Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doing* of Our Neighbor*^-Wed-ding* and Death*—Crime*. Caaualtie* and General New* Note* of the State. tfooaler Happening* One of the three schools ci Alexandria has been closed on account of diphtheria. The .’'-year-old son of Mrs. Cora Baker of Richmond, drank carbolic acid while at play in the yard, and will die. The i'-year old son of Mrs. Samuel Batdorf of Noblesville, fell from a horse and received injuries resulting in death. Hon. William H. Coombs, aged 87, old law partner of W. H. H. Miller, late Attorney-General of the United ■States, died nt Fort Wayne. Mils. W.m. Shipman and her sister, while crossing the Ohio River in a skiff, wore run down by a ferry I oat near Jeffersonville. Nirs. Shinman was drowned. While chopping a tree in the wooc s, near De atur, Frank Sullivan, a wealthy farmer, was instsjjtly killed by a dead limb falling and striking him on the head. r School Trustees, Attorney General Ketcham holds, must report annually to the County Commissioners as to fin&ikes, A city council can compel city school trustees to show their financial re. ords. AN explosion occurred at Prospect Tlill coal mines near \ incennes, which resulted in the serious injury of William Ben&in or and William Naugel. Neither will die. The explosion was due to pocket gas. Tho State Sanitary Commission,with the State veterinarian, found four, horsoa in a stable in Terre Haute sick with glanders an i ordered them killed. The oommlssio i is makinga’tour of the towns near Torre Haute. The 3-yoar-old son of William Gossett of Fairmont, while playing in the yard, caught lire from a pile of burning paper and was so badly burned that it will probably dio. The mother received severe burns about the hands while trying to save her child. Mrs. Jesse Richards, Miami Indian squaw, daughter of Wa-cu-i o-nah, one of tho most conspicuous members ol tho tribo, died in ti miserable hovel on the Indian Reservation, Wabash County, last wook. She was the last surviving member of the Wa-ca-co-nah family. Wallace Hall, sent to tho Northern Prison foe two years for tho crime of assault and buttery, has boon pardoned by Gov. Matthews. Hall was sent to tho penitentiary from Park Co nty four years ago. Ho was rejwrtod dying and tho Governor placed the pardon in the hands of tho prisoner’s aged father. Mrs CHARLES Leeds of Indianapolis, discovered the curtains in her parlor attaint , and. in trying to put out, the fire, the hair was burned off her head, and she was terribly in ured. Mrs. T. C. Purdy, who was very ill, was dangerously prostrated by the shock, but she was curried out by the firemen in time to save her life. At Anderson, Minnie Forber. aged 7, was playing with her doll, when its clothing caught tire from a ,et. The iiames also caught the child's clothes, and in a so:ond she w s enveloped in fire. She calloJ for help and her aunt ran for aid. While she was gone the little girl ran out into the yard, and when jo nd she was burned to a crisp. John Toban, a molder, employed at tho Whiteley Malleable Iron Works, Muncie, aged 24. was instantly killed by an east-bound Lake Erie arid Western passenger train. He was going to the Muring, Hart & Co. Window-glass Works to see the men blow glass, and was on tho Jong bridge that spans White River near the fa tory when the passenger train rounded a aurvo and stru. k him. The following patents have been granted to residents of Indiana: William Lush, assignor of one-half to D. Duehmig. A villa, combined awning and lire and burglar-proof shutter; John P. Liboy, Lima, scraper; Irvin G. Poston, Veedersburg, paving block; William 8. Ralya and H. Coyle, Indianapolis, metal straightening machine; Christian A. Hal/man, assignor of two-third» to E. P, Kennel, Hamilton, 0., and J. A. Robbins, Indianapolis, combination tool; William P. Stevens, Muncie, combined label and price card. Gov. Matthews has issued a pardon ♦d James E. Reed, aged 19 years, who was sent to the Penitentiary for tyvo years from Elkhart County on a plea of guilty to burglary. It was his first otfense. He has made an exemplary prisoner and would be free in a few months by expiration of sentence. The Governor was influenced, he says, by a desire to give the young man a chance to re-enter life with a feeling that he may yet regain his good name and bo an honorable citizen. The parents of the prisoner are quite old. The Globe Tin-Plate Company, with a capital stock of $150,096, rccent’y organized at New Castle, located the rite of a mammoth plant on the north side of that city. The mill will be equal in size to t’ie largest now in operation in America and will give omp oyment to more than 400. The most of the stock is taken by local business men, including E. E. Phillips, cashier of the First National Bank; L. A. Jennings, Treasurer of the Retail Furniture Dealers’ Association of Ame ica; 8. P. Jennings, J. S. Hedges, L. L. Burr, ex-Auditor Joshua I. Morris, R. M. Watkins and Hon. C. S. Hernly, County Clerk. Tho.remainder of the stock is taken ty practical tin-, plate manufacturers L orn Wales. The drilling of two immense gas wells within three miles of this city has added a decided impetus to the enterprise. Claude McDonald, aged 18, was run down by some freight cars which had been thrown on a side track on the P., C., C. & St. L. Railroad at Seymour. He was taken to the o.tlce of Dr. M. F. Gerrish, and his leg amputated. It is not believed that he can recover and should he die it will make the third boy of the McDonald family wco has met with accidental death. About ten years ago a son of Hon. W. N. McDonald was run down and killed by the cars at almost the same place. Two years ago a ton of Marsh McDonald fell from a load of hay on a pitchfork and was killed. Grand Army of the Republic general order No. 4, just issued by Com* mander-in-ohief Lawler of the national organization, gives a list of aids-de camp. Those for Indiana are: Mark I, DeMotte, Valparaiso; John Frith, Elwood; E. A. Jernegan, Mishawaka; W. S. Hunter, Jasper; J. E. Loughry, Monticello: Jasper E. Packard, New Albany. John W. Ross, Connersville; M. D. Tackett, Greensburg; H. A. Root, Michigan City; James M. Dillv, Brazil; J. D. Gallagher, Independence; J. D. Kidd. North vernon; M. M. Hurley, New Albany; G. V. Menzies, Mount Vernon: James M. Rogers. Huntington; George W. Scarce, Dariville, and J B. White, Fort Wayne.