St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 May 1896 — Page 3

INDIANA VETERANS. MEET IN ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT AT SOUTH BEND. Slave a Grand Parade and Three Rousing Campfires — Comrade Caylor Chosen Commander-Lew Wallace Attends—Richmond Gets the Next. Indiana Grand Army. The seventeenth annual encampment ©f the Indiana Department, G. A. IL, was held at South Bend Wednesday and Thursday, and it was one of the most notable events in the history of the organization. Weather and arrangements were all that could have been desired. The opening session was called to order by Department Commander Shively, who made a short address. The response was to have been made by Mayor Schafer, but owing to his unavoidable absence J. B. Stoll responded in behalf of the citizens of the G. A. R. committee. Prayer was offered by Dr. Lucas of Indianapolis, and following this came the address by Commander Shively. He referred with vigor to pension matters and was loudly applauded. His remarks concerning Cuba also brought applause. The session adjourned at the close of Commander Shively’s address for dinner and the parade, which was one of the greatest affairs ever seen in South Bend. It was under command of Joseph Turnock of Auten Post No. 8 of South Bend. It moved through the principal streets, EX-COMMANDER 11. B. SHIVELY. » — — and at one place 3,000 school children, dressed in white, sang patriotic songs and waved American Hags. Gen. Lew Wallace was in line. Nearly every business house and private house along the line of march was profusely decorated. At the close of the parade the executive ■ession of the G. A. IL was resumed and matters pertaining to the department in general were considered. Assistant Adjutant General Smock of Indianapolis presented his report, in which he gave a number of interesting statistics and financial figures relating to the work of the Indiana Department. The Campfires. Three camp fires were held in the evening. One at Turner Hall was presided over by Commander Shively, another at the Third Regiment armory by Past Department Commander A. O. Marsh of Winchester, and a third in a large tent on the Government lot by Past Department Commander Johnston of Rockville. Commander-in-Chief Walker of Indianapolis, with members of his staff ami department officers and distinguished guests, visited each camp fire during the evening, a short address being made at each place by Mr. WalkeFollowing is the program observed at the Turner Hall camp tire: PART I. Introductory Patriotic Airs Knightstown Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home Band and Third Regiment Band, South Bend. Opening Remarks, Comrade J. IL Carnahan Presiding Officer. Bugle Calls Reveille and Assembly James O’Donnell, Bugler. Auten Post, No. 8, G. A. R. Invocation. " The Rev. Comrade W. O. Lattimore, Crown Point, Ind. South Bend Quickstep. ..Drum and Fife Maj. IL H. Hendershot, Original Drummer Boy of the Rappahannock, and Son. Address of Welcome, The Hon. D. B. J. Schafer Mayor of South Bend. Grand Chorus —“Rally Round the Flag," Handel Oratorio Society, South Bend Violin solo—Deßeriot’s Seventh Concerto, Prof. Frederick Ingersoll, People’s College, South Bend. Song, “The Banner of Beauty and Glory," Comrade I. I’. Watts, Winchester. Short address Comrade W. T. Stott President Franklin College. Song—" The Regular Army.” Trump's “Coffee Coolers." Dumb bell drill. Muncie G. A. IL Drill Corps Twelve young ladies. PART 11. Grand chorus—“ The New America." Composed by Mr. Irving Gingrich. South Ben-1. Handel Oratorio Society. Short address, The Very Rev. Comrade W. Corby C. S. C„ Notre Dame University. Lantern drill Girls' Junior Class South Bend Turnverein. Short address Mrs. Eliza J. Crisler President Department Indiana. W. R. C. Soprano.solo—Cavatina from “Lucia di Lammermoor” Donizetti Mrs. Adele Matthews, People's College, South Bend. Short address.. . .Mrs. Martha