Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Nine students have been expelled from Asbury University for pool-playing. Three children of James Dorsey, of North Vernon, were badly poisoned by eating dock root Sarah Roberts, a widow, living at Middleton, Harrison county, went out to tend a brush fire, and was burned to death. Branson Swain, for several years J ustice of Knightstown, accidentally shot and killed himself while cleaning his shot-gun to go hunting. Lawyer Walls, of Boone county, former Prosecuting Attorney, has appealed to the Supreme Court from ,a decision expelling him from the bar.' The Remy Hotel, Indianapolis, has been sold to David Nicholson, a farmer of Marion county, for $72,000. There will be no change of management. The will of Joseph Bat tell, a bachelor millionaire, has been probated at South Bend, disposing of $700,000 in bequests. One item is $50,000 to Yale College. About two weeks ago Clara Mason, at Indianapolis, had two teeth extracted, from the effects of which inflauimatipn set in in her neck and chest, and caused her death. The remains of the late Gen. Jefferson C. Davis have now been interred at Crown Hill, Indianapolis, in a lot immediately opposite the grave of S ‘iiator Morton. Charlie Lincks, an Evansville child of 5 or 6 years, stabbed a little girl of 5, named Mary Bleicher, and is rep rted to have attempted to stab several others at various times. J. Kino, a farmer living two mil ’s north of Wabash, while attending his horses, was bitten on the neck by one of them, from the effects of which ho cannot live. Joseph G. Breckenridge, formerly clerk in the Fort Wayne postoflice, now serving a two year term in the penitentiary for rifling registered letters, has been pardoned. A decree in favor of tin 1 First National Bank of Indianapolis has been placed in the hands of the Sheriff for -the sale of the entire personal property of the Shaw carriage- w<irk s. Three brothers named Felsopp, all cripples, were walking on the track near Huntington when they were overtaken by a train. One of them, a paralytic, lost his head, and another was badly in - jured. Fire Insurance. The following record of fire insurance companies’ receipts ami losses during the year 1879 is founded upon the official figures reported to the Auditor of State for taxation: Name of Company. Receipt*. Lmuiex. JEtna, Hartford ? 72,364 $44,118 Amazon, Cincinnati 6,557 7,893 American, Chicago 117,331 61,171 American, New Jersey. 1,307 .... American, New York 87 .... American, Philadelphia 10,473 6,165 American Central 5,182 2.452 Aurora, Cincinnati 12,996 6,208 Buffalo, New York 17 .... Buffalo German, New York.... 11,813 4,636 British America 20,242 8,724 Clinton, New York 2,013 269 Citizens’, St. Louis 2,225 535 Columbia, New York 1,345 23 Commercial, New York 2,812 1,170 Commerce, New York 403 773 Commonwealth, Boston 4,448 773 Commercial Union 11,059 9,470 Connecticut Fire 7,615 2,339 Continental, New York 100,976 68,588 Detroit Fire and Marine 1,152 12 Exchange 787 10 Farmers’, York 4,636 2,511 Farmers’Home 44 .... Firemen’s, Dayton 9,380 4,758 Firemen’s, Newark 3,112 1,010 Firemen’s Fund, California 11,812 12,338 Fire Association, Philadelphia... 32,758 9,771 Franklin, Philadelphia 19,660 8,422 Franklin, Indianapolis 34,936 12,081 German American 28,448 17,073 German, Pittsburgh . 340 .... Girard, Philadelphia 12,052 2,024 Glen Falls, New York 8,290 6,998 Globe 105 Guardian, England 2,501 .... Hamburg-Bremen 3,459 461 Hamburg, Magdeburg 4,520 565 Hartford 71,839 33,448 Hoffman 1,767 29 Home, New York 122,627 44,902 Howard, New York Imperial and Northern 12,369 7,384 Insurance Company of North America 51,124 20.856 Knickerbocker, New York 105 .... La Caisse General 17,713 5,761 Lancashire, England 13,898 5,442 La Confiance, Paris 435 .... Liverpool ana London (Kobe. 16,998 7,863 London Assurance 8,387 3.840 Lorillard 2,162 242 London and Lancashire 4,990 .... Louisville. Underwriters 411 . .. Manhattan, New York 7,091 3,324 Manufacturers and Builders.... 105 ... Mercantile, Cleveland, Ohio 4,990 630 Merchants', New Jersey 6,704 2.104 Meriden, Connecticut 5,819 1,046 Metropolitan Plate Glass 1,486 1,095 Milwaukee, Mechanics’ ;.... • 8,504 2,<MM> National, Hartford 8,558 2,815 New Hampshire 3,252 1,298 New York Bowery 787 .... New York City 1,702 808 Newark Fire 5,499 407 Niagara, New York 24,588 18,285 North British and Mercantile... 29,319 10,164 North German 4,160 5,005 Northwestern National 6,282 6,490 Northern, New York 5,124 4,323 Orient. Hartford. 4,073 4,323 Ohio, Farmers’ 24,84 1 6,453 Pacific, New York 363 .... People's, Trenton 8,172 5,236 People's, Newark 3,973 4,376 Phenix, Brooklyn 60,637 19,924 Pho-nix, Hartford 61,432 27,926 Phmnix Assurance, England.... 655 .... Pennsylvania Fire 15,319 8,545 Queen, England 14,595 13,894 Royal, England 56,072 22,788 Rochester German., 2,641 840 Royal Canadian 2,755 1,264 Springfield. Fire and Marine.... 31,734 19,430 St. Pau! Fire and Marine 6,807 3,122 St. Nicholas, New York 1,033 106 Standard, New York 1,714 .... Star, New York 5,491 ... Scottish Commercial 11,481 5,901 Sterling, New York 105 Traders’, Chicago...- 4.586 2,450 Tradesmans’, New York 1,447 1.799 Transatlantic, Germany 2,338 .. Teutonia, Dayton 4,701 1,110 Underwriters J S aT> o?e? 40 ’ 853 17 ’" United FiremeU . . . 2,815 250 Watertown, New York 21,176 12,423 Westchester, New York. 11,284 6,852 Western Canada 18,943 1,643 WitliameburghCity 3,629 3,358 Total receipts from 105 companies $.1,448,540 Total losses of 105 companies,.. 684,320 . Premium receipts, less losees... $ 761,220 ' State tax .03 $22,926.60 —State tax being 3 per cent, on receipts, less loss e!>.