St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 41, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 May 1896 — Page 7

OVER A CENTURY OLD. i iiitin VENERABLE MEN AND WOMEN OF INDIANA. JYames Sullivan Born in 1791, and Martin Rafferty, Who Is 101 Years of Age—Hoosier Ladies Who Are Close to Five Score. Indiana a Great Health Resort. Southern Indiana is noted for the longevity of its people. Within a five-mile radius of the thinly settled district of Leopold there are not less than fifty people who have already passed the allotted three score and ten. Octogenarians are common. There seems to be something in the air that promotes long life. It is not unusual to see men of 70 and 80 . swinging the ax or following the plow. There is James Sullivan, who but the other day celebrated his 105th birthday anniversary. Mr. Sullivan was born in Conaty Kerry, Ireland, married at the age of 45, and with his wife set sail for the land of the free five years later—in 1841. Mr. Sullivan always was and still is of very abstemious habits. Soon after landing in Philadelphia Sullivan became foreman for a railway contractor engaged in the Lehigh Valley or other parts of Pennsylvania. 1t was there he acquired a sufliciency to place him “above distress, below envy,” but the rough element with which his work brought him in contact

was never relished, and he removed to Perry County, Indiana, where he invested money in lands, and settled upon the farm which he still owns. In the prime of life the old gentleman was a practiced athldte, standing 5 feet 10 inches, measuring 43 inches around the chest and weighing 200 pounds. He is not so tall or heayy now, but the deep chest and powerful frame Yespeak the rebust constitution. The old gentleman furnished two sons for the late rebellion, and would have en--472 & £ R | 145 T 1"/.’-"114.; ey 1 (14 T X il .‘\'/»{" & 1§ ,'/i’r J yf/w /; L‘ :" R/ J 1 !‘!'i,“-’ ’"_“-'A ) ' Jif' /»» R \ [ | 8 ()‘ W = ( .' S/e 4! //f ,//ffi /// "9% / i s L b o [ f R ;/ ; I ’ m"’ /) ” [ & \ o —""" ¥ 4 i‘o ’ L@ LT LG T, L R, i |5 2320 oty 31/14, ' {SB Wil | (B 8 n ‘ \!gu Wi { sl S il |\ LN B ‘a R 111 i : R ok . : ‘\\ oy I R~ ‘,’( "_' JAMES SULLIVAN AT 100, listed himself, but was turned away on

accocunt of his age. Mr. Sullivan is a devout Catholic and attends church in Leopold, to which he occasionally walks at seasons when the road is good, a distance of three miles, and is as light of foot as the ordinary octogenarian. He has been a Democrat ever since his first vote. Another old Indianan is Martin Rafferty, also a native of the old sod, from the County Galway. Mr. Rafferty celebrated his 101st birthday on April 1. He jokingly remarked that he was sent as an April fool present to his mether in the year 3795; that he was so small he could have been rocked in a slipper and so weak his life was despaired of and his coffin prepared. + Mr. Rafferty came to America in the year 1839. He spent upward of twenty years in New York plying his trade—that of a shoemaker. Two years were spent in Pittsburg. Thence he went to Parkersburg, W. Va., then to Louisville, Ky., whence he moved to Perry County, Indiana, twenty-eight years ago. Mr. Rafferty furnished one son to the “lost cause,” and two of them helped rout the queen’s own in the memorable fiasco of 1869. His own sentiments flowed in the same channel, but he remembered the advice given by the bishop to the shoemaker, “Shoemaker, stick to your last,”” and — stuck. Mr. Rafferty spent nearly all the past wwinter abed with the grip, and his death wvas daily expeeted, but he is now appar- . 0""/.:/_- /) i 4, (Y . N W 4 I ,’-i)"/////'f";,"." . AEA Wk ] = : '// dTR isi » -\ / / ;:”l/'{ > 5 . (\\‘\‘\" e ,};“ ® g:ii":.“”‘f" : ;"’;i’!!l//’ : ‘\\nl = i VOP Y 7 sSI \\\\\\\ \\\\ /} \\\\\\\ né}}‘Y \ \\\ \ /7 \ 4"’.” l WA U N R B !g;v i |

