Walkerton Independent, Volume 28, Number 21, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 December 1902 — Page 2

^l)c JnDeptnDcnL W. jV. END.LEY, Publisher. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA, esr" 1 — SUMMARY OF NEWS. The “Golden Gate Limited,” on the Rock Island road ran into a freight engine at Herington, Kan., derailing the passenger engine and six coaches. Engineer Grogan was fatally injured and Fireman McCarthy had his collar bone broken. President Roosevelt's message to Congress urges legislation for regulation of trusts, warns against radical tariff changes as menaces to prosperity, urges appointment of expert commission, and indorses reciprocity plan of securing reduction of duties. Eighty-two acres of freehold property in the district of Kensington. London, was sold at auction for $2,825,000. The property contains 1,450 residences, shops and hotels, the rents ranging from S4O to SB,OOO per annum. The name of the purchaser was not divulged. A carriage containing Airs. George E. Weyl, wife of a New York broker, and her two sisters, whose home is in Atlanta, Ga., fell from a bridge near Caldwell, N. J. Miss Annie Sewall was seriously cut about the head and injured internally. It is feared she will not recover. A sack of mail containing $14,000 in «• nni ] r-hpcks from the internal reve-

Bueiness blocks are going up in the commercial part of the city, workingmen are flocking into the place and the demand for dwellings can not be met. It is almost impossible to get a room to sleep in, and the Bundy hotel has had several additions built to it, and yet can not accommodate the crowd of daily guests. Frank Bundy declared that he will have to raise the roof about two more stories if the traveling men and investors continue to come as they are doing. All this has come about in the last year or two. For many years New Castle was a little one-horse country town, with nothing to recommend it except its genuine Indiana hospitality. Located on the Big Four, Lake Erie & Western and the Pennsylvania railroads, it droned along, and even when it got ■ natural gas it did not wake up entirely— ; it just opened one eye and dozed off to sleep again. But the business men got a hustle on them in the last couple of years, and in that time have located thert 21 factor- 1 ies now in operation and eight others that are building or are under contract. The industries now running have capital aggregating $1,633,000, they employ 1,700 men and the average weekly pay roll amounts to SIB,OOO. The promoters of the different factories are running excursions into the town two or three times a week, in order to bring people who want to buy lots. It is the biggest boom that the eastern part of thf^ate has had for many years. - New Water S E. & W. train roboer, na. eea tences, aggregating 130 years, at Knoxville, Tenn. • Mrs. Hattie L. Whitten of Dexter. Me., under arrest charged with murdering her 9-year-old girl, committed suicide by hanging in her cell.

In Knoxville, Tenn., fire partially destroyed the stock and business house of M. L. Ross & Co., wholesale grocers. Loss, $75,000, covered by insurance. The Bank of Aurora, S. D.. was robbed. but the electric alarm sounded and three burglars were caught. One of them was shot twice in the leg. They are local toughs. The Ohio Supreme Court has handed down a decision in the case of the city of (’leveland versus Clement Brothers, in which it declared the contested eighthour labor law unconstitutional. Fourteen men and one woman were rescued from steamer Charles Hebard on Mamaise Point, Lake Superior, after drifting twenty-four hours in gale; steamer went to pieces on rocks. Richard A. Canfield's gambling house. West Forty-fourth street. New .York, was raided by District Attorney Jerome and police at 11 p. m.; layouts were seized, but Canfield was not arrested. Tiie battle for and against the revision of the creed in the Pittsburg presbytery was won by those favoring revision. When it came to a final vote on the question the vote stood: For. 78; against. 46. Fire in the factory building at 142 Broadway. New York, caused .SIOO,OOO damage. Burchell Bros., umbrella manufacturers, in whose premises the fire started, sustained a loss of about $75,000. Fire damaged the county workhouse at Wilmington. Del.. $200,000. One prisoner escaped and several others made a desperate fight before the guards and police succeeded in transferring them to : a place of safety. The various malleable iron companies * of the country were merged the other

