Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — IT IS RIGHT IN LINE. [ARTICLE]

IT IS RIGHT IN LINE.

IS THIS COLUMN OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS. A Large Number of Accident*—A Few Suicides and l>eaths—AuU Other Important Noun. Minor State Items. Clarence Rains, Greencastlo young man, dropped dead on his way to church. Tek Coats had ids forearm cut off in Benner's furniture factory atUnlonClty. This State has no bureau of labor statistics, but twenty-eight States have them. A company has been organized at Brazil to work Ultsel silver ndno near Poland. Young woman named Britton attempted suicide, Brazil, by poison. Will recover.

Julius Baoicofkn, workman in Horton’s mill. Fort Wayno, had left hand sawed nearly off. Michael Weiner, Columbus, fell heir to $20,000 by death of relatives. Blowing it in rapidly. Edward Thorp, a brakoman. of Fort Wayne, was killed iii a rear-end collision at Warsaw. Samuel Anderson, nged Ift, while In a fit, fell in a puddle of water, near M uncle and was drowned. Mrs. Fleetwood, a farmer’s v?lfc near Tipton, refused a tramp a meal and ho burned the barn for revenge. Albert Stephenson and Miss Addle Stultz, Northiield, eloped to Noblosvlllo and wore married by tho Mayor. Robert Ludwio, convict, Prison North, has Invented new kind of bolt for doors. Said to be great invention. William Rheinann, Gorman woinerwurst poddlor, Torre Haute, committed suicldo. Shot himself throe times. John Thompson & Co.. Edinburg, millers, shipped 3,500 pounds of flour to New York to bo sent to starving Russians. Sihcph: bd BUiu h, a blind man. who had been put off a Pennsylvania railroad train, got a verdict for SSOO damages at Vlnoonnos. Rose Hardesty, a character about tho streets of M,uncle, was found frozen stiff and nearly dead in the covered bridge, just north of town. Several well-known Crawfordsvlllo citizens aro charged with suddenly leaving the town whon thoy learned that the grand jury would roturn 107 Indictments.

Sand Cheek Township, in Bartholomew County, Is out of debt, has to its credit the procoods of a section of land recently sold and there Is not a delinquent tax-payor in It. Nancy Russell was burnod to death at her home In Boone Township, Harrison County. Her clothing caught lire from a grate, and there was no one present to give her assistance. Her ago was 73. Mr. Lee Be Bolt, of the National Hotel at Pern, has received a postal noto forsl from an unknown person In Grand Rapids, who says ho rode In the Keller House 'bus fifteen years ago and didn’t pay. lie sent the money to ease his conscience. » Mrs. Stockey’s barn at Muncio, occupied by William Love, was destroyed by lire. Two horses, a mule, and a cow wero burned, together with two wagons mid several sets of harness. In going to the fire a city hose-rod ran Into one of tho escaped horses and broko Its back and also killed a blind horso. Thoro was no Insurance.; John Boger, a trustv, oscapod from the Penitentiary at Jeffersonville by scaling tho wall. He worked In tho foundry at night, and Just before the wall guards wont on dutv lie made Ills break for liberty with the aid of a ladder. It Is said he had on citizens’ clothes under Ids prison garb. Boger was sent to tho Institution from Gibson County to servo two yoars for assault and battery with Intent to kill. ,

