Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Recently Henry Lockwood and wife, residing ten miles east of Marion, were summoned lietore the prosecutor to give eTideix-e in a criminal case. They are Mre cLe.uy no< r. and their three children, aged 4, uni i months, were left alone .n a ho.el thut m< milled the snow that accomiuiiied the lute blizzard. On their way home 1 < ckwood t aud wife were nearly liozen, and slipped with an acquaintance over night. on their arrival home, next morning, they found the youngest child, a little girl, frozen to death, and the other two ao badly chilled and frost-bitten that they could scarcely more or speak. The eldest boy said he awoke during the night and found his sister out in lhe snow beside the bed, and that when he pulled her in she was stiff. She was doubtless dead then. —The city of Fort Wayne, with a population of 40,00(1, seems about to experience a water famine. Because of the long drought the water in the supply basin, as well as the small streams that contribute to it, has so failed that not enough pressure is given to the mains to operate the elevators in lhe hotels and other tall buildings, and their use has been abandoned. The local electric light company has served notice upon the city that not enough water can be had from the mains to supply their engines, aud the inconvenience of complete or partial darkness at night is attributed to the water famine. Meanwhile, when a fire or two would fined the department crippled, the City Council and Water-works Trustees are at loggerheads, and abuse each other in the public prints. —The State Auditor has just completed his annual report. It is very voluminous. Warrants were drawn during the year to lhe amount of $3,975,944. The net cash receipts were $8,866,257. The total disbursement from the State House fund was $294,647. Advance payments have been made by the counties to relieve tbe temporary embarrassment of the general fund, and the December settlements will enable the Treasurer to meet current expenses. There have been drains on the public funds consequent upon the building of various new benevolent institutions, but careful estimates indicate that the revenues of the coming fiscal year will be sufficient to maintain the State credit and meet all obligations, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding. —The big canal, which is to drain the water off Four-mile Prairie, near Smitz City, has just been completed. The land has been purchased by Indianapolis men, who are reclaiming marsh lands in the State. The draining of Four-mile Prairie ruins one of the finest duck-shooting grounds in the world. For years it was the resort of geese, mallards, and teal, and a great place for shooters from the East. The marsh is now dry, and the ducks which are now coming from the north circle over it with a disappointed look and go croaking south. The draining will have the same effect as tbe recent ditching of the Sangamon bottom, in Mason County, 111., which has destroyed about 200,006 acres of ducking ground. —Miss Amanda English, of Switzerland County, has in her possession a bureau that was made for Miss Lucretia Hart, in her girlhood, more than one hundred years ago, and before she became the wife of. Henry Clay. The bureau was given to Miss English by Mrs. Clay sixty-seven years ago, and is in a good state of preservation. It was made by a Lexington carpenter named McElwane, who did his work well. Miss English, who is needy, wishes to sell this relic, and persons desiring to purchase may address Joseph D. Froman, Markland, Ind. —The city of Fort Wayne having arranged to begin the erection, next spring, of a new city hall, to cost $60,000, an injunction snit has been commenced, putting a stop to preparations. The petitioners are owners of property adjoining the market space, on which the new building was to be erected. They allege that by the will of the late Judge Samuel Hanna the ground was given to the city for market purposes only, and its use cannot be diverted; also, that access to their property would suffer by reason of erection of the proposed building. —Frank Hooks, a young married man living near Bunker Hill, was found dead in the woods. He had been out hunting, and the supposition is that, while resting on a stump, his gun in some way was discharged, the contents of which entered his heart, killing him instantly. He had only been married about one week. —Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Alfred A. Benardin, Evansville, bottle cap; James F. Hatfield, Dublin, grain separator; William H. McGrew, assignor of one-half to J. Myers, Peru, wire and picket fence; Peter Bader, Kirklin, coupling for cultivators. —A revival meeting is in progress at the Methodist Church in Tipton. The church is aroused, and the entire town is interested. Fifty persons have joined the church in the last two weeks and the interest in the meeting is constantly increasing. —The Presbyterian congregations of Colfax and Darlington, which have been without a pastor for some time, have secured the services of Bev. Johnson, of Illinois, who will preach at both places alternately. Both churchetfare in a thriving condition. —Seth Wolf, aged 19, was instantly killed near Briant. He was assisting to load logs on a wagon when one rolled back, and before he could make his escape, passed over his body, crushing the life out of him. —Crookedness is charged in the selection of the late grand jury at Indianapolis. The Court has ordered an investigation.

