Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1899 — Page 3

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE Fast week. Big Story from GmnUbnrg About a Mountain of Biackanakea Regiment Receives Warm Welcome Home—Prisoner Goes to Work. Abram Robeson, near Grantsburg, while hunting for a stray horse, which had been missing for two days, noticed a large black snake, which retreated toward a •cave formed by an overhanging ledge of rocks in one of the high bluffs surrounding bis pasture lands. His horse was found lying in this cavern, but covered by what looked to him like a mountain of snakes, so numerous were the reptiles. Robeson died to his home and secured his shotgun, with which he returned and opened fire ■until his cartridges were exhausted. After ■the battle he counted the bodies of 413 enakes lying around and over the body of bis horse, which was dead. Indiana Soldiers Return. The 160th Indiana volunteer infantry, After just one year of service, has return--ed to Indiana, having been mustered out At Savannah. The regiment was one of •the first ordered to Cuba after the evacuation. It was stationed at Matanzas. The twelve companies scattered to their respective towns at once. Every town that furnishes an organization extended a public reception. The colonel of the regiment, •George W. Gunder, lives at Marion, and most of the staff officers are from that •city. Ex-Prisoner Turns Ont Well. ' Henry Berner, twenty years a prisoner at Jeffersonville, and for the last year a guard, has accepted a position at Dayton. Berner was an expert machinist, having bad charge of the machinery at the institution, and a genius. He once made a clock frame inlaid with 2,500 different ©ieces of wood, which he sold for SIOO. He was sentenced to life for killing a man At Vincennes, and daring the twenty years be was confined his wife sought continuously for a pardon.

Within Our Borders. Greensboro will reincorporate. Wayne County druggists have organMany Indiana towns report house famines. Tenant mines, Waterman, closed indefinitely. Pieces of mastodon were dug up near Liberty. Brazil has 202 more school children than last year. Brookstown high school has been commissioned. James Howard, Brazil, found paralyzed tin a buggy. Incendiaries are getting in their work at Fort Wayne. Policeman Stratton, Anderson, died of epinal meningitis. Gold said to have been discovered in Blackford County. Work begun on the $500,000 Catholic church at Elwood. Henry Morris, wealthy bachelor, Henry ■County, tobk arsenic. Nine girls and two boys graduated from the Milroy high school. Vincennes militia company mustered in with fifty-five members. Michigan Central Railroad will build a mew dock at Michigan City. Thomas Baldwin and wife, Fairmount, have been married 66 years. Unknown man found hanging to a tree in the woods near Brookville. Wilbur Peters, New Albany, died of lockjaw. Stepped on a rusty nail. John Garrison, hermit, found unconscious in the road near Marshfield. The skeletons of a man and child were •dug up in a gravel pit near Auburn. A citizen of Avon pays his wife 25 cents a week to get up and build the fires. The task of vaccinating the 825 convicts at Michigan City has been completed. Elkhlrt has a new concern, the National Tablet Company, with $15,000 capittH. Isaac Deal, 61, old fisherman, killed on the Vandalla Railroad near Knightsville. Judge R. R. Stephens, Noblesville, bequeathed his entire estate, $25,000, to his widow. Residence of L. A. Williams, New Castle, wrecked by gas explosion. No one at home. J. C. Mendenhall, Evansville, wholesale •druggist, gone to the wall, with SIO,OOO liabilities. Indiana owners of high bred dogs will conduct field trials at Terre Haute this summer. 4 A trustee in St. Joseph County turned ■over all his property to meet a shortage in his accounts. A man worked the gas inspector game on a Fort Wayne preacher and took $8 ■and other valuables. Nicholas Kaschmarak, 66, Fumessville, died while being treated in a doctor’s office at Michigan City. The name of Oral L. Hall, Muncie, taken from the tax duplicate and drawn for a juror, was found to belong to a woman. Some unknown persons went to the barn of Rev. Marshall Pritchett, in Harrison township, and hung one of his work mules to a rafter. Miss Katy Parker, farmer’s daughter, near Franklin, married her father's hired hand while the old folks were visiting in Shelbyville. Frank Rylowicz, Kingsbury, found out all about a dynamite cartridge, and will only have a doctor bill to pay for obtaining the information. So many people have been calling to see the gate that fell on the little daughter of Peter Sutton and killed her, near Franklin, that he has been compelled to destroy it. Seven hundred or more miners in the southern Indiana coal fields have gone on a strike. The men demand that they be paid on the same basis as the miners in central Indiana—that is, 66 cents a ton for screened and 40 cents for unscreened coal. The body of Jesse Kinley was discovered in the bottoms below Evansville. He was a laborer on Diamond Island. ▲ few •days ago he was taken with the measles

