Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — RAILROADS OF INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

RAILROADS OF INDIANA.

Humber of Miles and Value of Improvements in Each County—Only Four Counties Without at Least One Line. [From the Indianapolis Journal.] The report of the work of the State Board of Equalization will soon bo ready for printing. It will be more elaborate this year than ever before, andds being very carefully prepared. From the tabulated statement of the Auditor of State showing the number of miles of railroad operated in each county, with its tax valuation, the following summary has been takes, giving the total tax assessment which goes to each county, together with the valuation on the improvement on the right of way: Total ImproveMlles tax as- ment on Counties. main sees- right of, traok. ment way. Adams 53.78) $ 252,111 $ 3,295" Allen 140.29 2,175,695 171,405 Bartholomew 42.11 356,386 3,855 Benton 45.82 415.028 3.900 Blackford 26.33 2C6.477 2,325 , Boone 38.46 432,608 2,290 Brown 1 Carroll 59.10 502,548 5,190 Cass.• 87.181 1,447,162 33,170 Clarke 65.53 706,704 12,530 Clay 43.38 613,428 I 4,262 Clinton 101.13 570,178 4,390 Crawford 25.42 135,749 800 Daviess 18.12 212,648 1.060 Dearborn 49.18| 550,562 11,261 De atur 45.48 424.264 6,530 DeKalb 85.69 1,245,697 62,355 Delaware 64.97 617,502 8,885 Dubois 37.31 199,687 2,450 Elkhart... 58.83 1,126,496 72,070 Fayette 42.761 264,212 3,815 FlOVd 19.97 153,252 11,425 Fountain 94.84 499,282 4,410 Franklin. 31.01 150,158 1,350 Fulton. 42.85 241,540 1,850 Gibson. 60.89 511,833 7,175 Grant 70.90 482,841 4,315 Greene 65.45 201,913 2,970 Hamilton 47.08 346,504 2,180 Hancock 64.87 602,293 4,610 Harrison 17.15 89,885 150 Hendricks..,.- 78.19 940,238 4,529 Henry 96.47 825,428 7,440 Howardsl.2s 344,851 4,485 Huntington 48.31 544,223 59,484 Jackson....; 50.41 574,012- 11,785 Jasper 30.74 253,344 1,610 Jay 62.60 396,247 3,215 Jefferson 21.54 166,448 10,825 Jennmgs...;... 63.97 545,921 2,235 Johnson 41.51 338,528 4,420 Knox 78.14 689,748 18.980 Kosciusko... 87.49 1,125,540 17.011 Lagrange • 16.96 162,435 1,350 Lake 200.92 - 2,815.640 26,218 1 Laporte 203.78 2,772,989 41,937 Lawrence. 66.81 489,249 4,085 Madison 88.70 498 249 4,725 Marion.. 165.94 2,538.196 195,000 Marshall 88. 6 . 1,171,256 14,992 Martin.., 19.88 217,290 2,029 Miami 76.47 709 037 29,660 Monroe 29.22 709,666 3,050 Montgomery 97.84 576,406 4,595 Morgan 40.24 202.545 2,560 I Newton. 21.78 220,321 1,545 Noble 74.36 1,171,918 18,105 Orange 9.51 67,888 1,700 Owen 40.78 230,0421 8,885 Parke 49.67 316,960 1,872 Pike 14.87 79,824 25 Porter 129.83 2.155,258 32,036 Posev 71.40 591,198 2,120 Pulaski 43.52 389,453 2,325 Putnam 89.99 1,617,805 • 6,737 Randolph 83.16 829,927 7,570 Ripley 30.86 361,125 2,565 Rush 62.93 401,143 5,700 Scott 21.32 435,114 2,250 Shelby 58.27 507,851 5,930 Spencer 27.07 143,074 750 Starke 60.05 985,430 6,084 St. Joseph 67.56 1,185,888 23,900 Steuben 19,01 193,198 2,200 Sullivan 47.26 202,907 3,950 Tippecanoe 103.84 1,152,271 45,893 Tipton 45.11 419,787 2,870 Union 14.32 153,571 2,425 Vanderburg 45.25 433,733 60,650 Vermillion 54.10 402,153 2,900 Vigo 92.02 1,085,702 53,669 Wabash 80.44 697.816 24,220 Warren 30.24 350,505 7,695 Warrick 2L97 116,534 200 Washington 27.64 193,352 900 Wayne.. 85.05 736,590 32,220 Wells... 73.75| 164,645 3,850 White 69.08 604,159 4,910 •Whitley 58.33 796,915 12,840 Total 5,240.19 $54,209,228 $1,322,739 t T~ ■ The counties which have no railroads running within their territory are Brown, Ohio, Perry and Switzerland. The counties having the largest number of miles of railroad are Laporte, Lake and Marion, while Orange has the fewest miles. The valuation is highest in Lake county, but Marion leads in the eost of improvements on the right of way. The improvements on the Louisville, Evansville and St Louis, in Pike, cost less than is credited to any other county, the amount being <25. Indiana Items. Richard Cowan, colored, reputed to be 110 years old, died at Gibsonville. ArTndianapolls the wife of George Reissner, boot and shoe dealer, committed suicide by jumping from a window in the secondstory of her residence. Miss Anna Mills, 70 years old, of Utica. Clark county, drowned herself in the Ohioriver. Temporary insanity is suppose! to have driven her to take her life. While attempting to kill a mink, at Booneville, William Gimlisoh accidentally shot his wife, the ball entering the knee-cap, inflict. Ing a dangerous wound. Joe Hogue, son of Zebulon Hogue, of Wheatland, had one of his legs cut off. A team of horses ran away with a mower, and the boy was caught in front of the knife A tramp entered the house of an old colored lady at Madison, and drove her out at the mnzzle of a pistol. Her daughter returned home and he frightened her away with a butcher knife, and then ransacked the house and escaped to the hills. As a train was leaving the depot at Shelbyville, somebody threw a large stone through a car window, striking an old lady by the name of Smith, who lived at Sunman, twenty mile? east of Greensburg, on the temple. Information now comes that she is dead from the effects of the blow. * At Hazleton, Pater Le Fare was running a belt on a pulley, using a stick for the purpose. The stick became fastened in the wheel, and after one revolution it was thrown with terrible force, striking Le Fare in the bowels and penetrating deep into his body. It is reported that the young man died the same night At Seymour, John McCammon's wife died and was buried at the expense of the county, leaving four children. McCammon, a good-for-nothing drunkard, came home and abused his family, when about thirty neighboring women gathered in, tied him to the bedstead, and were about to administer a whipping when the City Marshal came and released him One of the most horrible accidents occurred at Montpelier, to Hosie Moricle. He was fireman on a thresher engine, and was moving the engine to another stack He was going across a bridge, when it gave •way, letting engine and tank both into the stream. He was riding between the engine and tank, and when It went "down his foot was caught and held so tightly that he could not get out for fifteen minutes. All thia time the steam and hot water poured on him. scalding him to death. He suffered intense agony. He expired in a short time after he was got out