Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1890 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS and incidents that have LATELY OCCURBED. An Intqreattag Summary of the More Important Doing* of Onr Neigh bora— Wmlding* anil Drath*—Crime, Casualties and General News No tea * A Mother Finds Ker Children After TwentySeven Years of Separation. Mrs. Thomas J. Johnson, of Greenfield has just received a letter which made known the whereabouts of her daughter Alice, and son Albert Smith, whom she had not seen fortwenty-seven years. She was called to Washington City in 18(51, to nurse her father, who was wounded in the battle of Bull Bun. Her husband was killed in the same battle. She left her children with their grandmother in Scioto, N. Y., and upon the death of the grandmother, Mrs. ' Smith, who had remained in Washington asa nurse, failed to hear farther concerning her children. Afterwards, however, she learned that they had been taken by a family named Wilson, which had removed no one knew where. At the hospital Mrs. Smith, while, nursing w’ounded soldiers, became acquainted with her present busband, Thomas Johnson, whom she afterward married. After the war Mr- and Mrs. Johnson settled in Greenfield, his former home, where they have since resided. Last summer the services of H. M. Mott, editor of the Councilor of Champlain, N. Y., became enlisted, and through his advertisements the children, now grown, were found. The daughter Alice is in Montreal, Canada, and the son Albert in Scioto, N. Y. The children intend coming to see their mother as soon as they can. It will no doubt be a joyous ingMinor State Items, —Redick Horrel, a pioneer resident of Petersburg, was found dead in his bed.

—The water-works plant at Shelbyville has been sold to Walter Stanton, 3f New York, for $(>1,250. ' ’ —George Hamblion, of Nashville, was found dead in the road. Death was caused by heart failure. —st Fort Wayne Frederick Rodemeier, a tedmster, fell under the wheelsofa heavily, loaded dray, and was badly crushed. —The new election’law will add sixteen new precirfcts to Montgomery County, making a total of forty-one in the county. Lay and John Walters, excavators' in a sewer at Lafayette, were buried by a cave-in. They were rescued alive, but badly injured. —Andrew J. Catterman, of Kokomo, fell dead in his barn of heart disease. He was a wealthy pioneer resident, and was 76 years of age. —The Stultz family, residing near Zionsville, consisting of the mother and twelve children, have a combined weight of 2,974 pounds. —C. M. Carpenter, a graduate of Indiana University, class of’B9, has been elected Superintendent of the granded schools of Bloomington. —John York, of Monrovia, was fatally shot in the thigh from a gun in the hands of Oliver Bray. They were out hunting together. It was accidental. —John Henry Runnels, a well-known young man living near Bloomington, accidentally shot himself while hunting. ’He was climbing a fence, when the gun was discharged, killing him instantly. —Mrs. Charles Isain, of St LbutS,who has been on a visit for several weeks at the home of her brother, Mr. Ed Clark, at Metamora, dropped dead at the din-nef-table. Supposed to te heart 1 disease. —John Pleffly, of Ladoga, gathered a mess of string beans from his garden on Jan. 16. The “oldest inhabitant” is not old enough- to remember a like instance. —Sam’L Butcher, sr.,was seriously injured by falling slate at the Nickel Plate mine, near Knighteville. Mr. Butcher was in the act of loading a car ,*Ben the slate came* 'on him, Brushing hini under jt. Costin, a .welLto-do and highly respected farmer of Morgan County, is the father of twenty-one children by his present wife, although he is but fifty years old. Nearly all the children are living. —At Anoka, fireman Charles Nelson crawled under the locomotive to clean the ash-pan when, from some unknown cause, the engine moved up, crushing one leg off between the knee and hip and mangling the other in such a manner as to render amputation necessarv. —There is in progress the building of an immense cheese factory near Charleston, near the 0. & M. road, on the farm of James E. Cole. The material for the structure has been contracted for, and the work on the building will be commenced about March 1. It is to have a capacity for the use of from 3,000 to 5,000 pounds of milk per day. • -4-There is sarnie littlSfalkof opposing the action, of Govs Hdvey in the appointment of Mr. Royse to sneered Mr. Gilbert as a member of the B6ard of Trustees of thjQ.' Normal Schdol at Terre Haute. TJie Democrats claim that the Governor'jmust let the trustee whose term has aspired holdover until he can appoint, subject to the approval- of the Senate.

