St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 March 1894 — Page 7

DOMESTIC ECONOMY. TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. A Specialty Farmer Need Not Confine His Efforts to Ono Branch of Agriculture— Sow Clover Seed in the Snow-Oats for Horset. • Specialty Farming. If to be a specialty farmer means that a man must coniine all his efforts to one branch of agriculture, such as raising nothing but wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, hogs, horses, sheep, cattle, or any other particular thing, then the less specialty farming we have the better. Our brethren in the South tried specialty farming, the specialty being cotton, and it proved a curse to tnem, not ■ only as individual farmers, but as a people. Hut special farming don’t mean J anything of the kind: if it does I have never seen a modern specialty} farmer, nor have I ever read a line advocating such methods from the most enthusiastic specialist. I be- i Heve I voice the sentiments of all specialists when I construe it to I mean a system, a special system, or, } in other words, a speciai rotation or combination. Thus a man may have ! one or more crops, All his energies I and efforts are centered on that crop, ' it is the primary object This crop may be potatoes. He may and does raise clover, wheat, and corn, yet he raises them only that they may be the means of holding or increasing the fertilty of his soil and stimulating it to its best efforts to produce potatoes. While he may raise other crops, they -are only the means through which he expects to gain certain ends in view. Our specialty is butter, yet we raise wheat because it is the best way to get our ground I ack to clover for hay and to increase the fertility of our land. We raise corn because it is the foundation of dairy feed. , We raise potatoes becaus > they bring the money with which to buy bran and linseed meal. We keep a few hogs and a good many chickens to eat our skim milk; yet all our efforts are to make all the butter we can. Everything grown by this system of rotation, excepting hogs and chickens, goes into the mouths of our cows. They arc our machines for converting our farm products into cash. Butter is our money crop and our specialty’. So a man might, and I think every farmer should, make some branch of j agriculture a specially. I believe j the man that will take up some spe- ( cial system of farming or stock rasing and study his business and fol- i low it intelligently, is the man who | will succeed. It is an admitted fact that there is no money in general farming to day, yet we see men and read statements daily of men who are making money by special farming, not by growing one thing, but some special system.—Mercantile Exchange. Oats for Horses. Experience has proven that as a grain rood for horses few feeds are equal or superior to nats, says the American Agriculturist. Many farmers and teamsters, however, by ex-' perimenting, have decided u on a combination of feeds that, in their judgment, makes a ration superior to anything else obtainable. Some use a mixture of ground corn and wheat bran. Others feed the corn soaked with a sprinkling’of chopped stuff, while others get more value ' fiorn cut bay dampened and sprinkled witli ground feed. For those who are satisfied with a standard food and one that careless teamsters and stable men will not be liable t > injure horses with by overfeeding, oats will prove more satisfactory. When American corn is worth less than a cent a pound, and oats sell for over a cent and a quarter per pound, the feeding value is no doubt in favor of corn, but corn being very heating, great care must needs be exercised in i dealing it out. In fact, some horses are made sick by a few rations of maize. Constant feeding for two or thiee months deranges the system, I re curing a complete change of diet I and often necessitates the calling in of a veterinary surgeon. The thick i hull covering the oat kernel pre- I vents fast eating, consequently more i saliva is formed: which aids digestion, yet some horses eat so vigorously that many of the kernels are swallowed whole. When this fact is discovered, cither have the grain ground and fed dry or place several ' stones two inches in diameter in the feed box. These will prevent the j grabbing of a full mouthful or' grain at once, and thus cause twice the time to be spent in eating a given quantity. Mulching and Fruit Ripening. Prof. L. 11. Bailey of the Cornell Experiment Station has made experiments in delaying the blossoming and ripening of fruits by mulching the ground when frozen in winter. His conclusion are that nothing is gained by it except with plants like the strawberry, which <an be entirely covered by the mulch. Trees and shrubs which extended beyond the mulch covering budded, blossomed and rippened fruit as early as those not mulched at all. It is the condition of the outside air, not of the root, that hastens or retards blossoming in spring. A branch of a tree cut off and brought into a warm room in winter will frequently blossom. Th s is especially true of peach, cherry, and plum trees, which blossom before they put forth many l aves. Getting Rid of Rats. An Ohio farmer, writing to the American Agriculturist, says: On the barn floor I placed a 36-gallon kettle filled half full of rye. A plank

