Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1885 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—At LaPorte, Frank McCollum was fatally kicked by a horse. —The Salem Press has change baud*. L. O. Seltmarsh is now editor and proprietor. —At New Albany, notwithstanding the cold, colored converts are being baptized in the river. —Fire at Goshen destroyed Hawks Bros.* furniture warehouse. Loss, $20,000; insured for SB,OOO. —The Lafayette Paper Mills Company has made au nssignmeut. The liabilities are said to be $30,000. —A night watchman at the Southern Prison shoe-shops has been relieved from duty because he said he saw ghosts. —There are sixteen Indiana men on the pay-roll of the House of Representatives—four more than any other State delegation has. —There is a gas vein on the Charlestown pike, three miles from Jefferaouville, and prospecting is going on to find an eligible place to tap.

—Senator Voorheos has consented to deliver his lecture ou “Jefferson” in ten cities in Indiana, shortly after the holidays, in aid of the Hendricks Monument fund. —lt is said that the woman who threw a stone through the depot window, has been sent to the work-house for ten days. Is hanging played oul‘t~lnditouipotin Journal. —An appeal has been taken from the decision of a Lafayette judge, who ruled that au application for a liquor license published in a German paper was a valid notice. —Henry Moore and Joseph Beddlo, in crossing railway tracks in a buggy near Lafayette, were struck by a train. Moore was instantly killed, and bis companion fatally injured. —A broken rail ditched the engine, bag-gage-car, and smoker of a Monou passenger train near Putnamville. Three employes were seriously hurt, but the passengers escaped.

—The Wabash City Council refused to compromise the claim of the Wabash Hydraulic Company for water rents from 1875 to the present time, and tho company will file suit against the city for $4,000.

—A young man named Ewry, baggago master on a Louisville, New Albany and Chicago train, while assisting in coupling cars at Elliotsville, was so badly squeezed as to make his recovery extremely doubtful. —George Kunstmun, a member of tho firm of Knobtock, Ginz & Co., millers, of South Bend, committed suicide by shooting. He had been failing in health about a year.

—The Postoffice ut Daggert, Owen County, has been discontinued, and the mail goes to Coal City. The Postoffice at West Saratoga Springs, Pike County, lms been discontinued. Tho mail goes to Oatsville. —Within the Inst year some eight or ten horses have been stolen from Union County, and the County Commissioners have offered a reward of SBOO for the apprehension and conviction of the first horse-thief.

The snloon of Paschong & Co., in tho business center of Andrews, east of Wabash, was saturated with coal oil and set on tire. The blaze was discovered barely in time to prevent a huge conflagration.

—Edward Bean, a Chicago lawyer, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Clarke County for trespassing on the farm of James Cole, a farmer living near Charlestown. He was arrested, and gave bond in the sum of SI,OOO.

—ln a quaiTcl in a school yard at Westfield, John Garver, son of Judge Garver, struck Harry Steed on the head with a stone, killing him instantly. The murderer is sixteen years old, and his victim was about the same age.

—By an explosion of gas in a Terre Haute city building the offices of the City Clerk and City Treasurer were completely demolished, and the Deputy Treasurer seriously injured and burned. The City Clerk was slightly injured.

—Near New Era Station. Levi Kesslor shot L. H Hamer, placed him on the track, and rifled his pockets. Kessler was arrested and confessed. He obtained from his victim a watch and $6. The father of tho murderer asked the officers to hang him.

—Mrs. Hendricks’ heart wound was twice made to bleed afresh lately by a telegram mnouncing the sudden death of a near relative of her dec used husband and another bringing the news of the death of a tvaim personal friend, and whose name is inown to every section of the State. The 'iist was the death of Paul Hendricks, a •onsin of the deceased Vice President, and •vho dropped dead while conversing with friends at Madison, this State. He (lied of Kiruhsis of the heart, the same disease vhicli proved fatal to his distinguished iinsmau. The second was the death at Dublin. Ind., of Mrs. Sarah Smith, with •ilium originated (lie idea of a female reformatory in this State, and to whose energy and super intendency the institution is a standing monument. This is the iustituion of which Mrs. Hendricks was long President of the Board of Managers, and Mrs. Smith was one of the strongest pillars.