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STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Fifty-Eight Thousand Pounds OF
smokeIess Powder Burned.

WASHINGTON, July 96-During a severe
electrical storm which swept down the Po-
tomac river Thursday lightning struck one
of the small powder houses at the Indian
Head proving ground. and burned up IS 600
pounds OF smOkeless powder Rear Ad-
miral O'Neil. chief OF the naval Ordnance
Bureau. states that he has not received an
official report on the matter but private
advices are to the effect that no persons
We're injured by the accident. the damage
being confined TO a few broken and burnt
windows in nearby buildings.
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Forty Acres of Indiana Land Titled 10,
Woman.
Letter in Chicago Inter Ocean.

Letter in Chicago Inter Ocean.
Miss Abbie Pfeffer bears the distinction
of being the only woman in Indiana who
conducts a farm without any assistance.
With her aged mother Miss Pfeffer lives in
a quaint little house three miles southeast
of Mishawaka She takes care of forty
acres of land, ploughing it, attending to
the harvesting. and doing all Of the neces-
Sary chores.
Miss Pfeffer is a niece Of former Senator
Pfeffer, Of Kansas. When her father died
ten years ago she began teaching school.
She had then just finished her studies at the
University of Indiana. But at this time
Miss Pfefers mother became an invalid.
She had been managing the farm after the
death of her husband, and when she was
stricken with ailment that prevented her
from leaving the house she appealed TO her
daughter to manage their land.
When the young woman took charge of
the farm several men were working on it.
Miss Pfeffer was most eXacting employer.
Furthermore, she did not think the men
got as much out of the land as it was able
to produce. So she discharged them. Since
then no man has performed a days work
on the Pfeffer property.
The former school teacher has run the
farm during summer and winter; the girl
who was graduated from one of Indiana S
leading universities guides the plough
through the soil; she who at one time a
brilliant future before her harvests the
grain. Her hands. which were once white
and soft, have become callous and brown in
the performance Of that work which calls
her TO the fields at sunrise and finds her in
the garden at sunset. But in spite of all
this she says that if she were asked to
| choose between farming and teaching
school she would keep right on working in
the fields.
The hardest work performed by Miss
Pfeffer is raising strawberries. She is the
recognized owner of the finest tract OF
| strawberries in the state. and the name of
the "Pfeffer berries is a widely known
one. The greater part of them are shipped
| 10 Chicago, where they find ready mark
ct, and ii is from this product that Miss
| Pfeffer derives most of her income.
In addition TO Cultivating the forty-acre
| tract, Miss Pfeffer also does all the market
ing, churns butter and maintains invit-
| ing lawn, with floral beds, in front of the
| house, around which she built herself a
| well-made picket fence.
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Women and Heaven.
New York Evening Post.

New York Evening Post.
1t has frequently been said. not in the
least irreverently. that almost any thesis
can be proved by the use of detached pas
sages from the Scriptures. person who
calls himself a Bible student and who lives
at Erie. Pa, has supplied the demonstra-
ton. He has convinced himself through
his lucubrations that women DO not go TO
heaven This IS rather startling when
first propounded. but the Erie. Pa. man
sticks 10 II stoutly He declares that in
both the Old and New Testaments all those
mentioned as having passed 10 the other
side are men; that all the angels named
or ever seen by mortal eyes were men; and
that wherever persons are spoken OF in
connection with the future life the mascu-
line form Of the personal pronoun is used.
The Bible student hastens to correct one
hOrrid inference He finds. he declares.
that there are no women in hell As TO
where they do go he presents three posi-
bilities as follows: First. that no women
reach heaven, and are, therefore, annihi-
lated or 90 10 some place or which the
Bible makes no mention. second. that
women reach heaven. but, in common with
men, become seXless. and there is hence
forth no distinction between them; third.
that women reach heaven and become
males. Doubtless this all seems very seri-
Gus to the Erie Bible student.
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DIR. Nelson ID. CIouser.
e indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, July 26-Dr.
