Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1880 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

The State House Commissioners now have $248,000 on hand. Many Indiana papers are agitating fish cultnre by the State. The stock for the Columbus starch works has all been subscribed. Thomas Wallace, one of the Knox County Comnpissioners, has died of typhoid pneumonia. Mount Vebnon has settled with her New York creditors, and the town now stands on a firm financial basis. Evansville has probably more steamboats leaving her wharf every day than any other city on the Ohio except Cairo. Sullivan and West, charged with murdering William Miller, near Hazleton, Gibson county, have been acquitted. Scarlet fever, measles and whoop-ing-cough are raging to a great extent in and around Shelby ville. Several deaths have occurred. Measles are afflicting the people of Dublin, Wayne county, to a considerable extent. Among those Bick with the disease is a Mr. Hastings, an octogenarian. Gen. Lew Wallace, Governor of "Now Mixico, is visiting his home at Crawfordsville. This is the first time he has been home since his appointment to the Governorship, in 1877. Ernest Morris, the young South American explorer, in a short letter to his father, at Shelbyville, written in January, stated that he had been seriously ill with the fever for a month. The Indiana Supreme Court holds that a person injured by railroad 1 rains while walking on the track is guilty oi contributory negligence, end therefore not entitled to damages. The beby of M r. Daggett, who lives about eight miles west of Muncie, was shot in it’i mothei’s arms by some unknown person, who is supposed to have fired at a dog. The child will probably recover. A 3-year old son of George Linger, of Milton, Wayne county’, about two weeks ago swallowed a piece of a nail one half or three-fourths of an inch in length, and died last week after much suffering. A 15 year-old daughter of Mrs. Ramsey, twelve miles west of Mitchell, was accidentally shot in the abdomen by an older sister, while fooling with a Sharp’s revolver. The wound is dangerous, if not fatal. , Gov. Williams has remitted another fine for selling liquor on Sunday, and it is said there are fully SIOO,OOO of similar fines scattered about the State, which should be collected and turned into the school fund. The State House Commissioners appointed Adolph Scherer Supervising Architect, to till tho vacancy caused by the death of Edwin May. Mr. Scherer was May’s draughtsman, anil is very familiar with the plans and work. Thieves broke open a loaded freight, car of country produce, at Columbus, a few nights since, and, after carrying off a large amount of the eggs and butter, got into other tubs of butter and eggs with their leet and destroyed them. The dry-house belonging to the stave factory of George H. Marsh was consumed by fire at Shoals, last week, to gether with twelve cars of heading. The fire arose from the carelessness of the fireman, and was under such headway before found out that it could not be extinguished. Loss about $15,000; snfall insurance.

At a writing school in Butlervillo, Jennings county, a few evenings since, two boys, aged each about 13, the sons of El jah Davis and Stephen Voyles. got into a quarrel, which resulted iu Yoyles cutting Davis across the abdomen with a knife,. causing the bowels to protrude. It is thought Davis cannot recover. A carpenter at Madison lias a piece of timber in the fibres of which ii firmly imbedded a ten-penny nail taken from the heart of an immense oak. The growth of the wood around the nail is fully eighteen inches, showing that it must have been driven into the ireo many ; ears “ before the flood ” in Crooked creek. Jessie Beasley, residing near Bryantsville, Lawrence county, was called out of the house of his father-in-law, William Fulton, and mortally shot through the loins His brother John is suspected of the crime. The cause is said to be a family feud and a lawsuit between the brothers over the settlement of their father’s estate. As the steamer Gen. Lytle was leaving the Carrollton wharf-boat, one < f the crew, who ha’d been talking to a friend on shorr, attempted to get aboard of his boat, and, missing his footing, dropped into the river. He drowned before assistance could reach him. He lived in Cincinnati, and leaves a small family. The Carrollton wharf seems singularly fatal to those who miss their footing. A large number of persons have drowned there. On the 29th day of July, 1879, the starch and glucose manufactory of J. H. & J. A. Cunningham, located at Vincennes, was destroyed by fire. Tbe Cunninghams have brought suit in the Circuit Couit against tbe E. and T. H. Railroad Company, charging said company with setting fire to their establishment with sparks from a passing locomotive on their road. Damage claimed $200,000. This is the largest suit ever brought in Knox county.

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