Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1890 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

events and incidents that hath LATELT OCCURRED. An InterextißE: Summary of the Mora Important Doing* of Onr Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. Ex-Governor Cumback’s Revenge. Hon. Will Cumback is 61 years old. lie has always been an advocate of “woman’s rights”—that is, of the right of women to do ns they please so long as they do not detract from the pleasures and enjoyment of the sterner sex. The prevalent custom at Greensburg, his home, of the ladies entertaining alone — giving “hen parties," if you please —has not met his hearty approbation, and forbearance has ceased to be a virtue. Hence, there was a commotion when the fair sex was barred the pleasure of meeting their husbands, sons, and lovers at a brilliant gathering at the elegant home of the ex-Governor on his birthday. Several days ago about one hundred gentlemen each received a neat card on which was engraved: “Will Cumback, at home Monday evening, March 24, 1890, at 6 o’clock. If you can’t come, say so.’’ At the upper left-hand corner was the picture of a fine-looking rooster, under which were the words: “This is not a hen party.” The gathering was a merry on£ and many lonely women spent the evening at home sorrowfully realizing that revenge is sweet— to the other side. •

Minor State Items. - There are now confined in the Southern prison 562 convicts. —Mrs. R. F. Nelson, aged 68 years, dropped dead while walking across the floor at her home, near Georgetown, Clark County. —Lewis Epard’s barn was burned, near Anderson, by an incendiary fire. Four horses perished. Loss, 2,500. —George Pearson, a young man of Manson, accidentally shot himself while changing his clothing, and was found dead in his room. —John Horshbarger, who fractured his skull a few days ago by a fall on the Big Four tracks at Colfax, has since died of his injuries. —A brakeman named Van Ausdal fell under a train near Connersville, and was ground to pieces. His remains were takan to Hamilton, O. —Robert Hemingray, a glass manufacturer, of Muncie, was thrown from a buggy down an embankment, and his shoulder was dislocated.

—The Ministerial Association of the Crawfordsville district will meet at Waveland on April 28, 29, and 30. Twenty-two papers will be read. —The Kokomo bit-works are turning out 250,000 auger-bits a month, or 3,000,000 per annum. It is the largest factory of its kind in the United States. —A burglar entered the residence of Mrs. Dr. Bearss at Pern, as the family were at tea, and secured a lot jewelry, a gold watch and about S2O in money. —Primus Horsey, a young man about twenty years old, undertook to board a passing train, a few miles east of Shoals, and was severely, if not fatall” injured. —Warren Rowley, of Goshen, who was injured in an accident on the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan, in 1889, has brought suit against the railroad company to recover $5,000 damages. —George M. Schultz, a prominent politician, while chopping kindling at Brazil, was struck in the eye by a living splinter. The muscles of the eye were paralyzed, causing total loss of sight. —The Fort Wayne Artificial-Ice Company has been organized, with Henry C. Berghoff as President. The company will have ice on the market in June to supply the deficiency caused by the mild winter.

—Andrew Slusser, aged 12, whose home was in Huntington, was killed’ by the cars at Andrews while stealing a ride on the Wabash road. He was playing truant, and was returning home from a trip to Peru. The largest plate of glass ever cast in the world was drawn from the annealing furnaces at the Diamond plate-glass factory,at Kokomo rec&ntiv. It measures 115 by 195 inches, weighs 2,000 pounds, and is perfect in every particular. —Prof. Elmer E. Griffith, Superintendent of the Prankfort city schools, has resigned his position, and the Board of Trustees have, selected B. F. Moore, the present Superintendent of the schools of Monticello as Mr. Griffith’s .successor. —Albert Burnett, a colored boy, 18 years old, was run over by a switch engine, in the Pittsburgh yard, at Fort Wayne, and both bis legs were taken off- c He died after being taken to the hospital. Burnett had been in the habit of jumping on switch engines to take a ride, and fell under the wheels while engaged in that dangerous pastime. —George B. Ray, the Crawford County White Cap who shot W. H. Toney full of holes at English some time ago, Was tried in the Crawford Circuit Court, at Leavenworth, and fined SSO. Ray was convicted at a previous term of the same court and his punishment fixed at two years in the State prison. A new trial, however, was granted, and Toney, the principal witness, being absent from the State, his punishment was fil'd as stated above. ' *■ -

—Robert L. Matthews, employed in the Jeffersonville car-works, slipped and fell into a kettle of boiling pitch at that institution, and suffered serious injuries. His neck and left arm were burned almost to a crisp, —Edward Buxton, aged 15 years, and residing with his father, Isaac Buxton, a well-to-do farmer, near Holman Station, Clark county, died from the effects of an injury sustained while playing ball. Some months ago he was struck in the breast with a pitched ball. At the time he experienced no serious pain from the accident, but later he gradually began to prow weak, and was compelled to go to bed, from which he was nevfei able to rise.

