St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 48, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 May 1889 — Page 1

VOLUME XIV.

THEN. UY WM. W. LONG. /%, my darling! oh. my darling! Through the shadows doth no gleam ri nee too future Ion; and lonelyMust our love be only dream ? By that love so pure and holy, Love to graudiy g. eat— divine; Must OU 1 ’ lives bo over parted, Eoul of me and heart of mine? Sweet, Fate shall not stand between ; Fer I know the day will rise To a purer, brigtiter morning, From the grave whore dead hope lies. By the awful pain and torture We must fight and fght alone ; Somewhere in the bright hereafter I wilt hold you all my own. When tho shadows all have parted, In the bright Elysium land, Oh. mv darling! oh, my I’riestess! We in love shall understand. DREAMING. BY WM. W. LONG. All day I have been dreaming, Out here alone in the sun, Os a woman like no other, I'll see when tho day is done. The shadows are gathering darkly, The winds in whispers sigh, And the gold and amber sunset Is tin ing tho evening sky. Bend is this quiet dream-day, Night brings me, love, to thee; Mv love, so pure nud tender, Soul of the soul in me. J GREAT TREASURE. ' ♦ ft Strange Mystery Surround Its Disappearance. A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. BY FRANK BARRETT. CHAPTER XII.

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I told him of Hoeck’s terrible presentiment, and the circumstanees under which ho had left the house. “We will find him, pardner,” said t 1 e Judge, in his slow, sententious manner, which was queerly at variance with his speed in hurrying into his clothes. “We Will find him, and see if his presentiments will go so far as fur to explain wiiat’s become of the diamond. Let up what has happened, pardner. Keel it oft'. I am all awake.” I narrated briefly the events of the night while he completed dressing. Lola, standing by the window, listened in silence. There was j ast enough light to reveal the mischievous exultation that sparkled in her eyes. "Here's a Vigilance Committee job. if ever there was one," said the Judge, hastily lacing his boot. “I ain’t lighted on anything so much like Californey since the good old days. Now, sir. if you air ready, we'll hunt up Israel, the prophet. He’s got to tell us sumthin’ more about this than we know on.” It was striking five when we quitted the house. The Judge left me to look about the garden and its vicinity for Van Hoeck; he himself struck out at once for the wood, taking Lola with him. The girl would have stayed With me, but her father had her hand in bis. and there was no getting away from that grip. After exploring the garden £ took the path that led to the lodge, as being one that Van Hoeck frequently walked in when alone. The lodge-keeper was not up, but, passing through the open wicket into the road. I came upon a laborer trudging along to his work with a pick upon his shoulder and a tin flask in his hand. It then was half past five, or perhaps a little later. “Have you passed a blind gentleman on the road?” I asked. "I ain’t passed *im,” he answered; “but as I I come by the cross-roads I see some ’un, as looked gen’hnan-like, kind 'er fumbling his way along the road down by Harley botI tom.” I knew th (^.cross-roads; they were nearly two miles distant. It was incomprehensible to me how Van Hoeek had strayed so I far from the Abbey; but the laborer's description left little room for doubt that it ! was Van Hoeek he had seen, and? I started : at once in the direction indicated. I could not see Van Hoeck from the crossroads, but on turning the angle of the lane at the foot of the hill I perceived him feelj ing the way with painful slowness, and on [ the side of the hedgerow, a hundred yards in advance. Hearing my step he turned, and, recognizing it, came to meet me. He I Beemcd to forget the danger of making a 1 false step, and advanced with eager quickfl ness—his whole body partaking the expres- | Bion of anxiety imprinted on his features. “Is it you, Thorne ?”''he called. “Yes,” I replied. “What has happened?” I waited until I got up to him, then putfl ting my hand on hA shoulder, 1 said: | “1 have bad news for you. Van Hoeck.” | He trembled violently under my hand. I and opened his lips to speak, but no sound fl came; his condition >as pitiable, and to H keep him no longer in suspense. I said: | "I have lost it. It has been taken from I n,e -” | “Who has taken it?" he asked, in a thick, I husky voice. I ‘I cannot sav. I could not see the man | Who robbed mi-." I t Was 6 ’tent for a time, and then his ■ feelings found expression. at first in execra- ■ tion then in incoherent sentences, broken |l Up wish words of Dutch where the English K tongue failed to give sufficient force to his B anger and mortification. He assailed me B with every kind of invective, accused me of B cowardice or complicity in robbing him. of B 1 know not what baseness and heartless- ■ ness—indeed, it seemed as though the ■ rn W had him of reason for a mo- ■ Dient. At length, when his passion was ■ B °® c wbat exhausted-, he said: B And what is your defense?’ B 1 -M oo ^ bis arm, and as I led him up the ■ mil toward the cross-roads, I went over tho ■ "tory once more. When I was telling how I mei I'* l ’! coni e to my rescue, he stopped I _ J bat is a lie!” he said; “for she has been ■ With me.” I Impossible'.” I exclaimed. ■ u J m possil?l according to your story, but B *tls the truth for all that. J got off the path, B a ud could not find my way back. She led ■ ,r *e to a road—Ciod knows where-I—and left ■ me. I 2^ben?" ■ “How can I tell? The night has been an ■ ng >“ “Granting she led you for an hour—and ■ you would scarcely suffer her to lead you ^■longer—that wool I allow her to return to IB the Abbey, and come to my rescue at the ■ time I speak of." I “Have it as you will; it makes no differ- ■ cnee now. She got me out of the way, and K that was her object in being there. Go on."

