Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A fire at Princeton, last week, destroyed valuable property. —The residence of James Grissum, south of Shelbyville, was burned. —Disappointed in love, Charles Dunbar, of Colfax, blew out his brains. —Dr. F. M. Wall, of Urbana, convicted of malpractice, has appealed the case. —The Cigar-makers’ Union of Terre Haute has resolved to boycott Chinese laundries. —The Wabash Importing Company has purchased twelve Norman stallions in France. —Robert Templeton, a miner in the mines near Harmony, was instantly killed by falling slate. —A detachment of the Salvation Army recently took possession of the village of Sweetzer. —John Fessner, a farmer living near Inwood, set tire to his dwelling »and perished in the flames. —William Harrison, of Wayne County, committed suicide while laboring under a fit of insanity. —Mrs. John Joey, of Wabash, recently gave birth to a boy baby weighing only nineteen ounces. —At Spencer, a huge sized pin was extracted from the hip of the infant daughter of Dr, W. E. Swigert, —Dr. E. R. Myrtle, of Cedar Point, and his thirteen-year-old step-daughter are said to have eloped together. —Judge Berry has set aside the $2,000 judgment against Dr. J. P. Orr, of Rushville, for alleged malpractice. —ln the case of Kreig and Heitz, charged with manslaughter, at Huntington, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. —The Prohibitionists have decided to call a Slate convention at Indianapolis May 20, and advise the running of straight Prohibitionist tickets wherever there is any likelihood of getting votes. —Probably the largest single pension ever paid at the local agency was to Ferdinand Black, of Etna Green, who received $10,763 for blindness. —Louis Grant, Sr., of Vincennes, master boiler-maker of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, while engaged at work fell over apparently dead and expired in three hours. —The people of Milroy last week helped celebrate the one-hundredth birthday of Capt. John Boyd, who built the first frame bam in Rush county, more than fifty years ago.

—Valentine Kelley, of Clarksville, who has been hunting hidden wealth during the last two years, has unearthed an iron pot, at the bend on Silver Creek, containing $1,500. —Wealthy farmers in the northern part of Wabash County have become the victims of so many shrewd forgers that they have perfected the organization of a protective association. —The wife of Henry T. Kirk, in the northern part of Hendricks County, while insane, went out into a shed, poured a can of coal-oil over her head and clothes, applied a match, and was so burned that she died in a few hours. —Albert Van Wagner was arrested for seriously damaging and attempting to derail trains of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Company. He confessed, and declared he had no accomplices and no reasons for his act. «, —Twenty years ago Curtis Travis received a certificate of deposit for $l5O on the Bank of the State of Indiana, at La Porte. A few days ago the widow of the deceased discovered the paper, which she presented to the bank, where it was cashed. —An old lady at Zionsville, named Keely, was burglarized of a quantity of money and jewlery, at the pistol’s muzzle, and was so scared she could not identify her assailants, but the next night dreamed a man named Ashley was robbing her, which led to Ashley’s arrest and confession, and the arrest and breaking up of a dangerous gang of burglars. —New Holland has been agitated over the appearance of a grizzly bear. The beast is alleged to have been seen on the outskirts of the village by several farmers, but the reports gained no credence. The huge beast w as then said to have turned up in the neighborhood of the postoffice and the inhabitants were frightened half out of their wits. —A box-car which had some loose grain scattered over the floor was invaded by goats at Columbus, when some of the boys closed the door. Arriving at Indianapolis the brakemen opened the car door, when the goats jumped out, scattering in every direction. The crew, supposing they had been shipped as freight, engaged in a chase for hours. They then went to hunt the agent to see the way-bill, when they discovered the joke. —E. H. Shirk, of Peru, has brought suit against Keeport & Co. for trespass. In getting out stone for his kiln Keeport went across the canal-bed line. The farmers owning land along the canal claim that where the bed was abandoned for the purposes for which it was originally used by the Wabash & Erie Company, it reverted to them. The canal-bed, from Fort Wayne to Lafayette, was purchased by thft company of which E. H. Shirk is chief.