Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Page 7

REFUTES FREE TRADE

EFFECT OF THE GORMAN TARIFF < 2 UPON FINANCE. Cost of Ocean Transportation No Ironcer Adequate Protection to American Manufacturers —Ideas of a West Virginian Upon Present Tariff. Why Money Is Scarce. I read in the papers that business is reviving in the cities and manufacturing centers. If that is a fact I wish the agricultural could receive some of the medicine that is stimulating Other -industries— Never in my day have I ever seen business as dull in this county as at the present time. Farm produce cannot find a market anywhere except at ruinously low prices. Potatoes, which form our staple product, 30 cents per bushel; cheese brings about 7 cents per pound; eggs, 12 cents per dozen; butter, 14 to 16 cents per pound at the stores, and paid in trade at that. Money is as scarce as the proverbial “hen’s teeth”; even the most well-to-do farmers say that it is almost impossible to get money enough to meet current expenses, many being obliged to contract debts to provide the necessaries of life for themselves and families. As for men who depend upon their daily labor for the support of themselves and families, it is almost impossible for them to obtain a day’s work anywhere, for the simple reason that men who usually hire work done upon their farms cannot find money to pay their help. All this trouble can be traced to the working of the Gorman tariff law. We never before experienced such a dearth of money or such stagnation in business. But the lesson, though a tough one, has had its effects. I know of many men who never voted anything but the Democratic ticket who declare that they will never vote for a party again that will cause such financial distress as the Democratic party inaugurated on March 4, 1893. These complaints are but the mutterings of the great storm that will sweep this land in November, 1896, and sweep from newer, and I hope forever... the free-trade, buslness-de-stroying Democracy. Until that time comes there can be no hope of general prosperity to the people of our land. MARCUS W. M’KELLIPS. Holland, N. Y. The Cost of Transportation. To those free traders and tariff reformers who are inclined to point out the great natural protection which is afforded to the American manufacturer by the 3,000 miles of ocean that roll between hirn'ancl his foreign rival, the tables of ocean freight rates would be a very profitable study. The freight rate given by the Cunard line for cottons in 1895 was $2.44 per ton on 2,240 pouuds andr the same onwoolen goods. Let us see how much protection this affords to the American manufacturer of cottons or woolens. A very moderate estimate of the average value of manufactured cottons Or woolens would be 50 cents per pound, making the value of a ton $1,120. The freight for goods whose value would be $1,120 would be only $2.44, or about one-fifth of 1 per cent. Suppose the value to be $1 per pound. The freight would then be only a little over onetenth of 1 per cent., hardly a sufficiently great protection to warrant and extensive cut in tariff schedules. A further study of the freight tables would show revelations even more startling to these dreamers, who apparently take the cost of a first-class cabin fare on an ocean greyhound as a basis for their estimates of the cost of transportation for manufactured products, a class of transportation with which they may perhaps bo more familiar. Let them look at the rates of the Cunard line for 1890 and they will find that the rate of freight on cottons and woolens was $4.24 per ton, and that the rate in-1885 was $6.11 per ton. In other words, the rate of freight on cottons and woolens in 1895 was less than ♦»0 per cent, of what it was in IS9O, and cniy 40 per cent, of what it was in 1885. Tills, at least, will give an idea how’ freight rates have decreased even in the last ten years. Unfortunately, careful records of freight rates were not kept in the earlier years, though there are not a few suggestive items. But though we capnot show in exact figures the tremendous decrease in all freight rates, we have, nevertheless, a basis for reckoning. The figures of to-day prove that freight rates on some lines of goods are less than 1 per cent, of the value of the goods, while, as we have said before, we have Hamilton’s word that in his day freights averaged 15 per cent, of the value of the goods, while Jefferson placed the rate even higher. The relation of the cost of transportation to the protective tariff system is a subject which has been too much disregarded, but it Is a question which embodies in itself a whole system of economics. Bennett’s Cry for ’h?eace.” The figures show that the Wilson tariff is a good revenue producing measure. The only trouble is with the internal revenue, which decreased in -the last fiscal year $3,543,769. If more revenue is needed in 1896 It should, therefore, be obtained by increasing Internal revenue rates. - “Let us have peace,” rather than Republican tariff tinkering.— New York Herald. As the free traders have objected to a comparison of Imports for the last fiscal year with that of 1894 as not being fair, why Is it fair to compare the revenues raised by customs during the same periods? “Let lis have peace,” says James Gordon Bennett, "rather than. Republican tariff tinkering.” The • r * - •- • ' -

