Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1892 — JUST GLANCE OVER THIS [ARTICLE]

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AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATE INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogue ol tho Work’* Important Occurrences Xlirougliont tho Mute— Flies, Accident*, trimoi, Suicide*, Lie. A Value b e lie port. The roport of State Statistician Peoile, as far as completed, makes a showing of valuable and entertaining facts and ngitrea. It is shown that tho total of county expenses fur the year ending May 31. 1891, is $6,786,013, a decrease of 5120.066 from tho previous year's exnonsoon this account. Tito counties of the Statu paid out on account of the poor, $882,874. an increase over tho previous year of 8125.898. Tho report being statistical alone, advances no cause for this large increase, amounting to about 20 per cent. The cost of roads was 8104,800, a decrease from tho former year of about $74,000. In the bridge expense account, however, tho amount expended was 8100,000 more than in the previous year. This saeixs to Indicate that the people are beginning to realize that under the present State system, or lack of system, the money expended on the highways Is practically thrown away, while tho linprovements In bridges are of more permanent and enduring character. The following summary contains tho totals of the several items found in the tables for 1891: County officers (except Co. Snp’ta).... $453,939 Orniut iiml petit junus . 321879 Corouoru’ ImjuuiU ‘27,668 Enumerating, and appruUiUK 208,494 Hoad viewing ami surveying 40,458 County tiny u and luhiLuiu* 11t',833 Crlnimain ami prisons 152,988 l’oor farina 804,488 Paid by truatoos on account of p00r... 677 sutl Kouilh mid bigbwuys 104,85.) Htatu liouovoli-nl and reformatory intuitu I lona 79,598 Public bull .inga and repairs 714, o*2 Ditches 148,5,>8 New bridges and repairs 653,U114 Interest on county bonds ‘281,199 Interest on free gravel road bonds..... 702,08-2 Interest on county orders 40,504 Hooks uml slstionery 174,8.41 Priming amt advertl-ing 05,3-25 Redemption of county bonds 849,179 Redemption of free gravel road bon Is,. 481,149 All other expenses (miauelluneous).,., 1,477,141 The amount of bornlod iudebtodnoss paid during tlie year was $349,179. Tho gross debt of the counties, Including bonded and floating, was $5,719,558. The sinking fund amounts to $556,457, and tho free gravel road bonds, $1,'428, - 672. Tho bonded indebtedness of cities as reported by 161 officers of corporations was $8,329,093, and tlie sinking fund $214,665. ,Sixty-live towns reported no bonded Indebtedness. During tho year under consideration, 26,f34 civil cases and 9,226 criminal proceedings occupied ilm attention of tho courts. There were 7,614 Indictments returned. There were 1,899 foreclosures of real estate. The reports oft real estate transfers show an aggregate of 75,510, at a valuation of $70,287,386.

IMnnt in Nl|{iit. If the Postolllcu Building Hill that recently passed the Semite should meet with favorable action In the House quite a number of thriving and prosperous cities in Indiana will bo greatly benefited. Just whoro these buildings would go Is a matter of Interest. The law provides that In all cities where for the past throe iiscal years the gross receipts of tho postodlco has been annually not less than if 3,000 nor more than S'J,OOO the building shall not cost, more than $20,000, tho site Included. Where .the receipts have been more than 90,000 a year and not leas than 900.000 a year for throe years past the building shall cost tn no case more than 975,000, but may equal the aggregate of tho gross receipts for three years, provided the sum bo within this limit. Tho following table gftes the cities In Indiana that can, In tile course of time. If the bill becomes o law, be beneficiaries under It: The gross receipts for tho liscal year ending June 30, 1801, is given, and the census of the city according to the enumeration of 1800: • Gross l’opulaCHlns Receipts. tlon. Anderson 914,723 . 1 ',741 Columbus 11,11:17 (1,711) CoUUorsvlllo tO,Slill 4,MS Craw fords vllls IH.U7G (1,0-0 Kill hart 25,(W1 tl.il'M Frankfort 10,083 5,010 Goshen.. 14.8(58 «,o,'i3 Greencus In 0,'40 4,1i0i) Huntington 10,134 7,HIM Kokomo 1‘2,740 8,201 Lafayette 80.843 t0,‘243 Lupnrte 18,101 7,120 Logansport 17,004 13,1128 Madison 0,581 8,0;l« Marlon 14,188 8,70(1 Michigan l Ity 0,510 10 770 Muucle 15,031 11,340 Peru 10,084 7,02 H Itlcliniond 33,883 10,00 H Hholbyvillo 8,50 1 6,451 South Bend 41,524 21,810 Valparaiso 18,270 5,000 Vlocenneg 12,054 8,833 Wubash 0,178 0,105 The following aro tho smaller towns that would be entitled' to tho twenty-thousand-dollar buildings: Angola. Auburn, Attica, Aurora, Bedford, Bloomington, JtlufTton, Brazil, Columbia City, Danvlljo, Decatur, Delphi, Franklin, Ureensburg, Hammond, .Jeffersonville, Kondaliville, Lagrange, Lawrenceburg, Lebanon, tygonlor, Mlshawakn, Mt. Vernon, New castle, NoblesVllle. North Manchester, Notre Dame, Plymouth, I’ortlahd, Princeton, Rochester, Uushville, Seymour, Hulllvan, Tipton, Union City, Warsaw, Washington, Winchester.

