Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

The tobacco crop of Pike county will be very short this year. Salem boasts of the fattest man in Indiana, Col. Horace Heffren, weighing 498 pounds. A case of elopement hi Fort Wayne was recently nipped in the bud by the watchful mother of the young lady. A bad wheel under a New York Central freight-car was the cause of ditching seven cars near Marion, the other day. There are 134 insurance companies doing business in Indiana. Of this number twenty-eight are life-insurance companies. The wife of Michael Sass and two children were drowned while attempting to ford Pigeon creek, near Millersville, Warrick county. During a heavy rain-storm several pike, some of them five inches long, and dozens of minnows were rained down four miles south of Kokomo. The Catholics of Sullivan have decided to use their present church building for school purposes, and erect a new edifice costing about $12,000. Mrs. David Gibson, of Marion township, Allen county, ate her supper, apparently in usual health, but in walking from the table she fell to the floor, ami expired almost instantly. Notre Dame College has filed an application with the Adjutant General of this State for 100 stands of arms for the military company which has been organized among the students. The collected reports concerning the wheat crop in Southern Indiana agree that the prospect is that the crop of 1880 will be.the heaviest, by 20 per cent., ever grown in the counties named. The decision of the Supreme Court whether the recent adoption of the constitutional amendments was in a manner itself constitutional will determine whether or not an election shall occur in October. The Supreme Court decides that the Governor must draw on the fund for building a new State -House in order to pay rent for offices temporarily occupied, there being no fund especially appropriated to the payment of rent. Jeremiah Lacey, one of the early settlers in Fort Wayne, 92 years of age, attempted suicide by throwing himself on the railroad track in front of an approaching train, and afterward by cutting a large gash in his throat with a butcher’s knife. Among a lot of chairs received at a furniture store in New Albany, was one with the following written underneath the bottom: “This chair was made by a Michigan City life convict. My God! this is the worst h—l that ever was or ever will be, I do believe. ” Mrs. Polly Bowman, an .old pioneer of Harrison county, died at the residence of her grandson, Jacob Bruce, four miles east of Corydon. She was in the 105th year of her age, and was the oldest inhabitant of the county, and probably of Southern Indiana. The deceased was a highly-respected old lady. The graves m the cemetery at Salem have of late been almost daily visited by vandals, who despoil them of the flowers and shrubbery that ornament them. Recently a man with his second wife dug up all the flowers and shrubbery over his first wife’s grave, and transferred them to his door-yard for the delight of the second partner of his bosom. In digging among the ruins of his house in Richmond, which was destroyed by fire a few days ago. Bennett Baumer discovered an earthen jar over the mouth of which was drawn a piece of parchment, and on removing this he found a roll of bank bills amounting to $l5O. The jar had evidently been hid in the cellar where the fire could not get at it, but how it came there or who it belonged to he has no idea. Mrs. Fannie Monroe, aged 88 years widow of the late Col. Henry Monroe, died at New Albany the other day, of measles. She was one of the pioneer women of Southern Indiana. She helped, in her girlhood days, to make clothing for the soldiers who fought with Gen. Harrison at Tippecanoe. Hei husband was a soldier in the war of 1812.