Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Tntnreatlnir Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbor*— Wedding* and Death*—Crime. Caaualtie* and General New* No tea Indiana Smallpox Doing Mischief. The nine cases of smallpox reported at Menominee, Wis., furnish the sequel to the robbery of the pest-house on the farm of the Allen County infirmary. The dispatches say that the disease was communicated by a family named Anderson, who came from Chicago on an immigrant train, but who had resided in Northern Indiana. The man was employed on the natural gas trenches at Fort Wayne, and the family lived in a dilapidated shanty on the banks of the St. Mary’s River. They were extremely poor, the children not having enough clothing to wear to admit of their going out on the street. About this time the Allen County pest-house, where the clothes of 270 patients were packed away, was entered and those diseaseinfected clothes were stolen. Some of the workmen on the natural gas line were suspected of the theft, and it was found that most of the clothes had been sold to the men employed on the gas lines. The Anderson family had probably got their share of them, as their children shortly afterward were found to be better provided with wearing apparel. Then Mr. Anderson became sick, lost his employment, and, on a pass furnished by Trustee Brackenridge, left for Chicago, en route to Menominee where he claimed to have relatives. There can bo no doubt that the family contracted the disease from the pesthouse clothing; and as perhaps hundreds of others bought of these clothes, and left for other parts of the country, the disease is liable to spread. It seems almost incredible that the health officers should have neglected to destroy the clothes taken from the pest-house inmates.

Indiana Inventors. Patents have been issued to the following Indianians: Charles G. Conn, of Elkhart, clarinet; Bronson Doud, of Chili, fence wire-holder and stretcher; Joseph F. Gent, of Columbus, malting and germinating apparatus; also, drying apparatus; Augustus P. Hauss, of New Albany, mail-bag deliverer; Adolph E. Herman, of Terre Haute, vehicle axle; also carriage alxe nut; Peter Kaller, of Fort Wayne, churn; Eli Michaels, of Sweetser, churn; Burton Stewart, of South Bend, hoof expander; James E. Studley and R. 0. Berry, of Oshkosh, Wis., assignors of one-third to J. M. McDonald, of Lafayette, Ind., rotary engine; Thomas A. Tweedy, of Knightstown, farm gate. Minor State Items. —Shelbyville is talking about erecting a soldiers’ monument. —Lodges of Farmers’ Alliance are being organized in MJadison County. —Near Crawfordsville, James Wray, a farmer, fell dead of heart disease. —Charles Ferrand committed suicide at Terre Haute by taking strychnine. —Samuel Buhner had his left arm sawed off by a tennon saw at Seymour, —A tank that will hold $G5,000 barrels of oil has been recently built in Terre Haute. —While eating his lunch Louis Aubry, an employe of the New Albany glass works, fell dead. —Christoph Lapp, an aged German, was struck by a train and fatally injured at South Bend. —John Kremer was fatally crushed by a falling derrick in Belknap’s cementmill at Jeffersonville. —Southern Indiana’s peach crop is proving very light, but there is an abundance of other fruit. —Charles Bolling, aged 10 years, shot himself in the breast at Brownstown while playing with a revolver. —A son of Mr. Frank Roberts, of Stilesville, was seriously injured by a horse, but is now reported out of danger. —Miss Flora Long, of Marion, resented an assault from John Rooker by shooting him in the breast with a pistol. Small boys who had been driven out of J. G. Howard’s orchard at Jeffersonville, returned and set fire tp his hay stacks. —Frederick Stillman had both hands chopped off at the wrist by a shinglemachine at Mentor. He is not likely to recover. —The barn of Mrs. Lucinda Deputy, near Seymour, was fired by an incendiary. Four horses and two mules perished. Loss, $4,000. —The Prosecuting Attorney of Clark County will try to put a stop to the marriage of eloping children by Jeffersonville Justices of the Peace. —While two children of George Ellers, of Hazelton, aged six and four years, were playing with a revolver, the elder boy shot and killed his little brother. —John Miller, a young.business man of Seymour, was shot through the heart and instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of his brother, while hunting. - Mrs. Maggie Higginbotham, wife of a laboring man, was run over by a Vandalia train at Terre Haute, and received injuries that will prove fatal. Two trains were passing in different directions. and she saw but one. •>

