BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, OCT. 12, 1900 Manager F. X. JOHNSON has given the Republican and Democratic committees the use of his billboards free of charge when they are not occupied with show advertising. The Street Fair at Washington wiped out the old time jealousy existing between that town and Vincennes. The latter city sent 1000 visitors to Washington during the Fair. – Seymour Democrat. N. R. WILLIAMS of Marion township, went to Odon Wednesday morning, to visit his mother, Mrs. Rebecca WILLIAMS, who is 81 years of age; and also to be present at the family reunion which was held there Wednesday. Pink EAST, a well known citizen of Greene county, while making a Bryan speech at the Lincoln school house, fell unconscious, and did not recover consciousness for 24 hours. He is now recovering. Just after Joseph McBRIDE, who lives four miles north of this city, had started to town, Saturday, his horse began kicking and smashed the buggy. Mr. McBRIDE was thrown out, and had his shoulder broke and a big gash cut in his forehead. He was quite seriously hurt. John R. WALSH has made it very plain in a telegram to our local contemporary that he is for McKinley and will vote for his reelection. That is what the far sighted business men all over the country will do. – Seymour Republican. The new steel bridge which will connect Spion Kop or East Oolitic with Oolitic is to have a capacity of 75 lbs. to cu. ft. which guarantees it strength to carry an ordinary locomotive across. The Vincennes Bridge Co., who have been awarded the contract for the bridge across Salt Creek, say they will put up a structure that we can be proud of. It is their first bridge in this county and they have an object in making it show up. – Oolitic News. James HANDY has moved from Red Cross to Evansville. F. G. DAVIS, Postmaster at Red Cross, was in town Friday. Walter WICKER, who had been visiting relatives at Bono, has returned home. His rheumatic troubles are abating. The Bedford Plumbing Co. is building a fine acetylene gas machine, to be placed in Mike WALLNER's residence. Mrs. Jane PITMAN, who had been the guest of relatives in this city, returned to her home at Williams, Friday afternoon. Judge CHRISLER's five cotton plants have developed seven fine bolls of cotton, and will produce many more before frost. Mrs. Levie McFADDEN, who had been visiting the BLACKBURN relatives at Oolitic, left Friday noon for her home at Louisville, Ill. Geo. HAYES, Robert GAZAWAY and Robert HUFFMAN, good Republicans of Bono township, were in town Friday, to attend the Committee meeting. Joe DURHAM is boxing up his household goods, and will move to Jeffersonville. The house where he has lived on the corner of 13th and K streets, will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Joe R. VORIS. William M. MUNSON, Geo. Z. WOOD, Anselum WOOD, Horace G. CURRY and Howard C. CHITTY, faithful Republicans from over the Rhine, were in town, Friday, to attend the Durbin meeting of the Central Committee. A. J. HAYWARD, the barber on I street, makes it a point to interview every stranger who drops into his shop, regarding the political situation. His record for the past 30 days shows only one man who even thought of voting for Bryan, while the balance all thought McKinley would win. When the Chief of the Washington Fire Department met the Chief of the Vincennes Fire Department today at the Street Fair the greeting that passed between them was the same as that historic greeting when the Governor of North Carolina met the Governor of South Carolina. – Washington Herald. George CHARLES, of the Progress, put his six young foxes in a box behind the store Tuesday night, and placed an old rooster in with them, for food; but the rooster was so old the foxes were too foxy to fool with him. Instead they broke out during the night; and scattered over town, selecting choice fryers from convenient chicken coops wherever they found them. One of them was killed by a man who found it in his chicken yard. The old rooster escaped at the same time, and is still at large, roosting at night in Wint FOOTE's papaw tree. E. STARR, who had been working on a stone job for Peter FILION all summer, on the Wabash river, at Perryville, in Vermillion county, came home about a month ago, very ill of malaria. He has recovered and left Wednesday, for Perryville, to resume work. The Terre Haute Express has just issued a very handsome illustrated industrial edition; one part being devoted to the Southern Indiana Railway, with many views along the line, several of which are in Bedford. It is one of the finest things of the kind we have ever seen. Jack HUGHES, the stone cutter, has begun the erection of a handsome stone cottage on South O street, doing most of the work himself when not otherwise employed. When it is completed, which will probably not be for several months, Mr. HUGHES will occupy it with his family. John CHAMBERS, a well known carpenter of Harrodsburg, met with a serious accident Wednesday morning. He had been at work shingling a building and had just left the roof and had reached the ground when the hatchet left on top of the building fell, and struck him on the head. The sharp part of the instrument plowed into Mr. CHAMBER's head, making a serious wound. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Madison HENDERSON, of Englewood, which had been very sick, is better. Cards are out announcing the marriage of Grace May FISHER to Mr. Jessie Lemuel PACE, on Wednesday, October 17th, at 8 o'clock p.m., at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John FISHER, on South H street. Eld. W. B. CHRISLER received a copy of "The Daily HERALD" of Vicksburg, Miss., containing the following wedding notice of his niece, Miss Josephine CRISLER: "Edwards, Miss., Oct. 4. – Prof. O. H. WINGFIELD, of Burnside, Ky., and Miss Josephine CRISLER, of Edwards, were married in the Methodist church here at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, Revs. J. W. and C. W. CRISLER, brothers of the bride, officiating. The groom is president of a collage at Burnside, Ky. The bride, who has lived here since childhood, is a daughter of Mrs. J. F. CHRISLER." Twenty-dollar gold pieces to the value of $3,000 are to be used in the floor tiling of a gorgeous saloon now being fitted up at South Bend, Ind. The tiles are especially made to contain $20 gold pieces; the depression for their reception allowing the coin to sink one thirty-second of an inch below the surface, thus avoiding friction. Each gold eagle will be soldered to a wire, which will run down through an ordinary floor, thus securing the coin in place.