Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1890 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENT® and incidents that have LATELY OCCURRED 4n Interesting Summary of the More Important t oiiign of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualtiesand General News Notea —Judson Turner, of Seymour, was fatally kicked and trampled by a coll. —George West, an old miner at Rosedale, was caught under eight tons of falling slate and instantly killed. —Mrs. Sarah Nafrey, of Mount Lebanon, who was thrown from a horse a few days ago, has died from her injuries. —Mrs. George Kellar, of Coal Creek, Fountain County, choked to death in a -coughing paroxysm, while ill with the grip. —Edward Roswag, an employe at the Straw-board-works, Kokomo, was severely, if not fatally injured by an accident. Zed. Banham, driver of a hearse at Washington, was thrown to the ground and fatally injured in a runaway accident. While going to church in her buggy, Mrs. Gotlieb Walter, of Huntington, aged 80 years, an old pioneer, died of heart disease. —boiler explosion wrecked Hufford’s saw-mill at Rossville, and badly injured John Hufford and Albert Smith, •of Frankfort. —Solomon Henshaw, of Grassy Branch, Hamilton County, lost a cow from hydrophobia. Before her death ahe bit several dogs. —The school at Wesley, in Montgomery County, has been closed because the teacher, Jessie Swift, and thirty pupils have la grippe. Philip Snyder, a pioneer of Marion Township. Allen County, dropped dead from heart disease while walking from the house to the barn. —H. R. Frisinger, of Bobo, station agent for the C. A. Railway at that point, shot himself in the bowels in a fit of temporary insanity. —William S. Robinfeon, a wealthy farmer of Bruceville, Knox County, put a pistol in his mouth and blew out his brains. He was temporarily insane. —Lee Wah Sing, the Chinese merchant, of Logansport, has finally been granted, by the Treasury Department, a permit to re-enter the United States after visiting China. —Ben Zackery, aged 19 years, in attempting to get on a moving 0., I. & W. freight train at Crawfordsville, got his right loot under the wheels and lost half of the foot. —Burglars at Deerfield, plundered the store of Charles Barrett, and then set fire to it. Barrett and family, who reside on the premises, narrowly escaped burning to death. —Lou Morgan, a brakeman on the J. M.>& T. road, while uncoupling cars from the engine at Memphis, was caught between the draw-bars and his body dangerously crushed. —While Jefferson Bouter, residing five miles west of Montpelier, was chopping a tree down in the woods the tree fell on him, breaking his leg and otherwise injuring him. —Francis M. Dicks, of Ladoga, has been awarded S7OO damages in the Montgomery Circuit Court, on account of his being injured in a wreck on the Midland Railroad last fall. —Lycurgus L. Shields, a well-known citizen of Seymour, was stricken with apoplexy in his b’arp, and died while being removed to his home. He leaves a widow and several children. —Mrs. Emmett Early has gotten a judgment of SIO,OOO against the O. & M. Railroad Company in the Jackson County Circuit Court for the killing of her husband by a train three years ago. —Some unknown vandals at Pendleton, to vent their spite against J. C. Manning, an insurance and real estate agent, broke all the glass in the windows and front doors of his fine office with brick bats. —A large barn south of Dublin, owned by Edward Ferris, was burned. Two horses and six cattle perished in the flames. and hay, corn and farming implements were destroyed. He carried SSOO insurance. —The congregation of St. John’s Lutheran Church, of Fort Wayne, has tendered a call to Rev. H. P. Dennecker, ■of New Washington, O. Rev. John Kucher was forced to resign on account of ill health. • —James Lawrence, of Columbia City, was out hunting,and while crossingsome logs the trigger of his gun caught and both barrels were discharged, the balls ■entering the abdomen, killing him almost instantly. He was unmarried. -Bartley Morgan, an ex-soldier of the British Army, was warned to leave his hone in Fulton County within ten days. He issued a counter-proclamation that if any alleged White Caps attacked him there would probably be a funeral, and he would not occupy the coffin. —The Montgomery County Agricultural Association held a meeting at Crawfordsville, and decided to hold the next fair on Sept. 8 to 12, and the premiums will amount to $8,500. Last fall during the fair a valuable collection of coins, on exhibition in the floral hall, was stolen from Mrs. A. P. Reynolds,'and the association has just given her $35. The various superintendents ,W£r» also chosen. s f : : .f •' a. * < 4S' W' 'J j

