Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Snmmaij of the More Important Doipg* of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. Indianlans at the Ball. Among the Indianians at the inaugural ball were Major Richards and wife, of the Indianapolis News; Judge R. S. Taylor and wife, of Fort Wayne; Julius F. Prall, Charles Fayles, Miss DePauw, of New Albany; Miss Kean, of Evansville; Mayor Denny and wife; E. W. Halford, T. F. Ryan, Moses McLain, C. E. Coffin and wife, Charles Vinton, of Lafayette; C. E. Kaegelo and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Walcott, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Pettibone, Miss Newcomer, Heury D. Pierce, Mrs. t)r. H. R. Allen and daughter, W. H. H. Miller and two daughters, Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Ayers, Chester Bradford, George Newcomer, Lieut. Judson, Roscoe 0. Hawkins and wife, Capt. Coleman, Mrs. 0. Haselman and daughter. All Washington society ladies of prominence united in pronouncing the toilets of the Indiana matrons as quite w orthy of remark for taste and elegance. Failed to Give Proper Bonds. Last fall Anthony Bender was elected Treasurer of Franklin County. He gave bond and entered upon the discharge of his duties. In a short time thereafter he drew all the money then on deposit in the Brookville Bank, amounting to about $37,000, and said he was going to deposit it in Cincinnati, where he could get interest on it. This action alarmed some of his bondsmen, and a few days ago one of them, C. B. Martin, made application to the Circuit Court to be released therefrom. The court gave Mr. Bender ten days in which to file a new bond. When the tenth day Was up, Mr. Bender presented his bond which the court after a careful examination, refused to approve, and declared the office vacant, and ordered the Clerk of the court to notify Gov. Hovey of the fact. A Hydrophobia Panic, The people of Johnson County, in the White River bottoms, are panic-stricken with mad dog fright, and a wholesale -slaughter of canines is now in progress. A dog affected with hydrophobia bit a number of animals in the vicinity of Kinder several days ago. A number of cattle showed signs of madness and were killed. Their carcasses were partially burned. The remains were fought over and eaten by the dogs of the neighborhood. These dogs iu turn are mad. Hence, the panicky condition of that section. A cow went mad recently, and twelve men were required to corral her. 'The cattle belonged to Daniel Sutton and Alfred Tressler, large cattle raisers.

Patents. Indiana genius has been rewarded in the allowance of patents as , follows: David W. Albert, Plymouth, ~broom-maker’s thimble; Andrew Goodyear, assignor to South Bend Chilled Flow Company, South Bend, wheel plow; Theodore H. Haberkorn, Fort Wayne, pipe coupling for air brakes and -combination valve for operating airbrake mechanisms; Carleton Sage, Elkhart, urethral powder-applier; William S. Scott, Eminence, automatic grain'weigher and measurer; George W. Stewart, Rising Sun, sliding gate. Minor State Items. —The Evansville Y. M. C. A. propose ■erecting a hall at a cost of $40,000. —The Methodists of Connersville have •decided to build a new church the coming summer. —The temperance people of Paoli have organized to resist an attempt to open a saloon at that place. —Oliver B. White, aged 18, has been ■sentenced, at Lafayette, life imprisonment for murder. —The Jeifersonv.ille Car-works is dismissing all employes who are in the habit of getting drunk. —A prospector claims to have found silver in paying quantities in the vicinity of Shoals, Martin County. —Mrs. Christina Gerdt died at Indianapolis from the effects of wounds inflicted by an unknown person. —Mrs. Wils Dalton, of Plainfield, was badly burned about the face and neck by the explosion of a gasoline lamp. —Dennis Collins, a railway employe, was run over by the cars at Warsaw, and had both legs cut off. He died shortly -afterwards. and James Brooks, brothers, aged respectively 19 and 21, of Rising Sun, were drowned while skating on Langberg Creek. —Dislike for • the superintendent caused twenty-three operatives in the carding-room of the Madison cottonmill to go on a strike. —Joht Hughes, a young man living two miles west of Montpelier, fell from a load of corn fodder the other day and broke both arms at the wrists. —Robert Wilson, who lived near Altoner, was instantly killed, by a falling tree. Wilson was engaged in chopping wood when the accident occurred. Grcencastle is making an effort to -secure more manufactories, urging its superior water, stone, coal, and transportation advantages as an attraction. —Natural gas, with an estimated pressure of 300 pounds, has *been struck at Dublin, at a depth of 883 feet! The gas ■<will be given free to all manufacturers.

