Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — IF YOU ARE IN QUEST [ARTICLE]

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OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happening* of the WeekCrliues aud Casualties suicides— Heaths—Weddings, Etc. Was He Innocent? Thomas Callahan died at Valpariso, protesting his innocence of the crime of murder, of which ho was adjudged guilty and sentenced to tlio Ponltontlary for life in 186 k He served but twelve years of the Imprisonment when pardoned by tho late Gov. Hendricks. Callahan was a native of Ireland, and became a subject of the United States at the time of tho late war. A draft had boon mndo for men to complete a regiment, and at a meeting, one night, to fill tho quota a dlsputo arose, nnd, in the melee, a man was stabbed to death. Callahan was arrested for tho murder, found guilty and sentenced to Michigan City for life. He protested his innocence and on this plea, supplemented by the efforts of influential citizens, lie was pardoned, apd returned to Valparaiso. This was in 1875, and until his death Callahan lived tho life of a hermit. He selected for his habitation a tumble-down cottage, and though possessed of ampin means, preferred to live in complete seclusion. He never cut his hair, and at the time of his death hung In long tresses down his back. For seventeen years he has protested his innocence, frequently in his delirium railing aloud for mercy, and pleading with God to spare him tho curses of tho people who believed him guilty. Among Callahan's personal effects were found several messages to tho people, in which ho disclaimed any knowledge of the crime. Callahan Is believed to have been worth In the neighborhood of $50,000.

Stikto Schools* Harvy D. Vorlos, Superintendent of Public Instruction, has made his annual report to the Govornor for tho year ending January Ist. It shows a total enrollment of 5:11,841 school children in Indiana, with a dally attendance of 300, 0(10; tho total enumeration of 763,374. The. whole number of teachers In tho State Is 13,341, while the total number of school houses is 0,801. The report makes the following tinancial exhibit: Common school fund hold by oountles .hint), 1891 67,300,271 24 Cougrosnlonal township fund hold by counties June, 1891 2,00,914 55 Totsl fund Juno, 1811 60,85(1,585 77 Increase In oommon school fuud... 6 70,(KM 0-1 Inoreaso In congressional fund (142 58 Net Increase 6 71,548 02 SCHOOL UUVJJNCISS, 1891. Tuition revenue distributed January, 1891 *1,804,859117 Tuition rovenuo distributed Juno, 1891 2,084,482 61 Special school rovonue distributed, Total *5,080,199 01 They are having a grand squabble ovor a new city hall at Tell City. A new bank will soon bo opened at Groonstown to be known as tho Citizens’ National Bank. The bituminous coal-miners at Clinton havo resumed work aud.troublo in that district is at an end. J. ft. Logan had a foot crushed off while attempting to board a train atCuss Junction, near Peru. Harrison W. IIAimiNGTON * has been arrested at Frankfort charged with stealing clover seed. Everybody Is hunting rabbits. They wore novor more plentiful In Indiana than they are this winter. William Stair of Columbus, was given throe years in tho Penitentiary for cattle stealing in Brown County. Typhoid pnoumoiila carried off tho entire family of James L. Vancloavo of Livonia, Washington County, within four days. Myrtle Brown of Goshen, who was terribly burned In a kerosene oxplosion, has died, aud hor .mother’s life hangs by a thread.

Wobk on the foundation of tho DoPauw Plate Glass Works, at Alexandria, is progressing rapidly, notwithstanding the cold weather. At Valparaiso tho grand jury reports condemnation of porsons concerned in the management of tho County Asylum. It is charged that tho Inmates are nearly starved. “Mack” Denton of Orleans, was sentenced to two years In the Penltontlary for assaulting the 12-ycar-old daughter of ex-Represontativo Volnoy • Trimble and the 11-yoar-old daughter of Ilouvor Atkinson. In tho Muscatltuclc River, Thursday, near Soymour, a young man named Busch, from near Balem, was drowned together with his team, whilo trying to cross tho swollen stream. Tho body was not recovered. Mullen and McGuire, two timbermen of Farmland, felled a tree that measured seventy-Uvo feet high and twenty feet in clrcumforenco, measuring out 3,500 feet of lumber. Tho tree was on Harrison Collins’ farm, two and a half miles northwest of that city. Mrs. Mary Wright of Anderson,who became the wife of a bigamist, has died and bequeathed $5,000 to her husband. The latter only recently finished his term In tho Penitentiary and ran away, fearing further prosecution. lie cannot be found and the money is unclaimed. I

