Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. 'Row Over a School Teacher in Shelby County--Fearful Typhoid Epidemic at Decatnr—Live* of Twin* Singularly Alike—Historic Relic* at Andcraon* Stares for Week* at Empty Benchea. Brandywine Township, Shelby Coun* ty, is at war with Frank Holmes, a. teacher selected for District No. 4 by Trustee Elmer Lee. The parents of tha pupils said Holmes was not a fit teacher and decided to boycott him. For the first fire weeks of the school term Holmes taught to empty benches. Three children have attended during the last three weeks. Lee refused to remove Holmes or to transfer his pupils to another district, in spite of the protests of the residents of the district. The indignant parents have made preparations to enjoin Lee from paying Holmes his salary, and the courts will be asked to settle the matter. Harvesting Honey by the Ton. Uncle Jacob Bnrringer, dear Rushville, has been making honey over sixty years, and he is still actively engaged in tho business. He estimates that he has in his day, with his swarms of bees, produced honey more easily calculated by the ton thau in pounds. Ho is 80 years old, and the strongest man of his age in Rush County. Ho was born in Pennsylvania. He engaged in honey making and farming near Rushville over half a century ago. Barringer never used tobacco In any form, and lie was never "groggy," as ho terms it. He claims that no person living ever heard him make use of an oath. He has not an enemy that he knows of. He served as assessor for twelve years. Peculiar History of Twin BUtera. There are visiting In Terre Haute twin sisters whose lives have been singularly Identical. Their maiden name wus McCormick, and they were bom In Connersville, this State, Feb. 27, 1810, and they say their father built the first log cabin In Indianapolis, where he moved when they were but 4 years of age. The sisters were married on tho 27th of the month to twin brothers named Isaac and Moses Marts, who were also born on the 27th of the month. This double marriage was in 1834. Tho twins were of a family of twelve children nnd each has had twelve children. They nru now living In Arcadia, Hamilton County, Ind. Gigantic Skeleton* Dug Up. Excavutors at work in Anderson made a startling discovery. They were nt work when a imrtion of the earth gave in, and they found a sealed cave. Investigation and further excavations opened it. There were a dozen skeletons in a sitting position, all facing the west, ou the inside. The scene was a strange one and caused a decided sensation, 'l’he skeletons seemed to he holding a council of war. All were erect. By their sides wero the remains of what had once been their trinkets. Most of thu skeletons wore of abnormal proportions, indicating that tho race thus buried was a mighty one physically. It is but a short distance from the celebrated Indian mounds. Trampled Down in u C hurch Punic. During a stereopticon lecture at the Methodist cirurch at Farmland a panic was caused by tho bursting of u rubber hose attached 8) the gus generator. In Ihe stampede women ana children were thrown down and trampled on. Tho greatest crush was at tho doors, which opened inward. The furniture in the building was utterly ruined. Several were In danger of asphyxiation by the gas, but outsiders burst in the windows and rescued them. All Over the Stutc. E«1 Moore, the 17-year-ohl son of Harvey A. Moore, of Logausport, was accidentally killed while hunting quail. Clark Vnnlco, livingwncar Crawfordsvllle, left home to milk the cows. His continued absence was noted, nnd he was found to have fallen dead of heart trouble. Ed Itiley, alias “Cocky" Riley, of Terre Haute, whose reputation is that of a thug, has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. After ids arrest he attempted suicide in jail by cutting his throat, hut careful nursing restored him.

The believers in Christian science are giving the health authorities much trouble at Anderson. A child in John Bennett’s family died, and inquiry showed that the patient lmd been trented by a Dr. Woolman, of Pendleton, who finally made a return, giving as cause of demise, "fear of death and sin.” A post-mortem developed that the child had died of malignant diphtheria. Last July the family of Henry Hiatt, of Madison County, together with four hired men, were poisoned by using water from the well, and the youngest member of the family Is 1 a hopeless invalid. The well was dredged and two cans were fished up, one containing paris green and the other half filled with arsenic. Both were covered with fine wire, la which were scraps of paper which at last have given the detectives a clew to the possible prisoner. This would-be murderer is said to be under surveillance and an early arrest is not improbable. Ira Hallenbaugh, 17 years old, of Anderson, started on a Pan-Handle train for Frankfort, but was put off at Florida for non-payment of fare. This angered him, nnd he proceeded to pile ties on the rnils. The approach of a train, however, frightened him, and he rushed down the track signaling the and an accident was prevented. Hallenbaugh claimed that tramps piled the ties, and the trainmen gave him enthusiastic greeting because so his kindly act. Detective Matt Moore, of the Pan-Handle Company, after investigating the matter, however, concluded that Hallenbaugh was guilty, and he arrested the young man and secured a full confession. Hallenbaugh has been committed to jail to await trial. Alonzo Powers, the youthful Chesterton murderer, is feigning insantiy. To all outward appearances he is suffering from mental derangement, but the officers believe that he is attempting a clever ruse to escape the. gallows. While W. F. Brewer, a well-known Bedford jeweler, was going homeward the other night, he was rushed upon by some one whom he did not recognize, and was knocked down and beaten. His assailant then escaped by running up the alley. The assault was doubtless actuated by revenge, as there was no attempt at robbery. John Emslewiller, a well-to-do druggist, of Montpelier, who suddenly disappeared, taking with him SI,OOO, has been located at Dayton, Ohio. The missing man mailed a letter at Winchester to his family, saying that thty might have all his property conditioned that they bothei him no more. At Corydon, the grand jury returned an indictment against “Tete” Bryant foi giving liquor to a minor. The sheriff went to arrest the defendant, but finding him to be old, infirm and blind, he refused to bring him into court. Bryant is 89 years old. He has been married seven times, and he is the father of twenty--1 seven children.