St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 August 1891 — Page 3

DOUBLE DICK AND JOE; [-==CB^=_ The Poorhouse Waifs. BY DAVID LOWRY. CHAPTER XTIL joe’s strange visitor. Monsieur Dufaur’s boil rang. One voting lady entered, an I two einorsred from Dufaur’s a •ademv. It rang again, ana a maid servant—a pretty girl—looked out. The caller, a gentleman, retired jauntily. As the maid was closing the door a littlo girl approached her. “Is Mr. Dufaur in?" “Yes; but he is engaged at prosont. ” The maid looked at the child suspiciously. “Well, is Mrs. Dufaur at home?” “Ye% but she is very Ll just now ” “Well, then, the young lady—l forget her name—she’s from Barnesville—is she in?” “See here, I don't know anybody from ^Barnesville, and I've no time to answer your questions. Who are you, anyway, to ask such questions? Be off with you!” “You needn’t get so huffy just because a person speaks to you. ” “A person! Y’ou a person!” The maid thirned her nose in the air scornfully. “The impudence these littlo beggars puts on—it’s amazing.” But the beggar was out of hearing. A minute later she was relating her experfences to Mr. Ike Jenks around the corner. “No go, eh?” “Jest froze me out ” “Humph, Jenny, you ought to sweetened her. ” “No use tryin’. She ain’t the kind that sweetnin’ sticks to. I did all I could. ” “Well—but you’re sure Mr. Dufaur and his wife are engaged?” “Dunno. 1 know a doctor pays "Will Turnipseed to say he is engaged when he’s snoozin’ on a bare bench in his office. ” “Well, there’s a quarter.” Ike handed her the coin, and soon the girl disappeared from view. “Point one. 11l go right up to the door now, myself. ” When the bell rang again the maid met a keen-faced young man at the entrance. “Ah! Pardon me. I, ah —called— ah—pray is Mr. Dufaur occupied just now?”

“You can see him in fifteen or twenty minutes. ” “No matter—no matter. It did not occur to me—l dare say Mrs. Dufaur is occupied at this hour. ” “Yes, sir. ” “Ah! Very well, I will call again, unless ” the young man paused, then added, very deliberately, “the young lady from Barnesville is at liberty just a moment —I will not detain her a moment. ” _ The maid courtesicd. a moment.’’ And then the maid left mm. A minute late a young lady appeared, and led the way to the parior. She looked at the young man in silence and with apprehension. “Ah! Excuse me—but I have come to —can I, speak to you in strict confidence? My name is—there is my card, miss. ” He handed her a card on which she read the name, “Isaac Pratty. ” “Certainly—what is it you want to say?” She was very direct—came right to the point. He made a mental note of it. “Why, I came to tell you, miss—excuse me, I do not know your name.” “No matter. It don’t signify. Go on, sir. ” “I camo to warn you, there is a scheme against you, miss. I discovered it by the merest accident in a lawyer’s office. ” । “What is it?” “I can’t tell. I know something's up, and knowing it was against a young lady from Barnesville, and hearing there was a young lady here from Barnesville, I took the liberty to warn you. ” ' “What is it? W'ho is scheming?” ! Joe’s eyes flashed a look upon the visitor that puzzled him. Was she frightened, or was it suspicion that sat in her eyes. It looked like suspicion as the eyes read his, but it might have been terror. Ike proceeded cautiously. i “I am not at liberty to tell. Maybe I you would say it was mean in mo to tell < —but I can’t help it. As for what is up, i miss, that I don’t know.” Joe looked at him in a puzzled way; j it was plain now she was perplexed. “Unless you know what I am to look I out for, I don’t see what I can do. lam ‘ obliged to you, sir. ” She stood silent Ike bowed, and with- [ drew. When he Uis way homo he । wMled to himself knowingly. Ihats an i f her —she knows me. How she read me! i ^hat girl could pick me out ot a million. ( I’ve put a bug in her ear, too. And I j didn’t give myself away. Isaac Jenks—you’ll get along in the world—you’ll do. You’d do.” And Ike pulled up his shirt collar and | held his head a trifle stiffer. He was r:- , yolving asschemae —a beautiful scheme I that was to surprise his uncle one day. । In the meantime Joe was pondering > ever the warning. W’ho was he? A nice—a very nicely . dressed young man he was, only she i didn’t like him, somehow. His eyes were 1 disagreeable. Why, she couldn’t toll. 1 And why couldn’t he have told her more? j To come to warn her, and go away like i that. ' Os course it was the people at the poorhouse. Poor Joe did not know that it was a relief to the directors when a pauper ran away, waked off, or died. So the number was lessened, that was all they eared for. Would she tell Madame? Why—to cause unnecessary alarm. There was no need just yet By-and-by she would tell her. But maybe Zeke Caper would come some day and pick her up on the street. Sho must tell some one. It would not do to be carried off, and nobody know what had happened. That would kok like running away—and to run away would be very, very mean. But sh would be on the lookout from this time forth. It was not often she had to go out: and she was always quick about her business. There was the music store; she was the messenger chiefly relied upon to go there. And the news-

