Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1892 — THESE ACTUAL FACTS [ARTICLE]

THESE ACTUAL FACTS

ALt found within the borders OF INDIANA. An Interesting Summary of the More Im. portent Doing* of. Our Neighbor* - Crimea, Casualties, Deaths, Eta. Minor State Items. The postoffice at Shielas, Jackson County, has been discontinued. W. G. Daily, 17 years old. fell from a trapeze at Memphis and broke his neck. Wabash has placed 88,000 worth of 6 per cent, school bonds at a slight premium. Amos Doan, aged 64, a lite-long member of the Friend’s Church atPlalnsfield, is dead. The Goshen Jail is crowded with the most notorious gang ot thieves that was ever in that city. The Brooklyn schools are closed on account of a scarlet fever epidemic. One death has resulted. S. K. Gascho, a wealthy farmer near Noblesville, fell from the top of his windmill, and was killed.

George Pike, an old man, fell from his wagon near Martinsville and was perhaps fatally injured. Clark County is suffering for water. Cottie have to be driven for miles to reach a watering place. Anna Kennedy of Jeffersonville, predicted that she should die at a certain hour, and kept her word. Max Ametekson, of Scottsburg, was bitten by a rat a few days since, and died from the effects of the wound. Howard Atkinson, Wabash, has sued the Wabash Railroad for $5,000 damages for failing to move a carload of horses. Mrs. Alvin Dunn of Posey County, presented her husband with the first set of triplets ever born in thatcounty. All boys. Richmond is '‘red-headed” at Gas City, claiming that the latter tried to take the ’cycle factory away from the quaker town. Robert Lindblom, a farmer living near Valparaiso, had both legs broken in a runaway. His wife also was severely bruised. The stock company-organized in New Albany io bring Nancy Hanks to that city for a trotting exhibition lost $2,000 on the venture. The barn of William Keck, near Wilkinson, was burned. Loss about $1,200, including three horses. Insurance, S4OO, In the Phoenix of Brooklyn. The store of Lindsey Ludwick, at Lickskillet, four miles northeast of Farmland, was burned, causing a loss of $1,500 with $540 insurance.

J. E. Toner of Martinsville, rented a hotel building of Samuel Tucker. The building ieakiM, and Toner recovered SBOO for damages to his furnltura A South Bend Water Works Inspector has found 475 users of water who tapped the mains without paying for it, and which costs the city $1,310 a year. At Crawfordsville, Lee Benson, aged 10 years, was thrown from a horse and killed, the anfmal smashing his head with its feet. The boy’s father lives in Chicago. Vicious hogs attacked two little children of George Kroger, near Greensburg, and bit and lacerated one of them, a girl of 4 years, to such an extent that she may dia Rochester Hobbs, living near Bowling Green and one of the wealthiest farmers and best-known citizens in Clay County, was fatally injured by being kicked by a mula Martin Peterson of Goshen, a minor, has sued the Lake Shore Railroad Company for 850,000 damages. He claims that he was pushed off a moving train, thereby losing both arms. An enterprising Hoosier at Doolittle’s mills, St Croix and West Fork has been turning an honest penny by selling rings and watch chains made of hair from Nancy Hank’s mane and tail for from $5 to 825.

The store of Nussbaum, Mayer & Co., at Marmont, Dake Maxinkuckee, was broken into and robbed. The safe ot Henry Speyer, the postmaster was blown open and $125 in postage stamps and a couple of watches taken. The engine of extra train Na 22, on the Peoria and Eastern, broke the connecting rods on the drivers just east of Roachdale, smashing the cab, knocking the engineer, Dean Purcell, out and injuring him internally. He died shortly after the accident. The fireman escaped unhurt. Scarlet fever is ragifig In some parts of Morgan County to an alarming degree, as is also diphtheria. The public schools of Brooklyn nave closed on this account, and several of the district schools are being greatly interferred with. Several deaths have occurred at Morgan town from diphtheria. At Vincennes,in a fire which destroyed the home of Mrs. Mary Holscher,an aged German, she was badly burned about the head and face while endeavoring to save valuable papers. The fire finally compelled her to abandon the attempt, and the papers were recovered by the firemen. The woman died!

