Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—A few weeks ago, at Richmond, Jonas Bennett and Jennie Kilmer, who had long been lovers, were married. Early one morning recently she arose, gave her husband an evasive answer that led him to believe she was necessarily going down stairs for a few moments, and proceeded to tha bridge across White River, where she leaped about seventy feet; and broke her neck in striking the water, where she was subsequently found by her hnsband, who became alarmed at her prolonged absence and instituted search. She was crazed by the death of her mother, about five years ago. Developments leave little doubt but the act was premeditated. —For a number of years Amos H. Mills, of Decatur Township, Marion County, returned for taxation $9,000 in money, which he said was buried on his farm. He paid taxes promptly on it, but last June he died without giving any information as to where the money lay. The administrator plowed every part of the farm, dug around the dwelling-house and out-buildings without discovering anything of the least value. The widow had no other means, and in time a small judgment was tnken against her. Under attachment her buggy and horse were taken away. —Notices have been received from W. S. Chapman, of the Central Union Telephone Company, by subscribers to the Wabash exchange that, owing to the restrictions imposed upon the business by law, they will be compelled to close the exchange in that city. Mr. Chapman adds that in case any accommodation can be rendered by private line or pnblio toll service the company will cheerfully do so. —Some years ago the old Board of Tippecanoe County Commissioners contracted with Barnes and Mitchel, County Auditor and County Clerk, to do certain indexing of records. The work was done, and proved more expensive than was anticipated, and the now Board of Commissioners refused to allow the bills. Appeals were taken, and Judge Vinton held that the county must pay. —On petition of citizens the Richmond City Council has passed a resolution appropriating SIO,OOO to bo used in boring for gas. The object is to thoroughly tost the field near Richmond, and perhaps adjacent towns, and determine whether it iB necessary to go to the known field and pipe to the city, as proposed in organizing a citizen’s association, with $200,000 capital, if it proves necessary. —As the Bradford train was passing through the Panhandle yard at Logansport, Joseph Austin, a resident of Banker Hill, Ind., fell from a platform against a switch engine moving in an opposite direction. Mr. Austin was knocked under the wheels of the passenger train and instantly killed. Austin was a one-armed man, and was proprietor of alnnch counter at Bunker Hill. —A 13-year-old son of John Johnson, of Decatur, while trying to put a belt on the pulley of a grindstone in his father’s planing-mill, was caught by the drivingbelt of the mill, and carried to the lineshafting, and whirled round and round until every bone in his body was broken. One of his arms was torn from his body at the shoulder. His death was almost instantaneous. —President Watson, of the Vincennes and New Albany Railroad, says there is no longer any question as to the road being bnilt. He states that the company’s surveying party have found an excellent line from New Albany to Paoli, and have prospected for a route from Paoli to Jasper. The entire line can be built at a very reasonable snm per mile. —The boy, Jesse Heimbaugh, of Lafayette, who was by many believed to have been killed by bis mother daring her insanity, has been found at Elwood, where he had gone to visit relatives. The mother's talk about a strange man killing her boy and her having buried him in a ilonely spot, gave rise to the theory of murder. —The Governor has appointed David W. Chambers, of New Castle, as Trustee of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, in place of Stephen E. Urmstron, the State Senator who resigned his trusteeship on Jan. 5. Andrew Hagan has been reappointed State Oil Inspector, and Enos B. Reed State Fish Commissioner. —Dr. K. H. Williams, recently appointed postmaster at Cope, has become disgusted with the position and forwarded his resignation to the Postmaster General. He assigned as a reason for this action that the pay of the office was inadequate to the labor and responsibility. His salary for March last was 45 cents. —lnformation received from Warren, Huntington County, states that the impression is abroad that the man recently employed to “shoot” the oil well there was “influenced by an Eastern corporation, and instead of increasing the flow intentionally destroyed the well, which is now worthless. —Mrs. J. W. Long, a passenger on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad train, en route to Englewood, 111., her home, died withiu a short distance of Fort Wayne, of consumption. The remains were taken off at that city and prepared for bnrial. —Mrs. Philas Seely, of Elkhart, aged 83 years, died recently. She was a pioneer, and one of the best-known characters of that city. She was very prominent iu the affairs of the First M. E. Church, of which She had been a member over sixty years. —The Miller school-house, five miles southwest of Crawfordsville, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,200; insured for $375. As the house had not been in nse for some time, some person must have set it aa fire.