I find desirable.”

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Winter Wheat—No. 3 hard, 73*4c; no grade red, 63c. Spring Wheat—No. 3 spring. TfVhTlc; No. 4 spring, 64<867e. Corn —No. 2, 49*£&50%c: No. 2 ye110w,49%<850%c; No. 2 white. 49%:850%c; No. 3, 43*4@43%c; No. 3 yellow, 43 a 4 , 844%c; No. 3 white, 43?+c. Oats—No. 2, 30%c: No. 2 white, 304-4 c; No. 3. 30e; No. 3 white. 3<X&3lc; No. 4 white, 2944@30e. Hay—Choice timothy, $13@14; No. 1. $12.50®13; No. 2, 5U.50@12. Cattle—Native shipping and export steers, $4.85(86; dressed beef and butcher steers, $4.60'8 5.25: steers under 1.000 lbs, [email protected]; stockers and feeders, [email protected]: cows and heifers. $2(84.75; canners, $1.25@ 2.85; bulls. $3.25@4; Texas and Indian steers, $3.60(85.25: ccws and heifers, $3.15(8) 4-50. Hogs—Pigs and lights, $5,604/5.75; packers. $5.60(g5.80: butchers. $5.80'55.92%. Sheep—Native muttons, [email protected]: lambs, $5.50<g6.40; culls and bucks, [email protected]; steers, $2.80@3.» Eggs, 11c; cheese, twins, 9c; cheese, Young Americas, Kftfcc: butter, creamery, extras, 18c; firsts, 15%@16%c; iced chickens, scalded, 8(89%c; do, dry picked, B%@ 9c: do, - roosters. 6c; iced turkeys, 8(89e; live turkeys, lb. 5®7%c; chickens, 9V 2 (5) 10c; geese, doz. ss@6; potatoes. Burbanks, bu, 40@46c: Rurals. 42@50c; Peerless. 39® 42c; Hebrons, 39(g42c: mixed, 35(?x42c; Kings, 39® 42c; apples, good to choice, [email protected]; apples, fancy. s3®4. Provisions —Mess pork, regular. $14.90® 14.95; old, $13.87%®14; lard. $8.22%@8.25; short ribs, $8.10®8.30, according to weight.

Shooting Bares a Scandal.

At the home of Benjamin Salyer, three miles from Salyersville, Ky., there was a sensational duel with pistols, the cause of which is not known. Dr. Jasper Owens, jr., son of a wealthy whisky man of this place, was per haps fatally shot and a woman named Barker wounded. Mrs. Salyer, it is stated, fired the shots inflicting the wounds, but it is added that her guests were also armed and shooting at her. Dr. Owens’ wounds were dressed after he had been hauled into town from the scene and it was the intention of the parties to keep the affair secret, but his serious condition prevented this. It is not stated whether Mrs. Salyer’s husband was at home. The Salyer family is the most prominent in the county.

Give Doctor a Thrashing.

Dr. Adolph Goodman, osteopath, living in Kansas City, Mo., was horsewhipped by his father-in-law, J. K. Beckham, and his brother-in-law, J. K. Beckham, Jr. J. K. Beckham is the head of the millionaire wholesale grocery house of Beckham, McKnight & Co. The lashing was the result of the marriage of Dr. Goodman and Miss Mary E. Beckham on March 14, and Goodman’s alleged treatment of his wife. The Beckham’s, he says, covered him with a shotgun and a revolver, compelled him to strip to the skin and heat him with a carriage whip until the blood ran down his body in streams.

Library for Lafayeţe, Ind.

The two daughters of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds/who died recently in Paris, Mrs. Robert R. Hitt, wife of the Illinois congressman, and Mrs. L. Diaz Abertini, have presented the commodious building and grounds occupying a block near the center of the city to Lafayette, Ind., for a public library. The property donated is valued at $15,000. Mrs. Reynolds’ estate is estimated at $600,000, chiefly in government bonds and securities.

Governor Nash Must Rest.

Gov. Nash of Ohio has been advised; by his physicians that three weeks of! absolute rest will be necessary to re-; store him to health. His indisposition was such Sunday that the attending pnysician deemed a consultation advisable, and after this was held a; statement regaraing the governor’s; condition was issued.

