Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH. FULLY RECORDED * As latorwtiac Bam itimry of the Mar* In. portent Dotes* of Onr Neiffhben-Wed. dings and DmtU-Criioat, Casualties and General News Notes. t ~~~~~~~~~ Condensed State News. Goshen is to have another bicycle factory. Columbus is, entertaining a diptheria epidemic. Richmond schools have an enrollment ot 2,602 pupils. Goshen is to be enlarged by the annexation of West Goshen. Wm. Jackson, aged Muncie citizen, was stricken with paralysis. The postoffloe at Silver Grove, Floyd connty, has been discontinued. Charlestown has had a house to house census taken and has 1,016 inhabitants.

Hamilton township, Sullivan county, voted to build'2s miles of gravel roads. Millie Daily was struck by a passenger train at Wilkinson, and fatally Injured. Frances, the daughter of Dick Goodwin of New Castle, was injured in a runaway. The Bedford fair had to be postponed on account of the prevalence of diphtheria there. Leading Anderson citizens are trying to secure the famous Culver locomotive works. A second national bank has been organized at Crown Point, with $60,000 capital. “White caps” burned a toll house near Connersvile because they were opposed to Its business. I Arrangements are being made for the relocation of the American starch factory at Columbus. At Kokomo, where diphtheria is raging, the antitoxine remedy is being resorted to by the physicians. The enrollment of students at Earlham College has reached 103. The seniors number forty-three. • Amlcrson officers are still searching for the men who tried to kidnap the Holton children the other day. Brazil home talent has organized a dramatic company. Their first play will bo “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Anderson is to have a market building 100x200 feet In dimensions, with a twostory annex 50x100 feet. Chas. W. Martin, mail clerk on the T. H.&W., jumped from his oar, fearing a wreck, and was fatally injured. The eight window glass factories of Elwood. Orestes, Alexandria, and Kranktou haver all resumed operation with full force. A 2-year-ol<l child of Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Keese, who resido near Brooklyn, Ind., was drowned In a large jar of water. Guy Stolter, an 11-year-old boy, was fatally Injured at Frankfort recently. He climbed an apple tree and fell out, alighting on his hcad. T. .1. Yount, a Wabash veteran, has gone insane. Ho Imagines that DepartmentCommandor Shively is trying to deprive him of his pension. C. C. McMorrls of Hall, Morgan county, lost his residence by fire. The family barely escaped In the night with their clothing. Insurance, S4OO.

Elsworth DoWltt’s wife ami two children were thrown out of a buggy at North Salem. The younger child was killed and the mother seriously injured. A $40,000 lire occurred at Logansport. It began in It. F. Kerstrlng’s drug store and spread to John Dewenter’s furnishing store and B. Schnadlg’s dry goods house. The corner-stone of the now Court-house at Rochester has been laid. An oration was delivered by the Hon. B. I. Shively, of South Bend. The new structure Is to cost SIOO,OOO. Hiram Dowles, a farmer living near Orestes, found a couple of mill sacks full of silverware bidden In a cum shock in his cornfield. Where it came from or who put It there Is a mystery. ’ The water from u flowing well at the works of the National Tin Plate Company, at Anderson, kills all desire for strong drink. It Ims taken nearly 200 customers away from the saloons already. In Uunnines of Clinton a lamp fell from the cap of James Richards, a miner, igniting a 25-pound keg of powder. Richards was frightfully burned. Florence Whltted, another miner, was also badly burned. The last school census at Elwood shows a school population of 2,800. Four schoolhouses are crowded, and another ten-thou-sand-dollarjbuilding is to be ereoted this fall. Thirty-two teachers are employed. The rumored closing of all tho tin-plate factories In the country for an indeflnate time as soon as the supply of billets on hand is exhausted Is untrue so far as the American tlh plate plant at Elwood is concerned. The second annual reunion of ttie twen-ty-fourth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, will be held at Orloans on Oct. 8. 8 and 10. An invitation is extended to all old soldiers and especially members of the Twentytourth. W. Johnson, aged 26, of Winchester, sent his wife and baby home from Muneie, on a passenger train. He was to follow on a freight to save fare. In mounting the train he fell under the wheels and lost both legs. * ODollie Belknap, aged 18, who poisoned her foster parents, Fleming Sarver and wife, at Seymour, had her trial recently. She pleaded not guilty. Jury returned a verdict of manslaughter and sentenced her to the Reform School until she is 21.

Daniel M. Weaver, a prominent and wealthy resident of Kokomo, was probably fatally hurt recently. lie accompanied his daughter to the train, helping her aboard the cars. The train started before he got off and in attempting to alight he was thrown under the trucks. The steps of the car also struck him. Several bones were broken. The daughter went on her journey, knowing nothing of the accident. Braham Shideler, commissioner of Cass County, was badly injured by a bull. The animal was dehorned and the injuries may not prove fatal. Shlldeler’s collar bone and shoulder blade on the right side were broken, and internal injuries resulted Shideler is 65 years old. Hehry Shaffer, employed on a farm neat Milroy, attempted to climb into a high wagon bed, stepping behind the team and on the doubletree. As he did so, the horses started to run, and before he could get into the bed the team ran against a tree, catching the unfortunate driver and managling him in a horrible manner, killing him instantly. Wilson and Dunsmore, the men who were engaged in a prize-fight near Mount Olive Church, in Brown County, have escaped from the jail in Nashville, where they were taken a few days ago from Frankfort, after their arrest. The Sheriff put them to scrubbing the floors, and, while he was not looking, they threw down the mops and escaped. Thomas Barrett, a young married man, teased Vanßuren Vance, aged 70, who was selling medicine at Muncie. Vance started after Barrett with a knife, but Barrett knocked him down with a chair. Vance then offered to shake hands, and, while clutching Barrett’s hand, he plunged a knife into his breast. Barrett is in a critical condition. Vance was jailed.