Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1890 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

ETKNTI AMD INCIDENTS THAT HATS LATELI OCCURRED. 4n Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddingn and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notea Queer Sort of an Impostor. The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad officials are looking for a man .giving his name as C. H. Watts, wljo has been traveling on the engines of the company on the Fort Wayne division for several weeks, representing himself as the new traveling inspector o? - engines. He was thoroughly posted on the machinery of an engine, and would have them cut loose from the trains aud run down the track and watch them closely. He would then test the valves and other parts of the machinery, and did it so well that he was not suspected of being a fraud. The other day he sent a message to Crestline ordering Engineer Horning laid off for not taking proper care of his engine, although Horning is one of the best engineers on the road. The order ■was, strange to say, carried out, and it was not until Mr. Horning telegraphed to the superintendent at Fort Wayne, asking the reason, that the fraud was dijcovered. The fellow borrow T ed money from different railroad men. He evidently learned that he was discovered, and he has not been seen since. A reward will be offered for his apprehension. Knights Templar. Before adjournment at Indianapolis, the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar elected the following officers: Henry H. Lancaster, of Lafayette, Grand Commander; Irvin B. Webber, of Warsaw, Deputy Grand Commander; Joseph A. Manning, of Michigan City, Grand Oeneralissimo; James B. Safford, of Columbus, Grand Captain General; James D. Stanley, Terre Haute, Grand Prelate; Simeon S. Johnson, Jeffersonville, Grand Senior Warden; Charles W. Slick, of Mishawaka, Grand Junior Warden; Joseph W. Smith, of Indianapolis, Grand Treasurer; William H. Smythe, of Indianapolis, Grand Reporter; “Lon” E. Smedley, of Greencastle, Grand Standard Bearer; W. T. Durbin, of Anderson, Grand Warden; Roger Parry, of Indianapolis, Grand Captain of the Guards. Minor State News. —Mrs. Mary Helkenrich dropped dead at Vincennes. Bluii'tou is working to secure a large beet-sugar factory. —Thomas Duckworth, residing five miles west of Martinsville, was kicked in the side by one of his young horse. A rib was broken and he was bady injured internally. —Clarence Briant, colored, familiarly known throughout Jeffersonville as “Six-bits,” fell off the excursion steamer Sunshine, at the the foot of Wall street, and was drowned. —Robbers broke into the Park House, at Muncie, and went to the room of the proprietor’s son, Harry Steele, and stole all the young man’s clothing, nearly SIOO worth, and escaped. —Alpha Torny, the 3-year-old child of James Tomy, of Richmond, pulled a tub of hot water over on itself, scalding it from its chin to its toes. It lingered in great agony until next morning, when it died. —David Mock, a farmer, living three miles north of Jeffersonville, has a Jersey sow that a few days ago gave birth to eighteen pigs. One was accidentally kilTed, but the other seventeen are alive and doing well. A jail delivery was effected at Lebanon by prying the jail door off its hinges, and five prisoners out of the six confined therein made their escape. Charles Miller, who is in jail awaiting trial for murder, is the only prisoner who remains. —Twelve of the leading citizens of Wayne County have filed a complaint in the Wayne Circuit Court against the Board of Geunty Commissioners to enjoin them from building a new courthouse, which according to the plans of Architect McLaughlin, of Cincinnati, will cost when finished, $300,000. —The J. M. &I. train ran over and killed an unknown man, supposed to have been a tramp, at Stite’s Crossing, two miles east of New Albany. At the place where the accident occurred there is a double track. The man stepped off one track jast in time to be struck by the train on the opposite track. His body waß so horribly mangled that recognition is impossible. —lt is still feared by the friends of Isaac White, residing five miles from Paoli, in Ojange County, that the White Caps will make another assault on the old man, and a guaad of Grand Army men, of which he is a member, keeps watch over his premises. In the latter part of February he was brutally treated by masked men, and is still suffering from the wounds inflicted. —Mrs. James Hazzard, a well-known lady residing at Scottsburg, was perhaps fatally injured at her borne in that city. In passing an open fire-place, her dress became ignited, and in attempting to quench the flames she ran into the open air. In an instant all her clothing was ablaze, and before assistance could reach her, her body and hands were frightfully burned. Her condition is serious.

