St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 July 1897 — Page 3

PEACE NOW IN SIGHT. STRIKE OF COAL MINERS MAY SOON END. Agreement Between Men and Operators Is Near—Basis of Settlement Is Famous "Uniformity” AgreementReport on the Competitor Prisoners. Strike May Be Settled. The end of the great strike of coal miners seems in sight. W. P. De Argiit, president of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, which concern has been freely blamed by rival operators as responsible for all the mining troubles of the last three years, .has come to terms with the arbitration commission. Concessions have been made both by him and unofficially by other operators. His famous “uniformity” agreement has been indorsed by representatives of the strikers, and in turn he has receded from his position demanding the signatures of 95 per cent of the operators in order to make it effective. This agreement was approved at the conference in Pittsburg by President Patrick Dolan and Secretary William Warner of the United Mine Workers of the Pittsburg district. They promised to solicit the interest of the miners in the plan and to use every influence to secure the required number of signatures. A clause "'iU be inserted in the agreement binding ■•^Wr^Mrt'racting parties to enforce it in ease it Is found to be impossible to secure the indorsement of 95 per cent of the operators. President M. D. Ratchford of the United Mine Workers was called to Pittsburg from Columbus to confer with the local officers, and it is freely predicted that the result will be a general return to work in the near future. Under the terms of the agreement Mr. De Armit consents to sign a contract which wiil bring about a condition of true uniformity in the Pittsburg district, according to the plan formulated, but which failed eighteen months ago. The contract provides that there shall be no company stores, honest weight, fair screens and the removal of other evils long complained of by the miners. The agreement moreover provides for an assessment of one-tenth of a cent on every ton of coal produced by the operators. This money will create a fund to be used for the purpose of protecting the operators inside the deal against those on

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the outside. The miners in turn will adopt suitable measures to protect themselves and their employers from the same source of danger. No Fear of a Shortage. A Pittsburg dispatch says: The fear of a coal shortage, which caused a scramble for the black diamonds and a heavy advance in prices, is over, and unless the miners’ strike continues for.many months j a famine is not now expected. There is I at present an abundance of coal in the market and thousands of bushels seem to be available. Operators are in daily receipt of letters from the mines east and north of Pittsburg offering them large quantities of coal at from 75 cents to $1.25 at the mines on freight rates varying from 33 to 59 cents. XX bile the v isible supply on the Monongahela,between here and Brownsville does not exceed 7,000,000 bushels, the operators say calls can be made on the Clearfield district, where coal can be obtained without difficulty and at rates as reasonable as could be expected. The present quotations for coal run from the mine are from $1.25 to $1.50. BLOW IS DEALT SPAIN. Trenchant Report on the Competitor Prisoners’ Case. Another blow was struck at Spain Wednesday. It is in the form of a report from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and it virtually asks the President to interfere in the case of the Competitor pris-

oners. Senator Davis, chairman of the cornmi’tee, reported the following joint resolution: “That the President be empowered, to take such measures as in his judgment may be necessary to obtain the release from the Spanish Government of Ona Melton, Alfred O. Laborde and William Gildea, and the restoration of the schooner Competitor to her owner, and to secure this he is authorized and requested to employ such means or exercise such power as may be necessary,” The report recites all the facts that have been brought out in the Competitor case, her ownership, capture and the citizenship of the three men named in the resolution, together with the proceedings thus far had by the Spanish authorities, the trial, sentence, etc. The report characterizes it a “mockery of a trial.” The affidavits of the parties are cited to slytw that they were coerced into Spanish waters, in which case they were not amenable to Spanish jurisdiction. They were not subject to piracy and intended no act of depredation on the seas, nor vere they subject to the Spanish authorities on account of alleged rebellion. The report tlmn says: “Irrespective of any of the foregoing considerations, the conduct of Spain, as hereinbefore detailed, constitutes such delay and denial of justice and such an actual infliction of injustice upon these men as to make it the duty of this Government to demand reparation therefor irrespective of any act which these prisoners may have committed up to the date of their capture. Among

