Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Patents have been issued to the following Indianinns: Wallace H. Dodge, Mishawaka, wooden pnlly; Byron E. Foss, Indiannpolis, piston-rod packing; Charles W. Gift, assignor to L. R. Gift, Fairmount, weather strip; Frank Heller, Oakland City, air-heater; James A. Manning, Danville, assignor of one-fourth to E. M. White, Hendricks County, bridle bit; Isaac McCormick, assignor of one-half to C. E. • Hall, Logansport, barn truss; Charles McNeal, assignor to Dodge Manufacturing Company, Mishawaka, rabbeting machine; George Phillion, assignor to Dodge Manufacturing Company, tool for turning the faces of pnlly-rimß; Clayton <fc Potts, Indianapolis, clay disintegrator; William E. Ryan, French Lick, bellows attachment; Alanzon W. Straughn, Lincolnville, automatic corn-dropper; Charles Whittenber, Indianapolis, cash-box drawer. —Prof. B. S. Coppock, Governor of White’s Indiana Mannal Labor lustitnte, near Wabash, has just returned from Pine Ridge Indian Ageuoy, iu Dnkotn, with twenty-nine Indian children, who will be educated in the Institute. There are seventeen girls in the company, several of whom were taken direct from the wigwams and oanuot speak or understand English. All are Sioux, but one is a son of Liitle Chief, who is at the head of the northern Cheyennes. The Indian work at White’s Institute is attracting wide attention. Ten girls have just been returned to their western homes, having completed their education. The Government pays $125 a year toward the education of old pupils and SIOB for new ones. The deficit is made up by the National Society of Friends. —A special inquiry elicited the following showing of the condition of crops: The crops in Southern Indiana are even worse than anticipated two or three weeks ago. The oorn crop will not be more than onehalf, while late potatoes, with few exceptions, may be set down os an entire failure. The river bottoms of Posey show fair corn, but further up the river this crop is seriously damaged. Knox, Daviess, and Martin coauties are the worst sufferers by the recent drought. It is thought that Martin Coanty will not raise enough corn to feed the teams that were used tending the crop, and many farmers are selling their stock at a great sacrifice. —The Indiana M. E. Conference, at the September session, will take preliminary steps toward the purchase of a large traot of land near West Baden Springs,on which will be established the annual camp-meet-ing of the Methodist congregations of Southern Indiana. A number of cottages, hotel, and tabernacle for worship will be built, and tbe grounds laid off in the highest art of the landscape gardener. —At the De Pauw gas wells, abandoned in Harrison County, the gas pressure is so great that salt water is thrown out a distance of fifty foot high. It was the intention of the De Pauws to put up saltworks there this fall, but the will contest will prevent this until the matter is determined. It is estimated that salt water that could be converted into forty tons of salt per week goes to waste at these works. —A case has been decided by a Montgomery County Justioe of the Peace that has attracted considerable notice. The trustee desired to send a man and family back to Fayette County for that county to keep, as that is where they came from. They refused to go, and the trustee resorted to the law to compel them to go. The justice decided they must go back to the county where they belong. —Samuel Eppard, a wealthy pioneer of Madison County and owner of the old Kill, bnck saw-mills, fell from a bridge near his residence and killed himßelf. Mr. Eppard was standing on the bridge talking to Mr. Heagy, a neighbor, when he suddenly said: “I’m not feeling well,” fell from the bridge, striking the ground twelve feet below, and was picked up dead. —At a meeting of the directors of the Clark Coanty Agricultural Association it was decided, on account of the extreme drought and scarcity of water on the fair grounds, that they would be compelled to postpone the fair until the first week in September, 1888, at which time they will have ample water facilities on their grounds. —The new Conrt-honse that has been building in Mancie for over two years, is completed and the contractors, Messrs. Charles Pearce & Co., have handed it over to the Commissioners. It presents a splendid appearance and is one of the very best court-houses in the State. The contractors have been faithful in every particular. —Mr. John Melease, a wealthy farmer, living near Yorktown, lay down on a railroad track and went to sleep. A westbound passenger struck him, leaving him in a state so mangled that his friends did not recognize him. He was dead when found, aud some papers in his pocket identified the remains, and they were sent home. —Ferdinand McNutt, aged 20 years, was killed on the Lake Shore pile-driver, a few miles east of Elkhart, recently. He went up to take the block from under the hammer, the latter fell prematurely, and, striking the block, caused it to strike McNutt, who fell a distance of twenty feet, alighting on his head. He lived about an hour. —Reeny Allenbass, a young unmarried man, residing with his parents in Hanover Township, and employed in a saw-mill at Tryset, in Jefferson County, was prying on a log with a crow-bar, when he clipped, and fell backward on 0 circular saw, which cat him nearly in two, causing his instant death. —The body of Mathias Rapp was exhumed at Kossuth, and a second inquest shows that his death was the result of violence.