St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 March 1896 — Page 7

AR A 9 ST S Al THE FARM AND HOME. MATTERSOFINTERESTTO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. | Views of One Farmer on Farm Wages ‘ —Unless Animals Are Sheltered Good Feeding Does Not Avail—-Water for Cows—Variety with Ensilage,

Manure from Clover Hay, A Baltimore County farmer writes to Hood’s Dairyman the following instructive and interesting article on Farm Labor. He says: “My father once told me that about twenty years ago, as he was on the first of the year taking stock, so to speak, of the year's work he put as the lowest calculation, the price for hay at S2O a ton, wheat at $1 a bushel, and other products in proportion. To-day I pay the same wages that he did, when it is reckoned in money, but when it is reckoned in grain and hay, it takes two bushels now where it then took but one, and in this year of a short hay crop it takes nearly two hundred pounds to pay for a day's labor, where it used to = take but one. | - “Now, in the face of this, am 1 go- ~ Ing to employ all the labor I can, and create a still further demand for labcr, ~ which is my greatest expense? Hardly. My great aim is, and I believe it should be, to run the farm with as little hired men in it as possible. Let my aim be to combine the two elements, acres and machines, with as little as possible of the third element, labor. “I have been hiring two men in the winter, three in the spring and summer, with extra help at harvest and threshing times, and paying from six to eight hundred dollars a year for my labor, Last spring I rented to one neighbor one field, to another, another field, and one hired man and myself worked off the balance what we could well, and the rest was left unworked. And as a result, I have just as much grain and hay, and that at a clear saving of from two to three hundred do!lars, from my reduced labor bill. There is money in farming with low-priced crops and high-priced labor, but few, mighty few of us, can get it out, What we want to do is to use as little labor as possible, until either labor comes down or crops go up.” Wintering Fall Pigs, The great point in making fall pigs pay a profit instead of becoming squealing runts is to have a warm place for them to sleep, and to give them partly warmed food so long as the weather is cold. We have often seen pigs fed milk and swill from the barrel that - had been frozen over, and both were nearly or‘quite at the freezing temperature. In such case it takes too much of the nutrition in food fed thus to maintain animal heat, All this food has to be heated to the temperature of the body before it can begin to digest. When thig is done what is left will not make much fat or growth. Warming Water for Cows, It probably does not pay to warm water for any other stock than cows. 1t is not necessary for store of fattening animals to ‘drink a great deal in cold water. But if the milk flow is to be kept up and the digestion is to be kept good, the cow must have plenty of water, and in cold weather it should be warimned to very near the heat of the animal’'s body. This is especially important for the cow approaching time for parturition, At this period the system is naturally somewhat feverish, and the animal should be encouraged to drink as much as possible. Variety with Ensilage. Probably nine-tenths or nineteentwentieths of the ensilage put up is corn fodder, either grown for itself alone or grown for the grain, and si- i loed after the ears have been stripped from it. This last is often done with sweet corn, and after the ears have ‘ been cleared of their grain the green husks are put in with the other fodder. This is greatly relished by cattle, but the feed is not a properly balanced ration. It is not possible to get clover in the best condition to put in the silo at the time with the corn. Its season is in June, leng before the corn {s fit to put up. But the clover cut and dried helps to balance the corn ration quite as well as if it had been siloed. In fact, dry feed of some kind ought always to be fed with any en;ngge’. Clover well cured is the best dry ~~¥eed that we know of to go with corn ensilage. A Cheap Way to Begin with Hens, Let one purchase hens of the common mongrel stock—which can always be got quite cheaply, says the Agriculturist—and with these hens mate a | purely bred male for the variety desired ‘ to breed into. In the autumn carefully select the strongest and best-developed pullets, still retaining the former male bird. Select only those pullets which are robust and healthy in every respect, and strongly marked in form, color and general characteristics of the breed represented by their sire. Mate this second crop of pullets to an unrelated sire, and the resulting generation will be equal to thoroughbred stock of | that breed for all practieal purposes in laying and marketing qualities. The Effect of Salt on Milk, I Salt given to cows has some effect ‘ on the quality of the milk. This Is| necessarily so, as the salt aids very | much in the digestion of the food, and 1 it is the quantity of the food digested that regulates the quantity and quality of the milk, says Farm and Home. Salt is indispensable to the health of any animal that feeds on vegetable matter, and the milk is affected greatly by the health or opposite condition of the cow. When salt is given to excess, it is injurious, and causes an intense thirst, but this does not necessarily make the milk more watery than usual. If the cow drinks more water than is customary, there is no reason

