Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — IF YOU ARE IN QUEST [ARTICLE]

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OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happenings of the Week— Crimes au<l Casualties suicides— Deaths—Weddings, Etc. —Stone pile to be abolished at Crawford:»/ille. —lndiana has more mile tracks than; any State in the Union. —lnfant child of J. P. Eradficld fatally scalded at Noblesviile. —Greenbury Hughes fell from a tree: at Madison, fatally injured. —Frank Ferry thrown from a buggy in a runaway at Columbus, fatally hurt. —Mrs. Thomas Swanger gored by a bull near Washington, will die from injuries. —Wesley Rountree, a prominent citizen* of Montgomery County, died at his home near Alamo. —William Everson, an aged citizen of' Port Fulton, died from eating too many young radishes. —There are 11, children in Montgomery County between the ages of six and twenty-one years. —Mayor Harrison, just elected at. Shelbyville, refused an increase of satery, talks of resigning. —The Young Men’s Christian Association at Richmond reports 511,000 subscribed toward its proposed new building. —Alameda Gallegher.au aged and deaf woman, was struck by a switch-engine in the P., C., C. & St. L. yards at Jeffersonville. —White Warrell, of Owen, was attacked by an angry swarm of bees and came nearly being sti*fg to death he was rescued. —A cow-bell made by hand fifty yearsi.go is being worn by a cow of A. H. Nutter, near Martinsville, The bell teas large as a six-quart pail. —Will Davis, a Jefferson ville telegraph operator, has received notification that he had been left 530,000 by an aunt whohas just died in Pennsylvania. —John Osborne, of Elkhart, fell dead upon the appearance of a vivid flash of lightning. The Coroner says he died, from fright, not from an electric shock. —Miss Florence Shearer, 20 years old, fell from the steamer Bluewing atEvansville and was drowned. She was. returning from a pleasure trip up Green River.

—During a pleasure trip down theOhio River, on the City of Chartiors, S. A. Culbertson, of New Albany, shot and killed a bald eagle that measured live feet from tip to tip. —lsaac Wells, a colored horse-thief, tried to sell a stolen animal to farmer McCullough, near Jeffersonville, but the latter marched the negro to town at the point of a gun-barrel. —James Perkins and William Kern were killed in a boiler explosion near Bedford; while George Hayden, the green engineer, and Edward Dusard cannot, recover. Jas. L. Dillman, Joseph Kern, and the Dusard brothers escaped with slight ihjurics. —Miss Anna Harper and Miss Denna Haundehild of Indianapolis, wagered a. box of gloves that they could climb tothe top of the smoke-stack of the cottou mills around which the scaffolding still fitood, 120 feet in height. The feat was a dangerous one, even for an athlete, but both successfully accomplished it. —The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company ha& brought suit at New Castle, to enjoin the county officers and the. corporation officers of Knightstown from collecting the tax levied upon the road to assist in building the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan extension through the county. The Panhandle’s share of the tax is somewhat less than .SI,OOO. —At Goldsmith, a small station west of Muncie, a Lake Erie and Western freight-train brakeman caused a terrific explosion on his train and came near losing his life. Iu the train was an. oiltank. The young man, wishing to know if it was empty, lifted the cover from thetop and placed his lantern in the .lank. The gas exploded, blowing him into a-wheat-field fifty feet distaut. He was so badly burned that it is thought lie will lose his eyes. The car was weecked. —The Montgomery County Fair Association will set apart Tuesday, of fair week, for the children. In the declamation contest there will be prizes of $3 $2 for boys and girls. For best original map of the Uited States, $1; second, 50 cents. Best map of Indiana, $1; second, 50 cents. Best map of montgernery County, 50 cents. Best diagram of a. sentence containing not less than fifteen words, sl, second, 50 cents. Best exhibit of penmanship, $1; second, 50 cents.

—The application of Mrs. Wm. Fields, of Elkhart, for a divorce from her husband, will result in a highly interesting divorce suit. They have always lived together as husband and wife, but Fields claims they were never married, and the supposed wife will base her fight to establish a legal claim to Mr. Pields as her husband on the relation they have borne to each other for so long, and the fact that she has always been recognized ashis wife. A highly interesting constitutional case is expected. —A wealthy Daviess County farmer named Christopher Weigler, left his home, telling his wife he intended killing a hawk. Instead, he went behind his barn and blew his brains out with a. musket. No cause was assigned. —Car inspector William F. Abbott,, thirty years of age, was caught between the bumpers of two cars at the Union Station, near Indianapolis, and fatally injured. He was taken to the hospital, where his death occurred, after three’ hours of terrible suffering.