The “boom” which has been steadily gaining ground at Yorktown for several months past, has now taken a new leafco of life, as Eastern capitalists have now taken charge of the affairs, and a permanent secretary of the Land Improvement Company now makes that town his home. A contract to have the large eighty-room hotel completed by May 1 has been signed, and a building for banking purposes will also be erected. Eastern men have been In town recently, and fifty new houses, with several new factories, are exected to appear soon. Dan Taylor, a Washington colored man, was put off a train on tho Evansville and Richmond road, the conductor claiming his ticket was worthless. Taylor claims the ticket was all right, and now he wants $5,000 damages from the company.

Some time since Mr. Daniel Hatch called on Mrs. Viola Wagner at Goshen, when she chasea him from the house with a broom. He grabbed her, pushed her Into the smoke-house, and locked her in. She says that she sustained severe Internal Injuries from which she will never recover, and now sues him for $5,000 damages. As Harvey Duncan of Summitvllle, was crossing the L.. E. & W. track at Eaton his wagon was struck by a freight tratn and demolished. Mr. Duncan was thrown upon thepilotof the engine, With the wagon seat under him and the robes wrapped about him in the same position as he was in the wagon. He was not hurt, save a few scratches and a general shaking up. Ho climbed over on the foot-board of the engine to the cab, where he found the'englneer and fireman badly frightened. The train was stopped and Mr. Duncan was taken to a barber shop, where his wounds were dressed, after which he procured another yvagon and returned, not much the worsk'tro'm ois adventure.

Tite cost of the electric light plant at Marion was $33,415. The Clerk of Wayne County issued 340 marriage licenses during 1891. Brazil is to havo a fuel gas company. Slack coal will be used for the manufacture of the gas. Joseph Leo:}, a Marlon youth, smoked too many clgarettos, and now he Is in a sorious condition. Miss Ai.tha Wilson of Dlllsboro, near Aurora, committed suicide because her lover said she must die. John J. Bamrergeb of Goshen, stopped out on his porch to get a breath of trosli air and fell dead. John Mai.ey’b 4-vear-old son of Liberty, was fatally scalded by pulling a kettle of boiling water over on itself. Elizabeth Davis, wife of John M. Davis, the oldest resident in Morristown, died of heart disease, while sitting in her chair. Siiadeland pooplo say they have too much natural gas, and that the pressure is strong enough to cook an elephant la two miuutos. John Loy, a well-known citizen of Green Held and Doputy City Marshal, diod of lock-jaw, caused by a severely bruised linger. The general store of William Ott and the drug store of Dr. Brown were burglarized at Eckerty and goods amounting to S6OO stolen. Another gusher has been struck by the gas well diggers on the Gooding farm near Greenfield. Said to bo the best well over drilled In that locality. Three Fort Wavno toughs picked a quarrel with Abdalla Salam, an Arabian, and then attacked him with beer bottles, nearly killing him. They wore all arrested.

