St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 3, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 August 1895 — Page 7

TOPICS FOK FARMERS A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Day of the Small Farm Has Come — Value of a Rapid Walking Horse — Marketing Garden Vegetables—How to Fatten Cattle Quickly. The Small Farm West. Even in California, the land of great ranches and vast estates, they begin to see that tiie day of the small farm has come. Indeed, the San Francisco Chronicle says that it has for years preached the gospel of the small farm, well diversified, as the keynote of California's future prosperity. It means more homes, more good citizens and greater general good than rich mines or vast fields ami orchards can afford. The thrifty small farmer is the last to feel the pinch of hard times. He may never be rich, but he need never be poor. He can earn leisure and learn how to enjoy it, and bis children will have the home intluence all children are entitled to. The Santa Rosa Republican notes an Increasing inquiry for small places in the country, more especially to rent. There is now a tendency from the cities, instead of toward them. Wage workers are seeking small farms to work for themselves. Wo should have ten of these small, well-worked places where , we now have one. The single-crop man is rich one year and poor the next five. The man who has cows, hogs, poultry and vegetables, as well as fruit, is the man who is the most prosperous and has the best home. Rapid Walking Horses. At the present time there are. of course, nothing like as many long Journeys made by the aid of a horse as in the days of our forefathers, but nevertheless it is still a welcome attribute in a driver, the ability to keep up a smart pace and to do it cheerfully when not forced into a trot, says 'Wallace's Monthly. Men who have the initial handling of colts are. in a great measure, responsible for the rapidity of their walk, and it should be the aim of such men to see that the colts tire taught to walk live miles an hour, and do it without urging. Once acquired, the possession of a rapid walk will be •of benefit should the colt as a matured i horse develop into a trotter, and should he prove fit only for farm labor or business purposes, the fast walker will sell quickly where a “vokey” animal would be a drug on the market Marketing Garden Vegetables. The work of growing garden vegetables is only a small part of the labor required before they can be turned into money. They are all very bulky, ami for this reason the market garden must needs be near a city or large village, or at least near a railroad station, where the crop can be shipped. Land that has these advantages is worth many times as much as other land of •equal fertility that is not near to market. The gardener must also have large amounts of manure, and these cannot be secured except near cities or villages. In market gardening, however, where there is a near market for the product, it will pay to use com- | mercial fertilizers, especially the nitrates, which are much more easily applied than stable manure, and do not -dry out the soil as the manure does. To Fatten Cattle Quickly. To fatten cattle most rapidly at this

season of the year provide a pasture with at least one acre of grass for each cow or steer. Begin, says tee Agriculturist, with live pounds of cornmeal and one pound crushed oil cake for •each animal. Increase the feed by add- i Ing one pound of cornmeal ami onehalf pound of oil cake daily for two weeks. If corn is ground without the cob. make a mixture of three parts meal and one part bran or mill feed, by weight. A ration of twenty pounds meal and bran, eight pounds oil cake ! with grass, water and salt will fatten the animals as rapidly as heavier feeding. 1 would use nothing but old process oilmeal. Sterilizing; 31 ilk. Provide six or eight half-pint bottles ' according to the number of times the ; child is fed during the twenty-four hours, directs the Ladies’ Home Journal. Put the proper quantity of food for one feeding in each bottle and use i a tuft of cotton batting as a stopper. Have a saucepan that the bottles can j stand in conveniently. Invert a per- i Crated tin pie plate in the bottom. ! and put in enough water to come above the milk in the bottles. Stand bottl ■ on it. When the water boils, draw the saucepan to a cooler part of the stove, j where the water will remain near the boiling point, but not actually boiling. Cover the saucepan and let the bottles remain in it one hour. Put thorn in the ice box, or a cool place in winter.