J. Paugh. President Department of Indiana, Ladies of the G. A. IL Grand chorus—“ Daybreak,” Handel Oratorio Society Imitation of battle scene, Major Hendershot Song—“ Who'll Save the Left?” Comrade A. H. Graham, Supt. S. O. H., Knightstown. Closing remarks Presiding officer Grand Chorus—“ Marching Through Georgia,” Handel Oratorio Society and audience. Immediately following, an informal reception to the various department officers was held, to which visitors and citizens were invited. Finale—Bugle calls, tattoo, taps, Knightstown Band Buglers The seventeenth annual encampment of the G. A. IL was also the occasion of the conventions of the Indiana Department, W. R. C., and the Indiana Department, Ladies of the G. A. IL Tka buAiaecs session was held Thurs-

day. Assistant Adjutant General Smock s 1 report showed the total membership in good standing at the close of last year was 20,952, against 21,918 at the close • of the preceding year. The total on the rolls is 27,215. Relief was extended to

350 comrades during the year and to 285 other veterans. The amount thus expended was $3,678.- । 17. The number of A* posts in good stand- - ing in the State Dec. ' 31, 1895, was 504, a 1 loss of four. Posts have been organized in Jerome, Paragon, Dale, Monon, Carbon, Bloomington,

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Markle, De Soto. Posts were disbanded during the year as follows: Eugene, Monroe City, Wolcottville, Burlington, Mooney, Orland, Birdseye, Summitville, Land Mestin, North Indianapolis, Mount Auburn, Eminence. During the year $5,000 was turned over to the soldiers’ homo committee, reducing the assets to $5,349.96. Receipts for the year were $5,537.45, which, with cash on hand a year ago, amount to $6,952.34. Expenditures for the past year were $5,213 of department proper, and $60.36 by the orphans’ home committee and $124.49 by the soldiers' home committee. Election of Officers, H. M. Caylor, of Noblesville, was unanimously elected department commander; Elmer Crockett, South Bend, senior vicecommander; Jolin G. Harrison, of Converse, junior vice-commander; Dr. J. 11. Rerick, Lagrange, medical director; Rev. IL J. Parrett, Frankfort, chaplain; IL S. Robertson, Fort Wayne; Benn Starr, Richmond; H. B. Snyder, Indianapolis; O. B. Brodrick, Elkhart, and J. W. Senior, Madison, council of administration. There are many very active contests for those offices not filled. An attempt to reconsider a resolution adopted recognizing the ladies of the G. A. IL as an aid failed. A resolution thanking the citizens for their hospitality was adopted. Richmond was selected for the next meeting place, and the encampment was ended. The veterans were well pleased with the generous treatment accorded them. Comrade Caylor. The election of 11. M. Caylor, of Noblesville. was virtually a foregone conclusion. Although he made no active campaign for tiie honor, yet the fact that he was defeated on two former occasions won him the sympathy of scores of veterans, and for the past month ids candidacy had been indorsed by po"s in all parts of the State. His war record is unexcelled. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea, fought at Ringgold. Chattanooga and Chickamauga, assisted in capturing Lookout Mountain and was a conspicuous figure in the battle of Missionary Ridge. Comrade Caylor is a practical business man, who is well equippad for the position. Work of the La-lica. The Women's Relief Corps eV r d officers as follows: President—Mary A. Sims Senior Vice-President M:< Molly K. 1ley. South Bend. Junior Vice President Mr- Anna Kidder. Goshen. Treasurer — Mrs. Kite Campbell, Frankfort. Chaplain- Mrs. Margaret Eddy. Michigan City. Delegate to National Convention Mrs. Julia A. Smith, South Bend Alternate Mrs. Maggie Deacon. New Carlisle. Chairman Executive Board Mrs. lUse A. Piekering, Middletown. Delegate-at-Large Mrs. Mary D Tr vis. Crawfordsville. Alternate Mrs. Lucy Jolric ci. Rockford. The following