Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. la Int«r*«ttag Summary of the More Important Dolncrs of Oor Neighbor*—Wedding* and Deaths—Crime*. Casualties and General Nows Note* of the State. doosler Happenings ” • Tiik apple crop near Madison will be Very large. Ai.Tr the toll-roads in Wayne County have been made free. Chas. Fkk, aged 14, was drowned in a small lake near Kokomo. Jacob Anderson, a fanner near fireenfieltl, was found dead in bed. According to the last enumeration, Montgomery county' contains 8,504 voters. Jay Hubbard, aged 17, fell from a smoke stack at Brazil, and was fatally hurt. ■ " Vandf.uhvkh County wants to enlarge by taking Ohio Township from Warrick County. The old jail at Petersburg is to bo remodeled and rented out for residence property. J. F. Stanley was killed by a Panhandle passenger train near Anderson. He wfts blind. Only a few fields of wheat will be cut in Hamilton County.oCrop will not average three bushels to the acre.

Goti.rir Free fell 50 feet from a high tree near Wabash alighting on his head and killing him instantly. Leading lumber men say that hard woods in Indiana are about all gone except oak, and that is very scarce. Njnkly-sevkn taxpaying farmers of St. Joseph county have formally protested against the building of a new court house. Colfax residents are tired of living in a city, and a i»etition will be circulated for the purpose of disorganizing the corporation. A number of tlio recent largo fires at Laporte have lieen traced to incendiaries, and it is believed that an effort is being made to burn the city. David S. Watson and Henry Borgpmn, two life convicts in the Prison South, have become insane. They will probably be removed to the insane 1 usyluin. Mrs. David Goss, of Piano, Morgan county, hung herself, by tying two towels together and herself from the casing abbve the door of iier house. Ex-Auditor James C. l.avelio, of Daviess county, serving eight years in the prison south for attempting to burn the court house at Washington, is dying of dropsy. The Monon railroad lias paid Geo. E. Miller, of Frankfort, $12,500, the amount of judgment secured by him for injuries sustained in a wreck near Indianapolis in 1890.

A horse driven by Mrs. Mary Hoelin, of Sellerburg, took frigid while Mrs. Hoelin was ou her way home from Jeffersonville and ran away, throwing her out and probably fatnijy injuring her. An El wood servant girl, who is a soninamlmlist, got up in her sleep at 2 o’clock and prepared breakfast. Wasn’t awakened until Jior mistress went down stairs to see why she was ringlng the breakfast bell. Frederick .Smith, an cmployo of Barnes’ saw-mill at Kuightstown, was fatally hurt recently. While operating a cut-off saw a silver in some planner struck him with such foroe. as to break Ids skull and penetrate his head about two inches. John Newman, a mere boy,’entered Miss Emma Sheppler’s Irolno at Raleigh, and playfully snapped an old revolver. It exploded and the bullet crushed Into her brain killing her almost instantly. Tlie families of the boy amlgirl arc almost wild over the affair. The Lane Bridge Company, of Chicago, will at once remove from that city to Wabash, having made a deal with the Wabasli Board of Trade., Wabash business men offered to take stock if the works were removed to Wabash. The offer was accepted and a new company organized. Titfc Governor lias appointed the following trustees of Purdue University, as authorized by the last General Assembly. Six year term, Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis; Charles B. Stuart, Lafayette; William A. Banks, Laporte. Four year term, Charles Downing, Greenfield.; James M. Barrett, Fort Wayne; Jacob H, Van Nqt--ta, Battleground. Two year term, David E. Beem, Spencer; Sylvester Johnson, Irvington; William It. O. Brion, Lawrenoeburg. Indiana possesses shale and sandstone deposits of untold value according to Stategeologist Blatchley, who lias just returned from a thorough inspection of the ledges In the western partof the State. SantliitorfteDf the highest quality is found in Papke, Fountain and Warren counties, lie says, and the s.’iale beds are near Veedersburg, Attica and Cayuga. At the latter place a factory has been started that is turning out 86,000 pressed brick a day. By merely combining the shales any desired color is obtained. At Cayuga is another factory that turns out 80,000 briok a day, Mr. Blatchley left Assistant Hopkins to complete ;tho prosiiectlng, but he has learned enough, he claims, to convince him that the deposits are .among the state’s greatest resources.

The Governor has pardoned Peter J. Clark, one of the men who participated in the opera house riot at Latayette in January, 185)8. Theriot was the result of religious excitement growing out of a lecture by George P. Rudolph, an ex-. Catholic priest. Clark was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, and was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for four years. Two other participants were convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. They were pardoned some time ago. The persons who partitioned for the pardon of Clark gay he was misguided; that he had previously been a good citizen of Lafayette, and that he has a wife and four children dependent on him. Many of the citizens of Tippecanoe County Signed the petition. John Springer, a well-known resident of Connersvilte, while fishing, near Alpine, became overheated and fell dead, lleart trouble contriputed toward his de-. niise. He was about forty years old and leaves a family. ■ , Wesley Gross, of Henryville, sleeps with his artillery in close proximity,because of a letter, accompanied with a bundle of switches, threatening him with violence if he does not cease paying his addresses to a lady in that vicinity. Mr. Gross is an old soldier, and he has retaliated with a warning that the first White-Cap crowd molesting him \yill be warmly welcomed to hospitable graves. William Brown, the 70 years-old convict, who escaped from the Prison North, attempted to defend himself with a shotgun when recapture tvas imminent. For this reason the prison officials are opposing an effort now making to secure lils'pardon. Reports from 758 Township Assessors of the States a$ to the condition cf the wheat crop have been received by State Statestieian Thompson. The reports cover 85) of the 5)2 counties of the State. They bear out the predictions made by the department a week ago. The exact yield, predicated on the basis of the reports at hand, is 7.77 bushels to the acre. The figures indicate a total yield of about 20,000,000 bushels, or about two-fifths of a crop.