Judge EvKKETTof Lafayette, decided that tho Wabash Valley I’roteotivo Union, which is an Indiana Insurance company, should pay 82,400 to Hugh James of Warren County, the remainder of a 83,000 policy on James’ wife. Until Jan. 1 tho protective union had offices in Crawfordsvllle, with W. E. Humphrey President, and N. J. Clodfoltor, tho Crawfordsvllle poet, Socrotary and Treasurer. It Is thought a perfoct grist of suits against the union will now bo begun by those who never got their monoy out of It. During recess at tho Main Streot School, New Albany, Slclrmy Horton, aged 13, was displaying a small dynamite cartridge to his companions and unthoughtcdly touched it against tho stove. A terrillc explosion followed, throwing those in tho immediate vicinity to tho floor, and literally tearing Burtou’s hand Into shreds. Tho explosion occurred at a time when but few of tjio students wore in tho room, which accounts for tho absence of fatal rosulta. Stephen Alexander, Wallace Mann, and Arthur Barth were slightly hurt. Patents have been granted to tho following Indiana Inventors: George A. Adams of South Rend, collar-pad; John A. E. Anderson, assignor of one-hall to E. Schopbacb, Lebanon, pistol-pocket; Jacob Harrow, Windfall, gas-burner; Eli J. Gilpin, assignor of one-half to J. M. Fogleman, Fowler, hay elovator and carrier; George W. Puddleston, Thorntown, cultivator-fender support; William Ludwig, Evansvlllo, barrel press; Benlamin Lukins, Anderson, breast-strap attachment; Thomas Pearson, Cassvllle, grain weigher; John C. Slawson, assignor of two-thirds to G. J. Macy and A. F. Weaver, Indianapolis, street-sweepor; William S. Sutton, Bluff Point, cuttorbar; William M. Whittier, South Bend, cover for catch-basins; Charles E. Wlntrodc, Huntington, tension device and adjustable wire-twisting machine; William J. Woolley, Anderson, pottery machine; Aivo Wortman, Seaflold, combined section-closer and toundatlon-fasteuer for honey sections. Executive Commissioner Havens of the Indiana World’s Fair Hoard, has issued advertisements for bids for the superstructure of the Indiana State building. The advertisements will be inserted in the daily papers of Indianapolis, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, and Evansville. Li,oyd Smith, a colored man, fell from the roof of the old exposition building at Indianapolis, while at work helping to tear it down. His skull was fractured at tho base of the brain, and he died an hour after the accident. It is said he fell a distance of sixty feet His age was 31 years. John O’Harren of Muncle, who was known by all as ‘‘Hamilton Tweedy,” for twenty years employed by tho Hemingray glass manufacturers, fell into a vault and died soon after being rescued. John W. Smith, a prominent farmer, about forty-five years old, living seven miles east of Vincinnes, was run over and killed by a freight train on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, near his home. He was cut to pieces. The train, it Is claimed, gave duo warning, but be paid no attention. It is even said he took his own life by this means. The most reasonable explanation is that the high wind prevented his hearing the approaching engine. A wife and three children mourn his death.

Martinsville Is to have a new daily paper. There are 584 convicts in the prison South. Two dirty tramps arrested at Fort Wayne, for highway robbery. Elmer Winsiup, near Farmland bled to death from hemorrhage of nose. Morris M. Mayerstein has became sole owner of Lafayote Daily Courier. Ulysses Leonard lost a hand by coming in contact with a saw at Farmland. W. 11. Johnson, President State National Bank, Logansport, died suddenly. Robbers broke Into the postoffice at Cayuga. Got S2JO in stamps and SSOO cash. * Mrs. Dan Van Ettan, Richmond, mysteriously disappeared with 3-months-old child. C. L. Storrs & Co. 's saw mill at Shirley, near Wilkinson, burned with a loss of $2,500. Religious enthusiasts of Seymour have started a movement to close butchershops on Sunday. The 7-year-old daughter of Oliver Perry, Sim)byvllle, smothered while playing underastrawstack. Mayor Robinson of Jeffersonville, has undertaken tho task of closing the saloons in that city on Sundays. David Bradburn, who shot Daniel Bradshaw last August, killing him Instantly, was acquitted at Tipton Emily Bond, aged Bt, wife of one of the most prosperous farmers of Randolph County, died near Farmland. Old hormtt named Furdum lives In cave noar Madison. Has long gray hair and beard and looks like a wild man. Richard Doggktt of Yorktown, has sued his father-in-law, John Harmon, tor SIO,OOO for wrecking tho Doggott household. William Barrett wantsslo,ooo damages from William Murphy, Logansport. Alleges slander and falso statements. Dog In MeKoon's mill Crawfordsville, got after a rat, becatno excited. Jumped through floor Into a furnace and was cremated. Trek cut down on Abrell's farm, near Muncio, was filled with natural gas, which (lowed through jtho grain of tho wood. Was lighted and blazed high. William Hi.avenski of Michigan City, an old Polack, was nearly boaton to dc-ttth by robbers who attempted to moke him divulge tho hiding place of his money.

