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Indiana Obituary.

SPICELAND, Ind, June 24-Calvin w.
Ratliff. aged fifty-three, died yesterday of
liberation of the stomach He had for
years been in the jewelry business here
and had filled the office of town clerk and
school trustee The funeral is delayed be-
cause of failure TO reach his son. Harlan
s. Ratliff, of Indianapolis, he, with his
wife. being in Michigan.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, June 24.-Mrs Will
helmina Meier. aged sixty three, died at 8
o'clock this afternoon of blood poisoning
resulting from applying carbolic acid to a
toe TO cure a corn. Her daughter aged
thirty who was iii at the time was pros
trated by the shock and died two hours
later. The family is well known.
VERNON. Ind, June 24-Lewis c. Law,
prominent farmer of this county. dropped
miles south of Vernon yesterday afternoon
individual in Jennings county.
NASHVILLE. Ind. June 2i-George Fol-
liwell a pioneer citizen of this county, died
yesterday of paralysis. During his life Of
three-score years he has never lived be-
yond the limits of this county. the place of
his nativity.
KOKOMO. Ind. June 24-W. E McManis
superintendent of the Kokomo Rubber
Company. died suddenly last night, aged
thirtytwo. He came here from Chicago
SIX years ago.
RICHMOND. Ind. June 24-AIrs. Mar
garet Judd. who made her home with Coun-
" Commissioner Albert Oler at Williams
burg. is dead at the age of eighty-four
years.
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Accepted Her Advice.
Detroit Free Press.

Let not the sun go down on thy wrath"
solemnly quoted the North Side mother
whose young hopeful of nine had been tell
ms of his troubles with similarly tender
youth of the neighbours household.
We'll, / won't" as he went out looking
exactly as though in state of most serious
meditation. He hurried through the back
yard TO the alley. waved his hand as he
passed through the gate and left the mother
kindly taken. 1.-The dear boy" she thought,
"he will find Tommy, talk il all over,
and they will be as good friends as ever.
So many mothers fail to understand their
sens"
Half an hour later ne was back, a little
disheveled, but radiant.
You are no longer angry, my boy?" with
4 smile.
Il should say not 1 was bound to have IL
cut before sunset. just as you told me-"
Then she patted him the head, prom
User him jointed fishing pole and told him
for the hundredth time how he must curb
the violent temper he had inherited from
his father.
Just after dinner there was a sharp ring
at the door and the husband with tenn
per answered. There were loud words and
an Interchange OF challenges 10 go some
where, and notices served that each would
Knock the others head off before The gentle
wife and mother could serve as peace
maker Then she learned how her boy had
made vertable chopping block of Tommy.
tnat any one woman could do as a court of
arbitration TO restore the modus vivendi
between the two families. In the meantiroe
the husband and son are hearing lectures
that viii tend to make them nonresistants
for the remainder of their lives
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SUES 4 WHOLE TOWN.
o. w. Conner, of wabash, Seeks TO Sc
cure a Promised Subsidy.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH. Ind, June A-Ovid w. Con-
ner. of this city. has had prepared a COM
plant against the Andrews Land Home
and Improvement Association. OF Andrews
ten miles east of this city. and against
each member of the association TO recover
the amount OF a bonus given him for the
establishment OF a manufacturing concern
at that place After the removal Of the
division headquarters of the Wabash Rail-
road from Andrews three years ago the
property owners offered Mr.. Conner 5000
on condition that he place his factory
there. and the money was raised in cash
and notes Four thousand dollars in notes
was turned over to Mr. Conner and for
two years the factory has been in course
OF construction. II was started a short
time ago on a small scale. and the people
now claim that Mr. Conner has failed Who'll
~ 20 comply with his agreement either I'm
the date OF beginning operations or the
number Of men employed The notes have
been deposited I'm a Huntington bank as
collateral for a $4,000 loan and the bank
has undertaken 10 collect them.
There is much Indignation among the sub
scribers 10 the fund. who have notified
Mr.. Conner they will not pay a cent They
icmand that he remove his machinery from
he building and transfer his factory build
ngs and grounds 10 the land and improve
inent association and surrender the notes
Nearly every citizen has executed his note
20 the factory fund. that Mr. Conner is
substantially suing the whole town. He
AYERS that there was no guaranty as 10 the
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LIVES LOST BY DROWNING.

