Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—William Buhrlage was drowned while bathing in the river at Jeffersonville. —Mrs. Doud died on a farm near Peru, at the age of 105 years. Her grandchildren number forty-five. —The 3-year-old child of John Burnell, of Greencastle, was crushed to death by a pile of luipber falling upon it. —The Hoagiand Street Free School Bnilding at Fort Wayne was damaged about $3,000. Insured for $9,500. —Mrs. Matilda Dixon, one of Rash County's pioneers, died at the residence of her son-in-law, J.. 8. Reeve, after several weeks’ painful illness. —A construction train on the Vandalia Road fell through the bridge spanning the Wabash River at Logansport, the engineer and fireman being iffowned. The pecuniary loss is $30,000. —Fire consumed the large saw mill belonging to Eli Ogle, four or five miles northwest of Muncie, together with some lumber. The loss is estimated at $1,500, with no insurance. —At Farmland, a few miles east of Muncie, burglars entered the drug store of Bly & Thornburg, and, having blown open the safe, took from it s7o£) in cash. They stole a horse and buggy and made thoir escape. —The extensive dry-goods and grocery store of Porter & Steen, at Otwell, Pike County, was burned to the ground, entailing a loss of SB,OOO. Insured for $4,500. The fire is presumed to have been the work of an incendiary. —Hon. Leauder McCluy died at Frankfort after a brief illness. He had served in both branches of the State Legislature, had been a candidate for Congress in the Ninth District, and at the time of his death was a candidate for Circuit Judge on the Democratic ticket. —Clam Vroman, the young lady who accidentally swallowed a piece of chewinggum while attending school at Logansport a month or so ago, died from the effects at her home in Kokomo. The gum lodged in her stomach, oausing inflammation. She died in great agony.

—Tho recent sale of blooded horses at Rushville failed to come up to the usual standard. The well-known young trotter, Dannie Hauson, one of the most promising horses in the State, sold for the astonishingly low price of $550, J. W, Vannoy, of Shelbyville, being the purchaser. All the stock sold very low., —Charles Kura, 54 years old, a laborer at the Vandalia shops at Terre Haute, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. He had been drinking for some time, and a few days before attended a picnic, where he had a fight, receiving a blow on the face that blackened both eyes, and he had grieved over it ever since. —Andrew Stephens, of Vincennes, sued Jaoob Cassell, a prominent wholesale grocery dealer, for SIO,OOO damages for alleged slander. Cassell sent Stephens to Alulama on business for the firm, and lost in his transactions several hundred dollars. Cassell charged him with crockedness, which resulted in the suit. —Robert Calloway, aged 19, son of Dr. and a brother of Henry Calloway, tlie banker, of El wood, while seeking shelter under a tree on the field where he and a hired man, named Oswell Boaler, were plowing, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Bealer was seriouslyinjured.but will probably recover. —A SON of Philip Stonehour, of Wabash, went hunting, and, running a squirrel into a hollow tree, attempted to blow it out with gunpowder. Stonehour stood near the aperture in the trunk*of the tree, and the blast burned his face and injured his eyes so that it is unlikely that he will ever regain his sight. He is now totally blind. —John A. Caldwell, a prominent and well-to-do farmer, residing four miles west of Rushville, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a rifle, instant death following the shot. He had become somewhat demented by reason of nervous prostration, produced by overexertion. Some time ago he erected a new house on his farm, and moved ont of an old cabin into the new structure. Shortly after, he took sick, and ascribed it to the result of his removal. He then moVed back into the old cabin, where the tragedy occurred. He had acted very peculiarly for some time preceding tho act, and his physicians had been treating him for softening of the brain. He was oonnected with the best families in Rush County, and was highly esteemed.

—Logansport has a divorce case with a suggestion in it that may be of advantage to gentlemen desiring board cheap. John P. Pearson filed suit alleging that his wife had a very hasty temper, and had frequently treated him in a cruel and inhuman manner. Mrs. Pearson filed a cross-complaint, stating that seven years ago Pearson made her acquaintance in Goshen, where she was living in peace with her husband, Edward Hostetler. He paid much attention to her, and finally so excited the jealousy of her husband that he left her. Upon the advice of Pearson, Mrs. Hostetler went to Logansport and began keeping a boardinghouse. Pearson boarded with her for five years, and finally prevailed on her to marry him. They were married only a few months, when, after a quarrel, Pearson left her, leaving, as she claimed, a five years* board bill still unpaid. —A negro attacked Fannie Campbell, & colored washerwoman, at Jeffersonville, attempting to rob her. Fanny struggled with him, finally knocking him down with a car coupling pin, and escaped. —The congregation of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, of New Albany, will build an elegant church on the site of the present building, at a cost of $50,000. —This saloon of John Kiefer, at Corydon. was robbed and set on fire. Loss, S3OO.