The thirty-eighth annual State Convention of Good Templars held its opening session in Logansport last week. The proceedings were secret, the only public matters being the report of the Secretary, showing 106 active lodges, with a membership of 5,015, a gain of 27 lodges and 2,090 members in the past year. The report also showed 36 juvenile temples, with a membership of 1,006. Charles Murray, Thomas Sheehan, Arthur Bishop, Frank Arnold, Charles Willard, William Bennett and Frank Smith, seven conscienceless tramps arrested at Evansville last spring after a desperate fight with the police, have each been sentenced to the Penitentiary for two years, for criminally assaulting Mrs. Annie Rigsby. Their trial was in progress, but they suddenly terminated it by pleading guilty and throwing themselves upon the mercy of the Court. B. L. Ornbaum, a wealthy resident of Crawfordsville, was driving into an elevator, and as the team entered the building his head struck the sharp corner of the beam abov'e, taking the sclap entirely ofi. The flap was sewed on and he may recover. Numerous cases of sickness among the farmers in Jefferson County, who have been using bone-dust fertilizers are reported. Severe colds, sore throats and fevers have been caused by the use of certain brands of hone-dust. The death of a young man not long since, was thought to have been caused by the handling of bone fertilizer. Search is being made on the Broderich farm, near Waynetown, Montgomery County, for a box of buried treasure, the plunder of an ancient gang of robbers who one time infested that secticn. In the eastern part of Bartholomew County, on the farm of Newton Hanks, where a short time ago a heavy forest grew, a new gravel pit was opened. A square space was struck, which was not over four feet on each side and about eleven feet deep, and from this eight human skeletons closely wedged together were taken The skeletons were in an erect position, but no evidence of any coffin or inclosure could be found. The skull bones do not indicate that they art those of Indians.

EUROPEAN CHOP ESTIM

lATE.

Great Britain and Italy the Only Coun-

tries with a Decreased Yield. Figures obtained frqm official reportsmade to the government in every wheatproducing country in Europe show that, excepting Great Britain and Italy, the crop prospect averages nearly 15 per cent, better than last year. France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Balkans, Roumania, and Russia show improved conditions over 1891. Italy’swheat crop, however, is 12 per cent, below last year’s, while England’s is 17 per cent, below the normal yield. In fact, the condition of affairs throughout Great Britain is the worst ever experienced. Last year was thought to be bad, but this is worse. Wheat will yield only 82.7 per cent.; barley, 97; oats, 93; potatoes, 95; beans, 81 In France the wheat crops Have turned out satisfactorily. The official statisticspublished by the Agricultural Department estimated the yield at 300,471 157 bushels, against 214,558,312 bushels in 1889. The average weight of this year’s wheat is 62J pounds to the bushel, against 61| pounds in 1891. The yield has been about 16f bushels per acre The rye crop is officially computed at 67,075,269 bushels, as compared with 59,369,513 bushels in 1891. In Germany the wheat crop is estimated at 101,750,000 bushels, against 85,000,000 bushels in 1891. The empire will require supplies from abroad of only about 12,375,000 bushels. The German rye crop is satisfactory and seems tohave reache 1 245,000,000 bushels. Austria’s wheat crop, according to the returns published by the Secretary of the International Grain Congress held in Vienna, has yielded 49,551,250 bushels, against 49,50(»,000 in 1891. To cover the deficit 33,000,-000 to 41,000,000 bushels will be required from abroad. The rye crop is estimated at 74,000,000 bushels.

In Hungary the annual report of the Minister of Agriculture states that the wheat crop may be considered an average one, with regard to quantity. As to the quality, it varies considerably in different areas. The yield is given approximately at 137,000,000 bushels against 124,000,000 in 1891, a surplus of 49J. Fifty-five million bushels are available for exportation. The greater part of this will be taken up by Austria. That whole monarchy will export 14 - 000,000 to 16,000,000 bushels. The wheat crops of Bulgaria and Roumelia reach a grand total of 49,000,000 busheis, against 46,000,000 bushels in 1891, The surplus available for exportation will be 19,000,000 to 22,000,000 bushels. Roumania’s wheat crop is 51,000,000 bushels, against 49,000,090 bushels last year. There will be about 26,000,000 to 30,000,000 bushels for export. Servin’s wheat crop is estimated at 11,000,000 bushels, leaving 2,750,000 bushels forexport. In Greece the wheat yielded 4,000,000 bushels. The kingdom will have to import about 4,500,000 bushels. Italy’s returns, published by the Minister of Agriculture, estimates the wheat crop at about 110,850,000 bushels,against 124,000,000 bushels in 1891. The deficit to be covered by importation will be from 30,000,000 to 33,000,000 bushels. Russia, according to the latest official statistics, has a wheat crop which may be estimated at 21-5,600,1)00 bushels, against 187,000,000 bushels in 1891. The quantity available for exportation will be 60,000,000 to 69,000,000 bushels. The Russian rye crop appears, according tc figures given by the Economiste Francais, to have yielded 596,000,000 bushels.