While swimming in a slough near Suffer
City, CAL three boys-Elmer and Wallace
Larue, aged nine and eleven, and George
Clements, aged nine-were drowned.
DR.. A. ]. Baker. a prominent physician
OF Grafton, w. Va, and his eight-year-old
son were drowned last evening while bath
ing in the river. The boy went beyond his
depth and in attempting to rescue him the
father was also drowned.
Three small boys, all under eleven years
of age, were drowned below the dam at
Grand Rapids, Mich. yesterday. They
were: Sidney Larson, Arthur Calm and
Clarence heuce The boys went In for a
swim and getting beyond shallow water,
were swept off into the deep water below.
H. Sherry, a telegraph operator employed
by the Southern Pacific Company at
Benicia, Cal, and Misses Kate and Agnes
Kerns and Miss Mamie Sullivan while
boating on Carquines straits were thrown
into the water by a sudden squall which
capsized the boat. The Kerns girls man
aged to cling to the upturned boat, but
Miss Sullivan and Sherry were drowned.
The two girls were exhausted when res
cued by a fisherman.
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Awful Night in Greensburg.
Greensburg Review.

Greensburg Review.
Saturday nights wind storm was one OF
the most threatening that has visited this
locality in many day. To be sure, no SER
ious damage was done. but the prospect for
a cyclone with all its attendant disaster
was never more promising. The wind
roared and howled and sighed, the thunder
rolled deep and heavy, and the lightning
fitfully played among the clouds which
were being swept and torn by the mighty
forces of the upper currents of air. Old
timers grew fearful, women trembled and
children snuggled little farther under the
covers in an effort to ward off the appar-
emily approaching crash. To add TO the
terror and confusion of the hour the fire
alarm was sounded. and for several minutes
above the roar and din of the storm could
be heard the appalling peal of the iron
throated alarm bells and the screech or the
locomotive whistles in the neighborhood OF
the fire. Soon the western heavens were
ilumined with roseate coloring. Higher
and higher mounted the cleaning red.
Smoke curled and swirled in the sky. and
all about was confusion, terror and dis
aster. Spitzmesser's beer warehouse was
burning. 1t was an awful night.
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TRAMPS AND KANSAS.
eundower state Is Proving n Terror
TO the Hoboes.

Brooklyn Eagle.
II Is an odd state OF affairs in that old
State OF Kansas. The people of that COM
monwealth no longer go about with long
faces and longer boards and longer tales OF
misfortune: they go about with energy and
clubs; they forcibIy abstract trampS and
other unoccupied persons from the railroad
trains and carry them of, struggling 10
pick the wheat and harvest the onions or
take care Of the lourishing crop OF infants
while the parents betake them 70 the fields
and make money Tramps who have gone
over the line. without meaning 10. have
escaped into Missouri with terror written
on their c0untenances and rips occurring
All over their garments. and have presented
themselves, wild eyed and shaking. before
the camps OF their kindred. quaverng forth
"reminiscences and warnings. Result Kan
sus Is getting In its crops. but IL is becom-
ing dreadfully short OF tramps
The action OF the farmers I'm that State
suggests the possibility OF similar action
on the pert OF other farmers. Tramps
abound all over the land. A conservative
estimate puts their number at $1,000 but
some OF our States and Territories have "A
population smaller than that OF our second
than thousand trampS In others. In New
York we should look for a higher share
As matter OF fact, the army OF bummers
a. probably twice 5000 and may be three
times as large None OF these gentry Is OF
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advantage TO the land or its people. None
OF them Is producer. Forgiving that cir
Cumstance, the heavier charge lies against
the hobo that he Is not a self-supporter.
Worst Of all. he is a criminal, and not
thief and beggar merely, but creature
guilty OF nameless offenses, and cor
rupter OF boys whom he persuades from
home. The ban is upon him.
And the tramp evil is not greatly de-
I redS for eve sgt There is nothing that
frightens the tramp so much as chance
TO work. His power Of continued effort is
suspended. In some measure he has lost
his wits. He has lost his morals. To rein
state that kind Of man in manhood re-
quires his commission to reformatory in
felOw-men. The Kansas farmers are do
ing the right thing in obliging him 10 work
for them. although TO do IL they probably
have TO stand near with firearms.
