St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 44, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 May 1897 — Page 7

SU KTSSnaEEtxJI Best Varieties of Fqnashes. The old Hubbard squash is the standby with farmers and market gardeners, says the American Agriculturist. Nine-tenths of the late fall and winter squashes found In the markets are Hubbards, and other than summer squashes there are probably more Hub bards planted than all other sorts combined. For the farmer’s garden, however, there are other varieties that will give nearly as good satisfaction and .should be tried in a small way. The Boston Marrow is more prolific and is tfe WHITE SUMMER CKOOKNECK SQUASH, an excellent autumn sort, but will not -keep well after Christmas. Essex Hy’brid is a good soil and of fine quality, but not of desirable shape for market. The Deo Wing and Fordhook are squashes of recent introduction. For the home gardener the new White Summer Crookneck is worthy of a trial. It averages a little larger than the old Crookneck, which it resembles in shape, as seen in the accompanying engraving, but its skin is of a beautiful ivory white color, and its quality is not excelled by any other summer squash. Care of Implements, Take care of the farm Implements and machinery. It would seem that no warning is necessary on this point, but it would surprise the general reader if he were traveling over the country to note the evidences of carelessness that are so often seen. The provident and painstaking farmer has a place for his implements where he sees to it that they are housed and properly cared for when they are no longer required In the cultivation of the crops. His improvident neighbor sometimes leaves bls implements where they are used last or about his premises, without shelter. Even his harvester or mowing machine is left in the field long after it has been used, subjected to all kinds of weather and inevitable injury. The cost of impairs is necessarily increased under such inexcusable neglect, and the period when a new machine will be necessary is much shortened. The care of tolls is an important factor in farm economy, and a word in season, while not necessary for the provident man, may be serviceable to such as are too remiss in this direction. Feeding the CTl'cke. The cut shows a simple contrivance to cover a feed dish for young chickens. Simply attach a handle to an old box or basket and make entrance boles • a 1 • * z n & 9 0 Aww FEEDER FOR YOUNG CHICKS. of a diameter sufficient to permit the young chickens to enter. First remove the bottom of the box >t basket The , object of this feed cover is to protect । the food of young chicken s from the ! older ones. It costs but a trifle and will | be found very useful, especially when ’ feeding the young on food purposely i prepared for them. Flace the food in a j dish or trough and set the- feeder over ! it F irm and Home. Seed Corn. Experiment shows that the special characteristics of a particular ear of corn will be reproduced in seed planted from that ear. The farmer can generally find in his corn crib almost every shape of ear and size of grain imaginable. If he is wise he will make a careful selection at planting time, choosing only the best-formed specimens. The development following a few years of systematic selection will prove surprising. Some of the finest varieties extant have been produced In this way. Educating the Farmer. There is a great talk at all of the institutes and farmers' meetings about educating the farmer in the arts and sciences. Education in these lines is not to be despised, but a greater need of the farmer at this time is education in business principles and business methods, and to have his eyes trained to see values in little things. He needs, too, to have more confidence in his

neighbors and others of his own calling, and less faith In the promises ot agents; trust more in those with whom he comes In contact, and less to those whom he knows only from their letterheads. Fencinu Farms. A farm should be divided into as few fields as possible. It is not necessary to have more than two fenced fields; and these fields should be used only for pasture, alternately. One year two crops of hay should be cut. ami the next year it should be used for pasture. If possible have these pasture fields close to the barn, so that the stock can be turned out day and night. Where land is worth $75 to $l5O per acre, it does not pay to pasture. It Is more economical to grow soiling crops and feed the stock in the stable, having not more than five or ten acres for the stock to exercise in and graze over. The outside fence should be made of four strands of ribbon wire, setting the posts twenty feet apart and thirty inches deep in the ground. A fence of this kind can be cheaply built, as the posts can be obtained from the woods; and if they have to be bought, they can be had for eight cents each undressed, delivered on the place. Some farmers set the posts fort^feet apart, driving down stout oak stakes to fasten the wire upon every ten feet. If the work is well done it will last for some ten years, when a now sot of stakes must be i>ut down. The Shepherd. The sheep in an animal that must be kindly treated. The small flock of sheep well cared for will bring more net profit than the big Hock half caret! for. If early lambs are expected, lie sure and have a place prepared not calculated to make them sorry they came. The farmer who takes up the sheep business with the idea that the outside of the animal Is worth more than the inside—the wool more than the carcass —gets hold of the wrong end of the dilemma. It’s mutton first, and wool afterward.