Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1892 — FROM LAKE TO RIVER. [ARTICLE]

FROM LAKE TO RIVER.

A BIQ BATCH OF INTERESTING INDIANA NEWS. Fresh Intelligence from Every Part of the State—Nothing of Interest to Our Readers Left Out. Minor State Items. Burglars are walking away with everything at Memphis. Columbus will have a fuel-gas plant The peoplo say coal costs to blamed much. James Dalton, a notorious crook, got a two years’ sentence In the penitentiary at Valparaiso. James Lewis, a prosperous farmer and stock buyer, of Pendloton, died from the effects of a cancer. Esquire Benjamin Coi.kman, an old and well-known citizen of Grcencastle, died of Bright’s disease. John Leach, a Bartholomew County farmer, was crushed beneath a load of wood and canuot recover. Frank Aerhart, living near Marlde, was Instantly killed by tho accidental discharge of his shot gun. Rev. M. Swadeneb, of Marion, is conducting a series of meetings in the M. E. Church in Crawfordsville. Harriet Bennett was killed by a locomotive a( the Big Four crossing on Washington street, Indianapolis. An 8-year-old son of Dr. Isgregg, of Pendleton, wa# kicked on the face by a horse, IJis fow&Was badly disfigured. Sami'el Powell, of Harrisburg, accidentally discharged his shot gun while climbing a fence and was instantly killed. Mr. and Mrs. Joski’h Brown and family were all poisoned at Fort Wayne eating canned fruit. They will recover. A freight train was wrecked on the Chicago and Indiana coal road near West Union. A broken frog was the cause. John Briggs, shoemaker, at Newburg, got full of liquor and fell on a lamp. It sot fire to his clothes and he was burned nearly to death. William Stein, of Crawfordsville, who became Insane a short time ago, was in favor of turning the Government over to tho women until 1892. Crawfordsville now falls in line and wants an institution for tho cure of the drinking habit. Inebriate asylums are becoming all the rage.

A Goshen landlord and several merchants have been cleverly victimized by a young man traveling with a nickel-in-tho-slot phonograph. Superintendent Kinyon, of the Anderson Insane Asylum, has been acquitted and exonerated on tho charge preferred against him by a female inmate. Isaac Taylor, who ran the ongino In McCoy’s saw-mill, near Richmond, was hurled through the building and Instantly killed when the boiler exploded. In tho Museatituck River. Thursday, near Seymour, a young man named Busch, from near Salem, was drowned together with his team, while trying to cross tho swollen stream. The body was not recovered.

William H. Johnson, of Goshen, who is aconfirined drunkard, cards himself in papers as such, and asks hoi pin reformation, also instructing all friends and officers In case he takes a drink to jail him as a man unsafe to be at largo. The young people from Rush County are suffering from an attack Of something just now more general than the grip. Tho clerk of tho court issued five marriage, licenses in thirty minutes, and this broke the record for tho county. The CitvCpuneil at Crawfordsville has decided to borrow $20,01)0 with Which to enlarge the capacity of its elective light plant. This has been ipado necessary by the city furnishing incandescent light to stores. ,At present there are 975 lights in stores, bringing an income of 40 cents each per month. Bent Bryan, of Connersvllle, compromised his suit against tho Big Four for $4,500. Four years ago ho was in a wreck and got $l,lOO from tlie railroad and S6OO from tho American Express Company, by which ho was employed, with two years on the pay-roll of the company for S3O per month. Ed. Jones, a young man of Jefferson Township, Putnam County, had both hands shot off by the accidental discharge of his gun while climbing a fence. His hands were over tho muzzle, and he was thus supporting himself in getting down when Ills foot struck the hammer and the cntlro load passed through his hands. Two fingers of one hand were amputated, and the other hand cannot be saved. That the Indiana oil field Is likely tb eclipse the Ohio field In richness Is evidenced every day by the new wells being drilled and the offort of Ohio operators to obtain territory near Portland. Leasos are bringing good prices, and several good sales are reported. The Shoemaker, Litts and Engle wells, just drilled, aro each good for 100 barrels a day, and the latest developments indicate that tho best part of the field lies in Jay County, comraencinar at a point two miles west of Portland Riid extending oiglit miles north. ’ WilLiam Shaffer, a young man employed at the American wire nail mill, Anderson, engaged in a friendly scuffle with a fellow workman.' During the scuffle Shaffer received a blow on the nose that caused it to bleed violently. It ceased after a time, and he went home. Ho was there but a short time when tho hemorrhage began again. Local remedies were of no avail, and tho life-cur-rent gushed on and on, while young Shaffer grew weakor and weaker. A spiritualist physician named Hibbard was then called, and, after working a day, gave it up with the patient scarcely alive. A regular physician was called, but the sufferer was at death's door and died shortly after his arrival. His parents aro simple people and are almost crazed with grief. The attending surgeon thinks a blood vessel was ruptured during the scuffle. The workmen near Tipton who were frightened by a “ghost,” while drilling for natural gas, believe it to be tho ghost of Alex Yohe, an old farmer who always opposed searching for the new fuel. He committed suicide over a year ago.

