Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

—A street railway i3to be ouilt between South Bend and Mishawaka. —Lafayette has a church social run by ladies who tip the scales at 170 pounds ami over, each. Catharine Leslie, of New Albany, whose late husband was in the gun-boat service, has secured pension and back pay to the amount of $4,000. —Ex-Gov. Conrad Baker died last week at his residence in Indianapolis. The cause of his death was paralysis of the puornogastric nerve. Gov. Baker was bom in Franklin County, Pa., Feb. 12, 1819. He was educated at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg. His preceptor in the study of law was the late Thaddeus Stevens. He was admitted to practice in 1839, and he moved to Evansville in 1841. He resided there until the office of Governor devolved upon him by the election of Gov. Morton to the United States Senate in January, 1867, since which time he had lived in Indianapolis. In 1845 he was elected Representative from Vauderburgh County, serving one term. In 1852 he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, serving eighteen months and then resigning. In 1856 he was nominated for Lieutenant Governor by tho Republican party on the ticket with Gov. Morton, and in 1864 he was again placed on the ticket with Gov. Morton, and this time elected. In 1868 he was nominated against T. A. Hendricks for Governor, and defeated him by 961 votes. Retiring from the office in 1872, he was succeeded by Mr. Hendricks, whose place he took in the law firm of Baker, Hord »fc Hendricks, where he had since remained. Gov. Baker served during the war as Colonel of the Ist cavalry and Provost Marshal General of tho State of Indiana, being mustered out of sorvice in August, 1864. Gov. Baker leaves a family, a wife and three children, fully grown. —The last of the callers were about leaving the White House Wednesday nftemoou, a Washington correspondent writes, when a man who gave his name ns Capt. James M. Herrington, of Jeffersonville, Ind., stepped up to the door with a request that ho would like to see the President, adding that Vice President Hendricks had sent him. On being questioned as to his business, he said ho desired to read to the President an allegorical essay, p ose and poetry, on “The Irrepressible Confliot of Public Sentiment." He thereupon produced from his overcoat pocket a package of about forty pages of foolscap paper. The doorkeeper offered to take it, saying that Col. Lamont read all the poetry that came before it was sent t» tho President, but the Captain declined the offer, for the reason, he said, that the chirography was poor and so much interlined that any one except himself would have difficulty in reading it. The doorkeeper, under tho circumstances, refused admission, and he went away grumbling. As he was leaving, the Captain said he had been for years a river pilot at St. Louis, and he thought he had a better idea of the cause of war then any other mau living; that he had penned his thoughts in leisure moments, and he thought the President would be betted off if he had hoard his essay. He said had had a talk wi'h Vice President Hend- < ricks during tho early part of the day, but * that Mr. Hendricks had no kind of appreciation of poetry or prose uuless there was some red-hot politics in it. He said Mr. Hendricks tired of it after hearing but seven pages, and suggested that he let the President hear the remainder. Reason Called Hack. [From the Boston Horald.] A notable personage among those to be met along the avenue and in tho hotel lobbies of Washington during the past few days has been an ex-soldier, the circumstances of whose career since the war havo vested him with a peculiar interest. Early in 1862 he, then a young man, enlisted at his home in Southern Indiana, and was assigned to a regiment that was actively en-‘ gaged during the whole war. The young soldier made himself useful, was always in the thickest of the fray, and was pro. moted to be an officer. In one of the lasi battles fought before the final surrender* while leading a charge, the young Captnirf was struck in the head, and fell. His soldiers, with whom he was a great favorite, carried him to the rear, where he had every attention. Then he was conveyed to Washington and placed in one of the hospitals, and, after a long period of suffering, his wound healed, but his reason had fled. Ho was officially declared insane, and placed in an asylum near Washington, where 1$ remained twenty years in this condition. A few months ago his reason returned, and he is to-day as sane a man as lives. He says (he past is a blank. Ho can scarcely comprehend that he is not the same young man that he was twenty years ago. He has fouud some of his comrades here, and these have treated him with great kindness. He can describe scenes and incidents of tho war with as much clearness as if they had taken place but a few months ago. Among tho friends he has recently made is ex-Secretary Lincoln, who became interested in his case, and has had his application for a pension made special by the Commissioner of Pensions, who also took an interest in the matter, and within a few days he will receive SIO,OOO of back pension money, with which *ho intends going into business.

The colored Register of the Treasury, Mr. Bruce, has re igned, in comp.iance, it is said, with a request. Tiie Itopubli ans captured the odd mender of the Legist ture in Illinois Thursday. John A. Logan is not yet elected Senator, however. A sensation occurred in the Circuit at "Vincennes, Monday, by the arraignment of a number of prominent attorneys and wealthy real estate owners upon indictments charging them with renting property to prostitutes. Peter H. Weber, of New Albany, baggage-master on the L., N. A. & C. R. R., shot by the robber near Harrodsburg last week, is able to go out. His face is still bandaged up. Weber says he wou’d readily recogn ze the robber should he lay eyes upon him. vVe devote considerable space to' day to the discussion of the sub<t of Wartner’s execution. A very strong showing is made that the proceedings in the trial of the condemned man were possibly not egular. Let the Supreme Court title the dispute, and that quick-

Postmaster Palmer, of Chicago \ \i been removed for “offensive ■tisanism,” and Mr. Judd was -ointed. J ust now some of these n.’s are hugging close to the red e line as a means of saving ce, forgetful that many instanc- * >f “offensive partisanism,” can :> dily and truthfully be laio t° i uiir charge. Over-zeal may lead * > the discovery that they are not "V ods elect’ after all. At Louisville, Monday last, the bullet lodged in Express Messenger Davis's brain was extracted And v : a . regained consciousness.— Xhe •perdion was a very delicate Nfxc nd its success is highly gratis ;■ The chances for his life are.r reatly improved and it is the opinion of the physicians that he wi l : jcover.

Tl.e corporation election Monday last passed off quietly, and goo< l feeling prevailed throughout. Of oourse the republican nominees were elected, as was expected, but the varied majorities for the successful can idates —ranging from 9 to 106 —show +hat personal preferences had something to do with the result. Below" v-e give the Vote: Tru tee—Third District. E. L. Clark, Rep 159 M. Eger, Dem 85 Geo. Havens, Pro 10 Rep. Plu 74 Trustee —F ourthlDistrict. A. W. Cleveland, Rep 147 Geo. H. Brown, Dem 101 N. Warner, Pro 12 Rep. Plu 46 Tru^ee —Fifth District. T. J. McCoy, Rep 270 John Chamberlain, Dem 74 S. A. Henry, Pro 11 Rep. Plu 96 Clerk. « "Val. Seib, L ep 179 J. H. Jessen, Dem 73 R. P. Benjamin, Pro 8 Rep. Plu 106 Treasurer. T. J. Farden, Rep .173 Ludd Hopkins, Dem 78 Berry Paris, Pro 9 B>p.Plu 95 Marshal. 3. Q. Alter, Rep 130 Ghas. >. iatt, Ind 121 Holdridge Clark, Pro..! 6 I. ... T’.. “ •' J t • • | V