Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The following changes in Indiana star-route schedules have been ordered by the poetoffice authorities to go into effect July 1. Edinburg to Shelbyville, increase service to six times a week. Crawfordsville to Alamo, embrace Yountsville, without change of distance, curtail route to begin at Youtsville, omitting Crawfordsville, decreasing distance to five miles; increase service to six times a week. Reese's Mill to Lebanon, increase service to six times a week; make schedule daily, except Sundays. Rensselaer'to Culp’s Farm, end at Pleasant Grove, omitting Cnlp, decreasing distance three miles. Warren to Dillman, increase service to three times a week; make schedule Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Hartford City to Priam, increase service to three time a week; change schedule to Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Fort Wayne to St. Joe Station, increase service between Spencerville and St. Joe Station, three miles, to six times a week. Loogootee to McCameron, increase service to three times a week; change schedule to Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Epsom to Washington, curtail so r.s to omit Washington and end at Cornettsville, decreasing distance nina miles, and extend from Epsom to and begin at Plainville, increasing distance five miles; increase service to six times a week. Mauckport to Corydon, increase to three times a week; make schedule Tuesdays, Thursdoys, and Saturdays. New Amsterdam to Corydon, increase to three times a week; make schedule Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Alpha to Deputy, extend from Alpha to begin at Oard Spring, increasing distance three and five-tenths miles. Salem to Delaney’s Creek, increase to three times a week; make schedule Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Salem to New Philadelphia, embrace Seba, between Canton and New Philadelphia, increasing distance four miles. Elkinsville to Brownstown, increase service to six times a week; make schedule daily, except Sundays. -_A case of death by poison has occurred at Valpen, a station west of Huntingburg, on the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Railroad, the victim being a child of Mr. Henry Hallenberg, a wealthy merchant of that place. The mother had given the child a tightly-corked bottle containing what she supposed to be whisky, but after the child had gone off to play she was startled by the screams of the little fellow, and on responding found the child in terrible convulsions. The bottle was uncorked and the contents, which afterwards proved to be oil of tansy, found missing. The child lived but a short time in excruciating agony. —The following patents have been issued to Indiana inventors: Henry W. Alshouse, caster, Warsaw; John W. Boyd, assignor of one-half to M. W. Walden, Vevay, churn; Wm. A. Cochran, Edinburg, assignor of two-thirds to H. G. Solomon, Hope, J. W. Wingate, Huntington, apparatus for making fences; Martin A. Eisenbour, Plymouth, cultivator; Thomas E. Hampton, Wabask, school desk and seat; Wm. McTyre, Madison, coffee and tea-pot; Wm. C. Whitehead and A. L. Teetor, said Teetor assignor to J. H. Latshaw, Indianapolis, sand molding machine. —The women in and for eight or ten miles around Anderson are just boiling over with wrath, because the terrible roaring of the immense gas well at that village has been more disastrous to the egg crop than the loudest thunder ever heard. Not an egg will hatch, and even the old hens refuse to lay, the noise being so great that the biddies become so bewildered that they cannot return to their nests, and even forget to put a shell on the eggs. —The New Albany District Conference of the Methodist Church ere contemplating the purchase of 160 acres of land in Orange County, near West Baden Springs. Should the land be purchased, suitable buildings will be erected, similar to those at Chautauqua, giving to the membership of that denomination a pleasant place in which to hold eamp-meetings and other assemblies of like character. —Mr. George Conrad, & wealthy farmer, living about three miles southwest of Thorntown, accidentally shot and killed himself. The entire load of shot passed through his heart. The supposition is that he went to get the gun to shoot a hawk, and, in picking it up, the hammer caught and the gun was discharged. —Mrs. Frost, an aged lady residing in Harrison Township, Miami County, arose in the night and, walking to the bank of Deer Creek, near her home, jumped into the water. She was not missed until next morning, when the body was found in the stream. Mrs. Frost’s mind is believed to have been impaired. —A Polish Jew, named Leopold, employed in the Star Woolen Mills, at Wabash, fell into a vat of boiling water. From his middle down he was horribly scalded, and when exposed to the air the skin came off in flakes. His recovery is doubtful. —A young married man living near Corydon, was whipped by the Regulators, and is now confined to his bed. He offered resistance and was given seventy-five lashes. He is a desperate character, and is charged with many misdemeanors. —Lightning struck the residence of Thomas Gilbert, at Center Square, Switzerland County, instantly killing Mrs. Gilbert and Mrs. John March, and severely burning Gilbert’s young daughter and Township Trustee Jacob Shaddy. —A. J. Ford, of Donaldsonville, while returning home from prayer-meeting, was struck by a Vandalia train and killed. He I was a widower, fifty-five years old, but left a family of grown children.