St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 September 1897 — Page 7

IS THE WOMAN DEAD? Luetgert s lawyer ;; claim it CANNOT EE PR£VEN. Upon that I’oint Hinces the Fpte of Chicago’s Rich Sausage Maker, Who la Being Trie 1 for a Most Hideous Crime. Case of Great Interest. Not since the celebrated Cronin ease has Chicago had a trial which promised so inucn in the line of sensation as that of Adolpn Luetgert, the rich siusagenmkewho is accused of murdering his wife. The _ trial, which is now on, will probably con- I two months. The long trial and the extraordinary features involved will give the case a place among the most famous crimes of the century. The theory of the prosecution, represented bv State Attorney Charles S. Deneen, is’that Luetgert who was not on good terms with his wife’ g murdered her and disposed of her body by dissolving it in a sausage vat tilled with S caustic soda and crude potash. The defense will set up the claim that Mrs. Luet1 gert is not dead, that she wandered away * from home while demented and is still alive. The strength of the oroseeutors ease depends upon the ability of the atj torneys and police to prove that Mrs. Luetgert is dead. The difficulties ini vnlvnd 11V rxcs4-.xlsi:.Lt-... il . . . .1

* voived in establishing the corpus delicti gives the case a resemblance to the Park-man-Webst"r murder in Boston half a | century ago. Luetgert is about 50 years old. He used to be a saloonkeeper, but after his marriage to IS-year-old Louise Bickner

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about twenty years ago lie went into the sausage manufacturing business. He had a knowledge of chemistry, and by using it in his business produced a superior article and rapidly accumulated money. He was once worth $300,000, but his fortune has dwindled somewhat. During the last few years he ami his wife Ibved unhappily, and though he ate at his ui P hts "1 the sausage 'SUO^S' 1 in the rear of the i s. ItIlrd;lv eveiljng I dmer. wrl bade jijs . hoTWr^^ ■' ,H ‘ r •’ittim.- in I 1. little LomrWtaHaMMMl

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Her husband was, as usual, spending the | night in the factory. When Louis and the , other children*came down to breakfast i the following morning their mother was > missing. Luetgert was informed, but remarked that she would turn up all right. Days passed, but Mrs. Luetgert did not I return and finally her brother notified the ; police. Luetgert suggested suicide. The : river was dragged and the country round ■ about searched, but no trace of her could be found. Accu-cl of Murder. Finally Inspector Schaack grew suspicious and when the night watchman and ■engineer at the sausage factory told him that the night Mrs. Luetgert disappeared, Luetgert had been doing unusual things at the factory his suspicion grew Into a belief that luetgert had murdered

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his wife. The engineer said that, contrary to the usual order of affairs, Luetgert had him keep the fires at the factory going that night and that he saw Luetgert moving around the place mysteriously until 3 o’clock Sunday morning. Luetgert was arrested and his factory was searched. One of the sausage vats showed evidence of recent rtse. At the bottom was found, in a very much diluted form, a solution of potash and caustic soda. '1 here were also found two of Mrs. Luetgert s rings, several pieces of bone, an artificial tooth which a dentist identified as one he bad made for Mrs. Luetgert, and, in tae

catch basin of the sewer which drained the vat, several pieces of bone and a small tangle of hair. It was the theory of the police that Luetgert had enticed his wife to the factory, killed her. possibly by strangulation, and that he then immersed her body in the diabolical solution m the vat, turned on the steam until the solution boiled, and calmly watched and

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stirred the contents until disintegration I was complete. To this awful charge Luetgert mitered a I calm and complete denial. He maintained I that his wife was still alive, that she would eventually appear, and that the alleged evidence of the police was a mass

of fabrication. Nevertheless he wtis held for murder. A few days later a young man said that he had met a demented woman in Kenosha, Wis., who answered Mrs. Luetgert’s description and who said that she had a sister in Chicago named Muelkr. Mrs. Luetgert has a sister by that name. Subsequently it was reported that Mrs. Luetgert was seen in New York ami that she had sailed for Europe. Luetgert’s lawyers claim that these reports are true and that the murder theory is an outrage. In the course of preparation for the trial, ami for the purpose of demonstrating that it is actually possible for a human body to have, been entirely disintegrated within the time limit set by the police in their theory of the crime, an experiment was made at Rush Medical Col- . lege a few weeks ago under the supervis- , ion of Profs. Haines and I mlafontaine, . and in the presence of State's Attorney । Deneen and representatives of the police । department. The body «f a pauper who j had died at the hospital, weighing about ,

