Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1892 — HERE’S ALL THE NEWS [ARTICLE]

HERE’S ALL THE NEWS

TO BE FOUND IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. Giving a Detßlhxl Account of the Komar* ous Grimes, Casualties, Fires, Suicides* Deaths, Etc., Etc. — .. ■m . , Minor State Items. A Militia company has been organized at New Albany. Thk fruit crop in Lawrence County is reported a total iallure this year. The long-continued drought has been broken in some sections of Southern Indiana. John Neff, near Milford, had both legs brokon by a log rolling on him off a wagon. Miss Daisy Chase, while horse-back riding at Mitchell, was thrown and seriously hurtOn an old farm near Crawfordsvllle, George Britton has found a number of skeletons In a gravel pitThkiik Is still one toll-road In Shelby County. Its purchase and liberation is to bo voted on next month. John Farrington, aged 18,of Kokomo, died from Injuries’received by being struck by a train last July. Burui.ars broke Into H. McLscblan’a store at Elkhart, and stole $1,200 worth of Jowolry and other goods. Jamkh Hackett, a Bedford bartender, was accidentally shot and killed bv a bollor-makor wkllo out hunting. Edward Henry, a resident of Greenville, near New Albany, was Whitecapped for mistreating his wife. An onglno and eight cars were wrecked In a collision at Logansport. The alrbraxe failed to work. Loss, SIO,OOO. Ed. Hill, a Brazil youth, was hunting, when tho breech-pin of the gun blew out and ponetratod his skull. Ho will die. Looansi’ort has dug up an elm log that was burlod under a stroot fifty-five years ago. Tho wood was sound In ovory (lbor. The largo lako at Bethany park, near Brooklyn, was drained rocontly. It Is estimated that :i,OOO pounds of carp fish wero caught. Martin Peterson of Goshen, who claimed to havo lost both arms by falling under a Lake Shore train, was awarded SB,OOO damugos. James McCormick, near Seymour, Is said to bo 109 years old, and Is also said to have spoken to Goorgo Washington, the fathor of his country. William Mkloy of Scottsburg, while hunting, accidently shot his cousin, Walter Meloy, twenty-five shot taking effect In his face and bead. The side-bar on a Big Four engine broko near Warsaw, smashing tho cab and Injuring Jones Scott, who was riding on the scat with the fireman. The Kokomo Daily Gazotte.Trlbuno has moved into a new home of its own, it being one of the finest printing otllcos to bo found In Northern Indiana. Roiiebt White, agod 18, son of John White, of Walnut Level, Wayne County, was fatally mangled by a freight tralh at the 1.., E. A W. depot In Muncle. At Crawfordsvlllp, tho Monon paid a judgment and costs In a suit for a horse that killed Itself by rumlng Into a tralu standing on tho street st Ladoga. Louis Fkltz, 13 years old, of Brookvllle, was accidentally and fatally shot In tho groin by his brother, while they were gathering grapes in the woods. The Connorsvlllo News and Times havo consolidated. Howard M. Gordon retires, and J. W. Shackleford, Della C. Smith and W. F. Downs takes charge. The last of tho walnut timber growing about Goshen was hauled to a mill tho other day by eighty-seven teams gaily decorated. Thu tlmbey was valued at $8,500. Some wretch hit an El wood horse on the leg with a stone the other night The animal went luto convulsous ngd two mon worked all night before its life was saved. 11. L. Thomas, who cleanod out a boarding-house at Brazil of jewelry and money, was captured by Detective Patrick Furluy and lodged in the Clay County Jail. Harry Aluis, agod 34, In Parrot’s mill, at I’atoka, roeelvod a slight cut on his right hand with a saw. He went home, and 9 p. m. took lock-jaw and died at 10 o’clock. Sioman Wemnitz, a prominent business man of Whiting, committed ,«|ilclde. Ills wlfo had left him, and lie had mado an attempt at a reconciliation, which was unsuccessful. The father of a boy at English, where the lad was suspended by the neck by a quick-tempered school-teacher, will apply to tho State authorities to have the teacher suspended. Jack Britton of Harmony, brakeman on the C. A I. C., was cut to pieces at Klckapoo. While making a coupling at the foot of the steep grade at that point, he was caught by a backing freight train and twenty-five cars passed over his body. . Thf, east-bound train run by the Wells Fargo Express Company on the Chicago and Erio collided with some freight cars which had run through a closed split switch on a heavy grade at Letter’s, a sow miles west of Rochester, .ingineei Fredericks, one of the oldest men on the road, and Firemen Metz were horribly scalded and bruised, Metz being fatally Injured. Tho engine was badly damaged, road torn up, express cars Injured, and several freight cars demolished. William 11. Kelly, a prominent resident of Frankfort, died last week. Foi several years Mr. Kelly had stomach trouble, and It was the desire of the family that an autopsy be held. The operation revealed a cancerous mass in the stomach which contained a metallic substance that proved to be a portion ol a shoemaker’s awl, fully an Inch is length. The awl is supposed to have been In his stomach ever since Mr. Kelly worked on the bench as a shoemaker, over thirty years ago. H 8. ijciiwiEU, a 10-year-old boy, ai McCool, near Valparaiso, has died oi supposed hydrophobia. Ho was bitten last summer, and bad been treated by the Pasteur Institute at Chicago. An unknown man about 25 years old was killed at Union City, by a Panhandle freight train. It Is the supposition that he was beating his way on the train and fell between the cars. He was 5 torn to pieces and bad evidently been draggec for some distance. Nothing was founc in the pockets of his clothing, which was that of a laborer, save a brass check, which was marked with the number “29* and “G. W.” A skeleton, partly decayed, has just been unearthed by workingmen near the mouth of tt\e cave at the head of Rock Lick, a small creek which wanders through the valley about two miles froic Mitchell. It appears to be that of a female Indian, and is the first skeletoc found at the cave, though many relics have been found in former years to show that black Lears formerly lived in the cave, and that they were bunted bj savages with bow and arrow. A three-teab-old daughter of Chase Pettlfer, at Elkhart, got hold >f a bottli of pepperment oil, and poured a spoon ful of it down her baby brother’s throat with the result that the child was net expected to live.