Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1875 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Allen County. One of the Fort Wayne, Muncie A Cincinnati Railroad passenger coaches caught fire, at Fort Wayne, the other evening and was entirely consumed. Loss about $4,000. An overheated stove caused the trouble. Vaughan & Graham’s meat market, at Fort Wayne, was burned a few evenings ago. Loss $3,000; cause, defective flue. William Rutledge, of Monroeville, was shot through the right arm, the ball also entering his body, while hunting the other afternoon; He was not found until some time* after the accident, and then nearly dead from loss of blood. Bartholome w County. The peach crdssin the county is entirely killed, and some of the people think the trees are killed also, and are cutting them down, intending to cultivate tobacco instead. Boone County. Mr. James Riley, living eight miles north of Lebanon, attempted one day during the recent cold weather to walk from Lebanon to his home and was so badly frozen that he died the following day. Carroll County. A little daughter of William Long, living near Cutler, was killed the other night by falling down stairs, dislocating her neck in the fall. Bhfc and a sister ten years old were sleeping up-stairs together.-- On going to the stairway in the morning to call the girls Mrs. Long found the little girl dead on the floor at the foot of the stairs.

Delphi is considering the project of lighting the streets of the city with petroleum gas. Cm* County. ► In a drunken row at Clymer’s Station, five miles west of Logansport, the other day John Sturebaugh stabbed George Geyer in the side, inflicting a dangerous and probably fatal wound. Clay Cosaty. 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, The men at Garlick & Co.’s mines at Brazil are working at employers’ rates. A few nights ago notices were posted in the mines, signed by the “ Molly Maguires,” that if the men did not come out of the mines the next day they would be waylaid and shot. Trouble is apprehended. Delaware County. The Munele Jfem tells the following ludicrous story: “ While George Addy’s cow was grazing on the line between the town of Manchester and the citv of Paterson George Spittel, the Patterson Poundkeeper, took her to the pound. Addy sued before a Justice of the Peace tor injuries done to the cow and for detention, but lost the suit. J3n an appeal it was before the Common Pleas bench on’Saturday. Counsel for Addy contended that the valuable part of the cow was her hindquarters, and so that was beyond the Paterson city limit, his client was entitled to a judgment. The Court scarcely agreed with eounsel, but said that the decision of the case might turn upon the exact length of the cow. Counsel for the plaintiff insisted, then, that she should be measured to the end of her tail. The Court directed that she should not be measured beyond the haunches, and deferred decision until the measurement shall have been made.” Fulton County. A terrible affray occurred at Rochester a few nights ago. Late in the evening John Wallace, Amos Selby, M. Green and J as. De Bolt went in a sleigh to the house of John Vanderkarr and demanded admittance. This was refused, and Selby became enraged and knocked the door from its hinges. Vanderkarr then fired into the party with a doublebarreled shot-gun, killing Wallace instantly and dangerously wounding Selby. Knox County. Police-Officer Watson Keever, of Vincennes, was fatally shot a few days ago while attempting to arrest a negro man named Cox, who was suspected of stealing horses belonging to farmers in the neighborhood. The Vincennes Sun hears that there is horse-thieving going on in the northern part of the county. U Grange County. Thomas Martin was arrested at Lima, a few days ago, upon the charge of drawing a money order, the proceeds of which should have gone to Thomas J. Martin. Laporte County. A man named Watson, incarcerated at Mich, igan City, recently, expressed a wish to die, and his fellow-prisoners, desiring to see every wish gratified, got a little flour of the prison cook which they made into pills. They were offered to Watson on condition that he would not tell who gave him the poisonous pills. He faithfully promised, and, taking them with him to the solitude of his cell, he laid his weary head upon the hard pillow and swallowed the fatal pills. He laid there four mortal hours, thinking of his past life, and forgiving everyone who had testified to his stealing that horse, and yearning for the poison to take effect. But somehow the swallows did not homeward fly, and finally, very much discouraged, he walked out of his cell, when the smiling countenances of a score of his fellow-prisoners apprised him that he was the victim of a cruel hoax. Marton County. The Supreme Court decided, on the 17th, that where a petition to secure a new trial is made on their own motion, in cases where the petitioners, under indictment for murder in the first degree, are convicted of lesser degrees, they are to be retried on the original count. This overrules the decision in Boone County in the case where Mrs. Clem was released from custody. Mankail County. Here’s the way they do it in some parts of the county, according to the Plymouth Democrat: A man by the name of Swallow was put in jail in this place one day last week for stealing forty dollars from Mr. Christopher Dolph, of Tippecanoe Township. He had been stopping with the man from whom he stole the money and suspicion was centered upon him as being the guilty party. He was arrested, and, while on the way to Tippecanoetown, he and the Constable were met by a party of men, who demanded to know of him where the money was; he iftnied knowing anything about it; they threatened to cut a hole in the ice on Tippecanoe River and shove him into it if he did not “ own up.” He still professed his innocence; the men cut the hole in the ice, which was very thick, and the water below it very cold, and as they were about to put him in he confessed and drew the money from a Secret pocket In his coat Monroe Conncy. The Bloomington JVopre«« says that one.

third of the real estate in the county could not to-day be sold for two-thirds of the amount at which it has been appraised for taxation, even if offered on three or five years’ credit. >■

Posey County. A little daughter of Mr. Joseph Kommerzein, who lives near Mount Vernon, was recently burned to death under the following circumstances: Mr. and Mrs. Kommerzein had left the girl and their other smaller children at the house, and were at work in the field a short distance off. It is not known just how the accident occurred, but it is supposed that in moving about the fire, which was in an old-fashioned fire-place, the girl brought her garments in contact with the fire. Her screams brought her parents to the house, but she was wrapped in flames when they reached her, and before they could be extingtflshed she was so badly burned that death resulted in a few hours. St. Joseph County. The South Bend Tribune puts it very neatly when it says: “ Figuring daughters at SSOO each and sons at twice the amount, Judge Alward’s exchequer was enriched this morning by exactly $1,000.” Vanderburgh County. The Evansville Journal tells the following good story: “ Saturday night the little boys were out ringing the door-bells and otherwise stirring up the elements of wickedness in the hearts of quiet householders. They became very outrageous at an up-town residence just after supper, and the gentleman of the house laid himself out for revenge. He got a bucket full of icy water and sta tioned himself at the window above the door to watch for a renewed effort at the bell. He was so wrapped in wrath that he failed to look vigilantly as to the person who next came. In a moment his daughter, attired in all her fine garments, came back from a visit to a neighbor’s, and finding the front door locked she gave a vigorous pull at the bell. In another moment she was catching her breath convulsively under probably the most chilly and unexpected cold bath that woman ever got.” Vigo County. A Terre Haute woman nearly died from hemorrhage the other day caused by extracting her upper teeth. A weather prophet of Terre Haute predicts that the lower Wabash Valley this spring will be subjected to the greatest overflow ever witnessed in the West, and further predicts that not a bushel of corn will be raised in the bottoms. John Fellender, a clerk in the Terre Haute Postoffice, has been arrested upon a charge of stealing letters coming to the office and containing currency. He is a son of one of the wealthiest German citizens of the place.