Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1890 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. ————— An Interesting Summary of th«? More Important Doings of Oar Neighbors—We<l•ltngs and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. Minor State Items. —Samuel Lamire, aged 16, was accidentally shot and killed by his brother, while out hunting near Jackson. —Jesse Miller an aged and wellknown citizen of Goshen, was struck and fatally injured by a railway engine. George Hardemeyer, a prominent man of Warwick County, dropped dead of apoplexy, in the court-room at Boonville, just after having testified in a case on trial. —J. T. Fethers, of Anderson, was caught between projecting saw-logs, while coupling cars, and his head was fatally crushed. —Miss Ella Tilford, a teacher in the Martinsville high school, who recently went to the Pacific coast fjr her health, died at Orange, Cal. —A barn belonging to Grafton Johnson, at Greenwood, Johnson County, was burned a few days ago. Loss, $1,200; no insurance. —Charles Schenck was badly burned about the head by the premature explosion of a charge, while blasting Btumps near Seymour. —Howard Green, of Kokomo, aged 18, was accidentally shot in the leg while out bunting, the wound rendering him a cripple for life. —Mrs. Ruth Phifer, of Dublin, went out to kill a chicken, and in five minutes was dead herself from the effects of a violent hemorrhage. —Mrs. David Fitzgibbon, of Franklin, ■was fatally injured by falling to the floor. A chair was pushed from under her as she was sitting down. —The Connersville Knights of Labor held their semi-annual election under the Australian system, as a means of teaching their members the new law. —Louis Peaß, a Corydon farmer, committed suicide by blowing out his brains with a pistol. No cause is assigned for the act. He leaves a wife and two children. —Berry Gwin, an old and well-known citizen, dropped dead of heart disease at Vincennes, aged 74 years. Deceased was an undo by marriage of Gen. W. Q. Gresham.

—Martin Edmunson, aged 60, an old soldier, of Hyatt, dropped dead at his home. He had just remarked to his sister that she had just come in time to see him die. —Lee Gray married a girl born wit hout hands at Indianapolis this week. He has since been arrested on a bastardy charge preferred by a woman who is aged 40, married, and the mother of ten children. —At Martinsville, Martin Hammons drove over his little boy Howard, thinking him in the wagon. The little fellow’s right arm and leg were broken, and he was dreadfully injured, from which be can scarcely recover. —Henry Messman, a brick-layer, and Henry Hilderman, a cutter, of Richmond, have received SB,OOO each in cash from the estate of a deceased relative in New York City. They were two of nine heirs to an estate of $85,000. —As Allen Sanderson, a well-to-do farmer, with his wife and two children, were going to Muncie in a wagon, a tree fell across the road on the vehicle, instantly killing the father and one of the children. The mother and other child were unharmed. —While curling her hair, Miss Mary Miles, daughter of Auditor John W. Miles, one of the prettiest young ladies of Marion, accidentally drew a hotcul-ing-iron across her eyes, scarring the eyes. The sight of the eyes isundoubtedly destroyed. —Fred Horn, aged 17, caught his right hand in a cording machine at the Muncie 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 horrible sight, and the boy suffered frightfully. Diphtheria is playing havoc among the children at Delaware, and the mortality is alarming. Nine deaths have occurred, and a frightful number are prostrated. Two little children of Alfred Doles were buried in the same coffin, and the deaths are averaging one a day. The physicians seem unable to control the disease. —Prof. J. M. Coulter, of Wabash College, has been appointed scientific head of the Botanical Department at Washington. The appointment was made when the Professor was at Washington a few weeks ago. His duties are such as pertain strictly to the scientific part of the Botanical Department, and will not necessitate his withdrawal from W abash. —Twelve years ago, when but a small boy, James Stewart, colored, left Martinsville for parts unknown. From that time nothing was heard of him, and his friends in Martinsville had given him up as dead. Imagine their surprise, the other evening, when James came back on a visit. The strangest part of the whole story is that the boy had been in Danville, Hendricks County, all the time, only twent An re miles awav. I

