Walkerton Independent, Volume 25, Number 7, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 2 September 1899 — Page 7

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Ti\^i? ATTFIEW ELDER, editor of ZPjII the lnrM?r Clre!e - had gone out for half an hour to synchronise his watch, and his assistant, J. Graham Champnies, reigned temporarily in his stead. On every occasion when Elder was absent, whether be had gone out . to get bis hair cut (at a restaurant op-

posite), or was away on a two-months' holiday, or had taken a week off because he felt far from well, J. Graham Champnies reigned in bis stead, encowed with plenary powers. He was ambitious, and intelligent, and hardFm Tm Dd tnjstw o r ’hy; Matthew Elder, brilliant and lazy, had long since recognized that. Elder thought of things to do—Champnies did them. JUSt tßid on Ch «“pnies’ ^esk the form which a visitor bad filled p* ••••1• • • . . . • tSL Miss Cvnrhi « Page. • • nVw EbS ' Priva t^- • „ DATE 3.5.99. ,

111 ** Mid Champnies Da “ e Cynthla Pa ^ in ’ appended curious ° interesting stories. ileal r .on pale pfer long, raised lashes w<» lingering g/a nir.'^j.'Gfiindm champnies found himself hoping that Matthew Elder, after syncbronlxing bis watch, would find It v necessary to go and see a man about a n dog— -or, at any rate, would delay his ’ b return. In the meanwhile he was anxious to know what be could do for Miss " Page. t “I am speaking to the editor?” said s Miss Page, a little doubtfully. 7 'The actual editor. Mr. Elder, is not P to at present, but I have full powers to d act for him.” "I see." She was still in doubt. "Pray be assured of it. I can make T contracts with you. accept stories from you, sign checks for you. so if you have anything to propose ” b "Oh, it's not that! In fact, I came in o consequence of a proposition which he bad already made to me.” “Well, I shall be very glad to carry j on anything that he has begun. As a p rule he mentions these things to me. v but this time I am in the dark.” t] She smiled mysteriously. "But you can't be sure that you would wish to " carry on what he has begun.” b “As Mr. Elder is the supreme authority here. I should have no choice. But. \ even if I had. what you suggest is ex- ' tremely unlikely.” “Why unlikely? No two men can have 3 minds exactly alike. It’s such a funny :1 arrangement you have here.” “It works well enough in practice. 1 s We both know the character of our pa- | 1 per, and what our public wants. I sav 1 c fl Il * 1 ’H/ MISS PAGE WAS A KITTLE DOUBTFUL. it is unlikely that I should be unwilling to carry on whatever Mr. Eider has begun, for this reason and also because I know and admire your work.” "Oh. do you think it’s any good?” ' “Os course I do.” “Speaking frankly?” “Speaking frankly, It's full enough of faults; some of it seems to have run away with you and got all over the place. But it's horribly interest’ kg all the same. You see, It’s original.” "Oh, yes!” she assented. "I am original. If I were not, I shouldn’t be here.” "That sounds cryptic,” he said. "Pos- * sibly, I shall understand it when I know the nature of Mr. Elder’s pro- ’ posal. He wants some stories from you ?" “No. no." "Then what is it?" ‘ "Do you know that I’m afraid I can't I 1 ■WU you.” | t “very well, then; there's nothing r more to be said. Mr. Elder is out at c present. You'd better call again. I ti ’''lnk 't would make some tl i i '' 11 hu>'.noss, or 1 d.d ' ’ ferem rT" " « :v >ss < A : \ "You ” uk I shoe q r e<’ t' - . ~i _ the mb ■ middh aged. i, a! 4 / tered into tin ro m •.■ -s / b s [K>cket s. ’ Well. Bia; Everything n • Mr. Elder I. .d t ■ v "Ji" ‘7 Sol*’ n• ♦ •. t Chai: p: .• • • . and thr gm • ... , s .^. a:.\Irritated b> !. < r.b-v:, v v >v . <\ Page. "Quart into a•. ; ; up with ads. and How> i- - i>: ■ up that he’ll want an th r . We shall have to leave < .r < that’ll wait, and son..' b :><> won't.” "Ah." you don’t keep a tight • ■ .■ hand on Rowse.” “Step in ami tackle him yours, Here, this woman call 'd t ; wtmldn't tell me her bu'.n- " Matthew Elder took th- ia; And sank down In a chair. “Bill, this iS lather . 2 i .

have been In. What with my unfortu nate enthusiasms, am] my xvretched memory i shall get myself into trouble. L^teu. I met this girl two or three tt ytar aß °’ uever S av e her another thought till I came on a story by ier that was perfectly magnificent—6.

