Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1891 — THE POSITIVE TRUTH [ARTICLE]

THE POSITIVE TRUTH

THAT ALL THE HOOSIER NEWS IS HERE. What Oup Neighbor* Are lining—Matter* of General and Loeal Intelsst—Aocldeuta. Crimea, Suicide. Kto. —John P. Butman’s Store and barn burned near Paoli. —The packing house at Hammond killed 854 cattle one day this week. —Work is being pushed forward on the cathedral and window-glass factory at Red key. —Joel B. Weddle, a former citizen of Seymour, was fatally kicked by a mule at Marysville, Mo. —Cows which had been missing near Brazil were found in an old mine into which they had fallen. —J. W. Tarleton, of Martinsville, while fishing in White River, found a pearl worth 9300 in a clam-shell. —The safe in the Seavey hardware store at Fort Wayne was blown open by burglars and $250 was secured. —Tho Consumers’ Gas Company is having hard work to get its mains through farms in Hamilton County. —Miss Eliza Nudon, who lived alone in LaPorte County, was found dead in her kitchen. She was TO yearsold. —A muskrat measuring eighteen inches from tip to tip, was killed on the Highland railroad tracks at Hew Albany. —Sheriff Brown, of Jackson Countv, will resign his office to accept the position of chashier in the Seymour national Bank.

—The corn crop, ’tis said, will not come up to the expectations of the farmers, although there will be enough to go around. —George W. Crayton, an attorney of Mooresville, has begun suit for libel against O. H. Moucly, editor of the Mooresville Guide. —Ella Martin, of Evansville, got a verdict for $2,000 against Charles Collins, a mail agent on the E. & T. H. Railroad, for breach of promise. —County Assessor Schlamm, of Clark County, has uncovereoi $90,345 worth of property that was being held out by guardians and administrators. —Stephen Ridlin, of Fountalntown, Shelby County, hung himself in sorrow for his dead wife and the loss of his eyesight, which occurred about the same time. —There was a freight train wrecked on the Monon one mile below Orleans and seven miles south of Mitchell, which resulted in derailingand piling up ten freight cats with heavy loss. —During the past two weeks, Peter Maurer, having six children and a wife, a man named Moore, eight children and a wife, and a man named Rose, all of Evansville, have deserted their families.

. —An 11-year-old son of D. B. Myers, Millersburg, was riding a poney at full speed, when the saddlegirth broke, and the boy was thrown violently to the ground. He is not expected to live. —William M. Reeve's, of Crawfordsvllle, has been appointed District President of the Patriotic Sons of America for the counties of Warren, Tippecanoe, Montgomery, Fountain, Parke, Putnam and Vermillion. —Druggist T. M Clark, of Greenfield, left home mysteriously in the dead of night last week and sent word back that lie would never return. He was formerly County Superintendent of Schools at Tipton. Domestic troubles drove him to thus exile himself.

—Mrs. Bettie Shultz, who resides near Bean Blossom Postotfice, Brown County, is said to be 103 years old.. Seventy years ago she came to Columbus, when but sixty persons resided there. She rode behind an ox team, which had been driven all the way from North Carolina. She can yet read newspaper print, and is able to be about the housp. She has not been out of Brown County for fourteen years,

—The cylinder-head of the immense engine in the G. Y. Roots & Co.’s flouring-ndll at Lawrenceburg, blew out, making a noise like the report of a cannon. The engine is of the Buckeye pattern, 360 horse power, and was run at the speed of 100 revolutions per minute. The cylinder-head weighs over 500 pounds. It crashed through a door and dropped on the sidewalk. The one-and-a-half-inch bolts had been torn away as if they were putty. The damage to the engine is SSOO. Fortunately no one was hurt.

—Scarlet fever exists in New Albany to such an extent that it may almost be termed an epidemic, and though the disease is not of the virulent type, the physicians are having considerable difficulty in controling it. When the malady was first noticed the authorities insisted that the law in regard to the flagging of the houses in which the disease existed should be rigidly enforced, and now in all parts of the city may be seen houses on which have been placed large sheets of yellow cardboard bearing the words “Scarlet Fever. ” Up to the present time six deaths have resulted, but the presence of nearly half a hundred cases is causing considerable uneasiness. —Casey Ketcham celebrated her 101st birthday at Crawfordsville. She was (Jen. Richard Canby’s nurse during his infancy. —Clara Cunningham, a 15-year-old girl, has been arrested in Terre Haute for assisting in the ruin of Nellie Huhm, a girl but 13 years old, at Urban*, 111.

—Steps have been taken to organize a Brownstown and Seymour street railroad. The distance is eleven miles, and it is thought the line can be made for $65,000. —William Briggs fell out of a hickory tree, striking his head on a log and breaking his neck, near Fort Wayne. —A camp of gypsies near Columbus has been split on account of a double elopement of two pair of young Romany lovers. Samuel and William Wilcox hitched up an old gray mare and loaded Elizabeth and Lucy Stark in a gypsy wagon, and off they wenl. The oldest couple was only about eighteen years old. The parents fell out, and each had their followers, who separated and established two camps.

