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. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Death*—Accidents aud Crimes —Personal Pointers. Poisoned Whisky Given a young Farmer. William Coble, son of Richard Coble, a prominent farmer in Carroll County, is lying at the point of death, the victim of a dastardly outrage. Young Coble, who is nearly twenty-one years of age, attended the old settlers’ daneo at Delphi, accompanied by the daughter of Joseph Been, of Rock Creek Township. During tho evening young Coble was offered some whisky by Frank Bending, a tough young man of the same locality. After drinking Coble became deathly sick, and Bonding took him in his buggy to the Beiwiing homestead, and later on, becoming worse, took him homo. Dr. Smith, of Delphi, and Dr. Stewart, of Rocktield, were called to attend the unfortunate young man. They quickly pronounced it a case of poisoning. It develops that Bending had put cantharidcs in the whisky for a joke before lotting Coblo drink. Bonding’s character is very bad, and should young Coble dio ho will bo severely dealt with. Minor State Items. —While adjusting the machinery in a flour-mill, at Lexington, John Wliitlatch had an arm torn off. —Justice David Baldwin, one of tho pioneers of Clark County, died at Oregon on Sunday, aged 80 years. —Miss Alice Morgan, a school-teacher for half a century, is dead at Jeffersonville, at tiie age of 90 years. —Michigan City’s famous sand hill is to go. It lias been sold to Chicagoans, who will use it for building purpose. —John Ryans,a farmer living six miles north of Fort Wayne, was kicked on tiie head by a 3-year-old colt, and is dying. —Alvin Parks, of Oregon, Clark County, was fatally beaten by Wm, Pennington, tho weapon being a pitchfork. —Philip Rhodes, of Columbus, aged 73, was found dead in ids bed. He was in apparent good health the night previous. —Mrs. M. W. Hamilton, wife of a prominent grain-merchant, of Greenfield, was thrown from a buggy aud seriously injured. —A rich vein of silver is said to have been discovered on tiie farm of John It. Canine, near Waveland. The vein outcrops on the banks of Sugar Creek. —The Southern Indiana Fish Associatian has offered a reward of 825 for tho conviction of any person guilty of violating tho law for the protection of fish. —A reunion of ex-soldlors of Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan will bo held at Elkhart, September 22. Addresses will bo delivered by Gen. Alger and Corporal Tanner. —Henry Priddy, of Rochester, bought a vicious stallion for almost nothing, but when he attempted to hitch tho animal to a buggy Priddy was almost kicked to death. The horse was shot. —Clarence Mitchell, u years old, fell from a trapeze at Charleston, breaking tho left arm so badly that the bones protruded through the flesh. The elbow and wrist were both dislocated. —Witchcraft treatment is alleged to have causod the death of the child of Mr. and Mrs. William Davis, residents of Schultztown, a suburb of Logansport. The matter is under investigation. —A brakeman on the B. E. & W. R. Railroad, while coupling cars at Portland, had his head badly crushed by tiie bumpers and was sent to his home in Van Wert, O. The injury appears fatal. —George Bowers, a deaf, and dumb man at Greencastle, was struck by a locomotive while crossing the track near the depot in that city. He was knocked down, but fortunately escaped serious injury. —The little child of J. B. Henderson, near Leesvilie, was playing on a large log, when, by his pranks, it was overbalanced, and in rolling down a hill it threw the little fellow to tho ground, killing him instantly. —John Miller, of Heth Township, Harrison County, rested a loaded shotgun on one of his feet, the barrels down, a few days ago, and it was accidentally discharged. Miller is now minus one of his toes, and his foot is badly mangled. —Edward Gillganon, a machinist, employed in the Louisville & Nashville shops, near Evansville, met with an accident which resulted in his death. Ho was working on an immense drive-wheel, when it fell over on him, crushing him in a manner. —Willie Mancy,* the 6-year-old son of T. C. Maney, of Clarksville, a suburb of Jeffersonville, was accidentally shot by a 12-year-old son of James Smith. The weapon was a floboiyt rifle, the ball entering the left temple and penetrating the brain. He died soon afterwards. —Bate Kirkham, a ’bus driver, got off a Terre