One tramp cure would be TO make the
railroads responsible for the evil charac-
ters that they carry into any town or VIII
iage and 10 impose through the agency
of state law a proper fine for this offense
or else to assess upon them the support
of all hoboes found at or near the sta
tions Citizens might sue the roads for
brought in on freight trains. The menace
of such n remedy would probably stir the
nuisance. and some OF them are. happily
not waiting TO be forced 10 this but are
employing special police for the protection
not so much OF the community but for
their own trains and OF goods committed
TO them for carriage. This would not put
an end TO the tramp evil, but IL would
lessen 1t and localize 1t so that tramps
would be kept under better watch and be
less disposed to break the law. Their in
ability to escape from a district by rail
would make IL more easily possible TO keep
them busy either in public or in private
works. and Kansas has shown that with
determination and a few weapons the
tramp can be made 10 earn not only his
own living but other peoples. More power
10 Kansas.
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The Storm Around HagerstOwn.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
HAGERSTOWN, Ind, June 4-From 10
o'clock Saturday night until almost day
light Sunday morning this vicinity was
swept by the most destructive wind storm
that has visited this section in years. 1t
unroofed houses. threw over chimneys, de-
stroyed entire tracts of woodland and broke
down hundreds of shade and fruits trees.
There was a series of storms. each sue
ceeding one appearing stronger than its
predecessor. Hail fell fast that it fairly
covered the ground. The shapes of the
hailstones were unusual. Some were cres-
cent in form, others were rings of clear
hard ice some cylindrical and others flat
tened, while most were perfectly round
with white ice in the center encased in a
jacket of clear ice hard as flint. The
lightning was constant and vivid. The
planning mill of Working & Keagy was un
rooted by the wind; William Conways
farm residence was partly destroyed. sew
eral barns were struck by lightning and
burned, and many horses and cattle were
killed. So far as reported no person was
injured
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crime and Sabbath dissertation. a mass
meeting was addressed at Y. NJ. {. "A.
headquarters by Sidney c. Bennett and
steps. The matter will be presented TO
Mayor NJ. NJ. Dunlap and the police. COM
missioners. asking their assistance IN en-
forcing Sunday closing OF saloons and Dusi-
ness houses. A vigorous fight will be made
on cigarettes.
RICHMOND.-Joseph Seifert. we'll
known young man OF this city, has been ar
rested, charged with criminal malpractice
on the ante-mortem statement of Marena
A. Dwiggins. a young woman who died in
ST. Stephens Hospital Sunday night as the
result OF blood poisoning induced by
criminal operation The victim made her
statement 10 the prosecutor and declared
that she performed the operation herself.
at the instigation OF Seifert. The latter
denies the charge.
SULLIVAN.-The saloon men and repre-
sentatives of the anti-saloon people have
signed an agreement as TO the observance
and enforcement of the law relative TO
night and Sunday closing OF the public
houses. The agreement prohibits the pres
ence or gambling devices and games OF
chance of all kinds in the saloons. Sulli-
van was strictly dry on Sunday.
LYNN.-The school corporation at Lynn
has been abandoned and the management
OF the schools placed into the hands of S.
l.. Nichols, township trustee. This was
The town could not be taxed sufficiently 10
build alone. The old building is being torn
down and a siX-room building is to be
erected by Nov. l.
WORTHINGTON.-M OF Greene
and adjoining counties celebrated St.
Johns day in elaborate style. The parade
was at ii o'clock and at 1870 an address
was delivered by Virgil w. Tevis. of In
dlanapolis. Baseball and bicycle races en-
tertained the visitors after the address, and
at night there was a banquet.
JEFFERSONVILLE.- being chased
several blocks by a mob, for attempting to
assault Katie Giltner. eleven years old.
cyrus Berry, young man employed in the
local brickyard. ran into the arms of Police
the preliminary hearing he was held in
$1,000 bond TO the Criminal Court.
HARTFORD CITY.-The Fort Wayne
Gas Company, which for the past ten or
twelve years has secured its supply OF
natural gas from the Blackford county
field, paid the farmers Saturday their semi
annual rental The company pays the
farmers of this county $4,000 a year.
