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

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The people of Republican Township, in the southern part of Jefferson County, are greatly excited over the prospect of finding gas and oil. Recently an explosion occurred in the bed ot a small stream running through the farm of J. Henley, the report being heard for several miles, and frightened cattle until they ran about like wild. A large opening was made in the creek bottom, and the strong odor of gas per mealed the air. The general supposition is that the explosion was caused by natural gas, as shale taken from the same spot several years since was found combustible, and it is thought gas and oil can be found. —A singular incident is reported from Roann, Wabash County. A lady passenger bound for Detroit boarded a Wabash and Western passenger train, and, by mistake, went into the smoker and sat down. In a moment she jumped up exclaiming,. “I am on fire,” and the flames were seen enveloping her body. Several passengers rushed to the rescue and the fire was smothered, though the fair passenger was considerably injured. Investigation showed that her celluloid bustle had ignited from a buring cigar- stump which had been left on the seat. —The Governor is about ready to proclaim the laws passed by the last Legislature to be in force, but the absence of the State’s financial exhibit from the volume of laws, as published, has caused him to ask the Attorney General if that fact rendered the publication illegal. The Attorney General advised him that such failure did not have that effect, as the constitutional provision requiring (he publication of the statement was only directory. The essence of the thing to be done was the publication and circulation of the laws. —Patents have been issued to Indianinns as follows: Cline, George J., assignor of one-half to W. B. Lehman, Goshen, roadcart; Crossman, John A., and N. C. Buch, assignors to E. C. Atkins & Co., Indianapolis, saw-swaging machine; Hand,Townson, assignor of one-half to 0. Hand, Shelbyville, washing-machine; Line, W. F., Andrews, fumigator; McGriff. John N., Anderson, corn-planter; McKinney, Wm. H., Evansville, non-conducting jacket; Wilcox, Charles D., Indianapolis, boilercleaner. —A recent shipment of twenty tons of ore from Warrick County, sent to a Newport, Ky., smelter for test treatment, yielded $255 per ton of bullion in silver and gold. The average assays of the twenty-ton lot run 9.7 ounces in silver per ton; .3 ounces gold; 7 per cent, lead; 70 per cent, silicate; 8 per cent, iron and manganese; 12 per cent, lime; value, sl2 per ton. It carries almost its own fluxing, and is n desirable smelting ore. —Near Danville, Hendricks County, the 14-year-old son of Thomas Hewlitt, while attempting to mount a mare hitched to a harrow, for the purpose of riding, fell beside the animal and got entangled in the harness. The horse became frightened and dragged the boy a distance of a hundred yards, continually kicking him until he was dead. —The State Homoepathic Society in session at Indianapolis, elected the following officers: President, Dr. T. D. Lewis, Evansville; First Vice President, Dr. J. T. Boyd, Indianapolis; Second Vice President, Dr. J. A. Thompson, New Castle; Treasurer, Dr. J. S. Martin, Muncie; Secretary, Dr. William B. Clark, Indianapolis. —The Treasurer of State asked the Attorney General if a County Treasurer could levy on notes and money to satisfy a claim for delinquent taxes. The Attorney General’s opinion is that no exemption pertains to this class of personal property, and that a levy for the purpose named can be made on them. —The body of Elias Cutler, ot Terre Haute, was found on the I. & St. L. track, badly mangled. There was a report at first that he had been murdered, but investigation indicates that he committed suicide. He was engaged as a wood-chop-per. He leaves a wife and three children. —The case of William Carroll vs. The Ohio and Mississippi Railway, for SIO,OOO damages for the killing of his brother in the Muscatatuck bridge wreck, near North Vernon, two years ago, on trial at Versailles, has been decided in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of SI,OOO damages. —J. M. Trester, a brakeman on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, whose home is in North Madison, was probably fatally injured at Shelbyville, while making a coupling, a brake-wheel falling on his head. He was taken to Columbus. —John S. Edwards was fatally injured in a runaway accident near Plainville. Edwards, his wife and child, started to church in a buggy, and the horse became frightened and unmanageable. Mrs. Edwards and the child were not dangerously injured. —The appointed to fix a value on the Noble County property, at Albion, from which point it is proposed to remove the county seat to Kendallville, have reported to the Governor that the buildings and real estate are worth $24,600. —The large bam owned by Mrs. Mary Gunning, in Union Township, Shelby County, burned with all its contents, consisting of four horses valued at $750, two binders, one buggy, 1,000 bushes of com, etc. Loss, $3,000. —John Lockhart, a brakeman on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway, had his left foot cut off at Monon, by getting it caught in a switch frog. He resides at Spencer, and was making his second trip. —At Flora, Carroll County, a gas company has been organized, and a Lima, 0., firm engaged to do the work. The derrick is now under way.