Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1891 — IT IS RIGHT INLINE, [ARTICLE]

IT IS RIGHT INLINE,

IS THIS COLUMN OF FRESH Indiana news. A Large Number of Accident?—A Few Sul. eldes and Deatlis-And Other Important New* Our Crop,. Hon. William A. Peole t Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, lias compiled the tables relating to the cereal crops for the year 1891, and, in discussing tho results, declai'es that tho several crop yields aro tho best that have been known for years. “Hardly in the history of Indiana,” says he, “and certainly not since tho Indiana Bureau of Statistics was organized, has there been such a generally prolific yield pf the ceroal corps as that which characterized tho present year. While the conditions were at time’s unfavorable and there were strong probabilities that the growing crops would be more or less Injured, tho changes I# elimatic conditions came in time to qyeycome, or, at least, greatly ameliorate the threatened damage, and the results show a crop year wbieh may properly be calledphenomenal Ind-iana hws harvested some magnificent crops of Whesjt,-.some excellent ereps of coyir and fate grown some exceptionally large crops of clover and timothy hay, sats, barley unil rye, but it is seldom- thwt all of those crops' have been as abundan t axin in 1891, when each outstripped the-average'of fwmer years.” The following surmwary shows the acreage, average yield per acre and total product of the several crops; WHEAT.

Number of im»bb 2.891,921 Average yield- per acre . 20.09! TotallproducV-inbuehels.... ....... 88,805,766 , COHN, Number of acre 5.,...... 3,687,927 Average yield per acre 3183 Total product iwkmubela 125,092,649 OATS. Number of aoreui . ~ ..... 897,953 Average yield per axtne 25,75 Total product in'-hisbels...., ~ 23,123,189 ■U.IILEY. Number of acres 21,388 Average yield per i«m». 21.87 Total product in bushels 467,778 WXE. Number of acres 44,840 Average yield per near. 18.02 Total product fn bushels 898,148 BUCKWHEAT. Number o< acres 9,541 Average yield per acre.......,., 15.86 Total product in bushels. 151,450 FLAX-SEED. Numbered acres 14,146 Average yield per acre 8.24 Total product in bushels 111X4,460 CLOVBJI HAT. Number of acres 1,208y6;2 Average yield per acre 1.75 Total product in tons ;... 3,109;514 TIMOTHY HAY. Number of acres 1,25713158 Average yield per acre l.gi Total product in tons 2,034,242 IRISH POTATOES. Number of acres 85,921 Average yield per acre 91' Total product In bushels 7,883,701 SWEET POTATOES. Number of acres 3,339' Average yield per aero 74 Total pioductin bushels. 247,186. TOBACCO.. Number of acre* 13,818 Average yield per acre 823.6 Total product in pounds 10,720,328-

Minor State Items. Defective gas mains cause expldskms and Area at Columbus' German newspaper, the Volksblatt, has suspended! W. B. Swobmstedt, Madison, cannot speak. His tongue is paralyzed. A. stock company with #IO,OOO has been organized at Liberty to build a canning factory. James C. Stanfield, of Columbus, gets $1,750 for being injured by a P., C., C. & St. L. train. John T. Webb, farmer near Paoli, abot and killed from ambnsh. A sensation likely to crop out. Miss Rose Gibty saved her father’s books and helped to remove the goods from his store durintr a fire at Knightstown. Mrs. Lena Morris, Seymour, fell from a second story window in a hotel a year ago. She wants SIO,OOO from Louis Schmeck the proprietor. The Jasper Courier has a heading, •‘What is a dollar?” A dollar is a round piece- of silver and is very useful. They, are made in the United States. At Linwood, James Martin found his drunken step-father. Dr. E. C. Riggs, beating his wife; whereupon the boy assaulted the man,, cracking his skull with) a stone:

Mrs. George Franke, of Fort Wayne, stepped on a rustv nail in her kitchen floor last week, lockjaw resulted, and she died after intense suffering of fortyeight hours. The Alum Cave Coal Company has 1 been ordered by a committee of miners to discharge foreign laborers. The company will ask the United States Court’s aid on ground of non-residence of proprietors. Merchants and'banks of Wabash are greatly annoyed, by floods of counterfeit dimes that have just been put in circulation there. The dimes are very skill-fully-executed, the only defect being a slight roughness on the edge. The coins are a trifle thicker than the genuine,! Aside from this they seem perfect. They bear the date ol 1891, and 1 thousands are in circulation. In other portions of the State-quantities, of counterlieit dollars are in circulation.

