St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 April 1892 — Page 6

an OLD PLAYED-OUT SONQ. BY JAMES WHITCOMB HILEY. cn . rl ™Best 8 est thi^n creation, •Do tu 1 hoar thn scold ^ng. Mv T M?A Me at . I’m so bothered. . f ® ^ lns a3 B h<wt as it's lon- luu ma. It ’n L y ^? B >‘ arH iike adzackly Wu.^l r 1 ln years past and gone, A^rth sparkin'at twenty, And had my first neckercher on. y Though I’m wrinkeldor, older and craver strike nnnT y Pftr ' > * CB were ^en, AndTm J 1 a ° llg ’ Th,, y M ' BB M °.’ I'm a “V y°" n gster again ! A-wishin’t" l ” loll tbm* in the lurries And », v f ■ eTOnin « to come, Anda- whispena over and n«er hem words; -Do They buss Me at Home?" T Th« e «' Ellen she sung it A^shn^ 61 tlme 1 heard It; and so. It rented my ve i\ fi^^weetheart, !s nio ot ber, don't you know— H al IUBJI UB J tO look iu tb* twilight. As I tuck her to Spellin’; and she K Pint Wank ln r BOag tcl 1 aMt bor, Pint-blank, es ehe ever missed me! < { 1 And 8 ^ n ? y °r es now ’ as y° u sin S it. i f A^t^b f. her low answerin' words; ! And then the glad chirp of the crickets, anofi *5 as l l . he twitter of birds; I < A^,X,?. dus ' t !n the road is like velvet, Ie as sweater 1 ’ ;n<l fenncl and grass n« rV I J‘“Ab 0 Bcen t of the lilies Os den of old as we pass. ^And^m,^ 33 ftt Home ?' g ing it 1 iwer,Md s "« eet aF t> lo breeze our P ath with the snowy t . b'te bloom of the old locus’ trees. VbiPperwilU b O 'P you to sing it, ~ tbo echoes ’way over the hill, 1150011 boolges out, in a chorus Jr stars, and our voices is still. B wn ?- ! “ T b o y’ B a chord in the music 'rmr a V T u ? IK6O<l when her voice is away!” 1118 ten from midnight tel morning, . A n ? dawn tel the dusk of the day I A^a ‘brough the dark, lookin’ up’ards ° n through the heavenly dome. wi? my ^ngm’ soul siugin’ and sobbin’ The words, Do They Miss Me at Home?"

AV AWFUL TEV .11 IN UTES It happened one afternoon durin' r the month of November, that I re” ceived a telegram calling for mv presence in London early the next morning on important business. To such a summons there was but one answer possible: so with just a regretful thought tor a card party I should have to forego, 1 wired this reply: “Mr. J. Devon, Anderton Hotel. London : «ni^sS B n rtm b>’ hie twelve to-night, about" ght y ° U at B Knightly.

Having dispatched my message. ] finished up the day's work with all speed, and then, returned to my lodgings to make the preparation for my journey. J j The remainder of the evening was I spent in skimming over the morning I paper, wherein 1 found little to inter- j ln - d,s » us t I Hung the thing on the floor. It alighted at a graced v° n Wh ° Se apex a PPeared the heading, conspicuous as leaded type could make it; “Schocking wife murder in Burtown-arrest Gs the ' murderer.” ,

apolt ®^ to the P"^ !h? f the "Oast'ee I had done them as caterers to the public craving ^^ horror N I picked up the paper and proceeded to digest the “harrowingdetails.” The gist of the news was as follows; An abandoned rufChippy Watson by name, after’ the sash ion of his class, had beaten I

consequence of some domestic dis-1 agreement. 1 Having committed the deed, the . man coolly put on his hat and coat, and was proceeding to depart, when the neighbors and police, attracted by the screams of the unfortunate victim, rushed in and secured him. This was all, or nearly all the para- ; graph contained, except lor the usual | information that the prisoner womd be brought before the magistrates chaigcd with causing the willful murder of his wife. It was now time for me to start for the station, which was abopt two miles from my lodgings. Ou reaching it I had barely a minute to secure my ticket and a scat. The only other occupant of the compartment was a young lady, and one of no small beauty.

Now, I am a shy man as far as the fair sex is concerned. Among men I have self-possession enough; but in the presence of ladies I am ever ill at ease. In the presence of ladies, yes; but here was but one, who would keep me company for a whole hour, until we made evr first stop. So, as I contemplated die girl opposite me from behind my paper, a measure of mj 7 courage returned, and in the words of My. Gilbert, I said to myself, “I’ll take heart and make a fair start; faint heart never won fair lady.”

