Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

There are 523 convicts in the State Prison South. The number is decreasing. The new Hoad law of Indiana is presenting many knotty points to the Auditor of State. Ex-Senator Henry S. Lane, of Indiana, died at his home in Crawfordsville, last week, at the ripe age of 80 years. Charles Hubbard, cx-Mayor of Columbus, and once Republican candidate for Treasurer of State, died there lately. The annual meeting of the old settlers of Tipton county will be held Saturday, Aug. 1. N. R. Overman will deliver the address. The New Albany forge-works has received a 36,000-pound pair of shears, capable of cutting a four-inch square cold bar of iron. A Mr. Drake, living near Shelbyville, fired at a cat and lodged a charge of shot in a small boy, who loses one eye in consequence. Over 100 new buildings are under contract in Seymour, and more are talked of. Seymour has doubled in size and population in ten years. William Ramsey was instantly killed at Marion, while coupling cars on the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington railway there. He leaves a wife and one child. Jesse Elmwood bought forty acres of land in Harrison county, about one year ago, paying 8400 for it. Last week he sold the white oak timber alone, on the land, for S7OO cash. The wheat crop around Bedford is in a much better condition than it has been reported to be in. Intelligent farmers say that the crop will be a full average, and perhaps more. Jesse Randall, a very small boy, was attacked by a vicious horse, at Butlerville, and when rescued it was found that, aside from internal injuries, one ear had been bitten entii ely off. Daniel Everhart, aged 28 and married, living two miles east of Elwood, Madison county, was instantly killed while hauling logs. He was hit on the head by a rail which was being used as a pry. St. John’s Lutheran congregation, at Fort Wayne, have decided to speedily erect a church to cost $40,000, on the site of the old edifice. Emanuel Church will also tear down the old parsonage and build a new one. While climbing out on the end of a limb to rob a bird’s nest, Willie Snyder, of Fort Wayne, fell to the ground, twenty feet, so badly injuring and paralyzing his spinal column that the physicians pronounce his recovery very doubtful. The Abbey of St. Meinrad, in Spencer county, with its colleges, is the most extensive educational and religious establishment iu Indiana. The recent oonp

mencement exercises were very grand. The minor orders were conferred on fourteen young men. An election has been ordered by the Commissioners of Henry county, to be held July 16, to vote a subsidy of $39,000 for the Evansville, Knightstown and Toledo railroad; also, an election in Ripley township, Rush county, has been ordered for the same road. As the midnight freight on the Fort Wayne road, west, was passing through Bourbon, at night, Daniel Staley fell between the cars. Both legs were cut oft'. He was also injured internally, and cannot recover. He has a wife and two children. He was stealing a aide. Mr. Kennett, of Osgood, went coon hunting, taking with him his 6-year-old son. While crossing an open field the child was set upon by a large and ferocious dog, biting it about the face and body so terribly that the little fellow’s life is despaired of. Mr. Kennett shot the dog. At a dance at New Amsterdam, Halleck Mathers and Clay Cunningham quarreled and fought about a woman, and Mathers cut Cunningham’s hand nearly off at the wrist with a knife. A free fight followed among the crowd, jn which Charles France was stabbed in the shoulder by an unknown party, and it is thought fatally hurt. The discovery of what really appears to be gold-bearing quartz near the little village of Harrodsburg has created a great excitement in that neighborhood, and every land owner imagines he is in possession of a ‘‘bonanza.” The discoverer, a Mr. Wright, found several specimens, which a number of old California miners examined, and united in the opinion that they contained gold. Some of the quartz has been sent to an assayer, for the purpose of ascertaining its value. Wright says he first discovered the quartz in isolated and detached pieces that had been broken off the main ledge. He will not reveal the locality of the discovery. The city of Logansport is agitated over the late decision of the Indana Supreme Court in its ruling that the territory known as the South Side was never legally annexed to the city of Logansport. The annexing process, so called, occurred in 1871, and up to 1877 the taxpayers ot the South Side paid their share of the public burden without grumbling. In the latter year, however, they began kicking, and, after much delay, brought suit in the Circuit Court to enjoin the Treasurer from collecting taxes from them. This case came to trial in 1879, and resulted in a verdict against the city. It was then appealed, and a few days ago was affirmed by the Supreme Court. The territory embraces all that portion of the city lying south of the Wabash river, and contains 500 inhabitants and $50,000 worth of property. The move to get out of the city was made because the inhabitants thought they were not properly treated as to police and fire protection and street work. Wm. Branum, of Martin county, who was reported as being the victim of an assassin, it is now reported was killed in an affray with his son-in-law, John Huff. Ever since Huff married Branum’s daughter ill-feeling has existed between the two, and frequent quarrels had taken place. Branum even went so far as to visit Huff’s residence during his absence and force his daughter to return to her old home. This made matters worse, and a few days ago they agreed, after a bitter quarrel, to meet at Ward’s Chapel, a secluded country church, and fight the matter out. At the hour named both of them were on hand, Branum armed with a revolver and a pair of brass knuckles and Huft having a double-barreled shot-gun. Business commenced at once and Huff got in his work first, literally riddling Branum’s body with buckshot and killing him almost instantly. Huff made his escape.