Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Jasper county reports to the State Health Board a mother aged 13. A piece of slate fell from a burning building in Madison and winged Wm. Fox’s nose. The Adjutant General of Indiana says the military spirit revived during the encampment does, not wane. The liquor dealers of New Albany hav ' organized as a Personal Liberty Association to fight prohibition. A child with six fingers, all well developed and natural looking, was born to a colored woman at Evansville. A 6 year-old boy of Ed Waller, at Rushville, was run over .by a wagon loaded with wheat, and fatally injured. Typhoid and other fevers are so prevalent at Jeffersonville as to demand the action of the Board of Health in aid of their abatement-. Several cases of hog cholera have appeared in the southwestern part of Wabash county, and there are some apprehensions of a spread. Seven miles west of Connersville there is a boy, 5 years old, who weighs eightysix pounds, and can down any 12-year-oltl hoy in the county. The Edinburgh Courier is authority for the statement that a babe weighing only one pound and eight ounces has been born in ttiat locality. Jack Bloom, ex-Marshal of Port Fulton, hits received intelligence from Scotland that he has fallen heir to about £20,000 by tha death of an uncle. Thr Federal authorities have accepted $25 and costs, offered by J. B. Smith, of Huntington, as a compromise for failure to destroy stamps on whisky packages. The general impression is that the machine shops of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad at Seymour and Vincennes will be removed to Washington, Daviess county. Two Madison Alexanders built a skiff in a cellar where it was nice and cool, and are now working in the broiling sun excavating a hole to enable them to get it out. A strange and fatal disease is prevailing among the horses at Delphi. The legs of the animal swell to a great size, and after a few days the sufferer dies in great agony. Petitions are in circulation in Crawford county asking the Commissioners to remove the county seat from Leavenworth to Crandall Ration, on the AirLine railway.

A rowdy by the name of King, after breaking up a picnic party in Bedford county, attacked a Mr. Eaton, who shot him with a revolver, inflicting wounds that are said to be fatal. The Government has entered tuit to recover $278 from William H. Crockett, of Logansport, overdrawn by defendant, »■> alleged, while serving as Lieutenant in the One Hundred and Twenty eighth Indiana. Social circles of New London have been shaken up 'toy a breach of promise I suit, brought by Miss Ella McDaniels against one Al Thompson, claiming the sum of $5,000 to heal her blighted affections. At Banesville, Allen county, two young farmers named Mcßride and Hoopingainc engaged in a bantering dispute, when the latter became angry and struck Mcßride on the head with a club, killing him almost instantly. The children of Dr. Charlei White, of Crawfordsville, former President of Wabash College, among whom is Prof. W. 0. White, have presented to the college library 300 volumes of the private library of the deceased President Near Silverville, Lawrence county, John Craig and Alfred Turley became involved in a difficulty, in which the former struck the latter on the head with a club, crushing his skull and causing injuries that are pronounced fatal. County officials should remember that Indiana’s resources are best shown‘to the world through the statistical reports of the bureau, which are attracting great attention abroad, and they should take special pride in assisting the bureau. The corner-stone of the new Court House at Anderson has been laid with appropriate ceremonies. The building is located on the highest elevation in the city, is to be constructed of brick with stone trimming, aud will cost about $200,000. There is a great deal of travel by stage between New Albany and Corydon. The stages are in fine repair and the trip very pleasant. The Corydouians prefer the stage to the cars, as it requires a seven-mile trip from the town to the railroad.

A load of negro excursionists, while the locomotive was taking water near Bedford, the other day, raided a melonpitch, and, before they could be got out by the starting of the cars, ruined two acres of vines and melons. The damage is estimated at S3OO. At Huntertown, Guy West, 13 years of age, took down his father’s rifle to shoot a crow. Thinking the gun empty, he blew down the barrel, putting his foot on the trigger. The gun was discharged, the ball entering his brain. He died in a few hours. Mrs. Kate Howes, of Flora, Carroll county, has brought su t for $20,000 against John Condon. The suit is based on a law which gives a wife or her children the right to sue for the possession of money lost at gambling, proviued tho husband and father fails to do so.

The residents of Laketon, Wabash county, are at present wrestling with a big sensation. A prominent farmer, in whom every one reposed the utmost confidence, has absconded, leaving a h«*t of creditors and a large amount of unpaid debts. He was involved to the extent of {6,0*0. At Fort Wayne, Police Officer Doyle became involved in a fight with George Alexander and another rough. The. roughs were fast getting tbe best of Doyle, having knocked him down with a brickbat, and were beating him. Ho called to his assistance two cit zens, Dunn and Casterline. In the melee Dunn hud a finger bitten entirely oft. At last Doyle'Warned his asr-aiJauts to desist or he would shoot, but as they did not stop he drew his revolver aud fired, the ball taking effect in Alexander's neck at the base of the brain.’ He died almost instantly. Doyle then took his other man to the station house.