St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 March 1892 — Page 3

el ~ == » fSs. Y 0 t L AR A —a I;m EE /' AN Vo LTINS W 22 LRI« 4YO R, ,\\:" ~A . < S A\ 3 a‘%%:'“/ ‘3?.‘\ \ .7)0»;: W 'ﬂ’“’ . S - W ‘él% > -.et%n\s{%;ﬁii%;ﬁ\, ' RN RS LB TR RN \l a1 i r{’{ l ; i ;f; ;“‘.‘xu NW‘ 0 . L‘ \7[‘ P\ CHAPTER I. “Well, here I am,” soliloquized Jack Beverly as he stood on the platform of a small country station. “I suppose that is the village through the trees yonder. I wonder what sßrt of hotel I'll find there. First rate, Frank says. But I know just how far his opinion goes. However, the scenery is promising, and I dare say I can stand a few weeks of this. So farso good. Now to see about my trunk and then——" “Hello! where is my trunk?” With the question on his lips the speaker moved down the narrow platform without encountering the familiar object he sought. B A small trunk of black leather, bearing his initials but no further resemblance to his property, was the only obJject in sight. “A nice piece of business,” he muttered. “What's to be done, T wonder. Ah, a man at last. Perhaps he can throw some light on the subject.” “Your trunk, sir,” repeated the newcomer, when the grievance was ex- j plained. “Isn’t that it, sir?” ‘ “That thing!” Jack gave rather an un- | complimentary glance toward the small | object of black. “No, mine does not l resemble that in the least. They have failed to put it off evidently, and meantime I am greatly inconvenienced.” . “I am very sorry, sir. No mistake in checking it, I suppose?” “Mistake—no. I bought my ticket for Weston, and received my——" “Ah,” interrupted the man, with a ‘ smile of intelligence, “this is South Weston. Weston is five miles above.” Jack looked slightly bewildgred. “South Weston,” he repeated, in perplexed tones; “I don't understand.” | i “No, sir; a very natural mistake. 3 Two names much alike. Tl'll telegraph ' for your baggage. Whatname, please?” “Name? Oh, my name—Rßeverly, but wait a second. There’s no necessity to ! send for the thing. I'll take the next train to Weston.” { “If you are Mr. Beverly, sir, youdon’t i need to go to Weston.” : Jack turned with a decided start to see the station master nodding famil- ‘ iarly to a short stout man who had i come rather noiselessly upon them. : “I'm sorry I'm late, sir,” continued : the intruder. “Maje was in one of his : tantrums. The carriage is right here, i if you'll follow me.” | 2 “Carriage, repeated Jack, knitting i s his brows in grave perplexity. “Whose ] carriage?” , ! An expression of surprise passed over | | the man’s somewhat stolid face. fRe “Mr. Millard’s; sir,” he' answered, el “Your leiter was delayed; we didn't get PR, L ,~ s GApCUU yOU. ? L “The deuce they do,” muttered Jack | i ander his breath. “Millard! Millard! ! ‘ Ah. the namo .oOf Frank's charming friends; and my letter? Oh, Frank’s, I : dare say. Peculiar, though, I declare. I i wonder if this fellow is perfectly sane.” | : “Look here,” he added aloud; “are you | quite sure that Miss—, that is, Mr——.