The formal protest of Secretary G. W. Bence, of the Putnam, County Board ofl Health, against the shipment of diphtheria corpses to Greencastle from In-i dianapolis has been received at the office of the State Board, of Health The protest says that on Sept. 11 the body of Grace, daughter of Charles K. Jones, of 210 Huron street, Indianapolis, wbo>had died of diphtheria, wa&shipped there for burial by permission of the Marion' County Board of Health, or somd executive officer in their jurisdiction. Again on Nov. 15 a child of Strong Catherwood, who had also died of diphtheria in Indianapolis, was shipped there tor burial by permission of a health officer. Secretary Bence asks that these cases be investigated and the offending health officer dealt with according to law. Hamilton Blanton, while driving across a railroad west of Martinsville, with a load of hay, was run into by a freight train. The team was mined and. Blanton is thought to be fatally injured. Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Fbazier, of Hillsboro, Fountain County, desire information as to the whereabouts of their. 18-year-old son, William J. Frazier, who has fled from the Feeble-minded school at Fort Wayne. He is light-complex-loned, with blue eyes and iair skin. He is subject to epilepsy. Mr. and Mrs. Frazier will pay all expenses of housing the boy and notifying them of his whereabouts. Four young lads stole a ride from North Vernon toGreencastle on a freight train, clinging to the long rods underneath the cars. Enroute the son of C. H. Kutchback of North Vernon was struck by a cattle guard, dragging him off his perch and breaking his back. He cannot recover. A sad accident occurred bn the E. & T. H. road at Evansville in which William H. Thorn, a young man employed as brakeman was literally ground to pieces. He was engaged in making a coupling and was in some way thrown on the track, several cars passed over him, cutting his right-leg off at the knee and cutting his head squarely in two. He was 20 years of age.

South Bend has burglars. Diphtheria rampant at Linden. Valparaiso has a new $50,000 Luthern church. / The pie-eating contest at Shelby ville was hoggish. MUNCIE will have a labor paper called the Tribiiwe. Two MO’bW oil Wells have been drilled at P'OTttanwk CE.AWFoapsviM.ft - - schools closed because of diphthcrralThere are a great many wild ducks In the river at Evansville. Terre Haute street workers continue to unearth graveyard treasures, John Hii.es, at Logansdort, was sent up for a year tor stealing a coat. Judge St. John, Marion, has decided that liquor may be sold on Labor Day. A Lake Erie and Western freight broke in two and was wrecked at Albany. Anton Ernst, of Danville, lost Ids mind because of the death of three of hte children. Independent Order of Foresters, bf the State; have made Valparaiso State headquarters

George Eden, a young farmer on the ]4ke near Lawrenceburg, was kicked to death by a vicious mule. After four weeksP work on the' Frank Dice lynching ease, at Spencer, r the grand jury lound no indictmenta Mrs 1 . Gaholin* Katzwar was found dead Itv a lane, neavlter home, west) of Osgoodl frtHii'heart disease. Mary A. Beecher, of Logansport, has sued the T. II & Il Railroad Company for killing her Hw&band. Hon. Richard’HUmtAWv prominent Republican of Groen Coilli-tiy, is dead. Once in the State Legislbtuve.Christopher Stuck escaped from County Infirmary at Laporte'and was found dead in Kankakee Riven; Thieves burglarized O’BonneWs store at New Albany, and overlooked! a box containing al arse quantity of onto. Edward Loudon, of Waldhon; while intoxicated, was dragged from* Clio -Big Four tracks Just in time to save-Ills-life. Mrs. lliti.ua Hackl’emX.n- Kadi to be dragged from' her burning resldbnuo-at Elwood. She was sick and refused!ttpbe taken.

