VOL. XXX.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT. 12, 1895.
NO. 41.
otitic Bcius.
Oliver O'Neill fell into a large vat of
boiling lard in Jones <fc Sons' slaughterhouse at Brazil and was fatally scalded.
J. D. Farden, who left Terre Haute
Sept 6th, with $16,000 of the Adams Kxpress Co.'s money, has been captured at
lialtimore and will be brought back for
trial.
A well, flowing 20 barrels of oil an hour,
was drilled in Oct. 3d on the M. W. Marsh
farm, near Van Buren. This is the best
well drilled in for some time, and being
new territory, opens up a wide field.
Joe Fye, 27 years old, of Oaklandon was
crushed to death under his gravel wagon
Oct. 4th, in this city. He was about to
climb to the seat, when the horses started
aud the wagon passed over his chest,
crushing the bones against the heart and
killing him almost instantly.
The body of Fred G. Hepp, an old and
wealthy citizen of Warrick county, was
found on the Lynnville road a few miles
from Evansville. He had been to Boonville to pay some accounts, and on the
way home was stricken with heart disease and died alone in the road.
Johnnie Parker and Frankie Benner,
age 12 and 14, living near South Milford,
have been attending the fairs, and, seeing
a parachute drop made, decided to do the
same. They secured a common umbrella
and leaped from a barn window. Johnnie
Barker was badly injured by falling on a
stone pile.   His injuries may be fatal.
Mrs. Joseph Kirkwood, of Griffin's Station, Rush Co., while making apple-butter
at John Jarrett's, in the country, was
fatally burned by her clothes taking fire.
She rolled on the ground in her agony,
and the flames burned her from head to
foot. Mrs. Kirkwood has a husband and
three small children.
(Smuml incurs.
Spokane, Wash., is to have  a fruit fair.
There is considearble snow in the
mountains of Pennsylvania.
The bogs of Ireland cover two millions
eight hundred thousand acres.
On very dark nights a white light can
be seen farther than any other color.
At Monrovia, Cal., Nellie W. Hagel, an
aeronaut, fell one thousand feet with a
parochute, which did not work, and was
crushed to death.
A knife that has been used for cutting
onions should at once be plunged two or
three times into the earth to free it from
the unpleasant smell.
Black bears are reported to be much
more numerous than usual in the Dismal
Swamp region this fall. They are doing
much damage among the crops and stock
on farms thereabout.
Cape Horn is one mass of black rock
without vegetation or birds. The sea
always runs off it with tremendous force,
and rounding the cape is considered the
roughest navigation.
The agricultural returns for 1S95 show
the extraordinary decrease of 516,321 acres
under wheat in Great Britain. Twenty
years ago there were 3,500,000 acres of
wheat land, and now the figure is less
than 1,500,000.
Quite a freak of nature was seen in one
of the big elm trees in Waterville, Me.
In the fork of the tree, up a dozen feet
from the ground, well out of the reach of
the small boy, a large currant bush had
taken root, and was loaded with currants,
which were ripening in the warm sunshine.
Potatoes are so plentiful, and so unprofitable at ruling prices in North Dakota that a farmer of Grand   Forks   has
announced that he will not dig the large
quantities he has, and has invited his
neighbors to help themselves and take all
they care to for the trouble of digging
and carrying them away. What they
don't take, he says, will be left to rot in
the ground.
Two children of Emory Slauson, living
two miles west of Arena, Wis., were
burned to death in their home. The
father was at Dodgeville with a load of
melons, and the mother, having occasion
to go for a pail of water a mile away,
locked her two children in a room. The
house took fire during her absence.
Horses are going crazy daily at St.
Joseph, Mich., with a disease which is
supposed to be caused by eating marsh
hay. The horse is taken with a high
pulse, and in a short time is crazy and
will break everything within reach. The
skill of the veterinary surgeon is baffled.
Out of 15 cases three have proved fatal
within three days after the malady appeared.
Notes and Suggestions—Seen From the
Cars.
