St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 15, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 October 1896 — Page 7

TOPICS FOR FARMERS A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Farm Life Full of Independent Comfort—Be Cautious in flaking Changes —Cultivate the Social Features of Life on the Farm—Notes. Full of Independence. We believe the farmer, who produces the good things of earth, is entitled to enjoy them to the full extent of his need. Farm life is potentially very full of independent comfort, but only upon condition that the farmer shall devote a fair share of his time to the task of making himself and family comfortable. It is surprising, when one thinks of it. Low very little of the necessities of life the farmer is obliged to buy, as compared with the amount that be actually does buy. He might have«a table covered with fruits, vegetables and meats, all grown within the limits of his own farm, and of a quality and freshness that is not possible with the people living in towns and cities. I.ike all good things, it requires some effort to do this, and yet it is easily possible. The garden is one point; the orchard, of both tree-fruits and small-fruits, is another, and his own feed lot is still another, of the sources of liberal supply. They ought to be cultivated and made the most of. Be Cautious. Improvement is needed in every direction. But experience has taught the most of us that many things are not what they seem. It is, therefore, the part of wisdom to be cautious in making changes—especially as regards seeds. Be sure they are adapted to your soil and climate; do not take another's “say so,” but know for yourself. Many expensive mistakes may thus be avoided. This is one of the principles of successful management. The Social Side. The social features of farm life are not as attractive to the young they should be. Town people make a study of their social life, and they are con- i stantly working and planning some new feature of pleasure and enjoyment. The parents plan for their children and their children's friends, and they spend both time and money for the advancement of social culture. Why not incorporate more of this idea into our farm life? Il's surely worth trying. A Cheap Hoc I’cn. It does not need an expensively built pen to house a hog, unless it is one of the variety that stands on two legs. The genuine hog. which is the only kind really profitable, goes in for comfort and not at all for style. A pen warm in winter, with a tight roof over It to exclude rain, and floor enough for the hog to stand on while he ia ■ eating, is better than a painted bouse of matched lumber that will cost a hundred dollars. It is a good thing in a hog house to have a dirt floor, and that the Log house be light and strong enough so that it can easily be moved. Every time the house is moved there will be a new floor, and the hog. if unringed, will root it over. A bog left free to root in soil that Las not'been contaminated with hog manure, will generally keep healthy, and will make healthy pork. In summer time, the house is mostly superfluous. The bog likes to be cool and will root for himself In a wallow in the moist soil, where be will lie most of tlw time if well fed,' and will keep in better health than in the most artistic bog pen ever built. Many of the experiments in bog growing begin with much too expensive hog houses. These make the pork cost far more than the cheaply growm bogs of farmers, who can thus undersell nthe amateur farmer, who handicaps himself by putting on too much style. The Mother Hen. The experienced poultry keeper recognizes a vast difference in mother hens, even in those of the same breed. It Is not always the most persistent sitters that are the best for raising a brood, as they are often too sluggish and indifferent. The non-sitters' are too active for the little chicks, even when they can be induced to stay on a nest long enough to hatch. Some hens are quarrelsome, and kill or Injure the chicks from oAier broods that come within reach. Now and then a hen is found that seems designed by nature to raise a family. She is a good sitter, a careful brooder, and easy to handle. All the chicks in the yard may find shelter under her wings without fear of Injury. She may be of little worth as a layer, but the wise owner keeps her from year to year as one of the most valuable inhabitants of the yards. Economizing with Manure. It never pays to stint the manure ■dressing for any crop that requires much labor to grow it. All the labor is made more effective in proportion as the soil is made more fertile. -In other words, on rich land crops that require most labor may be grown with profit, while on poor soil the balance will be on the loss side of the account. The proper idea of economizing with manure is to apply it where It will most aid In increasing soil fertility. This is in every case where a part of the benefit of the manure will b*e soon applied to growing a large clover crop. The Shepherd. No flock of sheep can be expected to do its best if scab, ticks, lice or any skin ailment exists among them. An exchange says: Sheep grow wild In Alabama, and they have ranged so long in the briar thickets upon scant herbage that they have ceased to produce either wool or mutton. gheep do well In the corn field. They cet full rations and clean up the land,