. artenroorfr' —rmruTtHTCeiTis-going'-mtn -nfo* joint company represent 85 per cent of the output of the country. The capital stock is $20,000,000. August Oist, a traveler bound from Chicago to New York, who served on the ship Monocacy during the Spanish-Amer-

ican war. was found in the railroad station at Rochester, N. Y., the head severed from the body by a train. James B. Markoe, a prominent banker and society man of Philadelphia, was killed in a runaway accident. Clarence Dunbar, the footman; George Tomlinson, the coachman, and Harry Grady, a pedestrian. who attempted to stop the frightened horses, were badly injured. One of the last acts of the Phi Delta Theta convention in New York was the removal of an incumbrance on the home at I* niton, Aio.. of Mrs. Robert Morrison, widow of the founder, and the granting to her of an annuity. Robert Morrisoip while a student at Miami in 1848, with' five others, organized the fraternity. At Coshocton. Ohio, during a game between the’home team and the New Comerstown Athletic football team. Webster Yingling, captain and halfback of the visiting club, was fatally injured in a “scrimmage.” Yingling, who weighs but 130 pounds, was caught at the bottom of the pile and his abdomen crushed. Shortly before 3 o’clock Saturday morning a mob attempted to take William Glasco, the assailant of Mary Maloney. from the county jail at Ironton, Ohio, but was prevented by an extra force of officers and the sheriff. The mob was forming for an attack when the prisoner was taken away in a carriage to Gallipolis where he was placed m jail.

EASTERN. Charles Carr, colored, 21 years old, of Philadelphia, died at Westchester, Pa,, from injuries received during a football game. Steamer Sylvanus <l. Macy was lost in gale on Lake Erie and entire crew is believed to have gone down with the vessel. John L. Sullivan, former pugilist, has filed a petition in bankruptcy in New York to prevent his arrest for debt in Boston. t Safe blowers robbed the postoffice at New Brighton, Pa., of between S6OO and S7OO in stamps and several hundred dollars in cash. In a livery stable fire at East Boston, Mass., five firemen were injured, twentythree horses perished, and a large number of carriages and sleighs were destroyed. Deputy Police Commissioner* Piper of New York has decided to send captains and mounted police to the West Point military academy for special instructions in horsemanship. Edward F. Croker, chief of New York fire department and nephew of Richard Croker, has been dismissed following conviction for appropriating public property to his own use. Fourteen of crew of steamer Charles Hebard perished when the steamer is dashed to pieces on rocks during Lake Superior storm. Bannockburn and crew of twenty and Celtic also given up as lost. The merger of the Sharon Steel Company and the Union Steel Company has become operative. The new combinastart with a capital of S4O,-

eess comforts and conveniences in‘“one’ mass with the idle, selfish, and ofttimes dishonest, rich. “There are millionaires that came by their wealth through criminal methods. “There are capitalists that grind the poor and wrong their fellow men. But it is well to remember that there are also honest, noble, unselfish people with fortunes, and capitalists who are a blessing to the world, to the laboring classes and to humanity. “No more unjust and absurd idea ever existed than that mistaken impression of the very poor that all rich or even comfortable people are their enemies and their despoilers. “Equally erroneous is the idea that only the poor have troubles, cares or hardships. “There are wealthy people that work fourteen hours a day with their brains and hands, trying to do good to humanity. “There are men that have become the possessors of large fortunes through honest industry and perseverance, and that are bowed to the earth by the cares and responsibilities of life, and that lie awake nights while poorer men sleep, trying to decide just what is the kindest, wisest and most unselfish course of action to pursue. “To be the possessor of a comfortable sum of money does not mean to be dishonest or unkind, any more than poverty means honesty and unselfishness. “There are all kinds of people in both I classes. “However poor you are, try at least to >be just~and fai r hi your estimate of Judge Clifford, in Chicago, decided that Josephine Moftit has no wifely claim on William Wallace Pike. Appeal from the decision was taken. The Minnesota Supreme Court, by upholding a decision of the Ramsey County Probate Court, has declared the inheritance tax law to be unconstitutional.

