Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAn Interesting Summary of the More Important Doing* of Our Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes. Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. Minor State Items. COLUMBUS police are now uniformed in metropolitan style. South Bend will probably organize another militia company. Scarlet lever has broken out in epidemic form at Brooklyn. The famous Robv park prize fight cases cost Lake County $1,945 10. Fort Wayne authorities are still fighting the Chicago Sunday Sun. South Bend is pluming herself at prospect of securing a un on railroad de; ot. Mrs. Joseph R. .Tones, near Muncie, is suf ering with hydrophobia, caused by a cat's bite. Dick Goodman, the notorious highwayman, was sentenced to five years in tho pen at Anderson. His wealth is estimated at $50,000. A. Garboden, a farmer near Decatur, was gored to death by a vicious bull. This is the same animal that killed George Spangler two week i ago. Wm. Deckard, well known farmer near Bloomington, was swindled out of a large sum of money by a man who left a stolen horse and buggy as security. At Marion the 14-year-old son of M H. Kaylor was proliublv fatally shot by the accidental discharge of an old revolver with which the boy was playing. John Artis, a colored carpenter, aged 70, fell from a scatfold at Sharpsville, Howard County, and was instantly killed. A wife and seven children survive. Mann Emily, aged 2tl years, who resides with his father on a farm southeast of Seymour, built a fire of some under! rush und when it had got under good bond way he took an epileptic lit. Falling into tho fire he was so badly burned that he died. The Big Four train to Indianapolis picked up tho dead body of Robert Amos lying on the t ack near Niles. Tho corpse was horribly mangled, and it is supposed that Ames was run down and killed by freight train No. 40, or fell under the wheels. Deceased was alxiut 40 years of ago. Oharllh Thomas, 11-vear-old son of Allert Thomas of Martinsville, bled to death recently, from a small scratch on his hand. This is the third son in the Thomas family that hits bled to death. Tlie peculiar disease is known as hoemophllia. The daughters, of whom there are three in the family, are not afflicted. It. is a popularity of tho disease that it is transmitted to sons without interruption. Mrs. Thomas’ throe brothers died in a similar manner. Patents have been granted to the following Indianlas: Charles H. Dale, Hartford City, continuous cut off register for steam engines; Joshua A. Hadley, Bradl, azsignor of one-half to W. F. Maurer, Harmony, Ind., lump; Franklin W. Mosure, Vera Ortiz, and J. Warner, Linn Grove, pesthole augor; Chas. F. Parks and A. A. Hamilton, Muncie, fence: Peter Shelienbaek. assignor to Liberty Manufacturing Company, Liberty, machine for finishing eccentric surfaces.

John Gillen, of Kokomo, was fatally injured at Russiaville. Ho whs sent there with two large plate window glass from the Armstrong, Landon & Hunt Company, at Kokomo, and was assisting to unload them from the dray. He was sitting on the sliding board holding one of the props when the heavy' upright box slid off to the ground and caught the man, mashing him down. The ribs wero broken loose from the vertebral column, and the column injured. The physicians say he cannot recover. He Is a colored man, single, and has been tn the employ of the Armstrong company for over thirteen years. He is deaf and could not hear the warning that was given him. A corps of engineers have just completed u trip up the St. Joseph River and its branches in the interest of the project of Toledo capitalists to build a canal to Chicago. The route as shown by the surv.ey Is from Chicago across Lake Michigan to Michigan City, to Elkhart, thence through a series ot lakes and rivers to the Maumee, close to the State line down the Wabash canal, taking in defiance and Napoleon,’ Ohio, and making Toledo the terminus. Dr. W. T. Harr's yf Elkhart, has been making an exhaustive study of the subject. He has practically covered every inch of the ground and has made a survey of the territory which such a canal would cover. His investigation has made him a firm believer in the future of such a project. Mrs. Lizzie Kepner of Now Albany, has engaged an attorney and will file suit against the heirs of Nelson Fordice, who died a few weeks ago at Shoals. She claims she was married to Mr. Fordice in 1884, and at his request the marriage was kept a secret. Mr. Fordiee was a well-known resident of this city. He accumulated a large fortune, a greater portion of which he lost at Shools in the smelting business. The friends of Mr. Fordice claim her story is a fabrication Invented for the purpose of securing a / portion of his estate. The only heir/ to the estate is a nephew, who is ad/ mlnistrator. The estate will be worth about 5.0.00 J after all claims are paid, and consists of land in Martirr and Boone counties. Mrs. KopneFs claim will be opposed bitterlv. Her husband. Barney Kepner, secured a divorce in 187>, on the grounds that she kept a disorderly house. She is about 65 years old and Mr. Fordice was 73 years old when he died. At Shelbyville, Harry Schultz, the loyear-old son of John Schultz, jumped on a freight train going west on his way going to school. His hand slipped from the ladder, and he fell under the wheel and was ground to pieces. The 12-months-old daughter of Mr and Mrs. Roscoe C. Griffith of Muncie, was seriously burned by natural gas in a very peculiar manner. The little tot had been left in a room alone. Admiring some red-hot clay brick in the shape of potatoes, she tried to get one of them out. She succeeded in getting one out, but her hands and face were frightfully burned. William Moore, a prominent contractor of Lafayette, was thrown from his vehicle, falling on his shoulder and head, breaking his neck. His team frightened at a cow. His son was seriously bruised, being pitched out of the wagon. The Grant County Fish and Game Protective Association has been organized for the purpose of preventing the illegal killing of game and fish, and, in conjunction with other organ!gations throughout the State, to have certain beneficiary laws passed by the Legislature. The officers are: President, Charles Halderman; Secretary, George G. Wharton; Treasurer, Frank Rigdon.