Indiana crop report shows declines and steady hay yields
The Indianapolis report lists wheat 28,352,346 bushels down 13 million from last year, corn 87,092,513 down from 106,542,116, oats 15,656,207 down about 45 percent, and potatoes off about 5,000,000. Hay crops were the largest ever. Indiana operates 77 coal mines with 2,081,000 dollars capital and 6,550 workers. Insane hospital property valued at 1,633,347 dollars. 16,474 admissions, 7,570 discharged cured. average 1,540 under treatment. Posey county settled with the state for 14,383.16, with 9,680.06 retained for schools.
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Indianapolis, Inc
Indiana
Insane Hospital
Posey County
Washington’s rancorous gag and gerrymander feud
Washington dispatch notes the Republican caucus passing a gag rule and backing a Mexican election bill by force, with defects in the apportionment plan, calls for changes to the census, and hints at Democratic resistance. It mentions Senator Stewart’s strong speech, Vice President Morton’s alleged noninvolvement, and spiraling criticism of Reed. Also cites Voorhees’s opposition and pension-law profits since 1862 totaling 87 million dollars.
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Stewart
Nevada
Morton
New York
Minnesota
Arkansas
House
Wilson
Washington
Milliken
Maine
Bitter Creek
Speaker Reed
High and Mighty
Voorhees
Congress
Oddities and notes from Indiana and Illinois regions
A compilation of short items from Merom to Peru covers a turkeyshooting dispute across river borders, oil tests on Washington Query’s farm, two draymen in Connersville, a Lebanon man’s fire scare, a needle in a child's ankle, heirs to Trinity Church wealth, found stones judged as diamonds, gas apparatus outages, spiritualist camp plans, poisoning from ice cream, a widow’s suicide to avoid eviction, three snakes killed in Morgan County, school closures in LaPorte, saloon gate debates in Elkhart, popcorn sales in Delaware County, aluminum veins in Brown County, peppermint cultivation in St. Joseph, treasury shortfalls in Jennings, electric lights in Spencer County, rabbits in Lebanon, tol gates in Tippecanoe, Prairie chickens in Daviess, Seymours’ new homes, Fort Wayne school-building needs, a large fire in ioe, Columbus ice plans, and counterfeit nickels in Peru.
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Neareat
John Faulkner
Brazil
Eliza Keyes
New Albany
N. Y. Trinity Church
Chas. Stader
Jennings County
Huntington
Franklin
Johanna Daily
Lafayette
Frank Dalton
Morgan County
Laporte
Elkhart
John Lennox
Delaware County
Anderson
Putnam County
Brown County
St. Joseph
Spencer County
Tippecanoe
Daviess County
Seymour
Fort Wayne
Ioe
Columbus
Peru
Tas
County Commissioners Veto Pauper Allowances Scandal
Posey county commissioners order township trustees to stop nonstatutory pauper supplies and to move permanent charges to the county asylum. They note abuse in several townships, particularly Black, Marrs and Point, and state the aim is to curb a professional pauper class without hurting the genuinely poor. Also reports patents granted to Indiana residents and a late-night freight train robbery near Dungey with losses and no suspects.
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Mr. Vernon, Inc
Board of Commissioners
Posey County
Indiana
Black, Marrs
Point
Hoosier Political Gossip and State Legislature Notes
Indiana rumors center on Mason Niblack for speaker and Gov Hovey appointing R W McBride to the Supreme Court bench. The piece notes a Democratic quorum, details on legislators by occupation, and concerns over Chicago packing industry moves versus Republican support, plus miscellaneous party defections and possible Fairbanks nomination.
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Hovey
R. W. McBride
Judge Mitchell
Supreme Court
McBride
Indiana Supreme Court
Chicago
10Th Congress
Storm Delays Hit Western Rail Service
Storm disrupts western trains yesterday while official election tallies show Democratic majorities in Texas 183861 and New York 88894 for Congress. Minnesota governor race Republican plurality 2286 and California Democratic lead 7646 noted. stray fragments mention Succi in New York and other uncertain items.
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New York
Mexico
Minnesota
California
Mighfean Wan
Peoria man’s dangerous demonstration ends in death
In a saloon after a funeral, Jas Hannon showed how to kill a chicken and twisted Patrick Lyns’s neck, killing him hours later. The incident occurred as a crowd gathered. details suggest a public demonstration went awry and a fatal result emerged hours after the event.
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Inn
Jas. Hannon
Patrick Lyns
Hannon
Lyns
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