Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fort Wayne Lodge oi Perfection Northern Muoulo Jurisdiction. Fort Wayne Lodge of Perfection U. D. held a special summer convocation for the conferring of the Ineffable grades of Scottish Rite Masonry, 4® to 14® inclusive, on Thursday, June 28, at the Masonic Temple. The new rooms of the Rite were opened for the first time for the inspection of the Scottish Rite brethren, and found to be elaborate and complete for the conferring of the degrees, whioh work was under the personal supervision of Col. N. R. Ruckle, 33® 111. Deputy for Indiana. The class numbered thirty-two, and was composed of representative Masons from Logansport, Peru, Wabash, Bluffton, Auburn, Kendallville, and Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne Lodge of Perfection, yet under Dispensation, has now conferred the grade on 106 Master Masons, which record is nnprecedented, when it is considered that the Lodge was organized less than a year ago. Another class will be ready early in September. Steps are now being taken to organize a Council of Princes of Jerusalem 15“ and 16“ . Minor State Items. —John Moncrief, night watchman for the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company, at North Vernon, while assisting in transferring the baggage, caught hold of a grip-satchel and tossed it into the baggage car. At the same moment a loffid report was heard and Moncrief reeled to the platform wounded in the left breast from a ball which was discharged from a pistol in the gripsatchel. He is seriously wounded. —While a number of boys were bathing in the river, at Winamac, Johnson Weyandwas drownod. --Peter Willman, of Hartford City, lost his right hand by a buzz-saw. —John Polk, the 16-year-old son of Thomas Polk, of Jeffersonville* was drowned in the Ohio River, at Bnrmore’s ship-yard. —Patents have been grantod Indiana inventors as follows: Charles Adkins, Terre Haute, combined rule, level, and plumb; Charles A. Bluhm, Michigan City, refrigerator; William E. Carr, Carbon, apparatus to facilitate the teaching of notation and numeration; James Dushane, South Bend, educational apparatus; George Faulkner, Indianapolis, gas pressure regulator and cut-off; Dexter, N. Hurd, Kokomo, circular saw; Eli Murry, assignor to Rushville Schoolfurniture Company, Rushville, school desk; Walter 8. Nicholas, Hobron, hayloader; Joseph Pequinot, Fort Wayne, scraper; Reuben M. Bine, Columbia City, machine for sharpening saws; William S. Ralya, assignor to the E. C. Atkins Company, Indianapolis, combined sawjointer and gauge; George W. Sharer, Terre Haute, (two) drier and brick kiln; Alexander Staub, Fort Wayne, stovepipe thimble; James J. Turner, assignor to himself and J. F. Miller, Richmond, signal compensator. —Mrs. Rose of Barr Township, Daviess County, died at the residence of her father, Maurice Keefe, of blood poisoning, caused by a spider bite on her face three weeks ago. —Willidm Rodgers, of Franklin, was fatally injured by the premature discharge of a cannon, while ratifying the nomination of Harrison and Morton. The ramrod struck him in the face, literally tearing it to pieces. All the flesh from one arm was also torn off. —A terrible boiler explosion at Rogers’ coal mine, twenty miles east of Vincennes, occurred, killing outright the fireman, William Burnett, and slightly scalding Engineer James Kimlo. The brick engine walls were completely swept away. The accident will close down the mines for a time. —Complaint comes to the State Board of Health of the prevalence of disease among the cattle in the vicinity of Richmond. Whole herds are afflicted. One of the State veterinary surgeons is now examining the nature of the disease. —Passenger train No. 5, on the O. to M. road struck Jerry Fleetwood and a young man named Jones at Medora, while they were sitting on the track. They were hurled a considerable distance. Fleetwood has several ribs broken beside severe internal injuries, and his condition is critical. Jones was fortunately but little hurt. The train was making forty-five miles an hour. —George W. Smith, Jeff Kersey, and Sam Hoover were badly burned at Lebanon by the premature explosion of a can of power while firing anvils over Harrison’s nomination. Smith was horribly burned about the arms, face and chest, and he will lose one eye, even if he is not totally blinded. —Arthur Erskine, 19 years old, died ten miles east of Marion from the effects of a gun-shot wound. Erskine had been hunting. While standing on the side of a building in course of erection, his gun at his side, the gun slipped off, the hammer striking the sill, the charge was exploded and entered Erskine’s abdomen, almost disemboweling him. —The excitement in Brown County over the discovery of gold in large quantities along Bean Blossom Creek remains unabated. The people have nearly all left their homes and crops and are searching for nuggets and washing the black sand, which is mixed with dnst found along the stream. One man accumulated $350 of gold in three weeks’ labor. There can be no doubt but that the find is a valuable one*