Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — AROUND A BIG STATE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND A BIG STATE.

BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDI-* ANA NEWS. What Oar Neighbor* Are Doing—Matter* of General and Local Interest—Marriage* and Deaths—Accidents and Crime*—Personal Pointers About Indianlans. ' v •” Brief State Items. *. B. Briggs, aged 61, was killed by a passenger train near Huntingburg. John Huffman,a well-known farmer of Clay County, committed suicide by shooting. John J. Hartley has been appointed receiver of the Patterson Fruit Jar Company at Muncie. ~ Miss Frieda Kostner of North Manchester, was seriously burned by a gasoline stove explosion. Miss Dora Peters, aged 16, committed suicide at her home near Lafayette. Cause unknown. Miss Laura Watkins filed suit at Wabash, for SIO,OOO damages for slander against William Naber. The striking f treatcar men at Evansville have returned to frork and accepted the reduction in wages. Mrs. Phoebe Randall of Muncie, died from burns caused by her dress taking fire from a pot of coals. The Indiana iron mill company at Muncie, will employ non-union men 'tis said. ‘ Negroes will be employed. Diphtheria in epidemic form is the result of people drinking polluted water at Peru. The schools have been closed. Jay County Fair officials offer a premium to the young lady who places on exhibition the most sightly pair of patched trousers. George Rudolph, the ex-priest who was mobbed at the Opera House in Lafaette last January is going to lecture again in that city. In searching the jail at Columbus, the Sheriff found several Instruments that had been secreted in some unknown manner to aid escape. Jebse D. Thomas and Will Kuhn, prisoners in the Connersville Jail, broke out as they were being given their supper. Still at large. The report comes from Marion that for several weeks not a night has passed during whibh there has not been a burglary In or near that city. A man giving the name of P. J. Jones, from Chicago, was arrested in Terre Haute, charged with forgery. Several forged notes were found on him • Frank Ohtheimeh,prominent farmer near Lafayette, has been declared insane. His delusion Is to make sacrifices to the Lord, and, as a result, he has killed nearly all of his stock. Two new cases of small-pox have been reported at Muncie. The officers met with considerable trouble in removing one of the patients to the hospital. The sons of the man defied the officers.

Farmer James Hamilton, near Morgantown, was held up In his own house the other night while robbers searched the premises and secured 8180. They wore afterward chased almost to Martinsville, whore all trace was lost. John Hall, a brakeman employed by the Big Four, toll from the top of a freight oar near Indianapolis. He struck the ground with terrific force and rolled down a steep embankment. His injuries are internal and very serious. The large elevator owned by the Wabash Railroad Company and managed by Edwards & Adams, in Wabash, was destroyed by fire. The elevator contained 28,000 bushels of wheat, 500 bushels of clover-seed, and some corn. The clover-seed was saved. The wheat was chiefly owned by farmers who,carried no insurance. Losses on grain will be 815,000, and on building 85,0)0. At Hlllsburg, Babe Spurlock attacked William Palmer, an old gentleman, aged 60 years, and began to kick and abuse him, whereupon Palmer drew a knife and inflicted a wound in the abdomen from which Spurlock died in a few hours. Spurlock has long had a reputation as a bully. He severely whipped Palmer two years ago. ‘ Palmer surrendered to- the officers. A FIRE occurred at Orestes, eight miles east of Elwood, on the L., E. & W. R. R., the other night. The fire was the work of incendiaries and wiped out the business portion of the village lying east of Main street. It originated in the general store of J. T. King & Co. The store had been looted of its more valuable'contents and then fired to cover the crime. Thfe. ; is the second fire caused by robbers in that village in two weeks. ' ~ At Lafayette, Kumler & Gayioxd brought a 812,000 damage suit against the Monon road in behalf of Frederick Gillespie, a boy aged 8 years. In August, 1892, the laa climbed upon a ca-’ boose plattorm of the Monon road and was ordered off by the conductor. The train was running at the time, and the stern command of the conductor, and the lifting of his foot (as is claimed he did,) as if to kick him off, frightened the little fellow and he attempted to get off of the step: He swung around under the wheel and his foot was so crushed as to require amputation. Patents have been issued to the following inventorsi James B. Alfree, Indianapolis, metallic conveyor; James M. Adkins, Indianapolis, lock stock cock; Stephen S. Austin, Terre Haute, platform scale; George W. Daily, Charlottsville, mail bag catcher or dispatcher; Howard H. Hopkins, Goshen, bicycle; William B. Hosford, Mishawaka, clutch shifter; George R. Root, Indianapolis, rail joint: George W. Smith, Union City, vehicle pole; John ~ S. Thurman, Indianapolis, fuel oil,-, burner; John Brian, Evansville, hoop? and handle fastener. . - pWiNG to the prevalence of smallpox in the gas belt region of Indians’/* Warden French of the Northern Pent-!? tentiary has quarantined against Muncie and Anderson, and will receive no , convicts from those two places Without certificates from the State BoaijJ'.ei Health. * THE Columbus Grand Jury has re- v turned indictments aaainst Charles, Mary, and John Lewis,-filobert Snyder, Henry Von Stroe and’''Wife, Igol, Henry Mundt, John J. Schrader? and Ham Leesman for conspiracy'ip 7 the Whitecapping of Mrs. Andrew Schrader. ' The insulated wire and rubber works at Jonesboro went into operation last week, employing a large force of skilled mechanics. The factory has been idle several months. Mrs. Samuel McNees, wife of Rev. McNees of Farmland, while trying to light the gas in a stove, was severely burned about the face and hands. The gas-failed to ignite, and, without turning it off, she lit a scrap of paper and threw it on the burner. Instantly there was an explosion that Blew the stovelids and teakettle in the air. The burning fluid was puffed over her head and shoulders, badly singing her hair aud eyebrows and burning her face and hands.