The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-10
AROUND THE STATE.

The Clinton county cottage at the .Lafay-
cite soldiers horne is rapidly nearing com
pletion, and will be ready for use by the
last of the month. Those who have seen it
pronounce it one of the best and most con-
Veniently appointed ones yet erected at the
home, and will be a credit to Clinton coun-
ty.-FrankfOrt Crescent.
On South Carroll street is a small field of
wheat, and for the past week an enormous
flock of English sparrows have been feed
ing from it. Such has been their depreda-
tions that greater portion of the wheat
has been ruined, and given q few more
days, the entire field will be totally de-
strOyed-WabaSh Tribune.
A novel case is reported from Kosciusko
county, where Mrs. Albert Kreiter is pre-
vented by an injunction of court from
leaving home for a visit to California. The
injunction was applied for by her husband,
who failed by persuasion to keep her at
home, and is in force until dissolved by the
court.-South Bend Times.
The farmers are now in the midst of har-
vest, and in northern Blackboard and in sur
rounding counties the crops are immense
and fine In this immediate neighborhood
there are not so many acres of wheat but
the heads are well filed and the stalks are
of rich golden color. The hay crop is
tremendous. Corn is growing fne.-Mont-
pelier Leader.
Charles Lash, north of this city, had out
one-half an acre of strawberries. He picked
sixty bushels off the patch and got an av-
erage of cents a quart after paying for
picking and the commission to the grocery
man for selling. That little half-acre of
berries cleared Mr.. Lash Sis, and was the
most profitable harvest on his farm.-Bluff-
ton Chronicle.
Auditor Borst, of De Kalb county, was
given a serenade by the band at Auburn
one night last week while he was stopping
in that city temporarily under the care of a
warden of the Prison North. The Auburn
band have certainly reached a very high
a T6 NJ WI will
serenade a man who has taken thousands
of dollars from the taxpayers of the county
upon his return as a witness in a case.-Al-
bion New Era.
A. ]. Banks sold a carload of cattle to
Tyner & Tyner to-day. There were sixteen
head of them, and they weighed 25.5lO
pounds, making an average of 1,594$4
pounds. The load of cattle brought ST.
1879, making an average of S71.14 each. Mr..
Banks sold twenty-five head of cattle, but
sixteen were all that the buyers could ship
in one car, and they will take the others
when they make up another carload This
was one of the best punches Of cattle that
was ever shipped from Greenfeld.-Green-
field Republican.
Just before the north-bound Monon pas
senger train got to Juliet hill, five miles
south of this city this forenoon the ex-
pansion of the steel Trails from the terri
BILE heat of the sun forced the track badly
out of line. The unwonted kink of the rails
was noticed by the engineer in time to pre-
vent accident Conductor Hackett was
able to get his train over the place by run
ming slow, and reported the matter from
this Station. Section men were sent to the
spot, who cut out a piece from each rail
and pulled the track back in line.-Bedford
Mail.
The Vandalia is having all it's records for
the past twenty years, or since the foun-
dation of the road put into print, and they
will be thus preserved in convenient and
durable form for future reference. All
mortgages, notes. leases, contracts and
agreements, of whatsoever character, are
being reproduced in type with the most
ScrupulOuS regard to punctuation and ac
curacy in other respects. The volume which
this bulk of business will necessitate will
be as large as a WebSter'S Unabridged
Dictionary. and almost, if not quite as in
teres ting from the general readers stand
Charlottesville Journal.
f. c. Reser, of Shanghai, reports run
away which he had Tuesday morning, and
from his description it was as lively an af-
fair as one would care to witness He was
cutting wheat with four horses to his bin
der and had stopped to oil. The horses be-
came frightened and started off at a dead
run. They ran back and forth around the
ten-acre field until every straw in the in
closure was cut and bound up. Neighbors
were then called in and the horses lassoed
Not thing was broken about the machine
except the reel which suffered considerable
damage at the heels of the animal that
worked on the near side of the tongue.
-Kokomo Tribune.
Few counties in the State of Indiana have
made as much progress and improvement
according to size and population, has
Starke in the past five years. In that time
much of her fine land has been raised
above the water level by artificial means
and proved to be among the most product
i've in the State, and the work of improve
ment still continues. Three immense dredge
bitches are now being contracted across
her acres, all of them being engagements
of those that have already demonstrated
their utility and usefulness. The value of
lands in the half decade has increased from
SO and S. TO S25 and S35. and al other inter-
ests in proportion-Starke County Repub-
lican.
Sunday morning, while Mrs. Frank Bell
was busy with her morning work, she
heard her little two-year-old child, who
was playing in the yard. make a peculiar
noise. Running to the door Mrs. Bell was
Mortified at the scene presented. A short
distance from the door sat the child. and
in her lap was a large snake of the family
viperidae, which in this part of the country
we call spreading yipers. The snake was
partially coiled in the child's lap, its head
resting on the breast of the child The
mother rushed to the child and jerked IL
away and the snake fell TO the ground. The
nervous strain had been too great and Mrs.
Bell tainted away A near neighbor, hav-
ing heard the child's screams. came and
killed the snake and assisted in the resusci-
tation of Mrs. Bell.-Sulliyan Union.