St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 1, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 22 July 1893 — Page 3

A FEW FARM FACTS. SHORT CHAPTERS ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY. A Stylo of Milkina: That Should Go Out of Fashion Hard Timos and English Farmers—How to Handle Farm Produce —General Farm Matters. ^Handling Farm Produce. A great many products are injured by too much handling; and with the crude methods used it can hardly be avoided. What is needed is an improvement in methods. Tbe usual method of handling potatoes, for instance, practiced by the majority of producers is to pick them up in baskets and empty them into pits or into the wagon-box. when they have to be handled again by ham’, or with a fork or shovel, and either spend a good deal of time in picking them up by hand or injure them and start decay by bruising them with shovel and fork. Mr. T. B. Terry, in his AB C of Potato Culture, tells us a better way. For several years 1 have been using bushel boxes for marketing early pot., .kins slip, and for handling the crop in the field all through the sea-on. This is -me of the ways in which the p tato specialist can get ahead of the small raiser. I think we handle our crop for less than half what it used to cost us before v.»j got these to es made. Our boxes are thirteen indies by sixteen, and thirteen deep, all inside measures. They were made a little deeper, to allow for shrinkage. ’1 he sides and bottoms are made of threeeighths stuff, and the ends of fiveeighths. Handholes are cut in the ends. The upper corners are bound with galvanized hoop iron to make them strong. The price paid for them was from $25 to S3O a hundred at a box factoiy. Some light wood should be used, of ( curse,so as to make them as light as possible. They need not weigh more than six or seven pounds. Early in the season, while the skin slips. our potatoes are dug (not thrown) into these boxes, and the boxes are covered as fast as tilled. They are then safe from sun and rain till wanted for market. The covers are simply pieces of boards cut about fifteen by eighteen inches. Dug one day and taken to market the next, and set off on the boxes at the grocer's, and then set by him into his delivery wagon and taken to his customers. thef consumer gets them just as nice and fresh as though he raised them himself. Os course, these boxes filled with potatoes should be carried on asp ing wagon, and covered by canvas from sun and lain.— Country Gentleman. A Common Way. Tiio fnlrnwimr nlnn for millfingcows is vet practiced on many farms in Texas, and is not the only farm custom which has nothing but antiquity to recommend it: When the boy and the dog have succeed in penning the cows, grab the bucket, throw into it the half-gallon cup, hang the caif rope over your shoulder, and go in. Have a calf turn d in from the calf pen and then immediately go to work to rope it. Os course it will run from one side ot the cow to the otherevery time it sees jou. If you see a club convenient, seize it and beat the calf some: this will loosen its hide and give it room to grow and enable you to get rid of a little of your bad temper. After awhile the calf will be roped, when you will immediately drag it to a post and tie it there. If it chokes and falls, no matter: it w 11 then be quiet until you are done milk- , ing, and it will hold still while you take the rope off. Now you can surround the cow, drive her up in a corner a d milk her. If she does not stand, let her know that she has to, and beat her into submission. A man who cannot boss his own cows ought not to have any. If you are long subdu ng the cow, the teats will dry up and the cow will “hold her milk.” 1 i this case you must let the calf suck until the teats are well slobbered, and the cow “lets down.” Having learned to always milk with the teats in this condition, you cannot milk at all if they are clean and dry. No matter how much the slobber squeezes through the fingersand drops into the milk—it will mostly strain out. Occasionally during milking, dip up with the lingers a lot ■of froth from the milk and apply to the teats, for they must at all times be dripping wet or you can't milk them. During the rumpus, of course, a good deal of dust will be kicked up and much of it will settle in the milk bucket. That i< all right-, it is less trouble to strain out the coarsest of it and let the rest settle to the bottom, and stay there, than to be bothered with a bucket cover. This style of milking is gradually going out of fashion, but will never entirely disappear until the milienium. —Farm and Ranch. Hard Tinies in England. Hard times tell on English farmers in more ways than one. The competition of other lands is yearly reducing the wheat production, not alone by decreasing acreage, but the last year or two decreasing yields per acre. Something ot this may be due to the unfavorable seasons, but it is probable that part is the result of decrea-ing care and interest in this crop. With wheat as cheap as now, the largest crop gives the English farmer no certainty of profit. He no longer can afford the special manur s for wheat which 50 or CO years ago ■ brought away the guano deposits of western South America to manure British wheat fields. Guano is dearer than it used to he, and is almost wholly superceded by deposits of nitrates of mineral origin. If the English farmer sows wheat these times he does so because wheat is a good cron to seed down with But he gives

