Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1891 — HERE’S ALL THE NEWS [ARTICLE]

HERE’S ALL THE NEWS

TO BE FOUND IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. Giving a Detailed Account of the Numerous Crimea, Casualties, Fire*, Suicide* Deaths, Etc,, Etc. —Darlington is having a boom in building lots. j —William Kelly’s barn and four horses burned near Madison. Loss, $1,200. —William Hope, a prominent German citizen of Tipton, dropped dead on the street. —Yorktown will bo boomed by a 9yni dicate that has bought 2,000 acres of land near there. —Emmitt Kannel, prominent citizen of Rensselaer, is dead of hemorrhage of tho stomach. —Joseph Atchison and James Hickey, a pair of wheat thieves, havo beeu arrested at Anderson. —Tho house of James W. Patterson, near Now Ross, was burned. Tho loss Is $1,000; no insurance. —Southorn Indiana is a great fruit center, tho output so far this season being tho heaviest evor known. —Frightened horses ran away with Geo. Culp’s two boys at Valparaiso, and they wore badly bruised by being thrown out. —Mrs. Arle Ent wanted to die at Frankfort, She attempted to go henceward by whisky and chloridine, but was saved. —Simon Gundeck, 73, near Michigan City, fell under a mowor while cutting hay and was killed. A well-to-do farmer. —An old gentleman named John Schroyor, on a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Bessoman, at Richmond, died in his chair of heart disease. —A regular Kansas grasshopper was found at Crawfordsvlllo. It is three inches long, and is probably tho advanceguard of an army of invaders. —Frank Lubb, a Scott County horsethief, doing .a six years’ sentence at Joffersonvllle, had his head torn to pioces by a saw in the prison factory. —Doan’s peach orchard, of Jefferson County, contains 4,000 acres, on which nre 150,000 trees and from which 75,000 bushels of fruit will bo shipped this year. —Crazy-patch socials havo become alarmingly popular In Jeffersonville. No one can say exactly what tho now fad is, but everybody admits having, "Oh, tho loveliest time!” —Burglars forced open a shutter at Harmollng & Maetschko’s Now Albany clothing store and ransacked tho place. Five hundred dollars in jewelry and clothes were stolen. —Tho Pendleton HepiMLcan has changed hands, Josoph M. Taylor, of Lockland, 0., having bought out editor J. S. Whito, who Is superintendent of tho public schools at that place. —Harrison McDaniel, a plonoor settler of Montgomery county, died at his home near Darlington, at the age of 85 years. He entored 240 acres in 1832, and had lived on tho same farm ever since. —Tho boiler in tho chowlng gum factory of Myers & Smith, at Crawfordsville, exploded and knocked a large hole through tho roof of tho third story. No other daraago was done except to chewing gum, which was scattered in all directions.

—A boy named Eddie Smith, assistant streot-lamp lighter, of LaPorte, was fatally burned. He was filling a streetlamp, and spilled some of tho gasoline on his clothes. After lilting ho struck a match to see if tho lamp burned good, when his clothes caught fire, and ho was horribly burned. —At Terre Haute the paronts of little Tommy Hayes, aged 8, missed him about home, and thinking he had strayed away, they reported his disappearance to the police. A search was made and four hours later Tommy’s body wast" found In a big barrel of rainwater back of the house. lie had fallen In and was drowned.

—Joseph Abraus, a guest of the Valley House, Knlghtstown, arose the other night for a drink of water, and going to a door which led to a small platform about twenty feet above the sidewalk, but which he supposed led to tho stairs, opened it, and walked out upon it. He fell to the stone pavement below, striking on his side, breaking his elbow and wrist and severely fracturing a thigh. —Mrs. John Marquardt and her daughter Lizzie were fearfully bitten by a supposed mad dog near Monroeville, Allen County. A largo family dog kept on the Marquardt farm bad shown signs of being sick, and was kept locked up in a chicken-coop to await the outcome. It was feared that the dog was mad, but the farmer did not like to kill him beforo the nature of his disease had been established beyond a doubt. The other night the dog broke loose and fiercely ; attacked Miss Lizzie. Ho threw the lady to the ground and inflicted a targe number of ugly wounds with his teeth. The mother of the girl came to the ressuc and carried her unconscious into the house. The mother was also bitten. Both the patients were taken to Fort I Wayne and placed in a hospital under the care of a physician. The dog was shot —Brakeman Davis had his hand mashed at Tipton. Blood poison setin and he died. His widow, at Muacie, wants SIO,OOO fiom the company. —Flux is raging In XlayugffTahd Eu- ~ gene, seven miles north of Newport. Maud, tho 16-year-old daughter of Jeromo B. Thomas, died, and just before the funeral left the house for the cemetery the 6-year-old daughter died. There are not less than fifty cases In Eugene, and every household between there and j Perrvsvllle has one or,more.