PUNISH THE TRAITORS. There were tortes in the dark days of the revolutionary war, “copperheads” during the trying moments of the civil war; and there are traitors to the Government engaged in putting down the rebellion in the Philippines. While the peace treaty was before the Senate, Senators and Representatives openly conferred with the agents of Aguinaldo and gave comfort and encouragement to that treacherous enemy of all civilization. Since the ratification of the treaty “State officers and men of political prominence” have been urging volunteers in the Philippines to refuse to give further service to their country. Gen. Otis has informed the President that he has in his possession intercepted messages “clearly seditious and treasonable” addressed to officers and men in the volunteer regiments; and has been Instructed by the President to forward to Washington certified copies of the same. As with the tories of 1776 and the “copperheads” of 1860, punishment of these traitors should be swift and sure. There is not a loyal citizen who would stay the hand of the Government falling as heavily as ltmay upon them. When anti-expansion becomes treason, then it should be given a quietus.—Williamsport (Pa.) Grit. Atkinson a Vallandigham. In 1863, G. L. Vallandlgham, of Ohio, was going up and down the country denouncing the war for the Union as unholy, as a useless sacrifice of life, and urging the people to resist the draft By order of Abraham Lincoln he was sent beyond the Union lines. Some of his friends appealed to the President setting forth that the act was in violation of the constitutional rights of the citizen. In response Abraham Lincoln said: Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father or a brother or a friend into a public meeting and there working upon his feelings till he is persuaded to write the boy that he is fighting for a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptible Government. The Atklnsons and others who have attempted to send anti-war literature to our soldiers in Manila were Inspired by the same motive as the man whom Abraham Lincoln banished. It is probable that the man who banished Vallandigham would, if alive and in power, order Atkinson’s tracts Intended for soldiers to be thrown out of the mails. And he would now be denounced as he was then, and for the same reason.— Indianapolis Journal.

Needs Fu mi go tins:. There must be something radically rotten In a university with twenty-five professors who meet in public to hiss the President and talk treasonable stuff to the world. The University of Ohlcago needs an earthquake of righteons indignation. Its superfluous millions are breeding a peculiarly noxious kind of vermin. If there is no way to get rid of the creeping things the institution will be judged accordingly. It has an Instructor for every fifteen pupils. One individual gave it over $7,000,006. It appeals this year for $9,000,000. Its fumigation would cost about SIOO, and this will be a large enough gift under the circumstances.— St Louis Globe-Democrat

rovers the Case. The criminal code of the Nation contains the following paragraph: “Every person who incites, Bets on foot, assists or engages in any . rebellion against the authority of the United States, or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be punished by imprisonment not more than ten years or by a fine of not more than SIO,OOO, or both of such punishments; and shall, moreover, be incapable of holding any office under the United States."

The Chicago FUipiuoa.

The men denouncing the actions of the Government are not loyal citizens, and, as the opponents of Lincoln were traitors in 1863, so are the opponents of McKinley traitors in 1899.—Galesburg (IL) Mail. Edward Atkinson Is the C. L. Vallandigham of to-day, and every man who co-operates with him, whether that man lives in Boston or Chicago, is following in the footsteps of the Golden Circle conspirators—Chicago Inter Ocean. Not long ago the Illinois Legislature passed a bill against the exhibition of freaks. The law was violated by a public meeting held in Chicago by Von Holst and a few others for the purpose of protesting “against the Philippine policy of the present national, administration.” —New York Sun. The copperheads, those of 1864 and those of 1899, are of the same breed. But the Government will go right ahead in the face of their puerile assault, just as it carried our armies to victory and our country back to a united nation in spite of the copperhead rantings in ’64.—Macomb (Ill.) JouraaL The Impotence of such men as Winslow, Atkinson, Edwin Burritt Smith, Henry Wade Rogers and J. Laurence Laughlln to stir up mutiny among our troops in Luzon does not lessen in the least the criminality of their work, although it does reflect the highest credit upon the American soldien In the field.—Chicago Inter Ocean. The speeches delivered at the Central Music Hall, and even cheered by a majority of the crowd, are a shame to every American with the red Mood of two centuries of heroes in his veins.— Detroit Tribune. Prof. Laughlln knows 'as well as he knows that the flag Is In the Philippines that It Is there not as the emblem of tyranny and butchery; that it does “protect those over whom Ift floats,” and that it will continue to do to.—Minneapolis Journal.

