Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — RIGHT DOWN BELOW [ARTICLE]

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YOU WILL CET A COQD GLIMPSE OF INDIANA. Anntlmr I’ettit Rig G»s Well Keir Cert huge— An Inhuman Fa>tlier— Fort Wayne Man Taken In by Swindlers— Radiy Gored by a Mad Cow—Fell from an Engine—Accidents, Deaths. Etc. —Vicennes thinks of starting a ..shoe factory. —Stock can't go at largo in Vanderburg County. —Valparaiso's raising funds to build a memorial hall. —Cambridge City says it's the horso center of Indiana. —Evansville's new city directory contains 22,960 names. burned at Glenwood. —Knightstown vigorously works to socure free turnpikes. —A grand fox-drive, near Fortviltej resulted in capturing one fox. —A number of Valparaiso college boys have been expelled for tippling. —Herbert Bruce, of Columbus, is 13 years old, but weighs 216 pounds. —An incendiary attempt was made to burn Owcnsville post office building. —Thomas Duke, a farmer living near Waynetown, fell dead. Cause, heart disease.

—A Loree thief takes anew departure —stole a child's coffin from tho freight depot there! —Spencer has a school where the evil effects of alcohol on the human system are shown up. —Mrs. Harmon Pfodenhauer, living near Carmel, hid libVlCft ear bitten entirely off by a horse, —Ladoga citizens are holding out inducements to get a hub and spoke factory to locate there.

—An Elkhart man called an enemy a deadbeat on a postal card, anil will have to pay dearly therefor. —During the last fiscal year 839,064 pieces of mail matter were handled at the Crawfordsville postolfiee. : —rCliarles Dickson, a coal-miner of Brazil, was killed while removing pillars in the mine, by falling slate. —l’aoli hasn’t had a “real for sure” saloon for over two years—plenty of the ardent to be had there, though. —Charles Cooper, a DePauw student, fell and broke his arm while practicing on a horizontal bar in the gymnasium. - 1 -Rcy. Hayden Rayburn, local minister of the M. E. Church at Kokomo, has married 994 couples. He is 79 years of age. —Reports of an excellent prospect for a good crop come from the peach-grow-ing regions in the southern part of the State.

—Gibson County Commissioners don’t care what you sav—they’re just not a going to grant saloon licenses to nobody! So there! —The store-house, witli contents, owned by Erank Dunn, at Vias, burned. Loss, $3,000; insurance, SI,OOO. Incendiarism. —While blasting stumps on his farm north of Washington Ben Feney had an eye. blown out and was seriously injured otherwise. * —Sumption & Wilson, of Kokomo, lost a fine Red Bud yearling filly by hanging itself by means of rope swing. It was valued at SSOO. —A witness In a case at Crawfordsville testified that the reputation of the defendant for honesty was good, but that for stealing it was bad. —James Applegate, a hostler in Gilbert's livery stable, at Jeffersonville, was kicked in the face by a vicious stallion and seriously injured. —JamesTolin, aged 19, and livingon a farm near Tipton, attempted to commit suicide by taking poison. He was saved by the aid of a stomach pump. —Micajah Hancock, a resident of White County, celebrated his 100th birthday anniversary. IJe has one son aged 72. Mr. Hancock cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson.

—Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, has just received SIO,OOO from the estate of the late Daniel L. Jones,, of Chicago, the interest to be used to purchase books for the Jones alcove in the college building. —Twelve young ladies entered into the novitiate of the Poor Handmaid of Christ, at the St. Joseph Hospital, Fort Wayne. The impressive ceremonies were conducted by Bishop Dwenger, of the Fort Wayne diocese. —James Lewis, a gallantsoldier in the Seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers, was found dead in bed at Danville. His death resulted from heart disease. Ho was in usual health the day before, having served on a jury late in the evening. —A thief entered the residence of Robert Spaugh, of Hope, and attempted to chloroform him in order to be able to search the house undisturbed, but spilled the drug in Mr. Spaugh's face, awakening him. The burglar made good his escape. —A traveling man said to the Logansport Journal: “Indiana is the best commercial State in the Union. Its merchants buy larger bills, buy closer and more promptly, and know more about their business than those of any other State.”-

—Peter Benyard, a native of France, and an old resident of Floyd County, died at his home near New Alban}', at the age of 82 years. —The Rogers brothers, who have been sentenced to the penitentiary from Montgomery Countv for stealing clover seed, made an attempt to escape from jail. One of them broke the lock on the inside corridor door of the jail, and gained the outer corridor, and bat for the bravery of the Sheriff's wife would have escape?

