The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 8, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 18 June 1908 — Page 2

Syracuse Journal WALKER & FANCIL. SYRACUSE, - - IND. No man ever had a cold that a thou? Band other men couldn’t cure In thirty minutes. The present Czar of Russia has reached the ripe old age—for a Czar—of 40 years. Wizard Burbank might render a valuable service by developing a sensationless Gould family. Why is it that “strange tongue prophecies” never foretell anything ■'that is grand and glorious? As. the years roll by everybody will be anxious to hear how that girl who married the first man she met is getting along. Those old timers who accumulated big fortunes couldn’t afford to bother with divorce courts. It was much more convenient to live happily. * •" ' ~ - If Prince Helle de Sagan says many more unpleasant things about the newspapers they will retaliate by omitting all mention of him In their columns. .....— - London, it appears, does not understand George Ade’s “College Widow,” but then there are a good many Americans; who cannot solve the mystery of the “rah-rah boy.” Andrew’ Carnegie says the United States has the wurst monetary system In the world. Yet some men have accumulated quite satisfactory wads of money under that system. The latest news from Breathitt County, Ky., is to the effect that the undertakers still get an occasional job or two with the assistance of men W 1 a grudge against each other. If an American countess will go boating on the Laborcza River near Oeremezoe, Puszta and Ferencys she must expect to have the boat tip over or some other disaster happen. A Baltimore doctor who operated on a man for apendlcitis discovered that the victim’s appendix tad previously been : removed. We are assured that the operation was entirely successful. “Why be downcast?” asks the Indianapolis Newsj “At least you don’t have any tire troubles with your lawn mower.” Oh, don’t we? Perhaps you don’t know’ how the machine tires us every few days. Young Vanderbilt, In his character of “whip,” drives a coach and collects fares from his passengers. He Is merely reverting to first principles. HIS Illustrious ancestor, the commodore, made many a dime in his early days as a ferryman. 8 It is inherently misleading to say that our general business prosperity “came with the prosperity of the railroads”—as if the railroads had created their owq, prosperity ’first and had then Invited at large to share in it, or had set a pace in prosperitymaking that the general business of the United States was quick to catch up with and follow. One of the largest cantilever bridges In the world will be opened to the public in the early autumn, when the bridge connecting Manhattan Island with Long Island, byway of Blackwell’s Island, is completed. The bridge will be in three spans, the longest of which is nearly twelve hundred feet The spans of the Firth of Forth cantilever bridge are each seventeen hundred feet; long. The new bridge carries two floors. On the lower one there will be four tracks for surface cars and a driveway for carriages. There will be four tracks for elevated cars on the upper floor, besides two foot paths. This is the third bridge across the East River, between Mantiatten arid Long Islaiod, but it will rot be the last. Work is progressing rapidly on a fourth one, between the old Brooklyn Bridge and the new Williamsburg Bridge. We start out in life with a definite amount of possible -energy. We can upend It as we please; but even with the best intentions many people use up a large part of their capital in worry, anxiety or by fretting over nonessentials — trifles which have nothing whatever to do with their success. Many people go through life without ever getting full possession of themselves. They do not seem able to grasp their possibilities; they never develop the faculty of flinging: their lives out with force and effectiveness along the line of their bent They can use some of their faculties to advantage, and can do some things fairly but never come to a full knowledge of their possible strength. If we could only learn to control our thoughtforce and to spend it where it is needed, Instead of allowing it to ooze out or leak away in driblets on unimportafit matters, what marvels we might accomplish! Some people spend half the power they generate in vain worry, bickering, splitting hairs over trrelevancles. Much of our possible success-energy is wasted through fear, which in all its phases is the greatest qurse to the human race—fear of failure, fear of Imaginary conditions and happenings that never come about, dread of criticism and forebodings

