Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

W. R. Albright, ex-Sheriff, has died at Tipton. The raging Wabash has done great damage in the overflow of the lowlands all along its oourse. The settlements of County Treasurers with the State Treasurer show 10 per cent, better collections than last year. At Belleville, in a fight between Wm, Millikin and Henry Crone, Elwood Millikin defended his father by fatally stabbing Crone in the back. The dispute was over a dog. Henry C. Bateman, of Lewisville, Heury county, after losing $1,200 at poker, attempted to commit suicide at his hotel in Richmond, but failed from taking an overdose of drugs. A man living near Shelbyville recently killed a black sDake which measured fifty-seven inches in length. His snakeship was quite lively, and had evidently mistaken the time of year.

The State House Commissioners havo decided to clpso up the State House grounds for the winter, as much damage is liablo to be done to the foundation already put in, by munerous visitors. Train sixteen on the Indianapolis, Peru and Chicago railway broke in two going down the grade noar Denver, the hind end striking the front end, completely wrecking ten enrs, fatally injuring a tramp, and slightly injuring two brakemen. The Supremo Court of Indiana holds that husband and wifo arc competent witnesses for or against each other, save with respect to confidential communications made during wedlock, and when the husband is suing for damages by the seduction of his wife. The administrators of the late John Purdue’s estate, J. J. Perrin and J. 11. Wiebers, paid over to M. L. Pierce, Treasurer of Purdue University, the sum of $29,019.57, it being the final payment of the sum of $150,000 donated by Mr. Purdue. The State Dairymen’s Association have elected, the following officers: President, Asher Kellum; Vice President, G. Jackson; Secretary, E. J. Beeles; Treasurer,-G. C. Stephens. It adjourned to meet on the Thursday after the first Monday in January, 1881.

The State Board of Agriculture elected the following officers: President, W. H. Ragan, of Hendricks; Secretary, Alexander Herron, of Fayette; Treasurer, J. A. Wildman, of Marion ; General Superintendent, Fielding Buler, of Marion. The Secretary is the only officer re-elected. The Indiana Poultry Association elected the following officers: President, A. C. Bale; Vice President, T. N. Barker; Secretary and Treasurer, W. J. Elston. The report shows that the receipts of the recent exhibition, which was under the auspices of the society, was sufficient to pay all premiums, and leave a balance in the treasury. The Indiana Mexican Veterans’ Association, fifty strong, met recently. A letter was received from Joo Lane, of Oregon, regretting the apathy of Congress toward the claims of Mexican soldiers to a pension. A memorial was adopted asking Congress to equalize bounties. Among those present was Jacob Fox, of Dearborn county, who fired the first gun in the war. He was a member of Ringgold’s battery, and began the music at Palo Alto. Twelve heirs to the fabulous Springer estate of $80,000,000 have turned up in Howard county, namely: Charles F., Thomas W., Leander F., George A., Margaret H., Harry M., Louis H. and Louisa H., children of Louis F. Springer, who died in Kokomo in 1859; and Ed E. and William Springer, of another family. There is little doubt that the children of Louis F. Springer are legitimate heirs of the estate. Before his death Mr. S. prepared a geneiilogical chart, at great expense and labor, tracing his lineage without a missing link back to the ancient family stem, whose progenitor was Charles Christopher Springer, a Swedish nobleman, and who was the founder of an American colony that settled on the site where the city of Wilmington, Del., now stands, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and which tract of land, embracing 300 acres, valued at $80,000,000, has recently been declared the legitimate inheritance of the lineal descendants of Charles Christopher Springer.