St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 20, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 December 1893 — Page 7

AGRICULTURAL NEWS A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Why Young People Drift from the Country to the City—How to Get Rid of Cockroaches—Bronze Turkeys—Things to Remember, Making Farm Life Attractive. The great development of the country that began almost immediately after the war of the rebellion drew a large number of farmers’ sons to the ' cities. Many of them were attracted ' by the advantages offered in busi- I ness and others had been unfitted for । the quiet life of the country by their experience while in the army. This current still sets steadily cityward, and its results were real Ged in the last census, when one third of the population of the country was found in cities of 8,000 people and over. It has been increased by the abandonment of nearly all the old-time amusements that were once in use-in the country. The singing school, the apple-paring bee, Ihe busking bee, and the other forms of innocent amusement that were in vogue । twenty-five years ago have nearly all I gone into disuse. ! When the barrenness, the isolation । and the hard work of farm life are taken into account, and the attractions which city life offers to the young, the past drift away from the country is easily explained. But it is likely that this force is being spent, and that another census will see a smaller peicentage of the population of the country than now living in the cities. The overcrowding, the lack of work and the hardship that must be endured by the pour in cities are preaching their sermons and turning the attention of many to the country. The progress of science and invention are also certain to take much of the isolation from life in the country. The cru-ade for good road-, . which promises in the near future to substitute well-built highways for the muddy, rutty country roads of to day is one means. The constant cheapening of electricity, which must soon girdle the country highways with roads, is another means; and the : bicycle, which every farmer’s boy and ' girl ought to know how to ride, is a third means of placing the farm in cheap, quick, and easy communication with other farms, and with the town and city also. Every means that will tend to ' spread the people over the country I and restore farm life to its former dignity and contentedness ought to be encouraged. The American people would be happier and more health-

ful, their lives would be purer and more useful, if the old e tuilibrium between the city and the country s were brought back again. The in- । creasing disposition of well-to-do people to go to the country early and t stay late will act as an incentive to i / draw other people there by adding to ; the social advantages. The greater security and comfort of life on the farm over city life no one can dispute, and if to these features the means for more healthful amusement and more frequent mingling with men can be added, the health, wealth, and happiness of the Nation will be increased many fold.—Philadelphia Press. Bronze Turkeys. The bronze turkeys usually are the best for raising, as they can be mace to produce very tender, sweet meat, while their carcasses when properly fattened are very heavy. In fact, they surpass all other breeds, both in weight and hardiness. The young turkeys before this time should be good-sized birds, and those that have gathered up a living on the farm and in the fields and woods during the summer are in excellent condition for the fattening for the holidays. As a rule, turkeys can find their living in the woods and fields better than chickens, but they should not be kept without grain feed too long. If they have been accustomed to the fat, juicy worms of summer they aie very ready to make a change of diet. The ' fattening period for market should ‘ cover several weeks. It is better to give them all they will eat for four weeks than for two weeks. Give them good food only, for everything that they eat now goes to make meat, and if such things as onions, bitter weeds, and decayed fruits and vegetables are given to them their meat | will have a bad odor and flavor. The ' food during the fattening period really has much to do in giving the ' turkeys fine, white, - well flavored I meat. Too much exercise is also bad for them, and they should be shut up most of the time. Corn is the great fattening food, and if one is situated that chestnuts are easily obtained it is well to feed them on these, too. They certainly flavor the meat a little, and the turkeys are very fond ■ of them. Plenty of pure water and milk help the turkeys at this time, i Sweet, rich milk is good for them, i and they are very loud of it—lndependent Cockroaches. I have been successful on several occasions in ridding my house of these disgusting creatures, says a correspondent in an exchange, and can sympathize with housekeepers who are alliicted with their presence. They abound mostly in the kitchen, in the neighborhood of the sink and range. I would, in the first place, putty or plug up with wood all cracks and holes that furnish harboring places. In the second place 1 would, the last thing in the evening before retiring, by means of a bellows fitted for the purpose, blow insect powder freely over the floor and so as to make a cloud in the air. This can be done every other night at first, then less frequently; this use of the powder will also destroy all the flies.

