Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1896 — RECORD OF THE WEEK [ARTICLE]

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. New Use for Bloodhounds—Peculiar Effect Upon Corn Produced by a Storm—Mary Smith Will Get Her Share of Her Father's Estate. Bloodhonnds Find a Lost Baby. A new use was found for bloodhounds at Kokomo Saturday. The 3-year-old child of Marion and Mrs. Scott, of Chicago, on a visit, wandered away from the house and became lost. Several hours’ search failed to reveal the whereabouts of the lost baby, when Dr. Bell offered to return the child unharmed to the parents by the use of his bloodhounds that are used to ruu down criminals. The ferocious beasts were put on the trail of the baby, and with a twenty minutes’ run overtook it beyond Kokomo Junction, more than two miles away. The child was returned safely to the distracted parents. The dogs, instead of offering to harm it, served as protectors until the attendants arrived. Corn Cooked Burins the Storm. Investigations of the blighted corn crops near Anderson cause local scientific men to arrive at the conclusion that the electrical condition of the air during the tornado was different from what it has ever been. In certain sections the corn is brown and dead, and can bo reduced to powder by rubbing between the hands. It is blistered as though subjected to a most terrific heat. The theory.advanced is that there were electrical currents in the air that were brought in contact with the ground by the wind, and that they were so hot as to blister the growing corn. The mutter has attracted a great deal of attention. Missing Daughter Is Found. Mary Smith, after many years’ absence, and whose whereabouts were unknown to her family, has returned to Kokomo to claim her portion of her father's estate. Fifteen years ago Miss Smith, daughter nt a wealthy farmer, married against the will of her parents, and for this was driven from home and memory, being entirely ostracised by relatives. The marriage was an unfortunate one. In three years she was deserted by her unworthy husband. Abandoned mid friendless, she placed her two infnnt children in the orphans’ home, and being in poor health, "She was eared for nt the county poorhouse. On rev'overing. she left the poorhouse, wandering away no one knew where. That was ten years ago. Three weeks ago the father died. It was found necessary that, the missing Mary should be found, if alive, to sign the papers and prove heirship to the $40,000 estate. She was located nt Valparaiso, this State, where she wns engaged as dishwasher nt a college restaurant.

All Over the State. Lewis Gumm and William May, of Center Point, filed suit in the Circuit Court against the Vandalia Railroad Company for SIO,OOO each for damages. March 12 last May and Gumm were hurt in a wreck on the Center Point division of the Vandalia. Their injuries, they assert, will cripple them for life. Howard Yocnm, the Alliance, 0., Adpms Express messenger who stole a $!,- (MM) money pneknge two years ago nnd was arrested nt Fort Wayne, confessed Wednesday to the ofiieers before he wns taken to Ohio, without requisition papers. He had tattoo murks all over his body, which he had redecorated by a Chicago artist to prevent identification. Yocum was made to read Boconn nnd initial letters were worked Into beautiful ornamental designs. He also kept his black mustache a faded blonde.

IT. E. Henry, of Glilesburg, 111., an Oshkosh traveling insurance.man, is alleged to have passed a $1 bill raised to a ten on Al Foster’s saloon at Columbus, mid offered another at the Third street beer garden, when the' attempted fraud was discovered, two policemen called, and the stranger taken to jail. He did not deny the charge and said his father lived near Nashville, Brown County. In his room at the St. Denis Hotel tools and fluids for doing the work were found in his grip. Ed Wnren, the supposed slayer of Chns. Badger near Avilla, was taken to Goshen for safe keeping, ns the sentiment was so strong against him that it was feared that he would be lynched.' EJaWy in the evening the men were seen gathering in groups, and upon hearing this Sheriff Simon hastened his prisoner to the Goshen jail. Ulysses Badger, who was also shot by Waren, cannot recover. When Ulysses fell after being shot he saw Ed Waren running through the woods and after regaining consciousness said that Wnren was the assailant. The outlook for the coming wheat crop in the vicinity of Bedford is'not very encouraging, so far as the number of bushels per acre will average. Well-in-formed wheat men say that the crop will not make over half a yield 1 , and nowhere an average crop. The late rains insure a splendid fruit crop. The trees are loaded with ft-nit to their utmost .capacity, and the berry bushes in the thrownOut fields ere as full of tine large berries as they can hold. What is lacking in wheat will be made up in fruit. Several months ago Ollie Coolidge, a respected young lady, left her home in Princeton to join a show Company called the “Bloomer Girl.” With the company was Charles T. Robinson, whose show name is Charles T. Hart. Ollie and Hart were married at Windsor, Can. When the show season ended they came to ‘Princeton. On the noon train Tuesday game a handsome young woman from Homer, Mich., who claims to be wife No. 1. Hpr truant husband had in some nay heard of her coming and left the Sown. Wife No. 1 was married to Robinton at Scottsburg, Ind., July 4, 1802. She called on wife No. 2, but the meeting was not a happy one. Nadel & Kempner, clothing dealers of Elkhart, have assigned 1 . No statement of liabilities and assets has been made. One hundred bushels of potatoes for a book of poems—this is what Clifford Abbott, a rural poet of Rockport, received ■for a copy of his first work. At their usual price this would be $25, the same amount that Milton is said to have received for “Paradise Lost.” A second offer of 150, bushels was made, but Mr. Abbott declined it, saying that a poet cannot live on potatoes alone. He will probably‘go down into history as the “Hoosier Potato Poet.” While fishing in Bear creek, near Palestine, Ray Dunnuck’and Charles Bly, eight and thirteen years old, respectively, took refuge under a tree during a rainstorm. The tree was struck by lightning and both were instantly killed. William Webb, a farmer, seven miles north of Peru,'-is in a precarious condition. About two weeks ago his shepherd dog bit one of his horses in the nostrils, and then disappeared. In a few days the ihorse showed signs of hydrophobia and ihad to be killed. While treating the horse some of the froth from its nostrils fell jon Mr. Webb's hands, where there was a sore, and now Mr. Webb’s condition indicate* blood poisoning. ,