Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 37, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 March 1896 — Page 7

WOMAN TRAIN DISPATCHER. MISS BYBD WAT KINS, of Topeka. has tho distinction of being tl.e only woman train dispatcher, on a single track, in the Fnited States, and the re sponsibility of stich a position attaches no littU importance to the young woman who holds It. Miss Wat kins is stationed at Junction City, on the Kansas division of the Union Pacific MISS WATKIN" Railway, a through line from Kansas City to Icnver. and its branches, the JunctionCityan:! Fort Kearney branch, fron i Solomon City to Beloit, and tho Salina and Southwestern branch, from Salina to McPherson. Miss Watkins is one of three "shifts" working eight hours each, and is on th. second "trick." as the time between 4 o'clock in the afternoon and midnight Is called. She is in full charge of the office during that time. Her duties ns dispatcher on a single track differ materially from that of a double track dispatcher, as meeting poiuts must be made for all trains going in opposite directions. She is a Keniuckian by birth. Her father, who was a lawyer, died fourteen years a so. leaving a wife and three daughters, of whom Miss Byrd is the eldest. She is just past 1.". and her progress in the line of work she has chosen has been rapid. Her first situation was that ef operator of the I'nion Pacific at Deer Tail. Col. Prom that place she went to Topeka and was employed by the same railroad there for four years, until Oct id er, ISO I, when she was promoted to Junction City as train dispatcher. Pew women have the !.:ir head and steady nerve required to is 1 1 such a position. Miss Watkins is a nice-looking girl, with a tall, slender figure, and lias blue eyes and llghi-brown hair. Her manner is ploasingand refined. InJian (lirla as Teachers. Two Indian girls who had just graduated from the Philadelphia Normal School left that institution recently to take appointments as teachers in India n government schools of the West. Their E n g 1 i s h names are Lucy Cordon and Jane Eyre. For three years they h a d been pursuing their studies, giving great vi' jam: f.yrk. satisfaction to their teachers and earning the good will and affection of all their fellow pupils. The two girls have very pretty Indian names and interesting histories. Wincineala Miss Gordon is tall and lithe, with refined, interesting features and a letiring maumr. She is of the Sioux nation and came from South Dakota when about 10 years old and has been living at the Lincoln institution. She received a thorough preparatory course at the l S. Grant School, which was also attended by Miss Eyre. The hitter's name in the Indian language i's Chiathkah. Miss Eyre goes to Kansas to become .in assistant teacher at the Pottawatomie agency board school. Miss Gordon has been appointed a teacher in the Fort Peck agency boarding school. Montana. They are the tirst of their race whym the Normal School sends back to become teachers Of their own people. Five Feminine Generations. The State of Maine leasts a family showing live living generations. Mrs. Hannah A. Stearns, 01; Mrs. Francis P. Xoyes, or,: Mrs. Ada May Burret, A?,; Mrs. Cora May Xoyes, L,r, and Delia May Xoyes. .". Oddly enough, the long line is entirely feminine and the race appears to be a sturdy one. II ts. Stearns puts all modern appliances for the keeping of perpetual youth to shame. She lias never thought much aloiit herself. She has eaten what was set before her with a thankful heart. She has known no tonics and only such simple remedies as home-brewed herb tea. Yet she has never used eyeglasses or spectacles, and reads line print with ease. She can do a day's housework that would simply make the modern woman a wreck. Her hearing Is the only faculty impaired. Ten luetic, of Difference. A well-proportioned waist, according to Ijtdy Habberlon. must show a difference of ten inches between it and tho bust. Thus, a woman whose bust measures thirty-six inches should have a waist measuring twenty-six inches. P.ust forty Inches, waist thirty inches, and so on. Very few corsets are inn do in this proportion, and if they wer? still fewer people would buy them, ns fashion decrees that the waist should measure from twelve to fifteen inches less than the bust. In the course of time women may come to realize that true nrtistie effect is only obtained by n proper respect for projortion and syninierrr. - A Woman Justice. Ilocldand has a woman Justice of the Peace, one who is a commissioned court stenographer, a young lady who Is studying law, three popular young ladies who have agreed to wear bloomers another season, and n young woui-

an who opposed woman suffrage in a public debate the other evening, her argument being that if a woman isn't smart enough to control a man's vote, as things now are, she isn't smart enough to vote herself. They also have a man in that town who has made all arrangements to have a brass band at his funeral.