“I trust you were not alarmed by । < my unceremonious entry?” I re- J! marked, with some inward misgiv-' ( ings. ) i For answer a quiet stare and a slight |; contraction of the pretty mouth, in- | s dicating that 1 had no right to speak । to her. This, to any other male, was tne I moment for a strategic attack upon the fair one's scruples: for me it was the exact opposite—Fite moment for flight had flight been possible. I buried my face in my newspaper, and in a few minutes heard, to my relief, a corresponding rustle from the opposite side of the carriage as my pretty prude followed suit. The sense of defeat and disgrace fairly overwhelmed me for a while; and my eyes

wandered over the paper I held in j my hand, seeing but undestanding : not what they saw. At length they lighted upon a familiar name “Chippy Watson,” and' their owner recovered his sense and ) almost forgot his grief as he read the ; following lines: “The Burtown murder —Escape of the Prisoner.’’ After detailing the incidents of the hearing before the magistrates and the remand of the prisoner, pending the inquest, the paragraph went on as follows: “On leaving the court, Watson was I conducted between four ffiocers to the i van. Just as he was stepping in, and when the police were endeavoring to , keep back the crowd that pressed 5 around. the prisoner suddenly . snapped his handculfs, in some me.e- !

pl icable manner, broke through the bystanders and lied down the street He was seen to dodge down a back alley-, followed by the crowd of several hundreds. At the end of Shut Lane he disappeared around a corner, and, strange to say, has not been seen since. There can be no doubt that he will be recaptured; but his present escape and disappearance are most mystersous. A reward of £IOO has been offered for his re-apprehen-sion. Watson is about five feet nine inches in height, strongly built, and when he escaped was dressed in a gray fustian suit, with a red scarf and soft hat. He may further be distinguished by a scar across his chin, and by having an arrow tat- । tooed on the back of his left hand.” This was about the extent of the <

information contained in the parat graph, and my readers will agree with | me that the news was sufficiently exciting to occupy my thoughts to the complete exclusion of the unpleasant experience I had just passed through. As I lay back in my seat to muse upon what I had read, mv thoughts began after a. while to wander and my head to nod, according to their wont at midnight, and before long 1 fell asleep. How long I slept I cannot tell—probably for a few minutes only—but m those few minutes 1 underwent a most discomforting dream. I dreamt that Chippy Watson stood over me mnllnl. in

mauc-b in Hand, and that mv traveling companion was holding' his arm s to avert the threatened blow. She struggled in vain, and the mallet fell, yet with a strangely light touch r i upon my arm. • | VV it h a start ! awoke, and then saw ; t ie girl of my dream bending toi ward me with a scrap of paper in her I hand. But her face, how terribly "as it changed! Instead of the dainty pink Hush I had last seen, theie was a ghastly whiteness in her cheeks, and her eyes seemed starting I from her head with terror. Holding up one linger as if to command sb I lence she passed me the paper, on ’ which Worn + xi. I

nujuu „ere written the followin'' words: ° “Some one is underneath the seat and has just touched me.” । Was it the dream which tilled me ; with the thought that this was no idle alarm? I cannot tell: but this i ‘I 1 know > in an instant there ! ihkshed across my mind with overwhelming force the thought of this escaped wife-murderer. Returning my companion’s silence signal with a gesture of acquiescence, I wrote upon paper: “It is probably only a dog. Shall I

look under the seat 1 -'” « po?nt raDSWerWaii Sh ° rt and to thci ■ | ’ ‘No: do not look. 11 was a hand.” ' , ^e, then, was a sufficient dilemma: j out hj comparison with what had , passed before between mv fellow pas- ? ySCIf ’ H w ^ a <lilernma irlmV mL to weLl

I tion of protector to its w ker, if j would-be independent companion. J i Sweet was my revenge, and yet the ’ i revenge scarcely promised to be wholly ; pleasurable. I My first action was to remove any I suspicion that there might be in the j mind of the mysterious third wcul pant of our carriage, through the : presumably accidental action of hav- . ing touched the lady’s dress. Giving । vent to an audible yaw. although 1 । had just awakened from sleep, 1 re- : marked in a tone of cool imperti- ; ne nee, — . I “You really must excuse me for adI dressing you again, madam: but will ■ । you permit me to smoke to enliven ■ । this tedious journey?”