: MARTIN RAFFERTY AT 60. J i 5 oo ently recovered, and with care, as he says, ¢May April fool them a few times more.” Like Mr. Sullivan, with whose family Mr. Rafferty’s is connected by marringe, l Mr. Rafferty was a practiced athlete of the same deep-chested, expansive build, dut is only 5 feet 7 inches high. Unlike Mr. Sallivan, he is an incessant snuff user, though he uses tobacco in no other form. He enjoys a social glass, and credits good brandy with helping him to rise from his late iliness, but never drank excessively. His hair is almost as black as at 21, and has close-clipped whiskers, which he always wore as in the picture (the only one he ever had taken), which represents him in his 60th year. His deep blue eyes require no glasses, and his teeth are firm and white. Mrs. Catherine Dupaquier is now in her O7th year. Mrs. Dupaquier is a native of Paris, I'rance, but came to New Orleans at the age of 1/ with her parents. She was bereft of life’s partner thirty yecars ago, but had acquired a competency by mercantile business and has lived at case _since her widowncod among her children. AMrs. Dupaquier can speak burely enough |

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Her home is upon the farm purchased in 1852, where she has lived ever since. Death of “Billy” Williams, William Williams died at the home of his son in Warsaw Wednesday. “Billy” Williams, as he was familiarly ealled, filled a prominent part in th> political history of the State of Indiana. He came to Warsaw in 1836, was admitted to the practice of law in 1841. In 1854 he was nominated by the Whig party as a candidate for Governor of the State. During the canvass he held joint discussions with his opponent, Ashbel I'. Willard, in sixtyfive counties of the State. He was defeated, but ran far ahead of his ticket. Mr. Willinms took an active part in securing the location ¢f the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad through Warsaw and was for some years one of the directors of the road. In 1859 he was elected one of the directors of the northern Indiana prison at M.chigan City. In 1863 he was appointed commander of Camp Allen at IFort Wayne, with author- ‘ ity to raise troops. Within six weeks he ; had four full regimcnts in the field. He was then appointed paymsster for volun- | teer troops, with headquarters at Louisville, Ky., where he remained to the close of the war. In 1866 he was clected by the Republican party to the IForticth Congress, re-elected as member of the ortyfirst and Forty-second Congresses, and in 1872 was elected as member from the State at large of the IForty-third Congress. He was appointed by President Garfield as minister to Paraguay and Uruguay, South America, his comm ssion being dated the day President Garfield was shot by Guiteaun, which position he held ‘

for several years, Will Give Up Their Pastor, The spring meeting of the Indianapolis Presbytery was held at Indianapolis and during the session Elder Vinson Carter of the Tabernacle Church presented the question of the dissolution of the pastoral relations existing between Dr. Rondthaler and the church. He said that the membership was loath to give up the pastor, but believed that it was best, and joined with him in asking that the relations which have existed for more than eleven years be dissolved. The petition was granted and a number of ministers took occasion to say a few words in parting with him. The most exiended t:Sk was made by Dr. Milburn of the Second Church, who said: “1 first feel a personal regret that he is going away and then a feeling of felicity, a great joy that he is going to a sphere where he will be of high use. He witl be missed fully as much by the city of Indianapolis as by his own church. But it may be a goed thing for him that he goes. In this age, that is so versatile and mercurial, we want changes in pastors ocecasionally, He is going to a great city, where light and help are needed. It is a place where they need his bustling spirit.” Watches and Cash in a Rag Bag. Fletcher Highley, a farmer living near | Liberty, received several hundred dollars the other day from the sale of some stock l and placed the money in his wife's rag bag for safe keeping fearing that thieves might find it if it were known to be about the house. The repository seemed such a safe on that he added his gold wateh and one belonging to his wife. Naturday he was away from home, and, a peddler calling, Mrs. Highley sold the rags for half a cent a pound, and received a tin saucepan valued at 20 cents. When Mr. Highley returned in the evening and was ’ about to deposit a few more dollars in the | rag bag he found it empty and his wife reported the sale of the rags, and showed | the saucepan wit.. the expectation of having her shrewdness complimented. Mrs. - Highley was horritied to learn that the bag contained S6OO, and her and her husband’s watches. Mr. Highley started \:11‘:‘1' the peddler and found him near Richmond. He professed to know nothl ing of the money and the watch and said that the rags had been shipped to an Eastern rag tirm. Mr. Highley wired the \ firm. ‘ Wanted to Keep the Children.