Xcw Senator' Wife. Mrs. Hernando D. Money, the wife of the new Senator from Mississippi, is what is usually called a typical Southern woman, to-wit. soft-voiced, gentle, tender, true-hearted, and full of spirit. Mrs. Money Is a brunette, small, slight and willowy; face intellectual and full of animation. Her eyes are the color of pansles, and her hrir very Mack. She was Miss Claudia Boddie, of Jackson. MIs., and was educated in Kentucky. The Moneys have a delightful home at Carrollton. Miss., and a plantation of 2,X0 acres on the Tallahatchee Ui vor. This plantation, which would be called a "ranch" MRS. Hi:r.AM0 MOXF.V. in the West, Is planted in cotton, partly, but has also many line game preserves, in which stalk deer and other large game. There are bears, even, on the Money property. The Moneys have live children, one of whom is marriedMrs. Hill, of Winona. Miss Lillian, the elder of the two young ladies, will soon marry P.everly Peed, a relative of lovernor Culberson, of Texas. Two sons live in the South. He Coull Not Take Pains. "Do you take pains with your pictures, sir;" she aked the photographer. The picture laker failed to grasp her idea, for he answered: "Madam, if you have pains you should wait until you get rid of them before sitting for your pictures." Stabbing the photographer with the daggers in her eyes, she shot out. Mrs. Thrasher Has n Cat Farm. Mrs. W. I. Thrasher, of Covington. Ky., has a cat farm on a small scale at her home. She raises only one breed of cats, the Angora. The cats are raised in an apartment arranged a good deal like a dog kennel. They require much care and, like a high bred dog. will develop according to the attention given them. Put a few drops of turpentine in tho Mater when clothes are put to soak; it whitens fhem. Moderately strong salt water taken by the teaspoonful at intervals is a cure far catarrhal cold. Xo receptacle for soiled clothing, even if handsomely decorated, should be kept in a sleeping apartment. To remove the lire ami relieve the pain of a burn soak at once In cold water in which plenty of soda has been dissolved. Eggs with very thin shells are not so likely to crack in boiling if they are put on in cold water and brought slowly to a boil. A good housewife will protect her cake and bread from burning when tho oven is too hot by placing a piece of brown paper lightly over it. An excellent ai.d simple remedy for a sprain is made by mixing the wellbeaten whites ef six orgs and a half cupful of table salt together. Apply between thin n.uslin cloths. Here is the correct way to carve a fish: linn a knife down the back, cutting through the skin. Ileniove Hie lins. Then cut into even pieces on one side. When these pieces are served remove the bones and cut the under side in the same way. Crumbs spread over the tops of dishes should Ik' mixed evenly with melt eil butter over tlM lire. This is n better method than having lumps of butter dotted over the crumbs after they are spread. When thr sauce hubbies through the crumbs on top of a scallop dish the cook hit; is completed. Since Cambridge University admitted women to the Imnor examinations fifteen jears ago tT0 Atomen have oIh taim1 honors in mat hematics, classics, moral and natural sciences, theology, history, law, and oriental, mediaeval and modern languages. Susan Ii. Anthony says it is all right for a woman to pop the question to a man she loves, whether it is leap year or not. Xow that woman has become a breadwinner, she Is no longer lu a position to wait for proposals.

