Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1891 — LIGHTS AND SHADOWS [ARTICLE]

LIGHTS AND SHADOWS

INTHE EVERYDAY 1 LfFE OF THE INDIANANS. ■■ b * Slashed With a Rasor— Shot Bii Eyo Out. Kobbed by a Foolpod —llru ta 11 y Pounded—Suicides—Fort Wayne Raining a Purse for Brsre Officers. *. ’live with tramps. —Peru is now routing out her ® gamblers. —Scarlet fever is epidemic at Willow Branch. —There’s a genuine case of smallpox in Lodi. —Covington has many severe eases of la grippe. —Adeline Guthrie, aged SO years, died at Lebanon. —There aro two cases of spotted fever in Washington. —Jeffersonville is being tortured with la grippe again. —Counterfeit two-dollar bills are circulating in Franklin. —Emanuel Kinsey, of Cfaypool, was fatally hurt by a fall. * —Minors’ State Convention will bo held In Terre Haute, March 3. —Terro Haute’s new electric streetcar system is in operation. —Brazil has a fighting chance of seizing the Indianapolis car works. —Michigan City is going to have a German paper, the 'Freie Lame. —A young Sholbyvilllan claims to have smoked 7,000 cigarettes la.it year. —Hoopston canning factory put up 216,720 cans of pumpkins this year. , —Five hundred thousand pike have been placed in a pond at: Rome City. —A new and unusually powerful gas well has just been drilled at Muncle. —Fort Wayno mall carriers have organized a mutual protective association. —Sholbyville’s new natural-gas company will got its supply near FoOntalntown.

—John Anderson, a tramp, was found In a badly frozen.condition at Martinsville. —Tell City will give a square and $20,000 if they’ll let it bo the county seat of Perry, , —During tho past year the city of Crawfordsville paid $5,810 to salaried officers. —Benjamin Alvls, miner, .was fatally hurt by a fall of slate in the mine near Newburg. —The 8-year-old son of Thomas Anderson, of Owen County, is said to weigh 200 pounds. —Harry Robins, a 6-year-old Shelbyvillo boy, was blinded while fire-crackors. —The steamer Gen. Pike mot with a disaster at Madison and sank in twenty feet of water. —Little Harry Robins, playing with fire-crackers In Shelbyville, shot out both of his eyes. —T. R. Johnson, of South Bend, i 9 dead at tho ago of 77. Ho settled In South Bend In 1843. —James Wales, a Union County farmer, has failed, with liabilities of $12,000 and assets of $7,000. —Nine hundred volumes of standard works have been added to tho library of the prison south. —Samuel Little, Pike County, has brought suit to eject tho striking miners from tho houses near his mine. —Fire in H. D. Plxley & Co.’s establishment in Terro Haute destroyed about $15,000 worth of property. —Lewis Summers, of Providonce, was accidently shot by a companion while hunting. His wounds are fatal. , —lt is a positive fact that gold has been discovered in paying quantities in Blount Township, near Danville. —L. Barber, a brakeman on tho C. & E. Railroad, lost his right hand whilo making a car coupling at Decatur. —Miss Llzzio Snowberg, who was so badly injured while crossing the railway track near Camden, has since died. —John Fitzgerald, sr., a wholesale grocer of Logansport, well-known in the northern part of the State, died suddenly. —Mrs. John W. Mullen slipped and fell on the icy sidewalk at Madison, suffering a double fracture of bones of her leg. —Henry Underwood, near Groveland, lost his fine barn, with many horses and cattle by fire. Partially insured. Incendiary. —Noah Hoffman slipped off a load of hay, near Lebanon. A shotgun he was carrying was discharged, tearing off his left arm. —A fox-drive near Loogootee resulted In the capture of live foxes and about two hundred rabbits, nothing but clubs being used. —The German National Bank, of Evansville, has been reorganized under tho State laws, and increased its capital stock $150,000. —Mrs. Harvey Moore, Greencastle, attempted to eat one quail a day for 30 days. She ate 29, but could not manage the thirtieth. - —— —B. L. Schroit’s 11-year-old son was drowned while skating near Emma. His companions were too badly frightened to try to save him. —A mineral, gas and oil-well company was incorporated at Greenwood, with a capital of SIO,OOO. Boring will commence immediately. —Lexington jokers put a rope around the neck of Charles Madden, who was intoxicated, and suspended him from a coat-hooty. He was nearly lifeless before the jokers realized the gravity of their prank and cut him down. —Mrs. Williamson and Mrs. Ely, returning to their homes in the country alter shopping in Wabajh, were overtaken on the way by a footpad, who deliberately reached in the back of tlieir buggy and took their packages of dry goods, and escaped.

