Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THB PAST WEE;K. An Interesting Summary of the Afore Important Doing! of Our Neighbors—Wed* dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes of the State. Hoosler Happenings A SON of Otto Woodard, near Farmland, was perhaps fatally kicked by a horse. Work has been suspended on the Wabash High School because the bonds cannot be sold. A Washington man has been arrested charged with selling beer as soup in large bowls. Motorman Nathaniel Bowskr was terribly crushed between two electric cars in Fort Wayne. Bloodhounds aro being used to chase .thieves out of watermelon patches around Seymour. William McMain, a prosperous miner at Donaldsonville, was crushed by falling slate and died. The large farm residence of Lee Driver, six miles northwest of Farmland, burned. Loss, $4,000. The malleable iron works of the Sweet & Clark Company, Marion, have closed down, throwing 350 men out of work. Mrs. John A. Alsfasser. living west of LaPorte, committed suicide by hanging herself. The 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 remains of an unknown man wero found strewn along the Cleveirnd. Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis* Railway, ten miles east of Lebanon. It is thought he was a tramp. Governor Matthews has announced that ho would appoint James M. Wintors Judge of the Superior Court of Marion County to fill the vacancy caused by tho douth of Napoleon B. Taylor. Mr. Wintors is the acting judge of tho oourtand a well known attorney. Ivan Cox, a soetlon foreman on the O. & M., of Loogootoo, recently placed a package of bills containing #llO in a bed-tick at his residence for safe-keep-ing. In his absence his wife emptied tho straw, money and all into the street and burned it, having f orgot about the monoy, which was completely consumed. Mrs. David Dalman, wifo of a prominent farmer, residing noar Fort Wayno, committod suieido by taking ursonic. After taking the dose she walked to tho field whore her husband and hands wero throshing and told what she had dono and that she did not want to dio ulone, that sho loved him, but her troubles, wero more than sho could hoar. Sho oould not bo saved and expired in groat ugony. Near Fort Rltner, Byford E. Cunningham, a popular Ohio & Mississippi Conductor, was instantly killed by being thrown from a carload of lumber. He fell on his head, breaking his neck. Mr. Cunningham was at one time editor and proprietor of the Seymour Republican. Ho loaves a wife and daughter. Ho was ’35 years old und a member of Seymour Chapter, F. & A. M. and tho Order of Railway Conductors.

Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors us follows: John H. Allison, Elkhart, electric railway trolley switch; George W. Altman, Marlon, button sowing machine; Robert C. Anderson, Jefforsonvillo, wire stretcher: Georgo G. Boswell, Indianapolis, thill support; Robert Poindexter, Indianapolis, post base; Louis Townsend, Evansvillo, harness suspending device; John H. Williamson, Munclo, grain scouring und polishing machine. C. S. Arthur, president, and William F. Smith, socrotary, have issued tho following notice to their comrades: “Inasmuch as arrangomonts have already been made for a Reunion of the 75th and 101st regimentß, Indiana Volunteers, and tho 19th Indiana Battery, at Indianapolis, on tho 6th day of September, during the gonoral encampment of the G. A. R., and the time being so near that of our annual meeting, which was appointed for Portland, to bo held on tho sth and 6th days of October next, it has been deemed bqst by a largo number of members of the society, who have given expression to thoir opinion, to hold but one meeting this yefir, aqd that to be at Indianapolis, and hold in thp Court room, on September 6, where and wnen the usual program will bo carried out so far as it may be possible so to do. Wo earnestly nope to meet you and your family there.”

A gas explosion that occurred at Morristown, probably fatally injured one and seriously burned four or five others. A gas engine and force pump on Main street furnish water to the principal part of the town. Jesse Denlinger had descended into the well to make some repairs to the engine, and while at work remarked that he could’nt see to fix it on account of tho darkness. Some one above lighted a match, and this ignited the escaping gas. A fearful explosion followed, ana a column of flame shot twelve feet into the air. with a loud report. Denlingor received the full force of the shock and the flames, and was frightfully burned from his waist up. It is thought he also inhaled the flames. Large pieces of flesh and skin fell from his hands and arms, and his face, neck, and breast are almost cooked. His recovery is thought to be doubtful. T. C. Wrenich, who was leaning over the well, was badly burned about the hands and face, but not dangerously. John Nelson, who stood near, was seriously burned and is in a bad way. All are suffering intensely from their injuries. Three or four others, who stood near, were slightly burned. 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 6hot. 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. Franklin was shaken up by a fearful explosion of a boiler in the Franklin Water, Light and Power Company’s power house. The middle boiler of the three in the battery was the one which exploded. The brick building, including the dynamo room, was mown to. pieces, and bricks, stones, pieces of machinery and debris were hurled in all directions for 250 yards or more. John Dennis, the fireman, was injured re badly that he will probably die. Ho was out, bruised, scalded, and literally roasted, being caught in the hot bricks from the furnace. Martin Dennis, a brother, was also cut and burned about the face and shoulders, but not so badly