St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 July 1894 — Page 7

HOME AND THE FARM. A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Crop Rotation is Essential tn Order to Keep I p the Fertility of the Soil—Many Farmers Are Careless About Their Work —Agricultural Notes. Crop notation. Crop rotation has become quite essontial to agriculture in order to keep up the fertility of the soil, hut very few seem to conside • it necessary to extend this same plan to the fruit trees, vines, and shrui s. Never- i theless it s pretty well known now that the continuous growing of any one crop of fruits in one place tends to concentrate all of the blights, dis- i eases and fungi that injure our । plants. Often the only wav to de- ( stro. these diseases is to kill off all of the plants and trees and to burn j root and branch. By transferring ■ the orchard to another part of the ; farm we can often obtain better re- : suits than if we devoted all of our । time to spraying and picking off in- 1 fected leaves. We generally see t the best of soil for potatoes and wish i to grow them there continually, but ; in time blight and rot make it im- ' possible and we have to move the po- ! tato Held. The same is true with onions, sweet potatoes, cabbage and other vegetables. Now the same holds exactly true with raspberries, blackberries, currants, and other plants. We can in some instances k epdown the diseases by continuous spraying but in t me the disease become so general that the extra wet season is sure to make the fungi get the better of us. Our strawberry | beds should be changed every few years and placed in’ new localities where diseases will not make their life precarious. Raspberry vines, I currants, and gooseberry bushes can- , not be moved so easily, but new orchards have to be planted every year or so, and the new ones should be planted as far from the old as possible. Even in the apple and pear i orchard something in this line can be done. Old orchards as a rule suffer more from blight than young ones, and grubs and other insects increase rapidly in numbers. If the new orchards are planted right alongside of them they arc infested with the insects and diseases early in their life. Grape vines require a change i probably more than any other fruits, i and every new vineya d planted should be separated from tiie old ones. If the land is planted with other crops for a couple of seasons the germs of the diseases will get out of the soil pretty well. We can ward off diseases fairly well with spraying, and it is right that ' This should be kept up persistently, but with the present increase of insects and diseases in old orchards the future must bring about such changes that it will be ! absolutely necessary to adopt a system of rotation in our fruit crops the same as now practiced with other cr ps It is also a question to be considered whether such a change would make a vast difference in the self-productiveness. We know the rotation for Held crops makes the soil richer and improves it so that the crops are huger and better. Do not all fruit t ees, plants, and vines draw from the soil certain elements which must be su plied in the cheapest way Y>y a rotation? — Nebraska Farmer. Carelens Farming. One reason why farming does not , pay is because farmers aie too careless about doing their work. 1 have had and am now having a severe experience growing out of this very lack of thorough woik. Recently I came into possession of a farm of tlfty acres, of which thirty-five acres have been under cultivation, lor some , years these thirty-five acres had been in meadow. About live yea:s ago it was ail plowed up and seeded down. 'The piece must have been unusually stony naturally, for it was covered with stones. These had been plowed over, and dragged over, and mowed over for years. It makes one sick to think ot the sheer waste of human and animal energy that must have taken place in this way. I do not think there had ever been a load of stones drawn off the piece j since it came under cultivation. I Then, too, the hay and grain had I been stacked out, there being no tarn on the farm. No doubt hay enough had been wasted to build a good barn. I have picked up an enormous pile of stones from the piece. Fart of the land I plowed this spring, and every stone of any size I have taken out and drawn off. When the land goes into meadow again I think it will be in much better shape for moving. lam also putting up a good barn. It really is no wonder •‘.arming don’t pay” with some men. The wonder is that they get along as well as they do. If men in other kinds of business should be so careless the daily list of failures would be swelled to tenfold its present size. —E. L. Vincent, in the National Stockman. Horses Without Shoes. For two years, says Dr. Wharton, In the London “Lancet,” I have been using an old mare—l7 years old —without shoes. She had always been shod before. And for the last ten months I have used a 6-year old horse of rather heavy build withiout shoes My brougham is ten and onehalf hundred weight, and they draw it singly in turns. 1 had them shod three times with “Charlier” shoes. Each time the shoe was made shorter, and 1 allowed the shoes to be worn until they were thinner than a sixpence. At the end of that time the middle of the hoof had grown level with the wall. Then the animal went without shoes altogether. There was a I'ttle lameness once or

