Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1892 — IF YOU ARE IN QUEST [ARTICLE]

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OF FRESH INbfrirtA NEWS. PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: 1 ■ Important Happenings of tho WeekCrimes and Casualties Suicides— Heaths—Weddings, Sts, Minor state Item-, A new paper Is to be started in Monroo City. Wobk on Nappaneo waterworks is under way. Terre Haute electric street railway line is being extended. Mrs. Barbara Gaumf.r, 70, was found dead In bed in Madison. Greenfield will have thirty-flvO arc lights of 2,000 candle powor. Crawfordsville wants tho undertakers’ convention! to hold its session tkero. Charlie Colt.iNS. Michigan City,made a hole In. Fred Wonsrockett’s face with a ftobert rifle. At Now Albany, Ferdinand Hallman committed sulaldo by drowning himself In Sliver Crook. H, W. Gragg, near Covington, tried to catch on to a freight train and had both feet cut off. The wet woather has been a damponor on Hamilton County crops. Farmers are away behind. Honry Mknkk, a Gorman, was killed by a freight train at Newpolnt. Ilis homo was near Kingston. Albert Henderson, born In 1815, is dead in Lafayetto. lie was organizer of several associations. Mrs. Jessie B. Davis, Scottsburg, jumpod from a buggy daring a runaway and was badly hurt. There havo boen 327 marriages in Kokomo the past yoar and elghty-ano applications for dlvorco. A factory to mako surgical chairs and tablos has boen secured for Anderson; capital SIOO,OOO. The Essox family hold thoir sixth annual rounlon In llopo. There wore five generations prosont. After all, tho glass factories in Indiana will not close down for tho summer vacation until June 30. Fort Wayne has a man called “Jack tho poisonor.” Several dogs have crossed tho lino with his assistance. Mrs. Minkßva F. Wigginoton died at Martinsville of consumption, she being the last member of hor family. Eaton, north of Muncio, it Is said, will get tho great Whlteley reaper works that aro to be moved from Springfield, Ohio.

Mrs. Nick, who sued Isaac Newton Dicks, in Greenfield, for slander, has boon given a verdict of 1 cent. The coats , amount to SI,OOO, William Kennedy, 12 years old, foil from tho top of a forty-foot troe to the ground. Ho struck on tho side of his head, and will probably die. Foktville Board of Health lias ordered the marshal to compel citizens to clean their front door yards. If thoy don’t, thoy will bo arrostod. Charles Conrad of Clark's Hill, Tippocanoo County, dlod from lockiaw, caused by a slight wound In lifs hand that developed blood-poisoning. Miss Rosa Amick Is (load in Now Market, near Joffersonvlilo. Hho was the smallest woman lo tho world and for flftoou years travoled with circuses. The sovonth annual reunion of tho Forty-sixth Indiana Regiment will bo held at Delphi, Ind., Aug. 20 and 27. The Sixteenth Indiana Battery will meet at tho same time and place. At Elborfeld, Henry Loneman was kicked to death while grooming a stallion. His body was removed from tho stall with groat difficulty, tho vicious animal not permitting any one to go negr. Samuel Davis, editor of the Stark County Republican, has four children, two boys and two girls, who aro accomplished musicians. They give concerts as a sido issue when newspaper business is dull. O. K. Dunbar and Frank Carroll started from Ccntrevllloiio deliver a lot of plows from the agricultural bouse of J. A. Dunbar & Co. to Jacksonburg, six miles distant. In crossing Greonsfork Croek tbe hortos became unmanageable, the wagon overturned, and both animals woro drowned. The men escaped with difficulty. A few months ago Richard Foley, a molder of Jeffersonville, went to Indianapolis to secure work. After several davs spent in futile effort to obtain employment, having spent all bis money, bo climbed Into a refrigerator car to ride homo again. The door was locked on him, and ho nearly froze to death before reaching Louisvillo, where the car was opened, Soon after consumption sot In from tho chilling bo received, and be never recovered, dying the other evening. At Evansville, Horman Kasiing, a German, while laboring under a temporary insane freak attacked his wife from behind and struck her four vicious blows with an ax. She foil unconscious in a pool of blood. Kasiing then locked himself in a room and hacked his hoad in a irightful manner with tho same ax. Ho fell from exhaustion, caused by loss of blood. His skull is crushed, and he and bis wife will both die. Kasiing thought the Lord had commanded him to kill his wife and blmselL . George Heflin, a farmer, of German Township, Bartholomew County, bad a valuable cow crippled by having Its leg broken. Hoping to save the animal he attached his bay-fork rigging to tbe limb of a tree, Intending to lift it to Its feet and keep It In one position until tho broken bones unltod. To do 1 this It was necessary to attach a horse to the rope the same as In unloading a load of Kay. Tbe horse becarno frightened at the cow and ran away. Up wont the cow to the distance of thirty feet, when the rope broke. Tbe horse went through a fence near by. THo cow is now dead. CnABLES Mcßride. While out riding in a skiff, with two other young men, near tbe Kentucky and Indiana railroad bridge, at New Albany, lost his life. The small craft was caDsized by the heavy wind. The other two men clung to the skiff until help reach them. Rease Snooks, night coal-heaver at Laketon Junction, attempted to jump on a Wabash railroad engine, but fell under tbe wheels. His right arm was badly mangled, and the doctor found it necessary to amputate the member at tho shoulder, after which he was taken to tbe railroad hospital at Peru. It is not believed he will recover. A member of the freshman class in Wabash College was expelled lor “cribbing” in mathematics. The class, numbering fifty, threaten to leave school unless he is forgiven. The big deal by which a syndicate of Chicago and Cincinnati capitalists obtained control of the immense papermill of the Diamond Match Company, Wabash, has just been consummated. Tbe new conmany -organized to take the property will be styled the Wabash Paper Company, and the capital stock fixed at $600,000. The Diamond Match Company will hold but a small block of the stock, but will take, for the next five years, fifteen of the thirty-five tons dally product of the mill.

