Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1891 — THE APRIL SHOWERS [ARTICLE]

THE APRIL SHOWERS

BRING BRIGHT FLOWERS AND INDIANA NEWS. Extensive Sheep Ranch in Jackson County —Oaktown Balded by Thieves—Greencastle Attorney Victimized —Found Dead in the Woods—White Caps at Fairland. —Rockville will soon be able to see by electric light. —lndiana has 7,000 young men in the saloon business. —Martinsyille has a new kindergarten training school. —Another splendid gas well was developed near Knightstown. —Mrs. John Fillion, one of the oldest citizens of Bedford, is dead. —Evansville painters strike, for 30cents an hour and eight-hour days. —Herman Gottlage, Dubois County, suicided by jumping into a well. —City of Delphi brings action against the Bowen estate for unpaid taxes. —Terre Haute has secured a place In the Northwestern Base Ball League. —Wm. Songer, Attica, teamster, found dead under a wagon in his stable yard. —Northern Indiana Editorial Association meets in South Bend June 11 and 12. —Fort Wavne will erect two new school buildings this summer, to cost 520,000. —South Bend attaches the barbarous ball and chain to prisoners while cleaning the streets. —Ephraim Hearshley, his wife and child, all died in less than two weeks at Greensburg. —South Bend thinks of establishing a sanitarium after the plan of that at Mt. Clemmons, Mich. —Francis Lawrence died at Wabash from injuries received in an accident in car shops there. —F. A. Helene, of Hobart, was instantly killed in a clay pit, by the bank caving in on him. —Alox. McPheeters, aged 76, one of the oldest and wealthiest farmers in Vigo County, is dead. —Tipton is to have a Prohibition and Alliance paper. It will be edited by Mr. Rose, of Minneapolis. —Several prominent citizens of Boone County have been indicted for returning false lists for taxation.

—Mrs. Osborne, wife of Judge A. L. Osborne, is dead. She wars one of the pioneer residents ot LaPoKA —A man at Crawfordsville applied to the township trustee for enough money to procure a marriage license. —Thirty girls employed in Redelsheim’s overall factory at Fort Wayne struck for an increase in wages. —Two tramps called at the homo of George Krug, at Crawfordsville, and made his wife prepare them a meal. —An old landmark, in the shape of a log house, one of the first built in the city of Jeffersonville, is being torn down. —Andrew Masser, Fort Wayne, sues the Nickel Plate Railroad for SIO,OOO damages—injured in a wreck at South Whitley. —As the Pennsylvania Central express was passing through Memphis a number of stones were thrown through the windows. —lndiana railroads, it is said, will operate on a lower per cent, of their gross earnings this year than in any year of their history. —The trustees of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home, at Knightstown, are makarrangements to drill another gas well at that institution. —At New Albany, P. J. Roberts, a switchman on the J., M. & 1., was fatally crushed between the bumpers while coupling cars. —Recently the 5-year-old son of John Delacroix, living near Logan’s Corner, was bitten by a strange dog. The child died of hydrophobia. —The body of Lewis McElfresh, a wood-chopper, 65 years old, was found in the woods south of Marion. The cause of death is unknown.

—The prosecution of W. E. Grant and Dr. James Blackburn for alleged attempted grave robbery at Jeffersonville closed with an acquittal. —Fred Wensel, Fort Wayne shoemaker, missing with lots of money in his pockets. Two toughs, with him when last seen, also missing. —The City Council of Crawfordsville has closed a contract for the machinery with which to opci ate the new electric light they are putting in. —The Orange County Bank, at Paoli, has been incorporated, with a capital of 825,000. John T. Stout is president and William T. Hicks cashier. r- Minijie Russel, 19, Terre Haute, sues Wesley Brown, 55, Caroil County farmer, for breach of promise. Interesting developments looked for. —W. L. Caldwell, a traveling salesman for Schofield, Schurman & Teagle, of Indianapolis, in stepping from a car at Terre Haute, fell and broke his leg. —A prominent fruit raiser of Montgomery County says that the fruit buds are safe, and prospects for an abundant crop were never more favorable. —There is a hydrophobia scare in Clark County. A flock of sheep belonging to George Brown became affected with the malady and had to be killed. —The general store which has been doing business in the interest of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association, at Monrovia, for some time, has closed out —Wabash College has received 85,000 from William S. Hubbard, of Indianapolis, to be invested and the proceeds to be used in endowing the James Thompson professorship for the chair of botany, and 810,000 has been received from the Jones estate in Chicago, to be used in purchasing books for the Daniel A. Jones alcove in the library.