' cood - probably the best story ! tha-t has been written in this centurv I dashed off a let£- to her at once, and SO worked up ms>lf about it that I bti p H ShoW n LVf encerity. that if she Lked I d marry h p . and she could call sw^Vh^? 1118 ,nornin P with answer. She d hare refused me. of course as they all do. and perhaps I'm better smg.e; but, none the less, it would have beea more civil not to have forgotten the appointment.” "Really." said Champnies, “you must be a little mad.” I ndoubtedly.” answered Elder cheerfully. "It's the price one pars for being so excessively Intelligent ” * Champnies stared blankly at the

of M; trying tO rCCail the ««et words of his conversation with Cynthia Page Look here. Bill,” said Elder, "write and say you want to see hex about « worked a wav by Telegram. Say it was from motives of oencacy. Say anything..”. ... * . Sy ladies for ladies: “One of the most brilliant of our lady ivriters. Miss Cynthia Page, is, it is whispered, shortly to be led to the hymeneal altar. The fortunate partner of her future joys and sorrows is ,1. Graham Champnies, a young Journalist of erreat promise. Our heartiest felicitations. Speaking of weddings, have you seen the really beautiful designs in pearlettes—indistinguishable from real pearls—now being shown in the windows of • • •?”—Black and White. ONE OLD SCAMP that Colonel Titus Bark Supported for Many Years. They were speaking of successful business men and somebody mentioned )ld Colonel Titus Bark (which isn’t ils name, although it ought to be). 'There is a man who has made a great leal of money,” commented one of the jarty, "but he has been absolutely no ralue to the world except as an illusration of the vice of avarice. I doubt seriously whether he has ever spent me penny on anybody, except the mem>ers of his immediate family, whom he “ouldn’t avoid supporting.” "I think ’ou do Bark an injustice,” replied an>ther in the group. "Men of his stamp ire often strangely generous in secret md take the greatest pains to hide :heir good deeds from the world. They seem to find a bitter pleasure in being misunderstood. In this particular case I could cite you to an old man in New Orleans whom Colonel Bark has Qutotiv snnixwted for a number of years, auu 1 «**n pretty cer.am that he has never mentioned the matter to a living soul. It’s an old fellow who used to know his father, and what makes his action all the more praiseworthy is the fact that the recipient of this bounty is anything but an engaging character. He is crabbed, coarse, illiterate, snarling and as ugly as a mud fence. He has a breath like a buzzard and a nose like a tomato, and I'm persuaded he tipples a good deal in private. The Colonel must be perfectly familiar with his shortcomings, but he never chides him and never permits anybody to speak ill of him in his presence. In fact. I’ve known him to tell more than one deliberate lie to shield him from the consequence of his pure cussedness. Everybody bates the old rascal. I doubt whether he has another friend in the whole city.” "You astonish me!” exclaimed the first speaker. "How long has this been going on?” "Four years. He has no other source of revenue and if it wasn't for the Colonel he'd certainly be dead. I saw him hobbling into his office only this morning.” "Well, well, that strikes me as being rather pathetic. Who is the old scamp, anyhow?” "Titus Bark, of course.”—New Orleans Ti mes- Democra t. The Sergeant’s Tribute. A very great military authority said. “There are no bad regiments, but-only bad colonels." There is abundant proof that Napoleon’s belief is shared by the rank and file of soldiers, but this fact ?ould not be more happily illustrated :han by the following story, taken from he London Illustrated News, of a compliment paid to the German ^fLrward Emperor : \\ . ..... ( , m] J 1 4 * ’? pn rtv of 1 1 ■ o:'^.' lOOr :iu<l lo <>ked in. ’ ’nee. ‘‘Pray. ‘ - * >f . four years ■ i;i ' "J ■ -o । hat the eyelid as t nor..- op- n-, and ol— . . 4 chropo-c-raph. So -at ,(.-..4 wink on record >s about a s;xth of a secund.

he IS RICIL yet poo r JAMES HEALEY, THE CATTLF KING OF NEW MEXICO. Is Morth SI,OOO,000, and Has SIOO, 000 in Yearly Income, Yet He Live, the Simple and Arduous Life of u Mexican Cattle Herder. A man who doesn’t know what to do "i!h h:s money is somewhat of an anomaly, but James Healey, of New

