Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — NEWS OF OUR STATE. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OUR STATE.

A WEEK AMONG THE HUSTLING HOOSIERS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriagte and Death* Accident* sad Crimea— Pointers About Oar Own People. Minor State Raws. The Pulaski county jail has been condemned and ordered torn down. Milo Thomas’ hardware store at Corunna is in ashes. Loss, $15,000. Vincennes band has changed its name to the “Electric Street Railway Band.” Nickel-Plate passenger trains are frequently stoned in the vicinity of Edgerton. Quincy Nkhrvner and James Hoffman were killed, by a boiler explosion at Warsaw. A farmer near Goshen sold ninety fine watermelons for $2. Melons are cheap as dirt in Indiana. An unknown tramp was caught by a Vandalia train at Terre Haute and literally tom to pieces. Lapel citizens are forming a stock company to own a bank and are erecting a line building for that purpose. William Tooley was perhaps fatally hurt at Columbus, being buried in a cave while working in a city ditch. Samuel Norman, aged 25 years, was drowned near Morgantown while crossing a swollen stream to care for some stock. Mrs. Johanna Burgkrt of Terre Haute, was fatally injured by stepping off an electric oar while it was still in motion. A plant for the manufacture of icemaking machinery is to be located at Elwood, and will employ 150 hands, all skilled machinists. At Anderson, while practicing ladder movements, Nozzleman Frank Myers fell from the first extension to the ground, twenty feet below. There is no hope of his recovery. J. C. Beatty of Logansport, fell from a residence on which he was working and was badly hurt. Shortly after his removal home Mrs. Beatty fell down a stairway, breaking her thigh. A party of six young men of Elwood, headed by Robert Frost, John Minor, and his brother Charles, are preparing to leave for South America to take charge of a mining and exploring party. Arthur Sapp, an employe of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass works at Elwood, got his right arm caught In the polishing benches and it was crushed to a pulp, necessitating amputation. John Davis, aged 17, went down a well on A. W. Huron’s farm, near Plainsfleld to rescue Lon Crone, who had been overcome by firedamp. Crone was gotton out, but his rescuer lost his life. William Worley, one of a party of hunters from Logansport, shot himself while making his way along the bank of the Wabash River, Death resulted Instantly. Worley was 23 years old, and single. At Elwood Miss Lillie Douglass, frightened during a storm, attempted to shut a glass door. She ran her arm through the glass, severing the radial artery, two tendons and a nene cord, and came near bleeding to death. /J Meal Sloan, fireman on* |he Monon, was killed in tljo rqundhotiso, at New Albany. He was odttpling two and caught across the abdopiep fihd crushed, parents- reside in the town of Marengo, , # During the reunion of the Thirtieth Indiana Regimental Association at Fort Wayne, a costly drum was presented to Prof. W. 11. Mershon of North Manchester, known as the “Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” and who is now said to be the acknowledged champion drummer of Indiana. ,

Bv the bursting of a cylinder of a hydraulic cider mill, William Wagler, of the firm of Wagler <t Tumpaugh, at Logansport, was perhaps fatally injured. Too much pressure was applied and the cylinder flew to pieces. Heavy fragments struck Mr. Wragler in the chest and head, and his life is despaired of. The American Tin - plate Company, which is operating the largest tin-plate plant in the world at Elwood, is arranging to add a big steel mil! to its plant, which will manufacture all kinds of steel supplld? find employ abdut BQO bands, when the twenty-one mills of the tin-plate plant all are-completed and in operation that will require 2,000 men, making 2,800 in all which this immense Industry Will employ In a few more months. ~*■ w* Opponents to the saloon in Franklin are rejoicing over their first victory under the Nicholson law. Two saloon keepershad given notice that they would apply tor license, for the ensuing year, at the meeting of the County Commissioners. These saloons wore both located in the First ward of the city. Remonstrances were circulated and 280 out of of 280 voters in that ward signed the papers. The overwhelming majority caused the Saloon keepers to make no application, and they will quite the business. One of them will open a grocery store and the other will continue in the ice and restaurant business. Of the seven saloons in the city, six, are located in the First ward, so it will be but a short time until the saloon will not be known in that place. Patents have been granted to the following Indiana inventors: John R. Alexander, New Albany, electrical burglar alarm; Cyrus N. Baker, Crawfordsville, planter; George M. Barney, assignor of one-half to J. L. Clough, Indianapolis, for four patents on door-knob lock; Joseph A. Brunner, Fort Wayne, actuating mechanism; James W. Fishback, Goldsmith, well or post auger; Charles W. Gresham, Fredericksburg, wheel-handling device; Frances M. Hoover, Brookville, assigned to L. Kinsey and L. E. Ward, Milton, saw guard; Thomas P. Kenney, Hartford City, glass melting tank; David Shulters, Greenwood, device for lifting invalids; George Hymans, Sheridan, device for separating liquid from gas; Lewis P. Van Breggle, Groomsville, apchor for fence posts. At Union City, the 2-year-old child of Mrs. Stella Guard met with a serious accident. In some manner the baby secured a box of matches, and while playing with them they ignited, burning nearly all its clothing off, and the front part of its body into a crisp. It is thought that death will result. The supreme court has declared the law passed by the last legislature changing s he time of electing County Superintendents to be unconstitutional. Had the law not been knocked out, seventy-six Republican superintendents would have been elected Sept. 1, instead of Demoorats, who now hold the offices for two years longer. The Chase memorial fund, of which Capt. A. M. Atkinson of Wabash, is trustee, has reached the two-thousand-dol-lar mark, and subscriptions are coming in. Capt. Atkinson states that Mrs. Chase has decided to remove from Irvington to Wabash to reside permanently, and a suitable dwelling will be erected or purchased this fall for her. The creeks of the northwestern part of Grant County are very generally said to have dried up, and parties from that locality state that much of the waste oil from the numerous wells in that part of the has found its way to the creek beds and fa flowing through them. Fears are felt by farmers along the creeks that the oil will ignite and dp serious damage to property.