Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1879 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Walter Edgerton, of Spiceland, has died suddenly. The Christian Church in Indiana celebrated its anniversaries at Greensburg last week. There is great excitement in Transityille and vicinity over a reported case of milk sickness. The Trustees of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railway have ordered the sale of the road at Wabash, Nov. 5. David T. Hunter, a brother of Hon. Morton C. Hunter, and a prominent citizen of Ripley county, fell dead in his field the other evening. W. 0. De Pauw, owner of the New Albany rail-mill, will add very largely to the building and machinery, making the mill the largest in the West. A young man named Frank Carter, of Indianapolis, attempted to set a trout-line. Becoming entangled in the line beyond his depth, he was drowned. Charles F. Tiffany, bigamist, who had just been sentenced to the State prispn for three years, hung himself with a towel in his cell, at Lawrenceburg. New Albany Ledger-Standard: Real estate is advancing in price in the upper end of the city. Property on Vincennes street is now held at S3O per foot which could have been purchased a year ago at S2O. New Albany, owing to the low stage of water in the Ohio, is enjoying the discomforts and expense of a coal-fam-ine. Pittsburgh coal retails at 20 cents per bushel, the highest price paid in ten years, and Indiana cannel at 16 cents.

The medical department of Butler University, at Indianapolis, was opened last week, with 130 students. It represents a union of the old Indiana Medical College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Indiana, and is recognized by the medical profession of the entire State. John Hopkins, Sr., an old farmer living ten miles south of Indianapolis; was dragged about his field by a team of frightened horses, while plowing. His arm was torn from its socket, and other injuries inflicted that will prove fatal. He was a prominent man in his community, and an old settler. Lafayette Jourv al: It is evident that the State will soon have to make some provision for the caie of the incurable insane. There is scarcely a week but that some unfortunate is sent home to this county from Indianapolis, incurable. This county has now in the county about sixty of this class. Fortunately this county can and does care well for them, but the same cannot be said of all the counties in the State.

The official report of Messrs. Sleeth, Work and Hushsteiner, appointed by the last Legislature for the purpose, upon the amount of money wrongfully withheld by ex-Attorney Generals Denny and Buskirk, is siihply a formal statement of what was made public last winter. In the case of Buskirk they find that there are nearly $27,000 due the State, and that during his term of office he collected nearly $130,000, on which his legal commissions amounted to $22,000, but he retained $48,000. Leonidas Bryson and William Toole, brothers-in-law, living at Williamstown, just across the line in Decatur county, drove over to Rushville last week, with their wives and Bryson’s two children, to buy some furniture. They drank freely, and on the way home Bryson slapped one of his children severely, which led Toole to remonstrate with him. A quarrel followed, and in the course of it Biyson shot Toole three times. The wounded man was taken to a neighboring house, where he lingered until 7 o’clock next- morning, when death ended his sufferings. Bryson is in jail at Rushville. In 1855 the bridge across the Wild Cat creek, in Tippecanoe county, on the line of what is now the Lafayette and Wild Cat gravel-road, washed away. It was rebuilt by a $1,500 donation from the county, a like sum from the Wabash and Erie canal, and liberal subscriptions by farmers. A few years later the gravel-road company was formed, and the County Commissioners, without consulting the wishes of the people, donated to the company the bridge. Mr. J. J. Singley now claims that the Commissioners had no right to make this donation, and that the company had no right to collect toll. He accordingly refuses to pay toll and has been sued by the company. The case is on trial at Lafayette. About 8 o’clock, one night last week, the residence of Frank Duplein, a Frenchman Jiving eight miles north of Fort Wi.yne, was discovered to be in flames. The neighbors assembled to extinguish the fire, and, upon investigation, found Mrs. Frances Duplein, wife of the owner, lying dead in the barn with her throat cut from ear to ear. Duplein was hanging by a rope from a rafter of the barn, also dead. He had doubtless murdered his wife, then set fire to his house, and finally committed suicide. He was 45 years old, and his wife five years younger. Both were French. They had one child, a daughter aged 20, who was not at home when the tragedy occurred. Duplein and his wife had lived on bad terms for some time, but nothing is known as to what transpired between them immediately prior to the tragedy. Duplein has a brother now serving a two-years’ term in the penitentiary for the attempted murder of his wife last April.