Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Louisville gamblers propose epenir g a keno house in New Albany. —Lafayette has taken the first steps toward forming a charity organization. —Mrs. Nancy Smith, of Jeffersonvill.-, aged fifty-five years, died of cancer. —Capt. M. M. Hurley, late Postmaster of New Albany, has gone to California to reside. —The skeletons of a man, woman, and child have been found in a gravel pit in Eaton, and cannot be accounted for. —Col. Jack Bowman,-of Floyd County, a few days ago sold to James Mahan, of Jackson County, sixty head of cattle for $2,477.82. —Edward Craig, the 14-year-old son of Capt. John Craig, Deputy Warden of the Prison South, is said to be the crack rifleshot of this State. —The Knights and Ladies of Honor have paid Mrs. J. H. Ross, of Jeffersonville, $3,000 due on the death of her son, Alfred H. Ross, who shot himself. —Ed Louden, of Waldron, for hitting Ed Bowen, of the same place, with a hatchet, has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. The assault occurred last August. ■ —Rev. Dr. William Sihler, who died at Fort Wayne, was one of the oldest men in the Lutheran Church. In his earlier days he served in the army of King Frederick of Prussia. —Peanuts were successfully cultivated this year on the farm of J. M. Smelser, in Clark County. He had from 300 to 325 perfectly formed and well-filled pods to the single vine. —The remains of a brother of Josh Billings. the distinguished humorist, are buried in the city cemetery in Vincennes. The grave is marked by a single stone, now almost covered by weeds. —Mrs. Harriet Allen Smith, aged 84 years, widow of Rev. Edward Smith, a noted personage, well known throughout Ohio and Indiana, died in Kokomo, at the residence of her son-in-law, Rev. Robert McCune. —The Medical Society of the Third Congressional District will disband and reorganize under the name of the Falls City Medical Society, to be represented by Louisville, Jeffersonville and New Albany, —A marine monster has been seen in Round Lake, Wabash County. It is thirtyfive feet in length, of a dull gray color, and possesses a small head and enormous fins. Its body is very slender, being not more than twenty inches in diameter. —lsaac Elliott, the young man who, a short time ago, impersonated an officer, and w’ho pretended to arrest a soldier who was attending a meeting at Kokomo, demanding SIOO for his release, has received a two years’ sentence for blackmail. —ln the case of Stephen Hamilton, an aged and wealthy citizen of Delaware County, convicted at Muncie recently of criminally assaulting a woman, the Judge refused to grant a new trial, and directed Hamilton’s imprisonment for two years. —The Circuit Court of Daviess County, in a suit brought to enforce the payment of warrants issued by the Trustee of Reeve Township for school supplies.' decided that, t as it was not averred that the goods were necessary or suitable, the plaintiff could not recover. —Howard Bender, the 15-year-old son of G. B. Bender, a farmer, complained of toothache. In a few days his head swelled to enormous proportions, when the offending tooth was extracted, filed down, and replaced. The swelling continued to grow until the young man was relieved of his sufferings by death. —The most expensive lawsuit Fayette County has had for years is now on trial in the Circuit Court between the wealthy families of A. B. Conwell and F. M. Roots over a few acres of land along the river. Eighty persons are attending as witnesses, and the costs are not less than S2OO a day. —Mr. W. C. De Pauw has recently purchased and will present to De Pauw University four new pieces of Carrara statuary of the same quality and workmanship as the three bought last winter. They are now on the way from Italy, and when they arrive will be placed in Downey Hall.

On the Field of Gettysburg. Monuments erected by the following Indiana Regiments, Third Cavalry, Nineteenth Infantry, Twentieth Infantry, Twen-ty-seventh Infantry, Seventh Infantry, and Fourteenth Infantry, have been dedicated on the battlefield of Gettysburg, and delivered to the keeping of the Memorial Association. Speeches were made by Generals Joseph J. Reynolds, Silas Colgrove, W. W. Dudley, Major Calpens, the Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, and others. A Gettysburg telegram says: “The Third Cavalry monument is located near the second cut on the Tapeworn Railroad, west of this town, and is of bare granite, eighteen feet high, and suitably inscribed. That of the Nineteenth Infantry is located on Willoughby's Run, the shaft being of Quincy granite, twelve feet high, cottage style. The shaft of the Twentieth Regiment is south of the wheabfield, and is of Quincy granite, nine feet high, cottage style, tipped with a granite ball. The Twenty-seventh s, near Spangler’s Spring, is cottage style, nine feet high and four feet square at the base’. The Seventh’s, on Culp’s Hill, is eight feet high, of Quincy granite, handsomely carved. The Fourteenth’s, on East Cemetery Hill, is of Indiana limestone, thirteen feet high, of massive proportions, and elaborately inscribed.”