Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The thirty-third annnal conclave of the Indiana Commandry of Knights Templar was held at Indianapolis, and the following officers were elected: Right Eminent Grand Commander, George W. F. Kilk, Shelbyville. R. E. Deputy Grand Commander, Reuben Peden, Knightstown. R. E. Generalissimo, Duncan T. Bacon, Indianapolis. R. E. Grand Captain-General, Henry W. Lancaster, Lafayette. R. E. Grand Prelate, Edward P. Whallon, Vincennes. R. E. Senior Warden, Irwin P. Webber, Warsaw. R. E. Junior Warden, Joseph A. Manning, Michigan City. R. E. Grand Treasurer, Joseph W. Smith, Indianapolis. R. E. Grand Recorder, John M. Bramwell, Indianapolis. R. E. Stand-ard-bearer, James B. Safford, Columbus. R. E. Sword-bearer, Simeon S. Johnson, Jeffersonville. R. E. Grand Warder, Charles W. Slick, South Bend. R. E. Captain of the Guards, William M. Black, Indianapolis. —Joseph and George F. Boswell, of Indianapolis, have just received a patent on the first fodder and silo harvester ever invented, and are making arrangements to begin the manufacture of the machine in that city. Last year Mr. Joseph Boswell, whois a large funner, discovered that cheap cattle food could be had by cutting up the green corn, stalk and all, as soon as the grain had matured, and then salting and packing it. From some experiments he learned that one ton of it was worth two of hay. He immediately began work on a. machine to cut the corn, and has succeeded in producing a successful one. It can also be used for cutting ensilage. The McCormick Reaper Works, of Chicago, are trying to purchase the right, and the proprietors will probably sell to the company, reserving a loyalty on each machine manufactured.

—Patents have been issued for the following Indiana inventors: Charles F. Bassett, Hillsdale, end gate; John W. Culberson, Indianapolis, inhaler; George Frazer, Williamsburg, wagon jack; Ernest F. Grether and C. Mosher, South Bend, treating raw hides; Adam Hoffmann, Indianapolis, harness; Jesse B. Johnson, Indianapolis, bailing press; Jonathan D. Mawhood, assignor, to Richmond City mill works, Richmond, feeding device for roller mills; Aaron D. Miller, Union City, device for operating window shades. —A Ladoga man went to Crawfordsville and requested the Mayor to place him in jail, so as to keen from drinking. He was informed that a complaint must be filed against him before he could be sent to jail. Accordingly, the man went out and got a drink of whisky, and finally persuaded a policeman to file an affidavit against him for drunkenness. Then the Mayor sent him to jail for fifteen days. He has a wife and several children. Major Jonathan Gordon died at his home in Indianapolis, of congestion of the brain. He had at different times filled a large space in the public eye and played a prominent part in affairs, He possessed talent, genius, great capacity for work and many qualities calculated to win friends and capture the populace. His political and professional services made him widely known throughout the State. —A sad case of poisoning occurred near Stendale, a small town fifteen miles from Huntingburg. Two sons of J. D. Lampton, one of G. Wilson, and one of J. Moore, while in the woods, found what they supposed to be spinach, but which proved to be that deadly plant, wild parsnip. Three of the boys died in excruciating agony within eight hours, while the other is in a hopeless condition. —Mrs. Christina Openhoff visited Mrs. Imen, a neighbor, at Fontanet, nine miles east of Terre Haute, and while there fooled with a revolver. The weapon went off, the ball striking Mrs. Imen in the abdomen. She would have become a mother in a few days. The child was born dead, with a bullet hole through its head. The mother will die.

—The Nickel Plate Bailroad has a large force of men and several construction trains in service on the Indiana division, grading and graveling it, and putting in some twenty-five miles of side-track. This supports the statement that the road is to be put in good order, and through passenger as well as freight trains to be run over * it. —One morning recently, when the parents of Miss Anna Scott, living two miles north of Muncie, went to her room they found her dying from a pistol-shot in her head. She had covered herself up with several quilts so the noise would not be heard. She died at noon. Her parents had opposed her in a love affair. —Herbert Mattingly, a young man of Evansville, who has a notorious reputation, while on a drunken spree, attacked John Buchanan, a peaceable citizen, and, in self-defense the latter cut Mattingly twice, below and behind the arm, and through the lungs, inflicting fatal wounds. —Wm. Beese, of Jamestown, has sued the Western Union Telegraph Company ' for $5,000 damages, on account of failure to deliver a message announcing the death of a relative. He claims that he did not receive the message until a month after it had been sent. —An unknown colored man was killed by an Ohio <t Mississippi passenger train while walking on the track near Dillsboro. He was walking in the same direction as the train was going, but did not heed the engineer’s whistling, ft is thought he was insane. —Elijah Fox, a young married man, livng nine miles north of Bedford, jumped into Salt Creek and drowned himself. He left a note in his hat on the bank of the creek, saying: “Yon will find my dead body at the bottom of the creek.’*