six feet long led from the floor to the top of the kettle. The rye was left in the kettle for about a fortnight, until the rats had become thoroughly ; familiar with the kettle and were ! making it the headquarters for their I nightly revels, with seeming conti- ' den e that no harm was intended, when, very treacherously, one evening, water was substituted for the grain, and a half-inch of chaff from i the barn floor concealed the water. [ The result was that twenty-one ■ drowned rats were forked out the first morning and sixty-two within a week, and after that no rats were seen for a year. Sowing Clover Seed on Snow. When the wind is still and snow lies evenly distributed over the field j is the best possible time to sow clover seed. Any inequalities in : seeling can then be easily seen and guarded against. There in no danger that the seed will be washed away as the snow melts, for long before that can occur the seed will have settled through the snow to the ground. The darkness of the seed as compared with snow retains in it more of the sun’s heat and if the i seed be sown in the morning, with a clear sun shining through the day, not a clover seed can be seen on the I snow at noon. As the seed settles below the surface it leaves a hole where it is below the sweep of cold winds, and the sunshine has even greater power in warming it than before. The melting of the snow washes a little soil over the seed, helping it to root better after it has germinated. What Farmers Owe tn Ind'ans. The American farmers who first settled this country learned much from Indian cultivators of the soil. There was no corn grown in Europe until it had been introduced from America. The Indians had several varieties, including pop corn and sweet corn. They had also some excellent peas and beans, and our best j modern varieties were improvements i on the stock which the Indians supplied. They had also pumpkins, j squashes, and melons. Fish as a ferj tilizer was an Indian discovery. The fish too fat and oily for food were used as a manure, dropping a fish in ; a hole dug in the ground, covering it with a little earth, and planting the corn over it. We make better fish fertilizer now than this, getting rid of the oil, which has little manorial value, but the idea of using fish as a manure had never occurred to European farmers until they found it pra ticed hi re. Note.*. Don’t .et traveled eggs at once, but rest them until next day in a quiet, cool, dark place. Or, if you mu t set them at once, don't condemn the seller if they don’t turn out strong, healthy chicks. Plan to raise a few potatoes the coming season. When the conditions are favorable for growing them in 1 erfection it is a fairly profitable side is ue—in any event the tri ing trouble i-; more than off et by having a variety for one’s own table. A writer sav- the highe-t record of butter fat in milk he ha< seen was 12.54 percent., and the lowest A7O per cent. While one cow produces nearly five times as much butter as the other, it is reasonable to suppose that the expense of keeping was about । the same lor each cow. No farmer should be satisfied with less than one pound of butler i er day from a cow. He should aim ure cows that will exceed this amuu. ' i but a ] ound should be the minimum j product of a cow, and even then there will be but little profit, unless , the whey and 1 uttermilk are u.«ed for pigs. Double the value of straw by feeding it in combination with oil meal. This greatly increases its nourishing pro.erties. Fodder and hay may i also be made to produce more beneficial results by the addition of a little oil m al. It will increase the appetite and improve the health and vigor of all classes of stock. The following is a much-recom-mended combination for poultry-food: ■ One hundred pounds corn, cracked fine; 100 pounds shorts or middlings; 0 pounds rye: 50 pounds clover hay, cut line; 10 pounds buckwheat: 10 pounds meat; 5 pounds linseed oilmeal: 10 > ounds charcoal, and 25 pounds oyster shell. Total 360 pounds. alfalfa is an excellent honey plant on which the bees will work, and it will iroluce several cuttings of hay during the season. Experiments show that it can be grown in this section, but it requires clean land and freedom from weeds for the । first year. Once established, it remains as a permanent crop, and endures drouth well, owing to the great depth to win h its roots penetrate I into the soil. Greek Humor. When, after Salamis, Xerxes was in full flight from Asia, and theTj^rcrowded vessel, so the story ran, was laboring in the storm, Xerxes, getting frightened, asked the Captain whether there was any 7 chance of safety. “None,” said the Captain, , “unless the ship islightened otsomeof its ] assengers.” Whereupon Xerxes, turning to the Persians, exclaimed: “Now is the time to show your loyalty to your King, for on you my safety depends.” And without a word, the well trained courtiers made ' obeisance and leaped into the sea. Thus unburdened, the ship arrived at the land, whereupon Xerxes presented the Captain with a golden crown for having saved the King’s life, and then ordered his head off for having caused the death of so many noble Persians —The Westminster Review. Not ore boy in fifty can tie a double bow knot, but a girl can tie one before she is able to walk.

