Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The fifth annual meeting of the Indiana Pharmaceutical Associatiou assembled at Lafayette with President August J. Detzer. of Fori Wayne, in ihe chair. After prayer by Rev. A. Marine, the Mayor, Hon. J. L. Caldwell, delivered his address of welcome, to which President Detzer responded. Thirty-three applications for membership were filed with Secretary J. 11. Perry, with more to follow. In the absence of Emil Martin, the treasurer, Mr. D. Hilt was appointed treasurer pro tern. The reports of the treasurer and secretary were read, and referred to the executive committee. A committee on credentials was appointed. Delegates were present from a large number of local associations. The officers elected are, President, Leo Eliel, of South Bend; First Vice President, David Hilt, of Lafayette; Second Vice President, M. Jay, of Stockwell; Third Vice President, G. H. Loesoh, of Fort Wayne; Treasurer, J. N. Hurtv, of Indianapolis: Secretary, Frank Hereth, of Indianapolis. —A short time since a man of good address, and about 50 years of nge, went to Fort AVnyne, hailing, he said, from Buffalo, N. Y., and giving his name as B. D. Daniels. He bargained for a stock of dry goods with T. J. Fleming, and he and Mr. Fleming commenced invoicing said stock. The goods, us inventoried, were placed on a counter, and the proceeds of the sale of the same, about $l5O, putin a box. Sometime during the afternoon, Daniels took the money and left town, hiriug a livery team to take him to Areola, eight miles west of the city. Learning the state of affairs, Mr. Fleming notified the sheriff, who started in pursuit, and Daniels was overhauled at Coesse, twelve miles west on the Fort Wayne road. He puts a bold face on the matter, claiming he had a legal right to take the money. There is no doubt that Daniels is a criminal, and his pretended purchase of the goods nn old game. —Burglars robbed a number of business houses in Hillsboro not long since. The large safe in Heffner & Hayes’ drug store was blown open and badly damaged. The dry goods store of Lenville & Berry, the millinery store of W. J. Gebhart, and the 1., B. & W. Kailway depot were also entered. The latter place they entered by breaking glass out of a window of the freight and ticket office, and made an effort to blow open the safe. But little booty was secured. Heffner & Hayes were damaged to the extent of S3OO by the injury done their safe and the breakage of prescription goods by the explosion. —The Friend Quakers at Richmond, who have been considerably exercised about the death penalty being inflicted upon Bates, the wife murderer, ever since bis sentence, have, in their quarterly meeting, taken formal action by appointing a committee, consisting of President Mills, of Earlham College, Timothy Nicholson, Allen Jay, Sarah Morgan and Mahaln Jay, to present a petition to Gov. Gray for a commutation of the sentence. —Mrs. Mary Williams, aged 92 years, and the oldest woman in Parke died at Rockville not long since. She was born in Greenbrier County, Kentucky, in December, 1794. She was the mother of eleven children. The two oldest persons now remaining in Parke County are Gabriel Haughman, of Rockville, who will be 92 in August, and Mr. Strong, of Bellmore, who wilL be 92 next fall. —Emmet Bowers, living near Hoover’s Station, Fulton County, was taken to the Insane Asylum recently. The cause of insanity was religion. While laboring under an hallucination he shockingly mutilated himself, and for some time his life was despaired of, but he is now in fair health, his insanity being his only dangerous feature. —Not long since the dry goods store of Will F. Hoover, at Spiceland, was broken open by burglars, and clothing and other goods to tho value of SIOO taken. On the following night the dry goods store of W. S. Chamness was broken into, but the value of goods taken was small. —William I. Gray, who hails from Tipton, was caught recently by a clever piece of detective work, with three horses jn his possession which he had stolen an I or: before from a farmer near Camden. He was lodged in jail, and a trip north is a foregone conclusion. —Two of the largest sheets of finished p’ate glass ever turned out in the West were shipped from the DePauw American Plate Glass Works at New Albany, to St. Louis, measuring 160 by 124 inches in size. These sheets are equal to the best imported glass. —Charles Carver and Charles Morrow attended divine service at Union Church, near Mace. They became involved in a quarrel, and Morrow knocked Carver down with a brick. Morrow was fined $25 for assault, and Carver $1 for disturbing a meeting. —A farmer living north of Muncie attempted to enter a questionable house and was met at the door by the landlady, who shot him in the mouth with a thirty-eight caliber pistol. His teeth were all knocked out and his jaw-bone shattered. —A large frame barn, located ten miles southeast of Muncie, was burned recently. Four excellent farm horses, besides a large amount of hay, corn and machinery, were consumed. Tho loss is placed at $2,500; no insurance. —A man near Darlington refused to obey an order to set bis fence back out of a public highway, and, consequently, he has been fined $5 a day for thirty-three dqv3—sl6s, and the costs will make the bill over S2OO.