Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1890 — AFF AIRS IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

AFF AIRS IN INDIANA.

INTERESTING ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages'and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes —Personal Pointers. —Seymour is to have a new operahouse to cost $25,000. —Fred Grandori, aged 13, of LaPorte County, was kicked to death by a horse. —Geo. Enoch, of near Crawfordsville, had thirty bushels of seed-wheat stolen from him. —A pocket of gas, at a depth of sev-enty-five feet, was struck at Newmarket, Montgomery County. —Herbert Fry, aged 18, was fatally injured at Utica, Floyd County, by falling off a load of fodder. —A daughter of Walker Smith, aged 8 years, was fatally kicked by a horse at her home near Fayetteville. —W. T. McKinley was crushed between saw-logs in a mill at New Providence, and seriously injured. —The annual reunion of the Eightyeight Indiana Volunteers will be held at Lagrange on Tuesday, Oct. 7. —Mrs. Calvin Green, residing at Kempton, Tipton County, fell dead from her chair, while preparing supper. —Charles Cook, of Defiance, 0., a B. & O. fireman, struck a bridge with his head seven miles east of Albion and was instantly killed. —Goshen’s artesian wells have proven insufficient, and there is a scheme on foot to pipe water from Wolf Lake at a cost of §20,000. —John Dermack, a stranger, was killed while standing on a railway track at Lafayette. The initials of the Johnstown Fire Company were tattooed upon his arm. —The eighth annual reunion of the Seventh Indiana Cavalry Association will be held in the G. A. R. Hall, at Marion, on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 1, and 2. —A base-ball club, the smallest member of which weighs 225 pounds, has been organized at Jeffersonville. The aggregate weight of the team is a little under three thousand pounds. —ln a runaway, Otha, the 8-year-old daughter of Walker Smith, of Lebanon, in the buggy with her father, was kicked in the head by the horse, crushing her skull, from which the brain oozed out. —Bertie, the 7-year-old son of Henry J. Candle, residing two miles east of Fortville, was kicked on the head by a horse, producing concussion of the brain. The physicians report the injuries as fatal. —David Yount, aged 80 years, died at his home, near Crawfordsville. He was one of the pioneer woolen manufacturers of the State, and was the owner of a large factory at Pountsville. He was also a largo buyer and shipper of wool. —Mrs. W. B. Schwartz, wife of a prominent attorney at Brazil, has been declared insane. She labors under the hallucination that her devoted husband and father, Mr. A. B. Wheeler,a wealthy real estate man,' are trying to poison her. —“Sassafras George” Adams, an eccentric character who was always dressed in rags, and who sold sassafras root and herbs for a livelihood, was found dead at the side of a country road in Brown County. On his person was found §3OO. —Joe Isaacs, a well-known citizen of Evansville, was run over and killed a Mount Vernon by a freight train. He was visiting relatives at that place, and it is supposed that he was under the influence of liquor and laid down across the track to take a sleep. His body was horribly mangled. —Willie Rysor, aged 16, while assisting Andy Van Skoik to unload some sills at the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis depot at Shelbyville, was crushed internally, his shoulders mashed and his arms dislocated by the unexpected fall of two of the largest beams. His condition is extremely critical, —A young son of J. F. Scott, a farmer living near Warsaw, while driving a colt into a stable, was kicked in the head by the animal,'and his face mashed into a pulp. His recovery is doubtful. In the event he should survive his injuries he will be horribly scarred for life, and it is feared his eyesight will be destroyed. —At Evansville, while unloading a wagon of oats, John Becket, the driver, made a mistep and fell off the wagon between the mules, which ran away, the heavily-loaded wagon passing over Becket’s neck and body, crushing him so badly that he lived but a few minutes. He leaves a wife and eight children. —Mrs. DePauw and daughter have donated §7,000, and the Board of Trustees has .added §3,000 more to the erection of a new and more commodious home for the accommodation of the theological students of DePauw University. The site, selected is immediately north of the present building, better known as the Larrabee Homestead, Plans are in process of preparation, and another handsome three-story building will be erected with as little delay as possible. —Samuel Donenham, proprietor of the Logansport sprinkling wagons, was run over by one of his wagons and horribly mangled. His back was broken by the horses, and while he is conscious, he cannot live. —Mrs. William Jones, of Richmond, was strangled to death by getting a watermelon seed in her windpipe. She leaves a 3-months-old babe, twins between two and three years old, and two other children the oldest about six years of ago.

