Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

events and incidents that have LATELY OCCTKKED An Interesting Summary of the More Im* portant Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. Heirs to 82 000,090. A strange streak of good fortune has struck the Hayes family in Pike County. A few years ago Grandfather Twttty Hayes died in South Carolina, and left an immense estate, valued at several million dollars, to John Hayes, who has just died, and his heirs, William Hayes (an eccentric character, known as “Pike County Bill”), Twitty Hayes and Eliza Miley (wife of George Miley, deceased), and John Hayes, all living in Pike County. John Hayes, of South Carolina, administrator of the estate, is in this county now looking up the heiis. Pike County Bill will get $62,000, and Solomon Rhodes, who married a Hayes, gets $4,400. There will be $2,000,000 distributed among the heirs. A few years ago ex-President R. B. Hayes’s family filed suit against the estate, but failed to establish their claim, as nearer relatives were found; They say that there is more property to be sold, and there will be still more money coming.

Indian Skeletons Found. Workmen employed in repairing a road in the northern part of Barthold County have unearthed five skeletons of human beings in a gravel-pit located on the farm of David Kyle. One skeleton is of a child about twelve years old. The other four are of men fully six feet tall and of large bones. With two of the men had been buried two lower jaws of some animal. The jaws are of peculiar shape, and have set in them monstrous teeth. The largest set of jaws had been sawed in two and strangely marked. A bone powder-charger and the prongs of a deer’s horns were also found with the skeletons. It is presumed they are those of Indians who have been buried many years. Many citizens of that locality have known the mound, where the skeletons were found, for sixty years, and there were large trees growing upon it that long ago. (Kidnaped Her Child. Mrs. Frank Nuckolls kidnaped her 8-year-old son from the city school building at Crawfordsville. Last week the divorce suit of Mrs. Nuckolls was in court, and a divorce refused, but the father was given the custody of the bßy. When Mrs. Nuckolls went after the hoy she took with her Mrs. J. T. Wallace, who held the horse while Mrs. Nuckolls went into the school-house and got the boy. Word was at once sent to the police, and a search warrant was issued by the court. The boy was found at the residence of G. W. Paul in the country. Mr. Paul is the step-father of Mrs. Nuckolls, and the attorney whose actions are to be investigated by the court. Warrants were at once issued against Mrs. Nuckolls | and Mrs. Wallace for contempt of conrt.

Fatal Accident at a Saw-Mill. A fatal accident is reported from North Manchester, Wabash County. Joseph turner was resawing an ash board, about three feet long, at the saw-mill of Scott Dunbar when it caught in the saw, and, flying back, the end struck Turner between the eyes with terrific force. Both eyes were knocked out, and almost the lower part of his face torn away, having an ugly hole larger than a man’s fist, and exposing the brain. Turner lived for a few hours, after this accident, and was conscious. He was 60 years old, his home was at Milan, Mich., where he had a wife and several children. a Minor State Items. —Ed McHenry was fatally kicked by a horse at Jeffersonville. —The Logansport Presbytery will meet next year at south Bend. —Two new gas wells have been struck in the vicinity of Montpelier. —The reunion of the Sixty-third Regiment will be held next year at Frankfort. —The purchase price of the Terre Haute Nail Works, which recently changed hands, was $50,000. —June Jones, aged 7 years, living near Crawfordsville, has died from the effects of being kicked in the breast by a horse. —Christ. Hartman, a boy 8 years old, was run over and instantly killed by a Pittsburgh switch engine at Fort Wayne. —Jasper Griffy, a railroad yardman, was killed and F. M. Merrill, had his hand crushed while coupling cars at Cambridge City. —A Christian Church has been organized at Mace, Montgomery County, with twenty members. A church building will be erected to cost SI,OOO. —Christopher Bodde, a; prominent citizen of Seymour, was thrown from his wagon s and run over by a runaway team, His injuries are probably fatal. —At Sevastopol, Kosciusko County, J. H. Mollenhauer committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. He was poverty stricken, with a large family on hid hands. —Theodore Foust was playing circus with a number of young playmates in Martinsville, when, in doing the flyingtrapeze act, he fell some distance to the ground, broke an arm and was injured internally.

