Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The first State encampment of the Indiana division of the Sons of Veterans was held at Richmond. The election of officers resulted as follows, leaving the Adjutant -nd Quartermaster to be uppoiuted:Colonel, . S. Walker, West Lebanon; Lieutenant Colonel, Edwnrd Muhl, Richmond; Major, A. J. Peffonbangh, South Bend; delegate to tbe national encampment, Capt. W. H. Hanscbe, Richmond; delegate at large, Capt. Garrett, of Winchester; alternate at large, D. W. Wood, Anderson; alternate to national encampmout, D. E. Wooden, Greousbnrg; council-in-chief at national encampment, F. J. Goodwin, West Lebanon. The following were uppointed by Col. Walker: D. W. Wood, Judge Advocate; N. W. Swafford, division inspector; F. C. Barrett, chaplain; A. M. Arbaugh, chief mustering officer; J. T. Watterhouse, surgeon. The next encampment will be held on the first Tuesday in June, 1888, at Indiannpolis. —’l he following patents have been issued to Indiana inventors: Ellis C. Atkins, Indianapolis, saw tempering and straightening machine; Perry G. Austin, Hetdn, apparatus for setting tires; Charles H. Bartlett, South Bend, bookboldcr and cover; Caleb Easterling, Friendswood, broadcast seeding machine; Augustin Ellis, Bedford, mowing machine; Elmer E. Hess* Brock, gate; Bo jumin F. Jones aud J. F. Mays, assignors of one-third to C. 0. Caldwell, Indianapolis, bag lock; Joseph Krementz, New Albany, assignors of onehalf to W. N. Escott, Jeffersonville, photographic camera; Albert Manlen, assignor to E. C. Atkins, Indinnapolis, saw tempering and straightening maebiue; John McHale, assignor of one-balf to A. H. Tensh and I. Lahey, Terre Haute, hydrocarbon generator and burner; William B. Nelson, Richmond, gate closer. —The Secretary of the Stale Board of Agriculture has issued tho annual premium list for the State fnirof 1887. It announces an increase in tbe total premiums to sll,000; serves notico on exhibitors that the State Board has purchased an additional twenty acres of ground ndjoiniug their present possessions, and that there will bo abundance of room for the corning exposition; cnlls attention to the fact that the fifteen rnilroa Is will haul people to tho State fair, beginning September 19, nt the usual half-fare rate, notwithstanding the new commerce laws, and invites tho people to take in tho now cnpitol, the city hall, and market house, tho new railway station, and the gas wells in coming to tho fair. —The Attorney General has given an opinion to the Auditor of State relative to exemption of tuxes on certain lands used for charitable purposes. The question submittod was w hether or not tho Aged Persons’ Home and Orphan Asylum of the German Baptist Church in Henry County was entitled to this exemption. The Attorney General held that the institution is a charitable one, and is entitled to hold forty acres of land free from taxation. —As the Indianapolis Light Artillery battery was leaving tho Exposition grounds after its customary drill, recently, Johnson Holmes accidentally fell off the caisson, the wheels of which passed over one of his legs, breaking it just below tbe thigh. Although Mr. Holmes wns one of the bestdrilled members, the accident to him did not prevent the battery fAm entering the Washington contest. —A young man named Quick, whilo out hunting, near Corydon, shot a squirrel, which, in fulling lodged in tbe branches of the tree. Quick climed tho tree to get the squirrel,* nnd accidentally fell to the ground, receiving injuries which have since caused his death. Quick had only been in the neighborhood a short time, and claimed that ho had come from New Albany. —Clem, the 10-year-old son of Elwood McGuire, was almost frightened to death and badly hurt by a black Newfoundland dog at Richmond. It chewed up the toy’s arm frightfully and then maimed him for life by completely bitting off the end of his nose. McGuire borrowed a rifle and dispatched the dog, but the end of the child’s nose could not be restored. —A 15-year-old boy, named Arby Hewtitt, living near Danville, was kicked to death by a farm horse, which he tried to mount. His foot caught in the gears, cansing the horse to take fright and run off. Tbe horse ran a quarter of a mile, nnd when caught had kicked and bruised the lad until he wns in a dying condition. He expired in half an hour. —The Christian Chnrch congregation at Crawfordsville have been for some time talking about building a new church, and now tbe new edifice is an assured fact. At a meeting held recently about ten thousand dollars was subscribed, nnd it is now the intention to obtain that much more, and proceed at once to erect tho now church. —Greely Palmer, a lad who has been working at Boyce’s bagging factory, Mancie, had his clothing caught in the machinery of a carding machine, and before assistance could reach him his left arm was terribly mutilated to the elbow, and the ends of the fingers on the right hand were tom of. —Harvey Hines and Alfred Stevens,both colored, aged respectively 13 nnd 15, became involved in a difficulty nt Cnnnelton, in which Stevens stabbed his playmate in tbe throat, cutting the jugular vein. Hines died almost instantly. No cause is assigned for the bloody deed, as they were friends. —Wabash at Crawfordsville. has ins*, received another beqnest from the Sabin ostate at LaPorte, which has given the institution $65,01)0. Mrs. Sabin has given $5,000 to be devoted to the endowment of an alcove of books in the college library in memory of her sou Chauncey.