Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Fire destroyed Fisher & Son’s flour mill, at Spencer, causing a loss of $lO,000. Insured for $4,000. The farmers of Wabash county have, since February, invested about $5,000 in notes with lightning-rod and other swindlers. Probably the oldest Sunday-school in Indiana is the Methpdist Episcopal, of Corydon. It has been in operation for sixty-five years. A. gypsy band, several members of which are afflicted with small-pox, have been introducing the disease in the vicinity of Wabash. The debt of the city of Jeffersonville is figured down to $374,000 in round numbers. The debt of New Albany, with three times the resources, is $395,000. While Henry Kuntz and wife, of Frankfort, Clinton county, were at. church, two masked men broke open the house, bound and blindfolded a boy left at home, and took $165 in cash. Near La Gro, Wabash county, some •person, unknown, fired a revolver into a coach of a Wabash passenger train. The bullet grazed the head of a traveler aud imbedded itself in the woodwork. William Kirchbauh, a wood-chopper, was caught by a falling tree at Urbana, Wabash county, and instantly killed. Ee was felling the timber and it came down unexpectedly. His body was horribly crushed. The annual quarrel over the election of City School Trustees, at Greensburg, is on again, and will only terminate with a strongly-contested lawsuit. The mam question now seems to be as to which bank shall control the school funds.

Edward R. Hill, of Fort Wayne, who swindled several Chicago firms out of large consignments of produce, pleaded guilty to using the mails for fraudulent purposes, and was fined $5 and sentenced to six months in jail. Steve Meyer, of Lawrenceburg, un ~ dertook to get rid of some troublesome pigeons with his shot-gun. The shot scattered, and his daughter, coming in range just as he pulled the trigger, received a number in her side and breast. Her injuries are painful, but not mortal. Daniel Deeter, a deaf and dumb man, while walking on the track of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne road near Ridgeville, Adams county, was run over and instantly killed by an express train. The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death by his own carelessness. While a gang of workmen were quarrying stone in the old Wabash and Erie canal "bed, east of La Gro, Wabash county, they came upon a number of partially-petrified fish. One specimen was about a foot long and six inches in diameter, and appeared to lie the head of some reptile. The curiosities were not wholly fossilized. Dr. Houghton, of Spencerville, De Kalb county, was beaten into inseinibility by Jacob Baltz. The doctor and Mrs. Baltz had been in the habit of jesting with each other ; but ®n this occasion the woman lost her temper, claimed she had been insulted, and in formed her husband. Hence the assault. The quickest time on record in a divorce suit was made the other day nt Fort Wayne. A wealthy farmer named J. V. Gilbert drove to town with his wife, and she handed in an application for freedom on the ground of cruelty. The couple then agreed that the wife should have si,ooo in cash, new false teeth every three years, half the furniture, fruit and milk, and two-thirds of the children. Both appeared in court, and the divorce was at once granted. Seventeen carrier pigeons, belonging to Cleveland, were turned loose at the depot in Winchester, in this State, at 7 o’clock in the morning. They circled around for twenty minutes before they took their departure, but at 10 o’clock they arrived in Cleveland, having made the distance, 208 miles, in three hours from the time the cages were opened, or from the time they took their final leave only two hours and forty minutes, which is at the rate bf seventy-eight miles per hour,