Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Jas. S. Wallace, of Marion, attempted suicide by taking morphine. —The Ohio Falls iron works at New Albany have resumed operations. —The will of Jacob Bader, deceased, of New Albany, leaves his prhperlv, valued at $20,000, to his wife. —A murderer was baptized, by immersion in a hath tub. in the corridor of the Crawfordsville jail recently. —A large amount of hay and grain, together with three horses, was burned in a barn near Bushville recently. —A crazy woman in the Terre Haute jail has been called for by her brother and taken to her home at Etna, Illinois. —The directors of the Terre Haute Trotting Association have decided to enlarge their half-mile track to a mile track. —Rev. William C. Smith, a veteran Methodist preacher, died at Frankfort recently, after a long and painful illness. —A lady at Lafayette, blind and feeblo, fell and broke her right arm. She is ninety-two years old, and (he injury will probably cause her death. —A man at Terre Haute mistook a second storv window for a door and stepped out, landing on a cellar door. He was severely shaken up, hut, strangely enough, not severely hurt. —The celebration of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the institution of Odd-Fel-lowship in America drew an immense throng of members of that fraternity to the city of Wabash. —Prof. William Statz, of Terre Haute, died recently. He w r as President of the Germania Society of that city; a natural horn educator, au exceptionally fine linguist and a cultivated man. —An old citizen of Covington was killed recently by a falling beam, at a barn-rais-ing at tho residence of his brother, three miles east of town. His skull was fractured, causing instant death. —A flue two-story residence in Morgan Township, Owen Comity, seven miles northwest of Spencer, was burned to the ground, with all its contents, recently. Cause, a defective flue. Loss, $2,000; insurance, SBOO.

—A largo burn on a farm adjoining Greenfield burned lately, together with its contents, consisting of a large quantity of hay. corn, and oats, farming implements, buggies, wagons, and one horse. Loss, $1,800; insurance, $llOO. —A woolen mill will soon be established at Charlestown by a stock company. They will give employment to about thirty-flvo workmen, and will have a capital stock of $25,000. Two similar manufactories at that town have been burned down. —Nathan Bililer. an inmate of the Fulton County Asylum, was killed by lightning dining a severe thunder-storm which passed over that section recently. Several years ago Bibler was a -well-to-do farmer, but for some time past has been partially insane.

—John Mecham, residing five miles above Evansville, was killed recently by a tree falling on him. Mecham was out hunting'and cut the treo down for an animal he saw outer the hollow. He leaves a widow and three children in destitute circumstances.

—The barn of Jacob Luso, one mile west of Whitlock, Montgomery County, was burned, together with all the contents, consisting of 200 bushels of corn, 300 bushels of oats, 20 tons of hay, all kinds of farming implements and two horses. Loss, $3,500; insured for $2,000 in the Continental. —A paper-hanger of New Albany attempted to jump on a freight train of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, and missing his foothold on the car stirrup, fell under the train and was literally cut in two across the abdomen, his heart being also torn out and thrown twelve feet from the track.

—Two unsuccessful attempts have been made to burn the house occupied by. a family at Crawfordsville. The kitchen was smeared with coal oil, but the fire was discovered almost as soon as started, and extinguished. Later the wood-house was set on fire. One of the family was awake and heard the flames, and with prompt and hard work the house was saved. —While two ex-lownship trustees were in a saloon on Water street, Evansville, they were set upon by four rowdies, and during a free fight which ensued one was shot, the ball entering the right ear and coming out near the temple, inflicting a fatal wouud. The wounded man was conveyed home. In the meantime the rowdies dispersed, but were arrested an hour later. Longfellow, one of them, was identified ns the murderer. The trouble arose over 95 cents which w'as due from the bar-keeper. —The celebration of the birthday anniversary of Mrs. Mary Benneman, the oldest woman in the United States, and probably the oldest person in the world, it being her one hundred and seventeenth birthday, occurred recently at Russinville. It was also the anniversary of the birthday of her oldest son, Peter Coulter, with whom she resides, and who has reached his eightyfourth ye ar, making their combined ages over two hundred years. —Spear S. Hollingsworth, Treasurer of Knox County, has been placed in jail. He was arrested, not long since, on a charge of embezzlement, and, after much difficulty, gave bond. He was to appear in court, but failed to do so, and in consequence thereof Postmaster Kackley, one of the bondsmen, declined to stay on the bond further, and turned him over to the Sheriff. Some time was spent in preparing a new bond, failing which Sheriff' Seddlemeyer locked Hollingsworth up. The prisoner was much affected, crying liko a woman. No sympathy with him is expressed.