Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Rev. E. E. Green, of Wabash, has fallen heir to $500,000. —The new five per cent, bonds of Jeffersonv.lle have all been taken. Joy & Co.’s elevator at Red Key burned lately. Loss. $10,000; partially insured. —Escaping coal gas suffocated Simon •Steinberg and his wife at Indianapolis. —-Tot* Spurrier, a brakeman employed on the Panhandle, was killed at North Grove. —George Huff', an old and highly esteemed citizen of Muncie, died in that town. —The Commissioners of Washington County are taking steps to built a new court house. —The law that the doors of schoolhouses shall open outward is being enforced in Clark County. —W. C. McCray, of Torre Haute, haq a little, old-style flatiron* with which hie great-grandmother used to iron Washington’s frilled shirts. —The old Barnett House at Logansport, one of the oldest hotel buildings in tho State, has been condemned and sold, and will be tern down. —Rev. John R. Elmore, of Clayton,, having been expelled from the pulpit for bigamy, cut a hole through the ice iu th* river and drowned himself. —At Bedford the business places of George 1). Gowen, Telford <t Co., W. W, Ferguson, and Nathaniel Williams wer® burned. Loss, $15,000; insured. - Ben. Blanchard, the land speculatoi, who ran away from Terre Haute to escapo u warrant for embezzlement two months ago, has returned and given himself up. —Wilson Spray, a Quaker fanner near Indianapolis, has made au assignment. Liabilities, $30,000. His farm, residence, etc., arc estimated to be worth $50,000. —Joseph Defrees, of Goshen, is dead, aged seventy-three. He had been both Representative and Senator in tho State Legislature and a member of Congress in 1806-7. —The death iu Georgia of lion. E. T. Johnson, of Indianapolis, recalls tho famous scandal for which he killed Major Henry, of Tennessee, when Mrs. Johnson poisoned herself. —Near Lafayette, Mrs. Betsy Metzger, aged seventy-four, and George Rudolph, twenty years old, were united in marriage. The groom is not rich, but the bride has a snug bank account and owns 160 acres of choice land.

—A few nights ago a committee of the City Council of Vincennes went out on a. still-hunt for the police force. One officer was found in bed at his home, another was drunk, a third in a house of ill-fame, and a fourth was discovered sleeping off a debauch in a saloon. —lndianapolis Journal: The death is announced of Charles IT. Clarke, at Louisville, at the age of seventy. For fifteen years lie was connected with the CowrierJournal, and for a time acted as the amanuensis of George I). Prentice. Mr. Clarke is the original of Janies Whitcomb Riley's “Remarkable Man,” as he is made to appear in his new book of sketches, “The Boss Girl,” and other stories. Mr. Riley has been asked about it, and says that the surmise is correct. It is said that Mr. Clarke read the sketch in question, which goes far toward explaining his sudden death. —Brookville at present is a quiet little town of two thousand inhabitants or thereabout. Sixty years ago it was the foremost town in the State, and was the residence of many distinguished men. The Land Office was located there, and was in charge of Robert Hanna, a personal and life-long friend of Thomas Jefferson. Other noted personages were Governors Ray, Noble, Wallace, and Hammond; Hiram Powers, the sculptor; Captain Eads, constructor of the St. Louis bridge and the Mississippi jetties; Oliver H. Glisson, Rear Admiral United States navy; Captain Herndon, commander of the ill-fated Central America and father of President Arthur’s wife; May, the architect of the State House at Indianapolis; and here General Lew Wallace was bom. —A divorce suit involving persons •prominent in society at Indianapolis, and well known throughout the State was filed, tried, judgment rendered, and alimony granted and paid the other day in the short space of three hours. Mrs. George W. Stout was the plaintiff, and her husband, a wealthy and prominent wholesale man, was the defendant. The parties were both in court, and but three witnesses were examined. Stout’s book-keeper testified that he had opened three letters in the course of business addressed to Stout by Mrs. Josie McGee, a divorced woman, making appointments for meetings and demanding money. Mrs. Stout testified to cruel treatment, saying her husband had cursed and abused her, but she had borne this until she h: ard of his liaasons with the McGee woman. She charged him with infidelity, and he confessed it and asked forgiveness, but this she refused. Mrs. Stout’s sister was a witness to his cruel treatment of the wife. Stout had no attorney, and when asked if he had anything to say replied negatively. The divorce was then granted and SIO,OOO alimony was given the wife. Stout immediately paid this by transferring certain city property to her.