—A Lak? .Shore and Michigan Southern switchman, Phineas Dwell, was killed at Elkbart. One of his feet got caught in a frog, and he could not extricate it. He was a printer by trade, came from Tecumseh, Mich, lately and leaves a wife'and two children. —While William Mahaffey was running a planer at the ship-yard at Madison, the pujley broke, throwing a piece of timber across his left leg, mashing and breaking his hip. His collar-bone was also broken and he complains of internal injuries in his left side. His recovery is doubtful. He is aged about fifty, and has a wife and three grown children. —Charles Cook, a fireman on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was instantly killed, near Ripley’s Station, Noble County. Cook had got a brakeman to do his work, and had crawled on top of a box car to enjoy the cool breeze, as he was not feeling well. He was struck by an overhead bridge and his brains dashed out. He resides at Hicksville, 0., where he leaves a family, —Dr. J. F. Maddox, late United States Pension Examiner and Secretary of the City Board of Health, went out riding with his wife at Shelbyville. When about three miles from the city his horse became frightened, turned the buggy over and then kicked it to pieces. Dr. Maddox was considerably bruised up, but his wife escaped with but little injury and a severe scare. —Lewis B. Burdick, of Fort Wayne, a carpenter, and his two nieces, who reside near Hamilton, Steuben County, have received news from Glasgow that they have fallen heirs to the sum of §210,000 by the death of Mrs. Carlton, the grandmother of Burdick, The latter is an old soldier, and has been an invalid for a long time. Ho expects, within a short time, §4,500 back pension from the Government. This double stroke of good luck will bring happiness to a deserving family. •—W. H. Davis, telegraph operator at the junction near Crawfordsville found in the room what he supposed to be an old empty and rusty revolver, and pointing it at Mary Roach, who was washing one of the Junction House windows, he pulled the trigger. The weapon was discharged, and the ball struck the girl in the small of the back, near the spinal column and ranged upward. A doctor was summoned and pronounced the wound fatal, and was unable to locate the ball. Davis is almost crazy over the unfortunate affair. —Charles Hay, a popular young man residing with his parents near St. Endal, committed suicide. He was engaged to be married to a young lady, Miss Heath, of the same locality, but his family objected to the match so strenuously that life became a burden to him. He took his gun, saying he was going out hunting, and went into the woods a short distance. There he placed the muzzle of the gun against his chest, directly over the heart, and snapped the trigger with a long stick. The charge passed clear through his body, killing him instantly. —lnformation has reached Brazil that a very rich vein of silver ore had just been discovered near Art Postoffice, fourteen miles northwest of there, on the farm of William Barber. It was discovered by William Bobo, a western prospector, and he declares the find to be one of the richest and most promising that he has ever seen, not excepting the Rocky Mountain silver-mining districts. A company has been organized with a capital stock of §IOO,OOO, and a shaft will be sunk at once and a smelting furnace put in. From fifty to one hundred men will be employed to begin with, and the most sanguine hopes are indulged in by all. —Mrs. Charles Graham was frightened to death, at her home, a short distance from New Albany, by the violent actions of a drunken neighbor, George Blast, who threatened her life. Medical aid was summoned, bnt the woman camo out of convulsions only a few minutes before death came. The last words she uttered were: “He has frightened me to death!” Blust killed an unoffending German nearly seven years ago, on Main street, while drunk, and was sent to State prison for two years for the crime. He shouldered a gun, shortly after the death of the woman, and fled to the woods 1 west of the city, where he is in hiding to escape the vengeance of the neighbors. —Oliver E. Hawkins and Richard Hance, of Kokomo, were each engaged to young ladies of that place. It seems that on the night of May 17, 1887, Hance took Hawkins’ sweetheart out riding and attempted a criminal assault on her. The news of the outrage coming to the ears of Hawkins he met Hance on the following night and shot and killed him. He was tried for manslaughter, the principal evidence against him being his own admission, after he had surrendered himself to the authorities, though claiming that he had acted in self-defense. He was only 18 years old and was sentenced to the penitentiary for seven He was of good family and had been engaged as book-keeper in the seed store of his father. He has served about half his sentence and now goes out a free man, Gov. Hovey having pardoned him at the solicitation of all who took part in the trial. —Moses Joseph, a merchant of Shelbyville, mislaid §360 some ddys ago and intimated that it was stolen by Aetna Richardson. The money was found and Moses is now made defendant in a suit for $5,000 damages. —Daviess County farmers have suffered great damage this year from barn-bttrn-ers. The favorite method of the incendiaries is to put a piece of cheese in a box of matches and then to conceal it in a hay-loft, leaving the rats to start the fire.