Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — THEE ACTUAL FACTS [ARTICLE]

THEE ACTUAL FACTS

ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BOR* DERS OF INDIANA. An Interesting Summary of tho Mofro Important Doing* of Oar Neighbor* Crime*, Ca*ualtle*, Death*. Eta Minor State Item*. Elwood is striving for telephone service. Kkndallvillk Fair will be held Sept. 80-30. Wrinoneck is tho name of a town near Darlington. Bloomington’s water works will soon bo completed. James Ritchie, an old resident of Henry County, died, aged 77. A single block of stone, weighing 257,000 pounds, was recently quarried at Bedford. A son of Edwin Galnor, of South Grconcastle, lost both legs playing under tho cars. Terre Haute has a woman chicken thief that the police would like to lay their hands on. Fire at Rodkey destroyed tho residence of A. *J. Syinmes. No Insurance. Cause unknown. James Barrow si an, aged 11, Brazil, died of lock-jaw, after running some stubble In his foot. A. Baker, who killed Richard McCord at a d&nco'in Columbus, two weeks ago, has been captured. A Richmond swill gat.horer was once one of the rlchost mon In tho town. He drank Uls money up. Since the slaughter of dogs at Anderson people are afraid that the sausage market will be overstocked. A young man in Michigan City walks to Laporto overy Saturday night to spend Sunday with his sweetheart. Diphtheria is reported as having quite a hold in Franklin, where a number of deaths occurred last week. A Fort Wayne man has inventod a type writingUnachlne and local capitalists arc going to put It on the market. It Is thought that Dr. G. S. Burroughs, of Amherst college, will bo clouted to tho presidency of Wabash college.

Danville has about completed her water works and owns thorn herself. The water comes from a woll 900 feet deep. The coroner’s verdict In t.be case of Albert Smith, who killed James Starling, at Madison, was Justifiable homicide. The court house fight!» White County has resulted In anothor newspapor being established, and both sides now h&va an organ. Mum Nancy .Johnson of Brazil, was struck In tho ankle by a stray bullet a few days ago. HloOd poisoning sot In and hor condition is critical. At Wolfe’s mill, four mllos oast of Mitchell, Henry Harris, while taking the dust from the saw, had his head sawod open; and will probably die. At Peru, while playing with a bonflro, tho clothing of ,Peseta Stolniiiotz, aged 5, became tgnltod, and tho child was horribly burned. Recovery Is doubtful. ' Albert Morris and Charles St. John wore burled in a gravel pit In Beaton County, near Fowler, by tho bank caving In. Both were klllod. Morris was married. Another monstor gas well was drilled in at Redkcy, with a capacity of 0,000,000 foot every twenty-four hours. It Is the property of tho Rodkey Brick Company. Elisha Casey, a clay-dlggOr in tho employ of A. D. Clark’s pottery works at Cannolton, was severely injured, by tho roof of tho clay mine caving In and breaking his neck. The Big Four limited express, westbound, struck a man at Fern Station, killing him lnstdntly. Up was walking on tho track. From papers found # his person his namO Is supposed to be Van Sant, and his homo Topoka, Kanl The Tippecanoe County Commissioners have Issued an ordor to Col. John Levering for tho sum of 815,000, the amount the board agreed to give toward a fund for securing tho State Soldiers’ Home In that county. Tho money Is given to Mr. Levering to bo held In trust. Felix Shife representing a syndicate composed of New York and English capitalists, has purchased 1 29(1 acres lying along tho lake shore In Porter and La Porto counties known as “Blair’s Park.” The object of the syndicate is to establish a mammoth summer resort. Bill Gerkin, married only three weeks ago, had his face and part of his skull divided Into two parts at tho sawmill of William Trobrldge, near Huron, while shovelling away dust from under a circular saw. This makes the seeond accident of this kind this week in this locality.

The 7-ycar-old son of A. R. Dennis.' a farmer near Windfall, was severely, if not fatally, Injured. Tho boy was riding on a wagon-load of gravel on the pike, with his father, and fell off, the hind wheol passing over his body, breaking ono of his legs and otherwise seriously Injuring him. The statement of the State Prison North for August, 1892 shows that the pumbor of convicts in the prison tho Ist of the month was 790; received, 11; discharged, 39; pardoned, 1; escaped, 1; died 2; number In prison last day of month, 758. Tho earnings for the month wore 89,511.03 and expenditures 86,828.99; net earnings over expenses, 82,862.84. The boiler in Joel Mullen’s large sawmill, at Ashland, was blown to atoms. Several workmen were standing near the engine, when suddenly tho boiler let go, and the mill was torn to pieces, and three men lay under the debris badly scalded. One of tho workmen, named Frank Williams, was scalded about the face almost beyond recognition, while his arras and legs were terribly burned. The boiler was an oid one.

Levi Masters, aConnersville farmer, has had many sheep killed by dogs lately. He riddled two of the canines with bullets the Other night and found tho next morning that both belonged to him. Jesse Reynolds, the miller at the Bluff Mills, in Brown Township, Montgomery County, is reported to be dying. He has been miller at the Bluff Mills for forty-two years, and is probably the oldest miller in the State. During his active forty-two years of service he has never left his position a day, and has been the entire time in the employ of Joel Deer, the owner of the min. Pf.bry Whitman, a workman at the plate-glass works, Elwood, met with a bad accident while assisting to remove some picket fence which surrounds the factory. A portion of it fell on him, striking him in the eye and gouging out the organ. When his fellow-workmen went to his assistance they found the eye hanging on his cheek. Be also had three ribs broken. His recovery is doubtful. Hinton Carr, one of the four “gentlemen” White Cappers about to be tried in Perry County, has confessed to the part taken with Louis Faulkenburg, Otto Faulkenburg and Edward p’Keith in outrages on the family of 'Jokn Underhill last winter.