destroy weed seed, and get an occa« sional ear of corn, perhaps, which does no great harm to any one. An ewe sb dd be at least 18 months old before she is bred; and one good lamb is always to be preferred to a pair of inferior twins, whether bred for the stock or the shambles. If the current passion for lamb raising, lamb stuffing and lamb eating runs on for a year or two longer, we shall become a nation of epicures; and the sturdy, stately, honest visaged, oldfashioned wether will have passed into history. Watering; Cows. Now that the time for putting up cows has come some thoughts on how they are to be supplied with water Will be in order. As might be expected, cows giving milk need much more water than other domestic animals, for 80 per cent of their milk Is water, besides other secretions of liquid from the body. It is a mistake to suppose that cows having access to water at all times will drink more than Is for their good, but if deprived of It half a day and then allowed to drink of cold water, they will often through thirst take so much as to injure digestion, the water having to be warmed before the stomach can go to work again. We think that in cold weather water should be warmed to nearly, or quite, blood temperature. Whore roots, punqpilns or silage are fed to milch cows they will drink much less water, and a cow that Is fattening, and is fed on roots, pumpkins and other green food, will often go twenty-four hours without apparent desire for any water. Syrup from Watermelons. It was the wish of an old friend of ours, many years ago, that she could have a syrup made from watermelons. She was sure it would be very delicious. But, unfortunately, all the watermelons the garden produced had each year other and more important uses than to have their juices boiled down into syrup. But an lowa farmer, who grows watermslons by the acre, and cannot market all he produces, has tried the ' plan of using of his surplus for j syrup making. The result is a very : clear syrup, with peculiar but decidedly | pleasant flavor. It is not, however, j likely ever to be a rival to the maple, i the sugar cane or sugar beet, for pro- j ducing syrup for general use. Ex. Marketing Fallen Fruit. None but the best, perfect fruit ' should be sent to market. That will be ' worth more than the poor fruit, ami It only the best is sold the market will be kept up to paying rates, so that the best sold by itself will brlng^morc than the whole would do. The poorer quality : of fruit, or that which from bruising | will not keep, may be fed to stock, or If there is too much of it for that, evap- | orators may be procured and the fruit j be evaporated so that It will keep. One - extreme.naturally follows am ther. and a light apple crop is very I't-ty m'xt ■ year in the localities where it is most abundant this season. Ripening Tomatoes Under Cover. If tomato vines are pulled up ns soot as the first frost touches them and thrown under an open shed where fur ther freezing will be prevented, the , fruit that was green when the vine* ! were pulled will slowly ripen from the sap furnished by the stem. We have sometimes put such tomato vines in a corner of the cellar, where the ripening went*forward until midwinter. There are many who like tomatoes cut mid sliced with sugar and vinegar ns dressing. By. this moans those who have vinos with green tomatoes on can prolong their season, for two or three months, If they have enough green vines to experiment with. Ex. Feeding; Oats in the Straw. If oats are not ground they may bs profitablyyfed In the straw. The horse will chew oats and straw together more thoroughly than be will the oat gra’n alone, and the grain may be given in larger quantities than would be safe if eaten by itself, bat straw is mainly carbonaceous, but It Is commonly much less hard than the straw of wheat, we or barley and is better for feeding tc stock. Sait for Wireworms. A Canadian farmer reports that he has experimented and found’that salt Is a complete remedy for wireworms. On a patch of spring grain, he plowed up and re-sowed all but one acre, which he left for trial. He sowed three hundred pounds of salt on this acre, and forty-eight hours afterwards he sowed three hundred pounds more. The result is the wireworm has corn* pletely disappeared. The Longest Running Jump. According to the latest authority on sporting matters, the longest running jump on record was made by John Howard, in. May, 1854, at Chester, England. He cleared the astonishing distance of 29'feet 7 Inches, using 5-pound weights; but as be took from a solid block of wood, 1 foot wide, 2 feet long and 3 inches thick, wedge-shaped and raised 4 inches in front, the performance can not form a record aa against jumps made on level ground. The same authority declares that the best American jump, with weights, was made by Charles 11., Biggar, of Guelph, Ontario, in October of 1579, when he cleared a distance of 23 feet 3% Inches. Without weights, C. S. Reber, of Detroit, Mich., in July of 1891, cleared a distance of 23 feet inches, and C. B. Fry, of Oxford, England, in March, 1593, a distance of 23 feet 6^ inches. Identity Complete. Burrows—Did you ever meet a man down there with one leg named Wilson? Furrows (doubtfully) - What was the name of his other leg?—Washington Evening Times.

