Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Another flour mill is to be opened in New Albany—making the fifth. A fibe at Lawrenceburg swept away $25,000 worth of property in the business section. The number of successful pension cla.ima.nte in the Second district is 1,367, and they have secured $281,899. A telephone cable connecting Evansville with the Kentucky shore has been laid and is now in working order. A citizen of Wabash sustained severe injuries from a fall, caused by a defective sidewalk, and has sued the city for $3,000. The project of building a railroad from Indianapolis to Lagansport along the old Wabash and Erie canal towpath is revived. Ay Muncie, Charles Carter, a farmer, was shot by burglars who attempted to enter his house, and will die. The burglars fled. No clew. • William Daily, a farmer of Lagro township, Wabash county, about a month ago left home, since which time no tidings have been received from him. Evansville needs sloo’ooo to run the government till September, and the banks refuse to loan her $15,000 because she has already reached the legal limitation. A Wabsaw man has been sent to jail to work out. a fine of S7OO and costs for Keeping a disorderly saloon. It will take him 733 days to liquidate, unless he sooner pays down the money. The Madiscn Brewing Company turned out twenty tons of beautiful block ice the other day, as a result of their first run in the process of icemaking, and were quite successful. The Marion county Commissioners have passed an order to place at the disposal of the City Street Commissioners of Indianapolis all prisoners confined in the jail, that they may do service on the streets. A committee of citizens of New Albany have given notice that they will contest in the courts the payment by the city to the Gamewell Fish Alarm telegraph of the $2,100 for three bell strikers. Db. Solomon Stough, of Waterloo, pension examiner surgeon, has been bound over to the United States court in the sum of $4,500, on the charge of demanding and accepting bribes from pensioners.

Gabriel Godfroy, a chief of the Miami Indians, has been elected Superintendent of Roads in Butler township, Miami county. Godfroy is worth $150,000, and is one of the leading residents of the township. Father Weichman, formerly pastor of one of the Catholic churches in Fort Wayne, has gone into the ice business on an extensive scale at Warsaw. In company with one or two others, he owns four large ice-houses. A stranger bought a suit of clothes at Fort Wayne, and paid for them with a $62.25 money order, receiving $49.25 in change. The order proved to have been raised from $2.25, but the fellow escaped with his clothes and money. George H. Austin has been sent to ihe Jeffersonville prison from Madison for five years, for forgery. He was a licentiate in the ministry, and but for his unfortunate fall might have been admitted into the regular ministry this year. An egg, about the size of a goose egg, with with a thin, but not soft shell, with a perfectly-formed egg of ordinary size and ordinary shell within the large egg, was layed by a Crawfordsville hen. The larger egg was full of white, but no yelk outside of the inner egg. Levi Driller, a prominent farmer living near Huntington, while driving home in his wagon and crossing the track of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, was run into by a freight train, thrown out and very seriously injured about the head and shoulders. Mrs. Ida Bailey, of Columbus, who has for the past few weeks been ill, and pronounced by two of the best physicians as hopelessly sick, has, since their visits have been discontinued, been steadily improving, and her friends have reasonable hopes of her recovery. It was decided, at a meeting of representative Methodists at Indianapolis, to celebrate the semi-centennial of the first Methodist Conference in Indiana, which met in New Albany in 1832, by holding a State Methodist Convention in Indianapolis for three days, June 27, 28 and 29. X?Dr. Vinnedge has been expelled from the Indiana Medical Society. He has for many years been the foremost physician in Tippecanoe county, and still remains so ; but he committed the crime against professional ethics of advertising a prescription, and refused to say he was sorry.

Holland S. Miller, a brakeman on the construction train on the Fort Wayne road, was killed at Fort Wayne by being run over by a passenger engine. The remains were horribly mangled, and he lived but a short time. He was 35 years of age, unmarried, and had been on the road twenty years. Sam Sanders, who for some years has been a terror to the people of Windfall, Tipton county, in a drunken row, the other night, had his head pounded with stones, and was supposed to be dead for a while, but rallied and walked three miles to the country. The next day physicians were called, who pronounced him fatally injured. Cracksmen blew open the safe in Britton & Brewer’s drug store, at Waynetown, Montgomery county, and secured a small sun of money. A thousand dollars, held by Mr. Britton, Treasurer of the town, had just been removed. This makes the fourth time in the past three months that safes have been robbed in that county. It is the work of home talent. A monster locomotive has just been finished at the Fort Wayne shops of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago railway. Its dead weight separate from the tender, and without fuel or water, is 73,700 pounds. The empty tank weighed 22,400 pounds. One day last week the giant was fired up and was run into the yaid, where it scaled the surprising weight ot 82,950, The tank, with its supply of coal mill water, 45,900 pounds.