Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A large and enthusiastic meeting of representative business men of Evansville was held recently to protest agaiust Senate bill 6047 and Senate bill 1718, now pending before Congress, to allow* either the Chicago, St. Louis and Uew Orleans or the Illinois Central Railway. to build a bridge over the Ohio River at or near Cairo, Illinois. The resolution adopted is of some length, and endVihus:'. “tVe, as citizens of Indiana, request Senators Voorhees arid Harrison, and Hon J. J. Kleiner, and all members of Congress, to use their utmost endeavors to defeat the legislation so attempted and proposed." —A man, aged about 40 years, and a resident of Huntingburg, was fun over and killed in the yards there recently. He was unloading lumber from a car, when a switch engine with several cars approached, striking the car on which he was standing with such force as to throw him to the ground. He fell on his back and the front wheels passed over his body, throwing the ear from the track. There being a caboose between the engine and the car on which he was working, the train men were unable to see him. He leaves a widow' and one child, who were dependent upon him for support. —Three men started together from Parker to Muncie recently to attend tho congressional convention. They started home on a freight train at night, and then a short distance east of Selma one of them fell from the car and was run over and horribly maugled. His dead body was discovered by passers-by, picked up and cared for. His comrades assert that they know nothing as to how the accident occurred. This has led to suspicion of foul play. The man leaves a widow and two children in destitute circumstances.

—Capt. Henry Scott, of Evansville, an old citizen and steamboat man, and late local inspector of boilers at that port, left his home recently. His actions of late have been sucb as to make his family feel apprehensive for his safety, he having given evidence that his mind was deranged. The police and a number of friends started in search of him, and found him wandering about aimlessly, nearly eight miles above the city. He was brought home and placed under guard. Capt. Scott is 81 years of age. —Louis Anderson, of Seymour, a contractor for brick work, fell dead in his yard recently. Mr. Anderson was an. enterprising citizen and highly esteemed. He was a member of the K. of P. order, and was engaged in the management of the 6th of June celebration to be held at Seymour by that order. He ..bad contracts for the building of Blisho’s large flouring mill, a new fire engine-house, and Brunnig’s Concert Hall. • ' —Two local toughs were jailed at Loganßport, recently, for assaulting a wellknown citizen in the street.. They were not locked in cells', and were no sooner put behind the bars than they made a murderous assault on a helpless prisoner. Before he could be rescued, his face was beaten to a jelly. The Sheriff swore out papers, charging them with assault and battery, with intent to commit murder.

—The will of Mrs. Ezra Smith, of Richmond, who died some time since, provides that her property bo placed in the hands of the trustees, for the maintenance of a widows’ home. The bequest will amount to $30,000. The provisions of the will are that, if the city or cOnnty will put up the building, the property of which she died possessed was to constitute a trust to maintain the home.

—One hundred and thirty-seven persons who, during the past winter, united with the United Brethren Church, were baptized at Middletown recently. A revival was held there last winter, which continued through the greater part of January and February, and in all about 150 persons were added to the church. One hundred and thirty-seven had never been baptized. —At Lafayette, as a 15-year-old boy was on his way to school, another boy, apparently 17 years old, ran out of an alley and stabbed him four times in the breast. The knife was evidently a dull one, and the wounds are not serious. Several school triends were with the boy at the time, but no one recognized his assailant, who escaped. —A lady of Terre Haute met with an accident that may prove fatal. While in an outhouse the ground floor gave way and she was precipitated below. No one being al home, it was half an hour before her cries for help were heard. From her waist down she is paralyzed. —A well-known German citizen of Osgood has recently received a letter from his brother in Germany to the effect that he has fallen heir to an estate of $41,000. He is quite iubilant over the good tidings, and intends leaving for Germany very soon. —Muucie is making great inducements to get the Dueber Watch Company, of Newpoit, Kentucky, to locate at that place. If successful this will add nearly 3,000 to its population, as the company employs 800 men, with a pay-roll of $300,000 a year.

—A lady of Edwardsport was found dead in her bed roeentlj and an empty phial near her pillow. The phial had contained carbolic acid, of which she drank during the night. She was not in want, but a morbid fear of the poor-house drove her to suicide. —David Carroll, 14 years old, a deaf mute at New Albany, who was in the habit of jumping upon railroad trains in motion, was run over by a train and killed. —Gas has been struck at a depth of 700 feet at the Portland Gas Company’s well. The well has been visited by thousands. It will be drilled deeper.