JAMES heat.by, the week, yet be 1 V<‘S in a rude board shanty that could be duplicated for ^SO. Out of his annual income of SIOO,OOO he spends less than SOOO O s it on hlmself He owus wr* r v ° f BCreS ° f la,,d ln the no 1a! Ne "’ Mex,co - and s «ll be lives ’ no better-not even so weli-than a 1 pood part of the ignorant Mexicans he 1 ’ employs to help herd his cattle. < J; *mes Healey went to New Mexico 1 torn Texas. He was born in Sedalia, 1 h w and with his went ' to Austin, Texas., in 1850. He haa al- c kno B !^^ on the P laißß aad ha « ao ” knowledge of any other life. He never ’

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went to school but three years and that ) was on the plains of Texas. But he : was twn with rare sagacity, a peculiar border shrewdness that reads men at a glance and knows a schemer instinct- ; ively. His chief stock in trade is an iron constitution and a bravado nerve that made him well known on the frontier before he was 2d. He became a vaquero in Texas when he was 17 years old. His associates have been Mexican vaqueros. American cowboys, hardened characters on the border and half ; breed Indians. Start of the Healey Fortune. When the Navajo's were moved by the government to Southern New Mexico in the latter ‘6os, Jim Healey and other vaqueros went northward with little bauds of cattle and settled on tracts of land close to the Arizona ter- I ritorial line. That was the beginning Us tTonbr In a few y.nrs lie had severe! h"ad of s r.».>rc Then he had several thousand. He spoke the Spanish tongue as well as his ; own. aud no American knew the border ; and Its rude ways so well as Jim Hea- ' ley did. With further sales of cattle he ' bought more land. So be has kept on buying land, trading for cattle and 1 water rights, occasionally dabbling in ; sheep and wool until he has become i more than a millionaire. Up to twenty-five years ago Healey’s ' sole unnecessary expense was gambling. There are still tales in ancient I Santa Fe of the times when Jim Healey returning from a cattle drive to Trinidad and Fort Dodge, used to sit in a faro game for forty-eight hours at a stretch and lose or win §7.000 or SB,OOO at a sitting. One night he saw the faro dealer give a significant wink to a professional player alongside Healey and from that moment he quit the tables. He has had his ups and downs in cattle, the same as all other cattlemen. In the great freeze of IS7B he lost the greater part of a herd that represented some $125,000. At another time he lost over $60,000 worth of cattle by reason of a lung plague and the Texas cattle fever. The fearful depreciation in cattle and ranges, which set in at about 1890 ami culminated in 1896, ruined many a cattleman. but Healey not only hung to his herds and sold his cattle at little or no profit for six or seven successive years, but be added to his range by purchase of land from discouraged men who abandoned the industry. For three years he has been selling bis steers at topnotch prices, and he is the foremost cattleman in New Mexico. Rich in Copper Property. TL? present marvelous boom in copper lias also added to Healey’s r : Twc • years at > when ho was ’n El Paso Texas with a herd of cattle he ; met an obi companion of bls youth on i ■ 'he Texas border. The old friend had ’ • turned prospector and had been among ' I the Dragoon mountains in Southern; . A-.zona. Among the mineral proper- । tics se had located was a copper claim, , tlm danger by name. Healey is seldom I tom el by the sentimentality of frlend- : ship, but this time his friend told such ' a if d st less that Healey gave him outright SBOO tor two-thirds of the eop- ; pe. claim. A.t different times Healey | was persuaded to put S2OO and S3OO 11 "I" hold his share of the property legally intact. In 1592 the mine began to pay. and when Healey got $7,000 for one third the mine, ho thought his re maining third was worth holding. XX hen oippT rose to 12 cents a pound in 1897 Healey got some $1,600 a month from the Ranger, and since copper has ■ sen to is ami in cents, he has had bev m Wtoo and $3,500 a month profit '•in it. ’ hey b ° lieve the millionaae must be made of steel n. has been a physiological , 111 i ft . ye- tm —, • ' ' 5 ani en &iue

