Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1894 — Page 6

THE f REPUBLICAN. Gkv&e E. Marshall, Editor. —--- - . * RENSSELAER - INDIANA

"It is not pood to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.” An Indianapolis divorce was attended by the entire family of ten children who sat in a row and listened to the details of the trouble between their parents. A verdidt rendered by such a juvenile jury would bo unique and interesting. The Government report indicates that the supply of corn in the farmers’Kands March 1, in the United States, was 589,000,000 bushels, or about..thirty-six per cent of the crop »f 1893. Of this amount the States of Ohio, Indiana,^fllinots.; Towa, Missouri. Kansasand Nebraska held sixty-one per cent. The price throughout the country is at the maximum lowest point. The census of 1890 shows that in 1890 that there were employed in the various manufacturing institutions of Indiana 2.968 children of both sexes under sixteen years of age, whose annual earnings aggregated a total of $375,257. In the United States the total number of Buch immature laborers was 104,471, and their earnings aggregated the vast total of $14,699,217.

Many city residences are now fitted up with outside Venetian blinds, wire gauze fly screens inside of the.outside blinds, cambric drapery, inside and next to the windowglass, folding or sliding window blinds inside of the cambric drapery, rolling shades inside of the folding blinds, lace curtains inside of the rolli ig shades. And yet the wail of the unemployed goes up in an unceasing appeal for more work and the down trodden washerwoman swells the chorus with her wrongs. The United States Navy is to be reorganized. Secretary Herbert has given to the Congressional committee appointed for this purpose a basis to proceed upon. The number of officers of higher grades is to be increased. There will be sixty captains instead of forty-five as at present. One hundred commanders instead of seventy-five as now. If reorganized according to the plans laid down by the Secretary there will be twenty rear admirals, sixty captains, one hundred commanders, seventy-four lieutenant-command-ers, two hundred and fifty lieutenants, seventy-five junior lieutenants, and as manyensigns as are.necessary for this force of officers. Promotions wifi be much more easily obtained than in the past. All this will increase the-expense Df the navy, but not to an alarming extent, estimates placing the increase at $132,090 at first. r

There is a scheme on foot' in Chicago to remove the Ferris wheel into the center of Garfield Park, and the Park commissioners will be asked to donate the site. The Inter Ocean vehemently opposes this action, and holds that if they grant such privileges to one they may as well to all who might desire to embark in the show business. “It’s none of our funeral,” but the point is not xvell taken. The Ferris wheel is an extraordinary attraction that Chicago can not afford to lose if it can be retained by reasonable concessions, and the authorities in charge of public grounds will hardly be called upon for contributions to anything at all approaching it in interest or magnitude. Even if Such should be the case, they would be justified in taking such action as will keep the great revolver rolling some place in Cook county.

Politicians and patriots in Cen tral America, who organize rebellions and revolutions “while you wait,” ostensibly from motives the reverse of mercenary, and who often pose as benefactors of the ignorant and degraded natives of that part of the world, if latest reports are trustworthy, are turning out to be very much like ward heelers and “bosses” in our own enlightened land. They are “not in it” “for their health”, and “freeze” to all the 'swag" that the mad waves of internecine strife may cast at their feet. The President of Nicaragua, in his recent war on Honduras, gave the world to understand that he engaged in the conflict from a purely chivalrous desire to give the conquered commonwealth a better government. The President of Honduras, seeing that he was beaten, looted the treasury and escaped, leaving nothing for the conquering hero. Thn President of Nicaragua now demands pay, and says he will stay at the conquered capital until

ho gets it. The only way that he I can get pay is by the Confiscation of the property of the unhappv citizens whom he “saved” from a Ayrant’s. clutches. Accordingly the Honduras rebels, under the direction of the President of Nicaragua, are seizing everything they can lay their hands on. The war may be reopened. Evidently the poor people of Honduras have “jumped out of the frying-pan into the .fire.” Their rebellion was successful,, but they will have to pay roundly for it, besides enduring all -the evils of a bloody war. Evekybody knows ‘hat there is nothing small about Chicago, but everybody does not know that one of the biggest of all the gigantic enterprises, that go to make up the colossal total known as the World’s Fair City, is the reorganized Uni- . versify of Chicago, which has of late years been moved from the site long occupied in the neighhorhood_of-the-Douglas monument, and endowed with the millions of John D. Rockefeller. The advantages offered by such an institution in the heart of the Mississippi valley should not be treated lightly, as is the disposition evinced in some quarters. In fact this great University is destined in time to outrank all others in the United States. Its equipment is already superior to Yale or Harvard. Its picture gallery, its library, its museum, its great telescope, its scholastic course —all attest the far reaching sagacity of its great benefactor who is quite as well qualified to equip a college as be is to squeeze the millions out of the oil trade wherewith to carry out his laudable ambitions.