I* rank Smith, aged 2u, who shot and killed Perry Oxley and Charles Brown at Gloucester Aug. 20, was found guilty of murder in the second degree at Athens Ohio. William Souders, an aged farmer, and his ife were struck by a passenger train at a crossing near Lamar, Mo., while driving over the tracks and Killed instantly. Three attempts were made by incendiaries to burn buildings at Yankton, S. D.. only one of which was successful, re suiting in the burning of Daniel Piggott’s barn. Michael Shields, chief electrician at Armour's packing plant at South Omaha, u as found lying dead the other morning, his hands grasping a bunch of live wires. He had evidently committed suicide. A strong flow of natural gas was struck near Jasper, Mo., at a depth of 173 feet, forty feet of jack ore interven- । ing. After striking the gas the drill j went down thirty feet before meeting re- | sistance. A son was born to the wife of W. A. i Clark, Jr., at Butte. Mont., winning the ; $1,000,090 gift which Senator W, A. Clark offered to his sons and daughters a year ago for the first grandson presented to him. The Empire State Mining Company has struck another vein of gold at Cripple Creek. The men at the Head of the company are Kilbour & Williams of Chicago, who made the first big strike in ; the Isabella mine. • Boiler explosion in the plant of the Swift Packing Company at the Chicago stock yards caused thirteen deaths, twen-

-ry-mdre uenrgutt^irud?^ i rtTnTOnrgs wwr destroyed and shock like that of an , earthquake was felt. • The St. Louis flyer on the Big Pour ! was wrecked on a high embankment half a mile west of Avon, Ind. Three passengers were seriously injured and a dozen or more were slightly hurt, but all are expected to recover. ■ Official figures of the election in Idaho show that the majority of French (Republican) for Congress was 7,05(1 and of Morrison (Republican) for Governor 5,853. The Legislature stands 50 Republicans and 17 Democrats. At Armourdale, Kan., Ernest Danins arid Charles . Tucker, packing house employes, fought a pistol duel over Mabel Randall, a waitress. Damns was mortally wounded, but before be died he shot Tucker twice, fatally wounding him. Three men were killed in a boiler explosion in a sawmill at Alger, Ohio. The dead are C. A. Gruder, Albert Armin , stant and Oscar Declar. The men were i employed at the mill and were at work I when suddenly a huge boiler exploded. ! Mrs. Charlotta Hemingway’ committed suicide at the Knickerbocker Hotel at San Francisco. She was a resident of Cincinnati until five months ago, when she loft for Chicago and was married to : Robert Hemingway, a race horse owner. I I’he centennial of Ohio's admission to the 1 nion, which is to be celebrated in Chillicothe, Ohio. May 21 and 22. 11103. is to be made of national importance and the President and Governors of all States in the Union will be Invited to participate. All entries of public lands in California, Washington and Oregon under what

is known as the “timber and stone’’ act have been held up by the government on account of alleged wholesale speculative frauds. A rigid investigation will be made. Mrs. Kate A ance, a colored woman of Newton, Kan., died, aged 123 years. Mrs. Vance had a daughter 90 years of age and her husband died at the age of 105. She remembered with distinctness Jefferson’s administration and the war of 1812. Fire at Monticello, lowa, destroyed Eastwood A Chase’s hardware store, entailing a loss of $35,000; damaged Sleeper’s mercantile store $3,500 and destroyed the offices of Dr. F. A. Hefner, Dr. George Inglis and Attorney Reed, with a loss of $5,000. M illiam Zimmerman, a wealthy farmer, and his son were beaten and robbed by two negroes while on a lonely country road near Lawrence, Kan. The elder Zimmerman’s skull was crushed and he is in a dangerous condition. Both were unconscious when found. Mrs. Josephine Hunter, aged 70 years, and a woman who was her guest, aged about 60 years, drank poison and both are dead. It is supposed the two women took a mixture of chloral and arsenic. Mrs. Hunter lived alone in a little cottage in East Akron. Ohio. Wesley Reynolds, a youth of 16. displayed rare heroism in a single-handed fight with four bank robbers at Westville. Ind., and lost his life in a desperate struggle, which he kept up after having been twice wounded with bullets. The robbers obtained no booty. Within a few miles of the scene of some of the most noted crimes of the days of Jesse James and his accomplices.