no special fertilizer to the wheat. It * would perhaps injure rather than help the seeding and the increased crop , will not pay. $ This is the dull routine ' । performance of old tasks after the I buoyancy and hopefult ess that lorm- ! crly made them seem pleasant has , ! gone out of them. It is a condition that thousands of American farmers I have become familiar with, alike in , the newer and older States. It means in time abandoned farms in England ■ such as are seen in parts of this country. In Hact, the common English complaint that inc easing tracts of over-tilled land are being left to run wild and I reed game is the best comment on the condition ot hardship that English farmers are laboring , under to-day.—American Cultivator. ■ । Breeding Ewes for Profit. 1 ’ Have good winter shelter, good clover hay. a few roots, a little giain ■ daily and water handy. Water is 1 more necessary in winter than in summej. Have no fears that they will become too fat. If occasionally ; one g ts too fat and drops her lamb ' out of season, she will be in season, at a good price, forth ' butcher after 1 shearing. Sheep arc cheap in the r fall, when all are tat. Feed thus from the time they come into winter quarters, or earlier if pasture is short, and until it is good in the spring, and your wool will be better and more of it, the ewes will be better supplied with milk, especially those raising twins, the lambs will be in bettercondition for the butcher, so wdl any of the Hock which from age or general failure to raise a lamb or two it will be best to dispose of. If not cared for through the winter, but allowed to become poor. jou can not -ell until tai), when everyone else has them for sale also, ami hence very cheap. Parsnips for Cows. Milch cows of the Jersey Islands are largely fed on parsnips. It is the ■ staple root, and it makes a sweet, high-colored butter. It is quite possible that the feeding of parsnips, together with the mild climate of the Jersey Blands, are largely conti ibutory to the good qualities of Jersey cows as milk and butter producers. The mild climate leads to early breeding, and this makes cows of heifers at a very early a;e, thus reducing their size. It also cultivates the tendency to produce milk rather than flesh or fat. Eat * ( abbage Plants. It is not necessary for a crop of late cabbage to start the plants in a hotbed. Make a place out doors as rich and mellow as possible, sow the seed in drills rather thinly, and cover nights to keep in the heat. It is I very important to make a rapid tut ist cky growth. This may be done by putting nitrate of soda in the drill row ami UaiispluuLug each plant setting it out where it is to make a head. I bints thus treated are worth double those grown closely crowded in a matted bed. I’ork in Beef Barrels. It is difficult to < lean a banei that has been used for pickling beef, so that it will keep pork sweet the following summer. This, too, even when the beef itself is removed before it has received anj- taint. There are possibly microbes from the beef i which penetrate the wood of the ■ barrel and multip y rapidly wli n ; they have access to pork. A barrel , that has 1 een used for pork wdl keep I beef with little difficulty if care.ully | (leaned, but this is a rule that seem- : ingly does not work both ways Sugar Beets for Hogs. There is nothing better as a part of the ration for breeding sows, both 1 efore and after they have farrowed than sugar beets. The dry-grain diet, or even that of milk, does not keep the digestion good, and above all it favors fattening rather than providing material for the pigs the breeding sow carries. Milk-produc-ing, gieen food is just what the sow needs, and there is none better than the sugar beet It is preferable to I the mangel, as it is sweeter and has ( more nourishment. Foreign Grapes Are Hardy. It is a mistake to suppose that most i of the foreign varieties of grapes are ; easily winter killed. A iittle protec- j tion makes them as sale in winter as i our native varieties. It is summer i aiteinaii ms of cold nights with hot days that injures grape so iage and; makes the foreign grapes mildew so j easily. If the foreign grape vine! have protection overhead at night in ' summer and be plated in a warm place it can frequently be ripened out i of doors even in our northern clime. I Japanese Pcrsituuions, The Japanese persimmon is more highly thought or' than this fruit is j in this country. It can I e grown i farther north than can any of our : native persimmons, and when we get more used to the fruit, there is likely J to be a steady and paying demand for ■ it The more such extensions of their ! industry are formed, the better will J be the gains of fruit grower- and i farmers. Hence a heaity welcome to i all meritorious novelties. The Successful Newspaper. The successful newspaper is that I iich follows the advice offered by . bra ham Lincoln to a public man: “Keep close to the people.” It must tell them what they wish to knowall of the news of all the world. It । must be an intelligent and honest comrade. It must recognize the good in all men, the guile in some ■ men and the mistakes of many men. , It must be fair. It must recognize . no friends or enemies save the friends . and enemies of the people. A goo 1 i newspaper can be in the wrong ocI cisionally, but it can never be in the ' i wrong knowingly.—Chicago Record.

