St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 15 May 1897 — Page 3

BUYING FARM LAND, DON'T BE TEMPTED TO BUY TOO MUCH. Prevailing Tendency Is to Buy More than Can Be Cultivated, and the Farmer Takes on a Mortgage that Weighs Him Down. Buying a Farm. A great many men when they set out to buy a farm are tempted to buy three, six or nine times as much land as they ■can handle. They want a quarter section for each member of the family or they want to play off as a farmer on a mammoth scale. To carry out his plans he ha® only half as much money as he meed®, and he borrows enough to carry liim through witli the purchase at least. He at once conies under mortgage for half title value of the land he has bought He begins in the new country at the bottom, has no money to improve with or to pay hired help with. He flounders in a desperate way until the •end comes. He has no money to buy fuel for the cold weather season, and in case of a general failure of the crops he ha® no money to buy grain or other feed to carry his stock through the winter. We know of cases out West where men are land poor. They own se*tJons of land—tracts so large that they cannot work them. It Is ehoh'e land as need be, but they cannot sell It. They are tied to it. We know of another case where a man had a strong notion of becoming the largest land owner in the world. He bought land until bis boundary lines were counted by miles in length. Then he went to farming. He bought all the improved patent farm implements that were known, and left the most of them out of doors the year round. This kind of farming resulted Just as such farming always will result. Huge fields of corn left to go Into the winter unhusked, the regular fall work half done. Another claims of men must cut a re®pectii.ble figuS as farmers, and they buy a half secrain or a section of land; may pay for the whole or go in debt for a part, of the purchase money. The land may be first rate, but the man has more land than he can work. He cannot more than about half farm the land he has undertaken to work. He cannot keep down the weeds nor properly fertilize his ground. The hiring of help as wanted is very uncertain, these days especially. A speculator buys 8,000 or 10.000 acres of land in a good locality. He is interested in having settlements made as fast around his purchase as possible. He has bought with the calculation that the settlement of the country w ill make him a fortune. The speculator's land Is usually offered at a strong advance on the price originally paid for it, but on long-time payments, bearing a healthy rate of interest. In this way a good many farmers have been drawn Into trouble and some speculators have made money. It is, however, the policy of the government of this country to have all lands sold in small holdings. • A man going into a new part of the country to buy a farm should make his calculation to buy just as much land as he can pay for and have enough money left to improve the purchase with. He should have buildings of the right size and for all purposes, and should have fencing of the right kind, so stock could neither break in upon him nor break out. After the farm is well fixed every farmer should have a bank account of S3OO to SSOO, which is far better than to have a mortgage to nurse from year to year. How much anxiety and trouble has the mortgage made. We have seen it stated lately that the amount of public land outside of that which has been entered, exclusive of Alaska, is <300,000,000 acres. Os course, whatever the amount is, the estimate takes in mountain, hill and dale, sand, plain and every kind of worthless, unproductive land. It will yet be a long time before all the land that is really desirable is taken up and put to practical use. The Indian reservations, when they come into market, sell quickly. and they are all choice land.—Rural Home. Dwarf Pears. There is one great advantage of dwarf trees over standard. They come Into bearing earlier. A dwarf pear, for instance, is produced by budding on a quince stock and matures sooner than If on a pear stock. Dwarf trees should Im? pruned at the top, otherwise they are liable to fall over. More trees can be planted on given space than of stan-

dard size, but of course each tree will I ■not bear as profusely. The yield is i nearly the same per acre for both. They I art ;u high favor with many, because I , ■pruning, thinning, spraying and gath- I ering fruit can be done so much more easily from small trees than from high ones. Fruit »lardon. Fattening Calve*. The first question which a butcher 1 asks about a calf offered for the sham- | hies is how it has been fed. If it has • been allowed to suckle the cow, the •alf is in his opinion all right, and will dress as well as it looks. But this depending on suckling, though good for the calf, helps to dry up the cow, and to make her uneasy when the calf is taken from her. The advantage of the suckling process is that the calf gets Its food slowly, and always warm. The slowness with which the calf gets the milk, and the muscular effort of the mouth required to get it, mixes more saliva with the nutrition and insures better digestion. But the owner of the cow may properly insist that the calf shall not run with its dam, suckling a little every hour or two. Give it two meals per day, as nearly twelve hours apart as possible, and the last few the richest part of the . ' '"•s. into a pail. It is will get from the ’man hand will

