Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A short time sinco, Peter Seagle. James Turner, and George Parks, alias Ed McClaren, held at Warsaw for burglary and larceny, overpowered the Sheriff and escaped from jail. Ho had entered the large cell where the prisoners were confined for the purpose of replcuishiug the fire. In stooping to pick up the coal-scuttle, he was suddenly seized by Seagle and held until Turner and Parks secured the jail keys, unlocked the door and escaped, when Seagle threw the Sheriff to tho Hoor and rushed out, knocking down the Sheriff’s wife in his flight. The Sheriff recovered himself in time to draw his revolver and prevent tho escape of tho other prisoners confined iu jail. No trace has been found, as yet, of the escaped thieves, although a vigorous search has been iustituted, and a reward of S3OO offered for their capture and r?turn. Seagle is a Chicago man, and was arrested about two months ago for complicity iu the burglary of the store of S. L. Ivetring, at Syracuse. Turner and Parks hail from Fort Wayne, and were held for burglary of tho Pennsylvania depot at Etna Green. —Leonard Mills, an employe at Clift, Williams & Co.’s planing mill, at Terre Haute, was whirled around a pulley shaft and killed. lie was trying to tie a loose belt to a nail when tome of the slack caught in a pulley. It caught his anti, and instantly he was being thrown around with tho fast-revolving pulley, the body flying at full length. After a half-dozen revolutions the arm was pulled from its socket, and the thou lifeless man thrown to tho floor. The body was badly mangled and the arm ground to pieces in the belt and pulley.

—A man, aged 75 yonrs, living in the northern edge of Monroe County, com- . mitted suicide recently by hanging. Ten days prior to the hanging ho made a contract for his future wants, by deeding his laud, some eighty ncres, to the man with whom he was living at tho time he committed the act. Some time since, he had disposed of part of his laud, taking in payment therefor notes to the amount of SI,OOO, on which he could uot realize anything, imd which iu supposed to have caused him to thus tako his life. —The farmers of Benton County are greatly discouraged because hog cholera of a most malignant typo has made its appearance among their herds. Owing to the immense corn crop they expected to realize handsomely this year by feeding for the market, but the disease lias made such inroads upon their droves that few will be left for shipment. In some instances herds of eighty to 100 have been attacked by it and overy one died. • —A distressing and fatal accident occurred at Austin, Scott County, by which a teamster lost his life in descending a steep hill with a wagon heavily loaded with lumber. The horses became unmanageable, and he was thrown violently to tho ground, the wheels of the wagon passing over his left shoulder and breast. They, crushed him into a shapeless mass. He lingered in terrible agony for two hours, when death ended his sufferings. —Near Columbus, on Thursday, four bridge carpenters were carrying a heavy timber on a trestle-work, which was undor water, when one of their number stepped on a half-inch spike, which passed entirely through his foot. To loose his hold would have been douth to all of them, and for fifteen minutes lie stood with the spiko penetrating his foot, at the same time lifting his shuro of the timber. His condition is precarious. —As a passenger train was nearing Orleans recently, a farmer's team of two horses and a heavy wagon took fright and started across the track. The engineer managed to stop w’itbin ten feet of them, when they started straight up the track over cross-ties and over two cattle-guards, running a distance of two miles, receiving only a few scratches, and the driver was but slightly hurt. —Some time ago tho Cumberland Telephone Company brought suit against the Evansville City Council for maliciously destroying their wires and poles. The Council waived an examination, and thus threw the matter into the hands of the grand jury, and that body has ignored the charges, thus putting a stop to criminal proceedings. —An old man who has a wife and five children was this week sent to the Montgomery County jail for ten days, and disfranchised for two years for stealing half a bushel of corn and an arm-load of wood. The theft was committed on Monday night, and on Tuesday morning at 9.30 o’clock he received his sentence. —Three burglars entered the church at Notre Dame and stole two gold and silver crowns, set with jewels, which they broke to pieces, with the intention of carrying them to a Chicago “fence.” When they reached South Rend officers captured one of the burglars, and secured the booty. —A productive vein of gas was struck on a farm, near Oxford, Benton County, by parties prospecting for a Chicago company. The company .has since leased fifteen hundred acres of land surrounding the well, and are already preparing to mak the discovery a source of profit. —The Odd Fellows’ Hall, at Mauckport, Harrißon County, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $3,000 on the building and tho stock of goods owned by Mr. Rosenburg, who occupied the first floor. The insurance amounted to SI,OOO, S6OO of which was on the building. —Recently the body of an unknown man. was found floating in the. St. Mary’s River, just west of Fort Wayne. There were no papers on the body by which it could be . identified. Foul play is suspected.