Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1882 — INDIANA ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ITEMS.

Near Dover, Dearborn county, John Carpenter killed Patrick Neal with a hoe. A number of New Albany bicyclists made a trip to Edwardsville the other day. James B. Earhardt, a prominent and honored citizen of Lafayette, has passed away. Richmond is suffering from an epidemic of measles, and some of the rooms in the public schools are almost vacated. Mrs. Blakely, of Hunterstown, Allen county, while gathering moss with her daughter, dropped dead of heart disease. Mrs. Elizabeth Shinn, living near Elkhart, and respected by all her neighbors, was thrown from a load of fodder and killed. Eleven Young Men’s Christian Associations were formed in Indiana during the past year, making a total of fortyseven now in the State. The hog cholera prevails in the western part of Fayette county. George Booe recently lost S2OO worth of fattened hogs with the disease. Richmond has $3,500,000 invested in manufactures, the yearly product of which equals $8,000,000, with 2,300 hands employed. The earnings of the - State prison at Jeffersonville in the months of June, July and August were $21,240, and the expenditures $18,555. Thomas Garrity, while at work in Trow’s elevator at Madison, fell in a chute and was smothered to death by shipstuff caving on him. Dr. Silas Cooke, an old and prominent physician of Greensburg, died of blood poisoning. He was born in New York, and remembered talking with Aaron Burr when the latter practiced law. Some time since the trustee of Jefferson township, Sullivan county, ordered lightning rods placed on the school buddings, agreeing to pay $75 for the service. He was presented with a bill for $1,300. The express on the St. Louis air line from New Albany was thrown from the track by a misplaced switch, forty-eight miles west of the latter town, and the fireman, John McSwaim, of Evansville, was killed. A monument, to be placed at the grave of the late Gov. Williams, was destroyed by the railroad collision at Auburn Junction last month. It was of Scotch granite, and measured twentyfour feet in height. A 13-year-old girl, an adopted daughter of Nicholas Murphy, of Nabb’s Station, Clark county, has been detected in the cruel pastime of cutting the throats of Murphy’s horses. She is thought to be insane. A hack-driver, named Oscar Hart, ran over a child of Ira Cohterman in Goshen. The child has since died. Hart was declared negligent and careless, and has been arrested and now lies in jail awaiting trial. Work of removing the sandbar in Calumet river, opposite the mouth of the State ditch, known as “Hart, or Cody marsh ditch,” in Lake county, has been completed in accordance with the act of the Legislature. Isaac Newsbaum, the oldest man in Indiana, died at his residence, in Wabash county. Mr. Newsbaum was 107 years of age, and had been a resident of the county for over forty years. His death was occasioned by old age. Dr. W. L. Breyfogle, of New Albany, lias sold the Odd Fellows’ Hall building, in that city, to Arthur Peter, of Louisville. The price paid was $30,000, and is regarded as a satisfactory indication of the value placed upon real estate in New Albany. George Barrett, a wealthy farmer of Sullivan county, committed suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear, in the presence of his wife. His wife, who saw him do the deed, was horror-strick-en, and fainted at the sight. No cause is assigned for the rash act. Solomon Coletrain, a wealthy farmer who lived near Darlington, Montgomery county, died recently. It was believed he had about SIO,OOO in gold hid away in a bureau drawer at the time of his death, but, after his burial, search failed to find a larger sum than $3,000. A young lady of Seymour, aged 17 years, became so convulsed in laughter while in conversation in the family cir cle that her jaw became locked, she notbeing able to close or move it. A physician was called in, and relieved the young lady from her unpleasant predicament. The receipts from Indiana on account of internal-revenue taxes, from July 1, 1862, to June 30, 1882, are shown in the annexed table, compiled from the books of the Internal Revenue Commissioner at Washington: 1863 $ 924,904.21 1873 ~..$ 5,678,052.51 1864 3,: 98,219.97 1874 4,823,495.59 1865 4,821,243.48 1875 4,653,789.05 1866 5,447,336.50 1876 5,579,126.27 1867 4,122,863.08 1877 6,037,220.27 1868 2,342,327.3811878 5,710,837.56 1869 3,869,757.3011879 5,851,103.83 1870 5,045,(r23.82!1880 6,213,626.49 1871 4,798,468.90 1881 7,281,253.48 1872 5,441,892.72|1882 6,485,356.94 Total. $98,495,909.35 A distressing case of self-destrnct-ion is reported from Shelbyville, the victim being Mrs. Rhoda Reed, daughter of County Treasurer Amsden and wife of George Reed, one of Shelbyville’s leading citizens. Mrs. Reed and her sister, Miss Pet Amsden, were at home conversing, when Mrs. R. made some excuse to her sister; and w r ent into a side bedroom and shut the door. In a moment two shots were heard, and Miss Amsden, rushing into the bedroom, found Mrs. Reed lying on the floor, shot through the head, the brain oozing ous of the wound.