St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 21, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 September 1895 — Page 6

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PROF. KINGSLEY. the aeronaut,' had been my chum at college. Fifteen years had passed since then. Ho had made rapid strides In his chosen field of science; I had entered the army and become an officer of the Royal Hnglueem. Circumstances had now brought me Into his neighbor hood and I decided to visit him. I found him in a state of enthusiasm over a new invention of his own to enable human beings to breathe the rarefied air of high altitudes. 1 was made acquainted with the details and learned that arrangements were about completed for a balloon ascent, by which a practical test of the Invention ; was to be made. He was confident that It would eclipse all previous air voy ages In practical results, Despite my j ignorance of the pnu Heal details of the ■ Invention, I was Invited to become the professor’s companion on this voyage j through space, and for the novelty of the thing—l had never been in a bal loon—accepted the invitation and eon eented to act ns amateur assistant. One morning a few weeks later I j found myself at the side of I’rof. Kings ley standing in the midst of an admi: Ing crowd, who were eagerly waiting for the ascension of the great airship, which, fastened to the ground by a net- • work of ropes, plunged and strained like some living animal. Five minutes later we had embarked in rhe car. and tn another minute there was a sudden shout. Without for a moment under standing the reason, I found that the people and the place had somehow -lip pod away from us and disappeared. Ii was the most singular sensation I had ever felt, and as 1 looktsl over the edge of the car I was astonished to observe that in one minute, or less as it appeared to me. the trees and surging crowd of upturned fact's had grown so amaz Ingly small and distant. The motion was almost imperceptible: indeed, it took some time to grow aeetistomed to the idea that we were moving at all Yet there could be no doubt about the fact that we were moving, and moving at a surprising rate of progress. i<h>. Up, up—and as we rose we were traveling to the eastward. Towns, villages. country the broad silver -tripe of the widening Thames, dotted here and there v. ; th inhering -pecks which wo knew to be sails, and flecked with littiecoiling wreaths of darkness which must have represented steamers; an I then the great silver shield of the chat, nel. gbttering in the blaze of the sun. passed under our eyes in one vast moving diorama, the details of wlii. h grew fait ter and fainter yet as we as cended. Then Kingsley began to talk. He was always a brilliant talker, but now he seemed to to talk more brilliantly than ever. I felt a sense of exhilaration myself that was new to me a sort of wild sense of freedom a lightness of body 8-d mind that had the effect of strong wine on the nerves. Hut in spite of d® A \ U A- - 1 ' x* | ' • •' * .S'. “ YOU MU-T GO llfl .” this 1 was surprised at. its effet on my । companion. He talked like a man inspired. in a strain of exaggerat' d eloquence—a rhapsody of science made* poetry which struck me as the finest thing of the kind 1 had ever hoard. Y'et I found myself glancing at him from time to linn- a little uneasily. It seemed to me, excited as 1 was, a little extravagant, am! for the moment I wasn’t quite sure how far the excited nervous condition might be consistent with the safe traveling of our balloon. I was wrong, however, for 1 soon observed that the professor kept a wary eye upon rhe movements of the balloon, and was noting each change in the condition of his delicate Instruments that were fixed to the sides of the car beside him. On, on, and upward still, ami now when I ventured to look below I could see the great panorama of land and sea like the tracings on a globe and