TBRR T O G R e SRS s S, to believe that this excess of water dilutes the milk. The milk is not made in any such way as wouid make this possible. It is produced by the break-ing-down of the glandular tissue of the udder, and this never contains more than a normal quantity of water. The kidneys are charged with the removal of any excess of water from the blood, and th's drain or outl:t, if in go:d working condition, will always attend to its own business; and if it does not or

cannot, for any reason, the milk glands , | cannot perform this function, but the - | cow becomes diseased at once. But this 1 is a question that the careful farmer will never have to consider, because he will always take care that such a supposed mistake will never happen, It is only the careless farmer who runs risks of giving his cows, or permitting them to get, too much salt. Two Men and Their Dairies. John and George start with dairies alike. John is the smarter of the two, but he lays abed in the morning an hour after George is at work. John trusts the hired man to do the feeding and milking, and gets his wife to look after the milk while he attends to the larger matters about the farm, says L. 8. Hardin, in Home and Farm. George is a duller man, but a painstaking fellow, who looks after details. He is always on hand when the cows are fed, and seces that each one gets all she will eat up clean, and no more. He even takes the trouble to weigh the milk night and morning and keeps a record of it, which he looks over at night to see how each cow is getting along. Noting the slightest variation in Polly’s yield, he inquires about it, and finds she has tired of her feed and neglects it. : Ile changes her proportion and adds a few roots or oilmeal for a few days, and so gets her back again, while if she had been neglected he would have had the “bad luek” of having her fall off in milk yield. So hg goes in everything about his dairy, a little here and a little there, but always on the lookout to sea that there is no waste. Now, which of those two dairymen will have the most “bad luck” at the end of the year? It will be John every time. His notions are too big. The only break he can see is a wagon gap in a stake-and-rider fence. He will not bother with those small things that make up the sum of life and the success of any business. So rar as luck is concerned, thoe man who sits down and waits for it seldom hits it, while the man who goes forth to meet it will get many knockdowns, but he will conquer bad luck and add to his victory all the good luck that comes bhis way. Seceding Too Soon. The desire to get the seed into the ground as early as possible is met very often with a loss, and where seeding is done when the snow is on the ground, as with clover, frequently an insufficient amount is used, and the “cateh” is poor. Irost, birds and lack of covering to the seeds leave but a proportion to germinate, says the Philadelphia Record. When the spring opens apparently early, especially if the winter has been mild, there is a strong temptation to begin seeding. The loss of seed is quite an item should a cold spell come after seeding, but the heaviest loss is in time. The very effort made to begin early causes the crops to be late, because a second planting must be made, due to the seed decaying in the ground. It should be understood that it requires a certain temperature, or warmth, before life besins in seeds, and the temperature varies according to the kind of seeds, It has long ago been demonstrated that seeds planted after the warm days of spring have well advanced will sprout and overtake those planted when the ground is | cold, .and the fact is well known to faraters, yvet thousands of dollars’ worth of seeds are annually lost by | the desire to get crops in early, or in incurring the risk of unfavorable weather. Cost of Milk Production. Professor Wing, of Cornell, iln his summary closing Bulletin 52, on “Cost | of Milk Production,” says: Our rec- | ords of this herd for the past yv:u’i seem ‘o.warrant the following conclusions: 1. With a fairly good herd, carefully fed and kept, milk can be produced for sixty-five cents per hundred weight, and fat for sixteen cents per pound for the cost of food consumed. 2. That individuals of the same breed vary more widely in milk and butter production than do the breeds themselves. 3. The larger animals consumed less pounds of dry matter per thousand pounds live weight per day than did the smaller animals. 4. -That in general the best yields of fat were obtained from cows that gave at least a fairly large flow of milk. In general, the cow consuming the most food produced both milk and fat at the lowest rate. Feed for Breeding Ewes, Ewes that are with lamb should al- - ways have roots during the winter sea- ‘ ' son. They need these before parturi-‘ tion as well as after. The period of gestation is always one when coutinued ld!'y feeding induces a feverish stntet | of the system, and this means impaired | digestion. It is common to give roots‘ ‘ after the lambs have dropped, so as| to induce a good flow of milk for them. | But the roots should be given several weeks Dbefore parturition, and some grain added while the lambs are suck- \ ling, so as to keep the ewe from growing too thin in flesh. To Kill Hen lLice. For lice, dust Persian insect powder freely in every crack and crevice, and on the body of the hens, in among the feathers. Eggs in Winter. Ta produce eggs, avoid free feeding, and feed meat and milk, with plenty of grain at night, omitting corn, ..

