Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATSLI OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doing’s of Onr Neighbors— W«-<l-Uings nntl Deal lis—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. Minor State Item*. ■—Alfred Corcoran, a switchman, was fatally injured by the cars at Richmond. —The cooper shop of James Nichols, at Terre Haute, largest in the State, was destroyed by tire. —At South Bend, John Siders was 1' id in the face by a horse and very painfully injured. —Montpelier, Laurel, New Trenton, and Brookville will all have new railroad depots soon. —Henry Chitwood, of Martinsville, aged about GO years, died at his home in that city of paralysis of the spine. —Joseph Harris lay down of the Wabash Railway track, near Roann, and had his arm amputated by a train. —Charles Stocker, of Logansport. is in jail at Huntington, on the charge of attempting to black-mail Jacob Boos, a well-known brewer, out of $1,200. —Ed Hutchison, of Shelbyville, the young man who was accidentally shot, the other day, by a companion while out hunting, has died of his injuries. A.■ billet-bending and spokeworks just starting up at Portland, with one hundred men, is the most complete factory of the kind in the United States. The buildings are all brick. —Glenn Culbertson, a student of Hanover College, has received an otter from the government of Siam to become principal of a school in that country at a handsome salary. —Michael Ryan, of Anderson, has been notified that, as the nearest of kin left, he has fallen heir to the estate of the late Sheriff John Ryan, of Johnstown. valued at $125,000. —On the east-bound train wrecked on the Nickel Plate road at Argus, the other night, was a car-load of five deer. In the smashup the animals were liberated and are running wild again. —Charles Sturm, a young man of Allen County, went to Fort Wayne, and, having indulged freely in intoxicants, attempted to find his way home. He was run over by the cars and killed. —Charles Mason, a switchman in the Pan-Handle yards at Logansport, was run over and killed by the cars. The body was literally ground to pieces. The unfortunate man leaves a wife and one child, who reside at Grand Rapids, Micb., where the body was sent for butial. —Marion is excited over the mysterious action of an unknown and heavilyveiled woman, who entered the Chronicle office the other day and deposited SSO for the identification of a man whose description she gave, and advertised to that effect. —While assisting at a barn raising at Marysville, Clark County, Fred Ston6r was so badly injured that it is believed he will die. Stoner was on the last log to be laid when it started down the incline, taking it with him, tearing all the flesh from one limb, besides inflicting other injuries. —Mrs. Sarah Wells, an old resident of La Porte, aged 70 years, started to walk to her daughter’s house, a short distance in the country,and, becoming exhausted, entered Bjn old vacant house to rest. She was found later, dead from exposure and exhaustion. —Curt Parker, of Clark Hill, while coupling cars on the Big Four road, at Colfax, got his foot caught between the rails of the switch, and before he could extricate himself the train passed over his foot. The limb was amputated by his brother, Dr. Parker. —William Bridenthal, employed in Kidder & Son’s flour-mill, at Terre Haute, was caught in a wheel and drawn through the machinery, through a space of less than five inches. The mass of flesh when the remains were picked up bore no resemblance to a human being. —A. M. Langabaugh, of Ohio, is putting in a natural gas plant to supply Russiaville, New London, West Middleton and Alto, all of Howard County. The field seven miles east of Russiaville is being tapped to furnish the gas. Several hundred acres of gas land have been leased. —Fred Horn, aged 17, caught his right hand in a cording machine at the Mun•cie Bagging Company’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 hdrrible sight, and the boy suffered frightfully. —Mr. C. H. Butcher, residing three imiles east of Brianty was away from borne, and his wife left the house for a few minutes, when the children, two boys, aged 2 and 4, plnved in the fire, ffrom which their clothes became ignited. The older one died in a few hours from his injuries, .and the younger can not recover. —A sensational suit was commenced at Huntington by Mrs. Mary F. Brandon, the wife of one of the most promine'nt physicians in Huntington County, who lives at Andrews. She alleges that a married woman, the wife of a Wabash Railroad engineer, now living in Toledo, has alieniated the affections of her hus* band, W. S. Brandon, and asks judgment in the shape of alimony for $3,000. V * ,

