Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Madison is in debt over $250,000 — $25 for every man, woman and child in the city. Ryan, defeated candidate for Town Marshal at Anderson, fired three shots at Edgar Chittenden for hurrahing for the successful nominee. The Seymour authorities have concluded arrangements for purchasing a park of six and a half acres of fine woodland adjacent to the city! The 10-months-old babe of Hamilton Strickland, of Greenfield, Hancock county, while sitting in a high chair, Friday, tipped over and was thrown into a bucket of whitewash head foremost. The new jail at Winchester, which cost $35,000, was put into use the other day, and within a few hours a garroter and a car-thief pried off the grates in the floor of the corridor and escaped through the ventilator. John Alfter, a mechanic employed in a machine-shop at Peru, has fallen heir to a fortune in Germany, amounting to $27,000, Upon receiving the message he threw down his tools, and in a few hours was on his way to Europe. Mrs. Willard Williams, of Osgood, Ripley county, died from the effects of a surgical operation of great magnitude and interest* to medical men—the Ciesarian process. The child is healthy and vigorous, but all efforts to save the mother proved futile. A number of saloon-keepers of New Albany who pay city license have retained attorneys to make a t 'st case as to the right of the city to levy and collect license from them. They claim that after they pay county license no more can be demanded of them. Father Grogan, of Lagro, who was suspended by Bishop D wenger, of Fort Wayne diocese, shortly before Easter, will appeal to Rome. The affair grew out of the apportionment of certain iu • debtedness which Father Grogan thought would be an unjust burden on his congregation. The remains of a mastodon have been discovered on the farm of Dr. J: 0. Loop, in Cass county. Workmen, while engaged upon a drain, exhumed it in a swamp or bog several feet below the surface. It was badly decayed, and when exposed to the air crumbled considerably, but enough was preserved to form some idea of the monster’s size.

Louis Street, a Quaker missionary, who had just returned from Mexico, was severely reprimanded by the Whitewater monthly meeting at Richmond, last week, for baptising a Mexican convert from Romanism. Mr. Street said that the child’s father insisted on its beiug baptized, and would have taken it to a Catholic priest if lie had not consented. On acknowledging that he was sorry, Mr. Street was forgiven. While Benjamin A. Grimes, of Hancock county, was at work in a" clearing ” he met with an accident that will probably prove fatal. A limb from a turning tree fell, striking him upon the head and knocking him upon a burning log-heap, where he lay until he was restored to consciousness by the intense pains resulting from his burns, when lie managed to drag himself from the fire, and succeeded in tearing from his person his burning clothing, and again became unconscious and remained so until found by some members of his family who happened to be passing. In response to a recent resolution of the Senate, the Secretary of the Interior has transmitted to Congress a letter from the Commissioner of Pensions giving the total number of pensioners upon the pension roll; the annual value of the roll; the amount actually paid, including arrears for the year ending with the payment made Sept. 4, 1881; the number of pensioners and the value of their pensions; and the amount paid during the year in each State and in each Congressional district. According to this letter there were borne on the rolls in September last the names of 269,851 persons, the annual value of whose pensions was $29,263,469. Following is the list by Congressional districts in Indiana :

Annual Annual payment .Vo of value of with pension*, peiutiom*. arream. First ],2*27 $131,316 $249,5 ;0 Soconrl 1,307 148,368 281,899 Third 1,336 142,876 271,464 Fourth 1,408 118,264 224,701 Fifth 1,205 128,972 245,047 Sixth 1,017 108,828 206,776 Seventh 445 47,736- 90,698 Eighth 1,219 133,564 253,771 Ninth 1,199 128,352 343,868 Tenth 1,031 110,388 210,118 Eleventh ; 1,175 125,883 239,887 Twelfth 1.351 133,895 254,404 Thirteenth 856 91,728 174,094 14,466 $1,540,276 $2,945,524