Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. A> Intereatlnf Summary of the More Important Doing* of Our Neighbor*—Wed. ding* and Death* —Crime*. Caaualtle* and General New* Note* of the State. Hooeler Happening* Wm. Fitzpatrick, Fort Wayne, was overcome with the heat, and will die. Wabash County assessors report 8275,000 shortage in their assessment returns. Mitchell people complain that flowers aro pilfered from tho firraves of their dead. A woman named Wolcott was killed near Stillwell, by a Lake Erie and Western passenger train. Carl Freber suicided by hanging in the Logansport jail. He did not like the idea ot spending the summer there. Mrs. Orlando Shanly, near Petersburg, while temporarily Insane threw hersolf into a cistern and wss drowned. Oliver Ire, while bathing in a pond near Redkey, was seized with cramps, and before help reached him was drowned. tt. South Bend surgeons have removed a bullet from Martin DeLange’s head. He was shot in the Ecuador Revolutionary War many yetrs ago. Herman F. Wilkie, the absconding (ustice of the peace of Elwood, has >een captured at Columbus, Miss. The extent of his deficit will reach $50,00;). Willie Hilligobs, aged 11, and son of Farmer Edward Hiiligoss of Anderson, was crushed by falling under an 800-pound iron field roller ho was driving. The Fleming Family Association, consisting of about 13,000 members I com all over the United States, will mid a rouhion at Muncie, Aug. 22 and 23. Edward Kuhn, near Shelbyville, died, with symptoms of strychina poisoning. Many people think that unknown persons administered the poison, while others say that he suicided. Frank Summers, son of Dr. Summers of Daleville, fell under a Big Four freight train at that place, and had both legs cut off. Re is aged 21, and since a small boy has practiced jumping on and off freight trains. Frank Mullen of Kokomo, aged 14, while attempting tocreop up on some birds in a cherry tree, accidentally shot himself, the load of shot plowing through his face, tearing away the right cheek and eye. Ho may recover. Editor of a Northern Indiana paper, who is unmarried, recently advertised that ho would send his paper for ono year, free of chat-go, to every maiden who would send ner address and a lock of hor hair. He has now the largest circulation in the neighborhood and enough hair to stuff a mattress

William DeMobh, a Gorman nlatoglass worker, employed at tho Elwood Diamond Plate-glass Factory, was helping to carry a largo plate when it broke and apiece fell across bls arms, cutting thorn to the bone, severing muscles, ligaments, and arteries, from which ho nearly bled to death. At Shelbyville while engaged in blowing stumps out with dynamite James Young, known us “Dynamite Jim, was fataljy hurt. Tho stuff exploded tearing off one arm and the nand on tho otnor. His nose was removed from his face, one eye was blown from its socket, and the other one was badly Injured. Lawrence Holbert, a wealthy young farmer of Shoals, was accidentally killed by No. 3 westbound passenger on tho 11. &O. S. W. He was sitting on the end of tho cross-ties and the engine struck him in the head, crushing his skull in a horrible manner. He was under the influence of liquor when tho accident occurred. Patents have been granted to Indiana Inventors as follows: Theophilus M. Resale, Indianapolis, trolley wirefinder; Charles E. Johnson, Mt. Jackson, ribbon-reversing mechanism for typewriting machine; Poter Kirchner, Fort Way no, water alarm for steam boilers; Enoch Notion, Indianapolis, assignor to W. E. Notion, Kokomo, duster. An unusually sad affair occurred in Decatur. Just as the remains of the 2-year-old daughter of George Wertzberger wore about to be conveyed from the residence to the church for the funeral little Blanche Wertzberger, the 7-year-old sister of«the dead child, became suddenly distracted and died in a few minutes. The funeral was postponed and the two sisters were buried in the grave, . » *- Ben. Cunningham, Hugh Pursley, and Henry Hurt were arrested at Kokomo for-freight car They broke open a car of groceries on the Clover Leaf siding and had removed a large amount of provisions when detected". They are all hard working men of families, and were driven to the act by starvation, having been idle many months because they could find no work.

R. T. McDonald, general manager of the new Fort Wayne Electric ComS, states that arrangements will be i at once fpr the erection of large buildings, near the electric light works, for the construction of electric street car appliances. He expects to employ in this new industry fully as many men as are now employed in the electric works. This will be quite a boom for Fort Wayne, as fully 500 skilled mechanics will find employment when these worksare completed. Meantime the old works will be run to their full extent to meet orders for dynamos and electric supplies that are coming in from all parts of the United States. James Baird, a union brickmaker at Terre Haute, has been dishonorably discharged from the brotherhood because he turned out with the militia to go to the coal regions. Wabash County will have a fine soldiers’ monument, the County Commissioners having acquiesced in the petition of members of James H. Emmet Post, G. A. R., and the other Grand Army Posts of the county to make an appropriation under the law. Plans and specifications for the monument will be ordered at once. The amount to be appropriated has not yet been determined. By a gas explosion at the electric light station, Kokomo, Mart Symons, the engineer; J. Q. Symons Marshal of Walton, and John Knote, proprietor of the Jerome Flouring Mills, were terribly burned, and the!building was badly damaged. It is thought the injured men will recover. Mrs. Orlando Shandy, the wife of a prominent farmer and Justice of the Peace, living two miles northeast of Petersburg, was missed from her room and a search was made by her family and nearest neighbors, and two hours later her dead body was discovered floating in the cistern. It is thought that she was demented and committed : suicide.