Herald has certainly got by far 'the worst of it in all Its tariff arguments, and we do not wonder that Mr. Bennett cries for “peace” rather than for good will toward his countrymen. What Fools and Free Traders D<?. The leopard does not change its spots, and the New York Evening Post is the same bitter enemy of a protective tariff that it ever was. It said, June 21: “If there is any possibility that the Republicans are going to let the country stagger along under the ‘tariff of infamy’ after they come into power, the sooner it is known the better. And if the tariff is really to be changed, the country ought to know in what respects just as soon as possible. Is the duty to be restored upon imports of wool, for example? Such questions as these will agitate the minds of business men of all parties if the Republicans announce positively that they are going to ‘tinker’ the tariff? 1 —-■ The Evening Post may feel assured that the Republican party, as soon as It has the power to do so, iu both House jiM Senate, will obey the popular mandate, given in thunder tones at the election of 1894, to protect American industry. It has upheld that policy in times of disaster; it will not abandon it now, when it is about to enter again, ami with renewed vigor, into power. But protectionists will not gratify the enemy by frittering away time.on the details of tariff revision. It would please free traders to attempt to create discord, no doubt, but they must supply their own ammunition. All “revenue reformers” and the like are united in their purpose to overthrow protection as the national policy. The Evening Post, for instance, predicted that tlfe abolition of the duty on wool would undermine the entire protective system. But woolen manufacturers continue to be stronger protectionists than ever. They know that the protective policy benefits the whole country and, as patriotic citizens, they uphold it. Protective tariff revision will not agitate “the minds of business men of all parties.” It Is only when fools and free traders tinker that the whole country justly feels alarm.

The Real Issue Remains. The money question is being agitated to divert the public mind from the real issue—the tariff. The two Questions are bound to go hand in hand. The Democrats want to keep the people from thinking about the tariff for a few years, and tliey hope that in the meantime the country, with its wonderful resources, will have regained its lost business sufficiently to throw the people off the track. The Democrats hope, by agitating, the public will forget its troubles brought on by their miserable, incompetent tariff tinkering. It is plain as day we must have a protective tariff in order to prosper. What care we what kind of money we have if we have no business to transact with any kind of money? We do nofwant Wall street buying or selling our money, and in that way injuring our business, but the first of all questions with America must be that we enact laws which will Improve our business. And those laws are mainly protective measures.— Times, Leavenworth, Kansas. Col. Thompson Talks. Colonel William B. Thompson recently gave his opinion of the Gorman tariff in cleqr, terse teriqs. “I think,” said he, “it was a barefaced sacrifice of the general Interests for the personals; of business at large for political rewards and preferments. And lam from West Virginia, and, like Mr. Wilson of that State, was in the Confederate army." Col. Thompson, who speaks thus, is president of the National Lead Company, which has thirty-two large productive concerns throughout the country, with plants worth, in the aggregate, $24,000,000, and stocks of raw material and finished stuff worth $4,500,000. His company disburses millions of dollars annually for labor, and by the production of lead and linseed oil adds greatly to the public wealth. Tlie opinions of sucli a man should have due weight with free traders who are sincerely in quest of light on the tariff question. A Word from Washington. We hope the protectionists will remember the young State of Washington in tlie matter of the protection of our general Interests, especially as affected by Canadian products, such as coal, lumber, shingles and other products. We desire a heavy duty on those artj 5 cles, so as to protect our working people on this side of tlie line. The times are improving locally, but no thanks to the present administration. A ship canal has been commenced, which will expend about $7,000,000 and put a good deal of money afloat Long live the G. O. P. and hasten protection and give us William McKinley for our next President. MARTIN MONOHAN. Monohon, King’s County, Wash. A Word from a "Ripper.” The better times have checked the silver craze. They will likewise put a veto on tariff-ripping.—New York World. Certainly. “Tariff-ripping” is a thing of the past. It died with the free trade , ripper's Congress. Tariff for protectlon builds up; a free trade tariff does the ripper’s work and destroys. Why They Enlisted. There is up more talk of the “army of the uneinployed.”—New York World. Of course there is not. The Congressional free-traders hpye been consigned to oblivion. There never would have been any talk of the "army of the unetoployed" had they always remained there. A Sure Winner. Keep “Old Tariff” In front and you will win.—World, Cleveland, Ohio, June 15, 1895.

