Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1888 — Page 3

HOARD AND MORGAN.

WISCONSIN’S REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES. Brief Sketches of the Men Who Hoad the State Ticket!—Mr. Hoard a Dairyman, Farmer and Editor—Mr. Morgan a Bachelor Merchant. [Milwaukee special.] W. D. Hoard, the Republican candidate for Governor of Wii oasin, came to this State in 1857, locating at Oak Grove, Dodge Co ’.nty, on Oct. 4th. In December lie began teaching vo cal music in Lowell, at Benedict’s Comers, and also in Elba, .and the next summer ho remained in Lowell, after which he went to live in Waupun. He struggled hard in those days, working on the farm in summer and teaching singing in winter. Afterward he became a dairyman and an editor, his publication being known throughout the

w. D. HOARD.

State as Hoard’s Dairyman. His present home is at Fort Atkinson, where he lives ou a small farm. From childhood to manhood his life v’as upon a farm. He is a native of New York State and 52 years old. Since 1857 he has been a resident of the State, with the exception of the war period. He was the first man to volunteer in Lake Mills, Jefferson County, where he then lived, and enlisted in the Fourth Regiment May 21, 1861. He was discharged for disability from sickness in 1862, and wentto his old home in Now York, where, after a few months' rest, he re-enlisted ia a New York artillery company and remained in the army till 1865. After the war he returned to Wisconsin, and in 1870 he started the Jefferson County Union as a local paper at Lake Mills. Fipm the start he sought to awaken an interest in the dairy business, and largely to his efforts is to be credited the development of the dairy interests of Wisconsin. James Morgan, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Wisconsin, was born in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1841, and was one of a family of nine sturdy boys and one girl. His father was a millwright and manufacturer of improved machinery. To this he added the business of a lumber or timber dealer, and in the People’s Journal of Perthshire, of Aug. 18, 1888, a picture of the senior Morgan and a lengthy sketch of his life and value as a citizen an published. Soon after reaching New York young James went to Peru, 111., and engagec as a clerk in a dry-goods store. For sou

JAMES MORGAN.

•years he was thus engaged at Peru and Ottawa, and, while in Ottawa, he declared his intention of becoming a citizen of his adopted country, and took out his final papers at Freeport three years later, or as soon as he could do so. He came to Milwaukee in 1874, and established himself in the dry-goods business. Mr. Morgan is a bachelor, worth half a million, and occupies rooms over his store, where he has a fine library. He is not a politician, and doesn’t know much about practical politics.

RANDALL GETTING WELL.

He Is Slewly Convalescing from His Recent Terrible Illness. [XV ashington telegram.] Encouraging reports reach this city from the quiet Pennsylvania town where Congressman Samuel J. Randall is slowly con-

SAMUEL J. RANDALL.

tions, and is practically as familiar with their work as if he were back at the old - quarters at the Capitol directing their .movements again.

valescing from the terrible illness which prostrated him three months ago. He is still confined to his room, but his strength is gradually returning and no doubt is felt that he will be able to resume his legislative duties in December. He communicates regularly from his sick chamber with members of his Committee on Appropria-

ABORIGINES AT HOME.

THE SAC AND FOX INDIAN TRIBES AT TAMA CITY, lOWA. A Tenderfoot Visits Their Primitive Home and Graphically Describes What He Saw— Ti e Red Man’s Tepes—No A<lvau< eincnt Made in Fifty Years. [Marshalltown Titnoa-Republican.] Indian Agent Enos Ghssn was kind enough to invite your reporter to accompany him on a visit to the Indian camp some thres miles from Tama City, lowa, thinking, no doubt, the tendi rfoot would see something new, and he did. This is not a reservation. Ths Sac and Fox tribes'own some 1,430 acres, bought by the Government for them some years ago, the title deeds being held by ths Governor of lowa in trust for them.

