Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Luther Forward, of Pleasant Lake, Steuben county, was drowned at Angola while bathing. Flotd county tends more jnsaue persons to the asylum thau any other county of its size in the State. A firjJ at Muncie destroyed Boyce’s bngging and handle "factories and fiaxmiUs, causing a loss of $30,000. Henrx a farm ialaxrr, 20 years of age, was kicked by a horse, and instantly killed, near Fort Wayne. Greensboro, Decatur county, can boast of several trees growing on her Court House tower, 120 feet above the ground. Thomas M. Carter, of Pendleton, Madison county, was fatally poisoned by colored lemonade served at an old settlers’ meeting. Frank Russell, of Rockford, 111., fell thirty feet from a telephone pole at Evansville, and broke his skull, shoulders and arm. jAMtffl Bakf.R, a farmer living near Fort Wayne, killed William Howell with a ride, and shot at a son pf the latter. Baker is in jail. A flock of sheep belonging to Oth Lloyd, which were pastured in Ripley county, Were attacked by dogs, and twenty-eight killed or wouuded. A fire at Clayton, Hendricks county, burned Courtney’s livery-stable, with contents, including horses, hgggies, harness, etc. Loss, $5,000; insurance, $2,000. There is an entire failure of mast in Southern Indiana this year, and farmers say that this lack of mast, and the short corn crop will greatly reduce the hog crop ami largely enhance prices. The congregation pf the first Presbyterian Church at tjrawfprasville have decided to erect a new church edifice to cost, SIO,OOO. Nine-men.liers have subscribed $7,000 of tlio required sum. Mrs. D. RuAn, of Fort Wayne, tlm widow of a rabbi, shot at Dr. G* T* Bnp'btiah, a. prominent German physician. but missed him, and tvas disarmed by her son. The cause waa her objection to a •Christian son-in-law, but the doctor has her daughter, the widow of Joseph Lindman. A train oh the Delpnos narrow-gauge road jumped the track lißat Kokomo, Engineer Blinn held his hiqfci on the throttle pntil his engine turned over, and was fatally scaldecl. Fireman Glen ■pi ning out as the locbihotive careened, and was dangerously injured* Conductor Bull was. bruised b.y falling against the exyresß safe.