officers wore appoint. !: Secretary Mrs. Mary E Brumbaugh. Frankfort. Counselor Mrs. Mary D. Francis, Craw for Isvillo. Inspector Mrs. .Josie Nelson. Union I City. I. & I. Officer Mrs. Martha E'ctwino, Evansville. The Department of Indiana. Ladies of the G. A. IL. elected the following officers: President- Mrs. Eito Toby, Logans port. Secretary—Mrs. Olive Allison. I. gans. port. Senior Vice-President Mrs, Alice Kr.i mer. Lafayette. Junior Vice President Mrs. Maggie Jones. Hammond. Chaplain .Mrs. .1. W. Graves. Lafayette. Treasurer—Mrs. Mary Frarey, Warsaw. Council of Administration Mrs Mary Colwell. Aurora; Mrs. Sophia Shockey, Lafayette; Mrs. Mary Standley, Denver. Counselor —Mrs. M. J. Paugh, Loganport. Delegate-at-Large Mrs. Jennie Irwin, New Albany. Alternate —.Mrs. Abbie Truman, Logansport. Delegate—Mrs. Crismond. Logansport. Alternate —Mrs. Mary Wyman, New Albany. To Mrs. Raugh, retiring president of the Ladies of the G. A. R.. was presented a silver water s -t. Lincoln Circle, No. 1, Ladies of the G. A. IL. of Logansport, presented to the order a silken banner. Mrs. Eliza J, Crisler. “Mrs. Eliza J. Crisler, of Greensburg, retiring president of the W. IL C., has led the van in organizing the work of patriotic teaching in Indiana, and she lias been the pioneer among the W. R. C. organizers the country over,” says the National Tribune. "It was through her personal influence in appearing before the State Teachers’ Association and the State Board of Trustees that she secured their co-operation in placing a flag in every school room in the State. As a speaker, she has rare persuasive powers, and she handles the pen of a ready writer.” Mrs. Crisler is a native of Switzerland County. On her mother’s side she is descended from Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams; on her father's side she is of German nobility. Prior to her marriage with William .1. Crisler she was a teacher. John Williams, a well-known farmer, near Waterloo, was called from his home late Thursday night by two men, who said his grandchild at a neighboring village was very sick. Williams came out and was struck with a sledge hammer on the head and face and terribly cut up. The men then robbefl him of quite a sum of money and escaped. Williams’ recovery is doubtful.

—=-=-^ SAFE FOR M’KINLEY. GEN. GROSVENOR CLAIMS 592 VOTES ON FIRST BALLOT. In Any Event He Says the Ohioan Is Sure to Keceive the Nomination, and the Point ot Interest Is Who Will Be II is Bunning Mate. Twenty-nine States for Him. The naming of delegates to the Republican national convention has closed. The great body of "kingmakers has been completed and a conservative analysis of its composition shows, to a Washington correspondent. that McKinley will have more than enough votes to nominate him on the first ballot. Gen. Grosvenor, of Washington, th' chief spokesman of the McKinley campaign. gave out his iimil bulletin at the capital the other evening. It was as follows: "Last week closed the election of delegates to the St. Louis convention, and McKinley was indorsed by all the States that expressed an opinion during the week Washington, Wyoming. West Virginia and North Carolina. The fret silver States refused the indorsement of McKinley, and their delegates are uninstructed as to persons, but they have received very peremptory orders ns to principles. There .‘ire now elected 918 delegates. but four in Arizona, four in New Mexico and four in Oklahoma must depend upon the future action of the national eon vent ion for seats in that body, the official call authorizing them to elect only two delegates in each of the territories. “The following States hnvoelected either solid McKinley delegations or i.eleg itions with a majority of McKinley men, so that it may be concede ! that McKinley's following will control these States, to wit: Alabama, Arkansas, Califorira. Conneeticut, Arizona. Florida. Georgia. Illinois, Indiana. Kansas, Maryland, Michigan.

