St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 23, Number 8, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 11 September 1897 — Page 3

AGRICULTURAL NEWS THINGS PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. Several Good Remedies Given to Prevent Smut in Wheat—How to Conquer an Angry Bull—Ammonia Cure for Lumpy Jaw. To Prevent Smut in Wheat. The very best grain that can be had (should be seeded. If rhe farm grain is not up to the standard, do not use it. Grain grown on strong limestone land has more vitality and will produce more to the acre. To prevent smut, the grain should be pickled before drilling. The best preventive of smut is sulphate of copper or blue vitriol. Take •one pound of the sulphate and dissolve It in eight gallons of water. After the vitriol is dissolved spread the grain to be treated upon the barn floor and sprinkle it well; then turn it with a long-handled shovel so that every grain is coated. The grain may then be dusted with dry air-slacked lime, and then drilled at once. Weak chamber lye is also equally effective; it should be fermented first. While it may not be advisable to take the trouble to coat •every bushel of grain drilled, yet it will pay, and pay handsomely. The grain grown especially for seed should always be so treated. By so doing a better quality of grain can be had, and that will have more vitality. The seed growers always coat their grain before ■drilling.—The American. Curing an Ugly Bull. Frequently a bull, in a tit of temper, kills or cripples his keeper. This la more particularly true of dairy breeds. Now, I do not believe the bull Is as much to blame as his owner. Ue has been kept in close confinement most of his life, with very little exercise or sunlight, and no pleasant company. Uis blood is in bad order as a consequence, and he is difficult to control. The beef bull Is more phlegmatic and less liable to get unruly. I think that if the treacherous bull had been allowed the range of a small paddock and the company of a couple of sedate old cows, and, perhaps, made do an hour's wprk each day, running a feed chopper or a churn, so as to wear out muscular tissue and maintain health and his procreative power in full vigor, his blood would have been kept pure and his temper sweet. —Agriculturist. Cure for Lumpy Jnw. Astotheammonia cure for lumpy jaw, we have only the assurance of a Mr. Wm. Metcalf, Grey County, Ontario, who writes the Farmers’ Advocate as follows: I have used it for years, and ■cured every case, no matter how bad. ' Just rub a little on lump, or lumps, as ■ sometimes there are several. They will ! disappear gradually In a short time. Sometimes, if very bad, 1 foment with pretty warm water, but not hot enough to scald. The ammonia has then more -chance to penetrate, but 1 seldom do anything but rub a little on with my fingers out of a ten-cent bottle I keep In the stable for the purpose. Waste of Sweet Corn Stalks. Usually on each stalk there are two or more ears, one fully ready for use as green corn, the other small and immature. To save this last the stalk is left uncut. But in most cases the second, and always the third ear is too small to be profitably marketed. Whenever there is only one ear on a stalk it should at once be cut and fed to the cow or horse. It Is worth more then than it ever will be again. We are not sure that this is not true, even when there are one or more nubbins left on the stalk, if fed to milch cows. Ordinary fodder corn Is very poor feed. It needs to be supplemented, as this sweet corn fodder does, with a greater amount of nutrition, which Is worth as much in increased milk yield as it is in a few nubbins of corn. Sweet corn fodder Is more wasted than any other. It Is wasted in trying to save nubbins of corn worth more for feeding than they are for anything else—Cultivator.