' OLD SOL'S WARM RAYS THEY FALLON PEOPLE IN VARIOUS LOCALITIES. High' Temperature Causes Great Discomfort In Chicago and at the Fair—Electrical Storms and Cyclones Reported—Crops Are Greatly Damaged. Scorching Weather. JR® HURSDAY morning Old ; , £ rt Sol got up and mado immediate preparations ; 1 O’ to cook the earth and nil those who could not afford to wear : seersucker coats and straw hats. ; Ho had played a hot game the pre- ■ vious day, but he didn't like the appearance of the silvery column in the thermometer. It was not enough to suit his taste, and ho set out Thursday to pour such sweltering' rays downward that poor humanity gasped and fainted from the effects of the heat. In Chicago the mercury climbed to 92 ! degrees up in the Auditorium tower, I but that wat the c olest spot in the | city. Down on the streets the ther- 1 mometer showed 97 degrees in the ‘ shade, and no one dared to calculate what the heat was whore there was no shale. The sun beat down upon the shining pavements and radiated heat from the hot st ones. Blate glass windows and white walls reflected the glare upon the heads of the hurrying ' crowds. Men witii cork helmets and | men with high hats suffered alike, and ' the summer girl with mulle sleeves , complained as much a- the apple woman I with a h avy shawl. *110)1'0 was a breeze, it was sand- ’ laden and hot. At every street c >rner I the wind swept t io dirt from the pavo- I ments ajid hurled it into the eyes of J wayfarers, bogriming moist faces and I blinding the vision of sight-seers, i Strangers in the city suffered the m< st. i Men stopped in the middle of the str< ot ! toelean the grit out of their eyes, re- | gardlbss of cable trains and noonday traffic. Street etiqm tie was forgotten. I Stylish men vc.t seen coatless, hatless j and breathless. Several peep edropped i exhausted by the intense heat, and the patrol and ambulance wagons were in frequent demand. Popular report e» Jn I * tK » X. ... t A .:-■■■- J . ryu iieinii jh^ui ujii .. '■ll—Wnfiiii^ though the statistics wo>v> against that i idea. The sun went down, but the heat remained, and not until near midnight did relief c< mo. A’severe thunderstorm then reduced the temy>orature several degrees. Ho* Everywhere. From telegraphic reports the ex- ; ‘remely warm weather seems to be pretty general throughout the country. Severe, electrical storms are reported in many places. At Kalamazoo lightning struck in ten places, including the First Frcs.byiorian Church. Wheat, which is being harvested in i Michigan, was laid low in many fields i by hail and coinfields riddled, and' fruit is also badly damaged. Cy- j clones visited Waterloo, lowa, Elm- | wopd. Neb., and other points, ! and great destruction to crop-, is the result. The mercury at Milwaukee reached 95 in the shade. Three cases of sunstroke are reported there, one of which was fatal. The thermometer registered 94 degrees at Des Moines. 98 at Indianapolis, and 102 at Knoxville, Tenn. CONDITION OF CROPS. Reports on Spring Wheat, Corn, Oats, Potatoes and Pastures. In its crop report this week the Farmer’s Review says that very little sprin’g wheat is being raised in Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. The | few counties where it is raised in the i above States give a very indifferent report. Os these Nebraska sends | in the greater number of re- I ports. There the greater number report the condition as poor. In some localities tbe crop was seen to be doing so badly that it was plowed up and the ground planted to corn. Some counties report a complete failure. In lowa spring wheat is doing well, two-thirds of the correspondents reporting good, and the rest fair. In Wisconsin the crop averages about fair, which means less than a full crop, it is making rapid growth and in some counties is ready to head out Dry weather is the cause of the low average. In Minnesota the condition is poor on account of drouth. In Dakota half report condition bad; the rest of the reports are equally divided I between fair and good. Oats.