Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

A Richmond nursery shipped a -co j signment of roses to Jamaioa. A lioness with the Van Ain burg show died from sunstroke at Connersville. Dckino the heated term many horses were killed by the sun in Harrison oounty. There are more fruit-buyers in Trimble oounty than were ever here in any one season. The old settlers of Madison, Hamilton and Tipton counties will roune at Arcadia, Aug. 18. John Greenwood, a well-to-do farmer of Daviess county, was fatally injured by a runaway team. Dowd Richardson, a Frauklin county farmer, was run down and killed by a locomotive at Laurel. Spontaneous combustion caused (ho destruction l>y tire of Wilson’s saw-mill at Ossian, Wells county. Loss, s£B,ooo. James Halkin, of El wood, Madison county, was run over and killed by n passenger train, his body being horribly mangled. The Ohio Falls Car Company, of Jeffersonville, have a contract for making 300 ears for the Chicago Air-Line Railroad Company. Rukkin Little, a young man of Fail-mount, Grant County, died of lockjaw, caused from being shot while out hunting by a companion. At Greenwood, Johnson county, a widow who keeps a toll-house shot a burglar and killed him. The neighbors are about to raise a subscription for her. John DeCkabd died in the Logansport jail, the immediate oiuse of his death being a dose of morphine, taken with suicidal intent. It was the result of a long course of dissipation. The Madison Courier says that, tho ship-yard company at that point have letters from all quarters desiring contracts, and if there was room at the yard twice the amount of work could be obtained and executed. Daniel Maze, his wife and two children, living near Columbus, Bartholomew county, were bitten by a oat, supposed to be mad, before they wore up, a few mornings ago. A mudstone was applied to wounds. Miss Mary Jew, living near Columbus, Bartholomew county, was thrown from a horse a few days since, tearing the sacro sciatic ligament loose from the hip, rendering her left leg pnralyzed. Her condition is extremely critical. As the 3-year-old son of W. B. Brittoif, of Livonia, Washington county, was playing with some neighboring children, they tipped over an oldfasliioned corner-cupboard, and crushed the little fellow so badly that he soon expired.

Claude Skyter, editor of a pajx?r at Greentown, Howard county, while standing at a desk last month, had every vestige of clothing torn from his body by lightning, and was so paralyzed that lie could not move a muscle. He hns completely recovered from the stroke. A sensation has been created at North Vernon, Jennings county, by the discovery that George W. Harrington and the wife of Jesse Jennings have eloped, taking with them the two youngest children of Mrs. Jennings. Harrington leaves a wife and nearly a dozen children, Some of whom are married. About 100 Lawrence county farmers, who claim that for years the mill dam across White river at Lawrcneeport, in that county, has damaged their crops by causing the water to back up over I heir fields, visited that place tho other night and tore down a large part, of flic dam. The result will be almost endless litigation. During a severe thunder-storm at, Evansville a telegraph operator named Hengseler was struck by lightning and killed. He was sitting at his table, and it is supposed his foot, rested on a ground-wire which wsis coiled up under the table. The fluid entered his body near tho heart, and came out of his left heel, killing him instantly. A little child of Mr. Davis Meyers, of Veedersburg, Fountain county, was bitten by a rattlesnake while playing in the yard. It died the following morning after Buffering great agony, the limb which was bitten having swollen los'-v----oral times its natural size. This is tho second child Mr. Meyers has lost in the lost few weeks by snake bite. Mr. Valentine, of Franoesvfile, Pulaski county, is a great hunter. Eachyear he employs several men in shooting birds, and by a process of freezing keeps his game in goo 1 condition until such time as there is good demand for them. Last spring lie estimates lie had -18,000 birds in his refrigerator, and it is only a short time since ho shipped them. TnE $200,000 in bonds issued anil indorsed by the city of Jeffersonville to aid in the construction if a bridge across tho Ohio at that point, were recently canceled and destroyed by the trustees in the presence of tho Council Finance Committee, tho Mayor and city officers. The failure of Louisville capitalists to interest themselves in the mat ter occasions the fail me.

Mrs. Lavina Avery, of Greenville, Floyd county, committed suicide by cutting her throat Mrs. Avery hail l>een ill for some weeks, and was frequently despondent. Her. father com mitt* d suicide by jumping into the Atlantic while coming to this country from England, and her mother committed suicide byjumping into the river with her daughter in her arms on the arrival of tho steamer at New Albany, Alexander Fox was serving a twoyear sentence in tho State Prison South for forgery, when he made the acquaintance of Mr. Isaacs, the superintendent of the Goldmau Boot and Shoe Company. Fox got into the confidence of Mr. Goldman, proprietor, and as soon as his term of imprisonment expired he was employed as shipping clerk. Everything went lovely until recently, when Fox jumped the town. It was discovered that he had forged checks for sevt rnl small amounts, and sold cases of Ins ts and shoes which the company knew nothing of. David W. Crecklids, of Harrison county, killed a remarkable s nke on his farm. We quote from tho Corydon Democrat: Tho snake was three feet and four inches in length, and nlsmt two and one-half inches thick. Its belly was goldeu yellow, and its heads were the same color. Its body was a beautiful brown, dappled with gol 1-colored spots or specks, with about sixteen yellow stripes across its back. But what is the most remarkable is, the suake had two heads and teeth about half an inch in length. There was oqe head on eaah end of the snake, •* v * 1