Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1890 — INDIAN A HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIAN A HAPPENINGS.

EVENT* AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELI OCCUKKED. All Intfrutisg Summary of tho More Important Doings of Our Neighbors— \V«mltSinga anti Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notea Itewar.lH ol Geiiiouv Patents have been granted to Indianians as follows: George Adams, assignor of one-half to J. H. Statzenberger, New Albany, steam engine; -Joshua Admire, assignor to W. Presser and L. Carroll, Smith’s Valley, cornplanter; Ludwig Gutmann, Fort Wayne, choking electro-magnets; Daniel Hershberger, Huntington, assignor of onehalf to J. Ulrich River, device for wiring fence pickets; Abraham Kimber, Indiananapolis, railway tie; Nathan A. Long, Muncie, rain-water filter; Samuel Maxfield, assignor of one-balf to C. Clinton, Angola, implement for recovering lost pipe from tubular wells; Geo. R. Morrison, assignor of one-half to J. C. Ertel, folding clothes-bracket; Oscar E. N. Ricbburg, Marion, farm gate; Frank Schefold, New Albany, assignor to W. C. DePauw Company, of Indiana, means for transferring molten glass; Wm. L. Smith, assignor of one-half to W. H. H. Ayres, Indianapolis, car-coup-ling; Frederick Ulrich, Peru, vehicle axle; Charles H. Van Epps, Scott, fence wrench; John G. Zeller, Richmond, elevator gate.

Minor Stale Items. James Reeder, a pioneer resident of Howard County, died at Kokomo, aged 85 years. He came to the county in 1810. —William Justice, aged 45, a farmer living near Yorktown, was instantly Killed by a falling tree. He leaves a wife and five children. —George M. Schultz, a prominent politician, while chopping kindling at Brazil, was struck in the eye by a flving splinter. The muscles of the eye were paralyzed, causing total loss of sight. —At Vincennes, Mrs. Ann Rise, an old lady about seventy years old, fell into an open fire-place, and before she was discovered her face, and neck, and breast were terribly burned. She cannot long survive her injuries. —Frederick Wesson's residence, in the outskirts of Fort Wayne, was destroyed by fire. A tall wind-mill stood beside the nouße, and Wesson, climbing upon it, was stifled with smoke and fell into the fire, sustaining fatal injuries. —Robert L. Matthews, unployed in the Jeffersonville car-works, slipped and fell into a kettle of boiling pitch at that institution, aud suffered serious injuries. His neck and left arm were burned almost to a crisp. —The Commissioners of Tippecanoe County have rescinded the right of way of the electrio street railway over the new bridge across the Wabash at Lafayette, and ordered the track removed from the levee. Litigation will result. —Alice, the 2 year old daughter of Edward Alexander, living eight miles north of Shelbyville, was fatully burned by her clothes catching fire from the stove. Mrs. Dorsey, a neighbor, had her hands and arms burned while trying to extinguish the flames. —Dr. Alfred S. liemey died at his residence six miles southeast of Groensburg, at the age of 70 years. He practiced medicine since early manhood, several years at RushviJle, and amassed quite a fortune. Last November be was stricken with paralysis, and has been helpless since. —The Ohio and Indiana Conference of the Evangelical church at Portland, adopted strong resolutions indorsing Bistiops Esher and Bowman, and expressing approval of their course in the existing trouble in the church. Similar resolutions have been passed by other conferences.

—While Samuel C. Driver was engaged in feeding a circular saw at Fort Wayne, the brace upon which the wood rests gave way and struck the saw. A crash followed and a piece of the saw, eight inches long, was imbedded in Driver’s breast and penetrated his lung. He cannot recover. —Thomas Hutsel was killed in the old McCoy grist mill near Warren recently. In putting the belt on the wheel which turns the bolter his coat was caught by the shaft and wound up until he was choked to death. He was dead when found a few minutes afterward. He formerly lived at Rochester, and was an old miller by trade. A wife and eight children are left. —A serious injury recently befell William R. Woodard, contractor on the Monon from Orleans to French Lick. He was at Orleans and was setting a brake, when, by accident, he fell to the irack of the moving train, injuring him Very seriously. He is a son of W. R. Woodard, formerly Superinteiwlent of the Monon, but now General Manager of the Lquisville Southern. —The farmers in the neighborhood of Wheeling have been victimized out of about S4OO by a walnut-stump shark. This robber represented that he was buying stumps to be used in veneering, and paid $1 each. For every stump he offered a twenty-dollar gold-piece, and received sl9 in good' money. From twenty to twenty-five purchases were made, and then the stump-buyer fled the country. The twenty-dollar gold-pieces which he worked off were all shown to be counterfeit.

