St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 51, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 10 July 1897 — Page 7

THE FARM AND HOME MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Sugar Beet Culture Requires Deep, Flue Soil—Weedy Huy Should Be Cut When in Flower — How to Cure Sprains in Hories. Growing Sugar Beets. Sugar, like the garden variety of, beets require a deep, finely pulverized soil, and dressed in the drill rows with twelve two-horse cartloads of rich, well-rotted manure, made from grainfed cattle. After the seed is sown and the plants are up, the after-cul-ture consists in keeping the ground mellow between the rows, and the best plants are free from weeds. The har-row-tooth cultivator, with the fiat steel weed cutter attached to the rear, is the best implement to work the crop with when the plants are small. It tines and mellows the soil and cuts up the young weeds in the one passage. After the plants grow larger use the horse cultivator, with the narrow teeth first, and afterwards the larger ones. Amateurs ta beet culture should visit some large trucker and see how the work is done. One visit, with a careful inspection of the crops grown, will be worth to any observant farmer at. least fifty dollars In •experience. The beets, after they have reached the fourth hat' and the bulbs are about the size of your thumb, should be thinned out when the soil is moist Sugar beets should be thinned out to stand six Inches apart in the row, and stock beets thinned to eight Inches. In thinning or hoeing the plants, the roots must not be cut, as it will cause them to rot The truckers, in growing the early market beets, use large quantities of liquid manure, running it in between the rows after the ground has been deeply cultivated. In a few days the rows are again run through with the cultivator. Under this double system of manuring the beets grow very rapidly, and are soon readj' for market. In growing beets for feeding to stock, the ground must not be allowed to crust over, or the plants will be covered up with weeds. Beets can be grown and put into the cellar for four cents per bushel. From six hundred to eight, hundred bushels can be grown to the acre under careful culture. —Baltimore American. Curine Weedy Hay. Daisies and w’eeds of like nature make a very good hay for dry cattle and young stock if they are cut in flower. Cut them after the dew is off in the morning, and let them dry out for a day. Rake them up the following da.y, and stack them with alternate layers of straw or old hay. Each load should be salted at the rate of one peck of salt to the load. Make the stack to hold six or eight tons, or twelve twohorse wagon loads of it as gathered. The stack should be run up threefourths of the way, and then left over night to settle. After the stack settles top off with long hay, rake down hard, and then ran two wires over the top and tie down securely. A stack of this fresh hay will smoke for several mornings after it is put up, but if the hay has been well salted and several layers of dry hay put in between the green hay, there will be no danger of combustion. Sprains in Horses. All recent sprains of the joints and tendons are generally best treated by the application of cold water. This is best applied by means of a hose. This should be used frequently, but not for more than five minutes at one time. The horse’s rug should be put on at such a time, or he is liable to take cold. If the horse shows symptoms of much pain, it may be necessary to foment the part; that is, apply warm water Instead of cold. This will ease the pain, but will probably increase the swelling, and the reduction, afterwards, of this swelling will retard recovery. The inflammatory processes at the seat of the lesion mean increased blood supply to the part, and consequent effusion into the surrounding tissues. Thus, with a sprain, we always get more or less “thickening,” and the getting rid of this “thickening” is often more troublesome than relieving the actual pain. Thi application of cold water by constring. Ing the blood vessels has the effect of lessening the amount of blood which would otherwise be conveyed to the part, and so result in less effusion and swelling. After applying the cold water, a woolen bandage should be bound fairly tight round the affected part, - preferably interposing a layer of cot- / ton. wool between limb and bandage. / Should the animal show symptoms of being Ln much pain, remove the bandage at on®, for it is then probably i pressing too hard on the injured part. The bandage, however, must not be left off, but replaced. Bandages in sprains, other than in those of the limbs from the foot to the trunk, are out of the question.—Saddlery’ and Harness. ITo Increase the Milk. To make a large quantity of rich milk, the cows must be full fed. Where j the milk, cream or butter can be sold at good p<ees it will pay to feed grain. The following ration can be given to each cow daily all through the summer: Seven quarts of bran and one quart of corn chop, divided into two feeds. Onehalf is fed in the morning and the other half at night. The bran is made into a thick slop and seasoned with a little salt. The cows are at pasture day and night. When the pasture gets short, the cows are given a large rackful at night of oats and peas or corn fodder, after they have eaten up their slop. By this system of feeding the cows will average twenty-eight to thirty pounds of milk per day, which is wholesaled at 2 cents per pound. The bran makes an abundance of good, wholesome milk,