— Oats arc in condition about the same as corn in tbe States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, lowa, and Wisconsin. In Kansas most of the oats have been cut. In about half the counties the yield is I good. In the rest the yield is poor, the crop I having been cut short by rust in the milk j stage of the oats, in Nebraska the condition I is generally poor, and some field's have been । plowed up. Potatoes. —Potatoes are promising well in I Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, j Missouri, lowa, Wisconsin and Dakota. In ; Kansas mo t ot the reports are favorable, but some give fair and po r. In Nebraska ti.e reports are about evenly divided between good, | fair, p-.or. Hain is needed for the development I of the crop. Potato bugs are doing some i damage. Pastures —Pastures arc good in most of I the States. In Nebraska they only- average ! ; fair i n account of drouth. In Minnesota the i , grass is so dry in many townships that the farmers are fearful of,? e tructive fires being accidentally started. In nearly all of the : States a few counties report pastures dried up. The general condition is, however, good. William Collins, charged with de-, frauding the Missouri Pacific Railroad by keeping fictitious names on the pay roll, was bound over at Omaha, Neb., to the District Court. U. S. Martin, a young man of j Greensburg, Ind., is under a cloud, caused by his too free use of bank checks. His case will be investigated by a grand jury. The death sentence of Wm. Hartley, of Shelby County, Tenn., who was coni victed of murder, has been commuted to life imprisonment.

DEATH ONTHEGRA DE? THREE PEOPLE ARE KILLED AND TEN INJURED. Locoipotlve of the Grand Trunk’s New York Express Crashes Info u Crowded Street Car at a Chicago Crossing—Train Men Promptly Arrested. A Crossing Massacre Another was added to the already long list of Chicago grade-crossing horrors the other evening when an incoming dummy train on the Grand Trunk road ran into a Halsted stie?t open ear at the 49th street crossing. The car was crowded with nun and wt men, most of whom were returning home from work. Thomas Perkins and Margaret Murphy. of Chicago, and Grace Hunt, of La Salle, were killed and terribly mangled, while ten t thers were seriously hurt. The street car was . outli b mnd. There were forty-six passengers on board, many of whom were standing on the foothoards and others between the seats, ff’he car was in charge of Con-ihiet'-d’ /J.Tuqk Burnett and , li-ivep Chnrli w^*•“ vv it VeucUen Ji tb wtT ' f was a 1 ng freight ornin west. There is a network of tracW" 1, this crossing and the street ’ car mel? hax e nl aay > looked on it as a 1 dang«»'f' !S POtat. When the freight ! train ifcid passed, however, and the gates were raised by the toweiman, j Georgewarnett.it was taken asasigna! ; that the crossing was clear and StatuI ecker whipped up his hot-, c and started across the tracks. At the -ame time THK CRVH AT THK CtIOSSINd. Conductor Barnett, who had gone ahead of his car, nudioned tothe driver 1 to come on. The appreaching pa—cn- ! ger train was eoneeab'd b hind the out- ' going freight train. Barnett in the watch tower saw the pas- ngcr train and realized that a collision was imminent. He at once lowered the gates, , j but he was too late, for the street car I ' was already on the trucks and the pas- : Benger was only a few feet distant. I The latter was running at a lively rate I of sjieed and crashed into the side ~f i the ear. which was turned around and then thrown thirty feet through the j ! air. I Few of the passengers had anj warn- : ing of the accident. Tiioseon the footbeard nearest the passenger train saw it coming and jumped in thue to save ; themselves from injury and perhaps j death. But the majority of those on 1 board were carried with the demolished car and tb.ey fell to the ground together, many injured and others ad. The car. broken into many liiiu- < plunged ahead, there were cries of agony from the victims under the wreck. The dead were at once taken to the county morgue and the injured were placed in i-ar'-iagis and driven ' away. The passenger train was in Charge of Conductor John K rn. Engi- ; nver E. AV. Jones and Fireman j Janies CampK'll. Both engi- i neer and fireman, together with the conductor and driver oi the str. et ear and the gateman, were placed under I arrest. Many who were < u the car ! said that the accident would never j i have occurred had the watchman and i : conductor of the horse car attended i ; closely to duty. Sever, censure was ! heart against Conductor Barnett. As I he an ahead to see if the wav was clear he went only to the first track, it is .