Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Well-borers at Wabash developed a gas vein which bids fair to illuminate the city. —The Franklin College catalogue shows that the total number of students for the year just closed was 1%. —Mrs. Eunice Morse, who had resided in Angola almost since the foundation of the town, died there recently, at the age of 90. —W. F. Burget, a heavy saw-mill owner of Carroll County, has quietly ass'gaed his property and disappeared, leaving scores es creditors. —J. W. Curtis, a fanner living southeast of Wabash, while harnessing a horse, was kicked by the animal in the forehead. His skull was fractured. —John Nofsinger, a pioneer of Wabash County, and ono of the oldest citizens, died at fiis home near Wabash City, after a lingering illness. While shooting fish from trees Along the Wabash River, near Loganspoit, the 15-year-old son of Georg i Martin fell from a tree and sustained fatal injuries. —The Old Settlers’ Association of Clark County will ho d a meeting at Charlestown on the 7th of August. Dr. N. Field, of Jeffersonville, will deliver an address. —William Watson, a bricklayer of Vincennes, was fatally crushed by the filling of the walls of the old St. Rose Academy, which he wns assisting in pulling down. —An old lady named Akers was run over by a passenger train on the Big Four Rond at Lafayette, and ho badly injured that Hhe died soon osier. She was aged 80, and a stranger there. —A separator and stacker belonging to Helvie & Richmond took fire while at work near Anderson, and, together with a large quantity of wheat, was entirely consumed. Loss, $2,00!).

—Seymour sots a good examplo to liberality in the matter of church building. L. D. Carpenter recently donnted $5,000 in cash to build a Baptist church there, and tothis was added $9,000 more. —The Rev. G. W. Walker, aged 75 years, died at Evansville recently. Ho bad been a member of the Indiana Conference fifty years. During that period he had been appointed to nearly every station in Indiana. —ll. J. Goulding, of Haymour, died of sunstroke at St. Louis. Ho was for three terms Marshal of Seymour, and wns a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows, and Knights of Fytbins orders. Ho bad recently been connected with the Iron Mountain ltnilroad. —While Nathan Moms, a miner, and James Jones, a mine car-driver, were riding through an entry in the Seeleyville mine, in Vigo County, the loose slats overhenjl fell upon the car, burying it and its passengers. Jones called for help and miners removed the slate. Morris, when taken out, was dead, and Jones is badly injured. —For some lime past Harrison Adams, at Elizabethtown, has been annoyed with annonymous notes threatening to destroy a house owned by him, and occupied by Mrs. Duval. One night recently the threat wns carried out by placing dynamite in the woodshed, blowing it to atoms and scattering it in every direction. The house in which Mrs. Duval lived and one or two adjoining houses were badly broken up, but no one was hurt. —James Von Euton, formerly bookkeeper nt McKean’s Mill, Terre Haute, shot himself through the head while under a feeling of despondency caused by continued ill health and the loss of his situation. His relatives feared he would make an attempt on his life, and he had been closely watched. His father left him for a few minutes, and when he returned found him lying on the floor, with a bullet in his brain. He was 40 years of age, a widower, and leaves two children. —ln order to increase the supply of water for public use, the Fort Wayne Citjl Council had arranged to purchase, for $16,000, the feeder of the old Wabash and Erie Canal. The purchase was enjoined, and the matter was to be heard in chambers in the Circuit Court. Meantime the Water Works Trustees engaged a man to drill for water in the bottom of the supply basin. Recently a vein was struck at the depth of seventy-nine feet, which discharged freely over the top of the pipe. It is believed that the flow will reach 600,000 gallons a day, enough, with the present supply, for all necessities, without purchase of the canal. —Elijah Wallace, an old farmer 80 years of age, living in Morgan County, near the Putnam County line, died recently. The old gentleman was known to be pretty well-to-do, but the extent of his fortune wns not realized even by his own children. Being taken suddenly sick, and told that he must die, Mr. Wallace called his children, ten in number, to his bedside. He then s 'nt his wife for a fruit jar that was down in the cellar among others of a similar kind. On opening the can the fnmily were astonished to see $5,000 in gold and in greenbacks. The old gentleman gave SSOO to each of his children and told them he had more laid away, the whereabouts of which only he’ and his wife knew. After his death his wife disclosed more fruit jars in which were found the almost incredible sum of SIB,OOO. —MaryJ. Turley, a young married woman who resides in Ervin Township, Howard County, was found in a dying condition in her home, with a bullet through her head nnd an empty revolver by her side. It was supposed she had committed suicide. The Coroner held an inquest, and from the evidence presented concluded that her husband, William J. Turley, had shot her, and. ordered his arrest. —Cornelius Shugart, ex-Representative from Grant County, died at Deer Creek, i