Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Patents have been issued to Indian* inventors as follows: Nevada F. Ardery, New Cumberland, bustle; Stephen J. Austin, Terre Haute, platform scale; Sylvunus F. and A. Bowser, said Sylvanus F. Bowser nssgnor by mesne assignment to 8. F. Bow.er, Fort Wayne, storage and measuring tank for volatile liquids; John P. Carr, Sr., Brookston, threshing machine; Geo. W. Coons, Indianapolis, adjustable boring machine; Joseph F. Gent. Colnmbus, preserving cereals; Robert Hartman and J. P. Frowe, Connersville, foot warmer; Alva T. Hoadley, Tilden, fence-weaving machine; Hugh T. Hogan, Albion, assignor of one-half to W. D. Gleason, Park Manor, 111., locomotive headlight; John T. Stansbury, Elkhart, hair-curler. —Six boys of Crawfordsville went hunting recently, and three of them were brought back with shot in their faces and heads. The boys thought they had something in a log, and John Harris wont to one end to shoot the animal as it would run out. The other boys went to the other end of the log to frighten it out. In some manner the gun of John Harris was discharged, and Frank Birchfield lost one eye and is not expected to recover from the wounds. Also, a brother of Harris, and Pat O’Neal, an Irish lad, were shot in the nock. Tho Harris boy having the gun does not seem to know just how the gun happened to go off, but thinks he must havfe discharged it with his foot after he laid lhe gun on the ground. —The Board of Missions of the M. E. Church has just formally accepted the gift of the estate of Elijah Hayes, of Warsaw. The donation of the property, valued at SIOO,OOO, to Chaplain McCabe, Secretary of the Board, occurred in September, but a clause in the bequest provided that the property should remain iutact for fifty years, and to this the Board declined to accede, fearing depreciation in value after Mr. Hayes’ death. The conditions were accordingly altered bo that the real estate becomes the Board’s nt the death of the donor, and the terms are accepted. —The fires that have prevailed in tho Kankakee marsh recently, extended over a Inrger territory and have been much more destructive than was first supposed. In a number of places the farmers were compelled to haul water to quench the fire when it had communicated to the turf. The burnt district comprises an area of about nine miles square, reaching from Grovertown to nearly the Kankakee river, and extending north from the Pittsburgh Bailroad to the Baltimore and Ohio road. Over 5,000 tons of hay have been destroyed, valued at about $16,000. —Prof. Collett, late State Geologist, Is authority for the statement that eagles yet roost along tbe Wabash in Indiana. Parke County farmers a year ago were annoyed by depredations of the king of the air, being losers of lambs, chickens, etc. One or more of their number was killed, and a hunt was talked of. A few days ago a Sullivan County farmer named Eaton killed a fine specimen of the bald or gray species near Walker’s Chapel, which measured seven feot between wing tips. —Thomas Fox, a farmer, who lived seven miles east of Columbia City, was found lying near the track of the "Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, dsad. His shoes and stockings were off, lying near him. He was probably asleep on tbe track and struck by a train. He was 4' years of age, and leaves a large family destitute. —Suits have been brought in the Montgomery County Court to enjoin the Commissioners and County Treasurer from placing upon the tax-duplicate, and collecting it, a donation voted fifteen years ago toward the present Midland Railroad. The suits are brought by the citizens of Clark and Scott Townships. —Henry Brockman's daughter, llyears ofage, was burned to death at Kiana, on the Air-line Railroad. During the temporary absence of the family, the little girl’s clothing was ignited from an open fire. She was burned so badly that death resulted in a few hours. —Wesley Addison, a prominent farmer and stock-trader, living one mile southeast of Greenfield, was found on the railroad (rack, near his farm, with his head, legs, and one arm cut off, and his whole frame horribly mangled, three or four trains having run over him. —At Carthage, five miles south of Knightstown, gas was struck at a depth of 820 feet and six feet in Trenton rock. The gas increases as tbe drill goes down. When lighted, the flame was about fifteen feet high from a two-inch pipe. —While responding to a fire-alarm, at Madison, James King, aged 31, was thrown from a hose-cart and instantly killed, his neck and skull being broken. He leaves a widow and three children. —The Farmers’ Association, of Charleston, will bring suit against the Adams Express Company for transporting a small box of quail that were shot out of the season fixed by the game law. —The barn of Mr. Israel Taylor, a wealthy farmer living about two miles south of Argos, was consumed by fire, burning four valuable horses. Loss, $3,500; no insurance. —Judge W. P. Britton, of Crawfordsville, had an arm broken in two places by a mare, which he was trying to break, jumping upon him. He also received other injuries. —Wm. Emmons, an 8-year-old boy, living four miles from Vincennes, was struck on tbe head by a limb blown from a tiee in a high wind and killed. —The miners* strike, at Washington, grows more serious ench day, and fully one-half of the miners have left the place. —William Hall, a fanner, drove off *