Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1887 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Mary persons, says the Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat, appear - not to clearly comprehend how it is that while the population of the country hajs grown to the extent of $10,000,000 wheat production has slightly fallen off. yet everbody in the country has nearly all the, wheat lie wants, with millions of bushels left over for export. The explanation is simple* The average exportation of wheat in 1878,1879 and 1880 was about 40 per cent of the whole crop raised, while the export in the past three years has been about 25 per cent. The United States,produces more wheat than it consumes at home, although the yield in neither 1886 norl-888~bas Ueenas great as was that of ISSO, bei'ause it sells much less of that cereal abroad now than it did then. A band of speculators cornered the American market in 1879, 1881 and ISS2, imaginingthat they could fix the price of wheat in Chicago at whatever rate they pleased, and compel the world to pay it. They were mistaken. Europe began to look elsewhere than to the United States for its wheat, and India has since become a formidable competitor of this country in European markets. The country raises far less wheat, in proportion to population, than it did seven or eight years ago because the outside demand for it has fallen off. The annual corn yield has increased in the interval, however, but notso fast as the population. State Auditor Carr is having trouble with the mutual assessment insurance companies of northern Indiana, several of which he has persistently refused to give official recognition. The lastest applicant for a charter is the Standard Ljf e Association, of Port Wayne. An itemised statement accompanying the report to the State Auditor shows that $157 was paid to the beneficiaries of a policy for $2,000, and SSO on another for SI,OOO. Of 830 outstanding policies, 720 are on persons over fifty-five years of age. The following patents were issued to Indianians Tuesday: Donaldson, John E-., Montezuma, roofing tile and weatherboarding: Hammond, Isaac W., Ham* mond, tongue support: Harland, Joel W., Frankfort, gate; Hornaday, Thos. 8., Indianapolis, assignor to Yale A Tow«ne Manufacturing Company, Stanford, Conn.; electric lock; Macomber, Hora-UoN.,Walkerton,Wire-twistingdevice; Morgan, Bennett W., and J. A. Anderson, Terre Haute, means for strenthening glass windows; Philion, George, assignor to Dodge Manufacturing Company, Mishawaka, manufacture of wooden pulleys; Sanders, John P., Bartholomew county, shock fodder loading and unloading machine; Stewart, Joseph, assignor of one-third to J. Israel, Liberty, hand rake; Wintrode, Charles K., •Huntington, adjustable wire-twisting wrench; also tension device for use in constructing wire and picket fences* An unusual amount of sickness is prevailing among horses in and around Indianapolis, and many animals have died within the last few days. The liv-ery-stable proprietors especially" are suffering heavy losses. The illiess seems to be colic or some disease with similar symptoms. In the Floyd Circuit Court, Tuesday afternoon, (Sarah Ellen Mclntosh, of Salem, wife of Andrew J. Mclntosh, and the first child of the late Washington C. DePauw, who was virtually disinherited by his will, brought suit to set aside the will. Mrs. Melntosh strongly resembles her late father, being of the same physical build and the same facial expression. She is a lady in culture as well as by in stinct, and is greatly devoted to and much loved by her many friends. The will of her father cut her off with two very poor, badly worn-out farms in Washington county, a possible contingency in some bequests made for charitable or religious purposes, upon which annuites are to he "paid if the legacies be accepted upon the provisions of the will. The filing of this suit, says a New Albany dispatch,has been expected for some time, and it is only truth to say that the public sympathy is almost universal with Mrs. Mclntosh in her effort to set aside the will. Fhe is Mr. DePauw’s first-born child. Her mother was a daughter of the late Major Malott, of Salem, in his life a leading business man of that town, and also county clerk of Washington county. It was under Major Malott that Mr. DePauw obtained his first employment, and became deputy county clerk.