—Alpha. One bushel of shelled corn or wheat to every 100 head of sheep per day Is about right. Oats are excellent feed, and Kaffir corn would be excellent. Do not make their feed-troughs V-shaped, as they will scoop up the shelled corn too rapidly. Here is a point that seems unimportant, but It represents many dollars a year difference. A Cloil Crusher. The clod crusher shown here is useful both for crushing lumpy soil and for rolling and smoothing the land at the same time. Three logs as even In size and as round and true as possible arc fastened Inside a framework by round spikes driven through the sldepices into the logs so that the latter can turn freely. Where the large, carefully made land roller is not at hand, this ■w *" HOMEMADE CLOD < RUSHER, quickly made substitute will serve a very good purpose. It can be weighted if necessary.—Orange Judd Farmer. Keeping Milk. Milk is sure to absorb any odors with which it is brought in contact. Cream and butter, having a greater proportion of fats, absorb odors even more quickly than milk. This fact emphasizes the necessity of keeping both milk, cream and butter out of reach of foul odors of any kind. This can hardly be done while the milk is kept where the odor of cooking vegetables of all kinds can reach It. Almost any kind of odor from cooking, when combined with butter fats, soon becomes exceedingly offensive, as in the fat the character of the odor is greatly changed. S praying. Spraying has a tendency to heighten the color of red apples and to give a blush to the light skinned sorts. This is due largely to the effect upon the foliage. It must be considered that the foliage is the lung of the tree, and without good, healthy foliage we cannot reasonably expect bright, healthy looking fruit. When the foliage is healthy, the apples will hang longer on the trees, giving them more time to mature, so as to bring them to the highest state of perfection.—Montana Fruit Grower. Dairying in Russia Following is a desorlption of the manner ot’ dairying In Russia. Our I readers will doubtless prefer the home 1 method, Those who reUdo near cities I produce some poor butter and some | milk for sale, but those living remote । from market iirodu.ee no more than i they can consume The cows are fed i in winter on coarse food, such as oat, I barley anti rye straw. In summer they , give but little milk, twelve to fourteen | pounds per day at most. The milking is -done by striping with thumb and linger. The milk is set in cellars in earthen crocks, which are so porous that they are very hard to clean, and the milk sours very quickly. To avoid this difficulty some of the peasants keep a number of small frogs in their cellars for the purpose of putting in ‘ their milk, their idea being that these ' cold creatures take the heat out of their milk, and they put them in to keep it sweet longer. The cream is dipped off with wooden spoons and ’ churned in an earthen pot by stirring - with a stick, and the butter is worked with the hands. > I Jupiter performs its journey round i the sun in a period of eleven years, ten s and one-third mouths. Its average rate 1 of travel Is a trifle over eight miles a , second, less than one-half of the earth's » rate—eighteen miles a second.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL I THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CAtXI REFLECTION. A Pleanant, Interesting, and Instruct-; ive Lesson, and Where It May Be. Found—A Learned and Concise Re- । view of the Same. Lesson for May 23. The Conference at Jerusalem.—Acts 15: 1-6, 22-29. Golden Text.—“ Through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they."—Acts 15: 11. Returning from their first missionary journey late in the year 47. Paul and Barnabas spent some two years with t’he disciples in Antioch (Acts 14: 28). Then there arose a difficulty in the church at Jerusalem which threatened to rauw serious trouble, but was amicably settled by the conference or council which forms the! subject of thjs lesson. The decision arrived at did much to Iw-gin the long process of broadening the views of Jewish Christians, though it by no means put an end at once to the disagreement, as isl shown by the conduct of Peter afterwards I at Antioch, and b,v the teachings of the I Jews who folioutal Paul on his journeys,! misleading the Galatians ami other! churches by their words. The importance® of this crisis in tile history of the eburehjj cannot be too strongly emphasized. Had® it not been for the liberal tendency veprefl wnted by Paul following, of