.... ,„«,u nn unsuccessful attempt Mr. and Mrs. Schyier McCheseny

were visiting relatives and friends over * Thanksgiving. * Mies Bessie Kipfer and two little sis- f ters visited their uncle and aunt, Mr. ( and Mrs. J. W. Cox, Monday. Percy Troyer and wife have moved to j LaPaz. ( William Shetland, who has been in North Dakota, has returned home. , Nute Nye has returned home from his । trip to Denver, Colorado. Fred Spare and Mies Gordon were 1 united in marriage at the bride’s home near Plymouth. L. A. M. ’ : : MARRIAGES. : : ‘ I _ « On Thanksgiving evening at 6:30 Mr, Francis M. Rowe and Miss Bertha B. Shafer were united in the holy bonds of matrimony. At 7:30 the same evening Mr. Ernest S. Logan and Miss Genora Bechtel were married. On Thanksgiving day at 11 o'clock Mr. Percy J. Troyer and Miss Pearl \ . W hiteman were united in marriage, the beautiful and impressive ring ceremony being used. The three marriages were solemnized at the home of the officiating clergyman, Rev. Martin L. Peter, in LaPaz. The young people are popular and well known. Their many friends wish them a happy voyage on the sea of matrimonial bliss. ■ , _ Great Britain hn* ports to live' stock shipped fror®^ gland and is in fear of meat fai © The gold stands* c for Siam has become a law the mints have been closed to the free coinage of silver. The 1 nited States war vessels Montgomery. Osceola and Unease have arrived at San Juan. Porto Rico, from Culebra Island. A Brussels financial paper announces that the glass works of CourcclL's have passed under the control of a Pittsburg company. Emperor William in his farewell audience with Ambassador White presented him with the gold medal of the empire for science and art. There is an unconfirmed rumor that the Belgian steamer Leopold has foundered in the North Sea and twenty-eight persons have been drowned. Dr. Joseph Parker, minister of the < ity Temple, expired at his residence in London. The noted preacher had been seriously ill for nearly a year. Vice-president of the German Reichstag was Compelled to suspend sitting of the house on account of jiotous acts during the debate on the tariff bill. A violent eruption of La Soufriere, the fifth big outburst since the catastrophe of May 7, took place Wednesday. Georgetown and the village of Chateau Belair, situated on the west coast of St. Vincent,’ were again evacuated by their inhabit- : ants. According to advices from Sydney by ‘ the steamer Aorangi, 11. M. S. Sparrow I has returned from a protracted cruise ! through the south sea group. During the cruise the warship’s officers annexed Suw arrow, Isabel and Cholseul islands for Great Britain. The British award in the boundary arbitration between Chili and Argentina consists of a compromise between the claims of the two countries. The area । in dispute amounted to about 58,374 I

SVp Isi it— -m rw.-I 1 eJUw ■' A-k- .ew—■ ; t -rrrrr about 33,534 and Argentina about 24,S4O square miles. President Castro of Venezuela has handed to the German minister at Caracas, a written acceptance of part of Germany’s claims, sufficiently comprehensive to delay the presentation of a joint ultimatum by Germany and Great Britain, if not rendering it altogether unnecessary. It is also understood that Great Britain’s demands will be satisfied. Mail advices from Constantinople say: “In spite of all official denials, the Porte is adopting barbarous methods in crushing the Macedonian peasants. In the face of promises of free pardon to those who returned to their homes. Christian villagers have been shockingly tortured to make them betray alleged concealed depots of arms or give information regarding the working of the Macedonian committees. IN GENERAL. The second session of the Fifty-seventh Congress convened at noon Monday. Weekly trade reviews report that cold weather has increased distribution in certain lines. Railroad earnings are maintained and car shortage continues. Fire in the lumber district at Norman, Ont., spread swiftly through immense piles of lumber to the docks and from the docks to boats until stopped in that direction by the water’s edge. Meanwhile the lire had crept to the residence district and did much damage. Twenty-five million feet of lumber was destroyed, as well as Lemay’s shipyard, six steamboats, two barges, eleven dwellings and cue stable.

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Washington corresp. The second sessi 3,1 of thc Fifty-seventh Congress convener at noon b '“ in a few minutes the Senate '“ljoumed