- 130 pounds, was dismembered, placed in ea bm'er containing a strong solution of c caustic soda anil potash ami boiled for ■' three hours. At the end of that time practicahy nothing was left except a few 1 | pieces of bone, which easily crumbled tinder pressure, and the bottom of the boiler was found to contain a thick brown ooze, similar in composition to that in the bottom of the sausage factory vat. I to offset this experiment the defense ask to be permitted to make an experiI ment in court. The cadaver used by the I ^ ta,e, s:ly ,sic attorneys for the defense. I was several days old. In it there was not | tIRP "t' ■ %*w

I that a body from which life has just , passed would offer to the action of the so i lution. Acting upon this belief the de I sense wants to conduct experiments with । a fresh body. EXTRA DUTY MAY BE IMPOSED. Question ns to the Menning of the Discriminating tax Clause. ■ Involved in the question of the interpre- ' tation of section 22 of the new tariff law ■ with regard to the 10 per cent discriminat- ! ing duty on foreign goods coming into the United States from Canada or Mexico, which is now before the attorney general i for decision, is another question of equal lif not greater magnitude. This other question has almost entirely escaped public notice, but it is giving the treasury great concern. It was referred to the at-

toruey general by Secretary Gage tor interpretation along with the other features of section 22 which are in controversy. ’ It involves the question of whether this 1 disci iminating duty of 10 per cent does not apply 1" all goods imported in foie gn 1 vessels landing at lulled States p .rls 1 ' which aw not exempt from Tsi rim ilia t ing I ; tonnage taxes by express treaty stipule- I Ilion. The question arises from another I , slight deviation in section 22, which, if I I 1 made intentionally, would seem to indicate that it was designed to discriminate against three-fourths of all the big transatlantic and transpacific steamship lines, I as well as many of the South American H Ulies - s' SAFE IS ROBBED OF $32,000. A i , I'urglars Loot the Dominion Bank in the Ontario Town of Napanee. “ I Burglars entered the Dominion Bank at ; Napanee, near Kingston, Onto., and knowing the combination of the vault, opened it and stole $32,000. When the officials reached the bank in the morning they found the vault locked. The burglars — changed the combination, and the man-

ager of the bank thought that one of the clerks had made a mistake in locking the vault. An expert was brought from Toronto to open the vault and he occupied the whole day. In the meantime the burglars got a good start. In the evening about 7 o’clock the doors were opened and the bank officials missed the money. Where the burglars got the information concerning the combination of the vault is a mystery. The National Liquor Dealers' Association has decided to meet next year at Detroit.

— “—'the SUNDAY- SCHOOL. | Conference in Aid of Miners la I in St. Louis. . ■ ■— In a speech at the conference of k , leaders in St. Louis M. I>. Ratehf<THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM president of the United Mine Workers REFLECTION. America, advocated a great symnathe „ strike of all branches of organized lai unless Congress mot at once and gave A Bleanant, Interesting, and Instructlaborcrs relief and wiped out the hivive Lesson, and Where It May Be which empowered the .indiciaty "to coiy O und-A Learned and Concise Reduct government by injunction." of m o rm, ... , ’ . .view ot the bume. forces ot labor met at Mason! Teniple at 10 o’clock Monday morning. II Lesson for September 5. H . Stembiss, secretary of the Trades anu^iden Text.—"Ye know the grace of Labor I nion, occupied the chair. No. L or d Jesus Christ, that, though he

business was done at this session, a recess being taken until 11 o'clock. About 200 men composed the convention. At 11 o'clock Sheridan Webster nominated W. B. PreseotL president of the International Typographical Union, for temporary chairman. His election was unanimously adopted and was greeted with applause. ( hairman Prescott then appointed a committee composed of M. I>. Ratchford, James O'Connell, Grant Luce, J. R. Sovereign and W. I). Mahon. The Committee on Credentials made its report immediately upon the assembling | of the conference for its afternoon session. It was shown that eighty eight delegates, representing the following organizations. were represented: United Mine Workers of America, the Social De- ( mocracy, the American Federation of Labor, the Stonemakers International j Union, Brotherhood of Painters j land Decorators. Brotherhood of Bot-I I tlc-B)owers. Building Trades Council of