Stack Makins* As a rule there are few good stack makers in the United States, as the abundant building material makes it easy to put up barns capable of holding all the grain and hay. But wherever grain growing increases largely, the grain in the straw, being only left in that condition for a few weeks, does not absolutely need barn room. A wellbuilt stack answers every purpose, and, -except labor used in making it, costs nothing. The only necessary rule is to always keep the middle of the stack full and to tramp it down well. If the sides are not trampled at all it will be better. The stack will settle witli the grain in the best possible shape. Farmins a Good Business, Fifty-five years ago I was busily engaged on a farm; it seemed to me a hard life, and as soon as I -was 21 years old I sought an easier one, but I cannot say that 1 found it. After working at different kinds of business for fourteen years (seven and one-half years being spent in Illinois and Missouri) I game back to my native place broken in health and fully persuaded that farming was not the hardest business one could choose. After my second experience of thirty-five years I still have the same opinion. Farming as a reliable way of getting a living has not changed materially in fifty-five years, but the way to run a farm has changed. The trouble about farming is that you cannot induce the middle-aged man to make the changes that the times require, and the young man who lives on the home farm must, .and will, do as his father used to do. easy thing to learn now Is the ^*'*<^mhour system for a day. The has changed as

much as that of manufacturing. The? hand spinning wheel has been set aside, and so, to a large extent, must the hand hoe and the 1 and scythe, the hand rake and the one-horse plow. The old four-pound lump of butter must bo well made into eight half-pound prints; milk must be put into glass cans; all kinds of fruit must look just so and the cows must be groomed to look as tidy as a gentleman's horse, and so on to the end of farm work. If a farmer will be up in fashion and up with the time he lives in, farming is as good business now as it was fifty years ago. A farmer might as well be out of the world as to be fifty years behind the times. New England Farmer. A Good Stable Floor. Wo may not be able to lay a cement floor, we may not be able to buy lumber, but, in most eases, we have some clay on the farm, and, if so, there is no excuse for not having a very fair stable floor. Dig out the top soil, and fill in at least six inches of clay which has been worked thoroughly with water, and about one-sixth coal ashes, or fine gravel, and straw chopped to about half an inch in length, so as to form a tough, adhesive mass. The preliminary mixing can be done with a hoe, but the working proper should be done by tramping thoroughly, either by man or horse. Drive in little pegs to show the slope desired, and then ram It firmly with a large wooden rammer. Smooth It oIT, using a straight edge from peg to peg, and allow time to dry properly before using. Such a fl >r will stand a good deal of wear, and can be kept reasonably clean. -Grange Homes.

The Live Forever Pest. The following plan has proved effective in getting rid of live forever in at least one ease: Fence off a small portion at a time and turn in hogs, which are very fond of the weed and will devour it greedily, rooting up the ground to get the little tubers. By permitting the hogs to till this soil thoroughly they will eradicate live forever, root and branch, In a more thorough and inexpensive manner than can be done in any otbei way. At least this is what a Connecticut farmer writes to the New England Homestead. Another farmer wrote as follows: “Turn hogs on tho hind in early spring, and they will clean up the roots completely, or salt If placed upon each plant will kill.'* He Flows Heep. Mr. T. M. Brown, who resides in Elbert County, Georgia, on the line of the Southern Railway, is a successful farmer. Mr. Brown bought his farm about five years ago, ami he aims to get big returns by deep plowing ami the use of commercial fertilizers and farm yard manure. Beginning on poor and wornout land four years ago. that searvelv paid tho Cost of tillage, he has brought it up to that high state of fertility tl^it enabled him to get last year forty one bales of on fifty acres and .".000 bushels of corn on twenty live acres, together with oats, pen* and other provision crops in abundance. Southern States. Farm Note.. While at pasture the young sheep should h«A- access to salt. A flock will visit the stilting /lace twice a day u gularly. Balt is a good tonic and prevents indigestion, which produces destructive diarrhoea, all the worse when the weather is warm.

Fros. H. E. Van Detnan says that a crop of clover or cow peas plowed under every two or three years In the orchard will stimulate growth sufficiently, umi as it would take twentyloads of stable manure per acre to do the same, the former is the cheaper. Smut does not pass from stalk to stalk in the cornfield, and there Is no danger of contamination in this way. The Infection takes place when the corn is young, the germinating spores entering Ilie tenderes- part the root, node and lowest joint- and after the disease Is once in the plant no application will do the least good. In regard to detasseling corn—that is, to break down the tassels or remove them, a practice which has been advocated as enabling the farmer to secure larger yields- experiments show that there Is nothing gained by so doing, while the labor required Is an Item of expense that is bestowed when the farmer CAn be growing green fodder or some other crop for cattle food. The maggots which annoy sheep so ■ severely nre hatched from eggs deposited in tbe nostrils by a fly, and the sheep use every effort possible to prevent the fly from so doing. One remedy Is to put ,a.r on the nostrils. This maybe done by placing wood tar where the sheep can get at it ami throwing a handful o'? salt on the tar, the sheep getting the tar on the nostrils while eating the salt. Salt is an important aid to digestion, and especially so to all ruminant animals. If cows arc not salted frequently they will cat more than is good for them when they do get access to salt. In large quantities salt is laxative, it being an Irritant to the bowels, which are therefore purged to get rid of it. Failure to salt regularly will make tho cream mose difficult to turn into butter, thus repaying the farmer for his carelessness Uy giving him a longer and harder job at churning. It has frequently been asserted that the brilliant colors of many flowers serve to attract bees and butterflies to them. Experiments recently renorted to the Belgian Academy of Science seem to show that the perfume rather than the color of the flower is the real attraction. Bright-colored blossoms were covered with leaves and papers pinned closely over them, yet the Insects not only visited the hidden flowers, but endeavored to force their way under the paper in order to reach the blossoms, which they could not see.