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cidents attending the opening of ’ on ’ gress. A sunny d brought out a crowd to greet the law makers, women being i Amu P the vis

and this feed Been^ tn appetite for clover hay a be caUle an feed that causes 1 other rougb everything that is fed o eat up clean food is BO assimilated them and their amount of fat is put on a tb at a g rea t er by the old methods and 1 t lesg cost than finer condition in every r he pattle are in Taking the corn off tht ggpoct early fall and putting it ( g round j n f b e ground perfectly clean silo , eavee thp wheat or rye, and it car Jr a crop of dition for sowing clover < bp put in con the wheat, which cannot ir timothy with the shocks and corn stu, bp done when the ground. (O l e are left OD While on this farm w growing wheat, rye and , looked at the were impressed with ti bpr crops and fly have done very little , fact that the that was sown late. inarm to wheat Mr. Mattingly keeps a" and grows a variety of ci varioty of stock now experimenting with opH He jg just one acre that looks well aifalfa and haH it will take another ye. a ^ p rpgpnb but whether it will pay, L (r determine can be grown succeesful| it doeß and it in this vicinity, it will < r L on other farms value of lands. ^ d ruucb Mr. Mattingly keeps Uall kinds. He has no bc^ begt gt(Jck of hogs are as good as eanf ub Btock His country and he has *<epi bo f ound j n tbo cholera by his methodsl^ bom j reo f rom a variety of food, chaL f foeding thpin often and furnishing |, ging hig pens raises large flocks of si re water He that they pay him as p and bp |j evpß else he raises on the „ as anythiug away convinced th Wp came . 'tiue’gSU. I” " f or pays in i Mr. I-r.vi v » bp r< p xpßal and a hush fol assemblngt ( while Rev. F. J. ityman, who took thi place of Rev. I Milburn, onounceil tile invocation. . t .] er k .-ailed ,’ e roll mid sixty-eight I itors responded tc their names. Th ustomary resolutions were adopted no .in- the' House that the Senate was r< yto proceed to business, appointing ; -minittee to join with one from the II je to wait on the ( President mid inf- i him that Congress i was assembled ai fixing the hour of : meeting at 12 o )C k. Mr. Burrows 1 (Mich.) then annm vd the death of 1 is collogue. James 1 Millan. He spoke i with great emotio mid briefly referred to the life and ser es of the dead 8. nator. Resolutions regret were offered and adopted unani ugly. an j as a f ur . ther mark of respe the Senate adjourn.ed at 12:12 p. m, til 12 o'clock Tuesi day. SESSION OI IE house. ; Speaker Hender' alls Representatives to Or< Hid Cheers. I The Hall of R. . ( optatives also presented a brilliant s|nl at the opening of the session. Durlg' the recess the chamber had been Redecorated throughout. The old colorpcheme of gold and carmine was present, but the fresh colors served to lighterirhe general effect. Shortly after 11 t^ members began arj riving. Ihe greetLjs seemed equally ! cordial, whether tb'• were between political friends or envies. At 11:45 the do<keeper directed bis assistants to clear th«i O or of all persons not entitled to rema' luring the session. Meantime members ?re entering from the lobbies, and t! . AV as great confusion. Ihe leaders both sides were surrounded and gw i as they found their way to their d s. but there were no demonstrations. . Cannin. whose . :—i \

& - * By SENATOR NON. election as Speal; was besieged by 1 ady assured, gratulations, and Je s with conforce away to b yith difficulty the floor leader of- — Mr. Payne, zell, Mr. Richards rity; Mr. Daler. and other pr minority leadheld impromptu rota members also Three minutes bes the doors from th< hour of noon open and Speaker lobby swung He was surrounded. /son entered, a reception on the hers and held rostrum until the steps of the met. Then, exact! ,f the clock to his place. A he ascended plause greeted him burst of apand galleries. 5 >d the House whacks of the gat ral vigorous the demonstration - ’eaker stilled lor.

OPENING ( —or — ? 'CONGRESSS I I

In the hush that followed the blind chaplain. Rev. Mr. Couden, offered pray- : or, fervently invoking the divine bless- ! ing upon the President, the government, the members of Congress and the work of the session. " - - -> AGE OF CONGRESS. Lawmaking Body Has Entered Upon Its 1 16th Year. M ith the opening of the present session Congress entered upon its one hundred and sixteenth year. Many possibly believe that the date of its inception is from 1774, when was held in Philadelphia what is known as the "first American Congress.” This Congress, however, must not be confused with the Congress ; of 1787, held also in Philadelphia, for it ■ is from the latter we date the birth of tinuous legislative life ns ji na-

until Tuesday. Long before the gavels fell in the two houses crowds thronged about the doors of the visitors’ galleries seeking admittance. Early in the forenoon the corridors gave evidence of an approaching session. There were the usual scenes and in-