—A new union railway station will be erected at Terre Han to this spring. —John and Eliza Allen, of Greencastle, aged 78 and 76, respectively, are seeking divorce in the court. —Sarah Sizdom, of Windfall, unmarried, and fifty years of fge, was found dead in her bed. Heart trouble is supposed to have been the cause of her death. —The straw-board works, at Noblesville, has beaten the world’s record by turning out an average of over a ton an hour during a continuous run of thirtysix hours. —The New Castle Creamery Company is the name of a now manufacturing industry at Now Castle, with a capital stock of 860,000, which will bo put in operation at once. —Marshall Boring, 43 years of ago, was found <«ead in his room in Rushville. Ho had been subject to epileptic fits since his childhood, and it is believed •that during a fit he strangled to death. —Peter Endris, a Floyd County farmer, lost 88,000 in the Schwartz bank failure at Louisville. His loss caused him great anxiety, which resulted in a stroke of paralysis, and there is little hope of his recovery.

—A son of Edward Dew, living near Greencastle, was in the act of shooting a squirrel, when a distressing accident befell him. The barrel of his gun bursted, and a piece of it struck him in tho eye, destroying the sight. —Madison County township assessors can’t find competent men willing to assist in assessing property under tho new tax law. Say 83 per day isn’t enough pay considering tho amount of abuse they’ll have to take. —Coroner Zimmermann held an inquest on one Charles Cotton, of Winchester. who died suddenly while at supper, in the Eastern Insane Hospital at Richmond, and found that he was choked to death by his food. —White Caps are alleged to have whipped a man named Baker at Fairland. Ho bad just returned from serving a two years’ term in tho penitentiary, and was following certain business mon and seeking to do them bodily harm for the part they took in the case when he was tried for murder. After the whipping he was released on condition that ho leave the county and never return.

—Thomas Kennedy, of Martinsville, has invented and patented a mail sack that does away with tho strap and staples. The manner of fastening tho sack is much simpler than any device known, and the government officials have asked Mr. Kennedy for a model of it that they may consider tho advisability of substituting it for tho sack now in use. Mr. Kennedy has been postal clerk for several years on the Big Four railway, between Martinsville and Fairland.

—A year ago on the 19th of last October, tho east-bound express on the Wabash Railroad was thrown from tho track and badly wrecked at Kellers, Wabash County, a switch having been thrown by a lad named Willie Marquis, who was put off tho train and thus sought revenge. The engineer and fireman were badly hurt, but their Injuries were not considered dangerous. Tho engineer recovered, but the fireman, Charles Dickson, of Andrews, whose spino was hurt, grew worse, and, after lingering over a year, died. Young Marquis was tried for train-wrecking in March, 1890, and sentenced to one year in the Wabash County jail. He was released only last week, his term having expired. —The State Agricultural and Industrial board has been appointed by Secretary of State Matthews and Auditor Henderson. Tho members of the new board are as follows, one being appointed from each Congressional district, and two for the State at large: At large—Michael A. Downing and Daniel P. Erwin.

First District —Samuel Hargrove. Second —John L. Green. Third—Warder W. Stevens. Fourth—David L. Thomas. Fisth —Aaron V. Pendleton. Sixth—lsham Sedgwick. Seventh—Henry C. G. Bals. Eighth—Thomas J. Mann. Ninth—David A. Coulter. Tenth —Lebbcus B. Custer. Eleventh —James B. Connor, jr. Twelfth—lsaiah B. McDonald. Thirteenth—John C. Knoblock. —Mr. Charles Smith, an extensive wool-grower of Hamilton County, Ohio, has bought nine farms near Sparksvilie, Carr Township, in the western part of Jackson County, aggregating over seven hundred acres of hill land, which he designates as the New Oklahoma sheep ranch. He has contracted for the erection of a large two-story frame dwelling and a large barn. He has 7,500 highgrade wool sheep, which he will bring to this State. His brother, John Smith, also a rich sheep-grower, will buy and stock a large ranch in the same vicinity. This is the beginning of sheep husbandry on a large scale in Jackson County, the hilly portions of which are worth but little for raising grain. These men are Republicans, have faith in the American protective tariff, and are assured of a ready market for their clip of wool, as the Seymour woolen-mills use the woo) from 100,000 sheep annually. —Frank Pearce, farmer near New Castle, swindled out of a 8350 horse by Bailey & Parr, Greenfield. They gave him a note secured by morgage on real estate to which they had no title. —The One-hundred and twenty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry will hold their first reunion at Rushville on Tuesday, Aug. 35. All comrades are requested to send name, company and postoffice address of themselves and all surviving comrades of whom they know tc William S. Kaier, Andersonville,