ABUSING THE TARIFF

TIRADE BY A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT. Angaatu Van Wyck at Rickard Croker*a Ten-Dollar Jeffersonian Dinner Denounces the System Which Has Been Productive of Prosperity. It Ui the foulest mockery of reason to profess in one breath devotion to the doctrine of the equality of all men before the law of the land, and in the next to applaud a tariff system which squeezes the blood out of the average man for the fattening of select individuals who have mastered the art of depraving all Federal government, and directing a new feudalism which purposes to subdivide the land into plutocratic dukedoms.—Augustus Van Wyck at Richard Croker’s ten-dollar Jeffersonian dinner in New York. This peculiar view of the conditions now prevailing throughout the length of the most favored land that the sun shines on is the view of the man who was the Democratic candidate for Governor of the State of New York at the election of 1898. He is, moreover, under serious consideration as a possible Democratic candidate for the Presidency of the United States in 1900, and Is perhaps the most formidable competitor of William Jennings Bryan for that nomination. Otherwise it would be difficult to understand how an American citizen, surrounded on every side with unmistakable evidences of a restored prosperity which showers its blessings equally upon rich and poor, falling alike upon the just and the unjust, could take so absurdly pessimistic a view of existing conditions as to characterize the American policy of protection as “a system which squeezes the blood out of the average man.” What class of gudgeons does Mr. Augustus Van Wyck expect to catch with this sort of bait? Certainly not the two thousand ten-dollar Jeffersonians who were within the sound of his voice,

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and every man of whom has shared liberally In the increase of national wealth which has followed the restoration of the very policy which the speaker denounced. Certainly not the vast army of wage-earners of all occupations who have to thank the return of good protection times for more work and better pay for it than they had during the awful stringency of the last four years of Democratic domination. Certainly not the great body of farmers who have enjoyed the substantial benefits of enlarged consumption and increased values of agricultural products. Certainly not the general community of merchants, manufacturers and business men who, as the commercial statistics show, are prospering as they never did In free-trade times. What ears, then, did this possible Presidential candidate expect to reach with his diatribe? The ears, It may be presumed, of the average Bourbon politician who recognizes the denunciation of'a protective tariff as a sure sign of sublime statesmanship. These he may reach, but not the ears of a prosperous and contented people. All such will smile a pitying smile at the foolish monthings of a typical Tammanyite trying to tickle the fancy of the fellows who boss caucuses and control conventions. Just as a matter of contrast, let us quote what Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1809 in a letter to Humphrey: My own idea is that we should encourage home manufactures to the extent of our own consumption of everything of which we raise the raw materials. Had Thomas Jefferson lived in these days of trade expansion and of American victories in the contest for possession of the world’s markets he would point with pride to what he wrote ninety years ago and urge adherence to a. policy that had wrought such splendid results. But, then, Thomas Jefferson Is not now alive, and Augustus yan Wyck Is a very different sort of person. I 1 1 Treason Under the Lew. Many of the gentlemen who have openly encouraged the rebels In the Philippines are extremely sensitive aa to the use of the words traitor and treason. They Insist that a mnri may

