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«r 1 ,J *, -,* y~S, ,v t. to** rf t*#f n.Vrt- VI' JOHN KIRWIN KILLED Struck by a Train Near Afton Junc tion Saturday Night-Was for- liter Resident of Leon. John Kirwin, a well known young man who has made his home in this city for many years until his father's family Amoved to Des Moines last fall, was struck and instantly killed by a Bur lington train near Afton Junction last "".Saturday night. No one saw the acci *j'dent, which gave some color to a rumor ti that he had met with foul play, but a full investigation did not establish this theory, and it is probable that whiskey was the direct cause of his death. Kirwin had been working with the steel gang on the Burlington road for ,, several years, being employed at the ^time of his death with the steel gang of •r^T. E. Casteel, who were laying steel near Afton. His body was first noticed by the engine c»ew of No. 12 lying at the side of the track about a mile west of Afton Junction and three miles east of the town of Afton, who reported the J. i^fact when they reached Osceola, and an extra freight leaving Creston was noti fied to investigate. When they picked him up he was dead, the only injury found on his body being a big gasli on his head the skull being fractured, but his body was not otherwise mangled. At the inquest held on his body at Afton Monday it developed that Kirwin and three companions named Kelly, itLear and Leak, all employees of the steel gang left Afton Saturday night about 9 o'clock for the purpose of walk ing to Talmage a station on the Great Western road a few miles east of Afton, where they expected to take a train for Des Moines to spend Sunday. Kirwin had passes for all the party. They had been drinking before leaving 'Afton and when they left there was a quart bottle of whiskey in the crowd. Kirwin when -not working was a hard drinker, and -~',when near the scene where Kirwin met his death, he told his companions to walk on and he would overtake them, and sat down by the side of the track. "s The other three men went on to Tal mage and went to bed, and when arous ed the next morning were told that a man had been killed near the Burling ton crossing. As Kirwin had not joined them the men went to the place where .... the body was lying and found it was Kirwin. Part of the men remained there with the body while others went j' yto send for the coroner. It was claimed 'that when Kirwin left Afton he had about §12 in money in his pocket, a watch chain and the railroad passes, but when the coroner examined his clothing all of these were missing. This gave rise to the rumor that he had been murdered, but the next morning the passes and the watch chain were found .near the scene of the accident, and the general theory is that they were re turned to the place after the body had been removed, as the passes were not wet, although they were lying on the -ground, and it is thought that some of the parties who remained with the body when it was first found had removed his money and other property, and then when their abscence caused talk re turned the passes and chain. All of the party when questioned denied any knowledge of the property. The physi cian at the inquest testified that the blow on the head which caused his death was such as could have been in flicted by an engine hitting him, and it is generally accepted that Kirwin was under the influence of liquor and sat down by the side of the track to rest and was close enough to the track so 'when a train came along he was struck °n the head by the steam chest of the engine. The deceased was for many years a resident of this city, being the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Kirwin, and was about 38 years of age, unmarried. He is survived by his parents, three sisters and four brothers. His remains were taken to Des Moines Monday, where the funeral was held on Tuesday from St. Ambrose ehurch. New Court Cases. Kate Grogan vs. Michael Grogan. The -plaintiff brings suits for divorce, stating in her petition that she was married to defendant at Grand River, on May 10, 1897, when he was 45 years old and she i|was 17. She alleges that since their ^marriage he has. become addicted to the use of liquor to such an extent that he rhas run through with all his property .and she has been compelled to support "herself and two children. She asks for a decree of divorce and the custody of their two children Thomas W., 6 years old and Felix M., aged 3 years, and also rj asks for an order restraining him from 0( trying to take the children or deprive her of their household goods which she 7, has moved to Leon from their home in ^tj-iVan Wert. She also asks for temporary alimony in the sum of §100 and for per manent alimony in such sum as the .court may deem just. Marion F. Stookey attorney for plaintiff. Ollie Richards vs. Windsor W. Rich $' ards is another suit for divorce. The parties were married at Davis City, Sept., 24, 1899, and lived together until 1 two years ago since which time he has not contributed to her support. She also alleges he has treated her in a cruel manner by striking her and curs ing her. In -addition to a decree of divorce she asks that she be restored to her maiden name, Ollie Boswell. W. ?V^B. Kelloy attorney for plaintiff. Ira Miller vs. Thomas Ewing and "wife. Suit is brought on-an account for .goods sold and delivered to defendants amounting to 359.39, and judgment is asked for in this sum. W. B. Kelly, at torneyfor plaintiff. J1 Cream Wanted. Farmers, I want to buy your cream and will pay top cash price for it. Also your butter, eggs and poultry. 