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II" I HAD slept a second longer, ti.- 'earner, with its Lion passet s ainl crew, would have r tl: T. !. the looks. Those who escaped 'n-v.ning wmilil have boon scattered v.'i the northern part of Ohio. There w.s a frightful pressure of Mi-au.. :.vm the explosion wonlit have .i.i:..- within thirty seconds after th" jn:i' i:'i :y toppcd. 1 guess it was I'lMvii!' i,:" awoke im in time to save 1 1;..-' iie," said Professor Itarrett, and tl.Hi ;mvc in detail im unwritten log i,f : siucwhcel passenger steamer, tin- ri'v . f liuffnlo. (...,.'.. .; John P. Itarrett. chief Hco lri. i:i;i Chicago. U llaS I. ti ; M' o life. From the nature of his v;:: ii '.s imtui Kit ions he has oneo.n.i : '. n.r.ny perils. He has dodged !i ! :,;l-gers of the deep, and those of tL- -. 'M:tist"s laboratory as well. Hit. ."!. .-all was his Urs. Ii was iii.n- -1 ; i; forty years ago. hut the re-ni..-i..:-; .:.( f it is as Hear an I cleancut -ignal code of the lircdepartHi w.:s not ahum in his danger, as ti:- ak i -not cd in the beginning will The peril of tite LH - greater, for they were sleepv never knew how near they . ontinuing tln-ir slumber in ef water or awakening at f t net's ' ; in.', i":. au.e it eight the l. Wiis renter of a boiler explosion, .lust, the turn of a wlie !. tin hange oT n vessel's course one foot in ton s:tv d them front death. The Inido:i tor it was hut an incident. ulthot.gr. pointed out to li. one of the jm : .jppalling disasters in the history : i.v great lakes, iletinitely al"tl Hp of Professor lk-invlt's lifo. Ii..!' ad of developing int" a jolly s-..H'p salt or fresh or both--lie l.e.-.i'i . I..- of tho iost genera lty kiei'.'.i: pravtieal eleetriHans of tin T'niie.I :Ates. Let Professor Uarreit t'-'i v.!,;. he :ave up lh life of .- sal';u'.t! man. lie is a eapaide teller of ' t!-i-s. "I ! nii Jo sail lie lakes when I 'v:i 1! years o! :." said he. -I was l'oiii ii. v-w York Stale ami wle-n a v mi n eanie to 4'hieao. when niy f;; setih 1. Naturally 1 took UI--M ill the lake. It w;is:tlMt 11 t!a'.. v.;.s to atlraet. I diiln't eontitw ii. y oyres to fresh water, either. 1 r.iiii ('.(': th" Horn, when it was hard work u t ly it and was in rjeifn eiat sliips for live. years. That h.is nriinp to do with my failure to run .) ity of IMilValo on tho rooks in Lake Kr, ;ust east of Jrand Hi vor. I'airjort Is the town then. I've ;t n n.'j.tiil photograph of tln way the viii.i'- I. eked as it lay sleeping in the lnvnk',!.;- August day of more than forty 4,,s apt. It's .1 pieture that 1o.-j:": 'ijde with time. "I v.i.s (Oily 11 ye;irs old then, rather yniirt he quartermaster of the best Mean.-: on the lakes, hut that was the pos;-.;nn I held. The City of Nuffalo. .: v, itir-h I was one of the wJteIsme: j;Ld the WesU-ru Metropolis, a sistor iile-wheeler. wen running io;: o eaeh other between Cleveland : :. ISutfalo. It was efore the two !"v:.s were eonne-ted by rail, and ti.- New York Central had to earry Its p:1.senp,ers for the Wert by boat from Hv.ffalo. The t rathe in fresirh: :is welt r.s travelers was extremely hi-avy find the water tranprtat ion lines ti.r.de many kinds of money, as the ,;.yir;j4 poos. Our two steamers, lie C'.:y f lUift'alo and the Western Me. r." j-oliv. were two of tite linet that oye;- Tr.ri.ed a wheel in the -reat laks. Tiiev ( re built for speed and for eomfort b)th. ami it was a joy and a delimit 1o sir in their whoolhouses ami lu!; them :. np the distanee. Twenty and twenty-two miles an hour was what i!i' Lad laid out for them on the sehed'o' ..lid it was very tomrh weather iioleei that kept iheni b:irk of their lillie."" J,;-of-sj-or Harret t jrrew eni imiast u as he M,oke of the speed qualities of his early lows, and dilated on the beamy of tl.e'.r model and the liueness of their Kiif-s. 'The City of Huffalo." he Kiiit. "was 330 odd feet long and you or.M y'and sixty feet from her bown and tovh either rail. She simply shot hers f from Huffalo to Erie, .ami a k'h i,i:u shot from M.issassauga point land'.d h"r at Cleveland luit that isn't my :ory. "We i-ft Ruffalo at 1 o'clock at night or ii-r that hour and made Cleveland i.botit in the morning. I had the wheel from Ruffalo to Erie -jest half Do distance and from there my partfier took the boat to Cleveland. One morning after we reached l'.uffalo. I diilr. t go to sleep. 1 was young then lev. than HO. and 1 put in the dav I cin-'R.iffalo. I re-arde,! it as mv dutv ! to know the town and become thor-o!i-!:ly c .-quainted. That night I was dead on my legs; plumb tired out. I rt.!. I my partner to take my end of t'ne run and let me sie- until we reached E;. I was still tired, but when be ronte! me out I took the wheel and we cleared away all right for the last half ,f the run. I got her out of the Mass;saug.i Ray all easy and smooth Miidaflcriounding the point headed her for 'lowland. The course is as straight as a gun barrel. The night was the :lmet. plenxantest I ever knew. Jt was ii. August, the lake was as smooth ns a billiard table and the speed of the . hi Ruffalo created just sutlicient bremse to make it comfortable. I didn't feel fleepy I slmplj' was dead tired. The Jdgh swinging chair took the molion of the boat ami I supposed coaxed in Info a slumber. I don't know wlicn

