Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 27, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 April 1895 — Page 3

ONE YEAR'S PATEiNTS.

OUTPUT OF OUR INVENTIVE GENIUSES. American People Have Plenty of Devices to Lighten Work, Hctum Profits, and Insure Safety Lcbons Taught by the Ceaseless Activity. Kecortl of Twelve Months. The animal report of the United States Commissioner of Patents for the year lS'.Kl. just issued, is a handsome volume of 782 pages, "Va Inches by 11 in size, and contains the equivalent of l,230,0i.H) words. It Is a summary of the contents of the fifty-two numbers of the official gazette of the patent office, which contain over 8.100 pages of the specifications and drawings for the patents issued. During the year 1893 37,29o applications for patents were received, 1,000 for designs, 120 for re-issues, 2,247 for caveats, 1,899 applications for trade marks, and 401 for labels. There were 23,070 patents issued tluing the year, against 23,478 for the preceding year. The number of patents which expired during the year was 14,172. Four thousand one hundred and two patents were forfeited for nonpayment of final fees. The patent office at the close of 1893 had to its credit in the Treasury of the United States $4,281,744. Our patent system has grown to higher perfection than that of. any other country, and to this date we have issued about 545,000 patents, while the total issued by all other countries combined is a little lesskhan 840,000. A Creative People. With a population of 70,000,000 our country is now doing one-third of the manufacturing of the world, and nothing more clearly portrays our marvelous industrial activity than the records of our patent office. As an Inventive and a creative ieople we stand at the head of the nations, and are to-day the most influential factor in modern civilization. Mechanical industry characterizes all we do, and is the potent agency in our successful struggle for supremacy in the federation of the world. To still maintain this supremacy we are continually improving machines, devices and applances, which years ago were supposed to be practically perfect. We are a nation of machine users, and Improvers, and as we glance at the record of our patents for a year we cannot but be profoundly impressed with the marvels there revealed. Possible Dangers. Until recently we had the great ad vantage of the exclusive use of our ag rieultural machinery, but this is no longer the case. England, Germany, Austria. France and Uelgium now have large plants for making all such machinery, close copies ami imitations of ours, ami these implements are now sold in north and south Africa, and even in Turkestan and Persia, in Russia and Siberia, in Asia Minor, Hungary, the Danubian provinces, in European and Asiatic Turkey, in India, Egypt, Australia, and in South America, especially in Argentina and Chili, and, of course, In England, France, Germany. Austria and Belgium where manufactured. Vast wheat areas remain to be cultivated, and we cannot but look with solicitude upon the results to us of uniting the cheap labor of a fellah, the peon, the mujik, the ryot, aud the coolie with the best agricultural machinery, machinery which originated in America, and by means of which the American farmer has heretofore been able to meet all competition. There is little wonder that we lind food for sober rellection in 50-cent wheat, and in viewing new cotton mills in Japan, which have the best of our modern machinery, which are lighted by electricity and operated night and day, the female spinners and weavers getting but 8 cents per day for eleven hours work. The Spanish peasant even no longer refuses to buy a modern plow because it has two handles, and it requires only a slight stretch of fancy to Imagine yourself in Dakota when you are visiting a wheat farm in Algeria. Issuing: a Patent. . Few realize the amount of labor and Investigation Involved In deciding whether or not an application for a patent shall be granted. The first question to be determined is whether the alleged invention is new; that is, whether it is to be found in aty of the 545,000 American patents, or in any of the 810,000 patents of other countries, or in any book, periodical, pamphlet or paper, in any language of this or any other country. This search has to be made by expert assistants, and they have a technical library which contains almost everything relating to patents and which now numbers 70,000 volumes. The expert may fail to lind all the evidence bearing upon a case, but the infrequeney of such failures Is a matter of astonishment to one familiar with this sort of work. A study of eighty-one patent cases recently before the courts, where claims were held to be Invalid, revealed the fact that in twenty-six of them there Avas no evidence that the references before the courts, la view of which the patents were adjudged invalid, were ever cited by the patent office; In twenty-nine cases some, but not all, the references were cited, and only in txventj'-slx cases were the same references before the patent office as were before the court, r.etwecn INSöand 1892, 988 pa tents were in litigation, 43d of them were sustained and 5Ö2 were declared Invalid, 428 of them owing to defective examination by all the authorities of the patent office, and l'.M of them on account of evidence brought to light of which the patent office had no knowledge before crantiug the patents. During this pe