Dynamite Explosion In Bank.

What the police believe was a daring attempt to rob the Cambridgepori National Bank of Cambridge, Mass.; by the use of dynamite in broad day-* light, was revealed by an explosion which blew out the side of the bank office, damaged other parts of the building, and in which Cashier Wll4 liam F. Roaf sustained a bad wouncl on the head. If the explosion was a part of a plot to rob the bank, the plan failed, for nothing of value was taken; It is thought from the force of th 4 concussion and other evidences that dynamite was used. <

JOHN RILEY TANNER DEAD

Former Governor of lyinois Suddenly Dies at Springfield. HEART TROUBLE IS FATAL The Ex-Governor Had Boon DUcnutng Business Matter* with Hl* Son Only a Few Minute* Before Hl* Death —Hl* Notable Career. “Governor Tanner is dead!” was the news that flashed over Springfield, 111., a few minutes before 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon, causing sorrow to thousands of the former executive’s friends and admirers. The former Governor expired at 2:45 o’clock, and while illness had confined him to his room in the Leland Hotel since Sunday, his sudden death was entirely unexpected, and came without warning to the members of his family and friends. Thursday morning the patient was feeling much better than he had for several daya, although at no time had his illness been considered serious. During the morning he had remained in bed, but chatted and talked to those who were present In the sick chamber. Mrs. Tanner was with him throughout the day. Mrs. Colburt Fields Buck, a sister of Mrs. Tanner, went to the hotel Thursday morning and spent several hours. Mrs. Buck left the room at noon and went home for lunch, and when she returned at about 1 o’clock Mrs. Tanner released her maid, Miss Louise Kest, and told her she might go home for the afternoon. After the maid went away Mrs. Tanner helped the patient to the bathroom, and when he came back he was greatly fatigued and at once returned to his bed. Soon afterward Colonel J. Mack Tanner, his son, came to the room. Business matters were discussed by father and son for a few minutes and the former executive told his son that he was better and expected to be out and around again in a few days. Before leaving Colonel Tanner wrote two messages for bis father, the latter dictating eaqh of them. Colonel Tanner left for his office at the capitol building at 2 o’clock, and shortly after that Mr. Tanner talked to friends in Chicago over the long distance telephone in his room. Mrs. Buck says that he then seemed to be drowsy and wanted to sleep. He soon fell into a slumber. His sleep was uneasy, and several times he groaned. When his breathing became labored and hard Mrs. Tanner went to his side and made an effort to arouse

FORMER MAINE CONGRESSMAN WHO IS DEAD.

CHARLES A.BOUTELLE

Former Congressman Charles A. Boutelle of Maine died Tuesday in his retreat at the Mac Lean Asylum at Waverly, Mass. He was eloquent, able and popular, both in Washington and in the state of ~aine at large. He was 63 years old. Charles Addison Boutelle was born at Damariscotta, Me., on February 9, 1839. His father was a shipmaster, and after receiving an academic education the son went to sea on his fath-

Will Hereafter Use “Hades.”

The general quadrennial conference of the United Brethren Church in Christ, which has been in session at Frederick, Md., since May 9, has adjourned to meet in Topeka, Kan., in 1905. An amendment was adopted to the church discipline to the effect that hereafter no minister of the church shall be allowed to use tobacco in any form, and those who are now addicted to its use must desist. In the Apostles’ Greed the word “Hell” was modified and will in the tuture be called “Hades.’

him. Suddenly he appeared to he suffering great pain in the region of kle heart, and Mrs. Tanner,, becoming alarmed, called for Dr. J. N. Dixon, who had been the former Governor’s physician for a long time, and who had been in attendance upon him sine# Sunday. Dr. Dixon, in less than five minutes after being called was at the bedside of his patient, but his services were not needed, life having ended a few seconds before his arrival. He Rose from th* Farm. From the obscurity of a farm In Southern Illinois to the highest post in the gift of the people of the state; from the private soldier boy in the civil war to the commander-in-chief of the state troops of -the third state in the Union; from the farm lad with but scant opportunities for education to the man who could make a speech excelled by none in a national campaign; such in brief is the history of John Riley Tanner. State Department* Closed. All state departments in the capitol building were closed. Governor Yates, out driving with a friend, was caught by telephone at the Lincoln monument, and was one of the first to offer condolence to the widow. Summary of Hl* Ufa. The following are the principal events in Mr. Tanner’s life and career: Born in Warwick county, Indiana, April 4, 1844; private in 98th and 61st Illinois Infantry, 1863-1865; sheriff of Clay county, 18*70-1872; state senator, 1880-1884; state treasurer, 1887-1889; assistant treasurer of the United States at Chicago, 1892-1893; Governor of Illinois, 1897-1901.

