Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THS PAST WEEK. <■ Interesting Seminary of the More Iw portaat Doing* of Oar Neighbor*.. Wed. ding* aad Death*—Crime*. Caaaaltiee and General Newt Notes of the State. Hooeler Happening* Muncie is to have a new people’s bank. Royal Center will spend f 4,000 in Water-works. Forest fires are doing great damage in the vicinity of Rigdon. Anderson milk ‘-men’ have formed a combine and advanced prioes. Milo Thomas’ hardware store at Corunna is in ashes, Loss, 115,000. Ed Wyman's little son was badly hurt in a runaway accident at Franklin. The Commissioners of Jay County Have contracted for a new infirmary building, to cost 117,000. J ames Burris, an old farmer living near Lebanon, was fatally stabbad by Burt Neese, aged 14. James Kessler of Shelby County, is insane over the delusion that some one wants to kill him. Ax unknown tramp was caught by a Vandalia train at Terre Haute and literally tom to pieces. John Jack of Elwood, was probably fatally kicked in the throat by a horse Which he was hitching. Temperance people of Elwood wish to prevent the saloon men from securing a renewal of license when their present license expire. Eva Byers walked from a Monon train in her sleep near Lowell. She fell under the wheels and her left leg was cut off. She will recover.- ,

Near Parker, on the Big Four railroad, the body of an unknown Iman was found. He is believed to have been killed and placed on the track. It was reported that an eighteen-foot boa carried by a circus had escaped in Logansport, and that a reward was offered fared for its capture. Tiikhk will be two murder trials, one of which is the famous Dollic Belknap case, and also a county seat war at Seymour, the coming term of court. John B, Nacre, of Fayette county, Is lying at the point of death from injuries sustained on a barbed wire fence while trying to check n runaway team. The Columbus Stove and Range Company lias decided to locate at Cicero. The capital stock of the company is *25,000, and the plant will give employment to 150 men. The thirteenth annual reunion of the Seventy-fifth and One Hundred and First Indiana Regiments and the Nineteenth Indiana Battery occurs ut Warren Oct. 3 and 4. James Dkvan, an old fanner of Montgomery County, wiio does not believe In banks, was knocked down and robbed of *l2O. Several months ago he was assaulted and robbed of *IOO, % Bijaiilkn Roach, 22 years old, employed by bls father, William Roach, near Huntingburg, while feeding stock, fell through a hole in the mow, striking on his head and dying of ills injuries. Charles Morris, aged 23, a member of a party of hunters from Wilkesville, Ohio, died at Crawfordsville from the effects of a gunshot which he received while engaged in a scutlie over a gun with a companion. The window-glass factories of Elwood, Orestes and Frankton, five in number, not included in the window-glass combine, are making arrangements to start up at full capacity. They will employ about 1,500 men.

K. M. Short, a prominent Grand Army man, met with a serious accident at the car works at Jeffersonville. A boring pin flew from a machine which he was running, striking him on the right arm, almost tearing the member from the body. The Postal Telegraph Company has begun building its lines south from Terre Haute to Evansville and expects to be in operation by the middle of next month. The bong Distance Telephone Company has recently completed its line to the same city. Jacob Reich and his two sons were gored to death by a vicious bull near Wil vale. Mr. Reich was first attacked and trampled to death. Ills sons went to his resejm and were also mangled. The yfiUnger soh "was impaled on the bull’s horns. ® Tub anti-saloon element has been successful in remonstrating against the. saloons in Bloomfield. A majority of petitioners have been secured and the saloons will have to go. The movement has also been successful in Jefferson, Grant, and Jackson Townships. In North and South Dakota, whither hundreds of farm laborers from Indiana flocked in the hope of securing employment in the harvest fields at $2 per day and board, the supply of hands far exceeds the demand, and around Fargo alone a thousand or more men are homeless. Thieves entered the room of Harry Mason, ticket agent of the Big Four railroad at Greensburg, secured a gold watch, $7 in money from his pockets, and the key to the safe in the railroad office, and then went to the depot, half a block away, entered the office througli the ladies’ reception-room, unlocked the safe and stole SB7.

Mbs. Mary Richey’s son and daughter, aged 2X years, were drowned in a, small stream three miles southwest of Sootsburg. The heavy rain caused the stream in that neighborhood to become swollen and the children wandered to the stream and are supposed to have been playing in the water and fallen in. Their bodies were recovered. Engineer Patrick Shea and Fireman Charles Larimore, while their engine was pulling a heavy freight train near Monroeville, suddenly saw a red light loom up ahead. There was a fog, which prevented clear vision, and Shea shut off, and he and his fireman jumped. Both men were severely injured. The red light proved to belong to a train which they were slowly following. Lemuel Warner of Burlington, found his daughter at Pera in company with Charles Adams, a street faker, whom she claims to have married. The couple failed to sliow the marriage license, and the father is convinced his daughter has been deceived. She softened when told that her mother was dying, and returned home. James Delaney of Converse, filed suit for SIO,OOO damages against the Peerless Glass Works and William Feighndr. In 1894 Delaney was arrested on charge of setting fire to the glass works at Converse, but after being held ten days was dismissed, and now charges false imprisonment. A horse-thief, who secured a fine animal belonging to Joseph McDowell, living near Logansport, and a buggy owned by George Bingaman in the same neighborhood, was traced to Monticello, where a detective was placed on the trail. A large barn, the properly of ex-Sen-ator William Kennedy, who resides in D aviess County, some two. miles west of Loogootee, was burned. Four valuable horses were burned. The barn was one pt the finest iu the county. It was filled with grain,, hay, farming implements and Machinery. Loss, $3,500; insurance, $700., Origin of fire unknown, but supposed to have caught by spontaneous combustion from decomposing clover hay imperfectly cured.