TOPICS FOR FARMERS

A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS Day of the Small Farm Has Come— Value of a Rapid Walking Horse— Marketing Garden Vegetahlea—How to Fatten Cattle - The Small Farm West. Even in California, the land of great ranches and vast estates, they begin to see that the day of the small fjtrm has come. Indeed, the San Francisco Chron-. iele says that it has for years preached the gospel of the small farm, well diversified, as the keynote of California's future prosperity. It means more homes, more good citizens and greater general good than rich mines or vast fields and orchards can afford. The thrifty small farmer is the last to feel the pinch of hard times. He may never be rich, but he need never be poor. He can earn leisure and learn how to, enjoy it, and his children will have the home influence all children are entitled to. The Santa Rosa Republican notes an Increasing inquiry for small places in the country, more especially to rent. There is now a tendency from the cities, instead of toward them. Wage workers are seeking small farms to work for themselves. We should have ten of these small, well-worked places where we now have one. The single-crop man is rich one year and poor the next five. The man who has cows, hogs, poultry and vegetables, as well as fruit, is the man who is the most prosperous and has the best home.

Rapid Walking Horses. At the present time there are, of course, nothing like as many long journeys made by the aid of a 1 horse as In the days of our forefathers, but nevertheless it is still a welcome attribute in a driver, the ability to keep up a smart pace and to do it cheerfully when not forged into a trot, says Wallace’s Monthly. Men who have the initial handling of colts are, in a great measure, responsible for the rapidity of their walk, and it should be the aim of such men to see that the colts are taught to walk five miles an hour, and do it without urging. Once acquired, the possession of a rapid walk will be of benefit should the colt as a matured horse develop into a trotter, and should he prove fit only for farm labor or business purposes, the fast walker will sell quickly where a “pokey” animal would be a drug on the market

