Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

> yr) jtyrlfid frit Bfldlord attempted suicide by taking laudanum. Adam* township, Kankakee oounty, has voted #40,000 aid to a railroad to come to that place. Mna w. T. Paj*, widow of the late Hon. W. 1. Pate, of Patriot, was found dead in her bed, at Rising Sun. gultn. Cram, living near Rockford, Wells oounty, attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself with a pistol. Mb. Sinclair Bl Fibhmr, a well-known citizen of New Albany, is dead. He had been a resident of that city since 1829. The wife of a Methodist minister of Vincennes has been stricken with paralysis and can neither hear, speak, nor see. Rev. C. H. Bell, of Feesburg, late of North Manchester, was stricken with paralysis while preaching a few days ago. Raccoon Station, Putnam county, is excited over the reported discovery of a large amount of gold and silver near that place, Sammy Schwartz, 16 years old, son of Jacob 8. Schwartz, was drowned in the canal, near the gas works at Lafayette, while fishing. S ■ „ Jonathan Petit, of Shelby vUle, came near dying from taking twenty drops of aconite at one dose and twenty more a half an hour afterward. -

Tim annual meeting of the Northern Indiana Editorial Association will b® held at Fort Wayne on Thursday and Friday, June 14 and 16,188 a ■ Lightning struck the house of the Rev, Dr. Bruner, at Utioa, and did considerable damage to the property, but fortunately the family escaped unhurt ‘ A large steel plate fell upon William Young, an employe in the Wabash yards at Andrews, crushing him. It required ten men to lift the plate from him. Samuel Hilptmyer, of the Philadelphia Theater, and Meyer & Bro., of Fort Wayne, announce that they will erect a fine operahouse in Fort Wayne this season. , Exubn Saint and Miles Reed, attorneys oi Newcastle, were fined the minimum stun for collecting an illegal pension fee. Saint u an ex-State Legislator from Henry oounty. t In the United States Court at Indianapolis, John A. Irwin, formerly Assistant Postmaster at Anderson,- convicted of stealing letters from the mails, was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. At Or awf ordsville, John Green, recently* student of Wabash College, was sentenced to a year’s confinement in the county jail for attempting lio burn one of the college buildings several months, ago. A cave has been discovered In Jennings county containing a lot of- burglars’ tools and otner evidences of occupancy. It Is supposed to be the headquarters of the notorious White brothers Frank Lawson, the victim of a murderous assault, sixteen miles south of Vincennes, has died of his injuries. The authSrities are in hot pursuit of the murderers Lawson was literally clubbed to death. Fire destroyed the general store of J. Cl Knoblock, at Doneison, six miles west of Plymouth. Knoblock had just opened the store and most of his goods were placed in stock recently. Loss, #1,800; insurance, #1,403.

The two Mormons, Hawks and Stookey, made another effort to hold meeting* to Sugar Creek, Vigo oounty. They were ordered to leave, and a fight grew out of it among a couple of the audienoe, when the Elders gave up and left The man who so mysteriously jumped off from the Wabash train a few nights ago was afterward found running barefooted along the track. He was soon captured, and it was then ascertained that he was deranged" having just arrived from Germany. Robert Rogers, a young man who was with a gang of men engaged In working the roads near Bedford, was struck on the back with a piece of stone from a blast, weighing over fifteen pounds The Injuries he received are of a most serious nature and may prove fatal

Near Loogootee a boy named James Connor was found dead in a ditoh with two horses on top of him. The boy had been harrowing in a field and was riding one of the horses, and it is supposed that the animals ran away with him, throwing him in the ditch and falling on him. The annual reunion of the old settlers of Knox county was held at the fair grounds near Vincennes, and a most delightful time was had The attendance was much larger than ever before. The oldest citizen present was Uncle David Van Kirk, of Monroe City, who is 89, and has lived there eightyeight years Sarah’ Abrigast, residing near Shoals, while sweeping a room in her father's house, acciden ally knocked ove# a gun standing loaded in the corner of the room she was sweeping, which was discharged by the fall, and the ball passed clear through one of her feet and lodged in tbe other. It is feared that both of her feet will have to be amputated > E. J. Rathbonb, for eight years past the agent of the United States Seoret-Servioo Division of the Treasury Department, covering- the territory of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, has been appointed Chief of the Special Agents of the Pension Department by Commissioner Dudley. He will have supervision of 200 agents. He succeeds H. R, McCalmont, transferred to the Philadelphia district of the Pension Department

Fbed. Volumes, who had been in the employ of a man named Twiefcmeyer, in St Louis, arrived in Vinoennes in a very sick and helpless 'condition. He had been seized with a severe attack of the brain fever, and his St. Louis employer packed him off on a night train, and did not inform his friends Vollmer appears to have been out of his head, and Wandered into the outskirts of town, probably in search of his friends, and was found some distanoe from town in an exhausted and pitiable condition, the following morning, by an early passer. He died a few days after. Wb are Informed by O. a Stibolt, Special Examiner of the Pension Bureau, that a lot of swindlers are working the district, defrauding widows and orphans end maimed soldiers of money, on the pretext of being special pension agents, and that it is within their power to get their claims promptly attended to without the ordinary vexatious delays. It costs from 915 to #2O to secure this consummation devoutly to be wished for, according to the story of these unscru- : pulous scoundrels, and they have un~ ! fortunately been successful in obtetatng this amount In a great many instances Of ‘ Course the victim never sees them lgtfln, and never hears of his pension, and he or she, as the ease may be, are oat Just the, amount they have given the villain*, which Is no small loss to the majority. A fellow sailing under the name of Burke hae bleA a the people about Darlington quite freelyt r and, .others have been plying their villainous vocation with success in the immediate vicinity. —Lafayette Courier,