Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Thieves robbed Rosewood Postoffice, Harrison County, of $lO and all the postage stamps. —There was an original homestead entry of forty acres in Indiana in the year ending June 30 last. —Thus far this year 228 building permits, aggregating $199,745, have been taken out in Evansville. —Salem oolitic limestone is to be used in the new Georgia State House at Atlanta, which is to cost $862,756. —Mrs. John Baltorff, at Speed’s Mills, apparently in good health, was seizad with a chill and died in a few minutes. —At Monroe City, Joseph Barnett shot his father-in-law, William R. Johnson, inflicting what is deemed a fatal wound. —The DePauw glass works, at New Albany, are not running the full number of furnaces, owing to inability to secure glassblowers. —lndications are that the attendance at De Pauw University this year will reach 655. The senior class is the largest in the history of the University. —The Citizens’ National Bank of Indianapolis, which has never passed a dividend, has allowed its charter to expire, and will next month go out of business. —Miss Emma Wagner, daughter ’of a hotel proprietor at Terre Haute, eloped to the West with a turfman named Jacob Ayres, after several unsuccessful attempts. —Dr. W. A. Burney, the well-known colored physician of New Albany, has been appointed honorary commissioner of the department of exhibibits by colored people at the/World’s Fair in New Orleans. —One of, the preachers who have been conducting the Holiness camp meetings throughout Pike and Daviess Counties in the last few months, who has passed for a man, revealed her sex unmistakably by becoming the mother of a vigorous child. —The Indiana yearly meeting of Orthodox Friends was held at Richmond, Clerk Charles T. Coffin, who has officiated for twenty-seven years, calling the gathering to order. The meeting comprised thirteen quarterly meetings, and has a membership in excess of 18,000.

—Alex. Hutchins, druggist at Lancaster, eight miles southeast of Portland, committed suicide by hanging. He tied the rope to a rafter in the barn and jumped off a barrel. Mental aberration is assigned as t_a cause. Hutchins was 50 years old and leaves a widow and three children in fair circumstances. —Peter Wright, aged about 70 years, and one of Bartholomew County’s best citizens, and agent for the Cincinnati, Indianapolis . and St. Louis Railroad at Hartsville Crossing, was attacked by an angry bull, while feeding his hogs, and horned up against the gate, breaking the bones of his right breast. He is lying in a critical condition. —The reported drowning by accident of Miss Mary E. Coffin, formerly of Spice- . land, in the River Rhine, is discredited by some of her friends in Henry County, who ■fear foul play in the matter. The only known witnesses of the occurrence were two young men, who claim to have been too far away to render any assistance,-but who recovered her hat and took it to. the police station. —Two cents’ worth of common sense would have told the mob that Date Lameh and George Richards would not be likely ’ to confess themselves murderers simply because the mob threatened to hang them and did choke them a little with ropes. Why a man should be expected to make a confession that would surely provoke the mob to hang him when by stoutly maintaining his innocence he stands some show of being released is one of the things known only to a mob. — Chicago Daily News. —Finley Newlin, who has long been a trusted clerk in the Auditor’s office in Wayne County, has been appointed by the Commissioners to succeed Peter P. Kirn and serve out his term. Newlin has given bond in the sum of $250,000, with Abram Gaar, J. M. Gaar and Andrew J. Scott as sureties, and now fills the office. Mr. Kim had for bondsmen the officers of the defunct Richmond National Bank, and when the bank closed he had something over SIOO,OOO of county money deposited there. It appearing that the bond was not sufficient, the Commissioners called on Kirn for an additional bond, and this he was unable to give. The result is hard on Kirn, whose administration of the office has been efficient in every way. —Judge Mcßride, of the Steuben Circuit Court, recently rendered a decision in the famous Steuben tax assessment cases. He held that what is known as the “unassessed two-thirds” could not be assessed by the Auditor—that is, an assessment once made, and having passed the Board of Equalization, could not be increased, although, perchance, assessors had rated property worth SIO,OOO at SI,OOO. It was also held that the contract with the County Auditor whereby he was to receive a per cent, of one-third on all property listed by him and his experts was void. It was further held that,, while the contract was void, and no compensation could be had under it, the assessments made on all omitted property back as far as 1881 were void. Concerning this last point an appeal has been taken to the Supreme Court. —So warm is the feeling of attachment to Rev. Dr. Wakefield that daily many letters and messages are received at Richmond protesting against the step be has taken in accepting the rectorship of Trinity Church, San Jose, Cal. Dr. Wakefield’s long residence in Richmond has borne rich fruit in the friendship and high esteem of the community and the warm affection of those who have known him best. —The closing out of the bank at Clay City leaves but one bank in Clay county.