riod 1G2,000 patents were Issued. The chances of error are so many, the wonder Is that so few mistakes occur. Hut this is owing to the thoroughness with which Investigations are made. Receipts nnd Kxpendlturea. The receipts of the patent office for the year 18&3 were ? 1,224,072, the expenditures $1,141.039. Excess of receipts over expenditures, $101,833. Patents North and South. It is curious to note that in Northern States, which have excellent systems of free schools, and where a high order of intelligence is general, the number of patents Issued per capita of population is much greater than elsewhere. In Alabama one potent was issued for every 10,020 persons of the population, and in Illinois one for every 1,911. In Mississippi one was issued for every 22.024 of population, and in Massachusetts one for every 1.111. In South Carolina one patent Issued for every 24,492, and In Connecticut one for every 970. North Carolina took one patent for every 19.0::i of population, and Rhode Island one for every 1.542. Two thousand four hundred and seventy-three patents were granted to citizens of other countries, 324 of them to Canada. 757 to England, 271 for France, and 07.1 for Germany. Ceylon, China, Cape Colony. Ecuador, Egypt, Natal, Tern, Queensland, and Tasmania took one each. Patent Laws Are Modern.

Is Is within a period comparatively ! recent that patent laws were first enacted. It is only 200 years ago that a plan was devised in England for granting patents, and In France the first patent law was enacted In 1791. Such regulations were wholly unknown to the ancient world, and our own patent laws rest not upon any rules or customs which preceded them, but upou a statute of 179, less thau a century old, amended and altered from time to time. The principle is that an inventor who will tell the public all about his discovery shall have vested In him, for a certain period, a right to manufacture and control his Invention for his own profit, but, at the expiration of that period, the invention shall become public property. In this manner ingenious persons are encouraged to exercise their ability by the stimulus of large reward, which even a limited monopoly must yield for a really valu able article. Ucnefits of Invention. As a people we possess creative talent in a very high degree, aud In this respect the Aryan differs from the Mongol, who seems to be merely imitative. The inventions of this century have added enormously to the comforts of the race. Three hundred years ago titled personages in England did not have the comforts now enjoyed by our laboring classes. In subjecting nature to his uses, and, by means of mechanism, so largely Increasing the possible work of his hands, the inventor lias been able to aid enormously In improving the food, clothing, and shelter of his kind. A fragile woman can now attend to the guidance of 3,00 spindles in a cotton mill, every one of these spindles doing more and better work than her gran 1mother did with a spinning wheel. One woman can now attend to knitting machines winch will turn out Cio pairs of socks r. day, better far and more evenly knit than those her grandmother made by hand, at the rate of one pair in a fortnight. Four times the present adult male population of the globe, serving as porters every day in the year, could not carry the

freight now moved by the railroads of this country alone. These are illustrations of the manner in which machines ami devices for doing work have emancipated the enlightened nations of the earth from physical bondage. China, representing one-third of the whole human race, takes out only one patent in this country during 1893. The Mongol is industrious to a degree of which we hardly dream. He works 305 days in a year, and 15 bourn a day for a scanty subsistence. lie is poorly clad and imperfectly nourished, for he depends wholly upon his hand labor. When he can adopt Western science and Western inventions, ns he certainly will do, and is already doing in Japan, he will easily increase his products many fold and largely add to Iiis comfort. The hope of wise men among Oriental peoples is that they may soon avail themselves of the inventive and directive talent of Western nations like ours, for in t Iiis way alone will they be able to rise "From their dead selves to higher things." With the rapid adoption of agricultural machinery by the brown nnd yellow races, as well as by the Aryans of all Europe, we are confronted wiih some grave problems. Cheap Oriental labor, aided by our machinery, must inevitably cheapen the products of the soil, and, as prices are now determined by the world's markets, our grains must meet with such competition as to still further reduce their selling price. Ifour agriculture is crippled, all our business interests will be crippled. Some thinkers express the opinion that the onward march of civilization is soon to be checked by uncivilized and half-civilized peoples, and that when our aggressive energy is thrown back upon itself, state socialism will follow, bringing with it inevitable stagnation and a marked deterioration. No doubt, there will be a struggle between the Aryan and the Mongol for supremacy, and the result cannot be predicted. A thousand years hence the Mongol, or even n mixed race, may be in control of the world's affairs. Statistics. A careful analysis of the patents Issued by our government during 1S93 reveals much that Is curious, Impressive, and instructive. The word "bed" is the first one in the titles of 121 patents, against 107 for the 'previous year, 21 were for lefloteads, 20 for folding beds. 10 for bed springs, and 15 for bed

