Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — THESE ACTUAL FACTS [ARTICLE]

THESE ACTUAL FACTS

ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BORDERS OF INDIANA. An Intarmtlng Summary of the More Important Doing* or Our Neighbor* Crimea, Caeuattlm. Deaths. Eta, Minor State Items. Over one hundred deaths in Grant County during January. James Mound, editor Pike County Democrat, died of consumption, Petersburg. Joshua Norton, Kokomo, while playing dominoes with his wife suddenly fell dead. Esquire Fitterixgton of Alquina, Fayotte County, aged 80, was found dead in bed. Robert Faugiiner was shot accidentally, by his brother, while hunting near Cannelton. Ei.wood is certainly a boom town, with tin plates, plate glass factories and natural gas supply. Noah Shafer, a miner, was killed at Knightsville by falllug slate. Ho was married and had a family. The pakforsof all the churches in New Albany will meet to consider best ways of instituting needed reforms in that citv. Near ..Wilkinson, Hancock County, David Sullivan’s child fatally scalded Itself by upsetting a kottlo of boiling water. George Parki£6, young farmor near Munclo, Is heir to the gold left by Mr. and Mrs. Braifijojii, 'misers who died last week. - ' - George Bush and Charles Sloan, two luckless Jeffersonville citizens, have been Indicted for stealing a hog from Merritt Allowav. Charges Morgan, who was acquitted on tho charge of murdering Marsh of Seymour, has been arrested on a ehargo of blackmail.

They have parties at Covington where the ugliest man present receives a handsome prize. Tho prizes aro nice but it’s tough on the follow. Charles Sciirier and George Johnson, Columbus, quarreled and former slashed the latter badly with a knife. Schrler was arrested. Casterline & Co., of Lima, have rented ground from Wa'tor Monro, two miles east of Montpelier, and will start a nitro-glycerino factory. John Ray, aged 70, a retired farmor of Green Township, Morgan County, died of la grippe. Ho moved from Shelby County several years ago. Mrs. Saraii Heaton. Ivnightstown widow, brought suit Tnursday against John W. White, wealthy farmor. Breach of promise. Wants SIO,OOO damages. William BlAke, serving a five-years’ sentence in tho Jeffersonville Penitentiary. was taken back to Bloomfield fora new trial He was sent up for horseBteniing. Near Waynetown, the pin jumped out of the connectlng.rod of a Big Fonr engine and tho rod smashed In the cab, Injuring tho fireman and punching a hole In the boiler. At Lyons Station, in Fayotte County, a caboose was telescoped by an engine on tho C., 11. & D., and a man named Murphy, from Crawfordsville, sustained a broken shoulder. A Muncie physician advocates tho theory that Mrs. Oliver Williams, who died In that city a week aftor having her throat cut by her husband, came to her death from luhg trouble. Michael McCain, a minor near Grant, was killed by falling slate. He was horribly mutilated. He was a young man and green at the work. It Is thought his relatives live In Cincinnati. William Keller, Valparaiso, deserted his wife five years ago and wont South. Married again, inado a large fortune and died leaving all to second wife. Valparaiso wife will try to secure tho estate.

Will Lehman, a 15-ycar-old boy, whllo stealing a rldo on the Evansvlllo and Terre Haute railroad, fell from thd car and was literally cut to pieces. A younger sister fell from the train a yoar ago and lost both legs. Simon Singerfoose, a well-known Elkhart citizen, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn. Ho leaves a wife and four children, and was 40 years old. A prolonged spree was the cause of bis Self-destruction.

At Porter Station tho drillers of a gas well have encountered an almost resistless flow of mineral water. The water rises In a huge volume above the mouth of the well and flows in a solid stream Into the Calumet River. The water Is said to be equal in medicinal qualities to the famous Waukesha wells, and Is being extensively bottled. Word comes from Greene County of the capture of wild animal In the Bechunter and Buck Creek marshes, which is unknown in that section. William Lynn, John Young, and Will Sheftler, while out coon hunting, discovered It on a limb of a willow tree and opened fire upon it Five loads were fired, when it jumped for tho dogs below and would have killed them all had not Shoffler dispatched it with a blow from an ax. The Rnirnal Is about three feet in length and weighed eighty-five pounds. It closely resembles tho ocelot, or Texas wild-cat.

