Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — HERE’S ALL THE NEWS [ARTICLE]

HERE’S ALL THE NEWS

TO BE FOUND IN THE STATB OF INDIANA. Giving a Detail**! Account of tlie Ntuneron- Crimes, Casualties, Fires* Suicides, , Deaths, JEto., Etc. Minor State Items. Tiios. Miller, an old settler near Goshen, is dead. & The saloonkeepers of Crawfordsvlllo have organized. Mrs. Caroline Weaver, a. Cicero pioneer, Is dead. New Alrany is raising a howl for a new railroad depot. It is estimated that Montgomery County has 2,149 dogs. Covington lias contracted for electric light and water works. A raskkt factory Is tho latest enterprise booked for M uncle. i 1 Seed Riggs. at Mitchell, had his back broken by driving under a tree. Montipello lias organized a military company with forty-seven members. Clifford Hendricks was badly burned by a natural-gas explosion at Muuote. Work on the new I uildings on tho site of tho burned glass works in Mancie has begun. Portland has a curiosity In a chickon with four wings, four legs, and one head. It has boon preserved. Lightning struck tho rosideneo of S. C. Allen, at Hammond, and rendered hta daughter blind lor life. Martin County has manv valuable springs that would coimhaml attention, If properly Improved. The extension of'thn ”Thrco I” railroad from Knox to Goshen, via Plymouth, Is being talked of. Wm. Vornhort, a prosperous farmer near .Seymour, was struck by lightning while atacking wheat. Dead. Baptists of Franklin aro making arrangements for an eight days’ meeting in the fulr grounds at that place. A stranger, supposed to bo William Cain of Turre Haute, died and whs burled In the potters’ field at Bloomfield. Albany, In Dolaware County, has socured a large paper-mill and a plant costing $100,090 will be erectod at once. Two tramps assaulted a railroader at Porn, and In eighteen hours thoy woro on their way to tho pen to do two yoars* time. Monroe Citv has called an Indignation meeting to protest against ’’so much indiscriminate lawlng" around there. Horace Peacock of Wheat field, was found dead In his bod at the house of a relative, near Itonssolaor, whore ho was visiting. A Peculiar dlsoaso allllctlng Wilson Cruder of English, has caused a scare In that town by some people calling It leprosy. The Anderson glass workers’ union is kicking against non-union made glass Doing used In Indiana’s World's Fair building. Prof. George C. Hubbard, rocontly principal of tho Madison High School, has accepted the chair of sdenco at Moore's Hill Collogo. Elsie Lkaoiiman of Hall, Morgan County, was standing under a tree a few days ago. Lightning struck tho tree, killing him and his dog. A wall gave way at Lafayette, dropping tho stock of throo Hours of tho Dlonhart Harness Company Into a cellar filled with water. Loss $4,000. A PETITION Is In circulation In Davies Connty for tho pardon of Ledgorwood and llarbln, who woro convicted of trying to burn the Court House. A steamboat has boon built In Lafayotto for service on tho Wabash River that Is eighty feet long, a double docker and will carry 300 passengers. At llnwpatch, near Goshen, a sixfoot splinter in a saw mil) was drlvoft through Hummer Dowell’s Intestines Into his left arm. It is thought ho will live.

Miinoik “tanirlofoot” has such a peculiar effect on Andorson men that they can’t turn around on tho commons after making a deposit of it under their vests. A 12- year-old daughter of John Brandt was drowned in the Wabash, near Huntington, by’a wagon overturning in which tuo lamlly was fording the stream. Vernon and North Vernon aro to bo connected by a street railroad, tho line passing through a picturesque strip of country along the banks of tho Muscatatuck. Evansville has had five of her inhabitants drowned In one week wbils they were bathing. The people there should Vie warned against tho evils of bathing. Mbs. Mahoabkt 800 an, of Marlon, has brought suit against the electric street railway company, of Kokomo, asking 810,000 damages for tho killing of her husband recently. While breaking a colt to drlvo, Scott Richardson, a wall known larmer and stockman, of Stockwel), received fatal injurlos from a kick by tho animal. He died soon after the accident. While Mavor Zern, Peru, was watching a race at tho track, his horse started down tho borne strotch. Tho crowd expected to see him killed. The buggy was wrecked," but the Mayor was unhurt Albebt Touy, a boy, escaped from the Reform School at Plainfield, and was discovered at Gosport. Officers attempted to arrest him, but he evaded their grasp and ran. They pursued him and tho lad, becoming overheated, fell dead. While returning from Chicago, Dr, J. T. Mercer of Arcadia, was Instantly killed at that place in attempting to alight from tho cars before they stopped. He struck the platform and roiled under the train, the wheols passing over his body Just belbw the shoulders. The Evansville and Indianapolis passenger train collided with a freight at Brazil and W. P. Davis of Brazil, received several painful bruises and ancthcr passenger was badly cut about the head and face. Katie Smitil an 8-year-dld girl, an inmate of Worolee Orphau’sHorae, Richmond, was instautly killed by the failing of a swing. The little girl was sitting in the swing, when one of tho posts supporting it broke off just below the ground. It fell, striking her on the head, crushing the skull and causing almost instant death. She was a native of Fort Wayne. Lightning struck a short telegraph circuit in Roachdale and set fire to several barns, whereuDon, it is reported, the alarmed citizens cut down all remaining private wires in tho town. Township Trustees at Crawford9ville have decided to increase the salary of teachers holding twelve, twenty-four and thirty-six months’ license from 82, $2.10 and 82.25 per day to 82,10, $2.25 and 82.35. At Farmington, south of Seymour, a bullet crashed through the window of a car on a P., C., C. & St L. passenger train and struck William Porter In, the breast, but contact with the glass lessened the force, so that the gentiemaa was not seriously hurt