All news items and notices are from the STATE NEWS COLUMN of the
FORT WAYNE WEEKLY SENTINEL, unless otherwise noted.
June 25, 1879, pg. 3
--Lafayette Courier: MRS. "WASH" CARPENTER, of Fort Wayne, who is visiting
her parents, MR. and MRS. WOODWARD PORTER, of this city, gave birth to a
fine boy baby last evening. The happy papa, who manipulates a locomotive on
the Wabash, though a hundred miles away when he heard of the little
pleasantness, was so elated that he pulled the throttle wide open, placed
the stoker on the safety valve, and arrived here during last night away
ahead of the fast time of JAY GOULD and BOB HAMILTON.
July 2, 1879, pg. 1
--The infant son of JACOB NEIBANER (or NEIBAUER) of Lafayette, fell into a
tub of scalding water Wednesday morning and died soon after.
--MISS E. M. BOYER, 75 years old, was found dead at her house in Lafayette.
She lived the life of a hermit, and from appearances had been dead several
days.
July 9, 1879
--LEWIS SMITH, a boy aged thirteen, shot WILLIE SANDMEYER in the face with a
powder charge, with an old horse-pistol, last Wednesday, at Lafayette.
--Several days ago a murderous attack was made on MIKE KENNEDY, at Dayton,
Tippecanoe County, his home. Fever has set in and his life is despaired of.
--On Monday morning last the office of the MESSRS. BEHM, lawyers in
Lafayette, was the scene of a lamentable occurrence. MR. LEWIS BAKER had
stepped in to transact some business and complained of not feeling well. He
was invited to lie down and DR. POWERS being present was called on to
attend. He discovered, at once, that BAKER was dangerously ill and in a few
minutes he was dead.
July 23, 1879
--The coroner's inquest on the death of LEWIS BAKER at Lafayette last week
was that the deceased came to his death by reason of poison by strychnine,
administered in an unknown manner by person or persons unknown.
August 6, 1879 pg. 4
--About three weeks ago the wife of JOHN NOBLE, of Tippecanoe County, took
sick and died. A young child next sickened and died, now MR. NOBLE and his
remaining daughter, are both lying at the point of death.
--MRS. M.S. SCUDDER, an old resident of Lafayette, and the mother of the
first white male child born there, died on Tuesday after a lingering
illness.
--Near Lafayette on Sunday night an old named HENRY WHITE attempted to
chastise a boy named MANSFIELD, when the boy drew a knife and stabbed him
several times in the abdomen. The wounds are not fatal.
--An Indianapolis Journal special says there is a breeze coming from Battle
Ground which, when the facts are all brought to light, will reveal a
lamentable state of affairs on the part of a couple of wayward people. A
committee to investigate has been appointed, so dame rumor says. At this
hour nothing definite can be learned, but there is so much talk about it
that there seems to be grounds for the story. (I couldn't find anything
more about this in later issues.)
August 13, 1879 pg. 4
--JOHN W. MARTIN, ex-treasurer of Tippecanoe County, and an old citizen,
died in Lafayette on Tuesday night.
--ISAAC GUSHWA, aged 12, of Lafayette, was shot and fatally wounded by a
playmate by the accidental discharge of a pistol.
--PROF. LAMBERT, of Purdue University, has accepted the presidency of a
Methodist College in Oregon, and leaves for his new field in the course of a
fortnight.
--AMANDA MORROW, a Lafayette grass widow, charges DR. J. H. ANDERSON, of
Colburn, former member of the state legislature, with being the father of
her unborn child. (Note: In the Dec. 24, 1879 issue of this same paper,
AMANDA MORROW dropped her suit because the defense proved she kept a house
of prostitution.)
--JOHN E. WEMETI? WEMCTI?, of Lafayette, aged 60 years, committed suicide
yesterday by taking chloroform, all because MRS. HOOVER wouldn't marry him.
September 24, 1879 pg. 4
--JOHN COSGROVE, of Lafayette, has been sentenced to two years and six
months' time in the penitentiary for robbing WM. DILLINGER on the fourth of
July.
--JAMES CONNORS, of Lafayette, aged fourteen, is about to die from injuries
received Thursday in falling from a tree, a distance of thirty-five feet,
breaking his wrist and collar-bone and receiving a concussion of the brain.
October 8, 1879 pg. 4
--GEO. JESSUP, of Lafayette, attempted to commit suicide in a saloon on
Friday night by cutting his throat with a butcher knife. He was prevented
by bystanders, but not before he had cut a horrible gash in his neck. The
next morning he was fined $1.50 for being drunk.
--DR. GLICK, an old resident and prominent physician and surgeon at
Lafayette, died suddenly on Monday night, of heart disease.
October 22, 1879 pg. 5
--ALBERT LEPLER, of Americus, Tippecanoe county, almost killed his wife last
Friday by brutally beating her.
November 5, 1879 pg. 1
--A well known young man of Lafayette, named JAMES JAMISON, was found Sunday
night crushed under his overturned buggy. He was carried to his home, where
he expired Monday.
November 26, 1879 pg. 5
--H.S. GRUBER, of Battle Ground, died Tuesday evening. He was an earnest
worker in the cause of temperance and labored hard for all that was
calculated to better the condition of society.
December 24, 1879
--JULIA GLONS, of Lafayette, died mysteriously on Tuesday. Foul play is
suspected.
December 31, 1879
--WM. BUCK, an old resident of Lafayette, was found dead in his bed Sunday
morning.
--MRS. BOWER, an aged lady of Lafayette, died of starvation on Christmas
night.
--JEREMIAH ASHBY, of Delphi, who a few days since killed NATHAN THOMAS, was
freed from jail on the grounds of justifiable manslaughter.
February 16, 1881 pg. 7
--AUGUST WILEY, the first sheriff of Tippecanoe county, died recently in
Arkansas.