Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1891 — HELD UP TO THE LIGHT [ARTICLE]

HELD UP TO THE LIGHT

IS THE DAILY LIFE OF MANY IN" DIANANS, Woman Burned to Death—A Pony In a We 11—930,000 Sensational Suit »t KvonsVlllo—Deaths. Accidents, Etc. —Laporte complains of bad streets. —Y M. C. A. organized at Vincennes. —Delphi’s waterworks will cost. $33,000. —New Albany has 7,501 school children. —Marion bootblacks have formed a union. —Anderson’s now rolling lihill will emply 250 men. —Big light against the demon rum is on at Mitchell. —Crawfordsvillo has lost 619,000 by fire the past year. —A cat at Vincennes has adopted three young squirrels. —Lewis Gckeler, Lancaster, fatally injured by a horse kick. —Farmer Stevens, near Walkorton, has struck oil on ills place. -—Pern people can’t decide Whether or not to pen up the town cow. —Rev. John Stuck committed suicide by hanging at, Boundary Gity. —Mrs. Blondcll nearly died at Brazil from an overdose of laudanum. —A. P. Craig, train robber, given ton years and 0500 fine at Laporte. —Tho Edinburg ice-plant will soon commence the manufacture of ice. —Ground has been broken for tho now Theological Hail of DePauw University. —Stephen Jenks’ house burned down at Dana. Loss 62,000, insurance $1,200. —Columbus street car line to bo extended out to Orinoco, fashionable suburb. —Crawfordsvillo will issue $30,000 worth of bonds to pay for electric light plant. —Elkhart Globe tissue paper works burned down. Loss $30,000; insurance $15,000. —lsaac Miller, aged 87, and Sarah Graves, aged 79, were married at Ladoga. —A Piqua, Ohio, firm is arranging to manufacture farm implement handles at Columbus. —Minerva Cross, a maiden lady 63 years old, was found dead in her bed at Rushville. —A farmer’s wife in Putnam County has hatched 463 chickens by incubation this spring. —Chas. Combs feel from a kitchen loft at Reddington. nose broken and otherwise disfigured. —C. H. Hancock, Seymour, clipped pounds of wood from a 1-year-old Scuthdown sheep. —Claude Murrer, 6 years old, horribly bitten by a dog at Fortvi e, is threatened with hydrophobia. —The Prison South contains 599' inmates, the largest number since Warden Patten assumed charge. —Louisa Lows, of Manchester, on her 87th birthdav,fell and frolic her hip bone, from which she soon died. —A child of Alfred Mead’s Daviess County, was frightened by a hog and is going blind from the shock. —Oliver Wood received the naval cadetship appointment at the competitive examination held at Tipton. —Joseph Bangard sues Alonzo Smith for $30,000 damages at Evansville — alienated his wife’s affection. —Thomas Ster'nberry, a hostler at Brazil, was cornered and kicked into insensibility by a vicious horse. —Outbreak of hydrophobia and measles in Clay County. One child died with measles and several more dangerously sick. —Wm. Smelser, a Jcffersor.villo telegraph operator, home from New Orleans, tells that he helped massacre the Mafia gang. —Standard Oil Company’s building a large plant at Columbus for storing refined oil for distribution in southern part of State. —Johnny Keimnitz, 12 years old, killed by the cars at South Bend. His sister was killed on same road a short time ago, —A Crawfordsville woman rushed Into her burning dwelling and rescued a canary bird, thereby receiving several ugly burns. —Joseph Banyard, of Evansville, claims 630,000 damages from Alonzo Smith as the price of his (Banyard’s) wife’s affections. —Corydon is proud of a broad-spread-ing elm under whose branches, tradition says, a session of the Indiana territorial legislation was once held. —There is a married woman in Montgomery County who does carpenter work, hangs paper, digs cellars, etc., besides doing all her own housework. —Jackson Rust, of Jeffersonville, found an Indian skeleton in the creek, it having been washed down during high waters from an old burying-ground. —Walter Wisehart, Smartsburg gallant, escorting Tessie McFeeley home from raeetin’, accidentally shot her with a weapon he carried for her defense. —The mother of Dr. Claire Taylor, of Peru, requested that her heart, hands, and feet bo preserved In alcohol and taken to France after her death, and tho doctor has left Peru to carry out the instructions. —The name of Neifc Providence has been changed to Borden back to New Providence and over the fence again to Borden within a few months. —Midland-agent Mooreland, Lapel, concealed 660 in a waste basket for safety—janitor emptied contents of basket into a fire, burned up money and all. —Ah Leon, Chinese laundryman, Evansville, 50 years old, ugly as mud, fell desperately in love with a handsome young lady in that city and was arrested for dogging her footsteps.

