Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1890 — THE STATE NEWS MILL. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE NEWS MILL.

ITS WEEKLY GRIST IS EXCEEDING FINE. Lives on Rats—Wrecked a Whlskillery— The Revolver as a V» oinan’s Toy—Sew Sterane Battery—A I lendlsh Ontrage— Killed by a Train—A Missing School Marin. —Madison has a stone pile for bums. —Darlington has chicken thieves. —Small-pox is prevalent at Birdseye. —Evansville is infested with thieves, j —New Richmond wants to ineorpor-1 ate. —Columbus has three unlicensed saloons. —Shelbyville wants a new Big Four depot. —More deaths at Frankfort from diphtheria. —Giddy Elkhart girls get full of bad “liker.” —Brazil miners want a ten cent advance. —Duck hunting’s immense in Knox County. —Samuel Drennon, at Muncie, dropped dead of heart disease. —John Dowd was found dead in his room at New’ Albany. —Peru’s abandoned gas well has developed into a gusher. —John Hamlet, a loony, tried to kill himself at Valparaiso. —The Michigan City Penitentiary is increasing in population. —“Father” Benton, of Huntington, claims to be 109 years old. —Daniel May had a desperate fight with a bulldog at Muncie. —Thomas Yale, committed suicide at Lafayete by taking poison. —A big batch of young criminals have been bagged at Shelbyville. —A disgraceful class fight occurred at the Greencastle University. —Richmond toughs throw rocks into the Salvation Army's camp. —Rev. Hastings was struck by a train at Laporte and fatally hurt. —A broken rail wrecked a C. &E. I. passenger train at Watseka. —Edward Byerly died suddenly of heart disease in South Bend. —John Tapp suicided by shooting, near Lodoga. Despondency. —J. R. Phillips’ big roller mill at Union burned. Loss $12,000. —A lamp exploded and set fire to a passenger coach at Columbus. —Alleged Graveyard Insurance Company at Elkhart is in hot water. —Constable Eckert’s home, near Sandford, was burned by indendaries. —George Swirrells jumped from a train at Elkhart. Ho was killed. —E. M. Stone, prominent farmer of Connorsville, was gored by a bull. —Ernest Brecker sat on the track at Judson and was killed by a train. —Joe Orr, Plymouth, stabbed Tom Ennis, who was trying to rob him. —Princeton’s again going for tin’ holo in the ground she calls a gas well. —James Galloway, of Wabash, has been fatally stricken with paralysis. —J. J. King, general store at Frankton, has assigned. Liabilities, $5,000. —Henry Ruch died of lock-jaw at Fort Wayne, from stepping on a rusty nail. —Prof. Geo. Slotts, of the Mitchell Normal College, is mysteriously missing. —James Stevenson lost three fingers in a brick-making machine at Montezuma. —A. J. Case, switchman, got caught in a frog at Fort Wayne, both legs cut off. ■ —J. D. Gleeson couldn't wait till the train stoppl'd at Greencastle and may die. —Crawfordsville young ladies will boycott young men who tamper with “red eye.” —Two men from Lima, Ohio, are going to start a handle factory at Waveland. Henry Ostrander, a horse-thief, was sent from Madison to the pen for two years. —Prisoners have knives in the Richmond jail. In a fight one stabbed another. —William Bowman retailed “red eye” to thirsty Kokomoans on Sunday. Fined $30.15. —Mark Farley, Sullivan, is something of a squirrel shooter. Killed 35 In one day. —Allen Traver’s 3-year-old son was kicked to death by a horse in Elkhart County. , —Hamilton Owens, of Seymour, was thrown from his wagon and injured fatally. —John Howell, who shot Frank Richey at Scottsburg, has been caught at Chicago. —Silas Bowers, young married man of Middletown, was killed at a railroad crossing. —The west-bound passenger train on the Clover-leaf Railroad was wrecked at Clarkshill. —Zaida David, a little daughter of Henry David, was fatally burned at Lafayette. —Hattie, Evans, Goshen, stepped on a rusty nail. ’Tis thought it may result in lockjaw. —George, Phipps, young married man at Bj ron, has gone insane. Religious excitement. —An advertising shark “done up” the business men of Laporte. He caught those b. m. who don’t advertise in their home papers. —John Tash, Kokomo, thought he was robbed of $l5O. He afterward found his roll in the organ where he had hidden it during a somnambulistic stroll. —Albertus Garrison while chopping wood in Morgan County, split his great toe and severed a.n artery. He walked an eighth of a mile to the house, and came near bleeding to death.

