Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Eugbnb Sopkr, a farmer near Greeooaatla, killed himself. He was formerly in the Hospital for the Insane. ear of corn encased in a husk containing no rent, lap, or seam. Is a curiosity found recently on a farm near Fountain City. Lapaykttk has furnished three United States Senators, via.: Albert 8. White, John Pettit and Joseph K. McDonald. Bovs skating on Eel river, near Logans, port, discovered the body of a woman under the ice. It proved to be a Mrs. Whitney, wife of a commercial travel. An old German tailor of Mount Vernon takes his baths in the Ohio river as regularly as the day rolls around. His usual hour is 11 a. m. A man uamed Groves is a patient at the Fort Wayne hospital. It is. said that he was wounded in a railway accident, obtained $6,000 damages, and spent it la six weeks. Thk Commissioners of Jofferson county have voted SIO,OOO stock in the ootton-mlll at Madison, in behalf of the county, making $85,000 now subscribed, and insuring the success of the enterprise. Tins Commissioners of Delaware county have informally decided to erect a new courthouse. They will probably issue bonds In March and build the foundation, completing it the following year. John R. Gbrhaht, who served a term in the Indiana penitentiary for robbing the mails when a postal olerk on the route between Chioago and Toledo, killed himself with stryohnine at South Bend. Dr. Doaks and William Holland got into a quarrel at White Oak aohool-house, Pike county. Both drew revolvers, and a mau named MoCormiok attempted to separate them. He was fatally shot. Wino Lkk, m hideous-looking Chinaman, and Nellie Burton, a handsome girl, eloped recently from Louisville and were married by Justloo Douglas, of Jeffersonville. Wing oame In having a carriage and attendants. Gobhkn hat a plucky watchman at one of its factories. The other night a orowd of roughs attacked him, shooting him fatally, as it is thought, but after being shot he showed fight, and seriously wounded two of his assailants, who have been arrested. Julian Montagus has been legally de„ dared dead by the Circuit court of Allen county. Ho has been absent over five years, and his whereabouts is unknown. His estate will lie divided among his kindred. Geo. W. TirmtLLr negotiated the sale of a lot of bonds for Lawrenoe oounty. The Commissioners allowed him $1,200 for it. Some of the tax-payers resisted, and the court has held that the allowance was in violation of piw.

Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, df Alunoio, 88 years old, and for a long tlmo an almost helpless invalid, bus been cured of rheumatism by the laying on of hand , The cure was effected by a gentleman who was at one time a Beading Clerk in the Legislature. E. H. Waldron, of Lafayette, is organize ing a joint stook oompany for the Imports tion and sale of blooded oattle. The artlolos of association have been completed. He expects to leave shortly for the Jersey islands, Scotland, and Holland, and will make heavy purchases of ohoioe thoroughbred Jerseys, polled Angus and Holstetns. A HifiMAKKable coincidence occurred near Moutlcello, in which William Breoklln and a son of James MoKlnley, both farmers, eaoh had his right leg broken while chopping wood. About thres months ago these same two men each suffered a broken leg, and on the same day and about the samo time. They live five miles apart. A number of farmers of Fayette county are shocked cm the presentation of their promises to pay, several calling for near 9300, when they had, as they say, only given a small note to a traveling insurance agent,who promised them indemnity for flro years. He sold the notes to banks, who, under Indiana law, are innocent purchasers. The makers will be required to show up or pay up. Probably the oldest person in this section is Mrs. England. She is a 108 years old, and a$ spry and active as many others who ate not over 60. She often wa.'ks and carries her basket from the depot to Mr. England’s, which is at least three-quarters of a mile. She is sprightly and happy, with a dear memory. She saw Cincinnati and Louisville long before they began to put on city airs.—Madison Herald. Mb. Thomajb Stevens of New Albany, wa s born In 1804, moved to Harrison oounty, Ind., In 1811, and married Miss Olive Crandall la 1822. Nine children were bom to them and she died. He | married Mrs, Nancy Dean. Nine more children were the result of this marriage. Mr. Stevens is now living with his third wife. He has 100 grandchildren and 76 great-grandchildren. His oldest daughter, Martha Dewess, Is on a visit to him from Texas. In the grave-yard at Southport lie the bodies of Bryan, the nephew of the famous Daniel Boone, and wife. Bryan was tbeffounder of Bryan’s station, about the first white settlement in Kentucky, and his wife, who, with her husband, came with Boone from North Carolina, was the first white woman known to have set foot north of the Cumberland river. Mr. Bryan athts death was nearly 90 years old. A murder was committed at Munoie sixteen months since. A family named Jenkins lived for several months in Perry township; they were poor. During t heir residence there a child was missed who was never reported sick or buried, and it has now developed that Jenkins and bis wife were not married at all, and she is said to have refused to marry him unless the boy was disposed of. A daughter | says that the boy was afterward brought in \ and kissed by all, when he was not seen again, and It Is feared he was murdered. The Coroner and assistants found a supposed grave, but no bones were discovered, and the search le not over. A couple of young ladies at Prlnoetoiraooepted a peculiar wager from a dry-goods merchant of that place. The merchant agreed to give them eaoh a silk dress if they would drive two ho she wanted killed from his premises through the principal part of the town to his slaughter-house. The offer was made in fun, but, much to his surprise, the young ladies took him at his word, and valiantly drove the swlneto the required destination. The girls were brave and easily earned their fine dresses. ▲ bounty for hawk heads Is paid In Hand, •on oounty.