Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Lauba Vincent, a loose woman, took her own lite, by means of laudanum, at EvansviUe. .1 Chables Mappin, * W-year-old boy of Blackford county, was killed by a falling tree Tua German Lutheran Church and parsonage at Logansport burned lately. Loss, >30,000. A school building at Marion caught fire, and 200 pupils escaped without a single casualty. Recently a large quantity of bogus gold coin—so, >5 and >lO pieces—has been put in circulation in Southern Indiana. • The Beach Medical College has just been incorporated at Indianapolis Both sexes are admitted to all departments A little colored boy at Indianapolis had both feet froxen some time ago, and has had them amputated. He will recover. The saw-mill and machinery of David Cammick, located near Muncie, were wiped out by the flames, inflicting a loss of >5,000; Insured for >2,000. John Simons, of Vincennes, while shooting fish, pulled his gun toward him by the mattie, with the usual result His death was instantaneous The Rose Polytechnic Institute, which was liberally endowed by the late Chauncey Rose, at Terre Haute, opened with highly interesting ceremonies The Hancock county bee-keepers have organized an association. A little son of Louis Kleespries, of Jeffersonville, was drowned recently in an excavation that had been made in beginning the construction of a cistern. Daniel Woods, a noted Character of Indianapolis, who claimed to be 106 years of age and to have fought under the Iron Duke at Waterloo, died the other day. Sunday afternoon the wife of Geo. Hutton, of Columbu-*, gave birth to a boy weighing eleven pounds, and Monday afternoon gave birth to a girl baby weighing nine pounds Almost the entire one side of Main street, In Michigantown, has been consumed by firs AU were wooden buildings Loss in goods and property, >7,500, with but little insurance. •

Rev. N. Carr, Financial Agent of the Franklin Baptist College, has undertaken to ratee an endowment of #300,000 for the college, and is said to be meeting with great •niccess. Near Carlisle, while hunting, Ed. Johnson accidentally shot and killed his cousin, George Weils. Both are young men, and stand well in the community. Johnson la almost crazy with grief. Greene; and Sullivan oounties are now one judicial circuit. Hon. George W. Buff, of Sullivan, is the new Judge. His term of office will expire in 1888, Capt John Dr Alexander will be the Prosecuting Attorney until 1884. The Henry county Commissioners have granted the petition of Knightstown for a substantial bridge across Blue river, southeast of that town. The county will pay about #6,000 and the corporation of Knightstown #3,000 of the cost ■> Mrs. Barkemier, of Widner township, Knox county, died last week, at the age of 109 years. She came to this country from Germany about 15 years ago, and a short time before her death was quite vigorous, and had good eyesight Mrs. Lucinda Forman, aged 90, and her maiden daughter, aged ' 51, who lived together near Royalton, were found murdered on their premises. No clew has yet been obtained to the perpetrators of the deed, whose motive is supposed to have been robbery. 1

The Evansville City Council has contracted with the Brush Elebtric Light Company to light the city by electric light for a term of five years. The company is to erect twelve towers of 150 feet m height, for which the city is to pay to thd company the sum of $16,000 per year. 1 Gov. Poirnsß has vetoed bills to amend the law providing that doors of public buildings 1 shall swing outwardly by exempting seminaries and sohool-houses; and the bill for the removal of mill-dams and other obstructions from water-courses to prevent the overflow of lands Gov. Pobteb has pardoned William Farley, who was sent to Jeffersonville penitentiary from Greencastle for four years, for burglary. Farley is the convict who escaped and came in person to Gov. Porter to ask a pardon, failing to obtain which he returned, unguarded' to the prison. Tub Board of State House Commissioners has instructed Architect Scherer to commence work on the new plans for the completion Of the building, the purpose being to prepare for the emergency and relet the contract without unnecessary delay, in case the present contractors should'throw up the Job. John DBABDyvk’ an old bachelor living three miles and a half north of Hartford City, was robbed of $lO6 in money. A party named Aaron fthoten was In his dwelling at the time. A man disguised entered the dwelling and struck the old gentleman on the head, apd then secured the trunk containing the money and fled.

A TERRTfii.B accident occurred at Crawfordsville, on the crossing of the Indiana, Bloomington and Western railroad and the Alatna pike. The hack which carries the between that place and Alatna was struck by the west-bound passenger-train, and the driver, John Green, and two passengers, Mrs. John Clark," of Waynetown, and Milton Rush, of ■ Alama, were instantly killed. 11 ,Its April, 1880, Miss Anna L Hoffman, of New Albany, was run over by a railroad train, and her right arm and left hand cut off. ’ Through skillful treatment her life and her leff'turm were saved. A reporter who visited her a few days ago found her in good health, cheerful, and making herself generally WemL aid of an artificial hand, made by her father, she can pump and carry water, bring i» coal, write a good hand, and play the* pinup almost as dexterously as an uritnaimed persoh. Tkb Diocesan Qpnyention called for the clept4on,pf,a successor to the late Bishop Talbot was held at St Paul's Cathedral, and, after several ballots, selected Dr. Isaac L. Nicholson, of Phlladelpbla, to the vacant Bishopric. Dr. Nicholson is one of the most prominent Episcopal ministers in the country, and has a national reputation as a pulpit orator and theologian. He is 42years of age, and a graduate of Dartmouth College. In hia early manhood ho spent several years in his father’s banking house at Baltimore and subsequently studied for the ministry in the Theological Institute at Alexandria, and, after finishing his course, became assistant rector at St. Paul’s. (Baltimore. He was afterward rector of Wet (.minster parish, Baltlinbre, and uhoqt three years ago was appointed to St. J.wX.s parish, Philagelpbm, where he has Unco remained.