Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1890 — AFFAIRS IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

AFFAIRS IN INDIANA.

INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. •K. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General ami Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes —Personal Pointer*. - Martin Detlin, a youth of LaPorte, was fatally injured by the cars. —Charles Neufer was killed by lightning while plowing in Elkhart County. —Clement Robinson, of Nabb Station, Clark County, died of heart prostration. —An infant child of Thomas Hamilton was killed in a runaway near Scottsburg. —John J. Lenacker, an assistant yardman, was fatally injured by cars at Fort Wayne. —Clever pickpockets relieved Japp Morris, a saloon-keeper of Huntington, of $460. —Mrs. Ileywood’s saw-mill, near Mooresville, wub burned by an incendiary. Lobs, $2,200. —Deposits of bog-iron ore, 05 per cent, pure, have been found on tlio Farley farm, near Broad Ripple. —A number of indictments against White Caps have been found by the Orange County grand jury. —MrB. E. B. Youmans and three children were seriously poisoned at Jeffersonville by canned sardines. —John Fess, of Medaryville, was killed by a stroke of lightning, which broke every bone in his body. —Elisha Carr, a well-known horsoman of Charleston, was recently prostrated by heat, and his recovery is doubtful. —Edwnrd Salbdin fell from n scaffold at Colombus, alighting on his head and shoulders. His iujuries are thought to be fatal. —Goshen voted $52,000 in aid of tho proposed Toledo and Chicago Air Line road. The election was held under tho new ballot law. —J. N. Watts, of Pulaski County, lias a son 12 years old weighing 334 pounds, and another of 5 years who tips the beam at 130 pounds. —lsaac Bond, a prominent nnd wealthy farmer of Miami County, and one of its earliest settlors, died, aged 70, of blood poisoning. —Seven men were injured by the explosion of a can of powder in the grocery of Hern & Carroll, lied Key. The building was wrecked. —Excavators in an old vault at Fort Wayne found three mail-sacks, from the Grand ltupids and Indiana railway, that had been cut and rifted. —Thaddeus Drummond, a farmer near Sylvan Grove, Clark County, was fatally poisoned by vines while going about his faim barefoot. —Samuel Chrisman, of St. Mary’s, 0., was instantly killed at Frankfort, by a Lake Erie train. A brake-wheel broke, precipitating him under the wheels. —The Postmaster General has ordered a postal station of the Goshen postoffice established at the Elkhart County Fair Ground during the fair week in September. —Elza Davisson was running a traction engine for Lase Murray. On the road one mile west of Lynn the engine fell through a bridge and Davisson was killed outright. —A man giving his name as William Foster, residing at Lawrenceburg, and having a wife and children at Lansing, Mich., was struck and fatally injured by a mail train near Batesville. —Miss Belle Doyle, who was with a partv of Indianapolis people goiDg to the Shades of Death resort, had her arm broken near Waveland by the vehicle in which the party were riding being overturned. —A brakemnn on a Monon local freight named William Hilbert became insune on the train near Horseshoe. He made his escape from the conductor, jumped from the train and was dashed to death. —According to the late census the population of Montgomery County has increased 506 in the last ten years. The gain in Crawfordsville lias been 825, and this would make the decrease outside the city 319. —An unknown assassin fired from ambush upon Charles Hargns, a prominent farmer of Vigo Township, Knox County, as he was returning on horseback from a lodge meeting. The bullet made a flesh-wound in bis arm. —George Grayson, a farm-band in Clark County, was attacked by a blacksnake, which wound nround his leg, paralyzing him from fright. A companion killed the reptile; which measured eight feet, nine inches. —Mr. Peter Mills, on the farm of W. L. Lee, in Saluda Township, Jefferson County, raised on eighteen acres 450 bushels of wheat, an average of twenty-fiv-e bushels to the acre. This is the best yield yet reported in that county. —The State Encampment, Sons of Veterans, elected the following officers: Col. John W. Newton, Winchester; Lieutenant Colonel, W. G. Young. Connersville; Major, W. E. Beach, Indianapolis; Delegate-at-large, F. J. Jackson, Mnncie; delegates, W. E. Males, Evansville; H. E. Ogden, Danville; Geo. H. Pennington, New Albany; Joseph G. Leffler, Mnncie; Ralph Perry, Indianapolis. Tho Fifth Annual Encampment will be held the third week in June of next year, at Lafayette.

