Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A terrible tragedy occurred near Logansport, recently. Several months ago William Goerner received a large pension. T nacuf nlons neighbors tried to borrow the money, and failing in doing so, made threats against Goerner and his family. In ♦he past two years bis house has been nrned, two horses have been poisoned, and cattle and bogs turned into bis growing crops. On this account, Goerner has lived in fear of assassination for some time past, and has always retired with a gun and revolver within reach. Shortly after midnight, recently, he was awakened by a noise at his door. He seized his gnn and commanded the supposed burglar to halt. The order was not heeded, and Goerner fired. Upon lighting a lamp, Goerner discovered that he had killed his wife, the Toad of shot entering the month and tearing out the entire right side of her throat. Goerner gave himself up, but was released after the Coroner’s ihquest. —The following patents have been issued to Indiana inventors: Alonzo Collon, Oaktown, gate; Peter Dion, assignor of onehalf to L. Dion, South Bend, wheel; Albert M. Grinnuan, assignor of one-half to Wagner, Indianapolis, elevator gate, also barrel skid; Miler Kehoe and A. Zilker, New Albany, brick kiln; Llewellyn G. Kenton, Monticello, monument; Anson L. Massey, Rainsville, hame tug loop; Baker S. Ruddick, Columbus, harmonica holder; Chas. E. Wintrode and E. L. Griffith, Washington, folding feed box for wagons. —At Evansville, Mrs. Helen McClure and daughter, colored, were cleared of the charge of the murder of John McClure, the husband and fnther, who died of arsenical poisou. Several hundred colored people were court-room when the verdict was announced. They shouted and rushed forward to congratulate the defendants. Several old women hugged the Judge and tli6 defendants’ attorneys before tbe latter were aware of what was occurring. It was a ludicrous Beene. —The South Bend Common Council, by unanimous vole, ordered the Central Union Bell Telephone Company to remove its poles and wireß from tbe city by the 10th of next month. A franchise will be given D. C. Boloy & Co., of Chicago, to put in nn exchange of the American Cushman telephone. This action is taken because the Bell people are trying to force their pntrons to adopt the toll system as against the legal $3 rate. —John C. Ebert, a young patternmaker, residing with his parents at 572 North Pennsylvania avenue, Indianapolis, fell out of a fifth-story window of the Talbot Block, and was dead when picked up. Ebert had attended the meeting of Koerner Lodge, K. of P., and retired to a window in the corridor to cool off., The air was close, and it is supposed that the accident occurred while Ebert was sleeping. —At Poseyville, Mr. Lavan W. Spellman, in company with a friend, was shooting at some crows, when his companion’s gun was discharged in some manner, the shot taking effect in Spellman’s thigh. The wound was not thought dangerous until recently when he was attacked with lockjaw, which gradually grew worse, and resulted in his death. —Andrew Walters, moving with his family in a wagon from Missouri to Indianapolis, met with a probably fatal accident near Evansville. He was in a state of intoxication, and let his team run away. Walters was thrown from the wagon, and both wagon wheels passed over his body, inflicting internal injuries. The family escaped unhurt. —Joseph Mayer, a tramp from New York, stealing a ride to Chicago, attempted to board a freight train west on the Niokel Plate to ride to Fort Wayne, fell into a trestle work and was run over and both legs cat off. He was picked np and brought to the Ht. Joseph Hospital at Fort Wayne, where he died. —Lizzie Batson, aged about eighteen years, a resident of Lewisville, jumped off a car while the train was nearing tbe depot at Cambridge City. She was thrown violently to tbe ground and her collar-bone broken. Severe internal injuries will confine her to her bed for some time. —While William Brown was threshing James Sharp’s wheat, in the neighborhood of Coatsville, sparks from the engine ignited the wheat stacks, and the flames spread rapidly, consuming the thresher and about four hundred bushels of wheat. Loss, about SI,OOO. —Tbe annual meeting of the Indiana Trotting and Pacing Horse-breeders’ Association will be held at Terre Hante on August 2,3, and 4. Tbe entries already show a promising lot of speed horses, and the races give promise of being as good as any held in Indiana. —Tbe exhaustion of the Insane Hospital’s funds has made it necessary for the managers to discharge thirty of the employes, of whom thirteen are sewing women. In consequence, insane women will be required to do much of the work of repairing clothing. —David Harris, a wealthy farmer east of Montpelier, was found wandering aboat his barn-yard with a broken jaw and badly bruised. Tbe peculiar feature of the case is that be doesn’t know who struck him. There is much comment here over the occurrence. —John Robinson murdered his neighbor, Samuel Hay, at Charleston Landing, by sbootiug him while he was waiting with his sister for the Lonisville packet. Ho rested the gun on the shoulder of Hay’s sister in order to take aim. An old feud. —William Naylor, proprietor of the Brookville Hotel, aged about forty-five years, dropped dead, after performing a. day’s work. Heart disease is tho supposed cause. He leaves a family.