course, th^ liberality of Jesus himself the chureK would have been but a branch of the ish religion, and. so far as we can see, could hardly have survived the great shock that came witli the fall of Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jews; or, nt any rate, could never have spread much beyond the Mediterranean <-oasts. in studying the lesson, Acts 15: 1-35 sJmnld be read, ami also Galatians 2: 1-10, th? latter being the passage in which Pau? speaks of his visits to Jerusalem with the’ purpose of proving that he did not re-j ceive his gospel from the apostli-s there nor imlnsl from any men. but from ChrUM The matter of harmonizing the nceountH. in Acts and in Galatians is referred to below. Ex plnnntory. “Certain men which came down from Jndoa": several thing* are to be inferred I from this phrase. Judea, ami especially J Jerusalem, was still the center of the Christian churches, .ami false teachers from there would be especially influential. It was also the center of the strictest form <>f Judnistie Christianity, Notwithstanding the years Which had elapsed since the first preaching of the gospel to Gentiles, the sentiment at Jerusalem remained Htnmgli against the admiesion of Gentile convert* t » equal rights with Jcwish convert* unless they submitted to the requirements of Judaism, that is. became proselytes. Paul speaks strongly of these persons, who were not content to hold I these views themselves, but attempted to force them on » church situated in entire- I ly different surrounding* ami with differ- I ent needs, he viuls them "false brethren, I who come in privily to spy out our IIK- I erty which we have in Christ J<*us. thtsr they might bring us :nto bondage." (Gas I 2: It There s»-em to have been ''W-I clussi s. it not two parti*Cm .Tcrnsa em church itself, one * xtreme. the other m-lj i ernte Jnim-s. Peter and John !>elonc:|M to th** latter. It Iva* probabij the few mer that businl itself with hunting oil • heresy in ueighlntring cities and sent met to Ant)o*-h to umlermine Paul's work under pretense of holy zea*. It can easily be imagined liow such preaching at Antioch would eatiM' infinite trouble for Paul and Barnabas. Evidently not only th*' Antl -ch ehun'h, ' but those further south, befw**-n Antioch ami Judea, were altogether in sympathy with the liberal ('hnstianity tor which Paul stood. “They were r*’«vivi-d of the church, amt *>f the a|»>sths ami elders”: this is as good a pho a* any to Inquire just when this * t . Jenisah-m occurred ami how it is to be o'liim t**l with the | aeiamnt in (lai. 2: I 10. This is not a simple questioi . ami into its ib-taiis it will 1 not l*e protitab *• to enter in class, but the ■ teacher slumid be familiar with the ground, in order not to be caught napping by some quick u itti d pupil, if for no oth- ; er reason. For a full discussion see Conybeiire and Howson's note, Ramsay and other books on l'aul. The teacher may study this our for hinw'lf by comparing accounts. But it is fairly safe to say that the account in Galatians refers to this lesson, and that the apparent differences are not really contradictions. If so, the date is fifty. The s[s»eches of Peter and James, or rather the abstracts of tiheir speeches, should be read, especially by the older pupils. Peter's attitude is liberal; he refers to his experience at the time of the conversion of (’ornclius. ami deprecates any retiinn to the old bigoted ideas. Janies relies on the scriptural argument for the salvation of the Gentiles. These ttvo lines of prmjf. together witli the living proof afforded by Paul’s numerous verts, sufficed to convince the mem'ly® of tQw conference that Paul was rigF^ They aciavnlingly drew up a forhi of tor to the clin-<-b< - which had been turbi d to the erroneous teaching at Vntiocb ami in Syria and < 'ilicia^M^ '• body na their .uws f the matter. ^Bus is contained in verses 23-21 •. It shopl'l be carefully n ited that the decision was not a coniprondse in which each side conceded something. V< rse 2’.» might seem to indicate th it the .ludaizers really seeured part of their purpose in requiring * "util*' cimve -ts to obsi rve certain provisions cd Ji wish ceremonial law, abstaining from the eating of meats offered to idols, from blood, and from the flesh of animals strangled, as well as from the sin of fornication. But as a matter of tact these requirements were, under the (•ircumstanees a desirable if not necessary' means (l s keeping (’hristians from the suspicion of falling back into paganism.' It was a safeguard against that rather than a concession t > .Judaism. Next Lesson— “Christian Faith Leads to Good Works." Jas. 2: 1 1-23. Rev. Washington Gladden, D, T\ of Columbus, Ohio, defended tn a. recent sermon Dr. Lyman Abbott tigainst criticisms made on him becanst' of id s spr . mons on the Bible. Dr. Gladden declared that Dr. Abbott had stated the positions generally held by Biblical scholars and deserved the thanks of believers in the Bible for so doing. It is expeett'd that at the next Papal consis-tory four cardinals will be creI ated three I fetich and one Spanish.

