Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1890 — NEWSOFOUR OWN STATE [ARTICLE]

NEWSOFOUR OWN STATE

WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN INDIANA THE PAST WEEK. Killed While Hunting—Munclo to Have a Mew Opera House—Fired Buckshot Into a Toll-liouso—A Mew Hank—Scarlet Fever Epidemic at Bedford. —Marion is to have a new iron-mill. —Muneie is to have a new opera-house to cost 840,000. —Mason N. Haile died of heart disease at Brookville. —Chas. Love, of Osgood, fell from a fence and broke his leg. —Two toughs had a prize fight at Fort Wayne, and one had a linger broken. —Five persons died suddenly of heart disease in Orange County in one week. —Tho prowing wheat is said to be looking better this season than evor before. —diaries Flack, of Shawnetown, 111,, was killed at Evansville by falling down stairs. —William Harris, a brakeman on the Lake Shore Road, w’as killed by the cars at Goshen, —George Evers, a pioneer of Elkhart County, aged 75 years, died at his homo near Bristol. —George Taylor, while hunting near Tipton, was seriously injured by tho explosion of a gun. —Several children were injured in a panic in a school houso at Muneie, duo to an alarm of fire. —E. B. Ramsey, of Burkett, section foreman of the Nicklo Plate, was badly mangled by a train. —Samuel M. Archer, a banker widely kaown throughout tho State, died at his homo in Evansville. —Henry Lovely was caught by falling slate In the Buckeye mine, at Cannelburg, and crippled for life. —Daniel Rombcrger has sued Dr. L. J. Wlllen, of Terre Haute, for 810,000 damages, for alleged malpractice. —Will Currie, an Osgood barber, accidently shot himself In the side while hunting. Ills injuries arc not fatal. —A new M. E. Church will be dedicated at Fairmount on December 1. Tho building is under course of construction now. —Miss Kate Yunker, of Mount Vernon, took a snap shot at a burglar enterifig the house, and got the end of his nose. —Near Fort Wayne Miss Ida Snyder was shot and killed by Albert Short, a discarded suitor, who then committed suicide. —Frank Shunk died of lockjaw at New Albany, lie ran a nail into his foot some weeks ago, but tho wound had healed up. —At the home of Lafayette Elliot, six miles east of Columbus, John M. Gould, aged 34 years, died of heart disease while asleep. —Messrs Loekrldgo, of Grcencastle, sold to a New York firm for export, a bunch of cattle weighing an average of 1,700 pounds. 11. H. Alfrey & Co., of Terre Haute, will establish a heading factory at Grooncastle, that will give employment to seventy-five hands. —James Ilryee, the little son of Sheriff Alexander Bryce, of Owen County, injured by a train at Spencer, died of his wounds. —John Rorck, a blacksmith at Jeffersonville, has fallen heir to 850,000, left by an uncle in Germany, of whoso existence he was unaware. —A freight train on the Panhandle was wrecked four miles east of Richmond. Fifteen cars were smashed and the track was torn up for 100 feet. —The heirs of Horace M. Wright, of Fort Wayne, were awarded a judgment for 84,000 against Allen County. Wright was killed by the breaking of a bridge in that county. —lndiana’s quails are in small danger of being annihilated, hut at the rate the reports of hunting accidents are coming in the race of Nimrods is likely to be exterminated. —Two fire-engines collided at a street i corner in Evansville. Fireman Conners was injured, the horses were badly crippled and the engines considerably smashed up. —William Maucltamer, a farmer living south of Anderson, was kicked in the forqhead by a vicious horse and death ensued in a short time. Ills skull was horribly crushed. —Mrs. Miller, of Moore’s Hill, who last summer charged the management of the Central Insane Asylum with cruelty, has been again arrested and will be returned to the Institution. —Congressman Brookshire announces that there will be a competitive examination for appointment to West Point some time in December, to be held either at Terre Haute or Crawfordsville. —ln Union Township, Adams Courfty, John G. Sheets was stricken with paralysis while shingling a barn. His fel-low-workman nailed his clothing to the roof while he went for assistance. —Suit has been entered in the Montgomery Circuit Court against the 1.,8t.L. & K. C. Railroad to recover the value of the hide of a cow that was killed by the cars, and whose hide was secured by the station agent. —At Mitchell, Miss Mary Eubanks died from the effects of blows administered by a drunken brother. —Frank Robertson, aged 19, committed suicide by shooting himself, at his home, near Westville. Dissipation had caused despondency. —A child of Rev. H. P. Corey, the Presbyterian minister of Greencastlc, was playing around some burning leaves, when his dress caught fire, burning ofid side of his body to a blister. The injury is regarded as serious, though not fatal.