COXEY ON THE MARK e STARTS FROM MASSILLON, WITH ABOUT 150 The Crusade Against the National Capijl j. Begun Under Discouraging Cir^^ stances—Crowds of Spectators Lin® a Roads—Scenes in Camp at Canton. | “Commonweal” Sets Forth. * Coxey’s army of the commonweal left Massillon, Ohio, Sunday forcdoonl and by night had covered the firs! eight miles of the long heralde- 1 ' jnirc® to Washington. A Canton, patch says that as the column pass’’* through the public square of the cW of its birth there were just 122 , p’e on foot, in wagons, or horsebacta T’he national colors wore carriedLaP the head of the column by Sam JouS > son, a Massillon negro. Carl BrO>« ' came next,mounted onas^endid horse weighing nen He w^fe^Elgh W? boots, cordur^ trousers, a buckskin jacket, a A®

overeoA^, an<U w-fiy sombrero. Doc Fil® land, of Pittsburw’ was close behind with two aids. The! came Coxey in hi phaeton, with i coachman driving i spirited team. Mrs Coxey, her litth son Legal Tender and her sister, Misl Jones, drove witl them to the firs'

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stop. A light running gear, having i speaker's platform, was next. It is b accommodate Carle Browne and hi: panorama illustrating his harangui against the national banking systea as the monster of the age. Lew Smith, the great unknown! headed the: ection of footmen. Heis the man who made such an incendiary speech in Massillon that ho was not atlowed to speak the second time. People in the crowd the first timo ho spoke thought he wa; Fielden, the Chicago anarchist, and so announced. He replied: “I am the great unknown an 1 must remain so." He is hands mi, commanding and well dressed and maintains good discipline. Seven-ty-four footmen followed A covered wagon accompanied the band of fourteen members. Two wagons accompanied the tents and a commissary. and an ordinary farm wagon loaded with horse feed brought up the

®uv T i £ AV ' BANNER lAIIRIED BY COXEY’S MEX.W’ j rear. The first stop was ma de at He®’ urban, and here, according to jt a scriptural id a which Browne duces wherever possible, there wiP*- ; feast of loaves and fishes- ryebbr a canned salmon, and oiled sa»df I After an hour's rest the order t^®^ i in was given. There were eruits by this lime a dozen horsemen—and pobabiy 15) mw® ^ be through the city'' and to Camp L 5 ® ton. ju>t outsidi the citv. wh? 1 “S" night was spent. Marsharßrowg oiled, that the name. age. residence^™ * or cupation < f every member is ^>P en t get her with a satisfactory rcW na enlisting. The list was not tramp in public ga c, bi t Browne will

denies that there is a single^ l ' - , thee mpany. He says that c start ana join in eamp all along the r(F w assured. Coxey is elated with the ,rd Massays a grand success is ni'jf\ Before leaving Camp Con

sillon. a meeting was held. Carl Browne delivered his idea of a sermon. He read from the scriptures, selecting several pas-’ .-ages from Reve’a- ( tion. He took the ground that all of the prophecies had been

fulfilled. He ex- /?n heads and ten p ained the passage Ai said, was the of the beast with sevf s financial conhorns. Now Y'ork-^JbP lornssuch graspbeast, thA seven He^’ies as the Standspiraciet, and the tei<fcalroad trusts, and

ing. grinding raonoj® urd oil Trust, the, March. the lar d trust <. uRv” of unemployed Purpose of ?<r c h to Washington J. H Coxey’s ‘ r a^ relief from i as (u^anized to J^SM^viated with i < yi-.es-. xjr fc 'id t ^^?anwaiion m as a-sis a^S*” Cab »r unions, similar orfarlnS'S^^v ited to join intart. ganizations'wM^KM'eie adiLe.l t . All organization® if possible, to t J cure a wagos ^SAppeals to 1 opuliaG camp utensil^. ^Kioties throughout the and various flailed at inte.va-s ior country wer<3 .f Hl several months w of tho trip is an interThe itinera^ has been so arranged esting one. Sug’ 3 can be be ^ d ’ n ^eadthat day me ^aere labor troubles are ing cities fU Ssjrom these centers Mr.

