Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH. FULLY RECORDED. Aa latoraatux Summary of Um> Moro la. portent Dotes* of Our Natffhbon-Wed. dlnfiudD<*thi—Crimea, Casualties and Ooaoral Now* Notes. Condensed State News. Minor State Mews. Terre Ilaute lias been chosen as the next meeting place ol the Northwest Indiana conference. ~ Jacob Eckman of Itockport, a baggageman, lost a hand while making a coupling at Kockport. The total amount given away to the poor by Indiana township trustees during 18U4 was $686,2*2.27. John Leisure, of Arlington, was kicked to death by horses after being jolted from his seat on a wagon. J' Henry Hale, who has been missing at Goshen, has been found dead in the woods. He committed suicide. Knights town is enjoying an oil boom. Major Doxey of Anderson, is said to have made a rich strike there. ,l 1 H The old Masonic Temple at Logansport was torn down, and several old coins were found in the corner stone. Fort Wayne will celebrate her centennail anniversary, Oct.'ls, 16, 17, and 18, and will celebrate it right. August Rosencranz, a Laporte carpenter, hanged himself. He had been married three times, and leaves two children. John llarillo and Michael Sabo, employed by the Standard Oil Works at Whiting, were suffocated by escaping gas. Terre Haute coal dealers have raised the prices of anthracite 25 cents a ton, and it is expected that they will advance the rate of soft coal. The American Plate Glass Works at Alexandria, the largest plant outsido the trust, has resumed operations with 000 hands. An epidemio of diphtheria is prevailing in Yorktown, and the opening of the public schools has been indcnlinitely postponed. The Home Land and Improvement Company, with a capital stock of $60,000, has been incorporated to build houses at Alexandria for factory employes. The Supremo Court, in an opinion by Judge Ilackncy, held that the statute under which the humane societies of the Ktato kill horses and other animals is invalid. By a surgical operation 14-year-old Blanche Bighant of Laporte, was relioved of a hair-pin that had found lodgment in her body, causing her acute suffering for ten years. A small child of Mr. nnd Mrs. Samuel Bishop, of El.wood, while playing around a tub half tilled with scalding water, tumbled in, and was blistered in a horrible manner. Airs. Fouts, the first female white child born in Wayne county, still lives on the old Fouts farm, live miles from Klchmond. She is eighty-eight years old and in very good health. The City Council of Khvood passed an ordinance compelling the railroad companies to maintain flagmen at all crossings, and limiting speed of trains within tho corporate limits. There has been a fair strike of petroleum near Upland by the Upland Gas and Oil Company. Two wells have been drilled in there within the last week, each yielding übout fifty barrels of high-grade oil daily. Andrew Wallis was run over at Fort Branch while trying to board the midnight E. A T. 11. train. lie had both legs ground to pieces, lie was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital, Evansville, land the legs amputated, death following In two hours. The entire family of Charles S. Krueger, of Michigan City, fattier, mother and live children, now lie buried in the cemetery. The family was poisoned by eating diseased pork, and one after another they succumbed, the last one dying this week.

A curious accident occurred at the Marion fruit jar works. The bottom dropped out of a large tank, spilling and rendering worthless a mass of molten glass weighing 120 tons. It will be necessary for the factory to shut down two weeks for repairs A well-to-do farmer near Eminence,was run over by a wagon and almost instantly killed. lie hauling his winter coal homo, and in going down a hill his hand slipped from the brake, throwing him under the wheels, lie leaves a large |family. A man by the natno of Anderson and two young women were probably fatally Injured in a runaway at Williamstown. The team dashed down a hill, throwing the party out and injuring all three. The horses were ruined and the. vehicle wrecked. Well drillers near Brownsburg drilled through a twenty-foot layer of substanoe resembling India rubber. At a depth of 85 feet they struck a piece of pine timber in good preservation, then came a black deposit resembling very coarse gunpowder, followed by an indigo-blue substance, the water also being blue. A lease war is said to be waging near Yan Buren between the Grant County Gil Company and the Ohio Oil Company. Both companies claim a particular lease, and both have rigged timbers. The firstnamed company took out ten teams to remove the opposition company’s timbers, but were repulsed with shotguns. Patents have been issued to Indianians as follows: James B. Baird, Elwood. tinning machine; John J. Gaynor, Indianapolis, self-binding attachment for reaping machines; George Cross, Plymouth, bicycle frame and finishing; Emsley Harper, Lawrence, earth auger; Francis A. Hedges, Vera Cruz, bundle binder; John Hettierington, Porter, insect powder distributor; Albert H. Kennedy, Rockport, ball bat: Thomas Neisohi, embossing macliine; John E. Routh, Jeffersonville, mall bag carrier; Washington F. Walb, Greencastle, harness. Roscoe Kimble, receiver of the Citizens’ Bank, of Converse, which went to the wall In June, 1898, has declared a dividend of fifteen per cent, to depositors, payable Sept. 21. This will make a total of 82 1-2 per cent, paid thus far, and there are enough assets to pay all claims in fall. The corn crop in Wabash county is now gathered and is one of the largest yields the county has ever known. The grain has ripened without frost, is well developed and is drying so rapidly tha£ it can be cribbed with safety next month. In former years much corn lias been shipped In for feeding purposes, but this year there will be a great deal of corn shipped out. Jeff Hooster, of Kokomo, bet he Could go around the court house square on the tops of the trees, jumping from one to the other like a flying squirrel. The first jump he missed the limb and fell on a sharp-pointed iron picket fence, tearing off a piece of flesh as large as a man’s hand. He will not play flying squirrel again. The millions Of dead fish that have been scooped out of White river above the dam, near Anderson, and either buried or cremated, have left the water in' a very foul condition. The smell is noticeable a .half-mile from the stream. Fever is raging between that city and Moss Island, two miles below, as the result of the stench. Tlje dam is condemned and will have to be torn out, thus freeing the putrid water.