Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — IT IS RIGHT IN LINE, [ARTICLE]

IT IS RIGHT IN LINE,

IS THIS COLUMN OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS. A Large Number of Accident*—A Few Sn|. elites and Deaths—And Other Important New*. Iteunlon of the Burton Family. The seventeenth annual reunion of the Burtons, one of the largest familes in the State, was hold at the reunion grounds, three miles west of Mitchell. The rain reduced tho attendance greatly, but about five hundred persons were present Addresses were made by Edgai Burton, Dr. G. W. Burton, of Mitchell, Josiah Burton, of Kentucky, and Rev. N. Carr, of Franklin College. The annual paper, containing a record of all matters of interest relating to members of the family, was read by Miss Lynn Vandell. The remarkable family numbers 1,700 residents of this county, who themselves or their mother bear the name of Burton. All are direct descendants of J. P. and Susanna Burton, who emigrated from North Carolina and settled in this county in 1818. This couple were parents of ten sons and throe daughters, of whom only one, ’“Uncle” Ell Burton, is living to-day, and though about 85 years old, is hale and hearty, and attended the meeting. The Burtons are of English descent, and among the colonists of Jamestown this name appears. Two other large families live In Connecticut, and others, comprising about two thousand members and closely related to the residents of this county, reside In Clay County. Maliy letters received to-day were from members in all parts of the country. A history of tho family, which has been under preparation for several years, is being compiled by Simon Bur ton, of Connecticut. Tho magnitude of the labor is manifest from a careful estimate that the Bujtou family In the United States numbers about 75,000. Minor State Item*. —A wood pulp factory to cost $70,000 will be built at Marion. Ono hundred men will be employed. —Heaps of cattle are dying near Shoals from some very mysterious disease which affects their throats and logs. —Hiram May, a teacher, foil out of the third story of tho Trumbo mil), in Jefferson County, and broke one arm and a leg. —Quails are unusually plentiful throughout the State this season. Many are breaking tho record by hatching second broods. —William Clegg, while handling heavy timbers at tho Jeffersonville car-works, was severely Injured by one of the pieces falling on him. —Thomas Hoover is dying of ammonia poisoning at Jeffersonville. The poison entered his system while working In a Louisville factory. —Tho Flftv-soventh Regiment Indiana Infantry, familiarly known as “tho fighting Methodists,” will hold its annual reunion at Hagerstown, Oct. 14 and 15. —Sheriff Ward, of St Joseph County, has returned from Mercer County, Ohio, where ho secured Chas. Alberson, charged with stealing a horse about June 14 from Oliver A. Hewlett, at Newcastle. Alberson acknowledged tho theft and was bound over In .SSOO bond and is now in jail.

—As the west-bound fast train on the Wabash thundered through Burrow’s Station, a lad about twelve years of age jumped off the train. Ho was Instantly killed. There was nothing on his person by which to identify him. He is thought to have hailed from Royal Center, Cass County. —During a soldiers’ reunion at Turkey Lake, the premature discharge of a cannon in a sham battle took off Elijah Forbes’ right arm and Adam Shellstall’s thumb, besides otherwise Injuring them. The men served together for three years in the late war in the same capacity which they assumed at the time of the accident. —lsaac Rodgers, residing near Eminence, Morgan County, was sitting down and loading a a gun. He was just ramming the load down, when his dog endeavored to scramble into his lap. The dog’s foot threw the hammer back enough to discharge the gun. Rogers tost his index finger, and was terribly lowder-burned about the face. —Two men near Waynetown, Montgomery County, are having a peculiar lawsuit. One man sold tho other a sow, and after weighing the hog, the man who bought the animal put it in a pen. Next morning the sow was found in tho woods with a litter of six sigs, and now the man who sold the sow demands extra pay for tho pigs, and the man who bought the sow claims that as ho bought the sow by weight he also bought tho pigs. —The claim adjuster for the Wabash Railway Company has settled with the officers of the Wabash County Agricultural Society for the loss occasioned by the burning of the buildings of the fair grounds several weeks ago. The railroad company paid 82.800, wflieh tho society" thought best to accept rather than engage in long and costly litigation. The society has a large force engaged on new Buildings, which will be finished in plenty of time for the fair, beginning Sept. 22. —The Montgomery County Board of Review reduced the assessment of the Crawfordsville fair grounds from 817, )00 to 82,000, holding that it was more >f a beneficial ;affair than to make nouev. —Edward Carter, of Martinsville, has nrought suit against the Big Four Railway for 815,000. Carter lost a foot last 'all while voluntarily helping to switch, >y getting his foot fast in a frog. He was not in the employ of tho road, beDg under age.