the acts of reparation which ought to be demanded should be the release of these captives.” Secretary Evarts is quoted to sustain this position. GREAT PEACE POW-WOW. Sioux and Chippewa Indians Bury the Bloody Hatched. Sioux Indians marched .from their Dakota reservations to White Birch. Wis., where a two weeks’ peace powwow was held with their old enemies, the Chippewas. For hundreds of years the Sioux and Chippewas have been implacable foes, making war upon one another at every opportunity, and conducting reprisals with a brutal savagery that would shame even an Apache. Death by torture of the most horrible kind was the certain fate of captives, and knowledge of this caused their long warfare to be marked with demoniacal fury. The original home of the Chippewas was in the lake country now divided into the States of Wisconsin and Michigan. Here the western branch of the famous Algonquin family ruled in force, noted for bravery and military skill of a high order. On the west, where now is Minnesota and the Dakotas, was the home of the powerful Sioux nation. Bloody raids were of frequent occurrence, until finally, after long and disastrous warfare, the Chippewas gathered in force and drove their enemies into the Minnesota country, from which they were removed to the Dakota reservations by Federal troops in 1863. Time and changed conditions have mellowed the redmen's passions. The Chippewas have settled down to peaceful pursuits in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, where many of them have farms, while the Sioux are held in control on reservations far beyond the Mississippi. Being unable to come together in conflict as of old, owing to the supremacy of the whites, these Indians now want peace. It is years since they met in actual warfare, and the head men have come to the conclusion that, as further fighting is impossible, a formal treaty of amity might as well be ratified. This is the excuse for the peace powwow held at White Birch. Two hundred Sioux have made their way across Minnesota and Dakota to the rendezvous at White Birch, traveling on ponies and encamping out in aboriginal style. These met in little bands at Bismarck, N. D., and there consolidated in one body under the leadership of Chief Red Face. In this party are a number of notable characters, 'including Sitting BuH’s'c’.aughter and Chief Black Bear of Gustef massacre fame. First in the ceremonial part of the pow-

wow came the formal burial of the tomahawk in token of the end of the war and strife. All the Indians were seated in a circle around an open grave, and while the musicians made discordant noise with their tom-toms the singeis chanted a peace song. This over, two young bucks marched abottt the circle bearing with them a large hatchet made of wood. Behind them the braves of the two'nations foil incline । and indulge#! in howls and gestures sup- | posed to indicate their great pleasure at assisting in/he ceremony. Then the medicine man signaled for quiet and the tomahawk was solemnly lowered into the grave aad covered with earth. The moment the last spadeful of earth was put in place bucks and squaws jumped up and began the peace dance, which was kept going for three days and nights without intermission. Day and night the dance was kept up, big ’fires being built as soon as darkness fell, and the weird effect of the half naked, painted Indians circling about in the flickering lights was one never to be forgotten. IN A TEMPORARY DEADLOCK. Tariff Bill Conferees Are a Long Way from an Agreement, The conferees on the tariff bill found themselves Wednesday apparently further apart than they were at the beginning of the conference. There was no immediate prospect of agreement and more than one member stated that the entanglement was such that the settle-

ment might be indefinitely prolonged. A Washington correspondent says that from all that can be learned there has been a general recession from the partial agreements made on the more important articles until sugar, wool, hides, etc., can be definitely fixed. Sugar still the principal contention. The best reports represent the House conferees, with Speaker Reed behind them, as holding out for the House sugar schedule without any change whatever, and the Senators quite as determined not to yield to this extent. The House conferees insist that this schedule must be definitely fixed before other questions sliall be taken up. One of the other questions of secondary importance upon vyhich sharp differences have arisen is the Senate amendment for a stamp tax on stocks and bonds. The House opposed the amendment, but the Senators, while not wedded to it, insist upon it as necessary for revenue. The House is also resisting strenuously the 20 per cent duty placed upon hides, and is at the same time persistently holding out for a restoration of gunny bags, cotton ties, etc., to the dutiable list. A Senator who talked with some of the conferees said: “They are in a temporary deadlock and are tied up all along the line. It looks as if the situation might remain unchanged for 4 week.” While this appears to be a correct outline of.the situation, the prevailing impression is that a settlement of one or two important schedules would be speedily followed by a complete adjustment of all other differences.

