Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1890 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

ETENTS AMD INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—tVe<ltlings and Deaths —Crime, Casualties and General News Notea —Oil in paying quantities has been struck seven miles northwest ot Noblesville. —Miss Susan Hines, residing near Bremen, committed suicide by hanging. No cause is known. —At Danville, William Jeffers fell upon the icy sidewalk and received a serious fracture of the skull. —Frank McNeeley, of Crawfordsville, fell down stairs with a trunk and broke hie arm, besides suffering other serious bruisee, —Thejjeater in a passenger coach on the 1., D, & W., exploded at North Salem, wrecking the ear badlv, but injuring nobody, —Two brothers, named Martin and Henry Reimers, were instantly killed at Wheeler, by a backing engine. They wete riding on a track velocipede. —A little 3-year-old son of Mrs. Clara Wright, of Portland, was seriously burned by the careless use of natural gas. It is not believed he can recover. —At Fort Wayne, Joseph Barlow, a railway engineer, swallowed a large drink of poison, mistaking it for cough syrup. His life was saved with difficulty. —Lime-deakrs of Huntington have consolidated forming an organization under the name of the Western Lime Company, with a paid up capital of >150,000. —Geneva May, the 8-year-old daughter of ira Mason, died at Logansport, after suffering untold agony from internal injuries sustained by falling down stairs. —Mrs. James Strobridge, residing near Greenfield, dropped dead ©f heart disease. She leaves a husband and four small children, one of them being only fouj- weeks old. —William Whitlock, employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Fort Wayne, was caught between the cars and so badly crushed that he cannot live. He has a large family. —Kokon o captured another bentwood factory last week, employing $50,000 capital and fifty workmen. This is Kokomo’s twenty-ninth new factory since the advent of natural gas. —The grave of President Lincoln’s mother, in Spencer County has been unmarked for years, until recently some one had an iron fence erected around it and a neat mirble slab set up. —Austin Boots, the 20-year-old son of Dr. S. S. Boots, of Greenfield was internally and probably fatally injured while in the act of leaping from an eastbound freight train near the passenger depot.

Henry Mowry, a farmer, about sixtyfive years of age,* residing four miles west of Winchester, in felling a tree was caught and fearfully mangled and bruised about the head and body. His recovery is doubtful. —The remains of Geo. W. Allen, the missing Chicago and Atlantic brakeman, were found in the St. Mary’s River at Decatur, with a great gash cut in his head. He had undoubtedly lost his balance and fallen against the bridge and into the stream while his train was passing over the bridge. Allen lived at South Whitley. —Mrs. Lorena Coombs, of Charlestown, was found dead in her bed. She had passed away some time during the night without awakening any of the other inmates of the house. When her daughters went to awaken her they found her dead. She had a stroke of paralysis two years ago, and had been in a feeble condition ever since. —Lee Wah Sing, a laundryman of Logansport, has an aged and widowed mother in China, who is desirous of having her son visit her. He has asked the department at Washington if he would be allowed to return, but was informed that he would be debarred by existing law from re-entering the United States upon his return from visiting China.

—A barn on the iarm of Joe H. Kraft, about two miles north of New Albany, •was destroyed by fire, causing a Joss of $6,000. Six blooded horses, one of which was alone worth $2,500, were consumed, together with nine buggies and other vehicles. The cause of the fire is unknown, but is supposed to have been due to a lighted cigar having been left in the hay. —At the annual meeting of Indiana coal operators, held at Terre Haute, the following officers were elected: President, S. M. Yeomans; Vice President, J. Smith Talley; Secretary and Treasurer, W. E. Eppert. The matter of company stores was discussed, and the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Hancock vs. Yadden came in for its share of attention. —A female white child, about three months of age, was found floating in the French island chute of the Ohio River, about fifteen miles below Rockport. The skull was fractured and the body bruised, showing that it had been murdered, after which its clothes had been removed and the body thrown into; the river to cover up the crime. There is no clew to the guilty party.

