Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — Page 2

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

A KINDLY TALK TO BEGINNERS IN LIFE’S BATTLES. The Bont, the Body, the Intellect, the Aspiration, the Goal ant a Glance Ahead —An Inspiring and Forceful Sermon to the Young. Words to Young Men. -_, Jn his audiences at the New York Academy ~bf Krrtstr~~Hrr-Talmage meets many hundreds of young men from different parts of the Union and representing almost every calling and profession in rliffc: To-them he specially addressed his. discourse last Sunday afternoon, the subject being “Words With Young Men.” Fayette, O. Reverend Sir—We, the undersigned, being earnest readers of your sermons, especially request that you nse as a ject for some one of your future sermons “Advice to Young Meh.” Yours respectfully, 11. S. Millott, F. O. Millott, J. L. Sherwood, Charles T. Rubert, M. E. Elder, S. J. Altman. Those six young men, I suppose, represent innumerable young men who are about undertaking..the battle Of life, and who have more interrogation points in their mimUthan any printer’s case ever contained, or printer’s fingers ever set up. But few people who have passed fifty; years of age are capable of giving advice to young men. Too, many begin their counsel by forgetting they ever were young men themselves. November snows do not understand May time blossom week. The cast’wind never did understand the south wind. Autumnal goldenrod makes a poor fist at lecturing about early violets. Generally after a man has rheumatism in his right foot he is not competent to discuss juvenile elasticity. Not one man out of~a hundred can enlist and keep the attention of the young after there is a bald spot on the cranium. ' I attended n largo meeting in Philadelphia, assembled to discuss how the Young Men’s Christian As.sociatiou of that city inight be made more attractive for young people, when a man arose and made some suggestions with such lugubrious tone of voice and a manner that seemed to deplore . That every thing was going t<> ru in, wlien an old friend of mine, at 75 years as young in feeling as any one at 20, arose and said: “That good brother who has just addressed you will oyenxa-mn for saying that a young man would no sooner go and spend an evening among such funereal tones of voice and funereal ideas of religion which that brother seems to have adopted than ho would go and spend the evening in Laurel Hill Cemetery.’* And yet these young men of Ohio, and all young men, have a right to ask those who have had many opportunities of studying this world and the next world to give helpful suggestion as to what theories of life one ought to adopt, and what dangers he ought to shun. Attention, young men 1 \

The First Step. < First, get your soul right. You see, that is the most valuable part of you. It —ls the most important room in your house. It is the parlor of your entire nature. Put the best pictures on its walls. Put the best music under its arches. It is important to have the kitchen right, and the dining room right, and tho cellar right, and all the other rooms of your nature -right; but.. oh, the parlor of the soul,! Be; particular a bbiit The 7guus.ts3vli<s outer it. Shut its doors in the faces of those who would despoil and pollute it. There are princes and kings who would like to come into it, while there are assassins who would like to come out from behind its curtains, and with silent foot attempt the desperate and murderous. Let the King come in. He is now at the door. Let me be usher to announce his arrival and introduce the King of this world, the King of all worlds, the King eternal, immortal, invisible. Make room. Stand back. Clear the way. Bow, kneel, worship the King. Have him once for your guest, and it does not make much difference who comes or goes. Would you have a warranty against moral disaster aniTsUTCty-trf-a-noble career ? Read at least_one._cliapter of the Bible on your knees every day of your life.

