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It i3 a poor shack of a burg that cannot stir up a hot time these days.

General Weyler stands upon the Cuban burning deck and calls for more soldiers.

It is undertsood that Sheriff Martin rather wishes he had never been elected to his present office.

It is in order for the ice men to pass resolutions endorsing the present weather clerk for another term.

Herr Most says anarchy is dead. It is unfortunately true, however, that a large number of its desciples are still alive.

It may be possible that Prince Bismarck has been guilty of lese majeste. There can be no doubt that he has been sorely tempted.

Mr. Bryan has now become so accustomed to wrecks that he would not particularly mind the one he is trying to get into in 1000.

.There are indications that the southern part of Indiana is going to become several degrees too warm for the professional marauder.

When Emperor William talks about God he gives one a vague impression that possibly some day the Most High yrill abdicate in his favor.

A poet mourns the solitariness of the man in tne moon. There is no excuse for this man being solitary. Hasn't he a first class opportunity to flirt with the mermaids?

Says a French scientist: "Love is a disease." A Chicago paper adds: "And marriage is a remedy." Here is another case where the remedy is often worse than the disease.

It Michigan a man who was about to die demanded that he should be buried eighteen feet deep. His views are spoken of as "peculiar." They are certainly well grounded.

It is admitted by a New York divine that there is no particular sin about saying damn It. This information is especially welcoma Just now in view of the exasperating antics of the thermometer.

Two railway trains going in opposite dilutions on the same track have always harJ more or less trouble in getting by each other, but still some people continue to dally with the experiment.

It is reported that a New York woman will make no claim for the ?10,000 life insurance of her husband. The friends of this woman will find it necessary to watch her if she is to be kept in out of (he wet.

Spain thinks it would be merely a little befOre-breakfast diversion to whip the United States. It is not too much to say, however, that on the morning Spain undertakes the job she probably will not get off with much

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Those preachers who insist that the bicycle demoralizes young men must understand what a fellow is sure to do when he is far away on a country road with no repairing outfit and suddenly becomes conscious that the air is escaping from one of his tires.

Reporting the swimming feat of Miss Edith Baker at Green Lake, Wis., a Chicago paper says she "swam two miles in the presence of her friends." This is probably the most remarkable instance on record of Ihs presence of one's friends buoying him up.

Seth Low says he is a Republican. Still there are evidences that he and his friends ire trying to give the Republican party and Greater New York the worst of it. The Tammany beast has no objections to that lort of Republicanism which helps to prepare a feast for it.

A FREE TRADE SCHEME. In Greater New York there are a great many persons who believe in free trade but do not believe in free silver. They are of the Evening Post, Carl Schurz type of political economists. Seeing no hope on & depreciated currency, afraid to make the destinies of the white metal and Democracy Identical, &ese men cling to free trade as the central idea of a political faith. The tevelopments of recent times have not been »uch as to encourage them in their effort to lorce their issue to the front. At one time Ihey could count upon a solid South, but

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cannot do so now. That section of the jountry has seen its interests in a new and truer light and has decided to promote them to the best of its ability regardless of what becomes of the old theory of economics to vhich it was once blissfully wedded.

But the New York mugwump free traders ire not discouraged to the point of quitting. They would like to see the second city of the world in line with their dogmas is the opinion of a writer in Gua-

ton's Magazine for September that they are taking advantage of the mayoralty candidacy of Seth Low to further their purposes. "It is an effort to Clevelandize the Greater New York," says this writer. He takes it that the mugwumps are ambitious to lead in the election of Low and by reason of this service lay claim to the right to dictate the appointments of the mayor and thus make the government of the city practically of a free trade machine. Gunton's Magazine I thinks that such a state of affair^ would go far toward securing the electoral vote of the state of New York to the next free trade presidential candidate.

It is possible that the free traders are behind Che Low movement with a faint hope of realizing what the writer quoted points out. But they are not likely to make any headway in the direction they are facing. Seth Low is a Republican, according to his recent emphatic declaration, and his letter accepting the nomination of the Citizens' Union is devoted exclusively to municipal matters, indicating that he would not allow his administration to be used for the furtherance of anybody's brand of national politics. The candidacy of the president of Columbia College does not threaten 1|fae country with free trade, but it does threaten Greater New York with Tammany rule-r-a disaster from which the metropolis may well beeseech the gods to deliver it.