utter hopes tor his ultimate triumph; may send the rebels encouraging telegrams and money to purchase arms and provisions; may deliver addresses Intended to discredit the American government, and encourage the rebels to further resistance; may send messages to our volunteers advising them to refuse to obey the orders of their officers, or may scoff at the President of the United States and cheer Aguinaldo publicly in Chicago, and not be guilty of treason. The Supreme Court has held that if a conspiracy to levy war against the United States be in actual operation “any citizen who supplies the rebels with arms or any munitions of war, with provision to be used in support of the war, or of the rebels while carrying It on, or money, or intelligence, or information, even if none of these things reach the rebels, is a traitor in the place where he resides.” By an act of Congress, July 17, 1862, the punishment for treason In the discretion of the court may be imprisonment for not less than five years and a fine of not less than SIO,OOO.— Chicago Inter Ocean. A Choice Between Two Systems. A trade paper states that another large industry is coming to this country. The firm of Alexander Morton & Co., of Darvel, Scotland, a concern well know throughout the world as a manufacturer of carpets and other textiles, has desired to locate at Niagara Falls, and, It is stated, has already made arrangements with the Niagara Power Company for the suplylng of power and for the purchase of property. Free trade brings the foreign-made products of pauper labor into the country, and sends American money out of the country to pay for them, while American workmen sit in idleness. Protection brings foreign industries and foreign capital into the country to provide labor for American workmen, and keeps American money within the country, to be paid in exchange for American-made goods. As Lincoln put It, under free trade we get the

goods—so long as our money holds ont —and the foreigner gets the money. Under protection we get the goods and the money too. A choice between the two systems would not seem to be bard to make by the well-balanced mind. Free-Trade Inconsistency. Lord Curzon’s demonstration that the Indian duties on bountified sugar are not only reconcilable with free trade, but carry out its first principles, is neat, though it lacks the merit of originality, In so far that Cobden himself made a similar announcement. We are even more pleased with Lord Curzon’s view that free trade principles may, and ought to be suspended when they cease to be utilitarian. Our passion for free trade is founded on the belief that it is far and away the best policy for this country; but exceptional cases must modify all hard and fast practice. Countervailing duties on bonntified sugar are as consistent with our free trade views as the existence of a deficit in the budget Is with the solvency of the nation.—London “Financial News.” Part of the Programme. The soldiers In the Philippines are not asking to come home while any fighting is to be done. American soldiers never do. The tales to the contrary are part of the program of tha Bryanlte gang to arouse discontent in the army, to prolong the war, and to embarrass the administration. The Bryanlte leaders, almost to a man, axe copperheads of the most venomous character, and ought to be denounced by all patriotic men.—St Louis GlobeDemocrat

Make It Profitable. The proper way to proect American seamen la to give them work to do. We have started the mills going and given employment to millions by means of d protective tariff. Now let tbe same policy be pursued toward our merchant marine. Make- shipping under the American flag the most profitable kind of aa Industry, and we will soon see the condition of onr merchant seamen the envy of all nations^-Contra

REGIBTER OF STATE BOARDS.

