Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1874 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

AUe* Cewaty. Joseph Glade, an old resident at hrtxAt., was recently attacked by drunken Philip Holland. Glade was severely injured, his leg being broken. Joseph Treve, a farmer living near Fort Wayne, the other day fell to the floor of his house, and instantly expired. Organic disease at the heart was what killed him. A sickening monstrosity was left in the barnyard of a farmer near Huntertown the other night. It was wrapped in a coarse coffee-sack, and was about the height of a year-old child. Its head was of a pale lead color, the body appearing cut and bruised. The nose was inverted, and under the neck. Instead of two arms, a crooked limb, similar to an arm, projected from the back. This could be moved backward and forward, but not sideways. Where the feet and legs should be was a long, round, tube-like member, apparently hollow. The body was ribbed and grooved at regular intervals. Cass County. Jn an altercation at Logansport, the other morning, between Charles Kerns and David Schumach, Kerns stabbed Schumach, inflicting a fatal wound. Clarke County. Two negroes, named Chapman and Graycropt, got into a dispute at a Jeffersonville pork-house the other day, which resulted in the shooting of Dan Carter, a negro who was standing by and who was not concerned in the fracas. Clinton Connty. The corn crop in the county is immense. It is estimated that there will be $300,000 worth of corn, $200,000 worth of wheat, and $350,000 worth of hogs sold in the county during the present year. a Elkhart Connty. Five gamblers were recently arrested in Gqshen and locked up. They came from Elkhart. A few evenings ago a man named Aaron Cromling, in the employ of Thomas & Stafford, millers at Goshen, started with a lighted candle from the first to the third story of the building, for the purpose of oiling the machinery. He had been gone but a few minutes when Mr. Stafford, who was in the office on the first floor, felt an unusual jarring of the machinery. He hastened to the second floor, but, discovering nothing wrong, repaired at once to the third story, when an awful sight met his view. On a cog-wheel two feet in diameter was the lifeless remains of Cromling. Wrapped around a shaft which connected a small cog-wheel was every strip of

clothing worn by the unfortunate man before he was caught in the jaws of death. Mr. Stafford stopped the machinery by shutting off the water, and sounded the alarm. It required the united efforts of several men to extricate the body, which was horribly mutilated. The right leg was completely tom off, a portion of the body and his skull crushed. He must have been killed instantly, as the wheels make sixty revolutions a minute. Fayette County. Eli Shepheard & Son, extensive millers and grocers at Connersville, failed recently. Franklin County. Mrs. Wm. Bresbe, of Brookville, recently gave birth to a child weighing only two pounds, and having two perfectly formed teeth. At last accounts the babe was doing well and promised to live. Howard County. A son of Joseph Emery, living near Oakford, was recently dangerously injured while hunting. While standing on a tall fence the gun slipped from his hand and the hammer struck a rail, causing the load in the barrel to go off, the Whole charge striking him under the left arm and going completely through his shoulder. Johnson County. The court-house at Franklin was totally destroyed by fire the other night. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Kosciusko County. Jerome B. Carpenter, the bigamist who had been confined in the County Jail at Warsaw, was recently tried, found guilty, and senteheed to three years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. A five-pound cancer was recently removed from the breast of Mrs. Daniel Yockey, living near Hepton. la* Grange County. The La Grange Standard says there is a school district in the county which refused last year and again refuses this year to have more than three months’ school, though the Trustees offered it eight months each year. Shortly after leaving Lima, the other evening, the passengers on the train noticed an emigrant fall from his seat, as was supposed, in a fit. Upon going to his assistance it was found that he had stabbed himself six or eight times in the region of the heart with a common pocket-knife. Nothing is known of his name or nationality or what caused the deed. The car was full of passengers at the time but so quietly was the act accomplished that nothing wrong was suspected until he fell from his seat covered with blood. Madison County. Passenger brain No. 10, bound north on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & BL Louis Railroad, recently struck a hand-car a short distance north of Anderson. Engineer C. D. Luce, who was on the front of the engine fixing the head-light at the time, was badly hurt about the- feet and legs, and received a gash on the head. The hand-car was taken from Anderson by unknown parties, who deserted it when they heard the train approaching.