Nelson D. Clouser. the oldest practicing
physician in northeastern Indiana and one
of the most prominent of the early pioneers
died last midnight at the age of eighty
four. He began the practice of medicine
in this city in 1910 and continued to prac-
tice until less than a year ago. He was
born Aug. 13, 1919. in Highland county, Ohio
He was a graduate Of Hillsboro, o., Col
lege and Ohio Medical College He was
one of the founders of the Blackford Coun-
ty Medical Society. and for a number of
years was its president He was the lead
ing spirit in the organization of the med
ical societies Of Grant county and at the
present time his name appears on the
records OF the American Medical Asso-
citation, State Medical Association (since
1862 and the Mississippi Valley Medical
Society. He was also member of the Pam
American Medical Congress and met with
it in Washington in 1898 He was a MEM
Der of the Masonic order. He was thrice
married, and left a widow He left an
estate valued at $4,000 The funeral
services will be held at the residence on
Main street Monday afternoon at o'clock
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1t is hard TO imagine the Importance of this
last element If a man fears death, IL will
carry him away. And yet ii is quite pleas
ant to die, no sensation could be com
pared TO it,
To prove this assertion NJ. Finot quotes
Helm, who related the sensations he eX
ions from the summit Of one Of the Alps
TO a death which he miraculously escaped
lat first a sense of beatitude then COM
plete insensibility to touch and pain; finally
an extreme rapidity Of thought and Of i'm
aginat ion, which in a few seconds enabled
him to recollect the events of his whole
life Therefore, IL is not death we should
fear but the fear ii inspires in US. We are
wrong, says Socrates. TO fear death. as it
is our great possession on earth, and
Seneca adds that ii is the best OF the In
ventons of life, while Montesquieu con-
cludes that we should shed tears for men
when they are born and not when they
die"
NJ Henry de Varigny examines the ques-
ton of longevity in ILLUSTRATION from an
other point of view. He asks: Has the
man of to-day a chance 10 live longer than
the man of 2000 years ago? He bases his
conclusion upon charts and statistics pub
lished by Prof. Karl Pearson in Biometrika
and upon the researches made by w. Spie-
gelberg. of Strassburg. on the age of Egyp-
tian mummies. These conclusions are that
an Egyptian who 1000 years ago lived 70 be
sixty-eight years old was likely TO live long
er than a modern Englishman of the same
age. NJ de Narigny gives the following eX-
pl0QdllO0-
Evidently there was among the Egyp-
tians natural selection, resulting from en-
vironment, that does not take place to-
day, at least to the same degree,
among civilized people The Egyptians
who reached the age of sixty-eisht
years had robust constitutions and
therefore their chances of longevity were
exceptional Mortality was higher among
the children and the adults. and there was
a kind Of selection by death. The man OF
to-day is not stronger; he is possibly weak
err But the majority of the people live I'M
der conditions more favorable to longevity,
because we know what conditions to pro-
mote In other words, the greater eXpecta-
ton of average life is the result OF the
progress of sanitary science in the fullest
sense and not the result of an increase of
vitality. 1t is the consequence of the evO-
luton of mans intellect rather than of the
evolution of his body.
For these reasons NJ. De Varigny asserts
that although the chances of life have in
creased for infancy, youth and the prime Of
life, they have not increased for old age.
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DEATH OF H. {. WELLS
OWNER OF MUCH PROPERTY AT AND
NEAR FRENCH LICK.
One of the weaIthiest and Most Prom
inent Men in Southern Indiana
other State Neurology.
Special 70 the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.


PAOLI, Ind, July 26.-Col. II. E. Wells,
OF French Lick, one Of the wealthiest and
most influential men of southern Indiana,
died yesterday at the Windsor House. Chi
cago. Mr.. Wells was sixty-two years OF
age. He had been in poor health for two
years and was on his way to the northern
lakes when stricken with apoplexy. He
had suffered constantly from nervous and
heart trouble. finally eliminating in the
ailment which caused his death. The
funeral will take place tomorrow at 2:SO
at French Lick Springs from the Wells
Hotel, and, in keeping with his life will be
quiet and unpretentious. He leaves four
children, two sons and two daughters.
The death of Colonel Wells removes from
southern Indiana of its prominent and
most successful men. He was set-made
man in every sense of the word, and at the
ge of sixty was one of the wealthiest men
in southern Indiana He made it habit TO
buy almost everything that was brought TO
him. and in return the people for miles
around; and from all parts of the State:
when they wanted anything in the way of
merchandise or produce that could be pro-
duCed in southern Indiana, expected Mr..
