Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1904 — Page 3

AGRICULTIRAL

Stock Bucks. In selecting stock ducks from which to breed your market ducklings, it is less essential to look for clearness of bill and perfection of tint than general suitable conformation. The drake in the accompanying illustration is a perfect type of breeder for market birds. The body is large, but not cumbersome, the carriage of the small head, alert, out not apprehensive, the feathers white and plentiful, but tight and compact, as though cut from a piece of ivory,, the deep full keel and short, strong legs are all points that go to form an ideal breeder, either for

TRIO OF MODEL PEKINS.

a duck or drake. In choosing breeders, it is also important that the’ ducks are fully as large as the drakes. The duck in the sketch is In reality somewhat larger than the drake, and won first prize when she was but five months old. Large birds like those Pekins are very heavy feeders, but the ducklings are soon on the market, and the old birds,with long, rangey bodies, such as these" here shown, ■will hunt their entire living when allowed to roam at will. —Montreal Star. Potatoes and Potash. Here are two hills of potatoes, the difference in. development of the plants and also in the product of the yield, of tubers. A number of experimental plots were laid out. Three rows, each one rod long and 3.3 feet apart, were planted with potatoes of the White Star variety. Plot No. 5 received no fertilizer of any kind. Plot No. 3 had an application of kainit and acid phosphate. The illustration is taken from the West Virginia Experimental Station, Bulletin No. 20. Now for the results: The potatoes produced by the three rows of plot No. 5. AVeiglied 21 pounds, and the plants and tlie potatoes are represented on the left side of the picture. The potatoes produced by the three rows of plot No. 3 weighed 55.8 pounds, and the plants and the potatoes are shown on ■the right-hand side. The increased £’lekl due to the use of kainit and acid phosphate was reckoned to be at the rate of 161 1-3 bushels per acre. . Fonr-Horee Tandem Equalizer. • The accompanying illustration represents a very simple form of equalizer for two teams one before the other. Attached to till® load Is- a pull“y through which tlie chain works, a team of two houses being attached to each end of the chain. The front doubletree is'tirbvided with a ring in the center, to which tlie chain Is attached. On the end of the chain is a grab hook, by monnti nf— which the— front —team

FOUR-HORSE TANDEM EQUALIZER.

tnay be bitched long or short as deaired. The Packers’ Power. The only rational cause for the great falling off In prices paid by the packers for hogs and beef cattle Is the determination of the packers not to give more. They are not in the packing business for either health or recreation, but for the money they can accumulate. Of coutwe the less they pay for the animals and the more they get for the animal products the more money they make. This accounts for the high price to consumers of beef, pork, etc., as well as the low price of hogs, and cattle.—Fann nwl /tanch. Catting Trees by*Electricity. It is reported in the German press that successful experiments have been ’made In various forests of France in cutting tre'es by means of electricity. A platinum wire Is heated to a white heat by an electric current and used like a uw. In this manner the tree

is felled much more easily and quickly than in the old way; no sawdust is produced and the slight carbonization caused by the hot wire acts as a pre; servative of the wood. The new meth od is said to require only one-eighth of the time consumed by the old sawing process. A Pettin' Hen When a hen is bound to set, Seems as though ’tain’t etiket Dowsin’ her in water till She’s connected with a chill. Seems as though ’twas skursely right (livin’ her a dreadfid fright, ' Tyin' rags around her tail, Poundin' on an old tin pail. Chasin’ her around the yard. —Secure as though ’twas kind of hard Bein’ kicked and slammed and shooed ’Cause she wants to raise a brood. I sh’d say it’s gettin’ gay Jest ’cause natur’ wants its way. —While ago my neighbor, Penn, Started bustin’ up a hen; Went to yank, her off the nest. Hen, though, made a peck and jest Grabbed his thumb nail good and stout; —Like to yank the darned thing out. Pehn he twltclieitiaway arid then Tried agin to grab that hen, But, by ginger, she had spunk ’Cause she took and nipped a chunk Big's a bean right out his palm, Swallered it, and cool and calm. T Histed up and yelled “Cali-dab!” —Sounded like she-said “Hoorah!” • Wai, sir. when that hen done that Penn, he bowed, took off his hat, —Spunk jest suits him, you can bet, “Set,” says he, *_’gol darn ye, set!” —Anonymous.