^T»e out of the twenty-four h »ften in the saddlePr in t] lH and is Uwo days and nigfts m a ' ral for L later yeafs, whan he ha s 1 In thesl ..jch. he Jhas several vaoue, come so|n always at nighs | n the io,, alK>ut h’l^^re it would no tri J inountalflt^its f O perpetrate some eri _ all for bA n upon the wealthy C atti ' s in al desiKqnently the old man win . man. Frlpt alongside the <-a Ul p } - ! ' “ in a blanlSpr the night, and wit]) - - C the range Akers an.l cheese Or 8,11 per on crA, to sleep until the * J la*ans wiU®aylight, when be xv j ;i ,J 1 streaks of > work again. ‘ ') up and go tL means a miser. f or . ’ He is by A made gifts of sl,o^^^ 1 several tlnißraqueros, whom h e jB 1 S2.(MM) to h^as lie deeded to a ni Last Chrtefßiach of prime 4 his range awre wortl^Lsoo, sieers that VKf emß||^L ten gave all iu|jold pits' twenty-dollai«nd homo W* headquarters KiJcra en<-l®®A\ OO^i ty on the aofelrty-fiveopMsn range, alxnit |os statioi^ west from Cerise? be si’’ 3 Fe route. Thtsst the v>r-7 bunk built agaipk®. wh«V are two other* *ro sleep: a trusted vaq^g, t*pF » , , uu S3tun urppi Frugal in* 5 0 kD Healey eooks®' , ''''wt>ojj snotuPJ uY’ld times he has a —— cooking. A lot “»S sen'll P»M dishes, and decc~ — " on a greasy tabl^ what sort of s.MOUS 3’ ’ Ilona Ire partake^ htnVn , He hat'mßSMKjßPea there >■' concert, orIMKiH atie sine- . J.h > “I Abbot

Mexi co. who is worth $1,000,000 ami whose annual incom. is SIOO,OOO, is such a person. Healey is an extralordl na r y man, whose counterpart can scarcely be sou nd any w here. He possesses land, cattle and copper properties well I worth far above a million anv dav in

। work .lira Healey can busy himself at, ■ and he feels in the mood, then the eat- | tie king will get out a three gallon Jug | of claret (which he buys from the halfbreed Indians) nod produce several vol low paper packages of cheap tobacco, and he and several ass elates will sit and tell stork's either about a camp fire Jor in the cabin for a few hours But . that's the end of the cattleman's d;»slpation. No one can Induce him to have another taste of it in less than three or four weeks. King of Stowaways. The steamship Lackawanna brought into Philadelphia recently a boy who is probably the most famous stowaway on the Atlantic T|e feet that the captain of the Lackavanoa had involun- ; tartly carried him lhrb*e across the sea : Is a fair test of ID ability to secrete ' bin - If i- m . a.A'CHSion the vessel ' bm Thomy -im - o- i । leaving Liverpool.) Edward Murphy”is , only 15 years old. |He hails from B : 1; i enhead. England, and has never had a ' home other than i:be gutters of the worhi's largest cltf- can afford. He beganfhe stowaway business some years ago, when less tlAn 10, and has made ; a great success ’ It. He has visited ! most of the shipping ports of the At- ; lantic, and many South American and African countries besides. During the past year he has traveled from LiverI pool to New York, to Santos, to Rosario. to Argentine Republic, to the Barbadoes. to Southampton, to Liverpool. to Philadelphia. He is known to every skipper who sails from London, and as a rule is a favorite with officers and men. Captain XX’ytte, of the Lackawanna. thinks so much of him that he has offered to adopt him. but Murphy cannot give up his roving life. If he can escape from the Lackawanna—on board which ship, in accordance with the law which requires every sea captain to pay a fine for foreigners brought to America without money, he is closely confined —he will probably beat his way across America and “ship" on some Pacific collier, as he has always expressed a desire to go to the Klondike. Corrected in Rhyme. Thackeray was much pestered by the autograph-hunter, says Hodder in his ‘■Recollections/’ He disliked above all things to write in an autograph album, aud often refused those who asked him to do so, and s >metim< s rather brusquely. On one oc< ision the owner of an album, a yot 'ndy. was fortunate Thackerav to ller l’°°k to his room in order 'to r° k st ove r Wlin ‘‘ n ou isL"' 11 !,f lu linn long ago; Iheyerowne it on I .'it who the’^ . . , bu , b .Ws to know. Albert SmitPUnder tlpre lines Mr. Thackeray j wrote: J A II inible Suggestion. ; 1 know t'“. Albert wrote in hurry; To eri I scarce presume; But yet m J inks that Lindley Murray, Instead iiA'who," had written whom. XX. M. T*ckeray. Carrier Pigeons Armed. In <'liiua darrier pigeons are protect ed from bird < of prey by apparatus consisting of ba niboo tubes fastened to the birds’ bialie ;. As the pigeon flies the action () f ts e air passing through the tubes produ >es a shrill whistling sound, which keeps the birds of prey at a dis^'■•Ty'ojl has a right to boa little foolish; it js th e inheritance of everyBut Aiirb the disposition all .von I can. J If you~^^ st in this life, you ^;11 have do time to attend j couunititaj

