Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — AROUND A BIG STATE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND A BIG STATE.

BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDU ANA NEWS. What Our Neighbor* Are Doing—Matter* or General and Local Interest—and Deaths—Accident* and Crime*—Personal Pointer* About Indlanlans. Not Exactly Enoch Arden. Twenty years ago Aaron Steinbach tv as a prominent farmer near Plymouth, (Marshall County, this State. He owned a farm of fifty acres and had considerable cash deposited in the county-seat bank. About that time he decided to leave the farm and abandon his wife and two baby boys, but before he did that he deeded the farm to his wife and gave her SSOO in cash. He was not heard from until the other day, when ho appeared at the doors of the Home for Feeble-minded Youth in Fort Wayne. He stated that aftor ho left Marshnll County he wont to Kansas and purchased a farm and there married a second wife. Years rolled on and tho deserted Mrs. Steinbach married again. Her second husband was not thrifty, and squandered the farm, and she died a broken-hearted woman. The twin boys were “sent to tho Soldiers’ Homo at Knightstown, and afterwards transferred to tho Feeble-minded Home. The boys always thought that both thoir parents were dead. The gray-haired man at tho Feeble-minded Institute said that ho was Aaron Steinbach, and tho father of the 20-year-old twins, and ho wanted to take them back to Kansas. The officers of the institution will release tho boys as soon ns they are assured of the Identity of tho old man.

flrtaf State I tenia. Jackson County’s melon crop is good. The now town of Ingalls lias annexed 240 acres. Gas City and Jonesboro are now called tho “twin cities.” There are fifty-three inmates In Franklin’s Orphan’s Homo. A valuable mineral spring has hoen discovered nour Charleston. Tippecanoe County wheat is said to ho almost 20 per cent, short. The Second National Bank of Vincennes has commenced business. Toll roads in Wayne County have been abolished by a popular voto. Pike County Commissioners have ordered tho building of a now jail. Five houses and several barns at Goshen wore destroyed by lightning. Old settlors of Knox County have a grand reunion at Vincennes, August 3. Washington Brunemer, a farmer near Franklin, was killed by lightning. SHARPERS are working northern counties by soiling bogus territorial privileges for a windmill. Vide Thornhurg, a wealthy farmer, aged IX), near Farmland, was soriously injured in a runaway accident. Houleham &.Stump’s hardware and carriage house, Crawfqrdsville, wasdesroyoa by an incendiary lire. Loss, *25,000. Earl Shirley, a popular young man of Elkhart, was drowned while bathing in tho river. Tho body was recovered. The wooden brldiro across White iUvor, at Martinsville, destroyed In March by a cyclono, has been replaced by a 14,000-dollar iron structure. At Knightstown, Ira Martin, a lad of 12 years, died a painful death caused by eating groen gooseberries. It is supposed thut poison used oil the berry bushes was tho causo. An attempt was made to wreck a passenger train on the T. H. & L. road near Itoekvillo, by placing ties on the track. Tho obstruction wus noticed in time to Hag tho train. Loganspout citizens are roaring mad over tho proposod plan of tho natural gas companies to put motors in the consumers’ houses and charge so much per thousand feet. Wheeler brothers wero threshing wheat near Murtinsvlllo when sparks from the engine sot fire to and destroyed tho thresher, stacker, and other machinery. Loss, $1,000; no insurance.

Mitfi. Helen O’Bannon, ono of tho principal witnossos in tho famous Reynolds will case, is now an Inmate of the Logansport hospital. Her mind becamo unbalanced by the excitement of. tho trial. Thousands of dead fish have accumulated in tho Mississ'.nowa River, between Marion and Gas City and the stench is terrible. Thought that the rofußO from tho now paper mill at Gaa City bus poisoned therju Miis. Catherine Reynolds and daughter Nellie, who live five miles cast of Vernon, were driving to town tho other morning. The horse became frightened, ran away, throwing the occupants out and badly injuring Mrs. Reynolds about the head. The daughter is so badly injurod internally that her life is despaired. A Lafayette gas syndicate has leased 1,000 acres four miles north of filwood, f.nd will sink to supply that city with gas from the Madison County fields. It is understood that $2 per acre was paid for the lease. This action of local parties leasing gas lands to foreign syndicates is meeting with great disapproval and the farmers are being “roasted” for so doing. The engine of a Big Four passenger train, while passing Emanuel Grossnicklo’s wheat field, near North Manchester, set fire to the wheat and burned over ten acres of grain. The wheat had been harvested and shocked, and was remarkably heavy, but the stubble was so dry that the entire field was on fire, and all that was saved, about two acres, was done by plowing 1 a few furrows across one end, which stopped the spread of the flames. Edward Elkins, a baker, fell from the third-floor window at No. 418 Third street, Logansport, and was killed. He was in tho habit of sitting in the window when he could not sleep on account of the heat, and it is supposed he went asleep and fell out. While the fire that laid Princeton to the ground is a great blow to the people, they do not seem to be discouraged in the least. Tents are being pitched in all parts of the city, and business is going right along. The Western Union telegraph office is located in a livery stable, and Dr. Gilmore is pulling teeth under a tent. IN White River, just south of Columbus, Josiah Wentworth, aged 14, was drowned while in bathing. A number of companions were with him, but they were so excited that they failed to render him any assistance. The Adjutant General has made arrangements with Henry < raser, general agent of the Big Four, to carry the Indiana militia and their baggage and accoutrements to Markets, now known as Forest Park, on the occasion of the State Encampment. There will be eight carloads of freight. Forest Park has been fitted up at an expense of nearly $50,000 by citizens of Terre Haute, who wanted that city to have a park near bv.