DRIVING DEER TO CAMP. Hunters Do Not Shoot Their Game at a Distance from Home. Tired hunters a long way from home, with a wounded deer in front of them, have sometimes been able to drive their deer toward camp to save themselves the labor of carrying it. John Jones, of Northwood, N. J., has such a story, which he tells when sitting before the camp lire or as he pumps the bellows in his blacksmith shop. When he was a young man the deer were plenty across the creek a half mile from his father’s house. He used to go over there hunting, and seldom failed to get a deer. One fall, very late in the season, he was wading through a foot of snow, still hunting. He had no luck till along about the middle of the afternoon, when he was on his way down stream through the woods. While going across a gully high up on a log he saw a little oval spot four rods away in a clump of brush. Only a still hunter would have seen it. He got his rifle ready and said “Sh—h!” The spot leaped up, and a full-grown buck made a dash up the gully bank, but a bullet hit it in the hips and aB most disabled it. He saw that. It was badly hurt, and so was in no hurry to kill it, for the deer was headed in the direction he wanted to go. The deer grew so weak that the hunter got ujF to it and made it run on. He cut a birch switch and succeeded in driving the poor beast clear down to the slip banks where he killed and dressed it. Charles Albertson writes to Recreation telling how he failed to drive a deer that he had wounded. He had got a shot, breaking a forward leg of the deer, and his dog, after a long chase, had brought it to bay. Then Albertson conceived the idea of driving it to camp. He tied a rope alwut its horns, and with a switch endeavored to force it along. But the door, cornered and wounded, was desperate. It lowered its horns and made for the man. The man dodged and was hit by the animal's breast and knocked 1 stdewnys for a rod. In spite of that I he tried again, and again got attacked. ; Then he killed the door and carried It ■to camp New York Sun.

Origin of Laying Girnrr-Stonn. The custom of laying the cornerstone of a public building' with cere- j monies was practiced by the ancients. At the laying of the corm r stone when the capital of Romo v as rebuilt a pro- j cession of vestal virgins, robed In । white, surrounded the stone and conse- ! crated it with libations of water. A prayer to the g ds followed and then the magistrate*, pries*. senators and knights laid L'lJ of the ropes and moved the rdghty stone to Its proper position. In a hollow cut in tL > some were place.’ Ingots e ' I. silver and other met Is which La 1 not been m Itoi tn any furua M : । - J -.s the corner-stone wna consid- re 1 an < mbl m I of power, nr. 1 t! j monies at its lay in. In^medL v.i! times the rite was t I. : up by the^ rder of Fro- Masons mivl I as by them been brought down to n i days. The Masonic • v.et: . , f laying a c >rner^tone 1-. ay n>‘*-di-al. 1 . - cm of the stone, a ■ •pEtre < n th” a and a perfect cube. Is p!.: ' : at t • northeast corner of the str. tun*; the testing it with a sqnar-. level nt T dumb, and the pouring of libations of com, wino and oil over it all Livu their hidden meaning. The custom of living the cornerstone with t eremouieg Is usually observed nt the cemmencojnent of any public build.ng. when Cvhis of tlie current year, new -papers and important documents are pin •*! within the stone to serve ns valuable historical relics when the building shall be destroyed. A Common Inequality. Unless you are the one person out of every fifteen who has eyes of equal strength, you are either left-eyed or right-eyed. You also belong to the small minority of one out of every ten persons if your left eye is stronger than your right As a rule, just as people