Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1892 — SPICED AND PICKLED [ARTICLE]

SPICED AND PICKLED

ARE THE INDIANA NEWS ITEMS IN THIS COLUMN. ''will InteJLlEonco from Every Part ot the State—Rot HI or ot lutbreet to Our Readers Lett Out. Minor State Itenie. Many horses in DeKalb County affected with glanders. Students at Wabash College blow up an onthouse with dynamite. Chicken-pox Is going rounds among children of Oaktown and vicinity. There are 1,800 men on the pay-rolls of tho car works at Jeffersonville. < Near Goshen two Lake Shore trains were telescoped, killing forty hogs. Lewis McGuire of Farmland, had both egs crushed by tho cars at Winchester. Chesterton has a local minstrel troupe preparing to spring old gags on tho town. Charles Palm, aged. 75, was run down by a Monon locomotive at Lafayette. Frankfort kids are mischievous. They are forever tying cans to dogs’ tails. Asa result of a revival in Seymour 150 have been converted and 100 have joined the church. Kokomo has organized a base bail association with 83,000 stock, to enter the Ohio Indiana League. Richmond Is torn up over mesmerism since a traveling professor mosmerized several prominent citizens. William Wilhite of Crawfordsvillo, had a leg cut off falling under a Cloverloaf train, at Now Richmond. Howard Percy, living near Danville, had been suffering from grip and has wandered oft and can’t bo found. Giles Brothf.rs’ factory, that manufactures pots and furnaces for glass-fac-tories, will move from Bellairo to Muncio. Miss Arbie Simkny, a popular young woman of Danville, on her way homo from a dance, fell dead from heart disease.

New Albany sportsmen are having plenty of good shooting at the flocks of ducks now swarming in tho Ohio at Sand Island. Olive Wilson’s 17-months-oid child of Mohawk, Hancock County,-was fatally scalded by overturning a small tub of boiling water. Several arrests, Marion, ot men who have been taking fish from river at night by means of seines, nets and otherwise contrary to law. Silas E. Rinicer, an old settlor near Brooklyn, died of erysipelas, being the fourth out of tivo brothers who have fallen victims to that disease. The safe of Brackett & Barret, lumber merchants at Rochester, was burglarized, but only 813.31 was secured. The burglar-proof safe was demolished. Jeffersonville is believed to bo Infested with a desperate gang of burglars. A robbery has been attempted or committed every night for two weeks, It is said. Horse ran away with Dick Causey, young farmer, nerar Galveston. Ho was thrown and foot caught In stirrup. Dragged some distance, and was nearly dead whon rescued.