Complete List of Those Appointed by Governor Mount, The roster of the various boards of institutions and others • appointed by the Governor has been completed. The list, with the date of expiration es terms, is given below: —Central Hospital for Insane.— D. H. Davis, Rep., Knlghtstown, Jan. 1, 1901; John Osterman, Dera.. Indianapolis, Jan. 1, 19C2; Albert O. Lockridge, Rep., Greencastle, Jan. 1, 1900. —Northern Hospital for Insane.— Charles W. Slick, Rep., Mishawaka, Jan. 1, 1901; Rufus Magee, Deo., Logansport, Jan. 1, 1902; B. F. Keesling, Rep., Logansport, Jan. 1,1900. —Eastern Hospital for Insane.— E. G. Hill, Rep., Richmond, Jan. 1, 1900; Silas W. Hale, Dem., Geneva, Jan. 1, 1902; William D. Page, Rep., Fort Wayne, Jan; 1, 1901. —Southern Hospital for Insane.— W. L. Swormstedt, Dem., Evansville, Jan. L 1902; William R. Gardiner, Rep.. Washington, Jan. 1, 1901; William R. McMahon, Rep., Huntington, Jan. 1, 1900. —lndiana State Prison.— B. H. Nebeker, Rep.. Covington, Jan. X, 1900; Walter Vail. Rep., Michigan City, Jan. I, 1901; R. S. Foster, Rep., Indianapolis, Jan. 1, 1902. —lndiana Reformatory.— D. J. Terhune, Linton, March 22, 1900; William H. Elchhorn, Bluffton, April 9, 1902; Charles E. Shiveley, Richmond, March 22, 1903; Henry Clay Duncan, Bloomington, March 22, 1901. —Reform School for Boys.— George F. McGinnis, Indianapolis, March L 1903; W. C. Ball, Terre Haute, March 1, 1903; George A. H. Shldeler, Marion, March 8, 1901. —Reform School for Girls.— Claire A. Walker. Indianapolis, March 8, 1903; Isabella Roache, Indianapolis, March 3, 1903; Laura Ream, Indianapolis, March 4, 1901. —Soldiers and Bailors’ Orphans’ Home.— George W. Ham, Greenfield, March 23, 1901; Harry Watts, Knlghtstown, March 23, 1001; Julia S. Conklin, Westfield, Feb. 15. 1903. —School for Feeble-minded Youth.— Mary R. Harper, Rep., Fort Wayne, March 23, 1901; E. A. K. Hackett, Dem., Fort Wayne, March 23, 1901; John M. Spann, Rep., Indianapolis, March 1, 1903. —Purdue University.— William V. Stuart, Lafayette, Jan. 1, 1901; Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, July L 1901; W. A Banks, Laporte, July 1, 1901; James M. Barrett, Fort Wayne, July 1, 1899; J. H. Van Natta, Battle Ground, July 1, 1899; J. 8. Martin, Brookvtlle, July 1, 1899; David E. Beem, Spencer, July 1, 1903; Sylvester Johnson, Irvington, July 1, 1903; WIIW lam O’Brien, Lawrenceburg, July 1, 1903; James A Smart, president; W. B. Stone, vice president, and Stanley Coulter, secretary. —State Normal School.— William H. Armstrong, Indianapolis, Jan. 6, 1900; Lewis B. Martin, Terre Haute, Jan. 6, 1900; J. H. Tomlin, Shelby ville, Jan. 20, 1902; Charles W. Ward, Newport, Jan. 20, 1902. • s »► "S*- t-agHunr* ■ r —State University.— Isaac Jenklnson, Richmond, Jnly L 1900; R. I. Hamilton, Huntington, July 1, 1899; Samuel R. Lyon, Bloomington, July 1, 1899; B. F. Shiveley, South Bend, July 1, 1899; C. L. Henry, Anderson, July 1, 1900; R. A Ogg, Greencastle; Edward Corr, Bloomington; W. D. Robinson, Princeton; Joseph Swain, president; William L. Bryan, vice president; W. E. Woodburn, treasurer; H. A. Hoffman, dean. Board consists of eight members—five elected by the State Board of Education and three by the alumni of the university. —State Soldiers’ Home.