St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 March 1895 — Page 7

AGRICULTURAL NEWS THINGS PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. Waste Has Been the Ruin of American Agriculture—How Ice Blay Be Cheaply Stored —Rye as a PastureGeneral Agricultural Notes. Improvident Farming. When nature is prodigal man Is wasteful. Waste has been the rule in I American agriculture, says an agri- । cultural writer. Accumulated mold of i ages of vegetation was offered at $1.25 I per acre Afterward it was given j away, subject to official fees for per- ■ fecting a title, both to natives and immigrants. With land free to all there was prodigality of fertility’ and economy of labor. Thus in primitive agriculture, rotation, cultivation, diversification were all sacrificed, and fertility was transmitted into net cash. Because wheat could not be grown with- j out cultivation on the broken sod. and because it was always a cash crop, j little else was grown: and because there ; was so much of it, and so few farm animals, the straw, which is worth as much In Mngland as the whole crop is here, was burned to get rid of it; and because of this repeating of a crop without cultivation, weeds much more than loss of fertility reduced the rate of yield; until at last, because of ex ten sion of wheat area beyond the needs of consumption, price was reduced and profits destroyed. It was the same with cotton. The seed was wasted, or only used for manure. Sometimes stock was killed by being gorged over a pile of seed, but systematic feeding was unknown. Now $40,000,000, more or less, represent the oil of the seed, which was wasted if applied to the soil, and almost as much more should be got from feeding the cake, with incidental foods to constitute a suitable ration, ami costing almost nothing. In this way all j the valuable elements of the seed are returned to the soil, with additional manorial value of other feeding ma- j terial. Pork, if not beef, can be pro ' cured in the mild climate of the South with cotton-seed cake, cow peas and j other fall and winter growing forage ! plants even cheaper than the central west. In wooded sections the first and largest opport unity for waste was found in the wanton destruction of wood and timber, and it was improved until large areas have become deserts. In every rural industry there has been depletion and destruction. When flax became an auxiliary or successor to wheat a million of acres went into cultivation for seed and the straw was thrown away, though coarse fiber worth SIOO per ton had been made of the straw as It lies from the mower, while by a slight change of method of culture and treatment, as is done in Europe, far more valuable fiber can be j produced. Flax growers will say it cannot be done, because they do not know how and will not learn, but it has been done and is done successfully and uniformly in other flax growing countries. Cheap Ice Storage, I have built a house and stored twenty tons of ice for less than S2O. There being no pond or river within two miles, I was obliged to make my own pond. A very small brook running near the barn was dammed, making a pond from one to four feet deep. This was done in the fall. Au old build- j Ing was then bought and an Ice house 11x12x8 feet built, boarding horizontal ly inside and out, filling with sawdust as boarded. The house was tilled, w ith the help of two boys, putting in 126 cakes sixteen inches thick In twelve hours, each being D^x” feet. The tools used consisted of a set of double block tackle, chain, tongs ami ax. An lee saw was hired for 25 cents. I would not use an ice plow if I had-one. One ; man can easily saw twenty-five tons of ; ice daily: if a smaller quantity were required it would not pay to house and bother with an ice plow. The house i was built by the side of the pond and the ice hoisted by hand into the house, j Six one-horse loads of sawdust, were used in packing. The expense of building house and filling was less than sl7, and hereafter the cost of storing Ice < will not be over ss.—Correspondence •Orange Judd Farmer. Not Altogether Practical, To the practical man. the methods and system of judging fowls at poultry ; shows commands but. little respect, and when scores and awards are viewed with suspicion they only excite contempt and derision. The American standard does not recognize the economic value in dead weights for table | purposes. All stress is laid upon color of plumage, general shape and condi tion of face, ear, lobes, wattles, comb, etc. From the fanciers’ standpoint a point of ,iew that is more or less con , spicuous as tastes and ideas change - this may be all right enough, but what does it signify to the farmer who wants ; eggs, or the poulterer who wants heavy i carcasses for the market? What difference does it make if his birds are I white in the ear lobes, their combs out of shape, the tails awry, so long as they I shell out an abundance of hen fruit? What does the family man or epicure j care about the precise shape of tail, ! wings, color of hackle, or other disqualifications, so be gets good chicken meat?—Field and Farm. Rye as a Pasture. We never could see any advantage from sowing any kind of grain to furnish pasture. The soil must be plowed, to make a seed bed for the grain, and it must not become compact so that stock can trample over it without poaching the surface when wet. Even If fed off while dry the grain furnishes

