Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1900 — Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN

A Dehorning Case* •—A convenient and easily constructed dehorning cage is shown in the accompanying cut reproduced from the National Stockman and Farmer. The dimensions of the cage are as follows: Six feet long, 6 feet high, 3% feet wide at top in front and 4Ys feet wide at top at back end. Bottom or foot board 1 foot wide, with seven cleats V/a inches thick, 1 foot long, nailed across it to keep cattle from slipping. Foot board two inches thick, and rests on three 2x4 inch cross pieces 4 feet long. To these are bolted upright pieces 7 feet long, 2x4 inches, for nailers for sides of cage. Across the top of cage are used two strips Ix 4 inches for each set of upright', bolted one on each side of upright. The inside of this frame fs boarded up with inch plank of con- ■ venient widths. The lower 2% feet should close enough to prevent animals putting their feet through the cracks. On left side, 3% feet from -bottom, should be used a board one foot wide, and one foot longer than the cage. In this bore two one-inch holes four inches from sides of board. Through these put a piece of rope and tie on outside. This loop is put over the animal’s nose and drawn tight by the use of a hand spike. An upright lever is used to catch the back of the head and draw

DEHORNING CAGE.

it to the left side of cage. This upright [should be a strong 2x4 Inch, 9 feet long, bolted to bottom cross piece near !the right side, the upper .end slipplug Lack and forth between the cross [pieces that hold the tops of the two 'front uprights in place. This lever Is [thrown to the right when open for the ‘animal to enter. As soon as the head 'passes It is pushed to the left side and [fastened as tight as required by a small iron pin slipped through the cross pieces at top back of it. ■ As soon as the head is fastened a hand spike is slipped through the cage .back of the animal, and another over the neck to hold the head down. These remain in place usually without holding, the operator standing in front while taking off the horns. The smallest anljinal having horns up to a bull weighing ’1,830 pounds has been dehorned in this sized cage. Animals weighing up to 1,200 pounds pass right through the cage when the holding lever is thrown back against the right side. Cows heavy in calf and larger animals back out of the cage. Raising Broom Corn. Broom corn is easy to raise and care for if a man will exercise good judgment Plant in rows four feet apart; plant about eight pounds of seed per, acre. If the seed is clean a common corn planter can be so arranged as to plant the proper quantity. The corn should be thinned out until the stalks stand about two or three inches apart in the row, or, If very good land, would not hurt to let It stand a little thicker. Cultivate as common corn. When the brush is at its best, or, rather, when the seed begins to turn from its light color, and before the brush begins to turn red, it should be cut in haste. Walk between two rows, reaching as high as possible; break the stalks down, breaking both rows as you go, and break both toward you. When you have gone around this way (four rows), take your knife and start back the way you came, cutting the brush off, leaving a stem of about six inches. When you have a handful of brush, break a few stalks down just behind you, so the stalks will be between you and the two rows you first broke; lay your handful of brush on this, as It protects it from the ground; put what Is convenient on this, and make more to suit On the two other rows you can use these piles also. When the day’s cutting is done, if there be any likelihood 6f rain, gather up your brush and make a good bottom with stalks; lay your brush on this in two piles, with heads together; cover over good with stalks, ffind your brush Is safe. But If the weather is favorable, let it lie for one day and night, and then gather up. After a few days your brush will be cured and have a fine green color. Haul In when convenient. and stack in as large pile’s as you like, and, if dry, It will keep safe aHd sound.—Lee McConnell, In Farmer’s Advocate. Wheat Bran. The farmer who grows wheat can make a good profit In selling his wheat, and buying wheat bran to feed o«L The pound ofyvheat will nearly pay for two pounds of bran, and the bran, If sweet and in good condition, is worth more per pound to feed to cows in milk, those soon to calve, to growing young stock, sows in pig or for sheep

