Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — NEWS OF OUR STATE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. CVbat Our Neighbor* Are Doing—Matter* of General and Local Interest— Marriagoa and Death* Accident* and Crimea - Pointer* About Our Own People. Don’t Wa*te the Go*. —, Prof. J. C. Leach, State Gas Inspector, who has returned from a tour of the gas belt, authorizes the, following .statement, warning the public against the needless waste of gas: “There are many sections of the gas field that 1 have not visited at all, and am, therefore, not sufficiently informed to give an intelligent estimate of the gas supply: but judging from what data I have at hand, 1 believe that the statistic pressure of the gas field is decreasing. True, there are some wells that show a very slight decrease, if any, but this is the' • exception and not the rule. The belief in many places that gas will last forever, and the extravagant use and waste caused thereby, are doing great damage to the commercial interests of the gas field; for no one knows better than tho manufacturer, who is looking for a location for a factory, that at the present rate of reckless wasting of this precious fuel, the time is not far distant when he will have to return to coal. The gas companies have realized this for some time, aud are doing all they can to husband their supply, and I am glad to say that in some places the people are awakening to these facts; are doing what they can to create a sentiment against the waste of this fuel.” Minor State New*. Hosier Thomas was thrown from •’ horse at Elwood, and fatally injured. Survey for tho new electric road between Elwood aud Anderson lias begun. Joseph Ei.i.is, 20, while working in a field near Wtirren, was killed by lightning. The Dieterich syndicate has brought the Logansport natural gas plant for SSOO- - Earlham college museum has received a tremendous alligator from a Florida friend. Henry county fair association has decided to build a half mile track at New Castle, Worms arc destroying corps, meadows and other vegetation in Clarke and Floyd catinties. Oh A Pickett, 10, Noblesville, is dead from injuries received by falling from a haystack. Fiieii ‘ Yeaton, of Indianapolis, was seriously Injured in a runaway accident at Columbus, The barn and four horses of Reuben Pierce of Sullivan burned. Loss, $1,500; no insurance. Fulton county commissioners have let the contract for a new $78,000 court house, to bo built at Rochester. A mad bull viciously attacked a horse driven by James McCombs near Logansport. JkConibs was seriously hurt. The Nfuneie architectural iron works were destroyed by lire recently, for the second time since construction. Loss S2O- - r The county seat removal question is being revived In Lake county, Hammond disputing with Crown Point for a relocation. Mad de r ;s have done considerable damage to stock in Morgan county. Many hogs have been killed suffering with rabies. A child was born In Kokomo, recently that is the fourteenth daughter of tho fourteeth daughter. Mrs. 8. 11. Burt is the mother. Guy Shepiikred was waylaid by footpads at Vincennes, beaten unmercifully, robbed and driven home in a buggy by the robbers.

Homer Thomas, 15 years old, while horseback riding two miles east of Alexandria, was thrown from his horse and fatally injured. South Bend will send a delegation to Washington to protest against the new public building In that City. The citizens are greatly dissatisfied with the plans. Mils. Banta’s three children played with kerosine st Washington, and one of them st uck a match. Tho house was destroyed. and one of the children fatally burned. A Plymouth man returned a stolen dress skirt to its owner, accompanying it with a note explaining In illiterate language that he stole it to clothe his naked wife, but it was his first theft and his conscience hurt him. James 11. Chandler, running a restaurant at Indianapolis, was appealed to by a chambermaid for protection against three drunken fellows. Chandler undertook to remonstrate with his customers, and was hurled down a steep flight of steps, fatally fracturing his skull. Ezra Skaiii.es, of Muncie, has mortgaged his property for SSOO and gone to New York to try and get his son, Arthur Searles, out of prison by making good the money the young man received by fraudulently representing himself to be an agent of an Indianapolis newspaper. At Lafayette, Judge Everett rendered a decision in ex-Attomey-general Smith’s suit to recover from the school trustees a considerable sum of money that had not been expended for tuition purposes. The court held that the law of 1895 did away with the law of 1893 and that the attorneygeneral could not maintain a suit under the new law. Ex-County Clerk Daniel W. Souder has arrived home at Fort Wayne, from South Africa after a mysterious absence of four months. His return greatly relieves his family, his wife having become nearly crazy from suspense. lie greeted his friends who met him at the trrain and went to his carriage, which took him to his home. A icporter attempted to interview iiim, but he became excited, and, flourishing his cane, said: “No. sir; if it was not for these cursed newspaper, 1 wouldn’t be here in this condition.” His friends hurried him to the carriage, which prevented an attack on the newspaper man. Josephine McCoy, the young daughter of J. B. McCoy, of North New Jersey street, I ndianapolis, was burned to death in a celler. Her clothes caught fire from a natural gas furnace. In attempting to save her tho mother was badly burned. The other night Mrs. Savanna Dugan, who deserted tier husband in Ohio ftVe years ago, died in Fort Wayne. She was alone with William Newman, her lover, at the time. The coroner’s inquest developed the fact that the woman’s neck was broken, and while the funeral was in progress Newman was placed under arrest on suspicion of being the cause of her death. The prisoner declares his innocence. Charles Reei>, wanted at Muncie, Marion and Delphi for horse stealing and for whom a large, reward was offered, was arrested at Kokomo and taken to Muncie for trial. George Meekins, proprietor of the Gas City Hotel, was driving in Jonesboro with a friend, his horse took fright, and before it ooufid be turned dashed over a bluff at the foot of Fourth street., and plunged into the Mississinnewa River, a distance of over eighty feet. .The men fell about half way and caught and were not seriously hurt, while horse and buggy went into the river. The horse also esoaped serious injury, and rescued himself by swimming to the other side. The escape of the men is the talk of the town.