Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Big Real Katotepeal in Lake CountyIndtacretiaia Caasoajohn Winslow* LotoF Trouble — Oald Find on a Farm Jicur Anderson. Realty Sella for $2,000,000. A S2.OOO,(XX> deal iu I<ake County real estate went on reewrd Friday, The la ml purchased consist* of .over 2,000 acres in the sand-knob portion of Calumet township. It adjoin* the old stock yards tract and horders on the shore of Lake Michigan. The tract has been owned by George T. Cline, an eccentric bachelor who make* his home iu Chicago. He parted with his title to Theodore H. Sehintx, an attorney of Chicago, for $2,000,000. Ileal astute men say this deal (mints to another big boom in Glut part of Luke County. Three deeds were recorded—the first for $540,060, the second for $200,000 and the third for $1,21X1,000. The land has no improvements whatever. He Tries to Kiaa Hia Tenant. Mrs. Nettie Goodull, of Marion, was awarded $l5O damages against Jonathan Winslow for false prosecution. The ease has been in the Circuit Courts of several comities for some time. Mrs. Goodull is a young married woman, while Winslow Is nearly 80 years old. Two years ago the Goodatls were tenants of Winslow. One day he came to collect the rent and attempted to kiss Mrs. Goodull. She threatened to sue him, but a compromise was effected by Winslow paying $250. Shortly 'afterward Mrs. Goodull brought suit against Winslow for assault and battery. He was acquitted and retaliated by causing her arrest fortolltokniull. After a time the case was dismissed. Then Mrs. Goodull brought the false prosecution suit. It was tried plus', but the jury disagreed. The’ eotfts Will'amount to about sl.stX». Winslow was formerly a quuker. lie will appeal the ease. Indiana Farm Yield* Cold. Hebert Spaulding, an old California gold miner, now owner of n large farm north of Audersou, found S7O in gold ore protruding from a bluff on his farm Tim samples indicate it will run S7O or $75 to the ton. It was questioned whether ths gold was really found where he said it was, and people Hocked to the place to find that what he said was true. Several old miners were among those who visited tile find, and say that the prospects are splendit). An Anderson capitalist who has had mining experience made an offer of SSOO an acre for the twenty surrounding acres, but the offer was refused. Spaulding has the means and will develop it himself. He nulled all gales on his place und placed trespass signs everywhere.

All Over the State. Three fires hi twelve hours beat the record for Union City, Losses all small. Alvin Hailc.v ivns arrested at Ligoiilcr. He is wanted at Columbus, ()., where he is charged with forgery. It is also said he is wanted for bigamy at Curdington, <>., Where he has a wife and child living. The State Board of Finance decided to pay off $300,000 of State bonds due March 2, and $100,IXX) of the $700,000 due in 180!) and payable ut the option of the State. This leaves the total bonded debt of the State $0,0.3(1,00ft. Tho furniture firm of Coney, Wuller & Deprese, of Shelbyville, made tin asiigfi-j meat for the benefit of creditors. Their plant, which manufactured bedroom suites, bedsteads, stands, etc.', was one of the oldest in the West and was incorporated for SIOO,OOO. Charles G. Scannell was found dead ut Jeffersonville with a bullet in his brain. To all appearances the man lmd been murdered for his money and laid where ho was found, it having been learned he had $l7O in money, nnd when searched only 15 cents -was found. <lti ScauneliVtta't was found a discharge -front the Seventeenth United States infantry dated Feb. (i, 1800. On Feb. 10 he was paid In Chicago for services. He was representing u Milwaukee brewery film uml was engaged to be married to Miss May HazzartT,' of Louisville.

Since the news hns been spread broadcast cont'erning the big $4,000,000 fortune that Sqnire Van Winkle, of Grown Point, recently foil heir to, he lias been pestered by no fewer than 100 letters from Van Winkles throughout the United States,' writing for his biography, and also of oil his ancestors. In nine cases out of ton they are sure they ai)M, entitled to a share of it, and are going to place tlje matter in attorneys’ hands. Every mail brings tunny letters of inquiry. If this continues much longer Mr. Van Winkle will he forced to employ a stenographer to do his letter writing. In most every case the writer believes he.is the only Van Winkle, excepting Judge V*u Winkle, in existence, All thut arc now liviug -expected an-estate for half a century buck. The Cold wave was welcome over n large arCa of the West, which was literally mudfround for weeks. In most of the country -towns the work done by a pair of horses in hauling an empty buggy two or three miles has been more than an averugo day’s work on good roads in the summer. Many of the country roads huvo been in such a horrible condition as to prevent even the passuge of a pair of horses drawing a buggy with a single occupant. Such an experience ought to be sufficient to induce agitafiqn for road improvement by those who hitherto have held aloof because of the prospective cost of making reasonably good roadbeds. It (j* easy enough for some farmers to -think it dot's not cost them anything to drive through heavy mild during the soft weather usual in the early springtime, but when it stops the marketing of produce in the season which normally gives them little else to do it,is tt more serious matter. Now is a good time for the advocates of country road Improvement to renew their ugitation. Alfred E. Gibson, a section hand, has sued the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company for $lO,000 damages for injuries sustained in a head-end collision on the Pan-Handle, near Marlon, Jan. 10. At Laiwrte, J. A. Dennott was arrested for a peculiar crime. He deliberately threw n beer bottle through the large plate glass window of a leading store, smashing it to atoms. He was not intoxicated, is well dressed, and no inofive can be assigned for the deed. It developed that Dennott has a mania for breaking windows. Joseph Abbott, au old soldier of Staunton, returned iffomi..» visit to Pennsylvania ten days ago, and he told his friends that he would be dead in ten days. He was.apparently in good health; nevertheless, he : (lied on the tenth, day es heart disease. The deceased was 55 years old. The toils are said to be tightening around C. H. Howe, alias Howard, alias Wilmoth, alias Jackson, under arrest at Terre Haute as an alleged bigamist, and he Is being held pending further developments. It is asserted that under the name of Wilmoth he married Miss Ora Wilkens, of Seneca, Kan., and tiiat under the name of Howard he married Mrs. Belle Bnell, a young , widow of Effingham, 111.