i comparatively little feed, and that not of very good quality. Rye as a pasture will be eaten by stock only for its succulence. It is not as nutritious as June grass or as clover when the latter is in blossom. The trampling of all pasture, even on a sod, destroys quite as much as what the stock eats. Whore any kind of grain is fed off the damage greatly exceeds the value of what is eaten, especially if stock are allowed to trample over the ground while the herbage is wet.--American Cultivator. Milking. j In reply to a query, “Is there any ‘se- । cret’ about milking a cow so as to get । a result not wholly related to the food ! and care of the cow?" we would say j that successful milking of a cow to se cure the greatest and best results Is a sort of "fraternal" and commercial treaty with her. The cow has a maternal side to be considered. Milk is secreted first and primarily for the calf, and dairying and good milking Is a plan to get the milk, and have that mother office extended. To do this there must be a confidence awakened and maintained, to the end that milk Ing this cow shall be n pleasure quite : akin to supplying her calf; and some ; authorities claim, keep in continuance thi' "emotions." that can be culled without violence, but an occasion of to her actual enjoyment. The man who pets a cow. and will feed her and does not give her pain when he milks, may be said to be more than a mechanical milker, but one who has gone further, and is although in an artificial way keeping alive the cow’s maternal affection, and this can but be a simulative influence to induce milk secretion. The reader has witnessed on untold occasions the cow’s greatest desire to suckle her calf, or be milked, and if milk giving and milking can be closely assodated by pleasurable contact, there is at. once answer that there is a ‘’secret" in milking, and It Is fashioned on the j everlasting law of good care and kindness. Practical Farmer. The Garden. The raising of canary seed Is a profitable industry. The seed commamis 1 about $.5 a sack. At a reception recently given by a capitalist In New York the rooms were profusely decorated with roses, which cost, according to the New York Advertiser, S2O per dozen. Roses bloom in California all winter in the open air, ! and the shipping of buds to New York : ought to be a profitable business. It Is estimated that the cost of an aero of raspberries, the first year, omit ting die fertilizers. Is about $35, while about twenty-five bushels, at $2 per bushel, is estimated as the results, the expenses of crates, etc., balancing the outlay and receipts. The second year, however, the expenses will be greatly reduced, while the yield should bo doubled. The condition of the market, however, renders any estimate unreliable. Farm Note**. Any attempt to change the form of a tree after It commences to l>ear is nl most certain to damage the tree sori ou sly. Tlie cantaloupe is a native of Amerl ca. ami is so called from the name of a place near Ronn*, wliere It was first cultivated in Europe. We buy over $1,000,000 worth of or tinges and lemons from Italy every year, although Florida and California are producing both fruits largely. This is the way one dairyman pots it: A good cow will make a greater num her of pounds of human food in a year than a steer will in a lifetime, and the cow be left over for next year. If smut Is suspected, soak all seeds of grain twenty four hours in a solution <nt’ one pound of sulphate of copper in six gallons of warm water, and then mix the seed with land plaster to dry it. Beets, carrots ami parsnips should be seeded early after the frost is out of the ground. I’low the land as soon as it can be done, and harrow it down ! until very tine. Seeds of carrots and : parsnips will not germinate if the land j is full of clods or lumps. A tine soil is j important. The little island of Jersey is but eleven miles long by five wide, yet it prob ably contains more cows than any oth- i er part of the earth of equal size. All j importation is forbidden by law, and all these years the dairymen have been breeding with but the one object in j view. Keep a cow as contented as possible, if you would have her milk easy. If worried there is sure to be some tension of the muscles which retain the milk, i and this holds it up. If the cow is fed that which sho likes, these muscles are ; usually relaxed. Even the maternal affection is forgotten while eating a savory mess. English dairymen are wrestling with j the question whether or not odors are really absorbed by the milk while it Is warm, just from the cow. Some of them 1 argue that if such were the ease there would be no milk fit to drink, as all is , exposed to odors of some kind when first drawn. They claim that cold 1 milk will absorb odors more readily , than warm. Americans have believed : that warm milk was a rapid absorber, | ami it will be interesting to know how i much truth there is in the idea. I The heaviest feed there is for poultry i or other animals should be at night. Sleep favors digestion, and keeping the stomach full is the best protection against cold. If any corn is given it should be at night. It wil be all the better if warmed and some of it is charred. A cold grain of corn, sometimes icecold, has to be warmed before it can be digested. At night, when exercise Is impossible, no unnecessary burden should be placed on the system. In the morning it is better to feed poultry with grain scattered among straw and let them scratch for it.

