Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Patents have been issued to Indiana nventots as follows: Dempster Beatty, uisignor to Beatty Feltin? Company, Mishawaka, making combined knit and :loth boots; George E. Blaine, Dayton, Ohio, and E. Hill, Cambridge City, assignors to M. Kemper, trustee, Dayton, railway cross-tie and sleeper; Isaac M. Brown, Columbus, railway switch; Charles E. Cleveland and J. Hanson, Fort Wayne, ;eaid Cleveland assignor to said Hanson), side-dresser for saws; Henry A. Gore, assignor of two-thirds to E. W. Walker and H. M. Hutor, Goshen, carpet-sweeper; John F. Mains, Indianapolis, corn and fodder compressor; Lewis A. Neff, Middletown, car-coupling; John E. Both, Coal City, combined ironing-board and washbench; Charles M. Young, Eby, sewingmachine. —George Parker, who was given 100 lashes on his bare back, by the Crawford County White Caps, a few days ago, is reported in a dying condition, as the result of his cruel punishment. It is stated that his back was so horribly gashed from the whipping that the shoulder-blades and backbone were laid bare. Parker is a powerful man, weighing 180 pounds, but be was tied face foremost to a tree, by twenty men,each one of whom gave him five lashes with heavy, elastic hickory switches. Parker is charged with not properly providing for his wife, to whom he has been married about one year. —A fatal accident occurred, recently, at the residence of J. Kuch, Peru. Hit two sons, Fred and Karl, were playing at “Indian scouts,” when Karl, who was snapping a supposed unloaded revolver at his brother, discharged the weapon, the ball striking Fred in the forehead, killing him instantly. The revolver had been unloaded, but Fred, during the evening, had placed a live cartridge therein, from which be received his death a few moments later. The shooting was done in the presence of the horrified parents, who are nearly crazed with grief. Fred was aged 12 and Karl 16.

—The managers of the various base-ball clubs of this State met at Logansport, recently, the object of the meeting being to form a State league. The following named managers were present: O. N. Lumburt and S. Primly, Elkhart; Thomas Miller, Lafayette; C. H. Dailey, Frankfort; D. C, Fisher, Ft. Wayne, and Joseph Henning, Kokomo. A State league was established, embracing the following cities: Elkhart, South Bend, Frankfort, Lafayette, Kokomo, Ft. Wayne, nnd Logansport. —While engaged in excavating for a ditch near Losantville, Milo nnd Rufus Bookout unearthed a huge tusk, a part of the remains of some mammoth animal supposed to have inhabited this country in the early stayes of the world’s history. The specimen measures seven feet in length and twenty-four inches in diameter, and is one of the finest specimens of a species of animal now extinct ever found in the State. It would make a valuable addition to some historical museum. —The health officer at Crawfordsville has written to the State Board of Health to prove that there is “a large-sized epidemic" in that place; that 606 cases of measels have been reported to him. Of this number seventy-eight occurred in February and 528 in March. He thinks there are from 100 to 200 cases unreported, and writes that the disease, although it is abating in the city, is spreading through the country districts. —A freiah train on the Madison branch of the J., M. A I. road ran over and instantly killed Anderson McGannon, an old and highly respected citizen of Vernon. Mr. McGannon had started to attend a public sale a short distance from town; on account of the rain he turned back, and in some way was caught by the train and killed. The accident occurred within two blocks of the home of the deceased. —At Camden the people were startled recently by a heavy report and shock as of an earthquake. It was gas from gas well No. 2. The drill, at a depth of 600 feet, struck an immense deposit of shale gas, and was thrown out of the hole with the velocity of an arrow, crashing through the summit of the seventy-foot derrick and twenty feet above. The crew barely escaped with’their lives.

—John Colgin. of Hartford City, has in his possession four young motherless foxes. They have been adopted and are provided for by a “kitless cat,” who manifests as ipuch maternal solicitude and motherly care for them as though they were her own family. They seem to have accepted the situation in a kindred spirit, and are doing well. —William Carr, a miner, while engaged at work, was seriously injured in No. 2 mine owned by the Brazil Block Coal Company. One of the other miners fired a shot in the coal and the pillar was so thin between the places that it went through with the above result. Carr is about twenty-three years of age, and unmarried. —The statement which recently appeared in an Indianapolis paper, to the effect that Harrison County orders were selling at a discount of 30 cents on the dollar has na foundation; in fact, brokers at Corydon are anxious to get them at 8 per cent, discount, and many persons buy them at 5 per eent.

—A representative of the Chicago Board of Trade, who claims to have made extensive inquiries as to the prospects of tha wheat crop in this State, has written Secretary Heron, of the State Board of Agriculture, stating that the crop in the southern portion of the State is the poorest for five years. —Samuel Angus fatally shot James Saunders in Crawford County, the ending of a feud caused by the operations of White C aps.