Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — STRICTLY FOR INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

STRICTLY FOR INDIANA.

TAKE THE TIME TO READ ABOUT A GREAT STATE. I Injured While Foiling Logs—Co-Opera-tive Cheese factory— Paroled by tho Governor—New Albany No oil a Urick— Sudden Heaths. —Frankfort ox poets soon to set free delivery. —The usual fee for a spree in New Al.bany is 50.50. —A child at Fortville caught diphtheria from a cat and died. —Total sales of plants by Indiana florists last year $276,009.58. —Lulu Preefcr is tho second woman notary public in Clark County. —Clark County has twenty-three onearmed persons—all self-sustaining. —Tho Methodists are preparing to build a new church in New Albany. —The New Albany Council expects to increase the salaries of all city officers. —Charles Strand fell into an elevator shaft at Michigan City and was Killed —Dr. D. Pugin, of South Bend, predicts the world will come to an end in tho year 2062. —Andy Brown, prominent farmer, disappeared from his home near Martinsville. —They can't make bricks fast enough at New Albany to supply building demands. —Kokomo Strawboard Company will be prosecuted for polluting waters of the Wildcat. —Sherman Perkins, of Company E., Sixth Ohio Infantry, was found crazy wandering in Rising Sun. —Six-year-old Frank Fox waded oyer his head in St. Mary’s River at Fort Wayne, and was drowned. —Norton Brown, one of the wealthiest farmers in Floyd County, died at his home near Galena, aged 74. —A firemen’s tournament will be one of the features of tho Fourth of July celebration at Crawfordsville. —John Baker, Now Albany, took sugar of lead for cpsora salts and was retained on earth with great difficulty. —An unknown man about 70 years of age was run down by the Big Four eastbound passenger train at Colfax. —Conduit system for electric railways invented by Win. Bradley, Fort Wavne, awakening interest the country over. •—Women are not permitted to sell ribbons and corsets from house to house In New Albany without a city license. —Rev. J. W. Bird, of Charlestown, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church at Seymour. —Frank Bullet, a Claysburg boy, while being chewed up by a vicious bull dog, was rescued by a large Newfoundland dog. —Frank Smith, a traveling man of Indianapolis, drove off a bridge near Crawfordsville, and had bis thigh broken.

—A man in Montgomery County, when his child died, made inquiry if ho could get a second-hand coffin cheaper than a new one. —Tramps near Richmond took a has ket of groceries from a boy named John Johnson and then tied him to a tree in the woods. —Rain or shine, ’Squire Keigwin every day manages to kiss some Kentucky bride and get his name in the paper at Jeffersonville. —There are 207 members In the Crawfordsville Young Men’s Christian Association, which has been organized about four years. —Landlord Burnett, who was euchred out of his hotel at Logansport on a Dakota land deal, has “swapped back” by order of the court. —Aaron Hudson, Montgomery County, who, In attempting to commit suicide, severed his wind-pipe, is able to be up again and at work.

—The Cerealine Manufacturing Company at Columbus is erecting a §37,000 elevator, as a store-house for corn to be used in the manufacture of ccrcaline. —Panhandle Engineer John Manes, of Hartford City, has presented the Soldiers’ Home at Marion with one of the eagles captured at English lake, Porter County. —The §IO,OOO damage suit of Mrs. Elizabeth Gocdeekor, of New Albany, against the Mouon for killing J. B. Goedecker in the wreck near Mitchell, in February, 1890, has been compromised for §3,000. —Florence Boyd one,of the best known men in Clay Township, Wayne County, was perhaps fatally hurt while loading logs on a Pan-Handle car at Grccnsfork. A stake was thrown against his breast with such force as to knock him ten feet, injuring him internally. —At Amboy a peculiar and terrible accident befell Mrs. David Lemon. She started to a neighbor’s, and had walked but thirty yards when she was stricken totally blind. She was taken back home, and an hour later became a raving maniac. Before midnight she was dead. —ln 1825 Mrs. Elizabeth Daugherty reached Bartholomew County by way of Madison, and since that time until the other day had never been out of the county. She went down to Madison to see some relatives that have recenty moved there. She is one of the oldest inhabitants in the county. —Ted Ring, the Montgomery County desperado, who was serving a jail sentence in Parke County for beating his grandfather, broke jail and returned to Crawfordsville, where he was thrown out of a saloon and rearrested.

—Henry Schenk, of Montgomery County, made an attempt to commit suicide by jumping in the creek, but the water was not of sufficient depth, and he will be sent to the insane asylum, where he Lad been undergoing treatment ' „

—.Tames Maham, 50 years old, who was trying to break a colt at Peru, received a bad tall and will die. —Lucinda McKee and Martha Ann Darnell, of Bainbridge, are 81 years of age, and arc twins. They look alike, dress alike, were married within a year of each other, and were widows within three months of caeli other. Mrs. McKee is the mother of sixteen children, and Mrs. Darnell of fourteen.

