Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1884 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Jacob CfcsseL, Sr., who had resided in the vicinity of Vincennes since 1813, has passed away. •—A letter addressed to a person at “Indiana polis, India,” meant for Indiana, reached Indianapolis a few days ago, after having gone to India and back. It was mailed Aug. 12. —Charles, Hale, of Montmorenci, recently fell and broke his leg. The sight of her husband being brought home on a litter so frightened Mrs. Hale that she fell in a faint, from which she never rallied. —Mrs. Mary Bassett Hussey, of Brazil, is one of the fortunate ones, whose story “Davie” is among the number chosen for publication by the Youth’s Companion. The choice was made from seven thousand manuscripts offered in competition, $3,000 being paid to the eight winners. —Mrs. Minerva Johnson, of Shelbyville, the other day placed S9O in bills in the oven of her cook-stove for safe keeping over night, and in the morning got up and built a fire in the stove without thinking of the money, and when she did it was too* late, the bills having been reduced to cinders. —ln a quarrel at Hartford City, between schoolboys, Thos. Huggins, aged 11, was struck on the head with a piece of brick, thrown by a boy named Knight. Young Huggins reached his home and related the story of the altercation. He was soon after attacked with violent pains in his head, and died next evening. * —lrvin Armstrong, Esq., ex-editor and publisher of the Yevay Democrat, died Sunday night He graduated from the De Pauw University in 1864, and was a classmate of Hon. C. C. Matson, Congressman from the Fifth Indiana District. Deceased was forty-three years of age, and was a victim of consumption. —At Fort Wayne, the jury in the case of Thomas Ellison against the NickelPlate Railroad gave the plaintiff $509 nfter being out twenty-eight hours. The suit was brought for SIO,OOO, to recover damages for the loss of Mrs. Ellison’s life, who was hurt in an accident on the Grand Rapids Road caused by a Nickel-Plate engine. Soon after the accident the woman gave birth to a child and died. The case was stubbornly contested for eight weeks. - Joseph T. Nicholson, who resides at Ridgeville, is in the habit of carrying a revolver in his hip pocket. He went into a meat store and leaned against the counter in just such a way that the edge lifted the hammer of the pistol, uud when he stepped away it fell and sent a ball into his thigh,, ranging downward. While the wound is not dangerous, it will cause him much pain for several months, and may render him a cripple for life. —The Lafayette Daily Courier, the paper so long owned and edited by the late W. S. Lingle, Esq., has been .sold by the widow and administratrix to M. M. Mayerstein, Miss Mabel la Lingle, and Mrs. T. E. Scantlin, who will conduct the paper under the name of the Courier Company. The two ladies whose names appear among the purchasers are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lingle. Mr: Mayerstein is to be business manager, and Mr. Ts E. Scantlin, managing editor under the new organization. —Death has played sad havoc in the family of Mr. Joseph Belcher, a farmer living in Harrison Township, Knox County. On Tuesday afternoon, Daniel, his 13-year-old son, died of measles, and at 2 o’clock next morning Richard, a 6-year-old boy, died of the same disease. At 10. a. m. on the same day, Mr. Belcher’s wife died of pneumonia. Two other children, all that Mr. Belcher has left, are thought to be dying of the measles.

—Peru telegram: Jacob Ronnells, of Perrysburg, two weeks ago suffered an SII,OOO fire, his net loss being several thousand dollars. Other losses of late put his business in bad condition. Last night he took a dose of strychnine and cut his throat with a penknife. He died at 2 o’clock this morning. He was an old resident, and had always been enterprising and successful, and was discouraged at his recent accumulated losses.

—There are some very surprising things to be learned from the study of the statistics of the State election. There are fifteen counties in which a smaller vote was polled than in ,1880. There was a decrease in Boone of 41; Dearborn, 63; Franklin, 231; Hendricks, 110; Jefferson, 161; Morgan, 8 ’ Riple - V ’ 153 -' Scott, 177; Hid 159. The largest decrease was in rranklin, where 233 were lost in 1880 from the number polled in 1876. In the eleven counties named Republican gains were made in all exc ?pt Owen, Scott, and Sullivan. In the last named county there was a Democratic gain of nearly 600. The Largest increase over the vote of 1880 was in Allen County, 1,533; Adams, 629; Elkhart, 882; Huntington, 1,014; Jay, 692; Lake, 832: Marion, 3,007; St. Joseph, 1,376; Tipton, 534; Vanderburg, 1,399; and Vigo, 979. Of these counties Democratic gains were made in Adams, Allen, Huntington, Marion, St Joseph, and Tipton Counties. The gain in Marion County in 1880 over 1876 was 1,323, less than half the number of the increase over 1880, while in Vigo County the gain was 100 larger in 1880 than in 1884. The total increase in the number of votes between 1876 and 1880 was 36,729, and between 1880 jnd 1884 it was 24,352. —Indianapolis ■Journal.

—President Smart’s report of the management of Purdue University, Lafayette, for the year ending June 30, 1884 (the tenth in its history), shows that during the year there were 213 students in attendance, an increase of twenty-eight —Mrs. Elizabeth Geisendorff, wife of C. E. Geisendorff, formerly a wealthy woolen manufacturer, committed suicide by drowning herself in a cistern at Indianapolis. —There are now 706 criminals in the Prison North.