Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. an Intereatlng Summary of the More Important Doing* of Our Neighbors—Wedding* and Deaths—Crtnaee, Casualties sit# General News Notes of the State. Hoosier Happenings John F. Ikvan, postmaster at Van Buren, Grant County, is dead. Fred Gibson’s farmhouse near Galveston, Cass County, was destroyed by lightning. Dave Pink, living in an old shanty near Madison, was found nearly starved to death. Food was taken to him, but he ate too much and will die. The blacksmith shop, paint shop, and wagon shop of Carl & Danielson and shoe shop of William Zufall at Stockwell, were burned by an incendiary. Loss, $2,000; insurance, $1,200. While near Bloomington, on a Louisville, New Albany and Chicago height train. Carl Henchman, brakeman, was struck on the head by a bridge and died a few hours later. His home was at Lafayette. A horse was found in a pond near Sullivan and a spring wagon on the bank. The outfit is supposed to have belonged to George Vonderhide and son of Terre Haute, and it is feared they have met with foul play. Work of rebuilding the Whitely reaper works at Muncie, will liegin at once. Several factories in that city have offered Mr. Whitely space in their building to make machines to fill this season’s orders and a large force of men has been put to work. Burglars made a raid on the town of New London the other night, securing several hundred dollars worth of booty. Seven residences were burglarized, when the citizens gathered and drove the burglars from the village. The marauders were supposed to be gypsies. Recently Charles Summer, whoresides near Winchester, and is almost eighty-eight years old, drove to town in a hand-made, single- buggy nearly fifty years old. He was driving a horst* which he very appropriately styles his “war colt,” and which was foaled on his farm in 1861. AT Muncie, Charles Willis attempted to throw a half pound dynamite stick in Buck Creek to kill fish. The explosion occurred too soon and his left hand and arm was torn in fragments above the wrist. Dr. Bunch amputated the arm. The man Is believed to bo fatally injured. George G. Murphy, aged 8«, and grandfather of Deputy Postmaster brace Murphy of Wabash, was Instantly killed, being run aown by a Panhandle freight train at Converse, where he resided. Mr. Murphy was endeavoring to cross the track in advance of the locomotive, and was struck and hurled some distance. Deceased was a pioneer of Northern Indiana.

The last Legislature made an appropriation of >52,000 to pay for a new foundation and pedestal for the Morton monument. The contract has been let for $1,200, and It is now proposed by the Morton Monument Association to use the SBOO remaining of the appropriation and the proceeds from the sale of the old pedestal to ornament the new pedestal with scenes from the life of the Governor. AT his home in West Columbuo George Gunnells, aged 2«, died in great agony. Four weeks ago he stepped on a rusty wire nail that entered his foot through a shoe. The wound soon healed, but a few days ago the unfortunate man was seized with cramps, first in his stomach, but which soon extended to his entire system, and when death came his spine was curved, backward like a rainbow. The John Williams Camp, No. 106, Sons of Veterans, of Kokomo, is making elaborate preparations for the proper entertainment ot the boys at the State Sons ot Veterans’ encampment, to be held in Kokomo, July 3,4, 5, and 0. The local camp is comparatively a now organization, but through the stimulpus of the approaching State meeting is growing rapidly, having now nearly 200 members. July 4 there will bo a grand military and civic parade. Kokomo’s new City Hall will also be dedicated on that day, making the occasion one of moment, Burglars forced an entrance to the Postofflce at Orleans, blew open the safe, secured $153.93 in money, 3,000 one-cent stamps, twenty-six fours, twenty tens, fifty-three fifteens, thirtyseven special delivery stamps, and $11.20 worth of newspaper and periodical stamps, together with sixty blank money orders numbered from 25,445 to 25,500 Inclusive and postal notes 5,242 5,400 inclusive. Thev also took the dator, so they could fill out the money orders. The safe was wrecked, and the concussion caused by the explosion broke the large plate glass in front. It is presumed that “homo talent” did the work, as the large safe of the Bank of Orleans at the next door was untouched. There are about 500 old soldiers in the county infirmaries of this State, and George W. Steele, manager of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Marion, has written to Governor Matthews asking him to notify the county officials that where there are soldiers in the infirmaries application can be made to the National Home, and if the applicant# are entitled to admission they will be received within reasonable time.’ Mr. Steele says there have been more soldiers in the home recently than there was appropriation to take care of. An appeal for additional funds has been made to Congress through Senator Voorhees, and it is thought that the financial aid will soon be extended. The Home at Marion is one of seven in the United States. A terrible boiler explosion occurred at Sprag ’a tile factory, four miles south of Frankfort. The pro? prietor, Willis Sprag, was instantly killed, and James Durbein fatally scalded, other employes badly injured, and the factory completely wrecked. At Lebanon, Miss Ethel Campbell, daughter of G. W. Campbell, ex-Freai-dent of the Gas Company, placed a pair of gloves om her hands to wash them in gasoline. They caught fire from a gas jet, and her handsand arms were frightfully burned. In her efforts to tear the gloves oft her hands were laid bare to the tendOnA A 2-year-old child ot J, H, Thomas of Kokomo, swallowed carbolic acid and will die. The fluid spilled all over its body and limbs, burning them badly. Lightning the other evening struck a tree in front of the residence of Mrs. John Hale of Wabash, ran to the earth and entered the house, tearing a hole six inches, in diameter in the plastering of one room and making a loud, report. Strange to say, the weatherboarding was not injured, nor is there any trace left by the bolt at the point where it left. the room. During the storm a horse belonging to a man named Berry,,in the western part of the city was klllocT by lightning.