abundant./ jsto secure the greatest Coxey Qig «“ ' Vcruits. Arrangements, it number oft— -Concluded for seven thouis said, Wer —B of land in Washington, sand acre^B iwator Stewart, of Nevada, owned by »1 ga fce army is to eama Edupon whicAl one, of the Natim al Twcn. itor. RedsaT® When the army rva • ms is Redstone will meet it w.t that cihtWa unloved of Washington and . the and escort it to th- < amtol i V'Cinitji^Kjßiese pilgrims have surroumi'-u WhealßEOtolfith a hollow square, tney into groups according i 0 will sggfHEl Sessional districts, and wo 1 Epfiron their Representatives to call Tney will ba ] etitioned to eotE — he arm v during its stay. inspection of Coxeys ^l^l' jWEp; before the march began disci-»t .. ®ess for the march, a round

§ in diameter » U9ed by a I I wo smaller tents,'24 a ®®«mLssary w^gon Uioo ° l ei ^ ht t Oll3 capacity, anambnc® W on ’ with medical and surai--^StijSoWh3 and numeroU3 smalfer a;Lv rh? h i • acc ? raino ^ation of the bl ” Clrcus tent is to be tor th sleeping quarters at night, and ’ .W the meetings en route, when t n B ^ atherlsto e inclement for the open be .^ ora anded topass of Odn nnn e - pr i° vid i e ' i fol tho isomer 'be ’2°2 IQ l l e a tendoi ‘ notes, to at th^ Cnd ? d the Secretary of War I l^meK. ° f a month in I Stains toals in tho various SI t P im n labor is to b « Paid Other KH y - f °/ ° ghl - boui ' 3 ' WOl'k- AnOthei bill is to provide that any State L, or municipality down to a village desiring to make public improvements may deposit with the Secretary of the i Treasury non interest bearing bonds one-half the assessed s^^iuation of it s property upon which Secretary of the Treasury shall is--4 at 98 ccnb o{ their ~ i a i J 14 hie. Jerry Simpson will bo askedj^ntroduce these bills. , ‘ FATAL TO THE FRUITS. f Country Visited by Freezing Cold—Drop ol Fifty Degrees. A- According to the press dispatches the recent cold snap has been fatal to the fruits. Throughout Illinois, Indiana, lowa and Michigan the tompera- । ture has been unusually low for this season. At Anna, 111., the thermometer fell to about 20 degrees. The frost did great damage to fruit and vegetab es J throughout the section. The buds of the pears, cherries and early apples are thought to bj killed. Strawberries are injured some, and there will be no peach crop whatever, this freeze having finished the ruin which the Janu- I . ary co d snap began. Cairo, 111.—The temperature here . has fallen several degrees below freezing. Tae damage to fruit growers aid ' । gardeners in this vicinity will reach , I many thousand dollars. Mascoutah. Ill.—ln two days there has been a drop in the temperature of from fifteen to eighteen degree \ Peaches, pears and plums are ruined. Detroit.^ Mich. — Dispatches from various sections of Michigan report the temperature at la. - below the freezing point everywhere. The therm mieter registers 10 degrees at Sault Stc. Marie, 12 at Alpena. 16 at Grand Haven and 20 in Detroit. Th > cold wave in Michigan is accompanied by northwest winds and light snow in some portions. Fruit-growers will suffer almost universally. St. Louis, Mo. —The freezing weather that now prevails throughout th*, section of the Southwest is unprecedented for the mon h of March, and is causing | i consternation among fruit and vegetaI ble growers, who will be heavy losers I therefrom. Ice an inch thick formed Lin this city, and as far south as San .wAngelo, Tex., it was a quarter of an ® n ch thick. Muncie, Ind. -Ti e temperature has topped thirty degrees, an I Muncie nn ‘ ’be severest bliz- i WrWrtfe/ tho aeaMiu. <m? grower says i I * WssfeaKi® oMttion <>f ihe j

j f ^W^basb, Ind. It is Indiovod thoT i limit is all kiUed. Wheat wnieh had grown rank is a so injured. Valparaiso. Ind Wheat is thought to have been killed. Burlington, la I asto* Sunday wl! , be memorable as the e ddC't in the i memnrv of the old -t inhabitant Ihe I mercury was near zero. Many flowers I with which the churches were deio- ' rated were fros od during tho night. I Fruit buds suffered severely. Buffalo. Wy.—l^ast week s blizzard. | continuing seventy lio ir-. has i.evei Iwon appr< ached in s verity by any other storm in t :is locality. I rathe 1, entirely suspended, and communication bv wire with the out-ide world has only just been restore 1. Snow is driftI ed from ten to twenty feet deep in e\I erv direction. The lo>s of stock is I tert ibie. i St Paul. Minn. The temp-rature reached the vicinity of six degrees lie- ! low zero, which was the lowest record for the month.

