Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

James Vogus, who murdered his father at Kokomo, last June, has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to imprisonment for life. The Union District Medical Society of Eastern Indiana and Western Ohio will hold its annual meeting at Rushville Oct. 28. James M. Ray is the only living citizen who voted at the first election held in Indianapolis in 1822, when he was chosen County Clerk. Mbs. Emily A. Roache Jias resigned as manager of the Female Reformatory, and Gov. Williams has appointed Mrs. Eliza J. Dodd to the vacancy. The National Association of Railway, Omnibus and Transfer Lines will hold its next meeting in Indianapolis, third Tuesday of next April. In jumping out of a wagon while the horses attached were running aw ay Wm. Butler, of Bedford, fractured his pelvis bone, a rare and painful accident. Walnut stumps, knotted and curled, are being dug from the ground by farmers and sold at big prices to Eastern dealers who are in New Albany to purchase them. George Benner challenged the vote of Lark Wills, at Muncie, and the Wills brothers broke his head. His brains were exposed, and the wound is pronounced mortal. C. W. Janverin, a young chemist from Davenport, lowa, fell in the streets of Vincennes, the other evening, under an attack of delirium tremens, and was at last accounts in a critical condition. At Fort Wayne, the case of Julia Roney vs. the Pennsylvania Company, for killing her husband in an accident a year ago last March, was decided in favor of the plaintiff, to the amount of $5,000. The annual report of the Treasurer of State will show a total receipt of $3,130,180.69 from counties for the December and May settlements. The amount is about $120,000 less than it has been for the past six years. The Governor of Indiana appointed one Marshal from each Cogressional district to collect the vote for Presidential electors. These appointments were made in accordance with an ancient act of the Legislature. The gate receipts of the State Fair, this year, were about $14,000 ; last year they were over SIB,OOO. but, owing to the decreased expenses this year, the net receipts are as great as those of 1879, viz —54,000. F. M. Compton, of Claypool, Kosciusko county, was robbed of $l,lOO on a Ciucinnat, Wabash and Michigan train, between Warsaw and Claypool. His pocket was cut entirely out. The car was full of passengers, and he don’t know when it was taken or by whom. A saloon in Richmond was cleaned out a few days since by Mrs. Frank Early, whose husband had been lying drunk in it for nearly a week. She shied beer glasses through the large mirrors, smashed the bottles with a bung-starter, and splintered the plate-glass windows with cracker dishes. The place was completely gutted, and presented the appearance of having gone through a hundred days’ siege. The Sate Council of Red Men at their meeting, in Madison, elected E. G. Darnall, of Lebanan, Great Sachem; John F. Sanders, of Muncie, Senior Sagamore : J. C. Suit, of Franklin, Junior Sagamore ; John W. Verry, of Madison, Keeper of Wampum ; Geo. F. David, of Indianapolis, Chief of Records ; Mark C. Smith, of Frankfort, Great Prophet; M. A. Marks, of Madison, Representative to the National Grand Council. A party was out coon hunting in Adams township, Hamilton county, the other night, when it became necessary to fell a tree to secure the game. As it was about to fall, several of the party ran under it to break up a dog fight, and save the dogs, but were themselves caught, Merrill Losey, a stepson of Gus Venable, being so hurt about the head and internally that he died next morning, and Robert Stevenson Having a leg broken and receiving other injuries. Archie Kelley, of Cincinnati, an employe of the American Union Telegraph Company, while engaged in carrying the wires of the company across the Ohio river bridge, at Louisville, fell from the north end of the bridge, a distance of ninety feet, to the naked rocks below, and was instantly killed. In his descent the unfortunate man turned two somersaults, landing on his back on the jagged rocks below. His bones were literally crushed into fragments. His death was instantaneous. A monster sewing machine, weighing over four tons and run by steam, has been constructed for a manufacturing firm in Liverpool. The machine is the largest in the world.