Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Out Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notefc Pardoned and Paroled. Melville Baugh, sentenced to the Penitentiary for five years, from Morgan County, in December, 1887, for manslaughter, was pardoned by Gov. Hovey. Since Baugh wafe convicted evidence has come to light tending to show that the killing was accidental. The pardon was recommended bj’ the judge and prosecutor who tried the case, eleven of the jurors who returned the verdict, and 240 reputable citizens. The Governor also paroled Enos Scott, of Hendricks County, who, six years ago, was sent to the Penitentiary for nineteen years for manslaughter. Scott, while intoxicated, went to a country ;dance, and in firing his revolver promiscuously killed one of his best friends. The pardon was urged by the court officials who heard the case, and twelve hundred prominent citizens of the county. The parole was granted on the condition that Scott would abstain from the use of intoxicating drinks. Minor State Items. • —Lebanon’s City Council has increased liquor licenses to $250. —Hortonville, Hamilton County, has struck a good flow of natural gas. Connersville has organized a cemetery association with $15,000 capital. —Vigo County horses are dropping dead in harness from some unknown malady. —Oscar Logan, in jail at Fort Wayne, for drunkenness, committed suicide by hanging himself. Bloomington reports a real estate Loom in anticipation of a new factory working fifty hands. —Logansport authorities are raiding gamblers and destroying the furniture of gambling-tables. —Shelbyville has cut down salaries of city officers, and is likely to raise the price of saloon licenses. —Additions to the New Albany woolen mills, now nearly completed, will employ 100 additional hands. —Fort Wayne gets thirty-eight miles -of eight-inch natural-gas main laid from the Blackford field for $70,000. —Spencer proposes to sink three test wells for natural gas and subscriptions are being taken for that purppse. —The City Council of Crawfordsville has passed an ordinance increasing the saloon license from SIOO to $250.

—Carl Meyer,a 6-year-old son of Fred Meyer, of Greensburg, died of lockjaw, the result of running a wire nail in his foot. —A vein of gas which ignited and burned for hours has been struck near Elgin by parties who were boring for water. —Near Indianapolis, John Taylor shot and fatally wounded his wife, because she remonstrated with him for drinking whisky. —Matrimonial agents in Jeffersonville are to be overhauled by the grand jury for falsely swearing to the ages of prospective brides. —The President has remitted Sim -Coy’s fine, thus shortening his sentence just one month. Coy will return to Indianapolis June 1. —Greencastle has raised the cost of license to saloons from SIOO to $250 and provided a forfeiture of SIOO for each violation of the liquor law. —B. M. Parks, living near Martinsville, lost about five hundred dollars worth of horses and mules that got in the way of a freight train. —Miss Lou Gifford, of Richmond, yawned so widely that she dislocated . her jaw. She has met with the same accident several times recently. —Westfield has secured the Hadley shoe factory of Indianapolis, by giving free gas, paying a bonus of $4,000, and furnishing the factoiy building. —Major Doxey, of Anderson is credited with a scheme for piping natural gas from the Blackford field to Cincinnati. The estimate cost is $1,250,000. —News has been received at Bloomington of the death of Mrs. Dabney, wife of Prof. R. H. Dabney, of the State .University, at her former home in Virginia.

—Nine horses dropped dead in the southern part of Vigo County one day last week while in harness, and the farmers report some unknown malady prevailing. —While the 10-year-old child of Mrs. Dr. Grove of Columbus, was hanging to the rear part of a delivery wagon, the wagon upset, and falling on the boy broke his arm. —Alexander Monroe, living near Middletown, was accidentally killed, while handling a revolver, the ball entering his neck. He was about fifty years of age, and unmarried. —Mrs. Adam Klingel, of South Bend, was fatally burned, her clothing taking fire while she was preparing dinner. Her husband burned his hands badly trying to save his wife. —A new town, called Cumminsville has been staked off on the E., S. & R, Railroad, twelve miles west of Seymour, and the owners propose to make it the -county t seat of Jackson Cortnty.

