Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — THESE ACTUAL FACTS [ARTICLE]

THESE ACTUAL FACTS

ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BOR' DERS OF INDIANA. Ab Intereitlng Summary of the More Important Doing* of Our Neighbors Crime*, Casualties, Deaths, Etc. —At Milton, Oliver John shot and killed Thomas Dodd in a saloon fight. , —George Bowen's store at Mattsvillc, near Carmel, was burned down by incendiaries. —Some person has poisoned the fish In the pond of Asher West, near Crawfordsville. —There are seventy-five cases of typhoid fever reported from the vicinity of Charleston. —Frank Morrison, of near Garfield, Montgomery County, had seventeen hogs killed by lightning. —Farmer Krithline, near LaPorte, while beating a farm-hand, was seriously stabbed near the heart by the latter. —Peter Morganthaler, a wealthy Fort Wane merchant, has been consigned to the Richmond Insane Asylum for treatment. —Bert Dermon, about 17 years old, lost his loft hand by coming In contact with a buzz-saw at the Greensburg handle factory. —Patrick O’Brien, an O. Jt M. brakeman, was run over and filled at Shields. He was sent to flag a train and went to sleep on the track. —Guy McPherson, an employe at the Structural Iron-works, at New Albany, had both eyes nearly burned out by a flash from the rolls. —4 bottle of ale exploded at the bottling works at New Albany and broke the bottle, one of the fragments cutting tho eyeball of James Finzor in two.

—Hottie Thawloy, housekeeper for IJ N. Hendricks, of Franklin, fell and crippled herself on a broken doorstep, and sues her employer for !?5,000 danir ages. —John Darr, returning home near Goshen, was stopped by highwaymen, two of which neld his horse and covered him with weapons while a third robbed him. —Mary Loveless, aged 73, of Lafayette, has sued her 53-yenr-old husband for separate maintence. She alleges ho has neglected her for her good-looking granddaughter. —Hiram Simpson, an employe of the Centroton brickyard, Morgan County, fell under a moving fly-wheel and was crushed between it and tho floor. He is perhaps fatally injured. —William Orr, an old and respected citizen of White County, was instantly killed near Gurnsey, by the east-bound vestibule train. He is partially deaf and failed to hear the whistle. —George Llttell, a Greensburg horseman, has secured a genuine freak. It Js a black filly, two years old, and perfectly formed in every respect, except that it is absolutely hairless, there being no tail, no mane and no hair on any part of the body. Ho secured it from a man near Batesville, in Ripley County. The dam was an Appaloosamaro and the sire an ordinary horse., —With a majority of one, Muncie’s City Council passed the saloon-screen ordinance, requiring all saloons to re move all screens and blinds from their places during legal closing hours. The ordinance has, for a long time, been hanging fire, and its passage is a great surprise, as It was thought to have been killed. Tho action is a result caused by the “wide-open” manner in which tho saloons have recently been doing business on Sunday.

—Hiram Connard, of Crawfordsville, has received a proposition from a man in New York, offering to sell him counterfeit gold “so perfectly made that the best government experts have beenunable to detect the fraud.” It stated that Connard could take in a partner, but this proposition was to be considered strictly confidential. If the proposition should bo accepted a telegram was to be sent to No. 135 East 110th street, New York. The fellow was very cautious in his proposition, and in offering to take 8250 for 83,000 ho omitted to say whether it was 83,000 or 3,000 something else. A newspaper clipping was inclosed, showing how perfectly made was the gold ho offered. He cautioned Connard not to write to him.

—At Richmond, Walter Guyer was assisting Andrew Phillips, lineman for the Central Union Telephone Company, in putting up a now wire along Main street, when it came in contact with a wire running from the tcolly wire of the electric street railway to a motor which propels the fans In a saloon. In an instant Guyer was fiat in the gutter, giving utterance to the most inhuman cries. People ran to his assistance, but so thoroughly was he charged by the electric fluid that was fast burning out his life that they could not hold him. He had to lay and take the current with a coil of wire on his left arm. Phillips, the lineman, hurried down one pole and tin another, cut the telephone wire, thus destroying the connection. When Guyer was taken to an undertaking establishment it was supposed that he was dead, but the ‘doctors brought him to in the course of two hours. There is grave doubt of his recovery. —John Aimer, a saloon-kecpoi, died at Vincennes, and owing to his great size a coffin could not be secured to hold his body which weighs 389 pounds. —The parents of Anna Harkes, who was killed bv falling 3<W feet from a balloon at Cincinnati, are [>oor but honest people at Brazil. The father is a miner. —The onion crop raised by the farmers residing ° n the river bottom west of New Albany is said to be very large and fine this season. Four hundred barrt Is have already been shipped to Northern points.