—One night recently a note and a bundle of switches were left on the door of one Coleman Romine, a native of Scottsburg, Romine is the prosecuting witness against Robert Rayburn, who is now in jail at that place on a charge of forging a note on the Scottsburg Loan Association for SIOO, with Romine’s name attached as surety. The purpose of the note, which was signed “White Caps,” was to intimidate Romine intc silence in the future about the matter. —Captain Henry Tower and his business partner, Chas. Cravens, were driving in a buggy on Main street at Madison, when their two horses, frightened at a passing street-car, ran away at breakneck speed. The lines broke and the animals becoming uncontrollable both gentlemen jumped out. Cravens received slight injury, but Tower is dangerously hurt. The team ran upon the sidewalk, running over and possibly fatally injuring Miss Alta Gates, daughter of Geo. Gates, of North Mad son, who had come to town for medicine foi a sick sister. Striking an electric-light pole, one of the horses, valued 11. $50(», was instantly killed and the buggy demolished. —A bold plagiarism has just been unearthed at Crawfordsville. Perry Martin, of that city, and a senior in Wabash College, took the s4l Baldwin prize nt the oritorical contest, but it is nowknown beyond a doubt that his oration was taken word for word from the interstate prize oration delivered by R. M. LaFollette, of Madison, Wis , in 1879, at lowa City. The proof is certain, for copies of the two speeches have been compared. It was thought at the time that the speech, the subject of which was “lago,” was beyond the calibre of the speaker, and an investigation led to the discovery of the fraud. R. M. LaFollette>.author of the original “lago,” is a cousin of Martin and represents the Madison, Wis., district, in Congress. Martin has left the city. —Patents have been granted to Indianians as follows; Albert Abrahams, Evansville, burglar 1 alarm; Charles Anderson, assignor, to South Bend, ironworks, South Bend, reversible moldboard plow; Wallace H. Dodge, Mishawaka, pulley; Henry B. Doolittle, Doolittle Mills, stump-puller; John Goedel, Cambridge City, saw; Charles D. Jennack, Indianapolis, dynamo electric machine; George W. Keller, Goshen, car-pet-sweeper; Thos. A. Kennedy, Monticello, assignor of one-half to J. E. West, mail-pouch fastener; -Oscar Kitchett, Valparaiso, assignor of onehalf to W. H. Curtis, Chicago, shipping car; Joseph S. Locke, Spartanburg, assignor to A. P. Glunt, Union City, wiretwister; David Mayers, North Manchester. automatic boiler-cleaner; Henry W. Taylor and C. W.* Mellman, Sullivan, relief type; David D. Weisell, Fort Wayne, foot power.

S. E. Williamson, a farmer, residing near Galena, has returned from Philadelphia, where he has been to look after his interest in the estate of his uncle, the late Isaac Williamson, the eccentric Williamson who died in that city a few months ago, leaving a vast estate, amassed by years of frugality and closel attention to business. Under the will of his uncle, Mr. Williamson was bequeathed an annuity consisting of the interest on $60,000, there being a provision in the instrument that after bequests, amounting to about six million dollars were paid, he, together with other heirs, was to> receive a certain portion of the residue. The estate has been found to amount to much more than the sum mentioned, and consequently Mr. Williamson and his co-heirs will receive a sum that will rendef him one of the wealthiest men in Floyd County. There are several other heirs who will come in for a share of the rich estate. —Since last summer, S. W. Marson & Bros’, hardware, grocery and china store at Cambridge City, has been entered six times by thieves and. goods amounting to SSOO have been stolen. Recently the firm secured the services of a detective and the other night one of the firm, the detective and two other men secreted themselves in the store. Shortly after 12 o’clock two men were heard prying at the back door, and after little trouble they gained an entrance. When in the act of plundering the store the detective and his assistants rushed upon them and captured Lemuel Crockett, while the other unknown person escaped, after swimming a canal and having the contents of a revolver emptied at him. Crockett is a brother-in-law to Lee Morgan, who is now serving a seven-year sentence in the penitentiary for committing several burglaries, and when taken to Richmond said that if he was imprisoned would turn State’s evidence.