; j As I spoke I accompanied mv ! j words with a meaning glance, and was favored with the reply,—

“Certainly, if you wish it; I cannot! ' prevent you.” ! Thereupon I produced my pipe and I j tobacco pouch and proceeded slowly ! to till the former as I thought out a j plan of action. On reference to my watc-h 1 saw that the train would stop i in} ten minutes. Clearly the only thing to do was to wait till we reached ' Blackeley and there get assistance to ■ find out who our unknown traveling • companion might be. The longer I pondered over the • problem the more curious for its solution did 1 become, and then, heedless

of the warning I had received, 1 struck a match and intentionally dropped it. Stooping with a muttered malediction to pick it up, I cast a searching glance under the opposite seat, and my blood ran cold as the faint gleam ot the taper revealed the back of the man’s hand with the mark of the tattooed arrow upon it. Chippy Watson, then, was our companion—a desperate man! By a mightv effort 1 controlled my voice sufficiently to say: “Excuse me reaching across you, madam, but that was my last match, and I could not afford to let it go out. ” The girl, into whose white checks i the color showed no signs of returning, murmured some intelligible re-

ply, and for a few moments we sat in silence. Again I glanced at my watch. Thank 'Heaven, in five minutes we should be in Blakeley, and the awful ride would be at an end. Scarcely had the thought formulated itself when the girl opposite me sprang up, trembling like a leaf, and shrieked: “Oh. dear! that hand has touched my foot again!” The moment the words left her lips I heard a sudden movement uni der the seat, and quicker than , thought a figure appeared upion the floor. In that moment I ! flung myself upon the ruflian and ! clutched his throat with the energy l of despair, knowing that should he 1 once gain his feet it was all over with | me, the lighter and weaker man.

Can I ever forget the horror of that five minutes’ ride? The whole compartment seemed to be falling upon me. 'teeth, nails, feet, all were attacking me at once; but’through all I kept my grip upon the murderer’s throat, and though I almost lost consciousness I still held on, while the girl’s screams rang dimly through my ears. Suddenly the train stopped, the struggle ceased, and I fainted across the body of my captive. W hen I recovered consciousness I found nisself lying upon a üble ln the B.ackeley station with a synwa-J thct< crowd around me, and, best oft ail, 1 saw a face bending tenderly! over me—the face of the girl of myi dream and my discomfiture. After* making two or three efforts I man-1 oged to say,— ft

“Where is Watson?” --- 1 “Very nigh dead,” replied a ruddy aced farmer who stood beside me. i ou almost strangled the life outol his ugly body; he was black in the face when they lifted you off him.” “Do you know that he is am escaped wife-murderer?” I asked. es, we know,” replied my honest I friend, “the Burtown police telo- . graphed after the train to have it i se.uched, because a man answering to his description had been seen in the station before it left. The police have him safe, my lad, this time. Why, I saw him hand-cuffed and his arms tied behind him, and he lying

half dead the while, after the throttling you gave him.” Do my readers want to hear the rest of my story, now that the catas-troPhc-Js told? 1 will inform them that Watson, on breaking loose from the police, after turning the corner of Shut Lane—where, it will be remember'd, he disapjieared— contrived by an almost incredible effort to scale a high wall, and so gain the shelter of a railroad embankment. Along this Ihe crept until he reached the mid- । town tunnel, where he had lurked aL day. and late at night hid in the car- ! riage of the midnight mail, with the I result before mentioned.

’ + Z? 1 . 010 is one m °re incident, to l>e told in relation to that journey; it is t this: there will be a marriage early ; this spring. The name of the bridegroom will be Knightly, the name of , the bride does not matter. She was ; । never formally introduced to her fu- . j ture lord and master, and therefore it is unnecessary to tell the name she soon will cease to bear to a passing acquaintance like the reader. tejßi t liy. An Eastern traveler who ha.s had ni; iny and varied encounters with wild animals in the heart of Africa, and has walked through manv junk <‘s, says that he concurs in the . opinion commonly held bv the na “^countries he has visited, that the leopard is more dangerous n Xlo • M,r thC n > On ° r ‘ he 1 iger ’ Its I cusekss approach may be imagined. ' he •’’ays, from an incident wh^h < - -Tiiman nthm

■WRRW? It In m ■ - light, in a deep bend of the River I Royan during the dry season. Hours I passed, but nothing larger than an ' antelope apiieared. We were sit ting beneath a large , tree, completely denuded of leaves, and the moon was shining brightly, j throwing into sharp outline every bough. Suddenly my wife pulled my sleeve, and directed my attention to a large animal crouched upon the I branches exactly above us. I might have taken a splendid shot, . but I at tlrst imagined it to be a dogfaced baboon that had Ihhjh asleep in the tree. 1 stood erect to oMain a । clearer view, and at once the crea--1 ‘ ture. sprang to the ground within a ! few feet-of us, and bounded into the

