Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Sad Affliction of u l.ittie Girl -Mind Reader Johnstone Hum Ilia Troubles Hen Duvis Kills Himself— Convict Luts Soup to Avoid Work, aud Dies. When Will the Niaht Be Over? The S-year-old daughter of William Jacks, of North Manchester, recently hud tni attack of scarlet fever, aud as a result of the disease has become totally bliud. Her parents have not had the courage to speuk to her of the affliction, and the little one iuqUires pathetically, at short intervals, when it will be daylight ugaiu and when the night will lie over. It is thought the loss of sight will he permanent. Covert After Johnstone. Elder W. It. Covert, the anli-Spirituai-lst, who has been conducting a tight in The vicinity of Anderson, is branching out in a new line, l’aul Alexander Johnstone, the mind-reader, was hilled for a performance iu Anderson. Mr. Covert, who classes this with other "fakes,” announced that he would arrest Johnstone for false pretenses iu obtaining money if he did not state before the performance that, all of his mind readings and other matters were done by a trick method. Covert is also a mind-reader of no mean übility and he Is able to expose how it is all doue by trickery. Some of his readings, like those of his exposures of spiritual phenomena, are wonderful aud border ou the marvelous. Gets Spot Cash with His Bride. Mrs. Surah Hay, an Indianapolis widow of 7-i, announced she would marry again, uKd if an ,v young man of good character and good family was the suitor she would make him a present of Jjt2o,(X)o. George Brown, a society man of lid, thereupon paitl court to the widow, und was accepted. In the meantime her heirs at law began lunacy proceedings against her, but the jury found she was sane. Fearing that other steps would be taken to prevent the nuptials, Brown and Mt‘s. Kay eloped and were married by a pence justice in an adjoining county. As the ceremony that made them man and wife was concluded, she handed her husband a check for $20,000. •

In Presence of His Sweetheart. Ben Davis, aged 22, son of B. N. Davis, a farmer near Vevny, committed suicide in the presence of Ills sweetheart, Agues Livingstone. He visited her at her homo, drew a revolver, put it to Ids head, and pulled the trigger. It missed lire, and before he could use it again the girl wrested it from him. He recovered it later, and hacking to tin* door held the frantic girl hark with one hand, while with the other he sent a hall through his brain and fell dead at her feet, lie was a hypochondriac. Ruse Ends in Dcutli. James Bogurd, a convict seut from Evansville to serve two years for larceny, <lit ni Jeffersonville of it it illnctfs superinduced by eating soup. Bogurd had been a source of annoyance to the ollicials of the penitentiary by constantly shirking (tis tasks ami asking admission to the hospital for treatment. He was serving his third form and the fact that he hud been eating soap to produce sickness was revealed by a statement lie made a short time before Ids death. Charged with Kmbczzlcmunt. \V. 11. Swann, who Ims been manager of the Indiana Gas Belt station of life Standard Oil Company, located In Anderson, is missing. He is wanted by the company for embezzlements of nominal sums. The officers have boon investigating for some time and gnl ready to make the arrest when they found that their man wus missing. Mr. Swann is well known among oil men. If is thought that hv has gone to*Chicago.

All Over the State. E. (!. Mill, florist, of IMchmond, took first premiums on his pink chrysanthemums, ‘‘lndiana,” exhibited at Madison Square, New York. Friday the old John Bolian farm, north of Brazil, was sold by the Fleming heirs for S2O an acre.- Tills land was originally purchased of the old Wabash and Erie Canal Company at $2.50 per acre. Coal waH discovered on the land, and Mrs. Hehnn realized $160,000 royalty. Foster Fletcher, a wealthy Crawfordsville citizen, hns been sued for libel by Prof. Philip Hank, principal of the Center School, who asks $((,000 damages. Prof, llauk alleges Fletcher busied himself circulating a rumor to tlio effect that, llauk had been detected hugging n girl pupil.

Lorenzo Turner left his home in Southern Illinois ut the close of the civil war to seek his fortune in the great West. A few months inter word was received that lie was killed in an Indian ntnssucre somewhere in the Southwest. Since tliut time his parents have mourned him as dead, although no further news was received as to the disposition of ids body. Tuesday an old man stepped from Ihe train at Brazil nnd inquired for Mrs. G. W. McClure. He proved to ho Turner. He is a brother to Mrs. McClure. lie is now one of the wealthiest cattlemen of South Dakota. He was almost killed in the Indinn massacre and allowed his family to beligve him dead until Ids fortune was made. A desperate light among a brace of convicts at the Jeffersonville prison south Wednesday morning may result in the death of one of the combatants. William Able ttiuj James Sherman, long term men, employed in the foundry of the institution, engaged in a controversy over a remark alleged to have been made by Sherman reflecting on the character of Abie’s sister. Words led to blows and Able, procuring a ramming iron used by mohlers, attempted to strike Sbennan, who warded off the blow. Another attempt to strike Sherman was made, when the latter drew n knife and thrust the blade into Abie’s iireust near the heart, inflicting a dangerous wound. At Washington the strike among Cabel &• Co.’s miners is still on, with no prospects of settlement. The difficulty is about a screen used at one of the mines, nnd both sides have taken a determined stand. Miss Lizzie A. Myers, u schoolteacher of Golden Corners, in Ripley County, while in the act of entering her cart, was attacked by a nind dog, and she avoided the brute by running around the vehicle, the dog chasing her, and finally stopping to bite the pony and to-attack another dog. All the animals bitten died of hydrophobia. The story sent out from Kokomo that thee Grand Jury had returned indictments against members of the Amish Society, a strange religious sect, for alleged violations of laws, is officially said to be untrue. ' Frank Benndum, tile saloon-keeper of Muneie, who was convicted of the murder of Lem Bailey, the attorney, and was sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment in the prison north, is paralyzed, as the result of an accident. Benadum was struck with a belt, and one of his legs was nearly torn off. Paralysis from the hips down resulted. Benadum is 50 years old. He has not yot served two years of bis penalty.