Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1879 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Mrs. Kate Chase Spragite owns a tract of land in Warrick county. Hon. J. W. Smith, for several years County Clerk of Rush county, died recently. Efforts are being made for the establishment of another extensive ship-, yard at New Albany. William Handy, aged 76 years, living in Brown county, lately dropped dead of heart disease while feeding his stock, Joseph Zints, of New Albany, died recently from stoppage of the bowels, caused by swallowing the seeds while eating water-melon. W. C. De Pauw, of Now Albany, has made his tenth annual donation of sl,000 to the Preachers’ Aid Society of the Indiana Conference. Richard T. Keightly, ex member of the Legislature, and a prominent member of the Masonic Lodge, died a few days ago, at his home in Acton. The residence of Hiram Hyatt, a banker, burned at Washington the other morning. Loss, $6,000; insured for $4,000. Origin of fire unknown. Mr. John G. Newkirk has been elected Professor of History in the Indiana State University. Prof. Newkirk is a graduate of the Union Law School at Albany. The Eighty-fourth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry reunion will be held at Newcastle on the 20th inst., the seventeenth anniversary of the battle of Chickamauga. Scarlet fever is so prevalent that the City Council of Indianapolis has ordered a white flag to be placed in a conspicuous place at every house where the fever rages.

A new election is to be called in those townships in Crawford and Pike counties that recently refuted to voto aid to the completion of the New Albany and St. Louis Air-line railroad. Kinder Ferguson, the Scott county centenarian, aged 108 years, died at the residence of his son-in-law, W. Goben, near Holman. He was the oldest man in Northern Indiana, if not State. The State House cin tractors will begin laying 2,000,000 brick next week. They are also employing 300 men on the building and in the quarries, the latter furnishing twenty-five car-loads of stone per day. A night or two since, during the absence of Sheriff Hay, of Monticello, some person, as yet unknown, became possessed of the keys of 1 the county jail, which had been left in charge of the Sheriff s wife, and a general jail delivery was the result. A party of two girls and two young men while crossing White river at Morgan’s ferry, twenty miles south of Vincennes, were thrown into the river by the horses attached to the wagon in which they were seated becoming scared and backing off the boat. Alice Cottrell, aged 17, Ellen Dellenger, aged 16, and John Summit, aged 22, were drowned, together with the horses. The other young man succeeded in regaining the boat.