Mas. Eli Jluhiiog of Goshen, fell down stairs and nearly cut her chin otf. It costs SKl, ooo por yerfr for the city of New Albany to keep its streets in repair. Stephen Reese, a carpenter of Terre Haute, fell from a house and was badly hu't. James Long, aged r>B, of Danyille, whflo in a fit, fell into an open tire and was burned to death. The Humane Society of Fort Wayne is after policemen because, ’tls said, they boat drunken men with their clubs. August Wilkes of Michigan City, put his pipe In his coat pocket and then hung the coat on the wall. He is without a coat now. It caught fire from the pipe. Capt. Don Carlos Robinson, aged 76; the veteran boat-builder and founder of the Madison Marine Railway and Shipyard at Madison, in conjunction with Capt. Alexander Temple, died after a lingering illness of several months. Ella Walters, the daughter of William Walters, tno convict serving a twenty-one year sentence at Jeffersonville for killing a man named Sterrett in Jeffersonville, in 1886, is suspected of having killed her mother at West Baden in January. The girl is queer in her head, and receut developments at a hotel where she was employed in Jeffersonville bavo aroused suspicion. A peculiar end came the other day to the Dunlap-Cornealis fight, which took place near Princeton, March 25. It will be j-emcmbered~ that Corncalis struck Dunlap over the head with a heavy club. It was thought Dunlap could not live, but he recovered, and was placed in jail, a raving maniac from the effects of the injury. Cornealis escaped at the time. The other day, while officers wero giving him a chase, he ran on a bridge crossing a stream near town, and was surprised to behold an officer come up from the opposite end of the bridge ready to take him. Cornealis, however, leaped from the bridge into the water and, it is supposed, took a cramp, for he sank before ho could be rescued.

* Munch? colored folks have an art so* ofety. They don’t call it black art, howovor. Adam Wolfe, 84. prominent and wealthy Muucie citizen, died. Leaves $250,00(1 - '' Hugh McGonaglk, old farmer, neat Shoals, run over by heavy farm wagon, and fatally Injured. Edward Aydf.lotte, for many years a resident of Corvdon, died at Chambersburg, Orange County, aged 70 After drilling 1,800 feet for natural gas noar Valparaiso tho well caved Ilf, and tho project was abandoned. George McClouty, notorious negro character, Evansville, Jumped into river to avoid arrest, and was drewnod. Michigan City has been selected as tho new site for the recently burned Lutheran Seminary at Woodvllle, Ohio. Siucki.and’s big glass factory shut down on account of total failure of natural gas supply, and 300 workmen are affected.