51-4t* JAP STATZEL, At Harry Vogt's old stand. \*, -%TJ ^s: vj^r-v^ ESTABLISHED 1854. LEON, IOWA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25. 1904. FAMILY ROW IS STARTED. Mrs. Henry Walters Takes Two Shots at Her Loving and Trusting Spouse. It was supposed until Sunday morn ing that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walters lived on Paradise valley, which is locat ed in the southeast part of town. But their home was not much of a paradise about the time most people were don ning their Sunday linen in order to at tend divine services. Mrs. Walters dis pensed with the family worship that morning, and proceeded to make a rough house for Mr. Walters. She threw his trunk out of the front door and with it most of his wearing appai el, and he was told to make himself scarce about his own domicile. Mr. Walters did not show the proper inclination to make himself scarce, and Mrs. Walters insisted on having her mandate obeyed. She accordingly got down Mr. Walter's trusty revolver, and fired a couple of shots at her spouse who lingered about the premises. The shots did not scare Mr. Walters very much, because he was in numerous battles during the war, but he finally concluded to quit the ranch and let his wife run things to suit herself. Mr. Walters is hopeful that when the cold and chilly blasts of December blow around, and the time arrives for laying in a wintor's supply of coal, his wife will come to her senses and invite him to return home and once more live in peace and happiness.—Mt. Ayr Record. A Big Meteor. A large meteor passed over this sec tion about 11 o'clock Wednesday night of last week going across the heavens in a direction from southeast to north west. Ben Wasson and Sam Leachman, who were out fox hunting in the neigh borhood of Logan chapel, five miles northwest of Lineville, had a good sight of the heavenly visitor and were much startled by the sudden and blinding light emitted-by the meteor, which they describe as much brighter than the brightest flash of lightning they ever saw and lasting several seconds. They heard no roaring sound that usually accompanies the passage of a large meteor through the earth's atmosphere, but ten minutes after the body had passed across the heavens a tremendous explosion was heard resembling a dis tant clap of thunder, but much heavier than they ever heard. The sound re verberated and caused the ground to tremble very perceptibly for a few seconds. A fiery pathway marked the path of the meteor across the sky which remained for several minutes and re sembled the tail of a comet, but gradu ally faded away. The ^passage of the meteor was noticed by the daily papers from St. Louis and Kansas City to north ern Iowa and to all observers it appear ed to have exploded in their immediate vicinity, but the probabilities are that if it reached the earth at all, or any por tion of it, as a solid body it was far be yond the northern boundaries of the United States. This is indicated by the length of time which elapsed between the passage of the meteor and the sound of the explosion, as observed and heard by Messrs. Wasson and Leach man, which they are positive was more than ten minutes.—Lineville Tribune. A Frightful Runaway. Mrs. J. B. Hatcher was painfully in jured in a frightful runaway Monday evening. She and her daughter Blanche were out driving, having come from their home southeast of town, and upon reaching the Hopking corner Blanche suggested that they turn east, fearing they might meet an automobile. Just as they were opposite the Abbott place, Will Smith, returning from Davis City, shot over the hill ahead of them in his automobile, blowing the horn to give warning to any approaching driver. The old family horse, always gentle before, became frightened at the horn and lights of the machine, and turned squarely around in the road, coming back to town at break-neck speed. The frightened animal turned south at the the Newberry residence, west at the Rauch residence and south again at the Newcomb residence, where he broke loose from the buggy and ran on home. As the horse broke away one of the thills of the buggy, which had been broken when the animal first became frightened, stuck into the ground and stopped