The very latest phrase resulting from the constant evolution of slang is “the fellow wears rubbers,” and it is synonymous with saying that a man is a low down sneak. It originated in police circles on account of the almost universal habit of sneak thieves, who wear rubber sole shoes in order that they can approach their victims without being heard. Another “up to date” expression is, “he doesn’t cut any ice,” and it means that he is “not in it.” “Not in it” means that he “don’t get any of the swag.” “Swag” means “boodle” and “boodle” means profit in a general sense. Trusting that we have made ourselves sufficiently clear for the “gumption” of the average reader, we will “come off” until the progressive and irrepressible American population shall find it necessary to cast the foregoing “out of sight” into the junk heap of forgotten phrases, and substitute for them more mystifying and expressive ejaculations wherewith to “knock ’em silly.” “We are no hog” and “don’t has to” rob any one of the credit of adding to our already limitless vocabulary, and hope our readers will kindly “catch on” and “give us a rest” till wc “hear from New York.” :

New Use for the Telephone.

Harper’s Yor.nr People. Here’s a story of the telephone as it is used or abused in Russia. The use of the instrument to intimidate prisoners is the invention of a police inspector at Odessa. A man was one day brought into the police station, charged with having committed a serious robbery. The inspector had some difficulty .in proving the case and had recourse to an ingenious stratagem. He went to the telephone in an adjoining room and asked the clerk at the central office to speak into the instrument the following words in a solemn tone, “Istno Smellanski, you must confess the robbery; if you don’t you are sure to be sentenced and your punishment will be all the more severe..” He then sent for the prisoner and questioned him, threatening to appeal to the machine to get the truth. The thief burst into a laugh, but the inspector held the telephone to his ear and gave the preconcerted Signal. The result was as expected.. The rogue, terrified by the warning uttered by the uncanny “machine,” at once made a clean breast of it.

"The Milloby of the Slashes.”

Dennis Mulligan, of Lexington, Ky., who has kept a grocery and barroom in that city in the same building for fifty - two years, frequently entertained. Henry Clay in his establishment, “Many a time in the ’4os,” said Mr. Mulligan, “Mr. Clay would come into the store here, and we would have a talk, and I would invite him to take a little of my old whisky, which he seldopt refused. I was a great admirer of him, and considered him a great and honest man.”

A British Reform.

A resolution in favor of birching bad boys instead of sending them to prison has been sent to the British Home Secretary, signed by a number of magistrates. The proposition Is to birch boys under sixteen for all offenses, at the discretion of the magistrate. The judicious use of the bineh, it is believed, would not only have a salutary effect, but it would save the boys from acquiring the prison taint, losing their dread of the prison and sinking deeper iato crime.

EGYPTIAN SLAVEJAY

Sin a Taskmaster as Cruel as the Pharaohs. The Psalmist** Beautiful Simile, and the Lessons Brawn Therefrom—Dr. Talmage’s Sermon. There was the customary large audience at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last S,undayg_ Dr. Talmage spoke from the text, Psalms Ixviii, 13— “Though ye have lain among the oots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold.” I suppose you know what the Israelites did down in Egyptian slavery. They made bricks. Amid the utensils of the brickkiln there were also other utensils of cookery —the kettles, the pots, the pans, with which they prepared their daily food, and when these poor slaves, ’ tired of the day’s work, lay down to rest, they lay down among the imj>lem:■ntso flla r. 1 work. When they arose tn the morning, they found their garments covered with ths clay, and the smoke, and the dust, and besmirched and begrimed with the utensils of cookery. But after awhile the Lord broke up that slavery, and he took these poor slaves into a land where they had better garb, bright and clean and beautiful apparel. Sin is the hardest of all taskmasters. Worse than Phoraoh, it keeps us drudging in a most degrading service, but after awhile Christ comes and He says, “Let my people go,” and we pass out from among the brickkilns of sin into the glorious liberty of the gospel. We put on the clean robes of a Christian profession, and when at last we soar away to the warm nest which God has provided for us in heaven we shall go fairer than a dove, its wings covered with silver and its feathers with yellow gold. But how is it if a young man becomes a Christian? All. through the club-rooms where he associates, all through the business circles where be is known, there is commiseration. They say: “What a pity that a young man who had such bright prospects should so have been despoiled by those Christians, giving up all his worldly prospects for something which is of no particular present worth.” Here is a young woman who becomes a Christian: her voice,

her face, her manners the charm of the drawing-room. Now all through the the fashionable circles the whisper goes, “What a pity that such a bright light should haue been extinguished; that such a graceful gait should be crippled, that such worldly prospects should be obliterated.” Ah, my friends, it can be shown that religion’s ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace; that, religion, instead of being dark and doles ul and lachrymose and repulsive, is bright and beautiful, fairer than a dove, its wings covered with silver and its feathers with yellow gold.

