Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1891 — BY POST AND WIRES [ARTICLE]

BY POST AND WIRES

COMES THIS BATCH OF INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogue of the Week’s Important Occurrences Throughout the State Fire*. Accidents. Crimes. Suicides. Eta. Contagious Diseases Prevalent. Secretary Metcalf, of the State Board of Health, has issued a circular to the town, city and county health officers, urging them to bo particular in enforcing the rules passed by tho State Board with references to scarlatina and diphtheria, as those diseases are raging considerably in many localities in the State. In some places it has been found necessary to close the public and private schools. The duty of the health officer does not end with the mere posting of the required notice on the liouso that a disease is prevailing within, but a rigid quarantine on such houses must bo maintained so long as the disease exists. The Board has received knowledge of cases during the past few months where the funerals of persons who havo died of scarlet fever and diphtheria havo been held publicly. Becauso such funerals are hold in the home and not in a church does not make tho affair private, if tho public is allowed to attend just the same. Tho county boards of health failing or refusing to promulgate or enforce all the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health in their respective counties shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and the Secrotary of any board of health shall be placed liable to a tine of SIOO on first offense, and imprisonment for ninoty days on the second. Bllnor Statn Items. A petrified human head lias beer* found in Jasper. Teachers of Floyd County, will hold a joint institute at New Albany, Doc. 6. They have corn-husking parties in Shelby’ County. Of course, the rod ear goes. Daviess County jail is crowded with alleged murderers, house-burners, and burglars. Georoe Crawford, brakeman at Seymour, was fatally crushed while making a coupling. By the burning of George Kern’s farm near Frankfort, six horses were roasted. Loss. $2,000. The Presbyterians have dedicated a handsome new church building at Mount Moriah, near Spencer. Ike Bush, who was badly hurt in a runaway at South Bend lust week, is dead from his injuries. The American Coping and Glass Cresting Company has been organized at Anderson. Capital $40,000. Duck shooting is not very good in tho Kankakee marshes any more. Too many people have been hunting there.

Mb. P. R. Stoy. of Now Albany, has been superintendent of the Wesley Chapel Suud ay-school forty years. Three National banks in Greensburg havo filed suit in court to keep the Auditor from increasing their taxes. James C. Blacki.idoe, of Kokomo, gave a severe whipping to Charles H. Bliss, editor of the Industrial Union. Casper Mohr, Evansville, was scaldiug hogs, when he fell into a vat filled with hot water and was badly scalded. Philip Kreigbaum, an agricultural implement dealer at Huntington, was thrown from his buggy and received fatal injuries. Thieves effected an entrance Into the residence of Charles Resch, in Clarksville, and carried away a quantity of provisions. The forest fires near South Bend havo been controlled by farmers. Tho damage to the farmers in St- .Joseph County will be considerable. Rev. David Harold Snowdown, pastor of the Blrst Congregational Church at Kokomo, has been admitted to the bar in.that County. Charles Riley, aged 15, noar North ' l7 ernon, while attending the Grandview School, attempted to force a pencil point into a dynamite cartridge. In the explosion his hand was torn to pieces. The bones of a mastodon were found in a swamp near Wabasli by some ditch diggers.. The skeleton has been mounted and is on exhibition. It stands thirteen feet high and is nineteeu and a half feet long. Charles Horxback, of Lawrenceburg, attempted to stop a runaway team and he was knocked down and trampled upon. His arm, collar-bone and four ribs were broken, and his head was badly disfigured. The farmers all over Floyd and adjoining counties attribute tho recent destructive forest fires to tho carclessnoss of hunters, and are forming associations for the purpose of prosecuting all persons found trespassing on their farms. Gov. Hovey has pardoned Emmet Wilson, a boy sent up from Indianapolis for five years for burglary. His term had half expired. A singular feature of Wilson’s case was that it was his own father, who was a policeman, who ar rested him. The Trustees of Wabash College will meet during tho week before Christmas, and it is currently reported that the coeducational committee, appointed at the meeting last June, will make a favorable report. There is some decided opposition to it, however, but the indications are that the champions of co-education will win. Water in the mineral wells at Orleans has suddenly ceased to flow. Ever since theso wells were first in operation, about a year ago, a very large constant stream has been forced upward and considerably above the surface in pipes by natural pressure. The wells are owned by a stock company and have attracted a great number of people during the summer by their supposed curative powers. Some think that dry weather has caused the stoppage of the flow, as many cisterns and springs have gone dry. Indiana papers are all saying, “Now for Thanksgiving.” One editor says he has only one pair of shoes and a new shirt to give thanks for'this year. James Picket’s case against the town of North Vernon has been changed to Columbus. The man was thrown from his buggy by a chuck-hole ip the road and badly injure!. He asks SIO,OOO damages. Because Win. Snyder’s wife, Columbus, donated $20,000 of her first husband’s money to the Hartvlile College, Wirian got mad and tried to have her adjudged insane. She was proven not ciazy and now wants a divorce. George Derby and his wife, who moved to Fort Wayne in October, are found to be a runaway couple, Derby havinß deserted a wife and several children at Bort Byron N. Y., and the woman having left Dr. A. Bordon and three children at the same place. At the Prison South is the largest and best equipped prison library in the country. It contains 3,500 volumes, all purchased with what is kr.owu as the library fund, which is raised from the fee of 25 cents paid by each visitor shown through the penitentiary. There will be 500 volumes added to the number now on hand in a short time, and next year several hundred dollars more wilt be expende’’

