The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-26

] leaving a circular pool of blood north of the
; track several feet in diameter. The colt
4 was running so fast that the sudden stop
! threw the buggy into the air the hight Of
/ freight car.
! Charles Myers, resident of Blooming
| dale. made a desperate attempt TO suicide
/ Wednesday night by jumping into the St
Joe river. The man was very drunk and
was observed by some of the employees at
the power station running along the river
i bank and acting in a strange manner
| When II was discovered that his purpose
was suicide a number Of men caught hold
/ of Myers and desperate fight enSued
] The wOuld-be suicide fought like demon
1 and when he was overcome the patrol
wagon was sent for and the man locked
! up at the station. 1t was reported that
! he was crazy, but when he appeared be-
: fore Mayor Oakley this morning he
seemed sensible enough, He was fined 81
and costs and went TO Jail in default
/ TT. Wayne Sentinel.
James Williams who Wa. deputy sheriff
( under James NJ Bratton, will be arrested
/ Thursday by Constable Mordecai Leyman
on a charge of cruelty to animals and
be taken before Squire Scott Cole, where
/ hearing Of the case will be had. The
{ above charge was preferred against Will
( Jams by Andrew Ertle. The affidavit
/ charges that on the 18th day of December,
1894, Williams did unlawfully and cruelty
/ beat and mutilate u certain animal, to-
wit: A dog named Mike" by then and
/ there catching the dog by the collar which
4 was around his neck, choking MIN and
| violently and repeatedly throwing the dog
/ upon the hard ground, thereby breaking
| the leg Of said dog and causing the bone
! to protrude through the flesh, and other
/ wise cruelty bruising and injuring said
/ dOg.-HuntingtO Democrat.
Louis Rothschild. secretary and general
! manager of the Princeton, Ind, electric
/ light company, while coming from his resi-
4 dence last Friday night noticed a street
| lamp that was not burning. He attempted
/ to start the light by jerking a wire, which
1 proved to be live wire. He received a
J terrible shock, but was thrown against the
] fence and released from the wire. He went
/ back into his residence. and in a few min
! utes heard some one screaming. He ran to
| the wire End found Daniel Sellers. hotel
porter, tioundering in the mud. Mr. Roths-
/ child released him. Both Mr.. ROthschild's
/ and Sollers's hands were badly blisered.
/ Mr.. Rothschild' has been attending to his
i duties until Monday night when he was
! taken violently i'll. and cannot recover. The
/ physician claims his bowels and liver were
| paralyzed by the shock.-Evansville
| Courier
John Gale, aged sixteen, who resides
with his parents, twelve miles from Rock
J port, Spencer county, died from a very
/ singular cause. The school he attended is
/ about mile from his home, and the road
| leading to and from school is level, dry
/
/ practice walking to and from school on
/ his hands. This caused his neck and face
| 20 become abnormally large, and finally,
| about a week ago, brought about con-
! gestiOn of the brain. He remained in a
! semi-uncOnsciOus condition until Tuesday,
! when he died. One of his schoolm3tes
! estimates it fully fifty miles that young
! Gale walked in this unnatural way since
The first day of September last. when
| school began He has always had a fancy
fn no al hg= hoe
! known 10 walk to ROckp1rt distance Of
! twelve miles, to see a circus.-Washingto
J Democrat.
Alec Cauthorn, the colored man recently
| given a position on the fire department,
| and the white woman with whom he has
| been living for several years had 4 violent
| quarrel Monday night Cauthorn's con-
/ duct was such that it leads to the belief
] that the people who protested against his
] appointment on the fire department knew
/ what they were doing. According to the
/ story told by the woman, who claims to be
| Cauthorns wife. he came home Monday
| night in a beastly state of intOXication and
| informed her that he was tired of living
! with her He said he had found another
/ woman whom he loved better and that
I she could go to hades or some other place
! equally as warm for aught he cared. Aft
| er making this declaration he beat and
| kicked his wife in brutal fashion and then
| left her. The woman is soon to become
A mother, which makes her condition all
| the more pitiable. Colored people are in
| censed over the affair and are talking Of
| holding an Indignation meeting.-Terre
/ Haute Gazette.
| Thomas Frost of Sandborn was arraigned
| in the circuit court Tuesday afternoon on
the charge of being accessory to the crime
! of murder. He pleaded not guilty and his
| bond was fixed at $1,000 with Peter Frost
| Ira V. Corbin and Henry Hagemier as sure
| ties. He was also arraigned on the charge
| Of carrying concealed weapons and bond
| was fixed at $1,000 with the above gentle
men as sureties. Thomas Frost is alleged
| 10 be accessory to the killing of Blann Will
| hanson. an old and highly esteemed citizen
| Of Sandb0rn. on Saturday night. Nov. IT,
| On that night the Marco band gave a con-
! cert on the streets of SandbOrn and after
| il was over several went into a saloon and
| began drinking and fighting when Mr.. Will
| hanson, acting as peacemaker, was killed
| and circumstances pointed strongly toward
! Ed Landlord as principal and Thomas
| Frost as being accessory to the crime The
| trial will come up at the January term of
| the Knox circuit court and will be repre-
| scented by some Of the best legal talent Of
| the city.-Vincennes Sun.
Harry Baughman was found lying in
straw-StaclI dead Monday morning. Work
men on the Bash Prairie View farm found
him not more than five or six rods from
the barn when they went to do their morn
ing CnOreS. Baugnman, VINO was partial
ly insane and had periodical fits of
dependency, left his home Sunday night
about o'clock without telling anyone his
destination. He left his watch at home
before he started, telling his wife he should
have no use for it. When she saw him
about TO go out without an overcoat on
she ran and got one for him and helped
him to put it on, but soon as ne got out
Of the door he threw it off and left it lying
i'm the yard. When he failed TO return
later at night, searching parties were sent
out for him, and the aid of the police was
invoked, but no trace was found of him till
the dead body was reported to the coroner.
When the corpse was brought to the city
friends of his identified il as the missing
man.-Ft. Wayne Journal.
John Wesley Peacock, a farmer living
on the national road west Of the city, was
probably fatally burned Tuesday night by
falling into a fireplace. Peacock is
bachelor and lives on a little tract of
ground from which he derives subsist-
ence. He is an old soldier and a pensioner.
He is subject to epilepdc fits and has fire.
quently been injured when attacked with
the malady. Tuesday night he was all
alone at his house, when one OF the fits
came upon him. He lost consciousness
and fell into the open fireplace. Before he
revived and was able to extricate himself
he was horribly burned about the legs
from the feet up to the knees. He was
, also badly burned about the head No
one was near TO whom he could call for
assistance, and the grit displayed by Mr.
Peacock was something marvellous. His
trousers and overcoat were almost COM
pletely burned off. Realizing that he
must soon have medical aid he drew on
another D9ir of trousers and coat and