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Some one at Lebanon started a story that Bishop Walden, who presided at the north-' west Indiana conference was peevish and insulting thait he was uncivil to the presiding elders and that the lady at whose house he was a guest refrained from turning him out of the house only because of her respect for the Methodist Church. The Rev. Worth Tippy, of Centenary Church, has written a communication in defense of Bishop Walden, in the course of which ho says he is confident the report about the lady at wihose house the bishop was a guest is unfounded and will be corrected. A dispatch from Brazil says the official board of the church in that city will refuse to accept the Rev. Mr. Kindig as pastor. This is done as a protest, it is said, against the action of the bishop in refusing to countenance the petition asking for the return of the Rev. Mr. ©entley. Mayor Birch, of Brazil, claims to have been rudely repulsed by the bishop when he endeavored to present the wishes of the church.

The itev. Demetrius Tillotson, the new pastor of the First M. E. Church, of this city, wrote tihe following communication to the Frankfort Times: "The article from the Indianapolis News published in your paper is deserving of some not/ice, not only in justice to the bishop but in defense of the conference. "There is always some dissatisfaction at the reading of every list of appointments, buit every one acknowledged that there had never been a bishop with our conference who gave as great care to get all the facts in the case as Bishop Walden. He repeatedly announced the place of his entertainment and asked those who wanted to speak with him to call at any time. His policy was different- from that of some bishops in requiring committees to submit the names of more than one man, and the difference with Mayor Birch grew out of the fact that he at first did not understand the bishop's policy, but although the bishop would not make positive promises yet he sent his church their first choice. Some charges were disappointed, for instance the names of two men were submitted by seven different churches. They could not all receive either of them. But I know of no cases where men were sent to charges where positive protests were sent in. His general policy of not sending young men who had been but a few years in the conference created the most dissatisfaction but he sent young men to large pulpits where it was not possible to fill them satisfactorily wihh men of longer experience.. As to his asking laymen to change their places in the conference, this was only done when it was necessary to take a vote on some question where the members of the conference voted by standing. In such cases the secretaries could not count accurately, if a number of people, not members, were on their feet at the same time. A bar of the conference was fixed early in tihe sesion and yet laymen were allowed to sit within the bar at any time and to stand within the bar except when a standvote was being taken. The size of the church and its crowded condition ought to be a sufficient apology for any lack of conformity on either side."

The Baney story seems to have fallen flat. He admits that it was made out of whole cloth. The Rev. Mr. Hinshaw is either a guileless and innocent man or a remarkably .interesting psychological study.

The Indianapolis municipal campaign is beginning to assume the intense phase wheu it is the daily task of the friends of the respective candidates to nail lies.

The Prohibition paper at Danv'lle, 111., i: out of patience with the ministers of that town who have called upon the grand jury to indict the fair association for permitting gambling on the fair grounds. The paper doubts the consistency of their motives and' says the ministers wink at the violation of the liquor laws while making a "thrust which stabs the Danville fair to the heart." The editor add that "church parlors are the enly places to hold fairs. Besides, tho church buildings are dedicated to the Lord, and fairs *nd festivals conducted by churchmen within those consecrated walls, with their grab bags, guessing contests, etc., is not (gambling, you know, but just a little innocent amusement by which to keep the Lord's work moving along."

AN APPALLING RECORD.

The Crimes of Mobs Not Confined to the South.