Haute and Logansport train at Ellsworth to get a glass of beer at a near-by Saloon. In attempting to board tho moving train he fell between the platform and the wheels cut his body in two. The remains were taken to his home at Sullivan. —Dr. Laban Palmer, of Knightsvilie,a practicing physician for sixty years, died. He was born in Virginia in 1809, and came to this State in 1845. His deatli was the result of Injuries received three years ago in a runaway accident. —Robert Long, while fishing in Ohio, at Clarksville, found a leather valise floating in the water. On opening, the decomposed remains of a white female infant, two months old, fell at his feet. It was buried in the potters’ field at Jeffersonville, j . l! i

—William Fintor, ot Jeffersonville,was arous»d a few nights ago by the cries of a child. Going ty the’door he found his 13*year-old daughter standing outside in licr night attire. She is a somnambulist, and had walked out of the second-story window and fallen to the ground.twcntyfivo feet below, escaping with only slight injuries. —An t'xplosion in the McCracklin coal mine at Farmersburg was caused by gas becoming ignited from a miner’s lamp. Emery McCracklin, an operator, was taken out dead, and his brother Frank was so badly burned that ho cannot recover. Lafayette Saunders, another operator, is still in tho mine and thought to be dead. —The Southern Indiana Fish Protective Association will take measures to have tho proper authorities compel the owners of mill-dams in the streams of Floyd and adjoining counties to have fish ladders placed over them. This device is useful from tho fact that fish at spawning time ascend to the head-waters. of the stream to deposit tho spawn in order that tiie small fry may have protection from tiie voracious largo fish that swim in the deeper water near tho mouth. ■ —Three boys, named Mann, Richardson and Snieitzer, were hunting a few miles south of Elkhart with but one gun, when Smoltzer, who carried tho gun, asked the others to go further with him than they wished, and, upon refusal, told them ho would shoot them unless they did so. The other boys started to run away, whereupon Smoltzer shot Mann in tiie neck, making a wound, tho outcome of which cannot yet bo determined. Smoltzer made no effort to escape.

—Miss Sarali E. daughter of Dr. McKaig, of Noble Township, Cass County, committed suicide at Logansport by taking morphine. A touching letter was found under her pillow addressed to C. W. Buchanan, a Pan Handle brakeman,of that city, a former lover of tho unfortunate girl, in which she asks that slid be buried In white, with a bunch of for-get-me-nots. Tho letter also upbraided Buchanan for jilting her. Tho dead girl was 18 years of age, and bright and attractive. —Joseph Kleinrickort, a young farmer who resided six miles north of B’ort Wayne, mot with a horrible death, lie was engaged in sharpening a plow point at an emery wheel placed inside of ids barn, tho power being supplied by ahorse engine on tho outside. The boy who drove the -horse was astonished by a loud crash from within tho barn, and hastening inside found that tiie, whirling wheel had bUhst, and discovered Kleinrickort lying on the floor dead. A portion of the wheel had carried away tho top of his head. ~ —An unknown disease has fastened upon several fine horses ip the stables of James V. Mitchell, near Martinsville. Tiie horses were apparently healthy in every way when their throats began swelling and have continued until breathing lias become very difficult and painful. Nothing as yet has been found to alleviate the suffering. Tho Swelling is attended with no other Sickness. Farmers throughout tiie neighborhood are using disinfectants, burning brlmstono and exercising great .caution to prevent thediseaso spreading. —Carrollton Township, Carroll County, is greatly wrought up over tho elopement of Lottie, the l!)