Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1875 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

A , of Tort Wayne, died the beadrecelred a lew day* before at the bands of a ¥« named Dereney. The parties got infought, and Dereney struck Mahon «- Meyer, o, Port Wayne, were recently seriously injured by be&i|[ thrown **» * **W°* * runaway teem. An Important teat ease was decided by the Circuit Court at Fort Wayne a few days ago: Jas. ]L Edgerton is owner of a large amount of land in the county, on which he had paid one-half of the taxes, in accordance with the law of March 8,1873. When the other half became due on the 15th of November he was delinquent, and the lands were to adjudged and would hare been offered for sale on the second Monday in February. Mr. Bdgerton subsequently offered the Auditor and Treasurer the exact amount due for taxes, which was refused unless be would pay penalty and interest. This he refused and brought suit for an Injunction the County Auditor and Treasurer to prevent their advertising his lands as delinquent Judge Lowery decided the case in favor «d plaintiff, stating that he thought the opinion of the Attorney-General was not a legal one. Aa he construed the law of March 8, 1873, it makes no provisions for collection of the second installment of the tax, either by sale or otherwise. Adolph Bputter, of Fort Wayne, was seriously injured lately by his horses becoming restive and throwing him violently on the ground. He was internally injured, and picked up in an unconscious state. William Wilson, of Fort Wayne, was twice prevented from hanging himself s few days •go. On the morning of the 8d the residence of W. H. Withers, of Fort Wayne, was burned to tiie ground. Loss about $90,000. C. Orff A Co., of Fort Wayne, who were

robbed of SB,OOO worth of silks and laces last Christmas, have received an anonymous letter offering to return all the stolen goods provided SI,OOO be paid and no questions arc asked. Harrison De Haven was recently found in tbs streets of Fort Wayne insensible. He had beau drugged and robbed. Clarice County. The saloon-keepers of Chailestown have brought suit against the Town Trustees to recover the amour t of license paid by them to the town during the years 1869-’7O. Clay County. It Is seriously contemplated by the citizens of Knightsville to build a large dam a short distance east of the Western Iron Company’s iitm, by which some ten acres of land may be flooded with water of a depth ranging from one to twenty feet. The object of the enter, prise is to secure sufficient pure water to induce manufactories of all kinds to locate at that town. The water will be furnished free and any enterprise that may wish to take advantage of it will be released from local taxation for a series of years commensurate with the importance of the works. Klkhart County. George K. Winters, of Goshen, had four fingers of his left hand sawed off the other day while at work with a circling machine. J. B. Eckhart, of Goshen, a cooper, while cutting staves recently, had his hand horribly mutilated by sliding it under the knife. A few nights ago while Mrs. Harter, of Goshen, was walking on the street with her son, aged seven jeara, some malicious wretch threw a heavy piece of glass which struck the boy and was imbedded in his face, cutting a horrible gash and severing one artery. By the breaking of a coal-oil lamp the other evening a little son of William Elliott, living near Goshen, was fatally burned. The parents were badly burned in trying to rescue their child. Fayette County. The residence of John Moffett, two miles east of Vienna, was burned to the ground on Christmas Eve. Moffett had gone to the depot and his wife to a neighbor’s, leaving the children, three in number, in bed. The youngest, a child about four years old, first noticed that the house was on fire, and awakened the others. The eldest, a boy of eleven years, promptly saved his little brothers, and was found vigorously at work getting out the furniture when the neighbors arrived. Pulton County. A few mornings ago the remains of Isaiah Fisher, of Bloomingsburg, were found lying on the banks of tbe Tippecanoe River, three miles north of Rochester. Ctreene County. Elihu Hardin was shot and instantly kiiled a few days ago at Lyons by John Hney. Both Were intoxicated, it is thought. Harrison County. The wife of Mr. Herman Evans, living near New Middletown, was recently shot dead in her own house during the absence of the other members of the family. The ball entered, the back of her bead and came out at the side of her face, and death must have ensued instantly. The object of the deed was to secure a quantity of money Mrs. Evans had recently received. . Hendricks County. On Christmas night, at Taylor’s store, five miles south of Clayton, Tom Bailey accused John O’Neil of stealing his pocket-book. O’Neil told him he might search him, which he did, but not finding it he drew his revolver, and, aiming it at O’Neil’s bowels, fired. The wound proved fatal two days after. There seemed to be no provocation on the one side or warning on the other. Knox County.