Lastly (and quite necessary for com- j plete success) powdered borax must I be shaken in considerable quantity j on the lloor all along the baseboard of the walls so as to make a strip ' about three or four inches in width. This must not be swept up by a cook who is anxious tohave a neat kitchen, but left for several days and then renewed if found desirable. I do not know the philosophy of the use of ( borax, but it is efficacious in banishing the intruders. Women as Milkers. A correspondent in Country Gentleman says: ‘We have several times i had an arrangement with wives of I our tenants for milking morning and ! evening, and have paid ten cents for j each service—that is twenty cents per day. This is has d upon an‘hour’s service at each milking, at the rate I of one dollar for a day’s work. In an hour’s time a good milker ought to ’ milk ten cows. There are several i reasons why women are preferable for j milkers when they can be had. or I when a portion of the force can be i women. Their natural dexterity is greater than that of men, and they will milk with more rapidity and with greater ease to the cows, which means that they will get mo;e milk, j and the udders of the cows will be । kept in better condition. The pres- । ence of women at milking time checks I rude conversation and boisterous conduct. and the quieter the stable can be kept the better, especially if you have any nervous cows. The men are not apt to neglect the thorough cleaning of the stalls or brushing of the cows in the occasional absence of the proprietor if they know that women are to aid in the milking. The average man. born, or long resident in this country,looks upon every woman as a lady, and entertains for her a respectful courtesy which keeps him upon his good behaviour in her presence. Anyone will be making a good move in introducing as many women as he can among his milkers.” Salve for Tree Wounds. Tree trimming is in order, and many limbs will be cut off unavoidably, No stump should be left, but the cut should be made close to the trunk and the would should be painted thoroughly as soon as it has : seasoned for a few weeks. Left to i decay in the weather, it will soon admit water to the heart of the tree, when rapid and certain destruction follows. No preparation is as cheap to buy and apply, and none more i eiticient than good white or red lead and linseed oil. A very little mineral paint may be added if desired to make the paint somewhat harder. Use no turpentine. Some make the mistake of painting the w'ound when it is made. Paint and oil cannot adhere to a wet

surface, but will peal off, or will let sap and water blister beneath it. Very soon the application is valueless. I have never detected any ill effects from such use of paint—Exchange. Things to Kemember. ( Tea-trays and all japanned goods should be cleaned with a sponge wet with warm water and a little soap. Lay a drain from the cellar which will keep it dry. It will make it a more suitable place for storing provisions and more healthful to live above. Half the battle in washing dishes is keeping the. dish-cloths and towels clean. Washing out once a week in ammonia water should never be neglected. It’s about time for the little red ant, but if you will tie lumps of camphor in paper and leave them about his favorite haunts, you will ward oil the visitor. To take iron mold out of linen hold the spots over a tankard of boiling water and rub with juice of sorrel and salt, and when the cloth is thoroughly wet dip quickly in lye and wash at once. Articles of food that are damp or juicy should never be left in paper. Paper is merely a compound of rags, glue, lime and similar substances, with acids and chemicals intermixed, and when damp is unfit to touch things tfiftt are to be eaten. A free application of soft soap to a fresh burn almost instantly removes the fire trom the flesh. If the injury is very severe, as “soon as the pain ceases apply linseed oil, and then dust over with fine flour. When this covering dries hard, repeat the oil and flour dressing till a good coating is obtained. When the latter dries, allow it to stand until it cracks and falls off. as it will do in a day or two, and a newskin will be found to have been formed where the skin was burned. Modern Rip Van AV inkles. Two Neapolitan brigands,Vircenza Cieco and Giuseppe Rosa, have been recently set at liberty after forty years’ imprisonment. It is impossi--1 ble to describe their astonishment at [ the sight of the railways, telegraphs, ) tramwas, and other modern inven- ; tions, which had not been drempt of in their younger days. Still, they are not happy. They co nplain that ■ when walking in the streets of Naples they do not meet a single face the? know, not even that of a former ■victim. Signor Cii-pi represents a ; paternal government; and the for- ! lorn condition of the poor fellows I having awakened his sympathy, he has furnished them with the means to return to their native mountains. Bank Note Paper. The Bank of England note is not of the same thickness all through. ' The paper is thicker in the left-hand corner, to enable it to take a better and sharper impression of the vig- , nette there, and is also considerably , thicker in the dark^hadows of the center letters and under the figures at the ends. Counterfeit notes are ■ invariably of one thickness.—Chicago Tribune.

