Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1891 — ALL THE STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

ALL THE STATE NEWS

IS GIVEN BELOW IN THESE TWO ; COLUMNS. i Death Fr*!«ra'»le to Eviction—Burned to Daath—*A Watei melon Story—Accidental Shooting—Badly .Mangled—N*w Factory tor JrffentouviUe—A Goslion Gourmand. —Elwdod' talks of annexing Alexandria. —There are seventy-seven coal mines In Indiana. —Logansport’s supply of natural gas is all right. —Columbus is getting ready to manufacture ice. .—Union City will have incandescent light by Feb. 1. „ —Arthur Sturgeon was sandbaged and robbed at Logansport. —Levi Beal, near Shideler, lost his house and contents by tire. —Richmond Is working hard to secure a new Government Building. —Eighty head of Brown Countycattle have died lately of an unknown disease. —Frank Smith lost a leg at Noblesvillo by to board a moving train. , —They’ve got lots of sand In Michigan City; have shipped over 1,000,000 tons this year. —M. K. Donaldson was knocked down, beaten and robbed by footpads at Fort Wayne. —Jesse Austin, of Frankfort, a brakeman on the Cloverleaf road, was crushed to death by cars. —Morgan County Is to havo a workhouse.

—Marion citizens are pondering over measures to provent the squandering of their natural gas. —Rochester claims to be the “healthiest, neatest and most business-like little city in the State.” —Charlos Bauer, proprietor of the Torro Haute House, was seriously injured in a runaway. —A new Christian Church at Martz, was freed from debt and dedicated by Rev. L. L. Carpenter. —Oliver Worle, of Loreo, Miami County, was sandbagged and robbed of about $25 and his watch. —Otis Hughes, of English, while drunk, fell off a bridge seventy-live feet and was practically unhurt. —The Western Indiana Poultry Association will hold its annual poultry show in Lebanon, January 5 to 10. —The present electric-light company at Crawfordsvlllo will sell thoplant’td the city upon favorable terms. —David Adklnson attempted suicide with strychnine, at Marion, and may dip. Domestic trouble was the cause. —The City House and Holland Hotel wore destroyed by firo at Mllltown, Crawford County. Loss, $3,000. —Evansville Journal says several society ladies are on the grand jury’s list, there, for gambling. Do tell ! —Capt. Ed Howard, of Jeffersonville, is putting In a steel ship-building plant, which will employ 200 skilled men. —J. Brevort, an eccentric Columbus farmer, died recently and left his fortune of $7,000 to the Butler University. —Sullivan Connty Commissioners will work their jail prisoners on a stone pile, in a yard “enclosed with high fence. —Mrs. Dado Ballard’s Mooresvillo heirs are contesting her will. She left SIO,OOO in a shape they do not like. , —Jackson and Scott County farmers are losing tliolr horses from a disease similar to distemper, but moro fatal. —Watson Boslic’s country residence near Columbus, wws destroyed by fire. Family barely escaped with their lives. —George H. Hopkins, of Clay Township, Carroll County, swallowed arsenic for quinine and Is not expocted to live. —The Wabash Railroad Company hat paid to Mrs. Fetters $2,000. Her husband was killed while coupling cars.

—The first seal ever usod by the Kosciusko County was the reverse side of a silver ten-cent piece. —Mrs. Tresso, aged 80, was burned to death by the overturning of a lamp, at the home of her son, in Tippecanoe County. —A man at Crawfordsvillc, claims that he has a hen that lays two eggs per day, one in the morning and one in the evening. —lndiana has a larger amount of water that is inhabited by the better class of indigenous fish than any State in the Union. —A man was detected in Fort Wayne stealing a pair of shoes. In just fortyfive minutes after he was serving a sentence in jail. —Martin Baur, engineer in Lutz’s stave factory, at Wabash, was badly mangled by the breaking of the fiy-wheel of his engine. —William Sherwin, a prominent young merchant of Point Isabel, Grant County, was kicked by a vicious horse and fatally injured. —A company has been organized to boom Jonesboro, after the style of Elwood, having secured options on about 1,600 acres of land. —John Walton, Coatesvillo, has been indicted for forgery. He paid Mrs. Bynum’s taxes for her and ia accused of raising the receipts. —George Flemming, driving a breadwagon at Marion, was thrown under the heels of the horses by the breaking of the king-bolt. The frightened horses kicked him a number of times, injuring him, it is feared, beyoud recovery. —P. N. Applegate, reputable Alaska citizen, says he planted watermelon seed around an old straw stack May 10 last. On Aug. 15 he ate ripe melons, and has teeen eating them off these vines ever since. Will have enough to last him ’til 1891. :'