DENOUNCE BRECKINRIDGE. Social Purity Leagm - of New York Wants Congress to I-xpel H ni. The fourth annual business meeting ami election of officers of the National Christian I eague f r the i’rotect on ot S cial Puritv was held m New A ork at the headqua ters of ti e league, 33 I East 22d street. One cause of the lom T continuance of the meeting was the animated diseu sion concerning Congre-sman Breckinridge, in winch the ladies became involved. They finally decided to send a memorial to Congress prote-ting against allowing Congressman Breckin idg ■ to retain his seat. They also decided to -end a communication to Mrs. Breckinridge calling upon her in the mime of womai> - ■» . ._ „ zx »• Is I >fin (I APt 11 L O

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hood to renounce her husnanu ana tv refuse to live with him longer. In addition to this they voted. t> call upon the presbytery with wh c i Col. Breckinridge is connected. asking to have the Congressman ex;e.e;. these actions were taken upon th. - m -tion ot Air^fglarke Bell, Pre-i lent of tu^ Woman’s Health Protective Association. Overflow of Sews. Two children were killed by the caving in of a dugout home at Enid, O- T - , V Mus John Johnson and her son were killed by lightning at Lawrenceville, Ga. George Draper, Pi evident of the Cincinnati Common Council, is violently insane. I Joseph Leuvenmark, champion

high diver of the world, died at s>an Francisco. . . . Telegraphers had their inning before the conference to settle I mon 1 acific labor troubles. Enginemen will follow. Mrs. Cornelia A. Spindler, a widow at Defiance. Ohio, has sued Brice M. ALhouse for *5,009 for breach of 1 promise. B \STERN roads have announced a rate of a cent a mile for the Grand j Army encampment in I ittsburg in September. ' Hfnry McDonald, in jail at Chattanooga, Tenn., for obtaining money under false pretenses, sought to kill himself bv using his head as a batteim,, i ram against the brick walls of the jaiu

.GIVE UP IN DESPAIR? POSTOFFICE DETECTIVES ABANDON SOUTH BEND. Mail Robberies Continue Unabated in Spito Ot the Efforts of Postal Inspectors to Find the Thieves—Stealings Said to Amount to 810,000. Pilfers Their Mail. Mysterious mail robberies, inscrutable detectives wh > cannot find the thieves, and hundreds of angry correshavdT t 3 m ° ney has h^ne astray, haxe lately been making life miserable Nn M Ce a ll VendeM of P atent Tn i m nd fu BXetICS at South Bend. Ini. More than SIO,OJO is said to ha e । disappeared in some mysterious wav 1 from the letters sent to South Bend and. notwithstanding the efforts of the postnffice inspectors, the leak l as not been discovered. Federal detectives have prowled around the postofth e in the Indiana town and have sent decoy lettors thr ugh the mails. The thief or thieves declined to handle the de-

coys, and this scheme of catching the pilferers failed. Tho sudden disappearance of the inspectors caused a ferment among the sufferers. When they learned that the detectives had given up the j b in disgust the medicine men threw- up their hands and wondered whether they would have to go out of business—complex! ns were being ruined irretrievably and there was no possibility | of suing for damages. But the hard- ’ est loss is said to have fallen on the | Indiana Traveling Men's Accident Association, which has its headquarters at South Bend. Secretary E. B. Rus- ! sell reports the loss of I,' 00 letters, • each containing $2 or more. Angry : members claim they cannot be held j responsible Lr the continuous theft of their dues and the association has suffered severely. Still the pilfering goes on. It reached its height when the inspectors had just warmed to their work. Audacity of the liobberies. However worked, the scheme of the thieves is one of the m .st audacious in the history of postal robberies. Every employe in the South Bend postoffice has been watched and tested. Over the entire case an impenetrab eshroud of secrecy has been thing by the postoffice departments. Though complaints were filed in Washington months ago and inspectors had been sent down to South Bend, nothing else was apparently done. Letters are still being purloined and robbed of the currency they contain. Money orders never reach their destination at d are evidently torn up bv the thieves, as the presenters would be instantlj- detected. South Eend is the home of the j atent । medicine man and the fair but elderly I vender of cosmetics. The litter is usually the wife of the former. Chief I of Police Rose claims that there are 1 175 patent medicine and eosiuetie fso-