Marketing Garden Vegetables. The work of growing garden vegetables is only a small part~of the labor required'before they can be turned Into money. They are all very bulky, and for this reason the market garden must needs be near a city or large village, or at least near a railroad statlofi, where the crop can be shipped. Land that has these advantages is worth many times as much as other land of equal fertility that is not near to market. The gardener must also have large amounts of manure, and these cannot be secured except near cities or villages. In market gardening, however, where there is a near market for the product, it will pay to use commercial fertilizers, especially the nitrates, which are much more easily applied than stable manure, and do not dry out the soil as the manure does. To Fatten Cattle Quickly. To fatten cattle most rapidly at this season of the year provide a pasture with at least one acre of grass for each cow or steer. Begin, says the Agriculturist, with five pounds of cornmeal and one pound crushed oil cake for each animal. Increase the feed by adding one pound of cornmeal and onehalf pound of oil cake daily for two weeks. If corn is ground without the cob, make a mixture of three parts’ meal and one part bran or mill feed by weight. A ration of twenty pounds meal and bran, eight pounds oil cake with grass, water and salt will fatten the animals as rapidly as heavier feeding. I.,would use nothing but old process oilmeal. Sterilizing Milk. Provide six or eight half-pint bottles according to the number of times the child is fed during the twenty-four hours, directs the Ladies’ Horae Journal. Put the proper quantity of food for one feeding in each bottle and use j a tuft of cotton batting as a stopper. I Have a saucepan that the bottles can , stand in conveniently. Invert a perforated tin pie plate In the bottom, and put in enough water to come above , the milk in the bottles. Stand bottles on it. When the water boils, draw the saucepan to a cooler part of the stove, where the water will remain near the boiling point, but not actually boiling. Cover the saucepan and let the bottles remain in it one hour. Put them in the ice box, or a cool place In winter. Relative Valuea of Manure. At the Connecticut Experiment Station four plots were selected and planted in corn, put the same distance in row , and hills apart, and cultivated the same way four years. To one plat ten cords of cow manure were given each year; to the second plat hogpen manure at the rate of thirteen and a half cords; to the third plat fertilizer chemicals at the rate of 1,700 pounds, and to the fourth none. At the end of four years the cow manure had averaged 68 bushels per acre; the hogpen, 66 bushels; the fertilizers, 50 bushels, and the unmanured land, 36 bushels. If we look, however, at the available plant food left in the soil at the end of four years for future crops, the account . will stand thus: Cow manure left 533 ! pounds nitrogen, 388 pounds phosphoric 1 add and 407 pounds potash; hogpen,

897 of nitrogen, 1,713 phosphoric arid and 57 pounds potash; fertilizers, 238 pounds nitrogen, 476 phosphoric acid and 107 pounds of potash; while the unmanured was short 165 pounds nitrogen, 37pounds of potash, and in excess 37 pounds phosphoric acid. Cow manure has been estimated to be worth $2.21 per ton, and swine $3.29 per ton. Mildew on Roses. For roses, the mlldqrw may be controlled by sulphur, either dusted upon the foliage or heated upon the greenhouse pipes. The black spot has been checked by Bordeaux mixture, and the ammoniacal solution of carbonate of copper, says the Philadelphia Ledger. The formula for Bordeaux mixture is five pounds of lime and five pounds of sulphate - of copper in fifty gallons of water; each may be prepared and kept in stock, to be mixed as needed for spraying. The formula for ammoniacal solution of the carbonate of copper is five ounces of carbonate of copper dissolved in three quarts of strong (419 ammonia, to be afterward added to fifty gallons of water. These two fungicides are the chief compounds that can be recommended for fungous I diseases in the greenhouse. A solution of potassic sulphide (one-half ounce of sulphide to one gallon of water) has proved a successful remedy in carnation diseases. Good results have followed the use of Bordeaux mixture for fungi on violets and many other plants would doubtless be benefited by its use.

Fowls in Gardens. On the vineyards of France poultry are kept in large numbers and permitted to wander at will for ten months in the year, with benefit to*the vines, to -themselves and to their owners. Rest assured, says The English, Planter, if fowls can get plenty of grubs, worms and insects, whose room is usually better than their company, they will not do much damage to fruit of any kind, though a little tax in this way will be paid for in another. As to corn crops, I came across a striking proof of the value of poultry some time ago. Visiting a large farmer, who keeps several hundred poultry, he told me that last year he had two houses with fifty hens in each in a pasture field, adjoining which was a large field sown iu oats. His bailiff wanted the fowls removed, as they were wandering all over the oat field, scratching everywhere. Finally, he became rather afraid of the effect himself, and one day went down, dug up the ground in several places, to find that not an oat had been interfered with, and he never had a better crop in his life. The fowls were feasting upon,the natural food In the soil.

