Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — IF YOU ARE IN QUEST [ARTICLE]

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OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happenings of the Week— Crimes aud Casualties Sulaldea— Heaths—Weddings, t-to. Minor State Items Fruit has not been killed. Bedford will have water works. The Jonesboro News will enlarge. Snipe season has opened with plenty t>( snipe. Work ha? begun ln the Decatur County stone quarries. Ministers of Washington are discussing cheap funerals. The Bucyrus, 0.. aluminum plant will bo moved to Muncie. A large flour mill will be built four miles west of Muncie. Some of the State papers have branched out into spring'poetry. Brazil also is after electric cars. A company will be organized. JacobTaui.man. Madison, has a clock which has been running since 1810. Crawfordsvillians point with pride to the 827,718.67 it the City Treasury. Mrs. Mary Kessler, Martinsville, has gone insane from an attack of'the grippe. * Mrs. Mary Komfort, aged 96. one of the best-known women in Miami County, died at Peru.

A young woman loft a baby with Mrs. Web. McKinney, In Evansville, for a while and never returned Thomas Grant had his toes crushed off at the malleable Iron works in Marion. A molting pot fell on ’em. Samuel Grable aged 91, an Indiana pioneer, died at LogansporJ,, Utt cast h<s first vote for James Monroe. Oliver Parker and wife, near Fort Wayne, have been arrested for cruelly beating their 18-year-old daughter. Lek South, a 17-year-old boy, was almost disemboweled by a flying Iron spar at the Structural Iron Woiks in ’New Albany. A number of deaths have bemi caused at Scottsburg by cerebro-spinal nioiiingltls, which seems to be epidemic In that vicinity. Mrs. W. W. Rundell. aged 60, is attending normal school at English, with a view of fitting herself for the position of teacher. Off May 15 the now United Brethren Church at Ramsey, -Harrison County,, will bo dedicated by Bishop Nougent of Annapolis, Md. Miss Mary Marsh of Washington Township, Grant County, hgssued Henry Wysong, of that Township, for 810,000 damages for slander. William Knight’s horses, hitched Jo a harrow, ran away near Marlon. They were not injured, but it might have been a harrowing accident. A gang of thieves has taken Bedford. Several residences have been robbed. A gold watch and 8218 was taken from Mrs. George Thornton’s residence. Farmers near Seymour are getting ready to raise nutmeg melons In great quantities lor foreign markets.- The boys fore also getting ready to steal ’em. In (loshen William Hass has sued William Twomey f0r85,000 damages. Ho fays ho was injured that much by a scaffold falling while helping Twomey place a sign. Joseph Mix of Anderson, although 78 years old, and a widower but six weeks, married Jane Leach, aged 50,■ because he had been warned in a dream to maiiy her at once.

It Is reported from Harrison Township, Knox County, that Emory Smith, a farmer, cut down a tree and found natural gas spouting trom the stump. This story is not now. Lawrence E. Nagel, Fort Wayne, hit a railroad torpedo with an ax. He didn’t know it was loaded. Ha wont up in the air twenty feet, lost two lingenfl and is now In the hands of a doctor. A petition Is being circulated In Jeffersonville for the pardon of Joseph Stulz. He was sent to the Peri, four years ago for perjury. He swore that Miss Carrie Ashley, whom he married, was of age, while she was only 15. The largo peach-growers of Mp,rblo Hill. Jefferson County, sav that the cold snap did not hurt the peaches In the peach belt. In Jackson and other southern counties tho riiercury fell to 28 degrees, and heavy fee formed. Early vegetables and tender varieties of fruits were killed. Apples are probably safe. The Marlon City Council has decided to substitute a police board and police force’for tho Marshal and deputy marshals now employed. Marshal Morohead, who was elected as a Democrat, is to be retained, though the Council is solidly Republican, as an act of good faith toward, the people wl\o elected him. Fixed salaries will be adopted and no fees allowed. The merchants of Seymour have organized a branch of the Merchant’s Mercantile Agencv of Chicago, and elected the following officers: President, John J. Cobb; Vice President, L. D. Carpenter; Executive Board, F. 8. Collins, W. E. Hoadley, Mike Fox, J. R. Williams, Simon Strauss, C. L. Thomas and Philip Fettig. Tho object is mutual protection by reporting persons that will not pay their bills.

