Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 11, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 December 1895 — Page 3

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TURKS AND KURDS ARE THIRSTING FOR BLOOD. All Moslems Aic liccomin:; Aroused Shout 1 the Iroihet Declare VVnr, liutchcries Would He Te:riblc-Sul-wi Hopsa the I'o-.ver.-i Will (Juarrel Alarm for Constantinople. The ln-art grown s:.k nvir tin reeital of tin- outrages ami butchery of the Armenians I y the Türk. So fearful were the inasacres that is. va hard to phue reliance upon the eari!r reports from the sic!" of disturbance, lint as report after report a:ne in they only eoutirmed tlie inhuman treatment heaped upon the help'es followers f 'iirist iauit y. The testimony fron: a muni er of sourees, whose reliability in undisputed, is that the worst lias yet to he told. The latest advhes are that the exTerniie.a ion of the Armenians goes right : despite tlie protests of Christendom and the presenee of ihe warships of the .-ivilied powers in Türkis! waters. Th Sultan eamiot stop the butehery even if lie so willed. His time is taken up in planning to ward off the assassins who are seeking his life. Therefere the murderous Turk are left free to ai ry out their hi d-thirsty propensities. I'ntil a ehe.-krein an he applied to these uniformed rutiians tlie massa re will go mi hi spite of the appeals brought to bear to have them stopped. For days past Turk and Kurds have been pouring into Constantinople from th" devastated regions of Asia Minor. Tiieir primary objeet is ihe disposal of the plunder whieh th -y have obtained, during the maxieres. They are also hopeful of a richer harvest in the event of ihe Sultan.- permitting a rising at Stamhoul. Their s'ories, rouphd with the display of plumb r. have intlamed the lowest elass of Moslems. They are read., to seize upon the .slightest prvo-a-lion fr an attaek. It js enwhoiesoniely siffiiilieant of this state of affairs that the government is seizing and deporting daily numbers of Armenians of the poorest but most robust elass. It e- hard lor the v.n.s. i'iii to believe

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to realize that at this very moment, men, women ::n;l cliiltlron are b-'ing butchered within sound of the guns of the tleets of Christian Europe. Hut such is the actual Htate of tilings, and while the sword of the Moslem run. red with Christian blood. Europe stands idly by uitering public protests, whereas she should enforce her demands until the Turk was rendered harmless for oppression or wiped from the face of the earth. Ther should be no compromise? when civilization meets savagery and fanaticism the latter should go down to a resurrect iouhss grave. Since the beginning -f the Tutk's rule of the sword In Armenia, only a few months ago, rvm.OO1) people have perished or are on the verge, through starvation and suffering, of the grave. Of These ÖO.OOO have been butchered outright and day after day the outrages and the tragedies continue, the Unfortunate Armenians Iwing crushed from the earth at the rate of nearly a thousand a day. What the sword have undone starvation completes, and by the time Europe awakes to its responsibility the Armenian question shall have settled itself by the complete extermination of the Christian population of the country. Holy War May Come. The condition of tilings in Turkey under Abdul Jlami 1 is strikingly like what it wfs nearly twenty years ago under Abdu! Aziz. Turkey was insolent then as she is now. In 1S7U the massacres were in Bulgaria. Now they are in Armenia. Then it was the slaughter of Turks by Bulgarian Christians who despaired of help from the powers that provoked the horrible slaughters in return. Now tie Armenian Christians, despairing of help from the p wers, have idanm-d and carried out an uprising, which in turn ha: been p-it down with ferocious cruelty by the Sultan. In 1S7 Abdul Axiz was called upon by the jmwcrs to introduce reforms which were tantamount to giving his Christian subjects immunities and rights not guaranteed to his Mohammedan subjerM. The result was that the latter were inllamed to a dangerous pitch of revolt. That experime is duplicated now. Nothing more dreadful could happen to Christian humanity in the remote east than the outbreak of a -holy" war. a war in which the followers of Mahomet should draw the sword of extermination against not only every Christian missi nary, but evrry citizen of a Christian state whenever found. When it is borne in mind that the followers of Mahomet number at the lowest eahailation 'jm.t some ide.-jnay l.. f.'.itif d of what a ceneral religions out break against Christianity anions thein would mean. There are .", o.iMr in Egvpt, vast numbers in the colonies cf Southeastern Austria, at least AO.tnni.tH.) in India und 2i),(m,mi more in other British col mies. The Sultan is the reo snlzfd head of the whole Moslem world,