bottoms. The bicycle was awarded 140 patents, against 107 for the previous year and 10 of these were for saddles. Two hundred and fifty-four patents were awarded for vehicles of this sort, one for a uuicycle, 7 for tricycles, 27 for cycles, and 75 for velocipedes, against 276 for the previous year. Eighteen kinds of boilers took 187, against ISO for the preceding year; 30 of these were for furnace boilers. The bottle, inclusive of 23 stoppers and

raachinery for making, washing, aud t filling, took 87 patents, against los for the previous year. Fifty-nine kinds of "boxes" were given 1!5 patents, against 240 for the preceding year, and 14 classes of braces needed 33 patents. Frakcs and Cars. Thirty-four kinds of brakes seem to have needed 228 patents, against 221 for the previous year, 8 of them being for car brakes and 41 for vehicle and wagon brakes. The word "brick" is the first one in the titles of 92 patents, against 104 for the previous year. 24 of these being for brick machines, and 23 for brick kilns. Twenty-one kinds of burners were awarded 111 patents, against 120 for the previous year; 19 of these were for oil burners. 25 for gas burners, and 18 for hydro-carbon burn- I ers. The titles of 75 patents begin with the word "button," and include machines for making that useful article. The word "car" is the leading one in 1.O40 titles of patents, against 819 for

the previous year; 4i or. inese are im j Ji4 lnm,nts acaiKst 137 for the 1 reca r couplers. 30 for car brakes, 20 tor j vIuus yoar Thlw ,Kltonts wolv issued

car wheels, ami o ror vestinuies. The word "cash" begins the titles of 132 patents, against 100 for the previous year; 39 of these were for registers and 41 for registers and indicators. The churn, which has been pat ented several thousand times, found j room for 00 new patents, the cider mill for 4, while cigars, cigar lighters, aud cigar bundling machines rH-eivod 02. For the further encouragement of juvenile depravity 11 new cigarette machines were patented. Corn is the first word in the titles of 30 patents, corset in IT, and the word "cotton" is the leading one In o9 patents. Thirty-eight different kinds of couplings were given 543 patents. 401 of them being for car couplers. Three hundred and thirty car couplers were patented in 1892. For some years car ouplers have been patented at the rate of 8 per week. lilectricity. Electrical patents for the year reached the large number of 1,015, against 1,043 for the year lxl. I'nder the head of magnets and magnetism, aud under appliances which are closely related to those of an electrical nature, we find 308 additional patents which would not be out of place tinder the heading electricity. These 308 patents would increase the total to 1.923. These patents include everything relating to electric roads, batteries, electric lighting, electric signaling, the telephone and telegraph, electric motors, switches, etc. For fences and fence material and machines for making fences 100 patents were awarded against lrj for the previous year, and 182 for the year 1891; 47 of these were for wire, and for fence posts. Fifty-one kinds of furnaces took Ii"27, against lilt for the previous year, and 159 for 1891; of these 30 were boiler furnaces. 12 hoc air furnaces, and 15 smoke-consuming furnaces. The word "gas" begins the titles of 215, against 178 for the previous year, and 157 for 1891. a large majority of these patents being for improvements in devices for manufacturing gas. for meters and lighters. Notwithstanding the rapid introduction of electric lights, there is an actual increase in the amount of gas consumed. Harvesters. How engine governors could secure 38 patents is no greater mystery than the fact that they took 37 the previous year. The titles of 93 patentsbegin with the word "grain" and include 20 grain binders and Hi drills. Patents of this character numbered 89 in 1892 and 112 in 1891. Harvesters of all kinds got 99 patents, against 122 for the year before; 28 of these were for corn harvesters. Thirty-one kinds of "heaters" obtained 105 patents, against 174 for the previous year. The boot and shoe and machines for making and trimming them required 25 patents; hay stackers and loaders, cutters and presses 77; the hinge 55, against 50 for the year before. Knitting machines and devices were given 70 patents, against 82 for the previous year. The knob and its attachments obtained 1!1 patents, and the ladder 04. The lamp obtaiued 301 patents, or half a dozen for every week in the year, 70 of these being electric arc lamps, and 34 for improvements upon the incandescent lamp. Three hundred and twenty-eight patents upon lamps were awarded in 1892, and 285 in 1891. From Locks to Mimic. Thirty-six different kinds of locks received 227 patents, against 274 for the preceding year, and 222 for 1891. The locomotive obtained 81 patents against 71 for the previous year. The loom, supposed to be as perfect as human ingenuity could make it, took 151 patents, against 115 for the year before, and 140 for 1891. Lubricators obtained 81 patents, against 47 for the preceding year. The word "metal" begins the titles of 111 patents, against 102 for the preceding year. Fourteen kinds of meters took 55 patents, and milk cans, coolers and milkers took .",8. while 20 kinds of mills took 170. Mining devices needed 77 patents. Motors had 3D varieties, which required 157 patents, against 13) for the previous year. Mowers of various kinds obtained 51 patents, against 47 for the preceding year. The word "music" stands first in the titles of S3 patents, against 80 for the previous year. These patents were largely upon musical instruments. Paper and Kail ways. The word "nut" stands first in the titles of 102 patents, 83 of them being for nut locks. Under the heading W