—Dan Eiler, of Hagerstown, hat brought suit against Shively <t Son, ol that place, for $5,000 damages for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. —John Murray was arrested at Terre Haute for the alleged assault upor Sister Camille, at Emporia, Kan., but had no difficulty in proving an alibi and was released. —Johnnie Wiant, the 10-year-old son of Israel Wiant, of Marion, who was abducted by a mesmerist and snakecharmer, was recovered at Plymouth by a Chicago detective. —Bennie, the 6-year-oid son of Philipp Bobbins, of Montpelier, while playing on the school ground with his sister, ran against her and burst his head, causing death instantly. —At Decatur Joseph McGonagle, aged 81, dropped dead from heard disease while at work. He was an old newspaper man and was at one time editor and publisher of the Democrat of that city. —The largest fire insurance ever taken out in one lump in Fort Wayne wae placed with S. C. Lumbard by the Jenny Electric-light Company, being a risk of $325,000. All the companies represented in that city received a portion. Mrs. Adam Wyant has obtained judgment in the Madison County Circuit Court, for $2,370, against the Bee-line road, for injuries received in a runaway accident two years ago. Her horse had become frightened at the cars. —The large flouring and headingmills of Elmer Wilson, at Cana, Jennings County, with all the machinery, a large Iqt of grain and flour and othei materials, were burned by an incendiary fire. Loss, $8,000; no insurance.

—A second crop of green apples is being gathered by many farmers in Montgomery County. This was caused by the hail storm in July, which knocked all the leaves and-fruit from the trees and then the trees put out again like in the springtime. —A jury at Salem awarded Miss Kate Tivanney $19,250 from the estate of the late Elizabeth Wathen, of Jeffersonville, who died last January, worth half a million. Miss Tivanney had taken care oi the deceased for twelve years and had sued for $32,000 services. —The Alspach family, six miles west of Montpelier, is badly afflicted with typhoid fever. Mrs. Alspach died, aged 72 years, and her two sons, with both of their families, are down. There were eight funerals in one day, with the same fever, in the neighborhood. —Herman Grady, adopted son of Dr. Schiller, a prominent physician of Evansville, was found dead at the house of Mr. F. Scheuermann, at Huntingburg, with whom he was spending the night. He was unmarried, and was subject to epileptic fits, from which cause he died. —Peter Flynn has brought suit against John Wampler and Jim McGilliard, of Crawfordsville, for SI,OOO damages, resulting from the defendents selling him a loaded cigar. His eyes were badly injured, and he cannot work, though he has a family dependent upon him for support. —ln Clark County, Charles McCoombs and Robert Grayson, were attacked by a rattlesnake seven feet long, while tearing up a culvert. The snake devoted itself to an attack upon Grayson’s rubber boots, and he fainted with fright. McCoombs killed the reptile before it did any, harm. —Prof.' W. W. Borden has purchased and added to the Borden Institute library, at New Providence, a superb copy of the noted second edition of Shakspeare, published in 1632. It is a valuable addition to the list of rare books in Indiana, as it is probably the only copy in the State. This volume cost about $l5O.

—Anna Dugan, aged 28 years; has filed a suit, in Adams County, against Samuel Abels, aged 58 years, charging him with a breach of marriage contract of a standing of seven years, and asks $3,000 damage. They are both residents of Adams County, Mr. Ahels being a prosperous farmer, who has never yet become a benedict.

—While some boys from the country were going home from Montpelier, they had to go by a tile-mill close to town, and when they got opposite the mill, some persons commenced firing at them, just missing them. Eleven shots were fired. The boys say they had a pretty close call. They went over to the mill, but could nut find anybody. —About a month ago Mrs. Dr. Henson, of Hall, died, of heart trouble and pneumonia, rather suddenly and unexpectedly. Her mother, Mrs. Holman, was so grief-stricken over the loss of her only daughter that her hair, which was a raven black, turned white within 24 hours after Mrs. Henson’s death, and she has not been well since. A few days ago she was taken sick with brain fever, from which she died, aged 56 years.

—Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Martha A. Carter, Amo, fruit-canner; Edward Dawson, assignor of one-half to P. N. Staff, Terre Haute, vise; Charles N. Ellis, New Albany, gate latch; Henry Fatic, Middletown, cane or corn-harvesting machine; Phillip J. Harrah, assignor of one-third to S. Lehman, Bloomfield, shaftholder for vehicles: Geo. E. Bichette, Goshen, brush for, moistening the sheets of copying-books; Robert S. Taylor and M. M. Slattery, Fort Wayne, automatic■ synchronizing commutator.