Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

. South Bend is to have a street railway. Thebe is strong talk of organizing a boat club in South Bend. * The new reservoir of the New Albany water works hrs a capacity of 5,500,000 gallons. A boy baby was born in Columbus recently with two arms in their natural position, and one behind. While handling a revolver, near Manson, Miller Mercer accidentally shot and mortally wounded a 12-year-old boy, named Conley. Calvin Phibbs, living near Bedford, Lawrence county, consumed a gallon of whisky daily for a month, and was found dead the other morning. A silk patch-work quilt, containing 16,000 pieces, made by Miss Belle Scott , of Jacksonburg, took the first premium at the Fayette county fair. J. F. Bbyant captured in the woods of Whitley county, one day last week, a bald-headed eagle that measures seven and a half feet from tip to tip of wings. Lieut. Frederick Keonig, in receipt of. a pension of sl2 a month for total blindness, died in Cyvington, Fulton county, a few days since, aged 51 years. Cora Peru, a fine bay mare belonging to Jack Bront, of Anderson, fell dead on the track in the first heat at the Delaware county fair, at Muncie. Her owner had lately been offered $3,000 for her, but refused it. At Rockfield, William Moyer was killed by the bursting of a cannon. A Democratic rally was in progress, and he was in charge of the cannon and overloaded it. It tore off his legs, and he lived only about an hour afterward. By recent enlargement the plate-glass works at New Albany occupy a continuous building 820 feet in length, and for more than half its length 320 feet in width, and for the balance over 100 feet in width. The Cabinet-Makers’ Union furniture factory and lumber, together with a number of small dwellings occupied by workmen, were destroyed by fire at Tell City, a few days ago. The lumber was valued at $50,000. The total loss was $200,000. Albert D. Maxwell, of Richmond, died at Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the 9th, of gastric fever. He was employed in surveying the branches of the Santa Fe road, and had been in New Mexico about six months. His brother was with him when he died. Miss Algoba Johnson, of BrownsI town, Jackson county, died suddenly the. ■ other morning, and her body began to become putrid even before her death. She arose apparently in good health, and, complaining of illness, retired again to bed, and died in two hours. Jim Curry, at one time engineer on the Bee line, and afterward in a similar position on the Texas Pacific road, is now at Vincennes, Ind., working in the machine-shops of his brother. This is the individual who killed Porter, the actor, at Marshall, Tex., and badly wounded Mapiice Barrymore.