Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES THB PAST WEEK. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes. Hoosier Happenings. Bedford has been named the "Stone City.” .Richmond is pleased with a new police system. Murphy, the Lafayette rioter, is at work In the tailor shop of the Northern Prison. The new manufacturing town of Ingalls is reviving the boom which she recently had. The Democratic State Editorial Association meets in Warsaw. June 21, and 22, and the Republican State Editorial Association will meet tn July at the same place. Mrs. Baker has allowed 84,000 damages against the Richmond Gas Company. Her daughter, Mrs. Crabb, was Injured in a gas explosion in Richmond last January. The Sheriff of Montgomery County was squirrel hunting the other day and took the jail keys with him. The cases in court had to be postponed because the prisoners could not bo had. . "Kid” Miller and his chum went from Fairmont to Elwood to work in a bottle factory.- They rpqmed but it was finally discovered that the chum was a girl. Disappeared now.

Charles Marvin, brakeman on the Clover Leaf, was knocked from a side ladder on his train at Clark's Hill and, falling under the wheels, was decapitated. He leaves a wife and five little children. Bert Underhill, G. W. Noble, H. J. Smith, Martin Waldoogle, and James Cullen have been arrested in Lafayette on charges of perjury growing out of their affidavits in the Opera House riot cases. The 3-yoar-old girl of Edward Livengood, living seven miles east of Lebanon, was choked to death by a coffee grain lodging in her windpipe. The operation of trachivotomy was performed, but too late to save her life. Adolphus Minton, a prominent contractor, fell from the top of a three-story building under course of construction at French Lick Springs, and was almost instantly killed. He lived only twenty minutes. He loaves a wife and two children. Simon Bloch, with his wife and daughter, and Edward Emanuel of Marlon, were injured in a runaway. They wore on thole way to Gas City, when an accident to the carriage frightened the team. Mr. Bloch was injured internally. James W. Hartley, an employe on the Lake Shore construction train, was killed at Laporte. He was intoxicated and deliberately stepped on the track in front of an incoming freight train. His body was mangled to such an extent that immediate Interment was necessary. Ho was about 40 years old and leaves a widow.

Dr. C. N. Metcalf, Secretary of the State Board of Health, was In Elwood, Investigating the smallpox cases in that vicinity. Ho expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the precautions taken by the local Board of Health to prevent the spreay jf the djgease and prepared a isj.Uious. 1 '' Jawsjsli V? clarol the daiTgcror aTT epidemic Is decreasing and he afflictpates no such result from the present situation. He commends the efficient manner in which the matter has boon looked aftor and speaks reassuringly of the future. A serious accident, which will probably prove fatal, happened to Harry Quick, aged Hi, near Jeffersonville. Some companions wore swimming in a pond through which runs a wire fence. One of the boys bantered Quick to leap over the wire fence. Quick accepted, and was In the act of leaping, when his foot slipped cn the grass, and instead of clearing the fence, he landed a-straddle of the sharp barbs, and was horribly cut, his entire abdomen being torn open and the Intestines partly laid bare. He was carried homo and Dr. Zuerner was called, who was compelled to take nineteen stitches to sew up the cut. The |boy Is In a precarious condition. Mrs. Amos Thompson, widow, residing with her son Cyrus, near Crawfordsville, was killed by a horse. She went to the barn to feed the animal, and entered the stall where the horse was tied. She had a shawl over her head, and It Is supposed the horse became frightened at her appearance, and knocking her against tho partition stunned nor' so that she fell down under the animal's feet It then V a )Y. e 4 her head and breast into a mass. A hired hand, on coming Into the barn, ffSHced the hors 6 pawljig, and qj examination found tli3 remains of Mrs?Thompson. He attempted to enter the stall, and was kicked against the barn. Calling for Cvrus Thompson, he came, and after pacifying the beast carried out the body of his mother. The horse had always been a gentle animal.

A mo burly tramp stopped at Patrick Murphy’s home, east of Brazei, and asked for a drink of wator. There was no one at home except Mrs Murphy and her 10-year-old daughter. However, the woman went to the well to get the stranger a cup of cold water. She had been gone only a minute when she heard her daughter utter a piercing scream. Snatching up a large stone she ran back to the house, where she found her child in the tramp’s arms, lying on the floor. She threw the stone, striking the tramp in the bead, then called her large dog and set him on the fellow. The vicious canine chewed him badly in several places, and almost tore the clothing from bis back before he could get away. Mrs. Murphy at once went to a neighbor’s and reported the outrage. Marshal Louderbock was informed, and he sent a message to Greencastle to watch for the brute, who had started In that direction. He was arrested at that place and returned to Brazei where he now lies in jail Neil Ford, a tough colored citizen, residing in Calvin Township, Cass Conntv, Michigan, came to South Bend to visit his sister, Mrs. Adam Powell. The other day he got drunk and shot her because she threatened to punish her son. Ford said he would shoot her if she did, whereon she bared her breast and cried to him to shoot... He pulled out a 32-calibre weapon ana fired, the ball entering above her breast, passing out her back and lodging in the wall. Ford started to run, but was captured and jailed. Mrs. Powell was removed to St Joseph’s Hospital. There is a possibility of her recovery. Sydney Barton, the 13-year-old son of Roadmaster M. F. Barton of the L>, E. snd St L. Railway of New Albany, was drowned tn Silver Creek. He had been attending a picnic, and with a crowd of boys went in bathing. He was seized with cramps, and went down before help could reach him. The body was recovered. Eugene Hammon, employed in the Indianapolis Basket Factory, fell into a vat filled with boiling water, being submerged to his neck. He was dragged out instantly, but the skin fell in rolls as his clothing was stripped off, and he was parched from head to foot Every known remedy to relieve him was tried without effect. Be died in horrible^““ M ’.