Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—John Van Dine had a close call a few days since, at the Wood & Lewis quarries, at Matamoras. Most of the residents get their drinking water from this quarry, which is fed by springs, and, when not constantly pumped by steam, is filled with the finest spring water. Van Dine went for water, and broke through the ice into twenty feet of the fluid. He went to the bottom, but being a good swimmer, came to the surface where he broke through. He could not reach solid ice and cried lustily for help. But the rocky walls of the big quarry echoed back the yells he gave out, and he began to despair as he felt a numbness creep over him and his strength began to give out. He gave one despairing yell, which John Cook heard and answered. A party was soon on the ground, and by great effort got the halffrozen man out of his perilous situation. —The State Poultry Association held its annual meeting at Indianapolis. The fol-lowing-named officers were elected: President, R. Twells, Montmorenci; Vice Presidents, I. N. Barker, Thorntown; J. C. Bridges, Logansport; Alonzo Tyner, Greenfield; Charles Johnson, Rushville; J. Henry Lee, Indianapolis; Cyrus YV. Neal, Marion; H. C. G. Bals, Indianaplis, and Daniel Christian, Roanoke; Recording Secretary, E. A. Pierce, Indianapolis; Corresponding Secretary, Major Griffin, Mauzy; Treasurer, D. H. Jenkins, Indianapolis; Executive Committee, YVilliam Tobin, Indianapolis; Charles Styer, Kokomo; Benjamin 8. Myers, Crawfordsville, and the President, Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, and Treasurer, who act ex-officio. It was determined to hold the annual show, beginning Fob. 15, 1888, and to continue one week. —Attorney General Michenor prepared an opinion which was delivered to the State-house Commissioners. Some time ago these officials addressed a communication to the Attorney General asking with reference to their duties in connection with the trust and their own liability upon their official bonds. In answer to these questions the Attorney General reviews the act authorizing the construction of the new building and constituting a board of commissioners for that purpose, and replies that the commissioners are the legally constituted custodians of the structure; that, although the building is practically finished, they must continue in charge of it until it can be accepted by some authority competent to do so and release them from their bonds. —An organization has been formed at Elkhart, and incorporated under the laws of the State, the object of which is the erection on a plat of ground donated by the city some time ago of a suitable monument to commemorate the memory of the soldiers buried there. A design for the monument has been submitted and accepted. The base will be very heavy, the shaft handsomely executed, and the whole surmounted by a seven-foot figure of a soldier on guard. The association already has a membership of 250, all ex-soldiers and comprising many leading citizens who take a great interest in the enterprise. —The Indiana Association of Jersey Cattle Breeders held their annual meeting at Indianapolis with a large attendance. Papers were read by a number of gentlemen and discussed at length. Colonel T. D. Curtis, of Chicago, presented a well digested paper on “Progressive Breeding.” Officers were elected as follows: President, D. H. Jenkins, Indianapolis; Vice President, J. YV, Stiger, Richmond; Secretary and Treasurer, T. A. Loyd, Indianapolis. Mrs. Kate M. Busick, of YVabash, heads the Executive Committee.

—The wife of the Rev. Wesley Meeks, of St. Omer, the man who was taken out of his house and severely whipped by a mob the other night for laziness, has evidently a good deal more pluck than he has, for she has armed herself and hung on the outside of her house a placard signed by herself, in which she declares that her husband shall not do a lick of work before next spring, and that if the “Knights of the Switch” pay them another visit they will meet with a warm reception. —The 12-year-old daughter of John Ferrer, of Seymour, in passing along the edge of a bluff on her way home from school, slipped and rolled down the declivity, a distance of 200 feet. One of her thighs were broken and her body was torn and bruised in the descent, and she lay exposed to the storm for an hour, before her two little brothers, her companions, could secure assistance. She can hardly recover. —Charles McCauley, a Chicago and Atlantic Railway fireman in the passenger service, whose parents reside in Huntington, was killed at Kenton, O. While the train was running at terrific speed the side tod of the locomotive broke, the broken rod demolishing the cab and killing McCauley. The engineer escaped injury. —Richard Hance, of Prairie Township, Tipton County, while out hunting was attacked by a large eagle of the bald species and succeeded in killing the bird, but not until he was bleeding and had been scratched pretty freely. He says the eagle attacked him unawares and was the largest one of the kind he had ever seen. —While Policeman Cavenaugh, of Washington, was pursuing a young tough, named Abbott, who was trying to evade arrest, the former shot and severely wounded Abbott. The bullet lodged in the left side, but could not be found by the physician. —Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Wijliam B. Henning, Waterloo, railway tie; William H. A. Spaulding, Peru, adjustable grate for stoves; John F. Thompson, New Castle, spittoon and securing the same.