‘ ? Oh, confound it. Are you sure lam ex- ‘; pected?” | ‘i The old man evidently thought he had | wasted sufficient time in idle question- { ing, for his answer was somewhat short. i “Mr. Beverly is e'xpected, sir; I was told to meet him.” “All right,” was the agreeable answer. “I cannot be mistaken in my own identity. Under the circumstances, I suppose, I should telegraph for my trunk. What is your name? Toby, eh? And this is the carriage and Maje. Well, Toby, let me know when we reach our destination.” With fhese words Jack stepped into’ ! the carriage, lit a cigar, and settled him- ; self to enjoy the picturesque scenery ; about him. “Here we are, sir.” - Affer twenty minutes’ riding Toby's head was thrust through the window 4 with thi% information. ' i “Are we?” questioned Jack, recalling | : his wandering thoughts and turning his I ; attention to the house before him. It ; was a long, low structure of stone and ‘ : wood, surrounded by broad verandas and | i a quaint, old-fashioned garden, whose | i beds and borders were a medley of | i bright-hued flowers. l ; “Here comes Miss Millard, sir.” Again was Toby’s head thrust through the window, and Jack found a fresh obi ject to engage his attention. This time ; it was a girl riding towards him. : Whether she was pretty he could not ; decide after his first brief scrutiny, but : her attire was highly disillusionizing. The faded, ill-fitting waist and skirt had g evidently been diverted from its original : use, and dignified into a riding habit, ‘; and the battered straw hat, confined be- | : neath her chin by an almost colorless : piece of ribbon, bore ample proof of long an 1 hard service. \ i “ ‘n ill-dressed woman is always an : abomination,” commented Jack, “but! ' that rig rather beats anything I've yet : come across. I begin to think this family slightly off their mental balance. ; Confound that hat. It hides her face completely.” | * “Back already, Toby?” asked a fresh, ’ i ¢lear voice, in a lowered tone, as the i owner of the old hat came to a stand-l § still. “Yes, Miss Mary, and I've got him.” : “Oh, Toby,” was the answer in a half l whisper. “What away to express it. He may think we have some designs up- | ' on him. Is he in there?” : | “Yes, miss,” returned Toby, glancing ! 2 through the carriage window to assure g himself on this point. | § Mary slipped from her saddle. i “I suppose you are Mr. Beverly,” she - said, looking rather curiously at Jack. y “I am glad to see you, Mr. Beverly. $1 Won’t you come in. I will téll grandpa 3 you are here.” | s The tone was warm and cordial, and Jack found himself studying intently the dark, haughty face. | It held all the charm of caprice and il- | lusive moods. No feature was perfect. The mouth was too broad, the nose too 2 short, but the eyes were clear and beau-

