Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

A Connersville horse fell dead from fright at a locomotive. The farmers of Knox county feel gloomy over the wheat prospect. A New Albany doctor, young and unmarried, officiated at eleven births last week. The sale of harvesting implements in New Albany, just at present, is something marvelous. The Presbyterians have begun work on their new church in Wabash. It will cost about S2O, 0(10. The State House contractors have just started to burn their first kiln of bricks, at Centerton, containing 450,000 bricks. Forest fires have been raging on flic knobs, three miles west of New Albany, and have, destroyed a large quantity of valuable timber. The catalogue of Wabash College shows 165 students in attendance. The number of alumni living is 311. Commencement will be held June 23. Mrs. Rebecca Ann Billingsly, a widow, has been arrested at Shelbyville for having attempted to obtain a pension which she was not entitled to. The UePaffiv plate-glass works at New Albany, after lying idle nearly four months on account of a strike of the operatives, has now resumed operations. The State Superintendent has completed the semi-annual apportionment of the school fund, the total amount reported in for distribution being $1,090,950. Marion eountv has 115 cases pending before the Supreme Court, of which ninety-two are old cases and twentythree, have been Hied during the last term. A heavy gale at North Vernon, with a rain-storm, blew the hyppodrome canvas and one tent of Hayward’s circus to the. ground. The Colonel suffered SI,OOO damages. A hotel landlord at Indianapolis wears a hat woven of pineapple straw, which weighs only two ounces. It. was made on the island of St. Helena, and is valued at SIOO. While Mrs. Kate Brown, a wealthy lady living near Scipio, Jennings county, was working among her Howers, she was stricken with paralysis, and died almost instantly. Christian Mellenger, , whose little child was burned to death in a stable at Fort Wayne, has caused the arrest of Charles Cemesky, aged 16, who, it is said, set the stable on lire. Col. Smith Vawter says, on the 14th of May, 1834, a cold snap overtook vegetation in Indiana, killing the wheat and many forest trees. Ice froze to the thickness of several inches. Work has been commenced by the contractor for the construction of a third reservoir for the New Albany waterworks, with a capacity of 6,5(10,0(1(1 gallons. The contract price is $20,000. Business has of late become so brisk that -the Indianapolis rolling-mill is about two months behind in orders. For some time past they have been working a full force of hands both night and day. In October, 1877, Win. Wolfe, then 19 years of age, residing in the northern part of Knox county, shot and instantly killed Eli Collins. The case, after several postponements, has now been dismissed. The long-continued efforts of the Government revenue officials to discover the moonshiners, who are known to have been carrying on their unlawful business in Crawford county for a year or two, arc likely to succeed at last. The singular illness in the family of Capt. John Box, residing two miles north of New Albany, heretofore attributed to milk sickness, is now true <1 to arsenic. Three of the family are now in a paralytic condition.