Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A school-house in Hanover township, Jefferson County, was burned last week. The fire was incendiary. —Ross Jk Fosdick’s storo, at Liberty, was robbed of flour, tobacco, and other articles, amounting to about $l5O. —Thomas Tweedy, 65 years old, one of the wealthiest farmers of Warwick Couuty, was kicked to death by n mule. —At Crawfordsvillo Guy Stockton, while walking in his sleep, stepped out of a sec-ond-story window and broke his leg. —George Bennett, a farmer living five miles west of Lebanon, wns kicked by a horse, and died five minutes afterward. —ln attempting to perform a “circus act,” Henry A. Shaffer, a little boy, hanged himself in his father’s barn near Dolphi. —Near Sullivan, W. C. McKee, while returning home from a field where he had been at work all day, dioppeddead from his horse. —A man named Brannan, living nenf Dunkirk, was kicked by a horse at Muncie, losing several teeth and being badly disfigured. —Jeffersonville has a keno bank, patronized extensively by colored men and women, that is doing an exceekingly prosperous business. —The body of Whistler, one of the victims of the Greely expedition, will be buried at Delphi. The remains will be buried with impressive ceremonies. —While engnged in turning a hub in the factory of Williams Bros. A Hamilton, at Greenfield, Charles Coohran was seriously hurt in the face by the hub bursting. —Charles Morris, 20 years old, living near North Vernon, was thrown from a buggy against a fence, his skull being fractured. His recovery is doubtful. —The County Superinteneent of St. Joseph Couuty received his list of examination papers last week, but found the end of the envelope torn off, and one set missing. —Lucie Hughes, of Muncie, 10 years of age, made a nearly successful attempt to strangle herself with her garter because her mother punished her for neglecting tho baby. —A 5-year-old son of Marion Harter, living a few miles west of Winchester, was kicked by a vicious horse. His skull wns fractured, and it is feared the injury will prove fatal. —The 3-year-old son of Lafayette Jackson, living north of Centerville, wns scalded to death by falling into a tub of boiling water which his mother had arranged for washing purposes. —At Paris Crossing, John Vance, a young man from Lovett, wns thrown from a buggy by his hois3 falling down. Dangerous wounds were inflicted, tho result of which cannot yet be determined. —Leslie Bishop, a young farmer of Johnson Township, Knox County, died in great agony. He was stacking straw', and slid down on a pitchfork which lacerated him terribly. He leaves a wife aud two children.

—Burglars are raiding farm-houses in Bartholomew County. Near Wulesboro, Frank Sluder’s residence was burglarized, and ho lost $lO and a gold watch. Frank Pearcefield's pantaloons, containing $52, were also taken. —While practicing on the Shelbyville track, Miss Nellie Burke, tho rider, was thrown from her stallion, Hancock, but not seriously hurt, while, by rushing against a fence, the horse, which was valued at $2,000, was impaled, and died on the spot. —The Connersville City Council, on petition of about one hundred business men, has passed an ordinance prohibiting all use of fire-crackers, cannon skyrockets, nnd pyrotechnic devices of ull kinds within the city limits. The penalty is placed at $25. —Mnj. Blackburn, of Cincinnati, and T. E. Powell, of Delaware, Ohio, were in Indianapolis, last week, urging upon Gov. Porter a postponement of the execution of Charles W. Butler, sentenced to be hanged Oct. 10, by the Whitley County Court for the murder of his wife in 1883. The postponement is asked in order that opportunity may be afforded for the preparation of evidence which is to accompany an appeal for the commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment. This evidence, it is claimed, can not be prepared in less than three months, and will cover 1,201) pages. The case is a celebrated one, both for the atrocity of the crime and the prominence of the attorneys employed. Gov. Porter took the matter under advisement. —A serious shooting affray took place at Centerton, Morgan County, in which Pink May, the keeper of a saloon at that place, anjl a colored man—Ben Evans —were dangerously if not fatally wounded. The quarrel began over a game of pool, May ' charging Evans with cheating. Evans denied the charge, and a general quarrel ensued. May and his wife both drew revolvers and began firing. Some seven or eight shots passed, one of which lodged in the thigh of Evans nnd one striking May in the abdomen. May and Evans were both placed under arrest by Sheriff Hallim, but were not able to be removed from their homes. They were both held under S3OO bonds. May has borne a bad reputation for some time. Evans was an employe in the State brickyard, and was known as a peaceable citizen. His home is in Indianapolis. —Joseph Grainger, aged 8 years, while playing on the platform at the junction of the Evansville and Terre Haute Bailroad and Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Air Line, attempted to jump' on a car of a local freight train just coming in. Missing his hold he fell with both legs across the track, three cars passing over them, cutting the left leg off above the kneo and the right above the ankle. —The little wooden steamer on Lake, Marinkuckee has gone to pieces.