Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — HUSTLING HOOSIERS. [ARTICLE]

HUSTLING HOOSIERS.

TEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATE--4a Interesting Summary of the Hare la. portent Doings of Our Neighbor*—Wed- “ Singe and Deitthe—Crimes, Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. Minor State News. Typhoid fever is on the increase ai Richmond. Ax unknown man wa3 literally ground ! to pieces by a Vandalia train, at Terre liante. White Rivep. in Madison County is Ift- , tie better than a stagnant pool, so intense is the drouth. Ax unknown tramp was caught by a Vandalia train at Terre Haute and literally tom to pieces. Jortx Isiiam and John Moore were fatally burned by a gas explosion in the coal mines near Chandler. QrixcY Smai.ey, a farm hand near Union City, was Ricked In the stomach by a mule, dying Instantly. A boy at Crawfordsvllle bought a horse for 5 cents at'a sale and sold the animal to the rendering factory for S 5 cents. Sidxey Cook, an employe of the Lebanon furniture factory, was probably fatally injured by being drawn into the machinery. Ciias. Kiseti. a farmer near Lebanon, fatally shot bis wife, recently. She had gone into the yard, and he thought she was a dog. James Leer of Elwood, while shooting at pigeons, fired toward August Munehenberger’s house, seriously injuring him and his .daughter. The Wabash County Township Trustees have decided that they will not obey the new law in having reports of their official transactions published. Suit has been instituted against them. Oxe week ago the 8-)'ear-otd daughter of Policeman W. Geery of Decatur, was burned to death. A week later her twin brother fell from a tree, breaking both legs and his back, and will die. A bicycleis was run down by a passenger train on the Lake Shofe, near Swant6n. and his body was tom to nieces. A fragment of an envelope in his possession bore the address of Charles Ware of Toledo, Ohio. TnE sixth annual retmion of the Bell family was held at the Morris Springs, one mile southeast of Dublin. A large number of descendants of the family were present. A bountiful dinner was spread and the program included reading of papers, recitations, singing, letters from absent ones, speeches, exhibition of relics, etc.

The mangled body of Robert Leonard, of White Pigeon, Mich., was found by the side of the railroad track near Richmond, where he had been struck by a train. He was in charge of a carload of horses enroute from New Castle to the Kendallvilte races, llow the accident occurred is not known. A boo fire three miles south of Ander son that has been burning for three months past has now assumed alarming proportions. The groundfor two feet is red hot and the fire is slowly spreading in all directions. It has already reached high land in several -places and is -firing the witheredgrass, fences, and all else in its track. Water is being hauled from the water works in Terre Haute to Paris, Charleston, and Mattoon, 111., and to the mining town of Fontanet, Ind., on account of the scarcity of the supply in those places. Tbe Big Four shops at Mattoon were stopped until water was received from here. About thirty tanks of water are sent from here to the several places every day. Many building associations have failed to make their reports to the State Auditor, a* required by law, and this official is now sending out copies of the law bearing on the question, with the information that longer delay will subject the delinquent associations to a fine of SIOO. A failure to file a report of the condition of the association also calls for an enforced examination under the direction of the Auditor. Farmers in Northern Indiana are trying to solve the disease which causes their cattle to go stone blind in both eyes In a seconds time. The disease was first discovered among David Stewart’s herd of cattle, consisting of ninety head of fineblooded short-hon;3. Veterinary surgeons believe it is caused hy some new insect. It is estimated that tIO.iDO worth of cattle have been ruined in the past tpn days. Joel Kkrblixg, an insane prisoner at the county jail at Logansport, was found suspended ill his cell, having bung himself with a rope formed of the sheet from his bed. lie was found in a short time after he swung off and, with some trouble, was revived. He at once attempted to repeat the painful experiment, saying “Christ calls me, and I must go to Him.” He has lieen placed in the Northern Insane Hospital. Some workmen in a gravel bank, near the Elkhorn mills, Richmond, found a huge skeleton of a man. A half of one of the jaws was found, with the teeth preserved. The jaw was sufficiently large to fit over the outside of the jaw, flesh and all, of a man of ordinary size, indicating that the original possessor of the skeleton was a man of great physical mold. It is expected that all the parts will be found upon further search. A scaffold in the new Strauss Block at Seymour, gave way. Mayor Joseph Balsley, the architect of the building; John Humes, a member of the firm erecting the building; Henry Barkraan and Andy Heyob, carpenters, fell to the floor below, a distance of eighteen feet. Mayor Balsley sustained a fracture of the right leg and is suffering with concussion of the spine. lie is in a critical condition. John Humes’ right ankle was fractured, and he is also suffering with concussion of the spine. In the descent Andy Heyob’s head struck the wall and a large part of the hair was torn off, laying the scalp bare. He is suffering pain. Henry Barkman is badly bruised, but the extent of, the injuries which he sustained cannot be learned. All are suffering with concussion of the spine. Mr. axd Mrs. Charles Hitesmax, a well-known aged couple ot Elkhart, have been singularly unfortunate with their children. Seventeen years ago their son John was burned to death. In 1888, while returning from a dance, Edward jumped from a train at a crossing and was so badly injured that he died in a few hours later. In 1880 William was killed in a runaway, and in 1881 George was blown into the tops of some trees by the explosion of a rotator m the combination board mill there being conAned to his bed for a year and rendered a cripple for life. The other day Asa, tbe remaining son, fell forty feet from a tree and cannot live.