Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

James Bycam, of Bridgeport, web severely injured by being thrown from his buggy. A flour mill in Shelby connty was “relieved* of 1,000 pounds of flour the other night by thieves A man named Eaatridge and James Kern, at Vincennes, fired fifteen shots at eaoh other without anybody getting hurt George Ehrhabt, a well-known grocer, of New Albany, has left that 6ity without explaining his absence to the general public. At Versailles John Brown was sentenced to twenty years’ hard labor in the Southern penitentiary for the murder of David Allen in Milan, a month ago. L W. Campbell, who attempted to shoot Sheriff William D. Shiefer, in the county jail at Fort Wayne has not V een arrested, nor are his whereabouts known to the police. At Fort Wayne, a heavy cut stone, weighing nearly two tons, fell upon the right leg of a young stone-cutter named George Koegel, inflicting injuries from which he will probably die. George Andrews, the young man who was badly mangled in attempting to board a freight train on the Ohio and Mississippi load at Lawrenoeburg, died from the effeots of his injuries William Hughes, an early settler of Carroll county, has reached the great age of 10J years, and yet is hale. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and has children almost 80 years old. Clem Schloss, of Logansport, was swindled out of S2OO by sharpers They sold him diamonds to that amount, one agreeing to take them off his hands at a big advance. The swindlers escaped. Carl Someiski, the Polander, whose spine was recently trephined at the St Joseph Hospital, Fort Wayne, is dead. The operation is so hazardous that its advisability is doubted by many excellent surgeons Arthur Fagin, aged 24, the son of Mr. Fagin, of Watseka, formerly of Lafayette, was murdered by his room-mate, a young man named Lewis, at Des Moines, lowaYoung Fagin was in a frolic pulling the bedclothes off him, when young Lewis stabbed him to the heart with a shoe-knife. John Cobb, of Columbus, met with a peculiar accident a day or two aga He was pulling a nail out of a wall; a wire was attached to the nail,and as he gave it a jerk the nail flew out and struck him on the right eye with such force as to drive the point through the lid into the ball Jesse Cockekale, a well-known farmer of Tippecanoe county, while engaged in blowing up a stump with Hercules powder, unthinkingly lighted the fuse of a cartridge he yvas holding in his hand. When, he discovered the fire burning he became paralyzed with fear, and held on to the cartridge until it exploded His light arm was blown off at the elbow, and his left hand terribly mangled. James Dempsey, a prominent farmer of Cass county, received very serious injuries recently, while witnessing a mule-race at the fair-grounds. During the progress of the race, one of the mules became unmanageable, bolted the track, jumped over the fence, landed in among the spectators, and planted its feet in Mr. Dempsey’s abdomen, causing such injuries as it is thought will prove fatal. G. A Fitch, the driver assaulted with the butt end of a whip by Homer Hole, on the Huntington race-track, is at Fort Wayne, under a surgeon’s care, and so low that liis life is despared of. A small, triangular piece of the tkull has been broken in. The Marshal of Huntington has Hale under arrest, and he will be held to await the result of Fitch's injuries Fitch’s home is in Grand Rapids. The entries to the Indiana State Fair exceeded those of any previous year. In the live-stock department the exhibits were exceptionally large and fine. There were numerous exhibitors from Ohio and Illinois The exhibit of cattle was larger than ever before made in any of the interior States, including Jerseys, HereforcU, Short-Horns, and all the other breeds in large numbers. In the Exposition building the industrial displays were exceptionally large and grand. Amasa Warner of Vincennes, for refusing to pay for a game of pool was put out of a saloon by Jacob Mandery. He went across the street and fired back, killing Mandery instantly. He then shot three times at a policeman, and managed to reach his room in a hotel. Changing his clothes he walked down into Main street, and upon being captured by Sheriff Hackly he soon persuaded . that official that he was in pursuit of the murderer and was released. Forty-eight hours later Warner returned to his room in the hotel and was captured without resistance. The following patents have been granted to Indiana inventors since the last report: To T. A Brown, of Worthington, for a tea or coffee pot; John Evered, of Macy, for a mole-trap; O. V. Flora, of Madison, for a ladder; J. French, of Laporte, for a vehiclewheel; J. Goetje, of Fort Wayne, for a footrailing for counters; J. F. Gebhard, of New Albany, for a feeding mechanism for carding engines; M. C. Henley, of Richmond, for a screw driver; C. A Ketcham, of Cold Springs, for an animal-trap; D. Loemmle, of Fort Wayne, for a kiln for burning tiles, earthenware, eta; AL. New, of Greenfield, for a single-tree attachment; J. Newton, of Clifford, for a fence; F. Osterhage, of Vincennes, for a sash-lock; M. D. L Swank and J. T. Thomley, of Anderson, for a pistonrod packing; J. J. Wheat, of Indianapolis, for a sewing-machine table-cover; also for a tension-liberator for sewing-machines; also for a sewing-machine; also for a sewingmachine shuttle movement; J. B. Yeagley, of Indianapolis, for an apparatus for raising water from wells having water-bearing strata of different levels Survivors of the Eighty-eighth regiment Indiana Volunteer infantry and the Eleventh Indiana battery held a joint reunion at Fort Wayne. The Eighty-eighth was originally commanded by Col. George Humphrey, of Fort Wayne, a veteran of the Mexican war, and was mustered out under command of CoL Charles E. Briant, now a large manufacturer at Huntington. The Eleventh was commanded by Capt Arnold Butermelscer. Randolph Sullivan, of Rising Sun, an cxsoldier of the War of 1812, died in his 93d year, after an illness of four weeks.