—Humphrey’s saw an 1 was burned nt Madison. Loss. sl,ouu; no insurance. —Henry Henning, a resident of Huntingburg. was run over by a switch engine and horribly mangled. He died in about two hours, after terrible suffering. He leaves a wife and family. —From wounds received by the discharge of a revolver which dropped from his pocket, at Elnora, a young man named Fount Cathers, died in great agony. His home was at Worthington, where his widow resides. —Jacob C. Walker, a prominent farmer of Madison township, St. Joe county, was instantly killed while blowing out stumps. He used giant powder to accomplish his purpose, and was struck on the neck and side of the head by a flying fragment. —Leander Mills, a young man and a barber at Montpelier was bitten by a rattlesnake a few years c,go, and what is peculiar about the bite of the snake is that every year about this time he has a sick spell, which lasts until cool weather; otherwise he has the best of health.

—Valentine Stilabower, living in the vicinity of Edinburg, is the proprietor of the largest private fisheries in the United States. His ponds cover twenty acres of ground, and his carp and catfish, which are numbered by the thousands, average in weight from the minnow up to forty and fifty pounds. —At Hennis’s saw mill near Dana, Henry Hollingsworth met with a serious accident. While engaged at work under the rapidly running saw, it struck him about the middle of the forehead and cut a gashoverthe top of his head nearly to his neck, laying it open to the skull. He is in a critical condition but may recover. —The court house at Corydon has a new roof. The building was erected in 1811, and was used as the Capitol of the Indiana Territory until 1816, and from thence until 1825 it was the Capitol of the State. It is a stone building, forty feet square, and is twelve feet to the ceiling. It has one room down stairs and three above. —Archibald Miller, a poor, honest and inoffensive farmer, living near Nashville, Brown County, is the owner of two cows and a yearling calf, which were attacked, one night recently, by some brute of a man and horribly carved with a knife. Great gashes were cut in the side of each of his cows, while the calf also received serious wounds.

—Mrs. Martha A. Woodburn dropped dead at her home in Bloomington. Apoplexy was the cause. She was about fifty-eight years old, and was the widow of Prof. Woodburn, a former instructor of the Indiana University, who died many years ago. She was, also, the mother of Prof. A. J. Woodburn and W. E. Woodburn, cashier of the bank here. —The 5-year-old son of John Buhler, of Hilt street, Wabash, while playing id an alley near his home, was attacked by a cow. The infuriated animal gored the lad, the horn entering his bowels and making a frightful wound, from which he died a few minutes later. The animal was attempting to protect her calf, which had been frightened by a dog.

—A 10-year-old daughter of Daniel Wysong, living near Nappanee, was fatally burned while playing in a field where a pile of brush was burning. Her clothes ignited, and, before the flames could be extinguished, one leg was burned to a crisp. The child lingered a few hours. The body was so badly burned that it was buried immediately after death. —George Hogle, a rich and retired gambler of Logansport, was arrested on a charge of fleecing Albert Roush, who alleges that seyeral months ago he was influenced by a confederate of Hogle, named Ditton, to attempt to beat Hogle’s game of faro. A thousand dollars was softi spent, and Hogle and his gang secured a note from Roush for S3OO mor?. Hogle secured his release on bail. —The stingiest man in the state, perhaps, lives in Rockport. A physician attended his wife during a brief illness recently, and when he settled with ths doctor he returned three pills and demanded a reduction of 50 cents from the bill. The doctor accepted the pills, allowed the reduction and settled. The man is not a poor man by any means, being the possessor of fine property worth SIO,OOO. — White County Democrat. —There is considerable excitement over the burning of a barn in Carpenter township, Jasper county. The farm is occupied by a family named Balser and there seems to have been considerable difficulty among the members of the family. The barn was burned and two horses and a mule. The old man Balser has not been found. One theory is that he fired the barn and burned himself up to spite the family, or else escaped and disappeared. Another theory is that he was put there and the barn set on fire. —One of the most noted characters about the Prison South was released last week by expiration of sentence. His name is Thomas Fisher, and he entered the institution May 17, 1880, from Gibson County, to serve fourteen years for murder in the second degree. The good time made his terfla nine years and three months. He is a splendid musician,and one of his dntiex wince his incarceration, has been to wet*, the convicts by going from range to range every morning at 5 o’clock and blowing a bugle. Fisher was also leader of the prison band, which is one of the finest in the State.