twice, which jassed off with a day’s i rest each t me. I I use the rasp about once a month ;to remove the jagged edges of the hoofs and to keep the hoofs in shape. The wall of the hoofs became more than an in h in thickness and wonderfully hard, and not brittle, as might have been thought, though 1 use no means to keep the n soft. My hor es go quite as well as with shoes, and are much safer when the sets are greasy and slippery. They a e not | as safe on ice as a sharpened horse, but much safer than an unsharpened horse. If a horse is used unshod before the mi die of the hoof is tilled up the wall breaks away in large pieces up to the nail holes, and he i goes lame and must have rest until what the farrier has cut away has been replaced by nature. N ithing could induce me to go back to shoes, ' and any horse is able to do without shoes if treated as above. Mistakes in Transplantinn. There are two other points in transplanting, neglect of which has . proved fatal to m Uions ot plants, j and t ese are thorough firming of the ! soil around the roots and protecting I the stem-. Set plants in loose soil j in hot weather, an I the wind and sun dry out the moisture before the roots can get well started, and in a few days a large percentage of the;n a:e dead; but press the earth around the roots so firmly that yon can not pull the plant up by a single leaf and its chances of living are good This is a sure test and the one I always apply. 1 pass across the rows behind the men and try several plants after each, taking hold ot af^mgle leaf and giung it a quick jvrk; ir the leaf breaks, I am sure it is right, but if the plant comes up, I call the man’s attention to it, and require h m to apply this test until he finds how mu h pressure is needed. Nearly all plants grown in seed-beds are crowded we often grow 1,000 plants or more of sweet potatoes on a single yard—and this means that the stem is white and tender. A green leaf or stem is much hardier, and so, after setting a plant, we draw loose earth up t > it, to cover the stem up to the green part I have seen sweet potatoes set out by the acre, when half of them died simply from neglect to protect the stems, which can Ge done by a s ogle ii otlon of the hand*. Waldo F. Brown. The fruit-drying industry of this country has assumed huge projxirtionx and is of a great deal of value to the orehardht. for no part ot the crop now needs to go to waste. Dr ring the very warm days the teams should be used early in the morning, so as to allow them at b ust two hours for rest at noon. More work will lie secured by mi doing than by shortening the noun rest. An apple grower thinks that in setting an orchard we should get such apples a> are be-t suited to our -o i! and climate, and are in demand in the markets, ami not All our orchards with only su h as suit ur taste at home. Noone kind of food i-jierfc t Even when li -rse* liar ran alum! ue e of timothy hay they will aL" ace pt straw and cornstalk* as a change of diet, as well as kept hi letter ;. I ■ tlon from being allowed a greater variety. Mi < h is said of late about *terlizing milk before use. Better far to look more after the hi aith and surround ngs ot the < ow*. that their milk be free from all objectionable ■ conditions, in which ca-e no germkHling process is called for. White clover i-superior to the red, : but does not grow very high, and tor that reason it receives no consideration a* a crop for hay. but there is nothing superior to it in the pasture. Botti cows and sheep a e very part .al to it. and it will thrive on soils that will not produce the red variety. Orchards. to be remunerative in the highest degree, must be cultivated. Cultivation gives more fruit and better fruit. The young orchard should be continually cultivated until well into beating. >Ol thirty feet apart, and when the branches get cons derahly in the way seed to grass which, when mown, let lie on the ground. Turkeys do not fatten well in confinement. A week or ten days is as long as they can be coped without 10-s of condition Thu best plants , to feed abundantly, twice a day with I corn and then pen for <>n week before marketing. If the turkeys will not appear promptly at feeding time, don’t grieve about it: they are getting plenty outside and will flesh up all the same. “I. summer too much exercise is generally given.” says John Gcul I. “A luxuriant pasture in which the cow can till herself quickly and then lie down and ruminate is what 311* the milk pails. Going two miles pasture and then being driven home by a boy on horseback and a yelping dog has always resulted in a small, poorly tilled udder, an unhappy owner, a sad looking wife and the children ! anxious to leave the farm.” Appropriate Names. In looking over an old d rectory, a curious gentleman found the foil wing names, than which it would be difficult t > imagine any more ad- | mirabiy adapted to the professions or trades of the persons by whom they j were borne: Dunn, a tailor; Giblet, Mutton, and Bull, butchers; Truefit, a wigmaker; Cutmore. an eatinghouse keeper; B ilit, a Ushmongrr; . Rackem, an attorney: Wh ppy, a saddler; Breadcut, a baker: Coldman, an ; undertaker: Wicks, a tallow-chandler: and Bringlow, an apothecary. People arc always complaining of i annoyances they draw salaries for ■ । standing.

