Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1890 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AKD riJciDENTS THAT HAT* LATELY OCOJRKEU 4a Intereattag Summary of the Mara Important Doing* of Our Neighbor!—Wnlami Ifeath*—Crime, Casualties and Gouerai News Notes. —Charles Allison was accidentally grounded in the leg by George Yard, at Kokomo. —Carl Tiederman, a merchant, of •Gpshen, was clubbed into insensibility by foot-pads. —George Grinnp, switchman, was struck by a train at Logansport and dangerously hurt, —Theodore Hull, Grand Trunk yardmaster at .South Bend, was fatally crushed between cars. —Prank Golding was terribly cut about the neck andback by the breaking ■of a heavy sheet of plate glass, at Kokomo. —Dennis Barrett waß kicked in the face by a horse at Terre Haute. His nose was broken and several teeth were dislodged. —Millard Kennedy of Union Township, Johnson County, required three days to recover consciousness after being kicked by a horse. —A 4-year-old daughter of Carl Buffer, residing near Muncie, was kicked in the head by a horse and danger- . ouslv injured. —Philip Vassen, a plumber, of Fort Wayne, upset a pot of moiten metal, which splashed into his face, blinding both his eyes. —A. Yeager was fatally hurt at Walcottville by a smash-up of machinery in the mill where he was employed. A chisel was driven into his head. —Mrs. Robert Parr, residing near Greencastle, was kicked by a mule, the animal’s heels laying bare the frontal bone of her forehead. Her injuries will result fatally. —A large fish poud, owned by J. M. Troutman, near Crawfordsville, was dynamited during the past week, and hundreds of fish killed. The affair is being investigated. —The drillers struck a fine flow 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 Wayne in June has been declared off, as satisfactory arrangements could not be made with the other cities of the proposed circuit.

—Benjamin Long, of Logansport, aged 17, has won the Youth's Companion prize of SIOO for the best essay on “The Patriotic Influence of the American Flag When Raised Oyer the Public Schools.” —The owner of a bus line at Crawfordsville is “Walkup,” and he is in a peck of trouble over what to place upon his vehicles, because his own name mightsuggest to travelers an invitation to “walk up” from the depots. Will Higgins got his hand caught in a machine ati Ball’s tin-stamp works at Muncie, and lost a finder. A few moments later Charles Valentine, another youth, went to work at the Ramo place, and lost the index finger to one of his hands and badly cut another. —The children’s disease which is reported from Muncie, and pronounced LaNona, has appeared in Greenfield. There', nre four little girls suffering with the trouble—vomiting and purging with no apparent cause. It is hoped that it may not become generally epidemic. —A terrific natural gas explosion occurred in B. W. Skelton’s cracker factory, Fort Wayne, which resulted in SSOO damage to the building. N. C. Foulks, a baker employed in the factory, waß badly bnrned. He had turned the fire in the oven too low, and the flame was extinguished while Foulks was at dinner. On his retun» explosion occurred.

—A huge live war eagl . T» months old, was captured iu Crawford County by one of the hill dweilerß of the county, who managed to escape the huge bird’s talons by throwing his overcoat over it. It measures seven feet six inches from tip to tip, add weighs fifty pounds. This kind of eagle, while found in abundance in the mountains of the Western Territories, is very rare in this part of the country. —Charley Phillips was accidentally shot by Everett Henley, at the farm residence of Nixon Henley, one mile east of Monrovia. Everett was examining an oldfashioned “pepper-box” revolver, when from some unknown cause the weapon began firing, one bail penetrating the face of Phillips near the right cheekbone, ranging downward through the parotid gland, making a serious and ugiy wound. • It is thought that he will recover. —One of the wealthiest farmers in Ohio Township, Bartholemew County, called at the Moore’s Vineyard postoffice recently to buy a quantity of postage stamps at a reduced price. He offered one and a half cents fdrtwo-cent stamps and one-half cenffor a one-cent stamp. The offer wap refused, and he became enraged and was restrained by friends from an assault on the postmaster. The stamps were not for the farmer’s use, but were sent for by a yonng lady stop*ping at his house. The farmer hoped to turn an hottest penny by making a per oent. on his investment.

