Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. * An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbor*— Wediling* anil Death* —Crime, Casualties and General News Notes, Multiplicity of Living Ancestors. A very uncommon family relationship has just developed in the family of Ira Cooper, who lives near Mitchell. His infant son, Oliver Perry Cooper, enjoys the distinction of hnving six living grandmothers, and of these the four great-grandmothers each have Ann as a part of their names. This peculiar consanguinity is certainly a rare circumstance, and perhaps cannot be equaled in all the world. The young child’s great-grandmothers are Mrs. Ann Beasley, Mrs. Ann Neal, Mrs. Mary Ann Roberts, and Susan Ann Cooper. Their ages range from seventy to eighty-three years. One of them lives in Monroe County and the other three in Lawrence County, in which Mitchell is located. They are so near in their locations that all could be summoned together at the home of their little grandson in ten hours’ time. The two grandmothers are Mrs. Sarah Cooper and Mrs. Mary Beasley, and they live at Mitchell. Both the grandfathers are living, and their names are Daniel Boone Cooper and Henry W. H. Beasley. One great-grandfather is living, and his name is John Beasley. Although the child has so many grandmothers living, its own mother is dead. She died about a \peek after the birth of the son. The remarkable longevity of these people is a fact that will be a delight for scientists to consider. Patents Issued to Indiana Inventors. Patents have been grafted Hoosier inventors, as follows: James W. Bader, Bed Key, washing m ichine; Joseph Balsley, Seymour, clamping machine for wood-working machines and clamping device f(?r saw tables; Jefferson M. Belote, Greenfield Mills, wire and picket-fence machine; Simon L. Bray, assignor of one-half to B. Gugenbeim, Evansville, combined jug-handle and stopper; Calvin B. Davis, assignor of one-half to L. F. Kimberlin, Indianapolis, cultivator; William J. Hogue, La Otto, wind mill; Charles A. Jones and C. L. Bothwell, Lagrange, swinging chair; James Miller, Lafayette, car door; William Nehering, assignor of one-half to G. W. Warren, Evansville, solderingiron heater; Herman Prather, Jonesville, corn-planter; William Brady, Sellersburg, separating apparatus; Frederick Sielentopf, assignor of one-half to J. H. Briggs, J. N, Phillips, A. Grimes, J. Q. Sutton, J. B. Beynolds, J. F. Gulick and J. Charper, Terre Haute, apparatus for making salt; Samuel D. Straw, Elkhart, wind mill; John W. Titus, Eckerty, combined roller, harrow and marker; Charlea B: Wanamaker, assignor of one-half to A. G. Cox, Indianapolis, pencil sharpener; Frank T. Zimmerman, Auburn, wind mill. Minor State Items. —While gunning for rats at Muncie, Earl Hodge, aged 12, shot himself through the foot. —The Opalescent glass factory at Kokomo is being enlarged to double its present capacity. —A. B. Shadamy, of Waynesville, was dangerously injured by falling from a train near Seymour. The hub and spoke factory of Heibburn Bros., at Bochester, was burned. Loss, $13,000; insurance, $1,500. —The tile factory of Laster & Grant, at Daleville, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $3,000. No insurance. —James Lyons and Charles Helwig were dangerously injured by a cinder explosion at the Brazil rolling mill. —William Britz, an Evansville merchant, swallowed carbolic acid with suicidal intent, and will probably die. —A street railway from Warsaw to Spring Fountain Park will be constructed as soon as the proper franchise is secured. —Stephen Gapen, of Thorntown, dropped dead near his home while returning with his wife from a visit to Greensburg. —Judge Noyes, of LaPorte, has appointed Albert E. Thornton receiver of the Continental Insurance Company of Michigan City. —John M. Oren, an inmate of the Dearborn County asylum, drowned himself in the creek near Newtown. He was an ex-soldier, aged 83. —Hon. Nelson Bernard, legislative Bepresentative from Porter County, lost an eye while hunting rabbits. A shot glanced from a tree. —The Standard Oil Company has purchased ground at Crawfordsville and will build several large tanks for coal. This place will be made a distributing point. —Mr. and Mrs. John Emerson, of Golden City, Mo., are in Lafayette to answer to a charge of embezzling SBSO from Lulu Minnear, Mrs. Emerson’s former ward. —During the year just passed the Morgan Countv Clark has issued 190 marriage licenses, and Judge Grubos, of the Morgan Circuit Court, has granted fifteen decrees of divorce. —The Little Biver drainage canal in Allen and Huntington counties is finished. With its branches it drains about 80,000 acres. Of the $152,602 collected for it $2,417.89 still remains in the hands of the Commissioners.

