Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS? [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS?

—Rewards aggregating $1,200 are now offered for the discovery of ihe murderers of Frank Crooks of Khebyville. —William Correy, a German farm hand, oommitted suicide near Evansville, by hanging. He had been drinking heavily. —Frank Edler, for many years organist in the cathedral at Fort Wayne, dropped dead at hie home, from heart disease. Deceased was 62 years old. —The country seat of Henry Maxwell, east of Delphi, was accidentally burned with all the furniture, entailing a heavy loss. No insurance except S2OO on tho house. —Two valuable horse 3 were stolen from the farm of George Alber, north of Wabash, recently. There is no clew to the thieves, but a reward has been offered for their capture. —The onion crop of Floyd County is the largest ever known. A New Albany dealer, who shipped e • ;ht car-loads last week, says he can get 100,000 bushels in the neighborhood of that city in ten hours. —As a result of a blow in the breast from a ball, received three weeks ago, John McDonough, catcher of the Fort Wayne Ball Club, died at Mt. Clemens, Mich., of quick consumption. —Jacob Bartholomew, express agent at Arcadia, had his leg broken above the knee by a heavy box of express goods, which he was taking from the north-bound train, falling upon it. Andrew Jackson Newsom, one of the oldest citizens of Greene County, living at Bloomfield, died of congestion of the stomach. Mr. Newsom was, at one time, one of the largost land-owner 3 in Greene County. —W. A. Ridgely is under arrest at Lafayette, charged with the robbery of the Jackson residence there a few weeks ago, at which time SBOO in diamonds and a gold watch were taken. The watch was found in Ridgely’s possession. —Henry Todd, aged 63, proprietor of the Henry Hou?e, at Vevay. mad 9 a desperate attempt at suicide while alone in his room, using a knife and a hatchet. He cut ten gashes near his heart, and also mutilated his head and throat frightfully. A young woman, named alice Howard, tried to commit suicide by jumping into White River from a bridge sixty feet high. She was rescued and received no injuries from her fall, Despondency, brought on by poverty and overwork, led her to the act. . Officers at Valparaiso attempted to arrest seven tramps, aboard a freight train on the Nickel-Pl ite Road. Being resisted, the officers fired, wounding two of the transgressors. They had broken into several houses at South Whitley the night before. —Mrs. Aaron Marks, an old and highly respected Jewess, wife of Aaron Marks, a well-known clothier of Madison, died very suddenly from excitement occasioned by a disturbance iu the store, mised by an intoxicated young man named Omer Ball, who was disputing with her son Edward. —George Hathaway, a section boss on the Air-Line Railway, has constructed a balloon of muslin, which he inflated with hot a'r and ascended half a mile on a trapeze at Marengo, Crawford County, a few days ago. Mr. Hathaway will go to New Albany with his balloon and try another ascension. —A young Lady and a negro farm-hand attempted to frighten another negro who was afraid of ghosts, on the farm of Peter Mann, near New Albany. They enveloped themselves in sheets and went for him. The young lady was knocked insensible, and it was with great difficulty that the frightened man was restrained from butchering them.

—John Stacking, extra fireman on the Nickel-Plate Railroad, reported at the Fort Wavno police station thit while crossing the railrord bridge over St. Mary’s River, in the outskirts of the city, he was set upon by three men, one of whom he knocked into tho river, forty feet below. He exhibited tho bleeding knuckles of his left hand to the Chief of Police, who locked him up. Examination into the affair by officers developed nothing additional, and a belief is expressed that a different situation from that alleged by St icking exists. Stacking says he heard the man fall into the river, and that his two companions ran away. —Considerable excitement prevails at Albany, twelve miles northeast of Munce, over an affray which oocurred near there lately, and which came near resulting in murder. James Jones, aged 24, and Arthur Cultice, aged 2G, were assisting a neighbor to thresh wheat. Jones was cutting bands and Cultice was pitching the wheat from the wagon to him. jQnes complained that the wheat was not put up to him in proper shape, whereupon he and Cultice engaged in a quarrel, and after a few words Jones sprang upon the wagon in a fiendish rage, and began striking at Cultice with a handknife. Cultice tried to keep him at bay with his pitchfork, but in trying to keep out of the way of the knife, he fell from the wagon and Jones on top of him. Bystanders separated them as soon as possible, but not until Cultice had received an ugly gash in his abdomen, which came near disemboweling him. He was at once taken to his home, where he was attended by a physician, who pronounced the wound a probably fatal one. —Paul McAdams, a son of George McAdams, at Winchester, will be sent to the House of Refuge. He confesses to having entered the room of Miss Amanda Way, the well-known temperance worker, and, in her absence, robbed her of her pocketbook, containing $225 in money and notes. The pocket-book was found, together with the notes and other papers, in the privy vault at the Court House. —Miss Lizzie Maxwell, a talented music teacher of Shelbyrille, died recently.