Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 35, Plymouth, Marshall County, 11 March 1896 — Page 3

THE FARM AND HOME.

MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Views of One Farmer on Form Wages Unless Animals Are Sheltered Good Feeding Does Not Avail Water for Cows Variety with Mtisilaiee. Manure from Clover Hoy. A Italtimore County farmer writes to Hoods Dairyman the following instructive and interesting article on Farm Labor. He says: "My father once told me that about twenty years ago. as he was on the first of the year taking stock, so to speak, of the year's work he put as the lowest calculation, the price for hay at S'JO a ton. wheat at SI a bushel, and other products in proportion. To-day I pay the same wages that he did, when U is reckoned in money, but when it is reckoned in grain and hay. it takes two bushels now where it then took but one, and in this year of a short hay crop it takes nearly two hundred pounds to pay for a day's labor, where it used to take but one. -Now, in the fate of this, ain I going to employ nil the labor I can. and create a still further demand for labor, which is niy greatest expense? Hardly. My great aiiü is, and I believe it should be. to run the farm with as little hired men in it as possible. Let my aim be to combine the two elements, acres and machines, with as little as possible of the third element, labor. 'I have been hiring two men in the winter, three in the spring and summer, with extra help at harvest and threshing times, and paying from six to eight hundred dollars a year for my labor. Last spring I rented to one neighbor one lield. to another, another field, and one hired man and myself worked off the balance wli it we could well, an I the rest was left im worked. And as a result, I have just as much grain and hay, and that at a clear saving of from two to three hundred dollars, from my reduced labor bill. There is money in farming with low-priced crops and high-priced labor, but few, mighty few of us, can get it out. What wo want to do is to use as little labor as possible, until either labor comes down or crops go up." "Wintering Fall Pigs. The great point in making fall pigs pay a prolit instead of becoming squealing runts is to have a warm place for them to sleep, and to give them partly warmed food so long as the weather Is eolil. We have often seen pigs fed milk and swill from the barrel that had been frozen over, and both were nearly or (piite at the freezing temperature. In such case it takes too much of the nutrition in food fed thus to maintain animal heat. Al! this food has to be heated to the temperature of the body before it can In gin to digest. When this is done what is left will not make much fat or growth. Warming Water for Cows. It probably does not pay to warm water for any other stock than cows. It is not necessary for store of fattening animals to drink a great deal in cold water. Rut if the milk How is to be kept up and the digestion is to be kept good, the cow must have plenty of water, and in cold weather it should be warmed to very near the heat of the animal's body. This is especially important for the cow approaching time for parturition. At this period the system Is naturally somewhat feverish, and the animal should be encouraged to drink as much as possible. Variety with Knsilagc. Probably nine-tenths or nineteentwentieths of the ensilage put up is corn fodder, either grown for itself alone or grown for the grain, and siloed after the ears have been stripped from it. This last is often done with sweet com, and after the ears have been cleared of their grain the green husks are put in with the other fodder. This is greatly relished by cattle, but the feed is not a properly balanced ration. It is not possible to get clover in the best condition to put in the silo at the time with the corn. Its season Is in J tine, long before the corn is fit to put up. Hut the clover cut and dried helps to balance the corn ration quite as well as if it had Im?oii siloed. In fact, dry feed of some kind ought always to be fed with any ensilage. Clover well cured is the best dry feed that we know of to go with corn ensilage. A Cheap Way to Iteuln with liens. Let one purchase hens of the common mongrel stock which can always be got quite cheaply, says the Agriculturistand with these hens mate a purely bred male for the variety desired to breed into. In the autumn carefully select the strongest and best-developed pullets, still retaining the former male bird. Select only those pullets which are robust and healthy in every respect, and strongly marked in form, color and general characteristics of the breed represented by their sire. Mate this second crop of pullets to an unrelated sire, and the resulting generation will be equal to thoroughbred stock of that breed for all practical purposes in laying and marketing qualities. The K fleet of Salt on Milk. Salt given to cows has some effect on the quality of the milk. This is necessarily so, as the salt aids very much in the digestion of the food, and it is the quantity of the food digested that regulates the quantity and quality of the milk, says Farm and Home. Salt is indispensable to the health of any animal that feeds on vegetable matter, and the milk Is affected greatly by the health or opposite condition of the cow. When salt is given to excess, it is injurious, and causes an Intense thirst, but this does not necessarily make the milk more watery than usual. If the cow drinks more water than U customary, there Is no reason

to belieYo that this excess of water dilutes the milk. The milk is not made In any such way as would make this possible. It is produced by the breaking-down of the glandular tissue of the udder, and this never contains more than a normal quantity of water. The kidneys are charged with the removal of any excess of water from the blood, and th's drain or outLt, If in gojd working condition, will always attend to Its own business; and if It does not or cannot, for any reason, the milk glands cannot perforin this function, but the cow becomes diseased at once. Hut this is a question that the careful farmer will never have to consider, because he will always take care that such a supposed mistake will never happen. It is only the careless farmer who runs risks of giving his cows, or permitting them to get; too much salt.