—Brazil Is talking of having a race course. — ( The grand jury is after saloons at Delphi. —Mnncle is to have a new eightpot gU ss factory to manufacture fruit jars. —Several cars were wrecked on the Rig Four, near Martinsville. Ho one hurt. mt . —Hathan Slakin, a wealthy farmer near Goshen, died of old age. He was 74. —Mrs. Mike Krischve, Michigan City, nearly killed Andrew Kintzei with a hoe. —The Masonic Lodge Building at Sharpsville, Tipton County, was burned. Loss, $20,000. —Alva Hewcomer was thrown from his buggy at Hoblesville and sustained serious injuries. —Charles Barringer, a butter egg merchant, is missing from bus. Creditors mourning. —Many are complaining Haute on account of sewer gas escaping from the pipes into buildings. —George Coons, near Franklin, fell from a ladder while picking apples and was so badly hurt he will die. —There will be thousands of rabbits this winter, and farmers yvill be glad to see hunters on their farms. —Thomas Weaver, Edinburg, has a sweet potato 27 inches around and weighing seven and one-half pounds. —lt is said that many cattle in Morgan County are afflicted with reinderpest, acontagiousdisease to be dreaded. —The members of the Twentythird Indiana Regiment have arranged for a reunion at Hew Albany, Nov. 12 and 13.

—Obed Way, an old citizen of Amboy, has a walnut rail which his father mauled in 1810 for his farm near Williamsburg. —C. A. Cross was gathering tan bark in Brown County when he found a deri of rattlesnakes. Four were captured alive and will be sold to Chicago people for $1(1. —George Delowtcr, of. Anderson, standing on the suspension bridge over White River, fished a queer-look-ing box from the water and found It contained a dead baby girl. —At Milder’s, Stark County, a tramp named Miller was arrested for arson. He visited tho home of a farmer and being refused food deliberately Area the buildings. —Myers Heller attempted to show how he could stand on his head In tho new school-building at Hew Albany, and pitched over backward into a cellarway. receiving severe injuries.

—“Ta Pat” was the name of the devil in the Delphi Journal office. He worked two weeks, got his wages and never returned. His wages he put in a slot machine and got a stick of chewing gum. —John Barr, of Brazil, hnd his clothes caught between rollers in the rolling-mill, but saved his life by holding on to an Iron shaft until all the clothing had been stripped from his body. He was terribly bruised. —Miss Lulu McCormick, who was assisting In an .eating-house on the Vincennes fairgrounds, took a blacksnake whip and chased a young dude over the grounds, cutting him at every jump, for offering an insult to her. —The output of Marlon's new gas well is 9,000,000 cubic feet dally. It was drilled within a short distance of four other wells. This goes to show that gas is not falling, but that the trouble lies in the -pipes becoming tilled with a hard substance like lime. —Henry Fickerman, night watchman on the K. & I. bridge at Hew Albany, was struct by a suburban train and received Injuries from which he died. Both his legs were cut off near the hips, and his skull was fractured in several places. He resided In Louisville and his body was taken to that city. He was 59 years old. —The Jackson County State Bank has been changed to the Seymour National Bank, and the capital stock increased from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO. The new directors are G. F. Harlow, B. F. Price, William Acker, F. M. Swope, Allen Swope, C. A. Robertson, Charles Leinlnger, 1). W. Johnson, Lynn Faulkconer, and Joseph Kllng. The directors met and elected officers for the new organization as follows: President, G. F. Harlow; Vice President, F. M. Swope; Cashier, E. D. Brown; Assistant Cashier, H. C. Johnson. The President is tho only old officer retained. The new regime will take charge in six weeks. —David Spear, of Harrison Township, in Delaware County, was in Muncie the other day, and exhibited a monster tooth of an extinct animal. The tooth Is supposed to be that of a mastodon, and weighs nine and threequarter pounds. It was found twenty-five feet under the ground, where other portions of tho beast were found. In removing the bones many were broken, but eight feet and eight inches of. a tusk, in a fair state of preservation, was taken out ip one piece. A portion of the shoulder-blade, measuring two feet and one and a half Inches was also secured. The Smithsonian Institution and several museums are after the find. —Homer Farmer, of Hoblesville, 18 years of age, by the accidental discharge of his gun injured his right foot so badly that his great toe had to be amputated.

—lsaac Warner and John W. Taylor, farmer! near Muncie, claim to be the biggest potato growers in Delaware County. The former has four potatoes whose combined avoirdupois heft is twelve and one-half pounds, while the latter claims to have counted eightv-four spuds in one solitary hill. —An infant daughter of Thomas Davidson was bitten by a spider and died of the poison. —One of the boilers of the American Strawboard Company at Anderson gave away recently The explosion shook all the north part of; the city as an earthquake, and the escaping steam attracted a large crowd to the factory. Fortunately none was injured. This plant has twelve of tne largest boilers in the city. The engineer and an assistant narrowly escaped being scalded by steam. The damage to the building was slight, and will be easily repaired.