Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Apples are a good crop in Howard and ' Wabash Counties. ! —About fifty new students have been l enrolled at Hanover College. —President Smart Las ordered two microscopes for Purdue University, to cost ! s‘2so. —Work on the Insane Asylum building at Logansport is being pushed rapidly forward. —While being shaved at Terre Haute, Samuel S. Early, a wealthy citizen, died in the chair. —Storm’s'tile factory and a large warej house at Stockwell were destroyed by fire, j the loss being $7,000. —John Minton, while racing with a companion near Fairmount, was thrown from his horse and killed. —J ohn Overmyer, a farmer residing near Winamac, was killed by the stroke of a plowshare in the hands of his insane son. —The De Pauw glass-works at New Albany are not running the full number of furnaces, owing to inability to secure glassblowers. —At Martinsville John Thurman was instantly beheaded by falling on the circular saw at Connor's mills. Both legs were also cut off. —A boiler explosion nearly demolished he flouring mill of Ernpton & Callender, at 1 incennes, and fatally injured Thomas Dhildius, the engineer. —Mr. John G. Dreimen, of Vincennes, has on exhibition a chicken with only one head but two perfectly formed bodies, four wings, four legs, and four feet. —William Flick, of Orange County, while waiting for a train on the L.. N. A. & C., it Crawfordsville, laid down upon the platform, and braced one foot against the rail. The train came along and cut off the foot. —The matters in dispute between the heirs of Gustavus H. Voss, deceased, wera compromised at Indianapolis. The real estate will be portioned upon the basis of equality among the four children. This will give them about $60,000 apiece. —J ohn F. Douham was killed in an altercation by John Stoops, near Cory. Both were farmers. Their quarrel was the result of au old feud. During the shooting a man named Gardner interfered, and was shot iu the arm and neok. —John T. Briggs, oashier of the Louisville and Nashville freight depot at Evansville, has absconded, leaving the company $3,000 short. Briggs has been living a fast life of late aud his downfall was caused by his sporting propensities of all kinds. He is 25 years old, and has been in the employ of the road eleven years. —Rev. Joseph Tarkington, of Greensburg, was in attendance at the meeting of the Southeast Indiana Conference at Seymour. This was Mr. Tarkington’s sixtieth conference, he having entered the ministry in 1824. He is 84 years old, and in vigorous health.

—Heed E. Beard has been admitted to practice in the Tippecanoe courts. Mr. B. is blind, and has accqnired his legd information by having the law, as laid down in the books, read to him. It is thought to be the only case on record whore a blind man has been educated for the law. —A “Macreme Lace Company” consisting of three men and two women have been working Vincennes. Fearing exposure they fled, having swindled twenty-three young ladies for $3 each. Their plan is to collect that sum in advance from girls for teaching them a new style of lace work. —John Decker, living a few miles below Vincennes, obtained two kinds of medicine from a physician—morphine for himself, »nd something else for a year-old baby. During the night a dose was administered to the child, and, as it happened to be the morphine, it caused death in a short time. —Secretary Teller says there is no truth in the report that Col. Dudley’s resignation of the Pensions Commissionership was requested. The resignation was entirely voluntary on the part of Col. Dudley. It will not go into effect until Nov. 10. No appointment will be made before that date. —Elder George E. Flower, pastor of the Christian Church at Paducah, Ky., died at Evansville recently, aged 37. He was educated at Butler University, and began preaching in Evansville in 1868. He was a great-grandson of Bichard Flower, who headed the English colony that settled at Albion, 111., in 1818. —Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Hancock, of Indianapolis, who had been married two months, retired to bed and imbibed four ounces of laudanum nnd chloroform each, soon becoming unconscious. Friends happened to call at their house and discovered their condition, when medical help was invoked, and both were saved from death. —The case of the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias vs. Clara Schmidt, affirmed in the Supreme Court, establishes the principle that certificates of membership in the insurance department of benevolent associations must be liberally construed in favor of the beneficiaries, and that no admission of the member himself can be received in evidence to invalidate the claim of the beneficiaries under the certificate, since they have a vested right in the certificate from the time it is issued. —Eight men employed at a brick-yard near Hammond started a row in a saloon. One man was killed with a shot-gun, another was stabbed in the breast with a pitchfork, and two others received serious wounds. —John J. Sample, one of the bondsmen of the late Postmaster, has been appointed Postmaster at Lafayette, for four years. —Peru has twenty-one lawyers, fourteen of whom are uuder 30 years of age.