Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — HERE’S ALL THE NEWS [ARTICLE]

HERE’S ALL THE NEWS

TO BE FOUND IN THE STATS OF INDIANA. Giving t DotalUd Account of tho Nntnoron* Crime*, Casualties, Fir**, Sulctdoo* Death*, Etc, Etc John-Grave* In Luck. After being thought dead for over twenty years a man turned up at Huntington, to claim a fortune that had been awaiting its owner. In 1872 John S. Graves went West. From the time of bis departure nothing was heard of him. After he had been gone some time his relatives made an effort to locate him, but did not succeed. After soveral years had elapsed without any tidings Graves was given up for dead. Four years ago his uncle Jesse Griffith, died a bachelor, leaving SOOO,OOO. Ono of the heirs was the missing John Graves. Attorneys started a now hunt for him, and newspapers the country over advertised for him. Over a hundred persons answered, claiming to be Johu Graves, but in each case tho fraud was detected. Finally Graves was legally presumed to be dead, and an administrator appointed in charge of tho ostato. The proporty was all turned into cash. Tho other day Graves appoared attor an absence of twenty-one years, not having hoard of death. Thero was no trouble In proving his identity. He has been all over North and South America, In busiuoss. and as an Indian toacber. He is now located In Washington. Minor Statu Now*. Mrs. George Brisco was fatally hurt in a runaway at Greoncastle. Ciiaiu.es Khineh, hunting ducks near Martinsville, lost an oye by his gun oxplodlng. James Haggard of Morgantown, lost alt tho fingers on his loft hand by sawing them off whllo at work on a (once. Thomas Elpuiuge, an old soldlor, living near Dolphl, was crushed by a falling treo, and dlod from his injuries. White River ts still being dragged in tho hopo of recovering tho body of Oliver Symons, who was drowned at, Noblesvllle. James Murphy, a brakotnan on tho Nlckoi Plato, was so badly crushod at Fort Wayne whllo coupling cars that ho cannot recover. Mr. anii Mrs. G. W. Hester’s 10-months-old baby at Farmland, upset a pot of boiling tea, scalding itself so that tho slosh fell from its limbs. Arthur Shaw, a« employe on the Monon Railway at Lafayette, was run over and ground to plocos. It Is supposed bo fell botwoon the cars. The attorneys of a Mr. Wills, who was rofused a license to run a saloon at Burlington, near Dolphl, on the ground that the citizens of that place remonstrated, have appoaled tho case to the Circuit Court. Terre Haute and Richmond have applied to the Adjutant-General of the State for tho military oncampmont. The placu and date for holding tho encampment will not bo decided for several weeks.

Work has boen boguti on tho now courthouse at Tipton, and tho old shade trees that were set out the day Fort Suintor was fired on havo, with the exception of throe or four, been cut down and baulod away. William Kynett, ono of the old citizens of Dolawaro County, was found dead In his bod by merabors of his family, at Lapel. Ho was 75 year* old, and death is supposod to have boen causod by a recent fall on the Ice. The Seymour manufacturing company has agreed to build at once structures to cost $21,000, providing the city will oxompt it from taxes for ton years. Tho council has agreed to do this and work will be commenced at once. A wreck occurrod a short distance east of South Bend, on the Grand Trunk. A broken truck under one of the cars of a freight train piled up eight cars and tore up about seventy-five feot of track. No ono was seriously injured. Mrs. Sarah Laoro, who recently brought suit against Daniel Hill, a wealthy resident of Elkhart, who is over 80 years old,,for $15,000 damages, for breach of promise, has been awarded 81,000. Tho case has several sensational features. Michael Gechlkr attempted to board a moving' train at Coal City, and was thrown beneath the wheels, receiving injuries from which he dlod. Gechler was a well-to-do inerchaut of Patrlcksburg, and was'on his wav to Terre Haute to purchase goods when tho accident occurred. • „ The crops in this State have not yeif boon killed. If the weather continues good, the yield will bo greater than last year's. Reports from all parts of the Stato show wheat to be vigorous. Tho crop wj!| bo good, if tho weather does notchango, as ft did last year. Fruit Id Central Indiana shows a loss of at least one-half, but the Ohto Valley will v(pld 111 usual large erbps. Strawberries, though not abundant, are remarkable in size and general flavor. Blackberries and the other smalt berrios are not far enough along to judge of their crop or Suallty, but growers prophesy that Inlana will have her share of them, and also of every kind of fruit. Patents havo boon granted Indiana inventors as follows; Fortune L. Bailey, Freeport, assignor to Boston Cash-regis-ter Company, Northampton, Mass., cash register and indicator; August D. Cook, Lawrenceburg, plunger for pumps; Nixon Holloway, Llncolnvllle, chicken brooder; Edgar D. Johnson, Conners* ville, apparatus for moving coal; Loyal V. Lewis, Kendallvllle, feed and water purifier and heater; William S. Novlns, Terre Haute, reflector and bracket for lamps; Charles W. Patton, Clarksville, churn power; Mlchaol Posz, Shelby ville. sash fastener; Joseph N. Stein, Fort Wayne, car reparer; John Tipton, Hymera, post bole digger; George W. Vance, Anderson, cresting for roofs; James Wood and W. W. Haro, Noblesviile, wblffltreo hook. Last December EL J. Hurley, inspector of the Chicago pine lino, disappeared. The other day some boys discovered his body floating in Deep River. There is no explanation] of how he came to his death. Mrs. M. J. Rankin was found dead in her bed In an old and lonely house near the Baltimore and Ohio tracks at Mliiford Junction. Her little dog, sole companion of her solitude, was whining disconsolately, lying in the bed with her. The unfortunate woman was addicted to drugs, and she either got an overdose or heart failure, brought on by excessive use of stimulants, caused her death. Henry Enlow, a prominent farmer, has sworn out affidavits at Cannelton against thirteen persons living near that city for murder in the first degree. About five years ago Enl.ow’s son, accused of criminally assaulting a young woman, was hanged by White Caps. The lather now claims that he knows the men who did the hanging. The executive committee of the State Board of Agriculture has made final settlement with the last two contractors with whom the board had an account, Messrs. Morse and Ayers. There Is now no indebtedness, and the board is in full possession of the 214 acres, with the taxes, under the contract, chargeable to the Indianapolis Driving Club.