Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1902 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Greatest Crops Ever Harvested Are Predicted by State Statistician—Burglars Break Into Upland Jail and _ .Rescue Comrade—Prayer in Bank. The grain yield of Indiana will probably exceed the totals of all previous years. Reports gathered by the Indianapolis News from bank officials ana reports to the State statistician agree in that conditions were never more favorable than now for bursting granaries and continued prosperity. B. F. Johnson, State statistician, says: “Except in a few counties in ths northwest part of the State, where the corn has been drowned, Indiana has never seen such a crop. Even with the damage in the northwest, the crop will be far in excess of last year’s, when 147,800,000 bushels were harvested. Where previously the yields have been running twenty to thirty bushels an acre, reports now indicate thirty to fifty bushels. Ihe oats crop will be immense if it is threshed in shape. The acreage seems to be slightly below that of last year, but the total yield is well above it, probably over 44,827,360 bushels. Last year the crop amounted to 41,044,771 bushels. The danger is that the farmers will try to thresh their oats wet. They should allow the grain to remain in the shock until it is dry before threshing. There is nothing new to lead me to change my estimate of 40,000,000 bushels for the wheat crop. The crop last year was 33,000,000 bushels. About 60 per cent of the wheat north of Indianapolis is in the shock. It should be treated as the oats —allowed to dry in the shock before threshing.

Break Into Jail to Rescue Pal. While making his rounds at midnight the other night, Watchman Stells of Upland saw a man acting suspiciously in front of Little’s drug store. Upon questioning him the watchman became convinced that the store was being robbed, and the stranger was on watch for the burglars. Not daring to make a noise lest the other men escape, Stells marched the stranger off to jail, and then secured assistance and hurried back to the store, but the robbers had escaped and had carried off the money drawer, together with a lot of notions. The man in jail gave his name as Hardy, and admitted that two other men were in the store when he was arrested. At 3 o’clock the next morning, after the jailer had retired, there was a crash at the jail door, and it was knocked from its hinges. At the same moment two men entered and released Hardy. The three men hastened from the town. When a posse was organized to pursue them no clew as to the direction taken could be found. Knelt and Prayed on Floor of Bank. Enos Randall, a highly respected farmer, living near Gray, went to Noblesville and paid off two notes at the First National Bank.. As soon as the transaction was finished he knelt down on the floor in frtnt of the teller’s window and offered up a fervent prayer, thanking the Lord for deliverance from debt for the first time in forty-four years. The incident attracted much attention. Girl Arrests a Burglar. While the family of Peter Akles, near Trinity Springs, was absent from home some one broke into the residence and stole a watch, rings and pther jewelry. Gertrude Akles, the 16-year-old daughter, discovered the theft and ran down the 'burglar, Curtis Jones, at Williams and arrested him. On his person were found the jewelry, several other watches and a handful of rings. Aeronaut Falls to Death. Prof. Frank Reed, an aeronaut of Marion, fell while making a parachute leap at Millersburg and was instantly killed. He was married to a young woman in Marion about one year ago, who was with him at the time of the accident and witnessed his fall to death. He was 36 years of age, and had been making parachute leaps for ten years.

Etate Newa in Brief, Richmond has eight State conventions booked for 1903. Red Men will manage a street fair at Rochester in the fall. The total capitalization of industries established at Newcastle since Nov. 1, 1901. is $1,435,000. Andrew Stapleton was found dead in Ehrlisk’s mine at Newburg, and the coroner is making an investigation. P. H. Clark, an old engineer on the Clover Leaf, fell from his engine while trying to oil it while in motion, and was ground to pieces, at Silverwood. Indiana Pythians en route to California over the Rio Grande road ran Into a cloudburst twenty miles south of Colorado Springs and had a thrilling experience in rushing through the edge of the cloudburst at the rate of sixty-five miles an hour. Lyman Allen, while under the influence Of liquor, attacked his wife in Fort Wayne and inflicted injuries necessitating the service of a surgeon. While the doctor was dressing the woman’s wounds Allen swallowed poison. He died in a few minutes.

The Chicago police have been asked to awl io the search for Mrs. Tolton, the wife of William Tolton, the Westville man who was taken to the La Porte county jail to escape a mob of his townsmen, who suspected him of murdering his wife and wanted to lynch him. Sheriff Small hopes to secure an interview with the conductor of the Wabash train on which Tolton says his wife took passage for Chicago. The engineer of the train 4s positive no woman passenger was at the station on that particular morning, and the station employes are equally confident Mrs. Tolton has not boarded a train on that road. Mrs. Frank Taylor was so badly burned at Elwood by the explosion of a gasoline stove that she cannot live. Information comes from Carroll County that a farmer and his two sons and two daughters living near Idaville have been stricken with milk sickness. One of the sons died and the father probably will die. Near Plymouth a great sink hole along the right of way of the Pennsylvania tracks swallowed an embankment of earth twenty feet high and fourteen flat care. The main track, though pronounced safe, is constantly sinking.