| Henry Osborne, manager of the Nickleodian Theater at Indianapolis, was held under bonds for conspirvacy to kidnap Arizona and Rosa Wilson, aged 7 and 9 years, of Danville, 111. The children came to Indianapoiis some days ago, and, it is said, have been spirited away by Mamie Quintette, an attache of the theater. Witnesses testified to conversations between Osborne and the Quintette woman, and Osborne's partner testified that

he had said that he proposed to get 1,1,5: session of the girls and bring them up for his show. The parents of the children were in court during the preliminary trial. Lcndon’s Meat Bill, The annual meat bill of London is somethbing wonderful. During the year 1805 the butchers of that city killed and sold the flesh of 400,000 cattle, 1,600,000 sheep, 500,000 calves, and 700,000 hogs, to say nothing of the horses and fowls. The Carlton Club, London, has about 4,000 members and is the richest in the 1 worlds

A r e 1/ FHINGS PEHTAININ@.;:% ,;, ; FARM AND HOM S ‘ . | Intensive Farming in Practice™= ¥ *| Uses for Corncobs—Our ¥ :,w%g | Too Large—Gypsum Not GoOG GR | Strawberries—The Dairy CoWs _z ' Results from a Quarter A%a; Two years ago I planted one-fOUEEE of an acre in early potatoes, AS Soon as we were done working the potatoes ’ we planted tobacco between the FOWS of the potatoes. When the potatoes were dug for market the stalks were carried off and the ground cultivated, when the lot had the appearance of & tobacco field, writes a correspondent to the Orange County Farmer. It was then sown to turnip seed, and after the tobacco was taken off it was a complete turnip field. The result was fifty bushels of potatoes, average price $1 per bushel, SSO; 400 pounds of tobacco i at 12 cents, S4B; forty bushels of turnips at 30 cents a bushel, §l2; total, $lO2, or about as much as would be realized at present prices from five acres of corn at eighty bushels per acre, or seven acres of wheat, or four acres of hay. And yet tho taxes wers. paid for only one-fourth of an acre. This, In my opinion, was intensive farming. The best erop of corn that I ever rais- 4 ed was grown on a four-acre lot, on ‘ which the second growth of the previous year's clover crop was left standing and then plowed down. "The ground was thoroughly prepared before planting, for I held to the theory that ground cannot be prepared after tne crop I 8 planted. The field was check-rowed, or marked two ways, and the corn planted very thickly, and, after it was cultivated eight or ten times with a cultivator, we went over the fleld and thinned down every hill to not more than three stalks. Ido not think there was a vacant hill in the fleld. The result was 600 bushels of corn ears (150 bushels per acre), six .large two-horse loads of corn fodder and half a dogen ' loads of pumpkins, equal to about as ‘much as is ordinarily raised on twice ! the number of acres. The next year the gmme ficld produced over 200 bushels of oats. ! Uses for Corncabs. I utilize my corncobs in two ways—by grinding with the grain, and by kindling fires, says a writer in the Country Gentleman. The experiment siatlons have shown beyond éiscussion i.at cob meal, when fed to cattle, is fully as valuable, measure for measure, as clear meal, owing, it Is presumed, to the fact that the cob o i separates the particles of grain that the digestive secretions of the anfmal can more thoroughly act on thew. 1 lalso kindle my coal fireg with them. By dropping a few chips of paper, and then filling up the stove with cobs, and Iwhen these are well on fire, addiug a few more, and on these immediately pouring the hol of coal, I bhave no l trouble in kindling therhardest of coal, I use more or less also in my fireplace, l where they make a heat more {nlgnse than any harwood fire. I have on hand ‘some cords of cobs, left {rom the slell- | ing of my seed sweet corn. These [ pro!pnse to have ground up with the eom { mon yellow corn of the market, and so pr.‘h‘dcnll,\' change it into meal value, bulk for bulk. Corncobs are enormous ly rich in potash, thedr aghes contaln ‘!ng over twenty-three per cent, but ilt takes a vast pile of cote to make a | very small pile of ashes. ; The Size of Barnyards, As the farmer in the claging dayvs of !wiml‘r is busy scraping op the seat itv!‘m! manure in his barnyerd to draw away to the flelds he will almost al ’ ways admit that his barnyard is larger than it should be. Our large barnvards ’ are a reile of the times when stock was ll'.l:linl_\' fed out of doors, and the large %surfnc-* was intended to make it con i venlent for feeding so thag stock would I not crowd each other. .\-"R\%z].i.\ S stock | Are all stabled at night, and are always | fed under cover, wasting iess than by | the old method of throwing the fodder on the ground or in the corner as a crooked rail fence. Where stock is kept up at night it needs a very small yard for it to exercise in during the | day. The practice of dehorning is also lmaking it less necessary to have large barnyards,2so as to prevent vielous