— David N. Foster, Fort Wayne, Feb. 25, 1901; C. J. Murphy, Evansville, Feb. 25, 1901; James R. Carnahan, Indianapolis, Feb. 25, 1900; I. B. McDonald, Columbia City, Feb. 25, 1900; John Levering, Lafayette, Feb. 25, 1902. —Deaf and Dumb Institute.— Samuel A. Bonner, Rep., Greensburg, Jan. 1, 1900; Tarvln C. Grooms, Dem., Greencastle, Jan. 1, 1902; Charles E. Haugh, Dem., Indianapolis, Jan. 1, 1901. —lnstitution for the Blind.— Nelson Bradley, Rep., Greenfield, Jan. 1, 1902; James L. Allen, Rep., Covington, Jan. I, 1900; John F. Hennessey, Dem., Indianapolis, Jan. L 190 L —State Board of Charities.— Governor of Indiana, president ex-officio; John R. Elder, Indianapolis, March 1, 1902; Timothy Nicholson, Richmond, March 1, 1902; Thomas E. Ellison, Fort Wayne, March 1, 1901; Mary A. Spink, Indianapolis, March 1, 1901; Margaret F. Peelle, Indianapolis, March 23, 1900; Demarches C. Brown, Irvington, March 23, 1900. —Live Stock Sanitary Commission.— George W. Hall, president, Raleigh, March 9, 1903; M. S. Claypool, Muncle, March 9, 1900; V. K. Officer, Volga, March 31, 1901; Mortimer Levering, secretary, Lafayette; State Veterinarian, F. A. Balaer, Newcastle. —Board of Medical Examiners.— W. A Spurgeon, Muncle, April 23, 1902; William F. Curryer, IndianapoUs, April 23, 1902; J. M. Dinnen, Fort Wayne, April 23, 1903; William T. Gott, Crawfordsvllle, April 23, 1900; J. C. Webster, Lafayette, April 23, 1901. —Factory Inspection.— Daniel F. Me A bee, chief, Muncle, May L 1903. —Board of Tax Commissioners.— Thomas B. Busklrk, Paoli, May 1, 1901; John C. Wingate, Wingate, March 10, 1903. —Fish and Game Commissioner. Z. T. Sweeney, Columbus, Feb. 13, 1903. —Labor Commission.— B. Frank Schmid. IndianapoUs. May X, 1903; Lycurgus McCormack, Indianapolis, May 1, 1903. —State Board of Health.— H, Jameson, Indianapolis, March 1, 1901; T. Henry Davis, president, Richmond, May 8, 1899; E. D. Laughlln, vice president, Orleans, March 1, 1901; J. H. Forrest, Marion, May 6, 1899; J. N. Hurty, secretary, Indianapolis, Feb. 28, 1903. —Board of Pharmacy.— G. W. Sloan, Indianapolis, May 1, 1903; J. E. Otto, Columbus, May 1, 1902; C. B. Woodworth, Fort Wayne, May L 1901; H. B. Gllck, Lafayette, May 1, 1900; C. E. OreceIlus, New Albany, May 1, 1900. —Metropolitan Police Boards.— Terms all expire on first Tuesday of the years set opposite each name. Logansport—T. R. Sewell, Rep., 1901; John 1. Sheerin, Dem., 1902; D. B. McConnell, Rep., 1900. Lafayette—William C. Mitchell, Rep., 1902; Max Pottslltzer, Dem., 1901; John O. Morgan, Rep., 1900. South Bend—Christian Fassnacht, Rep., 1900; D. R. Leeper, Dean., 1902; J. Clinton Stover, Rep., 1901, New Albany—Fred D. Conner, Rep., 1900; C. P. Cook, Dem., 1902; R. M. Bordmen, Rep., IDOL Jeffersonville —Charles A. Schlmpff, Rep., 1900; Jacob 8. Fry, Dem., 1902; George A. Clark, Rep., 190 L Michigan City—Lyman A Ashton, Rep., 1900; William H. Donly, Dem., 1902; Joseph Oliver, Rep., 1901. Terre Haute—O. E. Raldy. Rep., 1900; S. B, Davis, Dem., 1902; John Barbazette, Rep., 1901. Anderson—Harry Hardle, Rep., 1901; Daniel F. Mustard. Dem., 1902; James Wellington. Rep., 1900. Elkhart—J. D. Braden. Rep., 1900; David Harman, Dem., 1902; C. J. Gillette, Rep., 1901. Muncle—Cyrus R. Heath. Rep., 1901; Victor E. Silrerberg. Dem., 1902; Frank G. Jackson, Rep., 1900. Richmond—James Martin, Dem., 1902; Isaac Gorman, Rep., 1901; Albert G. Ogburn, Rep., 1900. El wood—John H. Elliott. Rep.. 1901; Martin C. Goode, Dem., 1900; Fred Seeley, Rep., 1902.

