Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAa Interesting Summary or tho In*. portent Doings of Our Neighbors—Wed. dings nnd Deaths—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. The Centennial Commission. , , Governor Matthews has announced th« names of the men selected by him to compose the centennial commission. By a joint resolution of the last general assembly he was authorized to appoint a commission consisting of thirty persons, two from each congressional district, and four from the state at large. This commission is to formulate a plan and arrange for a centennial celebration of the organization of the territory of Indiana to be held in 1900. The commission is to report to the next general assembly. The appointees are: State at Large—Col. Eli Lilly and E. B. Mart indale, Indianapolis; Hugh Daugherty, Bluffion; DoEoo Skinner, Valparaiso. First District—Philip Fry, Evansville; James Burkett, Cannclton. Second District—Thomas Buskirk, Paoli; John Weathers, Leavenworth. Third Distrlot—Charles L. Jewett, New Albany; Dr. H. C. Hobbs, Salem. Fourth District—John 11. Russc, Lawrenoeburg; William Cumback, Greenfield. Fifth District—John W. Cravens, Bloomington; John T. Irwin, Columbus. Sixth District—Arthur W. Brady, Muncie; James N. Huston, Connersvllle. Seventh Distriot—U. 8. Jackson, Greenfield; diaries T. Doxey, Anderson. Eighth Distrlot—Ttiomas J. Mann.Sulli* van; Frank McKeen, Terro Haute. Ninth District—Eli Martin, Frankfort; C« S. Shirley, Kokomo. Tenth District—M. M. Hathaway, Winamno; Joshua C. Hadley, Logansport. Eleventh Distrlot—Harry B. Smith, Hartford City: H. L. Goldthwaite, Marion. Twelfth Distrlot—Charles MoCulloch, Fort Wayne, and Sol. A. Woods, Angola. Thirteenth District -James A. Arthur, Goshen; George W. Matthews, South Bend. The commission wilt meet as soon as ail the appointees have acoepted ttie appointment and effect an organization-

Minor Btato New*. Isaac Joy’s ti-year-old daughter died ol blood poisoning, near Urbana, Wabash county. Jamks Noltow was literally cut to pieces by a Pennsylvania freight train at Jeffersonville. Evansville 1s to have a packing house with a capacity of 200 head of hogs and 200 head of lieeves a day. Tiik Gas City Good Citizens League lias caused the rejection of six applications for license to sell liquor there. While Win, Fix, farmer near Shelbyvllle, was down lh a well, a heavy pieco of tlmlier fell and seriously injured him. Alma Cain, In trying to put out afire in a saw mill at Frankfort was seriously burned. The mill was greatly damaged. Fin:t> Waiinkb, young farmer near Brookston, died of a broken heart, having grioved himself to death over being swindled out of $1,200 by lightning rod shurks. COVNTEIIFKIT nlckloK uro ilootliiig Anderson, and scarcely a business man lias emaped tho spurious coins, it is thought Hint the notorious Peyton gang is at work. Bash. Share, 10, mado a dive into St. Joe River at Fort Wayne, in shallow water. 11 is head stuck in the muddy bottom, lie could not extricate himself and was drowned. Lake County Com mission kns threatened to raise Treasurer MeCuy’s bond to $400,000, ut their Juno session, ami he told them to tako the office and run it, whereupon they backed down. John Jones, tho Elwood tin-plate worker who recently fell heir to an estate of $8,000,000 in Wales, has left for Liverpool to take the necessary legal steps to put himself in possession of the money. John Eva ht, Blackford County farmer, Is slowly dying from a peculiar disease. Thousands of worms la his flesh aro gradually eating Ills life away. Physicians are bafiletl and no relief can be given him. James Bowman, aged 60, while attempting to flag a train moving through Evansville, was struck by a runaway team and was so badly injured that he died a short time later. Bowman’s homo was'at Vincennes. C. Ukim, extensive farmer of Warrick county, gTves a discouraging report of the wheat crop in Southern Indiana. Several samples of wheat gathered in three different countlos show up badly. Harvesting will begin shortly. In many fields binders will not enter at all. He attributes the present condition to frost. While throwing down hay froth & barn loft, G. E. Leazenbce, a young man of near lleadlee, fell through an aperture in the mow, ai\d, striking upon the prongs of an upturned fork, sustained injuries of a frightful and fatal character. After his fall, lie lay in an unconscious condition for twelve hours before being discovered, and was by that time so weak from loss of blood that recovery is hopeless. Joseph Schuler of Rockport, is dying from the effects of a dose of corrosive sublimate, taken by mistake. Since taking the poison lie lias lost his voice, the drug destroying the vocal chords. Soon after taking the dose his wife gave him the white of an egg every few minutes and greatly neutralized the poison. The drug was dispensed to Schuler by an inexperienced drug clerk, a mere boy, in the drug store ol D. A. Sexton.

Tiif, comparative exhibit of the state charitable and correctional institutions for the six months from November 1,1894, to April 80,1895, lias been issued by the state board of charities. It is compiled from the quarterly reports. The grand net total expenditures for maintenance and construction of charitable and correctional institutions for the six months ending April 80,1895,was $500,600.91; for the corresponding six months last year the expenditures were $523,172.25. An indictment was served against the Muncie Pulp Company for damming and polluting Buck Creek. It is the result of a complaint made by Robert Chiggish, ditch commissioner of lienry County. Mbs. Joshua W. Berby, sixteen miles south of Kokomo, met an awful death recently. She was smoking a pipe while at work in the garden. Her clothing took fire and she ran partly across a meadow, attempting to reach her father’s house, but fell, setting fire to the dry grass. When found she was in a te|us>le condition, all her clothing, with the exception of her shoes, being consumed. She lived but a few hours. The American Wire Nail Company at Anderson, one of the largest manufacturing industries in the gas belt, has posted notices of an iucrease of wages of 10 per cent. There are about 800 men on the pay rolls. The business of ttyj cbmpany has never been better than it is now, its books being'filled with orders for nails and wire. The mill will shut down June 29 for a three weeks’ vacation, during which time the company will equip a 60x90 addition, with machinery to increase the output. Philip Duncan’s child, while playing around a cook stove at Eminence, knocked one of the stove legs out The stove came down, fire fell out on the little one and the hot water in a teakettle poured over ita bead, fatally scalding it.