Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1891 — POSITIVELY ALL HERE. [ARTICLE]

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REFERRING. OFCOURSE. TOTHE NEWS IN INDIANA. L ' ■ y A Narrow Escape—Work of Conscience— Ris Fingers Ground—Suicide ol' imiFiSherlfi'. —John Mills dropped dead while chopping wood, at Medora. —Salem will be able to see its way soon by electric light. —New Albany will have a Y. M. C. A. building to cost $30,000. —Reports of scarlet fever epidemic at Bedford are greatly exaggerated. —Greencastle fondly hopes the early future will bring them a canning factory. —lndiana press almost unanimously favors the repeal of the Grubbs libel law. —Miss Mary Cox, of Okalla, Putnam County, dropped dead from heart failure. —Abram Koontz. of Yorktnwn, was seriously injured in a runaway at Muncio. —John Eidoiberry, Columbus carpenter, lost all fingers of one hand in machinery, —Amo is all upset over the attempt being made to-open a saloon in their peaceful burg. —Wabash is getting good, too, and has warned their gamblers to “get a move on them.” —Paul Besche, 17, died in South Bend, from “unaccustomed indulgence in intoxicants,” —A mad dog near Alaska wounded several dogs and other animals before it was killed. —Joseph Perod’s horse dropped dead with fright in Elkhart at sight of an electric car. —Mrs. Elizabeth Miller has been elected a member of the Muncie Board of Health. —Clay good for aluminum abounds near Fairmont. Maybe they’ll manufacture it. —Salem is to have electric light, artificial ice, cold storage, and a cannery. How’s that? —Mrs. Jennie S. Glare, of Madison, fell dead while conversing with friends at her home. —A. Carrior, of Covington, was caught by the branches of a falling tree and seriously injured. —Monroe Talbott’s little boy was run over by a horse near Shelby ville, and deformed for life. —II. S. Badollet's canary, Vincennes, after a silence of three years, burst forth in beautiful song. —The Christian Church at Crawfordsvillo lias extended a call to Rev. S. W. Brown, of Logansport. —Samuel Catherwood, a veteran railway agent at Greencastle, has been stricken with paralysis. —Jacob Faith, of Scott Township, Harrison County, died of injuries caused by falling from a wagon. —Scllersburg is one of three towns in tho United States appointed to have “experimental free delivery.” —Miss Rode.cca Raunells, of Richland Township, Fulton County, was fatally injured in a sleighing accident. —Leonard Brosanbower, of Stony Creek Township, Madison County, attempted to co omit suicide. His mind was upset by religious excitement. —Brigham Young, while repairing a smoke-stack at New Albany, fell forty feet, and was killed. He leaves a family. —James N. Lasswell, proprietor of a hotel at English, tsruck Pat Hannegan, his porter, with a club and broke his skull. —George Martin, of Covington, was badly disfigured by falling from a scaffold and striking his face against a sawbuck. —The two-year-old daughter of Mrs. Evans, living at Donaldsville, was fatally scalded by the overturning of a tub of hot water. —Willis Norris, a once notorious gambler and once the wealthiest man in New Albany, died in the Floyd County poor ho use. —Stephen Huffer, a prominent teacher of Clinton County, lias disappeared with about $4,000 of money intrusted to him tor investment. —Lester Lastutter, a wealthy farmer near Rising Sun, was found dead in the depot at Aurora, with indications pointing to suicide. —Wm. Foreman, aged 23 years, was killed near Poland. Ho was coon-hunt-ing with others, and was crushed under a falling tree. —Mrs. Frances Spray sues the city of l Seymour for $5,000 damages; hurt in a I fall a dark night where warning light should have been. —Five prisoners in the Dearborn County jail walked out the other night, but three returned during the day, and another was captured. —The body of Johnny Miles, a sailor and well-known character on the lakes for twenty years past, was found floating in the harbor at Michigan City. —Henry Gasper, aged 16, of Michigan City, was arrested and confessed to ten burglaries. It is estimated that ho has stolen $5,000 worth of property. —A business block, owned by E. Campbell, was burned at Sedalia. Ell Masters, merchant, lost $4,000 on stock, upon which he had $1,500 insurance in the Citizens’ of Evansville. _ • ‘ —I. F. Force, of New Albany, was probably fatally injured by walking out of a second-story window of a hotel at Rochester, N. Y„ while in a somnambulistic condition. —Jack Milligan almost demolished the central police station at New Albany during the temporary absence of the officer in charge, in an attempt to rescue a friend, Macus Duncan, using a pick-ax to accomplish his purpose. He was surprised while at work and promptly locked in a cell.