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I M . M .. M . \. jk i. New Jersey. N ■ th I s r >’ i N rtlt ' ; Dakota. < th: >. ( tr- / ■ S . I rd::. i. 1 So tth IHk !’• ii V mt. A .. । ginitt, W ' i.: m, W \ - i. M * consm, W?onu...: a. I th -r t.-’ of ■ New M. \h > atid ( »ki ih .ii i < »nl> thr< .• of these States have :.' M* f -r the <m- ■ tire de! ■ •gat ic .. nt I, ’■ ■ them cit.. there v. uld it t« at; m. • AL Kinley I I*l^' .' - ■ \ w iN - • ^-»• ■■ ' The shade 1 portions r tb ■ ,b w ■ V.p show I the territory whose delegates to the st Umi’s • convention' McKinley managers now claim fur I their candidate. Slates ami terriPT.. > t > ele. t m.-mb.-rs of the committee on credentlais." Tin- delegates ele. te t are as follows: Alabama Joohio -m ■ Arkansas to. iklubuma 4i Arizona <>< 'cmm s ' - I Flclda ... sSnnth < aroiina.... 17 Georgia 22S"Ulb 1' e.a S Illinois ^Tennessee 22 Indiana 30Texi‘.s 12 ' Kansas ‘Jo Vermont 8 I Kent icky 11 Virginia 21 I I.oulsana ItlW.^t Virginia 12 Maryland Io Wise .tisin 24 Michigan 2s.Xorth Carolina .... 19 j Minnesota IsNorth Dakota ill Mississippi Ist onnoetieut G Missouri IMlndtan Territory.. 2 Nebraska Hl Washington s' New Jersey IGWyoming ti New Mexico 4 New York 9 Total 592 The largest verdict rendered in Massachusetts in ten years in an action brought I to recover damages for personal injuries was found by a jury in the Suffolk County Superior Court, when Francis A. Daly, of Lynn, was awarded s3s.i«M> for the loss of a leg. Daly's suit was against the Lynn and Boston Street Railway Company. Oscar (Jeorge W< <tphal, a barber, struck (Jeorge Bischoff, a tailor, such a blow with his list at Buffalo as to break his neck. M'estphal's story is that Bischoff was choking one of his pin boys in a bowling alley, and he commanded him to desist. Bischoff never stirred after he was hit. The Amber carpet mills, operated by 0. S. Masland & Son, of Philadelphia, and covering three acres of ground at. Mount Holly, N. J., were totally destroyed bv fire. The loss will easily aggregate S3OO - 000, covered by itisurarce.

back to the ehmine. "Hliam Lochren Quits Office of ComT1 mis9ioner °F Pensions. folffi^ • r ° sident I,as Bent t 0 the Senate the of v lg nominations: William Lochren, judao ? eSOtu ’ trt Ix 3 Un*^ l States district Rens Ji° r the ,lißt, ' ict of Minnesota, vice J. R ' Xelson ' ‘csigneu; Dominic demitv ,P ’ Of ^onnsylvania, now first com m ^‘nn’hssioner of pensions, to be Loehrl ° ncr of m’nsions, vice William of \ ’ Napoleon J. T. Dana comm?’ ■ llaln P s hiro, to be first deputy f ^ nissioner of pensions, vice Dominic n’s L' • 1y ’ nominated for commissioner Pensions. Biotm^ 1 ', Loeh f Pn was appointed commisnresom 1 1 )ensions nt the beginning of the distri!/ , nara inißtrntion. He was then a t JUtlgo 111 Minnesota. Judge Nel—aneceeds, was appointed in & /X JL’DGK WILLIAM LOCnRKN. 1808 by I’ressdent Buchanan, ami had seen the longest service of tiny judge in the I nited States courts. Ever since Judge Lochrcn’s appointment as commissioner of pensions it had licen the desire of his friends to have him promoted to the bench in ease Judge Nelson would resign. It has been known that his preference has been for the bench rather than an executive position. Leading lawyers in Minnesota have petitioned for his appointment ns United States

I judge. Mr !.•> lire i u 1 <«• Ibj the Minu. -.1 I Im . .. I • ;,|y for I the poMtioa h<- now h dds. The succi-ssor of JmUe Lochren. Mr Murphy, nan chief i clerk of the pci -s >n of?i. «< during the first ; Adiniußtrnti n of Pt ^ub-ut Cleveland. , To hiih ba* l« .-n largely mtruc l the de- | tans in the offi >• mid much of the executive mmrng. n. n’ II v n first deputy 1 before Judge 1. .. lir.-u vis >p;«o o. 1 ■ ] active iu the r organization of the HARRISON M KEE S ILLNESS, . His Condition RetiiuittM Unchanged His Fumi uh "Baby” Mekee. The con-liti.ci of Re c imin M Kec, ex- ; Pres:.lon: Harris on’s gtumlson, who is suffering with what is believed to be pneu-

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monia, wasunenanged nt list reports. M uter McKee's se rious illness recalls C I the literature curt rent about him I when ho was a baby. He is the son of J. । 11. McKee, who . married Mr. Harrii son's daughter, and "Baby McKee" was ever a favorite with ai s distinguished grandfather. When Mr. Harrison wont to live in the White j 1 louse his precocious