Relative Values of Manure. At the Connecticut Experiment Sta- I tion four plots were selected and plant- ; ed in corn, put the same distance in row ] and hills apart, anil cultivated the same way four years. To one plat ten cords of cow manure were given each year; to the second plat hogpen manure at the rate of thirteen and a half cords; to the third plat fertilizer chemicals at the rate of 1,700 pounds, and to the fourth none. At the end of four years the cow manure had averaged GS bushels per acre; the hogpen, GG bushels; the fertilizers, 50 bushels, and the unmanured ’.and, 3G bushels. If we look, however, at the available plant food left in the soil at the end of four years for future crops, the account will stand thus: Cow manure left 533 pounds nitrogen, 3SS pounds phosphoric acid and 407 pounds potash; hogpen,

897 of nitrogen, 1,713 phosphoric acid and 67 pounds potash; fertilizers, 238 pounds nitrogen, 476 phosphoric acid and 107 pounds of potash; while the unmanured was short 165 pounds nitrogen, 37 pounds of potash, and in excess 37 pounds phosphoric acid. Cow manure lias been estimated to be worth $2.21 per ton, and swine $3.29 per ton. Mildew on Roses. For roses, the mildew may be controlled by sulphur, either dusted upon I the foliage or heated upon the green- ' house pipes. The black spot has been chocked by Bordeaux mixture, and the ammoniacal solution of carbonate of copper, says tlie Philadelphia Lodger. The formula for Bordeaux mixture Is five pounds of lime and live pounds of sulphate of copper In fifty gallons of water; each may be prepared and kept in stock, to be mixed as needed for spraying. The formula for ammoniacal solution of the carbonate of copper is live ounces of carbonate of copper dissolved in three quarts of strong (4F) ammonia, to be afterward added to fifty gallons of water. These two fungicides are the chief compounds that can bo recommended for fungous diseases in the greenhouse. A solution of potassic sulphide (one-half ounce of sulphido to one gallon of water) has proved a successful remedy in carnation diseases. Good results have followed the use of Bordeaux mixture for fungi on violets and many other plants would doubtless be benefited by its use. Fowls in Gordens. On the vineyards of France poultry are kept in large numbers and permitted to wander at will for ten months in • the year, with benefit to the vines, to themselves ami to their owners. Rest assured, says The English Planter, It fowls can get plenty of grubs, worms and insects, whose room is usually bet- ! ter than their company, they will not do much damage to fruit of any kind, | though a little tax in this way will be paid for in another. As to corn crops, 1 I came across a striking proof of the value of poultry some time ago. Visiting a large farmer, who keeps several hundred poultry, he told me that last : year he hail two houses with fifty hens in each in a pasture field, adjoining which was a large field sown in oats. His bailin’ wanted the fouls removed, as they were wandering all over the ; oat field, scratching everywhere. Finally, he became rather afraid of the effect himself, and one day went down, dug up the ground in several places, to find that not an oat had been interfered with, and be never had a better crop in his life. The fowls were feasting upon the natural food In the soil. Shelled Luus Shipped in Bulk. A consular report tolls of large quantities of shelled eggs being sent to England from Russia .and Italy, for the use of pastry cooks, bakers, hotels and restaurants. The eggs are emptied from their shells Into tin cans holding a thousand or more,and after being hermetically scaled, are packed with straw Into wooden cases, the taps, through which the contents are drawn, being added by those using them. Great care Is necessary in selecting the eggs, as a single bad one would spoil the whole I lot. Lower prices and saving of time ' tnd greater ease and less e\y m > and : loss in handling are named as th ■ad 1 vantages of this system. Thus far she ■ Rtes, n product lias been uniformly I good, wk teas the Italian shipments ■ have so frequently been spoiled that ; analysis of the Russian supply has been ordered to determine if preservatives

। are used. '1 he D.irl 'y il irvest. No kind of fiumi animals excepting i poultry will attack a head of barley, i Fowls will peek at it to got out the ‘ grain and then eat that, but the strong beards are repeikint to all other kinds of stock. With th" s.'if ’.'inding harvesters now generally used for barley harvest, very little of the grain is dropped on the ground, and tliere is not ; I much use raking the field aft or it to i gather what is scattered. In the olden i time, when barley was cut with a | reaper and gathered in cocks like hay without binding, there were always a I great many rakings. Usually these ' were badly stained and could not be sold with tiie main crop, but they | made good food when threshed by j themselves and ground. Many b:irley , growers still prefer the old way of har- ; ■ vesting, as the crop can be enrod in | less time if allowed to lay a day tinbound before being put into cock limn if bound in a bundle as so,on as cut. as ■ it must be when cut with the harvester. Cultivating After Pains, I'vory time rein falls all till"d land should tie cultivated. There art' many ' light rains through the stinniuT, whh h | wet only tho silt face of the soil, ami if ' this is not cultivated under, the moisture speedily evaporates and is lost. This cultivatiim has also another effect in developing nitimtos in tho»soil. What- | ever vegetable matter is in the soil

* needs only to be brought into contact । with oxygen to be decomposed and its | manorial elements set free. There is ! also on soil that is cultivated frequently a deposit of moisture by the atmosi phere which it contains, and this, being ' really a dew, always contains more | ammonia than does ordinary rain water. Use the Smoothing Harrow. Make good use of the smoothing harrow in tire corn and other cultivated fields. No tool m use will kill so many j weeds as this, if used at the right time. It will keep down the weeds and keep the surface mellow, the two prime necessities in the culture of any crop. The Berry Bush. Berry bushes will bear longer if the fruit is picked off clean. If you should have more than you want to use, give some poor neighbor a chance.