The Second. Step, Word the next: Have your body right “How rtre you?” I often say when I meet a friend of mine in Brooklyn. He is over 70, and alert and vigorous, and very prominent in the law. His answer is, “I am living on the capital of a well-spent youth." On the contrary. there are hundreds of thousands of good people who are suffering the results of early sins. The grace of God gives one a new heart, but not a new body. David, tho Psalmist, had to cry out “Remember not the sins of my youth.” Let a young maiTmakUTns body a wine closet, or a rum jug, or a whisky cask, or a beer barrel, and smoke poisoned cigarettes until his hand trembles. and he is black under the eyes, and his cheeks fall in, and then at some church seek and find religion. Yet all the praying he can do will not hinder the physical consequences of natural law fractured. Y'ou six young men, take care of your eyes, those windows of the soul. Take care of your cars and listen to nothing that depraves. Take care of your lips and see that they utter no profanities. Take care •of your nerves by enough sleep and avoiding unhealthy excitements, and by taking . outdoor exercise, whether by ball or skate or horseback, lawn tennis or exhiliarating bicycle, if you sit upright and do not join that throng of several hundred thousands who by the wheel are cultivating crooked backs and cramped chests, and deformed bodies, rapidly coming down toward all fours and the attitude of the beasts that perish. Anything that bends body, mind or soul to the earth is unhealthy. Ob, it is a grand thing to be well, but do not depend on pharmacy and the doctors to make you well. Stay well. The Third Step. Word the next: Takecarenf your intellect. Here comes the flood of novelettes, 99 out of 100 belittling to every one that opens them. Here come depraved newspapers, submerging good and elevated American journalism. Here comes a whole perdition of printed abomination, dumped on the breakfast table and tea table and parlor table. Take at least one good newspaper with able editorial and reporters’ columns mostly occupied with helpful intelligence, announcing marriages and deaths and reformatory and religious assemblages, and charities bestowed and the doings of good people, and giving but little plgce to nasty divorce cases and stories of crime, which, like cobras, sting those that touch them. Oh, for more newspapers that put virtue in what Is called great primer type and vice in nonpareil or agate! You have all seen

the photographer's negative. He took a picture from- it ten or twenty years ago. You ask him now for a picture from that same negative. He opens the great chest containing the black negative of 1883 or 1875, and he reproduces the picture. Young men, your memory is made up of the negatives of :in immortal photography. All that you- see or lwar gm?s into. your, soul to make pictures for the future. You will have with yotl day the nega fives o f all the ba<l pi ■ -tu res you have ever looked at and of all the debauched scenes you have read about. Show me the ncyvspapor you take- and- the—booksyou read, and I will tell you what are yourjprespects for well being in this life; and what will be your residence 1,000.1)00years after the star on which we now live shall have dropped out of the constellation, never.travel mi .Sunday unless it be a ease of .necessity or mercy. But last autumn I was in Irftlia in a city plague struck. By the hundreds the people were down with fearful illness. We went to thempothecary's to get some preventive of the fever, and the plaee was crowded with invalids, and we had no confidence in the preventive we purchased from the Hindoos. The mail train was to start Sabbath evening. I said, “Frank, I think the Lord will excuse us if we get out of this place with the first train,” and we took it, not feeling quite comfortable till we were hundreds of miles away. I felt we were right, i n flying from the pl ague. Well, the nir in many of our cities is struck through with a worse plague—the plague of corrupt and damnable literature.’ Get away from it as soon as possible. It has already ruined the bodies, minds and souls of a. multitude which, if stood in solid column, would reach from New York Battery to Golden Horn. The plague! The plague!

The Fourth Step.

Word the next: Never go to any- place where you would be ashamed to die. Adopt that plan, and you will never go to any evil amusement nor be found in com--pr.omising.siir roundin as. How many startling cases within the past few years of men called suddenly out of this world, and the newspapers surprised us when they mentioned the locality and the companionship. To put it on the least important ground, you ought not to go to any such forbidden place, because if you depart this life in such circumstances you pu t officiating nrinistersHir great- embarrassment. You know that some of the ministers believe that all who leave this life go straight to heaven, however they have acted in this world or whatever they have believed. To get you through from such surroundings is an appalling theological undertaking. One of the most arduous and besweating efforts of that kind that I ever knew of was at the obsequies of a man who was found dead in a snowbank with his rum jug close beside him. But the minister did the work of happy transference as well as possible, although it did seem a little inappropriate when lie read: “Blessed arethfi_dead—whcntte"in the Lord. They rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.” If you have no mercy upon yourself, have mercy upon the minister who may be called to officiate after your demise. Die at home, or in some place of honest business, or whore the laughter is clean, or amid companionships pure and elevating. Remember that any place wo go to may become our starting point for the next world. When we enter the harbor of heaven and the officer of light comes aboard, let us_ be able to show that our clearing papers were dated at thd'right port. The Fifth Step.