keeps the cow in condition, and it also makes a very rich manure. These droppings are scattered over the pasture once each week. Cats and Poultry. When there are oiMisional disappearances of young chickens, especially’ at ’night, it. Is most likely that the family cat will prove to be the thief. Cats are treacherous animals, ami cannot be depended uj>on. The same cat that during the day will allow little chickens to eat from the same dish will also at night kill and eat the chickens with as hearty a relish as their owner would ’ them when cocked. But the lack moral sense may be partially supplied if the slightest interference with poultry by the eat secures for her the chastisement she needs. If this is done while they’ are young, the cat may be taught to discriminate between birds which equally with mice are her natural prey, and young chickens. Poultrymen who have an admixture of game blood in their fowls do not need to give their cats any lessons to let young chicks alone. If the mother hen cannot fight off the intruder on her brood, her call will quickly bring to her assistance the game rooster, who finds in such scrimmages just the kind of excitement he wants. Friinins: Young Pear Tree*. Much depends on how a beginning is made in pruning pear trees. It is for this reason best to take them at not more than two years from the bud, ami If a very’ dwarf habit is desired a one-year stock from the graft is better. The thing to most persistently tight, either in dwarfs or standards, is. the tendency of the central shoot to take most of the sap. This means large wood growth and little fruiting. On the other hand, a little pinching back of those shoots that grow too fast, which will always tie rtie uppermost, will send the sap to branches lower down, and these will fill with fruit spurs and begin to bear the following year. The pear tree does not need high manuring. Give it plenty of mineral fertilizers, and any ground that will grow good grain or corn crops will be found fertile enough. Bottom Heat for Planting. The difficulty with early spring planting is always because the soil is too cold. This causes the seed to germinate too slowly. But so soon as the seed begins to sprout warmth is generated by the act. Carbonic add gas is developed. and this aids in making the soil warmer. Hence the advantage of putting some manure under the seed when it is planted early, so as to hasten germination. There is the further advantage of doing this early in spring because the abundant rains that fall then make the manure soluble, and greatly increase its effectiveness.

Regulating Salttag of Cow*. Salt in moderate amounts is doubtless ait aid to dig<*stion. The craving for it is natural with all herbivorous animals, and is especially strong iu those that chew the cud. If cows are not salted regularly the cream from their milk will not make butter so quickly. This is possibly because lack of salt allows food in the stomach to ferment before it can be digested. This always causes fever and increases the caseine in the milk. The same result is caused by the change in fall from green feed to dry. Cows should be salted at least twice a week. It is better still to keep some where they always can have access to It. They will not eat too much for their good. Farm Notew. Potatoes nearly always do well on clover sod Land, and are much less liable to disease than when grown with stable manure. Land that has been in clover should produce a good crop of potatoes without the application of manure. Why not have some competent man legally appointed in every community to spray trees and destroy insect pests and fungus diseases, taxing each man for the number of trees grown? The thrifty man would then no longer suffer from tin* habits of his negligt*nt neighbor. It is a favorable indication for sheep that the supply of rams of the mutton breeds is below the demand. This points to the fact that farmers are bec-omiiig convinced that sheep will pay in the forms of mutton and lamb, and that wool will be but a secondary considera tion in sheep raising. Every sheep farm should be well provided with gates; ba is are dangerous as well as too wasteful of time in lettiaig down and putting them up. There is a great risk when sheep are crowding through bars, only partly let down, that, a leg may be snapped. A good light gate may be made for 50 cents more ecst than a set of bars, and if properly hung will last a great many years. There is nothing better to make young pigs grow than a patch of peas, into which they may be turned an hour or so every day until the peas become so scarce that all day is required to satisfy them. They furnish the same kind of nutrition that milk does, and at a much cheaper rate. When thus fed । their frames will grow rapidly, and they can be given corn feed later in the season, without the injury that comes to hogs summered on grass and clover and suddenly changed to corn. It costs about 13 cents to send a bushel of wheat to Liverpool from Chicago. Fifty years ago the cost of sending a bushel of wheat from sections near Philadelphia now reached in an hour by rail was much more. With ijnprovod modes and facilities for transportation distance has been obliterated and the market extended until shipments depend on time and not the number of miles. Grain is cheaper because it can be produced ait less cost with machines and is more easily shipped. The solution of the problem is to grow larger crops per acre.