' TOILS DRAW TIGHTER CHICAGO POLICE THINK THEY WILL CONVICT HOLMES. The Modern Bluebeard’s Gauzy Tuic Concerning Pitzel —Says the Latter Committed Suicide-The Mysteriom* “Mascot” Located in Arkansas. Holmes Tells a Story. H. 11. Holmes tells to the Philadelphia police tin entirely now version of ids connection with Pitzel, who is supposed to have been murdered for his life insurance. He says the two had on foot a plan to defraud the insurance company; that while in Philadelphia Pitzel became despondent over financial difficulties, the sickness of his daughter in St. Louis, and other matters, and threatened to commit suicide. Holmes then avers that lie jokingly remarked to Pitzel: “Well, your body is as good as any other, but 1 would not advise you to do anything rash. On the following day, Sunday, Holmes says he went to the Calio white street house whole Pitzel was stopping, and found a note telling him that the suicide had been accomplished. The letter pleads ed that Holmes look after Pitzers chill dren, and suggested that there would Idr no difficulty In getting the insurance mone cy from the Fidelity company, now Uma the dead body of Pitzel could be produced! in evidence. Holmes then told of the ap-| pearance of the corpse, and said that he sat in the room with the body for over an hour. He finally made up his mind that since Pitzel had taken his life there would be no harm in destroying any evidence of suicide, so that ho might bo able to got the insurance on Pitzel's life without any difficulty. Holmes has confessed that he thereupon dragged the dead body to the second floor, laid the corpse on the floor, pried । open the mouth of the dead man with n pencil and poured in a quantity of cxplo I sive chemicals. He then, he says, placed I ; a lighted match to tho man's mouth, when ’ the explosion which so horribly disfigured I tho corpse followed. To give the more forcible impression that Pitzel came to i his death by an accidental explosion Holmes stated tn the police that he got a i pipe of Fitz I's, tilled it with tobacco, lighted it, then blew out the flame, after

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the tol.twco laid I" ■ a partly e.msamed. ; nml pla< cd the pipe beside ibe dead man’s , body. Search in the lutsi nieut "f the Chicago ; house has ret eah d ah.; -t vt wything svg geative of dark era:." < x ept n w rpso. Skeletons and b« m s were titer", bat the* • may have been pr e urul fn m medical college# or Other smirevs; they furnish no ■ i proof of murder. M. re mysteriiam vats, tanks, retiTts nml kindred devi -s have • been unearthed. Ami m st important of mH. tliere has I en found in the Arkansas |>"nitent inry a man wh i is aid to have i Ins’ll closely a* .-.lsated with Holmes in his , J fraudulent li'e insuran 'o deals ni d who as-istcil in th" transfer of the Fort . | Wurth, Texas, pr r erty of the missing ■ Williams girls. Thi- n n is km wit by the name of Hatch. A. E. Allen. A. E. ! Bond. Caldwell nml “M."- t,” nml it is thought was lb h: "'’ eomii’iemm! agent. I Ho is serving a tifteeii year term fori horse-stealing, ami he i m»w 55 years old. He claims to km w all about the disappearnnce of the M ilhams girls and the < Pitzel children, but refuses to tell until | ; he is pardoned for his present term and j relieved of two more indictments for ’ horse-stealing. Holmes nut long ago asserted that the man li:ic h took the Pitzel children to Toronto, in the company of Minnie Willinms. and that it lie could be found he could clear up the mystery j of their death. i An attorney went from Chicago to Lit- ■ tie Kock to treat with tiie authorities of Arkansas for the release of the old i 1 and the strongest inlbmnee will bo mF; to r-cure all he knows. Ono other i।w hi 11 w tfi । ■ -a' i is tho^t . I . h ■ ' . i । H li " *‘ JiS Is Pat in eonvii-tiug Holmes he wiiralso ci aviet himself, so ho. has the strongest im-eniivo to keep bis mouth shut. On the other Imnd, Hatch will have the reward of liberty for his disi closures, in ea.s" the latter are conclusive. So it is upon him that the police piu their faith.

