Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAn Interesting Summary of the More Im, portant Doinff* of Our Neighbor*—Wedding* and Death*—Crimea, Caaualtle*, and General Indiana New* Notea. Minor State Item*. Sullivan will soon boast of a cigar manufactory. Manufacturing business at Muncie is improving. Mishawaka is to have a new paper mill and depot. Columbus girls parade the streets at night smoking cigarettes. * The Maring-Hart & Co. window glass factory at Muncie hati resumed. Willis McCOLLYof Rensselaer,who accidentally shot himself, is dead. . South bend’s school enumeration shows 8,123, a decrease of 213 over last year. > Farmers near Campbellsburg will put out 123,0ut) strawberry plants this spring. Frank A. Clements, farmer near Crawfordsville, was killed by the kick of a horse.

Measles is spreading at the State normal school. Terre Haute, and there are now forty cases Edinburgh lias nine practicing physicians, but the undertakers in that town are getting poor. James Ward , a young Terre Haute tailor, had seven fingers torn off while playing with a dynamite cartridge that some of his friends gave hifti. William Green was mangled about the head and face at his home, north oi Evansville, by being thrown under a sprlhg-tooth harrow by a team ol frightened horses. Allen DeHart, old and well-known farmer near Lafayette, suicided, by shooting himself through the head. Despondent because a cancer on his face could not be eared. BiShop JoyC® has announced that the annual session of the Northwest In* diaria.Conference of the M. E. Church will convene at Lafayette Sept. 5. Bishop MallalU'U will preside. Dan WILSON, farmer near Portland was called from his his house the other night, by two men, who beat him to death with un ax and club.. The cause is unknown. The assussius escaped. Mr. and Mrs. John Smith’s 16* months-old laiby fell from the second* story-window of the family residence, at Lafayoctb, striking its head on a rain barrel, fracturing the skull and causing death two hours later. While returning from Loogootee, and while driving through a farm gate entering his premises, Thomas Murphy, a prominent farmer of Davies County, was thrown from his buggy. His neck was broken by the fall. Life was extinct when the body was found a few minutes after the accident occurred. Deceased was about 70 years old. At the home of Mrs. Frank Shoots, near Brownstown, Miss Nora Jarvis, aged 20, took a largo dose of carbolic acid. She is u sister of Thornton Jarvis, who is now confined to the county jail, awaiting trial on the charge of the murder of Peter Boling at that place a few months ago. Since .her brother’s arrest she has»grleved much and it is thought that it worked on her mind to such an extent that.it became unbalanced. She is not expected to recover.**.-*,- ■ ■ '

Randolph County was visited by one of the hardest storms the other night that has been seen for several years. Farmers report a great amount of fruit trees blown down, some being pulled out by the roots. Several buildings were completely demolished. During the storm hall as largo as marbles fell. Several parties from Farmland attending the theater at Winchester were caught in the storm and their carriage blown from a bridge, but al! escaped with slight bruises. The first oil found in Delaware County hasdeveloped in Liberty Township, seven miles oast of Muncie, near Selma. The other day ex-County Auditor William Murray was in Muncie with a bottle filled with the petroleum which came from a gas well near his home. The oil is of a very good grade, and except In color, resembles coal oil. The well from which it flowed was drilled for natural gas, and a big flow was struck. Since last February it has been dripping small quantities of oil, daily increasing In quantity, until it now I'ows about thirty barrels maday. The find has caused considerable excitement among the few who know it. There is no question in the minds of those on the inside but that a big oil field underlies the bed of gas, and a test well will be put down io the bottom. The well is 10. ated on the southeastern edge of the Indiana gas field.

Patents have been awarded to residents of Indiana as follows: George A. Gemmer, Williamsport, hay rake; Mlea.ah C. Henley, Richmond, boiler tube cleaner; Frank E. Herdman, Indianapolis, electric motor; Frank E. Herdman. Indianapolis, electric elevator; Frank E. Herdman, Indianapolis, elevator; Frank E. Herdman, Indianapolis, regulator for electric motors; Frank E. Herdman, Indianapolis, controlling device for electric motors; Frank E. Herdman, Indianapolis, controlling device for electric motors; Frank E. Herdman, Indianapolis, controlling device for electric motors; Frank E. Herdman, Indianapolis, electric motor controlling apparatus: Fiiank E. Herdman, Winnetka. 111., elevatorcontrolling device; Luke Housee, Montpellier, rousting and calcining kilt};TGeorge lugle, Evansville, Ind., portable elevating and bag machine: Harvey A. Moore, assignor of one-half to S. D. Pray, Indianapolis, burglar alarm; Joseph Sego and C. Faucher, Valparaiso, bridge gate; Albert E. Whitney, Muncie, burial apparatus.

JOHN SLATE and Frank Stoner were crushed io death and William Spinn fatally injured while making' repairs at the bottom of an elevator shaft of the Hotel Hays, at Warsaw: The elevator cage broke loose and fell on them? Robert Gibson,a resident of Columbus for the . lust twenty years, was stricken blind and speechless in his his home recently. He had just' returned from the house of a neighbor, when he called to,his wife to come to him. As she approached his eyesight failea and he became speechloss. He is still alive, but in a sad condition. It is said that a Richmond girl wore enough garters to decorate a barber’s pole,^the.other night, when she’got married. It was the result of a fad among Richmond girls to make a bridal garter to be returned to the giver after the wedding. The owner, by wearing it, expects an offer of marriage within a year, Jacob Tickle, {*■ well-known and wealthy farmer residing four miles south of Decatur, was found hanging to a tree near his barn. He retired with his family at night in his usual good health. He got up about midnight, procured a ropeJrom. the babn and hanged himself. Ntrcause is assigned for his rash act.