See, in the first place, what religion will do for a man’s heart. I care hot how cheerful a man may be naturally before conversion, conversion brings him up to a higher standard of cheerfulness, I. do not say be will laugh any louder; I do not say but he may stand back from some forms of hilarity in which he once.indulged, but there comes into his soul an immense satisfaction. A young man not a Christian depends upon worldly successes to keep his spirits up. Now he is prospered, now he has a large salary, now he has a beautiful wardrobe, now he has -pleasant friends, now he has more money than he knows how to spend— every thing £oes bright and well with him. But trouble domes — there are many young men in this house, this morning, who can testify out of their own experience that sometimes to young men trouble does come—-his friends are gone; his salary is gone; his health is gone; he goes down, down, down. He becomes sour, cross, queer, misanthropic, blames the world, blames society*, blames the church, blames everything, rushes perhaps to the intoxicating cup to drown his trouble, but instead of drowning his trouble he drowns his body and drowns his sclul. But here is a Christian young man. Trouble comes to him. Does he give up? No! He throws himself back on the resources of heaven. He says: “.God is my Father. Out of all these disasters I shall pluck advantage for my soul. All the promises are mine; Christ is mine; Christian companionship is mine; heaven is mine. What though my apparel be worn out? Christ gives me a robe of righteousness. What though my money be gone? I have a title deed to the whole universe in the promise, ‘All are yours.’ What though my worldly friends fall away? Ministering angels are my bodyguard. What though my fare be poor, and my bread be scant? I sit at the king’s banquet!’’ You and I have found out that peo pie who pretend to be happy are not alwayS'happy. Look at that young man earictrtKiring the Christian religion, scoffing at everything good, going into roistering drunkenness,, dashing the champagne bottle to the floor, rolling the glasses from the bar-room counter, laughing, shouting,'stamping the floor. Is he happy. I will go to his midnight pillow. I will see him turn the gas off. I will ask myself if the pillow on which ho sleeps is as soft as the pillow on which that pure young man sleeps, Ah, no! When..he opens his eyes in the, morning? will the world bo as bright to him as to that V ’ ' '• ■' t • *

