Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

•ktents AXI) incidents that hate LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Snmmary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties aud General News Notes. Good Crops Promised. Despite the almost incessent rains the indications are that the corn crop thrc ghout Indiana will be a good one this season. J. B; Conner, editor of the Indiana Farmer, is daily in receipt of correspondence from every part of the State, and he says that if such reports are reliable, as he has no reason to doubt, the wet weather has had little or no bad effect. “The corn got a good start this season,” he remarked, “but it looked as if it would be flooded out almost, in the -beginning. The weather we have been having, however, has done infinitely more good than all the harm that was occasioned by the rains. There will be a good crop unless some unforseen obstacle prevents. I think it will reach about 90 or 95 per cent. We won’t have as much corn this season as we did last, for in 1888 there were about 135,000,000 bushels harvested, but it will reach a high figure. Wheat is not as good as it has been, but then it is not going to fall very low. In short, the farmers all over the State will have good crops if everything continues as it is at present.”

Whipped by the White Caps. The first repetition of White Capisin in Crawford County since July 1888, occurred near Leavenworth, the other night. Pete Cresgriff aud wife were taken out and whipped by a band of upward of sixty men. These same parties last fall or winter were put out of a shanty, their furniture removed and the shanty destroyed by fire. It appears that the latest offense is leading or rather driving their 4-year-old daughter to the same sin which the mother has always followed. The child was forced to accept the embraces of a patron, who showed preference for her. There are less comments publicly made of the affair than if a horse had been whipped, and there has been nothing but “they deserved more than they got.” They are of the lowest depths, and yet their habitation is visited largely by drummers from the cities and by many voung men. Murder ami Suicide In Carbon. A most shocking murder and suicide was committed at Carbon. Conrad Baumann, a stave-dealer at that plnce, and a . partner in a livery and saloon firm at Terre Haute, deliberately shot his wife in the back yard of their residence. just as she was putting her hands in a basin to wash herself. He then shot himself, using a thirty-two caliber revolver. He expired instantly, and she in a short time. Baumann was about forty years of age. His wife was but 18 years old. He married her two months ago, and she was his third wife. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause of the shooting. He had considerable property and means. Before committing the double murder he destroyed his private papers. He leaves two children by his first wife.

Cutting off Laporte. A report founded on the work of a high official of the road has it that the Lake Shore Company will construct a new line from Rolling Prairie, in the oast part of La Porte County to the Michigan Central, crossing west of La Porte, to avoid the high hill at Otis. This hill is the highest point of land in the State, and has been a terrible burden to the Lake Shore people. Last year they spent thousands of dollars and months of time in cutting it down, but were only partially £*iccessful,as they are still compelled to use a “pusher” engine to help freight over the grade. The new line will cut off La Porte, Otis and Chesterfield, and leave them on a local line, while all through business will go over the new road. Minor Statu Hums. —Bloomington failed to get gas at 870 feet, and will try another well. —Cartersburg has organized a live stock and agricultural association. —A sand mine near Valparaiso is said to yield the finest product in the West. —Butler’s Switch, in Jennings county, has had its name changed to Grayford. —Elkhart saloon-keepers have formed an organization to protect their interests. —William Kernoodle, of Crawfordsville, has been fined $5 for catching one fish with a dip-net. —Anna Cado, a 14-year-old girl, was struck and killed by a Panhandle train, near English Lake. William Snavely, an old and respected citizen of Veedersburg, dropped dead there from heart disease. —Parkville, in Parke county, is excited over supposed hydrophobia cases and will test the virtue of madstones. —Shelby County has added a hairless calf td its collection of curios, already ornamented by a two-legged colt. —Montgomery county viewers have appraised the gravel roads of that county at $33,189.50. There are about fifty-three miles of them. —Priilceton is excited over natural gas, a well there having been shot with dynamite and gas secured which burns in a forty-foot flame from a four- inch pipe.

