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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.
Object Description
Title | Indiana farmer, 1895, v. 30, no. 41 (Oct. 12) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA3041 |
Date of Original | 1895 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | United States - Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
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Title | Page 1 |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
Subjects (NALT) |
agriculture farm management horticulture agricultural machinery and equipment |
Genre | Periodical |
Call Number of Original | 630.5 In2 |
Location of Original | Hicks Repository |
Coverage | Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Collection Title | Indiana Farmer |
Rights Statement | Content in the Indiana Farmer Collection is in the public domain (published before 1923) or lacks a known copyright holder. Digital images in the collection may be used for educational, non-commercial, or non-for-profit purposes. |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Orignal scanned at 300 ppi on a Bookeye 3 scanner using internal software. Display images generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
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VOL. XXX.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., OCT. 12, 1895.
NO. 41.
otitic Bcius.
Oliver O'Neill fell into a large vat of
boiling lard in Jones |
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