Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — SOME'KODAK PHOTOS [ARTICLE]

SOME'KODAK PHOTOS

OF MINOR HAPPENINGS IN THE HOOSIER STATE. An A(td Man Burned to a Crisp--Cut in Two by a Saw—Biff Fire at Nebraska— Accidents, Deaths and Suicides. —Scarlet fever at Aurora. —Princeton’s broken out with incasels. —Thomtown will establish a creamery. —Seymour will organize an athletic club. —Goshen’s first school houso built In 1841. —Maybe Kokomo’ll have a knitting factory. — A religious revival is in progress at Bridgeport. —You cau’t get shaved in Now Albany o’ Sundays. —Terre Haute rejoices in a fourlegged chicken. —Ochre deposits ha,ve been found in Madison County. —Jackson County farmers have corn hustling frolics. —Four hundred and forty miles of Indiana is under water. —Peru grand jury found twenty-six indictments for gambling. —Fishermen defy the law along the banks of tho White every day. —Ora Gonder lost both oyes by a blast at limestono quarry, near Utica. • —Thomas McGowan seriously injured by falling tree near Martinsville. —Mrs. James Allen, aged 75, was found dead in bed at Greeucastle. —A child of Thomas Wilson, aged 4, was burned to death at Lexington. —Winter wheat all over tho Stato looks better than last year, ’tis said. —Measlos and scarlot fqvcr are alarmingly epidemic in Torre Haute. —Moses Fulwidcr, aged 80. a pioneer of Boone County, died very suddenly. —Fruit and wheat about Seymour thought to be killed by zero weather. —Delaware County Commissioners refuse to pay bill for washing prisoners’ bed-clothes. —Charles Coombs, of Crawfordsvillo, will bo held for tho murder of young Walter McClure. —Mrs. Jack Huffman’s family, Greencastle, came near crossing over. All ate poisoned hoad cheese. —lliram Terry Bush, Mishawaka, one time a man of wealth and influence, is dying in county asylum., —John Nowlin, of Plainfield, aged 20, fell forty feet from the top of a derrick, and was fatally injured. —Vincennes Sun thinks newspaper men ought to demand tho repeal of Grubbs libel law. Rignt. —Shelbyville saloons havo got to close at 11 p. m. week days and don’t dare to open an inch on Sundays. —Wicked men broko into Mishawaka Presbyterian Church and cut pulpit chairs and carpet to pieces. —Grandfather Krug, of Crawfordsvillo, who was 100 years old on September 20, is lying at tho point of death. —John Goodman, Marco, shot Erastus Frederick with a shot gun, sorlously. Said he alienated liis wife’s affections —George Casper, Shelbyville, ato twenty-five hard-boiled eggs, shells and all, on a 25-cent wager. Ought to be killed. —John Pindcn, a Washington County farmer, ha? been crazed by religious zeal, due to the lcvival at Rush Creek Church. —George W. Simonds, aged 75 years, fell from a load of hay at Logansport and broke his neck. Death was instantaneous. —Charles Walton, Shelbyville, has been given ten years in the pen for assaulting and robbing Charles Schettlcr, a German farmer. —H. Bassie, treasurer of Bartholomew County, fell from his stable loft at Columbus and fractured his skull. The injury is not fatal. —Samuel Cornett, farmer near Washington, was seriously hurt by the discharge of an anvil. He was celebrating a successful fox drive. —The farmers In the vicinity of Jamestown are being robbed of Chickens by tho dozen, and great efforts are. being made to trap the thieves. —George Bennett has been indicted of double murder by tho grand jury at Lafayette. Bennett is the man who killed two men last November. —The Seymour City Council has granted an exclusive street railway franchise for eleven years to B. F. Price, of that city. W'ork most begin within six months. —Moses Vadynewas sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for breaking into and robbing a freight car on the Wabash railroad, at North Manchester, last fall. —David Wright, a colored boy at Jeffersonville, lay in a comatose state for five days, when he coughed up a hunk of coeoanut and proceeded about his business. —The Montgomery County declamatory contest will take place at Crawfordsvillcon April 18. The boys will speak in the afternoon and the girls in the evening. —William Viddie, eccentric Versailles chasacter, spending most of his time in the woods, found a queer stone in a ravine the other day, for which a Cincinnati jeweler offered him $2,000. —Andrew Kyler died recently at his residence, near South Bend, aged about eighty-five years. He was one of the oldest residents in St. Joseph County, having lived in the county sixty years. —While a number of young men were racing their horses on the way homo from church, at Port Isabel, they collided with a carriage. Mrs. John Langston was thrown out and dangerously hurt. John Day was fajally iujqrcd and others were badly bruised.

