St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 25, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 January 1893 — Page 7

REAL RURAL HEADING U t WILL BE FOUND IN THIS DE- 1 ; PARTMENT. I 1 < ralue if Keeping Fann Accounts—How to ; Judge Clover Seed — Some Convenient Stable Tools—Dairying is Profitable—Protecting Small Fruits, Etc. Judging ' lover Seed. Prof. Menke has made an expert-! ment to test the value of clover seed from a germinating point of view, ; based upon the color of the seed. Every observing person has noticed ■ that clover see 1 is made up of differ- I ent colors, such as green, yellow, different shades of brown and black. | For the purpo eof testing the germ- I inating power, a given number of each kina were planted and subjected i to the same conditions in every respect. The result was. that of the green seed very tew reached the . ctnge and were very brown did very wen, i»m ..r.yi.xn veins the yellow; the plants were lessand [ less healthy. With the dark brown it became evident that as the brown increased in darkness, the germinating power of the seed decreased; the black was a continual kin of this last result. It is of benefit jto farmers to know this fact, and in -electing their clover seed look for that which has the largest proportion of yellow seed, Convenient Stable Tools. Ata cost of very little time and no

money, s:iys tho a , turist, every horse owner may have several convenient stable tools. The wooden scraper at a has a handle four and a half feet long, the scraper head being fourteen inches long, six inches wide, and one a half inches thick at the center, and tapering toward each edge. The scraper at b has the same length of handle, also the same length and thickness of r -c g 0^ T> HOME-MADE TOOLS. head, the solid portion, however, sys ing hut four inches’wide, the upper edge set with pointed wooden pins two and a half inches long and threequarters of an inch in diameter. Provided with these wooden teeth, the stable can le nicelyaud expeditiously cleaned without the use of a fork. It will, also, pryve convenient for separating the coarse from the fine litter. The wooden pin <■ is for clearing out the holes, made through the floor lor drainage, and shoiuu be one foot long, a hole being provided near u.e upper end for a string or w ire loop by whi ti it may be bung up. Keep 1 arm Account-.. _ Tic almanac style of farm accounts should be out of date and Ido not favor the cheap account books advertised. More money expended in three or lour books to last for years is better economy. Each farm should have a book for inventor’s, which should be posted up each year and should show the amount invested in land, buildings, stock and tools and a cash journal of all sums received and paid out. The debit and credit columns can both be on the same page and this will render the cash accounts verv simple. This cash bunk should be balanced monthly, and it is a good study to compare the balance of one month with that of another. Another book should be one in which to write the sales of all produce, especially if it be sold to several parties on credit. This can be writ-, ten in from a daybook in which these accounts can be set down when delivering, and when it would b* impossible to have a large book along. I The farmer employing much help should keep a neatly ruled time book in which to Keep each man’s time, what has been paid him and how much is due him at the end of each week, month or year, according 1 as he is employed. These can be bought at little cost and will save many disputes with hired help. A farm calendar of daily operations or a farm dairy is also a very useful ; book. I have kept one for years and I would not give it up. It saves many | disputes as to how this was done or when that was brought about. All .unusual events in farm routineshould he written here. AV. E. Pendleton, . in Farm and Home. Hoots tor loung Horses. Boots should boused in driving and breaking young horses, even though they are open-gaited and do not | strike. Colts are looking everywhere I but where they stop, and sometimes i get their feet mixed, in such a case ! they may hit a cord or tendon, which is apt to disable them for weeks or months, and sometimes for life. Charles Marvin, who formerly trained the Palo Alto colts, always booted the I youngsters thoroughly when they took their work. Boots are not to keep a horse from interfering, but to protect him when he strikes himself. Wheat Growing vs Dairying. Dairying is probably tlie most I profitable branch of agriculture. It is not the easiest, at least to one who i is a stranger to the business. To one ■ who places a premium upon intelligence, the work of the dairy soon be- i comes a lighter burden than the labor attached to wheat raising. To be sure, it requires the exercise of a certain amount and a certain grade of intelligence to raise wheat. A man must know how to plow, remember

from one year to another how much wheat to sow, how to treat his wheat to keep out the smut, be able to drive a seeder middling straight over a hill, have some knowledge of the intricacies of a twine binder and know tha road to market in the fall. Knowing these particulars he will make a fair hand at raising wheat. It requires a higher grade and larger degree ot intelligence than this to make butter. But it pays better. Wheat is a lazy man’s crop. It is inevitable that the first principal crop of a country should be wheat, and it is inevitable that wheat must be the main crop for some time to come. It will be necessary to turn to the dairy for support and for a competency for those who are located in a place, in tixed homes which will be their abiding places for years to come. A country will not always raise wheat, and farmers should think about the questions of good dairy cattle, good milk, good cream, good butter, good cheese, and good profits. __ _

