Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING TMPAST WEEK. An Interaittng Summary of the More Important Doings of Oar Neighbors—Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes. Casualties and General News Notes of the State. rioosler Happenings Hog cholera is prevalent near Petersburg. Columbus has twenty-three saloons and the proprietor of each is getting rich. Meridian fancy glass works, Anderson, after two years’ idleness, has resumed. The small-pox epidemic at Walkerton, has cost the county about S9OO up to data. ‘‘Buck*’ Smith, a well-known char acter of Rockville, dropped dead from heart diseaso. Dunkirk has let a contract for an electric light plant, to be completed in ninety days. The large Madison woolen mills, recently sold ut public auction, will rosume operations soon.

A heavy wagon crashed into a buggy occupied by F. M. McMillan at Rushville. Ho died shortly afterward. Madison is said to have a suicide club and already some half a dozen members liavo “joined the silent majority.” Richard Watts, while working in a gravel pit near Walash, was caught under twelve tons of gravel and fatally crushed. A farmer near El wood has built himsolf a bicycle. Tho wheels are from an old wagon and tho frame is made out of old plow beams. South Bend’s wants aro very numerous. Among them are a new hotel, a public library building, and suppression of gambling dens. Chak Ray, u farmer near Atwood, found the dead body of an unknown man near a straw stack on his farm. Ho had evidently died of starvation. William Stevens, an engineer otnnloyod at tho Diamond Plato-glass factory ut Elwood was caught In the machinery, and his back so badly injured that ho will probably dlo. A warning to the offoct that tho Fox woolon mills, I aporto, would be dostroyod by fire was found, rocontly, nailed on tho building. Two special watchmen huve boon hired to watch tho property. Matt Hindman ot Haggorstown,was killed in tho Panhandle yards ut Kokomo, his foot catching in a frog while making a coupling. Ho was .single, 21 years old, and leaves a .widowed mother. Mrs. M. Smith was granted a divorce from her husband, Rev. Dr. Smith at Anderson. Two years ugo, while preaching at Winchester, Rev. Dr, Smith became infatuated with Mrs. Fred Holtn. Mr. Helm, Btrangely enough fell in love with Mrs. Smith and the result was a trade in wives. Tho case caused quite a sensation at tho time.

Louis Marquis, an aged citizen of Kokomo, committed suicide in a novel manner. He was a helpless puralytio and wus confined w his bed, tumble to move hand or foot. Ho Induced his 6-yoar-old grandson to become his oxocutionor. The lad Innocently passed a saucer to his lips containing a carbolic solution. Thu old man drunk it down and died in an hour. The homo of Charles Furrier, colored, on Hart street, Vlnconnos, was blown up With dynamite. Tho house, wus badly wrecked, but no one wus killed. There aro various rumors(oncorning the probable cause, but no lucid explanation is known. Mr. and Mrs. Furrier are ouiot and inoffensive colored people. They own their homo, and are comfortably lituutod. The husband wnsu Union soldier and draws a pension which supports him and his wife. Mrs. Furrier has tho confidence and respect of all her neighbors, so fur as is known to tho public. They hud a snug four-room cottage nearly new. It Is now badly wrecked. The aynumito was pla od upon a buck porch, and shattered the entire roar portion of the house. Timothy Crowley, an eccentric character of Peru for many years, aged 83, an old soldier, died fi’oni heart lailuro, at the home of John Devine, where he has lived for the past five yours. For ten years or more ho bus boon considered un objoet of charity. When the undertaker began changing his clothes he made a discovery of wealth. Throughout all the clothes on Crowley's person, including the undorgarrnonts, were found cunningly contrived pockets, in which were secreted gold, silver and greenbacks to tho amount, of 81,000. In another pocket wus found a certificate of deposit in tho First National Bank to the amount of 82,000. Crowley wus an old soldier and lias always posed as a poor man, anu has practically lived on charity for ton years. There aro no immediate relatives to the estate. JohnKoeppen, for twenty-five years connected with tho mailing department of fho Indianapolis Journal, died reiently, a victim to the Christian Science craze. A few days ago Koeppen contracted a bad cold, but thought if ho could convince himself that there was nothing the matter with him he would in reality be in good health. He talked to a number of tho brethren in the iaith, und they assured him that he was on the right track. His condition beeanio alarming, and ho consulted a physician, who told him ho had an attack of congestion of the lungs. Koeppen was advised to remain in his room, but ho aga'n took the advice of tho Christian Scientists, and went about his work- He determined to fight it out on that lino, and remained on his feot as long as he could stand. He finally went to bed, and in two hours was dead. Jack Stevens and William Henine had hot words over a glass of beer at St. Maurice, near Groensburg. Stevens drew a revolver and shot Henine dead. This was the third murder in that neighborhood within the past vear. “ After a five weeks struggle, the Kokomo City Council passed an ordinah e prohibiting the use of screens in saloons. The measure permits tho use of screens during,legal hours, but at nights, Sundays and r legal holidays screens or anything that otstruets the view must be removed so the officers can see the entire interior of the building. Jacob Derr, a wealthy farmer ol Lawrence County, was killed by a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern passenger train while returning home from Vincennes at the Twin trestles while crossing the track. His body was hurled ICO feet. Death was instantaneous. 1 James Seward, aged 76 years, mot with a serious accident at Columbus. He was driving a spirited horse that ran away, throwing the old gentleman against a barbed wire fence. One arm was broken and the torn in such ( a manner that amphtacion was necesi sary. An ear was torn loose and there were other injuries that make his recovery doubtful.