Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The Washington Street-railway Company , has just been organized and a street-ear line will be built in that place at once. This is quite a new enterprise for Washington. The city has just made a contract for $100,000 water works. These two enterprises, together with the Ohio and Mississippi Bailroad shops, will make a boom heretofore unprecedented in the history of the place. —The next annual re-union of the One-hundredth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, will he held at Portland, Oct. 10. —Gas well No. 8, at New Castle, was shot with the most gratifying results. The well, which made a splendid showing before shooting, is now the best in the county, and the citizens are feeling very much elated over the result. —The State encampment, which will be held this year at Evansville, Ang. 20 to 27, bids fair to be one of the largest and most interesting of its kind. A prize list of $1,550 has been made out, apportioned as follows; Infantry prizes, first, $500; second, $200; third, $100; fourth, $50. Artillery prizes, first, $250; second, $100; third, $75; fourth, $50. In addition to these $100 will be given to the best drilled Gatling-gun squad, $50 to the best equipped band, and $75 to the most perfect zouave company. —Patents have been granted Indiana inventers as follows: George J; Cline, Goshen, cuff holder; Ross Cohoon, Crawfordsville, wheel cultivator guage; M. Cooper, Port Huron, Mich., assignor of one-half to D. Wood, Kouts Station, spark arrestor; Albert M. Gruf>bs, MenT* tone, railway crossing; William Leppert and W. I. Gardiner, Seymour, buckboard wagon; William L. Miller, Van Buren, broadcast seed-sower; David W. Smith, Wabash, thill coupling; Israel M. Swank, Dayton,, 0., assignor to S. B. Rittenhouse, Liberty Mills, broadcast sower.

—Jesse Ashley, while attempting to board a moving freight train at Jamestown, fell beneath the cars. He was, perhaps, fatally injured. —William Phipps, a painter, while engaged in painting a dwelling-house in he eastern portion of Evansville, lost .is balance and fell from a high stepladder, alighting qn his back across a scantling, sustaining internal injuries from which he cannot recover.

—Joseph P. Stewart, a brakeman, was killed near Milldale recently. He lived at New Albany. —Mrs. Louis Young and daughter were seriously injured by a runaway at Fort Way De. —Some boys stole a can of paris green from a smoke-house near Marion, and placed it on the railroad track, where it was struck by a locomotive and spread over an acre of grass. A number of.cattle ate the poison and died. —Henry Lehrman, an employe of the gas works, Fort "Wayne, while eating dinner was choked to death by a piece of bread lodging in his windpipe. He leaves a large family. —The (5-year-old daughter of John Temeyer, of Martinsville, pulled a largesized coffee-pot, filled with steaming hot coffee, from the dinner table, spilling the contents upon her face andbody. The child is now lying in a critical condition.

—An affection which appears to be quite general among the horses of Indianapolis is occasioning some uneasiness. The animals do not appear to be seriously sick, but all appear to be affected in the same way. The disease has something of the nature of pink-eye,-but shows symptoms not always found with that distemper. —While hitching up his horse to attend a neighbor’s funeral, H. N Sow r ers, a wealthy farmer, living near East Germantown, received a paralytic stroke, his entire left side being perfectly helpless. His condition is critical.

—The largest half-day’s work of wheat threshing that is probably on record was accomplished by Henry Hoen, of Bartholomew County. In six hours he threshed and cleaned 1,200 bushels of wheat. The average day’s work is about 700 bushels. The feat was performed on the farm of Frank Crump, near Columbus.

—A shocking accident befell W. J. Purdy, one of the oldest route agents oh the Bee Line Kailroad. He was working in a field on his farm, near Hagerstown, when he was pitched forward from his seat on the reaper, and fell in front of the scythe. Before the horses could be stopped he was frightfully mangled, both legs being severed from his body. The latest report from his bedside is to the effect that he is still alive, but bis recovery is extremely doubtful. —John Fay, of Champaign, employed by the Champaign and Havanna branch of the Illinois Central, while passing from a freight car to the side of the engine, near Seymour, fell unnoticed from the train, and was found an hour afterwards with his leg crushed off below the knee. He died here soon after amputation. He leaves a widow and six children.

—While shooting sparrows from his office door, Ike Strous'e, editor of |the Rockville Tribunt , accidentally shot his “devil,” Revey Strain, who was going after a pitcher of water. Ike was holding the gun, barrel down, when it was by some unknown means discharged. The ball passed through the fleshy portion of Strain’s left leg, making quite a flesh-wound, but nothing dangerous.