Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — HERE’S ALL THE NEWS [ARTICLE]

HERE’S ALL THE NEWS

TO BE FOUND IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. Giving a Dntallmi Account of tbn Numerous Crimes, CasmUties, Fires, Suicides, Deatlu, Etc., Etc. Indiana ’ airs. In the appended list of fairs all dates are inclusive, and the name at the end of each announcement is that of the secretary: Acton District—Aug. 30 to Sept. 2, T. M. Richardson. North Salem—North Kale n, Hendricks Conuty, Aug. 1 to 5, L. C. Moore. Heury, Madison nud Delawure—Middletown, Heury Conntv Aug. 2 to 5. P. H. Hodson. Bridgeton Union-Bridgeton, Park County, Aug. 8 to IJ-, T. L. Nevens. New Boss—New Ross, Montgomery County, Aug. 8 to 12, T. F. Houk. Oakland City—Oakland City, Gibson County, Aug 22 to 27, Z. T. Emerson Wayne, Henry and II nuolph—Dalton, Wayne County. Amr. 23 to 20, J. E. Dennis. Knightstown—Knightstown. Henry County, Aug. 30 to Sept. 3, L. P Newby, Switzerland and Ohio—East Enterprize, Switzerland County, Aug. 30 to Sep., W. H. Madison, Benton and Warren—Boswell,Benton County, Sept. 5 to 9. G. W. Cones. Kentland Agricultural—Kentland. Newton County, Sept. 0 to 8, W. T. Dr ke, Grange Jubilee—Wirt Station, .'offerson County, Sept. 6 to'.l, T. H. Wallington. W arren Tri-County—Warren, Huntington County, Sept. 6 to 10, A. Foust, Auburn District—Auburn. DeKalb County, Sept, 12 to 10, t. Hussolman. Fairmount—!■ airmount, Grant County. Sept. 12tolo, J. D. Lathan. Francisville—i rancisvills, Pulaski County, Sept. 13 to Hi, E. H. Applegate. Maxlukuckee—Culver l ark, Marshall County, Sept. 13 to 16, L. C. Zechiel. North Indiana and South Michigan—South Pend, St, Joseph County, Sept, 12 to 16, u. G. Towle. W ashingtou and Parke— Pek n. Washington County, Sept. 20 to 23, J. W. Elrod. Bremen Agricultural—Bremen, Sept. 27 to 30, H. H. Miller. Eastern Indiana—Kendallville, Noble County, Sept 26 to 3j, J. 8. Coulogue. Poplar Grove—Poplar Grove, Howard County, Sept. 26 to 30, 11. T. Barbour. Tri-County North Manchester, Wabash County, Sept. 21 to 30. D. W. KrUher. Bourbon—bourbon, Marshall County, Oct. 11 to 14, tt. D. Ettinger. Northern Indiana -Goshen, Elkhart County, Oct. 3 to 7, T. A. Starr, Northern Indiana aud Southern Michigan Exhibition Association Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Oct. 4,5, 6, end 7, M. A. Wilcox,

COUTY FAIRS. Tipton—Tipton. Aug. 8 to 13, W. R. Cglebay. Jennings—North Vernon. Aug. 9to 12, W.G. Norris, Henry—New Castle. Aug. 9 to 13, 0. L. Jeffries. Boon—Lebanon, Aug. 15 to 19, L. F. Moler. Delaware—Muncie, Aug. 15 to 19, |M. S. Claypool. Jefferson—Madison, Aug. 16 to 19, S. E. Haigh. Wayuo-Hagorstown, Aug. 16 to 19, Ed Bowman. Hancock—Greenfield, Alig. 22 to 26, Elbert Tvner. Clinton—Frankfort, Aug 22 to 26. J. Hoavllon. Dearborn—Lawrenceburg, Aug. 23 to 27, J. S. Dorman. W ashington—Salem, Aug. 23 to 20, E. W. Mvnaugh. Vigo—Terre Haute, Aug 22t0 20, Charles C. Oakley. Felton—Rochester, Aug. 31 to . opt. 3, W. W. Loomis. Green—Linton, Aug. 29 to Sept. 2, J. H. Humphreys. Harrison—Corydon, Aug. 29 to Sept. 2, T. S. Get.zandanner. Putnam—Bainbridge, Aug. 29 to tept. 3, A. R. Allison. ’ llaidolph—Winchester, Aug. 3j to Sept. 3, B. F. Boltz. Scott—Scottsburg, Aug. 30 to Sept. 2, W. L. Morrison. Tippe.anoe—Lafayette, Sept. 1 to 3, Adam V. alluco. Carroll—Camden, Sept. 5 to 9, Ziba A. Brown Clark—Charlestown, feept. 5 to 8, J. M. McMillin. Montgomery—Crawfordsville. Sept. 5 to 9, W. W. Morgan. Sullivan —Sullivan, Sept. 5 to 10, J. M, Lang. Gibson—Pr nceton, Sept 5 told, S. Vet. Strain Sholby-jJihelby ville, Sept. 6 to 10, E. E. Stroiip.'af Miami—Macy, Sept. 7 to 10, Iraß. Hurst. Posey—New Harmony, Sept. 12 to 16, W. W. Robb. Greene—Bloomfield, Sept. 12 to 17, R. F. Burrell. Huntington—Huntington, Sept. 13 to 17, H. M. Purviance. Johnson—Franklin, Sept. 13 to 17, William S. Young. Rush—Rushville, Sept. 13 to 17, Charles F. Kennedy. Miami- Peru, Sept. 13 to 10, Fred Conradt. Marshall—Plymouth, hept. 20 to 23, D. L. Dickinson. Noble—Ligonier, Sept. 19 to 22, J. E. McDonald. Porter—Valparaiso, Sept. 20 to 23, E. S. Beach. Wabash —Wabash, Sept. 20 to 24, Geo. B. Fawley. Sponcer—Rockport, Sept 19 to 24, A. B. Garllnghouse. Daviess —Washington, Sept. 19 to 24, W. F. AxtellPulaski- Winainac, Sept. 27 to 30, Jesse Taylor. Grant—Marion, Sept. 27 to 30, L. F. Carmichael. Jay—Portland, Sept. 27 to3o, Geo. W. Bergman. Lake—CrownPoint, Sept. 27 to 30, B. Woods. Monroe—Bloomington, Sept. 20 to Oct. 1, Goo. P. Campbell. Perry—Rome, Oct. 3 to 8, W. Wheeler. Vermillion— Newport, Oct 3t07, L. Shepard. Wabash—Wabash, Sept. 20 to 24, Geo. B.iFawWhitley—Columbia City, Oct. 4to 7, L. Richard. Lawrence—Bedford, Oct, 4 to 8, F. Stannard. Knox—Vincennes, Oct. 10 to 15, J. W. Emison.

