Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1890 — HUSTLING HOOSTERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSTERS.

WHAT THEY’VE BEEN DOING FOR A WHOLE WEEK. A Big Libel Suit— Sent to the Ten—By the Morphine Route—Attempted Assassination—A Big Bond—Not to Get Booster Bas—Died of Lock-Jaw—Stood on the Deadly Platform—Killed in a Kuna win Buncoed a Business Man—Disappearance of a Sweet Sixteen—Highwaymen Jailed—Crushed to Death, Etc. —Simon Yandes has given $30,000 to Wabash College, —Thomas Saborton,of Evansville, was found dead in bed. —German anniversary attracted big crowds at Evansville. —Soldiers’ reunions aro prevalent throughout tho State. —O. E. Lawrence was mysteriously drowned at Michigan City. —Mrs. Mary Baiiey, of Attica, fell into a cellar and was fatally injured. Fred Poschen, an Inmate of the poor house at Valparaiso, hanged himself, —A passenger train on the Motion ran into an open switch and was derailed. —Mrs. Ed Doody publicly whipped Mrs. Kidney in Indianapolis. Jealousy. —Alexander Lane, the slayer of Al Hoover, has been arrested at Lebanon. —Carelessness and fog caused a serious collide on the C., W. & H. noai Linwood. —Fred Sachen, Valparaiso, preferred death to the poor-house and hanged himself. —Mixed schools after a week’s trial are to bo done away with at Crawfordsville. —E. &T. H. excursion train jumped the track near Hazleton. Narrow escape. —John Hancock Craig, Danville, Is the biggest man in the world. Weighs 600 pounds. —Real estate agent, Al. Brpwn, was acquitted at Laporte of a charge of embezzlement. —Edward Colvin, a child of 3 years, swallowed concentrated lye at Attica, with fatal effect. —President Wright, of tho Cambridge City Council, was struck by a train and seriously injured. —Tho funeral of ex-State Senator Carpenter was one of the largest ever l\eld in Shelby County. —Five horses at Annapolis, afflicted* with glanders, have been killed by tho State Veterinarian. —W. H. Schrieber, who robbed the Columbus Bank, was arrested in Detroit and made to disgorge. —Robert Burton stood on the platform of a fast mail train while going through Washington. He’ll die., —John Cunningham, of Harrison County, sold the apples on his orchard of’3oo trees for $1,600. —Mrs..Michael Ronan was instantly killed at Ronan by tho collision of a runaway team with her buggy. —Tho dry-kiln of the Eagle Sash and Door Company at Goshen was burned. Loss, $2,000; no insurance.

—Stephen Sterkoy, a teamster of Marshall, was caught under his overturned wagon and crushed to death. —Quimley King was caught by a falling tree ho had chopped down at Bloomingsburg, and fatally crushed. —Whito Caps notified Fred L. Weil, of English, to either sober up or leave the county. Ho left the county. —The widow of the late Vom Heilman, Evansville, has qualified as executrix of the estate. Bond, $1,500,000. —Throe smart residents of Danville refused to answer census inquiries. They’ve been over to the United States Court. —Harvey H’. Weed, of Fayette County, was seized with a hemorrhago of the lungs while at work in a field, arid death ensued. —Grandmother Hawn, one of the oldest and best know pioneer women of Northern Indiana, died near Rochester, aged 94, —Hon. John V. Bentz was thrown from his horse at English, and the animal stepped on his face and then fell upon him. —Michael McCarthy, of Muncie, preferred his church to a Protestant sweetheart and at the last moment refused to marry her. —A grand reunion of ex-soldlers was held at New Albany, and Governor Hovey and General Gresham were the honored guests. —Large headed postmaster at Brazil bought ton dollars’ worth of stamps from two tramps for 87. The stamps, oi course, had been stolen. —Quire Kardos, former treasurer of the Sick Benefit Society at South Bend refused to turn over the cash to his successor. Suit has been brought. —Deputy Marshal George N. Bird, of Frankfort, attempted to take Arthur Palmer to jail for alleged horse stealing. Palmer shot the Marshal dead. —The authorities have been unable to find Martin Schaffer, the murderer of Edward Lowry, at Walton, and it is supposed that he has fled the State.

—Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dalryinple, of Elkhart, two years ago were divorced. One day recently they met and engaged in a hand to hand struggle over the possession of their little daughter. —Mrs. Henry McCann, of Muncie, smashed with bowlders the windows of the saloon of John Weisse because hel>d sold her husband liquor contrary to her orders. —Burglars worked Union City. They bored through a panel in the rear door of Kerr’s hardware store and reached through and unlocked the door. They carried off about fifty Wade & Butcher and Wirth razors, a lot of Woostenholm pocket cutlery and a lot of Roger’s sil-ver-ware.