As farmers, they raise corn and garden truck with lair success, and have some 50) head of ponies that have to shift for themselvei. summer and winter, no feed or shelter beyond what nature supplies being furnished them by their owners, No cattle are on the farm—some say it s against their religion—and two hogs make up their live stock. At present they are occupying their summer residences, which consist of shtds without chimneys, and the inside is generally one room. They still e-t as their forefa.hers did when hungry, and the table is the lap of mother eaitn, coverad with a matting made by the women from the rushes on the river banks. Stores are unknown, schools they won t have, and clothes are the combination seen when they v.s:t town. When co d weather comes on, they move into the "tepees,’’ a circulir thatched hut, say six feet high, with an opening for the smoke to go out at the top, and a hole to crawl into. In ocher words, they live as they did 100 years ago, perhaps with a few inoie comforts in the way of clothing and food. As we rode up, some three games of poker were going on, no “penny-ante” business, but a game ror keeps, a doilar-raise common, and the limit was off. We heard the continuous pounding of a drum from one cabin, and an inquiry showed we were fortunate enough to bo on hand to witness an "adoption”—that is, a certain family was to adept a healthy spring buck of twenty-five years of age. Across the bottom came the chiefs, who were invited to the number of twenty or more; one old fellow that would weigh 250, “fatter’n a fool,” a linen duster, some one-legged pants, and that’s all; others were covered with red blankets, that as they walked showed they had forgotten to dress for company. Then the drummer had called two assistant musicians. A stick some three feet eight was stuck in the ground; this was covered with streamers, like a May pole, and the “Queen of the Muy’’ the adopted one, the prodigal, as it were, tooK his po dtion near it. Un the ground was tome matting, with baker's biscuits, green corn, and other truck, and at a given signal, down on theground, around the tablet’?), they sat, and the feast commenced, let the devil take the hindmost. The squaws and hungry papooses keep a respectful distance, waiting for something to turn up, that is the bucks. They make short work of it, and then the women and children gathered up the fragments and carried them off inside of them. Old Kick-’em Stiff, a youth of 71, with his head shaved ala Chinaman, face painted, clothes removed to his hips, then commenced a slow walk around the May pole with a drum accompaniment ; very soon he began a double shuffle the sweet singers gave us, Dundee, or something like. Faster and faster he went, until his breath gave out, he gave a backward kick, the music stopped and then h s oration commenced. Our inteipreter said he was hu ting the Sioux. At any rate he had a big time making believe he was doing something, and all of a sudden he stopped, and gave his battle ax to Stricken D er, a 50-year-old chap, with his head tied up in a black rag, b cause he was scaiped once upon a time. He put the battle ax between his legs, played horse, kicked up, bucktd, aid went down. Interp;eter sail “horse threw him.” At any rate we all had a good laugh, Indians included. Then he gave us a free trade speeob, as nearly as your scribe remembers, and handing the battle ax to the next performer, he walked around < nee, did Hashing, said nothing, but gave it to the end man, who asked some old chestnuts, which we gave up, and then ths adopted one, covered with blankets, ribbons of all colors, stepped out, took the calico from the May pole, gave each chief a red rag, and the show was over. This visit has knocked all of the Fenimore Cooper business out of the writer. He saw a little fat papoose, with a stomach on him like a four-weeks-old pig after drinking two gallons of buttermilk, get fighting mad and cry as natural as any white baby ever did. He heard these dignified noble red men laugh at and guy a bashful speaker equal to any students’ debating society. One of ihe speakers, the fellow that played horse, was a perfect clown, and kept chiefs, squaws, and papooses in a continual roar of laughter. They treat their women as they always have —like brutes. They live'to eat, making no provision for their horses or themselves for the winter months, any more than they did fifty years ago. They are inveterate gamblers. Ont thing that perhaps some white folks cau get a pointer from, is that when the noble red man comes home drunk, the squaws tie him hand and loot till he sobers off. Perhaps the most comical sight was an ol 1 efliief, half naked, painted, dancing his war dance, with bells on his ankles, killin • and scalping bis imaginary enemies, all this in the mo it approved style, and wearing spectacles. This can be said to their credit, that they remember little debts of honor. Deputy Postmaster Austin says it is safe to trust them for a postage stamp. Agent Gheen says they appreciate kindness, and his successful work with them is on that plan. Thirty minutes brought us back to town, and it hardly seemed possible that within three miles of us lived 403 human beings that had not advanced perceptibly, socially, morally, intellectually or financially, in fifty years.

CONDITION OF OUR CROPS.

