Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1890 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doing* of bur Neighbors—Wedding* and Deaths—Crimes, Casual tie* and General News Notes. Minor State items. . —A sorghum factory is to be started at Mooresville. —Charles Bell, a boy of 14 was bitten by a copperhead snake, near New Providence, and is not expected to live. —There is a dog at Crawfordsville that chews tobacco like a man, and even hunts in the gutters for cigar-stubs. —Five car-loads of poplar and walnut Jogs have been shipped to Germany from Bedford. —James Walker was kicked in the head by a horse at Shelbyville and dangerously injured. —Mrs. Wm. Hooper, of Ragelsville, was crushed under the falling limb of a tree and seriously injured. —Dunkirk has a glass-bottle nnd fruit-jar factory, to employ 200 men, and to begin operation September 1. —John Gilman, an insurance agent of Greencastle, fell backwards out of a road-cart, striking on his head. He is in a precarious condition. —Mrs. Frank R. Barrows, the wife of the well-known photographer, of Fort Wayne, was seriously injured in a runaway. She is in a critical condition. —A J., M. I. train, near Edinburg, struck a wagon containing two sons of Albert Durbin, fatally injuring one of them. One of the horses was killed. —Will Cramer fell eighteen feet from a scaffold on the new Christian Church at Muncie, receiving probably fatal injuries. —Curtis Vestal, of Putnam County, was appointed to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., but, failing to pass an examination in mathematics, has returned home. William Wagner and wife, of Terre Haute, were thrown out of a carriage in a runaway, near Clinton, and Mr. Wagner’s skull was fractured, while his wife was painfully injured. —A 3-year-old son of Ezra Littlejohn, Lewis Township, Clay Count”, fell into a tub of boiling water and was scalded to death, while his mother was hanging out clothes. —Daniel M. Cavender, a wealthy and well-educated resident of Versailles, formerly suveyor of Ripley County, has been received at the Prison South to serve a two-years’ term for burglary. —Mrs. Rose Monroe, of Muncie, took a dose of poison with suicidal intent, but was found by her husband before life was extinct and revived. No cause was given other than despondency. —Spencer County will this year turn out forty graduates from her public schools, as follows: Rockport, 16; Grandview, 3; Carter Township, 3; Clay, 2; Grass, 4; Jackson, 2; Luce, 7; Ohio, 3. —At Muncie an incendiary set fire to the barn of Mr. Ed. Templer, which was consumed, with a family horse, harness and other things, making a loss of S4OO. During the fire rain was pouring down. —Mrs. Otto Hyden, of Rosedale, recently extracted from her breast a needle-point which had entered her thumb twenty years ago and had been peregrinating through her anatomy ever since. —Three men of Cfawfordsvilie, Aaron S. Hughes, Judge T. F. Davidson, and H. S. Watson, have been completely cured of smoking by having the grip. Now they cannot bear the smell of a pipe or cigar. —A 5-year-old daughter of Thomas Troxell, of Muncie, was precipitated to the ground from a second-story window by the giving way of a wire screen. She fell upon the screen and was not seriously hurt. —The 5-year-old child of Frank Callaway, of Wabash, took a quantity of concentrated lye, horribly burning its mouth and throat. Its recovery is doubtful. The mother of the infant set a can containing the lye down while washing, and did not see the child swallow it. —A two-year-old child of James Best, at Hamrick’s Station, Putnam County, met with a sudden and singular death. It was in the act of vomiting, from which hernia ensued, and in the effort to reduce it a blood vessel was ruptured, and death followed, all inside of two minutes. —Fred Lockenour, an employe of Thomas’mill, at Scottsburg, was seriously injured while at work by the bursting of a wheel, a large piece of which struck him on the forehead and inflicted) a deep cut. ’Tie also received several painful bruises from the flying fragments.—Four valuable horses belonging to Mrs. Johanna Hamilton, near Fort Wayne, escaped from their pasture and ran upon the track of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad. A freight train ran the animals down on a bridge and burled them to the ground below. All four were killed. —A horrible accident is reported from Mexico, Miftms County. in which the 6-year-old Haney was t^Ughy^ revolving saw-jnill dragged i®“iud rbvolvbd arouhdy completely,shatt6ij,pg one leg and both arms and brwkfng’ihinest every bone in her

