St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 March 1897 — Page 7

AGRICULTURAL NEWS THINGS pertaining to the farm and home. Sngg-estlonsi for Those Intending t» Start an Orchard —Small Farmers Should Devote Their Time to Specialties—Straw as a Protection. Starting an Orchard. The ground for an orchard should be Well and deeply cultivated, and free from weeds, well drained, if the soil requires it, and moist soils are better for draining except sandy or light gravelly soils with a light subsoil. Such land may not require draining, but in every case it should be well worked and pulverized and enriched. The work of preparation must be done during the summer so as to be ready for fall or spring planting. Planting in the spring is preferred, which will enable the trees to take firm hold of the earth and to insist the frost of next winter; but may be done successfully in ^Ybe autumn by protecting the trees so as to prevent the frost from heaving or misplacing them. Select young, healthy and vigorous trees, and from a reliable nurseryman, and if possible from a soil similar to that in which you intend to plant your orchard. The different kinds of apples will depend upon your own choice and the suitability of soil and climate. I advise that the selection be made from the old, tried and reliable kinds. The distance apart should not be less than thirty feet, so as to allow the trees room to spread their branches and to form a low ami spreading head. Close planting has a tendency to force trees to run up. and preventing the fruit from obtaining its proper color from the sun, and making It more difficult to gather the fruit. At the distance of thirty feet apart it will require twenty-nine trees to the acre. Before planting the tree, remove all bruised and broken roots by cutting clean with a sharp knife. Lay out your ground in straight lines, so that your trees will be in line each way and at equal distances, thirty feet apart.—William Gray, in Farmers' Review.

Specialties for Small Farniws. The farmer on a few acres cannot compete in growing the staple grain crops which, harvested as they are now by machinery, can only be grown profitably on large fields. The small farmer must devote his time, skill and, land to special crops that require the greatest amount of labor to make successful. If he does this thoroughly his limitation as regards land will prove an advantage, not an injury. It is only by thoroughly mastering some one business and then sticking to it that men make money. This is as true of the farmer as of men engaged in other vocations. Straw to Protect from Cold, Wherever straw is plentiful it is very easy to save stock from suffering by extreme cold. Layers of straw separated by something sufficient merely to keep them apart and inclose an air space will keep out cold as effectively as will a wall With a few poles from the woods and plenty of straw many a poor farmer has kept one or two cows as comfortably stabled as if he had a basement barn. But the straw stable will probably need some repairing even before the winter is over, and more or less hay or other feed will be wasted while it is being carried to the animals kept in it.

Pickinz and Bipenins Peats. It is the opinion of most nurserymen that pears should be picked while green and ripened indoors. The sunny side of the tree should be picked first and the rest later on. The greener the pear the higher the temperature should be to ripen It. The atmosphere should be moist to keep the pears from shriveling. The tasteless pear is the result of too early picking, and should have received more sun and less artificial heat. Such a pear is flavorless, and unfit to eat. As pears absorb odors readily, much care should be taken that the boxes and papers in which they are packed are kept fresh and clean. Pears not being so elastic as apples, require straw, paper or some such material to keep them from being injured by the sides of the box or barrel. Early pears and those Dearly ripe should be packed in shallow’, well-ventilated boxes. French gardeners generally pack this fruit in layers with the spaces filled up with powdered charcoal. The largest and greenest fruit is in the bottom, and all so snugly packed that no movement is possible, and that one pear does not press against another.—Canadian Horticulturist. Tlic Sugar Beat. The best type of sugar beet is a root weighing one and a half to two pounds, and looks more like a fat parsnip than the big beets or mangel-wurzels that some people seem to think are grown for purposes. There are numerous varieties of sugar beets, but Klein Wanzlebener is as much grown in this country as any. The raising of beet seed is going’to be quite an industry in this country. Small and cheap factories are not profitable. In the present state of sugar manufacturing only a large factory capable of working up at least 250 tons of beets per day of twenty-four hours can operate successfully. It is possible for a large central factory to have numerous rasping stations, but this is merely to save transportation of the raw’ beets to the central factory. There is loud call for some means of making crude syrup or raw sugar from the beet in small factories, this requiring only a moderate investment, the raw product to be shipped to the expensive refinery to be refined. American inventive genius is now engaged on the problem. How far one can afford to shill beets

