Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — IN THE HOOSIER STATE. [ARTICLE]

IN THE HOOSIER STATE.

ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUR SOURCES. Light PunUlimrnt lor a Torrlbla Crime— Patents to Indiana Inventors— Railroad Accidents—Weddings— Deaths—Criminal Record, Etc Miser Who Had Forgotten His Savings. Just over the county line of Shelby County, on Flat Rock River, lives William Brown, an eccentric old farmer. Last spring Airs. Brown died, leaving the old man and the youngest child, a daughter, at home. A few days ago ho applied to the Court to have a guardian appointed for him. The guardian immediately entered upon the discharge of his duties. The old man turned over about forty thousand dollars of his savings, and told the guardian that he Siad been in the habit of hiding his money, and the places from which he dragged the large sums of money indicated that he had yet some knowledge df his own eccentricity. The guardiun thereupon instituted search for more hidden wealth. Climbing through a scuttle-hole into the garret, he found an old coffee-pot full of gold and silver of the early specie series of the country, amounting ?o $1,500, and in a nail-keg sitting in one corner was S3OO, and in an old rag-poke in another part of the house was SOO. The money had evidently been hidden for many years, and the old man had entirely forgotten that he had ever had it. He has two children to inherit liis fortune at his demise. One is the wife of Alarion Covert, who resides in Kansas, and is himself very wealthy. The other is a single daughter, who resides with tho old man.

Minor .State Items. —Nathaniel E. Block, of New Castle, is dead. —The Columbus street-ear line is in operation. —Several cases of malignant diphtheria have appeared at Goshen. —Fort Wayne capitalists propose to erect a $200,000 ice factory in that city. —Burglars got SSO from the safe in Frank Smith’s livery stable at Columbus. —Martin O’Day killed Tim Duffy at Indianapolis by striking hiiii with a stone. —Romeo Mertz got his arm caught and badly mangled in machinery at Mulberry. —John C. Kline, of English, unearthed a number of old Spanish coins in his yard. —Tho Steuben County grand jury lias returned seventeen indictments for gambling. —The postoffico at North Union, Montgomery County, will bo discontinued after October 1. —Rev. J. P. Engstrom, of Wavcland, has accepted a call from the Lebanon Presbyterian Church. —Daughter of John Holloway fell from a second story window at New Albany and was killed. —Mrs. John Morrison, who lived a mile south of Crawfordsvillc, dropped dead while washing clothes, . —The Union Veteran Legion will held its fifth annual encampment at Fort Wayne, beginning October 7, —Harry Hollinsworth, aged 13 years, was killed near Remington while trying to board a Pan Handle freight. . —Postoffice Inspector R. E. Spangler has.secured for Connersville free delivery, to commence January 1, 1891, —J. S. Todd, of Knox County, planted thirty acres in Russian sunflowers this year and realized SO3 per acre on the crop.

—William Reynolds, a wealthy farmer of Delaware County, hn» beeu placed under §2,000 bonds on a charge of assaulting his niece. —Mrs. Nancy Ewing, wife of the deputy warden of tho Prison South and mother of Senator Cortez Ewing, of Greensburg, is dead. —Charles Wagner, Superintendent of the Munk & Roberts factories at Connersville, committed suicide because of a threatened strike in the factory. —John Ink, a prominent farmer of Fairmount, died from the effects of tho kick of a horse. He carried life insurance to the amount of 815,000. —The twenty-first annual convention of the Indiana Young Men’s Christian Association will be held at Richmond from October 30 to November 2. —Greentown has but one saloonkeeper, and Jhe is compelled to keep a guard over his place night and day to prevent It from being blown up. —Wm. Rafferty, watchman on the Airline at the trestle near English, was wounded in the groin by a pistol, discharged in the pocket while undressing. —McClelland Jacobs, a prominent young school teacher of Tipton County, was killed while cutting a bee tree. The falling.tree struck him, completely burying him. —Professor Allen, principal of the colored school at Crawfordsville, has resigned his position to accept the position of literary editor of the Freeman, at Indianapolis. —Benjamin Osborn and one Bonewitz are in jail at Warsaw, charged with cruelly beating James McGuire, a pensioner. for the supposed purpose of robbing him. —Richard Welch, of Kosciusko County, who was sent to the penitentiary over a year ago for forging an order for a pint of whisky, was pardoned by Gov. Hovey. His sentence was for two years. —There is but one saloon in Bringhurst, and a raid was made on it by a crowd and the barrels and kegs rolled out and liquors spilled on the ground. Bottles, decanters, jugs and glasses were broken into atoms and thrown into the street, and the place completely broken up for the present.

