Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — AROUND A BIG STATE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND A BIG STATE.

BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local In serest —Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Personal Pointers About Indlaniana. Minor State Items. Morgantown is to have a canning factory and normal school. THEold Blackford County courthouse bell has been sold to the t. B. Church for SSO. Wallace Linder’s residence at Crawfordsville burned. Loss, *$1,000: insured. Leonard Brothers’ steam brick mill at Hammond, begins operations April 2. Between 400 and 500 men and boys will he employed. Philip Anthony, Chicago capitalist, while crossing Cedar Lake on the Ice near Knox, fell in an air hole and was drowned. Body recovered. A newspaper man near Fortville named Camp has named his first baby Helen and there is Helen Camp every time the baby opens its mouth. It is the fad among Madison girls to wear each other’s < loaks and hats for afternoon promenades. Makes young men think they have ouite a variety. An artificial ice company, consisting of Philip Hamm. R. A. Aflner and Daniel Benedict, with capital stock of $50,000, has been organized at Elwood. Dixon Walker, aged 72, residing near Petersburg, was arrested and jailed for attempting to burn the house occupied by Martin Mathenie, his son-in-law.

At Selma, six miles east of Muncie, the wife of Dr. A. H. Goode opened the valve of a natural-gas water pump, and an explosion occurred, badly burning her arms and face. A big bulldog attacked Louis Chadworth, aged 15, at Birdseye. The brute tore the flesh from the boy’s leg and would not let go until the town marshal crushed his skull in with an ax. An Indian’s skeleton has been dug up on a piece of ground east of Columbus, on the bank of Haw Creek, where a heavy growth of timber formerly stood. It is supposed to be an old burying ground. Thieves broke into T. B. Parkison’s hardware store at Yorktown and stole one hundred dollars’ worth of revolvers, razors, and knives, and thirty dollars’ worth of wines, liquors, and cigars from Sol Donovan’s saloon. A 3-year-OLD daughter of Pat Morgan of Benwood, fell against a red hot stove. Its clothimr quickly ignited, burnine* the child almost to a crisp before the fire could be extinguished. Though yet alive its recovery is considered impossible. John Cedars, a wealthy farmer, aged 74 years, living near Waynetown, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. His wife has been very low with the grip for several weeks, and it is supposed that this preyed on the old man’s mind.

Samuel Blair, a young farmer residing near Kentland, committed suicide by placing his mouth over a shotgun and pulling the trigger with a forked stick. This was his second attempt within a week. Deceased was a member of the A. O. U. W. Mrs. Annie, residing a few miles from Madison, was horribly burned by her clothing taking fire from a cook stove. Before assistance reached her she was seriously if not fatally burned, and now lies in a critical condition. In her efforts to extinguish the flames the house was set on fire and entirely consumed. AT Seymour, Harry Francisco, aged 17, attempted to jump on a Baltimore and Ohio switch engine, but he fell on the rails and two cars passed over him amputating both legs. The back of fl is head was also crushed in, and death was instantaneous. The boy’s father was a switchman in the vards there years ago and was killed in a similar manner.

A mysterious explosion occurred at the Court House at Marion, shaking the building perceptibly, shattering the glass in one of the doors, sending flames forth from the grates and chimneys, and otherwise alarming the occupants. Similar manifestations occurred at the furnace from which the Court House is heated. It is supposed that in some way natural gas had accumulated in the tunnel leading from the heater.

At the crossing of the Big Four at Muncie, a switch engine backed a box car into a buggy owned by John W- Wilson and occupied by Mr. Wilson and Frank Eiler and his small son. The horse got across the track, but the buggy was smashed to pieces and all the occupants injured. Mr. Wilson was badly cut about the head, and all were much bruised. There is no target or other danger signals at the cro.-sing. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors to-day as follows: Albert R. Baker, deceased, Indianapolis, M. C. Baker, administratrix, label for file binders: James Buchanan, decaseci, Indianapolis, W. W. Buchanan, administrator, steam boiler; William L. Butts, Evansville, stove or range; Daniel Curran, Indianapolis, candle extinguisher; Jeffrey T. Ferren, Anderson, bottle packing wrapper; Ferdinand Grote, Evansville, sectional boiler; William O. Harland, Monon, mop and wringer; George B. Martin, Indianapolis, wrench for vehicles; Thomas McDonald, Indianapolis, oil burner; Martin D. Smalley, Plymouth, friction clutch; William L. Sonntag and R. A. Brennan, Evansville, display counter; Frederick Waidner, Mishawaka, hinge for wind mill rudders; Jesse Warrington, assignor of one-half to Nordyke & Marmon Company, Indianapolis, doth fastening device for bolting reels; John Wisner, Bluffton, laundry frame. William Fryer of Crawfordsville, was trampled under the heels of several horses and his skull fractured. He was aiding in taking horses to the cars to be shipped away, and was riding a horse and leading four others, when they ran away. The 2-months’-old daughter of George Woodfork, colored, residing at Fifth and Howard streets, Indianapolis, was found dead in bed by her mother the other morning. Coroner Beck was summoned and he is of the opinion that the child was suffocated by the unusual heavy covering while the mother was asleep. I Thomas Hardin and Ora Davis were arrested at Crawfordsville for stealing a pair of socks from a line in broad daylight. Hardin, who carried a revolver, was fined $lO, sent to jail for ten days, and had the socks taken from him. Davis was ordered out of town. President J. E. Jones, of the Emley Steel and Tin-plate Company has placed his orders for 500,000 fire brick, 100 barrels of cement, and 100 carloads of sand to be used on the buildings which the company is erecting at Summitville. A force of fifty men is now at work digging the foundations. Mr. Jones says it is his intention to be making tin-plate yj Summitville inside of six weeks.