Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — HOOSIER HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Onr Neighbor* are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriage* and Death*—Accident* and Crime*—Per* •anal Pointers A boat Indian lan*. Minor State Hew*. ' A telephone rate war is on at Frankfort. Mishawaka is to have a new Christian phurch. John Hide of Staunton, was killed by a Vamlalia train. JonN Steven’s barn, near Martinsville, was destroyed by lightning. Milo Thomas’ hardware store at Corunna is in ashes. Loss, $15,000. ■_ Bf.n Lapidus roblied four clothing stores in daylight at Madison, and nearly escaped. Madison County is infested with robbers.' Supposed to have headquarters near Elwood. The twenty-first anniversary of the old settlers and tho soldiers reutiion will bo held at Quincy, Aug. 8. A it Aun belonging to Frank Owens, seven miles west of Monticello, was struck by lighting and destroyed. The old settlers of Eaglestown will hold their twenty-fifth annual meeting in the grovo near that place on Aug. 10. At a picnic at Monroe City, recently, a colored woman 111 years of age was given the prize for being the oldest person on the grounds.

Every business house In Brazil closed its doors during the funeral of County Clerk Wherle, who was accidentally shot by lion. G. A. Knight. Frank K. Hall, of the Standard oil company, was murdered at Whiting, and Ills boily placed on the B. AO. tracks. He was robbed of his watch and S6OO in cash. Wm. M. Davis, near Franklin, swallowed oarbolie acid for cough medicine and will die. His brother, who made the mistake by bunding him tho acid, Is crazed with grief. Death came in a peculiar manner to David Troyer of Fern. He was sitting on the porch at his home, and his nephew, lllram, was trying a revolver In a shed. The weapon was tired and the hall passed through tho boards and entired Mr. Troyer’s head. VWili.ik Hoover, 7-yonr-old-son of A. A\ Hoover, principal of the Ohio side schools at Union City, mot with a painful acoldont recently. While playing around Snooks’ tile factory he, In some manner, got caught in the ten-foot fly-wheel, cutting several large gashes in Ills head. The contract of the Amazon Iloslory Company will expire at the Northern Prison December 1, and the board has been informed that the company will make other arrangements. This will throw about 2bo men out of work. Secretary Illcknell, of the Board of State Charities, believes that the only remedy lies with tho Legislature. The next General Assembly, hu thinks, will lie compelled to solve the problem of furnishing employment to the prisoners.

Fihk at Tyrone, destroyed tho general store, sitlnon, billiard hall and liquor storage house of .Fames Gee, also two dwellings and an icehouse. Loss, $25,000. The whisky was stored In barrels In the second story and James Gee took the bungs out of two barrels and lighted a mutch to inspect them. They exploded and caused the fire. Mr. Gee is so badly burned as to render his recovery uncertain. John Berry, his clerk, was soriously but not fatally burned In rescuing Mr. Gree. Patents bavo been granted to Indiana Inventors as follows: Ellas C. Atkins, Indianapolis, and N. 11. Roberts, Pasadena, Cal., rotary plow; John T. and 8. W. Collins, Kokomo, bank cutter and seeder; John it. Ettcr, Crawfordsvllle, electro-medical apparatus; Sebastian C. Guthrie, Evansville, dispensing case or cabinet; Anton Hulman, Terre Haute, shutter fastener; James J. Keyes, Peru, haskot; Britton l’oulson, Fort Wayne, road grader; Rudolph 11. Itipking, Aurora, extension table. The estimates of State Statistleian Thompson as to tho wheat crop in Indiana are that Ills ante-harvest figure of 20,000,000 bushels was not far from right. He thinks that one-fourth the crop will be required for seed, and one-half consumption, which will leave only 6,000,000 bushols for sale, us compared to 85,000,000 bushels last year. Fred P. Rush, authority on tho wheat crop, says the yield In the State Is not more than 18,000,000 busheis, or about 40 per cent, of the aycrage crop. He says the wheat, will grade2o percent. A dozen or Hiorc old soldiers of Clinton County are making arrangements to attend the dedicatory ceremonies on the Chlekamauga battlefield, to be held Sept. 19 and and 20. They propose to travel the entire distance with team and covered wagons and will start on their Journey the first day of August, taking their time to it, hunting and fishing on the way and. having a good time generally. Their outfit will be elaborately painted in the colors of “Old Glory,” with the names of the companies and regiments in which each of the party served during the war, printed where it can be conveniently read by comrades on the way.

Nearly every day the Governor and other state officers are besieged by convicts returned to Indianapolis for release under the new law, and there are many pitiful scenes as Undischarged men beg for food and clothing, so that they may go out in the world anil make their own living. Frequently they are sent home still wearing the prison shirt with the prison number stamped on it and the poorest and shabbiest clothing, and under such circumstances they find every door closed against them. When released they are not provided with money, and this adds to the forlornness of the situation. The more the operations of the new law are noted the more generally is it condemned a 3 an utterly heartless and a most wretched enactment. Its effect will be to drive men back into crime. David Oaten, a well-known farmer residing north of Thomtown, dropped dead at dinner, in O’Rcar’s restaurant. His dinner had Just been placed before him, when he was noticed to lean suddenly forward and when assistance reached him he was beyond the power of medical skill. The deceased was a'ed 48, years and was unmarried. This death takes another member from a family whose history is closely interwoven with that of Boone and Montgomery counties. Zachatiah Gapen, the father of the deceased, was one of the pioneer settlers of Montgomery County. Later, with his faniily, he removed to Thomtown. The farmers at Madison County are considering ways to combat a new pest in the shape of wild lettuce, which is rapidly overrunning fields and farm lands, and is spreading at an astonishing rate, In places it threatens to crowd out growing crops in a year or twp, and is far worse than the famous Canada thistle. It i$ hard to kill, as cutting it off does not destroy it. It then sends out several sprouts from the roots and is worse than ever. It reaches maturity soon and its seed ripeni rapidly and the stock will cure up eveu i t it is cut green. They are so light and airy that ine wind easily scatters them over lafge arfeas and but little progress is made in killing it off. An organized effort is to be made by the farmers to got rid of it if possible.