—At the session of the Indiana Miners* Convention, the-following officers were elected: .President, John Kan a, ot Cpal Bluff; Vice President, JosephDonkerly, of Dugger; Secretary and’ Treasurer, Harvey St. John, of Clinton; Auditor, Arthur Davison, of Dugger, Executive Committee, K. P. Hanna, of Carbon; William Winterbottom, of Washington, and Frank Lockard, of Ayreshire. —James Milburn, a lad attending school southeast of Delphi, created no little sensation a few days ago. While sitting in the school-room he amused himself by picking at a dynamite cartridge with a pin. The cartridge exploded, terribly mangling his hands and creating consternation in the schoolroom. One scholar was so badly frightened that he had to be carried to his home.

—The wife of policeman Gus Robertson, of Vincennes, last week presented him with a pair of fine boys. Five years ago to the very day Mrs. Robertson became the mother of twin girls. It is rather a remarkable coincidence that both of these double births should have occurred on the same day of different years, making the birthday of four members of the same family fall on the same day of the year. , —A street car on the south-side line was the scene of a brutal attack and robbery at Indianapolis. Morris Parry was driving, and the car was loaded with passengers, when he was attacked by a large negro and fatally stabbed. The murderer then secured his box of change containing fifteen dollars, and made his escape, the attack being made so suddenly that it was over before the passengers realized what was going on. —A new bank, with a capital stock of $25,000, has been organized at Rockport, with the following officers: President, Dr. F. M, Hackleman; Vice President, Thomas E. Snyder: Cashier, E. M. Payne; Assistant Cashier, William Jacobs; Directors, E. M. Payne, Thomas Snyder, H. Kramer, F. M. Hackleman, Charles Leib and B. M. Taylor. It is to be called the Farmers’ Bank, and will commence business April 1. —The other day, when the west-bound Wabash train arrived at Huntington, a little girl, aged about four years, was put off the train. She was unable to tell her name, and bore a card addressed to the matron of the Huntington Children’s Home. There was nothing.to tell where the child belongs or where she came from. Kind-hearted parties took her in charge until something definite can be learned in regard to her. —George Berry, car inspector for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company at Evansville,-was run over in the yards of the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad, by a switch engine, and instantly killed. His head was severed from his body, and he was otherwise badly mutilated. He attempted to cross in front of the engine, when he tripped and fell. He was about 35 years old, unmarried and a stranger. His home is unknown. —A contract has been let for the construction of a ditch twelve miles in length, in the upper course of Flat Rock River. Thirty bids were made for the work, which is estimated to cost $20,000. John 8. Boyles, of Winamac, Ind., was the successful bidder, securing the contract on a bid of 11£ cents per cubic yard of excavation. The ditch will reclaim several thousand acres of Flat Rock bottom, the finest farming land in the State, and will be of great benefit from u sanitary point of view. . What might Jiave been a costly wreck occurred on the Wabash Railroad, through the carelessness of the operator at Wabash station. Several fast freights, east-bound, were held at Keller’s to allow the general manager’s special to pass westward, and westwardbound freights at Wabash. The special passed safely, but the operator allowed the westward freights right of way, when orders were to hold them. In consequence a disaster was narrowly averted by the engineers One another in time to stop. Thb opera/qr was discharged. ' ' —One Bittner, a farmer residing in Harrison County, near the Washington County line, was charged ,by his neighbors with having, a few nights ngb, nailed the toes of two of his children tp the floor as a punishment for some Childish misdemeanor. The 'affair became noised about in the vitihity of his residence, and two nights after a band of White Caps called at his house, and dragging him out, cave him a ’thrashing. After the punishment was concluded, the leader ot the band warned Bittner that unless his future coqdqct was of the most exemplary character he might expect another visit that would be even <nore serious. U .j ■ ,4-The venerable Isaac Ebdaily, of Madison, a soldier of tbb <WbFIBI2, is probably survivor of war how;iiyipg in W./kudaily ..wenttp that city ip 182f>, rfpdsas Resided thereeontinuously since that time. He was born Match 31, 1791, and lhe coming MaYClf hW will bn‘99 years us age t enter upon his 100th year. He ■ffeeives a pension from the Government of $8 per month, and his friends are making an effort, through Congressman Holman, to have his meagre pension increased to SSO per month, with a fair prospect of success, as the old gentleman is nearly blind and helpless, requiring the constant attention of some one, and has been confined to his "house for the* past two years.