Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important DoLigs of Our Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Note*. Condensed State Nows. Typhoid fever still rages at Greensburg. Logansport girls have united to boycott every cigarette dude. The tine new Masonic Temple at Ricnmond has been completed. The waters of the Mississinewa River near Muncie are said to be black as coal. Jacob Thurston, aged farmer near Shelbyville, fell into a pond, and was drowned. Joe Cowgill, 6, a mute, was run over and instantly killed by a clover Duller ut Noblesville. The tenth annual reunion of the Ninth Indiana Cavalry will be held at Danville, Tuesday, Oct. 9. The Polk canning factory at Greenwood put up 12(1,G0b cans of tomatoes in twelve hours, last week. Little May Lewis, aged 3. Noblesville, while playing in tho street in front of her homo, was run over by a wagon and killed. Bartholomew County Commissioners have refused to allow a SSO funeral bill for the burial of Patrick O’Flanigan, an old soldier, by the county. A civilized Indian who lives in Wabash County has posted the following sign on his farm: “Hunt all you please and when tho bell rings, come to dinner.”

Ike Levi and his two sons, ail noted counterfeiters, wore caught in the act of turningout spurious coins in u little hut near Osgood, and were arrested by two detectives. AN employe by the name of Mount was caught by machinery in the Hour mills at Atlanta, and his arm broken and badly lacrated. He is also thought to bo injured internally. In the trial of Mrs. Cordelia Coleman for arson at Lebanon, one witness testified that tho defendant wanted her to buy some dynamite to “b ow her husband to kingdom come.” Edwahixßurgess started to go on a freight train to Rushville, and fell in betwem tho <ours. He was run over and his body completely severed in two, midway. He was an orphan, and his grandparents live in Brookville. He was 10 years old. A new religious' seet has made its appearance in Southern Indiana. They are called tho “saints ” They profess to be guided entirely by the llible and their services consist in reading extracts from the good book. The membership is rapidly Increasing. Harrison Rowe of Waverly, exhibited seventeen fine pearls at Martinsville, which he found in White River. One of them weighed sixtysix grains. The most valuable among the collection weighs thirty-six grains, it is as large as an ordinary rille bullet. At Kokomo, two boys, 12 years old, sons of John Knote und Irvin Brown, owners of tho Jerome mills, were racing in tho inill-ra e. Young Brown’s boat capsized and lie was drowned. The Knote boy und several others, in attempting to rescue the lad, had narrow escapes.

Allison Anderson, an employe of the Diamond Plate Glass Factory, was helping move a large piato of'gluss, when he foil, lausing the glass to break und full squarely on his back, cutting a gash ten inches long on his left side, severing the principal muscles on his back. He was injured internally, und ho may not recover. AND.CRSONIANsare felicitating themselves over the location of another largo manufacturing industry in North Anderson. The Wright Shovel Company began tho•erection of a factory lor the manufacture of heavy shovels. The com) any will employ 125 skilled men at the start and announce that 200 will be employed by the close of tho year.

At Rod Key, a fourteen-inch pipe in tho pumping-station of the OhioIndiana Natural (las Company buret as tho gas was first turned into' it as a test, and George Edger, of the Red Key Rank, was fatally injured. A large piece of the pipe struck him and then crashed through u building I<M) feet away. His body was hurled forty feet and stripped of clothing. His wooden leg was twisted and broken. Two prisoners broke jail at Valparaiso and made their escape. Ono was Del West, who has already served four terms in the penitentiary, and Charles Nearhufe, a ias C. Monroe, who was arrested in Chicago about two weeks ago and brought here for burglarizing a ,ewelry store of Max I’ropp, at Kouts. They secured a key and. unlocking the jail door, run out. Tho hired girl grabbed them and colled for help, but was knocked down, and the prisoners made their escape. Nearhufo’s relatives live near Wheatfield, Ind. Tho following Indiana patents hav« been issued: George E. Boots and W. O. Eakright, Butler, wire damp *oi fences; J. C. Hardesty, Millville, syringe; Frank Long, Fort Wayne, buggy cushion; Jacob Rodding, New Castle, mechanism for regulating speed of pulleys, etc., Wilfiold S. Osbourn. Gilboa, corn harvester: Timothy J. Mussay, Covington, flag stuff; Edward Wilbert, Evansville, station indicator; James O. Miller, Rochester, car coupling: James H. Stigglcman, Wabash, furniture hinge: James J. Wood, Fort Wayne, adjustable machine base; Louis C. Zollinger and W. H. Batoe, of one-third, and H. C. Zollinger, l‘ort Wayne, ,'oint for railway rails trademarks..' hr ink B. Dearinger and C. J. Nicmer, Indianapolis, tool and Implement for making artificial stone and cement pavement. The little town of Eaton, Delaware County, was the sdene of a murder the other night. Jacob Persley, a widower, resides near trank Bell, wno has an attractive wife. Bell began to grow suspicious that Persley and his wife were on too intimate terms, and he warned the widower to stay away from his house. Lersley became intoxicated and went to the Bell home. He asked Mrs. Bell to let him in. The husband awoke and. rushing down stairs, ordered Persley away. The drunken man cut him with a knife and Bell empt ed a shot gun at Persley, who tell dead. Bell gave himself up. The Department of Agriculture ■prints this statement of the condition of the cro; sin Indiana: The condition of the corn crop varies greatly in different counties. The drought of the past sixty days almost ruined the crops in some counties, while in others there has been sufficient rain to mature a good average crop. Rains have been local and light during the corngrowing season. Wheat is an excellent irop. Conditions were favorable for maturing and harvesting the crop in first-class order. The oats crop is of good quality and nearly up to an average in yield. Oats are being sold at 1 cent per pound in the local markets throughout the State.