Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1879 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

At Tampico a young man named Isaac Cutsinger, was instantly killed by a falling limb from a tree which he was cutting down. A building association, with a present capital of $13,000, and not to exceed at any time $50,000, has been organized at North Vernon. Gov. Williams has appointed Daniel Mowrer Trustee of the Blind Asylum, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Ristine. Otto Beanman, a New Albany boy, 15 years old, while out hunting squirrels with a musket, accidentally shot himself, inflicting a fatal wound. F. B. Rushton, while grinding sugarcane near Tipton, was kicked by a mule in the chest, iu the region of the heart, causing death in a few moments. One hundred acres of wheat, cat with a reaper, keeping six binders going, was the work of- a Scotch lassie of Lexington. She used three pairs of horses in relays. Two brothers, William and George Sappington, aged 30 and 22, were out hunting nine miles east of Fort Wayne, when William’s gun was accidentally discharged, killing George instantly. George Waggoner, aged 93, was in Indianapolis to attend the old-settlers’ reunion. He walked all the way from bis home in Beck’s Grove, Brown county, sixty miles, making the trip iu two days.

The planing and saw mill of Stroup & Uottermau, at Waldron, was burned by an incendiary fire, not long since. The machinery was damaged and a large amount of lumber burned. . The loss will exceed $6,000; no insurance. The pressure of 25,000 or 30,000 bushels of flaxseed forced out one of the walls of tho new oil-mill erected by I. & P. Evans at Indianapolis, a few days ago. Fortunately all the employes escaped into the street, and the only damage is from the loss of seed and the wall, amounting to $6,000. This is the noccmd orcoivlt’llt vs Lll6 KI II (I occurring to this firm, the old mill having caved out. Mrs. Fecker, of New Albany, a highly respected lady, was attacked by a highwayman, the other night, while she was unlocking the front door of her residence on returning from market, who demanded her money or her life. Not responding immediately to this demand, she was struck in the temple by the highwayman and knocked senseless, and her pocket-book, containing sl9, taken from her.

Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. The Indiana Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church held its fortieth session last “week at Mount Zion. There were in attendance fifty ministerial and thirty-four lay delegates, beside quite a number of visitors. Rev. J. H. Luse, of Indianapolis, was re-elected President of tho conference, and was required by a vote of conference to travel the conference district during the ensuing year. The next session of conference is to convene at Brown’s Chapel, in Hancock county, on the first Wednesday in September, 1880. APPOINTMENTS. First District. —J. H. C. McKinney, Chairman; Greenfield, E. H. Moles; Sugar Creek, J. H. G. Prim;Union, to be supplied; Pleasant Hill, S. J. Jones; Greensburg and Friendship, J. H C. McKinney; Tanner’s Creek, J. P. Williams: Morristown, Wm. Stockinger; Madison and Liberty, to be supplied; Laurel and Duck Creek, to be supplied. Second District.—T. E. Lancaster, Chairman; Muncie, H. M. Boyer; Muncie Mission, T. E. Lancaster; Anderson, J. C. Miller; Hartford, L D. Richman; Yorktown, 8. Lineberry; Jonesboro, J. M. Langley; Pipe Creek, G. W. Boxell; Jalapa, 8. M. Shumway; Salimony, D. 8. Boswell; Wabash, E. Conn; New Haven, M. Gustin; Spencerville, H. Stackhouse; Kendallville, F. M. Hussey. Third District—D. W. Evans, Chairman; Groveland, H. Harrell; Milledgeville, to be supplied; Frankfort, J. W. Loder; Michigantown, D. W. Evans; Medaryville, W. G. Callahan; Grand Praitie, N. M. Douglas; Mr Olive, 8. M. Shumway; Burlington, T. Baily; Yellow River, J, 8. Sellers. Fourth District— B. M. Clark, Chairman; Antioch, White River, to be supplied; Monroe, to be supplied; Worthington, B. M. Clark; Richland, J. Hughes; Calvary, R. W. Ruthledge; Guthrie, M. H. Adams; Winslow, to be -supplied; West Union, A. S. Baker; Prairie, W. H. Fisher.