Editors Indiana Farmer:
Riding on the Lake Shore railroad from
Goshen to Butler on Sept. 25, I tried to
observe, as well as that kind of traveling
will permit, the condition of the land and
the method of farming practiced along
the route. In one respect, all the fields
that could be seen looked just alike—
every one was extremely dry. Out.' thing
that attracted my attention was the
change which many farmers have made
in the past five years in utilizing their
corn crops. Five years ago this coming
winter when I went on the same road to
Angola to the first farmers' institute that
I ever attended, outside of Elkhart
county, it was quite a common thing to
see tields of cornstalks left standing to
be switched about by the winds and
bleached by the sun and rain until they
were of no value as a feed. This time 1
did not see more than one field that was
not cut up or being cut that day. This I
consider a very decided improvement.
Besides, fully two-thirds of the corn fields
were sown to wheat or being prepared for
sowing. This was something which I
did not see on my first trip over this road.
But one change I noticed which does not
so fully meet my approval. That is,clear-
ing away the timber. Formerly, there
was quite a lot of timber along the railroad, especially between here and Kendallville, but it is being gradually cut
down and the gronnd brought into cultivation. If I could have my way for it
there would never be another acre of Indiana's forests cleared away. I would
like to see not less than 10 acres'of timber
on every 80 acre farm in the State, and I
really think 20 acres of timber to each SO
would not be too much. Possibly I may
be extreme in my views, but I have lived
all my life where there is plenty of timber—a 40 acre tract lies just across the
road from where I sit now—and I have
learned to think of all the trees around
me as friends and companions. Whenever I see a tract of timber being cleared
off, I feel like going to its owner and quoting to him that touching little poem of
George P. Morris:
Woodman, spare that tree, etc.
Of course those' who believe in clearing
up their lands will go ahead and do so
but I can't help thinking that I am more
than half right in my views.
Butler street fair.—It was to attend the
street fair at Butler that I took the short
trip to which I have alluded. It was the
first fair of that kind that I ever attended
and I was quite favorably impressed with
it. The exhibits were not as numerous
as they might have been, but what they
had were very good. Some tine hogs and
sheep were on exhibition, and there were
a few splendid Shorthorn cattle. The
farm and garden products were verv line.
There were some of the|nicest looking potatoes that I ever saw in my life. The fruit
exhibit was not large, but was of excellent quality.
Each day of the fair had some special
feature in the way of attraction. The
day I was there was Knights of Pythias
day and something over a hundred Sir
Knights were in attendance in full uniform. A dress parade took place in the
forenoon and a field drill in the afternoon. The spectators seemed well
pleased with the e.xercises.
Quite a number of our party came home
with the idea of talking up a street fair
for Goshen next year. One of our number
is a Frenchman and he says that in many
cities and towns in his native country
these fairs are held every year, and that
they are very successful. If farmers and |
city people would co-operate no doubt
these kind of fairs could be successfully
held in many cities in our State, especially where no county fairs are held.
ABE THESE FIGURES   CORRECT?
The following paragraph, clipped from
the West Superior Index,  contains some
figures which are worth   thinking about.
They don't agree  with the statements of
the millers and grain buyers who all claim
that there is   an   abundant wheat crop,
and that this is the cause of the low price
of wheat this fall:
t
Primary receipts of wheat to-day aggregate 367,000 bushels against K80,000 bushels
the same day last year. There is an
estimated shortage in the English
French and Russian crops compared with
last year of 95,000,000 to 143,000,000 bushels.
The India crop is officially reported to be
32,000,000 short. Argentine is known to
have had a short crop, and her exportable
surplus is said to be practically exhausted. Australia had about three-
quarters of a crop. The I'nited States
will be short anywhere from 50,000,000 to
100,000,000 bushels.
Are the grain buyers correct or are
they trying to deceive us so as to buy our
wheat cheap and sell at a high price after
a while? II. S. K. B.
Called Back to Life.
A girl who a year ago was pronounced
dead and prepared for burial has reappeared before her astonished parents and
friends as the wife of George K. Thompson, a young farmer living with his mother, near this place. Mrs. Thompson was
Miss Kllen Norman, the lS)-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Norman,
living just south of Hope. She was the
belle of the neighborhood and was engaged to marry Thompson. In October of
1S94 the girl was taken ill with a malady
which puzzled the doctors, and on Oct. 24
the doctors pronounced her dead, after
subjecting her to numerous tests.