Brave Trainmen Rewarded.

The special train bearing the members of the wholesale merchants’ board of the Cleveland chamber of commerce, who have been touring Indiana, ran Into the rear of a Lake Erie and Western freight train at Fort Recovery, 0., smashing the caboose and tank car and damaging a fine engine. A few of the forty passengers sustained slight bruises. Through the bravery of the engineer and firemen gjeat damage was prevented and they were rewarded with a liberal contribution.

To Receive $100,000 Salary.

Reports are current in Wall street, New York, that the salary of President Callaway of the new locomotive combination will be SIOO,OOO a year. In addition, it is said, he will receive $500,000 of the stock. At a conference of Messrs. Vanderbilt, Twombly and Carrett today Mr. Callaway’s successor as president of the New York Central was discussed. No information as to the result of the conference could be obtained.

er’s vessel. At the outbreak of the civil war he volunteered for service in the navy and was appointed master of the steamship Paul Jones of the South Atlantic squadron and served, during the blockade of Charleston, participating in the attacks on Fort Sumter and the occupation of Port Royal. He took a prominent part in the land fight at St. John’s Bluff, Fla., and at the capture of Jacksonville commanded a battery of marine howitzers.

Embezzler Pleads Guilty.

Percy L. Johnson, an attorney, pleaded guilty in the Superior Court at Bridgeport, Conn., to embezzlement of $50,000 from three trust funds, and was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in the state prison.

Big Steamer Buns Aground

Owing to an unusually low stage of water in the Buffalo harbor the steamer Lockwood went aground opposite the Erie elevator and tugs failed to move her. Lightering the grain cargo was resorted to.

AWFUL TROĹEY COLLISION

Fivt Killed and Fourteen Hurt Near Albany, N. Y. TWO CARS MEET HEAD ON. Hitormtn Try to Kneh m Switch at the Home Time—Men, Women and Children Form Shrieking Pyramid; Mixed with Blood. Five persons were killed and fourteen injured in a head-on collision between two of cue big motor cars on the Albany and Hudson railway and Power company’s line about two miles beyond East Greenbush, N. Y., and six miles from Albany at 6 o’clock Sunday afternoon. The accident occurred while the cars were running at a rate of. between thirty and forty miles an hour. The dead are: Frank Smith, motorman; William Nichols, motorman; Maud Kellogg, of Round Lake; Annie

NOTED WAR FIGURE WHO DIED IN NEW JERSEY.

General Fitz John Porter, formerly major general of the United States army, who was casTHered during the civil war and afterward restored to his rank by act of Congress, died at his kome in Morristown, N. J., Tuesday. General Porter was 80 years old and was highly regarded by the younger

Rooney, of Stuyvesant Falls; David Mahoney, mate on the Dean Richmond. Fatally injured: George C. Barry, Troy, hurt internally; Fred J. Smith, Albany, injured internally. The scene of the accident was a point about two miles out of Greenbush, on the line of the AlDany and Hudson railway. The road is a single-track line, with switches and sidings, and the two cars, bound in opposite directions, were trying to make a switch when they dashed into each other. The point where the cars met on the single track was at a sharp curve, and so fast were both running and so sudden was the collision that the motorman never had time to put on the brakes before south-bound car No. 22 had gone almost clean through north-bound car No. 17, and hung on the edge of a" high biuff, with its load of shrieking, maimed humanity. One motorman was pinioned up against the smashed front of the southbound car with both legs severed and killed instantly, while the other one lived but a few minutes. Fully 120 men, women, and children formed a struggling, shrieking pyramid, mixed with blood, detached portions of human , bodies, and the wreckage of the cara Some of the least severely injured of the men extricated themselves, and began to pull people out of the rear ends of the two cars, and almost every one was taken out in this way, and nearly all were baaiy injured. The few women and children who had escaped injury and death were hysterical, and added their cries to the shrieks of the dying and mutilated. Men with broken arms and bones, dislocated joints, and bloody heads and faces tried to assist others who were more helpless. Help had been summoned from East Greenbush and vicinity, and in a little time the bruised mbss of humanity and the mutilated dead were loaded on extra cars and taken to Albany. There ambulances and physicians' had been summoned and the postoffice turned into a morgue and hospital. As fast as the physicians could temporarily fix

Murdered for Alleged Gossipiog.