—The first accident sine# the electric street railroad went into operation twd years ago, happened in Bichmoud last week. A little boy was pushed under a car by a girl playmate, being ground to pieces. —Miss Lizzie Barnett, Crawfordsville Salvation Army soldier, kicked by a mule, declares she’s going to die; doctors say she isn’t; she knows better, she is, too, ’canso she had a “death warning” just a short time ago. * —At Greens burg the 4-ycar-old daughter of John Lawrence fell in a spring and was drowned. There was only about eight inches of water, but tho child was unable to recover herself, and was dead when the mother found her. —Aaron B. Scott, one of the pioneer merchants of Peru, and who was prominently identified with its advancement for forty years, died of paralysis, aged 76 years. He was one of tho oldest Knights Templars in Sforthorn Indiana. —Quito a number of “queer” half-dol-lars are being circulated in and around Edinburg. They made their appearance the first time within the past few days. They bear dates of 1854 and 1856, and are light in weight and color. They are also easily mutilated. —A colored man in Crawfordsville, besides carrying a rabbit’s footandother voodoo articles, has lately secured tho dried hand of a child, which he keeps in his vest pocket. Ho secured this human relic in tho West and considers it a charm more powerful than the incantations of a voodoo doctor. —Henry Harris has twenty acres of land in German Township,Shelby County, on which, twenty years ago, Henry Maley purchased 100 lino walnut troes for 03,300. Last week Maloy purchased seventy-five walnut trees on this samo tract for 01,600. There is yet 01,000 worth of ash and oak timber on tho tract. —Bedford can now boast of three banks. A now bank, organized under the State law, has just been incorporated under tho name of tho Citizens’ Bank of Bedford, with a capital stock of 050,000. Coi. A. C. Voris is President, and J. R. Voris, Cashier. Tho directors are W. 11. Martin, John Basse, F. D. Norton, and J. R. Voris. —Wm. Wrightman, living near Middletown, who has kept so,oral hundred bushels of wheat stored in his barn for a year, while removing tho wheat for market, found an old poeketbook containing $11,500 in gold coin and paper curroncy. How the money came there is a mystery. Tho money lias been placed in tho banic at Middlotown. —Rev. Gee, Attorney M. G. Rhoads, Dr. M. L. Hall, and several other prominent citizens of Newport went to tho Wabash River fishing. They tied their teams some distanco from tho river, and when they returned one of Attornoy Rhoads’ fine ponies was missing. After searching some time tho animal was discovered at tho bottom of an old well, into which he had fallen. The pony was small and easily hauled out of tho well, slightly worse off for ills fall. —The Attorney General lias been asked: “Is a convict, who is granted a new trial by the Supreme Court, and returned to his County, entitled to sls as provided by the Jaw?” Green Smith’s opinion says: “The law says that every convict who shall have served six months or more when discharged shall bo furnished with sls. A convict )s not discharged when a now trial is granted; the custody of the prisoner is simply shifted from the warden of tho prison to tho County Sheriff, and In a Jegal sense is not discharged.”

—Tho Episcopal minister at Crawfordsvillo was awakened tho other night by woeful yelps of a dog. A search revealed tho fact that the dog had fallen Into a dry well under his house. Ho planned and carried out several schemes to get tho dog out in vain. As a last resort he got a rope and made a lasso on the end. After a few minutes’ time ho got the head of the dog in tho lasso and then pulled the dog out. The animal was almost choked to death when he reached the top of the well, but soon recovered breath and started for home on the run. » —Great excitement has boon caused at Burrows by a gang of so-called White Caps, who have been trying to terrorize the community for the last eight months. A mob has been meeting secretly at various times recently, and the other night collected at midnight and aroused from bed some of the best citizens. They have for some time been sending “White Cap’’ letters threatening to burn and do bodily barm. They threaten to burn tho Wabash Railroad depot. There is strong talk of a vigilance committee getting in some effective work if this state of affairs continues. —At Muncic, Patrick Ford came within a hair’s breadth of losing his life. Constable J. K. Miller called at Ford’% homo to subpoenea him. The little Irishman was intoxicated and refused to go. As Miller took hold of him Ford pulled a revolver, but the officer was too quick and flred first. The ball hit Ford over the left eye and miraculously glanced off, plowing a furrow to the ear. Miller, supposing he bad blown out the man’s brains, gave himself up. While going to look after the dead man the horrified officers met Ford on his way to demand the arrest of Miller for attempted murder. —John Kohback, fatally Injured in a runaway accident at Fort Wayne. —A man living near Jamestown would not go to the funeral of his daughter because she did not die at home. —John Evered, of Peru, hid S2OO in greenbacks in an old stove, and his wife set fire to the rubbish without realizing its contents. -rThe Supreme Court has affirmed the decision giving the widow of brakeman David L. Pearey, of North Vernon,. SB,OOO damages.