John Moore, toll-gate keeper, near Muncio, pulled down the pole on Henry Cochdru, who tried to drive past without payitie. The latter had Moore arrested for assault and battery. Rev. William Wyatt Reed, pastor of tho Rockport M. E. Church, died on Thursday after a painful illness of six months. Rev. Reed was ono of the ablest young ministers in tho State. It is claimed that 800 oil wells will bo drilled around Montpelier ihts year, and the peoplo are said to be flocking to the town so rapidly that many have to hive in barns until houses can be builldod. John Mote, a boy 9 years old, fell into a wheat bin in Elward & Adams’ elevator at Lagro, Wabash County, and was smothered to death before he [could be taken out. No blame attaches to any one connected with the blevator. Jacob Bicknell shot himself in his blacksmith shop at Greeneastle, but whether, by accident or design is unknown. The load entered his abdomen, and death ensued within half an hour. He was about fifty years old, and leaves a wife. Myra E. Rogers got a verdict of 83,500 in a Jeffersonville court against Charles P. Rogers, her former husband, whom she sued for breach of promise to I marrv her a second time, it having beon I discovered that their first marriage ocj curred while her supposod dead husband was yet alive. The 820,000 damage siMb of Charles Griffin against Charles Doxey and tho Lebanon Heat and Light Company, on trial at Frankfort, for tho past week, terminated in a verdict of 80,000 for the plaintiff. In September, 1890, young Griffin, with another lad, was seriously injured by a gas explosion from the defendants’ mains. The pipo had been loft on the top of the ground, and tho boys, playing about, ignited the accumulated gas from a leak. Tho other boy received a like verdict in Hamilton County a few months ago. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: George W. Abell, Indianapolis, composition of matter for covering walls or othetLsurfaces; Thomas W. Carmichael, Bellmore, fence machine; James L. Carrs, Henryvilie, car-coup-lings; Chester W. Clark, Mishawaka, cultivator; William Curtis, assignor of one-third to R. S. Engle, Sullivan gate; Amasa P. Hay, Goshen, windmill governor; George W. Kelley, Goshen, carpetsweeper; James R. Kendall, Terre Haute, apparatus for the manufacture of gas; YViiliam Lamb, assignor to J. C. Lamb, Covington, tax-calculator; Nate H. Roberts. Indianapolis, saw-swage; William M. Skelton, Lebanon, stay for wire fences; Victor Thompson, Russiavilie, sliding gate. Homer Hays, the 31-year-olfl son of Joel Hays, residing near SDiceland, committed sulciae by hanging in his brother’s barn, near Raleigh. He was dead when found, and no cause is known. A note was found in his pocket requesting that his body be not taken home. Hiram Russell, a farmer near Lafayette, has sued the President and Veterinary Surgeon of the State Live Stock Commission for 8300 damages for killing two dogs belonging to him. There was a mad-dog scare and the dogs of Russell were killed because they had been in contact with the dog presumed to be mad. Frank Miller began abusing his nephew, Gustavus Reubelt in Doyle’s saloon, at Brazil, when the boy seized a beer mallet, felled his uncle, and it is thought inflicted fatal injuries. Gov. Chase has granted a pardon to George Cassady, sent to the Jeffersonville Penitentiary in June, 1890, for three years and a half, for .robbery. Two other men had been arrested for the robbery, and one of them, after his incarceration, charged Cassady was also Implicated. This caused hi* arrest and sentence. The man afterwards acknowledged that he had testified to an ontruth, hence the movement and ultimate pardon of Cassady. The robbery was committed in Morgan Coantv.

Till-tappers at work in Brazil. Fort Wayne expects a building boots this summer. The Edinburg Council has adopted th< screen ordinance. Otto Hoffenbertii of Peru, was found dead in bed. Big company organized to opon stone quarries, near Mitchell. Charijcs A. Richards, Wabash, oldest printer in Indiana, died. Charles •; Baldwin, insane, has escaped from Richmond asylumClay County people are "yellin’” for better roads, and they want ’em bad. Connersvii.i.e, takeu as a whole, needs a fresh coat of paint —so say the citizens. .Tack Wagner, miner, Brazil, badly Injured by being caught in a cattle guard. Two highwaymen, Torre Haute, hold up aud robbed Fred Ernest of ail his money. Farmer Joseph Prutzman of Delaware County, struck gas on his farm south of Muncte. Thieves have been raiding the villages of Jolllotvillo and Eagletown.ln Hamilton County, recently. | William Mooney, Tipton, attempted suicide with arsenic. In serious condition and will probably die. Harry Lyon, near Delphi, knocked down and gored by angry bull. Seriously wounded but will recover. A gang of leisurolv, happy-go-lucky, take-what-you-can-get tramps aro making a grand tour of Indiana In a body. The Old Bachelors’ Club of New Albany has takon extra precautions to prevent being ambushed during the proseut year The Thornburg mills, of Martinsville, shipped a consignment of flour to New York to bo sent to tho famine districts of Russia. Family named Culp, Porter County, filed a petition in Clerk’s offico, Valparaiso, asking that their name be changed to Culvorn Jacob Robinson, tho old life convict at Jeffersonville, was parolod long enough to attend his daughter’s funeral at Charleston. TnK Connersvillo Woman’s Rellof Cqrps presented the local Q. A. R. Post, of that city, with a now flag for tho soldiers’ lot In tho cemetery. Two hundred structural iron-workers at New Albany,.aro on a strike because of a misunderstanding concerning how certain work should bo done.