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I came to the end of narrative, and then suggested that tho theft might bo traced to one of the servants. Anything to shield Brace,” he said, bittorly: and then, stamping his foot, he added. You know ho took >t!" It was useless roasonmg with him in his present condition. You stand convicted by your own statement. ho continued; "what ordinary thief would befool enough, having obtained the diamond, to wait there, risking discovery, and jeopardize his own life—for the sake of butchering you? If Brace was the thief, such a thing is possible; for ho must kill both you and me to profit by the possession of the diamond. Where is he now?" “With Lola, in tho woods, looking for you." “What? already!” he exclaimed, in alarm. “He is losing no time. Where are tho woods?” "We arc in them now." I replied, for wo had passed the cross-roads. He stopped short. Shaking off mv hand, he muttered, in a tone of dread: "Are you three hunting together?” “Be reasonable. Van Hoeck.” I said. “I am,” he replied; “leave mo hero.” I made no reply; and wo stood there in tho middle of tho road, ho quaking with fear and turning his hoa i from side to side to catch the sound that might confirm his fears. Ho looked like a hunted beast, that knows not which way to escape the hounds. "What's that?” he asked, under his breath, quickly. “There's some one on the road. It’s his step. If you have any mercy, save mo from him.” White I was turning to look up the road, to seo if his fears wore justified, he groped about untiLho caught hold of my arm. I had heard no sound, but his finer sense was not at fault. On the brow of the hill--which we were now descending—stood the gaunt figure of Brace. The light of the rising sun shoneupon him. but we stood in the shadow of the wood, where tho mist still hung over the sodden earth. “I do not hear him; where is ho now?" Van Hoeck whispered. “He is standing on the hill, a couple of hundred yards behind us. Ho doos not seo us." "If we could but get to tie Abbey! Forgot what I said,Thorne. Have pity on mo," he murmured. "What do you want me to do?" “Lead me back to the Abbey. Ts I escape from that man now. 1 may protect myself after.” I saw no possible reason for refusing compliance with this request, and. taking his arm. lied him along that side of tho road where the shade was deeper. But. before we had gone a dozen yards, a shrill whoop rang through the echoing woods to our right, and Van Hoeck again stopped. I looked in vain over the' brake f or Lola, whose cry I recognized; but. glancing up tho road. I perceived that the Judge had heard the signal, and was coming after us. At the same moment Van Hoeck, slatting forward, cried: "Quick, quick—he sees ns—he is coming down upon us!" And then, after another dozen yards, “Do you want him to overtake us that von stick to this cursed road?” "lam looking for a path; we can not push through tho brake.”l replied. Glancing over my shoulder I saw the Judge, his shoulders bent forward, his arms swinging from side to side, bearing down upon us with long strides, and rapidly diminishing the distance between us. “He is gaining upon us! How far are wo from tho Abbey ?" asked Van Ho -ek. “Nearly two miles; we will run for it, if you like.” We ran for some distance. Again looking back, I saw the Judge s:ill plodding on, with the same rhythmic swing of his long arms. Running had given us no sensible advantage. Van Hoeck's ear told him this. Drops of moisture stood on his livid face, the result of terror rather than exertion. “There is no one in sight—no one we can call to for help?" he asked. "Noone. I see a footp t’l through the wood, if you think that will be safer.” “Yes. yes—anything is better than this open road.” We took the path I had caught sight of. It was a good sound bridle-wav. covered with shoit turf; we ran along uoislessly. The angle we mad? shut off the view from the road. Brace could not cut off the corner without getting entangled in the undergrowth of briers interwoven with the tall brake, f He must follow in our steps to overtake us. The danger lay in the straightness of the path, which kept tho view open from the road. Our escape depended upon our finding a by-path that might deceive him as to the course wo had taken. I explain 'd this to Van Hoock as we ran on. “It is time we found one now it we ar? to escap -.” he answered. Tho next step brought us to a footpath that cut the bridleway at right angles. Looking down the green tflley toward the road, as we turned off from it, I could see nothing of the Judge. I thought we ha I beaten him. But we advanced now with great difficulty. There was room only for one in tho path, yet I had to keep hold of Van Hoeck’s hand and guide him. for the brake met before us: the trailing brambles that ciossed the path caught his feet; at every step he stumbled.. It was hopeless to continue. Already t fancied I caught a glimpse through the trees of the Judge swinging along the bridle-wav. “Your only chance is to get amonglthe brake and throw yourself down, while Igo on,” I said. “I can go quicker alone, and coming behind, he may imagine that you are still before me.” “Show me where to go.” I opened away through the brake, led him behind a thicket, and bade him lie down. As he carried out this instruction. I I got back into the footpath and was then enabled to trot along at a brisk pace. It was only just in time. for. looking back a couple of minutes later. I perceived the Judge plowing his way through brake and bramble, which cam ; well up to the level of his breast, with as little difficulty as though it had been meadow-grass, and with the same steady swing of his bent shoulders. He had caught sight of me from the bridleway. and struck out at once into the thick of the undergrowth. I did not in the slightest degree partici- | pate in Van Hoeck’s suspicions and fears, ami having, as I hoped, succeeded in diverting from him the object of his dread. I was indifferent as to whether the Judge overtook me or not. Had I been in the humor to enjoy a joke, I think I should have enjoyed giving him a long chase for nothing; but circumstances were too grave for that. I pursued the. path until It dipped down into a hollow, and there finding a fallen tree across the path. I sat down and waited for the Judge to come up. In afo v minutes he stood before me with his arms folded on his chest, his feet planted apart, and a particularly stern look on his gaunt, weather beaten face. “He has given me the slip: has he given it to you likewise?’’ he asked. “No.” I replied; “I gave it to him. I helped him to escape.’’ "Stand up, Gentleman Thorne, and let us look each other in the face," he said. I stood up. He held out his hand and I gave him mine. “Now. standin’ here hand in hand and face to face, say, air wc the noblest works of natur* or air wo not?” I could not go so far as to admit that his appearance realized my highest ideal of nobility. but I understood his allusion, and toplied: “I believe you are an honest man. if that is what you mean. Brace.” "It is; and that is my opinion of you likewise. Let us sit down and hold a committee. • Now. pardner, will you tell me why , you let Israel git?" “Because the poor wretch is half distracted with the loss of the diamond and his fear of you.” “Why do he fear me?” “He believes that you took the diamond, t and intend to have his life in order to get the reversionary share, or something of I that kind. And now, tell me why you puri sued him when you saw he wished to avoid > you?” j "Because he did so wish, for one thing, and.” he added.with emphasis, “because he’s - got to speak. Israel’s got to speak,” he re--1 pealed, with still greater decision. “A man ' what has presentiments as a thing is going

RACE’S door was unlocked. He to all appearance was sound asleep with hi*; face to the wall. I \ s h o o k him. |Y all d a s h e 31 turned over I said: / “Get up; the Hesper is lost." “Lost! as how?" he asked, sitting up. “Stolen—taken from mo.” I “YYTiere’slsrael ’?"

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to be took so accurate ashisn. must nafral ly have presentiments what’s gone of i when it’s took.” ^And suppose he can not tell you?” “Woll, then, he’s got to try till he do. As a jedge. I’ve Iwid to try a pretty considerable number of bad lots, but a'<more durned on prepossessing lot than Israel 1 never vet sentenced to a wcll-airned gnlhis. End mark this, partner: es Israel was charged with this crime, and it wasmydutyto direc’ the jury as to the verdic’ they should well and truly find, I should direc’ them to bring himjn guilty, or I’d lock ’em up till they "You are as unreasonable In your suspicions as Van Hoeck is in his, but you have not his excuse—you are not under the influence of Tear.” "Beeaus.o I hev nothing to bo afoor’d on. Gentleman 1 horm-." "Tell me how on earth it is possibo for a man in Yau Hoeck’s condition—a man absolutely helpless, as we know him to be—to accomplish a feat of this kind?" "I don’t say he did it. pardner—l don’t say ho took the Great Hesper: on the other hand. I don’t say he didn't. But I am free to maintain that’he knows all about it. 1 you ask me how ho knows it. I'd toll you 1 didn't know. There's many things so don'i know, but that’s no reason why we shouldn t try fur to find out. We ain’t so everlas ing clever that there’s nothin’ more to b j 1 nnt out of this almighty universe, take my word for it. And though wohovdrawed a pretty good lot of truth out of the well, wo ain’t •yet come to tho last bucketful—not by a long way. One of the things wo hev got to lain concerns Israel's pr< sentiments, and,” he added, emphatically. Tin going to larn it.” I "We must get. back to tho hi use. The police must be sent for." “I don’t see what harm they can do. and it's tho reg’lar thing, and so they ought to be called in," he stud, rising from the trunk on which we hail been holding this discussion. “I am going for Israel. So long!” I hesitated to separate from the Judge. "You must promise me. Brace, not to commit violence on Van Hoeck.” "If you mean by violence taking of his life away, I will give you my word not to be violent with him. There's my band on it." On this understanding wo shook hands and parted. He plunged again into the wood; I returned to the Abbey. That was between seven and eight o'clock. [TO BE CONTINUED.) HENS. BY JOSH BILLINGS. Speaking ov bens, leads me few iemark, in the lust plac', th.it hens, tl.ns far, are a suckcess. They are domestick, and occasionally are t iff. This iz owing tew their not 1 e ng biled often ennff in their younger daze; bitt the hen aint tew blame for this. Bilec] hen iz universally rcspt kted. There iz a great deal ov orignality tew the hen exactly how mutch i Kant tell, bistoiians tight so mutch abo t it. Sum say Noah bad hens with him in the ark, and sum say he didn t. So it got s wh ch and tutl er, 1 kant tell yn’whirh born fust, the hen < r the. <gg; sumtimes i think the egg waz and sumtinxs i think the hen wuz--and sumtinu s i think i don't kno. and i I ant toil now, v h < h way iz. li h l . f< r the life ov ue. Laying eg. s i . the ben's b< s' grip. A lii'ii f at kan: lav < ggs iz. laid out. One egg iz kom id lei ed a fair day's work for a Imn. i hav herd ov their doing better, but i don t want a hen ov mine to do it it is ;i] t t>w bur their constitution and bylivs, and thus impair their fn er wirlh. The poet sez, butifullv; fumbody bn’ stole onro’d blow hen I l wish they’ll let her bee ; She nue 1 tew lay 2 < pg< ii day. Ami Sundays sh ■ d lay 3. This soui ds trev om ft f r poetry, but i will be! 75 thousand doll a s that it nevi r took p'ace. The best time tew set alien, is when the hen is ready. I kant till you wha‘ the best b ced is, but the shanghi is the meanest. It kosts as mutch tew bo; rl one, as it duz a stage boss, and yu mite as w ell undertake tew fat a fanning-mill, by running oats thin if. Thare aint no proffit in keeping a hen for its eggs, if it laze less than one a day. Hi ns are very l ing-lived, if they don’t c< ntiaht the thrut disease —thare is a grate menny goes tew pot every year, bi this melankolly disease. I kant tell exactly how tew pick out a good hen, but, as a general thing, the long-eared ones are kounted the best. The one-legged ones, i kno, are the lest apt tew skratch up a gard n. Eggs packed in equal jiarts ov salt and lime water, with the other end down, will keep from 30 to 40 years, if they are not disturbed.—l or/z Weekhj. Feasting on Ho.i-t Bog.

