Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1889 — INDIANA HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and Geueral News Notes. The State Debt. In response to an inquiry from the House, the Governor has transmitted to Speaker Niblack a statement showing the financial condition of the State. Estimating the tax levy of 12 cents on each SIOO remaining as now, the revenue is placed at $1,100,000 for each of «the years 1889 and 1890, while the actual expenses for the year ending October 31, 1889, including $125,000 for General Assembly, will be $1,804,970. To this should be added undrawn amounts on appropriation for soldiers’ mouument, Soldiers’ Home, etc., making the whole aggregate $2,240,070. To this must be still further added appropriation for Feeble-minded Institute, Reform School and such other items as may be determined by the General Assembly, esti•mated at $1,280,970. Inquiry shows that there will be a deficit over all receipts for the fiscal years 1889, 1890, and 1891, of $2,052,410, and that a loan of $2,200,000 will be necessary. There is now in the general fund embraced in the accounts to which the Governor alludes but $25,000. The Governor recommeded a long loan, rfs one could be placed more advantageously than a short one. His suggestions were referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Minor State Items. —Oliver Man, a school-boy, was drowned while skating on a pond near Mitchell. —Foxes were never known to be so numerous as they are at present in the vicinity of Martinsville. —A permanent Horticultural Society has been organized at Mitchell, with Joseph A. Burton as President. —Henry Johnson, 60 years old, while picking up coal in a railroad yard at New Albany, was run over and killed. —A patent car-brake and starter company, with a capital of SIOO,OOO, will shortly erect large buildings at Columbus. —At Lafayette, John Snyder’s 4-year-old daughter was playing with matches when her dress caught fire and she was burned to death. —Mrs. Isaac Sipe fell down stairs at her home in Deerfield, Rudolph County, breaking her arm and otherwise seriously injuring herself. —Patoka has an epidemic of measles, fifty-five new cases developing there. Two deaths have occurred, and a greater fatality is feared. —The literary people of Shawnee Mound have erected a neat chapel, which will be used for lectures and musical entertainments. —Daniel Case, postmaster at Cass, was instantly killed here by a team running away with him. He was alone at the time of the accident. —Thomas Mahlen and Augustine Roach, of Goshen, are claimants to sev-enty-five building lots within a mile of the Washington Capitol. \ —Mormon missionaries, who have been operating in Dubois County, were given fifty lashes last week, by indignant citizens and compelled to leave. —William C. Pitner, one of LaPorte’s most prominent citizens and proprietor of Pitner & Son’s carriage works, died suddenly, of congestion of the stomach. —Henry Reach, a citizen of Logansport, fell from a second-story window, while in an intoxicated condition, and received injuries that will cause his death. —Mr. Lucius Gates, a wealthy moneylender of Metamora. has been adjudged insane, and W. E. Jones appointed guardian. Mr. Jones found $3,000 secreted in a barrel of rags in an outhouse.

—The citizens of Fort Wayne have raised a bonus of $30,000 to assist in rebuilding the Jenny Electric Light Works, which was destroyed by fire recently. This insures the enterprise for that city. —A box of matches ignited and set fire to a wagon-load of household goods, which Henry Owens, of Sellersburg, was moving to New Albany. The wagon and contents were destroyed, and the horses barely saved. The father of Judge John G. Berkshire, of the Supreme Court, died at his home, in North Vernon, after an illness of several wee Ks. Mr. Berkshire was an old man and highly respected citizen of the county. —At Franklin, James Scoffield was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for burglary. Scoffield claimed to be a United States detective, and is also charged with almost every known crime, including murder. —The Morgan County Commissioners have appointed Robert McPheeters, minister of the Christian Church at Monrovia, to fill the unexpired term of George W. Pearce, lately deceased, as Surveyor of Morgan County. —C. C. Smith, a workman of Goshen, was recently attacked with fits, in one of which his raging was so fierce that seven men were required to hold him. Some years ago Smith was bitten by a mad dog, and it is thought that hydrophobia is developing.