। do. It 1a this retention of the strip, * pings in the udder that tends to dry cows so quickly when their calves suckle them.—Exchange. r Buying Sweet Potato Sets. Most nurserymen ami seedsmen are glad to furnish sweet potato sets for e planting. They can do it, too, more e cheaply than the average farmer who t hajs no greenhouse can do it for himself. More sweet potatoes ought to be grown by Northern fa rime's. They need a warm, rich soil. By selecting a cloudy t day, with probability of rain, the sots , will get rooted in a few hours ami be- ■ fore the top wilts. The home supply of sweet potatoes can as easily be grown ■ by farmers as ordinary potatoes, except that it is cheaper and better to buy the sets each year, as it is very difficult to keep the seed through the winter until planting time. Those who have greenhouses divide the seed In winter, and may multiply the sets several times over from each aye before spring. It is this multiplication of sets from single eyes that makes it possible to sell sweet potato sets so cheaply.— American Cultivator. Pekin Dock* and Water. The Pekin duck is a very valuable variety, but It has the reputation of not being hardy. If left to swim all they will in coki weather, the fowls will stiffen and become belploas. We long ago learned that this variety needed ; less water than any other, and will do I well if only occasionally on warm days allowed sufficient water to bathe and wash themselves In. If kept from water the Pekin duck is a valuable variety, being very prolific and matun ing early. Subeoiling for Orchard*. In setting out trees of any kind It is best not merely to make a wide, deep hole, but to thoroughly subsoil all the laud that the tree roots are expected to occupy. If this is done there will be much less injury from dry weather the first summer, as the subsoiled earth makes the best reservoir for water in time of need. This subsoiling is Important for land to be planted with nursery stock, and is commonly prac ttced by the most successful growers. Shorthorn Carrot*. The large, coarse varieties of carrots most used for stock feeding are not so nutritious as Is the shorthorn, which grows most of its bulk near the surface or slightly above it. As the shorthorn carrot can grow more thickly in the row. It is nearly as productive as the deeper setting varieties, and it Is also more easily harvested. Five to six hundred bushels of the shorthorn carrot may be grown per acre. This Is a paying c.*op at the usual price of this root. Peas for Foor Soils. There is no better way to fertilize poor land than to bow It with peas, using phosphate of limo to furnish the mineral fertility that this crop requires to perfect the seed. It is not nitrogen which the pea crop most needs other than what the pea roots supply by disintegrating air In the soil and liberating its nitrogen. But to form the grain both lime and phosphate are required. With these supplied the sob will grow richer every year. Mineral Manure* for Spring Crop* To be effective mineral manures for spring and summer crops must be applied early. They need some of the spring rains to dissolve the fertilizer so that the plant roots can make use •of It. Besides, as weather and soil become warm and dry there Is less need of the fertilizer, as the soil itself releases more of its own fertility under such conditions. Fine Seed Bed for Onions. The roller Is indispensable for preparing onion ground either for seed or sets. That with a shallow cultivation to the depth of two inches will make a better seed bed than will deeper tillage. If the soil is made friable deep down the onion may grow large, but It will likely be thick necked and grow a crop of scullions. Gooseberry Culture. I have the best success with gooseberries that are not cultivated. I use hard and soft coal ashes and cinders as a mulch and find that the bushes I treat in this way are in every way superior to those not treated with the cinders. I shall treat all my bushes, both current and gooseberry, in this manner as fast as I can get the cinders.— W. B. H.

Atnontr the Poultry. Poking ducks are good market fowls. For large, heavy fowls have the roost low. Dampness causes leg weakness in ducks. The good layers are active and generally on tlie move. Dry earth is a good material to scatter under the roosts. When a thrifty bird is fulls- matured it Is easily fattened. Early hatched, well-developed pullets make good winter layers. Stale bread, soaked in milk, is a good feed for young poultry. Thrifty, vigorous one-year-old hens make reliable winter layers. Cleanliness and good feeding are the secrets of success with poultry. On the average it will cost one dollar to keep a laying hen one year. Leghorns and black Spanish lay eggs with the whitest shells of any breed. Scald and allow them to staad over night in a place where they will not freeze; this is one of the best tyays of feeding oats to poultry. It is natural for some breeds of poultry io moult lighter each year, and hence what are often taken for defects are only natural to the breed.—St. Louis R-public.