I St. Louis, the Patriots of Am--ri.-a, International Brotherhood of Track Foremen, •he Single lax League of America, (’em leal Labor Council of Cincinnati, the International Typographic;!l Union,’the People’s party of Kansas ami the Industrial Order of I’’reedmen. Mr. Ratchford took the floor ami wont over the miners’ strike from its inception to the present day, dwelling particularly upon "government by injunction." He pleaded for prompt action, and. coming to tue point of his argument, advocated a special session of Congress as the best ami in fact the only relief. "In case of a refusal to convene Congress," said Mr. Ratchford, "it will then be time to consider more extreme measure*. I am in favor, if the President refuses to calf Congress together, of a complete paralysis of business. I believe then in a sympti thetic strike.” Patrick O'Neill of Rich Hill, Mm. who said In represented Ls(k> unorganized “picks,” favored a Labor revolution. He was a Socialist, he said, and believed in the miners taking things in their own

hands if necessary. Mr. Sovereign put himself on record ns opposed to Mr. Ratehford’s phin. He believed that the crucial test now confrontial organized In-

bor. Mr. Mahon of Detroit '•aid a resold i tions committee was useless. Pho convention should vote <»n Ratehford's p.rpi sition. ami then go home. Tin |w>ner of the nation, lie said, was in the court*, and I if anybody was to be r.itm ,eq j e t it Iw theeourts. He was oposvd to Ml Ritch' lord s proposition. Jame- M. pre* ident of the Illinois miners, then rs<:ii«| nt great length the conditions confronting i the miners of his State, and said he blievod his men would Ie beaten in two I weeks. Mr. Ratchford took exception < arson's Mateu mt that th- II! T .....

miners were winning their U. amL furthetmore, his men were md askin ' this convention for aid. At o'clock the convention ndjnnrr.ed until 'Tucsdity morning nt <» clock. KILLED FROM AMBUSH. Arizona Moorntrinera Waylay n Fo»«c of I nitcd "tati t. Dcputii h. Six men were probably ma'-m re?, m the wilds of the mountains of Po ■ Umm ty. Ark. Two were killed outright, tw » were fatally w mmled and left for dead ami two have mysteriously disappeared and an cither dead or being held iap.,v< by the bloodthirsty bandits who commit ted the awful crime. I’he victims were all oth- vrs, I nitcd States deputy marshal' and deputy sheriffs. and the men w ho did the awful work of rainage are moonshiners of the boon s

and most desperate class. The scene of the bloody crime was a gulch or ravine in the mountains of I’ope ( oun’y it an isolated spot thirty five miles from Ru"e.. ville. the nearest telegraph otli e. and ten miles from Will Spring-. Ihe regain Ims for years been the favorite rende/.vous for count, rfeiters and moonshiners and a d.s triet in which no hiwab.dmg citizen could

live. Marshal Taylor, with hi' po< e. located a la.'ge moonshine outfit Sa ! unity night and decided to make the raid Sunday in daylight. Proceeding slightly in advance of his men. Taylor was within thirty feet of the distillery when he was suddenly | fired upon from ambush ami instantly killed. As Dodson ran up to Taylor he was also slmi dead in his tracks. Rid s began to crack in all directions ami a terrific vollev was fired into the oilicers. Two fell mortallv wounded ami lay by the road-