young man who retired'at night saying his prayers, invoking God’s blessing upon his own soul and the souls I of his comrades and father anc I mother and brothers and sisters fat away? No, no! His laugh will rino I out from the saloon so that you heat it as it is the snapping of heart-1 strings and the rattle of prison gates. Happy! that young man , happy? Oh, do you know of anything, my hearers, that is more beautiful than I to see a young, man start out for Christ? Here is some one falling; he lifts him up. . Here is a vagabond | boy; he introduces him to a mission 1 school. Here is a family freezing to death, he carries them a scuttle ol coal. There are 800.000,000 perishing in midnight, heathen darkness; by all possible means he tries to send them He may be laughed at, and he may be sneered at, and he may be caricatured, but he is not ashamed to go everywhere, saying: “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It is the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation.” Such a young man can go through- -everything; —There~~is“nu c force on earth or in hell that can resist him. I show you three spectacles; Spectacle the First—Napoleon passes by with the host that went down with him to Egypt, and up with him through Russia and crossed the continent, on the bleeeing heart of which he set his iron heel, ahd across the quivering flesh of which he went grinding the wheels of his gun carriages—in his dying moment asking his attendants to put on his military boots for him. Spectacle the Second—r Voltaire. bright and learned and witty and eloquent, with tongue and voice and stratagem infernal, warring against God and poisonjng whole kingdoms with his infidelity, yet applauded by the clapping hands of thrones and empires and continents —his last’ words, in delirium supposing Christ standing by the bedside—his last words, “Crush that wretch!” Spectacle the Third—Paul —Paul, insignificant in person, thrust out from all refined association,scourged, spaton. hounded like a wild beast from city to city, yet trying to make the world good and heaven full; announcing resurrection of those who mourned at'the barred gates of the dead; speaking consolations which light up the eyes of widowhood and orphanage and want with glow of certain and eternal release, undaunted before those who could take his life, his cheek flushed with transport and his eye on heaven; with oue hand shaking defiance at all the foes of earth and all the principalities of hell, and with the other hand beckoning messenger angels to come and bear him away, as he says; “I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me.” Which of the three spectacles do you most admire? Oh, if, religion does so much for a man on earth, what will it do for him in heaven? That is the~thought that comes to me now. If a soldier can affbrdto shout “Huzza!” when ho goes -into battle, how much more-jubilantly he can afford to shout “Huzza!” when he has gained the victory! If religion is so good a thing to have hero, how bright a thing it will be in heaven! I want to see that young man when the glories of heaven have robed and crowned him. I want to hear him sing when all huskiness of 'earthly colds is gone, and he rises up with the great doxology. I want to know what standard he will carry when marching under arches of pearl in the army of banners. I want to know what company he will keep in the land where all Brokings and queens for ever and ever. If I have induced one of you, this morning, to begin a better life, then I want to know it. I may not in this world clasp hands with you in friendship. I may not hear from your own lips the story of temptation and sorrow, but I will clasp hands with you when the sea is passed and the gates are entered. “Oh,” you say, “religion I am going to have. It is only a question of time.” My, brother, lam afraid that you may lose heaven the way Louis Phillippe lost his empire. The Parisian mob came around the Tuileries. The national guard stood in defense of the palace and the commander said to Louis Phillippe: “Shall I fire now? Shall I order the troops to fire? With one volley we can clear the place.” “No,” said Louis Phillippe, “not yet.” A few minutes passed on, and then Louis Phillippe, seeing the case was hopeless, said to the general: “Now is the time to fire.” “jNo,” said the general, “it is too late now. Don’t you see that the soldiers are exchanging arms with the citizens? It is too late.” Down went the throne of Louis Phillippe. Away from the earth went the house of Orleans, and all because the king said, “Not yet!” May God forbid that any of you should adjourn this great subject of religion and should postpone assailing your spiritual foes until it is too late, too late—you losing a throne in heaven the way that Louis Phillippe lost a throne on earth. The old-time plan was to broadcast one year and use hoed crops the next. By this method the weeds were kept down and the crops varied -some, but no system of rotation at the present day is considered correct that does not include one crop to be plowed under, clover being the befit for that purpose. — :

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There are one hundred empty dwellings at Brazil. The Indianapolis workhouse has 22a prisoners. ■ . - The fish law is said to be constantly and flagrantly violated in the vicinity of Clay City. A Shelbyville opponent of corsets says their use by women is worse than man’s drinking rum. An Irvington family of seven persons have been prostrated with trichinosis from eating bologna sausage. The new reservoir Ft. at Wayne, which cost 845,000. was damaged 81,000 the past week by the yielding of a wall. George Tucker, of Pike county, has made a vow to smoke no more cigars until a Republican President is elected. Pittsburg and Chicago capitalists are organizing a company to establish a steel manufacturing plant at Frankton. Con O’Brien, ex-postmaster of Lagro, has been arrested, charged with embezzling nearly 8700 of postoilice funds. There are 707 men in the prison south. Every cell is occupied and new arrivalsare provided with cots in the hospital. Gov. Matthews and several members of his staff were in Washington, Monday, and attended the Pollard-Breckenridge trial. The case of John W. Paris, growing out of the failure of the Greentown bank, will be called at Frankfort on the 17th of April. The Parker House at Plymouth was totally destroyed by fire, Wednesday morning. The loss is fully covered by insurance. Greenfield had a destructive fire. Wednesday. A livery stable and the large frame hotel known as the Indiana House, were destroyed. A company with an alleged capital ,of 82C0.000 has been organized to buy land and develop the gold and silver finds in Jay county. Mrs. Elizabeth Addington, an inmate of the Delaware county infirmary, addicted to the use of morphine,' died upon being deprived of the drug. Judge David S. Gooding, of Greenfield, who became temporarily embarassed some, months ago, has made satisfactory settlement with ids creditors. 4 John Osborn, manager of the Evansville cotton mill, was fined 8500 at Evansville, Tuesday, for working children under fourteen years of age over eight hours. The Hotel Bucklen at Elkhart, the finest hostelry in Northern Indiana, was badly wrecked by fire, Monday night. It will be immediately rebuilt on a grander scale. 6 William Bennett, of Delaware county, reports that he has made a careful examination. and he finds the buds on apple, cherry, pear and peach trees all killed. On petition of Russell B. Harrison, Judge Woods of the United States Court, Monday evening, appointed a receiver for the Queen City Electric Railway Company of Marion. County treasurer’s office at Hartford City was robbed of 820, Saturday. The treasurer, when he went to dinner, took SGCp taxes, that had been paid in the forenoon. with him.

