Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A littlh daughter of C. C. Wing, of South Bend, dropped the baby upon ths floor, crushing its skull. Fibb destroyed the fine brick residence of Mr. Charles Graeter, on First street, in Vincennes. Loss, $2,500; insured for $2,000. The fire originated from a defective flue. Thomas Hennick, a prominent Democratic politician and a druggist of Morristown, Shelby County, who has been dangerously ill for some time, has boon taken to the insane asylum. Joseph K. Faulconer, a well-known hotel man, proprietor of the Rader House, at Seymour, died recently. Ho was Deputy Warden of the Southern Penitentiary thirteen years ago. The business men of Clay City have held a meeting and appointed a vigilance committee, who will look after the tramps and burglars should they continue to ply their midnight vocation. Benjamin F. Habvet, a prominent and influential farmer of Milton Township, near Madison, broke one of his legs a few days ago. He took morphine to relieve ths pain, nnd died from tho effects thereof. Hs was 60 years of age. Near Columbus Ham Reed threw down his coat with a revolver in it, which was discharged, the ball passing through above his hip and coming out on the other side. Tho wound is dangerous but not necessarily fatal. The building of tho iron bridge over Blue River, on the line between Shelby nnd Johnson Counties, has been awarded to a bridge company of Cleveland for SIO,OOO. Tho contract for the stone work was awarded to an Indianapolis contractor.

Mbs. Gabbella Molntybe, of Vincennes, has ontered suit against the Evansville and Terre Haute Railway Company for SI,OOO, to compensate her for the loss of her son, who had an arm crashed off in a collision on that road about two years ago. Andrew Dbihcoll, a passenger, fell under the wheels of the Chicago express on the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad at Vinoonneß, and was fatally crashed. He was an English tourist, and about twentyfour years old. Hbnby Plummer, one of the oldest residents of Madison County, hung himself in his barn. For several years he has been losing his mind. He was 78 years old. His father and grandfather before him killed themselves when old men. The decision of the Commissioners of Crawford County was in favor of Grantsburg as the county seat of that county. The people favoring Leavenworth took an appeal and a change of venue to the Dubois Circuit Court, and the case prill be tried Aug. 8. An attempt at suicide was made by Capt. Albert Ward, at the home of his son, east of Liberty, by cutting his throat with a razor. Ho is 05 years old, was a soldier in the Mexican war, and for the past few months has been an invalid, which, it is supposed, caused him to moke the attempt.

David Everett, aged 18, while hunting near Lafayette, rode up to a toll-gate on horseback, and, while waiting for his change, his gun wnH accidentally discharged. The charge passed through the arm and lodged in the heart of Nora Hhriner, aged 12, who was swinging on the porch of the house. The child gaue one scream, sprang from the swing, and fell into her mother’s arms, dead. Investigation exonerates Everett. The frame bam situated on the farm of Mr. George Cecil, eight miles southeast of Munoie, was destroyed by fire. It was one of tho best buildings in that vicinity, and was well filled with hay, grain, and a fine lot of farm implements, all of which were destroyed. The horses stabled therein were fortunately saved, but at considerable risk to Mr. Cecil and his hired man. The burning is undoubtedly the work of an incendiary, and it is intimated thata peddler, who took lodgings with Mr. Cecil, could not be found about the premises the next morning. He is, therefore, suspected as the party who applied the match. The loss is $2,000; insured for $950.

Last October, during the Steuben County Fair, Lawrence Gates, assistant cashier of Kinney & Co.’s bank, Angola, was robbed of his gold watch and chain, valued at several hundred dollars. During the winter, a charm which was on the chain was returned to him by a man who stopped him on his way home, and he was aßked what he would give for the return of the watch. The conversation was interrupted, and nothing more was said. Mr. Gates had given up ever securing his watch, until the* other morning, when he arose, he found a note pinned on his door, saying that if he would come to the Lake James boat-house, alone, a few miles from town, and bring S2O, he could get his watch. He did so, and on the door of the boat-house found a note saying to leave S2O and the watch would be left. He wrote pledging on his honor to leave the S2O when the watch was in his hands, and retired into the woods. In a few moments he returned and found his watch on the latch of the door, and, leaving S2O, he returned home, not having had a glimpse of the man he was negotiating with. The bridge built across White River at Rockford in 1870, at a cost of $23,500, has been condemned by the County Commissioners as being unsafe. A new bridge will be built in its place soon. An agent of the Fostofflce Department arrested the Postmaster at North Manchester, and secured from him a confession that he took SIOO from a registered letter. The Catholic academy at Madison is to converted into a hotel.