Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

events and incidents that have LATELY OCCURRED. Au Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Xeigliborn—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualtiesand General News Notes. Patents Issued to Indiana Inventors. Patents have been issued to. Indiana inventors as follows: Charles Bew, Angola, back for vehicle seats; Benjamin C. Gochenauer, Warsaw, liniment; Samuel E. Harsh, assignor of one-half to J. M. Harter, Wabash, check holder and check spreader; Sampson D. Harvey, Tipton, vignetting attachment for printing frames; Charles H. Jenne, Indianapolis, assignor to Dayton Indicator Company, Dayton, Ohio, street or station indicator; William H. McGrew, Peru, fence machine; Raymond 0. Peyton, Terre Haute, straw burning stove; Emanuel W. Root, Wheatfield, cider or wine press; William L. Slipher, Mulberry, washing-machine; Willis H. Vajen, Indianapolis, rein support; Thomas J. Walden, Lebanon, elevator bucket.

Minor State Items. —The cooper shop of James Nichols, at Terre Haute, largest in the State, was destroyed by fire. —Mrs. H. S. Lane, of Crawfordsville, has been chosen as one of the directors of the Cleveland College for Women. —Thomas E. Hamrick, a well-to-do farmer - Residing near Belleville, was thrown-.from his horse and seriously injured. —August Eichmeyer, aged 21, a miner at the Sunnyside coal mines, near Evansville, was killed —crushed by falling coal. —A big natural gas well and a three • foot vein of coal have been struck near Michigan City, in drilling a well for a country school.

—William Barr, of Brazil, fell down stairs and was fatally injured. His wife’s death a year ago, resulted from a simular accident. —While Miss Kate Pittman, of Evansville, was dusting a mantle, her clothing caught fire from the grate, and she was terribly burned. —Ross Longworth, of Anderson, was caught in the shafting of a handle factory of which he is part owner, and his shoulder was broken. 4 —Frank Pinnick, who was shot by bis cousin John, near Bird’s-eye, has since died. The murderer went to Jasper and surrendered himself. —3? he Citizens’ State Bank, of Plainfield, has been organized, with Ezra Cox, President, and George W. Bell, Cashier. Capital, $25,000. —Henry Wiseman, the engineer at Perry Riddle’s mill, at Leavenworth, was badly scalded by escaping steam from a boiler which exploded. —By the breaking of a parallel rod on a Monon freight engine, near Lafayette, the cab was badly mashed and both legs of Patrick Murray were broken. —Gratia Mcllheny, a young man of Martinsville, had his right arm crushed in a horrible manner while coupling cars. He will, probably, lose the use of his arm.

—An organization of the farmers of Rash County has been effected for the purpose of prosecuting all hunters for hunting on inclosed land, as prohibited by statute.' —Jacob Klauber, a prominent farmer living near Evansville, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. He had been hunting and was returning to his home. —The little daughters of New Salisbury and Henry Bonam, near Corydon, were recently bitten by a mad dog, and are being closely watched for developments of hydrophobia. —One fruit-distilling firm at New Amsterdam, Harrison County, has manufactured 180 barrels of applejack during the present season, and is still'turning out quantities of the fiery fluid. —At Sholes, Sallie Utterman, a hotel waitress, struck and nearly killed James Ritchey with a flat-iron. He had slandered her and was just coming in to apologize when she delivered the missile. John Pike, of Lebanon, who was injured in the Midland wreck on the 17th of last month, is dead. His death resulted from concussion of the brain, caused by the shoSk received in the collision -

Malignant diphtheria prevails at Stantonville, Clay County. Out of fifteen cases three deaths have occurred. Five deaths have occurred at Brazil. . Other places in the county are also afflicted. —The next quarterly convention of the Elevents Indiana district of the Christian Church will be held at Jamestown on December 3 and 4. This includes the counties of Boone, and Clipton. Valparajso can hpve natural gas if it so desires, as the pipe-line to Chicago will pass near Valparaiso. The right-of-way is being rapidly acquired for that line. . In 1887 gas was sought for in Valparaiso unsuccessfully. —Out of nearly 600 convicts now imprisoned in the Jeffersonville penitentiary, not one of them is confined to his bed. There are some half'a dozen of ,them that are afflicted with*chronic diseases,* budtheyibreiitble to walk;. around the yard.