WELCOME TO TORONTO EPWORTH LEAGUE IN ANNUAL SESSION. Twenty Thousand Delegates from the United States and Canada Attend the Convention—Baptist Young People Meet in Chattanooga. Greeted by Canadians. There is scarcely a city of importance in the United States or Canada that was not represented at the big Epworth League convention in Toronto. By the time the convention was opened, shortly after noon Thursday, there were fully 20,000 delegates in Toronto, and they were still arriving. It was the largest convention in the history of the league, and it is almost safe to say it was larger than any previous gathering ever held in connection with the Methodist Church. The contingents from New York State and Illinois were the biggest. Brooklyn sent a huge delegation, Cleveland sent 3<X> delegates. While the delegations from those States nearer to Canada were the largest, many came from San Francisco and a strong delegation came from Bostou. The far Western large contingents, and the Sonthel'n States were well represented, while Mexico sent a number. Reception of the Visitors, The welcome in behalf of the city and Canada generally was most spontaneous and enthusiastic. Baptists and other denominations turned out to receive the visitors. There was a big meeting in the Massy hall to welcome the delegates. An address was delivered by A. S. Hardy, the premier and attorney general of Ontarip. He welcomed them for the cause they represented, and which they had come to stimulate, and because already 100,900 Canadians belonged to their society, and had taken the same vows and subscribed to the same pledges as the 1,750,900 of Epworth Leaguers in their own country. No one, he said, could look upon the work accomplished during the last seven or eight years by the league otherwise than with amazement. It read like,a fairy tale. It was understood that some of the principal aims and objects of tin' society were, in short, helpfulness to themselves and to others, or. in detail, greater culture, more personal piety, greater service to others and a more thorough knowledge of the Bible among the members, chiefly composed of the younger members of the Methodist Church. lie welcomed them also because they were neighbors and relatives, and because they came as friends. They represented the pick and flower of the youth of that active ami powerful church which is scarcely less influential relatively in Canada than in the United States, and which through its activity, zeal and spiritual life is adding constantly to its millions of members and adherents. Some time a warlike feeling would flash up between England and America, but would subside on sober second thought almost as rapidly ns it hail been aroused, 'There could be no war between these two foremost Christian nations of the earth. The moral forces of the two countries would in the last resort prove too strong for war. Other Words of Welcome. The Rev. Dr. Carman, the general superintendent of the Methodist Church of Toronto, in an eloquent address of welcome said: “Methodism was providentially prepared for America, as this American continent was kept for popular enfranchisement and personal freedom. You south of the great lakes, and we north, equally possess, cherish and guard them both, but under different forms. You have chosen monarchical methodism in the great republic; we are working out republican methodism under the imperial standard of Great Britain. Our doctrines are the same. We greatly admire and love the nation of Washington and Lincoln, of Ulysses S. Grant and Stonewall Jackson —heroes both; of Motley and Parkham; of Longfellow and 'Whittier. We delight in its freedom, we triumph in its moral victories and we count it an unspeakable favor and honor to greet its noble sons and daughters in this grand Epworth League convention.” Eloquent responses, full of the spirit of brotherly love and good fellowship, especially between the people of Anglo-Saxon blood and of the Christian faith, were made uy Bishop C. C. McCabe for the Methodist Episcopal Church; the Rev. Janies Thomas of I.ittle Rock, Ark., for the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Rev. 11. A. Crane of Bombay, on behalf of India. The most important feature of this convention was the fact that arrangements were made for the evolution from an international to an intercontinental convention. This year the-Rev. Simpson Johnson, representing the Wesley guild of Manchester, England, came expressly for the purpose of transforming the three-fold convention to a four-fold one, and the next convention will consist of delegates from the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal South, the Methodist Church of Canada and the Wesleyan Church of England. A message from President McKinley was received by the Epworth League officers. It was read by Dr. Berryman of Chicago. Then at the call of the chairman three hearty cheers were given for Queen Victoria and three for President McKinley. These were followed by a combined cheer for the two great rulers. “God Save the Queen” and “America” were then sung in alternate verses, the effect being most impressive. Forty families of Polish Jews, numbering over 1(10, who were landed at New York by the steamships Sicilia and Veru- . dam, will lie deported because they are in a destitute condition and are therefore , subject to exclusion as “persons liable to i become public charges.” The members of the old Western ’ Freight Traffic Association, disrupted last spring by the United States Supreme ( Court decision, have made a new agree- ' ment, which provides heavy penalties for ( any road which shall violate the schedule of rates. It is said that Richard Mansfield has a new play, by Oscar Wilde, which was written while the latter was undergoing > his term of imprisonment in England. r Chancellor Hohenlohe of Germany de--1 nies that he has any intention of resigning his office.