Mr. Cleveland may make some speeches in Ohio this fall. When washing windows dissolve a small quantity of washing soda in the water if the glass is dimmed with smoke or dirt. A camp of Democratic exsoldiers has been organized at Hammond, headed by Wm.H. Verrill. It is named Camp Sigel. A compound mixed in the proportion of one grain of sulphate of quinine to one ounce of water snuffed up the nose is said to be a hay fever remedy. ■■ Andrew Price, Democratic candidate iar Congress in the Third Louisiana District, was elected by 6,000 majority over H. C. Price, Republican.

If a bee stings you take some hollow instrument like a watch key and press it hard directly over the place stui g. It will force the poison out and relieve the pain. A couple of nailes south of Bremen the following “legal” is posted on the lence: “Eny feler who goes in this blackberry patch will git arested to the extent of the law •So take notis and dont pack eny berries oj.” A woman aged about 50 years, with white hair, and a wonderful glib talker, is traveling over the State selLng what she claims to be a new process of “wet stamping,” by means of diamond dust and gasolin?. She is a swindler.

Senator Turpio recently released all claim to the estate of his deceased wife, whose friends reside at Logansport. The estate descended from the deceased’s mother and is estimated at $32,000, The amount will be divided between two sisters and a brother.—White Connty Democrat.

Those who are pestered with burdocks and wish to get rid of them, will be glad to know of the following simple and it is said effective way of doing so. After cutting them off throw a liberal quantity of salt on the exposed stumps. This is claimed to be sure death to the plant.

An exchange tell how a very slick swindler is operating. Upon entering a town he lays in a supply of smaU glasses at an expense of about ten cents apiece. These he fills with earth, into which he places a couple of short stalks of milkweed or any other plant, with a solution of otta of roses. He is now prepared to furnish confiding purchasers with shoots from the celebrated “Ueylon roses,” using that or some other high sounding name at 1.50 each, and gets it as fast as he can handle them.

The latest swindle is a machine for cutting corn and shocking it, and is introduced to the unsuspect' ing farmer by a man who produces a pin about eight inches long with a double eye, which, by an extra twist of the wrist, would tie a cord of corn in fine shape. He gives it v the farmer and agrees to allow him and his boys to run the ma-* c hine. Then of course a receipt is signed, large let ers showing ond needle free and the, small letters proving to be an order ' for one gross and an agreement to pay $285. The agreement is dis*, counted at the first bank and the farmer has to walk ip and pay it .-Ex.

The Indianapolis News, a Republican paper, says: “Tan • ner, the pension juggler, I whose course in office has been I condemned by good m m of all parties, and whose actions are even now under review by his superior in office, was lionized by a certain class whose motto seems to be: ‘Pensions at any cost.’ One or two of Tanner’s speeches at the encampment were simply execrable. The slur which he cast on the virtue of war widows, for instance, is perhaps the most abominable thing of the sort ever perpetrated. It is to be regretted by Grand Army men that Tanner was ever within a thousand miles of Milwaukee.” “There are other things to be regretted by the veterans Gen. McMahon’s admirable resolution, which was n: eant to place the Grand Army on re cord as opposing ‘any construction of the existing (pension) laws which shall place upon the rolls the name of any man dishonorably discharged from the service,’ was rejected at a meeting of the delegates. That was a shameful bit of business. Then the battle waged in the old Iron brigade againsi that gallant soldier of Gettysburg, Gen. Bragg, was a disgrace to the Grand Army. No one denies the valor of that distinguished soldier. But certain seekers after pensions felt that thejr must degrade him because in Congress he opposed a pension bill which he honestly believed to be unwise. “What mockery to the name of soluier! Bragg stood by his guns in war and by his convictions in peace, yet he is cast out by men who throw up their hats at the sight of Tanner!”

The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania the other day made its nominations and adopted the following right sounding resolutions. There is no let up on the great question of tariff refor xu. Read tjhem:

1. That all powers not expressly grant* d to the gener >1 government are withheld, ..nd a sacred observance of the rule of construction contained in the tenth amen dment to the constitution itself is essential to the preservation of the principles of horn a rule, and of pure, honest and economic&l government. to the end that labor may not be robbed of the bread it has earred.

