Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — IN DIANE STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

IN DIANE STATE NEWS.

—The thirteenth annual temperance meeting of the Whitewater Valley, at Liberty, was attended by 10,000 people. —A company has been organized at South Bend, Ind., with a capital of $150,000, to build a belt railway seven miles in length. —Harry Long, a 12-year-old son of J. M. Long, died at Munice from injuries received from falling astride a slump from a shed attic. —The Valley Mills Postoffice was raided by burglars, who blew open the safe and secured $125. Several scores of undelivered letters were also rifled. New Albany goes back to solar time by an order of the City Council passed lately. So all the clocks in the city will have to be moved up eighteen minutes. —Because he was unable to pay for his homestead. Henry Winter, a German of Lafayette, 48 years old, a widower with four children, hanged himself in his hay-mow. James Bruce a lad, 19 years of age, bled to death at his home, two miles north of Moore’s Hill. His death was the result of obstinate bleeding at the nose, which the physicians were unable to arrest. —A colored camp-meeting which had been in progress at Logansport for ten days, was closed by the arrest of Rev. Matthew Henderson, the boy preacher, for eloping from Rensselaer with a white woman named Henderson. —. A band of lightning-rod swindlers was recently attacked by a mob in AndJrson. One of them was roughly handled, and he and his companions were advised to leave town by the first train, which they proceeded to do without argument. —ln Green Township, Warrick County, the family of Simon Flack was chloroformed, and a window removed and two trunks were taken from the room in which the family was sleeping. The trunks were broken open and about S3OO stolen. —James H. Miller, Town Marshal of Hope, has been married to Miss Lucretia Schwartz. Miller is now under arrest for killing a man at Hope some few weeks ago. Miss Schwartz was the principal witness against him, but now that she is his wife her testimony will not be admissible.

As Louis Graham, of Zanesville, Ohio, was going between two freight cars at the crossing at Mitchell, his feet got caught in the coupling, smashing one of them in a horrible manner, and the other was considerably hurt. For the last year he has been working at Bedford. —Mrs. Snapp, an aged lady, living at Lundesville, a smalltown eight miles northeast of Marion, died recently from the effects of drinking some of the fluid from a galvanic battery. Haring been sick and afflicted for some time, she became despondent and took the fluid with suicidal intent. —So unfortunate have theL., N. A. &C. people been with their bridges that every bridge on the system is undergoing a most careful examination, and where needed new bridges will be constructed. Two are now building, one over Bean Blossom Creek, near Stineville, and another over Clear Creek, near Bloomington. —James Shackle, who had not been seen or heard of for forty years, and who was long since supposed to be dead, made his appearance at his brother’sHn Morristown, a few days ago. Mr. Shackle says that thirty years ago he was captured by the Indians in what is now known as Colorado, and held in captivity for nearly eight years. —A little boy walked into the police station at Kansas City and announced that he had walked from Indiana—having been four months on the road—to see the West. He was not discouraged and proposed to continue his travels, but the Chief of Police detained him until his friends could be communicated with.

—Catharine Davis, an aged lady, residing with her son near Clinton Falls, Putnam County, was burned to.death. The family were absent at church, and on their return they found her body in the yard burned to a crisp. It is supposed the fire was communicated to her clothing in-doors and that she ran out to save the house from destruction. —An engine drawing a freight train exploded near Decatur. Barney Welsh, the engineer, was fatally mangled, and Charles Hendershot, the fireman, died of his injuries within an hour. Six cars of lumber were burned, and the track was destroyed for several hundred feet. While clearing the wreck caused by the locomotive explosion the charred remains of two persons were found. It is supposed that they were tramps, who were stealing a ride. —At Fort Wayne, the jury in the trial of Fred Richards, for the murder of Amos Bockesto, in Adams County, brought in a verdict of guilty and sentenced him to be hanged. The history of this case is very sensational. Richards and Buckesto were enemies, and feared each other. They were continually fighting. Richards the night of April 24 went to Bockesto’s farm-house about midnight and murdered Bockesto, and with pals compelled Mrs. Bockesto to give them all the money they had in the house. When Richards was arrested on suspicion a mob of 500 took him from the Sheriff of Decatur to hang him. But on account of the mob failing to secure masks they were compelled to release him. The case was taken to Fort Wayne on a change of venue. —Henry Thornton, colored, aged 35, was sentenced tp the penitentiary for three years and fined SIOO in the Jefferson Circuit Court for marrying Mary Stout, a white girl aged 21 years. —Griff Treadway, who left Columbus years ago a young man, has just died in California unmarried, leaving, it is said, an estate of $3,000,000. His Relatives all reside at Columbus. —Perin Carr, an old citizen of Jeffersonrille, died at his home nged'bO.