Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

The city of Seymour is now lighted with gas for the first time. Mb. and Mrs. P. B. Kennedy, of Kokomo, have celebrated their golden wedding. An invoice of 500 barrels of flour was shipped by a Richmond firm to Liverpool, England, for the East India trade. An incendiary fire nt Nashville, Brown county, destroyed four buildings, entailing a loss of si,Boo, on which there was no insurance. The freight bills of the shipments of glass from Jeffersonville by the Plate Glass Company will nearly reach $125,000 per annum. Mrs. Mary Sands, of Leavenworth, Crawford county, claims to have been ■ cured of cancer by the constant application of bruised garlic and salt. The old Wabash county jail is being torn down, thus destroying one of Wabash’s oldest landmarks. The new structure wlLch will take its place is to cost $17,000. Orange county appeals to the Governor for protection against a band of out- ; laws who go about the country at night and administer a castigation to the worthy people of the county. Columbus boasts of a “ bar-keep” who can smash a two-inch board with a blow of his fist. That man is wasting his talents in a peaceable place like Columbus. He should go to the frontier. The State oratorical contest will be held at the Grand Opera House, Indian- • apolis, April 15. Wabash, Asbury, Bloomington, Butler, Hanover, Franklin and Purdue Colleges will take part. A 4-year-old girl, only child of Nani cy J. Collins, a widow who keeps tollgate near Morristown, was shot ami instantly killed by Willie Green, a boy about 16 years old, who was fooling with a revolver. A nugget of gold about an inch square was disclosed by accident to Alexander Wilcox, of Freetown. In falling he caught hold of a bush, which, giving way, overturned a huge rock under which the gold lay. A horse in Crawford county had an unsightly swelling on its cheek, which was rapidly increasing. Its owner cut into it with a knife and found a piece of limestone three inches long ami one ami a half inches thick. The Fort Wayne, Warsaw ami Brazil railroad, which proposes to run from Fort Wayne to Terre Haute, through seventeen counties, a distance of 185 ■miles, has filed ' articles of association with the Secretary of State. Mr. Lewis Kern, a resident of Kokomo, and Mrs. Miller, of Alto, Howard county, think they are prospective heirs of an immense fortune, now in the eon- ; trol of the Government of Holland. The alleged fortune amounts to $200,000,000. ' Augustus H. Turner, the oldest colored resident of Indianapolis, died lately. For more than forty years he has kept a barber shop and accumulated a comfort- ! able competency which, during the flush days of 1872 and 1873, was accounted a large fortune. A Connersville cow, the property of j Stat-? Senator Milton Trusler, has given I birth to a calf which takes high rank j among the monstrosities, having two ■ separate and perfect heads, joined to I one pair of shoulders, with two sets of ' fore-legs, two spinal columns, with two | sets of ribs, one pair of hind legs and two tails. Prof. Collett has transmitted to Washington a report showing the extent so which tobacco is cultivated in Indi- ■ ana. He shows that in seventy-three i townships, situated in nineteen different ’ counties, tobacco is more or less grown, ‘ ami he does not include any counties I with less than fifty acres, or any town- i ship with less than live acres devoted to its cultivation. Jacob Zitz, commission merchant of ■ Boonville, ami his two daughters, Kate, ' aged 16, and Mamie, aged 8, were poisoned by eating pokeroot grated by mis- { take for horseradish. Two little sons sent into the garden to get horseradish . brought in the poisonous root, which i was prepared for the. table. Fortunately only the three mentioned partook of it. The physician pronounced them in a dangerous condition. A fire broke out at Fort Wayne in the four-story brick block occupied by H. J. Trentman & Bro., wholesale crockery; Noll Bros. <t Co., wholesale millinery ; and Hanna, Wiler & Co., wholesale notions and fancy goods. The block is valued at $130,000, and the stock of goods contained therein at $120,000. The total loss will probably exceed SIO,OOO, a large portion of which is covered by insurance.