Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — INDIANA NED’S. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NED’S.

It is a settled fact that Fort Wayne is to have a Government building costing SIOO,OOO. One party at Indianapolis has purchased 200,000 1-cent stamps within the past two weeks. Alfred Lee, living near Kokomo, owns a well-developed calf that weighs only four pounds. It is said that there are at least seven new railroads projected at presente through Northern Indiana. A wild animal of immense size, new to that region, is creating great excitement in the vicinity of Vincennes. Mrs. James Logan, of New Albany, was very seriously hurt by being bitten upon the breasts by a vicious horse, owned by Jacob Kusler, while passing in front of the animal. The Government office at Indianapolis has received a photo-lithograph of the statement of a census taken in Indiana when it was a Territory, and w hen it comprised but thirteen counties. A rather singular habeas-eorpus case at Indianapolis involves the right of possession of an illegitimate child, which the mother gave to some married people, and which the putative father now claims. The dinner pails of workmen at Kilgan’s pork-house, at Indianapolis, were dosed with' croton oil by some scoundrel. Four of the men were made seriously sick, and all were more or less affected. During the performance of John Robinson’s show, at Madison, an elephant attacked and would have killed a. young man serving as waiter, but for the heroic conduct of the keeper, who beat and conquered the animal. Terrible alarm prevailed in the audience, ladies screaming, fainting, etc. Jacob Hammersmith, of Madison, was shot through the heart and instantly killed, a few days ago, by Ransom Smit h. The tragedy resulted from a quarrel about a chicken claimed by Smith. The latter was promptly arrested and placed in jail. He is (it) years old. Hammersmith leaves a wife and two daughters, aged respectively 12 and 14 years, A German named Mertz, a resident of Cambridge City, has instructed his lawyers to bring suit against Mrs. Kambesky, a wealthy widow’ of Richmond, who is ten or fifteen years his senior, for breach of promise. He estimates his damages, in which he includes railroad fare and the cost of the beer consum' d during the courtship, at $2,000. He has made due allowance for offsets in the shape of fuel and lights. Albert Hauger, who lives several miles from Salem, got very drunk and went into his stable loft to sleep off his potions. He slipped off the hay and down through a lot of harness hanging on the walls of the stable, one of the lines noosing itself around bis neck and hanging him. He would have died in this condition but for the fortunate arrival of a neighbor at the barn, who cut him down. Gln. James A. Ekin, Deputy Quartermaster General, in charge, of tin- United States depot at Jeffersonville, lias received an order for the following army clothing, commencing July 1 : 16,769 blouses, 3,500 stable-frocks, 7,000 pairs overalls, 55,000 flannel shirts, 40,000* jeans drawers, 7,000 pillow-sacks. Thik will be good news for th • op ratives of that place, as they have been idle for several weeks past. This contract will keep 800 women busy all winter. Capt. John Box died at New A ll >any last week, aged 66 years. Our readers will remember that about a month ago Capt. Box, his wife, two nephews, a niece, sister-in-law and a colored farm laborer were stricken with illness with all the characteristics of lead poisoning. All the family recovered, including flic' colored man, except Capt. Box, his wife and nephew, Sidney Box. Capt. Box is now dead, and his wife and Sidney are helpless from paralysis caused by the poison.