TOPICS FOR FARMEItS

A DEPARTMENT PHAD FOR OUR RURAL FRifcrtUJ. Decisive Tcst9 of the Hclativc Value of the Four Popular Methods of Preserving Corn Fodder Tight Barns Said to Cause Disease. ?" Preserving Fodder Cor". In the eighth annual report of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station is given an instructive account of results gained in testing four ways of preserving corn fodder, viz.: 1. Ensilaging the entire crop, "ears and all"' (whole ensilage). Ü. Picking the ears, cribbing, drying and grinding them and feeding the meal together with the ensilaged stalks and husks (stover ensilage and moab. Ö. Stocking in large stooks (corn fodder. 4. Husking, cribbing, drying and grinding the ears and feeding the meal together with the stooked stalks (corn stover and meal). Each of the four methods of preservation saved about four-lilt lis of the dry matter as harvested, and. judged by this alone, were of practically equal efficiency, the figures being: Stover ensilage ami meal, is per cent loss of dry matter; whole ensilage, corn fodder and corn stover and and meal. L'O per cent, loss of dry matter each. These figures are almost identical with those obtained in similar tests previously made at this station. The character of the losses in food ingredients is much the same in each case. The stooked fodders, while stooked, lost more and more dry matter as the winter went on. After cutting they lost considerable dry matter, but less as the winter grew longer. The losses in gross weight and dry matter in the silos were found to bo parallel, the latter, however, exceeding the former. The ears in the silo lost more of their food value than those handled in other ways, the reverse of the result in the lSDi'-'i.:; experiments. The relative cost of placing the same amount of dry matter in the manger was greatly In favor of the whole ensilage. The time and money spent in husking and grinding the ears were wasted, since better results were obtained when the ears were left on the stalk. In this experiment the ensilages were relished much better than the dry fodders, and the cos did better upon them. The sann? quantities of milk and butter were made by feeding whole ensilage .and stover ensilage and meal; the milk was not changed in quality, but the cows ate less dry matter from whole ensilage to produce the same amounts of milk and butter. There were but ninety-one or ninetytwo pounds of milk and butter produced by a given amount of dry matter in the stover ensilage and meal ration to 100 pounds produced by the same amount of dry matter in the whole ensilage ration. The winde ensilage lasted longest, and would, consequently, make the most milk and butter. An acre of corn made into whole ensilage yielded as much as l.Oliö acres made into stover ensilage.. The results of this experiment as a whole are in entire accord with those obtained in the similar trial at this station in lsJ2-'t3. Tight Darns and Disease. It is my belief that tight barns are the cause of our having so much tuberculosis, and until farmers are taught, yes, and compelled, to properly ventilate their barns, we shall have tuberculosis, says a writer in the Masachusetts Ploughman. The Amherst barn was a good illustration of this. A newcase appeared as soon as they got rid of the old one. Do we wonder why these cows were better in summer than in winter? Did you ever hear of a, horse having tuberculosis' Wiry? liecause it has a good ventilation through the feeding chute right by his nose. Then he is taken out and driven, causing him to exjel all dead air and till its place with life-giving air. Did any one ever hear of a Texas or prairie steer having this disease? Why? because they are always breathing lifegiving instead of the death-giving air of our nice tight barns. About the year 1SS0 I had two cows that developed tuberculosis during the winter, and in the spring I put them under the ground. About this time a convention of physicians met in Paris and discussed this matter and decided that it was the same in man and animal. I then knew what to do. Since then 1 always visit my barn an hour after my men have left, and invariably have to change the ventilation, and since th?n I have not had any tuberculosis excepting the cow I bought. Marking Apple by Sunlight. An apple grower in Western New York some years ago decided that ho would mark his apples so that each baxrel could bo identified wherever it went. To do this he prepared slips of sized paper cut out so as to form his name, which about two or three weeks before picking time, while the apples were coloring, he fastened on specimens of fruit, of course shutting the sunlight olT from the portions of fruit thus covered. The result was that his name was printed by the sunliht as it colored the fruit, on several hundred specimens of fruit. One of these he placed in the top of each barrel, wrapped in tissue paper, and on the outside of the barrel he wrote the legend, "Look for the nanu." As he was careful only to put up good frr.it his brand of "name apples" secured a high reputation, and is Mow much sought for. Straw Cover for Hotbeds. Cheap hotbed mats may be made from the loose wheat straw or refuse hay, and will answer as well as the more expensive mat made from rye straw and carefully tied wiih tarred twine. These mats can be quickly mad(j by almost any farm hand after A little practice. The covers should be

oj feet lng to lap over at the ends and a little over two feet in width. Take three pieces of inch pine oC feet long; lay down two of these as far apart as the width of the sash, and the third piece midway between tln two; nail cross-pieces three inches in width to these at each end. Xow turn this frame over and liil in with straw. When full tack three strips opposite the strips on the first side. Some gardeners place a guano sack over this straw side and hold the sacking in place with four strands of tarred twine. After the pieces are sawed out six covers can be made in an hour by one hand. These mats should be used carefully, and when wet set up to dry. Have a low house to store mats in when not in use. If carefully banal led, they will last two seasons. The straw can then be taken out and the frames refilled. If long rye straw can be had. tarred twine can be uaed instead of the strips to hold the straw in place. The American.