horned stock from killing or injuwing those that are weaker than themselves. Gypsum on Strawbherries, It is not a good plan to sow gypsum on strawberries. It will usually encourage so large a grosvth of alaver that it will be nearly impyssible to keep the rows clean even for the first year. The gypsum has Dbesidas no special effect in making a large groweh of the strawberry vines. The mimeral fertilizer that strawberries most need Is potash. If this wera applied more freely the crop of berries will be large, and they will be of better quality and color. All the highly ecolored fruits need large supplies of petash.

The Ilairy Caw. The modern dairy cow s an exiremely artificial development, and as such should be entrusted only to the expert breeder, feeder and handler, just as a complicated machine ig placed in the hands of none but skilled mechanies. The best dairy cow is of an Intensely nervous nature, and neeads to be treated with great consideration, says M. B. P, in the Ohlo Farmer. Kicking a cow ig a wicked habit ¢hat results in much loss. A cow kept 1y constant fear of belng punished cannot prove profitable to her owner. Give the dalry cow a quiet, sensible, intelligent keeper. Such a man’s services are worth money. Do not withhold food. It takes a good deal of food to produce a liberal flow of milk. The more food the greater the peoduct up to & certain

| Hmit. Feed not only a llberal ration, | but componnd the same with care, | taking pains to have it well balanced. lOf course, it 1s always well to know | Just which grains and fodder are most | easily and cheaply obtained, and as | much of these should be used as poss | Blble without injuring the quality cf | the ration. Gluten and linseed mealg |Te now very cheap, and as they are | €Xceedingly rich, they can be profit- | ably mixed with bran and cornmeal |ln eompounding rations that are not | only nutritious, but of a quality to | Produce excellent manure. Apple Orchards as Windbreaks. + ‘Whererer forests are cleared off there 800 n comes a demand for a windbreak of some kind to shelter buildings and | Btock from cold blasts, and to protect | the farm from the severest winten | Winds. It 1s a good practice to set- | 80 orchard either on the windward side | of the farm or of the house and other farm buildings. It is true the trees aro bare in winter, and unless there Is a close fence to obstruct the wind near the surface it will blow under the trees aearly as strong as if no orchard were in the way. This can be remedied by planting a row of evergreens on the windward side. This will also hold the snow from being blown away from the orchard. Most fruit trees suffer from lack of water in the summer season when they are perfecting thelr fruft. It is abundance of water that enables thelr roots to take up the mineral plant food which is essentlal to seed production. Itisthe lack of water that causes so large a proportion of fruit to fall soon after it i{s formed. The time comes for forming the seed, and the mineral element needed is elther not in the soil or is unavailable, because there is not water in the soil to dissolve it. Sharpening Tools, Before the season for outdoor work begins all the hoes, cultivators and other farm implements should be got in condition for effective use. Labor is too dear to be wasted in working with a dull teol, and the farmer stands in his own light who allows labor to be { thrown away because the tools it works { with are Inferior. Solomon long ago | observed that “when the axe is dull ’ then must be put forth more strength.” § As he immediately added, “But wisdom {is profitable to direct,” he gave his t opinion pretty plainly that no man with %mm'h gense would be caught using a | dull axe. f Oate and Peas, 1 One of the best early feeds for stock, ’3 especially breeding animals, may be | secured by sowing oats and peas some { what thigkly, either to be pastured ot cut for sbiling. For this purpose it ls , | best to sow fully three bushels of seed | per acre, while If the crop is to be i grown for its grain two bushels of seed is a great plenty., The crop should be | sown at different times, &0 that it will i come in order for cutting in succes | slon. This solling crop may be grown | on Pegtand where a later crop of cab | bage, celery or other vegetables is to 1 be grown.