Two Men and Their Dairies. John and Ceorge start with dairies alike. John is the smarter of the two, I 11 1 he lays abed in the morning an hour after tJoorge is at work. John trusts the hired man to do the feeding and milking, and gets his wife to look after the milk while he attends to the larger matters about the farm, says L. S. Hardin, in Home and Farm. (Jeorge is a duller man. but a painstaking fellow, who looks after details. He is always on hand when the cows are fed. and sees that each one gets all she will eat up clean, and no more. lie even takes the trouble to weigh the milk night and morning and keeps a record of it. which he looks over at night to see how each cow is getting along. Noting the slightest variation in Polly's yield, he inquires about it. and linds she has tired of her feed and neglects it. He changes her proportion and adds a few roots or oilmeal for a few days, and so gets her back again, while if she had been neglected he would have had the "bad luck" of having her fail off in milk yield. So he goes in everything about his dairy, a little here and a little their, but always on the lookout to see that there is no waste. Now, which of those two dairymen will have the most ' bad luck" at the end of the year? It will be John every time. His notions are too big. The only break he can see Is a wagon gap in a stake-and-rider fence. He will not bother with those small things that make up the sum of life and the success of any business. So far as luck is concerned, the man who sits down and waits for it seldom hits it, while the man who goes forth to meet it will get many knockdowns, but he will conquer bad luck and add to his victory all the good luck that conies his way. Fcedi ntf Tot Soon. The desire to et the ?ocd into the ground as early as possible is met very often with a loss, and where seeding is done when the snow is on the ground, as with clover, frequently an insufficient amount is used, and the "catch" is poor. Frost, birds and lack of covering to the seeds leave but a proportion to germinate, says the Philadelphia Record. When the spring opens apparently early, especially if the winter has lecn mild, there is a strong temptation to begin seeding. The loss of seed is quite an item should a cold spell come after seeding, but the heaviest loss is in time. The very effort made to begin early causes the crops to be late,' because a second planting must be made, due to the seed decaying in the ground. It should be understood that It requires a certain temperature, or warmth, before life begins in seeds, and the temperature varies according to the kind of seeds. It has long ago been demonstrated that seeds planted after the warm days of spring have well advanced will sprout and overtake those planted when the ground is cold, and the fact is well known to fafrtters, yet thousands of dollars' worth of seeds are annually lost by the desire to get crops ia early, or in incurring the risk of unfavorable weather. Ccst of Milk Production. Professor Wing, of Cornell, in his summary closing Hulletiu on "Cost of Milk Production," says: Our records of this herd for the past year seem to warrant the following conclusions: 1. With a fairly good herd, carefully fed and kept, milk can be produced for sixty-five cents per hundred weight, and fat for sixteen cents per pound for the cost of food consumed. 2. That individuals of the same breed vary more widely in milk and butter production than do the breeds themselves. 3. The larger animals consumed less pounds of dry matter per thousand pounds live weight per day than did the smaller animals. 4. That in general the best yields of fat were obtained from cows that gave at least a fairly largo flow of milk. In general, the cow consuming the most food produced both milk and fat at the lowest rate. Feed for llrcctllng Kwca. Ewes that are with lamb should always have roots during the winter season. They need these before parturition as well as after. The period of gestation is always one when continued dry feeding induces a feverish state of the system, and this means Impaired digestion. It is common to give roots after the lambs have dropped, so as to induce a good flow of milk for them. Hut the roots should be given several weeks before parturition, and some grain added w hile the lambs are suckling, so as to keep the ewe from growing too thin lu flesh. To Kill Hen Lice. For lice, dust Persian Insect powder freely in every crack and crevice, and on the body of the hens, In among the feathers. Keen in Winter. To produce eggs, avoid free feeding, and feed meat and milk, with plenty of grata at night, omitting corn,