J. M. Yoke, a brakoman on tho Lake Erie railroad, was struck on tho head by tho top of the Dayton bridge near Frankfort, and knocked to tho ground, receiving fatal injuries. This was his socond trip ovor tho road. A 2-year-old child of Madison Mount and wife, of Flnloy Township, Bcott County, diod from the offects of a scald. Tho mothor made an attempt to save the child a fall, and in doing so overturned a pot of boiling coffee upon tho little one. Thomas Jester, tho 0., W. & M. baggagemastor at Wabash, found a satchel on tho depot platform containing SSOO In bills. Tho proporty bolonged to Mrs. L. J. Cook, who had lost it while being transferred, and who sont a detoctlve back to trace It. , President Mackey, of tho Atr-llne railroad, at New Albany compromised for $15,000 two of tho damage suits the sum total of which amounts to $305,000. Charles Bohu got $7,0()() and John Gnan SB,OOO, each having lost a wife and child in tho wreck on tho Caunolton branch, sovoral months ago. The young wlfo of Jamos Vaughn, living near Kush Creek, eight miles northwest of Salem, fell in an open fireplace at her home and was burned to death. No ono was in tho room, bnt it is supposed sho fell whilo in a spasm. She struggled to her feet and torn all her clothes off without making an outcry sufficient to bring her husband, who was In an ndjolulng room. Gov. Chase some weeks ago was Invited by tho official board of tho Christian Church of Now Winchester, to dedicate their boautilul now church building, which ceremony took place on last Bunday, under the supervision of the pastor, tho Ilev. J. K. Spent. The Govornor delivered two eloquent sermons and raised a balance ot several hundred dollars due on tho house. It is tho first church in Indiana-dedicated by a Governor. At hor homo near New Belleville, Brown County, Mrs. Elizabeth Shultz passed away at the ripo old ago of 100 years and 3 days. She ivns born in North Carolina in 1702, and came to tills State In 1839. locating id Brown County, where sho has since lived. Four generations attended her funeral. For the last twenty years she had not boon out of. Brown County, and never but once In her life did she see a railroad train.

Judge Richardson of tho Evansville Circuit Court, has doclded In favor of the County Auditor In the injunction suit brought against him bv a number of citizens of Evansville. The case was the outgrowth of tho increase In valuation made by the State Board of Tax Commissioners on throrfand a half million dollars of property In tho city of Evansville and Pigeon Township outside of the city. The County Auditor, as was h|s duty, proceeded to enter this inorease on the tax duplicate, hence the suit. Amos Rich, a resident of Yorktown, left homo the other morning to hunt game, and, about 3 o’clock In the afternoon, two other hunters were directed to his lifeless body by tho barking of his dog. Ho was found lying on his face with his overcoat under his head and a shotgun wound in hlsabdomen, butdeath could not have been instantaneous, as the overcoat, no doubt, had boon taken off after the accident and placed under the head. The gun and game-sack were close by. No house being near, no one could bo summoned to his aid, so after much suffering bo met death bravely alone. The remains were taken to Yorktown, where the Coroner hold an lnvesigatlon, and found his taking off to be the result of accident. The citizens of Columbus are delighted with the change that Is taking place there In railroad matters. Since the completion of the old Madison and Indianapolis railroad to this place, in 1844, to the present time there has been a railroad in the very heart of the city, and passenger and freight engines have annoyed the citizen, the stranger and the business man during all this tlma Now a great change is taking place. A freight-yard has been put In on lowlands to tho south of the city, and the work of removing the tracks from the city will begin in a few days. This change has cost the Pennsylvania Company about $40,000, and was brought about without expenso to the city. This has made many friends for this company. The benefit to the city will be hard to estim ate.

Thomas Townsend, an old veteran, lost his speech by a wound received lu the late war. Ho underwent a surgical operation last week andean talk now for tho first time since tho war. The village of Whiting, in Lake County, is in the midst of a reign of terror established by a gang of burglars whicb has taken possession of the town, baffling all the efforts of the bffleers to capture the marauders. In one night at least a dozen dwellings were either entered or an entrance attempted. A force of twenty extra policemen, reinforced by several Pinkerton men have been, put on duty. Several weeks ago, while seated with her feet on the stove-hearth, Mrs. Patrick Lyons, an aged lady at Muncie, had one of her legs broken by her husband accidentally falling on her lap. Sines then she has suffered greatly, until the she died from the effects of the rnisnao. Frank Davis, Superintendent of the North Anderson Gas Company, narrowly escaped death recently. Davis had occasion to go to the regulator-house, which he entered while smoking. In an Instant the gas exploded, and Davis was hurled twenty teet from the house, badly burned about the head, face and hands. The house was burned and the regulator damaged. Davis will recover.