Wells TO have il for sale. He started as a
poor boy and often related the story OF his
first experience when, as a mere lad, he
left home disguised with his two years on
the farm. He met a man with an old horse
on the road. as he was going to French
Lick to seek a position, and told him he
would like to trade patch of corn for the
animal Wells traded with him, and then
sold the horse for SIS, which finally started
him in business. He was one OF the first
men TO see the future of French Lick
Springs. and before the war bought the
entire tract, including all the springs and
several hundred acres of land, for $4,000
Many years after the springs were sold and
a small part of the land, with a net profit
OF over $150,0O0 When the war broke OUT
Mr.. Wells was one of the first who enlisted,
and served in the Union army from his part
Of the State. He served four years in the
Twenty-fifth Indiana Infantry. Returning
from the war he again took up merchan-
dising, including the lumber business and
grain and stock buying. Later, he and Mr..
Andrews, of New Albany became inter-
ested In banks in New Albany, Bedford and
Bloomington, establishing the Monroe
County Bank at Bloomington in January
OF 1893. In the past few years he has spent
much OF his time in the management of the
Wells Hotel, which he owned, which is a
part of the French Lick Springs property.
Colonel Wells a Republican and was
the first man In Orange county TO be sue
cessful on the Republican ticket. being
elected treasurer by about 300 majority.
The Monroe County Bank, Of which he was
president and owned a majority of the
stock, will be represented at the funeral by
Cashier 5. G. DOdds. Assistant Cashier Ar
thur CravenS and Directors Senator Edwin
Corr, 5. * Rhorer and w. A. Fulwider.
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Samuel Miller.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, July 26.-Samuel
Miller. aged eighty years, died this morn
ing at his home on East Washington street
He was a native of Morgan county, Vir-
ginia. but came TO this county in 1888 In
1882 he married Margaret Brugh. who sur
wives. Of the ten children born to them
nine are living. They are Miss Ella Miller
of this city; George w. Miller, Pineville
Mo-; Mrs. |. y. O'Banion, Upton; Frank
and Harry Miller, Marion; Mrs. Ida ARA
smith Muncie; J. A. Miller, Cleveland;
Mrs. II. E. Kinnear Marion; Miss Emma
Miller. of this city. He was a charter
member of the Blackford Lodge, f. and A.
NJ, and the only surviving member of the
little group that formed the original lodge
His family is one of the most prominent
in this part of the State. Death was due
TO paralysis. The funeral will be held at
the house at 4:SO o'clock Sunday afternoon
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thropic work. conducted by the Charity
Organizations Society.
I'm autopsies in New York hospitals
which have come to my knowledge, he
continued. fully GO per cent. OF the sub
Jects had tuberculosis some time in their
lives. OF these a little more than half had
died OF that disease. The remainder had
recovered and in many instances had not
known of its existence in their systems.
"A third of those who die in our hospitals
die OF consumption. In some of the older
cities of Europe the proportion is much
greater.
The tubercular bacilh do not multiply
outside the system They tend TO die. IN
lection is by the original bacillus, if at all.
Large numbers are quickly destroyed. Di-
rect sunlight destroys them quickly and
daylight in time. The danger is in a damp,
dark room.
tuberculosis is an absolutely prevent
able disease. II is not only preventable.
but durable. II is simply question Of how
early a diagnosis is made. Ii ii can be
made at the beginning, 50 per cent. at least
of the cases are durable If placed in pure
atmosphere"
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Other Deaths in the state.

NEW ALBANY, Ind, July 26.-NIrs. Mar
garet Williams, aged sixty-five years, was
found dead in bed last night at her home
three miles west of this city. The body
was badly decOmposed and she had been
dead several days. There was no evidence
of foul play, and Coroner Starr returned a
verdict Of death from natural causes. She
was the widow of Frank Williams, a Mex
a brother. BENJAMIN Painter, of Morgan
county, Indiana.
