Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The coal miners in the coal fields are reported to be uneasy and dissatisfied. At St Paul, while a trial was proceeding before a Justice of the Peace, James McCool shot and mortally wounded Silas Favors rhe murderer escaped. Randolph Sullivan, an ex-soldier of the War of 1812, and father of John T. Sullivan, of Covington, Ky., died at Rising Sun, in his DBd year, after an illness of four weeks. At La Porte, While Marshal Lay and Policeman Fetzer were pursuing a criminal through a dark alley, the latter was accidentally shot dead by his companion. The furniture and carpet house of Jame a EL A W L Ward, of Lafayette, has made an assignment toL M. Brown. The liabilities amount to >47,180.71, while the assets are estimated at >80,180.42. Atetantirr Gardner, the constable of Johnson township, Knox county, took his 10-year-old son, Enoch, and strung him up in the stable with a halter, and then beat the child brutally with a big whip. Some workmen digging a ditch near Muncie a few days ago found at a shallow depth the skeleton of a huge mastodon, the femur measuring four feet in length and eighteen inches in diameter, and the ribs over four feet in length. The bones are in a good state of preservation. The residence of James B. White, a farmer living near Degonia Springs, east of Brookville, was entered during the absence of the family, and fobbed of a large sum of money, among which were some curious old gold coins which had been in the family for years. The discovery of a new cave near Mar rengo, in Crawford county, on the line of the Air-line railroad, is reported. It was said to have been discovered by two boys, who found the entrance by accident Parties have explored the cave a distance of several hundred yards, and pronounce some of the scenes equal to those in Wyandotte or Mammoth cava In the suit of Sarah Hazlett, of Greencastle, against the Northwestern Insurance Company, the jury brought in a verdict for plaintiff. The husband of plaintiff had a life policy for >3,000, which defendant refused tb pay on the ground of misrepresentation in making out his policy and that his death resulted from intemperanoa The case will be taken to the Supreme Court A height set of officers, whose headquarters are stationed in Terre Haute, arrested two half-witted inmates of the Vigo county poor-house on a charge of attempted burglary, and succeeded in getting the two deranged sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, when the officers suddenly discovered that the prisoners were demented and consequently the whole thing was undone The bondsmen of Howard & Denig, contractors for the new State House at Indianapolis, have decided that the work must go on, hoping that the Legislature will make good the loss of >IOO,OOO. They have chosen to do this rather than forfeit their bond of >250,000. E. F. Goebel, of Chicago, one of the bondsmen, will superintend the work. A Yocum, for fourteen years Postmaster at Cherubusco, Whitney county, upon examination of his accounts recently, was found to be a defaulter to the Government of some >1,400. Yocuiu is 50 years of age and has a large family. It is alleged that he has made threats to end his life, owing to alleged extravagances on the part of his family. He has not been seen since the exposure, and fears are expressed that he has carried his threats into execution.

When William Sohiefer, present Sheriff of Allen county, took the office, he appointed as one of his Deputies Isaac Campbell, who has for years been a prominent local politician here About two months since Campbell resigned on account •'of some trouble in money matters connected with the office. A suit was commenced by Schiefer to recover the alleged shortages. The two men met and Campbell drew a revolver on Sohiefer for the purpose of shooting him, it is supposed, but was stopped by a bystander. The revolver was snapped and made a dent in the cartridge. Campbell was arrested. The affair causes great excitement in political circles. The exceedingly-dangerous operation of trephining the spine was performed at St. Joseph Hospital, Fort Wayne, by Dr. C. B. Siemens. The patient is a Pole named Sobteky, whose spine was crushed in an accident, five weeks ago, since which time the lower part of his body has been without feeling and the flesh has sloughed off in great pieces. The surgeon elevated with a scalpel three vertebrae, which pressed upon the spinal cord. The operatiqn was immediately followed by pain in the lower limbs and by abdominal breathing, to which the patient had been a stranger since his misfortune. Out of forty similar operations reported in Ashurst’s book on surgery, thirty proved fatal. Nevertheless, hopes are entertained that Sobisky may live. The second trial of the case of the State against John Tonnellier came to an end, at Bluffton, in the Wells Circuit Court, the jury returning a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, and giving the accused the benefit of the statue appertaining to minors, affixed his punishment at six months’ imprisonment in the County JaiL A change of venue had been granted from the Adams Circuit Court at Decatur. The crime was the killing of David King, exSheriff of Adams county, on the evening of Feb. 24, 1882. John J. Tonnellier and his two sons were concerned in the affray. King had come into their saloon somewhat intoxicated, and proposed to set the elder Tonnellier on a hot stove, when the three fatally assaulted' him, one with a billiard cue, and lhe eldest son, whose trial has just closed, with a beer glass. Immediately after the death of King the Tonnelliers furnished bail

Mr. Edward Scribner, of New Albany, has a curiosity. It is a double dog, which died shortly after birth, but which was preserved by a taxidermist. The dog is in the shape of the letter “Y,” the hind parts forming the upper arms. It has six legs, two tails and one head. The total number of pupils attending the JeJlersonvlUe public schools is 1,484. Of thia number 223 are colored. The Clay county fair was successful in every way, except as a financial venture.

EZRA C. NOW ELS.