Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — NEWS OF OUR STATE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. What Oar Neighbors Are Doing—Matter* of General,and Local Interest—Marriage* and Deaths Accidents and Crimea— Pointers About Our Own People. Indiana Incidents. Columbus and Frankfort have a sugar famine. Columbus K. of P. talk of publishing a lodge paper. Jackson county farmers will not sow much wheat this fall. CORN fields near Zelina are being raided by grasshoppers. Franklin County reports the best clover yield this season. Mrs. Henry Vandiver, near Franklin, was found dead in bed. Belle Potts suicided with a razor at Washington. 11l health. Lewis Jenkins had his arm tom off in the tin plate works at Elwood. J. F. Middleton’s large barn near Spartansburg burned. Loss SIO,OOO. Joseph Eisle of Elston, was kicked in the stomach by a horse and died. Farms and forests near Houston are being damaged considerable by fires. Louis Thompson’s large barn near Elkhart was destroyed by fire. Loss, $3,000. Diphtheria in a malignant type prevails In Marion. Five deaths have been reported. Jacob Esary, charged with white capping* was tried at Cannelton, and was found not guilty. Ferdinand Kegley of Peru, who attempted suicide and tried to kill his entire family, is insane. Bert Cupp, 24, a well-known trainman of Munoie, is mysteriously missing. Feared he has been killed. Joseph Trusty, a farmer, accidentally shot himself with a shotgun while attempting to climb a fence, near Pittsburgh, this State.

Miss Minnie Bruck, a well-known young lady of Peru, was thrown from a ouggy by a runaway team und terribly • injurod. She will ale. Charles Holtz, a prominent attorney of Sullivan, was fatally shot by an ox-Shoriff. It is said that he was Intimate with the Sheriff’s wife. While Mrs. W. C. Clevenger was filling the tank to a gasoline stove at Union City the oil Ignited and set fire to the house. It was extinguished with small loss. Vermillion County School Trustees are experiencing trouble in.securing enough teachers to handle the schools of that county. They fail to pass the examinations. Twelve miners wore soriously Injured in a gas explosion In a coal mine at Sholburn. Pia Hayes, 8. Elwick, Levi Bardsloy, Charlos Lloyd, and George Brown may dio. At Elwood, tho McCloy lamp chimney factory, employing 300 hands, has resumed operations in part. Tho McButs factory will endeavor to put on a night force after next week. The famUy of William Sagus, living north of Burrows', was poisoned by something In their food. Two children died and throe other members of the famile are not expectoed to live. Jacob Pressy, a farmer In Knox County, throe miles northwest of Petersburg, while fighting a burning meadow, fell from exhaustion and hU body was found burned to a crisp. Indiana furnished for the war a grand total - of 208,30? men, 1?5,770 formed 129 infantry regiment, 21.005 formed thirteen regiments of cavalry, and 10,980 were light and heavy artillery. Hor soldiers participated in 308 battles, during which 24,410 of her brave men gave up their lives.

George Cutsinger was arrested near Shelbyvlllo for being drunk and using obscene language. As a constable was taking him to Shelbyvlllo they were met by White Caps and the prisoner was severely whipped. The 1 constable was made to retreat. Cutsinger was caught again, and lodged in jail. Harry Creagin was fatally Injured and Barney Riley instantly killed at Colburn. They were en route to Logansport and were seated on the top of a Wabash caboose. The compfeny was short of ears and run a train of cabooses, many persons riding on top. Riley ana Creagin are supposed to have been seated'on top of the lookout cupola, and were knocked off by the water spout. Both reside in Lafayette. Some unknown person made an attempt to poison the family of Henry Page, living on a farm near Brooklyn, by placing the contents of a box of Rough on Rats wrapped in a piece of newspaper in the pump. As a consequence Mr. Page’s daughter Rosa is not expected to recover. Other members of the family are sick. Several chickens died from the effects of drinking the poisoned water, William Meadows, a well-known young man of Bloomington, died recently from injuries received on the head with a stone, thrown by Mrs. George McAfee, a colored woman. The trouble occurred Aug. 22, when Meadows and the son of Mrs. McAfee were quarreling, and the woman interfered and threw a stone, striking over the eye. Mrs. McAiee Is now in jail on the charge of murkier! The boiler of an engine used in driving a clover-hulling maching exploded on the Lambert farm, six miles weat of Union City. Charles Lambert, the engineer, was killed. Besides being scalded, cinders and dirt were blown into his body. Albert Pike had his collar bone and two ribs broken. A horse was killed. It is supposed some one let the water out of the boiler during the night, and that the engineer did not notice it.

Judge Briggs of Terre Haute, on complaint of the Sullivan County Bank, appointed George J. Grammar receiver of the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad. The road owes the bank $36,000, past due. Wilson Sageser and wife of Clinton Township, Cass County, attended a celebration in Logansport, leaving at home their four children, the oldest 14 years of age and the youngest 5. When they returned home in the evening they found them all stretched out on the floor dead. There was evL dence that they had got hold of and eaten some ‘‘Rough on Rats.” At Roann the sawmill of Job Tilman caught fire from a spark of a passing locombtive and in a few moments was a mass of flames. The southwestern portion of the town was in great danger, and was saved only by the efforts of the* fire department. The loss of the mill and its contents was nearly SIO,OOO. Mrs. Ed. Elliot, who lives near Knightstown, was driving home the other night, when she was ihet by two men in a buggy, who opened fire on her. One toll struck her in the book and may prove fatal, like cause for tbe deed is unknown. If the ruffians are caoght they will to summarily dealt with.