Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A new Catholic church, costing abou $30,00(1, is to be bnilt on the comer of Third street and Broadway, in Madison. ■—The City Council of Vincennes elected Policeman Samuel Rnmer City Marshal, to fill the uuexpired term of John T. Mcßride, deceased. —At Greensburg two witnesses of the Baker murder have seen W. W. Kennedy, the Cincinnati pickpocket, in jail, and said they believed him to be tho one who fired the fatal shot. —Hon. J. D. Connor, of Wabash, has been elected Judge of the Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit, composed of the connties of Wabash and Miami, by a majority of 700. His opponent was Judge! Mitchell, of Peru. —Capt. S. W. Short, one of the leading and best known as well as oldest attorneys of Vincennes, died recently, aged 60 years. He was a soldier in the lato war, and held several offices in the county since that time. —C.ipt. Scott Patton, well and favorably known as Captain of Company I, Sixtyeighth Indiana Volunteers, during the war, and subsequently as morchant at Shelbyville and Rushville, died in the former city, of paralyses, and was buried at Kingston. —Morris Condon, who was shot by a ( foot-pad in Indianapolis, is in a fair way to recover. His case is looked upon by surgeons ns a remarkable one. Two balls entered his back. One of them came out through the chest, the other passed around one of his ribs and lodged in his left arm. His assailant is still at large, and there is no clew to his identity. —Owen Kimball, a young man, 18 years old, and residing in White County, has been missing from his home for some time. He left for Chicago over a week ago, and has not been heard from since. His mother is dangerously ill, and is constantly calling for her son. Ho is not aware of her illness, and the physician is of tho opinion thnt if he does not return soon the worry will cause her death. —The hog cholera, which broke out some months ugo in the eastern part of Monroe Country, is spreading rapidly, and playing huvoc with the swine. Reports from the eastern, western, and northern parts of the country are that large droves of hogs have died with this disease, and are still dying. Farmers are shipping their half-fatted hogs, and are still giving away and killing their young pigs infeoted with the disease. —Mras Mary, oldest daughter of Bouator Bon Harrison, was married last week in tho First Presbyterian Church at Indianapolis to James Robert McKeo. The wedding was the most notab’e society event there for years. Five hundred guests were present from various parts of the country. The bride’s attendants wore Miss Kata Davis, daughter of Benntor Davis, of West Virginia, and Miss Butterworth, daughter of Congressman Butt >rworth, of Cincinnati. —Riley Foster, the father of United States Marshal Foster, died of paralysis at Indianapolis, ag.nl 74. He was bom at C mundnigua, N. Y., and came to Indiana in 1819. In 2821 he removed to Vernon, where lie remained in active business nearly forty years. In 1856 ho was elected Probate Judge of Jeuningi County, and ho was one of the Government Commissioners in tho adjustment of the Morgan raid claims. In 1866 he removed to Indianapolis.

—lsaac S. Lyon, Treasury Agent, and Hon. Charles F. Benjamin, of Washington, are in Now Albany, taking depositions of the officers of the steamer Baltic, which was in Government servico in 1863. The depositions are to establish the claim of Rosa Virtner Jeffreys and others, heirs of Claddo Johnson, late of Tensas Purish, Louisiana, against thr Government for the seizure of a large lot of cotton. The cotton in dispute was taken on board at Johnson’s plantation and carried to Vicksburg. —The ceremonies incident to reconsecrating St. Mary’s Irish Catholic Cemetery, near Lafayette, occurred in the presence of a large number of persons. Last February James Genry shot and killed himself, either accidentally or intentionally. Regarding his death as suicide, Rev. F. W. Walters, priest of the congregation, refused to allow the body interred iu the Geary lot, which was in consecrated ground. John Geary, father of the young man, appeared in the courts and Was confirmed in his right to the use of his lot. The cemetery was then declared desecrated. Last week a stone wall five feet high was erected around the Geary lot, and the cemetery, aside from that, was reconsecrated. —The new State Honse will be under roof next year, and it will be completed fully in three years. It will be in readiness for the sitting of the General Assembly of 1886-87. The tile roofing was tested the other day, and proved capable of supporting a woight of 8,000 pounds. The former employe who charged that there were defects in the State House work, has come forward with an additional statement, offering to prove that the moriar-heds range in thickness from five-eighths to threefourths of an inch, and in one place reach one and one-quarter, when the specifications only call for one-eighth inch, and he further declares that the defective stones heretofore mentioned were patched before leaving the ground, showing they were not accidentally cracked in placing. He claims that the work is very defective otherwise.— Indianapolis dispatch. —A special dispatch from Detroit announces the death there of Col. Virgil C. •Hanna, formerly a resident of Indianapolis, well known to opr older citizens. He was a Paymaster in tne regular army, but for years has been on the retired list, living at Detroit, which was his last station. He was a man of high character. He leaves many relatives in Indiana. —lndianapolis Journal. —Dr. Joseph Stillson, of Bedford, has been stricken with paralysis. *