| VETERANS WILL REST y ! el | HAVE A PLEASANT HOME ON l THE WABASH. : s : Indiana's State Buildings for Old : SBoldiers Are Situated Amid Higtoric ‘ surroundings—The Home Ts Ham:- ' pered by Small Appropriations, For 014 Boys in Blue, Little has been said and less has been written regarding the Indiana State Soldiers’ Home. A location which posseses more of natural beauty or historic interest would be diflicult to find. The home, which was oflicially opened about a month ago, lies upon the west bluffs of the Wabash river. IFrom more than one point may be obtained a fine view of Lafayette, upon the oppesite side of the river some three and a half miles distant. The grounds comprise 237 acres, and thave a water frontage of over 2,000 feet, o s e P L N R . I ~ia L o). Vo ) o eka Y AP T 2 e- % '7/ 8 W 7 \~‘ i g AR AN ;I." 5 \¥\ = ) IR 2 S eLS g \ e RN i R ~ e e/ // X 5 - = d/AY A< WY X 3 ‘ 7 (-',’, /4 < i e - O g JOHN P. MEGREW. | (Commander of the Indiana State .\'u!dh-rs‘s Hom» at Lafayette, Ind.) | ai e i The bluff rises abruptly from the river to | fi }l!'i;h! of about seve nts five f!‘t'i_ covered | with a dense growth of heavy forest trees, i IFrom there it slopes graduaily baek to the | upper platean, abont 200 feet above the | i river level. The road which leads to this | | charming site iies along the west bank of the Wabasgh. On the waters of this| streaum once floated the canoes of Jesuit | emissaries like La Salle and his indomita- | ble assistant, Lieut. Jomty. IFrom Fort |

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‘ Miami, on the fakes, to St. Louis, ou the | Mississippl, they came and went, often vigiting the Wabash tribe and wurging them to join the powerful Algonguin confederacy and thus eripple the warlike Irvoquois, The past goes with you at every step as you stroll about the gite dedicated to the defenders of the Union. Turn to the noriheast and, at the mouth of the Tippe- | eanoe, you will see where the great vil! luge of Keth<4ip-ke-ca-nunk stood, zvrem«lg of its shingle-roofed hounses, seveniy u{j which were destroyed by fire when the village was captured by Capt. Wilkinson in 1791, This village marked.an advance in ecivilization more than commensurate with the times, and whidh can only be accounted for by the presence of many French traders. Turn to the sonthward, and from the commanding height there stretches before you for miles the great Wea Plains, which were once the home of that most powerful tribe, the Miamis. At the ¢lose of the eighteenth century this plain contained five large Indian villages, the most powerful of which was Ouiatenon, which, with the others, after nearly a century of remarkable histery, was destroyed by Gien. Scott, Across from the plains, on the opposite side of the river, it is stated, stood Fort Ouiatenon, which was built away back in 1720 and was captured by the Indians some forty-three years after, during the Pontiac conspiracy. Commands Historic Spots, From this same height, where now the grayaired veterans whose gl’ ryice to their conntry is being in slight manner rewarded, yon may look eut toward historic spots, The site of tae Winnebago village - upon the Wild Cat may be seen, and,! } while the exact spots have not been locat- | e b e

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ed, fancy may easily picture the Kickapoo villages, which are known to have (~xis§ed‘ above and below, along the banks of t‘he.] Wabash. : | The roadway from Lafayette to the new l gsoldiers’ home follows the course of the river, and on either side is heavily timbered. The hills rise precipitately on the west, the river flows placidly on the east and is skirted by giant elms and sycamores, some of which looked doswn upon and shielded the early aborigines. l Nearing the grounds of the soldiers’ home, the road gradually rises above the river level: There lies upon the right a peculiar park, known as Tecumseh’s Tra{. At is private property, and its name is de-

