Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1887 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—There have been docketed for trial at the next term of the Porter County Circuit Court the following suits against the Chicago nud Atlantic Railway, growing ont of the Kouts disaster. An administrator’s .suit to ret over SIO,OOO for the deaths of several momberi of the Miller family; a guardian's suit to recover SIO,OOO for Hermauu Miller, the injured boy who was the only member of the Miller family saved from the wreck; a suit of the Kouts hotel proprietor to recover compensation for the care of the Miller boy. An indictment for involuntary manslaughter against John B. Park and John Dorsey, who ore held re* sponsible for the Kouts disaster, will come up; also, a suit brought by Annie Burkhart against the New Albany and Chicago Railway to recover SIO,OOO for the death of Andrew Burkhart, her husband, who was killed on the road of that company. —Near Mt. Pleasant, Crawford County, Joseph Longest, aged 21 years, was waylaid and robbed by two highwaymen of $2,600. He waß carrying the money from Mt. Pleasant to the residence of Mr. T. C. Stalcup, to whom it was to be paid. After standing him np and taking the money from him yonng Longest was allowed to go on his way, the highwaymen mounting their horses, whioh they had tied near the roadside, and escaping. An hour later, the alarm being widely circulated, one hundred mounted and armed men were in pursuit of the highwaymen, but at last accounts they had eluded arrest. The bold and daring robbery has created intense excitement in the neighborhood, and if the highwaymen are taken they will Bpeedily dangle at the end of a rope. - Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Eli Beghtel, Huntington, portable sawing machine; Marvin Campbell, South Bend, hammock stretoh; AVm A. Krag, Indianapolis, coffee pot; Darius Patterson, Richland, combined hame hitch and collar fender; James J. Turner, assignor to himself and J. F. Miller, Riobraond, device for actuating signals, switches, etc.; Wm. M. Whitman, Bean Blossom, mole trap. —A new military company at Craws rdsville, numbering fifty, wore mustered into the State service by J. W. Romsey, who was authorized to do so by G. W. Koontz, Adjutant-general. The following are the officers: Captain, Geo. W. Lamb, Firstlientenant; M. V. West; Second-lieutenr ant, Joe McDaniel; Orderly-sergeant, W. H. Morrison. Twenty-seven of the company belong to McPherson Post, Q. A. R. —The Governor has remitted a forfeiture of SSOO against Frank Hulse and Harris E. Pattison. The bond was given for the appearance of John, who was to appear before the Pnlaski County Court to answer a charge of rape. The indictment was nollied for want of evidence, and remittance was requested by the judge, prosecuting attorney and others. —While John C. Kallmeyer, a Columbus plumber, waß connecting some watermain joints in a ditch six feet deep tho bank gave way and buried his lower limbs. It was after considerable work that he was dug out and hauled home, where be has suffered a great deal, and his physicians say that it may be months before he can be ont again. —The stockholders of the Montgomery County Fair Association met and elected the following officers, who are to serve for the ensuing yoar: President, Jasper N. Davidson, of Whitesville; Vice-Presidents, W. H. Durham and J. L. Davis; Treasurer, Joe Grubb; Secretary, F. L. Snyder; Superintendent, J. J. Insley; Chief Marshal, B. B. Snyder. —lt is currently, anu said to be truthfully, reported that the body of John Owes Snyder, the f&moas pedestrian, was resurrected by “saw-bones” for some college at Cincinnati. It is asserted that physicians near Hartford City were the resurrectionists, but they enter a general denial. —McClellan Barlow, a yonng man residing at Moscow, five miles west pf Milroy, got into a dispute over the weight of a hog with Allen Fnller, when Fuller raised an old mnsket he had in his hands and shot Barlow in the throat, seriously, if not dangeronsly wounding him. —A new bank has been organized at Ladoga, under the State law. W. M. Henry is President; I. N. Miller, Vicepresident; G. E. Grimes, Cashier; Chas. Goodbar, Book-keeper. This will make two banks at Ladoga, and a total of seven in Montgomery County. —While at work in a saw-mill at New Lisbon, seven miles southeast of New Castle, James Lamb was caught in the saw and his right arm and side frightfully mangled, rendering amputation of the arm necessary. His injuries are very severe and will prove fatal. —Mrs. Francis Perdue, a widow, who resides four miles south of Mnncie, was instantly kiled while walking along the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati and LoaiaviUo tracks. She was thrown fully fifty feet, and every bone in her body was broken. She was a deaf mnte. —Hurbnrt Bunch, the 9-year-old son of ex-Clerk L. T. Bnncb, of Tipton, was thrown from a runaway wagon, and badly hurt. His right arm was broken in two places, the bone protruding about three inches. He also received internal injuries. —Wm. Bebee, charged with robbing James Sanderson, of Montioello, during the month of August, was tried in the Cass Circuit Court. The jury found him guilty of petit larceny and he’ was sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. —Emily MoCnchan, aged 26, of Goshen, was found dead in bed. The Corner’s inquest resulted in the decision that she came to*her death through an overdose of tansy, a bottlo of whioh was found nearly empty hv the bed.