Johjkth Hudson, of Brownsburg, who was caught burglarizing Prof. Wisehant’s residence, was sentenced to six-yoars-in the penitentiary. Martis Warn, »■ retired merchant; died suddenly of rheumatism of the heart at Madison. He camo to Madison from CcHtnty Galway, Ireland, In the early days of pork-packing, and amassed' considerable means. Av-the- Jeffersonville penitentiary, 1,feet of timber are nsed dally in making birdcages, rat-traps and brushes. In making saddle-trees, 4,000 feet are used, 100 conviets being employed in that work.The President has appointed Rev,. Eblphin IP.. Roberts, of Evansville, Ind., to. be Recorder of the General Land ©ffiuec viewJainesM. Townsend,resigned. Mk Roberts la a colored man and a minister, and. is- Secretary <a.f the A. M. E. (Conterenoo o<f Indiana. lie was formerly a resident of Rleiunond, Ind. Samuel. Mason Atwood, a highly respected farmer, living in the Jollity neighborhood, Shelby County, commiiitiedisuieidw by hanging himself with a small) twine, which he tied around his own, neck- and. to. the bed-post. 'He had been in feeble, health for some time, but the act was a great surprise to his family audr neighbors. Titw bod'y of VVIKIe- Hannon, the 18-year-oid boy who was drowned in the I'atokajKi.ver- at Prrneeion last spring, was found recently severs) miles down the river. Tho flesh had nearly al) left the body. TW little fellow was drowned white bathing. The water being high and the current strong bls body could not: be- found.

Miscreants made an attempt to wreck one of the trains on the Muncie street rail way. Boulders were wedged between the guaru and track rail on a sharp curve ®u East Main street. The steam motor car was derailed, but the unusually slow rate of speed saved the twenty or more passengers. The car was badly smashed up. Tine Y. P.' S. C. E. State officers elected to serve the ensuing year are: President, W. J. Lewis, of Evansville; First Vice President, Rev. A. C. Hathaway, Richmond; Second Vice President, Rev. G. E. Morgan. Wabash; Third Vice President; G. E Stanton, Madison; Secretary, Miss E. M. Wisbard, Indianapolis, Treasurer, V. C. Kendall, Indianapolis. ’ Several days ago the Cltv School Board of Wabash purchased flags, and they were formally presented to the publieschools and raised over each building, The presentation exercises were held in the High School Building, where all the pupils and a largo number of patrons were assembled. Superintendent Harrison made the presentation on behalf of the School Board, and speeches were made by Rev. Lamport, B. F. Williams and others. The school, children sang several songs, and all the exercises were of a most patriotic and feeling nature. Michael McDonald,alias Wm. Shaw, died in the Hospital of, the Michigan City Penitentiary, in Ignoranceof a fortune left to him over eight years ago. McDonald was a noted crook. At the age of 15 he ran away from home and commenced a wild career of crime. When but 18 years old he was an inmate of the Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, afterward serving terms of Imprisonment in other penal institutions. Mrs. Shaw died at Valparaiso mourning her wayward boy as dead, but, with the faint hope that young Shaw might be living, she provided in her will that he should become the heir of 'her fortune. Ail these long years Shaw, under the alias of McDonald, was in prison in complete ignorance of the deafh of his mother and of the good fortune that had befallen him. On a rude bunk in a felon’s cjH; he ended a misspent life, the victim of a fatal disease.

John Hatfield, a Knightstown merchant, dropped dead on, the- street . Bunker Hill, a small town in the southern part of Miami County, Is much elated from the fact of having in Its midst the parents of four children, all born toe other night Mrs. Edgar George, the mother who gave birth to this quartet of little ones, is progressing nicely. The children are all girlsand weigh on an average of four pounds each. With the exception of one that died three hours after birth, all are doing well and give promise of living. Mr. George is a prosperous farmer living near the town mentioned. A gifted young writer of Hanover 1 notes that cattish were found on the streets there after the rain the other night, and it is bis opinion that they were drawn from the Ohio River by the sun’s rays. ... The Y. P. S. C. E, State Convention' was held in Kokomo. The officers elected 1 to serve the ensuing year are: President, W. J. Lewis, of Evansville; First Vice President, Rev. A. C. Hathaway, Richmond; Second Vice President. Bev. C. E. Morgan, Wabash; Third Vice President, Rev. C. E. Stanton, Madison; Secretary, Miss E. M. Wishard, Indianapolis; Treasurer, V. C. Kendall, Indianapolis. The convention next year will bo at Fort Wayne.