William Woodhull, a farmer residing at Laurel, L. 1., shot and killed Martha Williamson, a neighbor, Thursday night and then committed suicide. It is said that the woman had been gossiping about Woodhull and a young woman to whom he was engaged.

More Boers Invade Colony.

The commandoes of Kritzinger, Van Reenen and Fouche debouched before dawn and crossed the railroad. They dashed southward, reinvading the more populous districts of Cape Colony.

up the wounded they were taken to their homes or to the hospital. With both motormen killed, it was hard to get at the real cause of the accident, but it is fairly well determined that It was caused by an attempt of the southbound car to reach a seoond switch, Instead of waiting for the north-bound car at the first siding.

TWELVE OF CREW DROWNED.

ItMmtr Balt mor. Onw to tb* Bottom 1b Lake Huron. In a storm that lashed the waters of the upper lakes the steamer Baltimore was sent to the bottom of Lake Huron, near Au Sable, Mich., Friday morning, and of her crew of fourteen only two escaped. to a heavy raft the two men were adrift on the lake under heavy seas all day Friday, and one of them was crazy when rescued. The storm was the worst of the season thus far, the strong northeasterly wind making navigation very dangerous near eastern shores. A large number of vessels were damaged and several were wrecked, including the schooner A. Bradley, waterlogged

officers of the regular army, who accepted General Grant’s dictum that if Porter had been in comman at Bull Run the war would have stopped there and then. For several years he had been living in retirement on the comfortable fortune accumulated by his business activities after he left the army.

in Lake Michigan near Port Washington, and the excursion steamer Empire State, which was beached near Brockville, Ont., just in time to save its sinking with 600 passengers. The following lost their lives with the wreck of the Baltimore: Capt. M. H. Place, master of the steamer, Cleveland; Mrs. M. H. Place, wife of captain; stewardess; Michael Breatlen, first mate; John Delders, second steward; Edward Owen, wheelsman; C. W. Sears, wheelsman; George W. Scott, watchman; Herbert Winning, watchman; P. Marcoux, chief engineer, Chicago; William Barker, fireman; P. Krueger, fireman; August Anderson, deck hand. The members of the Baltimore crew who were saved after having been adrift all day are: Thomas Murphy, second engineer, Milwaukee; George McGinnis, deck hand; insane.

New Comet Is Disappearing.

The new comet which excited so much comment a few weeks ago has proved an elusive disappointment. It is now rapidly disappearing from sight and has. been practically of no importance to astronomers. There was much of mystery connected with its visit. The three tails which were seen on the earliest observations seem to have disappeared, leaving only a faint nebulous streak. Then, too, the object seen by Prof. Frost of Williams Bay, Wis., on the morning of April 27 and believed by him to be this comet was away out of the orbit which was computed from later observations

Killed In Roadhouse Brawl.

Willis Long was shot and killed by William E. Wallace, proprietor of a roadhouse north of Wisconsin and his twin brother; Mfilliam Long, was seriously shot and may die. The Long brothers started a quarrel with a third person and Wallace attempted to interfere, when both attacked him and he began shooting. The Longs are bricklayers. Wallace surrendered to the police.

Funeral of Ex-Governor Tanner.

Wrapped in the folds of the flag he fought for, all that was mortal of John R. Tanner was borne to its last earthly resting place at Springfield Sunday. He sleeps now in the embrace of the sacred soil of Illinois, the state he loved so well. But a few paces away he the remains of the mighty Lincoln. Thus, side by side, in Oak Ridge cemetery, In the beautiful capital of the prairie state, rest the Commander-in-Chlei and the private in the ranks of the Army of the Union.