The Silsby Fire Engine Company has sued the eity of Anderson for >IO,OOO, the contract price of an engine which the complaint alleges the City Council had accepted. Marion County. . 8. Joseph, an Italian, recently had >BO stolen from him by one of his countrymen residing in Indianapolis. George Baker,(who lost a leg while on duty for the IndianSpOHs, Cincinnati & Lafayette Bailroad, some thne since, has sued the road for >IO,OOO. A few days ago Abraham Clark, an employe of the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Railroad, while engaged in switching a train caught his foot in a frog of the track and feH under the brain, which cut off both legs above the knees, producing death within two hours. He was a single man about twenty-one years of age. The total value of property in Indianapolis is valued for purposes of taxation at >74,029,696—an increase of >5,900,000 over last year. Martin Burke, a section-hand on the Vandalia Railroad, was knocked under the wheels

of a freight train, at Indianapolis, the other morning. Both legs were cut off close to the hips. • In the Indianapolis Criminal Court the other morning Judge Jordan ruled that no penalty can be attached, under the Baxter law, for sales of liquor after midnight, in violation of the nine o’clock section. ’• The grave of John Spear, an old resident of the county, was recently discovered to have been opened and the remains removed. An Indianapolis livery-stable keeper recently purchased a horse that was stolen by the seller, William Taylor, from his own father. The young man decamped with the money. Mrs. Betsey R. Parr, visiting in the family of Mr. Shadrick, of Indianapolis, died recently from the effect ot an attack of epilepsy. In a single day, recently, the Sheriff of the county made twenty sales under foreclosure and execution at Indianapolis. James F. McLeland, employed on the new depot at Brightwood, fell from a scaffold, the other day, and fractured his skull. In a saloon row at Indianapolis, a few days ago, William Enness was severely shot in the head. Posey County. The other night, as a young man named Reynolds was returning from church with a young lady, near the Illinois line, he was waylaid by a rival named Morton, who shot him three times, from the effect of which he died the next day. Morton fled. Randolph County. The remaining two of Riley Stetson’s quadruplets have died. The Winchester Journal tells the following Enoch-Arden story: “About twenty years ago a man named James M. Thomas married the eldest daughter of Zimri Moffitt, and after living with her a few years, a daughter was born unto them, deserted her. For years the deserted wife heard nothing of her truant lord, but at last came the apparently well-authenticated news that he was dead and had been buried. Shortly after receiving this news the lady was married to Thomas Spencer, with whom she has lived happily and by whom she has had one child. About two weeks since a man called at their house in the south part of town, introduced himself as the long-lost busband, and longed to clasp his wife to his bosom; but she preferred the new love to the old, and wouldn’t clasp worth a cent. The consequence was a small-sized row, and the long-lost was brought before ’Squire Reed and fined for an assault An application for divorce has been filed, which will doubtless be granted, after which Spencer and the lady will be legally married.” Ripley County.

Miss Mattie Hatfield, of Osgood, has sued Ell D. Hunter for $15,000, for failing to fulfill a marriage promise. Rush County. As a party of young men, consisting of two brothers named Stephens and one named Heiser, were leaving a spelling-match at Fayetteville, recently, three miles south of Vienna, their horses, from some cause unknown, became unmanageable, throwing their riders, breaking the arm of one of the party and severely bruising the others. The most curious part of the affair is that two of the horses ridden by the party were found dead a few minutes after the accident. Tippecanoe County. Mr. H. B. Cochrane, who lives near Lafayette, has lately lost - a half a dozen head of valuable cattlC in a rather mysterious manner. The animals were apparently as well as ever until within a few moments of their death. In some cases they dropped down dead without ftn y premonitory symptom. The only explanation which has been suggested is that there may have been leeches in the mud at the bottom ot the pond at which the animals drink, and the water being low they may have been drawn into the mouth and swallowed by the animals. The tin store of Bennewltz <fc Co., of Lafayette, was recently entered by burglars and goods worth $250 carried-off. Jacob Huber, of Lafayette, has died from the effect of the injuries received by falling over the railing at the side of the Heath Bank building some days since. Vigo County. The Terre Haute Bank, which made an assignment some weeks ago, has been thrown into bankruptcy. The liabilities are $46,000, including $20,000 to depositors. William Dodd, of Terre Haute, died a fewdays ago under an amputation of the leg, performed as the result of a runaway accident about three weeks since. Adam W. Regney, living near Terre Haute, recently committed suicide by hanging. He had lately been expelled from church because he refused to abandon the Masons. Wayne County. A son of James Miller, while coming to Richmond the other morning, had a loaded gun in the bottom of his wagon. The moving of his foot accidentally raised the hammer, and the contents of the gun inflicted a serious wound in his arm, the ball glancing and entering the right eye, making a wound which will probably prove fatal. The county-seat war has finally ended by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court affirming the judgment of the lower court in favor of Richmond.