Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — THE POSITIVE TRUTH [ARTICLE]

THE POSITIVE TRUTH

THAT ALL THE HOOSIER NEWS IS HERE. IlkM Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Intel esi—Accidents, Crimes, Suicide, Etc. Running Out Saloon Keepers. The latest attempt to start a saloon at Fairuiount was that of Luthor Morris, a saloonfstof Marion, who undertook to establish headquarters there for the sale of liquors by the quart. The populace was at once aroused, the church bells were run*, the people met, a committee was appointed to confer with Mr. Morris, and ho was informed in language that could not be misunderstood, that he would not be permitted to carry on such a business in that place. For awhile be tried to bluff himself through the ordeal, but ho finally came to the conclusion that it would be best to give it "up. He informed the committee that he would leave the place in a week if left undisturbed till that time. This was agreed to on condition that he undertake to sell nothiiu; in the meantime. An idea of the spirit That animated the people of Fairmount may be obtained from the fact that when he asked to be compensated to some extent for the expense to which he had already gone, the reply was firm, but decisive, “Not one penny.” At the meeting at which this decision was announced the report was received with the long-meter doxology. Marion Is to have three new railroad depots. Madison merchants have organized into a society. Edinburg has a training school for school-teachers. A schoolhqusk to cost $12,000 will be built In Jonesboro. Fowler will have electric lights to help brighten up the town. Edinburg is to have a new council chamber and a new jail at once. Fire destroyed the 81,800 barn on the J. L. Stutz-estate riear Spencer. A SIO,OOO soldiers’ monument will bo placed in a park in Michigan City. There are 6,384 school children in Morgan County according to the last census. ’ <• A horse was killed in Terre Haute by stepping on a trolley wire that had become loosened. William Neal, Franklin, fell from a hammock and so injured his arm that it is now. almost paralyzed. Marion Jaynes, town treasurer of Fulton, has gone insane over a shortage of 60 cents, in his accounts. A colored desperado named Sims was shot and killed in New Albany, by John Davis, also colored.

UThe badly-decomposed body found in White River at Mitchell is supposed to be that of an old German who disappeared from Medora last winter. John Daily, a well-known street contractor, who was Injured while trying to climb between two freight cars, at Terre Haute, is dead from his injuries. Dr. J. T. Shields of Seymour, arose at 3 o’clock a. m. and made a professional call., Returning at 5 o’clock he found his wife dead in her bed from heart failure. Newton Anderson, a young man of Harmony, was instantly kilKid by falling slate in Zeller & Sigler’s mine south of Knightstown. This is the second accident this week. Henry Mallow, aged 72 living near Wawpecong, Miami County, endeavored to ascertain if his rifle was loaded by cocking the gun and blowing in the muzzle. He will probably die. Ex-Auditor Lavelle, charged with burning the Washington Court-house, has been refused a new trial and goes to “the pen” for eight years. The case will be taken to the Supreme Court. Frank Brinkley of Clark’s Hill, made a vicious kick at a cat, which was getting the best of his dog in a fight, but the feline dodged. Brinkley went over backwards, ana now has a broken wrist. Creeks nearand rivers Columbus are being cleared of mussels. Oyster dredges pull them ashore, the mussels are left to feed fish, and the shells are shipped to Anderson for the manufacture of pearl buttons. Saraii J. Heaton of Knightstown, who sought SIO,OOO damages for breach of promise from John W. White of Wilkinson, took SSOO by way of compromise and agreed to pay her own court costs at Greenfield. A man near New Ross, while drunk, purchased a monkey from an Italian. He attempted to take it home with him, when the animal objected and gave the man a whipping. The animal is now at large In a neighboring forest Samuel Lease, at Anderson, shot at a bird while driving in a wagon, but the bullet crashed through a window and shattered the arm of Mrs. James Brown, narrowly.missing some children at play on the porch in front of the window. The W. C. T. U. Home for Indigent Girls, at Hadley, for which Addison J. Hadley and Martha Hadley gave $5,000 in 1890, will soon be constructed according to the conditions of the bequest, one of which was that $5,000 more should be raised.