stand. She would not bo harmed on the street. And she would be sure to look under the bed every night now, just to bo sure that nobody wa; there in the pay of Mr. Caper, or Mr. Wonder. At that instant she heard Madame Dufaur calling her name. “My dear, I want you to go to the music-dealer for me—and ca l around at the dyer's, and seo if my ribbo«« are ready. ” Tne dyer’s shop was in a narrow, poorly li«hted street. Joe remembered the night she called there with Madame Dafaur the place made an unfavorable impression upon her. There were so many ill favored men and boys lounging near a place with bright-colored bottles in the window. The bottles wore filled with whisky and cheap wine The gaslight back of the bottles made the contents gleam in the night. “Bring me ‘III Faros the Heart,’ and any now song Mr. Gray recommends. And bo sure to go round to the dyer’s.” Joe put on a bonnet and a neat light sacque Madame had a tered to suit her. The music was found in a few minutes Then Joo went around to the dyer’s Thore was a hang-dog faced man at the door of the sa oon sho pas od. Sho thought she had met the face somewhere. As sho entered the dyers, sho tried to recall it, but failed. When sho emerged from the dyer's the street near the saloon was clear. Sho watko 1 ha tiiy but timidly passed the saloon. Sh thought “what if Mr Caper is in there now.” But she wa< not molested. And yet a footstep was dogging her’s. The footstep skulked in the shadow—darted in ha Iways and doorways—crossed the street stealthily, followed her . until sho hurried breathless into Mon- I sieur Dufaur’s, thankful Caper had not kidnaped her. Thon the hound that dogged her hastto a rendezvous appointed by Ike Jenks. “Well, Old BiinKer, ” “It's all O. K.” “iou must have had precious good luck. ” “So I had. I wasn’t on the lookout more than a quarter of an hour till the door opened, and out came a girl same as you told mo to look for. Sho seemed awful ’fraid. Walked as fast as she could—to that music store near the Dutchman’s Hall —you know where 1 mean. ”

