Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — ABOUND A BIG STATE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUND A BIG STATE.

• RIEF COMPILATfON OF INDIANA NEWS. What Oar Neighbor* Are Doing—Matter* of General and Loral Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimea—Personal Pointers About Indla'nian*. A NUMBER of South Head boys are arrested daily for jumping trains. Loogootee citizens were badly swindled by shell workers: last week. The receipts of the F&yd County strawberry crop this year amounted to *75,000. An unknown man waai instantly killed by a Lake Shore rtrain near Chesterton. a Em Montgomery, Posey County farmer, dropped dead, whl'e driving a mowing machine. Paul Weaver, 12, Russiavlllo, tried to pry into a dynamite cartridge and is minus his left hand. Chas. Hubbell, CO. while foiling trees near Coal City, was caught by a falling tree and instantly killed. ’« John S. Chinkworth, for four ydArs treasurer of Wabash County, was found dead in a corntleld near Wabash. *' t Andrew Ealy, yardmastor es O. A M. road at New Albany, was shot 1 and seriously wounded. Accidental. A Laporte patter thus announces a wedding: "Miss Lillie Kosserman caught the biggest Btss of the season. Ho weighs 100 pounds. W. M. Eggington, genera] overseer at the Elwood Diamond Plate Glass Works, had his eye nearly burned out with niti io acid. Thomas Dwyer, a restaurant man of Greenville, fell headlong from tho top of a stairway and died fromjhis injCries four hours later. Edward Stallman, aged 9 years, whs drowned in the Ohio River ut the lower wharf, Evunsvillo. Ho was tho son of Mr. Louis Stallman, of the Anchor boat. .1. L. Matthew's largo bnrnand ieohouso was burned at Moorosvllle. The building was stored with implements. Throo horses |were destroyed. Loss, $1,000; no insurance. Dayman and Bonj. Brandybcrr.v assaulted Sum Trautnor near Decatur. Trautner drew a knifo and fatally stabbed Benjamin in tho abdomon and seriously cut Luyraan. Tgputraan skipped. William ,T. Shuoop ot . Paoli, thrashed 289 bushels of wheat from seven acres, an averago of more than forty-one bushels per aero. His entire crop averacred more than thirty-ono bushols nor acre Mrs. Clara Boston, a weli-oon-nectod resident of Richmond, attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the lake in the pubj^ 1 park. She was rescued by three yodng men who witnessed the attempt. A lit of melancholy is tho assigned causo. During the past year thero was 983 mortgages filed in Montgomery County, amounting to $50,681,200.10; also, 1,035 deeds filed, amounting to $1,21)0,905.65, and 158 mortgages paid off, One of the mortgages filed, ono was for $50,000,000 given on tho Big Four Railroad i The body of William Foust was found in the center of Elwood with a bullet wound in his loft breast, noar tho heart. Indications show that the murder did not occur where the body was found, but that ho was killed some distance away and then carried to the spot. The murder was probably the outcome of a drunken fight. Harry Hines, a 10-year old colored boy, living at 447 Howard street, Indianapolis, shot and fatally wounded his little sister. Tho boy had found an old-fashioned, double-barreled Derringer of 22 cultber, ana In playfully pointing it at the girl had discharged It, the bullet going ‘into the child’s brain through the forehead. Tho pistol was in bad shape, and a test of it showed that one might snap the trigger a dozon times without exploding the cartridge. The girl was 12 yoars old.

Mrs. Joseph Dennison, rosiding about six miles northeast of Union City, was killed recently. With her husband, she hud been in Union City trading. They wore on their return home in a buggy. About a mile from thoir farm the horse shlod at a dog in the roud, and Mrs. Dennison pitched forward over the front wheel into the road, striking on her head. She was carried to the neuroat house, and Dr. Keovos sent for. The woman was dead before he arrived. Her uock had been broken. At Terro Hauto, Judge White decided the vaccination caso, which was considered a test case. The State Anti-Vaccination Society askou for an order restraining the school authorities from prevonting a pupil attending the public schools because he nad not been Judge White held that the Boat d of Health had the authority to require all pupils to be vfcecii ated if thore had been exposure to smallpox, and that the presence of the disease at Muneio was sufficient exposure to warrant the boqfd in issuing the order. Several days ago there died, in Greencastle, a tailor, Hugh 11. Burns, who left an estate of $12,000. James MoD. Hayes was appointed administrator on'application of the widow in Greencastle and an application of Mrs. Jane Burns of Chicago, for an administrator was denied. It eoems that Burns was twice married, and last year, during a visit to the World’s Fair, it is said, met his first wife, whom he supposed to be dead. He returned. homo and used alcohol to such an extent that he died. The Chicago widow and a married daughter row make claim to the, The Groon- < castle marriage took place in 1873. The Chicago people show a marriago licei.se bearing date of 1861. Word from Syracuse is that the wheat crop is harvested in that, section. The yield Is larger than usual and the quality is excellent. Many farmers will not attempt to market a bushel, but will feed the crop in most part to stock. Corn is very promising, but oats will be light. George Leonard, a prominent citizen. was shot and mortally wounded in the corridor of the West Baden Springs Hotel by Gabe Thompson, a hotel employe. The shot almost severed the windpipe, and Leonard cannot live. , Thompson went to Paoli, and gave himself up to the Sheriff. Joseph Haneberry, a fireman for the Monon Railway Company, was drowned in the Wabash and Erie canal at Lgjayettc. With two companions ho was in a boat and the craft upset. Haneberry could not swim. His hpme was in Chicago. Charles swift;, the 14-yo'ar-old son qj W. T. Swift, jr., was drowned in Patoka River at Stewart’s. In company with two other boys, he was in a boat, and young Swift jumped out in the river for a swim. «1» strangled, and before his companion realized it. he had ' sunk for the lest time. The body was recovered in twenty minutes, and all efforts to restore life failod.