FREDERICK E. WHITE. Candidate for Governor Named by the lowa Free Stiver Parties. Frederick Edward White, the silver fusionist candidate for Governor of lowa, is a farm owner in Keokuk County. Candidate White went to Keokuk County in 1857 from his native land of Germany and worked as a farm hand until the beginning ot the war. When he was mustered out in 1865 lie returned to Webster ami bought farm land in the vicinity, which he has tilled ever since, with the exception of a term which he served in Congress. In 1892 he ran against Major John F. I^cey for that office and won. He . A' / rKKDEinCK K. WHITK. was then, ns now. a most anient advocate I of free silver, and those farmers in his j district who agreed with him in that ‘ opinion gave him their most hearty sup- ' port. In the next election Major Lacey J opposed him again, and this time defeated | him. Congressman Lacey again defeated i him last fall, but these defeats only served . to strengthen his hold with the free silver ' minority in the State, and he was soon talked of for Governor. BIMETALLIC MEN MEET. Ohio Valley League Convene* nt Cin- j cinnuti and Hears Speeches. The Ohio Valley Bimetallic league met i Tuesday at the Pike Opera House build- । ing in Cincinnati, and chose George I Washington of Newport, Ky„ temporary chairman. Delegates were present from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia. Ex-C-ongressman 11. F. Bartine made an address. After an outing in the afternoon to Coney Island the principal event was the ovation to William J. Bryan. Mr. Bryan | arrived late in the afternoon, ami with his friend, Horace B. Dunbar, dined at the residence of John It. McLean. People ! crowded the streets around the residence j and compelled Mr. Bryan, ns he went to his carriage, to go through a brief season ! of handshaking. Mr. Bryan was driven | to the Pike Opera House. His reception was one long, protracted, deafening roar of enthusiasm. He said he was not there to s[>oak. but to exhort. What ho wanted was organization and agitation until bi- i metallism triumphed. DIED ON SHIPBOARD. Archbishop Janssens, Who Died White on a Visit to His Old Home. Arch Is shop Francis Janssens of New Orleans dnsl on the steamer Creole while ; en route to New York. wb re he was to take a ship for Europe, his intention being to visit his family in Holland. The I archbishop had labored hard and for some ' time it had been apparent that he was breaking down. Yielding to rhe importut. / f (j j/ ARCH n J SHOP JANSSENS. nities of his friends, he decided to pay a visit to his family, believing that a sea voyage would do him good. Archbishop Janssens came to America as a priest, became bishop in Mississippi and on the death of Archbishop b>ray was appointed in 188 S archbishop of the New Orleans diocese, one of the largest and most important in America. JUDGE COOLEY AN INVALID. Loss of Memory la Followed by a Display of Deep Melancholy. It is learned that Thomas M. Cooley ’ who has for many years been one of the leading legal lights of the country and an |

authority on several I of his special sub- ' jects, has lost his 1 mind almost com- ! pletely, and that j there is a possibility j that he may have to : be taken to some pri- i vate asylum in the ' near future. For some time Mr. Cooley has been gradually failing in he.- ith, and for several

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thomas m. COOI.EY months he has had lb be constantly attended. It was only recently, however, that his mind became affected. Judge Cooley was for many years -i member of the faculty of the University of Michigan, a judge of the Supreme Court, and constituted for some time the head and front of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Sparks from the Wires. The State Department has received a statement from Consul General Lee at Havana in which he declares his son has no connection whatever with the premature publication some time ago of the Ruiz report. Speaker Reed says that he has the matter of the appointment of the committees under consideration and that unless something now unforeseen occurs to change bis present inclination, he will prepare the lists and submit them prior to the final adjournment.

PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND. tATEST APPORTIONMENT OF | REVENUE to COUNTIES. ^plta Distributed Throughout ¥*e State Ih «L43-Total Reaches V>o72,299.Bo—Marion County Pays 1,1 More than She Gets. I ■ Report in Detail. |he superintendent of public instruc has prepared a set of tables showing ^'■“PPoitionment of the common school revenue, the amount ready for apportionment m each county and the distributive shares apportioned to each county. The following summary shows the condition of the fund: Amount collected from conn ties, $1,073,670.97; amount in treasury from nil other sources, $17,837.94; total on hand, $1,091,414.01; amount apportioned, $1,072,299.80; balance now remaining in treasury, $19,114.21; per capitu, $1 Ao. The follow.ng table shows the amdunt apportioned to each county: Nutu- ■ bor of State Amount 1 cnll- Huhool apporqjtintles. (Iren. tax. tinned Ai®” J’’ 75 - * 6,796.98 $11,085.36 AIK! ’, 23.353 27.701.5 M 33.304.79 • .7.426 9.632.23 10010 IS UnW* 1 4.138 7,264.58 5.903.04 Blatt'erd 5,048 4,707.30 7,213.64 HooT 8.202 11.538.38 11.728.80 •‘rot® 3,585 1,349.80 K. 123.60 I < »rr*l G. 4.34 7,302.10 0,200.62 , 10,225 12,437.17 14,021.75 ‘ ; urtr 0,405 8,201.05 13,577.83 ' U.“»JO 8.363.81 16,816.80 I < Jlnton 8.524 10.207.32 12 180.32 < rawford 5.207 1,876.73 7,446.01 i J’avless 10.048 7,331.00 14.368.64 1 Dearborn 7.180 0.508.ih) 10.267.40 I R** 87 ?' 7 -VW2 7.426M9 8.568.56 i R p , K,llb 6.042 0.315.70 9.027.06 Delaware 12.645 14.814.10 18.082.35 I I?}’?*** 7 -380 4,885.00 10,553.40 Layette 3.346 .’>,865.44 5.070.78 JJoya 8.810 8.127.72 12,598.30 fountain C>,4G4 6.925.68 9,24.'’..52 I 1 ranklln 5,434 5,869.72 7.404.61 ; L ulton 5.669 6,72:1.67 .8,106.67 i Gibson 9.495 9.215.45 13.577.53 i Grant 13.817 13.241.0 n 19.758.31 , ' r, ‘ e P P 9.113 6.3M.30 13.031.59 Hamilton 9.223 10.152.98 13 203 19 Hanrock 6.064 7.87162 8 67152 Harrison 7.313 4.281.98 10’457511 Hendricks h,461 8.691.27 9.239.23 Henry 7.437 9.738.45 10.634.91 Howard .......8,744 9,383.08 rj..’sKl.U2 Huntington ... 8.958 10.318 8! 12.H<Mt.84 Jackson M.38»l 7.207 80 11 W1 98 Jasper 4.734 5’761 84 Jay 8.80'2 7,8.89.41 12.38686 Jetrerron 7.342 7.239 42 10 400 oc> Jennings 5.1V.7 IJhi.2l 7,23151 Johnson 6,030 7,502 79 S.iKyj.!*! Knox 10.573 11007.13 15’119.39 K<wln»ko 8.843 11,194 51 12,«H5 49 Lagrange 4.817 5.086.79 6.U31 21 | Lake 9.940 19.067.93 14,214 20 Laporte 12.725 16.2 :s 52 is.pa; 73 Tatwrence 6.W10 5.4,34.25 11.tW2.H0 Madlstm 18.318 19.314.72 26’194.74 Marlon 44.118 ,s» shops 63.088 74 Marshall 8.263 P. 04905 1L816.09 Martin 5.164 2.373 59 7.384 52 Miami s.t.-.i sjt'i'l3 12.05'>22 Monroe 6.430 5.440 20 P.M 90 Montgomery .. s.r,;; 12.830 21 12 202 19 Morgan 6. LVs .'. ".Wcgu s 50.','.»4 ■ N'ewton 3.273 3.01.3 98 4 <l*l 39 Noble <1,81.3 9.377 <IO 9.74.3 43 ■ Ohio 1.428 1.219.60 2.042 04 ; Orange 5.398 2.937 78 8.003 1 I i Owen 5,134 3,934.27 7.341.62 Parke 11.4<19 7.212.40 p. '230 67 Perry 6 813 3,0|7!M P. 743 43 Pike G sIP ".'.Mo 40 p. 751.17 Porter 3.945 H.2<12 26 8,5013.3 P'wy 7.231 7.758.51 10.340.33 Pulaski h. ... .. 4.5i1l 4.171.36 6.95.3.32 llA'lil 10.221.23 9.346.48 Kumi ...... 8.3*1 10,444 <W) 12.277.98 Ripby ^. 6.621 3.38.3.JW '.<.468,03 •’ 5.2<m 9,744.34 7.534 67 Seott . k '-HJ7 1.878 11 t .383 st FJo'lb/ I ■ r I . I Spencerv ..... 