“Yes—goon Blinker.” “She wasn't in there long—then sho went round to—well past Dandy’s saloon to the dyer s shop.” “Iki-t Dandy's, eh?” “Sue didn't waste no time in the dyer s nothur. Sho more ’n scooted homo.” “That all?” “Why, in course I was as near as I could get. I opened the door sly-like—-and I heard the woman say sho was sorry—she’d have to come to morrow night again ” “Sure, Blinker?” “I’ll hope 1 may never ” Hore Blinker swore a horrib o oath. “Now, then: I'll tell you what you must do, Blinker. You can loaf around there to morrow evening, and get some of the gang to stay with you. You can make up some lie. Don’t give the game away. ” Blinker winked with so much mystery In his face as to justify the nickname. “Catch mo!” “When you see her go into the store, or alter ahoxomys out, you lurch against her. , wo i — or a gal you’ve met Leave the rest to me. ” “Suppose the Bobby sees it?” “Ol that’s all right—Uva fixed him. That’v a man my uncle knows—and ho knows I know him. No trouble with him. I’d give 55 —by George, I’ll have him come down on you. ” “Seo here, now. None o’ that That’s playin' it too fine, Ike. ” “What! Afraid of me?" “No—no more nor you are afraid of me. ” They looked at each other intently. “This is a square deal.” said Ike. “I’m givin’ straight goods,” said Blinker. “All right, then. ” “No Bobby in mine, if you please. No cuttin' up rou h, if you please. We kin manage without the Bobby secin' me, layht’ hands on me. I don't like it,” said Blinker. “Look hero, Blinker. I’ll tell you a little ghost story. Y’ou reinember Sam Dolan’s hand —his right hand?” “I ought to —I chawed his right thumb nigh off once. ” “You look at the right hand of th' new Bobby on that beat next time ho passes you.” Blinker stared. “ ’Taint —ftain't Tolan come back to life. Why, he was drowned —shot for a riyej pirate. ’Twas in the papers.” “Was he? Maybe my uncle made a mistake. Wouldn't it be funny if he has. Maybe I've never talked to the I new man. Maybe I was dreaming when ( an awful cute man got my uncle to l;elp him get this chap fked on the beat | here ” Blinker looked at Ike in admiration.

“You’ve got a head for a Congressman, 1 ke ” “I tell you he's the man, but you know better than to blow it. ” much to me. Y’ou bet T'llb' mum on’f. So he's the Bobby! Lordflf Dolan only ga’^e .V!™ 11 ’' 1 ’, Ikc ,7 wouldn’t the boys have a night of it? I’m in for anything now.” “Well—do as I say—l’ll be handy somewhere, and then I’ll manage all [ the rest, Blinker. Now, bo sure you i hang ’round the corner tKere!” “Y’ou bet I will,” said Blinker. How much is in this for me, Ike?” “Oh!” said Ike, in a lordly way, “I’ll see its all fair. I never go back on a friend. ” Then the couple separated, Blinker to return to his vile haunts among thieves, and Ike repaired to a locality where he was in the habit of meeting conyinial spirits. Ike was in a verj' agreeable frame of mind that night. His thin lips puckered frequently as ho twirled the light cane he he'd in his band. I “Won’t I paste it on my uncle's eye!— ; 0! won’t I, though?” | And the light cane struck his thin legs 1 again and again. ■ “Won’t I, though!” CHAFIEK XIV. THE NICE YOUNG MAN, AND HERO. Lawyer Jenks looked up when his nephew closed the door behind h'm tl^ next morning shortly after tho lawyer 1 entered his office. “Well?” “I called at Air. Dufaur’s. I didn't soe the person from Barnesville, though.” “You did it. What prevented?” Jeremiah Jenks was biting his nails; scowling. Ike continued in an indifferent manner:

“Nothing much; only a matter of ten or twelve miles. ” “Eh! What’s that? Don’t speak In riddles to me.” “I’m. not. The girl isn’t at homo just now. ” “Where is she?” “She went away for a day or two with some friend of Mrs. Dufaur s. ” “Humph! How did you find out?” “From a girl that lives next door. No, I did not talk to her, but a man who goes with her did, and he pumped her for me. ” “Humph!” “I’m just telling you all I know.” “Humph!” “I am giving you straight goods. ” “ 'Straight goods ’ Repeat that slang again and I’ll discharge you. 1 will, so help me. How often have 1 told you to keep your slang for your low associates?” “i’ll tiy and remember.” — “You’ll remember.” “I’ll remember.” “The girl—who told her?” “The girl in Dufaur s, of course. They are thick as thieves ” “Humph!” Jenks the uncle was chewing his nails savagely. “Where does the friend live?” “The girl didn’t know.” “Hum^h.” “Soo here —you don’t believe me.” “No, I don't. You are lying." The uncle and nephew looked fixedly at each other. “If I am lying, that settles IL” Ike was returning to his desk in the back room, when Jeremiah ealloa him back. “Hold un vour hand. Swear it's the truth. ”

