Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE lately occurred. An Interesting: Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbor*—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. Tribulations of a Wealthy “Pauper.” Martin Cook, the pauper who was found to have over six thousand dollars in his room at the Montgomery County poor-farm, and who was “fired” by the County Commissioners, was found one evening recently, fast in a shool-house window, three miles north of Crawfordsville. He had raised the window, and while crawling in the sash fell down on his back, holding him there. He had been in this position about an Rour when discovered, his head and arms in the school-house and his feet on the outside. Aboycame along and released him from his position. He was taken to a neighboring house, where he stayed the night. He carried his money with him, and said that he had more than what was countedby the Commissioners. He refused to put it in the bank, and hired a man to take him to a house of a friend near Linden. Patents. Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Robert S. Arbo;gast, Selma, straw stacker; Harvey H. Diggs, Farmland, post-hole boring machine; Samuel W. Keasling, Bicknell, gate; C. Martin Keller, Columbus, mast arm; Robert S. Knode, assignor of onehalf to E. L. Siver, Fort Wayne, atomizer; William Mack, iTerre Haute, opera or marine glass; William Mack, Terre Haute,opera-glass holder; William Moor, Kokomo, apparatus for separating liquids from natural-gas; Geo. W. Parker, Terre Haute, axle lubricator for -cars; Aaron G. Rose, Greencastle, bicycle; Solomon P. Stoddard, Brookvillc, car truck; Edward Zanker, fire kindler.

Minor State Items. —Orange County does not contain any licensed saloons. —Eight business houses were destroyed by fire at Lagrange. Bloomington, with about .4,000 population, has only two saloons. —Columbus has a steam fire-alarm whistle that can be heard twenty miles away. —During the past year $1,519.45 has been paid for sheep killed by dogs in Montgomery County. —William Smith, a well-known citizen of Delphi, and a county commissioner for six years, is dead. —J. C. Shaffer, of Indianapolis, has been granted a franchise to operate an electric street-railway in Richmond. —Capt. J. T. Hugo, of Evansville, one •of the oldest steamboat men on Western rivers, is dead, at the age of 70 'years. —The store of W T illiam Campbell, at New Richmond, was destroyed by fire, with its contents. Loss, $3,000; insured. —Mrs. Dr. Kate Cloud, of Richmond, who pleaded guilty to criminal practice, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for four years. —Dulas Gillispie, a farmer living near Liberty, while feeding a cutting-box, had his arm cut and mashed off between the wrist and elbow. —Peter Biesen, ex-Councilman and a prominent German citizen, died at Madison from the effects of an accidental fall from his wagon. —Taylor Peterson, a school teacher of Montgomery County, has been sent to the penitentiary for two years for forging a name to a note. —J. T. Merrill has been connected with the Lafayette public schools for twenty-seven years and has been Superintendent for twenty-five. —George Vogelsong, who left his Shelby County home in a passion a year and a half ago, has just been heard from. He joined the regular army. —The Sons of Veterans of Indiana will hold their third annual encampment at Logansport, commencing June 11, continuing for four days. —Charles Landgrave, a prominent farmer, while hitching a horse at Peru, was kicked and had a leg broken, besides receiving other dangerous injuries.

—Mrs. Mary Arndt, of Calhoun, aged 30, was recently attacked with a severe illness. She had jet-black hair previous to sickness, but when she recovered it had turned white. —Arthur Gordon, who made false collections on goods sold by the Rockford Publishing Company at Crawfordsville, pleaded guilty and was sent to the penitentiary for two years. —Rabid dogs have become so numerous at Moore’s Hill that bands of men, armed with rifles, patrol the streets, and shoot down at sight, all animals suspected of having been bitten. —Charles Yager, a prominent young farmer,living near Decatur, in the southwest part of Adams County, committed suicide to-day by blowing out his brains. He was insane from religious excitement. —Nearly twenty dogs showing symptoms of hydrophobia, at Terre Haute, have been shot in the last few days. The Mayor has issued a proclamation to the effect that all unmuzzled dogs must be skilled.

