Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

j Th* Trustees of the Town of Llnwood have ! employed the Lafayette Department to pnr j tect thoir village la case of fire. Th* barn on the farm of J. K. Gowdy Auditor of Bush County, was burned the other night, the work of au lncendary. Nobl.es viole will bylid a fine music hall and opera house this season. Leonard Wild has already begun the work, from plans furnished by Architect Huebnor, of Indianapolis. Isaac T. Brown, Coroner of Shelby County, rendered a verdict in the Inquest case of John Taylor Trimble, who was killed by Benjamin Jenkins recently, at St. Paul, finding that Jenkins did the killing In selfdefense. An Incendiary flro at Eaton destroyed the’ barn of O. W. Kara, containing nine fine horses and a quantity of hay and grain. One of the horses was rocontly purchased In Chicago for $2,400. Loss, $£,000; insured for $550. In 1867 Thomas F. Higgins, then a boy, was run over by an engine on the Joffcrsonville. Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, by which he lost both logs. Having arrived at man’s estate, he began suit against the company to recover $50,000 damages. The growth of South Bend is shown in the annual inorease In her sohool enumeration. By the enumeration just completed, the figures show that there are 6,081 children of the legal school age, being an increaso of nearly 400 over that of last year, SrEED’s cement mill, at Watson, near Jeffersonville, turns out 400 barrels of cement every day. A clock In the ofiloe has figured on the price per barrel, and ascertained that at every revolution of the fly wheel the firm mokos a profit of sixteen and ono-fourth cents. • Al Luther, a young married man who resides at Waldron, eight miles south of Shelby' ville, while fishing with dynamite, near Fairland, five inllos north of that place, had his left log and left hand blown otT, and ono of his eyes blown out, by <a cartridge exploding in his hand. Ho will die. A suit for slander has been instituted kt tho Tlppooanoe County Circuit Court by William Brinkley against Joseph Uergor In the sum of SIO,OOO. The defendant obargod tho plaintiff, as Is alleged, with tho laroeny of honey. Both parties uro well-to-do farmers of high respootabllity. A verdict of considerable Interest to the railroad companies was rendered in tho United States Court at Indianapolis reoently. The widow of A. C» Wingate was awarded $5,000 damages against tho Ohio and Mississippi ltallrond Company for the death of her husband, who was shot on the cars of the oompany by a drunken passenger. William Jones, an hostlor, In Jail for larceny at Logansport, confessed to belonging to a local gang of orooks who had for months been carrying on a systematic bust, ness of robbing stores, houses, and barns. His testimony implicates John Choen, proprietor of a largo meat market, and also William Hubondale, a hard character, who recently ran away. The eonfOßSlon causes considerable oxoltement, to Choen’s position. Miss Bathbone, sister of the late Goorge W, Bathbono, of Evansville, Is taking the preliminary stops to fulfill his beqUost In the establishment of a Home for the Aged and Infirm of Vandorburg County. It has been Incorporated, Miss Bathbone’s object In having this done being that she might contribute to It ns her income permits. Tho Institution will be known as "The Bathbone Memorial Home for Aged and Infirm Persons.” James L. Orr has been made President; Alex. Foster and B. K. Dunkerson, Vice Presidents; Frank Hopkins, Treasurer; Alox. Lemcko, Secretary, with a board of sixteen Directors. Miss Bathbone proposes to buy property upon which to erect tho buildings.

Mrs. Letitia C. Rice, of Bethlehem, Clark County, a woman 60 years of age, committed suioido in Jeffersonville, by moans of corrosive sublimate. She and her husband raised, an adopted son, Douglass P. Dye, and being without issue of their own, it was the understanding for many years that Dye would come into possession of tho Rice estate as soon as the old folks died. He married a couple of years ago, and it is alleged the wife whom he took did not suit the old folks, particularly Mrs. Rice. They all lived together, and were in xjossession of a country store and other property. About a year ago Dye alleged that bis foster mother attempted to poison him by putting strychnine in his tea. He claimed that he was mode permanently unwell, and brought suit in the Clark Circuit Court at Jeffersonville for 95,000 damages* The case was coming up for trial and she and her husband were at Jeffersonville in neediness to attend court. A vebv slick trick was played on the jewelry bouse of Kachlien Ic Co., at Lafayette, by whioh they are out two gold watches valued at $175. # A stranger representing himself to be one C. C. Miller, who was about to engage in business there, made a number of visits to the store mentioned, and also to Granville Hull’/ jewelry store. At both places he left an inscription which he said he should want engraved in the watch. The next day Miller, who had been halting between two opinions, as he said, as to whioh watch to take, requested Kachlien to send t,yo watches to his rooms, where a friend would aid him in making a selection. The shopkeeper sent the valuables up by a clork, ■ and the latter allowed himself to be persuaded to leave them with Miller until his momentarily expected “friend” arrive*). Mr. had ako been requested to send up three Watches, but he went with them in- person, and declined to leave them unless Miller would put up their value, which would be refunded when the watches were returned. Kachlien sent his clerk back after the watches in a few moments, but Miller bad taken them and gope. The Pike Cirouit Court at Petersburg sentenced Ben Battles to one year in the penitentiary for larceny. When the Petersburg mob lynched Charlie Harvey, about Christmas, hp confessed that Battles was implicated in the destruction of that town by lire. The committee of citizens hunted Battles, and found him working in Jasper County, Illinois, where he was, it subsequently appeared, when the tires occurred. He had broken jail at Petersburg, however, and the sentence is his reward. In seven days 2,600,000 eggs were shipped from Indianapolis to New York.