: THE : STEAMER. I fell asleep, or how It was. but of a sudden 1 arousvd, all .standitn; and alert. "Just east of the mouth of J rand River, whlih eomes into Lake Kriu sixty miles west of Ihie. the eountry bluffs up into what is loeally known as Il-nrdy's Headlands. The western slop of the hill eontinues down to the (Jrand. and upon it is built the townof Fairport. Then it ronsisted )f a' few tish warehouses and lifteeii or twenty homes. "From the headlands a reef runs out into the lake for a Ions distanee. At points it rises above the surfaee. and in its entire length, some third of a mile or more, is a wholly undesirable matter to carry a steamer into. The reef is abrupt in its formation, more like a knife blade than to anything else I can compare it. and on either side is good water. "When I dropped out of my chair in the pink of 4 o'eloek dawn of this delightful morning in August, instead of finding myself two miles from shore I noted as I glanced through the pilothouse window that the Ruffalo was headed dad onto the Iis! warehouse at Fairport, with the apparent intention of climbing the roof in a few minutes. Under the port bow not a long way ahead, but diroetly tinder the nose of the old steamer were the black si inn eovered rocks of the limestone reef. I can see them yet. They reminded me then of the teeth of the devil, and the water splashing and ripping over them was like his smile. I thought of the thousand men and more asleep under my feet and of the homes my cursed sleep would make desolate. I saw all this and I thought of it all in an instant. I wasn't wasting time in instituting comparisons. I jumped at the wheel. There was a chance, and a slight one. lM'tween safety and the most appalling disaster of the lakes. I threw the wheel hard a port Cod. how I twisted it! It sung. Over it went like a tly wheel. The handles made a gray streak before me. and when it came down hard and fast I tied it down with the lashings. I never made a series of such quick motions before or since, and every mental impulse was a prayer a prayer for the slumbering passengers and crew and a curse for my own carelessness. "Would the steamer ever fall otT? The sixtieth part of a minute, when ..';; it fxMii vtml her cargo of 1.100 souls b.ung ovp; .'leMiueiion. was longer to me than the longest year I ever lived. When I lashed the wheel I crawled through the door out on the rail. I hadn't time to check her. and when tin impulse to do so came I figured if she lost any of her headway she was surely gone. I stood on the solitary chance of her answering instantly. I didn't believe she would. I just prayed for it dully. "Under her sides the reef grew, but a lighter brown and more like a monster marine devil. "Would thi boat ever alter her dead ahead course? It wasn't my own peril that froze me, and at the same time burned me up. It's paradoxical, but I felt both sensations. I like to live. 1 was a hoy then, and life offered more than it does now, but as 1 am a true man, 1 would have given my own existence and all it promised me for the assurance that there was one chance in a hundred that the RufTalo would bump against her wharf at Cleveland that morning. I felt that I could die without a shake or a tremor, but the thought I was taking hundreds wiih mens the result of my own negligence was indescrihahly horrid. "Now. all this assel In two seconds. Imperceptibly almost the jacksialT fell away from the chimney on the hill, and lined up with the little, squat, whitewashed lighthouse on the FairM'rt -uvcniment pier. So slowly the teamer bent away it seemed like the dragging of years in eternity. Rut she replied to the rudder as honestly ami sincerely as l lie honest and sincere creature she was, and shot away for the open lake at her race-horse speed. I could feel her keel rasp over a submerged rock, and those nearer the top nicked and raked along the swell of her sides. Under her stern the mud and sand churned up as black as a thunder-cloud. The tension on my