Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Henry Beavey’s livery stable and ad--joining buildings were burned in Huntington last week. Loss, $8,003. —City Marshal Anderson, of Brazil, shot and fatally wounded Jesse Varner, who attempted to escape from his custody. —Henry Hahn, a musician, who came to this country with Carl Schurz, was killed by a train at Indianapolis Monday morning. Some persons assert that he committed suicide. —William Ripley, assistant ticket agent of the Monon Route at Indianapolis, decamped, taking $478 belonging to the railroad, and jewelry and diamonds belonging to private parties. —Charles Bizzy ran a knife two inches into the head of Charles Gebhart at a picnic in Harrison County. The blade broke and was buried in Gebhart’s head. They quarreled over a game of chance. —Thomas A. Marshall committed suicide at Indianapolis by shooting himself. He was a farmer, but had been living in Indianapolis with his father for some months. He recently married his stepsister, and this, it seems, caused family troubles, to which his suicide is attributed. —Wesley Mayfield shot and instantly killed George Lyton near Sullivan. An old grudge had existed for some time. They met, and Mayfield, being armed with a double-barreled shot-gun, fired both barrels in Lyton’s face. Mayfield has given himself up to the authorities. Lyton, it is claimed, was unarmed. —John Rosenmeyer, a farmer liv.ng in Dearborn County, : rmed and barricaded himself in his house in a fit of delirium tremens and then mounted a heap of furniture which he had fired. When finally ■vercoms and rescued his eyes were burned out and he had received other injuries from which he cannot recover. —The ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the new City Hall occurred at Laporte under the conduct of the Masonic fraternity, and preceded by a street parade, participated jn by the city authorities, Fire Department, and other civic societies. Gen. Jasper Packard delivered the oration, and was lis'ened to by a large concourse of citizens. —Two young women, members of prominent families at Seymour, were determined to “see the world for themselves,” and disappeared from their homes. Their absence was soon noted by friends, who sent telegrams to neighboring towns, and they were discovered in a box-car “beating their way on the railroad” and returned to their parents.

—William Wilson, living in the southern part of, Shelby County, told his wife that as soon as he got some money for a job of work he proposed to get drunk, shoot the whole family, and flee the country. He came home afterward drunk, and commenced to abuse his wife, who fled for the bouse of a neighbor, Albert Wright, Wilson following in close pursuit, armed with a shotgun. Just as she got into Mr. Wright s house he fired at her, the load of shot lodging in ths door and on each side, but she escaped injury. —The special delivery sj’stem of thePostoffice, which goes into effect Oct. 1, does not apply to all postoffices in the United States, but to between 50 I and 600. Selected from the list are the Indiana postoffices where letters to which is affixed the extra postage will be delivered immediately upon their receipt. They are as follows: Anderson, Jeffersonville, New Albany, Aurora, Kokomo, Peru, Columbus, Lafayette, Richmond, Crawfordsville, Laporte, Seymour, Elkhart, Lrwienceburg, South Bend, Evansville, Logansport, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, Madison, Valparaiso, Goshen, M chigan City, Vincennes, Indianapolis, Muncie, Washington. —Armo T. Potts is a small merchant in the post town of Hickory Grove, Dubois County. He is the Postmaster of that place, pension agent, notary public, storekeeper, farmer, and fur-buyer. In early lif\ he married the daughter of Ezekiel Rutherford, one of the wealthiest men in Marion County. By her he has six children now living, one of them married. It is reported that he has deeded his farm to his wife and sloped with a grass widow named Lizzie Willetts, who has two children, whom she left behind, after appointing a guardian for them. At the same time a sister of Potts’ eloped with a married man named Randall Corbin. —lndiana’s vast army of school .children are again about to be marshaled for active service. During the month about to begin the many schools of this State will reopen, after the summer holidays, and the active work of < ducation will be resumed. But, meanwhile, the leaders, the superintendents and teachers, have not been idle. All through the summer new methods of instruction have been considered, and the best of them selected. The county institutes held during the past few weeks have been the .best that the State ever had. The attendance has surpassed all those of the past, and it has been demonstrated that there are more applications for schools than can be accommodated. This affords school officials an opportunity to choose the best, and to secure good teachers. The future of education in Indiana was never better, and with proper management the State may easily retain its position in the foremost rank of education. —lndianapolis Journal.