MOB SHOOTS TO KILL. SIX DEAD THE RESULT OF NEW ORLEANS RIOTS. City Terrorized by Hundreds of Armed Meu Who Attack Negro Wharf Laborers, Fii-ina: Recklessly Into the Crowds—l’otice Were Cowardly. Authorities Defied. Not since the day of the memorable attack on the Parish prison and the lynching of the Italians four years ago has New Orleans been wrought up as it Was Tuesday by a bloody labor riot on the river front, resulting in the killing of six men and the wounding of at least a dozen others. The riot was far more serious than the loss of life indicated, for it showed the mob to be in complete control and able to defy and override the police and hold the commerce of the city completely at its mercy. It marched along the entire city front, some eight or ten miles, in two armies equipped with rifles, shotguns and pistols, dispersing all companies of negroes at work there and shooting a” who opposed it without the slightest eh®^ or hindrance or the least attempt sistance on the part of the laborers or nr lice. The mob was completely maste^Bf the situation, tiring right and left at ml who got in the way and at many points even the vessels lying at the wharf received showers of bullets. The riot produced the greatest excitement, arousing the commercial classes and rendering probable a suppression of the rioting which has continued more or less since October, culminating in Tuesday's Till HIEXCH MAKKEF. affair. Appeals have been made to the police, to the Mayor, to the Governor, to the United States ami finally to the Brit Ish ambassador nt Washington, the British ship agents appealing through him to . the home Government for protection, ni» a British vessel nt the wharf was fired on । ■ by the nmb ami the purser of the steamer | Engineer of the Harrison line fatally wounded. The captain barely escaped with his life. Cause of the Trouble. The white screwmen engaged in loading vessels with cotton at that port have been attempting for four months past to drive negro labor from the levees. Several verb I ous riots have already occurred from this 1 cause, but these not succeeding in getting • rid of the negroes. the white laborers dw ! tvrmined upon a display that would sliW^ | their strength, overawe the authorities, I i overwhelm the polio and cause panic j among the negroes. There is no reason to ; i doubt the charge of the police that Turn j day’s rioting was prearranged in every ' detail in order to strike terror to those ' who opposed the demands of he white i laborers. It was well umlers.ood that I there would be a serious disturbance ' The Mayor and authorities were warned, j but no provision was made to meet the i mob. which had the field to itself, killed ■ the mg roes or ran them off the Icrco, ' overawed the police and bold complete ■ control. The white screwmen made no ‘ att* nipt nt com ■ almen*. 13 r marched In three companies of from 250 to 500 each along the entire city front, attacking the m gHws at three points and firing Indiscriminately nt ail persona whom ] they saw at work on the ships or thej levee. The first of these m -bs. which constated ' of two parties, .aeh 300 strong. npp< ared ' z A? , M NAteFVI! W of Till 1 EVEE. a» ab mt 70% kckln tl ■ morning at the | French market, near which the British j steamer Engineer of the Harrison line was loading. The men were mainly arm- ’ ed with Winchester rifles, shotguns and , pistols, but some carried the long pikes I i famous in the French revolution. They I mnrehed in semi militur.* order, nv : tb’ 1 and with few words, i,ml the morning . being very foggy, they were not seen tin- j til they filed into the French market. ■ Here some of them stationed themselves j behind the massive pillars of the market, while others scattered among the freight with w hich the levee was covered. Fired ITpon the Negroes. Just as the negro overseer called upon | his men to go to work some one in the ! mob shouted: "Fite." 'There was a single I shot, followed by 11 general fusillade. A panic prevailed in the market, where hundreds of women were marketing, and the crowd scattered in every direction, rushing lor places of safely. 'llie negroes aboard the steamer, at whom tho principal lira was directed, scattered, some of them jumping overboard in their fright, but most of them seeking refuge in the cabin. The mob began firing not only 1 at tho negroes at work on the Engineer, but at any they could see passing and, becoming frenzied, fired at all, white and black alike. On board the Engineer the purser, John Baur, was shot three times In the face and arm and fatally wounded. Three or four of the laborers were seriously, if not fatally, wounded. The crowd on the wharf fared worse, however. The negroes and others who happened to be there fled in every direction when the firing began and every one of those killed or wounded was shot while in flight. The Secretary of the Interior has refused to reopen the case questioning the title of the Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Canal Company to 68,000 acres of land valued at from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000.

