Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. Ab Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, C:isualties and General New* Notes. Wanted the Engine Backed Off His Body. A remarkable escape from violent •death is reported from Beno, a few miles southwest of Danville. David Irvin, of that place, was in Danville a few days ago, and returned home in the ■evening on the train. He was somewhat intoxicated, and after going some distance up the track in the direction of his home he sat down on one of the rails. A freight train came in sight, but Irvin did not notice it. The engineer saw the man by the aid of the head-light and sounded the whistle. As the locomotive passed the spot he did not see Irvin, and supposed he had stepped to one side. A few moments later the fireman heard a voice calling from the front of the engine and the train was stopped as soon as possible. Irvin was found clinging to the cow-catcher, his body dragging under the engine. He yelled to the engineer, “Back yer hoss off o’ me. will you?” He was so ti o htly wedged under the cow-catcher that it was found necessa-y for two men to hold him by the arms while the engine was backed off his body. His overcoat was torn off, and with the exception of a few bruises and scratches, he was uninjured. A Young Couple Instantly Killed. Robert McCaffney and Miss Dillie Dove, well-known young people of Elkhart, each aged 19 years, while driving attempted to cross the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern track, when their carriage was struck by a passenger train and both the young people instantly killed, together with the horse. The bodies of the young people, with the wrecked carriage, fell on the pilot and remained there until the train arrived at Elkhart, when it was found in removing them that they were locked in each other’s arms. Two ladies were killed oix the same crossing some time ago. Minor State Items. —Wanatah is to have a new Christian church. —The town of St. Marys of experiencing a boom. —Joseph Busk, of Linden, is 9 years old and weighs 105 pound’s. —The Roanoke Seminary will remove to Huntington provided SIO,OOO is donated. —Clarksburg, Decatur County, is elated over a good gas well, which has been successfully shot. Miami County is making an effort to abolish the few remaining toll-roads in the vicinity of Peru. —Woodville, Porter County, is the greatest sassafras shipping point in the State. About a ton a day is shipped to Chicago. —About one thousand persons took part in a fox hunt north of Terre Haute, in Parke County, recently. Seven foxes were captured. —William Schrader, 11 years old, put a railroad torpedo in a stove at La Porte. Half of the boy’s face was torn off. He will probably die. —Frank Sherick, living near Westfield, was recently kicked in the stomach by a horse. Since then he has been unable to speak above a whisper. —Peter Lavengood, a middle-aged farmer, living twelve miles east of Huntington, was instantly killed by a snag which he was burning down, falling on him. —An incendiary fire destroyed the farm residence of B. W. McCowan, near Wabash. Loss, $2,000; insured for sl,300 in the Northwestern Company of Milwaukee.

—William Riley, of Peru, while jumping off a moving train, after bidding friends good-bye, struck his head on a switch and was terribly injured. He will probably die. —Knights of Pythias in the Southern part of the State will have a prize drill at North Vernon, July 4. The prizes will be: First, $150; second, $100; third, .flag worth $75; fourth, SSO. —John Shelby, of Clark County discovered that his woodpile was being raided. He loaded a stick of wood with blasting powder. As a result the house of John Bracket was blown to pieces. —Lightening-rod swindlers succeeded in getting Tracy Evans, an 86-year-old farmer of Elkhart County, to sign a document’which turned out to be a note. He was given a worthless receipt in return. —Horse thieves are at work in Harrison and Crawford Counties. Mr. Hon, near Corydon, recently lost a stallion valued at SBOO, and other valuable animals have been stolen from near Leavenworth. —Albert Weineke, .aged 16,- an employe of the Seymour Furniture Factory, accidentally fell on a buzz-saw, and the bones of his right arm were cut in two lengthwise, from the wrist to near the shoulder. —As Jesse Qoben, who resides near Waveland, was splitting up a sassafras tree which he had cat down, he fbund a bunch of hair firmly embedded in the tree. The hair was wrapped in paper upon vhich was some writing, but the writing was too dim to be read.

—James S. Odell, aged 81 years, who settled in Hendricks County in 1832, is dead of paralysis. He was postmaster at Plainfield for sixteen years. Last November he was carried to the polls to vote for Harrison.