Jackson Gakver is the most innocently ridiculed man in Dolson Township, Park County, just now. A few days ago Mr. Garver’s favorite brood mare gave birth to twin colts. Shortly afterward a cow on .the place dropped twin calves, and now comes the intelligence that his wife has given birth to healthy twin babies. . The other night some evil-disposed person entered the barnyard ot N. W. Smith, a farmer living a half mile south of Cicero, and maliciously discharged three bullets into the head of a valuable mare. Mr. Smith has no clew to the prepetrator of the heinous deed. The mare will probably die. While playing around the Wabash railroad tracks at North Manchester, little Boss Bash, aged 6, fell under a moving train, and had both legs legs cut off. His brother aged 8, and another little boy were with him at the time, and hastened home to notify the mothc-, a widow, who fainted when she saw her boy lying near the track. He will probably die.

Washington isßoinjt to bore for gas. South Bend has erected nearly (>OO buildings within the last year. Thk water works building at Wash* ington City was destroyed by ,ttro. The loss is $35,000. .-•»-! i. Thk skeleton unearthed by woTkirien at Tipton is believed to bo that of a murdered man. Otto Heusk, leading Madison leather merchant for forty years, died of pneumonia, aged 75. Fuank Smith, a rolling-mill hand, and Charles Deal woro both nearly killed in a saloon fight at Brazil. White in a iit Mrs. Frank Uerrett, of Franklin, fell on a hot stove and was badly burned. Slio will die. Not a singlo suit has been Hied for trial during the January term of the Scott Cirouit Court at Jeffersonville. Wiley Euion, of New Providence, accidentally discharged his gun and the contents lodged in his left arm. Mrs. .Tosei>ii P. Kapi-s, wife of a wealthy German farmer llylng hear Vincennes, suddenly dropped dead. Mayor Allen, of Torre Uapte, died of pneumonia, resulting from grippe. Ho was elected Mayor last spring. Mns. Frank Gkruett fell on a hot stove at Franklin, during a lit, aud was so badly burned that she will die. The people of Craw'fordsville at last have natural gas. Now run along little boys, and don’t talk about it any more. John A. Long, who is serving a term in the Northern Penitentiary from Montgomery County, has fallen heir to SI,OOO cash. Caleb Burris, an old eltizon of Moorosville, died of lockjaw, resulting from injuries roceived in a gun explosion recently. Twelve-years-old son of William Flagg, of Terro Haute, had his foot crushed by a freight car. Amputation necessary. F. P. Waltz, of Marengo, has been appointed Treasurer of Crawford' County to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joal Stroud. Rowe & Harding’s large livery stable at Osgood was burned last week, with a loss of $5,000. There was insurance In the Phoenix for $2,000. Frederick Schweitzer, who cut Peter Fisher’s ear in a Crawfordsvillo saloon last week, has boon sued by the latter for S2OO damages. The First Ward In New Albany, which has a population of 10,000, and covers nearly one-third of the city, Is to be divided into three wards. Well drillers at Farmland have struck what they behove to bo one -of the boat natural gas wolls in theStato. The roar of tho escaping gas can be beard for miles At Molllo Station, four miles south of Montpelier, John Butterworth s store and the postoflice woro destroyed by llro. The loss was SSOO. No insurance.