Although lynchings in the north are few in number compared to those in the southern states, those that do occur seem to excel in ferocity and defiance of law, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

There were 141 persons lynched in 1896, or thirty less* than in 1895. One of these was a woman. 'Ten years ago, in 1886, there were 138, or three less than last

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Eighteen hundred and ninty-two was the record year, there being 235. The following table gives the lynchings since 1885: 1S95 18411891 192 1SS6 1S8I1S92 235 1S87 13211893 200 1SSS .. .. 1*211894 190 1889 176J1895 171 1890 12711896 141

In 1896 the lynchings in the various state® and territories were distributed as follows: Alabama ..' 17| Minnesota 2 Arkansas .. 6iMississippi 6 Colorado 4j Missouri 6 Florida 10: New York 1 Georgia 9' North Carolina ... 3 Idaho liSomh Carolina ... 6 Illinois ljTennessee 14 Indiana .. .. 1 Texas 7 Kentucky lft West Virginia 1 Louisiana .. 27! Indian Territory .. 3 Maryland 7| Oklahoma 7

Of these lynchings 181 occurred tn the south and ten in the aoiih. Of the total

number eighty-six were negroes and fiftyfour were whites and one was a half-breed Indian.

President McKinley, in his Inaugural address, declared that "lynchings must not be tolerated in a great and civilized country like the United States courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law."

While (he was governor of Ohio he was asked what could be done in the case of the lynching at Ruehsylvania, O., and he replied that the law lodged no power in such cases in the hands of the governor. In another case, in Adams county, Ohio, he wrote to those whose business it was to investigate the lynching. The judge did his duty in instructing the grand jury, but nothing1 came of it.

Other governors have offered heavy rewards for the arrest and conviction of the lyncher^! But the rewards were^ never earned. 4

May 13, the Texas house of representatives adopted a resolution reciting that lynching is subversive of the ends of justice, and should be prohibited, and that all peace officers should protect the lives of those who may look to them for protectioto.

May 18, the Kentucky legislature passed a bill making it a felony to form a niab, and authorizing the governor and county clerk to employ detectives to hunt down lynchers.

These measures, however, do not strike at the root of the evil, which is the failure of the peace officers and jailers to protect their prisoners, and of the prosecuting attorneys to secure evidence and indictments against the men who make up the mobs."

The lynching at Versailles seems to \te the first case in Indiana this year. In 1896 Indiana had but one lynching. The statistics of lynchings for 1896 give a total of 131. In 1892 the number was 235, and in 1893 it went as high as 200.

Of these whose lives were taken by mob violence in 1896, 80 were negroes and 51 whites 122 lynchings occured in the southi and 9 in the north.

Of the states, Louisiana heads the list with twenty-five cases. Alabama stands next, with fifteen Tennessee third, with fourteen, and Florida next, with ten. Kentucky and Georgia each had nine cases.

The courts of Kansas and elsewhere have decided that damages can be had for lynching, the city or county where they occur being liable. The Kansas Supreme Court affirmed a judgment against the city of Salina in favor of Wade Adams, the father of Dana Adams, colored, who was lynched by a .mob at that place four years ago. The suit bought against the city was for damages for not preventing the lynching.

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Chicago Tribune—If such a crime sjiouid he allowed to go unpunished it will''only prove an incentive to the commissitfrt* more crimes of the same kind. It wilkaisb be promptly seized upon in the Soi^th- ,ap an excuse for lynching-s in that sectldni. From t'his point of view it is most unfortunate that this tragedy should have occurred in

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at a time when a strong anti-lynching sentiment is 'beginning to manifest it^lf ih the South, and many Southern lawA'eys, jurists and public men have fearlessly denounced lynching and have been strettuous in their demand? that there shall be ©p. interference with the regular methods -.of justice. It will matter little also that ^e number of lynchings in the South

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune—It 'would merely be a was.e of words to again declare that there is no possible excuse for such baribarism as was manifested at Versailles. The time for action has come, if action is ever to be taken to put a stop to lynching in this country. Hundreds of human beings hangod, burned on shot to death in the United Btates every year without due process of law, and many of the victims of mob violence are deprived of life 'for no other reason than that they are suspected of crime far less heinous than the crime

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TBE VEBSAILLES LYNCHING.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat—The lynching of five men at Versailles, Ind., adds a new enormity to this form of defying the laws. It was marked by unusual brutality as well as indifference to human life. The five men were accused of robbery with violence, and were summarily 'hanged without trial or an opportunity to say a word Jn their own defense. They may have been equally guilty, though of this there is no positive assurance, but the mob decreed capital punishment regardless of law, and proceeded at once to put them to death with shocking cruelty. It Is one of the worst cases in the whole history of lynching, and shows a murderous spirit that should be dealt with according to its terrible deed.

