Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Frank Kelley, of Francesville, 14 years old. died f.om a horse’s kick. —Two school teachers of Morgan County have had their licenses revoke! because of immorality. —A woman residing at Beacon has attained the age of nineteen and is the widow of four husbands, and now expresses a desire to enter a convent. —A mammoth gray eagle six feet seven inches across the wings was shot and disabled just east of Connersvilc. It is the fi st one seen there for many years. —The Indiana monument on tbe field of Gettysburg will be unveiled about the 25th of October prox. The ex vet data has not been settled, but it will be near that time. Georgo.YV. Sanks died at Greansburg of heart disease. He was a member of the Thirty-seventh and One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regimems of Indiana Volunteers during the war. —ln a dwelling in Honey Creek Township, near Lafayette, three couples were married Thursday, three clergymen, of the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian faith, performe .1 the ceremonies. —A farmer living two miles a»d a half from Mancie has a pumpkin-vine which, if stretched out, would measure almost a fifth of a mile, and which has borne over 1,5J0 pounds of pumpkins. —Lee Urmstone and wife, of Frankton, about a month ago paid a visi: to his wife’s parents, who reside six miles distant, and remained a day or two, when they took their buggy to return, and have not been heard from since. —The Jeffersonville Plate Glass Company has made an Assignment of its property, and will go Out of business, being unable to compete with Pennsylvania manufacturers. The indebtedness is $160,000, and the assets are estimated to be worth SBO,OOO. —While Bishop Scott, charged, in connection with his brother and Frank Poor, with the murder of W'illiam Haynes, was testifying in court at Muncie he became violent y insane, and was removed to the jail, where a number of men were required to hold him. —At Russellville, Putnam County, Thomas and George Wi’son, cousins, met in a public road, and an old feud was settled ly Thomas shooting and kill ng George. The trouble dates back some years, and a woman figures as the chief cause. The murderer escaped. —Henry N. Spaan, a promi ent lawyer, and ex-Judge James E. Heller, got into a fight in an Indianapolis court. Spaan charging the ex-Judge with mitrnthfulness. Aimed with chairs, both men came in collision, and intense excitement followed. Spaan was uninjured, Heller had an eye discolored, and both were fined $lO for contempt. —Karl Kessler, 15 years old, living at Lafayette, was shoo ing at a glass tumbler the other day with a rifle. The ball rebounded and struck him in the eye. Fearing to tel; his parents how the accident occurred, he said that he had fallen against tho point of a nail. The wound healed over and no more attention was paid to it until a day or two ago, when a playm to struck him on the s vine spot. The boy fainted, and an examination showed tho bullet flattened against his skull.

—The County Commissioners might utilize the Fa’.l Creek mansion as a summer resort for tramps. For such purpose it is well situated, being on the banks of Fall Creek, where the fishing is fair to middling. In addition it may be said that the building is not surpassed by any of the hotels in modern improvements aud conveniences. It contains hot and cold water, luxurious bath-rooms, elegant diningrooms, fine wash-rooms and do ets, elevators and furnaces. It would, no doubt, be well patronized. —lndianapolis Senfine l. —An Indian, styling himself “The Star of the Cheyenne Tribe. ” has been delivering lectures in Corydon for some time past. He formed the acquainta ice of a very pretty young lady at Biadford last spring, and has ever since paid her marked attention, at different times giving her valuable presents of jewily, etc. It is now annoi noed that they are engaged to be married, but the laws of the State are such that they cannot secure a license. The young lady’s parents seem to offer no objectii n to the marriage, but on the contrary, rather encourage it. It is reported that they are m tkiug arrangements to go west to bo united in wed ock. —The mag strates of Jeffersonville reap a rich harvest from the clop ng couples, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. Tln re is omsidotnblo competition i 1 the business. Eieh magistrate has bis “runner” or agent, who waits at the ferry-boat, and who, by long experience and close observation, can tell au eloping couple at a glance. One agent more enterprising tb«tn the rest, has stitioned himself at the Short Line depot in Lou svi.le, and catches them before they come over. Those fe lows usually sta id in With the magistrates for half the fee. Sometimes, however, the “happy man” gives the guide a fee for showing them the ropes. Ho procures the license, finds a magistrate, swears to the girl’s age, and, in fact, does everything but marry the girl himself.