—Land in L&ke T’Minty' Which sold three months ago for SSP and Sioo per acre now brings S3OO and S4OO. —The barns blonging to Burr Haws and Mrs. L. A. Chamberlain, near Washington, were burned by incendiaries. A large number of barns have been burned in Daviess County in the past year, and it is thought to bo the work of an organized gaug of vandals. —Charles W. Pool, a traveling man, purchased a ticket at Shelbsville for Indianapolis, which the local agent failed to stamp. When Mr. Pool presented his ticket to the conductor hq, refused to accept it. Pool refused to pay, and was ejected from th£ train: He has brought suit against the tfompony for SIO,OOO damages. —Six local capitalists of i?erp have subscribed Mads sufficient to place Peru in the Indiana and Michigan Base-ball League, which as, now organized, comprises Peru, Fort Wayne, Anderson, South Bend, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Bay City and Saginaw. A strong team will bo otigaged at once. The season will open May 15, closing Sept. 5, —A. L. Johnson & Co., Muncie, were experimenting with giant-powder as a means'of splitting monster saw-logs at their mill. The man in charge used the explosive too freely and the fragments of the log demolished one end of the mill, and damaged tho skewer factory near by. The employes had been notified, but as it was, a number of narrow escapes wore made. —Rush Chambers, a well-to-do farmer residing in the northwestern part of Bartholomew County, near Taylorsville, was fearfully gored in tho loft thigh by a mad milk cow. The cow had a young calf, 1 which Mr. Chambers was in the act of putting in the barn, when the cow rushed upon him and fearfully lacerated his left thigh with her horns, puncturing the femoral artery. Gangrene has set In, and it will be necessary to amputate tho limb.

—When a Vandal la train reached Crawl'ordsville recently, tho engineer discovered that tho fireman, John Elliott, of Torre Haute, was missing. The engineer returned and found the fireman lying in the gutter about a mile from town. Elliott, while shaking down tho cinders, was thrown from the engine and so badly injured that it is hardly possible that ho will recover. It was ids first trip as a fireman. —Fred Arbergast, a young German farmer residing east of Frankfort, lias been arrested for inhuman treatment of his 3-months-old baby. From its birth the father exhibited a profound hatred for the infant, aiifl the neighbors toll stories of frightful cruelty inflicted on tho child, which died a lew days ago. Among the things alleged was that lie would lock it in the room and forbid its mother giving it nourishment, and otherwise maltreating it. Arbergast is In jail. —Misfortunes Still continue to befall witnesses and others connected with the murder ease against W. F. Pettit, who was sent to tho penitentiary for Crawfordsviile. The latest victim is Rev. W. W. Wilson, who was killed last week by the bursting of a feed-mill. His wife was a wltnoss in the same ease. The latest story "lk that the 'church at Shawnee Mound, whero Pettit was; preaching when his wife died, is haunted by the spirit of Mrs. Pettit. —J. C; Amstutz, of Fort Wayne, somri time ago, ordered a lot of fancy articles from J. Mlndcn, 134 East Thirteenth street, New York, whose advertisement appears in a nutnhorof papers. Tho goods were delivered and found to be fully up to description. A few days latcf Amstutz ordered six gold watches from tho same firm, «.id he received a box from the express company with $330 charges, which ho paid. The box contained In* stead of the gold watches a lot of papers and a bottle of patent medicine. The money was replevined. • % . , —The citizens of Tunnelton have succeeded for the third time in preventing a liquor license being Issued to W. R. Maris. Tho village of Tunnelton has an interesting history. Ton years ago it was a quiet, orderly place. One night in February, 1882, the town wks raided by a gang of desperadoes bent on destroying the place. But they were met by a party of determined citizens, and two of the number killed. Soon after that the village degenerated Into a place of drunkenness and disorder,- Within the past year the citizens have made a determined fight for the right, aiid are gaining their former customs of sobriety and order.

—'At Russlavitle, there Isa family living under one roof which consists of four separate generations. The greatgrandmother, Mrs. Susan Orr, whose maiden name was Koukie, was born in Westmoreland County, Pa., Oct. 11, 1802, being almost 90 years old. The grandmother. Mary Ann Hannas, wits born in Switzerland County, Ind., 2s<py. 24, 1828, and is 63 years old. The mother, Mrs. Julia Evans, was , born in Switzerland County, Ind., June 4, 1852, and is 38 years old. The daughter, Miss Cora Evans, was born in Tipton County, Aug. 4, 1876. Grandma Orr, although almost a centenarian, is still very vivacious, and retains her intellectual faculties to a marked degree. She will no doubt reach her one-hundreth anniversary.

—Mrs. Daniel Heaton, of Goshen, has filed a suit for separate maintenant-6. Her husband is worth 8200,000, isßo years old, bis pretty wife, whom he married but a few weeks ago, is but 25. Mrs. lleaton alleges domestic infelicity. —Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shultz, of Greencastle, have a prodigy In the form of a girl baby. Vac child was born on the 9th of this month and weighs only two pounds. It is healthy and strong, and possesses no peculiarities except its diminutive size.