about the future. Countless promising Hyes have been wrecked by this gloomy phantom, fear. Could we all put away all of these illusions and trivlalties,'which drain our life forces, and devote all of our energy to the essential things that He ever close at hand, the progress of humanity would be amazing. The failure of Harry Thaw to obtain his release from custody is a highly desirable outcome of the habeas corpus proceedings Instituted in his behalf. There Is no doubt the effect upon a public opinion already sufficiently cynical as to the efficiency and rectitude of our law's would have been of the worst if Thaw had proceeded so promptly from the dock to absolute freedom. Only one interpretation would have been put upon this sequence by ’ the average American—namely: that evasion of law is the secure privilege of the rich. The rough reasoning of the public at large would .have brushed aside the possibility of recovery and would have struck straight at the fact that -by a liberal expenditure from the Thaw millions “experts” and shrewd counsel had first saved Thaw from the consequences of his act by establishing one hypothesis and then saved him from the consequences following upon this hypothesis by repudiating it Insane delusion sometimes is cured. But the judge who committed Thaw to Matteawan gave It as. his opinion, based upon the opinion of authorities In alienism, that Thaw’s type of aberration was incurable. This declaration would have given to the popular opinion a final certainty that Thaw had evaded the law! Happily the public has escaped this disturbing conclusion and the administration of justice has been saved from another blow in the popular estlmatlin. It is devoutly to be hoped that, not only for the safety of those upon whom a recurrance of Thaw’s mania might be wreaked-but for the welfare of the public at large, the courts of New York will not take chances with his case. When Thaw is proved sane and permanently cured beyond a reasonable doubt, let him be allowed to go free. But not till that proof is giVen. A BEDROOM IN A TREE. Sleeping outdoors in a rudely constructed house erected among branches of a high walnut tree in the heart of Flatbush, N. Y., Is the .novel method a young man has taken of “getting near to nature.” The “tree house,” as - the people in the neighborhood call it, is located on the lawn surrounding the

THE BEDROOM IN THE TREE,

home. A wooden stairway winds around the tree’s trunk leading t<s the single chamber above, allowing an easy ascent to be made. The entire structure is made of wood. At first the intention was simply to build a “crow’s nest,” where the “tree sleeper” and his companions could seclude themselves on rainy afternoons and days when it was too hot for active exercise. The “crow’s nest” did not prove to be large enough, so the boys added a large platform, which forms what they call their piazza. This piazza is roomy enough for an ordinary sized dining room table and comfortably accommodates six or eight diners. Then the boys decided that they would like to see how it would feel to sleep out in the open. They covered the top of the house with panes of glass, and tins gave-them all the light, day or night, they needed. The trial worked so well that .they declared that thereafter they would, while the weather was warm, sleep in the tree. In tile Etc. “Perhaps it’s ovtersensitiveness on my part,” remarked the old bachelor, “but from this time on until autumn sets in again in earnest I am going to be continually embarrassed by public lovemaking. Last Sunday afternoon I went for my usual stroll in the park, and I suffered any number of minor shocks from coming on couples spooning on the benches along the paths. Later oh I had to ride down town in the subway, and I saw two more couples talking into each other’s faces as if there wasn’t a human being within a mile of them. Os course they don’t mind me. But I hate to be put in the attitude of an intruder on love’s young drjpm.” < • So Thoughtful. Nell—Yes, the count is attentive to her. She admired some roses she saw in a florist’s window they were passing yesterday, so he had some sent up to herBelle—'How thoughtful! Nell—Yes; C. O. D.—The Catholic ■Standard arid Times. A Good Man. “Your dead husband wor a good mon,” declared the sympathetic Mrs. Casey to the bereaved widow.“He wor!” exclaimed Mrs. Mftrphy, dashing the tears from her eyes. “No two policemln cud handle him.”—Judge.

RIDDING SEAS OF DERELICTS THAT MENACE OCEAN LINERS.

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O ir er a year ago the Treasury Department invited bids for die construction of a craft specially equipped for the destruction of the many derelicts which are a continued menace, to vessels on the fclgh seas. This derelict destroye:', which has been named the Seneca, has a wireless equipment, which enables her to receive and give information as to the location of derelicts. In addition, the vessel is provided with an ammurltlon room, stored with high explosives, for sinking and blowing to pieces floating hulls and wreckage. As in warships, provision is made for flooding the magazines in case of any emergency. The destroyer is furnished with an equipment designed to assist her in salvage and. life-saving work, for whirh her size and the 1,700-horse-power engines will render her highly efficient. It would Seem to require some vessel, specially equipped as this one is,“to clear the seas of the wrecks whiih now incumber them. In recent years it has been the custom for a rescuing ship, after taking off the crew of ii storm-beaten vessel, to set fire to the wreck. But a derelict is rarely, if sver, destroyed by this means, and for the good reason that when a wooden sailing vessel, which is the type of craft that the majority of derelicts are made of, reaches a condition when its crew finds It imperative to abandon, it, the hull, as a rule, has become waterlogged, and therefore efforts to destroy it by fire are almost always unsuccessful. Such fires as are kindled do ittle else except to burn away the upper works, thereby leaving the wreck still more invisible. Through its hydrographic office, the Navy Department contributes much to the safety of all who travel upon