I VII Ui'H Hi 11^ ” ’ . . side utdil later in the day. when a traveler named Tack chanced by. All traces of the bandits had disappeared, as well as two of the deputy sheriffs. EIG HAUL OF GRAIN. Kailroa ls I’ring Uicago Over 5,000 Cars in Oue Day. The roads running to Chicago from the West ;,nd Northwest are doing the largest business they have ever done before at. this season of the year. Monday was a record breaker. Over 5,000 carloads of grain were brought in by tiie Western roads. This means over 100,000 tons of grain in one day. or more than three times as much Us the ten east-bound roads took from the city during the whole of Iqst week. Os the above mentioned 5,000 carloads of grain. 3,500 earloads were corn. The Burlington brought in 1,100 cars and the Hock Island over 900 cars, and they ran short of rolling stock. "While the lake lines took out of Chicago last week nearly 200,000 tons of freight—• the largest amount on record—the Chicago east-bound roads are carrying no more

through freight than they did at this time last year. The reason is the rates charged by the railroads are higher than the traffic will bear. Total shipments of flour, grain, and provisions from Chicago through to seaboard points and for export by the ten castbound roads last week amounted to 44,349 tons, against 41),153 tons for the week previous and 41,117 tons for the corresponding week last year. Flour shipments last week were 2,510 tons, against 5.328 tons last year; grain, 30,4.88 tons, against 20,851 tons; provisions, 11,351 tuns, iigainst 14,938 tons.

rich, yet for your sakes ho became ;that ye through his poverty might Ui.” —2 Cor. S: 9. s lesson is found in 2 Cor. 9: 1-1 L -Hhe riot at Ephesus had been quellethe city chancellor, sis recorded in -M9: 35-41, Paul left the city and joyed northward to Trons, where he ft^to meet Titus ns he expected. He wi,er to the Macedonian cities, Thes salt, Philippi and Beroea. While jotting through that region, Titus ■ casotn Corinth, bringing messages ot con, but also reporting that the old trou nt Corinth had not been fully settLut were still agitating the church (2 (JI: 5 St. Thereupon he found it nectlV to visit Corinth again; but befor^F‘'nt lie sent Titus to prepare for ] us (Jig (2 Cor. S; 17), and wrote this | v pistMh'd the Second to the Coriu- ■ thinMC ,us ^ as * inve already seen ' t>vo («•#' had preceded it. The epistle is oiwl mingled encouragement, self-

* defcnswal reproof. Some things in the • Corintqi church moved Paul to utter wort’s praise and thanksgiving, among them b^ the liberal giving which is the । subject thin lesson. Other things, e*iwcinllyjo bitter and disgraceful attack on Puuht»ostolic authority, move him to indigmt j. We have to remember the very jwrer state of Paul s mind when he wrote e letter. His main purpose j just then ti to finish the somewhat pro- | longed and Hons work of gathering the j collectLm-X the Jerusalem church we have nienti,* f in *mh passage* ns Rom. 15: 2.5-2 S a , 1 Cor. 10: 14. and to start with i| forJernsnlcm. Therefore the promises of the Corinthians wn* very gratifynig n him. But on the other hand, wearyjim hnlf sick ns he was the ma Hrion^nd slanderous attacks made ui*m him blind his back were extreme!} trj log an grievous. These two stroiebr the mastery a* he wrote, and a pecnlir^ eff.. t is produced, which mnk« s the Ivfor nt times nlm *t dis-onne. '. J. but foKhat very reason intensely human.

(I * plan at cry. “Grate**: thia w*»rd ha* a wide variety iof tncafings m the New T -■ ■•:. -n S . times t means the favor of <;■«! tower L I im n; «anetimes his free gift* induced by that fm-.r. 'mmethtm the more ill ' meaning of the favor which IM to tde (rift of Cbrkt for the nabation of men. Hore, iowwer, it is :pp •■ ' i • earthly, materia! kMliti. whhh would enable the bolicrfr to **alM»und to > <OOd Work." The more he Rives, the more |he will bare to i. "- -i r«;wtc ■■ u m a; I other f »rm of wre- tl. I• e q'« »>.it u •• i from rs>-'m.U2 i» RFremindvr of the fact tint God h ; fter | all both sower and husbamlmau an 1 har I renter, uvrrMTing and making effectual