“I'll hold up hand—but what’s the I use The man that tells a lie will swear to it.” “No matter. You needn’t swear. Now, then. If she's not there, when sho comes hack how will you know?” “My friend will find out in a littlo while and let mo know.” “No possibility of a mistake?” “I’m pretty sure of 11.” “If I call you in in a little white you ' know how to answer my questions.” I “1 guess so. ” “’1 hat will do. " Half an hour later Job Wonder cntered Jeremiah Jenks’ office. The at- । tornoy received him cordially. His knuckles cracked as ho creased his lingers and interlaced them. “A pleasant day, Mr. Wonder. I'll ■ have to disappoint you but it will be I oply for two or throe days. The per on 1 I have In view unfortunately is not in the city. Sho was sent away—to be gouo a daj' or two. ” “Humph!” said Job Wonder. Now, although the lawyer had uttered a similar ejaculation recently while listening to his bright nephew, ho did not relish it coming from another. He turned quickly to the farmer. “You are not satisfied, sir?” “No! Nor I don't think you’d be in my loots I’ve come, I’co waited, ’n nothin’ to show for my time ’n trouble. 1 can’t stop in New York lung—got plenty things to look after at home.” “1 am sorry I cannot show you the person I mean; it is not in my power to day. ” “About to morrow?” “One moment.” Mr. Jenks advanced to tl.e door and called aloud: ’ Ike—hern a minute." Iko responded promptly. “You told me .yuung lady ♦Mdtrrf r<r~3rv TsHrni the city Tur the present?" “I did ” “( an you assure this gentleman when she will return?’’ “No; except that she won't be away m >re than a few days ” “A few? How many do you call a few, young man?” “Why, two or three. ” “That settles it. 1 can't stay hero three days. ” Ike looked at his uncle. His undo looked at the fanner “I have no more to say.” “If I thought the girl would bo hero tomorrow I'd stop over. ” “Well, Ike, what's the chances?" “Why, she's as likely to bo back tomorrow as any day,” said Ike, promptly. "How'm I to know when she's back?” “Give me the name of the hotel you are stopping at,” said Mr. Jenks. “I’ll do that, ’n I’ll cal'klate on seoin’ some of you 'fore this time to-morrow, sos I’ll know whether to put off fur home or stop over till night,” “Precisely. Wei], we wilt try to give you notice as early as possible.” “All right. Good-mondn’." And Job walked away, shaking his head, and saying to himself: “I don’t like tho o here lawyers a bit. Seems to me as if that fellow doesn’t know his own mind. But what in thunderation did he bring me off here for? There wouldn’t bo no sort of sense in lyin’ to me. I guess he’s got on Joe’s track, ’n is keepin’ quiet about it.” [to be continued.]

A Sad Appeal. A middle-aged, healthy-looking man, who had called at the Postoffice for a letter several days running, returned yesterday with the usual inquiry, and was answered as before: “No letter for yon.” asked. ’ " mire?” he earnestly “Oh, yes.” “Alas! but I can’t make it out!” sighed the man. “I should have had one Monday, and this uncertainty unnerves me.’’ “Expecting to hear from some of your friends? queried the clerk, touched bv his despondency. “Yes—my wife.” “She is a wav from home?” “Yes, in Buffalo.” “Any one ill?” “No, not exactly.” “But you were io anxious I thought it might be a case of life or death.” “It is, almost. You see, she cooks in a restaurant and sends me $5 pef week to live on here, and this is the first time in six months I have missed a letter on Monday. I don’t know what to think. She may be ill—she may be out of a job—she may have gone back on me. I may even have to go t) work again and earn my living! Please be very, very sure that you have not overlooked my expected letter.”—Free Press. “Now, my dear boys,” said the Sun-day-school teacher, to his infant class, “what shall I tell you about this morning?” Star Pupil (eagerly)—“Tell us all about de sluggia’ match ’tween Dave an Gerlier.”

