Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1891 — PLEASURE AND PAIN [ARTICLE]

PLEASURE AND PAIN

ENTERING INDIANA HEARTS AND HOMES. Columbus Dwarf Dead—Favorable Test of the Sugar-Beet—Found Dead in Bed— New 815,000 Church at Martinsville— Accidents. Deaths, and Suicldea. —John Cotton, a pioneer of St. Joseph County, is dead. —LaPorte trotting club’s races come off July 3 and 4. —Over three hundred people in Edinburg have the grip. —Martinsville is soon to have a new $15,000 furniture factory. —Washington’s going to manufacture smokeless fuel to cost $4.50 per ton. —Madison County farmers never had a better outlook Tor a big wheat crop. —American Starch Company, Columbus, uses 6,000 bushels of corn per day. —The coal underlying a twelve acre tract in Parke County sold for $50,000. —William Paddock, an aged citizen, was found dead in bed at Cambridge City. —Henry Grevie, Aurora, attempted suicide by hanging; found, cut down, will live. —Lewis Willy and Isaac Sefton sue the Decatur Connty Agricultural Society for $5,335. —Eli Stussman, a brakeman on the Nickel Plato, was fatally crushed at Wanatah. —Wm. Patterson died at New Albany from injuries received in a railway accident there. —Religious revivals and la grippe have made the winter of ’9l a memorable one to Indianans. —A new bank is being organized by some of the leading German citizens in New Albany. —Met Tarlton, Greenwood, tried to suicide with morphine. Stomach pump restored him. —Mrs. Malinda Brown, one of the oldest and best-known settlers of Cass County, is dead. —The members of the Christian Church in Martinsville, are preparing to build a new $15,000 church. —George E. Toner, of Edinburg, has a hen that has laid an egg which measures 6%x9>£ inches. —On the farm of Charles Fields, near Union City, the bones of a large mastodon were unearthed.

—While prospecting for oil at Terre Haute a vein of valuable coal was struck at a depth of 175 feet. —Elder E. W. Hammond, of Spencer, has been called to the pastorate of the Christian Church in Seymour. —John Loew and George W. Taylor, of Aurora, Indulged in a shooting affray, but no serious injuries resulted. —A South Bend saloon keeper had to pay S4O for selling whisky to four school boys—all under 12 years of age. —Miss Jane Slader, of Walcsboro, was run over by a cow, sustaining injuries from which she may not recover. —The barn on the farm of John Overstreet, near Greenwood, burned, cremating six head of horses and two cows. —Rush Chambers, Columbus, attacked by a mad cow last week, had to have a limb amputated, will die from the shock. —A calf with two tails, one growing out between Its shoulders, is an interesting curiosity in a neighborhood near New Albany. —Mrs. Cornelius DeHilt, Lafayette, fell dead in her husband's arms as he was assisting her from a carriage. Heart disease. —A breeders’ association has been organized at Elmdale, Montgomery County, where it is proposed to establish a large stock farm. —At Hope a company has been organized, with a paid-up capital stock of $6,000, for the manufacture of creamery butter and cheese. —The newspaper agents of New Albany have organized a protective association for united protection against dishonest subscribers. —Supt. Kennedy, Muncie pulp works, arrested for violation of eight-hour law — compelled his men to work ten hours without extra pay. —Mrs. John Hicklcr, of Terre Haute, received a painful wound from a bullet fired from a flobert rifle in the hands of a lad named Kioer. —The new glass factory in ccnrsc of construction at Dunkirk is nearing completion, and will be ready for operation by the first of May. —The triplets, John, James, and Jacob Farley, residents of Wabash County, celebrated their sixtieth birthday anniversary recently. —John Gleasjii, of South Bend, fell from a step-ladder, and was impaled on a meat-hook, which penetrated h’s side, inflicting a serious wound. —While timber-cutters were at work upon a tree near Lebanon, gas oozed from the saw-cut, and upon application of a match burned for twenty minutes. —At Lafayette. Capt. Daniel Drew was acquitted of the charge of murder preferred against him for the killing of a man to protect the honor of his wife. —Hon. Ithamar Davison, a prominent farmer, was thrown from a vehicle a few miles west of Shelbyville, and badly hurt. He was at one time a member of the Legislature.

—Aittle Charley Johnson, who went gleefully forth to play at Evansville with both pants pockets full of loose gunpowder, will not join his mates in merrysport for several weeks to come—he docs not care for play now. —Thomas Hall, a dwarf, who died at Columbus recently, left an estate valued at $15,000. In his will he bequeathed 82,000 to the Christian Church. He died from the effects of a broken legs, which was the twenty-seventh time his leg had been broken.