Report from the Department of Agriculture for the Month of September. The report of the Department of Agriculture for Sept. 1 makes the average condition of corn 94.2 per cent.; wheat, 77.3; oats, 87.2; rye, 92.8; barley, 86.9; buckwheat, 93.7; potatoes, 91.6; and tobacco, 87. The returns show but slight falling off from the exceptionally high August report of com, the general average having declined but one point during the month. The loss is almost entirely in one State—Kansas—where drouth and hot, dry winds caused a decline of eleven points since last report. This high average of condition has been exceeded but once during the last ten years-in 1885—when it stood at 95, and the largest crop ever grown was harvested. In the seven corn surplus States the average of condition is 85, against 64 at the same date in 1887. The average condition of spring and winter wheat when harvested was 77.3, against 82 last year and 87.8 in 1886. In 1885 it was 72, and in 1884, 98. The winter wheat States show a slight improvement over the lust report of condition (July), but there has been a serious decline in the spring wheat region of the Northwest. Chinch-bugs were again a serious evil in portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota, while unseasonable rains at and after harvest materially lowered the condit on in these States and in portions of lowa. Frost between the 16th and 18th of the month did some injury in the Rail and Jim River Valleys. The averages of the principal States are: Winter wheat—New York, 85; Pennsylvania, 92; Tennessee, 96; Kentucky, 90; Ohio, 60; Michigan, 78; Indiana. 64; Illinois, 72; Missouri. 75; Kansas. 90; California, 85; Oregon, 94. Spring wheat—Wisconsin, 78; Minnesota, 70; lowa. 73; Nebraska, 80; Igikota, 78. The general average of oats at the time of harvest was four points lower than at last report. In only one year since 1881 has the September report made condition less than 90. This was in 1887, when it was 83.4. Potatoes have fallen off less than two points during the month and condition is generally high in all sections. Tobacco shows slight improvement, mainly in the cigar leaf States. The average condition Of cotton is 83.8—a decline of 3'6 points since the last report. The general average is slightly higher than in 1887 and 1886, when it stood 82.8 andß2.l respectively.

Edward Byrd, colored, and who is deaf and dumb, was struck by an engine on the Grand Trunk Road at Cassopolis, Mich., and killed.

AN ABUNDANT COUNTRY.

DIVERSIFIED RESOURCES OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY. The Valley of the Snake River, One of the Richest and Most Prolific Sections of the Pacific Northwest —A Healthful, Temperate Climate. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.] Dayton, Wash. Ter., Sept. 15, 1883. It is a common though i atirely mistaken notion that the farther north we go the colder it becomes. The altitude, the character of the surface, prevailing winds, abundance of water and many other condi ious give us entirely different climates on the same lines of latitude. Without attempting a treatise on weather lore we will content ourselves by reiterating the well-known fact that tha western coast of North America is warmer than the eastern. This is due to the influence of the winds and the thermal currents of the Pacific Oc an in distributing the heat of the tropics to thes > shores. The great Japan current pours the ful; force of its warm breath against the shore line of Washingtoil Territory and Oregon, and inland over plain and mountain top, even to Dakota, performing the same service for this western land that Die Gulf Stream does for Europe and the British Islands. Sitka, Alaska, is on the parallel of Edinburgh,

Scotland, and while very much dampar, it has the average annual temperature of Minnesota. It is not cold enough at Sitka to freeze merchantable ice. The northern boundary of Washington Territory is not so hopelessly near the arctic seas, when it has the same latitude as Paris, France, where the products of the middle temperate zone attain their, finest results. And here on the southern lim of the Territory, from whence we write, we are on the parallel of Rome, Italy. The great climatic feature of the Pacific Northwest is the Chinook wind, so regularly on hand when wanted to regulate the heat of summer and the cold of winter. This w ind come i from the heated currents of the Pacific,and turns win er into summsrat a moment’s notice. There is nothing in the c imate here to deter any intelligent man from making himself more comforta le the year round than is possible anywhere east of the Bocky Mountains. The long, winding Snake coming from Idaho divides with its profound canyon the southeastern part of Washington Territory in twain. South of the river ore four counties of surprising agricultural possibilities, of which region Dayton is the geographical center. It is quite impossible to give Eastern readers a clear idea of the appearance of this country, for the reason that it is unlike any region in the Easi.. It is prairie, but does not correspond to the prairies of the Mississippi Valley. There are no wide stretches of level land; on the contrary the whole surface is a succession of rounded hills with narrow valleys between, and a few broader valleys, sometimes called flats. The eoil on the summits of the hills and on their slopes is even richer than in the bottoms. It is a curious fact that the upland soil often has a depth of from 50 to 100 feet, show-, ing the ancient prodigality of nature in leaving such enormous deposits of soli on this region. Wheat has been known to mature without a drop of rain, moisture coming from below on the principle of capillary attraction. The soil is decomposed basalt, lava, and volcanic ash, a comparative analysis made by the Agricultural Department at Washington showing that it is quite identical with that of the plains of Sicily, which was a granary of old Rome, and has a record for producing wheat extending through thirty centuries. The soil here is easily handled, and the amount of work that can be accomplished by an energetic man without fatigue or extremeweariness is as remarkable as the crops are prolific. It seems like a big story to say that one man can plow and seed from 305 to 450 acres of wheat and each acre yielding from thirty to fifty bushels. The average yield is twice that of Minnesota and three times that of Ohio. A single gra n of wheat has been known to send out a stool of fifty or more stalks, each crowned with heads holding a hundred grains, or five thousand for one.

