Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — HUSTLING BOOSTERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING BOOSTERS.

ITEMS GATHERED FROM OVER - THE STATEXn Interesting Mammary of the Hare Ins. portent Doings of Oar Neighbors—TVed. dings end Deaths—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. Returns to Hia Family After Thirty* Three Yeara Absence. ’ Thirty-three years ago Aaron Swain ot Kokomo, went to California, leaving behind a wife and infant daughter, promising to return from the gold fields with a fortune. Twenty years rolled by. and, no tidings of the absent husband coming to the ears of the family, Mrs. Swain married again and is rearing a second family. The infant daughter deserted by Swain was married to George Conner eighteen years ago, and she now has children grown. The other day Swain, after a third of a century’s absence, reappeared on the scene, calling first at the home of his daughter, the wife of his youth being now the wife of a prosperous farmer in Ilcnry County. On being told that she was presiding over another household and the mother of a second set of children, the old gentleman manifested no gTeat concern. • “Well,” said he, “she has got none the best of me on that score. I have another wife and Children in California myself.” All parties are on friendly terms, and there is much sjieculatlon as to the outcome of the matrimonial tangle. The old gentleman is puzzled to know which wife to keep. The old lady will probably decide the matter.

Minor State Items. El wood is to have a $60,000 theater by Christmas. Tho next .State turnfest will be held at South Bend in July. Hannibal Fletcher aged 73, was found dead in bed at Slielbyviiie. Oliver O’Neil, u Brazil butcher, fell into a vat of boiling lard, and was fatally scalded. Chiefs of Police of Indiana met at Terre Haute, Tuesday, and effected a permanent organization. Mrs. Marion McKay was thrown from a runaway buggy at Slielbyviiie, and fatally injured. During the centennial Fort Wayne will give bicycle races In which $1,500 iu prizes will be awarded. Tito silverware found in a corn field near Elwood Ims been identified as that stolen from a Noblesvllle jewelry store. Tho s!ate Convention of the Young Women’s Christian Association of Cltiea and Colleges will be held In Hiohmond, Oct. 17. In trying to climb on the cars at Jonesboro, Randall Chimttkln fell under the wheels and lost both legs. Ho was only 11 years old. A. J. Hlnkiey, aged 04, a patient In the Central Hospital for the Insane, at Indianapolis, committed suicide by hanging himself with a towel. South Bend board of education lias introduced the teaching of Swedish into the public schools. A night school twice a week is field for that purposes Tho strike at the, plate-glass works at Kokomo Ims ended disastrously for the men. The compand put men in tlie pluoe of the strikers and the plant is in operation again at the old wages. Tho Elwood Police Board lias issued an order closing up all the gambling rooms In the city and ordering the proprietors to keep them closed jn the future, or have all tho fixtures burned in the streets. The order is being obeyed. Patents have been issued to residents of Indiana as follows: Edward Brewer, Greenwood, rotary photograph album; George Pederson, neck yoke; James Simpson, Veedersimrg, gate; James C. Burgess, Yountzville, bolt clipper. Sheriff Burk investigated the Shelbyvlllo Jail and discovered that the bars had been sawed away from a window, and that a wholesale delivery hud been planned. A saw and a file were found In one cell. Among tho prisoners are two alleged murderers. The s'.wen-months-old child of O. P. Kerr of Brazil, who was given a tablet of corrosive sublimate by its grandmother, who thought It was a tablet loft by the doctor for the child, Is dead. The aged ludy who gave tho poison is distracted with grief. The Rev. Nathan Caldwell McDlll will have completed his forty-third yearns pastor of the United Brethren Church, at lilcliland, Rush County, In November. Ho is now 71 years old, but continues In the active discharge of his duties as pastor. Ho has been marrfed three times. The private bank of C. D. Porter, of Geneva, lias been reorganized under the title of the Geneva Bank, as a State Institution, witli a paid-up capital of $(10,000. The officers elected ure: A. G. Briggs, President; 8. W. Hale, Vice President; C. D. Porter, Cashier, and Eugene Ash, Assistant Cashier.

State Ous Inspector Leach gives the cheering Intelligence that the gas companies will furnish satisfactory services this year. lie says that experienced men are at the head of the companies now, and he does not believe that patrons will have cause to complain. Inspector Leach has liegun a number of prosecutions against those who use gas recklessly In the field, and will push them. He has had considerable trouble over the flambeau light, and most of his prosecutions will be directed against those who have refused to abandon this practice. The people of Posey township Clay County, are exoited over an oil find made there. When the tipn of B. Roberts & Pro. was sinking a well on :he Jeff James farm, a mile and a half southwest of Staunton, 'the men were suddenly driven out of the well by a flow of oil which gushed up from (lie bottom and filled it to a depth of twelve feet. -The oil was struck at a depth of thirty-five feet. Property has already risen to ten times its value. The find was made about a mile from where Terre Haute people fwo years ago made an unsuccessful attempt to find oil. While Jos. Pye was hauling gravel at Oaklandon, his team ran away, throwing him under the wagon, which passed over his body, killing him almost instantly. Mr. Fye was a son-in-law of the late D. G. Ilanna. He was a member of the 1. O. O. F. and leaves a wife and one child. Clinton Miller committed suicide at the fair grounds at Marion by shooting himself through the head. He left a letter stating that, having spent all of his wife’s money as well as his own, and having otherwise grossly misbehaved, he felt that the best thing he could do was to put an end to his existence. - A costly fire broke oiit at Fortville, and destroyed a half-dozen storerooms and two residences before it burned itself out. It started in a bakery, whiclj was quickly a mass of flames, and soon spread to adjoining buildings. The loss will reach probably SIO,OOO, with very little insurance. The means of fighting fire were totally inadequate. Veiia Crlsman, aged 12, of Middletown near Muncie, is dead. Six years ago she swallowed a pin and for four years has had intense suffering. About a year ago the point of the pin was found protruding from her back and was extracted. After her death it was found that four of the vertebrae had decayed, leaving several ribs without support.