Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

"EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and -Ganeral News Notea Death of a Surgeon Who Rendered Valuable Service to Indiana Troops in the War. Dr. Albert Gallatin Preston died at ■Greencastle, of organic heart disease. He was born near Linchburg, Ya., April 17, 1813. In 1824 his parents moved to Union County, Ind. At the age of 17 he began the study of medicine, and almost at once began its practice. Hi first located at Middletown, in Her.ry County, in 1833. He graduated from the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, in 1840. In 1843 he moved to Greencastle, where he has ever since resided. He was well read in his profession, but his chief characteristic was his rare sagacity and sound judgment in applying his knowledge to the particular case in hand. Both as consulting and operating surgeon he had few equals in the State. During the war he was almost constantly in the service of the State. He was surgeon of the Fiftyfifth Indiana, and was captured at the battle of Richmond, Ky. Both before and after his connection with the regiment he was frequently sent by Gov. Morton to care for Indiana’s wounded soldiers at times of hard fighting, being thus dispatched to Stone River, Pittsburg Landing, siege of Corinth, Vicksburg and other severe engagements. He was surgeon of the Board of Enrollment for the Seventh congressional district, with headquarters at Terre Haute, from the time of its organization until the close of the war. He was of a quick and rather imperious temper when one attempted in any way to put an affront upon him or his friends, but otherwise of a most generous and forgiving nature, and not apt to take offense where none was intended.

Minor Slate Items. —Reuben Spires, of Morgan County, lost his barn by fire. - Daniel Aurenz, of Lafayette, was kicked by a steer and killed. —Fort Wayne claims the largest woman the State —a 545-pounder. •—Fort Wayne gentlemen have decided to have a week’s racing in August. —Valuable mineral springs have been recently discovered in Bartholomew C ounty. —John Bull, a well-known resident of Waterloo, died there recently at the age of'72. —New Albany is considering the project of making an artificial lake near that city. —The reunion of the Fortieth Indiana will be held this year at Crawfordsville, •on Sept. 12. —Fish ladders are to be placed in the St. Joe river for the benefit of Lake Michigan fish. —James W. Hawkins was drowned in a pool on his farm near Bridgeport, while bathing. —English sparrow pies are reportgd to be among the favorite dishes on New Albany bills of fare. —A stable loft, filled with wheat, fell upon William Weaver, near Corydon, and almost crushed him to death. —Mrs. Lyons, mother of Henry Lyons, of Washington Township. Cass County, was fatally injured by a runaway horse. —A 16-months-old baby was sunstruck and killed, at Brazil, while being hauled about the streets in an open wagon. —The German Lutheran Evangelical Association of Huntingburg has accepted plans for a new church building, to cost SIB,OOO. —The body of Alexander Whittaker, a colored murderer who drowned himself at Evansville, was found in the river there by a dog. —Capt. Paul J. Beachbard, formerly commanding Company C. of the Sixteenth Indiana Infantry, died at his home in Rushville. —Joshua Simpson, an insane man, of Jay County, sprang from a train while on his way to the asylum at Logansport, and was seriously hurt. —Richard Shields, aged 30, whose father lives at Framingham, Mass., was killed by a train at Vincennes, while attempting to steal a ride. —Knightstown is to have a new and important manufacturing interest in a furniture factory. The company is to be made up of local capitalists. —An attempt was recently made to steal the body of Steve Williams, who killed himself at Fort Wayne, and who was buried at Crawfordsville.

—Samuel Engle, an old and respected citizen, residing three miles from Winchester, was found dead in a field near his house. He was 75 years old. —Mrs. Daniel Sullivan and others were thrown from a carriage in a runaway at Lafayette last week, and Mrs. Sullivan was dangerously injured. —White Caps are reported to have whipped Nathan Haycock, William Hawkins, and Mrs. Hawkins, recently, at Bogard's Park, in. Crawford County. —While the two sons of Clarence Butterfield, of Spencer township. Harrison county, were out lmutiug. the elder shot and killed his brother, aged 10 years, by the accidental discharge of his Vide

