Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1879 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Boonville has the telephone. Dr. J. R. Mclntyre, of Richmond, has accepted a chair in the College o Physicians and Surgeons, St. Louis. The Wabash shops at Fort Wayne have just finished one of the largest and finest snow-plows ever turned out. William Weumcusetter, an old man of about 80, living near North Yernon, committed suicide by taking arsenic. Henry Jacobs, aged 85 years, a prominent farmer of Sullivan county, and one of the pioneer settlers of Carlisle, is dead. A colored woman in attendance at a revival meeting in Evansville, became enthused and began a series of antics, when she fell over a bench and broke her back. The Board of Directors of the Northern Indiana Piison has adopted a rule to tLe effect that hereafter no convict will be allowed to work outside tlie prison walls. During a thunder-storm a short time ago a new and unoccupied house, owned by Bobert Deane, at Sullivan, was struck by lightning. An adjoining barn was also struck, and a horse killed at the same time. The heirs of the late W. S. Hillycr, a member of Gen. Grant’s staff during the war, who died in Washington city in 1874, have entered suit in tho Floyd Circuit Court to obtain SIO,OOO left their father under the will of the late Elias Ayers, an uncle of Gen. Hillyer. During the heavy rain-storm which prevailed near Brazil, on the 9th inst., Abram Winn was struck by lightning and instantly killed. The startling and unexpected character of the event, expecially considering tho season of the year, created a decided sensation. A most distressing accident occurred the other day at the farm of Mr. William Hodgen, four miles east of Vincennes, resulting in the death of two boys, the support of a widowed mother. The boys, whose, names were Walter and Eddie, aged respectively 18 and 12, were felling a large sycamore tree, and, after chopping into the trunk until it was nearly ready to fall, made their plans for getting out of the way. /They expected the tree to fall into a field, and they were to run into the road, and had taken down the fence to allow them time te reach a point of safety. When the tree began to sway and crack they ran, but unconsciously ran into instead of out of danger, the tree falling upon them, killing Walter, the elder, instantly, and so injuring Eddie that death relieved his sufferings an hour afterward.