VETERANS WILL REST

HAVE A PLEASANT HOME THE WABASh. ON Indiana's State Kundin; for Old Soldiers Arc Situated Amid Historic Surroundings The Home It Hampered by Small Appropriations. For OM Hoys in Hluc. little has been said jtnd less has been written regarding the Indiana State Soldiers' Home. A location vaidi posscses more of natural beauty or historic interest would he diflieult to timl. The home, which was officially opened about a month ago. lies ui-on the west blufft of the Wabash river. Prom more than one point may be obtained a fine view of Lafayette, upon the opposite side of the river some three and a half miles distant. The grounds eomprise jr7 acres, and ihave a water fronrage of over 2,txo feet. JOHN P. MKJIIKW. (Commander of the Imiirtna state Soldier!' Horn ? at I-Uayctte, 1ml. .1 -, ! The bluff rises abruptly from the river to n height of about ev nty-tive feet, covered with a dense growth of heavy forest trees. From there it slopes gradually back to the upper plateau, about !! feet above the river level. The road which leads to i'his charming site lies along the west bank of the Wabash. On the waters of this Eft ream onee floated th canoes of Jesuit emissaries like La Salle and his indomitable assistant. Lieut. .lontv. Prom Port tu

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Miami, on the lakes, to St. Louis, on the Mississippi, they came and went, often visiting the Wabash tribe and urging them tc join t'he powerful Algonquin confederacy and thus cripple the warlike Irotjuois. The past goes with you at every step ns you stroll aKuit the bite dedicated to the defenders of the IVion. Turn to the northeast and, at the mouth of the Tippecanoe, you wiil see where the great village of Ket:htip-ke-cn-!iuiik stood, proud of its shinglc-roofcd houses, seventy of which wert; destroyed by lire when the village was captured by ('apt. Wilkinson in 1701. This village marked an advance in civilization more than commensurate with rhe times, and whivh can only be accounted for by the presence of many French traders. Turn to the sorJiward, and from the commanding height there stretches before you for miles the great Wea Plains, which were once the home of that most powerful tribe, the Miamis. At the close of the eighteenth century this plain contained five large Indian villages, the most powerful of which was Ouiatenoii, which, with the others, after nearly a century of remarkable history, was destroyed by tlen. Scott. Across from the plains, on the opjvosite side of the river, it is stated, stood Fort Ouiatenoii, which was built away back in 1720 and was captured by the Indians some forty-three years after, during the Pontiac conspiracy. Commands Historic Spots. From this same height, where now the grayJhaired veterans wlhoso service to their country is being in slight manner rewarded, you may look out toward historic spots. The site of fho Winnebago village upon the Wild Cat may be seen, and. while the exact sjiots have not been locatINDIANA OLD ed. fancy may easily picture 1he Kickapoo villages, which are known to have existed above and below, along the banks of the Wabash. The rutidwny from Lafayette to the new soldiers' home follows the course of 'the river, and on either side is heavily timbered. The hills rise precipitately on the wesit, t'he river Hows placidly on the cast and is skirted by giant elm and sycamores, some of which looked down ujHrti and shielded the early aborigine. Nearing the ground of the soldiers' homie, tlho road gradually rises nliove tflie river level. There lies upon the right a peculiar nark, known as Tecumseh' Ti 1. t is private property, aud it name i de-