—While making his first trip as a brakeman J. L. Shields fell under a moving train near Pekin, Washington County, and had a leg and a foot so badly crushed that amputation was necessary. He may recover. —A syndicate will bore for gas at Martinsville, and, if gas is not found, will build a hotel and start artesian baths, as the water heretofore found in the vicinity at a certain depth is said to have great medicinal merit. —A little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dunbar, of South Bend, found some morphine pills on the floor and ate them. She died shortly in great suffering. Another child is also very ill from the same cause but may recover. —Win. Monroe, an ex-conductor, while boarding a freight train at Columbus, fell under the wheels and bad one leg cut off. He received other injuries that will cause death. His home is in Columbus, where he has a wife and two children. —The farmers of Madison County have resolved to boycott trust binding-twine during the coming harvest. The Farmers’ Club took the initiatory steps by resolving against trust twine and issuing a call for a mass-meeting of faimers to take further action. —Professors James and Benni May, of the Eikosi Academy at Salem, have been put in control of the DePauw Female Academy at New Albany. They are both well known in the southern part of the State as cultured Christian educators.

—Joseph Wells, one of the White Caps charged with being implicated in the whipping of John Nausier, at Marengo, July 2, 1887, was acquitted by a jury in the Crawford County Circuit Court at Leavenworth. This is the first of the White Can trials. —Horace Peck a lad about sixteen years old, met with a terrible accident in the paper-mill at Vincennes. He was caught in the cogs of some rapidly revolving wheels, and one leg and the anterior portion of his body were literally ground up and torn away. The lad survived but a few hours. —H. DeC. Bichards, of Jersey City, N. J., has been granted a twenty-five-year water franchise at Franklin, the city agreeing to pay $3,000 rental a year. Six miles of pipe are to be laid. The plant will costabout $70,000, and will be what is known as the combined standpipe and direct-pressure system. —Henry M. Williams, a wealthy resident of Fort Wayne, has made a gift of SIO,OOO to the City Hospital. The money is to be used to enlarge the hospital and increase its hygienic facilities. Mr. Williams, some years ago, divided a $4,000 pension award between the St. Joe and City hospitals, and is wellknown for his many charitable deeds. —Hydrophobia has been playing havoc among the cattle in the vicinity of Shoals, and a great many hogs have also died. The farmers are considerably worked up about it, and a great deal of complaint is made on account of the town cattle and hogs running at large. The town Board will provide some way of stopping the spread of the disease. —White Caps took Stanton Hammock from the house of Mrs. Clawpitt, near Sheridan, the other night, tied him to a tree, and gave him twenty-five lashes, after which he was ordered to leave the State within twenty-four hours under penalty of having the dose doubled. He concluded to take tbe White Caps at their word and left the following day. —“The Beorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints” is the name of the Mormon organization in the Southern part of the State. In the counties of Perry, Harrison, and Floyd, there are twelve licensed ministers, six priests and six elders. The main difference with the Utah church lies in the anti-polygamy belief. —Sarah Thomas, a 13-year-old child, was horribly and fatally burned at Indianapolis while alone at her home. She was getting dinner, when her clothing caught fire, and she ran into the yard. A neighbor caught her and held her under the pump, while another pumped w'ater upon her till the fire was extinguished. Her arms were burned to a crisp, and no part of her body escaped. —A spelling-match was held a few nights ago near the sulphur well on the line of Perry and Crawford counties. During the exercises Bobert Jefferies, the teacher, reprimanded Preston Beard 'for some misconduct. As the teacher was going home he was attacked by . Beard. Jefferies used his knife with such effect that he inflicted twelve or more wounds on the assailant’s body, who is not expected to live. —The second annual session of the Farmers’ Institute, held at Scottsburg, has closed. The session was a very interesting and instructive one. J. Q. A. Sieg, of Corydon, member of the State Board of Agriculture; Prof. Latta, of Purdue University; Prof. Stockbridge, director experimental station Purdue University; J. J. W. Billingsley, Indianapolis, and J. W. Kingsbury, editor Indiana Farmer, were present, and assisted in making the institute a success. The farmers of Scott County are awake to their interests, and a permanent conntv farmers’ club will be organized.