The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-24

turn of his maady during the last few
days prior to the commission Of the terri
bic crime, and it Is supposed that he was
taken suddenly and violently insane Thurs
day night, and without warning, while his
wife was peace ely s,umbering, deliber-
ately murdered her., and after finding that
she was dead. killed himself The news Of
the crime spread Ike wild fire and great
excitement prevailed I'm the community
throughout Friday owing TO the promi-
nence of the victims of the deed. The
wife and hus,7 were buried side by side
in the hltle e.a~r ard near Marietta and
the funers' -rve were attended by the
saddened and friends of the dead
in great rt.l-a New Albany Ledger.
Adelbert HI.-r was released from the
northern prison Thursday evening. Boyer
was given a life sentence for murder in
White county In October. 1885, but his
sentence was commuted to six years. lie
was seen on the streets today by the Re
porter and appeared much the same as of
yore with the exception Of loss of flesh.
Naturally he was delighted u see his Old
friends here and to be abe once more To
sniff the air Of freedom. With the utmost
earnestness he still protests his innocence
and says ne never knew q thing about the
murder of which he was convicted. Tna
crime was alleged To have been committed
in the Jail at Peru. Boyer is the son Of
Allen Boyer. a well-SnOwn farmer of Tip
ton township, this county. He was COM
but occasionally permitted liquor 10 get
the best of him. On one Of these occasions
he was at Peru and was arrested and
jailed for intoXicatiOn. At the same time
another man, a barber Of that place, was
run in for a similar Offense. The next
morning the barber was dead and Boyer
was charged with killing him. He was
convicted but to this day ne sOlennly
protests that the man was either fatally
Injured by sOma one before being brought
f11 l1e nv ia fnr
himself against the walls of the jail. So
s5rong was he belief of his Innocence and
SO weak the circumstantial evidence
against him that his sentence was COM
muted. as above stated. from life to six
years.-LoganspOrt Reporter
The writer had the pleasure not many
moons ago of attending what is called a
mutual Improvement party" at the
home of ore Of WashingtOn's bellies, and
thinking that such parties should be en-
courage1. n has written the following,
expla lining what a mutual Improvement
party" i Invitations are issued the
same as for other society events, except
that on the back is written what the in
vited is expected to do TO entertain and
instruct the others present Such par
ties could be conducted on purely
literary scale, interspersing the literary
events on the program with music and
dancing. thus relieving the monOtony
and making such parties cOngenial TO all
and q real source Of mutual improve
ment. Not only would it be a source of
much good in this way. but il would
make all timid persons who are subject
to stage fright more able to collect
their thoughts when called upon to talk.
What heavenly substitute such parties
would be for the sO-cllled swell parties
and dances and the late hurs, now 50
prevalent in society. At the recent 'mu-
tual improvement party which the writer
attended there was but two in a crowd
of thirty who did give what could be
called an intelligent discourse. One young
man was SO embarrassed that he forgot
what connection the cucumber had to a
modern discovery. Another young man,
between frequent strokes Of his beautiful
mustache, told of a Greene county farmer
who had three hundred and thirty-three
pigs The young curly-haired editor
gave a talk which democrats could not
enjoy. Among those who were too timid
to talk upon anything at all was no.
ticed young ieweler and certain
deputy auditor Washington Democrat.
Sunday noon a mad COW, belonging to
Huffman Bros, broke our Of the pens at
the slaughter house in the eastern part
of the city and ran down Broadway-st.
playing sad havoc and leaving damage
and destruction all along the line.
When at the corner Of Third and Broad
way, William Huffman, who was trying
to catch the mad animal, seized hold Of
a rope WHICH WAS pldCeu dlpuliu us neck
and threw the wild animal to the ground.
Several ladies were standing in George
Fendrichs yard and he warned the wOm-
en- to get in the house as the cow was mad
and he knew it would be only matter
of time when the COW would raise to her
feet and begin the fight again. Before the
women had time to get in the house the
animal gave 2 spring and was on its feet
in less time than it takes to tell it. The
maddened animal tossed Mr.. Huffman in
and caught Mrs T.. j. LOten. gathered
her upon its horns and tossed her several
feet in the air and when Mrs Loten fell
on the ground the furious brute fell on top
of her. almost crushing the life out Of
her. Mrs L. was picked up and was
found to be horribly bruised and for
time was thought to have received inter
nal injuries, but upon examination was
found to only be suffering from external
bruises and from fright The mad ami
NAL against Mr.. Fendrich's house,
tearing Off a couple OF window shutters,
turning over a valuable vase, besides do
ing other damage From there the furi-
Gus animal went on its course down
Broadway, and while passing Second-st.
the enraged brute ran into Mrs. Charles
Phster of OFT n. Third-st., who was re-
turning home from church with her one
month old baby. The mad brute tossed
the baby, buggy and all into mid air
throwing the baby out and tearing the
buggy 10 smithereens. The baby was
picked up in lifeless condition and car
ried to the office of Drs. Holloway &
Rice. who gave ii stimulants and after
working quite a while the baby revived
and today is apparently better. but still
IN a critical condition. The wild bovine
was chased down Water-st. in it's mad
career and when directly back Of Mes
DANES Freernans. followed by multitude
of people, who we're thirsting for its blood
Mr. Hoffman shot the beast twice when it
fell TO the ground in a heap, dead-Vin-
cennes Sun.