Crows are becoming thick in Southern Indiana. A skeleton was foil nd in a cellar of an old building which was being torn down in Franklin. Mbs. Mary A. Spears of Seymour wants 85,000 from Aaron E. Lloyd for breach of promise. A boy poured a can of coal oil in a stove In Columbus. The stove went through the roof. Boy not yet found. Knife from planing-machine flew off, in Plainfield, and struck Henry Moon in the forehead, cutting through the skull. Ho will die. Allen Skinner, a saloonkeeper of Marlon, admitted fishing with a net and was fined 850. Also August De Pair fined for same thing. “White Caps” took J. H. Haggard, an old soldier, out ot his house, near Martinsville, and were getting ready to whip him when- they were frightened away. The First National Bank. Laporte, and the Citizens’ and First National of Michigan City, the B. & B. and C. & E. 1. railroads have combined against the new tax law and refused to pay taxes in Laporte County. J. H. Rudicil, a young schoolteacher of Morgan County, who accepted a position last fall as teacher in Hopkins University, ‘ Oakland, Cal., has been forced to resign because of ill health, and has returned to Martinsville. The residence of Rev. Allla of Stringtown, Clay County, was destroyed by fire. Dr. Homer J. Hall of Franklin, was driving across a bridge over a swollen stream, when the structure gave way, precipitating him and his outfit to the water. He received painful injuries before he could reach the shore. Harry Blue of the Vandalia road, the most popular switchman in Terre Haute, was instantly killed by falling between freight cars. His death is a particularly sad one, as be had just prepared a home for bis bride, whom he was to have wedded next week. Several cases of scarlet fever at Michigan City. At Hazleton, three little brothers, sons of William Decker, were playing on the E. &T. H. tracks. They agreed to see which could get on the track first after a train passed. The youngest, who was 5 years old. was struck on the head by the caboose steps and killed. The clothing of a little child of Findley Lynn, who resides three miles from Seymour, caught tire from a pile ot hot ashes. Its screams brought Mr. Lynn to the rescue, but the child was so bauly burned that it died. Mr. Lynn’s hands were also badly burned in putting out the fire.

A new gas well has been struck.neai Farmland. The recent fire in Edinbnrg caused a loss of $25,000. Michaels, Grant County, has e* last secured a postoffice. Numerous kinds of swindlers are again working the people in the country. . Mrs. Fred Feller has mysteriously disappeared from her homo in Wabash. Michigan City people will vote to see whether they want water works or not. Marion Williams of Anderson, has a mare that gave birth to triplets one day last week. Henry Ford, colored, supposed to be 100 years old, died at the Floyd County Poor Asylum. Frank Wenzler k.st all his fingers and thumb on his righthand in a sawing machine at New Albany. Frank Johnson, a Fort Wayne lumberman, was faially crushed while rolling logs on the Maumee. John Frash of Huntington, believes lie is heir to a fifty-two-mlllion-dollar estate in Germany. A farmer near Denver dreamed he found a pot of gold. He dug his farm up, but didn’t find it. Mrs. Nancy A. Green isthoonly revolutionary pensioner in Indiana. She lives at Napoleon, Ripley County. Excitement in Carroll County grows over tiie discovery of zinc mines. Three shafts have already been put down. Kokomo is building a $20,000 schoolhouse, the second one erected in a year, to meet the growing demands of the city. William Heath, white, cut Abe Peele’s left cheek off with a razor, in Muncie. They quarreled over a woman. Experts have pronounced the bed of limestone, near New Ross, Montgomery County, to ho as fine as found anywhere else in Indiana. Rorert Neal, bank boss at one of the Brazil Block-eoa' Company’s mines, together witli another miner, was Instantly killed bv falling slate, People at South Bend are complaining about the hoodlums who gather about the theater of evenings where temperance lectures are held. Mrs. L. M. Ei.se y died at her homo In Posey Township, Clay County, aged 82. Mrs. ElSey was the first woman teacher that was given a school in Clay County.