Word the next: As soon as you can. by industry and economy, have a home of your own. -What do I mean by a home? I mean two rooms and the blessing of God on both of them —one room for slumber, one for food, its preparation and the partaking thereof. Mark ( you. I would Tike you to have a home with thirty rooms, all upholstered, pictured and statuetted, but lam putting it.down at the minimum. A husband and wife who cannot be happy with a homo made up of two rooms would not be happy in heaven if they got there, lie who wins and keeps tho affection of a good practical woman has done gloriously. What do I mean by a good woman? I mean one who loved God before she loved you. I mean.one who can help yotr to earn a livingrfdr a time comes in almost every man's 1 ife when he is flung of hard misfortune, and you do not want a weakling going around the house whining and sniffling about how she had it before you married her. ' The simple reason why thousands of men never get on in the world is because they married nonentities and never got over it. The only thing that Job’s wife proposed for his boils was a warm poultice of profanity, saying, “Curse God and die.” It adds to our admiration of John Wesley the manner in which he conquered domestic happiness. His wife had slandered him all over England until, standing in his pulpit in City Road chapel, he complained to the people, saying, “1 have been charged with every crime in lhe catalogue except drunk-, enuess,” when his wife arose in the back part of the church and said. “John, you know you were drunk last night.” Then Wesley exclaimed, “Thank God, the catalogue is complete.” When a man marries, he marries for heaven or hell, rtiid it is more so when a woman marries. You six young men in Fayette, 0., had better look out.

The Sixth Step. Word the next: Do not rate yourself too high. Better rate yourself too low. If you rate yourself too low, the world will say, "Come up.” If you rate yourself too high, the world will say, "Come down.” It is a bad thing when a man gets so exaggerated an idea of himself as did Earl of Buchan, whose speech Ballantyne, the Edinburgh printer, could not set up for publicationi because he had not enough capital I’s among his type. Remeihber that the waild got along without you nearly 6.0C0 years before you were born, and unless some meteor collides with us or some internal explosion occurs the world will probably last several thousand years after you are dead. The Seventh Step. Word the next: Do not-postpone too long doing something decided for God, humanity and yourself. The greatest things have been done before 40 years of age. Pascal at 16 years of age, Grotius at 17, Romulus at 20, Pitt at 22. "Whitefield at i}4, Bonaparte ut 27. Ignatius Loyola at 30, jlaphael at 37, had made the world feel their Jrtl'fue <j>r their vice, and the biggest strokes you will probably make for the truth or agaiust the truth will be before you reach the meridian of life. Do not wait for something to turn up. Go to work am. turn it tip. There is no such thing as good luck. No man that ever lived haw had a better time than I have had. Yet I never had any good luck. But instead thereof a kind Providence has crowded my life with mercies. You will never accomplish much as long u

yon go at your work on the minute yon are expected and stop at the first minnto it is lawful to quit. The greatly useful and successful men of the next century will be those who began half anjiour before they .were required and worked at least half an hour after they might have quit. Unless you are willing sometimes to work-t welve hours of.-the day you will remain on the low levels, and your life will be a prolonged humdrum. The Eighth Step. Word the next: Remember that it is only a small part of our life that we art to pass on earth. Ixjss than your finger nail compared with your whole body is the life on earth"when compared with the next life. I suppose there are not more than half a dozen people in this world 100 years old. But a very few people in any countryreach 80—The majority of the human race expire before 30. Now? what an equipoise in such a consideration. If things go wrong, it is only for a little while. Have you not enough moral pluck to stand the jostling, and the inj ustices, and the mishaps of the small parenthesis between tfie two eternities? It is a good thing'to get ready for the one mile, this side the marble slab, but more important to get fixed up for the interminable miles which stretch out into the distances beyond the marble slab.

