Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

The colored people have been having a big Baptist camp-meeting at Muncie. There was in the State Treasury of Indiana, on the Ist day of July, $1,065,055.44. A rocket set fire to the opera house at Fort Wayne, totally destroying it. The loss is about $20,000. The Rev. Mr. Harrison, the revival preacher, has been holding a series of meetings in New Albany. Lewis Smith, a soldier of the war of 1812, died recently at Cambridge City, in the 98th year of his age. In a quarrel between two engineers at Terre Haute, Eugene Brittany killed William G. Dunn with a hammer. Mrs. Nelson Thornburg, of Hagerstown, Wayne county, was thrown from her buggy and fatally injured. William Schroeder, employed in a spoke factory at Fort Wayne, committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree. The hot Weather at New Albany is killing off the caterpillars rapidly, without any assistance from the sparrows. Mr. Franz Huelzmann, a respected German citizen of Tell City, fell into the river at that place, while fishing, and was drowned. A blacksmith in the Vandalia shops at Terre Haut e, named Simeon A. Stone, aged 35 years, and married, wits drowned while bathing in the river. The prospectus of the Fort Wayne College of Medicine is out. The regular session of 1881-2 will be begun on Tuesday, Sent. 13, 1881, and close March 1, 1882. Mr. Skiles, of Decatur county, deposited $1,117 with Mrs. Brown, and when Mrs. B. went to look for the money, shortly after, it was gone—no one knows where. Oliver Rhoades, a young man of Colfax, Clinton county, has become a raving maniac over the loss of S3OO, which he invested with his brothers in the butcher trade. Bernard Brogan, near Tipton, while binding wheat, bound up in a sheaf a blue-bellied snake, which bit him on the finger. His finger has since swollen, and turned the same color of the snake. J. C. Fouts, of New Washington township, Clark county, has an old clock which is a curiosity, from the fact that it is one of two marie on Camp creek, by one Thompson, and set up May 12, 1816. William Willis and Robert Prunett, living three miles west of New Albany, agreed to settle an old feud an<J actually faced each other and emptied their revolvers. Willis was dangerously wounded in the face. Prunett was unhurt. J. C. Richardson, Clerk of Spencer county, has a brick-mold made by the father of Abraham Lincoln in 1828. It is ah oak mold, put together with wooden pins, nails at that time not having come West. Mr. Richardson bore oil brick from this mold in his 12 th year, near Gentryville. Three years ago last Christmas, in a fight at Wallace, Fountain county, W. H. Miller struck Henry Elmore on the head with an ax-handle, the blow killing Elmore in a few days. Miller escaped arrest until the 4th inst., when he was attending the celebration in Crawfordsville, and was recognized and arrested. Oscar Muther, of Shelbyville, received a large African milk snake, some eight feet in length, and as large round as a lamp post. The slimy monster was placed in a box and set in the back room of a saloon. Some one raised the lid to look at the reptile, when it escaped. It has not yet been recaptured. It is said to be venomous.

Franklin, Johnson county, has an artesian well of more than ordinaryvirtue. It was sunk by the Jefferson Railroad Company, and, at a depth of only thirty-four feet, the water flowed out at the top of the well, and still continues to flow. The medical properties of the water are said to be good, and many citizens are already’ using it. Robert A. Richey, a grain and cattle buyer, who did business in New Paris and in the country around Richmond, has disappeared. He went with his wife to the home of her father and told her that he had forged the names of his friends to notes and checks, and would have to leave the country before they liecame due. He bid her good-by, kissed his children and drove away. His forgeries, unpaid checks and debts of honor will amount to over $25,000. The assassin Guiteau figured at Logansport three years ago. He applied at the American Express office for a C. O. D. package, upon which $3.50 was due. Guiteau was “busted.” He importuned the agent to allow him to take the package, stating that it contained several hundred copied of his lecture on the “ Second Coming of Christ,” which he wished to'sell. He was regarded as crazy, and was given the cold shoulder. Afterward he went back to the agent and renewed his petition, and, promising to remit as soon as be got to Chicago, Was allowed to take out the package. He did not remit.