Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

■VENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. Ai Interesting Summary of the More Impertant Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths —Crime, Casualties and ■•neral Nows Notea, Suing for Lost Estates. ALa Porte special says: A hubbub of excitement has been raised in real estate •circles by the recent filing of suits in several different places for the recovery, by George W. Ewing, of Fort Wayne, of landed estates, rights to which have fallen to him by inheritance, and of ■which others have held undisputed possession for years. The lands are worth thousands upon thousands of dollars. These suits have been filed in Fort "Wayne, Warsaw, Columbia City, Logansport, Huntington, Albion. Crown Point, Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and many other places, and a moderate estimate of the value of the land and improvements involved is $10,000,000, which, when interest is added, will amount to an immense sum. Agents of Ew_g have been in this county, and as a result actions will be -ciimenced in the Circuit Court for the recovery of several thousand acres of land in the southern part of this county. Swing is only 23 years old, and claims to have inherited this vast estate from members of his family. Eminent legal talent has been employed.

Minor State Items. —Peru is to have a paid fire department. —Grub worms are doing much damage to potatoes in the vicinity of Broad Ripple. —Hendricks County has the largest number of Sons of Veterans camps in the State. William Carter, of Plainfield, accidentally wounded himself while oiling his pistol recently. —M. Murry & Co. will rebuild their mill at Marshall, recently wrecked by a boiler explosion.

—The date of the soldiers’ reunion at New Albany has been changed from Sept. 11 to Sept. 18. —Rats, in great numbers, are reported as devastating the corn fields near Blue Lick, in Clark County. —Louis Orboy, a French blower at the DePauw glass works, New Albany, dropped dead while at work. —Frank Luke, an old and highly respected resident of Elkhart, fell dead on the street from heart disease. —Joseph Fastlaben was kicked in the head by a horse at Shelbyville, and is thought to be fatally injured. —At Shelbyville, Jacob G. Deprez, a well-known merchant, was injured by falling down an elevator shaft. —At Jeffersonville, a 15-year-old son of James Connor, of Martinsville, was thrown from a horse and killed. —At Clayton, Herman Cantly was smothered to death in a bin of wheat at Albert Johnson & Co.’s elevator. —Rev. Nathan S. Fairchild, aged 80 years, is dead. He was an old settler and the oldest Freemason in Porter County. —Conrad Honeck, an aged and homeless German, fell down the Nickel Plate embankment at Fort Wayne, and broke his neck. —John Miller, of Newburg, was attacked by a vicious bull, in the country near Brazil. Three ribs were broken and he was otherwise injured. —W T hile loading a gun in a shooting gallery at Logansport, Frank Gilhooly shot himself in the breast, inflicting a fatal wound. He was from Fort Wayne. —Thomas R. Fugit, of Franklin Township, Clark County, stumbled and fell while out hunting, accidentally discharging his gun and shattering his ankle.

•—Fred Fillmore, a prominent farmer of Mentor, was literally cut to pieces, by falling on a huge knife in the stave factory at that place. He leaves a large family. —ln the Stanford spoke factory the boiler exploded, blowing Henry Fowler fifty feet. He fell in a pond, from which he was fished out almost drowned and fatally injured. —John Hurley was crushed to .deiatb between cars while switching in George H. Hammond <t Co.’s packing-house yards at Hammond. He leaves a wife and three children. —Herman Carr, of Columbus, has a hen which has lain an egg eight and one-half inches lengthwise, six and one-half inches the other way, and weighs five ounces. —A l-year-old child, belonging to Isaac McClaine, of Lebanon, was badly burned while playing fire in the absence of her mother. It is thought the little one can hardly recover. —George Snyder, a prominent farmer living near Etna Green, was instantly killed by being kicked in the head by a young pony which he was breaking in. He was single and aged 29. —Sherman Swartz, a conductor on the coal road, was killed at Percy, a little station just north of Goodland, while making a coupling. Projecting lumber on a flat-car crushed his head. —The 'Commissioners of White and Carroll counties have let the contract tot the construction of a $25,000 iron bridge across the Tippecanoe River at the county line, near Monticello.