i TO WRECK THE EXPRESS. : Eight Men Attempt to Cut a Dake Shore Freight in Two. I Anotho- desperate attempt to rob the New York fast express, No. 12, on the Lake Shore Railroad.was made near Goshen, Ind., Saturday night. The attempted hold-up was conducted on a plan new in the annals of modern , train robberies, says a Goshen dispatch, i but was bre ught to an end disastrous to the would-! e robbers by the heroic resistance of the train crew. The first sec tion of No. 60, a fast meat train, pulled cut of Elkhart at 10:23, with orders to run to Ligonier without stopping. All seemed well with the train, but when about a mile out of Elkhart the engineer, John Hickok, and two brakemen were attacked by eight men. who, it is learned, had boarded the train at Elkhart and had been conI coaled between the cars. They overpowered the three trainmen who i were in the caboose and began un- | cot pling the la t eight or ten cars. ; They were foi’ed in this by the trainI men, assisted by the engineer and firei man, but could not be driven from the I train. Five miles farther on a second attempt was made, which was likewise unsuccessful. Tne next four miles to Goshen witnessed a continual battle between the train crew and the desperadoes for the control of the tiain. Conductor Hickok was badly bruised and pommeled, as was also one of the brakemen. The robbers secured four watches belonging to the train crew and all the money they had. Upon arriving at Goshen the engineer whistled for help, and Officers James Baton and Jerry Trump were quickly on the scene. But two of the desperadoes were captured. The plan of the robbers was one which would, if it had been successfully carried out, have caused great loss of life and money. They were endeavoring to leave a part of the fast freight standing on the track, into which the New York express, which was following close after, would dash. In the consequent wreck the robbers expected to get away with considerable booty from the express car. The fast express is the same train which was so successfully looted at Kessler two months ago and is always a very heavy train, never being made up of le s than thirteen or fourteen cars. The two attacks have aroused the Lake Shore officials, and every means possible are being put forth to capture the six robbers still at large. ACT OF A DRUNKEN FIEND. Jordan Kills His Wife, Iler Sister, and Parents, and Himself. As the result of a terrible tragedy growing out of a family feud five persons are dead in their country home, several miles east of Seymour, Ind., says a dispatch. Four years ago Clinton Jordan, then 21 years old, married a daughter of Joshua Foster, with whom he never lived happily. Last week they separated, and she returned to the h< me of her father. The other night Jordan met his father-in-law and accompanied him home in spite of his protests, as he feared trouble. Jordan promised to behave, but scon after his arrival at Foster’s home he began a quarrel. When Foster then ordered him out of the house Jordan fired at the old man. The ball missed him and struck Cora Foster, aged 17, in the head, killing her instantly. A second shot jut Foster in the head and kmeked him down. The old man picked himself up and ran about half a mile to the home of another of his sons-in-laws, William Powell. He fell unconscious and lingered until late in the afternoon, when he died. Jordan then turned his revolver on Mrs. Foster, his mother-in-law, shooting her in the neck, the ball ranging downward and causing a wound from which she died. Jordan's wife attempted to defend her mother, and he stabbed her repeatedly in the breast, hands and face, and ended by shooting her through the head. Jordan then opened his vest, placed the .revolver against his breast, and sent a ball through his heart. He dropped dead, falling across the dead body of his wife. The revolver was new and had evidently been bought with premeditated purpose of killing his victims. The knife with which the murderer's wife was so cruelly gashed was also new and long and had been fleshly sharpened. Jordan had an unsavory reputation and in frequent spells of intoxication was ugly and quarrelsome. All the other victims were peaceful and orderly citizens. Jordan, the assassin and suicide, was illiterate and stupid, but had always been considered harmless. BIG BLAZE AT HANNIBAL. Property Worth 5265.000 Wiped OutHelp from Quincy. The total loss by Saturday night's fire at Hannibal, Mo., foots up to $265,000, on which there is insurance aggregating $155,000. The fire broke out about 6 o’clock and resulted from the explosion of a lamp in the establishment of the Williams-Voorhis Dry-Goods company, the largest store in the city, occupying a three-story block on the corner of Main and Church streets. In ten minutes the building was a mass of flames, and the gale which prevailed carried the fire through the block and across the street. The Hannibal fire department was helpless, and two