Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Bedford, Lawrence country, has a citizen who recently drunk 100 glasses of beer in a day. The wife of Mr. Doyle, a Decatur county farmer, is the mother of triplets, two boys and a girl, all doing well. The police of Warsaw, Kosciusko county, arrested six pickpockets while engaged in plying their vocation near a wandering circus. Iron for the Newcastle and Rushville railroad is being delivered at Newcastle in large quantities, and track-laying will commence in a few days. Over 100 new buildings are under contract in Seymour, Jackson county, and more are talked of. Seymour has doubled in size and population in ten years. James K. Chamberlain, a citizen of Sharpsville, Tipton county, while walking on the railroad track, in a state of intoxication, was run over and killed by an express train. William Deckman, aged 5C> years, a deaf-mute, and a tailor by occupation, committed suicide, at New Albany, Floyd county, by drowning. He stated that life was a burden to him. Work on the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad has begun west of Claypool, Kosciusko county. A largo force of men are at work, and the grading will be pushed rapidly. A farm laborer named James Bedsen, living in Warrick county, was found dead in an old well. He had been missing for several days, and his body was in a bad state of decomposition when found. It is supposed that he committed suicide. The good times and public improvements have caused much activity in real estate in Newcastle, Henry county, and several additions to the town have been made, and lots sold to those who will build houses. Jacob Blume and John H. Emily, two old and highly-respected farmers of Harrison county, between whom an old grudge existed, engaged in a fight, in which Blume, who is quite an old man, had his jaw broken, and was so injured that he is reported to bo in a dying condition. Vanderburo county has a woman with two husbands living. The first one wandered away some years ago, and she, thinking him dead, married again. He now returns, and is enjoying the hospitality of his successor. The affair has been amicably arranged, ho being given charge of his own children.

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union is making strong endeavors to oust the whisky element in Colfax, Clinton county. The oldest saloon Keeper withdrew his application for license through their endeavors, and one if not two drug-store keepers have been indicted before the Grand Jury. They say the other saloons must go.

A couple of Danville (Ill.) infants made application to the County Clerk ol Montgomery county for a marriage license, but, ' after looking at them over his desk for a minute, the Clerk took them up, one in each arm, and gave them a little fatherly advice but no license. The fathers of the infants followed them to Crawfordsville, ami returned with them to Danville.

Gaab, Scott A Co., of Richmond, Wayne county, have discharged 120 men from their shops on account of the unfavorable crop reports they have received from their correspondents. They manufacture farm engines and threshers, and employ a force <tf nearly 500 men. All the manufacturers of agricultural implements in Richmond have advices from their agents indicating short harvests. The grave of Jonathan Jennings, the first G overnor of Indiana, is on the farm of Mr. W. S. Ferner,' of Charlestown, Clarke county. There is nothing to mark his grave, and, indeed, no one knows where his grave is. The Masonic Grand Lodge once had the matter before it as to the propriety of erecting a monument to his memory, but the grave could not be found. The matter was once sprung in the Legislature, but for the same reason it fell through.

A personal encounter between Col. Charles Denby and George W. Shanklin, of the Courier, growing out of a lawsuit and certain editorial utterances of the C’owrZcr, occurred in the streets of Evansville. Both men are considerably above average size, Col. Denby being about six feet two and Shanklin six feet six or seven inches in height, and both are stout, in proportion, Aho first weighing about 235 and the other about 250 or 260 pounds. Both were slightly punished, “and blood (’twas from the nose) flowed free.”

An accident occurred near Crawfordsville, Montgomery county, winch resulted in the instant death of Corwin Mote, of the firm of Moto & Bro., millers. Mote had come to town with a load of lumber, and was returning near dark with a load of dressed lumber, and in an intoxicated condition. After passing through the toll-gate, his team became frightened and ran against the fence, throwing him out against the fence and breaking his neck. He was a married man, and leaves a wife, and three children.

A 2-yeak-old son of Joseph 11. Kibbey, of Richmond, Wayne county, ran away from his nurse ami was not heard of until a telegram was received from Cincinnati, saying that a boy baby had been found in' the depot there who said that he lived in Richmond and was the son of Joe Kibbey. An answer was returned, and the infant runaway was sent home on the next train. He had slipped in the cars and taken a seat, where he remained so quiet that the conductor thought he belonged to one of the passengers sitting opposite, and let him ri<le to the end of his run.

Geo. W. Ameh, who lately died at Greencastle, Putnam county, was a younger brother of the late Rev. Bishop E. R. Ames, of the M. E. Church. Their father was Judge Sylvanus Ames, of Massachusetts, one of the pioneer settlers of Ohio. George W. entered the Methodist ministry and came to liidianaat an early day. He was an eloquent and forcible preacher. In 1853 be was appointed Superintendent of the State Institution for the Blind, and from this time his active ministerial work closed. He was chaplain of an Indiana regiment during the war, and a Special Agent of the Treasury Department in Louisiana for several years after the war. Of late years his time was devoted to active business when his health permitted. He married a sister of Senator Booth, and was the father of Mrs. Winsor, State Librarian. He was a man of strong character, marked ability and genial disposition,