Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1888 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—William M. Thompson. ex-County Treasurer, and now of the firm of Thompson 4 Good, the leading grocers of Richmond, had a serious carriage accident.in which he was seriously hurt, and his wife fatally injured. She struck on her head, which is frightfully mutilated.

—While attending the funeral of William Meitler, at the residence of August Meitler, at the White Creek Church, west of Seymour. Mrs. Adolph Smith, aged 65 years, dropped dead. Meitler was killed by lightning in Kansas, and the sudden death at his funeral caused considerable excitement. —Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors, as follows: John J. Bishop, assignor of one-third to H. Wood, Greenwood, combined cooking and canfilling appartus; Micajah C. J. Henley, Richmond, machine for boring, drilling, etc.; M illiam H. Hubbard. Indianapolis, fastening for envelopes; John Laser, Bremen, bee-hive; Jacob W. Rowlett, Richmond, lawn mower; William Sylvester, Asherville, weather strip; M. H. Timberhike, Lafayette, pump; T. F. Vandergrit. N. H. andL. Maple, Shelbyville, fence machine.

—While drilling in a lime kiln, north of Delphi, a premature explosion of dynamite occurred and three persons were injured. Alex. Smith was terribly injured, and it is thought will die. —Mrs. Nancy Mace, an aged lady residing at Nabb Station, fell out of a wagon while riding along the highway and received serious injuries. She has since suffered partial paralysis and is now lying in a critical condition.

—James Blair, a wealthy and prominent farmer of Jackson County, in attempting to secure a swarming colony of bees that had settled on the limb of a tree, twenty feet from the ground, sawed the limb between himself and the body of the tree. His fall to the ground resulted in fatal injuries. —Fort Wayne wants the New York, Mahoning and Western Railroad shops, and there is fair prospects of her getting them.

—Another attempt to secure a natural gas well at Fort Wayne will be made. —A Wabash Jersey cattle breeder has shipped six head of fine registered Jersey cattle to a German Baron, who will place them on his farm at Denver. •—About seventy-five “regulators” called upon Lawrence Steerstetter, a sa-loon-keeper of Ramsey Station, Harrison County, and flogged him quite severely for selling liquor to minors. Steerstetter is well known throughout the county, and was at one time considered wealthy, but has of late been living a very dissipated life.

—Dr. J. H. Martin has been re-elected superintendent of the Madison city schools, Prof. J. A. Carnagey principal of the high school, and Prof. J. G. Hubbard of the lower seminary. —The Indianapolis Car and Manufacturing Company has awarded the contract to make 2,000,000 bolts to the Indianapolis Bolt and Machine Company. The bolts will fill about ten cars of twenty tons each. —Two jiassenger trains on the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad collided eight miles south of Terre Haute. Both locomotives were wrecked and the passengers were badly shaken up. No one was injured. —A child of Frank McKay, of Madison, fell into a tub of boiling water and was fatally scalded. —Mrs. Nancy Mace, an old lady, fell off a wagon and was seriously injured near Lexington. —Robert Maynard, while working on a farm near Indianapolis, dug up a pot of gold coins. —The C., H. & I. freight depot at Rushville, was destroyed by lightning. —I. T. Warden, a traveling man, was found dead in bed at Marion. —Anthony Kelley, a colored man whose age is unknown, but thought to be about ninety years, was found by friends, in his home at Noblesville, dead, sitting up in his chair. The cause of his death is not known. —Edward Chamberlain, the murderer of Ida Wittenberg, of Reynolds, William Catterson and Alfred Benson, highwaymen, in jail at Manticello, overpowered the Sheriff, Joseph Henderson, badly injuring him with an irom bar and made their escape. Chamberlain, after wandering through the woods for two days, went to the home of his uncle, near Reynolds, where he was captured and returned to jail at Monticello. The excitement was so high and fears of lynching so great, that the Deputy Sheriff called on the Governor for troops, who immediately ordered the Delphi Company to guard the jail, and they remained on duty until the prisoner could be taken to Michigan City for safe keeping. No sympathy is expressed for Chamberlain. The letter he left in the jail when he escaped, in which he gloats over the murderer of the Wittenberg girl, shows that he is desperately depraved. —The wheat of Gibson County is in fairly good condition. —The opening of the summer term of the Supreme Court develops the fact that the Court is hopelessly behind with its work, and cases are constantly increasing. The docket now contains 1,084 cases. When the last term opened there were 1,047 and 297 were disposed of, so that mote new cases have been filed than were disposed of. The constant increase of cases, and the inability of the Court to do the work is creating much dissatisfaction in all parts of the State.