Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1891 — FROM LAKE TO RIVER. [ARTICLE]

FROM LAKE TO RIVER.

A BIG BATCH OF INTERESTING INDIANA NEWS. Frosh Intelligence from Every Part of the State—Nothing of Interest to Our Beader* Lett Out. —George Bogart, of Marshall County,' had his head cut open and leg torn off by a buzz saw. —The eastern exursion of Indiana newspaper men will start from Frankfort the last of July. —The Western Association of Writers will hold its sixth annual convention at Warsaw July 9 and 10. —Mrs. Anna Thomas, aged 81, and mother of Wilson Thomas, of Muncie, died at her home, in Granville. —James Mulhaney, aged 97 years, died suddenly of cramp colic at his homo near Eckorty, Crawford County. —Robert Mcßride, of Jeffersonville, who was appointed to a cadetship at West Point, has declined the honor. —The County Commissioners of Tipton County have raised tho County Treasurer’s bond from §IOO,OOO to §250,000. —Mary, the 12-year-old daughter of John Miller, fell from a swing at Cedar Beach and broke her neck, resulting in Instant death. —Mrs. Susan Wood Coats, a wealthy lady living at Shelbyville, fell, injuring her hip so badly that she will remain a cripple for life. —Farmer James Armstrong, near Noblesville, carried a gun for rabbits,while mowing grass, and was killed by an accidental discharge. « —William Coughlin, a brakeman on tho Evansville and Richmond Railroad, was caught while making a coupling in the yards at Seymour, and his hip badly mashed. —At Desota on the Lake Erie and Western Railway, Henry Jones, aged 20, fell from a moving box-ear and had both legs mashed off at the abdomen. Ho died shortly after. —To protect themselves from petty pilfering the farmers residing near Silver Grove have organized themselves into a neighborhood police force and patrol tho country roads nightly. —Mrs. Ida Morrill, of Fortville, while endeavoring to milk a vicious cow, was attacked by the animal and severely and perhaps fatally injured by receiving a broken shoulder-blade and several fractured ribs before she could be rescued. —Martin Yocum, a farmer living near Charlestown, narrowly escaped being killed by tho explosion of a can of powder. He was carrying tho can under his arm and a spark from tho pipe he was smoking fell in tho can. An explosion followed and Yocum was painfully Injured. —Tho big land deal being organized by tho Pennsylvania Railroad officials at Dunkirk has been consummated, and engineers have commenced platting the ground. A boom is expected. Wood & Co., hive begun work on a 30-250-foot iron building for manufacturing purposes. —George Shannon, who stole half of a hog from a widow in Clinton Township, Vermillion County, last winter, was tried in tho Circuit Court recently. The jury, after being out all night, brought in a verdict ot guilty, and fined him §25, sentenced him to one year in tho Penitentiary, and disfranchised him for two years. —J. E. Townsend, of Harveysburg Warren County, Ohio, was Instantly killed by tho early south-bound passenger train on the C. W. & M. Railroad, a half mile south of Milford. He was crossing the track In his buggy when the team was struck by the engine. From papers on his person It was learned that the man was a physician and was deaf and dumb. The buggy was broken In pieces, but tho horse escaped without being hurt. —William S. Bickel, of Elkhart, one of tho ojdest and most popular passenger engineers on the Chicago and West Michigan Railway, was killed at Benton Harbor, Mich. He fell from tho tender of his engine, his shoulder and head extending across tho rail. The wheels struck him on tho shoulder, dragging his body along, and rolled upon his neck, crushing one side of it and severing the jugular vein. Death was instantaneous. His father was killed at Elkhart on the Lake Shore coal docks several years ago. Also, a brother was killed at Waterloo, while breaking on a train. Mr. Bickel leaves a wife and two children. —While the cell room at tho northern ’ Indiana penitentiary has a capacity of some sixteen hundred, every other department is crowded to its utmost capacity, says the Michigan City Dispatch. In tho dining-room Warden French is so pressed for room that he is compelled to seat a portion of the convicts in the kitchen. Heretofore the largest number of inmates at the Northern Prison Was 783. Now the count shows 808, tho largest number confined in the institution at any one time since its construction. Warden French anticipates that the prison will contain over a thousand convicts before the present appropriation is expended. W'hlle tho increase is enormous, the appropriation remains at tho same figures when it was made to take care of 700 convicts. —Tipton is to have a brick street AH the material is now on the ground and work has commenced, and when completed will be the first of the kind in central Indiana. —As a man was driving across a field near Crawfordsville, a blacksnake over five feet In length suddenly coiled around onq of the horse's legs. The animal ran a mile before he could be stopped, when the man got out and killed the snake watch was still hanging on and showifig a disposition to fight