the vehicle, not upsetting it, however. The suddenness with which the rig stopped threw Mrs. Hatcher for ward and she fell across the wheel, seri ously bruising her chest. Miss Blanche was not hurt in the least. Mrs. Hatcher's condition is painful but not dangerous had the drivers not kept their presence of mind and held the horse in the' road it might have been much worse. —Lamoni Chronicle. Big Damage Suits. Among the new cases filed is a suit for thirty thousand dollars brought by Fuller & Fuller against the C. B. & Q. railroad. Their client is Wm. T. Min near, and judgment is asked in amount named by reason of injuries sustained by the said plaintiff in being pushed off a moving freight train by the agents of the railroad at a stated point in Mis souri. Minnear's leg was run over by the wheels of the cars and had to be amputated, and he also received inter nal injuries which he thinks entitles him to the judgment asked. Dennis Rush, formerly of Grant town ship, has instituted a suit against G. W Overlander for ten thousand dollars and that amount he thinks will be sufli cient to reimburse him for the aliena tion of his wife's affections, as it is al ledge in the petition, by the said Over lander. Notice of the suit was served on Mr. Overlander by Sheriff Miller on Tuesday evening. The defendant to tile suit came here on a visit recently, and Rush at' once concluded to start the suit. Rush and wife secured a divorce from each other at a late term of the district court. Spetice & Smith will ap pear as the attorneys for Rush in the damage suit.—Mt. Ayr Record. ~~4 -A ^'"v TWO OLD SETTLERS DIE Horace Brown and Jacob Sowash Two Old Settlers are Laid to Rest Were Over 80 Years Old. Horace Brown. In the death of Horace Brown, who died at kis homo near Pleasanton on Sunday morning, Decatur county loses one of her oldest and uigst highly re spected citizens, one who had passed the four score mark, and whose death will be regretted by all who knew him. Mr. Brown np to last winter had been an unusually vigorous and hearty man, and few people were aware that he was 82 years old. Last February he was stricken with heart trouble and has been confined to his bed nearly all the time since, suffering greatly during the past few months yet never complaining. He had resided in Decatur county for twenty-five years, nearly all of the time in this city and on his farm a few miles northwest of town, removing to a farm which he purchased near Pleasanton a couple of years ago. The funeral services were held from the M. B. church in Leon on Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. F. Biga man, of the Davis City M. E. church and Rev. I. N. Woodward, of the Leon M. E. church, the deceased having been a member of the church nearly all his life. Interment was in the Leon ceme tery, where his first wife was buried. He is survived by his wife and two sons, C. H. Brown, of Morgan township, and Cliff Brown, of Bloomington town ship. Through a misunderstanding we failed to receive data for an obituary notice for this issue, and it will appear next week. Jacob Sowash Died at the home of his dajjghter, Mrs. Geo. P. Campbell, in DaviS City, Iowa, on Sunday at, 3:30 p. m. after a brief illness of four days. He was born near Grgenburg, Westmorland county, Penn., Dec. 13,1820, and was therefore 83 years, 8 months and 8 days old. When about 18 years of age he came west as far as Henry county, Ind., and worked as a farm hand until 1840, when he was married to Miss Mary A. Boslogue, and to this union was born 11 children, all of whom lived to be grown, there being 7 boys and 4 girls, 7 of them are living. Daniel was the first of the ten children who died. He died at Vicksburg, Miss., while fighting for his country in the war of the Rebellion, a member of Co. I, 4th Iowa Cavalry. John B., the eldest son was also a soldier for the Union in the war of the Reb llion, a member of Co. A 2nd Iowa Cavalry. He died March 81,1899. Zackwell R., the second son, died in Horr, Mont., in March, 1901. The wife died Aug. 20,1887, in Conway, Iowa. The other members of the family are scattered over quite a wide scope of country. Miles, is in California, Milton is in Wyoming, Ben near Bonesteel, S. D., R. T. is at Decatur, 111., Mrs. M. A Snapp lives at Wortham, Texas, Mrs. Ida Herring, at Dublin, Texas, Mrs. Hattie Faucett, in Sioux City, Iowa, and Mrs. Mae Campbell, who was the only one of the family present at the time of his death, lives at Davis City. Mr. Sowash came from Indiana with his family, to Iowa, about 1851, and settled first in Boone county, at or near a place on the Des Moines river called Swede Point, and at that time the settlements were very few, and far apart. He lived there a few years and sold his farm, and in about the year 1856 went to southeastern Kansas, where he remain ed 2 years when he returned and settled in Madison county, Iowa, where he im proved another farm, and in the