Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1891 — PERUSE AND PONDER [ARTICLE]

PERUSE AND PONDER

OVER THE NEWS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM OF INDIANA. Killed by a Falling Tree—Accidental Killing—Divorced and Married Within an Bonj—Juvenile Thieves Jailed—Big Damage Sult. —Franklin County pikes are now free. —Russiaville wants to be incorporated. —Grain thievesare working in Elkhart County. —Edinburg has raised $17,000 for an ice plant. —Spiceland public schools closed for lack of funds. —Noblesville Democrat wants to have houses there numbered. —Elwood's glass factory covers five acres—all under slate roof. —Total value of grounds and buildings owned by Indiana, $8,628,417. —Michael Doyle, of Winchester, aged 78, died suddenly of apoplexy. —William Haub contributed an arm to the moving train at Vincennes. —George W. Rose, of Wayne County, was fatally injured in a runaway. —Greenwood’s canning factory is one of the largest in the United States. —Miss Bertha Knove won the honors at the Franklin oratorical contest. —Samuel Faust, of Arcadia, aged 60, hanged himself. No cause is known. —Mrs. Kate Tucker, near Anderson,3o, married her nephew, Frank Tucker, 20. —Eva Francisco fell into an open file in a fainting fit, at Osgood, and seriously injured. —A number of dynamite cartridges were found under the L. E. & W. depot at Muncie. —Fish-Commissioner Dennis Is after Rockford and Jacnson County illegal fishermen. —Mrs. W. E. Borders. Vincennes, who was taken sick on the streets, died an hour later.

—Martinsville druggists have agreed not to sell whisky excoj<on a physicians’ prescription. —Evansville Spiritualists have been warned by White Caps not to hold • urther_seances. —A cloud burst near Brazil submerged fifteen houses. Families rescued, but much property lost. —The Lebanon Council has required saloons to remove screens and other obstructions to the view. —John Hibbs claims to have discovered a copper-mtno'tin the line of Hendricks and Putnam Counties. —Benjamin Money, aged 16, while hunting near Brownsburg, shot himself in the leg and bled to death. —Abraham Neal, John Potter, and William Stewart have been indicted for the killing of Marcus Selig, near Madison. —J. A. Armstrong's daughter, New Albany, and also his married sister have lost their minds over religious excitement. —Pennsylvania company sued at Columbus for $40,000 by the family of James Stanfield, a brakeman killed by the cars.

—William Crawley, of Chicago, fell from a third-story window of a South Bond hotel and suffered probably fatal injuries. —Three little boys of Ladoga jailed at Crawfordsville for selling stolen chickens. Said they needed the money to go to the show. —The safe in the Panhandle depot at Windfall was blown open by burglars, and railroad tickets and several hundred dollars in money were stolen. —A Noblesville youth approached a Democrat reporter with a piece of news. Reporter asked, vis it authentic?” “Oh, no, its straight goods,” was the reply. —Old man Nagle, wife and two sons, leaders of a notorious gang* of thieves, captured in Elkhart County. Their storehouse was found stocked full of plunder. —Michael Sellers, Crawfordsville, found a 180-pound hog in the bottom of a forty-foot well, been there fortv-one days and was as well as common when rescued. —Martha Meek and Thomas Jones, each divorced at Greensburg from disagreeable partners the same day, turned around and married each other in less than an hour.

—Mr. and Mrs. Amos Hunt, aged and respectable people, were attacked in their house, n<?ar Muncie, by hoodlums and Mrs. Hunt was seriously injured by a blow from a stone. —Company I, State militia, at Crawfordsville, has elected the following new officers: Captain, C. E. McCampbell; First Lieutenant, Hawkins Rose; First Sergeant, Will Schiemmer. —John Aldridge, a boy of 16, who killed John Gleason, aged 15, by striking him with a car-shoe, and who fled while out on bail, has been recaptured and brought back to Jeffersonville. —Samitel £ence, a heading-piier employed at the Coleman heading factory, at Tipton, fell from the top of a heading pile, dislocating his right shopjder and seriously injuring himself otherwise. ' —lt is announced that a new savings bank will shortty be started Jn Fort Wayne. John W. White, late manager of the White Wheel-works, is named as the prime mover in the new enterprise. —An altitudinoustale comes from Vincennes to the effect that a cow owned by Thomas Williamson, a farmer of that vicinity, swallowed a pitenfork handle about twenty inches long and is none the worse for wear. . . - —Three young prisoners tore away a part of the roof of the County Jail at Terre Haute and made their escape. Two, Driscoll and Vaugt, were under sentence for two years for burglary, and the third, Densmore, was awaiting trial for participation tn the same burglarv.