| ® Due to Tree Agents, | It s due te the tree agents and even | to the tree peddlers and scalpers to | say that there are doubtless thousands | of frult trees now growing that would ‘| never have been planted if they had | not stirred up sleepy farmers by thelr '| wonderful stories to buy and plaot, {avhen the same men would not have | gone three miles to a local nursery of | their own accord. | Odds and Enda, One part acetic acld to seven parts water rubbed well Into the scalp once | a day, will, it is said, Induce a new growth of hair. To remove a grease spot from wall paper, hold a piece of blotting paper { over the spot with a hot flatiron for a | § few moments, | ’ Try tying a piece of stale bread in a - white muslin cloth and dropping it ins to your Kettle with your boiling cabbage. It will absord all the offensive i odor. ‘ According to a wholesale furniture | l dealer, the best furniture polish {s made | of one-third alcohol and two-thirds ] sweet 011. Apply it with a soft cloth | and rub with another cloth. ; When your stove has burned red and | your blacking won't stick to it, put a | little fat fried from salt pork into the ; ! water in which vou dissolve your black-

ing and try again. Try chopping your bread instead of ' kneading™'t so long. Itis a great help. ' Put plenty of flour on your bread board i and on your dough, when it has been stirred very stiff, and turn your bread often as you chop it. Try to avoid having the bread and cake crack open while baking. This (-1-:[(,‘1{“){: on the tl‘)p is caused b\ having the oven too hot when the loaf is put in, and the crust formed before the heat has caused the dough to expand. You may remove the tightness caused by a cold almost instantly by mixing ammonia and sweet 011, or fresh hen's oil will do, shaking it thoroughly and rubbing it on the nose and forehead. By adding laudanum you have a splendid liniment. Fruit is not a complete dietary in itself, but it is excellent to accompany a meat diet. The acld contained in the fruits assist digestion, and it Is for this reason that apple sauce should be served with roast pork or goose, the fat of which is rendered more assimilable by It. : Farmers may make a mistake in overlooking their local markets. When articles are shipped to the large cities, owing to inducements in the shape of better prices, the commissions and cost, of transportation may leave less profit than could be secured nearer home, Butter and eggs can always find a good market and ready sale, being in des mand everywhero,

e e . |'THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. ; Ee i l | SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY * CONSIDERED. | 'l | A Scholarly Ex position of the f.esson | —Thoughts Worthy of Calm Reflec~ | tion—Half an Hour's Study of the : Scriptures—Time Weny Spent, : Lesson for May 3, Faith is the subject of the lesson this week, which is foung in Luke 17: 5-19. A happy thought—raith. We need to ponder it more. Indeed, we need more of the thing itself—faith iy God, faith in God’s book, faith in the Christ of the book. *Lord increase our faith.” There are at least two occasions for this prayer in the | | context. (1) The offcnses that were to Tcome (v. 1). These would bring trial ot faith. The disciples needed new stocx of the grace. Do not we? (2) The forgiveness that was to be exercised (v.. 3 Bty Y. .8 -

iy Grod can make one equal to this. It means faith, strong faith, increased faith. “It ye had faith.” Accent the word had. As much as to say, “You speak as if you had faith already, and needed only n little more. Real faith, if you had as y much as a mustard seed’s weight of it, would enable you to remove mountains.” | In this conneetion note that the sentence | “According to your faith be it unto you,” | does not mean, so much faith, so much power, but rather, Have faith, have power. It is properly *“ln accordance with your faith.” Not proportion, but apportion. “And it should obey you.” TFaith is then akin to God. There is One whom natare was formed to obey: that is God. And there is a spirit which lifts us up Godward as respects the earth and puts | the things of earth in subjeet relation to us; that is faith. Wae see it illustrated in mechanies and commerce. Bat its brightest and fullest exemplification is in the spiritual realm. “We have done that which it was our duty to do.” The proper attitude of faith, humble subjection. It is a hint as well as & reproof. The power of faith lies in the | direction of lowly submission to God. It is & matter of relation, not feeling. This is but a repetition of the truth taught ‘liu the incident of the man under | authority (Luke 7: 8). Be under authority, to have authority; stoop, to conquer. ‘ The ten lepers “lifted up their voices.” That they could do. They dared not come i nigh in person, but they could let out ’(h(‘ir voices, and good voices doubtless "flmy were, since such was their only means of living; they could send prayer. ' “When he saw them.” A look (mmt | Jesus, here, was enough. They went | forth to be healed. In this larger and | i nl!“‘{' v sense, there is life in the look. ,! “Go,”" he said, and *as they went they |§\\"‘rn' cleansed.” It is always so; we are ,Ihn:\!.-sl and hielped as we go on the way ! of obedience., So was it with the blind 1 man (John 9: T) he “came secing.” ' “*And he was a Samaritan.” Leprosy I obliterates earth's distinctions. So does 1 gin: and salvation, too. l| “Where are the nine?’ Some one anl‘m\'a‘~r~'_ “Stayed with the priest, perhaps.” |E:\! any rate they did not get back tu‘ | Christ; nor have they yet. ,t “Thy faith hath made thee whole.” He it got a whole blessing by coming back—--3 complete salvation. ‘ i i

