Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCI'RRED. An Intoreillng Sn mm ary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. Novel Position of Man and Wife In Regard to Prosecuting Saloon-Keepers. Mrs. W. 0. Leeds, wife of one of the richest men in Indiana, has secured evidence that nineteen different saloonkeepers in Michigan City have sold liquor to her husband this year after she had, in accordance with law, formally notified them not to do so. The notices were served by her in person. An interview with Mrs. Leeds is given, in which attributes Mr. Leeds’ drinking habits to the influence of politicians and saloon men who have fastened themselves upon him. Mrs. Leeds says she proposes to have the saloon-keepers suffer from $lO to SIOO fine for every drink sold to Mr. Leeds after notice was served. Her investigation showed, incidentally, that out of sixty-five places in Michigan City where liquor is sold only fifty-one are licensed. She intends to have the unlicensed fourt;9n forced to close up. Mrs. Leeds adds: “I’m not a Prohibitionist; I’m a temperance woman. I’ve told them, in one place in town, that Mr. Leeds can come in there and take his beer, but he must not take too much. ” Mrs. Leeds is well supplied with money, and looks like a determined woman. The saloonkeepers do not appear to be worried. It is rumored that Mr. Leeds has promised to stand bach of them in any proceedings and supply the sinews of war. The amount of money he can control is estimated to be $5,000,000.

Minor State Items. —The town of St. Marys of experiencing a boom. —A cow owned by Francis Plummer, of Greenfield, has died from hydrophobia. —A horse belonging to Martin Richey, near Greenfield, was killed by lightning. —Mrs. Melvania, of Corydon, was cut by the fin of a catfish and died of blood poisoning. —Trinity M. E. Church, of New Albany, has let the contract for a new edifice, to cost $25,000. —Will Murphy, in two nights’ exhortation at Spencer, induced 300 persons to don the blue ribbon. —James Walsh was killed by the cars near Goshen. He had a wife and two children living in Auburn. —C. M. Travis, G. A. R. Department Commander of Indiana, will deliver the Memorial-day address at Ladoga. —William Benson, the murderer -of Jacob Motweiler, was sentenced at Jeffersonville to be hanged on Aug. 16. —Brazil’s business boom of last year is still on, many residences andbusiness blocks being in course of construction. —Twenty gas wells have been sunk in the vicinity of Coiydon, and in every instance there has been a large flow of gas. —Burning stubble, near Rushville, set fire to the clothing of the 4-year-old child of Lewis Bagley, and caused its death. —The Commissioners of Tippecanoe County will build a new bridge over the Wabash River at Lafayette. It will be 600 feet long. —The question of applying for a city charter was voted upon at Marion and resulted in favor of the charter by a majority of 486. —Herman Gallert, of Wanatah, while crossing the Kankakee River in a boat, fell overboard and was drowned. 'He was 22 years old. —A 3-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Nice Baker, living near Spencer, fell into a tub of boiling water and was scalded to death. —Joseph Carter’s residence, near Hope, Bartholomew County, was burned with contents. Loss, $2,200; insurance, sl,500, in the Ohio Farmers!. —A cow in Scott , Township, Montgomery County, last week had a calf, one-half of which was a perfect goosehead, wings, and breast. —Owing to the pollution of Eel River by leaka* of oil from the tank at Laketoi*, the fish have left that stream and gone into others tributary to it. —The Baptist Church of Greencastle, which has been without a pastor several years, *has secured Rev. W. W. Hicks, who will hereafter officiate there. —Herman Koebler, one of Madison’s oldest and most respected citizens, and a retired merchant, died at the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. Hutchings. —David Binkley, a well-known resident of Nappanee, Elkhart County, while driving a fast horse was thrown against a fence and instantly killed. —Will Murphy’s meetings at Spencer are proving very successful,' and many men heretofore tipplers are now seen wearing the blue ribbon on the street. —Cecil Higgins has been selected as the choice of Fort Wayne Republicans for postmaster. He has been for many years in the employ of the Pennsylvania Company. —The action of the New Albany Fishing Club in offering a reward of $25 for the conviction of any person found using dynamite in the small streams near that city has almost broken up the practice. ,

—Robert Lehman, of Hanover, lo6t his barn by a stroke of lightning. Four horses, three cows, several wagons, farm implements and a quantity of grain were also burned.

