Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. * Temperance People Outwitted at Dale-ville-Farmer Dig* Up Hi* Wife** Corp** Air-Ship Inventor Ha* a Close Call—Tragedy at a Charivari. Daleville temperance people are about to be outwitted in their fight of long standing to prevent saloons from entering their town as a result of a trick. Richard Reynolds made the regulation application for a license and the publication, as was expected by him, brought the customary majority remonstrances signed by 234 taxpayers. In the meantime James Brubaker applied for a license to serve drinks in the Reynolds room, making the advertisement required by law in a Muncie trade journal. The publication was overlooked by Daleville people until it is now too late to remonstrate before the meeting of the commissioners* court. Insane Farmer’s Weird Act. George Hendrixon, a prominent farmer of Osgood, created a grewsome scene on a recent night by going to the grave of his wife, who died a few months ago, disinterring her remains, and embracing the corpse. After getting the body out of the casket Hendrixon went into a maniacal state. The man was almost unmanageable, when several friends attempted to take him away. The body was again buried and Hendrixon was turned over to the sheriff of the county a raving lunatic. Flying Machine 1* Wrecked. Aridas Farmer of EvansviUe had a close call for his life at the Spencer County fair at Chrisney. He gave an exhibition of his flying machine, which was successful. In making his descent the machine struck a church steeple and was demolished. The inventor clung to the steeple and was saved. Charivari End* in a Tragedy. While a party of young men were giving a charivari serenade for John W. Cannady and his bride, Miss Lettie Boyd, at Odon, Floyd Kinman was fatally shot. The noise of drums and tin pans was not enough for some one in the party, who fired a revolver. The bullet entered Kinman’s abdomen. Brazil Coal Miner* Strike. At Brazil, 300,miners employed by the Keeler Coal Company went out on a strike because the boss at the mine refused to allow them to use powder purchased at a store that did not belong to the coal company. The miners say they bought the powder 50 cents cheaper on the keg than sold by the company.

Within Our Border*. Ex-Chief of Police George W. Newitt, Evansville, is dead. Terre Haute car works, in the trust, is decreasing its force. Sixty acres of timber burned near Union City. Origin unknown. Knightstown officials are visiting other towns, studying municipal ownership. Seventeen persons have gone crazy in Cass County since the first of the year. Frank Blue, Delphi, accidentally shot his son, 18, through the forehead. Fatah William Casidy, Lodi, found ground to pieces on the Big Four track, near Brazil.

Fairmount academy, friends’ institution, will be placed under a new management.

Mrs. Alonzo Miller, Kokomo, in drawing a shotgun from under the bed, fatally shot herself.

Joseph R. Padgett, 68, fell asleep on the B. & O. S. W. tracks near Mitchell and was killed.

William McKenzie, Terre Haute, lineman, who fell twenty-five feet and was given up for dead, may recover. The plant of the sand mill at Rosedale was destroyed by fire. Loss $22,000, slight insurance. The mill ground sand rock for a Muucie glass manufactory. The large stock and storage barn owned by Lou Evers, one mile south of Franklin, was fired by some unknown person. Loss estimated at $5,000, partially insured.

John Cragnor and Wayman Adams, a boy artist, who ran away from Muncie a short time ago, were seriously hurt at Decatur, 111. Pipes in a box car in which they were riding rolled on them. Albert Piety, Terre Haute, fired a blank cartridge in the face of Benjamin Adams during the Red Men’s pow-wow, putting his eye out. Adams has now brought suit against Piety for mayhem. Ex-Street Commissioner John Knauff, aged 60 years and married, committed suicide at Vincennes, shooting himself through the heart with a revolver. The cause is believed to be protracted ill health.

Graham Earle, manager of a theatrical troupe playing in Decatur, met his sister, the wife of Rev. J. Q. Cline, whom he had not seen for twehty years, and a banquet followed, where pulpit and stage talent mingled.

The experts who have recently completed an examination into the affairs of the clerk, recorder and sheriff of Marion County find that the ex-recorders and sheriff owe the county nearly SIO,OOO, the amount being made up of fees illegally withheld. The fourth attempt of Miss Lizzie Harris, a pretty 16-year-old girl, to wed Harry Moore, resulted in her apprehension and arrest by the authorities at Elwood. The girl achieved considerable notoriety some time ago by being disappointed at the altar three times by Moore, who would always fail to materialize. The parents of Miss Harris then resolved that their daughter should not marry the man of whom she was enamored. She ran away with Moore, but was arrested on her arrival at Elwood.

Populists of district 6 met in Knightstown. No fusion will be allowed in the district. Jacob Dunkle and bis wife, Logansport, who have lived together fifty-five years, quarreled, and the old lady left her husband, driving the only cow before her. Harvey Banks, a young attorney, was’ found dead in bed at Fort Wayne. It was thought death was due to heart failure, but post-mortem examination revealed poison in the stomach. The young man was in the Twenty-eighth Indiana battery during the late war. The cause Cor suicide ia not known.