Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1890 — AFFAIRS IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

AFFAIRS IN INDIANA.

INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. What Oar Neighbors Art Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes —Personal Pointers. —Richmond has a population of nearly 17,000. —William Johnson, a veil-known citizen of Madison, is dead. —Jeffersonville’s ship-building industry is enjoying a great boom. —Frank Pitts was tilled by lightning fourteen miles east of Rockville. —Charles Eckler was killed between cars on the J., M. & I. siding at Seymour. He was aged 17. —The barn of Matt Willet, jr., near Greenfield, was burned, with' contents. Loss, $1,000; insured' for SGOO in the Continental. —A strange wild animal, about the «ize of a bull-dog and jet black in color, is exciting alarm in the vicinity of Anderson. —David Henry, a plumber of Greensburg, was asphyxiated by gas while working under a floor, and was nearly •dead when discovered.

—Thomas J. Davidson, of Paoli, was badly hurt by a bear ho was exhibiting. The beast was the property of H. E. Wells, of French Lick Springs. —Daniel B. Newkirk, of Rush County, was thrown from his buggy in a runaway, losing part of his ear and suffering other injuries. —A child of Alexander Dubes, 9 years old, was kicked in the face bv a mule near Calhara. The boy’s face Was crushed in and one eye destroyed. —Harry Brutcher dropped his cigar ashes in a sack of powder at Evansville, One of his eyes was destroyed, and he was terribly burned about the breast and face.

—Emiline Woods has sued the city of ■Greenfield for $5,000 damages for the ■death of her son, who was drowned in a pond that had formed in one of the streets.

—Goshen wiil hold a bond election under the Australian ballot law July 22, to vote on a proposition to buy $52,000 bonds of the Toledo & Chicago Airline.

—Mrs. Alice Campbell, residing near Elizaville, wrapped the reins about her fingers and braced herself against the opposite side of a fence to hold a horse. It tore off her fingers. —John F. Jnmeß, of Terre Haute, a freight brakeman on the Vanaalia, had his arm terribly mashed while coupling oars at Bowers, Montgomery County. Amputation may be necessary. —Joseph Carthy, an aged resident of Allen County, tied one end of a string around his tooth and loaded the other end into a gun, which he fired. The thoth was extraqted without pain. —O. M. Tyler, aged 59, died very suddenly, of heart disease, at his home in Muncie. He was a Director in the Muncie Savings and Loan Company, and

was a well-known insurance agent. —Nathaniel Straight, of English Crawford County, is 99 years of age, and is so robust that he was accepted, last week* by the road Supervisor as a competent hand to labor upon the highways.. ' . —The large flouring-mill of Messrs. Eitterskamp & Sons, at Freelandsville, was destroyed by fire, together with a lafge quantity of grain and flour. The mill was newly refitted. Loss, SIO,OOO, with $4,000 insurance. —The musical congress to be held Aug. 8 and 9, at Manlove Park, near Cambridge City, promises to be a great musical treat. Among the leading attractions are Blind Tom and Mrs. Shaw, the greatest living lady whistler. —At Burney’s Station, on the C., H. •A G. division of the Big Four, Eli Davis, a prominent farmer and stockdealer of Bartholomew County, dropped dead. He was 68 years of age and -.strong and robust. Heart disease was the cause of his death.

--John H. Burford, recently appointed register of the land office of Oklahoma Territory, "was badly injured at Crawfordsville. He was kicked on the left «houlder, and thrown from the buggy by a livery horse, the horse proceeding -on and demolishing the rig. —Ab Hope, Bartholomew County, Nesbit Merridith,’ a young man 18 years •of nge was accidentally shot through the right knee, shattering the bones, yrith a thirty*two calibre rifle, carelessly handled by himself. It is thought that amputation of the fractured limb will be necessary. « —Mrs. Nancy Lightcap, who escaped from the "Woman’s Reformatory at Indianapolis and went back to her home at Crawfordsville, and subsequently was captured and returned, was married in the Crawfordsville jail before she was taken back,’ to “Can” Seering, the mad who was the indirect cause of her occu* pying her present quarters. - John McCormick, who lives seven miles west of Fort Wayne, fell from a load of hay on the prongs of an upturned hay fork. The points penetrated his abdominal cavity and tore ah awful gap, exposing his entrails and lacerating his body in other ways. One of the prongs was broken by the fall and the point lodged in the young man’s flesh. He will probably die. ‘

—Mr. and Mrs. Louis Griebel, of Fort Wayne, celebrated their golden wedding recently. The aged couple have lived at Fort Wayne all these years, and all the children and grandchildren were present at the eelebration. —While Miss Rebecca Mart in, a young lady of Elkhart, was crossing a railway track in Goshen, she was struck by a freight train which was rapidly backing and approaching from the rear, and thrown through the air fully twentyfive feet. Her escape was marvellous, for she scrambled np unhurt and boarded the Lake Shore train for her home in Elkhart. Her deafness was the cause of the accident.

