St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 18, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 May 1893 — Page 7

DOME AND THE FARM, j a department made up sow ■ OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Result ot Exreriinents Regarding the I Ditterent Foods - Shallow Cultivation of Corn—Wide Tiros for I arm Wagons— ! Growth of Young Animals. Digestibility of Different Foods. From experiments regarding digestion made at the Maine Station we gather these facts: That Hungarian grass both when fed green anil after , being cured by drying, is more diges- , tible than the average of other grass, and notably more so than timothy. 1 The curing of the Hungarian grass did not appear to utTed the digest!-i billty of the same, which was in ac- : ■cordance with the results of former experiments. The corn plant as cut for the silo, is one of the most digestible of fodder plants, and is as ■compared with timothy as 100 to 120, i Os timothy less p r cent, of the dry matter cows digested and of the vari- 1 ous corn fodders the average was A per •cent. There is no essential difference in the digestibility of the southern, i field, and sweet corn fodders. Hoots are shown to be the most digestible ! of any foods tested, the waste material being no more than 8 per cent, of the whole. Gluten meal, which is _a waste product in the manufacture glucose from corn, was digested to the extent of 80 j er cent, of the dry •organic matter which corresponds with the German tables. The con- ( version of starch into glucose does , not seem to affect its digestibility, j The digestibility of wheat bran is similar to figures previously obtained, i and shows that this cattle food is but , slightly if any more digestible than ! good hay, and much inferior in this respect to grain, such as maize, bar- ■ ley, etc. The comrostion of gluten 1 meal shows almost double the amount •of portein and fat that is contained i in wheat bran and but little less nit-1 rogen free extract, so that, taking into account the digestibility and price, it may be a much more profitable food than the whole bran.—Germantown Telegraph. Shallow Cultivation of Corn. In conversation with a neighboring farmer recently,and one that“banks” from $2,000 to $3,( 00 annually as the net proceeds of a IGO-acre farm, he said: ‘-Year by year lam still more j convinced that shallow cultivation is j best for a corn crop, and, unless we | have some way to firm the ground [ well, shallow breaking as well.” 1 think this is true with some slight modifications. A heavy loam should be broken deeper than a sandy soil. Every other year, or every third vear, the light soil, if corn follows corn, should be turned up to the depth of ten or twelve inches,! ut immediately after planting the roller, or some weighty contrivance that will pack the ground, should be used. A heavy loam that is tile drained will give better results, broken live or six inches, than it will at ten to —tyelve inches, and save the work of this is But it must be borne in mind that in ail prairie countries the wind is almost an everyday occurrence during the spring and summer months, ami if we have ten days without rain where the ground has not liven well firmed or lacked it w.ll take the moisture out of the soil t a depth of two inches. This point, too, has its bearing upon the after cultivation of the crop. .V judicious rotation, i:: which clover plays an important part, will clear the ground from weeds an 1 . thus render the close plowing of the crop needless and. if “listing” is practiced, save much laUrn. —A. G. Chase in American Agriculturist. Value of a Hydraulic Kani. A correspondent of the Albany Cultivator gives his experience with a pump and a hydralic ram. He first bored a well 75 feet deep ami put in a pump, with pipes to the house. The cost was about $l5O. After using this for nearly twenty years, his wife decided to put a hydraulic ram into a spring 400 feet away from the house, and 75 feet below the level where the water was to be delivered. The ram cost $lO and the pipe- and laying S4O. As a result they now have a gallon of water delivered every hundred seconds, thirtv-sixgallons an hour or twenty-seven barrels a day. | This comes through a half-inch pipe. > Now he feels very much like kicking himself, as he thinks ot the labor, time, and strength extended during the past twenty years in raising the water seventy-five feet with a pump, and the cost of the well and pump. And now Tie is sure of an abundant and regular suppl}’, while before, it ■ often happened that the hire I men ‘ would shirk away before they had pumped enough for household use and the stock, as it was hard work, and the loss, by lack of sufficient water, was many times greater than the value of the labor ot pumpin *. Growth ot Young Animals. There are some things that every farmer should keep constantly in mind, and one of these is that the most growth is made by a young ani•mal, in proportion to the food consumed. and consequently in proportion to its cost. Then it follows that the most profit is made from young animals. This is most applicable to young pigs, which for the same quantity of food consumed will double their weight in a few days. It is a good plan to give a little sweet cow's milk in a shallow pan to sucking pigs, especial!v those that are Lorn late in the season, not forgetting to feed the sow the best food. Buckwheat and oats ground together and given in a slop made by pouring boiling water on this meal, and leaving it to 001, will make a surprising growth in