Ht»nc-ma<l>’ Wheelbarrow. f made at’ ."^pQl-barrow. like the one -• > — which is xiSzZZsmi last for years. The frame should be made of hard wood, that is the handles and legs and a wheel left from an old barrow, or an old grain wheel off an old frnpb'F; Wl ffn* T have

for years, and for the handles I used levers or handles of an old cultivator corn plow. The upright pieces to which are nailed the side boards which reach down past the handie bars to the ground, form the legs. The floor can be level with the handles or not, just t > suit yourself. The end boards can be made removable by nailing cleats to the side boards ami have them slide between them. General Farm Note*. TJbeeders of stockoft n make the mistake of breeding their stock too young. Store root crops where the fem perature will be low and as even as possible. The cleaner the stables are kept the le<s bedding will be required for the stock. Fem es should be of i character to • suit the purposes for which they are ■ intended. With good care a farmer can alwavs breed a bett-r bea-t for himself I than he can buy. The first bad -torm is more - damaging t<> stock, if they ate exposed to ; it, t han any ot her. Liberal an i abundant feeding I* the most economical and :s a saving ! ol time in fattening. Vol ng animals oft” 1 ("j. verv sensitive of the trcalmun: they receive while growing. Di kin ; the fall and winter it is I usually best to keep at least one team on the farm well >h<. ]. The productive c ipacit \ of land 1 should determine its r al \a ue rather than the price asked for it If you want t > make the B ami largest horses out of your c It -. k< en them growing from first t > las' In the fall and winter is the time to commence feeding so as to economize feed to the best advantage. Be prepared to take care of the : corn as fast as it isfulh ready. After it is fully matured it goes to waste. Every farmer who keeps am eon- ! siderable number of stock >lmul 1 have and study a g ' I doec.r b 0,,),;. - Plowing a little d' 1 : in tin? tali the nctf soil gets the benefit of the , actions of the element- during the winter. Dome-tie Hints. Corn Cake. Three teacups of In- ' dian meal, one tea>n >onf p of salt. : one teaspoonful of sugar, one of but- • ter; wet this with boiling water, and then beat in one egg, spuad half an inch deepen buttered Ln sheets and bake brown in a quick oven. Fricassee of Potatoes. Cut cold boiled potatoes into small squares and put them in a basin with milk. 1 pepper and salt, allowing half a pint i ot milk to a dozen potatoes. Set the basin into another of hot water, and I when it comes to a boil, add a table- I spoonful of butter and set on the ' stove, and let it boil up once, then , serve. Corn Fritters — Two cups of cold sweet corn cut from the cob or canned corn. Two eggs, one cup qLswect milk, uuc-iourth salt and bnlf teaspoon of soda* twe tablespoons of melted butter and thicken with flour to make a batter. Stir together: grease a spider: with butter and drop in spoonfuls and fry i brown: turn and brown the other . side. Buowx Sauce.—One tablespoonful butter, one tablespoonful tlour, onehalf pint of stock, one-half tea spoonful onion juice, one-eighth tea spoonful of pepper, one-half teaspoon ful of salt. Melt the butter, stir until dark brown, add the flour, mix well, add the stock and stir continu ally until it boils; add onion juice salt and pepper, and it is ready foi use. Mutton Broth. Take a shoulder ,or neck of mutten, cut into small . pieces, wash and put into the soup- ' not. When it comes to a boil ski in it carefully, then boil gently twe | hours. To four pounds of meat add four quarts of water and half a cup of rice. Do not put in the rice until the meat has boiled two hours, then add rice, and season with pepper and salt and half ar. onion, boil Iwo hours longer and serve.

