Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The body of a dead boy was found near Jackville recently. The facts in the case seem to be about as follows: Mrs. Livingstone, a widow, and her son Pless, aged about 19 years, went to the home of Columbus Young, a brotber-in-law, who also has a son. aged 16 years. The boys went fishing, and in the evening the oung boy came home, and said that Pless had gone off with some strange boys. His statement wa« 1 elieved at first, but when the misting boy did not arrive, even aftei dark, a search was commenced. No traces of the lad were found that night. The next day the creek was drugged, but to no purpose. In the evening the dead body of the boy was found, near the creek, with a bullet in his brain. Then Young, who told the above story, said they and two other boys were shooting fish, and he pointed the pistol at Pless, thinking all the cartridges were fired, and said, “I’m geiug to shoot you." The boy fell dead and his companions fled. The other boys, who witnessed the affair, tell the same story. —Edward Daniels, a brakeman on the Chicago and Atlantic Railway, was discharged for drunkenness. He received his money at Hammond, drank heavily, and climbed on a freight train to steal a ride to Chicago. The train just commenced to move when he fell off, striking the rail the full length of his body. A wheel caught his foot and mashed the leg clear up to the hip. Twenty cars passed over him. When the last car was over, he raised himself three times, gasped his name, “Edward Daniels,” and died. It is not known where his relatives live. —Patents have been issued to the following named Indiana inventors: William E. Clayton, of Huntington, pipe wrench and cutter; Joseph 8. Locke, Spartanburg, machine for making wire and slate fences; Benjamin A. Nye, Indianapolis, vehicle top; John J. Balya, Anderson, saw; Henry Richards, Decker, key-board attachment for musical instruments; William H. Roberts, Indianapolis, portable fire escape; David D. Weisel!, Fort Wayne, artificial tooth. —Auditor of State Carr has sent a circular to all County Auditors regarding the State House tax. It reads that as no provision was made “by the late General Assembly for the continuance of a tax levy for the new State House fund, the tux levy of 2 cents upon each SIOO worth of taxable property in this State for said purpose is discontinued, and therefore no tax levy for that purpose should be placed on the tax duplicate for 1887.” —Bent Jones, a life-time convist from Orange County, confined in the southern prison, has been granted a patent on a folding table. The invention is considered to be very valuable, and is gotten up on an entire new principle from others heretofore made. The patent on the iron castings alone is supposed to be worth at least sloo,oo'l, if the inventor was out of confinement to properly dispose of them. —The Crawford County Regulators crossed over into Orange County a few nights ago and disciplined, in the customary effective manner, Benjamin and Joseph Carroll. After the switching seance had been concluded the knights of the switch rode around the neighborhood and notified the people, at the same time requesting that a doctor be summoned to care for the sufferers. August Geist, for thirty years a faithful and trusted employe of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad at La Porte, was instantly killed by being run over by a freight train while attending to his duties in the railroad yard. He was greatly respected by the officers of the road. He leaves a large family. —The body of a man aged about fiftyfive was found in the river, ten miles above Madison. The body was poorly clad, and was evidently that of a laborer or fisherman. Decomposition had set in, and the coroner, after viewing the remains, ordered them buried. —John Worth, of Centerville, purchased a can of salmon, and, with his wife and daughter, ate it for supper. About midnight they were all taken dangerously ill, and it required the services of every physician in the city to save their lives. They are very low yet from the lead-poisoning. —An alarming and fatal epidemic has broken out at Oxford, Benton County. It attacks young children, principally, and in most cases terminates in death in a few days. The sickness is severe from the start, nnd the afflicted child soon goes into spasms, which ends in death. —On a farm of G. H. McKinney, near Pleasantville, Pike County, William, the son of the farmer mentioned, was killed by lightning during a storm, while taking shelter under a tree. His brother was also so severely shocked that his recovery ia doubtful. —William Straightman, an employe of the Lafayette car works, died from the effects of injuries received recently. While assisting in removing a large bar of iron ironi the steam hammer he was struck in the abdomen, the injuries terminating in dwth. —The large barn of Elihu Knight, living five miles southwest of Winchester, was burned. The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary oiiein. The loss will be fully SI,OOO, w.th S4OO insurance in the Continental, of New York. —The citizens of Fort Wayne are jubilant over the fact that they have finally struck gas in abundance. Gas well No. 3 was shot recently, and proves to be a gusher. —James Hunlzingor, aged 15, was drowned while bathing in White River at Anderson. His body was recovered. It is thought bis mother xv ill die from the shock.