—A tramp giving the name of G. Watson was found in a box car at Brazil with his face beaten into a jelly. His companions claim that he did it himself by striking his head against the side of the car. —Harry Haun, of Pendleton, was accidentally, shot while out hunting. He ’ and friends were hunting in a large thicket when one of his companions filled his face full of bird-shot, not knowing that he was present. The wounds are not considered dangerous. —Joe Hill, of Shelbyville, left a 38caliber revolver under his pillow, and when his wife went to make up the bed she pulled it off on to the floor, and it was discharged, the ball stiiking her in the thigh and inflicting a dangerous wound. —Thomns Legg, who has resided in Tipton County since 1871, died at the home of his son. A. M. Legg, of Windfall. He was, at the time of his death, 91 years of age. He was the father of B. F. Legg, a member of the Legislature that county two years ago. —Patents have been issued to Indianians as follows: Geo. J. Cline, Goshen, fence; Samuel L. Cowan, assignor of one-half to C. B. Emmert, Clarksburg, coffee-grinder; Jas. J. Hamilton and J. W. Hull, New Castle, seed-sower; Jas. P. Karr, Monticello, removing incrustation from boilertubes; Jas. L. Leeper, Fort Wayne, bicycle; Wm. A. Watson,Lewisville,farm gate. —Freight Engineer Charles Gorman, of the Nickel Plate road, died very suddenly at Hammond. He was standing in the cab of his engine, with his hand on the throttle, when he was stricken with heart disease and dropped to the floor. He was removed to a caboose near by, where he died a few moments later. The remains will be taken to Blanchard, Ohio, for burial. Mr. Gorman was 36 years old and unmarried. —Ed Russell, aged 18 years, employed in the planing-mill of H. M. Caylor, of Noblesville, was struck in the forehead by a piece of an exploded emery wheel, producing a serious wound between the eyes. A piece of the skull one and onehalf by three inches, together with fragments of the emery wheel, were removed. Other pieces of the wheel were thrown fully twenty-five feet. The wounded man is resting easily, and bids fair to recover. —Another heavy damage suit was filed in court at Evansville against the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad Company. The plaintiff is Horace Dahler, jr., who, while working in the capacity of switchman, was, on October 17,1889, badly injured while coupling cars, the drawheads of which, he claims, were defective, causing his arm to bo caught and mangled. It was later necessary to amputate it. He wants $20,000 damages. ' —Rudolph Ellaberger, a prominent farmer, living in the vicinity of Cambridge City, for fifty years, died at his residence just north of that city, being over 90 years old. He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1799, and has two brothers living, each of whom is over 80 years old, besides a large family surviving him. Several weeks ago he received serious injuries from a fall, having a hip .broken, which was probably the cause of his death. —At Nevada Mills, a hamlet in Steuben County, Mrs. Marie Neutz, ex-post-mistress de jure, but postmistress de facto, is holding the fort against the government. Thompson C. Terry was recently appointed, but she says he shall not officiate in her store, and that he cannot move the office to his own without an order from the Goverment to do so. A few nights ago Terry and friends attempted to take forcible possession, but the postmistress, with a squad of friends, ejected them. —A very sad accident occurred five miles south of Russiaville. Nat Heaton was out hunting rabbits and got up on a stump to look around for game, laying his gun on his arm. It slipped down to the stump, and in the fall the lock struck against the bark and discharged the load into the young man’s bowels. All one side of the abdominal wall was torn out. When found he was still alive, but his bowels were lying out on the ground. He*was carried to bis home, where he lingered in great agony until death came to his relief. —The Fort Wayne Land and Improvement Company, lately organized to open Up for settlement a large tract of land north of that city, and to promote business interests, has made the first purchase of land, consisting of 501 acres as follows: The Loree tract of 180 acres, immediately east of the Maumee bridge, for $75,000; the Stephen C. Taber property, of 160 acres, for $50,000, and the Elizabeth C. Hanna tract of 161 acres, for $29,000. The work of platting this land will be commenced at once, and the company expect to have lots for sale within thirty days. —About eight months ago Miss Rosa Fideler, a very pretty girl, 17 years old, who came with her parents to Fort Wayne from Germany two years ago, was betrayed by a young man whose name she refused to give. Grieved at her misfortune, she secluded herrfelf from the world, and in her sorrowful condition her . health gradually failed. In spite pf all that mortal science could do the poor girl ‘ pined away, and the other day breathed her Ihst. Up to her dying moment she refused to name the who caused her down fall and death. casepMs excited much sympathy. ‘