Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Judge Satlir, of Huntington, charged the Grand Jury to indict any person found transgressing the law In handling publications of an Immoral character. In the Ciroult Court, at Huntington, Judge Sayler overruled the motion for a new trial in the oaae of Charlotte Epps, who was convicted at the last term of the murder of her husband, and sentenced her to Imprisonment for life. The case will be taken to the Supreme Court, but no hopes are entertained of a reversal. Thi oldest resident of Indiana lives in Ridgevllle. His name is John Thompson. He oame to Indiana when it bad territorial government—lßo9. He saw the old whipping law, when criminals got forty lashes Instead of Imprisonment. Mr. Thompson is 7$ years old, has had but little sickness In all his life, Is as straight as a bean pole, and can walk four miles in forty minutes. Mr. J. G. Sha.nki.in, editor of the Evansville Courier, has been compelled to oease his journalistic labors again and consult the highest surgical skill in New York with reference to his eyes. For several years Mr. Shanklin, who is well known in Indiana, has been threatened with the loss of his sight, and it Is to be hoped he will oome out of this critical operation with his vision restored.— Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Laura Merritt, of Madison, oame unpleasantly near being the victim of a ourious accident. A loaded pistol-oartridge had been left on the mantel, and fell off Into a coal bucket. In due course of time it was thrown with the ooal Into the grate. An explosion followed and the ball just grazed the top of her head, passed over the head of her brother, struok the headpoat and fell to the floor. Walter E. Kidder, recently brought to Peru upon a requisition on the oharge of bigamy, has married four wives, and rooently oame near adding a fifth to the list at Harold D. T. One of his spouses is dead, and the last one whom he married—Miss Eva Todd, of Peru—secured the arrest of the oulprit. Kidder is about twenty-five years of age and not over five feet in height. He Is not handsome, but Is somewhat of a dude. The exoltement at Rushvllle, over the killing of Eli Frank by Elsie and Jaoob Bio ok has broken out afresh. The trial of the men will come up at the next term of oourt, at Greensburg. It will be remembered that the Blocks are father and son, and that tho threa men were rival olothing merchants. The murder was the outgrowth of a jealousy in business.

A fatal shooting affray occurred at Monroe City. Thomas Soott, a local pugilist, called the boys up to the bar to have something to drink. Rufus Steffey, the proprietor, asked who was to pay for it, when Soott grabbed him and fired him through a window. The other inmates followed Steffey, when Jimmy Doon, a small man, resisted Soott. In the meloe Doen shot Soott through tbe left lung, with fatal results. Soott died from tho effects of the shot next day. The Fostor-Shoefer scandal case at Goshen which attracted so muoh attention on ad count of the prominence of both parties, is ended. Foster pays SIOO fine and goes to the penitentiary for four years. Miss Schaefer is the daughter of a oity official at Goshen t and Foster was her Sunday-school teaoher. It was oh urged that ImpAiper relations existed between them, and that Foster bad procured criminal malpractice. Mrs. McDonald, wife of ex-Senator Joseph E. MoDonald, the proposed Demooratlo can* didate for the Presidency, is described as a remarkably beautiful woman. She has white hair, large brown eyes, and a complexion like peaches and cream. She got a dlvoroe 5 tew years ago from her first husband, Jehlel A. Barnard, who was the Secretary of the Indianapolis Board of Trade, and married the Senator. She had been married to Mr. Barnard for over twenty years, and her son s the husband of one of Senator Sher. nan’s nleoes. Mr. MoDonald was a widower when he married her. The acquittal of Loomis for killing William Stauffer at Middlebury, last August, caused t big excitement in that village, and the oltttens, oomlng together, drafted resolutions ordering him to leave that vicinity at onoe rad that, although they were opposed to takl ing the law in their own hands, yet they would not permit him to dwell among them. Shortly after this he got into a quarrel with a Mr. Sohrock, whom be attempted to shoot, mapping bis revolver at him twice. Scbrook, however, got away from him, and, getting a gun, started to hunt him up, but he had fled tbe town. It to safe to say that If he puts in an appearance the now fully aroused citizens will make short work of him.