—lndiana building stone quarries cover a surface of more than 200 square miles. —Clark Albertson and Anna Cronb, living near Martinsville, were married last week. The bride is 38 years old and weighs 250 pounds; the groom is 19 and weighs 110. —As George W. Lane, of Harrison County, was accompanying Mrs. Amanda Harris home from church he was assaulted by three brothers of Mrs. Harris and severely handled. —ln the Orinoco furniture factory at Columbus, Frank Kennedy, aged 17, got his right hand caught in a shaping-ma-chine, and it was so badly crushed that it will require amputation. —lt is reported that Florence Hurschell, whoso mysterious disappearance from New Albany, several months ago, caused so much excitement in that city, is now in a Cincinnati hospital. —An unknown woman gave birth to a child on the midnight train at Staunton, and threw it from the backdoor of the car while in fast motion. The head struck the rail and was mashed.

—“Bullfoot” Kernoodle, who Is now serving a term at the Michigan City Penitentiary, Is one of the three heirs to $1,600 pension money just allowed his deceased father, late of Crawfordsville. —George Knotts, Jack Pufflnberger and George Robertson, who were arrested for seining fish from White River in September last, were tried in the Circuit Court at Columbus. They were each fined SSO and costs. State Fish Commissioner Dennis was present during the entire trial and made a hard fight. Other prosecutions will follow. —Nixon Rush., Sr., was run down by the local freight, while switching, at Fairmount, and fatally injured. He was walking alongside a switch when the corner of a Joox car struck him, knocking him down, and, his clothing catching somehow, he was dragged for some distance. Mr. Rush is deaf and did not hear the engine approaching. —A distressing accident occurred near Delphi. Augustus Stoner and Ovan Million were hunting ducks along the Tippecanoe river. The rifle Million carried was accidently discharged, and the bullet entered young. Stoner’s abdomen, injuring him so badly that he died in a few hours. The boys were 15 years of age, and both belonged to prominent families.

—A powerful gas well was opened up in the geographical center of Kokomo, the only one that has been drilled In the city limits for two years. It Is owned by a local syndicate, who will sink other wells immediately. This well Is for the purpose of supplping gas for operating an electric street railway and the Wat-son-Bruner planing mill and furniture factory.

—Judge Snyder, of the Montgomery County Court, has made a ruling lq the injunction suit to restrain the city of Crawfordsville from putting in an electric light plant for tho purpose of supplying light for public? purposes and to private consumers. He held that the city can put in tho plant for the purpose of street-lighting, but could not furnish light to private consumers, unless thd Supreme Court shall make a new ruling. —Gov. Hovey has pardoned Arthur Vance, of New Albany, who was sentenced to the Floyd County jail for thirty days for petit larceny. Since his incarceration his health has become impaired, and having consumption, hisconfincment was telling on him severely. He was sentenced March 10. Vanco belongs to a good family and can live but a Ishort time, the disease of which he is a victim being hereditary. He is 17 years old. The offense consisted of tho theft of $2. —The test that was made in the growth of the German sugar beet in the soil of Bartholomew County has been made by 1 a Government chemist, and is very satisfactory. The beets produced on the farm of Frank Graves show 14 1-10 per cent, sugar, or 280.20 pounds of sugar per ton. The Government bounty of 2 cents a pound on this showing would be $5.60 a ton. If raw sugar can be sold for 2 cents per pound, the product of one, ton would be $8.40, after paying the bounty. There will be a large amount of the French sugar-beet grown this season. It is estimated that at least four tons of these beets can be produced on one acre, which will make the crop profitable, and may tend to levolutionize the agricultural interest in that part of the State and establish a factory there. —Rather a romantic marriage occurred at Russiaville recently. James R. Pollock, a wealthy farmer and widower, living two miles west of that city, was married to Mrs. Theresa' Hudson, widow of the late William R. Hudson, and daughter of Hon. James Thompson, of Irving- ! ton. The ceremony was performed at high noon by Rev. Hayden Rayburn, at his residence in Kokomo, after which the wedding party drove to the country home of the groom, where they were cordially received by the members of the united families, consisting of several children from each. The romantic features of the match are as follows: Twenty-five years ago James R. Pollock and Theresa Thompson were lovers, and their troth was plighted; but owing to some slight misunderstanding they drifted apart and each married other companions and each raised families. The last courtship was short and sweet, being rapidly ( developed Into a happy consummation. I —A strange coincident occurred in the ' death of two brothers, John and Daniel i French, farmers, of Vigo County. Daniel died suddenly one night, and while eating breakfast, the next morning, John fell from his chair and expired instantly. —Thomas Burton, aged 83, one of the oldest inhabitants of Connersville,, died recently. He was a shop-mate with Andrew Johnson in a tailoring establishment in Nashville, Tenn. He also had a trunk given him by ex-Gov. Blue Jeaas Williams.