Rare Persia nn l Morocco, where tlie head of the faithful is Ali. son-in-law of Mohammed. There is only one way of proclaiming a holy war. There 'u only one man who can proclaim it. The Sultan is that man. When the formal words declaring war against a foe are uttered, according to striet Moslem ritual, every Mohammedan in Asia or 1'urope must respond as he hopes to attain paradise. All Turkey would be in an uproar at on-o. The fate of Christian missionaries to the southwest and southeast of the Sea of Marmora would be sealed. Bloodshed

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would follow in all quarters of the East. Of course the powers would win in the end. The struggle would be a long one, so far as Abdul Hamid is concerned. His declaration of a holy war would mean his own deix)sition; but, in the meantime, and afterward, what? In the meantime, one of the bloodiest wars of history, and afterward the revival of the rivalries of the powers in sharper form than ever. Great Powers Foes nt Heart. Although the powers of Kurope have agreed to act in combination and probably will maintain that attitude for the present, it is not believed that there is any real iH'cord among them. They are rivals to the bitter end m the Kast. Their objcetti are contli.-tiiig. and it is only mu tual fear which avails to preserve nulluni deference. The powers do not care a whit for Turkey or Its sovereign, ami would sweep Abdul Hamid and his system off the face of the earth if they acted uiou their impulses. But to do away with the Turkish empire means to invite a condition of things perhaps ten-fold worse than that which now exists. If Turkey were effaced as a geographical entity the powers would have more trouble in agreeing as to the division of the land among the conquerors than they have had over any problem of European politics.. Turkey must stand intact under some form of government, if the outward accord of the powers is to be maintained. The jealousies of England and Bussla in Asia have been forcibly illustrated during the last twelvemonth in the .la panChina war and in the Corean imbroglio.

THE DARDANELLES.

But the matters at stak' there are a mere bagatelle compared with those at the Bosphorous. It has been tliA sternly policy of Russia for a hundrtd years to lose n move on the European chcsslioanl that brings her nearer to Constantinople and the control of the Marmora Sea, and it is the determination of Europe that Russia shall not occupy Consta!itln'p. This is the Eastern question: What to do with Constantinople? The jtowers would take all the risks of a holy war if they eouM be sure that the overthrow of the Turkish mpire and its partition would not fatally disturb the balance of power. FORTS OP THE DARDANELLES. What Gunboat Would Encounter En Konto to ConMtQiitiiiople. Naval engineers are of the opinion that Constantinople cannot be successfully assaulted by water. They claim that tie

Dardanelles and the Rosphorus offer a protection that praetieally means the destruction f any tleet that. should attempt to approach the city without the Turk's consent. The Dardanelles from Kestos and Abydos to the Sea of Marmora is filled with torpedoes. The high, rocky shores bristle with a double line of fortresses. The entrance to the Dardanelles is narrow. The current is strung and nature has d ne everything to make the straits impregnable, except to furnish the guns. The forts on ach side are built upon modern principles and nmnit Krupp