nerves gave way. "I staggered blindly up the ladder lo 1he pilot-house and fell against the wheel like a drunkard. I noted then that I was as cold as i-e, and yet my shirt, my waistcoat, and even my coat 't',, wringing wet with perspiration. "l l'sily threw off the lashing of ,,M heel-my fingers were numbed with cold on an August morning and headed the City or Ruffalo for Willoughby l'oittt, the next steering mark on tho Cleveland course. "Not a person aboard the boat had been awakened by the changing of the course. So far as I could ever learn I wasn't making many Inquiries -there was no one awake but myself and the engineers and li remen an.l one or two others. .After I had pulled myself together I looked out of Hie front window of the wheelhouso. Directly below nie sat the mate tipped back in an armchair asleep. He hid dozed within nn inch of death. After we had parsed the Mentor headland,?, seven or eight miles up the lake, n oiler, who had been projecting arouoA below cleaning up the machinery, came tip and climbed out on the wnlklus-

beam to administer the lubricant. I saw him look astern of the boat with every evidence of astonishment. I looked astern, too. It was a bright golden morning then, i ". :i vs Jest looking over the rim of mo i.ik-. iv-: it after us. The wake we made w.m visible for b'n mlh s back on the smooth, glassy blue of Erie. There it lay as twisted and erratic and uncertain as the trail of an intoxicated person. It was a succession of letter S's i mil I had got the wheel by the neck ami straightened away on the course. Then it became as straight as a pike pole. "1 was still shaking and trembling when we math Cleveland. I got lur into the Cuyahoga and up against tic landing all right and went down on deck. .lust as 1 reached the gangway the oiler, whom I had sen out on the walking-beam, ante up and said to the mate: 'Who was it at the wheel about half past 1 this morning'.' I ' "The man never completed the sentence. I smashed him full in the face and he shot out through the freight gangway and into the middle of a pih of doekwallopers. to his great astonishment, and likewise the surprise of the roustabouts. "'Don't call me a liar, damn you.' I roared, and then fell a-trembling again. "My Cod. Rarrett. you're crazy: ried the mate, taking hold of me. The man called no one a liar.' "I shook him loose and jumped ashore. 1 found Captain Perkins in the otlico of the steamship company making formal report of his arrival. "Captain.' I said, I came to ask you for my pay. 1 don't want to act as quartermaster any more.' "'What kind of a joke are you trying to play on me, John?' he asked. "'No, but I'm in earnest. I'll never stand in the wheelhouso for another steamboat. I got to thinking about it coming up. and I'm a quitter. A wind vessel will do me all right, and I'm looking for a schooner now.' "Mohn.' he said, 'you're sick, that's what's the matter with you. Take a few days and rest up. You're only a boy now. and look where you are quartermaster of the best steamboat on any water, fresh or salt. You'll he a master before you're and an owner by the time you an "o. Talc-; a few days rest and think it over. Don't go off half-cook.' "'Captain Perkins.' I replied to him: Captain Perkins. I'm right here lo tell you that I wouldn't lake the wheel o? the City of Ruffalo or any other steamer that ever slid sidewise from the ways for the best Splioo that was ever minted. I have made up my mind and if you please I'd like to have my wages.' "He wrote an order for it and hand 'd it over. 'If I did what's right. RarreU, I wouldn't pay you, he said, rather huffy. 'It's unseamanlike toqe.it in t'.ie middle of a trip. I really ought to hold it up on you; but there's the order. Take it and go to the devil your own way. I've sailed the lakes and the seas forty years and you are tossing up the best chance I ever knew a 10-year-old boy to waste.' "The next winter I was in New York, looking for a berth. We used to sail the lakes in summer and then go east and ship for short ocean voyages. On the docks I met Captain Perkins. " You are just the mau I want, John ' he cried, making a rush for me in the crowd. 'I've just been appointed captain of a steamer that runs between here and Aspinwall down on the isthmusand I want you and you know in", and I'm gladder than as if I found some money. I don't like strangers in my wheelhouso' And he started to drag me off to the steamer otlico to sign. "'I can't go you. captain.' I told him. 