| showing something like the same genI tly rounded surface. And all the time ■ Kingsley talked on. Sometimes, indeed, i he would pause for an Instant to Impart some practical Information, and almost al once go back to bls declamation and bls theories. "Five thousand feet." he attnottneed. “Ah.’now we have risen above the puny mountain tops of our little Island." Aftera rime he announced KIWI feet, and then 15.000. I looked below, and it seemed to me that the slender thread of twisting silver, darkened on both I sides by puny excreacenoes that might i ।be buildings, must represent Paris and j । the Seine, There was baldly any wind. I : vet It was growing colder, and I felt some little oppression In breathing. I I said this to the professor. He smiled, ' and. stooping, threw out two of <>ur . sandbags that served for ballnsb My j eye followed them, and I wondered i ■ where they would fall. I even asked my companion if it wasn't dangerous ; he didn't answer me, but I stooped ’ ' and threw another over. We were m»w ; I rising rapidly, “Twenty thousand feet." he exclaim ed, rubbing h:s bands together. “Ha! What are the Alp-? More mob-hills I dignified with the name of mountain.” i This was all wr? well, but imw I i began to find that breathing was mo montarlly becoming more and mere a labor, and that the cold na< Increasing every’ minute. 1 asked Kingsley if it was not time to try hl* new apparatus . “Not yet!” he exclaimed. “\ot yet’ I must see how high we can go without It first." I looked anxiously at him. but I said no more, lie went on talking by tIG and starts, ami I was relieved to see that the rarity of the air was affecting him. too. lie must have suffered in 1 did, and vet In' *at still looking f. m one of his instrument* to another. 1 wrapped a heavy sealskin cloak around me and waited as well as 1 could I began to feel half stupid, and It na* with a start that 1 heard him say In a thick voice, "25,0dd feet. Ah! That will do!" Then ho put one of his new lespiratM* Into my hand, and as I look ed at him half stupidly he added ' Now these w ill take us up to oo tss* I’lte professor’s Invention worked like maz ■ In two minutes I could br« ati.e free!.- again. As the th tight pa-- d th: x’i t>y mind with a certain satis factioa.h.- p. : .s-or st....ped and th;' w .out amd! sandbag. The sun wa* I still bright, but suddenly there was a fait ' cra> kHug sound l:k ■ she bre '.kloof glass. 1 looked at mx f< er and saw j tlur the tloor was covered with small . transparent Icicles. 1 put my hand t > my mouth and found that my mustache was bristling with ice. "ihlrty thou sand feet!" King-ley announced in a i voice that sounded mutlh d .and distant Thirty thousand! And yet the man i talked of fifty. Ah. well, I could -ee ! that we had only one more sandbag, i Even Kingsley l>\ hi- enthusiasm ■ couldn't overcome the laws of nature. • i He stooped ami threw out our last bag ias the thought pa-- d through mx | mind. Again we rose rapidly. Like the ; professor himself, my eyes were fixed I |on tht‘ barometer. It was cold Meadly ' cold. After a pause he exclaimed: "Thirty-five thousand. Ha! We have , broken the record now.” I looked at Kingsley. His face was blue ami pinched, but Ids eyes shone whh a light that was new and alarming In its wild brilliancy. "Haven’t we gone high enough?” 1 managed to articulate, though with • I iliffii ulty ••Etmugli';” lit- returned In a strong ; [ voh-e; "emmgh? Are you , razx 't Fifty i thousand, or we don’t g back, 1 toil | you 00. man!" The man’s face had (hanged: his ' ey. s gliHered and sparkled with a ! ; strange shifting lig’nt good God! lio i was going tea !! A er ail, I thought, i the las; sandbag is gone; mad or sane : | lie can’t ris" higher without lightenin’’ j ; the balloon more. I glanced at the [ : baromet' it was stationary. The pro- j ' fessor's eyes were fixed on it. too then h" looked round him then he i glared at me! “We don't rise." he muttered to himself; "but we must. We must!" He rose and made »i step toward me. He ■ laid his hand on my shoulder. He i pointed to tile barometer. "5Ve don't I rise,” he repeated with a strange sig- | nifieance. I nodded. “Somebody must I go!” he said. “Good God ma.nl” I exclaimed. “What do yon mean?” i He gripped me on the shoulder—he brought his face to the level of mine—- ’ he glared fiercely into my eyes. “She won’t i ise,” be muttered. “You - must go out!” I 1 looked at him. The man was clearI ly mad—it was in his eyes and in his I voice.