: young pigs, and with a warm pen and soft bed the litter will thrive in । the best manner. By cultivating this ability to grow rapidly, and rear- | ing two litters in a year, a good I brood sow may be made worth the [ interest of SSOO every year. Such an animal deserves all the encouragement and kind treatment that may I be given her. Fowls for Winter Eggs. In order to secure a regu’ar supply of eggs in winter it is necessary to keep one of the breeds known as the general purpose fowls, the best of . which are Langshans, Plymouth j Rocks, W vandots and Orpingtons. The first named a:e preferable to the ' others for tube purpose, and for that reason are chosen by some breeders, ■as the chickens command a better pn -e, but they do not grow so rapidly as the others. Many breeders claJm that the best of all as layers in the winter are the Wyandots. These fowls have been known to lay eggs all through the severest weathers. , Whilst much can be accomplished by , choosing a good variety of fowl, that is not everything, and inorder to suc- . coed you should arrange to have a 1 succession of early pullets, feed the fowls well and keep them in comfort- ’ able houses. If you have sufficient space it is an excellent plan to keep two breeds, one for winter layers,.and a non-sitting variety, such as Leghorns or Minorcas. Planting Peach Tree* To properly plant a pea h tree all 1 medium and large-sized trees should have the entire top cut off, leaving only a stick fifteen toeightcen inches above the roots, which should have all broken or bruised pieces cut oil. When thus trimmed plant in g od mellow soil, about two inches deeper than it had been when growing in nursery rows. When growth begins sprouts will come out all along up the body. All of these should be rubbed off, except three or four near the ton that must bo allowed to grow to form the main branches of the future tree. By proper selection of what sprouts to reserve, the trees may । be formed at. any desired f irm of hea(L i These new branches will grow from I three to five feet the first season and so make a much stronger and betterformed tree than could have been possible had not the top been all cut away when planted. Don't fail to । cut off the entire top when planting. —Hartford Currant. — Poultry Pickings, The non-sitting varieties shou'd be hatched as early as possible. The demand for pure bred poultry is larger this year than ever before Turkeys require c ire until they ‘•shoot the red:” after that they ar• easy to raise to maturity. Every year 1,300,000,000 eggs are used in this country in preparing all unionized paper for photographers. There are just as good rea.-ons why pure bred poultry should be Kept, as there is for keeping any class of p ire bred stock. Pure water, wholesome food, clean good care, thou am Luc with poultry depen Is. Capons sold for 25 cents a pound in the Chicago markets in January. They rarely fall below 20 c mt- and often go to 30 cents a p mnd. The liberal use of whitewash about the i eilt ry-hou-e wdl be foun 1 profitable. Do nut look to artistic effect s much as getting plenty ot whitewash on. Di sr D death to lice and the f wD should have fre access to iq Sifted coal ashes are goo I for thG purpose, but wood ashes blca 'h the legs of the ye 11 o w-1 egged breed<. A Pekin duck will lay from 120 to 150 eggs in a year, an 1 it B not hard to make a pair of young I’ekins weigh ton pounds when ten weeks old. They arc a profitable fowl. Young p'Ultry should led be allowed to get hungry nor should the}’ be given much more than thev will eat at one time. Fee 1 little lut often, very often, should be the rule. The rod nits do not stay on chickens during the day but hide in cracks ab ut the perche- and sides t f the house. Fa nt these with kerosene oil and they will cease from troubling. Useful Hints. Never use strong or rancid butter ; in seasoning vegetables. Small mackerel are very nice gashed and fried the same as codfish. Onions and apple-sauce are the peculiar accompaniments of a goose. A Turkey when w< 11 cooked should be evenly browned all over. Cran- ' Uerry nr rnrraufe ifcßi'-4d. Lhe ' i roper iccompaniment. Broiled salmon may be either cut j in slices, as fried salmon, or split to j the tail. It shouki be broiled very quick, and when it is dished rub some butter over it. llousekeepers should caution their i maids against the use of kerosene in j laundering shirts. The oil is likely to remain in the garment, lending a 1 ; disagreeable odor not enjoyed by the । wearer. ’ j A handy recipe for curing hams is • this: Take four quarts of salt, four i • ounces of saltpetre, four pounds of ' i brown sugar dissolved in water. Pack 100-weight of hams closely together ’! and pour this pickle over them, let ' j them remain 10 days and then smoke. ; [ Physicians say that ground coffee I makes an excellent disinfectant. In [ i the sickroom during severe cases of ; I diarrhu a and dysentery and other ili- [ । nesses, when the air is likely to got close and disagreeable, a little of this • । coffee burned on a coal shovel will ! most effectively clear the atmosphere , j of the chamber.

