Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1875 — INDIANA STATE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fobty colored families live In Kokomo. Yioo County will try to run a fair without races. A paid fire department is clamored for at Logansport Howard County has six representatives in tile Reform School. Knox Coustt will have * fair in October in spite of the floods. Onh starch factory at Madison used 300,000 bushels of com last year. Tramps are relieving some of the Posey County farmers of their best clothes. The losses of Posey County in consequence of the late flood aggregate $2,000,000. The Peru Timet sets down on the people looking for gold in the soil of Indiana. Work has ceased in the Daviess County mines because the cgal cannot be shipped. Everybody in Gibson County is collecting Indian relics for the fair. The county is rich in them. The Northwest Indiana Annual Conference will meet in Greencastle, Sept. 8. Bishop Janes presides. The stench that arises from the latelyinundated cornfields on White River is said to be very offensive. The boss of the Logansport chain-gang superintends the operations of his force seated in a rocking-chair. Kokomo boasts of twenty-one groceries. These furnish the solids. The fluid groceries are not enumerated.

Indiana has eighty-nine cities (of 8,000 inhabitants and upward), 203 incorporated villages and 1,011 townships. A social fish-fry has been arranged for on the 26th and 27th inst, at Mussel Shoals, White River, near Petersburg. Uriah Young, a farmer residing near Frankfort, recently committed suicide by cutting his throat in a corn-field near his house. Mrs. E. Ferrall is a prospective teacher in Angola, Steuben County. The children wonder if that’s a new way of spelling it. The thirty-sixth annual convention of the Beta Theta Pi meets in Evansville Aug. 26 and 27. The surviving soldiers of the Seventyfifth Indiana Regiment will hold their annual reunion at Kokomo on the 21st and 22d of November. It is stated that there are not 500 acres of tillable land in Decker Township, Knox County, which was not under water during the late flood. R. W. Burk, of Lawrenceburg, formerly road-master of the Ohio & Mississippi Railway, committed suicide the other day by taking twenty grains of morphine. Dr. B. J. Woods, of Angola, was recently murdered at Dundee, Mich. Over SI,OOO in currency and notes, besides a watch and valuable papers, were taken from him.

The Governor has telegraphed to the Clerks of twenty counties to at once acknowledge the receipt of the laws of the last Legislature, that they may be proclaimed in force. The following Postmasters were appointed in the State during the week ending Aug. 14: Root, Allen County, Jesse Heaton; Waynesburgh, Decatur County, Samuel E. De Armond. Monday, the 16th inst, was the fortysixth anniversary of the establishment of journalism in Logansport. The first paper was the Pottawattamie and Miami Timet. It was edited by John Scott The annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland will be held at Madison the 15th and 16th of Septem her. Cordial invitations are extended to members of other army societies to attend. On the evening of the 16th, at Cumberland, a small town on the Pan-Handle Railroad, ten miles east of Indianapolis, during an altercation about a trade, Louis Vetch shot and instantly killed his broth-er-in-law, Melvin Murray, with a shot-gun. The soldiers’ reunion at Indianapolis on the 14th and 15th of October will include all Union soldiers of Indiana who served in the late war; all such soldiers from other States now living in Indiana; soldiers of the Mexican war; soldiers of the war of 1812; sailors living in Indiana who served in any of the above wars. A regular encampment will be found at old Camp Morton. The first day will be devoted to social enjoyment and the second to parade, addresses, etc. A horrible threshing-machine accident recently occurred about eight miles southwest of Goshen, which caused the death of Anthony Ralfanyder, a wellknown farmer living in Middleburg Township. While oiling the machine he stepped on the arm at the side of the feedboard, and his right foot was instantly drawn into the rapidly-revolving cylinder. His leg was torn off by inches to within six inches of his body. A surgeon was sent for, who amputated the leg at the body. The sufferer lived but six hours after the operation, when he died in great agony.

The lightning express train on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad recently collided with the Cincinnati mail train at Loogoo. tee. The mail train was standing on the switch for the express to pass, but the switch was left open, and the express, running at the rate of forty miles an hour, struck it on the • side. The mail agent, named Flero, and the baggage-master jumped from the express train and were killed outright. Two brakemen and another train man. of the mail train were killed, and six or seven passengers injured—none dangerously. The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the two weeks ending Aug. 7, 1875; Established—Heckland, Vigo County, Edward J Keplinger, Postmaster; Cox’s Mills, Wayne County, Robert Cox; Forest, Clinton County, Joseph T. Shackelford, Postmaster. Discontinued—Abbey, Sullivan County; Prosperity, Madison County. Postmasters appointed—America, Wabash County, Daniel E. McNiel; Arba, Randolph County, Squire C. Bowen; Blountsville, Henry County, Laurens G. Higgins; Hagerman, Porter County, Henry Dabbert; Hector, Jay County, John Dougherty; Jerome, Howard County, John H. Stone; Riverside, Fountain County, Hemy Campbell; Slash,Grant County, J. B. Lore; Slate, Jennings County, William Deputy; West Shoals, Martin County, Thomas 0, Daggy.