The Vincennes Sim of a recent date says that a few days ago Mr. Charles Bezot, living near Vincennes, when endeavoring to drive a calf from the yard, called to his wife to come to his assistance. The infuriated animal made a plunge at her, and striking her in the temple with his horn she fell, and died in a few minutes thereafter. Koteiuko County Near Milford, on New Year’s Eve, a crowd of young folks with two teams on their way to Borne City to attend a dance, while racing, collided, upsetting both wagons. The horses became unmanageable, and ran away, dragging the vehicles after them. A young man Harvey Wert, was instantly killed, a Miss Austin fatally inured, and three others seriously injured. Two of the horses were killed; and the buggies badly damaged. Imports County. A gentleman connected with the Notre Dame School, at South Bend, while attempting to get off a moving train at Waterford the other day, was thrown violently to the frozen ground and had a leg broken and an ankle dislocated, lawinii County. James Richardson, a Mitchell hotel-keeper, recently recovered judgment against the L., N. A. *C. Railroad Company for $3,000, on the plea that defendant’s locomotive was the cause of his house burning down. Harlos County. The Indianapolis Sun has just been mulcted In the sum of 9800 for libeling Albert J. Horrell, of the police force. Leroy Sherman, of Indianapolis, committed suicide by shooting a few nights ago. Hugh McManee, a workman on the Indianapolis Poetoffice building, recently committed suicide by taking arsenic.

The Indianapolis papers note a singular suit in the courts of that city, wherein John Rothart has instituted proceedings supplementary to execution against Mrs. Elizabeth Jolly to get possession of SSOO alimony recently decreed her by the court from her divorced husband The petitioner alleges that the defendant contracted a debt prior to her marriage, to liquidate which he asks to hare this amount applied. HanhsO County. Gottlieb Heaseberger, a German living near Plymouth, after attempting suicide three times at last succeeded in hanging himself a few nights ago. Hard drinking Is what ailed him. Montgomery County. On Christmas Eve a young widow of Ladoga married a young merchant. On the following Sunday morning the wife arose before her husband was oat of bed, and slipping a light wrapper over her night-clothes went out. No more was thought of it by him until her prolonged absence began to create alarm. He soon arose, alarmed her parents and several others In the vicinity, and began a search for her. They looked everywhere in vain until about two o’clock in the afternoon, when she was found on the edge of a small stream about six miles from the town. As soon as she saw her brother she began to scream and plunged into the water up to her waist When they took her out she was a raving maniac, and has been ever since. Monroe County. The Bloomington Progress says: “On Monday of last week the wife ‘of Bud DeLap took a poisonous drug in whisky and made a very determined but unsuccessful effort to die. Next day DeLap placed the muzzle of a pistol in his mouth and attempted to shoot himself, but Crook Mershon took the weapon from the would-be suicide. Man springeth up ' like a hoppergrass and is cut down like a sparrowgrasa’—no need of shooting himself off.” Morgan County. Henry W. Wlntermute, of Monrovia, while eut hunting, recently, shot himself in the lower Jaw, carrying away one and a half inches of that member and several of his teeth. He bids fair to recover and says he will try it once more. Randolph County. W. T. Thornberg, of Windsor, recently committed suicide by shooting himself while sitting in the parlor with his family. Financial troubles is supposed to have been tLa cause.

Ripley County. A recent fire at Bates ville destroyed the furniture factory of H. Schroeder & Co. Their loss is estimated at over SIOO,OOO. Adjacent dwellings worth $25,000 were also destroyed. Switzerland County. While engaged in a recent wrestling contest, Suel Webb, of Center Square, fell and broke one of his legs. St. Joseph County. Daring the recent trial, at South Bend, of Hickman and Bennett for the murder of Cihauski and wife, near New Carlisle, in July last, Bennett turned State’s evidence, and confessed that he stood guard while Hickman killed the victims with a club and set the house on fire. Thlre was but little evidence against them, and that only circumstantial, and it is thought they would have been acquitted had Bennett not confessed. George Coquillard was found guilty of arson in the Circuit Court, at South Bend, recently, for which crime the jury affixed a penalty of two years’ imprisonment. The burning was done some months since. Coquillard disappeared immediately after the fire, but returned three or four weeks ago and gave himself up. Tlppecmoe County. Patrick Finegan,.while playing on the ice at Lafayette the other afternoon, broke through and drowned before assistance could reach him. The boiler in Rager & Rogers steam bakery, Lafayette, burst the other day and seriously injured the foreman. Veiy little other damage was done. A small boy, son of Mr. Klinesmith, tollgate keeper on the Dayton gravel road, while playing about his father’s residence the other day, fell to the ground and fractured his leg in two places. Ylgo County. On the 29th Chauncey Rose, of Terre Haute, made a donation to the institutions located there of $356,000. To the Terre Haute School of Industrial Science he leaves $206,000, and to the Vigo County Orphans’ Home $150,000. He has before given large sums in benevolence and charity, including SIOO,OOO to the Ladies’ Aid Society, $50,000 to Wabash College, and a large sum to charities in New York. He has also promised SIOO,OOO to the Indiana State Normal School, located at Terre Haute. The Terre Haute nail-works manufactured during the menth of December 8,000 kegs of nails. Waym« County. In the case of the editor of the New Castle Courier vs. The editor of the Knightstown Banner ,. an action of slander, before the Circuit Court of the county, the jury recently returned a verdict for plaintiff for $1,300 damages. Whitley County. During a drunken brawl at Coesse the other night James Carey struck William Weaver on the head, inflicting injuries from the effect of which he died.