Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCIURKD. * An Inlemllug Summary of the More Important Doing* of Our Neighbors—Wedding* anil Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General Neus Notes* A Wabash County Merchant Drugged and Robbed of Over SI,BOO While Asleep. Laketon, ten miles north of Wabash, is considerably excited over a daring robbery which occurred there recently. Mr. Henry Ogden, a merchant of the town, was relieved of over SI,BOO. Mr. Ogdon sold his stock of goods to a man in North Manchester who came toDaketon and paid the amount of purchase money, $1,500, to Ogden. The transaction was completed late in the afternoon, and, there being no bank in the town, Ogden put the money in his pocket, together with nearly S3OO additional, which he had on hand. That night Ogden placed his pocketbook containing the money in the center of his bed. In the morning he was found to have been drugged, together with his two companions, young men named Otto Fites and Allen Ogden. It was with great difficulty that Henry could be aroused. * All complained of severe pains in the head. Mr. Ogden's trousers were found in the yard, and near by was the empty pocket-book. There is no clew whatever to the thieves.

Miuor State Items. -—Gardner Ayres, employed in an elevator at. Indianapolis, was ground to pieces in a corn-sheller. —Forty-three deaths have occurred from membraneous croup in the vicinity of AVabash within a few r weeks. —Six rabid dogs were killed at AVest Baden. A strange cur inoculated all the dogs in the vicinity some time ago. —The report that AVhite Caps are operating in Noblesville is denounced by the Mayor of that place as a canard. —George M. Beagle is under arrest at Greenfield far the attempted w recking of a passenger train near there last July. —Albert Tull, aged 13, was killed while hunting on his father’s farm near Fail land, by the accidental discharge of a gun. —At Fort Wayne, a brakeman named Sears, got a judgment for $5,000 against the Pennsylvania Company for the loss of a leg. —Grandmother Heaton, of Crawfordsville, who is over 80 years old, will attend the inauguration of Gen. Beuj. Harrison.

—Jesse Lee, of Ervin, Howard County, wishes to know the whereabouts of Thomas Neal, who formerly lived in Howard County. —A woman named Lockhart, while sick in bed, was attacked by a mad dog at Brazil. Her husband arrived in time to kill the brute. After several years of wrangling, the Crawfordsville City Council has established a “pound," it an offense for cows to run at large. —The shaft in a coal mine at Mitchell broke and precipitated the cage ninetyfive feet to the bottom. One person tvas killed and two seriously injured. —Seven Adams County farmers have just realized that lightning-rod and paint peddlers swindled them out of amounts ranging from §2OO to S6OO. —Frank Kiser, of West Point, was found frozen to death between Lafayette and his home. He is supposed to have been in a state of intoxication. The machinery for the new waterworks plant, at Columbus, has arrived, and is being placed in position. The cost of the plant will be about $15,'000. —Bev. William B. Nobes died very suddenly of heart disease at Flora, Carroll County. He was 70 years of age and well known as a Methodist minister. —Daniel Williams, aged 75, one of the best-known citizens of Shelby County, is dead, from the effects of burns received by falling into an open fireplace.

, - A widow named Stephenson has brought suit at Marion against a young farmer named Reynolds for alleged breacli-of-promise. She wants $5,000 damages. —Portland will have competition in the supply of natural gas. the Citizens’ Company having commenced to build a rival line from the Como wells, six miles from the city. —Rochester has arranged for the introduction of the incandescent electriclight system; and also intends to build a three*story brick hotel when the weather permits. —The State Fish Commissioner has sent an agent to investigate the fish dynamiting outrages which are being extensively committed in White River, south of Columbus. , —Fort Wayne is to have natural gas from the wells in Blackford County, a company having given bond to pipe gas to the city and through the streets in time for use next winter. —Mrs. Pop Wilson, of Martinsville, almost eighty years of age, fell on her door-step and broke her hip bone. She was stricken with paralysis some months ago, and is in feeble health. —The Chief of the Fire Department at Crawfordsville, asked tho Council to appoint a man to keep people from interfering with thq firemen at fires. He was instructed to turn the water on them.

