Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

There are 2,252 women engaged in farming in the State of Indiana. The present season has been a prolific one for honey with bee-raisers in Floyd county. The soldiers’ reunion at Orleans, Orange county, was a great success, over 7,000 persons being present. The County Treasurer at Wabash lias levied upon and closed the gas-works for taxes amounting to S3OO. The contract for completing the Tippecanoe county Court House has been awarded to Charles Pearce for $241,000. Near Eldwood, Madison county, Patrick Kinsella was run over and cut to pieces by a train on the Lake Erie and Western road. At Wabash, a Miami Indian got drunk and laydown to sleep on the railroad track. A train ran over him, inflicting fatal injuries. Seven young ladies recently assumed the vows of a nun -and retired from tho world in tho chapel of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital at Lafayette. Oscar Wiley, a brakeman on tho Vandalia railroad, foil between the cars at Kuightsville, causing his decapitation aud the cutting of his body in twain. The largest sale of beef cattle ever made in Putnam county was closed last week, contracts being made for 4,400 head, at prices estimated to amount to about $445,000. John Ball has sued Job M. Nash, a wealthy citizen of Tippecanoe county, for SIO,OOO for slander. It is alleged Nash impugned the character of the plaintiff for honesty. Charles Wolf, a brakeman on a Bee line freight train, fell between the ears while his train was passing through Muncie and received injuries from which lie died within an hour. C. Hettler, a prominent Democrat of Allen county, was recently expelled from the party by tho County Committee for accepting a nomination on the Independent ticket. The total receipts of the Harrison county fair aggregated $2,400, and, after all premiums and expenses are paid, will leave tho association with a net balance of over S7OO in the treasury. Mrs. David Woiiden, of Fort Wayne, set fire to her house and threw herself in tho flames because she bad been beaten by her husband. She wr,B rescued, but was pa nfully burned. At Briant Station, Allen county, Benjamin Goodson and liis daughter were struck by lightning and instantly killed. Another man was also stricken down, but liis injuries are not serious. At Hartford, Crawford county, a drunken white man and a drunken negro got into a wordy altercation, when the negro drew a knife and made a rush at the Caucasian, who shot him, inflicting a serious wound. A few weeks since Dr. J. S. Smith, of Warsaw, was divorced from his wife; then followed an apparent reconciliation and a promise to remftrry, but the other day he led to the altar another lady, and the gossips are much excited at tho turn events have taken. The utter uselessness of tho English sparrow as an insect destroyer is shown at New Albany in the immense number of caterpillars that now cover all the acidulous-leaved shade trees of the city, and tho total absence of native birds that destroy these pests—driven away by the pugnacious sparrows. Calvin Fletcher and his son started the other day to their bluff farm, in Morgan county, with a large drove of cattle. When three or four miles from home, a vicious steer turned and drove one of its horns seven inches into tho breast of a fine young horse Mr. F. was riding, killing it and hurting Mr. Fletcher considerably. At Lafayette a child of Ambrose Mitzger*, while toying with a bottle containing carbolic acid, worked tho stopper loose and spided the liquid over its face, breast, and fearfully burning its mouth. . When found, tho child was unconscious, and it was thought would die at once, but it subsequently has revived, and there are some hopes that it may recover. An older child had taken the bottle from the mantel and given it to the babe to play with. Three men, named Keller. Stevens and Taylor, living near Nashville, Brown county, attended a show in that town, and, while returning home at night, passed by a watermelon patch owned by James Harding, who, in company with his son, was hid in the field armed with shotguns and revolvers. While Keller and Stevens were selecting a melon Taylor heard the click of a gun and knew some one was preparing to shoot. He cried out for Keller and Stevens to ran, and as.tlieydid so Harding and his boy emerged from their hiding place and opened fire. At the first shot Keller fell to the ground. Stevens and Taylor ran on home, supposing Keller had also gone away. . Shortly afterward the Hardings met a man named Piercefteld, and told him they thought some one was dead up in the watermelon patch. Upon examination, Harding's son going up to the fence remarked, “Here lies one of them with his belly turned up.” It was Keller, dead. He was shot through tho neck. Harding was at once arrested, and confessed that he had done the shooting, but claimed he did it in self-defense, but ns Keller was not armed with any weapons the defense is very weak.