Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1891 — BEAD ABOUT INDIANA [ARTICLE]

BEAD ABOUT INDIANA

IN THIS COLUMN FULL CF FRESH NEWS. K«sralno<l His Keason—Hoy Accidentally Shut—Kicked by a Horse—Horrible Death of a Five* Year-Old Hoy. —lndiana has 535 acres devoted to floriculture. —Win. Rowe, Dublin, killed by tho cars at Jeffersonville. —Burglars got S2OO in Littcll Bro.’s store, at Ureeusburg. —August Markus suicided with rough on rats, near Oak Hill. —A mad dog was killed at Greensburg, after biting two children. —Salcon licenses have been raised from SSO to $l5O at Mitchell. —Louis H. Frey has been missing from Evansville since March. —Rolling Prairie has $4,400 toward a creamery and cheese factory. —Mrs. Eli Haggard found dead in bed at her house near Morgantown. —James Coroden, of Ellettsville, was wrestling and got one of his legs fractured. —Michael Fciber fell dead while pumping water at his homo near Ureonsburg. —Crawfordsvillo’s going to have a band tournament July 4 and will glvo $225 in prizes. —Dogs to the number of 1,555, including pugs, are wearing license tags in Ifvansville. —J. D. Everly, of Spencer, is in a dangerous condition from being kicked by a vicious marc. —Recent election at Crawfoidsvillo cost $750, and they only had three counci linen to elect. —A barn on tho DeForest farm near Butler, struck by lightning, and four line horses cremated. —Mrs. Permolia Baldwin severely injured by falling down a stairway at her home near Seymour. —William Fountain, a farmer near Bedford, hanged himself in a barn. He was suffering from measles. . —James McHenry was struck by a freight near Romona and instantly killed. He leaves a family of seven. —Thomas F. Patton, of Brown Valley, Montgomery County, claims to be tho possessor of a five-legged calf. —Ex-United States Treasurer Huston has discovered a ledge of fine blue marble on his farm near Connersville. —Mrs. Rev. Malson, New Goshen, had had a needle extracted from her side recently which she swallowed forty years ago. —“Lemon teas” are all tho rage in Jeffersonville, having supplanted Japan, Young Hyson, Gunpowder, and “pink” teas. —Jay Eaton, a prisoner in the county jail at Portland for burglary, while assisting the sheriff outside the jail, made his escape. —Joseph Noonan, a laborer employed in Jaap’s stone yard at Fort Wayne, was crushed to death by a falling stone. Ho leaves a wife. —Mrs. Rose Early got judgment at Seymour, against the O. & M. Railroad Company for $5,000 —husband killed by the cars in 1887. —Christopher Bader, a Jeffersonville boy with too many thumbs on one hand, underwent a surgical operation and parted with one. —Forty Scottish Rite Masons were initiated at Fort Wayne, to the mystic shrine. Two hundred Indianapolis Masons attended the exercises. —A,series of lawsuits between a son and his fatner. which has been in In tho Montgomery County Court for ten years, has at last ended. Tho son froze to death last winter and his body lies in a pauper’s grave. —Melvin Bennett, the Jeffersonville boy who was shot a year ago. and who still carries the bullet beneath the skull, prefers constant suffering to taking the risk of having the skull reamed out and the ball removed. —John Mock, wife and daughter excommunicated from Muncie Baptist Church because Mrs. Mock claims to have recently discovered that she possesses strong powers as a spiritual medium. Pioneer members of the church and representative citizens. —A strange caso is reported from Michigan City, where Henry Boyle, a life-term convict, has recovered his reason after being a raving maniac for manv years. Boyle was received from Fort Wayne for a most atrocious murder. After being confined several months he became deranged. For two years it was found impossible to keep an article of clothing on him. He has now seemingly recovered, and protests his innocence of the crime for which lie was convicted. —At Medoria, Vance Hunsucker, a boy of 7 years, was shot and killed, the whole left side of his face and neck being torn off. The Coroner’s verdict in the case showed that he came to his death accidently, at the hands of parties unknown. At the time of the shooting the boy was in a room of his father’s house with two little boys of about his own age, and they are so badly frightened they can give u o account of the affair. The child’s parents are almost wild with grief. —A bitter fight is going on over the naming of a postoffice recently located at the station east of Elizabethtown. —Amos Hudson, who cut his throat at Wingate, was insane and imagined a mob was after him. May recover. —Joseph Micner and Perry Wagner, of Wakarusa. met in Nappanee and swapped horses. On the way home Micner’s horse reared up and kicked over the dash-board, planting it’s hoofs in Micner’s abdomen. The latter died that night.

