Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — ABOUND A BIG STATE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUND A BIG STATE.

BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDI-. ANA NEWS. What Onr Neighbors Ara Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Personal Pointers About Indlanlau*. Minor State News. Elwood has located a big machine shop to employ 100 men. Albert Whetstone, a giant weighing 482 pounds, a native of Atlanta, Hamilton County, is dead. Miss Virginia Lockridge, recently injured in a runaway accidental Greencastle, died of her injuries. Charles Mclntire, aged 4, fell from a fence at New Albany, and died in a few minutes from concussion of tiie brain. Jacob Davis was cutting wheat.near Delphi, when his team ran away, dragging the binder over him, causing instant death. Fred Shafer, while riding on an L. S. & M. S. freight train, near Elkhart, was brutally assaulted and robbed by tramps. The barn of Curran Bell, south of Elwood, was struck by lightning during a thunder-storm, and burned up. Loss $1,200. The Union Steel Works, of Alexandria, employing 1,600 men, has increased the wages of their employes ten per cent, all around. The signing of the now tin-plate wage scale insures steady employment for the army of workmen is the American Tinplate Works at Elwood, John Shuerenbrand, a tinner, committed suicide at Boswell, Benton County, by hanging himself. He had been in the Insane Asylum several times. Albert Berry, the 14-year-oldson ol Prof. N. Berry, was drowned in Eel river at Logansport, while bathing with two companions. The body was recovered. Haul Lacey, aged 4, was drowned in a pit nt Jeffersonville. The boy was missed from home,, and he was located by the moaning of his big dog near Hie edge of the pit. Lee Kuhns, who found a valuable bed of aragonite, or limestone rock, on his farm near Ingalls, has begun the construction of kilns, looking to the manufacture of commercial lime.

The Elwood Oil Producing Company has drilled in another 100-barrcl well on its land near Geneva, and six more wells will be put down immediately, as the field gives exceptional promise of richness. At Cowan in a runaway accident Mrs. George Kcltner, of Muncie, was dangerously injured and her B-year-old daughter had an arm broken. A Mrs. Vorice, who was in the carriage, had an arm broken. New wheat is beginning to come into market nt Wabash earler, by nearly ten days, than was ever known before. The yield runs from seven to fifteen bushels per acre, and the quality generally is rather poor. The Marion Circuit Court has decided Hint the Adams Express Company can only be (axed on personal property in tills State. The .State Tax Commissioners hud assessed the company au a mileage basis, and tho . company prayed for an injunction. The case will goto tho State Supreme Court, and probably to the United States Supreme Court for final settlement. Henry Lucas, a farmer, aged 20, was probably fatally injured at Knightstown in a railroad accident. He attempted to cross the track in frontof the Pennsylvania limited, when his vehicle was struck and demolished and the horse instantly killed.’ Lucas was hurled a distance of ’ thirty feet. He is severely injured and recovery is doubtful. At Mick McCarty’s saloon, Muncie, Thomas Rodgers was accidentally shot in the left groin by William Everett. The wounded man cannot live. The two men are Hint-glass blowers andjemployed at tho Muncie ilint-glnss works. A crowd of men were in the saloon, and Everett was recklcssJy flourishing the self-acting gun, when it went oil. Both wore the best of friends, but had been drinking. Chinch bugs in large numbers have appeared in the eastern part of Bartholomew County, and are doing great damage to the growing corn. In some localities since the wheat lias been harvested these pests have become so numerous that the cornstalks are black with them. At Burnsbill aquart of the bugs was gathered and shipped to Prof. W. C. Latta.. of T’yrdue University, to be inoculated with chinch bug cholera. These bugs will be returned and scattered among the living ones with a hope of thus exterminating.them.

While Otto Logan was drawning off a barrel of varnish in the barn of W. A. Williams, Wabash, the fluid, from some unknown cause, exploded. Youqg Logan was burned about the face and hands, but hastened to turn in an alarm. The department responded quickly, but everything was very dry and the bam and contents were destroyed. Two valuable horses were lost. The flames communicated to W. R. Collins’s stable, which was also consumed. Total loss, $1,200; insurance on Williams’s barn, S4OO. State Gas Inspector J. C. Leacli has returned from Alexandria, where he has been trying for a week to conquer an obstreperous gas well owned by the DePauw Plate-glass Company. Three weeks ago the well was anchored, andsoon thereafter the confined gas began blowing the water out of all the water and gas wells in the neighborhood. The gas evidently escaped through a b> oken casing and found its vmy—through the shale and clay to the surface of the ground. Residents of the vicinity were alarmed to find their houses, cellars, wells and outbuildings filled with the fluid, and only utmost care prevented many explosions. To prevent accidents the officers ordered the well opened again, and it lias for three weeks been blowing off 3,500,000 feet of gas daily. Threeexpert gas-well men refused to undertake the job of restraining the “runaway.” Contractor Decker was Anally induced, and he has the machinery on the ground. Mr. Leach and D el’auw people hope to have the well under control soon. The escaping gas is boiling up in Pipe creek, half a mile away. The Union City Council has authorized the School Board to issue bonds to the amount of SIO,OOO to build a new schoolhouse. The present forty-five-thousand-dollar school building, built in 1892, is overcrowded.

Wm. 11. Artman and Joseph Paxton, two life-time convicts in the prison south, died, the other day; within 15 minutes of each other, while lying side by side in the prision hospital-. Artman was the victim of consumption, while Paxton died from the effects of an assault by a fellow-convict. Artman killed his wife and son, at Tell City in 1898. Taxton murdered Spencer Bryant, at Jeffersonville, In 1888. General order, No. 2, Indiana National Guard, has been issued preparatory for the annual military encampment, July 21, lasting for a week. It will be held atFairview Park. Brigadier General McKee will be in command. None was heli last year because so many of the companies were detailed to quiet the riots during the strikes, and saw some actual service in the line of duty. The encampment, therefore, will serve as a reunion of those who braved the rioters. There will be forty-eight cqmpanies in the camp, numbering about 3,000 men. Each of the five regiments wiR have a brass band. Sunday afternoon there will be a dress parade, and during, the week Governor Matthews and his staff will inspect the camp. ' '