Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1891 — THE WAY THINGS RUN [ARTICLE]

THE WAY THINGS RUN

IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Thing* Which Have Lately Happened Within Jta Borders—Some Pleasant and Some Sad Heading, —Hogs are dying of cholera in Wayne County. —Hay rack parties are in order at Michigan City. —A project is on foot to start a bank at Wingate, Montgomery County. —Charles Bellitz, near Michigan City, fell under a hand car and broke two ribs. —Crawfordsville will have gas this winter. Will pipe from the Sheridan fields. —The Crawfordsville DqUy Argus News has been sold to S. M. Coffman, a former proprietor. —Mr. Staffer’s 3-year-old child was caught in the wheels of a reaper and ground to pieces near Fort Wayne. —Mrs. Lizzie Lucus, of Bartie, fell out of bed while asleep and broke her collar-bone and dislocated her shoulderbone. —John D. W. Eprlcost, once a prominent attorney at Princeton, has got in a hole. He took poison in a saloon at Ft. Branch. —Fifty colored men at Jeffersonville contributed 50 cents apiece to a strange negro, who promised them work, but had none for them. —M. T. Lewman, of Jeffersonville, has secured contracts to build twenty schoolhouses In Mexico, at total cost of 2150,000. —Mary Gibson, who would soon have been 90 years old, died at her libme, In Greensburg. She was one of tho earliest settlors of the town. —The Hamlin oil well, just drilled In >t Portland, is good for 200 barrels a day. The Standard Oil Company is laying its pipes to the Jay County field. —Orvlll Babb, residing near Montpelier, was badly injured by tho explosion of one barrel of his shotgun. He 1 was seriously burned about the face and head.

—John Cronin, a Jeffersonville youth, was climbing a tree when ho slipped. A ring on one of his fingers caught on a broken limb, stripping the flesh completely off. —A straw-board factory Is to bo located at Middletown. It will cost 8100,000 and give employment to 150 men and will-increase tho population of that town to 600 people. —Elizabeth Whitehead wants 85,000 damages from the city of Evansville. She was Injured by being thrown opt of her wagon, which overturned on account of bad streets.

—While loading logs in the woods southwest of Franklin, Bert Chandler was caught under a rolling timber and instantly killed. He leaves a wife and eight children. —Frank Linn, a fireman, but who was making an extra run on the Monon as a brakeman, was struck on the head by a bridge, near Gosport, knocked insensible and lay on tho top of the car for some time before being discovered. —ln the New Albany division of tho Seventh Internal revenue district there are forty-five distilleries in operation, an abundant fruit crop rendering it possible for them to run day and night, and the output is something marvelous. —Charles C. Madden, a dessolute character about Lexington, was horsewhipped into Insensibility by James R. Morgan, a liveryman, for insulting and attempting to enter the room of his 12-year-old daughter. He has been warned by citizens to cease this practice, and if the offense is repeated he will be roughly handled.

—An epidemic of measles is prevailing In the Home for Feeble-minded at Fort Wayne. Dr. Dills, in compliance with an order from Secretary Metcalf, of the State Board of Health, investigated the sanitary condition of the home, and found the epidemic to be of a serious nature. He issued an order that the institution shall bo closed to all visitors during the prevailence of the contagion. —The little daughter of Grant Bay, a leading business man of Mitchell, met with a sad and perhaps fatal accident while engaged in play with a neighbor's child. The children -obtained possession of a large butcher-knife, and, running around the house in opposite directions, collided at the corner. The knife penetrated the abdominal cavity, causing a frightful protrution of the bowels, and making an incision necessary in order to replace them. The child’s condition is very dangerous. —A year ago the residence of P. Phillips, President of the First National Bank at New Castle, was burglarized of some money, jewelry and diamonds. A man named Mcridith was sent to the penitentiary for four years for the crime, but would not reveal the whereabouts of the booty. A few days since Merldeth wrote a penitent letter to Prosecutor Barnard, of Henry County, telling him two of the diamonds, valued atsl4o, were in possession of Kate Phinney, a notorious character in Muncie, to whom he had sold them for $4. The diamonds were recovered. —David Black went to Kokomo and represented himself as being authorized to collect premiums for Knights Templar and Masonic insurance. He got the money and left town. A big fraud. —Bees took possession of the house of Mrs. Charles Logan, of Hanover, while she was making peach jelly. Mrs. Logan, her two children and a colored servant were severely stung before the arrival of Mr. Logan, who vanquished the insects, and swept up half a bushel of them after the battle was over.