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. A Omt Oil Wall Is Shot Naur Ik. City of lturloa —Dulphl Man Buys S Cow for 15,000 Ua.mu An as Strike. America's ftlghest-Prloed Cow. The stock yards at Chicago beat out the Board of Trade and “Com King” Phillips on high bidding, when Colonel R. E. Edmondson sold the Hereford cow Dolly 11. for 15,000, breaking all former world’s records by $1,300. Fully 3,000 stock raisers and breeders from all parts of the world were present Sturdy stockmen not easily stirred became excited at the spirited bidding, and when the cow was finally knocked down to N. W. Bowen of Delphi, Ind., for $5,000, pandemonium broke loose, and for fully five minutes the air was filled with flying hats, wildly waving arms, a medley of canes and a tangle of handkerchiefs. It was the most exciting auction ever held in Chicago. Indlunu Obttnury. Price K. Craig, deputy treasurer of Jay county, and for a number of years a township trustee, died/at his home in Jefferson township after an extended illness. He was born in 1842. Mr. Craig enlisted three times during the civil war, serving first with an Indiana regiment, then one from Ohio, and, later, from Illinois. Huntington—William H. Smith, a owner of breedfbg stallions, dropped dead while at supper in a restaurant in this city. Rheumatism of the heart was the cause. He was wealthy and was 51 years old, a native of Stark county, Ohio. Organizing u Patent Medicine Tru«t. R. B. Davis, part owner and manager of a proprietary medical tea manufactured at Fort Wayne by the Fort Wayne Drug cfompany, has effected a reorganization of his company, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. The aim is to build a factory 5 at Fort Wayne for the output and to have the way for a consolidation of all the proprietary medical teas on the market in a trust. There are said to be fourteen, including the Fort Wayne article. Oil Well a Bonanza. Of all the oil wells drilled in the eastern part of the st&te, it is doubtful if any ever surpassed the No. 1 shot the other day on the Baldwin farm, near Marion. The well is owned by Wilson & McCulloch, and is located just at the western edge of the city. The oil shot up as high as the derrick, and after flowing just one hour a tank holding 250 barrels of oil was halffilled. This indicates a production better than 2,000 barrels a day. Wubi.h Man Elected Pre-inent. Walter C. Hartman, general manager of the National cooperage works of Wabash has been elected president of the National Slack Cooperage Manufacturers’ Association. The meeting, which was attended by manufacturers in this line of industry from all parts of the country, was held at Toledo, O. The next meeting will be held at Detroit. M. C. Moore of Milwaukee, was elected secretary and treasurer.

Strike of Linemen. The linemen employed by the street railway company, the light and power company and the Central Union Telephone company refused to work. They demanded a nine-hour day and |2.50 a day. X Drowned Herself In a Lake. Mrs. Robert Moore, of La Porte, awakened her family at the usual hour the other morning, after which she left her home, going to the shore of Stone Lake, not far from her home, threw herself in the wafer, and was drowned.

N Wlf«-Murderer to Hans. Judge Tilman has sentenced John Jarvis, the wife-murderer, convicted of murder in the first degree at the present term of the Circuit Court, to hang at Fayetteville Aug. 9. Indiana News -In Brief. Knightstown—Two strangers, giving their names as George Duempk and John Sweeny, were arrested by the town marshal of Kennard, eight miles northwest of Knightstown, and placed in jail on suspicion of being implicated in the killing of a brakeman on the Peoria division of the Big Four on the night of May 1. On that night two tramps were trying to beat their way over the road, and in an effort to eject them from the train the brakeman was shot. Alexandria—The final preparations are being made for the big street fair, to be held under the auspices of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, June 10 to 15. A bfg military parade, in which uniform ranks of various organizations will take part, will be the feature for the opening and preparations are being made to accommodate the large crojyd expected. Terre* Haute—The employes of the Terre Haute Street railway company have decided not to strike, pending action of the Central Labor Union relative to the matter. The discharge of a conductor, whose reinstatement, on demand of the other men, was refused by the company, was the cause of the difficulty. Lagrange—Prof. W. H. Brandenburg, of Winchester, has been elected superintendent of the Lagrange schools, vice Prof. Victor Hedgepath, resigned. The latter has accepted the superintendency at Goshen.

