Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A stock dividend of SO per cent has been declared by the Evansville and Terre Haute road. Charles Hyde, of Fort Wayne, has been sentenced to five days’ imprisonment for taking 10 cents out op a street car box. William T. Tuki.l has been elected T*residentof the Terre Haute and Southeastern road, vice William B. Tuell, deceased. The Postoffice in Randolph county heretofore known as Swain’s Hill will hereafter be known as Modoc. Ira Swain continues as Postmaster. It is reported that Adolph Smith, who left Madison lately for Fort Worth, Tex., died on his way at Selma, Ala., and was buried by the Printers' union of that city. A markktman in Indianapolis forgot to throw the combination on his safe, and thereby lost $1,200 in cash. The thief failed to And SI,BOO which lay in another compartment. Mrs. Laura Ormkston, of Morristown, having declined to make a public profession of penitence for horsewhipping Elbert Tyner in a street in that village, has been expelled from church. The following Indiana Postmasters have been commissioned: James Morriarty, Beech Grove; Levi P. Hershberger, Berlinton; Richard Colman, Fallon Timber; Millard F. Ball, Swaysec; John M. Welsh, Wheatfield. One hunting party from Milton, a few days ago, caught sixty rabbits with one ferret in a few hours. The ferret is let into one end of the burrow, and the game, flying from the intruder, is caught in a sack at the other opening. A South Bend young woman, of respectable parentage, 18 years of age, is an habituaj drunkard, and, despite the requests of her mother that liquor-doalers will not sell her daughter intoxicants, the young woman continues her debauches. John W. Weidnkh, a wealthy farmer of Connersville, is in insanity proceedings, begun in the Circuit court recently. The petition is filed by his wife, and seeks to place him under guardianship in the management of his property. There are in Clay county 000 miles of wagon-road, the construction and repairs Of which for the past twenty-five years have cost the people $500,000. This amount of road occupies nearly throe thousand acres of ground. The clergymen of Indianapolis met and - adopted recommendations that funerals should lx? private; that there should be no public exhibitions of deceased people, and that ministers should not be required to attend at the grave. The Indianapolis Journal says that Osman Biles has obtained a verdict in that city for $3,000 damages, for the loss of his leg, against the Grand Rapids and Indian* Railway company, for which he was serving as a brakeman, and that the company will appeal the case to the Supreme court. A wedding which was to have taken place at Anderson will not take place for the good reason that the parties were married at Winchester last July. Tho bridegroom was Mr. B. H. Campbell, toucher in the Anderson high school, and the bride Miss Luella Wright, a teacher in one of the ward schools. In tho office of tho Lee hotel, in Anderson, is a safe that has not been unlocked for over two years. A. W. Huston, formerly a proprietor of tho hotel, set the combination and no one has been able to open the strong-box since. There is supposed to be a bag of gold in the vault, loft there by Mr. Huston. A remarkable coincidence occurred at Monticello, recently, in which William Breoklin and a son of James McKinley, both farm- 1 ers, each hud his right leg broken while chopping wood. About three months ago these same two mon each suffered a broken leg, and on tho same day and about tho same time.' They live five miles apart. Fob some years scalpers have done a thriving trade at Indianapolis by selling tickets to Kansas City via Chicago, to the detriment of the business of direct lines. The abuse has become so great that tjio General Passenger Agents of the lines between Indianapolis and Chicago have decided to take off sale all such tickets. By means of them the rates from Indianapolis to Chicago were cut sl, and schedule figures were rarely secured. Articles of incorporation have been filed at Indianapolis by tho Detroit, Lincoln and Denver Railroad company, which has a capital stock of $1,500,000. Charles F. Conrad is President, Amos D. Owen Vice-President, L. Bush Secretary, Treasurer, and Engineer. The company will build a lino from Plymouth, Marshall county, in a northeasterly direction through Kosciusko, Elkhart, Noble, La Grange, and Steuben to the east line of the State, a distance of eighty miles. Frank Wingate, a sewing-machine agent, having made himself obnoxious to James Rosa, living some miles from Lafayette, by frequent calls at Rosa’s house when he was absent, Rosa warned him to remain away. Returning home and finding Wingate there, Rosa started for his shot-gun and Wingate for his team. As Wingate was climbing the fence a few small shots struck him where his pants were the tightest, but only .served to accelerate bis speed and make his team run away. Rosa's wife threatened to cut her throat afterward, but was prevented by her husband. The Homier State remarks: “Wecan count three or four men in this county who have each dropped between $20,000 and $25,000 on Investments in wheat margins. And we can count a large number who have dropped from SI,OOO to $5,000. Now,can any one in Vermillion county tell us of a single person who has made $3,000 on grain gambling? If there is one in ther county we would like to hear who he is. Instead of making money nearly every one of them "has lost heavily, and some of them are now’.bankrupt. Those who want to save their money and credit had better steer clear of Chicago grain gamblers.” Mrs. Andrew Koerner, a young woman, was found dead in bed and shockingly mutilated in her home near Indianapolis. Her husband, with whom she lived unhappily, has been imprisoned for the crime, and tells conflicting stories. A switch-engine backed into an accommodation train just outside Fort Wayne, by which the rear coach was thrown from the track. The wife of Judge Ellison was one of the seven persons seriously Injured. Mr. AjiTHUR Beddoe, Mayor of Washington, is dead. He was aged 40 years. ,