BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1900 MITCHELL NEWS William DUFFNER is getting better. Mrs. Geo. W. REED and little children are visiting relatives at Ladoga. Thieves tried to make a raid on Rev. JORDAN's house the other night. Mrs. Mabel PROSSER HALL came up from Auburn, Ky., Wednesday, to attend the funeral of her brother Harry. If the Bedford base ball team is not afraid to meet our College Club, why don't they accept the challenge? A nine that can win over west Baden as easily as they did, is to be feared. That's what troubles Bedford. Millred, oldest daughter of Editor CHITTY, is recovering from a clearly defined case of appendicitis. A specialist came up from Louisville to perform a surgical operation on the little patient but she was too weak and now that she is getting better it has been indefinitely postponed. It is to be regretted that every lawyer in Lawrence county did not hear Colonel Eli RITTER's masterly address the other evening. He took the ground that the law of public necessity is greater than statutory law and that inasmuch as the courts have frequently held the saloon business as immoral business it followed that we had law enough on the liquor question if properly applied to wipe out every saloon in the State. He spoke from a legal stand point, as a lawyer and a man who has had a great deal of experience on the question of the liquor traffic. The funeral of Harry PROSSER, oldest son of Ralph H. PROSSER, the well known traveling salesman, was held from the family residence Thursday, conducted by Rev. I. N. KIMBROUGH, pastor of the Baptist church. Harry, who met his death Tuesday at Vincennes while on his run as brakeman, was well known, and leaves many friends to mourn his sudden removal from life. We can get no particulars as to how he met his death except that while on train No. 51 making a coupling in the Vincennes yards he was caught between the bumpers or deadwood and given the death hug, expiring instantly. Few if any bones were broken.