WARNINGS OF THE SUEZ CANAL. I An Average Divhtent of Over IS Peg Cent, to the Shareholders. Annually there comes to the notice of the public the fact that the buez Canal is earning an immense amount of money, and the company’s report so • 1893 is now bcfo.e the public. The pr. 'ts which the shareholders of this coq 'ration are making were last year large as usual, says the I’rovidence Journal, and they again present, to Americans especially, the strongest argument that perhaps will, ever la offered for the revival of the Ceir , tral American venture. The dividends paid by the Suez, corporation for the last four years have 1 een — 1890, 17 percent: 189), 21 percent; I si?, IS percent: 1893, IS per cent. This was on a capitalization of 197, 125.000 francs, at .*>oo francs a shares ' inclusive of a icservation of 5 per cent, interest on ihe 364,250 shares With th 5.3 per cent interest the yearly payments are made on the company’s redeemable obligations, the total amount of which was naliy 102,704,17 i Irones. Reduced to our own currency terns th^H figure* show that the canal cost round figures the sum of «s(> ( OOO,o8W o which the shareholders contril* uted one-half, at #IOO a share. This investment is now returning anywhere from sll a share as in isaf, to sl7, in 18 i>. I'he company’'? exact revenue in 1 su.t was 76, >.i‘.9a; franc*. The exj>ense amounted to 36,9 .4,445 franc , or a little less than $*,060,000. 'l'h s is equal to a divi. (lend of 72 fruncs yer share, or with the per cent interest on the share, 9. francs The shares in our money thus netted their owner* about sl4 each, or wi ll the bond reservation, 91*. No ot eel onvean be made to calling the last tig re the teal net, since it represents the gradual wip ing out o’ the company's bonded obligations. a process which is steadily going on. li these obligation* were paid oil** "ii a* po^sji-le. or when convenience p rmitted. the shareholders might still receive over 10 percent, and $lO per share, and vet pa. off the indebtendess in twenty, five years. The practi al quest on in applying this lesson of Suez, a* we m ay call it. to the Central American project is whether the shipping business of the eastern waterway is at all analogous and similar to the 1 asfness which would Pc d me at Panama nr in Nicaragua. Is Suez In a imitlou wnsch oilers it a chance of larger use ulneM to patron* than a channel across Central America would provide? The man who would say that it is would risk any reputation he might have as an economist of sizable caliber In the same wav the tlnanc er who doe# not appreciate the value of the pro| po-.-'U route from th Atlantic t« llm Pant! - is risking hi* «««*! name as dwspeculator and < a|>Haii«t. HvF »h« English loaiay laugh at the fore* sight of the late Khedive of Egypt for selling hi* shares in the Suez Canal in 1*7.3 f>r ??o ihhi.ooo. The same shares ar w >rth $»»/ nO.OVO today Yet tie <.. rm.m. lans ami other b. ur*es of Ear pc. together with the most fars-e ng bankets in the world, p. rmat' I Di*ra 1. i man who was not a tin meser a* we ordl. narl i.mb rstan I Die w>r l. to b:» up these shares The future sill ( ring r-l "u e .j In t ! Mates capitalists an I Hn.incict* if they jstmit anv one eAe t- build the Panama r Nicaragua c ana. a< d own it. Every year shows m,w much one or the other of these nmte- i*demanded b. comm'rec The new movement is the a quiremenl and development of the Australian w r 1, with the utilization of the l aePic island* as c< almg *tat u* ami def >tx i* at this very moment in Teasing the pmspceuve and । JenDa. value ol the work enormou*iy. Ants. Ia k an I Ke I. We pres nue editors of newspapers have more in juiries for- me remedy tor the expuls n of ants than for almost anything else. The New York < bserver has a correspondent who solves the problem as follows: “Having had years of torment with ants, both black and red, we ligh ed upon the following remedy, which with us has worked like magic: One sp onful of tarter emetic, one spoonful of sugar, mixed into a thin syrup. A* it evaporates or is carried off, add ingredients as needed. A sicker lon of i'"*ts would t>e hard to fliidvWhether they impart the results ttfe the h metirm or whether all arJ[ killed. 