Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—There was an earthquake scene recently, resulting from an explosion of a magazine, ten miles northwest of Richmond, near Wil!iamsburg<»caosing a shock that was felt as far as Indianapolis and Cincinnati, as evidenced by messages received from there and intermediate points. The maguzino contained about ten tons of nitro-glycerine nnd dynumite, belonging to a New Jersey company, represented in the West by Oliver H. Hampton, whose brother David C. Hampton, was distributed in pieces too small to be discovered. He had gone to the magazine to prepare some nitro-glycerine rolls, which hnd frozen, preparatory to shooting gas-well No. 5, at Hagerstown, the rolls being made for th&t express purpose by the Jndson Powder Company. Nothing but small pieces of his clothing have been discovered. His horse and wagon were also distributed In comparatively small pieces, over an area nearly a quarter of a mile square, and the brick walls of the magazine were so completely pulverized that the only sign of them is in the discoloration of the trees, fences, and houses. The force of the explosion dug a pit with remarkable uniform, sloping sides, fifteen to twenty feet in depth, nnd more than twice that in width, and soatterod debris all over the area described, on the outer limitß of which farmhouses were made to tremble like tottering blookß, their windows being broken, doors whirled from their hinges und walls rendered bare of piaster. —Patents have been granted to the following Indiana applicants; A. Butterfield, Fotoler; W. Neese, Perkinsville; G. Miller, Fort Wayne; J. G. Picketts, Greensburg; J. Griffith, Lawrence burg; J. C. Gafford, Brazil; J. Gallagher, Brookville; L. Tyler, Logansport; J. Foley, Franklin; T. F. Dryden, Clayton; E. Shook, Jonesboro; J. Board, Cannelton; B. Myles, Lynnville; E. L. Richardson, Oakland City; G. L. Sawyer, Forestman; R. H. Moore, Blooming Grove; R. Sheets, Pnston; H. Hare, Indianapolis; B. F. Hughes, Liberty; T. T. A. Gardner, Little York; A. McWilliams, New Providence; A. Obeny, Indianapolis; W. M. Parrott, Newton; P. M. Blew, Headley; W. A. Malcom, Paris Crossing; W. H. Ryker, Hicks; J. Lewis, Martinsville; E. Orme, Elwood, G, Litchensfels, Richmond; H. Lott, Galveston; E. Sweetland, South Bend; mother of H. Gregg, Dixon. —The Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan Swine Breeders’ Exhibition Bnilding Association hns just organized at Warsaw, and arrangements are "being completed for bolding annual exhibitions of Bwine and sheep in that place. The capital stock of the association is $5,000. The following officers were elected for the first year: President, Thomas F. Terry, Warsaw; Vice President, Fred Maurer, Wabash; Secretary, T. F. Rouse, Hillsdale; Treasurer, P. O. Blaok, Kendallville. The association will give annual exhibitions of premium stock, the first of which will b« held during the week|preceding the State Fair in September. —Word from New Hollandsburg, Parke County, is that William Carmickle, while hunting, ran across the bear which Isaao Sntherlin saw in the vicinity a few weeks ago, and shot him dead. He was black and lean. Where he came from is yet a mystery. The farmers of that neighborhood feel relieved and will now resume fox drives.

—Washington Hanna, of Connersville, soma months ago, buried his daughter and placed a lot of dynamite in her grave in order to protect the coffin from graverobbers. Recently Mrs. Hanna died and it was almost impossible to get any one to bury her or to attend the funeral ceremony, so great was the fear of an explosion in the cemelory.

—Joel Glasson, an unmarried man, crawled into the sawdust pit at Hancock’s saw-mill at Seymour to recover a lost knife. In getting out, his head came in contact with the saw, inflicting a terrible wound on the head, fully ten inches long, from which uinetoen pieces of bone were extracted. The wound is probably fatal. —Notre Dame University has just received from Europe a large amount of valuable scientific apparatus for the chemical and physical laboratories of the department of science. This large addition to the laboratories will serve to place them among the finest equipped of American colleges. —Pike County ex-soldiers have effected an organization, with Col. William D. Mull, President; Clinton Murphy, Secretary; David Strouse, Treasurer, with Vice Presidents in each township. A rated service per diem pension bill is favored.

—The gas well just finished at Portland for the Centennial mills has developed enough gas to run all the mills in the town. The large factories locating there will necessitate the building of 500 dwellings this summer for the mechanics to live in. —The little 8-year-old daughter of John Clark, while playing on the track of the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis railroad, at Seymour, was run over by the cars, and both her hands were cut off. Her recovery is very doubtful. —Joseph Bull, a miner, while at work at a shaft near Asherville, six miles southeast of Brazil, stepped into an unsupported cage at the mouth of the shaft and was precipitated to the bottom, being instantly killed. —At a meeeting of the Montgomery County fair directors, the premiums in the speed ring were increased to $2,500, as were also those in the ladies’ department, and also those in the horse departments. —The Democratic State Convention will be held at Indianapolis April 26.