—A movement is on foot In Fort Wayne among the citizens to raise $1,500 for Officers Konaolly and Wilkinson, Kuhns. —John Buchannan and Fittie Bender, of New Market, were found nearly dead in their room at a Jefferson hotel. They had blown out the gas. —Frank Carr and Robert Miessie, Noblesvillo children, furnished with 'powder for New Year’s fun, are now laid up with faces burned beyond recognition, —lt 13 proposed to erect a monument to the memory of the late W. D. Robinson, of Washington, founder of the Brotherhood of Engineers. —The Midland Railroad promises to remove Its shops from Lebanon to Brazil if Clay county will vote a $23,000 subsidy to its proposod extension. —Charles Parker, mulatto, in trouble with Lawrence Wagner, slashed him with his razor in Fort Wayne. Jalledon charge of, assault with intent to kill. —William Law apd Benjamin Law, each in State’s prison serving twelveyear sentences, make application in the Franklin courts for divorces from their wives. * —Marla Woodworth, the faith-cure evangelist, has filed in the Delaware Circuit Court a petition for divorce from Philip H. Woodworth, alleging cruelty and unfaithfulness. ? —A Green County farmer deeded all of his valuable property to his twelve stalwart sons, with the understanding that they would in future support him. Ho is now engaged in hauling rails. —Capitalists from Detroit and Muncle liavo leased twenty acres of James Frazer, noar Hillsboro, for the purpose of using the sand there for the manufacture of glass. The intontion is to locate a factory there. —Hi M. Borcaw and George W. Myers, stock buyors, living In Boone County, wore called to Frankfort to answer to six Indictments charging them with placing a thin ploco Of lead under the weight on their scales, therefore making 100 pounds difference every time the beam wan balanced. They wore fined $350 and sovorely oensured. —The trestle of Sam’s Llok, on the French Lick branch of tho Monon, gave way while a passenger train ‘was crossing. The engineer put on a full hoads>f steam and got tho train ovor, but it went down the enbankment. The engineer/ Andy Erwin, was severely bruised and Mrs. J. A. Ritter,, of West Baden, and the baggago-master, William Price, wore slightly injured. T-George Ellis, of New Albany, while hunting ducks in tho Louisville and Portland Canal, was instantly killed by tho accidental discharge of his gun. He had laid the gun in the bottom of his* boat, and, In picking It up, tho hammer caught against an oar. Tho contents of both barrels struck him under the chin and almost literally blew off his head. —While workmen were engaged in rebuilding tho O. & M. Railway bridge ovor White River at Shoals, a girder was let fall, which knocked a stationary derrick down on tho workmen. It crushed Theodore Wiseman, aged 45, of North Vernon, to death, and seriously hurt three other workmen, Lewis Long, P. W. Jackson and Isaac Little. No blarno is attached to the railroad company. —Marlon Potts, a section-hand on the C., C., C. & St. L. Railroad, was killed by the west-bound passenger train, about .three miles west of Wilkinson, whila working on tho road. He was struck by the ougino and thrown the length of four rails, and his body struck tho handle of the hand-car and broke It off. Ills death was Instantaneous. He was a married man qnd left a family.

—The celebrated case of tho State vs. A. T. Howard was settled by compromise for $6,000 In tho Floyd Circuit Court. Howard was Warden of the Prison' South, and at the expiration of his term of office it is claimed that he was short in his accounts between $15,000 and $20.000. Suit was at onco instituted, and tho matter has been in tho courts for years. A year ago Judgment was rendered for the State top $2,500 in Clark County, and the payment of this judgment is included in the compromise. —William Reed, Arthur Hubbard, Orville Wood, Charles Heffner, and Henry Hunch, of Fairland, were in Muhcio spending New Year’s. At night they boarded a freight train to ride home. When a mile from Fairland, Reed fell from the top of a box-car and bad his head cutoff. His body was found alongside tho track by tho section men. His companions bad not missed him. He was a sober, industrious young man, aged 25. His father was killed at Anderson a year ago by falling on a circular saw. —Robert H. Mitchell, of St. Louis, Mo., recently advertised for a wife, and Miss Alice V. Cammer, of Pennsylvania, a guest of relatives at Clay City, answered. He lost no time in reaching Clay City and making investigations He found MIS 9 Cammor young, handsome, and of excellent social standing. He had brought with him satisfactory reference. License was procured and tho two were married at once. They, left for their new home In St. Joseph, followed by a hundred or more Clay City people, who wished them well. Mr. Mitchell is a school-teacher. The marriage, though on sight, appears to be a happy one. —Six unknown men inveigled Witliam Vorhies out of his house in Peru, and beat him over the head with clubs. Mrs Vorhels found him unconscious and helped him home. No explanation can be made of thie outrage. —A package containing 10,000 postage stamps, valued at S2OO, wa- found in the vault of .the Howard National bank, of Kekomo, the other day. The stamps were the property of ex-Postmaster Somers, and they had been laying in the vault forgotten for five years