wo find a record of 5S patents, and under the word "ore" S7, against 99 for the previous year. Under "paper," 140 patents are recorded, against 174 for the previous year, and 183 for 1S91. Fifty-six patents are recorded under photography, against 55 for the previous year. The piano called for 00 patents, against 7S for the year before. The plow, generally understood to be practically perfect, took US patents, against 149 the previous year. Thirty-

six kinds of presses obtained 141 patents. while under "printing" 110 are re corded, against 128 for the preceding year. I'nder the heading rails and railways, and devices relating to railways, we find 735 patents. cv 2 patents a day for every day of the year, against 523 for the previous year. These patents are for rails, joints, shoes, signals, conduits, switches, frogs, spikes and ties. From Kakcs to Typewriters. Eight kinds of rakes were given patents, and refrigeiators took 72. against 50 for the preceding year. The word "saw" is the first one in the titles of 101 patents, against 153 for the previous year. The sewing machine comes in for 144. against lsl for the previous year, and IN) for the year 1891. Nineteen kinds of springs took H0 patents, stamps and stamping devices took 4o, stone making machinery 17, und under titles, whose leading word is "steam," we find a record of 159 patents, against 105 for 1S92. and 190 for 1891. All kinds of stoves obtained ! for the telautograph. 5S for improve ments in the telegraph, against 59 for the previous year; 100 for the telephone, against 89 for the year before. The word "tire" stands first In the titles of IOS patents, against 110 for 1892, and 159 for 1891. "Tobacco" F the first word in 51 titles of patents, against exactly the same number for the year before, and 14 of these patents are for the tobacco pipe. Seventy-one patents were issued under the head of toys. 5 less than for the previous year. The word "trolley" begins the titles of 5d patents, against 38 for the preceding year. Under the word "truck" si patents are recorded. 30 of these being for improvements upon car trucks. I'nder the word "trunk" 33 patents were given. The word "type" stands tirst in the titles of 34 patents, and under "typewriter" 130 are recorded, against 178 for 1892 aud 192 for the year 1891. The Valve and Zither. The valve took 225 patents, against 278 for 1892, and 242 for the year 1891. I'nder the head of "vehicle" w e have a record of 180 patents, against 159 foi the year before. These patents include those for vehicle springs, wheels, brakes, running gear. etc. The wagon took 120. against 80 for the previous year. Washing machines and devices took 99 patents, against S3 for 1892 and 128 for 1891. The watch and watch machinery found room for 77 patents, against 71 for the previous year, and 111 for 1891. Under the head of "water," including motors, heaters, wheels, closets, coolers, etc.. we lind a record of 157 patents, against 174 for the previous year. Windmills took 54 patents. The word "wire" is the leading one in the titles of I04 patents, against 134 for the previous year, l'at- ! ents upon w od-working machines num ber 47. against 147 for the year before, aud 3 were given upon the zither. PI' A NF, DOTY. CHINESE LADIES IN SOCIETY. They Were Not llmharrassed at All and Had a Lively Time. Although Washington has become somewhat accustomed to seeing Chinese women, since tv successive ministers of China hew brought their wives with them o the legation at Washington. Chinese women are still objects of great curiosity in the city. A few days ago there was a musical reception at one of the most attractive houses, and among the guests were two Chinese ladies. They were the daughters of the Chinese Consul CSeneral at New York, and they were accompanied by their father, a tall, corpulent mandarin in ample garments of light blue silk, and by an interpreter of the Chinese legation, who was garbed in somewhat demure apparel of dark-blue. The ladles entered the house with heavy wraps over their house clothing, and, having hobbled to the dressing apartments for they both had cramped feet they reappeared in odd blouses of figured silk and with flowing dark-blu? skirts that just revealed ample trousers. One of the ladies was decidedly Mongolian in features, but the other was small and decidedly pretty. Doth wore their hair in a way common to a native and inexplicable to Americans. Having greeted the elegantly gowned hostess with the fashionable high shake of the hand, they stopped long enough to chat a little, employing the interpreter to convey their message of ceremony. Then they found seats with the finely dressed ladies in one of the parlors, listened to the music with attention, and applauded when the others did so. When they left they told the hostess it is to be assumed that the music was "too lovely," and that they were delighted to have had so pleasant an evening. They went away, after a repetition of the high hand-shako. And they were not embarrassed for an instantNew York Times. fiold in the Ocean. That gold should exist in the ocean is an Induction that Dr. Henry Wurtz claims to have presented in 1880, and in 1872 the discovery was announced by K. Sonstadt. A careful computation with the best data obtainable, on the basin of 0.9 grain of gold per ton of sea water, about the proportion assigned by Sonstadt, shows that the great ocean should contain gold to the amount of over $80,0OO,tHH,txx00O,CH). The gcttiD of some of this by elcctrolyslß, Dr. Wurtz now predicts, will be one of the problcuw of the future.

