Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

’ —The reports that Secretary Haron.of the State Board of Agriculture, has received indicate that the corn crop in Indiana is not ns large as was first estimated. The stalks were badly, blown down in many portions of the State, nnd damaged to some extent. In the southern half of the State the yield ihtts been an average one, but in the northern Italf the crop has been ent short by the drought. The season has been fair, and the most of the crop is already harvested in excellent condition. The potato crop has been reported as being badly totted in the gronnd. The report of State Statistician Peelle, just sent to the Commissioner of Agriculture at Washington, states that the average yield of com per acre is 32.02 bushels, and in quality it is put at 97 per cent. He reports the yield of potatoes 97 bushels per acre, and the quality 88 per cent. —John Snyder, of Blackford County, the man whose only relief from the effects of a strange disease that has afflicted him for some time past, was found in almost continual walking, was believed a few days ago to have walked himself into his grave. He was in the clutches of death, but has resumed walking. Physicians say it is only a question of endurance. Death alone, they say, can relieve him from tho iron grip of his mysterious malady. Meanwhile he is doing his five miles an hour, not including rests. He walks twenty hours out of the. twenty-four. He shaves as ±e walks, and takes his meals while on the go. He has not been known to sleep more than four hours out ot the twenty-four in two years. —A stock company, with a capital of $5,000 has been formed in Denver, Miami County, to develop recently discovered veins of iron ore. Officers: President, Spencer Augur; Vice President, Jacob Slappy;, Secretary, John E. Millison; Treasurer, Wilson NewboH; Superintendent, Smith Roy. This company has effected, for a bonus of 10 per cent, of the gross product, the lease of 320 acres, and will at once set a force of men to work prospecting. _ ■ —Patrick McAdams, a man who has been in the mining business for twenty years, met with a fatal accident at Montgomery, twenty-five miles east of Vincennes. He Was walking through an entry, when some one who had drilled a hole to fire a shot set his squib just in time to catch McAdams as he passed (he room. The unfortunate man’s head was literally torn to pieces. —Masked robbers entered the house of William Blair, a farmer living near Holton, Ripley County, and compelled the old man to produce all the money in the house, amounting to $l5O. After threatening their lives if they made any attempt toward their arrest the robbers left. Mr. Blair recognized them by their voices, and will endeavor to bring them to justice. —Fred Ash met with a terrible death a short distance below Vinceunes. on the C.» V. &C. road. His engine struck a tree, derailing it, the wheels passing over him, cutting off both legs. He lived but a short time. Deceased was employed on the O. & M-, and left the road but a few days ago to take an engine on the C., V. &C. He was a favorite vridi nil who knew him. —The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad is experimenting with a new patent electric alarm, to be used as a safeguard at dangerous railroad crossings. About a quarter of a mile from the crossing, on the railroad, is an iron dog, and trains running over it strike a gong at the crossing, which gives passing teams half a minute’s warning that a train is approaching. —The cooperage works of M. Bierrusse, now located at Morris, on the Big Four, will be removed to Columbus at once, th< City Council having voted to exempt him from taxation for eight years and donating SSOO, he binding himself to permanently locate, buy real estate, and to employ seventy hands in his works. —The Ohio Falls Iron Works have been compelled by the rush of business to pui on three additional furnaces, making fourteen in all now in operation. The mifi has been run both night and day for several weeks, in order to manufacture iron sufficiently fast to fill the orders pouring in daily. —At Lafayette a horse driven by Harvey Rusch became frightened at a train, and, wheeling about suddenly, was precipitated, together with the buggy, down a forty* foot embankment. The horse had a leg broken and the vehicle was demolished, but Mr. Rusch escaped with slight bruises. —A 12-year-old son of Robert Goedneer, living two and a half miles northeast of Milroy, while out hunting, accidentally discharged an old horse-pistol,., the contents entering his head above the eye, making a mortal wound, from which he is lying at the point of death. —Mr. Nathan Powell, of Madison, has presented the library of Hanover College a complete set of British and American poets, 118 volumes, making a very valuable addition to the already extensive collection of the institution. —Mrs. John W. Hickox, wife of an employe of the Vandalia Auditor’s office at Terre Haute, was severely and perhaps fatally burned. Her clothing caught tire from a stove, and she ran into the street for assistance. —There are but five men living who have represented Indiana in the United States Senate. They are G. N. Fitch, David Tarpie, Joseph E. McDonald, Daniel W» Voorhees, and Benjamin Harrison. —Rev. T. L. Hughes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of Shelbyville, has received and accepted a call from the Second Presbyterian Church at Fort Wayne at a salary of $2,200 per annum. —The grain-house of Adam Rhodes, in Marion township, Shelby County, was burned, with 2uo bushels of wheat and numerous implements. Loss, $600; insured for $375. —At Carbon, three boys were playing in a sand bank, when it caved in. One boy, named McGlanitan, was instantly killed. The other two were fatally injured, and both will die. —David Winters was cahght between the bumpers of two coal flats at Brazil and instantly killed. He was a miner and worked at .the Bartlett shaft.