The Bates House building, at Indianapolis, baa beep purchased from Harvey Bates by B. F. Claypool. The consideration of the transfer is $160,000. It is one of the most valuable hotel buildings in the West. Mr. Louis Bel. bold, the leasee of the building, will continue in the management of the hoteL The property was once owned by Mr. Claypool's father, who purchased it from the State in 1835. Some months ago Mr. W. C. DePauw was negotiating for the purchase of the hotel, and the terms of the sale had been agreed upon, hut the transfer was not made because Mr. DePauw refused to permit the sate of liquors on the hotel premises, which the losceo of the property would not aocede to. Onk of these cases which show how tenacious some men are of their rights, as they understand them, has been filed in the Clerk’s offloe at Shelbyville, on a change of venue from the Circuit Court of Johnson county. The title of the ease is Alexander Pruitt vs, John A. Thompson, and Is a suit to determine the ownership of a fat bog, worth probably $25. The ease was first tried before a Johnson county Justloe of the Peaoe, then appealed to the Circuit Court, and from thenoe brought to Shelby county. There are fiftyeight witnesses in the case, and the costs so far, not including attorneys’ fees, are $260.42. Both parties to this suit are wealthy men, and will fight the case to the bitter end. Jacob Taw, foreman of the Grand Jury at Terre Haute, playfully slipped on a pair of handcuffs and locked them. When it vi ( known that the only man who bad the keys to them was the Bherlff and he was out of town, Mr. Yaw did not feel so playful, and ■ when he was pointed out to strangers as a j daring and bloodthirsty burglar, and wail | compelled to listen to their comments, the ! situation became painful. After three hours' martyrdom the Sheriff returned | and he wag! released. David Christophbb died at Elkhart, ot lockjaw, caused by a out foot.

<?en. silicon hs* been r*-eleeted U 8. Senator from lowa. ■!■■■ i j» i ■" | Student, at the old Asbury Collect. at Qreeccastle, kick, because they are likely to be known as “plate glues graduates.” Hon. John C. New, of Indiana Fir*t Assistant Secretary ot the Treasury, has resigned that position. All was not lovely. Gi n. if D. Manson, iho soldier of two wars is being boomed for the gubernatorial nominatlen on the Bern••ratio ticket. He would be a goed candidate to pit against Dudley, who ha; no qualifications to recommend him beyond those for whic Doraey is notorious, as a compaign manager.

Sunset Cox has boeu engaged by a Norwich, Connecticut, Publishing Cempauy to write a political History ot the Uuitea States from Buchauan’ 8 admiuistiation, covering a period ol twenty years, for which he is to be paid $78,000 cash in hand. Mb. Es.; Is not your Bro.jMarshall attempting sensationalism in hia columns? Within a few weoks.he hus gone back on Fred. Bloomer, now of Monou, but at the last •lectien an important R publican missionary who did much towaid giving him the* uelinquent list ever which he cackles each week, This week he goe < for Mrs. Piatt, McCrackins and Kirk and others—on rumors and suspicions, in most oases. Citizen. Valparaiso Messenger; It is reported that the Republican leaders of Porter county have served, or are about tb serve, formal notice upon the Republican headers of th« Tenth Congression’l District that th*y claim tho candidate for Congress again,(is a couditiou upon which they will give the Republican State and Nh icnal tickets a >earty and loyal support this full. T’ney claim, it is said, that their candidate, Colonel Mark L. De* Motto, was “knifed" by th« Repu ltcans in th« southern part of the Dis trlet in 1882, without onus®, and that the stigma must be wiped out by the •leeti n of aTortar county naan. We aro not advised as to whethor/Jolouol DeMotte desires a renomination or not, but we do know that the Republican leaders of Porter county are determined to control that nominatien and that their wishes will be gratified. Who will be the fortunate or unfortunate man that will be pitted against Colonel Thomas J. Wood* the present incumbent, in the eoming Cengressional race?