| tfr. ’.»Vo**-v*Wv - . Teaching Hint., The lesson h.'S tlin.i u ■;g - • own time and < hun hr*. S ice • :1 points Os n -wmbhin «■ are tm- f- I wmg <u» Th" Uormthmns "I >•” imt in thiwimdancr to »pr« ad the « cessitii-s of the Jerusalem < : • -i -* would enable them to Jo nmre in active Christian work. The t . rmthm we e I mercial city, those who si: n d-m-i heathen faith Would have many of tieusual -. uro ' <»f in- ■me eut o:t. I. ■ t! not only siqqmrt thmr own dnir k I were ask<d to give for a p. .ple wbh I whom they had nothing in common save the otrivcrsal brotherhood that is m Christ. tbl The Corinthians had nt firs; b.. n eager to give, ami hud promised la:g - things w hich delighted Paul s heart. Lut now, n year afterward, when he had । about finished his journeying' and ha 4 . collected most of the rest of the oil' ring. ■ the Corinthians were still in arrears m their payment. They wore not systemat-

ically beneficent. Paul had warned them ( in his first epistle (1 ’ or. I’.: 2> to prepare for his coming by angular weegly, proportionate offering fmm every member. It seems that s- me, at any rate, had not taken this excellent advice, and n >w that the time was fast approaching when he was tc visit Corinth again to receive the suit subscribed and depart at om e for Jerusalem, w here the funds were sore ly needed, the Corinthians were still delinquent. In all our churches a similar state of things is likely to be discovered when

it is attempted to collect the pledges made. (c) Paul's main point is that sy-tematie giving is not incompatible with that hearty and cheerful spontaneousness which alone makes giving beautiful and Christliko. Some people do not believe j this. TFcy think that to calculate just , how many per cent of their income thej , will give to this object and to that spoils the pleasure ..f giving and maxes it mechanical. Those people are usually small givers, though they think they are liberal. They give a lump sum to some special cause, and then forget all about it until it comes up next year. The person who gives so many cents or dollars each week can feel just the same ‘‘hilarious" pleasure in his gift as the impulsive giver, if he remembers Paul's advice. (d) Giving makes rich. This paradox is proved by the experience of hundreds ami thousands. For testimony on this I point, ask any man or woman who has for j a sufficiently long time practiced systomatic giving, whether they have regretted the practice. Next Lesson—“ Christian Living. Boni. 12: 9-21 Training Children. The hope of our country, socially, politically, morally ami religiously, lies iu the training of tire children. It is an important step toward the eradication of a number of evils which have grown to such magnitude as to tlneat- . en the downfall of our republic. The , adequate training of the children will I not only cure these evils but will bring - Priceless blessings to the country, sucii , as we do not now enjoy.—Rev. C. 1 . Harris.

READY TO OPEN MINES. Arrangements Perfected for Working wit 11 Imported Men. Coal operators of the Pittsburg district have decided to start several mines along the AVheeling division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The preliminaries have all been completed. One of the first moves was to get in touch with the railroad companies. The officials of the railroads at once agreed to co-operate with the operators in bringing about, if possible, nn era of activity in the coal-pro-ducing industry of the Pittsburg district. It was made very apparent that the railroads were losing a large amount’of business an.l that they were fellow sufferers with the coal operators. The question of the expense of getting imported labor into the district was discussed, and the railroad companies agreed to share their portion of the outlay. After this agreement was made the work of hiring imported labor was taken charge of by a special sub-committee. Just when they will lie brought into the district could not be learned. One of the prim-in a! reasons for selecting the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and Onio is the fact that men can be brought in and unloaded in close proximity to the pit mouths. Another reason advanced is the fact that tlie mines along this road have lieen supplying coal for the locomotives of the railroad, and if coal is not furnished United Slates mail trains could not be run and the wheels of the national government would be inti rfered with. Protection

would be forthcoming with no cost imposed on the ojHTntors, as the Government would be bound to protect and maintain its property nt its own expense. These plan* have nil been completed and the work is well under way. GODIN THEIR NEW LEADER Fcn<l».Vl vn nin Mun Im Elected Com-miriidrr-in-Chlef of (•♦ A. R, Is "Vet U ;_a Imr John I’. S. Gobin of Lebanon, Pa., was de ted commander-in-ti o f 'f the Grand Army on the second ballot at B ifTalo. I be m e commander ’m-ebief has for a he g time been a prominent politician in U s}lva; m. having been State Senator ,(I , JW ... it dfl T fix tops r. «. tmwr. ■ - ; ' -s. ,a;d Lt s.v,;M years ~, , - ft : Si tiitte. ID' was a mem- • - r -he l’..> • nth Pena \vlvanin Infnn•lS, .nd!- „ h th. >. i ; etith Army C, • < , Red Itiwr ■ ■■apiiign and > aSm imDn m rhe Shenandoah valley. He . ..n *!> wan old. H • has long boon

