Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

“ Bio John,” a trotter with a record of 2:25, owned at Greensburg, is about to be sold for $16,000. Jimmie Finan, a lad, was drowned in White river at Anderson, in attempting the rescueof a comrade who was sinking. Three young men of Wabash have started to float down the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi rivers from there to New Orleans. Some papers struggle for years and never have any fun; but the Fort Wayne Herald has a libel suit on the strength of the first issue. The Indiana alumni of the University of Michigan are invited to a reunion at Island Park, thirty-five miles north of Fort Wayne, on July 12. . Cart. M. A. Gelwick, of Bedford, has already been appointed to a position in the Pension Oflico at Washington, under the new Commissioner, Dudley. There is a -family of professional snake charmers living in Richmond. They have twenty-three snakes in their boxes that they handle as fearlessly as kittens. John Goopman, living near Richland, Spencer county, was instantly killed by lightning while wrestling with Jesse Pape under a tree. Pape was partially paralyzed. Frank Jennings, of Washington, a boy 17 years old, was shot through the leg by some unknown person. He will be a cripple for‘life. No cause is known as to why the shooting was done. Five hundred and three men are now employed in the Jackson railway machine shops, and ten new locomotives are now being built, and will be run out of the shops about Oct. 1. Friends of Havover College contemplate erecting a commodious hotel at Hanover, keeping it in first-class style for a summer resort, and as a home for students during other seasons of the year. Samuel Gould, of Osgood, died of dyspepsia and old age, while sitting in a chair in his son Erastus’ factory. Mr. Gould was in his 85th year. Death has visited five members of this family the past year. A majority of the Board of County Commissioners of Cass county has ordered a tax levy for the purpose of building a bridge over the Wabash river at Georgetown, at a probable cost of from $16,000 to $20,000. A case to be decided at Connersville involves the point whether a sale of liquor to a boy, who was sent for it by his father, and who delivered it as directed, was a sale of liquor to a minor and punishable under the statute. Frank Fetterer, cf Utica, 111., assistant foreman of the Smith Bridge Company, of Toledo, was instantly killed by falling from the new bridge on the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railroad, over Eel river, near North Manchester. James Wilder, a noted character, better known as “ Elephant Jim,” died, the other night, in Terre Haute. He served in the Mexican war and the “late unpleasantness,” but was finally conquered by too much alcoholic stimulation. The funeral of ex-Senator Henry S. Lane was held at Crawfordsville, and was attended by nearly all the noted men of the State. On the same day, Mr. Lane’s law partner and lifelong friend, Col. C. Wilson, died only a few doors away. The geological, mineralogical and natural history collection of Dr. Joseph Gardner, of Bedford, has been purchased by the Trustees of Purdue University, for the use of that institution. It is probably the largest and most valuable private collection of the kind in the West. Mrs. Charles Higginbotham, of Liberty, Union county, demolished a saloon at that place, the other day, because its owner persisted in selling her husband whisky. Her husband was in the saloon when she entered, but found it convenient to retire at an early moment. A bold robbery occurred near Charlestown recently. Mrs. Mary McCoy, a widow, was robbed of $1,900. At the time the money was taken the family were at supper on the porch in the rear part of the house, and the thief entered by the front and escaped before the theft was discovered. Some sacrilegious wretches tore the corner-stone from the Lutheran Church, pear Wabash. The church had been built about six years, and when the corner-stone was laid, coin to the value of about §5 was placed under it. As the money was missing, it is supposed that was the object in tearing out the stone. At the recent Teachers’ Institute at Marion, a rule for using “ ie ” and “ei ” in spelling was called for. One worthy teacher arose in a dignified manner and stated that the best rule he nad found lor the use of those vowels in spelling was to write both letters nearly alike and put the dot over the middle. In that case it would be difficult to catch him in a mistake. The Board of County Commissioners of Vigo county have employed a firm of architects to draw plans and specifications for the construction of a new Court House, The board reserves the right to reject any or all plans presented, and no plans are to be paid for unless accepted by the board, nor are any plana to be paid for unkss the building can he erect’ ed wjthiu ilic turn ol S3QO,OQO»