s ;E“ )»e Tact that upon this exact 5{ “e= a, she greatest of the Shao o oo re. the most emiTR D statesman of the Algon--18 ’:,*‘ fl&i»:“;mped when on the way to ene . € Tamous battle of Tippecanoe, :g:' but a few miles to the north of ’O:r 'g:gmhfvr the soldiers’ home \:aw eBB rais ers on .thn*tv memorub_le 1 »'.,thatterm}l' fm orn'ng in Noyember, in fede cy kuo'v orever the stl'ougf*st con~,f’itimo. Vi among the Indians of T ’b Bfi;“fd_inzi of the Home, '&0 road k‘-“@l’ sround of '_l‘uc.um'tiha 4t makes an abrapt and precipitous Gfient to the platean above, where stand tli l’“-‘\"'ly orected buildings of the sOl- - home. They are not many. nor flt{ elaborate in finish or con. b oy | The State Bt construction. plopriation of $75,000 for .", 4" tition ol »60,000 for an insti- : deserving a mult Micati figures. That gqm Speeation .of i ount was spent upon bulldl"gs lll()u(‘. 'l‘h(' trustees f po Iy, have had suflicien .\!s e oR IR islative acti clent faith in future legks Dockut:'?' and have gone iu{o their ssrmy in f\l!?ll‘?r;; fl‘ln‘)llllt ‘(l[’lrn):Vlnl:ltil]g Wit the shtire ap o gB, for eXpended in cons l.llm)l“upr.:mon had been ¥ 1 construction, ‘Dhe soldiers’ home was officially opened IPeéb. 1, but the first inmate arrived on the scene Jan. 2. At the present time there 104 persons at the home, all but two | wiiom are members. The formal openhas been postponed until July 4, at dcth time Gov, Matthews and many disunished guests will be present, ‘Col. John P. Megrew, commandant, has been an especially busy man since the home opened. He was a captain of the Eleventh Indiana volunteers, and, although enlisting in the thirty-day service, he served to the end of the war under Gen. Lew Wallace, Prior to holding the present position Col, Megrew was commandant of the soldiers’ home at Warm Spr,iugs, S. D. The officers, besides the commandant, are: Capt. W. I, Havens, adjutant and gquartermaster; Laura E. !lngt'muil. matron; Dr. W. P. Younkey, | surgeon, and Dr. J. C. Sargent, assistant surgeon. i “IMinais has one of the most economical { of soldiers’ homes,” said Commander Mefgrow, “Jowa and Nebruska may also be { clhassed as moderate in their expenditures, ‘ i We have 10 Ilook to Naw England for lav- ‘ i ish expenditure of money in caring f»»r} ’ tha veterans of the ¢ivil war. This home | | i 8 absolutely new, and it is impossible to ‘ | tell awvhat the future will hold for it. This E_\'e-.'lr we will be foreed to run at an vx~i i pense of $146 per capita. That includes, | i not alone inmates, but officers’ .\.-\':x:':wu‘ { and all ruoning expenses. It is the mini- |

mam figure for any soldiers' home in thoi #1 have np doubst that within twe years this home will bave over 500 inmates, and that it will nltimately hold over 1.000." The ecitizens of Lafayette take a just pride in this Swate institutien, which, from its remarkably fine location, issliable to beongy one of the foremost of its kind. In addition to the seven substantial brick buildings which have been erected with the $75,000 appropriated, there are eleven frame coitages completed and ready for gecupancy. The cottage system is in vogue, and appears to be pepular in the extrome. The polie: of the Legislature was to establish general bulldings, and to ask the counties, as far as possible, to erect cottages for the use of inmates from the respective counties. The act of establishment empowers county commissioners to make donations for this purpose. Every county, it is claimed, is now supporting, through its township {rustees, a number of indigent veterans, whose pensions are not sufficient to support them, at a much greater expense than woukl be necessary were they maiutained at a State institution, where the general Government contributes more than twothirds of the expense. Uses and Dimensions, | The general buildings which have been erected are: The Old People’s Home, Old ‘ Men's Home, quartermasier’s department, dining hall and widows' home, hospital, | commissary department, power house and water works. | he Old People’'s Home has a north | froat. of 108 feet and an east front of 112 feet. It contams forty-five rooms andl from the tower, 148 feet high, may be seen !'in the city of Lafayette, Delphi, Tippeca- | noe battlefield, the Wea t’lains and the eT e e e T e e

e—— e—— Wabash rivers for many miles. It is in}tended to accommodate old soldiers and | their wives. ‘ The dining hail has a south front of 112 feet and an east front of 92 feet. The entire first floor is occupied by the zeneral dining room, general Kkitchen, bakery, storeroom, general serving rcom and steward’s office. ®.he dining room contains ample space for 250 table seats and has a l kitchen capacity to accommodate 500 people. o Dr. P. Rhoades has been placed on trial at Owensboro, Ky., on the charge of murdering a Mr. Robinson, a wealthy farmer, Rhoades married Mrs. Robinsoa.