—Charley Deibert, aged 12 years, the only son of William Deibert, of Peru, was drowned while in swimming. —Joseph T- Elbert, aged 23 years, was drowned while bathing in a pond in Boone township, Harrison county. —Mrs. Barbara Weitlehamer,, of New Albany, aged sixty years, committed suicide with strychnine to avoid becoming an object of charity. —Bartholomew County’s Board of of Equalization has raised the assessment of several corporations considerably above the assessor’s figures. —Broad Ripple has secured the abolition of Sunday excursion trains to that point, and hopes to secure the closing of saloons there on the Sabbath. —The Indiana conference of the Methodist Church will be held at' Rockport, beginning October 3, and Bishop Warren, of Denver, Col., will preside. —Arthur James, a 10-year-old lad living at Wellsboro, was instantly killed by the cars. He was horribly mangled, his head and one leg being severed. —The board of trustees of Hartford City has raised the saloon license from SIOO to $l5O, and required the saloonkeepers to give additional city notice. —Prof.|o. R Jenkins, of DePauw University, accompanied by S. C. Price and Oscar Voght\ has gone to the Sandwich Islands to study the fish of that vicinity. ' —Jos. Jones, aged 40 years, while returning from Youngstown to his home in Coalburg, was run down by a Lake Shore freight train and received fatal injuries. —Ozart Jennings, a little son of William Jennings, living near Kokomo, was drowned in Wildcat River, being the third child in the family to perish by accident. Seymour Burse,a Clark county farmhand, is reported to have been relieved from the constriction of a blacksnalce, recently, by his dog, which tore the snake in two.

—The contract for a steel-hull twin propeller United States revenue cutter has been finally closed with the Sweeny Brothers, of Jeffersonville, at $85,000, without equipments. —Seymour and its township contain 1,548 voters, of these 1,366 are within the city limits. The entire population of Seymour is 6,831 as recently enumerated, a gain of 2,580 over the census of 1880. —James Meehan, a familiar character about Fort Wayne, and known as “Jimmy the fiddler,” was run over by a locomotive, receiving fatal injuries. A year and a half ago one son was burned up in a railway caboose, and six months before that another son was killed w'hile coupling cars. —Richard Martz, of Vigo County, paroled from the State Prison South by Gov. Hovey had an SBO fine as a part of his sentence, but Warden Patten held that he had nothing to do with the payment of the fine, and that it was a matter to be looked after by the authorities of Vigo County, —A decision of the Supreme Court removes all doubt, if any existed, as to the character of a saloon license. It is not a contract, but a mere special tax or police regulation. It follows that the Legislature may change the tax at any time, and, within the limits fixed by the Legislature, so may a city or town. —R. P. Gray, a prominent farmer living near Connersville, and a cousin of Whitelaw Reid, it is has abandoned his farm in the belief that the world will end this summer. He will not till his fields or suffer them to be tilled, claiming it useless. He is a recent convert to the Second Adventists, but the neighbors think him crazy. —Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Alfred L. Bernardin, Evansville, toy; Eugene Bretney, Indianapolis, assignor to Cockle Separator Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, tWis., dust collector; William J. Jacobs, Bargersville, shock-loading machine; David M. Parry and T. H., Indianapolis, vehicle attachment. —As Mrs. Nancy Gorman, the wife of John Gorman, who resides near Yorktown, was at Daleville, she attempted to pass a railroad engine that was blowing off steam. Her horse became frightened and ran away, throwing the occupant of the vehicle against a hitching-post and so badly injuring her that she died thirty minutes later. She leaves a husband and six grown children. —Several Allen County insane patients have been recently sent away from the Logansport asylum, and it is said that Superintendent Rogers proposes to discharge all patients from that county. This puts Allen County in a bad predicament. The State is divided into four insane districts, Indianapolis, EvanSville, Logansport, and Richmond. Fort Wayne is in the Richmond district. but the asylum there is occupied at present as a feeble-minded school, —Carl Steckleman, the young African explorer of Columbus, has received a cablegram from the African trading house of R. M. Evans & Co., of Liverpool, saying that Mr. Evans, who was stationed at Mayumba, on the west coast of Africa, three degrees south of the equator, was dead, and requesting that he leave immediately to take his place. The news came very unexpectedly to Mr. Steckleman, who will arrange to leave at once. He will take back with him the young African prince, Neslu, and return him to his native tribe. The prince is delighted over the prospect of again meeting his family.