Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD QF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Jndjje Helm PrononneeH Sentence on Scott Jackaon'a Accomplice - ncreased Demand for Iron and Glaas Goods- Diacovera Ilia Mother, tValHnir Mhat Hnne. Alonzo Walling. -accomplice of Scott Jackson in the murder of Pearl Bryan, was sentenced to hung Aug. 7. Walling, smiling nud dbhant. was taken from tlx* Covington jatt liy Sheriff Plummer anti Jailer Bitzer, and driven in a surrey to Xew|x»rf. ’ On their arrival they found a crowd of several hundred surrounding the court house, hhf there was'no demonstration. Judge Helm at once overruled Pol. Wnshrngfbn’s tnotleii 'fbr a new trial, and ordered the prisoner to stand up. Walling, Uia. face flashed, fulteringly arose. Judge lloTm .-hid: •'Have you anything to say wljy judgment should not now be pronounced ngaiust youV” Walling replied M'ilh choking voice: “I will ask my attorney to siienk for me.” Col. Washington said: "If 1 can’t argue fully. I desire to say that there is no evidence in this ease justifying the conviction of this man.” Here Col. Washington sat down angrily. Judge ilelnt then said: “it is the judgment of this court that you He taken from here to the Covington jail and there oontined until the 7th day of August, nnd then brought front there to an Iriclosure nt the jail yard in Xewport, and then* by the sheriff bo hanged by the neck until yon shall be dead, and may God have mercy on your soul.” Walling turned pale and sat down. A moment later be was on his way back to Covington. Cheerful News for Labor. The Weatherall Hulling Mill Company of Anderson, met its employes Saturday and asked them to return to work at once, promising to payffiem whatever the hew scale cnlled for when the manufacturers slfcn it. The men refust-d to go to work. The company is rushed with orders and wants to get Its plant in operation as soon ns possible. All flint glass bottle and jar—house* in the nation closed down last night, the rules of the Flint (ibis* Workers' Association requiring all men to stop work for the summer season. The market is rushed and the prices are udvanoed. The manufacturers have forwarded a petition to the workers - convention .in session a* Alton, 111., asking them to permit tin* workers to return to their fines Aug, 1, instead of Sept. 1, as is the rule. In ease the request is granted all plants will resume nt that time, The past year has Jieen a most prosiwrons one in this department of the glass business, and it is one of the very few industries that tins not suffered a reduction of \vug<*x in the past few years. The Wright Shovel Company of Anderson posted a notice that they would advance tin* wages of the polishers and grinders 5 rents on the dozen. This will mean about 75 rents a day to the workmen. The increase was made unsolicited, and was a great surprise. The company states that the business of tin* firm is heavier now than for years. All .Over thu State. Dean Hush, of Knit Warsaw, dlsaplienrod Thursday morning and cannot Is* found.' lie has been sick for a long time, and it is feared that in his despondency lie committed suicide. A license of SIOO per year lias been Imposed upon the sale of cigarettes in Hushville by the City Council. Any sale's without a license are made punishable with a fine of )f-5 for each offense. Thomas Waiters, son of David Walters. was thrown under a locomotive at Wnlkurtoti and killed. Ho was employed on the grade of the Baltimore and Ohio Itnllroad nnd was nlxiut Li'-’ years old. Js>h Heed, a prize lighter who formerly served as chief of police at Anderson and Marlon, met Henry Boyd In a saloon at Ilrightwnod Thursday night, and struck him on the ear with his fist, felling him lilte a log. He then kicked the uncoil-! Hgioiiij t'ernv until dragged, away. Boyd.' died and Heed escaped arrest by flight’. A young man naiqcrd Edward Lee, who recently on me to Mishawaka from the Lafayette orphan asylum and has boon coachman for .1. A. Hnjior, lias JuHt dis- 1 covered the mystery of his parentage, lie was born at Fort Wayne in IX7-1, was entered at the asylum in 1878 as abandoned, but. really is the son of a wealthy woman of Buchnmui, Pike County, (). After a long search she located the son she had abandoned slid has sent for him. She is very sick.

John IVrrinc, a young Valparaiso business man, wns shot by 11 supposed burglftr in the rear of hi* Inmincs* house late Saturday night. Tuesday he received the following threatening letter: “John B. IVriine: I am still here, and will endeavor to do better tie* next time than I did Saturday night. 1 don't want your tools, but I am going to get you, and I am going tb get your property. Yours, Light Pants." The affair has caused a great, deal of exeitenibnt. At a late hour Monday night the house of (buries Cowglll, n merchant in n small town n.v.th of Bourbon, was raided by-three burglars, who ransacked every drawer, box and hiding place within thoir reacli. Not Aiding nny money, they concluded to awaken him and threaten his life if he did not tell where his money was. Mr. Cowgill hnd in the house nt the time nbont $.'1,100 in gold 11ml currency. He hnd it hidden, SSO in an old stocking and the remainder in other places. After they hnd nro ised him one of the gang demanded ids money He concluded it was liest to give up the SSO. and after some hesitation disclosed its location. After they secured the SSO they searched the house to ascertain if Cowglll had any weapons, took him a mile frpm home, bid him good-night and told him that they would see him sonic other night. C.6Wgill said they were boys about IS years of age, but ho could not tell who they were QU account of their mask#. George Bremer, of Fort Wayne, while rowing- on St. Joe river, upset the boat and was drowned, together with a companion whose name was not learned. Both then were employed in a railroad shop. Len Oliver, aged 18 years, escaped from Superintendent of Police Meagher Of Terre Haute while on. his way to the reform school by jumptug from a train which/was funning thirty miles an hour. He was handcuffed, but w'as not injured. He then stole a horse and buggy, but was overtaken by the owner and made to give rtp the rig and allowed to escape to the woods, -i. , Near Jeffersonville, much dnningc whs dope- by h terrific thunderstorm Saturday afternoon. At Borden, houses were washed away, the town flooded, and much dantpgv, dope, growing crqps weyo ruin#4/ and - the streams are overflowed. No jiyes were jost. , m,The,(Commercial Hotel at Pendleton, probably the oldest, hotel in the Stnte, was destroyed by fire Tuesday. It-was built in ISJO and was made a fort twice. in Indian escapades. Later Frederick Douglass was stopping there when assaulted by an infuriated mob pnd almost killed. It Was substantial, •brick and stone bpiug used. Other buildings adjoining 1 weld also burned. Loss, about SIO,OOO.