2 W e applaud the action of President Cleveland and our democratic representatives in Congress looking to tariff ta. inform, and we reaffirm the declaration of princ' pies made by the democracy of the Union at St. Louis in 1888, and especially that demanding a revision and reduction of tariff taxes for the relief at once of American labor, American industries and American taxpayers, by the repeal of such tariff taxes as now invite and protect monopoly, a greed that lessens produc tion,lessens employment of labor, decreases wages, and inceases cost to consumers; and by the admission of raw material free of duty in ail cases where it will enlarge our product, multiply our markets and increase demand for labor.

3. We regard trusts, in whatever form organized, as the r.vmlt of the existing monopoly-tariff, and we demand the repeal of such tariff taxes as enable them to control domestic production by unlawful C'm bination, and to extort from people exorbitant prices f r their products.

4. We accept the decision of the pec pie of Pennsylvania, rendered by the ballot, on the prohibitory amendment as a declaration in iavor of reasonable, just and effectve regulation of the traffic in ardent spirits. We hold that the agreement of the republican party, through its representatives in the legislature, to the proposed prohibitory amendment to the constitution and its defeat at the polls'in spite of the republican majority of 80.000 vo*es, are facts that establish beyond doubt the hypocrisy of the rebublican leaders in their treatment of the question of prohibition. Q 5. We hold the republican party responsible for the railuie—a fail-

ure willfully and corruptly incurred —to enforce by “appropriate legisl tio ” the sixteenth and seventeenth articles of the constitution de-igned to protect the land and labor, the people and in* dustries of this commonwealth. 6. W© hold the republican party responsible for the failure to pass any law for the relief of the manual laborers of the state of Pennsylvania, and we recommend the enactment of such laws as will give equal protection and equal opportunities in every branch of industry to alljcitizens, irrespective of race, religion or nativity. We also nold the republican party responsible for the failure of the legislature to cons ; der favorably the petitions of the workingmen and farmers of this state for the equalization of the burdens of taxation and for reli.f from the exactions of monopoly. 7. We hold the republican party responsible the notorious corruptions which have for many years prevailed in the maagement of the state treasury for the system of depositing loans without interest, enriching favorites of the ring by the nse of the public money, and for the fl -grant violation of law by the commissioners of the sin ing fund, and we pledge the faith of the democratic party that the candidate this day nominated will, if elected, reform these wrongs.

8. We favor the Australian ballot system as adapted to meet the requirements of our constitution, and the special wants of our people, in order to secure the freecom and purity of elections menaced by the combined power of monopoly and the corruption of republican rings and bosses. 9. That the sufferers by the re* cent floods have our sincere sympathy, and that while we deprecate and condemn the management on the part of the state authorities by which relief to our sorely afflicted fellow citizens has been unnecessarily delayed, we urge our representatives in the legislature to take such constitutional action asjwill give substantial relief to the stricken communities. 10. While we favor a libera) system of pensions to such veterans of the late war as have been honorably discharged and who, from wounds or other physical infirmities, have been rendered unfit for manual cr other labor, we deem it unjust to that large class of those faithful soldiers of the Union who take a just pride in the heroic achievements of theii comrades in arms, that there should be added to the pension roll the names of any who are not qualified th refor reason of honorable and faithfuf service in the line of duty. Mr. Foran of Philadelphia presented a resolution which was unanimously adopted, commending the course of Mr. Gladstone in his attitude tow'ard the Irish people.

On Monday evening last Harmon Me.ser, of Wheatfield, and Charlie Swaim, of Fair Oaks, trainmen on the coal road, had some misunderstanding when Melsor knocked Swaim down and in return was cut with a knife in the hands of Swaim. From our information we judge Melser was th aggressor.

A second crop of strawberries is being gathered on the hills surrounding New /■ 1bany, something which is unprecedented in the history of small fruits in that county. The rains of a few weeks ago caused the plants to again flower, and while the berries are of large size, they lack the flavor of the first crop.

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Al Bryer has located his cigar factory up stairs, over Priest & Paxton’s store, is in full running order, and prepared to furnish his celebrated Mascot cigar to all who desire a frst class article. As a citizen and business man, he comes highly recommended. He respectfully solicits your patronage.