Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — AROUND A BIG STATE. [ARTICLE]

AROUND A BIG STATE.

BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. WlSat Our Neighbors Arp Doing—Matter* nt General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accident* and Crimes—Personal Pointers About Indlanlans. Roby Cases Settled. The celebrated Roby prize fight cases, which have attracted the attention of the sporting world from Maine to California and from Chicago to New Orleans, were settled in the Lake Circuit Court at Crown Point, the other day. When Martin Costello, at the November term. 1893, of the Lake Circuit Court, was tried, found guilty of riotous conspiracy and sentenced to two years in prison, it was the first time inthe history of the United States that any one ever received a penitentiary sentence for prize fighting. When the eases were railed for trial only three of the numerous defendants were in court. They were George Siler, the referee of all the fights that took place at Roby: Billy Woods, and Sol Smith, all the others being represented by their attorney. Johnß. Peterson of Crown Point. A proposition was advanced by tho defendants that if all the riot, conspiracy, and prize fight cases would be dismissed as against all the defendants, Dominick O’Malley, Solly Smith, and Billy Woods would plead guilty of assault and battery. This was finally agreed to by tho prosecution, and O’Mallev was fined SI,OOO and Smith and Woods S3OO each. These eases have cost the county in round figures about $4,000, and in return the county has received Sfi,ICO, including the for'eiture of Costello’s bond. There is an end to prize fighting at Roby for all time to come.

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A HORSE kicked Harry Bush’s knee cap off at Anderson. Shelby County is being raided by a band of burglars. The apple butter and cider harvest will be a failure at Oakland City, this year. Chas. Cowmas, a Big Four brakeman, was killed by the cars at Terre Haute, Wm. Brann, prominent Rushville citizen, was stricken with paralysis. Will die. Slaking lime splashed in tly face of Israel Blair, Crawfordsville, blinding both eyes. A farmer near Chesterton claims to have raised over sixty bushels of wheat to the acre. A sea serpent is a Christiana Lake novelty now. Said to be fifty foot long and as big as a barrel. Thomas Ryan’s crop of oats and wheat was burned near Union City by a fire started while threshing. Burglars cracked Merchant Jager’s safe at Cynthiana, and took $l2O. Ako carried off $1,200 worth of goods. William Ardery’s barn, with contents, was burned by a tramp in Bartholomew County. , Loss, $2,000. A paving ordinance passed by the Noblesville Council will compel the L. E. & W. to lower their tracks twenty inches. Company isflghting'it hard. The Adams County Bank, at Decatur, has been reorganized with a capital stock of $175,000. James K. Niblick is president and R. K. Allison cashier.

A HORSE driven by Mrs. Wm. Rinear, Franklin, took fright, and jumped from a bridge. Mrs. Rinear was badly injured, the horse killed, and the buggy splintered. • Dr. John A. Seaton, a prominent specialist of Fort Wayne, was found dead in bed, death resulting from heart disease, and was not anticipated. He was an old soldier, and a wellknown Pythian Knight. At Muncie, Michael Grady was at? tempting to run a large L. E. &W. engine into the roundhouse, when he lost control of it and the engine was dumped into a deep turntable pit. Grady was pulled from beneath seriously injured. The engine was badly demolished. At Mier, south of Wabash, a traction engine ran over a gas pipe leading from a well belonging to the town of Converge, burst the pipe and the escaping gas exploding badly injured W. S. Pence, owner of the engine, and Tep Marks, riding with him. Marks cannot survive and Pence is frightfully burned. James Ryan, aged 04 years, a section band on the Chicago division of the Big Four, received fatal injuries at Indianapolis, by being struck by an engine. He was walking on one track and stopped on another to avoid an approaching engine. Another engine on the second track struck him knocking him with great force to one side. He lingered for several hours and died. He leaves a wife and eight children.