rived from rhe fact that upon this exact spot Teeumtiha, the greatest of the Shawano chiefs and perhaps the most eminent warrior and statesman of the Algonquin race, campe 1 when on the way to engage ia the fannus l'attle of Tippecanoe. It was but a few miles to the north of the site selected for the soldiers' home that our forefathers on that memorable dark and rainy morning in November, ia 1M1, shattered forever the strongest conleuVjaey known am ng the Indians of that time. Jfui'diiius of the Home. IVotii the tamp ground of Teeuml'ha toe mad makes an abrr.pt and precipitous ascent to the p'a.'cau above, where stand the newly erected buildings of the soldiers home. They ar" riot many, nor are they elaborate in finish or construction. The State Legislatur voted nn appropriation of ST.",o(M) for an institution deserving a multiplication of figures. Thai amount was spent upon buildings alone. The trustees, fortunately, have had sutli-ient faith in future legislative action, and have gone into their own jackets to an amount approximating $S,iMH. in furnishing the buildings, for which the entire appropriation had been expended in construction. Tiie soldiers' home was oflicialiy opened Feb. 1, but the lirst inmate arrived on the scene Jan. 1. At rhe present time there me 101 persons at the home, all but two of w hom are members. The formal opening has been po tinned until July 4, at which time (lov. Mattht ws and many distinguished guests will be piescnt. Col. John I. Megrew, commandant, has been an especially busy man since the home opened. He was a captain of the Eleventh Indiana volunteers, and. although enlisting in the rhirty-day service, he .served to the end of the war under Hen. Lew Wallace. Prior to holding the present position Fol. Mcgrcw was commandant of the soldiers' home at Warm

Springs, S. D. The ollicers. besides the commandant, are: ('apt. W. F. Havens, adjutant and quartermaster; Laura E. Ingersoll, matron: Ir. W. P. You n Lor, surgeon, and Dr. J. C. Sargent, assistant surgeon. "Illinois has one of the m st economical f soldiers' 'homes,'' said Commander Mogrow. "Io'wa and Nebraska may also be classed as moderate in their expenditures. We have lo look to Now England for lavish exiK-nditure of money in earing for tho, vttcrans of the civil war. This home is absolutely new. and it is impossible toJ tell what the future will hold lor it. lau year we will be forced to run at nn expense of 1 ; p r capita. That includes, not alone inmates, but officers' salaries and all running expense. It is the miniSTATE soldi i:i:.v mum figure for any country. "1 have n.o douht rhafc within two years this home wiil have over ÖOO inmates, and that it wiil ultimately hold over 1,0 hC" The citizens of Lafayette lake a just pride in this State institution, which, from its remarkably tine location, is liable to h-co:fe one of the foremost of its kind. Iu addition to the seven substantial brick buildings which have been erected wirh the JSTö.imio appropriated, there are eleven frame cot i ages completed and ready for occupancy. The cottage system is in vogue, and appears to be popular in the extreme. The policy of the Legislature was to establish general buildings, and to ask the counties, as far as possible, to erect cottages for the use of inmates from the respective counties. The act of establishment empowers county commissioners to make donations for this purpose, livery county, it is claimed, is now supporting, through its township trustees, a number of indigent veterans, whose pensions are not sufficient to support them, at a much greater expense than would be necessary were they maintained at a State institution, where the general t'overnment contributes more than twothirds of the expense. Uhcs and Dimensions, The general buildings w.hieh have been erected are: The Old People's Home, Old Men's I loin, quartermaster's department, dining hall and widows home, hospital, commissary department, power house and water works. The Old People's Home has a north front of ln.S feet and an east front of 11 J feet. It con t a his forty-five rooms and from the tower. 14S feel high, may 1m; seen in the city of Lafayette, Delphi, Tippecanoe battlefield, the Wett Plains ami tho SOLDILItS' IIO.MK. Walxish. rivers for many miles. It is intended to aeeommodale old soldiers and their wives. The dining ha31 has a sout'h front of 111! feet aud an east front of W2 feet. The entire first floor is occupied by -the general dining rttjin, general kitchen, bakery, Htororoom. general serving room and steward's office. lhe dining room contains ample space for !!.") table seats and has a kitchen capacity to accommodate 500 people. Dr. P. Khoadeslias leen placed on trial nt Owensboro, Ky., on the tharge of murdering a Mr. Kobinson, n wealthy farmer. Rhoudos married Mrs. llcbiusou.