Jacksonville (Fla.) Times Union and Citizen—Governor Mount announces promptly that he will use all of the power of the state of Indiana' to punish the men who on Tuesday night murdered five burglars"hnd robbers in a small town of that state, and will probably flhd as all the other governors have found under such circumstances that the power of the state is—nit. He will probably begin, as they have begun, by offering rewards for the arrest of the murderers—and that is also where he will proba.bly end. Hundreds of people may know the guilty men, but not oe wl-1 try to earn the reward. The truth is those governments constituted like that of our states are perfectly helpless befote the lynchers. It cannot punish him. because the community in which he lives, though it may not approve of his crime, does not wish to be hanged.

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pointed executioners are guilty. All tha newspapers of the country -.vlii now proceed to discuss and moralize upon the Versailles affair, but the total of all their denunciations will not have one-mi'Jionth part as much WfPect.ln preventing sknilar slaughters in the future as will a proper course on the part of Indiana's governor. It makes no difference how many men were engaged In the Versailles lynching. A murder is a murder still, whether it be done by three men or by 300 and ill either event it is the duty of th«f state whose laws are set) at defiance to apprehend, try, and duly punish the murderers.

Atlanta Constitution: In view of the character of this^pnost remarkable display of recklessness and lawlessness the Constitution feels catled on to refer the matter to those brethreh of the Northland West, who have for years without'-lw or reward constiuted themselves the critics and censors of the Southern people. We have) observed heretofore that when a lynching occurs at the North or West, as the result of the crime which lynchbjg is the penalty of in the South, the" censors of our civilization and morals are disereet.y silent. Their criticism and denunolwuon are sober and perfunctory, lacking the edge that is given to those which deal ,with the South. But here is a case that runs bevond all precedence in civilized communities so far as we know. The Constitution may venture to say without condomnr or excusing the crime of lynciii'ig the South that the crime It has come to be the penalty is one that shocks nature and arouses an indignation that Is as deep as human beings can feel. This is not an excuse for Southern lynchings. but It is an explanation. What explanation will the North make for the murder of five men for bunrlary after they h*£ been arrestee by the officers of the law? We paufe for a reply.

TO HAVE A LAUNDB.Y

%BB SOCIETY FOB ORGANIZED CHAR* IT! WILL ESTABLISH ONE.

It In to Be of the Old Fashloaed Kind and Will Furnish Work to Poor Women

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This winter the Society for Organizing Chartity will establish an old-fashioned laundry where poor women may be given an opportunity to earn enough to tide them •over temporary needs. It is yet undecided "as to when this undertaking will be formally set on foot. It was talked of last winter and also last spring but nothing definite was done in the matter. The next meeting of the board of directors of the society occurs in November and at that time a plan of action will he decided upon.

Nearly all the details of the scheme remain to be thought out. It has been decided, however, that no machinery is to be used in the laundry. The washing and ironing will be done in the same way that it is done in the home. Family washing will*be accepted and also shirts, collars and cuffs. An effort will be made to get the washing of some of the railroads. Some years ago a laundry of the old-fashioned kind is said' to have done the washing of the Vandalia Line—that necessary for the dining and sleeping cars. The Society for OrganizingCharity will try to get such work as thitf so far as it may be possible. The work will' be under the supervision of a competent woman who will see that everything is properly done.

It is contrary to the fixed policy of the society to give anything for nothing. It endeavors to have its beneficiaries earn what they get. For the men a wood yard is provided. When a man applies at the Home 'on the Friendless for something to eat he ?s given a job sawing wood and is not fed until he has done enough work to pay for the food. This wood yard has been a success so far as supplying work for men Is concerned. But there has been very little for the women to do. For a while they •were employed in tieing up bundles of kindling in a building adjoining the Home for the Friendless, but the objection to this was that it did not teach them how to be useful in the ordinary walks of life and consequently was wholly temporary in its benefits. The laundry will give them work at a wage Of from 75 cents to $1 a day and it will also give them a training in how to do washing} and ironing.

