Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 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 ami Death*—Crime, Caaualtiea and General News Kotefc Patent* Issued to Indiana Inventors. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: James A. Becher, Mishawaka, bolt-threading machine; Charles E. Blosfeld and C. Schnnr, Mount Vernon, assignors by mesne assignments to said Schuur, foot-warmer; Charles A. Blume and F. N. Armstrong, said Armstrong assignor to D. Lanum, Colfax, running-gear for vehicles; Alvin B. Clark, assignor of one-half to O. T. Knode, Richmond, harmonica-holder, Andrew J. Forsythe and G. L. Gwinn, Kokomo, tension device for fence machines; William H. Heiudel, Majenica, clay fence post; William F. Judy, Indianapolis, typo-writing machine; Samuel J. Seigfried, Chicago, assignor of two-thirds to F. W. Munson, Logansport, Ind., and L. L. Munson, Chicago, type-writing machine; William Tennison, Mount Vernon, mosquito-net frame and sham-pillow holder.

Minor Hlatu itom*. —Angola has decided to have electric lights. —The society of the Christian Church at Wanatuh is erecting a church to cost $2,000. —Thomas Moran was struck and killed by a& Ohio and Mississippi train, at Mitchell. —James Gates was thrown from a buggy near Markleville, and his skull fractured. —Pearson Etris, a well-known pioneer of Brownsburg, dropped dead of heast disease. —Teddy Connors, of Union City, fell from a freight train at Muncio, and was seriously hurt. —Fred Scholl was killed by a passenger engine on tbe Fort Wayne railway, near Wheeler. —John Praugh, aged 84, and his good wife, aged 76. are the parents of a re-cently-born baby. —A small flow of gas was struck at Fremont recently, where an experimental well is being sunk. —Near Hope, in Bartholomew County, Thoß. Fry was dangerously gored in the abdomen by an enraged bull. —Louis Drain, of Jeffersonville, is afflicted with what the physicians pronounce a genuine attack of leprosy. —Frank Bernard and Jay Carter, of South Kokomo, were bitten by a mastiff affected with rabies. The beast escaped —James Hill, a boy of sixteen, fell under the wheels of a gravel wagon at Shelbyville and was crushed to death. -r-At Conuersville typhoid fever has almost entirely disappeared, and business is rallying. No new cases are reported.

—A fall of slate in the old Thistle mine, near Rosedale, instantly killed William Richard, aged 18, and seriously injured Richard Bossier, a bank boss. —Richard Mauer, a former merchant of Albion, 111., employed as porter by O. W. Pierce & Co., of Lafayette, was caught in an elevator and crushed to death. —Extensive preparations are being made for the annual reunion of the Nineteenth Indiana Battery, which is to be held at Knightstown the latter part of November. —Mrs. Ann Mitchell, aged almost ninety years, who fell at her home in Martinsville and broke her hip bone, a few days ago, died from the effects of it and old age. —John Burk attempted to start a saloon in Lockport in the teeth of adverse public opinion. A midnight explosion of dynamite reduced his establishment to a hole in tho ground. —By the breaking of a scaffold at Washington two workmen, Riley Sparrow and Lot Emery, were precipitated to the ground. The former was fatally and the latter seriously injured. —Howard Hazlitt and Miss Eugenia Pool, an eloping couple from Louisville, were married at Oak Grove Church, near Corydon. Objections on the part of the young lady’s parents caused the elopement. —Marion Reynolds was run over by an excursion train coming south from the Crawfordsville fair, and instantly killed. He was observed by the engineer sitting on the track, a mile or two north of Ladoga, where he lived. —Under a new stock-at-large ordinance the Brazil authorities gathered about all the kine of the town into the pound, but a few nights ago the citizens raided the establishment, demolished the fence and recovered their stock. —A white oak tree recently felled near Scottsburg measured twenty-seven feet in circumference. When the timber was sawed a %lab ten inches thick, five feet two and one-half inches wide, and thirty-two feet long was gotten out and carted away. —Daniel Cootes, who resided near New Providence, and who was 78 years of age, was kicked to death by a vicious horse recently. He had gone into the animal’s stall, when it attacked him. Mr. Cootes was a prominent citizen of the community ir which he resided, afad had lived there nearly all his life.

