Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The remains of Henry Dunham,a prosperous farmer of Kosciusko County, Indiana, were found in a lane leading from the barn to the house. The hogs had eaten the face and cut into the throat aud had eaten the body and lower limbs, dragging the intestines under a hay stack, where they were found several hours after the discovery of the body. Two hunters, who found the body, stopped at the place to get a drink of water. They went to the house and found Mrs. Lucy Duuham, marked with eight wounds, all made with a knife. She was unconscious, but still living. Their 20-mouths old child wa6 dead, with its throat cut from ear to ear, aud lying on the floor about six feet from the mother, who was also lying on the floor dressed, but with her shoes off. Mrs. Duuham recovered consciousness long enough to ask if her husband was hurt. Dunham was 56 years of age aud his wife is 46. At last accounts she was beginning to sink and will probably not live to tell the story. —The Montgomery County Orphans’ Home Association, at its nnuual meeting for the election of officers, held at Crawfordsville, selected the following: President, Joseph Milligan; Vice President, Mrs. J. M. Lane; Secretary, Mrs. M. E. Campbell; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. N. Q. Irwin; Treasurer, Mrs. T. H. B. McCain. Mrs. Jane Hinerwas ro-employed as Matron of the Home. There are twenty children now at (he Home, and during the past year there has been an average of about twenty-five all the time. The Home was established in 1881 by Mrs. Susan Wishard, who at that time took four small girls from out the County Asylum. The County Commissioners pay 25 cents per day for each child cared for at the Home, and furnish a farm of eighteen acres. —The phenomenal fast of Mary Baker, at Monon, White County, is rapidly drawing to an end. Miss Baker began her fast last October. She cannot eat or drink anything. Nothing will stay on her stomach, and injections are Equally useless. Members of the medical fraternity are completely at sea in regard to the peculiar disease. Several days ago the extremities of the patient began to grow cold, and dissolution is now very near. —Gov. Gray has revoked the parole of Marvin Kuhns, sentenced to the northern prison from Noble County, June 4, 1884, for stealing a horse. He was to serve five years, but, last June, on condition that he would behave himself, return to his father’s home and not drink, the Governor paroled him. Recently Kuhns wbb rearrested for grand larceny, and this led to the revocation of the parole, at the request of the prosecuting attorney. —Four Townships of Bartholomew County voted on the question of subsidizing the Richmond and Evansville Railroad. The amount asked from the four townships was $41,900. Sand Creek gave a majority of 120 for the proposition and Jackson was almost unanimous in the same way, but Wayne and Rockford voted negatively by 34 and 70 majority, respectively. The subsidy voted by Sand Creek and Jaokson is about SII,OOO. —A short time since a girl 10 years old, of Wheeling, Carroll County, was bitten by a cat, and she was attacked with symptoms of hydrophobia. After suffering great agony for a few days the little sufferer was relieved by death. The father stated that while in one of her paroxysms she bit the fingers of Dr. Loop, the attending physician, from which he is suffering great pain. —During the past winter three colored children have been sent to attend school with whites, at the “Murdock” schoolhouso, in Boone Township, Harrison County, causing considerable ill-feeling. The other night the schoolhouse was destroyed by fire, supposed to be the work of an incendiary. The loss is SSOO.

—While John Marti, a farmer living between Troy and Tell City, was driving along the road on the bank of the Ohio River, the bank suddenly caved in, precipitating him and liis team into the raging Hood, and all were drowned. Marti was about 45 years old, and leaves a widow and eight children. The stockholders of the Boone County Agricultural Society elected the following officers: J. M. Ball, President; E. G. Darnali, Secretary; S. L. Cason, Treasurer; T. A. Cobb, Superintendent. Tho date for holding the next fair was fixed for the week beginning Monday, Aug. 15. ■—Roland Mills was found beating his invalid mother, at Centerville, and narrowly escaped rough usage at the hands of indignant neighbors, who went to her rescue, but he proved to be crazy, and was sent to the county asylum to await admission lo the insane asylum. —Recently a dog belonging to John Garver, a farmer living near Goshen, went mad, and before being killed, bit Mr. Garver and bis son. They are both suffering from the effects of the poison, and it is feared that they cannot escape hydrophobia. —The merchants and others directly interested, in Xenia, Miami County, have organized a stock company for the purpose of boring for natural gas. The stock is almost taken, and work will probably be commenced in a few weeks. —The jury in the case of Benj. D. Richaids, of Russiaville, vs. The Town of Marion brought in a verdict for the defendant. About four months ago Richards fell on a sidewalk and broke his a£m, and sued the town for $5,000. —A company that has been boring for oil six miles north of Monon, struck it at a depth between six and seven hundred feet. Excitement is running high over the find.

How Phil Sheridan Became a Soldier. It is a well-known fact that Gen. Sheridan's parents were people of very mmble circumstances, and that his father had a hard struggle to support tnd educate his largn family. And it was necessary for the boys early in life to seek employment in order that they might support themselves and assist their father as much as possible. They were all unusually bright and industrious, and were not only willing but anxious to do all they could. At the time of which we write the Lancaster (Ohio) Congressional District, in which old Mr. Sheridan and his family resided, was represented by a Democrat. This member was entitled to the appointment of a cadet at the West Point Military Academy, as were all other members under the law. Before he had made a selection, however, two of his constituents, both friends of his, very wealthy, they concluded that they would like to have their sons receive the appointment, and accordingly started out among his friends iu the district to obtain recommendations to the member of Congress for the appointment of his son. The men were both well liked, and, as a consequence, through their determined efforts, almost all of the people in the district had taken sides, and the Congressman was pressed upon all sides to appoint one or the other. He was in a dilemma; to appoint either would bring the enmity of the other and all his friends. He concluded he would advise with Thomas Ewing, one of Ohio’s greatest men, who was then a Senator and resided in the town of Lancaster. Accordingly he went to the S. nator’s house and explained the situation to him. Alter thinking the matter over for a moment, the Senator said: “If I were in your place I would not appoint either of those boys. I would ftcieot some poor man’s son and send him; each of these men and liis friends would be glad that you did not appoint the dther’s son, and the whole people of the district would applaud you for sending a poor boy.” “That’s a capital idea!” remarked the now delighted member as he saw a way out of the difficulty; “but where is there a boy I can send?” Just then old Mr. Sheridan, who was employed by Senator Ewing, walked into the dining-roon| where the two were sitting, with some stove wood in his arms. “There,” said the Senator, “is Mr. Sheridan; he has some bright boys, and you couldn't do better than to send one of them.” In the meantime Sheridan had deposited his wood in the box behind the stove and was going out of the room. “Sheridan,” said the Senator, “how would you like to have one of your boys go to West Point?” “I don’t know, sir,” replied Sheridan; “I never thought of that, and you know better about it than I do. I would leave it all to you, sir.” “Well,” said the Senator, “if either was to be sent, which would you prefer to have go?” “I don’t know about that either, sir. If it’s for books you want him, you had better send Mike; but if it’s for fighting you want him, you had better send Phil.” And Sheridan went his way. “There,” said the Senator to the Congressman, “there’s your chance. ‘lt’s for fighting you want him,’ now send Phil Sheridan.” And he did.— Inter Ocean.