Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — INDIANA NEBS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEBS.

Hobse-thieatss are playing their game to an alarming extent in Kosciusko county. A salt spring has been discovered west of South Bend, and Saginaw is notified that a dangerous rival is in tho field. Col. John A. Bridgeland, Consul at Havre, France, has returned to his home in Richmond, on vacation, to take part in the canvass and vote. Lynn Brooks, aged 21, living near Muncie, jilted by Ins affianced because he took another girl out riding,blew out his brains with a revolver. The Excelsior factory and flour and saW-mill of G. W. Bishop, at Walton, was destroyed by fire recently. Loss, SIO,OOO ; insurance, small. Two surgeons are exploring the nose of a gmall child of William Stoops, of Counersville, in search of a carpet-tack secreted there by the infant, but so far without success. While a little daughter of James Brown, of Nashville, was playing on the floor, a cupboard fell over upon her'and crushed her so badly that she died in a few minutes afterward. Allen Nichols, a resident of Lawrence county, ran into his house near Fayetteville, speechless, and remained go till next morning, when he died. It is supposed that he had been bitten by a snake. An old goose at New Albany, with one leg, and one wing broken, and that had be£h deserted by the balance of tlio flock, deliberately threw its neck under the wheels of a wagon and allowed itself to be run over and killed. Caul Johnson, a Swede, was killed at the Oliver Chilled Blow Works, at South Bend, by the bursting of an emery wheel. He Avas sta idmg in front of the wheel, when one of the pieces struck him and crushed his face in.

While a lady was carrying her (>- montlis-old babe on one of the streets of Neiv Albany, a few evenings since, a boy exploded a roman candle, Avliieh struck the child on tlio head cutting a bad gash and burning the head severely. Cyrus Thomas and Ed Kidd, both colored, got into an altercation at Coiinorsville, when Kidd drew a revolver and shot Thomas in tho breast. Thomas walked a few steps, fell, and expired in fifteen minutes, wliilo Kidd made his escape during the excitement. While John H. Eck, of St. 4 Paul, Shelby county, owner of the Adams stone-quarries, Avas engaged in helping the workmen raise a large rock / the derrick suddenly gave Avay, one of the ropes striking him on the head, causing instant death. He leaves a wife and tAvo children. While Mrs. Sophia Meyers, of Richmond, Avas carrying a vessel of melted sealing-wax across tho kitchen, the handle melted oil and let the contents of the cup run into one of her shoes. It burned the skin off her ankle and foot, and cooked the flesh under it. In some places it Avas burned to the bone. The boundary line between Adams and Wells counties lias been infested for seme time past with a gang of tramps of the most disreputable character. They await every opportunity to pillage and plunder residences, and a few days ago one of the gang struck a girl working in a com field with a stone and fatally injured her. Charles Eggleston, of Rockport, 4 Spencer county, a young married mail, who has been considered insane at times, e for a year past, killed his infant. daughter the other night, by striking its head against the smoke-house. He has Ween tried by a lunacy commission, and ordered to the Insane Asylum. He said, “The Lord told me to kill the baby, and I had to do so.”

At Browning’s, three miles from Browhstown, Lase Morgan was knocked down with a club, and then unmercifully, pounded, by Dick Ban-, a young stripling not yet 21. Morgan died from the effects of the beating. Barr was immediately arrested, and, having waived an examination, was committed to jail. The assault was brutal in the extreme, and entirely unprovoked. Thomas Elzy, a highly respectable young man of New Albany, aged 19, met a horrible death, eight miles south of Hawesville, Ky., the other night, at a stave and heading factory. He had been at work in the factory, but, his widowed mother desiring his return home, he hart quit, and was in the factory bidding adieu to his fellow-workmen. He was standing near a circular saw, which was running at high velocity, when it burst, one of tlie fragments striking him over the left eye, literally splitting his head open and causing almost instant death. The German Central Conference lias made the following appointments for the New Albany and Louisville presidingelder district : Rev. H. G. Licli, presiding elder. Louisville, Market and Breckinridge Streets, G. Frefz and C. I’loch. Louisville, Jefferson Street, Andrew GracsNew Albany. C. J. Fritsche. Jeffersonville, J. H. Barth. Charlestown, J. H. Huber. Seymour, L. Miller. White Creek and Bedford, R. F. Kunschik. Bradford, J. Bockstaliler. Terre Haute, E. Ruff. Cannelton, J. Kuster. Santa Clinse, F. A. Hoff. Huntingburg, Bpeckmann. Booneville, J. F. Severinghaus. Evansville, J. W. Koecker. Henderson anl Salem, G. Bertram. MaiTS, J. H. Luckemeyer. Mt. Vernon, J. F. Pfeiffer. Golconda and Metropolis, 111., J.Lcppe*fc and J. Allinger. Nashville, Tcnn., 11. -A. Wulzen.