—Matthew Newcomb, a wealthy farmer living near Hagerstown, has received a second stroke of paralysis and death is expected to ensue. He is one of the largest landholders in Wayne county. —The annual reunion of the Tenth Indiana Cavalry will be held at Bloomington, Oct 7,8, and 9. The Ninetythird, Twenty-second, Sixty-seventh and Eighty-second Indiana will meet at the same time. —Robert Connelly, employed at the Hoosier Drill-works, Richmond, was badly hurt, by being caught between a moving car and a*pile of pig-iron. His ribs were crushed, and he received internal injury. —The stable of Joseph Stull, of Clear Creek Station, was burned recently. Three valuable horses were lost; so, also, were many farming implements. There was no insurance. It was the work of an incendiary. —George Grom deserted his family, at Columbus, several weeks ago. The other day three of his children were takei?. to the Soldiers’ Home at Knightstown, and the mother and babe were sent to the county poor asylum. —Albert Smith, aged 18 years, and son of J. H. Smith, a wealthy fanner living near Elkhart, fell from a float, with which he was leveling a field, and was crushed to death. When found he had been dead some time, and only his feet protruded from under the float. —The First Indiana Heavy Artillery (Twenty-first Regiment) will hold their annual reunion at Terre Haute on the first Wednesday and Thursday, 4th and sth, of September. Reduced fares can be obtained on the railroads by applying at the respective stations, where the terms will be made known. —An old man named Garlinhaus, of Peru, who has been paralized on one side for a number of years, is not expected to live from the effects of the elixir experiments. Sores have broken out all over his body, and his head is drawn nearly*to his knees. His experience has put a quietus on the elixir there. —Near Lafayette Mr. and Mrs. Simon Snyder satuated their house with gasoline and closed it up for a day to get

I rid of a pest of fleas. Upon returning to the house Mr. Snyder opened it and ' struck a match. He survived the exI plosion, though somewhat disfigured, and succeeded in saving his house from the flames. —The liquor dealers of Columbus, all of whom are violating the law by selling without license, have been served with written notices from Mayor Studor that unless they paid up their high license fee immediately they would be prosecuted according to law. The saloon men regarded the Mayor as favorable toward them. —J. B. Safford, of Columbus, trainmaster of the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, has been appointed by Duncan T. Bacon, Grand Commander of the Knights Templars, an aid on the staff of Chief Marshal Myron M. Parker, for the triennial encampment which is to begin at Washington on 0ct..8. —The other day, on the farm of Robert Ridgway, near Amboy, Miami County, the largest gas well in the country was opened. Mr. Millikin, the contractor, says he has he has drilled but one well that equals this in force. Bird shot, silver dollars, and small coins cast into “the well are at once ejected with great force. Amboy considers her gas wells as good as any in the State. —Nicholas Hirshauer, an employe of the Fort Wayne organ factory, was walking along the street when he met with a peculiar and fatal accident. In extracting a handkerchief from his hip pocket he pulled out a revolver, which fell to the pavement and was discharged, the ball entering his abdomen. Death ensued. He leaves a wife and three children at Connersville.

—An extensive and valuable geological collection is owned by Dr. J. E. ElrOd, of Hartsville. Frank Springer, of Burlington, la., who is employed to prepare a work for the United States Geological Survey, is now at Hartsville, looking over the collection of Dr. Elrod, and has already collected a number of fine specimens from it that are to be used in illustrating a treatise on the crinoids or North America. —There are no new developments in regard to the alleged rich find of gold deposits along Bean Blossom Creek, in Brown County. The people of that neighborhood are said to be still much excited over the reported discovery, and many citizens are prospecting on their own account. The Cincinnati mining expert has not yet returned, end his appearance is looked for with much expectancy by those interested in the gold find.

—Mrs. Louisa Hicklin Passmore was instantly killed while attempting to cross the Indianapolis and Vincennes railway track at Main street, Moorsville. A freight engine was making a running switch at the time. This makes the second person killed in a like manner at the same crossing. Mrs. Hicklin was an old and wealthy lady, who lived four miles east of town. A few years ago at the age of 82, she married young Passmore, of 22 years of age, and after living together a short time separated, and since then there have been several long and tedious lawsuits growing out of the affair, some of which are now in lh« Supreme Court.