St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 31 July 1897 — Page 3

THE FARM AND HOME MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Reasons for Objecting to Dehorning Cattle—Care of the Henhouse in Suminei—Salting the Hay—Use of Machinery in Farm Work. Against Dehorning. C. A. M., in Breeder’s Gazette, gives, among seven very good reasons for objection to dehorning, the following points: "That dehorned eattle are more troublesome to keep, and wilder, and will gain from 100 to 150 pounds less under otherwise similar conditions than those with horns left on; all of which of the above points he can substantiate by actual experiment.” The blood starts from the center (the heart), branches out, similar to a tree, iuto little branches, surcharges every part of the body with nutriment, and carries the worn-out matter back, to be expelled from the system through the lungs, pores, kidneys, liver and alimentary tract, the circulation merging so gradually through the capillaries as to be imperceptible where the arteries end and the veins begin. By mutilating the circulating medium, the normal liow of blood is interfered with, hampering the process of waste and repair. The forcible dehorning stops the ever coming current of the blood to that part of the beast which has been severed, and keeps thumping, thumping, ever 1 after, during the entire span of life. 1 We may ask anyone that has had the misfortune of losing a limb, be it only a toe or little finger, and they will tell that they are feeling the limb that ha? been taken off “10, these many years!” that that feeling has entailed untold suffering, and for which there is but one end, and that is dissolution. To medical men it is well known that the seat of pain is in the brain, the main nerve center; to them it is known that pain lowers vitality, and lowered vitality lessens the power to resist the influence of the pathogenic bacilli. Because the dehorned cow eats, drinks and gives some milk, she appears to be in good health, to the superficial observer; to him the imperceptible, gfndn^.l deterioration is not noticed. The Hen House in Summer. In hot weather lice breed very fast and unless they are killed off the Mens and young chickens will be covered with lice and lice-eggs, which wiE prevent growth. A good method is to take an old iron pot, put a few’ live coals in the bottom, and set the pot in the middle of the hen-house, close the doors and windows, and every large opening; then pour one pound of sulphur over the coals; smoke the house for two hours; then ventilate it before allowing the hens to go in. It is best to smoke it in the morning. Strong tobacco smoke will also kill the lice. After smoking, the house should be whitewashed; add one gill of carbolic acid to every two gallons ot wash. I* the wash is strained, it can be put on with the spray-pump. The chicken chops are often filled with lice. Turn them upside down; give them a good staying with crude petroleum, and then whitewash the coops inside and out.— The American. Salting the Hay. Hay should be hauled in when Tree from dew; when hay rattles, it is Ht to put into the barn. Clover and timothy hay should be cured in the cock; if left in the swath or windrow too long most all the juices are dried up, and the hay is little better than straw. When the hay is cured so that it Teels light upon the fork and rattles in the handling, get it under cover as quickly as possible. By adding one pe-tk of salt to the ton, sprinkling it evenlj over every layer of hay as it Is put into the mow, the hay will cure out very lively, and when it is fed out, it will tome out bright, green and fragrant. The salt not only helps to cure the hay, but it adds weight to it, so that whether the hay is sold or fed out on the farm, there is economy in salting it. Very weedy hay is much improved by salting it. Pings, rag-w’eed and weeds of like nature will make verygood winter feed for mules, sheep and young stock, by cutting them before the stalk gets woody, curing quickly, and stacking at once, spreading onehalf bushel of coarse salt to the ton of hay.—The American. Good Corn Crops. I think the corn crop one of the most profitable hoed crops on the farm, but it needs good cultivation. Our method of raising Is this: We plow our ground in the fall, green sward, and in the spring we cart on a good coat ot barn yard manure. Then we spread, and give Lt a thorough harrowing with a spring tooth harrow. Then we work it with a marker three and one-half feet one way and three feet the other, and use about three hundred pounds superphosphate to the acre in the hills. In this way we have never failed to make a good crop of corn, from 125 to 150 baskets to the acre. We follow the corn the next year with oats, and in this way we have not failed to get a good crop of grass.—Grange Visitor. Machinery in Farm Work, Farm work is now everywhere done with much less manual labor than used to be the fact before labor-saving machinery was invented. One man will now do the labor of four or five, and will also generally do it better. Even if it were not so, the difficulty In securing sufficient help would make the machinery necessary. It is not certain either that the better care given improved implements on small Eastern farms does not make their use pay as well as it does on the large farms of the far West. Almost all Eastern farmers house their farm implements when they are not in use. Even, the grain is not put under shelter at the

