Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Wm. Allison, of Plainfield, received a fatal sunstroke the other day. This season gives the most bountiful wheat harvest ever garnered in Indiana. The employes of the Indianapolis, Dayton and Columbus road have struck for their back pay. Track-laying on the Frankfort and State Line Narrow-Gauge railroad began at Frankfort last week. Cyrus W. McKay, an old citizen of Morgan county, died at the residence of his brother, near Clayton, recently. Noble C. Butler, of New Albany, the new Clerk of the United States Courts, has assumed charge of the office. Allen Norcross, the oldest citizen of Wells county, died a few days ago. He had come to that part of the State in 1832. The Trustees have elected Dr. A. J. Thomas, former editor of the Vincennes Sun, Second Assistant Physician of the Insane Asylum. George West, a resident of Sullivan county, was fatally bitten on the foot by a rattlesnake. The snake clung on with a tenacious grip until torn off. At Mooresville a young son of Louis Apple, aged 6, while play ip g in his father’s grist-mill, fell between the wheel and stonework, crushing and killing him. The Blue River starch works at Edinburg shut down last week until September. Since starting up laßt September they have used nearly 250,000 bushels of corn. W. H. Myers, of Fort Wayne, has Ihe contract for building the new jail at Plymouth. The building will be erected on the lot north of the Court Hourc. Work will be commenced at once. Johnson, the escaped convict from the penitentiary, who had been beleagured in a swamp near Memphis, Clark county, has made his escape, notwithstanding the close vigilance with which he was guarded. The fifteenth annual convention of the Indiana Sunday-School Union held a three-days’ session at Richmond last week. There were 550 delegates in attendance, which is in excess of any previous convention. The following Indiana graduates of West Point have been assigned: Wm. A. Shunk, Eighth cavalry; Francis H. French, Nineteenth infantry; Luther C. Wellborn, Fifth cavalry; Will P. May, Fifteenth cavalry. A train of cars set fire to a wheat field, belonging to Matthius Wright, near Shelbyville. The exertions of all hands employed on the farm, together with the entire force of section hands, were required to save the crop. A boy in Crawford county married when he was 17 and was a father at 18. He lately married a second wife, and now, at the age 80, is happy with a second child. There is sixty-two years’ difference in the ages of the two children Mrs. MaryT. James was badly burned about the face and hands, recently, at Walton, by the explosion of a can co itaining powder, which she threw n t>- m open stove, supposing it empty. Two small children of a neighbor were also burned —one, it is supposed, fatally. The Central Law School is being arranged for in Indianapolis. It is regularly incorporated, with Byron K. Elliott, Charles P. Jacobs, and ex-Reporter James B. Black as regular professors, with several lecturers of ability from the bar of the State. Prospects are flattering. The term begins Oct. 1. Henry Frederick, aged 15, while hunting near his home at Mauckport, set his gun against a small tree. A gust of wind shook the tree, causing the gun to fall and discharge, the load taking effect in the lad’s hip and arna, inflicting a dangerous wound. In removing the remains of the Fontz family from an abandoned grave-yard a few miles southwest of Richmond, workmen discovered the body of David Fontz, one of the oldest settlers of the county, in a perfect state of petrifaction, the change from flesh to stone being complete. Henry P. Brokaw, Sr., died at Terre Haute, the other night, of general debility, in the 83d year of his age. He wa« one of the original pioneers of that Eart of the West. Coming from his ome in New Jersey in 1816, he became a successful merchant, a citizen of integrity, and a high officer in Masonry. The Directors of the North Lake and River Association of Northern Indiana have concluded to locate at Syracuse, pn the shore of the Nine-Mile lake. Tfie objects of the association are for horticultural purposes and the scientific propagation and cultivation of fish, promotion of literary attainments and cultivation of physical and mental health.

George P. Hoover, who has been starving himself to death for the last three months, died last week. Mr. Hoover was a wealthy farmer living five miles northwest of Hagerstown. His wife died less than a year ago, and he married again, some four months after, a grass-widow, in direct violation of a well-known law of the “Dunkard ” Church, of which he was a prominent member; he was turned out of church, and violently opposed in his course by his children, all of which seemed to piey upon his mind until he became deranged, laboring under the aberration that everything was poisoned, and refused to eat or drink. Sufficient, however, was forced down him to maintain life unfcil his f»rsfcem gradually lye-itj