1 trow n A Certain it is then donut pay us a second visit bor^ ants on the lawn, a spoonful of Faris Green cut with alcohol and made into a syrup with sugar and water can b ‘ placed on pieces of glass or crockery—cover from domestic pets—and the slaughter will be satisfactory.” The Young Doctor. A considerable crop of young doctors is just beginning th® tedious work of waiting for patients. People are so stupid that they fail to realize that these young men. having studied i loryears, and practised at tne hospitals, really do know something about disease. It i* related to the Listener of the Transcript that one i young physician, who had just graduated and opened an office, went to i dine at the house of an old friend. - During the evening, noticing that r his hostess looked worried, he asked z her if anything was the matter. “Why,” she said, ‘1 am disturbed , about Johnny. He is hot, and seems - sick, and looks so queer, I wish I ; knew whether he’s got the measles.” , - “Let me look at him,’’said the young i doctor. “Why,” cried the hostess, ; with a look of genuine surpri e, , “could you tell?” f Women trust the men before mari viage too much, and after marriage । not enough.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED. ■ — A Scholarly Exposition of the Lesson- ! Thoughts Worthy of Calm Keflecdonun Hour’s Study of the Scriptures-- 1 Time Well Spent. 1 I-essoti for July 20. vTA iR the lesson we are given: jUst a little glimpse into the homo-life : ' .-^a'-hceth. Enough to let is see the piety, loyalty, and devotion that was there. Thank God for the sweet ywion. Surely all homes, all nristian homes at least, ought to be better for the study that is given to these Scripture sentences. "The child grew.” The natural de- ’ xelopment of the i.hvUt child. He (yaino to himself in ujqn ohension and , I growth like any ordinary youth, only that self was vastly greater than the ordinary. He was God manif.stod in the fesh. He “waxedstrong.” l iterally, he kept g> tting str. nger, he kept on growing. The word “increased” at. ver.se tifty-two signifies he rut his way through, Jesus needed to guard and guide his life, just as any mortal would need to do in o der to get the most and best out of it. Ho was “tilled with wisdom.” The intellectual kept puce with the physical—'a sound mind in a round body.” This, indeed, wa* the strength referred to. for the Greek stands. He grew strong, being filled witu wisdom. A kind of strength much needed to-day. ‘The grace of God was upon h m.’ i. e.: the manifeste 1 favo ■of G<xl. He was the id al youth, the perfect young man. As such he should Ih» held up before the rising yoieration. Be ike the b y Christ. Ho was what God aprroved. "Now his parent- went to Jerusalem every year.” A lesson to parents. Go t > church regularly, take the boys along. “Train up a child in the way he should go. Indeed parent and child should always train together. Set the right example before the young. Go to Sunday school with them; lake them to ch irch with you. There i- no t hristian or ecclesiastical reform nr re needed. At 12 Christ first went up to the temple as a r cogt i ed attendant. Thereafter it wav the earthlv house of hi* soul, hi* Fathers house. He was more than a prodigy in the t mple. He wss a prophet. And yet h w meekly and loyally he follows ami olx’V • his rarents. He d<x'. not set him elf above them, though cveti now in the Mood* of wisdom sweeping in upon him ami the g owino con>ciou*ne*s of hi* theantbropic nature, ho might well do «o I’erhajw there is no more moving sent nee in all the than tbi-: “He went down with I ?hetn and came to Nazareth and was ^subject unto them.” Ho «»• always k doing that, coming down to our level ot thought and a tum that he might lift u* np to him-clf. vond >*.-endmg to men of 1 w estate. He wont down with them -it is the epitome o hi* ife. HINTS VMI ILLTSTH VTh'NS. The boy < hri*t in the temple: trulv a w-hoio'env' ;••** n for the youth of to ip The m therand father -eeking him * rrow nz, their so row oh sently t ime.l into a wondering joy it Is what, more than or o atloT and mother have trail c i when t o Iwur of conve si n has mme. And who would not give i tfspring tip for the -ake of the temple and the larger life of the Father’s ho-.i-e- Was ( hrist ever less to Mary? wu- -he ev -r to him” Not the same, bit In’tter. It was the lifting up and bioadeidng ot the lie. Hoc- to grow, -et a high mark, a b: :gh< mark b fore and "press t >ward” it look ’ip, n<'t down. Lend a hand, take hold, take part "Here, hold this.’’ the -aib>:- -aid to the affrighte 1 passenger in the st .rm. it was only a u-e---less piece < f roue, but it gave the man something