What Is Success? Many men who have died poor and who have ever been poor have been great successes. Our Savior was a poor man, the poorest of the poor and yet no life was ever such a success as His. The mistake of tills age is in judging success by wealth. A man may be worth $100,000,060 and yet be an absolute failure. That is, he may be rich and yet be a hog. He is successful who goes through the world doing the most good, brightening the lives of his fellow creatures not only, but making life more comfortable for the lower animals, the horses, the cows, and chickens and wild birds. Stable Ventilator. This plan of ventilating a stable can be put in without interfering with the window proper. About two inches

from the top of the wfhdow three holes are made two inches or more in diameter. A frame is built over these holes In which to run a slide or slips of sheet iron may be placed In position,

as shown at the lower part of the picture, between which the sliding board may be run. Corn Flour. The high price of wheat and of wheat Hour In Bulgaria has led the Minister of Agriculture to suggest the use of corn flour, mixed with wheat flour. A Sofia journal says that a committee was nominated by the Mayor of Sofia with a view to alleviating the distress among the poorer classes. Two kinds of bread were submitted—one made with three-quarters wheat flour and one-quarter corn flour, and the other with half wheat flour and half corn flour. Those who tasted the firstnamed bread declared it to be very good, and the Mayor hopes by the extended use of corn flour to furnish, the necessitous population of Sofia with its daily bread at a cheap price.— Cincinnati I’rice Current. —, Stiywberriem I kiipw of notliing that brings in money quicker or faster than the strawberry, providing the land is adapted to strawberry growing. The strawberry gave me my start when I was a poor man. The longer I grew fruits the more the people around me bought them. I never had a surplus. Boys will easily become greatly interested not only in strawberry growing but black raspberry, blackberry and grape< My plan was to' have an assortment of the various kinds of fruit so if one class of fruits failed for a year the others would bring me in money. Stiff clay soil that bakes |s not adapted to the strawberry or blackberry.—Exchange. Grafting Grapes. Common cleft grafting is best for young grape roofings. It is simple, easy and nearly always successful if properly performed. Remove the soil from the rootirtg and cut it low enough to allow the soil to be mounded around the point. Split with a chisel, then insert a scion of equal diameter so that 'both sides will knit. Cut the scion bevels equal. Be careful to have both sides coincide outside so that bark of both stock and scion is practically of same thickness. Wood A sties. i Uuleached wood ashes are rich in potash, varying in vnjue according to the hardness of thq wood burned. Hickory ashes arc more valuable thaii basswood. Besides, potash ashes contain lltne ami a little phosphoric acid. Most.clay soils have sufficient potash. Sandy soils need potash more than other soils. Do not mix wood ashofe with any kind of mannro boforo applying to the soil.

WHAT CONGRESS DID.

