Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Intere«tln< Summary of the More Important Dolnyi of Oar Neighbor*—Wedding* and Deaths —Crime*. Caaualtle* u< General Neva Note* of the State. tlooaler Happening* The postofflee at Wilkinson was burglarized. Dogs have killed many sheep near Crothersville. Wabash is talking electric street rai way again. H. E. Door.rrTt.E, veteran W. U. telegrapher, dead at Lafayette. Mrs. J. A. Brown of Lebanon, wae severely burned in u gas explosion. Tipton has let the contract for a water works system to cost 122,307.60. Geo. W. Humphrey, an old soldier, killed by a freight train at Princeton. JOHN WILSON, 14, Anderson, was drowned in White River, while fishing. Mrs. Wm. Bracken, 70, Greensburg, fell down stairs, and was seriously injured. John Harrel, Richmond, fell down stairs, and broke his neck; died instantly. Frankfort is congratulating her self on the scarcity of burglaries in that city. Columbus. Edingburg, and Franklir talk of combining to secure natural gas by piping. The count at the northern prison Is 036. the largest in the history of the institution. Connersville business men are urging that sowers and paved streets be put down. Counterfeit dollars, halves, and quarters Have made their appearance at Summitville. Franklin says she will soon have the finest streets of any town of her size in the State. Terhune citizens will organize a "White Cap*’ band to stop family quarrels in that vicinity. The second trial of Cyrus Brown, the Columbus wife murderer, has been postixmed until September. W, R, Roberts, employed in a saw mill at Suminltvillo, was caught in a belt, and probably fatally injured. Bread is now Belling at 2 cents a loaf at Co umbus. owing to the oread war, and it will probably go down to 1 cent. The.work of the assessor in Wayne Township. Wayne County, shows a shortage in values of more than 91,000,000. While Miss Bess Kersey driving in a buggy near Lebanon, she was struck on the nead by u limb and seriously injured. James Coile, Lebanon, realizes that ho is insane, says ho has a desire to kill some one and has requested that he be restrained. Estimates made by wheat growers of Spencer, Warrick, and Perry Counties show that the crop has been cut short at feast 30 per cent, by the recent freezes. At Shelbyville, Joseph Williams, aged 64 years, retired in nis usual good health and was found dead next morning. Rheumatism of the heart was pronounced the cause.

Mbs. May Pollock, formerly of a wealthy and prominent Ohio family, attempted suicide in the Muncie jail by taking laudanum. She had been fined and was despondent. TWO grandchildren ot James Morrison, Richmond, who died recently leaving a 9600,000 estate, have filed suit to set aside the will, claiming that hls own child should not get all the wealth. A horrible accident occurred at Milroy. Frank Rice was riding on the beam of a blow being guided by his older brother, and, slipping off, the plow point entered his bowels in such a manner as to cause death shortly afterward. Allen T. DeWitt, aged 40, died at the home of his mother east of Shelbyville. The cause of death is said to have been inanition. He was afflicted with sortie trouble of the throat and unable to swallow food for several days. He leaves a widow and an estate valued at 910,000. R. T. McDonald, general manager and a heavy stockholder in the Port Wayne Electric Company, applied to the court at Fort Wayne for a receiver for the plant, which is valued at 9500,000. H. J. Miller of Fort Wayne, and L. J. Hawthorne of Boston, were appointed receivers. Articles Of incorporation of the Fort Wayne Electric Corporation, with a capital of 91,500,000, were immediately filed, with McDonald as President. This is the culmination of the contest between the Fort Wayne Company and the General Electric Company ot New York, and the move is believed to have been made hv McDonald to prevent the electric trust from getting cohtrol of the original company. John Wilhelm, sent to the Prison North in May, 1893, for stealing some tools out of the Big Four shops in Haughvllle, has been paroled by Governor Matthews. Wilhelm is nearly BO years old and has been a "trusty’’ in the Northern prison, where he attracted the attention of the Governor on the occasion of the last visit of the executive to the prison. He was formerly employed by the Big Four, end while intoxicated committed the theft for which he was sent up. Hls family in Haughville has bebn in a distressing condition. The wife is now sick at the City Hospital, and the children are a charge on the county. Wilhelm's time would have been out in a few months more, and it was deemed a case worthy of executive clemenpy. One ot the largest deals of the State has just come to.ligfrt, in which a Mr. H- Norton Beach of Raleigh, is concerned. It has .been known for some time that Mr. Beach had invented a hydrocarbonate gas generator, but until lately nothing has been known of it. It is now learned that Mr. Beach sold one-half interest to Eastern men for 9100,000. Mr. Beach is a bright but poor young man, not more than 30 years old. and one of Rush County’s promising men. He has spent most of nis life on a farm and teaching school. Wm. Hup F, next to the oldest man in Clay County, is dead. A pleasure party of about a dozen took the steamer Latronia, owned by the Shepard Brothers of the paper mills at Vincennes, and started for Seven Mile Island on Wabash River. When about five miles north of this city, the launch struck a heavy log and the boat was upset, throwing the entire painty in the waiter. All were saved except Miss Mataie Miles, who sank after repeated efforts to hold her to the capsized boat were made. Miss Miles was a prominent society young woman of that city, possessed of a large fortune and a member of one of the oldest families in Vincennes. Her shocking death causes the utmost sorrow