Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — IF YOU ARE IN QUEST [ARTICLE]

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OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS, PERUSE THE FOLLOWING; Important Happonlngs or tlio WsrkC rimes aud (annuities suicide*— Deaths— Weddings, Etc. Minor State News. Wrr.UAM H. Hinson, 75, Moores viile, dropped dead. Dr. IC. A. Armstrong, old and wealthy physician, is deid at Kokomo. Frank Meyers, aged 12, was drowned, while bathing near New Albany. A i. edge of diamond-gray glass stone, rare and valuable, was struck uear Albany. During his official career Justice Chamberlain of Goshen, lias married COO con pics. Seymour papers advise the citizens of that place not to feed tramps or give them money. Daniel Cover, aged 05, prominent farmer of Decatur Couutv, is dead of heart disease. August I’arnin, a farmer near Fort Wayne, was kicked in the stomach by his horse and died. John Seward, a farm laborer near Anderson, who was kicked in tho stomach by a horse, is dead. J. .1. Wilson, Elkhart, paid an alleged Chicago lawver $5(4-to hunt up an estate for him and Is out that much. George Davidson, aged 34, living near Richmond, committed suicide by shooting Financial troublos. A spoonbill cattish was taken from Eagle lake, near Warsaw, tv Tony Osborn, a fisherman. It weighed 107 pounds. George Poland, wife, and four children, formerly residents of Noblesville, wore killed in a cyclone in Oklahoma the other day. Powder In the freight depot of the C. &E. I. road, at Cayuga, explodod. The building caught fire and was totally destroyed. Fire, caused by an explosion of natural gas, destroyed a drug store and grain elevator at Adams, near Greeusimrg. Loss, $5,000. The farm residence of Hugh McDonald, In Lagro Township, Wabash County, was entirely destroyed by lire originating from a dofoctlvo flue. Loss, $1,500; Insured for SSOO.

The large stock barn on John Mohr’s farm In Moral Township, ,Shelby County, burned causing a loss of $3,000; Insurance, $1,500. Eight horses and a largo quantity of grnlu wore destroyed. 11. W. Mohdhurst, C. L. Carter, H. W. Tapp, J. E. Younge, tho masters of the lour Masonic Lodges of Fort Wayne, with E. F. Llebman, tho High Priost of Fort[Wayne Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, havo established a Masonic relief fund for Fort Wayno. John Hope of Elkhart, has a genuine $8 bill Issued bv the United .States ot America in 1778. It Is good on its face for olght Spanish dollars, but Mr. Hobo has rofusod a standing offer of S2OO for ills prize. He claims that it is the olJost specimen of United States mouey in existence. At Torre Haute a Jury gave Mrs. Gloanor Denny a vofdlet for $1,500 damages against tho Chicago <fc Eastern; Illinois railroad for Injuries received In October, 1891. Sho was a passenger on one of tlio company’s trains, being on a car platform, and had not time to enter the car when tho train moved, wrenching hor, and causing Injuries to her head, r.eck and spine. An accident occurred at Roann that resulted In tho death of William Ponce, aged nearly 85 years, and ono of the wealthiest citizens In that community. Mr. Ponco attempted to “block” a log that was bolng loaded on a car In Thomas’ saw-mill yard. Tho chain broke, and tho log crushed Mr. Ponco to death. Ho was a pioneer ot Wabash County. A widow and sevoral children survive him.

Hon. John VV. Clayton, President of tho Farmers’ and Citizens’ Bank at Farmland, was visited at his home near that ulaco by two men who wanted to buy some land. A trade was made and as thoy were going to town to get a deed ono of tho strangers proposod to Clayton that they play three-card monte. Upon Ills refusal the man tried to rob him. Clayton threw him out of the buggy and succeeded in escaping. . As a freight train on tho Ohio and Mississippi Railway was going cast through Oakdalo, four miles east of North Vernon, tho coupling broke, causing tho train to part and then come together again. Several cars wore thrown from tho track. Morton liarth, a brakeman, was thrown from the top of a box car to the ground and, striking on his head, was killed. A tramp, who was stealing a ride on the train, was also injured. A had and fatal accident occurred nino miles south of Goshen, resulting in tha instant death of the 3-yoar-old daughter of Charles McCrants. The father was engaged in hauling wood when his two little children ran out to meot him, approaching on either sido of the wagon. Ho did not notice them until ono was under tho wheels. Tho wagon was on tho down grade at the time, and beforo it could be stopped tho wheels had passed over the bead of one, crushiug qgt its brains.

Patents havo been Issued to Hoosiers as follows: John B. Deeds and A. Mack, Torre Haute, grinding machine; Aaron Delatter, Goshen, vehicle scat; Frank Farmer, Richmond, pawl and rachet mechanism; John M. Harter and S. G. Ilersch, Wabash, gag swivel) David Hay, North Manchester; Zabby Lassar, assignor of two-tblrds to C. C. Dunn and A. Conner, Srlnesvllle, stone-channeling machine; Warren B. Martlndale, Rochester, automatic time stamp; Jacob W. Turner, Van Wert, Ohio, assignor of one-half to T. Clapper, Hartford City, saw swage; Ernest Walker, New Albany, device for chalking lines; James A. Ward. Greenwood, lathing harness; Joseph G. Whtttier, Attica, door check. At Madison, Alfred Lockard, an old soldier of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, was found In an unconscious condition and died soon afterward. He had just received his pension money and is believed to have been drugged and robbed. Hiram Curry, tne little son of Dr. H. M. Carry, of Graudvfew, had a narrow escape from drowning. He and his Newfoundland dog were playing on the largo iron bridge over Big Sandy River, when the boy fell off the bridge into the water, a distance of thirty feet. He sank and rose the second time, when the dog sprang off the bridge and rescued him. Only 55,000 of the necessary 810,000 to keep the Y. M. C. A. from disbanding at Richmond could be collected, so the organization is a thing of the past in that city. August Vonderembse was shot by James Maher west of Terre Haute, because he insisted on calling on Maher’s sister, who had beeu deceived into a mock marriage with him. When Maher learned a few mouths ago of the deception he brought bis sister home from Chicago. Vonderembse had been warned not to come to the house, when he appeared Maher got his shotgun and fired. Vonderembse was hit in the arm and leg and badly wounded, perhaps maiming him for life.