The Ninth Step. p Wordjhe next: Fill yourself with biographies of men who did gloriously in the business or occupation or profession you are about to choose or have already chosen. Instead of wasting your time on dry •essays as to how to do great things, go to the biographical alcove of your village or city library and acquaint yourself with mehwho.ln The sTght of eartteand heaven and hell, did the great things. Remember the greatest things are yet to be done. If the Bible be true? or as l had better put it, since the Bible is beyond all controversy true, the greatest battle is yet to be fought, and compared with it Saragossa and Gettysburg and Sedan were child’s; pl;iy with toy pistols. ~~We even know the name of the battle, though we are not certain as to where it will be fought. I refer to Armageddon. The greatest discoveries are yet to be made. A scientist has recently discovered in the air something which will yet rival electricity. The most.of things have not yet been found out. An. explorer has recently found in the valley of the Nile a whole fleet of ships buried ages ago Where now there is no water. Only six out of the 800 grasses have been turned into food like the potato and the tomato. There are hundreds of other styles of food to be discovered. Aerial navigation will yet be made as safe as travel on the solid earth. Cancers and consumptions and leprosies are to be transferred from the catalogue of incurable disease to the curable. Medical men are now successfully experimenting with modes of transferring diseases from weak "constitutions which cannot throw-them off to stout constitutions which are able to throw theni off. Worlds like Mars and the moon will be within hailing distance, and instead of confining our knowledge to their canals and their volcanoes they will signal all styles of intelligence to us, and we will signal all styles of intelligence-to them. Coming times will class our boasted nineteenth century with the dark ages. Under the power of gospelization the world is going to be so improved that the sword and the musket of our time will be kept in museums as now we look at thumb screws find ancient instruments of torture. Oh, what opportunities you arc going to have, young men all the world over, under 30. How thankful you ought to be that you were not born any sooner! Blessed are the cradles that arc being rocked now. Blessed are the st udent s in the freshman class. Blessed those who will yet be young men when the hew century comes in in five or six years from now. This world was hardly fit to lite in in the eighteenth century. I do not see how the old folks stood it. During this nineteenth century the world has by Christianizing and educational influences been fixed up until it does very well for temporary residence.

A Look Alicad, But the tbTnTiettrTnmtirry4=-A-h r -tbaC will be the time to see great siglrts-and do great deeds’ Oh, young men. get ready for the rolling in of that mightiest'and grandest and~ most gdorrotrs cerrtury-that the world has ever seen! Only five summers more, five autumns more, five winters more, five springs more, and then the clock of time will strike the death of the old century and the birth of the new. The then more than 1.700,000,000 inhabitants of the earth will hail its birth and pray for its prosperity. Its reign will be for 100 years, and the most of your life I think will be under the sway of its scepter. Get ready foi* it.. Have your heart right; your nerves right: your brain right; your digestion right. We will hand over ta you our commerce, our mechanism, our arts and sciences, our professions, our pulpits, our inheritance. We believe in you. We trust you. We pray for you. We bless you. And though by the time you get into the thickest’of the fight for God and righteousness we may have disappeared from earthly scenes, we will not lose our interest in your struggle, and if the dear Lord will excuse us for.a little while' front the temple service and the house of many mansions we will come out on the battlements of jasper and cheer you, and perhaps if that night of this world be very quiet you may hear our voices dropping from afar as we cry, "Be thou faithful unto death, and thou shalt have a crown!”

Proverbs.

Practical wisdom avoids big words. It is easier to break silence than to tnend It. To-morrow's advertising m.iy be a day too IutOMMNature never hurries, never halts and never fails. «. Folks are sometimes sorry to get what they pray for. • Effeminate men are ridiculous, masculine women repulsive. . A title is something that can kick an American toady with impunity. The chit reh cannot help you to trade tenement houses for heavenly mansions. /There would be more murders if men hated persons as ferociously us they do opinions. The more laws the more pettifoggers. He that can reason with a child can argue with a sage. The new photograph of the heavens which is being prepared by London, Berlin and Parisian astronomers shows 48,000,000 stars.

STRIKERS IN A RIOT.

SAVAGE BATTLE FOUGHT AT SOUTH CHICAGO. Striking Furnace Mea in -Hie Illinois Steel-Company's Milla Attack Fellow' Employes-Charged by the PoliceSevere Battle Follows. Four hundred striking employes of ttre Illinois Steel Company at South Chicago created one of the most serious riots in the history of the town Tuesday afternoon, when they broke down the gates and attempted to drive all the workmen from the Fail—machine shops. A series of hard fights ensued in each of the buildings. A riot call was turned in. Capt. Jenkins with nine policemen arrived on the scene in a few minutes. - The handful of policemen Attacked the rioters, who -were armed with iron bars, coupling pins, clubs and stones. Although outnumbered, the police drove the rioters outside the main gate, where a savage fight occurred, in which all the police officers were more or less injured. Probably 100 of the rioters

STRIKERS DRIVE FURNACE MEN AWAY.