“No,” I answered angrily, “no! Go yourself!” He looked at me with a half questioning expression. “You can't take the observations," ho said. I shook his hand from my shoulder angrily. Suddenly he looked at the barometer again. “Only 38,000! he exclaimed in a despairing tone. "I prom- ' ised 50,000.” lie turned away with a wild gesture. He gripped one of the ropes and swung himself on the seat of the ear. By a supreme effort 1 man aged to <ouse myself. ’•Stop!” I shouted. He looked around at me. “Will you do it?” he said. “Somebody must, you know." He was in the very । act of overbalancing himself when the terrible emergency seemed to restore some of my vigor. 1 seized him anrt dragged him back, lie struggled wild, ly. and in his madness lie was strongej than I. There was nothing else to b> done 1 raised my hand ami struc ; with all my force. Kingsley fell senst less to the bottom of the ear. I Staggered. 1 looked feebly aroum t I felt as if 1 were falling asleep. Sonu thing touched my hand and I graspe it it was the string that opened th valve of the balloon. As I grasped ! ! I grew unconscious. As I clung to ! ; 1 sank op the senseless body of tIX professor. B I know nothing of what happened , terward. The next sounds I hcay^ were the sounds of human next thing my eyes opened upon the Interior «>f n small eottiige There was a poor I'reiich print of h Ma<lonna <>n the wall <>p}M>sttc me tit l ■X' ’ ISM/IPHIM nnAMlIt) HIM HA< K. j vole, s that I heard sjxokc In the rough j patois <if 1 n itch I had ken rescm-l i by a miracle. It wa- mouths In'fore Kingsley ro j t'ovvred. mid m this day I never see । him without his lnir<x|uelng the subject of the hniloou aa«s-iit we are Wj make together, when we will <n-nainly| teachsii.i«s» f. •! fellow! That a»-1 «■ u-ion tmb il.n . d br.U'.int m ud I tn < >r g.n; I " Ad.” Bicycle repairer- in - ■ numei' ti . that startling adxvrti—'metit* are ne> I c-sary to secure business A hnmlbkl . of ths purport lias iwcii widely ci rem I lated whhln the last f« w days <»u tin? ; South Side “Bicycle surgery. a::d • d w .!•> , assurance of -uc»a'— “Languid tir.-s t. -• 1 to health and ’ vigor “The- blown up w.Emut pain. Wlndi free. ‘We und'r-und th-' nuab my. phy*b j oh gy and hygiene of w heel - and give | homeopathic or allopathic treatment na | ImlAldual case- require. Sure cure । guaranteed. “T.-stinmniaK: "'My wheel ha 1 Mree ribs fr:i'!ur<>|. and yon cured it in one treatment.’ ” ‘My tire- were suffering with a ease of acute aneurism w hich had Innm pro- I nounced fatal by other bicycle doctors. I but you cured the d - irder and I didi not lose a day of my tour,’ " ’I was troubled with varicose tires, i involving frequent ruptures and incon- i tinenee of w ind. You cured me.’ "Thousands of testimonials like the | above sent on application."- Uh: ago R ’cord. Charles Mickens' Fault. A book might be written and doubtless much has been printed on the origin of certain slang phrases which drop from the lips of almost everybody as the cant expression becomes popular, says the Boston Globe. “A fine day. I don't think.” says my friend who is qnfok to catch on ami appropriate any. ililng now in a line w !ib!< <l -i i og s the vermicular of the day. (if course, somebody originated this semi-sarcas- j tie and wholly ridiculous hyperbole of speech, and that person was no other | than Charles Dickens. In “Martin i Chuz? ewit,” ■ in.pie, trustful Tom I’ineh ruminates: •■l'm a nice man. 1 i don't think, as .John used to say,” etc., which only goes to show that there is j nothing so very new in certain of the I popular slang phrases of the time as1 ter till. Stranger Do the people do much hunting around here? Native—They do, for a fact. Dead loads of it. Strauger What do they hunt deer and quail? Native Nope. Money to meet their notes in bank with. Florida Times-Fnion. Clara If Mr. Castleton succeeds in kissing a girl he tells all the rest of the men about it. Maude—That accounts for it. Clara For what? Maude—The crowd of fellows that have called upon you lately. New York Herald. Curry—Carson seems to lie very friendly with everybody all of a sudden. Yokes—Yes; he is going to get married soon, and he wants to have as many friends as be can to invite and get presents from. —Truth.

