Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

—A clerical-looking man palmed off t worthless check on Del Rising, of Cumberson <fc Co., jewelers, Lafayette. The man bought $l5O worth of goods (three watches) and tendered a $250 check on the Fourth National Bank of Louisville. It was made payable to Thomas Harrison, and was signed D. B. Mooney. Rising gave the firm's check for SIOO and let the man have the goods. The fellow had the check cashed and has not been seen since. The $250 check on the Louisville bank is bogus. —At Lafayette Bennett Dasher fell through a hatchway and was seriously, if not fatally hurt. He struck on his head. —An unknown man was killed, near Goldsmith, Tipton County, by being run over by a Lake Erie and Western passenger train. He is supposed to be a man - from Fowler, Benton County, as papers were found on him pointing to that fact. —An attempt was made at Union City to blow up the residence of Frank McClintock. It is believed to have been the result of recent prosecutions by McClintock of violators of the liquor law licenses. —A dividend of 5 per cent, has been declared to the creditors of the Richmond National Bank, of Richmond. —The Governor has withdrawn the commutation of the sentence of John Parks, at the Boy’s Reform School. Parks was first sentenced to the penitentiary, but the sentence was commuted. At the Reform School, however, he proved too tough a citizen, and the penitentiary seems to be about the right place for him. —The Crawfordsville Council has entered into a contract for seventy electrio lights of 1,200-candle power each, for three years, and for which the sum of $5,» a 000 a year is to be paid, the lights to be in running order by August 15. —The Bellaire Window-glass Works, of. Bellaire, 0., are to be moved to Muncie. —The mother of Ed Chamberlain, who killed Ida Wittenberg at Delphi, has gone insane by the crime of her son. —George Fitz, a farmer residing in McCutchanville, while returning home, was violently thrown from his buggy, his horse having been frightened by an approaching locomotive. His wounds are internal and are pronounced fatal. —Knox County peach, cherry, and strawberry crops have been damaged by recent cold weather. —The new and handsome Vigo County Court-house has been opened up permanently for business. —The largest white oak is growing in Pike County. It is twenty-two feet in circumference and fifty to the first limb. William Fellingham, a wealthy farmor residing near Wheatland, was killed by a falling tree. He was going through a field, when a dead tree on fire suddenly fell upon him, crushing him to death.' Fellingham was one of the most prominent men of Knox County, and leaves a wife and several children. —A strange circumstance is reported from Boone County. Not far from Zionsville there lives J. H. Valentine, a colored man who, from all appearance, is turning white. About twelve years ago, he says, white spots appeared over his body, and that these spots, small at first, have become larger until he is perfectly white from his neck to his waist, as also is a part of one arm. The man is not sick, and enjoys the best of health. —Barney Turpin was attacked and lacerated by a mad-dog nt Indianapolis. —The mother of Ed Chamberlain, the Delhi murderer, becomes a raving m auioo because of her son's crime. —Miss Dora Davis, who lived with Mrs. Mary Koontz, near Vincennes, was accidentally shot by-John Benson, who was carelessly handling a revolver. The baltook effect in her abdomen. Miss Davis lingered in great agony a few hours when she died. Young Benson is almost crazed over the sad accident. Benson was in the act of removing the cartridge from the revolver when the weapon was accidentally discharged, just as Miss Davis was entering the door. —The large tile mills, owned and operated by William Caldwell, of Burkville, was the scene of death and desolation occasioned by the explosion of the boiler, which had been standing idle since last fall. Caldwell, the owner, had given orders to have the boiler filled, which was done, and operations began. Shortly after the explosion occurred with frightful and deathly results. At the time of the explosion Caldwell was making a tour of inspection and had found the inspirator somewhat defective. Norman E. Conde, who owned land adjoining, had called in to see the operations begin, and was conversing with Caldwell when the explosion occurred. Both were almost instantly killed. Joseph. Larkin, a laborer connected with the mills, was fatally injured by having his skull crushed. He has since died. Five others were seriously injured. —Walter Seivers, a 21 -year man, and Charles Davis, colored, a 22-year man, were almost burned to death at the Southern prison recently. Seivers and Davis are cupola-tenders. At pouring-off time, the tapping-bar became chilled and could not be removed from the aparature through which the molten iron flows. The only remedy was to knock out the bottom, and, this being done, the molten iron, 10,000 pounds or more, fell with a splash. The clothing of the two tenders, who had not retired a proper distance, became ignited from some of the iron falling upon them, and in an instant they were enveloped in Homes. They ran like wild men through the yards, and it was with great difficulty they were caught and the flames extinguished. Both are burned from head to foot, and will, it is thought, die.