Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCLKKEU. • An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Draths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. Curious Case of Robbery. A curious robbery with a more curious ending occurred Qt the little town of Buckskin, a few miles distant from Evansville, on the Evansville and Indianapolis Railroad the other night. The store of Herman Buskuhl was entered by thieves and robbed of a lot of small articles, such as knives, French harps, lead pencils, etc. Buskuhl discovered his loss on entering his store next morning, and immediately set out to hunt the robbers. He followed a country road leading from the village, and was surprised to find the articles he had missed distributed along aby-path. He walked quite a distance, and was about to return to the village to get something to carry the articles in when he came acioss a sack lying on the ground. This he appropriated and filled it with the articles recovered, but discovered it had a hole in the bottom as well as the top, to which fact, no doubt, he was indebted for the|recovery of his goods. It was evident that the thieves had used the same sack and in the hurry of their flight had lost all their booty, and, becoming disgusted, threw the sack away when it became empty. Buskuhl was congratulating himself on his early recovery of the goods, but was almost paralyzed with grief, on returning to his store, to discover that he had been robbed of about §2OO in cash. Tramps are supposed to be the authors of Buskuhl’s truble.

Fearful Fall of Two Workmen, A horrible accident occurred at the new county court-house at Evansville, in which one man was killed outright and another was injured so badly that his recovery is doubtful. Adolph Rice and another workmen, Louis Heck, tinners and copperers, were engaged at work on the dome, using as foothold a bracket made of rope, which they had constructed themselves. This same bracket had served them on similar occasions and was thought to be amply strong, but one of the main supports suddenly gave way, percipitating the two workmen to the ground below. Both screamed in the descent and attracted the attention of a number of other workmen about the building who looked up just in time to witness the tragedy. The fall was about seventy feet, both men alighting close together on a pile of stone tiling. Rice struck squarely on his head and was dead when the workmen picked him up. Heck fell sideways, cutting his scalp badly in several places, breaking his wrist andArm,and crushing his right foot in a terrible manner. Both Rice and Heck live in Louisville. The former, although a young man of only 25 years, has been in the employ of Messrs. Pearce, Morgan & Co. for several years. He was a quiet fellow and was unmarried. Heck is married and has two children. Minor State Items. —William Lock, residing near Onward, was instantly killed by a falling tree. —An unknown man was killed by the Grand Rapids express, at Michigan City. —Ora Emmons was thrown from her horse east of Montpelier and was fatally injured. —Fire destroyed J. E. McKendry’s stave and heading-factory, at Elwood. Loss, $5,000.

—The cooper shop of James Nichols, at Terre Haute, largest in the State, was destroyed by fire. —Willie Crawford, aged 8 years, was thrown from a wagon at Huntingburg, and instantly killed. —A son of Harmon Smith, residing near Hagerstown, Wayne County, was killed by the accidental discharge of his rifle. —Mrs. Louise Marriotte, of Fort Wayne, was seized with heart disease while talking, and fell out of her chair dead. —Peter Senseback, of Seymour, was attacked with an ax by an unknown assailant, in Jackson County, and nearly murdered. The Board of City School Trustees have decided to do away with all examinations in the public schools of Crawfordsville. —A number of cases of malignant diphtheria are reported in Brazil and elsewhere in Clay County. Several deaths have occurred. —Three new charcoal pits near Roanoke, belonging to Clifford Bros., were blown up|by unknown parties with dynamite, entailing a loss of S6OO. —The Franklin City Council has refused to extend the time given the local Waterworks Companytobegin work, and the franchise will lapse Dec. 31. —Charles Close is suing Capt. Benjamin Calkins, an old man of 70, at Rising Sun, for alienating the affections of his wife, a woman of 40 with several children. He wants $25,000. —While Mrs. Ab Oldham and Mrs. Henry Iford were returning home from Pendleton their horse became frightened, and threw both of the ladies from the buggy, breaking the shoulder blade of Mrs. Oldham and otherwise injuring