Dayton, the county seat of Columbia County, is located in the valley of the Touchet (Tu-suy) River, a mountain stream of sufficient fall and volume to furnish power for several mills and factories, with lots of room for other industries. Where potatoes grow from" 300 to CO) bushels to an acre a starch factory would be a paying institution. An oat meal mill is a legitimate want, and a paper mill would prove a paying investment, on account of the abundance of straw and the fine water. A furniture factory is a necessity, so, too, a woolen mill, a soap factory, a beet sugar factory, a cannery, a pork packing house, and, in short, a multiplicity of varied manufactories. Dayton has a population of about 2,000. It is a well-built town, with wide, shady streets, and variety enough in architecture to give interest and attraction. We have read of those who sit under their own vine ' and fig tree, with none to molest or make them afraid. This is literally true of Daytonians, for they generally possess their own homes. The booming process has no foothold on real estate, and there is no city in the Territory where values in property are so truly representative and indicativo of the actual prosperity. The courthouse is one of the finest in the Territory. There are two excellent newspapers, the Chronicle and the Inlander, ten or twelve churches, a public library, a telephone exchange, two banks, all the leading fmternal organizations, and a school system of w.iich the ci.izens are deservedly proud. The city has a fine water-works system, the supply coming from springs of unvarying temperature and purify. The fire department is a crack organization. In short, the town enjoys many comforts and conveniences not found in much larg r Eastern places. Lumber is brought to town in a V flume from the Blue Mountains, twenty-one miles distant, Dayton, in the respect of a timber supply, being more fortunate than most of the towns of the prairie region, there being plenty of timber within five miles of town. There are some ten or twelve saw-mills in the county, and lumber retails at from $8 to sl6 per M. The present railway outlet is over the O. R. and N. Road, 283 miles to Portland and 6 (miles to Wallula, the nearest point on the Northern Pacific, although negotiations are pending with the latter rood to send a branch into the county. Dayton has' an active Board of Trade, and is one of few towns with an office and committee to wait upon newcomers. If an industrious mon - can flourish anywhere “atop ’o ground," he certainly can here. The farmer who can sell his place in the East for SSO or S6O an acre and buy better land here at $lO to sls, ought surely to profit by the change. He can have gardens and orcharas on the hillsides and grain fields on the hilltops. His tables can groan with plenty. In the valleys he can have pastures, without need of expensive barns to shelter stcck through a long winter, as in the East. Trees grow rapidly, and his home can soon be embowered in shade. The harvest season is long, and he can haul his grain from the field ' to the cars or boat. In time he will have a good, heavy bank account. Near Dayton there are no open public lands, but sett ers with means can always find opportunity sto buy improved places. Nothing seems to be lacking here to make ideal country life and living. There is no rowdyism, and the rough work of early settlement is all done, and churches, schools, roads, postal facilities, and intelligent and honest society await the newcomer.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A CHRONICLE OF HAPPENINGS IN HOOSIERDOM. Slvocklng Deaths, Terrible Accidents, Horrible Crimes, Proceedings of Courts, Secret Societies, and, in fact, Everything of Interest to the Hoosiers. The Indiana Farmer gives its compilation and remarks thereon relative to the crops in the central States. It shows that in Indiana the area of wheat was about 2,700,000 acres, and the average yield per acre 13 bushels. This shows 35, 00,000 bushels for the State. In the the southern division the average per acre is IB bushels, in the northern division, 13A and in the central only 8 bushels. The area of oats was 900,00 acres, in round numbers, and the average yield per acre 29 bushels, showing the entire crop of the State to be 26,100,000 bushels. The present condition of the corn crop in the southern division is 101 per cent.; central division 100 per cent., and northern 75 per cent. In the southern and central division the season has been an excellent one for corn, while in the northern it was too dry in several counties, which cuts down the per cent, of condition. All the early planted corn is out of danger of frost, and it is now believed that the crop will be the largest ever grown in the State. The early reports indicated an area of about 3,300,000 acres, and the yield per acre this year, it is believed, will be about thirty-seven bushels. The fruit crop is one of the best ever grown in the State, especially is this true of apples.

