Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — BY POST AND WIRES [ARTICLE]

BY POST AND WIRES

COMES THIS BATCH OP INT*ANA NEWS. 1 A Cnt»ln»n(i of the Week’* Important Occurrence* Throughout the State Fires, Accidents. Urimoi, Suicides, Etc. —A penurions swain at Wavnotown recently gave a ’squire 15 cents as a marriage fee. y —Harry Lewellen, a Muncio boy, was buried in a gravel-pit by a cave-in, but was rescued alive. —Mrs. Joseph Carr, of Charlestown, was seriously injured by being thrown from her buggy. —That vinegar and pickle factory Lafayette wants would add 3,500 people to her population. —Mace Chapman, St. Louis, express messenger, was drowned while bathing In the river at Henderson. —Columbus run its electric light plant last year, sixty-reight lights, on a “moon schedule” at a cost of 53,4(13.37. —Harvey Allen’s 6-year-old son was thrown from a mule at Monrovia, and was dangerously hurt. He alighted on his head. —Charley Long, a Monon fireman, got his arm caught between the bumpers of the cars, at Ladoga, and had the flesh torn from the bones. —Mrs. Roxena Aldersou attempted suicide at Paoli by taking morphine. She was dissatisfied with hoc daughter's marriage. Her life was saved. —The wheat crop yield in Luce Township, Spencer County, this year is estimated at 125,000 bushels, and ifhe best crop ever raised all over tho county. —Near Fern the 3-year-old daughter of John Cox was playing close to a hayfork which was jn operation, when her hands were caught in tho pulleys and terribly lacorated. —Attorney General Smith has rendered and opinion to tho effect that all franchises, whether granted by tho State or not, to corporations doing business in this State, must be assessed as personal property and taxed accordingly. —Pearl Birchfield, an 8-year-old girl, of Crawfordsvillo, fell through a bridge over the Monon liailroad, to tho track below, a distance of thirty feet, and received injuries that may result in death. The city will be sued for damages.

—The Town Board of Leavenworth and tho citizens are arrayed one against the other, tho latter claiming that tho Board was illegally elected and withholding paymont of taxes until the question of its legality can be passed upon. The trouble springs from improvements ordered by the Board. —The head of tho boiler in tho Reasor flouring-inill, at West Fork, blew out, the explosion tearing away tho end of the building and tho water and steam badly scalding Thomas Gregg, the fireman, who was tho only one standing near. Mr. Gregg is scalded from head to foot, but there Is hope of his recovery. —Charles Smith, a druggist of Eminence, Morgan County, was indulging in target practice with a self-acting revolver. He let his arm fall at his side, when the revolver was discharged and the ball penetrated the calf of his leg, ranging downward. The wound Is a very painful one, but not necessarily dangerous. —A party of Crawfordsville people who were out camping near Bluff mills, discovered a small dwelling on fire, and rushed to the rescue; Will Humphreys got on tho roof, and while throwing water on the flames tho roof gave in and ho fell through into the burning house. Ho was badly injured and slightly burned when his friends rescued him.

—The list of names of revolutionary soldiers who now sleep beneath Spencer County soli has been increased to aevon by a late report, which furnishes the names of Thomas Turnham and Henry Wagner. Mr. Turnham was in the battle of Brandywine, died at the ago of BG, and was buried at Pigeon Church, about two miles east of Gentryville. Mr. Wagner was buried somewhere in Luce Township about fifty years ago. —At Muncie, the other night Officer Floyd found the young wife of John Redup, at her home in the outskirts of the city, in a pitiful condition from hunger. Over a week before the woman’s husband abandoned his home and little 3-year-old daughter. Mrs. Redup was so much prostrated she preferred death by starvation to begging. The child was ill and would have died if the officer had not discovered the condition of affairs.

—The Indiana Horticultural Society will hold its semi-annual meeting and exhibition in Bloomington on Thursday and Friday, Aug. 13 and 14. Visitors will be guests of the Monroe County Society, and will be shown everything of interest in and near the city, including the stone-quarries. The exhibition of fruit will probably be held in one of the buildings of the State University. Addresses will be delivered by Prof. John W. Coulter. Rev. W. R. Halstead, Mrs. Louise Boisen-, John W. Ragen, and others. For the best collection of fruits, open to every grower in the State, the prizes are: First, 315; second, 810;third, SO; fourth, 34. There are also numerous prizes for the best plates of individual articles. —ln Lagro Township. Wabash County, Charles Lynn, a young farmer, while packing hay in a mow was caught by the rigging and lifted nearly to the roof and then dropped to the floor, sustaining injuries which may prove fatal. —Jacob Goodrich a woll-to-do farmer living southwest of Princeton, was bitten, the latter part of last April, by a young pup belonging to him and taken quite sick, Dr. Long pronouncing it a case .hydrophobia. He died the other morning, his death being a horrible one to witness.