—Henry Ringwald is under arrest at Evansville on the charge of criminally assaulting Annie Miller, 14 years of age. She charges Ringwald’s wife with assisting in the crime. —While playing near a stove, the 2-year-old child of Samuel Starnes, of Seymour, upset a kettle of boiling water. The child was so badly scalded that death is probable. —The champion hoop-pole cutter of the State now lives in Brown County. His name is Cyrus Stilt. He estimates that he has cut and prepared for market many million poles. —Hon. Beatty McClelland, of Columbus, is said to have practiced law longer than any other lawyer in the State. He was admited to the bar in 1836. He is over eighty years of age.

—Thomas -J. Aerqa, of Columbia, Fayette County, has been granted a pension of $13,949.77, the largest ever granted under the general pension laws. Acrea's disability is total blindness. —J. W. Caldwell, a Morgan County farmer, had a valuable colt ruined a few days ago by an enraged cow’s horns, which so incensed the farmer that he has since had all his cattle dehorned. —William Benson, the murderer of Jacob Mottweiler, who was condemned to death at Jeffersonville, will be the first person to be executed in- the State Prison South according to the new law. —The stables at the Centreville race track were burned, and Charley Brumfield, a sort of vagabond, perished in the flames. He was sleeping off a drunk there. No horses were there at the time of the fire.

—A shepherd dog belonging to John Curvin, of Taylorsville, Bartholomew County, went mad the other day, and before it could be killed had bitten Mr. Curvin’s 5-year-old daughter, besides two horses and several cows. —At Boggstown, a frame house occupied by Bettie King caught fire from a pipe she was smoking, and was consumed. The woman, being an invalid, was unable to escape and was burned to death. Her age was forty-five. —The farmers of Clay County are organizing, claiming they have been made the victims of imported beef and other trusts. A meeting will be held to effect a permanent organization, a committee having been appointed to report at that time. —ln Perry Township, Allen County, a few miles northeast of Fort Wayne, John Barrett, 74 years old, beat his wife who is 70 years old, with sticks of firewood so terribly that she is dying. Barrett is in jail, and he says he does not remember beating his wife. —The Battle-ground Camp-meeting Committee has arranged for the Grand Army day to be on Thursday, Aug. 1. The speaker on that day will be Rev. Howard Henderson, D. D., L. L. D., of Cincinnati. His subject will be “The Swords of Grant and Lee.”

—As a Monon train was nearing Crawfordsville a few days ago the parallel rod broke and was driven through the cab of the engine, tearing up the seat upon which the engineer was sitting, and making a hole through the top of the cab. Robert Muir, the engineer, was badly shaken up, but escaped seriouß injury. —Patents have been issued to the following Indianaians: Robert Foster, assignor to F. R. Jenning, W. B. Harris and J. A. Dixon, Indianapolis, valve; Samuel E. Harsh, assignor of one-half to J. M. Harter, Wabash, overdraw checkspreader; Resin Hosford, Lebanon, dredging backet; Joseph N. and N. Lehman, Goshen, wire fence. —William Guntle, of Goblesville, Huntington County, claims to have perfected a perpetual-motion machine. It is a complicated piece of mechanism, with fifty cog wheels made of wildcherry wood. Pendulums, levers, and weights, with an eccentric trip, delicately arranged, keep the wheels turning after having once been set in motion. —Joshua Coons, employed in Genford’s mill, near Windfall, Tipton County, fell on a large saw, which struck him just below the hip, penetrating the right side and passing through the body to the head. None of his limbs were severed from the body, but he was sawed through and through from the hips to the lower base of the skull. He leaves a widow and children. —Several months ago John A. Dobbins, of Greenfield, advertised for a wife. Miss Kate Riley, of Louisville, began a correspondence with him,which resulted in Mr. Dobbins visiting Miss Riley the other day. They were favorably impressed with each other, and were married in the evening. The bride is 33 years old and the groom 52, and is a widower with three children. —The Board of Trustees of the State Normal School, in session at Terre 'Haute, find they ar6 very much embarrassed by the failure to make the State loan. The trustees should have had $116,000 from the State Treasury by this time —$100,000 of the appropriation for the new building under construction, and $16,000 deficiency appropriation. About thirty thousand dollars is due contractors. As yet the Board has taken no action, and finds itself embarrassed as to the future. The contractors need the money to proceed with their work.