Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Richmond is to have a brass foundry. The Jennings county fair has proved a great success. The publication of the 72d volume of the Indiana reports has been delayed until Sept. 14. Fakmers in Putnam county along the railroads are having much trouble with burning fields. Two little negro boys have been sentenced at Madison to three years in the penitentiary for setting fire to barns. New Albany will soon be asked to vote the sum of SIOO,OOO to secure the location of the Air-line shops. Alfred Bbattin, who murdered Douglass Hester, near Nashville, Brown county, is now a fugitive from justice. Thomas Carter died at Greenfield, Hancock county, the other day, from drinking lemonade colored with aniliue It is estimated that there was a crowd of 20,000 persons in attendance at the old settlers’ meeting, in Hendricks county. Dennis Lynch set fire to the Rochester (Fulton county) calaboose, while being held for drunkenness, and barely escaped with his life. The annual meeting of the old settlers of Fayette county was held at the fair grounds in Connersville. About 4,000 people were present. When the Seymour telephone exchange is in working order, it is proposed to connect with Brownstown, Courtland and surrounding villages. Three highwaymen attacked Capt. Swift, a well-known stock trader ot Orange county, and, putting revolvers at his head, robbed him of $450. The Indiana Bureau of Statistics is about to send out a blank for the purpose of ascertaining the different avenues of business' already open to women. in Delphi, Carroll county, w. V® poisoned by eating butter which had been covered with a cabbage leaf upon which paris green had been used to destroy bugs. Leonidas Robertson, a farmer living near Madison, who has never shown the slightest tendency to insanity, put on liis wife’s clothes and sun-bonnet, and hanged himself. Two alligator gars were recentlykilled in Cicero creek, near Noblesville. They measured fifteen and twenty inches respectively. They are the first ever seen in these waters. Workmen employed in making an excavation near the river, at Mishawaka, St. Joseph county, unearthed a number of Indian skeletons, some of them comparatively near the surface. E. B. Lewellen committed suicide at a hotel in Shelbyville, by taking strychnine and whisky. He was a well-to-do young man about 27 years old, his liome being in Randolph county, North Carolina. William R. Hougham, a young man of Per kins ville, Madison county, was killed at the hands of one James D. Powers, a notorious outlaw, who began a riot and was being quieted by Hougliam. A large meadow of hay had been cut near Corydon, Harrison county, and, a bumble-bees’ nest having been stirred up, the boys thought to burn out the bees. The result was the whole meadow was burned over.

Perry Barngrover, of Fail-land, Slielby county, was indicted at the last session of the Grand Jury, and is now out on bail, for the crime of barratry. This is the first case of the kind ever indicted by a Shelby county Grand Jury. Miss Emma Beeves, daughter of a prominent citizen of Harrison county, went crazy at camp meeting over the subject of sanctification, which was there being laid down as the law of God, and when taken homo she committed suicide. Benjamin Pierce, of Sullivan county, w hile at work in a clearing, was pinned to the earth b> a burning tree that fell upon him. It was nearly an hour before his little boy could summon a rescue, and the poor man, then burned nearly to a crisp, lived but a short time. A 10- year-old son of Todd Henderson was hauling logs in the upper part of Clark county, when, in driving down a hill, the lock-chain broke, the horses started to run off, the wagon upset and the log fell on the boy, crushing him so terribly that he died immediately. A boy, 15 years of age, by the name of Charles Sutton, living at Smithfield, Delaware county, caught his fingers in a cog-w-heel while doing duty as assistant miller at the flouring-mills of that place, tearing his right arm off at the elbow. Mart Stevens, an honest farmer living near Glen wood, Rush county, was victimized by a rascally lightning-rod agent to the tune of $235. He was induced to sign a note, before he knew what he was doing, for said amount, for a poor job of rodding his buildings. A Columbus man has a horse in his stable that is said to be 48 years old. He served through the war, on the Union side, and was 28 years old in 1861, when he enlisted or was drafted into the service. He bears the U. S. brand and is still a very good animal for light harness. Dr. Biddinger, of Harrison county, had several horses die in quick succession, and suspicion attached to Samuel Ewing, a farmer in the neighborhood, as the poisoner. Ewing was then hanged to a tree to extort a confession, and was finally forced to sell out and leave. Chemical analysis now shows tli at the horses died of botts. Driven - well owners in Jackson county denounce as a swindle the demand made upon them for $lO royalty for each well. Some, rather than litigate, have acceded to the demand, but the greater majority declare they will spend double the amount in defending any suits that may be brought against them. As Reuben Baker was leaving Geneva, Adams county, for Fulton county, HI., he displayed all his wealth, amounting to $l4O, at the depot, and, before leaving, was robbed of his money by Joel Weaver and Alfred Sharpe. Sharpe jifts been apprehended, and confessed

and delivered to the Justice his half of the money. The other escaped. A young married man went to Connersville, Fayette county, and purchased furniture to go to housekeeping. On his road home with the goods, he accidentally let fire fall from his cigar into the straw and combustibles. The blaze sprang up fiercely, and it was with difficulty that the horses were extricated from the wagon. The furniture and wagon were consumed. At Muncie, Delaware county, one of the men connected with a side-show attached to Coup’s circus was badly bitten on the hand by one of the snakes. He had his hand in the case for the purpose of learning the temperature, when the reptile very suddenly caught his finger. The man went to a drug store and filled himself with whisky and will survive. An analysis of the stomach of Sarah Lewellen, whose murder by her husband, William Lewellen, at North Vernon, has been charged, found strychnine in quantities sufficient to have killed half a dozen persons. The husband is in jail, with excellent chances of being the second man hanged in Jennings county. Lewellen’s neighbors have believed him guilty from the beginning, and frequent threats of lynching have been heard.