ROBBING THE HUNGRY. ENORMOUS PRICES ASKED FOR FOOD AT THE FAIR. Eating a Costly Habit at the Fair—Sharp Devices for Extortion —Samples of the Charges Made —I cave Your Appetite at Home. Ozone Only I s Cheap. Chicago correspondence; If eleven beans < ost 40 cents the second week of the Fair and deposits are required for the return of eggshells, how long will it take loilwl jotatoes to bring $1 each? If one nibble of cheese and one of t rackets < an ; ell for 35 cents and rice pudding retail at. 30, how long must a man with a big appetite and a moderate salary go hungry - If staff beef made on the grounds is v.otth 50 cents a cut and skinny pie is sold at 25 cents an eighth, what will the average visitor take for his eating habit? These are some of the perplexing questions which now bother the patrons of the Fair restaurants. Once within the fence there is no chance to slip out for a snack and the only alternative for the person with a stomach ihat needs daily attention is to choose in which , particular language he desTes to be re- । leased of hissav.ngs. There are French cases where it costs to sit down, and English taverns where the barmaids serve and guess at the bill; Polish re- J sorts, with strange and deadly cockja, tails of benzine, absinthe, an4--nHtrWS| German victual houses with the fraO grance of lusty I oiled dinners, and the great casino where thousands shiver^M the lake winds and sit in nmnzement^t h the rates per plate. 1 An appetite is an unnecessary ad-^| junct, ami to satiate such an uncomfort- | ablethingat the World’s Fair groundsis simply an impossibility to a man of ordinary means. About all that is left ft r the person who has not a pocketful of money, and a big pocket at that, Is to go down to the lake front any time he gets good and hungry and get filled full of fresh air and scenery. Tills is not a diet conducive to obesiiy, but It is better than losing flesh and many pounds sterling, which will result from an encounter with t! e average bill charged just fir an average meal without any trills. It is not necessary to get into the realms of fancy dishes to be frightened <ut of a year's growth !>y the gigantic proporlons of the Flense pay the cashier." <’ne ot the guards—and they are the wisest p> ople of this generation—tn a moment of extravagance ordered a , piece of pie and a cup of coffee, and j nearly fell in a tit when he had to pay a half-dollar for the epicurean repast. • When asked I y a brother guard why he did not eat a regular dinner, lie replied: 1 k 0 f • C t | | Kt < *w r "i I (CCSatLi “■ I I wxHfR } _ • r ■ ' - : n X) I) I V Ar r >ur^ riM> ton uuorrixii 5 om fokk. “I couldn't; I only hud $G in my clothes." Th«‘> Itcivv If I> n I’inr. Th-' restaurants have the problem of extortion figured out to a nicety. Visitois cannot get out of the >rounds and get tack or, Am > rm admission. That, of courso, wo rd be an injustice to the exp siiion company; so with the [o. pie inclosed in the stockadge, tlmy must either curb their appetit.s or let the reins fi eon their [ ockett ooks. One of the many plea-ant deHee - D r extracting nmm y from the man that is vthirst and hungered is a r। at Hltb apt endix to the bill ot fare waieh announces that coffee is 10 cents per cup and in the opposite corner the brief announcement that cream is U , ents. Tne nan who orders coffee is asked as to whether he is used to taking cream when he is at home down on Ihe farm. Certainly he is. and he lolls back air’, thinks of the 1 big Jersey cows and the cream that he sells his neighb rs at 15 cents a quart. When he comes to settle his Lill, by dead reckoning, by latitude and longitude or by logarithms, he is generally 15 c uts to I bits behind the official count. “Oh, I thought that ‘Cr< am, 15 cents,’ meant a glass of cream. “No, it means eseam for coffee.” If he is a wise : an he [ av- and departs with an intemel \ow of bringing a ham sandwich in his pistol pocket for the morrow’s repast and drinking water ft\m '.he pale-blue tanks tha' a e about the only tree things distributed around the grounds. If he is unwise and irate ] OW hMOST HAVE A PASS BEFORE YOU CAN EAT, he makes a rumpus, only to have the head waiter come around with a contemptuous air and do a simple problem in arithmetic for him while those who have been through the mill titter aloud at the individual who does not know that 10 and 15 are 25. Many people do not care for soup or a course dinner, but those who are incau- ' lions enough to order soup pay for the : same at the rate of 25 cents a throw ' and think that they have received two : doses, on settlement. Good old corn ; beef and cabbage fluctuates between 40 j