BAPTISTS AT CHATTANOOGA. The National Convention Meets in the Southern City. The seventh international convention of the Baptist Young People’s Union of America began in Chattanooga, Tenn., Thursday morning with about 4,000 delegates and some of the most prominent Baptist leaders in the country present. Ihe handsomely and elaborately decorated City Auditorium was completely filled at 10 o’clock, the hour of opening. Each State delegation occupied quarters reserved for it. On the rostrum were seated the officers and speakers, and in the gallery above was the excellently trained choir of 500 voices. The convention was opened with a short song service, led by Dr. L. L. Henson of Fort Wayne, Ind., formerly secretary of the board of managers. The immense audience joined enthusiastically with the choir in the singing, and a great wave of inspiring harmony floated through the building. At the close of the song service Dr. Henson read the 46th psalm and delivered a fervent invocation, after which President Chapman arose to deliver the opening a'ddress. Following the president addresses of welcome, all eloquent and interesting, were then delivered as follows: On behalf of the churches of Chattanooga, by Dr. R. R. Garrett, pastor of the First Baptist Church; on behalf of the Baptist bhMiph'u 1 BWViety of the city anil "Suite, by the Rev. M. D. Jeffries of ^noxville, Tenn.; on behalf of the citizens of Chattanooga, by Mayor George W. Ochs. Dr. J. W. Conley of St. Paul, Minn., responded to these welcoming addresses. The report of Treasurer Frank Moody of Milwaukee showed evidences of greater economy and better financial condition than before. For the year ended June 30, 1806, a comparison of assets and liabilities showed a deficit of $4,820.23. For the year ended June 30, 1897, after a conservative estimate of assets, the deficit is reduced to $1,738.17. showing a gain for the year of $3,082.05. An examination of the report of the business manager shows a gain during the year in accounts receivable of $3,587.79. plus a reduction of indebtedness to the amount of $317.50. The board of managers recommended some changes in the constitution, which were accepted and approved by the convention. These changes led to a most complete union of the forces of the Baptist Young People's Union of America with the Southern union, by which the forces of both arc consolidated, and, in making this new relation with the Southern department. separate departments were provided for the North, the South, the East and the West, to be known hereafter as the Baptist Young People’s Union, North; Baptist Young People's I nion. South, etc., instead of as heretofore by department colors. SPANISH JAPANESE ALLIANCE. Meant to Carry Botti Coasts of the Union in Case of Hostilities. A dispatch from Paris to a London news agency says that inquiry at an American embassy there has elicited a confirmation of the rumor that the Governm^nts of Spain and Japan have nrruKsrtl ni; offensive alliance against the United States. The terms of the understßiding. u hich is for the mutual protection of Cuba and Hawaii, provide that in the event of an active aggressive movement on the part of the United States tending toward interference in Cuban affairs or persistence in the annexation of the Hawaiian islands, both Spain and Japan shall declare war simultaneously against the United Slates, and shall make hostile demonstrations along both the Atlantic and Pacific coast lines of that country. At Washington, little credence is placed in the statement that the Spanish and Japanese Governments have entered into an offensive alliance against the United States for the mutual protection of Cuba and Hawaii. Mr. Day, the first assistant secretary, discredited the report and regarded it as too improbable to discuss. “The State Department has no information concerning the reported alliance,” he said, “and I don't believe there is any foundation for the statement that one has been entered into.” Both the Spanish and Japanese ministers are away from the city. KICKED TO DEATH AND BURNED Fate of the Negro Murderer of Miss Williams at West Point. Tenn. Near West Point, Tenn., Tuesday afternoon, Miss Rene Williams was found brutally murdered in the woods nepr her home. Thursday afternoon Anthony Williams, her murderer, was captured near Pruitton, and at night he expatiated his crime in the streets of West Point, in the presence of 500 people. Williams was riddled with bullets and burned in the streets of West Point, his body being burned to ashes. Before a shot was fired the negro was knocked down and stamped rto death. Then the crowd fell back ani those who hail pistols fired volley volley at him. The crowd then cn dhered wood, and, building a fire over him, watched the pyre.