—All the prisoners In the Vincennes Jail escaped tUroqgV the dfy air closet —William Mansfield and son were dangeronsly injured- in a runaway near Brooksfield. —A thief stole Frank Hines' best clothes and Mrs. Hines’ gold watch, near Muncie. —George W. Savage's saw mill, in Daviess County, was burned by incendiaries. Loss, $1,200. —Smith Roberts, of Madison, killed• John Young in a fight on the steamer? General Pike. —Charles Wilson, of Delphi, blew his head off with a shot gun. Despondent from sickness. —Rev. Isaac Fisher, a Dunkard minister at Mexico, droppod dead while conducting services. —Mat Shick was buried at Hartford City. He was beaten to death by a Kankakee, tough. —Mrs. John Grimes, one of the oldest and best-known women of Miami County, died, aged 92 years. —Minnie Morse, Kokomo, slipped on a banana peel and fell, breaking her right leg above the knee. —J. J. Ring, a prominent merchant of Frankton, failed. Liabilities, $5,000; assets about the same. —Miss Doll Wilson, popular young school inarm of Dunlapsville, has mysteriously disappeared. —Dempsey & Larrigan, cigar manufacturers at Kokomo, have flown. Unpaid debts amount to S2OO. —.lames Dyke and Joe Masters were quail hunting at Brooklyn. Same old story. Masters may live. —Henry J. Ritter, who murdered his sister-in-law at New Albany, has been sentenced to prison for life. —Robt. Sherwood, a Terre Haute switchman, caught his foot in a frog and was run over. He will die. —The Central Iron and Steel Company, of Brazil, has advanced the wages of its furnace men 10 cents a day. —Cyrenus Johnson got a load of bird shot in his legs while hunting with his grandson near Tippecanoe. —St. Mary's River has spread itself at Fort Wayne and claimed for its own a SSOO lot belonging to Mrs. Elssing. —Burglars blew open the safe in Harry Vermillion’s saloon, at West Point, and partly wrecked the whlskillery itself. —Pat Haggarty, Marshal of Columbus, attempted to paint Edinburg scarlet. Ho was securely housed in the lockup. —Two blocks of business buildings including twelve business houses were burned at Leavenworth' Loss $125,000. —William Hoehsteller was tossed by a wild door in the private park of J. 11. Bass, of Fort Wayne, and badly injured. —David Rndicll, of Liberty Township, Wabash Coupty, extracted his corns with a knife and died of blood poisoning. —Mrs. M. W. Hamilton, of Greenfield, Injured internally in a runaway accident two months ago, has died of her injuries. —Banker Lon Boyd, of Cambridge City, was waylaid, covered With revolvers and searched. The bandits got nothing. —Rev. W. T. Cuppy, of Waveland, while gathering apples fell to the ground a distance of fifteen feet, lighting on his head. —.John Langet’s child, 1-year-old, tipped over its cradle. at Mt. Lebanon, fell into the lire and was burned to death. —Several eases of malignant dlpl, ■ theria and scarlet fever are. reported iu Staunton, Newberg, Carbon, and othot points. —A peculiar (psease has broken out among the swine of St. Joseph County. No man has yet been able to tell its nature. —R6v. )\lr. Mollit, who was assigned to the Waynetown circuit, has resigned because he was not well received by the people. —Bert Lawrence, a boy, has been bound over to court in the sum of S2OO, for stealing a pair of boots at New Market. —Tlu- Zeigler Manufacturing Company, off Buffalo, will remove to Marion, and employ 130 men in making patent scaffolds. —Peter Wagner, of Marshall, built & fire in his grate, forgetting that he had concealed $390 there. His money went up in smoke, —Mrs. William - MeKenzie, Terre Haute, ran a needle into her hand, breaking it off. It’s thought amputation will be necessary. —James Grantham, In leveling a sand hill In Carroll County, found Indian skeletons, a lot of pottery and implements of war. —Dr. B. Dunn, a former resident of Crawfordsville, and a graduate of the class of 1845, Wabash College, died on Thursday from heart failure, at ids home in Macomb, 111. —A Kokomo 9-vear-old while sliding down a stair balustrade, fell from the second story to the floor below, breaking his arm and cutt ng several gashes in his body and head. —Adam Hartman, of Noble County, was about to invent $2,500 in an ingenious form of the gold-brick swindle, when a friend of whom he tried to borrow sl,000, opened his eyes. —Mrs. Michael Zimmerman and her sister were wrestling for the possession ! of a revolver at their home, in New Albany. Mrs. Zimmerman has an ugly wound In her temple but will recover. —A passenger train on the Fort ] Wayne, Cincinnati and Louisville line ■ ran into a tree near Rushville, which had blown across the track, and Charles Bussey was dangerously injured. —A. N. Grant, a prominent attorney, of Kokomo, has been placed under bonds of SI,OOO on complaint of Alvin Martin. Grant sold Martin land in Carroll County, and it was discovered that there was an incumbrance of SI,OOO upon it. Kokomo people wont believe that Grant was g I,f v of any wrong intentions.