Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—No event since lhe war has secured for Indiana as wide and favorable notice as the recent action of the Soldiers’ Monnxnent Committee in awarding the prize for the best design to the celebrated German architect, Bruno Schmidt. Excepting the State’s war record, it has been the best advertisement the State ever received. As a mere matter of dollars and cents we donbt if the Legislature conld have appropriated $200,000 in any way that would have bronght the State as much “free advertising” and hearty praise of desirable kind as the monument appropriation has already done, and the work it still in its inoipiency. Cart-loads and car-loads of dry statistics might have been printed setting forth the material resources and advantages of the State, and have been distributed all over the country and the world without exciting half the attention or causing half the favorable comment that this monument action has done. In every part of the United States where newspapers are read it is cow known that the Stnte is preparing to erect the most costly soldiers’ monument in the world, nnd that it promises to be the most artißtio. Even in Berlin, where the artist resides, the action of the committee has keen tbe talk of art circles, and thousands of foreigners who have scarcely heard the name of Indiana before, are new praising its liberality in art. A very Rad accident caused the death of John 'Wnchter, a young man 22 years of age, at his mother’s residence near Claypool, Kosciusko County. It seems that he was engaged in hauging up a hammcrless, breach-loading target rifle, which he held by the muzzle, and in the dnrk he hooked the trigger on the nail, whioh sprung the self-acting lock and discharged the ball into his heart. With almost unknown effort he walked into an adjoining room and toid those who were there to send for a doctor, as he was shot. He died in about five minutes. His widowed mother was away from home at the time, where shn had just attended the funeral of a sister, and the sad news affected hor so that sho was barely able to stand the shook. The yonng man was her main support. —Patents have been issued to Indianans as follows: Beavers, Jeremiah V., Mount Summet, lineholder; Hill, James, Wilkesbarre, Pa., assignor to I. & L. Pump Company, Goshen, step-ladder; Jones, Geo. S., Laconia, oombined saw-filer, guage, and gammer; King, James, Sandusky, wire fence; Looker, William C., and J. Newlove, Union Mills, plnmb level; Lynn, Mirabeau N., ltising Sun, assignor to Lynn Engine Company, Dayton, 0., stean, boiler; Moore, William, Moony, saw file adjusting weight; liariden, Francis M. Waynetown, assignor of one-half to A. R. Heath, Covington, car conpling; Shuman. Grant W., Lake Station, harvester) Straughn, Alanson W., Lincolnville, strawstacker.

—A novel wedding occurred at Bloom field, recently. George Kinmon and Miss Kittie Gray, the daughter of Dr. J. W. Gray, being the participants. Cards were issued for the wedding about three weekk ago, but on the day fixed the groom was taken seriously ill, which interfered with the young couple’s intentions at tbat time. The bride patiently waited in anticipation of hor lover’s recovery, but be seemed to be growing worse as time went on, and when he became very much worse, a justice of the peace was sent for and the young couple were married, although the groom was unable to tarn over in bed. The yonng man lived through the night nnd died at an early hour next morning. —The brief in support of Indiana’s war claims against the general government, Attorney General Michener has for several weeks been preparing, was forwarded to Washington recently. Personal letters have also been written to Indiana Congressmen asking them to support the bill now pending in the House of Represenlatives. The claims, if realized, will aggregate over $1,500,000.

—Joseph Clevenger died recently at Busliville. Ho had been in the saloon business about fourteen years, and was one. of the most conspicuous liquor dealers in the city. About seven years ago he bitten on the hand by a rat, the result of which caused him to take to his bed many times on account of blood poisoning. Blood poison was the canse of bis death. —Jasper Jeffries, a yonng man living near Bridgeton, while coasting, was impaled on a snag sticking in the ground. The snag entered his thigh a distance of five inches, terribly lacerating the flesh. The snag, which was an inch and a half in diameter, broke off, and the pieces wero removed with much difficulty. —One night recently Mrs. Lucy Gardiner, of Seymour, while returning home from a neighbor's, walked against a small tree, a twig striking her in the right eye, totally destroyipg the sight. The accident is a particularly sad one, leaving her totally blind, as she lost the sight of the left eye several years ago. —Burt Brown, who was hit upon the head with a pick handle by Wm. Moore, in a fight at English, Crawford County, recently, has sufficiently recovered to bo out, hnt has lost his speech. He has not spoken a word sinoe he was hit, a ndacts in such a queer manner that it is thought he has lost his reason. —While Nora Loyd was ringing the dinner-bell at the form of Mrs. Maria Watts, three miles west of Logansport, the bell, which weighs 100 pounds, fell a distance of twenty feet, striking the girl with terrific force on the hip, crushing her in a horrible maimer. —Putnamville is sconrged with an epidemic of measles of a very mnlignant type. Quite a number of cases are re* ported, with seven deaths during the week. The origin of the disease is unknown.