'I'm much obliged, but 1 never can perform with the steering gear oi a steamlMat. again. I told on last summer wind sailing was more in my line.' "'I thought you'd be over that crazy notiou by this time. What mad" you throw up your berth';' he asked suddenly. "Then I lold him the story. It made him so weak he sat down on a chaTo cable that was lying colled up on the dock. He was white as a new sail cloth and trembled like a girl. " 'Heavens and earth, John, he gasped, when he caught his wind, 'with our head of steam on If we'd ever struck those rocks and the engines had stoppe 1 what would our boilers have done to us':' 'They would have sent us up to the tops of old man Hardy's sugar trees on the bluff, captain, and, being somewhat higher up than the rest of you, I would have headed the procession; but that's why I don't want to g. as quartermaster.' 'John, he said, wiping the sweat off his forehead with one hand and holding out the other in good-by the perspiration started on the old man even in January, it's no wonder my shirt was wet in August John, you are a wise young man. You know when to stop. I'll not urge you to ship with me, John. As a matter of fact, if you were to take my offer and go I would resign and you would steer for another skipper. Cood-by, John, ami (.Jod keep you. I must p to lind me a quartermaster.' "Chicago Times-Herald.

Our Clot lies. Dr. Von Robber, a (Jerinan meteorologist, has determined how hot. are the clothes we wear. When the outside temperature is o0 degrees Fahrenheit the temperature of the coat is 71.2 degrees, that between the coat and the waistcoat 73.tl degrees, between walso" coat mid shirt 7Ö.0 degrees, iK-tween shirt and undershirt 77.4 tlegres, and between the woolen undershirt and t lie fkiu DO. Judging from the experience we Lava as we grow older. Providence soetui to have saved us from some awfully queer reason.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, T v IMNCIl IHm:.T.ollF. the Cer - r man chancellor, has aunouie ed I td.ii l... .11.1 ... i :. i.. .i.... I ill.ll IM- OKI MIM COIIMUOl Jl lO'.-ll.t-ble that tlie empire should take the initiative toward the holding of an international conference to restore silver to an equal place with gold in the mints of the world. The statement made by the Prince is notable for several confessions. He acknowledges: That the depreciation in the price oi' silver, measured in gold, threatens to destroy silver mining in Cermany. That the difference in exchange between gold and silver countries works to the great disadvantage of the former and the great advantage of the latter in competing for business in the world market -creating economic prejudge, or injury, to Cermany. Thai tiiis advantage to silver countries will I'oiilimte until a corresponding inilu -nee arises and home (Ceriuani prices and wage; readjust themselves to limei the competition. This coldblooded statement means that Centum workmen must come down to suili.-iently low wages to enable Cerman manufactur,;,r" i a ci oj ics oi aa pan, i.mna ami imua. i nai a rise in too price of silver is therefore highly desirable from an economic and a mint standpoint. That bimetallists who hope for an international agreement believe the opening of the Indian mints lo be a necessary precedent to action. That he has sounded the P.ritish Covernment and that the opening of the Indian mints is not expected within iiKYtsurable time, which means that the ltritish Covernment has refused to open them. This statement should put an end to the talk of an international compromise. Cermany says "Wait on (J real Rritain." Prance says "Wait on Croat Rritain." the whole European continent says "Wait on Croat Rritain," and Croat Rritain. the great usurer of the earth, the country that has won its wars with money, even as it bought a Renedict Arnold and sought to strangle America willi money, refuses to accede to any proposition that would trend to loosen the infernal clutch which it lias lixed upon the monetary systems of the Western world. The ruling class in Croat Rritain is the moneyed class. The agriculturists and the workers are being crushed. Their voice is raised in protest through a Rai four, but it is unavailing ngaimd the tremendous intluenee of thousands of millions of accumulated capital that has doubled Its potency through the operation of the gold si a ndard. So it is in Cermany. where the great bankers sway the Covernment. Hohenlohe as the prime minister of an autocratic monarch, the representative of a system designed to reduce the people to a dead level of humble submission to the classes that rule: to make them hewers of wood and drawers of water for the feudal lords of money, as their fathers were peasant varhMs for the feudal lords of the sword. The Chancellor sees the