Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1886 — HOOSIER HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS.

An Interesting Hatch of Miscellaneous (' News From AH Parts of the Mate. F” ■ ......1..,. ■ i —John McCoy, a well-known citizen of Charleston, has died at the age of 64 years. —The Terre Haute Light Infantry is having a regulation uniform made in Philadelphia. *—™ i —Sam Fields’ residence, near Cory, was burglarized, and $154) taken from under his pUlow. —Burglars broke into W. H. Sattler’s whisky store, at Terre Haute, and carried off six thousand cigars. —The Cement mills, of Clark County, on a demand for higher wages, have largely reduced the number of their employes. —Charles Wachtel, of Scipio, sprung from a train running at thirty miles an hour, and fractnred his skull, dying soon afterward. —At Mount Healthy, 8. B. Brown, township trustee, was bitten by a copperhead snake while repairing his fence, and death is expected. —Word has been received at Evansville of the killing of George Metcalf, of that city, at Austin, by a man named Ravel, in a quarrel. —At Goshen, Charles Courtes and William Jacobs quarreled in a saloon over a girl. Courtes stabbed Jacobs and fled. The wound is in the breast and may result fatally.

—There are 365 ex-Union soldiers in the township in which Jeffersonville is situated. There are seventy-five soldiers* widows, of whom only seven have remarried. —Mrs. King, wife of E. D. King, editor of the Hendricks County Gazette, fell dead while walking across a room in her residence at Danville. Her death was caused by heart disease. —The remains of a-mastodon have been unearthed near Elkhart. -The frontal bone was fully three feet wide, and one well-preserved front tooth weighed four and one-half pounds. —Charles, the 3-year-old son of William Hassler, while playing in the yard at the Penn House, near Fort Wayne, raised the cistern cover and fell in and was drowned before he was missed. —The members of the Thirty-first Indiana regiment have made arrangements to hold a regimental reunion, at Rockville, Sept. 8 and 9. Good lodgings and faro will be furnished all visiting comrades. —Daniel Kallenbach, an aged citizen of Henryville, fell from a load of hay and was killed. He dropped his hat, and in making an effort to catch it fell under the feet of his mule team, one of which kicked him in the head, producing almost instant death. —At New Haven, six miles east of Fort Wayne, Henry Miller, a tramp, in attempting to board a Nickel Plate freight train, slipped and fell under the trucks. His right foot was crushed to a pulp and the left fearfully lacerated. Both feet wero amputated. —Henry Fray, who was taken to St. Anthony’s Hospital at Terre Haute with a cut in his hand which threatened to occasion lock-jaw, was turned out of the hospital and wandered away. He was next found dead in a ditch some distance from the city. He was old and dissipated, though at one time a well-to-do farmer and coroner of Sullivan County. —Horace Madlem, aged 26, and Miss Mamie Giddings. aged 22, were drowned at Bristol, in the St. Joe River. They were crossing the river just above the dam, in a boat, when it upset, and neither being able to swim, they were swept over the dam and drowned before aid could reach them. The body of Madlem, who was a school teacher, has not been recovered. —Mr. Joe Schofield, of the firm of J. Schofield & Son, went to his mill, at Madison, one morning recently, in usual health, bnt soon complained of illness and said he believed he would try to get home. Mr. George Patton, a relative employed in the mill, assisted him across the street to his residence, and he was laid on a couch. He grew steadily weaker for some minutes, and at noon breathed bis last. He was 69 years old. —The following list of patents was issued to Indianians during the past week: Barber, Ira, and J. F. Craft, La Porte, twowheeled vehicle; Cain, Jacob, Fort Wayne, rubber eraser and pencil holder; Gaines, Wilber H., Trenton, hay knife; Gartside, William N., Richmond, core material; Hamilton, James J., New Castle, automatic railway signal; James, Lycurgus L., Medora, whiffletree; Marchand, Charles F., Larwill, clod crusher . and pulverizer; Maurer, William F., Harmony, shoe; Moore, Ambrose, Attica, outside card receiver; Root, George R., Indianapolis, coal breaker; Talcott, Charles R., Valparaiso, perpetual dial calendar. —An inmate of the Tippecanoe County Insane Asylum, named John Snyder, recently took a notion that he owned the building, and that the commissioners were trying to swindle him out of it He procured a chisel and hammer, and going to the corner-stone commenced to demolish it, and to erase the commissioners’ names. He was captured, and immediately made a savage assault on the keeper, named Severson, with a knife. He was disarmed and secured. A search of his room revealed a butcher knife and a heavy club concealed in the bed clothing. The man confessed that he laid plans to “do up" the commissioners the next time they visited the asylum. Snyder has been an* inmate of the asylum about a year, formerly living near Buck Creek. —The forty-seventh annual commencement exercises of Deßauw University will begin Sunday, June 20, when President Martin will deliver the baccalaureate sermon, Rev. Dr. R. M. Barnes will deliver the annual address, and an address will be made by Rev. Dr. I. J. Hight. Interesting exercises will take place on Monday and Tuesday; Wednesday, reunion of the society of the alumni, oration by Hon. Lafayette Joseph, of -the class of ’65. and poem by Rev. A. Kummer, class df *73; Thursday, graduating exercises of the. senior clasp ,