LONG SESSION DESPITE EARLY ADJOURNMENT. Cuba and Panama Treaties Ratified— Economy Was Practiced—Total Appropriations Are $781,574,627.99—Expected Surplus $35,000,000. Two legislative acts stand out as the principal accomplishment of the two sessions of the Fifty-eighth Congress. The reciprocity treaty with Cuba was changed to a bill having its origin in the House because one ;f its provisions touched the matter of revenue, and therefore it was held that under the constitution the Representatives should take the iniatitive. The pledge of the United States tc Cuba was fulfilled by means of this bill. The House passed the measure during the extraordinary session and sent it to the Senate, where it was debated and passed early in the second session. The treaty with Panama was the second of the chief legislative labors of Congress. The Senate ratified the treaty without though while it was under discussion it gave rise to virulent attack and debate on the part of the Democrats, who declared the President had exceeded his authority in the recognition of the republic of Panama. The Senate ratified the Chinese commercial treaty, by means of which the United States secured two open ports in Manchuria. Congress also undertook legislation for the government of the Panama canal zone, a subject which led to many differences between House and Senate. There was marked conservatism throughout the session in the matter of supply bills. They were handled quickly and with the economy which often marks the methods of Congress prior to a- presidential campaign. All told, th© money appropriated for government uses amounted to nearly $700,000,000. The revenues of the government are estimated at $704,000,000. Appropriations Are $781,574 v <?29.99. Chairman Hemenway of the House committee on appropriations on the closing day issued a statement showing the appropriations made by Congress at this session amount to $781,574,629.90. This amount includes $26,801,843.93 appropriated for deficiencies and $56,500,000 submitted under the estimates of permanent appropriations for application out of surplus revenues to the sinking fund. The whole sum of apparent appropriation is, therefore, $698,272,786.00. The estimated revenue for the fiscal year 1905 is $704,472,060.72, an excess over expenditures of $6,199,274.66. It is further estimated that the usual growth of revenue and the usual expenditures of the government, which average 5 per cent less than the estimates, will further increase this surplus to at least $35,000,000. The expenditure per capita in the United States is shown to be $7.97, the lowest of any of the great powers by a wide margin. The appropriations in the- aggregate this session are more than $20,000,000 less than last session. Estimates Were Cut. Heads of the various government departments sent in estimates of their needs, and these estimates' exceeded the estimated revenues by about $42,000,000. The figures will show what Congress did in the way of cutting down the estimates ns presented. No general measure carrying provisions for new public buildings was allowed to pass. Ordinarily an omnibus bill is put through which provides for postofflees and other government buildings in towns all over the country which have congressional influence enough to get what they ask. The majority refused likewise to consider any river and harbor bill which had for its object new work and the expenditure of large sums of money. There was agitation for a service pension bill for war veterans involving the expenditure of a huge sum. Congress, however, refused to consider it at this session, and the nearest approach to recognition of the one fact of service as being sufficient for a pension was in allowing an appropriation of $1,500,000 for the payment of pensions to men who camsunder the provisions of the general order of the Secretary of the Interior, which made age an evidence of physical disability to perform manual labor. This age pension order was provocative of Democratic assaults, but the Republicans succeeded in showing to the discomfiture of their enemies that a like recognition of age disability and a like order were made by the Secretary of the Interior under the administration of Grovr Cleveland. The postal frauds occupied the attention of Congress and the Overstreet report, which seemed to implicate representatives in pernicious activity on behalf of their district postmasters, caused a row. An investigation ordered by the House cleared every member of the suspicion of improper conduct. A resolution introduced by Representative Martin of South Dakota resulted in an. order for the investigation of the alleged beef trust by the Department of Commerce and Labor. In the House impeachment proceedings against Federal Judge Swayne of the northern district of Florida were begun, but the matter finally went back to committee and.will be taken up again at the next session. The House passed a bill ndmittiin Oklahoma nnd Indian territory as one State and Arizona and New Mexico an another, but the Senate took no action on the matter. As far ns the labor world is concerned the eight-hour bill was shunted by the House to the Department of Commerce aijd Labor for an investigation and the anti-injunction bill introduced by Representative Grosvenor was put over to the next session. ' The right of Reed Smoot, Senator from Utah, to a seat In the United States Schale is still under investigation. Congress passed a bill authorizing the lowering of the government dams two feet at Kampsville and LaGrange. 111. * Illinois Senators and Representative* succeeded ih getting into the postoffice appropriation bill an item of money which will allow the use of the tunnels of the Illinois Telegraph an.l Telephone Company sos the transmission of mails by electric power from station to station and from the mgin postoffice to the railroad stations. *

COLD WEATHER HURTS CROPS.

Planting; in Northwestern States Has Been Retarded Greatly. The weekly crop report, issued by the -Weather bureau, says: From the west gulf coast northwest to the middle Rocky Mountain slope the temperature conditions were generally favorable, but elsewhere the week was much too cold for germination and growth, although thelatter part was warmer ami more favorable. Heavy rains in the lower Missouri and portions of the spring wheat region Interrupted work, while the drought conditions in the middle and south Atlantic and gulf States generally have increased. Freezing temperatures and frosts generally throughout the central valleys, lake region, New England ami the middle Atlantic States were injurious to a greater or less extent. On the Pacific coast it was cooler than in the previous week, but farm work made satisfactory progress. While preparations for corn planting have been active in the principal corn States, as a whole but little planting was done during the week, owing to low temperature. East of the Mississippi river no corn has been planted north of the Ohio river, nor has planting begun in lowa and Nebraska, except in the southwest part of the last named State. In lie Southern States corn- Iras sufferei' from cold weather, and is small, with ir regular stands. Illinois —Temperature abnormally low until 22d, when decided rise occurred; general snowstorm over southern sections on the 20th: showery latter part of week; season decidedly backward; germination and plant growth made little progress; wheat improved and condition not favorable; oats n*»stly sown; much replanting necessary; breaking ground for corn; grasses made little growth. ■ Indiana—Prospects for wheat very poor, large acreage being plowed up and the portion left standing promises less than half crop; rye in fair condition; old clover badly winter killed; sowing oats, planting potatoes and gardens, and plowing for.corn progressing: peaches promise light crop; fair to good prospects for other fruits. Cold weather is reported in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and other Northwestern States.

