Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

A shower of fish is reported near Cambridge City. There are 8,872 children in the public schools of Madison. A quantity of counterfeit coin has been circulated in Peru of late. The Council of Lafayette is in favor of supplanting gas in that city with the electric light. A carpenter fell from the roof of a barn which he was building at Frankfort, and received fatal injuries. By a change in the channel of White river, a fine flouring-mill at Maysvillo has been left standing on an island. George Bowers was instantly killed by the explosion of a boiler in the sawmill of George Grubb, of Greencastle. Evansville has made contracts for electrio lights in the streets, and expects to complete the system in ninety days. Shelby county has abolished the system of holding “teachers’ institutes,” and will hereafter hold what are called “ model schools. ” Dr. Isaac Sparks, of Plainfield, aged 87, separated from his wife, Sophronia, aged 72. The parties were married a little over a year a'go. Martin Whittet, aged about 40 years, in attempting to swim his horse across Twin creek, Franklin county, was thrown off and drowned. A man near New Albany has a chicken with three legs, all used in walking, and two fully-developed tails. The fowl is a great curiosity, and is valued at SSO. Bill Arnold and Andrew Tucker, of Rush county, have sued the Cincinnati Enquirer for $10,003 each, for libel, in connecting their names with Osear Garrett as his confederates. The experts appointed at Madison to examine ex-Townsliip Trustee Samuel Cochran’s books and aocounts have gone far enough to see that the county owes him between S6OO and S7OO. Lightnino-rod Bharps caught ten or fifteen farmers of Wabash county for about $1,200, in sums ranging from SSO to $289 e%ch. Most of those bitten considered themselves very shrewd business men. The hogs that have died in Davioss county, of a so-called new disease, died of leeches in the stomach and intestines. One was dissected and the truth discovered. They drank the leeches while feeding in the low bottoms. Robert Harvel, a farmer of Hendricks county, whose house was one night last summer broken into, and himself gagged and robbed of $536, is now defendant in a libel suit brought by a man he had accused of the deed. The 12-year-old son of John L. Wright, car inspector at the St. Paul stone quarries, in Shelby county, vas instantly killed by being crushed to death. The boy was playing on top of a car, and was caught between it and a stone wall. An old lady living near Rich Valley, Wabash county, was fatally injured by being struck on the head with an ax wielded by her granddaughter, who was chopping off the head of a chicken, which die old lady was holding. A romantic marriage was solemnized a few days since, the parties being Dr. Nathan Hamilton, of Randolph county, aged 65, and Mrs. Anna Layson, of Fayette county, aged 64. The couple were lovers nearly half a century ago, but were separated by the opposition of relatives. The saloon of Heffner & do., at Palestine, Kosciusko county, was blown up by dynamite. The building was ruined, the stock destroyed, one man mortally injured and a son of the proprietor injured badly. This is the third case of the kind that has occurred tliero in less than two months. In Fountain county, last summer, John Hathaway killed Joseph Martinas in a quarrel about sll rent unpaid by Hathaway, for winch crime ho was sentenced to tiie penitentiary for five years. A civil suit instituted by the widow of Martinas has just resulted in a verdict of $2,800 damages. The case will be appealed. The Downs-Ensminger case at Lafayette has been compromised. The last time this case was tried Mrs. D. was awarded judgment for $60,000, but, rather than to fight it longer, she agreed to com-prom-se for $21,000, the Ensmingcr estate to pay all court cods. Out of the $21,000 the claimant will liavo to pay the sum of $12,000 to her attorney. William Whiteneck attempted to open a saloon in Sweetstr, Wabash county. The people were very much torn up over it, and when Whiteneck opened the doors of the sa'oon seventyfive women marched to the place in a body and argued the matter with him, until he finally concluded to close up. Sweetser is now without a saloon.

Db. O. W. SoHEnii, a young physician of Lafayette, called at the office of the Times, and requested the publication of a paragraph he had written, in which it was stated that an article previously printed in the Times was fake. Col. John 8. Williams, the editor, declined to publish it, and to the doctor’s remark that he would give him twenty-four hours to print it, or he would settle with him, the Colonel replied the present was as good a time as any to settle. The doctor made an assault upon Williams, but, before either was much injured, persons in the room separated them. Tpß Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows met at Indianapolis in annual ses- * sion on the 17th inst., with all the grand officers and about 400 delegates present. The Grand Patriarch, It. Berger, presented his annual report, which showed the order to bo in a most gratifying condition throughout the State. The Grand Scribe reported the financial condition of the Grand Encampment to be so good as to warrant a reduction in the dues of subordinate encampments to at least 6 per cent. Hon. Schuyler Colfax made a speech. The Grand Encampment elected the following officers: G. P., H. Heichert, Frankfort; G. H. P., W. H. Jacobs, Logansport; Senior Warden, E. S. Porter, Greensburg; Junior Warden, T. R. A. Tcter, Brookville; Grand Scribe, B. F. Foster, Indianapolis; Treasurer, T. P. Haughey; representative to Grand Lodge, Richard Beyer, Indianapolis; Grand Sentinel, J. Watson, Indianapolis; Deputy, A. P. Bennett, Greensburg. The Grand Lodge met on the following day, there being 600 delegates present. Grand Master N. P. Richmond made the annual report, showing the order to be in a flourishing condition. B. F, Foster, Grand Secretary, reported the order strengthened in all the elements pertaining td a permanent growth of prosperity.