Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Pnax A Abbott’s stove and barrel factory at Lafayette burned, causing a lose of $95,000. A hew school building and city ball will at once be erected in Wabash, the two to cost •80,0001 St. Joann's Hospital, at Fort Wayne, la to have a 125,000 addition built for ohapel and hospital purposes. PosrorncEs have been established in Indiana at Corner, Sullivan oounty; Wellman, Crawford county. A skeleton In a sitting position was unearthed In a gravel-pit at Connei svllle. It is supposed to be aboriginal Of the 600 convicts In the Southern prison at Jeffersonville, SCO have been vaccinated and are nursing sore arms. Jesse Reitchman, aged 106, died recently in Brown oounty, and was perhaps the oldest man in Southern Indiana Pbof. H. Wiley, of Purdue University, has aocepted the position of chemist In chief of tae United States Agricultural Department New Albany Division, No 5, Uniform Rank K of P., will compete for the 1700 in gold and prize banner at the Southern Cotton Exposition at Louisville. Indiana is one of the States in which the postal reoipts more than meet the postal expenses. It is a close shave, though, as the •surplus Is only $3,806.49. The tenth annual convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union will be held in Greencastle, beginning May 8,1883, and continuing four daya , A laboe number of horses and cattle have been poisoned within the past few days In the vicinity of Pekin. Several horses have died and several more will dte. Mm David Joyce, of Moral township, Shelby county, gave birth to triplets, all boys, the other day. Two were stillborn, and the third lived only one day. The Board of Commissioners of Floyd oounty have made an order for the issuanoe *f $25,000 worth of county bonds, bearing 0 per cent., and running five yeara Allen & Andbbson, twice County Commissioner, Vice President of the Old Settlers' Association and pioneer settler of Brown oounty, died last week, aged 89 yeara The commission to seleot a site for the pew publio buildings at Terre Haute has reported in favor of the property owned and used as a residence by Mr. W. II McKeen. Charles Rutledob, a Rockville photographer, fatally shot George Volmer, a restaurant-keeper, in a quarrel about thq latter’s wife, whose photograph Ilutledgo had been taking. The Crawfordsville Presbytery and the Union Missionary Society of the same district were in session last week at Delphi. President Tuttle, of Wabash College, wjui elected moderator. The father of Postmaster General Gresham was at one time Sheriff of Harrison county, and was killed in the dischaigeof hi* duty while attempting the arrest of a citizen for whom he had a warrant The widow of ex-Unlted States Senator John Carlisle, of Clarksburg, W. Va., was taken suddenly 111 and died the same evening at the residence of her son-in-law, Capfe Sam M. Strader, whom she was visiting in Madison. At Terre Haute one day last week papers were filed for divorce in the suit of Benjamin Taylor va Lizzie Taylor, and in twenty minutes afterward a decree of divorce wai entered. This 1b regarded as the quickest time on record. Dubino the flood a house owned by Orango Graves was floated away and lodged in the road in front of the place of Abram Jones, on the river bottom near New Albany. When Mr. Graves went for the house Jonei demanded pay for catching it At Lawrenceburg the houses which woro washed away in the great flood have mostly been replaced and repaired. The streets now present an appearance even better than before the great disaster. A levea will be built immediately. The Jeffersonville New* says there is a farmer in Clark county who owns over I,BCO acres of land. He can neither read nor write nor make figures, yet, If you buy a beef or fat hog of him, he can tell you quickly to a cent how much it comes to. Richard Stevenson, a demented man, came up behind hl3 brother Aaron, at Ottobien, and, striking him over the head with an ax, spilt his head wide open, causing instant death. There is said to have been bod blood Between the brothera The murderer escaped. The Census Bureau gives some interesting statistics, from which the following ore talj en: The total population In the State who cannot read,lo years of age and over,la 70,008, or 8.54 per cent of the total population. The total population who cannot write, 10 years of age and over, is 110,761. Of these the whites number 100,898; the colored 10,393.

The Second National Bank, of New Albany, received a deposit of S4OO In silver a few days ago from a party in Crawford oonnty who had kept It burled in the ground over thirty years. The coins were all new, and bore dates from 1819 to 1850. The owner of the money was informed that several of the neighbors knew of the hiding-place of the treasure, and advised to remove it before it became generally known and was stolen. Wobkmen have for some time past been engaged in digging or boring a well for the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company about fifteen miles east of Huntington. At a depth of fifty feet they struck pure granite rock, and although they have now reached a depth of 800 feet they have not passed through this strata. The first stone struck was grayish in color, but it is now pure white. Great excitement prevatls in that locality over the discovery. At Evansville Willard J. Tumi, aged 18 year.*, shot Josiq Mondell, aged 6 yeara The statement is made that Mondell, with several children, was in the Dunn apartment playing on a bed when young Dunn told Mondell if he didn’t get oat of the room he would shoot him. Little Joe said; “Ob, Will, you won’t shoot me, would yon?” Tho words were barely out of the little fellow’s mouth before Dunn fired, the ball entering diieotly over the bridge of the nose and between the eyes. There is but little hope of the child’s recovery. Small-pox in the State has become widespread, and it can no longer be concealed that ip certain sections it has become epi-> demio. The Secretory of the State Board oi Health states the spread of the disea e ha i become very alarming, bat that the real extent of its prevalence is not known, as tho afflicted localities are suppressing all information in regard to the matter, and th; local health officers are not reporting all tli<: cases. He is in possession of formatioo, however, io the effect that in many O&tbe towns in the eastern and south era parts of the State the disease is epidemic, beside scattering cases in a number «< “>«■!?<’*,a hmt »•*