Muncik is being bothered by a gang of kid thieves. Loogootee, by recent count has 1,309 souls within its borders.' Gosport has decided to pen up hep hogs by a vote of 103 tcr4s. A gang of barn burners are getting In their work in Owon County. Rudolph Voltz of Michigan City, was killed by a train in Chicago. Real estate in IValparlaso is advanc* ing in price. Looking for a big boom there. A new pipe organ costing $4,200 has been placed in tho Lutheran Church, Fort Whyne. Five freight cars Wqre Smashed In Liberty by a train breaking in twa Loss, SI,OOO. The Presbyterian Church of Knigbtstown has purchased a two-thousand-' dollar pipe-organ. >• Judge Thomas F. Davidson Is dead In Crawfordsville. He was born in Covington, Ind., in 1839. ’Squire Keigwin, Jeffersonville, Is said to havo married 7,000 ruhaway couples during his time, • A cave in Shelby Connty has been fitted up for pic-nlc parties. One large hall, it is said, will hold 300 people. Louis Gant, of Martinsville, was picking at a dynamite cartridge, when it'explodod, tearing off his fingers and both his thumbs. Jake Wilson, in attempting to Jump on a moving engine, at Brazil, missed the step and fell under the wheels. He will probabty die. Horsemen in Morgan County have decldod to havo a wpek’s racing at Martins- ‘ villo in July and another week in October this year. The hetrs of James H. Luthor, of Crown Point, who began to distribute his wealth before bo died, are preparing to have the clever old man tried as to his sanity. He is worth 875,000. The body found Mav 1 on the L. A N. tracks noar Evansville, turns out to be that of Jamoa Sherwood, a nephew of William Princeton, ono of the most prominent men In Evansville. Elmer Conklin wa| literally cut to pieces on tho Chicago and Indiana coal road near Yeddp. He was unfortunately fastened hi a cow-pit when Btruck by tho train. Conklin loaves a wife and two chlldron residing at Yoddo. < Committees from Red Men Lodges at Now Castle, Hartford City, Richmond, Winchester, Dalosvlllo, Selma, Now Corner, Alexandria, Anderson, Cambridge City, Falrland, and other places In the district, mot In.Muncio, and decided to give their annual picnic at New Castle, Aug. 23.

