Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A fire at Stockwell completely destroyed five business houses. —The barn of Cash Herron, near Lynn, burned, with contents. —Fire has destroyed J. Stephens & Co.’s general store at West Shoal. —Charles Canfield was found one mile south of Vernou frozen to death. —Andrew Starkey, of Porter County, committed suicide by shooting himself.' —Harris & Cook, dry goods merchants of Kokomo, have made an assignment. —The residence of Humphrey Frickus r above Evansville, was destroyed by fire. —The Lafayette Gas Company proposes to furnish that city with electric light in the spring. —John Miller, tried at Columbus for shooting Buck McKinney, has been acquitted. —Harrison M. Crockett, one of the first settlers of South Bend, died recently of paralysis.

—Great excitement prevails there over the discovery of coal a short distance south of Vernon. —Rufus Crisman, of Frankfort, committed suicide by hanging himself with a trace-chain. —William Shipe, of Evansville, was thrown from a wagon by a runaway horseand almost scalped. —Ewald Over, of Indianapolis, manufacturer of farm and other machinery, has made an assignment. —Fire destroyed W. J. Rawlins’ photograph parlors at Vincennes, and partially destroyed (he building. —Dr. C. L. Thomas, of Logansport, has been appointed to succeed Dr. J. M. Justice on the Pension Board. —Ewald Over, of Indianapolis, manufacturer of farm machinery and iron dealer, made an assignment. —The religious revival in Counersvillo Jias been the most extraordinary season of the kind ever known in that city. —At Martinsville, Allen L. English, Trustee of Clay Township, charged with obtaining money by false pretenses, was acquitted.

—George Keller, near South Bend, hanged himself because he had too much money and too little education to care for it. —The daughter of Joseph Blossom, living near Keller’s Station, near Wahash, died from a dose of morphine given through mistake. —The burning of the Fisk Block, at Valparaiso, entailed a loss of $20,000. The Knights Templars lost SB,OOO in furniture and regalia. —Philip Babb, of Buck Creek, who shot, and fatally wounded Nathaniel Warfield a few nights since, was arrested Saturday and bound over. —William A. McCaffrey, of New Albany, a carpenter, fell from a trestle on the Kentucky and Indiana bridge, and died in twenty minutes. —lt has been discovered that the baking powder which recently caused the death of Margaret Garrettson, at Williamsport, was dosed with arsenic.

—Win. Bums, while rendering lard near Evansville, upset a kettle of the grease, which went over his face, chest, and legs. He will lose his eyesight. —Clayton Pavey, who created a sensation in a crowded church in Dora, by shooting William Oates, who two years ago eloped with his sister Ida, is yet at large. —Thomas Birmingham, the Indianapolis barkeeper who killed William Rennion last October, has been convicted of manslaughter, with two years in the penitentiary. —Citizens of Daviess County are making: objections to the raising of $75,C00 by taxation as a bonus to the Ohio and Mississippi. Railroad shops to locate at Washington. —Joint Railroad Agent C. M. Keck and J. B. Barnett, telegraph operator, were arrested at Auburn Junction, on bench warrants charging wholesale robbery of trunks.

—Charles Broker, of Jeffersonville, while working on a pistol, fatally shot his son, five years old. The child exclaimed, with a, smile on his lips, “Why, pa, you’ve shot. me.” —At Peru, J. Savage, traveling peddler,. while showing his traveling companion, named Golan, how steadily he could handle a revolver, accidentally shot and killed. Golan. —Thomas Marley, captured in Arkansas,, is now in jail at Paoli. Marley was indicted for the killing of Martin Archer, Jr., in the northern part of Orange County, in 1882. —The Indiana Coal Mine Inspector recommends that all persons employed to. weigh coal be sworn. He tested twenty-six scales and found twelve incorrect. Of these twelve only two weighed in favor of the miner.

—A sleighing party south of Columbia City passed a party of young men who werewalking. Thomas Fullerton tossed a partly. filled bottle of whisky in the sleigh, which » struck John Gachette. Tho latter jumped i out, and he and Fullerton fell to lighting. . Fullerton produced a revolver and fired, tho ball entering Gachette’s abdomen, and he died in forty-five minutes. FiilLirtou admits the shooting, but claims it was in self-. - defense.