lb N company wi t h a friend, writes a AY r estL ern correspondent, I ' visited an encampment of Indians at the k 1 ipestone q u a r r i es, ^Minnesota, and witnessed one of the national feasts of the

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The Indians belonged to the Yank- . ton tribe, and numbered about sixteen lodges, or eighty people, including in their number bucks, squaws, papooses, boys, girls, old land feeble warriors, not counting the large number of dogs. To many the Indian cur would appear ■ a worthless, piece of property, but at | the feast in ques ion the mest gaunt and hungry-looking dog of all 1 played an important part. A trench about nine feet in length and ) one foot in depth had b >en dug, and ‘ into this the lean old dog was placed I and covered over with sticks, on which dirt was piled, leaving the head only I to protrude. Two days was he confined in this artificial oven. At the ex- | piration of the two days the master of । ceremonies, or medicine man, pronounced all mystical lites properly | observed, and that it was time to tarry t out the completing act. This was done by reproving the dirt and piling on [ more sticks, covering the animal completely. Fire is now applied to this heap of brushwood, and the once respectable cur made a roast dog. Upon our arrival the roasting had just been finished, and the whole camp was crowding around the smoldering embers to get a portion of the much; prized “medicine dog,” which, when eaten, is. supposed to prolong life and to instill into the ordinary savage the qualifications for a warrior. The medicine dog-feast seems to be of both a medical and religious character, an ancient custom to which the Indian clings with tenacity.

INDIANA HAPPENINGS. EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An TnterwHtlni; Summary of the More Importaut Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Note*. Sought Ilie Governor's Clemency. Gov. Hovey, Ims pardoned, unconditionally, William Adams, of Mariou, Grant County. Three years ago be was sentenced for five years in the penitentiary for criminally assaulting a woman. A few weeks ago the woman made affidavit that she had sworn falsely at the trial, and that Adams was innocent. Upon her statement, the Judge, Prosecuting Attorney and jury, before whom he was tried, together with several hundred citizens, signed a petition for Adam’s pardon, and after the Governor personally investigated tho case ho decided to free tho prisoner. Ch rlcs Richards, of Perry County, was also pardoned on the condition that he would obey the laws of the State and abstain from drink. Seven years ago Lj was sentenced to the Southern prison for twenty-one years for killings desperado from Kentucky, who came over to the town of Cannelton and expressed bis intention of "cleaning out the town.” At the time the sentence was passed it was shown that the killing was done in selfdefense. Richards had always borne a good reputation. The petition for tho pardon was signed by all the court officials of the county and loading citizens. James Nlulley, convicted of grand larceny in the Criminal Court of this county, was sent to the Reform School, his sentence to the State prison being coinnmtod. Par.lonel an.l I’arole.l. Melville Baugh, sentenced to the Penitentiary for five years, from Morgan County, in December, 1887, for manslaughter, was pardoned by Gov. Hovey. Since Baugh was con victea evidence has come to light tending to show that the killing was accidental. The pardon was recommended by the judge and prosecutor who tried the ease, eleven of tho jurors who returned the rdiet. aud 240 repntaldo citizens. The Governor also paroled Enos Scott, of Hendricks County, who. six years ago. was sent to the Penitentiary for nineteen years for manslaughter. Scott, while intoxicated, went to a con.div dunce, mid in tiring his revolver prmr. seuonsly killed <>ne of his he-t fj > nds The pardon was urged by the codit officials who beard the case, and twelve hundred prominent < itrzeus of the county. Ihe parole was granted on the condition that Scott would abstain from the use of intoxicating drinks. Patents. Patents have been granted to the fol-lowing-named Indiana inventors: Francis M. Abbott, assignor of one-half to C. W. Rodgers. Jeffersonville, velocipede: ('has. 11. Becker. Evansville, guide for band-saws; NVm. N. Daruall, Worthington. shingle machine: John Ferrinburg, Hege, churn; Wm. C. Huffmai . assignor of one-half to J. M. Lavill?, Albany, washing-mai'hiue; W. D. Joh isou. Seymour, wooden dish; Orian S. Meeks, Evansville, and -I. C. Brown, Eureka, plow; Wns. 11. 