Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A child was born at the Floyd County : Poor Asylum having five fingers and a : thumb on its right hand and six toes on its right foot. —Some miscreants broke into the seminan- at Vernon and destroyed books, pictures, and everything they could lay their hands on. —Weston P. Cary, residing at Pleasant* View, received a bite from some insect in the woods, causing swelling and delirium, which ended in his death. —Mr. Joseph Thompson and Miss Annie Pore, of Eatou, Delaware County, were to have been married a few mornings ago. The paities and guests assembled, but Annie was with an old lover, and refused to take part in the ceremony. —Jerome Q. Stratton, a criminal lawyer of Fort Wayne of much prominence, attempted suicide in his room by cutting his throat with a penknife. He did not succeed owing to the dullness of the instrument, and is considered out of danger. —George, alias “Dotsey" Watson, who was caught in the Madison City Hall on the morning of June 7 trying to open a safe in the Treasurer’s office, has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, and disfranchised for five years. —At a Sunday-school celebration at Hoorefleld, Switzerland County, two brothers named Coleman quarreled with two brothers named Higgins. John Coleman was shot and mortally wounded. His brother, James, was badly beaten with a slungshot. —Samuel Shipley, a farmer living a few miles northwest of Connersville, is the owner of a heifer ten months old that gave birth, a few days ago, to a healthy calf. As the period of inoubution in cattle is nine mouths, this is thought to bo the most astounding case of premature fecundity on record. —At Kokomo, when the wind was blowing, while Emma, the little 3-year-old daughter of O. V. Darby, was playing in the yard, a large ladder that hud been left standing against the house by the painters was blown down, and the little ohild’s bead and body passed between the rounds of the ladder without receiving a scratch. —John Griffin, a policeman, shot and killed Noah Wilson, a colored man, at Logansport. Griffin arrested Wilson for having interfered in a dispute between himself and another policeman. At the station the prisoner made some resistance, and Griffin emptied the contents of his own and a brother officer’s revolver into the prisoner’s body. —Herman Heitman started to walk on the Air-line traok from Duff, Dubois County, to Huntiugburg, While crossing tbe long trestle near Duff, a west-bound freight train entered the trestle. Ab there was no chance to get off he stepped to one side and laid down on the end of the trestle. He did pretty well until the caboose passed over, when something caught in the waistband of his pantaloons, leaving him as naked as when he came into the world. He also received a scratch on his back, but was otherwise unhurt, though it was a close call. —A strange gentleman went into the First Presbyterian Church, at Lafayette, recently, and was seen to drop a S2O gold piece into the plate. After service the pas-* tor called upon him • and thanked him for his generous contribution. A walk was proposed, and the financial status of the church inquired into. The gentleman lives in New York City, is a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church, and gave the pastor his name, telling him he would leave a letter at his hotel directed to him, but not to be opened till a prayer-meeting occurred some nights afterward. It contained a check on a New York bank for $250.