7.62" I s<’.2 >3 to.sw, on Starke > 3.4 : ■ : 4 913 is St. 14.716 1.8,779 37 21,043.xs Steuben 4.1<58. 15 6.M86.38 Sullivan 7.p5.3 5.121.56 1141-5.3 1 Switzerland .. . 3.<:-l 3.1*0 Is 5.263 s.i i Tippecanoe ... 12.17 s r.1.51i0.1l 17.414 34 Tipton <’>.:;<m u.'Hi.c.s p. 014 72 Union 1.776 3,451.'« 2.5311.68 Vanderbttrg . ..20.543 24.197.41 29.506.4i> Verndlllon 4.751 4.600.1 K! <1.340.82 j Vigo 17.682 21.321.44 25.2.83.26 Wabash s.'.xr* lo.si'H.iiP 12.739.87 Warren 3.427 5.354 27 4,900.61 Warrick 7.837 4.4-7 70 11.206.91 Washington ... 6.4-7 5.050.21 9.276.41 Wayne 10.372 16.952.61 14.531.fMS Wells 7.6"<> 7.776.36 10.868.00 White 3.8-2 7.577.83 5.4H.2t5 Whitlev 5,719 7.370.12 8.178 17 RECAPriTLATioN From State treasury $ 17..837.94 I Balance In treasury 19.114.21 Number of children 749.860 State school tax $ 8<',0,375.1s Amount apportioned 1,091,41-1.01 State Items of Interest. Gus J. Beck, a business man of Water- ■ 100, was held up while going home and robbed of nearly SSO belonging to Knights of Honor Lodge, of which ho was tinan- ' eial secretary. There wore two robbers, and suspicion rests on local men. Beek savtal S2B from the robbers by dropping it on the ground. As a result of celebration the Chicago and Grand Trunk lost its passenger depot in Valparaiso. Some girls were shooting firecrackers ami threw them on the porch of the building. The loss was SB,ISM), insured in the I’hoenix of London for SSJMM). M. L. Baum, owner of the eat-ing-house, lost s2.<hh>; no insurance. At Jeilersonville several jsTsons were prostrated by heat and are in a precarious condition. Mrs. Virginia Ruddell, who lived near Utb a, and Casper Seibert, 1 of Jeffersonville, died from the heat. At Fort Way nc M rs. Eliza Mill. r. Miss I Hz a I Wing apd Frank Huxley uer pi-os':.. ■ ted. M<B. Miller, prostrated Sunday, died NW 5, " nlium Bollock was pros- : rrnt Li ib a cherry tree and fell to th.’ ei-o.i H’ Both legs were broken. At South Bohd Thomas Farrington, of < 'hieago * a stone cutter, was overcome and died |a f«w hours later. D. C. Bruce, aged 35, committed suicide at Mielbyville Sunday afternoon by shooting. He went home in his usual good spirits, went upstairs to his room, took a L»th, dressed, and sitting on the side of the bed placed a 32-caliber revolver to his temple and fired, the ball ploughing through the brain to the upper angle of the skull. He left no word of explanation, and the cause remains a mystery. Five years ago while acting in the capacity’ of city marshal he was shot three times through the right lung by Charley Hawkins, who was on the same day hanged by a mob, and it is claimed that Bruce’s mind has never been right since. At the prize drill of the Indiana Knights of St. John and the Catholic Knights of America at .Crawfordsville the purse was awarded to the Indianapolis Coininandery of the Knights of St. John. In the zouave drill the Indianapolis Commandery’ ami the Peru company’ tied for the honors. The 7-year-old son of A mil Helbig died at Greenfield from hydrophobia after suffering twenty-four hours of violent convulsions. The child would bark and snap like a dog when in spasms. He was bitten by a mad dog thirty days ago ami was taken to a Pasteur institute for treatment four davs after receiving the wounds. '

