Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A postoffice has been established a( Balaka, Randolph County. —Chaplain McCabe dedicated a Methodist church at Richmond, which cost $73,001). —Herbert Sparks, a 13-year-old boy living two miles above Rising Sun, was kicked by a mule and killed. —Harry, a little two-year-old son of William Purtlebaugh, residing on the bank of Wolf Creek, near Columbus, fell into the creek an l was drowned. —The County Commissioners of Clarke will offer a reward of SI,OOO for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer of Mrs. Reynolds, who was killed by an unknown burglar. —Mattie Freemin, a young woman employed as a domestic in Washington, attempted to kill herself the other day with a revolver. She shot herself twice, one bullet entering her breast, the other her mouth. She is in a critical state. —A flock of wild geese, dazzled by the glare, flew against the Brush electric light on the dome of the Court House at Wabash, broke four globes, and inflicted such damage that it will require some time to repair it. Three of the geese were killed by the shock. —Paities rowing on Clear Lake, in the noitliern edge of St. Joseph County, found a drowned man standing erect on the bottom with the top of his head barely out of water. It is believed from letters found in the pockets that it was the body of Arnold Hoess. • —David A. Fish died at Sharpsville in the sixtieth year of bis age. He held the office of Country Treasurer from 1868 to 1870, since which time he has been one of the best-known farmers of Tipton County and a man noted for his many good deeds and charitable acts. —Three men left a hotel at Lafontnine, paying their bill in silver dollars, some of which, after their departure, were found to be bogus. They were overhauled and arrested, one of the party turning informer. Besides disposing of many spurious dollars, they also put in circulation counterfeit S2O silver certificates of excellent workmanship. —Prof. George Hubbard, principal of the lower seminary, at Madison, administered a slight punishment to Emma Stanley, aged 14, for persisting in whispering in class, and sent her home temporarily suspended. The girl's father, Harry Stanley, went to the school, knocked Hubbard down with his fist, and horsewhipped him. Papers are out for Stanley’s arrest. —The Circuit Court has divorced Mrs. Louisa Doolittle from Henry C. Doolittle, now serving a fifteen-years’ sentence for attempting to kill her in Connersville several months ago. The court finds that he married her under a false name, his true name being Henry C. Davis. In the decree the wife’s maiden name of Smith is restored, and the custody of the little girl is given to her.

—W. F. Walker and Noah Hayes, patients at the State Insane Asylum, quarreled in their ward the other night, and Hayes was struck by Walker a savage blow on the head with a floor-rubber, from which ae died a few hours later. His skull was crushed. The attendant was out of the ward at the time, but says neither of the men had been regarded as dangerous, although Walker had sometimes engaged in scuflies with patients. The deceased was from Terre Haute. —The proposition made by the Commissioners of Wayne County to Peter P. Kirn and his bondsmen has been accepted. A mortgage has been executed on real estate to secure any deficit that may occur in the amount of money that the county had on deposit in the Richmond National Bank, and the Commissioners will withdraw the suit commenced against Mr. Kirn, who, all agree, acted in good faith and is held blameless for the unfortunate state of affairs that now exists. —Rafferty & Southerland’s dry goods store at Springville, .Lawrence County, was entered, and $1,400 taken from the safe. Twelve hundred dollars of tho amount belonged to Dr. Short, who had left it there for safe keeping. After getting the money the robber went to Mr. Southerland's stable and took two horses and rode away in plain view of several men who were sitting within 100 yards of the store. The horses were found afterward twelve miles from Springville, near Harrodsburg, where, it is thought, the robber boarded a train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad. A reward of S3OO is offered for the arrest of the thief. —A telegram from New Albany says: At 11 o’clock last night, at Palmyra, Harrison County, a party of thirty women, disguised in men’s clothes, rode up to the liquor saloon of William Bott, and demanded admission of Bott, whose residence is in the house with the saloon. Enforcing the demand with drawn revolvers, they were admitted to the house, aud at once set to work and broke all the decanters, glasses, and other furniture of the bar, and knocked in. tho beads of all the barrels and kegs, and poured out the liquor. They then gave Bott notice that if he reopened the saloon they would pay him another visit and lynch h'.m, as they did not intend to tolerate the o.Je of liquor in the town. Bott is looking for another location.

—Ed Thixten, of ftashville, went into the woods sqnirrel-hunting, and, failing to return home, search was instituted, and-His dead body was found lying in the woods, his gun and two squirrels iu his hand, and one barrel of the gun empty. It is thought Thixten attempted to blow in the muzzle, of his gun, ns the charge had entered his mouth, ranging upward, coming out at the top of his head. —Judge David McConnell died at his home in Oxford, aged 92J