Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — THE WAY THINGS RUN [ARTICLE]

THE WAY THINGS RUN

IN THE GREATEST OP GREAT STATES, INDIANA. Things Which Hava Lately Happened Within Its Borders—Some Pleasant mmt* Some Sad Beading. White Cappers Get It. The first White Cap case ever tried In Perrv County terminated very hard for tho defendants at Cannelton. It will be remembered that about a year ago Lewi9 and Otto Faulkenboruugh, Ed O’Keitb, and Hinton Carr visited the house of John Underhill, about midnight, with the avowod Intention of whipping Underhill. Otto broko down the door with a rail, then the four men rushed in on Underhill and gave him a terrible beating. At the last November term of court Carr confessed to tho Prosecuting Attorney, therefore he was made a State witness and allowed to go free, and, in consequence tho defendants’ bond was increased from 8500 each to SI,OOO. The other day the two Faulkenborough9 pleaded guilty in open court. Otto tried to implicate a man by thejnameof Marsh Land, but the other two defendants said Land was not in the crowd. Otto got five years and a S2OO hoe. Sentence was suspended as to Lewis on account of he being a minor at the time of the offense, but he was ordered to pay the fine. Otto Is considered one of tho hardest men in Perry County. Ho bad many enemies, few friends, and his friends Only consisted of men llko himself, or men who feared him.

Minor State News. Columrus Is to have a now hotel with IQO rooms. William C. Leonard, a manufacturer of Elkhart, was found doad In bed by hi 9 wife. The barn of John Hogue, near Vlnoonno9, was burned. Five head of horses were lost. Loss, $2,000; Insurance,sl,ooo. Andrew Losh, fireman on the Big Four, rcciived a fractured skull by a broken drlvlngrodiioarMoorelaud. May dlo. At Munclo, Jainos Williams was accidently shot In the loft log by Androw Catering, who was recklessly handling a revolver. Edwin Stuart, manager of tho Opera House, a prominent Elk and a wellknown actor, dlod at his homo In Logansport of paresis. A saloon is about to bo opened at Dublin. Tho place never had ono before, and about tnree-fourtus of the pcop c are against it. Muncik'h now city directory, which has Just boon completed, contains 10,722 names. Tho last census gives tho city 10,703 population. ; Bedford has received positive assurancos that tho O. & M. Company will build a branch road from Mltchoii to that city to tap the stone quarries. M. 8. LitTlich, Evansvillo, has bought 000 acres of the finest coal lands in Southern Indiana, near Petersburg. 110 will put 300 men to work in the spring. Asian has boon fined in tho Carroll County Circuit Court for violating the law requiring tho owners of traction engines to send a man ahead to warn the public of its approach.

Elwood Is excited over what Is alleged to bo a big oil well. Ono year ago a gas well was drilled thcro, but afow days ago It gave out. Now it lias developed Itself Into an oil gusher. The hoavlest verdict ovor roturned in Madison Countv for porsoual damages was given by a lury at Andorson in the caso of Joseph Beck, of Lebanon, against the Big Four Hallway Company. It amounted to $5,500. Alfred L. Richardson, district manager tor tho Singer Sewing Machine Company at Martinsville for many years, dlod of cancer ol tho stomach, and was burled under tho auspices of the Odd Fellows, at Mooresvllle. Henry Nelson, a workman at tho Stlner chilled-plow works, in South Bond, was fatally Injured by the fragments of a broken emery whoel, One cheek was crushed and the right eye will have to be romoved. Morton Jonkb, a young farmer, six miles north of Frankfort, met with a fatal accident His horses ran away, throwing him against a tree, in which position the rear wheel of the wagon struck him, crushing him to death. As a result of the recent gas explosion at Lebanon the Lebanon Light Heat and Power Company is mado defendant In a suit by Martin Hohl for $25,000 damages; $15,000 for personal injuries and SIO,OOO tor damage to fits property. An Infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Weesner of Sumerset, was burned to death. The little one was playing about the house, and grasping a lamp on a stand, pulled it over. The oil took fire, and, flaming up, burned the face and breast of the child. She died. Miss Maggie Dugan, daughter of John Dugan of Plainfield, who, with her sister, was Injured last summer by a Vandalla train east of this place, is losing her mind. It is thougnt that the constant brooding over her injuries, which destroyed her handsome appearance, is the cause of her dementia. Miss Dugan was a bright, intelligent woman, and her pregent pitiable condition is deplored by bor hosts of friends. The other morning the dead bodies of John Osterman, a farmer living ten miles east of Fort Wayne, and his wife were found in bed at tbeir home. At first it was supposed to be a double suicide, but on investigation br Prosecutor |Colerick and Coroner Kessler it developed that Osterman poisoned his wife and himself. A week ago he went to Fort Wayne and stole a steam guage, and it was found in bis house. It is supposed he feared arrest, and put arsenic In the coffee at supper. The old folks, both being over seventy, were destitute. The house they lived In was a hovel and barren of furniture. During the past winter they suffered, not for fuel, but because the only stove they had was almost worthless.

Thebe are two lawyers and two preachers among the convicts at the Northern Prison. The other night a gang of thieves failed in an attempt at robbery at the home of Farmer John Lindsay, near Mancie. A wagon was driven to Lindsay’s barn, and over SIOO worth clover and timothy-seed loaded in ready to be carted away. As the men drove off the rear axle of the wagoD broke in two. The thieves were badly scared by tbe noise made, hurriedly unhitched the team of horses, and left the wagon and contents. Mr. Lindsay is now searching for the owner of that wagon. Rebecca Riser, the widow of the late Hon. Peter Kiser, died at Fort Wayne, aged 73. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Reece H. Alexander, Fort Wayne, steam generating boiler furnace; Hiram L. Craig, Wayne, sash balance; Amos C. Fell, Newvilio, churn; Carl Helnemann, Hammond, device for suspending scaffolding; Israel Levy, Koutz, heel pad; Montgomery C. Megls, Lafayette, excavator; William R. Mercer, Terre Haute, tilting seat for bicycles; Britton Poolson, Fort Wayne, combined chaif and table; Evert M. Thompson, Indianapolis, ice • cream freezer; David N. Weathers, Leaven* worth, vegetable cutter,