Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The Louisville Times and other sensational papers compare Harrison County to the Kentucky counties of Bell and Rowan, and sajß that a reign of terror exists here on account of the depredations of the “White Caps." All such stuff is the sheerest nonsense, and is very ridiculous to those who are acquainted with the faots. It is true that there are "White Caps,” and that they have done many things which were calculated to bring reproach upon the county; but it is not true that a reign of terror exists, and that men, women, and children are flogged nntil they fall from exhaustion and that men are frequently shot down in their door-yards. Harrison is one of the best connties in the State, and her people are industrious and happy. It has about 150 public schools, nearly that number of churches, and stands at the head in the Sunday-school cause. The people protest against being compared to the bloody connties of Kentucky, and know that they do not deserve any such censure. —Complications have arisen in the arrangement for the transfer of the gift of Elijah Hayes and wife, of Warsaw, who last month gave an estate valued at $130,000 to the Mission Board of the M. E. Chnrch. The property consists of Hotel Hayes, a throe-story brick structure, several business blocks and about forty town lots, and two or three farms. Tho gift was hedged in with several conditions, which proved objectionable to the Mission Board. Among the stimulations made by Mr. Hayes was that the income only on the property be used for fifty years, tho estate remaining intact, after whioh time it is to be at the disposal of the Board. An annuity is to be paid Mr. and Mrs. Hayes during life. The income from the property amounts to $5,000 per year. —Peter Joyce, sentenced in 1884 to tho Southern Prison from Switzerland County, for a nine years’ term, on a charge of manslaughter, has been pardoned by the Governor. While returning from a hunting expedition with ’Squire Sanders, a friend, his gan was accidentally discharged, and the wad killed Sanders. Joyce gave himself up, was tried and convicted. The judge who tried him, the county officers, and the G. A. R. post at Vevny, with all his neighbors, petitioned for his release. Joyce was in the army three years, and his reputation was that of a good citizen. He has served nearly four years, and iB released on condition that he abstain from the use of intoxicants and lead a quiet and industrious life. —A carriage load of Reform School officers of Plainfield, started out recently to attempt the caplare of an escaped inmate. Going eaßt on the National road about two miles; all alighted except two officers. These two started to return to the institution with the carriage. When near town the horses became frightened and ran away. The officers remained in the cairiage and kept the horses in the road until the bridge crossing White Lick, just west of town, was reached, when Joseph Fagin, one of the officers, thinking the carriage was going to npset, jumped, striking his head npon the ground, fracturing his skull and sustaining other injuries, from which he died. —Patents have been issued to the fol-lowing-named Indiana inventors: Macajah C. Henley, Richmond, machine for boring, drilling, driving, and withdrawing screws, etc.; James A. McCormick, Indianapolis, game; Henry D. Merrill, Colnmbns, floodfence; Orlando Patricks, assignor of onehalf to V. Ross. Shelbyville, washing machine; Benjamin Roberts, Indianapolis, smoke consumer; William E. Shaffer, Carlisle, machine for building fences; Anna M. Shirk, Anderson, garmentfastener. —The agents of the drive-well monopoly are accused of resorting to many qnestionable plans for locating driven wells. It is Baid men are hired to go from house to house in Wabash County disguised os peddlers. While disposing of their wares they make an inspection of the premises, nnd if a driven well is found a repoit is made and the owner is soon notified to pay the royalty. —Mrs. Harrison Posey came toVincennes in September from Sweetwater, Texas. Her husband followed shortly after, but has not been heard from since. He had money and was 65 years old, and foul play is suspected. The old couple had been married but two years, and their union was the result of an early love romance, fortysix years before. The aged wife is griefstricken. —The most powerful gas well in the State is believed to be that at Groentown, Howard County. Owing to the noise made by the escaping gas it was found necessary to close the public schools, and no services coaid be held in the churches. The big well is generally voted a nuisance in its present condition. The roar of the well ean be heard eight miles away. —ln August, Frank Fagan, Marshal of Marion, was attacked by a savage ball-dog belonging to Samuel Clannin, and seriously bitten. He sned Clannin for SI,OOO. The case was tried and the jury brought in a verdict lor the plaintiff for SSOO. —Thomas Sicklen, aged 19 years, was kicked near the temple by a male at the residence of Georga Stearley, in Jackson Township, Clay County. His skull was crushed, and the brain is oozing from the fracture. He will die. —Benjamin Washnm, a bridge carpenter, residing at Connersville, while at work on the Hanna Ccreek railroad bridge, fell a distance of thirty feet, receiving internal injuries that it is feared will prove fatal. —Thomas Wilkerson, the richest man in Jennings County, died of apoplexy, aged. 88. He was worth aboot $1,000,000.