West, but is rushed from the field t® elevators and stored there. The lack; of buildings to shelter improved implements at the West makes their working life much shorter than it ought to be.—Mirror and Farmer. Working Butter, The shortest and best direction that I can give is: Don’t. If by working butler you mean working out the buttermilk, then I say, don’t take any buttermilk out of the churn with the butter. Wash the buttermilk out before the butter is taken from the churn. Stop churning as soon as the butter comes in grains as big as wheat. Draw cff all the buttermilk that will drain oT. Then wash with cold water, gently shaking the churn; draw off this water. Then wash again with cold brine. Then finish with cold water and let it drain for a few minutes. While still in the granular state, remove it to the work table; spread it out and sprinkle salt over it, stirring as you sprinkle. As the salt dissolves, some water will accumulate and run off. Then press the butter into shape with wooden hands or paddies. Never touch butter with your naked hands. If you use a press for molding, it will work out all of the remaining water and leave a perfect grain. The whole secret lies in stopping the Churn at the right time. Granular butter doesn't need to have the buttermilk worked out of it.—Jersey Bulletin. Oatmeal with Water to Drink. The bad effects of drinking clear water in large quantities when the system is exhausted by heavy work in hot weather may be prevented by putting a small quantity of sifted oatmeal in the water before drinking it. There is a great deal of nourishment in the oatmeal, and it furnishes something for the stomach to work on that is quickly digested and soon goes into the circulation. When we were hard at work in the hay or harvest field we learned to prefer water with oatmeal in it to the compounds of lemon juice with water, which, while they were pleasing to the palate, did not give the satisfying feeling in the stomach that a little oatmeal with water always gave. This was long ago recommended as a mid-day drink for horses hard at work, and we have found it just as good for people. For a strengthening drink for invalids oatmeal with water is mtieh better than beef tea, whose nutritive value has been greatly exaggerated in popular belief.—American Cultivator.

Pelf-Supporting Farm. A farm is self-supporting when enough of the food products are raised for home consumption, and when enough fertilizing material is made and saved to maintain its fertility. A condition, which, to us, does not appear to be impossible, of attainment. This may be done, indirectly, by growing largely for market those crops for which the soil and locality are fitted, and exchanging them for others. At present prices, we are able to exchange one acre of potatoes for ninety-three bushels of corn, which as we had an abundance of coarse fodder in tiie barn and silo was of more value to us than the same amount of land would have been in corn. We believe such an exchange is perfectly legitimate, and is often to the advantage of the farmer.— N. E. Farmer. Kill the Plum Cnrculio. To destroy’ the plum cnrculio is a difficult task. The common practice is to jar the tree suddenly, bringing the clumsy little insects down uj^m a large sheet stretched cn light rods, with a center cross rod. It should be white, that the insects may be seen at once and destroyed. Carry it on the left arm sAid hold it first under one side of the tree and then under the other. To jar the tree without injuring It, many saw off a small limb and strike this projecting stump with a mallet; others pad the mallet, with which the sudden stroke is given without bruising the bark. Where but few plum trees are grown, the cheapest way is to coop fowls under each tree. Unless the trees stand within a poultry yard hens and chickens will often effectively protect a large plum tree.—Farm Journal. Durability of Fence Posts. Fence posts of the wooden, kind have least durability in sandy soil which moisture and air alternately penetrate. It might be supposed that very wet soil, or where the posts stand in stag* nant water, w’ould malre them decaymore quickly. But in such positions less air comes in contact with the wood* When set in the ground fence posts usually decay first just where the post enters the soil, as this has most changes from wet to dry, and gives the air most chance to work on the wood. Charring the surface of the post where St enters the soil greatly increases lbs durability. Getting Rid of Weeds. I have found it necessary in grass lends to pull or cut out such weeds as dock, thistles and the like just about flowering time. Land in cultivated crtips can be very easily cleared of whtch grass and thistles by the use of the manure fork. This method is very effective and more rapid than one wcnild imagine. To reduce the ox-eye daisy, actual experiment shows that frequent plowing, heavy manuring and sealing to grass will prove effective. The heavy crop of grass can be cut before the weed seeds ma ture. —AgriculturSt. Cucumber Pickles. The best time to plant cucumbers to gruw pickles is from the Ist to the 15th of July. They will make a quick growth, and be much less likely to attacks from the cucumber bug than if planted early. The secret in growing cucumber pickles is to keep the vines very closely picked, allowing none to grow much, if any, above two inches long.