EUKbPJi NEEDS’ WHEAT. THAT cereal ano BYE both short. Th. Unit.l stat™, „ ith Uer Bonnteous STT’ lUtj th * The Most Estimates Obtainable Show »81.0J0,000 Bngj.el, shorU Bradstreet’s sa y 9: It is too early to give anything better than a rough estimate of the wheat production of European countries for the current year, only a few official comparisons of the probable difference between this year's and last y ear’s yield havln- appeared With respect to Russia the most contradictory reports have been Issued, hut there is no doubt that the wheat crop Is a bad failure in many parts of the empire, and it seems within the mark to assess It at 15 per cent, less than last year’s crop, which was officially put at 196,800,000 bushels, reducing the quantity to a little over 167,000.000 bushels. Allowing 13,000,000 bushels so.- Poland, as lompared with 15,000,000 bushels for 1890, we have 180,000,000 bushe s In round numbers at the indicated crop of European Russia, including Poland. Seeing that the consumption under ordinary elfrcumstancos won d be at least 140,060.^) bushels, and that the fat uro of the rj?* harvest will Increase the ionsumption of wheat, while stocks of o d wheat are unusually small, It seems a liberal allowance to reckon op an export surplus of 40,000,000 bushels. .Nothing is substractod on account of the shortness of the rye crop in order to avoid exaggeration of the situation tn Russia. Thore is a good crop In Roumanla, but not quite equal to that of la*t rear, which was uno tidally’estimated at 64,Olio,ooo bushels. An even tV',0)0,000 may be allowed as a maximum. Roumanla exported about 30,000,000 bushels in 1890 and 3 ’,600.000 may be put down for ihe current year. Bulgaria and s-ervia a’e reported to have good crops, but there U no trustworthy Information about these countries at present. Last year their total prodiH e was estimate-1 at about 46.000,. 00) bushels and 45,0ou,o()o bushels may be allowed as a rough o timate for the current year and r.’.e00.000 bushels as the export. What the actual deficiency of the French wheat crop will be it is imyosslhlo to say. and estimates of auth iritios in that country have varied with every change of weather. Last year’s yield was officially estimated at J-.5.0.i0.0i0 bushels. Decreases ranging up t< 120,000,(00 bushels have been predicted, but later accounts have been le-s । es-imisti •. The requirements from foreinn >our; - s may tie put at about 100.00. ,ouo bushels. In Germany the acreage is mn । smaller than it was last year In I‘rus' sla alone the Minister of Acrlculturc reports the plowing up of over 4i0,000 a-res, while the yield Is put at 15 per cent, less than that of 1890. it wo set the recent Impr »vcnr nt in crop pros-p-'Ct- again t the deficient area, an.i do duct 15 percent, from last year’- crop of about I*.’. ch e.o.j) bushels, nctxiiK luding spelt, tbo present crop cum. s out at 78,2<x\ooo bushels. A year’s consumption of wheat a’one at the present .time can s arcely be less than lis’p 0.»,(h o bushels, and g-ent deficiency of the rye K** An-i—i-ftnte th” ”on«umpt on of ” lA--- - ..• r „ uir ... moots from foreign rources cannot won bo put at less than 35,<X>’.0t)O bushels. The Italian wheat crop w^s at one time reported to be 15 per cent below last year’s good crop, which wa< officially estimated at 123,C0J,0d bushel-.. Recent reports, however, ar-' more favorable, and it is deemed probable that 115,000,000 bushels may be obtained A year’s consump ion. judging from a serious of recent crops and imjort-, apj ears to be about Ho 0- 0 o< 0 bushels, so that Kie figures just giv-n show a deficiency of 2',()vo,uCo bushei--It ie difficult to get tr istv^irthy information on Spanish crop prospects, even the results. The last er >p wA ostlm.V'd at about ?• .0- O.i 00 bushels, and as it was not a goo.i one, the same quantity may be allowed for the pr sent year. In I’orlugal 8.000,000 bushels ma< be added, and the requirements of the two countries from foreign sources may bo put at ic.om'.ooo bushe s Details from other European countries, with whoso abpvo mentioned wilf bo found in the following table, all that is necessary to explain being that Turkey is an importing country, apart from the princi; alitics. and that the wheat crops in Holland. Belgium and Dena.ark aro al; unquestionably deficient:

. BPSHELB. , Estimated Estimated Eip't countries Yie’d 9>. jiel i’Oi. ei.'yi-?. Kußsia i’C.I ol d.iJl.o IS >,(0),9J0 4 .000,KX) Austria Hu - g'y..J93.4 -S/jO) 1 4,5 M.uC'J 8oOO(9) Ronuiania G4,00u,000 G 0,000,000,000,000 30,000.0 0 BuJgaria&S rvia 46,J10,t00 4 \osj,wK 12,C4XJ.0u0 Tctals exporting c untries 515,258 000 449.500/00 90.0M.00J United Kingd. in. 75 994.000 70/CO Ox) 145 OW/'< Franc ... 328 COO.OJo 246,000 000 1A),OOO 000 Germany* 92,0»,'- () 78.2)0,000 34,000,000 Italy. .. 128,093,000 115,000,000 2.5,000,000 8 ain A Portugal 78.000,000 78 000.000 16 000,000 Sw.tzerlsnJ 2.4»>,000 2,2'H 000 8,000,9X1 Turkey 30/ 00,000 38,'30),C0) 10,000/0) Best of Europe.. 44,'XK),000 30.0.0,000 2.000.091 Totals. TsO.StM.U)) 666,4 NJKX) 371,093/(0 <- X. 1^11.,,,.+ ^ Fatima cd / I d IU). yield 91. ex. T- * I.F-ru 0.1 tortm-mt t tra-eon ent o^i 6 .fl rw *7'"^ Imports. In my desire to a>dd exa^ ration of the UuUciersr’t’^W“Europe, I am not sure that I have al owed enough for the deficiency of the rye crop e scwherc than in Germany. The crop is a bad one nearly a’l over Europe, and unless wheat become-' so dear that the peasantry will be driven to the consumption of other kinds of grain to take tiie place of rye, there must be a large extra use of wheat if we allow average exports from India during the cereal year, including a portion of the surplus of next spring's wheat —say 33,000,ooo^bnshe.s —and suppose that the United States will ,spare for Europe 144,000,000 bushels, making 177,000,000 bushels together, there will be, according to the estimated European deficiency, about 104,000,0' 0 bushels to obtain from minor sources of supply outside Europe. Ax English bishop has just been conned >n an insane asylum. He preachei so oddly that attention was attracted and he was found to be mentally unbalanced. If “prea' hing oddly” constituted mental unbalance in tiiis country the ireachcr crop would Ic, it is feared, lather frost bjtten.— Mlnnatpolis JouriaL Tur World's Fair directors think there Is yet time to build an Ei Ire! tower which ihall be toward the Paris structure as Ossa t° a wart. That's right; wo don't frant any cheap, undersized imitation — dlbany Fress and Knickb -eacr.

THE WAY THINGS RUN IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Thing* Which Have Lately Happened Within Its Hordera—Some Pleasant anil Some Sad Readinc:. —Daniel Sharp was killed by the cars at Indianapolis. --Evansville wants the next convention of the. Western Wavs. —Mrs. Louisa Blacketter, 70, pioneer of Bartholomew County, is dead. —William Kelly's barn and four horses burned near Madison. Loss, 51,200. —William Hope, a prominent German citizen of Tipton, dropped dead on the s:ro L —Jack Troyer. Kokomo, has a medal of the Breckenridge and Lane campaign of 1860. —Sadie Felix, Evansville, xvas run over by a street car and her leg was broken. —Fort Wayne Is thinking of uniting the City Hall and the Court-house under one roof. —Prof. J. I*. Slocum, of Jeffersonville, has been appointed principal of the Scottsburg schools. —George W. Struther, 60, while going after a bucket of water at Spencer, dropped dead of heart disease. —Southern Indiana is a great fruit center, the output so far this season being the heaviest ever known. —John Gains, working on a fifty-foot scaffold at Richmond, fell and broke his neck, living an hour before he died. —Mrs. Jerome Roberson, Union City, has a tin bucket which she bought in 1848. It has teen in constant use since that time. —Jacob Beam, an old and respected citizen of Waynetown, was thrown out of a buggy and received injuries which may prove fatal. —Arrangements have been made for the school-children at Crawfordsville to publish a small paper under the direction of the Superintendent. —An old gentleman named John Schreyer, on a visit with bis daughter, Mrs. Bessetnan, at Richmond, died in his chair of heart disease. — William Long, a Jeffersonville teamster, being attacked by two highwaymen, drew his knife and slashed them until they were glad to escape. —Brakeman Davis had his hand ma>hed at Tipton. Blood poison set in and he died. His widow, at Muncie, wants ^lo.ooo horn the company. William Kape. aged 74 years, dropped dead at his home at Tipton, of heart failure. He was one of the pioneers, having been a resident of that county forty years.