... ■ , '-no •_ Ihe only olh. r , n •■' ' - ' i"r the p’.- e was San | FA .MuRS INCREASED RECEIPTS I lr. pi Will Itriiiß >i »,<><» ',(» I > More ' i . -■• • sAV ■ t IPigham of the Ag- . ■ ~ , ,g> in th*'aggregate from ' p O IHHI.IKHI to SbOK.’MHI.tXiO in excess of • ! nt recviX'd last y arfor their ( ■ r.. _ m . Iso predice d that the .. . ; Ci,- . f farm products ,j i cig the 1-b 'riag element. “The m e "f labor." he said, “did not decline • ’ pro e . f farm products, and for , t ... ,• the laimer was forced to pay is i: it, h f r the- services ~f those who did '■ is work : - ever, while his receipts were , ; H t , A u Inasinm h :| s -.ages did not io. Ilm-. 1 s.-e no rea u.n why they should 1 C expected L» rise to corn -pond with the ,lva:". f f.-.rm products, which are now'

hri-.ging mly f-.iir pri es. Still, the labor- j - i au will be benefited by this advance | h.'ptl.-s Tilt farmer will discharge his ;• h btcdm ss and make improvements which will require labor. He will pur- ■ ■ ■ of tie ; rodsn-ts of labor, putti: g a vast amount of no noy in circulatict:. and this will create a demand for labor in all lines, and men who have been without employment, or only partially emph y '-d, w ill work full time at fair wages.

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The Duke of Northumberland, the old- j est peer in England, will be 88 years old | in October. Prince Victor Napoleon completed re cently his 25th year in Brussels when a ! family gathering took place at Ims bote. ! in the Avenue Louise. The bullet which killed Lord Nelson at ' Trafalmir is still preserved. It w mmmtled'in a crystal locket and reposes m a I crimson bag with gold tassels. The porter of the Paris b re ent y died, leaving a fortune of had been employed ihntj . ■ !^y Ofs24oa year. He evidently got rich ^Francois Coppe. the French poet and mwdmnieian. who rc.emly umleni^ a ere surgical operation, causing g a c fems that he would not rceovei, is now d '^ wife of the Korean minister is wen educated in her own ^ es commence the study. Tbn Duchess of Cumberland, I w-u e- - .umr of the Princess private asylum near A icnna.

RECORE OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. State Factory Inspector After Employers of Child Labor — Circus Lemonade Contained a Rank Poison Meeting; Breaks L’p in a Row. After Child Employers. State Factory Inspector McAbee is raising a commotion ,’n the Indiana gas belt by making a personal round of the factories. In the last legislature an an-ti-child labor law, making it unlawful to employ children under 14 years of age, was passed, together with a compulsory education law, which required every child between 8 and 14 to be in school. McAbee found gas licit manufacturers paying absolutely no attention to the antichild labor laws. Some of them were employing 100 or more ehiblren and running their business on that cheap labor basis. Hoc*ora in a Row. The Miami County Medical Association, consisting of all the physicians of the city and county, held a monthly meeting at I’eru and broke up in a general light, which started over a discussion as to the ethics of allowing a physician’s name in the newspapers. Revolvers were drawn and s< veral prominent city physicians threatened to kill each other.

