Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Henry Dott was killed at the Rose Lank coal mines, near Huntingburg. —Three thousand men have signed the Murphy temperance pledge in Indianapolis. —The turbine wheel in a flonring-m : ll at Wabash was twice stopped by eels from the canal. * - —Jacob Shoos, a tanner, is mysteriously missing from his home in New Albany. His friends fear foul play. • —Oscar Woods, of Kingston, is in jail at Greenfield for shooting Fletcher Grant. The wound is not serious. —Stamper White, a wealthy citizen of Rush County, wns robbed of S2BO, by burglars entering bis residence. —At Jeffersonville, George Davis, who murdered his step-father, Oscar Gallagher, at New Albany, last summer, was acquitted. —Thomas Smith, of Vallonia, in attempting to cross the railroad track, was struck by an engino and severely, perhaps fatally, hurt. —Jefferson Holm, Jr., an attorney, of Rushville, son of Dr. Jefferson Helm, the wealthiest man in the county, died quite suddenly of apoplexy. —The store of L. H. Riggs, at Eden, was robbed of goods and money amounting to over S3OO. The postofflee, in the same building, was also robbed of stamps and office supplies. —At Laurel, Oliver Bryant, aged 16 years, was very seriously injured about the face, aud had one ear nearly cut in two, by his driving against a wire guy-rope. He is in a critical condition.

—J. H. Cain shot and killed a fine specimen of the Bald Eagle at Four Mile Spring, near Jeffersonville. Tho bird measured five feet four inches from tip to tip of wings. Tho specimen is to bo stuffed. —Joseph Smith, a drayman, fur twentyfive years a resident of Michigan City, nvd a well-to-do citizen, died from an overdose of laud mum with suicidal intentions. Domestic infelicity was the cause. He leaves a large family. —The house of George Forrester, near Boston, Spencer County, was set on fire, it is supposedly a tramp who had been refused lodging, and burned to the ground. In trying to escape from the burning bouse Mrs. Forrester was killed by u beam falling upon her. —At Fort Wayne, Michael Slmughnessy, while going to his work, ivalkiftg on. the track of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne qqd Chicago Road, stepped to the other truck to let the limited express pass, and wgis struck by a passenger train going in an opposite direction, and killed. —Henry Mnnderbach, a young man of Winchester, while engaged in a pkfjftil scuffle in his father's grocery, was thrown agiinst a show-case, breaking the glass and completely severing the muscles of his right forearm. Tho ivouud is a fearfutone, and will cripple him for life. , j —Wijliam Cushman, a farmer just murried a-few weeks since, living in’the eastern part of Allan County, was killed by through a hole in the barn floor, strikinoon hht and He went ug Jo throw down hay for tho horses after dark, and accidentally stepped into u hole in (he floor. " ' : i , f . ' '' *fT —James Crain, living near Brookston, was attacked iti his houso by three m rstffd men, who bound bim, and at the muzzle'of a revolver demanded his money. He refused to give it to them, and after cruelly beating him they ransacked the premises and robbed him of S4OO, liut failed to find $2,000 in bonds hidden in a secret place.

—At Evansville, while some men were engaged in opening Sycamore street sewer to make a drain from Cook & Ric/s brewery, Harry Goulon, a colored workman, descended into the opening and was lujing a piece of pipe when the ground above civ. d in, bmying him beneath the mass. His fellow-workmen commenced diging for him immediately, but when found life was extinct. —While the workmen employed on tho new rink at Crawfordsvyie were working on the scaffolding, a section of it give way, throwing Lewis Long and David Wisehari to the ground, a distance of sixteen feet. •Long had a leg broken below the knee and an arm broken in three places, besides receiving serious internal injuries, which may terminate fatally. Wisehart was badly injured about the head, his oheek bone being badly mashed. —William Curtiss, one of the proprietors of tho Central Hotel, of New Albany, got out of a sick bed, and from some unaccountable freak drew his bank account and took a train for Indianapolis. Ho telegraphed from the latter city to wifethat he would return in a few days. His friends do not know how to account for his singular action, as he had no domestic or financial trouble. It is thought he is in Chicago with liis parents. —Edmund Block, an educated young Hebrew, who has been a teacher in an Adams County school, was baptized into the Lutheran faith Bunday afternoon at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, by Rev. H. G. Suser, in the presence of a large audience. A purse of S3OO was raised immediately after to enable the young convert to go to Concordia Theological School, at St. Lonis, to prepare to enter the Lutheran ministry.

—The protracted trial of Richard H. Hartford, charged with Ihe killing of Dr. B. F. Dillon in May last, at Dunkirk, has concluded. The jury returned a verdict of acquittal. The plea was self-defense. Dillon at the time being drunk and attacking Hartford on acoount of/ u old grudge. The jury was out thirty h/ ''’he verdict is received with general / the community. / —H. C. Modei wel, can/ Wayne, has assigned; liahr