Edwin V. Johnson of Seymour, a graduate of Annapolis, has been made a lieutenant in the United States Revenue Marine Service, being assigned to Lake Michigan. While Ed Jacoby was out driving at Thorntown with Mollie Scott, someone fired into tho buggy. The bullet struck the girl, but hit a Steel in her corset, saving her life. The old “Governor’s mansion” in Cory don, which was occupied by the first Governor of Indiana, is being torn down. The building is a two-story brick and is now the property of Dr. A. E. L. Smith. Allan Vaught, r youth residing near Solon, in Clark County, while playing in his father’s barn, fell to his ground, a distance of fifteen feet, striking on his head and causing almost instant death. As executors of the vast estate of Adam Wolfe, Jason Wilson, of Marlon, and Mayor Arthur W. Brady of Muncie, gave the largest bond over filed in Delaware County. The amount being $600,000. Claude Matthews, a fireman on the Suburban train between Jeffersonville and New Albany, while getting off of his engine slipped and fell. Tho engine ran over his log, cutting off his right foot above the ankle. Ho will probably die. Earl K. Glass, Assistant City Engineer of Richmond, was found in his room recently, dead of apoplexy. He was 28 years old, and a leader in young people's religious circles. His remains will bo shipped to his homo at Knightstown, where his parents reside. The determination of the congregation of the Evangelical Church at Brazil to hold Sunday-school In spite of minister Winters, who refused to give up tho key to tho church, caused something of a sensation. Tho members of thochurch broke in and had services, held a song and prayer-meeting in the evening, while the minister remained at home, refusing to come and preach to ills flock. There is trouble betwreen Mr. Winters and tho congregation over the famous DubbsBowman case, the minister having expelled the entire church, recently. The members bought a new lock, and now the minister is locked out. Tho preacher will resort to the courts.

When the farm bell rang for supper at the home of Irvine Love, four miles east of Marion, the other night, Orville, the 15-year-old son, did not respond. The father called for the boy, who was finishing his evening work, and, receiving no answer, started in search of the tardy one. He found him lying on the ground in the barn-yard. He was unconscious and was bleeding from a wound In the head. They took him to the house, but the skull was crushed so as to lay bare the brains, and he died in thirty minutes. There were no witnesses to the accident, and how the boy was struck will probably never be known. It is supposed, however, that the colt which he had been w atering struck him with its fore-foot.

The Western Improvement Company is now building a line hotel on its land near Yorktown, its dimensions being 100 feet long by sixty wide, and three stories high. The new fiouring-mill, of 200 barrels capacity, at the head of the lake, has already been commenced. The aluminium works, from Bucyrus, 0., are now at Yorktown, awaiting switching f acilities which are being putin by the Big Four, that the machinery may be unl<.ded from the cars, and the building of the furnaces commenced. The brass and novelty works wi'l be opened out with a full force of hands next week. The Yorktown brick factories are to furnish material for these buildings, which, with those yet to to be erected In the near future, will create a big demand for laborers. A car-load of carpenters had to be sent for last week. Elmer Willard, desperado and highwayman, badly wanted in Logansport, was located at a farm house. The police and detective force attempted to capture him when he escaped under a hot tire. Fourth-class postmasters have been appointed for Indiana as follows: Corkwell, Jay County, R. Landis, vice H. L. Robbins, resigned; Fargo, Orange County, I. S. Pittman, vice G. P. Bonwasser, resigned: Ijamsvillo. Wabash County, G. H. Eckman, vice E. T. Green, resigned; Mi ill In, Crawford County, E. A. Senn, vice J. W. Senn, resigned; Saluda, Jefferson County, L. C. Talbott, vice J. G. Marling, resigned. Thaddeub Hays, an 11-year-old boy, had his right arm cutoff at the shoulder by a train be was attempting to board at Richmond. This family seems to be a very unlucky one. Two years ago another son was killed by the cars, and, three years ago the father became insane, afterwards dying in the asylum. Footy Egan and James Ellis, each over 60 years old, “fell' out” at Scot Hedrick’s stable, in Marengo, over the size of a jack, which Egan claimed was sixteen feet high. “Sixteen hands you mean.” said Ellis, at which Egan grew angry, threw a pitch fork and struck Ellis in the neck. A fist and skull fight ensued and Ellis is badly Injured.