NEBRASKA SILVER MEN AGREEDemocrats, Populists ami Republic nun Unite on a Ticket. Fusion has been accomplished by tne Nebraska silver men with the Democrats earning off the disputed honor of ,bUU ! ” the head of the ticket. After a session lasting from Wednesday afternoon to d o'clock Thursday morning, the conferen committee, unable to reach an agreemm h reported the following to the three co ventions: “We recommend that the three conven tions meet separately and ballot tor jm F • All nominations shall lie presented to three conventions, and balloting shall co tinue until one man shall receive a m ll joritj of two conventions. Each ba lot shall be announced to each of n*e otn conventions before another ballot is ta en. The regents shall be given to the par ties which do not secure the judge. This was agreed to and a recess W« 9 taken until 8 o’clock, when the balloting commenced, 'rhe candidates before the silver Republicans were Judge C. Scott, O. I*. Davis and -I. S. KirkpatrickThe Populists were unanimous for -Judge William Neville, while the Democrats agreed on W. 11. Thompson. After fruitless balloting for nearly three hours the Democrats switched to Judge J. J. Sullivan of Columbus, lie soon obtained a majority in the silver Republican convention ami after was indorsed by the ropu* lists. According to the agreement tne Populists then named E. Von Forcll o Kearney for regent of the State Lniveis' ty, while the silver Republicans selected George F. Kenower of Wisner. MiitG delegates maintain that the fusion win perfectly harmonious, while there are others who claim there may yet be disMntion on the silver Republican side. The State Prohibition Central Committee today made itt second nomination for regent of the State University by naming D. I* Whitney of Beatrice. The committee adopted the white rose for its party emblem on the tickets this fallMONEY FOR THE FARMERS. Hich Prices Mnkc Better Returns Than Abnormal Crops, One-half billion dollars to JTOO.OW*? 0 is the aim unt which has been or will be distributed among farmers as the result of advanced prices for this season s crops as compared with those of hist }• r. These figures, given by a Wn lington correspondent, are based upon tho most careful computation* made by expert# of the Department of Agriculture. Os tins sum $ I in.IMMUSM 1 has been realized on eight specialties of agricultural industry. The rest is divided among the odd# and ends that u-pn -nt the pecuniary result of a farmer's labor. The eight product* chosen n« Illustrations of the vast financial bemTit* to the farmers from the recent rapid rise ie price* are cattle, wheat, corn. potarecs, cotton, sheep, swine ami wool. t areftil comparison has l><*n made of the price# now prevailing with those which obtained during the whole of Last year. The following table shows an inflow of (MHi to the pockets of the farmers: Unttie Wheat - WM** Corn HS.IMKUMO Dot. hoc- Toion**! Cotton Sheep LS<s-4*W Swine HMHXfrD W. 1 KT Tot >1 Mlo.'l'M.i'U To this large sum. which is alrva.l * in] sight, must b<- added an estimate of (MMI.IMM) for the ill- • , i!t . d profit* that hare been rc-Mired on crops of oat*. barley* rye. hay, flax. Imps and other miaccllaneous but valuable piedm ts of the farm. When Acting S« rw try Br ..ham wa« asked for an npn «n n of opinion at to the benefits reaped bj (be fanners in the way of increa-rd prites. he said: I he advance over last year's prices ha* already been considerable. It is nut advisable to give estimates as to amounts based upon this year's crop*. ns we do n»t know just what th-' yield w ill be. but the advance in the price <>f' wheat over one year ago would nmmmt mi the crop of last .'ear to ?s. i.ihkijhhi. Ihe a Ivaim- in the price of corn over last year is more than 3 cents a bushel, mid mi last year's crop would amount to about Sss.« hhijm si. The advance in the price of sheep ami wool on account (if the tariff legislation over last year would amount to about $33,000,000. An average er. p .-mflnimit to supply the demand leaves more profit for the farmer. I he four largest crops of corn grown since I sK l were worth le-s than the four small est.

