Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Julia Whalin was killed by lightning at Jeffersonville. —The seventh annual meeting of the' old settlers of Marion and Hendricks connties will take place Thursday, Ang. 16. in J. V. Caster’s grove, two and onehalf miles south of Clermont, one-half mile south of 1., D. A S. Railroad. The Huntington. White Lime Company has just erected six large new improved lime-kilns. The fuel used in them is crude petroleum, which, it is claimed, is one-half cheaper than wood. The use of oil, now that the great pipe line from Lima to Chicago has been completed through that city, is likely to give the Huntington lime interests a great impetus iuthe near future. —A number of boys of Yankeetown were swimming in a pond near town, and one of them, Berry Hartley, aged 15, was seized with cramps and drowned before his companions could rescue him. Zach Booker, a colored man, aged 55 years, was killed by the cars at Jeffersonville. —Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Henry Fasic, Middletown, sugar-cane harvester; Henry A. Goetz, New Albany, beam end protector; James B. Truwcock, Churubusco, brick kiln; Harvey Haggard, Jackson, washing-machine; Charles H. Hartman, Vincennes, spring attachment for agricultural implements; Theodore P. Heinman, assignor of one-half to F. T. Roots, Conuersville, sign or advertising card; Charles Herring, Geneva, flood fence; Mancol W. Mitchell, assignor of oue-half to H. A. Goetz, New Albany, beam end protector; Oscar E. H. N. lleichling, Marion, fence. —Doll Fulcher, of Martinsville, an old soldier, and in feeble health, watt run over by a horse aud buggy, driven. by Bert Miller, breaking three ribs and inflicting internal in juries. The wounds may prove fatal.

—Lightningstruck four horses belonging to E. M. Cooper, nix miles southeast of Anderson, killing all of them. Tho horses were standing under a walnut tree. There was not a murk to he seen on any of the animals except that every hoof was stripped entirely off each one. The tree show ed no evidence of having been stx-uck. —Capt. Janies B. White was renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Twelfth Congressional District. —Another murder has occurred in Tipton County, making tho second in four months. George Crutchfield, a Constable of Madison Township, went to Tipton and swore out a warrant for the arrest of John Hadley, charged with stealing a horse, saddle, and other articles. Hadley is a desperate character, and the warrant was placed in the hands of Bheriff Bates. Bates and Crutchfield immediately started in pursuit of Hadley, and when near Curtisville, a small town ten miles northeast of Tipton, the’ two officers separated. Crutchfield met Hadley coming down the road in a wagon, and informed him that he had t warrant for his arrest. A few words passed, and the two men pulled their revolvers. Crutchfiold’s weapon missed fire, and Hadley shot him three times in the abdomen, after which ho made his escape. A man from the scene of the tragedy reports that Crutchfield is dead, and that Hadley will be lynched if captured.

- —While Stephen Anckermann, of Posey County, was felling a tree, his little children, Jamie, aged 8, and Lizzie, aged 5, came out to see the tree fall, and were caught by one of the limbs. The little boy’s skull was fractured, and he died an hour later. The little girl is also seriously injured, having both legs broken. The grief of the parents is intense, and a watch is being kept over Mrs. Anckermann to prevent her committing suicide. —James S. Jackson, a 16-year-old son of T. M. Jackson, of Seymour, was drowned in White River while bathing. He was a promising young man and an attache of the Seymour Democrat office. —Simon Gross, of Cass County, was bitten by a rattlesnake recently. He has been intensely suffering ever since and ffears of his death are expected. —Six of a gang of nine thieves, who have been robbing Vine County farmers, were arrested at Terre Haute, Charles L. Hepler, a sewing-machine repairer, who was first arrested, confessing and informing on the others. Three escaped. —Mrs. John Flannagan and her young sister-in-law, Miss Flannagan, residing a short distance from Dora, Wabash County, were about a week ago attacked by a strange malady which now promises to terminate fatally. The ladies were, almost on the same day, stricken down with a chill, and immediately began frothing at the mouth, attempting to bite themselves and their friends who approached. So violent have they now become that it requires the efforts of several persons to restrain them when the convulsions are on. The unfortunates are perfectly rational, and fully realize their condition, but say they are utterly unable to control themselves while the tits are on. The affliction strongly resembles hydrophobia, but neither of the women nor their friends can remember of having been bitten by a dog. —Ab Kennedy, aged 33 years and unmarried, was killed by falling slate iu the Campbell shaft at Brazil.