FRUIT PACKAGES. Something of an Industry of Great Importance to Michigan. With a fruit crop aggregating millions of bushels annually of berries, currants, peaches, plums, apples, pears and grapes, the manufacture of baskets, boxes and crates of all kinds Is an Important industry in Michigan. There are large fruit-package factories at St. Joseph. Traverse City, Grand Rapids, Holland, Belding, Spring Lake and other points along the western part of the State where most of the fruit grows and where the raw material out of which the packages are manufactured is abundant. In midsummer when ' peaches and apples are coming in and when grapes are nearly ready for the market all the factories run full time and with full forces, and the packages are turned out by the carload. Black ash veneer is the favorite ma- : terial for making baskets and boxes for I fruit. It is a glean wood, tough, and does not leave a taste or odor to spoil the ibdieate flavor of the fruit packed in ! It. Elm molds quickly and basswood has an offensive odor. Maple is the cleanest and sweetest wood there is, but It is expensive and brittle and packages made of it break and splinter easily. In manufacturing veneers the basis for all the modern fruit packages, a simple, though interewtlng imweHs la afonow <-«l. Tiii* log Ih nnwtHl Into bolts for a proper length, usually about threw feet, and these are boiled thoroughly In huge vatu kept hot by steam pipes. The bolts are brought steaming from the vats to the veneer cutter, which I resembles a heavy lathe. As the bolt i revolves In the lathe a wide knife, op- I ; orated automatically, slices off the thin veneer in a continuous roll. The veneer is cut a sixteenth of an inch thick for the average fruit package, but for fine work it Is »ften thinner. Veneers can | be cut to the thinness of a sheet of | paper, and from that up to a quarter of j an Inch in thickness. | From the cutter the venders still hot I ami moist, areshlftedtothesaws, where they are cut Into strips of the desired ■ length and width. For bushel baskets the veneers are cut into strips about Uwo inches wide by three feet long. For pm kages different shapes are used. In making bushel baskets the strip* of vctieer are placed crosswise in stir •ojia: y ' .q>. with space* set for ' each -trip. Then a machine which op : j elites on the - ime general principle ’ a- an office pme !i for sealing a file of I papers w ith an l yeict. <b -« end- and the strips of veneer are riveted with an I iron “eye ” The disk of veneer strips is then pass ed to amch. r n;;i. hhi" w !>;■ !i g!\ ■* it th* j basket form This machine is In two ‘ parts, the 1 over of steel and the exact j shape of the inside of a basket. ।Hi ? the top of this form Is a place into which s the Iron eye fits The upper part de j ju ends and the still pliable veneer Is . quickly bent Into the ba-ket shape and j held fast until the operative can clinch I the matter w ith w ire nails. The op.-ra t the takes a hoop and slips It down into •jdnre for the top of the basket and nails ♦I: ' : t I : g strip ’ - veneer and b. glnr.ing at one end nails It to the bent v. m- 'r for the center lio.'p i and In d"mg - » performs a veritable war d iti -e. in w oo h h in i*, feet and ’ m-iuth all take a part. The operative* ' carry the nads m their mouths, and ; often so full are tho-e convenient re ep taeles that talking is out of the ques i tlon. Like lightning the nails drop from mouth to nimble linger* and with one j blow of the hammer each is driven into ‘ place, and as it comes in contact w ith i the metal form It bends close to the . j Inner side of the basket. ( When the hoop- are in place the bas । ket passes to a b >y. who puts on the j bottom hoop tn give it a firm founda- ■ j tion when h stands on the ground. i The handles are bent to the desired j form by machinery ami dried, and a ■■ pile Is placed by the last machine. The baskets are taken one at a time ami the : handles placed In position and then j the machine sews them on with heavy j wire. Drying the basket is the final | operation, and it is quickly done. It : take* but a few minutes for skillful • operatives and quick working machines • to convert the raw timber Into a fiuishied basket it is done while you wait. J The peach and other baskets and also the berry boxes are made on substantially the same lines as the bushel bas kets. with varying shapes of veneer