Shelled Eggs Shipped in Bulk. A consular report tells of large quantities of shelled eggs being sent to England from Russia and Italy, for the use of pastry cooks, bakers, hotels and restaurants. The eggs are emptied from their shells into tin cans holding a thousand or more,and after being her-. metlcally sealed, are packed with straw into wooden cases, the taps, through which the contents are drawn, being added by those using them. Great care is necessary in selecting the eggs, as a single bad one would spoil the whole lot Lower prices and saving of time and greater ease and less expense and loss in handling are named as the advantages of this system. Thus far the Russian product has been uniformly good, whereas the Italian shipments have so frequently been spoiled that analysis of the Russian supply has been ordered to determine if preservatives arc used. The Barley Harvest. No kind of farm animals excepting poultry will attack a head of barley. Fowls will peck at it to get out the grain and then eat that, but the strong beards are repellant to all other kinds of stock. With the self-binding harvesters now generally used for barley harvest very little of the grain is dropped on the ground, and there is not much use raking the field after it to gather what is scattered. In the olden time, when barley was cut with a reaper and gathered in cocks like hay without binding, there were always a great many rakings. Usually these were badly stained and could not be sold with main crop, but they made good feed when threshed by themselves and ground. Many barley growers still prefer the old way of harvesting, as can be cured in less time if allowed to lay a day unbound before being put into cock than if bound in a bundle as soon as cut, ae It must be when cut with the harvester. Cultivating After Rains. Every time rain falls all tilled land should be cultivated. There are many light rains through the summed, which wet only the surface of the soli, and If this is not cultivated under, the moisture speedily evaporates and is lost This cultivation has also another effect in developing nitrates in the»soil. Whatever vegetable matter is in the soil needs only to be brought into contact with oxygen to be decomposed and its manurial elements set free. There is also on soil that is cultivated frequently a deposit of moisture by the atmosphere which it contains, and this, being really a dew, always contains more ammonia than does ordinary rain water. Use the Emoothing Harrow. Make good use of the smoothing batrow in the corn and other cultivated fields. No tool in use will kill so many weeds as this, if used at the right time. It will keep down the weeds and keep the surface mellow, the two prime necessities In the culture of any crop. The Berry Bnah. Berry bushes will bear longer If the fruit Is picked off clean. If you should have more than you want to use, give some poor neighbor a chance.

WHITTIER’S BOYHOOD.

The Quaker Poet Had but Scant In* atruction in Youth. , In his boyhood Whittier had scant instruction, for the district school was open only a few' Weeks in winter. HF had but few books; there were scarcely thirty in the bouse. The one book he read and read again until he bad it by heart almost was the Bible; and the Bible was always the book which exerted the strongest literary Influence upon him. But when he was 14 a teacher came who lent him books of travel and opened a new world to him. Itwas this teacher who brought to the Whit- . flers one evening a volume of Burns and read aloud some of the poems, after explaining the Scottish dialect. Whit. tier begged to borrow the book, which was almost the first poetry he had ever read. It was this volume of Burns which set Whittier to making verses himself, serving both as the inspiration and the inode! of his earlier poetic efforts. The Scottish poet, with bls homely pictures of a life as bare and as hardy as that of New England then, first revealed to the American poet what poetry really was, and how it migSt be made out of the actual facts of his own life. That book of Burns’ poems had an even stronger influence on Whittier than the old volume of the Spectator which fell Into the hands of Franklin had on the American author whose boyhood Is most like Whittier’s. Franklln also was born in a humble and hardworking family, doing early has share of the labor, and having but a meager education, though always longing for learning. It is true that Irving and Cooper and Bryant did not graduate from college, but they could have done so, had they persevered; and Emerson and Longfellow and Hawthorne did get as much of the higher education as was then possible in America. But neither Franklin noi- Whittier ever had the dhance; it was as much as they could do to pick up the merest elements of an education.—St Nicholas.

Bonaparte’s Horrible Suggestion.

