Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

At Terre Haute, Isaac Kendriok ; oharged with uxoricide, was sentenced to imprisonment for life. The Danville Normal School sends out ] tWtenty-eight graduates of equal numbers 1 as to sex. j A company has been organized at VinJ cennes for the purpose of packing ice on ! a large scale. The organization has a ' capital of #IOO,OOO. William Horton, a prominent farmer, was killed at Bioknell, near Vincennes, by lightning. He was knocked from his wagon between his team of mules. Thr executive Committee of the State Board of Agriculture have declared S. B. Custer, of Logansport, President, in place of H. 0. Meredith, deoeaaed. Thr shops of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad are to be located at Lafayette, provided there is a donation of ample grounds and #25,000 in money. William Berryman, of Tipton, was watching by the bedside of his wife and had' fallen into a doze when a sneakthief came in and stole his pantaloons with #UB in their pookete. John Tingle, of Milton, two miles south of Cambridge, while engaged in “topping” some shade trees, fell a distance of forty feet and was instantly killed, fie leaves a family. An organization, to be known as “Abe Lincoln Camp, National Division of Indiana Sons of Veterans,” is being perfected at Lafayette. Only the sons of veteran soldiers are eligible to membership. A catfish was taken from the tank of a freight engine at Madison, which measured nine inches long. The fish had been in the tank for some time, and it is thought was sucked in while the tender was being supplied from some tank on the road. While digging the cellar for a new building at ltichmond the workmen ran across an interesting problem in the shape of an old cellar wall some fifteen feet under ground. No one seems to be able to explain why, how, when or under what circumstances it got there. The following is the school apportionment : Congressional township revenue, #82,285.54; common school revenue. #1,000,989. 10, tuition revenue from local tax paid townships since last apportion- | ment, #378,222.34 ; total tuition revenue appropriated, #1,546,312.42. At the gravel-pit two miles west of Terre Haute a youth of 12 summers attempted to board an engine hauling gravel under full Bpeed, and missing his looting he fell beneath the engine, but fortunately dropped between two ties, and as lie lay an engine and six cars heavily loaded with gravel passed over him without doing him the least injury. Smith Allen, a substantial farmer n«ar Jefferson, Cliuton county, whilA working in his barnyard, kicked at one* of his horses that was near him to make her move forward a little, when he acoi dentally got his foot entangled in her tail, and he was dragged around the yard several times, and injured quite serious-

ly. Piiop. J. L. CAMPBELti, who has boon superintending the Kankakee survey, says the amount of reclaimed laud will be in extent ns largo as any two counties in the State, and will be as rich and productive. The total appropriation to cover expenses is $5,000, of which amount $2,095.94 lifts been drawn. The practicability of the scheme for draining these lands having been virtually demonstrated, Gov. Porter will probably advise additional appropriations. John H. Slketeb, of Boody, Adams county, reports that he was forced into signing a note for $354.64 by two bnlld ziug lightning-rod agents, representing the Northwestern Lightning-Rod Company, of Chicago. Sleeter contracted with one agent, B. F. Ford, to do S2O worth of work, and the next day J. H. Smith, the second agent, appeared, and before he stopped put up 475 feet of rod, 390 feet more than was specified in the contract Indiana Crop Report. The August crop bulletin of the State Bureau of Statistics has been issued. The Township Trustees were instructed when making their reports to ascertain the average yield per acre of wheat and oats in their several townships, by ascertaining from the threshing-machine owners the quantity of wheat and oats thrashed, and by dividing the whole quantity so ascertained by the number of acres it grew upon, and report average per acre. This is the basis of the report as to production. Partial verifications indicate that the reports are substantially correct. Indiana has probably produced more wheat this year than any other State in the Union, both in the aggregate and in the yield per acre. The report shows that the acreage of the northern division is 702,542, and bushels produced, 8,864,178; the central division, acres, 1,009,842, and bushels, 19,216,814; the southern division, acres 947,428, and bushels produced 16,481,056. The total acreage of the State was 2,659,813, and the grand total of wheat produced, as reported and estimated, is 47,132,048. The 1 acreage last year was 3,210,547, and bushels produced, 30,625,668. The oats crop is also probably the largest ever grow n in the State, showing a total acreage of 634,101 acres, and a total estimated production of 19,592,159 | bushels, against 14,393,617 bushels last | year. The average condition of timothy hay for the State is 115.8 per cent., and acres 909,574, indicating perhaps ihe largest crop ever before grown in In- ] diana. As to corn, the repot t says the central and northern divisions have suffered more from excessive wet weather than thesonthern, ns will be noticed in the 1 percents.‘of condition reported. A very j considerable (perhaps near 10) per oent. ! of the acreago planted lias been praeti- ; eally abandoned, and will produce little or none. The number of acres planted j in the northern division were 885,803, and the condition is reported at 74 per 1 cont.; central division 1,227,120 acres, ! aud at 81 per cent for condition; southern division 948,894 aciea at 91 per cent. It is seen that the southern division re j polks a high per c< nt., and far less dam- ' ago has resulted there from wtt weather, j Many Tiustees from this division ex- ! press the belief that an avei age corn crop :in several counties will be produced. ! The fields not tile drained planted to I corn in the northern and central divisions have suffered great damage to the crop. The total acreago planted was 3,064,797, against 3,135,178 last year; the average condition of the crops for the State on Aug. 1 was 81 per cent. The re{ ort shows that live stock are in good condition, the per oent, of disease for the several divisions being lower than that reported is tl)o July bulletin.