Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

ETENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Intermlln; Summary of the More Important Doinff-t of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths —Crime, Casualties and General News Note* Sought the Governor’s Clemency. Gov. Hovey, has pardoned, unconditionally, William Adams, of Marion, Grant County. Three years ago he was sentenced for five years in the penitentiary for criminally assaulting a woman. A few weeks ago the. woman made affidavit that she had sworn' falsely at the trial, and that Adaips was innocent. Upon her statement the Judge, Prosecuting Attorney and jury, before whom he was tried, together with several hundred citizens, signed a petition for Adam’s pardon, and after the Governor personally investigated the case he decided to free the prisoner. Charles Richards, of Perry County, was also pardoned on the condition that he would obey the laws of the State and abstain from drink. Seven years ago he was sentenced to the Southern prison for twenty-one years for killing a desperado from Kentucky, who came over to the town of Cannelton and expressed his intention of “cleaning out the town.” At the time the sentence was passed it was shown that the killing was done in selfdefense. Ricliardß had always borne a good reputation. The petition for the pardon was signed by all the court officials of the county and leading citizens. James Mnlley, convicted of grand larceny in the Criminal Court of this county, was sent to the Reform School, his sentence to the State prison being commuted. Patents. Patents have been granted to the fol-lowing-named Indiana inventors: Francis M. Abbott, assignor of one-half to C. W. Rodgers, Jeffersonville, velocipede; Chas. R. Becker, Evansville, guide for band-saws; Wm. N. Darnall, Worthington, shingle machine; John W. FerTinburg, Hege, churn; Wm. C. Huffman, assignor of one-half to J. M. Laville, Albany, washing-machine; W. D. Johnson, Seymour, wooden dish; Orian S. Meeks, Evansville, and J. C. Brown, Eureka, plow; Wm. H. O’Beirno, Elgin, 111., assignor to Star Iron-tower Company, Fort Wayne, insulation tubular iron posts; Newton Rogers and J. A. Whardv, Terre Haute, dynamo speeder for gas engines, carburetor for gas engines. governor for gas engines, gas engines, igniter for gas engines; Wm. H. Shank, Huhtington, forge tuyere; Edwaid Warren, Ligonier, thill for cles; Jonah C. Wright, Cochran, vertically movable kitchen safe. •-» Minor SttttvT itritiTN —The town of St. Marys of experiencing a boom. —Union County will erect an infirmary building, costing $16,500. —The public drinking water at Columbus has been condemned as dangerous to health. —Marion will probably get the Lafayette car-works, which is about to remove from the latter city. —Amuch-talked-about but never-seen panther is terrorizing the farmers in the vicinity of Columbus. —Brazil has the oil fever and is organizing a company with a capital of SIOO,OOO to sink wells. —Rev. George B. Holdeman, of Wakarusa, is dead, of blood poisoning, arising from kidney trouble. —The Governor has appointed Theopbilus R. Kumler, of Butler County, to be a Trustee of Miami University. —Delphi is not discouraged over a dfailure to secure gas, and is now sinking another well in a more likely neighborhood. —“Old Chip.” a Chippewa Indian residing in Crumston, claims to be over one hundred years old. He is very feeble. —Millions of fish are being destroyed by dynamite in Morgan County, and the authorities are making no effort to stop the crime. —At Greencastle, lighlning struck a T>arn in which two boys, named Carhart and Jacobs, had taken refuge, injuring Roth of them severely. —Gas has been found by the Salem Xiine and Stone Company at its quarry. It is the strongest well yet opened, and people are greatly pleased. —James L. Duncan, cf Hancock County, has a hog 9 months old, with six perfectly formed feet; also a pig with a nose resembling a fish’s. —The Board of Education of Lawrence County has made a rule that a schoolteacher shall not attend a dance while she is teaching a term of school. Citizens of Spencer have organized a company for the purpose of sinking a well to ascertain what is beneath the ground at a distance of 2,000 feet. —The new electric experimenting station of Purdue University will be •completed in time for the fall session, and the building will cost $20,000. Wm. J. Murphy is having good suc■cess in his efforts to reform the drinking classes of Bloomington. Over 300 signers to the pledge have been secured in the past two days. —John Jackson, of Bridgeport, Clark County, sat down on the rotten limb of a fallen tree to rest. It broke and precipitated him to the ground. He will >die of his injuries.