are right handed, they are right eyed. This Is probably due to the generally greater use of the organs of the right side of the body, as, for example, a gunner, using his right arm and shoulder, uses his right eye, thereby strengthening it with exercise. Old sea captains, after long use .of the telescope, find their right eye much stronger than the left. This law is confirmed by the experience of aurists. If a person who has ears of equal bearing power has .cause to use one oar more than the other for a long period, the ear brought into requisition is found to be much strengthened, and the car which is not used loses its . g in a corresponding degree. A Millionaires’ Corner. Where Fifty-seventh street crosses. Fifth avenue in New York City is the millionaires’ corner. On one corner is the new mansion of Herman Oelrichs. Directly across the avenue is the palatial town house of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Diagonally opposite dwells Secretary William C. Whitney, while the big gray stone, chateau-ljke residence of railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington occui les the remaining comer. A moderate estimate of the combined wealth of the men who carry the latch, keys of these four residences mounts up to $225,000,000. Hia Other Eye. “Ball one!” yelled the umpire. “Good eye!” shouted Chimmy. “Strike one!” the umpire called. “Dat’s his odder eye,” explained Chimmy.—lndianapolis Journal. No Lack of Tone. She—What I object to in a boardinghouse is the lack of tone. He—Oh, ha! You haven't heard the girl in the next room sing “When Sum, mer Comes Again.”—Judy.

A LEADER OF JOURNALISM. Upright Character of James Gordon Beunett in the Newspaper World. The character of James Gordon Bennett as a leader or journalism is admirably summed up in an interesting article by James Creelman. As an editor, says the writer, Mr. Bennett is impatient of political control or partnership. He scents danger in every approach, and he will deliberately attack a party to prove that he is not under Its Influence. According to him, an editor should be a man in a watchtower, out of sound and out of reach. Otherwise there would be conspiracy and compromise. Private promises are to be broken in the public interest. Friendships are to be regarded as traps

for the editorial "conscience. So Mr. Bennett is a lonelj’ man In a crowd, a hermit in the midst of bustling life. I can tell one story that illustrates the magnificent perversity and shrewishness that have preserved the Herald as a historic example of Incorruptible journalism. When Gen. Crespo undertook to overthrow the rotten and tyrannical government of President Palacio, he had thirty badly-armed Venezuelans to follow* him. The revolution was sanctioned by the people, but they were afraid, at first, to join Crespo’s standard. Gradually, however, he gathered .together a small army, and advanced upon the government forces. Palacio and his friends had looted the treasury, money’ was needed to crush the revolt, and a sum great enough for the purposes could only be had in Europe. About this time an old friend of Mr. Bennett called upon him in Paris, and explained that the A enezuelan government desired to place loan bonds for many millions of dollars in the London market. Ho informed Mr. Bennett that he was to be the ngent of Palacio In the matter, and would make a fortune out of it. Thon lie asked for the co-operation of the Herald, on the score of old-time friendship, and finally he announced that if the Herald could belittle the revolutionary cause, and S l "* itimulate the contid.eneo of bankers In the government b>mds. the transaction would be worth two or throe hundred thousands dollars to Mr. Bennett. At this Mr. Bennett smiled grimly. “It Is worth a million dollars