A NKoito, Intoxicated and unknown, stepped In trout of tho north-bound express train at Cornhrook, a small station north of Columbus, and was ground to pieces. May Moore, ago 10, with a legacy of $15,000 In her own namo, was sont to the Fort Wayne Institution for J'oobleinlndod Youths by her guardian, at Seymour. The Standard Oil Company Is building a telegraph lino through the Jay County oil field tor the use of drillers and pumpers. Tho largo number of new wells made this a necessity. ‘•Chubb’’ Carroll, tho convict at Jefforsonvlllo who assaulted his guard, Aaron Applogato, causing tho latter’s death, a week later, has been indicted for Involuntary manslaughter by tho Clark County Grand Jury. Josle Kano of Goshen, Ina., (lied suit against Sylvester W. Shuinard for $lO,000 damages on the ground that tho defendant, unlawfully sold liquor to her husband, thereby ailonatlug his affections and that tholr homo had boon broken tip. New Albany police are of the opinion that the daring burglar who stolo Mrs. N. T. DoPauw’s diamonds Is tho same operator who harvostod Mrs. R. K. Donkerson's diamonds at Evansville, tho next night, and the night following that gutted a Terre Haute residence.

Timothy, alias “Sorgum" McCoy, of Anderson, appropriated school-teacher Andrew Shettorly’s suit of clothos, but was made to strip off at the muzzle of a pistol and walk a quarter of a mlloln the cold to where Ills old clothes wore lolt. 11c was then marched to tho Anderson Jail. As the third section of tho Lake Shore fast freight No. 48 was running botween Goshen and Kondallvlllo at a high rate of speed tho englno plunged into an open switch and down a steep embankment, badly wrecking tho engine, completely demolishing fourteon cars loaded with merchandise and Instantly killing the brakeinan, Joseph Eldrod, who is a marriod man, and leaves a wife and two ehlldron, who reside at Toledo.

Mrs. John Wingate of Whitlock, has entered suit against tho Toledo, St. Lonls and Kaunas City railroad, claiming $lO.000 damages. The complainant avers that Inst summer she took passage at Frankfort on a regular passenger train, and had a ticket to Whitlock. When tlm train arrived at tills place it stopped only a few seconds, and when she reached the car-door it startod up. She, thinking that probably tho depot platform had not been reached, stepped out upon tho car platform, and down a step or two. Hut she soon saw that the train was pulling through the town, and she started back In tho car, when a sudden Jerk of the car threw her from the train into a ditch. She sustained serious Injuries. Hkkt Hai. derman, alias George Wilson, tho alleged Journalist placed in jail at Columbus, for obtaining money under false pretenses and Stealing an overcoat, is a mysterious man. Ho says his name is not Hslderman nor Wilson, and refuses to give his correct name. He is 50 years old, and says he has no relatives but a wife in Chicago leading a fast life, their only child being dead. He is highly educated, writes both Hitman and Graham system of short-hand, and claims to have held positions on the leading papers In St. Louis and Chicago, 110 says he has been in the Insane asylum at Baton Rouge, La., and at Indianapolis, and claims also to have been with the confederate general John Morgan on ills famous raid through Southern Indiana during the late war, and afterward In the Seventy-third Indiana Volunteers under Col. John A. Keith. A large saw mill owned by Wilbur Armstrong, at West Liberty, was blown to pieces by a boiler explosion, and all the mill bands were injured. It is thought that two, Sherman Armstrong and JacotrSifer, are fatally hurt. Four others were brdly cut and scalded, but will recover. Mrs. James Livingstone of Crown Folnt, has come into possession of an estate valued at nearly $1,000,000. Mra. Livingstone Isa widow, and was in com-plete-ignorance of this princely bequest until afe w days ago, when the intelligence was conveyed to hor that she was the sole heir ot the fortune. J. E. Frasen of Richmond, has an 8-months-old filly that drinks beer from the bottle and chews dog-leg tobacco with a relish. It will chew up every cigar-stump it may happen on in the gutter. Dr. W. A. Byall, John Bright, and Joseph Rhodes ran across an old well in the heart of the Godfre reserve country, near Hartford City, that is a veritable doath-trap for stocK and wild animate. The mouth was so nearly hidden that small stock could plunge down before aware of its treacherous existence. The men say it’ is nearly filled with dead creatures, mostly rabbits, they having speared aud brought to the surface % dozen without reaching bottom.