WAR ON ALL BUTTERINE. National Dairy Union Intends to Drive It from the Land. “Buittertoe must be legislated out of Che United States” is the dictum of the National Dairy Union. The successful fight for the new anti-butteT'ine law in Illinois has inspired the dairymen of the entire Went to crush and utterly wnniliilate the butter substitute industry. They are going into polities to do it. Right now the creamery proprietors, the butter deeders and the dairy farmers of the big butter producing States—Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Michigan and the Dakotas—are being drawn into a compact fighting organization of not less tlian 500,000, and maybe more than 1,000,000 voters and vote controllers. They are being pledged in writing to work unceasingly for legislation that will prevent the coloring of butter substitutes and “to fight the men in high places who arc unfriendly to the interests of the dairymen.” Promises of money rontributions go with the pledge. A campaign fund wthdeh would delight the (heart of a professional politician is already in sight. If necessary, a fighting capital of $1.000,000 can l>e raised, it is believed, before the liegislatures of these dairy States meet again. This fund will be used to drive the butteruie manufacturers from their few remaining strongholds, and if the industry then find loopholes Ln State legislation, the organisation will move on Washington. W. D. Hoard, former Governor of Wisconsin, and president of the National Dairy Union, is giving the movement all the benefit of his organizing ability and political acumen. Charles Y. Knight of (Chicago, secretary of the National Dairy I niou and manager of the anti-imtterin» fight in the Illinois Legislature, is secretary and treasurer of the new movement. The <iairymen have already done much to restrict the manufacture of butter substitutes, colored to rcsemWe the genuine dairy article. Liws prohibiting the coloring of such substitutes are now in force in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. But there are two States in j»articukir which have no such laws and which are favorably situated with respect to the packing centers and the sources of raw material for the manufacture of butterim*—lndiana and Kansas. Since the market for the colored article is unristrietcHi, except in these few Western States which have legislated on the subject, enough butterine can be made in Indiana ami Kansas to cut a big figure in the butter trade of tire country. The dairymen expect, therefore, that the butterine makers will make a hard fight to retain their standing in Indiana and Kansas. and even to have rescinded the antibutterine legtelatien in some of the other Staitea. Hence the* broad scoi>e of the dairymen's movement to complete the aanilKlaticMi of their enemy. 'Hie National Dairy I inion is building up its fighting organization around the creameries. There are nearly 4.000 of these in the north Mississippi valley. Each en'amcry has 041 an average 100 farmer patrons, or 4D0.01X) in all. The price paid by the creameries to these farmers for their milk is regulated by the price of butter. The extinction of romi»"titjon with butterine raises rhe price of butter and therefore of milk. It follows that all tliese -PM>,<HM> farmers are expected to be eager for enlistment in a last rally against but tori ne. The fiinn. rs who work up their milk into butter in rhvir own dairies outnumlxr rls se u h<> .