rummage sale in his own behalf, under the guise of a church enterprise, manifested genius that ought to make him a great trust magnate if he can keep out of jail.—Muncie Star. It ie to be inferred from the prevailing republican sentiment that liquid air is hot in comparison with the David B. Henderson feet.—Detroit Free Press. A hen a man and woman agree to die together it ie usually the woman only who makes it good.-Buffalo News. Although the civil war closed 37 years ago this government is paying more than ever before in pensions to the soldiers of that memorable struggle. In this instance, at least, a republic is not ungrateful. The pension item this year aggregates the enormous sum of $150,000.000, a tribute of gratitude, however, not one cent too large,—Terre Haute Tribune. Mr. Speaker Henderson has taken a decisive step in the direction of becoming a statesman. A notable predecessor in hie present office said that a statesman was a dead politician. The Hon. Ihomaeß. Reed is now a statesman in large legal practice. New \ ork Evening Sun.

Notice to Delinauent Tax Payers. Notice is hereby given that I have appointed Mr. A. T. Kaie as my deputy delinquent tax collector for Lincoln township and Walkerton. He will call on all delinquents who owe taxes and prompt payment will he required to eave forced collections, as my term of ollice expires the first of January next, and the law compels me to mAq these colIcctions. So njease ""^aree ue to ■ >ears. Ibe vast extension of our foreig: - interests, the enormous development o ] our foreign trade and the momentous po htieal and economic complications whirl have arisen as a resuit of the war witi Spain have introduced for the consider.'! tion of our legislators a wilderness o problems whose competent consideratio: , demands the knowledge of an expert. M ork Done in Committees. t The greater part of the real work m : Congress is done in committees. In tin Senate fifty members are each on sevm different committees and fourteen are or eight committees. The memors of a committee are supposed to be specialists on particular subjects besides having a fairly comprehensive knowledge of any and all subjects which may come before the Senate from all other committees. The short session of Congress is always one of hurry. Beginning the fir-t . Monday in December, it ends by law on March 4. Out of this the holiday vacation is taken, so but two and a half months are left for work. Ihe appropriation bills must of necessity be passed, for without money even Uncle Sam cannot keep the wheels of government turning. Then there are new measures of great importance to be considered at the present session. Perhaps the most important new matter will be the consideration of anti-trust legislation. It is thought not unlikely that an amendment of the Sherman anti-trust law on the lines suggested by Attorney General Knox may receive the approval of Congress. The judiciary committees will have charge of trust legislation. Senator Hoar is chairman of the Senate committee. The chairmanship of the House judiciary committee is vacant by reason of Representative Ray’s appointment to the federal bench in New York. His mantle will undoubtedly fall to Renw-

The measure to protect the President has already passed both houses, but so far apart in its provisions that it must again be dealt with before it can be agreed on. The contest over Cuban reciprocity which generated so much warmth during the first session will again come up. There is doubt of the fight being renewed in the ways and means committees. The prospects are that the matter will be considered in the form of a treaty, in which event it will be discussed behind closed doors. One of the most interesting measures before this session is the ship subsidy bill. It is predicted that a strong effort will be made to get it through the House, it having already passed the Senate. These are but a few of the matters that will keep our lawmakers busy during the scant three months of the short session. Many Will Not Return. Many of those who take part in the deliberations of this session will not return to our national legislative halls as members of the Fifty-eighth Congress. Some will never go back, while others by a turn of the political wheel may again be chosen to represent a constituency at Washington. The most notable of those who will be missed from the next House are Eugene F. Loud, who for twelve years has represented the Fifth California District, and Speaker David B. Henderson of lowa. On March 4 next Mr. Henderson will have completed his twentieth year in Congress. He retires voluntarily. But while men come and go Congress will continue uninterrupted on its way, guiding and assisting Uncle Sara on his pathway of destiny.