Close of the Harvey-Horr Debate. While it is not likely that the Hbrr Harvey debate has had the result of converting any one from his deep-rooted convictions it may, and undoubtedly has, broadened the views of many. The mere fact that Mr. Ilorr and Mr. Harvey could keep each other so busy in making replies Is of some value as an indication that the subject is broad enough to admit of inspection from opposing sides. From the opening of the finance controversy there has been a general feeling that the public would be helped and en lightened by the collection of the arguments on both sides and the arrayin””of these arguments one against the other. Through Mr. Harvey and Mr. Ilorr each faction to the financial question has presented its case, and in such away that the arguments pro and con come into immediate contiast. Jhe rules of debate forbid a contestant to submit an opinion for which he cannot immediately offer a

®* p l ana f' on . the result being that datwJ’. itUe chance the shirring of n . * U L f^hits and the suppression of erso facts which are possible in a mere ex parte argument. .J/ I 8 ’ of , oourse ' to be regretted that the debaters buried their arguments in such nu enormous mass of verbiage, but the arguments are there and may well repay the digging out. On the whole, a public ' nich has shown n genuine desire to get enlightenment on the financial issue can hardly fail to find some profit in this general stirring up of the fundamental facts. WEATHER AND CROPS. Not a State Report Telia of Unfavorable Couil itions. The reports as to conditions of crops throughout the country and the general influence of weather on growth, cultivation and harvest are summarized by tho V. S. Department of Agriculture as follows: Illinois.—Exceedingly’ favorable week. Severe local storms northwest counties on Friday, damage not irreparable. Corn growing splendidly, roasting cars in early fields. Oats, wheat and rye threshing retarded. Late potatoes, gardens, pastures and Second crop clover, millet and fodder crops growing finely. Fruit abundant in central and southern sections. Fall plowing general in same sections. Wisconsin.—Heavy soaking rains have generally benefited corn and potatoes. ^Pastures again becoming green and milk supply increasing. 'Threshing and fall plowing now general. Cranberries promise a fair crop. Tobacco growing finely. Michigan.—Very beneficial showers in southern half of State, but not enough rain in northern half. Corn and potatoes generally improved, but pastures are still very poor. Oats harvest well along, straw short and yield of grain light. Indiana, flood growing weather, with several rains. Corn earing and growing fast. Potatoes look well. Pastures rej covering. \\ heat and rye threshing done, i Oats threshing continue., l-'nll plowing I progresses rapidly. South Dakota. -Temperature averaged j about normal. Fair to copious, though I scattered, night showers benefited all late cent's, but more general rains needed. Fine harvesting weather and wheat harvest advanced. Corn growing rapidly find potatoes and flax improving. Nebraska. Small grain harvest nearly completed, and s*me threshing done;

t yield very It. ivy in imrthu im n. ’ half «r« pi- m.w .v•tt 1. (’.-rn in nor! it Ke. A! : ’a:-.! w ■ it; w halt of St -.KU rr. :- m -• . aif. greatly thr< hug aid haying eu-1. Itr.rw st began m w -c-rn counties. Much corn do; 1 .in IH.kit n. Cloud and Washington L.wa Temperature am! sunshine < ■ i ' .wwst nt -e m;: 1 :nd threshing ■ in prog ri -s with heavj yields. Corn stead ' iiy maii.taii.ing gs J-■ d n; .4 premia-t to । break previous records. ( i i UVLU C V / Gladstone having retired from politics he seems t-> have taken his majority with i him. Arizona comes b the front with a petj rifled human heart. That's mighty ii us! I to bent. Mrs. Frank I ostic is coming home again. There will be general curiosity to learn his name. Michigan has decided that for judicial purposes an oath administered by tele- ] hone is binding. That decision seems to be sound. Cincinnati Las a woman’s street-clean-ing brigade. ’Tis woman who rules the world, and the broom is oftentimes her weapon. Speaking of the silwr movement the Chattanooga Tinas refers to “the sober second thought in Kentucky. ’ Is there any such thing? An Aard wolf in the New York zoological garden’s “happy family” made a meal of three terrier pups the other day. That was indeed Aard. The rubber trust announces that it will materially raise prices Sept. 1. In other words it purposes to substitute an “o” for the “u” in its name. For the first time in five years Kansas and Nebraska have all all the rain they want. This is also the first year that “rainmakers'* have kept out of those States. A New York paper demands “some sort of invention which will make shipwrecks safe.” That isn't a bad idea. But after it is secured we give notice now that we shall rise and demand an invention to make railway wrecks enjoyable.