Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Elkhart has 6,997 people, an increase Of 112 per cent, in ten years. From census reports already at hand, it is estimated that the population of Indiana will foot up 2,220,009. The population of Mount Vernon, as found by the census-taker, is 3,706, a gain of about 30 per cent, since the hist census. The real-estate assessment of Fort Wavne amoiuits to §7,343,189, the personal assessments $18,564.35. The commission house of George H, Start & Co. burned recently at Evansville. Loss, $20,000 ; insured for $lO,000. The Board of Equalizat ion of Knox county have discovered about 700 acres of land that has never been listed for taxation. Mrs. Breinert, of Walkerton, was building a fire in her home, when her clothes ignited, and before help came she was roasted. In 1870 the population of Wabash was 2,881, while in 1880, including the same limits, it is 4,603, showing a net gain of 60 per cent, since the last census. Fifteen bounty claims, which have been in litigation for about two years, have just been allowed by the Commissioners of Morgan county. They average $lO4 each. Frank Gibson, who, with his w ifi' and children, were drowned on White Bear lake, near St. Paul, Minn., w'as until recently a citizen of Terre Haute, where his father still resides.

The saw and planing mill of A. G. Campfield, at Winchester, together with all of the machinery and tools, was burned not long ago. Loss estimated at from $5,000 to $6,000 ; insured for SI,OOO. Michael Hartmetz, a confectioner of Vincennes, w r as badly burned on the breast and limbs by the bursting of a bottle containing sulphuric acid, with which he was charging a soda-water fountain. There is a great gold excitement on Rush creek, iu Washington county. An old miner from the Rockies and Sierras declares that he has discovered gold particles in the bed of the creek, and also gold-boaring quartz. A Miss Wenden, residing on Walnut street, Madison, fell from the secondstory window of her dwelling, while walking in her sleep. She is a season too early. She took her fall in summer. Maj. Harrison’s hominy mill at Evansville burned a few days ago. The damage amounts to about $10,009, the insurance to but $3,500. There is no evidence as to the origin of the blaze. The mill lias been attacked by lire three times in two years. Two young men, named Bryant anil Hazelett, became involved in a quarrel at a basket picnic near Belle Union. Bryant shot at his antagonist and afterward stabbed him with a knife. The shot did not take effect, lmt the cut did, and may prove fatal. Mbs. William Mensor, of Monroeville, having been abandoned by her husband and left in a destitute condition, put arsenic in a pitcher of milk which she and her five children drank. They were accidentally discovered all in an unconscious state just in time to secure physicians and save their lives. In the bankruptcy case of S. H. Patterson, at New Albany, it was shown that the debts of the concern are $225,000 and the assets $135,000. Mr. Patterson was for many years considered one among the wealthiest men in Indiana. The great panic crushed him, and in his old age he is left penniless. Dr. McKown, of Washington county, is in luck. During the war lie doctored and cured a very sick Kentuckian iu Arkansas. The Kentuckian wanted to pay the doctor for his services, but the doctor refused pay. Recently the Kentuckian died, and in his will devised $5,000 to the children of Dr. McKown.

A hack-driver of South Bend was driving along one of the principal streets, when a bolt of lightning struck the pole of the carriage, ran along it and down the axle and wheel to the ground, knocking down one of the horses, and temporarily paralyzing the driver. The horse soon recovered, and the haekman charged the lightning $4 for the ride. The following are the correct census statistics of Sullivan county : Town of Sullivan, 2,106; Hamilton township, 2,175; Haddon township, 2,805; Cass township, 1,335 ; Gill township, 2,175 ; Jackson township, 1,979; Jefferson township, 1,797 ; Curry township, 2,240 ; Fairbanks township, 1,332; Thurman, 1,952; total for the entire county, 20,042. A man by the name of Bloudell, at Evansvilie accomplished the feat of swimming fifteen miles in three and one-half hours. He claims to he champion long-distance swimmer of the world. He swam against time, attempting to make the distance in two hours and a half. He is entered for the swim at Cincinnati which takes place during the Exposition. A woman named Schauss, living in Posey county, went away from home, leaving her 11-months-old babe sleeping in a cradle in charge of her 5-year old child. During her absence the babe awakened, and, in its struggles, fell out of the cradle through an opening in the side where one of the rounds was out. Its head was caught in some manner, and the little one hung there until found dead by its mother. Madison Star: A lady living in the western part of the city is the owner of a litter of young kittens and a pet hen. There is nothing remarkable in this fact, but the hen, which lately lost her brood, has taken the kittens in hand and cannot be kept away from them. She goes to the basket where they are and hovers them, and tries to teach them to scratch. She probably thinks that after a while they will lay in the basket. The explosion of a coal-oil lamp at Harmony burned Mrs. William McClain so badly that she died. She was carrying the lamp in her hand, when she stooped down, and, upon rising suddenly, the action of the air caused the flame to run into the bowl of the lamp, caus> ing the explosion. The woman’s clothing was saturated with the oil, and the flame enveloped her entire body in an instant. Her husband first at empted to tear her clothes from her body, but made no headway, after which he threw bed-clothing upon her and extinguished the fire, but not until she was fatally burned.