—A bu let from an unKfiown source crashed t&Tongh a window in E. J. Langdon’s Mnncie, and bnried itself in the wall where Mrs. Langdon had been sitting just a moment before. —A bloody battle of vicious stock took ! place in the western part of Bartholoi mew County recently. A heifer with a | yonng calf was set upon by hogs and j both devoured. A drove of fat cattle in an inclosure near by became infuriated at the odor from tha slain cow and calf, broke through the inclosnre, charged on the hogs in their bloody work and gored them so viciously that ten were : killed and many others badly hurt. —The Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association now claims a membership of 1,050 in Clay County. Ex-Representa-tive F. J. 8. Robinson is President. A secret session of the eight lodges in Harmony Township was held at Clay City recently. Officers were elected and committees appointed, and it is rumored that steps were taken to establish a trading station. The order seems to be growing throughout the country. I —David Hosea, an old and respected farmer of Barr Township, Daviess County, was taken from his house bv a masked mob the other night and whipped to insensibility, over 100 blows being administered. Hosea caused the arrest of a local politician at Connelburg on a charge of attempting to buy votes, and it is believed that the Whitecap outrage is the outgrowth of this trouble. The man is seriously injured and may not recover. Several arrests will be made. —HeDry Herns, living two miles west of Dana, accidentally shot himself, inflicting probably fatal injuries. He was out hunting with some companions, and had loaded his gun and rested it on the ground, leaning it against his body. It is supposed that in lifting the gun up again it caught in his boot-strap and discharged the gun, the charge cutting his ribs apart and exposing his left lung, then tearing off the left side of his face and skull, through which his brain protruded. He cannot recover. —A serious case of poisoning,causing loss of life, occurred atPeunville, three miles east of Cambridge City. Francis Oldecker and family of six after eating pork and beans for supper were taken violently ill, and serious doubts as to their recovery were entertained. Mr. Oldecker died after two hours of suffering, but the others were somewhat relieved by vomiting. As to where the poison came from, and the true character, nothing is definitely known, but is supposed to have been in the pork. —A murderous “tough,” named Grant Cress, called at the office of county physician Stunkard, at Terre Haute, demanding the release of his father from the hospital. When the doctor refused to issue the order, the man attacked the physician with a knife. He made several deadly rushes at him, in one of them cutting the doctor’s hand. The doctor had nothing with which to defend himself, and was alone, but Le fought the man as best he could till a policeman arrived and arrested him. Cress was crazy from liquor. —Patents have been granted to Indianians as follows; Ezra Bowman, Remington, car-pusher or pinch-bar; William G Frost, Lebanon, fence; Frederick Graff, jr., Fort Wayne, compound for cleaning jewelry; John Jones, Elkhart, railway crossing; Frank and J. Hein, Joseph Jasper, flexible cover for cylinder or roll-top desk; George W. Marble, assignor of one-fourth to W. W. Simons, Plymouth, metal roller forgingmachine; George W. S byman, Terre Haute, muffler; William Teamer, Evansville, key-bolt and washer for railway joints. —A horrible accident occurred near Macy, a few days ago, in which Mrs. Martin Weaver, a most estimable lady, lost her life. Her clothing caught fire in the sugnr camp, and notwithstanding the most desperate efforts every shred was consumed and her entire body was terribly bnrned. In her agony she lay there two hours before relief came. A dinner-horn was close by, but so exhausted had she become that she was unable to make a sound to attract the attention of her husband a short distance away. i —Mrs. John G. King died at Sweetzer the other night from injuries suffered in a collision between a Panhandle freight-car and a street-car in which the deceased was riding. Mrs. King was thrown violently against the side of the car and rendered unconscious. The accident occurred two months ago, bat the injured woman never afterward left her bed. Soon after the accident Mrs. King entered suit for $5,000 against the streetcar and railroad companies. These will be dismissed and other suits for larger amounts will be entered by ber administrator. —At Wabash Marshal Ellis arrested George Brown, a well-known colored resident, and janitor of the Presbyterian Church, on a charge of administering medicine to Annie Hnddleßon, of Rich Valley, Wabash County, that c&Ußed her death. The warrant was sworn out by Will Huddleson, brother of the girl, who asserts that Brown was a regular visitor at the house, that he conveyed the drug from Brown to her, and that she informed him she had swallowed the medicine. When discovered the girl was lying nnconscioas, and died twenty-four hours afterwards. Brown, ithongh much distressed by his arrest, vehemently asserts his innocence.