-aid. Here he e mid plainly s-e the i freigiit pulling out t the we t. ;ni amid the din of whistlir.g 10-om. ives > lie could not hear the warning ,-ign ds : of the approaching pa- euger < ngine. , The latter tra ; n was on the second ! track, and had Fa nett gore ten feet j farther, eye witnes.o s say. lie could | have seen the danger. Mob Attacks an Alliance Meeting. A largely attended meeting of the Pope Coitnty Alliance at Cove. Ark., was broken up by a mob and a rain- | storm of bullets was tired over the ; heads of the crowd. John T. Miller, a . member of the last Arkansas Legisla- : ture, was addressing the meeting at the time. The report states at tbe first fire from the enemy every man in the crowd stampeded. Mrs. Ida Duncan. however, had the presence of mind to mount a box and call to the fleeing men to stand their ground, even in the face of death. But the men kept on running, leaving the woman to hold the fort alone. James Webb was hit in the eye with a stone. Efforts are being made IO arrest the assailants. Notes of Current Events. starr and Wilson have been landed in jail at Fort Smith, Ark., after a narrow escape from a mob. The North .American Saongerbund decided to hoi I the next saengerfest in Pittsburg in July. 189 G. FOUR French war ships a:e now at the mouth of the Meinam. called there by the trouble with Siam. John Powell, living at St. Johns, while working in a wheatfield, was instantly killed by lightning. Commander Lyons, of the Monon- , gahela, has been found at fault in the ; collisu n with the Speranza. E. P. JOHNSON and Miss Mary Groban, of Lexington, eloped to Jeffersonville, Ind., and were married. Members of the Citizens' Insurance Company of Cincinnati started to ■ move for parts unknown, but were ; eaugh t. The Norwegian bark Norma has ar- | rived at Grosse Isle from Rio Janeiro. ; Capt. Markussen, his son, and the steward of the ship died during the voyage I from yellow fever. Fourteen saloon-keepers doing busi- i ness on a strip known as “No Man's ; Land,” near Dubuque, have been bound over in the sum of SSOO each for violating prohibitory laws. John A. Lombard, 50 years old, manager of the Hero Fruit Company, which was involved in the failure of Spring Garden National Bank, committed suicide at Philadelphia by cutting his throat.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM 1 REFLECTION. A Pleasant* Interesting* and Instructive Lesson* and Where It May Be Found— A Learned and Concise Review of the Same. Paul at Corinth. The lesson for Sunday, Julj- 23, may be found in Acts 18: 1-11. INTRODUCTORY. A good city mission’s lesson. How hope-inspiring to the toiling metro] olitan worker the words: “1 have much people in this city!” The writer recalls the time when, loaded down with some such responsibilities in city evangelization, these words came to him like a message from the skies, and gave him courage and confidence. Believe it still. Wherever you u"e laboring be convinced that Ged has a yvork for you .there. Happy the pastor or teacher, > or Christian yvorkec in any department > of activity, who hears such a voice as this to strengthen him from the heav- ( Ged ho for— I who is he that is against us. Never mind, work for God. POINTS IN THE LESSON. Be outspoken. If you have anything to say. say it bravely, plainly. It will have its fiu ts. This lesson demon-I etrates it. “After these thing. Paul departed.” I After what things? Be careful. Athens | was not a defeat but a victory. Paul ' did not make his sjiceeh and. when the ! people mocked or murmured, run away, j He stood hi- ground until he had won I some trophies. Read tl e'as verse of I the i re’c ling chapte . The “these I things" refers to red. m* ive iruitu And yet there wa-; a difference be- I tween this an I otl er places of their | Pauline pr pagard i. The wt rd de-| ]>art d h to, in the origin il pirticu- j larly, implies formal abandonment. J There was m> ’planting a: Corinth sim- i ilar t > that at l’hiii| ph t r at Thessa- I loniea. The soil was nut so congenial. ' Christianity do.'