When the big religious revival closed nt Salem, 200 converts joined in with the congregation In old-fashioned handshaking. Catherine Mahtz, Richmond domestic, sues Milton Thornburg for $11,648, claiming pay for domestic services for forty-four years. When Ed Flovd discovered thieves in ills store, Middlefork, they fired at him six Times and escaped. None of the bullets struck him. A 3- year-old. child of Charles Hammond, Kokomo, pulled a kettle of scalding hot water on itself from tho stove, and was scalded to death. Charley Robinson, aged 12, attempting to climb on a moving freight train at Liberty, fell under the wheels. His left arm was mashed and had to bo amputated. Townships of Orange County aro to vote upon the question of taxation for tlie Chicago, Indianapolis and Chattanooga Southern railway, which is to run through them, Hattie Kurtz near South Bend balliod the physicians with her illness and her mother called a witch doctor, who drove out tho domons and her daughter Instantly recovered. Chahlf.sMuldoon, ugod about twontynlne. while boat-riding In the Douglas fish pond, seven miles southeast of Edinburg, capsized Ills boat and wus drowned before assistance reached him. Thomas Worth, aged 85, who built Mio llrst two-story house in Plainfield, and at times was editor of two Morgan County papers, died at his home in Plainfield. A new national bank, to bo known as tho White National Bank, with a capital stock of $200,000. has been organized at Fort Wavno. John W. White, eldest sou of ox-Congrossman White, is tho President. It Is stated on good authority that Carnegie, the millionaire Iron-manufac-turer, Is negotiating for the purchase of 1,000 acres or land, between Whiting and Clark, upon which to oroct a mammoth manufacturing concern. The Gorman Baptist Church in Western Delaware County, learning that Mrs. Mary Andamson, ono of Its old members, had been burled at the expense of the county In a suburb of Monclo, Rent a chock for the expenses to tho County Treasurer. Mrs. , Sarah Meyeii was awardod $lB,000 damages at Washington against John Grantor for the murder of her liusbaiul, near Bald Knob, Ark., a year ago. Grantor is a wealthy bachelor of Vincennes. q'lie mnrdorud man, Isadore Moyer, was a New York drummer.' Tho suit was brought for $20,000. ,t '-' 1 At a largely attomiod and enthusiastic meeting of Sion 8. Bliss Post, at Fort Wayne, It was unanimously decided to present tjm name of lion. Chas. A. Zollinger, Mayor of Fort Wayne and formor United States pension agent, to the State Encampment for Depart inpht Comniuudor ot State. A log rolled on Rov. Daulol Dragoo, wliilu working in tho woods, noar Burlington. lie could not release himself, and writing on his note book that he deslrod assistance, gave it to his dog. Tho animal carried tho note to a neighbor’s bouse and In a short time Mr. Dragoo was released. Ito was badly hurt* Louis Faulkknburg has made a confession regard! inOhe lato attempt to Whlto-cftp tho deaf mute, John Underhill, near Branchvllle, in Perry County. Faulkonburg is ono of tho parties who was chopped down by Underhill, and there Is little hope of his rocovery. The confession is said to have revived tho old case in which John Davidson was hanged by a mob. Patents havo boon granted to Indiana inventors as follows: Anthony H. Bryan, Evansville, water-distributing apparatus; James H. Coring, assignor of seven-six-teonths to V. U. Bailey, Marlcn, bag* holdor; John I. Hoke, Houth Bend, cornharvesting machine; Frederick lluenerjarger, Michigan City, plow; Charles N. Loonard, assignor to Drake & Wood Company, Indianapolis, portfolio; John L. Riter, Brownsville, and J. M. Alford, College Ckirnor, Ohio, said Riter assignor to Alford Miliord, tellurian; Winter A. Salisbury, Losantville, car-coupler; Geo. W. Tinsley, Columbus, hose nozzleholder; John E. Williams, Montezuma, tiling. ft The pooplo of Burlington, & small town south of Loaausport, are excited ovor an attempt to demolish Edmondson’s saloon. Before the place closed tho other night, and while a couple of customers were seated at a table, In conversation with the proprietor, James Edmondson, a volley ot stones, was hurled through tho windows, completely riddling tho bar fixtures end smashing tho furniture. The proprietor was dangerously injured by a stone, while the two visitors received ugly wounds. Edmondson has employed council and will suothe parties for damages, as ho claims to know who they are. The trouole is not over as Edmondson is having the place put in shape to open up again, although he was warned not to reopen the saloon. A former saloon-keeper was forced to leave town. Miss Anna Zait of Now Albany, was bitten by a tarantula at a grocery store. Tho Insect was hlddon ln a bunch of bananas. The wound was cauterized at once, and no evil result is fearea. Several Logansport policemen were enjoying the show in the Opera House, when a committee.filed in and informed thorn that a police whistle bad been blowing for some time on the West Side. John Jones, alias William Brown, in a dying condition from a bullet wound received in January, was sentenced to one year in the Southern Prison by the Switzerland County Circuit Court at Vevay. * . ; Dk. J. W. Mahorney of Middletown, who was accidentally- shot by his wife, has since died. They had been married but a short time. A suit for SIO,OOO has been filed at Crawfordsviilc against the Monon Railroad Company by John L. Shrum, administrator of the estate of Madame von Rokey, a ballet dancer, who was bitted tn the wreck near that city on Jan. 11. /Shrum was appointed bv the court, but John R. Courtney has served notice on tho court that he has authority to act in tho capacity of administrator from the heirs of the deceased in Austria, and the court will be compelled |o decide who is now the legal representative of the dead woman.