Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — IF YOU ARE IN QUEST [ARTICLE]

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OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING; Important Happenings of Hie Wrote— Crimes and Casualties Suicides— Deaths—Weddings, 1- tc. —Little son of John McKinzie, Madison, was drowned. —Chas. Odell, 9, fell from a raft at Michigan City, and was drowned. —Patton & Roberson’s commissary at Petrona was blown up by dynamite. Loss $4,000, —David Hays had a horse and buggy stolen from a public hitchingrack in Muncie. —Glass wage dispute has been settled at Muncie and the blowers have returned to work. —W. H. liotstetter, near Jamestown, has a coat worn by Maj. Byrd during the revolution. —Beginning Oct. 1, there will be a tri-daily mail delivery between Jeffersonville and New Albany. —James Kelley, a Pan Handle brakemau at Richmond, fell from a car and was fatally crushed. —Henry Ticinan, Columbus, was kicked by a horse. His breast was caved in and he cannot get well. —The Fifth Indiana Cavalry Association will hold its ninth annual seunion at Franklin, Oct 14 and 15. —Miss Jane Hertman, a maiden lady 53 years old, was found dead in her bed from heart disease at Seymour.

—Grain elevator at Idaville fell. More than 5,000 bushels of wheat was scattered on the ground. Loss, $5,000. —lsaac Stout, who was injured at the Jeffersonville car works, had his eyeball removed. A nail had pierced it to the core. —Sarah Ilobinctt, daughter of L. Robinctt, of New Washington, was burned to death by her clothes taking fire at a stove. —Rev. A. N. Somers, of Black River Falls, Wis., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Unitarian Church of LaPorte. —Mrs. Arney, of Goshen, was struck by a Lake Shore limited and knocked some distance. Her only injury was a broken arm. —John Benin was found dead on the track of the I. &T. S. near Sullivan. He had been run over and mangled by a passing train. —Alonzo Francisco, aged 20, the station agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Wirt, near Madison, committed suicide with a revolver. —A Peru woman has an alleged mad-stone, and Luther Lawrence, a 13-year-old boy of Warren, Ind., has been taken to her for treatment. —W. R. Asher, who went from Martinsville to Oklahoma last winter, has been appointed Probate Judge of the Territory by Gov. Steele, formerly of Marion.

—G. A. Collins, of Jeffersonville, has in his possession a copy of the Declaration of Independence dated July 4, 1776. It is written on parchment and well preserved. —Thomas Brown has brought suit at Washington against the O. &M. railroad. Says he was riding a velocipede on the tracks by permission and was run into by a freight train. Wants $5,000. —William Dougan, a farmer near Princeton, got on his horse to chase three men who had been tiring at his dog. The horse returned riderless and the farmer was found unconscious by the roadside with an ugly wound in his head. He can not recover. —Walter Buckworth, near Franklin, will never be killed. He had typhoid fever, pneumonia, mumps and measles right after each other. Then he was kicked by a horse, had a few ribs broken and his cheek cut open. He got over all these and the other day was run over by a threshing machine. The wheels passed over his shoulders and head and his jaw was broken. He will recover.

—John A. Lysles, employed in John A. Ilatz & Son’s sawmill, Evansville, met with an accident from which he cannot recover. He was working in front of the double saws, when they became choked up, and taking a ragged piece of timber he attempted to clear the saws. One struck the piece of timber, driving it back with such force that it was driven into the lower part of his abdomen, passing clear through his body. His physicians say he cannot recover. He has a wife and two small children.

—John Walters’ 6-year-old son was burned to death in his father’s barn situated in the north end of Wabash County. The child presumably set fire to the hay while playing. Mr. Walters was away from home when the lire broke out, and when he returned three men were required to prevent him from rushing into the burning embers to find his boy’s remains. Later the bones were recovered and buried at Gilead, Miami County. The loss on the building which contained Mr. Waiters’ crop of wheat, is $3,000, with no Insurance. It is feared that Walters may be driven insane with grief. —Thomas Blakely, a railroad brakeman, in jail at Evansville on a charge of stealing a coat from a brother employe in the E. & T. H. yards at that place, committed suicide by hanging himself to his cell-door with a strip of blanket. —The question of permitting colored children to attend the public schools at Charleston has beem amicably settled. ’ A teacher has been provided for the colored children, and and an apartment has been divided off for them. •