HON. A. P. EDGEBTON. His sudden death at Hicksville, OHIO. • ^ivtinKUiahed in ull that Makea Men Great* thia Citizen* thia Statesman was Called to His Lour Home —Brief History of Hie Eventful Life. A Great Man Gone. Hon. Alfred P. Edgerton, formerly of Fort Wayne, Ind., ex-Congressman and formerly a member of the National Civil Service Commission, to which he was appointed by President Cleveland in his first term, died at his residence in Hicksville, Ohio. He underwent a surgical operation some time ago, but had apparently recovered. His death was not expected. The Hon. Alfred P. Edgerton, a notable citizen of Fort Wayne, who has been prominent in the political history of Indiana and Ohio, was born at Plattsburg, Clinton County, N. Y., January 11, 1813, the eldest son of Bela and Phoebe (Keteiium) Edgerton, who were married I* —J A- ?. . •A a iIImI ALFRED P. EDGERTON. at Plattsburg March 21, Fil. Mr. Edgerton, after graduating from the Plattsburg academy, removed to Ohio in the spring of 1887. In 1815 he was elected to the Ohio State Senate from a large territory which embraced marly ten of the present northwestern counties. He immediately took an active part on the side of the Democratic minority, and showed himself a master of the important financial questions which were the subject of discussion in the ."enato by the ablest men of the State. Becoming prominent by a debate with the \\ big leader, he was uientioneii as a candidate for the Governorship of the State, amt lie was alluded to by a leading Dem >cratlc journal as "an able ami t denied statesman, while faithfully adhering to sound Democratic princh les, his unimpcnched private character, high sense of honor and sterling integrity i as a gentleman, have commimb'l the res|H'cl of the most bitter opponents.’’ So | even slid consistent has tx'en the long । career of Mr. E Igert.m that Hus early exi piessmu regarding him, may still Le I truthfully qno'e«l a* an estimate of his ! character. In l*v>, du : a br. Ii ,nt c ir.-r ! in lli*' .Mgic Senate, h*' «,n cU-ctt-*l to the I’nilcd States House of Ib-prescntatnes, an I tc-. le* td in |s,vj. He u as second mi the important committee of ( lalmsdurmg his first term and Chairman of that committew on his second term. On the floor his arguments commanded the respectful attentiou ot his assoeiafi's. From 1853 to 1850 he held the important position of Financial Agent of the State of Ohio at New York. In 1850 he was chairman of t e committee on organisation of the D'mocratic National Convention held at Cincinnati, and fUt sequently he was one i i <i committee selected by the Legislature <>l the stale of Ohio to investigate the frauds upon the State Treasury. In 1857 Mr. Edgerton lemoned to Fort Wayne, but retained his citizenship in Ohio until i 1832. He became lessee of the Indiana I cmal, associated with Hugh McCulloch and Pliny Hoagland, in 1859, and held the position of general manager of the divisio i from the State l.ne to Terre Haute until 1868. In January, 186,8, he was nominated by the Indiana Democratic State Convention for Lieutenant Governor, Thomas A. Hendricks bung at tbebead of the State ticket, which was defeated, it will l>e remembered, by 861 votes. Other I olltical positions he tilled prior to the alter date were those of delegate to the Baltimore convention of 1848 and the Chicago convention of 1861, Lut sines 1868 he lias not taken an active part in politics. In 1872 he was tendered the nomination for Governor of Indiana by the O’Connor Democrats, lut declined to endorse that movement. He was lor many years a member of the School Board of Fort Wayne, and resigned that position to accept the appointment of Civil Service Commissiom r temb'n d him by President Cleveland. Th.> oflie •he held uflYil 18'8 l'he latter position, like all others, was tilled by him in a manner satisfactory to his party, and bis constituents, with whom lie has always been popular. In private life Mr. Edgerton was an accomplished and genial gentleman, and was neld in high esteem by the whole people. ALL SORTS. The word mob is a Latin word signifying movable. It is easy to undertake, but more difficult to finish a thing. Silence is the wit of fools, nnd one of the virtues of the wise. The man who has a strong will Is often strong iu nothing else. The man who controls himself, may i hope to reform other men. Milton was blind in old age, and often lacked the comforts of life. Cream of tartar should alw r ays be mixed witli flour, soda with milk. South Dakota has produced $50,923,■ G 27 of gold and $1,051,824 of silver. Fetor the Great was half crazy most of his life through drink and rage. How doth the little busybody improve each trifling rumor!—Loudon Truth. A mine In Idaho recently shipped out three bars of bullion valued at SS,BOO. The man who is afraid to be unpopular causes nc devils to tremble.—Anon