guns of heavy caliber. The two largest forts are at the narrows, the one called the Nama.'eh battery at Kilid Bahar and the other the Medjidieh. a little to the northward of the town of Chanak. Both command tlie approach to the nai rows and can deliver a cross lite that wo.ild make a big hole in any modern lieet. The forts are not the chief reliance. Tin Turk has taken to the torpedo in a way that will astonish his enemies. The recent naval battles at the Valu Itiver and Port Arthur show the terrible effect of he modern torpedo when int lligenti;handlcd. The bottom of the Dardanelles is lined with torpedoes, ami there are it number of submarin' mini's. The torpedoes are arranged to be tired by clectrii ity from shore. Nearly all these fortresscs ahm; th I a rSa Helles have been built for many years, seine for centuries. They have been rcmoddel airain and again to keep pace with the modern progress in warfare. The Dardanelles is the 1 1 ein spont, or sea of Hell', of I he ai;. i n s. It directly connects the archipelago, an arm of the Mediterranean, with the Sea of Marmora. whi h is practically the immense harbor of Constantinople. It is very iimitv. and resembles rather a river at its mouth than a veritable sea. Defenses on the Bosnhorns. Cjmi ng to Conslaiitinoulc from the east, through the liosphorus from the Black Sea, are heavy batteries on almost every point on cither side. At the two Kovas, when' the channel of ti e Bosphorus narrows, then- is a formidable array of fortifications. They are arranged for a cross-lire, and live f them are of recent construction. These mount thirty heavy Krupp guns ea h and are capable of sinking any war ship. The Turk has been busily fortifying his fnuitiers since his last war with llussia. ami In is now in a better position t light than over before. The old fortresses of Asia and Europe stand on cither shore of the Bosphorus, about half way up. where tin- channel is unusually narrow, and at a point once traveleil by the celebrated bridge of Darius. The fort of Asia, Anaddi Ilissari, rises on the lip of a pleasant rivulet, which empties itself into the Bosphorus. The fort of Europe, Uoumeli. Ilissari, on the oposito slmre, is of singular const motion. The ground plan forms the characters of the prophet's name, by whom traditioii says it was built in six days, by permission of the (J reek Emperor. This for Missesses great strength, Strategie and defensive. It is well supplied with water and the means of storing provis ions I'he city of Constantinople itself occu pies a triangular promonotcry above the Propontis. It has been strongly fortified on all sides, including the side washed by the sea and that which is the base of the triangle ami connects it with the mainlaud. The walls extend twelve miles, sweeping 'from sea to sea. running along the winde length of the harbr ami terminating in the celebrated fortress of the Seven Towers. At some Hiuts the fe.indation of the walls is formed by lr.:ge masses f r-k, a species of architecture still to be traced in a few f the most ancient (Jrecian structures ami formerly termed Cyclopaean. In other ports, parthularly on the sile f Marmora, the masonry commences regularly from the edge f the water. The most ancient portion of the walls is necessarily that which incloses tin ancient Byzantium, now known as tlie Seragli Point, where the apex of the triangle divides the Propontis from tlu iMrt, ami instead f bing peoph d by the busy multituile of the city, is silent in the statcliuess of its gildel palace ami overhanging groves. These walls that are now standing were built over l.iHJO years ago. The body of an unknown girl, who committed suicide at a fashionable board ing house, ami who is supposed to be from Canada, lies at the morgue at Buffalo. It is that of a young woman about 111 years ohl. There is no clew to her identity ami even the marks on her linen have been obliterated as if with careful purpose. The Paris Figaro reveals mi allegel secret in President Kan re's family history which proven to have been simply that his wife's mother was abandone! hj her huülrtnd two months aftvr her marriage.

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HOW GOLD STANDARD WORKS I iie. pre'ui ci!h:u:ou oi a;iao ill . . . r .....!... I constitutes an object lesson that ought not to bo lost on thoughtful jM'ople. We are realizing some f the

resuJis ef ;ur supreme folly in permit- j ''" deepening and increasing ever ting British ami foreign interests to ! siu-e our mints wen closed to silver, dictate ;he eli.travter of our monetary j Nevertheless the money power is besystem. The situation is more ominous ! hind it. the administration is working than the symptoms that appear on the j actively for it. and it may lie that thj surface would indicate. Those surface representatives of the people ean be in-

