Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — SPICED AND PICKLED [ARTICLE]

SPICED AND PICKLED

ARE THE INDIANA NEWS ITEMS IN THIS COLUMN. fre»h Intelligence from Every Part of the State—Nothing ol Interest to Our Readers Left Out. Minor State Item*. Odd Fellows will bbjld $30,000 temple in Peru. James Hadley, aged eighty-nine, the oldest citizen at Dublin, is dead. Mrs. John Mast, Lafayette#took dose of iodine by mistake, and nearly died. La Porte people are having their oars plugged. Town baud lias begun to give concerts. Wm. L. Wrigut, Ilosedale, in jail for alleged forgery of notes amounting to 511.000. Stephen Wright, an old bachelor at Wilkinson, died, leaving a bank account Df SB,OOO. Connersvillk driving park association, Connersville, been incorporated. Capital $35,000. Ori.in Snyiler, 35, drowned in a creek near Kokomo, while attempting to rescue his brothef. John Wiseman, 0, was accidentally shot and killed, bv liis uncle, Andy Johnson, near Seymour. George. Howe of Xenia, was killed by the cars, failing to observe the warning jf a whistling locomotive. The State funeral directors closed their meeting in Richmond. Will meet in Crawfordsville next year. Mrs. John Harch and her son of Centerville, were severely burned by an explosion of slacking lime. The Weekly Advocate of Dillsboro, has made its appearance, being tho fifth paper in Dearborn County. Wm. L. Wright, Rockville, who is alleged to have forged $13,000 in notes, is in jail unable to give bail. Rev. Henry Gardner, Fostoria, 0., has accepted pastorate of the First Presbyterian church, Kokomo. The storehouse of the Elkhart Paper Campany was damaged by fire to tho extent of $3,000, with no insurance. John Ward, 83, landmark of Randolph County, dead in Farmland. He drove stage coach in the old days. Craniotomy was performed on a 10-year-old bov at Columbus, a portion of the skull 4x2 inches being removed. Ninety-seven cases of measles reported among the Oil children at the Soldiers’ orphans’ home, Ivnightstown. Hon. John Holmes, of Knightsville, died of consumption. He was one of the door-keepers at the last session of the Legislature. • Enos Geiger’s house in Avondale was struck by lightning and set on fire, but the night watchman woke up and put but the blaze.

A calf belonging to n man named Houchen, Seymour, whirled ’round and round for two hours chasing its tail, ind then fell dead. George Saltw kiif.l, Valparaiso, brought, suit against the Valparaiso Sun for libel. Sun said he abused his wife, He wants SIO,OOO. Lewis Earhart, aged 72, ot Delubu wants a divorce from his 17-vear-oid wife. Been married since March. She grew tired and skipped. Stuart Bones, who was injured in a wreck at Indian Springs, got $4,000 damages against tho E. A R. Railroad by a verdict at Bloomington. At. Muncio the 13-year-old son of W. B. Wilsey fell under a street-car and had both his feet mashed, one having to be amputated at the ankle. Maggie Burns, Columbus, shot five times at her, lover, Melville Tolen, because he wouldn’t marry her She then went home and took carbolic acid and will die.

The Carpenters’ Union at El wood, will test the eight hour law. Have brought suit against E. R. Coxen, a contractor, for working his men more than eight hours. Charles Fickel, a young man of Salaraonia, Jay County, in jumping off a freight train on the L. E. & W. railroad, was thrown under the train and one leg crushed, requiring amputation. Th» other night at Kempton, B. C. McMury’s drug store. Dr. E. A. Burn’s drug store, Vanmoeter’s hardware store, J. C McArty’s general store and Joseph Murphy's saloon were broken into by burglars.

