Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — INDIANA INCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED. " ™ 1 An Interesting Summary of the More Im. portant DoL» K » of Our dings and Denthe—Crimea, Casualties and General News Notes Condensed State Nows. Goshen people are about to secure a boiler manufactory in'their city. " White cap bofices are being served on many persons in Daviess County. Grant County now claims to have three of the largest oil wells in the States * e The badness portion of Kent, near Madison, was wiped out by flames. Peter Weber was fatally burned by a gas explosion at an Anderson glass factory. Wakarusa is jnbilant over the prospect of getting a buggy and wagon factory. Walter Wilkins, 15, was thrown from a colt near and fatally injured. Eart, Foreman was instantly killed at Goshen, by falling in front of a w agon loaded with stone. _ ■ ' . Bend exploded a cartridge with a stone. He only has one hand now. i . , Chas. Burger, aged 13, fell into a chute in the sewer-pipc works at Brazil and was smothered to death. Wm. Douglass, -aged 21, committed suicide with laudanum under the floor of the diking halt pt the Wabash fairgrounds. Three prisoners in the Madison Jail escaped by sawing out several iron bars in a window and lowering themselves to the jail yard. A team driven by John Defard and Joseph Baum, of Frankfort, was struck by a passenger train. Baum’s injuries may prove fatal. T All fruit growers agree that southern Indiana’s apple crop, this season, will be the heaviest and the best that has been raised for many years. Nay & Adajb’s sawmill, together with a large amount of lumber and logs were burned at Max, eight miles west of Lebanon. Loss, $5,000; no insurance. The City Council of West Indianapolis unanimously passed a resolution offering a reward of SSOO for any information leading to arrest of the-murderer of little Ida Gebhardt. William Eckerman, the 19-year-old son of Louis Eckerman, of Terre Haute,has been missing for several months, and from information received it is believed he was drowned in Lake Michigan, while working on a Chicago boat. John Dunn, employed at the Kenneth quarries, took a walk on the Panhandle track, and while in the act of stopping to light a pipe was struck by the Chicage express and instantly killed. Dunn was 45 years c.ld. The accident occurred near Kenneth station, four miles from Logansport. While fishing with a seining party, on the Wabash River south of Williamsport, William Keefer fell from a boat and was drowned. It is supposed he became entangled in the seine, as the young man did not rise after sinking. No help could be rendered hjm. He was a respected young fanner living near Williamsport. , • Charles Lucas, foreman of the engine crew at the new Monon shops, Lafayette, was killed recently. He was setting the brake on a gravel car, and the stem broke, throwing him between the cars. His right arm was severed above the elbow, and the top of his head was cut off above the eyes. Sir. Lucas was a brother-in-law of W. IL McDel, General Manager of the road. The remains were sent to his home at State Line, Ind,, for burial. Daniel Brittenham, ajanner, living two miles south of Windfall, was seriously if not fatally injured by having his arm caught in the wheels of a threshing machine. He was working near the wheels, when his shirt sleeve’teaught in the cogs of tlie wheels neat his elbow. He made a desperate effort to rid himslef bimself by tearing away from the sleeve, but the material was too strong, and his arm was drawn into tlie cogs, catching near the elbow of the left irmto the wrist, grinding the flesh on one side of the arm to a pulp to the bone. In trying to extricate himself he threw his hand further into the machinery, cutting off the palm of the hand and three fingers.

A. D. Hensler and other farmers of Liberty Township, Howard County, were made tlie victims of the old tin box swindle last week. A man giving his name as John Schmidt, a horse buyer, went to Hensler several days ago, engaged Mr- Ilensler’s assistance in buying horyes, they purchasing a large number ot animtls, some being paid for and some not. Schmidt brought with him a small fin box which he said contained $2,000 in cash, which he kept at the Hensler home>while buying and shipping. The other day Schmidt mysteriously disappeared and has not since been heard of. The defrauded farmers took the tin, box to Kokomo, expecting to be made whole out of the $2,000 it was supposed to contain, but when Sheriff Sumption cut it open with a hatchet there was revealed to sight two ordinary clay bricks, nothing more. One of the boldest robberies ever perpetrated in that section of the country occurred tlie other nignt within a stone’s throw of the city limits of Union City. The residence of David Potter, just north-west ot the city limits, was the scene. Mr. Potter was aroused about 2 o’clock by a loud crash. He jumped from his bed and was confronted by four men with red handkerchiefs over their faces. Mr. Potter was seized and bound, and his wife and son were similarly treated. Mr. Potter had taken a large quantity of wheat to town the day before, and it is supposed the robbers entered for the purpose of getting the money he received. However, they found nothing but a certificate of deposit from one of the banks. The robbers left with but a small sum and a gold watch. Mr. Potter was bound with wire and his flesh was cruelly cut. The marauders came in buggies and left in that way. The doors were burst in with fence rails. .Commodore McCammon, aged 41, was struck by a south-bound freight train on the Pennsylvaniaroad and instantly killed. The accident occurred at Speed’s Station, eight miles north of Jeffersonville. McCammon leaves a wife and three children in destitute circumstances. Theodore Brizendine was driving from, a neighbor’s to his home in Eden, when his wife and four-months-old baby were in some way thrown from the buggy. The wife’s neck was broken and she died instantly, and the baby was so badly injured that it is throught it will die. The tragedy is supposed to have been caused bv reckless driving by Btizendinc.