*UIE SUNDAY SCHOOL. T — cor- J me. Ous SUBJECTS CAREFULLY be- CONSIDERED. ’J’os I ! n' " w ” r ""»' c -'- h««~’o- L% f an Hour ’ 8 Study of the oil/ Well Sp ent . lp L for Sept. 3 is froin Ezrn -m ® U V jeCt is “I^‘building Jr e . y em P le this lesson, like the last | is taken from the first part of Ute S I of Ezia, which relates events that oc- < curnsl before Ezra’s time. It is. thereIrom mJ e r“’"’ e ° f hißtory writ,t>n rom materials, not personal reminis- ■ knee It continues the story of the reIrn down through the year following journey. I. ast we ,, k we lt . ai . ned how gua encouraged the Jews to return to ■ir land, how by his orders large con__^utions Were made to the cause, and over 40.000 of them finally ’.eft vlon and journeyed to Jerusalem. was in the year 536 B. C. The (would take several months. No : had they reached the ruined city hey began. Iwavely enough, to set preparing for a new temple. A Ijich promised well for the future ' Lief men of the nation to estab- । Itar of sacrifice and a regular tn 3 f worship soon after the return, .ore there was any building to J I in. The entire scheme of daily __ | ual ceremonies was renewed, bein October, before even the founi -f the new temple was laid I It was in the second year after —— jß’ n - after some preparations had ■ ide for the building such as the Wig of v nrkv,, A ~U . I lumber (3: 7) " at the priests got to the point of laying so' f ?® n< f ft bon. It is this which our lesnte'' not "rebuilding the tem- ■ n * t*lleiiidi<ati-s, fi- there was during w hich nothing waw done The date of the f.>un Nation laying was in the spring of 535, and nothing further wr.s done until 520, owing to the opposition of the Samaritan# about which we shall study. Kxplanntory. In order to understand the enthusiasm with which the building of the temple was begun, as contrasted with the subsequent lapse »f the p.s.ple into indifference from which only the utmost efforts of such men as Hnggai. Zechariah, Ezra and Nehemiah conki rouse them, we must remember the circumstances of the exile from which they had just returned. During that unique period, when the people were p^-uliarly in a position to receive moral and aeligious impressions be cause they were removed from many of those concerns es government and ordinary- affairs which occupy so much of the thought and energy of a nation, they had l>evn well guided by priests and prophets Eiekiel was only one many who turned this condition to good advantage, and effectually won the people away from idolatry and turned their thoughts to Jehovah. "They set the priests in their apparel with trumpets"; fur,mere than fifty years no echo of »acnsl music had been heard on Moriah. Nor haij the exiles in Babylon cansl or dared- to u—• in their religious services tlw full rod joyful harmony that Glonu d to th- temple. They had had music, ind«»>i many of the Paalms were written ^tiring the exile, and were of course sting to instrumental accompaniment. Bui the sound of the trumpet and the cymbal in jubilant praise would not have been fitting for a captive nation. "O give thanks tuu> the Lord bee tuse be is good": evidently they sing antipbonul psalms, the priests and Lerftes chanting oue Verse or wtanza, and the people answering with the refrain that ia found in I’salms It'd, lUT M ll s - Huw true to Ufq, Ute*' touching, is the weeping of the old men as the vast congregation sang and the trumpets blew joyful melodies. Can w* not see the hearts of those w hite haired fathers as tu«i ,ti 'd there, a keen sorrow which even they could nut [w-rl ^ps quite explain or ju-tify t'... - I;. :- tbo-.