CAUSED BY FIREBUGS. „,LWAI OF A big blaze. r n „ IS Fully Half a Million-City Officials Are Confident that the » Conflagrations Are the Work o diaries. Started by a Bomb Thrower. At 2 o’clock Wednesday m . orn ^f a bomb was thrown into the mam• ' ing ot tho South Side plant ot the Mil wfukee Street Bailroad Company There was a tremcndocs ‘ in a moment tho Interior ol the budd ng was in a blaze. In a few minutes lire was beyond control, and >n less than an hour tho entire plant was consumed, entailing a loss of $510,00P. Tho street railway company s South Side plant is io-ated on Kinnildnniek avenue. It includes the immense storage stables for electric motors, the machine shop^, and the stables. In the barn were thirty now electric motors. Tho machine shops wore built the pa-t season, and were fitted with very tine machinery for tho rebuilding and repairing of ears. In tho stables were sixty horses, but these were gotten out alive. The cars stored in the build-•-•r'An,; J;--'’ "t $3..0,000, while the s<>>,ooo, while the stores ot t ul"»st. wero kept in the building ami were worth $25,000. The only insurance < arried was on the building and amounts to $40,000. The barns which were destroyed were the principal depot of the Milwaukee Street Bailway Company and the lire greatly cripflea the cmupany. V I o tho man is who threw the bomb Is not known. H o is supposed to be the firebug who has started fntTW'-n

nidflYn. A Grand Jury will be summoned to investigate. The only per on who saw the alleged bomb thrown was Night Watchman Worden. He says that he was standing near tho main doorway of the barn in which the motors an 1 | cars were stored. Thore w:»s a whizz' of something through the n r, a flash, and a tremendous explosion. If there was a bomb thrown, which many doubt, it came through tho main doorway and strm k in the car near- i eat this entrance. The projectile must have be< n fill <1 with so no highly inflammable substance, as hardly ten seconds e np-e l, no'ording to the night watchman's story, before n< a !y all tho i curs in th > bulldlug were In flames. ' .Manager Lvnn, of the conq any, Is. convinced of the truthfulness of tho ' watchman's story. That there was an 1 explosion every one in tho nelghlorhood w ill testify. There was nothing of an explosive nature al o\t tho plant. I and tho electric current was net on. the n a hinery at the power-house not be- , ing in operation. A small cottage next to the plant of ' the street railway company was also destroyed. A woman resiling in tho house l-ecamo paralyzed and find to be ' carried out of the house after it was In j flames. The rear •nd of the plant of i • Bio ^Richer St >vo Company, which has be n Tcrwwd by the Milwj,uheo Street Hallway Company, slightly i damage 1. Investigation shows beyond doubt that th<> Uro which lue day destroyed j two tanp<*rioa, causing n loan of >2 (>,- I no I by which two Hies were lost, j w a in- cmllary. Ihie is aso the case , with the two fires on Sunday, when! $125,100 worth of property burned. I’ropert, tlxrioe.l There Is a genuine firebug scam in the city, and what is m re there seems Ito bo good grounds foi alarm. Conser- j vatlvo citizens aro now thoroughly alarmed and steps are being taken to j guard agn nst further L'-s by lire ns much as possible. That incendiaries are nt work no longer doubted by any one conversant w .th tl;e circumstances | surrounding many of the recent fires. Tho most glaring case was that of tho old Keenan mill. Here was an unoccupied building close to the business center, which was used for storage ju^ioses and in whi^-h there had not been a light or a lire for several years, an Iy. it .s suddenly discov< red to be ablaze on the evening < f the coldest day of the year. There was not a i dollar's w orth of insurun. e < n the building or its eont- nts. Another fact that , Is now attracting attention g that all i the fires of mysterious orig n have oc- j j curred when the weather was best ■ suited to their spr tiding. On rainy ' ! days or when the w at her was mild ; and no wind Id w ng there have been ' no fins. exe<pt ng those where the' oiigin could be clearly traced. Another I curious feature is that 50 per vent of j these big fir. - have occurred in the .Id j ward. So large have been tho losses and so apparent has it became that in- . cendiaries are at work that insurance • men are becoming niarmed, and a nnm- • ber of outside companies have ordered thefr 1 vea! agents to take no more int suranw here, and tn several cases have . I ordered them to cancel manv of Their ! risks. Property owners and business . men are alarmed ami a muss-meeting | will be called to consider the matter. POPULISTS COME TO STAY. Senator Stewart Thinks They ire l.ikely j to Fleet a President In 1806. Senator William M. Stewart, of Neva la, is in New York. “The monetary "T'on for on eo," ho said, *ls a fraud. It won’t amount to anything. If the Be-I publicans do not hurry up and pass a i free coinage bill this winter they will not carry a State west of the Rocky Mountains in US U. If the Democrats do not pass a free coinage bill when they come into power, if they h ive con- ' trol of both branches of Congress, the ; Populists will elect a I’resident in 1896. ” According to a dispatch Senator Stew- | art said he thought the Popolists had I come to stay. Free coinage would be one of their principal issues. He said he did not know which party w ould have a majority in the Senate after March 4. URGED TO STAND FIRM. Manifesto Issued by- People’s Party l.eaders at, Indianapolis. The People’s party leaders in attendance at the conference in Indianapolis issued the following manifesto: To the People’s party Legislators-elect in Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, California, North Dakota, and other States: We hereby request that all and each one of you stand tirni when it comes to balloting for United States Senators in your respective States. We caution you against fusion with any of the two dominant parties. Make a square fight for our principles; vote for no man unless you know that he will advocate and defend them In the United States Senate. We have arrived at a period in our movement when we must make a square stand-up fight for principles. If the two dominant parties want to