MAD RUSH OF WATER? CLOUDBURST DOES AV£Fyi/DAMAGE IN OHIO. | Crab Creek, Near Youngstown, Becomes a Torrent and Kushes Upon the Residents of the City-Many May Have Perishe 1. Swept by a Flood, ; Thursday night a terrific eldudburst struck Youngstown, O„ Hooding tile entire valley and causing great damage to property, both in the city and along the railway lines. Many people are supposed to be drowned. The entire country east and west for twenty miles was Hooded and the damage will be enormous, th* railroads being the heaviest losers. The Erie Railroad west of Warren fourteen miles, and north of Sharon for the same distance, was entirely washed out, and orders were issued to discontinue all trains. I Many residences in Youngstownlwere flooded out and the occupants were Aiken away by the police and fire departrints. The Mahoning Valley electric lima^'ere flooded cut and all the bridge^ 'yished away. The Caiholjk|jJMM^ struck by li^iitnulj, ’Lir the and nearly destroyed by tire, ness bouses and manufacturing cddF'rus were flooded. M Henry Mjers, a tailor, while stealing at his residence on Mill street, was struck by lightning and killed instantly. Every railroad leading into the city reports extensive rollouts and bridges swept away, and the officials say the loss will be the heaviest they have ever known. About 10 o'clock the water came down the Crab creek valley into the city and formed into a flood, sweeping everything that was not fastened down before it. The bed of the creek was not more than twenty feet wide, and the flood spread out to a width of about 2,000 feet. It rose quickly, and in less than thirty minutes the water was up to the second story of all the dwelling houses in the flooded districts and was still rising. The whole district was covered with darkness except one small place whem a lonely light shone. Firemen, police and others were on hand quickly, but were powerless to rescue anybody.' as not a boat of any kind was to be had in that portion of the city. The cries of the people in the houses wore heartrending to those who stood at the water’s edge and wen forced to retreat slowly on account of the gradually rising water. Many People Drowned. It is almost a certainty that many people were Iron tied. One whole family was heard crying for help from an upstairs window, when suddenly there was a grinding noise, as if the house was being moved from its foundation, and smtn the cries from that place censed. The intense darkness made it impossible to seo what was going on, but it is supposed that the homo and its occupants went down in the flood. People at the water’s edge bean! a man crying for In Ip who was apparently being carried down in the flood. The v«yce grew fainter and it is supposed thojfl^ fortunate man perished. Pitiful cries help were heard continually. but W* crowd on the shoo* could do nothing in the way of giving aid. Police and tiremen went nt once to another part of the city after boats. It wits midnight before boats were gotten to the flooded Cr.nl creek district, and the work of rescue could be started. The boats were manned by tiremen, who went to work with a will, but could not make rapid progress on account of the swift and dangerous current. Nino families were taken out of second story windows within a half hour, and many people were picked tip. clinging to debris.

