Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

KTENTB AND INCIDENTS THAT HATE , LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Note*. - Board of Trade Organized. The business men of Frankfort havo reorganized the Frankfort Board of Trade by the election of the following officers and directors: Hon. D. W. C. Bryant, President; George A. Smith, Vice President; W. H. Hart, Secretary; Col. J. W. Coulter, Treasurer. Directors—D. F. Allen, W. R. White, D. A. Coulter, G. A. Smith, W. R. Hines, N. J. GaskiH, Milt J. Swann, W. H. Hart, E. H. Staley, D. W. C. Bryant, and G. A. Smith. The completion and great success of the natural-gas plant and the location of the Clover Leaf Railroad shops there is making the city experience an unexampled prosperity, and the Board of Trade proposes to add as many other substantial and legitimate industries as possible.

Minor State Items. —The town of St. Marys of experiencing a boom. —Joseph Bailey, 80 years of age, and one of the early settlers of Morgan County, is dead. —Joel Newlin, a Hendricks County farmer, while crossing a field, was seriously gored by a vicious bull. —The Governor has appointed Theophilus R. Kumler, of Butler County, to be a Trustee of Miami University. —Jacob Clark, of Goshen, while tearing down a barn on Friday, was struck by a falling beam and fatally injured. —The school trustees of Winchester have bought four acres of ground, and will erect a $50,000 school-house thereon. —Logansport has organized a Reform Club, with A. W. Stevens as President, which will continue Mr. Murphy’s work there. —The Portland Wind Engine Company, with a capital of $300,000, has been organized. The factory will employ 400 men. —Forest fires near New Providence have destroyed the timber on fifty farms. Everybody in the vicinity is out fighting the flames. —The completion of a large drainage ditch just north of Peru has reclaimed thousands of acres of extremely fertile swamp land. —Two hogs belonging ta George Craven, a farmer near Milan, died from hydrophobia in the most violent form a few days ago. —As a result of the Murphy meetings at Spencer, a temperance league club has been formed there with thirteen hundred members.

—Lazarus Bose, of Lagrange, who •died iiitestate, and wia belaived to be a poor man, left $50,000 in notes and mortgages in an old leather belt. —Emery Calvert, aged 22 years, son of Eev. Jesse Calvert, a prominent Dunkard minister, of Elkhart, fell from a train, and was run over and killed. Timothy Obenchain, who was injured in an accident on the Fairland Bailway at Morgantown, last August, has •compromised his $5,000 damage suit for S6OO. Jesse Crecelius, of Eckerty, aged 70, and Miss Ellen Cunningham, yet in her teens, were married a few days ago at the residence of the bride’s father, near Jasper. —A new G. A. E. post has been organized at EussellviWe, and is named Hazlett Post, in honor of a deceased soldier. There are seventeen charter members. —An enraged bull created a panic in the streets of LaPorte recently. Before it could captured several persons were knocked down and one young lady fatally injured. —Andrew J. Sutton, aged 62 years, an early settler of Elkhart county, and a veteran of the Mexican war, fell dead from heart disease. He leaves a small family in Elkhart. —Mrs. Walter Leeds has quit fighting the Michigan City saloons, her husband having promised to drink less vigorously. She says her only purpose was the protection of her own home. —Esther Innis, the 3-year-old child •of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Innis, living near Milroy, fell into a tub of hot water and was so badly scalded that she died a few hours afterward in great agony. —Samuel Eeist, an alleged clairvoyant, has created a sensation by locating boxes of old coins buried on farms in the vicinity of Goshen. His last discovery contained money to the value of $lO. —Adjutant-general Buckle says that •■the colored men of Crawfordsville cannot be mustered into the Indiana Legion, from the fact that Montgomery •County has now two companies of infantry. . —Hemlock, a small village near Kotomo, is excited over an alleged case, of hydrophobia. A hoy named Eads, who was bitten by a dog there recently aas been taken away in search of a madstone. —Jack Canatsey, residing four miles southwest of Martinsville, was kicked on the side of the head by a mule while tie was currying it. Mr. Canatsey was rendered unconscious and may not recover. '

-T - - -r —Jonathan Davee, who lives five miles northeast of Martinsville, was very badly crushed while loading a saw-log. A chain broke and the log rolled back over him. He is past sixty, and cannot recover. —Charles Schell, the Marshal of West Indianapolis, who shot and killed William McManis, a citizen, two months ago, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. The shooting occurred becanse McManis resisted arrest by Schell. —A Deputy State Veterinary Surgeon is investigating two cases of glanders among the stock of a farmer named Ham, at Mt. Etna. A valuable horse and a mule have already died, and another animal is ill. The farm has been quarantined.