t > do and -av\d him from des; air. They asked the lad how ho proved ti a’ there was but on • God, and he un--wercii well wh n he -aid, "There is onlv room for one. for the whole earth and heaven a e tilled with his glory." Wo ship Gt d. the Father, maker of heaven ami earth. “In favor with God and man." Be in God’s favor, and ultimately in the favor of all who are God s. It i- the be-t method <>f alvuncement. Begin early, do it now. Whatever is wot th doing, go about it at once. Thi- friend o. ours has been telling us of a young man who. going in swimming with his companions, wa- taken out of the water dead. In his pocket wa- found a card received at a recent revival meeting, “I resolve, Grd helping me,” Beside the card in the same pocket was a bshacuened pencil: but the pencil had |n.jt been used, and the blank spaces on 3 the card had not been tilled out. Do it f now. - -There's a good time coming, boys,’ And many a one lias passed. For each has had bls own g ol time And will have to the last. Then do thy work while lingers youth. With freshness cn it - brow. Still mindful of life's greatest truth. The best of times Is now. ■ Next Lesson—" The Bapt’sm of Je- . bus.’’ Mark 1: 1-11. Air Ships. To make the air ship of practical utility, it will require the sustaining 1 power of gas. A study of the Sight of birds is likely to furnish all needful hints on the controlling power, but. thus far, science has not developed force enough to keep the snip up and propel it at the same time. (Ince the weight question is settled, there is little difficulty in handling the aerial ship. A practical solution of this much discussed ; roblem is confidently looked for by those who have studied it. _ Doesn't S mud Big. It is said that all the gold in the world, not counting that in virgin state, would not make a block of more than 613 cubic yards. A cube of the | above dimensions could be put in a j room 24 feet each way. Nativity of Britain’s Kecruits. Os the recruits in the British army j last year 32,09 f were born in England : 3.567 in Scotland, ami 3,860 in Ireland. I j One thousand three hundred and five I of the c young soldiers were under 17 j | years of age.

IN NEED OF RAIN. Weather Bureau Report* the Crops SutTer•nS for Moisture. The synopsis of the conditions of the crops throughout the country and the influence of weather on growth, cultivation and harvest, as rep >rted by the Chicago station of the Weather Bureau, is as follows: Z* eek bas been Letter than usual count?J°» U ‘ tb °. bouther n Portion ot the country from the mldd ie and south AtLintic coast westward to the Pacific. NZw rl En^? P,, a al ‘? n, P« ratu re prevailed over Ne a Eng!and. Ne w V ork, and in the Ohio was ^cidt 'lv IS9USIPPI Vulle y s - It Southern w? 7 than usual from Southern Wisconsin westward over Mlnnebota and the Dakotas i-^ SC f l pt ’ ° ver ’hnited areas, confided mostly to the bouthern States, the past week i‘ a * been very dry. Heavy rains occurred over the greater portion of Georgia and Florkia. the Carolinas, Louisiana. Mississippi and Texas, but there are considerable areas in the South*h®re but little rain has fallen, while throughout the region from the middle Atlantic coast northwestward, over the Ohio, upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys and the lake region, only very light showers have fallen, and over a great rain ta hu e " l ' ory “ amed P rac «« a lly no

' wLsence ot rain throunhout so much ’ of the country during the week has sr :atly Intensified the drought conditions which previously existed, and, while all crops ’ need rain throughout the central valleys hnd middle and New England States, the warm, dry weather has been espec ally favorable for threshing of wheat Winter wheat harvest is now completed as far north as Southern Michigan and thrashing has progres ed rapidly. Spring wheat is reported as considerably Injured by drought in North Dakota. Corn is reported as in favorable condition in Illinois and Kansas, and a* much Improved in Arkansas. It is suffering seriously In Wisconsin and lowa. In the last named State it is reported in critical condition, and a continuation of the prevailing drought will greatly reduce the crop. • The general condition of cotton, except over southwest Texas, where it needs rain, 1- satisfactory. It is fruiting well atid has been laid by In Georgia and Mississippi. Tobacco Is suffering from dr >ught In Oh! > and Kentucky. lut in Tennessee it Is doing well, though small. Cranberries have been injured by heat in Wisconsin. LEADER OF SOCIALISTS. France Has Good Cause to Watch Every Movement of M. Vaillant. The recent anarchistic demonstrations in France, which bejjan years ago, reached an alarming state in the