future ami is content to accept it. He calmly contemplates the sinking of the Cerman workman to the point w here the product of endless hours of toil will win for him the remuneration that satisfies the Asiatic who is passing rich on :: or l't cents a day. He dare not attempt to llght tlie force -the money power mat long ago formetl an international agreement, a conspiracy to enhance the value of money until tho masses shall be reduced to a condition of hopeless servitude, and the few shall have the purchasing power of their millions doubled and trebled until they shall tread with a haughtier stride than did the iron-lteeled haron of the medieval ages upon the necks of hfc vassals. Is America prepared to accept this destiny? If it is not it must strike the blow' that will save it. The people of this country possess a far higher average intelligence than the peasantry of Europe. They will not consent to the perpetuation of a monetary system that can have no other result than the destruction of the principles of freedom bullded upon by the fathers of th republic, ami the downfall of our institutions consecrated by the blood of heroe?. Lot us hear no more of international conferences, but let us tight with patriotic ardor for the bloodless revolution that shall rescue the race from the -horrors of slavery to insatiate greed. I!u it ki 11 c Failures. Our readers will distinctly remember that for several months past the gi ld people have had prosperity "returning by leaps ami hounds." l.radsireeis of last week gives us a fair idea 0? the character of this prosperity in its statement of bank failures. During the year lsOt 'he total nttmher of hanks and other financial institutions forced into liquidation was !s. and the liabilities were J?lS.irj.s,r.o. This was tlie year following the crash of lM'i. In INI (prosperity rolling towards us all the time), the failures were 111 in number, and the amount of liabilities $-'.! .tJJl.oiS. An increase of about od per cent, in number and nearly :0 per cent. In the amount involved. This is prosperity with a vengeance. It would seem as If a great trade and linancial Journal like Jtradst roots' ought to understand thattheonly way tif bring hack pennaneut prosperity 1.4 by giving the producer fair prices for what he has to sell. It cannot be done by compelling him to part with his product for less and less money all th time,

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' I ,,ir 1ri, ',s ' :,n "1,,-v "' Insured by :i j money supply that keeps pace with t'a 1 things to bo b .uglit and sold. im this fundamental truth P.m.!streets' seems to have Uo ooiiccpt ion. It appears to think that prosperity an be created by the government's borrowing gold and loading the people down with more ami more dein in order to keep a certain kind of money locked up in in treasury a pro" ss which not only compels the government to fin nisi, i lie very gold w hich it borrows, but actually obligates it to pay out more gold than it takes in. Such, however, is the "sound lin.ifice" for which nearly all of our great dailies and trade journals are so venciu"ii;ly .shrieking. Cost oT I'ro'liictioti. There is no more stale, silly, nonsensical argument ever made than that the value of gold ami silver depends upon the cost of production. Absurd an I ridiculous as the statement is. it tin. is favor with Congressmen. Tie venerable Senator MosiiM of Vermont in !;:s speech the other day spoke of the cheapness of nroducin' silvi-r i n-i. , SOM for its abandon,., cut as a standard and ti! only as token nmnev to e lo- . ,;. copper and ni'-kel. It is unpardonable in :) n,;U, 0r .Senator .Morrill's pretensions as a statesman tc give currency to such a illy statement. Senator Teller disposed of the Senator's argument very effectually by giving.! few well -authenticated facts, lbsays that while it is entirely true that we have mined silver in Colorado at cents la dollar's worlln. it is equally true that we are now mining large quantities of gold ai 20 cents an nunc, which is worth Sl'ii.ijt a tlie mint. In the Cripple Creek region the hooks o, the gold mining com pa ides conclusively show that millions of gold bullion armined for less than 20 cents an ounce. He says that he called upon a gentleman, who. from being a con;:. ma laborer a few years ago. has become a man of vast wealth by mining gold, and that he was now mining gold at P cents an ounce. If this millionaire was mining silver at H cents an ounce and the mint couerlel it into Iol!.i ;:. he would ren.o a protit of !n cents on every ounce. At the cost of p cents an ounce in mining gold. 2Ö.S grains of gold is worth