Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1895 — HOOSIER HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS

NEW? OF THE WEEK CONCISELY - CONDENSED. What Oar Neighbors are Doing—Matters of General and Local Interest—Marriages and Deaths—Accidents and Crime*—Personal Pointers About Indlanlans. Minor State News. Greenfield is to have a new $150,003 court house. Oaktow seems to be the Mecca for burglars. The glass works at Cicero have resumed operations and 800 men are employed. The business men of Logansport are protesting Against the erection of telephone poles in the streets. The Thirty-sixth Indiana Kegiment wilt hold its annual reunion at Cambridge City on Sept. , , 25 and 20. Delaware County Commissioners refused 'pool and billiard privileges to 25 saloon applicants at Muncie. —A beer war is on at Logansport with ~pros , pgcts~of'~Ttre stuff” herein in g cheap- - enough to sprinkle the streets with. l)avii« Markland, Kbkoifto, having a presentiment of sudden death, arose iu bed, kissed his wile and fell hack dead. John Graham has filed suit against 80 prominent Burlington citizens, asking SI,OOO from each for destroying his saloon with dynamite. Winamac has no jail and the City Marshal has heen using a Panhandle box-car to lock prisoners in. He locked several in the ear, and a freight train hauled car and all away. 1 At Goshen, Miss Katherine Stutsman, aged 68, tripped as she was crossing her kitchen floor and fell, death resulting in a few hours afterwards from ihternal injuries. John C. of Chicago, one of a trio of crooks who had a desperate battle with Deputy Sheriffs in Fort Wayne on May 28, was sentenced to seme 10 years in Michigan City Penitentiary, ~ Bv reason of the "Nicholson law nine ~ saloons have so far been forced out of business in Clinton County. Two withdrew at Kirklin, one at Sedalia, one at Colfax and three at Frankfort. John Leisure, aged 84 years, while hauling school desks near Arlington, struck a. rock and was thrown from the spring seat of the wagon under the horses’ feet. They began kicking and trampled him terdeath. Miss Mary Ward, school teacher near Farmland, was struck by lightning. It struck her on the forehead, circling: the head: andTheirshot down tire backbone b* her feet, tearing her shoes off. Her recovery is doubtful. At RushvUle, Jesse Williams, a boy was leading a cow to pasture and became entangled in the rope, frightening the cow. It began to run and dragged the boy several blocks, injuring him seriously about the head and shoulders. The Rev. P. J. Albright, pastor of theM. E. Church at Farmland, having been elected State Organizer of the Partriotic Order Sons of America, will resign from the ministry, and remove to Indianapolis for permanent residence. At Diamond Lake, about thirty miles from South Bend, a pleasure steamboat,, the Leo Roy, had on hoard a party of people from Mishawaka, and when out in. mid-lake the boat sprang a leak. The captain ran,her into shallow water just a* .she sank ,apd sav.cil th.c lives si. . those .onboard, who were taken to land iu a row boat. Thomas Cook, aged 74, who was sent toprison for one year from Greene County,, has been pardoned by Governor Matthews,. Cook was convicted last February on the. charge of embezzlement. He was guardian for several heirs, and when he made his settlement he was $1,009 short. lie- disapneared for two months and his friends contended that his mind was unbalanced. The Judge and jury that tried him exerted an influence in behalf of the pardon. An accident occurred at the Ilodson gravel pit, near Kussiavillo, resulting in the death of Alexander James, who was working in the pit shoveling sand. He was getting' Ids sand from under a high bank, which caved in and buried him alive. His son-in-law, who was with him, worked almost an hour in removing tho earth and sand,and found the old gentleman still conscious. He was taken to town, but died in the wagon. He was 75 years old. Cora Teal, 13 years old, daughter of ’Squire P. J. Teal, of Oakland, was strangely afflicted, and the death which came to lieV a few days ago was a relief from terrible suffering. Her head had grown enormously, weighing, perhaps, more than all the rest of the body combined. She had never stood upon her feet during her lifetime, as the weight of her head over-balanced her. Her arms and hands were normal, but the lower limbs did not grow correspondingly. Indianapolis capitalists are said to be behind an enterprise for the construction of an electric railway line from Huntington to Ligonier, by way of Columbia City, lluch Bros., of tho latter pHeo, who represent the Indiauapolltans have applied to the Common Council of Columbia City for a rigid of way through the streets of that place and tho franchise was readily granted. The object of building the line is to tap a flue summer resort region, the territory for miles on either side of the proposed line being dotted with beautiful lakes. The distance between Huntington and Ligonier is about forty miles. The grand jury at Rockville has returned an indictment against Daniel Kellar, Nannie, his wife, and Maggie, his sister, charging them jointly with tho murder of Clara Shanks, July 0. The motive for tho crime was joalousy on the part of Mrs. Kellar. who suspected her husband of Intimacy with the girl. It is supposed the girl went to the Kellar house, where a light ensued, in which the girl was killed. Her body was concealed until night, when it was. carried and thrown into a pool, where it was discovered nearly next morning. Suicide was the first theory. This is'dlsproved. by wounds afterward found on the body. The first annual picnic of the farmers of Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan was held at South Bend with an attendance of about 6,000. lion. Alpha Messer of Vermont, Worthy Lecturer of tho Xa* tional Grange, delivered an address. Lewis Allen accidentally shot und killed Charles Sturms nt Brewersvillo, a small station near Holton. Allen playfully pointed the gun at his companion, telling him he would shoot him, at the same time pulling the trigger. The entire load struck Sturms in the stomach, killing him instantly. Coroner Cox was called and viewed the remains. Allen Is almoi* distracted over the deed.