-ell to creaimrii s. Tiwy are • xjs-ctxsi io take an interest in this movement. The same view is held of the farmers who ship milk to the cities, rhe price of their product Is-iug intluem*ed always by tile price it will bring at the creameries. IHien there are rhe creamery operators and their employes, and the men who handle butter in the big cities, the commission men—all these are interested in one way and another in boc»»tmg butter and kfjling butterine. This indicates why tiie active spirits of the National Dairy Union are figuring on a political army of 1,000,000 men or more. The movement is being given the widest publicity through the dairy press. “Butterine must be legislated out of the country” is the war cry. HORACE BOIES SPEAKS. Statement of His Position in the Currency Controversy. In response to numerous queries, former Gov. Boies of lowa has given to the press a signed statement in reply to the attack made by Col. M. D. Fox of Des Moines on the position taken in his last letter. Boies says that his first letter was not an effort to outline the details of the plan he proposed, but was to give a general idea of a plan by which gold and silver for all practical purposes could be jointly and equally used as a redemption medium, on the basis of the actual commercial value of these metals. He then restates his plan and says that the net result would be a practically irredeemable national paper currency, backed to its full face value by gold and silver bullion held by the Government for redemption purposes. “No idle reserve in the treasurj- would longer be necessary. No gn-edy speculator would approach its d<H>rs with notes for redemption for speculative purposes. No bonds to replenish, a useless reserve would ever again be issued in times of peace. Every dollar of national currency now in existence would be as good as gold, for the deposit of the full face value of notes hereafter to be issued would of itself provide a reserve many times more than sufficient to meet every demand upon the treasury for redemption purposes that would ever be made.” Col. Fox asserted that the redemption of the notes in either gold or silver meant virtually a gold standard for our currency, to which Boies takes exception, and says that in a broad and practical sense it means true bimetallism. He then continues with the details of his proposition, mid then says that “more important than any question of ratio between the metals is that of the future character of the paper currency of this country. In closing he states that the idle gold reserve of $100,000,000 is as useless as if buried under the sea, and can be dispensed with by the adoption of a bimetallic system. “There are graver questions than 16 to 1 crowding upon us.” The United States Court of Claims Tendered a. decision in the La Abra case, holding in effect that the award rendered against Mexico by Sir Edward Thornton, acting as umpire, under the treaty of 1868 with Mexico, was obtained by testimony of a corrupt character. Edward E. Ayer of Chicago has given $15,000 worth of books to the Newberry .Library of that city.

RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Death Soon to Claim a Man Who Attempted a Gigantic Life Insurance Swindle — President Knight’s Dismal Picture of the Mining Situation, Benjamin R, Mus-rrave Is Dying. Benjamin R. Musgrave, of Chicago, who Attempted a remarkable insurance swindle, is dying of tuberculosis in the prison north. He was transferred from the prison south under the new reformatory law. Five years ago he had his life insured in various companies for $25,000 in favor of Annie Burton, a well-known actress with whom he was infatuated, after which he went to Terre Haute and leased a cabin in the country, where he entertained his friends. Early one morning the cabin burned and the charred remains of what was supposed to be Musgruve weie found in the ruins. Miss Burton then attempted to collect the insurance, but the companies were suspicious and instituted an investigation, finally compelling the woman to confess. Musgrave tied to St. Paul, from which rj point he wrote to Miss Alorton, who be^ trayed him to the returned to Torre Haute, cbiiWTW! -iKBSVL - - sentenced. His imprisonment will expire in November, 1898. Sajrs They Must Strike or Starve. President Knight, of Terre Haute, of the United Mine Workers for Indiana, says the present strike is little else than a fight against starvation. “One miner in the northern part of our field told me.” said Mr. Knight, "that he had drawn $8.50 for the last two months. He had had four pay days in that time. His highest was $2.50 for two weeks and his lowest $1.60. On this amount he was forced to try to ki'op himself and his family from hunger. Does anybody think he could do it?” Mr. Knight says the Columbus re[M>rt to the effect that 375,000 men will be involved in the strike is a gross exaggeration. He estimates that the total number of miners who will be idle will be between 110,000 and 125,000. His figures are as follows: In Pennsylvania, 22iM)O; in Ohio, 25.000; in Indiana, 8,000; in West Virginia. 20,000; and in Illinois, 35,(HJ0. This makes a total of 110,000. All Over the State. Miss Edna Hays, of Albion, principal last year of the college at Covington, has received a call to the Danville, 111., high school. John Taylor of Chesterton has gone to Seguin, Tex., for the purpose of identifying the man arrested there, supposed to be Rev. William West, who is wanted for the murder of Miss Susie Beek of Chesterton. The Bass foundry and machine works at Fort Wayne has been placed in the hands of John H. 11. Bass and C. T. Strawbridge, as receivers. The embarra*sment is only tenqiornry, and the 800 hands will be kept at work. John Shepard of Martinsville, 111., arrived in Brazil Tuesday night in search of his 10-year-old daughter, kidnaped from his home several days ago by his divorced wife. With the aid of the police he located Mrs. Shepard and his daughter. Notwithstanding that the mother appealed piteously for the custody of her child, it was taken from her and accompanied its father home. This is the third time the child was spirited away by its mother. Gov. Mount is in favor of pardoning from the penitentiaries of this State all the prisoners who are affected with consumption. To this end he has ordered the wardens to furnish him a list of all their prisoners so suffering, that he may take action. The fact that he has made this distinction leads one to believe that he is taking the present action because he thinks consumption is contagious. In this belief he is sustained to a certain extent by high medical authority. About six months ago gangrene developed in one of George Spotts’ feet. Mr. Spotts is a farmer about 80 years old, living near Rochester, and when his physicians informed him of the nature of the disease he asked them to amputate the member. After consultation they refused to do so, giving as a reason that in his enfeebled condition he could not endure the shock. Thinking that it was the only hope of prolonging his life, after the doctors left his wife sharpened a common butcher knife on a grindstone and successfully performed the work of amputation herself. First cutting through the flesh, she then unjointed the foot and removed it. The patient is reported improving. The National Tin Plate Company at Anderson posted notice of a shut-down, according to contract of the readjustment of the wage scale. At the same time all the union tin plate factories in the country closed. All the union window glass factories are to close down for a readjustment of the wage scale. Among the union flint bottle manufacturers there will be no shut-down as usual, the information being given out that the union men will sacrifii'e their vacation in order to tight the non-union plants, which do not close. The window glass shut-down will cause 15,000 men to lie idle, while the tin plate closing lays off about 12,000 men. Consul General Gowdy has written to friends at Rushville, reviewing his experiences in Paris. He was surprised to find a prohibitory order in France against imported beef cattle from America and that no American beef or meats had been consumed by the French army for two years. None can be purchased under present conditions, and as a result beef and meats of all kinds are dear in the Paris markets. A small duck, for instance, upon which he dined, cost $1.05. The consul general proposes to work for a change that will permit the American hog and beef and other meats to be received and sold for food, saying that as America is very generous in its consumption of French products a radical reciprocity is imperatively needed. While walking home from Geneva to his home in Ceylon, Otto Blocher, a drug clerk, was waylaid and beaten. He may not recover. The motive is supposed to have been revenge, as his valuables were not touched. Information was received at Wabash of what will undoubtedly prove a murder at Swaysee. Trouble has been brewing between William Moore, a real estate dealer, and 'William Swartz, a merchant of the town. The two met one night on the street, and Moore shot Swartz in the back, the bullet making a wound from which it is believed he cannot recover.