; WISCONSIN TRAGEDY, s SHOCKING CRIME COMMITTED NEAR WAUKESHA. 3 r 5 William Pouch Enjoy* the Hospital* ) ity of a Farmer and Then Kills Him • —Three Others Fatally Wounded—--1 Escaped Upon a Bicycle. I ' A Tale of Horror. I William Pouch, a farm hand, who was given lodging and food at the residence 1 <>t Alexander Harris, a wealthy farmer, five miles from Waukesha, Wis.. Thursday night, repaid the kindness Friday morning by killing his host and atally wounding Mrs. Harris and two servants. The murderer worked for Mr. Harris two years ago. and when to- rode up to the house on a wheel and asked for a night’s lodging on the plea that ho did not like to ride in the night he was pies safely received. He slept with McHqlt, ■•el hired man. mid arose with him betweo J and 5 o’clock. Mr. Harris and MeH 1 ’ went to the barn to milk. They w -raß , eompanied by Pouch, who talke^^K chatted with them. Ca The milking was in progrewt Pouch shot Harris as he sat milking^B ' ' 1 fell dcid. Before Mcllolt had a phz^ I to turn the murderer shot him tbreM^^Ki the bulls taking eHeet in the hcillß^B m-ck He f--l! ti neon scions, and .supposing him dead, dragged ’be Ixxi^K I to a pile of refuse and inri nsl tin m. He »alked t<> the house, where Mil Harris .and the servant were prepnriM breakfast Mrs Harris told him tff^B right down to the table, which he did atS ate » hearty breakfast, talking with t® women. I WOmrn Also Fall Victim*. | Having finished, Pouch rose and witfl out a word tired at Miss \ esbavh, ihebal taking effee? in her head. She fell to thl floor, and Pouch then shot Mrs. Harris before she realized what had happened. He tired again as she fell, ln»th shots hit* eh Mil. ANTI MRS. II IKKI* ting her in the lead. The murderer started for another room when tin* girl stirred, and. turning, he shot her again in the hea l. Vppnrrntiy convinced that both were de.id. i’onch turned hi* attention to raiding the house, in the hope of finding a large sum of mom y. in tins he I was not e, s-fnl. a* ill he sou id was a | sum that wa* in a j>.«i ketbook in another room. Thi* h< took and threw away the pocket book. He was sera by Neb in M Holt, the hired mini, who bad rr.ived *ulti> cntly to drug himself out of the* manger where he had been thrown with the b.>dv >f I Farm. - H.ir - I • -pc .■ .- • .d. 11 I Il I* V ’»'! t-i 1 ’•I Ik V Li V >«*4 ' * JAAH 4 * '• I 4i N s * ; NL Hod crawied • : .e.- ro..d aud.j dragged himself in the dust to the farm house of Jacob Wagner. I<*O yards away. CHARGES OF BRIBERY. Lreislutor* ot Springfield, Hl. Have a Genuine Sensation. There was a sensation at the Illinois capito! Fr da? morning, the <a-i-. ~f which was the allegation thnt i man supposed to be a member of the House was offered J2.OGU to vote for the Humphrey bills. The person ehnrgetl with making the offer on behalf of the street railway company pmiple is W. C. Garrard, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. The accusation is made by A. 1.. Hamilton of Wes-t Chicago, publisher of the .Journal, a weekiv paper. Mr. Hamilton’s businesa J |. • -S • • TNI A. L. HAMILTON. Who preferred charges of attempted bribery. at Springfield is that of clerk for the committee of which Charles Page Bryan is chairman. According to .Mr. Ilaiuilt ’ <t-i‘oinent.s. Mr. Garrard asked IGinf I i i nncli^fl^ | At it iinilton. who looks like Flanni4an. hanwd > bo silting n the seat of It - ii : 'n i- !■ lannigan when Senator I.andrignu ipproaehed him and said he w nao d • •-. ■ him outside. Mr. Hamilton did no' k ow Senator Candrigan, but got up and follow.-d him. In the corridor S. mu.;- Landrigan introduced Mr. H ari! . 1 ; } "-rar<l as Representative 1-lannigan md turned away. Mr Hami]. 5 ton says he was offered S2.IMM) f t , r | J j s vole, and promised to think' the matter 1 h"? * m V ' :ls s °°" al) over Mouse. Mr. Garrard denies the whole story and brands the statement that he 5 nhrT tm’'”" " ,r a VOt ° f ° r 1 ’' a falsehood. “I never } spoke to Hamilton in my life,” sa id he ‘ an,! lt . s a tiint I ever triwi to solicit a voti lor the Humphrey bills.” Os the Ch ines ; , from quarantine a I Seattle, Wash.. s ; Xiv . ’ six will be deported and fifty allowed to proceed under charge of the .surveyor f ; customs to rm- Nashville exposition.' T! ’', t 1 hiiiese are coolies ami came to this j country as steerage passengers. I'V th< biiiminir of the building of th<> - lias, a \\ m..house Co. at Minneapolis '- 1 I loss ol .S2oO,(X)G was entailed I , 3 . unuorpest has broken out among cattle tn C tpe Colony and it is feared it will sweep over the entire country to the coast.

