Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Henry Phillips, of Wabash County, who recently attempted to kill his father, has been declared insaue. —E. G. McCollum, a prominent lawyer of Mishawaka, died suddenly of neuralgia of the heart. —Princeton voted on the subject of inrorporaticg as a city, and carried it by a majority of 14. —Because of the non-payment o! wages, 220 employes of the Wabash Road at Peru struck, the other day. —A chicken which was batched at Spencer has four legs, four wings, two tails, and only one head. —A 3-year-old girl of Martin Walsh, who resides three miles out of Tipton, fell :nt* A well and was drowned —The Indiana Sunday-school Union will hold its twentieth annual convention *t Franklin, on June 24, 25, and 26. —The first big catfish of the season ha* been caught near New Albany, by Washington Atkius. It weighed sixty-nino pounds. —The Methodist ministers of Indianapolis bars repudiated the action of campmeetiug in opeuiug the gates and ruuniug trains ou Suuclay. —Sam Hutchison has been sentenced, at Vincennes, to two years in the penitentiary for trying to shoot a woman named Elizabeth Bryce, last March. —Etta Harpole, a girl 14 years old, living with her grandfather, Johu B. Harpole. at Boonville, is missing, having run away after robbing her relative of $l5O. —Johu C. Akers, nu attorney, of Cloverdale, has been found guilty of robbing Foster's store at that place, and sentenced to two years in the pouitentiary. —Lucius C. Winn, of Indianapolis, ha* brought suit against the "Big Four" Railroad Company for SIO,OOO damage for being ejected from a train several days ago. —J. W. Holcombe, State Superintendent of Public Insti notion, has made the regular May apportionment of school revenue. The total enumeration of children of school age in Indiana is 722,430, and tho amount allotted per capita is $1.44, making the total distribution $1,040,293. —Burglars entered the store of Emmert A Hite, at Clnrksburg, blew the iron safe to pieces, and took S6O from it. They then went to Kingston, half way to Greensburg, and entered the store of Stewart A Son, in which the postoffloe is kept, and carried off about $23 in stamps. —The jury, after four hours deliberation, at Greenßburg, found Elsie Block guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to two years in tho penitentiary. His father, jointly indicted with him for the murder of Eli Frank, received a life sentence List term. —A partridge-cochin hen belonging to Mr. B. Hole, of Bridgeport, got in behind a pile of tile and remained there ten days before she was discovered, during which time she had nothing to eat or drink. Biddy, though much emaciated, is alive; and will soon bo able to cackle as usual. —William Milos and Preston Bush, colored, engaged in a game of "oontz,’’ at New Albany, and Preston took up the pot, of two nickels, and walked off. Miles thereupon struck Preston in the head with a hatchet, cutting a deep gash. Miles was sent to jail in default of Hue and costs. —Hon. Peter Kiser, a prominent citizen of Fort Wayne and a former member of the Legislature, has applied for a divorce, on the ground of cruelty and neglect, after having lived with his proseut wife fortytwo years. He is now 78 years of age, and the estrangement has only taken place within the lost two years. —The safe of J. J, Dunham, a country merchant at Dale, a small town about twenty miles above Boonville, was blown open at 3 o’clock in the morning and robbed of $l5O in money and two county orders—one on Warrick County to the amount of $631, and the other on Spencer County, amounting to sl7l. The door of the safe was entirely blown off. —ln the Circuit Court at New Albany the jury in the case of Ignatz Bruder against the New Albany Street Railroad Company brought in a verdict of slll in favor of the plaintiff, being the amount of expenses attached to the care of the child while it was suffering from the effects of its injuries. The child was crossing the street and was run over by a car, and its father claimed $5,000, alleging that the child was ruined for life. The counsel for the company argued that nature was compensating the child by making it perfect again, and the damages should not exceed the expenses of caring for it. The jury seemed to be of the lame opinion.

—Tricky Tatero, a bigamist with five discovered wives and many aliases, has been sentenced to a term in the State Prison for pension frauds. His real name is Peter Tarero, and he is about fifty years old. He has swindled hundreds of people in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Indiana, New Jersey, and Illinois. His most successful schemes were to pass himself off as a special examiner, as the Commissioner of Pensions, and also as a pension detective. One of his wives was a Miss Mason, of South Bend, whom he married as H. C. Pomeroy. Another was Miss M. C. Stewart, of Wabash, where he gave his name as J. W. Jenks. ___ -—The City Council of Wabash has determined to fund the indebtedness of the city, amounting to $20,000. One hundred bondft of the denomination of S2OO each, and bearing 6 per cent, interest, will be issued. —Quite a number of women were delegates to the National Greenback Convention at Indianapolis. —Reubou Taylor, of Viucennes, wat* killed at Grayville by a Wabash train. '