Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

. A new orphans’ home is soon to be built at Jeffersonville. Henry Thompson was fatally hurt at Salem the other day by a bull. The Indiana Methodist Conference is to be held at Evansville, Sept. 10. A fire occurred at Osgood, a few days ago. Loss, $14,000; insurance, $9,500. The Council of Franklin has elected W. T. Gordon (colored) Chief of Police. Gen. Ben Harrison is suffering with ivy poison. His face and eyes are badly swollen. James Morlatt and wife, of Brookville, recently celebrated their golden wedding. A large hall, dedicated to the cause of temperance, has been opened in Evansville. The Commissioners of Marshall county have let the contract for building a new jail. There are from 600 to 1,000 women employed in the Government sewingrooms at Jeffersonville. A farmer tells the Indianapolis News that the prospects for fruit, in spite of discouraging reports, were never better. At the seventeenth Woman’s State Suffrage Convention, held at Kokomo, a large number of delegates were present. The enumeration of school children in Madison township shows a small decrease compared with the last enumeration.

The Blue-Ribboners and Good Templars of Sullivan county are arranging for a grand celebration at Sullivan on the 4th of July. The scarlet fever is raging at North Vernon to such an extent that parents are sending their children to the country to escape it. Katherine Pussy, of Vincennes, has just been awarded a verdict of SI,OOO in a breach-of-promise suit brought against Perry McCray. The saloons of Colfax have suspended business on account of the Town Board fixing the license fees at SIOO, with $lO additional for every gaming table. The annual conference of the Congregational ministers of the State, at Terre Haute, was one of the most harmonious and satisfactory meetings held in many years. At Old’s spoke factory, Fort Wayne, a large iron pulley broke into four pieces, one of which struck a workman named Martin Golden in the head, producing fatal injuries. Mark S. Reeves, of Richmond, having declined the appointment of - State House Commissioner to succeed Prof. Collett, Gov. Williams has appointed William B. Seward, ex-President of the State Board of Agriculture, to fill the vacancy. The bridge over the Muddy fork of Silver creek, on the J., M. & I. R. R., near New Albany, has a bloody history. The upright timbers covering the track are very low; so low, in fact, as to render it very dangerous for one standing upon a car to pass under the structure. Sixteen men have been killed at this bridge. The Catholic Total Abstinence Society of New Albany has resolved not to celebrate the Fourth of July by a picnic, for the reason that Bishop Chatard has prohibited dancing at all picnics of the church. The Bishop also prohibits beers or liquors at all picnics held by members of the Catholic Church. The sportsmen of Wabash have organized the North Lake and River Association of Northern Indiana, with Judge John U. Pettit as President. They have bought five acres of ground on the north side of Turkey lake, Kosciusko county, and will at once set about improving it, the improvements to embrace a club-house. The other night some unknown persons at Liberty attempted to blow up a saloon owned by a man named Fallons. An ale bottle was filled with powder and placed beneath the house with a fuse, and when it went off it knocked the foundation out and dug a hole big enough to bury an elephant, but, strange to say, did not hurt the house. At the late Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows, at Indianapolis, the Grand Secretary’s report shows a better condition of the order than in 1878. Two encampments have been suspended, leaving 141 in existence. The resources of the encampment amount to $54,816.10; receipts, $9,610.94; relief and chasity, $4,486.94; total expenses of the encampment, $8,390.92. The Grand Encampment of the Independent Champions of the Red Cross of the State, in session in Fort Wayne, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Grand Commander, I. W. Campbell; Grand Counselor, W. H. Caulkins; Grand Secretary, George W. Jones; Grand Treasurer, Capt. C. Emery; Grand Senior Champion, Ralph James; Grand Junior Champion, Samuel M. Coddington; Grand Captain of the Host, A. I. Ball; Grand Chaplain, Mason Long; Grand Mistress of Ceremonies, Miss Mary Pritchard; Grand Sentinel, A. A. Davis.