DEATH'S AWFUL FORM COMES TO IMPRISONED PASSENGERS AT SEA. Sixte rn Die in Flame* on the Mallory Liner Leona-111-Fated Boat Reaches New York Harbor with Her Ghastly Cargo. Cremated on the Sen. Hie Mallory line steamer Beotia, which left her pier at New \ ork on Saturday, bound for Galveston, took tire nt sea, put back and arrived in port Sunday night wirh sixteen corjises on boanl. The dead were thirteen steerage passengers and three meanbers of the crew, who succumbed to a terrible tire which occurred off the Dei a rare capes at an early hour Sunday morning. The horror of the story can hardly be told. Those who are dead were penmai up below decks, and aithongh frantic efforts were made by the officers of the vessel to save them, the fire hud gained such terrible headway before the danger was <li«<-overed that all eaeapc waa cut off. Ttie eteatner carrnal in her cargo many bale* of cotton. When the tire was Mtacovenal it bwr*t forth with such fury th*t it was impossible to r.-neh rhe steerage Tile saloon passengers were first aroused, and in such n manner as to oocasion little alarm. When it became apparent that rhe fire had cut off the steerage the captain and hi* men poured great quantities of water down the ventilator, fund the most frantic effort* were made for the e*.*npe of those penned up In this way nine of the steerage passenger* made their e*c«|Mc 8. V. Winslow, of Rurhorford. N J . a siirxivor, Md the following graphic srtory of the fire: "I irst Mate Wallace was pacing the bridge about 2 a. m , when he thought I that he smelled smoke. He went down ' the forward to the companion war and i Opened rhe door. There wn* a Imrst of flame, which burmsl his f*c< -Wallace cried the a’nmi of fire to the forward watch, telling him to wake the Steward and have a |] s he passengers arouse.! *< quickly ss iseMiib.r, w ithout , creating any excitement. AX arns the Passengers "The steward en d in calm ■ 'n.-a that there was a slight fire in the forward p*rt of the ship, and it might be .advisable for ' the p3-*etiget* g.-- their thing* together. It might be |M.s<d>i<-. he added, that rhe -hip w uhi cvrntu.i y have ■> abandonc.l "There wa* no . x> j.-ment among ' >• • Sasin [Wtsseti gers The stowacl made frequent tnp* forward, tad .-ame ba k with rot-.rt# of the |»r gr. ** of the flam. *. He said that th.- tire u i* . .Mund b.- .w deck*, and, a* the flam.*-* did not n*»- very high, the pn.*.. t.gcr* d i t ■ tally resize the extent of the peril, u iMer at oil. .. »rdwd the rr-w to re—ue th.- . rag ■ pa**, ig.-r* •>n the some d« .'k with riie steerage, on the port aide of the ship, a large quantity of cotton bngghtg was scared, *, ptrat>«i fr- m s’.-enigc pas-s.-sijp :* by ■• • ird parti^YXiie mam dek was a’m-wc etatnpletifiy I "• • I.:- -1. . x.t fl "n rhe stewrag.- t<» th<- af’--r"--t ■ r W T K**" > • re I- 1 I 7r v toH* » © T h.i*e in ‘he >t. rr u f . I -'Fhe crew attempted t.i i- *. •nd They >.re dnv.m bm kb? d. i-mn..- of kruokv and ti im. ■ tC * tl , ,k n dr ! utie* also came up through tiie ventilators, and it wu« nj.parent to a.l who were <>n d<--k that bekyw de« k* was a roaring furnace. “When the -••••ward anm**-d me I jum|H>d up hastily and dr. — .-d. I ran forwanl to *.*• how extensive the tire was. The captain wa- jus: coming o it of the contpanioiixvay after hi* fruiti. — effort to go below. “When 1 h>>k.*d dow n • ili.it horrible hole tiho thought came over me like it had over the captain and th. er- w tint: there were helpless (Hsqde dow u below who were probably burning to de-ath. Stokers Desert Their Posts. “When the new- of the hre reached the lower depths of the ship, where the stokers were feeding the boiler*, they deserted their posts and rushed to the deck, eighteen of them in all. They clamie'red into the second boat on the port side and began mitring it away. First Officer Wallace and <'hief Engin.s-r Taylor were after them in a moment. " 'Get out of that b g:.' thundered Wallace. "The stokers refused to obey and went on cutting away the lashings of the boat. “ ‘Come out of that boat,' re-echoed Tsykir. Then lie reached for his revolver. 'I will sb.tof the man who cuts away the boat.’ “The Spaniards looked at th” chief engineer and then sullenly obeyed. Nine AI ak c Tbeir 1. scape, fl‘’During the excitement f the first ■ flour we did not know that uir ‘ ■often out of the steerage nlivc. but Her j ,e found in the e.i!> n n it i. nc ..t ih. ni lAed manure* 1 tv set out. 'I heir books ha-1 ELau nearest to the • .inpanionivay, and had been awak> : J b;. ulie part of I^rZecrew rushing out of the forecastle. 'MH' fire crept up through cracks about wd^otlot-'house and then into the house Keif. The quartermaster stuck t the Theel until the flames almost enveloped I m. l“Captain Wilder ordered signal lights c 1 distress burned, and in a very few joinutes there flashed tip in the darkness f/.r to the north an answering signal. It chine from the City of Augusta of the Savannah line, which came alongside about daybreak.’' •"The passengers were al! transferred to tile City of Augusta in safety and the wiirk of fighting the tire was continued. About 9 o’clock in the morning the flames wire under control and the steamer out ot dtiiger. The passengers were sent back to-the Leona and the ('ity of Augusta continued on her way to Savannah. 'I he Leona pnt about and re'tirned to port under her own steam.” Sparks from the Wires- ■ The miners' eight-hour bill was defeated in the British commons. The Federation of Labor will aid the Striking tanners of Chicago. Gen. Nelson A. Miles has sailed for Europe to observe the war operations. Stanford Newell of Minnesota was nomInateil by the President as minister to the Netherlands. The budget cunniittee of the German reichstag has autliorized the expenditure of 10,01 ni.OCO marks ro create a reserve ' of field artillery .not mater il.

