Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Interesting Samrairy of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors-. Weddings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties und General News Notes of the State. Ilooster Happenings Big wood-working mill, worth £50,000 is in ashes atGroenwood. A company with $10,0(H) capital has been organized at Middleburg to manufacture chewing gum. The Incandescent Electric Light Company and the Seymour Gas-light and Coke Company, both Seymour con- I corns, have consolidated. Hammond health officers claim to have located a factory in Lake County whore sausages and dried beef were j made from carcasses of Chicago street car horses. I Mrs. Mary Wier’s house, near Muncie. was burglarizod and S2OO j worth of jewelry stolen, When she heard of the theft she was prostrated and her recovery is doubtful. H. M. Williams, a balloonist, as-! cended 3,000 feet in the air at Fort ! Wayne. He lowered himsolf fifty feot j by a rope und attempted to pull his parachute loose. The huge umbrella ! would not work and he was compelled I to climb, hand over hand, to tho I trapeze. He eamo down in safety with the balloon. The great Burton family,numbering 150,000 in the United States, and about eighteen hundred in the vicinity of Mitchell, held their annual reunion in j a beautiful grove near that city. Prof. C. H. Hall of Franklin, made the annual address. At noon dinner was j served by the Bur Jon family. Many j after dinner speeches were made by prominent members of tho family. Edward Kelly, a glass blower, originally from East Cambridge. Mass., died at Swayzee. Kelly arose from his bed for a drink of water. He drank tfrom a can of supposed rain water on a window ledge. The can contained concentrated lye the chambermaid had been using for cleaning the room. After four days of agony Kelly died. Joseph Woods, a prosperous farmer of Brandywine Township, Shelby County, is the possessor of a week-old pig which has six - legs. The extra legs are joined to the pelvis and to tho rear of the hams. The animal is in a healthy condition, and bids fair .0 live to maturity. A close examination shows that there are two animals, which have been united about tho middle lumbar vertebra. A case of extreme cruelty to a child came to light recently at New Albany. A few nights ago Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Harris had a fight at their home on Water street. Mrs. Harris was worsted, and in a spirit of revenge she seized her 6-year-old stepson Charles and threw him on a redhot stove. Both arms were badiv burned before Mr. Karris could pull him off. He drove his wife from the house and the little boy is being cared for by relatives. Complaints .will be preferred against Mrs. Harris. Secretary Bicknell, who has just returned from a visit to the Southern prison, says the abolition of the lqckstep there is regarded as a move in the right direction. Through the lock-steo long-time prisoners acquired a peculiar gait that branded them all their lives as ex-convicts. The Northern prison will soon follow the example of the Southern prison in this respect. The new wall arouna the latter institution has been finished. It is thirtysix feet high, and extends seven leet under ground, resting on a b;se several feet wide. The prison is in an overcrowded condition. While playing hide and seek Frank Conner, 7-year-old son of Horace Conner of Lebanon, was instantly killed by falling through a hatchway into the cellar of Bell’s implement warehouse. He pulled a two-hundred-pound wagon wheel after him, which fell on his head, crushing his skull. At the American Tin-date factory, Elwcod, Major Stewart, employed in the tinning department, accidentally dropped some water in the ac!d flux, causing it to explode, flying all over his hands, head and face, and possibly destroying his sight. If he recovers he will be disfigured for life. Patents have been issued in Indiana as follows: Mathew Arbuekle, Indianapolis, wheel-washing device; John S. Birt, Arlington, assignor to F. H. L. Kahn & Bros.. Hamilton, Ohio, panmaking machine; Charles T. Cox, assignor of two-thirds to M. J. Moon and W. T. Bowers, Liberty, disinfecting apparatus; Michael Gleason, Liberty, fence machine: Edward ard L. Hedderick, Pettit sawing machine: Isaac H. Henley, Straughn, fodder-tying device; Lauren Humbarger, near Columbia City, apparatus for transplanting plants; FrankU. Smiley,Goshen, beam scale; Adolph Weil, Greenfield, apparatus for boring wells; William A. Wildback, Indianapolis, target trap.