before lambing, and while lambs are with them, than the whole wheat would be. If it is not fattening or heating enough at other times the wheat can be sold and corn bought, and still leave a balance in the pocket. It is much like selling the butter fat from the milk, and feeding calves or pigs on skim millk, which is better for them, and has not so high a selling value. If more fat Is wanted a little linseed meal or flaxseed tea will give it at les?s cost than butter fat. Almost anything that has a place on the table will sell for more than it is worth to feed to animals, as they care less for looks and delicacy of flavor and more for the nutritive qualities than does mankind.—American Cultivator. rPaying for Land with One Crop. It is sometimes boasted by Western farmers on rich prairie land that with favorable seasons they have been able to clear as much money from their first., good grain crop as the land originally cost them. That is, however, usually because the land was bought at so low a rate that to make one crop pay all the original cost might not, after all, leave much, if any, profit to the farmer. The breaking up of prairie sod so aJs to fit it for producing a crop costs more than the land did at first in many cases. But to make old established and valuable farms pay their cost in crops of a single year is a different matter. It is most often done in growing fruit. A New Jersey farmer bought a cultivated farm well stocked with fruit of all kinds for $2,200. Last year he sold from it $2,450, or $250 more than the whole farm cost him. Besides fruit he grew and sold vegetables, milk and the other products of ordinary farmers. All of these added to his income and increased his profits. He had doubtless a favorable year for fruits, but, as the New York Farmer says, the question what profit a farmer shall make depends more on the man than on his crops or location. It is not uncommon for market gardeners to grow crops that exceed in value the land which produced them, and it is sometimes done by farmers who grow potatoes and cabbages.—American Cultivator.

Fumigating Poultry Houses. Remove all nests, roosts and everything that is portable, put a pound of sulphur in an iron pan, with some burning coals, place the pan in the middle of the house and close up the doors, windows and all other openings, letting them remain closed for two or three hours. Afterward paint the roosts and nest boxes thoroughly with coal tar, and whitewash the house both inside and out with lime. A spraying pump is very useful to get the lime wash into the crevices in the roosts and walls. It is beneficial to add some carbolic acid to the lime Wash. Once a house is thoroughly freed from vermin it is easy to keep it so by attending to it regularly and whitewashing It frequently.—O. G., in Epitomist. Butter Flavor. The flavor of butter, it is very evident, depends principally upon the proper ripening of the cream and upon the absence of bacteria, says the Stockbreeder's Magazine. Thus the washing of butter in a granular condition with pure water is a matter of farreaching importance, for if this is neglected the butter will contain milk, sugar and bacteria. Chemical action brought about by the latter will hasten decomposition of the butter. The enemies that have to be dealt with in the dairy are invisible and therefore all the more difficult to wage war against. It is only unremitting care and constant and almost scientific cleanliness that will prevent their development. Growing Barley. Why is not barley grown more frequently in New England? It will grow where oats will, is sowed about the same time, and the average yield is nearly as large as oats, while it Is much more valuable as a feed for swine and poultry. Our Canadian neighbors think barley almost indispensable for feeding purposes, but it is many years since we have seen it growing in any of the Eastern States, excepting as it sometimes comes up among the oats when the seeds are mixed. In such eases farmers think the oats are no less valuable for feed, and perhaps more so, than would be oats unmixed. Cutting Strawberry Runners. A great deal of work is usually required in keeping the runners cut back on the strawberry bed in summer. New shoots are constantly being sent out, and a wholesale method of cutting them off is needed. Get the tinman to cut you a 10-inch circle from the heaviest sheet iron or galvanized iron, and saw a silt in the end of a stout handle, and pin the wheel at the center. This can be run quickly along each side of a row cutting every runner In its path. Keep the edges sharp.—Orchard and Garden. >» Remedy for Cutworms. Mix parts green with what millers call “shorts" or middlings. Use just enough parts green to give a slight green color to the “shorts” or mixture. Dampen slightly and then scatter over Infested places. The worms prefer it to any plant. After eating it they die. When Lime Is Needed. Lime may prove to be a wonderfully good thing for some soils. If the land Is acid, lime is always beneficial. Buy It when it The amount to apply will depend altogether upon the character of the soil.

FOR AMERICAN SHIPS.

