Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Milton Delane and O. L. Cummins, near Columbia City, clod crusher and ground leveler; Isaac N. Elliott and P. A. Be id, Richmond, mechanical movement; Thomas E. Hall, assignor of one-half to D. R. Ennis, Indianapolis, car coupling; Daniel H. Kime, Kendallville, and H. Williams, Toledo, hasp lock; John T. Obenchain, Logansport, turbine; Britton Poulson, assignor to W. D. Schiefer, Fort Wayne, and J. C. Hunt, Concord. Mass., device for detaching buttons; Amos Sanders, North Vernon, receptacle for containing classified bills, letters, or samples; William D. Schiefer, Fort Wayne, assignor of one-half to J. C. Hunt, Concord, Mass., device for detaching buttons; John L. Ust, South Wabash, potato drill; Joseph M. Van Mover, assignor of one-half to A. I. Abbott, Terre Haute, sliding or rolling gate; John C. Voss, Bedford, cutting apparatus.

—The 400 acres of ground recently purchased at Rensselaer by the Catholic Church, will be used for the location of a Catholic school for the education of Indians, Building* will be erected at once, and it is expected to have them ready for occupation by this fall. Young men will be selected from the several Indian schools, who have already received several years schooling, and these will be trained in the higher branches of education and fitted to take the place of teachers in their various tribes of nations. Some will be educated as artisans, farmers, carpenters, blacksmiths, etc. —Funeral services were recently held at the Methodist Church, during which time a large number of persons were present and the seats full. Soon after the funeral party left the house one of the stove flues and about one-fifth of the joists and plastering overhead fell and crushed the stove and benches, and made a general wreck of the room. The weight was great, and had it fallen a little sooner the loss of life would have been large. At leost forty persons were occupying the space crushed by the fall, and certainly none of them could have escaped death or very serious injury. —The young men of Columbus have formed a malitia company which was mustered into the State service recently by Major J. F. Gent, of the Governor’s staff. The officers are William J. Beck, Cantata; William L. McCampbell, First Lieutenant, arid Hasford Valentine, Second Lieutenant. The company starts with fortytwo members, though the number is to be increased. The members are among the best young men of the city, and when fully equipped and drilled, will be an organization of which the community will be proud.

—Governor Gray has paroled Thomas Boyer, a convict in the Jeffersonville penitentiary, who was sentenced in 1880 to fifteen years for manslaughter. At the time of his conviction Boyer was only 15 years old. His crime was the shooting of an unknown man who happened to pass a crowd of boys with whom Boyer was playing. It was believed at the time that the shooting was done deliberately, but it is claimed that there have been developments lately that justify the opinion that it may have been accidental.

—The heaviest verdict that has ever been given in the Jennings County Circuit Coprt was rendered recently by the jury in the case of Mrs. Florence O'Conner vs. the O. & M. Railway Company, for the killing of Mrs. O’Conner’s busband, who was employed as a brakeman on that road. The plaintiff sued for SIO,OOO damages and the jury gave her a verdict in the sum of SB,OOO. —N. T. DePauw & Co., of New Albany, are leasing large tracts of land along the river border in Harrison County. There are now five natural-gas wells in the county, and it is the expectation of the company named to obtain gas in sufficient quantity to pipe to New Albany and supply light and fuel for the glass works. —The County Commissioners of Clark County have ordered an election on the first Tuesday in May in Jeffersonville Township, to decide whether the township will subscribe $75,000 to the capital stock of the proposed bridge over the Ohio River between Jeffersonville and Louisville.

—Stephen Brown, a farmer residing near Eugene, shot and instantly killed a tramp whose name could not be learned. The tramp was trying to get lodging for the night, and when refused became angry and struck Mr. Brown, who then shot him. Mr. Brown was not arrested. —Mrs. Louisa Morehead, has instituted suit in the Vanderburg Superior Court against the Diamond Coal Company for $5,000 damages. The complaint alleges that the defendant has been illegally minpig coal in subterranean limits under her land in Center Township. —At Terre Haute, Dr. and Mrs. Julius Gerstemeyer, of Brazil, kidnaped the Doctor’s children by his first wi e, who had been put in the custody of their uncle. The children were taken from school, and the kidnaping party took a train for Colorado.

—The Board of Trustees of the Northwest Methodist Conference at their recent meeting at Lafayette decided that at the next camp-meeting at Battle Ground the gates to the grounds would be locked on Sunday and no Sunday fees be taken. —An impression was taken of the lock to the county jail at Huntington with the supposed purpose of liberating two prisoners charged with murder. The doors of the jail have been barred with extra bolts, so the cast taken will be useless. —Adam Errick, a wealthy farmer, was run over and killed by a passenger train on the Fort Wayne road at Warsaw.