Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doing* of Our Nelghbors-Wed-dlngs and Death*—Crime*, Casualties and General News Notes. Condensed State News. The postoilico at Shideler Station has boen robbed for the second time. In Hamilton County the stars and stripes float above 116 school-houses. COOK& Snyder’s store, near Columbus, was robbed and then burned. Loss M,OOO. John Reeder was thrown from hia horse near Windfall and fatally injured. Burglars have been making rich hauls at New Paris and Syracuse recently. AN 1. &V. train ran into a Monon freight at the Gosport junction and demolished several ears. Fred Perry of Marion, fell from his bicycle and suffered concussion of the brain. His injury may result fatally. P. O. Colliver, ,ex-Prosecuting Attorney, Groencastle, fell out of a stable loft, receiving Drobablo fatal injuries. A CEMENT maker in Southern Indiana advertises that his cement Is strong enough to mend the break of day. The largo pulp plant of the Indiana Papor Company, at South Bend, was destroyed by tire of incendiary origin. Loss $20,000. David Dillon, a farmer noar Anderson, took 25 cents’ worth of morphine with suicidal intent, but the doctor* may save him. THE 11-year-old son of Joshua Rinier of Delphi, fell from a hickory tree and Bustainod injuries from which ho died in a few hours. Mrs. Mary O’Connell of Bedford, was stricken with paralysis and became unablo to Bwallow. Her death is momentarily expected. People in Morgan County are going wild over the gold find along the streams in that vicinity. Land is selling at a high figure. Frank Jorick was struck and instantly killed by a fast I.ako Shore passenger train, near South Bend. He leaves a widow and ton children. Assignee Baker of the Terre Haute car works, lius declared a dividend of 25 per cent, on tho claims of creditors, which will make a payment of $56,000. Chalks H. smith, a Torre Haute rolling mill omploye, died from injuries caused bv being run over by an Evansvill and Terre Haute passenger train. Judge Fhikoly, Madison, has temporarily enjoined tho Madison Council from purchasing a tire alarm system owing to tho largo indebtedness of that city. De Wank vV. Downer, Fairmont, was fatally burnod by a gas explosion. He loft tho gas turned on in the kitchen and entered with a lighted piece of napor. WHILSTthe family of Tote Lighter, living in the northern part of Owen County, wore absent from the house, their 3-year-old child fell Into tho open grate and was burnod to death. Will Holmes, a well-known young farmer, while out ’coon hunting near Delphi, fell from a treo and sustained perhaps fatal injuries. A broken rib penetrated his lungs, and his condition 18 very precarious. The postoffice at West Middleton, Howard County, which for thirty years was in ono building, was moved the other duy and within an hour afterward the building took fire and burnod to tho ground. The flndihg of gold in Morgan and Brown Counties is no longer doubted. Winfield 8. Richards was in Martinsville, recently, exhibiting gold valued at $55 that he washed out in Sycamoro Creek, Morgan County. Mayor Denny appointed George W. Powell, a well-known real estate man, as Chief of Police of Indianapolis, to succeed Thomas F. Colbert. Powell is a successful business man but never had experience as a police officer. Philip Line, who brutally murdered Levan Poynter, at North Liberty, Bt. Joseph County, July 18, has been sentenced to prison for life. A vigorous effort was made to hang him, and the jury stood 9 to 3 for hanging on the first ballot.

The Evansville Tribune wants the Indiana Legislature to pass a law making it practically impossible for a man of dangerous disposition, or .one who drinks intoxicants to oxcoss, to carry a J listed, dirk, or bowio knife, without Deng guilty of a penitentiary offense. Henry W. Grieve, teamster, was caught by a cave-in at CerveL's sand bank, north of Richmond, and buried under several feet of sand. Before he could be rescued he suffocated. He was unmarried and about 46 years old. John and Jackson Huey, brothers, regarded as two of the most desperate criminals that have infested Southern Indiana, are again behind the bars of the Indiana Prison South. Both have heretofore served long terms in prison. John is now confined for manslaughter and Jackson' for counterfeiting. . Mrs. G. B. Sea vers, an old residentof Kokomo, met death in a singular manner. In cleaning rubbish from a woodshed she picked up an old boot, from which fell a rusty revolver. The weapon, in striking the floQr, was discharged, sending a bullet through her brain She was 60 years old. H. S. Wright, who has been Constable at Goshen for 42 years, was enticed away from his home the other night, by Dr. Smithland and David Early and taken to an old mill, where the two men beat him, saying they would kill him. Wright got away, but was seriously injured. His assailants fled. The records in the office of Dr. F. G. Jackson, city health officer of Muncie, show the following facts concerning the smallpox epidemic in Muncie: Total number of cases to date, 146; total number of infected houses, 70; total number of deaths, 20; total number of patients discharged as cured, 86; well, but not yet discharged, 7; total number of cases now under treatment, 3; total number of convalescents, all in hospital, 30; number of houses under Quarantine, 1; number of houses disinected and discharged, 69. The indications now are that the quarantine will be raised by the first of next week. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: James Farlow, Greencastle, washing machine; John F. Greive, Clay JHili, plow; Frank E. Herd man, Indianapolis, elevator; Peter G. Kirsch, Decatur, wash machine; Anderson Lee. Evansville, hinge-set-ting machine; Theophield D. Oakley, Vevay, type case; John Seitz, Haysville, assignor of one-half to J. T. Corn, Jasper, apparatus for forming leaders in blast holes; William H. Smith, Albion, wagon running gear; Howard F. Smith, assignor of one-half to H. J. Cannon, Elkhart, process of'and machine for making cell cases; Peter N. Staff, Terre Haute, bolder for opera glasses.