steamers from Quincy, 111., were fighting the flames within an hour after the lamp explosion. The combined forces were only able to confine the flames to the blocks first visited. The telegraph and telephone lines were inoperative, and the storm of ice and sleet which followed further crippled the wires in all directions. Thirty-five thoroughbred horses belonging to T. D. Hodgens, the king of Ontario horse breeders, were burned to death in his mammoth stables. They were valued at $30,000, insured for $12,000. The general store of J. M. Hollenbeck at Hatton, 111., in which was kept the postoffice, was robbed of SIOO and valuable papers. The postoffice was robbed of all its stamps. _ Editor E. W. Harris, of the Greenville, Tex., Herald, has been acquitted of the charge of murdering Dr. Yowell, whom he killed for slandering h’s wife. David W. Baird, aged 29 years, of Fort Madison, lowa, was killed by the accidental discharge of his shotgun. He was to be married at Christmas.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM I REFLECTION. A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instructive Wesson, and Where It May Be Found— A Eearned and Concise Review of the Same. Grateful Obedience. The lesson for Sunday. Dec. 3, mav be found in James 1: 16-27. „ • introductory. -vl t ? irow at tlle dice, Jem.” AH right, if you give me the first ■ f°w into the fire.” There is something to be cast aside for Christ. We have been studying of the things to do; now the things not to do. Someth im* to te thrown away—this is the real meaning of the word somewhat weakly rendered here “lay a] art.” “Putting away in the revision is better, but the word is stronger still, cast aside. It is the same term that is translated so forcefully at Rom. 13. 12, “Let us, thorefore, cast off the works of darknrfss. ” Surely here is something practaal for us to-day. POINTS IN THE LESSON. MrMy beloved brethren.” Does it sc,and a trifle formal, perfunctory? Ryad it a little more closely, as at first Witten, Brethren of mine, beloved. How cordial: how;, sincere! The thing we art to take care not to be deceived about is our conception of Ged and dealings with us. “Every good gift” is from him. Or to follow the more expre.-sive order of the Greek, every giving that > good, every gift that is perfect, is from above. In other words, God does nothing but what is good. With him is no “variableness, neither shadow of turning.” And so do not attribute evil to God. who is always good. Do not say when tempted, “I am tempted of God.'” God has some better purpose in our creation than this. “Os his own will,” or purposely, “begat he us with the word of truth that we might be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. ” Choice fruits, specimen fruits, select fi nits. This is the way God thinks of us and intends for us. Now get this thought of God into outown hearts, and our life and conduct will correspond. Be not deceived about it, for such dec pti n is itself sin. It is this same Greek word that opens our lesson to-day with which James closes his epistle. “Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him, let him know that ho which converteth a sinner from the error of his wav shall save a soul from i death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.” Be careful, bo not deceived in your thought of God, error means sin—death. And what is the lUe that corresponds with the true doctrine of God, the Father, the good Father? “Wherefore, my beloved brethren”—and here follow the characteristics, negative and positive, of a Godly life; obedient, lis- i toning, considerate speech, absence of wrath, filthiness and naughtiness put aw^y, doing what, ono hears, patient continuance in well-doing, a bridled to®rue, a clean and compassionate religsm. In short, let the superfluity (V^l i or overflow be as fr< ma fountain of Aire rather than of brackish waters. BeAt the life of God springing up like a full of living water in us. ami i not-the world life with its corrupt and corrupting flow. To this end keep j close to God, cordially know God, ' gratefully obey God. live for God here below, and Ue a witness before the world to the things that are heavenly and divine. HINTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. The subject of our lesson might better be True Religion, which of course ; includes “Grateful Obedience.” Encourage the class to name the qualities of true piety. What do you understand by religion? What would you term a religious act? Who is there that seems to be a truly religious man? What is there about him that suggests religion, pure and undefiled, to you? Such a discussion may prove profitable both for what it corrects and for what it commends. All the better for the “widows,” all the worse for the “world.” It is all of God, every good gift we see in the brotherhood, every grace has come down from the Father of lights; we are all begotten of him and to him we give the glory. “That is a wonderful