tiful, the ~omplexion rich and warm, the lips full and mobile. “Frank was right in one particular,” was his mental comment, as he followed Mary through the broad hall into the ample »arlor, “_ .wllgrandpa youhave come,” Mary | sa 1 again when they had reached this 1 room. “He is quite an invalid. I fear you will find us both rather prosy., We ] have so few visitors. As arule, we don’t like them. ' “That is rather plain spoken, isn’t it?” she added with a slight accession of l color, “but you must understand what I mean. Grandpa has decided that we { shall be friends. He has been looking | forward to your visit for some time.” “Well,” commented Jack, as she left him tohis me itations, “I mustsay I cannot understand this extraordinay interest in my humble self. If Frank holds the key to the riddle, I’ll have it.” The riddle, as Jack called it, seemed | more of a riddle than ever, when a few minutes later Mr. Millard welcomed him with the most cordial warmth. | Quite overpowered, Jack could only murmur his thanks, while the old gentleman followed up his first remarks by a number of questions, most of which, he answered himself. “You are not like your father, my boy,” he said, sinking back in his chair, and observing Jack with a serutinizing interest. “You don’t remember him, I dare say. We were great friends. His death affected me deeply, and it was only quite recently and by the barest chance that I heard of your existence. Well, ! well, how time flies! But reminiscences are always painful; let us talk of some- | thing more cheerful.” | When supper was over, and Mary had l left them for a few moments, Mr. Millard began to dilate upon the beauties of the country about them. 1 “Iseldom go beyond my garden gate,” he concluded, “but Mary knows the locality thoroughly.” “Then I hope Miss Mary will consent to play the guide for my benefit,” re- | marked Jack. | “Yes, yes,” put in the old gentleman; “she will. As I say, she knows the place thoroughly. She has lived here i so long and been so much alone, it has 1 been n solitary existence for her——very l solitary.- She has had no friends; no ‘ social advantages. Her lack of knowl- | edge on many points might impress a | stranger unfavorably. I have foreseen { all the possibilities arising from such I social iscolation without possessing the !powor to avert them. You will excuse | me for speaking in this way,” he broke | off abruptly, as an expression of pain | flitted across his face. “These thoughts | constantly obtrude themselves. They | pain me inexpressibly. I have broken [ all my old ties. Mary is the one link | that holds me to earth—her welfare my own interest in life.” These words, expressed with a peculiar earnestness, moved Jack deeply. He endeavored to put his own thoughts and feelings into words, but found it well l nigh impossible to do so. _ i “Miss Millard does not happen to miss any of these advantages,” he said at last. “Perhaps lack of wo L AUO WA, B - o e farred O an exoesa. I “Grandpa, are you discussing me?” | Both gentlemen turned with a slight start to see Mary standing in the open aoorway. { “You were talking about me,” she con- { tinued in a voice that held a hint of sharpness in its usnal clear tone. “Please don’t do so again, unless I am present to have my say.” “A spoiled child, as you see, Beverly,” i interrupted the old gentleman, with { quaint humor. “I have found it impos- | sible to deny her anything. Now lam | allowed no rights whatever. Sit down, | Mary; we will promise to be less personal in future.” | Long after he was in bed that night Jack’s thoughts constantly returned to Mary. Her bright, changeful face, her quaint, original sayings, even her very gestures, he recalled with wonderful vividness. “Why didn’t Frank give me some idea,” |he asked himself. “The slightest hint that I was to meet the most extraordinarily self-opinionated young woman, ever fashioned by the hands of the Almighty. How she would make some of Madam Grundy’'s votaries stare and start. I have an idea I sha’n’t find my visit dull. I’'m a lucky devil, any way you put it, and I must thank Frank for | this last stroke of good fortune. By the way, I wonder how Frank discovered the friendship between my father and Mr. Millard, and why did he not tell me |of it? Tl’ll tax him With it when I write. { Now it is but a poor part of wisdom to exhaust my mental forces in this way, so to sleep and dream.” CHAPTER 11. Mary, Millard had no recollection of either mother or father. The one early event which Lad impressed itself upon her memory was the death of her grandmother. She often recalled with painful vividness her grandfather’s passionate grief, and the bitter cry with which he had clasped her to his heart: “You are all I have in the world, Mary.” She was but seven years old when they came to live in the old house in the quiet New York village. Contentedly self-buried, Mr. Millard devoted himself to his books, and api parently cared nothing for the world which ecireled round the changeless habits of l.is daily life. Mary’s delight, however, knew no bounds. The beauty { of life is irrepressible, and her heart was ] open to its faintest impression. “We must call it Robin’s Rest,” she declared; “the trees are literally alive with robins. Oh, grandpa, I shall be so l happy here.” | And certainly she was happy as the | violet in the shadow of the wildwood, or | the birds who sang in the trees around ' here. | Her education, so far as” books went, | was gained from her grandfather, though | the task of studying was not one to | which she took kindly. | She learned more readily from nature itself. Her powers of observation were | quickened and sharpened, and the very | solitariness of her life gave a warmer "tone to her imagination. l But what her grandfather regretted | most deeply was her lack of friends, or { friends of her own age and condition, { South Weston being made up of hard- ! working farmers and their families, none