The fact that a great many poor women are inefficient housekeepers stands between them and profitable employment. The woman that oan wash and ironwell never lacks for something to do. It is the purpose of the Society for Organizing Charity not only to give temporary relief but to teach lessons of cleanliness and domestic efficiency that will be permanently valuable to those learning them. The work done by the charity laundry will not be poorly done, for, as has been said, a competent washerwoman will superintend it and use the greatest care in having all the work turned out satisfactory to the patrons. It is probable that the number of women employed in the laundry will vary with the intensity of the cold and with the good or ill forturfe of the poor women of the city. But enough persons will be constantly kept on hands to take care of the work of the establishment. It is expected that the laundry will be self-sustaining. The society has been, able to make a small margin on the wood yard.

The society is firmly opposed to all kinds of begging. It regrets that the ordinance against this evil is not more rigidly enforced by the police authorities. "If a man or woman applies to one's house for something to eat,

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ceeds the number in the North, for-Of the 108 lynchings which have occurred in -this country since January 1, 1897, ninety^seyen of them have been in the South and el'eVen in the North.

Evansville Courier—Back of 'the lynching is a system tof white cap depredations and disregard for the law that has been going on for years. The affair at Versailles is not an isolated instance nor a sudden outbreak. The number of men lynched and the slight cause for the deed have called especial attention to this outrage. Acts of "white caps" have been numerous in the past, though they never hefore have been carried to such an extent. They have been looked upon by the authorities as pleasant little idiosyncracies. No determined effort has 'been made to detect and punish the wrong-doers. We have been raising our hands in pious horror at the wild ravings of the speakers at the meeting of the social democracy in Chicago Sunday. If we are honest in this we must hunt down the anarchistic outlaws who took part in the lynching at Versailles and mete out to them the full penalty of the law.

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Miss Nancy Harper, general secretary of the society, "he or she should be given the number of the Home for the Friendless and directed to go there. We never turn anybody away that is willing to work. To feed or clothe people without requiring an, equivalent in exchange is to encourage begging and its kindred vices."

It is very hard for tender hearted persons to turn a hungry man, woman or child away from their doors empty handed. However, unless they have some work for the applicant to do it is regarded as far better to send him to the Home for the Friendless, where he will get what he needs but only after giving a fair exchange in service. So long as beggars are fed and clothed for the asking they are not expected by specialists in eooiology tio develop sufficient moral strength to break away from their indolent and demoralizing habits.

PINKERTON TELLS OF THE GANG.

Lyle 'Levi the (Last of the Noted Reno Raiders—Crimes of This Band.

Lyle Levi was the last of the once notorious 'Reno gang of desperadoes, who for several years terrorized Indiana, Iowa and Kansas by the boldness of their operations and the extreme cruelty with which they avenged themselves on 'Jheir enemies or those who resisted them, says the Chicago Tribune. Of a gang of twenty desperate men, 'Levi was the eleventh to meet fleath at the hands of lynchers, the remaining known members of the gang having died in prison with the exception of John Reno, the leader, who was pardoned from a Missouri penitentiary a few years ago, only to die a year later by disease.

The Reno gang outdid the famous Younger brothers gang or the James boys in the magnitude of their operations, hut differed from the James and Younger gangs in their methods. They committed few murders. Robbery and holdups, train-wrecking and arson were the trade of the Reno gang, but murder se^ms never to have been resorted to only when escape was made impossible by other means.

PINKERTON TA'LKS OF THE GANG. William Pinkerton, head of the Plnkerton Detective Agency, probably is better ac» quainted with the history of the Reno gang than any other living person, be having done his first "big work," as he explains it, on their trail. "Shortly after the close of the war," said Mr. Pinkerton, "John, Frank, Sim, Billy and Clint Reno settled with their parents.on a large farm just outside of Seymour, Ind. The boys were all pretty well grown up, and were known to have been bounty-jumpert and deserters from the army and all-around tough characters. The old folks, however, were decent Germans. Shortly after the family settled in Indiana several trains were held up in the southern part of the state. My father was authorized by the Adams Express Co. to run the robbers down, and I, then a youngster, was sent out on the case with several other men. There was scarcely any law, or rather the courts were in «. demoralized conditioif at that time, and, though we were certain that the Reno boys were the train robbers, we were unable to secure any convictions.