THE MUCH-DISCUSSED HANNA-PAYNE-FRYE BILL Senators Favor Passage of the Subsidy Measure—Why It Is Needed and What It Will Accomplish—Opposed by Free Traders and Foreign Ship Owners. _ Sentiment among members of the upper branch of Congress so strongly favors th'e shipping bill that its passage at the present session is assured. It is known as the Frye shipping bill, having been introduced by the President pro tqm. of the Senate, Hon. William P. Frye, of Maine, who is also chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, to which legislation affecting our marine is always referred. For twen-ty-five years Senator Frye has been the leading champion of American shipping In Congress. Senator Hanna first introduced this bill in the Senate, however, at the time Senator Frye was a member of the Peace Commission in Paris. It was introduced in the House of Representatives by Soren\ E. Payne, of New York. This its several hyphenated titles. This bill is ngcessary, because our shipping in the foreign trade is unprotected in competition with the cheaperbuilt, cheaper-operated, heavily subsidized and bountied shipping of other nations. Our ships now carry less than nine per cent, of our imports and exports. Foreign vessels annually receive $200,000,000 for carrying 91 per cent. This vast sum is taken out of the country and employs aliens, Instead of being spent in American shipyards and giving employment to our own citizens, and thereafter being used over and over again in adding to the employment and enhancing the wealth of the American people. This bill extends to American shipping on the sea precisely the same kinji of protection that is given to American land industries that are subject to foreign competition. More important than the expenditure of $4,000,000,000 during the last thirtyfive years in paying foreign ships for doing our foreign carrying, is our grow’ing national danger because of our increasing weakness upon the sea. For the support and re-enforcement of our navy, we need merchant ships and seamen. The difficulty now experienced in securing sailors for our navy would be removed if we possessed a merchant shipping equal to the needs of our foreign commerce. Our neglect of our shipping makes our foreign commerce a means for building up the.auxiliary naval strength of our maritime and commercial rivals. This commerce, now annually valued at over $2,000,000,000, pays for the auxiliary naval training of foreign merchant ships and seamen. This shipping bill is now upon the calendar in each branch of Congress, having been favorably reported from the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, and from the Senate Commerce Committee. Briefly, the “bill provides that all vessels under American register, making a foreign voyage distant more than 150 miles from the United States, shall be paid for the first 1,500 miles not to exceed 1% cents per gross ton per hundred miles sailed outward and inward, and 1 cent per ton for each additional hundred miles sailed outward and inward, this compensation being limited to not to exceed sixteen round voyages in any successive twelve months. In addition, vessels whose speed exceeds twelve knots per hour are paid extra compensation, graduated proportionately to their size and speed. This barely meets the extra cost involved in building and operating ships of high speed, although these vessels, for auxiliary naval and for mall carrying purposes, are most useful to the government. The compensation paid to slowsailing and steam vessels Is just equal to the higher cost of their construction in the United States, and their operation under the American flag; and the same is true of all vessels/recelving this compensation. Owners of existing American vessels for.which compensation is sougnt must have 25 per cent, additional new tonnage built in the United States before receiving any pay. It is proposed to admit to American register such foreign vessels as are now owned by American citizens, on condition that these owners have new tonnage built in the United States equal to that so admitted. The compensation to the foreign-built vessels is but onehalf that paid to American-built ships. Not to exceed nine million dollars may be expended in any one year. If the amount earned exceeds the amount available, there is a pro rata reduction in the payments made to each vessel under contract. All vessels receiving compensation must carry the mails free of extra charge. The bill remains in force for ten years, during which time any American citizen can build any number of vessels and put them in our foreign trade, and receive, according to size, speed and cargo carried, the same amount of compensation that is paid to other vessels. High speed steamships are not to receive more than $2,000,000 in any one yeaj', out of the total amount, and 30 per cent, of the latter is reserved exclusively for Pacific Ocean shipping under the American flag. Foreign governments now pay their merchant ships over $26,(XX),000 a year in subsidies, mall pay, subventions, na-' val reserve retainers and bounties, to enable them to successfully compete with their rivals. To secure a merchant marine equal to the carrying of our foreign commerce, this nation must do likewise. Unprotected American ships cannot compete with the ships of other nations, aided as shown. President McKinley’s recommendations to Congress in his last two annual messages have been conformed to in the drafting of this bill, which' is supported by the Republicans and a number of Democrats in each branch of

