Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1891 — THE WAY THINGS RUN [ARTICLE]

THE WAY THINGS RUN

IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Things Which Have Lately Happened Within Ita Borders—Some Pleasant and Some Sad Beading. —The melon crop about Vincennes is unprecedentedly large. —Charles and Clarence Beard, of Spicoland, have bought the Knigbtstown Sun. —Seymour is to havo the biggest canning factory in the country. Capital $30,000. —Tho Indiana Bankers’ Association will meet at West Baden Springs, August 23. —Wesley Powell, who shot a man last April at Frankfort, has just been raked in at Fowler. —Bicyclists aro not allowed to ride on the sidewalks in New Albany by order of tho chief of poll ce. —A man named Thompson, Clinton County Poor Farm, was badly horned by a bull, and will die. —An epidemic of hog cholera is said to be prevailing in Lynn Township, two miles north of Mount Vernon. —John Gains, working on a fifty-foot scaffold at Richmond, fell and broke his neck, living an hour boforo he died. —Tho frog farmers along the Kankakee ltlver have a big business this year. One man recently shipped 1,300 dozen in a day. —James Moore, of Jeffersonvlllo, wont to sleep on a cross-tie and was knocked off by a passing train. Ills condition is critical.

—A committee of Pendleton citizens are negotiating with Dr. Gattling to secure tho location of his gun factories at that plaeo. —Charles Kahlcr, a railway employe at Brazil, fell from his train-and ono leg was dismembered. His widowed mother resides in Greencastlo. —Harry Johnson, a freight conductor on tho Ohio and Mississippi Railway, had his right thigh badly crushed while making a coupling at West Shoals. —Benj. Wells was stabbed and killed by Amko Brurainger near LaPorte. They were scuffling and it ended in a fight Brumingor has been arrestod. —ln climbing cn a freight train in the Vandalia yards, at Greencastlo, Albert Bowman, aged 14 years, fell, and the wheels severed his hoad from his body. —William Rape, aged 74 years, dropped dead at his homo at Tipton, of heart failure. Ho was ono of the pioneers, having been a resident of that county forty years. —Mr. Hunter, a miner living at Kuightstown, was seriously injured by falling slate at tho Jumbo mino. The stono caught him on tho back. He is paralyzed in tho limbs. —The onion crop raisod by the farmers residing on tho river bottom west of Now Albany is said to bo very large and fine this season. Four hundred barrels have already been shipped to Northern pointß.

—Chief of Police Cannon, of Now Albany, has Instructed the mombors of the police force to file complaints against tho trainmen of any of tbo railroads running through the city when they allow their trains to be run at a greater speed than live miles per hour. —Mrs. Harriot Dougherty, of Putnam County, ato a hearty breakfast tho other morning, and before leaving her chair at the table fell to the floor a corpse. Her age was 93 years. Also, Mrs. Gllwlck, mother of Special Pension Examiner Gllwlck, died, aged 88 years. —Margaret J. Briggs wants SIO,OOO from James McDonald, Logansport, for breach of promise. Mrs. Briggs had furnished a house and bought her wedding garments, and ho went back on her. A woman who would buy tho furniture and furnish the money for tho marriage licenso should be giyen tho damages asked.

—John Cline, of Adams, went to Greensburg, and bought some clothing, and filled up on “fire water.” When he left the train at Adams, he took with him a suit of clothes and a pair of Bboes belonging to a fellow passenger, who had gone into another car, and loft tho package in a seat. Thus Cline got a good supply of clothing, but he Is now in jail. —A fijio maple tree, through which passes the power-wire used for conducting the current that operates tho Highland Railway, at New Albany, has bocome thoroughly charged with electricity, on account of defective insulation, and has become a fairly powerful battery, capable of giving a plainly perceptible shock. Tho current has been sufficiently strong to kill the tree, which is about thirty-five feet high and ten inches in diameter.

—Mrs. Saivina Shipley and her son Isaac, who reside in Brown County, near Nashville, were scuffling for possession of a chair, when a little grandchild of Mrs. Shipley was accidently struck upon the head and knocked down. The little ODe was picked up by its mother in an unconscious condition, and has been in spasms since. Mrs. Shipley and son are almost crazed with grief on account of the accident. No hope is entertained for the recovery of tho child. —William Long, a Jeffersonville teamster, being attacked by two highwaymen, drew his knife and slashed them until they were glad to escape. —The Indiana Fire Insurance Company; of Fort Wayne, was organized, with a capital stock of $200,000. J. H. Jacobs, of Fort Wayne, is President; C. E. Dark, ot Indianapolis, Vipe President, and A. B. White, of Fort Wayne, Secretary. A number of Indianapolis men are among the heaviest stockholder*