Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Logansport has been sued for $20,000 on interest account. There are now over 100 men at work on the State House foundation. Rev. Edward Swem has received the appointment of Chaplain in the State Reform School at Plainfield.

The Hope and Greensburg railroad has received its quietus by the refusal of Clay township to vote the requisite $24,000. Ex-Congressman William H. English, of Indiana, is building for Indianapolis a Grand Opera House that will seat 4,000 persons. Pneumonia is prevailing in an epidemic form among the colored citizens of Carthage and vicinity, almost every case proving fatal. The contested election of Trustees, at Shelbyville, has been settled by counting out the Republican—the Democratic candidate having first been counted out. Ex-Gov, Hendricks, of Indianapolis, has been allowed a claim for $157.55, based upon damages to his carriage wrecked by running into a bad hole on North Illinois street last January. Mrs. Joseph Ramsey, living about four miles from Vevay, gave birth to triplets last week. Two of the children are dead, and the other was not expected to live. Mrs. Ramsey was, however, doing well.

The question in Indiana now is, whether it is necessary to call the Legislature to assemble in extra session to pass a Registration law, as required by one of the constitutional amendments just adopted. The new owners of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad, through their Directors, have ordered the issue of $3,000,000 first-mortgage bonds on the road, the proceeds of the sale of which are to be used in improving the road. . The County Commissioners of Grant county have refused to award the contract for the Court House. When the plan was adopted it was upon the guarantee that the building would not cost over $112,000. The amount asked by the contractors was $136,000. A well-to-do farmer named Savage, living at West Florence, eleven miles southeast of Richmond, shot his daughter through the head with a revolver, and then tried to blow his own brains out. Both are injured beyond recovery, and there is no explanation of the affair.

A terrible double tragedy occurred recently at the magistrate’s office of Esquire Boston, in Blue river township. Harrison county. The litigation and neighborhood excitement had grown out of a quarrel between John Dicklocker and Henry Long over a case of cow stealing. The trial of Long began at 10 o’clock at night, and lasted until 4 in the morning, when a masked mob of from seventy-live to 100 vigilantes rode up to the magistrate’s office, and, dismounting from their horses, a part of the mob rushed into the Office in order to seize and hang Long. Henry L. Otte, a citizen of Long’s neighborhood, headed the mob, and seized Long, who immediately drew his revolver and shot Otte through the heart, killing him instantly. A dozen men at this rushed on Long, and, in his efforts to escape them, his pistol was knocked out of his hands. The infuriated mob fired six or eight shots at Long as he retreated from the office. Gaining the yard he ran around into the kitchen of the house and secreted himself under or behind a bed. An eye-witness says that when he entered the kitchen Long had two pistol shots in the face and one in the neck, and was panting for breath. The mob threatened to burn the house. The beleaguered man again sought escape by Hight, and, as he reached the door in his flight, six shots were fired at him. A trail of blood marked his flight to a strip of wood near by, and there is a great pool of gore as if some one had lain bleeding on the ground, and this was the last trace of Long. He was, no doubt, overcome by llie mob at this point and killed, and nis body carried away to be secreted. The mob then went to the residence of Long, and notified his wife to leave the neighborhood immediately or she would be killed. Joseph Bruner, a neighbor of Long’s, was also notified to leave immediately or sffuer the penalty of being hung. Other citizens of the neighborhood have also been warned away.