Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAa InUtrwtlag San mar 7 of the Mara lau portaot Doing* of Our Neighbor*—Wed. Slag* and Doatlu—Crime*. Caaoaltte*, uxd General Indiana Newt Notts* Minor Btate Newts Milo Thomas’ hardware store at Corunna is in ashes. Loss, $15,000. A Wabash milling firm bought 75,000 feet of first-class growing timber within the city limits of Wabash. Only one order for the relief of’flifir has been issued in Cass township, Clay etfhhty, during the last five years. The Shepard Canning Works, of Anderson, which burned, is preparing to rebuild the plant at an expense of $7,0 (5). Patrick Padokx, of Orestes, who was crushed almost to death by a sewer caving in on him a year ago, is now violently insane. Rev. G. P. Frsox has resigned his pastorate of the Baptist Church at Crawfordsville, where he has been for eight years. Fa rmebs of Madison County believe that the corn crop will rot be half what was expected a few days ago, owing to the Intense heat. Henry Slaoi.E, a boy about 16 years old, was run down by a Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City through freight train near Decatur and almost instantly killed. Samuel Clinton, North Clinton, is dead from burns received while fighting a fire in his wheat flotd. He worked so hard thathe became exhausted and fell into tho fire. Thebe are thirty-five eases of typhoid fever at Richmond, hut no deatlis havo occurred. Tlie trouble is said to be due to impuro water used by the dairymen for their cattle. Louis Brooks, one of the best-known young men in Goshen, was run over by a Baltimore & Ohio express at Lake Wawaseo and instantly killed, his head being severed from the body. Thomas Null, aged 60, an Inmate of the Soldiers’ Home, at Marion, was struck by an eleotric oar and reoeivod fatal injuries; his skull and right leg wore crushed. Null was intoxicated and fell uuder the wheels of a passing oar. The 8-year-old daughter of Robert Early, threo miles south of Wabash, fell from a seoond story window and received injuries wliloh the doctor fears will prove fatal. The child was restored to consciousness, but her condition is critical.

Tint Twenty-fifth Annual Reunion of Old Settlers of Hamilton County met at Kagletown. Twelve or fifteen thousand people wore present. Prizes were awarded to the oldest man, ninety years, and tho Oldest woman, eighty-seven years. The Indiana State Board of Charities has announoed a program for the Fourth Annual Indiana Conference of Charities, to be held at Fort Wayne, September 15 to 17. Circulars iiave been sent to ail the Township Trustees calling their attention to the meeting, and requesting their attendance. •lenso Smith, a well-known farmer of Monroe "County, met with a terrible death. He and .lames Douglass were running a traction engine, when it got out of order, and Smitli crawled under tlie machine to repair it. Tim ponderous machine starusd backward and tho’rosr wheels cut his body in two. He died In a sow hours in terrible agony. Bukhman Noble, an employe of tho American tin-plate works, at Elwood, while at work met with a bad acoldent. A sheet of wet tin dropped into the both of aoid flux and melted tin, causing the mixture to explode and fly all over his head and chest, burning him in a terrible manner. He will recover, but will be scarred for life. An epidemic of glandorsis raging among the horses of Perry Township, Clay County, although every effort is being made to atop it. Tlie State Vetorinary Board, aooompanlod by Drs. Nusselland Fate of Brazil, wont to the scene and saw about thirty-live horses suffering from the disease. The board ordered four of the animals shot and the rest quarantined. . The premium list for the forty-fourth annual State Fair has been issued. The exhibit will be held during the week beginning Monday, Sept. 16. The Board of Agriculture lias set apart Tuesday as Old Soldiers’and Childrens’day, when school children and veterans will be' admitted free. Wednesday will be music day, and Thursday will be known as Indiana day. Patents have been granted to Indlanians os follows: Jasper L. Ackerman, Motion, measuring device; Stephen G. Baldwin, Marion, Ink well; Charles A. Bertsch, Cambridge City, metal-shearing machine; John R. Garfield, assignor of one-half to A. N. Wilson, Indianapolis, shaft support for vehicles; William L. Cassaday, South Bend, Wheeler gang plow; Andrew Krleger, Indianapolis, detachable tooth saw; John Salary, South Bend, axle skein; Joseph S. Urban, assignor of two-thirds to A. P. McKee and W. E. Jones, Anderson, fan attachment for rocking chairs. At the request of Vlcomta R. de Comely, director of the foreign department of the Mexioan International Exposition, which will open in April 2, 1896, and continue for six months,Governor Matthews has made-the following appointments of.eommlssioners to represent this State: James Studebaker, George Ford and Benjamin Birdsell, South Bend; John H. Bass, Fort Wayne; Ralph H. Horaengray, Muncie; John J. Cooper and Volney T. Malott, Indianapolis; James H. Willard, Bedford;JFrancls J. Reitz and Benjamin Vonhehren.Evansullle; John F. Beggs and G. W. Bement, Terre Haute; George Pence, Columbus; Walter Evans, Noblesville; Benjamin Starr, Richmond. These men, are, for the most part, manufacturers, who intend to make exhibits at the exposition, and would probably attend anyway. This makes twenty-two States that have appointed commissioners to this exposition.

Tiie new gas well drilled near Swaysee by the Wabaßh Fuel Company, is one of the strongest in the State, its dally flow as measured being 4,000,000 feet. So powerful is the gas pressure that five hundred feet of easing was forced out of the hole and it was with the greatest difficulty the well copld be anchored. Arrangements are being made to have a battalion of two hundred veterans go from CraWfordsville to Louisville on Sept. 10 to the G. A. R. National Encampment. They will go via Indianapolis and will be In command of Gen. Lew Wallace. Their banner will be inscribed: “Lew Wallace Veteran Battalion, Indiana.” Work has been resumed at the W. R'. McCloy lamp ohimney plant, at Elwood, with three hundred men. The Moßeth lamp ohimney plant will resume with 760 men, Aug. 26. The other glass industries > will resume operations in a few days. A few days agp Benjamin Lannlek and a boy about fourteen years old living with him by the name of Hairis, drove to Richmond in a spring wagon. On their return when near Centerville one side of the shaft dropped down which caused the horse to spring forward, throwing both out. The horse began to kick and broke the boy’s leg below the knee. Mr. Lannick was stunned by the fall and was unoonseioos. In this condition they were found % half hour afterward ,