Straight Post and Kail Fence. Farmers whose rail fences are becoming dilapidated can with some labor and but little cost make them better than ever by taking down the worm fence and using the best rails to make one in a straight line. It will need stakes on each side at the ends of each rail driven into the ground, and fastened with one or more wires near the top. if only cattle and horses are to be kept in or out by tho fence the bottom rails can be laid twelve or fifteen inches from the ground. In this position the rails will last longer than if resting on the ground or on a Hat stone near it. Five or six rails, well secured by stout stakes, will make a fence that will keep most kinds of stock from getting over it, though it is best always to be sure. A barbed wire at the top will prevent most stock from making the attempt. The trouble with wire fences is that when st run on posts without rails, an animal that is playing or running cannot see tie wires until it becomes entangled fli them, and then its efforts to escape only make matters worse. Drainaue About Farm Dwellings. The dwelling house ought always to be on a slight elevation, to allow drainage from the cellar and the speedy removal of waste slops from the house through underground conduits. t must not be supposed, however, that this is all the drainage that is required. A well-laid gravid walk from the house to the roadway, with underdraining reaching to it, will save an immense aiuount of work in the house fro id tracking in of mud. It is a mistake to make tho drains either from the cellar or sink tight and closed at the joints, as sewer pipes in cities are laid. There is usually not a great amoi-nt of offensive matter carried off in those house drains, and they will be levs likely to clog if the water drained from the soil is mixed with it. The water will dilute the slops and sewage, and enable the tiles to carry both off together. Money from Potted Jonquils. Mr. Margaret Deland, the writer, is having at her home,, in Posten, a sale of potted jonquils in bloom, the money therefrom to be used as a foundation of a fund for promoting the industry of raising bulbs by women who need to earn their living. Debilitated Chicks. For debility, keep the fowl in a warm dry place, feed meat, and give a piece of ginger daily. Odds and F.nda. Coffee stains on white goods should be washed in warm water before placing in suds. Coal will spend better, burn more evenly and there will be fewer clinkers if It is sprinkled with salt. Try boiling new tins for several hours before food is put in them. Fill the tins with water and boil "fhiskly over a hot fire. Sweeten old lard or butter jars and meat crocks by tjllng them with very hot lime water, and leaving them until It is cold. To secure a smooth and durable darn in woolen stockings make the first layer stout, coarse thread, and the cross layers of woolen yarn. Try cooling a hot dish in a hurry by placi.Tff it in a vessel full of com salty water. It will cool much more rapidly tftan if it stood in cold water free from salt. Pink and blue ginghams of a washable make can be kept from fading by washing in a weak solution of vinegar and water. Kinse in the same way, and dry in the shade. To preveni new paint brushes from shedding bristles turn handle down, open and spread the bristles, pour in a tablcspoonful or less of good varnish and keep the brush in the same position until it dries. When washing glassware do not put it in hot water bottom first, as it will be liable to crack from sudden expansion. Even delicate glass can be safely wr.shed In very hot water if slipped in edgewise. Try applying a little lard to the hands when balsam of fir, varnish or anything of that nature is to be removed from them. After rubbing thoroughly, with the lard, wash as usual with warm water and soap. A mother who Is an authority on foods advises mothers to give their children iotatoes only twice a week, and then o:dy those that are baked. Cive them boiled rice the other live days and some delicate green vegetable every day. The next time you get yonr shoes wet, if yon will stand them up, pull ("hem Into shape and fill them with oats, such as horses eat, In a few hours all moisture will be drawn out of them and the leather will be soft and njlable. The same oats can be used over and over ag iin.