—Columbus Sheriff would not allow James Campbell, prisoner, to attend the funeral of his child. Campbell offered to go bound hand and foot. —A flat-car loadod with stone was overturned on the White River bridge, Spencer, Monday. Was. Gaskins, and Robert Boyd, were seriously injured. —During a fight in a saloon at Loogootee Nich O’Brien, a young man, was shot and killed instantly. The murderer is unknown and yet at large. —Farmer Thompson hitched his horse in* Vincennes close to the railroad. A train came along and scared the animal so badly it dropped dead. —A company, has been organized in Crawfordsvijle to manufacture pottery from the fine clay discovered on Hence Coleman’s farm, near tho city. —Mrs. Eliza Myers, 36, suicided in Seymour, by taking rough on rats. Had been abandoned by her husband and didn’t care to buffet along alone. —A laborer at the Bonney vise-works, at Marion, had an arm torn from the socket and otherwise seriously injured by being caught in tho machinery. —Timothy Hogan, Fort Branch, sued John Skipp for SIO,OOO, claiming he had skipped with his wife’s affoctions. Skipp paid him $3,000 and that settled it. —“Boo’’ Eubanks got a life sentence at Bedford for murdering his sister last November. His father was }iis accomplice, and will probably get a like sentence. —Hog cholera in the form of an epldomic; has struck Daviess County, and hundreds of porkers are dying. Farmers are much alarmed and fear to kill for meat.

—John Slberry has been convicted, in tho Bluffton Circuit Court, of killing his wife, and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Slberry claimed that tho shooting was accidental. y~ —One hundred dollars of tfio $360 stolon from T. C. Courtnoy at Waynotown, last week, has boon found In his yard, where the thief had dropped it in leaving the houso. —Rev. Dr. Alman Virgil, a well-known Baptist minister, diod at Fort Wayne, aged 92 years. Death resulted from injuries received In a fall sovoral days before. He was widoly known. —E. H. Noyes, station agent for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Coburg, was struck by a passenger train and killed. Ho was well known, and formerly a leading citizen of Michigan City. —Rov. Petit, in Crawfordsvjllo Jail, attacked a fellow prisoner, and boat him most unmercifully; other prisoners had to separate them. Pettit caught him trying to steal his private correspondence. —Mr. James McGregor, ono of Torro Hauto’s substantial citizens, and who was largely interested in Cincinnati suburban real estate, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun whilo hunting. > —Conrad Keller was found dead fn the woods, near Iluntingburg, skull crushed with a gun stock lying near him. Jas. Cano, known to have had trouble with him, was arrested on suspicion.

—Rev. James Campbell has boon convicted at Columbus of criminal- malpractice, with a penalty of thsse years’ Imprisonment. Miss Anna Huntsman, one of his parishonors, was the prosecuting witness. —Poor old Mrs. Johann O’Daiiy, knowing she was going to be evicted from her house at Lafayette, mortgago on which had been foreclosed, took a dose of arsenic and the sheriff found her dead in bed. —Rev. Milton Lee, Danville, lfpceived a “White Cap" letter somo time ago, telling him if he didn’t treat his family botter he’d meet a diro fate. He worriod so over it that his mind gavo way and he became violently Insane. —The vote in the Methodist churches in the Northwest Indiana Conference upon the question of admitting women to tho General Conference shows that out of a membership of 31,092 only 5,400 votes were cast. Of the votes cast 4,037 favored the proposition, and 1,363 were opposed, thus making a majority of 2,674 in favor of the question. —John Brewer, almost a centenarian. , and one of the first settlprs of (freenwood, fell and broke his leg, from the effects of which he is expected to die. Mr. Brewer assisted in founding the Presbyterian Church, sixty-seven years ago, and has, since that time, been a faithful officer and devout worshipper. . Ho is well-known in tho Presbyterian Church and as an old settler. —Three brothers named Demoss went ’coon-hnnting uear Ewington. On their return home, two of them, Newton and Edward, were behind their brother. The one bad reached home when he heard the report of a gun and loud hallooing. Returning he found that Edward had accidentally snot Newton through the groin, severing the fefnoral artery. The loss of blood was so great that he died. —Recently the Montgomery County Commissioners passed an order that every application for a liquor license must be accompanied with a check for the license fee, 8100, and in case a license was not granted the check would be returned. One applicant would not inclose the check and the board refused to grant a license. An appeal was taken to the Circuit Court, where the judge granted the license, overruling the order of the board in regard to the checks. —Julius Ghoul, Goshen gourmand, has finished his feat of eating fifty oysters at a sitting every day for two weeks. He won’t want any more this winter, thanks. —At a depth of 225 feet, Paoli has secured a strong flow of sulphur water, equal to anything at the famous French Lick or West Baden springs. The water is now flowing out se.eral inches above the casing. When th% fresh water is cased out, the sulphur is expected to be not less efficacious than the renowned Pluto.