Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Mrs. W. B. Jackson, 81 years old, died at New Albany. —ln the northern counties of the State about two-thirds of the bees died last winter. —Hon. Francis Wilson, Judge of the Bloomington Judicial District, died suddenly at Bedford. —Richmond claims more miles of pavement and a greater number of shade trees than any city of its population in Indiana. —The candidates for city offices at Shelbyville pledged themselves to have nothing to do with traffic in votes, or make any contribution for that purpose. —William D. Bousel, of Milan, was arrested at Aurora, while attempting to pass counterfeit money. Over one hundred counterfeit dollars were found in his possession. —Amos E. Buckley, of Thornton, who has aided in taking charge of the Indiana educational exhibit at New Orleans, has been elected Superintendent of Schools in Fort Worth, Tex. ( —Harry Kocher, a carpenter of Columbus, had his lower jaw nearly torn off by a vicious mare. He entered the stable where she had a young colt, and was caught by her and terribly mangled. —An Indianapolis watchman of an iron foun dry has put in his spare time carving excellent figures representing the cross and crucifixion, all excellently done, and inside of a glass bottle holding a little less than a pint. —Albert Norton a three years’ convict from Vigo County, has made his escape from the Jeffersonville prison. Norton is about 26 years old, five feet eight and a naif inches high, blue eyes, sandy complexion and red hair.

—Miss Clara Brown, a quiet and respectable young lady of Washington, daughter of H. C. Brown, miller, is mysteriously absent from home. She disappeared recently, and it is not known whether she has been abducted or left of her own accord. —The banking firm of Hyatt & Levings, of Washington, has been able to strike a dividend, and instead of paying twenty-five cents on the dollar, as was at first thought, it now can only pay 10 per cent. It will be remembered that the firm failed last autumn, with liabilities estimated at $125,000. -*-Mark Vinnedge, a well-known young man of Plymouth, aged 16, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. He had been a wild young man. He was at the Reform School for one term, and his father tried to make him go to school, but he said he would die first. And he did. —At Fort Wayne, Ephraim Fox, while in his barn feeding stock during a heavy thunder-storm, dropped dead. At first it was thought his death was caused by lightning, but at the Coroner’s inquest it developed that death was the result of heart disease. He was 56 years of age, and leaves a large family. —Justin Study, Superintendent of the Richmond Public Schools, in attempting to kick a football which came near him, while his scholars were at play, lost his balance and received a heavy fall upon a brick pavement It is thought no bones are broken, but his injuries will lay him up for several days. —At Metamora, a German, about forty years old, who could not speak English, was run over by the cars and killed. On his person was found an envelope postmarked Richmond. Ohio, addressed to V. Kasen, care of C. Rausch, Falmouth, Ky., also a bill for books bought of Max Wiel & Co., 412 Vine street, Cincinnati, dated Jan. 30, 1885, and shipped to Vai. Kasen, care of C. Rausch, Falmouth, Ky. Nothing of value found on his person. —Out of about two thousand pupils in the Richmond schools, Dr. Moore finds that nearly three hundred, or 13.8 per cent., have defective vision, while 26:1 percent of these, or 3.6 per Cent, of all, are afflicted with myopia—short-sightedness—and a very large majority of these are girls, there being nearly two hundred girls and a little over one hundred boys with defective vision, while about fifty of the girls and thirty of the boys are afflicted with mopia. —Adolph Lindeman and Charles Nellin, two 12-year-old boys of New Albany, who have been reading dime novels until their heads were filled with a desire to travel, disappeared from Mieir homes Monday of last week. They were heard of at Coalsburg, Ky., and arrested on a telegram. Lindeman had taken S2OO belonging to his brother, and when found only SIOO was recovered. The boys were armed with three revolvers, hooks, keys, and other articles of doubtful character. —lt has been discovered that the law passed by the last Legislature toreduce and regulate the public printing of the State provides that the reports of the State Bureau of Statistics and of Geology shall be printed only biennially instead of annually, as heretofore. The result will be that the work of the statistical bureau will be almost useless in every alternate year, as there is no way of getting the information it collects disseminated. The cutting off of the regular report was probably made through a mistake, as the bill was very carelessly amended in the House.