Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Lincoln Hall was decapitated by a train at Lafayette. —J. A. Graff, of Connersville, poisoned himself at the Gibson House, in Cincinnati. —At South Bend, Maud Brick, five years old, while at play, fell into a cistern and was drowned. —Harvey Ford, of Jeffersonville, through long-continued catarrh of the head, has become totally blind. —Suit has been ordered against the expoundmaster at Windfall, who is charged with being short in his accounts. —Strand Miller, two years old, was burned to death at Central, Harrison County, his clothes having caught fire. —J. F. Surmann, the well-known New Albany violinist, has gone to New York to take a position in Damrosch’s orchestra. —Frank Talbott, an ex-employe of the Evansville and Terre Haute Railway Company has begun suit so? $50,000 damages for false imprisonment. —Chief Brooks, of the secret service, Treasury Department, says that he believes Indiana produces more counterfeiters than any other State in the Union. —The Union National Bank, with a capital stock of $100,000, has been organized at Richmond. Mr. Jesse Cates is President, and Mr. John K. Jones Cashier. —At a revival meeting in Hopkinsville occurred the wedding of a colored couple who begin their married life with thirtytwo children, the groom having twenty-two-and the bride ten. —Albert Holt, a saloon-keeper of Logansport, sent his wife to the country and then disappeared. The wife returned and found that robbers had gutted the premises, but there is no trace of Holt. —Fairland lost one of its most respected citizens in the person of Mrs. Dycie Odell,, mother of the late Hon. Isaac Odell, once a well-known attorney of Shelby County. The deceased was 81 years old. —Early Monday morning, at Wabash, Mrs. C. Jellison, aged 26, burst a bloodvessel and died instantly. The body swelled to enormous proportions, began to decay, and had to be interred in great haste. —Thomas A. Stockslager, of Kansas, brother of Hon. S. M. Stockslager, of Harrison County, has been appointed a special examiner in the Pension Bureau. The pay is $1,400 per year, with $4 allowances per day for expenses.

—The boiler in W. M. Aiken & Co.’s pork-packing and proprietary medicine establishment at Evansville exploded, wounding eleven persons and wrecking the building. Two of the victims are not expected to survive their injuries. —The Fort Wayne Council has agreed to accept the proposition of Hon. Hugh McCulloch to transfer the old Broadway Cemetery to the city for a public park, and a committee has been appointed to arrange for the removal of the bodies interred there. —lt will probably soon transpire that Gen. Wallace has returned to Constantinople in response to a cable dispatch from the Sultan of Turkey. It is well known that during his recent residence as United States Minister at the court of the Sultan he not only formed an intimate personal friendship with that monarch, but was honored with his confidence to such -an extent that he became his counselor in important public affairs. It may be that the chief purpose of his present mission is to give aid in the impending negotiations for peace; but his services will be in still more urgent demanil in case of their failure. Should* there be an Eastern war, which now seems inevitable, Gen. Wallace will no doubt be tendered a high position in the Sultan’s service, and it is not at all unlikely that he will be Commander-in-Chief of the Turk-, ish armies. Such an event would be in perfect consonance with his past career, which has been brilliant and dramatic in all its episodes. As fellow-countrymen, we wish Wallace good luck in his adventure.— Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Mussleman's Whims. iLafayette special.! A curious case of insanity has just come* to light which tends to show the idiosyncrasies of a once bright mind, but now an inmate of a lunatic asylum. John T. Mussleman, once a resident of this city, but subsequently of Loganssport, was a man of much notoriety in law and politics in Northern Indiana. Being a thrifty and good business man he accumulated a fortune of $300,000. His unsoundness of mind first showeditself a few years -ago in refusing to pay his taxes. His pffl-sonal property was sold to pay the same, and he became infuriated at the City Council. He next purchased the Logansport Pharos for $9,500. He then contracted to build an opera house, and afterward wrote a drama entitled, “Logansport Reveries.” Subsequently he went to Indianapolis and hired a dramatic troupe to bring out his play. His friends, on account of his many vagaries, began to believe him insane, and instituted a judicial inquiry into his case, • and the commission declared him insane. He was taken to the asylum at Indianapolis. Mrs. Musselman then sued for divorce and alimony, and was granted $33,000. He remained in the asylum for one year, when, through the influence of the Masons and the Odd Fellows, he was liberated and returned to Logansport. His next move was to buy out a newspaper, and he started the Sun (weekly), a Democratic sheet. After many eccentricities he was a second time returned to Indianapolis, w'here he remains in the asylum to this day.

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