’ to a factory depends wholly upon the ' • rate of freight. If $4 per ton is paid for beets delivered at the factory, the nearer the grower lives to the factory the better, as he can haul the beets to the factory himself and get the full price. If after the haul by wagon one has to pay 30 to 75 cents per ton for I railroad freight it eats up the profits very fast.—Orange Judd Farmer. Keep Old Corn in the Crib. No good farmer likes to be entirely out of corn, and if he is a good calculator he will not be. The mistake' most likely to upset his calculations is more likely to be made keeping fattening hogs and other animals after the time that they are fully fattened. Most of the grain thus fed is practically wasted. It produces not one-half the pork that it would if given during the summer season in small quantities as an addition to what the pigs find in the pasture and orchard. It is this advantage of keeping old corn in the crip that led to an experienced farmer to say that the ability to do this was the best possible certificate that the farmer who could do it was successful aud prosperous. Canned Meats for Summer. It is not always easy in country places to buy fresh meat during hot weather. The result is that many farmers only have fresh meat during tho winter season while it can be kept frozen. Yet canning meats for summer use is just as practicable as canning fruits tor winter use. It is done by putting the meat in wide-necked bottles, packing it closely and then putting the bottles in warm water which is slowly brought to the boiling point. The bottles should be set on blocks of wood to prevent breakage. After boiling long enough to expel all air, cover the top of the meat with lard and then seal tightly over itw surface. Meat can be thus kept sweet and good for months.

Cisterns Under Barns. Every barn will shed from its roof enough water for all the stock that can be kept on the feed it contains or tho cattle it will shelter. If this water Is duly conducted Into a cistern In tho barn basement and tillered before using, it is much the best water the stock can have for drink. In the basement the water will never be down to freezing temperature, which Is an Important matter, as every degree of cold has to be warmed to animal beat by the carbonaceous food that the animal has digested. If it is a milch cow that has its water thus warmed, it detracts just so much from the butter fats which the milk will contain. That is about as expensive warmth, even at low prices for butter, as the farmer ever pays for.

Odds and Ends, Dissolve a little salt in the alcohol that is to be used for sponging clothing, particularly where there are greasy spots. It is said that powdered charcoal. If laid thickly on a burn, affords Immediate relief from pain; It will heal a superficial burn in about an hour. In ventilating a room, open the windows at the top and bottom. The fresh air rushes in one way, while tiie foul air makes its exit the other; thus you let in a friend and expel an enemy. A piece of carbonate of ammonia the sf.ze of a small pea put into the water in which vegetables are cooked preserves the color. The ammonia evaporates in the boiling. It Is generally used by French chefs. A simple disinfectant to vse in a sickroom is made by putting gome ground coffee in a saucer and in the center a small piece of camphor gum. Light the gum witli a match. As the gum burns allow the coffee to burn with it. The perfume is refreshing and healthful, as well as Inexpensive. It w’ill be of Interest to housewives to know’ that celebrated fbreign physicians are recommending the marrow bone for a strengthening diet and tonic. The marrow bone is served upon a piece of hot dry toast. When it is to bo oaten the marrow is tak«i out and spread upon the toast. It is also served upon small portions of fillet of beef, and in this manner is considered a desirable course for luncheon parties.

Farm Notes. Tiie farmer who expects to make sheep pay from the outside of the animal only will fail. There is more money from the whole sheep than from its wool. To propagate from puny plants is as fatal to success as to link’d nnlmnls from .scrub stock. A plant never re fuses to boar fruit without a cause, and that cause is often barrenness that no system of cultivation will remove. It may be a little discouraging now for the stock breeder to have to sell his surplus at low prices, but the breeder who goes right along improving big flocks and herds will turn up all right in the end. When the tide turns the lucky, plucky breeder will reap his reward. Strips of zinc ten inches or a foot long, two inches wide at one end and tapering to one-half an inch at the other, are the best label., for fruit trees. The narrow end is merely Wound round a. branch, and never cut into. Use an ordinary lead pencil to write with; it never seems to wash off. If the zine Is too smooth or shiny, a little exposure to xveather will tend to roughen it, so that it can be written on more plainly. It Is said that in the fowl kingdom insects, grasshoppers, bugs and worms take the place of meat, so that when by yarding our poultry we cut them off from their natural larder we should supply them from ours. Fresh meat is preferable for this purpose to bacon, and lean meat rather than fat. They will accept the refuse from the slaughter house—the liver, heart, ele.—wlth greater thankfulness than we do tboj choicest cut*. I

