Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes of the State. Hoosier Happenings There are 600 convicts in Jeffersonville prison. According to the assessor’s report Hancock County has 1,252 dogs. Clifford Pine, 5, fell in a watering trough at Crown Point, and was drowned. THIEVES looted the hardware store of Haskell & Cook Brothers, at Fortville. Josiah Antrim, 74, and Mrs. Nancy Sharp, 70, were married at Marion. Case of love at first sight and brief courtship. Barney Stewart, a prominent lawyer, residing at Wakarusa, fell from a tree and received injuries wich will prove fatal. Thomas Boyer, while lying in a drunken sleep on the O. & M. Railroad at Vincennes, was struck by a switch engine and instantly killed.

Jacob Rinhart of Elwood, who stabbed saloon-keeper John Clancy during a light, was given two years in the penitentiary, at Anderson. The twenty-fourth annual State Convention of the Young Mens' Christian Association, of Indiana, will be held at Marion,-November 2 to 5. Joseph Hendely, a miner, aged thirty years, unmarried, was so badly crushed by falling slate in Crawford’s ■Mine, No. 5, Brazil, that ho will die. The farm residence and contents of Adamson B. Wiles, northwest of Noblesville, was burned, involving a loss of $1,500; insured in the Ohio Farmer’s for SI,OOO. Mr. and Mrs. John Hill of Bedford, up to last week, had five children; now they havejeight -triplets,two sons and a daughter, being born to Mrs. H. a day or so since. Hays Hunter was riding with his sweetheart, Miss Clatha Cornett, near Bedford, when they quarreled. He pulled a revolver and asked her to shoot him. She refused and he shot himself in the mouth. Ho will die. Howard Dill, a very jxipular young man living three miles oast of Brooklyn, accidentally shot himself through the breast and lung with a plstfthwhile out buggy riding with his sweetheart, Miss Sadie Hobson. It is feared ho cannot live. Du. Lampton, an eminent surgeon of Chicago, mot with a very serious accident at Rocktort, which may result in his death. He arrived on the night train, and, going to the Veranda Hotel, made a misstep on entering, fell and broke his hip. Dr. Lampton is a very large man, weighing about 225 pounds, which makes his recovery the more difficult.

Mrs. Anna Thompson, residing at Guion, was horribly mangled and instantly killed by being struck by a freight engine on the Big Four Road. She had been visiting a friend just across the track, and was on her return homo when the accident occurred. Her skull was badly crushed and her right leg broken in four places. She was 50 years of ago, and leaves a family. John Kohl, while hunting near Madison, chased a squirrel into a thick wild grape cluster, and mistook his nephew, Ed. Kohl, aged 14, who had climbed after grapes, for the squirrel. Neither knew the other was in the woods. Ed was riddled with shot in the arms, breast, and near his eyes, and fell heavily to the ground. Two physicians were called. His recovery 'is doubtfql. Dr. Frederick Thayer, a wellknown physician and proprietor of the lying-in hospital in Fort Wayne, was arrested on an affidavit, sworn to by Postoffice Inspector Lawrence Leatherman, charging him with mailing a letter in the postoffice having upon it a Columbian stump which had already been used and showed plainly the impression of the original canceling mark. He was taking before United States Commissioner Leonard, who admitted him to bail until his trial. Much excitement was created at the county jail at Brazil by the attempted escape of Noah King,a notorious crook, who is in jail charged with larceny and attempting to wreck and rob a passenger train on the Vandalia. He was being interviewed by a St. Louis detective, when ho suddenly jumped out of an open window and ran east on the National road. The Sheriff, two deputies and the detective followed in close pursuit, shooting at the fugitive, who after running two miles saw his escape was impossible and gave up. He is now locked in a dark cell, whore he will be kept till the Superior Court convenes next month. Last week Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Andrew of West Lafayette, celebrated the sixty-fifth anniversary of their marriage. All day the homo of this venerable couple was thronged by neighbors and friends, who called to mingle their congratulations and express their good wishes for the future. Tho guests were presented with neat little souvenirs in tho shape of bits of satin, on which was printed in gold the figures 1828-1893. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews wore both born in Pennsylvania, the former in 1806 and the latter in 1808. They were married near where Hamilton, Ohio, is now located. Mr. Andrew camo to Lafayette when the place had but 260 inhabitants, afterward returning to Ohio to bo married. At that time Lafayette was know,p,, as the “little town on the Wabash River, opposite two big trees.” The aged couple have resided there ever since, enjoying tho respect and confidence of the entire community. The 12-year-old son of William Leslie of Seymour, was playing with several companions in the Ohio & Mississipi yards, when he boarded an outgoing freight train to take a ride. In passing the coal elevator he was knocked off the car by coming in contact with an obstruction and ran over by the train. His right leg was cut off between the knee and the ankle, and the left thigh was badly crushed. He was taken to the office of Surgeon W. N. Casey, where he was cared for and made as comfortable as possible. He lingered in great agony for a few hours, when he died.

Three weeks ago Henry Bierman, one of the workmen employed on the abutment of the bridge now in process of construction across the Wabash at Delphi, fell and sustained painful injuries. He wen to work again the other day, and fell from the same abutment. His injuries are now probably fatal. Domestic money order oftices have been established in Indiana as follows: At Fountaintown,Shelby County; Farmers’ Rretreat, Dearborn County; Hancock, Harrison County; Marshfield, Warren county; Tangier, Parke County; Warrington, Hancock County. International money order offices have been established at Garrett, DeKalb County, and Spencer, Owen County.