Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1890 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

BY OUR GREAT AMERICAN CONDENSER. Scalped by a Wagon Wheel—Bought Hl* Wile a Divorce—Suapeiwlered by Ill* Nwk Decapitated by a Train—.belt Two Widow*. —Harvey Holley suicided at Montpelier. —Pilot R.. the race-horse, fell dead at Wingate. —Somerville has a case of genuine small-pox. . —August Lebrun, a farmer in Adams County, fell dead. —A Chinese gambling den was unearthed at Peru. —John W. Grim, alleged bigamist, arrested at Kokoino. —Big fire occurred in Greenfield. Loss will reach $19,000. —Henry Newby, Russiaville, was robbed by footpads. —Samuel Anderson was killed by a freight at Greenfield. —Searlltina and measles arc spotting the people of Muncie. —J. O. Schofield, general merchant of Harris City, gone under. —Peter Kiser, oldest citizen of Fort Wayne, dropped dead. —Track laying on the C. W. & M. has reached Knightstown. —Louis Alsteller was fatally injured by a train at New Albany. —Mattie Kennedy was terribly burned by molten lead at Muncie. —Volunteers for tho regular army can now enlist at Fort Wayne. —An unknown woman deserted her infant babe at Frankfort. —Fiends burned a threshing machine in the field near Thorntown. —Fraiik Richardson was caught in a shaft at Franklin, He will die. —George Lafe’s team ran away and killed him instantly at Covington. —Erastus Shuman, leading merchant of Fort Wayne, went up the flume. —Sugar Creek,.in Montgomery County, is to be stocked with black bass. —Charles Seantlebury was stricken with paralysis at Jirazil and died. —A Kokomo canning factory turnsout 250,000 cans of tomatoes weekly. —Eddie Calvin, a 3-year-old of Attica, drank concentrated lye and died. —Bringhurst had a saloon but the citizens poured its liquor in the gutter. —Barn of Christian Huffman was burned at Vincennes. Loss, $5,000. —A Goshen youth picked at a dynamite cartridge. He’s minus a hand. —Benton Harbor express collided with a freight. Two engines were wrecked. —lsaac E. DeLong was killed while working at a gas well near Strawtown. —A prisoner escaped from the Waynotown calaboose by crawling up tho flue. —The wrath of Morgantown’s residents against the saloons is not appeased yet.

—Another attempt has been made to dynamite Mussehnan’s saloon at Morgantown. —An Indianapolis father mistook his toddling boy for a burglar and shot him dead. —An infant son of Edward Coy, of Jeffersonville, was dangerously gored by a cow. —At a saw-mill in Groencastlc, a log rolled over foreman Nichols. He may recover. —The residence of Martin Coilnty’s exsheriff was burned. The family narrowly escaped. —Morgantown toughs attempted to clean out a saloon. Knives and shooters were used. —The plans for the new Union depot at Terre Haute have been completed and accepted. —Tie tourists held a high time at Richmond until the officers got them on the tramp again. —An 8-ycar-old son of William Nash, Crawfordsville, fell on his open pocket knife. He's dead. —Thieves burgled the grocery store of M. Jakes. Demolished the safe with powder and got $135. —Horace Falls, a Martinsville 12-year old, gorged himself with paw paws. He’s with the angels now. —Edward Ryan, of Jacksonville, 111., was dangerously stabbed in a saloon brawl at Vincennes. —Evansville will have a Tri-State Fair. Business Men’s Association have subscribed SIOO,OOO. —Shameful prize-fight took place in a barn near Shelby. Participants poun'dod each other for over an hour. —Can. Stewart struck Charley York in the head with a lump of coal at Columbus and knocked out his eye. —The reunion next yearof the Eightysixth Regimental Association will be held at Crawfordsville, on October 7 and 8. —Mrs. Levi Trayer died at Middleburg, from injuries received in a Lake Shore wreck, in which her husband was killed. —A man at Darlington, Montgomery County, has offered his wife $325 if she will get a divorce from him. She has accepted. —The 12-year old daughter of Anton Alt, of Fort Wayne, was sent to tho grocery by her mother to get some provisions and has not returned. —W. F. Pettit, in jail at Crawfordsville, charged with the murder of his wife, says that he is annoyed oy newspapers that still print “Rev.” before his name. He “quit that business over a year ago.” —T. J. Benek and Clara Olnhausen arrived at Logansport from Columbus, Ohio, with a view to getting wedded right away quick. A constable met and escorted them to a hotel and locked them in separate rooms until the irate parents arrived.