THE ORIGIN OF FLOWERS. There were no roses till the first child died, No violets, no balmy breath heartsease, .No heliotrope, nor buds so. dear to bees, The l.on<y-hearted woodbine, no gold-eyed Apd white lasht daisy-flower, nor, stretching wide, Clover and sowslip-cups, like rival seas, Meeting and parting, as the young spring breeze Runs giddy races paying seel and hide; For all flowers died when Eve left Paradise, ' And all the world wes powerless awhile, ■ •Until a child was laid in earth, Then from its grave grew violets for its eyes, And from its lips rose-petals for its smile, And so all flowers from that child’s • death took birth. —-Maurice Francis Egaii. 999 *999999999999939999991* I Glockner’s Scheme | “Pretty as a little red wagon, ain’t she?” said the storekeeper, admiringly, as h » stood in the doorway and watched the poppy-trimmed straw hat going down the street. “She’s a stirrin’ up a righi; smaot o’ trouble, too, they tell me.” “It’s nachel she should,” observed Marrin Parsons, his gaze also following the retreating hat. “There’d orter be a law compellin’ any (;al that’s got more’n her fair share o’ good looks to settle down on some one feller for better or for wuss by the time she gits to her eighteenth birthday.” ‘That mout work, an’ then again it moutn’t,” said Washington Hancock. “In some respec’s it’s righ: an’ fair, an’ in o thers it ’ud work hare ship.” “How’s that?” asked Solomon Baker. “Who was it broke old Bigley’s 2-yeir-old for him?” asked Hancock. “Dave Harper, wasn’t it?” said Parsons. “Dave it was,” said Hancock, with a grin. “Who was it loaned Bigley his wagon an’ worked half a day fittin’ a good new reach to it, an’ never charged the old man a cent for the use of It for over a year?” “] guess that was Jim Sellers,” said the storekeeper. “Who’s Bigley’s hired man?” Hancock inquired. “He ain’t got none,” i.nswered Parsonu “I. don’t call to mind that, he’s had one for four or five .rears. Why?” “Yes, why?” repeated Hancock. That’s what I’m asking jou fellers. If you don’t know I c’n I;eH you. It’s heir ’ he don’t need, no hired man’s lonjj’s he’s got Malviny. An’ he don’t need to lack for anythin’ Jim Sellers has got for the same reison an’ Dave Haiper will break all the colts for him that he c’n raise.” “Oh, shucks!” said the storekeeper. “There was old man Glockner,” said Hancock., “He had a gal, that was jest aecli another as Malvlriy Bigley. She wan red-headed as Malvlny’s dark completed, but they was both alike in one way. All the boys was plumb craay

the seas. ■ It publishes charts, sailing directions and other aids to navigation; it is constantly searching out the dangers of the ocean and putting its results into convenient form. It is truly the “track walker” of the great deep. A recent issue of its monthly chart shows five derelicts now washing about the North Atlantic. And, with the perversity of Inanimate things, they seem ever to be where they are least wanted and where their presence is most potential of harm. Partially submerged, scarcely detectable‘by day, and almost if nqt wholly invisible by night, their very existence is unsuspected, -jaad the question of pluifiping into them at night or in thick weather is one of merest chance. The sodden and sullen things make no signal, give no gaming. The danger that lies in them has been frequently exemplified. Many disasters are known to have been due to collision with these half-hidden dangers, and it is believed that many in that melancholy roll bf “missing” have staggered away from such impact to plunge under with bows crushed in and water roaring into holds and fire rooms. Most derelicts are the wrecks of lubber-laden sailing vessels, “floating on their cargoes,” as the Lloyds phrase it. But not long ago a steamship was added to the list, and drifted about the North Atlantic as a menace td shipping for nearly four months.. This was the Dunmore, wrecked on the coast of Europe. No action was taken for its destruction until the British government, moved by numerous complaints, sent out a squadron of warships to search for and destroy the wreck. The search proved unavailing, the vessel probably having foundered before the quest was begun. 8