—James C. Morgan, a carpenter, by the fall of a portion of the bnilding on which he was working at Indianapolis, was crushed to death. He was aged 38, and leaves a wife and two children. The fall of the house was due to a sudden squall of wind. —Charles A. Osborne, a brakeman on the Vandalia line, was caught between the bumpers of two freight cars, at CrawfordsvilLe, and had his left shoulder and arm crushed'- and the collar-bone brokon. His« recovery is rather doubtful. —Harrison Hogan, the old man who made things warm for the deputy sheriffs when they attempted to arrest him at his floating arsenal on Bull Creek, Clark County, is again free, having paid his various fines and compromised the trouble with his wife. —While J. Hamilton, a laborer, was engaged in equalizing staves at the factory of Johnson & Chenoweth, at Shoals, a heavy gum belt parted and was hurled against him with such force as to inflict serious if not fatal injuries. He has a wife and two small children.

—A jury at Vincennes gave Lee Buck, a prominent farmer, $4,000 damages for injuries sustained by reason of a switch engine on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad running into vis wagon while Buck was attempting to cross a street, at which there was no flagman stationed. —lt is generally conceeded that the growing wheat in Jackson County never looked finer, more thrifty, or in a more healthy condition than now. On many fields the growth stands fully two feet high and as thick as it can be. The indications point to an immense yield. —The citizens of Tipton are much enthused over the knowledge that the Lake Erie <& Western Railway Company will locate shops there, making Tipton the division of both lines. It is understood that negotiations are pending for forty acres of land east of town on the main line at SIOO per acre. —Leonard Hackney, proprietor of the Bissell Hptel, at Columbus, is in a critical condition from blood poisoning. A short time ago, while waiting upon his wife, who was afflicted with erysipelas, he scratched his hand, and in that way contracted the poison. He is the father of Judge L. C. Hackney, of Shelbyville. —The body of Leo Miller, aged 10, who disappeared from home at Evansville, on the 19th, was found recently in the waterworks reservoir. The body was swollen beyond recognition, but the clothing was identified by the heartbroken mothei. It is supposed the little fellow was claying on a float which was used in repairs on the reservoir, and, falling overboard, was drowned. —While boat-riding at Rockville, Willie Butterball, son of a widow, and Johnny Beadle, both aged 8 years were drowned; Glenn Tenbrook, an older boy was in the boat with them when it upset, and he escaped, but the other boys could not swim. The water was from fifteen to twenty feet deep. The dam of the pond was cut to get the bodies which were in the water about two hours.

—George Messick, an old and highlyrespected citizen of New Castle, was killed by being run over by a heavily loaded wagon. He was driving a team of mules to a wagon loaded with building material, and, by some accident, fell from the seat on top of the wagon down in front of it, two wheels of the heavy vehicle passing over his body. He was removed to his home where he died an hour after from the effect of his injuries. —A company with a capital of $750,000 has been formed at Bushville to pipe natural gas from the Hancock or Henry County fields to that city, a distance of twenty-five miles. The directors are Martin Bohannon, Oliver Posey, Theodore Abercrombie, William Churchill, Alonzo Link, Edwin Payne, George H. Puntenney, Theodore Beed, W. J. Henley, George C. Clark, and Claude Cambern. Mr. Puntenney is President; Mr. Henley, Secretary, and Mr. Payne, Treasurer.

—The largest gas well ever drilled in Delaware county was developed on the land of the Delaware County Tiand and Improvement Company west of Muncie about one mile. The capacity is estimated at 12,000,000 cubic feet per day, and the flow of gas is so strong that the drillers have found it next to impossible to pack it. Heavy weights pitched into the mouth of the six-inch orifice are thrown up through the derrick, a distance of one hundred feet with the velocity of a huge ball shot out of a cannon. Muncie is highly elated over the good results.