Titastrations, Faith means for one thing intense conviction. Some minlsters met the other day to plan for an evangelistic campalgn in one of our larger cities. What was l felt to be needed? This most of all—proifnund conviction of the truth. Men know it when they see it. It is born of God. Conviction in the pulpit means conviction in the pew, aund presently in the community outside. Baxter had it and Kidderminster felt it when he said to himself: ‘ “] preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.” Whenee did it come but through a perusal of God's word and a contemplation lu.’ the divine character? “Were it but possible,” he says, “for one of us to sce E the whole of this business as the all-seeing God doth, to see at one view both heaven and hell, which men are so near, and see what most men in the world are minding, and what they are doing every day, it would be the saddest sight that could be limagim‘d. Oh, how should we marvel at their madness and lament their selfdelusion. Oh, poor distracted world! What is it you run after? And what is it you neglect?' From a sermon on Matt. 22: 5: “They made light of it.” Trust God's purposes. Have faith in the work Christ is doing and will do on { parth: and for such faith go straight to the divine source. During the dark days of civil war, the eolored people sometimes grow apprehensive and despondent. Why should they not, situated as they were, and ent off from reliable information? One day a delegate from the colored contingent, hanging about the camp, ap-

I proached Gen. Grant in his tent and, | ‘ka:r: off his hat, gave the courtesies of the dayv. The great commander received | him kindly, appreciating, in some measure, the anxiety of the old man and the people he represented. Then the colored man delivered his message. It was not much, but it meant much to him and his tollows. “How are tings going, General?’ And the answer was short but signified much. “Every thing going right, { sir.” In alittle while there was joy in the | contraband eamp, the whole atmosphere seemed to be changed or newly charged. {'l'hvy had heard from the great Captain. 1 | Have you? Next Lesson—*Lessons of Prayer.” l luke 18; 917 In a Nutshell. It never hurts truth to be slapped in i the face. God is not in the religion that does nothing for the good of men. It cosis much less to be contented than it does to be unhappy. Faith in God is the best cure known for worry. Whatever God gives us to do he will help us to do. Why is that so many people love to tell bad news? Whatever Christ did for himself he can do for us. A counterfeit is a sure evidence that there is a genuine. A Christian helps the cause of God not so much by what he says as by what he is.

S INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Two Anderson Pupiis Hurt in a Stampede — Free Fuel for Heating at Wabash—-Brutal Burglars Choke and Rob Miss Golden at Fort Wayne. £chool Children Are Panic Stricken. Miss Mattie Reed, a teacher in the Anderson high school, fainted while at work Thursday, and the girls in the room began to cry and halloo. The school building is heated by hot air and the noise was easily communicated to the other rooms through the hot air pipes. The pupils | mistook the shounting for fire and began | to yed. A stampede followed, 400 rush- | ing out into the hall and down the stair- | way. In the crush that followed Misses | Kate Chipman and Hedrick fainted. fell