GREENSBURG, Ind, July 26.-Joab A
Stout. one Of the best known and most pop
ular farmers Of Decatur county, died at
his home near Let's this morning. He was
siXty-three years old and was a veteran
of the civil war. He will be buried on
Monday
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INDIANA SWINE BREEDERS.
They VIII Hold Their State Meeting
at sheIbyviIIe Aug. and $.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
SHELBYVILLE, Ind, July 26.-The In
diana Association of Expert Breeders of
Swine Will be the Shelby county fair
grounds. near this city, on Aug. 7 and s.
The president of the association is n. c.
Kershner. of Ansonia, o.; the secretary is
w. o. Smiley. Of Judson. Ind. All persons
who are DESTROYS of attending and receiving
instruction will be furnished score cards on
application 10 either.
On the night of Aug. a meeting will be
held in the parlOrs of the Ray Hotel at
which Mayor Morris will deliver the adj
dress of welcome and it will be responded
TO by Col. j. 3. Leyster. of Franklin. Adam
May and William Midkiff have been ap-
pointed as the committee on arrangements.
The attendance is expected 10 be large.
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Sought safety in Canada.

Special 10 the indianapolis Journal
HARTFORD CITY. Ind. July 26-Dodge
Wolverton. the Washington township farm
er. who bombarded his father-in-law's
house and secured his two children and
decamped in a carriage. has been located
BY the sheriff He drove in a storm In
kingsland. where he wanted 10 buy ticket
tor some point in Canada. He sent the
team TO his mother by a friend and said
that he intended TO keep the children. and
that he did not know IL he would ever re-
turn. There are sixteen criminal charges
against him. besides a suit for divorce and
$4,000 alimony He also forfeited a bond OF
xt0G
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New OIL and Mining Company.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal
BLOOMINGTON. Ind. July 26-The or
ganization % the Kenana Mining Company
has been completed here under the laws
OF Indiana. the object being 10 develop oil
wells tn Kentucky The capital is $1,000
Or J. r. Potu has gone 10 the oil fields to
close the contracts By which four different
wells viii be sunk 10 being the intention
OF the company 20 give the land thorough
test and II SATISFACTORY results are secured
70 make large Investments for the develop
nent OF oil
The company il made up largely OF
Bloomington and Ladoga capital and also
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Body. Returned for Burial.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENFIELD, Ind, July 27.-The body
of Charles S. McKOwn, the postal clerk
of this city, who was killed at Trebein
O., Thursday night in the Pennsylvania
Railway wreck, was returned to his home
here to-day for burial. 1t was burned be-
yond recognition, but was identified by the
number of his postal key and some other
articles he carried. The funeral services
will be at the Methodist Church at 1920
a. m. Sunday, conducted by the Rev. Perry
=. Powell. The Improved Order of Red
Men, of which fraternity he was a member,
will have charge of the exercises.
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KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
A Grant County Young Man who Sat
Under n Cedar Tree.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. July pa bolt
of lightning from an almost clear sky
Killed Albert Merine, aged nineteen, on the
farm of William Teerhelm, five miles north
west Of this city this afternoon. He was
the son of Milton Merine. of Upland. and
was employed by Fisherback * Wise. i'm
plement dealers there
He went TO the farm TO fix a binder and
after dinner sat down under cedar tree
10 cool OF. \ few drops Of rain fell and
there was one sharp fash of lightning. The
bolt struck the tree he was under and he
was instantly killed son of William
Teerhelm also was badly stunned.
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suecumbed to Their wounds.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, July 26.-Albert Melton
the colored puglist who July was shot by
his stepdaughter, Myrtle Smith, died to-day
from the injuries. Bullets passed
through both lungs and the bowels. The
girl was arrested tonight for mansldushler'
She viii plead self-defense-
MADISON. Ind, July 26.-Farmer John
Metzler died this morning from pistol
shot wound received yesterday at the
hands of Jacob Taulman, nelghDoTlllS
Young farmer with whom he was quarrel
ing Taulman is in custody.
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Carpenter Falls Forty Feet.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
GREENFIELD, Ind. July 26.-Frank
True, carpenter who is employed in the
erection Of the new Methodist Church in
this city, had a severe fall this morning.