BIG INCREASE IN EXPORTS Nearly $50,0)0,OJO Over the First >eveu Montliw of Lost Year. I ae figures of the exports from the I nited States f. r July show <UI increase over the corresponding month of last year Os about 84.3W.000. The domestic exports last year were the largest in our hisb”2 '*'he total exports in July were ?tK\- • 20,770. The exports for the first seven months of the calendar year were $54!',443,879, against $500,572,005 for the first even months of last year. The exports of agricultural products show a slight decrease during the period, while those of manufactured products increased. The exports of gold for July were $5,462,809, agai: st $11,931,438 for July, 1896,-aqd !.?, r seven months of this veafr, $30,559,0i1, against $5 4.922.948 for the corresponding period of last year. l'arngraphs with Point*. Europe is long on war and short on crops. I time Henri failed to throw the soup into Turin. M heat is rising so rapidly that flour needs no yeast powder. Englund would own the world if she were allowed to make its maps. Scnor Sagasta is counting his Cuban । chickens without any regard to the contingencies that may impede their incubation. Either Weyler is growing more fiendish or the stories told about him are more vindictive, and either hypothesis seems untenable. Truth to tell, we all know people who ought to go to Alaska, but don’t. If Andree returns alive, after this long absence, his book will have an enormous sale. Some 2,500 cigarette makers are ont of employment in New York. It i s believed a couple of hundred thousand cigarette smokers are also out of employment. Chicago declines to be scared by the prediction that 1,000 years hence she will be sunk beneath the waters of Lake Michigan. She expects to have Lake Michigan tonfined in the sub-cellar by that time

ARE r EADY TO RISE. st. Below is ’ b L “ bori nK Men. tion of pHneh i' U tbe toxt of 11,0 declaraLouk labor by the The f ear of 11 th” repunij/. tbe more watchful fathers of has become b ®? n J us titie<l. The jmllpolitical pheno \ ^“Frenie. We witness >i history , ^‘“‘“enoii absohd new In the the feet of in i a repifbih* prostrate nt Its laws. Tl 3 l ev K nX l,, ‘ P< i ,h ‘i t< ‘ <1 to '“imlnister earth, and their r '’. e(lge no superior on ton's warninir ,n d ?’? POtle ,le eds recall Milbids a man rule ‘''’’"’“ymen: “Who bid ns well .. ^ n ?' er ,‘' ni above law may cunning f Ol . n ‘ l beast." Under the assumed to enn?J ''‘joV'tiens courts have thus draw ip,, 1 1 Imimd laws, and after legislation have “‘emselvcs the p >wer of and for vloi a t'® n ^ p p ll . etl the bl!! ~f rights, have denied the n'r. 5 ( h‘ ‘‘ourt-imide laws jury. accused the right of trial by freemen'7hl S H^ commonest rights of free speech the rn'lS ^ e ." ll,ly h 1 110 rlght ~f 11c hlghwayj has m- 1 i”o ! a .Y' ,lg ’'l 0 pub ' form of lnhin<-i lS , legislation, under the nr^ed n ree?m b, , ' u lnlul *’ ,l ''rlmi*. «"d m^oinnanv Bpers ? " s ,11<>bs I’cMe daring ,U J; uL i\ t 0 evereise these rights. .... t( ‘ ri “ the Supreme Court of the United Mates deidded that the thirteenth auiemlinent forbidding “involuntary serv ltudo’’ Is not violated by arresting a seaman huprlsoHlng him until his vessel Is ready to leave poet anil then forcibly putting him on board to serve out the term of bls contract — n decision under which the old fugitive slave laws may yet be revived ami striking h borers be seized and returned to tire service of their masters. Having drawn to themselves all th-' powers of tho Federal Government unt'l CongreM and Presidents may act only by judicial pertmMdon, the Federal judges have begun tho sulijugntion of sovereign states, so that, unless a check Is soon put upon the progress usurpation, In n short lime no goverumci# but the absedute despotism of F-MUttU-Mgi's will exist anywhere over any portion o^Amerlcan soli. The pending strike of coal miners, starved to feebleness by their scant wages earned by arduous nnd dangerous toil, tho strike for the right tn lie fed enough td make labor possible, hns been prolific of judicial usurpation, showing the willingness of judicial despots to resort to the nm.t shameless -h-nan-o of decency as well ns of law and humanity In order to enable heartless avarice to drive Its hungry Serfs back to the mines to faint and -lie at ttielr drudgery, ami there remains today not one gimr.iium| right of American cttlxeris tho exercise of which nn injunction has n<d ..0 . where made a crime by these aubrerslons of constitutional liberty. Ue bui'o met to couns.