—Flora Brown, colored, was found on the river bank, at Rockport, where she had been left to die, terribly beaten and cut about the face. Her assailants are unknown. She will probably recover. —Will E-vans, a man of about twentyfour years, was killed at Sullivan by the overturning of a caboose on the I. <t I. S. Railroad, a short distance east of town. He jumped off the train on the same side that the cabm > fell, and was caught under it and literally mashed to pieces. —John McClellan, of Jeffersonville, went to his barn, and tying a trot-line to a rafter, put bis head in the noose. He was standing on a barrel, which gave way, and he fell with such force that the rope was broken. He was found by his wife an hour later, almost strangled to death. —While rafting at Striker’s Landing, six miles below Rockport, Walker Kelley, colored, and George Thompson, white, each had both legs crushed under a heavy log. Immediate amputation was necessary, which may cause both to die. This is the third accident of the kind at the same spot in the last six months. —A resident of Knightsville, named John Dansbury, was seriously and perhaps fatally injured by the explosion of a shot in the mines at Fontanet. News was conveyed to his wife concerning the accident, stating that it was almost impossible for him to live until she could reach him. Mr. Dansbury was not an experienced miner. —Harry Richen attempted to cross the C.,C.,C., <fe St. L. railroad crossing at the grade east of Lebanon with a heavy load of saw-logs, and just as the load was on the track with the passenger train in sight, the wagon let the load down on the track. Richen in his excitement lighted his hat, and with it as a burning signal, succeeded in stopping the train. - -A dog belonging to Johnßhinehart. a wealthy farmer, near Shelbyville, went mad a few days ago, and bit a hog and a horse. The dog and hog were killed, and the horse penned up to await results. The horse became furious, his eyes shining like a tiger’s,while he kicks and bites at everything in reach, screaming in the most unearthly manner.

—Many years ago Hiram Armstrong, of Cass County, applied for a pension. The progress made in the prosecution of his claim was unusually poor, and the old veteran had about abandoned al] hope. One morning, about three weeks ago, Mr. Armstrong was found dead in his bed. On the same evening his pension voucher for a handsome sum arrived. —Abraham Stahl, a pioneer of Blackford County, died at the home of hie son, Ezra M. Stahl, cashier of the Citizens’ Bank at Hartford City. Mr. Stab] has been prominent in public affairs, and has served the county as clerk, treasurer, auditor, and recorder. He was a man of commanding presence, and was universally respected. He lived to be 82 years old. —The officers of the Indiana Barbwire Fence Company, whose factory is located at Crawfordsville, say that they will not join the wire-fence trust, and from this fact will in all probability be forced to go out of business on Jan. 1. As all the wire-mills belong to this trust it would be impossible for this company to buy wire, and they will be forced to close down. The officers prefer to go out of business rather than join this trust.

—An old feud between Robert Grayson, Clabe Sloan, and Perry Wilson has broken out in Clark County. A few days since the factions happened to meet, near Blackstone’s mill, and a furious fight followed. Grayson and Wilson were found to be badly cut in severs’ places. Sloan was afraid that he hac hurt one of his adversaries so badlj that he might die, and it is supposed that he has left the country, as he hat not been seen since the fight took place. —Twenty-two years ago John McQuowr lived with his wife and six children neai Lebanon, but in August of 1867 suddenly disappeared, and no tidings of him were received. Mrs. McQuown,. supposing herself a widow, remarried, but hej second husband lived but two years. Last week McQuown, as suddenly and unceremoniously as marked his disappearance, returned to his home, but not, however, to claim his wife. Instead he demanded possession of the farm, and they are now living in the same house without resuming marital relations, ant with no prospect of compromising theii differences. The courts will have tc name the rightful owner. —Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, of Cast County, has filed a suit in the Howard Circuit Court, at Kokomo, against Henn C. Davis, administrator of the Christiai Hooper estate, for $60,000. The complaint charges that a tin box containing notes and mortgages to the amount o; $5,000, and bank stock certificates to the amount of $5,000, was given to her b? her aunt, and unlawfully appropriated by the administrator. Mrs. Schmid claims that, in 1869, she was in German? and Mrs. Hooper induced her to leave all and cross the ocean to America, b? the promise of making her the sole legatee of her estate, valued at $60,000 Ppon this promise she left her home a the age of eighteen years, but a deed o: conveyance was prevented by her aunt’t sudden demise. The action will b< stoutly resisted by the sisters of Mrs Hoop"”.