Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

The public schools of Indiana have 13,049 licensed teachers. The National Bank of Franklin has been organized with a capital of $50,000. Miss Minnie Vinson, of Summitville, Lee county, was run over by a train and killed. The State Board of Agriculture are endeavoring to make the forthcoming State Fair a grander mlcoess than any yet held. George Hazzard, the notorious Indiana banker, who is now in jail at Auburn, has been arrested twenty-seven times, apd escaped nearly as often. Simon Kynf.s, of Union township, Shelby county, has been sued by Mrs. John Victor, his granddaughter, for assault. She claims $5,000 damages. Peter Rippetoe was seized by a fit while riding a horse on a road near his father’s house, at Terre Haute, and fell from the animal, breaking his neck. A cloud-burst in the northeast! rn part of Washington county, near Little York, literally destroyed miles of fencing and hundreds of acres of growing corn. It is reported that a brother of the late Gov. Williams, of Indiana, for many years a Justice of the Peace at Jacksborough, Tex., has been adjudged insane, and removed from office. The Internal Revenue Commissioner has rejected the off r of a compromise made by Jacob Boos, the brewer of Huntingdon—s3,ooo and all the costs in full settlement of all the charges against him. Daniel Seabrook, one of the advance party who made the first settlement of New Albany sixty-eight years ago, is still living in that city at the age of 92 years, the sole survivor of the pioneer band. Peter Lehnen, residing in Lafayette, at the ripe age of 73 years, has been notified that liis interest in a Belgian estate is not less than $1,750,000, and it is said that a first installment of $300,000 is on the way.

Arthur Brooks, of Washington, fired fouFbullets into because thp doctor informed Brooks’ Wile' that her husband was Intimate -fyith another woman. Brooks quietly left the village for parts •urfk+iown. Louis Miller, a boy of 8, was playing with another boy on the bank of the canal, in the western part of Fort Wayne, when his companion threw Miller’s hat into the water. The little fellow went after jt and was drowned. The vacancy in the agricultural department of Purdue University, Lafay«tt<k beaanioned by the resignation .of Prof: Ingersoll, has l>een filled by the appointment of Prof. William C. Latta, of the State Agricultural College of Michigan. AmoNq the donors to the building of an Evangelical Church at Decatur is a lady of whom it is said that she has given money tow ard the erection of every Evangelical Church which has been built west of Philadelphia within the last forty-eight years. The* beautiful shade trees which adorned the front of Hon. J. H. Mellett's residence, at Newcastle, Henry county, were maliciously girdled the other night by some miscreant who had become offended at the plain talk of the owner concerning '< SaMUEL CuRREL%. aged. 58 years, an old resident 6f KfwHnwwo county, was crushed to death while engaged in loading a saw-log at Packer’s saw-mill, near Warsaw. He was alone at the time, and the log was still lying on him when he was found several hours after ward. The barn of Adolphus I. Kerd, four miles east ggfeedford, Lawrence county, was strucWßy lightning and burned. The contents, consisting of three horses, two mules, a wagon, buggy and harness, agricultural implements, and all of his wheat and oats, were destroyed. The loss is $2,000; no insuraneq. A terrible accident occurred at Lake Maxink'uckee, in Miami county. A large number of Peruvians were present, and among them Lyman Beans, of Peru, and Saul Reynolds, of Rochester. It seems the two young men were quarreling in a boat, which capsized/and both of the boys fell in the lake mid, were drowned.

Walter Shanks, of Mitchell, Law-' Ijence county, has sued the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad Company for SIO,OOO damages on account of injuries sustained by his little daughter by a trunk, being hauled on a truck of the company over the platform at Mitchell, falling on her. Carelessness of the company is alleged. The elevator on the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific railroad at Ijamsville, Wabash county, was recently burned by an incendiary. Five thousand bushels of wheat w ere in the warehouse at the time, and was consumed. The elevator, which belonged to the railroad company, was valued at $5,000, and the total loss will approximate SII,OOO. The celebrated pacing mare Flora Belle, that has quite recently been astonishing the pegpie of some of the Eastern cities, was foaled and raised in Law rence county. Her first owner sold her when a colt to William Neal, of Washington, for the small sum of sls. It has only been- about a year since Neal discovered the mare was gifted with such wonderful pacing speed, and a fewmonths since he sold her to Wilson & McCarthy, of Vincennes, for $4,(M10. A few days since she made a mile in 2:12|, the fastest pacing on record being 2:10j. Her owner has been offered $20,000 for her. * Mrs. Paran Stevens, one of the bestknown of AmericaffWomen, occupies a spacious brown-stone front on Fifth ■avenue, between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets. Now York—a house so crowded with rare paintings and statuary, and objects of art of all kinds, as to denote not only her vast wealth but a highly cultivated taste. Mrs. Stevens converses, indeed, very fluently alibut art, as she doe* about most subjects, whether they concern politics, religion or science. She is not only a well-bred,,. but she is a very brilliant w oman. k, • ’ ' ,„... i / „ j111Oji'.L Macon county, iG a., has a citiaen who has buried six wiy** ott«y teamed and 1 attending funerals that he only weighs ninetyeight pounds. ~ :