! junele. It was a leopard, which bail probably reached the tree by means of some neighboring branch, and so । noiselessly that we had not discovered iit presence. The animal had evidently winded us, and was deter- ; mined to reconnoitre our jKisitlon. — Ether as an Assistant of Digestion. The effect of ether on the digest ive ' processes in healthy subjects has been recently investigated by Dr. Gurieff, • who gave thirty drops ot sulphuric ' ether to six healthy persons during ,j dinner, which consisted of about half ! a pint of soup, four onces of meat i and six ounces of bread. It was fount that the ether had the effect of stim-

blKlb LUU ULUVi IHIU v** v* ulating the action of the gastric glands, increasing the free hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice, and causing the peristaltic movements of the stomach, together with its power of alisorption, t-o increase; thus on the whole exercising a favorable effect upon the gastric digestion. The same result was obtained when the ether was administered by means of hypodermic injections. It would appear, ; therefore, that the effects must be ascribed to a general rather than to any merely local action on the muc- , ous membrane of the stomach. Doctor Gurieff is disposed to think that , there is a stimulation of the cephalic centers. This view is partly based on the observations of otheY Russian riVDgnrvnrc liolrh t nrofY find ATilnftlnv-

ooservers —ueKiiLereu ana mimsievski, and Pavloff and Shumova-Siman-ovskaya—®n the dependence of the gastric functions upon the central nervous system. Articular Rheumatism. In the North American Practitioner, Dr. Joseph Lane Hancock writes that for the last two years he has been treating cases of inflammatory rheumatism with a local application of carlxdic acid applied in the form of a 4 per cent, solution on a . warm flannel cloth wrapped around | the entire affected joint. Dr. Ilanl cock states that his custom is to leave . | this dressing on over night, placing it w i in position just before the patient re- ' | tires. I Water plants before they wither.

J IE ACTUAL FACTS? • I - AI >UND WITHIN THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. g n >Rtlng Rnmmnry of the More Imp Dol o f Our Neighbors — c . Casualties, Deaths, Etc. Minor State Items. IfIOND is after a street railroad. i WNSKurg is having a building ; W RkKeksk pulled a gun through a Leo near Crawfordsville. His face |s blown off. Enos Mustard, a farmer near Ander- |, was.run down and fatally hurt by height train.

David B. Hoover, once editor and publisher of the Huntington daily and ’ News, is dead. ,f David Lint of Goshen, sprang from a o S' 0 Sh° re train at Millerbury, and was G i|ost instantly killed. ^arles Webber, a German farmer Ar Madison, was so badly injured by lllng from his wagon that he died. t Dixon C. Willi ams, the Anderson re- I -jvalist, holding meetings in Peru, has t|used a sensation by denouncing dancr ig clubs. i "William Sullivan, Logansport, has yled the Pan Handle railroad for $25,|0 damages. Had an arm mashed while ; jupling cars. Caleb Asbury and Oliver Blythe

barreled over a jug of whisky near |ffersonville. Blvthe will die from cuts iceived in the abdomen. The Crawfordsville Star has changed •bm a morning sheet to an evening aper, and now there are, three evening ailies in that place of 7,000 inhabitants. An engineer on the Evansville and Richmond railroad reports that three Ibgs deliberately committed suicide by growing themselves iu front of the cars ist week. Mrs. Keisler, an aged German of aurora, fell with a bottle of wine in her ! md, and a piece of glass entering her Juist, severed an artery, and she nearly led to death. { Volney Garrison is in jail at Bed- J

a jrd. He serenaded his divorced wife ■ C dth a French harp. The tune was ‘Home, Sweet Home” and she had him j ■’ .rrested for it. William Ferguson of Dubois County, 1 I - Murdered Joseph Garland, his brotheri in-law, in Crawford County, with a blow • of the fist on Garland's r.eck, that I bursted the jugular. Prof. John H. Luckett lost a pocket- i hook containing 83.500 at English. Hei offered SIOO reward ami a boy named John James found it, but on returning I the money to Luckett refused to accept the reward. Ai.bf.rt Bible, son of Alexander Bible of Waynetown, was jumping on a wagon ; iwid his legs got caught in the spokes. Before the wagon could be stopped his i leg was broken and his knee-joint torn j from the socket. While William Tomlinson, hi Delaware County, was breaking a horse to a .wagon, the animal became so vicious I that it attacked its mate, and with its i forefeet broke the latter's neck ana i .4? w - - Lg’'-*

