Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

A woman in Wells county has twentytwo children. The Indiana State Board of Agriculture has on hand $12,460.69. Ralph S. Thomson, one of the most extensive millers in Indiana, died at Terre Haute. The number of dogs in the State of Indiana, as shown by the reports filed in the Auditor of State’s office, is nearly 180.000. The Democratic Central Committee of Shelby county met last week and decided to hold the County Convention as early as April 15. A wildcat was killed near Hagerstown last week, the first that has been found in Wayne county for years; but the hunters are confident there are more of them in the woods. A German with three daughters, aged 17, 10 and 7, has arrived at Elkhart, having walked ail the way from Arkansas. His wife, who started wi J h them, died on the road. A pretty romance was about to be enacted in Fort Wayne. An 18-year-old boy made an attempt to elope with a 14 year-old girl, when the elder brother interfered. Mrs. Conroy, of Jeffersonville, mother of Sister Assumptia, killed by a railroad collision at Indianapolis Jan. 2, will sue the railroad companies for ® 10,000 damages. John Beggs’ distillery, in Shelby county, pays a revenue tax of a day. It is said to make a larger yield of whisky to the bushel than any other distillery in the United States. The contracts for the enlargement of the Indiana cotton-mill at Cannelton, the first and largest in the State, have been let. The enlargement and additional machinery will cost $250,000. A farmer residing near Lynn, Randolph county, received from Cincinnati a letter containing two small-pox scabs. It was neither dated nor signed, but gave the advice to go home and die. The children of the late Gen. Benjamin J. Spooner have brought suit at Indianapolis against the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, for SIO,OCO, the full value of tho insurance. The wife of Charles C. Earl, a wellknown citizen of Indianapolis, has filed a bill for divorce. They were severed by the courts in 1872, and remarried in 1877. Now she complains of cruelty and abandonment. At a district school in Hendricks township, Shelby county, two boys at recess secured a bow and arrow for the purpose of having some sport. In the play a son of John Hill was struck in the eye with &n arrow, completely knocking the eye out. The development of the stone-quar-rying interest in Indiana is proceeding so rapidly that there are now employed in the State eleven steam channelers, of which eight are in Lawrence county and three in Monroe county. The new plan for running faro inNew Albany is said to be as follows : All persons visiting the faro-bank are to become members of a club and to take an oath not to reveal the names of persons they may meet in the room nor any of the proceedings. The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road has adopted the name of “ Monon Route,” from the name of their new station, formerly Bradford Junction. The name is of Indian origin, and is said to mean “fast running,” hence its significance. Sarah Gorham died in the County Asylum at Indianapolis, where she had resided, for thirty-five years. She had of late taken daily ninety grains of opium, more or less morphine, and a pint of whisky. She has been known to consume 200 grains of opium in a day. LVjke Frances, a prominent farmer of Laporte county, has met with a remarkable series of affictions within a few months. He fell last spring and broke his arm. Later, lightning struck his barn, consumed it and over $2,000 worth of property. Then rheumatism laid him up for a time. To cap the climax, a few mornings ago he fell on his doorstep, and broke both his arms and one leg. A 4-year-old boy at the Surgical In stitute, Indianapolis, is undergoing treatment for spinal troubles, which have undoubtedly been brought about by much smoking of cigars and cigarettes. The father of the child, a respectable gentleman from Clay City, states that his son has been a heavy smoker for a year and a half, and that cigars were given to him from his infancy to keep him quiet. Tho little fellow will smoke twenty stoga cigars in a day, and still cry for more. C. O. Showers, n prominent citizen of Bloomington, met with a horrible death at the depot of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road in Greencastle. He was crossing the track of the former just in advance of the south-bound passenger train, and, having his hand up to shield his face from the storm, failed to see the train, which struck him and carried him about fifteen feet, when his foot went crushing into a frog and he fell. His legs were both cut off below the knee, his hip and side horribly mangled, and his head horribly bruised. He died in about twenty minutes. James Sublette, of Putnam county, went to Greencastle and became intoxicated. In this condition he boarded the evening train for home. He was jostled off the front end of the rear coach unobserved and instantly killed. He lay in the track the whole night, and at least a dozen trains must have passed over his body. When found his remains were scattered everywhere, his head having been cut off and rolled four feet from the track, and the features of the face could with difficulty be recognized. Three of Sublette’s brothers have previously met their deaths on the same road. A handsome woman, the wife of a merchant named Kirk, at Madison, told her husbatid that a clock-mender, who had called at the house that day, wanted to come again next day and talk with her. She told him she thought it wouldn’t be proper, but would ask her husband about it. That gentleman told her it was absurd, and that the man mustn’t come. But he did come ; come several times, and, being a handsome man, made her madly infatuated with him. He left the neighborhood very suddenly, which threw Mrs. Kirk into a melancholy, ending in so violent a mania that she was sent to the insane asylum. Tho popular notion is that the clock man administered some drug which gave him his power over her, and the people would ornament a tree with him could they lay handson him.