0 Beirne, Elgin, lIL, assignor to Star Iron-tower Company, Fort Wayne, insulation tubular iron posts; Newton Rogers and J. A. Whardy, Terre Haute, dynamo speeder for gas engines, carburetor for gas engines. governor for gas engines, gas engines, igniter for gas engines: Wm. 11. Shank, Huntington, forge tuyere; Edwaid Warren, Ligonier, thill for vehicles: Jonah 0. Wright, Cochran, vertically movable kitchen safe. Minor State Items. —The town of St. Marys of experiencing a boom. —Union County will erect an infirmary building, costing ^16,500. —Hortonville, Hamilton County, has struck a good flow of natural gas. —The public drinking water ift Columbus has been condemned as dangerous to health. - Marion will probably get the Lafayette car-works, which is about to remove from the latter city. —Brazil has the oil fever and is organizing a company with a capital of $10(1.000 to sink wells. — Rev. George B. Holdemau, of Wakarusa, is dead, of blood poisoning, arising frsm kidney trouble. I —The Governor has appointed Theop- । hilus 11. Kumler, of Butler Bounty, to be a Trustee of Miami University. — Millions of fish are being destroyed by dynamite in Morgan County, and the authorities are making no effort to stop the crime. | —At Greencastle, lightning struck a barn in which two boys, named Carhart and Jacobs, had taken refuge, injuring both of them severely. I —Greencastle has raised the cost of । license to saloons from SIOO to $250 ami provided a forfeiture of SIOO for each j violation of the liquor law. —Miss Lou Gifford, of Richmond, yawned so widely that she dislocated her jaw. She has met with the same ac- | cident several times recently. —While the 10-year-old child of Mrs. Dr. Grove of Columbus, was hanging to ' the rear part of a delivery wagon, the ] wagon upset, and falling on the boy । broke his arm. —John Howell, a noted horse-thief, ( 61 years old, was released from the I northern prison recently, but was immediatelv arrested for another offense, and will likely spend the remainder of his days in prison. —Hog cholera has made its appearance among the porkers owned by Michael Shannabum, a well-known farmer at Lincolnville, Wabash County. Seventyfive animals have died. The cholera has not yet appeared among the hogs in the neighborhood, and every effort will be made to prevent it from spreading.

-James L. Duncan, of Hancock County, has a hog 9 months old, with six perfectly formed feet; also a pig with a nose resembling a fish’s. —Westfield has secured the Hadley shoe factory of Indianapolis, by giving free gas. paying a bonus of $4,01)0, and furnishing the factory building. —The Board of Education of Lawrence County has made a rule that a schoolteacher shall not attend a dance while she is teaching a term of school. — Citizens of Spencer have organized a company for the purpose of sinking u well to ascertain what is beneath the ground ata distance of 2.000 feet. —Alexander Monroe, living near Middletown, was accidentally killed, while handling a revolver, the ball entering his neck. He was about fifty years of age, and unmarried. —At Indianapolis, Ferdinand Schroeder, a saloon-keeper, cut bis wife’s j throat and then killed himself. Ue was ; insane, and imagined that his family | would starve to death. --The Northern Indiana Editorial As- ' sociation will hold a meeting at Kendallville. beginning June 13, and preparations are making to give tho editorial brethren a hearty welcome. —Thomas W. Swanagan, a farmer of Daviess County, aged 00 years, i s being sued by Miss Marian Elizabeth Milholland, of Washiughton, for breach of promise to marry. She asks $2,000. I he oil excitement at Terre Haute is increasing. The flow nt the well shows no signs of diminishing. Many local companies are being formed to sink now ones. Tho oil is a high grade of lubricating. M Crandall's horse ran away with ' his three children, at Fowler, and came near causing the dentil of the entire Dumber. They were ail thrown out on a picket fence. The oldest, a girl, wns i severely hurt. Samuel Cheesman, a blower in the North Marion Glass I'mtory, dropped dead w hile at work. A heavy dose of i chloral, taken to quiet his nerves, ! wrought up by a long spree, was the 1 cause of death. - Charles S. Carter, of Vincennes. I stud the <>. A M. Railway tor $lO.llOO damages for injuries received m a wreck nt Shnttiic, 11!.. about six mouths ago. Carter, nt the time, had his arm and: collar-bone broken. James fhompsoii, of Crothersville,! while squirrel-hunting, ested his gun 1 under his arm. It was m eidentlv disi charged, the charge of shot shattering the bones of the arm and rendering , luuputation necessary. In excavating grav, I on ■ farm ueni Montpelier, recently, an Indian skele- ' ton was uneiutlu 1. together with some jars, in a goo I state of preservation. I I’his farm was once known as part of tho Godfrey Hejerve. YVabssh h: s organized a Citizeii H Gas Trust Con pmy, w it h a capital stock of sIIMi.IMIO, for the purpose of snpply- । ing free gm. to factories. Shares are put at ST), >vhieh entitles the holder to > : free gas for one stove. ■ - llnr.cock County has 1,831 school j j children, including twelve colored males 1 ■ .".d eighteen colored females, a net in- ; < crease of 178 over last year. The eun- ! ! meration of Greenfield is 943. an in- i I crease of eight-four over 1888. A fifty-pound carp was caught in • White River near Muncie a few daysago. : . A great many are being caught, weighing from five to seven pounds. The fish ; got into the river a few years ago by the i breakage of several ju ivate ponds. I —Smith Q. Douglas, a well-known | and highly-respected young man of : Seymour, was found dead in bed at the ! j residence of George 11. Brown. De- I | ceased was subject to epilepsy, and had I i been dead several hours when found. - A young man named Shipley was arrested at Carmi, for disorderly condui t and was placed in the calaboose to get sober. In a fit of rage, he fired the mattress in his cell, and before relief could reach him hewasalmost literally roasted