Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1891 — THE POSITIVE TRUTH [ARTICLE]

THE POSITIVE TRUTH

THAT all the hoosier news IS HERE. What <Jur Neighbor* Are Doing—Matters or General and Local Jnteiest—Accidents, Crimes, Suicide, Ktc. • —Over 200 miles of free turnpikes in Jay County. —A tin-plate factory is to be .established at Elwood. —Evansville saloons nay $28,050 into city treasury for licenses. —Uriah Lambrum beat his brains out against the wall in the Madison jail. —Prof. William White, of the Ricli-mond-square Academy at Spicoland, died from pneumonia. —lndiana farmers won’t dare to grumble this year—crops of all kinds will bo most abundant. —A boy at Seymour plowed up an old Spanish copper coin bearing tho date of 1819, and sold it for Sl. —Charles Gilmore, a colored minister at Muncie, was slashed with a razor in a light with Frank Cotterall. —Frank Case, a Muncie carpenter, fell trom a scaffold, alighting on a chisel, that cut a deep gash in his throat. —Earl Lucas was loading a shotgun at Jeffersonville, when it was accidentally discharged, tearing a hole in his hand. —I. J. Brittain, of Noblesville, has a number of revolutionary relics, including an old clock that has kept time for 120 years. —Paul Burns, of Crawfordsville. gathered forty-two gallons of cherries from a tree that has been bearing fruit thirtytwo years. —A hired hand on Watson Coheo’s farm, near Columbus, found a stone weighing two pounds, that is supposed to contain fine gold. —The Battle-ground Camp-meeting Association has sent out its announcement and customary program for the meeting to be held July 29 to Aug. 10. —A few days ago James T. Jones purchased of a farmer near English, Crawford County, for §2O a walnut log that yielded thirteen thousand feet of fine lumber.

—The onion crop raised by the farmers residing on the river bottom west of New Albany is said to be very large and fine this season. Four hundred barrels havo already been shipped to Northern points. —The Methodists and Campbellites at Kingman are disputing over the possession of a church that was built by common subscription, and in which the denominations alternately worshiped for years. —Adam Pauley, an old colored man who has been for more than twenty-five years employed about a New Albany livery stable, has been paid back pension to the amount of §2,700, and will hereafter receive §24 per month. —A short time ago C. Benedict, of Chicago, a traveling representative of Nelson Morris, the big porkpacker, sold three car-loads of meat to butchers in Fort Wayne and collected §I,OOO for the same. It now seems he did not turn this money over to the firm, but disappeared with the funds. —A few days ago an abandoned gas well near Laconia, Harrison County, broke forth with a pressure greater than any other well in that noted gas-pro-ducing region. A score or more wells are now producing gas in Harrison County, and the product is conveyed to Louisville by a pipe-line under the river. —Gustavus Milner and Samuel Russell, of Darlington, met two boys driving along the road. They stopped the lads, made them get out of the buggy, unhitched the horse, and, taking off the harness, carried it away, leaving the boys several miles from home. Warrants were sworn out against Milner and Russell, who were arrested and fined §2O and costs each.

—Secretary of State Matthews has a farm in Vermillion County, and through two miles of it is a railroad. The Secretary of State likes to have fine stock, and ono night six of his cattle of high strain got on the track, and the next morning he found their carcasses on either side of the road. Every now and then he has a claim of some character against the railroad company, and last week he lost sixty-five acres of wheat that caught fire from sparks from a locomotive. The money value of the wheat destroyed was about $1,200. —A mysterious poisoning case occurred a few days ago in Washington Township, Gibson County, in which Mrs. John Robb lost her life, and her little daughter narrowly escaped death. Mrs. Robb, accompanied by the child, went to a spring near their home to get a drink. Over the surface was found a green scum, w-hich usually gathers on the water of a sluggish flowing spring. This she pushed away, drank copiously, giving to the child a small quantity. Shortly afterward both were taken violently i 1 with all the symptoms of poisoning, and the mother died two days after. The child, however, recovered. Upon examining the water in the spring it was found that it was greatly impregnated with paris green, a virulent poison, which had been put there by some miscreant supposedly for the purpose of destroying the family. —W. E. Liddler and Lewis Gwin, both prominent farmers near Cicero, are laid up on account of serious injuries. The former fell from a scaffold, while the latter was thrown from his buggy.

—The thirteenth annual convention of the Catholic Knights of St. John was held at Fort Wavue. There was a brilliant street parade, in which 1,500 uniformed Knights and 1,000 civic members participated. Ten bands furnished the music. After the parade the prize drill took place.