Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Scarlet fever is decimating the children of Evansville. New Albany has sold New Harmony a hand fire engine at $350. Over 300 head of sheep have been killed by dogs in Floyd, Harrison and Clark counties in the past two or three weeks. The fifteenth annual convention of the Indiana Sunday School Union will be held at Richmond, June 25, 26 and 27. Victor Emery has sued the city of Fort Wayne for $5,000 damages because he broke his leg on a defective sidewalk.

The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad is receiving large quantities of rails from the Indianapolis roll-ing-mills to relay its track. A sensation in Brown county is the elopement of James Fleetwood, aged 82 years, with a Miss Thompson, aged 16. Fleetwood leaves a family behind him. Great preparations are being made for commencement at the State University, which comes off June 11, this being the fiftieth anniversary of that institution. There is said to be trouble ahead for the people of Scott county. The County Commissioners have ordered the building of an expensive poor asylum, and the people cannot afford the cost. The enumeration of school children for some of the principal towns of the State is as follows Lafayette, 6,307; South Bend, 3,712; Crawfordsville, 1,727; Bloomington, 845; La Porte, 3,462; Michigan City, 1,974: Franklin, 958; Madison, 5,540; Noblesville, 741; Muncie, 1,586; Lawrenceburg, 1,680; Brazil, 978, The sfxty-second annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, at Indianapolis, last week, elected the following officers: Most Worthy Grand Master, Bellamy J. Sutton; Deputy Grand Master, C. W. Prather; Senior Warden, Bruce Carr; Junior Grand Warden, Albert P. Charles; Grand Treasurer, Charles Fisher; Grand Secretary, William M. Smythe.