Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — BY POST AND WIRES [ARTICLE]

BY POST AND WIRES

COMES THIS BATCH OF INDIANA NEWS. A Catnlngns 0 r the Week's Important lOcourrencaj Throughout the State Fires, Accidents, Crimes. Suicides, Etc. j —James S. Kevington, aged 86, died at Crawfordsville. —Benj. Fulder fell from a hay mow at South Bend and broke three ribs. —Thirteen freight ears were wrecked near Thorntown on the Big Four. —Annie Ennis had her leg caught in a twister at a woolen mill at Madison, crushing it. —The post-office at Veedersburg was entered, and stamps to the amount of S2OO were taken. —Lincoln Terry, of Jeffersonville, was fined $12.50 for using profane language in the hearing of women. —A large reward is offered for the persons who are suspicioned of setting fire to the Washington Court House. —Wintou Richards, a farmer near North Manchester, went through a bridge with a load of lumber and was fatally hurt. —Geo. Mack got up in his sleep at New Haven, Allen Co., and going out ou the walk fell down into the cellar. His recovery is doubtful. —Thomas J. Study, Richmond, wants SSOO damages from David Baker. Says Baker’s dog bit him on the hand, which is now useless. —W. Dye, a stock dealer of Owens burg, was seriously Injured in a rear end collision of the O. & M. Railroad, a few miles west of Mitchell. —Robert Gray and Mrs. Cross have been running a restaurant at Columbus for six months on the cash plan. Just skipped out leaving S6OO debts. —Leonard Campbell, a brakeman at Columbus, has sued the Panhandle Railroad for $15,000 for injuries received falling from the top of a boxcar. —Mrs. Elizabeth Schlageter, of New Albany, swallowed a quantity of carbolic add by mistake for paregoric. Quick medical attention saved her life. —By the breaking of an axle two cars of a west-bound freight were wrecked on tho Panhandle Railroad at Hartford City, delaying the eastbound mail four hours. —Diphtheria is almost epidemic west of Rockville, near llollansburg and Bellmorc. Within a week four children have died, while several others are very near death. —Tuesday, Oct. 20, tho State Assembly of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association will meet in Martinsville for a five days’ session. Five hundred delegates will attend. —A stranger, believed to bo Insane, is scaring the wits out of people living in the vicinity of New Market by his eccentric actions. He roams about at night singing, but disappears when he is approached. —John Bond, colored, at. Mitchell, got mad at his mother Just at the close of the war, because sho sold the farm. He went to bed, where he has been ever since, except once when ho jumped up to whip his sister. —Jacob Poss, of Floyd County, while working in a mill, bruised one of his toes. No attention was paid to the injury; blood poisoning intervened and he is now in a dying condition. Every part of his body is horribly swollen, and one eye has burst from Its soc.cet.

—The Farmers’ Deposit Bank has been organized at Montpelier, with a capital stock of $25,000. The following officers were elected: John I*. McGcath, President; F. G. Miller, Vice President; J. 11. Shoemaker, Cashier; Thomas C. Neal, Assistant Cashier. —’Squire Eckels, of Brazil, while intoxicated swore in a number of his saloon friends as deputies to keep the peace. Marshal Allen then created a number of deputy marshals, who arrested the ’Squire and had him fined, after which he turned the tables by having the new-fledged deputies arrested for assault and battery committed on him while placing him under arrest. —Before the State Fair, and at a time when there wasn't a cent in the sock, parties who held accounts against the State Board of Agriculture, nearly wore out the floor of the capitol trying to collect the money. Two or three parties walked out to Irvington trying to raise the amounts from Treasurer Johnson. The board has all kinds of money on hand now and has to send a personal invitation to creditors to come after amounts due them. —The wife of Samuel Blair was fatally burned by the explosion of a keg of powder, at her home, just south of Brazil. The powder had been lying about the house for a number of months and seemed to have so completely lost its explosive power that, notwithstanding repeated former efforts to burn it op, it had always failed to ignite. On the fatal occasion referred to Mrs. Blair touched tire to it, when the entire mass exploded burning and blistering the entire body from head to foot. Her recovery is not thought possible. —Walter Kceing, the German musician who eloped from Wabash with one of his pupils, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for stealing the horse and buggy in which the couple drove away. —Scenic Park, on the Silver Hills, Floyd County, is the camping-place of a band of gypsies and Turks. They have with them forty horses, one polar and two cinnamon bears, two monkeys, one baboon and a trained Shanghai cock that out-crows any fowl of the kind in Southern Indiana. —Dixon Williams, the evangelist, missed the step getting in an omnibus at Vincennes, and will have to cancel his engagements because of a broken leg. —.Johnnie Ruff, a 5-year-old son of Mr. F. W. Ruff, a prominent merchant of Evansville, met with a fatal accident. The little fellow, with two older brothers and several other companions, was “teetering” on a dray, when the child was thrown off. The . heavy shaft-pole of the dray struck him in the adomen, causing internal injuries, which resulted in his death hour later.

