Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1895 — HOOSIER HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Oar Neighbors are Doing—Matters at General and Loral Internet—Marriage* and Death*—Acrident* and Crimea—Per. ■onal Pointers About Indian la ns. Minor State News. The neighborhood of Newbum is Infested with chicken thieves. Owixo to a barbers’ war at Goshen a hair cut costs but ten cents. The latest improvement talked of for South Bend is a SIOO,OOO hotel. Ei.i West of Fairlaud, was sunstruck while fisliiug. He is in a precarious condition. Mrs. John Your, Peru, by mistake gave her two children kerosene to drink. May prove fatal. In the last few days a flood of counterfeit ten-eent-pieoes have found their wu/ into circulation at Elwood. Jesse Croup, 10-year-cld son of A.J. Croup, fell in the Elkhart River while fishing at Goshen and was drowned. Dope Cbcii., young farmer near Farmland, was in his bam when it was struck by lightning, lie was instantly killed. Q It is estimated that the wheat crop in Hamilton county will not average a bushel to the acre, and but little will be harvested. Met Kkrnai, of Itockport, aged 18, was accidentally shot and killed by Robert Meyers, aged 17. The boys were shooting birds. A ni'mheh of heirs to Lord Autrim’s estato in Ireland, valued at $75,000,000, reside near Elwood. They will push their claims. Jimmy Bkooh went Into White River at Columbus, for the purposo of drownlug two eats. He was seized with cramps and lost Ids life. Lons Ashwohtii, a young farmer living near Alpine, was fatally kicked In the stomach by a homo which became frightened at a passing bicycle. Suit for SIO,OOO has been filed against tho. Pan-handle railway at Kokomo by the administrator of the estate of Oscar Rontiok. Romick was killed while unloading goods from a oar. Mono an Bi.a<k rode uptotieorge Fisher's house, near Mt. Vernon, and shot him dead. Fisher kept company with Black’s sister and Black suspeoted ttiat something was wrong. William McDonald, a tailor, who had Just returned from a three woeks' unsuccessful hunt for work, committed suicide at Kokomo with laudaniini, leaving a wife and two children.

James Rlmhaugh, farmer near Laporte, allowed a stranger to make him believe that lie was a cousin of his and then gave him $0 and signed a paper. The latter turns out to bo a note. Alvahapo Hommell, Madison, has received a “white cap” notice, saying that ho will suffer bodily harm unless he executes a deed for a graveyard plat. Ho owns the ground but refuses to sell. Fred Smock, a farm hand near Terro Haute, while returning from u call on Farmer Pennington's daughter, was shot by some unknown person and dangerously wounded. Tho ussailaut is supposed to bo a jealous rival. John Cook, a colored barber, aged 80, attempted to crawl under a freight train at a street crossing on the Big Four road at Munoic, and both legs were mashed so badly that amputation at tho hips was necessary. Ho died throe hours later. Chjus Meyer's barn, near Jeffersonville, was struck by lightning and destroyed. His (laughter, who was alone at homo, succeeded In rescuing seven head of horses. Tho barn eon tai tied several fine buggies, surreys, cto., and the loss will reach $4,000. In a woods near Jonosvillc, Ham Smallwood, of that place, whilo squirrel hunting, was almost instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. Smallwood is the third son of tlie family to meet death in an unnatural way. One son died from the effects of eating a poisonous herb and another was killed in a railroad wreck.

Ciiaui.ks Stout, a well known resident of Monroe Township, Howard County, who has been ill, left his room and went out on the second story veranda to got a breath of fresh air. While there he fainted and fell off the structure to the ground. In the fall his hoad struck a step, tearing his scalp off and inflicting other injuries from which he will probably die. A petition Is being circulated at Brazil, and liberally signed, asking the Governor to pardon Janies Booth, aged 19, Robert Knnkin, aged 18, and William Wilson, aged 17, who are now serving twoyear sentences for the murder of Engineer William Barr of the Vandalia, on June 6, 1894. The prisoners were strikers, and stoned Barr, who was a non-union engineer, to death. Mahion Sm nr.r.Eii, a farmer aged 70, residing three miles northwest of Cambridge City, wus thrown from a load of straw arid died from his injuries. He was crossing the Lake Erie and Western tracks, his horses became frightened by a Big Four train using the tracks, and the team ran away. Rounding a corner, Mr. Shldeler was thrown off the hay, against a tree and his skull fractured. On May 2f, Mrs. Mary Day of Greencastle, a widow, placed 980 in paper money on a stove in an ordinary purse. She placed the top of the stove over the same for safe keeping. The next morning was a chilly one and she built a (ire In the stove, which burned her pocketbook and money into an unrecognizable mass of ashes. The wreck was gathered up by a newspaper reporter, who, as an experiment, took-the same to the Central National Bank to forward to Washington. This was done together with a statement of the circum-stances,-and the other day Mrs. Day received a draft for her SBO. How the money was identified is a mystery to one unacquainted with the system employed by the government, as the bills were nothing but ashes when removed and could not be told from the other ashes of the burned book. A fast fruit train on the Wabash struck and killed William Kuyjah in the yards at Logansport.' The victim was 58 years old, and was on his way to the home of Miss , Minnie Goldsmith, to whom he was to be married. Kuyjah was employed at the Pan-handle shops. Otto Huff, a prominent young man of Livonia, ten miles east of Orleans, was instantly killed. lie and Hersehel Kelly were hunting together and undertook to run a squirrel out of a tree. Kelley climbed the tree and Huff went to hand him his gun, when it was discharged, the entire load entering his abdomen. Hnff was 18 years old. Maktin Bassett, a young farmer living five miles north of Shelbyville, blew off the top of his head with a shotgun. The reasons given for the suicide is that the frost and cut worms had ruined his prospects for a corn crop and that his wife had threatened to leave him. An ancient swindle is being used in Indiana towns. All the police stations in the State have cards giving the description of F. B. Johnson and J. O. Bell, wanted at North Manchester. The information is that the men enter a town and victimize the business men under the guise of being agents for the; Davis, Allen & Co. Bad Debt Collecting Agency of Toledo, Ohio, and get subscribers to membership at $lB eacj>.