symptoms are the continued outflow of gold and an unensy feeling in business circles that the British gold standard js lea 1 ing to results that w re not anticipated by those who ignor.tntly placed their Influence behind P. Behind this uneasiness in business circles is to be found an absolute depression of trade almost equal in extent to that which followed the fall in silver and the subsequent unconditional repeal of tho purehas'ng clause of the Sherman act in 1N!:;. Two weeks ago the information came that various manufacturing industries were shutting down for the purpose of keeping up prices. That movement showed the desperate tactics to which our industries are driven to realize profits under the British gold standard.. Düring the week jusc closed ihe- number of failures was almost as large as that of the "panic year," IS'. Kl. aud liabilities were only a million less. Dun's report says that there is no react ii.n from the business depression, and frankly adds that 'efforts to oxplain it or to attribute it to this or that temporary lulliienee are wasted." That is true. It ran be explained only by the operations of the single gold standarl, whieh constantly enhances the value of gold as compared with other forms of properly and with all the products r.f human l;tlor. There e:tn be no prosperity under the single gold standard in a nation that is a heavy de'o'or of foreign eounti-.es. I nder the monetary standard that is suited to our people we would be able to pay our foreign debts with tlm surplus of our staple commodities, such as wheat, cotton, provisions, etc.. but under the single gold standard the prices erf our exportable commodities are so low that the sum realized for them falls far short of paying our debts abroad, and. consequently, our small and constantly dwindling stock of gold must be drawn on. The speculative spurt in business, over which the gold monometallists congratulated themselves two or three months ago. has entirely expended its strength. Industries that responded to it in the vain hope that it meant a revival of prosperity l.ave been compelled t shut down or to sell their products at prices that represent only the mest meager prfits. Over ami over again The Constitution and other bimetallists have assured business men that there ran be no permanent prosperity in this country under the Single gold standard. We have not permitted this statement to go out either as a prediction or as an assumption, but Lave shown, with an accuracy that is mathematical, that the increased demand for gold would make it more valuable, and that this constantly increasing value would hurt all forms ef business, save that of money lending, and reduce the prices of all products of human labor below the profit level. That is precisely what has happened and is happening, and it is this process that drags both business and speculation down when they make an effort to rise to the high level of prosperity that formerly marked the course of trade and trat He. It seems queer Indeed that there are to be found people who cannot see what is happening before their ryes. Tlu Constitution 1s now and always has Ik-en the -apostle of optimism. But the most pronounced optimist cannot afford to discredit his canity by pretending to believe that the people, ean be really prosperous tinder the single ;old standard, unless, by ineans of a miracle, the world's stock of gold available for monetary purposes should be trebled or quadrupled. Wo say that our people especially the people of the South are able to survive the operations of the single gold standard for a time at least; but we say. too, that it is both foolish and criminal to compel them to suffer under a system that robs them for the benefit of the money lenders and gold speculators. The most ordinary intelligence can perceive the direction in which the country Is drifting under the British gold standard. The tendencies are all in the direction of bankruptcy. Wc are told, when the administration threw the doors of the treasury open to the shylocks of Europe ami Invited them to help themselves, that 1ho outflow of gold was caused by the issue of treasury notes fr the purchase of silver. This was stopped, and when gold continued to go out we were Informed (after two bond issues) that a syndicate of foreign bankers had pledged themselves to prevent the export of gold. The syndicate del reasonably well until it pocketed its immense profits, and then it dropped the affair as a child would drop a hot potato. Now that gold has lx-gun to go out at the rate of more than a milium a. day we are politely informed that, after all, the greenbacks and treasury notes are the cause of the trouble, and that if the people will consent to the suppression and retirement of .VKA0,000 of legal tender money, everything will then be I stM-etK'. because the treasury will not then need to ke'ep any gold tm hand.