case,” whispered the Salvation Army captain to his hearer the other day, as another rose to speak. “They are all wonderful.” was the instant respen-e. God's work is always wonderful. “The is the Lord's doing, and it is marveßns in our eyes.” There is a great deal of religion in Christian visitation and a great deal in the Christian hand shake. It means sympathy, heart help. The world craves such. Said George Graff, the reformed drunkard: “They have not been where I have been, and I don't believe God will Fave me.” He was listening to Christian testimony. “One night as I started to go out a lady took me by the hand and said, ‘God bless you, there's the making of a man in you? Oh. friends, those words took hoB of me.” Preachers and Sunday-school tcachor?,should, above all, be doers of the word they s eak: only thus can they win souls. It is ihe life that drives the truth home. Dr. Horton well says that it is the preacher's “chief concern not to prepare sermons but to prepare himself to deliver sermons.” Ait -r all, the man himself i.s the sermon, the lesson. The best preparation is through prayer. Prayer lifts the heart to God and gets for the life God's daily refreshing and renewing. Indeed the first act in the doing of the word is prayer, and it is the indispensable condition of all after-doing. Do you want power? Hear Berridge: “Much reading and thinking may make a popular preacher, but much secret prayer must make a powerful preacher. ” Next Lesson —“The Heavenly Inheritance.”—! Pet^in-12. “I am afraid of waking baby, for poor Robert has walked the floor every night with him for the last three weeks.” “How dreadful! And has the baby learned to talk yet?” “No, but he has learned to swear.”— Life. “Everything I write I lay aside for forty-eight hours before giving it : to the editor.” said Smith. “And the i editor,” said Brown, “before giving it | to the public, lays it aside for forty- ! eight years.”—Exchange.

CARLISLE ON FINANCE. The Secretary of the Treasury Speaks In Favor of Gold. At the 125th annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York Hon. J. G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, occupied the post of honor. In response to the first toast of the evening, which was “Commerce Demands, and the Honor of the Country Requires, That the Obligations of the United States Shall Be Paid in Coin Current in Any Market of the World, and That the Question Shall Be Settled for All Time and Beyond Controversy,” Secretary Carlisle in substance said: Money and its representatives constitute the tools with which the merchant and the tanker perform their parts in the numerous and complicated transactions necessarily occurring in the growth and development of our trade at home and abroad. It is not possible to do perfect work with imperfect instruments, and if it is attempted thelconsequences Will not fall upon you alone, but must be felt : sooner or later in every part of the land. Con- . fidence would be destroy ed, trade would be interrupted. the obligations of contracts would be violated, and all the evils which have Invariably attended the use of a base or fluctuating currency would afflict not the commercial and financial classes only, but the country at large. But our commercial interests are not confined to our own country; they extend to every quarter of the globe, and our people buy and sell in nearly every market ot the civilized world. A very larjre part of our farmers, mechanics, and other laboring people find constant and profitable employment in the production and transportation of commodities for sale and consumption in other countries, and the prices of many of our products are fixed in foreign markets. Without exception these prices are fixed in the markets of countries having a gold standard or measure of value either by express provision of law or by a public policy which keens their silver coins equal in exchangeable value to the gold coins at the legally established ratio. I think it may be safely asserted that this country could not long maintain its present position as one of the most conspicuous and impoitant members of the great community of commercial nations which now controls the trade of the world unless we preserve a monetary system substantia ly, at least, in accord with the monetary systems of the other principal nations. There can be no international legal tender without an international agreement, but there must, from the very necessities of the case, always be a common basis upon which bargains are made and a common currency in which balances are settled. No one nation can determine for the others what that basis shall be or what that currency shall be. It may establish a currency for itself and for the use of its own people in their domestic trade, but the value of that currency will be ultimately measured ami conclusively fixed by the international standard, whatever that may be. The stamp on its coins attests their weight and fineness, but