A military company was organized at Elwood, with tho following officers: Captain, Charles S. Tarlton; First •Lieutenant, G. V. Newcomer; First Sergeant, D. F. Day huff. Morgan County erocted a Jail and sheriff’s residence in Martlnsvillp a tow years ago at a cost of $20,000. Tho Jail Is now, for tho tirst time since Its occupancy, without a prlsonor. Frank Simmons, tho well-known trot-tlng-horso trainer, was to have married Lillie Konnlson, of Madison, but while tho guests waitod ho did not arrive, and tho 10-year-old Intended bride is Inconsolable.

“Nithy" Shutkii, an Osgood tough, attended a country ball near Milan, and when Miss Maggie Pate, of Napoleon, refused to dance with him, he drew a knife and Stabbed htfr irt tho back and arms. He escaped, and the' girl is’ in a serious condition. 1 After tho doath of Henry .Sachs, the old man who was found drowned In a. small branch one mile north of New Albany, a handsome sum of money was found at tho house, on tho Moorosville Knobs, wheroho had lived a recluso for many tears. Sam Coryell, a convict In tho Prison South who is undergoing a ten-year sentence for killing Arthur Boablo, his brothcr-in-luw, in a light for tho possession of Coryell’s body, will bo taken to Brownstown, Jackson County,by Wurdoii Patten, Where ho is to bo retried, the Supr’emd Court having granted him a new 1 trial. Coryoll oxpects to be acquitted. 1 ''' Eliza Elinger, a soldier's widow, and Elijah Evans were married, ftk May, 1801, at Richmond. A month later she found Evans was the husband of Susannah Evans, ho nover having been divorced Under laws enacted slneflrdw. marriage to her bigamist husband she would bo entitled to a pension as the widow of her real husband, and she now flies a petition to have her marriage with Evans annulled.

Mrs. John Wake, of Brazil was agreeably surprised a day or so afro by a visit from her son whom sho had not for three decades. Thirty -years afro, in England, when her,sou was but a child, sho gave him to a neighbor family who were childless, and after Mrs. Wako came to America she received word from England that her child was doad. Her surprise can bo better imagined than described when her son, now a man l of family came walking into the house and announced himself, lie is now a prosperous farmer near Peoria, 111. Mrs. James Brown and her 10-year-old daughter Myrtle were terribly burned at their residence in Goshen. The mother and daughter were in the act of pouring some kerosene into some wator in the wash-boiler, which was on the stove. The material caught fire, and the oil-can exploded. The firo communicated to their clothing, and Mrs. Brown was terribly burned about the hands, face and breast. Miss Myrtle was seriously, if not fatally, injured.The hair was burned from her head, her face and neck badly scorched, both hands completely roasted, and her legs below the knees burned. Her clothing was burned from the body. At 'last reports the chances for the girl’s recovery is doubtful. ' Burglars entered the grocery store of J. L. Dille & Co., of Greensburg, and secured a small amount of money and goods. They also cut through the door of Lanham’s gun-shop, but did not get inside.

Gov. Chase has pardoned William Gant, sent from Princeton to the southern prison for seven years for stealing a pair of boots. He has served five yearp of the sentence. The Governor also pardoned Barton S. Hill, sent from Frankfort for three years for larceny. Hill is 19 years old. Ho has become weakminded and has consumption. His time would not have expired until March. The following patents have been awarded to citizens of Indiana: Harvey S. Fuller, Butler, lead or crayon pencil; Joseph F. Gent, Columbus, macaroni; John H. Green, assignor of one-half to G. F. McFarran.Bluffton, bag tie; William S. Hackett, Roanoke, trunk; Alfred R. Heath, Covington, car-coupling; Frank E. Herdman, Indianapolis, electrical operated elevator; William 11. Hufford, Selma, trace fastener; Sherman Joh and W. Barlow, Sims, car-starter and brake; Edward Kuhn, New Albany, stove-lid and lifter; Jacob V. Rowlott, Richmond,, pawl and ratchet mechanism; R. Thickstun, Belmont, band-cutter and feeder for threshing-machines; Homer T. Wilson, New Albany, roller tablet.