had their heads cracked. Twenty-six of their number wore arrested, ail of Whom were more or less hurt. Many wounded rioters were carried off by the crowd. But for the determined fight made by the gallant little band of policemen, the officials of the company believe the mob would have destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of property as soon as the men who remained at work were driven away. The entire works is shut down, with the exception of the plate mill, which employs GOO men. Three thousand men are out of employment. The company’s plant in Joliet is also affected, about 1,500. men being out there. After the riot at the mills and the arrest of twenty-six of the ringleaders, another mob of about 1,000 gathered about the police station, and the police were confronted with the possibility of an effort on the part of the of the strikers to rescue the men who were under arrest. Sergeant VnmPelt, who had just returned from the scene of the riot with a small detachment of mon, took in this situation at a glance and ordered his men to disperse the mob, whjch they did without meeting with any great resistance. Additional men were at once sent for, and at midnight trong eordon oLpolice-guard-ad the approaches to the station at Eightyninth street aiid Exchange place, while 125 bluecoats stood guard over the mills.

The trouble all started over the strike of about thirty barrow men, or ore wheelers, who work at what are known as the south furnaces. These furnaces, two in number, are used to reduce the crude ore to the form of pig iron and are wholly independent of the steel mills. These men struck Monday afternoon because the company refused to grant them a raise of wages. Tuesday morning they made their appearance imthe yards, and, going to the four furnaces at the north end of the works, drove away all the men there, about 400 in number. These men, the Officers of th£__company claim, did not wish to strike, but quit wdrTrthro'irgh'Teirr of personal violence? This shut down all the furnaces, throwing about 700 men out of employment. The men who are avowedly on strike did not number more than 125 at most; the rest who were forced to quit perform other duties about the

POLICE CLEARING THE STREET.

furnaces and are more skilled and better paid than the wheelers.

CONDITION OF THE CROPS.

Drought Is Relieved mid Corn Plantinc Now Well Along. Reports as to the condition of crops throughout the country, and tho general influenou of weather on their cultivation and growth, as compiled by Prof. Moore of the United States -Weather Bureau at Chicago, show that generally the past week has been very favorable. lu the Northwestern States much needed, and, for the present, ample rains have fallen, which, with unusually high temperatures, have, been exceptionally favorable for the germination of seeds and for the rapid all vegetation. The heavy rains of the previous week have caused delay in farm work in portions of the Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland; rain is badly needed in Michigan, Ohio and greater portion of Pennsylvania. Corn planting has progressed rapidly during the week in the Northern States, and is generally reported as promising in the Central and Southern States, although considerable damage has been done by cut worms in some sections. Cotton planting Is about finished iu the southern portion of the cotton region and >■ nearing completion in the northern portion; it is coming up to a good stand and cultivation is well advanced. Winter wheat has been unfavorably affected by warm, dry weather in Missouri and Ohio; Illinois reports are generally favorable; in Tennessee it la beginning to head. Tobacco plants are

reported plentiful in Maryland; In Kentucky the beds have been injured by insects, and in Ohio the dry, warm weather has retarded growth. Fruit prospects continue excellent. Following are the telegraphic reports from various States: 1 Illinois—Abnormally high temperatures with rainfall lacking, except in west central and .northern sections, in the latter heavy showers.-,Corn planting progress-’ ing rapidly in all sections, early planting up, good stand and growing finely. Wheat, oats, rye, clover, ,tinfothy, potatoes and gardens in excellent condition in rain belt, otherwise growing slowly; fruit setling Hnustially heavy. —=■—: —— —— Indiana —Very warm, sunny weathermen 1 y 1 ight 1 oca 1 sh ow ers; crops advanced slowly, only heavier rains needed; much corn planted and coming up nicely; cut worms and army worms causing injury? - Wisconsin—Plentiful supply of rain received, which, with the high temperature, caused rapid growth. Vegetation more advanced than usual fofTEesedson; grain all sown and coming up nicely, corn and potato planting well along; pastures in good condition and stock'turned out. Minnesota —Abundant rains, with ample warmth and sunshine, have phenomenally advanced all vegetation; considerable flax and corn yet to be sown; other crops mostly all planted; small grain and grasses have a good stand and healthy color; apple and plum jdossoms plentiful. lowa —The week has been unseasonably ing, though delayed, is well advanced, with increased acreage; small grain crops; pastures and meadows show vigorous growth.