Peru will build a now $30,000 school building Anderson flint bottle works huvo started up and 200 men aro employed. ShipshewaNA expects to have water works and electric lights this fall. South BeNP has a city ordinance prohibiting tho peddling of produce in the strectsi Farmers near Goshen are organizing to protect themselves aguinst hunters who trail over their premises without permission. Valparaiso hoodlums unsuccessfully tried to break up a salvat'on army meeting by throwing a skunk into tho barracks. MUNCIE glass workers and manufacturers have ugroect that a reduction of 22* per cent, ho made. It moots ilio approval of all concerned. Moses Hose, aged 14, while stoaling a ride on a P., C., C. Sc St. L. passenger train, foil benoatb the wheels and wub fatally injured at Jeffersonville. A serious hotul end collision between a ] assenger and freight train occurred on the G. E. &I. road, near Hill-dale, Both engines wore wrecked. No one injured. Henry Vodde, a fiftoon-y ear-old lad, was almost instantly killed at Fort Wayne, by falling under a Wa hash train while trying to run ueross ahead of the locomotive. Louie Hatch, aged 3, got a tobacco tag in his throat tho. other day, and suffered great agony. The tag was forced into his stomach, and was thrown from his stomach by an emetic. A MILE dam 500 feet long across tho Salamonie River. Wabash County, was destroyed by firo. Loss, SIO,OOO. Water is very low in tho rivor and it is thought that fishermen uccidontaily sot it on firo. Mat Tuttle, traveling salesman for the Wysor & Hibbit’s flour mill at Muneie, was badly scalded at the mill. He was assisting engineer James DoJand in fixing a steam pipe near tho boiler, when a plug fiewout of another pipe and he was delugod with scalding water. The flesh on his breast and back was fairly cooked. His condition is very serious, but nut fatal. Rev. E. Bohlander, pastor of the Ge:# an Evangelical Church at Sun Pierre, accidentally shot and killed himself. He was aroused by what he supposed to bo burglars, and seizing a gun, started to go out, when tho gun was discharged, blowing his head from the shoulders and six feet away from tho trunk. He loavos awife and several children. Hod cholera has broken out in Howard County and is raging to un extent never before equaled. In tho past four days hundreds of hogs have died, some farmers losing their entire drove. The epidemic appeared in several sections of tho county ut tho same time, and is more quickly fatal than over known there bofore. The farmers are greatly alarmed. The loss already reaches many thousand dollars. A shocking accident happened at the Mart/, canning iactorv, Tipton, which will result in the death of Mrs. George Teague. She was feeding tho can Idler and her hair caught in a line shaft above her. The entire scalp, including her forehead and one ear, was j jericed off. There is not a hair on her head nor eyebrows that are left. The ; surgeons dressed the wounds, but they say that there is no possible, hope for her recovery. Richard McGrief and his brother George, twins, celebrated their ninety- i third birthday at the former’s home near Decatur recently. They are un- j doubtediy the oldest twin brothers in ' the United States. Both are quite spry, walk without canes and read j without glasses. One thing remarkable in the history of their lives is that j neither ever used tobacco in any form nor took intoxicating liquors. Each owns a well improved farm. ' The municipal administration just inaugurated at Kokomo is pursuing vigorously the issue on which they were elected - that of the strict enforcement of the laws. At the first meeting of the Council every policeman except one was summarily dismissed. A. L. Martin, who is Captain of Company L, State militia, and Sir Knight Captain of the Kokomo Dirtsion, Uniform rank, K. of P., being the only survivor on the force. Four new men are in their places. At the samo session an ordinance was introduced to remove screens from saloons during unlawful hours, nights, Sundays and legal holidays. The order will nass and he strictly enforced. The State Tax Commission is giving attention to tho allowances that have to he made to the. attorneys who carried the railroad and other corporation tax cases to tho United States Supreme' Court. The total amount of property in controversy was over $22,ltyo,<X)o, said to be tho largest amount ever in litigation as tot.xation. The tax on this amount reached nearly $4,000,000, and the attorneys consequently expected a dig fee. It is said that the board intends to distribute $2(i,000 among three attorneys, giving John W. Kern $10,000,W A. Ketcham, SIO,OOO, and A. J. Beveridge SO,OOO.

Michigan City will establish free kindergarten schools. Bristol people are protosting vigorously against another saloon being located there. Diphtheria 1b epidemic at Bedford. Opening of schools has l>oon postponed on this account. Solomon E. Yost fell down an elevator shaft at Evansville, a distance of fifty foot. May recover. J. W. Haskett, ox-postmaster at, Strawns, committed suicide by shooting himself. Poor health. AL. LEE jumped from * a paHSougor train going ut full spood near Anderson and was fatally injured. A TOT Ai, of 308 children have been rogistorod s’nco tho establishment of the Orphans’ Home ut I.aporte. Earl Brown, 10-yoar-okl stepson of James P. Townsend, living noar Edinburg, was found drowned in a rain barrel. Mary Wilson of Muneie, lost a hand in a machine at the Cottugo Steam Laundry there, und sues for $5,(.03 dumugos.