*JSHHEW< Our advice is—stay at home and save what little you have. Kalamazoo Telegraph. It’s quite easy to get the gold fever, but unfortunately that doesn’t lessen the hard work of getting the gold. Binghamton News. When Constantinople was captured by the Turks its walls were not battered down with “collective” notes.—New York Press. Don’t start for the Klondyke gold fields without about SSOO and a year's supplies, omitting ice cream from the menu.—Fargo Argus. Peary can very easily reimburse those who subscribe for his polar expedition by towing a few icebergs home. —Chicago Times-J lerald. It costs money to go to the Klondyke, but you can get all the advice you want about staying at home for nothing.—Philadelphia Ledger. > Turkey has anticipated the powers wi®r an ultimatum. It now remains to be sej^ which ultimatum will be ultimate.- Baltimore American. Unless a man has the capital to invest in an outfit and a large commissary he is taking more chances on death than fortune. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. If Russia had known that portions of Alaska were principally composed of gold she wouldn't have sold it to William H. Seward for $7,000,000. — Minneapolis Tribune. The powers are treating the sultan with great mildness. They evidently believe that moral suasion is much more efficacious than brick-bats.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Uncle Sam has never made a mistake in annexations, and he is not likely to go wrong in the next, one after having thought it over for sixty years.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In view of the enormous amount of metal some of the pans in that Klondyke district are said to wash, it’s very probable that lots of these stories won’t wash. —Philadelphia 'rimes. And new the Hawaiian volcano of Kilauea is in a state of active eruption. Maybe the poor thing is trying to voice the native opinion of the annexation scheme. —St. Louis Republic. M’ith his abundant opportunities for associating with colossally w intellectual war correspondents the Turk is so shockingly ignorant that he does not know the war is really over.—Kansas City Times.

DINGLEY BILL IS LAW MEASURE PASSED AND SIGNED BY M’KINLEY. Conference Report Is Approved by a A ote of 40 to 30—Treasury Officials Notified That the New Duties Are Now in Force. Takes Effect at Once. The last step necessary to make the Dingley tariff bill the law of the land was taken at the White House when tha President affixed his signature at 4:01 o^clock Saturday afternoon. The tariff bill passed its last legislative stage at 3 p. m., when the Senate, by a vote of 40 to 30, agreed to the conference report on the bill. The final vote oti the tariff conference report and the bill was as follows: Republicans. Aldrich, Mcßride, Allison, McMillan. Raker. Mason. Burrows. Morrill. Carter, Nelson. Clark. Penroae, Davis, Perkins, Deboe, Flatt (Conn.), Elkins. Platt (N. Y.), Fairbanks, Pritchard, Apraker, Proctor, ▼rye, Quay, GalHnger, Sewell, -Gear, Shoup. Hale. Spooner, Hansbrough, Thurston, Hawley, Warren. Hoar,’ Wetmore. Lodge, Populists. Jones (Nev.), Stewart. Democrat. McEnery—Total, 40. Democrats. Bacon, Mitchell, Bate, Morgan, Berry, • Murphy, Caffery. Pasco. Chilton, Pettus, Clay, Bench, Cockrell, Smith. Daniel. Tillman, Faulkner, Turley, Gorman, Turner, Lindsay, Turpte, Jones (Ark.), Vest, Mallory, Walthall, Martin, White. Mills, Populist. Harris- Total, 30. PAIRS. For— Against— Chandler, Cannon, Cullom. Gray, Wolcott, George, Hanna. Rawlins, Wellington, McLaurin, Mantle. Kenney, Wilson, Heltfeld. NOT VOTING. Allen, Teller. Butler. ABSENT Kyle, Pettigrew, Mr. Porter, the President's secretary, was in constant