and were trampled to the ground. They were seriously injured. The pupils have been drilled for the last two yvears for emergencies of this kind, but panic seemed to seize them and they became confused. Miss Reed is not seriously ill. Generosity of a Gas Company. The Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas Company, of Wabash, the corporatton which is controlled by the Dietrich syndicate, announced that through the summer the company would furnish natural gas for heating purposes free of charge. Where gas is used in a heating stove, grate or furnace it will be supplied gratuitously, the consumer paying for the cooking stove or range in his residence only, at the rate of $lO per year. The action of the company is due to the competition of the Wabash Fuel Company, which last year piped the fuel into Wabash and supplied consumers at a 10 per cent reduction from the old company's rate, Twe latter then eut the rates 50 per cent, and follows this up by supplying gas free for heating uuntil Nov. 1. Choked by Masked Burglars. At dayiight IPriday morning two masked men entered the home of Patrick Golden at Fort Wayne and began searching for money. Miss Anna, sister of Mr. tGolden, was the only occupant of the honse. She heard the men and leaped from her bed to give the alarm. One of the men seized her and nearly choked fier to death, while the other burglar searched the house and secured about S2OO worth of plunder. The man escapvl. Miss Golden is in a serious condition from the effeets of wounds on her throat and nervous prostration. Her Lrother is a DPennsylvania Railway conduvctor and the crooks secured his pocketbook, which contained SSB. All Over the State. At Terre Haute, someone has been passing counterfeit $lO bills which have been ralsed from $2 bills. John Marring, an octogenarian farmer of Pern, committed suicide by severing his wrists with a razor. Two boys, Nicaolas Jungen and Oliver Bailey, of Martinsville, took refuge under a tree during a thunderstorm. It was struck by lightning, Jungen was instantly killed, though Bailey was unhurt. The American Wire Nail Company of Anderson has made another lucky move by holding their supply of wire nails. The action of the trust in advancing the price 15 ceats on the hundred has made them several thousand dollars. In the Lake Circuit Court William IKeefe was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for stealing a pair of shoes. Fiugene Von Limberg, said to be a forc¢ign nobleman in straitened eircumstanees, was sentenced in the same tribunal for two years for rifling a jewelry The farm residence of John Kaufman, lving eight miles south of Pivmouth, was iliscovered to be on fire by the family and peighbors, All hands tried taking out the houschold effeets. Kaufman entered onee foo often, just as the upper part of the bnilding fell in, and he was burned alive in the sight of his family and neighhors. The entire head and upper part of his body was burned off. Ie leaves a wife and two children. Several weeks ago a mad dog ran amuck pear Monnt Vernon, biting many cattle. State Veterinary Surgeon Bolser, Dr. Sankey, Dr. Hall and Dr. I'laypool, members of tne State Board of Live Stock Comraission, made an investigation and found several cases of hydrophobia. A. Breiner was compelled to kill and burn thirteen fine Jersey cows and several calves. James Erwin and James BottonI¥ were also foreed to desrroy a number of their stock, and other cattle have been gquarantined by the State Commissioners. About 9 o'clock Tuesday night, at Yorktown, Mrs. Jacob Skinner found the dead body of her 14-year-old son Charles dangling from a tree not ten feet from the door. He had tied a regulation hang man's noose in a rope used for a swing and, after adjusting it about his neck, kicked a step ladder from under him. The bov was addicted to cigarettes and was a reader of dime novels. In addition he was deeply in love with Clara Coppersmith, 14 years old, and had threatened {0 kill her because she would not consent to marry him at once. He had a razor in i.s pocket when found. The meanest man has just left traces of his work at Arlington, and as a consequence Elder Sellers is going about in his old clothes. Tuesday the good man went to Arlington to baptize a half dozen converts in the Little Blue river. He went into Farmer ITouston’s barn and exchangI od his best Sunday clothes for a less prefautiotis ‘ontht. While he was in the water wrestling with the converts some unmitigated seamp took the minister’s clothes from a fence post where they were hanging and escaped. In the clothes were a fine gold watch, a sum of money and other valuables. Elder Sellers believes there is a great field for evangelists in that section of the State, but sugcests that they earry a portable wardrobe, secured by a time and burglar proof lock. W. A. Glidewell, sheriff of Franklin County, is dead at Grecusburg, from gangrene, caused by wearing tight shoes. Arthur, son of Druggist George H. Andrews. of Muncie, was married ten days ago to Miss Myrtle Thomas at the bride's home in Findlay. The groom is but 18 years old and was too bashful to tell his parents until a Findlay newspaper arrived giving the information. Jn the meantime the bride, swho was at the homae of her parents, had been urging her huse hand to tell the parents and send for her. When the news came out she was soonh on hand. e