Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1890 — WITHIN OUR BORDE. [ARTICLE]

WITHIN OUR BORDE.

MINOR INDIANA STATE NEWS ITEMS. The Cars Continue Their Dea<Hy Work— The Quail Hunter Likewise Slick Lightning Rod Agouti.—body Washed Ashore Caught in Quicksand — Tried tho Morphine Route -Mau Dogs in MudIson. —Evansville is infested with thieves. —Columbus has three Unlicensed saloons. —Shelbyville wants a new Big Four depot. —More deaths at Frankfort from diphtheria. —Prowlers peep in at Kokomo back Windows. —Harry Moffitt was badly bitten by a dog at Fort Wayne. 1 >■ —Peru's abandoned gas well has developed into a gusher. —John Shares, brakeman, had an arm crushed at Ridgeville. —John Hamlot, a loony, tried to kill himself at Valparaiso. —Wallace Hinton was killed in the Cannellburgcoal mines. —Tho Michigan City Penitentiary is increasing in population, —“Father” Benton, of Huntington, claims to be 109 years old. —Daniel May had a desperate tight with a bulldog at Muncie. —Richmond toughs throw rocks into the Salvation Army’s camp. —E. M. Stone, prominent fanner of Connorsville, was gored by a bull. —Joe Orr, Plymouth, stabbed Tom Ennis, who was trying to rob him. —Mrs. John Smithers swallowed arsenic for quinine and is likely to die. —J. J. King, general store at Frankton, has assigned. Liabilities, 85,000. —A tramp was found in the streets at Richmond, badly bruised about tho head. —A. J. Case, switchman, got caught in a frog at Fort Wayne, both legs cut off. —John Riddle's hand was mangled by tho explosion of a cartridge at Greensboro. —Wm. Bright, who eloped with Gertrude Bricker, at Marion, has been released. —Charles Hcgerfeld, Fort Wayne, had 880 in hie trunk. He hasn’tnow; thieves have it. —George Ames, President of the First National Bank of Michigan City, died of old age. —Hattie Evans, Goshen, stepped on a rusty nail. ’Tis thought it may result in lockjaw. x —Shelby Fay, Lafayette, says his wife is cruel and has left him. He wants tho string ent. —The office safe of J. >l. Fear & Co., Frankfort, was blown open. The thieves, getting 875. —George Phipps, young married man at Byron, has gone insane. Religious excitement. —W’illiam Mansfield and son were dangerously injured in a runaway near Brooksfield. ‘—The corporate exigence of the South Bond National Bank has been extended twenty years. —Robert Martin, liveryman, Muncie, was kicked on the leg by a horse, making him a cripple. —Charles-Wilson, of Delphi, blew his head off with a shot gun. Despondent from sickness. —Mad dogs are thick near Madison. Children are afraid to go to school on account of them. —Elisha Bell got nine years in the pen. from Columbus. He “cracked” a safe and secured 8180. —Mrs. Crouch, Thorntpwn, was milking a cow; it kicked and Mrs. Crouch has a broken leg. —Frederick Yunkman, a varnisher, committed suicide at Madison by drinking carbolic acid. —Minnie Morse, Kokomo, slipped on a banana peel and fell, breaking her right leg above tho knee. —Officers run in Fred Serpos, who robbed “Cos" Wagner’s cigar store last July at South Bend. —Jack O’Neil, Terre Haute, stole a clock. He was run down for taking time by tho forelock. —J. J. Ring, a prominent merchant of Frankton, failed. Liabilities, 85,000; assets about the same. —Edward T. Childe was struck and killed by a train on the Pennsylvania Road near Ptiladelphia. —Fannie Wiley and Doon Nichols, Muncie, have been sent to the State Reformatory for abduction. —The general store of Charles Eusmingcr, at Marlon, was burned. Loss, 82,500; insurance, 81,500. —James Dyke and Joo Masters were quail hunting at Brooklyn. Same old story. Masters may live. —Will Bryant was shot in the side of the head while out hunting with a party of friends near Richmond. —Two doctors worked on Joe Dunfeo’s stomach at Wabash. He tried to go hence on a morphine ticket. —ln a free-for-all fight, at Logansport, John Galloway slashed Charles Gharls oyer the head with a knife. —Henry J. Ritter, who murdered his sister-in-law at New Albany, has been sentenced to prison for life. —John Golden, a man about thirty years of age, whose home is unknown, was sentenced to the penitentiary for two years, at Kokomo for grand larceny. —.John Hamshire’s mule, near Terre Haute, got a stone in his hoof. Hamshire tried to pick it out, and he picked himself out of a mud help ten feet away. —Allen Mauck, English, had a picture gallery in a tent. Lightning during a thunder storm shied down the center pole and came near killing Warren MeMahel and Theodore Starr.