A sad accident befell* pretty Mary Campbell and her young husband at Brazil, within ten minutes after the solemn words had been spoken. Miss Mary Carter, the accomplished daughter of E. A. Carter, and William Campuell, a young farmer living two miles east of Brazil, repaired to the Bee Ridge Church, where a large number of friends witnessed the marriage. After the ceremony the young couple left in a carriage for the groom’s home, three miles distant They had gone but a short distance when the team became frightened and ran off, turning over the carriage and dashing its occupants to the ground. The bride’s right arm was broken and mangled, and she was otherwise badly hurt. The groom received several ugly, but not serious wounds.

Last January Daniel W. and Eden Smith, half-brothers and farmers residing near Lowell, this County, had a fight in which Daniel was severely cut with a knife, his lung being penetrated. From the effects of this wound he has never recovered. He has brought suit against his brother for $1,500 damages. Charles Patzeler of Crown Point, being a Hebrew, refused to sign an assessment sheet on Saturday, claiming that the day was the Hebrew Sabbath. The case has now got into the Lake County Court, and may be carried higher to determine what legal standing the Hebrew Sunday has in Indiana. Justice Moss, a molder, at Marseilles, disappeared after perpetrating a fearful double crime. While drunk he jumped on his wife, who was taken violently ill, gave birth to a premature child, which died, and the mother, after terrible sufferings, soon followed. The transfer of 200 acres in the northeast corner of Lake County to the State of Illinois fora military camping ground has just been closed. The track extends from the Northwestern railroad to the lake, and on it will be built a railroad station, barracks, parade grounds and a rifle range. Baily Bcrtt, a farmer of Clark County, while at work in a field, was struck by lightning, and still lives.

A flowing oil well has been struck to Washington. Joseph Targetter, Brazil, was cut to pieces by a train. An unknown man is scaring Madison people nearly to death. Gas will be advanced $1 per 1,000 feet in Terre Haute, ’tis said. The town of New Richmond, Montgomery County, Is to be incorporated. Mrs. William Link of Jeffersonville, found her daughter Goldie dead in bed. Coal miners say they want no more strikes. They call them a disastrous luxury. Charles Hendrix, Brazil, found an old Spanish coin dated i7Bl in his garden. It has been decided that all Indiana glass factories will close for the summer May 31. Daniel Beasley, aged 74, died at Mitchell from heart failure, resulting from grip. Benjamin Brown ot Franklin, was severely burned while starting a fire with coal oil. James Targart of Brazil, fell between two cars and his right leg was cut off below the knee. The Chicago Natural-gas Company has decided to pipe gas into Peru from the mains in Kokomo. Several young ladies of Laporte are making arrangements to walk over Indiana this summer. A juryman In a case at Logansport who could not keep awake In court was sent to jail for contempt. Three mysterious murders have been committed In Bartholomew County during the past six months. “Hoss” men are not in love with the weather we’re having. Not a “hoss” has done a track this spring. So many Indiana towns are now talking of a boom that it is going to be hard to tell which makes the most noise. The 3-year-old son of William Cornell, residing at Transitville, fell into a tub of boiling water and was scalded to death. A well at Yorktown that produced mineral water at a depth of 200 feet turned out to be a gas well on reaching 900 feet. It Is said that In Madison there are forty-nine widowers, seventy-three widows, thirty-four bachelors and old maids, and several heudred young maids. The jury in the SIO,OOO damage case of Abijah M. Jenkins, against ex-Mayor Edgar C. Wilson of Noblosville, for false imprisonment, returned a verdict for the defendant. The barn of A. J. Doyle, near Marion, was destroyed by fire. Three horses and a quantity of hay, wheat, and a number of farming utensils were burned. The loss is $1,000; insured. The saloon-keepers of Valparaiso have compromised the SIO,OOO damage suit of a Mrs. Robertson by paying her SI,OOO in cash. Her son committed suicide while under the influence of liquor. E. O. Smith, Evansville, and a boy named George Zacharias were poisoned by eating gravy which had been made of corn meal in which was rough on rats. The boy is dead and Smith is in a bad way. Ditchers on the farm of George Wright, near Bunker Hill, Miami County, in the midst of a large swamp, have excavated several skeletons. The general opinion is that they are the bodies of some venturesome travelers, Simon Bates qf Delaware County, who shot and killed a tenant on one of his farms twenty years ago, was admitted to bail ..and forfeited $5,000 to his bondsmen, has just oeon heard from as one of the victims qf a .cyclone in Arkansas. Boys wers plavlng Buffalo Bill In a Madison back yard. Willie Rogers had a revolver, which he thought was unloaded. He took Michael Garber, 13, lor a buffalo ana the revolver went off nearly killing the play buffalo by making a hole in his head.

