Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

The Baptist sisterhood of the State will endow a chair in Franklin College. Thc Fort Wayne City Council is now tussleing with a new jsow and hog ordinance. Bx sawing two bars frpm a window, five prisoners escaped from the jail at Wabash. Mtbh Sadie Small, at Jeffersonville, is working on a quilt which is to contain 15,000 pieces. Thebe are 7,358 dogs in Indianapolis township, and taxes have thus far been paid upon 2,400. Dean Cbdme’s fine residence near Wabash was damaged by fire to the amount of $2,500. Fabmebs of Rush county are pasturing their wheat fields on account of the haves played by the frost. The Indianapolis Exposition track was measured the other day, and found to be a fraction over one-balf mile. Dr. J. W. Salteb, of Richmond, a microscopist of ability, has discovered gold in the Kansas coal measures. At no time during the past ten years has the spirit of improvement been so apparent in New Albany as at present. Thebe was discovered in a vat at the Terre Haute soap factory, the other day, the bones of a man thought to have been one of the employes. Lina Higgins, about 14 years old, attempted suicide at Bedford by jumping into a cistern. After striking the water she cried for help and was soon rescued. Robert Jefferson, a prominent and intelligent negro of Indianapolis, who has always claimed to be an illegitimate son of Thomas Jefferson, has just died in Indianapolis.

Habby Beggs, a Fort Wayne harnessmaker, in a fit of despondency, swallowed laudanum with fatal effect. He had been drinking, and was arrested twice, which made him desperate. An -Indianapolis man, whose wife has property in her own right, gave her a beating because she refused to divide, and the court fined him $25 and costs, which the wife is expected to pay. At the Vigo woolen-mills, Terre Haute, can be seen a bale of genuine silk from native cocoons. The silk was raised there by Asenath Bishop, in her 80th year, shortly before her death. New Albany Ledger : Formerly the farmers brought the wagons to the city loaded with corn. Now they bring them in empty and return with them loaded with corn, which costs 85 to 90 cents per bushel. Almeda Cubby, for thirteen years a domestic in the family of David Trester, of Indianapolis, has been awarded judgment against him in the sum of s3uo for unpaid services. Her claim was for $3 330. George Higgins and Aaron Malone became involved in a quarrel over a game of billiards in a saloon at Carlisle, when Higgins cut Malone across the abdomen, lettmg his bowels out, from the effects of which he will die. Higgius is uuder arrest.

The little village of St. Joseph, in Clark county, had a sensational array of accidents in one day. A boy named Penn was killed by a saw log ; another another boy named Lee was terribly in jured by the failing limb of a tree, and a third boy, while watching the doctor dressing Lee’s wounds, fainted and fell in an open tire. Furman Stout <fc Son, of Indianapolis, have entered suit against twelve insurance companies for an amount aggregating $64,200. The companies had ret”sed to pay the insurance for the deftr lotion of the business house of jlaiitiffs on the 12th of January, 1882, uaim ug that it fell down and was not destroyed by fire. Joseph Bogabdus, who eloped from Wabash with his sister-in-law, Miss Susie Grant, was arrested at Dennison, Ohio, where the two had been stopping as man and wife. He confessed. The girl also acknowledged her guilt, and, when asked by the Mayor why she had done such a naughty thing, said : “Joe fell in love with me, and 1 fell in love with Joe. ”

George Sipes, of Pleasant Run township, Lawrence county, died recently at the advanced age of 91 years. He was born in Kentiu ky iu 1791, and was a soldier in the war of 1812, being present at the battle of blew Orleans, Jan. 8, -1815. Mr. Sii es was one of the pioneer ettlers of Li wrence county, and had ived fifty-five years upon the farm he sieared when first coming there. Danjel Callahan, a well-known farmer living near New Providence, Clark county, was arrested at New Albany the other day, on a telegram from his wife and son, accusing him of robbery. The family has not been a happy one, and the old man said he knew they were capable of treating him shabbily, but lie did not expect to be arrested on such a charge, which proved to be wholly malicious.

A recent letter from Evansville says: Reports from all parts of the First Congressional district show wheat holding out good ; stand very large ; heads a little light; straw heavy. The chinchbug doing no harm. The prospects for a crop are 15 per cent, more than the average. Farmers satisfied so far. Corn-planting proceeding well. Some bottom land wheat has been plowed under and com put in place of it. Hon. J. W.Bobden, Judge of the Allen county Criminal Court, died suddenly at Fort Wayne of chronic heart-disease. Ho was about to take a buggy-drive, the day being pleasant, but was seized with a sudden pain in the region ol the heart, reclined on the sofa, and died shortly after. Deceased was in 1857 appointed Minister to the Sandwich Islands under Buchanan’s administration. “ In 1863 he returned, and has occupied judicial positions in Allen county ever since, once running for Congress against Samuel Benton. He was born in 1813, near Beaufort, S, C., and was a man of great legal ability. Travel in foreign lams had made him a polished and cultured gentleman.