FIRES ON THE FLAG. Sp 7a:\£r °^ a ^ ttnck9 Amerlcan Steamer on the Hi B h Seas. nrT?/ p mer * can mail sh ‘P Allianca, while proceeding from Colon to New York dX‘th d ? barkont *ne-riKßed steamer uneds^of ° ff Mny ’ tho ettß tern edge of Cuba, which headed directly toward her When about two and one halt flnl wh St i nnt Bhe hoiatod th e Spanish Hag, which was saluted by hoisting the the course and the speed of the ship’ X not chnnge <l, as no hostile demonstrations wore anticipated, the Allianca being more 8 J nul . es off the land at the time. >e Spanish man-of-war was not satisfied, however, with even the double salute to her flag, but proceeded to chase the American at full speed, judging from the smoke that came out of her funnel and, seeing that the Allianca was drawing away, she yawed to, bringing her guns to bear, and tired a solid shot, which struck the water less than an eighth of a mile from tho ship and directly in line. This was followed by two more shots, which fortunately di«l not reach their mark, though they struck the water in plain sight of the ship. This outrage has been reported to tlie Secretary of State by (’apt. Crossman, and no doubt a prompt demand will be made on the Spanish Government for an explanation for the insult and a reason required for the attempt made to stop an American mail steamer ou the high seas in time of peace. BIG FLURRY IN WHEATGovernment Report Cuuhch a Stir on the Chicago Board of Trude. The bulls bad a great time on the Chicago Board of Trade Tuesday. Mny wheat jumpi'd up nearly 3 cents from the Opening price, ami dissatisfaction and uncertainty marked the operations in the wheat pit throughout the day. The bulls seemed to have tho best of it most of the time, but the bears would not respond to the challenges and the market closed nt offt-j, a fall of 1 cent from tho highest notch reached during the day. The flurry was caused by the Government report ; which reached tho Board of Trade after , closing hour Monday afternoon. Tho re- ' port was to the effect that the entire quantity of wheat in the farmers’ hands i amounted to only 25,<Sm>,<mh» bushels. It 1 I had l»en supposed by the brokers that I ! the quantity on the farms reached at least j • LIXjMMI.OOO bushels. When it was learn- I I ed that tho estimate was far above the I nctnal quantity of wheat in the farmers' | hands, the faces of tho bears became gloomy and the bulls bellowed with joy. On the New York Board the ext itement was intense, Ver» few traders had boon I expecting less than 125.000.imhi busheis farmers’ re«< rv« s. and tho statement therefore came like a thunderbolt. Transactions up to noon were over 5.000,000 bushels, a larger total than is reached in i many entire days. Mar advanced nearly ■Je a bushel, selling at tl2c aoon after the T«4 ! ' Utos, nud tbo Improvement was susf forenoon, with very ' W^qFT^ble • -n also I d an a’tire |Mp<mins: nod n sharp ndvnm-, on tho Gov- I I^rnment’s Statement that there were only • j 475,i«m>.«w»i bushels of farm reserves, ’ ■ ngniuat oJOJWmi.immi bushels a vent ago. TAYLOR ARRESTED IN MEXICO. Mun Whn HobKol South hnkntn of Jlulf a .Million H.ihl to He Cniiuhl. anh h* e nr;< st of W. W. | • Taylor, the n State Treasurer of South , I Dakota, who nbi-eoiulcd with flmusands , i of dollars. Details of the arrest are moa ger. Detectives employed by the State I of South Dnk< 'n have b« < n pursuing Taylor, their Inst trne. of him being gain- I led nt Memphis, where, f<>r some reason ’ I Dot yet explained, the < hies of isdo'c, as- j j ter having Taylor in custody, reb ased him ‘ before ottirers could arrive with extradi- | I timi papers. His capture was effected last Sunday in 1 Mexico by Pinkerton agents. Taylor, | j under the name of Mason, and a eompan- j i lon, calling himself Phelps, went to Ha- [ vana several weeks ago, and the chief jof polieo of tba’ < y mis : id S2.t*H) to j locate Taylor, whti h he d d on a steamer Is,end sos Vera Cruz, M^v <>. This in- ; j formation was wir- •! to the d-m . tnes and , they arranged to intercept the boat when it reached Mexi an s. 6. All the ncces- < sary arrangements were made meanwhile, nnd