HIE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. k Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson ■—Thoughts Worthy of Calm Reflec-tion-Half nn Hour’s Study of the Scriptures—Time Well Spent. Lesson for March 7. Golden Text. —“Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same Scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.”—Acts 8: 35. The lesson this week is found in Acts 8: 26-40, and has for its subject The Ethiopian Convert. The new era which began with the dispersion of the disciples after Stephen’s dentil was continued by tho preaching of Christ in many places hitherto untouched by the gospel. After Philip had completed his work at Samaria he was immediately called to enter on a new mission, the results of which were far reaching. He was sent, not knowing why, to the south, to travel on a certain highway, and there met the man whom we read in the lesson. Li pinna tor#. Ethiopia was the region south of Egypt corresponding partly to tho modern Abyssinia. Its people were of course darkskinned, though not of the negro type of central Africa and the Soudan. They were bravo and powerful. The eunuch, an officer of tho royal household and of the state as well, was evidently a man of prominence, and probably was attended by a considerable company of servants. — “('andnee": pronounce in three syllables, accent on the first. This was not an individual name, but the name of a dynasty, like Pharaoh in Egypt or Caesar in Rome. Thore were many Candaces who ruled Ethiopia during this century, as we learn from Roman histories. • “Had come to Jerusalem for to worship”: presumably he was an Ethiopian who had been converted to Judaism and become a proselyte; though some suppose that, he was a man of Jewish descent who lived in Ethiopia. “Read Esains tho prophet”: he read from a largo parchment roll, the writing ; being in columns, and rolled the parchment from one rod to the other as he passed from one column to the next. He road probably tho Greek version of Isaiah known as the Sentmtgint, and in accordance with Eastern custom, rend aloud, in no very gentle voice. Hnckett says: “It is not improbable that the eunuch had heard at Jerusalem of the death of Jesus end of the wonderful events connected with it of his claim to be the Messiah, and tho existence of a numerous party who acknowledged him in that character. Hence he may have been examining the prophecies at the time that Philip approached him, with reference to the question how far they had been accomplished in the history of the |>erson concerning whom such reports had reached him. The extraordinary means which God employed to bring the Ethiopian to a knowledge of the gospel, and the readiness with which lie embraced it. authorize tho belief that in this way. or some other, his mind had been specially prepared for the reception of the truth." “I Tiderstandcst thou what thou Fondest ?” In the Greek there is a peculiar play upon words here which would At once strike the eunuch’s attention. Notice the appropriateness of the question to lead up nt once to the direct matter of which Philip desired to speak. Oriental custom would ordinarily have involved a good deal of forma! conversation, exchange of “salaams," inquiry after the health of each other's family, etc., before any such topic could be entered upon. Hut Philip, guided by the Spirit, proceeded immediately to the deepest of ail ques

“How can 1. except some man should guide me?" The answer of a trank man to a frank question. Not always is the need of the unregonerate man so readily acknowledged. Often he must be convinced of his deficiencies before he can be led to the source of supply. But the Ethiopian’s heart was already prepared for the gospel. lle was reading Isa. 53: 7.8, which in the Greek version differs slightly from the Hebrew ami English. "The Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip": This does not necessarily imply a miraculous dHappcarancd: a sudden and abrupt departure of Philip in obedience to a divine summons fulfills all the conditions. “Philip was found at Azotus”: That is, was next heard of at that place. Tenctilnz Hints. Philip did not know why he should leivc Samaria and go wandering off down towards Haza. But God knew and arranged things so that men might have for once a revelation of the true nature of what we call “chance happenings." Would not many of the “happy accidents" of life turn out to bo just such plans of God if wo only knew about them? A pertinent question to be addressed to any Bible render la Philip’s “Understandcst thou what thou reddest?” How much Bible reading there is, even on the part of those who desire the truth, that is almost valueless because it is bhsed on a wrong principle, or because It is not accompanied by sufficient knowledge of the habits of thought of biblb nl writers. Wbnt greater privilege can there bo than to sit down by such a on" and illuminate the sacred words, preaching Jesus in the most effective way by the Bible as illustrated in personal experience. The Old Testament points to Christ, but we need Christ to explain the Old Testament. Its references to the Messiah become clear and convincing only as they find their fulfillment in him. Baptism is the plain duty of one who has believed on Christ. There need be no delay if the evidence of conversion is clear. As the symbol of a great change, baptism is a solemn occasion but should bring with it rejoicing. The kingdom of heaven spreads by personal witnessing. Tradition says that this Ethiopian convert on his return home led many of his countrymen to Christ ami founded the Ethiopian Church. Next Lesson “Saul the Persecutor Converted." Acts 9: 1-12, 17-20. - Bits of Things. Words .should echo works. Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, ami not to mind because they are such very little ones. Nothing pays smaller dividends in spiritual results than making a specialty of discovering Unj shortcomings of of her folks. I have sped much land and sea, and mingled with much people, but uevei yet could fine a «qwt unsunned by human kindness.-—Tutpper.