G. A. R. AT RICHMOND. , ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT OF INDIANA DEPARTMENT. । Soaking Hailstorm Mara the Pleaaura of the First Day-Gov. Mount and [ Staff of Forty Particijiate —J. 8. Dodge of Elkhart Chosen Commander Veterans in Reunion. • Richmond was crowded with the Grund I Army boys in attendance upon the eightl eenth annual encampment. They took ■ the town, and nothing was too good for i the visitors, 'l'he headquarters train ar- . rived Tuesday afternoon from Indianapo- , lis, and was met at tiie depot by the members of Sol Meredith Post. The plentiful decoration of bunting re- ' ceived a soaking, and much of it looked । i badly “frazzled." Everything was thori oughly soaked, and the whole was a great i disappointment to the people of the city, i wdio had set their hearts on outdoing any ' ; city in the State that had ever entertain- [ ed the encampment. The rain also caused trouble at the depot, where the people who came in were compelled to stand and wait until they could be cared for. This resulted in a jam, but the reception anq transportation committees did their work well, and the depot was emptied soon after the trains had pulled out. The official program began Tuesday evening witfii a meeting of the council of administration. At the FytTnan TempTet*he Ladies of the G. A. R. had some de- । gree work. This was previous to a pub- ) lie reception given at the Westcott by the J local members of the W. R. 0. and the Ladies of the G. A. R. There was no program carried out at this event, but it I was simply for the renewing of old acquaintances and the making of new ones. At fihe Phillips Opera House, George H. i Thomas Post of Indianapolis conferred ■ degrees on a Richmond candidate. This was witnessed by a largo number of mcmj bers of the organization, visitors from i various parts of the State being especially anxious to see it on account of the repuI tation the post has for excellent work. । The department officers of the W. R. C. and the Ladies of the G. A. R. arrived Tuesday and were received in good style. The Indies of the Grand Army were conspicuous in the best room in the Westcott. They arc small in numbers, but they are always to the front. Major Clarkson, connnander-in-chlof, arrived from Cincinnati and attended tho reception. The reception was a great success. The hotel was thronged with people for two hours. Short speech,-s were to have been made by Gen. Wallace and Commander-in-Chics Clarkson, but there was no opportunity. Tho attendance was ! unusually large, thanks to Col. Ford of the Pennsylvania for the one-cent-a-milo rate. Tlie business session of the encampment , began Wednesday morning. Fully 10.000 people were in attendance. In connection with this meeting was held also the fourteeuth annual convention of the Wirtnan’s Relief Corps, the fourth convention of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Repubj lie. and the annual meeting of the Ix>yal Ijcgion. At the business session of the Grand Army an address of welcome was made by Mayor J. S. (Mrnnder and a resjiouse by Gen. Lew Wallace. Commandr H. M. Caylor presentcl his annual ad* ii ’ *. and reports submitted by the assistant adjutant general show the active membership to be There were ■ 3»h> deaths during the year and six more posts disl>anded than were formed. Major T. S. ('larkson of Omaha, comniander-in-i chief, wus present and made a brief address. Columbus s*4-’ired the encampment for 189$. The parade occurred in the afternoon. I and was one of the finest in the history of i the department. Gov. Mount and his ' stnfY of forty numbers partici [Kited. In : the evening four camp fires were held, at . which the chief speakers were Gen. Walia. •*■ and