—The prospects for a good crop of fruit in the southern portion of the State were never better than now. —Elias Lyons, 80, south of Muncie, died recently. He never had a hair on his head, and his son has the same physical peculiarity. —Ada Johnston, of Jeffersonville, aged 23, committed suicide, by taking poison. Disappointment in love is supposed to ha.e been the cause. —Benjamju Stone waylaid Grant Summers, a rival in love, at New Providence, and beat him so that he now lies at the point of death. Stone escaped. —A saloon-keeper at Crawfordsville, knowing tnat he had violated the law in selling beer after midnight, and supposing that he had bceu indicted, went before the Circuit Judge and demanded to be fined. He was accommodated and fined S7O. —Oliver Lee, who was arrested for the shooting of Mrs. Mary Randall at Lebanon one year a~o, bnt afterwards released, was instantly killed in his effort to board a moving freight train on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St Louis Railway. —Years age Anthony Fuller, now of Terre Haute, brought suit against his wife, Alevia Fuller, In Clark bounty, Illinois, for divorce, and his lawyer informed him that he had won the suit. Since then he has married and become the father of several children. The other day he discovered that his first suit had boon dismissed and he has applied to the courts for relief.

—Eini) Eicher, the 17-year-old son of a well-known citizen of Evansville, was fatally injured while out on the river hunting for ducks. The coat of a companion .caught on the hummer of his gun and an entire load of duck-shot was the young man’s side. Most of tho load lodged in the vicinity of the spinal column. He was brought ashore as rapidly as possible and prompt medical assistance summoned, but without any avail. —Mrs. E. Kepler, secretary for ihe j lndiana heirs of the Anneke Jans estate, announces that a meeting of the heirs for the purpose of establishing their claims will be held on March 4, at New Albany, Instead of Indianapolis, as heretofore reported. Tho former place is chosen on account of being tho residence of Mrs. Eliza Whitcrow Keyes, said to be the nearest living heir, and who is of advanced age.

—A number of movers passed through Crawfordsville recently, going from Kentucky to Dakota, who had with them a curious-looking girl, about five years old. The child had all over her head and neck what appeared to be chicken feathers. and when she would jabber the sound made would resemble a chicken. Tho only reason assigned for this strange freak was that her father was given a coat of tar and feathers some five months before her birth. —Tho night American express train, from Chicago eastward over the Michigan Central road, has been robbed twlcs within tho last six weeks, the last tlmt. being a week ago. The officers at Michigan City arrested A. P. Craig and Jesse Williams, tho latter colored, as the robbers. Williams confessed and produced a vast quantity of stolen articles, including Silk dresses, clothand miscellaneous merchandise to a considerable valuo, which had been secreted about his home.

—Eugene, a small town six miles north of Newport, was raided by thieves. The residence of Sam Bowers, proprietor of the flouring-mills at that place, was entered and three gold watches and a pah of diamond ear-rings were taken. Mr. Bowers had 8100 in cash in his trouser's pocket which they did not get. They also entered the residence of William Fultz, but got nothing there save a few dishes and four or live dollars in eash. It is believed the burglary was done by home talent, but there is no clew tc identify them. —Thomas Ward, aged 60 years, was found lying along the railroad near Net* Richmond nearly, frozen to death, and he will die from the exposure. He was clad only in his shirt and drawers. An investigation showed that he had undressed in the middle of a Held, it being the supposition that he thought he waft at homf and preparing to go to bed. During the night he had waded through a pond, and in breaking through the ice his feet had been ent to such an extent that the ground was colored with blood for some distance. He was a well-known citizen, and his derangement has come suddenly upon him. —When John G. Keadle, In 1861, left home, at Talbot, as a volunteer in th< Twentieth Indiana Regiment, he tool with him a lock each of his young wife’} and 3-month B-old daughter’s hair, care fully enclosed in a gilt-edged Bible, giver to him by his wife. At a battle it Georgia he lost the Bible. A friend frotr Georgia, visiting George R. Harper, It Madison, told how his relative, Gapt. Joht Russell, of the Third Georgia Regiment had found just such a Bible, with name and all. Harper did not know Keadle but advertized the find, saying that' i> had been placed in his keeping. Kcadh saw the advertisement, came down t< Madison, recovered his treasure and re turned with it to his home in Talbot The daughter is now 30 years old , ant married, and her mother is dead. —Anderson Boswell entered' the cabit home of Mrs. Belle Bass, Bartona, ant cut her throat from ear to ear. She hat refused to elope with him. AH colored —Olivet' Stone, a wealthy young farm er living near Wabash, was found dea< in bed. It is thought that he was suffo cated, as he was found lying on his face —Reports that the sand supply o Hoosier slide at Michigan City is beinj exhausted are not true. Say “there’s enough there to supply the glass sac tories of the whole world for 100 years.’