Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — THE WAY THINGS RUN [ARTICLE]

THE WAY THINGS RUN

IN THE GREATEST OF Offe*? STATES, INDIANA. Thing* Which Bare Lately Happened Within It* Border*—Soma Plnaaant aid Some Sad Beading, ✓ Minor State Item*. A 500-bajirel oil-well was struck on the Cogarshell farm in the Camden field. Jay County. Du’H.tbuha is raging at Grandview, a small town on the Ohio River, six miles from Rock port. Sneak thieves are working extensively in Terre Haute, many .robberies being daily reported. Grave robbers stole the corpse ot Miss Emma West, an 18-year-old girl who died recently at Brazil. Anderson Is In a pretty bad wav during this cold weather, as the natural gas service is miserable.

Sherman Lancaster's house, near Windfall, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,000; no Insurance. Burglars broko into the Southorn Indiana Natural-gas Company’s offices at Shelbyvllle, and got S3O. Miss Minnie Loosdon of Eureka, Spencer County, while skating on the Ice, fell and broke her neck. John Fkehkrkh of Rockport, one of the wealthiest busluoss men of Southern Indiana, died suddenly-at Louisville. Miss Eva Winton of Shelbyvllle, fainted and fell against a stove, receiving burns that will mark her for life. The citizens of Sleigh. Carroll County, think there Is natural gas In tho vicinity, and will drill for it as soon as the weather permits. The Diamond Window Glass Company of Findlay. Ohio, located at Farmland, will employ 125 men, the factory being * twenty-pot plant. The Young People’s Christian Endeavor Societies of Hamilton County have just closed a highly successful convention in Noblosvlllo. Albert A. Fkatherling,a hay-dealer at Kouts, Porter County, was kickod over the heart by a horse, and fell dead before assistance could bo summoned. , Jeremiah Harris, oldest Odd Fellow In Indiana, aged 88. died at Marlon. In 1842 he established the first paper in Grant County, tho Democratic Herald. A tramp -printer, who tried to clean out the office of the Brazil Times the other day, said, when placod In jail, that he had boon mesmerized a year or two ago and novor got over It. John Fleming at Caseyvlllo, Clay County, was paralyzed by falling slate in in the Brazil Block-coal Company’s mine No. 8. When found he was pinioned to the side of his room wholly helpless. Ha will die.

The First National Bauk of Elwood will increase its capital stock to SIOO,000, and thon consolidate with tho Elwood National Bank, recently organized by Colonol Conger. The combination will have a capital stock of $200,000. A 0-YKAn-oLD boy named William Cunningham, and tho support 01 a widowed mother, lost both oyos at the rolling-mill In Brazil. He was looking Into one of the largo puddling furnaces when one of tho employes threw water on the fire. Tho hot ore flashod into his eyes, leaving him totally blind. Ho was otherwise badly Injured about tho head and face. • The strange animal that nas made'lts unwelcome appearance In the vicinity of Brownsbqrg waa again soon the other evening, and It came very near capturing one of Brownsburg's James Adams was milking his cows when the animal suddenly slipped up from the other side of tho cow and struck a powerful'blow at Mir. Adams with Its paw. Mr. Adams started for the house, with tho animal close at bis hoels, and luckily be reached the door ahead of the beast lie then “sicked" bis two large bull-dogs on iho varmint and slipped out to a neighbor’s house for a gun. When ho returned the animal was gone and his bloodod dogs had been whipped and torn so badly that one of them bad to be killed. Citizens will import blood-hounds to capture or chase the animal to lie den.

A hand of about forty foreigners, said to be from the Island of Skilly, are' camping In Clinton County, about five miles southwest of Russlavllle.' They have with then;, besides thoir horses, five cinnamon hears, and a sow mhukeys. Thoy are furnishing some amusement and a considerable amount ot uneasiness to the farmors In the neighborhood. A groat many wild Btorles are being told about'thejr man,nor of living, ble storv, which soems to bo well authenticated, Is told of the disposition of the body of a babv that died,. In their camp on New Year’s Day. It is said that tne big chief of tho company took a huge knlfo and cut the child's body in plocos and sod It to the bears. They wore camped In a dense woods near “St Paul,” a country church, until recently, when they pulled stakes and departed at the instigation of an enraged community.

Many citizens of Brazil are talking loudly about tho pardon of Isaae W. Sanders, who was sent from that city, about fifteen years ago, for wife murder. Tho crime was most atrocious, and the prisoner had to be guarded from violence at the hands of a mob. On the 11th of April, 1878, Sanders, while intoxicated, shot his wife through the heart, virtually kllllngher. She was tho daughter of Jonathan Crousdale, one of the wealthiest citizens of the town. Sanders pleaded guilty to tho charge of murder In the first degree, and would have, been condemned to death bad not Mr. Crousdale arose In court and asiced that he should not be hanged, as ho wanted “no man's blood on his hands.” The prisoner was immediately taken to Joffersonxllle, to avoid mob violence, which the officers had reasons to believe would follow if tho prisoner remained in the County Jail over night He was granted a .new trial two years after bis sentence, but was again convicted and sentenced for life. ’ .

A farmer named William Templeton, aged 45, and residing six miles southwest of El wood, met death recently in the woods. He was cutting doyvn a a large tree and was unable to escape from under It when it fell. He was pinioned to the ground and bis head crushed. He leaves a wife and two children. Miss Ida S. Durham of Darlington, has entered suit for $5,000 against S. G. * •Kersey for breach of promise. A misplaced switch on the Wabash railroad caused a freight wreck at Roan. W. B. Loughran of Peru, was the only person in lured. Geqpqe ObUGLER, in ''an Intoxicated condition, applied at the home of George N. Hicks near Elkhart, stating that himself, together with a companion, had been assaulted.,by thieves. He besought Hicks, who was an aged and feeble man of 70 years, to go with him to his partner In need of help. The story so excited Hicks with fear and dread of being the victim of a plot that be was immediately taken sick and died before be could be put to bed. William Porterfield, while at. work at the Shelbyvllle ice-houses, became entangled in the hoist, which broke aud carried him about twenty-five feet Into the river. It wsp only after hard work that he was rescued, badly bruised.