Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — INDIANA NEWS BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS BUDGET.

INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More I«n----portant Doing* of Otir Neighbors-Wed-dings and Deaths—Cr.iußs Casualties and General News Notes. —A. J. Cottrell, of Atherton, was killed by the ears. » —Elder M. M. Vanclevc. of Crawfordsville, is 80 years bld. and has married 681 couples. —John Payne, of Mount Auburn, aged 80, committed suicide by swallowing morphine. —John G. Lantz, an aged German, who lived alone at LaPorte, was found dead in his chair. —The American glass-works at Anderson, closed down for some months, will resume Jan. 1. —An incendiary burned G. W. Watkin’s stable at Mt. Vernon and six draft horses perished. —The Morgan County F. M. B. A. has petitioned the Martinsville’ authorities for a market house. —Dr. W. W. Steel, of Waveland, is under arrest at Anderson on the charge of highway robbery. —Anson Albee, of Crawfordsville, aged 73 years, walked off a trestle at Martinsville and was killed. —Benjamin Bains, of Greentown, was fatally crushed by a saw-log, which he was assisting to load. —Daniel Taxworthy, of Johnson County, lost his right arm by the careless handling of a shot-gun. —Frank Ballinger, of Rome City, attempted to skate aerotw.the lake at that point and was drowned. —The barn and out-buildings on Sheriff Brown’s farm, near Seymour, was burned. Loss, $3,800. —The population of Crawfordsville, including the suberbs, is 7,649, according to the new city directory. —Prof. A- H. Graham, of the Rushville Academy, was thrown from his carriage and dangerously injured. —Thomas Edwards, who mysteriously disappeared from Goshen some days ago, was killed by a train in Ohio. —Mary Faulkner, colored, of Jeffersonville, didn’t know a flobert rifle was loaded. She will probably die. —A wild beast, supposed to be a panther, is playing havoc with stock in Sugar Creek Township, Vigo County.

—Lewis Myers, a prominent farmer of Hanover Township, Shelby County, was found dead in his barn. Heart disease. —The Orange County Poor Farm has been run during the past year at a net cost of 77 cents per week for each inmate. —Mrs. L. A. Henning, of Waterloo, was killed by the discharge of a revolver which she knocked off a table in the dark. —Bainbridge claims the tallest man in the State in the person of Andrew Hart, who measures six feet and eleven inches. —The carriage firm of Borkner & Bnser, at Crawfordsville, has made an assignment.. Assets, $1,200; liabilities, $2,000. —Fort Wayne boasts a “Jack the Kisser,’’ and several respected Women have fallen victims to his unwelcome caresses. —W. J. Wcedinan, eff Jeffersonville, coughed up apiece of a rib that had been lodged in his lung bj' an accident during the war. —Henry Volmerding, employed in a Fort Wayne brass foundry, was horribly burned by the upsetting of a ladle ,of molten metal. —Fire in the Lowell school, near Columbus, was discovered by the teacher just in time to clear the room before the roof collapsed. —Two policemen had a lively pistol battle with half a dozen tramps in the railroad yards, at Greencastle, but no blood was spilled. | —William Gfpe, of Wilkinson, was accidentally shot on his leg, below the knee, \ylth a shotgun, by his brother, j while out hunting. —The Montgomery County Commissioners have elected W. T. Whittington as county attorney and Dr. E. W. Keegan , as county physician. —Benjamin Harris, aged 93, fell down : the cellar stairs while carrying a keg of lard at his home near Sevastopol and was seriously, injured. —The committee appointed by the Wittenberg Lutheran Synod(has declared Rev. D. J. Mitterling, of Lagrange, guilty of immorality. —George Webb who had been employed as telegraph operator at New Castle, for some time, has fled the town taking S2OO of the company's money. | —Matthews & Hatland, of Indianapolis, have purchased two hundred acres of heavily-wooded lavd near Wheatland, and will convert the timber into lumber. —The house of T. H. Winton, at Crawfordsville, was damaged by fire to the amount of SI,OOO. There was no insurance, the policy having expired the Ist of the month. —The threatened injunction against the disposing of the Pettit history of the trial has not materialized yet, and the books are being sold at Crawfordsville in large numbers. —The city officials of Crawfordsville are inspecting the electric-light system at Rushville, having in view the putting in of a new system to be owned by the city. The contract with the present electric-light company expires next June. —August Reiling, a locksmith, 65 years old, fell off a ladder while repairing a bar sawed out of a window in the county jail atFort Wayqe, and struck the stone floor fifteen feet below. He suffered a fracture of the skull and died n two ho