—The Pendleton Hcpublh'ftn has changed hands, Joseph M. Taylor, of Lockland, 0., having bought out editor J. S. White, who is superintendent of the public schuuls at that places While at wur k un .Martin llackendorff s residence, at Brownstown, ( harh s Hancock lost his footing, fell acro-s a picket fence and was terribly torn about the stomach anil bowels. He isasonof Contractor William F. HanciH'k. — Two men were caught on a bridge at Milltown by an Air line train. Finding thev could not escape, they dropped and hu.ig to the cross-ties until the train parsed. The train was stopped, and the conductor and others rushed back and caught the men just as they were about to fall into the river below. — Margaret J. Briggs wants 510,000 from James McDonald, Logansport, for breach of promise. Mrs. Briggs had furnished a house and bought her wedding garments, and he went back on her. A woman who would buy the furniture and furnish the money for the marriage license should be given the damages asked. —A ease of accidental shooting occurred near Alexandria, that will, in all probability, re nit fatally. Frank Furcell, a young lad about 15 years old. and a companion about the same age, procured a shotgun and went turtle hunting. Furcell was standing on a railroad bridge looking into the ereek and he let the gun slip down. When he attempted to pick it up it was discharged and the lad received the load in the chin, several of the shot perforating his tongue. He is badly mangled and was taken home unconscious.

—Mrs. John Marquardt and her daughter Lizzie were fearfully bitten bv a family eoir kept on the Marquardt farm had shown signs of being sick, and was kept locked up in a chicken-coop to await the outcome. It was feared that the dog was mad, but the farmer did not like to kill him before the nature of his disease had been established beyond a doubt. The other night tho dog broke loose and fieieely attacked Miss Lizzie. He threw the lady to tho ground and inflicted a large number of ugly wounds with his teeth. The mother of the girl cam> to the ressuo and carried her unconscious into the house. Tho mother was also bitten. Both the patients were taken to Fort Vfayne and placed in a hospital under the care of a physician. The dog was shot. —Wesley Powell, who shot a man last April at Frankfort, has just been raked in at Fowler. —Bicyclists are not allowed to ride on the sidewalks in New Albany by order of the chief of police. —An effort will be made to have the next annnal encampnent of the State Militia held at New Albany. —James Moore, of Jeffersonville, went to sleep on a cross-tie and was knocked off by a passing train. His condition is critical.