and •modified machines. In making peek baskets of woven veneer* the latter are , quickly braided into the desired form jmtead of being crossed, as in the KftShel baskets, and then they pass to jpe marhine to be pressed into shape .uu to have the hoops nailed on and handles attached. In making berry boxes the veneers fro cut to the desired dimensions, two { pieces are crossed and placed upon a machine which marks the folds with a i knife which cuts parr way into the i wood and then folds them; the side , piece, already marked, is quickly wrap- ' ped around the form and tacked on. ' The hollow bottom to the berry box ! was the invention of a man named Halleck, and it is related that he did not realize a cent from an idea which has been of immense value to fruit growers as well as the package manufacturers. The patent which lie took out on his idea has long since expired, and all the manufacturers now use it free. The hollow bottom is not, as some suppose, to diminish the quantity a box will hold, but it is to save the contents of the lower box from being crushed. In making grape boxes a thick bottom is provided and the sides of veneer are tacked on, and often a cover of gauze Is sewed on with wire before it leaves the factory. The package covers are turned out very rapidly. For bushel baskets the strips of veneer are placed in a form and the hoop around the outer edge is nailed on. The covers for the other baskets are prepared in the same way, with necessary modifications, of course, for the different shapes.

The fruit packages ns turned out by the thousand in Michigan factories are very cheap—cheap enough to give away xvith the fruit contained in them. The bushel baskets are quoted at 90 cents to $1 a dozen, the grajle ami peach baskets at sls to S2O a thousand and the berry boxes at about $5 a thousand. The packages, except bushel baskets, are rarely used more than once, and from the fruit store or grocery they go to the home of the retail buyer and thence to the furnace or cook stove. Thc«y are so cheap that It is hardly worth while to try to save them. The < 'aliforninns make linrr grades of fruit packages, which the Michigan manufacturers are beginning to imitate for plums and pears. They are made of whitowood and have tin edges at the top instead of hoops of veneer. They make a much handsomer appearanco and are slightly more expensive, but . the demand for them is increasing and i the manufacturers are disposed to supj ply anything that may be asked for. In earlier days each pickage manufacturer had ids own standard of sizes, ; but of late years the tendency has been I more and more in the direction of uniform standards, so tliat a bushel Imsket j will mean the same thing whether turu- । ed out in Grand Rapids or Traverse City. I’he sizes are bushels and fractions of bushels down to a half-peek, for pvachc-H. npvles nml other fruits of that nature; then for grapes, three, live, ten and tkteen pounds and some even larger. In Imxes the quart Is the standard and a few pints are made. The crates into which the berr.v boxes are packed are made of thin elm or basswood ami often pine is used. They are ' quickly tacked together, and are uot ; designed for hard cr long usage. In shipping baskets and similar packages for fruit they are “birdnested” D occupy as little spa< c a* possible ani the covers arc sent on separately, packed close together and crated. So light arc the baskets and they take up so lit- ' i tie room that thousands of them are re- I qulrcd to make an ordinary carload, yet | the demand for them is -o great during I the fruit season that enrlosd shipments are common, i he chief center of the fruit trade in Michigan, where the largest quantity is handled, is Grand Rap ids. ami regular depots so: packages are maintained there. Alhgan, Saugatuck, St Joseph. Benton Harbor. Grand Ha- I ven. Muskegon, Hart and Traverse City I are also Importtint fruit evumrs. For shipment the veneer that goes i to form the berry boxe- is cut into the I ’ proper lengths an* crossed where the wood is to be bent. Then thousands of boxes in this shape, which is techni- • •ally styh d “knock down,” are packed Into rough crates. “Birdnesting" consist* of placing one basket into another until the pile reaches tb.o height of the s!ilpplng crate. These Michigan fruit baskets and box-- -ro far Into the West, and every fruit grower has a little work