Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1895 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

rTEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEOa lateresttng Summary of the If or* Important Doing* of Oar Neighbor*—Wdd. ling* mad Death*—Crime*, Caaualtle*, knd General Indiana hew* Note*. Minor State Now*. Typhoid fever ts on the increase at Richmond. Ax unknown man was literally ground to pieces by a Vandalia train, at Terre Haste. Whitk River in Madison County is little better than a stagnant pool, so intense is the drouth. An unknown tramp was caught by a VaSdalia train at Terre Haute and literally tom to pieoes. John Tsham and John Moore were fatally burned by a gas explosion in the coal mines near Chandler. Qvinoy Smalky, a farm hand near Union City, was kioked in the stomach by a mule, dying instantly. A nov at Crawfordsville bought a horse for 5 cents at a sale and sold the animal to the rendering factory for 85 cents. Sidney Cook, an employe of the Lebanon furniture factory, was probably fatally injured by being drawn into the machinery. Chas. Kiskb, a farmer near Lebanon, fatally shot his wife, reoently. She had gono into the yard, and he thought she was a dog. James Leer of Elwood, while shooting W pigeons, firod toward August Munohenberper’s house, seriously injuring him and his daughter. The Wabash County Township Trustees have decided that they will not obey the new law in having reports of thoir official transactions published. Suit has been instituted against them. One week ago the 8- year-old daughter of Policeman W. Goery of Decatur, was burned to death. A week later tier twin brother fell from a tree, breaking botli logs and his back, and will die. A niCYCi.nU was ran down by a passenger train on the Lake Shore, near Swanton, and his body was torn to pieces. A fragment of an envelope In his possession bore the addce.ss of Charles Ware of Toledo, Ohio. Tiie slxtti unnual reunion of the 801 l family was hold at the Morris Springs, one mile southeast of Dublin. A largo number ol descendants of the family were present. A bountiful dlnnor was spread and the program included reading of papers, reoitations, singing, lottors from absent ones, speeches, exhibition of relics, etc.

The mangled body of Robert Leonard, of White Pigeon, Mich., was found by the side of the railroad track near Richmond, where he had been struck by a train, fie was hj charge of a carload of horses enroute from Now Castle to the Kendallvlllo races. How the nocldout occurred is not known. A non fire tliroo miles south of Andes son that has been burning for threo months past has now assumed alarming proportions. Tiie ground for two feet is red hot and tiie lire is slowly spreading In all directions. It has already reached high laud in several places and is firing the withered grass, fences, and all elso In its track. W atkh is being hauled from the water works in Terre Ilauto to Paris, Charleston, and Mattoon, HI., and to the mining town of Fontanet, Ind., on aocount of the soarcity of the supply in those places. The Big Four shops at Mattoon were stopped until watorwas received from here. About thirty tanks of wutcr are sent from here to the several places every day. Many building associations have failed to make their reports to the State Auditor, as required by law, and this official is now sending otft copies of tjio law bearing on the question, with the Information that longer delay will subject the delinquent associations to a flno of SIOO. A failure to. file a report of the condition of the association also calls for an enforced examination under the direction of the Auditor. Farmers in Northern Indiana are trying to solve the disease which causes their cattle to go stone blind in both eyes in a seconds time. Tiie dls ease was first discovered among David Stewart’s herd of oattle, consisting of ninety head of fineblooded short-horns. Veterinary surgeons believe it is caused by some new Insect. It is estimated that SIO,OOO worth of oattle have been ruined in the past ten days. Joki, Kehheing, an insane prisoner at the oounty jail at Logansport, was found suspended In hiß cell, having hung himself with a rope formed of the sheet from his bed. He was found in a short time after he swung off and, with some trouble, was revived. He at onoe attempted to repeat the painful experiment, saying “Christ calls me, and 1 must go to Him.” Ho has been placed in the Northern Insane Hospital. Some workmen in a gravel bank, near the Elkhom mills, Richmond, found a huge skeleton of a man. A half of one of the Jaws was found, with the teeth preserved. The Jaw was sufficiently large to fit over the outside of the Jaw, flesh and all, of a man of ordinary size, indicating that the original possessor of the skeleton was a man of great physical mold. It is expected that all the parts will be found upon further search. A scaffold in the new Stranss Block at Seymour, gave way. Mayor Joseph Balsley, the architect of the building; John Humes, a member of the Arm ereotlng the building; Henry Barkman and Andy Heyob, carpenters, fell to the floor bdlow, a distance of eighteen feet. Mayor Balsley sustained a fracture of the right leg and is suffering with concussion of the spine. Ho is hi a critical condition. John Humes’ right ankle was fractured, and he is also suffering with concussion of the spine. In the desoent A.ndy Heyob’s head struck the wall and a large part of the hair was tom off, laying the scalp bare. He Is suffering pain. Henry Barkman is badly braised, but the extent of the injuries which he sustained &innot bo learned. All are suffering with concussion of the spine. Mr. and Mits. Charles Hitebman, a well-known aged couple of Elkhart, have been singularly unfortunate with their children. Seventeen years ago their son John was burned to death. In 1888, while returning from a dance, Edward jumped from a train at a crossing and was so badly injured that he died in a few hours later. In 1889 William was killed in a runaway, and in 1881 Geprge was blown into the tops of some trees by the explosion of a rotator in the combination hoard mill there being confined to his bed for a year and rendered a cripple for life. The other day Asa, the remaining son, fell forty feet from a tree and cannot live. At Mt. Jackson, across the river from Indianapolis some boys shot and killed a carrier pigeon which was resting in a tree. On one leg of tiie bird was found an aluminum tag bearing the characters “12 C. H. W.95.’’ It is thought that the bird is possibly one that was released at Calais, Franoe. W. L. Teisiier committed suicide at Demott by climbing into an apple tree and swinging himself into space. Teisher executed a will by the provisions of which his wife, with whom he had lived for upward of a quarter of a century, is placed under the protection of John L. Perry, a bachelor farmer and life-long friend of Teisher, the latter expressing the hope that their marriage will prove the sequel