|THE SUNDAY SCHOOL g ’tf”’ ; . B INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE Reflections of an Elevating Character ~Wholesome Food for Thought— Studying the Scriptural Lesson Ine telligently and Profitably, — . £3 - 2 . Lesson for March 13, _(xolden Text.—*“Ask, and it shall be Biven you; seek, and ye shall find; kno %, and it shall be opened unto you.”—Ly%s 11:9. Teaching about prayer is the subject on the lesson this week. It'is found in Luke 1'1: 1-13. Jesus was a man of prayer, distinetively so; indeed, prayer was the ate mosphere in which he lived. Os the great head of the church pre-eminently, could the words of the hymn be spoken: = “I:rayer is.hh'e Christian’s vital breath, The Christian’s native air, His watchword at the gates of death; He enters heaven with prayer.” |. Yes, and he surrounds himself with heaven here by prayer. How often did Jesus shut out earth’s scenes and slip back, as it were, into communion with the invisible, by this means! At any instant the soul that has learned the sacret of the Lord may close the door of his | closet behind him, even though he be in the tumult of the world, and talk with God. Yet for that larger enduement of the soul that fits for stress and struggle we need the protracted withdrawal that gives itself at times to hours and days of communion with the eternal. *Take time to be holy.” “It came to pass,” says the secripture, and very naturally. The spirit of prayer had just been exemplified in the chapter preceding. Mary had chosen the good part which should not be taken from her and had “sat at Jesus' feet.” Now follows the doctrine of prayer, precept giving along with practice, but, by our Lord’s preserved method, as it would seem, coming after it. “As he was praying,"” a somewhat peculiar phrase, engaged in prayer. The expression 18 pictorial. They saw our Saviour in a certain place bowed in supplieation. We can imagine them drawing nigh and then withdrawing themselves, with finger on lips, hushed and reverent until his holy vigils should cease. Then in a wistful way after the prayer one of the disciples breaks the silence with the anxious entreaty, “lLord, teach us to pray.” Was there something about the very appearance or attitude of Christ in prayer to provoke the request? Or was it something in the demeanor of our Lord after prayer? KEven so we have seen the dear mother come calm and composed from her closet, and how we have longed to learn the secret of her strength. | John the Baptist's life and work r'nmps‘ to us but in glimpses. We see him at the Jordan, we catch sight of him at Herod's court, we have tidicgs of him in prison. Then comes the terrvible intelligence of his beheading. But between timmes much was going on. There was probably a kind of school of the prophets, { foumded by John the Baptist. He h:\d‘ { about him a company of men whom he %\\;n indoctrinating in his school of rei pentance. But it was also a school of if-‘uihk And two of these disciples took i their degrees and entered at ouce on the { higher school of Christ there at the Jor- ’ ddan side. It would be interesting to us to | know that prayer 46f John. Well, here it {is as expressed by Andrew and John, | “Rabbi (which is to say, being interpreted, | Master), where dwellest thou?’ Enough. | | They have found the new Master toward | | whom John's praver and testimony point- | ed, and they come and make their abode | % W '?‘ El 'I! l i And now follows what is called “the | | Lanvd’s Prarer,” but what might better lvcl { called the diseiple’'s prayer. It is essenE:.va}i;\ the same as that given to the lwu-i | plein general in the Sermon on the Mount. | tMatt. 6: 9-13.) Evidently it is not in- | tended as a church ritual or form of worship. Rather #s it a specimen of accepta- ‘ | ble petition, or, at best, an epitome of the | §~.x?’,:j- ts of proper prayer. As such it isi | most marvelous in its strength and scope. % I'o study it and meditate upon it is to be | | more and more impressed with its won- | derful reach and range, its height and ‘ lepth and breadth of devotional signifi- { cance. If, as some have held, only those { should ¥reathe it who comprehend it, then | who eould rightly offer it? Rather should {\\.