Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

The South Bend telephone exchange has 117 subscribers at present. Hog cholera is devastating the hogs in the northern part of Hancock county and the southern part of Madison county. Nina, the 4-year-old daughter of M. D. White, was fatally burned at Crawfordsville, while playing with an outdoor lire. A 4-yeak-oli) child of Dr. Clay, residing near Thorntown, Boone county, was killed while playing with loaded cartridges. Mrs. Frances C. Arnold, of New Albany, has been sent to the State Insane Asylum. Religious excitement imbalanced her mind. Mrs. Israel Davis, residing near Scipio, Jennings county, fell •from a chair and sustained injuries that resulted in her death the same night. New money-order postollices established in Indiana: Elwood, Geneva, Knox, Naponee, North Judson, Otterbine, Patoka, Silver Lake, Walton. Policeman Adam Knapp, in a personal encounter with Chris Achilles, at New Albany, struck Achilles a blow on the jaw with his fist, breaking the jawbone. Mrs. Belinda Tulidge, who died in Richmond, a few days ago, was tho daughter of Col. Shombre, a member of the Duke of Wellington’s staff during the Peninsular war. Mr. Michael Adcock, a wealthy farmer of Sullivan county, while digging a well on his farm, was lucky enough to strike a vein of artesian water at the depth of sixteen feet. A fire at Evansville destroyed a portion of Herman’s large furniture factory. The fire originated in the dry-house, where a large quantity of valuable lumber was stored. Loss, $60,000 ; insurance, SIO,OOO. The postoflice at St. Marys, near Terre Haute, burned one night last week. The building was entirely destroyed, with a stock of goods and part of the mail. Loss, about $2,000. It was the work of an incendiary. The oldest resident of Scott county has gone to receive the reward of a wellspent life. Peter Christie, of Vienna township, was probably one among tho oldest, if not the oldest, men in the State. He had lived 105 years, and during most of his life was a hale and hearty man. He leaves a widow aged 86 years. Property was destroyed by fire at Evansville, the other night, to the amount of $12,000. New machinery Avas being placed in the water-works, so that no pressure could be brought to bear upon the flames, and the entire fire department witnessed, instead of rendering aid in checking, the fire. Insurance light. Prof. J. F. McElroy, of the Indiana Institute for tho Blind, has been elected Superintendent of the Michigan Blind Asylum, at Lansing, and will enter upon the duties of the oihee early in September. This makes the second official which Michigan has taken from Indiana, Superintendent Mclntyre, of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, being the first to go. As a train on the Pittsburgh railroad was approaching the Broadway, crossing In Fort Wayne, the other day, three men in a light wagon drawn by a spirited horse attempted to cross the street, but when about half over the track the wagon was struck by tho locomotive aud completely demoralized, and two of the men, Daniel Forth and Thomas A. Hearn j were so severely injured that they will probably not.recover.