Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—John Snyder, the man who walks because he can't stop, after an incessant tramp of almost three years, is at last nearing the end. His iron constitution is broken down under the fearful strain, and John Owen Snyder, the tireless pedestrain, will soon be numbered with those that have gone. He has a family consisting of a wife nnd lour or five children, who will be comfortably provided for in case of his death. Paradoxical as it may seem, his strange aflliclion, which no physicinn has yet been able to understand, has proved to be both a curse and a blessing to his family. Prior to it there was a constant struggle to keep the wolf from the door, but since, along with the train of his sorrows and woes, it has brought him fame and fortune, and he is now said to be well off in this world's goods. A passenger arriving by the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis train reports that as the Louisville accommocation, en route to Evansville, was crossing a point two miles east of Lincoln station, the engineer felt the engine strike something, but did not stop until he arrived at Lincoln, when the pilot of the locomotive was found to be bespattered with blood. Part of the trainmen were sent back, and they returned with the body of a man, which was recognized as that of Mr. Summers, an assessor of Carter Township, Spencer County. —Chris Click, who resides near Ladoga, left his house and went out to the woods to do some work. He had no family, and the people living with him were away from homo. Upon their return he was missed, and a search was instituted. Mr. Click was found in a pasture, dead, and it is supposed he had been dead two days. He could not have been murdered, from the fact that he had about $25 in his pockets and a gold watch. His dog was found guarding the body from the hogs that were in the pasture. A young girl of 15, residing nine miles north of Lagro, Wabash County, was the victim of an accident which will result in her death. She was sitting near the stove, when her dress caught tire, nnd, after making an ineffectual effort to extinguish the blaze, she ran out into the open air, where her clothing slowly burned from her, literally cooking her flesh to a crisp. Her screams attracted the attention of her relatives, but they did not reach her in season to be of service. She cannot survive. —One of the most shocking tragedies that ever happened in Delaware County occurred seven miles east of Muncie. Perry Shockley shot his father-in-law, James Cary, in the left side with a thirty-eight-caliber revolver. After shooting Cary, the murderer walked about fifteen feet away and placed the same pistol to his head and palled the trigger, sending a bullet through his brain. There is no cause assigned for his terrible murder and suicide. —John M. Winchester, a farmer residing two and a half miles southwest of Franklin, was engaged in removing bricks from an old well, twenty-three feet deep, and when a depth of fifteen feet had been reached, the dirt above caved in, covering him to the depth of six feet. Three hours afterward he was taken from the well, dead. He was about sixty years of age, and one of the well-to-do and most respected —The grand jury summoned at Delphi to investigate the lynching of Amer Green and the conduct of the Judge and Sheriff in not providing extra guards for the prisoner, reported to the court that they were unable to ascertain the names of any men who participated in the lynching. They also exonerated the Judge and Sheriff. The people are satisfied with the report. —An accident occurred at Nappannee which will result in the death of two men, and possibly of throe others. They were engaged in repairing the roof of a church, and were on a scaffolding twenty-five feet high, when it suddenly fell to the ground, injuring William Wygart and T. Maples fatally, and Owen Yariaa, Perry Miner, and John Ernest seriously. —A distressing accident is reported from Monitor, eight miles east of Lafayette. A wild colt trampled Floyd, the 3-year-old son of Wallace Robinson, to death while at play in the barn-yard. Fatal injuries were inflicted by the animal before the child’s peril was discovered. The victim only lived an ho,ar. —The preliminary arrangements have been completed for the location, at Anderson, of the bolt and nut-works of Fowler <fc Sons, of Buffalo, N. Y. This establishment is one of the largest manufacturers of bolts and nuts in the United States. They propose to commence building at once. —Samuel H. Bomewitz, aged 17 years, was found dead in a field near his father’s home, near Huntingburg. He had been drinking heavily the day previous, and had been left by his companions lying on the ground in the expectation he would become sober and return to his home. —Fred Calkins, as his home, who has been selling red-line wheat and Bohemian oats in Huntington County, has been arrested on the charge of obtaining notes for the Cereals without delivering the goods. He was placed under bonds for his appearance. —The Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church has paid over to the trustees, through its agents, the full amount of its subscription to the DePnuw University endowment—s2o,ooo. •—Charles Groves, living near Epsom, Daviess County, was instantly killed by a limb from a tree falling on him. —A fine vein of coal was struck near Jeffersonville bv workmen boring for gas.