PHONING WITHOUT A 'PHONE. What a Young Iluflalo IClectkician Claims to Have Discovered. Walter Wilhelm, of DutYalo, not mro than eighteen or twenty years of age, is developing remarkable genius in mechanics, ami has Invented, among other useful things, a telephone transmitter of wonderful power which is likely to greatly Increase the efficiency of that most useful instrument and make it more than ever available for longdistance work. The great power of tho instrument has been demonstrated in a curious way. Dy attaching his transmitter to a telegraph wire he can make his voice heard distinctly by an operator sitting beside his instrument, any ordinary sounder, many miles distant. This is a great wo'uhv to telegraph operators, and many of them declare, until they have heard the sounder talk, that such a thing is impossible. None of them ever knew anything like it in their experience. The discovery was made entirely by accident, as many great discoveries have been, and tie process will doubtless be improved until it will be possible, by attaching a good receiver to the line, in the place of a telegraph sounder, to till a large room with the sounds of a human voice whose owner is many miles away at the time. Several years ago a few young fellows in an uptown neighborhood, who desired to learn something of telegra

phy, and find amusement at the same time, put in a small telegraphic system of wires and instruments connecting their several places of abode. They did not dream to what magnitude the system would grow. The West Side Private Telegraph Company to-day has thirty or thirty-live members, and about thirty-live miles of wire, touching nearly every street on the west side of the city from Dlack Dock to the Postal Telegraph otlico at the corner of Main and Niagara streets. The members Intend that the company shall become an ineorporated body, its lines are in splendid condition, and it uses the regular standard wire, aud No. 9 insulated wire where this is required to conform to the city ordinances. As the line is connected with iho Postal Telegraph otlico, each member of the company can sit in his own home or oilice, wherever his instrument may be, and transmit or receive messages to or from any part of the United States. The expense of maintaining the system hi small. It is used to a considerable extent for commercial and business purposes a well as for amusement. Indeed, it was on account of it3 demonstrated usefulness for other purposes than the use of learners that this class of learners has been frozen out of its membership. On election night each member was able to get all the election returns at his own home. The wire is often used for a game of checkers between two players widely separated. One of the members of the company was sitting near his instrument at Iiis home the other day when he distinctly heard the call: "Hello: Hello!" two or three times repeated. An investigation convinced him that the calls could have proceeded from no other source than the sounder. Opening the key, he began to inquire who had called, and learned that young Wilhelm had been calling through his transmitter, which was attached to the wire, to Mr. Woodruff, this way of communicating by means of transmitters and receivers being an ordinary one since telephones came into use. Hardly able to believe his senses, the man asked Wilhelm to sing a song, which he did, the tones of his voice floating out into tho room easily through the little Instrument. Other persons have heard tho same phenomenon. A reporter for the Courier visited tho lesidence on North Pearl street for the purpose of hearing a few songs modilied somewhat by distance and by passage through the little telegraph instrument. Six persons were in the room when the experiment was tried. Wilhelm, at his home a mile or more away, sang "The Old Oaken Ducket." "After the Hall," "Sweet Marie," "America," and "Old Dlack Joe." The tune in each instance was easily distinguished, and the inflection and modulations of the singer's voice were accurately reproduced in the sounder, whence they floated out to the furthest corner of tho room. It was wonderful, and all present were much amused as well as surprised. To get the best results in receiving in this way, the plate is adjusted close to the magnet of the instrument. That is all that is rokq tired .It should be mentioned that the operator's voice did not come in a direct course to the house by any means, but followed the system of wires for perhaps fifteen miles before reaching there. Du ff a lo Cou tier. Praiso that Came Too Late. A sermon in itself was preached lately in a story told by a well-known bishop. It seems that a number of clergymen were present to bear testimony to the life and Iniluence of a departed colleague. One after another rose In their places to tell what they owed to his genius, his high spirit, unswerving loyalty to duty, splendid courage, rar scholarship, and philosophic insight. The testimony was done. At the door all the time there stood a slender woman who had been during his life nearest to him of whom they spoke. "I shall never forget her face the passion of it and the pathos of it nor the power, tender, but reproachful with which sho spoke when at length we were still: 'Oh, If you loved IMward so. why didn't you tell him of it while he lived'" Jewish Messenger. Society must let go of any man who has to work more thau six hours a day, or his employer will. Worthlessness comes mighty natural to a man