—Lit Moore, George Moore. Isaac Moore, Frank Peters, George Elliott, Sam Roberts, Link Davis, Henry Black, all of Bine River Township, Harrison County, have been arrested on warrants sworn out by one James McKinney, who claims to have been “white capped” by them one night last March. The defendants were brought before Justice Kirkham of Curydon and a preliminary will be held immediately. —The White Caps of Harrison County took August Colin from the side of his sweetheart and gave him a severe flogging. He is a young man ot good reputation, nnd it is not known why he was whipped. John H. Denbo was severely flogged by about thirty White Caps. He is Superintendent of the County Poor Asylum, and is charged with mistreating the inmates of the institution. He was taken from his bed, tied to a tree in his yard and given seventy-five lashes. —The Postoffice Department has established money order and postal notes offices in this State as follows: Money order Fairfield, Franklin County; Ferdinand, Dubois County; Newcomer, Delaware County; Perrysville, Vermillion County; Prieto, Wells County; Ramsay, Harrison County; Rosedale, Parke County; SLarpsville, Tipton County; Swavsee, Grant County; Young America, Cass County. Postal notes — Fallen Timber, Randolph County; Holo, Washington County; Kingston, Decatur County. —John Petillott and his wife, Mary, who have resided in Columbus for the last ten years, quarreled some days ago over a trifling matter and separated. The wife refused to return and live with her husband, and took rooms at the Western Hotel. Petillott called at the hotel and sent a messenger to call his wife. When the two met be pulled a thirty-eicht bulldog revolver, shooting her five times in the head and breast, killing her instantly. He then attempted to escape, but was run down, arrested and placed in jail. A mob is feared.

—A serious accident occurred at Rich Valley, five miles west of Wabash, which may result in at least one death and a suit for damages. John Beggs and family were driving lrom Wabash to their home in Peru, and, when near Rich Valley, while descending a steep hill, the carriage was overturned and the occupants thrown out, and all more or less hurt. Mrs. Beggs’ leg was broken so badly that it was necessary to remove a large piece of the bone, and she is now in a dangerous condition. The sides of the road at that point are very rocky. —A few months ago William Simmons returned to his home in Muncie after serving a term in some Western penal institutiod. The other day he was arrested at Lima, Ohio, and is now in jail under bond of S4OO, charged with breach of trust. Simmons got caught at a trick he has been working with success for some time, going into a shoe store, buying a pair of fine shoes, paying the cash for them, and after getting well acquainted with the proprietor or head clerk, professing to go home with the shoes, but returning in a short time, saying the shoes did not fit and asking to take one, two, three, or more pairs to try on. Securing them he would not return.

—At Yencennes, the two-story grain warehouse of Thomas Baxrowman collapsed, burying the proprietor and two laborers, George Miles and William Hunter, beneath the ruins. Miles escaped by his own efforts. Hunter was released greatly braised and crushed about the head and legs by the axes of the firemen. Great timbers pinioned the proprietor to the floor, but after an hour of toil the timbers were raised from him by jack-screws and he was taken out. It is feared he is fatally crushed about the hips. The building was new and the mortar was green. There were about five thousand bushels of new wheat on the floors at the time of the collapse. The building was designed to hold fifty thousand bushels. —Patents have been granted to Indiana inventors as follows: Charles Anderson, assignor to South Bend Ironworks, South Bend, sulky plow; Jacob Barrow, Windfall, pressure regulator; John G. Campbell, Majenica, corn planter; James Milley, Richmond, wire and picket fence machine; William Leoney, assignor of one-half to J. Pickering, Oxford, grain measuring or weighing apparatus; Herman Prether, Jonesville, corn planter; James W. Quinn, assignor of two-thirds to C. C. Copeland, North Madison, and to M. Copeland, Madison, motor vehicle; James £. Bemington, Scott, device for building wire and picket fences; Frank W. Samuels, Indianapolis, game; Jesse Warrington, assignor of to Nordyke & Marmon Company, Indianapolis, hominy mill.