bimb-throwing of a few months ago. and culminating in the assassination of Carnot, makes M. Vaillant the leader of the Socialists in the Chamber of Deputies, a man on whom many eyes are turned just now. Vaillant is a man in the prime of life, with a personal appearance that is supposed to go with the ideas he

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represent®. He was born in Paris, and took an active i a“t in the stormy scenes proeedi g the establishment of the republic. He I* the idol of the Socialists, a man of great ambition and not a little genu ne ability. France ha* good eau-o to watch intently his every movement. CHOSEN TO FORM A CABINET. Deputy Aucuate Hurdran. a Particular 1 r rn<t of France’* New President. M. Casimer-Perier, the new President of France, has cho-en Deputy A gusto Burdoiu. who is his particular friend, to form a Cabinet. M. Bur-

l i \ M. A. BCRUEAV. ; he took in the

deau has already had considerable ministerial experience. He was Minister of Marino in the Loubet and Ribot Cabinets in Dug, and Minister of Finance during the premiership of M. < asimer-Perier, with whom he went out of office. Wh»m last in the ministry he was violently attacked bv the Radicals ai d Socialists for the part

negotiation b-tween the Government ana the Bank of France. He was al-o accused by the anti-Semites of being an agent of the Koth-childs. James Hogan, of Brooklyn, beat his son nearly to death. Forest tires are raging rear Egg Harb r, N. J., and are causing heavy 1 sses. The whaling bark Abram Barker was wrecked in Behring Sea. The crew was rescued. In a quarrel at Columbus. Ohio, over a game of cards, John Williams was shot dead by Benjamin Fasit. B. F. Gentsch, ex-postmaster of Buffalo, N. Y.. committed suicide by , shooting. Business troubles caused the act. Gray Whirlwind, the Sioux brave, med tobacco and cayenne pepper as a lotion for a sore eye. He lost the sight of the eye. Misses Bember and Halve rstone, American missionaries, were attacked by a mob in Canton, China, and the latter may die. The Attorney General of Indiana will bring suit again-t the Eastern Illinois lb ad for payment of a $25,000 incorporation fee. Exports of merchandise for the year ending June 30 were $Xb2.111,280. and have been exceeded but twice. Imports were $054,835,873. Giovanno Perna shot into a crowd of merry-makers in a Philadelphia garden, wounding twelve. A lyn hing was averted only by a constable's bravery. As the result of a quarrel T. J< Gillespie shot Bernard McNutt, near ' Columbia, Mo. He then knelt in the i oad and offered a prayer for his vic- । tim's soul. The good government clubs of New York City are seeking the aid of the newspapers of the State in the movement to separate the municipal and national elections. Unknown persons, supp sed to be strikers, loosed the brake cha i s on a ; Big Four freight at Indianapolis and it dashed d wn an incline into a brewing company’s stables. Miss Portia Wellington, the 16- , year-old daughter of Mr. Wellington, ; a wealthy planter, was assaulted and ; । murdered by an unknown fiend near ‘ i her father's home, at Pierson, Tenn. ;

NEWS OF OUR STATE. ♦ A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing- Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths — Accidents and Crimes— Pointers About Our Own People. Minor State Items. at Paraiso has a bonded debt of i)(M*’ <JOO alld a debl Os OVer s n '" George Collins, aged 25, fell off a load of wheat at Shelbyville, and broke ' his neck. i Chas. Stoker, New Albany, while intoxicated, fell in front of a switch engine, and was killed. Benjamin Odgen .Washington Township, Allen County, was struck in the j stomach by a hay fork and killed. Wasaington is complimenting herself on the small number of fires that