-Peru claims to have the best waterworks system and most efficient fire department in the State. The total loss from the sixteen fires occurring there in 1888, did not exceed SI,OOO. —Wabash fs in danger of losing the Strawboard Factory contemplated by the Barber Match Company. Failure to make satisfactory transportation rates with the C., AW & M. Kailway is said to be a -stumbling block. —lt is surmised that the Spanish coin recently found near Hanna were left in the jar in the tree by some one of the Spanish troop which came to that region in 1781 from St. Louis, Mo., to seize the country for the King of Spain. ' —About two years ago Mrs. Elizabeth Cadwallader, of Crawfordsville, was struck by an engine, which was hacking at the crossing of Main street and the L. NA.& C. She sued for $5,000 damages and the jury gave her $2,000. C. H. Lyman, a yard brakeman at Fort AVayne, has been adjudged insane. Two years ago he was implicated in a collision whereby one passenger was fatally and several seriously injured. Since then he has been partially demented. —James Hymer and Emma Nelson, of Greencastle, were married a few days ago. On the evening of the ceremony the bride complained of being unwell. She rapidly grew w orse and in two days died, her physician attributing the cause to diabetic coma. —Two indictments have been returned at Indianapolis against Sullivan, the absconding Clerk—one for embezzling the trust funds of the county and the other for obtaining money upon forged warehouse receipts. Sullivan is believed to be in New Mexico instead of Canada.

—A team driven by a farmer named John Schoeff, ran away at Roanoke, six miles west of Fort AA r ayne, and dashed headlong into the Wabash fast train, which was passing at the time. Both horses were instantly killed, and Schoeff was so badly injured that he cannot survive. —AVhile fireman Hugh Manny was under the engine of a passeuges train at Medarysville, cleaning the fire-box, the engineer started the train. Manny hung to an iron bar under the engine, and was dragged about one hundred feet, receiving only slight injuries, before the engine was stopped. —At AVaterloo the AVhite Caps attempted to execute a threat they had made against James Burk. They hammered in the door of his house and entered, but the occupants opened fire on them, one ball taking effect in the jaw of “Skip” Barnhart. The rest of the gang thereupon took flight. —The Mormon missionaries, who have been for the past few weeks conducting meetings in Dubois County, claimed thnt they could work miracles similar to those of the early apostles. The doubting congregations demanded an exhibition of miraculous powers, but the Utah apostles failed to respond.

—The Christian Church dedicated at Boone Grove recently, is the first house of worship erected in that place. It is said to be one of Ae finest in Porter County outside of Valparaiso. Rev. L. L. Carpenter, of Wabash, conducted the services, and raised $1,500 more than sufficient to pay off the indebtedness. —Another bad break in the tank line of the Standard Oil Company, which extends from Lima, 0., to Chicago, has occurred at Huntington, where the line crosses the Little Wabash River. Immense quantities of the fluid escaped and a great conflagration ensued. The fire swept over the banks, burning trees and everything with which it came in contact before the leak was stopped. —A portion of the skeleton of a white man, evidently a Catholic priest, was found by workmen in a gravel-pit, four miles from Lafayette. A number of buttons and a silver cross were also found. It is thought the gravel-pit is a portion of the original site of the old French post, Ouiatenon, established about two hundred years ago, when the French were in possession of this State. —A lively and exciting chase took place at Franklin, recently. As Louis W. Ivnobe, a merchant, stepped from his front gate to go to his place of business, a mad cow made a rush at him, with head down and bellowing. Mr. Knobe, with hat in hand, ran for his life, closely pursued by the animal, until he sought refuge in a store. The cow continued on the run, but was overtaken and killed. She showed unmistakable signs of hydrophobia. —Patents have been granted Indiana inventors, as follows: John C. Allen, Brookston, mole plow; Henry C. Handler, Thorutown, portable oil-bath for wheels; Sylvester Hoadley, Gosport, drafting instrument; Frank and M. Nicolai, Benton, fence machine; David M. Parry, Indianapolis, hub-boring machine. Trade-marks were patented for Asa M. Fitch, chewing gum; Seymour and Booth Canning Company, Indianapolis, canned oysters. —Henley Ridgley, of North Manchester, Wabash County, is in receipt of information that he is one of the heiys to the famous Brandenburg estate, in Germany, which is worth several million dollars. Mi-. Ridgley’s mother was a Brandenburg and a direct descendant of Solomon Brandenburg, who left the property in question. A meeting of all the American heirs lias been called, to be held shortly at Dayton, when active steps will be taken toward the prosecution of the claims.