In a few hours the face of the dead girl
began to turn black, and the doctors at
once ordered the body placed in a coltin
and the collin tightly closed, as they
feared that the disease was something
contagious. The funeral was set for the
next day, Oct. 25, and the coffin containing the body was kept over night in the
Norman house. The only watcher was
Mr. Thompson, who declared that he was
not afraid of the disease, whatever it was.
It was due to his watching that the young
woman is alive today.
After the Norman family had retired,
leaving Thompson alone with his dead
girl, he removed the lid of the coffin in
order to once more gaze on the face of his
fiance. As he sat looking at the discolored face and the white hands folded
across the bosom he was startled to see the
chest of the body in the casket rise and
fall in a spasmodic way, as though the
girl was gasping for breath. In a moment he was bending low over the coffin
with his ear pressed against her chest.
There was life in the body, for the heart
was moving faintly. Wrapping the form,
which   had  not    become    rigid,   in   the
blanket which had been given him to
throw about his shoulders during his
vigil, Thompson, without awakening the
family, carried the girl to his own home,
where he explained all to his mother.
She agreed with him that it would be
folly to arouse the neighbors, as it was
not at all certain that the girl would come
to life again. After placing Kllen in bed
and surrounding her with hot pillows,Dr.
Z. E. Mullen was called in and sworn to
secrecy.
This done, Thompson returned to the
Norman residence, and, after.making up
a dummy body and covering it with grave
clothes taken from the girl, and dropping
a handkerchief lightly over the face, so
that if the coffin should be opened on the
morrow for any purpose the deception
would not be noticed, resumed his watch.
When morning came all was the same apparently as it had been left by the family
the night before, and the coffin remained
under orders from the doctors unopened,
even for Mr. and Mrs. Norman to take a
last look at the dead girl. The funeral
was held at the little church here in the
morning, and was largely attended. The
sermon was an effecting one, and at its
conclusion the casket was lowered into
the grave and hidden from sight.
Mr. Thompson, Dr. Mullan and Mr.
Thomson's mother were the only ones
who knew that the body of the girl was
not in the casket. Mrs. Thompson remained at home taking care of the girl,
and as it was given out that she was ill
nothing was thought of her absence from
the church. After Miss Norman had
been carried to the Thompson residence
and Dr. Mullen had worked her over for
several hours it became evident that she
had simply been in a trance, and that the
discoloration of the face was caused by
the stagnation of the blood. A galvanic
battery was brought into use, and after
a time the supposed dead girl breathed
in a fairly natural manner.
She remained unconscious or delirious
for several days, according to Dr. Mullan
who remained almost constantly at the
bedside, and then awoke as from a heavy
sleep. She was very weak and was
therefore, not informed as to the true
state of affairs. She was simply told that
she had been quite sick and that she must
remain absolutely quiet. As she became
stronger all was explained to her. She
wanted her parents sent for at once, but
this Dr. Mullan would not listen to, saying that the least excitement might bring
on a relapse.
About the middle of December Miss
Norman was spirited away from Hope by
the Doctor and Mr. Thompson, and since
that time she has been traveling in the
South and West, where she has fully regained her health. Soon after leaving
here she and Mr. Thompson were married, and shortly after that Dr. Mullen
returned to his home here, leaving his
patient in charge of her husband. Mr.
and Mrs. Thompson arrived here a few
days ago over the(ireat Northern road,
first having advised Mr. and Mrs. Norman that thedaughter they had mourned
as dead was alive and well and on her
way home to them as the wife of Mr.
Thompson.
There was a dramatic scene when
Mrs. Thompson met her father and
mother. The townspeople at first refused to believe that the young woman
was the one they had seen buried, as they
supposed, and would not be convinced
that it was really she until the grave
where her body was supposed to be lying
was opened and the dummy body was
taken from the casket.
Mrs Thompson looks as well and happy
as a woman can, but does not care to talk
of her strange experience, although her
husband is ready at all times to discuss
the matter. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are
now living on their farm a short distance
from the town.—Philadelphia Press.