Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doing'* of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. THE LEGISLATURE. Jqnuary 24.—Senate—The Ray-Carpenter contested election ease was discussed at length. House—A bill was passed providing for the establishment of a State Bureau of Statistics and Geology, and creating the office of Chief of the Department. Reports of standing committees were submitted. Jan. 25.—Consideration of the Ray-Car-penter contested election ease was continued in the Senate. The resolution unseating Carpenter was adopted by a party vote, but the resolution seating Ray was indefinitely postponed. A new election for Senator will be ordered by the Governor. In the House a bill was passed providing for the incorporation of religious conferences and camp-meetings. Both branches adjourned until Monday. Jan. 28.—Senate—On a call of committees for reports Mr. Barrett from the committee on judiciary reported a substitute for the Senate bills introduced by Senators Andrew and Cox, in relation to elections. The bill is substantially the Andrew bill with various amendments. A new section is added which compels employers to give four hours to each employe after the noils open in the morning to vote. In addition to a fine and imprisonmentforviolation of the electionlaw disfranchisement is provided for ten years. House—After the adoption of Mr. Shambaugh’s resolution commendatory to the Indianapolis Sentinel's art gallery, Mr. Willard introducee H. R. 336, relating' to the use of dynamite by railroad companies. The following bills were indefinitely postponed: H. R. 132, relating to partition fences; H. R. 232. to create a food commissioner; H. R. 127. relating to stock breeding; H. R. 285, relating to the State Board ot Agriculture. Bills ivere ordered engrossed as follows: H. R. 270, relating to hedge fences; H. R. 225, relating to the spread of hog cholera; H. R. 117, relating to destroying weeds by railroad companies. H. R. 142; H. R. 136, for purchasing lands, after being amended, was ordered engrossed. Jan. 29.—A bill was introduced forbidding the importation of armed men into Indiana for police duty. A bill was passed in the House preventing the blacklisting of employes. The passage of an election bill was recommended by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Jan. 30.—Senate—A bill providing for the maintenance of night schools in certain cities was discussed at length, but postponed, there being no quorum present. Gov. Hovey's nomination of Robert ■Chisholm to be State Mine Inspector, was referred to a committee. House—A bill providing for. the legal adoption of children when taken from Orphan Asylums or other public charitable institutions was passed. Also, a bill making it a misdemeanor for saloon-keepers to permit boys under fifteen years of age to enter saloons. The bill to repeal an act concerning rental for the use of telephones, was reported from the committee on corporations, and recommended for passage,

Minor State Items. —The total amount of school funds -distributed among the several townships in Montgomery County is $35,095.45. —A new postoffice, to be called Fruitts, has been established five miles west of Yountsville, in Montgomery Gountv. —The South Bend Tribune offers a reward of SSOO for the arrest of the burglars who robbed its storo of SI,OOO worth of goods. —Chris Slout, a farmer living near •Chesterton, fell from a load of wood and broke his neck. He was 35 years old and left a family. —William Cap, a contractor, of Peabody, Whitley County, was crushed to a pulp by a falling tree, while overseeing ■some men cutting timber. —James Sassafras, aged 70, and Susana Goodhoo, aged 53, were married recently at Peru. They are members of the Miami tribe of Indians, and are well-known. —John F. Denniston, aged 54 years, one of the most prominent and influential farmers in the vicinity of Sardinia, Decatur County, died from pneumonia. —W. J. Blanton was bitten by a mad -dog near Greencastle. He immediately went to Terre Haute to have the “madstone” of that city applied to the wound —Mrs. George Barkley, of Seymour, attempted to start a fire with kerosene. She narrowly escaped a horrible death. As it is, her face and neck are badly disfigured. Two persons have died from drinking water from an abandoned well near Waveland, Montgomery County, the last person being Charles Bobinson. Four others are yet sick. A mixed train on the Bockport branch of the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Kailway was wrecked near Chrisney. Several persons were seriously injured, but none fatally. —While loading log|j on a truck at Peru, the blocking slipped, and before Abraham Kissmau could get out of the way one log rolled on him, breaking a leg and otherwise injuring him. —Patrick O’Neal, of Indianapolis, who for years has been unkind to his family, especially when drinking, was taken * from his bed by White Caps, and whipped severely with switches. —The Baptist Church, of Valparaiso, has a novel plan of informing the members of the financial condition of the society. Each Sunday figures on a blackboard show the week’s collections and expenses. —A number of students at De Pauw TTniveisity, Greencastle, have received notices of expulsion on the grounds of insubordination and intemperance. There are now 800 students in the institution, and as a rule their deportment is exceptionally good.

