Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Monroe County claims immunity from Trustee frauds. —The Floyd County poor-house has sixty-nine inmates. —Mrs. Mary Young died in Muncie- from the effects of a stove falling upon her. —Rev. Milton W. Stetson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Orleans, is dead. —Henry Chamberlain, one of the pio. Deers of Fort Wayne, died in that city Monday. —A strange malady resembling milksickness is prevailing among the cows of Wabash County. —Hon. W. C. DePauw has given to DePauw Female College, in New Albany, an aggregite of $25,000. —A man digging a well near Lafayette came to a vein of petroleum, under which was a stratum of lead. —General Hascall, of Goshen, was divorced from his wife, to whom he had been married about twelve months. —E._ W. McKenna, Superintendent of the Louisville and Indianapolis branch of the Pan-Handle, has resigned. —A grand jury in South Beud indicted Thomas Jaton for murder in the first degree for killing William Snyder. —ln Muncie, Mrs. Swain got judgment of S3O against the F. W.. C. & L. R. R. for being carried beyond her destination. —James Kerr, an old resident of Lagro, fell into an old lock of the abandoned Wabash and Erie Canal, and was instantly killed.

—A burglar entered the residence of Father Schmidt,, in Muncie, covered him with a revolver, and then ransacked the bouse. —David G. Miles, of Laporte, a patient in the Indianapolis insane asylum, hanged himself. His father committed suicide several years since. —A sugir refinery at West Point was fired by lightning Sunday night, and destroyed, with its contents. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $2,000. —Mrs. Emma Pine has sued John H. Heffner, at Lafayette, for $15,000 damages, claiming that Heffner has at divers times asserted that she steals turkey eggs. —The barn of Stephen O. Dehart, near Lafayette, wa? bur ied, together with six valuable horses and a number of farming implements. Loss, S2,SCO; insurance, $1,200.

—lndiana psople are much disappointed in learning that Judge Gresham has decided lo become a cit zen of Chicago. He has leased the residence of Postmaster Judd, on Delaware place, in that city. —Prof. W. Williams, of llocliesterg, has accepted Hu Professorship of Pedagogics m Franklin College. He will assume the duties of this department at the beginning of the next term. Jan. 7. —<■ ames DeCump, of Otisco, Clark County, was getting out stave lumber north of Char.estowu. when a .urge oak tree 1 ell, catching him under it, crushing his leg* frightfully and inflicting fatal injuries. —lda Stephenson, a Sioux Indian girl who with fifty-nine others, is attending White’s Mauuu Libor Institute, south of Wabash, while playing fell backward and struck the floor wiAsrnh violence as to susta.n injuries whwh will prove fatal. Mrs. E.eeta Haven, who had been oast ofl’ by her husband, quitted her home at Logtusport, lea.ing a note stating that to avoid lu era I expenses she would drown herself. The rivers have been diugged, but uo body has beea found. —While playing foot-ball at Wabash, Dorsey Coate, sou of County Treasurer Coate, suffered a very severe fracture of the light arm. A young son of Nelson Zeigler, a well-known dry-goods merchant, was also severely injured at the same time. Samuel McDonald, an employe of a Chicago book aud map firm, has been imprisoned at Winchester for attempting to bribe a township trustee to perpetrate a fraud. McDonald was formerly Trustee of. Niles Township, aiul stood high in Delaware Countv.

—Last Saturday night Oliver Hutsler, of Webster Township, Harrison County, received the most terrible flogging ever administered to any one by the Hnrrison County Regulators. A physician reports that his back was beaten into a jelly and that every portion of his body bears marks of the lash. He is charged with stealing ducks. —The shooting of Harrison Taskel, the colored hostler, by Menirod Huendlind is the second homicide that has occurred in the Indianapolis Court House, which was opened in 1877. In 1878 Warren Tate, a well-known character, shot and killed William Love during the progress of the trial of a suit, instituted by Tate, growing out of a business transaction, in which Love was a witness. —Dr. Neyron, Rrofessor of Anatomy at Notre Dame University, is the Nestor of physicians in the country. He is 04 years of age, and was a surgeon in Napoleon’s army during the Russian campaign and at Waterloo. After the restoration he became a priest, and was an early missionary in the Northwest. He is still able to conduct his class, and few men of 70, it is said, are so strong and active.