—A new bank was organized at Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County. It is to be known as tho Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank. Edward Springer will be president. —Burglars, made a raid on the grocery establishment of A. 11. Benham, of Wabash. Smoked meats, a number of small articles and money of an aggregate value of 830 were taken. No clew. —The Advent Christian Church at Jeffersonville, was imposed upon by a clerical fraud from Topeka, advertising himself as Elder J. J. Austin, who obtained the pulpit of tho church by means of forged credentials. —The Bedford Board of Health has ordered tho School Board to close tho public schools indefinitely on account of tho scarlet fever. Two deaths have occurred and several other cases are reported. Henry Ilooten, aged 85 years, and one of the early settlers of Morgan County, was almost totally paralyzed, at tho home of his daughter, Mrs. Alexander Stewart. Owing to his extreme ago ho cannot recover. —John Lobdeff who,, for over fifty years, has been a resident of Wabash County, died at his homo near Lafontarne, aged 81 years, of Bright’s disease. He was considered one of the most prominent farmors of the county, —For thirty years Hendricks county has had no saloon within Its borders. Last week a notice of an application for license was published, and the citizens are fully aroused to defeat the effort. An indignation meeting was called, when active steps wore taken to defeat tho project. —Miss Lain a Bums, of Martinsville, has probably the longest hair of any woman in this country. It is over seven feet long, very heavy and of a light brown color. Tho lady Is five feet three inches In height and when standing erect her hair falls to the floor and forms a trail nearly two feet in length. —The third annual convention of tho Indiana Christian Endeavor Union, held at Evansville, elected tho following officers: W. J. Lewis, of Evansville, president; Rev. A. C. Hathaway, of Richmond, vice president, and Miss Bottle M. Wishard, of Indianapolis, secretary and treasurer. Kokomo was selocted for tho next place of meeting. —William Osborne, aged (59 years, while walking westward on the dinkey track at Jeffersonville, was struck by a train near the J., M. & I. bridge fill, and instantly killed. The trainmen were unable to stop tho engine after discovering that Osborne failed to hood tho signal. Okborne resided w.'tli his son, Finley P. Osborne, at Ohio Falls. —While hunting near his home, three miles from New Albany, Charles Edwards, aged 10 years, was shot in the arm by tho discharge of one barrel of his aim while ho wi * loading the other. Tho flesh was almost entirely torn from the member between the hand and elbow, and fears are entertained that his Injury will prove fatal, as lock-jaw may supervene. —A. R. Brattin has brought suit at Greencastlc against the Westchester Fire Insurance Company to compel the payment of the insurance due on his property, which was destroyed by lire last August. Mr. Brattin’s tenant had vacated the dwelling temporarily, but did not remove his household goods, and the company contend that the policy was thus forfeited. Tho house was Insured for 83,8(>o. —Hon. William D. Robinson, the founder of tho Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, who has booh 111 for several months, died at Ills home at Washington of cancer of the stomach. He was sixty years df age. Engineer Itoblnson was one of the oldest railroad men In the United States. He run one of |hu first through trains between Cincinnati and St. Louis on the ()hlo& Mississippi, ond was in tho employment of this company for thirty years. —ls no bad luck befalls the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Bennett, of Anderson, he will no doubt become a rival of Ilauson E. Craig, the Danville fat man. Thu youngster Is now live months old, and on account of Ills phenomenal growth Is the wonder of all the women of Anderson. He now weighs eigiity pounds. When born he was an average baby and weighed about ten pounds. He has been gaining since his birtli on an average twelve pounds per month. The baby is in excellent health and Is perfect In every respect. —The Board of Trustees of tho Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument met at Indianapolis, General Tom Bennett, of Richmond; General M. D. Mansou, of Crawforsville, and George W. Langsdale, of Greencastlc, being present. The Board heard excuses from tho Terre Haute Stone Company for failure to furnish material in such quantities as should have enabled tho Commission to complete the monument by the first of this month. It was promised that there should be no further delays in the matter of furnishing stone. It is now stated that the monument will be ready for unveiling next August. The last of the heavy stone, weighing six tons, has been laid. The work from this time on will be lighter, and the people of Indiana will be pleased to learn that there are to be no more exasperating delays. —The grocery store of David Lee, at Crawfordsville, was entered by thieves the other night and a few articles and some pennies secured. This makes almost a dozen times this store has been robbed In the past few years. —George C. Crowell, one of the wealthy men of PeYii, was thrown from a buggy, while suffering from heart trouble, receiving a fraetutHd skull and other injuries from which death will result. ' He Is aged 73, and was one of the firsit merchants In Miami county.