over Joanna Glockner an’ all the gals jest nachelly deespised her. She was the plumpest, peachiest, sassiest little gal I ever laid my two eyes on. I reckon the Lord Almighty never turned out a prettier job in the woman line before or sence. If He did there was a lot of young fellers that got the wrong idee about it. They was swarmin’ around the Glockner place thicker’n flies, and it went on that-a-way for nigh to four jpars. “PinTy Caleb Wells got Joanna off by herself one day an’ says he, ‘I ain’t cornin’ ’round here no more.’” “ ‘Why not? asks Joanna, smilin’ up at him. ‘Don’t you like us?’ “ ‘I like you too blame well to stand around an’ watch a hull passle o’ coots makin sheeps’ eyes at you,’ says Caleb. ‘l’ve tried my derndest to get you to say whether or no you’ll take me, an’ bein’ as you can’t make up ydur mind I’m goln’ to sell the place an’ move out to Utah.’ “‘How do you know I can’t make up my mind?’ she says. ‘P’raps I’ve made it up. But o* course if you’re goin’ to Utah it ain’t no use my tellin’ you. How many wives do you allow you’ll take out there?’ “Caleb ketches holt of her an’ she didn’t squirm none particular. “ T reckon I won’t go to Utah,’ says Caleb. ‘Mizzoura’s good ernuff for me.’ . “‘But there’s this about it,’ says Joanna, after a while. ‘Things has

“WILL YOU WAIT UNTIL AFTER HARVEST?”

got to go on jest the same as they has been goin l . Paw’s goin’ to be mad ernuff as ’tis.’ “ ‘What do you mean?’ asks Caleb. “ ‘You go see paw an’ ask him,’ says Joanna. ‘He’s over by the corn crib watchin’ Lee Robinson shuck. Paw’s hands has got the rheumatiz an’ Lee said he’d come over an’ help him out Mebbe Jack Ritchie’s there, too.’ “ ‘l’ll see to Lee and Jack later on,’ says Caleb. ‘Here goes for the old man.’ “He goes over to the corn crib an’ there’s the boys up on a wagon shuckin’ away for dear life. Old man Glockner, he’s settin’ down smokin’ his pipe an’ encouragin’ ’em. ‘I never see better, quicker, cleaner shuckin’, ’ he says, as Caleb walked up. /‘I must have Joanna come out this Afternoon an’ see you all shuck. "Vpiy, here’s Caleb! Howdy, Caleb? Do you reckin you’ll ever git so’s you /.an shuck corn as lively as that? Tip it wunst’ “‘I hain*t got lime, now,’ says Ca-1 leb. T want to efeak to you on some private an* partiular business right ' away.’ j ‘The old man Lot up an’ after tell-

in’ the boys to keep right at it, he fol lers Caleb around to the back o’ thi barn. “ ‘I want to tell you that me an Jo anna’s goin’ 'to get married, an’ 1 thought I’d see if you didn’t want t< give me your blessin’,’ says Caleb. “The ol’ man looked at him steadj for a minut”. Then he says very slow; ‘I don’t want to give you a cussin’ on less you drive me to it, Caleb, but you ain’t goin’ to do no sech a thirig You're welcome to come here with the rest of the boys an’ be neighborly likt they all are, but I don’t, want Joanna to decide on nothin’ yet awhile.’ “ ‘Why not ?’ says Caleb. “‘l’ve got my privit reasons,’ says the old man, strokin’ his billy-goal beard. ‘An’ I’ve also got a shotgun.’ * ‘lt’s in the house, ain’t it?’ says Caleb. “‘Yes, it’s in the house right handy, says the old man. “ ‘Onless you’re a better foot-racei . than I take you for I can beat you t< it,’ says Caleb. ‘Joanna’s in my buggj Tight now an’ if I can’t make Squlri Peterson’s with her by the time you’n out to the front gate with your shotgur I’ll farm this place five years an’ not Charge you a cent.’ “Old man Glockner looked over t< the house, an’ there by the gate, shon ’nuff was Joanna in Caleb’s buggy. “ ‘Caleb,’ says the old man, ‘why noi let things go on the way they are foi a few years an’ not say nothin’ to no body? Then if you want her yoi cari have her.’ “Caleb shook his head. ‘“WiU you wait till after harvesthen?’ “ ‘No, siree,’ says Caleb. ‘l’ll wail long enough for you to get on a b’ilec shirt an’ go with us to the squire’s.’ “ ‘See here, Caleb,’ says the old man ‘Thar’s no use bein’ mulish about thii thing. I’ll compromise with you. Ydi wait till evenin’ —until after Lee an Jack has got that corn shucked an in the crib—an’ I’ll go with you to th< squire’s. But I’m bound to get thal much done. It’s the last free help IT get.’’’—Kenneth Harris in Chicag* Daily News. „ Life Saving; aijd Law. The Roumanians are as curious it some things as the Chinese. A giri who fell into the river and was swept down by the current finally seized s bush on the bank and drew herself t< shore. Trip owner of the land on which the bush grew immediately claimed a reward of 4 shillings because his bust was there and had saved her. ER* fa ther refused to pay, and there was a lawsuit. What the law has to decidi is whether drowning people can mak< use of bushes on the bank without pay ing for the same, or whether the assistance of the said bush is worth a certain sum of money. In China if a person falls into the water no one must help him out, but at the same time a spectator can be im prisoned for not advising the victim tc stay on dry land. A woman will fight her relatives any time for her lover ; and, when he becomes her husband, will work him any day for her relatives.