so-oaue.t "rente. jy will n;v j make our financial troubles more acute, j Such a tremendous contraction of our I legal tender money wiii lower prices ! st'.ll further and :.dd tenfold to the i business depression that has been gradduee.l to sell them out again, jusr as they were sold out in ls'.:'. Atlanta Constitution. " Best " Money. The Boot ami S3ne Recorder, a Bos ton trade publication of the better class, in a recent iss ie contains the following editorial utterances: "The simple- fact is that bsf money means nothing more nor loss than lowest prices, and lowest pries eannt possibly mean anything else than depression In industry and stagnation in business. Legislation that would restotv the tise of silver as money here and in other countries would double the amount of money and make the whole less valuable. This would mean advancing profits just as positively as disuse of silver has brought more valuable money ami declining prices. As long as the money-lending hnaneial ideas are in con t ml we cannot look for a change in this direction. "The only prospect for relief in sight at present, therefore, or in other words. the only chance for getting a less valuable currency with advancing prices, is from the increasing production of gold, and from this cause, as we have? previously pointed out. there is reason to be hopeful of good results. But the change cannot come at once. It will take time to develop the mines and get. out the gold, and even with the large production of ?JMXMWO in g"hl a year, it w ill le oomo time before there ean be a marked effect on the value of tlie world's stock of $ U m mm),000 or over. We may get some measure of relief from tariff changes which will tend to advance prices again, but tiiis would be only temporary as long as the general movement of the world's eurreu-y tends to make it more valuable or 'better' as our financiers express it. "It is no answer to -.ay that this argument could be carried to an extreme and that a currency of copper or tin or iron would be cheaper amP therefore bring more prosperity. We could simply ask how the other extreme would work with a currency of diamonds or some oilier metal of which only a few jMHinds could be supplied. We are arguing on the existing conditions and in a business way, and the only common sense business conclusion must be that the movement In the direction of 'better' or more valuable money as a measure of values must be stopped before there can be any confidence or assurance or profit in business i orations. We may have spurts in differ ent Turns and changes due to -what might bo termed local causes, but industry as a whole cannot prosper as long as declining prices destroy all chances of profit for the men who must take the lead in all various branches of wealth production. In so far as the recent great gold discoveries tend to this result there is promise- and hope for the future." The above utterance, coming from thü representative journal of one of the heaviest items of manufacture in tie East, may be classed as significant. It presents in business-like terms the relation of currency to commerce, a relation which the Eastern statesmen, beclouded by the Iondon single standanl fog, have been muddling for some years with tine spun theories and high-sounding terms, which mean little or nothing, when reduced to practice For Kcstoration. There is an amazing degree of misunderstanding of the real attitude of tht? farmers and manufacturers of the. country on the silver question. This misunderstanding prevails in the Wtst to a degree positively alarming and diuigorous to the cause. It cannot be repeated too often that the information we get over the wirevs from the Bast or through the metropolitan newspapers of the Bast are sub-yorvient to the influences of the advocates of the single gold standard, because, in fact, they are, in the main, the properly of the advocates of the single gdd standard. For this reason. Western icople shoul 1 never look to the ass.eiat.Ml dispatches or to the editorials of the Eastern newspaper press to ascertain the attitude of anylnwly on the silver question. It has been stated before, but cannot bo repeated too often, t hat the associated press falsified its reports of tlie action of the farmers' national congress at Atlanta on the silver question. Th " course that the delegates in that congress pursued was precisely the oentrary to what the associated press re-' ported, and was everything that the most anient friends of the silver cause couhl ask. To know the real attitude of the fanners and manufacturers of tbo whole country on this question, ono must seek Information from the middle classes, who compos the masses of farmers and manufacturers. It is a fact, which a thorough investigation will sustain, that among the fanners and manufacturers In the whole regiou

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east of the Missouri River nine out of teil are iu favor of the restoration of silver coinage.