i grandson shared with him the brunt of I all the personal gossip that usually folj lows a presidential election, and “Baby McKee” became as much of a national character as any Senator or Congressman ! or member of the cabinet. During the । campaign of ISSS little McKee was as ! much written about as anybody. and the pet name given him by the press stuck to him even after ho had grown up to be a big boy. He is an interesting child, and his illness is the concern of all of Gen. 11 arristm's friends. Emperor Francis .Joseph of Austria opened the millennia! exhibition at Budapest. Uis majesty wore the uniform of a Hungarian general and was accompanied by the empress. Dittmar & Voniff, importers and packers of leaf tobacco at Baltimore, have received a letter from their agent in Havana, dated April 30, which states that the prospect for a tobacco crop is getting smaller as the days go by. as the insurgents are destroying warehouses continually. The forty-four striking firemen of the Armour Packing Company at Kansas City Mo„ have petitioned the National Council of the Federation of Labor to declare an international boycott against the Armour products.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson —Thoughts Worthy of Calm Reflection—Half tfti Hour’s Study of the Scriptures—Time Well Spent. Lesson for May 24. Golden Text.—“ The stone which ths builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.”—Luke 20: 17. Jesus teaching in the temple is the subject this week—Luke 20: 9-19. Then began he to speak.” “A change in his tone perhaps, a new accent and emphasis, that of the cross. It is the beginning of the end. Our lord has entered upon the passion week, lie has begun to climb Calvary. ‘‘This parable." It is perhaps the strongest portraiture of his rejection; to be fulfilled alas a few days later in the awful events of Golgotha. Christ seems here to be making one last supreme endeavor for the reclamation of Israel. But “he came unto his own, and his own received him not." “Man,” “vineyard,” “husbandmen." Ihe types read plain. The “certain innn,” is God; the vineyard is this world with its opportunities and responsibilities; the husbandmen are the men of Israel, and secondarily, all those who enjoy the privileges of this earthly footstool. God has not relinquished his claim and oversight. After a season he is coming again to receive the fruits, and from time to time he sends reminders of this sovereign ownership, and of his own ultimate return to reckon. These reminders are the servants whom he commissions. Every minister and Christian herald, by his very office, speaks of and for the Most High. “Fruit of the vineyard,” God evidently requires. It is not sufficient to return to him simply what he gave, or with the servant who said, almost impudently, “Thine, thou host that is thine!” God wants fruit Notice the progress of the language in John 15; 2, s, “Not fruit,” "fruit,” “more fruit." “much fruit." The beaten servants are evidently the prophets and messengers of God. Even so speaks Stephen, himself a rejected servant of the Highest, Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them which shewed before (the shadow of the cross) the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have l i en now the betrayers and murderers.” Thore is deep significance in all this narrative. Even the little word "again,” in v. 12. carries a searching meaning. It is literally, he added to send. It was an addition to his gracious forbearance. Let ns remember that every addition to G > l’s mer y and Hng suffering is an added weight to our judgment and accountability at the last. I’he word "shamefully" carries a somewhaJ different significance in the original. I’ :s ’..•rally to dishonor or to fail t<» give dee honor. Every minister of God who Is refused the honor worthy of his office, ns the messenger of Jehovah, is in so so far treated “shamefully.” Jesus uses the same expression regarding himself when he says nt John S P.t. "I honor my Father and ye do dishonor me." "This is the heir.” It should have been h in g! id <s f welcome. It was spoken instead in envy and hate Even - > sp kc Joi. ;>h s brethren nt Gen. 37: 19. 