MiWinVelier, has been organized for the ; 'purpose of developing a sand pit. The I company will put in a large crusher at i once which will give employment to j 300 men, and in a short time will put in a large glass plant. George Enders, a carpenter and contractor, was crossing the Lake Snore it Michigan Southern tracks at South Bend with a wagon, when a fast east- ! bound passenger train struck the vehicle, throwing it into the air. Enders had both legs broken and may die. Joseph Lamb ai d Robert L. Downs, two convicts, escaped from Jefferson- ! I vfllo Prison by sealing the south walls. Lamb Is from Daviess County ami has nine months to serve. Downs is from ' Vmdcrburg County and lias one year to serve. A one-hundred-dollar reward is ! offered for their capture. i prominent young farmer by tho !

nane of Richardson, residing in Scott i Cointy, was killed by ? ' icious stallion, i Th< animal had got out of the stable andattacked another horse loose in the ;

banyard, almost instantly killing it. Yoing Richardson then attempted to cajure the maddened brute, and was j als< killed. lie Pennsylvania Railroad Company I has uresented its voucher at Crown Poit for the first installment of taxes j for 1891, which will become due the | thii Monday in April. In making this ; patient they refuse to accept the as- I sequent made last year, but, on the . eoii'ary, take the old assessment as a bast and will bring suit enjoining the j Trtsurer from collecting the balance, i aminting to about $14,500. This com- ! j pan pays on the Pittsburgh. Fort ; Waje and Chicago, the Panhandle and

the State-Line and Indiana City railroad The total assessment ot the threiroads, taken last year, is $2,277,640 in Lie County alone, and tho total tax is $2107.99 for the first installment. The , newssessmeut is more than double the [ old ci. liegal fishing has been carried on to sii an extent in Laporte County that Stat Fish Commissioner Dennis caused ! a i^rant to be issued to a local officer j dirclng him to visit English Lake and 1 the Inkakee River and search for seines. ! He vs absent three days and captured twe^-eight gill-nets, varying from fifty to tihundred feet in length. In some casefthe fish were literally fenced out by n<; and prevented from passing up or ckn the river. The names of many of thqwners of the nets were learned, and ey will all be prosecuted. The penal for violating the fish law is a

tine a fifty to live hundred dollars and ! iniprisnment, at the discretion of the ; court. The violators have been sending their th to Chicago, Logansport, and j ■ other vrkets, and have been doing a thrivin business. THAXsSpded chestnut and impossi- i i ble story o- family being chloroformed [ and the hoe burglarized springs up ! 1 anew in Sc pur. j At Evatide, Madison Bausley . ; pleaded gui'to murder in the first de- , ‘ gree, and s sentenced to State's ; prison fore. On the 4th of last June Bans* prompted by jealousy, 1 i shot his riv E. Richardson. They ; both loved Sie Lester. He made his ! escape, but flit three weeks ago was > i captured in • interior of Louisiana and ■ ; brought bacl> the scene of ids crime. ; He is 41 yeafld and takes his sentence 1 coolly ■ I

