Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1890 — INFANT INDIANIANS [ARTICLE]

INFANT INDIANIANS

IS WHAT OUR HOOSIER NEWS MIGHT BE CALLED. Struck by an Engine—Candidates for the I Fen—Scarlet Fever Scare—Gone for 1 Eleven lean—Wreck of a Freight Train, Etc. —Brazil has a new coal company. —Peru will have electric street bars. —Terre Haute kids have scarlet fever. —Lafayette wants better lire protection. —The railroad depot of Covington burned. —Chas. Young is in the jug for horse stealing at Fqwler. —Princeton now has a modern p. o. She’s long needed it. —Hilarious highwaymen chase Columbus street-ear drivers. —Charles Heiser married a gay young girl of 69 at South Bend. —John Cunningham’s farm-house, near Americus, was burned. —Simon Fields is on trial at Goshen tor the murder of Silas Bell. —A fellow played the deaf and dumb racket on Frankfort citizens. —Howard County sends John Grim to the pen two years for bigamy. —Evangelist Francis Willard is setting people wild at Terre Haute. —Thomas Conner, crushed while coupling ears at Greensburg, died. • —Carry Day, colored, celebrated her 100th birthday at Crawfordsville. —Jacob Young, of New Ross, committed suicide by taking arsenic. —Life Insurance Agent Dodd, New Albany, was waylaid and robbed. —lt’s just awful how South Bend youths and qiaidens flirt in public. —Thomas Shannon was buried by the cavo-in of a gravel-pit, near Tipton. —A freight was wrecked at Harristown, on the Monon. One man killed. —Charles Marsh hung himself with a trace chain in a barn near Greenfield. —John Freillng attempted to kill his wife and hang himself at Evansville. —George Leggett’s flouring mill at Cambridge City burned. Loss $4,000. —Barbara Ballen, Evansville, went upward by the “rough on rats” route. —Charles Cone, head sawyer at Maley & Co.’s mill, at Sullivan, dropped dead. —Highwaymen knocked Geo. Andrews down, near Muncie, and rifled his pockets. —Music languishes at Richmond, and even the brass band has hypothecated its effect. —John Cummins stole a sack full of glassware of Susan Williams, at Terre Haute. —Carl Howard was run down and killed near Zionsville by a Big Four freight. —W. H. Loutz & Co.'s safe was cracked at South Bend during the bright light of day. —The trial of Ollie Graves for the murder of John Bryant is in progress at Rockford. —Over 10,000 tons of hay was burned bv a conflagration in the marsh near Lacrosse. —Monk Wilson, Peru, wants to “scrap” with Dick Keating, State's champion. —Thomas Tailion’s leg was broken in a fight with Julius Chomel, at a 1 otel in Seymour. —John Pinnich has been sentenced for life, from Dubois County. He murdered his cousin. | [ —Keen-scented Indianapolis detectives have abandoned the hunt for the Middleton shooters. —James Mealey, of Laketon, concealed $360 under his pillow, but a burglar found it. —Survivors of the Eighth and Eighteenth Regiments held a reunion at Richmond. —William Budd, a prominent farmer, was found dead in the street at Lebanon. Heart disease. —John and Martin Driscoll were jailed at Winchester on the charge of cattle stealing. —Charles Heiser, of South Bend, made a brutal assault upon Mrs. Rebecca Davis, aged 69. —Fire destroyed the barn of the Indian scho6l at Rensselaer, and five horses perished. —Frank Cassidy, of Washington, fell from a freight train near Bloomington, and was killed. —During a quarrel at Blankenburg, John Auers stabbed John Kohl, inflicting fatal wounds. —Thomas Buler, near Brooklyn, has a big hole In his side. John Ware shot him instead of the quail. -—A Madison saloon is called “The Dump.” The way it dumps drunks out on the sidewalks is a caution. —Sullivan young folks have organized a “Little Annie Rooney Club.” Mightn’t it be called “Chestnut Club?” —Muncie school houses are to be connected by telephone. They’ll thrash kids with an electrical battering ram next. —Tom Cotton, who shot and killed William Palmer at Shelbyville was sentenced to twenty-one years’ imprisonment. —William Hiatt and James Adams were sentenced to the penitentiary for four years for robbing farmer Jesse Gray at Madison. —“Bricky” Hughes, a glass-blower of Peru, was arrested for wife-whipping; while awaiting trial he abused Dr. B. R. Graham. Graham thereupon walked into the court room and gave Hughes a tremendous beating. —ln 1876 Wm. Bell left his wife at Muncie, and no more was heard of him until a few days ago, when he returned to find his wife married again. Wm. shed a few tears, gave his property to his daughter, and has left, vowing never to return.