fuse on a candidate to defeat ue let them do < so. The sooner they do that the better it will J be for us. You cannot afford to consider the personal interests of any individual. The people look to you to carry out the promises > made in the last campaign, and unless you do your utmost In that direction you will fail to do your full duty. Wo also kindly request that the People’s party State, county, anil local committees in every State in the Union j do all in their power and lend a helping hand to organize the Industrial legion.' Push that organization into every State, county, precinct, and school district in the land. H. E. Taubeneck, Chairman. J. 11. Turner, Secretary. M. H. Rankin, Treasurer. , The conference of the People’s party leaders was in session in Indianapolis , for two days. It agreed to the revision of the constitution and by-laws of the Industrial Legion as suggested by Paul Vandervoort. The revision does away with the secret work provided for in the original constitution, and the different branches of the organ zation are all merged into one. The Commander-in-chief announces that ho will appoint organizers in every State. For awhile, at least, headquarters will 1 eat Omaha, but later may be removed to Indianapolis. _ ELEVEN MEN WERE KILLED. Hkxtdy Battle at tho Sun Juan Mining ('amp in C olorado. 1 ITho San Juan mining eamp has fol--1 lojved the precedents of all great mininU excitements by baptizing itself with hqman blood. A courier arrived in • Bluffs City. Col., and reported a terrible 0 Itle, in which over one hundred shots ' ..^^oxchanged. Ho reported eleven o B nd. a largo number wounded. - ^Ferguson, an old prospector, a on ( Aos Cody, known as "Blind Jim,” i Aria^.JMho best-known characters in ’ ' are i '^^and New Mexico mining camps, in tho slain. Tho courier was ) buck, state of breaihlo s excitement and , waM left tho ground, after the lust shot ftrod. to obtain medical aid.