—Miss Lota Pitctard obtained judgment in the Crawford County Circuit Court for $1,150 damages against the L., E. & St. L. Railroad Company for injuries received last June at a dangerous railroad crossing. - The Indiana Live Stock Insurance Company, of Crawfordsville,has elected the following new directors: Zack Mahorney, P. C. Somerville, A. F. Ramsey, Jasper N. Davidson, J. H. Wasson, D. H. Rountree, and T. F. Davidson. This company was organized four years ago, and has issued 10,059 policies, carrying $3,000,000; receiving $200,000 thtrefor. Losses paid, $125,000. —Thousands of grasshoppers appeared on the farms in the southwestern part of Daviess county, when the weather was like summer, and commenced an onslaught on the growing wheat. The farmers are trembling for the safety of their crops, fearing that the pests will reappear as soon as the weather moderates. Their appearance is phenomenal there, as grasshoppers in great numbers are practically unknown. —An unprovoked White Cap outrage is reported from Jackson County. White Caps visited the home of Andrew Slate, at Crothersville, dragged him from his bed, and when he resisted shot him in the breast, inflicting a wound from which he is thought to be dying. They then visited the home of John C. Warner, dragged him from his bed, and gave him a severe whipping. Both Slate and Warner are hard workers and peaceable

men. —A Commercial Club, composed of about fifty of the leading merchants and manufacturers of Franklin has been organized. The object of the club is the advancement of the interest of Franklin in securing waterworks, electric light, natural-gas, additional manufacturers, etc. C. W. McDaniel was elected President; M. L. Johnson, Secretary; and J. M. Storey, Treasurer. The club promises to be a great factor in developing the city’s interests. —At the first annual election of directors and officers of the Delaware County Bank, recently the capital stock was increased from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO, with the following gentlemen taking the new stock issued: William Phillips, M. James, Thomas Port, John Laboyteaux, James Watson, Adam Wolf, and Dr. J. W. Garner, the original stockholders, who remain as such, being R. Sprankle, J. R. Sprankle, C. H. Church. —Charles Kuryart.a prominent farmer of Pulaska County, and his neighbor, Ferdinand Gastings, in the adjoining county of Starke, quarreled over the boundary line of their farms. Gastings went to Kuryart’s home, called him out, and shot him dead, and fired another load into the open door of the house, seriously wounding Kuryart’s child. Gastings then walked a short distance from the house, reloaded his gun, sprung the trigger with a stick, and shot his own head off. —The Crawfordsville Swnday Star, about two months ago, offered a prize to “the prettiest girl in Montgomery County.” The young ladies who desired the prize sent in their photographs, from which the selection was to be made. This week these phetographs were submitted to Horace McVicker, of Chicago, who decided that Miss Katie Allen, <of Crawfordsville, “had the handsomest face.” This photograph was engraved and appeared in the Star. The prize was a large picture.

—Orville Peebles, a 14-year-old son of Walter Peebles, who lives six miles east of Crawfordsville, went out to hunt rabbits. While he was' standing upon a log his dog jumped against the gun, causingdt to be discharged. The shot passed through his righthand, passing between the young man’s coat and body, and entered the jaw, beneath the angle. His teeth were loosened, but the jawbone was not broken. Two fingers of the hand had to be amputated. After the accident he walked about a hundred yards, when he fell to the ground,where he was soon afterward found. —Patents were issued to Indianians, to-day, as follows: James A. Beecher, Mishawaka, revolving turret bolt threading machine; Simon Bollinger, South Whitley, rotary grain meter; Geo. Kline, Goshen, wire-fence machine; John Cosgrove, Oxford, assignorof onehalf to J. A. Cosgrove, Utica, 111., thill coupling; Chas S. Monroe and C. E. Yeager, Kinzie, car coupling; Erastus C. Nolland, Crawfordsville, incrustation preventive; James M. Smith, London, liniment; Carrington L. Westbrook, Reynolds, mop and wringer; Frederich Wilkening, Elkhart, lamp-supporting device; Marquis D. L. Windell, assignor to self and Z. T. Funk, Corydon, rock drill. —A. R. Hill, of Danville, 111., and Benjamin F. Hayler, of Attica, Ind., have been employed to prosecute a civil suit against the thirty White Caps who took Rev. Lindsay out of his church, about six weeks ago, north of Covington. There was a long consultation in Hill’s office as to the steps to be taken in the matter. The case will be commenced in the Circuit Court at Covington in a few days, and' no t doubt it will be transferred to the District Court'at Indianapolis for final hearing. The prosecution claim that they can identify twenty-eight out of the thirty White Caps, and as there are wealthy farmers on both sides it is to be presumed there will be quite a determined litigation