Miss Mertie Summers, who was tho picture pf health, apparently, living with her mother and step-father, Enos Hornaday and wife, fn North Manchester, has been unable to articulate above the faintest whisper for the last ten weeks. Her voice left her so suddcnlv that she was unable to finish a sentence sho was speaking at the time. At no time since has she had any indication of its returning. Aside from a slight cold there is no sign of disease. The hope her anxious mother clings to so fervently is tho fact that once before, when only a child, the girl was similarly affected for a short time. On that occasion sho recovered as suddenly as she was attacked, and that, too, without perceptible Injury. Evangelist Dixon Williams of Anderson, is holding meetings in the" Armory at Jeffersonville, which are attended by 1, 500-daily. A Big Four freight train was wrecked near Waynetown and ten cars were ditched. The wreck was caused by the breaking of a flange on a wheel. James Davitt, neat Gonnersville, has brought suit for $3,000 damages against Jesse Murphy, a wealthy widower, who paid for Mrs. Davitt’s divorce and then married her. She had spurned the rich man’s offer for the hand of Davitt, her poor lover, in the first,place, but love in a cottage she soon tired of. While handling a bunch of bananas, Joseph Marsieano, a wholesale fruit merchant of Evansville, was bitten twice by a tarantula that was concealed in the fruit. Prompt application of ammonia partially neutralized the poison and medical assistance was sought as soon as •possible. The arm is badly swollen and very sore. The tarantula was killed. At Otterbein, a few miles west of Lafayette, it was decided to open a saloon, and the would-be keeper began the erection of a bnilding. The framework was up, but the other night a crowd of indignant anti-salocn people visited the building, tore down what had been erected, and distributed the lumber arouud, no two pieces in the same place.

Peru Is thinking hard about ’lectrlo cars. Joseph Whitkccp, Corydon, hanged himself. Geo. VV. Pknio, old journalist, died at Hanover. Paralysis. Methodist church, St Paul, burned. Loss $1,000; no insurance. Hannah Medley died from oxcossive use of opium, Brooklyn. John Brant, Franklin, colored, gets two years for stealing a quarter. fHfoRKTOWN will soon have a nail-mill and a new novelty-works concern, Littte child of David Sullivan, Mar} klevllle, fatally scalded by boiling wator. Train ran of! the track near Switi City. Passengers shaken up. None sorlously hurt Stephen A. Johnson, an alleged “green goods" dealer, was jailed at Washington. ' 4 George STettkiuiousk of Motion', committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Freight wreck on Big Four Tat Thornton caused by iron bar falling in front 9! wheels. No ono hurt Large window-glass company incorporated at Eaton. Work on the bulldiug will begin at once. A dozen boardors wore poisoned, but not seriously, at Mrs. Elisha Lincoln’s boarding-house, in Richmond. Harry Lawrence’s lirst wifo is suing wife No. 2, Madison, for $3,000. Lawrence skipped, leaving thorn to hght it out Two-years-old daughter of Mrs. Christopher Williams, Riahmond, put a lump of lyo in her mouth, badly burning her tongue. Matthew Clegg, ex-prosecuting attorney of Clark County, and his wife are both reported dead at llenryvllle, near Jeffersonville. Daniel Schhantz, a Pittsburgh, Ft Wayne and Chicago switchman at Fort Wayno, was caught between the ears and crushed to death.