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How much docs a hundred pounds of ice weigh? Pay in the coal industries is really a matter of miner importance. Now, aren’t these nice days for any one to be called upon to worry over the price of coal? The Dallas News says that “wild oats are now sown by machinery.” This is harrowing. Actor Ratcliffe is strongly suspected of a desire to change the sex of the mother-in-law joke. If it will take $7,000,000 to put Debs’ scheme on foot, there is every reason to believe that the scheme will have to be put somewhere else. Chicago sometimes plays in hard luck; her new jail was dedicated just at a time when the City Council quit for the summer and the aidermen were hurrying out of town. A New York burglar was caught in a refrigerator the other night and nearly froze to death before his plight was discovered. Still, a night prowler can hardly • complain if he receives a cold reception occasionally.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. I THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM REFLECTION. A Pleasant, Interesting, and Instructive Lesson, and Where It May Be Found—A Learned and Concise Review of the Same. Lesson for July 25. Golden Text.—“ God is a spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."—John 4: 24. This lesson is found in Acts 17: 22-34, and has for its subject Paul Preaching in Athens. Followed to Berea by hostile. Jews from Thessalonica, bent on breaking tip his work, Paul determined to go on to Athens. He left Silas and Timothy at Berea and set off in haste, traveling to the seacoast and there taking ship for Athens. Alone in the heathen metropolis, surrounded by evidences of luxurious and careless ease, as well as by vice, though Athens was not so famous for wickedness as Corinth —the apostle's heart never failed him. Instead, it flamed up in righteous indignation, mingled with pity when he beheld the numberless statues and shrines of gods. For some days or weeks he worked quietly, preaching to the Jews in their synagogue, and talking to little groups of curious Greeks in the public square or agora (“market place”), just as the Greek philosophers and teachers were accustomed to do. The picture presented in Acts 17: 18-20 is thoroughly Athenian. Philosophical discussion of new theories was a favorite out-of-door occupation of the leisure classes, who gathered under the shaded porticos and talked gossip or metaphysics or logic just as the mood happened. We cannot decide just how Paul would present Christianity to such a people. Certainly he did not adapt himself to them so far as to soften any of the stern requirements of righteousness. Used as they were to new religions and new gods, the preaching of “Jesus” and “Resurrection” was a decided novelty, and awakened their curiosity. Desiring to hear more fully of the matter, they conducted Paul to the hill opposite the Acropolis, known as the Areopagus, or “Murs’ Hill.” Here it was that the supreme court of ancient Athens had held its sessions. “Even in the politicardecay | of Athens, this spot and this court were । regarded by the people with superstitious ’ reverence. No place in Athens was so I suitable for a discourse upon the mysteries of religion. We are not. however. ' to regard Paul's discourse on the Areop- | agus as a formal defense, in a trial before the court. Nor is there anything in the speech itself of a really apologetic character.” Explanatory. I’a nl' ■ address was not, then, a ilefens? of hims -If or of his faith. It was an exposition of the latter, in smh form as to | lie grasped by the hearers. He had alI ready loused their curiosity: he