FLING EPITHETS IN THE HOUSE.

Congressman Dalzell Call© Cock ran a Political Harlequin. Congressmen Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Bourke Cockran of New York renewed their personal quarrel in the House the other afternoon over the charge of Mr. Dalzell that Cockran had supported McKinley in 1896 for money. The tilt amused the members and when Mr. Cockran offered a resolution calling for a committee of five to investigate the chaiges against him. Speaker Cannon said a point of order had been raised and he would take the matter under consideration while the precedents were looked up. He suggested it would be better for all concerned “to have a night to sleep on it,” and the resolution went over. Mr. Dalzell described Mr. Cockran as a political harlequin who changed' his colors as his interests seemed to suggest, and read newspaper extracts to prove that Mr. Cockran had accepted money to speak in behalf of candidates not of his own party. In reply Mr. Cockran said that Mr. Dalzel had by implication confessed to corruption within his own party, but had proved none of his accusations. Then, as n question of personal privilege, he said: “Before I sit down I shall ask this House to agree with me on this, that if wli.it the gentleman has said is true I am unworthy of its membership. If what he said be false, he is unworthy of membership. “This will take a wider range than our personal virtues. I shall ask for a committee to investigate this charge, and shall ask for power to send for persons and papers.”

RAILROADS

The annual report of the Allegheny Valley for the past fiscal year shows gross earnings of $4,938,191, an increase of $745.11X1. The directors of the Canada Southern will double-track their road for sixty miles-between St. Thomas, Ontario, and Buffalo, N. Y. It is stated that earnings of Toledo, St. Louis and Western are showing up favorably, mid that the present outlook indicates satisfactory returns yfor some time to come. A bill lias been favorably reported i i the New York Legislature at Albany to increase tlie number of members in tlie State Railroad Commission from three to five, and to enlarge the powers of tlie commission.

Surveys have been completed nnd rights ot way obtained for the Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, which proposes to build a new line from Youngstown, Ohio, to Lorain, on the shore of Lake Erie. The Canadian Freight Association announces that an agreement has been reached permitting tlie shipping companies running from Montreal to Tort Arthur to quote differential rat»s on nil classes of freight,./,rom Montreal through the West. The railroads in Mexico arc anxious to be in shape to do a heavy business out of tlie republic for the world's fair, and the different lines of that country have submitted a proposition for a rate of or# fare, plus $2. between Mexico points nnd St. Louis on account of the exposition.

During the last two years the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern has equipped fifty-nine miles of its system with the latest improved block signals, and dining the |>ext few months this work will be extended forty-eight miles further, from Dunkirk, N. Y., to Erie, Pa. The authorities of th* St. Txtuia world’s fair have adopted rates and rule* for the storage and switching of private rars on the exposition grounds. The rat* per day, for more than one day, will be »10, but if a car is on the ground only On* day tho minimum chrrg* will bo

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Poor Outlook for Wheat Crop—Arrests Follow Clay City Bank Robbery—Racing Filly Jumps to Death Man Convicted of Arson by Sweetheart. The wheat crop in Indiana will be more of a failure than was indicated by the reports from the township assessor, according to State Statistician Johnson. The first reports showed that the crop to be harvested this year would not be more than 55 or 60 pdr cent of the normal crop. At the present time, however, Mr. Johnson is discouraged and says that the wheat crop will not average more than 40 per cent. He is getting a general complaint from the farmers, of the State. The late' spring, with the cold weather and the dry soil, has retarded the planting of oats and the oats that have been planted have not hud the proper conditions to develop. Mr. Johnson believes that even more farmers than at first supposed will plant corn this year and that the largest corn crop in the history of the .State will be harvested, with good weather conditions.

