Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1890 — THE STATE OF INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE OF INDIANA.

WHAT IS GOING ON WITHIN ITS BORDERS. Rewards of Genius—More Light for Thorntown—Big .Pickings for the Lawyers—Arrests Accidents Diphtheria Suicides—Fires—Deaths, Etc. •a Crop import W. A. Peelc, State Statistician, has compiled the tables relating to farm products for the past year and those figures will bo embodied in tho forthcoming report of the bureau?

There has been a decided falling off iu the number of bushels of grain, as compared to the crop of 1889. The wheat crop for 1890 lacks 13,000,000 bushels of reaching the amount of 18S9. Corn lacks fully 19,000,000 bushels, oats 13,000,000, whilo the potato crop is short 5,000,000 bushels from the yield of the previous year. On the other hand, the crops of timothy and clover are regarded as tho bestovor raised in the State. Although tho principal cereals havo fallen off so largely in tho yield, the money loss to the farming Interest has been comparatively small, bceauso bad crops, as a rule produce good prices, and market, prices show a decided advance over other years. r Aie reports takes up tho principal crops, showing acreage, number of bushels and estimated values, as follows: Wheat—Number of acres sown, 2,831,133; product iu bushels, 28,352,340; value of crop, $23,-08-1,158. Corn—Number of acres, 3,410 433; product In bushels, 87,092,513 ; value of crop, 813,546,200. Oats— Number of acres, 1,019,338; product In bushels, 15.553,207 ; value of crop, 87,310,117. Barley—Number of acres sown, 22,745 ; product in bushels, 287,835; total value of crop, $232,081. Rye—Acrongo, 58,783 ; product iu bushols, 781,191; value of crop, $170,515. Clover Hay—Acreage, ' 1,198.040; product In tons, 2,057,182; total valuo of crop, $10,457,504. Timothy Hay—Acreage, 1,242,027; product In tong, 2,112,457 ; total valuo, $23,237,027. Irish Potatoes—Acreage, 80,747 ; product in bushels, 2,083,875; value of crop, 82,285,544. Sweet Potatoes—Acreago, 2,045; product In bushels, 158,700; value of crop, $193,440. Cloverseed—Product in bushels, 2(55,923 value of crop. $397,215. Timothy Seed—Product in bußhels, 39,081; value of crop, $48,851. Total value of all the crops estimated at $121,020,411,

A Narrow Escape. A family of five, consisting of Mrs. Sarah Worstell, a daughter and three sons, came near meeting death at Logansport, from tho effects of escaping natural gas. A leak in the pipes filled tho house with gas after the family had retired, and about midnight one of the boys awoke, and by crawling and rolling over the floor reached a window and called for help. Tho other members of the household wero carried to a neighbor’s house and physicians summoned. The oldest son, Renjamin, was found to be in a critical condition, having become completely blind and his hearing gone. The various feelings experienced by the members of the family woro and they describe their agony as exei'ticiating for hours while they* wero in their beds conscious, but In a helpless condition. It Is thought tho whole family Will recover. Howards of Genius. The following patents to Indianlans have been issued: Jasper L. Ackerman, Lowell, clamp; Thomas M. Bales, Dublin, alarm bell; Charles G. Conn and W. F. Seidel, Elkhart, cornet; Benjamin F. Haugh, Indianapolis, and P. F. Leach, Chicago, 111., assignors to Cushion Carwheel Company, Indianapolis, cushioned car-wheel; Harrison I*. Hood and F. A. Jacob, assignors to E. J. Robison, B. Carr and H. M. Lafollette, Indianapolis, iwire stretcher; William I. Hunt, South Bend, wagon seat, wagon scat support; Bavid Mack, buggy top lowery; Lemuel F. Norton, assignor of one-half to W. K. Fraley, Lebanon, fence post; Robert E. Poindexter, Indianapolis, saw-jointer; John L. Wagner and J. Seath, Terre Haute, said Seath assignor to C. L. Lewis, Indianapolis, car door.

Minor State Iti-mn. —Montgomery county has 107 teachers. 4|&4tf heria 3 very niali g liailt type is prWalflVg at Rockville. —J. li. Brush succeeds G. W. James as postmaster at Lapland. —-MjyW’m. T. Abbott, of Fort Wayne, dieef suddenly of heart disease. —A stock company is being formed to manufacture stoves at Lebanon. —Shelbyvillc boasts that with cheap gas it can double its population. —An electric light company has been formed at New Albany, with SIOO,OOO capital. —A military company has boon organized at Bluiltou, with W. L. Kiger as captain. —William May, aged 84, died at Knightsville. He fought in the Black Hawk war. —Charles Downs was rescued from drowning by his courageous mother at Logansport. —Frank Borger had his hand crushed off in a box-press at the Elkhart paper box factory. —John Trasper, of Greenwood, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun while hunting. —Joseph Sullivan, one of the leading farmers £nd pioneers of Miami County, died, aged 8(5 years. —The farmers of Monroe Township, Putnam County, have recently suffered the loss of sheep, pigs, and calves from the depredations of a big gray wolf, at large in the neighborhood. —While driving an entry late Saturday afternoon in Watson's shaft, two miles south of Brazil. Peter Massraan was caught by a heavy fall of slate, which left only his feet visible. His body was crushed into a shapeless mass. The deceased was forty-four yean oldt and left a wife and children.