—S. "Webber Smith, a farmer and stock dealer, residing one mile east of Columbus, recently sold to Eastman & Co., of Jersey Ciiy, 135 head of fat cattlo for $10,964. Ono fat steer wolghed 2,280 pounds. This is tho largest sale o. fat cattlo over made in Bartholomew County. The cattlo wero bought for export. —The 10-yoar-old daughter of Virgil Wolf, living pear Stamper’s Creek, eight miles southeast of Orleans, was burned to death. While tho mother was gone to tho spring for some water the daughter attempted to lift tho tea-kottlo from a hook in the fire-place, when her clothing caught fire and burned her so badly that the flesh fell from the bones. —Charles McMillcn, sent to the Southern prison for two years in March, 1890, from Parke Comity, for larceny, has been paroled by the Governor upon petition of tho court officials and many citizens, Including tho man from whom McMillon stole two revolvers, tho theft for which ho was soutencod. He Is only 17 years old, and was led into crimo by an older man, who is now serving a sentence at Michigan City. • —The better class of people in tho vicinity of Martinsville are determined to put an end to tho wholesale slaughter of lish in White River by dynamite. Thousands are being destroyed in this manner, and tho original sport of polofishing has been almost ruined. Tho other morning Bluoford James was arranged before the Mayor on a charge of fishing with dynamite and pleaded guilty. Ho was finod $lO and costs. Tho officers arc looking for several moro persons who are said to havo been engaged in tho same businoss. —A wood-house wan erected in tho yard of a country school in Montgomery County, and was painted. In a few days a saloon advertisement was painted on tho buildi»g f .and tho trustee promptly painted over it. In a few days an advertisement for a grocery was found on it, and again it was paintod over. Ono morning last weok it was f&und that tho Barnum show-bills had been pasted on the shed, and then all further attempts to keep tho building froo from advertisements were given up. —Seventeen months ago Willie, the 13-year-old son of Louis Affolder, a very prominent and respected citizen of Peru, disappeared, and since then not tho slightest trace has been obtained of his whereabouts, though his father expended a fortune in advertising and in detectlvo agencies. Tho other day Willie came home. Ho had spont his time seeing tho world In all largo cities, as was his intention when he ran away, lie spent tho last seven months In San Francisco; was in Chicago for the first two weeks working as messenger in a police station, during which time tho Chicago Pinkertons had tho case.

—Miss Mary H. Krout, one of tho lady managers of tho World’s Fair Commission from Indiana, had a narrow escape In a runaway in Crawfordsville. She was in a carriage on the way to tho Monon depot to return to Chicago. Tho driver left the horses standing In front of a hotel, and during his absenco tho team started rapidly down the street to tho ’bus stable. Turning tho corner, the wheel struck a telephone polo, and Miss Krout was violently thrown against tho side of tho vehicle. The horses were caught, and as the carriage failed to bo overturned, Miss Krout escaped with nothing worse than a scare and a bad shaking op. —George Mabbitt, a prominent farmer, was instantly killed by lightning while returning homo from Frankfort. Ills little boy occupied tho seat with him in the wagon, and escaped with a slight shock. One of tho horses was killed and the other badly injured. George Mabbitt was a cousin of the four Mabbitt children whose names have been so frequently before the public. Luella Mabbitt was murdered by her lover Green, who was brought back from Texas and lynched a few years ago. The other three children, Orvls, Mont, and Minnio were arrested last winter, charged with murdering Minnie's baby. She was acquitted and the two boys are awaiting thoir trial.

—A dastardly attempt was made to wreck the Pacific express on the Wabash railway,a mile cast of Wabash. A steel rail, lying in a rack at the side of the track,was thrown across the rails in such a manner as to derail any train passing. A huge bowlder, weighing five hundred pounds, was rolled upon the track fivo hundred feet further west. The express, running at the rate of fifty miles an hour, struck the rail, the engineer not perceiving It until he was nearly on it The truck wheels of the locomotive left the track, and ran along the tics for some distance. Fortunately the drivers held the rails, else the entire train would almost certainly have gone down a fortyfoot embankment —While engaged at plastering a highceiling at the Columbus St Denis Hotel, Charles Ross fell to the floor, some fifteen feet below, breaking his right arm and sustaining internal injuries. He will recover. —A student of Wabash College, while riding a bicycle down a hill, struck a man in the back and landed him at the bottom among several dozen eggs, which he was carrying. The student paid §1 for the broken eggs, and the man departed happy.