—Alex Amos and John Alstandt went gunning in Pike County. Latter will die with bird shot in one lung. —John Mozetter, of l*ortland, took morphine, it is believed with suicidal intent, and will die. —The accounts of the ex-Clty Treasurer of Terre Haute, have boon found short $15,522.59. —O. J. SackmaiVs general store at Burdick was burgled to the extent of SSOO. —lmportant sections of the new election law have been declared unconstitutional. —A brave young woman prevented the escape from the Spencer Jail of three desperate criminals. —Harry Bloch, a combined Chicago printer and thief, was pulled at Evansville lor stealing a watch—Worked the mad-stone cure on two children or Mrs. I. T. Brown, Wirt, who were bitten by a rabid, dog. —Charles Shearer was arrested at West Point, chargod with burning a bridge in Shelby County, Ohio. —Frederick Stachley, Columbus, died and left SIO,OOO to a young man named Grelser who’d been kind to him. —Capt. Newton H. Baker died at his home in Wabash. He was one of the first captains on the Erie Caual. —The Greensburg Creamery Company will begin operations at their creamery, after lying idle about six months. —Jotinny Weiss fell out of a yoe at South Bend. The shattered bones V>f his leg protruded through his clothing. —One of Miles Ogle's partners has turned over plates used In counterfeiting to Government officers near Madison. —Wm. Shuman laid his neck across a rail on the Big Foiiy near Muncie to be decapitated. A freight train did him up brown. —The Indiana yearly meeting of Friends petitioned the World's Fair Commission to close the fair on Sundays. —Tho Terre Haute City Council has rescinded the charter of tho local Water Works Company, owned by Chicago capitalists. —A son of Barney Qrndorff, aged 8 years, fell under a wagon near Oaktown and was literally scalped by the wheel. —A satchel full of woman’s clothes was found near Terre Haute. A handkerchief in tho lot bore tho name, Louisa Townloy. —Tile agent of tho Virginia Life Insurance Company, at Terre Haute, has be«*n charged with embezzlement and arrested. —Mrs. George Dcppert fell down stairs at her home near Seymourand wa* stricken entirely blind. She Is nearly 60 years of age. —Tho citizens of Brown County seeni to have an extra lease on life. Thero ar6 several in the county who are bordering on 100 years of ago. —Nat Mowney, a saloonlst of Edlhberg, wanted to thrash Preacher Small because tho latter “talked against his business” in tho pulpit. —James Christie, Cass County, who feigned death by drowning in a lake and disappeared some time ago, It is' alleged to escape creditors, lias returned.

—Mrs. Love attempted to ride a balloon into npwardness at the Bedford fair. She was dragged through a scraggy tree top and badly disfigured. —Frank Brocaw, of Terre Haute, disappeared ten years ago and had not been heard of until recently ho Was found working as an engineer In Texas. —John Childllss filled up with social disturbance and bunked on the railroad track near Mitchell, A fast train lifted him off. He leaves a wife and children. —James Boswell of Htilesvllle, sentenced two years ago for eight years for robbery, has been pardoned, he having turned State’s evidence, thus implicating others, —George Cole, of Brazil, died and left his property to his widow. Since then another widow has turned up in England and the courts will decide which is the rightful heir. —The mail car on the; E., S. & R. Railroad was broken open near Seymour and gutted of every stamp, cancelling stamp and every implement in connection therewith. 1 —John Welch, a convict seat up from Indianapolis for four years for burglary and grand larceny, hanged himself In the dungeon in the Northern prison by his suspenders. —Six people at the house of. Albert Wller, of Lafayette, were dangerously poisoned by eating corn which had been sprinkled with paris green while growing to kill insects. —A kid attempted to climb between the cars of a moving freight train at Terre Haute. He lost his hold and fell between the rails, where he lay flat until seven cars passed over him. —Lena Myers, who disappeared from her home near Brownsburg, has been found. Says she was assaulted by a farmer named Mitchell and has sued for $30,000. Mitchell claims blackmail. —ln the Circuit Court at Columbus Joseph Shepherd, who gave Ills residence at Chicago, and Joseph Stanton, of Pittsburgh, were found guilty of horse stealing, and each sentenced to two years in Jeffersonville. —The famous sand hill, known as Iloosier Slide, at Michigan City, is being excavated and the workmen have found a one-story frame house still standing. Nobody knows how long it has been buried. —Jacob Zook and Joe West located in Kokomo about a month ago aud opened an office. They sold county rights for the manufacture of a patent water-proof paint. They exchanged rights for property and good paper to the amount of about SIO,OOO and skipped.