Where the lett r-iuiw t>. tHv .,T from th h- intended destination i7 , !of th mvst“rv surrounding the thefts, i Four p< stoftice inspectors have failed I to d seover at v*hat roint the letters 1 j drop out of sight. Trawling Men Robbed. It was not until lat • in the tali of D >3 that the India: a Traveling Me i s Accident Association began to miss the dues sent in by members. Dv.es for September faile I to r. ach the secretary's hands, but he did not notice it I until the next month's payment fell I due. Then he notified the delinquent members and in reply he received a j bushel of letters from indignant members who declared they had sent m their Sejiteml er du -. Secret try Russell wrote to Washington and was referred to the Fourth Assistant I’ostmasI ter (leneraL Three week- a_o he went t > Washington and press- d the investigation. Two inspectors had alr< ady

b -en sent to South ben I. out their J luiss'O’i had soon become known and they had to return to Cincinnati. Shortly after Mr. Russell's visit to Washington Chief Inspector Salom n, of the Ohio. Indiana and Kentucky division, went to South Bend a id looked over the ground. Soon afterward In-1 spectors Fletcher am 1 -Holden established themselves in South Bend. I Fiet-her had 2 Ki decoy letters sent to. himself under the name of Wilson, but not one of them was touched. It was said more letters, however, were I stolen while the detectives were at work than ever before. SENATOR COLQUITT DEAD. — , Georgia Statesman l’as<es Away Surroanded by Family and Friend«. > United States Senator Alfred Holt

Colquitt, of Georgia, died at his residence in Washington Monday. Around the bedside when he passed away were Senator Gordon and daughter. Mrs. Jcnes: Senator Colquitt's private secretary. his nephew. Mr. Bunn; hij son. Mrs. Colquitt, three unmarried daughters, and his daughter, Mrs. Marshall, of Chicago. Senator cp - quitt was stricken-with jjaraiy-is in July 1892. and from that time so waid to walk around without as-1

was unable to vulk avu. i j distance. —. Minor Mention. The New England maple sugar crop . was a failure. \ b xndits' cave was discovered near 1 ' Winfield. Kan. Fr ank Snell perished in the bliz- , zard at Groton. S. D. _ 1 WH. Dorris was shot at New X er*

by a masked burglar. THREE deaths from cholera have occurred at Constantinople. By an explosion of a paraffine lamp in a London dwelling-house, five persons were burned to death. AERONAUT Wilson fell from his bal- ; loon, a distance of 1.500 feet, a* C a -'* n e s ’ j alighting in the sea, and was insmntiv 1 killed. i Mrs. Calvin Brady, wife of a voung farmer at Ringoes, N. d.. ue- । scried her husband and baby to ei pe ' with a negro. ' Emperor William is credited with being heartily in favor of the movement to reduce military burdens in European countries.

'HUSTLING HOOSIERS. ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAn Interesting Summary ot the More Important Domgs of Our Neighbors-Wed-dings and Deaths-Vrimes, Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. Minor State Items. i. A > S'™? 1 * comnany has been oro-an-NoW “' iu « ‘■"ila a dSg Hereafter AVayne Countv will “ liMMa " !e Lowm tO “ ake r °° m forth ® growing John E Ho™ ai to scattered alint the ml WeFe [° Und , Shelbyville ® e 1 ouv ,oa d near ‘ been established at J ireenwood against a man who ooeneA j a saloon there. No one willjboard him or sell him goods.