PRESBYTERIAN MEETING. One Hundredth General Assembly tn Convene nt Engle Lake, Ind. The 109th general assembly of the Pres- ’ byterian Church of the United States will I meet at Eagle Lake, Ind.. May 27. Iti will be the first time the general assembly i has met away from a center of population, I and the experiment will be watched by a !

great many people. I Last year the gener- ' al assembly met at ' Saratoga; the year ' before that it met at Ifetroit. It has gons as far west as Portland. Ore. If the Presbyterians of In- 1 I dinna and surrounding States, and especially the representatives of th.* church identified with the Winona Assembly

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and Summer School, can have their way. Winona, beside the lienutiful little lake, will become the permanent home of the assembly. Thr.s* year* ago the *ehoo! wa* incotl*>rsted. It :* detM.nnnational in the conntriiction of it* G>srd of director*, twothird* of whc.m must In* of Pre*t»yteriaii faith, but other denominations are »<huitfe«|. It la in charge of Prof. .John M. Conifer of the J’n vers'ty of Chicago and .John M Studebaker of South Bend was recently elected president. Four thousand representative* of the church are ex|>eeted to be in attendance ! m tri.r orovm. i j.-lorami m which the .Mseinbly will met in I th* t>ackgrnund dur • g he t,»n days the general assembly ■ w d Is* in session. Th.* auditorium in I wh h the meeting* will be held is erected i ■•' the sos a ciclornma building, and - fun *h»*d with ojera . hairs. It seats :;<•«> {H-r* >n«. and 7*»»» mon* can be crowded into it. Tin* • mm.s*;om*r» of the general as-

j »cmH> are elected • - •■•< am l | “mH .a by .ynX Th. ro an thirty one I»i nm* repr.^ent.*! I in the general .i»n inhly. These nre the j-i : >■: of A f innt i, * ri;.. *ym»l of Balti | more, the »ym»d of j Uahfornm, the *ynod I nt Catawba, the »ynI »*i of < ‘hina. the *yn-