PORTLAND.-For the third time the
barn on the Jacob Myers property at
Ridgeville has been consumed by fire. Early
Monday morning ii was destroyed. together
with much hay and corn. Two horses were
cremated. The loss is $1,000: insured for
5000
FORT WAYNE.-Whie assisting in rails
ing a barn on his fathers farm Frank
Nonnemacher. aged twenty-one, was
caught under a beam which fell from the
top, pinning him to the ground and crush
ing him to death.
MADISON.-Arthur Orr. the Chicago
millionaire, who spent several days here
last week, gave s. 800 to the Old Ladies'
day for his trip through Kentucky and the
Soutk
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south Bend Pastors Conservative
Ideas About the Liquor Traffic.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 4.-The Rev
DR.. E. NJ. Wood. pastor of Grace Methodist
Church. and one of the leading ministers in
the conference, surprised his congregation
last night by his conservative treatment Of
the liquor question. After referring to the
necessity of abolishing the traffic. of raising
the diverted revenue of si50.0O0.O 600 by tax
ing necessities. and TO the great sums in
vested in the liquor business that must seek
other fields in case of suppression, he called
attention 10 the millions engaged in and de-
pendent on the saloons, breweries and dis
tilleries, and asked what they would do
should the traffic be suppressed lie de-
clared the business was intimately related
to every phase OF economic conditions. Its
and he called for more thoughtful. dispas-
sionate consideration of the temperance
question, less censuring OF legislative
bodies and a proper enforcement of exist
ing laws.
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OVERCOME BY ELECfRICITY.
Unpleasant Experience of Two Wom-
en- Driving on the New London Pike.

Special 20 the indianapolis Journal.
RUSSIAVILLE, Ind, June A.-While
Mrs. Trout, wife of the Rev w. ID. Trout.
Mrs. w. A. Waddel and Miss Bertha
Wright, OF this city. were driving along the
New London pike. Saturday night. in a
hard rain, they entered bolt of electrically
surcharged atmosphere. which n only
overcame them, making Mrs. Trout and
Mrs. Waddel unconscious, but also nearly
overcame the horses they were driving.
The two married women were in top
buggy together and Miss Wright was driv-
ing behind them. Mrs. Trout and Mrs.
Waddel first noticed that their horse was
Keeling as If drunk. and in minute or two
they were seized with shortness of breath.
Before they could realize the nature of the
trouble. they became unconscious. They re-
covered In a few minutes, after their horse
had drawn them about half a mile, but
were still somewhat daZed and their bodies
filled with tingling sensations. Miss Wright
Jared better. When she noticed her horse
staggering and felt the prickly sensation
caused by the electricity. she turned and
drove into the barn of neighboring farm
er, where she remained until the storm was
over. Mrs. Trout and Mrs Wadde had not
fully recovered on Sunday, but were In a
fair way TO be all right in day or two.
AT the time the women were having this
experience there was no lightning and no
thunder but the atmosphere, in belt at
least half a mile wide, seemed 10 be thor
oughly saturated with the electric fluid.
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HINGED on CREED.
Jury's Deliberations i'm N Fort Wayne
Breach of Promise Suit.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, June 24.-The jury
in the breach of promise case of Sadie Il.
Hite VS.. Bartholomew Cullen came in this
morning after being out over Sunday and
reported a disagreement. The jury stood
seven for the defendant to five for the
plaintiff. The demand was for 5000 dam
ages, the defendant having married an
other woman only a week or so-according
to the plaintiff-after a definite promise of
marriage The courtship had extended
over four years, but the defendant said
that, although he had shown the plaintiff
marked attention and had kissed her in the
presence of her family, he had kept in mind
that she is Protestant and he a Catholic,
and had not promised TO marry her. be-
cause Of the religious variance between
them. The seven jurors for the defendant
are Catholics and the five for the plaintiff
Protestants. The Protestants believed the
plaintiff injured to the amount of the de-
mand and the Catholics could not find rea-
son for damages,
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GRIMES OF VARIOUS DEGREES.

The Jury in the case of Mrs Jennie Gray
on trial at Pontotoc. Miss. for the murder
of her husband Joseph Gray. by poison, re-
ported at noon yesterday that IL could not
agree and discharged by the court.