The feebleness of the pr-iteetienist is .brought out in vivid colors by Congressman Frank Ilurd, of Ohio, who says the iiopy of the protective system of Am c PiOi was never better illustrated than by the attitude of its defenders in congress at the present momtit. Hsre w - see, for instance, the protectionists in the hoyse and senate claiming for retaliatory measures against Germany, because that country has seen fit to adopt the American sysiern ot protection for its hog products, and excludes the American hog, in erde- to give the German farmers and stock raisers better prices for tnoir productions tnac they could obtain if brought nto competition with the pauper hogs of America But that is only one side of the question, Now *a the other hand, here is Mexico auxious to take all the raw material and manu factured articles that we can send them, only stipulating that we shall n»t lew any duty upon Mexican raw materials or manufactures Almost the only manufactured article that Mexico can send us is sugar.— The protectionists are now using eir. try exertion to defeat this reciprocity treaty upon the ground that the Btrodnction |of Mexican free sugar will destroy the production of Americas sugar. What a* United States must present to ar intelligent foreigner! Just imagine such a person contemplating the atitude of the protectionists in congress and woadering what would possibly satisfy the Ami rican people. If foreign countiies adopt the American system of protect on, the statesmen i congress are indignant and call for retaliatory measures. If acoun try asks for reciprocity—for mutual frep trade—upon a basis which will help both, countries,! the protectionists are equally indigna t upop the same ground, that it would destroy our industries- Out on such a system.

Di, Hortdn. dentist, trill make a professional visit to Mt. Airy, noxt Wednesday.

The crank who says in th« Rensselaer Republican of this week that “a big, bad, bold bey. named Bob was bounced bodily by Capt. Burnham, from the Grammar department of tke public school, last Friday,” must hgve either a weakness for telling what is untrue, or is unreliably Informed. But it is about an near as the Republican generally ceraes 'to the truth on local matters. Moral.— Lov cals must be scarce. Reader. In Barkley township, on Wodncs day last, during the absence of the parents, Nora, the seven-year-old daughter of William Moore, engaged in playing in the fire with paper w on the sleeve of her *iicss caught the flame, and before it could be put out the child wus burned s* ft arfull us to result in death eoou after the minban. Dr. Bitters, of this place, wus was sent for. but before bis arrival the little sufferer nad died. Mr. Samuel H. Spitlor, «f Page county, Virgiuin, who was visiting bis many relatives in this county for three weeks past, left here Friday to see relatives at Rensselaer, and from tbencc returns to Virginia. This was his first visit t® Newton county, and be was highly pleased with our part of the country. Mr. Spitler is a young man of much ability, and a clever gentleman withal.— Kentland Gazette.

Lowell Local News. On Monday last the editor of this paper visited the thriving little town or Rensselaer, and was well paid fer his visit; ‘ The first place we. made for after leaving Ihe dspot was the store of our for mer townsman, Henri Levine, and found liim in good spirits and having a good trade In the candy line. We next visited the printing offices of the Republican and Sentinel. Mr. Marshall of the Republican, tr ated us very courteously, and we think him a perfect gentleman in every sense of the word. While Mr, McEwen. of the Sentinel, is an old time dyed-in-the*wool Domocrut, he is also a perfect gentleman, and treat* ed us with the hospitality that makes a stranger feel good when away frem home* Injgoing our rounds we dropped in ou Eluerflß. S. Dwiggius, uud were glad to ere him looking so well after nis recent illness. He informs us that he has many good friends in Lowell, and in a short time will be here and preach to them. He i» surely welcome, and may the time soon come when we may have the pleasure or listening to oue of his sermons. At 5:28 our train come bounding from the soucu, and we came home feeling good over speeding the day n Rensselaer. • Notice of assignment —Notice is hereby given that William T. Perkins has made a general assignment of all his property to me In trust for tho benefit of all his bona fide creditors, th it I have accepted same trust, given the required bond, and that the same has been approved by the Court, this I7ih day of January, a. d.> 1884. EZRA C. NOWELS, Mordecai F. Chilcote, [Trustee. Ati.’y for Trustee. January 18,1884.