nn ^ half a dollar, while a tiny dish or Boston’s pride with a small chunk of Cincinnati’s principal industry Is worth cents without a sprig of parsley td garnish the dish. Thon, too, the beans urnf^hed are of a small and inconsequential growth, resembling Bt) shot ra.her than a vegetable product, t can be eas.ly figured up just ^nat a g od, comfortable meal will cost the average man who has no secondary appetite or who has not burdened himself with a false one by the use of liquors, which one of the ollls calmly declares are 35 cents a gulp, /ullenne, 25 cents; roast of beef °r gfgot de pregale, 75 cents; f’ageolets P°ls, tomate a I'American, TO cents; coffee, demi-tasse. 10 cents; total, $1.60. rr ue > this is not the average price, but t s near It; and the moral is, don’t eat. ‘Ung your appetite ba< k with you. » 113 a furiosity to show your friends, as a relic that was saved intact from the forty thieves. You may grow thin If you attend the Fair often or for an extended period, but either forget your digestive apparatus or take a !un< h and crawl off by some lagoon when you eat it. Complaints concerning the extortion practiced were so long and loud that President HlglnLotham disguised hlmj sey and made a personal investigation. / . , —1 I is puds | \ । J iTo ” N f i /?.< L2X- 1 ■ । ,—i \ — i I X. "■ II IM* 7 . / / ^c^LET./ /roRKS. —z SOME RKBTAVHANT 111 ICES. He found these restaurants to bo regular robbers' roosts, and the officials have now decreed that the extortion must cease. In a previous letter I said you could see the fair for 50 cents. So y< u can, but you can't monkey with a World's Fair restaurant for anything like that amount. Fandom Fair Note^. Tur: attendance nt the fa ; r on May 3 I was 31,274. The workmen employe I «n the Algerian village are on a strike for back pay. ONF of the Arabs who took part in the riotous outbreak in the Arabian 'll- - was sent to the Bridwell for thirty days. There is mourning in the Tnvnn< so camp nt the Fair, news having been received of the death of the Sultan of , Solo, the Javanese ruler. Ali-ert Rd k, in el argo of the Aus- ■ trmn exhibit, tipped" n man whotransI ferred his goods tn him. The man was । n customs officer and Herr B«-ck was i arrested. The order against smoking on the I grounds inis Loen c« untermanded. It j wns the bugaboo of the Columbian Guards, who each averaged enforce--1 ment of the order ten times a minute. I T’-o months ago t'ount" Heinrich I von rdudzen was arrested in New York J City f< r a series <>f audacious swindles. Re tried in court and released. He < ba* J u «t l <?• t found in a World's Fair • stnurant, acting ns a waiter. ! 1 I>< ntx-G the next thr. •• v • -mi fnnpfi yc of tu.» Exposition Company ^lll Ie dropped from the pay-rolls. UcLernl orders have i een i-sued for a ewei ping reduction of the force of clerks, stenogriq hers, draughtsmen, and other employes. Un< i,i Sam doesn’t stan 1 very high at the Fair. Deputy Cull- ctor of Internal Lev.-nue Frank 1.. Stanley wis denied admission when lie showed his badge and sa d ho hud been sent to examine a cLar factory in the Plaisance, lie was told to buy a ticket "like any other guy. SHOCKED TO DEATH. I ht Infamous Mnr.lrnr ot IIU Child XV tin In t!h 1 Iv< tri< C hair. Carlyle W. Harris, convicted of administering poison to Ids child wife, was electrocuted in Sing Sing । risen at

12:40 o’clock Monday afternoon. Thus the last act in one of the most noted and intricate murder trials on record is closed. Young Harris had I een a medical stu--deiit and played tho rob l of a fast youth at Ocean Grove

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cahlyi.e hariiis. whun he was first introduced to Mary Helen Potts. The rest of the story is easily summed up: Clandestine meetings, a secret marriage, an illegal operation twice performed to hide the tact of their union, discovery by the girl's mother and a demand" tor a public marriage, procrastination by Harris, and finally i tbo preparation of some headache pills for his young wife which caused her death by morphine poisoning. Harris