A two-year-old son of Edward Garrity was drowned in the Connersville hydraulic. A HUGH tooth, supposed to have belonged to a mammoth, has J been plowed up near Vincennes. Edward Grimes of Richmond, was instantly killed at Greenfield, by being struck by a west-bound freight train while lying asleep on the cross-ties. George Shrider, aged 30, df Muncie, was killed at New Castle while attempting to board a passenger train. His right leg was ground off just below the hip and he died within an hour. George Reed, who murdered Ben Henderson at Torre Haute, for s(i.2.‘>, seems utterly unconcerned about his fiendish crime and freely says that he might kill another man lor money, though not for so small a sum. The petrified body found in a ditch near Goshen has turned out to be a fake. The two men who claimed to have unearthed it, purchased tho sreoimeri In the East. They realized over S2OO a day off of their ‘•museum. ’’ The C-ypar-old daughter of J. R Broomfield, a hardware dealer, while playing in a laundry, had u vessel of hot lye spilled over her head and shoulders. The caustic liquid burned her frightfully. Her recovery seems impossible. Patrick Padgen has filed a suit against tho United Window Gias? Company Orestes, asking SIO,OOO damages tor injuries sustained while working in a trench twenty feet deep, when one of the walls caved in on him, crushing him. William Pierce, near Metamora, in Franklin County, was hauling a loud of stone, when his horses ran away and he fell under the wagon wheels. His backbone was broken and he died in two hours. He was (10 years old and leaevs a family. Bert Stevens of Elwood, has sued tho American Tin-plate Company, asking SB,OOO damages for injuries sustained by him while at work June 27, 1893. He was caught in a line shafting and nearly k.lled, one of his arms being permanentlj injured. The body of Edward Garrity, the fl-year-old son of Mrs. John Garrity, a widow, was found near his mother's home floating in the Connersville hydraulic, dead, ho having, it is supposed, fallen from one of the bridges and drowned just a few minutes before found.

The 4-year-old child of August Schultz was burned to death at Bedford. Its clothing, under very mysterious circumstances, either caught or were set on tire. Before the child became unconscious it claimed “two naughty boys’’ had set it on fire. This is all that is known about the accident. A young woman of Flora has given birth to two monstrosities, which have j created the greatest excitement in that place. The children, if such they may be called, have all the appearance and characteristics of the canine tribe, even to the voice and covering of hair, I The mother is a very comely and fairly ■ intelligent young woman. While the funeral cortege of Mrs. I Anna Chez was on its way to the cemetery at Shelbyville, two powerful ! horses attached to the mineral water wagon of F. Rehme became frightened on an adjoining street and ran along, through the procession, scattering the cabs and buggies in every direction. A number ol persons were badly frightened and somewhat injured. Elijah Dalton, aged ($, a convict j in the State Prison South, died'at that institution recently. Ho had bpen confined in the prison for nine months,' being sentenced for complicity in the White-capping of his wife near Salem, Washington County, about a year ago. The trial at the time attracted widespread attention. Although Dalton did not ass st in whipping his wife he stood by and witnessed the deed without attempting to interfere. Isaac G. Botts, M. L. Fuller and J. W. Sinclair, all Delaware County farmers along the Mississinewa River below Albany, a small city east of • Muncie, have entered suit against the | Albany Strawboard Company for sls,- j 000, complaining that this company, by allowing the refuse from the factory ! to be dumped into the river, lias damaged them to that extent. They claim their lands have been damaged to the extent of >ls per acre, their water privilege SSO?, and in all to the amount of sls,- 00. The fifth annual Barrett reunion was held near Knightstown last week. Members of the family numbering, about 400 were pre ent from Indiana, I Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, and West Virginia. Interesting talks were made by President George W. Williams, Rev. Elisha- Earles, Prof. Eli Butler, James H. Carr and others. New officers were elected for the ensuing year as follows: Asa M. New, I President: A. V. B. Sample, Secretary; Isaac Barrett, Treasurer. All kinds j of amusements were on the program. j The brass band fro n the Soldiers’, and ; Sailors’ Orphans’ Home furnished the music. The next meeting will be held I at Greenland..

Patents has been Issued to the following Indiana people: .Joseph L, Potter, Indianapolis, trench machine; <)wen Albion, carriage jack; George J. (’line, Goshen, roller and ball bearing: Christian Klenk, Connersville, liquid wood-fitter; Robert M. Roberta, Anderson, glass carrying trench; Francis W. Robinson, Richmond, threshing machine. A sad accident occurred at Taylor'a mills, six miles west of Columbus, by which Lonnie Coons, aged 12, lost his li e. Young Coons took a position on the front end of a wagon loaded with cord wood, and a standard broke, throwing him off. A part of the load of wood fell on him and the rear wheel of the wagon pasted over his neck, almost severing the head from the body. The coroner Is looking into the case. The residence of Mrs. Mary St. Clair, at Jeffersonville, was destroyed by lire. The family were out of town, and the premises were loft In charge of Edward Thomas, (0 years old and partially blind. When the building was in Hames bystanders hoards roams from within. Next morning George Willis und others, while removing ashes near whore Thomas slept, found human bones lying full lonuth in the ashes and badly charred.