—Tho Anderson postoffico was robbed of a small amount in stamps. —Elzo Webb, who pleaded guilty of murder In the second degree, at Evansville, was sentenced to ninety-niuc years in the penitentiary. —A through freight on the Cincinnati, Wabasli and Michigan was wrecked in a cut near Sodus by the dislodging of a number of telegraph poles that were being hauled on flat-cars. - Earnest Dorsey, a Vnndalia brakeman, was ought between two ears, at Crawfordsville ,nd seriously injured. He Is yet alive, but fears are entertained that the result will be fatal. —An interesting feature of the old settlers’ reunion on tho batiks of Grassy Creek, near Nashville, was the marriage of William H. Warford and Miss Alice Henry, each aged 70 years. —John Swanson was attempting to dehorn a bull on his farm in Jackson County, wiicn the enraged animal pinned him down and crushed him to death. His wife was seriously injured while trying to rescue him. —There is trouble in tho Shelbyvillo Christian Church. Tho trustees requested the Rev. Crim to resign and the congregation voted to retain him. The trustees were then asked to resign and they refused to do so. —Frank L. Burgan, a Vandnlla swithman, tried to jump on a ear in the yards at Terre Haute. He stumbled and fell, the car knocking him under the wheels. A leg and arm were almost sovorod and he died a few hours later. —ln the Circuit Court at Greencastle, a verdict for $2,000 was rendered against tho Indianapolis, Decatur and Western railway for running over a boy named Wilson, by which lie lost his leg. The train was making a running switch, and the boy, in crossing t lie track, was struck by the cars, knocked down and run oVer. —‘For some time past the farmers along Eel River, near the Owen County lino, have suffered from tho overflow of its water, caused by tho dam at tho mill, Grove Mill, Ju Owen County.! The other night, at the hour of midnight, the dam was blown up with dynamite, it is supposed by persons who had suffered iijtlio manner indicated.

—The report sent from New Castle to several dally papers recounting tlih alleged discovery of parts of a human skeleton in the house of the court-house janitor was a “fake” and the result of a practical joke played upon an enterprising correspondent. The bones were some used in atrial in court some years ago, and their whereabouts have been well known for a long time. —At Bedford, Zulin, a daughter of Dr, J. W. Trainer, aged 4 years, was playing with matches in company with a little girl of about her age when her clothing caught fire. The children were some distance from home at the, time of the 'occurrence and it was not discovered until the flames had almost entirely consumed the little girl’s clothing. A large portion of tho surface of her body was burned to a crisp. No hopes of lfor recovery are entertained. —The body of Alfred Nlinny, a 17-year-old boy, residing with his parents three miles east of Lagro, was found in the Wabash River near Hanging Rock. The lad, witli Alonzo Williams, had gone to Andrews, and there obtaining liquor, became very drunk. Upon returning to Lagro Williams propped his companion up in the buggy, fastened tho reins over the dash and started him homeward. The horse reached Slinny’s, but the buggy was vacant. . -■-A terrific explosion occurred at Hartford City Glass Company's saw-mill. The owner of the mill was blown one hundred feet, and the liyad-sawyer and helper were each terribly cut and burned. Pieces of the boiler, a cut-off saw and frame and loose articles in the rear of the boiler were blown several hundred feet. Fidler, tho owner, is the worse injured, and there is small chance for his recovery. Tho explosion is believed to have been due to the use of muddy water.

—Patents have been Issued to Indianians as follows: William 11. Bonwell, Brookville, wheel cultivator; Omer T. Conger, Indianapolis, water heater; Charles G. Conn, Elkhart, musical wind instrument; Israel Hogeland, Indianapolis, assignor of one-half to B. F. Bangs, Chicago, 111., churn; W. J. Kerh, assignor of one-half to D. Klotz, Fort Wayne, temporary binder; Daniel E. Reagan, Terre Haute, nut lock; Nicholas Smith, assignor to C. A. P. Smith, Logansport, lift pump. —At Muncie Fannie Weiley, Doan Nichols and Ret. Shutterly were found guilty of abduction and the two former sentenced to four and a half years in the State Penitentiary. Tho Shutterly woman turned State’s evidence and got but thirty days in jail. The women allured Miss Meade Waters, aged 16, into tho Weiley woman’s house of illfame, at Indiuapolis, where her father found and returned her to her home, six miles from Muncie, where she suicided that night with strychnine. The defense used Morton Shoecraft, colored, as testimony that he had carnal relations with the girl, in an attempt to prove her a prostitute before going to Indianapolis, and Shoecraft has fled to evade rough treatment at the hands of indignant citizens. —The directors of the Montgomery County Fair have borrowed enough money to pay off all premiums and expenses. The sum needed was about two thousand dollars. —Miss Nora Zellers, of Farmcrsburg, was taken to the hospital at Terre Haute. She had been run over by seventeen cars of a coal train . on tho Alum Cane branch, and the surgeons that she will die if the one remaining leg can not be amputated, which operation she is now too weak to endure.