—A shooting scrape occurred at Bnena Vista, thirteen miles northwest of Princeton. An insaue man, James Howell, shot a yonng fellow named Cunningham. Howell took to the woods soon after the shooting, and Sheriff Key, with a posse, is in pursuit. Cunningham will probably die. —Bessie Davis, the 8-year-old daughter of William Davis, engineer at the Cerealine Mill, Columbus, was ran over by a horse and buggy while attempting to cross a street, and seriously injured. She received severe bruises and cuts, which may cause her death. The accident was the result of reckless driving. —A revival at Shiloh Church, near Spencer, is having a wonderful effect on the people who attend. Whole families have laid aside their household duties and spend their time in worshiping. When they enter the cliuroh they are immediately overcome by a strange excitement that prostrates tbbrn and causes piteous pleas for divine mercy. —Mrs. Margaret Dick, of Vincennes, is the- possessor of four chairs that belonged to William Henry Harrison when ho was a resident of that city. The chairs were secured by his grandfather from Harrison, son of “Old Tippecanoe,” many years ago, and are of the plainest make, being common stool bottoms, with five uprights and three cross pieces for the back. —George and Timothy Miles, known as the Miles brothers, were sentenced by Judge Noyes, at La Porte, to seven and six years, respectively, in the Northern Indiana prison, for breaking into and robbing school-houses in LaPorte County early this winter. They have made a specialty in this kind of robbery, and are wanted in Ohio, Illinois, and lowa for the same offense.

—A boiler exploded on a farm near Millersburg, Warrick County, and killed Charles Skeels, a young man who was running the engine. The boiler flew in every direction, one piece striking a house 300 yards away, tearing a great hole in the roof, and falling into the yard on the other Bifle, almost striking a lady. Young Skeels'bad onearni broken, and the back of his head torn off. —The large l farm-house' of - James Penn, three miles west of Portland, was destroyed by tire at an yearly hour the other morning.; Penn’s family, together with several oil-drillers whp were boarding at.ih,e boijise, escapecf jn, safety, but one McCune, who; returned td the house to save his moneyj VAs overcome with heat and perished in the flames, ‘'He; lived at LiinA, Ohio, and has a'family. —Silas Brumbapk, a saloon-keeper, 45 years of age, had a difficulty v/ith his wife -.and’left his home in the suburbs, hoping the house would burn down with his wife and niece in it before he got back. On his way to town Brumback took the Panhandle Ruilroad track. The east-bound passenger train was nearly due, and as it approached he stood up in front of the engine, and was struck and instantly killed. Nearly every bone in his body was broken.

—At the annual election of officers of the Decatur County Farmers’ and StockBreeders’ Association, L. S, Donnell was chosen President; F. A. Applegate, Vice President; Thomas J. Mount, Secretary, and Charles L. Miller, Treasurer. “Will It Pay to Raise Sheep in Indiana?’’ was treated in papers read by Woodson, Hamilton, and Thomas Kitchen. A lively discussion followed, and the conclusion was reached that the industry would increase and prove profitable. —John Schmidt, a 14-year-old boy living near Jeffersonville, has entered the gospel field, and is looked upon by the people who have-heard him expound the Scriptures as a kind of biblical wonder. His eloquence, considering the fact that he has had little or no opportunities of acquiring an education and thorough knowledge of the teachings of the good book, are said to be truly remarkable. He is now conducting a revival meeting at a school-house in Ohio Falls, a suburb of Jeffersonville, and every night the building is packed with people attracted there by the eloquence of the youthful divine. —The people residing in the vicinity of Moore’s Hill are considerably excited over the appearance of several genuine Indians in the neighborhood, who announce that their mission is to find a grove of beech trees, upon which are carved figures of turtles, which mark the spot where there is an immense treasure in the way of money and valuables buried, according to the traditions of the tribe to which they are members. They have been searching diligently ever since their arrival in the neighborhood, and express a firm belief that their efforts are soon to be rewarded with success in finding the secreted treasure. —Thomas Calumne, a negro, and Annie Abbott, a white girl, from Trimble County, Kentucky, were married in Jeffersonville by Ezra Miller, a colored minister. Calumne and Joe Morton, another colored man, went to the Court House and procured tho license, representing to the clerk that the girl was colored. William Abbott, father of the girl, came to the city and filed a complaint against Calumne, charging him with miscegenation, and he wae arrested. Complaints were filed against the girl and Morton and Miller, and all were arrested. Tho four were taken before Justice Keigwiu, and Calumne, the girl, and Morton held in the sufn of SSOO each to answer in the Circuit Court.