Burglar Shot, One night recently Theodore Groub, of the firm of John Groub’s Sons & Co., Seymour, was awakened by his wife, who informed him that there was some one in the house. Mr. Groub seized a revolver just in time to cover the retreating form of a burglar, who had gained admission to his residence by cutting away the window-shutters. Refusing to answer the demand as to his wants, and appearing demonstrative and as if accompanied by confederates, Mr. Groub fired two shots into the burglar, who then shouted, “Don’t shoot any more; I’m shot.” The wounded man dragged himself from the yard, leaving a trail of blood. In the morning a negro in a helpless condition, with a pistol wound in the bißik of his head and in one Ug» was found near the O. & M. depot. He gave the name of George Mitchell, claiming Bowling Green, Ky., as his home. He is undoubtedly the burglar who entered the Groub residence.

The Deadly Dynamite. The citizens of Cutler, a small town of Carroll County, were terrified one night recently with a loud explosion that seemed to shake the earth for a mile. Some fiends had placed a dynamite cartridge under the postoffice and it went oft’, with terrible effect, totally destroying the entire building and blowing the contents of the postoffice into unrecognizable fragments. During the past year five attempts have been made to blow up this same building. Fortunately, no lives have been lost. Whether these attempts are aimed at the postmaster or the owner of the building, there is a difference of opinion. Some miscreants placed two pounds of dynamite under the hotel a few nights ago, but for some cause it failed in its intended mission. A great deal of excitement is manifested, and the citilens are determined to bring the guilty parties to justice if such a thing is possible-

Badly Hurt by a Train. Wilson Dawson, aged 64 years, was struck by a Bee Line passenger engine nt Anderson, and received injuries that will probably prove fata]. Dawson at the time was walking east on the railroad track, apparently in deep study. The passenger train, with Engineer Lecclair at the throttle, came around a slight curve from the west. The engineer instantly blew' the whistle but seeing no attention paid to the warning, reversed the engine and put on the airbrakes. Before the train could be stopped, however, the pilot of the engine had struck the old man. Dawson’s left leg was crushed at the ankle, the bones protruding through the flesh. His right arm was broken between the shoulder and elbow, his head and face badly bruised and cut. The physician expresses the opinion that the foot will have to be amputated, an operation that may cost the wounded man his life. Survivors of a Powerful Tribe. Col. W. H. Tailmage, General Indian Agent and payee of the United States Government, is at Peru effecting a final settlement with the Eel River Miami Indians of this county, now numbering twenty-two persons. This is the last and final payment to be made to them under the treaties of August 3, 1795, August 23, 1805, and September 30, 1809; aggregating a total of $22,000, or a per capita of $846.15. Considerable trouble is being experienced regarding appointments of guardians, etc., of the children. The greatest amount to any one family is that to Louisa Godfroy, wife of Peter Godfroy, and daughter of Shin-go-quah, who received $5,076.90. This bare handful of twenty-six persons represents a once great and powerful tribe. Patents. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Jonas H. Aldrich,