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NO PLACE FOR THEIR INSANE.

Terrible State of Affairs in Penitentiaries of Indiana. Secretary Ricknell, of the State Hoard of Charities, reports a pitiful condition of affairs with respect to the insane convicts in the prison south, four of vhoni are confined in the institution. The prison officials are unable to properly care for them, or to place them so that their eric will not disturb their fellow convicts. There are no padded cells in the prison, and when these insane convicts become violent they dash themselves against the iron bars and throw themselves upon the stone floor, bruising their faces and limbs frequently in the most ghastly manner. The only way they can be restrained i by stretching them at full length and tying them hand and foot. Life in such a rosition is scarcely better than death. Meanwhile their hideous scream, night and day. keep piercing the cars of the other convicts. 'Wo more pitiful sight can be imagined," says Secretary Ricknell, "than these insane convicts raging in their dark, hard cells. It must bring terrible thoughts to the other convicts." It is claimed that no one is particularly at fault because of this sad condition of the convict insane. The (Jovernor is empowered to order removal to the insane hospitals, and such removals have been made. As a rule, however, the hospital managers are averse to receding such patients, not only because they are likely to escape in case they lecover their mental faculties, hut because the relatives a:id friends of other insane patients object to the convicts being entered for treatment. All of the insane hospitals of fJie State are now overcrowded, -villi at least -00 applications for admissiou awaiting final action. Additions are now being made at three of the State institutions which will permit the admission of possibly 400 additional patients. Fully that many, if not more, of crazy people are now ia the various jails and county poor houses, the violent ones usually confined in the jails, with their condition very little belter than that of the convicts to whom Secretary Ricknell refers. MURDERED BY SALOONKEEPER. Freeman Pritchctt Is licatcn and Kicked to Death. A murder occurred at Fowler Friday night. F.ariy in the eveaing Frank Ducha'rme entered a saloon owned by Freeman Pritchctt and pawned the latter a watch for $1. lie returned about 11 o'clock to redeem the pledge, when Pritchctt refused to deliver the watch until he had been paid a (Hj-cent whisky bill, which he claimed Ducharme owed him. Ducharme was ordered to leave the saloon. He refused and the proprietor can;."' from behind the bar and struck him ia the face, knocking him senseless, llysianders interfered, but Pritchctt broke away and again assaulted his fallen victim by planting his foot in his face. He then dragged the lifeless body into the street and left it leaning ag iinst a fence. Later Pritchett's friends l .adcd the body into a baggage . art and were in the act of hauling it away when Night Policeman Morris Crissey apjvared and took charge. In the meantime Pritchctt had been assisted out of town, but he was arrested at Far I Park at daylight just as he was boarding a Chicago train. lie was given a preliminary hearing and bound over to await the result of the grand jury investigation. His plea will be self-defense. SIX PRISONERS ESCAPE. Hold Jail Delivery nt South llend Ropes Made of Itlaukcts. The boldest jail delivery in the history of northern Indiana occurred at South Fond the other night and was not discovered until the cells were opened at breakfast time next morning. It was seen that something was wrong and a count of ihe prisoners showed six missing. The escaped prisoners sawed through the top of a cell, effecting an entrance on to the roof, and then let themselves down with ropes made from blankets. They are Pert and Will Anderson, brothers; Thos. Clark, .lohn Ilempenstal!, William Cahill and Thomas McIIenry. The Anderson brothers were awaiting trial for wholesale robbery, and had they been cleared would have been held for attempting to murder Turnkey Charles Van Lake. McIIenry is charged with cutting and almost murdering a man in a Lake Shore box car west