Robert Meeks of Farmland, Is In possession of a Chinoso Idol made from bamboo root which Is supposed to be over throe kundrod years old. Mrs. Oliver Williams, who was stabbed in tho neck a week ago by her drunkon husband from tho Marlon Soldiers’ Home, has dlod. Tho husband is in jail. William Jones, for complicity In the Bonecuttor-Hobbs murder at Kempton, got two years In tho Penitontiary. He handed the revolver to Bonecuttor to do tho shooting. Bernie Ciiiusman of Richmond, who was out on ball for shooting his brother, stole tho money-box out of a street car and was sentenced to eighteen months in tho Penitentiary. Philip Boullion has been two years In the Goshen jail for a debt to Stiles Carter, whom ho owes $248.4f1. The latter pays tho obstroperous debtor’s board each weok. William Wendle of Columous, wont to Madison and was so much elated at tho first sight 6f a steamboat that he returned homo to tako his wife and children to see the sight. Thomas Worland, a prominont farmer living near Waldron, Shelby County, was cutting timber when a tree fell on him, crushing bis skull and back. He died almost Instantly. The woman who followed tho forger, Frank Critzer, to jail at Columbus, claiming to bo his wife, turns out to bo Mrs. Dora Freoman of Greonsburg, who desortod her husband In December.

In tho Muscatltuck River, Thursday, near Seymour, a young man named Busch, from near Salem, was drowned together with his team, whilo trying to cross the swollen stream. Tho body was not recovered. ’Tib said that after a shower near Clifton recently, numerous little brown worms appeared on the ground, supposed tohavefallon during tho rain. They were about an inch long and coiorod with soft brown hair. E. T. Bouchard, of Napoleon, committed suicide by shooting himself In the hoad. HU wifo, who is 70 years old, Is on her death bod, and tho old man said he didn’t want her to die and leave him alone. Secretary Alexander Johnson, of the State Board of Charities, has consulted an architectural photographer with reference to having tho photographs taken of all tho charitable and correctional institutions In tho Stato for the World's Fair. Aunt Susan Oren of Goodvlow, dlod, aged about eighty. She was one of the pioneers of Johnson County, and had many great-great-grandchildren. She was the wife of Rev. Absalom Oren, ex-minister of the Christian Church and well known over tho State. A movement is on foot to organize a mutual live stock insurance company, whoso field of operations will bo confined to Rush County. It is thought that tho rate charged on this kind of insurance is much too high, and the enterprise is being pushed by influential stock-rals ers.

Tjie citizen" of Richmond are reported to be worrying lest tho Big Four, when it gets a line Into that city, will play into the hands of the Pennsylvania Company and in reality will givo them no new competition. An official of tho Big Four suggests that the citizens and press ofRichmond borrow no trouolo on that score before they see Big Four locomotives running in there. A gang of counterfeiters and “shovers of the queer” arrlvod in South Bend, and began operations by passing spurious dollars and quarters among the business houses. They got rid of only a small amount of the bad mouey beforo being detected by p clerk in a meat market. Tho officers were at once informed of the affair, and began a search for the men, but without avail, and It is thought thoy left tho city. They aro supposed to be members of a gang which has been working Ohio, and which entered Indiana only recently. The dollar is dated 1887, and is a fairly good counterfeit.

John Reed of Blue Lick, has given notice that he 1 will apply for a license to run a saloon at Charlestown, and the temperanco people there, who recently drove tbo only saloon-keeper out of town, are gathering and drilling their forces. Fob some thee past Mrs. Alice Smullen of Muneie has been quite sick with consumption. The other morning her daughter gave her a silver half dollar, which she placed in her month and swallowed. Shosoon expired from the effects. The coin lodged in her neck in such a manner as to choke her to death. Why she should have swallowed the coin is a mystery to her friends. Ella Ray of Wabash, who secured a verdict for 34,000 in a breach of promise suit against Edward Kisuer, after she had married another man, is now suing her lawer for part of his fee, he having retained half of the amount of damages awarded.

Geobge H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., of Indianapolis, has passed a resolution requesting the department encampment to petition the Indiana Legislature to construct and maintain a State’s Soldiers’ Home, to which the wives ot soldiers may accompany their husbands as inmates. •Jblo, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin have snch homes, and it is believed that Indiana should provide for the comfort of her veterans in like manner.