HUNTINGTON COUNTY,
INDIANA
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
9-06-1899
While David Bowles
and Albert
Forrest
were seining in the river near Andrews Friday night their nets brought
up a sack, tightly sewed, containing the badly decomposed body of
an infant.
Huntington, IN.
Aug. 29, 1899. Phillip
Schlachter, a resident of Ireland, a small
village 9 miles northwest of here, cut his throat with a razor
yesterday morning and died in less than an hour. Several members of
Schlachter’s family, including his wife, are sick with typhoid fever,
from which he was just recovering, and his mind no yet recuperated. The
act was committed in the room where his wife, almost at the point of
death, lay and her recovery is doubtful. Schlater was about 35 yrs old
and was a native of Pike County. He had lived in Ireland about a year,
and farmed rented land in that vicinity. They were entirely dependent
on the charity of people, owing to long sickness. He was a man of good
habits, was industrious and highly respected. He leaves a wife and
several children.
Huntington, IN.
Sept. 3,1899. Richard
Pendleton, colored, of Washington, IN. and
2 friends were attacked by a crowd of loafers last night and Pendleton
was hot in the back. Pendleton and his friends are race horse driver’s,
and attendants and were in route from the Chrisney fair to Princeton,
IN. and were waiting for the west-bound passenger train. The colored
men went to the restaurant for something to eat, and on coming out they
were accosted by several persons, who ordered them to leave town, which
they said they would on the next train. They turned to leave when some
one in the crowd fired 2 shots, one taking effect in Pendleton’s back.
Pendleton is in serious condition and being taken care of by the city
authorities. It is no definitely known who did the shooting, but
several tough characters are suspected.
Huntington, IN.
Oct. 3,1896. The 88th
Indiana Regiment held its annual reunion
here this week at the home of the old Colonel E.C. Briant. There was
good attendance of the “old boys”, many coming from a great distance to
meet once more. The poll of the regiment was taken before the close of
the reunion, and gave McKinley 66, Bryan 11, Levering 4, Palmer 1.
ZENT, LAWSON J.
ADJUSTABLE RESISTANCE EXERCISING APPARATUS
U.S. Pat. No. 4,071,235
A frame having a base and two horizontally spaced substantially upright
elongate posts, a first of which carries a saddle seat. Mounted for
rotation on the second post is a foot pedal spindle carrying first and
second sprocket wheels. Also mounted for rotation on the second post is
a disc spindle carrying a disc and a sprocket wheel. Mounted for
rotation near the top of the second post is a hand crank spindle
carrying a sprocket wheel. A drive chain is entrained over the disc
sprocket wheel and the first foot pedal sprocket wheel. A second chain
is entrained over the handle bar sprocket wheel and the second foot
pedal sprocket wheel, which sprocket wheels are designed to provide
predetermined different angular speeds to their respective spindles. A
manually operable pointer is rotatably mounted on the second post to
vary the spacing between two brake pads mounted on either side of the
disc to provide a variable braking force to the disc corresponding to
such spacing. Zent in U.S. Pat. No. 3,213,852 varies the angular
relationship between left and right cranks by motor drive.
Submitted by Ida Maack Recu
Lewis E. SUMMERS, commissioner-elect
of Huntington county, has brought suit against George W. BOLL,
Republican incumbent, claiming he is holding over his time.
Indiana General News Items from the
Indianapolis News 8 December, 1890
Footpads attempted to rob George F. SMITH, a farmer of Lancaster
township, Huntington county, but he defended himself with stones laying
in his wagon, disabling and driving off his assailants.
Indiana General News Items from the Indianapolis News 13 December 1890
Page 6 Columns 5 and 6
HUNTINGTON COUNTY ITEMS IN THE WABASH STAR, 1896
Ernest Gillespie, a relative of the numerous Gillespies in the
south-cast part of the county, who is now a brakeman on the Erie, was
married in Huntington last week to a Miss Clark of Marion, Ohio. 3
December 1896.
It is reported that Charles R. Moore, formerly of Lafontaine, but now
living a few miles over in Huntington county, has deserted his wife and
six little children and departed for parts unknown with his wife's
niece, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been making her home with the
Moore family. 17 December 1896.