Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — THE HOOSIER STATE. [ARTICLE]

THE HOOSIER STATE.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED THEREIN THE PAST WEEK. 4 Church Choir Goins Their Point—A Man Wsllci into a Church. Asks to be prayed For, and Expires—Found Dead -Burned to Death—Kailroad Accident. —W. H. Heath, of Fremont, has a Garman violin made in 1411. —Uriah Howe, owner of a saw-mill at Geneva, was caught in the machinery and killed. —Thos. Gorras, a farmer living near Bloomington, and the tallest man in the State, is dead. —Gen. Lew Wallace entertained Mrs. S. S. Cox at dinner recently, at his home in Crawfordsville. —Joseph Kelly, ex-city marshal of Kokomo, dropped dead while working at a carpenter's bench. —A 4-year-old child of August Springer, of Peru, fell into a fire and was burned to death.

—C. E. Lemon has sold the Ladoga Leader to Prof. J. F. Warfe), of the Indiana Normal College. —Mrs. Mary Moon has closed a very successful revival meeting in the Friends’ Church at Plainfield. —John McNealy was fatally injured by the. caving in of a bank at Gheen's cement mill, near Jeffersonville. —Abram Barkman, an aged bachelor farmer, residing south of Vincennes, expired suddenly from heart disease. —Samuel S. Culbertson, cashier of the First National Bank, of New Albany, was robbed of $1,200 worth, of diamonds. —The general store of Martin Clapp, •of Mabb’s-Station, was burned by incendiaries. Loss, $3,600; insurance, $2,300. —Daniel H. Gilman, of Terre Haute, has sued the C., C., C. & St. L. Railway Company for SIO,OOO for the loss of a hand. —According to the figures of the new city directory there are 400 more persons in Crawfordsville than the census men found. —Lafayette West, an old Citizen of Cleveland, well and favorably known, fell from his barn loft, receiving injuries which will prove fatal. —lt now transpires that Mrs. John Rice Roll, who died near Kyano recently, died of small-pox. There is no doubt of this, but the disease is not spreading. —Thomas Pacey died at his home in Muncie, aged 72. He had resided in Delaware County for the past half century, and was a highly respected citizen. —Mr. R. McGinty, of Jeffersonville, went to bed smoking a cigar, fell asleep, set fire to the bed, and was so nearly suffocated that he was saved with difficulty. —While laughing heartily Mrs, John Patterson, colored, of Brazil, ruptured the optic nerve and was stricken blind. Physicians say it is the only such case known. —Joseph Rowe, of Brazil, has sued Henry Brinkman, ot Terre Haute, for $5,000 because the latter fired a load of shot into his back in the course of a quarrel. —At midnight Friday Andrew llolsapple and wife, living near Martinsville, were taken from their bed to a woods, tied up and terribly whipped by Whitecaps. —A number of people were seriously poisoned at Greenwood, by eating prepared meat, purchased of • a local grocer, which had been cooked in a copper kettle. —An unknown stranger from Kentucky walked into the church at Sellersburg and asked to be prayed for as he was about to die. He expired half an hour later. —The 2-months-old baby of William Harris, of Fort Wayne, overturned a coffee-pot and was frightfully scalded. The child will probably die of the injuries received. —John Storhm, a car Inspector on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago road, at Fort Wayne, in attempting to pass between two moving cars, was caught and crushed to death. He was unmarried. —V. Q. Irwin, President of.the company owning the 66-100 of a mile of turnpike still left to private ownership in Montgomery County, writes that they are perfectly willing to sell at the appraised value if the township were only willing to buy. —Ball Bros., of Buffalo, N. Y., who located the first glass factory in Muncie, have commenced the erection of their second factory, which is to be a fourteenpot concern and will employ 200 men, making nearly five hundred persons on their pay-rol'. —By the bursting of a defective waterpipe Crabbs & Reynolds, of Crawfordsville, had 800 bushels of clover-seed damaged to the extent of SSOO. The water Company had been notified to fix the pipe and, failing to do so, will have to pay the loss. —Frank Browji the 15-year-old son of William Brown, of Fortville, is dead. Last spring two surgical operations were performed on the boy, the first an amputation of a leg and the second removing the entire leg from the socket. He apparently recovered his health, but a few weeks ago he injured the newly healed spot, with the above result. —A pension of nearly $13,000 has just been allowed William Milllson, an insane. inmate of the poor farm of Vermilion County. Hiram Warfe', an employe at Going’s brick-yards, at Yorktown, met with a serious, if not fatal, accident. As he passed under a large beam that was propped against the kiln the heavy timber was knocked down, falling on the young man. His collar-bone, one arm, and three ribs were broken, and he suffered other injuries that may prove fatal.