; shewed no concern at • her death, and refused i to allow her to be ; buried under his name. 1 Suspicion was aroused. tk- i a 1 and conviction Flower J > and ’WKbe xccut! on e c hair I \ided a base and b'dghted life. The fact that Harris s]»nt his last hours pi^aring a written statement of his inno-

cence is in keeping " s: with his character,and " r I ' Ejr r - Harris, only shows his Remarkable powers of secfetlveness and self-control. It was natural that he should wish to preserve the name of his family from utter obloquy and to sustain his mother’s unwavering faith in the innocence of her boy. The saddest scene in this remarkable drama—more tragic I far than that which ended all in the ' death-room Monday—was that in which the mother, after having fought oil i death for a year with all the intensity , of a mother's love, stood before her ; son’s prison cell to say a last farewell, j ; Few mortals come to know the anguish 'of such an hour. The Harris tragedy ; j is only one of a class which must •continue as long as there are meh who ; look upon women as Rowers to be ; plucked and flung away, and as long as i th^ere are women left to be deceived.

SLACK FELLOWS OF AUSTRALIA riiey Are Lazy, l iisetllod, and or a Kov- j iii£ LMspoNltion. । It is a fact that it is hard to teacn j the Australian aborigines anything ; useful. They are oat <rally lazy and indolent, unsettled, and of a roving disposition. ’They will not stay long at any place, and if raised from their i degraded position into more comfortable conditions necessitating the | breaking with their natural mode ot living, they wil] almost invariably return to this at their first opportunity, and the same may Le said of the halt castes, who otherwise are far superior to their sable parents and their relatives. It is an oft-repeated occurrence in Australia that a half-caste child has lieen removed when 8 or 10 years old to the surroundings of civilization, has been given an education equal to any white child of the better classes of the community, and notwithstanding this, upon coming into contact with his own race, has returned to the black’fellows’ camp, ignoring i book lea”ning, fine linen, and the । comforts of civilized life. In two capacities the black fellows : have been found satisfactory’—as j trackers and in the native police. I i can only find a correct expression for j their power of tracking by calling it instinct 1 have been with them searching for men whose every trace had been practically lost, but the black tracker has found them in spite of all. Thej’ are more sure than bloodhounds. When the track ceases, through some mysterious agency, they seem to know where to find it again. Ln the native police they arc very useful as trackers. This police consists of small troops of mounted, uniformed black fellows under command j of European officers. They act as gendarmes in the outlying districts and are principally used for the purpose of bringing marauding blacks to ; account It is not uncommon that the up-c-untry blacks spear the cattle on the station, or murder travelers or settlers, and it is principally in i such cases that the native police be- ; come useful. The manner in which they surprise I a camp of savage aborigines is charai teristic.. Having ascertained that t hey are near a camp some of them dismount and strip to the skin. Then they fasten their carbines t > their । ankle by means of a piece of rope or I a chain, and, trailing it through the i long grass, approach the camp. The unsuspecting blacks come to meet their sable brothers, when, j quick as lightning, the troojcrl stoops, brings his carbine to a level ; and sends (loath and destruction into J the camp. The aboriginal thinks a good deal ' more of his dogs than of his women. I | Digs are always bund about the! : camp in large numbers. They are of a mongrel t reed and generally starved to ferocity. The black fellow in most places is a polygamist and his wives arc used for carrying everyth.ng from their babies to tlieir husl and's wean ns -including ail their camp paraphernalia, rations, or übo uia.i wish to transport. ' I wuile the lordly master marches along i ■ with perhaps a waddle or a bomcrang ! as the only burden to impede his jiroi gruss But it, as in nianv instanc- s, the I blacks be savage, the white men with ' whom they come into eunta t are no ' 1 1- -s six The life of a black fellow is , ; counted as nothing, and the depre- ! ; dations perpetrated upon them by i settlers are numerous and often par- i ticularly cruel. The-pea ring of a few head of catt’e 1 on a station, where thousands are I grazing on the runs, has often cost the lives of many bla’k fellows, and 1 know of several instances where ■ the camp has been raided and the ' w.