MANY ARE KILLED. DISASTROUS EXPLOSION AT THE CHICAGO STOCK YARDS. Accident Occurs at Swift & Company’s Bis: Packing Plant—Crowd Thronging the International Live-Stock Show Terror-Stricken. One of the boilers in Swift & Co.'s refrigerating ami ice plant in the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, blew up at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. At least twenty employes in the plant were believed to be dead in the wreckage. Nearly all of the victims were colored. The work of rescue was commenced as soon as the fire department arrived. Ambulances were called into action from every available quarter to remove the injured. News of the disaster caused great excitement in the stock yards district. When the first reports reached the general offices of Swift A Co. consternation reigned. Crowds at the live stock show were equally frightened. The cause of the explosion could not be determined. The boiler was inspected recently and was reported to have been in good condition. Live coals from the fireboxes were scattered in every direction by the force of the explosion and the building was set on tire. An alarm was turned in and the department soon responded. adding to the confusion and excitement. The explosion was heard for many blocks. The boiler at Swift's was one of a series of thirteen, and the force of the concussion blew out the heads of a'l th»

||ji E ■ RW'-- o ■ ■ ti THE NEED OF GOOD SHEDS Is painfully evident on a good many farms in this section especially in winter. This should not be, and NEED not be if X.U, jou who are shy on sheds will take the trouble to run in and , our P rices - We have a good stock of common boards—■U plenty good enough for sheds—that we will sell you at a very gp low price. At our prices, it is cheaper to own sheds than o-o with- ? Ut ’ forget me when y° u need COAL the best is none O ttx) good for you. D. N. HUDELMYER, WALKERTON, IND. J!| FINE FOOTWEAR AT LOW PRICES.

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xv,.,,i t.i.-Kimi. ,)r. „ vV ,ared that the elevation of Edward would en- . danger the throne of Great Britain. | When Henry Ward Beecher died Dr Parker was the choice of Plymouth Church for the pastorate that afterward fell to Dr. Lyman Abbott, but he declined. I IO STAMP OUT LYNCHING. | That Is the Aim of Gov. Joseph D. j Sayers, of T exas. { Law-abiding people will commend the ' ; course of Gov. Sayers of Texas, who i ' proposes that lynch law shall come to ' an end in Lis State.

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He will not strike j at the lynchers, but at the officers within whose jurisdiction lynchings occur, j The Legislature is to be urged to pass ! a law boiling ac- ! countable any judge. ; or district attornev j who, through negi lect, incompetence ■or sympathy virh ' the mob, allows a prisoner to be taken

from the officers of the law and lynched. oral such cases have occurred re-I cent ly. There is no excuse for these lynchings ! on the ground that murderers or other criminals escape through the law. Dur- I mg the year twenty-three prisoners have been tried for capital offenses and condemned to death, and in only two cases have there been commutations. Within twenty months eighty-five men have been i'n’Tex’w^ t 0 dCath ° r im P risou ment Those who oppose lynchings call attention to the fact that it is progressive, I ' going through an evolution of horrors. [ '' hen the mob first

WW-ppi lynching was done by a small body of men. well organized, masked and on horseback, who rode to the jail in the middle of the night and compelled the sheriff to surrender the prisoner. He j was taken to the nearest tree and hang- ; ed. The next change, a needlessly bru- I tai one, was after hanging the negro to ■ have every member of the mob fire a | rifle or pistol at 'he body. Later all masks and disguises were ' discarded and the mob performed its work in the open light of day in the very streets of the town and generally in front of the court house, with no attenipt at concealment or secrecy. Finally has come the burning at the stake, when the lynching is made a spectacle in which a large part of the population joins. Invitations are sent out and even excursions are given for those who wish, to witness these executions. Notes of Current Events. The British admiralty is offering for sale a dozen war vessels of different types. C. 11. Mallory. Cincinnati. Ohio, is building a flying machine. He thinks it will go. Citizens of Oklahoma have comributed $2 035.35 to assist in the building of the McKinley monument. Prices on all classes of ctovos have been raised 10 per cent by all western stove manufacturers. The total vote cast for Secretary of State at the recent election in Ohio was 830,131, the plurality of Laylin (Rep.) being 00.405. An area of eight acres at East London, Cape Colony, has been devastated by tire. Thirty large buildings in the center of the town were destroyed.

