Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A careless hunter set fire to a tract of meadow on the farm of D. Sayre, near i Wabash, and destroyed about fifty tons of ! bay. a large quantity of fencing, and almost ! reached a bam. —A tramp who was refused lodging at a farm-house near Indianapolis spent the night in the orchard, and on leaving Sunday morning he set fire to a strawstack and caused the destruction of all the out- | buildings. —On recommendation of the bondsmen ! of thq late W. S. Lingle, as Postmaster at Lafayette, John G. Sample has been appointed temporarily to the position, serving under the same bond as that of the deceased Postmaster. —The University of Notre Dame has received from the King of Spain a copy of the ancient portrait of Columbus recently found at Madrid, and from a resident of Shanghai a library of Chinese works with Latin translations. —The five-year-old son of Melven Chasteen, who lives near Lexington, was sent to his father’s stable t.) git a horse. The boy walked up behind the animal and slapped its leg, when it kicked the boy with both feet in the breast and face, killing him instantly. —The report of tho State Geologist shows that there are 206 coal mines in nineteen different counties of the State, employing 5,400 men, receiving $1,500,000, producing 2,500,000 tons of coal, and requiring a capital of nearly $2,000,000 for their operation. —The 14-year-old daughter of Alexander Jones wns helping to haul hay, near Nashville, in the wagon, when the horses got into a yellow-jackets’ ne it and ran away, throwing her off. She fell between the horses and tho wagon and was kicked to death, dying almost instantly. —A few days ago a young mnn living near Moscow, Hush County, by the name of JDavid Duel, came home from Greensburg deathly siok. Ho was treated for fever, but died in a few days. It was then found that he had been terribly beaten by some unknown parties, and liis death was tho result of the injuries he had received. —Proceedings in insanity were instituted recently against Henry Quillen, a well-to-farmer near Columbus. Within the last three venrs his wife and seven childen have died of that dreaded disease, consumption, and of tho two remaining children, one of them now lies at death’s door. Mr. Quillen, in his vagaries, imagines that Satan is following him continually, and will hide in his bam or anywhere to kill him. —Miss Mary A. Adams, a pretty girl, eight miles out of Vincennes, who took chloroform, while her friends were at church, ami was found dead by a neighbor who happened to call, was supposed to have committed the fatal act to bide her shame, but a post-mortem showed such not to be the fact. Her parents died years ago, and she had since lived wilh the family of John Welton. Why she should have killed herself is still a mystery. Hhe was only fifteen.

—A decision has just been rendered in Tipton County, in the celebrated Legg and Patterson case, which was a suit brought by tho Patterson heirs to recover 297 acres of real estate which B. F. Legg sold while he was administrator of the John Patterson estate. Mr. Legg's son bought the land, but a deed was made in a few days transferring it to B. F.' Legg. Tho suit was an important one, as it involved about $20,000. The Judge decided that the land should go back to tho heirs, nnd that the heirs should pay Mr. Legg $5,300 purchase l-.ouey. At the commencement of the suit the Patterson heirs tendered Mr. Legg $5,995 in gold. —A queer case of somnambulism occurred near North Vernon, which was a narrow escape from death. J. S. Thompson and his son, a youth of 16, of Bdartansburg, 8. C., were en route on the east-bound train from Louisville to Cincinnati. When the train arrived at North Vernon Mr. Thompson missed the boy, and he took the return train to Louisville to look for his boy’s remains, as no one doubted but he was either dead or dangerously wounded. The boy was found about sixteen miles from North Vernon. He had walked out of the car and off the train, without hat or shoes, when the train was running about forty miles per hour. The fall knocked him senseless for some time, bruising and scratching him badly, but otherwise he was uninjured. —Col. Wm. C. Rise, a soldier of two wars, died at his home in Lebanon, aged 69 years. Col Kise was a native of Kentucky, bat with his father he came to Indiana in 1821. He was a Second Lieutenant in Col. James H. Lane’s Indiana regiment (the Fifth) in the Mexican war. Within seven days after the attack on Sumter in 1861 he raised a company, of which he was elected Captain, and which becime a part of the Tenth Indiana Volunteers. Upon the reorganization of the regiment for the ihree years’ service he was made Lieutenant Colonel, and subsequently Colonel. In 1862 ill health drove him from the army, but immediately upon his recovery he raised the One Hundred and Sixteenth Indiana Regiment, which he commanded thereafter. Col. Kise has been exceptionally popular in the State, especially with the soldier element, since the war.

—The Rev. H. S. Jordan, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Shelbyville, has received a call from the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Chicago at an increased salary. The members of his church are opposed to his leaving them. —At Columbia City, William Grand was fatally shot while engaged with others in stoning a house of ill-fame. —ln Muncie is a tomato vine which is feet high and still growing. i