Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — JUST GLANCE OVER THIS [ARTICLE]

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AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATH INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogue of the Wtik’i Important Oeourronoao Throughout tlie State— Vitae, Aeetdenti. Crime*. JjuMfde*, Ete. v' Minor New*. Washington is talking Of starting & paper mill. - / Spotted fever has bfroken out ih.au epidemic form at P^tdloton. The dry goods and clothing houses at Laportenow close at 6 p. m. The revival at Thorntown has lust Closed with 207 conversions. The new bicycle factory at Cambridge City wlli soon begin operations' Benja'shn^Buffma n. aged 74 years, ' died noar Mahaiaavllle, of heart disease. Jake Hobbs, aged 28, was sentenced to State's prison for his third time at Muucie. David M. Rodgers, agod 60, of Rochester, was caught under a falling treo and Instantly killed. St. Joseph County has lost one of Its earliest settlors In tho death of David Bowman, residing near South Bend. C. a Cottingham, after fifteen years service as Assistant Postmaster at Kokomo. has resigned. M. S. Holman takes bis place. John Whitlock. 18 years old, was probably fatally injured at Noblesvtlla by his horse slipping on the ice and falD lug on him. Two strangers, wearing rubbet boots, are wading around In the streams In Brown County looking for gold. Thoy claim to bo from Maine. Charles Chastekn of Anderson, who a few days ago hod a leg cut off while in tho employ of tho L. E. & W. railroad Company, has sued for $25,000 damages. E. F. Hawkins, a notorious Indian doctor of Cannelton, was sentenced to five years In the penitentiary for crlroInally assaulting a little colored girl at Tell City. A natural-gas stove carolossly loft burning over night In the two-story brick schoolhouso at lllountvllle, Honry County, destroyed the building by fire; loss, SI,OOO. Wabash has sevoral cltlzons who claim to bo logal heirs to tho estate of Henry Yeslor of Soattle, Wash., valued at $1,500,000, and they aro clamoring to got a slice of It.

Harry Jones, an employe of tho Munctq Pulp Company, who sued the company for SIO,OOO becanso of Injuries received by a fall In their pulp mill, wa9 allowod $1,680 uy tho court. William Colbert, a brakomau on tho Big Four, whoso parents reside at La* gro, Wabash County, was latally InJurod whllo coupling cars at Nllos. Ho was caught botwoon tho buffers. The farmers of Cass County have boon swludlod by the lightning rod agont who contracts to put the rods on their houses for $7.50, but tho bill turns out to bo $750 and thoy have to fork It over. A few days ago a dispatch statod that a man named Gulloy had just died in California, leaving an estate of #1,500,000. John Oulloy, a farm hand noar Columbus, Is the only heir to this vast, estate. A bio doal botwoon Andorson pooplo sud Chicago and Eastern capitalists was consummated In tho former city recently. They sold 200 acres of land near tho city for #230,000 to the syndicate, which wilt erect factories on tho site. James Manner, tbo woll-known old gas woll driller, who was reported as dying very suddenly of heart trouble a few weeks ago Ip Hummltvllle. Is In Muncle, arid says ho know a 110 when he read it In tho papers. J. M. Fender’s team ran away at Llborty. and struck a buggy in which Albert Conklin was going to town. After tho collision voung Conklin was fished out from under the horses more dead than alive. He Is very seriously hurt. Henry 1 D. Lawshk of Somerset, Wabash County, father of A. L. Lawshe, editor of the Converse Journal, died of old age, be being over 77. He: had lived In Somerset nearly forty years.and was one of the prominent cltlzons of the county. ** During the funeral of Joseph Weaver at tho Christian Church In Noblesvlllo, the bnlldlitg was discovered to be on fire, add tho alarm came noar causing a panic. The fire department was callod out and the fire was extinguished without material loss.

Robert Lenfehtey, living about three miles east of Marion, undertook to repair a natural-gas regulator. He entered the building with a lantern, when an explosion occurred, t&rowlng him out of the building. He was seriously burned and tho building wrecked. Citizens of Fortville are agitating a scheme whereby a strip of territory one milo wido would be taken off ot Hancock County and annexed to Madison County, thereby straightening the north line of Hancock, which would locate the town of Fortville within Madison County.. W. G. Hildridth. conductor on a passenger train which runs between Brazil ond Momence, 111., on the Chicago and Indiana Coal Road, was klllod north of Brazil. In attempting to cross from one coach to another, Mr. Hlldrldth’s foot slipped, and be fell between the coaches, and was ground to pieces. He leaves a wife and family at Chicago. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: John H. Beck and E. G. Reilly, Peru, milk cooler; Frank P. Brewer, Angola, pruning saw; Frank E. Herdman, Indianapolis, electric elevator; Asa R. Hoy, Indianapolis, lubricator; Mary G. Minor, Colfax, dust pan; Marion Powers, Lexington, garden tools; Frank M. Reed, assignor of one-half to E. Shaw, Anderson, generator; Elwood F. Stephenson, Cartersburg, brick or tile Kiln: John L. Dish, assignor of one-half to W. P. Jones, Wabash, belt tightener; Albert M. Vaught, Portland, feed roller; David Wheat, Kent, Incubator; George W. Zigleii Anderson, burner for lighting or beating with natural or artificial gas. The dwelling of Fiem McCray, near Brick Chapel, burned with nearly all Its contents. The wife of Ellsbury O’Hair, in running to the fire, fell upon tbe tee and broke her leg. The jury in the case of tbe State against John Donavan, who, a month ago, assaulted and brutally beat Ftsher Ferry, city editor of the Wabash Times, who had “written him up," rendered a verdict of guilty, and fined Donavan $55 and costs, amounting to SIOO. Judge Cowgiil increased the bond to $l5O, and, in default, Douavan want to jail. John Ivory, who assisted in whipping the editor, got S2O and costs. Felix Haskins, 18, of Jasper, in company with two other boys, went out coon hunting. They treed a coon and proceeded to cut tbe tree down, when It fell and broke the limb of an adjacent tree, which struck young Haskins on the head, killing him almost instantly. B. F. Johnson, an employe of the Star woolen mills. Wabash, was caught while attempting to throw a belt on a rapidly revolving wheel, and carried un against tbe ceiling and around a shaft several times. Every stitch of clothing save hte shoes was stripped from his body, and when be fell to the floor he waadelirious. Strange to say, he was not dangerously hurt His vest, containing a gold watch, was wrapped tightly around the shaft