Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

®VENT» AND INCIDENTS THAT HATE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. Miami County Farmers’ Institute. The forst regular meeting of the second year of the Miami County Farmers’ Institute met at the Court House at Peru, and was a success in regards to numbers, enthusiasm, and practical benefits. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, •Joseph Cunningham; secretary, Lewis 3ond; treasurer, J. B. Joyce. Sixty new names were enrolled, showing an average age of 70 years. In the old pioneer class Samuel Phillabaum was awarded an elegantly mounted farm scene as the oldest farmer in Miami County, aged 83 years. The order of the exercises consisted of a solo by Miss Gertrude Bearss; a paper on “The Value of a Good Dairy,” by N. B. Hoover, of Mexico—discussion by A. J. Phelps, of Bennett’s Switch. “Corn Culture,” by Jonu Blair, of Peru discussion, by Lewis Bond; “Noxious Weeds and Grasses and their Effects upon Crops, and the Best Modes of Exterminating Them,” by D. O. Fisher, of Denver, and J, H. Harlan, of Pern. Prizes for live stock were also delivered to persons and townships winning them during Jast spring’s meetings. .Patents Issued'to Indiana Inventors. Patents have been issued to Indiana Inventors as follows: Charles H. Auspach and J. J. Wilhelm, Cedar Grove, band cutting feeder for threshing machine; Elias C. Atkins, Indianapolis, cross-cut saw; George L. Beck, Lebanon, washing machine; John B. Carter and J. W. Pertz, assignor of onehalf to M. S. Eiberling, Kokomo, and E. S Levi, New York, machine for grinding wood; Wallace H. Dodge, Mishawaka, pulley; Charles C. Graham, Crawfordsville, shaft attachment for carriages; Jesse K. Kester, Terre Haute, assignor Tor one-fourth to 0. E. Duffy, Washington, electrical metal detector; •Charles P. Lancaster, Fairmount. gate; -Adolph F. Prahm, Indianapolis, signal lantern; William H. Shoup, Middlebury, •churn; Frank M. Smiley, Goshen, car brake; William W. Smith, Elkhart, inhaler; Isaac M. Thompson, Franklin, gate; Edmund C. Westervelt, South -Bend, sulky plow. Queer Mixture of Relationship. There lives in Union Township, Clark •County, a family who can boast of the most curiously complicated relationship. Home years ago a widower named Morgan, who had a grown son, married a widow who had a grown daughter. After a while he and his wife secured a divorce. His son then fell in love with his father’s divorced wife, and he married her. The father got married to the daughter of the woman from whom he had been divorced. Each couple has children, and the two families are terribly mixed as to their own relationship. The old man is his own father-in-law and brother-in-law of his son, and the step-father of his wife, while the son is father-in-law of his father, his own step-son, step-father of his step-mother, and so on. The relationship of the children who are the issue of the last marriages is too complicated for any one to puzzle his head over. Southern Indiana Press Association. The Southern Indiana Press Association composed ot the editors and publishers of Southern Indiana, met at Seymour, and organized by the election •of the following-named officers: President, Chas. G. Sefrit, of the Washington Gazette; Vice Presidents, K. A. Brown, of the Franklin Republican, and James P. Applegate, of the New Albany Ledger; Secretary, Findley S. Collins, of the Seymour Democrat; Corresponding Secretary, F. B. Hitchcock, of the Bedford Mail; Treasurer, Isaac T. Brown, of the Columbus Republican. The association is non-partisan in character. The next regular meeting will be held at Washington, Ind., the second week of next May. Residence Saved by a Woman’s Impulse. While at dinner ex-Attorney General Daniel P. Baldwin and wife, of Logan- " Sport, were discussing the Stttdebaker fire at South Bend. Like most women who take an interest in home affairs, Mrs. Baldwin was much concerned about the fire, and fearful lest such a disaster might befall her own home. She told Mr. Baldwin that she would go up stairs and ascertain, if all was secure in the upper chambers. Upon reaching the second floor she was appalled to find the house filled with smoke. The fire had originated from the gas pipes, but was extinguished after considerable effort. Mr. Baldwin had his right hand quite severely burned. Minor State Items. —The cooper shop of James Nichols, at Terre Haute, largest in the State, was destroyed by fire. —Edward Long was poisoned at Columbus by drinking cider from a zinc bucket, and may die. —At Shelbyville ’Squire Beynou, a well-known Justice of the Peace, was found dead in his bed. —Fifteen,thousand bushels of apples have already been shipped from Steuben County. The apple and potato crop *• three' is enormous.

