Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1890 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HATE LATHI OCCURRED. An In ter**! lag Summary of thn Morn Important liolns* of Our Neiglilmn^WmJ■iinji aotl Urothn—Crime, Canaaltim ud General New* Notes. —Josiah Wade was run oyer and killed by a train, near Jeffersonville. He had just been granted a pension, with SI,OOO back pay. —William Woods, of ltaysville, an employe at the paper-mill in Knights■town, fell into a boiling lye vat while at work and was horribly scalded. —The drillers struck a fine How of artesian mineral water at C. Fletcher’s residence at Spencer. The water pours out, by actual measurement, one hundred and eighty barrels per hour. —The spring trotting meeting which was to have been held in Fort NVayne in Jane has been declared off, as satisfactory arrangements could not be made with the other cities of the proposed circuit. —A little daughter of Mrs Henry H. Snyder was frightfully burned about the head and shoulders by the burning of an apron which she had wrapped around her neck while playing near a bonfire. —State Fish Commissioner Dennis will institute proceedings in the Dubois County courts against persons who have been violating the fish law's by seining in Patoka and other rivers of that county. —"While using some alcohol near a lighted lump Mrs. George La Comty, living near Syracuse,Kosicusko County, was seriously burned by the fluid igniting and setting tire to her clothing. It is thought she cannot recover. —John Dillman, a young man aged 17, residing in Mitchelltree Township, Martin County* accidentally shot himself with a rifle, the ball striking the muscles of the side and lodging in the shoulder. The wound is very severe and probably fatal. —Ashbury Torrence, a colored man, has sued Frederick and Alice Carson, of Washington, for malicious prosecution, asking for $2,000. The defendants caused the plaintiff’s arrest last winter, charging him with having assaulted Mrs. Carson, but he was acquitted. - William Bryan, 10 years old, son of M. L. Bryan, a grocer of Portland, while attempting to jump on a moving train on the G. It. &I. Railroad, lost his balance and was thrown under the cars. One of his legs was horribly mashed and his life is despaired of. —Will Reed, employed in the sawmill of his brother, C. E. Reed, at Swayzee, was instantly killed. A ragged sleeve caused him to be caught in the machinery. His right arm was jerked off, both legs were broken in two places, and be was mangled beyotid recognition. Deceased was 23 years old and unmarried. —Mr. and Mrs. N. F. ~Sykes, who reside near the government weather station at Weed Patch Hill, in Brown County, have a 4-yenr-old midget. The little boy is eighteen inches in height and weighs but twenty pounds. He has never known what it is to be sick any length of time. The father and mother are rather portly and of the average height. —A large oak saw-log hauled in to Mnley’s saw-mill, at Columbus, from the woods, which was cracked and somewhat windshaken in the heart, while being quartered up, fell apart, and blacksnakes began running in every direction. Twenty-seven of the reptiles of all Bizes were killed, besides several that got away, the largest of which measured six. feet seven inches in length. —The suit of Joel Brown, for slCf,ooo, against the T., St. L. & K. C. Railway, was decided in favor of the railroad in the Montgomery County court. This is the second trial. Brown claimed that he was riding in a freight car, and that the brakeman reached over the top of the car and shot through the side of the car, hitting him in the eyes, thus destroying the sight. The portion of the car was in court, and showed that the range of the bullet was upwards, and not downwards. —The Welker Colored Plate Glass Company, of Findlay, 0., has closed a contract with Rekley citizens to establish a giass plant there within ninety days, giving employment to fifty men. The bonus given them is five acres of land, free gas and $6,000 in cash, the company binding themselves to employ 100 men in one year from the first fire, and to keep the plant in operation at least five years. The money has been raised and the land secured, and the enterprise is an assured fact. —A slow fuse cansed an explosion and the death of one man, and the serious injury of two others at the stone quarry at Gheen’s cement-mill, seven miles from Jeffersonville. Thomas James, foreman, and’Samuel T. Chappel and R. C. Livingston,' workmen, had prepared a blast, and after igniting the fuse, retired at a safe distance to await thse explosion, which did not occur as toon as they expected. They returned to examine the fuse, and the explosion occurred while the men were making the examination,'instantly killing JainCsj and wounding the other two/’ •