BY the giving way of a scafold in the
tower OF this building he was precipitated a
distance of forty feet striking on some
Joists. His collar bone was broken, seven
ribs were torn loose from the spinal col
umn, his hand was badly bruised and there
are a number of severe bruises on his
body. True served a year in the Philip
pines He is a son OF David True, of
Mohawk He is expected TO recover.
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
LAFAYETTE. Ind, July pa move
ment is on foot, headed BY several local
business men, to organize an elevator COM
pany with a capital of $500 or more. and
TO erect a grain elevator here. The need
Of such a building has been felt long and
many farmers living within a radius Of
ten or fifteen miles are compelled 10 haul
their grain 10 other places as there is no
accommodation for ii here. Several farm
ers are In the new movement and IL is
quite certain the elevator will be built.
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Bank Is n Quarter Ahead.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
MUNCIE. Ind. July "a humorous fea-
ture OF the attempted bank hold-up at
Fortville. Thursday last. is that as a result
of the incident the bank is % cents ahead.
A c. Hall. the man who attempted to ter
rorize Assistant Cashier Trittipo into pay
ing him $500 first asked him for change
for quarter He laid the money down be-
fore TrittipO. When the bank official turned
10 turn over the change he looked into the
muzzie of a revolver. In Halls attempt to
escape he left the quarter behind.
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Bedford Newspaper Change.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BEDFORD. Ind, July 26-S. ]. Richard
son has purchased the interest of Lee
Robinson in the Bedford Republican, and
will issue weekly paper TO be known as
the Stone City Enterprise, the first num-
Der appearing to-day. Mr.. Richardson was
formerly city editor of the Daily Mail
The Republican discontinued it's daily is
sue about eight months ago.
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Man Killed by Lightning.

CANANDAIGUA. y. Y. July 26.-An-
other terrific storm visited this section last
night. doing great damage TO crops and
property that had not already suffered
Edward Chamberlain was struck by light
ming and instantly killed. Canandaigua
lake has risen still higher. The damage or
hundreds OF farms is simply irreparable
From every part OF the county come re-
ports that wheat is sprouting In the shock
and that a serious blight has struck the
apple trees.
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Monument seized for Debt.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. July pa Bristol.
Tenn. dispatch reports that a large and
beautiful monument which marked the
grave OF the late Rev James Torbet at
Blountsville Tenn. was taken down and
removed from the cemetery because the
purchase money notes were not satisfied in
due time. The monument was sold with a
lien attached. and when the time was up
and passed the agent pulled down the shaft.
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capital Of Lancaster. Ky. the lands being
owned by Mrs. Juliet Rogers. OF that city.
The president is Dr. J. Z. Potts; W. A.
Brissenden is secretary and treasurer. and
j. 3. Wilson chief counsel DR.. Potts and
others here also have additional land inter-
ests in Kentucky that are to be developed
for oil as soon as possible.
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Other Deaths.

BALTIMORE. July 26.-Dr. George Mann
Richardson. a member OF the faculty of
Leland Stanford University. California
died to-day at the Union Protestant IN
Urinary The cause of his death was blood
poisoning. and the end came after an III
ness of nearly three months. DIR. Richard
son was thirty-nine years OF age.
NEW YORK. July 26.-The Rev. Fr.
Mitchell p. Read. Of Savannah. Ca died
suddenly last night of apoplexy on board
the steamer City of Memphis on the way
from Savannah 10 this city.
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MITIGATING cake"
No Person Bound and whipped In
Monroe County, as Reported.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, July 26.-The re-
port of an alleged whitecapping in one of
the Indianapolis papers this morning from
this county is a fake. pure and simple
There are no such people living in the
township where the whitecapping is re-
ported TO have occurred, and people from
the direct neighborhood say there has been
no trouble whatever in that vicinity.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MARION. Ind. July 26.-Harvey S. SUIT
ton. deserter from the regular army, was
captured here to-day by the local police. He
enlisted a year ago with the expectation Of
being sent 70 the Philippines. but was kept
in the Indian patrol service. He deserted at
TT Meade. ;. D.. and returned 10 his home
here. He is nineteen years Of age, and was
engaged TO marry on Aug. 2. Miss Blanche
Culbertson, OF this city.