Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH* FULLY RECORDED. An Interesting Summary of tho Moro la. portaat Doings of Onr Neighbors-Wad. dings and Doaths—Crimea, mono trim and Gonoral Nows NotesCondensed State News. Goshen people are about to secure a boiler manufactory in their city. White cap notices are being served on many persons in Daviess County. Grant County now claims to have three of the largest oil wells in the State. The business portion of Kent, near Madison, was wiped out by flames. Peter Wbbek was fatally burned by a gas explosion at an Anderson glass factory. Wakarusa is jubilant over tire prospect of getting a buggy and wagon factory. Walter Wilkins, 15, was thrown from a colt near Shelbyville, and fatally injured. Earl Foreman was instantly killed at Goshen, by falling in front of a wagon loaded with stone. A 10-veab-oi.d boy at South Bend exploded a cartridge witii a stone. He only has one hand now. Chas. Burger, aged 18, fell into a chute in the sewer pipe works at Brazil and was smothered to death. Wm. Douglass, aged 21, committed suicide witii laudanum under the floor of the dining hall at the Wabash fairgrounds. Three prisoners in the Madison jail escaped by sawing out several iron bars in a window and lowering themselves to the jail yard. A team driven by John Defard and Joseph Baum, of Frankfort, was struck by a passenger train. Baum's injuries may prove fatal. All fruit growers agree that southern Indiana’s apple crop, tills season, will be the heaviest and the best that has been raised fpr many years., Nay & Adams’s sawmill, together with a large amount of lumber and logs were burned at Max, eight miles west of Lebanon. Loss, $5,000; no insurance. The City Council of West Indianapolis unanimously passed a resolution offering a reward of SSOO for any information loading to arrest of the murderer of little Ida Gebhardt. William Eckehman, the 19-yoar-old son of Louis Kckerman, of Torre Haute, has been missing for several months, and from information received It is believed Ire was drowned in Lake Michigan, while working on a Chicago boat. John Dunn, employed at the, Kenneth quarries, took a walk on the Panhandle track, and while in the act of stopping to light u pipe was struck by Hie Chicage express and instantly killed. Dunn was 45 years old. The accident occurred near Kenndth station, four miles from Logansport. ... While fishing with a seining party, oil River south of Williamsport, WllliaitrKqefor fell from a boat and was drowned. It Is supposed he became entangled in the seine, as the young man did not rise after sinking. No help could ba rendered him. He was a respected young farmer living near Williamsport. Charles Lucas, foreman of the engine crew at the now Monon shops, Lafayette, was killed recently. He was setting the brake on a gravel car, and the stem broke, throwing him between the oars. His right arm was severed above theolbow, and the top of his head was cut off above the eyes. Mr. Lucas was a brother-in-law of W. H. McDel, General Manager of the road. The remains were sent to his home at State Line, Ind., for burial.

Daniel Brittenham, a farmer, living two miles south of Windfall, was seriously If not fatally Injured by having his arm caught in the wheels of a threshing machine. He was working near the wheels, when his shirt sleeve caught in the cogs of the wheels near his elbow. He made a de»i>erate effort to rid hhnslef himself by tearing away from the sleeve, but the material was too strong, and his arm was drawn into the cogs, catching near the elbow of the left arm to the wrist, grinding the flesh on one side of the arm to a pulp to the bone. In trying to extricate himself he threw his hand further into the machinery, cutting off the palm of the hand and throe fingers. A. D. Hensler and other farmers of Liberty Township, Howard County, were made the victims of tire old tin box swindle last week. A man giving his name as Joijn Schmidt, a horse buyer, went to Hensler several days ago, engaged boarding and Mr. Hensler’s assistance in buying horses, they purchasing a large number of animals, some being paid for and some not. Schmidt brought with him a small tin box which he said contained $2,000 in cash, which he kept at the Hensler home while buying and shipping. The other day Schmidt mysteriously disappeared and has not since been heard of. The defrauded farmers took the tin box to Kokomo, expecting to be made whole out of the $2,000 it was supposed to contain, but when Sheriff Sumption cut it open with a hatchet there was revealed to sight two ordinary clay bricks, nothing more. One of the boldest robberies ever perpetrated in that section of the country occurred the other nignt within a stone’s throw of the city limits of Union City. The residence of David Potter, Just north-west of the city limits, was the scene. Mr. Potter was aroused about 2 o’clock by a loud crash. He jumped from his bed and was confronted by four men with red handkerchiefs over their faces. Mr. Potter was seized and bound, and his wife and son were similarly treated. Mr. Potter had taken a large quantity of wheat to town the day before, aqd it is supposed the robbers entered for the purpose of getting the money he received. However, they found nothing but a certificate of deposit from one of the banks. The robbers left with but a small sum and a gold watch. Mr. Potter was bound with wire and his flesh was cruelly cut. The marauders came in buggies and left in that way. The doors were burst in with fence rails.

Commodore McCa.mmon, aged 41, was struck by a south-bound freight train on the Pennsylvania road and instantly killed. The accident occurred at Speed’s Station, eight miles north of Jeffersonville. McCammon leaves a wife and three children in destitute circumstances. Theodore Brizendine was driving from, a neighbor’s to his home in Eden, when his wife and four-months-old baby were in some way thrown from the buggy. The wife’s neck was broken and she died instantly, and the baby was so badly injured that it is throaght it will die. The tragedy is supposed to have been caused by reckless driving by Brizendine. Joseph Arbuckle, a mail carrier between Ord Springs and Deputy, was engaged in a riming race, a few miles east of Crothersville, when his horse stumbled, throwing him to the ground. Before he had time to get up he was trampled under the hoofs of one of his associates horses. He was carred to his home, where he died. Victor H. Smith, aged 17, who lives with his brother, seven miles northeast of Seymour, was killed. He was hauling a large load of feur-foot wood to the brickyard, near the city. On the way he struck a slough. The front wheels burled themselves and the wood tumbled forward, knocking Smith from the wagon. When found the front of the wagon was standing on his breast and life was extinct.