Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Mrs. Lnkens, a Princeton abortionist, - kas been sent to the reformatory for thrJb ! fe arsi —The Brazil Bank; one of the oldest in- | stitutions in< that city, has retired from ! business. —The famous horse which the late Gen, | Caster rode died the other day at Vincennes. He was the property of Dr. Carver, the | marksman. —’Squire Keigwin, of” Jetffcrsonville. i«kept bnsy marrying runaway oonples fromi K entneky, furnishing business for the divorce courts. —Andrew Beard, of New Albany, aged 71 years, walked it© Elizabeth the other day, a distance of seventeen miles, to visit his mother, aged 95, and then walked back i© > New Albany. —Benjamin Allen,' for fifty years a resident of Rush County, dated recently from < the rapture of a blood vessel, expiring within eight minutes. He was wll known and • highly esteemed. —Mrs, Thorp, aged 1 about thirty years; committed suicide at Berne* Adams County; by taking morphine.- She was the • mother of three small’ chiJUren.. Povertj is supposed to bo the cause. —A deputy marshal seized the dry-goods * store of G. W. Corwin,.at Gireencnstle, on a, claim of $3,G00 by a .Chicago honse. Corwin’s liabilites are- about! $37,000. His stock was in the hands of a mortgagee, who i was closing it out whtan am attachment was served. —Taylor Hays, a, young; rough of Hope, was shot through. thte body at Hope, in. Bartholomew County. He-had been arrested I and fined for drankennose, and was trying ; to escape from - James D. Miller, the Marshal, when he fired. Tho ball entered the - back, and was extracted from tho wnllof ’ the stomach. —The first channel pier of the Sand Island bridge, at New Albany, is now sixtyfour feetabove the foundations. Wllon cam* • pletedlt will bo 112 j Suet in height, Thotwo immenso iron cylinders for the shornpier are being rajndtyr filled withq concrete. Work on the Kentucky shore piers will: commence in aicoupio of weeks, —J. F. Studebaker, of South Bond.'huareturned from iE drop©. The trip was mada jn tire interest t afi’ the Peroheron-NOnnan Horso Company , and 350 head of fine horses . were purchased! for importation.-, This, company own hwge stook ranchos in tho vicinity of Denver, and the animals wero purchased to, improve and increase,-their-stock. r-At a. barn-raising on tho fann-ol’ Joshi Emerson, about seven miles southwest ofT Princeton, a-serious and probably fatal accident occurred, caused by the breaking oP a rope used’i» hoisting heavy timbers. A large beam flNl, striking James MtDole on, the back, injficting a fatal injpayvan the* spine. Snftuiel Parker was also-, injured in, the head by concussion, but was -not (fatally hurt. Some-other serious injuries are reported, but none of a serioue charactor. —John Btelin, of South Bond) was; stop-, ped' just outside the city the other night by three men, who proceeded to rob him.. They took from him $3.25 in monoy. After rifling* his pockets one of the villrifis; remarked-: “We’ll fix him so that he will not reach town in a hurry,” and thereupon! (totwiaga. revolver he BhotMr. Bolin hi the fleshy part of his leg. The wound was. mtudo with a thirty-two-caliber ball, whioh passed entirely through the leg, fortunately striking no bones. When Mr. Bolin reached the city tho officers were notified, but up to this time nothing has been learned concerning these bold highwaymen^ —Lightning-rod men- are making life a burden to the farmers offTippeeanoe County. One man named Colson, living near Montmorenci, signed one es their contracts, and then hearing how such-things generally terminated he consulted a lawyer. Tho latter told him there was, but one way to avoid payment. If the men didn’t put any rods on his house he would not owe them anything. Accordingly when the men arrived with the rods Colson stationed all his hired men about the house and warned the agents to keep off or stand the consequences. They kept off, but threw the rod over the fence. Failing to frighten him they afterward hauled it away. —One of the most important captures of the last year or two in the vicinity of Wabash was mad© recently by an Indianapolis detective, the party arrested being James Stephens, an alleged swindler on a large scale, who has long been wanted. Stephens was formerly a lumber buyer, and having* as it is said, gained the confidence of a number of wealthy lumber firms in Indianapolis, St Louis, and Chicago, he called on them and sold many thousand feet of lumber which he stated was lying at mills in the country. Nearly every house to which he offered his lumber advanced money to Stephens, who then lost no timo in taking an excursion to other pastures. Another charge on which his arrest was made was forgery, said to have been committed at Indianapolis. The total proceeds of his operations will not fall far short of $20,000. For several months past detectives havo been on the lookout for him. Stephens is a married man, his family residing in Shelby, Ohio. He stoutly protests his innocence. —The bootblacks of Indianapolis are engaged in warfare upon the chair system recently inaugurated by one of their number, who, by special permission of the City Council, has placed chrtirs on the streets, in publio places, and charges only 5 cents for a shine. The bootblaoks held a meriting on the Postoffice steps the other morning and decided to ent the prioe to 3 cents. It cost Lloyd County $2lO te take two insane men to the asylum.