At Knightstown, William Jones, aged 10, was drowned in a pond in a corn-field overflowed tv Blue River. He was wading in search of fish, and venturing out too far, stepped into a hole estimated at twenty feet deep. Elias Wagner, who was sent to the i Northern Prison from LaPorte County j for two years for stealing a sack of flour, lias been paroled by the Governer. He served fourteen months for stealing a sack of flour worth 65 cents. Joseph Wolf of Rush County, was also paroled. He was sentenced for two years for stealing a goose. Two big damage suits have just been filed in the Wabash Circuit Court. Dode Reed, of North Manchester, who was arrested for burglarizing Big Four freight cars, was acquitted and sues the company for damages. Winton Ricards of the same place, sues Ulrev, Riter & Co., for $5,000 damages. While in the employ of that firm ho was hurt by the breaking of a bridge in the lumber-yard over which he was driving. A mysterious fire occurred at the home of Charles Gould, Crawfordsville, the family awakened almost suffocated by the smoke, and found the entire roof in flames, it was with difficulty that they reached the air to give the alarm. Col. Gifford, lather of Mrs. Gould had to be carried out. The loss will be 81,200, covered by insurance. A coal oil can which was full at r.ight, was found empty next morning and lying out in the yard, and there is no donbt but that the oil was poured upon the back porch and a match applied. The suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad for the killing of James Welsh of Edinburg at Columbus, sixteen months I ago. has just been concluded in the Bar- j tholomew Circuit Court, and the jury, j after being out a short time, brought I in a verdict awarding the father 81,000 ] damages. Alfred Midriff was whipped by “White Caps” in Sbarpsvilie, Tipton County. The “Caps” thought he was to intimate with a certaiu woman. Heavy switches were used and made the blood come. He succeeded in crawling to the house, after lying unconscious for some time. The Auditor’s report of the condition of the school iund, just completed, shows the total of the permanent school fund to be 8640,133.97. This is the lightest point the fund has ever reached, the increase during the last year being 80,.019.55. Mrs. Missie A. Nunn, wife of Albert Nunn, colored, of Indianapolis, walked into a room where her husband was dressing carrying a smoking revolver, and with the simple remark, “It went off.” she fell dead at his feet with a bullet through her heart. There was no suspicion that she contemplated suicide, but in the losom of her dress was found a package of “Rough on She was aged 24.

Unknown man killed Dy ears, near Elkhart. The Lutherans will build a new church in Richmond. Mrs. Daniel Tinkle, near Shoals, fell dead from her chair. Mrs. Margaret Demabee of Franklin, died, aged 77 years. John H. Organ, ex-Recorder of L&Porte County, died suddenly. Burglars cracked Hoberg & Root’s safe, Terre Haute. G0t.8200. Counterfeit gold dollars dated 1857 are in circulation in the state. Pet Perkins goes to the pen. one year from Marion for stealing a rooster. Young squirrels can now be shot in Indiana if the hunter is quick enough. South Wabash, recently annexed to city proper, wants to be disannexed. Litzunberger’s flour mills, Lafayette, burned. Loss 813,000, insurance 80,500. Columbia City wants a new grave yard. The old one is full and cucumbers are coming on. Hint to those who do not read the papers: TJie gold brick will get you if you don’t watch out. William Wrotkn and Marvis Carr, near Cicero, tried to repair revolver. Went off, and Wroten will die, Archibald Crowley, a farmer of Warren Township, by shooting himself in the forehead. DePauw will not remove the rest of his plate glass factory from New Albany to Fairmount. Said he never thought of it. An unknown enemy attempted to assassinate Seth Copeland of Greensburg, by shooting through the window at midnight. Thomas Ludwig, a boy of South Bend, was badly injured by being caught in a revolving shaft with which he was fooling. Mrs. David McCrosky fell down stairs at her home near LaPorte and injured herself so severely that she died in a few minutes. Lafayette is soon to have another daily paper, making four in all. It will be the property of ex-Representative William Hazzard. While cutting wood in South Bend C. J. Gaskill was badly hurt. Ax caught in his coat pocket and muscles of his wrist were severed. Marie Earhart, Richmond, who married Frank Fuller, a traveling man, has been granted a divorce because Fuller has another wife living. A stranger wearing aG. A. R. uniform was killed at Chesterton by being hurled from the platform of a Lake Shore train by an unknown assailant. Louis Martin who lives about seven miles northeast of Indianapolis, fell from the upper floor of the barn into a hay press and was instantly crushed to death.