20, when they behehl him coming to them. "Let us kill him thn * the inher tnnce may Im» ours." Theft always carries the intimation of murder with it. "That the inheritance may be ours” was what the early pair were viciously meditating when they put forth the hand and took of the fruit -f the forbidden tree in the garden. Gon 3:5. R The destruction of the wicked husbandmen is put into the lips of the listeners themselves in Matthew's narrative (Matt. 21: 111. It is plainly the dm- reward of such treachery and wickedness, the heart proclaim* it just. But, thank <»o-L we nre given some things better than our just dei.-r s “The i'.'H.’ which the builders rejected, the same Is become the head of the corner;” and the building here alluded to is the house »f mercy. H ive we rejected him, slain him? Still he it.inds proffering m<'rcy and forgiveness. "His own received him not but as many as received him, to them - ive he power to become the sons of God ’ I IliiHtrationH. In all things acknowledge God, his goodness, his forbearance, his sovereignty. Says Burns; "Some have meat that canna eat. And some would eat that want it; But we have meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord lie thankit.” We pray: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ” Do we apprehend what it means? How is God's will done in heaven. Meekly, promptly, implicitly—all for God. Bernard says: "Jacob saw angels ascending and descending, but none standing still.” He was not looking on a scene of earth. We are in this world to do business for God. He owns the world and us, and that man rightly estimates life who sees in it an opportunity to serve and honor God. Bishop Taylor has said, “No man is a better merchant than he who lays out his time upon God, and his money on the poor.” Choose Christ early in life. It grows harder to acknowledge him as the years go by. Failure to accept gets to be more and more determination to reject. Dr. Biddell said, "In all my ministry I know not over three persons fifty years of age whom I have heard ask the question, ‘What must I do to be saved?’ ” Be sure your sin will find you out. In these parables Christ is giving to the people not only visions of the kingdom of God, but unerring glimpses of their own hearts and the sin and rebellion within. At the Bank of l’aris there is said to lie. above the cashier's desk, a photographer with his camera. He Is unseen of the men who are signing checks and drawing money at the window, but at a signal he takes a flashlight picture of any one of them; a tell-tale picture for some. Your image and character sketched in this Book. It will confront you sometimes, if it has not already. It is useless to try to escape or evade God. “Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?” Beware, the paths of earth all round up at the judgment seat of Christ. Next Lesson—“ Destruction of Jerusalem Foretold."—Luke 21: 20-36.

RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Bcinocrat.s Gain an Apparent Advantage in the Apportionment Matter—Wabcsh County Wheat and Rye Have a New and Woolly Enemy. Upholds the Apportionment, The Supreme Court has decided that the legislative apportionment act of 1885 cannot be sot aside, and that it is the only act under which Senators and Representatives can be elected this fall. The majority opinion was written by Judge McCabe. Judge Monks filed a dissenting opinion. I’he effect of the decision is to elect members of the Legislature und t an act that the Democrats passed when they had a majority in the Legislature, and which, if there is any advantage in it. is in their favor. When the court set aside the laws of 1593 and 1895, and thus brought the law of 1885 into effect, the Democrats proposed that no further questions should lie raised, and that tile two should acquiesce in the decision. i be Republicans, however, attacked the law of IXSS ,>n the ground of nneonstitivt sonality, ami this decision sets tin* matter at rest, although there are suits pending to set aside all apportionment laws under the present constitution, which was adopted in 1851. The court enters upon the discussion of the points involved by declaring that the law of 18S5 is the only act now upon the statute books under which an election of memtiers of the Legislature can legally be held. Prior to 1879 the franchise was limited in this State to tiie white male population above the age of 21 years, and all apportionments made before that time excluded the negroes from voting. If a law, argues the court, were revived under which this class of citizens could not vote, it would lie in conflict with both