BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, OCT. 12, 1900 A marriage license has been issued to Newton QUILLEN and Myrtle GOLDSBY. A marriage license has been issued to Bert B. WILLIAMS and Edith E. EVERSOLE. John NEWLAND is resetting the stone steps in fro of W. W. FERGUSON's residence. Walter NEWLAND is painting Cole HAYWARD's barber shop and house on North I street. Several bushels of fine peaches were stolen from a tree growing in Henry HIRSCHER's yard, Monday night. Miss Nellie FILLION Has returned from Chicago where she had been visiting the family of Peter RICHARDS. Ora CLARK was assessed a fine and costs of $10.50, by Judge STEPHENSON, for intoxication. He stayed the amount. G. B. STEELE went to Terre Haute to do some stone work under the supervision of Dick ROWLAND, Sunday. Ed CONSALUS is confined to his home with sickness. Mrs. CONSALUS is teaching in his place today at the East side school building. James S. WILLIAMS, a prominent stone quarryman and mill owner of Stinesville, was here Monday morning on business, returning home at 10:08. Charlie REID took a load of house mover's tools to the country Monday morning, to move a barn for Landon FISH, who lives several miles north of town. Claud ALEXANDER, of Salem, spent Sunday with the family of William ROBERTS. Mrs. ALEXANDER, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ROBERTS, has been visiting them for several days. Mrs. Helen LEWIS returned home Saturday from Oil City, Penn., where she had been visiting Miss Stella ROSSMAN for several weeks. Wm. MARK, who lives on the old JUDAH farm, south of the city, is improving their home with a new roof and will give it a dress of paint. Fred STEELE is putting fine green and gold decorations in the show window of the Progress Clothing House, on the north side of the square. The contractor on the 14th street improvement has left many of the crossings covered with a coat of mud, especially that at 14th and I streets. Miss Mollie HEITGER, of Bedford, returned home after a pleasant visit with Miss Maud FLANNAGAN and Mrs. T. G. UNDERTOWN. – Washington Gazette. A McCormick corn shredder, the first ever sold in Lawrence county, has been received by H. E. PITMAN, for a company of farmers at Fayetteville, and will be delivered in a few days. The shredder is a new machine and its work will be watched with interest. Mrs. W. L. YARBROUGH, who was the guest of Mrs. M. A. DUNCAN, of this city, last week, and who had been visiting friends at Bloomington since Sunday passed through the city Tuesday morning, on her way home in Bowling Green, Ky. Three hundred dollars in money and postage stamps were taken from the post office at Elnora, about 6 o'clock Saturday evening. The robbery was not discovered until an hour later. Bloodhounds were procured and worked for several hours without finding a trail. Conductor HUFFMAN, of the Southern Indiana, whose train leaves Elnora a few minutes before seven o'clock, found a man and woman riding the head of the baggage car and ordered them inside of the train, where they could give no satisfactory reason for beating their way. They were allowed to ride as far as Tunnel Switch where both leaped from the train and disappeared. It is thought that the incident may be connected with the robbery. Mrs. S. E. BROWNING left Tuesday for Brownstown. She will visit relatives at that place and in other parts of Jackson county for about two weeks, when she will return to Bedford. W. G. SPROULL, who had been visiting home folks, left Tuesday forenoon for Loogootee, where SPROULL Bros. are drilling a new gas well. Three new wells are being sunk in the Loogootee gas and oil field at the present time. On Friday morning as Mrs. Frank BIXLER was putting on her shoes she felt a burning sensation on one of her toes. Intense pain accompanied the burning, increasing as the pain developed. Suspicious that something very unusual had occurred; she removed her shoe and discovered a large dead spider that had caused the trouble. Inside of an hour her whole body was racked with great pain and her suffering grew more intense. Dr. G. W. WALLS was immediately called and administered antidotes which were effective. In a few days she was able to resume her household duties. – Mitchell Tribune. The big $1 excursion to Mitchell this afternoon was a huge joke so far as patronage was concerned. The train pulled out with eight coaches and 47 passengers. The excursion was in charge of Conductor Alex KENT with numerous assistants, and the Telephone is alarmed for fear the crew will have serious trouble in keeping order among such a large concourse of people. The joke, however, is on William SMITH, the popular assistant agent, who before hand had stamped 50 tickets, so as to avoid the rush. – Bloomington Telephone. On the 22nd of this month the local High School team will meet the Bedford team at Bedford. The teams are pretty evenly matched and a good game may be expected. Last year the result of their game was 11 to 0 in favor of Bedford. The boys mean to make a lightning change in regard to the score question. – Washington Herald.