Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1891 — THE WAY THINGS RUN [ARTICLE]

THE WAY THINGS RUN

IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STA I^^mJL^ D,ANA - Things Which Have Lately Happened Within Its Binslers—Some Pleasant and Some Sad Beading. ‘ V ■ V‘ <'» * ’ V' >’ .Nt '- J .*•, ,' -I Northern Indiana Fdltorlal Association. The annual session of the Northern Indiana Editorial Association was held at South Bend. The following officer# wore elected: Ed. A. Jernogan, of the Mishawaka Enterprise, president; W. A. Beane, of the Goshen Democrat, first vice-president; J. C. Howitt, of the Lagrange Register, second vice-president; C. C. Musselman, of the Stark County Ledger, treasurer; E. G. Thompson of the Ligonier Leader, secretary; Louis McDonald, of the Plymouth Democrat, corresponding secretary. The following delegates and alternates to the National Convention were chosen: Delegates— Thos. A. Starr, Goshen Daily News; R. H. Rerick, Lagrange Standard; Charles D. Tillo, Fort Wayne Newspaper Union, and C. 11. Chase, Elk hart Review. Alternates —William A. Beane, Goshen Democrat; Frank W. Willis, Waterloo Press; G. 11. Hamilton, Thornton Argus, and J. E. Sutton, Logansport Daily Rei>ortcr. The Convention adjourned to meet at Plymouth, on the second Thursday in June, 1892.

Minor State Items. —The Now Providence Courier has suspended publication. —.John Dottgen, a German carpenter, fell two stories and was killed. —The Circuit Court at Columbus is forced to hold night sessions from rush of business, —Prof. J. C. Eagle has been elected the fifth time as Superintendent of the Shelbyville schools. —Knightstown’s keeping right up with the procession—going to have electric lights very shortly. —Richard Stoddard was fatally injured by tailing slate at the Brazil Blockcoal Company’s mine. —The wheat crop around Martinsville has been attacked by the “midge,” but farmers are not apprehensive. —James Floyd, of Portland, obtained a verdict for SftOO against Dr. W. C. Horn, of Camden, for malpractice. —A gang of convicts, digging in a sewer trench at Jeffersonville, came nearly being smothered during a cave-in. —Over SIO,OOO has been spent in a row over the naming of a new postoffice, recently established in Bartholomew County. —Dick Walsh, of Goshen, was tried, convicted and taken to the Penitentiary within thirty-six hours after committing a bujsgiary. —County Treasurer Ramsey, of Montgomery County, has notified the Midland Railroad Company that $1,788 of taxes must bo paid at once. —The Montgomery County Board of Assessors finds that many farmers are putting their land in at $lO per acre less valuation than it is really worth. —The Petersburg News says: “With this issue vol. 8 commences. The News has no apologies nor promises to make. If you don’t like it, don't take it." —Jacob Freed, who has been refused a Iscense to soil liquor at Now Market, has fitted up a room in elegant style, and iays ho will sell on a Government license. —A smooth young man with an alleged headache was given a room in a Jeffersonville hotel during the day-time, and managed to escape with a quantity of Jewelry and other valuables belonging to absent boarders.

—John Douglass, aged 18» was instantly killed at Logansport, by the accidental discharge of a target gun, which ho held by the muzzle while seated in Hardy’s oil-mil). The ball, a 22-eallbcr, passed through his lieart. It is supposed that the trigger caught in the step an which ho was seated. —A most distressing accident occurred given miles north of Vincennes. A little son of A. J. Flock climbed upon the wheel of W. F. Toop’s peddling wagon, which was stopped in front of the residence of the child’s parents. When the wagon started the child was thrown to the ground. The wheel passed over it, crushing it to death. —Vardfman Byrd, the oldest and wealthiest resident of Johnson Township, Brown County, was crushed to death recently. He was out with a wagon and two horses, and a heavy rain coming up, ho drove into the large barn 3f Mr. Letzer, a neighbor, for shelter. The horses became fractious in the barn, and in attempting to get away dragged Mr. Byrd under a cross beam, crushing him to death. He was 74 years old. —At Montpelier, Joseph Jolllson, bartender for W. W. Bonge, went into the cellar to change faucets in beer kegs. He lighted a match and opened the refrigerator door, when the gas that had been leaking exploded with terrific force, throwing him fifteen feet against the cellar wall, setting his clothes on fire and burning the hair from his head. His hands and face were burned in a frightful manner. The explosion demolished the refrigerator, breaking the glass front, cracking the brick wall and otherwise injuring the building. —Mrs. Minerva Lewis, New Albany, claims to have been damaged $2,000 worth by being put oft a Pennsylvania Company’s train, and sues for that amount. —The Jeffersonville Council was a tie on the question of standard or solar time for that metropolis, and the reform Mayor said: “If the sun’s good enough to see by, its good enough for me to goto bed and get up by.” Accordingly he voted for solar time, and now everybody wifi have to reset clocks again. " ’ 1/