-men carried away by white men, while it is a fact that there arc seu- ' tiers who have made it a p int to shoot any black fellow foun 1 on their • vast domains, to avenge some murder committed in the first place by 1 the blacks.—Californian. \ on Siemens’ Fir 4 Patent. It may not be generally know that ; Von Siemens applied for his first I patent from the cell of a prison. After graduation from the artillery school in Berlin, the joung man, then only 21 years old, was attached ।to a regiment in Wittenberg. It was I there he began his experiments, to the great horror of his landlady, who upbraided him day aftei day for 1 staining his clothes, furniture, and the window panes with gold, silver, ' and acid spots. She could not see | the use of “wasting money for such I things.” But Von Siemens went on ■ with his experiments, and with stain- , ing his furniture and clothes. He tie- - came, too, the life -of the" garrison, i i and one of its most popular members. । Hi« popularity, however, led to his : I taking part ot second in a duel be- ! tween two of his comrades. z\s a • i result, he was sentenced to five years' ! i imprisonment in the fortress of । Madgeburg. The landlady was the ■ only person in Wittenberg who was j ! 'Ucj&PW’j 4?- ! । ] Artuie, adds the World’s Progress, i .In the cell in the fortress, how- ! ever, he was allowed to fit up a lab- I ' oratory and there continue his expert- । ments. There, too, a month after I ’ his incarceration, he perfected his I ' method of galvanic gilding and ap- ! plied for the patent from the prison i cell. It was granted, and with it a j I pardon. A pardon in all probability I | was never received with less glee, i Siemens had other experiments un- । dor way in his prison workshop, and ' begged to be allowed to stay a while ■ longer in prison to complete them. , But the keeper sent him away with the declaration that such a course would lx- an insult to his king and commander. Siemens then went to ' Berlin.-

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JUST GLANCE OVER THIS AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATE INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogue ot the Week's Important Occurrences Throughout the state— Fires, Accidents, i rimes. Svictiles. Ltc. Minor State News Mus. Ware, a woman of 90 years died at her home near Milligan. Yard-master Tit J than was instantly killed bv the cars at Washing ton. There are 3.286 children of school age In Crawfordsville, a gain of 164 over last vear. Dunkirk and Redkey, which lie about three miles apart, are to be linked by an electric railroad. The Boone County Fair Assoeiation will hold its annual fair at Lebanon August 21. 22, 23, 24 and 25. Mr. William Commons, Secretary of the Union City Health Board, writes that “spotted" fever is not prevalent in that vicinity, as reported. j Lightning struck the residence of i Thomas Vanhoy, in Shoals. It did con- • siderable damage, but Mrs. Vanhoy, ! who was in the house, was uninjured. Vigo County Commissioners has refused the petition for an increase of the ! salaries of the Judge of the Circuit Court I and the Judge ot the ‘^Superior Court uu- ; der the new law. A riKE was caught in the Little Pine Creek at English which measured 32 inches. In the stomach of the fish was found a leather purse containing a well preserved letter and a lead pencil. August Kekwien, at Clay City, has a freak in the shape of a seven-legged kitten. The little animal has two bodies, united at the shoulders. There are four legs on one body and three on the other. North Manchester is to have a complete system of water works. The contract was awarded to Cone & Co. of Chicago, for $27,000, and the work is to be completed within one hundred days. At the Montgomery County declamation contest, held at Crawfordsville, the : first prizes were won by Emery Steele and Mamie Webb; second prizes by Howard Douglas and Josie Fennofeather. Charles Smith of Galveston, Cass County, got a judgment for SBOO at Peru , against the Panhandle Railroad for inI juries resulting from being hit by a mail • sack thrown from a train by a postal I employe. A few miles west of Mitchell, in Martin County, a sawmill boiler exploded, fatally wounding Francis Baker and seriously wounding three others, whose names are not known. The boiler was torn to atoms. G. H. Higdon of New Castle, has been granted patents and trade marks on a compound used to make lemon pies. He ! has already commenced the manufacture I of the stuff and several tons of sugar i and many thousand lemons are used I daily. y The Tucker well, just drilled in by ' the lowa Oil Company at Portland, is i Rowing 3,000 I arrels a day. Four two- ■ inch lead pipes are required to conduct j the oil to the tanks. As most of the Indiana oil wells flow the waste of gas is enormous. John Kirk of Vincennes, who killed his brother-in-law, Luther Smith, last January, and who has been out on bail, . was re-arrested the other day and placed in iail, the grand jury having retn—- ’ an inrirntm.-ni - murder i m the first degree. Hagerstown is determined to have natural gas, if possible. Two wells have been drilled there at an expense of $2,500, and work will soon begin on a third one in an effort to find natural gas. An expert has declared that the gas is there । and the citizens are bound to find out. Michael (>’Reilly, an inmate ot the ■ Soldier’s Home, at Marion, was struck !bv a Panhandle train and killed. He j was fifty-six years old, and came to the j Home last Novem er from Chicago, ' where his wife now lives. He was a I member of the Ninth Pennsylvania Cav- ! airy. Rufus Baulk and George Cutsinger • of Needham Station, have been lodged in jail at Shelbyville, charged with plac- , ing barrels of salt and crossties on the j tracks of the Franklin and Martinsville : branch of the Big Four, near Needham, i on the night of April 2, for the purpose 'of wrecking a passenger. The place i would have made a very serious wreck, 'as it was on a trestle. The young men ' confessed and are held for trial. The: dedication of the M. E. Church of Noblesville, was an event that possessed : some remarkable features, not the least of which was the wonderful success of i these people in paving off their entire church indebtedness. The church owed > $12,630. The day set apart for the dediI cation had arrived, it was raining, the • clouds hung low, the outlook was anything but cheerful, tut Dr. Payne said j “the Mctho'dists never fail,” and so he j undertook the work of securing the payI ment of this debt, and by the close ot ' the evening service more than $13,000 had been secured and the entire debt bad i been wiped out, a surplus of several i hundred dollars being left. The Methodi ists of Noblesville are jubilant, and । commenced a series of revival meetings j in their new church. The appointments of the Trustees for ' the Northern anyl Southern Hospitals ; have been. a«-rrthfhced bv the Governo--1 Dennis Uhl, of the Northern Board, was j reappointed, and the new member of this i board is John L. Forkner of Andersen. ! The appointees to the Southern Board i are William L. Swormstedt of Evans- : ville, an active young business man, coni nected with one of the banks, and SeliI man Gimble of Vincennes. The latter . is one of the most prominent Jews of the i State. The position on the State Board j tion^f Mrs. Fairbanks, has been offered , Dr. Mary P. Spink, who is coane^gd : with Dr. Fietcner’s sanitarium. She ! has the subject under advisement. This I concludes the’appointive work of the ! Govenor/as far as the law is concerned. Hon. John F. Rodabaugii, repre- ' sentative in the Legislature from Allen I County, has assumed charge as manager jof the daily Fort Wayne Press. The i paper has been managed by C. C. Philbrick, of Columbus, but Mr. Rodabaugh has had an interest in it, and will now own the plant. Representatives of a New Yt rk syndicate have contracted with the Shelbyville Electric Street Railway Company to put in a complete line and have the same in operation by August 1. The company reorganized, with Judge Hord ; President, Ed. Major Secretary, and Scott Ray Treasurer.