Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — IF YOU ARE IN QUEST [ARTICLE]

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OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING: Important Happenings of the Week— Crimes aud Casualties Suicides— DeatUs— Weddings, etc. Minor State News. Mrs. T. C. Prick was found dead in her bed at Richmond. The Artesian City Gun Club has been organized In Martinsville. Owen County has paid sll4 as a bounty for. nawk scalps within a period' of six months. The Albany Land Company, with a capital stock of s.‘so,ooo,has (lied articles of incorporation. The Fort Wayne City Council has voted to ralso the city saloon liconsa from S3O to SIOO. The new $20,000 Methodist Church reI centiy completed at Noblesville, will ba dedicated April 20. An aerolite, weighing 00 pounds, supposed to havo fallen 50 years ago, was dug up noar Seymour. James Shocki.ey, who escaped from tho Northern Prison last October, was captured at Noblesville. Joseph Wilson, a stockman of Portland, was struck by tho north-bound express at llryant and one leg was cut off. The Rov. Thomas Parry of Michigan City, will probanly resign and accept a call to a Presbyterian pulpit In Terr® Haute. Several wealthy Columbus citizens havo boon arrested for not turning in a corroct assessment list of their taxable property. Ira M. Ci.kfkt, 21 years old and marrlod, was knocked from a Louisville and | Nashville Railroad train at Evansville, and killed. A reward of 823 is offered for tho recovery of tho bodies of Adam Fusslner and wife who wero drowned in Blue Creek noar Brookville. Adjt. Ukn. Roriiins has Issued a general order authorizing the mustering iu of a company of militia at Elwood and also at LaPorto under the laws of the I State. Carry O. Snyder, a school-teacher at Pyrraont, Miami Countv, who mysteriously disappeared nearly two weeks ago. has not yet been heard from. His wife thinks he Is insane. I The 2 and 4-yoar-old daughters of Albert F. Nelson were poisoned by milk at their home In Anderson. Mario, the youngest, died after four hours’ suffering. Ida will recover. 1 At Crawfordsvillo Wesioy Shotts was aliowod $2,500,111 his $5,000 damage suit against William Pyle, whom ho charged with being too familiar with his wife, causing thorn to be divorced. A boy, supposed to bo from Ohio, jumped off a passenger train near Greenfield, and roceivod probably fatal Injuries. Ho was on route to Marysville, and thought ho had passed Indianapolis, where he was to change cars. A portion of tho embankment between the St Joseph Rlvor and the race at South Bend was broken tho other night, causing a loss of about $2,000 and compelling all the South Bend factories using water power to shut down. Henry Allison, charged with the tnurdor of Alva Williams at PlalnUeld,ln November last, has surrendered himself to the authorities, and was lodgod la Jail at Danville. Ho has been In hiding in Arkansas since tho crime was committed. A woman in. Pike County was kicked in the chin by a mule, caqslgg. Jier to bite off the end of her tongue, and her .husband has since refused the offor of SI,OOO for tho Mule. He says that mule was the Indirect cause of lenthenlng his Ufa

A plant to manufacture ornamental pottery from the kaolin products mined near Shoals has bee established at that place, with $15,000 capital stock. Following are the directors: M. Shirley, John M. Sherfick, B. C. Johnson, J. T. Rogers, J. T. Albaugh, S. P. Yemlo, and John Hawkins. At Greensburg Dr. H. L. Millikin, dentist, met with an accident while vulcanizing a set of teeth. The instrument exploded, smashing skylights and windows generally, and covering the Doctor’s face with pulverized glass. Both eyes were hurt and he had a close call for his life. The accident was caused by a flaw in the iron part of the instrument. Nathaniel Strangler, aged nearly 101 years, died at his home a few miles south of Mitchell, in Crawford County. Great preparations were being made to celebrate the 101st anniversary of his birth, which comes on May 6. On his century birthday a grand jollification was held at his farm, on which occasion he and his wife, aged 90, entertained the people for miles around. Mrs. Sprangler is still alive, Mrs. Nancy Everly died at Wabash in her 80th year. For years the eccentricities of Mrs. Everly made her one of the best known of Wabash citizens. During the past twenty-five years, when able to leave her home, she was never seen without a white flag which she had tacked to a walking-stick and carried over her shoulder. She believed and told every one she met that unless they passed under her flag they could not enter the kingdom of Heaven. The deceased has been a resident of Wabash for about fifty years. The records at the office of the Secretary of State show that large sums of money are being invested in the State at present by local and foreign capitalists. The number of new companies that have been organized and incorporated in Indiana since January 1, has been the largest in the history of the Secretary’s office. The total amount of capital the companies and associations represent is about $16,000,000. The investment of the capital is principally in the gas belt. Indianapolis is also the home office of many of the new and larger incorporatlona Evansville has a number of new ones, and other cities and towns of the state have been favored. While the children of R. N. Taylor and his brother, Charles Taylor, were playing near their house, at Brazil, they became possessors of a dynamite cartridge, which evidently had been lost by one of the stone quarrymen. The boys thought it was great fun, and, procuring a hatchet, they gave the dangerous machine a whack, causing an immediate explosion. One of the children was seriously injured about the face, its right eye being almost torn out. The other child was also hurt, but not dangerously. The report of the explosion was heard at a considerable distance, and caused much excitement for a time. The Govornor has resolved to pardon McDonald Cheek, “a lifer" In the Prison South, who, jointly with Owen T. Bailey, was convicted of the murder of Cheek’s father-in-law in Dearborn County In 1871. Bailey was pardoned by the late Gov. Hovey, but Cheek’s application was rejected. He has served twenty-one years. Two Aged people, Jacob Moore and his wife, the former a wealthy ex-county officer, were fatally injured while on their way home from Shelbyville. They were driving a family horse and by some means the animal took fright, ran off and threw the old people into a ditch. Both legs of each were broken, and they were injured internally.