Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

The Kokomo spoke factory has resumed operations. Indiana’s wheat crop this year is worth $30,000,000. The sixty-two railroads in Indiana are appraised at $37,500,500. A boy named Rady Reiman was drowned at Terre Hante, recently, while bathing. The oldest man in the State is Kinder Ferguson, of Scott county. He is 108 years old. • A little child named Selig was seriously poisoned at Madison recently by eating bits of green wall paper. Hon. J. G. Shanklin, Secretary of State, and Mrs. Shanklin, have returned from their wedding tour to Evansville. Barges of coal are being received at New Albany, and the idle manufactories of that city are in consequence resuming work. Gen. Knefler, Pension Agent at Indianapolis, will have disbursed $4,000,000 this year, occasioned by the arrearages of back pay. Emanuel Ficklin and William Hathaway, of Pike county, while bathing in White river, eight miles from Washington, were drowned. The Trustees of the State University have arranged for a series of lectures on astronomy by Prof. Proctor, the eminent English astronomer. Not less than a dozen incendiary barn-burnings are reported by the State papers in Middle and Southern Indiana, as occurring since harvest. Mrs. William Yanneman, of Richmond, gave birth to triplets—two boys and a girl. The boys died within a few hours, but the girl is doing well. Flux or dysentery prevails in epidemic form near Palmyra, Harrison county, and many deaths have occurred. The disease is quite prevalent in many other sections of Southern Indiana. A shooting affray occurred, a few days ago, at the farm residence of Lucas Covert, near Columbus, at the break fast table, between his sons, Henry and Aleck, in which Henry was instantly killed and Aleck mortally wounded. At Plymouth, the other night, a loud and awful report was heard, caused by the bursting of a large meteor, forming about twenty smaller ones, each about the size of a large apple. The report sounded like the rattling of artillery. TUv meteor DlirNli ill UiU DUUlillt/ttlX. jJUi t of the heavens. The Board of Arbitration selected by the Commissioners of Hamilton county to adjust the differences between the Court House contractor and Commissioners have presented their report. The contractor claimed about $25,000 extras, and the arbitrators allowed him $7,500, that amount to be in full for all claims.