Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1891 — THESE ACTUAL FACTS [ARTICLE]

THESE ACTUAL FACTS

4tL FOUND WITHIN THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. An Interesting Summary of the More Important linings nr Our Neighbors Crimes, Casualties, Deaths, Etc. The .State Institutions. Tho following statement shows what It costs to maintain our benevolent and reformatory institutions per month, taking tho month of June as an average month: TIUNKVOT.KNT INSTITUTIONS. Centra’ insane hospital... .935,026.13 Non in*rn insane hospital.. .0,101.03 BonU:«rn insane hospital.. 5,952.68 Eastern insane hospital... 6,305.90 Des'and dumb asylum,... 5,234.83 Blind asylum...... 8,009.16 Soldiers’ and sailors'' orphans' home 10,989.00 School for feeble minded • youth 6,432.89 969,813.54 REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS. - Reform school for boy 5.... #6.209.00. Reform school for girls and women’s prison 3,517.54 89,747.54 Total 879,360.08 State prisons are self-sustaining. Assistant Deputy Clem Korsig, in the Stato Treasurer’s office, places the average monthly disbursements of these institutions for maintenance, clothing and repairs at $78,000 and gradually increasing. This does not include tho construction and equipments of new buildings and other improvements that become necessary every year as the number of inmates boeomos greater.

Minor State Items. —Kokomo wants a morning paper. —George Skinner, while stealing a ride on a train at Goshen, had his leg crushed off. —Noblosvillo ministers are fighting merchants who keep open stores on Sunday. —Son of Dr. Wimraer, Marlon, was seriously hurt, by falling off a lumber pile. —llurr Love, 13, Marion, was run down by a train and had his foot mangled. —Spencer continues to defend itself against attacks relating to the recent lynching. —Win. Schroder, of Laporte, was dangerously injured by a meat-ciitt<b falling on him. —Mrs. Ilonrv Becker and babv wero seriously Injured by a runaway horse at Evansville. —Farmer Lewis Brown, Clay County, raised forty bushels of wheat to tho acre this year. —Corwin Cofeen, of Muncie, was Jailed ’cause he didu’t register his doggie. Will tost tho law. —A Morgantown druggist has shipped $1,232 worth of Brown County ginseng to Cincinnati.

—Dr. G. C. Smythe, Greoncastlo surgeon, was seriously hurt by being thrown from ills carriage. —Found the charred bones of a man in tho ruins of Albert Yates’ barn at Goshen. Mystery. —Guy Apple, 3 years old, died at Noblosvillo from tho offects of drinking concentrated lye. —County fair, Danville, is in tho hands of a receiver. Liabilities $50,000; assets about tho same. —A turtle with • “James Robinson. 18L8,” carved on its back, lias boon found In Harrison County.

—John L. Dobyns, for eight years Auditor ol Docatur CoUlity, is dead at Clarksburg, where he was op a visit. —JacoD Landenborg’s valuable colt, whjch was stefen from his farm near Woodvlllo, has been tound at Buchanan, Mich. —Geo. \V. Warner, 69, Martinsville, was stricken with paralysis. He has been a resident bf Martlnsvillb sixty years. —-Young son of Frank Callin, New Castle, upset a cup of hot scaling wax, and was badly burned on, the hands and arms. —lsaac and Charles Arnold, Vinson France, and a young man named Warner were seriously Injured in a runaway accident near Pleasantville. —Moore's Hill College was struck by lightning and a portion of the cupola torn away. Rain put out the fire. Prof. Blgney was severely shocked. —A miner, while making a blast at Knightsvllle, found a petrified man on horseback. The man was in a reclining position and had a cap in his haud. Might be true. ,* —Lucy Ulney, 20 months old, was drowned at the home of her parents near Indianapolis. She was left alone in the kitchen for a few minutes, and fell, head first, Into a boiler tilled with cold water. —Attorney General Smith has received a letter from the Prosecutor at Lawrencoburg, regarding the action of the Board of Review toward the banks that refused to state the several amounts which their depositors had on hand at the beginning of the assessment year. When the Attorney General’s opinion Was received the Board summoned the officers of the banks, and under threats of sending them to lail secured statements of deposits, showing that $300,000 had been withheld from the assessors. This sum, together with 50 per cent, additional as penalty was placed upon the tax-dupiicHtc, making a total of $450,000 as a result of the investigation. —A young man named Owens, employed at tho Edinburg Cereal Mills, while sweeping, caught his sleeve In the machine, his arm being drawn in and his hand almost severed by an oblique cut across the wrist. —Mrs. Jessie P. Elliott, of Connersvillc, and her daughter Annie, while oat driving, attempted to hoist an umbrella, and there was a runaway, in which both ladies were injured, Mrs. Elliott dangerously. The horse ran half a mile and fell dead-