flrqj jiivate wN out. There are nea eTOW men on the fields, and the! 9 has been very little attention pa.d to t ‘0 people staking off claims. Tho pro pectors have simply devoted their timi to prospecting and scouring the san s to find the n;ost promising locaticA * There have been a few claims st if ■ out, owever, in places where nm| r dollars to tho pan have been foul 1. but the lines of the claims, it Is said were not recorded and a quarrel enw ?d T ' direct cause of tho tr >ublo was ; tho iscovery of largo nuggets in tho bed' f a small stream. Up to the momen of the ri« h strike everything was nil r [ht, but th-' sight of tho large nuggets Iliad tho same effect on the prospect<»B as a red rag on a Mexican bull. Eachl man claimed that ho ha 1 first । lo<at%d tho ground, and to settle tho dispute guns were brought to bear. 1 hero w re over forty men engaged In I the terrible conflict. Few. if any, escaped unhurt. Tho information of tho trouble has caused great excitement in Denver among । rospeetors. who wero skeptical of tho fabulous Wealth of Iho । new gold fields. Tho battle will undoubtedly bring thousand* <4 people to the now camp, for the old pro-p* ctors regard deadly TtmflicU over mining ela.ms us the best evidence of r i c h stnk H WILL CAUSE A HUBBUB ( U |n luvuf lh< Igmt v !*i ui Tope .a, Kan , sj e'dal: In an Interview in a Io al । a; er Rev. .1. D. Botkin, late Prohibition candidate for Governor, Hud that Governor-elect Lcwelling was a pronouncel Prohibitionist and that ho would favor tho State agency plan in his forth<omii g me.-.-uge, Botkin .-al I: 1 ata in favor of the state agency plan, and n>’ontiy had a long talk with Gov. Lcwolllng on this Hubct uni he is heartily m favor of it also. Ho Said to mo that ho believed it would forever settle the wLßky question in tha> State, as it w< uld abolish the drug stor' saloon and take tho element of profit oit of tbo sale, so the jointists woMd have to go out of business.” The announcement of Governor Lewelling’s views on this subject w ill < ause a great hubbub among the resubmissionists and the liquor element generally, who suppotted him, hoping that in return for their votes Mr. Lewelling would prove huhnt to violators of the prohibitory law, or even enc urage its repeal. M igiiitic<-iit Beii'-tlcence. John D. Rockefeller's Christmas contribution of an additional million doii !are to th** Cnivers.ty of Chicago makes hi.stc>talgift to th it institution J-J.H00.000 • —a noble sum- probably the greatest amount ever given in the hist .^’ of the world by one man dtl-ing Kis life time to a single c^icational obje t. The original gift of i Gjurge I’. abody for the promotion of j education in ti.e South was $2,100,001), anl_he subsequently increased it to 1 $3W0,000, but this was SIIIO,OOO short of “ ut E'e S'-t- ii' ■ hn» done for tho qaeago I niversity. 'lho giving of I eabody's $3,509,000 was stretched । o ^er a period ot three years. Bockefrtler has given his $3,60J,000 since ? ay, 1889. Telegraphic Brevities. New York will have a new police qoat, to cost $50,000. 'snow fell at Puget Sound to the depth •f twenty-two inches. ’ Senator Cart.tsue, it is said, will be Secretary of Interior. The Nicaraguan ( anal bill h nß b PPn reported to the Sei ate. An annexation paper —the Sun —has been establi^ied at Toronto. C. F. Mayer has been re-elected president of the Baltimore & Ohio. During 1892 there was 4,(62 miles of railroad built in the United States. Many colored colonists have been driven from Oklahoma by starvation. I red Christie, an alleged counterfeiter of dimes, was arrested at St. Louis. The Hughes extortion case has been argued before tho New York Court of Appeals? Isaac H. Maynard will be appointed associate justice of the New York Court of Appeals. Sixteen Indians, who were taken prisoners in the terrible massacre at Tomachie, in tho western part of the State of Chihuahua, two months ago, will be shot. Lire Lesbtoynski, a Russian Jewess, who has died at New York from old age, was certainly one of the oldest women on earth, if statements she made were true. She once told her relatives that she was born in Odessa, Russia, in 1768, which would make her 124 years old. I

HIE SUNDAY SCHOOL . THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM REFLECTION. A lleasant, Interesting, and Instructive Lesson and Where It May Be found—A Learned and Concise l<eview of tha harue.

Rebuilding the Church. The lesson for Sunday, Jan. 8, may bo found in Ezra 3: 1-13. introductory. With this lesson we find the loyal remnant back on the Holy Hills and sngaged in re-erecting the walls and altars that were fallen down. Fifty thou-and exiles, under the leal of Zerubbabel, take the long journey of five hundred miles, across tho sands, from Babylon to Jerusalem, and here at last they are in the midst of Zion’s desolation. The spiritual leader is Jeshua, or Joshua, who sets to work at once—a । good place to begin—to building the altar of the God of Israel. The people | tall to, fear helping them on, all giving । of their means, and presently a rejoicing company are thronging about the I foundations of a new temple. It is a stirring scene, ami full of helpful inti- j (nations for good living in tho days that I now are. POINTS IN THE LESSON. “Then stoo l up Joshua" —he could not help it! If you have a man by that name among you, a Joshua, deliverer, you cannot keep him down. Nor can levils, thank God! 1 The great high priest, tho Joshua . who goes before for iho lifting up of a 9 demolished temple and a dismantled I altar, is J< sus. It is of him that James t 1 s speaking at Acts 15: ion