one dollar, and as an ounce of gold contains tsn grains, he would realize si'o.;7 every 041 nee. The gentleman assured .Mr. Teller that three men in three hours' work had taken out .fl,uno in gold. lb also stated in his remarks in the Senate that he knew of at least live men who were day laborers at or 'i per day. the poorest of whom has in live years of mining gold become worth a million dollars in "hard, honest" money. One of them is worth live o. six million dollars. Our contemporaries of the press w ho are for the single gold standard talk much about the silver barons who are w orking so earnestly for the full rehabilitation of silver, and ate charred with an attempt to control public opinion. They have nothing to say about gold barons and their efforts to establish the English system of ti nance. It i.s utterly impossible to fix a coinage rale for the precious metals by the cost ot j (hoi. production. Mining, of all legitimate pursuits, is a lottery. Where one man strikes it rich a thousand toilers, after working years, die penniless. I localise of the bare possibility that a poor man may become a millionaire, failures do not deter him from investing all he has in the venture. Taken in the aggregate, there is no doubt that every dollar, either of gold or silver, has cost a dollar's worth :f labor to produce it. Would it Im sensible and statesmanlike to mini gold at less than the mint price because some adventurer had produced it for Id ct r 1 cents an ounce V It would be a very strange condition of things if the relative production of the precious metals was always the same. It is a remarkable coincidence that in any period of fifty years from the dawn of civilization their relative production has been very nearly the same. There have been at different times oscillations sometimes one metal was in excess relatively to the other, and this proves the desirableness of both being coined at lixed rates. Vsing both as money, it will be impossible to get up a corner on the circulating medium. When the gold mines of Australia and California yielded so a lunula ntly Shylock made an unsuccessful effort to have silver the only standard. Now. when silver is found in excess of gold, the war is declared by the money power against silver. It is not the cost of production but tlie stamp of Covernment which determines tho coinage value of both. Gobi at a Premium in London. The Hank of Lngland is by law obliged to buy all gold brought b it by the public pay i ng for it immediately nt tlie rate of 77 shillings and . pence per ounce at the Itritish standard of fineness (11( L'-o). On Februiry lo. this royal establishment would not sell any gold except at 7S shillings and penny per standard ounce. Let our gold monometallic friends make a note of this fact: That hl was at .1 premium of ;:t. ponce on each sovereign. This V,(. pence In the 210 pence, niak'ng the I'ngllsh sovereign, is over 1.45 per cent, premium. The bogs of Ireland cover two milljlon, eight hundred thousand acres.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. 1 1 i U Kcal letale Heal iti Lake Coiinty Indiscretion Cauic Jo'iu W iiivlowa Lot of Trouldc -(iidd Find on a Farm Ntar Anderson. Kcalty Hell for .fg.OOlMHM). A Si'.! M M 1,1 N M I ,e;l in Lake CiUüty tV.ll etate went on iv.-.r. PrM.ty. Tin? land purchased r.iiiits of over L'.inio acres ia the sand kiioli portion of Calumet township. It :irj.in-4 tin .!! sin k yards tract and borders on the h.re of Lake MiHiigait. The tract lias li.-i-n a w by !eorg T. Cline, an eccentric b.iHeor who make his home ia Chicago. He parted with hit till" to Theodore iL S -hi :it z.. an attorney of Chicago, for .vj.imim,'hm. Ileal estatu men say this deal points to another big boom in that part of Lake County. Three deeds Were recorded - tin titt for SölO.000, t'ne ad tor Si.' '.n.i too and tie third for Sl.'Jfi.iKHi. The land h. a improvenieiits w ha I ever. He Tries to Kiss Hin Tenant. Mrs. Nettie ; la!!, oi' Marioa. w;m awarded Sl.iO d images aain-a .boiaihau Win slow for false prosecution. The case has been in the Circuit Courts of several counties for some tine. Mrs. :! .1 1 1 is a young married woman, while Wiiisl.o.v is nearly sji years old. Two years ago the 'loodalls were tenants of Win-bey. day le came to eolle.-t th,. rent and attempted to kiss Mrs. 1 Joo dal!. S!e- threatened to sue him, bat a c .iiipro!uic was effected by Wins',, iw paying SJ.'Vi. Shortly afterward Mr. b.odaH brought s.tic ;igaia; Win-low .,; assault and battery. He was acquitted a id retaliated by catting her arrest for blackmail. Afiera time th. case was -Ml!" Then Mrs. Cood.ii! brought the false prosectuloa suit. It was tried once, but tin jury disagreed. The costs will am e:r:; 1 about SI. ."00. Wiiislow was formerly a .piaker. He will app.'.-.! the ;ise. Indiana l'arm Yields Cold. Itoberf SpaiiMing, aa old California goid 1 liner, now owner of a large farm north of Anderson, found S7o In jjold or. protrrdiag from a bin ft" :i his farm. Tie