The Bank of Spiceland was organlzod at Splcoland with a paid up capital of $30,000. Following were oloctod directors: Joslah P. Rogue, 0. H. Guynn, Nathan Scovell, Oliver Greonstroot and O. H. Nixon. The offleors arc: President, Joslah P. Boguo; Vice-President, O. 11. Nixon; Cashier, Charles U. Guynn; Assistant cashier, Thomas K. Millikan. May 3, Lemuel Crockett of Cambridge City,.who had been drinking heavily, quarreled with a Jew namod Polasky, pulled his rovolvor and began shooting; Marshal Drlschol interfered, but Crockett fired three shots at tho Marshal, wounding him id the loft hand. The desperado was arrested and the lury the other day gave him top years in the penitentiary. John Bush, a well-known farmer of Washington County, while at work in bis field was approached by one of hIS neighbors, Ezra Nicholson, who began quarreling. Only a sow words were passed whon Nicholson drew a huge' knife and made a lunge at him. Bush tUrnod and fled, and had run but a short distance when be saw a singletree laying In his path. Quick as thought he picked it up, and, turning suddenly, struck his antagonist a blow on tbe bead, braining him. Nicholson cannot receiver. Bush was arrostod, but immediately released on bail. i

WAiiAsif'Olrcult Court Is askod to decldo tho ownership of, >OOO, the same bolifg a very peculiar case. Last fall, at the sale of tho effects of Henry Walker, deceased, a tool chest was bid off by E. L. Ulttonhouso. Somo time afterward he found snugly hidden In the cbost twenty government bon'd coupons of >3O oacb of the old 5-20 Issue and bad them cashed. A good mahy year's beforo George Knoop lived in Walker’s family and is said to havo owned government bonds. He Is also dead, and whfn his family heard of tho find they sued' lift tori house for the SOOO. Tho case Is being watched with milch Interest. Patents have been issued to Indiana Inventors as follows: Charles Bow, Angola, door check;' Martin L. Clements, Indianapolis, wire fence; Arthur D. Cochran, Indianapolis, street car curtain; llontbn Deardorff, Hagerstown, assignor of two-thirds to J. H. Kldwell add W. G. Matthews, corn-plantei*; John W. B, Wiggins, Pranktou, assignor of one-half' to J. V. Keck, Arcadia, wire fence; John Hanley, Torre Haute, folding electionbooth; Allen W. Helms, Aylosworth, bridle-bit; John H. Idea, Bourbon, photographic kit; Albion Smith, Richmond, game-counter; John W. Trainer, assignor to Fort Organ Company, Fort. Wayne, stop action for organs; Clarence L. Welch, assignor of one-half to J. W. Clark, Marlon, Melting furnace. South Kokomo, with a population of 2,500, has po saloon, and the latest effort to start one has jurft been repelled. Last September George Englert made application, but the Commissioners decided against him. He appealed to the Circuit Court, and when the case came to trial the Court-room was filled with women, who protested against the proposed ginmill. Englert then took a change of venue to Tipton County. More thin one hundred south-side residents, principally women, went to Tipton to attend the trial, taking with them baskets of lunch, prepared to stay till It was ended. The case went to the jury and in fifteen minutes they brought in a verdict against the saloon. There Is great rejoicing in South Kokomo. The applicant Is out about S3OO costs besides attorney's fees. It Is said that a Henry County man, while drinking out of a spring, swallowed a snake. A doctor gave him an emetic and he vomited out eight snakes. Men have been killed for telling such stories before now, TnEif have some very brave officers in Peru. One night Merchant Policeman Paden saw a strange man standing near a building as if watching something. The man was allowed to remain and the next, morning it was found the building had* been burglarized and SIOO taken from Puterbaugh Bros.’ hardware store. The man bad only been guaijjlng the burglars. Frank Slaughters, a young man, 21 years of age, residing at 27 Wright street West Inckanapolis, attempted to board a moving train on the Peoria division of the Big Four railway/west of the river bt Indianapolis. Missing his hold, he fell under the wheels' and had both legs taken off, the right leg below and the left above the knee. Granville Talmage, aged 18, of London, Ohio, was drowned in the Wabash River at Peru, and the body cannot be recovered owing«to high water. He. with a companion, Clay Brown, floated down the river thrfee miles on a raft, and becoming scared endeavored to swim ashore. Brown sank twice, bnt by desperate effort reached the shore.