Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1880 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Measles are prevalent among the students at Greencastle. Mica has been discovered in paying quantities near Madison. The State House contractors laid the first stone of the foundation of the dome the other day. Mabtin Somebs, while lying drunk on the track, at Knightsville, was killed by a passenger train. Oveb eight miles of water-pipe have already been laid at Fort Wayne—almost one-third of the entire amount. A bridge near Crawfordsville, which was contracted for seven years at $7,000, has already cost the county $21,000. The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that the sale of cigars on Sunday is lawful, on the ground that cigars are a necessity. The bridge of the narrow-gauge railway across White river at Worthington, which was washed away in January, has been rebuilt. Andbew Wallace, of Indianapolis, a prominent mine speculator, has been shot and fatally wounded by his insane son, at Pennington, D. T. Rochesteb boasts of a baby spotted and striped with red. The parents have been offered SI,OOO for the privilege of exhibiting it next summer, but refuse. Miss Ella Angleton committed suicide at Shelbyville, the other day, because the young man she loved was paying attention to another young lady. Fob seventeen years each successive Grand Jury in Howard county has condemned the jail at Kokomo as unfit for use, and nothing more has been done about it. The Logansport Journal says: “The scarlet fever still prevails in the city to a dangerous extent, and new cases are reported almost daily to the Board of Health.” A pabty of twelve in a wagon were thrown over an embankment two miles west of Terre Haute, a few days ago, drowning two ladies, a Miss Otterman and a Miss Hanna, The laying of the corner-stone of the new St. Vincent Catholic Church, four miles east of Shelbyville, took place last week. The building will be completed at a cost of about $25,000. The wife of John C. Prather, of Seymour, is making strenuous efforts to capture the man who obtained $167 from her last week by representing that Prather had sent him to get it. The ten-ton shaft of the steamboat Diana, at Indianapolis, which has been buried in the rolling-mill yard for more ’ than ten years, has been dug up and | will be molded into railroad bars. Plymouth’s new jail is now completed j and approved by the Commissioners. Its cost was $17,000. The next day after it was approved the roofing on one of the cupolas blew off during a windstorm. John G. Deckeb, a farmer living near Princeton, was departing from his home for a hunting trip, and, when passing through the gate in the back yard, the hammer of the rifle raised, which discharged the gun. Death ensued instantly. The farm residence of Mr. Holloway, near Silver Lake, Kosciusko county, was burned one day last week. Mrs. Holloway and her child, about a year old, were burned to death. Mr. Holloway had gone to Silver Lake to make some purchases. The fire occurred while he was absent. The bodies were burned to a crisp. A micbophone has been placed on the pulpit of Rev. G. J. Darby, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Evansville, and connected through a telephone in the pastor’s study with telephones in the houses of a number of infirm and aged members who are unable to attend church. By this means they are enabled to hear the entire service, organ, choir and preacher. Mbs. Maby Clem, of Indianapolis, will have in prison the companionship of Mrs. Longnecker, sentenced for life, in 1865, for poisoning her husband. Mrs. Longnecker claims that she had saved up S3OO to fee a lawyer to get her pardoned, and loaned it to Mrs. Clem on that business woman’s representation that she could double the money for her in no time. Mrs. Longnecker has not heard or seen anything of her money since, and is rather bitter toward Mrs. Clem. The 1880 State Fair. The Executive Committee of the State Board oi Agriculture have decided upon the following programme of races for the next State fair: Tuesday—To runners 4 years old and over, there is offered a purse of $150; Ist $75: 2d, SSO; 3d, $25.- Stallion trot, open to allstallions; purse, $100; Ist, SSO; 2d, S3O: 3d, S2O. Wednesday — h special attraction'll} the racing fine will be provided hereafter, in addition to the following: Runners under 4 years of age, one mile and repeat, $200; Ist, $100; 2d, S6O; 3d, S4O. Thursday—Trotters that have never beat 2:40; purse, $300; Ist, $150; 2d, $100; 3d, SSO. Trotters under 5 years of age; purse, $100; Ist, SSO; 2d, S3O; 3d, S2O. Friday—Entries confined to horses owned in this State; purse, $150; Ist, $75; 2d, SSO; 3d, $25. Runners’ consolation purse, for horses that have been in the preceding races during the Fan-—slso is offered; Ist, $75; 2d,'sso; 3d, $25. Saturday—Free-for-all trot; purse, $500; Ist, $250; 2d, $150; 3d, SIOO. Runners’ free for all, one-half.mile and repeat; purse, $100; Ist, SSO; 2d, S3O; 3d, S2O. All the races are to be mile heats, the winner to secure the best three in five. There must be at. least five entries, and three must start. Trotters and pacers to be in harness. The entrance fee will be 10 per cent, of the purse. The entry books will be kept open until 10 o’clock of the day the race is called, except the Saturday races, which must lie made by noon of the preceding day. No time or distance flag will be held. With this exception the races will be governed by the 1 rules of the National Association.