The impression in northern Indiana is that Albert Tooker, who killed the two watchmen at Tolleston park, near Hammond, will not be punished. Public sympathy is with him, The family of A. E. Steele, of Marion, were prostrated by eating corned beef purchased of a firm which had used crystalline muriate of ammonia in curing, it having been substituted by a -Chicago firm for sal tpetrer--It is understood that the bituminous coal operators of Clay county will notify their miners during the coming month that they canTiot operate their mines undess a similar reduction to that in Vermillion and Parke counties is made, Lafayette has made extensive preparations for the State encampment G. A. R., which meets in that city April 4 and 5. The two principal candidates for Department Commander are Capt. A. O. Marsh, of Winchester, and H. M. Caylor, of Noblesville. *" , 6 A young man died at Suman Station, ~ Porter county, Thursday, from the effects of a beating received on St. Patrick’s'day. He accidentally tore a ball while playing and received the injuries from the infuriated players bceanso he would not buy a new ball. The Soldiers’ Monument Commission, Wednesday, awarded the contract for the monument of George Rogers Clark to John Mahoney, of Indianapolis. Themonument is to be completed within a year, and will cost $4,000, The statue will be of bronze and eight feet high. The Democracy of Hammond nominated Patrick Reilly as a .candidate for mayor, although it had been given out that Congressman Hammond desired the honor, in order that he might gracefully retire from the congressional field. It is now surmised that Mr. Hammond will stand for renomination as Congressman. James Madden, an Indianapolis juror, became intoxicated while serving on a case, and appeared in the jury box in that condition. Mr. Madden was requested to stand up by Jndge Cox, and then was fined $25 for contempt and sentenced to the work-house for forty-eight hours. The case was continued and will be retried. William Parker, aged 94 years, of Martinsville, died, Monday. His wife survives him and is 92 years old. They were the parents of twenty-seyen children,of whom twenty-four are living. Mr. Parker had requested that there should be no funeral services and that his body should betaken to the cemetery in an ordinary farm wagon. His wish was gratified. Louis Hahn, deputy sheriff of Knox county, upon entering the jail at Vincennes, Monday, was struck down with a club in the hands of the prisoners, who had organized to escape. The deputy sheriff fell against the door, closing and locking it, and this prevented the escape. Hahn was unconscious when relieved,and his condition is serious. The books of Vigo county are being examined by Cincinnati experts in the hope of finding records that may load to the identity of the four smooth Hoosiers who obtained $509,000 from London capitalists with the supposed intention of building a railroad between Terre Haute and Columbus. A mortgage was filed in Terre Hautb in 1881 for $1,5C0,009 by the four mon, but that was the last heard of them. During the past winter more old soldiers

have been accommodated at the Maria home than the appropriation* warranted and unless 83,000 is appropriated inthi bill now pending in Congress, 140 of-thi inmates will have to leave the institutioi so that the funds may hold outforthi fiscal year. Monday a telegram was re ceived from Senator Voorhees saying ths he would give his personal attention ti an amendment giving the necessary relief ’Squire Habich, of in , suit brought by Herman Ackelow, propri tor of the Circle House, for trespas against Patrolman Kerins, fined the po liceman 825. The Justice held that thi law does not give policemen power to ae as spies or to intrude upon private prop erty except in the pursuit of their legiti mate duties in preserving the peace. Thi case was appealed to the Superior Court It is proposed to erect a monument a Bedford commenrmorating the gallan record of Lawrence county in the war so the Union, and it is suggested that itshal be built of a single piece of Bedford limo< stone sixty-one feet in height, surmountei byastatueof a private soldier in bronze of heroic dimensions. On the sides will bi* carved the name of every soldier dying ii battle.