—The Ministerial Association of the Crawfordsville district will meet at Waveland on April 28, 29, and 30. Twenty-two papers will be read. —A passenger on the Muncie Route road, ran into Mrs. Farrell, aged 45 at Sheldon, near Fort Wayne, horribly mangling the lady. She was walkingon the track and did not get off at the engineer’s alarm, which was heard by passengers on the train. She lived not one hundred feet from where she was killed and was crossing the track from hei son’s home. —Govenor Hovey has pardoned Melvin Tyler, who was recently convicted of bigamy in the Delaware Circuit Court. Tyler married an estimable young lady of Muncie, claiming that he had been divorced from his first wife in New York. It afterwards tianspired that no decree had been entered in the case, and he was indicted and convicted. The Governor believes that Tyler acted in good faith in the matter, and pledges have been made that he will remarry his Muncie wife as soon as he can legally do so. —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 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 Madison, who had come to town for medicine for a sick sister. Striking an electric-light pole, one of the horses, value'd at SSOO, was instantly killed and the buggy demolished.

—To Miami County farmers belongs the honor of the establishment of the first farmers’ institute in the State, together with probably the largest average attendance and general good features. As a fitting climax to their successful second year meetings the closing session on April 4 and 5 was an immense affair, devoted to general business, but principally to the subject of butter. Prizes aggregatingmnny hundreds were offered, special rates secured upon railroads entering Peru, aud attendance was large from all over the State. The butter exhibit was held in the public hall of the city. There was also a grand exhibition upon the streets of the country’s fine dairy cows.

Holman Davis, a colored man, living six miles north of Now Castle, found a stake driven in the ground in his dooryard the other morning, on which was a White Cap notice, embellished with a death’s head and bundle of switches, warning him to leave the country within fifteen days on pain of receiving 100 lashes at the hands of the Regulators. Davis is an inoffensive and respected man, and no cause is known for the warning except that his black skin is offensive in the eyes of the Virginia Bourbons who populate that neighborhood. Davis has armed himself heavily, and will give the desperadoes an interesting reception if they undertake to execute their thieat. —The faculty of Wabash College held an important meeting at Crawfordsville to take action in regard to the oration of Perry J. Martin, who sesured the Baldwin prize of S4O by using the speech of another person. Martin had confessed his guilt and returned the money, and said that he never dreamed of securing the prize, and only wanted to make a credlta ble showing He asked to be permitted to graduate next June. It wa’s the unanimous decision of the faculty that Martin be dismissed from the college, and notice to this effect was sent to Martin. It was not decided who should get the Baldwin prize, but it is probable that the second best, Mr. Cain, of Danville 111., will receive it.

—Grant Sheirman, of Pulaski County, was lodged in the Cass County Jail at Logansport on the charge of horsestealing. For some lime a gang of horse-thieves have been operating in the counties of Cass, W'hite, Fulton, Miami and Pulaski without detection. Recently three horses stolen from Cass County were found in the possession of Sheirman. His mistress who had been terrified into silence, told the officers of his connection with the stealing and he was arrested in Wabash County. Sheirman threatens to implicate others of the gang, and it is possible that an extensive combination of two or three in each county will be brought into the toils. Over fifty horses are said to have been stolen by the gang. —Patents have been granted to Indianians as follows; Albert Abraham, Evansville, burglar 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, Fail*land, mail-pouch fastener; Oscar KitchetL Valparaiso, assignor of onehalf to Wl\H. Curtis, Chicago, shipping car; Joseph, S. Locke, Spartanburg, assignor to A. P. Glunt, Union City, wiretwister; David Meyers, North Manchester, automatic boiler-cleaner; Henry W. Taylor and C. W. Mellman, Sullivan, relief type; David D. Weiaell, Fort Wayne, foot powf, r .