Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAa Intereating Summary ot the More Im. portant Doing* of Oar Neighbor*-Wee-ding* and Death*—Crimea, Cbih.iuct and General Indian* New* Notea Minor State Item*. A stock comnany has been organized at Noblesville to bnild a canning factory. Hereafter Wayne County will charge traveling circuses a license fe® to snow in that county. Farmland has decided to extend its city limits one-half mile in all directions, to make room for the growing town. The remains of a man supposed to be John Hovey, Brazil miner, were found scattered along the Big Four road near Shelbyville. A boycott has been established at Greenwood against a man who opened a saloon there. No one willjboard him or sell him goods. The 8-year-old son Foster Fletcher, living near New Richmond, fell from a fence and ran a stick down his throat, resulting in death. John Carpenter fell off a load of hay in Elwood and broke bls leg. He now sues the city for #t 00, claiming the miserable street was the cause. The safe in the P. J. Kern's Carriage Factory at Frankfort was cracked by burglars and six stores in the town burglarized. The thieves got little. The merchant tailors of Fort Wayne have agreed that all their bad debt accounts should be sold at public auction at the Court House door April 24. Elias M. Smith an< wife have lived on the same farm near Crawfordsville for fifty-eight years. On March 13 they had been married sixty years. A Goshen man loaded some sticks ot wood (or wood thieves. One of the sticks got into his own stove and hfi is now having one side of his house repaired. John Martin of St. Paul, an old German, aged 70, jumped seventy-two feet from tne Big Four bridge acroas Flatrock Creek, near St. Paul, and was killed instantly. The old man was deaf, and had no known relatives in the world. The other uay he placed himself in front of a train to be killed, but was saved, only to take his life as above. The Citizens’ Bank, just organized at Matinsville; has for its directors Sylvanus Barnard, John H. Jones, E. 8. Huff, Charles Hamilton, C. S. Cunningham. and F. W. Woods of that city: O. H. Bake of Mason, O.; F. W. Whittaker of Hamilton, 0.;,j, F. Cunningham of Greensburg, and W. S. Fraser of Richmond. , J. F, Cpnnlngham is President and W. S> Frazer Cashier. Tne capital stock is 8100,000. An atrocious murder was committed at Tolloston recently. The victims are James Conroy and William Oleary, who were employed as watchmen In the Tolleston,Shooting Club grounds. The men in some way be, ame Involved in a quarrel with Albert Tooker; and were getting the bert of the argument when the latter drew a big navy pistol and fired six shots, killing both men. After the murder Tooker took to the woods. A vigilance committee was immediately organized, and ten minutes later about Seventyfive farmers, armed with shotguns, rifles, clubs, and hayforks, began scouring the woods and swamps. James M. Reynolds, of Lafayette, has been appointed a trustee of Purdue University, to succeed Colonel Dresser, whose recent death left a vacancy on that board. Mr. Reynolds is a man ot large means who is engaged extensively in real estate operatious. He is thoroughly in sympathy with Purdue's success, and appears to bo just the man for the place. President Smart, and others prominently identified with the institution, favored the selection of Mr. Reynolds, whom they , regard as a valuable man for Purdue. He is a Republican, and the nonpartisan character of the board is thus maintained. H. O. Huffkr, a young schoolteacher of Farmland, has invented ' new machine for the prevention ol thieves entering and destroying watermelon patches. The machine is a piece, of gas pipe, with string attachments running in each direction through the melon patch, so that when the strings are touched a lever Is thrown and a heavy discharge of whatever the pine may be loaded with 1# scattered in all directions for a hundred yards. It will throw shot hard enough to go through a half-inch board. He has sold a machine to Hamilton Pursley, who is a large melon raiser tn that section, and who has been greatly annoyed heretofore in this manner. The mystery surrounding the many incendiary fires tn Peru the past month wae solved the other night by the arrest of two young men, William Koob, aged 22, ana John Gould, aged 20. Both are sons of well-known people. About 10 o’clock another fire occurred, by which the barn of Joseph Buffert was destroyed. The pent-up indignation burst forth and 500 people started out to discover the incendaries. They were caught about midnight by two special policemen. The boys showed fight, and, flourishing large revolvers, eluded the officers for a time, but were found several hours afterward hiding among the freight cars. Both confessed to setting fire to all the buildings burned. Dime novels and excitement are given as the incentives. Thousands of dollars have been destroyed and the city has been in a ferment for the past month. As high as two and three alarms in one night have been sent in, while dwners of property nightly petroled their premises. Fire originating from the smoke stack of a" neighboring sawmill destroyed the barn of John Oswalt, four miles north of Wabash, together with three horses, a quantity of grain, hay, agricultural implements, and three horses will have to be shot. Loss. $2,000; no insurance. There was a serious wreck oh the Baltimore and Ohio road a few miles west ot Milford Junction. While an eaet-bound freight train was running rapidly an axle broke, and ditched ten cars. The track was blocked for several hours, trains making a detour via the Big Four and Pennsylvania. The Diamond Plate-Glass Works, with a capacity of eight hundred men, and the American Strawboard Mill, working 125 operators at Kokomo, are preparing to reopen after being closed ten months. John H. Perkins of Lebanon, received a letter the other day containing $26 and a note, saying, “I send this fpr Jesus Christ’s saire.” There was ho signature to the note. About eight years ago Mr. Verkin's store was robbed and about twenty dollars worth of goods taken. The supposition is that the money he received was sent by the robber, who has probably been converted since. The letter bears the Chicago postmark.