Gov. Mount. j The encampment came to an end Th.ursI day. The most important matter was the election of officers, which resulted: Grand Army Commander, J. S. Dodge, Elkhart; senior vice, John W. Tingle, Richmond; junior vice, J. D. White, Lafayette; chaplain. Rev. A. Murphy, Greensburg; medical director, F. W. Warfowl, Cicero; delegate-at-large, Gen. Lew Wallace. Woman’s Relief Corps—President, Mrs. Mary Travis, Crawfordsville; senior vice, Mrs. Mary Swain, Richmond; junior vice, Mary Edwards, Shelbyville; chaplain, Mrs. Rachel Kenyon, Westfield; treasurer, Jennie Hutchinson, Crawfordsville; secretary, Blanche Gould, Crawfordsville; counselor, Mrs. Mary Sims, Frankfort; instituting and installing officer, Alice j Waugh, Tipton; delegate-at-large, Kate i Stormont, Princeton. Ladies of the G. A. IL—President, Mrs. I Con Graves. Lafayette; senior vice, Lucy j Coleman, Elkhart; junior vice, Mary Newman, Richmond; treasurer, Mrs. j Mary Frary, Warsaw; counselor, Mrs. I Ena Tol>y, laxgansport. I Loyal Legion ('ommander, Gen. Low I Wallace, Crawfordsville; senior vice, Will Gum-back, Greensburg; junior vice, <'. K. Briant, Huntington; recorder, Col. Z. A. Smith, Indianapolis; treasurer, Horace McKay, Indianapolis; chaplain, Rt. Rev. William Corbe, Notre Dame; chancellor, Elder Cooper, Evansville; registrar, John E. Clelland, Indianapolis. In the Grand Army a report was made condemning Montgomery’s school history on account of alleged inaccuracies regarding the civil war and demanding that the State Board of Education reject it. The Ladies of the G. A. R. voted against consolidation with the AV. R. C. The State encampment is the event of the year in the life of hundreds of old soldiers. For weeks they talk of it and take the earliest train to the city where the

! meeting is held. This year was no exeepI tion, or, if an exception, it is that the ini terest was greater. The streets wore early thronged with hundreds of old men wearing some military emblem, but always the badge or button of the G. A. IL At Fort Wayne, Superintendent of Police Gorsline arrested Carl Bauer, alias Louis Bysel, on the charge of forgery and embezsdement. He is wanted at Toronto, Canada, for raising $5 checks to SSOO. The affidavits are made by the Bank of Hamilton and the Imperial Bank of Canada. Bauer has been a policy gambler in Detroit, Grand Rapids and Fort Wayne for the last two years. He was taken ill at Fort Wayne and removed to the hospital. His wife was called by telegram from Detroit and his true name was learn, cd. Bauer confessed.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD of events of the PAST WEEK. Old Man Loaes $2,000 After a Visit from Hlh Children—J ary Acquits a Mun Who Was Traced by Doge—Garrett Makes the Hoboes Huatle. Found His Hoard Gone. An old man named Haverlin of Prairie Creek township has re[a>rted to the Terre Haute [>oliee that he lias been robbed of $2,(M10. 3’wo of the old man’s children by his first wife came to visit their father recently and, during their stay, are alleged to have tried to prejudice him against Mrs. Elliott, who is a daughter of his second wife. They are said to have persuaded him to tell them where he kept his money and how much there was of it, so that they would know just where to look for it in case he diiKi' suddenly, or in any other emergency. Haverlin told them where his cash was hoarded in the garden. Shortly afterward his children returned home and he was taken ill. When he got out into the garden he found his money gone and he was almost crazed. He has been dangerously sick ever since. It may have been that someone overheard him when he divulged the secret, as the children deny all knowhnlge of the disappearance «»f the money. Doesn’t Believe la Bloodhounds. The first case ever tried in court Kentland, where the testimony of bloodhounds was used, has been brought to an end by the jury returning a verdict acquitting the defendant. The home of George Met'-arn of Goodland was entered Friday night and S2O stolon. The only clew the thief left was his footprint on the freshly painted floor. The Chalmers bloodhounds were put on the scent Saturday evening and never left it until they had trailed a man to a patch of undergrowth three miles from Reynolds, a distame of twenty-seven miles from Goodhind. In the