Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — AROUND A BIG STATE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND A BIG STATE.

BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing— Matter* of General and Loral Interest—Marriage* and Death*—Accidents and Crimes—Persohal Pointers About Indlanlans. Brief State Items. The Blazil rolling mill has resumed operations. Lapohte is clamoring for an increased police force. J. B. Hiller’s barn, near Peru, burned. Loss, $4,000; insured. Frankfort people are running a pipe lino into tne Elwood district for gas. Charles Hkible, L. E. & W. switchman at Muncie, was killed by an engine. By a local election Brazil has decided to build SBO,OOO worth of gravel road. The 6-year-old son of William Rieble was run over by a wagon and killed at Lafayette. Thomas Highfield, another of the alleged ‘‘White Caps,” was found not guilty at Jasper. The Darnell iron works and several othor factories of Muncie have closed down indefinitely. A Washington man has lieen arrested charged with selling beer as soup in largo bowls. Charles M. Turner has been appointed receiver of tho Citizens’ National Bank of Muncie. William McMain, a prosperous miner at Donaldsonvillo, was crushed by falling slate and died. A HORSE belonging to Ephraim McMurray,that was suffering from rabies, had to bo killed atCrawfordsvillo. Miss Amanda Handlin, a pretty young woman near Lebanon, committed suieiuo with chloroform. She gave no cause. The malleable iron works of tho Swoet A Clavk Company, Marion, have closed down, throwing 350 men out of work. Mrs. John A. Alsfasser. living west of LaPorto, committed suicide by hanging herself. Tho act was caused by ill health, AT a meeting of the stockholders of the Grant County Agricultural Society it was decided to postpone the annual exhibition until tho times improve.

The old Iroquois camping ground, west of Elwood, has boon dug into by A. J. Moore, who has unearthed a number of skeletons buried in a sitting posture. Justice James, Brazil, was called into tho country tho othor day to marry Samuel Hoad and Lydia Somers. He mot tho couple in a corn field and thoro made thorn ono. i Passenger train No. 3, west-bound, ran into the delivery wagon of J. C. Kolly, at Walnut street crossing, Anderson, demolishing tho wagon, and hurling the driver, Joe Mltzler, a distance of thirty yards. Ho was picked up in an unconscious condition. His Injuries are rogardod as fatal by tho physicians who were in attendance, Cora Fugate, a 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Fugate, woll-to-do citizens of Brazil, has bocotne blind. She had been suffering with a complication of diseases since her memorable fast of thirty-eight days, which closed about a week ago. Closo watch was kept over her, and it is declared by hor attending physicians that she nevor tasted food in that time. Thomas Densfohd of Jeffersonville, was fatally injurod while, omployod in Sweeney Bro.’s shipyard. He was standing noar a wagon, from vrbich a largo piece of iron machinery waß being removed, when tho machinery slipped, striking the wagon tongue. This, in turn, struck Densford in tho breast a terrible blow, knocking him. down and injuring him internally. As South-doujid oxpross No. 2, on tho Michigan Division of the Big Four, was pulling out of Jonesboro, a scoundrel. standing on the left side of the track, fired into the women's coach with a gun, smashing tho windows and barely missing the head of a female passenger. The conductor was notified, tho train stopped, and search was made for tho miscreant, who made his escape in tho darkness.

Near Fort Bitnor, Byford E. Cunningham, a popular Ohio & Mississippi Conductor, wuh instantly killed by being thrown from a carload of lumber. Ho fell on his head, breaking his neck. Mr. Cunningham was at ono time editor and proprietor of the Seymour Republican. He loaves a wife and daughter. Ho was 35 years old and a member of Seymour Chapter, F. & A. M. and the Order of Railway Conductors. Patents have been Issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Robert C. Elliott, Prairie Creek, picture exhibitor; Henry C. M'llor, Fort Wayne, engine; Arthur J. Will, Aurora, drill press; John Marshall, Mentonka, rake attachments for mower; Patrick O’Brien, South Bond, tire setting apparatus; George M. Pitcher, Logaosport, brace; Jacob Teeter, Hagerstown, mail crane; Goorgo H. Shoemaker, South Bend, spark arrester; O’Neal Watson, Crawfordsville, collar fastener. Cyrus Brown of Columbus went to the home of Charles Steenberger, four miles north of town, and held a short conversation with his wife, who had not been living with him for Borne time and who had filed a suit for divorce. What the two said no one knows, out Brown pulled a revolver and shot her dead. He fired two bullets through her body, one taking effect in the head. He then made a rush for her brother, but could not get close enough on account of the darkness to lull him. Brown escaped and officers are in pursuit. Job Holmes, living in Monticello. is in a position to sympathize with the White Caps who attacked the Conrads in Harrison County. He is lying at his home with one eye destroyed and the other injured with bird shot. Holmes and several other parties went to the residence of Hugh Davis, an alleged undesirable neighbor, and began to stone the house. Davis emptied the contents of a shotgun at the gang. They all got some of it, but Holmes fared the worst. Davis’residence has been stoned frequently recently, and he served notice that he would shoot one if the assaults continued. William Jordau, a wealthy farmer near Richmond, now has his name on the list of “easy buncoed.” He was worked last week on the barb wire fence trick. The other night as Clem Keyes, a merchant of Flora, was going to his homo from his store, he was met by two highwaymen who ordered him to throw up his hands. He answered by picking up a bowlder and knocking one of them down. The other fired two shots at Keyes, one taking effect in his abdomen and one in his left thigh. The thugs then robbed him of $ 100. It is not thought the wounds will be fatal. There is no clew to the assailants.