‘»‘ use §t with our earliest thought of | God and geek continually to grow in our t apprehensgon of the profound and blessed ! meaning. ‘ The last part of the lesson is upon importunity in prayer. Yet ye are not to unlerstand by this that God needs to be en- ' treated. The argument is from the less to | the greater. If wicked or indifferent men 2 may be prevailed upon by continued sup- | plication, with how much more assurance | of success may we approach the throne of la just and mereiful Jehovah? Yet the lesL».n is plain that we should keep on ask- | inge. Pray without ceasing. Ask, and i seek, and knock. Let one prayer suggest { and open up another, one endeavor prompt | another. And the lesson also is of happy expectation in prayer. Children get good ’t!ml;.:s when they ery to earthly parents. What may we not hope for when e come to the Giver of every good and perfect gift, whose ears are open to our cry and his hands for our supply ? The Holy Spirit is manifestly here spoken of as the greatpst blessing that man could ask or God | could give. 1 ]‘ it | Next Lesson—*‘‘Faithful and Unfaithful i Servants.’—Luke 12: 37-48. E Advantages of' Married Life. i Mr. Wallace—lt seems to me that if | ever a bachelor realizes his unhappy lot | it must be when he is in bed sick. | % Mrs. Wallace—Yes! There. is & great { difference between a hired nurse and a wife. If he goes to throwing the medicine bottles and things at the nurse when she happens to hurt his rheumatism, she will leave. You cannot run the poultry department on the farm without the help of a good paper—ao more than the banker could run his business without the aid of market quotations. Remember that! —The Cable, England. A man’'s first shock as a husband is the discovery that his wife has stub born opinicns on subjects which she has always assumed ignorance of, The dirtiest and most unhealthy city ln the world is Amoy, China. |

e————— e e PRI i & (¥ A INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY < TOED, Bloody Fight Among Actors at the Marion Opera House—lncidents in the Life of a Happy Family Near Indianapolis—Hard Coal Find. William Lang Is Shot Four Times. William A. Lang, one of the comedians of O'Hooligan’s masquerade company, was shot four times by John West, a member of the same company, on the Stage of White’s Opera House in Marion Saturday night. The curtain had just been rung down on the last act, wheg the few in the audience who had noy reache_d the street heard loud talking, Swearing and blows exchanged, followed in quick succession by twelve shots. Police who heard the shots were soon on the stage. West was found bleeding from several wounds and Lang was endeavoring to pack his trunk, the blood stream. ing ffom four bullet holes in his body. The fight, “:'filich was a general one with .tx?pe }nenibe of the\ *)m )8 |‘< hegan by ' . <¥ing d"m - , Vatson, the | e R | e SRR and ki everal es by -Lang. Joe '| Conlan interfered and was also struck by '| Lang. West had gained his feet by this | time and ran to his dressing room. Lang | also went torhis trunk and secured a ref- volver. He returned jus: as West came | on the stage and fired one shot. The lat- | ter threw up his hand and in quick suecession six shots were fired. Four of these | took effect in Lang’s body, one in the left | breast just above the heart. The other " wounds are not of a serious nature. One shattered the bones of the left forearm, ‘| one grazed the left shoulder and the | fourth ball made a gaping wound on the | keft side of the abdomen. His chances for | recovery are favorable. The trouble seems | to have arisen through jealousy of the two comedians. ’ | Wife's Grounds for Divorce. , One hundred people have been called at | Indianapolis as witnesses in the divorce 1 suit of Amanda vs. William P. Binford, a I well-known farmer of an adjoining coun- | ty. The plaintiffi complains that her husband deceived her as to his age, that he 1 will not wear a wig, is slovenly and never | combs his whiskers. She also alleges that i.