OPERATE ON A BOLD SCALE. "By 1867 the gang had grown stronger la numbers and bolder in operations, and the entire state and, for that matter, the adjoining states, were being terrorized by the gang. Raids were made periodically and money amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars was stolen. Small towns were cleaned out by night, and trains were held up and robbed in broad daylight. "The first big haul the gang made was the robbery of the county treasurer's office at Clinton, Mo., when $20,000 was taken in

a lump. Two of the gang were captured in this raid, one died of his wounds, and the other died in prison. The Reno boys escaped, but John Reno, the oldest of the boys, was captured some months later and sentenced to twenty years in prison. "Within a few months a dozen or more county treasurers were robbed in Iowa and Kansas, several thousand dollars being stolen in each of these raids. The county treasurer's safe at Magnolia, J*., was robbed one night in May, 1867, and I happened to be a few miles away, and when ordered by my father to go to work on the case I jumped to MagnoHa, arriving there only a day after the robbery.

ROGERS' CLEW IS A WINNER. "After a few hours' work I got a clew to work on. A wealthy land owner named 'Mike' Rogers, who lived at Cou&uil Bluffs, thirty miles away, had carefully examiued the safe a day or so before the raid was made. No one suspected him, but I followed the clew just the same. I soon learned that Rogers had been seien in company with three other men the night of tho robbery, walking along the railroad tracks towards Magnolia. With my assistants we kept watch on Rogers' house, and the first niv,*t of the watch we saw Rogers and three mci leave in a wagon. "We were unable to follow tfiem without being discovered, and so awaited their return. They returned towards morning, carrying with them a big bag, which seemed heavy. A few hours later the news was received that the treasurer's office at Glenwood, a few miles south, had been robbed during the night of $11,000. I notified tho county sheriff of what we had seen, and we made a raid on the house, capturing all four of the men, who were attempting to burn the paper money, evidently knowing that they were being watched. Wre recovered several thousand dollars, and made four prisoners.

ESCAPE ON "AliL FOOfLS' DAY." "Frank Reno, A1 Sparks and 'Miles Ogle, all members of the Reno gang, were Rogers' companions, and from bills and other booty found in the -house we fixed all the recent robberies on them. They were locked up in the Glenwood jail and an extra guard had to be kept around the Jail to prevent a lynching. On the 1st of April, 1868, the four prisoners wrote 'April fool'all over the jail walls and escaped, supposedly by the aid of outside accomplices. "A month later a train was held up near Seymour and the express messenger killed while resisting, and $9,000 was stolen from the Adams Express Co.'a safe. "Myself and three or four other detectives "were near the scene of the robbery and assisted in arresting four members of the gang, Gerald, Moore, Sparks and Clinton, all of whom were caught red-handed, but the Reno boys escaped.

TWO LYNCHINGS THE RESULT. The prisoners were turned over to the sheriff, who started to the jail vith them. He was met just outside of the tov/n and the four prisoners were taken away from him and lynched by 200 citizens. Sim and Bill Reno found things pretty warm around Seymour and went in hiding in Indianapolis, where the£ were arrested by our men. Frank Reno and a pal escaped to Canada, where they were located and alter a hard legal fight were extradited and brought back to the scene of the robbery. They were locked up in the jail at New Albany with Sim and Bill Reno and were awaiting trial on charge of murdering the express messenger and several other charges, when a mob of farmers broke down the jail doors one night and took the prisoners out and hanged them to telegraph poles. "The other members of the gang held together and kept at their old tricks, but one by one were captured and sent to prison. Two others were lynched, some were killed while attempting robberies and another died in prison.

TEN YEARS TO BREAK IT UP. "It took nearly ten years to break up the gang, for the only way to effectually break up such a gang as that was to either put the members under ground or behind the bars."

