Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

T. W. Foster, of Columbus, and owner Sorghum, sold him to a man in LoulsvUla, Ky., for *7,000. Mr. Foster paid 1125 for the horse in February last Joseph Cummins, of Shelbyville, served aa. a private in the Texas war against Mexico, and is entitled to 1,280 acres of land granted by the Texas Legislature of 1881, to all who served in the war for independence. He is 62 yean old. Prescott Bros. A Oa, the largest and oldest hardware store in Fort Wayne, made an assignment in favor of George H. Wilson, for the benefit of preferred creditors, representing claims amounting to *50,000 Liabilities *90,000; assets, *IOO,OOO. A. H. a Richmond mechanic, has constructed a miniature steamboat, perfect in all its parts. Although the machinery is moved by a spring, it has all the appearance of being run by steam. Everything about it is perfect, even to the brilliantly-lighted saloon. A young woman named Martha Oheeny, who lives near Shelbyville, came near being drowned while being immersed by a Baptist minister. The officiating minister also became entangled and both had to be helped out of the water. The young woman weighed 300 pounds, and was hard to handle. What appears to have been a deliberate murder was committed at Stockwell, Tippecanoe county. Frank Rogers, a brake, mand on a “Big Four” train, being shot through the breast by an unknown colored man whom he had ordered from a car where he was stealing a ride Rogen was taken to Indianapolis, where he died. Charles Winters, editor of the of Xenia, fifteen miles from Wabash, was probably fatally shot Winten had been arrested on a charge of receiving stolen goods, and threatened to punish the persons causing the arrest. He met some of them on the street and a general fight followed, during which he received a shot in the side. Pat McKinley has been arrested. Some farmers are very much alarmed for their apple crop, which seemed to promise a very good yield until about a week ago, when a kind of a bug appeared on them, who made it a business to make as many holes into the apples as possible, thus ruining them. There are often as many as five of these bugs on one apple, and the destruction which follows can easily be estimated. The character of the bug is bad, and its name is unknown, being unlike anything ever seen in these parts before. It resembles a fly in many points.— Evansville Journal. While hands were working the road in the southeastern part of Richland township, and while digging in a gravel-pit on the Kilgore farm, the skeleton of a man was exhumed, and there is considerable excitement about it, as a great many of the citizens entertain an opinion that it is the skeleton of a man by the name of Lott, who mysteriously disappeared in that neighborhood some years ago, and it was supposed that he had been foully dealt with Mr. Lott had been an important witness in the trial of the Shafers, concerning the real-estate which the verable David J. Shafer claims at this time in Union township.— Anderson Democrat, Wtt.t.tawD. Hardin was married to Maud Lace at Indianapolis, and two weeks after detected her and Robert Goldsmith in a compromising position. He immediately left her and began suit for divorca She appeared in another court about the fame . time and began proceedings against her husband for desertion, and told a strange story to the effect that Goldsmith had come to her room when she was alone and unpro. tected and compelled her to accede to his wishes under threat of death. While they were together her husband came in, and since then has had nothing to do with her. Goldsmith has left town, and the scandal will receive definite settlement in the courts, D. A Orman, the well-known travelingman of Terre Haute, while in Lawrence county came into the possession of an old medal of the “hard cider” campaign of 1840, in which Gen. William Henry Harrison was elected President It bears on one side a representation of a log cabin, and a barrel of cider placed under an adjoining tree. On the reverse side are the inscriptions: “The People’s Choice, the Hero of Tippe'canaoe— Maj. Gen. W. H. Harrison, born Feh 9, 1772. ” The medal was plowed up in a field near Bird Station, in Lawrence county, and was procured by Mr. Orman to present to Hon. R. W. Thompson, who is the sole survivor of the electoral ticket of that campaign. James Jacobs, a worthy farmer living in White River township, west of Greenwood, was victimized by a couple of sharpers, and paid *ls for a brief experience as a corn doctor. As he was going to Indianapolis On the Three Notch road, he was met by a couple of strangers, who wanted him to take an agency Co make and sell corn medicine, and proposed to give him *ls with which to purchase the drugs at the house of Browning A Sloan, whose agents they professed to be. The terms were agreed upon, and already Jacobs was a full-fledged M. D. without incurring the trouble and expense of getting his diploma from a regular school, when In paying over the *ls which was to start him on the road to wealth and fame, it became necessary to make change. This. Jacobs cheerfully did, but when the scamps had gotten possession of *ls or *2O of his money they suddenly took to the woods near at hand, and made good their escape. Strange to say, two or three others of the Bluff creek community have been victimized in much the same way. Just before daylight, Matthias Unfried, a Genqan teamster employed at Uhl’s presentdr himself at the residence of Rev., Father Vlefhaus, of St Mary’s Catholic Church at Evansville, and failing to arouse the inmates by ringing the door bell, fired several shots from a gun through the doors and windows of the house. Before the police arrived he had fled, but not before being recognized by a neighbor, who communicated the man’s name and description to the officers. . He was not found, however, until the next day, when his arrest was effected only after a desperate struggle and the wounding of two officers. Deputies Fitzwilliams and Edwards discovered him in a stable belonging to Mr. Uhl, but before they could secure the man he drew a butcher knife ten inches in length and made for them, inflicting in the first onslaught a painful wound in the calf of Fitzwllliam’s left leg. Edwards grappled with the maniac, and a terrible struggle ensued, both officers' doing all in their power to arrest, and hoi successfully resisting and inflicting numerous cuts about their faces, hands and anna. The officers were finally compelled to beat a retreat and have their hurts attended to by a physician. At this juncture the Chief and' Lieutenant of Police and several patrolmen arrived. Unfried meantime ascending to the hayloft, where, with a scythe and pitchfork, he managed to keep the officers at bay. A hose reel was finally ordered upon the ■sene, and by turning a stream of water at Mull pressure upon him he was finally forced [to come down, when he was seized and taken to the police station. • " J*’ •’# a 1