. —Frame, Signs & Co.'s ffore&t North Manchester, was robbed of 81,000 worth of silks. —Thomas H. May, of Cannelton, lias been appointed a cadet of the West Point military academy. —Judge R. W. Mcßride has been appointed to tho vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court. —John Grienlieh was instantly killed by a falling elevator at the Studebaker wagon works, Sooth Bend. —Tho Western Indiana Poultry Association will hold its annual poultry show in Lebanon, January 5 to l(k —There were oleven cases of typhoid feVer in tho family of Stephen Frazee, near Bowling Green, and all recovered. —Prominent citizens of Laporte County are demanding a new Court House, to cost not less than 865,000 or inoro than 8100.000.

—William K&nfmann, jr., a lumberman near Vera Cruz, was fatally burned. Ills clothing caught from tho camp-fire whilo he was asleep. —Among the enterprises that arc developing in St. Joseph County, and which bids fair to grow to larger proportions, Is tho culture of peppermint. —A movement has been started and 835,000 of tho necessary 860,000 has beou raised to pipe natural gas from Sheridan through Big Springs to Zionsville, —Mrs. R. H. Smith, of Kokomo, comes into a fortuuoof 8100,000 by tho death of her father, Capt. C. P. Freeman, of Baxter, Ark. She is the solo survivor of tho family. —Robert Groves, sitting in Lewis’ hardware store at Plainfield, reading tho morning paper, suddenly throw up his hands, gasping for breath and foil back in tho chair dead. —lt lias boon discovered that a No. 1 glass rock is to be found near Abvdol, in Grange County, on tho Monon Railroad, and a crusher is to be put in. It la tho Intention to ship 100 car-loads to glass establishments per week. —Samuel Brown and John Beard, young men who persisted in refusing to support those depending upon thorn, were taken from a saloon at midnight at Now Albany and torribly flogged by White Caps. They promised to reform.

—Tho Methodists of Kokomo, havo just completed a now church edifico, to be known as tho Markland Avenue M. p. Church. It Is a handsome structure, costing about 85,000. Tho rapid growth of tho city necessitated this additional ])laco of worship. —Tho other night as Miss Molllo McCalif, of Crawfordsville, was returning homo a large negro struck her and made an attempt to get her pocket-book, which she was carrying In her hand. She did not run or drop hor pocket-book, but put tho negro to flight. —A fishing club has been organized at South Bond, known as the “Dead Game Dinglors,” Their sport will bo confined to Cynthlana Lake, in Elkhart County, and tho South Bend Times vouches for tho membership, that In tolling fish stories tho club can out-lie any crowd of its slzo on earth.

—A. R. Jackson, of Churubusco, who shot and crippled ex-convict Mease at the time tho Fort Wayne officers wero struggling with Morvlu Kuhns, is daily In receipt of threatening letters, and his life is endangered. However, ho Is on the alert to avoid attack, and is armed for tho emergency. —Julia Nett, an elderly married woman, and Francis Bolska, her sister, wero arrested at Evansville for shoplifting. They havo boon stealing for months, and their 111-gotten gains amount to hundreds of dollars. Four members of the family, throe women and one man, are now serving penitentiary sentences for shoplifting. —Robert Robertson, of Morrison, a widower, aged about 70 years, who has been paying attention to Mary Wall for the past two years, visited her recently, and It Is supposed, proposed that she marry him, and being rejected, drew a revolver and shot her through the left temple. Ho then turned tho weapon on himself and sent a bullet through his brain.

—As the north-bound passenger train on the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville road pulled Into Connersvillc, It was seen that the engineer, whoso name is not known, was very drunk. Another engineer was sent for, but No. 1 refused to vacate his cab. After great delay a party of railroad men and indignant passengers took possession of the cab, and after a bloody light the drunken engineer was ejected. —Francis Campbell, a farmer who lives about five and one-half miles south of Fortville, made an attempt on the life of his wife and his uncle, John Campbell, who is very old. He shot his uncle three times breaking his right arm. Campbell, after leavlug Fortville rode over the neighborhood hunting for a revolver witli which to do his dirty work. Failing in this he went home and with an ax made his wife get his revolver. He then forced her to disrobe, which she did, and then in his drunken frenzy ho began shooting at her. She finally made her escape as nude as the day she was born, walking four miles in the cold and over the frozen ground, until her feet were so swdllen that she fell fainting. Her life is despaired of. There lk strong talk of lynching Campbell —The extensive vinegar factory of Holly Austin, about thi*eo hiiies from Madison, burned. There was no insurance and the loss will be very heavy. —Thomas Uttloy, tho Herculean negro in jail at Marion for the allcgod murder of Col. Paul during a riot at Fairmount, attempted suicide with morphine and with difficulty his life was saved. Uttley claims to have been simply a spectator of that fight, and ho was despondent because his trial had been postponed by the Drosccution.