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Floody Fight Among Actors at the Marion Opera Hons? Incidents in the Life of a Happy Family Near Indianapolis -Hard Coal Find. William Lanjj Is Shot Four Times. William A. Lang, one of the comedians f ( iIMligan's masquerade company, w;is shut four times by John West, a member of the same company, on the stage of White's Opera House in Marion Satunhiy night. The curtain had just hvn rung down on the last act, when the few in the audience who had not reached the street heard loud talking, swearing and blows exchanged, billowed in quick succession ly twelve shots. Police who heard the shots were soon on the stage. West was found bleeding from several wounds and Lang was endeavoring to pack his trunk, the blood streaming from four bullet holes in his body. The fight, which was a general one with the members of the company, began by Lang knocking down W. I. Watson, the manager. West endeavored to separate the men, when he v:is also knocked down and kicked several times by Lang. Joe Tonkin interfered and was also struck by Lang. West had gained his feet by this time and ran to his dressing room. Lang also went to his trunk and secured a revolver, lie returned juf as West came on the stage and fired one shot. The latter threw up his hand and in quick succession six shots were tired. Four of these took effect in Lang's body, one in the left breast just above the heart. The other wounds are not of a serious nature. One shattered the bones of the left forearm, one grazed the left shoulder and the fourth ball made a gaping" wound on the left side id' the abdomen. His chances for recovery are favorable. The trouble seems to have arisen through jealousy of the two comedians. Wife's Oronu'ls for Divorce. One hundred people have been called at Indianapolis as witnesses in the divorce suit of Amanda vs. William P. Binford, a well-known fanner of an adjoining county. Tin plaintiff complains that her husband deceived her as to his age. that he will not wear a wig, is slovenly and never combs his whiskers. She also alleges that she is compelled to borrow money from him at S per cent interest to supply absolute needs, and that he killed diseased hogs for family food. The plaintiff demands 27,(KiO alimony and custody of the children. The husband sets up a eros complaint, alleging that she whipped him with a club and tore his clothes from hi body. Anthracite Coal in Indiana. tlenuine hard coal in paving quantities was discovered by Henry J. Christian, a prominent capitalist and natural gas magnate, while drilling for gas on his farm near (Irceiishurg. The coal was struck at a depth of about seventy feet and the vein is about twenty feet deep. A quantity of it was examined by scientists, who pronounce it genuine anthracite coal. It is the only hard coal ever discovered in the Statte outside of the mine at ltrazil, and it is the first coal discovered in the eastern part of the Stare. A mine will at once be opened. All Over the State. Two confidence men secured n .Slöil diamond ring in Leed's jewelry store at Terre Haute by substituting an imitation stone. A suspeet was caught in the depot and another man was followed to I.razil and arretted there. One man gave tin? name of Joseph Phillips. The ring was not found. An exciting scene was witnessed in n crowded court room at IiOganport. lleo. Forgy, money lender and broker, was suing a man for money loaned him. .Tud.e I. I). Dykeman was counsel for the flefendant. In his argument he denounced Forgy as a robber of jtoor people, a Shylock, and a scoundrel. Forgy remained quiet until Judge Dykeman made some reference to his dead father, then lu? sprang to his feet and at the speaker, calling him "a liar." Ib' would have struck Judge Dykeman had not a court bailiff interfered. Three complaints were tiled at Indianapolis in the Fnited States Circuit Court by the American Loan and Trust Jojapany aWt Noble