to the Zlerald to know these facts.” he said. “I do not quite understand you,” laid the friend. “It Is v-rtii ?],(’■! to support the i other side.” “Why, Mr. Kenn e. nni I too late? Have the other men scon you?” “No; m t at all. But you have given me pr .T that th ■ ^veimmentof Venezuela deserves to fall. It is worth ?lto t’.o lli raL! to be on the right side. 1 sl.all back up the revolution. and let the truth be known to the world ’ In vain the friend pleaded that bls 1 conversation was confident ml. and that a nowspaperbad n<> r.i,'. ’otakoadvan- * of f* - :1 - q under the s-al of s. r- w. \\ l. an L mr, a cable , message set the wotul Tful machinery of tl.e ilm d 1 e. m. ' n, and day after ; day Sts columtis u Towded with <1- s fr m sp< !al correspondents In \ < w -ala, de- ■.■ibing thiev ylwovt i the revolution.try army and the weakj ties* of the government. These dispatches were reproduced In all the European cn; and Palacio’s bonds could u d find a pm* Laser. Without money or ert-’ t, the tyrant fell; and ' the first act of Crespo, after he enter- ' ed Caracas at the h ■ i 1 d' his victorious army, was to send a lung cablegram, at the public expense, thanking the Herald, over Lis own signature, for its services In the cause , f liberty and i constitutional g w t rmm nL A Story of Senator Hawley. Sitting by my si le it the convention i which nominated Lincoln for President, writes Isaac H. Bromley, was a ! newspaper cbtor who < ailed me “Ike,” •as I called him “Joe.” He was run- ’ ning over with eudmsiasm. When the i nomination was made he interrupted i himself In Lis hurrahing to say to me, ’ who looked on in wile-eyed silence, t "Why don't you hurrah?” I don’t ' know why 1 did not; but I remember that I felt queer and only said, “I i can’t hurrah; I should cry if anyone touched me.” 1 came nearer crying ■ when, in less than twelve months, I saw him in uniform at the bead of the first Connecticut company that answered the, call for troops. He was I afterward a brigadier general, Gover- ! nor of his State, and member of Con- | gross, and has lately been elected to his third term as United States’Senator. There were probably other*slmilar cases. It*was Joe Hawley who sat at my elbow. An Exceptional Case. “You know old John Goodner?” “Yes.” “N<?ver called anything but ‘Honest John’ f forty years.” “Um.” “County treasurer for twenty-eight years and guardian for half the orphans In the country? Trusted by everybody.” “Yep.” “Dead three weeks and experts have gone over his books.” “Well?” “They found that lie was honest in every way.” A Budding Punster. Three-year-old on Staten Island boat —What ’at big stone house, mamma? “That's a fort, dear.” “What ’ose black lings on top?” “Cannon.” “Mamma, what is they cannin’ in 'at house?”—New Y’ork Herald. Brown—Does your wife ever threaten to go home to her mother? Jones—No, that’s the worst of It! Her mother boards with us.—Puck.

THE CASTLE CASE. Wealthy San Francisco Merchant and His Wife Accused of Shoplifting. A case which has attracted international attention is that of Mr, and Mrs. Walter M. Castle, of San Francisco, who have been admitted to $200,000 bail in London to await trial for grand larceny. The Castles, who are wealthy Americans, and move in the best society of the Pacific coast, are accused of shoplifting. Castle is a member of one of the wealthiest firms in San Francisco and a graduate of London University. His Wife is one of the society leaders of the Goldtl'n Gate, a woman of gentle disposition and highly cultured. They went to Europe this summer and in September arrived in London. They stopped at the Hotel Cecil

