Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—James Berry has been arrested at Greenfield for bigamy. He was married to , Miss Mary A. Shipley, of Hancock County, a j f ew weeks ago, and he now admits that ha 1 has a wife and child in Jackson County. —The largest sale of fat cattle that lias | been made in this county for some time wa3 consummated a few days ago, in which K. Z. Lockridge, Esq., sold for the New York market near 400 head, averaging over 1,000 pounds, at the price of six coats. Them are some good lots of fat cattle in the county yet unsold. —Putnam Banner. —A young man named Sam Hensely, living near Liberty, while riding on the road perched on a steam thrashing engine, fell off. The engine wheels pissed over one ancle, mashing it badly, also crushing the left hand to a jelly, injured his back and head, and occasioned internal injuries. He was picked up unconcious and is in a critical condition. —On Sunday night an unknown man was found in his room at the Farmer’s Hotel, at Booneville, in an unconscious state. He died within a few moments. He arrived in town last Friday, but gave no name or residence. It is thought that he committed suicide. He was about 25 years old, five feet six inches high, of dark complexion, and his weight was apparently about 160 pounds. His remains were buried at the expense of the township. His name is thought to have been George Malone or George Souls, and he was probably from Louisville. —A shooting affair occurred at North Salem, Hendricks County. John Gibson, firing near that town, was charged with larceny, and an officer, with deputies, went to make the arrest, whereupon Gibson tried to make his escape by running. Deputy John Wilson fired upon the escaping man, as he claims, to scare him only, the ball talcing effect in the leg. The wounded prisoner was brought to Danville and placed iu jail, where he has since been suffering intense agony from lock-jaw. The attending physician reports but slight chance of recovery. —Wednesday night a gang of ruffians belonging to an organization known as the “Knights of the Hickory Switch” visited the farm-house of Mrs. Sallie Tipton, in Harrison County, twenty-five miles west of New Albany, took the woman from her bed, and tied her to a tree. They then beat her with hickory sticks until she became insensible. They revived her by throwing water over her, and then again beat her into insensibility. They revived her again and then warned her to leave the place. The motive of the brutality is alleged to be that the gang does not believe Mrs. Tipton to be virtuous.

—Further investigation shows that the liabilities of the Commercial Bank at Brazil will exceed $200,000. The exact value of the assets has not been determined, but it is known they will not be anything near the amount of the indebtedness. The failure is an ugly one. Nearly all the public and private money of the district was lodged in the bank. The failure will lead to the stoppage of several public works which gave employment to the people of tha place. Threats of personal violence against the conductors of the bank continue to be indulged in. —The report of Beceiver J. C. S. Hamson, of the ludi raa Banking Company, was presented at Indianapolis, showing a deficit in excess of $95,000. He claimed that (he funds were placed in the bank, which was then solvent, and used like other deposits; that a panic wrecked the institution, and that it was a physical impossibility for him to save the money. The Judge thought the excuse a competent one, and urged that proceedings in the matter should move slowly. Harrison has not yet securred the $60,000 bail, and the general belief is that his bank was insolvent when he deposited the receivership funds therein. —Thirty years ago Miss Mollie Taylor, of Jefferson, then 15 years of age, adopted daughter of Benjamin and Mary Taylor, disappeared, and as no trace of her whereabouts could be found, it was believed that she had been kidnapped or else drowned. Her disappearance created great excitement at the time. Tuesday she arrived in the city, surprising a number of people she knew before she disappeared. During her thirty years’ absence she led a roving life, having traveled all through the Western Territories, and now comes back povertystricken to five out her days with the woman who took care of her in her infancy.

—A series of horse-poisonings in the neighborhood of Taylorsville, a small town in the northeast part of Warrick County, culminated in the assassination of John L. Bethell, a farmer living near the town. An old man named James Spradley and one of his farm hands, John Ingram, were suspicioned of doing the poisoning, and they were notified by a committee of vigilantes, composed of citizens, to leave the country within ton days. A reward of SSOO was also offered by the committee for information leading to the arrest of the guilty parties. Bethell determined to sift the matter through and earn the reward. Getting Ingram under the influence of whisky one day last week Bethell said he obtained the desired information implicating Ingram and Spradley. On this information Ingram was arrested last Monday. He gave bond and left the country apparently, though it is now supposed he has been in hiding. —W. H. Prouty, formerly Assistant General Passenger Agent of the Indiana, Bloomington and Western, has been appointed to similar service with the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton. J ohn Maktens, 26 years old, was run over by a loaded wagon, at Peru, and his right leg crushed so that amputation was necessary. —Bain spoiled 15,000 bricks on the Logan sport Insane Asylum grounds.