' ' —'W. A. Parker, a farmer residing near Azalia, Bartholomew County, while in Columbus, stepped oft a side-track to avoid a freight train. He stood near the cerealine-mill, where he was Btruck by a switching engine and pressed against a will with such force as to cause death. —The gas well being drilled on the farm of Benj. Foust, south of Knightstown bas developed into a great salt producer. At a depth of 800 feet a volume ot water burst forth from the well, and j has since been flowing at a height of ' fifty feet, bringing out with it an abunI dant supply of pare salt. The contractor of the well said that it was producing one hundred barrels of salt a day. Major Doxey was informed, and will at once make arrangements to utilize the valuable production of the well. Immense crowds viewed the novel sight. —William A. Parker, aged 74 years, a millwright by occupation, who resided at Azalia, in Bartholomew County, was standing on a switch used by the J., M. &I. Railroad Company, entering between two brick walls to the large cerealine mills, when suddenly a switch engine, pushing a large freight-car, dashed in upon, and caught him between the box-car and the brick wall, in a space of but ten inches, and in a standing position, rolled him a distance of thirty feet, crushing the bones of his chest, and causing his death in thirty minutes. —The other day at Muncie, Melvin H. Tyler took out a license to wed Miss Emma Heffner. Tyler, whe is a prominent manufacturer, came to Muncie two years ago and wedded the same lady, with whom he lived nearly a year, when a former wife from Portland, Me., whom lie had deserted, had him arrested, codvicted and sentenced for bigamy, Tylers popularity and failing health secured a pardon for him from jail, where he was serving the lowest possible sentence. During the trial wife No. 1 agreed to tet a divorce and free him if SSOO alimony be allowed her and her child, which was done, and Tyler has relieved the papers that made him free to wed Miss Heffner, which he will do. —Pension Agent Ensley has made out and forwarded to William Boliley, of Linton, Green County, a voucher of $13,636.80, the largest amount of pension money ever paid to any one man in the State of Indiana. Bohley was a private in Company F, Thirty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Gen. Crust’s regiment, and is now blind from a disease of the eyes contracted while in the army. He is a German, about fifty-two years old, and owns a little farm near Linton, which place is largely made up of Germans. Until Bobley’s claim of $13,637.80 was ordered paid, the largest pension granted in this State was that of Owen Flaherty, of Terre Haute, who, on Feb. 20 last, was given $13,079.07. Flaherty is insane from wounds received in the service. —The L., N. A. & C. had a disastrous freight wreck at the iron bridge, across Sugar Creek, two miles north of Crawfordsville. As the south-bound freight was crossing the creek it was discovered that a car was off the track. It was ascertained that the second trucks of the eighth car had broken down a quarter of a mile before the bridge was reached. This car was loaded with hides. This let the trucks down upon the rails, and this and the speed of the train carried the car across the bridge, the derailed car pushing all the ties .on the bridge to the south end, making a solid floor of them. Alter this derailed car followed ten other cars, which piled upon each other until the wreckage stopped the balance of the train. These cars were thrown upon the iron work of the bridge and greatly damaged. —Two years ago a fine-looking young fellow, named Charles Shephard, came to Elkhart from Michigan, won the as- , sections of Miss Lulu Horton, daughter of Dr. John Horton, and later married her under duress. As soon as the marriage ceremony was over Shephard disappeared, and, though his wife did all in her power to discover his whereabouts, she did not succeed, and at last secured a divorce on the ground of desertion. The other day, however,Shephard voluntarily,apparently consciencestricken, put in an appearance, pnanevr the affection of his disheartened ’Wife, secured a license, was remarried by Judge Henderson, and the happy couple went to Grand Rapids, where he has a good position. Shepard’s family is wealthy and influential, and, it is understood, had something to do with his return to the girl he had deserted. —A bold attempt at jail delivery was discovered at Fort Wayne by Sheriff Vieberg. The principals in the scheme were Elmer W. the swindler who was recently arrested at Indianapolis for defrauding Labor Unions, and Charles McCarty, his pal, who claims Lima, 0., ns his home. Mitchell was placed in jail to await trial on numerous charges of swindling. Last week McCarty called at the jail and asked permission to see Mitchell, representing himself as a lawyer from Lima. His request was graned, but after his departure it was found that he had passed into Mitchell’s cell a bottle containing nitric acid and some steel tools. The other day McCarty called again, this time leaving a steel knite. He was placed under arrest, and iB now in jail in default of bail. He is undoubtedly an accomplice of Mitchell in bis swindling operations. ■ *** *- ‘ *