of whom were interested in anythin ! higher than their stock and ecrops. i Under such conditions the years had passed, and Mary was eighteen before she herself realized the fact. There was no change in her feelings or views of life, but she was conscious that her grandfather’s eyes followed her with a deeper sadness than formerly. One day he said to her quite suddenly: “Mary, do you realize that you are a woman?” Mary was decidedly startled at this intelligence. “Indeed, I don’t, grandpa, and I don’t wish to. It will seem like being someone else.” They were together in the study; M. Millard in his accustomed chair, and Mary in her corner beside him. “Yes,” he continued after a second’s silence, “you are eighteen, and at that age——" “One is supposed to be a woman,” put in Mary, rising from her stool and walking across the room with a half-serious, half-comie air.

“It is rasher hard, grandpa, that one must be, whether one wishes or not. Now look at me, please. Am I taller than I was a month ago? Am I the least bit wrinkled, or, has my hair turned gray? No, no,” she added with a shake of the head, “it isn’t any use. Let us talk of something else.” She was back in her place, her hand upon his knee, her bright face rafsed to his. He shook his head with a half sigh. “Most young ladies——" he began. She raised her hands with a prot:sting gesture. “If you have any consideration for me, grandpa, don’t bring up most young ladies. They and I have nothing in common. Let us drop the subject. Do, for one more interesting. Please tell me what Jeannette means by her dark hints about a visitor. Surely we are not going to indulge in anything so giddy.” She gave him a half-laughing, halfquestioning glance, and clasping her hands about her knees, she rocked backward and forward, with a sort of rhythmic motion.

“What has Jeannette told youw?” he I asked, smiling at her expression. “Oh, a whole rigmarole, in odd hijts and at odd times. I'm to dress better because he is rich and used to fashionable girls. I'm so dispense with my uncouth manners because he is accustomto lady-like females. In short,” she added, with fine scorn, “I'm to be a perfect little prig to suit his fastidious taste, Now, grandpa, if you have Invited a man of that description to visit us I cannot help saying you’'ve done a most foolish thing. Didn’t you reflect how dreadfully plain we’ll seem in contrast to his people? and don't you know that while I am perfectly contented with my life and everything here, I'd feel like killing a man who'd dare to look down on me or you. Men like him are sure to break out some time, and I know I’'ll break out too. Who is he, anyhow?” “After such a tirade, I am almost afraid to say,” was the laughing response. “But,” he added more gravely, “I hope I can trust you to be a polite little hgstess. I am particularly interested in this young Beverly. His father and I were old and dear friends. Circumstances, however, caused us to lose | sight of each other. He went to Cali- | fornia, married there, and died a few years later, leaving this son, of whose existence I heard only a few months g g ! wiote 1o him. lmninedi v Trecelv s“_&~ T T vitation. I am anxious tor you to like him and to™ make his stay with us as pleasant as | possible. Tam sure he cannot be other- | wise than agreeable, as I hear only the ! best accounts of him.” “It sounds very nice,” said Mary, with ‘ a reflective air, “but it strikes me he will have to be agreeable to make up for the disturbance he’ll create.” i

Three days later Jeannette was putting the guest room in order, and Mary was watching operations. “Look here Jeannette,” she eried gayly, “I believe you consider him a ‘fairy prince.” I never saw you beat that old bed so hard before.” “I want to make it comfortable, Miss Mary. «Your grandpa’s guest mustn’t have nothing to complain of.” “He'll be ah ungrateful wreteh if he does complain,” returned Mary with decision. “We are going to give him a roval welcome. I bethe neverhad such a big bed before in his life. I hope he’s tall. You didn’t hear grandpa say, I suppose?” “No, I haven’t heard nothing about his length or width either, and I don’t care, neither. I only know you are wearing me to a bone, with them self-willed ways of yours.” “To a what?” cried Mary with a quizzical glance at the portly frame before her. “Oh, dJeannette, you are provoking sometimes. I suppose you are still harping on my clothes. You’'d have me get a lot of new dresses just for that man. I hatenewdresses. Besides, they take a lot of money, and I shouldn’t amount to anything after all my trouble. If my old rigs are good enough for grandpa, they are good enough for any man in creation. I don’t care a snap of my finger for that Beverly, or whatever his name is. He’ll be sure to imagine I'm dressing for him, so if my clothes are outrageouvs he can’t imagine it, that’s all there is about it. I'd like to see him laugh at them. Just let him dare.” {TO BE CONTINUED.|

ROSEBERRY, the famous jumping horse, died in Chicago of injuries received in an attempt made to clear a bar 7 feet 5} inches high. His record was 7 feet 5% inches. The pathos .of Roseberry’s death will perhaps lead to considerable talk of the cruelty of forcing dumb animals to tests of agility and speed. But in such a case as this the extenuation is almost adequate. If the performances of the animals were perfunctory the cruelty would be obvious, but the race horse loves the track even betser than the jockey, and it is not a forced supposition that Roseberry had a consciousness of the feat which he attempted and a strong delight in the attempt, and was, all in all, as free a moral agent in the matter as his rider. Men are committing suicide every day in a wild struggle to accomplish the impossible. There may be a stronger pathos in the death of a horse under similar circumstances, but the principal reasons for this are the uniqueness of the event and the fact that the beast has no tongue with which to describe the humiliation of his defeat or the agony of his last hours.

