Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Ssmmary of the More In. portant Doing* of Onr Nelghbors-Wa*. ding* and Death*—Crime*. Coaualtie* an* General New* Note*. Condensed State New*. □ Miami Count.y’s talkijyj,about buying the toll roads. Elwood gas company will lay an entire new system, costing $60,000. Three towns in Miami County are named Chili, Ebenerer and Gilead. Frankfort has decided to put down brick pavement on its principal streets. The residence of John Freisheimer, a pioneer of Delaware county, was destroyed by fire, i,m Mrs. Snare, near Loogootee, accidentally fell in a barrel of water and was drowned.

Richard Hart, a Panhandle brakeman, was crushed to death by a switch engine at Richmond. J. E. Wolfe, editor of the Terre Haute Journal, was found dead in a bath tub. Heart disease. Gfohge W. Kigar, in Warren County, was almost instantly killed in an accident at his saw-mill. Hknry Berning, an Allen County fanner, was fatally injured in a runaway near Fort Wayne. Oscar Ham, laborer, fell from a wagon at Lebanon, and was impaled on an iron rod, fatally injuring him. Stephen Gregory, a farmer east of Brooklyn, was found insane wandering over the streets at Brooklyn. Addison Albertson, a farmer near Muncie, fell under a wagon loaded with tiling, and was instantly killed. Thomas Hurt, a prominent Miami county farmer, committed suicide by hanging himself in the barn with a log chain. A child of the late widow Spoonmoore, of Star City, fell from the hotel porch, a distance of fourteen feet, and suffered injuries which proved fatal. . Tyjs third gas company has just been cap ganized at Farmland with James K. P. Gray, president; B. L. Wilson, secretary; A. W. Conyers, treasurer. Prof, T. O. Mott, of Richmond, superintendent of the Wayne County Schools, lias been elected to the superintendency of the Madison, Ind., schools for next year. The farmers of Wayne and Henry counties, near Dalton, are making an attempt to head off robbers and thieves. Bloodhounds will be purchased by popular subscription. byv Scott Stivers, insane, Liberty, imagined God had ordered him to torture himself, and lie gouged 150 wounds Into his body with a knife. It took several people to overpower him. May die. Mu. D, A. Coulter, cashier of the Farmers’Hank, of Frankfort, has contracted with an Indianapolis firm for aten-thousnnd-dolhir mausoleum to be erected on his lot at Greenlawn Cemetery. John Albomhon, fifty years old, while hauling tile to his farm new Farmland, his team ran away and the leaded wagon passed over his body, breaking his back and otherwise injuring him. He cannot recover. It is announced from Ingalls that there are more families in town than there are houses, and some, people are living in woodsheds until houses can be completed. Ingalls promises to have a relapse of the boom fever.

"Buck” Stanley, of Logansport, Ind., is conducting a tern iterance campaign in Boonville. The meetings have fairly begun and over two hundred have signed the total abstanence pledge. A good citizens’ club will be organized. Du. Tiros. B. Redding of New Castle, widely, know in methodist circles, fell into a cistern, and was downed. lie was M years of age and had attained considerable prominence as a scientist. Was formerly a newspaper man and later a lawyer. Department Commander Shiveley, of the G. A. R., has made known the following appointments made by him: .Senior aid-de-camp, Henry C. Tinney, of Lafayette; department inspector, Joseph Gill, of Washington; judge advocate, B. F. Williams,of Wabash; chief mustering officer, A. F. Spaulding, of Wabash; colorbearer, C. M. Sailers, of Wabash. Baptism very much out of the ordinary was conferred on four babes at the First Presbyterian Church, Muncie, by Rev. Hays. A few weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. John 11. Hartley returned from a twelve months’ trip to foreign lands, and while gone visited the River Jordan. Mr. Hartley secured a quantity of water from the stream, ana this was used by Rev. Hays in administering the sacred rites. In a gas explosion, three miles north of Elwood, three men, Tom Dialer, Frank McGuire and William Gates, were badly burned. It is thought all will recover. The explosion occurred at a newly-drilled gas well and the men were engaged in packing it. The explosion wrecked the derrick and the well continued to burn long after the derrick was in ashes. The foreman of the gang of drillers, whoso names is Claver, then rigged up some-pipes and connected the steam pipes with tlie gas well and succeeded in deluging the escaping gas with steam, extinguishing the flame.

Patents have been Issued to the following persons in Indiana: Melvillß. Bondinot, Vincennes, wagon; Philip G. Decker, Anderson, means for separating gas and water or gas and oil; Winfield Dunckei, Terre Haute, tilting hoist; Asa R. Hoy and H. D. Harris, said Hoy assignor to V. H. Lockwood, Indianapolis, valve lock; Walter A. Scott, Evansville, gig saddle; Charles N. Teetor, Munoie railway velocipede; Martin Wanner, Yorktown, process and apparatus for refrigeration; Dwight W. Williamson, F. J. Milholland and C. A. Kessler, assignors to D. W. Williamson & Co. and Adams & Wi lliamson,lndianapolis, pressure plate for veneer cutting machines; James J. Wood, Fort Wayne, electric switch. John Smith of Kokomo, went insane, and, after burning his clothing and furniture, tried to kill his wife and children, but the prompt arrival of the police prevented the tragedy. John Reed, a young man of Union City was killed by an electric light wire. Just how the accident iiappened will probably always remain a mystery, but it is supposed that he took hold of the cable which holds the street lamp, forming a short circuit. His streams attracted attention of people passing on the street, who say his body was thrown a distance of fifteen feet. The accident happened only a few yards from his home. The barns on the dairy farm of Martin & Armentrout were destroyed, by ( fire at Crawfordsville. The loss will amount to about $2,500, with but light incurance. Sb ven horses and twenty-seven cows perished in the flames. At Marquardt’s Crossing of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago road, ten miles east of Fort Wayne, Casius Smithley, a young farmer, was driving to church with, his sweetheart, Miss Lucy Van Buskirk, when the buggy was struck by an engine, and both occupants were hurled sixty feet, landing in a swampy spot. The young farmer alighted on his hsad, striking s rock, which penetrated the skull. Death was instantaneous. Miss Van Buskirk vu not injured.