Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — HOOSIER HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Neighbors are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crimes—Personal Pointers About Indianians. Minor State News. The neighborhood of Newborn is infested with chicken thieves. Owing to a barbers’ war at Goshen a hair cut costs but ten cents. The latest improvement talked of for Sonth Bend is a $100,000 hotel. Eli West of Fairlandj was sun struck while fishing. He is in a precarious condition. Mrs. John York,Pern, by mistake gave her two children kerosene to drink. May prove fatal. In the last few days a flood of counterfeit ten-eent-pieces have found their way into circulation at El wood. Jf.sse Croup, 10-year-cid son of A. J. Croup, feH iff the Elkhart River while fishing at Goshen and was drowned. Doi>e Cecil, young fanner near Farmland, was in his barn when it was struck by lightning, lie was instantly killed. □ lx is estimated that the wheat crop in Hamilton county will not average a bushel to the acre, and but little will be harvested; Met Kernat, of Rockportf aged 18, was accidentally shot and killed by Robert Meyers, aged 17. The boys were shooting birds. , 4 - • - . - - A number of heirs to Lord Antrim’s estate in Ireland, valued at $75,000,000, reside near Ei wood. They will push their claims. —Jimmy Hugos went into White River at Columbus, for the jiurjiose of drowning two cats. lie was seized with cramps and lost his life. —■ Louis Ashworth, a young farmer living near Alpine, was fatally kicked in the stomach by a horse which became frightened at a passing bicycle. Suit for SIO,OOO has been filed against tho Pan-handle railway at Kokomo by the administrator of the estate of Oscar Romick. Romick was killed while unloading goods from a car. . Moiioan Black rode up toGeorge Fisher’s house, near Mt. Vernon, and shot him dead. Fisher kept company with Black’s sister and Black suspected that something was wrong. William McDonald, a tailor, who had just returned from a three weeks’ unsuccessful hunt for work, committed suicide at Kokomo with laudanum, leaving a wife and two children. James Rumbaugji, farmer near Laporte, allowed a stranger tb make him believe that he was a cousin of his and then gave him $3 aird signed a paper. The latter turns out to be a note. Alvarado Hommeli,, Madison, has received a “white cap” notice, saying that he will suffer bodily harm unless he executes a deed for a graveyard plat. He owns the ground but refuses to sell. Fred Smock, a farm hand near Terre Haute, while returning from a call on Farmer Pennington’s daughter, was shot by some unknown person and dangerously wounded. The assailant is supposed to to a jealous rival. - John Cook, a colored barber, aged 30, attempted to crawl under a freight train at a street crossing on the Big Fonr road at Muncie, and both legs were mashed so badly that amputation at the hips was necessary. He died three hours later. Chris Meyer’s barn, near Jeffersonville, was struck by lightning and destroyed. His daughter, who was alone at home, succeeded in rescuing seven head of horses. The barn contained several fine buggies, surreys, etc., and the loss will reach $4,000. In a woods near J onesvilie, Sam Smalju wood, of that place, while squirrel hunting, was almost instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. Smallwood is the third sou of the family to meet death in an unnatural w r ay. One son died from the effeotsTif eatihg a poisonous herb and another was killedln a railroad wreck. Charles Stout, a well known resident of Monroe Township, Howard County, who has been ill, left his room and went out on the second story veranda to get a breath of fresh air. While there he fainted and fell off the structure to the ground. In the fall his head struck a step, tearing his scalp off and inflicting other injuries from which he will probably die. A petition is being circulated at Brazil, and liberally signed, asking the Governor to pardon James Booth, aged 19, Robert liankin, aged 18, and William Wilson, aged 17, who are now serving twoyear sentences for the murder of Engineer William Barr of the Yandalia, on June 6, 1894. The prisoners were strikers, and stoned Barr, who was a non-union engineer, to death. Marion Siiideler, a farmer aged 70, residing three miles northwest of Cambridge City, was thrown from a load of straw and died from his injuries. He was crossing the Lake Erie and Western tracks, his horses became frightened by a Big Four train using the tracks, and the team ran away. Rounding a corner, Mr. Bhideler was thrown off the hay, against a tree and his skull fractured. On May 21, Mrs. Mary Day of Greencastle, a widow, placed S3O in paper money on a stove in an ordinary purse. She placed the top of the stove over the same for safe keeping. The next morning was a chilly one and she built a lire in the stove, which burned her pocketbook and money into an unrecognizable mass of ashes. The wreck was gathered up by a newspaper reporter, who, as an experiment, took the same to the Central National Bank to forward to Washington. This was done together with a statement of the' circumstances, and the other day Mrs. Day received a draft for her S3O. How the money was identified is a mystery to one unacquainted with the system employed by the government, as the bills were nothing but ashes when removed and could not be told from the other ashes of the burned book. A fast fruit train on the Wabash struck and killed William Kuyjah in the yards at Logansport. The victim was 53 years old, and was on his way to the home of Miss Minnie Goldsmith, to whom he was to be married. Kuyjah was employed at the Tan-handle shops. Otto Huff, a prominent young man of Livonia, ten miles east of Orleans, was instantly killed. He and Hersebel Kelly were hunting together and undertook to run a squirrel out of a tree. Kelley climbed the tree and Huff went to hand him his gun, when it w&s discharged, the entire load entering his abdomen. Huff was It yews old. *