Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—George Levi. 41 years old, a tramp, sent from Rush County to the penitentiary for larceny, for one year, has confessed an awful crime to Warden Patten. He was moved thereto by a dream, which told him to confess, and showed him sweetness,forgiveness, and glory beyond. His reproving conscience had harassed him till he fell from 180 pounds to 125. He has nearly served ont his term. years ago, he relates, he passed near Lawrenceburg, and committed a nameless crime npon Martha Shears, 11 years old. It aroused the entire neighborhood, and Frank Nelson, a yonng farmer, was apprehended, convicted, aud sentenced for twenty-one years for the crime. Levi doesn’t know Nelson; has had no communication with him, bat since being in prison he has known through newspaper that an innocent man was condemned. It left him no rest day or night. The awful dream occurred to him a few days ago. He went and confessed. Since which time he looks happy, contented, willing to stand the just punishment, and says a heavy load is lifted off. Warden Patten cautioned him, but he persisted in making the confession. He was not subpected. Nelson was convicted two years and nine months ago. The confession is tin awfnl record of depravity. —The suit of Mrs. Sarah E. Mclntosh, wife of Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue Alex. Mclntosh, of New Albany, to break the will of her father, W. C. DePauw, the great glass manufacturer, who died last fall, has been compromised. Mrs. Mclntosh is to receive property worth $200,000. As nearly as can be estimated, DePanw left about $10,000,000 in manufactories, iron works, stocks, and real estate. Of this, nearly a million was left to DePauw University, and half a million more to various charities. Mrs. Mclntosh, a daughter by his first wife, was left property she considered worth not more than $20,000, and the remainder was divided between the widow and the children by later marriages. Mrs. Mclntosh brought suit soon after the will was probated, asking forsp equal division.

• —About ten years ago Van Richardson, a shoemaker, disappeared from Montpelier in a mysterious manner, and was never afterward heard from, though a search was made at the time and a man named "Wiley was arrested on suspicion, but subsequently released. Recently tho bones of a man and some clothing were found in the trunk of a hollow tree by two wood choppers, and the report has revived the story of the shoemaker’s disappearance. He went in that direction and was believed to carry a considerable earn of money. The body must have been chopped into pieces before placing it where fonnd, as there was only one hole in the tree, and that was fully fifteen feet from the ground, and too small to admit the body entire. The matter is being investigated. —The Indianapolis Farmer has obtained authority from the Signal Service Department to send out telegrams to one hundred points in Indiana, daily, containing the weather predictions for twenty-four hoars, from 7 o’clock a. m. Signal weather flags are to be displayed from one hundred elevated points and flagstaff's and poles for the benefit of the agriculture, and the telephone system is to be used to transmit the messages to many other points throaghoat the State from the several telegraph stations receiving the messages. This new service goes into effect early next week. —Patents have been granted to Indiana inventors as follows: James A. Becher, Mishawaka, bolt threading machine; Corodon S. Gannon, Ligonier, barrel hoop; George J. Cline, Goshen, sash fastener; Calvin R. Davis, assignor to Kimberlin Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, lifting spring for cultivators; Henry W. Hackley, Kokomo, wrench; Benjamin F. McCann, Ewing, well; Jessie B. Pugh, Indianapolis, gate hinge; Emanuel Spear, Lafayette, spike extractor. —There are men at Monpelier from the Ohio and Pennsylvania oil fields leasing land. A 250-barrel tank was filled from the Citizen’s well in a flow of seventy-two honrsi and the oil is now wasting for the lack of tankage. A test by a hydrometer, at 60 degrees, shows its specific gravity to be 30, and undoubtedly the oil is a fine lubricant. Agents are here looking over the field, and the development of Indiana’s oil territory is assured. —The statement of receipts and expenditures of the Indiana State Prison North for the months of November, December, and January, has been filed with the Auditor of State. It show* receipts amounting to $35,063.62, and expenditnres, $31,683.03, leaving on hand a balance of $3,380.59.

—Two men were arrested at Alamo, while drilling the safe in M. J. Meyers dry goods store. They gave their names as Charles Burton and Adam Shaffer. Both claim to be from Evansville. They had a complete outfit of burglars’ tools, and quite a variety of jewelry was found in their possession. —The doctors have discovered a freak of nature in the family of Hill Harris, a colored laborer, in Maplewood. A male child six months old measures two feet around the waist, twelve inches around the thigh, eight inches around the arm, and weighs thirty pounds. —Edward Barkley, an Ohio and Mississippi freight brakeman, slipped and fell beneath tjie cars, near Shoals, and was horribly mangled, necessitating the amputation of Us left leg and arm. He died during the amputation. 1 —-Wm. Delaney, the oldest man in Daviess County, died at his home in Harris Township, at the age of 103. He was born in Ireland, and when 13 years old served as a messenger boy in the Irish rebellion, of ’9B.