Dispelled a Delusion.

Romantic guide—You see before you the beautiful Nile, on whose placid bosom Antony and Cleopatra sailed hundreds of years ago. Chicago dame—Why, my dear mao, there isn’t a word of troth in any of Rider Haggard’s works.—Puck. Smoking In Belgian Prisons. amAinf la nermitted In the orisons IHD a * AAjfc m aaa **— --A ana ar* In Belgium only as a reward for goo 4

SERVICE OF THE 160TH.

Brief Summary of the ■sgiawafi History by the Chaplain. The 160th Indiana regiment started into active service under discouraging condt tions, but notwithstanding them, has had an experience that has been both pleasant and profitable. Chaplain W. J. Vigus, 9# the regiment, in reviewing the history 'Si the organization, makes the following! statement: “Thousands of citizens in the: twelve cities famishing companies for the 160th Indiana regiment are interested hi everything relating to that organization. It will be remembered that the four Indiana regiments constituted the militia of the State, which was organized on a pea m basis with only the remote possibility of ever seeing other service than that of sop* pressing riots within the border of the State. When, therefore, war waa declared with Spain these regiments were called into the service officered very much as in time of peace. This will account for soma of the difficulties encountered during the year of more or less active service. It la safe to say bad these companies and regiments been organized ander the call of the President, and with special reference to war, the organization would have been different, though possibly not more efficient. “The call for troops, was issued April: 23,1898, by the President, and on the 25th of the same month Oov. Mount issued the call for the troops to assemble at Indian-: apolis, and by the evening of the next day 4,000 men were encamped within the inclosure of the fair grounds. On the afternoon of May 12 the Fourth regiment, with whose history we are more directly interested, was mustered into the United States service, and on May 16 pitched tents in Camp Thomas, Chickajnauga Park. On July 28, the regiment was ordered to Newport News, from whence it was to embark for Porto Rico and canto: very near making the trip. An exhausting stay at Newport News was ended by the command being ordered to Lexington, Ky. On Nov. 9 the regiment was ordered to Camp Conrad, Columbns, and from thence to Matanzas, Cuba, from which place it was ordered to Savannah, Ga., for muster out, which occurred April 25, jtwfc one year from the time the call waa issued for the assembling of the troops. Those who first came to Camp Mount will not soon forget the discouraging dreamt stances of these few weeks, not the least of which was the regiment turning over its equipment to other organizations* whose good fortune, as it seemed then, it was to move find. Without guns iM s&reefy a whole pair erf trouser* la a co3]ssny tne regiment presenting a grotesque appearance when the anxiously looked for start wag Jor the South, Up to the time of the disappointment at Newport News, in being ordered to Lexington, the soldiers hoped to see real 4 war But from that time the spirit of the men was broken and the desire to return home became more and more intense. The order to Cuba was somewhat of a relief and compensated for the long wait endured. And now that it is over I venture to say, it is looked back to as one of the moat delightful episodes in the history of the regiment, and by far the most talked about. It not only gave the Hoosier boy* an opportunity of seeing foreign service, but that of knowing something of a country and people about which they knew bat little and which are destined to become: part of this republic. The regiment went to the froqt with 1.326 men, only swely£ of whom died, a snowing unprecedented, among Indiana troops, or perhaps those" of any other State. The greatest care was taken throughout the campaign to maintain cleanliness, a healthful diet and in short everything which could contribute to the best interest of the regiment It could not be otherwise than that some animosities should be engendered. This doubtless was sometimes the fault of the; officers', whose duty it was to exact ndls| tary discipline, but who did it in an offensive, unnecessarily severe manner, bat more frequently it was doe to that independence to which the men had been accustomed in home life. Everyone who has had any experience in such matters 1 nog-s that the most difficult thing is to team the lesson of implicit and unqualified obedience to superiors in office. This is especially true, when in private life the enlisted man ranked the officer in intelligence, social position, business capacity and moral character. It was a pleasure, however, to observe that as the time approached for muster-out these animositiei: softened and were perceptible only in a few cases when the regiment was disbanded; and it is hoped these will entirely disappear in civil life. No word has such significance to old veterans as ‘comrade,* and in time it will have eqnal significance to the soldiers of the American-Spahish war. It was the verdict of the people i» every place where the regiment was encamped, of the train men and boat crewa transporting us from place to place, that, the 160tb regiment was one of the most orderly and gentlemanly commands in the service. While ail were anxious to return -home when the war was ended, and post duty only could be expected, yet there was an element of intense sadness in the breaking np of the associations of army life. The twelve who had fallen were affectionately remembered, as well as their friends, whose heart wounds would be opened afresh by the absence of dear ones from the ranks of the returning companies. That the regiment was not in the hottest of the fight was not its fault. Every man was anxious for it, and had the opportunity been afforded, Indiana wonld have been proud of ite record. Bat it had the; honor of being a part of the great reserve that gave confidence to the country amt; inspired onr enemies with respectful fear.. From colonel to private we are proud of onr regiment and of its history in the mosftl remarkable war on record. To all we say heartily, ‘Good-by, Jim, take keer o’ yourr Short State Item. Frederick Ross, aged 65, former Majorl of Terre Haute, is dead. The anti-booze rule is being rigidly en- • forced on the Lake Shore road. Barnes hardware store, one of the oldest stores in Anderson, closed by the sheriff. the only place he could find shelter white aged 60, on the street, but only succeeded