Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1875 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Alim Cmu«y. Bed Bottom Company were burned the other morning. Loee about $16,000. Four bouses and barns in addition to the above were consumed. . ? t T *: I Hoary Burgess’ dwelling-house, at New When the free lodgers were let out of the Fort Wayne station-house the other morning It was found that one of the number, a colored man, bad the small-pox, awl ae they were all confined together In a small room it is'feared that many of them hare become infected. Carroll County. Austin Gregg, of Camden, a well-known business man, has failed with about SBB,OOO liabilities ?* V~] fssi County. John F. Reeder, of Loganaport, wa* assaulted the other night on hfs way home hi the south part of the city, garroted and robbed of about fifty dollars. Clay County. Fifteen hundred coal-miners of the Brasil district quit work on the ad because the operators proposed to reduce the pay from eighty-five to seventy cents per ton. F The works at Rodney’s coal shaft, near Brasil, were burned the other night. Loss about SB,OOO. The fire is supposed to have had incendiary origin, ftlhfcart County. Alfred Williams, of Mlddlebury, got drunk lately, laid oat in the cold till morning, and had his legs so badly frozen that amputation of both became necessary. Jacob Bell’s residence at Wakarusa was destroyed a few days ago with all Its contents. Fountain County. Henry Bart died at Veedersburgh the other night from the effects of a dose of aconite prepared for him by a druggist by mistake. Henry County. A prisoner, name unknown, slipped from the Sheriff and his deputy, near Newcastle, the other night, and with the train under full headway leaped from the cars and escaped to the woods before the train could be stopped to allow the guards to pursue him. Johnson County. Laura Brown, sixteen years old, living near Edinburgh, was recently burned to death from her clothes taking fire from the kitchen stove. Jeffbnon County. The main buildings in Isom, Boss A Sons’ tan-yard, at Madison, were burned a few mornings ago. Loss SB,OOO. Importe County. About SIOO,OOO will be expended on the outside harbor at Michigan City during the coming season. Madison County. Frank Brewer, thirty-five years old, was found frozen to death in the Perklnsville grave-yard a few mornings ago. He had been intoxicated during the preceding afternoon. Marlon County. The Indianapolis Daily Union has made an assignment. The concern is heavily in debt, and the outlook for the creditors is said to be unpromising. A son of John McCloskey, a baggage-mas-ter in the Union Depot, at Indianapolis, was ran over by a freight train the other day and instantly killed. The Boston Block, in Indianapolis, was burned the other morning. It was owned by Russell A Bugbee, and was damaged $25,000 worth. J. E. Mosier, while inspecting some sawlogs at an Indianapolis saw-mill the other day, was crossed in a terrible manner by one of the logs rolling over him. Noble County. The wood-shed and water-house of the Lake Shore A Michigan Southern Railroad at Kendallville were burned a few days since. Loss $6,000. Randolph County. Commenting on the hard times in Union City the Time* exclaims: “ Look at this week’s Time* and divine the cause. Not enough local advertising is found in its pages to buy a single editor out of purgatory. Why should times be otherwise than hard ?” Tippecanoe County. A passenger train on the I. C. <fc L. R. R. ran Into the middle of a freight train of the L-, N. A. R. R. at the crossing at Lafayette Junction a few days ago, smashing three freight cars and badly damaging the passenger engine. No lives were lost. Vigo County. Joseph White, a Terre Haute bar-tender, was found a few days ago beside the track of the Evansville A Crawfordsville Railroad, nine miles south of Terre Haute, with one lag cut off, the other badly crushed, and the rest of his body frozen. He was insensible, and not like3y to recover. Whitley County. 8. F. Kling, for some time agent of the Singer Sewing Machine Company at Columbia City, has been found guilty of forgery and awarded three years in the State Prison at Michigan City.