■«! ..! I oh.rad >. the sytl«l of IlhnoTM. the • $ ts.«i »>( India, the ayikxi of Indiana, the *tn«d of Indian territory. the synod of I t . , T- ,-I ..f Kaunas. the symwl of Ken'i k>, The - .>1 of Michigan, the • M . -■ , •(„. , ,f M.m ■ ~„i ~; Nebr id.!, th- ,ynml ‘ ' N* • M X ■ Yo' k ’.- -;. I-....1 » X rt 1» k<>ta. th** «yn«M| of Ohio, die synj i ..f Oregon, the on<»l of I ’enn m d vania, tS mv ■ I of Sooth l»akota. the synod of I', "> • ; h,- -yn-d of Tevis, tin- synod I - i , the sy.4 of Washington and the synod ,f Wisconsin. T: I:K general assembly represented j 224 pr—byteries. 6.942 ministers. 4.55 lie: -oites, 176 io jl evangelists. 1.5n.S can- ( -if 4 I AI.OX'G F.aGLF. I AKE. > didates. 7.573 churches, 27.025 elders, 9,174 deacons and 943,716 communicants. The church has had great growth rhe last year, and it is believed this assembly will show more than one million communicants. There are 43.000 Presbyterians fn Indiana. 05.120 in Illinois. 1*6,461 in Ohio. 30.110 in Michigan and 7.540 in Kentucky. so that the general assembly will meet in th, midst of its friends. FALL AT THEIR POSTS. Fifty Firemen Arc Ovcn-onie in a 1 sere • Blaze in New York, In New York, a deadly tire, attended i with a loss of $500,000, broke out in the ’ basement of the cold storage warehouse, j 161 to 165 Chambers street. One fireI man was killed and fifty others were j felled unconscious by the deadly . lines I of ammonia which assailed them as they j entered the building. The firemen's cry I of danger was heard on the outside and other companies were ordered in to rescue their comrades. These in turn were also overcome until Chief Bonner feared he would lose all of his men. Extra co*ls were sent out for re-enforce- ? ments; sufgeons and ambulances were summoned from the hospitals; engine company 27's house, almost directly opposite the blazing building, was turned into an emergency liospital and as fast as the unfortunate tHen could be located and dragged out into the open air they were carried to holism of temporary relief and properly eared Sbr. Notes of Current Events. John Russell Young of Philadelphia s sasd to be slated as minister to Spain. President McKinley Saturday receiv -,! the new Chitbse minister, Wu Ting Fang. Overflows the Juniata river in Penn- ' sylvania hafe caused immense loss to ; growing crops. The notorious Princess Chimay has given up her intention of appearing in public | in European music halls. Spanish land and sea forces have recapturwl the port tff Banes, held for about a month- by the insurgents.

