Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — HOOSIER HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Neighbor* are Doing—Matters of General aud Local Interest—Marriage* and Deaths—Accident* and Crime*—Personal Pointer* About Imllanlan*. M. R. Yocum, County Auditor, dropped dead at his homo in Brazil. There are many wild goeso along White River, but they are very wary. A FINK fiow of the highest grade of lubrieating oil was struck in a well at Royal Center. Hamlet is to have a curled grass plant that will use up hundreds of tons of hay yearly. Mrs. Elizabeth Wahl, wife of a prominent farmer near Evansville, dropped dead in the stable. There are 45H pupils in tho Home for the Feeblo-minod at Fort Wayne, the largest number in the Home’s history. MARK Coon, who was slightly injured in his hand in a saw-null at Wilkinson, will probably lose his life, as,blood poisoning has set in. Dr. Robert Hesslkk of Indianapolis, has teen appointed instructor in the department of physiological psychology of tho Indiana University at Bloomington. Millard Lewis, weighing 200 pounds, a workman on tho Hartford City Court-house, foil from the top of the first story to tho basement, a distance of thirty foot, striking on a pile of brickbats. Ho is badly hurt internally. At Plymouth, Leroy Trohridge, a woll-known farmer, while walking homo was run into by ato am. Tho polo of tho sleigh struck him on tho back of his head, making a largo hole. He was takon back to Plymouth, and remained unconscious until his death. The furmors near Elwood have suffered so much from thieves during the last sow months that they have organized two thief-catching societies, and two bloodhounds have boon secured. The trespasses will bo tracked down, as tho farmers despair of bagging thorn in any other manner. OSCAR Thrall, son of a prominent resident, while returning from church at West Liberty, accomi>anled by two young women, was instantly killed by being thrown from tho buggy. They were racing with other young people. The girls with him wore also badly hurt, one perhaps fatally. Henry a. Miller, while employed in tho Lake Shore and Michigan Southern shops at Elkhart, recently, had an arm so badly Injured by tho Hying pieces of a broken planer that it was nocosHary to amputate tho member. Ho has brought suit against tho railway company for SIO,OOO damages. At Stlpp’s Hill, a village seven miles weßt of Laurel, M. F. George and Stove Dilks uuarrolod over a shoulder of meat sold to Dilks, which ho had failed to pay for. In the affray Dilks drow a dirk knife and stabbed Georgo throe times in the leftsldo. His victim died from tho wounds in an hour. Dilks was immediately arrested, A year ago a little 5-yoar-old girl, Cora Heath, was cast upon tho world without friends or known relatives by the deuth of her father. The orphan was adopted by John P. Conrad, who resides in Anderson. Tho other day word was received by Mr. Conrad that the child had fallen heir to $J5,000 by tho death of a great-grandmothor, in New York. Tho tltlo to the monoy is unquestioned, and tho amount will bo turned over at once. Senator .John Yargan died at his homo in Richmond, at tho advanced ago ot G 2 years. Mr. Yurgan served in the last State Senate, and was probably tho oldest legislator in the country. He was tern in Tennessee, and camo to Way no County, Indiana, in 1813. He served many terms in the State Legislature in tho early days of the State, and was tho author in Indiana of tho law which gave tho women tho right to own property and to make a will. Mr. Yargan’s illness was brlof. In tho Jackson Circuit Court, William Greer was lined SSO and given a six months’ sentence in the County Jail for discharging a double-barreled shotgun into a party of friends with whom ho was hunting, and who desired to return homo, while Greer insisted on remaining in the woods. As the party was driving away Greer fired, wounding William Wilson, Trim Wilson, Jake Loertz, una John Firman. The shooting was over a yeur ago, and the case has been put off from time to time. Francis Murphy, the temporanco evangelist, closed a two weeks’ series of temperance meetings at Dunkirk, and tho outcome is nearly one thousand more signors to the Murphy pledge. Fully two-thirds of tho large number of glass workers there have taken the pledge, and the visit of tho Murphys to Dunkirk will long bo remembered. A Murphy society has teen organized and over SIOO subscribed to its support. Mr. Murphy was ably assisted by his son William, who is ulso a vory forcible speaker. What was reported as a suicide and attempted murder took place at Belle Tholloy’s resort, on West I’resbyterian avenue, Madison. Samuel Medlicott and Frank Stephens, called ’‘Sawbuck,” had a fight. Tho woman says Stephens shot Medlicott in a back room and then rushed in the parlor and put a bullet through his brain, dying instantly. Medlicott is not badly injured. Nelson Martin, a constable, was a witness, he being in the house, he said, on business. There is much mystery about tho shooting, and poople believe it was a case of murder. Constable Martin and the other five people in tho house were arrested and are being held pending an investigation.

Mrs. Patrick Cain, residing in a suburb of Anderson, Is, by her physician, thought to be fatally burned. While standing by a gas stove her dress caught fire and in a twinkling her body was enveloped in flames. The Woman was bewildered and helpless. A half-dozen little children ran screaming for help. When assistance arrived the woman was found on the floor insensible. Her arms, back, face, and head were frightfully burned. The flesh on her hands was literally cooked, falling with tho linger nails from her fingers. She is the mother of fourteen children, all living. The following concerns are running in full or part at Elwood: Diamond Plate-glass Works, Mcßeth chimney factory, McClay factory, American Tin-plate Works, Elwood Iron Works, Rodefer & Hoffman Window-glass Company, and Nivison & Wieskoff Bottl< works. “Charles Waymeyer, a well-to-do German farmer, residing spme miles east of Columbus, is lying in a critical condition from the effects of an accident. While returning from Columbus to his home his team, which was attached to a road wagon, became frightened, throwing him to the ground. The wagon passed over his leg, fracturing it. 4