Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Sullivan has overwhelmingly rejected the proposition to organize a city government. In the past, eighteen mouths three grown daughters of Collin McKinney, of Salem, have died of consumption. It is calculated that the dome of the Indiana State House will contain 327,667 cubic feet of stone, weighing 25,3891 tons. Sua hliot fever is raging fiercely among tlic childreu of Hancock county. Six well-developed cases are reported iu Greenfield. The city of South Bend offers for sale, at not less than par value, $25,090 addi-. tional water-works bonds, bearing 5 per cent, interest. Joseph M. Goble, of Rushville, has brought suit for malpractice against two doctors, alleging that they were negligent. and not. competent to set a broken leg of his last January. A oow belonging t<> Bennett Baum or, a farmer who lives near Richmond, gave birth a day or two ago to a calf that has no eyes, and no place for them, and there is no sign of a tail. Mas. Adam Porter, who died at Camden, Carroll county, a few Jays since, was-a sister of the late Joseph Holman, of Centerville, the last surviving member of the ludiana Constitutional Convention of 1816. Labor quantities of fine walnut lumber, and (iuiber, a good deal of it cut into shape for shipment to Europe, arc being received in New Albany, where the business lias grown into great importance. The Jeffersonville Plate Glass Company has made a plate of glass for the Louisville Exposition, measuring lit) inches and 230 inches wide. It is the largest plate of glass ever east in this part of the country. The breech-loading Hint-lock gun, which was recently found in the ground, several feet below the level of the bed of Graham crook, Jennings county, is supposed to have been lost on the old Indian trail by soldiers or trappers as early as 1812. David Shell, a wealthy farmer living three ■ miles, northwest of Hagerstown, has been beaten out of $2,500 by con lidence men, who offered him a bonus of SSOO for the use of that, sum for ten days, to complete the purchase (as they said) of an adjoining property. County Auditors of ludiana do not seem to have as much interest iu the corner-stone of the Capitol as the State. House Commissioners would like for them to have. So lar but four counties have responded to the circular of the Commissioners asking for memorials. While Mrs. Conner, of Vincennes, was eating supper with an infant daughter in her arms, she attempted to pour out a enp of tea from the urn, when t he. handle broke and the boiling tea poured over both. The child died next morning, and the mother is severely scalded. The Chicago and Bedford Stone Company, at the railroad junction in Bedford, have begun the erection of an immense establishment for sawing, cutting and planing stone. The power will be furnished by a 100-horse-power engine, and the entire cost of the enterprise will be $20,000. Dons raided the flock ol' fine slieep owned by Mr. Martin McCulloch on his farm near Now Albany, killing thirteen and mangling several more so they had to be killed. The. loss is S6O. In the last twelve months over 200 head of sheep have been killed by dogs within a radius of two miles of the city. Near Shidler’s Station, on the Ft. W., M. & C. R. 11., not long since, Alexander Snyder, who was engaged to marry Miss Sarah Freeman, asked her to marry him at once, but she refused, and persisted in keeping company with another person, when Snyder told her she would never again see him alive, went into the field near the house, tied one end of a handkerchief about his neck and the other to the limb of a small tree, and when found soon afterward was dead. A few’ days later Miss Freeman, after having a few words with Snyder’s mother, committed suicide by hanging her-* self to an apple tree with her apron. The young man was 20 years old the girl 19, and both were respected in the county where they lived. Miss Freeman was in the employ of Snyder’s stepfather. John B. Coyner, a farmer, residing near Palestine, Hancock county, relates a singular incident which happened at his farm a few days since. His hired man was in the act of watering the cows, nine in number. They were standing around the pump-trough, awaiting his • action, when all at once, with tails erect, they made a stampede down the lane as fast as their legs would carry them. The cause of this sudden freak was a mystery to the hired man, but it was not. long before he was let into what appears to have been the secret of the stampede. Suddenly, although the sky was clear and the atmosphere still, a young cyclone, not over twenty feet in breadth, darted down from the sky, and, striking the earth near the pump, twisted off five large beech shade trees, stauding near by, as though they had been mere weeds. When the cows made tlie stampede there was no indication of its apprdach, and by what mysterious rule of foresight the cattle “smelt trouble in the air ” is one of the things which “ no feller can find out.”