have occurred in that city recently. U Hancock was seriously assau .ted Ijy Ollie Uealtti near LvbuniH,. 1 while the two men were fussing ; over the pasturing of- hogs. While Mrs. Zolmann and Miss Minnie Stone of Bedford, were driving, their herses became frightened aiTd ran away. Both women were seriously injured. Hiram Harlan, a young man living north of Wilkinson, jumped from a load of hay ana received injuries from which he died. He struck on a wheel of the wagon. A train on the Big Four road set fire to a field of wheat north of Wabash belonging to Thomas F. Payne. The grain was all destroyed, entailing a loss of nearly SI.<K)U. JOSEHH Brook IES has brought suit in the Madison Circuit Court for $lO.000 damages against the Panhandle railway. Brookies was terribly crushed while coupling cars. A Columbus man was jailed because he cut his wife's dress into shreds when he was angry at her. He claimed that he owned his wife and her clothes, and had a right to do what he pleased with tnem. Two FIELDS of wheat belonging to Danie! Pratt and a neighbor, near Urbana. Wabash County, were destroyed by fire. Two fields of hay were also burned, the flames starting from a Big Four locomotive spark. Chester Chase. 22 years old. son of LephiChase.of Eel River Township. Al- । ler. County, wasdrowned while bathing in a fish pond of Adam Maxwell. It is supposed he took cramps, as he sank without any noise or struggle. In the stream of Fla’rock, near Columbu*. Joseph Goble, a well-known cit zen, eaupht a bass weighing about two pounds. When he are*sed the fish he found it had swallowed a water snake measuring twelve inches. Henry and Daniel Shields, two Monroe County lads under age. were arrested and placed in jail at Martinsville for passing counterfeit dollars. Twenty-four dollars of the spurious meta! was found in their pockets after arrest. Merrett Alexander, a youneman who has been in the employ of Elisha Williams, a farmer living nine miles west of Connersville, fell out of an apple tree and was impaled on a pole standing airainst the tree. He canno r recover. Patents have been awarded to th following residents of Indiana: Batbara Fox, Napoleon, tire escape: < harles D. Jennev. Indianapolis, conduit for electric railway: Elwood W. McGuire. Richmond, lawn clipper: William Young, Fort Wayne, cutting tool for granite, etc. The resumption of work at the American tin-plate plant at Elwood this week marks the beginning of another year in the history of these works, which are the largest in the world. In a few weeks the plant will have been enlarged so that it has a capacity of 6.000 boxes of finished plate per week and an army of over 600 work> men. Albert Graham, aged 45, a wealthy farmer of Noble Township. Shelby Coumy. met with a peculiar accident । which cau-ed h s death forty-eight hours afterwards. He was hauling wheat to a threshing machine up a h 11. when the wason became uncoupled. throwing h m against the front standard. He leaves a wife and I six sons. The Howarn Circuit Court has decided that Tipton County must support the family of Bluffe Falconberry, a convict. When Falconberry was sent to prison the Tipton County authorities dumped the family over the Madison County line, but the woman and seven children were promptly sent back. Suit was brought with the above result. Clayton C. Mount and wife, of Windfall, were seriously in ured recently. They were returning from Curtisville in a buggy; the horse ran away, turning the buggy over and throwins Mr. and Mrs Mount out on the pike. Mr. Mount received a number of bad bruises on the head and one of his eyes put out. while Mrs. Mount is seriously cut about the face and her jaw broken. Lake Erie and Western switch engine Vo. 86 ran wild from near the roundhouse, in the west part ot Muncie. to a point just east of the city, where it collided with the west-bound, local, badly smashing .both engines. The freight engine is No. 52. Engineer Gandstaff and his fireman jumped in time. The wild engine crossed sixteen street crossings, but the track was clear. Engineer Tom -lone-- was at supper, and his fireman. Jim Driscoll, claims that in his temiorarv absenee some one opened the throttle. The engine had 120 pounds of steam on. an I smashed up one of the best engine* on the road. The damage is heavy. A FIRE which destroyed two box ear- and a pa-senger coach occurred in the Chicaju and Sou heastern Railway Company's yards in Lebanon. Its oriLbn is a mystery, but is supposed to 1 e the work of incendiaries. Hiram Harlan, a young man. aged 23. xvas killed in a harvest field, about eight miles south of Anderson. Harlan was driving a spirited team, that : took fright at a load of hay. The wagon in turning a corner, upset anff : the driver jumped to keep himself from. । being buried under the load. He feU ■ squarely across a wheel and died in » { few minutes.