Mineral water was struck at Martinsville recently,at a.dopth of 530 feet, making the fourth well. Tho company will spend several thousand dollars on a saiih tarium. James Carter, dressed as an Indian at a Fort Wayne masquerade ball, snapped a supposed-to-be unloaded revolver of Albert Roth, who fell with a bullet In his brain. A complaint has boon filed In the Circuit Court, Logansport, alleging that the Indiana Natural Gas and Pipe Lino is heavily In debt, and asking tjiat a receiver bo appointed. Many years ago Potor Trimble fell against a stove, slightly burning one of 4iis logs. Slnto then he has been a constant sufferer, and tho other day, at Muncle, ho had tho limb amputated. William Van Arsdei, found guilty of manslaughter, Montieello, and given two years in Prison North. Ho is tho saloon keeper who killed Dora Throp, Motion, by striking her on tho hoad with a beer glass. C. C. Richardson died at Tipton, eight years ago, from broken heart and business failure. Ills sou left homo nineteen years ago, and could not bo found until last week, when ho was located iu Buona Vista, Cal., where ho is a prosperous ranch-owner. Six Hundred volumes of literature, consisting of history, fiction and miscellaneous matter, have been received at the Prison South and added to the library. l'he money paid for tho books Is dorived from tho sale of tickets to visitors shown through the Penitentiary. The city of Crawfordsville has begun suit against H. S. Braden and his bondsman, John S. Brown, for SO,OOO. This grows out of an injunction suit against the city to prevent tho city doing commercial lighting, tho Supreme Court having hold that tho city could do this class of lighting. At a meeting of officers of various fair associations held at Gosport, the Southwestern Indiana Fair Circuit was formed. Uniform rules of entry were adopted and a circuit purse agreed on for racos. Fairs will be hold on the following dates: Spencer, Aug. 15-20;Gosport, Aug. 23-37; Linton, Aug. 29 to Sept. 3; Sullivan, Sept. 5-10; Bloomfield, Sept. 12-17; Bloomington, Sept. 20 to Oct. 1; Bedford, Oct, 3-8.

In a box-car, standing on a lonely side-track on the O. & M- railway, five miles west of Vincennes, a man was found confined recently, he having lain there for eight days without food, water or fire. Ills feet were so badly frozen that he could neither stand nor walk, while ho was almost famished from hunger. He proved to bo Frank C, Bairlo, a farm-hand, who had been working for a farmer near Vincennes. In attempting to steal a ride ho had been locked up and side-tracked in an out of way place.

A deed was placed on record in Lake County recently, from Josephus 11. Collett to Edgar A. Lyon, convoying 883 acres of land for the consideration of 8330,750. This Is the largest sale of real estate made in that locality this year, and comprises a tract of nearly two miles frontage on the Grand Calumet River, and lies near the Michigan Central Railroad. It is understood that Lyon bought this property for a Massachusetts syndicate which will erect a large manufacturing plant and locate a town similar to Pullman, 111., though what the nature of the plant will be can not be learned, as the sale has been kept rather quiet. That the sale is bona fide car. not bo questioned, as Lyon is one of the persons who helped secure the large stockyards tract two years ago. Andrew Westebvklt, one of the wealthiest property owners in La Porte, has been adjudged insane and application made for his admission to a Cincinnati private insane asylum. Fear of robbery is the feature of his insanity. He dwelt on that subject until his reason was.shaken. A Dunkirk reporter has taken the weight of the nineteen heaviest mon In that place and finds that the total avoirdupois is 5,250 pounds, or an average of 270Jj pounds to a man. Tho weights ranged from 265 pound up to 310. The nineteen fat men of Portland tipped the scales 8t 5,014. Aijikrt Poffenbaroer of Union City, had his hand cut off with a Saw at the Union City furniture factory. Marion Hedspath, now In lall at St. Louis for the Glendale express robbery, was formerly a resident of Gibson County, Ind., aud lived on a farm: In January, 1808, he and his father had a quarrel over seme farm work. After tho quarrel Marion went to the house, and, procuring a shotgun, started for his father. He met him in the yard, and Taising the gun, fired both barrels. The shot missed his father, but killed his mother. At the time he was 16 years old. He was arrestod. tried, and sentenced to the Indiana Reform School for . five yeai%