South Dakota —Frequent cepious showers, well distributed, with temperature considerably above normal, produced marked development and growth in all vegetation. Field crops, gardens, grass and fruit uiTu&aily advanced - and - airaa- - ing finely; injury from local hails slight. Kansas —Warm, with good rains in southern and eastern counties greatly improving all crop conditions. Much corn outside of rain limits not germinated, while grass and small grains are at a . standstill, and fruit is dropping. Nebraska—Warm, showery week unusually favorable for the growth of all crops. Small grain generally excellent; rye beginning to head in southern counties; corn planting has made rapid progress and much of the early planted is up and in fine condition. “Michigan—Dry~and very warm week. Farm work far advanced for the season; light scattered showers very beneficial, but more rain badly needed; spring seeding nearly finished; corn planting beginning and potato planting becoming general. Missouri—Good rains except in southeast section and all crops greatly improved; oats and winter wheat considerably damaged by drouth, and chinch bugs in some counties, but generally doing well. Corn coming up well; considerable complaint from cut worms. Ohio—Excessive warmth and dryness retarded growth of wheat, oats, grass, potatoes and tobacco plants. All cereals looking fairly well, but needing rain badly; corn planting advancing, early planted and potatoes coming up. Excessive fruit fcloom. ,

Indianapolis, Ind., Populists will place a full municipal ticket in the field at the next city election. The Missouri Senate passed the St. Louis Safety committee election bill as a substitute for the Filley bill. Tuesday, June 11. at Des. Moines, has been agreed upon as the date for the lowa Populist State convention. The Kentucky' Republican State Committee has fixed June 5 as the day for the State Republican convention. The Mississippi Democratic convention will be held at Jackson Aug. 7. Tho executive committee is for silver, 18 to 5. Ex-Congressman Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, has returned to the practice qf law, though renominated by the Populists. Tho New Ksrk Assembly concurred in the Senate fiWhendment to the bill removing the New York police magistrates—yeas, 86; nays, 17. The Utah constitutional convention adopted the constitution as a whole and disposed of some minor business preliminary to adjournment. Senator Jones; of Arkansas, says he believes an international monetiiTy confereflee will be held not later than November, and, if sc, he is to attend. Judge Edmunds, of the St. Louis, Mo., criminal court, has instructed the May grand jury to make a thorough investigation of a'lleged elechion frauds last November.

Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, Introduced his resolution for a committee of five to investigate charges that tho Councils of Philadelphia sell franchises. Referred to committee. Gov. Matthews, of Indiana, says he would take the Democratic nomination for President if it were offered to him; but he is not a candidate for anything in the sense of seeking the nomination. Thirty-five of the fifty-eight Democrats in the Missouri House at a caucus adopted a resolution favoring the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. The whole ’’trend of the caucus was to precipitate if' discussion which will probably result in a State convention. The Michigan Supreme Court- has handed down a decision that the act passed by the present Legislature authorizing the appointment by the Governor of a new Detroit Board of Health Is constitutional. The court declares the now board is entirely warranted in drawing upon the treasury of Detroit for money. The Missouri Supreme Court rendered an important decision affecting the Australian ballot law. The Kansas City grand jury asked for the ballot boxes to investigate alleged ballot frauds. The request was refused. Giving the grand jury the right to inspect the ballot boxes, the court holds, would violate the secrecy of the ballot as well as being an Infringement of the constitution.

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

fTEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAn Intr -esting Stnnmarj of the More fa. portant Doings of Our Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. ■ ■ " —-v? Minor State Newin^TT I—- 1 —- Arcadia plate glass works burtied. Loss, 525,003The "Die!erich syndicate has brought the Logansport natural gas plant for SSOO- - - Worms are destroying corps, meadows andotliervegctation in (’ 1 ark t' and Floyd counties. —Ob a ft dead from injuries, received by falling from a haystack. , The bakeries of Elwood have combined and raised the price of bread from 2 to 4 cents per loaf. Fulton county commissioners have let the contract for a new $78,000 court house, to be built at Rochester. Julius J. Hasel, Fort Wayne laborer,* has fallen heir to $50,000 left him by his Germany..- L Over one hundred new residences and ten new business houses are to lie erected in Parker City this summer. The county seat removal question is being revived in Lake county, Hammond disputing with Crown Point for a relocation. The members of.tlie First Presbyterian Church of Greencastle have extended a call to Rev. William K. Weaver, of Owattona, Minn. Mad dogs have done considerable damage to stock in Morgan county. Many hogs have been killed suffering with rabies. A child was born in ..Kokomo. recently that is the fourteenth daughter of the fourteeth daughter. Mrs. S. 11. Burt is the mother. Guy Shephered was waylaid by footpads at Vincennes, beaten robbed and driven home in a buggy by the robbers.