THESE ACTUAL FACTS ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors — Crlmes, Casualtios, Deaths, Etc, Editorial Meeting. Quite a number of editors of the Northern Indiana Kditorial Association met at the Daily Times office, Warsaw, and selected delegates to the National Convention to be held at San Francisco, Cal., May 21st. The following gentlemen were present: John B. Stoll, South Bend; Louis MeDonald, Plymouth; J. S. Conlogue, Kendallville; Ed S. Brooks, Plymouth; C. H. Chase Elkhart; A. R. Beyerle, Goshen; Ed Meloy, Laporte; Ira S. Carpenter, Michigan City. The following delegates and alternates were selected:

DELEGATES.—(Q. A. Hossler, Warsaw Daily Times, National Executive Committeeman; J. B. Sto!l, South Bend Daily Times; C. . Chase, Elkhart Review; Jos. S. Conlogue, Kendallville Sun; Dr. H. J. Beyerle, Goshen Times: C. D. Tillo, Fort Wayne Newspaper Union. ALTERNATES.—C. A.-McDonald, South Bend Times:; F. D. Haimbaugh, Muncie Herald; J. ¥. Wildman, Muncie Times; Chas. Haas, Wabash Plain Dealer; Edgar A. Stoll, South Bend Saturcay Pimes.

Mgs. OweEN WALKER of Goshen, took poison and died in twenty minutes. SoPHRONIA ScotT was indicted and arrested at Evansville for the murder of her infant. : Haxyan Haumer, one of the few remaining first settlers of Mitchell, died at the age of 84. JosepH Tuorre of Portland, got a five vears’ sentence for stealing a black rocster. He was an old offender. Jonx JoxEs, a carpenter, committed suicide with a revolver at Greensfork, Wayne County. Cause not known. Tue Indiana Sabbath Association at LaPorte has adopted resolutions favoring the closing of the World's Fair on Sunday. Fraxk S. Kirrtrry, the ex-Christian minister at Franklin, sentenced to two vears for forgery, has entered a plea ot insanity to escape punishment. Joux M. Sixny of South Bend, enters suit against the town of Mishawaka for €2 000. He claims he fell on a defective sidewalk and received severe injuries. Corwiy Maxpy, an cmploye of the Central Iron and Steam Company at Drazil, Leecame overheated at his work and Lecame a veritable madman for a time. Ssiri Frescu of Wabash, 72 years old, died of pne.monia. Mr. Freunch was the oldest silversmith in Wabash County. He leaves considerable property.

Tuene are fifty-nine soldiers’ and sailors’ widows drawing pensions in Center Township, Wayne County. Two thousand dollars is paid to them every ninety days. SUMMITVILLE society is shocked witha sensational scandal in which a grass widow, two vouths, and an old fellow, .who ought ! miﬁh?wm‘ it par %"3% there are sevaral super: 4. . S ™ Hovey, . D., of Middle- : who has been at Crawfordsle o M gegthat the natural gas supply i '.‘.l.‘ aﬂ( least twenty years. Ilc-‘i's a ; son of the late Prof. E. O. Hovey, of Wabash College. A Fort WAYNE paper says that the . employes of the Pennsylvania Company’s | shops at Fort Wayne are working all the i way from fourteen to nincteen hour per | day. The mcu are working by the picce, i and the longer they work the more they ,' make. The men make all the way from i $3.75 to $7.25 per day, according to the i number of hours they work:

