Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — NEWS OF OUR STATE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. (That Onr Neighbors Are Doing- Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriage* and Death* Accidents and Crimes—. Pointers About Our Own People. Minor State Items. Wild ducks are very numerovs on the rirer near Jefferson. The number of inmates at the north eru penitentiary i- rapidly increasing Barney Hoar, track watchman, was struck by a train at Centerville and killed. Michigan City papers are urging that ladies remove their hats in the theater. Paoli is congratulating herself on the successful completion of a svstem of water works. ARTHUR Junes was thrown from a passenger train near Morristown, and seriously in ured. Thomas Christian’s (1 year old •hild, while playing a out a bonfire near Marion, was fatally bur .ted. Simeon Bvser. old armor near Boonvi 10. was accidentally shot and killed by his son-in-law while hunting. William Foutz, a Montgomery County farmer received fatal fn urieg in a runaway and died twelve hours later. Three shots were fired at Editor L. S. Boots, of tho Greenfield Herald, while he was in his office. The bullets Hew wide. Woodfield Moody, aged 10, while wording in on elevator at Fisher's Station, was caught in the machinery and fatally in.ured. A PASSENGER train was fired on near Columbus. The bullets crashed through a window and came near striking "Andy’’ Beck. Peter Hesh. aged 30, living three miles east of Goshen, died ot rubies resulting from the bite of a mad dog inflicted eighteen years ago. At t.'lymers, the 3-vear old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Heed, was fatally burned, her clothing taking fire from a match with which she was playing. Melvin Morgen of Hebron, aged » years, had his right arm taken off by a <ornhusking machine which he was operating. Two years ago ho lost his loft arm in tho same manner.

Thomas Samsel, an old-time switchman employed by tho Vandalia, was run over and Instantly killed at Torre Haute, fie loaves a wife. His parents live at Logansport. Ho was a member of the Brothei hood of Trainmen. Last April a Wabash man wrote on an egg requesting the consumer to notify him when and whore tho egg was cracked. Ho has just received a note from u Hartford, Conn., woman, dated Nov. 5, nn<i stating tho hud that day purchased tho egg at a grocery. The New York Bowery Insurance Company, of Now York, has been forbidden to do business by tho Auditor of State, it Is announced that this company had withdrawn from the State and afterward solicited Insurance. Tho policies were to bo writton in New York and thus avoid tuxes in Indians. Philu* Markey, a young man who enrao to Brazil u few days ago from St. Louis, was instantly killed in the yards of the Chicago and Indiana Coal road. He was walking in front of a switch engine which he did not observe. A. friend warned him of his danger, and In attempting to escape he fell and was out in two. He is u single man. Patents have been granted to the following Indiana cltl ens: Lewis F. Ambrose, Center Point, carpet fastener; Albert T. Bemis, Indianapolis, brick dryer car; John Brown, Walcott, frame for hay-stacks; Pinkney Davis, | Frankfort, butchering apparatus: John ' McCullough, Crawfordsville, strawstacker; Clement Neldim, Bourbon, folding umbrella; L, T. Beeves, Columbus, windlass; Jarnos Wood, Fort Wayne, armature core. “Jack tho Splttor" Is being watched for by the Muncie police. For ten davs I past women have complained that some vagrant along the streets delights in I STiilrt ng tobacco juice on their dresses. He has been seen standing in dark alleys, but disappears and cannot be caught. Tho other evening the Knights of Pythias ball and reception kept him busy. As a result of his actonssoieof the women were compelled to retire from the ball-room and changed their elegant silk gowns. The special convocation of the Accepted Scottish Kite Masons of the Valley of Fort Wayne was made memorable by the presentation to Thrice Potent Grand Master William Geake of a gold watch, a chain and a churrn and thirty.third-degree coat jewel. H. C. Hanna. s caking lor the members of Fort Wayne Lodge of Perfection, placed to his ere .it the organization and building u:> of the Scottish Rite in Northern Indiana, which has proved such a success, and complimented him on his zeal for Masonic worK in all degrees. A telegram from R. T. McDonald at New York, states that ho has just secured absolute control of the fort Wayne Electric Light Works, has severed his connection with the Central Electric Company, and w.ll devote his energies hereafter to the building up in Fort Wayne of a great institution for menu acture of machinery and appliances whose j atterns and patents are owned by the local concern. This is good news to hundreds of employes of the establishment ut Fort Wayne as well as to the people generally, for it means the end of litigation and the beginning of a new era of nrospericy in :an institution that has been hampered in its progress by manipulation of the managers of the Ea-tern Company, whose interests have never been in the line of advancing the local com, any. Frederick II >usr. in i utting down a tree on the farm of. ames Thompson, near Cruwlordsville, was struck on the head by a limb and instantly killed. He was married, and leaves teveral children. TijEslK are now ten cases of scarlet fever at the Indiana Home for Feebleminded Children north of Fort Wayne. There are over five hundred inmates ut tho institution and nearly all ol ; them have been directly or indirectly I exposed. A temporary hospital lot ■ contagious diseases has been secured for tie during the prevalence of the : epidemic. W. Hemphill, while hunting, ran x rabbit into a drift pile on the river. ,'outh ot tdinb rg, and discovered the body of a child covered up in the dritt. The child had evidently been murderei and pl :cea there to conceal somebody’s th ime. There is no clew as to where the body came from. Miss Maky Baner, aged 20, resid- : ing with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. .1. F. Baney, south of Muncie, became deI spondent over love affairs, and at? tempted to take her life with are vol ver. The weapon was placed against the leit side of her breast and fired. A corset stay changed the course of th» bullet and the bullet penetrated onl» 1 her shouli