REVIEW OF INDIANA

Andrew J. Bright, of Madiosn, aged 52, was caught by a sand bank cavein and smothered to death. Yeggmen blew the safe in the C. J. Huff store in Wabash, securing $54 in money and checks to the amount of over S2OO. Joseph T. Giles, principal of the Marion High School, has been appointed superintendent of/Marion public schools. / John Potthorf, addicted to Walking in his sleep, fell down a stairway at his home in Logansport and sustained severe injuries. The body of Mrs. Ida Hardesty, 20 years old, was found in Pigeon Creek, near Evansville. The Coroner says it is a case of suicide. Clifford, 2 years old, son of Charles Oyler, of Alexandria, is dead, the result of his clothing coming in contact with an open gasoline fire. The Government has called for proposals for a site for the new $65,000 building to be erected in Brazil, to be filed not later than July 8. Returns to the County Board of Review show $355,000 net increase in assessment in personal property ip Anderson during the last year. The first raspberries have appeared on the Oakland City market. The crop is said to be unusually large this year and the fruit in prime condition. John Janz, of Evansville, self-con-fessed murderer of his wife, still refuses to accept the assistance of an attorney and wants ttj tfiy the penalty of his crime. Nud Hill, a well-known business man of was thrown from his wagon in a runaway accident, dislocating his right hip and inflicting other injuries, i Seizing a horse with its trunk an enraged elophantjj.i a circus, which was showing in New Albany, dashed the aniinal against the ground until it had pounded out its life. The showmen were leading the animals to a train when the elephant ventured too near a horse and was kicked. Otto Wolf, 30 years old, died at Peru of arsenic poisoning. He swallowed two tablespodnfuls of the drug and afterward regretted that he had not used a pistol instead of poison. He was despondent because out of work. His, wife died a month ago; and his father committed suicide two years ago. A bam,on the James Agnew farm, near Shelbyville, burned, together with hay and grain. The farm is tenanted by Albert Dake. Mrs. Dakey was burning hen’s nests, and the barn ignited from them. The woman saved the horses, and the men saved the harness and farm iinplements. The ibss is several hundred dollars. Agnew lives in Indianapolis. The Tuhey Canning Company, the largest concern of its kind in Muncie, expects to pack 4,000,000 cans of’ peas this season. The pea harvest will begin about the middle of the week and will be the largest in years, all conditions of weather having beeri especially favorable to pea culture. The crop is estimated to be 50 per cent, larger than that of last year. During the quarterly meeting of the rural mail carriers in Anderson, C. M. Bolinger, of Pendleton; J. E. Thomas and Mrs. Condo, of Alexandria, and C. W. Swartz, of Frankton,, were elected delegates to the State meeting. Congressman Adair was a guest, and he complimented the carriers because this was the only county in the district from which no complaint against a carrier had been registered in two years. George F. Terry, a Waterville mail order house proprietor, has paid a fine of SI,OOO, the maximum penalty, in the United States District Court in Portland. The sentence was imposed recently by Judge Hale for conspiracy to defraud the Government of postage of second-class mail matter. The conviction was the first obtained by the Government in the fight of the Postoffice Department against mail order houses. Robert H. Green, vice president of the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank, of Waynestown, was sentenced to a term of from one to fourteen years and fined $lO for stealing two horses from Judge Jaines McCabe, of Williamsport. Green’s career as a horse thief was brilliant and sensational. It is said that he took to stealing to recoup losses suffered in gambling in stocks. Judge McCabe’s coachman ac- I cidentally caught Green leading one of his stolen from a blacksmith shop. He was arrested June 1 under the name of Frank Ross. His identity i did not become public for ten days : later. His arrest created a sensation, i as he was regarded as a rich man of excellent habits. ; A horse driven by the Rev. Father Simmons, of Oakland City, became : frightened at an automobile and ran i away, throwing him from the buggy. He was painfully but not seriously < hurt. ■ 1 The seventh death from measles in Kosciusko County in the last three < months was that of Mrs. Warren A. : Kohler, 35 years old, of Leesburg, who died after a two wpeks’ illness. She ] is survived by her husband and two ; children. .<