As THE Monon passenger was passing the scene of the late wreck near Crawfordsville, the passengers in the parlor car were badly frightened on account of an iron bar tearing a hole through the car floor. An investigation showed that an iron bar had -been left on the track and had caught in the trucks of this car, with the above result. Tue prospects brizghten that Terre ITaute is to secure another road, and one that will be of great benefit to the business of that city. The projectors of the Terre Haute, Saylor Springs and Chester road have secured the rizht of way from the Wabtash River (Chenowith ferry) Clarke County, to Albany, 111. a distance of 103 miles, and it is thought the right of way can easily be se:ured from Terre Haute to the crossing point named above. SEVERAL days ago ‘‘Nig” Seering escaped from jail at Crawfordsville, and was located at his father’'s. A policeman attempted to capture him, but old man Seering, drawing a razor, defied the officer. The Sheriff arrived, and, with his revolver in his hand, walked into the house at the front door, while the Policeman entered at the rear. The son was taken and lodged in jail, after which his father attempted to cut the throat of the boy that had gone after the Sheriff. The old man is also in jail now. Asout 3 o'clock the other morning “*Chubby” Carroll. the convict who recently killed a prison guard, under a new sentence, together. with several other prisoners confined in the County Jail at Jeffersonvilie, made an effort to escape which came very near being successful. In some manner they had managed to securc several files, and when discovered by Deputy Sheriff Mitchell they had almoest got out of the large cell hall and were intending to attack Mr. Mitchell and the jailer. Had they managed to escape, it is said, they had determined to murder Sheriff Donovan. Carroll, it will be remembered, made an effort to escape while confined there about two years since. When discovered he had a revolver, a knife and several other articles secreted on his person. He was taken to DMichigan Citv on an ordis by Gov. Chase.

Mes. JAmes FrIEND was found unconscious on the floor of her home near Goshen, with her 16-month-old baby patting her face. She died without coming to, having taken astrong drug, supposed to have been oil of tansy. but not with suicidal purpose. Herg's one from South Bend: A collector failing to collect a bill of 25 cents from a man with a long teard asked sarcastically why be didn’t give his whiskers in payment—they were worth a quarter. When the collector next appeared with his bill, he received a package containing those same long, rich, dark-red whiskers. Ile had taken the collector at his word.

INDIANA sportsmen are all ont foxhunting. THAT little Quaker town of Carthage is on a boom. THE new big mattress factory, Marion, is completed. J. V. Cox, farmer near Wabash, hanged himselt in his barn. SEVERAL excelient residcnces to be erected at Seymour. Tue Catholics of Muncie will crect a $30,000 church during the present vear, Bia barbed-wire company is to locate at Washington, and the town expects a boom. A STRANGER at the Goshen poor-house drank carbelic acid left by the doctor and died. AT a tox drive in Dubois County, the hunters ranto earth 977 rabbits, three foxes and three skunks. NarTunax Haas and Wiley Steward of Jefferson Township, Morgan County, have recently mysteriously disappeared. Tue 3-year-old child of Lase Myers, near Portland, was fatally scalded by falling in a tub of hot water last washday. BAYLESS STAGER is the fifth car-re-pairer at Brazil who has been killed by the cars backing over him while at work under them. TweENTY-SIX eloping couples, mostly froin Kentucky, were married by Justice Keigwin, of Jeffersonville, during the month of February.

GEORGE WIGGIN'S house at Richmond was burglarized during the family’s absence. The cracksmern got about $l2O in money and jewelry. GorpsMiTH murder trial, Columbus, declared mnull and void on account ot only eleven men on jurv. Prisoner released on bond until May. Dr. RoLsox, a well-know character of Elkhart was instantly killed in the Lake Shore yvards, by stepping from one train and beingstruck by another. HeNRY KRAMER, young farm hand, near Fort Wayne, arrested, charged with being highwayman who robbed Miss Kittiec O'Rourke, school-teacher. SEVERAL switchmen on a wrecked E. & I train at Brazil saved their lives by jumping from a number of loaded coal cars that pitched down an embankment. WirLLiaAM GEeuBICK, Valparaiso, is making efforts to find out who his parents are, and where they live. He was kidnaped when a small child during the war. F. D. GARDINER, a farmer living near Fountain City, gave a bale of hay a vicious kick, dislocating his spine and rupturing the spinal cord, causing death in a few hours. A LARGE corps of organizers are secretly at work organizing branch associations of the Indiana Liquor League throughout the State, according to a Valparaiso dispatch. AT Boswell an incendiary fire destroyed the L.. E. & W. depot and Farmers' elevator, together with a large quantity of grain. The loss is very heavy: partly insured.

