Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

; —Lloyd H. Swan has been appointed postmaster at Wandana. ’ —W. B. Warren, a leading citizen of Terre Haute, dropped dead on the sidewalk, from apoplexy. —A span of horses rained at S4OO, belonging to Sam Studebaker, were killed by a train at South Bend. —The Michigan City Enterprise, one of the oldest papers in La Porte County, has suspended publication. —Nathan Gross, who has been a clothier at Evansville for thirty years, filed an assignment to secure liabilities of $60,000. —Prof. David S. Jordan, aged 34, has been chosen President of the Indiana State University to succeed Dr. Moss, who resigned some weeks since. —Dunk Graves, a prosperous farmer, who labored under the impression that ruin threatened the nation because of Cleveland's (election, hauged himself at Falmouth. —A movement has been set on foot in Indianapolis for organizing a State Hotel Association. Representatives of six of the leading city hotels have effected a temporary organization, with C. C. Charron, Esq., as Chairman.

—Miss Anna Miller, a young violinist of (Logansport, of wonderful skill and genius 'as a musician, has found a patron in a 'wealthy and titled lady from Germany, who inether recently at Grand Rapids, Mich., (who has proposed to take her to Europe, iand give her the best musical instruction that can be procured. —Little George Seifert, of South Bend, found his father’s revolver in a bureau drawer, and amused his younger brother by ♦ showing him how it operated. The ball passed into tho forehead of the younger brother, above one of tho temples. Fortunately it did not penetrate the skull, but passed uuder the scalp across to the other side of the head, where it was cut out. It was a close call for the young man.

—John Strange has caused considerable excitement by an alleged exposure of one Mrs. Walling’s (formerly Miss Annie Stewart) spiritual seances at Terre Haute. He seized the spirit’s hand, and he'd on to it, notwithstanding the emphatic “Let go” uttered by the spirit. Some one, in attempting to turn out the gas, turned it the wrong way, and exposed Mrs. Walling to plain . view as the Spirit, her clothing being placed 'on n chair to imitate what was supposed to pe her sitting there. The seance terminajted somewhat abruptly. —The annual report ofjthe condition of |the State Blind has been submitted. The value of its real estate and personal property is $373,772.01. During the year $27,003 was received for current support, and $90(1 fortiustees’ salaries. Of this $23,073 was expended for repairs. There was received $1,992; expended $1,845.36. An appropriation of $29,000 is asked for. During the year 120 pupils wore in attendance. The Superintendent reports all departments in a highly satisfactory condition. A plea is mode for more accommodations, present facilities being inadequate.

-—An analysis of the vote cast in Indiana at the last election shows the following results: Total vote cast for President, Cleveland, 244,894; Blaine, 238,447; Butler, 8,794; St. John. 3,007; total, 495,142. The vote for Governor was: Gray, Democrat, 245,140; Calkins, Republican, 237,748; Leonard, Greenback, 8,338; Dwiggins, Prohibition, 3,866; total, 495,092, Cleveland less than Gray, 216; St. John less than Dwiggins, 859; Blaine more than Calkins, 699; Butler more th in Leonard, 456. The above shows that many Prohibitionists voted for Blaine and Dwiggins, that a few voted for St. John and Gray, but that none voted for Cleveland or for St. John and Calkins. The .total increase of votes The Republican plurality for President in 1880 was 6.642. The Democratic plurality for President in 1884 is 6,447. Democratic gun over 1880 is 19,372; Republican gain over 1880, 6,283; Greenback loss since 1880, 4,092.

—The report of the Hon. James H. Rice, Auditor of State, for the year ending Oct. 31, 1884, has been submitted to the Governor. The receipts during the yeas, including $503,927 on hand Nov. 1, 1883, were $3,953,105; warrants drawn on the Treasury in the same time, $3,521,899; balance on hand, $131,206. Among the expenditures, the more important were: Tuition fund, $1,910,366; new State House, $423,921; general expenses, $1,495,680. The incoming Legislature will have to provide for an outstanding indebtedness of (J 57.500 which will leave a cash balance of 825.924 in the Treasury Oct. 31, 1885. If •t should be determined that an additional j oan be necessary to complete the improve\hehts under contract, the amount required would be about $415,009, which, added to -the present loan, would make $1,000,000. .'he Auditor suggests that the law anthorizng the temporary loan be amended so as ,o enable the officers to take up bonds at my time when a lower rate of interest may >o secured. It is recommended that the aws in relation to the public printing be ■hanged so that, aside from a financial re-->ort of the Treasurer and Auditor of State, the reports be printed biennially, which can foe done at a cost of $32,000. The debt | mounts to $4,876,608, of which all but f 5607,825 is due to the school fund of the o(j —The William J. Wise will case, which has been on trial at Vincennes the past 'twenty-two days, terminated by the jury returning a verdict sustaining the will. The estate is valued at $500,000. The costs will be SBB,OOO. —Prof. J. C. Bedpath, Vice President of the Depauw University, h(is been offered the Presidency of the Indiana State University. H - -Andrew May, a venentble citizen of Indianapolis, was fvund dead in his buggy 1 . 4