Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The Indiana State Firemen’s Association, at LaPorte, elected the following officers: President, F. D. Finney, of Goshen; Vice President, Golden Austin, of LaPorte; Secretary, G. A. Beck, of Goshen; Treasurer, H. C. Davis, of Columbus; Statistician, J. F. Langenbaugh, of Plymouth. The next State tournament will be held at Angola, and the place of meeting of the next Convention was left to the decision of the Board of Control, with the date August, 1887.

—A man known as “Uncle Jimmy Anderson” died at his residence in the eastern part of Greensbnrg, from lock-jaw, superinduced by a rusty nail having pierced his foot a few days previous. The physician who first attended him insists that there was no occasion for a fatal termination, but believes that Mr. Anderson was simply scared to death. The- patient, however, for several days predicted that his death would come just as it did, and at the time it did.

—The following are the officers eleoted for the ensuing year by the funeral directors at their meeting in Indianapoliß not long since: President, F. W. Flnnner, Indianapolis; Vico Presidents, Eli J. Jameson, Peru; Louis Peltier, Fort Wayne; Frank L. Snyder, Crawfordsville; Secretary, S. 11. Lippincott, Richmond; Treasurer, O. G. Davis, Williamsburg; Delegates to the National Convention, S. R. Lippincott, Louis Peltier, Eli J. Jameson. —The trial of fiye of the members of the mob which took Reuben Swank from his residence in North Manchester, iu March, severely whipped him, and then compelled him to leave the town, resulted in the jury, in the Wabash Circuit Court, finding the defendants guilty of riot, and assessing fines of $35 each against James Sexton, Daniel Christman, Wm. Pierson Jr., Henry Stroyer and Guilford Pleas. '• —Wm. Rosenbaum, of Dewey Township, LaPorte County,disappeared from his home without apparent cause. Searching parties were organized on the following day, when his body was found floating in the Kankakee river, three-quarters of a mile below the crossing of the Chicago, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad. There were no marks of violence on the body, and it is supposed he committed suicide.

—One night, not long since, tho house of Janies Dawson, nine miles from Rushville, was discovered to be on fire. The children sleeping up-Btairß were already burned badly, but were rescued by tho heroic efforts of Mrs. Dawson. She was severely burned. Since then, two daughters, aged 4 and 13 years, have died. Another child was burned considerably, but, it is thought, will recover. —The Northern Indiana Millers’Association met at North Manchester and elected the following directors for the ensuing year: C. W. Tuttle, Columbia City; Daniel Strauss, North Manchester; D. Thompson, Wabash; E. B. Thomas, Huntington; E. B. Wolf, Collamer. The board will organize at the next meeting, which will be held in North Manchester on June 22.

—While working in a tile mill, seven miles northwest of Tipton, Morris Brookbanks was knocked into the fly-wheel of the engine by a truck and bad his bands nearly torn off and his arms mashed and broken. He was also badly bruisod and cut about the head and breast and injured internally. —The clergyman of a Jefforsonville colored Baptist Church was to have immersed thirteen converts in the Ohio, but only one of the thirteen, a small child, made Us appearance. After he had baptized this child, he observed that, “in dragging your net you a’A/nys catch same tadpoles." —Marion’s new court bouse is an elegantly constructed building of stone. The architecture is perfectly harmonious throughout, and neat and tasty carving ornaments the window caps and cornices. When completed it will be handsomely furnished.

—James Wyant and a man named Moore escaped from the jail at Leavenworth. Wyant was held on the charge of incest, and Moore on that of grand larceny. This makes the third jail delivery that has occurred at Leavenworth very recently. —During a thuD jer-storm, recently, the barn of Frank Kitchen, five miles northeast of Greensburg, was struck by lightning and burned, together with two mules, two horses, hay and other feed, and some farming implements. Loss. $1,200. —A judge of Terre Haute has issued an order that if any newspaper publishes the names of witnesses summoned before the grand jury, or information regarding indictments, the publisher shall be fined for contempt. —At Lafayette, two little girls have been arrested for stealing jewelry. Their pilfering had been going on for some time, and they had accumulated over S2OO worth of plunder. One girl is 12 years old and the other 10.

—The 4-year-old daughter of a farmer living six miles southeast of Princeton fell into a fifty foot well containing nearly ’ twenty feet of water. The father jumped in and got the child, which was with great difficulty resuscitated. —Dr. N. Field, of Jeffersonville, 81 years old, has for many years preached at the Christian Church in that city without pay, believing in the apostolic doctrine that a minister should not take pay for the gospel. —While Youngstown Knights of Pythias were giving the oriental degree before the grand lodge, the lioor sank twenty inches, crenting a panic. The goat galloped too hard. No one injured. —Warren girls won’t play lawn tennis because—now, don’t give it away—they can’t play and wear corsets.