communication with the capitol by telephone, so that he wan able to advise the President promptly ot the starting of the bill from the House for the White House. A few moments before 4 o’clock Representative Dingley appear ed, accompanied by Representatives Hu ger, chairman of the House Committee on ^urolled Bills. They were admitted at once into the presence of Mr. McKinley. The latter was sitting quietly nt the long cabinet table with Secretary Gage and Attorney General McKenna on one side nnd Postmaster General Gary and Secretary Wilson on the other. IL- rose mid -XTVetod Mr. Dingley mid Mr. Hager cordially and proceeded at once to the work of approval. Mr. Porter turned to the last sheet of the bill nnd laid the document before the President. He had several pens nt hand the owners of which had begged might be used to sign the tariff act. But Mr. Dingley, unexpectedly taking a case from his i>ocket, produced a beautiful mother of pearl handled pen, dainty enough for a lady’s use, nnd requested that it be used for the signature. The President recognized the right of Mr. Dingley. Dipping it deep into the inkuoH, he steadily appended his signature to the bill, asked the date, and wrote “July 24, approved," and the bill was a law. Est mates of Revenues. According Jo estimates by treasury officials the revenue to be produced by the new law will exceed the amount raised in the lust year of the Wilson bill by at least $30,900.1 X)0. But they claim that the revenue producing powers of the nejv law will be seriously crippled by the anticipatory importations of the last three or four months. The chemical schedule of the now law, they say, will produce revenue to the amount of $6,695,000. In 1596 it brought $5,500,900 (in round numbers). The earthenware and glassware schedule is counted upon for $9,741,000, while in 1896 it brought $7,91)0,000. Schedule C, metals and manufactures of metals, is expected to produce $17,000,000, while in 1896 the amount was $13,300,000. The lumber schedule, it is anticipated, will produce $2,400,000. It brought only $380,000 in 1896, owing to free trade in Canadian lumber. Even with the enormous anticipatory importations the sugar schedule is expected to bring in, at the lowest estimate, $38,000,000, as against $29,000,000 in 1^96. A more liberal estimate places the prospective sugar revenues at $55,000,.000. On tobacco and manufactures thereof "the estimated revenue for the next year is $16,400,000, against $14,800,000 last year. In the agricultural schedule the estimates of revenue run from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000, compared with $7,900,000 in 1896. Imported wines, spirits and malt liquors are counted upon for $7,935,000, against $6,900,000 last year. In flax, hemp, jute, etc., the revenues for next y ear are estimated at from $15,000,000 to $19,000,000, contrasted with $12,000,600 last year. On wool and manufactures thereof the estimate is at least double the revenue of last year, which was $523,000,000. Silks and silk goods are expected to bring about $14,000,000, against $12,500,000 last year. On pulp, paper and books the estimate is $2,000,000, contrasted with $1,200,000 last year. Schedule I, manufactures of cotton, brought in $9,300,000 last year, and it is estimated will produce over $11,000,000 next. year. The sundries schedule, which includes misoellaneous items not otherwise specified, produced $10,900,01X1 last year, and the lowest estimate for next year is $13,500,000, while a more liberal calculation places it at $20,000,000. Mrs. Priscilla Spooner, mother of H. C. Sanford of Akron, Ohio, died Friday morning. She was 103 years old and the oldest person cn the Western Reserve.