—Miss Ethel Bert, tho 13-year-old daughter of H. L. Bert, was thrown by a pony, at Marion, receiving injuries that are likely to prove fatal. —lt appears that Charles Huston,killed by a train at Batesville, the other night, deliberately committed suicido to escape arrest. He was wanted In Michigan for counterfeiting and horse-stealing. —A curious accident occurred on tha road near Fredricksburg. A traction* engine broke an exposed gas-main, anp the gas was ignited from the furnacCt' The engineer, Chris Wetsel, and a bojf were enveloped in flames and seriously burned. —John Banta, aged 19, whose parents | live iu Indianapolis, was drowned while in bathing in the Tippecanoe River near Springboro. Robert Dent, his companion, attempted to rescue him and came near perishing in the attempt. —Charles Wood, a J., M. *fc I. conductor, was precipitated from a train crossing the Ohio River by the breaking of a step. He huug on to an iron vod while the rest of the train passed over the bridgo, and was later rescued by the trainmen. —There is a hill near Spencer at. present under lease by John Curtis, in which aluminium forms 00 per cent, of tho clay deposit. This is tho only hill about tho place which contains so largo a percent, of tho metal. Ho regards it as very valuable. —Citizens of Green Township, Noble County, formed a vigilance committee to hunt down tho Kuun boys, notorious desperadoes, who were being sheltered by friends there. Thor© was a long chase, and several exchanges of shots, but tho.Kuuns escaped and nobody was hurt. —For some time Florcan IVfcFooly, a 12-year-old boy at Crawfordsville, has been complaining of a pain In his side. His father examined his sido and found a dark, hard substance just under tho skin. Making a slight incision, ho was surprised to find a fish-hook firmly bedded in tho flesh. How it got there ia a mystery, but it must have boon working around in the boy’s body for quite a while. —At a picnic at the fair grounds, near New Albany, Mrs. John Perkins and Mrs. James Bryant tested the merits of their respective horses in a trotting race. Tho animals became unmanageable and ran away. Mrs. Perkins was thrown under the wheels and had three of her ribs brokon. She also Buffered a fracture of the skull and is now in a very precarious condition. Mrs. Bryant received serious internal injuries. —A Fortville special says: A few weeks ago a small bug made its appearance iu this section ot which the oldest citizen can give no information. The pest is a small and very slim, dark bug nearly an eighth of an inch in length, has several small and very short legs; crawls in the same manner as a snake, and its outlines are similar to -the uliigator. The insect seems to be everywhere, in people's houses, clothes, and even in their hair. One small girl has been bitten or stung so severely by the insects that it necessitated the services of a physician. —Tho pear, cherry, and apple trees throughout Peru and Miami County are suffering from the ravages of a small pest which kills the leaves, branches and even attacks the trunk itself. Microscopic examinations show a small egg with horn-like protruberancos, enlarging later into a dark, lead-colored worm about one-eighth of an Inch long, which adheres firmly to the leaves and body, causing their destruction. The worn finally twines into the semblance of a caterpillar. That it is tenacious of life is proven, for neither the burning of sulphur nor copious sprinkling with insect powder affects it. —Patents have been issued to Indianians as follows: John L. Brandt, Terre Haute, batli heater; Artemug M. Hadley, Indianapolis, corn harvester; Phaon J. Kern, Frankfoit, vehicle spring; John F. Mains, assignor of twothirds to B. Carr and H. M. LaFollette, Indianapolis, bag lock; Edward T. Morgan, Dublin, assignor of one-half to J. C. McNeil and S. O. Feeson, Richmond, wire fence machine; David M. Parry, Indianapolis, short-turning vehicle; Quincy A. Poston, assignor of one-third to S. M. Poston, New Salem, strawstacker; William E. Pullen, Indianapolis, shirt-waist and garment supporter; Henry Wiese, Fort Wayne, feed-cutter. —Gabe Ward is a helpless cripple of Indianapolis, whose support has been contributed to for years by the Township Trustee, the law permitting this where the person makes a partial support by his own labor rather than to sepd him to the poor-house. Tho pittance which he makes is earned by selling papers, for which purpose he is hauled about the streets in a small wagon. The other morning he made a request of the Trustee for help, and an employe of the office was sent around to sec why his last allowance had given out so soon. Ward blandly explained that it would take mgre to support him from this time on because he had just married. Investigation showed that this was true, and he further explained that one reason that led him to marry has that-his wife cbuld haul him about town, and he could thua save tho hire of a boy.