-his and mingling w ith tia- j ITieii Lm whs past; their best years had been spent in a foreign land; their hopes for a return to Jerusalem had been realized too late to give them any part in the future reconstruction of the nation. Then, too, the desolate aspect of the scene upon which they looked, in sharp contrast with the joyful praises of the congregation, carried their minds back to the splendors of the city as it had been long ago. The new temple—though it was to be larger in size than the old —could not be in any other resjax-t comparable to that structure ou which Solomon had spent his best resources and the accumulations of generations. "The adversaries of Judah and Benjamin” were the Samaritans; a people of mixed blood, descended from the intermarriages of the foreign colonists* settled in the country about Samaria by Esarhaddon. Assurbanipal and other Assyrian monarchs after the fall of the northern kingdom, and also those Israelites, of the lower classes, who had been left in the land. They were despised by the Jews as a mongrel race, who retained only a part of the Hebrew faith and refused to accept the ceremonial system. This breach between Samaritans and Jews just after the return of the latter from Babylon was the beginning of the fierce hatred that lasted for centuries; instances of which we find in the gospels. The offer of the Samaritans sounds fair enough as it reads here; and indeed there are those who think that if Zerubbabel bad accepted it, and had wisely guided the Samaritans, they might have been good allies of the Jews. If they had been of pure blood this might have been done; but the heathen blood in their veins made it. from the Jewish ^point of view, preposterous. "The p.-ople of the land” is a sort of stock phrase that implies eontemjit; the common herd, the “po’ white trash." is the idea. "Hired counselors”—the following chapters in Ezra showtal how these paid mischief makers went to work to make trouble at the Persian court, and how well they succeeded. There is hardly a more striking picture in the Bible of deliberate malice and its final overthrow. Next Lesson—“ Encouraging the Builders.” —Haggai 2: 1-9. Where I« Comes From. People who wear false hair will be interested in the announcement of a strange discovery made at Ant went). In that city a bale of human hair, weighing 172 pounds, was stolen from a railroad nation. It was afterward learned that the hair had been <-l;p]>ed from the heads of lunatics and conx icts in imbfic asylums am! pr’seus. A Bank of Kn-b*n<l < nriosily. One of the curiosities of the Bank of England is to be se-11 in 11m printingnmni. A man sits at a desk, ami et-ij three seconds a machine delivers to him two complete £5 notes. It he sits there six hours he receives over £79,and in 30’ days over 120.000,000.

RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY • TOLD. Long Mi, B in K Man Returns HomeBngineer Killed by Stray BulietBullooniat Escapes Accident - Unknown Person Attempts Murder. Fifteen years ago George Thompson, a ! young farmer near Bynum, deserted his wife and children without cause or warning. It was rumored he was murdered, 1 iis a search failed to reveal any truce of 1 ‘ him. His wife kept the farm and made 11 living for berself and children, never married or applied for divoree, revering his memory, but believing him dead. The other evening i bompson returmsl home and the reunion was a happy one. He says he has been in Indian territory ever since leaving. He refuses to give any ■ explanation of his mysterious desertion । of his family. Truly Faithful Unto Death. Near Retsls Station, Engineer W. H McCarthy of a Lake Erie and We stern freight train was shot and killed with a , bullet supposed to have been a stray shot 1 from some hunter in the woods through I which the train was rushing. H- did not j release his hold on the throttle of the engine till ho hud shut off steam, called for brakes and informed the fireman what bad happened. Crowd Sees an Aeronaut Fall. At I nkm City, a large crowd saw a I young aeronaut escape by a narrow margin from being dashed to his death. Herbert Williams made his first ascension. W hen the balloon had gone up about 500 i feet the gas began to escape ami the balloon to fall. In Its deseent the balloon -aught in some telegraph wines -md Williams . limb<>d out to n pole, down which he descended in safety. Attempts n Double Murder. death 7?’ UK ' " hi ‘ h lna - v ‘••'•'lt 1:1 the 1 ■ “' u ’ : "3 foil' mil s west of Rushville. Mis. p..^, i and M ilhum Searcy wow shot dow i, by an unknown person, who used a h-tumi. and Mrs. Eliza both Veatch was painfully wounded. Three shots were fired. Within Our Borders. Diphtheria in DeKalb County. ( Lagootgg has a third gus gusher. Lx Congressman Ralph Hill died at Indianapolis. le>st Creek township is terrorized by nn im-endiaiy. Seven cement mills, Clark County, ( have combimsl. James Bower, I’niou City, dropped dead in his yard. Muncie and Anderson are tied for sixth place in Indiana. Fort Wayne will be connected with Auburn and Butler by trolley. Friends’ yearly meeting nt Pendleton was attended by 2,<M>o people. Princeton had a big blowout over the completion of its first brick street. Flint glass workers in the new factory at Matthews have been organized. The two anti-trust wire nail plants, Anderson, are running double time. Peter Zane, Porter County, fell in front of a mower and whs fatally injured. Coal land near Linton has advannd 1IM) per cent within the lust two months. Huntington handle factory of Turner, Day A Woolworth of Louisville in ashes. Ijoss $6,000. John Burnett. Cannelton, waded into the Ohio river, while in a delirious fever, and drowned. United States fish commissioner threw .3,200 little black bass into Lake Maxinkuckee for seed. William McKenzie, 30, Terre Haute, lineman, touched a live wire and fell thirty feet. He still lives. Commander Packard of the Lafayette soldiers’ home says there will not be room enough to accommvdat. all nnpliGcneva Bertsch, •>, East Germantown, was saved from being burned to death in a gasoline explosion by her mother smothering out the flames with her Tress. Policeman Kirkhoff, Lafayette, will not be held for the murder of Charles Rowes, as an investigation developed the fact that the shooting was accidental. At Peru, Mrs. Edith Quick was arrested. charged with having poisoned her husband. A brother of the dead man was arrested charged with being an accomplice. Mrs. William Dalton, Anderson, accused a clerk with whom she had been trading. of stealing her theater tickets, and brought her hubby to the store, only to have him licked. Harry Hamilton, aged 45, and Lilly Gray, aged 16, disappeared from Valparaiso. Hamilton has a wife and three children. He and Miss Gray are supposed to be in Chicago. Mrs. O. P. Worley, wife of County Clerk Worley, Lebanon, jumped from a carriage in a runaway and died an hour later. Her 4-year-old grandchild, whom she held in her arms, was unhurt. Mrs. Henry Cfltterman, Miami County, has a peculiar affeetjon of the bones, and the other night a bone in her right leg was fractured by muscular contraction. Two months age she fell and broke both arms. The Rev. Dr. Cole, who was recently called to accept Che duties of archdeacon of the northern Indiana diocese of the Episcopal Church, has accepted the presidency of St. Stephen’s College at Allen- ' dale. N. Y. James Prifugle, Rush County f rrm-r, ; who was distrustful of banks and kept j his money secreted aimut the h-uisc, shot himself for fear that he might be robbed. , Before he died he offered the doctors all be had if they wtiuld save him. Henry F. Meier, Columbus, drowned while seining in White river. Martinsville elevator burst, letting 6,000 bushels of wheat on the ground. New Christian church has been organized at Columbun, the esult of the recent split. Work has begmn on the power house at Greenwood for the Indianapolis and Greenwood electric line Mrs. Lavina Gorn, wife of a rich Cu- . ban planter, lost <1 suck containing SLI4S ■ worth of diamonds in the depot, at Muncie. Hamilton County will bring suit against the Chrcago and Southeastern for $5,090.63 delinquent taxes. A suit has already been filed to compel the company to lower its tracks throe feet in th ■ city limits. l>r. J. W. Harlan, a La Porte County physician, recently found his sou after thirty three years of unbroken sihrnce. He had been living with his mother, Nirs. Mann of Rochester, Mich., from whom Dr. Harlan had been divorced early in his life, the custody of the son having been given to the mother. The other day Dr Harlan sailed from New York for Liverpool, Engdmd, where he will appear ns the claimant of a large fortune.