-l together and have tO -t' f COht'iUHluUS . whereas. The present strike of the coal miners lias again demonstrated the fa<-t that our »* ea|’< I IllM-rty Is not freedom, but Is a »topondoa« sham, tinder which mll’lons are degenerating, while hundreds of thousands women and chHdrpn are MarvIng In hovels, and on th.* public highways Whereas, This condition has become permanent fora large and ever increasing numof our rm lone we permit a comparatively small c i«s ->f legnlls-* 1 ■ xploltors to nionopollito the mean* of prnductlon an-l dlstrlbnUon for their private t-ene-fl‘ -s fn t again ■!■-, ; -as in the ,f minora W ber- r-s. Appeals to Uongrcss and to th« courts Mr relief are frulU<-««. Mmo tho legIslsHre as well as th- , x-omth,. and judiG-ii p.-sers are under ti ■ -.tr -l of the capitalistic cbi«*. so that it has -mo to pass In tbl» ••free country that while cattle and swln<» kav« a right to the public highway*. American*. * -slbd freemen, l ave m t. Whereas, our . apltniisti.-. la-s. n « I* again •hewn in the present s rike, |« arm- I. n- I has n-t ntsiy p* . i. c -T and depntlra. also a regular army and military, tn order So - nfiw o g -aeminent by Injunction, suppressing lawful a««on>biag»'. fr-o sr-o. h ami the right io ti.o ;< high way, wbit« on the oilier i .ind too lalort.ig men nt tho country are un-mv I an-l -!>• fen*• les*, c-'i-lrary t > ti-* « .rd* and spirit of tho Con.tltuUvn v s the t nlted Stat. -. tt»- r- f >{«• Ie- ft

Rewdird. That w. bw-j apart Friday, the 3d day of Sept. !>••>; UM a • ; . 1 FAlxy- f r Ur -of « .0. Cog Übnr In America •ml cnurmute the ..rnlug< f rut d*y «« the ■« of nut .simwing brother*, th* miswr*. .Hid to *».ry uni m man ami ricry f f >. ml >f >Ar throughout the In: « o' II fr nd. ! im .1 f r the pur; • oii’Mcring further m. i UM » In the lisli-rr.lt of the miner® and !at*»r In g-mm: K-*.h.d, That we consider the pr-p-r io<d the ballot a* the I-md of < m-nM for the anultoraifon oft" minlships under which the laborh g --tt-. - fT< r • Kenned. It the p-d- . -- Ip f railroad* and telegraph. l» »:>e f the ui>*t reform* for our body p 1.-, K, ».dvcd, That no n.itlon In whl- h the people ar- totally di- tr:md • tn 1 • g n : . on n free nation. am! therefore w urge up’ii all liberty loving < 11,., ti, to r. . oral 1 .-bey article 2»f the r.mMl? : ■ ..f :: e I ,r- -I States, which r. ml, a- f . • . "1 .. rig' " M the people to k* op and bear arm. ahull n t be hifniiK’d” ANNUAL MEETING OF FARMERS. National Congrc** Convene* nt St. Dani -President’® Addrcx*. The seventeenth meeting of the I'anners’ National (’ -iw: of the I' - i States was called to order at St. I’aul, Minn., in the hall of representatives, by President B. E. Clayt-m of I wL.i tmla, lowa. The opening session was not largely attended. The delegate representation in the congress does not at its maximum exceed 500. The morning session was devoted largely to the matter of a formal welcome, and, following an invocation by Archbishop Ireland, the congress was greeted by Mayor Doran for St. i’aul, by President Weaver for the Agricultural Society and by Gov. ( lough for the State, and to these addresses responses were made by John M. Stahl of Illinois, secretary of the congress, and B. 1 . Clayton of lowa, president. In his annual address President Clayton said: The farmer reads little, and Is often doubtful that he is the better from that little; from it he learns more things to brood over without finding a remedy. The little glimpses he obtains of the world in what he reads intensities his prejudices and does not prepare