when Taylor stepped ashore he was promptly placed under arrest. . Walter W. Taylor wait State- Treasurer of South Dakota and r> sided nt Pierre. ' Jan. 8, IS(M, he disappeared, and it was I discovered thnt his accounts were $350,- i i Otxj short. He was traced to Chicago, i 1 where it was I anted that lie had deal- ; Ings with his attorney, D. K. Tenney. . Jan. 10 tho Senate and House of South ■ Dakota passed t.n appropriation of $2,000 । ‘ to be offered ns a reward for the arrest of i tho absconder. This sum was increased J i b* tho bondsmen of Tuylor, who mads bls losses to the State. ’ FIVE~MEN LYNCHED. ; Italians Who K iltcd a Colorado Deputy Sheriff Riddled with Bullets. A few days ago Deputy Sheriff Hixon was brutally murdered at Walsenburg, Colo., by several Italian coal minors. After pounding the deputy's head into a pulp the body was hidden nnd was not i found until Tuesday morning, when n । general alarm was given ami bloodhounds put upon the murderers' trail. in a short time the well-trained dogs succeeded in running down four mon, who acknowledged having committed the crime, and each endeavored to lay it on the other. Late in tho afternoon an inquest was held, at which tho guilt of the four Italians was plainly proved. Hixon being a very popular man, the feeling among other miners and citizens in general grew to fever boat, and at the close of the coroner's inquest, as the prisoners were being marched to jail, a mob made a rush for them, and before the sheriff ami his deputies could raise a hand to protect them the bodies of the four Italians and another man were riddled with bullets. At this juncture a general riot started. One hundred or more Italians, seeing their countrymen lying around dead, became frenzied, swearing they would have vengeance before morning. Both factions began arming themselves and at last accounts were expected to come together at any moment. The telegraph operator at Walsenburg abandoned his post, leaving no way to secure further information except as it is brought into surrounding towns by people who are fleeing from the scene of trouble.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE LESSON. Reflections of an Elevating Character —Wholesome Food for Thought— Studying the Scriptural Lesson Intelligently and Profitably. Lesson for March 24. Golden Text.—“ Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.”— Luke ' The Mission of the Seventy is the subject this week—Luke 10; 1 The mission of the seventy was the mission of the swift-flying evangel. They were not to tarry, but to go, and as ye go preach,’ preach on the go. I heirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and die.” To these seventy “forward movement” men the sole inquiry was, “What are the marching onleml” They halted not to be stimulated by results. They spoke their message ami passed on, Christ-im-pelled. If we can but gather inspiration for simple, daily testimony, much of its fruitage unseen, from this, it will be well. I wo Christian women in Baltimore, going forth on mission errands, approached a poor, sick man, who much needed their help, but evidently resented it. They left a little leaflet with him as they went away, which he tossed aside. But it lodged where, some time after, as he turned in his pain, his eye lighted upon if. “Do you want a friend?” it said. “If anybody needs a friend,” he groaned, “it > s I- He picked up the little tract and read of the "Friend that sticketh doser than a brother." He must now have the Bible, which his wife brought at his anxious solicitntion and he presently had Christ and his great salvation. So he passed. Brother, sister, speak the message. Speak it in faith, in hope, in love; and then leave it with God. He knows how to bring to pass. Only sow the seed, diligently, prayerfully; God will take care of it. “There’s only one thing that should con corn us. To find just the task that is ours; And then, having found it, to do it \\ ith all our God-given powers.” Points in tlie Lesson. “After these things." The time for an aggressive evangelism had come. The [ die iples had been instructed. The kingI dom was prepared. Is this