Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1891 — FROM LAKE TO RIVER. [ARTICLE]

FROM LAKE TO RIVER.

THE BUSY HOOSIER IS MAKING A WEEK’S HISTORY. Discovery of a Cave in Harrison County— Drowned With His Team—Died of Hydro-phobia-Sudden.Deaths. —Population of Indiana, 2,192,404. —New Castle has nine churches and a Salvation Army. —Montgomery County country schools closed for measles. , —A canning factory will be located at Tipton at an early day. —Martin Heaton, Walosboro, fined 833 for dynamiting White River fish. —Sam Peek,, Evansville, bad inan, locked up for fighting his mother-in-law. —Crown Point is mad at Hammond \ause it wants to be county seat of Lake. —A four-foot vein of eoal. at a depth of forty feet, has been struck at Greenwood. —Christian H, Stein has been appointed Clerk of the State Board of Printing. —C..I. Griggs, of Covington, aged 57, and tired of life, sent a bullet through his brain. —There is a child at Waynetown, who is two weeks old aud weighs only one and a half pounds. —W. W. Smiley, Thorntown, has a silver dollar, issue of 1795, for which he refused 8400. —Alonzo Goff, residing near LaPorte, stepped off a moving train and was fatally injured. —George Jetter, a wealthy farmer near Hortonville, was killed in a railway accident in Texas. —The making of the transcript in the W. F. Pettit murder case, at Crawfordsville, cost $748.50. —Alfred Mabury, the Clay County hermit, who has lived twenty years in the woods, if dead. —Elizabeth Mullen, of Now Albany, aged 72, walked out of a second-story window and was killed. —Five persons wore seriously burned by a natural-gas explosion at Lafayette. Three have since died. —Charles E. Morris, of Utica, stumbled over a chair and broke several ribs while walking in his sleep. —Oliver O’Neal, of Greencastle, was sent to prison for two years for attempting to murder his step-child. • —Charles Gaylor, Knightstown, sues the Panhandle for $20,000; injured In their employ last September. —Plans are being made for sixteen business blocks to be conssructed in Kokomo the coming summer. —South Bend’s Humane Society is on the search for men who whip their wives and make them start the morning fires. —Mrs. James Wallace, of Kokomo, was struck in the stomach by a stone thrown by an unknown hand, and fatally injured. —Prof. W. W. Borden, New Albany, collector of relics, has a powder horn used by William Pettit, Indian tighter, in 1808. —Kokomo police are making it hot for the gamblers. The Mayor has proclaimed war, and the officers are raiding the dons right and left. —Mrs. Nancy Douthit, of Hobbs, was found dead in bed, due to heart disease. She was aged 76, and one of the pioneers of Tipton County. —-John Frawley, the alleged leader of the mob that tried to lynch George Bennet at Lafayette, has been indicted for riotous conspiracy. —William L. Moore, of Martinsville,, sold eighteen stall-fed cattle for the European market for which he received $1,4(10. The cattle averaged 1,555 pounds. -r-Owing to a case of hydrophobia the Mayor of Franklin has issued an prder to the City Marshal to kill all dogs running at large unmuzzled within the. next thirty days. —Mrs. Lizzie Wilson, Muncie, put a big turkey under a tub two days before Christmas; never thought of it again till the other day; found it alive after fortylive days’ fast. —Edward Kirkwood, while returning from Carbon to Perth, was assailed by two highwaymen, whom he succeeded in driving off after a desperate fight. He was seriously injured. —Edward W. Jackson hanged himself in his barn, at his home near Lawrenceburg. A recent decision of the Supreme Court had invalidated his title to his farm, and brooding over this trouble caused his suicide. He was formerly a member of the Legislature. —While Napurn Pedlar, of Rosedale, employed by the Park County Coal Company, was engaged in dropping loaded cars from the dumps his foot caught and he was dragged some distance and crushed to death. He was a man of family and prominent in Methodist Church and Pythian Lodge circles. —Henry Humphrey, a coal minor, near New Goshen, died from hydrophobia. He was bitten in the lip six weeks ago by a tramp dog that was fighting with his dog. The Terre Haute madstone was applied, but wouid not adhere. Humphrey’s dog was killed, but the tramp got away. Humphrey was taken ill and the disease developed into unmistakable hydrophobia. He leaves a widow and two children. —John Miller, a young man residing near Abingdon, bad a desperate fight with a burglar in his mother’s house, and finally drove him away. —A Green County girl is going to be sued for breach of promise by an “unknown correspondent” whom she promised to marry and then wouldn't. —James B. Thompson; a prominent young man of Waldron, on his return, from a ball, tell through a cow-pit and broke hi> jaw and received dangerous Injuries.