Congress. It has the specific indorsement of about 250 of the leading commercial and agricultural associations all over the country, and has been widely commended by the press in every section of the United States. Its passage will strengthen the one weak spot in the national armor of the United States. Its opponents are the fr.ee-tradars and the foreign Shipping interests, ’ Porto Rican Affairs. Speaking of affairs in Porto Rico, C. F. Sayton, an official of the Department of Agriculture, who has recently been there, says: “Whatever capital is invested in the sugar factories, emanating at all from island sources, is purely Spanish. It does not belong to Porto Rico. The peculiar system maintained by Spain through all of the business concerns, and so far as their own capital was employed, threw everything into the hands of the Spaniards, who were simply in Porto Rico doing business. They do not belong to that element of Porto Ricans that we feel so tender about, and would not become citizens of Porto Rico or this country, whatever becomes of the constitutional question. Other factories are owned and controlled by English capital, others by .German, and the entire factory system by'Spanish, English and German. “They agree with tlie planters or manufacturers to take their sugar, refine it, and place it on the market, dividing the profit on a certain basis, as is how being done, and as has been done between the Hawaiian planters and the sugar Trust for years. How will they divide the profits? Even? Each getting 37% per cent.? We do not know. Only the parties interested know. This point is clear, however, and that is that the Porto Ricans are not benefited. Simply the sugar combinations of this country and the foreign planters or manufacturers of Porto Rico. “Isn’t it a great deal that we should have freed the Porto Ricans from a condition as bad as slavery, making what concession' we of right ought to make, in justice to the people of this country, assuring them that after they had attained the standard that one bught to have to enjoy the rights and privileges of the Constitution of the country, that then they might be admitted with equal privileges with the rest? Do you think this ought to be before wages are paid in that country somewhfere near in comparison with wages in this country, or before the average-citizen of that country.shall_at_ least be able to understand the primary principles of our government and institutions? We say no. We should especially not bring in this great horde of cheap laborers who receive less per day than one person could live on in this country, and yet they are supposed to support families on this. We believe the laborers of this country will en masse resent this proposition. “I am a thorough believer in- expansion. I believe that expansion is fraught with incalculable benefit both to the inhabitants of the island and to the people of this country, when Congress shall have framed such fair, honest, just and equitable regulations as are consistent with the right of our own labor and industries.’’

Admissions from a Democrat. . The other day, says the Louisville Commercial, Eli Perkins was introduced to Judge Scott, an old dyed-in-the-wool Kentucky Democrat. The judge Is well known In the Blue Grass region and the grand old Kentuckian has always been looked up to as a High Priest of “befo’ the wah Democracy.” Perkins was introduced by an old Democrat, and Judge Scott supposed that Eli was a Democrat, too, and he became confidential with him at once. • “How are we Democrats getting along, Judge?” asked Eli, in a confidential tone. The Judge looked at Eli a moment to see If he really w’anted information about the party, and slowly remarked: “Well, sir, we are getting on very well financially, but politically we are running behind. Yes, I’m afraid we are running behind.” “What causes this?” asked Ell. “Well, sir,” said the Judge; sadly, “I am afraid our ptirty has not been altogether right. We have erred in some things.” “Where have we erred, Judge?” “Well, sir, I hate to admit It, but our Grover Cleveland policy hurt us Kentuckians. I wouldn’t say It to a black Republican, but we Democrats all admit it among ourselves. You see,” said the Judge, “we used to get 35 cents for wool, gnd a big price for hemp and to-, bacco before Grover came in, but that Wilson bill hurt us. It knocked wool down to 12 cents. Free jute, put in to help'the cotton fellows, ruined our hemp and it rotted in the ground. Then we lowered the tariff on tobacco and our tobacco went down on us. We didn’t complain, but we Democrats did a good deal of thinking. Cattle and hogs got lower and lower, and when Grover, went out we were pretty poor—yes, dog-gone hard up, sir!” “Are they still bad - the times?” asked Ell. “No, honestly the times are good. Wool and hemp and tobacco have doubled in price and are still going up. Cattle and hogs are high and our blue grass farmers are getting rich.” • “Well, what is the matter, then?” “Why, these good times have knocked out our dear old Democratic party. Our Democratic farmers say they will never vote for free trade or low tariff again.” “Well, what can we Democrats do?” asked Ell. “I hate to admit it," said the Judge, sadly, “but 1f we Democrats want to win In Kentucky again we’ve got to keep the tariff right where It Is. That old Wilson bill and Bryan’s free silver will be a scarecrow to every farmer In Kentncky and Tennessee. We’ve tried low tariff and we know—l’m ashamed to say so, but we know it hurt us! No,

sir; the people are prosperous, but out Democratic party fs doing poorly. I wouldn’t say it to a black Republican, but that is the way we Democrats talk among ourselves.” As the Judge got off the train at Lexington be remarked: “Yes, and there was another mistake we Democrats made. Grover Cleveland wanted to sink the Republic of Hawaii and put a nigger on the throne. We Democrats didn't complain, but it made us sick, for, between you and ,me, we Democrats ain’t puttin’ niggers on thrones. McKinley’s white Governor 6ver a republic suits old and the South.” ""I