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson —Thoughts Worthy of Calin Reflection—Half an Hour’s Study of tho Scriptures—Time Well Spent. Lesson for August 11. Golden Text—As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Mun be lifted up.—John 3: 11. "And they journeyed from Mount Hor.” 1 he ( hristian life is in one aspect a journey, in another a rest. As respects the world we are as pilgrim relations, as respect the "heavenly places in Christ” we have already reached Canaan and are at rest —-the "rest that remaineth,” the “rest of fait h.” "Discouraged because of the way.” Grieved the margin says. Elsewhere at Job 21: 4 the same word is rendered troubled, Margin, shortened. And this last is the literal significance of the word. Israel's heart was not equal to the jourj ney. She had not called upon the “grace i sufficient." In spirit sho fell short and complained. These things are given unto 1 its for an example and for our admonition. Shall we take it ? “The people spake against God and against Moses.” To speak against God is to blaspheme. That Israel could not afford to do. Her whole strength and stay was God Almighty. What folly to thus cut the cords of her strength! And to speak against God was to sjieak against the man who stood for God and His । ounseis. When the people forget God. it fart s illy witli good men. But it fares- worse with the people who do the forgetting. “<>nr sottl loathcth this light bread.” i And yet he gave them "angels’ food.” I When the coinpitlining spirit is given libi erty it turns beauty to ashes and it dis- ! dains ewn ma.nna. Is any one nmnnurI ing Leeauso of the bread of life that is | being dispensed from the sacred desk? i Beware. Israel was called to account ' for the things she despised us well as for j tin* things she nffi • ted. Then came th ' “fiery serpents.” Were . they nd like tire? Such si rpents art' still f. 'tad in the vi inity. Or was the place of the bite red and inflamed? It matters i <>t Hindi. The chief concern is this, that the little serpents >f -’it r'e here and they arc stinging Israel sorely today. Hight. ctdeilm-ss and hea<L: less have brought theta in; what shall we do? Stop murmuring. But there is the poison of the -er;., .t's bite. I. >ok. Yonder on a cross ’me w’i> was made sin for us. I.‘"k ami Live. "Where sin abounded grace did much mot e abound.” Hints am! 111 ust rit ions. "L ; no upon line, pre apt upon precept." We are introduced to-day to one of tho most familiar of Bible ptibsages. John i it I’l L : rb.tps the most frequently quot- I d f til the vt rst sos Scriptu. ■. "God so | i]■ vt I,” etc. But John 3: 11. 13, is so j mm h like that if you know the one you k,cw the other: "And ns Moses lifted | up the serpent in the wilderness, even st ! must the Sttn of man be lifted up: that i wh”Si>. ver belivvcth in Him should not l pi-rish, but lu.ve eternal life." We canI n t tm> often r< hearse these snerod senteti •s. Happy for us if we get them by >;• .lit; but if not gotten by heart, let the ' I ..’ti-n !• t 1ip.,11 them ill the Book and j the min I t ike them up into its npprehen- ' s; r. Some one was complaining that he ! । - ihl not r- member what he read in the Ri!- e. He was given a pitcher and tt»l<l h 'i i! it at tin- fountain. lle did so. “Now empty it.” “And tmw fill it again.” ‘ ' Empty it asd till it again.” “.'