—J. J. Moran, a guard at the Prisoi North, was assaulted and terribly beatei by Thomas Hartman, a convict. —Mrs. Whittenberg. Knightstown locked two children in, the house an< went to call on a noigabor, house cauglv fire, 2-year-old baby burned to death, —A few days ago a resident of Morgar County gave a mortgage on fire acres a land, for the sum of $lO. The fee foi recording a mortgage is $1.25, while at attorney generally gets $2 or $3 for draw ing up the papers in such cases. This is the smallest mortgage over recorder on a piece of land tn that county, am probably in the State.

—Policeman Kahle,tn attempting toar rest two colored tramps who. were stealing a ride on the west-bound Vandalia trail at Brazil, was shot near the heart bi one of the number. The would-be mur derer fled, but again boarded the trait as it was lead ng. He was arrested a' Terre Haute. He gives his name a; William Buggs. Kahle will recover. —Thomas Coflield visited the home o Mrs. Behringer, at Lafayette, demand Ing something to eat. After his want! had been supplied he left the house oply to return and attempt an assault Ho was convicted in the circuit court and was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. He was Identified as v former inmate of the Ohio penitentiary —At Williamsport a freight train or the Wabash struck George Mong, 84 years of age, and instantly killed him. The right leg, between the ankh and the knee was broken, the right forearm broken, the chin was split it) two and one deep cut was made ovoi the right eye, and a scalp wound inflicted on the right side of the head. The body, by the force of the blow, was thrown twenty feet. —A ease of hydrophobia has been reported near Tipton. The 17-year-old daughter of Gi*een Rayls was bitten by a dog three years ago, and nothing serious was thought of it at that time. To the surprise of her friends, the latter part ol last week she was heard snarling and snapping. Medical aid was at once summoned, uud after carefully diagnosing the ease it w'as pronounced hydrophobia from the cause above stated. —Jacob Freundlich, a driver for the Cook Brewing Company, Evansville, drove a team of fine horses into the Ohio River for the purpose of washing the mud from the animals. They became entangled in a wharfboat's ropes and began plunging in the-water. Freundlich attempted to save them, and in the struggle all were drowned In the presence of hundreds of people and within ten feet of shore. The deceased leaves a family.

—The Oil Well Supply Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa.,have located their branch house In Montpelier, and will build a warehouse for the purpose of storing their heavy supplies in. The city is full of oil men and are making preparations for a boom in the oil business. The Tewksbury well, two miles east Of towp, was drilled in, and Is flowing seventy barrels daily. There have been contracts lot for one hundred derricks, and drilling will commence at once. —A strange woman has been "working” the druggists at Crawfordsville by selling them large quantities of a face preparation. She gave the druggists the names and addresses of a large number of ladles who, she claimed, had agreed to purchase the preparation. The druggists sept postals to the ladies where names had been handed in and they soon found that the ladies hud never agreed to purchase the preparation. Thp woman, however, had departed and the druggists are out several dollars. —William Hendricks, a farmer of Harrison County, on making a trip through a piece of timber land on his farm,found that a large portion of earth had fallen into a vacancy. He and his neighbors proceeded to explore the hole. They found that the cave wa*s miich larger at the bottom than at the top, and had a perfect floor, with no outlet, and though the. walls were not perfect, they boar the resemblance of having been sealed years ago. Skeletons of human beings and a large number of flint tools were unearthed.

—Wliiie Lon L’lrick, at Tipton machinist, was working on the inside of a large, boiler he narrowly escaped a most frightful death. A jet of natural gas iiad been turned iuto the boiler for lighting purposes, and when the machinist had finished his work he instructed one of his helpers to turn the gas off. This assistant turped the key the wrong way, and a large volume of gas shot into the boiler, and before the mistake was discovered L’lrick was severly burned about the body, his clothing bAing nearly consumed. S t —Hiram Terry Rush, aged 78 years, formerly a wealthy citizen of Detroit, wbo has resided at Mishawaka for the past four years, finally fell ill and has been unable to work for the past four months, says the Mishawaka Enterprise. Two sisters in Cleveland and a step-son in Detroit were notified, but refused to render assistance„and. Landlord Curtis, who was already out over forty dollars, was compelled to send him to the Poor House. When informed ol the dire necessity, the poor old man wept like a child.

—Bryan Goins, farmer near Evans' ville, dead and ready for burial, startled watchers by raising up in his coffin coughing. He was hurriedly put into bed and restoratives applied, lived a few hours but did not speak. —Sharpsville, an enterprising town of 600 inhabitants, has organized a stock company for a canning factory, with a capital stock of 810,000.. Work is to commence on the building at once, Sharpsville is located in one of the beat gas regions in Indiana,