I Lav .WW' W '■ i ' A , a|k WALTER M. CASTLE. and their wealth insured them every'attention. The couple often went out on shopping expeditions. One day they visited a furrier’s shop, and after examining the furs left without making a purchase. After they had gone the shopkeeper missed articles and put detectives on the track. Mr, and Mrs. Castle were followed to their hotel and there arrested. An examination of their trunks, which had been pa. ked ready for sailing, revealed an amar.ing amount of stuff, the possession of which is beyond any explanation the police can offer, unless it be taken ns evidence that Mrs. Castle has a mania for collecting odd trifles. Among the articles were a number of watches, all alike; a plated toast re k that eame from tha hotel breakfast table; thirteen umbrella heads, mid a pair of sheets bearing tha mark of a big London hotel. The sabla and ehineliilla skins missed by the furrier wi re also found. After their arrest £2.000.<Y sterling was off. : c.i ;:s bml. but the authorities refused. to release them. The United States embassy int -p. 1 itself in their behalf, but wiihont avail. They remained io con uion < b ’iu' jail seven days, when they were mr.i^ I. held fur trial and re-

'b; b ' ■ ' Wi & MC.S. ELLA CASVLE. leased on s2oU,i><)o bail. Charles Mat, thews, one of the most noted criminal lawyers in England, has been retained to assist in the defense, and influential friends have sprung up all over the kingdom to help save the Castles from further disgrace, but their efforts will hardly avail. Larceny is a felon.' in English law, the punishment for which is prac:b ally unlim.t. d, and the .-barges against the Castles are so well founded that their legal advisers are in despair. They do not believe that Magistrate Shell will even consent to consider the case under the “first offender's" act, which provides punishment by fine in lieu of iuqwisonment. Their attorneys admit the thefts* but will s t up kleptomania as a defenses PRINCETON’S GREAT DAY. Cleveland Participates in the Celebration of a Cniversity’s Birth. I’resident Cleveland's address was the principal feature of the I’rinceton College celebration at I'rinceton, N. J. It was delivered in Alexander Hall, whence he had been escorted on foot through the college grounds from President Patton's bouse by the Philadelphia City Troop, Mrs. Cleveland riding in an open carriage with Mrs. Fatton. The exercises opened with a prayer by Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyier, of Brooklyn. After Dr. Cuyl- r's prayer, I’resident Fatten made the formal announcement that wl at was formerly the College of N- wJ< r< y- ••. I. : r ‘I ' ’•“Ver be known as Princeton University. A scene of wondei’ful enthusiasm greeted Dr. Patton's remarks. He then announced the endowment fund received, amounting to nearly a million and a half dollars, not including the amounts contributed for Blair Hall by John 1. Blair,

of Blairstown, N. J., and the new library. The ceremony of conferring the degrees on the sixty-five men elected for that honor was next on the program. It was learned that President Patton desired to coii’fcf the degree of doctor of laws upon Mr. Cleveland, but the President modestly declined the honor. The degree of doctor of laws was conferred upon a large number of European college professors and scholars. After the conferring of degrees, the President addressed the great assemblage. Thomas Kidd, aged 14, son of W. K. Kidd, of Cleveland, was murdered at Dalton, Ohio, by Carl Mcllhiney, aged 7. The Kidd boy, who was a. cripple, was vis’tiug at the .Mcllhiney home. The boys were last together while the Mellhineys were at church, and they quarreled. Young Kidd struck Carl with his crutch’. The latter then went into an adjoining room, procured his father's gun and snot Kidd, blowing off the top of his head. Bishop Henry T. Bacham, a wellknown Moravian preacher, Is dead in Grace Hill, lowa.