NAMED BY REED. List of Committees as Announced by the Speaker of the House. Speaker Reed Saturday night announced the House committees. The committees on ways and means, accounts and mileage were announced at. the beginning of the session. The chairmen of the various committees and the positions occupied by the Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, lowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Wisconsin mon are as follows: Foreign Affairs—Robert R. Hitt of Illinois, Robert G. Cousins of lowa. William Alden Smith of Michigan, Charles L. Heady of Indiana. Republicans. Appropriations—Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois. James A. Hemenway of Indiana, Samuel S. Barney of Wisconsin, William H. Moody of Massm-lmsetts, Samuel J. Pugh of Kentucky. Stephen W. North way of Ohio, Republicans; Alexander M Dockery of Missouri. Democrat. Judiciary David B. Henderson of lowa, Thomas Updegraff of I >wa. Janies A. Connolly of Illinois. John J. Jenkins of Wisconsin. Jesse It. Overstreet of Indiana. Republicans. Banking and Currency Joseph 11. Walker of Massachusetts. Henry U. Johnson of Indlaun, George Spalding of Michigan, George W. Prince of Illinois, Republicans. Coinage. Weights ami Measures- Charles W. Stone of Pennsylvania, Edward C. Miner of Wisconsin, Thomas Updegraff of lowa, James H. Southard of Ohio. Daniel W. Mills of Illinois, Republicans; Samuel Maxwell of Nebraska, Fusion. Interstate and Foreign Commerce —William P. Hepburn of lowa. John B. Corliss of Michigan. James It. Mann of Illinois, Repu-b---licans; William H. Hinrtehsen of Illinois. Democrat. Rivers and Harbors—Warren R. Hooker of New York. Henry A. Cooper of Wisconsin, Waiter Reeves of Illinois. Roswell P Bishop of Michigan, Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, Republicans: Agriculture- James W. Wadsworth of New York. Vespasian Warner of Illinois. Edward Sauerhvrlng of Wisconsin, Horace G. Snover of Michigan. William Lorimer of Illinois, Republicans. Military Affairs—John A. Thull of lowa, Benjamin F. Marsh of Illinois. Michael Griffln of Wisconsin, Hugh R. Belknap of Illinois, Republicans; Thomas M. Jett of Illinois. Democrat. Naval Affairs-Charles A. Routelle of Maine, George E. Foss of Illinois, RepubliPostotTices ami Postronds—Eugene F. Loud of California, George W. Smith of Illinois. William Lorimer of Illinois, Republicans. Public Lands—John F. Lacy of lowa, Samuel S. Barney of Wisconsin. C. D. Sheldon of Michigan. Daniel W. Mills of Illinois, Republicans. Indian Affairs—. James S. Sherman of New York. James F. Lacy of lowa. Horace G. Snover of Miclilgan. Charles B. Landis of Indian.i. Republicans; William T. Zenor of Indiana. I >em >crat. Territories William S. Knox of Massachusetts. M. Griffin of Wisconsin. J. A. Hemenway of Indiana, William S. Mesick of Michigan. Republicans; J. Hunter of Illin ds. Democrat. Public Buildings and Grounds—Dnvid 11. Merer f Nebraska. George E. White of Illinois, Republicans. Paeiti ■ Railroads H Henry Powers of Vermont. William P. Hepburn of lowa, Geo. W Carls .>f Indiana. Republicans. Invalid Pensions George W Ray of New York. Vespasian Warner of Illinois. Sant W Smith of Michigan. Republicans; Robert W Miers of Indiana. Democrat. Immigration and Naturalization Lorenzo Danford of Ohio. Joseph V. Graff of Illinois, Repnb’ico ns.

n>!m J Gardner of New Jersey, William l.orlnn r of Illliml-. Republieans; Fonlinan I Brm-ker >f Michigan, Dennwrat. MII'La U. njumin F Marsh of Illinois, Goor:;e Sp •! : —of Mii hiuan, Republican*. Th f >.lowing are tin* ehiunnen of the import mil < ommit toe-: I -t. .nn N ! R-.b. rt W Ttvlor. Ohio. I::-"'. - No. 2 Henry I. John.-m. Imliir. 1..- No. 3-James A. Walker, Virginia. I.evees va.l Improvement- of the Mi— U«i|.p Koe: Uh bird ltarlho .il. Mi—ourl. Ede ati .n G;iln*hn Grow. Pennsylvania. M. : iii, • Marine and Fl-heric- Sereno E. r , x. . t .■ Ra a ■. 1 < u.a - I'liif— \ I’hi. k<Tfiig. Non J ,rk. Manafaeinr< - G<->rge W. FarD. In liana. Mb - . 1 Mia; i, Charles H. <ii .-venor. p.iteic- J -- >ll D Hicks. Pennsylvania. 1‘ a-. .a- H ary > l.otnlenskiger. New < :aims N Brumm. Pennsylvania. M c C aim- I hmideii- M. Mahon. ’ PennPriv.i’e l.aad d.iim- G. orge W. Smith, Illinois. District of t'olnmbiu J W. Bab Wisconsin. R.o isjon of the Laws Ve-pasian Warner, Illinois Reform In the Civil Service Marriott Brosin-. Pennsylvania. la.'