it adds nothing whatever to their intrinsic value, and nothing whatever to their exchangeable value in the markets of the world; so that a nation’s stock of international money always consists of its uncoined bullion and the bullion value of its coins. It caanot augment its stock of such money to auy extent whatever by overvaluing either gold or silver in its coinage laws, nor can it diminish its stock to any extent whatever by undervaluing either metal. Wiule the number of its nominal dollars, or hillings, or francs may be increased or diminished, as the case may be, the actual value of the bullion or coins will not be changed in the least, for no i act of Congress or other legislative body can repeal or alter the laws of trace or the laws of finance, and every attempt to do so must result in disaster sooner or later. No matter, therefore, what our monetary system may be here at home as established by our own laws, we must either relinquish a large part of our share in the commerce of the world or conduct our international trade upon such basis as the general judgment of commercial nations n'ay establish. We cannot possibly change th-s situation, and, consequently, t he only practical question is, whether i it is better to establish by law an inferior ' kin ! of money tor use at home exclusively and another kind for use abroad, or to have all our money good enough for use in every market where our people trade. I believe tire people of the United .States are entitled to have for use in their domestic trade just as good money as any other people in the world have, and that they ore entitled to have just as much ot it as may be necessary to carry on their business regularly and profitably. "Whether it be gold or silver, or both, or paper based upon the coins of the two metals, the i people have a right to demand that it shall be in tact what it purports to be—a just and true I measure of value, or the representative of a i just and true measure of value. Gentlemen, the question whether the obligations of the United States will be paid in • coin currency in all the markets in the world has already been settled, and it has, in my opinion, been settled for all time to come. This does not imply that silver is to have no place in our monetary system. What is to be the ultimate fate of that metal is one of the problems which time^ and events alone can solve. How much of it can be safely coined ; and upon what conditions it can be safely I used are questions upon which there wil be wide differences of opinion, but after all tjiat cafi be said on both sides they will be finally determined by circumstances which canuot now be foreseen and by the natural increase of our population and the natural growth of our industries and trade. ADLAI’S SON MARRIED. Miss Helen L. Davis Becomes the Wife of Lewis G. Stevenson. Mr. Lewis Greene Stevenson and Miss Helen L. Davis were married Tuesday night at Bloomington, 111. The groom is the only son of Y 7 ice President Adlai E. Stevenson, and the bride the eldest daughter of William O. Davis, proprietor of the Bloomington Daily Pantagraph. A singular feature of this marriage is the fact that the contracting parties aie children of families strongly opposed to each other politically. Miss Davis is one of a family of three children. She has a brother older and a sister younger than she. She is an accomplished linguist and is of a decided literary turn. Young Mr. Stevenson was educated in the East, and has had some experience as a journalist. Heis now his fai her's private secretary. The wedding took place at the Second Presbyterian Church. Cne thousand invitations had been sent out for the ceremonies at the church, and that edifice was compactly filled. The church was most lavishly decorated with pure white chrysanthemums, and it presented a beautiful sight. The white of the flowers and the delicate green of the foliage were the only colors in all the wealth of decorations. After tlie ceremony a reception was held at the Davis residence and it was attended by nearly all of the 3UO invited guests. The bride and groom will sail early in December for Europe, and will spend a few weeks in Southern France. On their return they will take up tl.eir residence at the Hotel Normandie, Washington, D. C. “On, Doctor, I have sent for you, certainly; still i must confess I have not the slightest faith in modern medical science.” “Oh. that doesn't matter in the least. Y'ou see, a mule has no faith in the veterinary surgeon, and yet lie cures him all the same.'” —Tagliche Rundschau. Crusty old gentleman — Your singing, Miss Taylo”, is like attar of roses— — Miss Taylor (with a gratified smile) —Oh you are too flattering. Old gentleman (continuing)— A little of it goes a very long way.— Tit-Bits. “Kate, I do wish you would learn to pronounce your words properly. What can be wor-e than addressing , the author of your being as ‘Paw’?” Kate (w’ho has been there; ‘Taw Paw. ” —Exchange.

