Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The reports that Secretary Heron.of the State Board of Agricnltuie, has received indicate that the corn crop in Indiana is not as large as was first estimated. The stalks were badly blown down in many portions of tho State, and damaged to some extent. In the southern half of tho State tho yield has been an average one, but in the northern half the crop has been cut short by tho drought. Tho season has been fair, and tbe most of tho crop is already harvested in excellent condition. The potato crop has been reported as being badly rotted in tho ground. The report of State Statistician Peelle, just sent to tho Commissioner of Agriculture at Washington, states that the average yield of Corn per acre is 32.02 bushels, and in quality it is put at 97 per cent. He reports the yield of potatoes 97 bushels per acre, and the quality 88 per cent. —John Snyder, of Blackford County, tho man whose only relief from the effects of a strange diseaso that Ims afllioted him for some time past, was found in almost continual walking, was believed a few days ago to have walked himself into his grave. He was in tho clutches of death, but has resumed walking. Physicians say it is only a question of endurance. Death alone, they say, can relieve him from tho iron grip of his mysterious malady. Meanwhile he is doing his five miles an hour; not including rests. lie walks twenty hours out of the twenty-four. He shaves ns he walks, and takes his meals while on tho go. Ho has not been known to sleep more than four hours out of the twenty-four in two years. —A stock company, with a cnpitnl of $5,000 has been formed in Denver, Miami County, to develop recently discovered veins of iron ore. Officers: President, Spencer Augur; Vice President, Jacob Slappy; Secretary, John E. Millison; Treasurer, Wilson Nowbolt; Superintendent, Smith Roy. This company has offocted, for a bonus of 10 per cent, of the gross product, tho leaso of 320 acres, and will at once Bet a forco of men to work prospecting. —-Patrick McAdams, a man who hns been in the mining business for twenty years, met with a fatal accident at Montgomery, twenty-live miles oust of Vincennes. lie was walking throuch au entry, v.hen some one who had drilled a hole to fire a shot set his squib just iu time to catch McAdams as he passed tho room. Tho unfortunato nmu’s head was literally t.«ru to pieces.

—Masked robbers entered the house of William Blair, a farmer living near Holton, Ripley County, and compelled tho old man to produce all tho money in the bouse, amounting to $l5O. After threatening their lives if they made any attempt toward their arrest tho robbers left. Mr. Blair recognized them by their voices, and will endeavor to bring them to justice. —Fred Ash met with a terrible death a short distance below Vincennes, on the C., V. &C. road. His engine struck a tree, derailing it, tho wheels passing over him, cutting off both legs. He lived but a short time. Deceased was employed on the O. <fc M., and left the road but a few days ago to take un engine on the C., V. &C. He was a favorite with all who knew him. —Tho Grand Rapids nnd Indiana Railroad is experimenting with a now patent electric alarm, to bo used as a safeguard at dangerous railroad crossings. About a quarter of a mile from tho crossing, on the railroad, is au iron dog, and trains running over it strike a gong at the crossing, which gives passing teams half a minute’s warning that a train is approaching. —The cooperage works of M. Bierrusse, now located at Morris, on the Big Four, will be removed to Columbus at once, the City Council having voted to exempt him from taxation for eight years and donating SSOO, he binding himself to permanently locate, buy real estate, and to employ seventy hands in his works. —The Ohio Falls Iron Works have been compelled by the rush of business to pat ou three additional furnaces, making fourteen in all now in operation. The mill has been run both night and day for several weeks, in order to manufacture iron sufficiently fast to fill the orders pouring in daily.

—At Lafayette a horse driven by Harvey Busch became frightened at a train, and, wheeliug about suddenly, was precipitated, together with the buggy, down a fortyfoot embankment The horse had a leg broken and the vehicle was demolished, but Mr. Busch escaped with slight bruises. —A 12-year-old son of Bobert Goodneer, living two aud a half miles northeast of Milroy, while out hunting, accidentally discharged an old horse-pistol, the contents entering his head above the eye, making a mortal wound, from which he is lying at the point of death. —Mr. Nathan Powell, of Madison, has presented the library of Hanover College a complete set of British and American poets, 118 volumes, making a very valuable addition to the already extensive collection of the institution. —Mrs. John. W. Hickox, wife of nn employe of the Vandalia Auditor’s office at Terre Haute, was severely and perhaps fatally burned. Her clothing caught tire from a stove, and she ran into the street for assistance. —There are but five men living who have represented Indiana in the United States Senate. They are G. N. Fitch, David Turpie, Joseph E. McDonald, Daniel W. Voorhoes, aud Benjamin Harrison. —llev. T. L. Hughes, pastor o£ the First Presbyterian Church, of Sbelbyvil.e, has received and accepted a call from the Second Presbyterian Church at Fort Wayns at a salary of $2,200 per annum.