Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of tbe More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. THE LEGISLATURE. January 10,— Senate— The doors of the Senate chamber were barred against Lieutenant Governor Robertson. Auditor Carr refused to call the Senate to order, and Judge Mitchell, of the Supreme Court, dope so, administrating the oath to the newly elected Senators. The ■ following officers were elected; President pro-tem, J. F. Cox; Secretary. Green Smith: Assistant Secretary, John D. Carler; Door-keeper, E. R. Hamilton. House Secretary of State Griffin called the members to order and the organization was perfected by electing all the nominees of the Democratic caucus as follows; Speaker, Mason J. Niblack; Clerk, Thomas Newkirk: Assistant Clerk, John 8. Seobey; Door-keeper, Frank B. Haimbaugli. In taking his chair Speaker Niblack cordially thanked the members for the honor shown him and significantly referred to the fact that many trying circumstances were liable to arise. During the session of the two houses Gov. Gray informed a joint committee which waited upon him that he would communicate his farewell message to the bodies to-morrow at 2 o’clock. Patents. Patents have been issued for the forlowing Indiana inventions: David Beartyj New Castle, lawn-mower; Abel Butler, Dale, protractor; Leonard \V. Freeman, Liberty, machine for making wire fencing; James A. Fullerton, Mounts, corn-planter; Joseph F. Gent, Columbus, machine for making sheet or flake products; Benjamin Gude, St. Anthony, ironing-board; John Hurty, Indianapolis, manufacturing starch; Tully Runnle, Farmersville, assignor of one-half to J. F. Yeager, Creek, bailing press; Isaiah Sharp.: Redkey, steam generator. Minor State Items. —Anderson authorities have ordered all the telephone poles in that place removed within ten days. —Bev. Ira J. Chase, Lieutenant Gov-ernor-elect, has declined a call to become pastor of the Christian Church at Richmond. —E. F. Berry, a photographer, of New Washington, was dangerously poisoned by inhaling vapors in his “dark room.” —The Richmond Natural Gas Company has accepted its plant from the contractors. The price paid is $500,000, half cash and half stock. —While in a trance, Calvin Cook, an aged citizen of Jeffersonville, laid his hand upon a red-hot stove and allowed it t» burn to a crisp. —At Lafontaine, Wabash County, John Palmer, one of the early settlers, dropped dead of heart disease. Mr. Palmer was 64 years of age, and had apparently been in the best of health. He moved to Lafontaipe in 1852. —Mrs. Elizabeth Dunn, who died recently near Hartsville; Decatur County, was nearly 107 years of age. She was the mother of. four children, and lived to see twenty-four grand and sixty greatgrandchildren. She was in her seventh year when Cincinnati was settled, and this was an incident she often referred to in giving her age. —Two singular accidents are reported from Daviess County. Mrs. Taskey, while assisting her husband in killing hogs, was struck by one of the animals and thrown back with such forced as to fatally injure her. Mrs. Vaughn, at another place, had several of her ribs broken while watching her husband end helping to raise a slaughtered hog, the pole breaking and striking her in the side. —G. R. White, a farmer ■ living near Greenwood, Johnson County, is the owner of a pig that is quite a curiosity. The animal has four front feet and twelve toes. It is alive, and weighs about forty pounds. —Thomas Wilson, alias Harris,arrested at La Porte, has confessed to robbing mail pouches at Elkhart, and to having obtained large sums of money at the former place under false pretenses. —Thb, people of Charlestown were startled the other day by the appearance of Harrison Hogan, the “Bull creek terror.” Hogan has been feeling unwell lately, and he went to Charlestown to Bee a physician. He went on horseback and bad all the appearance of an oldtime warrior. He was well fixed for battle, for around his body were strapped two big navy revolvers, and hanging at his side was the regulation bowie-knife. He had but few words with those he met, and as soon as his business was attended to he quietly left town. At Coxville, a mining town in Parke County, Henry Kirby saw his wife in a compromising position with Abraham Carew, a boarder, and discharged a mus-ket-load of shot at Carew. The wife, instead, received the charge, and there is small chance of her recovery. All the parties are colored. —Four prisoners, George Kelly, Newton Leach, W. H. Dunbar, and William Burden escaped from jail at Marion by sawing themselves out. Leach was recaptured, but the others are still at large. —George Buchanan, who has been postmaster at Judson, Montgomery County, since 1856, has resigned, and John M. Glover has been appointed. —Charles Howell, while coupling cars I at Brookville, was fatally injured.

