Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The new woolen mill at Madison has 3,001) spindles. The proposed cotton mill will have 10,000 spindles. Ott & Madden’s furniture factory at Indiadapolis, burned the other night. The fire was incendiary. Loss, $12,001; insurance, >IO,OOO. Thomas A. Carnahan, an old citizen of Lafayette, is dead. He was 63 years of age, and one of the best-posted men in the Masonic ritual in Indiana. An Indianapolis man said not a word to the restaurant waiter who brought him a tough piece of meat, but marched into the kitchen and whipped the cook. Irvin Robbins, Superintendent of the police force of Indianapolis, resigned under pressure, and Capt. John Lange has been promoted to the position. Henry Mclntyre, of Vincennes, sued the Evansville and Terre Haute railway for injuries received in a railroad wreck last sum. mer,and th© jury gave him a verdict of >2,000. A man, ditching recently at Pleasant Lake, found several large teeth, one of which weighed three pounds and nine ounces, another weighed three pounds, and others were of great size: Patrick Flaherty, a butcher of Indianapolis, was hold to answer the charge of slaughtering and selling crippled and diseased hogs. He admitted sending the pork to Cincinnati and Louisville. Judge Osborne, of Elkhart, has set a good example in the effort to stop the sale of obscene literature in his judicial district. He has ordered the grand jury to indict all dealers selling the lattice Gazette and papers of a like nature. Near Anderson, John J. Johnson was shot by Coleman Hawkins and dangerously wound ed. After the shooting Hawkins returned home and shot himself,dying instantly: Both are wealthy farmers. The trouble arose from a dispute about a ditch between the farms. Levy Snavely, a rather eccentric character, died on Monday morning, at Eaton. Although wealthy, he always dressed in the plainest and cheapest style he could. His reasons for so doing was that he did not consider it right to use his means for the adornment of his person. He was a single man, and about 70 years old. A large catamount has been seen at three different times in the woods, six miles northeast of Columbus, on the line of the new railroad, within the past week. It has its lair in a large pond overgrown with brush, briars and weeds, that was seldom visited before the raihoad was graded near it, except by hunters. Superintendent Fletcher has appointed Sarah Stockton physician of the female department of the Insane Hospital at Indianapolis. She is a graduate of a Philadelphia and a Chicago college as well, und has had experience in Boston hospitals. This is the- first official recognition of a female physician in the history of the State. The grand jury in Lafayette was unable to get testimony against any of the mob that demolished Sutton's drug store in Romney ostensibly to destroy the liquor that he had for sale. Most of the inhabitants of Romney were summoned, andLafaybrte'sstroets were alive with them; but one after another declined to testify on the ground that he might criminate himself. The twe'fth annual report of the managers Of the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1883, has been filed with the Governor. There arc now in the penal department fortythree convicts, seventeen having been received during the year and twenty-five discharged upon expiration of term. Two have been pardoned, two have died, and one has been returned upon a second conviction. The average number of inmatei during the year was 82.8. There are now in the reformatory 143 girls; thirty-four have been received, sixteen discharged, twenty-four released on tickets of leave, four have escaped, two died and six have been received from ricket-of-leave during the year. The average number of inmates was 133. Expenditures, including salaries, repairs and improvements, amounted to >21,000, which consumed the full amount of the appropriation; >3,861.01 has been received from the labor of inmates; $3,524.49 has been expended for material, leaving the net profits of the labor $336.52, which sum has been paid into the State Treasury. There has been collected from the counties from which girls have been committed $9,187.69, for subsistence and clothing. The cost of each inmate for the year was $147.35, or $2.83 per week. George Griff in, an old citizen and property owner of Aurora, says that a dog belonging to him found his way home from New Orleans, where it had been taken on a flatboat down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The distance from New Orleans to Cincinnati is over 1,600 miles, and Aurora is only twenty-five miles below Cincinnati. Griffin says the dog was a worthless animal, and that he took it on the boat with the intention < t dropping it off somewhere down the river to get rid of it. The dog was, however, kept aboard the toat and taken to New Orleans. Here he was turned adrift in the city. The boat's crew returned home together, and, as they had i een nothing of the dog lor some days before leaving New Orleans, they concluded they bad lost him. “About three months after my arrival home,” f» d Griffin, “the dog crawled under the back fence and sneaked up to the kitchen door. He was the mist woe-begene leoking creature I ever saw —poor, lank and hungry, with barely enough strength to drag himself along. He was the prodigal son of dogs, and looked as though he wanted the fatted calf and wanted it right away. When I left him in New Orleans he was sleek and fat. His feet were sore and bleeding. He bad a bushy tail and it was full of burrs, showing that ho had come through the woods. I fixed vp a nice, comfortable nest for him in the woodshed, and it was three weeks before he wo-Id leave it. Ho just laid there und rested. ’ • The anneal report of the management of the Indiana Reform School for Boys at Plainfield, for the fircal year ended Oct. 31, has been filed. The total cost of maintenance to the State was >17,344. There were 393 boys vi the school at tho close of the year. On» of the immediate results of tho estab, lishment of the hew woolen mill at Madison is the saleftif four ticko s, by tho agent of th e Allan Line Steamship company, to bring four passengers Lom Livorppol to that city. More than 37,000 new babies have appeared in Indiana in twelve months