Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1875 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen Connty, The horse thief who eseaped from the offlthe train was under full headway baa been recaptured and taken to Fort Wayne. > ' A stock-drover named Orr was recently robbed by his room-mate *t the Farmers’ Home in Fort Wayne. The thief wai arrested Kalamazoo, One Of the Fort Wayne, Muncie A Cincinnati Railroad passenger coaches capght fire, at Fort Wayne, the other evening and was entirely consumed. Loss about $4,000. An overheated stove caused the trouble. Vaughan <fc Graham’s meat market, at Fort Wayne; was burned a few evenings ago. Loss $3,000; cause, defective flue. ... . - < Blackford County. Ed>ro*a was arrested at Hartford. City M a. few days ago, charged with robbing his room mate of $75. During the night he succeeded in hanging himself with a ehain that was in the cefl.' ' t <r I C*m County. In a drunken row at Clymer’s Station, five miles west of Logansport, the other day John Sturebtugh stabbed George Geyer in the side, inflicting a dangerous aad probably fatal wound. » X £ Clay County. Fifteen hundred coal-miners of the Brazil district quit work on the 2d because the operators proposed to reduce the pay from eighty-five to seventy cents per ton. Delaware County. During a recent cold Sunday three persons were baptized in the river at Muncie. The ice was about two feet thick. Elkhart County. Benjamin Cripe, a well-known farmer, living near Goshen, was driving home from town the other night when, mistaking the road in the darkness, he was precipitated down v steep embankment and sustained very serious injuries. . Fountain County. The Terre Haute Gazette gives the following accodnfr of an" accidental poisoning case at Veedersburg: “On last Saturday night Joseph Early, representing a St. Louis grocery or notion house, arrived there and put up with a relative bearing the same name as himself. On the next day Mr. Early was seized with a violent attack of diarrhea and for relief he went to the only drug store in the village for a relieving medicine. The ingredients of the remedy he desired were very simple; but the drug clerk substituted for boneset a corrosive acid of a deadly nature. The traveler took the dose, and in five minutes was seized with the most violent spasms, which continued without fntermittence for fifteen minutes, at the end of time the unfortunate gentleman having suffered intense agony. Popular feeling runs high against the bungling druggist, and it is probable that the law will interfere in the matter when the Coroner ska'll hiye completed the inquest.” Howard County. John Sprunce and wife, of Kokomo, were quarreling recently. When in the act of striking his wife, his son struck him on the head with a wagon felloe, crushing his skull. The old gentleman died next morning. Kosciusko County. A young man named Arnold, living near Syracuse, recently accidentally shot his sister while carelessly handling a revolver. Her left arm was very badly shattered. La Grange County. The machine shops attached to the carriage factories of Moon & Co., at LaGrange, were burned a few evenings ago. Loss about $5,000. Laporte County. A small tenement house belonging to James Ridgway, at Laporte, was set on fire a few nights ago by some evil-minded incendiary. The loss was about SI,OOO. Madison County. A Deputy Sheriff has got into trouble by insulting a lady. ‘ Marion County. An Indianapolis bigamist has become insane through fear of prosecution for his crimes. He left his first wife in the East and was married to a second woman in Indianapolis, who only discovered the wrong done her after the man had become insane. Charles Rafert, an employe of the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Railroad for twenty years, at the depot in Indianapolis, fell dead at his home the other night. The cause is supposed to have been heart disease. Monroe County. An. oratorical contest will take place at the chapel of the State University, at Bloomington, on the evening of March 12,1875, between representatives from Asbury, Wabash, Northwestern Christian, Earlham, Franklin and Hanover Colleges and the State Univereitv. Lt is probable that representatives from other institutions in the State will be present and engage in the contest. Hon. M. C. Kerr, of New Albany, has been selected as one Of the judges. Morgan County. The Martinsville Republican savs: “ Last Thursday the engineer of Harrison <fc Loper’s saw-mill, Hyndsdale, discovered that a flue in the boiler was cracked near the entrance' and was leaking. The mill was stopped, the bands gathered around to observe, when the flue collapsed, and the boiler moved out endwise like a thing of life, leaving a cloud of steam and dust in Its wake. It moved right through the lumber-yard, which was crowded with heavy logs, knocking largesized, green hickory logs endwise. After cavorting around among the saw-logs it turned its course, cutting off a corner-post as though it had been a cornstalk. Knocking down the mill-building, it crossed over to the railroad track, tore loose two rails and broke the third in two, and finally stopped half way aetoss the track. All ihis without injuring any. person, although there were a number of people in the mill and in the yard. The boys think that boiler is possessed.” Ohio County. They have a novel method of raising funds for the poor in Rising Sun. Each individual pays his “ quarter,” is thoroughly blindfolded, takes a wheelbarrow by the handles, turns round once and strikes out and runs for a stake 100 yards distant. The person who lands the wheelbarrow nearest • the stake is entitled to the “pile,” which is then donated to “ widows and orphans.” Spencer County, i » The Rockport Democrat reports the following accident: Last Saturday three brothers, Frank, William and Steve Davis, sons of David Davis, of Grass township, were out gunning on their father’s farm. While* attempting to shoot a quail on the wing William accidentally shot his brother Frank, the entire load tn the gun taking effect in his face and eyes. St. Joseph County. , The South Bend Tribune learns that an idiotic boy about sixteen years old, living near Edwardsburg, lately wandered away from his homeland, although his friends have since beenaeouriug the country far and near, no traces of his whereabouts had been discovered up to the 14th. When last seen he was riding an old blind horse and it was feared that the aniipal may have strblled with him off into the woods and there, overcome by the intense; cold, the poor fellow had lain down and ffezehlo death. The other evening a farmer named Leslie Jonea. living near Terre Haute, fell under the wheels of his wagon, which was heavily laden with lumber, while going down a bill, was' * •* $ i $ t

scalped and bad both legs fractured. His inThe publishers of the Terre Haute newspapers have entered into an agreement not to SherilT 1 an ? leeal , the advertisement, and-to forfeit the sum of SIOO for evary violation of the contract