not the time for us.' “The Lord appointed other seventy. also." Apfsiinted means to designate <>r set npart openly. For such pioneer work the Lord gives an open designaj tion. There are certain men in every geni oration whom God seems to specially orI dnin for oham-e work in the kingdom. ' It is so. in a degree, also, in every community. God has his picked men for picked work. Iwo and two." There is wisdom in it divine wisdom. And much of human comfort. Two souls in sympathy not only' help and strengthen each other, but make, as it were, the buruor-tiptt between whose : points th" light plays. It was “before his ’ tree." and only into those cities and I p!a<cs "whither he himself would come.” There is no work w here such care is need <d as in pioneering. Here let there be 'c. useless prny er. For unless it be before his fa «• mid according to the Spirit’s dii re- ’ion it will come to naught. We speak : thus b- ause we have known of rash movements into hazardous ground where I the dis qde lifts not been prepared and j Ju re was no clear voice saying “Go." The dismal sequel has proven ij io have been <d mini nether than of God perhaps ot Satan. It is indeed to God we must 0,.k boih for the labor ami the laborers. The spe, ial mission of the seventy was !• ■ id> inly pre;, iratury. They were to anicaim e. as avant couriers, or heralds. They were to get the people ready for ; the J< siis, who was just at hand. After- ■ ward was to come a mute permanent miniistry and the fuller proclamation of the 1 t'hrist of God. Doubtless in all our misj sion work, both nt home ami abroad, ! ।here is soiie> sm h proper division ns this, i'l’hei” at, those who go before as the i pioie ers of the Gospel, carrying a flying message, th.- kingdom of heaven is at . hand. After them come the ministers of • he cross w ho are to abide ihrottgh. it may l>e days ..f hardship and suffering ami pr> .• h ('hrist by life as well as lip. Ami vet it is not for us to say that this exmiusts the .signifi -nnee of the mission of j the seventy, t'hrist linked with all his ! leelarations regarding his advent into the I world the promise that he was coming j again. Hints and 111 list rat ions. A lesson in tiggn ssive evangelism. Certainly we need it both the lesson atid ; the evangelism. At Thessalonica on the ! day the cry was raised, “These that have turned the world upside down are come | hither also." ’ Acts xvii.. 6.) Lord send i them down tin's way, we need ouselves turning upside down upside dowu in order to be right side up. Europe was dead and needed to be brought to life, and it is worth noting that the word for—upside down here is anastasis, meaning resurrection. These men were God's resurrectionists. sent to a dead world. And their power lay in this, that they themselves had been raised, as it wore, from the dead, to walk in newness of life. Overturned in order that they might overturn, overI powered of God in order that they might be impowered. May the Lord grant us more of their sort. We need them. What kind of men are needed for this pioneer work? Evidently they should be men who are intimate with Jesus. The Wesleys were such. Whitefield was of this sort. Here is the secret of aggressive evangelism—faith in God. O. for more men of faith, downright faith! There, in the teeth of a howling gale on the creaking deck of a crazy vessel, given up by the Mediterranean sailors for lost, a man stood up and said: “I believe God!” Just one man, but he saved the ship. Lading gone, tackling gone, anchors gone, at last all hope gone, a shipload of impotence and despair—and one man saved them all, one man who believed God. Have you got another like him? Another man like I'aul? Brother, he can save the ship. Give him leave. Luther did it once when he lifted the word, “The just shall live by faith.” If there is one thing more needed than any other to-day it is some soul, newly, deeply born of God, that will rise upon the world's disdain Io the church’s cold indifferentism nnd say it to the saving of our storm-tossed ship and the glory of the omnipotent Christ, I believe God. Next I.esson —“The Triumphal Entry.” —Mark 11: 1-11.