C. Butler against the Louisville, Lvausville and St. Louis Consolidated Railroad Company, IMward O. Hopkins and James II. Wilson, receivers; the New York S-urity and Trust Company, and I'. P. Huston and Henry Keis, trustees. The bill sets forth that the Louisville. Lvansville and St. Iouis Consolidated Company is hopelessly insolvent, and asks for receiver. The case will be heard April 0. A lightning matrimonial act was performed at Kokomo that is believed to break the record. The feat of changing her name three times in three minutes was successfully accomplished by Olive Smith. At -:" o'clock she went into court and obtained a divorce from Francil M. Trader: from there she repaired to the clerk's office and secured a license to marry Joseph N. Tyler, and before the ink was dry on divorce or license Squire Loop was pronouncing the ceremony that made her Mrs. Tyler. In the divoroe her maiden name of Smith was restored, giving her thrre names in three minutes. Several (Jreensburg Uys have been peddling whisky and other liquors to country business men, in any quantity, fiyun a drink to a jug full. They went to the farm house or place of business and offered to sell at almost any price. A drummer who bought whisky at a greatly reduced price recognized two of the boys as a couple he had seen a few months ago working on a farm near Nashville. Brown County. Moonshining has been suspected there for some time, since a recent breaking up of a gang of moonshiners, and it is discovered that this is a produce of the moonshiners, who fake, this means to dispose of it. Federal oificers are watching for them. P. P. Schmidt, a Muncie carpenter, reeived a message informing him that Francis Schmidt, his grandfather, ifi C.erniany. had bequeathed to him $lSO.MH in his will. At Coshen. Chloe St roup, a pretty 17-year-obl school girl, went into Stein Bros. "Chicago Fair" to buy a riblwin last September. Samuel Stein, the junior member of the linn, is a merry jester. He informed Chloe that he saw a incise. Chloe jumped. An open trap in the floor extended her saltatory effort one story. She lost two front teeth and the other day sued tlx firm for 1,000 damages.

STUDENTS L A FIGHT

GIG ROW AT ORATORICAL CONTEST. Biscraccful Disturbance Begins Near the icat Occupied 1y tlen. Harrison, Who Flees from the Building to F.ecape the Boisterous Collegians. Bowd.vish Collegians. The Indiana intercollegiate contest at Indianapolis Friday night came near breaking up in a disgraceful riot. For nearly an hour after the time at which it was to have begun the students were in such disorder that no one ventured on the stag-. A little before ! o'clock Butler I'niversity. which hail succeeded in running a wire from one upper box to another, suspended a large umbrella with the word "Butler" on it. Next there was run out a banner bearing the wonbi "Butler on t'q." Then there was displayed u canvas caricature of the Indian girl with the word "Karlham" tihove the picture and the word "Humility" underneath it. These acts Welt' h'ssed by the students of the other colleges, while the feeling againt Butler ws nioi intense. The wire on which the big umhtvlla was hung broke and the umbrella fell to the orchestra .stall. Students, from Butler and Karlham made a dash for it. and within a minute a hand-to-hand struggle was gin on, in which twenty-five r thirty students were engaged. The struggle began near the seat occupied by (Jen. Harrison, who tied from the theater and did not return. The students fought up the center aisle until they were met by Ca pi. Dawson, of the city police force, and three patrolmen, who finally succeeded in sepatating the belligerents and capturing the handle of the umbrella, all that was left f it. If the police had not been in t,e house when flic light began the students of all the colleges Would have taken a band, as they Acre making their way over the seats when the pojjee interfered. Indiiiri ISirl Ppraks. The contest was made notable By the appearance :;mi!ig ihe contestants of a Sioux Indian girl. let I rude Simmons, who is a freshman at Karlham College. Itichmond. Her hoine is in tliccnwood. Yankton agency. S. D. Of the six contestants she was the only woman and received the heartiest welcome. Her subject was "Shle by Side." and her speech was a plea for the better treatment of the Indians. Miss Siciiions is I'M years old. When S years old she was wrapped in a b. tiket : t: I brought to the White institute at Wabash. Ind. At the end of three years she was returned to her home, where she r mained until December. W.M. when at lor own request she was readmitted to the White institute. There she remained four and one-half years, and in September, ls'.'