Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

A stock company to start a swimming bath has been organized at Richmond. The Brazil Hey inter is offering the revised New Testament as a premium to subscribers. At a public gathering at Young America, Cass county, William Green killed Enoch Brumbaugh for endeavoring to keep him quiet. A farmer near Albany, Delaware county, named Frederick Stoner, having been sued for Sf>,ooo for libel, hanged himself in his barn. The railroads in Shelby county have lately set several wheat-fields and meadows on fire, causing losses aggregating from $2,000 to $3,000. The shops of the Dodge Manufacturing Company at Mishawaka, St. Joseph county, valued at $30,000, were struck by lightning and burned. The Rush county Commissioners have purchased two acres of ground, and will build a commodious house for the pauper orphan children of the county. Jeremiah Helm, a prominent citizen and rich farmer of Delaware county, was sunstruck in the harvest field, and died before he could be taken to his house. Rep foxes are very numerous in the neighborhood of Frenchtown, Harrison county. One farmer reports that all his chickens and other fowls have been destroyed. Herman Archbukg was instantly killed at Bedford, Lawrence county, by a train of cars loaded with stone running over him. His head and one arm were severed from his body. A?Connersville Justice decides that a fine of one cent satisfies the law against assault and battery when a man is knocked down for' saying Guiteau did well in shooting Garfield. Engineer Kingsbury, of the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington railroad, was knocked from the engine near Chickasaw. Ripley county, by a projecting post. He died the following day. Mrs. Jane Stephens, whose husband sat on the Supreme bench of Indiana from 1831 to 1837, died lately at her home in Madison, aged 83. She had lived in that place sixty years. A cat at Evansville gave birth to six kittens that were all joined together at the hips, forming a sort of garland of cats. Two of them died, and then the whole string was flung into the river. There will presently be opened in Bloomington, Jackson county, a dispensary for treating persons addicted to the practice of opium-eating, of which there are said to be a large number in that vicinity. A fire in the State prison at Jeffersonville destroyed the malleable-iron foundry belonging to Ferrin <V Co. The loss on machinery and fixtures is $2,000; fully insured. There was no panic among the convicts. A little 4-year-old daughter of Benjamin Richards, living near Sj> ncer, Owen county, was probably fatally studded by the upsetting of the suppertable. on which was a pot of hot coffee, scalding the. face, neck and chest. Harry Foxwell, a saloon-keeper of Knightstown, Henry county, who is serving a life term for murder, seeks a pardon through the efforts of prominent citizens of Washington and Baltimore, but Gov. Porter turns a deaf t ar. A young man named Stansbury was run over and killed by a train near Carlisle, Sullivan county. When discovered his body was lying on the track with his head severed and his arms folded, which leads to the belief that Im laid down on the track for sell-destruc* tion. Mrs. John Brahmin has been arrested at Fort Wayne for the murder of her 11-year-old daughter Annie, who died June 2. The remains being exhumed, their appearance proved conclusively that the child hud been beaten to death by its unnatural mother. Robert Hendricks and his jour sons, living near Columbus, Bartholomew county, got into a family row about watering some stock. Fists, clubs, stones and everything in reach was used, and the battie raged until all were disabled. The old man has a broken head, one of the sons a fractured leg, and the others were variously injured. Bad whisky was the prime cause of the trouble. An explosion, presumably of accifmulated gas, startled the citizens of Elizabeth, Harrison county. Upon investigation they found that in the bed of Buck creek there had la on an immense upheaval, throwing up many tons of stone and earth and leaving a heavy ledge of flat rock at the bottom of rhe creek broken for a space of some twenty feet, and the edges thrown up until it stood up like a house-roof. Thomas J. Ewing, of Seymour, aged 21 years, a son of Columbus Ewing, one of the most prominent farmers of Jackson county, has been adjudged insane and sent to the asylum. He has always been a hard student, and his insanity was probably caused by hard study. Ho is master of six or seven languages. A pair of tramps stole Rev. Burton's horse and buggy while he was attending church at North Vernon, Jennings county. The officers and a number of men pursued and overtook them, and, after a desperate struggle, in which one of the thieves received what is thought to be a mortal wound, they were overpowered and thrown into jail.

John W. Bookwaltkk, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio, was reared on a farm in Fountain county, this State, and his inventive talent brought him into connection with the Leffel Manufacturing Company of. Springfield, Ohio, where, by marriage with a member of the Ij< ffel family, he obtained an interest in the concern, and has grown immensely wealthy. Jhe Book waiters were always stam h Republicans, but John \V. w< nt out with Greeley and did not return. For some m< ntbs it had been known that two or more panthers were roaming through the hills and valleys <f Dubois and Orange counties. Recently a party of hunters organized, and. with a pic i of dogs, st rtcil < lit Io s cl. the S.V.U'O beasts. The dogs, on the seioiid day ul the hunt, struck the trail of ore ol the pantheiH, and followed it up fol' seveial ndles, finally coming upon the, animal in the depths ol an uliuoit-primitive for est. The hunters, coming up, discovered the beast crouched in the fork of a tree, and soon half a dozen bullets went crashing through his head and heart. He was a large and splendid fellow—a male. Then the hunters pushed on northward, the dogs the next day getting on the trail of another panther. The trail was followed far into Orange county, tint wits finally