Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. . An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors-Wed-dingi and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes. Condensed State News. Geo. T. Ogden, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Kokomo, is dead. The work on the immense new tin plate works at Elwood, will begin February 1. The Big Four round house, Martinsville, was destroyed by tire, together with a locomotive. Lots *IO,OOO.

Harry Kern, the 7-year-old sen of Allie Kern, of Muucic, is suffering from blood poison contracted from the bite of a rat on his hand. Chesterton citizens were swindled by a stranger who claimed he wanted to purchase some land. He got rid of several counterfeit bills that were changed by his victims. The libel suit for $5,000 damages against the South Bend Tribune brought by O. D. Myers, a barber, was decided in favor of the defendant. The Tribune published a statement that Charles Garwood had been poisoned in Myers’ shop by the use of a lotion. At Muncie, a Walnut street electric car struck Mrs. William Patterson, wife of the Western Union telegraph office. She was in feeble health, and is believed to be fatally injured. She was knocked several feet and was picked up unconscious. She was going home from church, and two other women with her had a narrow escape. John Riplinger, foreman ior W. E. Grey, the bridge contractor, was instantly killed at Franklin, while unloading a derrick at Mr. Grey’s stoneyard, near the junction. The timbers were very heavy and in lifting them from the wagon, Mr. Riplinger was overcome by the weight and the derrick fell on him. The dead man’s home was at North Vernon, where he had a wife and six children. Judge Koons, of the Delaware Circuit Court, has decided that the Barrett law, enabling street improvements to be made with a series of ten years in which to pay the assessments if over SSO, is constitutional. The question was tried on complaint of the Heekin Land Syndicate of Cincinnati, the syndicate alleging that the class legislation part ot the law made it unconstitutional. By. the decision Muncie will get a large sum of money due from this source. *

George Parent, a farmer residing near Union City, burned up $360 the other day. He has the renting of the Dr. James farm and had iust sold the grain raised the past season. He was in A 1 Lamport's grain office, counting the money and preparing to send it to Mrs. Dr. James at Marshall, 111. The money was lying on a table and after doing some figuring on a piece ot paper he gathered it up and threw it in the stove. Upon returning to the desk he discovered the money gone and went to the stove only in time to see it consumed in ashes. Five Burglars made a raid on the Panhandle depot at Crown Point the other night, The night operator,Harry Pilling, was hound and tied fast in front of two revolvers and relieved of sls. They then drilled three holes in the safe and exploded powder in them, but the safe stood the charge. While their work was going on two freight trains were let go by the station, the burglars having taken down the signal, but fortunately no harm was done. The third train stopped on orders, and it is supposed this scared them away. Pilling .was found by the train men and liberated. At times for soveral months obstructions have been placed upon the Indianapolis and Vincennes Railway tracks just west of Martinsville. On Dec. 2!) a tie laid across the rails wrecked an engine. On Jan. 16 a large stone was found on the track about the same place. Obstructions have several times been seen on the tracks and removed by farmers residing near. The Pennslyvania Railway detective has been woi’king on the case for several weeks, and the other day he had Henry Murphy placed in jail to answer to the" charge. Several young farmers are implicated. Perry Morrison is said to have made a confession. Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: George A. Foster and C. E. Hoffman. New Albany,dental plugger; John C. Groseclose, Bargersville, fence; Elijah Hays, Warsaw, nut lock, vehicle brake and car coupling; Charles M. Eller, assignor of one-half to S. E. Urmston, Indianapolis, fence post; Henry F. Kulilmann, assignor to E. Kuhimann and J. R. Barth, Indianapolis, split pulley; Daniel A, Marmon, assignor to the Nordyke & Marmoit Company, Indianapolis, return air purifier; Jas. T. Mathews, Shelbyville, wrench; Arthur ,T. F. Mill, Aurora, radial drill: Cyrus P. Reist, Lebanon, support for fence post; Milton S. Smith, Rolling Prairie, rail fence.

A large part of Maumee Township, Allen County, bordering on the Ohio State line, is in a wilderness, but is of excellent farming land and easily and profitably cultivated when once cleared. Several sections of this land belong to the estate of the late Hon. Joseph K. Edgerton, and the other day a big deal was closed w Hereby a colony of progressive Omish farmers purchased 1,200 acres of this land for $15,000, being sl3 an acre. The colony is composed of eighteen families from Allen and Adams Counties, Indiana; Allen, Fulton, aud Putnam Counties, Ohio, and Tazewell County, Illinois. They will commence to fell timber and will clear a largo part of their purchase money from that source. They expect to have half of their land cleared ready for use next spring. v - Warden French of the State Prison North, wants the State Board of Charities to frame a bill and recommend its passage by the next Legislature, providing for classifying the convicts in the Indiana prisons into three grades, the system at present used in Ohio and other States. It has been stated in the papers that Mr. French proposed doing this, but ho writes to Secretary Bicknell, of t ( he State Board, that the construction of the prison makes it impossible , ; ust now to successfully carry out such a system”, which, however, he regards as hn admirable thing and one that should be adopted in this State. Webb Oaks. aged. 15, was assisting in moving a house at Edinburg, when one of the sills slipped off a jack and he was caught under the house and crushed to death. It is a current report at Bed ford that the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway is likely to purchase the Bedford Belt Railway and the Hoosier stone quarries, which include four different quarries directly connected with the Belt Railway. It is asserted that representatives of the B. & O. Southwestern were at Bedford looking "p the records as a preliminary step towards making the deal. It is also stated that the company has had an option on this property for some time.