Free Trade Trusts, ' United States Consul Halstead, who is at Birmingham, calls the attention of the State Department at Washington to the fact that the constantly recurring announcements that another “trust” has been formed does not create alarm in Great Britain. The London Mail refers to the formation as a bleaching trust with a capitalization of $50,000,000 or $60,000,000. This, in the judgment of the managing editor, is worthy of only one headline, twenty-two lines of nonpareil sype, set solid, so common has the formation of trusts in England become. The Daily Mail article reads as follows: “The Lancashire bleaching trade will shortly be in the <bands of a powerful company. “It is said that the combination will involve the capitalization of from £lO,000,000 to £12,000,000 ($48,665,000 to $58,398,000), and the object in view is to prevent individual concerns from indulging in sharp practices, cutting prices, discounts, etc. “Individual businesses are to be taken over and worked from March 31 by the company, which will be known as the Lancashire Bleachers’ Association, Limited, and the prospectus will probably be in the bands of the public soon after that date. ,—_ “Experts are confident that there is no branch of the textile industries which will so well and profitably lend itself to the adoption of joint-stock-com-bination princlplersts that of the Lancashire bleaching trade. “A provisional committee has been appointed from among the members of the largest firms.” Another large trust, called the United Velvet Cutters’ Association, Limited, has just been formed in England. It combines four of the largest businesses engaged in velvet cutting in the free trade country. The capital stock is; $1,000,000 and there Is an issue of first mortgage debenture stock amounting to $500,000. For Campaign Purposes. It was with refreshing candor that Col. Nicholas N. Cox, one of the most prominent Democratic members of the House Military Affairs Committee investigating the Couer d’Alene mining troubles, admitted that the investigation was gotten up for Democratic campaign purposes. The Colonel did not express himself in exactly those words, but in an exchange of views previous to the assembling of the committee, he suggested: “Why not adjourn this meeting until the next session of Congress? After the campaign fs over we’ll have no use for the investigation.” The purpose of Mr. Lentz's resolution providing for the investigation was not that he cared so much to relieve the critical situation in Shoshone County, but that he hoped to fabricate some hostility to organized labor on the part of the Republican party, and thus afford Democracy new material with which to fight in the coming campaign. Dr. France concluded his testlnjony by flatly and plainly contradicting, paragraph by paragraph, every charge and accusation made against the United States troops and the local authorities that was contained in the resolution of Representative Lentz, upon which the House of Representatives ordered the inquiry.

Railroads and Prosperity. Railroads afford a good index of prosperity or poverty. Study the following exhibit of the number of miles of new road built during the last decade, and note the administration: Harrison. Cleveland. McKinley. Year. Mlles. Year. Mlles. Year. Mlles. 1890.. .5.378 1893... .2,346 1897... .1.822 1891.. .4,075 1894. .. .1.899 1898... .2,219 1892.. 4.041., 1895. .. .1.650 1899. .. .4,500 1.896. .. .1,704' An average of 4,494 miles of new road built in President Harrison’s term; an average of only 1,900 miles under President Cleveland; and now we are up again to 4,500 miles last year, uhder President McKinley. Democratic Change of Mind. The Democratic editors affect great perturbation over tlie fact that some Republican legislators have seen fit to change their minds on the Porto Rican question. Mr. Cleveland rather counteracts the effect of their agitation by telling the Princeton students how he took a Democratic Congress in hand and changed its mind on the financial question. Question of Expansion. Senator Morgan’s great victory in Alabama is a criterion of the feeling of the Soilth on the question of expansion. The Southern politicians may be a trifle slow in heeding the mandates of public sentiment, but they will get around in course of time. Carl Browne’s Advice. Carl Browne, whose claim on fame is predicated largely upon the fact that he Is the son-in-law of General Coxey, came very near breaking up a Populist convention the other day by advising it to exercise a little common sense. May Be Some Vacancies. The-Kentucky judges are trying to rule deadly weapons out of their courtrooms. The innovation ls> commendable, but the chances are that it will cause several judicial vacancies before it la firmly established.

