Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Anna Mclntyre, a woman of bad re-| pute, is in jail at Winchester for horsd stealing. —Ward F. B. Yarnelle, a demented preacher, committed suicide at by throwing himself in front of a passenger train. —August Nelp, a local sport, engaged in a wrestling bout with a stranger on thd fair grounds at Peru, and came out second best, and also with a broken leg. —Moses Fowler, of Lafayette, thq largest farmer in Indiana, who owns 30,000 acres under cultivation in Bentoq County, will have 400,000 bushels of corn this year and 5,000 tons of hay. —Tramps chloroformed George W. Brockway, five miles northwest of Lafayette, and robbed him of over S2OO in money and notes. Mrs. Brockway saw them, but was kept quiet by threats. —At Switz City, James Rankin was fatally wounded by his brother George, while being taught how to handle a self-cocking revolver. The latter, overwhelmed with grief at the accident, sent a bullet into his own head. —Crawford County has a citizen named John Brock, 92 years old, who claims to have fought under Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. The other day he walked a mile and a half to witness the raising of a Democratic pole, and then walked back again. —A well-known, eccentric character at Richmond, named Dick Hudson, whose favorite resort was the river, where he has saved more drowning persons than a few, either unconsciously or with suicidal intent walked into deep water, adjacent to the city, and was drowned. —At a ball at Milan a few nights since, a German couple from Pmttsburg, Charles Sherman and Miss Statlander, wagered that they could waltz longer than the fiddlers could play. The contest lasted for an hour and twenty-eight minutes, when the giddy couple fell to the floor from exhaustion. —Henry Dieck, aged 12 years, went to the woods, west of Seymour, to gather elderberries. Some three hours Inter Dr. W. M. Casey was returning from a visit to the country and found Dieck in a ditch along the Ohio and Mississippi Road, suffering from severe convulsions. The Doctor procured help and removed him to a neighbor’s house near by. He is of the opinion that it is the result of eating poisonous berries. The boy’s condition is considered critical.

—There is the prospect of a lively war nt Hammond, over a right of way between the Michigan Central and Chicago and Alton Roads on one side and the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago on the other. The latter road intends to cross the two former roads, and has its new track Inid up to the resisting roads on either side. The Michigan Central track is held down by two engines and the Chicago and Alton is loaded down with freight cars. All three roads have a force of men on hand and watch is kept up night and day. —The discovery has been made that Treasurer Gobin, of Montgomery County, is short about $12,000 in the funds of the county. The cause of the shortage is not yet known, but the amount of the deficit has been replaced in full by Mr. Gobin, and he now demands of the Board of Commissioners that a competent man be appointed to make a thorough investigation of the Treasurer's and Auditor’s offices, and ascertain the cause of the shortage. If it is caused by error it will be rectified, and if by dishonesty on the part of a clerk, he will have to suffer the consequences. —On Monday night Philip P. Sherb, of this city, went out into his yard and chanced to glance up at the sky. He was surprised, he says, to see the whole southern heavens filled with two armies, apparently engaged in fighting. He could descry their banners, artillery, and horses, and note distinctly the forms of the men. Occasionally he saw the flash of the big guns, and stood gazing, wondering, and appalled at the spectacle. He says the armies were fighting and moving slowly northward. The legions had not the appearance of clouds. He is an educated man, and not given to superstition.—-RicTtmond Palladium.

—Cnpt. J. R. Clayton, of Shelbyville tells a remarkable story of a bible found near Atlanta during the war. He says: “One morning, while on the march from Atlanta, Ga., to Savannah, in passing across a field, one of the horses, a few yards in front of me, struck an object which, on nearing, I saw was a book. Swinging down in my saddle I picked it up and found it to be a well-worn and well-read family Bible. On the fly-leaf was the following inscription: ‘Phila E. Whitehead; from her mother; Bath, 1852.’ I brought this Bible home with me and at once began to search for the owner by advertising and corresponding with Postmasters. A notice through the Louisville Courier-Journal brought a letter from a correspondent who proved to be Mrs. Phila Edgeworth Neeley, now of Brooklyn, N. Y. Her maiden name was Miss Phila E. Whitehead, and her home was Bath, Richmond County, Ga. Her son Robert C. Neeley,writes: ‘When the Federal troops advanced, passing right through our place, we left for Southwest Georgia, and the Bible was lost in our flight.’ The Bible has been sent to her and will.no doubt rerive many memories of that bitter conflict.”

—At Valparaiso as a large stone was being raised to the third story of the new courthouse, it fell and struck Edward Hewes, a workman, and instantly killed him. Hewes was a resident of Warsaw and unmarried. •’ —Randolph Heiser, who recently made the remarkable run of 461 points in a balkline game of billiards at Long Branch, was once a resident of Kokomo. —David H. Conrad, an old resident of Cass County, died recently, aged 84.