Strange Death of a Filly. Mary Halo, a valuable 2-year-old filly belonging to M. B. Locke of Columbus, jumped from the top of the amphitheater in Crump’s park, where she was being pastured, and was instantly killed. The colt climbed the steps to the top of the structure, and when several persons tried to coax her down she became frightened and jumped to the ground,-a distance of twenty feet, breaking her neck. Mary Halo was sired by Ariel. She was entered in $42,000 worth of stakes during the coming season. Arrests Follow Bank Robbery. It is believed the mystery of the recent robbery of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank in Clay City was solved by the arrest at, James Owens, a saloonkeeper, and the arrest of George Ellie and Jerry Walton at Coal Mont. All were taken to Brazil for a preliminary hearing. The plot was disclosed by papers found, with Walton. Two other arrests will follow soon. Some of the parties implicated have served terms in the Jeffersonville prison for bank robbery. Crushed by Load of Stone. Captain. B. F. Clemans, who until Jan. 1 was auditor of Wabash County and who prior to that time 4iad been joint Senator from Wabash and Kosciusko County, was killed on his farm near Laketon by a runaway. He was hauling a load of stone when the horses became frightened and ran, overturning the loaded wagon, beneath which Captain Clemans fell. trends Sweetheart to Prison. „ Samuel Michaels, the Burlington man charged with wrecking the farm residence of -Aaron Shock with dynamite because of his infatuation for Miss Eula Burns, a pretty domestic in the Shock home, was found guilty of arson by a Kokomo jury and given twenty-one years in prison. Miss Burns was the chief witness for Hie State. Boy Plots to Get Reward. Otis Peeters, 13 years old, is under arrest on a charge of having attempted to wreck a Pennsylvania train near Monticello. The boy says he was without money and that lie placed railroad ties on the track and then informed the station agent at Monticello, thinking that he would receive a reward. - • —. Z All Over the State. Princeton will have a nitroglycerine factory. Many localities report farmers busy sowing oats. Rockport is to have concrete curbs along Main street. A new State bank will probably be established at Elkhart. Hartford City is to have a concrete building block factory. Wheatland, by a majority of 12, decided not to incorporate. The Anti-Saloon League will carry on a campaign in Vigo County. High school graduates over the State are preparing their orations. Charles Downjiam will build a twostory business block on Madison street, Anderson.

A solid Taylor delegation will probably be sent from Union County to the Itepnblican State convention. Mrs. Albert Graham, Connersville, picked up a gasoline stove which was ablaze and threw it into the yard. Llewellen Albright, 60, died at his home at Hope. He had been a maker of yarriages there for thirty-five years. John M. Wallace, formerly superintendent of the Bartholomew County schools, died at his home in Columbtft. Farmers are hustling to get their spring work done. There lias been so much rairf that most of them are behind in their work.

Victor Oberting, a wealthy brewer of Lawrenceburg, has sent his son on a tenyear journey around tlie world on an allowance of $5 per day. At the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott of White County 130 relatives and friends took dinner with them. A loss of S7.<XX) wns suffered in a fire on the farm of J. W. McMillian, near Lafayette. It was caused by a spark from a passing Monon engine.

Ambrose Aspy holds the record in Bartholomew County for regular attendance at school. During tlie past five year* be has been neither absent nor tardy. John Bolog of*Whiting, wbo was shot by Andy Mehaly. died at the home of his sweetheart, Sophie Nadjy. Mehaly shot Bolog and killed himself because of the girl’s fickleness. A negro who was being pursued by a posse near Evansville, believing him to lie the one who assaulted and robbed Mrs. Marla Brandis and her daughter, jumped into Bsrr creek and was drowned. He was afterward identified as the robber. .

Koonse, 80 years old, went to the poor house at Wabash as a result of a robbery of which he was the victim a week before. He was staying temporarily at the home of Scott Iteno, and a little sack In which was *4OO, the price of a small piece of land on which he had long lived, was stole* as he slept.

THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION IN BRIEF

Idea was born In 1898. It commemorates the centennial of Louisiana purchase from France, 180*?. U. S. purchased that strip of territory, Gulf of Mexico td Canada, and from Mississippi river to crest of the Rocky Mountains. The Mississippi valley .belonged to France by right of discovery and exploration. Ixmishmn--wws- ceded to Spain, secret treaty 1762, and 37 years later returned to France at the demand of Napoleon Bonaparte, Oct. 1, 1800. President Thomas Jefferson purchased Ixiiiisiana territory, outlined above, of Napoleon for $15,000,000, who used the funds for equipment of his armies. Tlie treaty was signed at Paris April 30, 1803. Louisiana territory embraced 1,000,000 square miles. In 1898, following an editorial in a St. Louis paper that the greatest centennial event of the age should be celebrated in a fitting manner, Gov. Stevens of Missouri called a delegation from the States now constituting the Louisiana territory at St. Louis, Jan. 10. 1899. Ninety-th rec delegates voted unanimously to hold an exposition, international in its_ scope, in St. Louis. The U. S. government wns invited to assist, nnd it was settled to spend $15,000,009 in completing the exposition, the amount of the original purchase. The government paid onc-tliird, St. Louis onethird and the balance was raised.by public subscription. _ JTrces were felled, -bills were levetc4, tlie course, of the river. De Peres, changed. Aug. 20, 1901, President William McKinley issued a proclamation inviting the world to participate in the mammoth exposition. The grounds cover 1.240 acres, an area two miles long and one mile.wide, nearly twice as much ns the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago. The main exhibit palaces at St. Louis have under roof 128 acres. When the time arrived for tlie completion of tlie exposition it was found necessary to postpone it another year. Nations were asking for more space for their exhibits ami tlie affair had been multiplied in its proportions until at tlie time of its completion now, it lias cost about SS6.IXX).(XX), and is tlie largest exposition ever given on earth.

SECRETARY TAFT’S SPEECH.

Secretary of War Taft, in his speech nt the opening of the St. Louis world’s fair, said: •'From each of the great expositions of the world can be dated the wortd’s familiarity witli sojne marvelous invention so quickly adopted in our life that the change that it eftected lias almost passed from memory. -And while the buildings and the machines and the con-, gresses and the beauty and the glamor and the pomp of such a celebration and exposition as this shall pass into memory. and every material evidence disappear, the measurement that they make of progress, noted as it is in the history of the world, becomes a benefit to mankind, the value of which cannot be exaggerated. ‘We have nt this, the centenary of the purchase of Louisiana, entered upon another and a different kind bf expansion, which involves tiie solution of other and different problems from those presented in the Louisiana Purchase. That they may not and probably will not be solved by conferring statehood upon the new territory is probable. ‘■Augurs of ill and ruin to follow from the experience and the solution of tho problem are not wanting, but they never have been wanting in the history of this country, and they never have been allowed to control the fearless grappling of new problems by Americans. We have probably reached a period, in the great wealth and power, which we have achieved as n nation, in which we find ourselves burdened with the necessity of aiding another people to stand upon its feet and take a short cut to the freedom and the civil liberty which we and our ancestors have hammered out by the hardest blows. For the reason that this centennial of tlatf Louisiana purchase marks the lieginning of the great Philippine problem, the government of the Philippine Islands has felt justified in expending a very large sum of money to make the people who come here to commemorate the vindication of one great effort of American enterprise and expansion under the conditWus which surround the beginning of another. “Those who look forward with dark foreboding to the result of this new adventure base their prophecies of disaster on what they think is the weakness of the American people. Those who look forward to its success base their judgment on what has already been accomplished in the islands, ami on what they know the American nation can do when an emergency and an inevitable necessity present themselves. Without being blind to the difficulties or the dangers, it gives me the greatest happiness to know and to say that the President of the United States, whom I unworthily represent to-day, is glad to take his stand among those who believe in the capacity of the American people who. aroused by the call of duty, to solve any problem of government, however new, which depends solely on the clear-headedness, the honesty and the courage, the generosity and the self-restraint of the American people.”

Brief News Items.

Radium has been found in a mine near Butte, Mont. A society of Columbus. Ohio, will look after Armenian orphans. More Indiana counties will get general rural free delivery of mail. An unknown donor lias given Amherst College a Henry Ward Beecher lecture fund. The Ohio Legislature appropriated *35,000 for a State hospital for the treatment of cases of tuberculosis. v Mr. and Mrs. Roy H. Campbell were arrested in Lawton, O. T., on the charge of murdering their baby the night of its birth, March 2. A 5-year-old l»oy, an adopted child of a family named Wetheral, wan ground to death in a corn sheller at Ashby’s grist mill in Ix«avenworth. Kan. Joint services for Senator Mark A. Hanna were held by the two houses of the Ohio legislature. Senator Charlea Dick delivered the principal addrw