Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — THE WAY THINGS RUN [ARTICLE]

THE WAY THINGS RUN

IN THE GREATEST OF GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Thine* Which Ban Lately Happened Within It* Border*—Soma Pleasant amt, Some Baal Heading. Minor State Item*. Thr diphtheria is abating in Fork Wayne. Nom.KBvn.LE has 21 teachers in her public schools. Richmond has SBO,OOO worth of public Improvements under way. The Evansville Y. M. C. A. has 621 members, and continues to gipw. The seed wheat swindler is making his annual rounds in Northern Indiana. Michigan City masons are taking steps toward building a $50,000 temple. John Renst of Huntington, was fatally injured by being trampled by a horso. Ai.lkn SriNKS, a colored rosident of Hamilton County, died at the ago ot 105 years. Diphtheria is spreading rapidly about Newport. At Perrysvllle there are 40 cases and the Schools have closed. RobkhtWoods, the Presidont of tho First National Bank of Knlghtstown and a pioneer of Uonry County, is dead. Footpads held up Jacob Carroll near Arcadia, and wbilo one hold a revolver tb bis head tho other rlQed his pockets. George Breiyogkl, a bl-chlorido pationt at Vincennes, became wild, escaped, and cut his throat He will recover. •’ Mrs. James Watson of Crawjordsvillo, mado an unsuccessful attonfpt to commit sulcldo on account of domestic affairs. John Stadtlkh’s residence and saloon at Muncio was totally destroyed bv an lncondiary lire. Loss, insurance, $1,400. The public school bulldlug at Ridgevllle, Jav County, was burned. Loss, $7,000. No insuranca Supposed InceudlariA. Benton, the Huntington burglar, who was tried in tho Wabash Cjrcuit Court, was sentenced to two years in tho penitentiary. Frank Hol/.oway, a Martin County tanner, is in jail at Shoals for killing Thomas Gllllck, his neighbor, during a quarrel. John Rokbock of Huntington, received a charge of shot in the knee wbilo hunting quails, and will have to undergo amputation. A bund fiddler played on Anderson street corners for a week recently, and two pennies were tossed iuto his box. He has moved to Mancie. The farm dwolllng of James Murdock, of the Woa Plains, Tippecanoe County, was ontiroly destroyed by fire. Loss, $3,500; partially insured. Tiik two-horse team of Barclay Moon was struck on crossing the Panhandle tracks at Windfall, by tho fast mail train and literally ground to pieces. Robert Drake, a wealthy iron manufacturer of Newark, N. J. t aged 72 years, died at Martinsville. His son is a surgical instrument doalor at Indianapolis. The State Hoalth Board has directed tho local Board of Lafaveue to investigate the sanitary condition of the old Erie canal and fill It up if thought best. Burglars secured and baulod away in a wagon clothing valued at $l,lOO fromJ. B. McGlaughlin’s storo, at Lebanon. Threo valuable horsos were also missing. Mrs. H. E. Talmage, an did resident of Westvilie, was struck by a Baltimore and Onto engine and instautiv killed. Tho accident occurred at a road crossing near Allda. The Knlghtstown Agrioultural Society, one of the most successful, in the country, has determined to disband, and will soil its buildings and other property at public sale. Miss Minerva McGbuder, aged 21, Greonsburg, attempted suicide by shooting herself lu the head and inflicting a dangorous wound. She is an orphan and was despondent The Peru Jury, In the case of R. A. Vandyne, of Wabash, charged with outrage on his niece, Miss Mullenlx, a halfwitted girl, brought In a verdict of eight years lu tho penitentiary. ' At Elkhart while taking a near cut fjom school, Ida Redor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reder.wasrun over and killed by a train In the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern yards. There was a man in Jail at Fort Wayne recenUy who hgd boon a cowboy, pedalor,' fftoacuor, phrenologist,gambler, soldier, detective, had draak straight alcohol and written a bgyk. « • The 10-ycar-oiu son of Frank of Chosterton, died of hydrophobia, making the second death In the county from the lamo causo within a week. He was a QIMdPE about * pntfr ago.. Harvey SATTSuft'STfE, President of the Martinsville First National Bank, and his brother-in-law, Dr. J. I* Stephens, of Lebanon, Ohio, will erect a $20,Ouo sanitarium in Martinsville at an early day. ■ A battle royal occurred at Wallace’s circus winter quarters, two miles east of Peru,in which five Jumbo elephants wero the participants. For some time an enmity has existed between Prince and Diamond, the two greatest beasts of the herd. The enmity culminated in a big scrimmage during the absence of keeper Sweeny. Diamond, with a weight of four tons, was the aggressor, but Prince was bis match and succeeded in breaking his tusk and fairly crowding him through tho heavy brick wail of the building, which fell upon them both. All the elephants broke loose from their chains, at once engaging In the melee, and tor half an hour pandemonium prevailed. Quiet was finally rostored.fbut not before they wero badly hurt and the place presented the appearance of a slaughter-house. The noise and screams of the jungle giants could be heard for nearly a mile. The Edlngburgh Daily Call changes hands, G. A. Quick retiring aud Charles F. Pruitt takjng the editorial chair and publisher’s desk. Muncik cigar-makers are on a strike because the manufacturers refuse to agree to the new scale of wages presented last week. Joseph Shackman, of the firm of Shackraan & Nadel, clothing dealers, and a pioneer among the business meD of Northern Indiana, died at Elkhart of gangrene, the result of cutting a toe while trlpimlng a corn a few day£ ago. He was widely known among the cloth-ing-dealers of the country. * The barn of Thomas Williams, five miles north of Liberty, was destroyed by fire. Five horses, including a SSOO thoroughbred mare, were burned, together with about $1,200 worth of grain and farm machinery. Loss partially covered by insurance. Daniel Rhoads, living near Anderson, was returning home, driving a spirited horse. When within sight of home the animal took fright at a bicycle, ridden by Walter Carpenter, a young schoolteacher. Mr. Carpenter dismounted, but the horse lunged, and in turning into the barnyard upset the buggy. Mrs. Rhoads fell on her head. She was carried Into her home m an unconsgious condition, from which sho never recovered.