alive. The gas well drilled by the city of i Greenfield for the purpose of giving free gas to all manufacturers who desired to locate in the gas region, has been completed. It is an A No. 1 well and will furnish an abundance of gas to all manufactories that can be induced to ' locate there this year. -—There is to be a grand gathering of veterans from surrounding towns at the Knightstown Soldiers' Orphans’ Home on Decoration day. The Home band will furnish the music, B?n L. Smith, president of the trustees, will preside, and Chaplain Lozier, who first started the Home project, will deliver the oration. —The thirtieth annual catalogue of Earlham College has been issued, and a summary of students shows a total enrollment in all department of 231, with eighteen in the senior class. The college is located near Richmond, and it is the leading educational institution of the Friends west of the Allegheny mountains. —William Stewart, a large colored convict, received at the penitentiary from Madison County, June 30, 1888, for fifteen years for brutal assault, escaped from the hospital, where he was employed, though it is not certain that he is outside the walls. He passed through the hospital floor by raising the boards in the bath-room and thus reached the State shop, but could be traced no further. It is believed he had a confederate. -—James L. Yater, of North A’ernon, has been appointed Sheriff:’ of the Supreme Court, vice Captain North, whose time expired in January last, and AV. Y\. Thorntown, of Crawfordsville, has been selected as Librarian of the Supreme Court. —Edward Taylor was fatally crushed while coupling cars at Newport, and died in a few hours. He was by occupation a carpenter, and was breaking on the road a couple of days to oblige a friend who bad left to attend his mother's funeral. ’

FOUR IVERESHOTDOWN THE WABASHROad SOLD

A RACE IVAR AT FOREST CITY ~w . ARKANSAS. , । I A Colored Politician and Three White Me Killed in a l*olitleal Feud—The Militar May Be Culled Out to Suppress Furth* Trouble. [Forest. City (Ark.) dispatch.]: A desperate shooting affray which cot tho lives of four men occurred here. Th slaughter grew out of an election so school directors. A. M. Neely, a co'oro editor, became involved in a quarrel wit a white man, and when he found he wa getting worsted ran toward ex-Sheril 1 arham lor piotecticn. A dozen or ruor revolvers flushed iu the air and a perfoc volley was poured after the fleeing negro Neely escaped for the time I eing, bu Thomas 11. Parham, son of ti e ex-ehoiifl Sheriff D. M. Wilson, aud Marshal Fran! Foil>re wore killed. Neely, his father, and brother tool refuge the Advocate Building. The; barriv ud the doors, and every effort ti dislodge them proved unavailing. Afte sever l hours, Acting Sheiiff Van B Izard persuaded old man Nealy and hi son to come out, promising them saf< conduct 1o the jail and a fair trial A. M. Neely did not appear. Tho Sher ill’s । osse was not more than a hundret yards distant with the two prisoners whei a number of other membeis of the possi reached the Advocate Building. A. M Neely was discoveied secreted unt&r tin floor and was liddled with bullets, at leas ten shots I eing fired into him. It wai thought that othets of the Neeley ganj were conceal, d under tho floor, and fht posse made an extended search, but fount no more. ’t his last killing caused a great den more excitement, and the people wen afraid of a raid on the town by the ne gioes. The acting Sheiiff wired Gov. James I*. Eagle the facts and asked tha' a t otu|.any of militia I e ordeied here I lie Governor iepl ed that he thoughtth« civil authorities could preservethe peace amt he did not want to order ^ut the mi litia unless all of In r menus failed. Gov Eagle thought he could be better able t< judge of what was needed by being on th< ground, so be took the first train for Forest City, and is now here and will remain until quiet is restored. He is inconstant communication with Adjutant General John C. England, and if they are needed the McCarthy Light Guards are ready tc move by special train at a moment’s notice. Tho co nprny is well equipped and will be able to handle most any kind of a mob. । It is now thought that there will be nc : further trouble. The feeling was so high । against Neely that h's death was looked: ! for every moment after the beginning of ! the riot, aud now that hets out of the way it is thought the feeling will snl side, unless these is a n.gio uprising, aud in th t instance the military will be called out. J Gov. Eagle’s presence on the ground will, ■' it is thought, have a reassuring effect, and w ilt restore order. 