Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Summary of the More Im. portant Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths —Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes. Condensed State News. Factories at Frankton are preparing to start up in the near future. Mr. BrYan’s large farm dwelling, north of Wabash, burned. Loss, $1,500. The Common Sense engine works at Muncie will resume business with a full complement of men. Several farmers near Lawrenceburg have received “White Cap” notices lately, telling them to leave. Mrs. A. Swift, wife of a prominent farmer of Allen County,' committed suicide by drowning. Several Delaware County farmer; report that they have recently been swindled by fruit tree poddleis. A SENSATION was caused in Plain-. field last week by the finding, in an alloy, of the leg and breast hone of a human person. No clue. A dozen men narrowly escaped death by the bursting of a pot containing fifteen tons of molten metal at the McVay Iron Works, Muncie. „ Geo. M. McCoy, a brakeman, has brought suit at Richmond for 820,000 against the Pennsylvania Railroad for the loss Of a leg while in their employ. A large flow of gas has been struck near Marion. Several attempts have been macie to reach gas near that place but this is the first successful one. Israel Asbury, aged 60 and insane, was killed by the cars at Ellsworth, four miles from Terre Haute, on the Logansport division of the Vandalia road. While .driving a team across the track at Rossville, John Biesiecker was struck by a north-hound Monon train and fatally injured. Both horses were killed.

Jacob Swartsman, while nutting near Greenfield, fell out of a tree a distance of thirty-five feet. Both arms were broken and he was so badlv injured he cannot recover.' Many friends and citizens of Mitchell join in welcoming home Bent Jones from the Penitentiary South, where he was serving a life-time sentence. He was pardoned by Governor Matthews, having served eighteen years. He was the leader of the TolliverMoody feud; and his crime was the murder of one of the Moody family. Mrs. Greek, aged 82 years, residing twelve miles east of Wabash, was probably fatally injured by a vicious ram. A number of • sheep belonging to a neighbor escaped from the' pasture, and in trying to drive them out of her own place the ram turned upon Mrs. Greek, knocked her down, and broke an arm and a leg, and hurt her internally. She cannot survive. Mrs- Anna M. Wilson has brought suit against three of Danville’s prominent druggists for selling intoxicating drinks to her hnstand. She claims that by reason of such sales her husband became abusive and injured her hotel business to the extent of SIOO per month and the sale of her property SI,OOO. She asks for damages in the sum of $6,000 in two cases. Clark WiLFONG, a young man living ten miles east of Orleans, had an altercation with his father and used a knife with dangerous effect, stabbing the old gentleman in the left side, just over the heart. The wounded man died. The trouble grew out of the division of some property by the father, the boy not being satisfied with bis share- Young Wilfong has been arrested;

The Lafayette Natttrai-gas Company has closed & deal 1 with the Diamond Plate-glass Company whereby the latter turns over to the home corporation between five and six thousand acres of leased land in the gas belt. The tract is not far from Windfall. The strip secured is two miles wide and something over ten miles in length, and is said to be in the heart of the gas field. The Lafayette company now has somewhere- fa the neighborhood, of sixteen thousand acres under lease and plenty of gas is assured. Mrs. Thomas Moore, a colored woman of Columbus, has been sick for the last six months, and has sought relief of many physicians. Recently she applied to a Columbus physician for relief, and was given some medicine that eased her. The other evening she again became desperately sick and began vomiting. Something alive arose in her throat and came out of her mouth. Sheseized hold of it and pulled hard, breaking it in two, but secured twelve inches of the varmint. Shs was horrified*at seeing it squirm like a snakeon the floor, where it was thrown. The beast or serpent was killed and brought to the family physician who as yet has been unable to name it. Other physicians are making a pathological survey ot the new animal. One of the boldest robberies ever committed in Northern Indiana was perpetrated near South Bend. In a little old house nine miles northest of the city resided alone Mrs. Jane McMichael, a widow, and the wealthiest woman in St. Joseph County. She* kept a portion of her wealth in the house. The other night, while she was dozing in a chair, the door was burst open and three men, with faces partly covered by handkerchiefs, bolted in. The woman ran from one room to another, but she was finally caught and bound and made to tell where her money was hidden. The robbers got $l2O. Believing she had more, they threatened to burn her alive if she did not give it up. She told them it was ail she had, and they finally left, leaving her tied until friends arrived and released her, half dead with fright. The gold medals offered for the Indiana dairy exhibit at the World's Fair have been awarded to Mrs. James Riley of Thorntown, for dairy, and John Mingle of Centerville, for creamery butter.

W. H. Smith, who resides near Atlanta. four miles south of Tipton* while passing along the public highway,, just at the south edge of the city,'was shot by some unknown person, the ball striking his body about one inch below the heart. The physicians in charge of the case probed for the ball, but could not locate it. He wild probably recover. William Kase, one of the five alleged murderers of the Wratten family near Washington, now in the Jeffersonville Prison for safe keeping, has begun habeas corpus prodeedings in tho Clark County Court. He is trying to prove an alibi. Another incendiary fire occurred at Newport, recently. The torch was applied in the rear of R. E. Stephens store building on the north side, and it was totally destroyed. Robert Newlin occupied the building as a restaurant. Loss on building about SBOO, and on •stock $75, both insured in the Home of New York. This makes the sixth incendiary fire around the public square In the last three years.