Til* fcoundaries of Wabash will be extended. Parties killed a wild cat Id Crawford County. More weddings occur at Noblesville than any other place. Dr. John P. Brown is dead at Martlnsvillo of pneumonia. Several boats have stock in the mud in the harbor at Michigan City. A new paper is being published at Cannelton called the Telcphohe. llellol The Citizens’National Bank at Crawfordsville has moved into new quarters. Mrs. James Buskirk. Anderson, bas trichiniosis from eating a Diece of ham. Enoch Able, 14, shot an eaglo near Jasper, which measured six feet from tip to tip. A fi.ag has been hoisted at the school house in Darlington, aud all the people are rejoicing. A car wheel weighing 700 pounds fell on Emil Farber’s foot at Fort Wayne and broke it. Georoe R. Matlock and his sen have been White-capped near Kurtz by twelve masked men. The Bosserman homestead, near La Porto, was destroyed by Are, causing a loss of 85,000. The largest Good Templar Lodge in Indiana is at Raub, where there are 155 active members. That 8200,000 fund has been raised at Muncie to secure factories. Thu town is full of wild men. Some thief took time enough to steal a clock from the wall of Dr. Sanford’s office, Terre Haute. William Farmer, intoxicated, was run down and killed by thecars between English and TaswelL Lewis Adkins of, Seymour, was crushed to doath by a falling tree near Isaac’s saw-miil, east of town. J. A. Johnson, a big furniture dealer at LaPorte, has made an assignment. Liabilities and assets unknown. The strikers on the Midland railroad tied up the rolling stock until the company has been brought to time; A skeleton and a pair of largo deer horns have been dug up on H. A. Cottingham’s farm, near Noblesville; Brcwnsbcirg, Morgan County, was nearly wiped out by lire. The lbss beihg i 25,000 with only $5,000 insurance. A four-foot vein of coal within sixteen feet of the surface lias boon found 1 at Steamboat Landing, Ripley County. At Greensboro, John Cook had his hand shot to pieces by a young Mr. Woods. The boys were rabbit hunting. Mrs. Margaret Bowman, aged 88, of Seymour, is dead, a fall which she received some weeks- ago hastening the end. Freeman Shrill, a farmer residing near Fortvlllo, suddenly became insano and was removed to- tho Central Insane Asylum. A wooden spittoon Is said to have caused W. ,T. Grover’s grocery store to born at Shelbyvllle. Down with wooden spittoons! A tramp was caught in a Marion kitchen when tho cook ordered him away. He exclalmod that he would have a scrap first. Mrs, Dora Adams, an agod and respectod woman of Evansville, whose husbano died some timo ago, committee suicide from grief. Charles Buchanan was fatally Injured at Valparaiso by being caught between two buffers and almost literally crushed to death. Smith Bai.skh, yardmaster of tho Pennsylvania railroad at Madison, was stricken with paralysis and now lies in a critical condition. Dr. Hiram M. Ashy, a druggist of Genena, and Thomas Manley, of the same place, have boon arrested for criminal malpractice. Mack Wright, residing near Dunkirk, was arrested and taken to Portland, where he was held under 8400 for stealing twenty-five bushels of wheat. Daniel Smith, a boy near Alamo, Montgomery County, died from wounds received from the discharge of a gun he was carrying while running from the house.

Loris Kasper, John Lang, John Ryan. Ed. Mezer, and Josse Ross, of Evansville!, en route South seeking work, were victims of a railway wreck near Nashville, in which all wero Injured. Musgrave, who tried to swindle a life Insurance company out of *25,000 Insurance bv putting a skeleton In his house and then setting lire to It at Terre Haute some time ago, has beon captured, at St. Paul, Minn. Two convicts in the Prison South had the shackles removed from them by virtue of executive clemency, which Gov. Hovey extended. They are James Douglass and Edwin Kellis. ‘Both were sent up from Morgan County, in September, 1890, to serve three years each for burglary. Owing to the protracted drouth which has prevailed.in Southern Indiana a genuine water famine has set In, and hundreds of people are compelled to go> miles to the Ohio River for their supply. Wells and springs which have never been known to fall, are as dry as a pocket, and there are but lew cisterns that can be depended upon for any lengthof time. Thore Is groat suffering among stock on account of the drouth, which has tong since dried up every creek and running stream. A horrible accident was narrowly averted In a manner next to providential at Muncle. While William Sutton, 14 years old, was dumping dirt Into a bin \ that feeds a hopper at Mock Brothers’ I brick-yard, the boy got his left foot caught between two cast-iron rollers and was being drawn into the machine through a space of one inch, when the belt luckily broke and stopped the wheels. The other employes were at work some distance below the boy in a pit, and could not have got to his rescue until his flesh wou«d have been ground up with the mud and pressed Into brick. His leg was mashed half way to the knee where it was amputated. A mysterious animal, supposed to be a wild-eat or panther, has been devouring sheep, hogs and small stock near the Loblolly swamp, which extends through a portion of Jay and Adams counties. Burglars are reported as having made a clean haul at the Atklnsvllle postoffice, taking all the stamps, supplies, and a largo share of merchandise in the same room. William Bowmax. a 50-year-old resident of Morgan County, assaulted i his 10-year-old grand-daughter, and was taken from home by W’hite Caps and beaten with hoop-poles into insensibility. Citizens of Memphis believe natural gas can be found beneath that place. The place Is only ten miles north of Louisville, and people there are Investigating the matter. Hugh Patterson, a farmer, of Webster Township, Harrison County, went to New Middletown, and became Intoxicated. On his way home he Stopped at a straw stack, and, after sleeping awhile, arose and undertook to light bis pipe. He could not stand upon his legs and fell down, the lighted match dropping from his band and setting the straw on tire. He managed to crawl away from the burning stack, but not until be bad been so booty burned that he has sinco died from the effects.