ö. she entered tf:e freshman class at Karlham College. She aspires to become a thoroughly trained teacher among her own race. She possesses distinctly the characteristic complexion and feat tires of the American Indian, yet with a sufficient ingraining of refinement to indicate a slight admixture of a fairer face. Twelve years ago. when she came to Indiana from her tribe, she could not speak a word of Knglish. The other contestants and their subject were: "Christianity Reasonable." IMward P. Bell. Wabash College: "A Century of Progress." K. W. Chirk. Butler College; "The New Divine Bight." M. J. Bowman. Jr.. Hanover; "The Brotherhood of Man." T. N. Lwing. De Pauw Fniversity: "The New Statesmanship." M. W. Schuh. Franklin College. Nearly LM'( students were hi from the various colleges to at lend the contest. A brass band came all the way front the banks of the Ohio to boom the Hanover man. A special train of six coaches carried the De Pauw students over from (Jreencastie. The Indian girl won second place. She was marked first in delivery. De Pauw, got second place. Butler third, Wabash fourth. Hanover fifth and Franklin sixth. The audience manifested discontent over the defeat of Miss Simmons for the first place. Jackson and Walliiiir Scared. Intense interest is taken by the Cincinnati public and in Kentucky in the hearing of the habeas corpus proeeedings in the Circuit Court in the case of Walling and Jackson, indicted in Campbell County, Ky.. for the murder f Pearl Bryan. They have been twice in the mi ice court and twice in the court of common pleas. Judge Buchwaltcr remanded them Saturday to Sheriff Plummer, of Campbell County. Their attorneys resorted to habeas corpus. There is but one more dilatory step left them, and that is an appeal to the Supreme Court. From the fact that the public patience is strained and an appeal to the Supreme Court in-, volves further delay, it is believed by some that they will be extradited. Strung Up and whipped. Willis Hollers, an ex--oiivict at Mitchell, while drunk Friday night quarreled with his wife sind beat her unmercifully. He then took the furniture from the house and. saturating it with coal oil. burned it in the street. He was arrested and placed in jail, where he was kept until a late hour. Soon after his release he was dragged from his house by White Caps, taken to a neighboring woods, where a rope was placed around his neck and he was strung up to a tree and soundly whipped. After promising to do better he was released and allowed to return home. II is in a" critical condition. Minor State Laws. Mrs. Frank Duchann, whose husband was killed by Freeman Pritchett. a Fowler saloonkecjM'r, has tiled a suit against Ihe latter in the Benton Circuit Court, demanding ."?-J.H!. The Staudard Od Company is riorted to have struck a mammoth oil well near Dundee. Tho well tilled a lank holding ".öo barrels the first two hours and a half, which is at the rate of LltMH.arr Is daily. D. S. Kemp V Co. and Knierson Priddy have also struck good wells. Prof. Thornton, of the Anderson city schools, was arrested charged with i'dtumau beating. The atiidax it was made out by the parents of Charlie Coburn. whom he is alleged to have beaten until the blood ran and he was confined to bed. A letter received by Judge M. D. tJibbs, of Ta swell, from Attorney James L. Connor, of New York, brings news to "Widow" McMaster and her two Ikvs, who were left by the father and husband sixteen years ago, that uon hi deathbed McMaster left 1,1M) to them, if they could be located, the money to be equally dliLUJ.