Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — AFFAIRS IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

AFFAIRS IN INDIANA.

INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Mar. riages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes —Personal Pointers. Indiana Inventors. Patents have been granted to the following Hoosier inventors: Bnrton H. Barnes, Muncie, pen-holder; Charles M. Bennett, Logansport, assignor to himself, J. J. Turner, of Pittsburgh, Penn., and L. F. Lorie. Cass County, torpedo; Bobert C. »Berry, assignor of one-half to H. W. Comstock, of Lafayette, angle piston engine; Sidney E. Chase, 'NVolcottville, grain separator; Charles Comstock, Indianapolis, shortturning vehicle; James P. Coulter, Aurora, and T. Hibbett, Cochran, draft and buffing mechanism for railway cars; John E. Donaldson, Montezuma, die for forming roofing tiles; Augustine Ellis, Bellford, cultivator; Everett Goldthwaite, Elkhart, bolt-cutting machine; John Hull, assignor of one-half to Z. Bobinson, Elkhart, wrench; Elisha Peck, assignor of one-half to W. A. Stewart, Wawaka, wind-mill; Briton Poullson, Fort Wayne, cabinet folding bedstead; Summer C. Beiley, Terre Haute, hydrocarbon burner; Harvey Segur, assignor of one-half to P. W. Smith, Decatur, saw-mill feed; Walter B. Silvers, assignor of one-third to C. W. Baggerty, Indianapolis, spring traceholder; William A. Timberman, Delphi, machine for filing and setting saws; William C. Walda, Fort Wayne, safetyvalve.

Minor Stain items. —lncendiarism is rife at Jeffersonville. —A mower cut off George Hunt’s right foot at Watson. —William Dooley’s ankle was crushed by a saw-log at English. —James Custer, a wealthy farmer of Lagrange County, is missing. ‘ —A new building was blown down at Logansport, causing a loss of SI,OOO. —The wool clip in Montgomery County, this year, amounted to 66,000 pounds. —A horse 41 years old has just died at Jeffersonville. —Leroy M. Sanders, a well-known citizen of Bloomington, is dead from heart disease. —Jacob Kern has been appointed Clerk of Allen County, vice Dr. W. G. Loag, deceased. —The. body of James Cnster, the missing Lagrange County farmer, has been found in a lake near his homo. —Henry Lilly, aged seventy-four, the oldest native-born citizen of Clark County, is dead at Jeffersonville. —The Indiana Live Stock Insurance Company, of Crawfotdsville, has over $2,01X1,000 insu ranch oiiUin Indiana. —Mrfe. Julia Grasten, of Sellersburg, was bitten by a spotted adder while picking blackberries. She may die. —H. D. McMackih, pastor of the English Lutheran Church,of Logansport, fell and broke his leg while riding qn a bicycle. —Charleston is suffering from a plague of herse-flies. Several animals have died from the effects of bites by the insects. —The 15-year-old son of Isaac Engle, living near Eckerty, is dead from the effects of a bullet wound received while playing with a revolver. —An alligator twenty-eight inches long was captured by Robert Williams and Henry Hodgin in a creek about four miles north of Richmond. —Thieves broke into G. C. Nelson’B grocery at Marion, blew open the safe and robbed it of SSO in cash and p.everal hundred dollars in notes and mortgages.

—Thomas J. Graves, at one time Becorder of Warren County, committed suicide by banging at Williamsport. Domestic trouble is supposed to be the cause. —The average yield of wheat thus far threshed in Bartholomew County is a fraction less than eleven bushels per acre. The larger part will grade as No. 8. —The Salvation Army at Crawfordsville has shut down, and the sound of the drum is heard no more. The Captain got married and moved away, and the army has disbanded. —Mrs. James Tomlinson, of Plainfield, is dead. aged ninety years. She and her husband came to this State from North Carolina in 1812, yaking six hundred miles of the journey on foot. —Peru’s Law and Order League has given notice that the Sunday law must be strictly observed in that city hereafter, or prosecutions will follow. A careful watch will be kept on all saloons. —Auditor of State Carr has prepared a statement concerning the financial condition of the State. It shows the sum of $783,000 in the treasury on July 1, in the general fund. From this there was paid $60,000 in salaries, and the balance must be applied to pay an interest account falling due, $137,000; the running expenses of State institutions for six months, $392,000; balance of specific appropriations; $167,500; money appropriated for improvements in penal and reformatory institutions, $53,000; amount due the State universities, $23,000, making a grand total of $832,500, and leaving a deficit of $49,500.