. :i<>n of President. Vice President and Representatives in Congress John B. Cor--11-s Miehigan. Alcoholic Liquor Traffic H. C. Brewster, New York. Ventilation and Acoustics Joel Ik Heatw >(<■. Minnesota. Irrigation of Arid Lands William It. Elliss. Oregon. Expenditures in the State Department— Lemuel E tptl-Z. New York. Expenditures in the Treasury Department —Robert G. Cousins. lowa. Expenditure- in the War Department— W. W. <trout, Vermont. Expenditures in the Navy Department—J. F Stewart. New Jersey. Expenditures in the Postofflce Department Irving P. Wagner. Pennsylvania. Expenditures in the Interior Department— Charles (hirtis. Kansas. Expcnditun- in the Department of Justice—Cyrus A. Sulioway. New York. Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture E. W. Gillett. New York. Expenditures on Public Buildings—D. G. Colson. Kentucky. Accounts- B. B. Odell. Jr.. New York. Printing G. D. Pm-kins, lowa. Library Alfred C. Harmon, Pennsylvania. Cycling is the sport of sports, and it is continually broadening its sphere of usefulness. There really never was much of a movement on foot for building roads until the movement was mounted on a bicycle. There threatens to be a clash between the organization calling itself the National 'Cycle Track Association and the L. A. W. Michael is the greatest of living pace followers and is conceded by those who know to have every paced record at his mercy. The break in bicycle prices is the natural result <>f open competition, reduction in cost of materials, enormous demand ami consequent profit in the business. Everybody wants a wheel, ami it looks as if comparatively few would be debarred on account of price. Irving A. I’owell, the amateur crack of Now York City, who rode in the circuit races at Rochester recently, will come Into an inheritance of $400,000 on his birthday. Eddie Babi states positively that he will go to Europe at the close of the national circuit for two months, there to rest until the opening of an indoor circuit, which he says is sure to come. A farmer by the name of Inman, who hailed from Kansas, competed at the Kansas City meet on the national circuit and won a handicap handsomely.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Gov. Mount Appoints Indiana Dele» gates to a Notable Gathering of Farmers—Hinshaw’s Lawyers Think They Can Prove Him Innocent, Congress of Farmers. Gov. Mount hits announced the following men as delegates and alternates to the National Congress of Farmers, to be held at St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 31, Sept. 1,2, 3, 4 and 6: Delegates and alternates at largo: Aaron Jones. South Bend; W. W. Hamilton, Grensburg; alternates, Prof. W. C. Latta, Lafayette; J. G. Kiusbury. Indianapolis. First District —Robert Mitchell, Princeton; alternate. Peter Simmons, Evansville. Secoml District Jos. A. Burton, Orleans; alternate, A. B. Milligan, Gosport. Third District—Jonathan Beard, Georgetown; alternate. Captain W. W u Daniels, Troy. Fourth District — Theodore Templeton, Hope; alternate. Edward Guthrie, Dupont. Fifth District S. F. Lockridge. GreviiDlSz tie; alternate. J. Gnilliams. Fincastle. Sixth District —Mrs. Virginia <’. Meredith, Cambridge City; alternate. H. F. McMahan, Fairiield. Seventh District—J. J. W. Billingsley, In- ■ — dlauapolis; alternate, C. L. Ditmer, Franklin. Eighth District—A. A. Waugh. Murray: alternate, Frank Claypool, Muncie. Ninth District I. N. Barker, Thorntown; alternate. Dr. E. C. Collins, Carmel. Tenth District—Fremont Goodwine, West Lebanon; alternate, E. L. Furnass, FurnassVille. Eleventh District- Joshua Strange. Arcadia: alternate, Ben F. Biliiter, Huntington. Twelfth District- J. N. Babcock, Topeka; alternate. Orlando Campbell. Auburn. Thirteenth District—Peter Heim, Marshall; alternate, H. S. K. Bartholomew, Middlebury. New Story of Hinshaw Murder, The attorneys for W, E. Hinshaw, the Belleville Methodist minister who was convicted of murdering his wile on Jan. 9, 1895, and sentenced to the State prison for life, have made public a confession secured from Noah Baney, now hi prison for larceny. Baney does not admit any connection with the murder, but claims that it was committed