Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Howard county has 100 school-houses. The soldiers’ reunion at South Bend was a big affair. A Fayette county farmer lost S3OO worth of fine hogs in one night. James Reed, one of the gid pioneers of Bartholomew county, is dead. A Rushville 3-year-old girl fell into a tub of water and was drowned. Mrs. Green, of Muncie, was fatally shot by a toy pistol in the hands of her little son. The Northern Indiana Fair, at Fort Wayne, was a great success, financially and otherwise. Thomas Smith’ a constable, was killed at Xenia, while attempting to alight from a freight train. Mishawaka, St. Joseph county, has lost, by death, its oldest citizen—Mrs. Rebecca Swartz, aged 92. John Geffinger, au old citizen of Logansport, fell into the Eel river while intoxicated and was drowned. The Governor of Jndiana now receives a straight salary of $5,000, with no provision for rent or house. Salem can boast the meanest man in the State. Name, Jack Durnill. Crime, stealing jewelry from a corpse. Charles Bell, a negro, killed a man named Seling with a bowie-knife, at Evansville. The murderer lied. The safe of Hobbs & Johnson, of Monroe, Adams county, was burglarized of $25 in money and $2,500 in notes. Maj. Wm. B. Sullivan, a well-known citizen of Madison, fell from the third story of a hotel and broke bis neck. A. L. Patterson, of Carroll county, returning home from Delphi, while drunk, fell into a creek and was drowned. James Hubank, aged 21, of Whitestown, Boone county, placed the muzzle of his gun to his head and blew his brains out. Col. Knight was opening a mu 1-valve at his mill at Salem when a joint flew off, letting the steam upon him, scalding him severely. A breach-of-promise case at Franklin resulted in a verdict of $5 damages for the plaintiff, whose character was shown to be tarnished. The business men of Columbus are holding public meetings to consider whgt action should be taken to encourage manufacturing industries. Miss Smith sued Frank Young for breach of promise, at Greensburg, and the jury awarded her $75 as a balm to heal her wounded affections. The woods in the region of Bedford, Ind., have for several days literally swarmed with squirrels, who are migrating m a northeasterly direction. Charley Ruddle, of Charlestown, aged 19 years, took six grains of strychnine because his sweetheart rejected him. He was pumped out by a doctor and saved. Calvin Fletcher, of Spencer, has been appointed Commissioner of Fisheries for the State of Indiana. The distribution of carp spawn commenced on the Ist inst. .Stella Palmer, aged 14, daughter of J. W. Palmer, of Bedford, retired to bed the other night in good health, and in four hours afterward was a corpse. Cause, a broken blood vessel. Grub worms and grasshoppers have done a great deal of injury to the growing wheat in Wabash county. Borne fields are almost eaten bare. Much ground will have to be sown again. Mrs. Mollie Miller entered the only liquor saloon in New Providence, Clark county, where her husband was dissipating, and with an ax demolished everything in sight, and led her husband home. When Garfield’s death was announced in Shelbyville, Mrs. E. Curgon, an aged lady confined to her bed, arose and took from the bureau drawer the crape with which she had decorated her house when Lincoln was assassinated. This she again used. The most economical man in the State lives at Winchester. Having ten cords of wood to saw he invited all the sawyers of the town to his wood-house and let each saw a stick. He then gave the contract to the one who had the thinnest blade. A young man named Kibby fell from an excursion train near Greencastle. The train was stopped and run back in search of Kibby when it again gave him a terrible blow knocking him from a cross-tie on which he had placed himself—mashing the skull and killing him instantly. About 10,000 persons assembled at Elliottsville, Monroe county, to celebrate the 100th birthday of Hon. James Parks, a native of North Carolina. The old gentleman cultivated his garden alone last summer. Ex-Gov. Hendricks and Judge Franklin addressed the centenarian’s guests. The Blue Ribbon people of Muncie made a gallant fight against the license applicants in the Commissioner’s Court. They gained seven cases out of eight applications. This is the first fight made against the saloon keepers of Muncie for several years. In Johnson county there is a regular-ly-organized gang of thieves, who carry on their operations boldly and constantly. Near Franklin tombstones have been desecrated, hogs killed and chickens and clothing stolen. One man had 225 chickens taken, and another several sacks of Hour. Robberies take place every night. In Howard county, 510 persons have been convicted of misdemeanors by Justices of the Peace and the Mayor of Kokomo during the past year. Of this number 309 were in the city. Intoxicating liquor was directly the cause of 304 and indirectly of 158 of the offenses. The school fund realized $699.75 from Elizabeth T. Wells has filed a suit in the Circuit Court at Logansport against Binion Peter Korns, asking for .$2,090. damages for breach of promise of marriage. She was a domestic in the family when the alleged proposal was made, which he subsequently reconsidered and msifrielT another. In Huntingtbii UtAl.fify some workmen on a farm, tvhile digging a ’well,-Un-earthed a fossil skeleton, including two -tusks eleven feot long and os thick as a man’a thigh; a rjb four feet two. incheq long, leg bones and the okull. Two of the teeth which fell from the jaw weighed jejjpbcUVely seven and thrcc’-fourfli am]