RECORD OF THE WEEK ^INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. : Historic Apple Tree Still Hale nn<l Hearty—Site* for Divorce on Her Golden-Wedding Day—Robbers Despoil a Railroad Ticket Office. Apple Tree with a History. Mrs. Sarah Kincaid, living near Neff's Corner, is the owner of the oldest fruit tree in Rush County: in fact, the oldest | tree of any kind in the county planted by i human hand of which there is a ris-onl. The apple is a greening, and is a seedling. | It was planted in IMI7 by some of th« ancestors of Mrs. Kincaid. They were pushing through this Kts-tion from Kentucky and camped on this spot. The tree is n<»w eighty years old. It is now almost ten feet in circumference at the base and fs over fifty feet high. It shades sufficient ground in summertime for a colored caxnp meeting The tree ha- never once failed i to tasar n crop of nppb s since it first bore fntit. In the day* of alavery agitation I several ytolifical meetings were held in ' this apple grove and under this patriarchial apple free. It is said that meeting^* of the Knights of the Golden Circle were also held there during the war. Thoma* Bright, n farm laborer, committed stricide by hanging himself to the branches of this old tree. The family intends to let the tree stand as long as nature wills it should. Masked Men Rob a Railway Station. Night <hs rator .lames McDonough, at Grangers, w«s held up by three masked men Sunday morning about 1 o'clock. < hie of the robbers held the operator and two waiting passengers, at tile point of a revolver, while the other two drilled th»» safe and blew it open, securing $75, but overlooked SH4. which they scattered on the floor with other papers. They then marched the ojs-raror and passengers to a box car and locked them in. The robbers ha<i stolen a hand car from Mishawaka • •il which they returned about half way back to Mishawaka at a road crossing, where a team was waiting, thus making i their escape. This is similar to a hold-up at Mishawaka about three weeks ago, when they s. cured alwiut sl<> from the operator and locked him in a car. Strnnge Marital Anniversary. Mrs. Katherine Cronan, of Crawfonisvilie, celebrated her golden wedding anniversary by tiling suit for divorce against her husband. Cornelius Cronan, to whom -lie was married fifty years ago in En,:land. The isnnplaint was drawn up by h>r lawyer in March, but was by her orders withheld until the fiftieth anniversary of the w'sMing. She alleges that lut husband impris*>m*l her for two days in a dark closet without food iu an en- «!< ivor to force her to deed him an interest in her tine farm. Cronan had deeded the farm to his wife several years ago, wh.-n he tea-cd certain judgments, and when he wa* clear of them his wife refused to let go the property. All Over the State. ‘ Two hundred sports eluded the sheriff ' and his deputies Tuesday night and held i prize tight :u the Forest Hill United Brs -hron chur hyard. twelve miles sonth- ■ •• Mme e. ( hnreh peoph- are in- • ci:-< i i: d have succeeded in having a -P- i' -sb.n of the grand jury to investigate. Li:/ iPe'b. • little daughter of Gen. and Mr.-. H irri- m. was christened at Ind i: ap'd:- Saturday afternoon by Rev. M. 1.. Haim -. pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, in the parlor of the Harrison home, where Guititiful lilies ami palms were arranged on the mantel and table-. A few of the neighbor- and friend- of (lea. and Mrs. Harrison were present. 1 At the conference of State Gas Superi visor Leach and gasmen from different ' parts of the State with Gov. Mount and Attorney General Ketcham, the men were advised that the State had no authority to bring an injunction suit against the oil men who are wasting gas by blowing out 1 the wells, but that the men could be pros- , ecuted under the statute making it a fina- * ble offense to waste the gas. The poisoning of Clarke Moore’s family , at Brazil Sunday is assuming a serious i aspect. It was thought to have been the : result of eating greens, and little was ' । thought of the matter. Tuesday, how ' j evpr. Cycles Moore, 18 years age. waa, । taken ill ami is now in a* critieaf cojidJ; | tion. The physicians declare waj p^L J soned by arsenip* The members of the ' ‘ family arg gregtly edited, as they believe ’ j some one is' Endeavoring to till the family. At Fort Wayne, Sheriff Melching Mon- । day arrested Frank Stone, Bill Stone. Jim Knight, <). S. Bricker. Frank Martin and j Al Vandine, an alleged gang of traveling burglars. They are said to have worked Huntington, Wells. Grant and Allen counties in Indiana, stealing harness, -nioked nic.it. grain and poultry from l-'rank Si one anti Klenn'n^ were arrpsipil wirh rlieir wagron. whi^-h eon rain- J ,m| 2<m> pounds of poultry taken from vanms farms between Huntington and Fort * Wayne. i The Valparaiso City Council recently passed a dog ordinance, which provided for tagging each dog at a cost of 73 cents. Tin* people paid little attention to the i ordinance and the Mayor offered a reward of 25 cents for the capture of each untagged dog. The small boy began work and the city calaboose was soon tilled. None ■ of the animals was claimed and the May- : or ordered the dogs put to death, but none of the police would shoot them. The Mayor then tried to kill them with poison, but ilt failed to work. He then offered to pay 25 cents a head to anyone who would kill : them, but found no takers, ami Tuesday night lie start cl himself with a wagon । load to rhe country and. with the aid of a shotgun, suceecled in killing ten. the rest escaping. The dog question is the sole topic in town, and many- condemn the , Mayor's action, but he says he will enforce 'he onfinance if lie has to do all the killing. Miners at Brazil have rejected the (k)cent oiler made by block coal operators. : The bid will probably be raised to G1 cents, and this will be accepted. Many incorporate! towns throughout ' ; :<■ State held elections Monday for trustee*. clerks and other minor offices. The State central committees exercised no supi ervision over the canvasses, which were largely dependent upon local issues, such J is purchase of water ami electric plants i street improvements, etc. Wherever party lines were drawn, however, there s a j large falling off in the Republican vote as ' xompaiN’d with the returns last fall

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