Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The following patents have been granted Indiana inventors: Wm. Adair, Leesville, nut lock; Joseph D. Adams, Marshall, and F. M. Pennock, Kennet Square, Pa., road-grader; Charles A. Bertsch, Cambridge City, furniture caster; John W. Lochner and N. Oster, Aurora, device for ageing and purifying liquors; Britton Poulson and E. L. Lathrop, Fort Wayne, assignors to American Road Machine Compu'iy, Kennet Square, Pa., roadgrader; Charles J. Rinderknecht, Indianapolis, saw-mill set works; John Rogers, Elkhart, machine for grinding mowing machine knives; Isidore V. Roy, assignor to Dodge Manufacturing Company, Mishawaka, wooden pulley; Calvin J. Udell,

North Indianapolis, towel arm. —The Chief of Police of Fort Wayne has issued an order directing the immediate closing of all gambling bouses in that city, under penalty of raids, arrest, and punishment of all room-keepers and inmates. The blow was so sudden and unexpected that the gentry of the green cloth cannot realize what has struck them. For years gamblers have carried things with a high hand there, and there were three public faro banks, one keno room, and numerous poker rooms, public and private, in operation. The Law and Order League is also making vigorous war upon the saloons.

—John Barrett, a well-to-do farmer, retired to a room on the second floor of Mr*. Knight’s boarding-house nt Logansport, and was not seen again until an earlyhour next morning, when he was found immediately under the window, with a broken arm, fractured hip, and badly bruised head and face. He also sustained internal injuries that may result seriously. It is generally supposed that be staggered out of the window, as it was open.

—Workmen engaged in a gravel-pit in the southeastern part of Rochester, have unearthed a number of human bones, which on being put together show that they are the skeletons of five grown persons. The bones were found at a place about five feet beneath the surface, and had evidently been dismembered before being buried. The oldest inhabitants of the place are unable to solve the mystery. —The Indiana Farmer’s latest reportt show that the average crop yield of whea* in this State is about thirteen bushels per acre, making the aggregate crop between 38,000,000 and 40,000,000 bushels. The yield of corn is 60 per cent, of a full crop. There is about an average area of oats, with a yield of thirty-two bushels per acre. The average production of potatoes is below thirty bushels per aero. —A passenger train on the Cairo, Vinoennes & Chicago Railroad ran into a sawlog that was laid upon the track recently, about eight miles south of Vincennes. A few nights before an attempt was made to wreck an Ohio and Mississippi train between Shoals and Huron. On this occasion cross-ties were piled across the track, but Engineer Thom saw them in time to save the train.

—Gessy Thompson, who had been working at Hammond and was on his way home, at Rochester, on a freight, in getting off the train slipped and fell, the wheels passing over his right leg and left foot, tearing the flesh and breaking the bone. His hands and bead were also bruised, from which injuries he died in about three hours. Deceased was 24 years old. —A cow belonging to G. A. Smith, living near Elkhart, gave birth, a night or two ago, to a remarkable freak of nature. It had the head and nose of a bull-dog, the ears of a calf, and the legs and hoofs of a hog. The knee-joints of the hind legs were fastened to the hips. The forequarters were very heavy and the fore legs very short. —At North Vernon three sisters named Kelly and a companion named Lena Smith, while returning from school, were attacked by a vicious cow. The Kelly girls escaped injury, but Lena Smith was seriously injured, one of the cow’s horns entering her nose and tearing open the flesh from the nostril to the top of her head. —French Lick Springs, !n Orange County, are to be turned over by the recent purchaser, Col. H. E. Wells, to a joint stock company, with a capital stock of $200,000, who will at once make such improvements as will create of the springs a resort first-class in all respects. The parties interested are Louisville capitalists. —At the Central Iron and Steel Company’s works in Brazil an explosion in one of the furnaces drove a red-hot cinder into the eye of John Billiter, an employe, quite destroying it. He was also so badly burned about the other eye that he will probably lose the sight of it. —One of a gang of burglars convicted at Princeton, just before sentence communicated to the Court that she was a WO-

man. She had been masquerading in male attire for three years. She was sentenced to the Female Reformatory for three years. —The citizens of. Richmond are so sanguine that the Evansville and Richmond road will be built that they are squabbling over what line it shall enter their city, and have asked the Board of Trade to take the matter up. —The Rockville Light Artillery, on its return home from Evansville, where it won first prize in the artillery contest, was given a handsome reception, followed by a bani quet, at which complimentary speeches ■ were made. i —Samuel Hilman, of Columbus, has a sword captured by him in battle in the late war. It is inscribed “Lieutenant Colonel Bay, Second Tennessee Cavalry, C. S. A." . He is anxious to return it to the owner, if | living.