Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Joseph Carver, a prominent farmer and one of the best-known pioneers in Wabash County, met a frightful death recently. Mr. Carver and a helper named James Wiley started south with a thresh-ing-machine outfit. Mr. Carver was steering the engine, which was drawing the water-tank and separator. In attempting to cross the bridge at Miami street, Wabash, over the Wabash aud Erie Canal, the center support of the structure gave way under the five tons' weight and the floor dropped, letting the engine and water-tank down to the water. Wiley jumped and saved his life, though he was considerably bruised. Carver had no time to save himself, and was pinned in between the firebox of the engine and the heavy watertank, which had crashed down upon him. He was only heurd to utter the word “help,” and became insensible. Horses were attached to the tank and it was pulled aside sufficiently to release the unfortunate man, whose body was a sickening sight. Carver lived but a few minutes. He was 70 years old and a widower. —The following patents have been issued to Indiauians: Anderson, Charles, assignor to South Bend Iron Works, South Bend, slip-noose attachment for plows; Broady, Marion T., Bartle, corn-planter; Brown, James L., Evansville, nose-bag; Carr, Millard T., Whitostown, sack tie; Carter, Alfred W.. Carters burg, sawingmachine; Cline, George J., assignor to L. H. and J. M. Noble, Goshen, brushhandle attachment; Grnssmann, Peter, and M. B. Cheek, Aurora, feed-water heater; Grimblo, George, Gilboa, divider; James, Charles H., assignor of two-thirds to F. H. Lowry, and G. W. Blair, 'Wabash, weatherstrip; Louis, Spencer, Boundary, grindstone frame; McGahan, Fred L., Indianapolis, boiler-fluo cleaner; Miller, William L., Van Buren, broadcast seed-sower; Pershing, Henry A., South Bend, combined pettit ledger and blotter; Robards, Edward, Stilesville, fence post. * —The Indiana Grand Lodge Knight# and Ladies of Honor in session at Evansville, elected the following officers, to serve during the ensuing year: Grand Protector, G. H. Godfrey, New Albany, reelected; Vice Grand Protector, James R. Robinson, North Vernon; Grand Secretary, A. 8. Lane, Vincennes, re-elected; Grand Treasurer, J. T. H. Miller, Terre Haute, re-elected; Grand Chaplain, Mary E. Babbitt, Evansville; Grand Guide, Rebecca Hislap, Brazil. —Augustus F. Ender, a prominent farmer of Sugar Creek Township, Shelby County, started to Boggstown for a physician for his wife, riding a fractious horse. When within a short distance of the village he was thrown from the animal and struck his head on the ground with great violence, killing him almost instantly. He was about 60 yenrs old, and leaves a family. His wife is in a critical condition. —During the recent hot spell Mr. Hazeltine, n Rushville house-painter, lay down in the shade in the Court-house yard and went to sleep, and the sun veering round on him he wns soon iu a bad shape. He has recovered sufficiently to be up, but has completely lost the use of bis tongue, and cannot say a word. The physicians do not know whether or not be will ever recover his voice. —The Imliana Farmer says that fine crops of wheat and hay have been grown and harvested. The paper admits that the ontlook for corn is unfavorable, but cautions farmers against entting corn at present for fodder. The editor insists that the ear is in good shape, and claims that there is yet a possibility that timely rnins may result in saving the larger portion of the growing crop. --A carpenter named John Henry, employed on the steeple of the new St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Fort Wayne, lost his footing from some cause and fell about ninety feet. He struck upon a pile of bricks which fell with and upon him. His sknll was fractured and his left shoulder crushed. The deceased was a single man and his home was at Avilla. —David Armstrong, a Rome County farmer, was driving a clover-huller, when the team became frightened and ran away. Mr. Armstrong received injuries which necessitated the amputation of one of his legß below the knee. —John L. Casey, a brakeman, was badly crushed in the wreck of an extra freight train, five miles east of Greensburg. Seven cars were derailed by a stone, aud the road was blocked for several hours. Casey’s home is in Chicago. —The general fund of the State is exhausted. A little money from time to time will come in through miscellaneous sources, principally from the insurance companies, but there will be none from the counties until December. —Minnie, the 14-year-old daughter of William Hubbard, of Darlington, while walking a railroad trestle,fell to the ground, thirty feet below, breaking both arms and receiving other injuries, which will probably prove fatal. —Hugh Fleming, of Wabash, a mute son of W. J. Fleming, was killed in a shocking manner. A horse which he was driving ran away, breaking the boy’s legs, arms, and fracturing his skull. He died in great agony. —A south-bound Evansville and Terre Haute passenger-train, running through Shelburn, struck and instantly killed Thomas Dawson, an aged resident of that town, who was crossing the track on foot at the time. —A young man named Perry Bartlett, while returning home at night, fell a distance of about thirty feet from a railroad trestle north of Milroy, the sass breaking his leg at the thigh and bruising him considerably. -