Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—The annual report of Superintendent Baker, of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, shows that during the year there were 357 deaf mutes admitted to the institution and thirty-two dismissed. About sixty pupils have received instructions in articulation, and the results, the Superintendent says, has been wonderful. But the report adds: “Many more could receive instructions than are now receiving it, but so long as there is but one teacher of articulation, as at present, it will be impossible to increase the number," and the Superintendent recommends that steps be taken to secure an additional teacher. It is also recommended that a system should be adopted whereby a teacher for each particular trade taught in the industrial department should be employed. For this purpose it will be necessary to increase the amount of the annual appropriation $5,000. The art of printing has been added to the industrial department during the past year, with gratifying results. Eight boys and eight girls are receiving instructions under a practical printer. A five-column paper, called the Indianapolis Deaf Mule Jour~ nal, is being published semi-monthly. The Superintendent’s report was a neatly printed document, the typographical and press-work being done by the mute printers of the institution. —The Fair Managers, Builders* and Exhibitors’ Association of the counties of Grant, Blackford, Huntington, Wells, Whitley, Kosciusco, Wabash, Madison, Tipton, Howard, and Miami met at Marion recently. The purpose of the meeting was to adopt a uniform list of premiums, to prepare a schedule of dates for the county and district fairs in tho circuit, and to transact such other business as might be necessary. The dates for fairs in the district were fixed as follows: Tipton, Aug. 14 to 17; Xenia, Aug. 21 to 24; Hartford City, Aug. 21 to 24; Marion, Aug. 29 to Sept. 1; Anderson, Sept. 3 to 7; Warren, Sept. 3 to 7; Wabash, Sept 19 to 14; .State Fair, Sept. 17 to 22; Montpelier, Sept. 18 to 21; Fairmount, Sept. 24 to 28; North Manchester, Oct. 2to 6. —One night recently some students of Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, concluded to have some “fun” at the expense of the college. They procured a ladder and entered the chapel, carried away the singing books, nailed up the doors, and placed limberger cheese inside the heaters. The next morning the devotional exercises were held as usual, in spite of the smell of the cheese, and with singing books procured from Center Church. Such “fun" as this should be paid with a dose of law.

—The trial of the Fort Wayne Water Works Trustees by the City Council, for malfeasance in office, did not come off as anticipated. The Trustees applied for a restraining order, and Judge Chapin granted the application and issued a temporary order restraining the Council’s action. The Court held that the Trustees were not answerable to the Council for their acts, and that the charges of the City Council were not sufficient to warrant a trial for malfeasance of office. —A 4-year-old son of John Fahey, living four miles north of Indianapolis, was burned to death recently. Mrs. Fahey left the child in an upstairs room while she went down stairs to get a bucket of water, and when she returned the little one’s clothing was in flames, having caught fire from an open grate. She called for help, and some of her neighbors camo to her assistance, but before the flames could be extinguished the child was horribly burned. —The arrearages and increase of pensions during the past year have added 1 argely to the total amount paid out by the United States Pension Office at Indianapolis. The January statement shows that $169,680 was expended during that month, making an increase of $50,000 over the amount paid on pensions during the corresponding month of last year. —The old settlers of Wayne Township, Henry County, met in convention recently, and organized a historical society, with the following officers: Dr. Wilson Hobbs, President; J. Lee Fergason, Vice President; T. B. Deem, Secretary; W. M. Heaton, Treasurer, j The constitution and by-laws of the County Historical Society were adopted. < —Howard Baker, a wealthy and highlyrespected farmer living near Shoals, died after suffering intense agony for a week. At the, time of the accident he was unloading hay from a sled, when he slipped and fell on one end of the standards of the sled, which penetrated his abdomen five inches.

—A vestibule train westward-bound on the Fort Wayne road, struck a sled at Hobart, breaking it to pieces. The sled contained Charles Miller, a farmer, and his wife. Both were thrown out. Mrs. Miller was not hurt at all, but her husband was very seriously, if not fatally, injured. —Members of the Standard Oil Company have leased 4,000 acres of land in Madison County for the purpose of drilling gas wells to supply R ichmond with gas. As per contract, 50 cents per acre per annum and SIOO for each successful well drilled is paid the lessor. —George Moody, of Terre Haute, for many years a farmer living north of Brazil, fell between the cars on the Vandalia coal branch, near Knightsville. An arm and a leg were cut off. He was removed to a house near by, but died in a few minutes. He was GO years old. —Recently George W. Bicourt, of Lebanon, cut his foot badly with an ax. While his father in-law, l>r. D. C. Scull, was on his way to attend him he fell on an icy pavement and fractured three ribs. - —Edward Harrington, of Jonesville, aged 40, was run over and killed by aJ. M. & I. train.