desirod now to win their favor, and if possible, their assent, it is plain that he had mere- | ly reached the cud of his introduction I when he was interrupted. We have therefore only the merest fragment of what he intended to say. This must be remembered by those who are inclined to claim ■ Paul's words on this av ession as supporting pantheism or monism or s ane otuer “ism." He was just beginning to be specific when the people objected. That is often tiie case now. The consummate tact of I’:, ul is nowhere more evident than •n these brief introductory sentences. He does m>t attack the gods of the Athenians and thus alienate them at once; nor mock their credulity in believing in so many divinities. Instead, be courteously acknowledged that they were very careful in religious observances —for that, an 1 not “too superstitious” is the meaning of his phrases. At once he pleased them, without having recourse to flattery, and led the way adroitly to his message. A new era has come, says the preacher; the light of the world has shined in the darkness, revealing the sinfulness of idolatry and all other human transgressions more sharply than under the old dispensation. God had not “winked at” or “overlooked” the sins of men in the sense of ignoring them, but rather graciously withholding punishment. Teaching Hints. Paul was a gentleman. He refrained t from needlessly offending his hearers not merely from policy, but from instinctive । courtesy. This is not apparent in the authorized version, by which he is made to call the Athenians “too superstitious,” i but it is true, nevertheless. Many Christian workers might profit from his exam- ■ pie in this respect. Earnestness does not [ excuse boorishness. There may be times 1 when it is justifiable to speak to a person at a time or in a manner when such ac- । tion would be ordinarily called rude; but i this cannot be the rule. Jesus was always - courteous, in the highest sense of the [ word, though when he had to denounce, he denounced. ; Paul's religion bad many sides to it. He ■ could introduce a sermon by an elegant t and beautiful philosophical prelude, quot- • ing poeny, when that seemed desirable. He could also speak as directly and forcibly as human speech permits. His faith

was a part of his life, and partook of the variety of his character. The class of hearers to whom he spoke in Athens is strikingly paralleled to-day by a class of people who dabble in all the new fads in religion and philosophy, thinking themselves both learned and liberal; who will listen to a preacher until he begins to be personal, and then begin either to mock or to make excuses for a sudden departure. Human nature is not so very different from what it used to be. But it is to be remembered that even among such, certain men cleave unto the truth, a few prominent Dionysiuses and Damarises, “and others with them." Rev. A. G. Brown of London recently preached a sermon in Chicago on those latter words. The unnamed disciples are the salt of the earth. They form the hope of the Christian church and the promise of its permanence. Next Lesson —“Paul's Ministry to Corinth.”—Acts 18: 1-11. The Art of Living. The secret of the art of living is to eliminate the ugly, to preserve the beautiful, to cultivate the agreeable, to eliminate the unnecessary burdens, to preserve strength, ami to secure leisure. The test of wisdom is to make the inevitable minister to the whole life by the spirit in which it is accepted. The heaviest burden may be the foundation of success if put under the feet, but it will render us helpless if carried in our nands before us. the lodestone for the eyes of the spirit.

I RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Supreme Court Sets Aside a Cordially Detested Measure — Indianapolis Company Trying to Clip a Big Company's Wings—Wages of Mill Men. Garnishee Law Is Invalid. The full bench of the Supreme Court recently held that the garnishee law passed by the last General Assembly, which has been used as an engine of more or less extortion in the labor districts, until it has become the most thoroughly hated enactment in the statute book, was unconstitutional and -void, on the ground that it interfered with the general exemption law. The latter exempts S6OO worth of household goods from execution. The ruling is not only upon constitutional points, but also because the garnishee law is discriminating, and it is beyond the power of the Legislature to make classifications which are arbitrary and unreasonable. The opinion was rendered in a test case, in which many railroad employes are interested. Sec Too Much Profit in Gas. If they can get it by city ordinance the people of Indianapolis are going to have 75-cent er 90-cent gas, or at any rate gas that will be cheaper than $1.25 per 1,000 cubic feet, the price at present charged by the New Y'ork company that owns the gas plant. Two or three years ago the people found out that Indianapolis was paying more for gas than any other city in the ccnntry. They also found out that the company made $2,790,000 on bonds issued on property that cost $2,000,000. The stock nays 12 per cent, is worth 50 per cent mori l than par, while the bonds pay 6 per cent interest and are worth 8 per cent premium. When the people found this out it occurred to them that they would like to keep a little of the money they were giving the gas company and they struck by the introduction of the ordinances mentioned above. It is said that the company does not care to reduce prices and the case will probably be finished in the courts. Fettle Sheet Mill Wages. The signing of the sheet-mill whge : scale by the National Steel Manufacturj ers’ Association in Pittsburg will result I in the Midland steel works in Muncie reI sinning work, and the big mill will have I nearly 1,000 men at work. President । Bard of the Indiana iron works intimates i that his mill also, employing as many i hands, will soon resume work, as they [ are ready to settle the wage matter with | the men, since the scale with the steel I manufacturers has been adjusted at the , old scale. The green-glass manufactur- ! ers adjusted the wages for next year with i the mm at Atlantic City, the old scale i being accepted. This means that Bail I Bros.' big fruit-jar works, the Port glass । works and 100 others will resume work on time Sept. 1. Ail Over the State. At Kokomo, John Kirkpatrick was kill- ( cd by the cars. He was crossing the ' track riding a reaper. Typhoid fever attacks over 20,900 persons in Indiana every year; 1,600 died from the disease in IS9G. Five hundred thousand hogs die of hog cholera annually in Indiana. Loss involved, at least $5,009,000. William I). Johns, a Martinsville archi- ; feet, hanged himself, the result of ill- । health. He leaves a wife and six grown children. There have been thirteen deaths in the ' Muncie suburb of Avondale, nearly all being children. The epidemic is attributed to shallow wells. James H. Pudney of Washington, D. C., died suddenly at Shelbyville, aged 67, while visiting his daughter, the wife of Supreme Judge Leonard J. Hackney. He had been connected with the United States Treasury Department many years. Gov. Mount said that his sympathy is all with the strikers in the present contest between the operators and miners.. He is investigating his authority as chief executive to take a hand in the struggle, । and if he sees his way clear will appoint an investigating commission. The Gov- ' ernor’s action in that event will depend upon the report of the commission from ( actual contact with the strikers. The i Governor’s pet aversion is the company ■ store. A dor.lde funeral took place in Hunting- - ton Monday. Mrs. Bartlett, aged 81 . years, and her brother, James Roche, , aged 73 years, died on Friday within a few hours of each other. Mrs. Bartlett t was the w< althiest woman in the county. . James Roche was a bachelor and for , years was librarian of the city library. The two caskets were exactly alike, as were the hearses which headed the long , procession to and from the Catholic t church. IC. IC. Earle, State deputy fish commi.ssioner, finished a trip down the Wabash . river in a rowboat for the purix>se of coni fiscating seines and nets and prosecuting

their owners. In the vicinity of Attica he captured a number of seines more than 100 feet long and many nets. At nearly every point on the river he found the law was being violated, and besides confiscating nets and seines he obtained much information to be used in prosecutions under the new law. Thomas C. Andis, living near Scottsi burg, is engaged in the cultivation of honey bees to a large extent. Nearly every hive on his farm has been destroyed. The excessive heat caused the honeycombs in the hives to melt, which in starting to run drowned the busy bees. Only a few of the sedulous insects escaped and these have taken to the woods. The honey ran down and out of the hives and is covering the ground in the immediate neighborhood of the honey vaults. As Mn Andis’ chief efforts are devoted to the cultivation of the honey bee. the loss of these millions of workers will reach a snug sum at the close of the season. Judge E. C. Field, for the Monon Railway. is at Anderson investigating the rights :tnd claims of the Chicago and Southeastern Railway, and local papers say there is a deal on by which the Motion will k ase or purchase the Chicago and Southeastern. Mrs. William T. Ziegler of Anderson instituted proceedings for divorce from her husband, the Rev. W. 11. Ziegler. She says she has supported herself for two years, Icing a professional singer in New York. Ziegler resigned his pastorate in Anderson five years ago and failed in the real estate business.