Walter Armstrong was seriously in-jured-at-ttmArenrde-fihf-woidvSi-AndeFSlm, by a grindstone bursting. A fragment strack him on the head. John Heidenreh h, who has been a switchman in Terre Haute for thirty years, whs run over and killed by the cars in tho Evansville & Terre Huato yard. South Bend will send a delegation to Washington to protest against the new public building in that City. The citizens are greatly dissatisfied with the plans. Mrs. G. W. Ross, who last winter fell through a grating on Main street, Brazil, while in a delicate condition, and suffered serious injuries, has filed suit in the Superior Court for $20,000 damages against the city. A young man, who was beating a ride over the Monon railroad, fell between the freight cars near Crawfordsville, and was cut to pieces. Nothing was found to identify him, but it is supposed that he belonged at Danville, 111. William Cummins, an employe of tho. Akron Forge Works, while operating the l(MldonJrip kammer v yvas knocked senseless by a fragment of the steel billet, which broke off, and striking him, hurled him across the room. A Plymouth man returned a stolen dress skirt to its owner, accompanying it with a note explaining in illiterate language that he stole it to clothe his naked wife, but. it was his first theft and his conscience hurt him. Edward W. Drieman. a commercial traveler who was seriously injured in a wreck on the Indianapolis & Vincennes railway some weeks ago, has filled suit at Vincennes for $5,000 damages against the Pennsylvana company. Four young men were playing poker in the heading mills at Bedford, when Paul Johnson quarreled with Homer Bruce. The latter shot Johnson through the head causingLajjiorlaL\xouujtl.llruce,Jiiabrotlmv—ami Win. Emery vy.s arrested. One hundred and fifty new residences are in course of ’erection at Wabash this spring, the building boom beingunprecedented. The estimated cost of each Molding is SI,OOO, making a total of $150,000 which local investors are putting into residences. Harry Kellar, who was formerly in lhe dry goods business at Logansport, was assaulted and robbed of $Bl5 shortly before midnight recently at his home. Hearing a noise he went to his barn ami was attacked and left in a dazed condition. Thera is nq clue and the affair is regarded as a mystery. At Lafayette, Judge Everett rendered a decision in ex-A^trney-general Smith's suit to recover from tluwhool trustees a considerable sum of money that had not been expended for tuition purposes. Tho court held that the law of 1895 did away with th<! laupof 1898 and that the attorneygeneral could not maintain a suit under the new law. Luther Smith of Logarispqrt, got on the cowcatcher of a Vaud ilia engine to ride to Maxinkuckee. Near Verona station, a few miles north, the engine struck three horses that were running loose on the track, killing two of them. When the train stopped the remains of Smith were, found terribly mangled. He was about 21 years old and lived with a widowed mother. He was formerly employed as a switchman on the Vandalia.

Patents have been issued to the following Indiana inventors: Charles F. Black, Topeka, dish cleaner; Janies D. Bowman, assignor one-half to 11. Y. Miller, Union County, Indiana, earth auger; Allen C. Brantingham, assignor to Nordykc and Mannon, Indianapolis, feeder for mills; Edward and L. Hedderick, Pettit, washboard; Steven G. Ilindsley, Union City, Hood gate; Joseph Beiff, Jr., assignor of one-half to E. M. Nichols, Hebron, vent controlling mecaniam for pumps; Valentine C. Rocholl, Fort Wayne, prize wrench; Ferdinand Seheumann, Logansport, safety valve; Fred and L. Winkler, South Bend, sprinkler head, two patents. As a result of eating onions purchased from a huckster, Herman Wilson, aged 7, died at •Jeffersonville, and two other children, Elmer Wilson and Paul Mozier, are dangerously ill with little hopes of recovery. During the day the children purchased several bunches of onions and ate them with salt. Soon they were taken ill and physicians were puzzled at the symptoms. Emetics were administered and it was found that they had overdosed their stomachs, but as this alone would not be sufficient to produce death, the physicians are inclined to the belief that something of a poisonous nature must have been mixed with the onions.