Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Patents have been issued to the following Indianians: John C. Ballew, Evansville, apparatus for removing gum from saws; Thomas W. Burt, Lafayette, twine cutters; Abraham D. Denebein, Evansville, cork-fastener; Francis M. Huff and J. Taylor, Warren, flour and meal chest; James A. Biff, Indianapolis, pocket-book; Granville L. Keesling, Onward, adjustable and reversible fence machine; Thomas J. Lindsay, Lafayette, planter; Jacob Maish, Warsaw, shaft supporter; Jas. A Minnick, Elwood, fence machine; James C. Stewart, Lebanon, school building; Calvin T. Udell, Indianapolis, clothes rack; Elizabeth Wilson, Kokomo, dust deflector. —The twelfth annual session of the Knights of Honor, held at Indianapolis, elected the following officers: Grand Dictator, J. W. Wortman, Evansville; Vice Grand Dictator, H. S, Lane, Vincennes; Assistant Dictator, Jesse Cook, Westfield; Grand Guide, Shelby Sexton, North Manchester; Grand Guardian, A. J. Sargent, Rushville; Grand Sentinel, E. H. Carpenter; Grand Reporter, J. W. Jacobs, Jeffersonville; Grand Treasurer, W. B. Godfrey, Evansville; Trustee, D. Robinson, North Vernon; Representative to Supreme Lodge, A. W. Conduitt, Indianapolis; Medical Examiner, J. A. Swatzel, Vincennes.

—The stockholders of the Seymour District Fair Association held a meeting for the purpose of electing a new Board of Directors. The old Board having so ably discharged their duties last fall were, on motion, re-elected. Lynn Faulkconer, Treasurer, submitted his report, showing the amount of receipts and disbursements to date—receipts,s3,769.2l; disbursements, $3,202.93; balancebn hand, $566.28. This is decidedly creditable for the first fair held. The next fair of the association will be held from Tuesday, October 4, to Saturday, the Bth, 1887, and will be a more pronounced success than the first one.

—A course of lectures has been arranged for at De Pauw University, to run during the remainder of the college year, which will be of very general interest and of great scientific value. The subjects announced cover a very wide range of topics, and they will be treated by such wellknown men as President Mendenhall, of Rose Polytechnic, at Terre Haute; Professor Coulter, of Wabash College; President Jordan, of the State University, and Professors DeMotte, Baker, Jenkins and John, of De Pauw. The course is practically free, voluntary contributions covering the expenses.

—Thomas Hobbs, one of the most brutal murderers that ever disgraced this State, was sentenced, in the Perry Circuit Court, to the Penitentiary for life. On the 31st of July, 1886, Hobbs and his son hid in a fence-corner neflr Bird’s-eye, Dubois County, for the purpose of shooting a man named Daniel Weller, with whom he had previously had a difficulty. Weller, his two daughters, and a man named Foultz, were returning from a picnic, when they were fired upon by the Hobbses. The two men were killed, and the murderers escaped. Afterwards they were arrested in Missouri.

—The Spiceland Natural-gas Company has been organized by twenty citizens of that place, with a capital stock of $15,000, $2,000 of which is in bank ready for immediate use. The officers for the present year are: President, W. W. Wilson; Secretary, O. H. Nixon; Treasurer, Albert Hodson. These, with John W. Payne, Henry W. Charles, L. E. Cloud and T. K. Millikan, form the Board of Directors. The company is ready to receive bids to sink a well, and propose to sink the well in a short time.

—Mrs. Jerome Funston was accidentally shot by her husband, a prominent farmer, residin g near Poseyville. Mr. Funston had a gun in his hand, with the intention of firing at a number of wild ducks. Theypm was accidentally discharged, the contents striking the lady in the fleshy part of her breast, tearing away one nipple, and in its fall breaking one jaw. She is at present unconscious, and the attending physicians have no hopes of her recovery. The young husband is almost frantic with grief. —Calvin Matthews, of Morgan County, has received a letter informing him that he is heir to a large estate in England. The estate will probably amount to several million dollars. , Mr. Matthews is considerably worked up over the matter, and will make immediate preparations to go to England and identify himself. —Rev. J. R. Powell has resigned the Baptist pastorate at Vevay, to take effect the last of April, and that church has ex- v tended a call to Rev. C. G. Skillman, of the Madison Baptist Church. Mr. Skillman, however, has no idea of leaving Madison. ,

—Mrs. Ruth Hawkins, the oldest person m Washington, died recently of catarrhalbronchitis. She was 94 years of age on the 7th January. She was a native of Harrison County, Kentucky, and the widow of Benjamin F. Hawkins. —Frank Thompson, of Greenfield, a young man, in attempting to alight from a moving freight train, was thrown under the wheels and horribly mangled. One leg was cut off, and it is thought the other will have to be amputated. * —William Cullmer, the telegraph operator at Bushrod, while stepping from a train, stepped on a piece of coal, which turned, and throwing his leg under the trucks, crushed it so badly that amputation was necessary. —While playing base-ball at Bunker Hill, Master Paul Robbing accidentally hit Eddie Derek on the head with a large rock, knocking young Derek senseless. The injury is serious, but will not prove fatal. • ■ ■ . .. . 1 » , ■ .... - «