- not e >me to the world I by the wa;,of the p >rch of the uhil- I ' osopher. It touches tl ere. is fearless ' | there, but it ih e< not get its impul-e । there. Ti e Bethlehem inn is stilt the । wa . < f the S- n of man. Wna: I ’aid's new urgency was yve do ■ not know. He had up t > this time i “p. r-uad "d, or as t' • margin suggests, and poperly. sought t > persuade. ; Some light i- thrown on this latter ex-pl’e-sjeii Acts XA. s, <), yvhere I’aul is repre'.entcd as "persuading the things < neti ng the kingdom of <> d. ami yet men were "hardened and I . meed not." Argument, which is {robuniv the meaning here, has frequently the same effect to-day. But iow I : c fines .c: with a solemn, lire ■’ testirm n: that so differs fr. mail Um im. gone before that the synagogue a’ one? divides and men either c tine with the preacher or go fio u him. What evangelistic worker ha. m>' crossed -uc’n a Rubicon? It cc- ! cur. in every campaign. It will c une I-• you in work if you are faith- ' first church in the hous . At Philippi ' we saw the first open-air service, the: first pi ayer-tn eting and the first aftermeeting in Europ?. Now yve have the I first c .ttag '-meeting. Keep up the | good work. Right here conversions I her in. Yes. and antagonisms, but yvith ' the antagonism Himes God’s glorious championing of his servant Paul. “Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace; for 1 am yvith thee.” Thank God for -m-h omnipotent aid. “Strong ; in the Lord and in the power of His i might." Brethren, be up and doing! HINTS \ND ILLUSTRATIONS. Despise not the first thoughts on a lesson. Second thoughts are good, but the first intimations that come to one. on a cursory reading of the scriptures, have their ]>m'uliar vriu ■ ami are not to be thrown away. It is yvell to jot these down as they come, for other suggestions si.eh as spring up later, usually a sturdv growth, are apt to thrust out the little timid stems that are first happened upon. Gather a bunch of them and put them away. They will freshen I and brighten up the soberer fruits of meditation or invedigation that come later. And thus yve find that these , first thoughts catch and engage the at- ' tention. Perhaps that is what they were for. Speaking of growths, it is a curious i circumstance, and tne that the wideawake teacher can make gocd. use ; of, that the common, garden small- : fruit, the currant, comes from Corinth in a kind of double derivation, i. e., as to origin and name. Skeats’ Etymological Dictionary, or perhaps any oth- i er phik gical authority, will tell you I that the expression was originally ; grapes of Corinth naisins deCorinthe). ' Take a cluster of the tiny fruit into ■ the class along with you. teacher. Let ; it tell its story of the city from which ' it gets its name. The old scholars, as well as the younger, will appreciate | such an object lesson. After all, the secret is in the resolute । purpose. Are you in your place to win, I to win your class, your parish, your as- j sociates? Be one of them to such an j extent as to be able to best accomplish ; your good ends. Uperaft thinks it best i to adopt the dress < f the people. He knows what he is about. Give him । Pauline liberty. The medical missio n- I ary sees his < pportunity in giving his ! professional talent, the missionary sees | his opportunity in giving his proses- | sional talent, the missionary crafts- i man in giving his skill of hand. Certainly. Moffat won rich returns by this I latter method: Livingstone by the j former. In each ca-e it is the purpose ; that sanctifies the gift. Whatever you ■ can do well, do it to the glory of God - I but do it well. Next Lesson —“Paul at Ephesus.” I Acts 19: 1-12. The term “tabby cat” is derived from . Atab, a famous street in Bagdad, in- j habited by the manufacturers of silken stuff called atibi or taffety. This stuff is woven with waved markings of watered silk resembling a “tabby* cat’s coat. The most cunning art as well as the highest scientific use to which wood can be twisted, turned, wreathed, warped, or carved is that when fashioned into an ideal violin. The aggregate copies of American papers issued in 18t0 were 2,077,659,675.

