Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Knox county wants an exposition. Lafayette has given SB,OOO to her poor during the last year. During the past two years 109 G. A. R. posts have been organized in the State. The corner-stone of a court-house to cost $125,000 was laid at Valparaiso, with great ceremony. A girl 7 years old in Clay county, has an eye that is half blue and half a hazel-brown, the color being well defined in the pupil. Rev. D. M. Stewart, a Presbyterian minister of Rushville, has been in the ministry forty-seven years, and has officiated at 958 weddings. Three masked men entered the farmhouse of William Fox, six miles west of Indianapolis, and carried away all the money and articles they could find. The body of John Murphy was found at Wallace with throe bullet-holes in his head. He had been murdered for his money, amounting to several thousand dollars. The corn crop of Grant county is a failure, the yield being only one-half what it usually is. The grains are soft, and only a small quantity will grade os merchantable. Loqansport has a girl 6 years old who, it is said, can read French, German, Latin, and English. Her father, King Stuart, is a colored man, and unable to read or write, An insane negro attempted to murder Mrs. Ephrlam Kelgwin, a spiritualistic medium, of Jeffersonville, with a huge butcher-knife. He was arrested, and will be put in the asylum. The chain-gang at Terre Haute refused to work the other day unless the chains attached to their legs were taken off. The prisoners were returned to jail and placed on a diet of bread and water. Frank Wedding, an 18-year-old son of a prominent man of Daviess county, and in. dieted for the murder of James Duffey, six weeks ago, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. There is an engineer on the New Albany road who is a musical genius, and has such control over his locomotive whistle that he can run the scale and play a few simple strains. He serenades his sweetheart every night as he passes her house. An unknown man appeared at the bouse of Stephen Glover, at Paoli, and*deliberately fired through the window at him, as he held a child on his knee. The ball passed its intended victim, but Mra. Glover will possibly die from the excitement of the incident. Gypsies are swarming on the streets ol Richmond, and the young men of the place who have been rejected are squandering their hard-earned week’s salary of $1 in trying to find out if some maiden with a wealthy farmer for a father is not pining away for them. Ellsworth A. Hammond, of Cincinnati, went to Lawrenceburg to meet a married lady he had become acquainted with in Cincinnati. The “ injured husband ” dropped on the arrangement through a mislaid letter, met Hammond at the depot, and administered, a deserved cowhiding. James D. Crawford, living near Greencastle, harbored a stranger, who, after eating supper, felled Crawford with knuckles. Crawford could have whipped his assailant, had not an accomplice appeared with a revolver. Both men then beat husband and wife nearly to death, ransacked the house and left with their plunder. A lady only 12 years of ago, by the name of Mrs. Mathers, who resides near English, Crawford county, came into court at Leavenworth, with a petition asking Judge Ramsey to grant her a divorce on the grounds that when she was married she had not arrived at the age of discretion. The divorce was granted. She is now a grass-widow. The Shelbyville sensational case, of Mary A. Talbert vs. Joseph Talbert for divorce and $15,000 alimony, has been settled, the plaintiff receiving a decree of divorce. The question of alimony was not considered by the court, that having been settled between the parties themselves as follows: Mrs. Talbert received a deed to 240 acres of valuable land, $1,500 in money and some personal property. An Ettempt was made to assassinate Stephen Glover, a citizen of Paoli. Mrs. Glover saw the wretch raise his pistol at the window, and, divining his purpose, fell on her knees and begged him to stay his hand. The shot was harmless to Mr. Glover, but his wife may die, as she has been in a low condition ever since from fright. She is unable to give a description of the would-be assassin. An election was held in Delaware county to determine whether the County Commissioners shall purchase the toll roads under the new Free Pike law. The election was hotly contested, the northern portion of the county being bitterly opposed to the measure. The result, as nearly as can now bo determined, is 162 in favor of the purchase. Two townships afire not certain, but cannot change the result. Ah Slab, a Chinaman of rare Mongolian attractions, living in Lafayette, has been expelled from the Chinadom of that city on ao count of his loving attentions to a white girl, whose mother, strange to say, instead of opposing' the match, encourages the Celestial to call upon the ginl. The Chinamen are indignant over the idea that one of their race should mingle with the “Melican” race to such an extent, and have made matters so warm for tne civilized John that it is doubtful if he can find room enough in Lafayette to live. The work on the bridge at New Afjnny is booming. The masonry on the first channel pier has been raised two feet ten inches, and is now in such shape that work hereafter can be pushed more rapidly than heretofore. The coffer-dam around the second channel pier is In place and masonry work will go forward with great energy on this pier, which is the draw pier. The coffer-dam for the third pier is being constructed and will be ready to place in position this week, unless there Is an unexpected rise in the river. Two or three thousand people visited the site of the bridge Sunday. Patents have been issued to the following Indiana Inventors: David C. Baughman, Albion, lighting and extinguishing gas lights; John R. Deeds and W. Mack, Terre Haute, slate and window cleaner; Isaac L. Frankem, Indianapolis, tile hearth of vestibule floor; John H. Hamlet, Indianapolis, saw table gauge; Lewis O. Hull, Fort Wayne, pencilholder; Albert H. Kennedy, Rockport, beltgearing; David McNeely and J. A. Drake, Princeton, railway gate; James Moore, Flat Rock, saw-mill dog. Fort Wayne is to have a new Presbyterian phurch next spring, to cost $30,000.