—William Thornton, a Yandalia freight conductor, was injured in a frightful manner at Clvmer’s Station, dying in a few hours from wounds received. —The Porter County Medical Society met at Valparaiso and elected officers, as follows: President. G. W. Arnold; Vice President, A. P. Letherman; Secretary, D. J. Loring. —The residence of Wiley Burns, near Elizabethtowfi, Bartholomew County, was burned with its contents. Loss, $15,000; insurance, $250, iu the Phoenix of Hartford. —Thomas Locke, the Miami County school-teacher who has been boycotted by his pupils for the past month, has received a White Cap notice ordering him to resign immediately. —At the graduating exercises of Fort Wayne Medical College the prize in the competitive examination in surgery was awarded to S. Celia Dupont, the only lady of the class. —Andrew Allen, colored, has confessed to writing White Cap letters and to attempts at incendiarism, near Mooresville. He is 14 years of age, and is now in jail at Martinsville. —George Alexander, an employe of Adam Dunlap, a Franklin commission merchant, forged the latter's name on two checks, one for $25 and the other for S2O. He successfully passed both. —David G. Pulse died, at Greensburg, from heart disease and dropsy, at the age of 60 years. He was the father of ex-Representative O. L. Pulse, and the present Deputy Auditor Jam‘es C. Pulse. —Harry Fultz, the G-vear-oid son of Mrs. Marshall Fultz, of Columbus, was standing near a red-hot stove, when his clothes ignited, and before the flames could be extinguished his body was terribly burned. —The farmers of Clay County held a mass-meeting at Brazil to protest against the importation of dressed beef from Chicago and St. Louis at prices low enough to drive the home product from the market.

James Phillips, of Bainbridge, fell dead from paralysis while feeding his hogs. He was found by his wife lying among the porkers, with his faithful dog at his side keeping the animals away from his body. —During a funeral procession, at Peru, a buggy containing two women, a man, and child, was upset by an unruly horse, and Mrs. Bruck, an elderly lady, had her arm badly broken, besides being otherwise injured, though not fatally. The other occupants had a narrow escape. —Mrs. Hattie Chapin, a Connersville widow, recently discovered in an old hair-covered trunk a large envelop containing railroad bonds in the sum of $5,000, with eight years’ accumulated interest. The bonds have been lost since the death of Dr. Chapin, eight years ago. —A burglar tried to enter the house of William Foxworthy, in Knighstown, when he was discovered by a 15-year-old son, who ordered him away by threatening to shoot. The thief broke in the windows and shot the boy in the right breast, causing a severe but not fatal wound. —While Alva Neal, a student, was making a chemical experiment in the laboratory of Franklin College, a retort containing a very strong solution of sulphuric acid exploded. Neal was terribly burned about the face and neck, but fortunately his eyesight was not badly injured. —The Fort Wayne syndicate, which is engaged in sinking gas wells in Blackford County preparatory to laying a fifty-mile ten-inch pipe line to Fort Wayne is meeting with good success, having struck a “screamer” near Mill Grove. Bluffton expects to be served from the pipe-line when completed. —John Gamble, living near‘Brownsburgh, is 92 years old, and was one of the first settlers ip Hendricks County. He rides to town on horse-back once a week and wears a beaver hat that he has worn for the past forty years. The hat is considered quite a relic, and many persons have tried to get possession of it. —M. C. James, of Medora, Jackson County, was struck by the engine of a J., M. & I. freight train, while walking on the track at Seymour. Besides having his left arm crushed he was badly injured about the body. He will probably die. The injured man is a veteran of Company H, Twenty-seventh Indiana Volunteers.

—White Caps are again at work in Dubois County. At Ireland, a young man named Joseph Sermersheim was taken from his home and given thirty lashes with horse-whips, because he disregarded a previous warning to “get to work or get.” The White Caps also left a bundle of black hickory switches and a notice at the farm-house of Stephen S. Cook, warning him that (his movements were being watched, and that he had better carry himself straight. —While the Daughters of Rebekah were in session in the Odd Fellow’s Hall, at Moore’s Hill, the other evening, a large dog broke into the room. The animal was frothing at the mouth and howling in a manner which left no doubt that it was rabid. The ladies were terrified by the presence of the unwelcome visitor, but the'gentleman succeeded in ejecting it. The dog was afterwards killed. Unfeeling persons will be uncharitable enough to say that the animal was simply the lodge goat on a rampage.