—Wdlliam Nimraert, an employe tn the chilled plow works at South Bend, was killed by the bursting of a grindstone. —Jack Baber, of Jeffersonville, is a philanthropist in his humble wav. lie has whitewashed all the telegraph poles of the town, and is now building board side waks where they are most needed,' at his own expense. —The Monon ditch,thirty-five miles in length and one hundred feet in widtli and Sixteen feet in depth, located in tho counties of Jasper, Pulaskt and White, when completed, will reclaim over 100,000 acres of farming lands. —Miss Hattie Smith, aged 17, daughter of the Hon. W. K. Smith, of Shoals, died in St. Louis, after an Jlluess of only a few days of congestion of tho stomach. She was to have boon a bride In a few weeks, and her trousseau will now serve as burial robes She is a very popular young lady, beloved by all. —Ora Rodgers and Murray Ray, two young men of Valparaiso, wero seriously injured by a gas explosion. They j threw coal-oil in a church furnace, | which ignited a quantity of generated ! gas. Tho young men wero hurled against the wall of tho building, but managed to crawl out and were afterward found. —At Bt. Mary’s of tho Woods, tho mother home of the order of Sisters of Providence, in Vigo County, Bishop Chatard performed tho ceremony by which seventeen young women joined tho order. Several of them wero from Terre Haute and had a largo social acquaintance there. There were many friends present at tho ceremony. —“Buck” Stanley of Logansport, has just completed a series of temperance meetings at Rensselaer. He has an inimitable but popular style and ho accomplished much good for the causo of temperance In that community. About 800 signed the pledge l . Ho closed by a lecture wherein ho described his work in tho capture of the famous Green brothers. —Tho inhabitants of Monroe City, Knox County, aro much agitated over the mysterious disappearance of Samuel Campbell who left his home on tho 21st Inst, to buy furs In Daviess County, since which tiino nothing has been hoard of him. lie has been traced tosomo shanty boats in White River bottoms and It is feared that he has been fouly dealt with. —Tho Lebanon Light, Heat and Power Company arc to bo made defendants in a SIO,OOO damage suit, growing out of tho company shutting the supply of natural gas from John M. Powell’s business room, in which he used it for heat and light. Mr. Powell Is a leading member of tho council and had paid for the use of gas for the month of January In advance. This is to be a test case, and, if successful, more aro to follow. \ —Over four years ago, shortly after Indiana's first natural-gas well was fmmd at Eaton, Frederick Hoover, of New Corner, ten miles from Munele, with his sons, erected a derrick, which has since been used in tho sinking of a well. Mr. Hoover would employ no one but his own family in the worK, which mado It slow and tedious. But it has just resulted in giving the man one of the best wells in the Htate. —J. K. Miller, a highly respected farmer, living two miles west of Brazil, was arrested, charged with cutting down tho Postal Telegraph Company’s poles, erected on tho National road, near his farm. Farmers along the line aro indignant at the company, which purchased its franchise of a Terre Haute claimant, whose title they deny. It is charged that one or two farmers have been paid for right of way, and all now demand it. It will bo a test case, involving an issue of much Interest, as the lino extends from Indianapolis to >St. Louis.

—A very narrow escape from a fatal accident, occurred recently at Crawfords* ville. As Gus Karl and Duff Casad were driving a horse hitched to a buggy, the animal'ran away. Karl jumped out, and the animal jumped over a slop-wagon driven by a colored man named Robert Jones. Tho wagon, buggy, Jones, and Casad were all thrown into the gutter and the two vehicles demotshed. Casad was badly injured, as was also Jones, who also had his pants torn and ruined. —Sam Grant, of Lafayette, has challenged Ed Cory, of Ci(awfordsville, or any other man who is aching for a tight, to light for a S2OO purse, or spar ten rounds in any opera nouse, the winner to receive 5 per cent, of receipts, or will light upon any terms. Grant says that he never makes bluffs through newspapers, and when he says light he means it. and ho wants less talk and more scrap. He also says that ho is “always ready to come at the call of time.”

—John Murnan, who lives in Moral Township, Shelby Chpnty, stole live steers from a neighbor and drove them off to Indianapolis and sold them for SB3. This was In December last. John’s conscience has been worrying him ever since. Tho other day Ins came voluntarily into court and confessed to having committed the theft, and prayed the indulgence of the judge. Judge Hackney let him off npon bond upon the condition that he pay back the money he received from the sale of tho steers, then he shall be a free man; if not, he will be prosecuted for grand larceny during the next I term of court. —John Candan, aged 60, residing near 1 Monon, was deserted by his second wife, who joined the Salvation Army. Ho blew out his brains. —Afrs. Owens, Conner-sville, shot her 5-ycar-old boy, not dangerously. Said she wouid thus prevent his being taken to the poor-house, as was intended. —The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: No State can make a more interesting exhibit of difficulties overcome, of progress attained, or of prospects more bright, than Indiana.