Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Near Logansport, the little sox of S. A. Michaels, a farmer, poked a stick into a hive, and was stung to death by the bees. —The body of a man was found floating in the river, near the old Cave pork-hoase, at Madison, supposed to be Harry Jone.s, of Indianapolis, who was drowned by walking overboard from the steamer City of Madison. The Ccr mer found nothing upon the body by which to identify him. —At a picnic at Marysville John Robinson struck Elmer Smith, who was dancing, in the f ice. Smith then knocked Robinson down, and a general row followed, in which knives and pistols were freely used, and nearly every one was more or less hart. Robinson was stabbed in the groin and John Wrightliouse in the leg, and Wyatt Mikesell had his jawbone broken. —Charles Selby, of Vincennes, a conductor on the Ohio and Mississippi Railway, was shot by a tramp at the Clay City water-tank, while putting him from the train. The tramp had stolen Selby’s revolver from the caboose. Selby, it is thought, will soon recover. The ball entered his left breast, and was taken from his arm above the elbow. The tramp escaped.

—New Albany is to make an effort to secure tho Air-Line Railway shops, and it is called to mind that when the city subscribed to the stock of the road, und voted about about $400,C00, it was upon the express agreement that machine shops should be erected there. It is held that though the company did change that does not reloase the present company, as the franchise they bought could only have been had through the aid of New Albany.

—For some time a series of daring and successful burglaries have been taking place in Bedford, with no clew, it was thought, to the guilty parties. By quietly working up the case, however, with the aid of a special detective, enough facts were discovered to warrant the arrest of a hard character about that town, known as “Buck Davis.” It set ms that Davis is a well-known criminal in Louisville, as it is stated by the police there that he has served two terms in the Kentucky Penitentiary for burglary. —As a lot of Columbus boys were iu swimming, a little colored boy got beyond his depth and was drowning, when a boy named Henry Hartwell swam to his assistance and saved him after he had gone under the second time. This is the third boy Hartwell has saved from drowning. Three years ago Hartwell plunged into the river, when the water was ice-cold, and saved a boy—one of his playmates—and not long afterward, saved another lad near the same place.

—At Jeffersonville, Clara Harris, colored* lged 30, was shot in the abdomen with a double-barreled shotgun loaded with slugs and nails. The wounds inflicted presented a sickening spectacle. Her husband has several times threatened the lives of citizens, and twice attempted to kill his wife. After the murder he remained in the house with the children until morning, when the eldest daughter notified the neighbors, resulting in his arrest. At the jail he was reticent, claiming he did not commit the murder, and that it must have been another party who had a grudge against him.

—Deputy Sheriff Bradou, of Greencasile, went to Cloverdale to arrest Doug Akers on the charge of aiding a prisoner to escape from jail. The prisoner is a brother of the accused, and is waiting trial for burglary. Doug was detected in passing tools into his cell to enable him to break jail. The Deputy got his man on board a freight-train for Greencastle. The train was running thirty miles an hour, when Akers gained the top of the caboose through the observatory and made a leap for liberty. The Sheriff also jumped from the car and fired at the fugitive, but was too badly crippled by the fall to pursue him farther than the thicket into which he disappeared. —Samuel Young, one of the alleged leaders of the Crawford County gang of counterfeiters, for whom the Government officers have long been in search, has been brought to Indianapolis and lodged in jail. He was indicted by the United States Grand Jury last November, and Deputy-Marshal Barneclo went to Crawford County to arrest him, but he took to the woods and escaped. He then went to Missouri, bought a farm neir Barney, and se;tled down. Marshal Foster was informed of his whereabouts and sent a detective to assist In the arrest of Young. The arrest was made after a desperate struggle. Young is accused of some expert counterfeiting jobs, and the officers are elated at his capture. —ln Indiana the readjustment of Postmasters’ salaries add 3 SIOO to the salary at North Vernon and Portland and reduces by SIOO the salaries at the following places: Anderson, Bloomington, Bluffton, Brazil, Butler, Covington, Crown Point, Decatur, Delphi, Edinboro, Evansville, Fowler, Greencastle, Huntington, Kendalls ville, Kentland, Lagrange, La Porte, Lawrenceburgh, Ligouier, Madison, Martinsville, Michigan City, North Manchester, Notre Dame, Princeton, Rensselaer, Rockport, Sullivan, Terre Haute, Thornton. Union City, Valparaiso, Vevay, Vincennes, Warsaw, Waterloo, Winchester, and Winamae. The salary at Jeffersonville is reduced S2OO, and Goodland and Remington are reduced to tho fourth class.

—Fred Vogel, an old citizen of Connersville, shot himself through the brain recently and died instantly. He Berved as a civil engineer in the Army of the Tennessee. Of recent years he has been very poor, and has been a persistent applicant for a pension, which was denied on technical grounds. He left a letter in which he bitterly denounced the Government officials for neglecting to grant his pension. —John Upper, of Evansville, was drowned while bathing in the Ohio.