Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1896 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE 1 PAST WEEK. Determined Opposition to the Draid age of Balamonte River Flat*— • table Hart Murdered at Waterloo—» Mrs. Buchanan Loses Her Child. Farmers Fight Drainage Plan. The farmers along the Satamonte Rivet end its tributaries in Indiana are fighting the plan of increasing the fall of the waterways that 100,000 acres of hind maybe reclaimed. They are calling meetings io different townships and organizing tn resist the movement. They are not inquiring whether the proposed dredging will recover the land or not, but are bitterly opposed to it on the ground that they cannot meet the expense necessary to carry out the work. The cost is estimated by the projectors at SIOO,OOO, but the farmers say it will require $500,000. Tte money is to be raised by taxing the land benefited. The farmers along the streams are endeavoring to get the signatures of the land owners representing a majority of the acreage, with which, they aay, they will defeat the petitions before the different boards of county commissioners. Thera is said to l>e something further behind the farmers’ objections. It is stated by some who are calling the meetings that the land owners really want the project carried out, but they wnnt the State government to pay for it. The drainage would not only increase the value of land* now under cultivation, but would add grewtfly to the acreage.

Kill* While Kesisting Arrest. Adolph Case, a citizen of Waterloo, left home suddenly several weeks ago. He was suspected of horse stealing and a warrant was placed in the hands of officers for his arrest. No effort was made to capture him as it was supposed that he would ultimately return and, besides, it was not certainly known that he wa* cognizant of tho fact that he was under suspicion. lie returned Saturday morning and when Constable Hart went to arrest him ho found Case engaged in a qunrrefl with a man named Stevens. Hart ♦•ailed upon Caso to surrender, but the tatter drew his revolver and the two men grappled. In the struggle Hart throw Case to the ground, but Case shot Hart hi the groin, causing a wound that resulted in death an hour later. Caso escaped, but bloodhounds will be placed on hi* track. \ Child Stolen from an Asylum. Pearl Buchanan, n 2-ycnr-old baby, of Kokomo, is missing. A few weeks ago the child’s mother moved to Noblesville, and, the whereabouts of the father being unknown, tho little one was placed iu or orphan asylum at Loganaport. Last week relatives went to the asylum to visit the baby, mul wore surprised to learn that she was not there, having been taken away by an unknown man, who produced pajx>rs giving him authority over her, announcing that he would put her in an Indianapolta institution. A visit to Indianapolis disclosed that she was not these and had not been there. The distracted relatives returned home, and, accompanied by Officers Welty and his bloodhounds, wont to lx>gansport. The mother iu frantic over the abduction of her baby. All Over the State. While passing through a large cornfield on his farm tho other dny, Thomas Ray discovered a neatly dug grave. An empty’ nox, such as is used to place a coffin in, had been left on tho up-turned earth at the side of tho grave. The grave was dug in the middle of a large field and was completely hidden from view by the tnll corn that surrounded it, and, but for tho accid. ntiil visit of Mr. Ray, would not have been discovered. Tho find created a sensation and hundreds of people visited tho spot. Mr. Ray and a neighbor kept watch over It, expecting that there might bo some developments, but no one appeared 1* the vicinity. Mathias Bother, a wealthy and respected citizen of Decatur, has been actually starving to death for the past two months. During that time little or no nourishment has entered his stomach and he has wasted away until he ta a living skeleton. Skilled physicians have been consulted all over the country, but nona of them is able to give him any relief or diagnose his case. Up to the time he became afflicted with this terrible malady lie had never been sick one day. Mr.. Sethor, fully realizing his condition and! knowing that he has but a short time to live, lias been making all arrangements) for his funeral, and has gone about every detail as sarefully as he would a business transaction. Ho had members of his family drive him to the cemetery, where he picked out a burial lot and gave directions toward the erecting of a monument and otherwise beautifying his last resting place. This completed, he returned to his home, which he never expects to leave except as a corpse. The Secretary of the State Board of Health reports an awful condition of things in a district foyr miles from West Baden and French Lick Springs, growing, out of neglect in treatment of malignant dinhtheria. Altogether there have been seventy-five cases and twenty deaths. In one family visited by the Secretary two children lay dead, while close at hand were three children and the mother fatally ill with the same disease. In another family, while one child lay dying, five other children running around were zo badly afflicted that they could not swai-,, low. No attempt had been made at quarantining the infected houses, and attendant physicians were going from house to> house without changing clothing. Thai Secretary has forwarded supplies of anti-i toxin and disinfectants, and has quarantined West Baden and French Lick Springs against the infected district., Throughout the district the people seemed unaware of the dangerous character of the epidemic, and whether or not it can b» confined to its present limits is problems!- 1 leal. Ait Columbia City the jury in the trial of Edgar Warner returned a verdict Fridas evening, after being out four hours, finding him guilty of murder in the first degree and fixing the penalty at imprisonment for life. Warner lay in ambush Muy 23, 1896, and shot Frank an<| Ulysses Badger with a rifle, killing the former and badly crippling the tatter. He blamed them for influencing his wife to procure a divorce from him and also for controlling his father-in-law in making a will that disinherited him. The verdict is cons’dered just, although the evidence was entirely ctrcumstantial. Prof. Joseph Layne was moved from the Richmond insane asylum to the home of relatives at Frankton. He is in a comatose state, and cannot survive many days. Mr. Layne was a member of the State Board of Education, for years iq charge of Evansville schools. A number of sheep around Wabaeh have died recently of a mysterious disease. They became sick after being turned out on pasture, fingering for a week or more and refused to eat It ia found now that a stomach worm, a parasite about an inch in length, causes the malady, being found in great numbers iq the fourth stomach of the animals wMcta were cut open. •*