Congress will convene Monday, Our neighbor is terribly worried over the ‘ charity 1 ’ record of President Cleveland. We suggest that it might afford him some relief to huut up and dish out to his readers the donations for charitable purposes of Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. * ll ■' - - - The Indianapolis Journal, according to the Republican, declares New York off as “the and “Indiana may become so,” that therfore the Republicans “must carry the latter. The Democracy of Indiana will have something to say as to that. Would be-Lic t. CLv. Robertrun i.:. • i 1 te 1.. r üblicun Speaker Sayre a e just now ind iging in r ma.ucrm s us the past winter. Roberts n believer- he was “sold out ty Ids ’ . '»ndp ” and Sayre inSis i.s tin t !■ ; eked backbone, hoisted iaie Hug of surrender,” r' 1 k responsible for his failure. A “Tax Payer,” in the Republican, referring to the cost of the trial of Mrs.;Rutherford, says: “I believe in the punishment of crimin: Is, but in this case justice was deleatfeu and the county paid for it and more too.”

According to his own showing considerable more was allowed to insure justice, in accordance with ‘“Tax Payer’s” idea of justice, than was allowed to the defense. “The keeper of a low negro dive in the city of New York had SI,OOO placed in his hands to buy votes with, at the late election, according to a reputable wfiter in the North American Review.”—Rensselaer Republican. By the way ; negroes -s a rule are republicans politically, be’ng persistently impressed with the idea *hat to that party they owe all for their enfranchisement, it may properly and correctly b« determed that the corruption fund of 81,000 was placed in the hands of the sable-hued friend of our neighbor for the purpose of securing a republican victory In the Democratic State of New York. Indianapolis Sentinel: Once upon a time, a regular o-.d Teuton ■was elected Justice of the Peace. A case came up for trial, wherein a man was charged with biting another man’s nose off. The counsel for the defense proved that the unfortunate plaintiff bit his own nose off. The case being submitted to the court, the decision was: ‘“All dings am possible mb Got and the decision of dish Court be dot de plaintiff bit him’s own nose , off.” That’s what’s the matter with Robertson, according to Sayie. He “abdicated his office, hence bit him’s own nose off.” Robertson denies it, and contends‘that Sayre or General Harrison bit off his nose. At any rate, Robertson knows his nose is gone.

Senator Farwell, of Illinois Bays: “The Republieans must have < Presidential candidate whom they will not have to defend and explain his conduct.” But can they find such a candidate for that high office? At the .present .tin?©, as in the past, the prominent m n of that party have been, and are now, more or less tainted with corruption—and the verdicts rendered by th Q ir own partisan congressional committees. <

Im th* past, immediately on his induction into office, Grant began to parcel out official positions to those who had contributed to his bank deposits, given him houses, horses, dogs, etc., and became to some extent up with the gold, whiskey and other rings that thrived under his administration. No sooner was Fraud Hayes installed in the White House than he bestowed positions of honor, trust and profit upon Black Republicans ard white who, by forgery and perjury had made him the representative personation of Fraud triumphant! Garfield had been as badly smirched with Credit Mobelier and other corruptions as Colfax. In the fraudulent seating of Hayes he arranged the testimony to be given by some of the witnesses, and then as a member of the House acted as a juror on that testimony. He truckled to Conkling for his support, and when elected persistently violated his pledges and mortally offended a stalwart of the stawarts —Guiteau. Then Blaine as the candidate]in 1884, confessedly so besmirched by his connection wit! corrupt rings, that in his correspondence he had the standing request, “bum thi.j letter;” and so intent wae he to avoid exposure that he "down upon his knees before Mulligan” to avert it. He sued for his character, but withdrsv, the suit in disgust. Blaine won’t do.

As Secretary of the Treasury, Sherman’s transact : ons with the money kings might be scrutinized so closely as to produce damaging resul s. Not many years ago he was comparatively poor, now he is accounted millionaire. Sherman won’t de. He might as well be relegated to the interesting society of the ’Lize Pinkston’s. Bob Lincoln won’t do. The ‘son of his father’ lacks requisite development immediately under his tile. And our Bennie Harrison won’t do The “grandson of his grandfather’ is excessively overloads wit blue blood, and the only claim he presents is that he is the “grandson” of William Henry.

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