—John Whiteman, a young farmer of Spencer County, wounded himself fatally while playing with a revolver. —Gen. Lew Wallace, in reply to a telegram from Washington, tendering him an appointment as visitor to West Point, replied that he would accept the appointment. —The city council of Kokomo, by a vote of 6 to 2, has raised the municipal liquor license from SIOO to $250. The ordinance was passed under a suspension of the rules. —Clark County grand jury men propose to indict people who treas new married folks, in that county, to a charivari with pan-pounding and bellringing accompaniments; —An old man named Patrick Cusic, of Madison County, lost a hand by partly falling under the wheels in jumping from a moving train, in the Union Station at Richmond, recently. —Thomas W. Swanagan, a farmer of Daviess County, aged 60 years, i s being sued by Miss Marian Elizabeth Milholland, of Washinghton, for breach of promise to marry. She asks $2,000. —John Howell, a noted horse-thief, 61 years old, was released from the northern prison recently, but was immediately arrested for another offense, and will likely spend the xemainder of his days in prison. —Charles S. Carter, of Vincennes, sued the O. & M. Railway for SIO,OOO daTmages for injuries received in a wreck at Shattuc, 111., about six months ago. Carter, at the time, had his arm and collar-bone broken.

—A company is being formed at Martinsville for the purpose of making necessary improvements for a health resort there. A fine hotel, with parks, drives, etc., is likely to be constructed in the near future. —An incendiary fire near Charleston, destroyed a barn and contents, valued at SIO,OOO, belonging to Walter Hikes, and one near Plymouth burned a barn and contents belonging to Senator Reeves, valued at $2,000. —Clark County road supervisors are having difficulty in getting men out to work the highways. Under the existing law there is no exemption or relief whatever when judgment is given against a defendant in a road suit. —Smith Q. Douglas, a well-known and highly-respected young man of Seymour, was found dead in bed at the residence of George R. Brown. Deceased was subject to epilepsy, and had been dead several hours when found. —Among the street-cleaning gang working on the streets of Jeffersonville is a large negro woman, who is said to make the dust fly as dexterously as her white companions. She is a widow, and, has several small children to support. —Little Charlie Caldwell, 4-year-old son of A. H. Caldwell, of Martinsville, fell headlong from a counter in the store while romping with his father, alighting on his head. He is thought to be critically injured. —James L. Vater, of North Vernon, has been appointed Sheriff of the Supreme Court, vice Captain North, whose time expired in January last, and W. W. , Thorntown, of Crawfordsville, has been selected as Librarian of the Supreme Court.

—A town company has been organized in Jackson and will begin operations midway between Bedford and Seymour on the E. & R. Railway, where the company has purchased a beautiful town site. A large public sale of town lots will take place soon. —Sunday, the 16th of next month, has been fixed upon as the day for the laying of the corner-stone of the new $40,000 Catholic Church in Tipton. Invitations have been sent out, and prominent priests from different parts of the State will be in attendance. —The young men of Greenfield are organizing a military company under the law passed by the last Legislature. It will be composed of at least fifty young men. They will secure Brown’s Rink as an armory and drill-room, and probably be under the command of E. P. Thayer, jr. It will be a company of the Indiana Legion. —Patents have been granted to Indiana inventers as follows: John Hironimus, Mt. Vernon, assignor of one-half to F. C. Athoff, Evansville, carriage-spring; George W. Kelly, Goshen, carpetsweeper; Joseph A. Minnis, Evansville, safe-alarm; Marshall T. Reeves and M. O. Reeves, assignors to Reeves Pulley Columbus, split pulley; Sigourney Wales, Terre Haute, assignoi to C. B. Fox, Boston, pencil-holder. —Warrick County is exercised over an oath-bo’lind Farmers’ Alliance, which appoints a committee to transact all the business of the organization. The committee makes all the contracts for all purchases for the entire body of farmers belonging to the alliance. The committee goes into town, visits the merchants and asks them for bids on all classes of goods, telling them that they will not allow them more than 15 per cent, profit on their goods. —David Burnie, a brakeman on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago road, unexpectedly returned home from Chicago, at Fort Wayne, and found Samuel Drewfey, a coal dealer, in his wife’s bedroom. Without a word he opened fire on the intruder, two shotr taking effect. One ball passed through the lower part of Dyewley’s abdomen, inflicting a wound which the doctors say will prove fatal. After tl)e shooting Burnie walked down to the police headquarters and surrendered himself* *•. ~ .