Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. A Man with Too Much Money—Rivals for a Girl’s Affections Eight a Bloody Battle—Simple Ceremonies Over the Body of Pearl Bryan. They Find *SOO in a Satchel. A brukeman on the Peoria division of the Yandaiia Ilailrond, named Reed, was handed a satchel containing SSOO the other day, and the man who gave it to him evidently wanted to be rid of it for all time. A passenger Who boarded the train at Decatur and left it at Mount Zion handed the satchel to Reed as he left the cars, saying: "Take can* of this for me.” The trainmen decided to open the satchel, because the man had .acted in a peculiar manner, and in it they found s.">oo in hills. Jealousy Leads to a Fight. Jlenry Wilson was a suitor for the hand of Nora Mclntyre, daughter of Thomas Mclntyre,' living near the Fraukiin-Rush County line, but he was supplanted in the young girl’s favor by Samuel Templeton, a school teacher who recently came into the neighborhood. The other night tlie rivals met at a country dance, and when Templeton ventured outside the house he was attacked by Wilson, armed with a knife. Templeton used his revolver, and mutual friends joined in. When the smoke cleared away Templeton was found dangerously stabbed in tho breast and back, while Wilson had a bullet in his thigh and Charles Bolster, a friend of Templeton, was shot in the neck. The condition of all three men is alarming. During the tight, which was general, brass knuckles, knives, stones and clubs were used, and everyone of the participants is bruised and battered. The participants are all members of prominent famines, and dispatches from the quarter indicate intense excitement in the neighborhood. The young woman whose (harms caused the melee was borne to her homo in a prostrated condition. Peurl Bryun’a Funeral Services. Several hundred people were attracted to Forest llill Cemetery in Ureencnstle Friday ufternoon by tho announcement of the funeral of I’earl Bryan, the Fort Thomas victim. The body was brought home on Feb. 1), and lias lieen kept in the public vault in the cemetery t|waiting burial. Tho family have hoped for the finding of tho missing head, but they abandoned that idea nml decided on interment. Six young men, former classmates of the deceased, took the white casket from the vault and carried it to tho Bryan lot. A quintet sang two songs. Dr. 11. A. Gobin, of Do Pauw University, read Bible selections and spoke of the life of the deceased, and offered a fervent prayer. This was followed by more mujsie, after which the remains were lowered to their last resting place. Numerous costly uml beautiful floral offerings wero placed on the casket and grave by elussmntes mid friends of the deceased.

All Over the State. The fifty-ninth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. L. 11. Noble was celebrated in Goshen. Both are in excellent healtht. John Robbins, of Moscow, accidentally shot himself with a revolver. The ball plowed through the skull above tile temple. lie will die. A wreck is reported to have occurred on I lie Indiana, Illinois and lowa, between Nortli Judson and Knox, in which four men wero smothered by the overturning of a car of grain in which they were riding. At Danville, the jury in the case of the Htute vs. James A. Dungan, for selling liquor illegally, returned a yertlict of guilty. The verdict practically means tho overthrow of the liquor power in Hendricks County. Joseph Conway, of Audursou, received a chock for SIB,OOO from the Big Four, in payment in full of a verdict for that amount for damages. He was caught iu the big wreck near Bt. Louis a year ago. lie sued for $115,000. Residents of West Liberty are satisfied that tho foundation of the Chinese wall is just beneath the surface of tho ground there. For several days men drilling a gas well on the farm of J. J. laird have been expending energy and fine drills upon sqme substance at a depth of 800 feet, which resists ull efforts to penetrate. At the last, attempt a 2,000-pound drill dropped from the fastening and fell over flat, us though it bad landed at the bottom of a cavern lined with boiler plate. Another drill was sfflit down, but curled up like pot metal against the liard bottom of the cavern. J. W. Diley, a Chicago traveling man, met Miss Alice Kilnie, of Cleveland, by appointment at Laporte, and the couple wore married in Michigan. Diley lives In Adair County, Missouri. In liis travels he met Miss Kilnie at Medina, O* and he parted from her with the promise to write to her. When lie reached (jhiqugo he changed hjfj mind, tylegruphed her a proposal of marriage, which wus accepted, tho appointment being made by wire to meet in Laportc. Miss Kilmc answered his proposal favorably and the romance had its sequel by a marriage coreiuony performed in Berrien County. The little town of Albany is much excited over a death which occurred there Thursday. Two weeks ago Lewis Lovelle, aged 32, was taken sick with a mild form of malarial fever. His case was not considered dangerous by the attending physician, but the man contended from the start that he was going to dS>, having hud a dream which so informed him. Monday all signs of the fever had disappeared, but the patient was at times delirious. Physicians were called to examine him, but no ailment could be diagnosed, and the cause of death is a great mystery. Except when the delirious spells were on, Levelle would talk and say he had no pain, but that he could not leave his bed' as he was goiqg to. die.* C. J. Wood, aged 90, and Miss Maggie Barger, aged 18, were married at Greensburg. It was Wood’s sixth marriage, and ho urged a license fee, as he had been such a! good customer, and he also said he might come again. The Chicago and Nashville limited train on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois road, dashed into an oil tank car at Hillsdale while running thirty-fiv*. miles an hour, igniting thei oil, and for a time it was thought the train would be burned. The passengers were badly shaken up. The engineer and fireman jumped to save their lives. What is known as the Crystal Club house, owned by Pittsburg men, located on the banks of the Kankakee, in Porter County, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $3,000. Superintendent Rogers, of the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, says that since his method of treating cataleptic patients with medicine from the thyroid glands of sheep has been made public, he has been besieged by inquiries regarding the treatment. Every day’s mail brings him many letters, and he has learned that" the New York press is anxious for further information. The patients under treatment continue to improve, and the results are little short of phenomenal.