summer of 1866 he sold out there and came to Decatur county. He bought a farm near Pleasanton, just over the state line in Missouri,where he resided until 1875 he again sold out, and moved to a farm he had bought, five miles northwest of Bedford in Taylor county. He contin ued to live in Taylor county until after his wife died in 1887, when-he broke up housekeeping, and came to make his home with his daughter, Mrs. Campbell, and has resided with her since that time, but making occasional visits to his other children. On Monday, August 15th, he went for a short visit with his granddaughter, Mrs. R. H. Martz, at Chariton, Iowa, and stayed until Wednesday evening, when he went to Lucas to visit his grandson, Frank Sowash, and about the time ho left Chariton he was taken with summer complaint, that has been a bother to him for some years, and he grew worse so rapidly that he started for Davis City early Thursday morning and arrived home at noon, in a very exhausted con dition, and from which he never was able to rally but continued to grow weaker until Sunday at 8:30 when he passed peacefully away, like a little child going to sleep in its mother's arms. Mr. Sowash never made any particu lar religious profession, although in earlier life he was quite a Bible stud ent, and tried to follow its teachings. In 1841, when 21 years of age he joined the Masonic Fraternity and ever after tried to live according to its precepts and teachings. He was naturally of a lively, jovial disposition, and very fond of children, and in his last years was never better pleased than when he had a number of them around him. He will be missed by many of them near his home. On August 24th his remains were taken to Conway, and laid by the side of his wife, there to rest until the resurrection morn. During the last 18 years of his life he was a great suflerer from asthma, and often when suffering expressed a desire to depart and be free from his suffering. He will be missed by many. Peace be to his ashes. GE°- P. CAMPBELL. Free Concert, "T .. The Young Ladies Auxiliary will give a free concert in the court house park Saturday evening, Aug. 27, to which everybody is cordially invited. Ice cream and cake will be served. F.n.w. Davis City was the scene of a lively but short scrap Sunday evening, in which one of the participants had several ribs cracked. Some time ago city marshal Tom Sly had occasion to arrest George Elson for some minor crime, and at the time Elson vowed that when Sly got out of office he would set tle with him. Sly recently resigned as marshal and Sunday evening Elson met him on the street and started in to get satisfaction. Elson is a very large man weighing over 20&{MMinds while Sly is nearly a midget, but Elson bumped up against the wrong man when he tackled Sly, for a couple of minutes later he was lying in the street calling for help, Sly having knocked him down and kicked in three ribs for him in less time than it takes to tell about it. These little fel lows are pretty hard fighters some fifties, and it seems that Elson tackled the wrong fellow when he went up against Tom Sly. His Skull Fractured. There came near being another mur der ease to report in this county this week, the result of an encounter near Davis City between John Gore and Roy Sutherland last Friday morning. It seems there had been some trouble be tween the parties over some whiskey belonging to Gore which had been taken by some parties and Gore thought that Sutherland knew something about it, so he went to Sutherland's home and call ed him out. The first time he went Sutherland refused to come out of the wanted to Davis City was the scene of a livelv IVIi vl UrXliO talk tn him nhnnf him he only wanted to talk to him about the matter, so Sutherland came out in the yard.and after some discussion Gore attacked Sutherland with a buggy whip. Sutherland resented the attack and picked up a rock which he shied at Gore, striking him on the head and put ting him out of the game, his skull be ing fractured, and he has since been confined to his bed from the injury. It was reported in Leon Monday morning that Gore was dead and county attorney Olflon and coroner Bowman were all ready to go to Davis City to hold an in quest when it was learned that instead of Tjping dead Gore was better and in a fait way to recover. Frank Warner Can't Come. Among the speakers invited by the committee on speakers for the big Leon reunion Sept. 13 to 17, was Frank P. Warner, of Florence, Colorado, who was one of the pioneers of this county, and whose address at a former reunion in this City a few years ago, was listened Co with much interest. Mr. Warner has been compelled to decline the invita $ioa, and his letter is such a gem that jpve it to out? readers in full. (FLORENCE, COLORADO, Aug. 18,1904. C. W. HOFFMAN, ESQ., Leon, Iowa. MY DEAR CAL:— XT A it 4 Ail vvUOVIIlUtiUIll Yours of the lofch just) to n&nd—loft sit1government# the house