Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1891 — ONE WEEK IN INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

ONE WEEK IN INDIANA.

A COMPLETE COLUMN OF HAPPENINGS IN THE STATE. The New Legislative Apportionment— Silver Vein Disoovered—Burned to Death —Child Scalded—Coal Found. New Apportionment. The following is the Legislative apportionment of the State which has passed the. House, and will undoubtedly pass the Senate, as it is the Democratic caucus bill: SENATORS. Posey and Gibson y i 1 V&uderburg 1 Warrick and Spencer I Dubois and Perry 1 Change, Crawford and Harrison 1 Daviess and Martin 1 Knox and Pike 1 Lawrence and Jackson 3 Sullivan and Greene. 1 Wasliii. gton and Floyd I Clark, Scott and Jennings, 1 Clark and Jefferson 1 Dearborn. Ohio and Switzerland 1 Ripley, Franklin and Union 1 Monroe, Brown and Bart 1 , olomow. I Shelby, Johnson und Brown 1 Hendricks and Morgan 1 Clay and Owen 1 Vigo 1 Parke and Vermillion 1 Putnam and Montgomery 1 Marion ” 3 Shelby and Decatur 1 Hancock and Rush. 1 Henry and Fayette 1 Wayne 1 Delaware and Randolph 1 Grant and Madison ' 1 Adams, .Jay aud Blackford 1 Huntington and Wcllb 1 Miami and Howard 1 Clinton nnd Upton 1 Boone and Hamilton I Tippecanoe 1 Warren and Fountain 1 Newton, Jasper and Benton 1 Pulaski, White and Carroll 1 CaBS 1 Lake and Porter. 1 Laporte 1 St. Joseph and Sturko 1 Marshall and Fulton 1 Elkhart 1 Kosciusko and Wabash 1 Whitley and Allen I Allen I Noble and DeKalb 1 Lagrange and Steuben 1 REPRESENTATIVES. Posy J Marion and Shelby... 1 Gibson 1 Mndißon 1 Vauderburg 2 Hancock I Warrick 1 Shelby I Spencer 1 Rush I Perry 1 Henry 1 Knox 1 Fayette and Wayne.. 1 Knox and Piko 1 Wayne 1 Greene 1 Ilando'ph 1 Daviess 1 Delaware 1 Dubois and Martin.. 1 Hamilton 1 Lawrence,Orange and Boone 1 Dubsls 1 Clinton..! 1 Harrison l Clinton, Tipton and Floyd 1 Madison 1 Floyd, Harrison and Howard I Crawford 1 Tippecanoe 2 Washington 1 Ben on and Warren... 1 Jackson 1 Lake t Clark 1 Porter 1 Clark, Scott and Jen- Newton and Jasper... 1 nings I Pulaski aud White... 1 Jefferson 1 Carroll 1 Ripley 1 Cass 1 Dearborn 1 Fulton 1 Dearborn, Ohio aud Cass and Miami 1 Switzerland 1 Minma 1 Eipley, Franklin nnd Wabash 1 Union 1 Huntington 1 Franklin 1 Wells 1 Decatur 1 Grunt 1 1 Bartholomew 1 Adams and Jay 1 Monroe aud Brown... 1 Adams,Jay and BlackJohnson ....... 1 ford 1 Morgan 1 Allen 3 Owen ] Whitley 1 Putnan 1 DeKalb 1 Hendricks 1 Noble 1 Sullivan,... I.Steuben 1 Clay 1 Lagrange 1 Vigo.., 2 Elkhart 1 Parke 1 Elkhart andKpsciusko 1 Sullivan, Vigo and Kosciusko 1 Vermillion 1 Marshall I Montgomery 1 St. Joseph 2 Fountain 1 LaPorte I Montgomery .Putnam LaPorte and Starke.. 1 aud Clay. 1 Vanderhurg. Gibson Marion 6 and Knox ,1 Minor State Item*. —Legislatures of many other States will copy Indiana’s sehool-book-law. —An ambitious LaPortc County man has patented an ingrowing toe nail protector. —As a result of tho Murphy meetings at Morristown that town is now without a saloon. —Tipton City Council passed an ordinance to increase saloon license from SIOO to $250. —The Hamilton County Alliance is trying to raise $5,000 to build an elevator at Noblesville. —George W. Walker was crushed to death by a descending cage in a coal mine at Evansville. —Mrs. Rebecca Miller, ono of the first women that settled in the Wabash valley, died at Peru, aged 92. —A company, headed by D. J. Mackey, will develop the cannel-coal fields of Daviess and Martin counties. —M. O. Nisley, of Tippecanoe County, shot an arctic owl which measured fiftyfour inches from tip to tip of wings. —The house of Alexander Beasley, near Linton, was robbed of a gol<} watch aud several hundred dollars in currency. —The 3-year-old daughter of James Pritchard, of Franklin, was fatally burned, her clothing catching fire at a stove. —The new natural-gas company of Sholbyville are about completing their first well, with prospects of a fine flow of gas. —W. F. Pettit is at work in the chair shop of the Prison North. He is confident the Supreme Court will grant him a new trial. —While doing switch work in the yards in Muncic, Mark« Morton, a Big Four freight brakeman, had his right hand badly mutilated. —Hydrophobia is raging in Shelby County, farmers having lost many cattle and hogs from mad-dog bites. John Reinhart had to kill two fine horses. —Louis Stanton, aged 19, went out hunting near Sandborn, and was found dead next morning, with a portion of his head blown off, near a boat, and a a part or his body in the water. His death was accidental. —The 3-year-old child of John Henry, of Tipton, fell Into a tub of boiling water and was scalded so badly that it died. —Mary Ural, wife of John Ural, killed last year by a premature blast at Scanlan’s stone-quarry, at St. Paul, has brought suit against John Scanlan for SIO,OOO. —Olive Lee, a young man, while trying to board a moving train at Hazolrigg station, fell between the cars and was mangled in a horrible manner. He lived about one hour after the accident

