Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — FROM LAKE TO RIVER. [ARTICLE]

FROM LAKE TO RIVER.

A BIG BATCH OF INTERESTING! INDIANA NEWS, Fre*h Intelligence from Every Fait of the State— Nothing of Interest to Oar Header* Lett Out. —Electric light and water works plants are being put. in at Cannelton. —Flovd County fruit growers realized’ $3,134.60 this year from gooseberries. —’Cy ders can’t ride on Muncio sidewalks any longer— too many accidents have happened. —Mrs. Phoebe Gardner was struck by the cars near New Albany and literally ground to pieces. —Georgo Cockran fell from a cherrytree at Muncie, broke one arm and dislocated a shoulder. —Three horses, valued at SI,OOO belonging to J. M. Bower, near Washington, were killed by lightning. —Perry County is soon to have a now jail at Cannelton. In the meantime the Rookport jail is doing double service. —Henry Fricko dropped dead from heart disease at Richmond. Ho served during the late war in tho Fifth Indiana Cavalry. —Seventy fat steors lumped over the bluff into the river at Leavenworth and were either killed or crippled so badly shooting was necessary. —The sixteenth annual reunion of old. settlers will bo held at Paris Crossing, Aug. 1. Information can be had by addressing S. M. Fish, secretary. — J. A. Collett, of Morgantown, had his loft leg broken while trying to put Mort Reed out of his houso. Reed was drunk and flourishing a revolver. —Madison County is entitled to a medal for the champion snake story. A blue racer twelve feet long and eight Inches In circumference Is nllcgod to havo been cut in two by a mower on thoCroann farm.

—Lizzie, tho 5-year-old daughter of Ebonozer Frazier, of St. Croix, was bitton by a copperhead snake and died. The snake was found on tho hearth of the open liro-placo, whore there had been no fire this summer. —A. P. Hinkle, who resides near goldsmith, five miles west of Tipton, while in the act, of throwing off the belt of a threshing-machine, in some manner caught his left arm, and it was Jerked off half way between the wrist and elbow. —While dragging straw on his father’s farm, four miles east of Princeton, Arthur, tho 13-year-old soil of Michael Mossorsmlth, was thrown from his horse and instantly killed. The horse became frightened and stamped out tho boy’s brains. —Charley Elrod, living near Crawfordsville, set lire to his hedge-fence In ordor to burn out some groundhogs. Ho succeeded in his purpose, and also burned a largo field of timothy hay, all the fences on ills farm, and it was only by untiring work tbut his barn and houso escaped the flames. —Dr. Samuel 11. Riley, a worthy citizen and well-known physician, died at his residence in (ireonsbitrg from blood poisoning, arising from a slight Injury in his foot several weeks ago. Ho was formerly township trustee there, then practiced for many years at Mllroy, returning to Greenburg flvo years ago. Ho was a member of tho G. A. R.

—There is a post of bugs near Now Richmond, Montgomery County. »l'ha bugs seem to cover everything, Indoors and out. The theory advanced for their presence Is that the bugs have come from eggs In the wheat which has beeu sold to an elevator. In the elevator tho air Is swarming with them, and it is almost impossible for a person to remain Inside of the building. —The other morning, when the citizens of Blcknell, a town on the I. & V. Railroad In Knox County, arose they found the depot completely overturned. It was an old one. For some time they have been asking the railroad for a new depot, but their request was hot complied with. In the hope of compelling the company to build a new one It is thought the hoodlums overturned tho old one.

—A switch engine In tho C., W. &M. yards, in Wabash, ran over and killed Wilbur Kistler, a brakeman on the road. He attempted to jump on the brake beam of the tender while the engine was backing toward him, but slipped and fell under the wheels. Both legs were crushed below the hips, and x death came in less than an hour. Kistler was an unmarried man, lived near Wabash, and had been working on the road only two weeks. —At Albany, Delaware County, Fred, the 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Richey, met a frightful death by being smothered In a wheat bin. The little fellow entered Stafford & Smith’s grain elevator, went up stairs and climbed into a bin filled with new wheat which was being loadt d in a car from a chute below. The child was drawn into the chute and instantly smothered. Another small boy named Zeph leaped into the bin to rescue Freddie, and he, too, would have gone down but for the timely arrival of Rolla Ilobbs, an employe. Freddie’s lifeless body v/as found under several feet of grain. —At the furniture factory of William Brinkley, in Columbus, a steam waterguage blew out of the large boiler, knocking down Engineer William Haislup and badly scalding him upon the left arm and side. —The threshing-machine of Casper Myers, a fanner nearer Vincennes, was burned by a spark from tho engine. Some threshed wheat, all the straw, a wagon laden with wheat unthreshed, and a lot of emoty sacks w’ere burned. Ihe loss is estimated at about SI.OOO.