Montpelier has a now oil well estimated at 000 barrels per day. Geo. Cole, Terre Haute, has a broken leg. Pile of lumber fell on it. Tevis Jennings, Scottsburg, goes to the Pen. four years for horse stealing. A. G. Austin, South Bend, while trimming a tree fell and broke tnree ribs. A boy named Cody, Muncie, had a leg cut off by the cars. He tried to catch on. Amos Bartholomew was killed and his daughter fatally injured by a falling tree, at Clark's Hill. The people of New Market, Montgomery County, have voted favorably for incorporating that place. Boomer Shock, one of the oldest citizens of Monroe County, was found dead in his bed at Steubenville. Stephen A. Burk, Connersville, became insane and nearly killed his wife by beating her on the head. First sermon preached in Hamilton County was in 1820, by John Finch, in a cabin two miles from Noblesville. \\ ii.liam Newcomb, who was bitten by a horse near Richmond last week, had his arm amputated at the shoulder joint. XV Hile attempting to secure some valuable papers from his residence, at Evansville, Judge R. Y. Bush was fatally burned. “White Caps took Isaac Witherald, a Boone County man, out of his house, and whipped him. Said he circulated I bad reports about a girl. Henry Vest, recovering from a long spell of sickness at Nabb's Station, on the O. & M., attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Ashley C. Perrin, a prominent citizen of Fort Wayne, died suddenly of heart failure. Mr. Perrin was one of the best known horsemen in Northern Indiana. Nathan Smith, of Thomas Smith & Son, quarrymen at New Paris, was killed by a falling derrick. Ho was 28 years old. and leaves a wife and two children. The pastor of the Free Methodist Church at Knox has resigned his pulpit rather than part with his flowing mustache, as the congregation had requested him to do. Farmer James McElrath, near Roch- । ester, awoke and found his wife missI ing. Search revealed her lifeless body i hanging from the limb or an apple tree ! in the orchard. The city of Wabash has authorized I the issuing of SB,OOO 5 per cent, school i bonds, running two and four years. They will be SSOO bonds and placed on the i market the Ist of May. Workmen at Greensburg while tear- . ing down an old brick building on the public square, found an oppossum under the floor. It had escaped from its ■ owner last winter and hibernated. The 4-year-old child of Charles Woolen, an engineer on the Big Four ! accommodation running between Aurora i and Cincinnati, was drowned at Law- < renceburg. Woolen’s home is on the ! river bank. Joseph Stevenson, who was injured ! through the carelessness of a brakeman I on the Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati & , St Louis railway, was awarded judg- । inent at Lebanon for §4,000 against the J railway company., I James Allen, Sr., of Bainbridge qie_t mu/ rAu-rc *ria’a’ii/.= fie —ITT" : through the city, when a team of run- | away mules ran into his puggy, throw- ; ing him out and mashing his head. At Muncie, Patrick Burns and two companions, of Anderson, attempted to i board the west-bound passenger train while in motion, and Iturns fell under the cars. His left foot was badly mashed, and he was otherwise badly in j tired. John Williams of Wayne County, whose two-year term at Jeffersonville was up the other day. was so stubborn J he would carry a 100-pound bag of sand 1 on his shoulder for days rather than perform his task as molder. He hid by burying himself in the ground, and rei mained there for days, until starvation drove him out of his burrow. Luella, the 16-year-old daughter of Thomas Holmes, of Lebanon, who, it is claimed, was abducted by Wm. Sicks and married recently, has applied for a divorce. Their marriage, his incarceration in jail and her application for divorce all tooK place within twentyfour hours. She claimed to have signed her father’s name to the article which favored the issuance of the license, and j now says she did wrong and is sorry* j Sicks is still in jail under bond of S2CJ. Adjutant-gcneral Ruckle called together at Indianapolis a number of artillery officers of the State Militia, in order to deliver some instructions relative to their branch of the service. The artillery battalions are to be given more work in the State drills. There were present from the Indianapolis Light Artillery, Capt. Curtis and Lieutenants Thompson and Gerrard: from the Zollinger Battalion, Fort Wayne, Capt. Mungen and Lieutenant Ranke; from the Rockville Battalion, Capt. Lambert. The Light Artillery had an exhibition drill at Mozart Hall. The next State drill will probably be held at Martinsville Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Timothy L. Bo- : zart, assignor to Yaryan Fifth Wheel 1 Company, Indianapolis, fifth wheel: Thompson Dillon, assignor of one-half, to J. Caven, Indianapolis, mast-arm switch for electric lamps; Albert H. i ■ Gleason, assignor to Perfection Manu- j factoring Company, Warsaw, corn pop- i per; Nicholas A. Hull, Peru, ornamented J wood veneer; Andrew E. Jones, assignor i to A. E. Jones & Co., Richmond, vehicle! heater; Melvin L. Jones, Yorktown, j wire fence machine; George A. Kerr, < Columbus,centrifugal starch-refining and i separating machine; Zabby Lasser, as-, signor of two-thirds to C. C. Dunn and 1 F. Moore, Stinesville, channelling machine; Addison A. Nanney, Evansville, j steam actuated valve for engines; Henry j D. Robinson, Chester, tension device; I John Speakman, New Castle, wire and picket fence. A freight train on the Panhandle struck Enoch Mustard, one of the oldest citizens of Madison Counny. near Florida, a small station about nine miles north of Anderson. The man is fatally injured. On Salt Creek, in Brown County, Mrs. A. S. Swerine, whose husband was at work in a field, locked her two children, a boy and a girl, aged 2 and 4 years, in ; their residence, and went to visit a J neighbor. She remained longer than I she intended, and when she started back saw her home in flames. Before she reached the house her two children were burned to death and the burning resi- i deuce was falling in on them

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