—At Indianapolis, Ferdinand Schroeder, a saloon-keeper, cut his wife’s throat and then killed himself. He was insane, and imagined that his family wonld starve to death. —Leon Mellen, engine hostler in the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis yards,' at Colnmbns, had his left hand split open with a rusty meat hook, npon which he fell. —The Northern Indiana Editorial Association will hold a meeting at Kendallville, beginning June 13, and preparations are making to give the editorial brethren a hearty welcome. —The oil excitement at Terre Haute is increasing. The flow at the well shows no signs of diminishing. Many local companies are being formed to sink new ones. The oil is a high grade of lubricating. —John Fishback, a prominent farmer living north of Columbus, is dying from blood poisoning contracted by a slight scratch on his hand from a barbed wire. The arm has swollen to three times its* normal size.

—M. Crandall’s horse ran away with his three children, at Fowler, and came near causing the dearth of the entire number. They were all thrown out on a picket fence. The oldest, a girl, was severely hurt. —James Thompson, of Qrothersville, while squirrel-hunting, rested his gun under his arm. It was accidently discharged, the charge of shot shattering the bones of the arm and rendering amputation necessary. —Roe Nawter a brakeman on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis railroad, was making a coupling of cars at Shelbyville, when his hand was caught between the bumpers and mashed completely off at the wrist. —ln excavating gravel on a farm near Montpelier, recently, an Indian skeleton was unearthed, together with some jars, in a good state of preservation. This farm was once known as part of the Godfrey Reserve. —Wabash has organized a Citizen’s Gas Trust Company, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO, for the purpose of supplying free gas to factories. Shares are put at SSO, which entitles the holder to free gas for one stove. —Hancock County has 4,861 school children, includingtwelve colored males and eighteen colored females, a net increase of 178 over last year, The enumeration of Greenfield is 946, an increase of eight-four over 1888.

—A buzzard fell out of a flock that was soaring over Madison, and alighted against a large plate-glass window in Val Dehler’s store. The bird was stunned by the shock and easily captured, while the glass was broken into small fragments. A fatal accident befell James Miller, a prominent farmer living near Flatrock. He was engaged in loading logs on a freight car, when one of them became unmanageable and rolled over him, crushing his head and causing instant death. He leaves a large family. —A few days ago Mrs. William Witman, residing about fifteen miles south of Shoals, left her 4-yea T-old daughter alone while she went on an errand to a near neighbor, and when she came back she found the child dead, her clothes having caught fire and burned her to a crisp. —Adrian Webb, a boy 13 years of age, a son of Bennett Webb, of Muncie, was visiting his grandfather, Joseph F. Sullivan, at Gwynneville, and was riding a horse from the field to the barn, when the horse became frightened at cattle and threw the boy, killing him instantly. —Lydia Briles went to Leavenworth, got drunk, and acted in a very unbecoming manner. A dozen White Caps held a confab at the residence of Barney Swartz, a few miles from Leavenworth, dragged her out into the yard and severely whipped her. Swartz interfered and was knocked down with a club. —The thirtieth annual catalogue of Earlham College has been issued, and a summary of students shows a total enrollment in all department of 261, with eighteen in the senior class. The college is located near Richmond, and it is the leading educational institution of the Friends west of the Allegheny mountains. —William Clements, a farmer of Orange County, owns the most prolific cow in. Indiana. The bovine is now 12 years old and is the mother of eighteen calves, all of which are living. In tho last four years she has given birth four times to triplets and on two previous occasions to twins. She now has three lively calves. —A large fish, measuring six feet four inches from tip to tip, was speared in Lake Manitou, near Rochester, weighing 112 pounds. No one is able to name it. It has a body similar to the cat-fish, but from its upper jaw extends a flat, blunt shovel, about one foot in length. No such fish is given in the United States reports of the fisheries of this country. —The 9-year-old daughter of a farmer named Tribble, while in a pasture after tho cows at her father’s home, near Newburg, two miles west of Brazil, was assaulted by a negro, who forced her to the earth. She was greatly alarmed at his approach, and cried loudly for help. Fearing her screams had attracted attention, the villain fled. The child told her story, and the neighbors started in pursuit. If the villian is caught he will be summarly dealt with. f