Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — AROUND A BIG STATE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND A BIG STATE.

BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. What Our Neighbor* Are Doing—Hatten of General and Local Interest—Marriage* and Death*—Accidents and Crime*—Personal Polnten About Indlanian*. Minor State Item*. Nappanee expects to get a shoe heel factory. Fruit trees are planted for shade at Seymour. Rochester is out of debt and has •6,000 in the treasury. Winchester school loard has established a free kindergarten. A strange epidemic is puzzling the doctors around Moore's Hill. The town of Marmont, on lake Maxinkuckee, is to be incorporated. Vincennes is preparing to hold a mammoth Fourth of July celebration. An electric light plant and a telephone system may be put in at Valparaiso. Trafalga, Johnson County, is greatly excited over a supposed case of leprosy. A fire of incendiary origin did •2,500 damage to the Hotel iloxey at Anderson. Noblesville houses are to bo numbered and the names of streets put up at crossings.

‘‘Bill” Greene, sent up for life for murder at Kokomo, is dying in the Michigan City prison. Lee Ess linger, well known young man of Evansville, fell dead. Brought on by cigarette smoking. Mrs. Harden McGeary of Seymour, has a cat that has adopted four young squirrels, captured in the woods near that place. A Washington doctor is employed by prospective husbands to analyze biscuits made by young ladies who belong to the cooking dubs of that place. Willie Swails, the 6-year-old son of Elmer Swails of Lelianon. was thrown under the wheels of a loaded wagon by a runaway team and instantly killed The man named Mahon, who fought a duel with Mr. Morgan and killed him near French Lick springs, has been indicted for murder by the Grange County grand jury. Fireman Mcßoberts, on a Big Fou passenger train, was seriously injured near Wabash, by a side rod on the engine breaking, tearing away his side of tho cab and striking him on the head. A freight train ran into an open switch at Hartford City, and tho engine and nine cars were badly wrecked. A. W. Benthln, brakeman, was killed and Engineer Phillips and Fireman Tucker seriously injured. John Cunningham, an old residentof Crawford County, was killed near Boston, on the Aih-Llne, thirty miles west of New Albany. The remains were taken to his home near English. He was about (50 years old.

Fred Morelock’h grocery store near Mt. Vernon was wrecked by the explosion of a 50-pound can of powder. Milton Brookins, George Lang, and William Curtis were taken from the ruins unconscious and may die. While returning on the special train from the Methodist Conference at Bluffton, Claude Roebuck, a young man of Decatur, fell from the train and broke his leg. He also received internal injuries which will prove fatal. A through train on the Panhandle run over Mrs. Vineyard at Florida, a few miles south of Elwood. She was crossing the track in a buggy and was killed instantly. The buggy was broken into fragments and the horse escaped unhurt. Judge Wilf.y, of tho Benton Clrcult'Court, has decided that tho fee and salary law of J 891 is unconstitutional and void in that it omits to include the Treasurer, Auditor, and Recorder of Shelby County within its provisions. While Omer Perkins, a farmer living six miles north of Lebanon, was shooting birds his gun kicked and slipped from his shoulder and the hammer struck his nose, cutting away all the flesh from the member and disfiguring him for life. Deacon A. Reed and Rev. Marion Pickering, both colored, were arrested in Jeffersonville, charged with the murder of Stephen Geer, March 0, and both confessed their guilt. 1 hey said they were trying to steal chickensand were afraid they would be caught. Joe Carmack, once a prominent stock dealer of Franklin, attempted suicide by shooting himself through the head. The act was committed in a saloon. The ball entered the right temple and took a downward course, lodging in the left cheek. His reasons for wishing to die were that he had no money ana was tired of life.

The mystery of the extensive robbery of valuable mall at the South Bend postoffice, which has been going on since last July, was cleared up the other day by the arrest and confession of Edward Boone, a married man and son ot Phillip H. Boone. The prisoner has been a resident of that city all his life, and until recently . was employed in the postoffice...He was forced to resign on account.of his bad Jiatdfcj. Edward Berger. Whose house Boone had occupied until lately,, found an open letter containing a money order for $2.17, payable to County Treasurer Venn, and a letter from the remitter, Henry C. Shure of Mishawaka. A duplicate order had been issued by the Mishawaka postoftice and paid. Mr. Berger took the stolen order to thp ppetomce and Boone was arrested at the Windsor Hotel. He confessed opening that letter and others, bdt would not say how many. The 8-year old daughter of James West, residing four miles west of Scottsburg, was playing outdoors with fire, when her clothes caught and she was so horribly burned that she died. The child's mother was also seriously burned about the arms in trying to save’ her daughter. At Vincennes, Henry Fossmever, in attempting to break a'balky horse, attached a cnaintothe animal’s lower jaw and hitched it behind a wagon drawn by two horses. The refractory animal refused to go, and was dragged until its jaw was pulled off. It had to bi shot to put it out of its misery. Solomon Speed, held for safe robbery. with “Shanty” Hamilton, held for stealing a watch, and Charles Williams for highway robbery, escaped from the Logansport jail by filing open a scuttle door in the ceiling and lowering themselves with a rope made of a bed-tick. Homer Fuller, a falls fisherman, while examining a trot line just below Jeffersonville, found the head and shoulders of a man attached to one of the hooks. It is generally supposed that the remains are those of one of the men who were drowned in the Phoenix bridge disaster in December. The face was covered 1 with a beard eight inches long.