by the mail carrier—so, as I am writing at home and the pen has one big split off and the ink is a sepulchre for defunct flies, I'll have to use a lead pencil. Nope, I won't be able to get east of the ragin' Missouri this fall. Colorado has been floundering in an abyss of industrial topor, caused by strikes, lockouts, tieups, with the result that we are eating liver, wearing out has beei our old clothes, and doing business Jby common swapping accounts and talking stand offs. I am persona non grata with rail rtP MnSnn S on account of rains in Kansasf and I couldn't get there in time now if I had a tanbark track to walk on so I'll have to content myself with hoping for bet-, ter conditions next year. I would, though, givo a square foot of skin from between my shoulder blades—or some other place where I don't need it—to be with you and God's "chosen people" back in the sanctified realms of old Decatur county and if 1 got on the rostrum once and could make them stay and listen, you bet I'd tell them what became of Stewart's watermelons and how the war broke out. Where a man spends the first twenty years of his life is always home, no matter where he may go or what may happen to him afterward, and his interest in the friends of his youth is as keen as if they were all blood kin. We are all well and happy may you, all of you, always be the same. FRANK P. WARNER. Helen Phillips. Died, August 10, 1904, aged 8 years, 7 months and 15 days, Helen Lavica, daughter of William Harvey and Ida M. Phillips. Helen was an affectionate, kind and obedient child and by her gentle dis position she won the hearts of all who knew her. It is indeed a sore trial for Mr. and Mrs. Phillips to be thus called to surrender their lovely child to the power of death. But they are comfort ed by the assurance that she has been called to the beautiful home above pre pared for all the redeemed. May God comfort their hearts in this their sad bereavement. The funeral was held in home, text "Is it well with the child?" King 4-26, and her remains were laid to rest in the Woodmansee cemetery. Evans-Jimmerson. Married, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Levina Jimmerson, on Sun day, Aug. 21,1904, Mr. E. A. Evans and Miss Annah Jimmerson. Mr. Evans is a promising young man of Grand River township and Miss Jimmers:n is from Richland township, both being of promi nent families, and as they enter on the voyage of life their entire circle of friends join in wishing them happiness and prosperity. The wedding was a quiet one only the near relatives being present. Rev. W. B. Sill, of Darlington, Mo., officiated.' "-Home Visitors Excursions. Destinations, Ohio, Indiana and Ken tucky. Rate, one fare plus $2.00. Dates of sale, September 6,18, 20, 27, October w^tomuci u, j.o» At vcwoer Sp'v j-4. & V^ "^y* '^r' 'I f•*.1 »v t?"r'-'v-^ T, N01IFICATI0N OF DAVIS Declares that Democrats will Win This Year-Speech Received with Enthusiasm by His friends. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. VA., Aug. 17.—Henry Gassaway Davis today was formally advised of his nomination by the democratic party for vice president of the United States and the nomination was accepted. The ceremonies took place in the open air in the grounds of Green Briar White Sulphur Springs hotel, and were marked by simplicity. Mr. Davis was escorted to the flag draped platform by Repre sentative John Sharpe Williams of Miss issippi, who delivered the notification address. It took Mr. Davis ten minntes to read his formal acceptance, but he prefaced this with a heart to heart talk of like duration to the several thousand friends and neighbors who were gather ed under the trees as his audience. Senator Daniel, of Virginia, was forced to acknowledge a demand for a speech, but declined and the ceremony ended. Earlier in the day a formal letter of notification was handed Mr. Davis in the parlor of the hotel in the presence of the assembled notification committee. It was a simple statement of the action of the St. Louis convention with refer ence to his nomination. He took the letter without reading it and thanked "I find it, therefore, a great pleasure, standing here on the borderland of the two Virginias, to receive and accept the commission you bear and to send greet ings through you to the democracy of the entire country. Is it not significant of a closer and truer brotherhood among us, that for the first time since the civil war a nominee on the national ticket has been taken from that section of our common country that lies south of Mason and Dixon's line—a happy recog nition of the obliteration of all sectional UO) ulltlu lol. tutJ ur war a nominee on V. rr,° uiuuii tue ounrerauon 01 ail sectional road corporations, which precludes the differences which led to and followed possibility of passes the walking is bad, that unhappv Btrucele. An OAAAItn^- .« ... .