AROUND A BIG STATE. ; BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. I What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths-Accidents and Crimes—Personal Pointers About Ind'an’ans. Not Exactly Enoch Arden. Twenty years ago Aaron Steinbach was a prominent farmer near Plymouth, Marshall County, this State. He owned a farm of fifty acres and had considerable cash deposited in the county-seat bank. About that time he decided to leave the farm and abandon his wife and two baby boys, but before he did that lie deeded the farm to his wife and gave her ?500 in cash. He was not heard from until the other day, when he ap]>eured at the doors of the Home for Feeble-minded Youth in Fort Wayne. He stated that after he left Marshnll < 'ounty he went to Kan- ! sas and purchased a farm and there I married a second wife, rears rolled j on and the deserted Mrs. Steinbach | married again. Her second husband I «uui vui vn j. anu squandered the farm, and she died a broken-hearted j woman. The twin boys were sent to , the Soldiers' Home at’ Knightstown, । and afterwards transferred to the Feeble-minded Home. The boys always thought that both their parents | were dead. The gray-haired man at I the Feeble-minded Institute said that he was Aaron Steinbach, and the 1 father of the 20-year-old twins, and he wanted to take them liaek to Kansas. ; The oitkers of the institution will reI lease the boys as soon as they are as- ‘ stired ol the identity of the old man. Brief State items. Jackson County's melon crop is I good. The new town of Ingalls has annexed I 240 acres. Gas City and Jonesboro are now j called the “twin cities.” There are fifty-three inmates in ; Franklin's Orphan's Home. A Valuable mineral spring has been j discovered near Charleston. Tippecanoe County wheat is said to be almost 20 per cent, short. The Second National Bank of Vincennes has commenced business. Toll roads in Wayne County have been abolished by a popular vote. Dike County ('ommissioners have ordered the building of a new jail. !• IVE houses and several barns at Goshen were destroyed by lightning. OI.D settlers of Knox County have a grand reunion at Vincennes. August 3. Washington Brunemer. a farmer near Franklin, was killed by lightning. Sharpers are working northern counties by selling bogus territorial prii ileges for a windmill. Vide Thornburg, a wealthy farmer, aged 90. near Farmland, was seriously injured in a runaway accident. Houleham a Stump's hardware and carriage house. Crawfordsville, wasdeb.y an incendiarv fire. Loss, of Klknart. was drowned while bath* ing in the river. The body was recovered. The wooden bridge across AA’hite River, at Martinsville, destroyed in March by a cyclone, has been replaced by a 14.000-dollar iron structure. At Knightstown. Ira Martin, a lad of 12 years, died a painful death caused by eating green gooseberries. It is supposed that poison used on the berry bushes was the cause. An attempt was made to wreck a passenger train on the T. 11. & L. road near Rockville, by placing ties on the track. The obstruction was noticed in time to flag the train. Logansport citizens are roaring mad over the proposed plan of the natural gas companies to put meters n the consumers' houses and charge so much per thousand feet. Wheeler Brothers were threshing wheat near Martinsville when sparks from the engine set fire to and de- : stroyed the thresher, stacker, and I other machinery. Loss, $1,000; no in- ■ surance. Mrs. Helen O'Bannon, one of the principal witnesses in the famous Reynolds will case, is now an inmate of the Logansport hospital. Her mind beI came unbalanced by the excitement of l the trial. Thousands of dead fish have accumulated in the Mississ’newa River, between Marion and Gas City and the ! stench is terrible. Thought that the refuse from the new paper mill at Gas I City has poisoned them. Mrs. Catherine Reynolds and J daughter Nellie, who live five miles I east of Vernon, were driving to town I the other morning. The horse became frightened, ran away, throwing the occupants out and badly injuring Mrs. Reynolds about the head. The daughter is so badly injured internally that her life is despa ire •. A Lafayette gas syndicate has leased 1,000 acres four miles north of I Elwood, and will sink wells to supply that city with gas from the Madison County fields. It is understood that $2 pei - acre was paid for the lease. This action of local parties leasing gas lands i to foreign syndicates is meeting with great disajiproval and the farmers are being ’’roasted'’ for so doing. The engine of a Big Four passenger train, while passing Emanuel Grossnickle's wheat field, near North Manchester. set lire to the wheat and burned over ten acres of grain. The wheat had been liar vested and shocked, and was remarkably heavy, but the stubble was so dry that the entire field was on fire, and all that was saved, about two acres, was done by plowing a few furrows across one end. which stopped the spread of the flames. Edward Elkins, a baker, fell from the third-floor window at No. 418 Third street. Logansport, and was killed. He was in the habit of sitting in the window when he could not sleep on account of the heat, and it is supnosed he went asleep and fell out. While the fire that laid Princeton to the ground is a great blow to the people, they do not seem to be discouraged in the least. Tents are being pitched in all parts of the city, and business is going right along. The AV estern Union telegraph office is located in a livery stable, and Dr. Gilmore is pulling teeth under a tent