—lsaac Lavender, a brlc’k- layer of Evansville, while on hii way to his work was run down by the cars, having his head cut completely off and his body badly mangled. He was about fifty years of age, and leaves a large family. —A large oak saw-log hauled in to Maley’s saw-mill, at Columbus, from the woods, which was cracked and somewhat windshaken in the heart, while being quartered up, fell apart, and blucksnnkes began running in every direction. Twenty-seven of the reptiles of all sizes were killed, besides several that got away, the largest of which measured six feet seven inches in length.

—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 he had deserted, had him arrested, convicted and sentenced for bigamy. Tyler's 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 get a divorce and free him if SSOO alimony be allowed ber and her child, which was done, and Tyler has recieved the papers that made him free to wed Miss Heffner, which he will do.

•—Pension Agent Ensley has made out and forwarded to William Bobley, of Linton, Green County, a voucher of $13,630.80, 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 $13,037.80 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 $L3,P79.07. Flaherty is insane from woundsrcacived in the service.

- A contract has jbeen close * Anderson by which tbe entire plant of the Covington Wire Nail Mill will be removed to that city at once, together with 150 operatives, with their families. The establishment, when completed, which will be cany in the summer, will cut eight hundred kegs of wire nails per day. This American wire-rod, wire and wire-nail-works in Anderson will furnish employment to about 500 skilled men. Tbe Novelty Wire and Fence Company have broke ground for their factory, and a large .force of men are at .work. The factory will employ thirty skilled men, a number of whom havo purchased lots and are building pretty .cottages in the vicinity of the factory. Negotiations are pending for a number of other valuable factories.

—The year 1890 promises more for Portland than any previous year. Eastern capital has become interested in the construction of the Chicago, Portland & Wabash Railroad, and articles of association havo been forwarded to Indianapolis to be filed. Elections will be ordered in Wayne Township and Penn Township at once, and if the aid is voted and the required amount raised the road will be constructed at once as far as Camden, and at that point the road reaches the largest gravel hills in Indiana or Ohio. Portland has secured four good factories in the last year, and is now raising money for a desk factory to be located there. Besides these, the enlargement of such factories as the Bimbel wheel-works and the Creamery Package Company, the largest of their kind in the State, is making it quite a manufacturing city..

—Patents have been granted to the following Indiana inventors: William H. Bennett, Kokomo, saw-mill dog: William L. Durth, Frankfort, metallic buggy bed; Oscar R. Pecker, Rochester, watch-bow.fastener; John E. Donaldson, Montezuma, assignor to Clay Shingle Company, Indianapolis, roofing tile; Emil E. Herman, Terre Haute, trousers; Ira W. Eikenbarv, Warren, automatic sliding gate; Edmund H. Hanna, assignor .of one-half to A. T. Baker, Portland, plane; Willis C. Howe, Evansville, spindle for vehicles; Harry Huddleston, Liberty, wheel hub; Charles McNeal, assignor of one-half to E. Skillman, Goshen, split pulley; Henry Nichols, assignor of three-fourths to J. W. and E. E. Ruark, and A. J. Bird, Mount Meridan, car coupling; Lewis J. Rice, Indianapolis, hose coupling. —George Zimmer, a farmer Of Maysville, Allen County, discovered a radical, though somewhat expensive remedy to cure vermin-infected cattle. A neighbor told him to rub the animals thoroughly with kerosene and they longer be troubled with the vermin. Zimmer did so, saturating the hides of eight cows until they were dripping wet with the fluid. Along in the afternoon he took a red-hot iron and started to brand one of the cows, when in an instant, the animal was enveloped in flames. A stampede followed, and the burning cow mingled with the rest of the herd, until all eight of them were a m ass of flames. They rushed into a barn, setting fire to it. A hay-stack was next ignited and consumed, and pandemonium reigned. The barn was saved. When all was over, it wasfotfhd that the vermin were dead, and so were the cows.