** "As an introductory to the few re marks I shall make, I desire to say that 1 heartily indorse the platform upon which I have been nominated and with the convention and its nominee for president, regard the present monetary standard of value as irrevocably estab lished. "In the campaign preceding the last election much stress was laid by repub lican speakers upon the prosperous con dition of the country, and forebodings were heard of the ill results, especially to the laboring man, which would follow any change in the political complexion of the government. It is true that the times then were good, but it is no less a fact that, while there has been no change in the party in power, many of the evils prophesied have come under republican rule. Four years ago factor ies, mills, mines and furnaces were in active operation, unable to supply the demand, but now many are closed and those that are open are being operated with reduced force on short hours. Then wages were high, labor was scarce and there was work for all. Now, work is scarce, many wage earners unemploy ed, and wages reduced. The apprehen sion which now prevails in business cir cles and the present unsatisfactory in dustrial conditions of the country seem to demand a political change. "In the language of our platform, "the rights of labor are certainly no less vested, no less sacred, and no less in alienable than the rights of capital." The time is opportune to emphasize the truth of this utterance. The most sac red right of property is the right to possess and own one's self and the labor of one's own hands, capital itself being but stored up labor. For years I work ed in the ranks as a wage earner and I know what it is to earn my living by the sweat of my brow. I have always believed, and my convictions came from the hard school of experience, that, measured by the character of work he does and the cost of living, a man is en titled to full compensation for his serv ices. My experience as a wage earner, and my association with labor have alike taught me the value of individual democratic rights and the highest stim ulus to that independence of spirit and love of self-help which produce the fin est private characters, and form the base of the best possible government. "The receipts of the government for the year ending June 30,19C2, the first fiscal year of the present administration showed a surplus over expenditures of $91,000,000, but for the fiscal year end ing June 30,19C4,.instead. o£ a surplus m6 11, 1904. Limits, continuous passage there was a deficit of $41,000,000. From tdfihin AO ilava 17A*' fnm+itA** fha fluaf. /v# Tnlw 1Q/W A11\ ,- the first of July, 1804, to August 10, or for about a month and a third of the present fiscal year, the expenditures of within 80 days. Fop farther infornaa tion call on or phone C. M. Ketcham agent uvj i9v*)kuuiusuo. cor a surplus REPORTER ancf,thanke(} J7f house, but on the second visit Gore told for a victor hira he onlv T°,Uld resPond response in November. A reception and cotillion in honor of the nominee was held in the hotel in the evening. Mr. Davis spoke as follows in his ac ceptance: "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee:—The official notification which you bring of my nomination for the vice presidency of the United States by the national democracy, gives me a feeling of the sincerest gratitude to my party for the honor conferred. At the same time it brings to me a deep sense of my responsibility to my party as a candidate, and to my country in case of my election. "A spirit of determination to succeed in the campaign before us appears to pervade the rank and file of our party in all sections of the country. Of that rank and file I have for many years been a member and have at all times devoted my humble powers to party success, be lieving that success to be for the coun try's good. Unexpectedly called as I now am to the forefront, I am impelled to an acceptance of the obligation by a sense of gratitude to^ny fellow workers, and thfe hope that I may be able the bet ter to assist in restoring to power that party whose principles and past history guarantee a safe, wise, economical and constitutional administration of the XXX, NO. 1 the government have exceeded the re ceipts by $21,715,000. There could be no stronger evidence of the extrava gance into which the republican party has fallen, and no more potent argument in behalf of a change to the party whose tenets have always embraced prudence and economy in administering the peo ple's affairs. "Our republican friends are prone to refer to the great commercial growth of tho country under their rule, and yet the census reports show that from 1850 to 1860, under democratic rule and the Walker tariff, the percentage of increase was greater in population, wealth, manu factures and railroad mileage, the fac tors which affe«t most largely the pros perity of the country, than in any de cade since. "The cost of government has largely increased under republican rule. The expenditures per capita for the last years respectively of the administration given, taken from the reports of the secretary of the treasury, were as fol lows: In 1860, under Buchanan, $2.01. In 1893, under Harrison, $5.77. In 1897, under Cleveland, $5.10. In 1901, under Mckinley, $6.56. 