Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — AROUND A BIG STATE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND A BIG STATE.

BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Our Neighbor* Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriage* and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Personal Pointer* Abont Indianians. Brief State Item*. 2Y tramp was seriously injured by a train at Mitchell. W. R. Golden of Gas City, has a cane consisting of 487 pieces. Several head of cattle were killed by lightning in Wayne County. A LARGE vein of fine blue limestone has been struck at Heltonville. Martinsville Odd Fellows are to have a new hall, costing $9,600. Charles Haney, 30, drunk, was killed by a train near Evansville. Fire destroyed the Golden Rule dry goods house at Bedford. Loss, $2,000. Henry McCullough 84, a prosperous farmer of Bartholomew County, is dead. Miss Emma Linsey, 10, Jeffersonville, was suddenly stricken blind and dumb. John Jefferies, a stock dealer near Carmel, had $550 stolen from his house by thieves. Sylvester Bierck. a boy, was killed in a fall from a stable loft at Madison. Patrick Carroll was horribly burned by a gas explosion in a foundry at Fort Wayne. Hugh Leach, aged 22 years, died of consumption at the home of his father, Frank Leach, in Martinsville. Alden Cox’S house, near Hortonsville, was burned while the family was at the World’s Fair. Loss, $1,500. The Moore family, which numbers nearly 162, will hold its fifth annual reunion near Farmland Saturday, Aug.

The Henry Taylor planing mill at Lafayette, together with several residences, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $38,000. The tile mill at Curtis McCoy, leased and operated by James Murphy, five miles west of Wabash, was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Ritchie, aged about 70, while crossing the Big Four tracks at Adams, Shelby County, was struck by the local freight and instantly killed. Mr. P. E. Polk of Tyler, Texas, desires to open correspondence with some one who served in Company I, Oneh undred-and-forty-fourth Indiana Volunteers. Richard Smith was probably fatally injured at Liberty while throwing a band on a threshing machine. He was caught by the band and knocked some distance, resulting in concussion of the brain.

In the Mississinewa River at Red Bridge, Clark Lamm, aged 17, was drowned while bathing. The lad had swum the stream, and was returning, when seized with cramps, he sank to the bottom. A passing freight engine is thought to have set fire to Ed Bain’s stubble field, near Martinsville, and about 1,000 bushels of wheat was burned in three large ricks. W. G. Bain, formerly Morgan County Auditor, came near losing his life in attempting to save the wheat. George Dodson, a farmer of Brown County, subject to epilepsy, was “righting up” a burning log heap on his farm, when he fell in a fit into the fire. A small boy ran to his aid, but was unable to drag him from his dangerous position. The little fellow then ran for help, but Dodson was found to be critically burned before ho could be rescued. The fast mail on the P., C., C. & St. L. railway, struck the rear of Jacob Young’s buggy, at the crossing east of Cambridge City. He was thrown from the vehicle and dragged several hundred feet, escaping with one rib broken and being otherwise badly bruised. Mr. Young is 69 years old, a resident of East Germantown, and the injuries may result fatally. While fighting a fire in her husband’s wheat field, Mrs. Joseph Wherry, living two miles west of Marion, was the victim of a painful accident and but little hopes are entertained of her recovery. Her clothing caught fire, and she was severely burned from head to ankles. Her sufferings were intense. Mrs. Wh’erry is 26 years of age, and is the mother of one child.

An advance copy of last week’s report of the Indiana weather service, compiled in co-operation with the agricultural experiment station at Purdue University says: The temperture and sunshine during the past week were excessive, and although local rains prevailed over the State, temporarily benefiting the growing corn and potatoes, crops were reported at the end of the week as suffering from drouth, except in portions of Southern Indiana. The dry weather has affected the crops most severely in the northern portion of the State, and reports from some of the northern counties indicate that the oats crop will be almost an entire failure. Wheat threshing is about completed, and plowing for fall wheat has commenced in some sections of the State. Late reports say that the quality of the grain is very good, but the yield is not so large as was expected. Without exception pastures are reported as very short and dry, and in some instances farmers have been compelled to feed their stock as in winter. Late potatoes, already suffering from drouth, have been injured by bugs in all sections of the State. Reports again indicate that the melon crop will be unusually large and fine. Pears are in better condition than other fruits, and grapes have apparently suffered but little injury from the dry weather. Wheat took a tumble at Greensburgh recently. The fall was caused by the west end ofthe brick flowering mill of Gebs & Habeg giving way and 15,000 bushels were dumped into Lincoln street. The building was two stories high, and the west end was used for storing grain. Under this part of the building the office was located. A few moments before the wall collapsed several persons were in the office making settlements. Persons going along the street heard the creaking of the building and gave the alarm, and those in the office saved their lives by a hasty exit. John Thrailkill, son of Milton Thrailkill, a wealthy farmer of Spencer County, was thrown from a freight train at Morgansfield, Kyv; and instantly kifled. It is but a short time ago that John Thrailkill’s aunt and her son, Frank Thrailkill, both committed suicide. Rodney Ellis, a well-to-do farmer, residing near Windfall, shot himself, the ball striking the eye and ’ lodging in the brain. Ellis was a married man and was well known and respected. The physicians could not locate the ball and entertain but little hope of his recovery, although he may do so. The cause of the act is unknown, and many conflicting stories are in circulation.