Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

The “county history” took over $3,000 out of Whitley county. Martin county is the first county to make its return of agricultural statistics to the State Bureau of Statistics. Frank Felger was struck by a freight train and fatally injured, near Fori Wayne. He leaves a .large family. Dr. Solomon Stough, of Waterloo, has been fined SI,OOO for accepting bribes for issuing false pension certificates. George Rosselle, a tramp, was killed near Shelbyville, while attempting to get on a moving freight-train. Both legs were cut off close to the body. A -water-spout burst about one-half mile below Connersville, washing down fences and completely submerging the road, so that travel was impeded for some time. Paxton Wilhite, an old farmer, residing seven miles south of Crawfordsville, was robbed on the streets of that place, the other day* during the parade of Cole’s circus, of SI,OOO cold cash. The lightning-rod sharps boast that they can stand the newspaper breeze, considering the fact that they bled about $5,000 out of the farmers of Cass and adjoining counties in the space of two weeks. A little boy at Richmond swallowed three arsenic pills that had beeii carelessly left in his way, and the frightened mother sent for a but before he came the boy had vomited up the poison. In consequence of dullness in the building line, the Hinsdale-Doyle stonemills, at Bedford, have shut down for the present, throwing out of employment a large number of stone-cutters, carvers and laborers. The Board of Commissioners of Jackson county have just made their annual settlement, struck a balance, and find the county does not owe a cent, and has $32,089.13 in the treasury. The levy is one of the lowest of any county in the State. Hanover College has conferred tlie degree of LL. D. upon Miss Marin Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy at Vassar College. She is the sister of the late Gen. O. M. Mitchell, and as a woman and scholar deserves the honored title. Joseph Spurgin, a 10 year-old boy, got on a rock-car at the quarry, in Salem, and unloosed the brake, which threw him down upon the track, and the cars started and ran over one of his legs, crushing it to almost a jelly. It was amputated about four inches from tlie body. Mbs. Yutzler, of New Albany, cherishes the traditional feminine dread of a man under the bed. The other evening her apprehension was justified by the discovery of a concealed intruder, whom she, with commendable presence of mind and steadiness of nerve, knocked insensible witirthe lamp. Annie King, a handsome young schoolmistress and daughter of a prominent farmar living near Wabash, eloped with a fellow named Daily, whose home is in Newcastle, and who has a wife and two children. The affair has created a big breeze at Wabash in consequence of the prominence of Miss King. Joft Snyder, living near Georgetown, Floyd county, having some wet powder, placed it in an oven of his stove to dry, and apparently forgot it, as an explosion occurred soon after which blew thingsin all directions. His two children, who were in the room at the time, were struck by pieces of the stove and fatally wounded. The employment of experts at high wages by the County Commissioners of Lawrence county to examine the books in the County Treasurer’s office, which occasioned so much excitement a short time since, has resulted in a personal quarrel between Commissioner Alex. Glover and ex-Treasurer F. A. Bears. Through the columns of the local papers they are gradually telling all they know-.

Mrs. Henry 8. Lane left Crawfordsville, last week, for New York, where she will be joined by Mrs. Gilman, of Boston. The two ladies will sail for Europe, to be absent till next spring. They will spend the summer traveling through the different countries of the Old World, will join Gen. Lew Wallace uufl wife in ConstantinopJp and will spend the Nd Palestine. Oscar. Goodwin, cashier of the Logftnsport National Bank, is misteriously missing. The bank officers report that, so far as they have been able to examine, alt his Accounts are perfectly correct. Goodwin stood well in business circles, although he was addicted to drink. The bank of which he was cashier is the leading one in Logansport, and had probably SBO,OOO in its vaults when he left. John Carmony, the engineer of the railway train which was wrecked near Bedford, died every inch a hero. Fastened under the locomotive, and his legs and the lower part of his body actually cooked by the boiling water that deluged him, he was asked by the fireman what could be done for him, and, witlj the courage and self forgetfulness of a martyr, he replied: “Let me go—don’t stay here; but, for God’s sake, go and help those poor women and children in the coaches 1”