Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Knight’stown is to be made a moneyorder office. A man in Scott township has four young pet skunks. At Indianapolis scarlet fever is increasing among the children. Henry Felger was drowned near Evansville, while swimming. The I. O. O. F. will ei-ect a new hall, at Plainfield, at a cost of $4,000. Brookville is making arrangements to supply itself with water-works. Work has commenced on the bridge over White river at Worthington. This season gives the most bountiful wheat harvest ever garnered in Indiana. A blue racer snake, nine feet and eleven inches long, was killed near Wabash the other day. David Patton, of Hanover township, Jefferson county, is 101 years old, and Sarah Moseby, of Madison, is 104. A young son of C. E. Magee, of Fort Wayne, was attacked by a savage dog the other day and seriously injured. About 100 dentists of this State were in session at,* Indianapolis, last week, forming a State Dental Association. James Hallett, a resjde#t of Vincennes, was fatally prostrated by heat while harvesting on the farm of Andy Purcell. A skeleton was unearthed at Logan sport which is now found to be that of the old Chief Aubeenaubee of the Pottawatomies. Prof. John M. Coulter has announced his resignation of the chair of natural sciences in Hanover College to accept a chair in Wabash College. E. M. Higgins, a convict sentenced to State prison for two years from last February for grand larceny, has committed suicide in his cell by hanging himself with a cord. There are twenty-two prisoners in Wayne county jail. One is making a handsome model of a ship. Another makes watch-guards and other fancy work out of horse-hair. In Terre Haute a traveling horsedealer named Edward S. Cooper was killed in an affray with a colored rough named Albert Evans, who struck Cooper on the head with a heavy chair. A German passenger on the steamer Lytle, giving his name as Susman, committed suicide, by drowning, when the boat was near Garrett’s Landing, on the Ohio. He was probably 40 years old. An infant belonging to Frederick Boub, of Versailles, was seriously scalded, the other day, by falling into a pot of soup. The mother had carelessly placed it on the floor, and the child sat down in it. Eddy Yocum, a 12-year-ohl son of Jack Yocum, of Carbon, was instantly killed the other day by the accidental discharge of an old musket while out hunting. The load entered his right eye, tearing through the brain. The State Millers’ Association held a session last week, at the capital. The principal business done was the adoption of a resolution ratifying the compromise between the Executive Committee of the National Association and the Consolidated Middlings and Purifier Company, after a long discussion. Swindlers are going through various parts of the State, claiming that parts of farm machinery are infringements of patents owned by them, and threatening prosecutions if royalty is not paid. The farmers, rather than suspend work in the busy season to defend suits, generally come down with the $5 or SIU demanded. The agitation of the locomotivewhistling nuisance, recently inaugurated by a new law of the Legislature, has been kept up so frantically that the matter has finally ended in the courts. A man asked an injunction on an engineer on the Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western railroad, enjoining him from “blowing” his whistle so much, and the Judge granted it, holding that the law is unconstitutional. A colossal grape-vine is groit.ng upon the farm of Mr. John Copeland, near HagerstowD, Wayne county. A few feet above the ground it measures fortytwo inches in circumference. This large trunk grows upward thirty feet, and separates into two branches, each of which is eight inches in diameter. The vine has spread itself over the tops of two large beech trees which stand near, and during the grape season the trees are overloaded with the fiuit. A fabulous number of bushels of grapes is said to hang on the tops of the trees, seventy feet above ground, quite out of the reach of the fruit-gatherers. Mr. Henry Pohlman, of Montgomery county, was awakened by hearing a noise in his back yard, and his dogs barking as though they had something at bay. As he got up he took his gun with him, and, on opening the door, he saw that his smoke-house door was open, and some one close by it. He asked who was there, but got no answer; he asked again, still no reply; the third time he demanded an auswer or he would shoot. The person addressed made no answer, but advanced toward Pohlman, who raised his gun and fired with fatal effect. On going up to the Eerson he had shot, to his great surprise e found that it was his uncle, Joe Brinker, who was living with him at the time. The unfortunate roan lived but a short time after he was shot^