Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1890 — HOOSIER HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS.

OCCURRENCES OF A WEEK IN THIS CA-LORIOUS STATE. Run Over by the Cars- Wicked Thieves— The Science Healer—Carved with a Rasor—A Supposed Murder Mystery—A Naughty, but Handsome Hunsucker. Hoosier Editors. The following officers were chosen by the Northern Indiana Editorial Association in its session at Maxinkuckee: President—E. A. Jernegau, Mishawaka Enterprise. First Vice President—W. A. Beane, Goshen Democrat. Second Vice President—J. W. Baker, Columbia City Commercial. Secretary—E. G. Thompson, Ligonier Leader. Corresponding Secretary—Louis McDonald, Plymouth Democrat. Treasurer—C. O. Musselman, Knox Ledger. Executive Committee—Q. A. Hosslor, Dally Times, Warsaw; J. B. Stoll, Times, South Bend; W. K. Sheffer, News, Kendallville; Harry Francis, Appeal, Michigan City. The next session occurs at South Bend in June next year. Minor State Item*. —Old settlers meet at Goldsmith. Terre Haute sighs for a good big public hall. —State convention of Universalists was held at Muncie. —The swindler with the patent bang frizzer worked Tipton. > —The number of “best county fairs in the State” is remarkable. —Chas. Roberts, at Eaton, is under arrest for horse stealing. —George Ulmer, of Medora, died from injuries inflicted by a horse's kick. —Workman’s profanity has hoodooed the waterworks well at Union City. —Andrew Haskett acquitted of murduring Silas Stillman, at Seymour. —A gas well flowing 6,000,000 feet per day has been drilled near Lebanon. —Burglars got S3OO from the sjife in Frank Thomas’ saloon at Columbus. —John H. Alvey has eloped with Sarah Atchison, a married woman of Marion. —New SIO,OOO home for theological students of DePauw University will be built. —A practical joker at Frankfort is putting eggs in the pockets of pedestrians. —LaPorte County’s Treasurer has paid bounty on 4,320 woodchuck scalps since June 1. —Michael Haran, an aged resident of Seymour, was fatally injured while walking in his sleep. —Patrolman Boland has been discharged from the Muncie police force because of intoxication. —Daughter of John Holloway fell from a second story window at New Albany and was killed. —-Anderson lias a new nut and bolt company, with a capital of $200,000, headed by L. S. Taylor. —Goshen Is on the eve, of securing a new industry which will give employment to about fifty hands. —Dr. E. B. Tilford’s farm residence, near Burgersville, was burned. Loss, $3,000; covered by insurance, —The Muncie Presbytery held a very profitable two days’ meeting at the Presbyteriap Church, Winchester. —Hugh Goodman, an employe at the blast furnace at Terre Haute, had both eyes burned out by molten metal. —Wife and daughter of Postmaster Bobitt, of Eckerty, caught measles from handling mail, and both are dead.

—A fellow named Newkirk demanded royalty of Carroll County farmers on a wire fence. The farmers fired him. —James Culver, aged 101, was the oldest man present at the old settlers’ and soldiers’ reunion at Martinsville. —John Shilland’s big barn, 2,000 bushels of wheat and several horses burned pear Winamac. Loss, $9,000. —James Doan, of Cass County, was sandbagged in Logansport by foot-pads, and robbed of his watch and money. —John Eastman and a colored man were instantly killed by being struck by passenger train No. 3 on the Big Four. —Going to make it sultry for physicians at South Bend who fail to report births, deaths and contagious diseases. —Maj. W. W. Carter, recently removed from the Insane Asylum at Indianapolis to his home in Brazil, has escaped and is now at large. —Large headed incendiary near Washington sets fire to barns by putting cheese in boxes of matches. Rats sets matches off going for the cheese. —Ernest Reilelz, a freight brakeman sat down on the end of a tie at Fort Wayne, to rest, went to sleep and a passenger train passed. He will die. —William Reynolds, 50 years old, a prominent farmer of Miama County, has been arrested for attempted assault upon his niece, Triplett, 16 years old. —Mrs. Anna B. Langans, of Posey County, has filed suit for $25,000 damages from the E. & T. H. Railroad. Mrs. Langhaus was almost killed in a wreck. —William Kelley, who was the first baggage-master at the Union Depot at Terre Haute, and recently employed at the car works, was horribly mangled and killed by a switch engine. —A Mr. Oliver, Of Crawfordsville, has been placed under a SIOO bond to keep the peace on account of his avowed intention to kill his wife because she has applied for a divorce. , —M 's. Sarah Johnson, of New Cory, lay down as usual Saturday night, Aug. 31, to go to sleep, but has failed to awaken since, despite the best efforts of physicians to arouse her. She sleeps and breathes naturally, and the peculiar I .freak of sleep is bathing the oldest physicians.

