Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — HOOSIER HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Neighbor* are Doing—Matter* of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Personal Pointers About Imtianlan*. Minor State Items. Emvood is flooded witn counterfeit dollars of the 1892 issue. Richmond has ah oady begun to maao arrangements for a grand May music festival. While Martin Noweome was felling a tree near Brookville a limb fell on him. Will die. Mrs. W. L. Philpott, a well-known Anderson woran, while talking to a friend dropped dead. The editor of the Logansport Times 5s still advertising dead beat subscr tael's by offering their accounts for sale. A SPECIAL (Messenger train crashed Into a freight on the Nickel-plate road at Claypool. No one was hurt. Several oars demolished. George W. Kintiuh died at Waterford, from prostration, resulting from amputation of a hand, which had been crushed in a cane-mill during a friendly scuffle. Chart.es E. Weddle aged 24, attempted to get aboard an incoming train on the Pennsylvania road at Orinoco, and fell beneath the wheels. He was instantly killed. WHILE workmen were casing a gas well neur Shelbyvillo, Saturday, some one struck a match. A fearful explosion followed and throo men were probably fatally burned. The Bloomfield bank robber who was captured and is now in jail at Sullivan, wus identtlod by a Chicago detective, as Georg West, one of the most noted safe blowers in tno country. A UOSHEN man returnod homo recently after an ahsenco of twontythre* years. Instead of his wife receiving him witn open arms she slammed the door in his face. Capt. .1. B. Nation’s barn, near Kokomo, disappeared in a very singular manner. A little whirlwind dipped down and played havoc with tho structure. The timbors were found scattered sotpo distanco away. ,1. M. Terry, one of tho oldest and best-known conductors on tho Lake Shoro As Michigan Southern railway, was killed east of Elkhart He was working about his train when he was run over by it and instuntly killed. He leaves a wife and throo children He hud beon employed on the road nineteen years. Frank Layman mot with a peculiar accidont at Sholbyvlllo. Ho and another workmun wore ongagod in driving a well and woro using a bar and chain, twisting tho pine. In somo way tho chain slipped ana struck him on the left sidp of tho head, tearing his our entirely of( and rendering him un- ■ conscious for hours. •fcsEPH Miller, son of a farmer residing near Yorktown, attempted to board a moving freight tra ! n In Anderson, but lost his hold and fell under tho trath. Both logs woro crushed and were amputated below tho knees by Dr. J. W. Hunt. Miller was takon to St. John’s Hospital, His condition is regarded us very critical. J. PI. Rosenthal, an Indianapolis baker, began work ut tho Fienna Bakery In Anderson. ■ Ho was unused to using natural gas and turned on tho gas for some time before upplying tho match. Tho yaH exploded and burned his hands, face, breast, and head badly. All of tho hair was burned, off and the flesh cooked until It fell off. It is thought that ho will dio. Ho suffered untold agony. While Wilson Lewis was fishing at Lafayotto his line caught on something heavy. Exerting his strength ho was horrifiod to find that his hook lmd brought up tho body of a young colored woman. The girl had been missing over a week. Her narao was Mary Chambers, and she was but 17 yours old. Disappointment ovor a love affair is supposed to have caused her to suicide.

• Thk report of the Controller of the Currency regarding the condition oi the national bunks of Indiana shows that, at the close of business on October 2, the average reserve was 41.27 per com., as against 30.19 per cent, on July 18. Loans and discounts increased from *30,990,079 to *31,607,456; stocks and securities, fro n *2,357,830 to *3,014,017; gold coin from *3,562,209 to *3,621,676; lawful money reserve from $6,164,524 to *6,223,787; individual deposits from *29,965.148 to *32,009,204. As George W. Jones, a highly respected larmer living southwest of Rome. was crossing tho railroad on Main street, a special containing the officials of the Missouri Pacific going at a spood of forty miles an hour, struck his carriage, injuring him so badly that he died in an hour. Tho man wigs carried fifty foot and was landed under the carriage, which was a eompleto wreck, and the horses wore carried a greater distance and landed on the othor side of the track. Mr. Jones loaves a wife and live children. Adjutant General Bobbins has completed tho classification of tho various expensos incurred during the railf-oad and coul minors’ strikes. The total costofthosummer’slabor troubles will reach *53,009. every dollar of which the State must pay.’ Ten thousand dollars of the amount will be paid to tho railroads for transportation of troops. Tho pay roll amounts t,o *43,900. which sum lias already been paid by Gov. Matthews. Telegraphic communication between the troops and the state officials cost *3OO. Aside from tho salaries, which were paid out of a private loan negotiated by the Governor, the othor bills will not be paid until after the sess on of the General i Assembly, when an appropriation will be made for the purpose. A costly mishap has occurred at Thompson's green glass bottle works, Gas City. The molten glass in the tank was allowed to get too hot and began leaking through the bottom of the tank into tho air tunnel. The alarm was given and efforts were made to chill the hot glass with cold water. Before it could be checked however, about forty tons of glass had run out, filling and ruining the tunnel under the tank and badly damaging the tank itself. The loss will aggregate mor' j than *I,OOO and it will required the closing of tho factory for two weeks while repairs are being made. AT Roaehdale fire burned Porter & Jones’ poultry house, loss *3,000; Allison Block and grocery, loss $3,000; Boner’s butcher shop, loss SI,OOO, and Overby’s grocery, loss $3,000 All are partly insured. The fire was incendiary. John M. McHugh, a member of the Soldiers’ Home at Marion, was caugnt on a trestle on the P anhandle Railroad, on the outskirts of the city and killed by an engine. The head was severed from the body, and was found lying on the bridge. The body was aftewurds found beneath the trestle. McHugh was a member of Company I, One Hundred and Eighty-Second New York Iniantry