Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — NEWS OF OUR STATE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

j A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. . WilW Onr Xelfhl«n Are Doing - Waiter* of fifniml and Loral Intrrrif—Marring,* and Death* AreMent* Ana-Trim**— Pointers About Omr Own People. Minor Sir* Item*. Valparaiso has * londed debt of SOi’.OOO and a floating debt of over sll,000. George Collins, aged 20, foil off a load of wheat at Shelbynlie, and broke his uock. Chas. Stoker, New Albany, while intoxicated, fell in from? ©f a switch engine, and was killed. Benjamin Odgen, Washington Township, Allen County, was struck in tho stomach by a hay fork and killed. WASAINGTON is complimenting hersolf on the small number of fires that have occurred in that city recently. Hakvk Hancock wus seriously assaulted by Ollie Health near Lebanon, while the two men were fussing over tho pasturing of hogs. While Mrs. Zolmann and Miss Minnie Stone of Bedford, wero driving, their hi rses became frightened and ran away. Hoth women wero seriously injured. Hiram Harlan, a young man living north of Wilkinson, jumped from a load of hay ana received injuries from which lie died. He struck on n wheol of tho wagon. A TRAIN on tho Rig Four road sot fire to a field of wheat north of Wubush belonging to Thomas F. Payne. The grain wus all destroyed, entailing a loss of nearly 81.000. Jos EH ll Ukookiks has brought suit in tho Mudison Circuit Court for slo,* 000 damages against tho Panhandle railway, lirookios was terribly erushod while coupling carp. A Columhus man was jailed because he cut his wife's dross into shreds when he was angry at her. He claimed that he owned liis wife and her clothes, and had a right to do what lie pleased with mom. Two FIELDS of whoat belonging to Daniel Pratt and a neighbor, near Urbana, Wabash County, were destroyed by fire. Two fields of hay wero also burned, the Humus starting from a Big Four locomotlvo spark. Chester Chase. 22 years old. son of Lephi Chase,of F.el River Township, Allen County, wob drowned while bathing in a fish pond of Adam Maxwell. It is supposed ho took cramps, us he sank without any noise or struggle. In tho stream of Flat rock, near ColumbiH, Joseph Goble, a well-known cit /.on, caught a bass weighing about two pounds. When ho aross-od tho tish ho found it had swallowed a water snake measuring twelve inches. Henry and Daniel Shields, two Monroe County lads under ugo, wore arrested and placed in jail at Martinsville for passing counterfeit dollars. Twenty-four dollars of tho spurious metal wus found iu their pockets uftor arrest. Mkrrett Alexander, n young man who lias boon in tho employ of Elisha Williums, a farmer living "nine miles west of ConnorsvlUo, fell out of an apple tree and wus impalod on a polo standing against tho troe. He cannot recover. Patents have boon awarded to tho following residents of Indiana: Barbaba Fox, Napoleon. Are escape; Charles D. Jonnov, I ndiananolls, conduit for electric railway; Elwood W. McGuire, Richmond, lawn clipper; William C. Young, Fort Wayne, cutting tool for grant to, etc. The resumption of work at tho Amorican tin-plate plant at Elwood this week marks the beginning of another year in tho history of theso works, which are tho largest in the world. In a few weeks the plant will have been enlarged so that, it has a capacity of 0,01)0 boxes of finished piate per week and anunny ofovor 000 workmen.

Albert Graham, aged 45, a wealthy farmer of Noble Township, Shelby County, met with a peculiar accident which can od (is death forty-eight hours afterwards. He was hauling wheat to a threshing machine up a h 11, when the wagon became uncoupled, throwing h m against the front standard. lie luavos a wife and six sons. The Howarn Circuit Court has decided that Tipton County must support the family of Bluffo Falcon berry, a convict. When Falconberry was sent to prison the Tipton County authorities dumped tliofamily over tho Madison County line, hut the woman and sevon children wore promptly sent back. Suit was brought with tho above result. Clayton C. Mount and wife of Windfall, were soriously in ured recently. They wore returning from Curtisville in a buggy; the horse ran away, turning tho buggy over and throwing Mr. and Mrs Mount out on the pike. Mr. Mount received a number of bad bruises on the heud and one of his eyes put out. while Mrs. Mount is seriously cut about tho faco and her jaw broken. Lake Erie and Western switch engine Vo. 8(5 ran wild from near the loundhouse. in tho west part ol Muneie, to a point just east of tho city, where it collided with the west-bound local, badly smashing both engines. The freight engine is No. 52. Engineer GandstatT and his fireman jumped in time. The wild engine crossed sixteen street crossings, but the tracli was clear. Engineer Tom Jones wa< at supper, and his fireman, Jim Driscoll, claims that in his temporary ab--1 sence some one opened the throttle. I The engine had 120 pounds of steam on. and smashod up one of the best engines on the road. Tho damage is heavy. A FIRE which destroyed two box cars and a passenger coach occurred in the Chicago and Southeastern Railway Company’s yards ia Lebanon. Its origin is a mystery, but is supposed to be the work of incendiaries. Hiram Harlan, a young man, aged 2d, was killed in a harvest field, about eight miles south of Anderson. Harlan was driving a spirited team, that took fright at a load of hay. The wagon in turning a corner, upset, and | tho driver jumped to keep himself from being buried under the load. He fell squarely across a wheel and died in a few minutes. Edward Stallman, aged 9 years, was drowned in the Ohio Kiver at the lower wharf, Evansville. He was the con of Mr. Louis Stallman, of the Anchor boat. The 2-year old child of Augustus Banks, a farmer liying immediately north of Peru, was bitten by a rattlesnake, from tho effects of which it will probably die. The child was playing in the road in front of tho house, and when found by the mother it was playing with the snake. The fangs of the reptile entered the child’s leg below the knee. The leg has swollen to three times its natural size and the child will probably die'. The snake tiled had three rattles.