Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Macey Warner is a convict in the Michigan City penitentiary from Vincennes for murder. Warner is a tough citizen. Not long ago he took offense at a man named Harris in the penitentiary and cut his throat. AVarner hnd a hearing in Clark County Court, and made the following speech: “Yonr Honor and gentlemen of the jury, when I was 15 years of age I was sent to the House of Refnge. From there I escaped and returned to Indianapolis. When a policeman attempted to arrest me I shot him. For this I served five years at Michigan City. AVhen I was released I was employed by a commission house in Indianapolis and was sent to Vincennes to assist in shipping poultry. AVhiio there a saloon-keeper put me out of his house, followed me to the street and struck me. I shot him dead, and was sent to the prison in this city for twenty-one years. Frank Harris insulted me and I cat his throat with a shoe knife. Ido not want to go to the prison for life, and desire you to either acquit me or bring in a verdict of death.” —The warden of the Northern Prison has filed his report for July, August, and September with the Auditor of State. The receipts and earnings are ns follows: For July, $8,597.03; August, $9,421.77; September, $8,233.32; total, $26,252.12. The expenditures are! For July, $9,849.11; August, $7,646.51; September, $6,466.08; total, $23,961. There was on hand at the beginning of the quarter $15,728.51, of which SB,OOO was remitted to the Treasurer of State. The balance on hand October 1, 1887, was $10,018.93. The excess of receipts and earnings over expenditures for the quarter is $2,290. —At Muncie, while George Ludlow, on employe of the Indiana Bridge Company’s works, was oiling the machinery his clotheß caught in the line-shaft, which was making several hundred revolutions per minute, and before he could extricate himself his body was torn to pieces. One arm was torn from its socket, and both feet were entirely broken off by being whipped against a beam. He never knew what hurt him, as no sound was heard by any of his fellow-workmen. He married the daughter of Dr. F. M. Ricks about one month ago. —The proprietors of the immense brickyards at Chestertown and Porter Station, n Porter County, are highly elated by the finding at the former place of a large bed of a peculiar sand used in the making of brick. This sand has heretofore been shipped clear from Portsmouth, Ohio, aud Elizabeth, N. Y., at a cost of $lB5 per car. It can now be had at 50 cents a load, and will greatly lesson the cost to manufacturers and consumers, the latter being principally Chicago parties. —Charles Shirley, of Crawfordsville, was found in a corn-field at St. Joseph, unable to help himself, with blood oozing from a large gash in his head and face; he also had bruises on his body. His story is that he was riding on top of a freight train on the Indiana, Bloomington and ‘Western road, and went to sleep. When he became conscious he was lying in a ditch near the track, uhable to move, but after several hours he crawled into the field. —What is pronounced by physicians as the most remarkable case of tuberculosis of the system to be found in medical records is reported from Montpelier. A post-mortem held on the body of a man named Jackson revealed the fact that all the organs of the deceased were fall of tubercles, and that the heart had almost entirely wasted away. He had been sick less than a year. —Caleb Poynter, a prominent and wellknown farmer of Washington County, died recently from blood-poisoning. A few weeks ago a oarbuncle made its appearance on hiß hand, and at one time healed, bat an apple dropped from a tree, struck him on the hand, and from the soreness came poison that in a few days went all through his system and resulted in death. —Workmen engaged in sinking an artesian well on the farm of James Da Wolf, near La Porte, struck a strong flow of gas at a depth of 250 feet. When ignited the flames shot up several feet, and severely burned some of the men who were induced to apply a match by the discovery of a peculiar hissing sound emanating from the well’s casing. —The wife of Fred Govenette stole jewelry from the honße of Mrs. Alice Lewis, at Evansville, whero she had been employed to do washing. The articles were recovered from the Govenette residence on search warrant. Govenette then got drunk, went to Mrs. Lewis’ house and shot her three times. She died, and Govenette is nnder arrest. —The State Bureau of Statistics has received and tabnlated returns from all the counties in the State, regarding the indebtedness and expenses for the year ending Jnne 30, 1887. The bonded debt for the year was $4,228,825; floating debt, $701,121; gross debt, $4,929,946; sinking fund, $382,423. Leaving a net debt of $4,547,523. —Burglars entered the residence of Geo. Ream, at Larwill, and robbed him of S3OO. He awoke just as they were leaving, and gave chase, when they turned and fired at him. He had drawn SBOO from the Farmers’ Bank at Columbia City to buy hogs and gave his partner SSOO to keep over night, and thereby saved it. —Chas. Blue committed suicide at Mentone, Wabash County, by shooting himself through the head. He was 28 years of age. Cause unknown. He was comfortably well off and had no good reason, although he has for some time been in ill health. —Moses Carter, of Jeffersonville, was shot in the face by an unknown man who called him to the door of his residence.