Miss Jessie Fox, 15 years old, was found floating in the White River near Noblesville. She wss drawn from th® water uncohscfous, but was resuscitated, and will recover. It is not definitely known whether sho attempted sulcldo, or accidentally fell into the river. Bloodhounds are proving a bonanza to Seymour in hunting down criminals. At Medorathe other day they located a fugitive, and recently a negro and two whites, who had been tracked from Frank Cox’s store, that was burglarized, were arrested in Franklin and returned to Seymour. The negro, Benjamin Melton confessed that the whites, George and James Reed, had put him up to breaking in the store. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Jno. L. Barnes, Keudallville, feed mechanism for sawmills; Augustus Bruner, Indianapolis, electric conduit; Frank E. Butts, assignor of one-half to I. P. Walts, Winchester, measuring funnel; Joseph Chaplin, assignor of one-half to W. Voght, North Manchester, fence machine; Jerome O. Cook, Huntington, boilercleaner; Malcolm Dickerson, Fort Wayne, lightning arrester; Leonard HincKle, Indianapolis, combination tool, Chas D. Jenney, assignor to Jenney Electric Motor Company, Indianapols, dynamo electric machine or motor; John W. Kailor, assignor to Reeves & Co., Columbus, blase-board for clover-hulling machines; Chas. S. Kellog, Chesterton, device for keeping stalls clean; Grant Merritt, Franufort, fence; Irenffius P. Nelson, Muncie, jar-sealing device; James M. Norris, Pierceton, plow clafis; Thomas H. Parry and C. C. Stull, assignors to Parry Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, balance for vehicle top; Silas B. Rittenhouse, Liberty Mills, wrench; Phineas M. Sparks, Zanesville, stoPk fence; Andrew H. Tarris, Marion, assignor to N. C. Richardson and L. J. Tarris, swinging gate; Edward J. Updike, Mishawaka, planter; John Wall, and J. J. Mack, Terre Haute, railway frog; John F. Weist, Huntington, solar camera; Jones & Hill Company, Elkhart, chewing gum;'Miller & Newton, South Bend, medicine for the blood and digestive system; National Card Company, Indianapolis, playing cards. Two women of Huntington, who were separated from their husbands, were driving in the country with two married men of the town when the horses ran away, and Mrs. John Highland jumped from the carriage, receiving injuries that resulted in her death. Two tramps, one drunk and one sober, terrorized the women and committed a burglary at Rockville. One, who says he was born in Philadelphia and gave nis name as Frank Bills, broke into Lincoln Wimmer’s house and helped himself to an overcoat and suit of clothes. The Marshal captured Bills in a running fight, knocking him down twice. The late frosts seem to have done the fruit in the southern part of the State r good instead of damage, and saved the growers a good deal of labor by thinning out? the crop. Last year fruit was not as good as it might have been, owing to the immense quantity. This year it is believed by the present Indications, that peaches, apples, pears, etc., will be larger and of much finer quality, and that there will not be much less fruit, because, as the trees are not heavily loaded the fruit will be much larger than the crowded state of trees wonld permit last year. The fruit-growers are very well pleased with the outlook and believe that there will be as much money in their crops this year as last, if not more