BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, NOV. 9, 1900 Tom TAGGART's smile and CROKER's barrel were mighty but could not prevail in Indiana against the full dinner pail. Capt. T. J. BOX and wife left Tuesday, for Indianapolis, to see their daughter, Mrs. John RUSH, who is very ill. Whit SPEER, of Erie, was a called at this office last week, and said there was a splendid opening at Erie for a general store. W. W. FERGUSON, of Bedford, was for many years engaged in business at this place, and in 1873, shipped 11,269 pounds of butter and 12,322 dozen eggs, besides other produce. – Oolitic News. Miss Cora TALMAN, of Comiskey, Ind., arrived here Tuesday afternoon, to visit Miss Grace PEARSON. James EARL, of Williams, was in town Monday. There is on exhibition at HODGE, DAY & Co's furniture store, a large Bible printed in Germany at least 300 years ago, and possibly as early as 1536. The print is in large German text, and the backs of the book are of beech wood. The Bible was originally owned by Peter HAWS, an ancestor of Mrs. Mort DUNCAN, and is now the property of Mrs. A. G. SEARIGHT, another descendant. Samuel E. DENNEY, who had been visiting Bedford relatives, left Tuesday, for Stuart, Iowa, where he will visit friends a few days on his way to his home at Ashland, Oregon. George, Lawrence, Lee and Louie WOOLERY went to Mt. Olive Tuesday, to try their luck at fishing. The Washington Herald says: "The Democratic and Republican parties in Martin county are at war over the horde of negroes who are working on the B. & O. S. W. at that point. There are over a hundred of the blacks and all are supposed to be Republicans. Fearing that they would try to vote in Martin county, Tuesday the Democrats, several weeks ago, induced many of them to sign a statement that their homes were elsewhere and not in Indiana, and they now hold theses statements as evidence which they say will be used on which to base criminal charges should the negroes vote in Indiana. Many partisans have threatened to keep the colored men away from the polls by force if they attempt to vote there. Fearing trouble and because their votes were needed in Kentucky, a car load of them were shipped to Kentucky Sunday. About sixty remain at Loogootee." Cabel BROWNFIELD, of Bowling Green, Ky., is visiting friends here. Schuyler WRAY was in town Monday, on his way to Norman Station. The bronze statue for the Monroe county soldier's monument is here and now at CURRY's monument shops, where the work is rapidly being completed. The statue is of an infantry soldier at parade rest and is a magnificent piece of workmanship. Mr. CURRY expects to have the monument completed within a month. – Bloomington Telephone. C. N. SENTNEY and family were in town last week, on their way to Bloomington to visit Mr. SENTNEY's brother, W. S. SENTNEY, who is in the mercantile business there. They had been visiting Mr. SENTNEY's father, John SENTNEY, at Owensburg, for several days. C. N. SENTNEY and K. E. SENTNEY, who are brothers, have a wholesale grocery store at Hutchinson, Kansas. DRUGGED WHISKEY. Salem, Ind., Nov. 7. – Following the advice of their State and National Committees, Democrats confined held drunken men in the saloons yesterday and filled them with whiskey supposed to be drugged. And as a result James DAVIS died from the effects in a room in the rear of George W. PITT's saloon. Prominent young Democrats are implicated. Deputy Coroner R. WILSON held a post mortem last night, and the stomach of the dead man was sent to Louisville for chemical analysis. Arrests may follow.