Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — SPICED AND PICKLED [ARTICLE]

SPICED AND PICKLED

ARE THE INDIANA NEWS ITEMS IN THIS COLUMN. Frw*h Intelligence from Every Part of the State— nothing of Interest to Oar Reader* JLeft Out. I Minor State Items. Chahi.f,B Rick was badly tossed by A bull which he was driving near Crawfordsvillo. Lakok strata of marble have been discovered in Huntington, and will as once be quarried. Shei.byvili.e wants freo mall delivery and about every man in town wants to be a carrier. Robinson & Redmond, of Logansport, will roinove their hub and spoke factory to Montlcollo.

The State Camp of th,o Patriotic Order Sons of America convenes at Crawfordsvilla on Aug. 2 and 3. g| ~iq| An owl alighted on tho pilot of a Wabash onglno and was carrlod Into Peru, whero it was caught. Thomas Kelly, near Fort Wayne, fell dead while leaning against the fence talking to a neighbor. The State Bank Examiner has asked that a receiver be appointed for the Vinconnos National Bank. The "upper ten” of Wabash are shocked because tho City Marshal smokes a clay pipe while on duty, Monbor Bbkknr of Franklin fell from a boat plying between Cincinnati and Loulsvlllo anu was drowned. Montickllo is to have a 81,500 cloctric light plant before Jan. 1, furnishing both arc and incandescent lights. Elmer Tucker, a boy employed at tho tln-plato works in Elwood, hadhis hand cut off In a shearing machlno. The boo-ralsors of Clark County are complaining that tho honey-crop this season is almost a total failure. Frank Lydick, aged 13, was rondered Insane by a blow on the head received in a fall from a.hammock at Brazil. Sixteen cars wore plied In a wreck four miles north of Vernon, on the G. t R. <fe I. railroad. No loss or life. Thomas Jackson, near Fllmore, Is 94 years old. He reads without glasses, wulks without a cane and hoes corn. Mbs. Polly Wkahe v an agod widow of Brooklyn, was thrown from hor buggy in an accident and seriously Injured. * Mrs. John Dawn, wlfo of a prominent Columbus business man, was thought to bo fatally injured by a fall in the cellar. Richard Pace fell from a scaffold at tho Methodist parsonage In Jeffersonville, and was probably fatally injured. Charles Mookk of Groencastle, was shot through tho hand wh'lo hunting, caused by carelessness in handling his gun. William Sheffield, killed by tho cars in Richmond, was a wealthy farmer near Marlon, but was deciarod Insane last May. Muncik soldlors have resolved that only veterans of the rebellion should be, given recognition on tho soldlors' monument tablets. New Ai.hany shipped sixteen oar loads of onions to Chicago last week and now you can smell Chicago's breath all ovor Indiana. A freight train was wrecked at Thorntown by running Into an open switch. Tho fireman and a brakoman wero slightly hurt. Word has been received that Miss Allco Palmer of Franklin, has sailed from England for Africa, where she goes as a missionary. The eighteenth annual prpgramo of tho Battle Ground Assembly and campmeeting, at Battlo Ground, Aug. 11 to 28, has boon announced. John Farrington of Kokomo, who wont to sleep on the tracks, was knpeked twenty feot, crushing bis skull and breaking his riba Ho will die. Miss Bettik West, daughter of the well known turfman, Preston West of Charleston, shot herself through the hand with a revolver and will lose the member. Five thousand Hoosier soldiers ar« expected in Frankfort during the encampment They won’t be there, as there are only 2,000 In Indiana’s standing army. James W. Powell, a bright young high school pupil, of Logansport was found drowned In wbat Is known at "deop” pond on his father’s farm. He could not swim and ventured in too fat while bathing. Mrs. James Lane, near Herbst, crazed by protracted illness, committed suicide recently by Jumlng Into a well. She was about thirty-five years old, and the mother ot eight children, the oldest of whom is only 10. James Farmer, of Poland, was taking a traction englno up a very steep hill near Groencastle. The engine becams unmanagabie, ran down the hill and ovel a bridge embankment, scalding and crushing him to death. The marble-eyed, but necessary bovln* still munches the public horblvora in th« thriving town of Peru. The Coupci) stood a tie and Mayor Zern voted with the cow the other day and now the peoplo threaten to make the question theti shibboleth in the next city election. Ma O. S. Newton of Coatsvllle bai just completed an oil painting that Is attracting considerable attention among the Indiana G. A. R. The picture it reproduced from the original photograph, portraying the first winter quarters oi the famous Twentv-seventh Indians Volunteers near Fredericksburg, Md. suit growing out of th< wreck of Jan. 11, has been entered against the Monon Railroad. Georg* Fitchey demands 8175 for liquor drunk by the survivors of the wreck. Fitchei kept bar at the hotel where the passengers were taken. Fitchey claims that t Monon official authorized him to let afl who wanted have drinks. This he did to the amount of 8175, and now he snei for that sum. A colored barber, supposed to be C. D. Lockey of Indianapolis, was killed at Roraona, Owen County. 'He was caughl on a bridge, and attempted to let him self down from the ties when the trail passed, but fell to the rocks below. ! The large frame barn of County Com missioner Anderson of Groencastle, wai burned recently. Three mules and i valuable family horse wero lost Th« fire was caused by spontaneous combustion from new hay. Anderson heart a terrific explosion and, looking towart his barn, saw the flames shoot up it all directions. Loss, 82,500; insurance 81.000. The Eighty-fifth Indiana Volunteer will hold a reunion at Rockville, Aug. ; and 4. All Who attend will be cared fa by the citizens without any chargea The committee is composed of Elwoot Hunt M. W. Marshall, and George 1) Jones. There will be a sham battle ant speakers. By direction of the Secretary of Wax First Lieutenant Abner Pickering, Sea ond Infantry, will visit the encampmen of the Indiana State militia, to be hen at Frankfort from July 35 to 30. ant after the close of the same will retun to his proper station. He will report b* letter to Gov. Chase for such service a L *ay be required of him during the en 1 campment