—Jonesboro is having a big boom. Large rubber works just started up. —Bloomfield is on a boom. More than SB,OOO worth of new streets will be built. —Dr. J. S. Thomas’ barn and horses were burned at Winn mac. Loss SI,OOO. —Thieves got SSOO diamond ring and jewelry from Chas. Kumlers’ residence at Peru. —An apple tree near Corydon is three feet in diameter and the apples weigh a pound. —New Albany is contemplating the erection of a soldiers’ monument in the market place. —Joseph Swope, a farmer, was badly hurt in a runaway while returning homo from Lebanon. —There is project on luot to establish a Dunkard college at Ladoga, Montgomery County. —The wife of O. B. Brooks, Kokomo, has disappeared. Left a note saying she would never return. —The women of North Grove, Miami County, are making war on the only saloon in the place. —Rebecca Mclvee. an old colored wonfim at Muncie, fell under a train and received fatal injuries. —Mrs. Mary Watt, aged 81, and a resident of Delaware County for sixty years past, died at Albany. —The Jackson County Bank has been changed to the Seymour National Bank with a capital of $50,000. —Geo. Vebhage, farmer near Seymour, was badly hurt by being thrown from a backboard (luring a runaway. —Elisha Hubbard, 78, a farmer near Martinsville, tried to go lieneeward by cutting his throat. Can’tget well. —The United States Cement Company, with a capital stock of $50,000, will erect a large plant at Sellersburg. —Mrs. Annie Hamler, of Kokomo, has sued Elmer Nuding, of Elwood, for $5,000 damages, for breach of promise. —B. F. Adams, of • Bartholomew County, committed suicide because his wife went to Barnum’s show against his wish. —Perry Anderson, a new brakeman on the Panhandle, had his hand mashed at'Columbus, within an hour after going to work. —The Emerson Manufacturing Company, of Sunman, struck a vein of water at thirty feet that shot up live feet above the surface. —lt is estimated that Rev. John E. Newhouse, near Greencastle, will gather 8,000 bushels of apples from an elcvfen-acre orchard this fall. —Theodore Crawford, of Vincennes, who was stealing his way from Terre Haute, fell beneath the wheels and was ground to death. —Joseph J. Jauls, a tramp, was fatally shot by another of his fraternity, during a fight in a graveyard at Mount Vernon, where the men were drinking j a keg of beer. —William Kelly broke away from Officer Bass at the jail door, in Anderson, and made a break for liberty. He climbed a fence, but was brought to a halt by a shot that pierced both his thighs. ■ —Wm. Hewitt, Vincennes, has sued the prohibition people of Monroe City for $5,000 damages. At a town election to deside the “wet or dry” question the Prohi’s won-and celebrated with a cannon. It exploded and Hewitt had liis leg broken. —The boiler in the shingle and bolt factory of James Wilhite, at Darlington exploded. Wesley Philips, the engineer, was standing in front of the boiler and he was blown fifty feet away. He is badly injured and can hardly live. Several others were slightly injured, while the building is a total wreck.

—The 5-year-old daughter of Mr. William Knore, a farmer residing ten miles from Evansville, was fatally wounded recently. During Mr: lvnore’s absence from the house his little nephew, Charley Gumpleberg, proenred a pistol and playfully jxunted it at the little girl. It was discharged in some manner, the ball entering the child’s face and passing downward, causing her death. —Matthew Brady, the 0-year-old son of Mr. J. P. Brady, of Evansville, while attempting to cross the street railway track in front of an approaching car, stumbled and fell against the mules. The animals kicked him causing him to fall lengthwise across the rail, and before the car could be stopped the wheels passed over onq of his legs and across his body, cutting him almost in two. He was picked up and carried into a store near by, where he died in five minutes.

—A strange coincidence was noted at Marshall in the death of Mrs. Mary Arbuckle. She died on Sunday and was buried on Tuesday afternoon. Four years ago her husband died on Sunday and was buried Tuesday afternoon. The same minister officiated at both funerals, the same pall-bear-ers were used and the same persons sang. The husband died on his wife's sixty-sixth birthday. Five years before the oldest son of the family died on Mrs. Arbuckle’s sixty-first birthday. Mr. Arbuckle was a resident of Marshall for fifty-five years. —W. T. Justice, of Kokomo, was run over by the cars, getting his right leg so mangled that amputation was necessary. His recovery is doubtful. —Gas is not giving out in Indiana. Every new well drilled shows a strong pressure which goes to show that gas is as plentiful now as when first struck. —The Leitzman Sorghum Manufacturing Company has put in the largest plant in the world at Mooresville. It has a daily capacity of o thousand gallons of molasses.