-George W. Alford, elected from Martin and Daviess counties to fiil the unexpired senatorial term of C. K. Tharp, claims to have been elected for four years, and will defend his claim in the courts. —Fifteen years ago William Guthat, a Frenchman, suddenly disappeared from LaPorte, leaving considerable property. Eecently a peddler appearednt LaPorte, claiming to be Guthat, and is taking steps to Becure the property, which his wife deeded some years ago to one Cumro. Mrs. Guthat is a victim of intermittent insanity. —Edwin Morrison. 17 years old, a son of William H. Morrison, was struck and instantly killed, nt Hammond, by the fast mail train on the Michigan Central road. He stepped off the east-bound track to get out of the way of a freight, when the incoming mail train struck him, completely serving his head from his body. —Extensive additions will be made shortly to the plant of the New Albany structural iron-works and rail-mill, which will make these works the largest of the kind in the West. The establishment now employe about four hundred operatives, and the paoposed enlargement will greatly increasethe number of employes. —Thomas Jackson, a plasterer, who resided at New Providence, was drowned in Muddy Fork. He left New Provi-* dence slightly intoxicated, and it is supposed that in crossing the bridge he fell into the swoolen stream and was drowned. His hat was found about a mile below the town, but the body has not been recovered. * -Miss Emma Prewitt, of Cartersburg, who was injured in the wreck on the Big Four, near Morgantown, in August,lßß7, has brought suit against the company for SIO,OOO in the Morgan Circuit Court. Henry Crone, a prominent farmer, near Martinsville, received a broken jaw and internal injuries in the same wreck, and has been offered $1,200 to compromise. He has not yet accepted. —At Marion, William Newcomb, 18 years old, a hardened young criminal, plead guilty to highway robbery, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary., On the way to the jail Newcomb threw a handful of pepper in the eyes of Deputy Sheriff Frank Fagan, who had him in charge, and attempted to escape. The officer knocked Newcomb down and chocked him until help arrived. —As Patrick McGee was employed at the Bee Line yards at Union City, shoveling coal from a car into a coal bin, a box car was shunted into the side track, striking the car in which he was standing. The concussion threw him on the track, when a car-wheel passed over his head, killing him instantly. He was about fifty-five years old, and leaves a widow, but no other family. —About four hundered ex-Union soldiers, residents and members of the Service Pension Association, met at the Court House in Muncie, and indor&d Governor Hovey’s appeal to Congress. Besolutions were passed strongly indorsing the Governor’s address, after which a permanent organization was effected. Speeches were made by Hon. J. W. Byan, Dr. Kemper, Dr. Good, Bobert Snodgrass, W. H. Younts and others. —William Stilley, Lynn Smith, and Harley Moore, of New Castle, were 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. —JohnW. Cammins, a fanner living two miles south of Middletown, accidentally shot and killed himself at his home. He was preparing to go to a neighbor’s to assist in the work of butchering. He had taken down his gun, and was in the act of putting a wad in the muzzle to protect it from the weather, when it was discharged, and the ball passed through his head from the mouth upward and backward. He died in a few minutes. He leaves a wife and several children. While Mr. N. M. Holmes, of Columbus, was going through his large safe, arranging it for this year’s business, he found a sealed envelope, on which was marked, “Last will and testament of Samuel J. Linton.” Dr. Linton was one of the oldest citizens in this county, and died on December 29, 1889. It was not known by his relatives that he had made a will. The instrument was executed in 1870, and placed in this safe, which was then owned by Mr. Gus Hurzsch, a druggist. The instrument will be probated to-morrow. —The first annual reunion of the Fort Wayne Division of the National Asso- j ciation of Ex-Prisoners of the War was held recently. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Capt. S. L. Lewis; Vice President, John A. Solidav; Secretary, 9. W. Lynch, of Ossian; Treasurer, Capt. J. W. Clark. Gen. A. D. Streight, of Indianapolis, made a brilliant address in the afternoon. Hon. J. B. White also spoke entertainingly. In the evening a grand banquet was held at Standard Hall. Tbs principal toasts were responded to by Gen. Streight, B. C. Bell, and Mason Long. There were many visitors from out of town.