Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — HOOSIER HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our .Neighbors are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marrteges and Deaths—Accident* and Crime*—Par* sonal Pointers About Indtasniaiu. | ’ Minor State Items. Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, weighing over 400 pounds, died suddenly at Lebanon. Gold found In a gravel pit near Lebanon has been sent to experts to be assayed. The Anderson City ’Council has ordered all tramps found in the city to be vaccinated, hoping to clear the town oi hobos. Some one has stolen the corner stone of the U. B. Church, at Burket, Kosciusko County. It contained S2O and some relies. The 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Warawell of Elwood was fatally kicked in the forehead oy a vicious nor.-e. A.N attempt was made to assass in ate John Grist at Elwood the other night. Some unknown person shot at him, but the bullets flew wide. James Rhoda, a drayman, crossing the Lake Shore tracks in a wagon at Chesterton, was killed by the fast train. Both horses were killed. William Worley, proprietor ol Worley’s omnibus line, dropped dead upon the street at Vincennes. He was an ex-Holdior, aged s<i years. At Eaton, a horse owned by Mr. Charles Younts ran away and ran into a barbed-wire fence, cutting his own throat. He died in a few moments. The $75,000 damage suit against the Wabash Railway brought by the Logansport Manufacturing Company, has I won compromised at Kokomo for Mrs. Elizabeth Schlettnbr, who was knocked from a Big Four Railroad bridge at Yorktown bv a freight train, died from L«r injurfes. She was 00 years old.

William Black, a farmer near Decatur, uncovered a skeleton while plowing-. The evidence points to a foul crime years ago, when an old house stood on the spot. Muncie police were supplied with whips to drive tramps out of town! They found a gang of hobos and used the lash with telling effect. The blood poured out of one man's back. The State Milita Encampment this summer will be held ut Fairview Park. Indianapolis, ft fe expected that 2,300 soldiers will be in camp, und tho expenses ot the encanipment will be reduced by holding; it in the center of tho State. Horace Dubharp, an employe at the glass factory, wuh killed at the Panhandle crossing of pigh street, Hartford City. Dushart is ajjelgian, aged 45, and, it is thought, walked to the point where the train struck him in his sleep. George Moore, a Pennsylvania, brakeman, who resides tn Richmond, met with a fatal accident on the Chicago division. When near Nolan's sidings some distance northeast of Richmond, he was missed by the conductor, who, on goihg back to look for him, found him with his head crushed und one limb torn to pieces. Thomas Collins, a freight brake* man on the Wabash, performed a heroic uct, saving the life of a child in thetetard at Wabash. The engine of Collins’s train was backing in on a siding, and a 3-year-old son of George Pfell run en the track in front of the locomotive. Collins was riding on the break beam, and, seeing the peril of the child, held on with one hanu and, reaching down with tho other, lifted the youngster out of harm's wav as the mother came screaming down to the track.

Right of way has been granted by the Commissioners of Jay County to the Ohio Gas Company to lay ten-inoh gas lines across the county for the purpose of using Indiana gas to supply the cities of Dayton, Lima, Piqua, Springfield, Sidney, Troy, and Van Wert. Seventy-five wells are under contract to be drilled in Jay, Blackford, and Delaware counties, where the companies have thousands of acres of land leased. This project is a heavy blow to the Indiana gas Held, as it will use more gas than the Chicago pipe line. A terrible accident has occurred at Berne. As the funeral procession was conveying the remains of George Stuckey, to their lastrestiag place, the team gt a farmer uyaed Warner, attached to a tvagon containing his family, became frightened at the hearse and ran away. This caused two other teams in the procession to become frightened, and all three teams and vehicles, containing eleven people, were dashed madly together. Elevon people Were seriot sly hurt. Mrs. Warner received injuries from which she died shortly after being removed from the wreck. Three others whose names could not be learned, received wounds about the hit, ' and breast and cannot recover. Patents have been issued to residents of Indiana George C. Ditzler, Uniondale, bag or fodder tie; David A. Foster, Indianapolis, vehicle running gear; Mica.ah C. Henley, Bichmond, lawnmower; John I. Hoke, South Bend, pivoted tooth bar; Alfred Johnson and W. S. Campbell, West Point, safety switch; Arthur A. McKain and W. Seburn. Indianapolis, pneumatic straw stacker; William E. Murbarger, Indianapolis, combined shaft support and thill coupling; Louis Rastetter, Fort Wayne, spoke attachment for vehicle wheels; Joseph Schenerecker, Indianapolis, and J. W. Hann, Toledo, Ohio, apparatus for manufacturing ice and for refrigerating. Trade marks -H.enry W. Bond, Fort Wayne, wheat flour. The Wabash Railroad has settled all damages and claims caused by the great wreck at Kingsbury, last September. wherein twelve passengers were killed. The amount foots up $360,000, Of this sum 8160,000 was paid the families of the killed and to the injured. AT Lebanon a. warrant has been issued for the arrest bt Charles Elder, charging him with passing a forged check for 8100 with Farmer Aaron Goodwin’s signature. He purchased S6O worth of clothing at Smith, Dodson & Co.’s, receiving the difference in money, and escaped before detected. While Mrs. Francis Thomas was milking a cow at the home of her parents. John and Mrs. Pearce, pear Greentown, hey brother, Marion Pearce, made an atrocious attempt to murder her, firing two shots that passed through her hair, making scalp wounds. The father prevented further shooting by wrestling the revolver from the would-be murderer. Two years ago the woman, then but 16 years old, eloped with Thomas. Her brother then threatened to snoot her if she returned to the old home. She came this week to wait on her sick mother. The Pearces are wealthy and prominent. The brother, who is--30 years old’, gd'fe $5,000 bonds.