—Atlas Clark, Warwick County, swore to the age of an ’(Hoping bride. He’s been arrested by the girl's father for perjury. —lda Hunsucker was sent to the Women’s Reformatory from Seymour for perjury. She is handsome, aged 23, and well connected. —The farmers and Knights of Labor of Delaware County held a picnic at Muncie. About four thousand people were in attendance. —Gabriel Poindexter,aged63,c.x-Mayor of Jeffersonville, and one of the largest fruit growers in Southern Indiana, died at Bartel —At Ladoga, John Pefily, a brickmason, fell from the house of John Knleff, and broke his left leg and sustained internal injuries. —The melon crop of Jackson and other Southern Indiana counties proved very valuable this season. The hot dry weather has its advantages. —Kenneth, the 9-year old son of conductor Hendrix, while attempting to board a moving train at Fort Wayne fell under the wheels. ’ Both legs were cut off. —A. U. Hamilton’s barn, west of Waynetown, was burned by an incendiary, a valuable mare and colt perishing in the flames. Loss, $1,510; insurance, S4OO. —Andy Bowles slashed Sue Gordon to death with a razor, at Evansville, and escaped to Kentucky. Both colored. Sue was Andy’s mistress and he was jealous. —The proposition to pipe natural gas to Crawfordsville from Hamilton County, via Thorntown, has failed, because Crawfordsville could raise only SBO,OOO of the SIOO,OOO needed. —George Bright, a prominent Daviess County farmer sued for slander by Rev. Coochman, a Methodist minister. The preacher says Bright charged him with in moral conduct. —Esther Benson, the venerable widow of Michael Benson, aged 70, died very suddenly at Madison, of heart disease. Her sister, Mrs. Aaron Marks, died similarly five years ago. ■ —Win. Starkey, a well-known citizen of Jeffersonville, was found dead in his bod. Ho was in his usual apparent good health when he retired. Heart failure was the cause of death. —A thief entered the residence of Fred Sheetz, Superintendent of the Water Works at Crawfordsville, and took from under his pillow $lO, a gold watch worth $75 and a SIOO diamond stud. —Connersville thought It hail another horrible murder mystery. There was much gore and flesh scattered about, and a new made grave in the woods. Only a worthless canine. —The soldiers’ memorial fountain, purchased by the Grand Army Post and the city of Seymour after a long delay, was placed in position in the City Park by the veterans attending the reunion. —Walter King, a 12-yoar-old youth of Richmond, was induced by a stranger to ride with him in a wagon. After going some distance, the boy says, something struck him on the head and he know no more. Ho was found unconscious in an out-building wrapped in a piece of old carpet.

—Romeo Mertz, a young teamster, had his left hand caught by a revolving shaft, in Cammack’3 saw-mill at Mulbery. His left arm was wound about the shaft, broken above the elbow, and his thumb torn entirely off at the third joint. Mertz is the only support of a widowed mother. —Barn burners are again at work in Daviess County. Milton Jett, of Steele Township, is tho last victim of their wrath. His barn was destroyed, together with the house. Tills is the twenty-third barn burned there In eighteen months, and it is known to be the work qf incendiaries. —A valuable Durham bull died recently near Goshen. In its stomach was found a rattlesnake two feet long. As It was in advanced stage of decay it had evidently been in the animal’s stomach for a long time. How it could have gotten there is a mystery. Some are inclined to the opinion thal while coiled in the pasture the bull swallowed it. —Under tho new election law the Governor is required to appoint two Commissioners, one from each party, who will have general charge of the election tickets and returns. James B. Black, of Indianapolis, and James McCabe, of Warren County were appointed as such Commissioners, the first being a Republican and the second a Democrat. —Mrs. Henry Staags, of Cory, dind last week. On Saturday, August 30, she retired in her usual good health, but did not awake the next day, despite the efforts of her family to arouse her. She continued to sleep in what appeared to be a natural sleep until she died, never once recovering consciousness. Even a post-mortem failed to reveal any physical disability.

—A balloon ascension took place at Lakeside Park, Wabash, and, while engaged in Inflating one of the hallo ms, an employe of the park, In some manner got underneath the same and was not discovered until he had been there a half hour or»note. He was almost suffocated by the hot air, and his death is hourly expected, as all efforts to resustitate him have so far been of no avail. —Augustus Paris, the hardware merchant who deserted his family and business three years ago to escape punishment for forgeries and other criminal transactions, has been returned to Frankfort and placed in jail. —George Bright, a prominent farmer of Daviess County, has been sued for slander by Rev. J. Coochman. a Methodist minister. He Is alleged to have charged the preacher with immoral conduct. Much excitement is the outgrowth of the suit.