—Frank and Harris Burn 9 saw* d their way out of Jeffersonville Penitentiary. —An accident occurred four miles northeast of Greeuwood, in which the 5-year-old son of David Carney met a horrible death. Mr. Carney was using a roller on his ground, and, wanting a drink of water, left the team in charge of the boy. While his father was absent tho boy placod the lines over his head and started the horses. The lines caught under the roller, drawing his head to the ground and against the roller, choking him to death. —A sad case of accidental poisoning occurred at Huron. Charles King, a boy about 13 years old. with four dr five companions, spent the afternoon in tho woods. While there they ate some kind of wild roots, which, it is supposed, were wild parsnips. None of the lads experienced any bad effect until after 6 o’clock in the evening, when two or three were taken violently ill. Young King was a stiffened corpse in less than two hours, but hla compaions have recovered from the effects of the poisonous herbs. —A beautiful oolitic limestone monument, ten feet high, and well proportioned, with proper inscriptions, was dedicated ten miles west of Greensburg, as the center of population in tho United States. Tho monument is surrounded bv a court, or open space, and on the eastern face is the following inscription. Center of Population of tho United States, 1890, 35 degrees 32 minutes and 53 seconds West Longitude, 39 degreos 11 minutes and 50 seconds North Latitude. Erected by Chicago Herald. —Numbers of fish are being found dead and dying in White River, near Matinsville, and tho river banks are lined with buzzards, feeding on the bodies. People who have examined t he fish say dynamite cannot have been tho cause. It is claimed the fish are poisoned by filth thrown in tho river at Indianapolis. Some, however, say tiiat dynamite is being used, regardless of tho law, and it is certain that explosions are frequently heard about daylight. The Fish Commissioner’s attention will bo called In this direction. —As the south-bound through freight train entered Flat Rock bridge near Columbus, tho engineer, Rar Bennett, was horrified at seeing a man step upon the center of the track, only a hundred feet away, and deliberately lay down. The danger whistle was sounded, but to no purpose. The man’s head was severed from his body, over which tho entire train of thirty cars passed. The unfortunate man was Rost Test, and his homo was in Jennings county, near North Vernon. He Is a slnglo man and is said to have grown despondent over a love affair.

—Tho 5-vcar-old son of James Miller, residing near Round Illil, met a horrible death by hanging himself hi the door of a granary. The door was made to slip up and down, and it fell down after tho child had put his head through, holding him fast. The boy struggled hard to free himself, and in his efforts knocked the measure from under his feet. This left him hanging by the neck and soon life was extinct. After his mother had missed him for two hours, she found him in his awful position, cold in death. In his efforts to release himself, the boy had knocked ull tho skin from his knees and otherwise bruised hlinself. —Conrad Morgan beat his wgy from Dublin to Richmond on a freight train, to see Forepaugli’s circus, and after tho show he was trying to beat his way back. It was dark, and Morgan leaped from tho train to avoid arrest. It happened to be on the bridge, nearly seventy feet to the water where he jumped. Tho train was stopped and word sent back to look for his dead body, but he had struck some soft dirt in tho side of the bluff, and rolled, perhaps, sixty feet to where he was found unconscious. Ho had sustained only a fractured wrist aiid a few bruises, and after a night in St. Stephen’s Hospital was able to be sent home. —A large pin-oak log was being sawed at Jesse Cox’s saw-mill, at Seymour when the saw struck some hard substance. The engine was stopped, und the side of the log was chopped into, and a wliolo horse-shoe was found, tho outer end of which had been struck by the saw. The tree had been sawed down in tho old fair grounds in the northeast part of the city. The shoo was located about three feet from the end of tho log, and there were twenty-six distinct yearly growths over the outside part of the shoe. The outside of the tree was smoothly grown over, and there was nothing to indicate the hidden shoe and save an indistinct snare In the bark. —At the Lake Erie and Western railroad bridge across White River, just east of Muncie, an accident occurred that will likely cause the death of Daniel Ferguson, of Lafayette. The bridge is a covered trestle structure, high enough to permit a man passing safely under it standing on top a box-car. Ferguson was standing on a high car, and as the train rushed into the bridge he was struck in the face. He tell insensible to tho top of the car, from where he was in the act of rolling off when caught by the other brakeman on the train. The young man’s condition is quite serious, with his face so badly mashed that his friends could not recognize him. —Martin Griner, a one time wealthy and prominent citizen of Logansport, shot and killed his mistress, Mrs. Anna Keister, and then blew out his own brains. Left a wife and family. —Spartansburg citizens have met and passed resolutions calling on tho jury to do its duty in the trial of Charles Kenny, the tramp who is held for the murder of Farmer Morgan a few days ago. The atmosphere is full Of lynch talk around Winchester and the jail is being guarded night and day.