Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

An Unfortunate Trip. A most deplorable drowning occurred at Spencer. Prof. Anderson, Principal of the High School, and a large party of ladies and gentlemen organized a sort of a Heet of rowboats and started for a pleasure trip up White River to a summer resort called McCormick’s Creek, three miles north of Spencer. Prof. Anderson was in a rickety boat with two ladies. Misses Clara and Lillie Hornaday, the latter a teacher in the same school with the Professor. An 11-year-old brother of the young ladies was also an occupant of the boat. When about a mile up the river. Prof. Anderson’s boat fell somewhat behind the remainder of the party, and could not be seen on account of a bend in the river. All at once the pleasure-seekers were startled by a terrific screams for help, and the entire party speedily rowed down around the bend to note the cause of the alarm. All that could be seen upon arriving at the spot indicated by the agonizing shrieks ,was the prostrate form of the 11-year-old boy on the bank of the river. He was weeping and moaning bitterly. The boat was also found floating along upside down, and the shocking truth dawned upon the rest of the party that the Professor and his two young lady companions were beneath the waves. The scene was most heart-rending, and the strongest hearts were prostrated with grief at the appalling calamity. The water was thirty feet deep. The only living witness of the distressing scene of the drowning was the 11-year-old brother of the Misses Hornaday, who told the painful tale that he dung to his eldest sister till he was exhausted and then swam to the shore. Minor State Items. —The State Pharmaceutical Association held their annual convention at Fort Wayne, and there was a large attendance. The proceedings were instructive and interesting throughout, and the display in the exhibition rooms very elaborate. The following officers were elected: President, Prof. Arthur Green, of Purdue University; First Vice President, Mr. Davenport, of Indianapolis; Second Vice President, Mr. Dreier, of Fort Wayne; Third Vice President, Mr. Lohman, of Lafayette; Secretary, J. R. Perry, of Indianapolis; Treasurer, H. C. Pomeroy, of Indianapolis; Executive Committee, Messrs. Gross, of Fort Wayne; Ross, of Richmond, and Benson, of Crawfordsville.

—lt is estimated that the Pennsylvania oil well, two miles west of Portland, will yield one hundred barrels a day. A large number of operators from Pennsylvania are leasing laud and will drill wells at |once. —William H. Stewart, whose family reside at Seymour, was instantly killed at Jeffersonville, where he was working in the capacity of bridge carpenter. He alighted from a train, and stepping on a side-track was struck by another train which was passing. —On the farm of Christ. Riedel, near Mount Vernon, Henry Roedel, his 10-year-old son, was kicked to death by a mule. The boy was tying the cnimal, when a sportsman fired a gun in the vicinity, scaring the mule and causing it to kick the boy, . —Albert Frey, night; clerk at the O. andM. Railroad ticket office, at Seymour, was dangerously injured|while in the act of alighting from a moving passenger train. He was thrown to the ground, his head coming in contact with a cross-tie. Frey is a young married man, been in*the habit of riding to the eastern part of the city, near his home on the evening express. —Edward Armend was killed in a runaway at Madison. —Mrs. Esther Rhoads, of Hartsville, celebrated her one hundredth birthday. —Charley Suggs, of Evansville, a colored boy, aged 12 years, while fishing, fell into the river from a sawlog on which he was standing, and was drowned before assistance could reach him. —Gustav Schranger fell under a freight train at New Haven and was fatally injured. —lndianapolis laborers threaten to use force unless Italians employed by the Gas Trust Company of that city are summarily discharged. —A team valued at SSOO, belonging to D..& C. H. Uhl, was drowned while crossing the Wabash, near Logansport. The driver narrowly escaped a watery grave.

—A story of inherited wealth by an old German farmer, for many years resided near Noblesville, Charles Boden, who is past 70 years of age, came to the United States in early life to escape military service in Germany. He made two trips to California, the first in 1835, and again in 1851. On his second trip he saved from his gold-digging a sum sufficient to buy a good farm, on which he settled, and by the utmost economy and hard work he has accumulated quite a fortune Domestic troubles have rendered his home life unpleasant. When Boden left Germany he left behind him a brother, who died recently and left a vast estate, from which Charles, it is said, will realize the comfortable sum of $9,000,000. He has employed attorneys, who are now on their way to Germany to look after his immense wealth, and Boden is now waiting for his ship to come in.