—Mrs. Mollie Adair, of New Washington, is reported to have been suddenly stricken blind recently, and the cause of the calamity has not been ascertained. —Ambrose McNeil, the distinguished Scotch portrait painter, has finished the picture of Gen. Anthony Wayne. It will be presented to the city of Fort Wayne. —Six hundred and seventy prisoners are confined in the Prison South, 173 of this number are employed in the shoe-shop, where 500 pairs of shoes are made daily. —Albert Wetsell, aged 20, a miner at Lodi, was killed the other day. A blast of a miner in an adjoining room of the mine blew down the separating wall, and this fell on Wetsell. —Saloon licenses at Rushville have been raised from SIOO to $250 by the City Council. The vnlidity of the action of the Council will be contested by the saloon-keepers. —V. P. Harris, living near Greensburg, who, last summer, captured the eagle “Abe No. 2,” has a fine fiag, with forty-two stars floating from a pole, ninety-feet high, at his home. —An effort is being made at New Albany to forms a company for the purpose of laying a pipe line from there to the gas-bearing regions of Harrison County, twenty miles distant. —David and Lawton Kellar and Yinton Stout, of Brazil, have been fined $25 and costs, each, for illegal fishing, and other citizens of that place have been indicted for the same offense.

—Edward Clark, 17 years old, was shot and probably fatally injured, by the accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of William Carl, at a sjngingschool eight miles southeast of Marion. —Rossell David, a well-to-do farmer of Union Township, Adams County, while driving home from Monroeville, was thrown from his wagon in a runaway, the wheels passing over his head, killing him instantly. —Wm. O’Hallerin, 23 years old, and the son of a prominent saw-mill owner at EvansA’ille, was killed while at work in the mill. He was running an edging machine, when the board plank which he was dressing flew back and struck him in the abdomen, throwing him a distance of twenty feet and tearing a hole in his stomach. —Bryant Lewis, a colored laborer in a stone quarry at Mount Vernon, was dangerously injured by a premature explosion in blasting. He was terribly mangled, both eyes blown out, and his injuries are considered fatal. Geo. Schaffer, city marshal, who was near at the time, was badly bruised, but his injuries are not serious. —William Marke, a prominent German farmer, of Wayne Township, Bartholomew County, met with a distressing accident. He was exercising a young horse, when the animal became frightened and threw him. He alighted on his head and sustained a fracture to the base of the skull, which has completely paralyzed him. Physicians state that his chance of recovery is not one out of a hundred.

—James Neal, of Logansport, accompanied some friends to the depot, who were going to Fort Wayne, and boarded the train when it stopped with his company. He was so buisly engaged in conversation that he did not notice the train pulling out until it got under good speed, and in jumping off he was thrown between the platform and track, and was dragged beneath the train, where he was horribly mangled, receiving a broken leg, and bruised head and internal injuries. He will die. —The State Board of Education has awarded the contract for furnishing school books throughout Indiana to the Indiana School Book Company, composed of capitalists in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Evansville, being the successful bidders on all books except copy books and spellers. The contract was drawn and signed and bond given to furnish the books according to the standard of examples furnished. It is proposed to furnish the books at once, and the schools of the State will all be supplied before the fall term begins. —The quarrantine that was placed on O. M. Elder’s livery stable at Greenburg, by health officer Johnson was raised, but not until three horses were killed under the direction of State Veterinary Surgeon Knowles, of Terre Haute, who made an examination. He declared that the horse of Rev. E. B. Rawls, and one belonging to O. M. Elder, both having been kept in the barn, and a fine stallion belonging to L. R. Elder, living three miles in the country, all had the glanders, and they were accordingly killed. It is believed that the disease will not now spread further, as good precautionary measures are adopted. —An accident serious enough in its results, but far more frightful in appearance, occurred at Richmond. Glen Miller, a suburban park, was visited by thousands of picknickers, and in the rush to get to the city in the evening, the large open street cars were crowded to their utmost. In one of these the brake got out of order in coming down a steep grade on Twenty-third street, and at Eight street ran into another car. Many passengers were thrown headlong. About half a dozen were hurt, but only one dangerously—Miss Maggie Haas, parlor matron at Earlham College. She struck on her head, and is suffering with concussion of the brain and internal injuries.