PAYNE ISSUES ANNUAL REPORT. Recommendations M de for Lejristsv tion for Good of the Service. Henry C. Fayne, Postmaster General, in his annual report, especially notes tbax the “increase in postal revenues not only attests the wonderful prosperity of the people and the activity of business interests that the extension of postal facilities, carefully directed, results sooner ii later in increased receipts ami diminished deficits.” He presents the following comparative statement of the financial operations of the department for two years*1901. i9t/r Ordinary postal revenue .....$109,531,778.67 SI 1!J,955,229.<M> Receipts from money order business .... 1,668,659.29 I,BS9,STESB Other sources. 430,755.43 Total receipts from all sources ....$111,631,193.39 $121,8<5,01T.2© Total expenditures theyear 115,554,920.87 124,755.C57.07 Excess expendutires oter receipts ....$ 3.923,727.48 $ 2,93T,G43A1 The estimated deficit for 1903 is given as $5,602,227 and for 1904 as $8,242.556u The Postmaster General says that deficits in the postal service are not to be viewed with apprehension, as it is Ilie policy, whenever the postal receipts exceed or come near the expenditures, to extend postal facilities and cheapen the cost of the service to the public. In tins connection is noted the continuing effort to better the condition of postal employes involving wholesale promotions and reductions of working hours of clerks xe postofflees. Os the rural free delivery the repori । says1 * I - |

~amnorizing the postmaster general «>. , to the legal representatives of any raffwav ; postal clerk who shall be killed while oi I s °L who l ? eln S ‘njured while on dutv • " ifhin .°? e year thereafter as. the result of such injury, the sum of SI.OQCI The report closes with the following i recommendations for legislation: That the extension of free delivery tn “ f not than 5,000 population. > t gross annual receipts, be autaorThat substitute letter carriers in rities ' "0.000 populati > n and over br g monthly earnings of not less than ?:■'<> • . i mJ^ 8 tllan Population no'* less than $2.». : That rural letter carriers, be allowed sr annual leave of absence of not to t x 15 days with pay. that the maximum fee for a money oropbe fixed at 25 instead of 30 cents. : t 3 of ,he aet of 75DCS. chapter -rt»i, providing timt .--.-rant postmasters, cashiers ami other en fgove< of pustoffices of the first, second ami 'hire classes shall give bond dir ci : th States, be repealed, and that a sta’u-.-. enacted requiring such officers to give W,.directly to the postmasters, and imjliav postmasters responsible under their >.,-■• bonds for any and all acts ami defaq ;s ■ curring at their respective offices. that the interstate commerce 'w l.v amended to prohibit common carriers tc>2 wit. telegraph and express comirim-.i , ► any of their employes, from aid: abetting in the green goods or b.-rtec/ su "5 -. : -- s nei?c ■ ■ ■ . , . . by mail and partly by common carrier mA which is in violation of the postal laws That the department be authorized to adopt a system of pi stnl checks. 1 hat a statute be enacted authorizing* the receiving and dispatching of certain of mail matter without the necessity < ‘ fixing postage stamps to individual pteees That an act be passed conferring tq^vthe department specific authority to inj . duee a system of reply postal cards am envelopes. Authority to print in book form the onin ions rendered by the assistant attorney general for the postoffice department. That provision be made for new and sri able buildings for the manufacture and repair of mail equipment, the quarters a' present occupied being entirely insufficictib WANTED—WIFE FORA GOV '^rt’rcilic.iincut in Which Hailey of Kim-

sas Is Found. NEWS FILL * . Somebody in Kansas declares that Wi lis J. Bailey, the bachelor. who has mw: elected Governor of the Sunflower St.r ■,

made a vow during the campaign tire if lie was su. - ... ■ ■ he would marry. The people of fix State are going ts hold him ; . hi promise. Already :: delegation has ed upon him urging him that it . nU add to Us pm- Mr ity tenfold if ?a. found a wife. *- which th.- G-mri. ~- elect replied:

! CbW I $ * GOV. BAILEY.

“Often the voters elan.or ft r ’hi: — which their servant already has in tai 4.' This implies that if Mr. Bailey harlot already in mind the young : who shall be wise s; of th.? . ■ mansion, he purposes hunting for I ■ once. Kansas people do not v ■ bachelor to preside over their J. • and if the Govern*v-elect relax* • forts to find a wifi ho will p -L be prodded by his constituents. It is said mance —that when he was a stud-mi he loved and was engaged to a pretty c Ilege girl. She jilted him mi l mmrii-l t railroad man. Since th* ; M Bad.-y, while genial and good-natured, i ns c . : away from the fair sex. Now th. • ■■ State is debating whether or it : Mr Bailey really wants to get marr cause the people want I ini to, or whether he will continue to h< Id his avers? i t women.