him to cope with apparent ills. He brushes so little against a world of which he is so important a part that the world practically ignores his existence. He is enumerated in the tables of population, but expunged from statistical lists of the nation's representatives. He is enrolled on the tax list, but canceled in the catalogue of those who levy taxes. He is registered in the poll book, but disfranchised of the privileges and immunities of a citizen. Whether the farmers of America will assert their sovereignty remains to be seen. No one conscious oi ins power will willingly remain a slave, but it Is strength and intellect and mind which must win in all economic struggles. Those engaged in agricultural pursuits are a majority of all the people, yet we cannot If we would close our eyes to the fact that this majority is practically without voice in shaping public affairs. I am not an alarmist: I take no pride .n making war on any organization or inst’ution that has for its object the greatest gooto the greatest number of people. I tad them godspeed and a magnificent success in all legitimate enterprises; but I hope and believe there will never come an hour when the Congress of the I nited States wilt putposely give its consent to the building up of trusts and combinations for the control of the prices of the necessaries ot bum.m exist ence. Secretary Stahl of Chicago read h.s report, in which he said: Mr Hatch, for so many years chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture said a short time before his death: ‘.‘The barme s National Congress has more mliuem c '"th the Congress of the I nited States than all Other agricultural organizations combined. The hXnce is well shown u t e agne^tural schedule of the Dingley bill. -1 m Farmers’ National Congress was the only Uricultural organization seriously to champrnn the farmers' interests at the special session that enacted that) law. thVconl^s Ims bmm powerful to our agricultural iuterests.

FEARS FOR M’KINLEY. Letter of W a rnin K Received by th© Mayor of Columbus. Ono incident of the President’s visit to Columbus and the Ohio State fair was manufactured into a sensation. This was tho report of a plot to assassinate the Chief Executive in the capital of his native State. A few days ago Mayor Black received through the mails an anonymous letter, reading as follows: “Be on yqjir guard. There is a plot against McKinley to make way with him because he appointed Powderly. This plot is not in favor of anarchy. They are for organized labor and against monopoly.” It was believed that the letter was xvritten either by some crank or by a practical joker, but Mayor Black detimed it wise to take every precaution looking to the President’s safety. The result was that during his stay the President was very closely, guarded by the police authorities of tho city. All the detectives belonging to the local f-iree with the visiting sleuths from other cities were detailed to act as a special bodyRuard, and upon the arrival of the Presidents train the officers in plain clothes surrounded the President and escorted him to h’is carriage, on either side of which when the parade moved marched four detectives and the chief of police himself. No one was allowed to approach the vehicle during the parade and upon the arrival of the party nt the hotel the police formed a cordon clear to the elevator through which the President passed. During the reception and during all the i subsequent exercises of the day the President found detectives constantly at his elbows. He observed the extraordinary vigilance of the police and finally asked an explanation, which xvns given him by Mayor Black, who also showed him the letter. The President merely observed that he did n<»t believe anyone wanted to do him harm. However, he warmly thanked the Mayor nnd Director Williams for the precautions they had taken to conserve his safety. LEAPS TO DEATH. W. Rtiaacll Wnr-l Killed En Route to Ch tea ko. W. R.i*-scll Ward, the Englishman who I came first into the glare of publicity