Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AMD INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCI'RRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbor*—Weddings and Deaths —Crime, Casualties and General News Notofc Patents. Patents have been issued for Indiana inventors as follows: Peter Anderson, assignor to H. G. Olds, of Fort Wayne, corner iron for wagon boxes; Be jamin F. Berger; South Bend, cultivator; Andrew J. Calloway, Chester Hill, cornplanter and drill combined; Clark Chiddister, Decatur, gate; Joseph Frenick, LaPorte, wheel; Thomas J. Harriman, New Paris, drive apparatus for piles, etc.; James A. Little, Cartersburg, spade or shovel; Edward J. Purdy, Michigan City, hunters’ portable stool; George W. Pyle, Geneva, retail case and support for stores; Abbott M. Beeves, Indianapolis, metallic mat; George W. Schock and W. H. Wansbrough, South Bend, paint mixer; Frederick W. Tremain, Fort Wayne, washing machine. Robbed the Corner-Stone of a Church. A queer robbery was committed at Cambridge City. Some person, evidently acquainted with the surroundings, took a crowbar and removed the corner-stone of the Baptist church from its place in the wall of the building. He was poorly repaid for his trouble, however, as the receptacle beneath it contained only a few coins, amounting to about $1.50. The stone was laid in 1864, and its contents comprised such miscellaneous papers, articles, etc., as are usually deposited on such occasions.

A Camper latally Burned. Levi Hunson, of Guthrie, was out of work and concluded to go to Bedford to seek employment. He encamped out near Bedford, having built a fire out of rubbish and fodder. During the night the fire spread and the clothes of Hunson took fire. He awoke to find his clothing in a blaze, and it was some time before he could relieve himself of the burning garments. He was seriously burned, and had to be removed to Bedford, where he died from his injuries. Minor State Items. •—The town of St. Marys of experiencing a boom. —Rev. Rudolph Randolph, living near Andrews, was thrown from a wagon and fatally injured. He is 65 years of age. —While cutting a tree at Galena, Floyd County, Noble McDaniel, aged 15, had his neck broken by a falling limb. —A mad bull made a dash at Peter Draper near Alexandria, and threw him through a rail fence. Mr. Draper’s leg was broken. —A very large and old gray eagle was shot near Seymour the other day. It measured forty-one inches from tip to tip of wings. —George Carter, aged 73, one of the earliest pioneers of Grant County, was stricken with heart disease and died almost instantly.

—Seymour is enjoying a steady growth. Its latest business gain is a pressed-brick manufactory, with a capacity of 20,000 a day. —A revival at the Quaker Church in Monrovia, conducted by Mr. Maunley, of Chicago, resulted in thirty-five accessions to the church. —At Brazil, James W. O’Neal, of Putnamville, was awarded $5,500 damages against the Chicago and Indiana Coal road. He asked SIO,OOO. —ln the village of Swartsburg, Montgomery County, there are ninety-four inhabitants, and the ages of thirteen of them agregate 994 years. —James Cook, a workman in a plan-ing-mill at Columbus, had his arm partially severed, by letting it accidently strike a band-saw in motion. —Clarington Cross claims to have discovered, near Washington, at a depth of ninety feet, a nine-foot vein of goldbearing quartz, which assays $360 to the ton. —Frank Calvert, at one time editor and proprietor of the Wabash PlainDealer, but lately a farmer and politician, died at Mount Etna, near Wabash. —Hon. George Nathaniel Robinson, an eloquent and able member of the Shelby County bar, died at Shelbyville. He served two terms in the State Legislature. —Burglars entered the First National Bank at Plymouth, and secured $1,500 from the safe. An inner compartment containing $20,(M)0 resisted their efforts to open it. —William Able, a well-known farmer of Jackson County, was kicked on the head by a vicious horse a few days ago. His skull was crushed, and all the bones of his face were broken. Winchester has organized a Board of Trade, with George Ashael Stone as president. More gas wells will be drilled and an effort made to induce capital to locate manufactories there. —William Williams was instantly killed at Terre Haute by a heavy locomotive boiler-head falling on him. Nobody saw the ac’cident. He was 58 years of age and leaves a wife and daughter. —A homing pigeon was shot on a farm near Vevay a few days ago. It carried on one leg a silver band, numbered 12,853, and bore the letter Z. Tjie pigeon was supposed to be a blue hawk.