RECORD OF THEWEEIC INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. The Poet Has Fun with the Name of an Historic Town —Crowd Surrounds the Seymour Jail Eager for a Lynching Bee. Terre Haute. Two strangers met upon a train. And one inquired in friendly vein Os his companion: “I>o you go As far this morning as Tear Hoe? The other said: “I did intend A flying visit to South Bend. And possibly’ Chicago, but I guess I'll stop at Terry Hut." A traveler who overheard The style in which they used the word. Chimed in and said: "I feel so naughty Whene’er I go to Terror Hawtie, That I’m in lin k if I get out Of—what d’ye call it?—Terror Howt.” A fourth one said: “I fairly dote Up<>n the town of Terry Hote; And nil my goods for years I bought At what some people call Teer Hawt.” TheJUth one cried: “If I were shut Witrfts,bliertown of Terr -r Hut A dozen WWs, 1 think Ed die. A sixth one listened^kid: “Oh. fie! If I should happen to be caught Some Sunday there u^MjKry HasyL y—- - ' ' i’ “ .! ...ag head And crii^f ^Tnt ‘ I.vnehing P ll r » Peter Laws, a colored years old. was arrested at Seymour la^FridiLv night on the charge of assault. protests he is innocent. Judge Hoover^ remanded him to the county’ jail. The news of the arrest soon spread,and crowds of excited men crowded the court room and surrounded the jail. Threats of lynching were freely' made. Laws has been a resident of the city for one year and has been training horses for A. N. Munden and others. lie was arrested at his home in the presence of his wife and three children. He was spirited out of the jail at 11 o'clock by Marshal Abe Thiekston. who started with, the prisoner for Brownston to place him in the I county jail. Over 200 men gathered around the jail, and as soon as it was v, hispered about that the prisoner had been taken away the crowd demanded to see the interior so as to satisfy themselves. Being thoroughly convinced that the prisoner was not in the jail, the crowd left and started in the direction taken by the officers. All Over the Statu. The I’r. Henry Q. Tanner, who is reported to have lost his life in a fire at Akron. Ohio, is not Dr. 11. S. Tanner of fasting fame. Dr. Tanner lived at Terre Haute until a few months ago, and is now a! Robir-on, HL. and he has been heard from within the last few days. Deputy Sheriff Wilson, of Muskegon, Mich., reached Laporte the other day in search of Geo. H. McCoy, who attempted the life of Sheriff White, a Michigan official. McCoy escaped from the Muskegon jail the night of Oct. 13. The officers tracked him to Laporte, where all trace was lost, and it is believed he is in hiding. McCoy is a desperate criminal, and is wanted at other points in Michigan for different crimes. A reward of SIOO is ofl\ red for his capture.

The inhabitants of the little town of Geneva, located in the oil field, are indignant over a letter recently written by Dr. .1. N. Hurty, of Indianapolis, secretary of the State Board of Health, to the health authorities at Portland. In this letter Dr. Hurty advised the Portland Board of Health to quarantine against the town, for the reason that diphtheria was raging there. This the Geneva authorities deny, and a statement has been issued by every doctor located in the town, saying there is not nor has there been one case of diphtheria in the place. The Geneva authorities say business has been injured and business men have lost thousands of dollars owing to the false reports sent out by Dr. Hurty, and threaten to bring criminal action against him. A surging mass of excited people surrounded be city hall Monday morning at Fort Wayne, when Claude Smith was to have a hearing in the Mayor's Court on the charge of murdering George Freeh, a 14-year-old lad, who was hurrying home to give his mother his first wages. A rush was made by those on the outside to catch a glimpse of the man who is suspected of having committed the most brutal crime in the history of Fort Wayne. What they saw was a young man, neatly dressed, kid gloved, shoes polished and smoking a cigar, lie entered court smoking and removed his kid gloves. He then casually surveyed, the crowd. Smith was 'bound over to the Circuit Court waUduti •bail. - The worst gang of thieves that ever infested Northern Indiana are now in jail at Kokomo. Two weeks ago Gus Freeman, the leader, was shot at the Flora fair while robbing a farmer, and Tuesday the gang, which scattered when Freeman was mortally wounded, was captured. They are Ida Clevenger, an 18-year-old girl, who divided honors with Gus Freeman in leading the outlawry: John Clevenger, "Buck’’ Gibbs, “Chick” Doll, and' Lee Bard. The officers say they have in the last three years stolen more than 5,W0 chickens and a number of horses and cattle, besides committing numerous burglaries. Freeman, who is 20 years old and has served one term in prison, is still alive, but is given up to die by the county physician. A sect which claims to be religious is holding a meeting at Bluffton, and the chief practice of its devotees appears to be “to gather about the altar, fail down, and pound their heads and hands on the floor until they can be heard for squares. At Bloomington, Gen. Morton C. Hunter, one of the best known citizens and soldiers of Southern Indiana and chairman of the Indiana Soldiers’ Commission, was stricken with paralysis Monday and is ar the point of death. He was colonel of the Eightv-second Indiana Regiment, and represented his district in Congress for four years. He is 71 years old-_