Butler, journal-box; James R. Baker, • Kendallville, back gear for turninglathea; James A. Beecher, Mishawaka, screw-eutting die head; Lawson A. Boyd, Indianapolis, relief valve for automatic air-brakes; Annabella and M. A. Kelly, Holman Station, escape attachment for vapors and odors from cooking vessels; Edward C. Mead, Elkhart, wrench; Andrew J. Owens, Rushville, insect destroyer; William N. Rumely, assignor to hintself and M. Rumely, LaPorte, steam boiler; Charles F. Sleigh, Fort Wayne, rotary engine; Eats Stalker, Westfield, weather-strip. Fatal Quarrel Betwean Farmers. As two farmers, James Surber and James Railsback, were returning home from Pendleton they became engaged in a dispute over a woman, a relative of Surber’s, whom he claimec) Railsback was on terms of intimacy with. Both were in an intoxicated condition, and when about five miles from town Railsback struck Surber with a club. A scuffle ensued, but they were separated by a companion named Reedy, who persuaded them to shake hands, and both men were apparently on friendly terms again when Railsback suddenly renewed the attack. Both leaped from the wagon, and Surber, drawing a large knife, plungediit into Railsback’s neck and then twice into his side, piercing his heart. Railsback fell and expired in a few moments. The murderer is still at large. An Unknown Disease Kills Husband and Wife, and Leaves n Child Fatally 111. One of the saddest incidents on record is that of the death of Mr. Isaac Woolley, one of the proprietors of the Curryville Coal Company, at Shelborn, which occurred recently. He was a prominent business man. His death came so sudden, that, as yet, his mysterious disease is not known. In a few hours afterward his wife suddenly Expired, although she had been apparently well, and both bodies lay in the stricken home at the same time. One of the children is now at the verge of death’s door of the same fatal disease. There seems to be no explanation of the dreadful scourge.

Killed by a Fre’ght Train. An extra freight train going east on the “Big Four” road, struck and killed a stranger who was sitting on the rail near the water-tank at Waldron. The stranger was asleep, and the engine struck him on the head. He appeared to be about 60 years of age. The only evidence of his identity was a letter in his pocket addressed to Daniel Causins, Oakland, 111., from a collecting agency in Illinois. The body was placed in charge of the Coroner.

Minor State Item*. —Two sons of John Turner were engaged in hauling logs about four miles west of Marion, when the younger, aged 15, fell from the wagon and the wheels passed over his stomach, producing fatal injuries. —The Northern Indiana fair, at South Bend, was the scene of a shocking and fatal accident. As Miss Curtis, 16 years of age, the daughter of a Penn Township farmer, was stepping over the shaft which connects the engine with the machinery in machinery hall, her dress was* caught by the rapidly revolving shaft. In an instant she was thrown to the ground, and, before the machinery could be stopped, her head, shoulders, and body were beaten alpiost to a pulp. —The Fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry will hold its sixth annual reunion at Noblesville, Oct. 11 and 12. It is very desirable that every Fifth Indiana veteran shall attend.

—Grant Reed, a brakeman on the O. & M. Railroad, had his left arm crushed off and was severely crushed about his. body, while coupling cars at Medora. His injuries are probably fatal. —A 15-year-old son of John Turner was run over by a log wagon, four miles west of Marion, and killed, —Thomas Stevens, of Monroeville, has brought suit for SIOO,OOO damages against Charles A. Mills and nine others for having him adjudged insane in 1886, and deprived of his liberty. —Typhoid fever is having full swing at Brownsburg and Clermont. —A boy named Foynig, aged 16, lost both of his legs by the cars, while making a coupling at Elwood. —Mrs. Warner and daughter, of Madison County, while riding in a carriage near Elwood, were thrown down the embankment by their frightened horse and very seriously injured. —At Coxville, a mining town a few miles north of Terre Haute, Jeff Jefferson shot and instantly killed N. K. Jewell. Both parties are colored. The murder grew out of the rivalry of the men for the hand of a pretty colored girl named Ella Madison. —As Levi Evans was riding a along a highway in Harrison County, the animal became frightened at a threshing machine and dropped suddenly dead. —The Ninety-ninth Indiana will hold their first annual reunion at Peru, Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 9 and 10. A large attendance is expected. Address all communications to Iraß. Myers, Secretary. —Eugene Rankin a young man while feeding straw into a baling machine, near Thorntown, had his leg caught and crushed. About one year ago his father was paralyzed by a stroke of lightning. —James Chamberlain, who disappeared from bis home near Plainville several days ago, was found hanging to a tree.