INDIANA INCIDENTS

___i— RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Illicit Attachment Causes a Suicide— Fatal Quarrel Over.a Young Woman —Female Hermit Dies Near Muncie — Killed by Fall from a Car. ? News reaches Eckcrt’y from Newton Stewart of the death by morphine. of Frederick James Barriot, a young attorney. A letter addressed to his mother tells of his love for another man's wife and his too keen sense of honor to accept the reciprocated passion and says that suicide was his only means of escape from dishonoring his name. Barriot had talked of quitting law for the ministry. l>ead with an Ax Beside Her. Mrs. Cadis Sutton, living a hermit a few miles from Muncie, though having an income of $6,000 from oil wells, was found dead with an ax on the bed beside her. She always feared robbers, but never kept sums of money in the house. Her husband has been dead twenty-two years. Since hi.-? death she has lived on the farm. Death, it is believed, was due to natural causes. Elopes with a Girl of 13. - Horry Brokaw, aged 45, and E-sie McAllisWr. of. Indianapolis, aged 13, eiopejf to Jeftersonville and were married. Ler--J tors were /ound here written to Brokaw from h justice of-thtr peace at Jeffersonville, telling him he would have.no trouble to get married there, as there were “plenty of fellows around who would swear the girl was of age." Gov. Mount is preparing to deal with the justice. Upholds the Barrett Law. The Indiana Supreme Court has affirm-’ ed the constitutionality of the, Barrett improvement law. The title of the case was Thomas B. Adams against the city of Shelbyville. The suit was to’enjoin the city from making a street improvement in front of Adams’ property. The Supreme Court, while upholding the law, reversed the decision of the lower court and granted Adams an injunction. Farmer Fires to Kill. Joseph Re<>se twice shot and mortally wounded S ,C. Campbell near Thorntoww. Soon afterward Reese wont to town and surrendered voluntarily. He says he acted in self-defense. Reese was taken to Lebanon and gave bond for his appearance. The trouble is said to have arisen over a slander involving a young woman. Both men are prominent farmers. ' 4. ’ Mail Clerk Falls from Car. As train No. 18 on the Panhandle'was passing.Hagerstown at tlie rate of sixty miles an hour Daniel W. Deardorff, a mail clerk, fell from the door of his car and was instantly killed. Deardorff was 45 years old and had been ten years in the service. He was one of the most careful men in the service and his death is the result of an accident. Within Our Borders. Temperance unions of Indiana will wage war on cigarettes. 'The scarcity of flint glass workers may compel Muncie factories to run during the summer. ’ ' T. Chickering, a Louisville printer, was run over at Charlestown and instantly killed, on the B. & O. track. William Coppock, glass wbtker at Hartford City, fell on a broken lamp chimney, cutting his throat. Serious. Arthur Redmond, 18. drove in front of a Grand Rapids ami Indiana passenger train at Ridgeville and was instantly killed. John H. Murphy and William Pogue, Indianapolis, are talking of putting in an independent telephone service at Logansport. Mr. and Mrs. Neil Spaulding were buried in the saute grave at Marion. They died within twenty-four hours of each other from pneumonia. Henry Fox, Farmersburg, has, after several years’ experimenting and spending a small fortune, perfected a machine which will make a fine grade of silk from the bulb of milkweed. Night Watchman C. W. Waite, Union City,_shot and killed Frederick Hardwick, a blacksmith, while the latter was resisting arrest. Waite snys Hardwick was coming at him with a knife. Burglar robbed Jim Bitner's general store at Sexton several weeks ago, and it has just been learned that he has lived in the attic over the store ever since, empty cans giving the snap away. Jeremiah Williams of Burlington, a breeder of fine horses, entered his barn on a recent morning to find five of the blooded animals missing. The animals were valued at several thousand dollars. While boiling soap, Mrs. A. M. Everman’s clothing caught fire at Burlington. She was fatally burned, while her 14-year-old daughter and her father. William Collins, received serious injuries trying to save her. Daniel Manifold, aged 22 years, shot himself through the heart near Burlington. He was jealous, had driven his wife away from home during the night, after whipping her. He placed his small sou on the bed and lay beside him when he.killed himself. Edward High, a young man at Fontanet, was brought to the Terre Haute jail on a commitment for jnurder issued by bis father. Justice of the Peace William High. Young High is charged with killing William Pawalski, a miner, while drunk. The preliminary hearing was before Justice High. Municipal ownership of the electric I light system of Peru at tjie end of ten years has been practically assured by the action of the city council in closing a contract with Messrs. Ulen and Parrott and the Indiana Trust Company of Indianapolis, by the terms of which the city will pay $75 apiece for eighty lights, or a total of $60,000 for the ten yean. Hancock County Sunday School Association chosQ E. W. Felt president. Rev. Dr. Denis O’Donaghue of Indianapolis has been made titular bishop of Pomaria. Harry Thomas, 22, committed suicide after returning from a suicide's funeral A in Muncie. Elsworth Livingston, 20, Frankfort, committed suicide by taking morphine. Disappointed in* love. The receipts of the Muncie postofflee are $450 per month more than enough to put it in the first class. <