Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1888 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

—For the past two months Montpelier has been overrun with oil and gas men who are leasing lands for the purpose of development. A Buffalo company have built tanks and are yet engaged in putting np tankage for the citizens’ well. A pipe line is laid to the railroad and oil is being pumped through it. There are three flowing wells, each producing large quantities of gas. Two other derricks are going up in new parts of the Held and many more are contracted. There are now 1,000 barrela of oil in tanks- The oil haa been refined and is superior to any Ohio oil yet produced. —Mrs. Jeremiah Jordan, an old resident of LaPorte, while temporarily insane, walked out of a second-story window of her residence and received injuries from which she died. She was 81 years old. —Joseph G. Miller, of Union Township, Adams County, dropped dead from his chair while sitting at the table eating his supper. The cause is supposed to have been heart disease. —-Several cases of small-pox are reported from Pierceville, Ripley County. —The school enumeration of the city of Bloomington shows 1,125 children, an increase of over 200 since tho last report. —lsaac Murphy, of Howard County, has given a correspondent an idea of the dimensions of the mastodon bones found by Louis Schaaf while digging a ditch through a marshy piece of land on his farm. The two tusks unearthed were found about three feet below the surface. One of them measured nine feet in length. The diameter at the root end was eight inches. The root ends of the two tusks laid about four feet apart, and doubtless were in the same position ns when they were attached to the head of the mastodon. An effort will be made to unearth tho body of the mammoth. —Sheridan has struck another gas well. —Madison County has a calf with three eyes. —The cut-worm is devastating the newly planted corn of Clark County. —Farmers generally throughout the State are complaining of tho discouraging condition of the wheat. —A 2-year-oid child of J. B. Cooper, residing near the Hancock County Infirmary, up-set a vessel of boiling clothes, near which it was playing, scalding itself to death. —The mineral water which flows from the Martinsville artesian well has been thoreughly analyzed and found to be second to but one known. —At Anderson, Tom Larimore, aged 20, and Willie Williamson, aged 15, were trifling with revolvers, and the one in the hands of Larimore was accidentally discharged, the ball entering Williamson’s abdomen. It is thought that he is fatally wounded. —Cook Carson was killed at Crawfordsville while trying to board a train. —The Esmond flouring-mill was destroyed by fire at Fort Wayne. Loss, $40,000. —A jealous lover at Indianapolis killed his rival with a stone. He was arrested. —James Foster and Frank Alkire, of Tippecanoe County, went fishing in the Tippecanoe River. They had a number of dynamite cartridges, some of which were prematurely discharged. The right arrps us both men were blown off; Alkire lost both eyes, and Foster one. The men were some miles from their residences, and the road home was marked by a bloody trail, Foster leading his blind companion. Alkire will die. —Adam Wenning, a prominent farmer of Morgan Township, Harrison County, dropped dead. —Robert Clabbert, a raftsman, from Warron, Pa., was drowned in the Ohio, at Madison, while intoxicated. —At Crawfordsville the son of Geo. Griffith fell from the roof of the woodhouse and on the blade of a knife, which penetrated his breast three inches, just missing his heart. He will die. —Charles Carson, of Crawfordsville, 14 years old, was run over and killed by a freight on the 0., L <t W., while attempting to board the train. His body was badly mutilated, the train passing over his body from right hip to left shoulder. —Mrs. Somers, wife of a farmer residing near Laporte, went to the city, leaving her husband at work in a field, and her three children in charge of the hired man, George Cook. On returning she found her 11-months-old baby dead in its cradle, and Cook absent. Cook was arrested at Elkhart. He says he did not mean to kill the babe, and did so by shaking it, and breaking its neck. The child was restless nnd fretful, and he sought to quiet it by shaking it. —Albert Birkley, a tinner, started to do some work upon the new cyclorama building at Indianapolis, recently. While on the highest part he fell through the skylight and fell a distance of seventy feet, breaking a number of bones and receiving fatal internal injuries. —At Vincennes, May McDonald, aged 9, was fatally shot in the forehead by George Taylor, a companion, while playing with a revolver. —Mrs. Hurst, of Holmes County, Ohio, while attending the funeral of Henry Weaver, near Goshen, suddenly dropped dead. The cause of her death was heart disease, brought on by emotional excitement. —A large and commodious wigwam has been erected in the central portion of Seymour, for campaign purposes. —Charles Stephens, while trying to alight from a moving train at Shelbyville, was hurled under the cars and the wheels badly mangled his left leg and arm and crushed in his skull.