—Robert Thorn tossed a sack of bran into the face of Louis Johnson, a fel-low-employe in a Vincennes factory, and the latter retnrned the compliment with a ten-pound weight, fracturing hia tormentor’s skull. —At a meeting of the stockholders of the Spencer Natural-Gas Company, it was decided to increase the capital stock of the company SIO,OOO, sink one well to the salt and one to the Wakesha water and erect bath-houses. —ln the I. & V. freight depot at Mooresville, Everett Bailey, of Monrovia, knocked the ashes of his pipe into the bung of a gasoline barrel. He was blown about fifteen feot, but only slightly injured by the ensuing explosion.

—E. A. Howard, who is employed as freight brakeman on the J. M. & I. railroad, met with a severe accident, Ho was coupling cars at Franklin, when his right arm was caught between the bumpers and was badly mashed. The t young man lives at New Albany. —Mrs. Mary A., wife of Jacob Kisling, a resident of Muncie, was killed on ♦ho Plum street crossing of the L. E. So Railroad, by the west-bound passenger train. In attempting to get oat of the way of a Big Four freight train she stepped in front of the L. E. So W. train. —Never before were quail so plenty in tbo vicinity of Hartford City. Large coveys are found in the city limits. One flew into the postoffice and was captured by Postmaster Timmomls. Another was caught in Boyd’s livery-stable. Quail an plenty throughout all the adjoining counties. —John XVolf, living throe miles west of Delphi, died, his death being caused in a peculiar manner. He was in tho act of handing a jug of water to a workman ou a threshing machine, when a fork slipped off the machine and fell, one of the prongs entering Wolf's right eye. Alter suffering intense agony ho died. —Two large kennels of fox hounds, consisting of forty animals, are now being successfully conducted in Clark County. One is owned by Alois Bastian, of Charlestown Township, while tho Clark County Kennel Club is owned by several gentlemen. This fall and winter a number of fox-chases will be given.

—While some laborers were engaged in chopping timber in a big woods, three miles south of Decatur, they accidently discovered what is supposed to have been a counterfeiters rendezvous. Beneath the earth surface were found a brick furnace, several half dollars dated 1845 and some of the metal from which the spurious coins wore made. —Mrs. John W. Lovell, of Michigan, was thrown from a carriage, near Windfall, and seriously if not fatally injured. She was in the carriage of J. 0. Cass, when a double team, driven by B.*F. Conway, collided with it, upsetting the carriage and throwing Mrs. Lovell out. She was badly cut about the head, and is supposed to have received internal injuries. —William Neal met with a frightful death east of Frankfort. With a few other men the was engaged in blowing stumps with dynamite, and a falling piece struck him on the head, crushing his skull. He was over one hundred and fifty yards from the explosion when struck, and was running to escape. He leaves a wife and four children in poor circumstances.

—A distressing example of the effect of drink upon man’s mental faculties is furnished in the person of L. C. Griffith, formerly a prominent business man of Columbus, and who still possesses considerable property. By an over-indulg-ence in intoxicating liquor he has become crazed, and has been taken to the Insane Hospital at Indianapolis, * after first being adjudged of unsound mind. —A movement is on foot among a number of leading business men of New Albany to secure a large tract of ground on the Paoli pike for fair purposes. It is proposed to erect the necessary buildings, amphitheater, lay off a mile track and put the property in first-cla6S condition. An option has been secured on suitable grounds, and it is not improb- * able that tho enterprise will prove a success. —The Grand Lodge of Indiana Colored Masons elected the following officers: Grand Master, J. H. Walker, of Terre Haute; Deputy Grand Master, T. F. Stewart, of Indianapolis; Grand Senior Warden, S. P. Harrison, of Evansville; Grand Junior Warden, Philip Pettiford, of Marion; Grand Treasurer, E. A. Goens, of Seymour; Grand Secretary, S. Brackson, of Terre Haute; Grand Chaplain, J. H. Roberts, of Fort Wayne; 1 Grand Lecturer, H. A. Rogan, of Indianapolis. —“Babe Roberts,” the woman recently whipped by the White Capß, tell a reporter at Leavenworth that there were twenty-five in the crowd of White Caps, but only twelve called at the house. While whipping her some of the men dragged her sick mother from the bed into the yard. “When they were through with me,” said Miss Roberts, “I told them that they had killed my mother, and they carried her back into the house. They struck me twenty-nine hard licks and my boy got three or four, and the cuts were as big as one’s finger.” She says she knows three of them,. and proposes to ask them.why they whipped her.