samp! 's indicate it will run S70 or S"ö ! the ton. h was tpo'st ioiicil whether the gold .as really found where lie said ir was. nd people Hocked to the place to tind th.'t ; he said was true. Sever' Id miners W.V-. :e-;ng those who visit--. !;! ti ml. and say that the prospects are splendid. An Anderson capitalist who has had mining experience made an offer d s.iiMi ;ni a re for the twenty surrounding acres, hut tiie offer was refusal. Spauldir.g has the means and will develop it himself. e nailed all gates on his place and placed trespass signs everywhere. Alt Over tho State. Tie religions organizations and Christian working bodies of Anderson circulated pi iilions asking the Council to enact an ordinance making ii a m'.s lemeamu' for boys below the age of 1 tu kUlukd ci-anties. Victor, tin .".-year-obi son of Cornelius llolinger. near Kokomo, fatally wounded himself in a singular manner. While sealed :n the dinner table tin h 211 in attempting to close a 1 uig-bladod pocketknife by pressing th point against the table, received a wound that disemboweled him. producing a fatal injury, the blade having turned and entered the body, penetrating the bowels. Some time ago Mrs. I'lizabeth Noble, of Stuiuuitrille, begun to show signs of mental aberration. She was under treatment at a sanitarium in India napdis, but she failed to obtain relief and has become insane. Her delusion consists in her imagining she is a corpse and that she cannot walk or talk. She insists she is dead and that she has. been for some time. She will be taken to the Richmond asylum. A wealthy resident of Kokomo is giing to move to I'eoria. II!., and will take his .',( 1,1 i0 house with him. The house is of stoti and brick, and handsomely finished and decorated. It will be taken down very carefully, the stone, pressed brick, plate glass, mahogany pane!, and every other part being carefully marked, and will he shipped by rail to Peoria and there reconstructed. The cost of moving the residence will be about Sdö.oiH. .1. W. Walker had a territie struggle wiih a maniac in the jail at Mumie the eher evening. Walker and William McAhee. from lioyorton, who is mentally deranged, and Crank Angel, also demented, are confined in one large cage. McAbee at times snarls and acts like a mad dog. He )oun-ed upon Walker and began sinking his teeth in his flen ami tearing out great chunks, the blood spurting all over the floor and walls. At first Angel sat in one corner, showing his enjoyment of rhe situation by laughing. He finally came to Walker's aid as Turnkey Casey arrived. Ileeauso of the overcrowded condition of the State insane hospital these dangerous subjects are kept iu jails all over the State as in Muneie. Croat excitement was caused at the Central school building at Logansport the other morning by an encounter between two pupils, IMgar Nice and Wiley Kuniell. in which the formed used a pocketkntfe w it'll t Hing effect. Nice made a thrust at Kuniell's left breast, which the latter parried with his left arm. In doing ko he sustained an ugly cut on the forearm, extending from the wrist to the ellne.v. To escajie a second thrust at his I'reasl IttiniHl turned his back and the knife struck him just over the shoulder IJaöe. .-Utting a gash six inches downward (. 1 tu the right. The wounds may result in paralysis of .K:s left arm. Allot tlie second blow Nice oscapeo freiv Hn.building. and, notwithstanding careful search by the polvo, has not been found. Kumell is 17 years of age and 11 son of Charles Iluinell. a Panhandle engineer. Nice is lo years old and the son of a Panhandle bridge carpentef. The boys quarreled over a girl with wliom both are desperate, ill love. At lirazil. Mrs. Mary Tate, colored, quarreled with her sistor, Mrs. Louisa Itideoute. She came into court and accused her sister of arson. She says site i responsible for several serious tires of recent lato. Patrick Fitzgerald, of L-aporte, who.e habits have lost him a fortune, his wife and many friends, and who has served jail .sentences for inebriety, wants to reform. In furt Vera nee of his good resolutions the authorities have given public notice that any liquor dealer se-llinf him drinks will Ik prosecuted to tbe full cx teat vf. the law '

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