Ml lld again the ruins hereof, and I will 8 ?t it up.” Jesus is ’ • he great temple-mender, and wherever , there is a soul awry he stands ready to ,io his gradous work. May he doit , more than once or twice in these classes 1 to-day. I Keep the feasts. In their spiritual 1 Intent they never were abrogated. I faberna de means mingled thanksglv--1 ing and devotion. Why should it ever ’ be intermitted or slighted? Observe he set feasts, or, as the Hebrew i says, the feasts appointed. God s or- । linanecs. God s Sabbath of rest, can it be discarded with impunity? The as- ! sembling of ourselves together. Who has ever persistently neglected such | ldngs without suffering ami spiritual , loss, and temporal as well? Guard, । also, the ordi: ances of baptism and the Lord s Supper. We shall never find a better way to secure growth and progress in the kingdom tha'n God’s own appointed way. But, above all things, keep the “continual burnt offering,” following more closely the burnt offerng of continuance, the gift most needed in the church to-day. Every day piety, unlntermittent devotion, the free-will offering of a life—this, Paul calls our 'reasonable service." I hen conn* songs. And what better lefinitipu of the inner import, of sacred -ong or of congregational music than Hus where “the people could not dis•ern the noise nf’Mhb'shfm of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people. M hen the great < onuregution lifts its voi ’e, like the sound of many waters, who can distinguish the heart cries, and behiml and within tho volume <>£ mid how many a breaking heart wells foi , h .11 the uudev , i' A vol tat ion c? : Indeed, all music is a "sweet sorrow,” • and no true melody but has its tears. And here, too, is ths genesis of real music, a lesson in Christian psalmody. Strive and sing, work and worship. I hey praised the I ord because the foundation of the house of the Lord was I laid. If you want a spur to st ng, do I something; to love God, obey him; to > know how to praise him, learn how to lo his bidding. So shall we come into his presence with a song. Set it up at once, this some time negle -ted altar of God. Wait no longer. Thi* wood and stone are here —and the Lamb. You are here, and God is here; that is enough. Wherever there is a sinner ami a Savior, there is an opportunity for altar worship, and right there may be the beginning of a house “exceeding magifital." And let it all be as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God; ’ a’Cording to the pattern in the mount. And what was that •s.sential pattern? Simply this—selfsurrender. What else does the burnt I >ffering mean for us? “Thine altars, O I Lord of hosts!” HINTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. It is remarkable what an aid to the incuic rtion of Bible lessons is to Le found in Christian song. It helped out . these early builders of the temple amaz- j ugly, and it will assist, in no small de- i gree, modern temple-builders. Make much of it. It is a very poor song-book that has not a number of suggestive hymns upon the spiritual theme of this lesson, i. e., Christian edification. Sing two or three songs at the outset like To the work-, to the work,” “We’re marching to Zion.” And what better hymn to close xvith than good, old "How firm a foundation!” Song seems to lift itself naturally to God. The sermon maybe unsound, but the song is usually orthodox. It praises God, not man. It lays everything where it belongs—at Jesus’ feet. They tell of a Christian woman dying, Mho, beckoning and faintly articulating, seemed to be asking the attendants to bring her something. They brought fool and drink .n.i other things, but she was evidently not sati.-iiod At last they put a tablet tn her hand, ana then with pencil sl.e traced the avords, which, however faint read always iarge and strong: Brin; forth the royal diadem. And crown him Lord of all Back of all was prayer. Daniel’s supplication in his wonderful ninth chapter is not to be left ous of the account. The thanes of old England demanded that the son of Lady Alice should give them the lands of his father. Said they: “We can fight the King’s foes, but what can that little boy do?” i The lad rejoined: "I can pray to God j in Heaven.” -More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For -what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain. If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer. Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round world is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God. ” — Next Lesson: “Encouraging the Peo« . pie.”—Haggai 2: 1-9. I

, IF YOU ARE LN QUEST OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happenings of the WeekCrimes autl Casualties — Suicides — Deaths—W eddings, Etc.

Minor State Items. Columbus is complaining of the larga number of street rowdies in that city. Jud Ferris of Englewood, fell from a Fort Wayne passenger train and was seriously injured. Grave robbers stole the corpse ot Miss Emma West, an 18-year-old girl who died recently at Brazil. John Rodgers, an old settler of Knightsville, fell from a load ot hay and broke his neck. Greentown’s hunting party has returned from the wilds of Arkansas with 1 1,000 pounds of venison. -The village of New Hope, near RichI inond, will soon have natural gas, and i the citizens are excited. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 1 John Hoyse of Muncie, was badly burne I while playing near a gas gra e. The Orphans’ Home in CrawfordsMhe ' was destroyed by Ure. All of the chil--1 dren escaped. The loss was $28,000. Robert Daniels, a Jay County piol neer, aged 77, died at the home of his 1 daughter, Mrs. Jenk Lewis, at Muncie. I The son of a farmer named Schissler near Evansville, fell into a well whi e. ■ | doing some repair work, and was fatady J 1 hurt. । Ben Phii.kins, an aged inmate of tha r poor farm near Y eedersburg. committed to a beam in 1 a uarn.

