Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

The Fort Wayne water-works will be completed in about two weeks. J. C. Neal, miller, of Sullivan, has'an order from Europe for 1,000 barrels of flour. A new jail is to be erected at Salem, Washington county, on the site of the old hotel. One of the most valuable horses in New Albany died of epizootic the other day. Many other line horses have the disease badly. Oban Huntington, for forty years manager of a hotel at Richmond, died last week, of old age. He left a large and valuable estate. The new engines of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad have begun to arrive. There are seven of them, all large and first-class machines. Capt. Storey, who traveled many years as a clown in Van Amburg’s, Dan Rice’s, the Great Eastern, and Sells Brothers’ circuses, died at Sullivan recently. Indiana has made an extensive addition to its State Museum by securing the geological collection made by John McCormack, the hermit of Madisou, and by him bequeathed to personal friends. A bull butted an Ohio and Mississippi freight engine and several cars from the track, at Starksville, the other evening, delaying passenger trains several hours. At the residence of Jacob Leatherman, near Delphos, a young girl 8 years old named Ella Latinde fell into an open fire-place, while thb elder people were attending a corn-husking, and was burned to death. A boy was shot in the neck and badly wounded while attempting to play a joke on F. N. Bunnell, of Monticello. The lad was fastening a string to the window of Bunnell’s residence, and was mistaken for a burglar. * A 15-months old daught ?r of Bud Reed, of Milton township, Jeflerson county, while tied in a rocking-chair in front of a fire, fell forward into the fire, seriously burning it, one hand being burned almost to a crisp. Frank Ridgeway, a young man of Wabash, who went.out squirrel hunting, was found dead and his faithful dog keeping watch over the body. The gun had evidently been discharged as Ridgeway was climbing a fence. In digging a ditch on the farm of Jolin H. Caylor, four miles southeast of Noblesville, on the Greenfield pikb, the laborers struck a p‘art of the remains of what local naturalists pronounce to have been an American elephant. A brass cannon, one of the trophies capturcd’in the Mexican war, was borrowed of the Senator, John Benz, of Crawford county, to fire over the State election. Gov. Porter, it is said, will make a requisition for this valuable troj phv when he takes hjs seat,