Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An lilftrmltng Summary of the More Important Doing* of Our Neighbors—Wedding* and Deaths—Crime. Casualties and General News Notes. Indiana’s Siamese Twins. A Kokomo special says:' One of the most wonderful freaks of nature ever kno" "i in this pait of the country is now caus.*ig a good deal of talk in this and adjoining counties. Last week, twelve miles southwest of this city, Mrs. Henry Jones hau born to her twins, inseparably connected at the hips and Lower abdomen. The two trunks are joined together at the base, with a head at each end, and the lower limbs protrude from each side of the body, where the trunks are connected at the hips. No vital organs are connected, except the spinal column, which is continuous from one end to the other. Each breathes and pulsates quite independent of the other, and both are perfectly formed and have free use of their limbs. Along the abdo uen there is no line or mark to show where one begins and the other ends, except one umbilical cord, which served for both. The infants are very plump, well developed, and apparently as hearty as any children of their ages. Both nurse from the mother and bottle with regular movements, and are regular in other respects, the passage being located at the side. Both are females. Their joint weight is twelve pounds, and they measure, from crow r n to crown, twenty-four inches. The lower limbs are of normal size. They have bright sparkling blue eyes, and are not in the least peevish, and when not nursing or aslCeb, content themselves sucking their thumbs. Thousands of people are flocking to see the infants, the medical fraternity being well represented. No physician was present at the birth. The mother is getting along nicely.’ The father is 24 years of age, the mother but 18, and the present is the second birth in the family. The mother is a spare built woman, weighing but ninety pounds. All the physicians who have made an examination express the belief that the children may live, and think the indications entirely favorable.

An Alleged I’oisoiier of Horses Arrested, Alonzo W. Walpert, of Pern, has been arrested and lodged in jail, charged with the heinous crime of poisoning four magnificent horses, the property of George Lewis. The poison was mixed with bran. Two of the horses, a span of iron greys, valued at S4OO, were found dead. Two others are suffering horribly, and one of them will die, while the other may possibly recover. The act is charged to be a piece of spite-work. Walpert and Lewis, who are brothers-in-law, have teen on bad terms, caused by Lewis refusing Walpert admission to Lewis’ house, where Walpert’s wife is staying, pending action on a divorce suit against Walpert. The mixture which poisoned the horses is being analyzed.

—Charles, the 13-year-old son of Jacob Weaver, of Elkhart, was drowned while fishing, by the accidental capsizing of a boat. —Clark County druggists Pave been warned that they will be prosecuted under the law if they prescribe for sick persons. —Goshen’s City Council increased the saloon tax, but passed a motion permitting saloon men to take out licenses at old rates. —Allen Jamison, a 13-year-old boy, fell from a tree at Evansville while watching a base-ball game, and was fatally injured. —Among recent deaths are those of ’Squire Bowen, of Spartanburg, at the age of 85, and Michael Frazee, of Huntington, aged 71. ‘ —John McKeown, of Crawfordsville, a brakemanon the L., N. A. i'C. Railroad fell from a train near Bloomington and was fatally injured. —D. C. Newmyer got a verdict of $lO,-. 000 against the Pennsylvania Company at Spencer for injuries received in falling from a caboose last May. —F. Walker, a young man living near Shelbyville, was made a cripple for life recently by having the needle of a selfbinder driven through his feet. —Sanford Johnsonbaugh, while unloading hay at Monticello, last week, accidentally ran the fork in his little daughter’s eye, causing her death. —The business men of Crawfordsville have signed an agreement to form an association for the purpose of advancing the interests of that city and county. —The Board of Equalization of Montgomery County unearthed $65,823 of taxable property and mortgage notes, and placed it upon the tax duplicate. The 17-year-old daughter of James Dixon, living at Scipio, started to Columbus to enter domestic service, several weeks ago, and has not been heard of since.

—Jeffersonville justices of the peace are competing briskly for the patronage of runaway couples. Some of them have put up attractive signs, and one magistrate talks of running a carriage to the depot. —A young man, aged 14 years, son of John Zimmerer, living near China, five miles northeast of Madison, was accidentally shot and instantly killed by a boy named Berkley, with whom he had been hunting. —Samuel Shoemaker, a 10-year-old boy, living near Union City, went to the pasture to bring up a family horse, and was shortly afterward found there, unconscious and with a fractured skull, from which he died. —A gas well drilled four miles north of Rushville, afterbeing packed.showed a pressure of 300 pounds in thirty minutes. Stock is now being subscribed to bring gas to Rushville, and contracts for other wells have been made. —Seventeen girls and four boys belonging to Indian tribes in the far West, who have been educated at White’s Manual Training School, near Wabash, were sent to their homes this week, and will be replaced by other Indian children. —While kindling a fire in the cookstove, the wife of Charles Fischer, a merchant tailor of Brazil, was severely and perhaps fatally burned by the fire igniting the coal oil in a can, the oil having been used in the kindling. Prompt attention was summoned, and she may recover, though seriously burned.

An occurrence in which the remark-, able fatality of honey-bee stings is made apparent, is reported from Patriot, several miles south of Columbus. Two horses belonging to Stephen Lucas, of that place, were tied together and left grazing in the yard, when they were attacked by bees. In their endeavors to escape the animals knocked over several of the bee-hives, and they were instantly covered with the angry insects. Before they could be rid of them they were both fatally stung. One of the horses lived but one hour and the other about five hours. —Commissions have been issued to the trustees of the various penal Snd benevolent institutions of the State as follows: Charles E. Haugh, institution for the Deaf and Dumb; Milton E. Benham, John S. Martin,George W. Koontz, Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane; Lester F. Baker, David Hough, Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane; T. J. Cullen, John W. Riley, Institution for the Education of the Blind; Tolliver Wertz, Perry Blue, Wm. Rahm, Southern Indiana ’Hospital for the Insane. - Michael Toruoff was also commissioned as Deputy State Oil Inspector for the Tenth Congressional District.

—Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Alford B. Arnold, assignor of five-eighths to Arnold CarBrake and Starter company, Colnnibus, car-brake and starter; William H. and S. B. Carter, Wayne, gas pressure pump; Noah M. Chew, Southport, plant-setting machine; James W. Dalrymple, Solsberry, pjj’atographip washing apparatus; William H. Jennell," assignor of one- ( half to J. Drake, Grpppsbnrg, combined well-packing and anchor; Jamies R. Fin-, ley, assignor of one-half to W. <f. Ginn and M. McGlenner, Delphi, drawing knife; Edward A. Hermann, Indianapolis, weed-cutter; Charles H. Jenne, assignor of one-half to N. S. Braden, Indianapolis, station or street indicator; Amos Kepler, assignor of one-half to W. S. Mash, Warsaw, split-band pulley; Robert L. Keith, Brazil, wagon-body lifter.