—Wm. McDole, a lifetime prisoner, sent up from Lawrenceburg, Jefferson j County, for murder, died at the southern prison of consumption. —As the pay train on ths LD. A W. was going west, it struck and killed Talmer Yeoman, section foreman, at Dana. Yeoman and Bis men were on the hand-car going 10 work. He leaves a wife and two children. —George B. Andrews, charged with burning the stock barn and thirty-five polled Angus cattle belonging to Col. C. E. Briant, was found guilty in the Huntington Circuit Court and sentenced to nine years in the penitentiary. —While Jas. Hawkins, a well-known young farmer, was mowing in one of his fields, near Elkhart, his team became frightened' and ran away. Hawkins fell in front of the mower, and was literally cut into pieces and killed. —During a heavy storm the United Brethren Church, of South Whitley, was struck twice by lightning, demolishing roof, breaking ail windows and wrecking walls. Fire was averted. Damage about $1,500; no insurance. —John Cawley, of Greencastle, broke in two a large block of ice, and was Burprised to find imbedded therein a turtle measuring four incheß across the back. After being thawed out the turtle crawled around as lively as a cricket. —The census enumerators of Crawfordsville have sent in ninety-five additional names of persons who were missed. This makes that city 6,080 people, according to the enumerators. This does not include the Beven suburbs. —Jesse F. Hutchins, of Wabash, died on a train between Delphi and Lafayette of heart disease. Deceased was forty-five years of age, and until recently a law partner of Hon. Warren G. Sayre, late Speaker of the Indiana Hofise of Representatives. He was returning from Lafayette, where he went on legal business. He leaves a wife and two children. —Ground has been broken and arrangements made to commence the erection of a mammoth glassworks in Pendleton by B. G. Guptill <fc Co. They will manufacture glass tubes for the use of underground electric wires in connection with the manufacture of fancy glassware. The company intends to be ready for operation by Dec. 1, and will give employment to a large force of men.

—ln Montgomery County there are 2,773 sewing machines, 1,099 organs and 337 pianos. This year there are 57,555 acres in corn, 11,471 in oats, 23 in barley, 45 in buckwheat, 158 in rye, 233 in potoes, 12 in watermelons, 9 in tobacco, 10 in cabbage. Lnst year 3,839 gallons of sorghum molasses was made, and 42,015 rods of rail fence erected, 5,581 rods of board fence and 10,147 rods of wire fence. —Experiments have been in progress for some time, by Messrs. Edwards and Bouslog, of Peru, regarding the successful raising and cultivation of celery. Notwithstanding the poor season the first crop is now in and the practical succeßßß is assured. The celery raised is firm, solid and equal to any of the Michigan fields. The strip of ground immediately north of this city, some six miles long and mostly one mile wide, with soil of most exceeding richness, formerly being the bed of the Wabash River, is being utilized. With this positive assurance the new industry will be actively pushed. —The north-bound freight train collided at New Providence, twenty-five miles north of New Albany, with the south-bound freight. Both trains were badly wrecked, and K. McNally, engineer of the train going north was pinned under tho tank of his engine, which had a car-load of stone piled upon it. He was crushed to death. His fireman, Charles Helfrich, was badly bruised, but had no bones broken, McNally had been in the employ of the company but a few months. He lived in Illinois. The track was.so baaly obstructed with the wreckage ns to compel the north-bound passenger train to return to New Albany. —Six South Haven County, Michigan, women, Mrs. Cherry Cooper, Louise Doer, and Ray Dalamere, Louise Bacon and Hattie Thompson, started from home June 25 in a rowboat, with a tow full of camp equipment, bound for South Bend. The trip is a hard obe, twenty miles along the Lake Michigan coast and twenty-five miles up the St. Joseph River, with swift currents, rapids and dams. The party all arrived safely at South Bend. They camped every night and report a most enjoyable trip. The young women are the first who ever made the trip, which has not been attempted by men since Indian times. They will return by the same route. —At Cambridge City a few nights ago an explosion awakened Daniel Wissier and family from their repose. Mr. Wissier hastened to the place from whence came the sound, and discovered the interior of the kitchen in the rear of his house was on fire. He quickly extinguished it and immediately sought the cause. On the outside, near the kitchen window, he found a half-gallon oil-can, which had contained gasoline. The window had been broken open and the gasoline poured upon the floor and ignited. The sound of the explosion which followed awakened Mr. Wissier and piobably saved himself and family from a horrible death. The front gate was held open with a prop, thus affording a rapid exit for the miscreant.