A COUNTRY OF CHECKS. Hardships of l: nK liahnicn with the American B aKS „ Ke s ye tcm. railed a 4 ” 1 * 1 ?™ 11 ^ ons4 ^ution has been man ID Byßtem of r ll ecks. So is a merit an life, says the London Mail. When tFaVel you your baggagc to the porter of your hotel and he gives you a check in return. At eheck ,at °i U y ° U roc,aim !t Wl th the 1 Pass 14 111 at a counter and receive another che< . k Ag h 50111 destinat,on another func- * M™ 8 " long tho tra,n ’ ta kes its nlnc^J 1114 BlVes you an °ther in . ’ tie fishes out your baggage sidcraH VeyS k *° y ° Ur h °tel-for a couandY ° U haVe left your tkinl and last check at the office of the hotel vv ten you enter it, and thence it is de“vored up on receipt of the baggage. rst you bless this arrangement as the salvation of the traveler. Af.ei a few weeks of it the tyranny of the Chock becomes so galling that you begin to long for tho fine old English UietiPfi of dumping down your goods in fAfit of the porter and leaving them JKj the way themselves. You would evi^ ia ^ K as n personal triumph If sotwof your baggage would get lost. Butilt never does. Sometimes it arrivw late, but it always arrives. Yet it seldom arrives in the shape in which it started, if that is any consolation. They who have to do with baggage see to that. You very soon discover why Americans carry their goods fn iron-clad trunks, and why it is madness for anybody to do anything else. I started out. like an Idiot, with a now leather portmanteau. They ripped the stout brass lock off in the first week—not for plunder apparently, but simply because it is the tradition of the service. They punched it ami kicked and danced on it. In softer hours, when literary inspirations came, they wrote on It. My portmanteau today is an epitome of tho political sentiment of the United States from New York to San Francisco. As a histori*a 1 document it is beyond price, and I am contemplating the gift of it to the library of Congress at Washington. As i’ portmanteau it lias both feet in t lie grave. The system of checks is not confined to travelers' luggage. ’1 he conductor of the train passes carelessly to and fro asking for your tickets, and giving you a cheek in return, or asking for your chock and returning your ticket. If you band your stick to a boy in a hotel while yon write your name in the register lie dashes off to stow it away in some secret place and returns trlumphnnt with a cheek. Hut tin* apotheosis of the check is at Niagara. When you go down to the Cave of the Winds you strip off all your clothes and leave them, as w^H a^^our valuables, in a tin box with tlyiitTrndant. Then you go down to bvtlo with tho eataniet attired only wa suit of pajamas, n suit of oilskins add a check Lashed around your m■< k, Mjd rising and falling with the beatIng of your heart, ^o wonder the American .speaks of death as handing In his clweks. It is only by death !iiat he can rid himself of them.