REBUKED BY JUDGE BREWER.

Attorney Green Reprimanded for, Unprofessional Language,

St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 15.—Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, sitting with the judges of the United States Circuit Court of Appealsj administered a dignified and severe rebuke this morning •when court opened to T. A. Green, an attorney of Denver, who, in a brief, savagely attacked Judge Halletft, of the United Stares District Court, for the district of Colorado.

It was the case of Thomas D. Kelley et al. against the Ibex Mining Co. et al., in which Judge Hallett had sustained demurrers of defendants to the complaints. Jus» tice Brewer, reading from his notes, carefully reviewed the case and the motion to strike the brief of Mr. Green from the records, and then said: "The brief filed by T. A. Green contains page after page of denunciation and abuse ef the Judges who decided these demurrers. It goes far beyond criticism, or even denunciation of the acts and decisions of the judges, and is filled with language which is, to say the least, not familiar to the tongue or pen of gentlemen. That such matter is irrelevant and scandalous is evident. The name of said T. A. Green will be stricken from the record as solicitor and counsel of appellants."

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Decatur's Alleged ttoodltng. •Decatur, 111.' Sept. lo.—John G. Watson, member of the city council, who, while trying to effect an entrance to C. O. Young's saloon after the place had been closed for the night, was severely assaulted 'by the saloonkeeper, now says he was the victim of a put-up job and declares that he will get even for the injuries he received.

He states that he was approached by a certain member of the council, who offered him a bribe of $25 to defeat concrete street paving in Decatur. The declaration has caused a sensation in official circles. Watson says he will name the man and lay all the facts before the grand Jury.

Prlc« of Paper Advancing.

lAppleton, Wis., Sept. 16.—Owing to an Increased demand in the paper trade, prices on the boom. One large manufacturer butchers' manilla. in this region has twice increased the price of his product 5 cents a hundred each time, and the increased price being maintained. This is the first actual increase of prices that has been made, but is thought that the time is not far distant ien an increase of price will be possible print paper and possibly some othei .grades.

THE WAR IS NOW ON

PKAIR1E CBICKKN8 WILL NOW HAVK TO TASK TO t'UK TALL. TIMBER.

Several "^erra Qtato Nimrods Have Taken the Stabbl* Vlelda of IlltuoU—No Market Sale.

Today there are no less than twenty Terrs Haute nimrods en route to the stubble fields of Illinois in search of the very toothsome' pratelo chicken. In fact, the man, dog and prairie chtaken have already joined forces for the annual parade of feathers empty shells «nd^ improbable stories of stubble. The prairie chicken season in Illinois emned Wednesday, and the lover of the sport who has been spending long but pleasant hour* cleaning his fowling piece and feeding his p'inter on dog bisquit for the last month has ^o&e, or is soon going, to reap his reward.

All day yesterdav the trains from the •ast and also from the north j&rried not a few peculiarly attired men, bound for the fields of the Sucker st^'s. Though the heart of the chicken country is but a half hundred miles from Terre Haute the law in the two states is vastly different. The chicken law in Indiana expires September 1st, while in Illinois not a shot dare be fired at the whirring bird before September 16th. Not until October let will a full feathered chicken dare show its face in open market. Until ken there will be a few sname-faced and Indecent birds without feathers to give them a name masquerading before the law as spring pullets or other harmless creatures.

The season will remain open until. November 1st. During that time the sportsman is released from the fear of the fine of "not less than $5 nor more than $25," and the particularly unpleasant clause of the law, which provides that the killing of each bird shall constitute a separate offense.

The goose and duck season also opened Wednesday, but does not seem to be atiracting so much attention. It does not close until Aprils15th, and there is time to think about the web-footcd birds after tha wh'rrjng ones are proscribed.

The only good chicken shooting in Illinois is In the southern part of tlte state, and thither the pilgrims are headed who have not the time or the money to expend on the trip to the more fertile stubble of North Dakota. There is said to be excellent shooting in the farm land about Dwight and further south

Sportsmen are enthusiastic over the gam« outlook for the coming open wason. PrairU chickens have not tfeen

so

numerous for

yors as they are at tho vesent time. They constitute about the sole game at present, however, the extremely iry and hot weathei having driven the ducks further north. Quail are plentiful and will furnish good sport when their season opens. No violations of the gaipe laws have been reported in Illinois, though chickens were ruthlessly slaughtered a fortnight before their day ol grace was over in Iowa.

