Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — NEWS OF OUR STATE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING a ' HOOSIERS. Whmt Oar Neighbor* Are Dotag—Hatter* Of General and Loral Internet—Marriages and Deaths Accidents and Crimea— Pointer* About Oar Own People. Minor State New*. John Brady, a school teacher or Kockport, was drowned while bathing in the Ohio River. John C. Rei ser of Seymour, shot himself in the head with a 88-caliber revolver. Financial troubles. Hendrickson Bros’, stock barns at Kewanna burned, together With a famous stallion. Lass $15,000. Dh. S. W. Edwins of Elwood, has been appointed iucdical examiner of the Indiana militia for Sladison County. Miss Clara B. Kelly, of Ft. Wayne, was burned severely. Her clothing caught fire from a flying bit of burning paper. Mrs Patrick Duffy of Wabash, was fatally burned by her clothing catching fire from a gas stove. She is 75 years old. Three valuable horses belonging to Jesse Beard, near Needham’s Station, Were poisoned one night recently by unknown persons. R. J. Collins, colored, of Indianapolis, was killed by an Erie train near Noblesville. He is supposed to havo fallen from the train. Counterfeit silver dollars of unusally good finish are circulating in several towns in Montgomery County, and there is much complaint. L. I). Kkptinuku, employed in a sawmill at Loogootee, was dangerously hurt by a flying fragment of wood thrown off a circular saw. The work of erecting the North Baltimore glass factory buildings at Albany has commenced. There will be eight buildings and two smelters. Burglars enteral William Sumption’s residence at Munoie while the family were seated in front, and stole diamonds and jewelry valued at S4OO. Fred Wei dell, aged 13, was killed in a Michigan City saw-mill, by a pleoeof timber which rebounded from a circular saw and struck him on thfe breast. The orchards in Washington Township, Harrison County, are bending and breaking so heavily are the fruit trees loaded. The estimated vnluo of the fruit crop is placed at $60,000. Allis, Thomas Lewis, wife of a coal miner of Brazil, has been notified that she Is hgiress to SIOO,OOO by the death of au uncle ut San Franoltoo, from whom she had not heurd for 80 years. Capt. J. F. Fee of (Ireencastle, has been appointed by (iov. Matthews Major of the First liattallion, First Regiment Infantry, I. N. CL, to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Major 11. P. Corniok. Mki,l Boone, Jr., aged 22, a brakeman on the middle division of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad, was struck by the spout of the water tank at Brownstown, knocked from the car, and his skull fractured. He will die. Henry Emmei.man, a dork at J. L. Moore’s wholesale grooery, In Indianapolis, was literally scalped by a freight elevator, lie was leaning over the shaft when the elevator descended. Ills skull was laid bare from his forehead to the back of his head.

Benjamin Dooi.ino, of Vlnoennos, fooled with a revolver, and there was an accidental discharge of the weapon, the bullet lodging in the shoulder of Richardson Davidson. Davidson was dangerously hurt and he was removed to Keensburg, 111., whore his people live. Charles Tiiknnks of Michigan City, wflio operated a saloon In his hotel with the door opening on a small alley, and who was arrested under the Nioholson law, i has been acquitted, the jury holding that the ulloy was a highway sufficiently within the meaning of the law. W. F. Biiown, of Rochester, and Lyman Evans, “trusties” In the prison South, upon being sent to the prison gallon for vegetables, took advantage oftheoppoitunity to escape. They were accompanied to the garden by Cal Armstrong, the defaulting County Treasurer of Tipton, but ho refused to Join In the flight. The Board of Directors of the Northern Indiana Prison have made the following appointments: Chaplain, the Rev. A. L. Curry of Noblesvllle; physician, Dr. Spinning, Covington; steward, D. S. Durbin, Indianapolis. Warden Harley is authority for the statement that United States convicts will not bo removed to Leavenworth prison. Pateni.h havo been issued to the following. Indiana inventors: Russel W. Guilford, assignor to Auburn Iron works, Auburn, Ind., steamer engino; Harvey R. Harris, Michigan City, moistaner and paper weight; Frederick T. Wright Fort Wayne, assignor of one-half to J. N. Neal, Cold Water,, Mich., wire fence; John F. Snapp, Frlchton, fire alarm device; Wm.S. Taylor, Rensselaer, hog ringer; John A. Wright, Indianapolis, tack catcher for bicycles. Isaac Goodman, leader of the notorious Goodman gang, was released from the* Prison North on a pardon by Gov. Matthews, nnd returned to Anderson. He is now’ 68 years of age. He received his training under the guerrilla Quantrel.l, In Kansas. In 1860 he came to Indiana and organized a gang. He educated hl:i son Dick in this line, and they headed the gang, which made nlghlly raids, and plundered everything within fifty miles. His house was made a depository. He entertained no one, and his house, which set back off of the roads, was not Invaded by callers of any kind. His fortune continued to grow, until he was worth SIOO,OOO. The gang was rounded up at Summittville two years ago, and in the fight that followed Dick Goodman was shot and all wore taken prisoners. The gang was sent up for nine years. Isaac’s years and failing health, and the fact that his wife was rapidly sinking, secured the pardon. He cannot last long. Dick, who was shot several times in the Suniiuittvillo fight, is in the hospital, dying. There is a hermit living in the Patoka River bottoms, near Heyden, who calls himself Bill Cox. Die tells a story in effect that years ago his family died until none was left but himself, and then a mysterious voice whispered In his ear that his life was In danger, and that he must leave the State at once. Thereupon he returned to Indiana, and finding this Secluded spot in the Patoka River bottoms, lie erected a rude little cabin, and there he has remained, in seclusion ever Since, subsisting on roots, berries and small game. He belives that his hermit way of living is au atonement for crime, of whioh he refuses to speak. On the farm of Adam Lortz, in Bartholomew County, a boiling' well has been struck at a depth of forty-'ejgnt feet. The well was drilled, and is ten or more feet into hard limestone. There Is about one and,,ft half feet of water in the well, and this cannot be reduced with a force pump. The boiling noise is constant, and can be heard several hundred feet from the top of the well. Sunlightfrom a mirror has been thrown upon the water in this well, and it appears as water In a large kettle when at a high heat. The water has a temperature of 48 degrees. At an election in Jennings County on the question of building eleven miles of pike, the proposition was carried by 664 malorlty. The pike will be built at once.