—Harry Pressler, living three miles I southwest of Tipton, accidentally shot i himself through the left arm, near the left shoulder. The wound was not • fatal but painful one. —A savage sow attacked Mrs. Samuel Minnus, of Elkhart County, while she was crossing a field, and lacerated her arm. She was rescued by a cow in the same field, which took in the situation ( and charged upon the hog. —The new Police Commissioners, of Fort Wayne, who were recently appointed, have started in to purge the police force of some inefficient officers. Lieut. Fuchshuber was discharged for drunkenness, and Officer Richter was suspended for thirty days for drinking while on duty. Officer Lapp was appointed Lieutenant to succeed Mr. Fuchshuber. Nettleton'Davis, a son of Mr. B. T. Davis, ofNew Washington,was drowned in the river n enr Dean’s peach orchard. This family seems’ to be unfortunate. Tbe oldest brother was killed several years ago on the L. & N. Railroad, and another, George, who married Argus Dean’s daughter, is in a critical condition from a blow on the head caused by a rock thrown by a rough character. —Mrs. Ethan Flahvin and a lady friend were out driving at Anderson with a new phreton and a spirited horse, and when in the vicinity of the Second ward school building the horse became frightened and started to run, overturning the vehicle and throwing the ladies violently to tbe ground. Beth were picked up unconscious and very seriously hurt. The horse ran over a mile before being captured. —The Lake Shore passenger train, No. 6, struck Paul Opfelt, a well-known young man of Elkhart and killed him. He and three companions saw what they supposed was No. 6 approaching, took the hand-car upon which they were riding from the track anp. replaced it whothe train, which was a special, bad passed. But a short time had elapsed when they saw No. 6 almost upon them, and three of them escaped by jumping, but Opfelt, in bis efforts to get the handcar off, was killed. —Mrs. Gregori, wife of the distinguished artist, Signor L. Gregori, died at St. Mary’s Academy at South Bend. She had for the past seven years been a victim of rheumatism and other troubles. Mrs. Gregori was born in Rome, Italy, in 1817, and was. before her marriage to the Artist Gregori, Marie Louisa Persach. Constantine Gregori, one son, is a distinguished artist of Rome, and Vice Gregori is professor of one of'the universities at Bologna.?) —Harry Doughten hired a horse and buggy at a New Albany livery stable for the purpose of conveying Miss May Russell to Jeffersonville, when tbe intention was for the two to be married. When he arrived at Miss Russell’s home he was informed by her that her wed-ding-dress was not completed, and that therefore the wedding must be postponed. Doughten left, and a half hour later Miss Russell and a former lover— John Sweeney—left for Jeffersonville, where they were married. —Tbe new officers of the Montgomery County Sunday-School Union are os follows: President James A. Mount; Secretary and Treasurer, T. N. Myers; Vice Presidents, L. J. Coppage, A. T. Shanklin, George Seybold, Franklin Cox. The Township Vice Presidents are William Stites, Veza Westfall, Charles Rountree, J. B. Evans, W. B. Childers, A. M. Scott, William Dice, W. D. Peebles, Mrs. Milton Hollowell, James Wilson, and Mrs. B. L. Ornbaun. The next meeting will be held at the Shades of Death on Friday, Aug. 22. —The Steel nnd Iron Association of Brazil ran an excursion to Momence, 111. They had been but a short time on the ground when J. M. Pullen, who had secured a skiff nnd was rowing it alone, was drawn over the dam, capsizing his frail bark, nnd wns drowned. Some hours elapsed ere his body was recovered. The sad accident cast a gloom over the excursionists, nnd seriously marred their festivities. Tbe deceased was about thirty-six years old, a jeweler, well known nnd respected by all. A wife and two little girls are left to mourn. —A singular and fatal accident occurred at Urbana, Wabash County. Mrs. Lucy Berger and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Berger, were out driving, each with her two children. The horse, heretofore a gentle one, suddenly began kicking, and its hoof, striking ene of the children who sat just behind the dashboard, on the skull, crushed it in, causing fatal injuries. The second kick of the animal struck the 2-year-old child of Mrs. Berger on the temple, nnd it also is mortally wounded. Both are now lying at the point of death. The viciousness of the animal is inexplicable. —A wild engine was passing down the Sixth street track, Jeffersonville, the 4-year-old daughter of William Kratz, which was returning to its home! on Michigan Avenue from the house of Jacob Fitters, its grandfather, was struck and thrown violently in the air, coming down on a pile^of’rocks. It was k p Up. ipyap ußConseioua condition ijfyho^e. Drs. Hancock - Vbo the whogjaw the accident, that*the child bad escaped with juries bead..