Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1903 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PABT WEEK. finail Cure for a Corn May Cause Loss of a Foot—Barber Who Had Data la. His Ear—State Wheat Yield Not Bo Bad. The snail cure for n corn may cause Miss Cora Hogue, a farmer’s daughter, residing in Blackford County, to lose her foot. She was suffering with a com, and heT father, following an old tradition that a snail could remove the growth, obtained one and applied It. Her foot is now swollen to twice its natural size, and it is feared amputation may be necessary. Physicians say there is nothing poisonous about a snail, and are unable to account for the result. Value of Machinery. To emphasize the wonderful change in the manner of farming with improved machinery, the Goshen News-Times points to the record of Adam J. Yoder, who, with his two sons, put out fortyfour acres of wheat and rye and cut and put in his barn eighty-two loads of hay, besides looking after other crops. Yoder made use of all the modem impleanen'i of farming. It is stated that this amom t of work could not be accomplished by the saipe men with the o!d methods in an entire season. Had Oats in Ilia Far. Pink Miller, an Anderson barber, felt a familiar pain in liis ear, and. inserting an earspoon, drew out an oats grain. The grain had been in Miller’s head twenty years. 'When a boy he was playing in his father’s barn, the grain finding its way into his ear at that time. Ever since he has suffered pain. At nights he was obliged to lie on the ear or suffer agony. Specialists failed to give him relief, but now lie is happy. The grain is being exhibited in liis shop.

Wheat Yield Not So Bad. Farmers throughout the State are being agreeably surprised at the yield of wheat. First reports that the crop would not average over twelve bushels to the acre are not holding good. Robert Ogle, Tipton County, threshed nineteen acres of wheat and Obtained 308 bushels of good grain. lie sold the grain for 70 cents a bushel. The yield was a little more than sixteen bushels to the acre. Wealth Awaits Indiana M 11. Joseph Scott of Wantah has receivea letter from New York solicitors informing him that lie is one of the heir* to an estate of more than $1,000,000, lift by his great-grandfather. He will go to New York to investigate. All Over the State. William Goff, a farm hand..was found dead in a buggy iu a barnyard near Gilead. The Indiana world's fair commission has made an appropriation of ss.oiX> additional for a jpecial corn exhibit. John Lingart, a shipbuilder from Chicago, en route to Indianapolis, walked off a train at Ivouts, receiving injuries which may prove fatal. Clifford Rust, Marion, has secured a patent on a device which feeds clay into brick and tile machines. The machine is said to do the work of several men. Because Ed Moore, n saloonkeeper of Lowell, objected to a bill of SI.BO Justin Trelease fired four shots at the debtor, two of which took effect. Moore is not expected to live. The bridge over Nolan's fork at Fountain City gave wSy. precipitating fifty people into the water. I.nther Horn of Bethel was fatally hurt. The others escaped with slight injuries. Ernest West, 20 years old, was arrested and placed in jail at Logansport, charged with assaulting Nettie Frick, 16 years old. He escaped on a bicycle, but was caught in the woods and confessed his guilt. Mrs. Mary Sands, wife of W. E. G. Sands of Auburn, and Charles Pickett, from the same town, have been arrested in Kansas City, Mo., on a charge of deserting their families and eloping three weeks ago. Henry Asher and John Powell, small negro boys at Newbtirg, held Roy Moore, a white boy, aged 12, tied paper to his clothing and sot it' on fire. The Moore boy reached home and his parents extinguished the flames. He was not seriously burned. Emma Schwab, daughter of Michael Schwab of Vincennes, has been missing for several days and no trace of her can be found. When seen last she was in the company of a young man of the city. Her sudden disappearance has caused her parents much anxiety. Foul play is. suspected and arrests may be made.

In the health report made by the county health officer, was recorded the ease of a Richmond woman, aged 29 years, whose name is not made public, who recently became the mother of her tenth child. There were no piural births. Dr. Grant says the case is unparalleled iu tho State, and probably in the United States. The white employes of the Princeton Transfer Company notified tho proprietors that they must discharge their col-i ored employes or the white men would quit. As a result cf their -threat the proprietors discharged several of their best horsemen and all the negro hands around the barus and employed white men to do the work. Deeds have been ordered for 4.000 acres* of mineral land in Iladdon township. The deeds are. made iu the name of J. K. Deering of Chicago, as trustee. The deal represents over $200,000. It is probable that Mr. Deering represents the International Harvester Company, who will sink mines to furnish fuel for their manufacturing concerns. William Wolf tried to save a horse at the Lake Erie crossing at Peru aud a train from Indianapolis killed them both. A team belonging to Zcb Rose, Seymour, ran away and plnnged into a show window, breaking two large plate glasses. The coroner at Terre Haute uas decided that Mrs. Gilmore, who was found dead, was not murdered, but died as the result of a fall. Mr*. John M. Waugh, wife of a banker la Colfax, committed suicide by hanging herself in the barn. She left a note stating that her brain seemed to be on fire and she wished to die.