.gain," “again.” “Ar. i now wi.ether you have any w:it« r in y air pitcher or not it is i cieatu r than when y.,u I -gan.” ie. s it s. cm ‘trange that our Savior ■ , '’J ! em; are hitnseif with flic serpent in th- wil.3 rsi - .s? Or that he should ■ Isewheri’ use th ■ simile of a thief in the mcti: ? He is s. •'king P> mve, that is all. : and he i- ready to use any image that will arrest men and stay them in their heedless, worldly > ■•urso. Some of us are all ton rhetcti'-ally and grammatically nice. We w. uhi rath r lose a soul than lose sight of a semii ohm. or spoil a pretty lig:it '’ of sine- It. No man is ready for the ' work of soul saving who has not thrown ' literary reputation :md all into tb.e bal--1 time for the helping of 1 >st soulsTitto the i ; Kingdom. "You ought to throw a brick i bat once in a while.” was spoken to one ■ f these dilletante preachers. "Ob,” he 1 cried, “it would take all tho skin off my timers." Well, what if it should! Spurgeon’s conversion immediately oc- , curs to us in the mention of th.e subject of this lesson. “At List om snowy dav. it snowed s । mu !i I could not go to the plaeo I had determined to goto, and I was obliged to stop on the road, and it was a blessed stop for me. I found rather an ' obsetiro street, and turned down a court, and there uas a little chapel. e * * It w.-is a primitive Met!.-.dis’chapel. * ♦ ♦ , So. sitting down, the service went on, but ) no minister camo. At last a very t’nni ‘ looking man came into the pulpit and open his Bible and read these words: ‘Look unto me. and lie ye saved all the ! ends of the earth.’ Just setting his eye I on in.- as if lie knew in ■ all by heart, he , i said, ‘Young man, you are in trouble.’ ( , Well. 1 was sure enough. Says he. ‘You i will never get out of it unless you look to i Christ.’ And then lifting up his hands, he 1 j cried out, as only I think a primitive ; Methodist could do, ‘Look, look, look. It ’ ' is only a look,’ said he. I saw at once the ■ wav- of salvation. Oh, how I did leap for • 1 joy at that moment! * * * Like as ’ I when the brazen serpent was lifted up, ‘ j they only looked ami were healed. I had ■ been waiting to do fifty things, but when ( ■ 1 heard this word ‘L ok,’ what a charming • : word it si nied to me. Oh, I looked until । I I could almost have looked my eyes away! । and in heaven I wiil look on still in my joy i unutterable.’’ Next Lesson — : ‘The New Home in Canaan.” —Dent. 6: 3-15. How He Manages Them. “Don’t you find it rather difficult to got rid of them?” was asked of the man who is making a specialty of Tril- ! by tableaux with society women in the ■ title role. “Oh, no. Whenever a woman doesn’t suit I tell hor that her feet are too ■ small.”—Hartford Courant. ! We Have Known Such Women, Some women are so kind that they j marry men merely because they symj pathize with them.—Galveston News.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. — SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH. FULLY RECORDED. An Intereatiug Summary of tho More Im. portant Doings of Our Neighbors— Weddings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes. Conilcnsed State News. Goshen people are about to secure a boiler manufactory in their city. White cap notices are being served on many persons in Daviess County. Grant County now claims to have three of the largest oil wells in the State. The business portion of Kent, near Madison, was wiped out by flames. Petek W ebek was fatally burned by a gas explosion at an Anderson glass factory. M akaiu sa is jubilant over Ihe prospect of getting a buggy and wagon factory. W Al.tek Wilkins, 15, was thrown from a colt near She 1 ?' Ville, and fatally injured. Eakl Fokemcn was instantly killed at Goshen, by falling in front of a wagon loaded with stone. A 10-YEAH-i'i.n boy at South Bend exploded a cattridge with a stone. He only has uno hand now. I Chas. Bi kgek. aged 13,fe1l into a chute in the sewer pipe works at Brazil and was smothered to death. Wm. Douglass, aged 21, committed suicide with laudanum under the floor of the dining hall at the Wabash fairgrounds. Three prisoners in the .Madison jail escaped by sawing out several iron bars in a window and lowering themselves to the jail yard. A team driven b.v Jolin Defard and Joseph Baum, of Frankfort, was struck b.v a passenger train. Baiun’s injuries may prove fatal. Al.l. fruit growers agree that southern Indiana’s apple crop, this season, will be the heaviest ami the best that has been raised for many years. Nay & Adams’s sawmill, together with a large amount of lumber amt logs were burned at* Max. eight miles west of Lebanon. Loss, $5,000: no insurance. The City Council of West Indianapolis unanimously passed a resolution offering a reward of SSOO for any information leading to arrest of the murderer of little Ida