Ireperick WEesT of the Farmland Enterprise oilice, while running a job press caught his right hand in the bed of press, mashicg it in a terrible manner. He may lose both *‘type fingers.” JouN CLARK, a wealthy farmer of Knox County, was killed while overseeing the work of erecting a l‘:arn O his e N nsdaan Jacon SANDERS, a few miles east of Mitchell, stepped on the main track of the Ohio and Mississippi railwav in front of a rapidly approaching train, intendIng to cross over to a side track, and was instantly killed. PRESIDENT MEYER of the Fort Wayne Rase Ball Club, has called a meeting of the various clubs which proposze to enter the Ohio-Indiana League this season, tc be held at Terre Haute. Mr. Meyer in very sanguine over the outlook, and says the league will be a sure go. Joux B. CRAFT, a once weaithy mar at Brazil, now janitor of the City Build ing, is dving from a stroke of paralysis. He drank up his fortune, and while io the poor-house claimed that his ange! mother came to him in a dream andé begged him to swear off, which he did, and never touched a drop since. WorkMEN sinking a shaft below the present vein of coal, which is being mined at the Vincennes coal mines, penetrated a vein of coul five feet thick. Immediately beneath this is a stratum of fire clay fourteen inches in thickness. Beneath this is a two-foot vein of coal. Both the upper and the lower mines will be worked, and the fire clay will be utilized. TuE body of William Raridan was found near the Panhandle railroad at Marion, under circumstances that indicate foul play. Hes known to have had money in his pocket when he started home, and only 30 cents was foynd on him Felix Poole, who reported the tind, admits having seen the body of a man across the track the night before, where the corpse was found, but declared that he had not the courage to investigate the matter. Raridan’s skull was fractured, and there were other bruises about the head. SayMvuern, Hart and George Oliver, Panhandle employes, were struck near the Panhandle shops, Indianapolis, by switch engine No. 403. They stepped oft of one track in order to avoid a moving cut of cars, and walked right into the locomotive before they knew it. Hart was killed outright, his body being horribly mangled. The engine was lifted with a jack to enable the body to be removed without further mutilation. George Oliver’s injuries consisted chiefly of theloss of an arm. e will recover. At Colambus Mrs. Kinney, wife of Emannel H. Kinney, traveling agent in this State for the Evansville Fire Insurance Company, feli face foremost into an open grate in an epileptic fit and her head was almost literally burned off. There was no one in the room at the time, and the unfortunate woman layin the position in which she fell, while the flesh burned away from her head, exposing the facial bones. Two years ago, while visiting her relatives in Texas, she fell in a fit near a fire and came near being burned to death. She was 37 years old and the mother of seven children. Davip BURrkE, aged 54, was struck by a Big Your passenger, at Selma. Delaware County, and probably fatally injured. He was in a closed buggy, which was smashe-i to splinters.

A MAN giving his name as Henry Martin, and claiming to be a farmer residing at Martinsville, cashed a worthless note calling for £SOO at the Greenfiela Citizens’ Bank, with the names of Floyd Hutchinson and Andrew Jeffries, two wealthy farmers, forged thereuo. He represented that he had .sold a span of horses and some cattle to these men. Atter receiving his money he made good bhis escape.

} - . : ‘ . ) IPLANI\ ING FOR BATTLE. BASE-BALL OFFICIALS DECIDE ERELIMINA?ES Important Changes Madc in Old Rules I and Some New Ones Formulated—The New Contracts for Players Are More Favorable to Them. The Season Nearr‘at Hand. | The first meeting of the National | League and American Association of | Professional Base-ball Players was held

in New York the other day. The national agreement committee, John I. Rogers, Zach Phelps and N. E. Young, decided on a form of agreement to control “drafting.” The matter was finally settled by voting to divide % the minor l€agues v into two classes to } be known as A and B. The former

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pays $l5O for protection and gets SI,OOO -| for any player drafted; the latter pays $75 and gets SSOO for a drafted player. Drafting can only be done between Oct. 1 and Feb. 1. The Western association agreed to do away with twe of the mest objectionable rules—namely, compelling players to purchase their qwn uniforms and charging them 50 cents a day whileon a trip. i The Eastern association also decided to ‘ l make its playing season from May 1 to Oect. 1.

