Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Coroner of Floyd county has held but sixteen inquests since Jan. 1. The house and barn of Mrs. Pierce, south >f Carlisle, were burned. Loss, 12,000. James STORy, oonvicted of killing Joseph Beaver, has been granted a new trial at Kushville. Mas. T. W, Henderson, for fifty years a resident of Charlestown, Clark county, i lead. . 8 The Evansville council has granted right >f way to the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph company. Two cases of small-pox are reported in Vew Albany. The oouncll has taken precautionary measures. The President has appointed Shaffer Peter, ion Postmaster at Decatur, in place of Bo niarnin Shotty, resigned. Georoe Fuller, whoso father was at one lime a representative man in Vigo county, tas been adjudged insaneA. B. Clark, a freshman, diod in Purduo university, Lafayette—the first death since the organization of the college. Lee Hirsch’s clothing establishment at Terre Haute, has been closed. Liabilities not known; assets about $16,000. John Wall committed suicide at Clark's hill, near Lafayette.' Poverty and Intemperance are the supposed causes of the deed. Hodson & Clark, for the past twentyceven years saddlers at Anderson, are reported to have made an assignment. Liabilities $3,000. At Birdseye, J. Carmichael killed Charles Ewing, for eloping with and marrying his daughter, and attempted to murder the latter. In the Connersville district of the Southeast Indiaifa M. E. conference there was an increase last year of 306 members, making a membership of 5,637. Eugene Debs, Grand Secretary and Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, was presented a diamond pin at Terre Haute, by his friends. Mrs. Jonathan Landig, of Wells county. Committed suicide by hanging. She is supposed to have lost her mind, owing to the recent death of her husband and son. During the past conference year, pastors of the Southeast Indiana M. E. conference made 9,806 pastoral visits, preached 3,649 sermons and administered 380 baptisms. The Ontario society, of Terre Haute, and the Philharmonics, of Evansville, will give jointly the oratorio of St. Paul, at Terre Haute and Evansville, during the winter. Alexander Woods, Postmaster and Justice of the Peace at Dundee, near Elwood, was assaulted by two masked men, a few pights since. He had previously received a number of anonymous letters warning him to leave. H 6 contemplates leaving. At a meeting of a number of the surviving comrades of the Thirty-ninth Indiana regiment, Eighth cavalry, held in Kokomo, it was decided to hold a regimental reunion, and a committee was appointed to perfect arrangements for the same. The remarkable divorce suit in the Union Circuit court, at Liberty, between Jane Spahr and Samuel Spahr, both over 80 years old, 'with a married life of nearly sixty years, has been compromised. The plaintiff receives SI,OOO cash, and is to havo S4OO annually during her life, and withdraws her complaint. The couple remain separate without divorce. About two years ago Jacob Rantz, who ; lived about three miles west of Laketon, Wabash county, whilo fishing intho Twin Lakes, was drowned. Among his effects was found the model of a patent switch for railroads. Mr. N. G. Hunter was appointed the administrator of the estate, but found very little to administer upon except the patent. Re. cently it has been found that there are a great many railroads throughout the country usiDg this very patent, or an infringement i upon it. A movement is now on foot to give | the heirs of the dead inventor their rights In the matter. It is asserted that Rantz refused SIO,OOO for the patent before his death. The offer was made by Chicago parties. A well-dressed young man called at Col. Thomas’s jewelry-store, at Terre Haute, while the proprietor was at supper, saying to several ladies in a millinery establishment at the other side of the store-room that his watch had been left there to be repaired and that he must have it, as he was going away on the train. The ladies replied that they I had nothing to do with the jewelry-store. “Oh, well,” said the stranger, “I’ll Just step behind the counter and get it; I know Mr. Thomas, and if you oannot ac.ept pay for the work I will see him.” Suiting the action to i the word, the stranger took from the case a | gold watch worth $l5O and a silver watch i worth S4O and walked away. Within an hour : an Express reporter had tracked him down, and, calling a policeman, the thief was arrested. He gave the name of Allen Nelson. The watches were recovered. William Forkner, a highly-respected and wealthy citizen living a few miles east of Anderson, dressed himself the other evening ready to go to church, some half mile distant, when, on going to the door, he noticed some one walking around his straw-stack. When he got to the end of it he could see no one, and he started to walk round it, when a man, covered from the top of his head to the lower part of his breast with a mask, sprang from the straw and commenced firing at him with a revolver. The first shot passed through the crown of Mr. Forkner’s hat, literally tearing the crown away. The second shot passed through his coat and shirt on his left side opposite his heart. By this time the ruffian was within arm’s length, and, placing the muzzle of his pistol against Forkner’s breast, attempted to fire again, but It only snapped, and he took to his heels. Although the villain was closely masked, it is pretty well understood that he is known. The clothes of Mr. Forkner were badly burnt and torn, but he received no wounds.

Dr. Harrison, who, with his family, has |>een residing: In Red Key for the past two years, died recently from the effects of an pverdose of morphine. It Is generally Relieved that the morphine was taken with suicidal intent. He leaves a widow and four children. Mr. De Pauw has begun the sinking of his 1,600-foot oil well in Harrison county. If he does not find oil or gas before reaching that i depth he will abandon it, and sink one or two j more in the same vicinity. T. B. Voole & Co., tailors, of Fort Wayne, Ind., have failed. Liabilities $15,000.