The Greatest Violinist. | Paganini was the most remarkable i genius with th’ violin that the world I ever knew. His technique was oinething wonderful, but mere tnhuique I would never have accomplished the ! resull.s he obtained, nor would it have thrown the mu<jal world into spasms lof admiration as he did. The accounts I of bis playing seem almost incredible, i With the first note the audience was i spellbound, and remained so to tiie last, j From the violin he drew tones which | were unsuspected to exist and invented ’ and played passages believe 1 to be imI possible. Moore said: “Paganini can I play divinely, ami does so for a min- | ute or two; then comes his tricks and j surprises, his bow in convulsions, his I enharmonlcs like the mewing of an ex- : ! piriug cat." The main technical seaI lures of raganmi’s playing wore his | unfailing Intonations, his wonderful ’ rapidity, and a command never equaled lof harmonics and double harmonics. ' He was wonderfully tricky, however, • and often accomplished effects not un- । derstood even by exports, by tuning his > violin in n different manner from that ! usually employed. A certain trick passage, running up two octaves while • holding B flat, seems to be Impossible to the ordinary violinist, but, it is said. J by tuning a semi-tone higher the pass- . age presents no unusual difficulty. He '■ ^Dover allowed anyone to hoar him tune i this violin, and when prob s-iomi 1 people fattemptud to solve the problem of his flaying by requesting him to play in ■private, he invariably contrived in some 1 way or other to disappoint their expectations. Tiie secret of Ids execution 1 died with him, and he has never been j equaled as a violinist. Why He Suffered. r “1 understand you were punished in < school to-day, Thomas,” said Mr. Bai con to his 12-year-old boy. t "Ye«, sir,” promptly replied the ju- ’ ven 1 10. ' “For what?" “For telling the truth, sir.” . “Your teacher said it was for some j reflection you made upon her age." , “That’s the way she took it, father. . You see, she drew a. picture of a basket • of eggs on the blacklward, and while she was out of the room I just wrote under them: 'The lien that made these eggs isn’t any chicken!" Yonkers , Statesman. • An Inducement. 1 In an advertisement for a young gen--1 tieman who left his parents it xvas . Stated that “if Master Jacky will ref turn to his disconsolate parents he shall be allowed to sweeten his tea.”— 1 'Tit-Bits. 1 When you find it. hard to keep warm, ’ It Is a sign of old ago. We have not been warm for three days.

THE INDIANA SOLONS The House spent the most of Tucsdav considering a mass of insurance bills in committee of the whole. A blanket bill governing foreign companies and not diformg very materially from the present k "ro "lightly amended. The House Killed two others—a blanket bill for the amr^Tu^ ° f . h ° ,ne mutt ”d companies stoct 8 ” ° 1 ’ 4le or «nnization of home , ' ^.'“Danies— and one governing life ! ", ent . assessment companies only >m r ■ “‘ at!l b - v being recommitted. The 11 fixing a standard form of policy escaped with amendments. A bill exempt mg farms within the limits of towns or cities from corporation taxes, and the lemington dog bill, which permits anv D ers °n to kill a dog that is known to have ovei chased or worried sheep or any live stock or fowl, was passed. The Senate, after passing a couple of minor bills, took up the McCord building and loan bill, practically the Peckenpaugh bill, as it passed the House, and spent the whole •lay discussing it. The House Wednesday killed the local option bill, and by a narrow margin passed a bill providing for a revision of the statutes. 'Pile first of the insurance measures to reach final enactment got there when the House passed a Senate bill repealing the law and fixing a 10 per cent penalty upon home companies for failure to adjust and pay losses within sixty days. Mr. Thomas' bill for a revision of the statutes passed. Senator Shively’s bill appropriating $5,000 for a statue to Morton in the Capitol at Washington came up on third reading, and finally passed by almost a party vote. The Senate, after adding a few more amendments, recommitted the building and loan bill, in order that tho numerous changes might be incorporated. Two caucus measures, the bill providing for non-partisan boards for the benevolent institutions and the Fort Wayne charter bill, were passed. A bill permitting the commissioners of Starke County to issue bonds for a new court 'muse and one to provide for janitors for country schools at 10 cents per day, were passed.

