Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1889 — Shot His Wife. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Shot His Wife.

Mrs. Sallie Preston, nineteen years old. living at Germantown. Pa., was fatally shot by her husband while nursing her baby, 'ealousy is said to have been tbs cause.

Smash tne school-book trust! Thanks to Senator Tnrpie for valuable public documenta. Just now Dudley will not trust himself either in Naw York or Indiana. The Indiana Legislature should make haste and give the people an election law that will break the back-bone of Dudleyism. Th-* Indianapolis Sentinel says Judge Claypool indignantl / protested at the course taken by Judge Woods in the Dudley matter. ♦ »' a e Miss Nora Hopkins, of Rensselaer, ard Mrs. S. C. Dickey, assisted the Presbyterion choir last Sabbath evening.—Monticello Nation al. On Monday f renoon the barn on the premises of A. Hanawalb Monticello, was destroed by fire aud the residence considerably damaged. T hree small buildings in Monticello, occupied by Peet’s saloon, Pettit’s restaurant, end Gow’s cigar factory, were destroyed by fire last Saturday morning.

Evidence is rising to the surfac© before the federal grand jury at In dianapolis tending to show that the “blocks of five” instructions of Dudley were *cted|npon in numerous localities in the State.

Jim Blaine declared once on a time that ho eould not get justice from an Indiana jury For this outrageous insult to the people o the State Ber Harrison has awarded him the first office in his cabinet.

W. W. Dudley spends most of his time in Washington now. It is said that he will seek the ; osition of Commissioner of Patents under the new administration. If successful in his aspirations he should imme’iately on his induction into the office grant himself letters patent on his “blocks of five” method, and forthwith assign it to the g. o. p.

As there is a strong probability th it Dudley may be indicted even under the “supplemental instructions,” Judge Woods should further instruct “that should the jwry find the blocks of five” directions hal been tarried out, it will fee farther necessary to find, on the testimony of Dudley himself, that the money employed was the identical money furnished by him.”

The young people’s society of Christian Endeavor of the Presbyterian church entertained delegates from like soaieties of Delphi and Rensselaer last Saturday and Sunday. Saturday evening a social wis given at the residence of elder E. H. Jqhnson, on Bluff street, in honor of these young friendsThe visiting delegates were, liisses Frankie McEwen, Nora Hopkins, and Miss Vannatta, oj Rensselaer; Miss Best, Miss Mountmen and Mr. Willis Seawright, of Delphi; On Sabbath evening a eonsecration meeting was held in the lecture room which was well attended and a great interest manifested among our young people, ft ord s o* encouragement were spoken by all the delegates.—Monticello National.

Thompson’s Political Purity Bill. Senator S. P. Thompson’s bill to “maintain political purity” was reported upon favorably in the Senate this morning. It relates entirely to the nomination of candidates for office and prescribes regulations tor conventions and prim try elections which are made lawful assemblies. It prohibits the use of money in any manner to promote the candidacy of any aspirant for office and even makes it an offense to influence any person to publish or speak anything in favor of, or derogatory to any candidate. It is equally made an offense to induce any newspaper to refrain from publishing anything affecting the interests es a candidate . Irregularities in the counting of the ballots are also made offenses for which punishment is provided, and persons attempting to vote more than once are made subject to fine and imprisonment. —lndianapolis News, Wednesday.

Dr. David D. Stewart declares, in the Medical News, of Philadelphia, that hundreds of people are annually sent to their graves by crorne yellow in pastry. Two years ago a number of people in Philadelphia were poisoned in this way; but it was thou ffit that since then the Fakers had stopped using crome yellow. It seems, however, that they have not, and Dr Stewart says that many people who are supposed to die of other iseases are really poisoned by eating pastry colored by this substance.

Two midgets have come into the world at Martinsville, one (a girl) ia the family of Mrs. Geo. Preston, weighing three and a half pounds; the other (a boy) in the family of Mrs. Corda Thacker, weighing one pound less. Both infants are perfectly formed and hsarty.

Khubarb «ame from Canada about 1573, and when introdueed into England was called ‘patience.’ It is rumored that Zimri Dwiggins, a former resident and banker of Oxford, owns a silver mine in New Mexico for which he has recently be<n offered $1,Q00,000. Goodland Herald. The L., N. A. & C. hospital has been located at Bloomington. An t ssessment of one per cent, of the wages of the employes of the company will be made, to meet the expenses.

Rensselaer will soon be basking in the soft effulgent rays of electric lights. Our neighbor over t. e line always h s’shown a spirit of enterprise that other towns we know of could pattern by with profit. Goodland Herald.

Uncle Ward Anderson has the lumber now on the ground preparatory to the erection of a residence in Kesler’s addition, In spite of his 75 years, Uncle Ward is a hustler.—Morocco Courier. Mi -» 1— l— -I Father Stephans, Chief of Catholic Bureau of Indian Missions intends going to Europe for his health, and Father Willard, m charge of the school *t this place, will take charge of the duties of i? ather Stephens, in the Indian country. The manageme it of the school here has been turned over, for one year, to the Order of the Precious Blood, which intends building a college this year, on the opposite side of the road from the scheel.

A meeting of the stoekhholders of the Building and Loan Association will be held Wednesday, February 6th, 1889, at 7 o’eloek p. m , at t"e Citizens’ State Bank, to take final action upon certain proposed amendments to the bylaws of said association. Rev. W. R. Nowels and family will take up their residence in Rensselaer next Monday. H. L. Brown has moved into the Anderson property, a short diet ance west of the depot. The Art School will hereafter be ooundueted at his residence.

Easter comes on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. The vernal equinox comes oi March 21st.— The first full moon succeeding it, this year, is on Monday, April 15th, That brings Easter on April 21st

Died of a Fit. - ■, Byron’s good sayings have been in all menls mouths—in the mouths of some who have claimed them as their own. Many were admirable puns, others had a better claim to remembrance. The last time 1 met him—a long time ago—l sat next him at dinner. “So Poole, the tailor, is dead !* remarked our host. “Indeed! What did he die of?” “Of a fit," said Byron, at once; “what else could a tailor die of?”London World.

"Yankee Doodle* was written ia derision of the appearance of the Continental troops who joined Braddock to beat the French in 1753. Dr. Richard Shuckling wrote it as a parody on 8 song sung in England as a caricature df CromwelL But it failed in its purptree, as a nation of whistling boys can - • The wife of a boarder at one of our hotels belted her husband over the head with a wash-bowl the other day. When his friends ask him what ails hds head, he mutters, “Inflammatory room-mate-ism,” and adroitly guides the conversation into another channel