About the first Terre Hautcan to tak® to the stubble was Ed Bindley. The young man greased up his fowling piece bright and early Wednesday morning, and in the after« noon betook himself to the Union Station, there to board a T. H. & P. for the happy hunting grounds. He took with him his fln« pointer dog, and while no bulletins hav* been received from him it is safe to prediol he is shooting right and left with more OS less success. Ed Tetzel, the cixck wlnj shot, and several of his associates are arranging to take a trip into the land of feathers in a few days.

ROMANCE AND REALITY.

Buffalo Bill, With His Great Wild West Show, is Coming. One American, whose actual life experiences exceed anything yet written in romance, is the hero of the plains, Col. W. F. Cody, or, as he is better known, Buffalo Bill. For many years no name has been so often mentioned in the war office reports as that of Col. Cody. In the writings cf Gen. Custer, Logan and Sheridan, as well as many other famous Indian fighters, Col. Cody is a prominent figure, and has always been held as the ideal scout and courageous soldier, and a patriot of,the stamp of those to which the great West'now'owes its present prosperity. No thoughtful person oan hesitate to give such men as Wild Bill, California Joe, Frank Gruard, Maj. Frank North, and last, but not least, Buffalo Bill, the undying gratitude they deserve. Of these brave men who guided our little fronttrr regiments in and out of hostile countries, who rooe by day and nigfct to fight and die beside the wagon train or adobe cabin of some unfortunate settler, Buffalo Bill alone remains. The histoiy of his lifo is but a part of that of his country. Therefore, to see this remarkable man in all his strength and picturesque fidelity at the lioad of this great historical reproduction an opportunity none should let slip by.

His Wild

West

malady

exhibition this years is

more attractive than ever, having been improved and en^'ged in many ways. It will be seen here on Saturday, September 25th.

LOOKS LIKE TEXAS FEVER.'

Many Cattle Are Dying In Prairie Creek Township. A. F. Basler, state veterinarian, of New CastlJ, has been telegraphed to come to Terre Haute at once and examine into what is believed to be an epidemic of Texas fever. A

of fatal character has broken out

among the cattle of Prairie Creek vwnship and the farmers are becoming alarmed. So great is the apprehension that a strict quarantine has been inst'tuied. Already fifteen teen cattle are dsad and there are at least 200 more dangerously slcy. Tt3 cattle from which the disease is suppwed to have been contrafed were shipped to »arties near Darwin e'vme time ago.

The disease has just broken out this week and it was only yesterday that Dr. Willis, of this city, secretary of the c^^nty board of health, was called upon to investigate. On the farms of Ralph Spiirks, Thomas Drake and H. Ttinearson, all ^joining :n the Prairie Creek bottoms, he found fifteen dead bodies lying around with protri-4ing tongues and distended abdomens. All the ether animals of the three places are suffering and a strict quarantine has been established. Dr. Pote has been asked by Dr. Willis to make a diagnosis and if necessary* an autopsy.

Pieman* News For Daniel UoodmanPhiladelphia, Sept. 16.—Daniel Goodman, an emnloye cf the Phoenix iron works ol Phoenixville, has Just received word that, by the death of his sister, he has become the sole heir to an estate of $500,000 In Staffordshire, England.

FROM LOWELL, MASS. The Home of Hood's Sarsapari!la~ A Wonderful Cure.

A swelling

as

big as a large marble

came under my tongue. Physicians said it was a semi-transparent tumor and must be operated upon. I felt I could not stand it, and as spring came began to take my favorite spring tonic, Hood's Sarsaparilla. The banch gradually decreased and finally disappeared. I have had no sign of its return. I am giad to praise Hood'sSarsaparilla." Mas. H. M. Cobohn, 8 Union St., Lowell, Mass. Get HOOD'&

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