Sw The bureau of statistics has completed Its compilation of returns on agriculture from the 1,014 townshii*s in the State of Indiana. The reports show that there were 3,427,577 acres of wheat sown last tall, and of this 397,644 acres were plowed up this year on account of the hard winter conditions. This left 3,039,933 acres standing for the harvest. But many reports from the northern part of the State mention that considerable of that left standing would not pay for the hart esting, but was left to stand on account of clover and grass seed having been sown in it. The whest sown in the central sections of the State, so far as reported. has yielded well, and the yield for the whole State will be reported to the bureau later on. The average remaining of wheat and other crops is as follows: 1898. 1899. V ies wheat 3.012.332 3.039,033 A res corn 3,015,131 3,537,P59 Acres oats 1,1fi2,451 '.<99,100 Acres Irish potatoes.... 68,205 68,561 As to the minor crops it may be mentiomsl that there are 12,938 acres in rye; 12,758 in barley; 1,283 in flax; 3,524 in buckwheat; 14,930 in tobacco; 7,020 in sorgum. The acreage in timothy meadow is 1,122,902 and in clover 1,240,988. <iov. Mount announces the appointment of the following delegates to the anti-tmst convention to be held in Chicago Sept. 13 to 16. under the auspices of the Civic Federation: Delegate«-at-I^rge—E. B. Martindale of Indianapolis. J. B. Stoll of South Bend, R. S. Taylor of Fort Wayne, Joseph Gwynn of New Albany, Aaron Jones of South Bond and John W. Spencer of Evansvi.lv. District delegates—Goodlet Moru <>f Petersburg, Prof. Joseph Swain ■•f Bloomington, Uconard J. Hackney of ‘ ' ■9 , ‘ William 11. O'Brien of Lawxv.ir " rK iJ S .?. u ‘ l ! S: rouse of Rockville, p ilium Dudley Fomuv „ t m„. hraond Daniel P. Erwin of Indianapolis, xv. n. Eichorn ol Bluffton, A. M. Scott of Ladoga, A. L. Kumler of Lafayette. M. Winfield of Logansport, J. N. Babcock of To]H'ka ami A. P. Kent of Elkhart. There are 33.404 farm hands regularly employed in this State and the average wages paid them by the month, including board, is $13.89. The highest average pay for the month is $16.70, reports the bureau of statistics, and lowest average $10.50. There are 11.714 women and girls regularly employed in the families of farmers, and the average pay per week, including board, is $1.56. The highest average in any oue county is $2.23 jht week, and the lowest average in any one county is sl. These averages are found by taking the wages of all employed in either class, and dividing that by the number employed in each county. In connection with the recent return of Senator Beveridge from Manila it is said that Mrs. Beveridge, who accompanied her husband, had the distinction of firing five shots at the Filipinos. While the Senator was on the firing line one day she went on a drive, escorted by a squad of Tennessee soldiers. She ventured too far, and soon rebel bullets were falling about her carriage. A hasfj retreat was begun. Mrs. Beveridge drew her revolver, which she carried since arriving at Manila, and fired five shots in the direction of the rebels, who could be seen skulking in the distance. Short State Items. M. Sobra, Brazil, was fatally crushed in the Mclntosh coal mines. Arthur Wolff, Muncie, claims to have been a schoolmate of Dreyfus. A lodging house to . Iter tramps during the winter will be built at Lafayette. Miss Lulu Marie Alexander, who was mi-"dng from Sellersburg, has returned ~ —m Sale if Jacob Billman’s flock of Shropshire sheep, near Sullivan, netted him $4.00U. Goodlet Morgan, Petersburg Republican, will run for Congress in the First district. Mrs. Hannah Williams, patient in the Long Cliff hospital, Logansport, fell into a bath tub in an epileptic fit, and drowned. Frankfort ordinance prohibiting loitering on the streets is now in force, and the police are cracking it to every one who lets grass grow under bis feet. This and That. Big fish dealers of Florida have formed a combine. Wages of miners at Stoneboro, Pa., have been increased. Mrs. Rachel Forest, 104, colored, is dead at Washington, D. C. Miles Lewis, 14, was suffocated in an elevator at Rochester, N. Y. Charles Winkler, 22, Canal Dover, O„ was killed by a fall of clay. Two men were killed by three boilers exploding at Portsmouth, Ya. Michael J. Freeman of New York drowned at Mount Kisbo, N. Y. Frank Meehan. 14, w#s killed in an elevator at OakianskI**^ 1 **^ Ohio. Body of Reube* z. was found in a field at Coney , N. Y. Mystery. Wm. A. Cox, wanted in Havana for embezzlement, was arrested in New Orleans. . *' Falls, N. Y , vsis J.-ft alone at home. Burned to harles Bolton, a lineman of Pittsburg, was killed by an electric shock at B/idge^ port, Ohio. An unknown “floater" fished out of the river at St. Louis. Believed to be a case W of murder. John A. K efer, ; merchant of Carlisle, Pa., killed himself in a hotel at Hagerstown, Md. Mrs. C. E. Page of Cin< innati lost $2,000 worth of diamonds while taking a dip at Atlantic City. p xident Ze; .\ ii <>f Nicaragua has sent speeiul . ■ nu': -iyu to study the condi-ti-ms at LHmiii id- Two tariffs are said to exi-t there. He promises a new seheduk\ Judge J ! . Inger- >ll, 71, of Cleveland, Ohio, lied • f paralysis at Moosehead lake, Maine. California Legislature may be called in extraordinary se-ion to elect a successor to Senator M hite. Mrs. William Workman, Spencerville, Ohio, was badly injured and her little child killed in a runaway. there is talk ot a new canal being constructed between Syracuse and Newark, N. Y., a distance of sixty miles. North < andina Pine Association has advanced the price of yellow lumber, according to grade, from 50 cents to $1 per 1.000 feet.