Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Th* President has appointed Shaffer Peterson Postmaster at Decitur. Th* Brewer family, colored, of Vincennes, are about to unexpectedly fall heir to a fortune of $75,000. John Cottshal, of Henry county, has been e'ected President of the Freshman class of over 200 students at Ann Arbor university. Th* citizens of Terre Haute are complaining because they have to run to the enginehouse and wake the firemen when fires occur at night. Bishop Foss will be the visiting Bishop at the spring conference of the Northern Indiana Methodist church, which takes place at Peru, April 2. A 4-tiar-old daughter of John Ward was frightfully burned at Lafayette, her clothing taking fire from a match which an older sister had ignited. Officers in dredging a creak at New Albany for the remains of a boy. found th® body of an infant sewed up In a sack with a heavy roek tied to it. Pathons of telephones at’Lafayette want a reduction in rate 3. The present prices are sl2 per quarter for business houses, and $9 for private residences. When the Supreme Court Commissioners were appointed the court was eighteen months behind the docket. They are said to be only six months fehind now and gaining rapidly. There is a suit in progress at Lawrenceburg for collection of the rent of a building during the high water of last winter. The defendant says that on account of the flood he was unable to occupy the building, while the owner claims that the high water oame through no fault of his. James 8. Voss, an old Louisville policeman, who was arrested at Jeffersonville on a charge of being drunk, and committed to the city jail, wants the city to pay him $20,000 damages for false imprisonment. His attorney has brought tbe suit for the above amount. William Folev, a Washington miner, encountered a *‘pot-hole,” which burst upon him, repelling his uplifted pick so forcfbly as to drive the point in his forehead jnst over the eye. He was thrown down by the rush of slate and coal, and one rib was dislocated and his side badly bruised. A man named Scruggs, alias Lindsay, is swindling Floyd county farmers by going to them and, representing that he is contemplating purchasing a farm, living off them several days. He leaves and falls to carry out his promise to return and make a closer examination of the premises. Joseph Hoover and bis entire family, nine persons, are lying dangerously sick in Connersville with malignant typhoid fever and are cared for by the public. There are no other cases of the disease in the neighborhood, and the physicians attribute the phenomenal attack to impurities in the wellwater used by the family. V John G. Borlan, who is reported; to have died in the Lawrence County poor-house, near Bedford, a few days ago, was at one time a book-keeper in a prominent dry goods es tablishment of New Albany. He was a graduate from the State university in the same class with Postmaster General Gresham, and inherited a large fortune from his father. A terrible accident happetaed at the farm of John Flora, between Rob Roy and Newton, Fountain count}'. While engaged in tewing down an old barn a portion of it gave way, falling on a tenant named Banks, striking him on the body, partly severing him from the waist down. The legs of Mr. Flora's son were broken. Both are very severely, and it is believed, fatally hurt. The wife of Enoch Wood, of Washington, was standing near the grate, playing with the baby, when her skirts caught fire, and in an instant her. clothing was in a blaze. In her terror she started for the door, but her daughter, a girl of 16, forced her back, threw the baby on the bed out of harm's way, and, seizing a blanket, pushed her mother on a lounge and smothered the flames. Mrs. Wood was very painfully but not fatally burned. Greensbcrgh has a sensational suit. In 1877 a 75-year-old widower entered into a marriage contract with a maiden lady of 30 summers. Tbe ante-nuptial contract agreed that the maiden should have a certain farm known as the “ Willlamsixirt farm.” The contract was signed and the marriage consummated. The aged groom dies, and it is found that, instead of “ Williamsport farm ” “Williamsport lots” is written in the contract. The lots are of no value, while the farm is worth several tbousand dollars. The widow sues for the farm, alleging fraud in the contract.

W. R. Brownlee and A. J. Brunt were candidates for State Benator at Anderson in the summer of 1880. Now comes one Milton Black, who says that during that campaign Robert Hannah, a very wealthy friend of Mr. Brunt, entered into a contract with Black, in which he agreed, if Black would use his influence against Mr. Brownlee, he would deed him a house and lot in the city of Alexandria, valued at $1,200. Black complied with his part of the contract, but Hannah has ever since “failed and refused” to make the dped, and Black now brings suit in court to compel Hannah to comply with his part of the contract. During the latter part of October the bones of an unknown murdered woman were found at a place about three miles northwest of Terre Haute. Detectives have now ascertained that they were those of Busanna Nelson, who kept a disreputable house at Anderson, and was on her way to Kansas City with SSOO in her possession when she was murdered. She was a member of an old and wealthy family. Five of her brothers reside in Madison county, and their wealth is estimated at $250,000. Their name is Brandenburg, and they will spare no means to bring the murderer to justice. Judge Huff, of Lafayette, suffered from a stroke of paralysis, but has almost A remarkable feature in the case is that his right hand, which for the past eight years lacked the power of action, is completely re> stored. John Ridenour, one of the pioneer farmers of Wabash county, is to be removed to the Insane hospital. Eleven months ago be buried his wife, and since then his mind has been deranged. Terre Haute boasts of running divorce cases through the courts in six minutes.