As a votary nt the shrine of science he believed in the lawfulness of suicide, and he now coldly suggested murder to his surgeon general, hinting that an overdose of morphine would end the sufferings of those plague-stricken men who would have to be abandoned. It was long believed that such a dose actually > ha<l been administered to the sixty or more who were left behind. But the conclusive report that the report was false is in the fact that when Sir Sidney Smith occupied Jaffa the sufferers were still alive. Napoleon to the last defended the suggestion as proper, though he falsely denied having made It himself, and untruthfully declared at St Helena that he had delayed three days to protect the dying patients. With cynical good nature, be told the fine story of how the noble French physician Desgenettcs (who, in spite of his conviction that the plague was contagious, had already inoculated himself with tlie disease in order to allay the panic of the terror-stricken soldiers) had rejected the criminal suggestion, replying that a physician’s profession was to save, not to destroy, human life.—Century.

A Unique Costume.

According to the Pittsburg Journal, Peter Gruber, the Rattlesnake King of Venango County, has made the most unique costume any man ever wore. It consists of a coat, vest, trousers, hat, shoes and shirt, and is made entirely of the skins of rattlesnakes. Seven hundred snakes, all caught and skinned by Gruber during the past five years, provided the material for this novel costume. To preserve the brilliancy and* the flexibility of the skins In the greatest possible degree the snakes were skinned alive, first being made unconscious by chloroform. They were then tanned by a method peculiar to Gruber, and are as soft and elastic as woolen goods. The different articles for this outfit were made by Oil City tailors, shoemakers and hatters, and the costume is valued at SI,OOO.

Women Readers Increasing.

A writer in the Signet says: “Returns from the British Museum and 200 libraries in Great Britain and America show an increase in the number of readers, and a larger increase among women than among men. In 1890 the women passed the men by a large majority, and In 1893, which is the last year for which there are statistics, were 35 per cent more numerous. Another change Indicated by the returns is the increased popularity of scientific, historical, and other books which are classed under the general head of heavy literature and a relative decrease In poetry, fiction, belles lettres, and the other varieties of light reading.”—Philadelphia .Times.

Too Polite.

There Is such a thing as being too polite. For Instance, says the Transcript, there la Flumleigh. He went Into a store to Inquire about something or other, and there was nobody but a woman there. He began by asking, “I beg pardon, if you are not engaged—” and before he cOuld say more she Interrupted him with, “This Is so sudden 1” And, by gracious, she accepted him on the spot, and before he knew what was going on. No, sir, it doesn’t pay to be *oo polite. And the speaker shook bls head sagely, and not without a suggestion of sadness.

A Tribe of Hairy People.

On the Island of Yezo Is a tribe of hairy people called Aiijos, often called also Hairy Kuriles. They are believed to be the remnant of the earliest in. habitants of the country. They are not akin to monkeys, but they have their own language and their own customs. Their features are of European type rather than Asiatic

