Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Thx crop prospect in Wabash County is said to be excellent. Thebe is a lady living in Peru who shaves her upper lip regularly. She has to. The Evansville Journal has been enlarged and is now cut and parted like the Boston Globe. The Vincennes Sun puts itself squarely on the record in favor of English as the national language. A little girl named Fry fell from a swing, in Indianapolis, a few days ago and was fatally hurt. Thus far Indianapolis has done nothing to secure a proper representation of the State at the Centennial Exposition. The Bingham firm of distillers at Evansville have been found guilty of violating the revenue laws and fined SI,OOO. A YOUNG fellow named Pratt, agent for the C., R. & Ft. W. Railroad at Ridgeville, was accidentally killed a few days ago. Indianapolis hopes to induce Director Linderman to regard itself as the best possible location for the new United States Mint. •

The woolen-mill belonging to Roots & Co., at Connersville, was burned to the ground a few days since, involving a loss of $50,000. David Johnson was arrested in Fountain County a few days since for illicit distilling and held to bail in SI,BOO to await the action of the United States Court. The mother of Hon. John C. New, residing at Indianapolis, fell from a window in her son’s house the other day and was very seriously injured. She is seventyseven years old. Mbs. Rebecca Phillips, of Jeflerson County, is eiglity-six years old ; has thirteen living children, 101 grandchildren, 129 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren . The Bookwalter mansion,near Rob Roy, was * struck by lightning recently and pretty thoroughly shattered. There was no one in the house at the time, and so nobody was hurt. Little Stella Montz, of Madison, recently went to a drawer where a loaded pistol had been carelessly left, and in taking it out accidentally discharged it, the charge taking effect near the heart and killing her instantly. Miss Flora Turman receives the highest honor, the valedictory, at Asbury University this year; which is a decided triumph for those who advocated the admission of females, as well as no small honor for the young lady. —Chicago Tribune. The residence of Andrew Hartman, in Logansport, was entirely destroyed with all the furniture a few mornings ago. The family narrowly escaded burning to death, not waking until the fire had nearly cut off ail retreat from the house. Loss $lO,, 000. While a party were seining fish in the Kankakee River at Waldron, lately, one young man declared that he could remain under water longer than any of the others. He tried and w ent down, but did not come up until pulled out dead with grapplinghooks.

Thomas J. Gibson, who recently ran away with and married a fourteen-year-old daughter of John H. Adams, of Indianapolis, has been arrested for perjury, he having sworn that the girl was eighteen years old when he received a marriage license. Mr. Cassimer Kroener, of Evansville, a former member of the City Council, was taken with an insane fit the other day, and drawing a pistol he attempted to shoot his wife. He was disarmed, arrested, and, on being tried by a board of lunacy commissioners, adjudged insane. The Noblesville Ledger gives the following wool statist'cs: “ A flock of Leicester sheep, belonging to Jesse Hodson, of Washington Township, numbering twen-ty-four, yielded a few days ago 200 pounds of wool and an average for each fleece of eight pounds and a third.” The State Editorial Association recently in session at Indianapolis adopted a new constitution, and referred the proposition to meet all the editors of the Northwest at Philadelphia July 4, 1876, to the Executive Committee for action. A committee of seven was appointed to arrange for a grand reunion of Indiana soldiers in Indianapolis next fall. Over 100 of the leading citizens of Indianapolis, irrespective of party, recently tendered John C. New a public dinner previous to his departure for Washington to assume his official duties as Treasurer of the United States. Mr. New modestly declined the compliment for the reason that he had yet been untried in so responsible a position, and his ability to successfully discharge the duties are unproved. Mrs. Eliza Compton, who lived in Terre Haute thirty years ago, had been to New Orleans and seen persons buried there above the level of the ground, on account of water. She thought the idea good, and when she died, in 1845, she directed that her body should be placed in a vault above ground. Her wish was respected. Lately the vault has become dilapidated, one corner broken down and the skeleton of Mrs. Compton exposed to the public gaze. This mode of burial clearly has its disadvantages. The following Postmasters were appointed in Indiana during the week ending June 12, 1875: Belle Union, Putnam County, James N. Bourne; Deerfield, Randolph County, David S. Collins; Jonesborough, Grant County, Samuel R. Spence; Lawrence, Marion County, Isaac Records; Mahalasville, Morgan County, Thomas W. Kingsbury; New Comer, Delaware County, Philip Wooding; Rainsville, Warren County, C. H. Hoffman; Rolling Prairie, La Porte County, James Powell; Urneyville, Johnson County, Henry Fisher. William Friederburg, a Terre Haute grocer, was attacked and nearly beaten to death by a burglar a few mornings ago. He roomed in the rear of his store and for coolness had pulled the bed up near a window. The fastenings were insecure and the burglar opened the window and struck him fifteen times on the head with a heavy piece of iron. His skull was fractured by blows on the top of the head. The ruffian entered, secured $1,500 in money from his victim’s pocket-book and some loose change in the money-drawer, and left, leaving no clew. Friederburg wm not discovered until morning,