Contained I’oison. A chemical analysis made by Health Officer Fairfield of Anderson reveals the fact that from 35 to 50 per cent of the supposed tartaric acid used in the Barnum show lemonade which poisoned 200 persons, was tartar emetic, a rank poison. I’ifty of the victims are still in bed. Some of the cases are serious. All Over the State. Mrs. Jacob Donaldson of Eminence fell dead while eating her dinner. In a runaway at Elwood Jesse George had his skull fractured and will probably die. Romeo Small, colored, was tilled and sent to jail at Richmond for giving liquor t<> children. A severe frost Friday night did immense damage to the potato crop in the vicinity of Warsaw. Thomas MeUutcheon. aged 22. was lulled near Charlestown by a Baltimore Ct Ohio Southwestern freight train. A storm at Princeton did co tsid 'cable damage t > shade trees, awnings and otitbniidings. Mihs of femes are blown । d<iwn. Rev. H. T. Lampton is dead at Rockport. aged. s| years. He has he n an active minister in the Baptist Church for ever fifty year*. A number of Spiritualists have taken the "hcunted” house on East Maple street, in JefT< rsonville. for six months, and will hold seam-os. At tb- closing of the Muncie races Friday v new rnce record for half-mile tracks was made by Pearl C. in the free-for-all pact 1 for a purse of Sita). , A freight train on the Air Line was de- ' raiie lat Hartwell switch. Five hundred feet of track was torn up and eight car1 . ♦ - « * i .. i. I

’ b.ads .f wheat demolished. ] ,1 lb rod of Lebanon has sued the lua1 ’ aim: m. ’. i' Gas ( imp.any for 52,ihmi damages for shutting off the gas after j r< eivmg payment for the fuel. (l -rgc (im drum of Shelbyville, who I attempted suicide by .'hooting himself ■ through tin- abilotm'D, is dead. Domestic i dit!:< nlties ate assigned as the cause. Horace Coleman, colored, confined in the anty jail at Shelbyville on a charge *»f burglarv, escaped by knocking Lon- ! .-aide Sande;-' senseless and leaping over hi- pr 'irate body. Sanders is fatally injured. Tlu r. was a riot at Yellow Creek lake, near Warsaw, where a camp meeting of ~ (nut : ,s in session. Ihe sheriff and a p, weie i dled and arrested twentylive drunken men who had raised a disturbance. The firn- dairy stock barn of Henry Liefel. we't of Brazil, was destroyed by tire. Los'. S3,<hh>; insured for $2,5’40. Origin of th-- fire is unknown, but it is believed that tramps set fire to a pile of straw in one of the sheds. Lieut. W. I’. Pence, U. S. A., who was | graduated from West Point in the class I of IMO. standing third, has been detailed

! as instructor in mathematics at West । Point after graduating from the I-rank-fort high school. M hilc engaged in building some new streets in Pendleton workmen unearthed a number of skulls and bones, and upon investigation it was found that they had plowed into an old burying ground which had not been in use for forty years. Mrs. Ella Johnson, mother of John I'. Johnson, wrecker of the State National ■ Bank of Logansport, died, aged i 2 years. ! Iler death was hastened by the disgrace i of her soli, who is serving sentence of sisI ten years in the ('olumbus (O.) peniI tentiary. । For s ane time past the families of I Enos Ithoades aim John Higgins, promii nent people of Shelbyville, have been I having trouble concerning the diI viding line of their land. Saturj dav afternoon Mrs. Higgins, who is 1 50’vears of age. went out to gather pears

Mr- Rhoades saw her and told her not I to touch the pears, as the trees stood on I heir side of the line. Mrs. Ibggms de- ■ nied the assertion and a fight was the result Mrs. Rhoades, who is a much laiM, womantlmn r..nee from where tm cm.m wire fenci. 1 In so doing i>h.rides woman jeikid im- 1 \ C ins woman suffered the loss of , , ’Tnd one finger, besides being hoi’’■'i ,‘ \ mbl-ited about the body. Ihe woman was beatingher neighbor ! n >wiv Mrs. Higgms is m a Sieai a comlition’and Mrs. Rhoades is Ul Arrangeincnts are being perfected for im. loiiit reunion of the Eighty-mnth InJ i.o-mtii and Ninth Indiana LatX to be Imld at Pendleton Oct. 6 a q-he’ \rmours of Chicago have purchas(.it , f Seth Hammond 320 acres of dry v'uirsh land eight miles west of South Bend, and expect to put up large barns ami stock the tract. The home of Milton Southers, near Fairfax, was visited by white caps. The masked men not only gave him a severe whipping, but cruelly whipped his veuaruble mother, GO years old.