—Christian Stocksrt .Is missing al Michigan City. —Banks of Evansville have formed a clearing-house. —Peru people want a better stage in their opera house. —Scarlet fever has closed up the Oaktown schools tight. —The Knights of Pythias dedicated a new hall at Angola. —Terre Haute can’t build her police station—she’s broke. —Farm-house of A. T. Bowen was burned near Seymour. —Col. Kritncr fell on the street at Corydon. Leg broken. —J. W, Hawkins, Marion colored man, was killed by the cars. —David Rapp is in the tolls at Union City for alleged theft. —Michael Delaney was cut in two by a train at Greensburg; —The faculty of Hanover College have ordered students to cease smoking cigarettes. —Capt. Daniel Bacon was dangerously injured by falling from a scaffold at North Vernon. —William Hosteller, of Miami County, noted for enormous strength, died ol la grippe, aged 90. —Ono hundred and fifty delegates attended the convention of the Epworth League at Kokomo. —Many homos have been built at Franklin through tho means of building and loan associations. —Sylvan Stokes, 10 years old, had his hand torn off and tho bones ground tc bits at a Madison woolen mill. —Whitewater River has been well stocked with carp, and fish weighing ten pounds are frequently caught. —-Bush & Seifert’s livery stable, a blacksmith shop and a couple of dwellings were destroyed by fire at Newburg. —Evansville wants to be represented in tho list of signal service stations, claiming that it Is a “weather breeding” point. —Clyde Lister, charged with larceny, sawed three bars from his window in tho Boone County Jail, but was detected in time. —Female clerks in tho Now York Shoo Store struck at Indianapolis because they had to go in and out at an alloy door. —Henry Lutz and wife are in tho toils at Greencastle for alleged arson. It’s said they burned their barn for insurance. ' —John Bishop, a railway mall service employe, of Knightstown, was stricken with paralysis while on duty near Terra Haute. —The quail law Is out. Watch this column for mention of death to idiotic Hoosiers who pull guns through the fence. —Dr. Ahwannautc, an Indian cancer doctor, was arrested at Liberty, charged with practicing medicine without a diploma. —Two Valparaiso church members indulged in a game of poker. One raked the Jack-pot and tho other had him churched. —Mrs. Alice Klankenshfp,'of New Albany, in a fit of melancholy took arsenic. It required three doctors to bring her back to life. —Maggie Twomey mysteriously disappeared from her Logansport home eleven years ago. She returned recently a raving maniac. —Edward Morton, of Pendletpn, while assisting another man to fell a tree, was badly injured by his partner’s ax flying off the handle. —Six cars were ruined and valiiable freight was lost by the ditching of a train on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois near Llckerson. —F. D. Merrill,a Chicago man,fell into the hands of John Record and Seth Lindsey, card sharps, at Kokomo, and was robbed of S2BO. —Fire destroyed the Levi Hiemann property at Warrenton, causing $2,506 loss, and the residence of Harry Nensinger, with $2,000 loss. —M. T. Hancock’s drug store, at Morgantown, was wrecked by dynamite. Saloons and drug stores fare alike at the hands of irate Morganiters. ■ —A carriage containing James O’Marra and Miss Graves was struck by an engine at a grade crossing at Terre Haute, and both were seriously injured. —John Rice, Sr., of Crawfordsville, has received word that he Is one of the heirs to $40,000,000 left by his greatuncle in England. Oh, for a greatuncle. —The Indiana Commandery of the Loyal Legion gave a banquet at Indianapolis, which was attended by many distinguished men. Gen. Lew Wallace presided. —A committee representing the telegraph operators employed on the Big Four railway system has formally asked an increase of pay from Superintendent Peck. They may strike. —Gertrude, the 14-year-old daughter of Jacob Bricker, of Muncie, was abducted by William Bright, a prosperous young farmer. Bright is 30 years old and had been paying some attention clandestinely to Miss Gertrude. —When John H. Spencer had the remains of his father disinterred at South Waveland, for removal to another cemetery, there were many indications that Mr. Spencer had recovered consciousness after burial, and hud died of suffocation. —Alexander Walls, of English, who was sent to the penitentiary last.year op a charge of robbery, committed eight years ago, will be released on bond-and receive a new hearing by reason of the decision of the Supreme Court. —Anotlier record has been broken and an Indiana- woman did it. Ann Eliza McClure got her third divorce from David G. McClure, at Chicago, the other day. This is said to be positively her farewell divorce as far as David Is :on* cerned. 1-