Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1886 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The remains of an Indian chieftain, supposed to have been slain in battle during the early part of the century, have been discovered on the Miami Indian reservation, twelve miles sputh of Wabash. Mr. Daniel Swayzee, a farmer living in the vicinity, while walking along the Mississinewa lliver, observed a human skull protruding from the bank, scoured by tho current of the stream. Summoning William Pecongea, a Miami residing near, together they exhumed the skeleton, which was wrapped in a coarse woolen cloth and laid in a trough about eight feet long, made of buckeye wood. Interred with the corpse were a silver vessel, resembling a teapot, four silver spoons, two bracelets, a pot of war paint, two pairs of leg bands hang with bells, a rusty tomahawk and scalping knife, and other articles of a trifling character. The men removed the skeleton, and Swayzee declared his intention of retaining the trinkets as relics, but Pecongea objected so strenuously that Swayzee yielded, and the bones and ornaments were returned to the grave. The supposition on the Indian land is that the skeleton was that of a chief killed in conflict with a hostile tribe about the year 1815, when the Miamis were at war with other hands of savages. The bones were remarkably well preserved, and the rude coffin, the woolen cloth, and other articles were almost as sound as on the day of sepulture. The discovery is a fruitful subject of speculation among the residents of the Indian laud, and tho poor whites who have married and intermarried with the Miamis, now that the location of the grave has leaked out, will not rest content till the buckeye casket is resurrected and rifled of the silver.

—A colored woman living near Terra Haute said that 6lio had murdered her baby and buried it. She took the officers to the spot, where it was fouud less than a foot under ground. Its skull was crushed in. She returned to tho city with the officers, her feot resting on tho box containing the remains, and she laughing and talking unconcernedly about trivial matters. She was never married, and has had four children, two of which, besides this last one, are supposed to have been killed. She gives, ns her reason for committing the deed, the fact that her mother and grandmother upbraided her for having so many children.

—The safe at the depot in Sullivan, belonging to the E. & T. H. Railroad Company, was blown open recently. The burglars, however, failed to get into the inner vault, and only helped themselves to a small sack of silver and probably a few tickets. There was from S7OO to SI,OOO belonging to the express company in the safe, which they failed to reach. They pried open the baggage-room door with an iron bar, and from thence got into the ticket office. They were probabjv frightened oft’ ere they completed the job. —Mr. Woodworth, husband of the noted evangelist, has purchased twelve acres of ground at Lake Manitou, with the intention of improving the same. It is the intention of Mrs. Woodworth to hold a camp-meet-ing there every year, and buildings will be erected for this purpose. The meeting will be held this year for one month, commencing August 27. It is thought that this will give Lake Manitou a great boom, and speculators are already buying up the lots. The place has enjoyed much celebrity as a summer resort. —At the Wabash County Poor Farm lies a young woman, 25 years of age, whose back was broken twenty years ago by her father, who, while drunk, threw her across a flour-barrel. Her recovery was considered impossible, as the instances of survival of a fracture of the spine in medical annals are very few. She is partially paralyzed, is but four feet tall, and hideously deformed. The case excites much interest among surgeons of the vicinity, who marvel that death did not speedily follow the infliction of the injury. —The safe of a grocer at Elkhart was blown open recently. Holes had been drilled in the top and giant powder need, exploding with such force as to hurl the door fiom its hinges, knock the safe through a partition, scatter the money all over the room, and make such a noise as to wake the neighborhood and bring them at once to the scene. The burglars, alarmed at their own work, fled without stopping to gather the money. The damage to the goods and building was quite heavy.

—Near Goshen a 2-year-old child of a family of the name of Clawson was playing around her home, and strayed near tbe pigpen. She climbed a fight fence surrounding the pen, and was either pulled in by the hogs of fell in, and was almost devoured before she was discovered. One side of her head was eaten off, the arms were torn in shreds, and the intestines were protruding. She was dead when discovered.

—The Eighth and Eighteenth regiments Indiana Volunteers, and the First Indiana Battery, composing a brigade in the Union army, will hold their eleventh annnal reunion in Wabash on October 19. There are (S(H) surviving members of the brigade in the organization, of which Capt. Joseph Thompson is President and C. C. Mikesell Secretary. —A man residing near Brown stown, was struck by the engine of a west-bound express train on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, near Medora, while it was running at fall speed, and knocked a considerable distance from the track. His injuries consist of a broken leg and arm, a badly thumped head, and severely lacerated body.