WANTS THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

teUlonlz Woman Aiipwia to CoaHl (at ttao Pnvilrg*, Mrs. Ellen E. Sargent, widow of ths ute Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California, i» determined to exercise the right of suffrage.’* “As a right, I demand to have my name placed on the register of voters, and that I be permitted to cast my ballot the same as any other citizen,” Is the way in which she recently presented her claim in the superior court of San Francisco. She rh!a ke i Up thl * demand tor the fraac , b y securing a writ of mandate requiring the registrar of voter* and the board of election comminionm t m appear before Judge Sloss of the parlor court and show cause why they refuse to recognize Mrs. Sargent aa a legal voter in that city. The reeord *f the board of election commissioner* show* that Mrs. Sargent’s demand foe registration was formally made and the members of the board unanimously rejected her application on the ground that it Is "contrary to the constltntio* and laws of the state of California.** In vupport of this they point to the provisions of section 1 of article I of the California constitution, which says: "Every male citizen of the Uni* ed States • • • shall be entitled to vote at all elections, ** eta "But the election com mission see have cited only one section of the sow•tltutlon, and ignore the fact that thMig is another section which says political power of the state is inherent in the people, and that means all the people.” Mrs. Sargent says. She deduces that If the constitution had not meant all the people It would have said political power is inherent Its the people, or the maaculine part of the people. She takes the poeltlon that women are “the people" as well ea taen. No matter which way the tt is decided, an appeal will be taken t» the supremg court —Chicago ChrOßIda

MAYA INDIANS IN EXILE.

Tocatmn 8»T*g«« Driven fro* Thais Home* by the Mexican Troop*. The former residents of Bacalar .state of Yucatan, are rejoicing over the oo> eu pat ion of that town by the government troops under command of Geo, Vega. Many of these people still hold title to valuable property in the Bacalar district although they were driven from their homes by the Maya Indiana many years ago. A large number of these persons are now residents of British Honduras and they are already looking up their deeds and titls preliminary to reclaiming their properties. The villa of Bacalar, which wan founded by the Spaniards, has bean besieged various times by the Mayas, and it was only after a desperate resistance on the port of Jose Dolores Zetent that it finally fell into their hands. There are still ruins of the an dent fort and rusty cannon employed In the last defense against the Indians. The latter, after taking it, did all in their power to obstruct navigation, felling tree* and casting huge bowlders into the streams. The water ways have been cleared during the present campaign, and there is now communication between the port of Zecalak Quabreado, on the coast, and Bacalar, by means of the bay of Asuncion, the Hondo river and the Bacalar lagoon.—» Chicago Chronicle.

Eadesvor to Avoid Stooping.

Many growing girls, especially those tall for their age. are Inclined to stoop, and well-meaning persons often advocate the use of braces or shoulder straps as a means of correcting the tenrdency. The braces may foroe aa upright carriage, but they do not giro the wearer any means of maintaining it, since they prevent the exercise of those muscles which should he trained to produce an erect figure. Any exercise which strengthens the muscles of the back and shoulder will aid In correcting this defect Old-fashioned mothers used to drill their stooping daughters to walk with a plate carried on their heads, and this Is really a good practice. High pillows and vtry soft mattresses are blamed as an aid in producing this defect and without doubt a flat, rather hard bed, with low pillow, is preferable for growing child* ren. A stooping awkward walk detracts so much from the appearance that there is every reason to avoid it, apart from the bad effect It exercises on the physical condition.

Elephants In England.

While excavating for the foundations for the new buildings of the Victoria and Albert museums in South Kensing-ton-a car load of fossilized bones was brought to the surface by the workmen. These were taken in charge by Dr. Woodward of the geological department, who prononunced them the rsmains of the primitive denizens of the soil that lived there before man came to Interfere with them. The bones belonged, he said to a London newspaper representative, to the elephant, the stag and the primeval horse, and date back to a time before Great Britain became Isolated, ere yet the Straits at Dover had been cut through. L

Bediscovering America.

Forty thousand Italians are to America this year. Quite a cha-ngo from the days when one Italian Oohunbus came over here. —Pittsburg Tlmee. "Where am IF thought the transplanted fruit tree. *T have leal mg bearings.” You cannot always Improve an cultured man by cultivating hiss aa as acquaintance.