bench under the tree*, where he “sets up" his "knoek down" berry boxes. He has a "form” made of a 4x-l hardwood block nud be bend* the ere.a-ed veneer into the proper shape. Then lie drives in the '• job Is done. His ; o.ich n-k< • at*' of the peek size and come in the “knock down." It requires gi' ater skill to form the basket, but pr i'ti o : :.k-- pcri't- and customers - Idotn look further an the fruit. Berry er:’e* the fruit grower makes himself and saves the freight. Lath and ’ :i. . heap lumber in m the local dealer are the material used. Silk Dresses from Spruce Wood. When a silk dress can be made of -pruoe wi >d. some alcohol and a small qnan lty of ether, every workman's wife ought to be able to afford one. Tiit' idea of manufacturing silk from ordinary wood pulp Is original with Count de Chnrdonet, a citizen of France. The pulp is dried in an oven and plunged into a mixture of sulphuric nnd nitric acids. Then it Is washed with water and dried by alco- ’ hoi. The product is dissolved in a mixture of other and alcohol, and the result is collodion, the stuff that is sometimes used to make an artificial skin. This collodion, which is of a sticky and viscous consistency, flows through a tube that Is perforated with hundreds of very minute hole*. Through these holes it issues in threads so fine that six I of them are required tn form threads of the thickness necessary for weaving. Tlio thm d - ■ a * :hr u.h wa’er which absorbs -Tom them the ether and alco- ■ hoi. They are then ready for the loom, being strong, el:*stic and brilliant gs the , silk spun by silkworms. Before bylng i wound, however, they undergo a spe xai treatment to render them non-combuA-tible. Bogus Alaskan Curios. Ex-State Senator E. C. Voorheis, of Sutter Creek, has returned to Sau Francisco xvith his family from a visit to Alaska on the City of Pueblo. “There Is one thing from which the ordinary tourist cannot be weaned," said h«v “Ile will buy curio’s wherever he goes. That is the xvay in Alaska. We hear a good deal about the fine carving done by the native Alaskan. Now, the fact Is, the Alaskan knows mighty little about carving. The crack carver of Sitka camo down to San Francisco, I was told, to learn the art of carving, and now he turns out barrels of ingenious contrivance supposed by his customers to be indigenous to the soil of Alaska only. On a Imat which went to Juneau a short time before we arrived there were actually G.dOO pounds of Alaskan curios manufactured by Americans at Brockton, Mass” Mr. McSwat—Groat Scott, Lobelia 1 sVhat are you waking me up la the middle of the night for? Mrs. McSwat —I want to know, dear, if the mosquitoes are biting you as badly as they are me.—Chicago Tribune. There Is one thing to the credit of old maids; they accumulate no kin. I

INDIANA INCIDENTS. SOBER CR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Summary of the More Im. portant DoUg« of Our Neighbors-Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News NotesCondensed State News. Minor State News. Terre Ilaute has been chosen as the next meeting place of the Northwest Indiana conference. Jacob Eckman of Rockport, a baggageman, lost a hand while making a coupling at Rockport. The total amount given away to the poor by Indiana township trustees during 1894 was $5.80,232.27. John Leisure, of Arlington, was kicked to death by horses after being jolted from his seat on a wagon. Henry Hale, who has been missing at Goshen, has been found dead in the woods, lie committed suicide. Knightstown is enjoying an oil boom. Major Doxey of Anderson, is said to have made a rich strike there. The old Masonic Temple at Logansport was torn down, and several old coins were found in the corner stone. Fort Waytie will celebrate her eentenuail uonivt-rsai-y, <>vt. 13, 1«, 11, and 18, and will celebrate it right. August Rasencranz, a Laporte carpen- 5 ter, hanged himself. He had been married three times, and leaves two children. John Barillpand Michael Sabo, employed by the .standard Oil Works at IVhiting, were suffocated by escaping gas. Terre Haute coal dealers have raised the prices of anthracite 25 cents a ton, and it is expected that they will advance the rate of soft coal. The American Plate Glass Works at Alexandria, the largest plant outside the trust, has resumed operations with 600 ] hands. An epidemic of diphtheria is prevailing i in Yorktown, and the opening of the pub- | lie schools has teen indentinitely postponed. The Home Land and Improvement Company. with a capital stock of $60,000, has tie n ineorp rate<l to 1 uild houses at Alexandria for factory employes. t he Supreme Court, in an opinion by Judge Hackney, held that the statute । under which the humane societies of the : State kill her;; s and other animals is in- ! valid. By a siirgi<: l operation 14-year-old ; Blanche Bigham < t Laporte, was relieved I of a hair-pin that hail found lodgment in her body, causing her acute suffering for ten years. A small child of .Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bishop, of Elwood, while playing around u tub half tilled with scalding water, tumbled in, and was blistered in a horrible manner. Mrs. Fouts, the first female white child born in Wayne county, still lives on the old Fouts farm, five miles from Richmond. She is eighty-eight years old and in very good health. Tim City Council of Elwood passed an ordinance compelling the railroad compaI nies to maintain flagmen at all crossings, and limiting speed of trains within the corporate limits. There has been a fair strike of petrolI eum near I'plaml by the I pland Gas and Oil t oi; pany. Two wells have been drilled in there within the last week, each yielding about fifty barrels of high-grade oil daily. Andrew Wallis was run over at Fort Branch while trying to board the midnight E. A T. H. train. He had both legs ground to pieces. He was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, Evansville, Jand the legs ampu- । tated, death following m two hours. The entire family of Charles S. Krueger, of Michigan City, father, mother and five ■ children, now lie buried in the cemetery. I The family was poisoned by eating diseased pork, and one after another they succumbed, the last one dying this week. A curious accident occurred at the Marion fruit jar works. The bottom dropped out of a large tank, spdling and rendering worthless a mass of molten glass weighing 120 tons. It will be necessary for the faeI tory to shut down two weeks for repairs A well-to-do farmer near Eminence,was I run over by a wagon and almost instantly । killed. He was hauling his winter coal i home, and in going down a hill his 1 and | slipped from the brake, throwing him under the wheels. Ue leaves a large jfamily. A man by the name of .Anderson and two young w omen were probably fatally injured in a runaway at Williamstow n. 1 The team dashed down a hill, throw ing ‘ the party out and injuring all three. The • horses were ruined and the vehicle ’ wrecked. W>>ll drillers near Brownsburg drilled 1 i through a twenty-foot layer of substance - resembling India rubber. At a depth of 85 feet they struck a piece of pine timber , in good preservation, then came a black dej “ s ' ( re--eiiiblino , .tv iQWj||U!f’ , '* l ‘*s f<>il<>v.c<i by an indigo-blue substa^^MiMK water also being blue. A lease war is said to be w aging near Yan Bnren between the Grant County Oil Company and the Ohio Oil Company. , Both companies claim a particular lease, and both have rigged timbers. The firstnamed company took out ten tejims to rc- • I move the opposition company s timbers, > i but were repulsed w itii shotguns. Patents have been issued to Indianians |as follows: James B. Baird. Elwood. I tinning machine; John J. Gaynor, Indianapolis. self-1 inding attachment for reaping machines: George Cross, Plymouth, bicycle frame ami finishing: Emsley Har- ! per. Laxvrence. earth auger: Francis A. ' Hedges, Yera Cruz, bundle binder: John I Hetherington. Porter. insect powder , distributor: Albert 11. Kennedy, Rockport, ball bat: Thomas Neisom, embossing machine: Joh.i E. Routh, Jeffersonville, mail bag carrier: Washington F. Walb, Greencastle, harness. Roscoe Kimble, receiver of the Citizens’ Bank, of Converse, which went to the wall in June, 1593, has declared a dividend of fifteen per cent, to depositors, pajable Sept 21 This will make a total of 62 1-2 per cent, paid thus far. and there are enough assets to pay all claims in full. The corn crop in Wabash county is noxv gathered and is one of the largest yields the county has ever known. The gram has ripened w ithout frost, is well developed and is drying so rapidly that it can be cribbed! with safety next month. In former years much corn has been shipped in for feeding purposes, but this year there will be a great deal of corn shipped out.