John Ai.dridgE' of Mount Vernon, took the gold fever in 1849 and went to J California. He has just returned home bringing the burden of nine winters with him. His wife is 73. During an electrical storm, lightning struck the barn of Michael Mosbaugh near Cicero, burning the barn and killing seven horses. Loss, 82,000; insured in the Hamilton County Mutual. A jury at Wabash found that E. L. Rittenhouse owed the estate of George Knoop 8000 for United States bond coupons that were in an old chest that Rittenhouse had purchased for a song. Citizens are getting desperate in Crawfordsville on the Sunday closing of saloons, and demand that the council j order all screens and blinds down. ; Preachers and business men aje deterulined. Riley and Sanford Applegate, near Alaska, in Morgan County, were preparing for a squirrel hunt, when Riley’s gun was accidentally discharged. The ball passed through his brother’s leg above the knee. The twentieth annual convention of j the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the State was held at Muncle. At the convention one year ago, at Connersville, the Union had but about 1,000 members, now the roll shows 2JHO memberk in the State, and the growth of the Union the past year in Indiana by far exceeds that of any other State. George Perdue and Andrew Russler ! of Cowjin, near Muncie, recently found a pair of counterfeiter’s molds hidden in a hollow log in the woods six miles south of Muncie. The boys left the outfit and watched for the owners for several days, but without success. The molds were for $lO gold coin and bore the date 1881. They were turned over to Muncie officers.

In the eastern part of Bartholomew County the army worm, in great numbers, has made its appearance and is doing great damage to hay-fields. So numerous are these worms that in some instances as many as ten acres of growing hay is destroyed in a day. They come from the ground, it appears. It is twenty-four years ago this season when these pests last appeared there. A peculiar bug has appeared near New Ross, and L. O. Howard,’Assistant Entomologist, United Status Department of Agriculture, pronounces them as being "scutijicraforcops.” They live on cockroaches and house-flies and are common in the South. The bug has a body from one to two inches long, covered with eight plates, and "has fifteen pairs of legs, which increase in length from from front to rear, the hind ones being as long as the body. It has large, reticulated eyes, and its motions are rapid. About a month ago Shelbyvllle purchased theGamewell fire-alarm system. Since then, on several different occasions, the company and citizens have been greatly annoyed by unknown parties turning in false alarms at various hours of the night, thus bringing out the department and the people from their beds. Finally the Council passed an ordinance on the subject fixing a heavy penalty. The other night two false alarms were turned in from distant parts of the city. For this William Lane and William Moore were spotted. They were arrested and taken before Mayor Morrison, and convicted-of being the guiity parties. Each were fined 8100. W’hile Rev. R S. Ingles was delivering a sermon in tho First Presbyterian ! Church, at Crawfordsville, Johu Mati thews, a member supposed to be intoxi- [ cated. waltzed down the aisle with a bouI quet for the minister, and, giving three [ cheers, danced out again. The sermon was finished with difficulty. * | Charles Fassett, colored, of Muncie, i has a drum major’s baton that is thirty- ! eight inches long and consists of 38,000 i layers of vari colored glazed paper i strung and tightly compressed on a steel ! rod. The paper is compresst* so tightly | that there are 1.000 layers to the inch and the baton weighs but three pounds. Christopher Roudebush, a young i man residing in Tippecanoe County, was drowned in the Wea creek. He wag j on his way to visit his affianced and findj ing the creek swollen out of its banks enj deavored to drive across: The body was | recovered, Some excitement in Fowler. Prof, j Bowen is superintendent of the school i there and Miss Winnie Rosebrock is j teacher and boarded at Bowen's. Bowen jis a somnambulist, he says. One night [ Miss Rosebrock was awakened and | found Bowen sitting on her bed. She j screamed, the household was aroused, j and he fled. She left the house&nd.next | day the professor left town. He insists I that he was walking in his sleep.