—Albert Owens, a young student at the Columbus Normal School, was atte.opting to ride an untamed horse, when the animal threw him, the fall breaking one of his legs near the knee. —The directors of the Prison South have elected Abel Ewing, of Greensburg, deputy warden, vice Willis Barnes resigned, Dr. G. H. Buncie, of Fort Branch, Gibson County, physician, vice Dr. Wolf, of New Albany, resigned. —Col. Stout, who walked out of the Muncie court room while being tried for forgery, was captured at Upland, Grant County. He will now receive a three years’ sentence in the penitentiary, in accordance with the jury’s verdict. —ln tearing down one of the oldest buildings in Seymour, a few days Ago, workmen found, concealed in the foundation, five large hickory clubs and a bundle of stout hickory switches, relics of the vigilance committee days of 1868. —The Winchester Board of Trade has elected Gen. A. Stone president, and Enos L. Watson and two others vice presidents, and a board of five directors. A great effort is being made to arrange for free gas for manufacturing purposes. —Edward Powell, one of the river pirates who plundered and attempted to. burn the town of Bethlehem, and subsequently escaped from jail on March 8, has been recaptured at Boonville, Ky. A kit of burglar toos was found in his possession. —William Benson, under sentence of death at Jeffersonville for the murder of Jacob Mottweiler, has made a full confession, in which he says his sole motive for the crime was his love for the girl Sallie Snyder, the domestic in Mottweiler’s family. —Farmers in Miami County and the north part of Wabash are combining to resist the demands of the binder-twine trust. They have decided to hire men to bind wheat after being out with binders. Determined opposition to the trust has been developed. —Minnie, the 4-year-old daughter of George Shekell, who lives near Fountaintown, was burned to death while playing with fire and burning trash. Her clothes were burned off. The mother’s hands were severely burned in trying to put out the fire. —A mammoth stalk of corn raised on the farm of Samuel Brumfield, in Ohio Township, Bartholomew County, is on exhibition at Columbus. To the ear, which is large and solid, it measures nine feet and seven inches. The entire height of the stalk is eighteen feet. —The Decatur County Commissioners have agreed to sink a gas well at least three thousand feet deep, if necessary to reach the gas bearing sand. The experience in the vicinity of Decatur is somewhat similar to that at Lancaster, 0., where an immense flow was obtained by going down to the sajid. —The fish in White Creek, near Columbus, are dying by the thousands from some peculiar cause. The scourge was just observed a few days ago, when the surface of the stream became covered with dead fish. They seem to be infected with poison, as the poultry which fed on them have all died.

—Frank Mote, a young man residing five miles east of Seymour, was run over by a switch engine in the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad yards, receiving injuries which caused his death in a few hours. It is supposed he was attempting to board the engine or cars attached while they were in motion. —The gang of Starke County car thieves, recently captured, have just been tried and convicted. Bring, Kretlinger, the two Harmon brothers, and the two Newman brothers have been sentenced to one year each. The goods stolen were valued at $5,000. They were found buried in the ground at the home of Bring. —Judge Ferguson, of Jeffersonville, has decided that the bondsmen *of A. J. Howard, ex-warden of the Prison South, are not responsible for his last term. When his last term commenced, Howard’s bond was not renewed under the supposition that the first one was good. By this ruling the State will lose a large sum of money. —The Indiana Live Stock Commission, constituted by the last Legislature, met at Indianapolis and organized by electing Adam Earl, of Lafayette, President, and Samuel Bowman, of South Bend, Secretary. The work before the Commission was discussed, but the adoption of rules and the election of a veterinarian was postponed till the next ing—Mrs. Mary Charnes, the wife of Martin Charnes, who was seriously assaulted by her brother-in-law, Josiah Charnes, a short time ago at Washington, is dying from the effect of the terrible treatment which she was subjected to. Her ante-mortem statement of the assault has been taken, to be used in the trial of the brute whose violence is said to bo the cause of her death. —A case of brutal child-murder, almost incredible in its details, comes from Ligonier, Noble County. A heartless wretch, getting angry at his 2-year-old baby for crying, took a lath and beat the helpless child unmercifully, winding up by grabbing the baby by the legs and throwing it across the room, killing it almost instantly. The horrified mother, on attempting to rescue her babe, was violently assaulted and terribly beaten, and left in an unconscious condition. The wretch has fled for parts unknown.