Adolphus Jones, colored janitor of the Rockville court house, was found dead in the auditor's office recently. Heart disease. The next meeting of the Iroquois Press Club of Indiana will be held in Mishawaka, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1893, instead of at South Bend 011 Jan. 6, as originaliv intended. Miss Myrtle Gwin was awarded 52.500 damages from young Sohn in the I breach-of-promise case at Marion. Sohn is the son of one of Marion’s most prominent citizens. William Driedel of Jeffersonville, was sitting in "bis store the other night when some one fired a« pistol shot through the window, the bullet cutting off some of his hair. A strange man, giving his name as Henry Bryar.t, was found lying ir.a cinder pile near the rolling mill' in Brazil. He was frozen nearly to death and unable to utter a word. That baby skeleton story from Frankfort turns out a fizzle. The skeleton was the bones of a cat, and the detective who was looking up the “murder mystery” is confined to his bed. • A safety valve in the engine room of the picture molding factory in Evansville was found to be tied down. There is no doubt but some rascal- bad attempted to cause an explosion. Nichol as Siebert, a wealthy farmer living near Evanville, has become inSnneon religious questions, and threatens to kill all of his re 1 atives, j^eca I;,sc. he says, the tUviae power ha« Mus. oamvei. McCosky of Staunton, the wife ot a coal miner in Brazil, has , f.ilb' n heir to an estate valued between $50,000 anil $75,000 by the death of a distant relative in the State of New York. Harrison Shearer, while chopping wood near the Garden City brick-yards [ at Valparaiso, found an elk horn about three feet long in a hollow tree. The • horn must ha- e rested in its hiding-place nearly one hundred years. James Sander’s barn, at Wheatland, was burned the other night. A fine stallion and a quantity of feed, grain, and implements were consumed. Loss. $2,000. Incendiarism is supposed to have been the origin of the fire. Charley Gregg and Douglass Mills, two Crawfordsville boys, met with serious accidents on the railroad the other day. The former was thrown from a, freight car and badly bruised and Mills was struck by an engine, losing a leg. The Montgomery County Agricultural Association offered a prize for the best bushel of corn which will be sent to the World’s Fair. There were nine entries j and the prize was given to Maxwell McI Cullough. M. B. Waugh was second. Last October Anthony Coteras was killed by a cave-in at a gravel pit east of Vai paraiso, belonging to the Grand Trunk Railway. Suit has just been brought by the administrator of his j estate for SIO,OOO damages against the company. A man, woman, and boy, ragged and dirty, live in a dilapidated old tent in a woods near Wabash, where they manage to survive in spite of the cold weather. They claim to have been washed out bv the Kansas flood and are in destitute circumstances. T ■^ U I VARD Gardner, watchman on the Big Four Railroad, was caught by the tender of a backing switch engine at Marion and ground to pieces while signaling others to avoid an approaching passenger train on the Clover Leaf. He was 65 years old. Judge Hackney, Shelbyville, has decided that Lambert Goldsmith must stand trial for the killing of Robert Skillman. This case has attracted much attention in legal circles. Goldsmith was tried once before, but the verdict was set aside on account of the sickness of one of the jurors. I kki. Fni TZ , a farmer residing near Jackson Center Porter Countv, was called upon by two lightning-rod met, who made a proposition to rod the house occupied by Fritz for $5, as an advertisement The house was not bis own, but he was filially persuaded into it and to signing what he supposed was a document to show that he had paid for the work, but which proved to be a contract for putting tip rods amounting to 8240. He refused to pay, but compromised bypaying the swindlers 8125. Louis, the 14-year-old son of Samuel Lowery, residing five miles south of Kokomo, was accidentally shot by his brother-in-law, Jud Rhodes. it ia thought the injury is fatal. The weapon was a 38-calibre revolver, which was supposed to be empty. John C. Wingate of Montgomery County, has been given judgment for $2,400 against the Clover-Leaf Railway for the injury of bis wife who, in attempting to get off a passenger train, was violently thrown from tbe platform by the starting of the cars. She sued and recovered SIO,OOO and then her husband entered suit.