—Thieves at Olive Hill, aror ftfebmond, took, Jack Kempton's marc aort skipped. —James Sheflleberaer, Bioff Creek, put sixteen shot into James A. Fray’s head, when out after quail. —William Hays, Shelbyville, wanted a pair of boots. He saw a pair in a farmer's wagon and put them on. —A fellow walked into Charles Ohlfast’s house, near Valparaiso, and walked out again with 838. He was caught. —John Rogers, a grocer at Greencastle, aged 30 and single, shot himself in the temple. No cause is know. —Wm. Tang was fatally scalded by falling ino a vat ot boiling water at a glue factory near New Albany. A number of students of Notre Dame I niversity were suspended for leaving the grounds without permission. i —Tho Messrs. Oliver are about to erpet a 83<M),000 hot,el in South Bend, which will be the finest in the State. —Pat Haggarty, Marshal of Columbus, attempted to ’paint Edinburg scarlet. He was securejpr housed in the lockup. —Benjamin Fisher went, to Madison from Manville, sold his hogs, got very drunk and died in his debauch, aged 23. —The Citizens’ Gas Cbmpany has struck a well six miles northeast of Tipton with a flow of 10,000,000 feet a day. —By the breaking of a frog a freight train was ditched near New Albany. Conductor and brakeman seriously hurt. —The new springs at Washington, ’tis said, will cure Bright’s disease, scrofulous tints and a bushel of other diseases. —Two blocks of business buildings including twelve business houses were burned at Leavenworth’ Loss 8125,000. —’William Hochstetler was tossed by a wild deer in the private park of J. H. Bass, of Fort Wayne, and badly injured. —George Lake, near Muncie, was divorced from his wife a week ago. Ho has just been hitched to Alice Hear* shey. —Rev. W. T/ Cuppy, of Waveland, while gathering apples fell to the ground a distance of fifteen foot, lighting on his head. —John Langet’s child, tipped over its cradle at Mt. Lebanon, fell into tho fire and was burned to death. —A peculiar disease has broken out among the swine of St. Joseph County. No man nas yet been able to tell Its nature. —William Siinmops, wanted at Rockford, 111., , for the embezzlement of a horse and buggy, was arrested at Muncie. —Bert Lawrence, a boy, has been bound over to court in, the sum of 8200, for stealing a pair of boots at New Market. —Tho Zeigler Manufacturing Company, bff Buffalo, will remove to Marion, and employ 130 men In making patent scaffolds. —George Cusick, eighth husband of the celebrated Mollie Van Buskirk, has been sent to prison for two years from Shelbyville. —James Grantham, in leveling a sand hili in Carroll County, found Indian skeletons, a lot of pottery and imple ments of war. —Peter Wagner, of Marshall, built a fire in his grate, forgetting that ho had concealed 8390 there. His money went up In smoke. —Mrs. William McKenzie, Terro Haute, ran a needle Into her hand, breaking it off.. It’s thought amputation will be necessary. —Wm. Watson testified in court against Elisha Bell, at Crawfordsville, whereupon Bell rose up and threatened to cut his throat. * —Margaret Westcott, T<«rre Haute, says her hubby has gone away jnd left her and was cruel to her. She wants the knot untied. —Dan Drake,colored, Lafayette,showed bls sister-in-law his brotherly lovo for her by knocking her to the floor. He is on the ’squire’s string. —William McCoy, near Richmond, tried to clean sawdust from a circular saw. His right arm was torn in shreds from the elbow to the wrist. —William Simmons, the notorious sneak-thief in jail at Muncie, awaiting the arrival of Illinois and . lowa officers, came near making his escape. —John Tash, Kokomo, thought he was robbed of 8150. He afterward found his roil in the organ where he had hidden it during a somnambulistic stroll, —At Muncie, fire destroyed Loan Franklin’s unoccupied livery barn. A dwelling house, occupied by John Sfaideler, near by, was badly damaged. —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 his home in Macomb, 111. —A Kokomo 9-vcar-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. —lt is now discovered that Prof. Slotts, of Mitchel], who “mysteriously” disappeared a short time ago, has eloped with a widow, Mrs. Bettie Sanders. His family is left in poor circumstances. —Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, was warmly received by the students and faculty of Notre Dame Uhiversity, where he stopped over on his return from the Feehan jubilee at Chicago. —F. L. Ervin, of Hartford Citv, lost a valuable roadster from distemper. The horse was sick but a short time. There are many other serious cases in Blackford County, but thus far only one has resulted fatally. —Leavenworth is appealing for aid for her fire sufferers, whose losses aggregate at least 875,000, and tho insurance, confided to throe persons, is less than 88,000. Winter is approaching and suffering is staring the unfortunates in the face. —Laporte has a new electric tire ale rm