Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Totaii population of 1,978,301; native, 1,834,123; foreign born, 144,178. Edward Rebvas was fatally injured at Lafayette while getting off a fast-moving train. Db. Bubke, of Lafayette, is a brother of tho murdered Under Secretary for Ireland. Mbs. Coward, colored, said to be 107 years old, was recently batpizod at Jeffersonville. A Columbus men is repotted to be suffering from hydropliobiu, caused by a skunk bite. At New Corner, Delaware county, a $3,000 school-house was demolished by the recent gale. The deficiency of Samuel Gibson, exTreasurer of Delaware county, now foots up over $15,000. The finest elm in Riohmond, near the Indiana yearly meetinghouse, was ruined by lightning in a storm. By actual count, there aro 235 persons in Wabash at the head of and conducting business on their own aocount, W. S. ‘Culbertson, of New Albany, paid bis $6,453.57 taxes the other day, and W. C. DePauw came down with $5,226.51. The Rev. Dr. Bartlett, of Indianapolis, has accepted a call ns pastor of tho New York Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York city. Lightning-bod sharps victimized Huntington oounty farmers to the extent of S7OO. The victims in every case came down with the cash. Charles F. Hudson, proprietor of a sawmill at Lagrange, was almost instantly killed by a board being hurled across the building, striking lum in the stomach. During a storm at Bedford, a veritable shower of stones fell. They were of various sizes and shapes, some being ns largo as a man’s fist, and others quite small. Gov. Pouter has appointed John L. Campbell, of Wabash College, Civil Engineer on the improvement of the Kankakee regioß, tho work to be done iu conjunction with the authorities of Illinois. Edwabd Young, local freight agent on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Bt. Louis and Chicago railway, disappeared from Lafayette April 30, since which time nothing lias been heard of him. It is believed he committed suicide. A serious railroad accident, caused by a broken tie, occurred at Metftmora. Jacob Miller, American Express messenger, was killed, while P. E. Brittingham, postal clerk, and Charles Gleaner, baggage master, were seriously injured. Manson, a 3-year-old child of A. Hunt, of Clinton county, was playing in the yard near a hole which its father had dug for the purpose of holding rainwater, foil into the hole, and was drowned. The hole was two feet deep and contained only eight inches of water. W. W. Poland, a school-teacher at Royal ton, Boone county, has eloped with tho wife of James Pixley, who took $4,000 in cash and jewelry. The couple were accompanied by Miss Mary Warner, to whom Poland was supposed to be paying attention with a view to matrimony.

Jacob Bobden, who kept a Baloon at Ossian, Wells county, was recently warned by the temperance people to close up or they would annihilate the place. He paid* no attention to the threats. A tew nights ago a dyftamite cartridge was thrown down the chimney and the building wus demolished. Tiie saloon keepers of Bedford have Refused to pay the #IOO town license assessed against each of them, aud will take the matter into the courts. In case a decision is made in their favor they will sue the town for ali licenses paid by them in the past years, the sum total of which is a large amount. Mbs. S. J. Dalzell, a fashionable young milliner of Fort Wayne, had trouble with her landlord, Benj. Sanders, and a rival tenant, Geo. lteater, which was brought to a sensational issue. The two visited the apartments of the milliner and were greeted with a pot of scalding hot water, which deluged them completely, so badly scalding them that medical aid was sought. No arrests. David Hunn, an old man, took a room at a Terre Haute hotel, and fired a bullet into his forehead and another into the temple. Next morning, being still alive, he fired two more shots into his abdomen, £\p 1 then sent for a physician, to whom he said he was tired of living. He died within a few hours. He had been separated from his wife three years, and had recently visited her with offer to roturn, yrhich she declined. The gale played a queer freak at the • residence of Mr. Dale, at Logansport. The members of the family, seeing that a crash was imminent, ran out in a blinding rain-storm just as the north wall caved in. Almost at the same instant the south gable end was blown out, leaving the roof supported by the side walls. The lower part of the house was almost completely gutted, doing heavy damage to the carpets and furniture. Many horses in Wabash county are afflicted with a disease which apparently is a kidney affection. When the sick auimals are neglected death ensues in a comparatively short time after the disease is contracted. Several horses have died and others are sick. When treated promptly the* animals usually recover. The veterinary surgeons arc puzzled and cannot understand the nature of the malady.

A young man by the name of William Seniors, a telegraph operator at Metamora, went to the river for the purpose of killing fish with explosive cartridges. He ignited the fuse of a cartridge and held it in his hand until it exploded, tearing his hand entirely off and shattering the bones of his arm badly, and is otherwise badly injured by the shock; but, strange ns it may seem, was not knocked off his feet, and walked home, a quarter of a mile distant. The attending physicians think his life can be saved by amputating the arm. It has been discovered that Emil Grill, elected to the Vincennes Council, is not eligible. A section of the constitution provides that, wlionever any officer fails to acoouut for and pay over, according to law, all moneys that come into his hands, he shall hereafter be ineligible to any office of trust or profit. Mr. Grill, who was City Clerk until two jearti ago, was fouud to l>o short in Ins accounts something like SSOO, which yet remains in, litigation. Mr. Grill protests that he is not a defaulter, but lays his shortage on Charles W. Jones, ex-Treasurer, who went out at the ftnati time $29,000 short