Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1883 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A young woman named Cora Burk stole the horse and buggy of the Rev. Dr. Edson, of Indianapolis, and was captured on the road thirty-seven miles away. The Warden of the penitentiary at Michigan City reports the institution self-supporting There are 566 prisoners on hand, who are maintained at a cost of 88 cents per day. Indianapolis may not get the National convention, but the base-ball club is admitted into the American association. The wind is tempered to the shorn lamb. —Indianapolis Journal. The body of A. P. Bates Was found on the highway leading from Sullivan to New Lebanon. Mr. Bates is believed to have been murdered and robbed, as he had just drawn a small sum of money from the bank and started home late at night. The price of real estate in and about New Albany is advancing rapidly. A few months ago a speculator bought seventy acres of land just outside the city limits for less than $300 per acre. The ground was platted into lots, and the owner is now realizing from $1,500 to 82,000- per acre. While James Robinson, a farmer of Allen county, was feeding a large drove of hogs, he slipped and fell down. The hogs at once surrounded and commenced eating him. His screams brought help, but before the hogs could be driven off he was insensible and horribly mangled, especially his face. At Indianapolis, the other day, Willoughby Lewis Morrison, a son of the late Judge James Morrison, shot himself through the heart. For some years he had been a sufferer from insomnia and heart disease. He was about 40 years of age, and leaves a wife. He was one of the best musicians in the city. George Bond, a young married man, living in Somerset, Wabash county, went to Wabash to testify in a criminal case in the Circuit court. He got drunk and returned home, and, finding his wife out, took lodging in a barn, where he was found dead next morning, probably from apoplexy. Some weeks ago an old man named Andrew Steaver, having the appearance of a tramp, came to Columbus from some point in Ohio. He had some distant relatives there, but most of them did not appear desirous of acknowledging the relationship,and the old man sought lodgings in an obscure place and lived in the most indigent circumstances. He died rather suddenly, and, on preparing him for burial, $8,723 in gold and bills was found secreted on his person. Stella Blazer, of Anderson, is the handsome brunette daughtsr of George Blazer, a drayman. Albert Hercules ran the eatinghouse at the Union depot. They loved. They were engaged to be married. The day was set and invitations were issued. Hercules wrote to Blazer to prepare for the banquet and he would settle the bill. Blazer did it. When the day was come and the guests were met and Stella blushed in her bridal robes, Hercules came not. Then the bride wept and said it was necessary that she should become a wife, as she was soon to become a mother. A warrant was taken out for Hercules, but he had skipped. The thirty-fifth annual report of the Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane has been submitted to the Governor. There were at the beginning of the year, 1,085 patients—626 males and 459 females —in the hospital. During the year 394 males and 804 females were admitted. Six hundred and seventy patients were discharged and there were 108 deaths. The number treated was 1,783. There are now In the hospital 1,110 patients, and the average number daily is 1,112. The average expense per capita is $194 per year. The Trustees of the hospital report that an Inventory of the property shows an estimated value on real estate of $1,352,150, and of personal property of $110,464. The appropriation for maintenance was $215,000, and of this amount $215,473.05 was expended. Of the appropriation of $7,500 for repairs there is an unexpended balance of $9.16. The amount spent for clothing was $10,081.22, and there is a balance to credit of this fund of $4,580.30. The total revenue of the institution for the fiscal year was $295,480.16, of which there is an unexpended balance or $62,428.73. The Trustees state that nearly all the mechanical restraints in the treatment of the insane have been abolished by them. The capacity of the hospital will soon be increased to 1,450 patients, and three new asylums for the incurable insane will be erected. Nelling’s Family. A private letter received at Anderson, from a friend in Arkansas, throws considerable light on the antecedents of Jacob Netting, the murderer of Ada Atkinson near Lafayette, which has not been made public. Nelling's wife and two children now reside near Elm Springs, Washington county, Ark., where Nelling was married before the war. He enlisted, and his wife never heard of him again till she read the account of the Atkinson murder. From this union, two children, a boy and a girl, were born before Nelling went into the army. The girl married a James Smith, who died a few years after, leaving her considerable property, on which she now resides in Washington county, where she is known as the Widow Smith. John Nelling, the son, is 22 years of age, and is noted for his fine business qualities, honor and integrity. He possesses considerable means, and lives on a fine farm adjoining that of his sister, the Widow Smith. Mrs. Nelling tried in vain to find some trace of her husband after the close of the war, and finally concluded that he was dead. She moved to Kansas, where she married William James, and a year or so ago returned to Washington county. Ark., where she now lives with her husband near her children. The family stands well, and is highly respected by the entire community. The fact that the murderer of Ada Atkinson was the Jacob Nelling who was once a citizen of Elm Springs has caused some excitement in that quarter, and papers containing an account of the crime are in great demand. Sanford Toll committed suicide at Muncie. He was lately convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill Sheriff J. R. McKinney, and sentenced to two years in the Penitentiary. Efforts were made to secure his pardon, but failed. Toll grew hopeless and preferred death to confinement. He cut a rope from the window casing of the jail in which he was confined awaiting execution of sentence, and hung himself to an iron bar in the wall of the jail. He was 72 years old, very eccentric, and probably insane. Charles Marshall, of Madison, killed Will Grayson. He didn’t know it was loaded.