—The United Brethren are preparing to build a church at Crawfordsrille. —J. I. Berry, Fairmont, has a radish thirty-four inches in circumference. - —Grant County conies to the front now and says it raised 1,525,000 bushels of wheat this year. —After an illness of seven years. Miss Ella Watson died at her home near Central, Harrison County. —Rev. J. A. Haynes, of Vevay, has been called to occupy thepulpit in the Baptist Church at Montpelier. —Mrs. Rachel Wilson, TIE years old, fell into her cellar at Brazil and received injuries fromi which she may d ie, —Tine DePauw plate glass works will root locate at Alexandria but have- made all arrange meats for Jonesboro. —Bl A. Rice, of Scottsbturg,. was thrown from his buggy and dragged seventy-eight yards. He' in- not expected to live. —Hiram Leiter, of Brazil,, has been appointed State Bank Examiner;. He fills the-vacancy caused by the death of Senator Harry Francis. —M. A. Sheets, near Madison, has an orchard of English walnuts and almonds which Is yielding handsome returns on the investment. —“Rinderpest” has attacked! the cattle in Montgomery County,, and many are dying. This Is the first appearance of the disease in years. —Adolphus Ochletree and Miss Mary Prudy, two Crawfordsville lovers, played “seven-up” during church hours, and were fined for their sport. —Mrs. Wm. Bush and her sister Mm. John Bush, both living with their husbands, eloped from Georgetown with John Kinney and George Reinhart,. —James Rerber, of Waynetown, has been fined sl, disfranchised for two years and given a jail sentence of five days, for stealing one pound of butter. —Nearly three hundred men in the blacksmith department of the Ohio Falls Car Works, at Jeffersonville, have been laid off, owing to slackness of work. —AniosM. Iliatt has sued Joseph Hewitt, both of Delaware County, for SIO,OOO damages, the price of Mrs. Hiatt’s affections, which HewLtt is charged with having alienated. —Michael Koflin, a young Rilish Jew, arrested at North Manchester, has been Identified by Mrs. Alexander Tenty, of Fort Wayne, as the man wlio assaulted her in Columbia City two weeks ago. —Alvls Maxwell, an employe of the United States snag-boat uttho mouth of Deer Creek, near Evansville, was killed by being struck on the head with a log that was being placed in the forcastle to be sawed up. —John Davenport and William A. Donley, two trapese performers of Burnum’s circus, who were arrested in Crawfordsville for robbing a saloon, have been sent to the penitentiary for one year, fined and disfranchised. One week ago John Herron, a well-to-do farmer, residing in the eastern part of Bartholomew County, was accidentally thrown from his horse. In the fall he was injured internally, from the effects of which deatli followed. —The fanners’ institutes in tho southern part of the State will meet as follows: Lexington, Scott County, Nov. 6 and 7; Chrisney, Spencer County, Nov. 11 and 12; Marengo, Crawford County, Nov. 0 and HR Corydon, Harrison County, Nov. II and J 2; Charlestown, Clark County, Nov. 13 and 14. —A cavalcade of masked mert rode up lu front of the houses of Jc4m Wee.cs and James Proctor, at PaoJL . and, calling out Mrs. Weeks and Mrs.\ Proctor, warned them to mend their • gad-about ways or take a coat of tar und feathers. The two wives are said to be young and pretty and are in the habit of going to fairs and picnics with “sporty" men, while their husbands are hard at work earning u living. —A natural-gas explosion at the new residence of John Summerland, County Treasurer of Wabash County, stripped the plastering off the walls and lifted the iloorof the dining-room up two or three feet, smashing a heavy dining table. The explosion was caused by a plumber, who hunted around for a leak in a pipe with a lighted match until he found it, and touched off the gas that filled the basement. The building was quite badly damaged, but the plumber and Mr. RununerlanU’s family escaped injury. —The little 4-year-old son of Robert Kirk, who lives seven miles south of Vincennes, was almost literally eaten up by hogs. The mother chanced to hear the screams of her child, and rushed to find it in the hog lot, down on the ground, surrounded by vicious hogs tearing out its life. She drove off the furious beasts, snatched her boy to her breast and carried him to the house. The child was horribly torn and bruised. Its scalp was torn completely loose, its cheeks were eaten away, and it was lacerated and gashed all over its little body, from the tusks of the swine. It is in a terrible condition, and may not recover. —Jaoob Williams, of Blue *River. Postofflce, Washington County, is aged 24, and he stands seven feet two and one-half inches in his stockings. His foot is fifteen inches in length. —“Blacktongue” has developed among the cattle in Parker County, and hundreds of animals have succumbed to its ravages. The tongues become black and rot away. State veterinary surgeon has been summoned to investigate and the strictest quarantine measures will be enforced. —Farmers in the territory northwest of Goshen are said to be losing their Swine by the hundreds ou account of a malignant disease which it seems impossible to check. —Seth- Coffman, a wealthy dairyman near New Albany, was attacked by a vicious bull while crossing a pasture on his farm and gored so badly that his recovery is uncertain. —Trustees of the Trinity M. E. Church -of Elkhart have brought suit against John Guepe for his proportion of $30,000 which he agreed to pay toward the erection of a church building.