Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1881 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Coad is 25 cents a bushel in New Albany. Shelbyville has a female notary public in the person of Mrs. Harry C. Downey. Government work upon the Wabash and White rivers has been suspended for the winter. The safe in the store of R. W. Aiken & Sons, at Carlisle, Sullivan county, was blown open and robbed of $2,100. A farmer in Henry county realized S7OO from the watermelons raised this season on two acres of swamp land. A citizen of Connersville is exhibiting branches cut from trees in his door-yard bearing well-developed and ripened cherries. The steamer Will Kyle was snagged and sunk in the Ohio river, near Mount Vernon. The boat was valued at S6O, - 000. Jacob.Neusbaum, living near Wabash, is probably the oldest man ju Indiana. At 105 years of age he moves about without a cane. A prominent young dentist of Fort Wayne has been indicted for stealing a S2O gold piece from the cash drawer of a drug store. The safe iu the store of Joseph N. Orr, at Selma, Delaware county, was blown open and robbed of $7,640 in cash and notes. In view of the presence of twelve or more cases of small-pox, the Board of Health of Fort Wayne has established ward boundaries. Mayor Kent, of New Albany, has issued his proclamation requesting the citizens to vaccinate at once as a preventive to small-pox. There has been organized in Logansport a benefit association having for its object the payment of a premium for every baby’ bom in lawful wedlock. A new banking association, to be known as the National State Bank of Logansport, has been organized in that city. The capital stock is SIOO,OOO. The spontaneous combustion of rags caused a fire in the junk stores of Becker <Sr Wile and M. N. Jacobs, at Fort Wayne, in which damage of $20,000 was inflicted. Workmen digging in the cellar of a house in Vincennes dug up two infant skeletons and a number of other loose bones. The discovery created considerable excitement.

The Board of Commissioners of Franklin county have awarded the contract for building'a new jail and Sheriff’s residence to McCormick & Sweeney, of Columbus, for $19,000. Frederick W. Nugent, editor of the Terre Haute Statesman, was recently sentenced to jail for twenty-five days and fined S3OO for libeling the character of Mark W. Moore* of that city. House-thieves are busy in Floyd, Clark, Harrison, Orange and Washington counties. Several fine horses have been stolen in the neighborhood of New Albany in the past few days. An explosion caused the destruction of the rectifying establishment of T. & J. W. Gaff, at Aurora, valued at $20,000. William Fisher, the warehouseman, who slept iu the building, was burned to death.

Jodoe A. J. Simpson, the oldest active attorney in the State, died at Paoli, Orange county, of heart disease, aged 85. He was a half-brother of Justice Nathan Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court. Among the real-estate owners in South Bend, transcribers of legal documents have to wrestle with such names as J. Jeadrzejewski, J. Przycgsz, Wawrzyn Bartol, G. Krzenock, J. Kwiatkoski, X. Mendlekowski, F. Syperchluski and A. Szybowlez. The health authorities of Madison re port that of all the cases of small-pox occurring in that city there is not a single instance where the afflicted person had been vaccinated. Another argument in favor of the efficacy of vaccination.

As a passenger train was passing Haubstadt, Gibson county, an unknown woman, apparently 75 or 80 years of ago, jumped directly in front of the locomotive and was run over, the whole train passing over her body, killing her instantly. Stalks of wheat fully two feet in length have lately been shown in Columbus. The stalks had jointed in several places, and under a strong glass the germs of the heads could be distinctly seen. The growth is considered unprecedented. The flour-mill owners of Vincennes, six in number, held a meeting the other day and unanimously resolved to close their mills and ship no more flour. Farmers are holding their wheat for J 1.50, and are firm, giving as a reason the shortness of the crop. The mills made 1,000 ban-els per day, and the stq> throws a number of people out of employment New Indiana patents: P. Burr and W H. Mercer, Worthington, shoe-button and fastener; M. Crawford, Indianapolis, adjustable hog'-scraping machine; F. M. Hibband, Goshen, asbestos roof-paint; H. E. Moon, Richmond, map and chart case; L. Soseman and T., Jr., South Bend, apparatus for stacking hay; U. R. Stanton, Richmond, clasp for garments.

A pleasant incident in the development of Indiana divorce is the establishment at Floyd of a boarding-house for 'the exclusive accommodation of couples desirous of shuffling off the mortal coil of marriage. Recently the house had twenty-nine inmates waiting to be unhitched. The alleged trouble in most of these cases was incompatibility of temper, which means that they had grown tired of each other’s society and desired affinities. At Shelbyville, Lonnie Marietta, 11 years old, and Frank Hermon, 14 years old, quarreled over a game of marbles they were playing. The Marietta boy, knowing that he was not able to fight, started to run. Hermon called out to a comrade, Bertie Mathers, to stop him, which he did by catching Marietta by the shoulders. ‘Hermon ran up, drew a large pocket-knife from his clothing and stabbed Marietta in the bock, the blade entering under the left shoulder, penetrating the lung and inflicting a fatal wound. The young assassin was arrested and jailed.