—Rev. aiMi Mrs. Wißiifig Baird, of Charlestown, taave left Charlestown for Corea, .where ti»y go as Presbyterian missionaries. —lsaac Jones, g young man living some miles north of Covington, had his right hand crushed to pulp in a patent corn-husking machine. —The barn, granary, and corn-cribs of James Breckenridge, near Mason City, Mason County, burned, having been fired bv an incendiary. A number of valuable horses, cattle, and good hogs perished. The loss is fully $11,000; insurance, $6,000.

—A channeling machine, at Reed’s quarry, near Bedford, fell over a ledge and through the roof of the stone-mill. Frank Hunter, the engineer, went over with his machine and received injuries from which hjj may die. The pecuniary loss is considerable. —Christian Christiansen, a teamster of Fowler, while hauling gravel, fell under the wheels of his loaded wagon and was so severely injured that he died In an hour after the accident occurred. He was under the Influence of liquor, and, after tailing, was not able to rise before the wheels crushed his body. —Wilmer Hall, son of Jesse M. Hall, a well-known farmer about six miles northwest of Richmond, was accidentally shot while out gunning. He had set his gun down by a tree, and when he picked it up a twig caught the trigger, and the entire load of No. 8 shot took effect in the left side and shoulder, severing the main artery. He will die. —Joe Sibrell, of Tennyson, has sued the Air-line railroad, in the Spencer Circuit Court, for SS,(MX). Last September Sibrell, with two companions, boarded tite train at Lincoln and refused to pay their fare. Near Gentryville they were put off by the trainmen, and Sibrell now claims that he was kicked of the train by an employe and injured for life, one side of ids body being paralyzed. —While 'coon-hunting, Mr. Sam Westfall, of Grandview, killed what is supposed to be a wild-Case It was a florcelooklng animal and measured four foot and a half from head to tall. This Is the second one of these animals killed in Spencer County within the past year, the first one measuring five feet from head to tall, and killed two dogs before killed by the hunters who discovered tt in the woods. —ln answer to an inqury by the State Superintendent, Attorney General Smith gave an opinion that children of school age who are inmates of the State Reformatory and benevolent institutions cannot be legally included in the enumeration which furnishes the basis for the apportionment of the school fund. These children are given especial educational opportunities in the Institutions which they occupy. —An unknown man calk'd John Acheson, a store-keeper at Odell’s, from ids bed at the store and demanded whisky. Acheson said he hud no liquor, at which the stranger became angry and with the words “take that” fired, the bullet hitting Acheson in the neck and narrowly missing the jugular. Two hours later, when Acheson recovered consciousness, he found himself In bed, but he had been robbed of SSO. —At Sampson Hill, eighteen miles southwest of Columbus, a yellow metal has been discovered within the past few days in timber gulches owned by an old German named Gore. An analysis is said to have proven the metal to be gold. The tract is difficult of access and has bdhn little frequented. Large quantities of the metal are thought to exist in the vicinity, and people in the surrounding country are greatly excited. —Quite a sad accident occurred a few miles east of Bloomfield, resulting in the death of Uriah Chaney. Ho and Joseph OcKerman were sawing logs with acrosscut saw on a hillside, Chaney standing on the lower side of the log. As soon as the log was sawed asunder it started rolling down the hill. Chaney, in an effort to get out of the way of the log, stumbled and fell, and was crushed to death instantly. The log remained across the dead man’s breast until Ockerman went some distance for help. —The 3-year-old daughter of Wesley Penny was burned to death at Logansport. The father and mother were out milking, when the child complained of being cold, and went Into the house to get warm. They were alarmed at her cries a few moments afterward, and, rushing to the house, found her clothing in flames. She died from her injuries after living about two hours in an unconscious condition. It is supposed her clothing caught from the stove, which she had opened. —George Washington, an old citizen residing near Crawfordsville, committed suicide In rather an unusual manner. He would not accompany his wife to town, but as soon as she was gone he went to a well in the woods, hung his vest, coat and hat on the pump, put his boots in the trough, pried off a board of a platform, and slid down the pump into seven fe«t of water, where he remained three hours before his body was taken out. He left a note in his pocket, stating who he wanted to preach his funeral, the names of those who owed him money, and that he did not want much money expended in burying him. He was 70 yerfrs old. —Henry Carney, a well-known young business man ot Wabash, died of heart disease. He had been in bad health for some days, but his demise was unexpected. He was 30 years of age and leaves a family. —lra Garland, of Indianapolis, brakeman on the Indianapolis and Vincennes road, was severely injured about the shoulders while coupling cars at Paragon, by being caught between the bumpers. He was takefl to Martiasville for treatment. .