- Cholera has become prevalent among the hogs in Steuben County, and they are dying by the hundreds. —Thomas Beynon, a justice of the peace living nearShelbyville, committed suicide by taking morphine. . —Bobert Martin, of Jeffersonville, was shockingly burned by an explosion in Patton's hollow-ware factory. —Henry Meyer, a wealthy farmer, was thrown from a buggy in a runaway, near Lebanon, and had his neck broken. —Joseph Binford, a prominent citizen of Carthage, and a recognized minister in the Society of Friends, dropped dead from heart disease, aged 72. —Four boys of Ladoga were riding a horse, when all of them fell off. Three of them fell on Everett Gibson, injuring him so that he died in a short time. —While the little daughter of Hiram Birch, of Standard, Monroe County, was eating an apple, a fragment lodged in her throat, and she choked to death in two minutes. —Mrs. Matilda Morrow, east of Montpelier, lost her barn, two horses, corn, hay, and all her farming implements by fire. Loss, $3,000; insured for SBOO in the Home of New York. Cause of fire unknown. —At Metamora, Col. J. J. Bubottom and his aunt, Mrs. Lavia Bubottom, were out driving, when their horse became frightened and went over an embankment, and very seriously, if not fatally injured Mrs. Bubottom. —Allen Jones, while working at the wooden-ware factory in Martinsville, was hit in the stomach by a Dlock which had caught in the machinery. He w s quite seriously injured, though the physicians think not fatally. —James Downey, the oldest teamster in Evansville, while leading his mules out of an alley, stepped backward into a distance of fifteen, feet, sustaining internal injuries.- He is 70 years of age, and there is no chance for his recovery. —A 6-vear-old son of Aaron Crawford, of Milton, was caught by the branches of a falling tree, chopped down on the farm of W. L. Lamberton, near Bentonville, and seriously bruised. He escaped death from the falling trunk by but a few inches. —Henry Finklehorn, a painter, who recently came from Chicago, fell through a scaffold at the new Presbyterian Church, at Fort Wayne, a distance of forty feet. He received a fracture of the skull, and will probably die. He has a large family in Chicago. —Bev. John Blackstock, who has been preaching at Bomney, will go to India next month to take charge of an industrial school. He has had made at the Birch Bros.' machine shops, at Crawfordsville, a machine for making wire woven mattresses, which he will take along. —Harry Kitterman and Edward and William Bhodes were flogged by White Caps, a few miles south of Corydon. They are all young men, and Kitterman is half-witted. He lived with the Bhodes family, and the three were whipped at the same time. They were charged with stealing, and their punishment was quite severe. —The Lafayette City Council, after several weeks consideration and delay, has at last came down to business on the liquor-license question, and by a vote of 8 to 6 has adopted an ordinance fixing the retail license at $250 per year. The old price was $25. Under the old law the revenue derived was $2,150 per anuum; under the new, if all continue in business, it will be $21,500. —On a farm owned by Dr. D. H. Coombs, in Utica Township, Clark County, a curious find was made. David Bush was employed to fell a poplar tree of unusual size, and as it struck the ground one of the large limbs broke off. In the heart of it a deer’s antlers, a cow’s horn and a number of curious shells were found. How the articles got there is a mystery. Near the same spot some time ago an iron arrow, evidently made by primitive methods, was found imbedded in a tree, twenty-six inches beneath the bark. Dr. H. D. Bogers, of Charlestown, has the arrow in his cabinet. —As Mrs. Sipe and Mrs. Austin were driving across the Monon crossing at the north edge of Frankfort, a northbound passenger train struck them, killing the horse instantly and seriously wounding the ladies. Mrs. Sipe received, besides severe bruises, a fracture of the left arm. She is about seventy years of age. Mrs. Austin a younger woman, received several scalp wounds, a fracture of the skull in two places, left leg broken, and other injuries of a less serious nature. She will probably die. The accident happened in a level open place, but the horse took fright just as he reached the crossing and could not be gotten off in time. —The Common Council of Peru is taking a determined stand in the matter of a probable pollution of the Wabash Biver water from refuse and poisonous substances to be injected therein by the Diamond Match Company’s works at Wabash. Tho ground is taken that the water will be unfit for use and detrimental to the city’s health. To properly ascertaintheifacts in the case, committees have been appointed. One committee reports an analysis of water taken from Wildcat creek, at Kokomo, where similar works are located, showing it to be a deadly poison to all animal life. The investigation will be rigid, to prevent any evil results to the people through contaminated water.