Mr. Rogers presented the two new forms of players’ contraet he had prepared. One is for a per’ol of seven months, and the other is the twelve months’ form. The latter does not work against the players’ financial interests, as many players suppose. It simply provides a new plan of dividing the salary payments. The payments need rot necessarily be equally divided throughout the twelve months. A player may arrange to take all but a few hundred dollars during the playirg season and the balance in the off months. Should he be, released at any time during the playing season, lih> eclub is obliged to pay him the preporticnate ‘amount of his salary, based upon the geven monihs’ system. That is to say, if he were to I e released after three months of service he would get three-sevenths of his salary, not iht:eetwelfths. And, furthermore, should his club release him at the end of the season, he wowd be qntitled to the full amount of his salary, no matter how many months his contract might have to run. It is also stipulated in the twelvemonth contract that ithe elub shall have no control over a player’sactioas during the off months except as regards his physical condition and moral habits. Thesa contracts were approved and unanimously adopted by the league. Many of the leagua players had already been signed to the new twelve-month contract. The Committee on Rules then made its reports. The principal contest was on the proposed change from fouar balls > entitling a batsman to first base to three balls. A change was beaten by a vote of 10 to 2. The following playing rutes were then made: “The players’ bench shall be twentyfive feet back from the base lires.” ~ Rule 26. “If a team resorts to dilatory practice for the purpose of having the same called on account of darkness or rain the umpire may forfeit the game to the club not at fault.” Added to Rule 30, “Provided a ball o delivered that it touches the bkat or batsman in his position shall be counted a batted ball and in play.” Eule 8. “If a ball sirike a fence less than 235 feet from the home %plate the batsman shall be entitled to only two bases.” Added to section 4, rule 44, the words: “His person, except hand or forearm, which makes a dead ball.” Added to rule 50: “And notmore than two coaches who may be one of the players in the game and any ore in the uniform of the club at bat, shali be allowed at any one time.” Rule 53. “The umpire is the sole and absolute judge of plays. In no instance shall any person be allowed to question the correetness of his decision on a play, and no player shall leave his position in the fidd, bases or bench to approach or advise the umpire, except to show playing rule, and then only the captain. No manager or any ofiicer shall go on the field under penalty of forfeiture of the game.” Added to section 2, rule 53; “He shall also receive from the captains their respeciive batting orders, which when' approved shall be followed as provided by rule 19.” Adeded to section 8, rule 68: “If a base-runner advances a base on a fiy out or gains two bases on a single base-hit, or an infield out, or attempted one, he shall be eredited with a stolen base, provided that there is a possible chance and a palpable effort made to retire him.” The Riot in Berlin. THE situation in Berlin is growing interesting, not to say exciting. Tte egotistical and arrogant young Emperor appears t> have lost his heai.—Minneapelis Tintes. How GRIM old “blood and iron” Bismarek must chuckle in the privacy of his garden-as he hears the roar of rioters rolling down Unter den Linden.—Grand Rapids Herald. THESE men embodied a national protest against the arbitrary government of an irresponsible Emperor, and this makes the Berlin riot significant.—Minneapolis Tribune. JusT as rapidly as possible the Germans are aiding in the fulfillment of Kaiser Wilhelm'’s statement that he and the Almighty had great things in store for the fatherland. The fight between police and workingmen on Wednecsday night was Jollowed yesterday by terrific rioting in Berlin.—Grand Rapids Democrat. THE Empercr’'s mad course is full of danger. The German people will not submit to the loss of any liberties which they have struggled hard to gain. Instead of the good times he prophesies he ce2ms more likely to lead them into revolution and disastrous civil war,— Buffalo Express. THE young kaiser of Germany apparently forgets that the world of to-day is npt the same world that Frederick the Great had to deal with. The day of absclute, irresponsible autocrats isgover. The kaiser seems to be cultivating revolution and disruption for Germany,— Louisville Commercial. i