Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A large microscope purchaser! in Europe, belonging to the Vincennes University, and valued at $250, is mysteriously missing. —Oscar Garlinghouse, of Madison, who was seriously cut by his brother, will probably recover. —Mrs. Thomas Randall died at her residence, in Shelbyville, at an advanced age. She was a leading member of the M. E. Church. —John H. Zahn, of Marion, fell dead of heart disease. Mr. Zahn was County Recorder eight years and Clerk of the court four years. —The family of Mr. Ball, who lives near Muncie, were poisoned, but not fatally, by eating watermelon into which paiis green had been injected. —Capt. John C. Smith, the father of Mrs. Richard J. Bright, died at Madison. He had been a leading merchant and banker in that city since 1830. —Puck Welsh, of Columbia City, while stealing a ride on a freight train, jumped off at the Blue River bridge and fell fifty feet to the rocks below. He is still living, but will die. —Councilman F. C. Balts, of Ft. Wayne, agent of the Louisiana Lottery Association, has been fined S4OO in the United States Court, for sending lottery circulars through the United States mail. —The Purdue University class now contains sixty-five young men and women, the largest number known in the history of the institution. The university is somewhat hampered by lack of money. —A vacant house on the farm of Zedekiah Powell, near Calloway’s, Jefferson County, was burned by an incendiary. Besides the building, 175 bushels of potatoes stored there were destroyed. —The 7-year-old son of Ovid Connor, of Wabash, fell from a seccnd-story window to the sidewalk below, a distance of sixteen feet, and received injuries which may prove fatal. The lad alighted upon his head. —On account of ill-health, Henry L. Wilson, after an ownership of two years, has sold the daily and weekly Lafayette Jour~ ndl to W. I. Florence and Ross W. Scott, of Delphi. The price is said to be $14,000. —Bishop Knickerbocker has recommended to the vestry of Christ Church, Madison, Rev. F. A. Dosset, to be rector in place of Rev. Edward Bindley, resigned. He also recommended Rev. William B. Walker, of Now York. The vestry has not decided what to do. Mrs. Frances Richie, of Vincennes, has sued William Fields, n well-to-do farmer, for S6OO. Mrs. Richie’s son George wei t into Fields’ watermelon patch, with a crowd of boys, and Fields filled him full of shod? Hence the suit —George Brock and James Daws, of Bono Township, Lawrence County, got into a dispute nt the Lee School-house, seven' miles east of Mitchell, over an old feud. In the melee Brock drew a revolver and shot Daws through the lungs, inflicting a probably fatal wound. —Rev. David Walk, pastor of Central Christian Church, in Indianapolis, and for thirty-one years a minister of the gospel, some years ago bought for $1,500 five acres of ground near Kansas City, Mo. The property is now worth SIOO,OOO, and Mr. Walk talks of selling it and visiting the Holy Land. —Three weeks ago the District Schoolhouse, one mile west of Connersville, was burned down by an incendiary. The school authorities (hen procured another building in the neighborhood, and fitted it up as a temporary substitute. The repairs were hardly .completed, ’ when, on Saturday night, it also was fired and burned down.

—The establish ment of a free public library in New Albany is an enterprise of which the citizens are justly proud. The collection of the subscriptions to the library fund made by the citizens is now going forward, the necessary tax in its aid has been levied, under the law, by the School Trustees, and the purchase of the books will soon be made. —A statement was presented showing that there have been within the Indiana yearly meeting, during the past year, 350 births and '2Ol deaths. There were received jnto the meeting during the year 939 persons by request, and 189 by certificate. The total membership of the meeting has increased during the year about 658, and is now 19,434, classified thus: Families, 5,322; isolated members, 1,935; under 21 years of age, 7,279; established meetings, 142; recorded ministers, 232; meetings without recorded ministers, 37. During the year 298 persons have removed by certificate. 165 have been disowned, and 156 have resigned. The females outnumber the males by 1,000. —Elmer S. Adams was arrested at Indianapolis as a deserter from the Eighth United States Infantry and for carrying concealed weapons, His company is serving in Utah, and while there he corresponded with Miss M. Scallon, of Indianapolis. He deserted, and upon reaching that city he found the lady under promise of marriage, and as she would not break her engagement he threatened the lives of both the lady and her intended, and purchased a revolver and an extra quantity of ammunition with which to carry out his murderous intentions. This led to his arrest. —Mrs. Stephen Burlingame was found dead in a cistern at her home near Moore’s Hill last week. She had been absent frOm her family only half an hour when found, but on recovering the body life was extinct. As she had provided herself with a rope, it is evident that she had intended to end her life by hanging, but noticing the open cistern at the barn, she chose drowning. There is no doubt that she was insane. —Rev. J. M. Robinson, of Indianapolis, died in a sleeping berth, on u Pullman car