Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The Bohemian oatsand red-line wheat swindlers successfully practiced their game upon eight or ten of the wealthiest farmers in Deer and Pipe Creek townships, Miama County. Some time ag<h a pleasant-ap-pearing and voluble talker, accompanied by an elderly man, and, to all appearances, a Dunkard, approached the farmers and sold them the oats at S4O and wheat at S2O a bushel, taking their notes for the same. The farmers, becoming suspicious, went to Peru, and consulted with their attorneys, only to realize the fact that they were out about $5,000. The notes mature in September. It is extremely probable that later developments will show new victims.

—The Morton Club, of Fort Wayne, has elected the following officers: President, Gilbert E. Bursley; First Vice President, Augustus A. Chapin; Second Vice President, Frederick Beach; Third Vice President, James H. Simonson; Fourth Vice President, Henry J. Ash; Recording Secretary, Ed L. Craw; Financial Secretary, George W. Mullen; Treasurer, Allen H. Dougall; Directors, Joe W. Bell, James B. Harper, David N. Foster, F. H. Barnard, Dr. A. J. Laubach. —At Strawtown, the wife of W. W. Morris went to call on a neighbor lady, who is suffering with a broken arm, and left her 3-year-old daughter in the house alone. When she returned she found the child lying on the floor, dead, with its clothes burned off and the body burned. It is supposed the child’s clothing caught fire from the hot stove in the room. Mrs. Morris was almost completely prostrated with grief on learning the sad fate that had befallen her little daughter.

—The eleventh annual exhibition of the Northern Indiana Poultry Association will be held in the city of Fort Wayne Feb. 1,2, 3,4, and 5. It is believed that this will prove to be one of the most successful exhibitions of the season, as a very large number of entries of fine birds have already been made. Farmers and fanciers will find this an excellent means, of gaining information on a subject of rapidly increasing importance. —Fred Kuklehaun, a wealthy farmer in Root Township, Adams County, and a breeder of fine cattle, was perhaps fatally gored by a Holstein bull, a late Illinois purchase. He went into a lot inclosure when the bull attacked him, running its horn through his thigh and giving him serious internal injuries. Help arrived in time to save him from immediate death, and there is yet a chance for his recovery. —lt is understood that Mrs. Emma P. Ewing, of the Ames Agricultural College, in lowa, has accepted the appointment to, and will take charge of, the Department of Domestic Economy to be opened at Purdue University. Mrs. Ewing has been delivering a series of lectures throughout the country on “Domestic Economy as it Should be Practiced in the Kitchen.” —The pipes leading to the large range in the Bramble House, at Lafayette, exploded, the report being very loud and the force sufficient to awaken the guests, who leaped from their beds under the impression that a good-sized earthquake had come in with the blizzard. Oscar Harris, the colored cook, was severely scalded on ihe a ms and side. —A most distressing accident occurred at Lafayette, at the funeral of Mrs. George W. Cook, wife of Mayor Cook, of Leadville. As the casket was being lowered the strap gave way and the body was precipitated into the grave head foremost. The casket had to be taken out, the lid removed, and the body rearranged. The other day two drunken tramps were arrested at North Vernon. Toward midnight a crowd of men and bovs visited tie jail, broke open the door, and escorted tie tramps to the suburbs of the city. They then tied them up to a tree, whipped them severely and admonished them from visiting the city again.

—At Killertown, Harrison County, Charles Greene assaulted a Miss Briles. It seems that the lady had charged Greene with her seduction and he had fled, but he returned and attempted to take the life of Miss Briles by assaulting her with a club, breaking her left arm and otherwise injuring her. —An unknown man who was stealing a ride on a west-bound Big Four freight train was instantly killed near Hazlerigg Station by falling between the cars. His head was severed and his clothing all stripped from his body, and when found by the trainmen was lying naked in the snow. —The two-story frame farm residence of Hichard Gelling, situated two and a half miles North of Pendleton, was totally destroyed by fire. Only part of the contents was saved. Cause, defective flue. Loss, $1,290: insured in the Continental, of New York, for S6OO.

—’J he Bohemian Oats Company, that sold hundreds of bushels of oats in Wells County, have brought suit to collect their notes given for Bohemian oats at $lO per bushel. Forty of the former victims havo organized to resist the payment. —The largest tree ever cut in Montgomery County was on the farm of John Demaree, near Waveland. It was poplar, and made one saw-log ten feet long and seven and a half feet thick, and fbur logs fourteen feet in length. —Wabash College has just received. SIO,OOO by the will of the late Preserve Smith, of Dayton, O. This amount goes' to general endowment, as does also the $50,000 just received by the will of Mr/ Sabin, of LaPorte. —The Delphi Oil nnd Natural Gas Company has been organized with a capital stock of $50,000. Enough stock has already been taken to warrant an experiment, and operations will soon be begun.