Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Quails are numerous in the southern part of the State. —The Floyd County Jail has been repaired at a cost of $2,000. —New Albany’s police made only twentynine arrests in September. —Mail messenger service at Monterey, Pulaski County, has been discontinued. —Stephen Hamilton,well known in Mancie, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for criminal assault —ißsac Windle, a farmer living near Shawnee Mound, Tippecannoe County, has received a swarm of bees direct from Italy. —While celebrating the Republican victory in Ohio, near Lafayette, John Boyd was killed by the premature discharge of a cannon. —The street-car line in South Bend is doing a very large business—far exceeding the expectations of even its most sanguine originators. —Mrs. Eva Watson, of Greenburg, wants a divorce from her husband because he sealed her lips with court plaster, in order to stop her talking. —Matilda Kiefer, 24 yeais old, died at New Albany recently. She was one of three sisters boru at the same time. The other two are also dead. —Riley Reid and Charles Ice, sons of respectable citizens of Rochester, were sentenced to the (penitentiary for one year for robbing a freight car recently. —Every dwelling-house in Vevay is occupied, and fifteen more could be rented immediately, the new ohair and crib factories have added to the population. —The tobacco parade in Louisville was taken advantage of by six pair of Kentucky lovers, who slipped across the river and were married at Jeffersonville. —Sterley Caruthers, a hero of the Modoc war, who works at the furniture factory at Shelbyville, had two fingers of his left hand cut off in the jointing machine. —While mixing mortar at Lafayette, George Barkley was stricken with paralysis, and, falling into a bed of hot lime, received such burns as caused death in a short time. —lt is stated in Indianapolis that Judge Gresham has decided to go back to New Albany for permanent residence, preferring that city to either Indianapolis or Chicago. —ln the heart of a slab of limestone, broken at Lafayette, a petrified sea crawfish was found measuring eighteen inches in length. The specimen has been sent to Purdue University. —Frank Delamatar, a wealthy butcher of Logansport, waß sentenced to the penetentiary for one year for cattle stealing. DeIkmatar has made a business of taking up cattle promiscuously and butchering them. —La Porte is moving in the proper way to have her chain of lakes connected by a navigable canal. It is estimated that $25,000 will be needed to accomplish the work, and committees have been appointed to solicit subscriptions. —Abraham Brown, aged 20 years, son of Joseph Brown, living a few miles from Lafayette, was hunting squirrels with a shotgun loaded with No. 2 shot. He had rested the breech of the gun on a block of wood which held the hammer, and discharged the gun, the contents entering his abdomen just above the pelvis, and ranging upward. The wound must necessarily prove fatal. —Mr. Charles Foster, of New Albany, who was recently appointed United States Consul General to Calcutta, intimated to the Department of State that he would prefer to take a consular position in Europe, even at a smaller salary, and was, therefore, transferred to Elberfeld, Germany, and Benjamin F. Bonham, of Oregon, was appointed Consul General to Calcutta in his place. —A tragedy was enacted near South Bend. Thomas Jetton and William Snyder lived on adjoining farms. Some time ago they got into some trouble about some wheat Later a sheep belonging to Jetton got with Snyder’s sheep, and the latter kept it some days, when he brought it to Jetton’s premises, and approached the latter near his house. A controversy began, and one word led to another, until they both became enraged. Snyder called Jetton a liar and at the same time struck at him with a heavy log chain. Jetton instantly pulled a revolver and shot his assailant five times. The wounded man died shortly after the shooting. Jetton then hitched up his horse and drove to South Bend and gave himself up. —President Smart, of Purdue University, has made glad the hearts of the Greek fraternity members by giving the consent of the faculty to the organization of such societies at the college. Some years ago the then President, E. E. White, prohibited students belonging to or attending the meetings of Greek societies. The result was a long and bitter contest in the courts, culminating in the Supreme Court, and a decision by that body that bad to be interpreted afterward by an explanation of what was intended. The import of the decision was that the faculty could not keep out students on the ground that they were Greeks; but at the same time it gave the right to say what rules should* be enforced there. President Smart now gives consent to the formation of the fraternity societies at the college.