of South Demi a few weeks ago. Cahill was awaiting trial for receiving stolen goods and Clark for petit larceny. Ilempenstall had recently served a fourteen-year term in the Indiana prison north and was held for larceny. The men are still at large and there is no clew to their whereabouts. Minor State News. Sheriff Alexander arrived nt Marion from Alexandria, having in custody Chas. P. Ileigg. who is charged with forging the name of Henry Davis to a note for $40, which was sold to Charles F. Fogy. On being arraigned he pleaded not guilty and was sent to jail in default of a $1,000 OOIlt Charles Dodgers, of Logansport, sued William Hollis for $Ö,(KM) for alienating his wife's affections. Doth are fanners, and a few days ago had a personal encounter in which each was wounded iu the hand while struggling for Ihe possession of a revolver. Mrs. Dodgers is a sister to Mrs. Hollis, who is dead. Miss Fl la Connaughton, of Farwell, aged 17, had her left eye bitten from its socket and her nose lacerated by nn enraged goose which she caught to kill for her parents silver wedding jubilee. The physicians hope to save the girl's life, if fever of the optic nerve does not ensue, but her beauty is marred forever. Louis Duenweg, of Ter re Haute, had been wishing that his handsome two-story residence at Lake Maxinkuckee was on the oilier side of tiie lake, and regretted the fact licit the country surrounding the shore for three miles was too hilly to make removal possible. When the cold snap froze the ice to a thickness of eighteen inches he moved t It c house down to (he lake and then slid it on the ice. From there across the lake it was an easy job. C. J. Cobloigh, proprietor of the piano case factory at Terre Haute, made an assignment. The liabilities are estimated at 10.0(H) and the property assigned at $70,OOO, subject to a mortgage of $ll.'5,00The crusade inaugurated by all Christian working bodies of Anderson against the cigarette habit was advanced from all pulpits Sunday. The Council will enact nn ordinance identical with the law recently passed at Lincolu, Neb., instructing the police to make arrests and prescribing a fine of not less than $23 in any case where a person under IS year of age li caught smoking a cigarette.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Father Unexpectedly Meets Iiis Miss ina Wayward Hoy Terre Hanta Police Destroy the Usefulness of Two of Uncle Sam'a Detectives. Find His Son in a Prison. P. P. Her. a well-known citizen of (Jar rett, lias found his son. who has been mis.'ing for six weeks. The son is wearing convict stripes iu the Ohio State penitentiary at Columbus, ller went to thd prison as a visitor, and was walking through one of the shops when he came face to face with his wayward boy. An affecting interview followed. during which the son explained his downfall, which he attributed to drink. He stated lhat his purpose was to live out his sentence in silence and thus save his parents the humiliation which would be attached to a knowledge of his disgrace. Twice Fined for Same Offense. An interesting point in the saloon l:v was passed upon ia a Kokomo justice court, after a long contest. Some tims ago Harvey Warwick, a saloonkeeper, was arrested for intoxication and fined. The next day Warwick was again arrested for intoxication, but resisted prosecution on the ground that it was the samo drunk for which he was arrested the previous day. and that he could not be legally punished twice for the same offense. Abh lawyers were employed on both sides, and the c.!m' was hotly coiitesied. Warwick insisted that, being an old saloonkeeper and a good judge of l'.tpior, he could tell what kind of a jag he had on and how lon it took t get over i;, being a continuous jag. with n new material added to tho aceumulation. Squire 1. -Haven ruled that, if it was all one drunk, it was big enough for two, and accordingly assessed a second line, both arrests costing War wick about $b. I'o-tal "Spotters" Arrested. Two of the "spotters" sent to Terre Iloute by tiie postollice Department t spy on tho letter carriers were arrested by the police as suspicious characters. They were seen loitering about a particular neighborhood and the police took them