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. " ™ 1 An Interesting Summary of the More Im. portant DoL» K » of Our dings and Denthe—Crimea, Casualties and General News Notes Condensed State Nows. Goshen people are about to secure a boiler manufactory in'their city. " White cap bofices are being served on many persons in Daviess County. Grant County now claims to have three of the largest oil wells in the States * e The badness portion of Kent, near Madison, was wiped out by flames. Peter Weber was fatally burned by a gas explosion at an Anderson glass factory. Wakarusa is jnbilant over the prospect of getting a buggy and wagon factory. Walter Wilkins, 15, was thrown from a colt near and fatally injured. Eart, Foreman was instantly killed at Goshen, by falling in front of a w agon loaded with stone. _ ■ ' . Bend exploded a cartridge with a stone. He only has one hand now. i . , Chas. Burger, aged 13, fell into a chute in the sewer-pipc works at Brazil and was smothered to death. Wm. Douglass, -aged 21, committed suicide with laudanum under the floor of the diking halt pt the Wabash fairgrounds. Three prisoners in the Madison Jail escaped by sawing out several iron bars in a window and lowering themselves to the jail yard. A team driven by John Defard and Joseph Baum, of Frankfort, was struck by a passenger train. Baum’s injuries may prove fatal. T All fruit growers agree that southern Indiana’s apple crop, this season, will be the heaviest and the best that has been raised for many years. Nay & Adajb’s sawmill, together with a large amount of lumber and logs were burned at Max, eight miles west of Lebanon. Loss, $5,000; no insurance. The City Council of West Indianapolis unanimously passed a resolution offering a reward of SSOO for any information leading to arrest of the-murderer of little Ida Gebhardt. William Eckerman, the 19-year-old son of Louis Eckerman, of Terre Haute,has been missing for several months, and from information received it is believed he was drowned in Lake Michigan, while working on a Chicago boat. John Dunn, employed at the Kenneth quarries, took a walk on the Panhandle track, and while in the act of stopping to light a pipe was struck by the Chicage express and instantly killed. Dunn was 45 years c.ld. The accident occurred near Kenneth station, four miles from Logansport. While fishing with a seining party, on the Wabash River south of Williamsport, William Keefer fell from a boat and was drowned. It is supposed he became entangled in the seine, as the young man did not rise after sinking. No help could be rendered hjm. He was a respected young fanner living near Williamsport. , • Charles Lucas, foreman of the engine crew at the new Monon shops, Lafayette, was killed recently. He was setting the brake on a gravel car, and the stem broke, throwing him between the cars. His right arm was severed above the elbow, and the top of his head was cut off above the eyes. Sir. Lucas was a brother-in-law of W. IL McDel, General Manager of the road. The remains were sent to his home at State Line, Ind,, for burial. Daniel Brittenham, ajanner, living two miles south of Windfall, was seriously if not fatally injured by having his arm caught in the wheels of a threshing machine. He was working near the wheels, when his shirt sleeve’teaught in the cogs of tlie wheels neat his elbow. He made a desperate effort to rid himslef bimself by tearing away from the sleeve, but the material was too strong, and his arm was drawn into tlie cogs, catching near the elbow of the left irmto the wrist, grinding the flesh on one side of the arm to a pulp to the bone. In trying to extricate himself he threw his hand further into the machinery, cutting off the palm of the hand and three fingers.

A. D. Hensler and other farmers of Liberty Township, Howard County, were made tlie victims of the old tin box swindle last week. A man giving his name as John Schmidt, a horse buyer, went to Hensler several days ago, engaged Mr- Ilensler’s assistance in buying horyes, they purchasing a large number ot animtls, some being paid for and some not. Schmidt brought with him a small fin box which he said contained $2,000 in cash, which he kept at the Hensler home>while buying and shipping. The other day Schmidt mysteriously disappeared and has not since been heard of. The defrauded farmers took the tin, box to Kokomo, expecting to be made whole out of the $2,000 it was supposed to contain, but when Sheriff Sumption cut it open with a hatchet there was revealed to sight two ordinary clay bricks, nothing more. One of the boldest robberies ever perpetrated in that section of the country occurred tlie other nignt within a stone’s throw of the city limits of Union City. The residence of David Potter, just north-west ot the city limits, was the scene. Mr. Potter was aroused about 2 o’clock by a loud crash. He jumped from his bed and was confronted by four men with red handkerchiefs over their faces. Mr. Potter was seized and bound, and his wife and son were similarly treated. Mr. Potter had taken a large quantity of wheat to town the day before, and it is supposed the robbers entered for the purpose of getting the money he received. However, they found nothing but a certificate of deposit from one of the banks. The robbers left with but a small sum and a gold watch. Mr. Potter was bound with wire and his flesh was cruelly cut. The marauders came in buggies and left in that way. The doors were burst in with fence rails. .Commodore McCammon, aged 41, was struck by a south-bound freight train on the Pennsylvaniaroad and instantly killed. The accident occurred at Speed’s Station, eight miles north of Jeffersonville. McCammon leaves a wife and three children in destitute circumstances. Theodore Brizendine was driving from, a neighbor’s to his home in Eden, when his wife and four-months-old baby were in some way thrown from the buggy. The wife’s neck was broken and she died instantly, and the baby was so badly injured that it is throught it will die. The tragedy is supposed to have been caused bv reckless driving by Btizendinc.