Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Lamentable Mistake Made by Henry Warren-Sad Kate of Lover*—lndiana’s Largest Woman Dead—Horrible Practices of an Elkbart Farmer. Shoots an Innocent Man. Henry Warren, a wealthy Pittsburg farmer, shot and killed a man supposed to be a robber, who was attempting to go through his barn, but on investigation it was found that he had mnde a serious mistake and taken the life of a harmless and inoffensive character. Warren is greatly affected over the killing, but as yet no action lms been taken by the authorities. Hidden Gold la Found. Joel Commons, of Parke County, who died recently, instead of being very poor, as was always supposed, had nearly $lO,000 in gold. His wife did not know he had accumulated the money until just before he died. He did not definitely describe its hiding place, and as what has already Been found was widely scattered it iH possible there is more yet to be found. During the war he realized a good premium on some gold, and this caused him to hold the yellow metal in high esteem. A number of gold coins have been found in old, batten'd cans and jars placed in out of the way corners about the farm. Young Couple Killed by a Train. Miss Sophia Hettcher und Simon Bohrer, a young couple who were Boon to be married, were walking on the track of the Pennsylvania Railroad on their way to dance at Areola. They stepped off the aouth truck to avoid an east-bound express train, not notice the approach behind them of a belated westbound fust mail train, which was running very fust. The locomotive struck and knocked both over 100 feet in the air, killings thou instantly. T ey were members of proit 4 serous families in Abolt Township. Feeds Dead Horses to Hia Hogs. Complaint of a serious nature has been filed with the Elkhart Board of Health against Casper Lipshllz. He is charg'd with feeding the carcasses of horses to his hogs ami then disposing of them upon the market. Eighteen dead horses were found strewn promiscuously upon his premises, which tho hogs devoured. Some of the dead animals had Inin there for months. Lipthil* claimed he did not sell ids hogs in Elkhart, but shipped them to Chicago. Fell from a Trapeze. At u variety performance at Mozart Hull In Jeffersonville John Morris and Melvin Bennett were engaged to do a double trapeze turn. No sooner hnd they elevated themselves into tho traps than Bennett loMt Ills hold and before could grasp him he fell a distance of thirty feet to the stage. Bennett was picked up unconscious and badly injured about the head anil shoulders.