by eloping from I. -s Angeles on the last day of June with the wife of Millionaire John 11. Bradbury, drew attention to himself Thursday morning for the last lime by casting himself through the window of a Pullman sleeper on the Northwestern overland flyer. He met instant death. His suieide was undoubtedly due to insanity. After locking the stateroom door at 3 o’eloik t - cxi lude the watchful porter, to whom he had betrayed symptoms of mental d- rang, ni- nt, War-1 pulled himself through the window of the toilet-room j ■ 'nm-- ting w ith his compartment, and in Ins mad desire to escape from the assailn“ts h-- b- :.■ ved to be hou ling him dashed to io - death. His body, clad only in * i-.t n — lit attire, wws found nt daylight lying b- -i le tho tracks at Wheatlands, 1 ov i. 1 1 ’ irg- Ifr -in jnil .m Thnr-day, Aug. 2C-, !<• l- ft F n Francisco Mon-lay night with th" a'- .'•! intention of going at on-'o ->> Et gi.md to plead forgiveness of the wife he had wr-mg-d nnd deserted. The cv i-leiiee* brought out by his actions during th" days of his trip across the country are all to the effect that in the solitude of imprisonment his mind gave ■: - 1 ■ straiti of n bigled passion ■- • '■ t: A ■ •. ’ -• -,t during tho h.«t -lay of his life proves the existence in his demented Huml of the-e two conflicting sentiments. IWO TONS OF GOLD. Vo** Quantity of Yellow Metal Coining from the Yukon. John B. Brady, Governor of Alaska, b -,s sent S' cr- tary Bliss a. personal letter, in which he gives some interesting facts it th-- ru h for the Klondike region. G >v. Bradj has L on identified with Alaskan interests most of his lifetime, and is know n to be very Conservative in his opinions. Writing from Juneau, he says: “Steamships are passing daily for Dyea and Skaguay loaded to the turn-st with passengers ami supplies. The news just out of Klondike by reliable men is calculated to raise the excitement to a higher pitch. The shipment of dust by the mouth of the Yukon will be all of two and onehalf tons. “Rich finds have been made well up on the sides of the mountains, ami the old saying that ’gold is where you find it and silver runs in veins’ seems to be emphasized in that district. A conservative estimate is that there are 5,000 men at Skaguay and along the trail on the White Pass. “But a few only have gone over this pass with their supplies, and only a small per cent, of the number can get across. Some parties are dividing, and will try to send one over with supplies, vrhile the others go into camp until spring. “The men who are coming here are fine fellows, and I greatly admire them as I see them talk and walk. A counrty can well be proud of such men. They are remarkably orderly.”

MINERS ARE BLOWN TO BITS. Coal Uiißt I'xplosion in Sunshine Near Glenwood, Col. Eleven Italians and one American workman were instantly kill- d by an explosion in the Sunshine mine, sh een miles southeast of Glenwood Springs, Col. The explosion filled the mine with smoke and dust and for some time it was thought that the loss of life had included all of the workmen in the mine. It was an hour before the workmen in adjacent mines were able to go into the Sunshine property. Then it was found that the loss of life, heavy ns it was, had been confined to one chamber. The miners in the other parts of the mine were soon released.lt is thought that too many blasts resulting from the incessant work had filled the chamber with coal dust winch was exploded by the blow-out. It is also reported that there was a barrel of powder in the chamber. M. Levidis, formerly Greek minister.of marine, who was struck by AI. Grit as, chief of staff of the Greek fleet, in the Hobby of the Chamber of Deputies, has decided not to challenge his assailant to a duel, but to appeal to kite Chamber of Deputies. Walther’s “rreislied,” from “The Meistarsinger,” was the song which took first prize at the recent Welsh Eisteddfod at I’ontypool^ Dr. William Nast, the patriarch of German Methodism, celebrated his ninetieth birthday in Cincinnati last week.