i AROUND A BIG STATE. I i — BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—3larriatjes and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Personal Pointers About Indianiaus. Brief State Items. The town of C randall is to be incor* porated. Several large eagles have been i killed in Brown County this fall. A man living near Metamora is 50 years old and has never had a tooth. Jerre Gallin an, L. E. & W. switchman, fell under the cars at Muncie, and was instantly killed. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, the wealthy murderess, has been granted a change of venue from Logansport to Kokomo. A committee has been name! at Anderson for the purpose of raising funds to care for the poor of that town. The Darnell puddling mills. Muncie, have been rented by a company who will operate the works making muck bar. RUDOLPh Shultz was fined SIOO and sent to jail for four months at LaPorte for fishing with a seine in Kankakee River To vaccinate or not to vaccinate is the question now being agitated at Terre Haute among the public school patrons. Diphtheria has broken out in Wernle Orphans' Home at Richmond. There are now five cases which were promptly quarantined. George Burden of Marion, a colored hoy, 8 years old. was accidentally shot and dangerously injured by his brother Levi, aged 14. While men were driving a well near Cobunbus, the drill passed through a log at a depth of $0 feet and struck an immense flow of gas at 2W feet. Mary Warren has brought suit against the Evansville Standard for $3,000 for malicious libel. She claims that the paper accused her of stealing. Elmer Lee of Edinburg, has brought suit for SIO,OOO damages against the Edinburg Starch Works Company for injuries received while in their employ. There are now five factories and over fifty buildings at Ingalls erected since last May. Ten brick residences were started this week, and every man in the town is at work. Fire destroyed the house and barn of widow Carter and the house of Tod Lewis, at Martinsville. Mrs. Carter's loss is $2,009: insured for SSOO in the JEtna, of Hartford. Conn. Miss Daisy Myers of Madison, is trying to locate her brother, from whom she was separated while a mere babe. It is thought that he lives in Wabash County and was adopted several years ago by a family named Lamb. George Hendrickson, who was injured a few days ago by a premature shot in Schufferman's mine, south of Brazil, is dead. Mr. Hendrickson was one of the wealthiest and oldest miners in the county. He leaves a wife and family. Miss Cyrena Stack, aged 15, who stole a horse and buggy from a farmer near Windfall, last week, and was captured with the rig in her possession, pleaded guilty at Kokomo, and was sentenced to six years in the Reform School. A Terre Haute jury has returned a verdict of S3OO damages against Park County in favor of Daniel Sappenfield. At a former trial a jury awarded S7OO damages. Sappenfield met withan accident on a county bridge which was ; out of repair. While in the act of lifting a door : lock from a shelf in the hardware store iof Charles Davis, in Wabash. John Cochran was stricken with heart disease and fell to the floor dead. He was 64 years old, and moved from Peru to Wabash in 1849. Four casualties occurred at Evansville one day recently. Minnie Proctor, aged 12. was burned to death by her clothes catching fire from burning leaves; George Dolier, aged 14, was thrown from a horse and killed: Peter Graef, a wealthy farmer, committed suicide by shooting himself: Edward Sweeney i'ell out of a barn loft and was fatally injured. There is a movement on foot in Fike and Daviess County to get a parole of a few months for Burr Hawes. Hawes, it will be remembered, was sent to the penitentiary from Petersburg last July for eight years for assisting in burning the Daviess County Courthouse. 1 His son, Edward Hawes, is now in Pike County circulating a paper for a parole and has got many signatures. Since Hawes' imprisonment his family have had a good deal of sickness. This, together wAh the condition of his business affairs at home, led his friends to 1 ask for the parole. One of tne baldest robberies ever perpetrated in Lawrence County occurred the other night a short distance from Enon Valley. The victim of tle robbery was Mrs. Mary Williams, the 1 aged wife of John Williams, a farmer. ’ Williams was away from home. At 11 o’clock there was a rap at the door, and when Mrs. Williams opened it she was confronted by three revolvers in 1 the hands of masked men. Tne old laay screamed once, when all three of ’ the men sprang upon her. and in a minute she was helpless, bound and gagged. After torturing her formore than an hour the old lady finally dis- : closed the hiding place of the money, and the robbers secured S2OO in gold, , after which they fled. Mrs. Williams was found next morning still bound and gaged. Her condition is serious, and it is probable that she will not survive the shock and the injuries she received. Robert PcxiuE. aged 92, died at his home on North Union street, Union City. Mr. Pogue is one of the oldest ■ pioneers in that section ol' the country, having settled there when Dayton was the nearest trading point. He built th< first house on the ground now occupied by Union City. Walter Wunderlich, a reporter t on the Evansville Journal, has brought suit against the Standard and Germania, japers of that city, ior SIO,OiX) f damages for libel. He claims that they asserted that he broke into the ’ cash drawer in the County Clerk’s office in search of a suppressed item.