—C. D. Caughlin was caught between the bumpers of two cars at Corydon, and received injuries that may prove fatal. —John White. of Nashville, Brown County, stored his wheat up-stairs in his house. The floor gave way, and the wheat, in pouring down, overturned a pot of hot water, scalding the little girl baby to death. ' —Greencastle is agitated over the relocation of the postoffice. A special agent of the department is now in that city trying to select a suitable one, but he is confronted with rival petitions favoring different locations, making the selection not an easy task. —Postmaster Wadsworth, of La Porte, received a letter from Germany inquiring for one George Zinn, and stating that he had fallen heir to a fortune of half a million of dollars. Zinn was an inmate of the poor-house until recently, but escaped, and his whereabouts is at present unknown. —The country school-houses in Fayette County are suffering from the depredations of tramps, who make them a roosting-place at night. If the supply of wood runs short, instead of carrying in more the lazy fellow’s pile the stoves with school-books, and in some cases use the desks for fuel. —At Montgomery, Daviess County, a man started to skin a live dog, but was detected w’hen he had the job half completed. For a time there were strong threats of lynching the fellow, who said he wanted to get the hide while the dog was alive, as it made the best shoestrings in that condition. •—The following are the new officers of the Battle-ground Camp-meeting Association: President, Rev. William Graham; Vice President, John Dougherty; Secretary, Rev. W. F. Pettit; Treasurer, C. G. Miller; Managers, John Dougherty, James P. Clute, John L. Smith, L, S. Buckles, and W. V. Story. —’Squire Davis, aged 70, living near Lyons Station, Fayette County, committed suicide by hanging. A few weeks ago his wife recovered a judgment for a divorce and SSOO alimony, and he had also recently been in expensive litigation as guardian of one of his sons, and these domestic and financial troubles led to his.self-murder.

—YVilliam Goben, of Lexington, caught a neighbor’s dog, saturated it with terpentine, set it on fire and let it run. The tortured brute ran under several wooden houses and sheds, aud threatened to set the town on fire, but was finally killed. There was talk of lynching the man, but he was finally let off with a heavy fine by t}je town justice. —The town board of Ladoga have passed an ordinance that every dog found in that place without a muzzle shall be killed at once. It is made the duty of the marshal to see that this law is carried into effect, and he is to be paid for every dog killed. This is on account of the mad dogs that have been creating such havoc, in Montgomery County. —News has been circulated in Muucie to the effect that the Lake Erie aud Western Railway Company are contemplating removing their shops from Lima, Ohio, to that city. The rumor has created quite a great deal of excitement in business and railroad circles, and the purchase of 400 acres of land immediately west of the city has given the color of truth to the report.

—A special from Rockport says that hydrophobia is prevalent among the dogs in the Oak Grove neighborhood, and that they have bitten and killed many sheep and fowl. Some of these were eaten by the people before they were aware that the dogs were afflicted with the rabies, and now, that the fact is known, the residents are very much alarmed as to the outcome. —A sad death occurred at Mt. Vernon, recently. Miss Gertrude Burtris, the 16-year-old daughter of William F. Burtis, died of rupture received from a kick in the side while asleep, by her little brother, with whom she was sleeping. Mr. Burtis is a prominent hardware merchant of Mt. Vernon, and the death of his daughter, who was very popular with the young people, is deeply lamented. —Miltom M. Thompsou, Recorder of Allen County and Frank Alderman, members of the old Eighty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, are making a visit to some of the battlefields in Tennessee and Georgia, in which the regiment bore an honorable part. In the battle of Bentonville, N. C., the last considerable engagement iu which Sherman’s army was engaged Thompson lost a leg. —A wonderful series of revival meetings has just been concluded at White’s Indian Manual Labor Institute, located a few miles south of XVabash, where about sixty-five Indian boys and girls from the various tribes of the West are being educated by the Friends’ denomination, assisted by the Government. As a result of the revival it was announced that every one of the savages has been converted. —On a change of venue from Sullivan County, the suit of James Bradbury has been filed in the Knox court. Hebrings suit against the E. & T. H. for $25,000 damages. He claims that he was put off a train that was moving at a rate of twelve miles an hour, and that the injuries received resulted in double scrotal hernia. At the time he was put off the train, he was going in charge of a car load of hogs for J. W. Cunningham.