i RECORD OF THE WEEB

INDIANA INCIDENTS TOLD. TERSELY .'"ad Affliction of a Little Ciri-Mind Reader Johnston Has Ills Trouble Hen Davis Kills Himself Convict L'utd Soap to Avoid Work, u:id Dies. When Will the Niirlit He Over? The S-y ar-.ild lauyhter of William .lurks, of North .Manchester, recen'iy had an attack of scarlet tVvi-r, and as a res'llt of the iliscae has be-oiii totally Itiiii'i. H'-r parents have not had the ".rage to oeak to her of the a :!'! -I ion. ami the littl. ..iie in-piires pathetically, at sl;o:t int rvals. when it will be daylight ajraiii an-l wlo'ii the night will b over. It is thmghi th" hiss of si'rit will be permanent. Covert After Johnstone. l'Ider W. It. Cov rt. the anti-Spirit nai ist, who has !hmi conducting a light in tlie vicinity of Anderson, is branching out in a new line. Raul Alexander .lohnstone, the nii:il-r'.oler. was li!!e.l for a. performance in Ainh'tsoii. Mr. t'ovtrt. who hiss, s this with other "fakes." anr.ounctd that h wmM arrei .bhnto:ie for ful.M' pretc n--es in obtaining money if he IM not tat before th" p-rforiiianc. that all of his mind readings and other matters were dole by ;i tri k method. Covert is aiso a inind-reaJer of no niesüi ability and h is able to expose how it is all done by ir:-kery. Soiic f his leadings, like tie iie of his -x;ioures of spiritual phi nonietia. are wotub-rful and border on the marvelous. Gets Spot Cash with His Hride. Mrs. Sarah Ray. an Indianapolis widow of 71. announ ! sin would marry again, ami if any young" man of good -haracter and go m1 family was tlie s;iitr she wuld make Iii in a present of Sl'o.ikm. tb-orgo Rrown. a society man if 'J'l. thereupon paid court o the wiöow, and was a---ptel. In the nieaniiiii" her h'irs at law began lunacy procw,rmgs against her, but the jury found s!;' was sane. Waring" that th r step would b' taken to prevent the nuptials, Rrown and Mrs. Ray eloped and were marrie! by a peace justie in an aljoiiiing county. As tin ceremony that ma'le tliem man and wif was condoled, she handed her liuIand a check for Sju.a hi. In Presence of Hin Sweetheart. Hen lavis. ag I '22, son f H. N. Iavi. a fanner m-ar Vevay, omuntk'l suicide in the pre'iiee of '.js sweetheart, Agiu-s Livingstone. 11" visited lmr at her home, drew a revolver, put it to Iiis head, and pulled the tr:ggr. It mi-sed lire, t'.nd Ix-for,' he N:iM use it again the girl wrest it fr mi him. He recovered it later, ami hacking lo th' loor held the frantic girl back with one hand, while with th other 1m sent a ball through his brain and f i! lea I at her feet. lie win a hypocho!:dria. Knsc Hnds in D?ath. .lames Regard, a t.vict s'tit frora I'vansviile to st ive two years for larceny, died at .IcfiVrsonville of an il!nes superinduced by eating soap. Rogard had been a so,: ivo of annoyance to the oüicials of the penitentiary by -onstantly shirking his tasks ami asking admission to the hospital for treatment. II was srving his third trni and the fact that he had b-ei eating soap io produce sickness was r-veah-d by a statement he made a sdiort lime before his d alh. Clüirgc.l with Hin oczzlcnicot. W. II. Swam:, who has been managT of the Indiana Jas Reit station of tho Standard nil Company, located in Amb-r-son, is missing. II' is wanted by the company for embezzlements oT nominal sums. The o:ii- rs have been investigating for some time and got ivady t mak the arrest when they found that their man was missing. Mr. Svann is well known among oil men. It is thought that he has gone to Chicago. All Over the State. All li.vM!s'd saloons at Colfax have been knocked ut ureler the Ne holson law. It is asserted that Oliver Toibett, of Terre Haute, who was killel by the explosion of gas in an oil-tank cur, was hurled seventy feet in the air. The body was fouml entirely stripped f -lothing, and apparently bleeding front every pore. Harry (Jaither. Iriver of a boer wagon, upon opening the dor of the storago house at Anderem and striking a match, was hurled some distance away by an explosion which wrecked the building. Natural g$s. in some unexplained way, hail a uniulated in the building. In th" woman's room in the Imliannplis iMli-e station is a girl not yt 10 years ohl.V who is charged with alministc ring poison with intent to commit r.ninler. It was by chane that a whole family escaped death at lmr hands. She is a Mattie t lent ley. and the story she tells is almost incredible. At No. 1H.1 Mast Miami street liv's Mrs. Amaiela Teeters, her son IMward. a boarder named Mlias Robinson ami Mattie ;atley. The other morning Mrs. Teeters, alter calling her son and Robinson, got the little girl out f bed. The child was cross, and said she didn't want to get up. Mrs. Teeters slapped her. ami then she and Robinson went down-town. While Mrs. Teeters and Robinson were away I'dward Teeter arose and began eating his breakfast. He drank some coffee. Re fore he had finished Robinson returned and lie took a mouthful of the ciffee. as did Mrs. Teeters when she got back. IMward had taken so muh that he became deathly sick. Suspi.-ious that something was wtvng the ioli were notilied. Th police questioned tlie phi and she said sh had put ronirh on rats in the coffee because Mrs. Teeters had punished her anl because she did not like Robinson, who was not kind to her. The girl sail sho put the poison in to kill Robinson ami did nt want to hurt IMward. She said sh 1 . . i n .r 1 i i - y-" t -y-" 1 oronneil ll lino i lie i "iii r. jx.iiie said enough of the poison had been usol to kill the entire family, but none of them had taken enough of the coffee. Tho child is an orphan, but has relatives ij Dayton. A maiden lady, who recently died at I .a port e, 1H years old. was claimed to b the oldest spinster in the State. Miss Mary Collins, of Franklin, i !- years old, nml in excellent lodath. Recently she underwent a surgial operation for cataract of the right eye. The Jay County Commissioners made an appropriation of $0O0 to build a cottage at tho Lafayette Soldiers Home, to ! neoommodate the disabled soldiers nnl

jheir wives. This was done in response I to n request of tho CI rami Army of tho I Republic nnd Woman's Relief Corp ot Jhe county.

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