Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

rTEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAs Int< catin; Summary of the Here Im. portent Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties, end General Indiana News Notes, Minor State Nears. Arcadia plate glass works burned. Loss, #25,000. The Dieterich syndicate has brought the Logansport natural gas plant for SSOO- - Worms are destroying corps, meadows and other vegetation in Clarke and Floyd counties. Ora Pickett, 10, Noblesville. is dead injuries received by falling from a haystack. The bakeries of Elwood have combined and raised the pride of bread from 2 to 4 cents per loaf. Fulton countv commissioners have let the contract for a to be built at Rochester. Julius J. Basel, Fort Wayne laborer, has fallen heir to $50,000 left him by his grand-father in Germany. Over one hundred new residences and ten new business houses are to be erected in Parker City this summer. The county seat removal question is being revived in Lake county, Hammond disputing with Crown Point for a relocation. The members of the First Presbyterian Church of Greencastle have extended a call to Rev. William IC. Weaver, of Owattona, Minn. Mai> dogs have done considerable damage to stock in Morgan county. Many bogs have been killed suffering with rabies. A child was born in Kokomo, recently that is the fourteenth daughter of the fourteeth daughter. Mrs. S. H. Burt is the mother. Guv SHEniERED was waylaid by footpads at Vincennes, beaten unmercifully, robbed and driven home in a buggy by the robbers.

Walter Armstrong was seriously injured at the Arearde tile works, Anderson, by a grindstone bursting. A fragment struck him on the head. John lleidenkeich, who has been a switchman in Terre Haute lor thirty years, was run over and killed by the cars in the Evansville &'Terre lluate yard. SptXTH Bend will send ,a delegation to Washington to protest against the new public building in that City. The citizens are greatly dissatisiied with the plans. Mr.s. G. W. Ross, who last winter fell through a grating on Main street, Brazil, while in a delicate condition, and suffered serious injuries, has tiled suit in the .Superior Court for $20,000 damages against the city. A young man, who was beating a ride over the Monon railroad, fell between the freight cars near Crawfordsville, and was cut to pieces. Nothing was foundto identify him, but it is supposed that he belonged at Danville, 111. William Cummins, an employe of the Akron Forge Works, while operating the 100-ton trip hammer, was knocked senseless by a fragment of the steel billet, which broke off, and striking him, hurled him across the room. 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. Edward W. Diuemax, a commercial traveler who was seriously injured in a wreck on the Indianapolis & Vincennes railway some weeks ago, has filled suit at Vincennes for $5,000 damages against the Fennsylvana company. Four young men were playing poker in the heading mills at Bedford, when Paul Johnson quarreled with Homer Bruce. The latter shot Johnson through the head causing a mortal wound. Bruce, his brother and Win. Emery was arrested. One hundred and fifty new residences are in course of‘erection at Wabash this spring, the building boom being unprecedented. Tlie estimated cost of eacli building is SI,OOO, making a total of $150,000 which local investors are putting into residences.

Harry Kellar, who was formerly in tlie dry goods business at Logansport, was assaulted and robbed of $315 shortly before midnight recently at his home. Bearing a noise he went to his barn and was attacked and left in a dazed condition. There is no clue and the affair is regarded as a mystery. At Latayette, Judge Everett rendered a decision in ex-Attorney-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 tlie attorneygeneral could not maintain a suit under the new law. Luther Smith of Logansport, got on the cowcatcher of a Vanda lia engine to ride to Maxinkuckee. Near Verona station, a few miles north, the engine struck three horses that were running loose on the track, killing two of them. When the train stopped the remains of Smith were found terribly mangled. He was about 21 years old and lived with a widowed mother. He was formerly employed as a switchman on the Vandalia. Patents have been issued to the following Indiana inventors: Charles E. Black, Topeka, dish cleaner; James D. Bowman, assignor one-half to 11. Y. Miller, Union County, Indiana, earth auger; Allen C. Brantingham, assignor to Nordykc and Mannon, Indianapolis, feeder for mills; Edward and L. Hedderick, Pettit, washboard; Steven G. Ilindsley, Union City, flood gate; Joseph Reiff, jr., assignor of one-half to E. M. Nichols, Hebron, vent controlling mecanism for pumps; Valentine C. Rochoil, Fort Wayne, prize wrench; Ferdinand Seheumann, Logansport, safety valve; Fred and L. Winkler, South Bend, sprinkler head, two patents. As a result of eating onions purchased from a huckster, Herman Wilson, aged 7, died at-Jeffersonville, and two other children, Elmer Wilson and Paul Mozier, are dangerously ill with little hopes of recovery. During the day the children purchased several bunches of onions and ate them with salt. Soon they were taken ill and physicians were puzzled at the symptoms. Emetics were administered and it was found that they had overdosed their stomachs, but as this alone would not be sufficient to produce death, the physicians are inclined to the belief that something of a poisonous nature must have been mixed with the onions. The Kokomo Wood Enameling Company has been sued for $20,000 by Frank Matney, an employe, who, last winter, received permanent injuries by the breaking of an elevator cable in the factory. May 1, General Superintendent Johnson, of the Nickleplate, issued a general order prohibiting its employers from loitering about saloons. The order was not he constued as to prohibit men from hoarding at hotels maintaining bars, but they must not frequent the bar. At Fort Wayne two fright conductors and ten brakeiiien were dismissed because they had been seer, entering a saloop since the order went into effect. It is said that twenty other trainmen have been ordered to report to answer charges of a like nature.