—The .Etna powder-works, located near Millers, blew up. No one was hurt, but some half a dozen buddings in the vicinity wore badly shattered. —A cow killed at Seymour had in her stomach half a pound of horseshoe nails, a bunch of needles, a half-dollar coin and a miscellaneous stock of hardware. —Mrs. Frauds Adkins, of New Albany, remained in a trance for thirtysix hours. She was greatly excited over her child having falling against a hot stove. —Lewis Letz, proprietor of the Crown Point Machine-works, was seriously injured by the bursting of an emerywheel whilo running at a high rate of speed. —Joseph Molfher’s ahd James Mcßaron’s houses, near New Albany, were destroyed by a tornado. Mr. Melcher had both legs broken and three children wero badiy hurt. —The American Wheel Company has signed the papers for the removal of the hub and spoke factory from New Market to Crawfordsville. This 0 was secured through tho efforts of the Crawfordsville Land and Improvement Company. —Mrs. Quick, tho wife of a railroad employe, her baby, and Miss Jackson, a boarder, were found unconscious in their residence at Fort Wayne, being asphyxiated by gas escaping from a coal stove. It was at first thought all were dead, but after several hours' work by physicians, they recovered consciousness and will probably recover. —Charles McComb and Georgo Grayson claimthat they havo discovered a large vein of silver ore three miles from New Albany. The discovery was made on tho east bank of Silver Creek by the two mon, and they believe they have a valuable find. Some of tho ore was sent to an assayer in Chicago, who found it to contain a largo percentage of silver. —Mrs. Eliza McGrow, of Cambridge City, was given a verdict in the Circuit' Court at New Castle for $1,00(1 damages for slander against Walter Marlott, a prominent Wayne County farmer. The judgment is the largest over given In that county for slander, and would havo been $2,500 but for one juror, who held out for 1 cent only. —The Martinsville City Council has granted the Martinsville Electric Light; and Power Company the privilege of erecting poles and wires along the streets and alleys. Tho franchise granted was not an exclusive one, and provides that the company shall have work commenced within six months, They will furnish light for business houses and residences, and power for manufacturing purposes. —Tho Martinsville Butter and Cheese Association havo their buildings completed. The machinery is expected to arrive soon. When it is placed in position they will bogin operations, which will be about the last of April. Much interest is being taken by the farmers in the creamery business and dairy Interests, und a general advance in the dairy interests throughout tho county is predicted. —ln April, 1890, Mrs. Mate A. G. Fair, who was then pastor of tho Church of God, of Greensburg, on her return from church one night fell over an obstruction in the - sidewalk which had been caused by a natural-gas ditch. Her shoulder was broken and she was otherwise injured. For this injury she sued tho city for $5,000 damages. Tho cause was compromised by tho payment Qf $375 and costs, of which the city and gas company each pay one-half. —A company has been formed at Bloomington that promises to be a wonderful assistance to the development of Monroe stone land. The company is to be known as the Louisville, BloomlngtOn & Chicago Prospecting Company, and has a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. They have already purchased stone land and intend opening a number of quarries at once, to be in operation by Juno 1. Mr. Gathwright, of Louisville, Is president, and James Kasell is Secretary and Treasurer. —John Phillips, of Clay Township, Morgan County, has a wooden clock that has kept time accurately for seventy-two years. The clock is of the wall-sweep pattern, being seven feet high. It was bought by Simon Hadley, in the year 1819, in North Carolina, for $22.50. Ho kept the clock until his death, when it was sold for 50 cents to Jerry Rowan. Mr. Rowan sold it to Mrs. Phillips, daughter of Mr. Hadley, and It has remained in their family ever since. Mrs. Phillips values it very highly. —Seymour Thompson, a young man, was employed for the fourth year to teach a district school in Marion Township, Boone County. The trustee has just asked the County Superintendent to revoke his license because he has been guilty of improper conduct towards the scholars. Thompson was in the habit of kissing three of the best-looking maidens as they arrived for the morning sessibn. The other day he showed indifference towards or.e of them, and this put his otherwise still sea to roughness. The jilted girl told her mother, and from that the entire neighborhood arose up ! in arms against him. The parents refused to let their children go to him another day. When his school was called to order next day, but a single boy was present. —Mt. Oliye people have found quitp a “picking” of gold along the streams there of late, thought to have been washed out of the hills by the recent rains. —Secretary of State Matthews and Auditor of State Henderson have issued certificates of appointments to the members of the State Board of Health, 'i’he certificates state that Governor Hovey refused to participate in the appointments, holding that the law under which they were made is unconstitutional. ]