s I The 8-year-old son Foster Fletcher, ’ । living near New Richmond, fell from j a fence and ran a stick down his throat, resulting in death. John Carpenter fell off a load of hay in Elwood and broke his leg. He now sues the city for 00, claiming the miserable street was the cause. The safe in the P. J. Kern's Carriage Factory at Frankfort was cracked by burglars and six stores in the town burglarized. The thieves got little. The merchant tailorsof Fort Wayne have agreed that all their bad debt'aecounts should be sold at public auction at the Court House door April 24. Elias M. Smith an< wife have lived on the same farm near Crawfordsville for fifty-eight years. On March 13 they had been married sixty years. A Goshen man loaded some sticks of wood for wood thieves. One of the sticks got into his own stove and he is now having one side of his house repaired. John Martin of St. Paul, an old German, aged 70, jumped seventy-two feet from the Big Four bridge across 1 latrock Creek, near St. Paul, and was killed instantly. The old man was deaf, and had no known relatives in the world. The othei- aay he placed himself in front of a train to be killed, but was saved, only to take his life as above. The Citizens' Bank, just organized at Matinsville, has for its directors Sylvanus Barnard, John H. Jones, E. S. Huff. Charles Hamilton. C. S. Cunningham, and F. W. Woods of that city: O. H. Bake of Mason. O.; F. W. Whittaker of Hamilton, O.: J. F. Cunningham of Greensburg, and W. S. Fraser of Richmond. J. F. Cunningham is President and W. S. Frazer Cashier. Tne capital stock is $100,600. An atrocious murder was committed at Tolleston recently. The victims are JamesConioy and William Cleary, who weie_. us watchmen in the

. . X • r.:,■r - , >i.. 1,. looker took to the committee was iiumediutel v or^un “ J.Y } “ I and ten minutes later afjout sevent,-’ five farmers, armed with shotguns. I rifles, clubs, and hay forks, began scourI ing the woods and swamps. James M. Reynolds, of Lafayette, | ha- been appointed a trustee of Purdue University, to succeed Colonel Dresser, whose recent death left a vacancy on I that board. Mr. Reynolds is a man of I large means who is engaged extenI sively in real estate operations. He is I thoroughtly in sympathy with Purdue’s success, and appears to be just the man for the place. President Smart, and others protninentn identified with the institution, favored the selection of Mr. Reynolds, whom they re^ard as a valuable man for Purdue. He is a Republican, and the nonparticn^ractcr of tou iMjaitl is tiius YYinintfii nod.

maimameu. H. O. Buffer, a young schoolteacher of Farmland, has invented a new machine for the prevention of thieves entering and destroying watermelon patches. The machine is a piece of gas pipe, with string a.iac.iments running in each direction through. tlic melon patch. so that \\ hen the strings are touched a lever is ’ thrown and a heavy discharge of what- ( ever the pine may be loaded with is scattered in all directions for a hunI dred yards. It will throw shot hard enough to go through a half-inch board. He has sold a machine to Hamilton Pursley, who is a large melon raiser in that section, and who has been greatly annoyed heretofore ' । in this manner. I The mvstery surrounding the many 1 incendiary fire's in Peru the past month

was solved the other night “by the arrest of two young men, W illiam Koob, a^ed 22. and John Gould, aged $ Bodi are sons of well-known people. \bou. 10 o'clock another fire occurre , by which the barn of Joseph Buffer, was destroyed. The pent-up mdigi, .tion burst forth and 500 people started out !to discover the incendaries. -bey ! were caught about midnight by wo I special policemen. The (toys shoved i firrßt ami Honri.*binit larifc rciolxerSj

eluded the officers for a umc, bm wer^ , found several hours afterward aidmj^^ 1 among the freight cars Both con fessed to setting fire to all the ino-s burned. Dime novels and excite ment are given as the incentives. Thousands of dollars have been destroyed and the city has been in a ferment for the l^t month As high as two and three alarms m one ni o nt . cons in. while owners of

harp bOCII SOUL lU. nunv property nightly patrol their prem1 Fire originating from the smoke qf-ick of a neighboring sawmill de Proved the barn of John Oswalt, four miles north of Wabash, together with three horses, a quantity of gram, hay, agricultural implements, anl three horses will have to be shot. Loss. *2.000: no insurance. ■ There was a serious wreck on the . ■ Baltimore and Ohio road a few miles # ’ west of Milford Junction. While an* ! east-bound freight train was running! । ' rapidly an axle broke, and ditched text ; .! cars. The track was blocked for sevf.l eral hours, trains making a detour vya j the Big Four and Pennsylvania. /