The Wabash Railroad Company, In its work on the Chicago extension, has struck a bad snag at Westville, Laporte County. The company has unloaded 3,000 car-loads of dirt there In a fruitless effoYtto fill up a sink-hole. It is the same hole in which the, Canadian* Southern builders sunk 875,000. There is apparently no bottom to It The dirt that is put in during the day disappears at night The hole puzzled the Canada Southern builders, and they quit it alter putting 50,000 yards of dirt, besides all the rubbish and brush they could find. The distance across It is about forty' rods.

The Salem City Council has passed an ordinance prohibiting boys and girls from being on tho streets, except when attended by parents or guardians, after the town clock strikes eight each evening. The fine ranges from one dollar to five dollars for each offense. In the case of Myrtle Whitman against Francis Whiteman for betrayal at Rensselaer, the jury brought In a vferdict for the plaintiff for 85,600, after being oat forty minutes. The defendant is married and a prominent farmer of Newton County, and the plaintiff is his cousin, who lived with his family in 1888, when 14 years of age. Hiram Ruskin, Harry ana Thomas Rice, three boys near Waveland, were caught in the water by a dam breaking, and carried five miles down the stream. All were good swimmers and escaped drowning by catching hold of trees. At the home of Sarah Peters, in Brown Coun‘ v . her niece, Jane Wilson, was visiting, when the two, who had once been enemies, began handling a revolver. While in the hands of Sarah. Peters the weapon was discharged. The ball hit the Wilson woman in the face, and passed downward, lodging near the juglar vein. She Is In a precarious condition and may die. Tbs Peters woman claimed that the shooting was accidental.

A New Opera House will bo built in Nobles.villp, . . . Bloomington has a new daily paper called the Herald. Samuel Grari.e, oldest resident ot. Logansport, is dead. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, will te§t the new tax law.’ Several orchards destroyed in Tipton Coue’y by the high winds. A town named Mace, Montgomery County, has no policemen. , Little town of Hatfield entirely de-stroyed-by fire, Loss 820,000. Piercy Jewell, Evansville, was thrown from a horse and nearly killed. Gab City, the new town in Grant County, Is to have a hotel Q three Jstories high. Work again has begun or the Chicago pipe line. Gas will be taken from Howard County. Frank Young, Muncie, was knocked insensible by a bolt of lightning. Recovered. Ernest Duncan was accidentally shot by his brother in the Daily Times office at Brazil. Silas Martin, near Lafayette, went into his barn and got to the end of bis rope. Funeral. The Common Sense Engine Company of Springfield, 0.. capital stock 8100,000, lias located in Muncie. William Allen, a farmer aged 75, living six miles northwest of Napance, was found dead in bod. George Everroadb of Hope, quarreled with his wife and then shot himself twice. Ho may recover. L. D. Moore, Town Marshal of Mitchell, exchanged shots with a couple ot burglars without drawing blood. William Scott of Hector, had his. arm blown off with a charge from his gun while out duck-hunting near Portland. Joseph Bohn, engineer of the towboat Diamond, was caught In the machinery at Evansville, and had his back broken. J. W. Kimberi.ing, who had done a big business in Goshen selling pianos ar\d organs, has departed, leaving his family in bad circumstances. William Sabskn, charged with attempting to assault Agnes Hutchins, was fined S3OO and given six months in jail bv a Randolph County lury. Lightning struck the residence of Hiram Trueblood; at Paoli, and everything wits consumed. The family narrowly escaped. Loss, 81,500; no Insurance. ■ . Residentsdlongi Goose Creek, Morgan County, have discovered a’ cav6 -‘stored ’ with tools and bed clothing. It Is believed to have been the resort of horsethieves, Otto Reimer, just released from the’ Jeffersonville Penitentiary, speaks seven languages. He will leave for Germany, ns he says he Is related to Dr. Koch, of' lymph fame. Rolland Hobbs, nt Albany, Delaware County, tired at a knot-hole In a public building, and Instantly killed J. W. Shotley. The Coroner foun(| the ball in Shotley’s heart. The residence of William Kessler, seven miles east of S».y>nour, was struck by lightning and destroyed, with all its’ contents. The family was absent. Loss, sßoofunln?ured.