—The schools at Liberty have closed for two weeks on account of the prevalence of measles and mumps. •—The Union Poultry Association has been organized at Liberty, with W. H. H. Clarke President, and James Doherty, Corresponding Secretary. —Erastus M. Benson, aged 75, and founder of the town of Montezuma, is' dead. He was one of the best-known citizens in that quarter of the State. His daughter is now postmistress of Montezuma. —Two Plainfield boys named Eston Green and Walter Ballard, were playing with a can of powder, when it exploded in some manner. Both boys were badly burned about the face, and Green was dangerously injured. —Samuel L. Wallace, auditor of Greene County, is suing J. H. Fowler, a lawyer and bank president, for $5,000 damages, growing out of an alleged libel uttered by the later gentleman during the late campaign. —A sensation has been created in Hamblen Township, Brown County, over the elopement of Albert Flint with Miss Maud Crabb. The children belong to highly respected parents and their ages are 18 and 15 years, respectively. —W. H. Huber, of Pleasant Plain, Huntington Coupty, recently received a warning notice from alleged White Caps. He now publishes a card inviting them to call, intimating that the Coroner will have plenty of work if they do. —At Terre Haute, recently, John Shay was put in jail for drunkenness. James Russell, colored, a fellow-prisoner, tied paper around Shay’s feet and set fire to it. Shay’s feet were badly burned. Russell has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for mayhem.

—William Henderson has transferred to the Indianapolis Natural-gas Company gas leases on 2,542 acres of land in Madison County, over six thousand acres in Hamilton County, and large blocks in Hancock and Marion Counties. The average price paid to the owners of the land was SSO per farm. —Henry Shrader, of Aurora, says that while confined in jail for non-payment of fine and costs, his sore arm needed medical attention, and that the jail physician failed to give it proper attention. In consequence, he alleges, his arm has become wholly useless. He now demands $5,000 damages from Dearborn County. Steuben County is anxious for a high-license-local-option temperance law. Would-be saloon-keepers are continually harassing the Commissioners for licenses, but have failed to procure them through the active remonstrances of the temperance people, although the matter has been carried to the courts several times.

- Upon entering his home at Elkhart, Charles Honald found his 18-year-old wife lying dead on the floor and their baby playing about her. She is supposed to have died of heart disease, but as there is some gossip to the effect that she had had trouble during the morning with a neighbor who was in the house, the coroner has been summoned. —Charles Trine, one of the best known farmers in Randolph County, died of apoplexy at his home near Union City, where he had resided since 1862. !o was 63 years of age and had occupied several positions of trust within the gift of the people, by whom he was regarded as an enterprising and Christian citizen. He leaves a wife and five children. —lsaac Christy and family moved to a farm near Guilford, and the mother had given a little daughter 4 years of age permission to go up on a hill in the rear of the house to see the young lambs. The child went to the creek on the lower side of the house, and when search was made for her the lifeless body was found in the water amid the rocks and driftwood. —An old sow weighing about three hundred pounds, with tusks like a wild boar, was arrested and lodged in a cell in the station house at New Albany by policemen, who had to use their clubs on the prisoner before they could land her in duress. This animal has been the terror of women and children, and not a few men have been put to flight by her vicious attacks.

—Two Mormon elders were egged while conducting a meeting at a sohoolhouse a few miles south of Corydon. The eggs were thrown through the doors and windows, and the elders were covered with them from head to foot. Persons on the outside opened the doors and windows, but who they were is not known. The meeting was continued, notwithstanding the interruption. —The State Monument Commissioners have made another move in relation to their undertaking. Mr. Mclntosh, of Greencastle, has been elected to superintend the building of the superstructure. Mr. Mclntosh superintended the erection of the Warren County courthouse, and is a practical engineer and stone-worker, perfectly capable and competent to perform the new duties which will devolve upon him. —The State Board of Health has directed the health officers of Decatui County to arrest an owner of glandered horses, in that county, who is charged with failing to keep them on his own premises. The State Board of Agriculture, at its next meeting, will nominate a Veterinary Board, whose duty it will be to stamp out infectious diseases oi stock, and kill diseased animals wher such killing is deemed necessary as s measure of safety.