Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Patents have been granted to Indiana inventors as follows: Charles Bennett, Manchester, a-signor of one-half to C. Arkenberg, Milan, churn; Benjamin F. Berger and 1. Sousley, South Bend, wheel cultivator; William Bunday, Carthage, machine lor making wire and wood fencing; Willian Dunkle, Linden, corn-planter; Martin A. Eisenhonr, Plymouth, cultivator tooth; George S. Faulkner and G. K. Pope, Indianapolis, gas-pressure regulator and cut-off; Joseph Irnler, Garrett, well-drilling machine; Samuel F. Kniss, Warsaw, gate; Andrew J. Sonner, Milltown, hame coupling; Cyrus Stephens, C. A. Carter, and Louis Creek, straw-rope machine; Charles 0. Wilder, Indianapolis, indicator attachment for chucks; Jacob Wintrode, Huntington, picket fence. —One evening recently, while Eli Williams, who lives ten miles northwest of Portland, was returning home with a young man named Paxton Miller, he proposed to go over the watermelon-patch of Levi Pence and get a melon. Unfortunately for Williams, Pence was expecting some boys who had been there a few nights before, and was armed with a shotgun. M hen the man got fairly in the patch Pence fired, and twenty-one No 1 shot entered Williams' back, killing him instantly. Williams and Pence are both prosperous farmers. Williams leaves a family, and stood very high for honesty and industry. —lt is thought that the new building for the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home at Knightstown will be ready for occupancy by the first of December. It is proposed to make the house-warnring a grand event for the children and the friends of this institution. A feature of the exercises is to be a military parade and drill by the boys, who are being organized for that purpose. The girls, too, are to have a share in the ceremonies. The managers think that within sixty days after the building is occupied they will have 500 children under their care. At present there are only 150 in the institution.

—A mass-meeting of citizens of Vincennes was held recently to protest against the driven-well royalty. Attorney J. T. Goodman presided, and Editor Boland, of the Commercial, acted as Secretary. A committee of ten, including several prominent citizens, was appointed to call on L. Johnson, the local agent for the collection of the royalty, for the purpose of requesting him to resign his position. Great feeling was shown by the meeting and it seems pretty well settled that any attempt to collect the odious royalty will meet with the most determined resistance. —ln a little house on the faim of Mr. John Potter, near C'ementville, Clark County, lies dying the oldest woman in the State of Indiana. She is Matia Kennedy, colored, bom in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1785, consequently is 102 years old. She came to Indiana about twenty-three years ago. Before the emancipation she was the slave of Mr. William Kennedy, twelve miles from Louisville on the Salt River Pike. Three children, the youngest 54 years old, twenty grandchildren, the oldest 40 years old, and thirty-nine great-grand-children are her descendants. —The Board of Trustees of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum has ordered the purchase of a printing press at a cost not to exceed SBOO. This will give them sixteen cases. Printing has been added to the regular industrial curriculum. They expect to publish a semi-monthly paper, as is done in New York, Kentucky, and some other States, at Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb. No distinction of sex will be made. •It is expected that pupils will attain proficiency in type-setting in two years of instruction.

—A very sad accidence occurred at English Lake, recently. While Joseph Podach and two young ladies, Miss Kate Homalka and Miss Tillie Honvalenka, were out boat riding on the lake, the boat upset and the girls were drowned. The bodies were raised in about an hour. Both girls were highly esteemed by all who knew them, and their lose is mourned by many. The young man escaped and is nearly wild with grief. All parties are Bohemians. —While Mrs. Ida Steele and her aunt, Mrs. Dilliard, of Kansas, were driving near the railroad track at Greenfield, the horse became frightened at a passing train, suddenly turning, and both occupants were thrown from the buggy. Mrs. Dilliard’s head struck a rock, and she received injuries that will prove fatal. Mrs. Steele was also seriously hurt, and may be crippled for life. —Amos White, brakeman on the BeeLine, was run over and killed at Muncie. He was making a coupling in the yards when he fell in front of a stone car, and was cut completely in two. Strange to say, he remained alive for over an hour. He piteously begged his friends to kill him. White was about 27 years of age, unmarried, and a resident of Lawrence. —The nineteenth annual reunion of the 129th Indiana Volunteers will be held at Warsaw October 6. All ex-soldiers of Northeastern Indiana, and especially members of Hovey’s division, 23d corps, are invited to be present. Communications addressed to E. G. Melundy, at Fremont, will be promptly answered. —The postoffice at Stillwell, LaPorte County, was burglarized recently, and some S3O worth of stamps, all that the office contained, were carried off. A general store is conducted in connection with the office, but none of the goods were disturbed. —While the 3-year-old child of Fletcher Pettinger, of Muncie, was playing in the yard it was butted and' killed by a ram. The ram mangled the child terribly, breaking nearly every bone in its little body.