Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Xhb evidence of coal deposits In various parts of thia county will likely lead to an investigation of the matter. A small sum Of . money spent in investigating might prove a good investment.—Steu-ben County JowmaL Dennis Downes, one of the bandits who, in collusion with Bert Loomis, the agent, robbed the car es the Pacific Express Company, on the Eel Hirer division of the Wabash line, near Boaan.last September, has been sentenced to live years in the penitentiary. The jury in the voted damage suit of Mary B. Eelhl vs. The Alquiva Turnpike Company, for damages on account vs a fracture of the skull, caused by the horse she was drivingbecoming frightened at a saw-log along the road, and upturning tho- boggy, returned a verdict for the defehdhno. Thvease was tried at the last term of courts and tho jury failed to agree. F. B. Thomas, Jacob Delhi, and a drummer were sitting in tho odJceef Uhe Delhi Hotel* at Bedford, and they agreedi to play a joke on Samuel Jacobs, a peddler who was boarding at She house, ty giving him- eroton oil on oggs. This was done the* next morning. Jacoba was taken 111, and foe several days lingered between life and death. He has commenced suit against F_ B. Thomas and Jacob Delhi for $5,000. The Hom Henry C. Lord, lor many years Prerlfient of the Indianapolis Cincinnati A Lafayette Ballroad, and also prominently identified with other public interests, died of cancer of the: throat at his residence at Biverside, near Cincinnati. ’ Mr. Lord was the son of Dr. Nathan. Lord, of Amherst, and a grad* uatoof DartouMMh College in the class of 1843, His- wife-, the daughter o* the Hon. Nathaniel Wnight, and three children survive him. Tna Ptesbytenjr of Indianapolis' at its- last meeting, officially dissolved the pastoral reationshlp botwean Rev. Myron Beedi and the First Presbyterian Church of that city. Mr. Reed,"seme waste since, announced his resignatiomof the pastorate he has filled with distinguished acceptance for screw years* Ho has accepted a call from Denver,. Colo* Tho presbytery bads: him godspeed in his new floldiqf labor; and paid a handsoma compliment to his-broad and uniform charity toward all classes,.and: his manly stand for the welfare of.the common people.

In the report of tho-Commissioner of Agriculture, just issued, it Is stated that the corn on hand imlndiana on March 1 wav 23,686,000. bushels, which l»30 per cent. at tho crop In the State last-year. That retained for country consumption amounted t0>79,490,000 bushels, or 80 per cent, of the entire <nrop. Eight perrcentlof the- envp remains IB the field, indiaaa/raissd.aiaurplus last year of 38,686,000 bushels, against 38,594,348 for the year before. Indianatexoeeded the: surplus crop of Ohio in 1882 by 11,000,000 bushelk and fell short of.lllfnoii 49,000,000 bushels. In 1883 her surplus wtw 18,000,000 more thahj that of Ohio, and was 38,000,000 less thunillliaois. Tub Board iof Directors of the Indiana University met at Indianapolis last week to open bids for the two new college* building* to be located on ths- new ciwnpusiattßlaOiaington to* take the place of the pne-burned last year. The bld of H. J. Nichole * Sons for $59,982 was accepted I The two buildings are to be finished by December; 1684. Each is a fire-proif building; two atorios, with baeoment of brick With stone finlSttu. The larger building, 108x88 foot, is for the department of chemistry and natural phUo ophyj the other for tho natural hlstony department. The buildings wlll.be imposing iir appearance, and fitted with every convenience andidivlded into apartments suilublorto the. purposes designed. Last June the bulliliag of the institution was- struck by- lightning and entirely destroyed. The low was- 8300,(1:0, lacludlhg content). According to>theuoontraot work it to begin at once? and. bo- completed Deo. 12.

James 8.. Rag ax, off Putnam GOowtjr, comes to Congress with: aisornewMutt unusual claim. It grows out of the late-war. Ha, ■ says that be is 35 years old, and was * private in Company H, was bonarably dischatwod at thoeicaa of the trouble. Im 1865 he was-omdaty at Comp Morton, neatrladianapoUa. a private, and, us was customary; wore a revolver, fur* nfshed him, by the Government. He was at one time-kept on guard, for-forty-eight hours. He fall asleep. Some one—he never eould apprehend, the thief,, although he made strennous oßprttodo so— s£U« the ’revolver from him. The prioe< of the, weapon—s2s— charged to blmandi deducted from hl* pay.. < He thinks that charge inequitable and unjust,.and asks.the GosKMnunent to refund it to him, with interest sinan May, 1865. He swears to the merits of th* plaim, and it has been presented in the House by Representative Matson, and. noferied to the Committee on. Claims.— Wath fagton upeclal. The court-room at Lafnyette was crowded 'to hear the decision of the Hon. D. P. Vinton ton the motion for a new trial in the Keyes ■ murder case. The Judge delivered a very ; elaborate decision, ruling upon the several I rooeons sot up, summing up that under alii the circumstances ho did not feci justified tn. ' setting aside the verdict of the jury. Keyes ; was then asked. If he had any reason to oiler why sentence should not be pronounced upon him. Keyes hesitated a moment, and then, In an almost inaudible tone, said he had not. The J(Udpe theu lentenood him to the Penitea. tiary for life.. His counsel moved an airest. in judgment, and prayed an appeal to, the SupFemo Court, which was granted, and ninety days, given in which to perfect au appeal. Keyes is aged 30 year.". Ho> was charged with seducing a daughter of Samuel Stewart, of Carroll County. The father brought proceedings against him', ondi Keyes married the girl but never recognized) her as his wife, nor would ho live with her. July 2.’, 1833* Stewart said to Keyes be must live with the girl, leave the county, or b»buried. Keyee went off, got a revolver* and camo back accompanied by his father. The quarrell was renewed and Keyes shot Stewart dead.

Cou J. H. Woodard, widely known in .the West as “Jayhawker," - the Indiana correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is at the Gilsey House, having come East to take the measure of political sentiment for his paper—New York Tribune. . Gbohoe Starks entered the Courier office at Wabash, intent upon pmnmeling the editor, Mr. Lee Linn, but the latter gentleman belabored the interloper with a chair, and he fled in disorder. Tub J’riwceton Clarion demands a eity ehw-, ter for that sown. i