Pat Kennedy, while digging in thi streets of Evansville, in the vicinity o the court house, unearthed a skeleton tt which a part of the clothing still adhered In the fragment of a pocket a clay pip was fouhd, and hence Kennedy is confl dent that one of his nationality was buria there. It is recalled by one of tjje pionea * residents of Evansville that the site o the court house was formerly a cemetery Much bitterness continues to be showi in the court house removal wrangle ii Crawford county. Recently the Englisl faction, which is known as the “removalists,” applied for a change of venue fron Judge Zenor, and Judge Voyles was so lected. Last week the case was called only to find the “removalists” ready witl another affidavit asking for a changi of venue from Crawford, claiming tha they could not get justice because of tht dominating influence of Leavenworth. A. Weinberg, of Boone Grove, who i merchant and postmaster in the littli village, discovered four burglars in th» act of plundering his establishment. Hl opened fire with a shotgun, bringing om of the watchersto the ground. The rob bers fired upon him, driving him back U his home, and then escaped. They car rled away their wounded companion, i pool of blood marked where he fell, an< the postmaster recovered a bundle d ’ goods which had been packed up ready t, carry off. and also the hat of the woundef thief. It was found that a hole had beet ( drilled in the safe.

Three express companies—the American the Adams and the United States— havi brought suit in the Circuit Court against the treasurer of Marion county and thi treasurers of fifty-six other counties it which the companies do business. Thi plaintiffs ask lor an order restraining thi treasurers from levying on the plaintiffs property to satisfy a demand for delinquent taxes. The suit is similar to pro ccedings already brought to test the constitutionality of the statutes relating t< the taxation of telegraph, express, sleep ing car companies, etc.. Ths greatest snake -story comes fron Hartford City. While a mason was dressing a stone for the new courthouse hi split off a large fragment, in the center o! which was a snake fourteen inches is length, of a milk white color. To all appearances it had-becn dead for a thousand years and more, but after being -placed in the warm sun it showed sign! life, while its color changed to brown. P was placed in a glass jar and kept allvi by occasional applications of warm water .C. E. Roseker, contractor, and W. B. Fort ner, county treasurer, are given as thi witnesses vouching for the truth of thil snake story.

Citizens of South Bend are agitated ovet a gigantic system of mail robbing whicl has been in operation since last July, ani which has netted the thieves several thorn sand dollars. The agitation is intensified by the fact that the most searching investigation on the part of the postoflici inspectors has failed to discover the pilferers. The doctors and patent medicim dealers of South Bend have been the principal victims. Inspector Salmon and i half dozen detectives from Cincinnati ( have been investigating for some time, but have discovered nothing except thai good dollar bills were continually beinj abstracted from the doctors’ letters, bundles of which are constantly produced minus their cash enclosures. Farmers Fowler and Mittank are neighbors in Fall Creek township, Madisos county. A few months ago a boy in Mlttank’s employ, while riding a young colt, ran into Farmer Fowler’s fence ants knocked a panel of it down. Fowler the» wanted Mittank to pay for It or repair it Mittank refused to do so and Fowler sued him for damages. The case was tried before’Squire Fort, and the jury failed ts agree. It was afterward tried before another justice and ho found for the plaintiff. Mittank appealed the case to ths Circuit Court and it is now on trial. Th< amount involved is $1.50. The lawyers' "Tees and costs up to date amount to S6OO Patents were granted. Tuesday, to tht following citizens of Indiana: B. Bidwell Philadelphia, assignor of one-half to Q F. Bidwell, Indianapolis, electrical railway; W. A. Blank, Lal’orte, windmill; W. R. Dunn, Alton, felly planer; H. A Goetz, New Albany, anchor box; F. E' Herdman, Winnetka, 111., assignor t< Premier Steel Company of Indiana, elec- • trie elator (reissue); F. E. Herdman, Winy netka, 111, assignor to Premier Steel Company of Indiana, electrical operator elevator (reissue); J. W. Lambert, Unios City, carburetor; W. L. Lightford, Indianapolis, photographic camera shutten N. H. Long, assignor of one-half to D. W. Stewart, Muncie, fruit jar fastener; Osca» L. Neisler, assignor to Kfmberlaln Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, cultivator; Joseph W. Netherly. assignor to Indiana Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, pneumatic straw stacker; C. W Patton, Ohio Falls, car coupling; H. R Pomeroy, assignor of one-half to A. V Kopp, Indianapolis, hydrogen gas ma chine; O. H. Woodworth, Columbia City;, compound tri-llquld barometer; G. Q Wright, assignor of three-fourths to N. S. Byram. Indianapolis, wire for fencing An Insane man brought from Dallas to Lewell, Tex., Monday, while being takes from the train broke away from his keepers and ran into a crowd, on the statioa platform and attempted to kill all whom he could assault. A girl twelve years old had her leg broken and received injuries from which she died.