Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

New Albany has two sets of city officials, and a lawsuit on hand. Judge Biddell, of the Supreme Court, succeeds to the duties of Chief Justice by rotation. The Tenth regiment Indiana volunteers will hold their next annual reunion Sept. 16 and 17 next, at Frankfort. The Indianapolis telephone exchange now has 600 subscribers, with more than 1,200 telephones in use in the city. There Mill be a rendezvous and review of Indiana and Illinois artillery companies at Terre Haute next week, The old Vietas house, an ancient landmark of New Harmony, one of the old Community buildings was burned last week. The first annual meeting of the Music Teachers’ State Association of Indiana will be held at Franklin, June 22, 23, and 24. A Logansport merchant escaped payment of a note for $3lB by proof that it was given in satisfaction of losses at the poker table. Thf. crooked lightning-rod man has been getting in his work in Daviess county, fleecing several farmers out of various sums.

Simon Allen has brought suit against Dr. C. M. Linley, in Morgan county, for alleged malpractice in resetting a fracture;! i-.idius, and asks for $5,000 damages. The Grand Lodge of the Catholic Total Abstinence Societies meets at Lafayi ette June 8. Delegatus from all the lodges in the State will be in atttendi mice. A case of shocking inhumanity on the I part of a daughter, mimed Marietta Fay, toward her mother, has just come to light at Fort Wayne. The girl is only 19 years old. Federal officers are beginning to remark that the Government building at Indianapolis is too small, and that large additions must soon be made or a new ■ structure erected. The family of ('apt. John Box, residing ten miles nc rth of New Albany, are I strangely affected .with some disorder, ami there is a question whether the • cause is poison or milk sickness. James V. Kelso, an attorney of New i Albany, will contest the legality of the j constitutional amendments recently ; adopted and declared law. The case will probably go to the Supreme Court immediately. The Vincennes University having established in court the validity of a lottery franchise granted by the Territorial Legislature of Indiana, parties who know how • to use such a thing have bought it for a ; consideration not stated. Two children who were separated from their mother six years ago at Evansville have been found in a Catholic school at Terre Haute. The father died before the separation, while the mother was sick and afterward declared insane, | but subsequently recovered. i Last Meek Elisha Reed came out of the I county asylum, at Indianapolis, to re- : ceive $3,838.14 of back-pension money. i He now owns a saloon, which he purchased, presumably, to afford him an easy means of obtaining a livelihood. The estimate for the wool clip in Clark, Floyd, Crawford, Orange, Martin, Harrison, Lawrence, Dubois, Perry, Spencer, Warwick, Washington, and Scott counties for 1880 is 750,000 pounds. Prices rule at 30 to 33 cents f< >r mi washed, and 50 to 75 cents for washed.

A woman at Indianapolis .fell down stairs while in a delicate condition, causing the premature birth of a child, which, strange to say, was marked on the side similar to the mark received by the mother from the fall. The child is still living. Gen. Bf.n Harrison, of Indianapolis, has joined the Mississippi River Coinmission on a trip on the river to examine into the proposed- reservoir system of maintaining navigation. He will continue in that service until the Chicago Convention, to which he is the top delegate from Indiana.

The corner stone of the Capitol at Indianapolis will be laid, it is thought, late in August, at the time the Knights Templar Masons are returning from the conclave at Chicago. This will enable a large number of Knights, not only from Indiana, but from Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and States farther South to take part in the ceremonies. Mrs. Nathan Coggeshell, of Marion, is likely to die from a rat-bite inflicted about four months ago. She attacked the rat with a broom, and it bit her through the fleshy part of the right hand. The wound healed over in a few days, after which it festered and became very painful. She has been growing worse ever since.

A horse died in Indianapolis, the other day, from the effects of a bite by a cop-per-head snake, inflicted within the city limits. The animal was grazing on the commons near the house, when it suddenly gave a neigh of distress and threw its nose violently in the air. The wife of the owner ran out to see what was the matter, and discovered the snake lying in the grass and killed it. A slight puncture was visible on the nose of the horse. In a short time its body began to swell, and continued to (io so until death came to its relief.