Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1875 — INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Clay County. The coal operators of the county have called upon the YfovernOr for protection from the “ Molly Maguires” of the mining district. Clarke County, As Mike Land, a boy fourteen years old, was riding on the draw-head of an engine on the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad, at Jeffersonville, the other afternoon, he slipped and fell between the rails. His body was horribly mashed by the ash-pan of the engine, and death ensued before he could be gotten out. Dearborn County. The west-bound passenger train on the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad was thrown from the track near Lawrenceburg, a few nights ago, by a broken axle, and a tramp who was stealing a ride on the forward end of the postal-car was instantly killed. No other person was injured. Delaware County. • Efforts are being made to establish a wheel factory at Muncie. Mrs. Cline, the Mother of the clerk of the Kirby House, Muncie, was recently burned to death. On the day m question the old lady was up-stairs in her 'room, just over the kitchen, in which was Mks. Cline, her daugh-ter-in-law. The son went to the stable on an errand and was gone perhaps fifteen minutes. On entering the house he smelled something burning and soon found that it proceeded from his moth ear’s room. He rushed up-stairs and the rmim was dense with smoke and heat; he -could not enter it. Directed by a groan he found his mother within, lying prostrate and insensible on the floor, with every vestige of her clothing burned off and the body literally baked to a crisp. She lingered insensible and dying for about fifteen hours. \ David Vincent did not know it was lomled nor did Jonathan Blakely, at whom it Was playfully aimed, for he was too dead to know anything about it before the smoke cleared, away. The fool-killer should fcvisit Perry' Township. Elkhart County. An accident occurred on the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Railway, near Goshen, the other morning, Which resulted in the ditching of seven cars. Fortunately no one was killed. The dry-goods house of Broderick Bros., at Elkhart, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. Liabilities about 122,000; assets about 812,000. A party of Goshenites, consisting of Mr. Isaac A. Simmons and wife, Mrs. 8. McKibben, Misses Ida McKibben, Fannie Starr and Mary Denny, left the city a few afternoons ago, in a sleigh, to visit friends near Ligonier. When about one mile from their destination and while crossing a pond the ice suddenly gave way. The horses went under the ice, pulling the sleigh, with its occupants, after them. The shrieks of the women brought several men to the rescue, who labored faithfully and succeeded in extricating the entire party from the sleigh and a watery grave. Grant County. The Marion Democrat says that the body of the young man who froze to death several weeks ago is to be taken up and a post mortem examination held, as suspicions of foul play are entertained. Hendrick* County. The people of Danville are prospecting for some one to erect a woolen factory, and offer to take sufficient stock in such an enterprise to give it a good send-off. Howard County. A few afternoons ago in Clay Township, near Kokomo, Mr. Elsey Bird, a young man twenty-five years of age, met with a terrible death. Mr. Bird and James Heath went to “the woods to ent some trees. Mr. Heath was cutting at one tree and Mr. Bird at another, and when the latter felled the tree it struck and crushed him to death. Knox County. The following is from the Vincennes Sun: “ Last Monday night Mr. Hugh A. Emison, who lives on {Mantle’s dairy farm, near this city, and all the members of his household came to town to witness the celebration of Washington’s birthday. About 9:30 o’clock, the performance being over, they started for home. On nearing it they saw three of Mr. Emison’s best horses standing hitched to the fence and in readiness to travel. Mr. Emison’s hired man got out of the wagon, and, hearing a noise, went to the stable to see what was the matter, and discovered a man in the act ot putting a bridle on another horse. Pulling his revolver the hired man told him to let up. The man darted past him out of the stable and made quick time across the yard, and just as he was getting over the fence Emison’s man fired and ran after him. The thief got into the swamps, however, and he could not catch him. The thief was no doubt wounded, as blood was seen on the ground near the fence next morning.” Lawrence County. A shooting affray recently came off at Bedford which resulted in the fatal wounding of James Gaubear, a Prussian music-teacher of some local note. Marion County. Mrs. Rebecca Bayer, living at 85X East Washington street, Indianapolis, a few days ago induced a small boy to purchase fifty cents’ worth of arsenic at Hill & Neal’s drug store, one-half ot which she swallowed. She died from the effects. She was a young lady not over twenty-two years of age, but for some months has been suffering from internal cancer, and quite recently made two attempts to end her existence. Noble County. The steam saw-mill of L. B. Eagles, of Indian Village, was set on fire the other night and reduced to ashes. Pike County. The material of the Petersburg Press has been sold at Sheriff’s sale for 8500. St. Joseph County. James R. Davis, a young man who held the situation of book-keeper and collector in the law and abstract office of Andrew Anderson, at South Bend, has gone West to grow up with the country. About SBSO belonging to his employer went with him. John Shank, for some six years Deputy County Treasurer at South Bend, has been discovered to be an embezzler to the extent of about 82,000. Tippecanoe County. Mrs. Keller, of Lafayette, was fatally gored by a cow a few days ago. Vanderburgh County. The Evansville Courier ot a recent date says: “Night before last a number of dogs entered the sheep pasture of Pleasant G. Gentry, on Fulton avenue, near Dr. Walker’s

residence, and played great destructior among the lambs of the field. From the aj pearance of the animals it seems as if the dogs grabbed at the sheep’s mouth, and aftei securing It fast would gnaw its throat and suck the blood. In tills way twenty-two sheep were lost, eight having been found dead and the others dying. Singular to relate, the vicious dogs had not touched a morsel of the mutton, devouring only the life’s blood of the sheep.” Vigo County. A few mornings ago Oscar Church, who lives between four and five miles west of Terre Haute, on the National road, had both his legs broken by the fall of a saw-log. He was pulling it up on to the wagon, when it slipped, striking him on the right leg, just below the knee, and breaking it, and then breaking his left leg near the ankle. WMblngton County. There is not a single colored man in the county, and has not been for some three or four years. A large two-story house at Canton in which D. Gray & Bro. kept a general store and the postoffice was burned a few night ago. The total loss reached about 88,500. Wayne County. A miraculous escape from the jaws of death occurred at Johnson’s Station a few days ago. A Mr. Hinshaw, accompanied by his wife and child, drove on the track with a mule team, not noticing a train that was approaching and partially hid by the high banks on either side of the cut. Warned of his danger he jumped out to hurry the then unmanageable mules off the track, but unfortunately they detached themselves from the wagon, dragging Mr. Hinshaw with them. In an instant the train came thundering down on the wagon, completely demolishing it, while Mrs. H. and her child were thrown up dn the the embankment. Mrs. H. gained control of herself but the child rolled back to the track and would have been killed without a doubt had not the engineer in the meantime reversed his engine and checked its speed sufficiently to allow a brakeman named Michael Guthrie to jump and snatch the child up just \n time to save it. As fortune would have it the severe contusions that Mr. H. sustained in his struggle with the infuriated mules were the most serious results of the very precarious a cident Mrs. William Majors, residing on Cliff street Richmond, left two young children alone at home, a few days ago, while she made some purchases at a grocery near by. She heard screams of the children and returned to find that one of the children in at tempting to put some wood in the stove had set his clothing on fire. The mother made frantic efforts to smother the flames, but the child was fatally burned.