'I he cause of the trouble was the old .pies ion of w hite or black rule. Neely i was tho head of the negro element of i fnsionists in St. Fram is County. Capt. : : John I'nihum aud Sheriff 1). M. Wilson i hi aded the white Republican element. In ' the school election the candidates for re- ! election were two white members if the boaid, but Neely and his side desired to replace these men with their candidates. • Neely siid; “We propose to secure the control of the board and manage the i • school to suit ourselves.” A. M. Neely! ! and G. W. Ingram made incendiary i ! speeches on the subject aud stirred up a : very bitter feeling, which resulteel in the j two tragedies. Neely w: s a member of the State Ceu- : Irai Committee and of the Executive Comj mittee, a id had secured the recommendaj tiou of that body for Register of tho I Land Office at this place, and would I doubtless have been a] pointed, as so far ! President Ilnirison has observed the ! recommendations of this committee in making appointments for this State. IIAYAIU»S IIANCEE. Miss Clymer Said to Be a Beautiful and i Highly Cultured Woman. [Washington dispatch.] Miss Clyni r, whose engagement to ex- : l Secretary Bayard has Et en definitely announced, is the only daughter of tl.e late Dr. George Clymer, for many years surgeon in the navy, and gran Slaughter of Admir.il Shubnc'k, and great-granddaugh-ter of George Clymer, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as one of the framers of the Federal Constitution. Dr. Meredith Clymer, a distinguished physician of New York Cit., is a member of the same family. Miss Clymer lives with her mother in a tine mansion at the corner of H street aud Connecticut avenue, just opposite the residence of W. W. Corcoran. She was born in that house thirtynine years ago. She has no sister and only one brother, Shnbuck Clymer, Professor of English Literal ire in Harvard College. Miss Clymer is an accomplished lady of literary tastes, who has traveled considerably. She was educated in Mine. Burr’s celebrated school iu this citv and speaks French like a Parisian. She is a decided blonde and acknowledged by all to be beautiful, but not more distinguished by personal beauty than by queenly dignity and a generous heait. She has a graceful, slender figure sir I dresses in exqtiisi'e taste. Her fortune enables her to live in good style. Miss Clymer has been intimately acquainted with the Bayard family all hec life. She is an accomplished horseback rider and will be a lit companion for the exSecretary in his favorite exercise. He is remarkably agile, lobust and well-pre-served. though over 69. During the early part of Mr. Cleveland’s administration his wife and eldest daughter both died within a few weeks of each other. KUNEdW WOMEN. The Kansas City Manager of a St- Louis Brewing Company Absconds. Albert F. Schwab, aged 32 years, manager at Kansas City for the Green Tree Blowing Company, of St. Louis, has absconded, leaving a shor age in his accounts of about SB,OOO. He has been behind for some t me, and a month ago । turned over a house and lot valued at $5,000. but. he was too deeply involved, and last Friday he disappeared, leaving a young wife. His associations with women are supposed to have caused the trouble. ISisinarck’s Hot Wor<ls. Prince Bismarck has made a speech in the Reichstag in which he compared the Socialists to the French —ready to strike whenever they became strong enough. He referred to the rashness of the Reichstag in admitting Alsatians as members, and said: “We did not fight the French in order to have ourselves inoculated with fourteen Frenchmen.” The address has excited much comment. Judge Volney T. Malott has been appointed receiver of the Chicago & Atlantic Railway by Judge Gresham at Shicagu.

NUMBER 48

™ E ° F ™ E MWSIS - S'Pl I RIVER DISPOSED of. Bought In by the Purchasing CommitU,. for •1a.M0.000-PUn,, f or the i< oorranl . zatlon ot the System -Financial Pro.pect. ot the Property in the Future. [Chicago dispatch.] lhe Wabash Railwav hmbc nc « the most important railway foreclosure lalo Whichever took place in this country It thA ß a °^ POCtcd ’ hut there would be a hitch in the sale on account of the f . 1 .h„ nine .Uyta” to the amount of the first and second mortgage bonds, was fixed by the decree of the and' tho r« r °» Ub ° WaS ^P° ri «»ee<l. however, and the road was sol 1 to the purchasing committee of the Wabash bondhoHers composed ot James F. Joy. O D Ashw’ K ThOI “ aS H ’ ‘O The sale was conducted by Major Bluford W ilson of Springfield. 111., ulld < j ^7 of Indianapolis, the special musters no-’ A°ter M/ Rick’ 18 / 8 I G .[ e9hum and Jackson. Bm onl WUson d n ° Uee ° f Sal ° Blu oid Wilson announced that the sale tukc placo b X divisions on 'our of which the court had fixed an upset or flrat l "^ 1 ? I>nCe e<l . ual to 'be amount or tho th st and second mortgages. The sale would be without appra isement or redemption. according to the decision of the Su°f ,h 0 Unl od ^ates. which held that there was no redemption in foreclosure sales of railroad property as the In*iA C b M 0 the railroad company was also sold. Major W ilson also announced that the terminal properties would go with the adjacent divisions, and that each division sold would carry with it its proportion of tho rolling stock and equipments in the exact proportion that its mileage bore to the total mileage of tho whole 900 miles ot inUeage of tho Wtibash Railway east ot the Mississippi. m first division put up for sale was tho Toledo and Illinois Railroad, known as the Ohio Division, running from Toledo to tho Indiana State line, a distance of seventyfive miles. On this division the upset price was 82,840,595.68. There were no bidders, and the division was passed. Tho Indiana Division, known as the Lake Erie. Wabash and St. Louis Railroad, wna next called. This division runs through Indiana a distance of 166 miles, and the upset price was $3,481,919.89. Here the Johnson and I’oppers dissenting committee showed its hand and bid $3,650,000.00. Tho division was declared sold to 8. Fisher Johnson on behalf of this committee. The third division put up for sale was the Great W’estern Railroad Company of 1859, running a distance of 180 miles from the Indiana State line to the Illinois River at Meredosia and Naples. The upset price was $3,481,919.89. and it was also knocked down 1 to S. Fisher Johnson on behalf of the Johnson and Popper conwnlttee for $3,650,000. : The next division put up for sale was tho Decatur and East St. Louis Railroad, running from Decatur to East St. Louis, a distance of 108 miles. The upset price was $•,816,128.31. The Johnson and Popper committee also got this line on its sole bid of । $4,000,000. 