The Southern Indiana Fish Protective Association lias employed a detective to seek testimony to convict persons of seining and dynamiting Silver Creek, near New Albany. Jerk WoODRt’FF of Shelbyville, who recently finished doing a term for assablt ■ and battery with intent to murder, was the other day returned to the Southern Indiana prison to serve a three years*, term on a similar charge. It has transpired that Adam Neidigof Washington, the miner who murdered, his wife-through jealousv'and then committed suicide, was the victim of a cruel hoax by brother miners, who, as a joke, told him that a certain miner was often seen about Neidtg’s house In the latter's absence. John Taui.man, a young farmer of Smyrna Township, In Jefferson County, went to Madison to pay is taxes. On his return homo he found his little child had been loft at a neighbor's and his wife had eloped with A. A. Tlbbots, a tramp carpenter who had been given a home by Taulman for some time. At Greensburg, Morton Brown, a lad about twelve years old, stabbed Charley Nesbit with a pen-knife. The boys had several quarrels previous to the stabbing. Nesbit was out for a ride and Brown caught the bridle and refused to lot go. Nesbit dismounted, whereuponBrown rushed at Nesbit and used bis knife, the blade penetrating the side above the foprth rib. Brown is now in, the County Jail awaiting the result of the Injury. The wound is considered dangerous. The beautiful gold badge from the P. O. 8. of A. camps at Leadville, Col., to, te presented to Miss Emma. Connor, the school teacher who has gained unsought notoriety in keeping a flag on the schoolhouse in district No. 9. Clark Township, Montgomery County, against the desire of three men, was presented to her recently, by a committee from Camp ft The badge is valued at 8150, and is a delicate and beautiful piece- of workmanship. made of Colorado gold and set with a diamond. ♦ Attorney General Miller has decided that the decision of the Treasury Department withholding 816,000 of the' direct-tax- fund for Indiana as an offset for overpayments In accounts heretofore* audited for the State was legitnnate and proper. Indiana therefore will not receive any more of the direct tax refund than the difference between the amount owing the department (846,000) and the $50,000 withheld, pending a settlement/ of overpayments, at the request of Gov. Hqvey. The Secretary of the Treasury, referred to the Attorney General the question whether the amount retained Was a legitimate offset, and the Attorney General has sustained the Secretary. Gen. M. D. Manson of Crawfordsville received a greoH-gopds circular recently, and he was very much put out about it. He Is 81 years old, and this is the first' tempting offer of this nature he has ever' received. ' J. A. Wilson last November lost a legwhile switching In the L., N. A & C. yards at Monon. He brought suit for ' 810,000 and the case went to Delphi on aohange of venue. It was compromised the other day, the road paying Wilson* 81.500, giving him a cork leg, paying his: attorneys’ fees and- binding itself to give him employment at the- water-tank lat Monon. t , Richmond people are picking about » fish peddler waking them all up by blow-, fng his tin horn. City . authorities will stop it. <. . " A perfectly petrified ham of a large, hog was recently found in a field on the poor-farm in Washington County, and is now there in possession of George W. Roseberry. The specimen is almost perfect, even shc-.vingthe saw marks on the rock’. The line of division between tfie flesh and skin is also very plain. The flesh side is beautifully ornamented with shell-fish and other water animals. It isa fine piece of nature’s handiwork, and has attracted a great deal. of comment and speculation from persons Interested in such things.