Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — STATE CAPITAL CHAT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STATE CAPITAL CHAT

The bureau of statistics has Its compilation of returns on agriculture j from the 1,014 townships in the State of ■; Indiana. The reports show that there'3 were 3,427,577 acres of wheat sown last g fall, and of this 397.(144 acres were plow- , ed up this year on account of the hard I winter conditions. This left 3.039.933 / acres standing for the harvest. But many reports from the northern part of the State mention that considerable of that left standing would not pay for the bar- I vesting, but was left to stand on account of clover and grass seed having been fl sown in it. The wheat sown in the cen- 1 tral sections of the State, so far as reported, has yielded well, and the yield. I for the whole State will be reported to the bureau later on. The average remaining of wheat and other crops is as j follows: 1898. 1899. J Acres wheat ......3,012.332 3,03.1.933 A< res corn ............3,915.131 3.837,959 Acres cats 1.W2.431 1,99100 Acres Irish potatoes.... 6.',2v5 08.361 As to the minor crops it may be mentinned that there are 42,938 acres in rye: 42,758 in bailey; 4,283 in flax; 3.524 in buckwheat; 14,930 in tobacco; 7.020 in sorgum. The acreage in timothy meadow is 1.422.902 and in clover 1,240,988. Gov. Mount announces the appointment of the following delegates to the anti-trust convention to be held in Chicago Sept. 13 to 16, under the auspices of the Civic Federation: Delegates-at-Large—E. B. Martindale of Indianapolis, J. B. Stoll of South Bend t R. S. Taylor of Fort Wayne, Joseph Gwynn of New Albany, Aaron Jones of South Bend and John W. Spencer of Evansville. District delegates—Goodlet Morgan of Petersburg, Prof. Joseph Swain of Bloomington, Leonard J. Hackney of Shelbyville, William H. O’Brien of Lawrenceburg, Isaac H. Strouse of Rockville, William Dudley Foulke of Richmond, Daniel P. Erwin of Indianapolis, W. H. Eichorn of Bluffton, A. M. Scott of Ladoga, A. L. Kumler of Lafayette. M. Winfield of Logansport, J. N. Babcock of Topeka and A. P. Kent of Elkhart.

There are 33,404 farm hands regularly employed in this State and the average wages paid them by the month, including board, is $13.89. The highest average pay for the month is $10.70, reports the • bureau of statistics, and lowest average $10.50. There are 11,714 women and girts regularly employed in the families of farmers, and the average pay per week, including board, is $1.56, The A highest average in any one county is d $2.23 per week, and the lowest average in any one county is sl. These averages are found by taking the wages of all employed in either class, and dividing that 4 by the number employed iu each county.

In connection with the recent return of Senator Beveridge from Manila it is said that Mrs. Beveridge, who accompanied her husband, had the distinction of tiring five shots at the Filipinos. While the Senator was on the tiring line one day she went on a drive, escorted by a squad of Tennessee soldiers. She ventured too far, and soon rebel bullets were falling about her carriage. A hasty retreat was begun. Mrs. Beveridge drew her revolver, which she carried since arriving at Manila, and fired five shots in the direction of the rebels, who could be seen - skulking in the distance.

Short State Items. M. Sobra, Brazil, was fatally crushed in the Mclntosh coal mines. Arthur Wolff, Muncie, claims to have been a schoolmate of Dreyfus. A lodging house to shelter tramps during the .winter will be built at Lafayette. Miss Lulu Marie Alexander, who was missing from Sellersburg, has returned home. Sale of Jacob Billman’s flock of Shropshire sheep, near Sullivan, netted him $4,000. Goodlet Morgan, Petersburg Republican, will run for Congress in the First district. Mrs. Hannah Williams, patient iu the Long Cliff hospital, Logansport, fell into a bath tub in an epileptic tit. and drowned. Frankfort ordinance prohibiting loitering on the streets is now in force, and' the police are cracking it to every one who lets grass grow under his feet. This and That. Big fish dealers of Florida have formed a combine. Wages of miners at Stoneboro, Pa., have been increased. Mrs. Rachel dead at Washington, D. C. Miles Lewis, 14, was suffocated in an elevator at Rochester, N. Y. ' ’ Charles Winkler, 22, Canal Dover, 0., was killed by a fall of clay. Two men were killed by three boilers exploding at Portsmouth, Va. Michael J. Freeman of New Y’ork drowned at Mount Kisbo, N. Y. Frank Meehan, 14, was killed in an elevator at Oakland Station, Ohio. Body of Reuben Shaffer, 50, was found in a field at Coney Island, N. Y. Mystery. Wm. A. Cox, wanted in Havana for embezzlement, was arrested in New Orleans. Rose McConnell, 5, Seneca Falls, N. Y., was left alone at home. . Burned to death. Charles Bolton, a lineman of Pittsburg, was killed by an electric shock at Bridgeport, Ohio. An unknown “floater” fished out of the river at St. Louis. Believed to be a case of murder. ’ John A. Kiefer, a merchant of Carlisle, Pa., killed himself in u hotel at Hagerstown, Md. «<■- ■, S Mrs. C. E. Page of Cincinnati lost $2,000 worth of diamonds while taking a dip at Atlantic City. President Zelaya of Nicaragua has sent a special commission to study the conditions at Bluefields. Two tariffs are said to c.',:-l lb. >-• 11. a new sched- -