in. At headquarters they showed their credentials and were released. The carriers learned th":r identity and their usefulness was gone i far as catching any carriers in a wares was concerned. Postmaster Honham has asked for additional letter carriers and it is thought the "spotters" were sent to h arn if the present force was doing all it should do to cover tin fity. All Over the State. P.ivinig Profilers Sc Co.. furniture dea'. crs of Terre Haute, have made an assignment to their father. The stock and accounts in voi. -e .! UK i. which will pay all claims. Samuel I'igney. a pioneer and one of t;i wcalrhy farmers of the county, died at Terre Haute from hiccoughing. He had been suffering with hiccoughs for several months, and Sunday they caused paralysis, which caused his death. Fire at Logansport destroyed the stock of Jesse Haines, toys and notions, entailing a loss of S7.IHM). The fire caused a panic among the families living over the store and only heroic work of the tiremea saved several women from stiff n-ation. llev. W. C. MeCraig was given his dismissal at Markleville on decidedly peculiar grounds. He has been holding revival meetings, and it is claimed that his methods, or something about him. made people go insane. One of the llock labored under the hallucination that he could see into the bowels of the earth and told what he saw there. J. din Markle. another of the Hock, is in jail and thinks he is (lod. Several others are getting cranky, but MeCraig contends that it is not due to him. William Uiillard, who was released from Ihe penitentiary six months ago. after serving a live year sentence for attempted murder, was taken to Columbus from Hope, where he attempted to assault Miss Minnie Murphy, and lodged in jail to escape the vengeance of a mob of infuriated citizens which was being formed to lynch him. llullard was drunk at-the time of making the assault and says he has no recollection of the attempted crime. Hi pleaded guilty to the charge before a justice and was bound over in the suia of .söoo, which he was unable to give. lly far the most sweeping litigation that was ever inaugurated in this State was begun Tuesday, under the direction of the Republican State Central Committee, in the filing of a suit to test the constitutionality of every apportionment law that has been passed since the adoption of the present State constitution iu 1S1. The object of the suit is to restrain all the sheriffs, auditors an 1 clerks in the ninetytwo counties in Indiana from issuing certificates for holding the election for Senators and Representatives this fall, and thus either compel the (Jovernor to call a special session of the Legislature or produce such chaotic conditions that none of these officers can be elected and the State will be without a lawmaking body. The grounds of the attack are practically the same as those selected in former suits of the same character. The complaint sets out the objections to the acts complained of in the order in which they were pass. J by the Legislature, and seeks to show that the Legislature in no case adhered to the unit basis of population tis provided ia the constitution and decided as necessary to a coustituliou.il act by the Supreme Court. Instances are pointed out where counties with Ti.tHMi voting population got but one Senator, while districts were made of two or mo"e oiii'tiesin which ih voting population was lO.ikHI or more, and yet these got but one Senator. Similar conditions regarding representatives are also pointed out and the contention is made that none of these laws conform to the constitutional provision. A conference of Democrats will be held to consider the situation ami adopt some plan of action. Thomas Xeenan. of South Rend, aged 10, bade his friends good by and got six of them to promise to serve as pall-bearers. They all supposed he was making his funeral arrangements in sport. He then went home, drank a lose of carbolic acid and died. Alonzo Rooker, who has leen on trial for four weeks for the murder of his wifi last September, was acquitted at Indian apolis after the jury had been out fortyeight hours. He is released on th grounds of insanity. The crime was on( of the most bloody iu the history of U4