William Wiley, known TO many people as
William Allen. an old farmer, has been
arrested at Mena. Ark. by Texas officers
on a charge of committing murder twen-
ty-two years ago at Mount Vernon. Tex.
]. S Ford. controller of the Kansas City.
Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad. yesterday
rendered his resignation, effective July l.
to accept the position of general auditor of
the WatersPierce Oil Company, OF ST.
Louis
A picnic given Sunday by the FL Paso
(Tex) Order OF the Knights OF Labor at
Las Cruces, y. NJ, ended in a riot. and
as a result several were badly hurt and
one man killed. Three are in jail al Las
Cruces.
At Wayne. Mich, yesterday, Rolla
Spears. who has been afflicted with spells
of insanity assaulted his mother. Mrs.
Megginson. with a knife until her body was
a mass of cuts The woman died last
night. Spears was taken to the asylum.
Ike Hammond one of three negroes ar
H. Debray. al Atlanta. last Thursday
night. confessed yesterday that his brother.
Tom Hammond had murdered the Of
ficer Ike Hammond confessed that Tom
had induced him 10 send the policeman TO
the corner of Holderness and Gordon
streets on a false alarm, in order that he
might shoot him.
William Moriarity. bill poster. shot
TO death at Chicago Sunday night. There
had been a quarrel and n fight In which
three noncombatants were injured. Bricks
and stones were flying through the air as
four cill posters. one OF them Moriarity.
fought out grievance that had it's source
i'm Moriarity's discharge from the bill
posting company The man who did the
shooting standing the sidewalk
on the opposite side OF the street. lie
escaped.
After stabbing seven persons. Harry
williams. colored. barely escaped lynching
at Chicago Sunday night at the hands OF
an angry mob. man who gave his name
as Harry Thomas accidentally ran against
the negro. quarrel followed; then Will
liams drew his knife. stabbed Thomas Ave
times. Brandshing his knife he ran down
the street. stabbing six other persons who
tried to stop him. Thomas was removed
to the hospital. where 1t was thought he
would recover
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WOUNDS PROBABLY FATAL.
White Man Shot by Negro with
whose Daughter He Was Riding.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WINCHESTER, Ind. June A-John
Cook, a white man, thirty-eight years old,
went riding Sunday night with the daughter
Of Theodore Kiser. colored, of Losantville.
in the southwest corner of Randolph coun-
~. Kiser followed the couple with shot
gun across his lap in the buggy. He over
took them, and when he called on them to
halt Cook got out of the buggy and tried
The hammer became entangled in the reins,
discharging the weapon, and Cook was 50
badly wounded that he is not expected 10
recover. Kiser, whose reputation is ex-
ceedingly good. says the shooting was al
together by accident. and no attempt has
been made to arrest him, though the mat
ter undoubtedly will be investigated If Cook
should die. which seems probable. Cook
has wife living at Losantville.
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Testimony in Injunction Suit.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WABASH, Ind. June 2i.-Ten witnesses
were examined for the plaintiffs by Special
Judge Paulus in the suit against the Wa
bash River Traction Company to restrain 1t
from laying its track on Wabash street and
ten for the defendants to-day. Witnesses
for the plaintiffs were persons living along
the street. and all expressed the opinion
that the abutting property would be great
ly damaged. Officers of the company and
residents along other streets were equally
positive no damage to adjacent property
would result. Arguments will be heard this
week and on Saturday a decision will be
given. The construction of the track be-
tween Wabash and Peru. save the stretch
along Wabash street in Wabash, is practi-
caly completed.
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WRITERS ARE GATHERING
THEY AND THE PICTURE TAKERS
CAPTURE WINONA LAKE.
Curious Experience of Three Women
Sermon on Liquor Traffic.
ecial to the indianapolis Journal.

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal.
WARSAW, Ind. June 2.-The Western
Association of Writers opened its annual
meeting at Winona Lake tonight with an
informal reception at the Winona Hotel.
Many Of the writer's were present, and
many more are expected when the regular
sessions begin. Indications are that the
attendance will be larger than usual
Members OF the Indiana Association Of
Photographers began TO arrive to-day. The
day was spent in fitting up the art exhibit
in the big Cyclorama building. The first
regular meeting will be held tomorrow.
The photographers have headquarters at
Minnewawan Inn, and the writer's are at
the Winona Hotel.