Gov. Mount Thursday returned the Ad-ams-Jay court bill to the Senate with his veto. He permitted a bill requiring that the standard half-bushel measure be used in testing wheat, and another permitting the commissioners of Jasper County to issue bonds for building a court house to become laws without his approval by the ■xpiration of the ten days’ limit. The Senate parsed the Barlow tax bill aid the Morris House bill giving City Councils greater police power. The Senate defeated Senator Duncan’* bill for a system of auditing the warrants of township trustees, ami Senator Schenck’s bill requiring w ide tires <m gravel roads. Senator Self’s bill for the punishment of votes who offer to sell their votes was passsi. It also defeated the Terre Haute ■barter and passed the following: 'Die House bill providing for giving discharged prisoners money, a railroad ticket and suit of clothes; regulating ferry charges, ind providing that service upon the Aulitor shall hold foreign insurance companies. The House -.pent much time in amending the intermediate prison bill. I’he Nicholson bill to w ipe out quart shops was amended so ns to exempt wholesnlers and make a level license of $lO9 and then ngrossrd. The House passed the following bills Gilbert's Senate bill providing he.iv> penalties for -laught. ring fist and permit t the finh roni niiHMiotwr to ap point deputies; nquirim: that rvid»ntrH • f debt must have been listed for taxation before collections can be enforced; unending the ditch law s. I'be bill authorizing the Attorney fenral to bring suit nt once against the Vajjdalia Ilnilroad Company for the large indebtedness of the company claimed by the St.'lte passed the House Friday miler a suspension of the rules ami without i dissenting vote. The Vandalia investigation. to discover what amount, presumablj S2JHN>.(M)O, the company, it is said, has been defrauding the State out >f for jears under its old charter was threatened with being smothered by the influence of the railroad lobby. The SenIte killed the Sunday baseball bill by laying an amended bill on the table which provided for submitting the question to i popular vote. The House caught the friends of the Citizens' Street R: ilway isicep. ami the bill providing for 3 cent fare was rushed through to engrossment. It will now ri quire a .quare vote to kill the me.-isiire.

Arizona’s Big Claims, The population of Arizona in 1890 was 59,G2(), including Mexicans, Indians and half-breeds. The total is now “claimed" to be 80,000. This is about half the population fixed as the ratio for a representative in Congress. And yet it is proposed to give this (’action of the congressional ratio two Senators and a representative in Congress and three votes in the electoral college. Its population is less than that of Portland, as returned by the last ^imisus. And yet If it was admitted to the Union with its sparse population it w mid be the equal in the Senate of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio or Illinois of the larger States, or of Oregon or Washington.— Bort land Oregonian.

Our Coinage. The diameter of the silver dollar is exactly an inch and one-half, and Its thickness eighty-thousandths of an inch. The common nickel (5c piece) was authorized by act of Congress May IG. 186 G, and its coinage was begun the same year. The old-fashioned copper cent was authorized by act of Congress, April 22, 17H2, and its coinage was begun the following year. Jeffeiyon is said to have :»een the first American statesman to suggest the dollar as the financial unit of our currency. The standard dollar was authorized by act of Congress, Feb. 28, 1878, and coinage was begun in the same year. The dollar gold piece was authorized by act of Congress March 3, 1819, and its coinage was begun in the same year. “In God we trust” first appeared on the copper 2c issue of 18G1, and is the first use of the word “God” in any Government act. The “dollar of our daddies” was authorized by act of Congress April 2, 1792, and its coinage was begun in 1794. Moses Brown, of Boston, Las the credit of making the first deposit of gold bullien to be coined. In 1795 he sleDOsited f2,27G.72.

RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Victimized Terre Haute Merchants Get Their Money Back-Fire Docs SIOO,OOO Damage to Fort Wayne I roperty—Charged with Bigamy. Compel Them to Miike Restitution. Two men, who hail credentials from tho. Commercial Traveler, published in Chicago, to solicit subscriptions and advertising. were taken to police headquarters nt Terre Haute, where they refunded flioney collected from local business men. 1 he latter said they had contributed the money on the representation made by the men that they were engaged in an effort to secure some concession to commercial travelers by the Western Passenger Traffic Association. 'The men defended their action on the ground that they had promised to give the business men space in the t'ommercial Traveler. Members of the Travelers* Protective Association took nn active part in causing the restitution of the money. The two men had a long petition, aigmsl by prominent business men of the State, addressed to the traffic association.

