Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Ground has been broken for the waterworks nt Vincennes. —Martinsville has about determined to illuminate with the electric light. —“Uncle Lucian” ltous, of Thorntown, the first male child born in Vevay, died recently, aged B*2. —Abram Kahn, a prominent Jew and stock buyer at South Bend, shot himself through the head. —Harry Bannister, proprietor of the hotel at La Fontaine, south of Wabash, fell dead with heart disease. —Fire broke out the other morning in a Baloon in a business part of Poseyville, destroying the entire block. —At an auction sale of walnut in Delphi, with bidders present from four States, 120 growing trees brought s(‘>,6oo. —lt is estimated that 1,000 hogs have died of cholera during the past six months at Fox’s Station, near Wabash. —George D. Wingate, of Thornton, committed suicide by banging himself with • halter to the rafters of his barn. —A mail train struck John Brack, who was walking on the track just east of Fort Wayne, and he died in a few minutes. —The warehouse belonging to the Elkhart Iron-Works Company, containing about 600 sulky plows, was destroyed by fire, —A “Law and Order” League has been organized at Marion, which is backed by all the churches in the town and tho temperance element. —H. C. Holloway, digging a well on a farm east of La Porte, came across a large vein of soft coal, samples of which proved to be first-class. —M. Spangle, a conductor ou the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, was run over at Elkhart by a switch-engine and instantly killed. —Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks has boon chosen a member of the Board of Directors of the Hecla Mining Company, to fill tho place of her husband. —Oscar Baldwin recovered $9,966 in the Gibson County Court against the Evansville aud Terro Haute, for the loss of a foot while employed as brakeman. —During the trial of a State case at Upland, one of tho jurors crawled out of a window and went home before a verdict was reached. A constable found him in bed. —Fort Wayne Lodge, No. 14,1. 0. O. F., has purchased, for $21,000, corner property within one block of the Court House. A fine edifice will probably be erected next summer. —Fire the other night destroyed the en-gine-house nt Mount Vernon, but thfe apparatus was saved. Citizens bad barely got to bed when another alarm was sounded, calling the department to the east side of the public square. Half a block was in flames and destroyed, among which wus the Democrat office. —David J. Mackey, President of the Evansville and Terre Haute aud Evansville and Indianapolis Railways, was arrested to answer the charge of contempt of court. Some time ago the Daviess County Court rendered judgment of SI,BOO against Mackey’s road for trespass, but Mackey ignored the order, and as the court could not stop the railroad it took possession of tho President. —Hon. Hugh McCulloch, ex-Secretary of the United States Treasury, has deeded to the city of Fort Wayne his title to the old Broadway Cemetery of ten acres, from which most of tho dead bo dies havo been removed, and which has become of great value. The condition of the deed, which the City Council has by’ordinance accepted, is that the property shall be kept improved and be known, as McCulloch Park. —Mr. Thornton F. Tyson, one of the oldest residents of Cass County, has completely lost his reason, and application will be made for his admission into the insane asylum. After years of toil Mr. Tyson amassed a fortune of between $20,000 and $25,000. He recently began to speculate in Chicago margins, and the result was ho lost his entire fortune, $17,000 going at one time. The result was mental wreck and ruin. —A decided sensation has been caused by Charley Maurice, a cowboy tough', at Logansport, Ohio. He saddled his horse, filled his hide with whisky, and started out to take in the town. He rode into three saloons, and ordered drinks at the muzzle of a revolver. He attempted to ride up to the general-delivery window in the postoffice, but was headed off by the police, who jerked him from his horse and threw him in jail. —At the Grand Lodge of the Indiana Knights of Honor the election of officers resulted as follows: Grand Dictator, J. B. Hill, of Richmond; Vice Dictator, J. B. Wartmann,, of Evansville; Assistant Dictator, Adolph S. Lane, of Vincennes;. Chaplain, Rev. A. J. Neff; Guide, Richard Bryson, of Clay City; Reporter, James W. Jacobs, of Jeffersonville; Treasurer, Walter B. Godfrey, of New Albany; Sentinel, Jesse Cook, of Westfield; Supreme Representative, T. 11. Clapp, of Indianapolis; Trustees, Herman Kreuger, of Kehdallville; Isaac E. Crews, of Greencastle; Allen W. Conduitt, of Indianapolis; State Medical Examiner, Dr. T. N.. Bryan, of Indianapolis.