by John Whitney, known as "Kid Whitney.” and Guy Van Tassel. Both are now in prison. Baney says the two men named borrowed a horse nnd buggy from hiln, saying they had a "job” to do in Danville and inviting hint to take part. He declined. They took the rig on the night of Jan. 9, 1895, Baney says, and returned the next morning. telling him they had "done that." going through the house through the back door and kitchen. Shortly afterward the three went to Chicago, remaining a couple of days, and then coming back to Indianapolis. The story agrees with the statement made by Hinshaw on the witness stand at the time of the trial, though Law-

yer Parker says that he has verified all th*- statements made as to the movements <>f the i on before and after the murder and has ascertained the correctness of Baney's story in regard to the loan cf the Inose and buggy. All Over the State. Abwttt 12:30 o’clock Sunday morning Thomas Kenberger of Swayzee and William Butler of Wabash were drowned in the Mississinewa liver. The men were • amping. Their bodies were recovered. The Indiana Farmers’ Loan and Savings As, .•eiation. a small Fort Wayne building association, has been placed in the han Is of A. A. Furman as receiver. The assets are $99,000 and the liabilities $9 1,900. While returning to Portland from Fort Wayne on an excursion train Jacob Wolfe, a wealthy ex-contractor of Bluffton. was tel bed of his pocketbook containing $5,528. Os this amount $278 was in cash. At Bedford Friday morning. Ballard Record, aged 21. shot and killed his brother Morton, aged 23. The fratricide was conimitt-d in the presence of their aged parents, and just after leaving the breakfast table. Although the brothers had slept together, a quarrel over some trivial matter was begun, and the younger brother shot the elder through the heart. The Records are well known and influential people. Young Record has-surrendered to tlie authorities. Edward Dismore and Henry Van Cleave, both powerful and desperate men, engag >d in a battle in the Shelbyville jail, and Dismore was horribly cut about the body with a razor and will die. The quarrel arose over Dismore having accused Van *'leave of taking $2 from his cell while the former was asleep. In the fight Dismore fell to the stone floor because of the loss of blood and Van Cleave was over him with the razor across his jugular until knocked senseless by Sheriff Schoelch. Van Cleave is waiting to be taken to the penitentiary, convicted of robbery. Dismore is serving a jail sentence on a similar charge. Farmers in the eastern part of Madison County are inaugurating a series of rat hunts which bid fair to rival the oldfashioned sport of fox hunting. During the past two months, rats large, rats small, rats lean, fat and otherwise, hundreds and thousands of them, have overrun everything, barns, homes, chickens, outhouses, and have done a great deal of damage. It is not known where they came from or on what score they are supposed to be a curse, but their material numerical strength has been something that has attracted no end of attention. It is feared that they will injure the wheat and corn when it is stored in ba.rns and cribs. The farmers have therefore organized a rat killing club. The membership runs up to about 100 persons, to say nothing of rat dogs and cats. They will take rat outings every Sunday and are supposed to kill all of the rats off of one premise every Sunday. All kinds of implements will be brought into use. Some farmers estimate that there are several thousand mound their places. It will take several months to get around the entire circle. This section of the country has never been especially encumbered with rats heretofore. Under the new medical law the State Board of Medical Examiners will attempt to prevent twenty-eight Fort Wayne physicians from procuring licenses to practice. Twenty-six of the practitioners now have licenses under the old law. They have employed attorneys to test the constitutionality of the law which can prevent them from practicing in Indiana. The charge against most of the doctors is that they were graduated from colleges that are not recognized by the profession as competent schools for learning. Some of them, it is claimed, have purchased Uteir diplomas for a few dollars.