Big Fire at Fort Wayne. Morgan & Co.'s wholesale and retail hardware store at Fort Wayne was destroyed by fire Sunday morning, causing ti Joss of $75,000, with $40,000 insurance. The stock of Nathan & Kirchheinier. wholesale paper dealers, is a complete loss; damage. $12,000; insurance. SIO,OOO. Mrs. Mary H. Williams owned the building, which was insured for $5,000. Romary, Geoglein & Co., hardware dealers. Differed from the water to the extent of (15,000 or $6,000; insurance. $1,500. The stock of Julius Nathan & Co., liquor deal?rs, was damaged to the extent of several thousand dollars; insurance $2,000. The tin shop of A. 11. Staub was damaged by 'ailing walls to tho extent of $4,000. Four jf the five buildings are total wrecks. During the progress of the fire four firemen were at work on the roof of A. H. Btaub's store, which is much lower than the building occupied by Julius Nathan k Co. Suddenly the higher wall toppled, ind to escape being crushed the firemen jumped from tho roof. George Clingman tvas injured internally and about the spine ind may not recover. The others were >nly bruised. All Over the State. Nelson Ano, a member of the soldiers’ home, was run down and killed at Marion Gy a Big Four passenger train. John Churchill, aged 68 years, and one if the oldest residents of North Mandieser. died suddenly of heart disease. Frederick Weyerick. aged GO. capitalist ind real estate dealer of Milford, was brown out of his wagon and killed. J. E. Roehm, for many years in the leather business at Marion, killed himself in the Pan Handle passenger depot. At Greencastle, Frank Wells pleaded guilty of stealing a horse and buggy, and was sentenced to four years' imprisonment at Jeffersonville. Bartley Mnrrer, one of tho oldest cifi- . eiis of Wabash, dropped dead of heart Ji-r.iiM. He ua< GO i ears old and had resided there since 1862. < hester C. Buck, for forty years a member of the banking firm of Buck & Toan, Plymouth, died of heart disease while conversing with a friend. He was 62 years old.

Fifty affidavits will be tiled at Anderson against the quart house keepers. This is in addition to the big batch filed against the druggists for illegal sale of liquor. It, is said that these will be followed by an equal number against the houses of iil repute for selling liquor. This is the crusade of the Indiana Liquor League, and it is understood such tactics are to be tried over the State. The purpose is to restrict the sale of liquors to saloons. The largest and by far the most imisirtant order of window glass ever sold to a single firm in the United States was disposed of at Muncie by Thomas F. Hart, manager of the Western Glass Manufacturers’ Association. The sale disposes of sixty earloads of glass to be delivered at once in one shipment to W. P. Fuller A('o. of S,m Francisco. It is a supplement to twenty-four other carloads sold to this firm lately for the Pacific coast trade. Joseph Bishopp. aged SO years, has been arrested near Anderson for bigamy, the charges being preferred by his fourth wife, who is now residing in the State of Ohio. Recently Bishopp went to Anderson and married Rebecca Shaw. In some manner the Ohio woman found that he had entered the matrimonial state again and sho proceeded to immediately bring action against him. He will fight the case. It is somewhat complicated and he claims that he thought he had a divorce from the woman. The Supreme Court struck a body blow at the liquor interests by holding that a city organized under the general Jaw had the pow er by ordinance to exclude saloons from the residence parts of cities, even though persons already he’d licenses from both city and county. The court explains that the license is simply a permit, which may be revoked at any time the public good requires it. and that the power to regulate the liquor traffic is a part of the police right of the city, which cannot be surrendered by any contract which the city may make. The court also holds that the Moore bill passed by the last Legislature giving cities the right to enact such ordinances is not unconstitutional, neither does it conflict with the Nicholson law. and that the residence portion of any city includes any part, large or small, which is principally and chiefly used for residence purposes, families residing and having their homes there, even though a grocery or other business may be c< nducted there. 'I his ruling will affect every city in the State, many cities having already paved the way for passage of similar ordinances, but delaying action to await the decision of the Supreme Court. At South Bend. Helen, daughter of John H. Diehl, fell head foremost a distance of three stories, inflicting probably fatal injuries, her skull being crushed. Several days ago a stranger stepped into a saloon at Indianapolis and invited the crowd to drink, saying he would pay for all tliey could swallow. William Davenport. 22 years of age, was in the crowd and accepted the invitation and within a few moments took two large drinks of whisky mid a glass of beer and fell upon the floor unconscious. He was taken to the city hospital and died withWt having recovered consckmsnsss.