Circuit Court the defendant proved a clear alibi by the testimony of four farmers, who swore they had given the prisoner meals, including supper, at l>:30 p. m., on the day of the theft, four miles north of Reynolds, or a distance of thirty-four miles from the scene of the robbery. The owner of tho hounds declares there can be no mistake, but tho jury acquitted the man without leaving the box. Drives Out a Gana of Tramps, A big raid was ex-peett'd in Garrett from a party of tramps who have been running that section for a few days, doing much damage in the way of robbery in South Bend, Laporte and Kendallville. Chief of Police J. J. Schreiner was notified of the expected raid and immediately called out ten extra deputies and with their efforts succeeded in driving 124 from the city during the night. It is thought they are waiting in a nearby woods and another raid is expected. All Over the State. Jolin Strandelman of Tiosa was kicked and instantly killed by a horse. John Bortsfield, n rich fanner of Selma, has been bunkoed out of SBOO on a pat•nt fence swindle. At La Grange tho 7-year-old daughter of Frank Leard was fatally burned while playing near a bonfire. Mrs. George Long. living near Nappanee, was fatally burned while working over an open fireplace. l’he trial of John Pinkerton, of St. Joseph County, has been taken to La Porte on a change of venue. The plea of selfdefense will be advanced. John Black of Muncie went to visit hia son, Isaac, in Henry County. The elder man had been blind for several years. One day his eyesight returned, and for two days he could see as well as ever, but he is again as blind as ever. George Harold, the original boy tramp who left his home at St. Louis over nine years ago, was in Decatur Saturday. Young Harold left his home on a wager of $5,000 that he could walk 6,500 miles and earn $5,000 in ten years. When he reached Decatur he lacked but two months and nineteen days of walking the (>,500 miles and had raised $4,603. He said he would easily finish the trip, and collect the balance of the money in a few days’ less time than allotted him. C. F. Moore, who is alleged to have defrauded banks and building and loan associations of thirty different cities of the United States out of $50,000 in the last three years, entered a plea of guilty to the charge of forgery at Fort Wayne. Judge O'Rourke sentenced him to Michigan City for a term of two to fourteen years. The length of the sentence is optional with the Indiana board of prison reform. Moore was arrested two months ago at Jamestown, N. Y'. Dawson E. Barnes, one of the leading physicians of Indianapolis, went violently mad Wednesday. Last October he had .in attack of melancholia, and his brother, Dr. Uarl Barnes, was called from Chicago. Dr. Dawson Barnes was placed hr a sanitarium, where he aiu'arently recovered his health. He was brought home in December and has been living with his family since. AVednesday he became insane, and it required six men to overcome him. His legs were fastened with a strap, but the madman was so powerful that he snapped this easily. Finally he was handcuffed and taken to the police station. 'The trustees of De Pauw University find that no more revenue can be secured from the De Pauxv estate until its final settlement, which may not be for several years. Heretofore the institution has’ drawn $15,000 annually. Its expenses are $45.01X1. and unless the deposit can bo met the college will be crippled financially. The trustees have, therefore, decided to look to

the presiding elders of Indiana to raise this amount and a circular will be issued to each one apprising him of the amount ho is expected to personally solicit. In point of attendance the institution was never more prosperous. Alb, rt Cottrell, aged 13, of Youngstown, hanged himself because he was told to do some work which he did not want to do. At Muncie, the C. H. Over & Co. window glass factory was damaged by fire Friday evening. Nearly 3,00() boxes of window glass, in all stages of completion, were destroyed, and the building in this department is a total loss. The factory has been rushed with orders. The over♦ in the burned, part of the factory are bu slightly injured. The loss is fully insured. This factory burned five years ago and took the Hemingway plant with it.