Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Loqawkport citizens ob eot to Eel Biver trains plowing through their city at the rate of thirty miles an hour. Thb Commissioners of Delaware County have contracted for a new court house. It will cost about $300,000. The life-saving crew of Madison saved Daniel Phipps, an o!d man of Sbippiogsport, whose boat upset in the Ohio, from dea.h by drowning. Mr. Charles Letsinger, a Rushviie blacksmith, let a harrow fall on hla foot, the tooth passing entirely through his foot and pinning him to the floor. The enumeration just completed shows the number of persons in Connersville between the ages of 0 and 21 to be 1,220, indicating a total population of 5,000. In order to expedite the pension business, CoL Dudley is sending out additional special examiners. Indiana’s share is eight, and they have commenced operations. Stella Williams, an abandoned woman of Henderson, Ky., kidnapad her ohild, a boy who bad been in his father s charge at Evansville, and escaped with him across the river. , The druggists of Fort Wayne have organized an association for the purpose of upholding prices on patent medicines and prescriptions. W. H. Dreier has been elected President. In 1856, Michael Craver, of Kokomo, took an oath never to shave until John C. Fre. mont was elected President Mr. Craver has kept his oath and has an abundance of hair. New Albany leads any city of its population in the number of its seoret and other benevolent associations. There are in the city flfty-two such organizations, every one of which has a large membership. A suit for $15,000 against the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad has been brought in a Lafayette court by Miss Maggie F. Falvey, who claims to have been “per. manently injured” in a collision which occurred near there last November. Mas. Nancy Brown, a widow, of Edinburg, took a large dose of solution ot arsenic, and died a few hours later. It was prescribed by a physician for the hives. Being unable to read the directions, she took an overdose. Farmers of Knox County, which ranks high in the production of wheat, threaten to quit growing that cereal, on the ground that direct and indirect taxes are so great that it cannot be made to pay, and that farming has ceased to be remunerative except in rare instances. Thomas Clune, while down in an old well in Jeffersonville, oame near losing his life while at work twenty feet below the surface. The side 3 of the well caved in, covering Clune up to his waist. His cries fortunately were heard, and he was released, though half dead. James M. Reynold?, of Lafayette, has purchased fifty Hereford heifers from Robert Sample, the great cattle king, and shipped them to his ranch in the Indian Territory* Dr. W. H. Armstrong purchased from the same party a bull and two Hereford cows for sl/00. He also purchased two Hereford eows and a calf at Indianapolis, for SI,OOO. Near the Village of Marshfield, while John Wilson was burning brush in a field on his fßrm his wife ventured too near the burning brush and her clothes caught fire. Like a flash of powder it enveloped her in a blaze, almost literally burning her to a orisp. Her husband came nobly to the rescue. His hands were almost burned off by the fieroe flames, and he is suffering terribly. William Thomas, a flashily attired colored man, came to Jeffersonville from Louisville, and applied for a license to marry Alice Marsh, of the same city. Upon inquiry it was ascertained that the woman was .white. As the laws of this State do not permit of the Intermarriage of the white and black races, the Clerk could not issue the license. Thomas says the woman Is perfectly willing to marry him, and he loves her. Horace S. Case, of White County, has sued Watson F. Blair, surviving partner of the commission firm of Blair & Blair, Chicago, in the United States Court to recover $28,000. Be alleges that he trusted large sums of money to their hands at different times to make deals iu wheat, lard, etc., and that he lost through the firm’s alleged failure to ful_ fill its agreements and obey his injunctions. Peter Smith , who has been an inmate of the Knox County Poor House for seven years, and who was bounced from that institution the other day, refused to leave, and, drawing a knife, was about to attack the Superintendent. He was afterward arrested and lodged In jail. Smith is able-bodied, but has an aversion to work, and previous superintendents have been afraid to discharge him. He Is suspected of burning the Poor House three years ago. Corydon Republican: Several months ago a man, representing himself as from New York, came into Scott Township, this county, and began prospecting. On the farm of Joseph Lynche ho discovered a vein of silver ore. The ore proved to be valuble, and would yield about S4O to the ton. A few weeks ago the man returned and leased the land of Mr. Lynche and agreed to give him one-third of the profits realized. He will soon begin working the mine. The lands of several other parties In that vicinity have been leased, and the silver excitement is raging. At 1 o’clock In the morning, at Montpelier thirty-eight miles south of Fort Wayne, on the Fort Wayne, and Louisville Railway, occurred the fatal shooting of Joseph Streets, a young farmer who was on his road home from town. A olrous gave an exhibition in the town the night before, at the close of whioh a noisy crowd gathered the saloons. Streets beat off several antagonists, who afterward mes him on his way home, but they fired a volley from pistols. A bullet struck him under the arm, and he fell to the ground. Walter Williams, cowhided at New Al_ bany a few days ago by David W. Carpenter, who charged him with making remarks derogatory to the character of his daughter has brought suit against Carpenter for damages in $5,000. Capt. Ed Howahd, of Jeffersonville, has contracted to build a boat for a New Orleans firm. It is to be 235 feet long, 45 feet beam, and 8 feet In the hold, with 5,000 cotton bales capacity. Wheat In Miami County is looking exceedingly well, and the farmers are pleased.