Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — IF YOU ARE IN QUEST [ARTICLE]

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OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: — Important Happenings o? the Week— Crimes and Casualties Suicides— Deaths—Weddings, ttc. —Sixteen eloping couples were married in New Albany last week. —The long continued drought in St. Joseph County has boon broken by copious rains. —ln a runaway accident at Covington, W. H. Miles and Jesse Haupt were dangerously hurt —Burglars at Greensburg looted the residence of George H. Dunn, jr., carrying off jewelry and money. —Mrs. William Snyder, of Clarksville, Clark County, was gored in the abdomen by a cow. Her injuries are serious. —Alice Percy, of New Washington, fell from a load of hay some weeks ago and has been paralyzed from the hips down ever since. —Ohio river pirates are plundering everything and everybody within reach. They operate chiefly between Madison and Jeffersonville. —The safe in M. A. Pickering’s dry goods store at Caijfz was blown open by burglars, but no money taken. Part of the stock was carried away. The loss will amount to SSOO. —The directors of the Owen County Agricultural Society say that, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather; the society cleared several hundred dollars on its recent exhibition. —Rev. J. M. Oldfathcr, of Hanover, for eighteen years a missionary in Persia, brought home with him a valuable collection of war curiosities. His home is described as a veritable museum. —At Farmland, Charles Ross and John Harness attempted to jump on a train after it had started. Ross was thrown to the ground and seriously hurt, having his 4*loo mashed and one leg hurt. —Thousands of martins are gathering in Clark County. The birds roost on the islands in the Ohio falls and in the trees near the river. In the evening, as they return to roost from the north, their flight fairly darkens the sky. —The condition of William Bullard, the Hope desperado and barn-burner, who wounded himself in an attempt to assassinate George Rothrock, at Hope, on the morning of July 4, and who is still lying in the hospital of the Bartholomew County jail, is very serious. —Milo Spencer, of Napanee, was leaning with his arm upon the muzzle of a loaded gun. His dog, while playing about him, caught its foot in the hammer and discharged the gun. The load of shot went in at the armpit and camo out above, lacerating him in a terrible manner. His recovery is doubtful. —A large barn and all its contents except eight horses was burned on the farm of James Reynolds, on Terre Coupe prairie, near South Bend. Besides the barn the destroyed property consisted of 1,000 bushels of grain, sixty-five tons of hay, harness and farm implements. Insured in Farmers’ Mutual of St. Joseph County. —A fatal accident occurred on the Toledo, St Louis and Kansas City Railroad about a mile west of Wingate. The west-bound passenger train was running at a high rate of speed, when one of the connecting rods on the engine broke, and •rashing through the cab, killed the engineer. The engine was stopped by the fireman without further accident.

—A young man named Hail was accidently killed near Windfall. His father, Henry Hall, a farmer residing three miles east of that place, was cutting down a tree, when the boy approached, ’unnoticed by the father, at the time the tree started to fall. A limb struck the young man on the back of the head, crushing his skull. He lingered a few hours unconscious and died from his injury. —While digging a well on the farm of John Wcnrlch, a few miles southwest of Martinsville, the 15-year-old son of Thomas Fulford, a neighbor, died from what is supposed to have been asphyxiation. Stone was encountered at some depth, which it was necessary to blast. After the charge was exploded young Fulford was lowered to see what effect the blast had. He reported a largo hole torn in the stone. The rope was withdrawn to lower an assistant, when he called, “Let the rope down quick.” This was done and the boy grasped it with a firm death grip. After being hauled to the surface he gasped for breath and was dead. —Mr. Geo. Dixon, a well-to-do farmer east of Seymour, has a hen that is now several years old, which, up to iast spring, was clad in a coat of feathers after the fashion of other hens, and iayed an abundance of eggs each season up to the present. Early iast spring the hen shed her feathers almost to nudeness, and when the feathers grew out again the first to appear were the long and beautiful tail feathers, common to the barnyard rooster, and in a short time the body was fully feathered in a brilliant coat of male attire, giving the hen every appearance of a rooster except the large comb and head-dress of red. She now crows in good style, but continues to lay eggs. < * —The onion crop raised by the farmers residing on the river bottom west of New Albany is saiifto be very large and fine this season. Four hundred barrels have already been shipped to Northern points. —A beautiful owl of an unknown species was captured by D. P. Enoch, near Crawfordsville. The bird had a back of a gold and silver color and a white breast covered with bright spots. The bird was exhausted when captured and soon died, but it has been sent to a taxidermist for mounting.