Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1897 — Short State Items. [ARTICLE]

Short State Items.

Gottfried Eisman, a farmer near Kendallville, was found dead in his hay field. Neighbors advance the theory that he was prostrated, while many claim he was murdered. There have been hundreds of tramps in the vicinity of late. At South Bend. Patrolman Samuel Derrent shot Charles Krinkle. The officer was attempting to arrest the man, the latter running away. Derrent ordered him to halt, and the order not being complied with, Derrent fired. Krinkle may recover. The huckleberry crop in northern Indiana, Usually amounting to many thousand bushels, will be light this year. It is ripe, and persons who have been through the marshes in Fulton nnd Marshal! counties say that the crop is light. There has been an abundance of rainfall, and the recent hot weather has been conducive to the ripening of the fruit, but it is not maturing properly, and both in quality and quantity the yield will be inferior. A singular and fatal accident occurred in Liberty township, near Wabash, the victim being Sherman Thompson, the son of E. B. Thompson, a wealthy farmer. Owing to tlie intense heat the young man had unhitched his team from a self-binder and was standing near a large ong tree, when lightning struck the tree, shivering it. The tree struck one of the horses, which fell over on him. crushing him to the ground, inflicting internal iujaiUa. Um horse was instantly killed.