Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1896 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE. I*3 PAST WEEK. v t * 'Hk .’*» ; Alleged Piano Agent* Fleece Many Farmer* Around La Porte Diphtheria Germa Act ire After T wo Tear* —Terre Haute Cannery Very Buay. Receipts Prove to Be Notes. Two stranger*, alleging to be representatives of a Chicago piano company, have been operating extensively in Northern Indiana, where their peculations are said to aggregate thousands of dollars. Paper in the form of negotiable notes has turned up in Warren County, where the plan of operation was to place a pianoPftf tPfttniitor's house with the understanding that th« farmer waste advertise the-merits of tbs instrument for a stated smu. - KrceM* were signed for the pianos,, and Ms papa* now turns up in notes of S4XO each, imports from other counties say the asms swindle was practiced aad no- intelligent estimate can be made of tho extent of tIH» swindle. Sixty Thou sand^ans Dally. TheTerr.e Haute Packing Company has done the biggest business Jn its history this season. It hus been hlje but twa days, and moat of the time lias J>een running nearly its full capacity of tiO.OUn caus per day. Even with this enOymons output it is unable to supply the demand and was compelled this week to reject an order for 12,000 eases. The tomato season is now at its height, and 500 employes are kept busy until late every night. The, pumpkin and henn crops also promise to he unusually heavy this year, and the plant will run u large force until late in the full. Fatal Germs In an Old Lounge. In the winter of 1802 there was a fatal ease of diphtheria lu the family of 8. 43. Moore, of Kokomo. The lounge on whirh the child died was stored away and forgotten. A few days ago Mrs. Samuel Sipe, of Pittsburg, Pa., with her small children, enme to visit Mr. and Mrs. Moore, her parents. The lounge was brought our for the children, mid two of them are down with diphtheria, contracted from the infected lounge.

All Over the State. Angelo Xiccolntli, of ljogaiisport, fe, dead while playfully scuttling with a friend. Harry Hrynut, son of Oscar Bryant, of Patriot, was accidentally drowned in a cistern, Frank J. Wref, of South Bend, wait sandbagged nnd rnhltcd of S7B whilo on Ids way home. Andrew Elliott, a school teacher, was killed at Portland while attempting to board a fast-moving Lake Erie nnd Western freight train. His body was badly mutilated. William Willard nnd George Thornburg were victims of a runaway accident at Marietta, their horse taking fright, at u woman bicycle rider. Willard ia reported at fatally hurt. The Thornton Argus thinks that perhaps the mysterious recluse who died at Branchvillo was H. A. Bradshaw, the defaulting trustee of Clinton Township. Boone County, Ttie village of Green town was flooded with a scurrilous circular, attacking a number of,well-known people jn the vilest munppr, Ipit giviug particular attention tu flfanley,J, Cooper,,,the energetic amt jeflicieut ~Oej>uty Prosecuting At^mey. ] ’.James,Edwards, who aided hi uu>,attempt to tuurdor Patrolman B»muel Dec* rent u few weeks ago at .Month Bend, dug his way out of the central police station Tuesday <aftern<>on,. while three or four policemen stood near, lie forced'out the wooden door jam, twisted oIT a bolt and leisurely walked away. The Fort Wuyno ltollee and sheriff nr* working on the murder of Elmer E. Ktirgttson. .lames MaeCormtek, one of tho rirfploye* of Pain's’“Last Days of Pompeii,” arrested on suspicion, <-©uM not be identified as the murderer, u»<l has clearly established an alibi. Oscar Kali lord, tile scene shifter, who started tho fight, hut left tin- scene before the murderous blow was struck, is iteld under SI,OOO bond to answer to a charge of assault with intent to kill. The murderer. Charles Ktnndnrd, joined the show lu Hlotix Ctty’irtx weeks ago. He has not been seen since he brained Ferguson with ,n club. He is 2(1 years old.

A case almost surpassing credulity ha* developed at English Lake by the return of William Chambers after an absence of forty-seven years. In the spring of 1840 Chambers, then a young man. left hi* wife*,a bride of flf|e<;ii months, ainl on« child, a babe la the cradle, to seek his fortune on the Pacific coast. He took up a claim and letters to his wife told of the wealth he was accumulating. He was gone a year when the letters stopped. The wife still clung to the hope that he would return, but montlu* lapsed Into years ami still Chambers was absent. Fifteen years from the time Chambers left Indiana Mrs. Chambers was again married and five childrt*i were born, ail of whom are living. Her second husband’s name was Wolke, and lie lived until 189 L Sunday Chambers, aged (10, his figure bowed with the weight of years, returned home. He did noj expect to find his wife, but It was to learn Her fate and to locate the wherealsmts of' the child, who bad grown to manhood, that lie left California, where his fortune had been made. Chambers says that the success on which he had first calculated did not materialize. He became discouraged, and fearful that thenews of his failure would he a crushing blow to his wife he ceased to write to her. When the time came that a fortune was within his grasp word came that she had died of a broken heart. He gave up his life to the pursuit of* woalth, hoping that his fortune would become the inheritance of his ouly son, es whose whereabouts bewas also ignorant. The long-separated couple will again live together. Harry Long. George 'Kantmpe! and Gustav Fisher, of New Albany, member* of Company C, Indiana militia, hav<oaeh been fined $5 foj* failing to attend the Indianapolis encampment. Cyra* Khiqphaft. and Joseph Mehell have been dishonorably discharged. There is an apple, tree in the yard of A. N. Lines, of Ejwood, that presents a stfange appearance. The tree is full of apples and lias again thrown out bloom*, and is loaded with apples and blossoms at the same time. Nothing like it has ever been seen in that vicinity and it attracts much attention. While Eddie, the 12-year-old son of William South, of Lebanon, was plgying with a revolver the weapon was accidentally discharged, the shot taking effect in the breast of Eddie McCoy, a lad about tho game age, who was fatally injured. 4 Thomas Knotter, of-Crojyii Point, was arrested for bigamy. ' tie married his first wife eight years ago in Oklahoma aw,' moved to Chicago during the World’s Fair in 1803. He made the acquaintance of Fannii dffcek. who mart-led; Wm under the impression that ho was a single; nttm Knotter hndstwo children by his firat wife? deMertihjj hli family feur'yeant after* b» WOs hiArrted. i: .<Both Knott or • and HlstoU* will be trletf for tiffiM&y. ’ h■ • t U. ;»ll) t \ a J IAA ..Jl if' %ft .' 1 -i i * "• ■ ‘