HERE’S ALL T' TO BE FOUND IN OF INDIANA. Giving n Detailmi Account of tho Numerous Crimes, Casualties, Mres, Suicides, Deaths, Etc., Etc. —lndiana plums are wormy this year. —South Bend churches have lawn socials. Children are suffering from flux at Brazil. Darlington is having a boom in building lots. —Rye grows seven feet high on farms near Fort Wayne. —lndiana will have more than CO- - bushels of wheat. —Charles and Clarence Beard, of Spiceland, have bought the Knightstown Sun. Seymour is to have the biggest canning factory in the country. Capital $30,000. Yorktown will be boomed by a syndicate that has bought 2,000 acres of land near there. —Emmitt Kannel, prominent citizen of Rensselaer, is dead of hemorrhage of the stomach. —Miss Mamie Nolan had her nose broken while playing blind man's buff at Fort Wayne. —Joseph Atchison and James Hickey, a pair of wheat thieves, have been arrested at Anderson. —Mrs. Arie Ent wanted to die at Frankfort. She attempted to go henceward by whisky and chloridine, but was saved. —Patrick Travis, who for many years was a conductor on the Pittsburgh road, and is widely known, died at Fort Wayne. —A committee of Pendleton citizens are negotiating with Dr. Gattling to secure the location of his gun factories at that place. —The survey for the natural-gas pipeline from the Sheridan gas-fields to Crawfordsville has been completed. The distance is 36.66 miles. —Allen County farmers say that the grasshoppers are seriously injuring the crops, particularly oats, and that they will soon get into the clover.

—A regular Kansas grasshopper was found at Crawfordsville. It is three inches long, and is probably the advanceguard of an army of invaders. —Benj. Wells was stabbed and killed by Aniko Bruminger near LaPorte. They were scuttling and it ended in a light Bruminger has been arrested. —Harrison McDaniel, a pioneer settler of Montgomery county, died at his home near’Darlington, at the ago of 85 years. He entered 240 acres in 1832, and had lived on the same farm ever since. —Daniel Anthony, his wife and child, residents of De Kalb, were struck by a freight train on the Lake Shore Railroad two miles south of Angola. They were driving in a buggy, and failed to notico tho approaching train. Mrs. Anthony and the horse wore killed, —Thrashing returns in Alien County indicate tho largest wheat crop ever raised. The county will average thirty bushels per acre. One field in Pleasant Township, on the farm of Alexander McDole, turned out forty-three bushels to the acre. The wheat is of the finest quality. —The Indiana Fire Insurance Company. of Fort Wayne, was organized, with a capital stock of 5200,000. J. 11. Jacobs, of Fort Wayne, is President; C. E. Dark, ot Indianapolis, Vice President, and A. B. White, of Fort Wayne, Secretary. A number of Indianapolis mon are among the heaviest stockholders. —Joseph Abraus, a guest of the Valley House, Knightstown, arose the other night for a drink of water, and going to a door which led to a small platform about twenty feet above the sidewalk, Lut which he supposed led to the stairs, opened it. and walked out upon it. He fell to the stone pavement below, striking on his side, breaking his elbow and wrist and severely fracturing a thigh.

—The annual reunion of the One-hundred-and-fifteenth, One-hnndred-and-sixteenth, < Jne-hundred-and-seventeenth and One-hundred-and-eighteenth Indiana regiments—the “Persimmon Briga ie” —together with Wilder's Brigade, and the Fourteenth and Ninety-seventh Indiana regiments, will be held at Worthington on the 26th, 27th and 38th days of August. The day set apart socially for the reunion and camp-fire is mn? unu uuu-iinru raru raws have been obtained on all the railroads in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, and but one fare on the Mackey system. —Louis Dixon, of Seymour, and a friend named Moses Siefkcr were bathing in White River at Rockford, when, in attempting to swim across the river with a pair of heavy everhalls on. Dixon gave out and sank to the bottom, never rising, so that assistance was impossible. His body was recovered. Mr. Dixon was a weii-respeeted young married man, and leaves a wife and two children. It is a terrible blow to the young wife, who is on the eve of becoming a mother, and it is feared she cannot live through the ordeal. A few weeks azo Mr. Dixon had both his own and his wife's lives insured for SI,OOO each. —The onion crop raised by the farmers residing on the river bottom west of New Albany is said to be very large and fine this season. Four hundred barrels have already been shipped to Northern points. —The Telegrapher, the official organ of the Brotheahood of Telegraphers, which has heretofore been published at Chicago, lias been removed to Fort ■Wayne. It is a weekly paper devoted to the interests of telegraphers. J. H. Schwerzgen and Charles S. Andress will comprise the editorial staff.