Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A. L JiQOi’l planing-mill burned at Portland, Jay county, with Its entire contents; toss, *IO,OOO, with #4,000 insurance. The skeleton of another mastodon has been discovered near Huntington. One of the teeth weighs over four pound*. i : Mbs. Nanct Lambert, the oldest person to Fayette county, died at the residence of her son-in-law, Pbenas Lake, In Everton, aged nearly 95 years John Sumner, a son of one of the most prominent citizens of Hamilton county, committed suicide upon his father’s farm, near Sheridan, by taking arsenic. James H. Smart, late Superintendent of Publio Instruction of Indiana, has been elected President of Perdue College to succeed E. 0. White, resigned. Mb. W. E. Grove, of New Albany, Is the owner of the oldest relic in the way of a Masonic apron known in the United States It is said to have been worn by Washington, and is a cariosity. The jury in the Circuit Court at Covington awarded #1,200 damages against the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad in favor of Mra Maria Hedges, wjdow* of Daniel T. Hedges, who was killed by the oars at the depot In that plaoe. Three Versailles young ladles called at the ice-cream saloon, the other -day, and, after eating three dishes of cream and oake, one of them walked up to the clerk and said she would have to kiss him for the pay, as abe had lost her pocketbook. Thomas Cunningham, aged 22, and his lit" tie brother Waitman, of Buena Vista, Gibson county, were drowned In Harbin creek, near its confluence with White river. The boy stripped off and went to swim across to get a boat, but when in the middle of the stream sunk. Thomas, who could not swim, rode his horse out to the boy’s assistance, but the animal stumbled and fell, striking the rider senseless in his struggles, and causing the young man to drown also. A cablegram from Pope Leo XII has been received by Very Rev. Joseph Benoit, Vicar General of the diocese of Fort Wayne, appointing him to the eminent ecclesiastical office of Right Reverend, or Monseigneur, a prelate of the Papal household. This high office has been conferred but a few times on American members of the priesthood. The venerable father has resided in Fort Wayne nearly half a century, and Is connected with the Bonaparte family of Franca James Dugger, living north of Clinton, is the owner of a cat which is the mother of three kittens Recently he captured a flying squirrel, took it home supposing that the cat would eat it, but to his surprise, the cat took the squirrel and allowed it the same privilege that she did her kittens, that of nursing. A few days later Dugger went out in the woods and shot a coon, and took three young coons These he plaoed in care of the old oat, who at once admitted them to her family, and to-day this remark ' able old feline is nestling three kittens, three coons and a flying squirrel. A telegram from Terre Haute says: Saut C. Davis, a member of the bar here, attempted to shoot Hon. John E. Lamb, Democratic Congressman-elect of this district Mr. Davis was talking to some friends at the oorner of Fourth and Ohio streets, and, while thus engaged, Mr. Lamb crossed the street and spoke to Mr. Davis Davis said: “Don’t speak tome, sir.” “But.l will,” said Lamb, with hlB cane in his band. Whether or not Lamb attempted to strike Davis, the bystanders don’t say, but the latter, seeing the pulled a revolver and fired Luckily his hand was to one side in time for the ball to miss Lamb, and It struck a countryman, who was passing at the time, in the foot, inflicting a painful wound The crop reports for June 1, furnished by the correspondents of the Indiana Farmers’ Bureau, do not make as good a showing as those of a month previous. The summary given by the former is as follows: In Indiana 10 per oent of the acreage of wheat lias been plowed out to put to other crops in consequence of the poor condition of the plant. The average condition of the remainder of the whole State is 60 per cent, against 72 May 1. Deducting the per cent plowed up makes a worse showing for the crop than it was supposed it would be a month ago. Many of the counties in the Southern division report the fly as having damaged the wheat plant very considerable during May. A few counties in the central section report fly, while there is little or no complaint from this pest in the Northern division of Illinois Twenty per oent fit the crop there Is reported plowed up and plar.ted In other spring crops, on account of the bad condition, and the remainder is put at only 75 per cent In many counties the wheat fields are reported full of chess, and the fly during May damaged the crop considerably. Several counties report 30 to 85 per oent of the acreage abandoned or plowed up. In Indiana the area of the corn-crop Is put at 102 per cent, and it will probably be Increased during this month. The condition of the plant is 76 per oent A cold May is reported for all sections, and the latter part of the month was wet Bad seed delayed the growth of the plant in many counties, and has occasioned a great deal of replanting. The ground was In good condition for planting. v ’

Ths bed-room of one of the most elegant mansions in Vincennes was the scene of a horrible tragedy one night recently. The house is owned by Mr. Joseph Pollock, proprietor of the Broadway flouring-mllls, one of the most upright and honorable of our citizens The room where the tragedy was enacted was occupied by bis son, Charles Pollock, and his young wife. The couple were married six months ago, and were fondly attached to each other. In the past years Pollock, who Is 28 years old, wasof dissipated habits, but bis marriage promised to effect a complete reform. However, for three weeks he had been drinking freely, and apparently laboring under some excitement Young Pollock tried to borrow a revolver from several of his friends, and being unsuccessful was compelled to hire, one from a gunsmith. He went borne at a quar ter to 12 at night, and was admitted by his mother, who was surprised to feel her son’s arms around her neck and his kisses showered on her face. He told her that he must say good-by, that he was going to leave her, and, calling out a farewell to his father, walked up-stairs to his wife’s room. Whet transpired In the room before the tragedy will forever remain a mystery. Within half an hour after his arrival home a female member of the household, Mra Ross, was awakened by tho screams of her sister-in-law, who cried out, “Oh, Charley! don’t, Charley, don’t’” followed by a pistol fbofc Mrs. Boss ran to the room, but in the hall met the murdered woman, who fell to the floor. Passing her, Mrs. Ross entered the fatal chamber just as the shot was fired which killed the unhappy husband and brother. Returning to the wife, Mra Ross turned her ovef, and found that her spirit had fled, and in twenty minutes the suicide had breathed his last The murdercM woman was barely 18 yean of age, and her maiden bnm was Cara Clendennio.