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SÖDER OR STARTLING, 1:AITH FULLY RECORDED. In Inferential Summary of tlie More Im. portant Polas; of Onr Neighbor Wed. liag and l-atli C'rioi-, Casualties auj Scncral News Note. Condensed M fcj Njwi. Anoujki: large tin-pi 1!? factory :j to located ut Franktoa. Ar.oj 1 l'iio gas wells will Im diillc'i in Madison Cotin1 this :u:nmtr. t'li.vtil.Ks Tat i.ok had his hand cut 0:1 j:i a planing machine at JenVrsonx ille. Mi:s. 1Iaki:v Mi ::i:v. M ioox, has a pair of vt,'cl-i iinined speetacl . over !)) years old. Tut: Oakland Ledger .-ays a iilxd suit m worth $1. a ear to a pajM-r in the way of notoriety. Mu. .li:Mi: Him. sm:i:ii.. took chloral for heart trouble and got too big u dose. She will die. Silas K. Ari.i.s of Fort Wayne, ran a sliver of iron in his foot and died in great agony with lockjaw. Lm;aX"poi:t Masons will build a $'"). -0oo temple x hieh w iil include a handsome opera hoiie and assembly hall. Doos chewed i;i twenty-four sheep out of a nock of txxenly-eight lielonging to.J. F. Young, a Shelby Township ruralist. Iavii I'.r. pick's 0-year-old .von. near Shelbyville, fell on a pair of scissors, the point pemt rating his brain. He will d i Tin: oldest horse ia the State lielongs to John Drake of In wood. she is 11 ears of age. Drake has owned her for thirty-eight years. j,c;aniut newspaper men will entertain the Northern Indiana Press Association that meets ia that city in June, in a roxal manner. Pi:im i.r. at Marion have !een planning to escape. One prisoner letrayd the scheme, an I revived his liberty as a reward. Fight steel saw s were foui d. T110MA Pom, aged F. was shooting at a mark in Loganport. One of the bulh'ts found a soft lodging place in tii anatomy of young Dw ight Powell. He will recover. Ml-sM.u.iMi.v li vi:.r.K, ac'd 7 years who died in Harrison comity, last week. had never been oi:tsil the county, nor visited the county seat until the week !- fore her death. At Fort ane. on Wcdnesdax and Thursday. April 'Jt.'and S. the greatest lot of highly hnd horse eer put up at public austion in Indiana -v ill l,e so! 1 v.l the F:t Wayne Driving Park. Tin: dead body of Mrs. Olto Mllvan.-r was found lying on the iloor of her room at Cedar Lake. A heavy lolling pm with which the crime had loeii committed was lying beside her. Suspicion points to her husband who i missing. ("HAill.Ks (sMOV of .lefiYTsonvil'e, aged 71, was struck by a suburban train of tlie Pennsylvania road and fatally injured. Cassidy was deaf an 1 failed to here the approach of the train. He was one of the oldest steamboat engineers in the country, and retired two years ago en account of his hearing. He leaves a wife. IIknkv Faiikkmu im "f Laporte, a bouse painter, went home drunk. He abused his wife and finally choked her. Her screams aw akened her father, Jacob Ott. who resides i:i the adjoining house. JIo rushed in and eeiri: Fahrenhcim wa armed will a hammer he dealt hiia a terrible blow w it ti his list. Fahrenheim revived but In'gan 'spitling blood and died iu an hour. Ott gave himself up. Pati:nt have i-cen grunted Indiana inventors as follows: F. P. llaifey. F. Hemer, jr.. and W. L. Lightford Indianapolis, stamp attixing machine; J. . Cameron. Kvansville. gage for llouring rolls, etc.. (two patents: M. Duncan. South Hend, toilet powder bag: II. M. Ilaldeniun Indianapolis, hall cock valve; W. A. Holly, South lJer.'i. hand wcedcr: i. J. Ilctchkiss, Kvansville, trap door for use ia mines; J. W. Houh. Marion, oil and gas separator: ('. M. Kiler. Indianapolis, station indicator: A. Kimher, Indianapolis, mail bag catcher; W. L. Light ford. Indianapolis, stamp allixiag machine: J.J. Moore, Thorntown, traction engine cab: same, spark arrester: W.Powell. Poachdale, fence jn.st; F. W. liobinson, Pichmond, straw stacker: L. T. Wilcox, Nuth Bend, oil stove re-i$ue 1 ; J. P. Wiley. Petersburg, combine 1 harrow and roller. Wm:x the appraisers took an inventory of the projM'ity of Mrs. Hannah Po'f. who died some days ago at Tern' Haute, they foam": that the old woman, who for year had labored with her husband on a garden truck farm near the city and vi ho appeared to le on the verge of abject poverty, was ia fact worth to.o xi in her own name. They found in her rKm s1.:vm in cash and notes, together with mortgages which they appraised at ?.J.uoo. The remainder of her property consisted of real estate. Then was also a certificate of dei:sit of ?t.o0 in the Peich Pankwhi.'h failed in August, Is:',. She made a w ill just U-fore she die l an I bequeathed to her husband one-third :f her estate. The remainder w a given to tier sister who lies in Germany. The husband was thought tob insane and was placed in charge of a guardian by the court. He is lwliexcd to be worth .cl.".om 3r $:'J.o Kl in his own light. Oovkknoi: Mai nir.WN has announced th" names of the trustees for the four insane hospitals of the State. Of the t wehe insane hospital trustees named by the Governor fix are Pepablicans and six Democrats. The Pepublie.uis are in the majori! you lb boards of the Northern and Kasteni hospitals and the Demoerat will have control of the a Hairs of the Centra! and nnd Southern ho-oit;d. Follow ing are the. newly appointed trustees: Central lhspital John Osterman. Indianapolis; J. L. Carson. Fairland, Shelby county: D.H. Davis, Knightsville, Clay county. Northcm Hospital -Dennis I hl. Logansport; Jacob J. Todd, PlutTton: Pev. F. F. Scott. Pass Lake. Starke county. F.atem Hospital Silas K. Hate. Cenex a. Adami county: F.. tlurney Hill. Kkhmond: W. D. Page, Fort Wayne. Southern Hospital W. M. Sw ornsh'dt. Kxansxill; S. P. PoyJ, Washington: Win. T. Mason, I lock port. John Peed, an inspector in the employ of toe Citizens' street Pailroad Company, Indianapolis, was caught IwMxvcen a car nnd one of the poles that sustain the electric wire, and was crustHd so that he died a short time later. Ihvd was öl xcars old and leaves a xx ife and child. Tin: American starch xxorks plant ta Columbus is in ashes and the. lo-s is 5'J.r0.ou. Lcxxis Wade, colored, was caught in the wreck and ins body still remains in the siuokim; ruins. In the elex ator was 75,ot) bushels of corn which is entirely last, also NO.uw worth of manufactured starch. 'Twas an anti-trust concern and v. ill not be rebuilt. .