-'ln- is compelled to borrow money from { him at 8 per cent interest to supply absoEhm- needs, and that he killed diseased { hozs for family food. The plaintiff de- ‘ mands 87,000 alimony and custody of the { children. The husband sets up a cross ;mrlnpl:lillf. alleging that she whipped him’ { with a club and tore his clothes from his | 'nul.\'. l Anthracite Coal in Indiana. Genuine hard coal in paying quantities was discovered by Henry J. Christian, a prominent capitalist and natural gas magwite, while drilling for gas on his farm near Greensburg. The coal was struck at a depth of about seventy feet and the vein is about twenty feet deep. A quantity ‘nf it was examined by scientists, who pronounce it genuine anthracite coal. It is the only kard coal ever discovered in the State outside of the mine at Brazil, l:m«l it is the first coal discovered in the 2 castern part of the Stave. A mine will at ‘,(l“"l' }IQ‘ H]D('“(‘i], ! All Over the State. Mr. and M=s. John Skelton, of Hebron, observed their golden wedding anniversary. They are the oldest couple in the lmum_\' and have resided there over fifty | years. Mr. Skelton is the oldest Mason !in the county. Mrs. Skelton is a niece of Gren. Burnside. Alonzo Rooker, who has been on trial for four weeks for the murder of his wife [ last September, was acquitted at Indianiu;wm after the jury had been out fortyeight hours. He is relezsed on the orounds of insanity. The crime was one | of the most bloody in the aistory of the i city. | William Bullard, who was released from { the penitentiary six months ago, after serving a five-year sentence for attempted { murder, was taken to Columbus from Hope, where he attempted to assault Miss ‘ Minnie Murphy, and lodged in jail to es- | cape the vengeance of a mob of infuriat--1.4 citizens which was being formed to Iynch him. Bullard was drunk at the time } of making the assault and says l'm has no | recollection of the attempted crime. He | pleaded guilty to the charge before a jus- | tice and was bound over in the sum of | 500, which he was unable to give. ! By far the most sweeping litigation that was ever inaugurated in this State was I begun Tuesday, under the direction of the | Republican State Central Committee, in the filing of a suit to test the constitul tionality of every apportionment law that has been passed since the adoption of Lhe | present State constitution in 1851. The t..i.j.-wr of the suit is to restrain all the sheriffs, anditors and clerks in the ninetytwo counties in Indiana from issuing certificates for holding the election for Senators and Representatives this fall, and thus either compel the Governor to call a special session of the Legislature or produce such chaotic conditions that none of these officers can be elected and the State will be without a lawmaking body. The grounds of the attack are practically the | same as those selected in former suits of "| the same character. The complaint sets i out the uhjw-:'n_ms Y:>.t‘fl!‘ acts complained of in the order in which they were passed by the Legislature, and seeks to show that :':.w Legislature in no case adhered to the | | unit basis of population as provided in the constitution and decided as necessary to a constitutional act by the Supreme | Court. Instances are pointed out where . | counties with 5,000 voting population got [ but one Senator, while districts were made | 5f two or more cont:t:esin which the voting “dv@u!azi-m W g lifinig more, ‘:u‘:d yet "thése gos but Boe BNBSE®r. Similar con- | ditions reearding representatives are also | pointed out and the contention is made !73:;\; none of these laws conform to the { constitutional provision. A conference of | Democrats will be heid to consider the sitnation apd ad®pßsome L:Z;:z;:tr?l"guu. i Thomas Neenan. of ;Sowth Bénd. azed { 19. bade his friends good-by and got six of | them to promise to serve as pall-bearers. | They all subpbsed he was making his ! funeral arrangements in sport. He then | went home, drank a dose of carbolic acid Lad el o E . v f - Georee English. of Napoleony was driving out of Greensburg when his horse scared and ran into a drug store. Mr. Enelish was thrown through the window and fatally injured, being badly cut by the glass. A bottle of sulphuric acid was l broken and spilled upon him and in many places the flesh was eaten to the bone. d