5 In 1904, under Roosevelt, $7.10. i« The republicans now claim great con sistency in their attitude upon the cur rency question, and the president in his recent speech of acceptance said that they know what they mean when they speak of a stable currency, "the same thing from year to year," and yet in the platforms of their party in 1884, 1888 and 1892 they favored the double stand ard of value. In the platform of 1888 they said: "The republican party is in favor of the use of both gold and silver as money, and condemns the policy of the democratic administration in its efforts to demonetize silver." "I congratulate your committee, and the constituency it represents, in the selection by the delegates to the nation al convention of the nominee for the presidency. He is a man of courage, yet prudent of high ideals, yet without pretense of the most wholesome re spect for the constitution and the maj esty of the laws under it, and a sacred regard for their limitations of the keen est sense of justice, which would rebel against compounding a wrong to an in dividual or to a nation positive in con viction, yet of few words strong in mental and moral attributes, and yet withal modest possessed of a sturdy constitution and magnificent manhood, and yet temperate in his actions and dignified in his demeanor. It is not the orator or man of letters, but the man of reserve force, of sound judgment, of con servative methods and steadiness of pur pose, whom the people have called to the office of the presidency. Notably in the contests between Jefferson f— Burr, Jackson and Clay, Lincoln Douglas, Grant and Greely Cleveland and Blaine. "Dire predictions were made by our political opponents of what would hap pen at the St. Louis convention, but they misjudged the temper of the party and the people. While there had been differences in preceding campaigns, yet at St. Louis they were all harmonized and a common ground was found upon which all could stand and do battle for democratic principles. A platform was. adopted, by a unanimous vote, embrac ing the issues of the day and presenting to the people a declaration of principles which, in the language of the times, is sane, safe and sound. "With a candidate whose personality appeals to the good sense and sound judgment of the American people, a platform whose principles are for the greatest good to the greatest number, and a reunited party earnest for the restoration of good and economical government, we should succeed and the principles of democracy again triumph. "I beg my countrymen, as they value their liberty, to guard with great care the sacred right of local self-govern ment and to watch with a jealous eye the tendency of the times to centralize power in the hands of the few. ''Mr. Chairman, it is an added pleas ure to receive this notification at your hands. You have been conservative and courageous as leader of our party in the house of representatives, a position which few men have filled with the sig nal ability that you have displayed. "It will be my pleasure and duty, at a time not far hence, to accept more form ally in writing the nomination which you have tendered in such graceful and complimentary terms, and to give my views upon some of the important ques tions now commanding the attention of the country." Died From a Sunstroke. While working in his field Tuesday afternoon Mr. Levi Cross had a sun troke from which he died Wednesday morning about 1 o'clock. He was on the straw stack behind the threshing ma chine, one of the hottest places to be found in a harvest field. He was sud denly stricken down without any prev ious notice and was taken at once to the house. The accident occurred about 4 o'clock and Drs. Drennan and McCoy were at onoe telephoned for and Dr. McCoy arrived about half an hour after. Mr. Cross rested apparently very easy until just before he died, although it was known that he was in quite a ser ious condition, but a short time before his death he seemed to have some pain. Mr. Cross was a renter and lived on Bart Harper's farm in Jackson township, about three miles south of Corydon, on the Main road between Corydon and Allerton. He leaves a wife and nine children, four boys and five girls, to mourn his loss. He was a quiet, hard working man, and every one! who was acquainted with him was his friend. The funeral will be held today, Thurs day, at 2 o'clock and his remains will be buried in the Corydon cemetery —Cory don Times-Republican, License to Wed. •Wi 'W 4 c-f '^!M 1 l-M tit -'tf: v?^ ,-osi -w! 13 *5 *5s St il fvtm E. A. Evans.... /. 21 Anna Jimmerson......: 18 Roy Burnham May Ewing 19 18