In retaliation for the Joss of their licenses the saloon men bf Columbus will insist on enforcement of the blue laws. Lightr ing struck a, barn belonging. to Carl Drouthitt, near Carlisle, burning it and contents. There is but s2uo insurance. John Hildebrandt, 8-year-old son at Wilkerson Hildebrandt, of Logansport, was attacked by a dog, which tore away his upper lip, disfiguring hint for life. Nathan Lewis, a stock buyer of Peru, was beaten and robbed of $1,006 by three highwaymen. He had checked out the money with which to pay for live stock. Muncie capitalists, represented bf Albert Greeley, will erect a large plant at St.-Piul for the purpose of crushing stone. The crusher will have a daily capacity of 500 yards. After dreaming that there were burglars in his room George Pfegge of Evansville, awoke to find that he had been robbed of over SSO. The money had been placed. in a shoe by his wife., W hik ’ ■ hunting periwinkles' in a street in Washington recently covered with river gravel, John Reinsei, 12 years cld, found},a mussle and upon opening the shell he uncovered a pearl valued it $100?~~ Wild ducks have been nesting around a large pond on Mrs. Barrett’s farm,' near Greenfield, and forty or more young ducks are beginning to feather. Several blue cranes are also in the neighborhood. This is unusual in that part of the State. ' • As a result of a meeting of thresher machine men in Fort Wayne last week a combine was fornjed, with forty and ‘ more members, and the cost of thresb’l- - wheat was advanced from 3 cents |to 4 cents. Oats will be thrashed for 2% certs a bushel, an advance bf cent. --x Elliolt Cheeseman, previously re- \ ported as ill of blood poisoning, the result of being .“horned” by a catfish which tie had caught in Cicero creek mear Noblesville, and which he was Iremoviig from the hook, is dead. He was 59 yeari old, and a man of family. He neglected the injury till it was* too late. The reorganization bf the Imbler Wire Company of Alexandria has been completed. The capital stock will be e increased from SIO,OOO to $50,000, and ; a new factory building erected. The number of etnployes will be largely increas ed, and new products added to ythe company’s outprit. Nearly all of the ca pital stock is held by local people. Charles Borden, 30 years old, was burned to death on his farm, ten miles south of Brownstown. He had been burning cornstalks, and when he failed to return home a -search was made and his body was found roasted to a crisp. Borden was subject to epileptic attacks and it is supposed that he., was seized with an attack and fell into the firs. <■ Owen Perkins, farm laborer! negr Kentland, is unconscious, the result of an electric shock. A bolt struck a barn in which he was unharnessing-a team of horses, killing two valuable horses standing at opposite ends of the barn, and knocking down the team with vrhicir Perkins was working, and rendering both horses and man unconscious. Mr. Perkins is not likely to recover. The report of the Washington Township (Cass County) assessor shows more dogs in the township than men, there being 213 men, while the dogs number 266, bn which taxes are paid. In adiition, it is thought there are half as many more dogs running loose in the township. Logansport has 31126 men paying poll tax, and only 499 dogs. Adams Township has 186 men and no ddgs. One of the Mongolian pheasants, imported from Germany, and placed ori the S :ate game reserve near Logansport, flew against the headlight of a State line passenger train. . It fell dead on the pilot and was found there when the train pulled into the station. Several other pheasants imparted ' from <Germany have met violent deaths but others are mating and raising young ones. * Secretary J. N. Hurty, of the State Board of Health, announces that two persons over 100 years of age flied in Boone County and one in Clinton f County last week. Hugh Wiktt, of Sugar Creek Township, Boone County, died cf old age at the age of 108. He prpbably was the oldest resident in the State. Miles Carrigan, of Lebanojj, died aUthe age of Ifil, from brain anaemia. Mrs. Martha Stafford Thurman, of Sugar Creek Township, Clinton County, died at the age of 105, from an atlack of grip. For the purpose, of platting it into town lots and factory sites, the Citizens’ Factory Fund Committee has bought a forty-acre tract on the western corporate limits of Anderson, and has paid S2OO an acre for the land. Maishall Wright, who was a pioneer druggist at Huntington, died last week at the age of more than 80 years. He was n veteran soldier and had been living a retired life for a number or years He cast his first vote for General 2achary Taylor for president