INDIANA INCIDENTS. RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. French Lick Report Owners Alarmed by Failure of Water—Gold Found Near Jeffersonville— PedaaoKUe with a Pistol—General State News. May Ruin Springs. I'rem h Lick is threatened with serious loss because of the failure of its celebrated springs. Dr. NVilliam Ritter not long ag-i completed a well some distance aw ay ami soon thereafter the spring known as Pluto began failing, followed by oim known as Prosperine also giving out. M hether the failure is due to the boring of the Ritter well or to defective casing is a matter of conjecture. Property valued at 51.<1011,000 is vitally interesh-d, as the failure of the springs means a loss of health seekers. Teacher Uses a Gun. Prof. Harrison L. Staley, principal of tin* \\ estphalia school, is in jail at Vincennes charged with an attempt to murder Mrs. Mamie Wileox, wife of William M. M iMox, of Sonborn. Staley visited the M ilcox home, he says, by invitation of Mrs. M ilcox. Air. Wilcox was at home ami Staley was ordered to leave the prem--1 ises. He became enraged, drew a revolver on Mrs. Wilcox and it is charged attempted to shoot her. Justice Jones bound Staley over to court and on his failing to give bond he was placed in jail. Staley was assistant principal of the Sanborn school-- last year. Mrs. Wilcox is a great church worker, a musician and a society favorite. Gold Nuggets in Hoosierdom. Rmhar-1 Maekison, an old prospector, exhibited at Henryville a gold nugget the size -if a walnut, which he said he found mi "the Knobs.” Several nuggets have recently been found, and sonic excitement is being created. All Over the State. Negroes reading in Elwood have been wa rued tn leave. Paul Grittin, aged 9. was drowned while bathing in the Ohio at New Albany. Tim Ringgold Band is arranging for a band tournament to be held at Terre ) laute. Th" butter-dish factory owned by S. C. Goshorn A Son, of Muncie, was destroyed by tir-'. St. Jnhii's parochial schools at La Pnrte are closed, owing to the diphtheria epidemic. AU the Universalist ehurchas in the State were represented at the conven.ion in Indianapolis to discuss the proposed changes in the confession of faith. The St u- University Glee Club has re-turm-d from its vacation trip. The club had om* week's engagement at Mount Lake Park, Chautauqua, Maryland. A iep.-rt was received that Maj. T. H. 1., i ds, em o a resident of Kokomo, but who has been missing for twenty years, had died a mysterious death in Texas. The annual reunion of the Thornburg family was held in the fair grounds at Hag-rstown, with nearly 2<Hi members and a great number of friends present. State Auditor Daily received a message from Bank Examiner Millikin stating that ' I’ de-iek Mi Connell, cashier of the State I1: Ami'.a, j as disappeared with the -ash. The -:iit of the Baltimore and South-we-:ern against Seymour to prevent the l.ie r from putting down brick streets along the property of the railway company wa* settled by agreement without trial. Mrs. Elizabeth Harness, who has been mysteriously assaulted thr--e dilferent times at her home near Middlefork, remaias in a serious condition. The hunt for the mis- reant whose deeds have thrown the people of three counties Hito a fever of ex -itement lias been practically abandone 1. While the people have returned to thir homes, the excitement has by mo im ans died out. The mystery remains as inexplicable as ever and grows in interest. A tingic suicide occurred at Waynetown. The victim was John White, aged 21 y- ars, the village baker. He was to have been married the same night to Miss Nettie Whitaker, a most estimable young lady. He went to the barn and drained a vial of carbolic acid. His body was found half ;.n hour later, and but an hous before the tune appointed for the ceremony. The bride was partially dressed and the guests were beginning to arrive when the news of the expectant groom's fate was announced. No cause is assigned for the deed. At Washington, B. F. Strasser of the Cabel Coal Company, J. J. Glendening, bookkeeper, ami Andrew Kerker, mine bos*, started to No. 9 mine with a force of ten men to go to work taking out coal. Just before reaching the mine a crowd of fifty strikers arose from hiding and surrounded the men. Frank Salters, a striker, stepped tip to Strasser and struck him twice over tjie head with a club, felling him tc the ground. Another striker hit John Kermode, a non-unionist, in the bm k of the head and cut a deep wound. A third striker hit Joe Small in the face and knocked him down. Strasser got to his feet and the party made a hasty retreat, leaving the strikers holding the ground. .V terrific windstorm swept over Indianapolis. The cloud came from the nest, aud for fifteen minutes the velocity of tho wind was sixty-five miles an hour. Many buildings were unroofed, and several privite residences were overturned A panip occurred at the ball park, where 3,001^ peoph had assembled to witness two ■ m s between Indianapolis and Mihvaur',’. J; sei med for a time that the grand <and would give way, ami the 500 or GOO women, becoming panic-stricken, rushed out into the diamond in the midst of the storm. Some of them were picked up by the wind ami carried a considerable distaiue. All over the city windows were blown in ami hundreds of shade trees were uprooted. Masked mon whitecapped and whipped Bass Sherwood ami his daughter Lilly, aged 2d, in an unmerciful manner near Nashville. They claim to have recognized in the nmb several of their neighbors, aud have sw । rn out warrants for their arrest. G -v. Mount has determined to make examples of the white caps of Monroe county, and has written to the local prosecutor asking for full particulars of the outrages that have recently taken place there. He proposes to get rid of this class of citizens and will send a company of milit'a into the county to aid the local ►Ulcers i£ necessary.