—Dr. C. C. Givens, on trial at Terre Haute for murder of Webb Stuart, last August, was acquitted. —Frank Goings, a brakeman on the Chicago and Atlantic Railroad, was knocked from a train and fatally injured. —Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Doughty, living near Liberty, were seriously injured in a runaway accident. Mrs. Doughty may die. —While Mrs. Ann Childs, aged 84, was crossing the railroad track in New Albany, she was knocked down by a switching-engine and fatally injured. —Francis Murphy and his two sons have closed their temperance revival at Connersville, having induced 1,500 persons to sign the pledge. —Lewis Daily, aged 80, and Miss Artimacy Clarke, 63 years of age, have just been married at Bippus, Huntington County. It is stated to have been a case of love at first sight. —A large barn belonging to John Wright, living near Rockport, was burned with a season’s crop of tobacco and a number of farming implements. The loss is estimated at $3,000 or $4,000. —Father Meisner, pastor of the Catholic Church at Peru, has placed an electric light on the spire of his church edifice, 175 feet above the ground, which sheds a brilliant light over the city and can be seen far out into the country. •—Martin Kleiser, a well-respected pioneer citizen of Boone County, died at Lebanon, aged 72 years. He leaves a family of six children and an estate valued at $40,000. He was a member of the Odd Fellows’ Lodge. —A ghost has appeared at the farm of Charles Gwynee, near Lexington. The mysterious thing was seen by Gwynee, his sons, and several neighbors, and it presents the appearance of a white shadow in human shape, floating over the surface of the farm. Shotguns have been fired at it. It has stood rocks and clubs, all of which have passed through it without effect. —Samuel H. Price has sued the city of Washington for $2,000 damages, alleged to have been occasioned by a fall on a defective sidewalk, one month ago. —While Edward Sanders, ayoungman about fifteen years of age, was cutting sawlogs in the woods just east of Franklin, a sapling that had been held down by the weight of a log, became released, flew up and struck Sanders under the jaw, breaking the bone in several pieces and fracturing his skull. He was conveyed to his home and but little hope is entertained for his recovery. —By a collision on the Yandalia Railroad, near Filmore, Engineer Bundy was injured internally. —A little pig with two bodies, eight legs, and four ears is a freak of nature just come to light on a Steuben County farm. —While men were engaged in blasting rock near Sparksville, Jackson County, a large stone was hurled with terrible force through the saw-mill of Carter & Co., destroying a $1,500 veneering machine. —While Eli Talley, a huckster, was ascending the bluffs a few miles west of Seymour in his wagon, he drove too near a precipice over twenty-five feet in height, and the team, wagon, and driver went over. Talley was fatally injured, his team was ruined, and the wagon was broken to pieces. —The Woodling school-house, in Washington Township, Cass County, together with books, maps, etc., of the value of S3OO, was destroyed by fire. —Charlestown is enjoying a social sensation over the announcement just made of a double secret marriage which took place at Jeffersonville on Nov. 30. The parties concerned are Walter B. Ruddell and James Teeple, of Jeffersonville, and Miss Minnie Alpha and Miss Annie B. Lutz, of Charlestown. All belong to the upper crust of society. —George Jones, of Asherville, while out hunting with Sheley Stagier, was shot by the latter with a revolver, which, Stagier claims, he thought was unloaded. —A young daughter of Moses Arnold, a farmer living near Wabash, was horribly burned about the limbs and body by her clothes catching fire from the stoye. —Joseph Stetler, a farmer residing near Lynn, died recently, from hasty consumption. The disease was caused by a beard of wheat lodging in his throat, and afterward working into tbe lungs. —The corn-hnsking record craze is still going on among the Montgomery County farmers. Marcus Homey, of Potato Creek, huskejd and cribbed 2,328 bushels in twenty-six days, being an average of eighty-nine bushels per day. —A fellow named Cass Arnold, at Crawfordsyille, ate a regular supper and afterwards sucked sixty-two eggs, ate five fried oysters, the legs, wings, and heart of a chicken, and a piece of pic, then ended with a dish of oyster soup. —The Board of Trustees of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, at Knightstown. has passed a resolution thanking the G. A. R. Posts and Woman’s Relief Corps of tho State for remembering the institution so handsomely on Christmas. The Board also extends a special vote of thanks to Mrs. Anna Weldon, of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Hawkins, of Brazil; Mrs. Sallie Jackson, of Jeffersonville, and Will C. David, of Indianapolis, for faithful discharge of duties.