Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1880 — INDIANA NEWS, [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS,

A contract has been made at Salem for 200,000 feet of white oak timber for wagons, all for a firm in Leadville, Col. On account of tli3 alarming extent of scarlet fever the Kokomo Board of Education have closed the public schools. Marcvs Sherwood, proprietor of the Sherwood Home, at Evansville, aud a resident since 1819, has died, aged 77 years. Three bojs, about tea years of age, were detected attempting to fire the Catholic school building at Vincennes, of which they were pupils. The contractors for the new State House are busily hauling stone, and hope to get enough stone on hand this winter to work uninterruptedly all next, season. The Secretary of State is sending out to Sheriffs the ballots aud tallysheets for the approaching electionApril 6—on the amendments to the constitution. The Very Rev. Fintan Mundwiler, O. S. 8., prior of St. Meinrad’s Abbey, Spencer county, has been elected Abbot, vice Right Rev. Martin Marty, recently consecrated Bishop of Dakota. The city of Fort Wayne has just disposed of the remainder of her watei - works bonds, amounting to $150,000, at 103 and accrued iuterest. The bonds run thirty years and bear 6 per cent, interest. A fire in the De Pauw glass works, at New Albany, destroyed the pothouse, box-factory, grinding-liouso, and large stove-house. Loss, $35,000 to $50,000; insurance, SIO,OOO. The fire is believed to be incendiary. The temperauco war iu Jackson county has spread uutiJ it Ims taken in a portion of Jennings county. The excitement in all that section almost equals the famous crusade of six years ago, and is still on the increase. Some of the classes in the girls’ high school at New Albany have so liberally construed the bissextile privileges of the year, particularly as regards the boys’ high school, that the local press has taken up the subject with some vigor of remonstrance. Five suits for damages, in the region ©f $3,000 each, are in progress of prepa ration agamst the Evansville and Cairo Packet Company. The plaintiffs are the roustabouts ii jured in the recent, explosion in the powder magazine of the steanu r Idlewild.

Gov. Williams has granted a respite to Arthur Bissot, now only 17 yeais old, who is under life sentence for the murder of George Carney, Town Marshal of Bedford. The respite is for a period of six months, and conditioned •that, in case he gets well, he shall bo immediately returned to the prison The city of Wabash, this State, is to be lighted by electricity. The contract for an electric light of 10,000 candle power, to be placed in the dome of the County Court House, intended to light that city, has been let to the Brush Electric Light Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, for $.1,800. The agree men! states that, should the light prove unsatisfactory, the city shall be at no expense.

A part of a human skeleton has been found on the river bank at Shoals. The bank was washed out by the recent high water, which exposed the bones, and gave rise to the discovery. Physicians who have examined the skeleton think that it is the remains of an Indian from the shape of the bones. The skull lon a small round hole in the back part of it, resembling a bullet-hole. From general appearances, one would think it had been lying there many years. Attorney General Woollen, who has been in Washington looking after Indiana war claims, has returned, and reports that the 5 per cent, claim for SIOO,OOO goes before the Senate with the indorsement of the committee to which it was referred. It will probably be paid. The other claim, for $600,000, for funds spent in equipping United States troops during tlie war, is not in as favorable a condition. It will bo allowed some time probably, but not for several months at least. These claims are mostly for interest paid by the State on the xvar debt which was subsequently assume 1 by the General Government. By mistake the item of “interest” was stricken out at the time of settlement, and from that time until now the State has been seeking payment. Wm. P. Wilson, City Treasurer of Richmono, left home the other day, ii.tending to go to a meat shop at the corner. An hour later Mrs. Wilson went in the door-yard and saw him lying on his face in an out-liouse on the lot. She ran to him, and found that he was dead. A physician was summoned, who decided that his death was caused by apoplexy. Mr. Wilson w..s a Sergeant in Company B, Nineteenth Indiana infantry, the famous old Iron Brigade, and lost a leg in the battle of Gettysburg. "While a convalescent in the hospital the citizens sent for him to accept the office of City Collector, which he held until it was abolished in 1867, when he was elected City Treasurer. He was returned to office at every succeeding election, and had nineteen months yet to serve on his present term.