—The pension department has apI pointed a board of examining Aurgeons • for Huntington county consisting of Drs. LaGrange, Severence, E. H. Leyman, I and B. H. B. Graystone. —The authorities of Wabash College I do not know anything about the $50,000 ! bequeathed to the college by D. B. Fay- ! erweather, of New York City, other than ' what is stated in the dispatches. —A bill has been prepared to be inli reduced in the Legislature providing | that children born out of wedlock shall I take the father’s name, be supported i and educated by him, and become an I heir to his estate. —Freeling Fetters, a Wabash brakeman, was horribly crushed, at Lafayette, while makiug a running switch, which resulted in his death. The deceased leaves a wife and two children. The remains will be sent to Andrews, where ho resided, for interment. —The schools at Swamp College, Blackford County, have been closed on account of scarlet fever. The County Board of Health has taken hold, and will do all in its power to prevent the spread of the disease, of which there are grave fears. —A corn show was held at Whitlock and premiums were given by F. J. Phillips. There were thirty-three entries for the of corn, and the first prize, a stove, was secured by Jesse Palin, and the second best by Clint Otter. The prize for the two best ears of corn was given to Campbell Schemerhorn. The display of corn was exceedingly flue, and the judges William Kerr, Brazie Kiss, and David Flacher. —A frightful accident, the result of carelessness, occurred at Montgomery. A miner, named Malachi Salters, started hunting. He stopped to talk with friends and rested the gun-butt on a rail. While toying with it the weapon slipped off and was discharged, the full load entering his breast. Ho cannot recover. Salters was nearly fatally shot in a row, two years ago, and had his jaw broken by an officer's club several months ago. —One of the most bitterly-contested applications for liquor license ever known in Miami County, consuming four days’ hearing before the County Commissioners, with over one hundred witnesses, and able counsel on both sides, has Just been adversely decided against William Lancaster, a saloonkeeper at Xenia, that county. This leaves only one saloon in the village, and is a great triumph of the temperance and moral element of the place.

—Billy Grogan, a tinner, hud what is probably his last fall when he fell sixty feet from the top of the new refrigerator building erected by the brewery company at Terre Haute. One of his arms was broken, and he is Injured internally. Ho was on the roof of the tpol-works when It fell in recently, and was badly injured. Later ho was on top of the woolen-mill when it caught fire, and was again seriously injured in trying to got down. —One of the boldest robberies ever committed In Delaware county was perpetrated at Coivan. Some time in the light the robbers drove a big wagon to the general store of Perdue <fc Knottyloaded it with SIOO worth of assorted goods and drove off ufimolested. When leaving, the robbers awakened a number of unsuspecting citizens with their loud hallooing. They gained an entrance by chopping a large hole in the side of the building, and then climbed in and opened the door.

—ln the report to the Governor, for 1890, of President Langsdale, of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Commission, lie reviews the causes of the delay in the completion of the works, and details how the commission has used every means to have it forwarded as rapidly as possible. The disbursements during the year amounted to $27,566.61, of which amount 83,31,0.61 was for incidental expenses, and the entire expenditure to date is 8112,864.99, of which sum 826,423.88 were for incidentals, and the remainder, 886,441.11, for the Structural work. —On waking up the other morning Miss Lagora Jones the 14-year-old daughter of Charles Jones, chief of the Brazil fire department, discovered that she had been relieved of her beautiful tresses of auburn hair, which were the pride of the family. Investigation showed that a window at her bedside had been raised, after forcing open the shutters, through which the thief had reached and clipped clean and close her beautiful, wavy ringlets. All the girls in town with beautiful tresses are on the qui vive. •—Police Officer William W. Reeves, of Union City, was struck by the incoming passenger train on the Big Four Road and instantlv killed. He was watching for suspicious characters, who rendezvous in Kuntz’s lumber-yard adjoining the west end of the railroad yard, and, being confused by the headlights and escaping steam of engines on the side tracks, he did not notice the in-coming train, and attempted to cross the track immediately in front of the engine, which caught him and mangled his body in a horrible manner. Mr. Beeves served through the war as a member of the Sixty-ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, being mustered out as first lieutenant. He leaves a widow and one son. —ln the postoffice at Rockport, Miss Annie Brown was assaulted by Miss Bettie Love, with an improvised slungsliot, inflicting injuries that will probably prove fatal. Jealousy over a lover was the cause, pf the trouble. —The Government Engineer has accepted and approved the awarding of the Madison ship-yard bid for building thirteen new government barges. The same yard recently completed a similar contract for thirty barges, giving good satisfaction.