NEWS OF OUR STATE. A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. Wtiat Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths — Accidents and Crimes— Pointers About Our Own People. The Legislature. The Nicholson temperance bill was tho special order of the Senate Thursday, the committee having it in charge reporting several amendments which were designed to make the bill less stringent in its provisions. The amendments were adopted with the exception of the one to strike out the section providing that license shall not be issued when the majority of the voters of a. w aid or precinct remonstrated against it. 1 his is regarded as one of the most important sections of the bill and was saved only after a hard tight. hen the House resolution to appropriate $10,01)0 for statues of William Henrv Harrison and Gov. Morton to b, placed iu Statuary Hall at Washington was reporte I the Democrats tried to substitute tire name of Vice President Hendricks for that of Harrison. The motion to substitute ihe name of Hendricks was defeated by a uai ty vote. The House and Senate conference committee on the fee and salary bill held 1 meeting and. to the surpriseof both bodies, came to an agreement within an hour anl reported to the two houses and the reports were agreed to, thus passing the bill. The Senate receded from all its amendments except those increasing the salaries of supreme judges to $4.501 and the salaries of appellate judges to $3,761). The fate of the Nicliolson bill will finally rest w ith the Governor. The Senate passed the bill Friday, with several amendment.'. The bill as amended went to the House, which concurred in all the amendments., except one relating to the sale of liquor by drug stores. A conference committee was appointed. The Senate committee appointed to investigate tlie connection of Senator Seller w ith the theft of the anti-winter racing bill made its report exonerating Senator Seller from any criminal connection with, the disappearance of the measure. Saturday the Legislature practically fin - ished its work. The Nicholson bill in ready for the Governor's signature, the conference committee having reported on the new sect‘on punishing druggists for selling liquor. A minor change only is made in the section, and the committee report went through with a whoop. Four lulls were passed over the Governor’s veto. They are: <>ne practically abolishing the ofliceof County Assessor: one giving the incoming Republican trustees tlie election of County Superintendents; the creation of a superior Court for Lake County, and the Jackson County seat removal. No attempt will be made to resurrect the metropolitan police bill. Both branches of the Legislature were in session Monday. As the Governor would receive no bills there was no attempt to pass any. and the day was spent in receiving reports, of committes and passing resolutions. The Legislature adjourned sine <l!e. Minor State Sews. A Bau ihoi.omi w Cot xt v farmer has sold s9,'’>i’>o worth of butter to one firm in thirty yvars. Davih Lykf.xs. aged 23. of Delaware County. accidentally shot himself w ith a rille, and will die. I'm inmates in Prison North number 820, an increase of 165 over last year and the largest number ever confined in the institution. A Tim f has been making the rounds of (arroll County . He rides in a spring wagon and puts his stolen goods in a box labeled “Snakes.” Bank robbers at New Carlisle blew open the outside door of the vault in Service’s Bank, but were frightened away before obtaining any booty. Mi:-. Ft: vxk Ci vei: of Frankfort, has invented a patent petticoat which is said to lie capable of being adjusted to the ever incoming new fashions. Mi ni ie jail prisoners went on a strike and refused to worl at the stone pile. The,.' say that the Sheriff has not been feeding them as workingmen should be fed. < HAi x< ev Joxes. ex-County Commissioner, met with a terrible death at his house near Battleground. He had gon* out to feed tlie cows and was gored to death by a vicious animal. He was dead when found. He was 73 years old and would have celebrated his golden wedding in May. He was a prominent member of the Ylethodist Church and an officer i f the Battleground Camp Meeting Association. C. F. Hai.r.. State Oil Inspector, has made the following appointments of deputies: J. H. Boltz, Winchester: W, F. Daily. Peru: C. B. Dorsey, New Albany; ■Walter Derr. South Bend: W. IL McGee, Lafayette: J. M. Johnson. Logansport: W. C. Carr. Crawfordsville; W. C. Dorsey, Terre Hante: B. F. Shirk. Muncie: M. J. Bowman. Madison: J. M. Fells, Rushville; L. B. Mills, New Maysville: J. B. Cornell, Goshen: Walter A'iele, Evansville; W. D, Sebring. Portland: Theodore Thorward., Fort Wayne: J. G. Dav idson, Whiting: R. F. Weerns, Vincennes: AL A. Schutt. Michigan City. William McCloud of Linton. Green County, was appointed Assistant Mine Inspector by Robert Fisher. While playing on the falls at Jeffersonville a number of boys found what appeared to be an up urned flatboat, but on investigation they saw it was a box heavily coated with tar. The box was seven feet long, two and one-half feet wide and two and one-half feet deep. They tore off the top ami discovered the skeleton of a man. The skull was indented as if struck by a biunt instrument. The boys ran away and notified the officers. From the appearance of the skeleton it had been in the box for some time. The coating of the tar on the box had a rusty appearance. The spot where the box was found was in a clump of trees known as the “willows,” and it was partially hidden in the shore mud. From all appearances there is little doubt it is a case of murder. It is the skeleton of a very large man. The police are investigating the case. Cass Petehsoa, formerly a conductor on the Lake Erie and Weslern. in attempting to board a west-bound freight on Hat road, was thrown down and lost a hand under the wheels. Peterson's home was at Peru. Miss Lizzie Lee, 18 y ears old. daughter of William Lee, was terribiy burned at Jeffersonville, sic was replenishing the lire in the stove, when a coal fell out and lodged against her dress and she was soon enveloped in flames. Her screams attracted attention, and her father succeeded in extinguishing the flames, being himself badly burned. Miss Lee’s injuries are very serious, but she will recover.