Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Tippecanoe County expended $96,287.62 tn support of her public schools last year. Eli Campbell, a farmer living near Gentryville, hanged himself the other day. Mas. Dubkky, a pensioner df the war of 1812, recently dropped dead at Moore's Hill. She was £6 years old. • David Keller, aged 14 years, lives in Floyd County, and weighs 281 pounds. He works hard on a farm. Father Walters, of Lafayette, refused to accept for the church a purse of SSO derived from a dance held during Lent. The Vigo County Commissioners will issue bonds to the amount of $260,000, for the purpose of paying the debt on the'Court House. Sylvester Meek was shot by Hud Goodman at Pleasantville. Tho victim and* bis murderer were farmers. They had a longstanding quarrel. The property losses to farmers in the vicinity of tho destroyed village of Cakville by the recent destructive cyclone aggregate about $125,000. The Knights of Pythias have concluded arrangements for holding a tournament in Kokomo, on July 3 and 4. Numerous valuable prizes will be offered. John O'Leary, a resident of Fairland, stole a box of matches from a saloon, emptying them into his pants pocket, where they ignited, burning him terribly. Charles McGuire, of Lafayette, when sentenced to the penitentiary for larceny, claimed that he was compelled by hunger to steal, and cried like a schoolboy.

Daniel E. Tuley, a retired lumber mer ■Qiant of New Albany, becoming despondent rrom the inroads of consumption, made a desperate attempt to kill himself with a razor. Samuel Hepler Is under arrest at Terre Haute for forgery. It is alleged that be sold machines, took a mortgage on them, and then forged notes ofi the people he sold them to. The bee-keepors of Jefferson and adjoining (ountles, in convention, organized the Association of Southern Beo-koepors. H. C. White was elected President, and Mr. C. Firth Secretary. The jury in the case of John Cott; charged with tho nfurdor of Tom Ridgely, Christmas night, at Vincennes, returned a verdict of two years in the penitentiary. A light verdict was expected. It transpires that Mr. Kirk, who was killed by Berner, whose name has recently become so famous by reason of tho mob riots at Cin“ olnnati, was reared in Benton County, where his father now resides. Chief Kennedy and four mon of the Torre Haute tyre department have resigned. Tho trouble, arose from tho Chief discharging a fireman, who appealed to tho board, and was by thorn reinstated. Messrs. J. B. Stewart & Co., proprietors of tho roller process of flouring mills, of Buda, have decided to remove the mill and machinery to De Soto, Mo., tholr object bbl ng to get into a hotter wheat country. The 10-yoar old daughter of Henry Tripp, living near Madison, mot with a terrible accident in falling over a cliff, a distance of forty feet, striking on a bod of rock, breaking her right leg in two places, also her arm, and was Injured Internally. Dora Kellusj, aged about 23, and living on Bear Creek, northeast of Laurol, was found dead, with a terrible gunshot wound in his stomach. The cause of his death is supposed to be tho accidental discharge of his shot-gun while climbing a fence. The jury in the celebrated whisky case, in which John Stockwell was plaintiff and the prohibition pbople of Bloomington were the defendants, decided that Stockwell was not a proper person to have a license. This case was tried two or throe times before, and was removed to Lawrence County.

Joshua Staples, late chief engineer on the Vandalia, is constructing a switch from a point near Greencastle Junction to some excellent quarries five miles from the main track. Mr. Staples expects to have the switch completed and to commence shippin stone by the Ist of June next at the furthest. Thk annual report of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis (Bee Line) Railroad has been Issued. In the first half of the year both tonnage and earnings increased and presented figures unprecedente’d in tho road's history. Later on freight earnings fell off because of the partial failure of crops, and the general demoraliza* tlon of freight rates. The following is a comparative statement of last year with 1882: 1883. 1882. Gross earningss4,B42,6o4 14,441,600 Operating expenses 3,018,882 2,968,778 Net earn1ug5....51,324,221 $1,477,822 Taxes 125,144 121,275 Fixed charges 607,453 406,615 Int. and ex 26,889 6,277 Surplus $664,7:13 $853,632 Nef income 630,176 939,922 Total balance in account.... 8,382,159 2,861,984 Bonded debt 7,295.000 6,365,000 Cash on hand 230,789 206,896 Additions to property 302,710 316,701

Says the IVaU Street Daily News: He was Treasurer of a county in Indiana. The other night about 9 o'clock be made a call a* the house of an honest old farmer, who was on his bond for SIO,OOO, and after the first greetings were over he began: “ Mr. Thomas, I have somewhat bad news for you.” “Great Scotti but are any of my re* lashuns over in Indianapolis dead?” “Idon’t know about that; but you remember that you siged my bond?" “Yes, I did.” “I am sorry to Inform you that 1 am $14,000 short in my account.” “No!” “Alas lit is true.” “And were did the money go to?” “Lost in Wall street.” “Oh! that’s it. Well, I wouldn’t worry about that. My son Bill will take the lantern aud go back to town with you, and if you’ll show him Wall street he’ll find tho money if it takes him all night. •Probably lost out of a holo in your pocket, eh?” The Terre Haute and Southern Railroad has been sold to a syndicate composed of Josephus' Collett, President McKeon, of tho Vandalia, and other Terre Haute capitalists. It is understood that the same syndicate will purchase the Bedford and Bloomington Road, and that the two purchases will be connected and consolidated, and probably extended to a connection with tho Ohio and Mississippi Road, giving a Cincinnati outlet. Vandalia influence will prevail in the new management. Mbs. George W. Sinks, aged 80 years, tha oldest settler of Carroll County, is dead.