the State and Federal constitutions, and no election hel l nr. Lt it now would be legal. Additional Pest in Indiana. In addition to the rust and the IL 'iian fly. which have been destroying the wheat and rye in Wabash County, the farmers of that locality have a new enemy to contend wdh. Ex-<'ounty Commissioner J. D. Starbuck, of Largo township, has found thousands of woolly worms about, an inch and a half in length and totally unlike any other pest he has ever seen destroying his • .rn crop. They appeared to come fr. a a strip of woods and. invadinr a fine field of corn, ate four acres of t’ grain off just above the ground. Mr. Starbuck sat - they are in evidence in countless numbers on his place and farms adjacent and his neighbors arc much alarmed by their np;»earance. All Over the State. The drouth in southern Indiana is becoming serious. Henry Akers, near Windfall, was kicked to death by a colt which he was trving to halter. The School Furnitttre Company at Wabash, which failed in September, will go into a receiver's hands. I. ghining destroyed the Findlay, Fort W iync and Western Railway depot at Kllwiu. The he sis s2.stX>. .1 pii Smith, aged So years, married at Uemgstown Mrs. Louisa Lane, whois ay. ar <>r two oiler. Mrs. Lane is infirm ami a few weeks ago was declared incapab'e of managing her estate. Since then "I m ie Joe" has been her legal guardian. Major Charles Doxey, of Anderson, who now owns the De I’auw glass works, located at Alexandria, has let the contract to the Indiana Bridge Company of Muncie for the erection of an iron building 126x210 feet. It will be erected adjacent to the old buildings and will make the factory one of the largest in Indiana. After all improvements are completed the factory will employ as many men as it does now. Elvin Heel;, of Shelbyville, is missing, and members of his family report that he will not return. Recently he married Miss Mae Treadway, daughter of a farmer in Bartholomew County, and an accomplished and beautiful young woman. It was a runaway match, the parents of the bride opposing it. Thirteen days la:er the young bridegroom closed out his business affairs and disappeared, although his wife's parents had become I reconciled to the match. Dallas Baker, aged 19. and Thomas Ryan, aged 23. of Adrian. Mich., boarded a Chicago and Grand Trunk west-bound freight train at Vicksburg. Mich., and when about five miles east of South Bend were approached by two tramps. John Moore and John Cramer. Moore held a revolver on them while Cramer robbed them. After the robbery Moore passed his revolver to Cramer and conducted Ryan to the end of the car, where he made him jump, although tiie train was running at full speed. Baker sprang upon Cramer and secured the revolver. His first shot was at Cramer, whom he struck in the right side, inflicting a bad wound. The next was at .Moore, who disappeared over the cars. When the train reached Smith Bend Moore and Cramer were captured. Cramer was sent to the hospital and will probably die. Moore is from Evansville. Ind., and Cramer said he lived in New A’ork. A stranger, supposed to be an attorney named John 11. Wilson, aged 73, died at the Columbus hospital Thursday night. On his body, strapped in a belt next to his person, was $9,240 in molded and mildewed bills, and S 1,6-5 in gold. He is supposed to be from Huntington, Clarksburg or Fairmont, Va. Telegrams were sent to notify the relatives, but in each case the telegraph operator answered no such persons could be found. An attorney. Jim Jones, of Nashville, Brown ("ounty, where Wilson owns 160 acres of timber land and two sawmills, came with letters of administration on Wilson's estate and took charge of the money. A telegram received from the postmaster of L’omeroy. ().. says Wilson was known there years ago as a leather dealer. Frank Slusser. thirteen years old. of Terre Haute, tried to save his little friend, Harry Baird, who was drowning in the Wabash river, and both were carried down. Baird was rescued by Harry Hossler, who rode into the water on horseback. While Carrie Harris, daughter of Conductor Charles C. Harris, was standing in the rear of her home at Elkhart, an attempt to assassinate her was made, the assassin firing at her from short range with a pistol, the ball striking her in the fleshy portion of the right arm. The young lady had recently received anonymous letters threatening her life.