Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Indiana is being overrun with eir cuses. Elizabeth Landson died lately near Evansville. She was 102 years-and 11 months old. Eleven in all of the Harrison county mob that murdered Henry Long have been arrested. The school enumeration of Logansport shows that there, are 3,600 children of school age in that city, 500 less than last year. Absalom Knight, a student at Earlham College, Richmond, had his skull fractured by a base-ball knocked foul by the batter. The enumeration of school children at Indianapolis, just completed, shows 26,522 within the corporate limits, a gain of less than 50l) over last year. Charles Hinchman, a 12-year-old son of ex-Sheriff Hinchman, of Jennings county, has been appointed a page in the national House of Representatives. Measles at Indianapolis arc said to be taking a fatal turn, attacking the brains of the victimsand producing convulsions, from which death is the Only relief. A valuable horse belonging to Das id Hewitt, living near Liberty, got loose in th) stable and butted its brains out against a beam. It is pronounced a deliberate case of suicide. The Council of Madison, by a vote of 8 to 4, has repealed the former ordinance appropriating $50,000 to the 8., B. A M. road, and ordered the destruction of the bonds issued therefor. It is now announced that tin 1 corner stone of the m w State House' cannot be laid before August, as there must, previously be laid four courses oi stop" upon the outside walls and 600,000 brick in the inner ones.

An industrious and respectable young German at N< w Albany married, the other day, a young woman nominally colored, but who would never be taken by any who did not know her'pedigree for anything else than a pure-blooded white. Suit has begun at New Albany against, the Pennsylvania railroad to recover SIOO,OOO for the injury done Anna Hollman by bt'ing inn ov< r on the 12th oi April by a train running at a high rate of speed. Both arms of the girl were cut off. An old white horse, the sole survivor of the four horses that drew the Jr arw<in President Line- In's funeral cortege in Indianapolis, in 1865, is spending Ins last days on the Eoudray farm, six miles northwest of the city, one of the oldest horses in the county. G. W. Hoss, LL. D., Ims resigned his chair at the State University, to lake effect at the close of the present collegiate year. Helms I.ought the Kansas Pdueafional Jonrnal, and will lea ve Indiana about the 12th of June to take charge of it, making his home al T> • peka. The pump-factory and r<-sidciio ■ of Isaac Rarden, at Greenfield, were destroyed by tire the oiler night. Lo , $8,000; insurance, SI,OOO. Si-pposed to be tin 4 work of a.n incendiary. It looked, for a while, as if the entire town would be destroyed, ns a terrible gale was blowing at tlie time. Edward Weakley, aged 18, and Jerome Roles, aged 11, were squirrel-hunt ing two mile,s south of Shelbyville the other day. While walking along in search of game, Weakley’s gun w as pr< maturely discharg'd, and a portion oi t he contents lodged in young Holes’ face. The wound inflicted was very serious.

At Richmond, the other day, a 5-yc;ir old boy named Nelson fell from a sec-ond-story window and disjointed his neck. A physician was called, who twisted th<‘ vertebra' info position, and the child is rapidly recovering from the accident. This is one of a very lew such cases which have ever come um’.'r the notice of the medical profession, and is well authenticated.

A case has just been deeid. d by Judge Chase, of Cass county, that will pul about $20,000 into the pockets of the soldiers of that county. Th case is like this: During the reb-Ilion th" county offered a bounty for volunteers. At that time there was a large number of enlisted men from that county already in the field. Their film* had expir'd, and they re-enlisted as veterans, ciHismg themselves to be assign cd to Cass c. ainiy. The county will have to pay the bill.

Ex-Mayok Himphkeys, of South Bend, died the other night, aged (if years. He was one of the most eminent physicians in the State, an officer of several medical associations, and one of the Commissioners of the Indiana Hospital forthe Insane. At the beginning of the Rebellion ho went out as Surgeon of the Twenty-ninth Indiana volunteer infantry. Later ho was made Brigade Surgeon, and, in 1862, was appointed one of the eight Medical Inspectors of the army by President Lincoln, ami served as such until a year after the. close of the war.