—Oscar Watson, Cass Dowden and Grant l'Winnoy, the juvenile highwaymen cl Muiii'k have heen,bound over to court. —The las? work of the Morgan County Grand Jury was-to return twenty indictments for the violation of the liquor laws. —The barn of Luther Wild, at Marion, was burned with tho grain and agricultural implements therein. Loss, $2,000; Insurance, s4oo. —A man atCrawfordsvllle hung another man in effigy on the court-house corner because of a grudge he held against him for over twenty years. —Alfred Lashley. an aged citizen of Contervillp, was pulled from his horse and terribly beaten by Walter Commons. lie will sue for damages. —A crazy man, apparently about 35 years old, was found oli Abner Rudd's farm, about a mile north of Colfax. Ho says that his name Is Rider. —Andrew McMullen’s house, at Montpelier, caught lire from a defective flue, and was damaged about S2OO, with no Insurance. —James M. Everly, of Terre Haute, was sentenced to six years in tho -penitentiary for criminally assaulting Clara B. Voncleave, an Insane woman. Tho assault occurred last May. —Joseph Slinoy, near Lagro, has sued Louis Gauss, a saloon keeper, for $2,000. Complainant alleges that Gauss sold his son liquor, which caused the latter to drown himself In the Wabash.

—A tramp appeared at tho barn of Jas. Taylor, near Ladoga, and asked permission to sleep in the barn. This was refused, and a moment later tho tramp fell dead from apoplexy. —One Wall, a brakeman from Mount Carmel, 111., was attacked and seriously stabbed at Princeton by friends of Lizzie Turpen and Ida Brookins, young girls whom he had attemped tQ abduct. —Thomas Hart, President of the Window Glass Manufacturers’ Association, was seriously burned about the face and hands by a natural gas explosion, at tho Maring-Hart Glass Works, at Muncle. —Ed. Rile, white, ami Jimmie Dylon, colored, both about the age of 13, became involved in a quarrel In Charlesi ton, when the Rile boy struck his adversary in the temple with a stone, crushing, tho skull. —Frank Kookon, a teamster, of Decatur, was unloading a saw log, when it happened to roll on him, mashing his left leg in a horrible manner. He lingered in great distress and died a few hours afterward. —Arthur, tho 10-yoar-old son of .1. H. Curran, of Logansport, died from the effects of an injury received while playing with some companions at school. Hq ran against the corner of a seat and ruptured his bowels. —Frank Darting, of Brazil, has brought a live-thousand-dollar suit against tho Evansville and Indianapolis Railroad for damages sustained by an assault made upon him by fellow-passengers November 22. —Socrates Darremeyor became insane from religious excitement while driving from Fulton County to his homo near Winamac. He upset his buggy, throw his clothing into a ditch and was found wandering about Jn the woods. —At Aiifora Thomas Curnyan attempted to assassinate “Rip” Sickles, a local bully, shooting at him in a saloon. The ball missed its aim, however, and entered the breast of one Tim Dernagan. Curnyan fired again, inflicting a wound in Sickles’ breast and gave him another in the back as they clinched. Sickles got hold of the weapon In tho struggle and clubbed his assailant almost todeath with it. All three are dangerously Injured.

—Five hundred men working on the natural gas pipe line from Howard County, Indiana, to Chicago, have beep called off, and work suspended. It is said that the Indiana Natural Gas Company which was to pipe gas to the State line for the trust, will abandon the idea of supplying the fluid to consumers in Chicago, and dispose of it to towns along the line. The immediate cause of the suspension of operations was the hostile attitude of Chicago authorities toward the gas trust. —The prisoners in the county Jail at Marion, set fire to their mattresses. The night watch discovered smoke issuing from the windows and gave the alarm. The fire was extinguished after several prisoners had been nearly suffocated. The supposition is that the lire was started in the expectation that the doors would be opened and a delivery effected. Ed. Robeson and Newton Leach, who started the blaze, will be prosecuted for arson as soon as their present terms have expired. —A boiler explosion in a tile mill at Deedsville, a small town north of Peru, killed Charles Deeds, a young man, his head being blown into fragments, besides seriously injuring George Abbott and Elijah Shoemaker, other employes. The building was completely wrecked, and fragments of the boiler were found three squares away. Deeds was'sitting near the boiler at the time of the explosion. The other two men and Richard Robbins, engineer and owner, was some distance away. Robbins was unhurt. The cause is not known, as only a few minutes prior to the accident the gauges showed ample water. The explosion was heard for miles. —Frank L. Scfrit, city editor of the Washington Gazette, criticized the brutality of Marshal Cavanaugh. The latter then attacked Sefrit and beat him iu a frightful manner. * —David C. Reede was found dead in his room at the residence of his mother, in Liberty. ( A coroner’s inquest found that the deceased came to his death by sulphate of morphine, self-administered, with suicidal intent. It is alleged the cause of the suicide was disappointment f n love.