1 The remaining divisions had no upset price fixed by the decree of sale. The limt put up for sale was the Quincy and Toledo । Railroad, extending from Clayton. 111., to t point opposite Meredosia, on the Illinois River, a distance of thirty-four miles. Hero Mr. Janies F. Joy, representing the purchasing committee of the Wabash bondholders. came to the front and bought tho ! property for $500,000. The mortgage debt was $664,009. The Illinois and Southern lowa Railroad, extending from Clayton to Carthage, Ilk, u distance of twenty-nine miles, was sold to ; James F. Joy for the Wabash Purchasing : Committee tor $300,000. The mo: tgage debt was $398,000. The Hannibal and Naples Railroad, extending from Hannibal to Naples, 111., a i distance of fifty miles, was also knocked down to Mr. Janies F. Joy for his purchasing committee for $500,000. The mortgage debt was $599,009. The next property sold was the branch of six miles extending from Clayton to Camp Point. Mr. James F. Joy and his committee got It for $50,000. The branch road of six miles from Carthage. 111., to Elvaston, Hi,, was sold to Mr. James F. Joy and his purchasing committee for s>o,ooo. All but the Ohio division had been sold. ’ and the failure to sell it would have necesI sitated an adjournment to Judge Gresham’s I court-room for a modification of a decree as to the upset price fixed. Major Wilson, however, said tnat he would expose this : division for sale again. This time Mr. I James F. Joy bid $2,840,595.68. the upset ; price, and the road was knocked down to ' him and his purchasing committee. The aggregate bid for all_the nine divisions now amounted to $15,540,595. Major Wilson here announced that under tho terms of tho decree of sale tho masters would now put up the whole nine divisions, including, under their direction, the Hannibal and Naples Road, for sale. In caso the bid now made exceeded the aggregate of the bids for tho various divisions the whole Wabash Road east of the Mississippi River would be knocked down to the highest bidder. , . .. _ Mr. James F. Joy. for the purchasing committee ot Wabash bondholders, bid $15,550,090, which was J 9.405 more than tho aggregate of the sale by divisions, and the road was knocked down to the purchasing committee. The amount of deposit required was $900,000, or SIOO,OOO on each of the nino divisions. The deposit is in bonds, but tho Court will call upon the purchasers to pay in any cash required to pay off the $4,000,000 of dissenting bondholders and any necessary expenses. By this sale every obstacle to the consolidation of tho Y\ abash r oad east and west of the Mississippi River has been removed. By July litis e <pe« tedt h at the divisions in the various States of Michigan. Ohio. Indiana, and Illinois will have been organized, and the great trunk fine from Detroit and Toledo to Kansas > have been formed by consolidation of the various divisions. The name of the on solidation will be the YY abash Ra dread Company, and it is expected that Mr. O. D. Ashley will be its President. First and second mortgage bonds co xer ing the whole line will be issued Ihe first mortgage will provide for now bo nds to the first and second bondholders of ' the oM road and for the payment of he S4AW.WU to the first mortgage bo J? dh r ^or^aniz^ fused to come into the reorganizavion scheme. The second mortga.o will also cover the whole consolidated hno. an< provide for an issue of debenture , . cover about $27,000.WJ of bonds secured by the mortgage of June, 1880. on wme 1 $10,090,000 of bonds were issimu, as w as for the collateral trust mortgage $10,009,000. h j of Five years ago. on May 28, the wnoie tho Wabash system, east ot Mississippi River, went into_ the han m o debtednoss. and eoul I n 4 E’^^for its on iti gene, al mortgage o!! 188( or on ^ collateral trust ]n ,ortgage. The ime^ . I of the Mississippi have since been 0- g ized, and are now under the control purchasing committe^ ai 1. • b {ho ceivership as to them tmmi sale of March 1886 hey a e ^ d o ^ inl . done remarkably well, ai.a to , ing their fixed charges and.. ' oast With the amalgamation of tho forinor and west of the Mississ-pp • the for no _ of which were acquired by tl^ chasinc committee at this reorganized systun w.ll !'«I its R lieved of its non-paying branches. terest on its entire fundo 1 d“ d from sto 7 por cent. Also, its f o^ , m o rt . charge for interest on its old K".” e ™ derc( i gage and collateral trust bonds renderea dependent only on the revenues of the r . ts earned. In this advanced age of progress and reform it is extremely singular that no bench show for dudes has yet been established.