Gebhardt. Wit.liam Eukehman. the 19-year-old son of Louis Eekerman.olTerre Haute.has been missing for several months, and from information received it ;s believed lie was drowned in Lake Michigan, while working on a Chicago boat. John Dunn, etaployed at the Kenneth quarries, took a walk on tb.e Panhandle track, and while in tho act of stopping to i light a pipe was struck by the Chicage express and instantly killed. Dunn was 45 years <ll. The accident occurred near Kenneth station, four miles from Logansi port. Whh.e fishing with a seining party, on ■ tb.e Wabash River south of Williamsport, i William Keefer fell from a boat and was drowned. It is supposed he became entangled in the seine, as the young man did not rise after sinking. No help could be rendered him. He was a respected young farmer living near Williamsport. Chari i - Lucas, foreman of the engine crew at the new Monon shops, Lafayette, was killed recently. lio was setting the I rak" on a uravel car. and the stem broke, throw in" him between the cars. His right arm was severed above the elbow, ami the top of his bead was cut off above the eyes. Mr. Luc is was a brother-in-law of W. IL McDel. General Manager of the road. The remains were sent to his home at Stat* Line, Iml., lor burial. Daniel Brutenham, a farmer, living i two miles south of Windfall, was seriously if not fatally injured by having his arm caught in the wheels of a threshing machine. He was working near the wheels, when hi? .hirt sleeve caught in the cogs of the w ! -i ls near his elbow. lie made a ' d spi iai 'effort to rid himslef himself by tearing away from the sleeve, but the material was too strong, and his arm was Jrawn into the cogs, catching near the •lb< w of the left arm to the wrist, grinding .•he flesh on one side of the arm to a pulp to the bone. In trying to extricate himself he threw his hand further into tb.e machinery, cutting off the palm of the hand and three fingers. A. D. Hi:.\sLLi: and ether farmers of Liberty Township. Howard County, were made the victims of the old tin box swindle last week. A man giving his name as John Schmidt, a horse buyer, went to Heusler several days ago, engaged boarding and ! Mr. ll< nsler’s assistance in buying horses, j they purchasing a large number of animals, some being paid for and some not. Schmidt , 1 brought with him a small tin box which he J said contaim d 0 in cash, which he 1 kept at the Hensler home while buying : amt shipping. The other day Schmidt 1 i mysteriously disapjicared and lias not ' i since been heard of. The defrauded ■(farmers took the tin box to Kokomo, expecting to be made whole out of tiie $2,000 : I it was supposed to contain, but when ’ ' Sheriff Sumption cut it o; en with a hatchet 1 j there was revealed to sight two ordinary : j clay bricks, nothing more. • Gnu. oft! ■ boldest robberies ever perpei traL <1 in Unit s a tion of the country ocI curred the ot.' er nignt within a stone’s 1 throw of tiie city limits of Union City. The I residence of David Fetter, just north-west ; of tb.e city limits, was the scene. Mr. PotI ter was aroused about 2 o’clock by a loud I crash. He jumped from his bed and was confronted i'y tour men with red handker- ' chiefs over their faces. Mr. Potter was | seiz d ami bound, and his wife and son , were similarly treated. Mr. Potter had . taken a large quantity of wheat to town the day before, and it is supposed the robbers entered for the purpose of getting the money lie received. However, they found nothing but a certificate of deposit from one of the banks. Tiie robbers left with but a small sum and a gold watch. Mr. I’otter was bound with wire and his flesh was cruelly cut. The marauders came in buggies and left in that way. The doors were burst in with fence rails. Commodore McCammon, aged 41. was struck by a south-bound freight train on ; the Pennsylvania road and instantly killed. The accident occurred at Speed’s Station, eight miles north of Jeffersonville. McCammon leaves a wife and three children in destitute circumstances. Theodore Biuzendine was driving from, a neighbor’s to his home in Eden, when his wife and four-months-old baby were in some way thrown from the buggy. Tb.e wife’s neck was broken and she died instantly, and the baby was so badly injured that it is throught it will die. The tragedy is supposed to have been caused bv reckless driving by Brizendine.