—One of William Renton’s eyes was destroyed at Westport by the explosion of a percussion cap in his pipe. —The machinery and other fixtures of the Crawfordsville' natural gas well have been taken to Indianapolis by the purchasers, McElvaine Bros. The 1,900foot hole was left, however. • —While Constable John Huggins had a horse and some corn under execution at Montpelier, and was trying to sell the corn, Louis Bouse, of Wiona, stole the horse and ran it off. The constable has not caught him as yet. —Thirty public school teachers in Allen County have been notified that their services will be dispensed with after thirty days, owing to the insufficiency, of the funds apportioned to that county under the last appropriation bill. —Joe Sing, a Chinese laundryman, of Huntington, ordered Joe Buchanan out of his laundry because the latter was drunk. Buchanan thereupon attacked the Chinaman, who shot him, inflicting a dangerous wound. Talk of lynching was promptly squelched by the Mayor, who held that the shooting was justifiable. —Fred Horn, aged 17, caught his right hand in a cording machine at the Muncie Bagging Comp any’s mills, and the member was slowly chopped to pieces by the sharp steel teeth. In attempting to free himself he pulled the muscles out of his arm to the shoulder. It was a horrible sight, and the boy suffered frightfully. —The family of James Cassell, of Logansport, consisting of five persons, were poisoned by eating cabbage sprinkled with paris green through the carelessness of a servant. Mrs. H. H. Hoffman and two children, of Indianapolis, who were visiting the Cassels, were also poisoned. It is feared two or three may die. —Walter Moody and Fred Mitchell, aged about 14 .years, were out hunting near Martinsville, when Moody, walking in the rear with his gun cocked, stumbled and pulled the trigger. The load of shot entered the calf of Mitchell’s leg, passing entirely through it, making a very bad wound, which may cause his leg to be amputated at the knee. —A daughter of William Odell, of LaPorto, recently died at Los Angeles, Cal., and left an estate worth from $20,000 to $25,000 to the children of her brother, Frank Odell. The latter left LaPorte twelve or fifteen years ago and went to Logansport, where he married and afterward lived in Chicago. His present whereabouts are unknown. < —About two weeks ago a lock of human hair was found in the center of a tree near Waveland. There has been much speculation as to how it came there, and one of the old settlers says that about fifty years ago a “tooth doctor” was in that part of the country, and his cure was to take a lock of hair and pin it up in some tree. This is probably how this came to be imbedded in the tree. .

—The Washington and Clark Fair Assbcociation, which holds its annual meetings on the grounds at Pekin, has elected the following officers: DrBright, President; J. W. Overton, VicePresident; W. A. Graves, Treasurer; J. W. Elrod, Secretary; F. Turner, Superintendent. Directors—Morgan Martin, Sam Karnes, J. M. Elrod, B. L. Elrod, Lewis Leach, William McKinley, and N. S. Martin. —William Stilley, Lynn Smith, and Harley Moore, of New Castle, were out hunting, when Moore was accidentally shot by StilJey. They were hunting in a thick woods, where they became separated. Stilley got up a covey of quails, which flew in the direction of young Moore, who was near by. He fired at the birds, the shot striking Moore in the face, inflicting serious wounds, and it is thoughtihat one eye is permanently injured, f —William Chandler, of Logansport discovered the presence of gas in his house and removing a plank from the floor to discover the whereabouts of the leak, the room was instantaneously filled with gas W’hich ignited from an open stove and an explosion followed, tearing the doors from their binges, blowing out the windows, and demolishing the furniture. Mrs. Chandler and her little children were fortunately in the yard and escaped injury. ; —Samuel Strond, a Mrs. Crosby, the widow Lee and the 17-year-old son of the last mentioned, a few days ago, were taken from their beds at there common home, near Magnolia, Crawford County, by a gang of “White Caps” and soundly whipped with hickory switches. The women were punished for alleged unchastity and the man and the boy for being too free with the property of other people. Strond’s additional offense being, in the language of the county, “freshness.” —The dead body of Jacob Klanter was found in Scott Township, about half a mile from the Slaser place, in Vanderberg County. It seems that he had gone hunting in the morning and was returning home, when he either committed suicide or was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. He was found in a fence-corner, in a sitting posture, with the barrel of his gun lying against his breast. The bullet had entered his head below the chin and forced its way through the skull at the crown of his head. Klanter had a bag full of game that was still slung over his shoulder. Whether or not he was a married man was not learned.