Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—William Fisk, who was injured by the premature d schirge of a cannon, at Rising Sun, died. —The celebrated imported Clydesdale stallion belonging to Samuel Carter, of Plainfield, and valued at $2,000, died colic. —The Shetland pony stallion, Prince, alleged to be the finest in the United States, has been purchased by W. J. Hasselman, of Indianapolis. —Governor Porter commuted the sentence of Koerner, the Indianapolis wifemurderer, who wA to have suffered death to imprisonenment for life. —Capt. V. P. Schenck, a well-known river man, died at Vevay. He was the owner of a number of Ohio river steamboats, and died a millionaire.

—Henry L. Wilson, who recently sold the Lafayette Journal, has been compelled to take possession of the property again, under the mortgage, until it can. again be sold. * —Contractors of the new Georgia Capitol having decided to use Indiana stone in its construction, an effort was made to have the product of Georgia quarries used instead, but the Legislature almost unanimously indorsed the selection of the contractors. —The Governor’s office is the only one in which the State election makes any notable change. Colonel Gray, the Govern or-elect will be inaugurated on the second Monday in January. His Private Secretary will be his son, Pierre, who is a graduate of Asbury University, and has been a law student in his father’s office, at Union City.

—The next session of the Indiana College Association will be held in this city on the 29th and 30th of December. The programme promises a series of exercises from our leading college men, such as can hardly fail to interest and instruct the public. The inaugural address will be delivered on the evening of the 29th by Dr. John Clark Ridpath, President of the association. On the preceding afternoon President C. H. Kiracofe, of Hartsville University, will read a paper on “Education and Politics.” This subject will also be discussed by Dr. A. R. Benton, of Butler, and Prof. A. B. Chaffee, of Franklin. The next paper will be by Prof. Robert B. Warder, of Purdue, on the subject of “The True Place of Industrial Education.” Brief addresses on the same topic will be delivered by President Thompson, of the Rose Polytechnic, and Prof. J. B. DeMotte, of DePauw. The next regular paper will be on the subject of “Native and Foreign Teaching of Modern Languages,” by Prof. Alma Holman, of DePauw University. This subject will be discussed by Prof. Charles H. Gilbert, of the State University, and Calvin W. Pearson, recently of Earlham. Dr. David S. Jordon, of the State University, will deliver an address on “Science in the Sea,” and that subject will also be presented by Dr. Philip S. Baker, of DePauw. The last paper of the session will be on the “Conditions of the Physical Development of Indiana,” by Dr. John L. Campbell, of Wabash College. This topic will also be discussed in brief addresses by Dr. A. W. Brayton, of the Indiana Medical, and Dr. G. C. Smvthe, of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons. It is believed that no previous programme of the association has presented a more interesting range of topics, and the public will be glad to hear what our leading educators have to say. —lndianapolis Journal.