—A familiar figure at Indianapolis was little Rnfns Williams, aged 13, with his goat harnessed to a cart, tiudging about the railway yards. The other day the fast passenger train on the Yandalia went sailing through the yards, striking goat,cart,and boy, killing the lad, breaking the wagon, and knocking the goat several somersaults, but not to his material hurt. —A wreck occured on the Monon road at the crossing of the Wabash, near Delphi, in which Fred Whitcomb, a brakeman, was instantly killed. The deceased lived in Indianapolis. He was 18 years old, and ran from Monon to Indianapolis. The train ran off the track and the young man fell under one of the cars and was crushed to death. His remains were taken to Indianapolis. —John Sullivan, Coroner of Clay County, met with a serious accident at Brazil. He is a puddler at the rollingmills. While filling his furnace he threw in an old horse-pistol barrel, which proved to be loaded. It exploded, and the charge struck him in the stomach. His wouuds are painful but uot dangerous. The old pistol-barrel was thrown into the scrap-pile by an ignorant Bohemian. —Coroner Kessler, of Allen County, has concluded his official investigation of the death of Nickel-Plate Engineer Matt Wilson, who was killed in ahead collision near Argos. The Coroner charges Wilson’s death to the criminal carelessness of the engineer and crew of the fast stock train which left its siding and was running east after notice of the rights of the west-bouud extra had been received by them. —The Harrison County White Caps, near New Amsterdam, called at the residence of a dissolute woman named AnnaWildom. The woman was found with her nephew, a young man of 20 years. The White Caps dragged him from his bed and beat him until he had to be carried borne in a blanket. They then stripped the woman for punishment, but desisted, not, however, until they had warned her to mend her ways. —John LeFountain, the last of the historic Indian family of that nnme, grandson of the last chief of the Miamis, died at the forks of the Wabash River, near Huntington. At one time he joined the remains of his tribe, which had been removed to a reservation in Kansas. He soon tired of their nomadic life and returned to this State. His ancestors at one time owned all the land in the Huntin'gton section, but he died a poor man. —William Stilley, Lynn Smith, and Harley Moore, of New Castle, wore out hunting, when Moore was accidentally shot by Stilley. 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 thought that one eye is permanently injured. —The Rev. William L. Hatcher, of Jalapa, has been indicted by the Grant County Grand Jury for illegally performing the marriage ceremony, and a number of couples will have to be remarried to stop the tongues of gossip, if not to still their consciences. Hatcher’s offense is a misdemeanor under the Indiana laws, and the particular misdemeanor charged in the indictment is the marriage of James Bodkins and Miss Dora Patterson. Hatcher is a member of the Church of God and claims to be a regular ordained minister of the denomination. He has married a dozen couples, all of whom willre-marry, with probably a single exception, where a separation will occur. —The community near Windfall was thrown into a state of great excitement and mystification over the discovery, by two small boys, while hunting, of the dead body of a youngman named Claude Haun, in a grove half a mile north of Windfall. Haun came to that place from Georgetown, Franklin County, Kentucky, Thursday, Nov. 21, on a visit to his brother-in-law, Robert Wash. He was last seen alive in Windfall, Friday night, Nov. 22, and it is supposed that the body has lain in the grove ten days. He was twenty-four years old, unmarried and of respectable family. People for miles around visited the scene of the discovery. Opinion is divided as to whether death came from foul play or suicide. —Patents have been granted Indianians as follows: H. Bartlett, assignor tc Spring Curry-comb Company, South Bend, curry-comb; Edward Carney, Terre Haute, hair-restorer; John Casely, Knightstown, metallic railway rail-tie; John B. Cleveland, Indianapolis, fence, reissue; William R. Davis, Bourbon,sill for buildings; Elmer E. Hollarew, Indianapolis, piano tunning pin; Thomas J. Linton, Trafalgar, fence; Allen O. Neidlander, assignor of one-balftoG. H. Miller, Indianapolis, car-coupling; Daniel E. Readon, Terre Haute, sashholder, Henry T. Simmons and J. P. Nailor, Bloomington, impermeable facing for trousers; Robert D. O. Smith, Mishawaka, electric alarm; Henrv Springer, Mt. Vernon, vehicle spring; John W. Titus, Eckerty, stock trough; Orson H Woodworth, Columbia City, spacing instrument. —The Putman County Agricultural Association has elected the following officers: M. A. Bridge, President; H. C. Darnell, Vice President; N. W. Ader, Secretary; David Ader, Treasurer, with a full board of directors.