Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1888 — INDIANA NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS.

Mrs. Sidney S. Sabin, widow of the lai* gentleman of that name, who, at the time of death, was president of the First National Bank of La Porte, has donated $35,000 for the bnildlng of an Old Ladies* Home. The large grounds of the late Judge James Bradley have been purchased, and a suitable building, to cost in the neighborhood of $30,000, is now being planned by architects. The home will be open to indigent and homeless old ladies of all denominations and faiths. Mrs. N. A Treat, a wealthy lady of La Porte is also aiding in the project, with capital, time and energy. It will be remembered that Mr. Sabin willed $50,000 to Wabash College, and $5,000 to the college library. —Jacob Vaughn, aged 46, without family, relatives, or friends, iu attempting to board a freight train at Deerfield, on the Panhandle railroad, was thrown under the wheels and-so crushed as to cause his death instantly. . —A meeting of short-horn breeders was held at Indianapolis, aud was largely attended. A great many topics of interest were discussed. luteresting addresses were delivered by Judge Jones, Hon. Robt. Mitchell, S. F. Lockridge, and others. It was decided to have a national meeting at Indianapolis in September next, and ti committee was appointed to arrange for it. This meeting is expected to be one of the most important stock meetings ever held iu the State. Indiana has 1,500 breeders and more than 13,000 registered short-horns. ]t is the leading State in the Union in the breeding of this kind of cattle.

—An unexampled piece of cruelty to brutes occurred at Jeffersonville. Tho horse driven by (’buries West for Devore Brothers, Louisville, stalled on the levee. He tied a rope around the horse's tongue, and deliberately pulled it out, throwing it into the river. A crowd immediately gathered and threatended to hang him. Only his swift running saved him irom ing—Frankie, the 9-months-old son of ’Squire Cooper, living eight miles southeast of Shelbyville, crawled to the fireplace at home during the absence of his parents and received burns which caused his death. —Mrs. John Feighner, of Union Township, Huntington County, gave birth to triplets. —Charles Horning, a brakeman on the J., M. & I. cemnet train, while coupling cars at Speed’s switch, five miles from Jeffersonville, was caught between the cars and crushed so seriously that it is thought he will die.

—lndiana inventors have been granted patents as follows: Daniel M. Marquis, Kokomo, sliding joint for gas mains; Jonathan D. Mayhood, assignor to Richmond City Mill "Works, Richmond, roller mill; Elijah Neff, assignor of two-thirds to J. E. Bell and H. J. Ely, Mentone, pump; John J. Ralys, Springport, saw. —Martin McElin was cut to pieces by cars near Richmond.

—George W. Goff sues the city of Logansport for SIO,OOO. —Thomas Ruse, at Kokomo, fatally shot his wife and her paramour. —A woman at Crawfordsville, rescued a son of Charley Jones, of Lafayette, from being killed by an 1., 0. & "W. train. She risked her life in rescuing the child. —For some time an insurance company for the benefit of ex-soldiers, has been contemplated by several citizens of Goshen, and the articles of the incorporation being approved by the State Auditor, the company has been organized as the Ex-Sol-diers’ Mutual Assurance Company|of the Northwest. The capital stock will be $200,000. —While trying to kill a hawk William Holloway, Jr., a farmer near Alfordsville, accidentally shot off his right arm near the shoulder. He will probably die from loss of blood.

—As Mary, the 3-year-old daughter of Albion Cartwright, a farmer living three miles west of Plymouth, was playing by the cook-stove her clothes caught fire and her body was burned to a crisp. —At Lanesville, Harrison County, Nellie, the 11-year-old daughter of Henry Grantz, was burned to death by her clothes taking fire from an open furnace, on which her mother was boiling soap. The little one's hips and back were literally roasted. —Volney Jay, a farmer residing three miles east of Marion, was fatally injured by a fractious colt, which ran away, throwing Jay against a gate. —Michael English was brutally murdered by Peter Ryan at South Bend. —Fruit is seriously injured by frost in Floyd County. —Thomas Nolan, an old citizen in New Albany, aged 76, went to church, and, returning home, lay down on a lounge, where he was soon after found dead by his grandson. Heart disease. —An agefit of the Chicago Board of Trade was in Indianapolis recently, and at the office of the State Board of Agriculture reported that the wheat crop this yeas would be a failure. He said it would not be more than one-third of a yield, as far as he could judge in traveling through Ohio, Kentucky 7 , and Indiana. He says the fields are being replowed and planted with corn. His views are regarded as somewhat extravagant, but there can be no doubt of the wheat being in a poor condition in the center of the State. In the northern and southern counties it is reported good, and the percentage promised is 76, but in the central countries it will not be more than 56. Clover is a failure, and so are oats, it is reported, but observers say that com will be excellent. The season is ten daya behind.