—Mrs. Jaceb Werner, farmer’s wife near Jeffersonville, took the good old family rifle and shot a vicious tramp. —W’orkmon digging a well near Edinburg, struck a poplar log at a depth of twonty-four foot, two feet in diameter. —The Lebanon Patriot, a Republican newspaper of Boone County, changed hands recontly, S. J. Thompson Son retiring and Albion Smith, of Richmond, assuming control. —Tho oldest woman in tho vicinity of French Lick Springs is Mrs. Mary Flick, who was born in 1778. Sho weighs 200 pounds and is entirely blind. Her youngest son is aged 67. —The homo of G. W. Acord, at Sanford, was destroyed by an incendiary. Sonic time ago Acord received a threatening letter, signed, “A White Cap,” and mailed from Indianapolis. —The bondsmen for ex-Troasurer J. J. Field, of Orange County, whoso account with said county was 812,701 short, were released by tho gentleman and his wife paying tho amount in cool cash. —John B. Floyd, employed in tho saw mill of Bovins & Strand, at Boonvllle, met with a horrible death by falling against a rip-saw. Ho was simply sliced in two from head to foot. —Anna Maher, aged 5 years, of Crawfordsville, was playing near the fire and her clothing caught fire. Her clothes were burned off, and sho was seriously burned boforo the flames were extinguished. —Tramps broko Into a freight car on the Monon road at Greoncastle and stole a box of raisins. They were found soon afterwards in tho sand-house near the depot, where they had taken quarters 1 for tho night. Tho stolon fruit had been 1 devoured. Tho thieves, nine in all, were hold for trial at tho ensuing term of court. —Mary, tho 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard McKinney, was so badly burned at her home, near Livonia, Washington County, that she died a few hours after, The children of the family had been setting brush-heaps near tho houso on fire, and by some means tho flames were communicated to the clothing of the little one. —The will of tho late Mrs. Abbio Longee, of LaPorte, was probated. Among tho bequests was one of SII,OOO to the Orphans’ Homo, a public charity located at Mishawaka, Ind. The Institution owns no building of its own, and this money will bo used to erect one, aiid an endeavor will bo made to change the location to LaPorte.

—A clever forger has swindled a half j dozen business houses of Terre Haute, out of about S6O each. Ho sent a boy in the evening with a check made pavablo to Postmaster Greiner and indorsed by Greiner with a note signed by Greiner, all forgeries, asking the linn to cash it, as tho postolllce had been drained of cash by paying money orders. —At Nebraska, a littlo town on tho O. & M., fire broke out in tho store of Mrs. Allen. While about fifty people were trying to save tho stock, ten barrels of oil and 250 pounds of gunpowder exploded, wrecking the building and bruising several people with flying debris. The burning oil set fire to the residence of Mrs. Elliot, and it also was destroyed. The total loss was $12,000. —The wall on one sido of one of the Diamond Match Compiyiy’s largo buildings at Wabash, fell outward without a moment’s warning, leaving a hole thirtyeight feet long and two stories high. Several thousand pounds of paper pulp was ruined. No lives were lost, but several people very narrowly escaped. Tho fall was probably caused by the uneven settling of tho foundation. —As Mrs. It. C. Smith, of Crawfordsvillo, was carrying out a pan of hot ashes, her apron caught fire, and it was only with difficulty that sho escaped as well as sho did. As it was, her dress was burned off, her hair badly scorched, her eyebrows burned and her face blistered. She rolled upon tho floor and thus helped to put out tho flames, when her mother-in-law came to her assistance. —The village of Lena, Park County, a small station on the Big Four road, was thrown into great excitement«n night or two since by the fate that befell an aged citizen named Robert Bond. His dwelling caught lire shortly after midnight, and before Mr. Bond could bo rescued his body was burned to a crisp. He was about 85 years of age. The fire is said to have been the result of his own carelessness. . —An attempt at suicide occurred at Knightstovwi. Frank Ball, a young married man, repaired to a drug store, purchased 25 cents worth of morphine and took tho lot. On his way home again he changed his mind and started for a doctor. Dr. Barnott relieved him of all the surperfluous matter he had laid up for the last week or so. Family trouble is thought to have been tho cause.

—There is a widow living at Darlington, Montgomery County, who has been the wife of four soldiers, who are all dead, and she has drawn a pension as being the widow of each husband. As soon as she would marry, of course, her pension would cease, but she did not marry a man who was not a soldier, so when he died she would begin to draw another pension as the wife of the last one to die. —Many of the farmers of Montgomery county have entered into the chickenraising business on a large scale, and are selling from COO to 1,000 chickens every year. They says that it pays them better than raising cattle for the market. j —Jennie Ray escaped from the Dearborn County Asylum and fell into the hands of a gang of tramps, who maltreated her shamefuhy and left her more dead than alive on a straw-pile. Here 3he lay three days before she was discovered.