—Wm. Cain, a butcher at Martinsville, killed three* hogs that averaged 650 pounds each. —Pendleton decided, by a vote of ten to one, to make the four pikes entering the city free in the future. The Commissioners have made the appraisement, and the old-fashioned \oll-gate will soon be a re lie of the past. —Joe Kerlin, himself poor enough, but the son of a well-to-do farmer, hanged himself with a halter in the barn at Richmond. He went to the barn, and, as it is found, curried his horses, and did up his work generally, before he did himself up. He was not yet cold when found. Unless it was debts, that need not have worried him, no cause is known. —William Hargrove, a colored barber, met his wife on the street in the upper portion of Evansville while on her way to spend the evening w'ith some friends, and, calling her into an alley, commenced slashing her with a razor. She received two horrible wounds,one in the neck and one in her left breast, from which her physicians say she cannot recover. Hargrove escaped. —Andrew Cain, while “snaking” a log off a hill on his father’s farm near Martinsville, was suriously hurt. The end of the log was dragged against a small stump and the horses were stopped. Andrew, while trying to disengage the log, was working on the lower side, when the horses started suddenly and the log rolled down on him mashing his legs and thighs in a severe manner. —Daniel Bowman, formerly proprietor of the Woodford (Ky.) Sun, and later a well-known business man of Chicago, was found dead on the Monon road, near Bloomington. He had fallen off the platform of a sleeper in some way, and was crushed to pieces. He waspreparing to commence the publication of a paper in Chicago in a few days. He was widely known tbroughoutthe South and West. —William Stilley, Lynn Smith, and Harley Moore, of New Castle, wore 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 thought that one eye is permanently injured. Mrs. Mary Crane, aged 75 years, of Columbus, died at her residence of blood-poisoning. On the 28th inst., she was smoking to ease the toothache, when she suddenly became dizzy and fell to the floor in her residence in such a manner as to force the stem of her pipe through her tongue and into her throat. The nicotine from the pipe stem caused blood-poisoning, which caused her death. —A dog supposed to be afflicted with rabies bit Clarence, the 11-year-old son of James Wert, at Dillsboro, and alter biting several dogs and a number of cattle, the animal was shot. The lad was taken to Milton, and the famous madstone, which is kept in the safe of the County Treasurer, at Burlington, Ky., and owned by the Tanner heirs, was applied. The stone adhered to the wound for hours, and on falling off was dropped into a cup of milk, when green bubbles were seen to arise, and the boy was pronounced safe.

—The following patents have been issued to Indiana inventors: Louis Bell and W. H. P. Creighton, Lafayette, governor for steam-engines; Deloss Cornell, Boon Grove, grinding mill; Benjamin F. Heiney, Huntington, door check; Lorenzo Kushner, Terre Haute, pedal attachment; Albert L. North and H. Howe, Patriot, barrel-head holder; Lewis J. Rice, Indianapolis, hose coupling; Chas F. Walters, assignor to Richmond City mill works, Richmond, flour packer; Arsen S. Woods, assignor to H. E. Miseuer, Servia, gunpowder. —The Indiana State Teachers’ Association elected the following officers: President, W. W. Parsons, of the State Normal school; Vice Presidents, Miss Julia Bierbauer, of Evansville; W. S. Almond, of Salem; Miss Kittie E. Palmer, of Franklin; W. R. Nesbit, of Sullivan; Miss Mattie Lougb, of Lebanon, and L. O. Dale, of Wabash; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Annie E. Lemon, of Bloomington; Treasurer, D. E. Hunter, of Bloomington; Railroad Secretary, Nelson Yoke, of Indianapolis; with D. W. Thompson, of Elkhart, heading the Executive Committee. —John Hicks, the oldest convict in the United States, was released from the State Prison South, at Jeffersonville, last week. Hicks was bom in Montgomery County, Virginia, in 1806, and came to this State with his brother when quite a young man, locating in Wnyne County. The first crime of which he gives any account was larceny, for which he was committed at Salem, this Stite, in 1809. He was sent to the Prison South, and served out his time. He has since served six terms in prison at Jeffersonville, one at the Michigan City prison and two in the Ohio penitentiary, making a total of forty-eight years, he has spent behind the bars. He left for Indianapolis, where the State Board of Charities has promised to provide him a home. His last term in prison, which has just ended, the old m in declares, winds up his career of crime, as he is determined to lead a better life and earn an honest living for Mm* elf.