-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, and Henry J. Cline, a prominent young farmer of that neighborhood. The young couplo left tho bride’s home after midnight, and, arousing Rev. Riley Montgomery at 3 o’clock in the mornifig, were made man and wife. The news of tho marriage so shocked tiie bride’s mother that she-is now lying at tiie point of death. Brown ' threatens to inflict serious injury on ills new son-in-law and on tiie minister who officiated at the marriage, —Moses Decker and Louis Preston, two men who made their homes near Middletown, were struck by the eastbound express on the Big Four road, near Chesterfield, and instantly killed. They had been working for a few days in tliht neighborhood, and were paid off. They immediately went to a saloon, and both were soon in an intoxicated condition. The last seen of them they were on the railroad, walking arm-in-arm, singing alid shouting. It is supposed they lay down upon the track, went to sleep, and were caught by the train. Both were horribly mangled, Preston being literally cut to pieces. Botli were unmarried. —The other night, a band of White Caps numbering six persons entered the house of Joseph Wilkey, near Epsom, in the northern part of Daviess County, took him from bed and escorted him to a wood near by, where they administered a light whipping to their victim. Tho men had blackened their faces, but under this disguise Wilkey recognized three of the band, who will be arrested immediately. Wilkey is a harmless fellow, owning a little farm, and has a wife and several children. His assailants charged him with being too intimate with a woman of the neighborhood, but this story is not believed. Tho authorities are aroused at this, the second Whitc-cap outrage that has occurred in that county within the past six months, and will make every effort to bring the guilty wretches to justice. —A representative of art Indianapolis gas syndicate offered the Madison Gaslight Company 870,000 for its plant. The offer was declined. —Farmers In the Southern pa;t of the State report that young quail were never so abundant in the stubble-fields as they are this season, and fine sport is predicted when the season opens. Young squirrels are also plentiful in the woods, and rabbits can be seen bounding along every unfrequented country road late in in the afternoon.

Dls man V«d The Shih Pan contains .he folloVing story, translated from the Chinetq »»«««.- “There is a prevailing custom a district called Sheng-teh, in Canton Province, among female society t<* form different kinds of such as ‘All Pure’ sisterhoods, ‘Never to-be-married’ sisterhoods, etc. Each sisterhood consists of about ten young maidens, who swear vows to heaven never to get married, as they regard marriage as something horrid, believing that their married lives would be miserable and unholy, and their parents fail to prevail upon them tb yield. T A sad case has just happened; a band of young maidens ended their existence in this world by drowning in the Dragon Eiver, because one of them was forced by her parents to be married. She was engaged iu her childhood, before she joined this sisterhood. When her parents had made all the necessary arrangements for her marriage, she reported the affair to the other members of her sisterhood, who at once agreed to die for her cause if she remained constant to her sworn vows to be single and virtuous. Should she violate the laws of her sisterhood and yield to her parents, her life was to be made most unpleasant by the other members, and she be taunted as a worthless being. She consulted with them the best niode of escaping this marriage, and they all agreed to die with her, if she could plan to run away from her parents on the night of the marriage. As there were many friends to watch her movements, it was almost impossible for her to esoape, so she attempted her life by swallowing a gold ling, but any serious consequence that might have reiulted was prevented by the administration of a powerful emetic. She was’ finally forced and made over to the male side to her great grief.. According to the usual oustopi. she was allowed to return to her parents. During all this time she waa planning a way to esoape to her sisters. lly bribing the female slants she was taken one night to her ’ sister® under the cover of darkness. . The sis-' ters at once joined with her to terminate their lives by jumping into the Dragon River with its swift currents, which,rapidly carried them off. This kind of tragedy is not uncommon in this part of the land. The officials have from time to time endeavored to check the formation of such sisterhoods, but all their efforts are in vain. They must have reasons of their own for establishing such societies. Married life must have been proved by many in that region to have been not altogether too sweot. However, such) wholesale suicide must be prevented by law if the parents have no control over their daughters.”