Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1879 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Efforts are making to arrange for an old settlers’ meeting at Connersville, in the near future. The enumeration of the children of school age at Fortville shows 226 in a total population of 685. The Indiana State Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was in session at Indianapolis last week. The Vincennes Driving Association will hold its summer meeting on July 2, 3 and 4. Purses amounting to SSOO for each day are offered. Scarlet fever is raging among the children of Evansville. A number of those attending the public schools have been stricken down with it. Strange N. Cragan, of Whitestown, has received the appointment as cadet to West Point. Thirty-one young men from five counties were examined. The Indianapolis physicians indulge in a “black list,” and keep the profession in other cities informed of the advent into their midst of medical dead-beats. Smith Barron, living at Clayton, has a natural curiosity in the way of a cow with six feet and legs. She has perfect use of them, is well developed and healthy, and gives good milk. A bag of Mexican dollars was found in a cellar at Indianapolis, by the workmen who were cleaning it out. They were of various dates, some as far back as 1702, but they were bogus. The body of a boy named Newman was found in a well at Mount Vernon recently. The boy had been missing for several days. He was 8 years old, a nephew of the former Sheriff of the county. Lewis Edwards, Sr., of Alquina, Fayette county, died a few days ago, the remote cause of his death being a bite from a rat, received early last winter, and from which he has constantly suffered since. A young man named William Morgansen, of Smyrna township, was terriribly injured, while out gunning the other afternoon, by the accidental discharge of his gun. Several of the shots entered his throat and breast. Geo. Hazzard, the ex-Auburn banker, who was arrested at Logansport last fall and gave bail for highway robbery in abstracting some papers belonging to himself in the possession of others, has been tried and aeqiitted in the Circuit Court. Gen. George K. Steele, for many years a prominent Republican in Indiana politics, and who represented Parke county a long time in the Legislature, died at Terre Haute a few days ago, 70 years of age. Harrison and Riley Stone, brokers, charged with various robberies committed in the vicinity of Eaton, Ohio, were arrested near Terre Haute one day last week, after both had been shot by officers while running t Riley has two balls in his arm and Harrison was shot in the back. The lattePwill probably die. A spiritual idiot named Valentine Kelly is engaged in digging for gold on Silver creek, two miles east of New Albany, being directed in his work by a female spiritual medium at Louisville, to whom he pays $2 jjgr day for instructions. He proposes to keep on digging till his money is exhausted. Mrs. Eleanor B. Whitesell was buried at Knightstown a few days ago. She was one of the pioneers of Henry county, having resided at Knightstown continuously for forty-seven years. She was a native of Springfield, Ohio, and was 68 years old when she died. Her father, Hon Waitsei M. Cary, settled in Henry county in 1825, and three years after laid out the town of Knightstown.